That I'd like to call this meeting of the Yuba City city
council April 7, 2026 to order.
Meeting is being held in the council
chambers, which are open for public attendance
and participation.
The meeting will also be live streamed for public viewing,
but not participation at the link identified in the agenda.
Email comments sent and received by the city clerk
at least 24 hours before the meeting,
were distributed to the city council prior to the meeting.
May I have roll call, please.
Mayor boomgarden here.
Vice mayor pasquali here.
Council Member.
Cole here.
Council Member.
Kirchner, present.
Council Member.
Shaw here.
All right.
Closed session Mr. Chapman, would you please
read the closed session item for us.
Thank you, Mr. mayor.
We have a session this evening.
Melody, claim the claim number 2614 he
agency claim against Yuba City.
Thank you, thank you.
Any comments from the public on the closed session item.
Hearing none.
We will go into closed session and be back at o'clock PM.
All right.
Sorry for being a bit tardy.
I'd like to go ahead and reopen the regular meeting
of the Yuba City city council.
April 7, 2026.
I'd like to call this meeting to order.
This meeting is being held in the council chambers.
This meeting is being held in the council
chambers, which are open for public attendance
and participation.
The meeting will also be live streamed for public viewing,
but not participation at the link identified in the agenda.
Email comments sent or received by the city clerk
at least 24 hours before the meeting,
were distributed to the city council prior to the meeting.
May I have roll call, please.
Mayor boomgarden here.
Vice mayor pasquali here.
Council Member.
Cole here.
Council Member.
Kirchner here.
Council Member Shaw.
All right.
Tonight we have our invocation by Dave Bryant, senior pastor
of Church of the glad tidings.
We'll have the Pledge of Allegiance
by our public works director, Josh Wolff.
Please stand.
I don't see Dave.
Yeah go ahead.
Let us pray.
Gracious Heavenly Father, we just
thank you for this awesome responsibility
that you've given all of us to be entrusted with this city.
Father, we just pray that you will just give us wisdom,
discernment, and direction as we make
decisions here tonight and everything be
done for your glory.
In Jesus's name, amen.
Salute, pledge.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Well thank you.
Council Member Shaw, for stepping in for Mr. Bryan.
City attorney's report on closed session items, please.
Thank you, Mr. mayor.
There was no reportable action taken in closed session.
Thank you, Mr. City attorney.
Any agenda modifications.
I have seen none.
Public communication.
You are welcome and encouraged to participate in this meeting.
Public comment is taken on action items appearing
on the consent calendar, business items on the agenda
when they are called, public comment on any other items
within the scope of the city's jurisdiction,
including items not listed on the agenda,
will be considered at this time.
Public comment is limited to three minutes per speaker.
Members of the public submitting written requests
at least 24 hours prior to the meeting
will be allotted five minutes to comment per speaker.
Repetitive comments may be limited.
Large groups are encouraged to select
representatives to express the opinions of the group.
And do we.
We do have a couple of speaker cards.
I'll call them up in order.
And you have three minutes to speak.
First is Mr. Maury Castaneda Mr. mayor.
Sorry in October, the city graciously
provided us a donation in with respect
to US building new bleachers at Yuba City high school.
I'm the Yuba City high school baseball coach.
We had a fantastic run last year.
You guys were gracious.
They brought us in here and the kids were great.
Our bleachers are hurting.
We asked for.
We started a fundraiser, asked the city to help us.
City did, through the approval process,
through the district and code and zoning.
That was a bridge too far and it was shut down.
There was a lot of work is a big, big project.
So the school is going to take on to it.
I presented a couple different options of what we can do.
And I'm here today to ask if we can reallocate the money
that you gave us in October from the Bleacher
project to another project that we've already started.
The project is a sanctuary we built out in center field.
It's a batter's eye 7 Italian cypresses
have been planted, already purchased and put in the ground.
They're being watered and we want
to have some monuments built out there commemorating the seven
championships that we've won at Yuba City high school,
and with hopes of building more or planting
more trees in the future.
We'd like to take that money you guys gave us in October
and just put that into finishing up the project.
Thank you coach Mr. Schaaf, and I'm
trying to look for a little direction
here on what we would need to do, if anything,
to grant that request.
This is a public comment.
City council can't take action at this particular time.
However, there is an item on your agenda
at the end of the meeting that allows items
on the agenda for the next meeting,
if that is going to be far in the future.
I don't know what time it is, but the first thing I'd suggest
is just under future agenda items 14.
You can discuss that there.
If this is going to be far in the future,
it may be an option to just ratify a decision
of the Council or a decision.
City managers may be warranted.
That ratification could happen tonight, then, or ratify tonight
could take certain actions in the city council
could elect to choose to ratify this decision and understood.
OK pleasure of the Council.
You have to take action I understand,
but I'm just trying to get comment.
Yeah no, no, I just have a question.
I can ask a question for clarification from the speaker.
Yes is two weeks too late.
No, sir.
The check.
The check that has a will expire on April 25, so I don't
think two weeks is too late.
It If I could please, please.
It is 4 weeks too late.
Yes, he answered.
Yes that's because the next meeting is canceled.
Correct yeah.
And this isn't an item that has been brought forward yet,
Shannon.
But the 23 meeting will be canceled and his
date on the check is the 25th.
If I could offer a suggestion.
Always and that is that the council not take any action
at this time, but the city manager can act as appropriate
and bring forward something that the next meeting.
And if you're concerned about that approach,
please reach out to the manager after the meeting.
That will be the path.
And thank you so much.
So, Janet, if I may, I just want to clarify.
So within my authority, can I just
go ahead and make the decision based
upon what I heard and council direction tonight
to use my authority as city manager,
and I'll just come back and have it ratified on May 5.
Is that.
So they can move forward with their project.
Yes so to be clear, council direction
that you're using your authority going out on a branch basically
there, Robert, and acting to transfer the money over
with basically under your authority saying you
think that it's consistent, but you need to go back
and ratified by council next week.
And I'm sure that any individual council members have concerns
before that they can certainly reach out to you individually,
and we'll also discuss among themselves.
Fair enough.
Thank you coach.
Next up, I have Tony Farley.
I don't see him in the room.
Any other public comment.
Yes, please.
You don't have to turn a card and you
can just go to the podium.
Just give us your name, please.
Good evening.
My name is Pam Machado.
I live in Yuba City.
Do you need to know my address.
OK well, I'm here to talk about the dog park that's closing.
And I don't know if you're familiar with the fact
that it's closing pretty much closed, actually.
So I'm here to request that the city
consider sponsoring a new dog park for the community.
When I first got my dog from the shelter about a year ago,
she was afraid of a lot of things,
and taking her to the dog park has been really good for her,
and she's almost a normal dog now.
So a dog park is not only good for the dogs
to enjoy, but also for the people of the city.
It is an amenity that helps the city attract home buyers,
tourists and businesses that can actually
increase the tax revenue.
One idea to reduce the cost of creating a dog park
could be to section off a portion
of a park or property that is already
being maintained by the city.
And so those are just a few ideas that I had.
And thank you for your consideration.
Thank you for your comment.
Anybody else for public comment.
Looks like you're ready.
My name is Elizabeth Robinson.
I was here last year when we first
were made aware that there was a potential closing of the dog
park.
Can you pull the microphone down to.
There we go.
That's perfect.
Thank you for four more inches.
Yes, I was here last and I don't remember
quite what the month was, but we had just been informed.
The board of the I'm talking about the leash
dog park in Yuba City and near Shanghai bend park and the.
Board of the dog park had just been informed
through Caltrans that it was going to have
to be sold at some point.
And I taught for 34 years and I have been retired for five.
But while I was still teaching, we came in the afternoon
or and now I've been really enjoyed coming in the morning.
Now, I understand well, I should admit
that I haven't kept up with all the finances of the city.
I do remember that there was a short discussion,
and that the city doesn't have really any funds to help,
and so I and I at the time, I didn't know this.
And if I had, I would have asked about this.
But afterwards, I learned that the city of live oak
has a small dog park.
The one that has been here was like five acres,
but we don't need one that large.
The city in Live Oak.
It's smaller, like I said, and I've been there once
and that seems great.
I am not aware of how live oak was able to create that park.
It's right next to the soccer field,
so maybe the sports community there helped.
I don't but I did.
My question was, and would have been last year, if I had known
how the city of live oak was able to create a dog park,
and how and then why it's been harder for Yuba City
to maintain the park.
So anyway, I appreciate the time to listen or to explain
this, and thank you very much.
Thank you for your comment.
Unfortunately, we're not in we are
prohibited from engaging in answering questions
during public comment.
I can share with you that the city remains engaged with trying
to figure out options to figure out whether a public or private
park for the dogs is viable.
We don't have an answer for you tonight,
but it is something that is of interest,
and we will continue to work with whomever if we
can to do something about it.
Thank you.
Thanks anybody else for public comment.
Seeing none, go ahead and move to the consent calendar.
All matters listed under the consent calendar
are considered to be routine and can be enacted in one motion.
There will be no separate discussion
of these items prior to the time that the council
votes on the motion.
Unless members of the city council
request specific items to be discussed
removed from the consent calendar for individual action.
I do have one written request, but before I
do that, anything from the Council on consent calendar.
OK, seeing none, I do have a written request
from Mr. Ben deal for item 4.
All right.
Thanks good evening.
Council good evening.
Appreciate the time.
I'm a member of Bay Area bike advocates.
There's a handful of us here today.
Maybe raise your hands, guys and gals.
So we are.
We're a group that tries to improve
infrastructure in the city for safe and efficient bicycling.
So just want to give you a lay down.
So I have three items I'm just going to cover real fast.
The ATP obviously we're excited.
We're glad you guys went out for that.
I want to thank Jasmine and Josh for reaching out to us
and getting our comments on it and improvements on it,
as well as Farren Pierce, David Moore.
I appreciate his help.
They worked over Christmas.
They met with us.
So really appreciate that.
The other one is the macro item of basically the city
to get around the city.
They did a great job of making kind of a grid system.
So North South, East West routes on the edges of the city
so we can get up and down the city.
So we really appreciate that and appreciate
the time that you put for that.
On the micro level, the plan has a handful of projects,
but really there's a lot of low cost projects in there.
Just extra striping when you do a street,
extra Botts dots when you do a street.
So I really want the council to consider
that when you go to do a street, make these small improvements
that are in the plan.
We really appreciate if you do.
We rode over here, a few of us rode over today.
There's obviously room for improvement,
but really like the way you guys are looking into it
and appreciate you hopefully adopt the plan.
So thank you, thank you.
I will mention that May is bike month coming up.
This was a topic at last week's sacog committee.
There are a lot of discussion about regional trails and bike
accessibility and safety as well.
So it's good to hear that you are concerned
in helping with the process.
I think that as a bike rider, not as active as probably
any of you are, but still nonetheless,
a safe bike lane is something that's important to us.
So I appreciate the comments.
Anything else from the public or excuse
me on the consent calendar.
No other comments.
I'll entertain a motion.
Mayor yes.
Moved to take action on item consent ii2 through 12.
Second, have a motion by Vice mayor pasquali.
Second by Council Member Shaw on the consent calendar.
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye.
Aye Any opposed.
Any opposed.
Any abstentions.
Hearing none.
The consent calendar is unanimously approved
and we will move to our business items.
There's a lot of consent items here.
And the next item is number 12, Downtown Yuba City
business improvement district Levy
of the 2026 annual assessment.
This is presented by our city manager, Mr. Robert bendorf.
Hello it's always refreshing when you hear your name
mentioned and everybody leaves.
No comment.
Yeah, thanks.
I think that was a one way communication.
I didn't really look for feedback.
I'm just saying so.
Robert bendorf, city manager your last city council meeting
in March, your board received the report of the assessments
that are applied to the DBA members
and your board received the report
and took the appropriate action.
And now we are before you to set.
And we set a hearing date for tonight.
And so the staff recommendations are that you open.
There we go.
Sorry Anyway, that you have a public hearing
this evening about the assessments apply to the DBA
and of course, recommend that you approve the action as
contained in the staff report.
And you can take one of the following actions
as you see here.
I won't read them all, but obviously our recommendation
is to conduct a public hearing with the understanding
that public hearing must be completed within 30 days,
but adopt a resolution confirming
the annual report as originally filed or as amended.
The adoption of the resolution constitutes
a Levy the assessment for calendar year 2026.
So as you see there, there's the formal recommendation or
the shortened recommendation.
And I will stop talking.
All right.
Any questions for Mr. bendorf?
Yes I just wanted to confirm we have not received a 50% or more
of objections to the Levy by the city clerk.
No objections.
Thank you.
The public hearing for the Downtown business
improvement district Levy of the 2026 annual assessment
is now open.
If there are any members of the public who would like to address
the Council on this issue, please provide
your statement from the podium.
State your name and address for the record.
Nobody OK.
Do we have any additional comments
from the public on this item.
Seeing none.
Hearing no further comment on the issue,
I'm closing the public hearing, bringing
the matter back to the council.
Through the mayor, I'd like to make a motion
to adopt a resolution confirming the annual report of the Yuba
City downtown business association
and levying the assessment.
Assessment for the Downtown business improvement district
for calendar year 2026.
Second I have a motion by Council Kirchner.
Second by Council Member Kohl.
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye.
Aye Any opposed.
Any abstentions.
Hearing none.
Item 13 is unanimously approved.
Item 14.
Future agenda items.
Anybody seeing.
None all right.
Reports and communications.
We're back to Mr. bendorf.
Thank you.
Mayor Council members.
So one of the things that I want to talk about
was future agenda items.
May the 5 is our first meeting in May, I believe,
and prior just prior to that, on April 21,
we have another meeting scheduled.
So due to a couple council members being away,
and we talked with department heads
about items that may be coming forward.
There was no issue with moving them to the fifth
to make sure we have majority.
Well, we would have a majority, but more of a majority
at the Council meeting.
So my recommendation, Mr. mayor, is that we cancel the meeting
of the 21st of April and 23rd.
Is 21.
All right.
Just make sure so that we cancel the meeting of April 21
and we continue it to May the 5.
Did I get that right.
21st right.
I'm just kidding.
Anyway, that item.
All right, so I will tell you that you
probably see a few changes here in the chambers.
Really for access for folks to look at.
The agenda items as they appear, the presentations we
have that monitor over there, which
was a little bit smaller, this one's a little bit bigger,
so folks can see it just fine.
And then we put one right behind council member Cole here.
For those people on this side where they don't have
to crank over and look at every presentation that's up there
or visuals, et cetera, they can see actually see it better here
for those people sitting on the side of the audience
again, with recent Bills that were passed regarding
accessibility, we just want to make sure we
have all those grounds covered.
Sierra's been at the tip of the spear for that.
This doesn't necessarily fall under that,
but this is one of those changes that we wanted
to see made so people have better access
and viewing of our items.
Also, you'll see some changes with our visioning
that we did for the strategic plan.
You'll see something across that border in the back,
and you'll see something on the windows coming up here
pretty soon that outlines the city's vision so we
can see it often, live it the whole 9
yards and others can as well.
So I wanted to talk to you briefly about something we have
with our leadership team here.
Over the last couple of months, they've been participating
in leadership series that's scheduled
to go about five months, and we do one series A month.
So that training is keeping our folks here.
They're not traveling to training,
but the training is being done here.
And this is kind of unique.
Not only do we have a variety of topics that are covered
in that full day, but we also that relate
to things such as leadership, teamwork, those types of things.
But we really want this leadership series
to be community connected.
That's what we're all about.
We provide, I think, critical services to folks.
Hopefully they're good, and if they're not,
we want to hear about it.
So we've instituted some panels and the mayor and vice mayor
have had an opportunity, and we're
going to ask each of the Council members to attend one of them
and open it up for us in the morning,
talk to our leadership team, hang around for a little bit
if you'd like, but those will be coming up again
in May, June, and July.
And I have to remark that the leadership team has been super
engaged and not only picking topics,
but also delivering outcomes as a result
of those leadership series.
So the first one that we had was we had three residents
on a panel that live here in Yuba City,
but they also work as well, some here, some across the river,
but they are residents here, so we
want to get that good resident feel and some input
about what we're doing.
Well, maybe what we're not doing well.
And it was really good feedback.
And then they share lunch with our team here.
So there's more discussion to be had.
So this last week, we not only had a presentation
from a lobbyist, but we also had a panel that was focused
on nonprofits in the community.
So we have the Alec Flores youth scholarship corporation.
We had the food bank and we had Salesforce.
And all of those executive directors or leaders
of those nonprofits shared a lot of information
of how we as an organization can help those nonprofits
in the community and give back, but also
how we can help through things such as donations from others
in the community, our employees, et cetera but really,
to find out what their needs are and what they're seeing
as far as what the city could do better
or what we are doing well.
So they've gotten really, really good,
but they wouldn't go as well without the team sort
of helping pick the topics.
And this is what they want to hear.
It's actually going really well.
So I really want to thank all of them.
But I also want to thank, the council members
for your attendance so far and your
anticipated future attendance to come talk to the folks.
But anyway, it's just really been for me, a highlight.
Seeing them engage with the different community
members about how we're doing here at the city
and moving forward, what we can do to make it even better.
So the last thing is, I wanted to share with you,
I think Marysville has taken a item to their city council with
regard to the 4th of July show.
I mentioned it, I think, at a previous council meeting.
Just a little bit more detail.
So what the plans are right now and hopefully they'll go well
isn't solidified.
It's getting close.
But we've had the fireworks show down the Marysville river
bottoms for the last.
I don't Mr. mayor.
You've been part of that since the beginning.
Five years, maybe six, 7, 7.
And so this is the 250th celebration for our country.
And we thought doing something a little bit
different to help provide something
for our families to do here locally.
But instead of a one day just a fireworks event,
a two day event that kicks off on Friday,
and it looks like the fireworks will happen on Friday,
which is the three of July, and then the 4th of July.
The second part of the event or party, if you
will be over here in Yuba City.
And as it's laid out right now, it will be held
at the Yuba Sutter fairgrounds.
And we'll have a variety of things for families to do.
They would arrive sometime late afternoon, early evening,
and there'll be entertainment for folks there.
Kids non-alcohol event.
And we're hoping that it really does well for our residents
in the Yuba Sutter area to attend something here and enjoy
a great not only day with a car show and other activities
at the fairgrounds, but also a drone show that will
be held on the 4th of July.
They had to move the fireworks to the third
because of the availability of the operator.
As you can imagine, with the 250th celebration there being
tapped quite frequently to perform
in a lot of different areas.
So we're doing that on the third drone show.
On the fourth is the tentative plan for right now.
So I'll be I've got a contract for the drone association
that will be held over here.
Marysville is doing the contract for the fireworks show and.
Each jurisdiction, all four cities and two counties
will be participating.
And also we'll have participation
from Beale Air Force base.
And we'll do something remarkable to recognize
our veterans and our current service members
that attend the event as well.
So having said that, it's just something to come,
something to keep radar on.
I've got the contract.
It's within my authority.
Unless I'm hearing any objections,
I'll move forward with that.
But like I said, all the agencies like years before,
it'll be a little bit more because we're doing a two day
event, but everybody will contribute
their fair share to the events that are going to be had.
And I think it'll be a great thing for yuba-sutter.
And all the jurisdictions are cooperating
and putting together something good
for the 4th of July weekend.
That's all I have, Mr. mayor.
Appreciate the comments.
Appreciate the leadership training
and transparency and communication going
on with the public as well.
And looking forward to the 250 year and 4th of July,
which will still include the children's parade, by the way.
Yes, yes.
OK thank you.
City council reports.
We'll start with council member Cole.
OK thank you.
So March 19th was a busy day.
I attended tended sacog meeting with Mark on all.
All of you probably expand on these and just keep it short.
But that was nice to Tour West sac
and learn a lot about the unique and innovative ways
they are still expanding, and building
their infrastructure to accommodate more entertainment
is what I took away.
So that was a good day.
And that afternoon attended yuba-sutter transit with Wade.
The blue zones meeting was pushed to April.
We all attended the March 21 festivities,
as well as the ambassador dinner the night
before, which was wonderful.
And the other thing, which was the most recent.
On Thursday, council member Pasquale
and I had a meeting with Robert bendorf
and the leadership of Buddy's ranch.
And that meeting went actually really productively.
And it was enlightening.
And we learned quite a bit about how to come up with hopefully
the best solutions for the most amount of people in terms
of the impact constituents are perceiving that those homes have
on their area.
But we did learn that this group is through private insurance,
is responsible for seeing the person in rehab
all the way through from beginning all the way to end.
So it was nice to hear that these people are very well taken
care of from beginning to end.
And if they either graduate from the program or fail out,
they are followed.
And if they fail out, they are not put into our society
and our community.
So there's still a lot to learn, and we're looking forward
to data being collected by them and distributed to us so that we
in the city of Yuba City better know what's
going on in those facilities.
But overall, a good meeting and that's all I have to report.
Thanks all right.
Next on my list is council member kerchner.
Thank you, Mr. mayor.
No, no reportable action.
The food bank meeting with yuba-sutter transit.
The action items were.
Authorization, Federal Transit grants.
Preliminary draft for the capital budgets,
budget for 27 20, 2027.
And also looking at a new service for Lincoln.
Roseville they're going to roll out a three year pilot
program for that area since it is growing
attended the fifth annual Payne Avenue temple festivities
with my local counsel people.
And it was really well attended.
We got recognized along with members of the County
and it was.
The event went really well the following day.
Lastly, I was asked to attend a planning meeting
with the superintendent of Yuba City Unified School
district, the principal, UBC high school
and also the choir director.
Next month is the 50th Annual excuse me, excuse me,
the 50th anniversary of the Yuba City choir bus crash that
happened in Martinez, where 28 young people lost their lives,
and one adult as well.
What came out of that meeting was
that Martinez has been looking into this for the last year.
They plan on doing a commemoration on the 21
at 11 o'clock AM at their monument in Martinez,
and then Yuba City high school that same day will have a moment
of silence at 11 o'clock sharp.
The 23, which is two days after that, would be a Saturday.
There is going to be a event planned for right out here.
If you don't there's a monument dedicated
to those young individuals that perished in that accident.
And the Yuba City Yuba City high school choir
will be attending that as well.
And so that will be at 11 o'clock AM on May 23rd.
What also came out of that meeting, and I'm asking
for clarification on this, was at some point
and I haven't heard anything, but at some point,
Martinez is or will reach out to local community members
to attend their event in Martinez.
And I will if I hear anything, I'll
pass that on to my colleagues at the city.
And with that, I conclude my report.
Thank you.
Council Member Shaw.
Thank you, Mr. mayor.
Not much to report out of me other than anybody
realize it's tax season.
Got like 10 days left.
So anyway, thank you to my colleagues
for covering a lot of meetings because it's been a godsend.
I've been really buried this time of year.
I do want to put something squarely
on the radar for my fellow council members
in the coming month or two.
We will be bringing forward an extension contract for the.
For Recology.
And looking at that, it is we had a very
interesting meeting at rw Mar.
I'll leave it at the fact that we've got a few junior members
on there that have no knowledge of actually what our mayor does,
nor do they understand what Recology does
and everything in this area.
So it got tabled for the moment.
But on the 16, we'll be bringing that back forward.
And then after the 16th of April, it will be coming
out to the jurisdictions.
Because what is very, very clear is even though we formed a JPA
that contract the power and the extensions
is still at the jurisdiction level.
So that will be coming before you without retrospect
of what the mayor does.
It'd be nice if we can get a contract over here that
is endorsed or supported by the board,
but either way, it's coming.
So I just want to put that on your radar.
We'd love to get that taken care of.
Hopefully may, June time frame.
That way it doesn't linger on because those of us on I
know this end of the dais that were around when this nonsense
went on a few years ago.
We don't want to put the community back through this.
So hopefully we can get it done in the next few weeks.
Again, thank you guys for covering
and I'll see you guys in about 10 days.
Thank you.
Council Vice Mayor Pasquale.
Thank you mayor.
Let's see.
I've had a pretty busy couple of weeks, attended my air quality
board committee meeting yesterday,
and they're in negotiations with their labor groups.
And I was just a little because the organization
was doing the negotiating kind of left us hanging.
So it's been postponed for a special meeting.
It was kind of concerning to me.
They left some holes, attended the DBA week or so ago.
They are churning along just fine.
I do believe they are going to have some changes
in leadership or positions.
Not real clear on who's going to be taking over.
Went to the leadership as the city manager
said and very, very informative.
Glad I was could participate.
I hope I didn't make anybody feel uncomfortable because I
get emotional sometimes.
I don't know what that is.
I think it's after my heart surgery.
They tenderize my heart a little bit,
but no good group of people and a lot of good things
going on in our city.
Glad to see that.
What else went to the Sr. commission meeting.
First time and was very, very pleased to see that very
engaged group of people.
A lot of good conversation.
And just keep that senior commission going.
The one thing that I did stress is
that we are a regional people from all over,
just not Yuba City, come to our senior center.
And I think that's lost on a lot of people in our community.
It is a regional facility that people from all over 2
or three counties come to.
And maybe we need to squeeze a little bit of juice out of some
of those other communities.
I did attend the buddy buddy ranch meeting.
I had an expectation I didn't know what
to expect because I didn't really know
and they clarified a lot for me.
Council Member Cole and I had some pretty tough questions
for them, and we put them in the hot seat
because we are concerned that you're just going to be putting
things in the community that people really didn't know about,
and I was relieved to hear of their model and who they serve.
And it was way different than what I thought
was going to be going on.
So that was very informative.
I went to the murder mystery theater on Friday night,
had a Western murder mystery thing at the Arts Council.
If you ever get an opportunity, go to one of their functions.
They're very, very fun, very well attended.
They had two nights and it was sold out both nights.
Did a.
CTE mock interviews for the high school last Monday.
I had eight students.
Most of them were female, unfortunately.
I mean, not unfortunately, but there
weren't that many male participants, which
I was shocked at that they didn't
want to learn how to interview some real superstars.
Hours a lot of good feedback to those young people,
and the high school was more than happy that actually
my niece showed up.
My niece was one of the interviewers where she works
for Sutter County Superintendent of schools,
and when she walked in, I sat in, the teacher goes, her.
And I go, yeah, since she was a baby.
So that went really well.
I really liked interacting, and I did total debriefs with those,
each one of those students afterwards,
and which I guess a lot of people don't do.
So they got direct feedback from me.
On a sadder note, we lost one of our centurions,
Mrs. Dorothy cavoli.
They've been a family in this community for generations.
They had eight children that I probably went
to school with, half of them.
The other half were older than I was but nice lady.
And if the mayor could a close in her memory.
I would appreciate that.
And with that, I close my report.
Thank you, Mr. Vice mayor.
Got a bit of a list.
I think there's a lot going on, and I
know that those who have sat in this seat
before can sympathize with the fact
that when you have the title of Mayor,
there's a lot that comes at you a lot different than just
regular council stuff.
But you guys have been busy and I'm in your own report,
so I think that's great.
Had the opportunity to go out to Beale and serve
1,000 airmen with local groups.
It's just another opportunity to outreach to the base
and show the connection between Yuba City
and support Beale Air Force base, especially given the fact
that at this particular point in time,
you can only imagine the burden that's on them, especially
when it comes to intelligence gathering and reconnaissance,
et cetera they're very heavily involved.
Sacog every two weeks, there's meetings down there
and this for Mr. wolf.
It's the funding round.
Where are you.
There you go.
And so we need to be.
We need to be at the table.
I know you are, I hear, continue to hear good things down there.
I have shared a couple of things and we'll share a couple more.
But there's some good transportation
things going on out there.
And I hope we can continue to be as successful
as we have in the past.
The BCCI has been mentioned.
Definitely Marysville knows how to do
parades and kudos to them and events surrounding the parade.
I had the opportunity with the vice mayor
to Christen the Sutter County Superintendent of schools
building right over here.
Super building, great asset to the community.
If you take a look around, there's
a lot of stuff coming up out of the ground in Yuba City
right now.
Sometimes we don't necessarily celebrate all that stuff.
We're going to try to do a little bit more of that.
Even though it's not our project,
it's certainly an asset to the community
and their commitment to educating folks, adults
and young folks is admirable.
I went to the government Affairs Committee.
The city manager and vice mayor were with me.
It's always interesting.
They had had a discussion about town Hall for vendor,
for our mobile vendor.
I think we were able to hopefully educate
them a little bit about all the things
that have already been in play.
And I commend the police department, our code enforcement
folks, for the efforts they're putting forward
and of course, our partners at Sutter County.
I don't know if they're going to have a town Hall.
I guess this was a request by a business in Marysville,
because apparently they must have the issue as well.
And my recommendation to them is borrow or borrow
our ordinance as we develop it.
The Hayden Avenue temple.
And I know council member kershner
was a key person in helping to coordinate our attendance there.
We got to sit alongside our County counterparts
as well as Congressman Mike Thompson and the folks
over at that temple.
Very generous, very gracious to all of us.
I want to forecast to the council
that sometime in May we are going
to move forward with being designated
as a Purple Heart city.
There are some things that need to get in place for that,
but I'll let you know well in advance.
Hopefully you can put that in your calendars.
I do also want to mention, and I should have mentioned
this earlier, when we talk about yuba-sutter transit, those
of you who had the opportunity to sit on transit,
when you're sitting at sacog and you're listening
to Sac regional transit, it's not
to throw any shade at anybody, but
they're running at a deficit.
YOLO transit running at a deficit.
Our yuba-sutter transit is not running at a deficit.
There's a lot of factors involved with all that,
but I think we should be relatively proud of the fact
that our local Transit Authority and those who help shape it,
I think are doing a great job.
The issue of our water rates is out there right now.
Obviously it hit the mailboxes.
I really strongly encourage people
to take a look at the QR code on the front of that brochure
as it comes out.
It does a very good job of explaining why the need is
there, but it also shows a comparison of water rates
and sewer rates that I think isn't being necessarily
shared on social media.
I'm hopeful perhaps we could do a job on that, because what's
coming out is we're charging this we're charging that when
you look at the rates that are being proposed through this
to 2018 process, I think they're quite
reasonable given all the demands on our water and sewer system.
So look at that QR code.
This is mostly to the public.
Click on that.
If you don't have the ability to do that, reach out to City Hall.
I'm sure they can help you find that.
Those links.
Continue to plod along with the Sikh festival preparation.
Again commending our police department.
They're the tip of the spear.
Now, again, it's a festival, not a parade.
And so our efforts to try to.
Make sure that we can produce a safe but very vibrant
event within our city limits.
Those are top of mind.
Some of the effects of our budget trimming
are starting to be known.
At least they are to me because I'm getting the emails
and so again, I encourage us to be as outgoing
as possible rates, program cuts, et cetera,
made necessary by the fact that revenues aren't necessarily
matching our ability to provide services that we
have traditionally done.
But I also know that I have spent a lot of time
with our finance director, our city manager, the vice mayor,
and all of our department heads in regards to the budget
development, which should be coming our way
in the not too distant future.
I very much commend those who are involved with this to take
a very proactive and reasonable look at the budget amendments
and changes and abilities to provide services that we're
trying to do here in the city.
Final thing I would like to do, in conjunction with MS
Foley's passing today, this morning,
we lost Chief William Burke.
Yuba City Fire department chief from 1968 to 1980.
He was 102 years old, and most of us
had came across him at different city events.
Extremely vibrant at that age, very engaged
and a loss to our city as well.
So this meeting is going to be closed in memory
of miss and chief Burke.
And with that meeting is closed.