* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. FOUR TIMES. [00:00:01] YEAH. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME TO OUR FEBRUARY 18TH, 2025 CITY COUNCIL MEETING. IT IS 7:01 PM SOME MEETING IS NOW IN SESSION. SOME CHANGES OF THE CITY COUNCIL. PRESS. PRESS. CHANGE OF PROCEDURE. CHANGE OF PROCEDURE. IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND SUBMIT IT TO THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE START OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. OTHERWISE, YOUR SPEAKER SIP WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. ALSO, ORAL COMM COMMITTEES COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS WILL START AFTER PRESENTATIONS. TONIGHT'S INVOCATION WILL BE LED BY PASTOR L RICHARDSON. FROM THE NEW BEGINNING, CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, WEST CORINA AND COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. ALL RISE. UH, PASTOR, THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE. PREPARE YOUR HEARTS TO MIND. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE GATHER HERE TODAY WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS, SEEKING YOUR GUIDANCE AND WISDOM. AS DECISIONS ARE MADE THAT IMPACT OUR COMMUNITY, WE ASK FOR CLARITY OF THOUGHT AND UNITY OF PURPOSE AMONG ALL THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. FATHER, MAY THEIR DECISIONS BE FILLED WITH RESPECT AND UNDERSTANDING. AND MAY WE OPEN AND MAY WE BE OPEN TO A DIVERSE PERS UH, PERSPECTIVES. HELP US TO PRIORITIZE THE NEED OF OUR CITIZENS AND TO ACT WITH INTEGRITY AND COMPASSION. GRANT US THE STRENGTH TO FACE CHALLENGES AND THE COURAGE TO PURSUE WHAT IS JUST AND RIGHT. MAY THEIR EFFORTS LEAD TO A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL FOSTERING PEACE, PROSPERITY, AND, AND HARMONY WITHIN OUR CITY. WE THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AND FOR THE STRENGTH TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF OUR, OUR CITY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AMEN. GENTLEMEN, PLEASE REMOVE YOUR CAPS AND REPEAT AFTER, PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART AND REPEAT AFTER ME. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS. NATION. NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL MAY BE SEATED. CITY CODE, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK, ROLL CALL PLEASE. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. AND COUNCILMAN, COUNCILMAN CONDOS. CONDOS. PRESENT. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. HERE, GUTIERREZ. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. PRESENT. MAYOR. MAYOR PRO. TIM LOPEZ. VITO PRESENT. MAYOR W HERE. ATTORNEY CITY ATTORNEY. IS THERE ANYTHING TO BE REPORTED OUT OF CLOSED SESSION? NOTHING TO REPORT MADAM MAYOR. YEAH. [PRESENTATIONS] CERTIFICATIONS OF APPRECIATION. STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY. TONIGHT WE WILL BE RECOGNIZING STUDENTS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY. THE COMMUNITY SERVICE DIVISION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WEST COVINA QUOIS CLUB AND STUDENTS FROM THE WEST COVINA WERE PROVIDED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE OPERATIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT BY INTERACTING WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF. THE EVENT ALLOWED THE STUDENTS TO TOUR CITY HALL, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND PARTICIPATE WITH STAFF IN A MOCK CITY COUNCIL MEETING. AND AS I REMEMBER THIS MORNING, THE YOUR ADMISSION IS TO CUT $2 MILLION BUDGET. SO MAY YOU WANT TO REPORT TO THE AUDIENCE AND THE STAFF. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? UM, SO WE DECIDED TO CUT SOME, UM, BUDGET FROM THE EO FROM THE HR FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. UM, IT, UM, FIRE, FIRE DEPARTMENT, . UM, DO YOU REMEMBER? I THINK COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNITY SERVICE. COMMUNITY SERVICE. COMMUNITY SERVICE. OH, COMMUNITY SERVICE. GOOD JOB. THAT'S OUR DREAM. WE CANNOT CUT NOTHING AT ALL. . WE ONLY INCREASED THE BUDGET. WE NEVER CUT. OKAY. AND UH, SO MAYBE EACH OF, UH, CITY COUNCIL, YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU LEARN. OKAY. MAYBE START WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN OLLIE. OF COURSE. SO THIS, I AM REALLY THANKFUL TO BE A PART OF THIS TODAY. THIS IS MY THIRD YEAR, UM, BEING A PART OF THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY. SO EVERY YEAR IT'S BEEN SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT NEW. UM, DEFINITELY THIS YEAR IT WAS A LITTLE CHANGE, BUT OVERALL, ONE THING I ALWAYS LEARN [00:05:01] IS THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A, A GOVERNMENT IN OUR CITY AND HAVING PEOPLE THAT REPRESENT US ALL AS CITIZENS AND REPRESENT THE GREATER GOOD THAT WE SEE IN OUR CITY. AND IT'S JUST BEEN A BLESSING TO BE HERE THE PAST, UH, THREE YEARS AND I'M REALLY THANKFUL FOR IT. GOOD JOB, ANDY. YOU GO TO THE COUNCIL WOMAN DIAZ. OH, IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO BE A PART OF THIS EVENT. LIKE IT WAS REALLY FUN AND I LIKE, IT WAS COOL TO, TO SEE LIKE HOW THE GOVERNMENT LIKE SORT OF WORKS. UM, I DIDN'T REALIZE LIKE HOW MUCH MONEY LIKE IS SPENT IN A GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS REALLY LIKE, INTERESTING TO KIND OF PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE 'CAUSE YOU DON'T REALLY THINK ABOUT THAT TYPE OF STUFF. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, UH, IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW IT REALLY FUNCTION. HOW MANY DIVISIONS THERE ARE, UM, LIKE POLICE, FIRE, HR, AND OTHER DIVISIONS. UM, IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING AND I'M THANKFUL TO BE A PART OF IT. MAYOR PRO LOPEZ. FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO SAY HOW GRATEFUL I AM FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND AS SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO DO SOMETHING RELATED TO THE GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE. IT WAS SUCH AN INTERESTING DAY TO TAKE IN AND JUST LEARN ABOUT THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES THAT WE DO HAVE HERE AT WEST COVINA. AND IT WAS A DELIGHT TO SEE HOW EVERYTHING WORKS BEHIND THE SCENES AND JUST BEING IN THESE CONVERSATIONS. IT WAS VERY GREAT AND I ENJOYED IT. AND CITY CLERK? UM, CITY CLERK. THANK YOU FOR HAVING US ALL TODAY. UM, I LEARNED A LOT. I LEARNED ABOUT BUDGETING. I LEARNED HOW TO ADDRESS MEETINGS AND YEAH, I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. CITY MANAGER. CITY MANAGER. DO YOU HAVE ANYBODY? NO, I DID NOT HAVE ANYONE TODAY. UNFORTUNATELY. I, I CAN TELL YOU WHAT I LEARNED. LOOK LIKE OUR STUDENT CITY MANAGER SCARED ABOUT CUTTING $2 MILLION BUDGET . SHE MIGHT BE. HE OR SHE MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE. OKAY. SO THEY MIGHT HAVE A PROTEST OUTSIDE, SO SHE SAID NO, I'M NOT GONNA SHOW UP. SO, BUT, BUT OKAY. I WANNA SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR K KWANI CLUB TO PUT THIS EVERY YEARS FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS. OKAY. AND, UH, MAYBE SOME OTHER STUDENT WANT TO SHARE WITH, UH, OH, I'M SORRY. I FORGOT THE MAYOR . UM, UH, IT WAS A REALLY AMAZING, UM, THING THAT WE DID TODAY. I LEARNED A LOT 'CAUSE I DID NOT KNOW THAT THE WEST GOVERNMENT HAD SO MANY BRANCHES AND DIVISIONS IN IT. UM, ALSO AS SOMEONE MENTIONED BEFORE, HOW MUCH MONEY IS OUR CITY? IT WAS A LOT OF MONEY AND IT WAS REALLY HARD TO CUT BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT HERE. SO IT HAD A REALLY GOOD EXPERIENCE HERE. SO YOU WANT TO BE A REAL MAYOR IN ONE DAY? THAT WOULD BE PRETTY COOL. YES. JUST COME OUT ROUND WHEN YOU TURN 18. OKAY. SO, OKAY. WE MIGHT BE CANNOT WIN YOU. SO EVERYBODY HAVE A CHANCE AND ANY, ANY OTHER STUDENT WANT TO SHARE WITH US? UM, BRAD. BRAD, YOU WANT TO COME OUT, INTRODUCE SOME OF YOUR STUDENT. OKAY. MAYBE YOU CAN START TO SHARE WITH US REGARDING HOW IMPORTANT, HOW MEANINGFUL FOR OUR STUDENT TO COME TO SHARE ABOUT HOW TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT. GO AHEAD, BRAD. UM, IN THE FRONT, RIGHT HERE. MIC. YES, PLEASE. SO PEOPLE CAN HEAR YOU FROM THE TV. SO I'LL SPEAK TO YOU. OKAY, SIR. YEAH, GO AHEAD. THE WEST COVINA QANTAS CLUB IS CERTAINLY HAPPY TO BRING THIS PROGRAM TO THE CITY. UH, WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 10 YEARS AND IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO HAVE OUR STUDENTS HERE IN, IN THE WEST COVINA AREA TO COME AND SEE HOW A SCHOOL, A CITY IS RUN. UH, IT IS DIFFICULT TO GET REALLY INVOLVED WITH NATIONAL, STATE, COUNTY, UH, GOVERNMENTS, BUT IT'S REALLY EASY TO GET INVOLVED WITH THE CITY. YOU GUYS MEET TWICE A WEEK IN A PLACE THAT IT'S EASY TO GET TO. UH, YOU, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS COME TO THESE MEETINGS, HAND A NOTE, AND YOU CAN SAY WHATEVER YOU WANNA SAY TO THE COUNCIL. UH, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN ASK THEM. IF YOU HAVE COMPLAINTS YOU CAN GIVE THEM. IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS, YOU CAN MAKE THEM. UH, AND EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU CAN APPLAUD THEM. BUT TODAY THEY GOT TO SEE THE INSIDE. AT ONE POINT, UH, THEY ALL WERE ASSIGNED A, UH, DIVISION WITHIN THE CITY, AND THEY MET WITH THE DIRECTORS OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS AND THEY SPENT ABOUT A HALF HOUR TO 45 MINUTES LEARNING ABOUT THAT DEPARTMENT AND WHY THEY SHOULDN'T CUT FROM THEIR DEPARTMENT. SO THEY COULD ARGUE BEFORE THE COUNCIL. I KNOW THE COUNCIL HAD A VERY DIFFICULT TIME, UH, TRYING TO DECIDE HOW TO MAKE IT. UM, AND I, BUT I THINK THEIR DECISIONS WERE DONE PROPERLY. YOU GUYS MADE GOOD CHOICES. YOU MIGHT GET FIRED AFTER CUTTING THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THOUGH, , BUT I, I, WE ENJOY DOING THIS. I THINK THE KIDS ENJOY IT. THE CITY, I CAN'T BELIEVE THE AMOUNT OF, UH, SUPPORT WE GET FROM THE CITY AND ALL THE DEPARTMENT CHAIRS THAT SPENT SO MUCH TIME WITH THESE KIDS, UM, THAT, UH, THEY KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO, TO HAVE THE KIDS COME THROUGH AND LEARN [00:10:01] ABOUT CITY GOVERNMENT. WE CERTAINLY THINK SO, AND I THINK THE KIDS HAVE LEARNED A LOT. THANK YOU. OH, AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MIGUEL KETA FOR HELPING COORDINATE THIS. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MIGUEL KETA FOR COORDINATING THIS AGAIN. OKAY. AND, UM, ANY STUDENT WANT TO SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE. DON'T BE SHY OR ANY TEACHER. OKAY. UM, WOULD YOU PLEASE WANNA SHARE ANYTHING? COME? IT'S A HEY, IF I CAN TALK, YOU CAN TALK BETTER THAN ME. OKAY. SO WANNA SHARE, SHARE WITH US? YEAH. HUH? UH, SO, HI, MY NAME'S MATTHEW FROM EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, AND THIS IS MY FIRST YEAR DOING THIS PROGRAM LIKE THIS PROVIDED BY, UM, MY TEACHERS AND MY, MY PRINCIPAL. AND JUST OVERALL, TODAY'S EXPERIENCE WAS NOT SOMETHING TO BE OVERLOOKED. UM, AT OUR SCHOOL, WE DO TAKE PRIDE INTO OUR LEADERSHIP AS OUR LO AS OUR, UM, THING IS A PRIDE OF WEST COVINA. AND I FEEL SEEING LEADERSHIP AT WORK, NOT JUST IN A COMMUNITY WE KNOW, BUT AN OUTSIDE COMMUNITY THAT'S UNKNOWN TO US, I BELIEVE COULD BE VALUED MORE IN A SENSE. AND JUST OVERALL, THE WAY A GOVERNMENT WORKS, THE MECHANICS OF IT, AND NOT EVEN JUST HERE, BUT OTHER BRANCHES WITHIN, WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT IS, UM, SOMETHING TO JUST BE PROUD OF JUST AS A COMMUNITY. AND EVEN THOUGH WE'RE A SMALL COMMUNITY, AGAIN, IT WAS HOW MUCH OF 106,000, 107,000 ABOUT WHAT? UH, POPULATION. A HUNDRED, 20,000 HUNDRED. MY BAD. 127,000, UH, PEOPLE. THAT'S STILL A LOT OF, THAT'S STILL A LOT OF PEOPLE AND A LOT OF LIVES, A LOT OF DIFFERENT LIVES THAT AGAIN, EXPERIENCE IT DIFFERENT WAYS, LIKE PEOPLE OVER HERE AND PEOPLE OVER THERE EXPERIENCE IT MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. BUT IN THE END, IT'S ALL ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY AND JUST OVERALL HAVING EACH OTHER'S BACKS AT THE END. AND I, I BELIEVE THIS LEADERSHIP AND THE CITY THAT'S BEING RUN BY THESE COUNCILMEN AND THE, THESE COUNCIL PEOPLE, SORRY. AND THE MAYOR IS DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB AS WELL. AND I HOPE TO SEE THAT IN THE FUTURE WHEN I GROW UP. THANK YOU. ARE YOU YOUR FIRST NAME? MATTHEW? I THINK YOU WOULD BE A GOOD POLITICIAN. . YOU CAN SPEAK GOOD. OKAY. OKAY. WHERE YOU LEAVE? YOU WANT TO RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL? OKAY. HEY, ANYBODY SAY AFTER 18 YEARS OLD, YOU HAVE A CHANCE, BUT I WANNA WISH YOU THE BEST. YOU SAY EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE WE COME FROM THE RESIDENT, THE TAXPAYER ELECT US AND WE WILLING TO SERVE. AND YOU SAW A VERY DIFFICULT DECISION. POLICE, FIRE, UH, COMMITTEE SERVICE, FINANCE. OKAY. AND THE PUBLIC WORK IS ALL VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR RUNNING THE CITY. AND YOU CAN SEE HOW WE KEEP THE CITY CLEAN, HOW WE KEEP THE CITY SAFE, AND THAT IS A BIG TASK. SO. OKAY. AND THE, OUR PRINCIPAL FOR THE SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL. RIGHT. GO AHEAD. YES. HI, MY NAME'S TERRY ABERNATHY. I, I LOVE THIS OPPORTUNITY. COME TO THIS DISTRICT LAST YEAR AND, UH, JUST SEEING THE STUDENTS IN ACTION AND REALLY COLLABORATING TOGETHER, UM, WITH EDGEWOOD WEST COVINA, UH, MOUNT SAC ACADEMY, UM, ALL OF THE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT COME TOGETHER REALLY HAS MADE ME, UM, REALLY LOOK AT THINGS IN A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. AND THEN HEARING OUR STUDENTS TALK ABOUT HOW THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS REALLY KIND OF DEFENDED THEMSELVES THROUGH A PRESENTATION AND THE MAKING THE TOUGH CUTS WERE REALLY, YOU KNOW, DIFFICULT AND IT WASN'T EASY. AND TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND, AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT NEED TO REALLY SUPPORT THOSE CUTS. AND SO, I I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THIS. THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR WU AND EVERYONE THAT PUT IT TOGETHER. MR. MANNING, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU AND ALL THE SUPPORT AS WELL. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH, PRINCIPAL. AND, UH, UH, WEST COVINA HIGH SCHOOL. I THINK WE HAVE, UH, JANET. OKAY. UH, ANY OTHER, UH, SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE COME, YOU'LL BE, COME TO SPEAK. YOU'LL BE ON TV, YOUTUBE FOREVER. , YOUTUBE FOREVER. HI, I'M LEIA LOPEZ. I'M FROM SOUTH HILLS. I'M THE A SB PRESIDENT. UM, SOMETHING THAT I JUST WANTED TO COME UP AND SAY THAT I NOTICED NO ONE ELSE SAID WAS JUST HOW I LOVED LIKE, THE ONE-ON-ONE TIME THAT I GOT WITH THE LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE SOMETHING THAT YOUNG PEOPLE IN GENERAL REALLY LIKE NEED IS TO FEEL VALUED. AND I FELT LIKE, OTHER THAN JUST LIKE TALKING AT US AND LIKE US LEARNING ABOUT WHAT, OR HOW OUR GOVERNMENT RUNS, I THINK I GOT LIKE TO FEEL VALUED AND I WAS PERSONALLY IN THE IT GROUP. AND I FEEL LIKE OUR, UM, LEAD REALLY WAS LIKE LEARNING ABOUT US AND VALUING, LIKE OUR EXPERIENCES. [00:15:02] WE TALKED ABOUT JUST LIKE WHAT WE WANTED IN OUR FUTURE, LIKE WHERE WE WANTED TO GO TO COLLEGE. LIKE I FELT A PERSONAL CONNECTION RATHER THAN JUST LIKE BEING TALKED AT. AND LIKE, I REALLY APPRECIATE, HE'S LIKE . I WAS ALSO IN HIS GROUP LAST YEAR, BUT I REALLY JUST APPRECIATED LIKE, FEELING VALUED AND HAVING THAT LIKE ONE-ON-ONE CONNECTION WHERE I GOT TO LIKE, HAVE A CONVERSATION RATHER THAN JUST LEARN FROM THEM. AND I GOT THE SAME EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OF THE LEADERS, UM, ESPECIALLY IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. UM, AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHEN WE WERE ON THOSE TOURS, I FELT LIKE WE WERE ABLE TO LIKE, CONVERSATE WITH THEM AND THEY WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR LIVES AS MUCH AS WE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THEIRS. SO YEAH, I REALLY APPRECIATED THAT AND VALUED THAT EXPERIENCE TODAY. SO THANK YOU. GOOD JOB. GOOD JOB. UH, YOU, YOU CAN SEE, OKAY, BRAD. OKAY. YOUR PROGRAM REALLY IMPACT OUR STUDENT. OKAY. AND THE ONE TIME, OKAY, ONE DAY THEY WILL BECOME OUR LEADER BECAUSE SOONER OR LATER WE'LL BE RETIRED AND THOSE, THOSE KIDS WILL BE THE LEADER, TAKE OVER AND RUN THE CITY. DON'T FORGET, OKAY. WE COME FROM THE RESIDENT OF WEST COVINA, YOU ARE THE RESIDENT OF WEST COVIN. SO ONE DAY HE SHOULD TAKE OVER AND, UH, BE GOOD AND WANT THIS, THIS PROUD CITY. AND I KNOW YOU WILL DO IT. LOOK, HE'S SMILING ALREADY. HE HAS A VERY AMBITIOUS CAREER IN THE FUTURE. ANY OTHER CITY OKAY. AND ANY OTHER STUDENT WANT TO SHARE? OKAY. WHO, OKAY. COME OVER HERE. YEAH. OH, I REMEMBER YOU, YOU GET MY PIN. HE ANSWER, I ASKED HOW MANY FIRE STATION WE HAVE IN WEST COVINA AND, AND HE ANSWERED THE RIGHT ANSWER. OKAY. SO IT'S PRETTY GOOD. GO AHEAD. UM, MY NAME'S JOSHUA FIRMINO AND I'M PART OF MOUNT SACARY COLLEGE ACADEMY. AND AS A RESIDENT FROM LA PUENTE, IT'S VERY, IT, THIS EXPERIENCE REALLY SHOWED ME HOW GOVERNMENTS CAN SOMETIMES AFFECT INTO OTHER CITIES BECAUSE WEST COVINA HAS A FIRE DEPARTMENT. RIGHT? BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT LA PUENTE DIDN'T, I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT IT HAD, BUT THE FACT THAT WEST COVINA PROVIDES FOR US WITH FIRE DEPARTMENT, WITH STUFF LIKE THAT, IT JUST REALLY HAD LIKE A REALLY BIG REVELATION IN HOW WE HELP OTHER PEOPLE IN TIME OF NEED, NEED. AND ESPECIALLY WITH THAT PRESENTATION FROM THE MORNING WHERE WEST COVINA HELPED WITH THE EASTON AND PALISADES FIRES, IT REALLY JUST SHOWED LIKE A BRIGHT LIGHT IN MY HEAD. AND I JUST REALLY, IT REALLY SHOWS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS AND I REALLY ENJOY THIS EXPERIENCE. SO, SO HOW MANY, HOW MANY STATION WE HAVE IN WEST COVINA? HOW MANY, UH, FIVE. I I ALREADY GAVE YOU THE PIN, SO OKAY. HE ANSWER EXACTLY CORRECT. WE HAVE A FIVE STATION SPREAD OUT IN THIS BIG CITY AND SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE. GOOD JOB. OKAY. AND, UH, I THINK IF NO SPEAKER, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE OUR MAYOR TO GIVE OUT CERTIFICATE FOR EACH OF OUR, UH, PARTICIPANT. OKAY. IT IS, UH, THE CITY CLERK. OKAY. AND, UH, YOU WANT TO GIVE THE CERTIFICATE? WE GOING READ THE NAME THE NAME, READ THE NAME? YEAH. I'M SO SORRY IF I BUT YOU, YOUR NAME. . OH. UM, BY, BY THE WAY, WE HAVE, UH, ALL THE HIGH SCHOOL. WE HAVE, UH, COVINA VALLEY UNIFIED SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL. UH, WE HAVE, UH, SOUTH HILL PRIVATE SCHOOL, SOUTH HILL ACADEMY. OKAY. AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, UH, WEST COA UNIFIED, UH, WEST COVINA HIGH SCHOOL. WOULD YOU PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND? OKAY. WHICH SCHOOL? OH YES, RIGHT HERE. ARE YOU THE TEACHER? RIGHT? PRINCIPAL. PRINCIPAL. OH, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? COME, YEAH. THANK YOU, MAYOR. YEAH, IT'S, UH, CHARLES PARK, PRINCIPAL WEST KAINO HIGH SCHOOL. WE'RE JUST REALLY PROUD OF OUR STUDENTS AND IT'S REALLY NICE TO HEAR FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE, BUT ALSO ALL THE SCHOOLS COMING TOGETHER ON A DAY LIKE THIS. AND I THINK, UM, THEY'RE GONNA LEARN FROM IT AND IT'S GONNA TEACH 'EM SKILLS BEYOND TODAY AND FOR THEIR LIFE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS EXPERIENCE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. PRINCIPAL, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU LOOK SO YOUNG. I WILL ASSUME YOU ARE THE STUDENT. OKAY? YEAH. OKAY. ARE YOU GONNA, OKAY. OKAY. GO AHEAD. MAYOR GONZALEZ. YOU WANT INDIVIDUAL PICTURES OR OTHERWISE WE NEVER END MACKENZIE. WILSON MACKENZIE WILSON. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [00:20:01] ERIC. YES. ERIC PALIS, LEIA, LOPEZ, ANTHONY AND ANDINA. ANDINA. THAT'S IT FOR THIS SCHOOL. YOU WANNA DO ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME? UH, OKAY. OKAY, FINE. SO ALL THE HIGH SCHOOL, LET'S HAVE PICTURE TOGETHER. SO THIS IS, UH, SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL. YES. OKAY. MAYOR, YOU WANT TO COME IN? OKAY. OKAY. ONE, TWO OF YOU STILL HAVE TO STAY. AND WHICH DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP OUT MORE? OKAY. WHERE IS THE SOUTH ACADEMY? YES. YES. UH, NEXT ONE WE SAW HILL ACADEMY. JEREMIAH MEDINA. THANK YOU. VALERIE LESCO. VALERIE. THAT'S EDGEWOOD. OKAY. RIGHT HERE. FAITH ROJAS ROJA. KAYLA GRAHAM, AMBER DE SANTIAGO, AND, UH, YEAH, MAYOR. OKAY. JUST IN SAHE ACADEMY. . GOOD JOB. OKAY. THANK YOU. SAHE ACADEMY. OKAY. AND THEN WE GO TO THE . GLORIA MICHELLE ORTIZ. THAT YOU THAT'S ME. . LILLIAN SHRI . MATTHEW CHAVEZ. MATTHEW VALERIE VELASCO. YEP. OH, OH. PRINCIPAL. PRINCIPAL HERE. OH, ISABEL HAD TO BE FAIR. OH YES, OF COURSE. I JUST WANNA GET ASKED OR I WANNA THANK THE, UM, CITY OF WEST COVINA AND EVERYONE ON COUNCIL FOR HAVING MY KIDS TODAY AND FOR GIVING THEM SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE. I KNOW THAT THEY GOT A LOT OUT OF IT AND THEY WERE VERY EXCITED TO BE HERE, SO IT WAS GREAT TO GET TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THEIR DAY TO DAY. I WAS A LITTLE SAD THAT THEY CUT SO MUCH OUTTA THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER. . YEAH. THANK YOU. SINA HIGH SCHOOL. RENE CRUZ. ISABELLA ORANTES. ALEJANDRO MARTINEZ. [00:25:09] CLOSER. THANK YOU. OKAY. MOUNT SAC EARLIER. COLLEGE ACADEMY. SOPHIA HERNANDEZ. THANK YOU. JOS FOR MILANO. ADAM PAGAN, THANK THAT PRINCIPLE AMONGST OKAY. YEAH. HI EVERYBODY. GOOD EVENING. DR. RYAN MCDONALD. PROUD PRINCIPAL. I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYONE HERE FOR HOSTING THIS WONDERFUL EVENT, TALKING TO MY STUDENTS LATER TODAY. THEY JUST HAD A GREAT TIME AND LEARNING ABOUT ALL THE DEPARTMENTS AND HOW IT ALL WORKS. SO A GREAT DAY OF LIFELONG LEARNING. SO THANK YOU FOR HOSTING OUR EVENT. CAN WE HAVE ALL STUDENTS COME UP PLEASE? ALL THE STUDENT PLEASE. YEAH. AND THE PRINCIPAL. AND THE PRINCIPAL TOO. SO BEFORE YOU GO HOME, WE HAVE A GROUP PICTURE IN THE BACK. GO AND, UH, GO IN THE BACK. YEAH. YOU'RE SURE? MAYBE SOMEBODY, SOMEBODY CAN KNEE IN THE FRONT A LITTLE BIT. YEAH, GO, GO. YEAH. PLUG YOU. PERFECT. NO, YOU'RE PERFECT. YEAH. . THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. GOVERNMENT STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY. OKAY. GREAT JOB. MAYOR, YOU WANT TO DO A CONCLUSION BEFORE WE SEND THEM HOME? UM, THANK YOU FOR EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT TODAY AND CAME FOR THIS LATE MEETING. UM, I THINK IT WAS A GREAT PLEASURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THIS AND I HOPE YOU ALL LEARNED SOMETHING FROM IT AND ENJOYED COMING. GREAT JOB, MAYOR. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU, YOU CAN SEE NOW. SHE'S OUR NEW MAYOR. OKAY. I, I THINK I GET KICKED OUT BECAUSE SHE'S DOING PRETTY GOOD JOB. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE STUDENT. I THINK THAT YOU LEARN A LOT HOW TO CUT $2 MILLION BUDGET IS VERY DIFFICULT. SO WE, OUR JOB IS, LET'S MAKE $2 MILLION MORE SO WE CAN PAY FOR OUR EXPENDITURE. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU STU. STUDENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COME. OKAY. I SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE. OKAY. THANK YOU, MAYOR. OKAY. THANK YOU CITY CLERK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. I SEE YOU GET NEXT YEAR. YEAH. GOOD JOB. GREAT JOB. OKAY. WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF EVENT. OKAY. WE HAVE A SPRING FESTIVAL COMING UP AND YOU WILL COME TO BE OUR INTERN. OKAY. INTERNSHIP IS A GREAT THING FOR YOU, GUY TO STEP IN THE GOVERNMENT. OKAY? UH, NEXT ONE WE WANT TO OKAY. AND HAVE A PEARL AND TEAM COME UP. OKAY. JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER, UH, MAYBE A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. WE HAVE ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS HISTORY OF A JAPANESE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER, UH, EAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY OKAY. JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER. AND THEY ESTABLISHED 1936 AND FOR THE DONATION FROM ONE OF THE JAPANESE FARMER. OKAY? AND THEY DONATE THE POVERTY, OKAY? AND THEY ESTABLISH ABOUT THIS AT THE . IF YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN THERE, GO TO BUSINESS STAND. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER OR COMMUNITY CENTER. HAVE ALL, UH, PROVIDE THEIR [00:30:01] CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE. THEY'RE DOING GREAT JOB. SO I WANT TO THANK THE PRINCIPAL TEAM AND, UH, OUR PEARL OKAY. SERVED 20 YEARS IN THE COMMUNITY. I THINK HE DO IT FOR FREE, RIGHT? , SHE SAY, HA HA HA HA. NOT A CHANCE. OKAY? BUT LET'S, UH, PRESIDENT TIM SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THIS OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY, UH, OKAY. FACILITY IN OUR CITY FOR ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS. UH, ONCE UPON A TIME, IF YOU DON'T KNOW, UH, WEST COVINO WAS A FARM LAND. WE HAVE A LOT OF FARMER AND A LOT OF FARMER. OKAY? THEY ARE JAPANESE FARMER, JAPANESE AMERICAN, AND THEY ESTABLISHED OVER HERE, BUT 1942 DURING WORLD WAR II, THEY BEEN REMOVED FROM THE COMMUNITY AND HOPEFULLY OKAY, LATER ON AFTER WAR IS OVER, A LOT OF THEM DIDN'T COME BACK. BUT WE STILL HAVE A COUPLE OF, UH, OKAY. FACILITY AND LAB PRESENT THE PROUD OF, OF THEIR, THE PRIOR OF THEIR COMMUNITY OR THEIR CULTURE. SO TIM, TO , YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? YEAH. GREAT. THANK YOU TONY. UM, I WANTED TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW PEARL OMI HAS BEEN OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR 20 YEARS, UH, IN A, IN A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION LIKE US, THAT'S VERY RARE. UM, THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. SO THAT JUST SHOWS YOU HER DEDICATION. SO WE'RE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. UH, WE'RE EVEN AS WE ENTER OUR 75TH YEAR NEXT YEAR, AND THE CITY HAS JUST CELEBRATED A HUNDRED AND SECOND YEAR, WE FEEL LIKE WE'VE BEEN PARTNERS FOR SO MANY YEARS. UM, BUT WE STILL FEEL THAT WE'RE, UH, WE ARE THE YOUNG KIDS TO THE WEST COVINA CITY. SO WE ALWAYS APPRECIATE IT. ALL THE COOPERATION, ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND ALL THE, UH, CITY MANAGERS AND ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS ALWAYS SUPPORT US. SO WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE. AND SO THAT'S WHY COMING HERE TONIGHT AND AND ACKNOWLEDGING THAT PEARLS HAS SPENT 20 YEARS WITH, UH, WITH THE CENTER IS EVEN MORE SPECIAL. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, 20 YEARS, A LONG TIME. OKAY. AND, UH, I THINK YOU HAVE A LOT OF THINGS YOU WANT TO SAY TO TIM. OKAY. AND, UH, OR TO THE COMMUNITY. GO AHEAD, PEARL. OH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU MAYOR. WOO. . UM, I THINK TIM SAID IT ALL. WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO BE PART OF THE CITY WEST COVINA AND TO HAVE THE WONDERFUL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY STAFF. WE REALLY TRULY APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, BEING PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND BEING AS MUCH INVOLVED AS WE CAN. AND TO SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE GROW UP HERE, LEARNING AND APPRECIATING THE JAPANESE CULTURE IS DEFINITELY OUR PASSION PROJECT. AND WE'RE LIKE SO, UH, THRILLED THAT WE CAN BE PART OF THIS COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. YEAH, MAYBE YOU CAN INTRODUCE QUICKLY ABOUT YOUR FACILITY AND INVITE MAYBE OUR RESIDENT TO KIND OF VISIT YOUR FACILITY. OKAY. I REMEMBER MY DAUGHTER WENT TO YOUR FACILITY, LEARNED TO THE HOW TO ARRANGE THE FLOWER EVEN TO CIN RELIGION. TRY TO EX OKAY. EXPLORE OKAY. ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE YOU ARE OFFERING. SO MAYBE YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY. YES. I SENT A VIDEO TO ROXANNE ABOUT THE EAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER, BECAUSE I'M SURE YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR ANY MORE SPEECHES FROM US. SO, UM, ONE OF OUR STAFF A FEW YEARS AGO MADE THIS BEAUTIFUL VIDEO AND I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU. WELCOME TO THE EAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER, A CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THE HERITAGE UNIQUE TO JAPANESE AMERICAN ANCESTRY. WITH OVER 5,000 MEMBERS AND 30 DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, THE E-S-G-B-J-C-C SERVES FAMILIES ACROSS THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, INCLUDING LOS ANGELES, ORANGE, SAN BERNARDINO, AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES. THE EAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER WAS FOUNDED IN 1936 BY A JUDO MACHIDA, UM, WHEN HE DONATED ONE ACRE OF HIS FARMLAND. AND HE REALLY WANTED TO SEE A PLACE WHERE FUTURE GENERATIONS COULD LEARN ABOUT THE JAPANESE CULTURE. THANKS TO MR. MITA, WE NOW HAVE A THRIVING CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER WITH A MULTITUDE OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES OVER THE YEARS, THE E-S-G-V-J-C-C HAS GROWN TREMENDOUSLY, AND TODAY IT IS HOME TO OVER 30 PROGRAMS THAT KEEP THE COMMUNITY CENTER BUSY EVERY DAY. THESE PROGRAMS RANGE FROM DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, INCLUDING CULTURE, EDUCATION, SOCIAL MARTIAL, ARTS AND RECREATION. WITH SUPPORT FROM OUR HIGHLY TRAINED TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTORS, [00:35:01] WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO PROVIDE QUALITY PROGRAMMING TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. THE E-S-G-V-J-C-C HAS ALWAYS PROVIDED A SPACE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO VISIT AND ATTEND CULTURAL EVENTS AND PROGRAMS FROM TODDLERS TO YOUTH, ADULTS AND SENIORS. THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE IN. WE REALLY LOOK AT WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS, WHAT OUR JAPANESE COMMUNITY NEEDS, AND HOW WE CAN FILL THOSE GAPS. UM, ONE OF THE EXCITING PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS OUR CAMP CHIBI CO YOUTH CULTURAL CAMP FOR AGES FIVE TO 12. AND IT REALLY GIVES THE NEXT GENERATION, UM, SOME OWNERSHIP OF THEIR HERITAGE, THEIR CULTURE, AND THEIR COMMUNITY. ANOTHER THING THAT WE DO IS WE REALLY TRY TO ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY IN OUR JAPANESE CULTURE. SO WE'RE REVIVING PROGRAMS LIKE BONSAI, ANA KIM DO CLASS. THESE ARE PROGRAMS THAT ARE OFFERED NOT EVERYWHERE, AND IT'S REALLY SPECIAL THAT WE GET TO DO THAT HERE AND REALLY FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO LEARN ABOUT THE JAPANESE CULTURE, OUR LANGUAGE, AND OUR COMMUNITY. IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMS, THE E-S-G-V-J-C-C ALSO HOSTS OVER A DOZEN EVENTS THAT TAKE PLACE YEAR ROUND. THESE EVENTS ALLOW US TO PRESERVE THE GROWTH OF JAPANESE AMERICAN HERITAGE AND SHOWCASE ITS BEAUTY TO THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. WHETHER IT IS OUR SEASONAL FESTIVALS, ANNUAL HEALTH FAIR, ENORMOUS FUNDRAISERS OR HOLIDAY EVENTS, THE E-S-G-V-J-C-C IS A GREAT PLACE TO STOP BY AND ENJOY QUALITY TIME WITH THE ENTIRE FAMILY. WE HAVE PRONE SO MUCH IN THE LAST 10 YEARS, AND THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE, ANY FAMILY, UM, TO REALLY BE PART OF A SPECIAL COMMUNITY. A COMMUNITY THAT IS ALWAYS WELCOMING TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE. A GREAT PLACE FOR CHILDREN TO GROW UP, A GREAT PLACE FOR SENIORS TO ENJOY TWILIGHT YEARS, BUT IT'S JUST A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE COME TOGETHER AND FEEL COMMUNITY. THE E-S-G-V-J-C-C IS A PLACE THAT IS OPEN FOR ALL TO EXPERIENCE, CELEBRATE, AND BE INSPIRED BY THE BEAUTY AND JOY OF JAPANESE AMERICAN ANCESTRY. SO THE E-S-G-B-J-C-C BRIDGES, CULTURE, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY. AND WE WANT YOU TO BE A PART OF THAT COMMUNITY AND PART OF OUR FAMILY. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ALL THAT THE EAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY JAPANESE COMMUNITY CENTER HAS TO OFFER, VISIT OUR WEBSITE@SGVJCC.ORG. WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT VISIT. YEP. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, UH, UH, WONDERFUL. UM, YOURS FACILITY AND PROVIDE THE SERVICE FOR OKAY. AND, UH, OUR COMMUNITIES, HOPEFULLY A LOT OF OUR RESIDENT CAN VISIT YOUR CENTER. AND, UH, HERE, UH, I KNOW YOU, YOU GUYS, UH, NOT ONLY JUST FINISH THE INSTALLATION AND, UH, PROVIDE VERY, UH, OKAY. AND A DELICIOUS DINNER, BUT YOU ARE GOING TO HOST, UM, OKAY, UH, THE CHERRY BLOSSOM, UH, EVENT. SEE, I DIDN'T FORGET. OKAY. SO IT, THIS IS MY 10TH YEARS ATTENDING YOUR EVENT, AND THEN YOU HAVE A SUMMERTIME, YOU HAVE ANOTHER, UH, EVENT, RIGHT? YEAH. THE STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM IS THIS SUMMER, AND SO WE'RE LOOKING, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE SISTER CITY, WEST COVINA. SISTER CITY IS AWA JAPAN, AND IT'S A GREAT RELATIONSHIP. I THINK IT'S GOING ON 20 YEARS NOW. UM, SO 12 2012. SO 22, 23 YEARS. CORRECT. 23 YEARS THAT WE HAVE BEEN BRIDGING, UM, YOU KNOW, THE TWO CITIES TOGETHER AND DOING CULTURAL EXCHANGE FOR, UM, CHILDREN OR STUDENTS THAT ARE 12 TO 18 YEARS OLD. SO ARE YOU GONNA COME, ARE YOU COMING TO JAPAN THIS SUMMER? I'M SO BUSY, . OKAY. I DON'T KNOW. MY RESUME WILL ALLOW ME TO GO. OKAY. SO I PROMISED THEM TO FINISH A LOT OF PROJECT THIS YEAR. UH, WE WILL SEE POSSIBLE OKAY. TIME SO TIGHT. AND, UH, I NEED TO DELIVER MY PROMISE AND ALL THE CITY COUNCIL TOO, AND WE NEED TO FINISH AND SERVE OUR CITY. SO, BUT, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THING IS THIS, THIS, UM, LAST YEAR WE HAVE A, A JAPANESE EXCHANGE STUDENT AND COME TO OUR CITY AND LIVE IN SOME HOST FAMILY OKAY. AND WE WON'T HAVE OUR CHILDREN AND TO VISIT OTTAWA, OUR C CITY TO OKAY. HAVE A COUPLE WEEKS ABOUT THEIR CULTURE. SO IT IS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME, 20 YEARS. SO, SO WE WANT TO CONTINUE [00:40:01] TO HAVE THIS PROGRAM FOR SO-CALLED EXCHANGE STUDENT, AND HOPEFULLY, AND WE JUST RECENTLY, UH, LAST WEEK, WE HAVE A, A TAIWANESE STUDENT FROM SOUTH HILL ACADEMY. OKAY. CAME TO THE CITY HALL TO, UH, TO VISIT AND TO HAVE A TOUR. AND SAME THING ABOUT, UH, ABOUT HOW THE GOVERNMENT RUN. SO HERE, UH, I WANT TO THANK OKAY. YOUR DEDICATION BECAUSE LAST TIME WE WENT TO YOUR INSTALLATION, WE DIDN'T BRING THIS TO YOU. SO THAT'S WHY I INVITE YOU FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING 20 YEARS OF SERVICE. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU TO SHOW UP TODAY, UH, TO GIVE EVERYBODY OKAY. UH, OKAY. AN A PRESENTATION REGARDING HOW WONDERFUL, UH, YOUR FACILITY TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITIES. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH. CAN YOU WANT TO ADD ON ANYTHING? NO. OH, YOU, YOU, YOU OKAY IT ALL? THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I SEE YOU. NEXT EVENT. UH, NEXT EVENT WILL BE CHERRY BLOSSOM IN WHAT DAY? APRIL 26TH. OKAY. WHERE WILL BE? HOST PLAZA, WEST COVINA WITH, UH, CHERRY BLOSSOM. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. APPRECIATE, UH, THE LAST, OKAY. PRESENTATION IS WE, I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, UH, VIRUS. OKAY. FLU GOING ON, GOING AROUND. AND WITH COVINA HEALTH, OUR, UH, HEALTH OFFICER WILL DO A PRESENTATION, HOW TO KEEP OUR RESIDENTS SAFE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS TIME. A LOT OF PEOPLE SICK AND LOT PEOPLE EVEN IN THE HOSPITAL. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE, OKAY. OUR WEST COVINA HEALTH, THE HEALTH DIRECTOR, HEALTH OFFICER, TO GIVE US SOME QUICK BREATH AND HOW KEEP OUR RESIDENT OKAY. OUT OF, UH, VIRUS, OUT OF, UH, SICKNESS AND, UH, THEY CAN, UH, PREVENT AND, UH, WITH SOME OF, UH, YOUR SUGGESTION. OKAY. GO AHEAD. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MAYORS AND, UM, CITY COUNCIL'S MEMBERS, UH, I'LL TRY TO DO THIS IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES. ACTUALLY TOMORROW EVENING WILL BE CO-HOSTING A COMMUNITY, UH, A CONTINUE MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR THE COMMUNITY PHYSICIAN AND NURSES AND ALSO A COMMUNITY, UH, HEALTH PARTNERS, UH, FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS FROM 6 5 30 UNTIL NINE 30. SO UH, SO ANYWAY, UM, YEAH, I USE THIS. SO, UM, WE'LL BE BASICALLY COVERING THE RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES, UH, DATA. SO WHAT TO KNOW, UH, CDC AND CDPH. AS OF FEBRUARY 14TH, 2025, THE AMOUNT OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY ILLNESS CAUSING PEOPLE TO SEEK HEALTHCARE IS AT THE HIGH LEVEL SEASONAL INFLUENCER ACTIVITY IS HIGHER THAN IT HAS BEEN ALL SEASONS. COVID-19 ACTIVITY IS ELEVATED IN MANY AREAS OF THE COUNTRY AND ALSO IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY. OUR SV ACTIVITY IS TRENDING UP AGAIN IN MOST AREA OF THE COUNTRY. AND REMAINING HIGH ON DECEMBER 18TH, 2024, GOVERNOR NEW HAS DECLARED A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF BIRTH FLU IN CALIFORNIA. UM, SO AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS GRAPH, UH, UNFORTUNATELY IS THE RETURN OF THE SO-CALLED TRIPLE PANDEMIC. UH, WE HAVE, UH, FLU, WE HAVE COVID, AND WE HAVE ISV ALL AT THE SAME TIME. AND, UH, AS OF, UH, FEBRUARY FLU, ACTUALLY A DEATH FROM FLU HAS SURPASSED COVID FIRST TIME IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, AND ACTUALLY DURING THE WHOLE PANDEMICS. UM, SO IN CALIFORNIA, EXPERT IS, UH, PREDICTING FRUIT IS PICKING IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, AND IT'S GOING TO REMAIN HIGH IN CALIFORNIA COMPARING TO THE US AND IT MIGHT BE PERSIST THROUGH MARCH BEFORE TRENDING DOWN. UH, AS I SAY, FIRST TIME DEATH FROM THE FRUIT HAS SURPASSED COVID. UH, THIS SEASONS, UH, COVID-19 CASES ARE TRENDING UP AGAIN, BUT REMAIN LOW. COMPARING TO DURING THE PANDEMICS, THE XEC IS NOW DOMINANT STRAIN AT 45%. AND THE KP 0.3 0.1 0.1 IS DECLINING, WHICH IS THE DOMINANT AT 24%. AT THIS TIME. THE NEW VARIANT IS EMERGING IS, UH, LP 8.1 AT 8%. AND, UH, OUR SV CASES IS, UH, TRENDING UP AND IS REMAINING HIGH. UH, BUT THERE'S STILL TIME FOR THE FLU RSV AND COVID VACCINATION TO GET THE PROTECTION THAT WE NEED. SO, UM, NOW, UNFORTUNATELY, WE ALSO, BESIDE TRIPLE PANDEMIC NOW IS CALLED QUAD DEMIC, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT NON VIRUS IS MAKING UP THE PANDEMICS. AND, UH, BOTH ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY HAPPENING IN UK AND THE US UH, PANDEMIC IS BASICALLY INCLUDING THE FLU COVID, RSV AND THE NOROVIRUS. UH, [00:45:01] CDC REPORTED, USUALLY THERE'S ABOUT 2,500 CASES OF NO, UH, UM, NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK IN THE UNITED STATES. AND THE HIGHEST LEVEL IS DURING THE EARLY DECEMBER OF THE YEAR. SINCE 2012, UH, CDC ALSO RECENTLY REPORTED, NOROVIRUS IS RAGING ACROSS US NOW HIGHER THAN ANY PREVIOUS YEARS. THE CASES INCREASED BY SOMETHING LIKE 340% IN THE PAST FOUR MONTHS. UM, FOR NOROVIRUS, WHAT CAN WE DO, UH, FOR PREVENTING STRATEGY IS WASH OUR HAND WITH SOAP. HAND SANITIZER OR ALCOHOL ALONE DO NOT WORK WELL AGAINST NEUROVIRUS. UH, WE HAVE TO PREPARE THE FOOD SAFELY. UH, NOROVIRUS CAN SURVIVE UP TO 140 DEGREE FAHRENHEIT. AND ALSO WE HAD TO DISINFECTED THE SURVEYS USING COR BREACH SOLUTION WITH A CONCENTRATION OF 1000 TO 5,000 PART PER MILLION, AND ALWAYS TOUCHING THE FACE, INGREDIENT, EYE, NOSE, AND MOUTH. UH, ALSO WATCH OUR LAUNDRY WELL AND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO AVOID THE SPREAD. UM, UH, PREVENTING STRATEGY FOR FLU ISV COVID IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME, BUT THERE IS STILL TIME, AS I SAY, FOR VACCINATION AND BUILD UP ENOUGH IMMUNITY TO LAST THROUGH MAYBE MARCH AND APRIL. UH, WASH HAND FREQUENTLY WITH SOAP AND WATER FOR AT LEAST 20 SECONDS. PRACTICE GOOD RESPIRATORY HYGIENE, INCLUDING COVER OUR MOUTH AND NOSE WITH T TISSUES OR YOUR ELBOW WHEN COUGHING OR SNEEZING, AND DISPOSE THE TISSUES, UH, CALMLY AND PROPERLY. UH, AVOID TOUCHING THE FACE AS, LET'S SAY EARLIER AND IMPROVE VENTILATION AND WEAR APPROPRIATENESS OR COVER IN A CROWDED ENCLOSED SPACE, ESPECIALLY THE PIG THROUGH ISV AND COVID SEASON, OR IN THE AREA OF HIGH TRANSMISSIONS. UH, FOR ISV IS A STAY HOME WHEN SICK. ALSO, MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE, THE WELL-BALANCED DIET THAT CONSISTS OF RAINBOW COLOR OR FRUITS AND VAGINAL. UH, STAY HYDRATED AND GET REGULAR EXERCISE. ENSURE ADEQUATE SLEEP TO SUPPORT YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. UH, I WILL TAKE PROPER DOSE AND TYPE OF VITAMIN SUPPLEMENT, INCLUDING VITAMIN D THREE, VITAMIN C, C, AND VITAMIN B COMPLEX, ET CETERA. ALSO, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO DO DEEP BREATHING EXERCISE WITH FRESH AIR, UH, AND EXPOSE, UH, TO SUNLIGHT DAILY. UH, WE POP AMONG, YOU KNOW, UH, DON'T WANNA BURN OUR SKIN AND MAINTAIN A VERY GOOD, UH, POSITIVE ATTITUDE. UM, FOR TREATMENT STRATEGIES, SAME THING. STAY HOME, STAY HYDRATED, EAT A LIGHT NUTRITIOUS FOOD, THEN RELEASE THE SYMPTOM WITH SOME OF THE OVER THE COUNTER MEDICATIONS. UM, JUST HUMIDIFIER, GOGGLE THE THROAT WITH SALT WATER AND PERFORM SO-CALLED NASAL, UH, SALINE RINGS. UH, ACTUALLY THIS, WE ARE ALSO A GOOD STRATEGY IN CASE YOU'RE IN A BIG CROWD AREA AND RETURN HOME. THE VIRUS USUALLY WON'T INVADE THE BODY FOR, UH, TWO, THREE HOURS. SO AS SOON I GET HOME, JUST SALINE SOLUTION, THE RINGS AND, AND GOGO THROAT WILL HELP REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF, UH, VIRUS EXPOSED IT. BUT IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY SEVERE SYMPTOMS, UH, SUCH AS DIFFICULTY BREATHING, CHEST PAIN, SUDDEN STIFFNESS, CONFUSION, PERSISTING VOMITING, OR, UH, THE SYMPTOMS GET BETTER AND RETURN SO-CALLED REBOUNDS, MAKE SURE TO ASK FOR MEDICAL HELP AND MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE OXYGEN LEVEL WITH A PULSE OXIMETER AND CALL YOUR PCP IF YOUR OXYGEN LEVEL IS LESS THAN 94% AND WITH PATIENT WITH HIGH RISK, UH, AND ALSO PATIENT WITH OVER 65, UM, SHOULD CONSULT THE PRIMARY CARE. A LOT OF TIME WHEN YOU HAVE FIRST SYMPTOM OF FLU, UH, VERY WELL WITHIN 24 HOURS. UH, PAXIL ALSO WORK VERY WELL. THE SOONER YOU TAKE EITHER ONE OF THOSE, YOU CAN GET RID OF THOSE FLU AND COVID SYMPTOM. AND THERE'S ALSO MANY OTHER, UH, ANTIVIRAL MEDICATIONS. UH, FOR IISV IS A VERY COMMON VIRUS THAT CAN CAUSE RESPIRATORY INFECTION, ESPECIALLY IN INFANT CHILDREN. AND OLDER ADULT OVER 65, UH, SV IS CAN BE SERIOUS. SO PROACTIVE MEASURE AND CLOSE MONITORING IS THE KEY. UH, OTHERWISE THE TREATMENT IS PRETTY MUCH SIMILAR TO FLU AND COVID-19. BUT IF THE SYMPTOM GET WORSE, MAKE SURE THE CONSULT THE DOCTOR AND YOUR PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR BECAUSE HOSPITALIZATION MAY BE NECESSARY. IN CASES, THEY DO HAVE SOME MEDICATION FOR INFANT AND CHILDRENS, UM, BIRTH THROUGH THE CURRENT RISK TO THE PUBLIC REMAIN LOW. RECENTLY, NEW YORK CITY HAVE THE COAST, SEVERAL LIFE MARKET TO STOP THE SPREAD OF THE BIRTH THROUGH. NO PERSON TO PERSON SPREAD OF BIRTH THROUGH HAS BEEN DETECTED IN CALIFORNIA. UH, PEOPLE RARELY GET BIRTH THROUGH, BUT THOSE WHO INTERACT WITH INFECTED DAIRY COWS, UH, POULTRY OR WILDLIFE, HAVE A GOOD RISK OF, UH, INFECTION. UH, PASTURIZED MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCT ARE SAFE TO CONSUME. UH, PERSONALIZATION INACTIVATE THE BIRTH OF, UH, THROUGH VIRUS. [00:50:01] BOTH CDC AND CDPH ARE WORKING TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH RELATED TO BIRTH THROUGH. THEY MONITOR THE INFECTION, DATA, EVOLVING SIGNS, AND THE PA UH, PEOPLE AFFECTED THE KNOWLEDGE. UH, WE CHANGE AS WE, UH, LEARN MORE. AND, UH, THEY'RE COMMITTED TO REDUCE THE IMPACT TO EVERYBODY INVOLVED, ESPECIALLY THE HIGH RISK PEOPLE. UH, OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUS WELFARE MENTIONING, UM, IS RHINO, UH, VIRUS, UH, WHICH IS A COMMON CO ENTEROVIRUS, UH, ANTIVIRUS, UH, PR PV TWO, HUMAN PER VIRUS, TWO PIV THREE. UH, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT CAN CAUSE CROUP AND BRONCHIOLITIS AND PNEUMONIA. UH, ONE WAY INTERESTING IS ALSO A MP V, HUMAN META PNEUMO VIRUS, WHICH TYPICALLY CAUSE SOME OF THIS CO LIGHT SYMPTOM, BUT ESPECIALLY CONCERN IS THE, UM, SO-CALLED HUMAN META PNEUMO VIRUS M AND THE HMPV. UH, CDC REPORTED THE CASE HAS BEEN RISING SINCE NOVEMBER WITH ABOUT 2% WEEKLY TEST AS OF FEBRUARY 8TH, 2025, LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, ALSO REPORTING ABOUT THE SAME PERCENTAGE. UH, IN DECEMBER, UH, MID-DECEMBER LAST YEAR, A LARGE SPIKE OF CASES IN CHINA, UH, WITH PEOPLE LYING UP IN THE HOSPITAL AND CLINIC, UH, LOOKING FOR, UH, UH, SEEKING FOR MEDICAL HELP, THE SYMPTOM INCLUDING COUGH, FEVER, NASAL CONGESTION, AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND REQUIRING HOSPITALIZATIONS. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE, UH, CDC AND CDPH WILL BE PART OF WATCHING AND MONITORING. UH, THIS, UH, AND MY, MY CONCLUSION, MY REPORT, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND ANY QUESTIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. DR. BEZO IS VERY INFORMATIVE BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT THE FLU GOING ON, ESPECIALLY AT EAST COAST. SO ANY CITY COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTION. OKAY. AND, UH, NO, NONE. OKAY. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION AND, UH, WE WANT OUR RESIDENT IN WHICH COVINA SAFE. OKAY? THIS IS IMPORTANT. AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR OUR HEALTH DIRECTOR TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION FOR OUR RESIDENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY, THANK YOU. OH, OKAY. NOW WE HAVE OUR, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIEREZ. YES. I HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR DR. BAZO. UM, . IT'S OKAY. DR. BEZO, WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND TO, UH, UH, EMPLOYERS AND, UM, UH, OR GOVERNMENT, UH, FACILITIES OR EVEN PRIVATE EMPLOYERS? IF A STAFF MEMBER IS SICK? UH, WHAT PROTOCOLS SHOULD BE TAKEN? UH, I KNOW, I KNOW IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS, UH, THAT THEY TAKE TO MAKE SURE THERE'S PRECAUTIONS. UH, MAYBE TAKE THE, SEE IF YOU COULD TAKE THE DAY OFF, NOT TO EXPOSE OTHERS TO THE FLU. SO WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE COMMUNITY? WELL, ACTUALLY, ANY COMMUNICATE DISEASE, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTION OR ANY SYMPTOM, THEY SHOULD REALLY STAY HOME. AND NOWADAYS, ESPECIALLY, YOU CAN WORK REMOTELY, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIME, UH, SOME OF THIS WORK, JOB FUNCTION CAN BE WORKED REMOTELY, AND WE SHOULD UTILIZE THAT, UH, UH, STRATEGY TO AVOID, UH, SPREADING THE INFECTIONS. AND THEN OF COURSE, BESIDE THAT, UH, YOU'LL BE NICE. ACTUALLY, A LOT OF TIMES, UM, A LOT OF PATIENTS HAVE FLU AND COVID RIGHT NOW IS, UH, THE, THIS TEST AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET IN TERMS OF COST 13, $15. YOU CAN CHECK FOR BOTH FLU AND COVID, BECAUSE WITH FLU, A LOT OF TIME, IF YOU HAVE A FIRST SIDE OF SYMPTOM, YOU TAKE IT EVEN ONE DOSE OF ANTI FLU OR SOME THIS ANTIVIRAL MEDICATION. BUT THE NEXT DAY YOU FEEL SO MUCH BETTER AND YOU SHORTEN THE RECOVERY CAUSE. AND THEN, OF COURSE, LESS DISABILITY AND BACK TO WORK SOONER. GREAT. THANK YOU. SO ISOLATION, I THINK IS A KEY. OKAY. THANK, THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREAT JOB. OKAY, NOW WE MOVE TO ORAL COMMUNICATION. OKAY. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO [ORAL COMMUNICATIONS ] ORAL COMMUNICATION. THE TIME TO SPEAK HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THREE MINUTES. OKAY. CURSING, SWELLING. SWELLING AND, UH, DISCRIMINATORY, UH, DISCRIMINATORY SPEECH WILL NOT BE ALLOWED. WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED, PLEASE START LINING UP IN THE CENTER ROW AND THE TIME WILL START WHEN YOU REACH THE PODIUM. OKAY. AND REQUEST TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEM WILL BE HEARD PRIOR TO REQUEST TO SPEAK ON THE NON AGENDA ITEM. OKAY. SO RIGHT NOW, AND HOW MANY SPEAKER WE HAVE? WE HAVE SEVEN SPEAKERS. MAYOR. OKAY, GO AHEAD. AM I ONLY ACCEPTING THEM WHEN THEY TURN THEM IN? DID YOU WANNA YES, YES. YES. OKAY. YEAH, I, WE MENTIONED THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STUDY WITH THE, THE NEW MAYOR AND THANK YOU. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS ALBERT OCHOA, FOLLOWED BY DOUGLAS FOUR, FOLLOWED BY JOANNA G, CITY MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER, CITY STAFF, ALBERT OCHOA, WEST COVINO RESIDENT. UH, I'M HERE ON AGENDA ITEM THREE. UM, I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON THAT [00:55:01] IN FAVOR OF TRAFFIC COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS. UH, WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THE CITY OFFICIALS ARE DOING TO IMPROVE OUR, OUR AND RESTORE OUR STREETS. UH, REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NEXT SPEAKER. NEXT SPEAKER IS DOUGLAS FOUR, FOLLOWED BY JOANNA G, FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOT. HELLO, GUYS, MY NAME'S DOUG. FOUR. I LIVE IN THIS AWESOME CITY, HAVE THREE BUSINESSES IN THE CITY. AT THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEETING, I BROUGHT UP A SAFETY CONCERN REGARDING LOCAL BUSINESSES IN THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AREA ON GLENDORA AVENUE. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT BUSINESSES CONTRIBUTE FOR THEIR OWN SECURITY TO PREVENT CRIME, I WOULD LIKE TO STATE THE CONTRIBUTIONS THAT I HAVE DONE TO UPGRADE THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AREA. I HAVE SPENT OVER $150,000 REMODELING AND CREATING BUN STREET, ANOTHER $50,000, EXTENDING THE RESTAURANT FROM, WHICH WAS A MASSAGE PARLOR THAT KEPT GETTING IN TROUBLE FOR BAD THINGS HAPPENING. I THEN SPENT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS REMODELING A UNIT TO MAKE A FAMILY ICE CREAM PARLOR FROM WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY A SMOKE SHOP THAT WAS SELLING MARIJUANA. I ALSO THEN SPENT ANOTHER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ON A THIRD UNIT RES REMODELING IT AND DEVELOPING A BAKERY AND A RESTAURANT. I FEEL THAT MYSELF AND OTHER OWNERS OF THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AREA ARE ALREADY HEAVILY INVESTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOWNTOWN. WHEN ASKING THE COUNCIL AND CITY MANAGEMENT TO ALLOW FOR OUTSIDE DINING THAT I WAS WILLING TO PAY FOR TO MAKE THE PLACE BETTER OUT THERE, UM, I RECEIVED NO SUPPORT. IN FACT, IT WAS THE OPPOSITE. WE WERE INFORMED THAT THE PROPERTY WAS ON THE CITY LAND, AND THAT OUR RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR ENTRANCE, AND THAT THE CITY WAS INVESTIGATING WAYS TO CHARGE US FOR FEES FOR THE DINING THAT HAD BEEN CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE OUTSIDE FOR THE LAST 40 PLUS YEARS. I HAVE AN EMAIL TODAY TO PASS OUT, SHOWING YOU GUYS THAT FROM CITY EMPLOYEE. AS BUSINESS OWNERS, WE HAVE BEEN THANKFUL THE LAST TWO WEEKS THEY'VE BEEN DOING BIKE PATROL. UM, IT HAS HELPED, UM, WITH CUSTOMERS FEELING SAFER DOWN THERE. UM, THE PROBLEMS THAT WE'RE HAVING IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, ONCE A BAR'S CLOSED TILL ABOUT SIX IN THE MORNING. THE LIQUOR STORE GOT, HAD AN ATTEMPTED BREAK IN AT ABOUT FOUR IN THE MORNING, TWO NIGHTS AGO. UM, ALL THE BUSINESSES ARE ALREADY HEAVENLY INVESTED. I'M JUST ASKING FOR A LITTLE SUPPORT IN REGARDS TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AT THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT. I'M PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE FUNDING THAT WILL DRIVE FROM THE AGENCY AS WHEN THE PAST FIRE CHIEF MENTIONED GRANTS AS AN OPTION. HE WAS FIRED THE NEXT DAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. JOANNA G FOLLOWED BY BILL ELLIOT, FOLLOWED BY SHERRY FISHER. GOOD EVENING MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY MANAGER AND STAFF AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, JOANNA G FROM WEST COVINA LIBRARY, SOME UP AND COMING PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE. THIS SATURDAY, WE HAVE OUR PLAY AND EXPLORE PROGRAM FOR LITTLE KIDS, AND THAT'S ON SATURDAY AT 10:15 AM WE HAVE LEARN LATIN DANCE WITH ADRIAN BAIN, AND THAT'S GONNA BE ON SATURDAY AS WELL AT 2:00 PM THIS IS FOR ADULTS. UH, WE HAVE AFRICAN AMERICAN AND BLACK HISTORY MONTH BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS. AND THIS IS ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH AT 2:00 PM. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE HAVE OUR CHESS TOURNAMENT ON SATURDAY, MARCH 1ST AT 10:30 AM FOR ALL AGES. AND FOR THE REST OF OUR REGULAR SCHEDULED PROGRAMS, THEY WILL BE ON OUR WEST COVINA LIBRARY WEBSITE@LACOUNTYLIBRARY.ORG. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU, JOANNE. OKAY, AND, UH, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. BILL ELLIOT, FOLLOWED BY SHERRY FISHER, FOLLOWED BY MARIO. GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL. UH, I JUST WANT TO EXPRESS TO YOU HOW PRIVILEGED I FEEL TO LIVE IN A PLACE LIKE WEST COVINA. YOU KNOW, UH, THE CITY HAS SO MANY POSITIVE THINGS ABOUT IT THAT SOMETIMES WE JUST TEND TO TAKE FOR GRANTED. AND THIS IS A GREAT TOWN, AND WE'RE SURROUNDED BY SUBURBIA. AND WEST COVINA IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. WE TRULY ARE THE JEWEL OF THE SANGA VALLEY, AND I'M PROUD TO SAY I'M FROM WEST COVINA, AND I'M HAPPY I'M A HOMEOWNER HERE. AND, UH, IT WAS A GREAT CHOICE FOR US. AND I WAS LOOKING AT ZILLOW TODAY, AND GOSH, THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL HOMES FOR SALE IN WEST COVINA. AND, UH, SO THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO SAY IS THAT IN LIGHT OF RECENT EVENTS, UH, I THINK IT'S COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER ESTABL A NEW DEPARTMENT [01:00:03] WITHIN THE CITY, THE DEPARTMENT OF WASTE MANAGEMENT, GOVERNMENT ACCESS, LIKE DOGE. I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY BENEFICIAL BECAUSE THERE ISN'T A GOVERNMENT ENTITY OUT THERE THAT ISN'T WASTING MONEY SOMEHOW. SOMETIMES MONEY, UH, COMES INTO THE CITY AND GOES OUT SO FAST, WE'RE NOT SO SURE WHAT'S EVEN HAPPENING WITH IT. BUT I'M SURE IF AN ENTERPRISING YOUNG INDIVIDUAL, YOU KNOW, THAT HAD SOME, UH, TECH BACKGROUND, YOU KNOW, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ MIGHT KNOW SOMEBODY LIKE THAT, THAT COULD COME IN AND JUST OPEN THE BOOKS, CRACK OPEN THE BOOKS, AND LOOK FOR WASTE. HOW CAN THAT BE A BAD THING? YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT TO OUT TO GET ANYBODY. OF COURSE, IF WE FIND MALFEASANCE OR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, IT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED. AND I KNOW THAT IN THE PAST, YOU KNOW, WE'VE CHANGED CITY MANAGERS. YOU, ONE CITY MANAGER GOES OUT, ANOTHER CITY MANAGER COMES IN, AND THERE'S ALL KINDS OF SABOTAGE THAT GOES ON WITH THE OLD CITY MANAGER. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, KNOWING WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED REALLY, UH, KIND OF FRAMES THE, THE NARRATIVE ON SAVING MONEY AND AVOIDING FRAUD. AND I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE THE CITY COUNCIL DISCUSS THIS EARNESTLY, BECAUSE THERE'S NO REASON NOT TO. AND I'LL BET YOU IF YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH A LOCAL DOGE, YOU'D FIND SOME WASTE AND SOME ABUSE, AND HOPEFULLY NOT ANY FRAUD, BUT MAYBE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. NICE SPEAKER, PLEASE. SHERRY FISHER, FOLLOWED BY MARIO, FOLLOWED BY R ROBINSON TIME'S UP . GOOD EVENING MAYOR. AND, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS. UM, I'M PLEASED TO SHARE WITH YOU, UM, THE DEVELOPMENTS AT MERRILL GARDENS, UM, COMMUNITY. THIS MONTH WE WELCOMED FOUR NEW RESIDENTS TO MERRILL GARDENS THAT WERE PART OF THE ALTADENA FIRES. UM, MAYOR WU AND COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ, UM, MET WITH THE FAMILIES AND WELCOMED THEM TO OUR GREAT CITY. UM, I'M, I'M PLEASED TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT MERRILL GARDENS IS 99% OCCUPIED. WE HAVE ONE AVAILABLE APARTMENT. UM, WHY AM I SHARING THIS? BECAUSE ONE OF THE RECENT COUNCIL MEETINGS I LEARNED, AND I WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT SOMEBODY CAME UP HERE AND, AND SAID DISPARAGING THINGS ABOUT MERRILL GARDENS. WHEN MY RESIDENTS LEARNED ABOUT THIS, THEY WERE MAD, AND THEY WANTED ME TO COME AND SPEAK. THEY WANTED ME TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ABOUT MERRILL GARDENS AND THEIR HOME. UM, THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT GOES ON AT MERRILL GARDENS, UM, MERRILL GARDENS RESIDENTS ARE THRIVING. WE EMPLOY 60 PLUS PEOPLE FROM THE WEST LAVENA AREA, NEIGHBORING CITIES. WE HAVE 112 RESIDENTS THRIVING. OUR BUILDING IS JUST FOUR YEARS OLD. AND AS THE MA THE MANAGER, I'M PROUD OF OUR SUCCESS. OUR SUCCESS IS COLLABORATION WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. OUR COMMUNITY HAS ESTABLISHED A STRONG, UM, PARTNERSHIP WITH THE POLICE AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND WELLBEING OF OUR RESIDENTS. REGULAR TRAINING SESSIONS HAPPEN WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. WE ARE IN COORDINATION WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, FOR ALL EMERGENCIES. THE, WE, WE DO DRILLS AND TESTS WITH BOTH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, MAINLY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE WE HAVE PROPER EVACUATION AND, AND SAFETY. PRIMARILY, UM, ENSURING THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE READY FOR AN EMERGENCY. CITY SUPPORT HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN PROVIDING SUPPORT AND RESOURCES TO HELP US MAINTAIN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT'S HEALTHY FOR OUR RESIDENTS. THIS INCLUDES WORKING REALLY CLOSELY WITH CITY STAFF AND THE CORTEZ SENIOR CENTER AND, AND COMMUNITY CENTER. UM, WE COLLABORATE ON ACTIVITIES AND DO FUN STUFF IN THE LIGHT OF THE EMERGENCIES. UM, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. WE WELCOME AND OPEN OUR COMMUNITY TO LOCAL SERVICE CLUBS, INCLUDING THE KIWANIS, THE LIONS CLUB, WEST COVINA, BEAUTIFUL, AND THE BOY SCOUTS. WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUING THE COLLABORATION WITH THE COMMUNITY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CARE AND SAFETY FOR OUR RESIDENTS. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME AND ALLOWING ME TO SHARE THIS. UM, WE APPRECIATE THE CONTINUED SUPPORT. [01:05:01] THANK YOU, SHERRY. AND NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS MARIO. SO BAVARO FOLLOWED BY R ROBINSON. ALL RIGHT. UH, GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. I WANT TO START BY THANKING COUNCILMAN OLI CONTOS FOR BEING THE ONLY COUNCIL MEMBER IN THE ATTENDANCE AT THE WEST COVINA RESIDENCE. TAKE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BACK MEETING, WHICH TOOK PLACE LAST WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH AT HEARST RANCH. ALSO WANT TO THANK CHIEF CORINA, ACTING CHIEF BROWN, LIEUTENANT ARMAS AND LIEUTENANT FREEMAN FOR SHOWING UP AND ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY. ALSO, A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MATT SMITH AND DOUG FOY, OWNERS OF BUNT STREET, WHO GENEROUSLY DONATED THE DELICIOUS FOOD FOR THE MEETING. THEIR CONTRIBUTION NOT ONLY MADE THE EVENING AND EVEN MADE THE EVENING EVEN BETTER, BUT ALSO SHOWED THEIR DEDICATION TO SUPPORTING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. EVEN WITH THE RAINY WEATHER, OVER 60 RESIDENTS SHOWED UP BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY. UNFORTUNATELY, THE SAME CAN'T BE SAID FOR MAYOR TONY WU. COUNCILMAN VITO, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ, COUNCILMAN DIAZ, OR, UH, YES, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, UH, OR ANY CITY STAFF WHO ARE ALL NOTICEABLY ABSENT. UH, MAYOR WU, YOU DECLARED 2025, THE YEAR OF ACTION, A YEAR OF TRANSPARENCY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. BUT HOW DOES THAT STATEMENT HOLD UP? WHEN ONLY ONE OF FIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS COULD BE BOTHERED TO ATTEND A MEETING WITH A VERY COMMUNITY, THEY CLAIM TO SERVE AS SENECA? THE YOUNGER ONE SAID, A WISE MAN NEVER ASKED WHAT ANOTHER MAN SERVES FOR. ONLY HIS ACTIONS WILL SPEAK THE TRUTH AND THE ACTIONS, OR RATHER, THE INACTION OF THIS COUNCIL TELLS US EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW. ON A SEPARATE NOTE, GLAD TO SEE COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ HERE TONIGHT LOOKING HEALTHY. I FULLY EXPECT TO SEE HER AGAIN TOMORROW. 10:30 AM AT COURTHOUSE FOR A RESTRAINING ORDER HEARING. LAST TIME SHE HAD A COURT DATE, SHE WAS TOO SICK TO ATTEND AND EVEN PROVIDED A DOCTOR'S NOTE, BUT THEN JUST A FEW HOURS LATER, SHE WAS HERE AT THE COUNCIL MEETING, NOT LOOKING SICK AT ALL. LET'S HOPE SHE DOESN'T SUDDENLY FALL ILL AGAIN, BEFORE TOMORROW'S HEARING ON THE TOPIC OF TRANSPARENCY, THE DECEMBER 5TH, 2024 SPECIAL MEETING RAISES SERIOUS CONCERNS. PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST HAVE REVEALED NO DOCUMENTATION OF WHO INITIATED IT. NO PROOF THAT A MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL APPROVED IT. NO WRITTEN NOTIFICATION TO ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS AS REQUIRED BY LAW. ONLY TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS, ONLY COUNCILS AND BRIAN TABBA RECEIVED EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS. THAT MEANS EITHER THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE LEFT IN THE DARK OR A BACKROOM DEAL WAS MADE TO SCHEDULE IT. NEITHER SCENARIO IS ACCEPTABLE, AND THAT'S WHY I'VE SUBMITTED A CURE AND CORRECT DEMAND LETTER REGARDING BROWN ACT VIOLATIONS. 30 SECONDS. I'VE PRINTED OUT COPIES OF CURE AND CORRECT DEMAND LETTER REGARDING VIOLATIONS OF THE BROWN ACT RELATED TO DECEMBER 5TH, 2024 MEETING. I'VE ALSO MAILED OUT THREE, UH, COPIES, CERTIFIED MAIL TO CITY OF WEST COVINA, ONE TO THE STATE ATTORNEY, AND ONE TO A COMPLIANT ADVOCACY GROUP. AFTER EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND MANY, MANY PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST, IT IS CLEAR THAT THE VIOLATION CITED ARE VALID AND DEMAND CORRECTIVE ACTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MARIO. UH, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. OKAY, GO AHEAD. UH, DOGE AND, UH, STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY WAS MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE MEETING. IT'S KIND OF A, A DICEY SITUATION WHEN, UH, GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS ARE AUDITED. I I HEARD A PREDICTION TODAY THAT, UH, IN FOUR YEARS, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MIGHT NOT EXIST BECAUSE ALL THOSE NO, UH, THOSE NONPROFIT HONEYPOTS ARE BEING DISCOVERED AND THEY WON'T HAVE ANY, THEY'RE GONNA LOSE THE MIDTERM ELECTION IN TWO YEARS AND FADE OUT OF EXISTENCE BECAUSE THEIR METHODS OF, UH, GATHERING MONEY, CAMPAIGN MONEY HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED. AND THE, THE, THE PARTY CAN'T SUSTAIN ITSELF, UH, FOR MAYBE FOUR MORE YEARS. UH, I HAVE TWO, TWO, UH, ITEMS TONIGHT FOR THE COUNCIL. UH, UM, A BOOK WAS PUBLISHED TODAY, UH, BY, UH, DR. JAMES THORPE, AND THE CO-AUTHOR IS CECILIA FARBER, UH, SACRIFICE 2024. HOW THE VACCINE HAS, UH, HISTORICALLY TARGETED THE MOST VULNERABLE AND HASN'T BEEN TAKEN OFF THE MARKET YET. UH, IT'S STILL EMERGENCY USE, AUTHORIZED AND IT'S, IT'S NOT SAFE AND EFFECTIVE. UH, AND HOW, UM, MEDICARE'S, UH, PREP ACT HAS GIVEN PROTECTION FROM LIABILITY FOR, UH, ALL THE, THE COVERED [01:10:01] PERSONS. UH, UH, THIS BOOK SHOWS AND THE DATA SHOWS THAT THE, THE VACCINE, UH, UH, THE MUST HAVE, THE, UH, EMERGENCY YOUTH AUTHORIZATION REVOKED. IT'S DANGEROUS AND IT'S KILLING PEOPLE. AND THE DATA IS, UH, IN MY LAST MINUTE, UH, THERE'S A NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TECH BILLIONAIRE NAMED STEVE KIRSCH. UH, HE HAS UH, PRODUCED THESE BULLETPROOF ARGUMENTS THAT, UH, THE COVID VACCINE HAS NO BENEFIT, UH, UH, THE VARIABLES THAT, UH, IS PROVING AND THE DATA THAT HE'S USING, UH, IS, UH, SAID EPIDEMIC, UH, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL VARIABLE, UH, CALLED RNOT. UM, AND THAT STUDY OF THAT DATA SHOWS THE VACCINE KILLED PEOPLE. AND ALSO THERE'S A, A AN IFR OR CASE FATALITY RATE AND INFECTION, FATALITY RATE, WHICH HAS DOUBLED. AND, UH, AND, AND THE DATA SHOWS. AND, AND, AND STEVE KIRSCH IS BACKING UP HIS ARGUMENT. HE'S, HE'S WILLING TO GIVE ANY DOCTOR OR SCIENTIST IN WEST COVINA A MILLION DOLLARS IF THEY, UH, UH, IF THEY SHAKE THE AR THE ARTICLE, THE, THAT HE'S PRODUCED. IT'S A BULLETPROOF ARGUMENTS. THANK YOU, BILL. THANK YOU. I'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME. OKAY. UH, THE NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NO FURTHER SPEAKERS. OKAY. UH, OKAY. CITY MANAGER, DO YOU HAVE, UH, OKAY. ANY, UH, RESPONSE TO THE SPEAKER? UM, I DO. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. UM, IT'S GREAT TO HEAR THAT, UM, THERE'S BEEN HUGE INVESTMENT BY SOME OF THE BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND, UH, REVITALIZING THE DOWNTOWN AREA, INVESTING IN OPENING UP BUSINESSES. SO THANK YOU FOR DOUG FOR PICKING WEST COVINA AND, AND COMING TO WEST COVINA. I'M, UM, ALSO GLAD TO HEAR THAT, UM, THERE'S BEEN A POSITIVE IMPACT WITH OUR PDS BIKE PATROL IN GLENDO AVENUE AND HELPING SECURE MAKE THE AREA SAFE FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND PATRONS. AND THEN TO JOHANNA FOR, UH, THE UPDATE ON THE LIBRARY. SO THANK YOU FOR COMING AND PROVIDING THOSE UPDATES. UM, IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO HEAR FROM RESIDENTS THAT ARE HAPPY. SO THANKS TO BILL ELLIOT FOR COMING IN AND, AND SHARING SOME POSITIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY. UM, IT'S ALSO GREAT TO HEAR FROM SHERRY THAT WE'RE AT 99% OCCUPANCY AT MERRILL GARDENS. UM, SHERRY AND MERRILL GARDENS HAS BEEN A GREAT PARTNER WITH THE CITY, UM, AND IT IS A MARVELOUS FACILITY FOR OUR RESIDENTS, UM, UH, AT THEIR LATER YEARS TO ENJOY. SO IT DOES BRING AN NICE AMENITY TO WEST COVINA. UM, AND THEN TOMORROW, THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. IT IS, UH, DEFINITELY ENCOURAGING TO SEE RESIDENTS TAKING SUCH AN ACTIVE ROLE IN ORGANIZING AND HOSTING THESE TYPES OF MEETINGS AND COMMUNITY MEETINGS. SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE, AND I THINK THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU, CITY MANAGER. NOW WE MOVE TO CONSENT CALENDAR. UH, ANY CITY COUNCIL WANT TO PULL ANY ITEM? YES. OH YEAH, GO AHEAD. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. [CITY MANAGER'S REPORT ] SORRY, MAYOR, UNLESS, OH, I DON'T WANT A CITY, CITY MANAGER'S REPORT. UH, I'M, I JUST WANT TO MOVE SO FAST. GO AHEAD. OKAY. I FORGOT YOU HAVE A CITY MANAGER REPORT. GO AHEAD. OKAY. THANK YOU. I BET. UM, FIRST I'LL GO THROUGH IT REALLY QUICKLY. UM, JUST, UH, WE ARE STARTING THAT, UH, SEASON AGAIN. SO WE HAVE THE BUDGET SURVEY UP, UH, IT'S AVAILABLE UNTIL THE 26TH. SO THE, UH, THE TIME IS COMING TO AN END TO PARTICIPATE AND GIVE US FEEDBACK ON THE PRIORITIES FOR, UM, SPENDING OR TO, FOR THE BUDGET PROCESS THIS YEAR. NEXT, IF YOU STARTED DRIVING AROUND TOWN, YOU'LL SEE THAT, UM, THIS WEEKLY STREET SIGNAGE HAS BEEN, UH, WAS STARTED, UH, BEING INSTALLED AS OF THIS MONDAY. IT WILL BE COMPLETED WITHIN THE NEXT 50 DAYS. ENFORCEMENT OF THE POSTED SIGN RESTRICTIONS WILL START IN MID-APRIL. SO, UM, WHILE THE SIGNS ARE GOING UP, ENFORCEMENT OF THOSE, UH, WEEKLY STREET SWEEPING SIGNS WILL NOT OCCUR UNTIL MID-APRIL. UM, WE WILL ALSO BE NOTIFYING RESIDENTS, UM, WHEN THE, THAT DATE, THAT EXACT DATE WILL BEGIN. UM, IN THE PROCESS OF UPDATING THE WEBSITE, WE HAVE A WEBSITE DESIGN REDESIGN SURVEY. UM, WE ENCOURAGE OUR RESIDENTS, UM, TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS. IT WILL GIVE US FEEDBACK TO HELP MAKE OUR NEW WEBSITE THAT WE ARE HOPING TO LAUNCH THIS SUMMER, UH, MORE ACCESSIBLE TO OUR RESIDENTS AND EASIER FOR YOU TO GET TO THE INFORMATION THAT YOU WANNA GET TO ON THE WEBSITE. UM, TOMORROW IS THE, UH, HOMELESS COUNT, UH, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY HOMELESS COUNT. THE MEETING WILL BE HELD AT CAMERON PARK COMMUNITY CENTER FROM 6:00 PM TO MIDNIGHT. UM, THERE'S, UH, A VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY, SO IF ANYONE WOULD [01:15:01] LIKE TO, UM, PARTICIPATE IN THE HOMELESS COUNT, UM, PLEASE SIGN UP THROUGH THE COUNTY WEBSITE. UM, JUST AS A UPDATE ON, AND THE MEASURE A FUNDS ARE GOING TO, UH, BE DISTRIBUTED TO CITIES BASED ON THE POINT IN TIME COUNTS, OR THE POINT IN TIME COUNTS ARE GONNA HAVE A HEAVY INFLUENCE ON THE, UH, FUNDING THAT EACH CITY GETS. AND SO IT'S GONNA BE, UH, VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE GET ACCURATE INFORMATION FOR OUR HOMELESS COUNT. UM, I THINK MR. O CHO SPOKE TO THIS. UM, WE, PART OF THE AGENDA ITEM TONIGHT IS THE, UH, TRUCK ROUTES UPDATES. UM, WE ARE, THEY ARE REVIEWING THE, UH, LOCATIONS, THE CURRENT LOCATIONS FOR TRUCK ROUTES ALONG GLENDORA LAKES, WALNUT AND WEST COVINA PARKWAY. UM, ONCE THE REVIEW IS COMPLETE AND ORDINANCE WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION, UM, OF UPDATING THE CITY'S TRUCK ROUTES IN THE MUNICIPAL CODE, AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO POST SIGNS AND MAKE THOSE CHANGES. SO, UM, JUST WANTED TO SHARE, UH, THE PHOTO OR THE IMAGE UP THERE IS THE EXISTING TRUCK ROUTES, UM, THAT ARE APPROVED BY THE MISS MUNICIPAL CODE. UM, WE HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU GUYS ARE FAMILIAR, FAMILIAR WITH TEXAS ROADHOUSE. UM, WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH, UH, OR RELOCATING THEM TO WEST COVINA. IT'LL BE WHERE THE FORMER CPK PROPERTY OR CPK RESTAURANT WAS, UH, OR CHEVY'S BACK IN THE DAY, UM, NEXT TO JAMBA JUICE. SO WE'VE STARTED COUNCIL, UM, AUTHORIZED, UH, EXECUTION OF AN EXCLUSIVE NEGOTIATION, UH, AGREEMENT. AND NOW WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH A PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT. THERE ARE SOME, UH, ITEMS OR TASKS THAT WE WILL HAVE TO COMPLETE, UM, INCLUDING THE SUBDIVISION OF THE PROPERTY TO MAKE THE SALE COMPLETE, AND THEN FOR THE RESTAURANT TO MOVE FORWARD AND START CONSTRUCTION AND, UH, GET IT OPEN. AND THEN AS FAR AS UPCOMING EVENTS, UH, ONCE AGAIN, THE SPRING FESTIVAL NEXT MONTH, THAT WE ARE FAST APPROACHING OUR, UH, SPRING, OUR ANNUAL SPRING FESTIVAL. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU SO MUCH. CITY MANAGER. NOW WE [CONSENT CALENDAR ] MOVE TO, OKAY. CONSENT CALENDAR. UH, CITY COUNCIL, WANT TO MOVE? I HAVE, UH, SOME ITEM ON THE POOL. OKAY. YOU HAVE, UH, WHICH ONE? NUMBER SIX AND SEVEN. OKAY. AND, UH, THREE NUMBER THREE. SO 3, 6, 7. AND THE REST, UH, THE WHO WANT TO MOVE THE MOTION? MOVE THE MOTION. OKAY. WHO SECOND? OKAY, I'LL SECOND. OKAY. ROLL CALL PLEASE. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DIAZ AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH EIGHT, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NUMBER THREE, SIX, AND SEVEN. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PRO TE LOPEZ. AYE. MAYOR WU. AYE. UH, A, UH, MOTION APPROVE. AND [3) CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF TRAFFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE MEETINGS BETWEEN NOVEMBER 2024 THROUGH JANUARY 2025 ] WE MOVE TO THE ITEM NUMBER THREE. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I HAD A QUESTION, OR I GUESS I WANT CLARIFICATION FOR THE ITEM REGARDING, UH, WALNUT CREEK PARKWAY. UH, FROM AZUA AVENUE TO CITRUS, IT WOULD BE THE FIRST ONE. NUMBER ONE THAT SAYS, INSTALL 25 INCH PAVEMENT LEGEND ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING 25 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT SIGNS ALONG WALNUT CREEK PARKWAY FOR EASTBOUND AND WESTBOUND TRAFFIC ALONG THE SEGMENT OF WALNUT CREEK PARKWAY FROM HOLBECK AVENUE TO IS AVENUE. I JUST WANTED TO KNOW, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? IF YOU HAVE A PICTURE OF THAT OR IF I CAN HAVE, UH, ROBERTO DE GARCIA, CIP PROJECT MANAGER AND OR BRIAN CERV, OR JANA ROBINS FROM JOHNS TECH TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. HI, GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. MAYOR. OKAY, SO YOU'RE ASKING THE 25 PAVEMENT LEGEND. SO RIGHT NOW EXISTING, THERE IS A, I'M LOOKING AT THE WRONG ONE. SORRY. FROM THE CITY MANAGER'S REPORT? YEAH, NO. UM, WALNUT CREEK. RIGHT. OKAY. SO GOING, UM, WESTBOUND, MAKE SURE I GET IT RIGHT. OKAY. THERE IS AN EXISTING 25 MILE PER SPEED LIMIT SIGN. OKAY. SO NORMALLY IF WE WANT TO, UM, HAVE PEOPLE REALLY NOTICE WHAT THE SPEED LIMIT IS, WE PUT THE PAVEMENT LEGEND, WHICH IS THE BIG 25 OKAY. ADJACENT TO THE SIGN. I SEE. SO THERE'LL BE ONE ON, ON, UM, WESTBOUND AND THEN ALSO ON EASTBOUND. OKAY. THIS WAY, IF THERE'S A TREE, THERE'S A PARKED CAR, THERE'S NO REASON YOU DON'T SEE THE SPEED LIMIT, WHICH IS A PROBLEM THERE. RIGHT. OKAY. AND WHAT MEASURE WOULD [01:20:01] THAT BE? 'CAUSE I KNOW WE GO THROUGH SEVERAL MEASURES BEFORE WE CAN GET TO WHAT MY ULTIMATE GOAL WOULD BE IS MY SPEED BUMPS. RIGHT. THIS IS KIND OF THE LEVEL TWO. WE'RE GONNA TRY THIS FIRST AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE GIVE IT A LITTLE TIME. WE DO A REASSESSMENT, AND THEN IF IT'S STILL NOT WORKING, THEN WE, THE NEW MOVE TO THE MORE, YOU KNOW, THE MORE EXTREME ITEM, LIKE THE SPEED BUMPS. OKAY. UM, THE OTHER ITEM, UM, AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU CALL IT, BUT IT'S A TRAFFIC, IT MONITORS THE TRAFFIC SPEED LIMIT. YEAH. YOUR SPEED SIGNS. YES. THAT UM, I KNOW THEY WERE GONNA INSTALL ONE, ONE OF THE TRAILERS THERE AND I WAS WONDERING WHAT THE STATUS ON THAT WAS. YEAH. WHAT WE DO IS WE SUBMIT TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, 'CAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES IN CHARGE OF THE SPEED TRAILER, THE MOBILE TRAILER MM-HMM . AND THEN THEY TRY TO HAVE ONE OF THEIR CADETS OR WHOEVER'S AVAILABLE, PUT THIS, THE TRAILER THERE. SO WE GIVE THEM A LIST OF THE, THE, THE WANTED LIST OF THE SPEED TRAILER. SO WE'LL HAVE TO CHECK WITH THEM OKAY. TO SEE HOW WE'RE COMING. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. I'M DONE WITH THAT ONE NOW. UM, OKAY. NO, I'M OKAY WITH THE TRUCK ROUTES. THAT'S IT. ANYTHING, ANYTHING ELSE? NO, I'M SO, OKAY. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTES, GO AHEAD. YEAH. UM, DO WE KNOW WHO WILL BE PUTTING UP THE SIGNS ON FOR A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS THAT'S UP TO CITY STAFF TO DETERMINE ONCE IT'S APPROVED, THEN? UM, EITHER IT WOULD BE IF PUBLIC WORKS HAS THE ABILITY AND THE TIME TO DO IT, OR IT WOULD GO AS ONE OF THE CONTRACTS THAT GO OUT. OKAY. SO I THINK IN ORDER TO SAVE MONEY, WE SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE PUBLIC WORK STEWARD. RIGHT. PAULINA. SO IF I MAY, UM, THE APPROVAL TONIGHT IS TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT'S NOT APPROVING A BUDGET FOR THESE PROJECTS. I KNOW. I'M JUST MAKING SURE WE'RE SAVING MONEY. OH. SO WHEN WE COME, WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT, UH, PUBLIC WORK STAFF CAN COMPLETE IN-HOUSE OPPOSED TO GOING, YEAH. I SUPPORT, WE CAN SUPPORT, I SUPPORT THESE PROJECTS. SO I WANT BOB, I'M JUST SAYING, MAKING A STATEMENT THAT HOPEFULLY WE'RE USING OUR OWN PUBLIC WORKS TO SAVE MONEY. SO, GREAT. OKAY. OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? I, GO AHEAD. COUNCILWOMAN DI. SO ONCE WE'VE APPROVED THIS, SO IS THERE ANY, UM, ESTIMATED TIME AS TO HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY GET THESE THINGS DONE? SO I'VE FORGET OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD HOW MUCH WE BUDGET ANNUALLY. UM, BUT THERE'S AN ANNUAL BUDGET LINE ITEM IN THE BUDGET FOR, UM, THESE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS. AND SO ONCE THAT MONEY'S EXPENDED FOR THE YEAR, WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR. AND THEN SOMETIMES THERE'S A BACKLOG. UM, AND SO AS SOON AS WE ARE ABLE TO GO OUT TO BID OR HAVE, UM, THE PUBLIC WORK STAFF COMPLETE THESE PROJECTS, UM, WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE PROJECTS. SO WE USUALLY DO ONE ROUND OF PROJECTS A LUMP SUM ONCE A YEAR. BECAUSE I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE TRUCK ROUTES BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT WE'VE HAD ON GARVEY AVENUE. WE WILL HAVE, THAT'LL BE DONE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE THAT WILL HAVE TO COME BACK, BACK TO THE COUNCIL AS WE WILL NEED TO UPDATE THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO AN ORDINANCE. SO WE WON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR, UM, TO THAT, FOR THAT TO BE INCLUDED AS PART OF THAT APPROVAL. WE CAN BRING THAT SEPARATELY. SO ARE WE TALKING THIS YEAR, ? YES. OKAY. ANY CITY COUNCIL? OKAY. GO AHEAD. CITY CO. UH, COUNCIL. YEAH. JUST TO, UH, GO OFF, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ'S QUESTION. SO DO WE KNOW WHEN THAT STAFF REP, THAT STAFF REPORT WE BROUGHT BACK IN MARCH AND THE SECOND MEETING OF MARCH OR APRIL? JANA, DO YOU HAVE A TIMEFRAME? AND WE CAN, YEAH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE, UM, UPDATE WITHIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. SO THEN WE'LL HAVE TO DO THE STAFF REPORT WORK WITH CITY STAFF AND, UM, SO HAVE THAT BACK. 'CAUSE THERE'S A YEAH. SO REALISTIC THREE WEEK, YEAH. THREE WEEK TIME PERIOD THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE REPORT OKAY. TO MAKE IT TO COUNCIL. YEAH. SO IT MAY BE EARLY APRIL JUST BECAUSE OF THE TIME. YEAH, I WAS THINKING EARLY APRIL OR SECOND, NO LATER THAN THE SECOND MEETING OF APRIL. YEAH, PROBABLY. YEAH. AND THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE DO THE ORDINANCE RIGHT? YEAH. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO WRITE THAT AND THEN IT HAS TO GO TO LEGAL, I THINK. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, . SO WE ARE, WE, IT IS ON OUR LIST. SO CITY COUNCIL. ANY OTHER? NO. UH, I JUST WANT TO PIGGYBACK. I, I THINK REGARDING THE TRUCK ROUTE. OKAY. I THINK THE SIGN NEED TO BE POSTED. OKAY. NO TRUCK ALLOWED. BUT WE NEED A POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ENFORCE, TO GIVE TICKET FOR BIG TRUCK DRIVING AROUND. WE HAVE A BIG TRUCK DRIVING ALL THE POLICE IN OUR CITY AND CREATE, UH, NUISANCE TO OUR RESIDENT. I THINK WE NEED TO ENFORCE AND PLUS DAMAGE OUR STREET. UH, A LOT OF STREET HAS JUST REPAID. OKAY. AND NOW IT BE DAMAGED BY THE BIG, BIG 16 WHEELER. SO I THINK THIS IS, UH, A SCIENTIST NEED TO CLOSE AND THE SAME TIME THE OKAY. THE POLICE TRAFFIC AND THE ENFORCEMENT NEED TO BE THERE. OKAY. AND DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? [01:25:01] I'LL MOVE THE MOTION. I'LL SECOND. OKAY. UM, ROLL CALL PLEASE. THE MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ TO APPROVE, UM, CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF TRAFFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE MEETINGS BETWEEN NOVEMBER, 2024 THROUGH JANUARY, 2025. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PRO TIM LOPEZ. VITO AYE. MAYOR WU AYE. AND MOTION APPROVED. FIVE ZERO. OKAY. UH, NEXT [6) CONSIDERATION OF PURCHASING REPORT AND REJECTION OF UNAWARDED BIDS AND REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS ] ITEM WILL BE NUMBER SIX. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, GO AHEAD. YES. UM, SO, UH, IN, IN, I'M GOING OVER ATTACHMENT NUMBER ONE, CITY OF WEST PHOENIX CONTRACTS AND PURCHASE ORDERS ISSUE UNDER SECTION TWO DASH 3 3 7 AND TWO DASH 3 56 IN CODE, UH, WHICH IS THE CITY MANAGER'S AUTHORITY TO, UM, I WOULD LIKE, UH, FOR THE CITY MANAGER TO PLEASE EXPLAIN, UM, THE PURCHASE FROM DIVERSIFIED LEASING FOR A NEW 2025 HONDA ODYSSEY, EXLA NEW 2025 HONDA PILOT, EXL UH, ONE CHARGE OF 49,026, ANOTHER CHARGE FOR 52,471 FROM DIVERSIFIED LEASING AND EXPLAIN WHY A LOCAL RP WAS NOT DONE TO ALLOW LOCAL BUSINESSES TO COMPETE. AND ALSO, UM, UH, ANOTHER, WHAT'S A COUPLE OF THEM? ANOTHER ONE FROM, UM, D-W-W-C-T-L-L-C-A 2023 NISSAN ALTIMA SL FOR $24,768. UM, AND OTHER CAR ONE, SORRY, THERE'S ANOTHER CAR ONE SOMEWHERE HERE. UM, YOU WANT THE CITY MANAGER TO EXPLAIN, UH OH NO, THERE WE GO. THE NATIONAL AUTO FLEET, A NEW 2024 FORD F-150 POLICE REPO AT $121,015. AND A NEW 2025 CHEVROLET TRACKS FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. FOUR, UH, 48,000 FOR $48,834. IF YOU COULD PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT AND WHY A LOCAL RFP WAS NOT DONE TO ALLOW LOCAL BUSINESSES TO COMPETE. UH, GO AHEAD. CITY MANAGER. SO, UM, I'LL START ANSWERING AND THEN I'LL HAVE OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR, STEPHANIE SIGMA, HELP FILL IN THE GAPS. SO THESE ARE PURCHASES THAT WERE DONE, UM, UNDER THE CITY MANAGER'S AUTHORITY. UM, WE STILL HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE PURCHASING POLICY, UH, THE CITY'S PURCHASING POLICY. UM, SO IF IT, UH, OVER A CERTAIN AMOUNT, WE STILL HAVE TO DO, UH, EITHER ASK FOR THREE QUOTES OR GO THROUGH AN RFP PROCESS. SO, UM, THIS BEING ON THIS LIST DOES NOT NEGATE IT HAVING GONE THROUGH THE PROPER PURCHASING POLICY PROCEDURES. UM, AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A COUPLE VEHICLE OR QUESTIONS ABOUT PURCHASE OF VEHICLES AND THOSE WERE, UM, I BELIEVE DONE OR PURCHASED FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND THEN IF YOU CAN ADD STEPHANIE, UH, DO YOU HAVE A EXPLANATION OR ANYTHING YOU WANNA ADD ON? UM, IF I MAY ADD, UH, THE RFP OR THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS ALSO INCLUDES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO PIGGYBACK OR USING INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, UM, OR COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT. SO SOME OF THEM MAY BE PURCHASED OFF COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AS WELL AS IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL PROCUREMENT DONE. FOR EACH OF THESE, I WOULD NEED TO PULL THE REQUISITION DOCUMENTATION AND, UM, REPORT BACK. UH, MY UNDERSTANDING THIS IS NOT FROM OUR GENERAL FUND, RIGHT? THIS IS FROM, FOR FUTURE FUND, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. IT COULD BE FROM A MULTITUDE OF FUNDS. THIS DOESN'T SIGNIFY, THIS LISTING DOESN'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT FUND IT'S FROM. MOST OF PD VEHICLES ARE BOUGHT OUT OF FORFEITURE FUNDS. SO IF IT'S FOR PD, MOST LIKELY IT WAS OUT OF THAT AND NOT OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND. UM, BUT THIS LIST ISN'T BY FUND OR, UM, BY DEPARTMENT EVEN. IT'S JUST A SIMPLE LISTING OF EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE CITY MANAGER. SO I'M KIND OF CONFUSED. SO THIS IS FUND OR THIS FUNCTIONAL FUND, ALL OF THESE, UH, PURCHASES. IT, IT'S ALL OF THE PURCHASES MADE UNDER THE CITY MANAGER'S AUTHORITY. SO IT DOES NOT, UM, EXCLUDE ANY, OR IT INCLUDES ALL, UH, FUNDS AND REVENUES THAT WE CAN EXPEND FROM BLANK CHECK ? NO, THESE ARE ITEMS THAT ARE BUDGETED, BUDGETED IN THE, THESE ARE BUDGETED, THESE [01:30:01] ARE BUDGETED ITEMS. AND SO FROM THE BUDGET LINE ITEMS, THESE ARE EXPENDED FROM THOSE, SOME OF THEM MAY BE FROM FORFEITURE FUNDS, THEY MAY BE FROM SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS, THEY MAY BE FROM THE GENERAL FUND. UM, THE PURPOSE OF THIS LISTING IS JUST TO SHOW YOU THE TYPES OF TRANSACTIONS THAT THE CITY MANAGER HAS EXECUTED UNDER HER AUTHORITY. GOT IT. SO BASICALLY THIS IS ALREADY PURCHASED. NOW WE JUST, UH, RATIFY, UH, THIS IS JUST AN, THIS IS A RECEIVE AND FILE PORTION OF IT. SO BASICALLY WE SEE A FILE, PART OF THE AGENDA IS, UM, AN ACTION ITEM. UM, AND THAT'S JUST TO REJECT THE TWO, UH, PROPO BIDS THAT WERE OUT AND THAT COUNCIL HAD PREVIOUSLY ASKED. SO THIS ALREADY HAPPENED? YES. SO WE JUST RIGHT NOW, JUST SO WE SEE ON FIRE. CORRECT. AND, UH, SO MAYBE IN THE FUTURE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE MAYBE, UH, THE PREVIOUS LAST TIME WE HAVE A MOTHER, MAY I FOR FIVE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE SHOP LOCAL? YEAH, GO AHEAD. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH, THAT'S NOT WHAT I WAS TOLD BY, UH, PAULINA, OUR CITY MANAGER, YOU TOLD ME THAT ANY ITEM YOU BRING HERE FOR, FOR CITY COUNCIL'S APPROVAL AFTER THE FACT, WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REJECT THE DECISION. YOU, YOU, YOU EXERCISE IN PURCHASING THAT PRODUCT. NOW YOU'RE SAYING WE DON'T HAVE THAT AUTHORITY. YOU ALREADY ME THE PURCHASE. THESE ARE, THESE ARE PURCHASES THAT WERE APPROVED THROUGH THE BUDGET OR THROUGH A BUDGET AMENDMENT. SO I DON'T HAVE AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE ANYTHING, EVEN IF IT'S IN MY, UH, THRESHOLD UNLESS IT'S PART OF THE APPROVED BUDGET THAT THE COUNCIL ADOPTS. YEAH, BUT YOU, YOU GAVE US THIS REPORT. 'CAUSE WE HAVE THE, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO REJECT OFF THE, WE HAVE THE ABILITY NOT TO APPROVE YOUR, UH, LATER ON APPROVED THE TRANSACTION. NO, THESE ARE ALREADY PURCHASED ITEMS. UH, I WANT TO ADD ON, OKAY, SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT, UH, THIS HAPPENED IN 2024 BEFORE, UH, YOU, YOU ELECTED. SO THIS IS A PRIOR, I THINK WE APPROVED, UH, ON THE BUDGET. SO, AND, UH, SO MAYBE, UH, IF YOU HAVE A CONCERN, WE CAN, UH, LOWER THE, THE OKAY. THE, THE, THE AMOUNT THE CITY MANAGER, UH, CAN UNDER HIS AUTHORITY. BUT THIS IS ALREADY BASED ON WHAT THE FINANCE DIRECTOR IS ALREADY APPROVED BY US AND IT'S PURCHASE MM-HMM . SO WE SEE ON FIRE. YEAH, NO, I JUST WANT, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND THEN JUST TO SAY THAT, UM, WHEN, WHEN THE CITY MANAGERS MENTIONED IT'S BUDGETED, UH, SHE'S REF, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE BUDGET AS A WHOLE FOR THAT DEPARTMENT THAT THE CONS APPROVED. SO LET'S JUST SAY YOU APPROVED A MILLION DOLLARS FOR IT UNDER YOUR AUTHORITY, YOU COULD AWARD CONTRACTS UNDER THAT BUDGETED AMOUNT UP TO $200,000 PER TRANSACTION, CORRECT? YES. OR PER YES. PER TRANSACTION. SO, UM, IT'S NOT NECESS, IT'S UP TO 200,000 PER TRANSACTION, BUT PER VENDOR. SO IF I WANNA EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH A VENDOR THAT'S 200,000 THIS YEAR, ANOTHER 200,000 NEXT YEAR, THEN I'M GONNA BE VIOLATING THE PURCHASING OR PURCHASING AUTHORITY BECAUSE THEN IT'S OVER MY AUTHORITY. UM, I CAN ONLY AUTHORIZE PURCHASES THAT ARE PART OF THE ADOPTED BUDGET. SO I, THERE'S NO, UM, DISCRETIONARY FUNDS THAT I CAN SPEND. YEAH. UM, I CAN, IF THERE'S A NEED AND I, I CAN WORK WITH THE FINANCE DIRECTOR AND RELOCATE OR ALL REALLOCATE FUNDS WITHIN THE ADOPTED BUDGET AND COME TO COUNCIL FOR THE BUDGET AMENDMENT, AND THAT WOULD REQUIRE COUNCIL APPROVAL. OR IF I WANNA EXPEND MORE FUNDS THAN WHAT'S APPROVED IN THE ADOPTED BUDGET, I WOULD HAVE TO COME TO COUNCIL. YEAH. SO IN OTHER WORDS, IF THERE'S A MILLION DOLLARS IN AN ACCOUNT THAT'S ALREADY BEEN BUDGETED BY THE CONSOLE, YOU COULD PER, PER CONTRACT OR PER ENTITY, YOU COULD AWARD UP TO $200,000. SO IF YOU KNEW THAT THERE'S NOTHING IN THE CODE THAT PREVENTS YOU ON HOW MANY OF THOSE CONTRACTS. SO IF TECHNICALLY IF YOU WANTED TO SPEND A MILLION DOLLARS ON VARIOUS PROJECTS WITHOUT THE COUNCIL'S KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL OR EVEN HAVING AUTHORITY TO REVIEW THIS OR APPROVE THIS, WE'RE REVIEWING IT NOW, BUT WE DON'T HAVE AUTHORITY TO REJECT IT, THEN YOU HAVE THAT AUTHORITY ALONG AS IT'S UP NO MORE THAN $200,000 PER ENTITY OR CONTRACT. SO IF THERE'S A LINE ITEM FOR A MILLION DOLLARS FOR IT, THAT USUALLY HAS, UH, ASSOCIATED PURCHASES OR EXPENDED EXPENDITURES WITH THAT LINE ITEM, WHETHER IT'S FOR COMPUTERS. BUT I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE MY CONSOLE COLLEAGUES UNDERSTAND MY QUESTION. SO IS A YES OR NO IS MY EXPLANATION CORRECT? I CAN MAYBE, MAYBE FINANCE DIRECTOR YOU CAN INSERT. OKAY. SO WE DON'T HAVE CONTINUE TO YEAH, THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENED. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO THE CHANGE WE NEED TO ON MAY I TO CHANGE? YEAH, YEAH. I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA MOVE ON AFTER THAT QUESTION. UH, WOULD YOU PLEASE, IF I MAY, JUST TO MAKE SURE [01:35:01] I UNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION, IF WE HAD A MILLION DOLLARS, CAN SHE SPEND 200,000 FROM IT TO DIFFERENT PROJECTS TO EXPEND THE WHOLE MILLION? YES, SHE COULD. TO DIFFERENT THANK PROJECTS? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. OUT OF THAT MILLION DOLLARS THAT COUNCIL HAS BUDGETED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS WHEN IS, UH, I THINK, UH, WE, I DID A CONSULT REQUEST TO BRING BACK, UH, THE, THE BUDGET AMOUNT ALLOCATED FOR THAT BUDGET. WHEN, WHEN ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BRING THAT BACK? JUST SO I KNOW? I REMEMBER THE NEXT MEETING. NEXT MEETING. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. THANK YOU. OKAY. THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, MR. MAYOR. UH, OKAY, NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. GO AHEAD. OKAY. COUNCIL MAN, ALI. THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. SO, UH, JUST THINK LISTENING TO THE SENTIMENTS THAT I THINK, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ IS, IS REFLECTING, UM, CAN THE CITY MANAGER, UH, UM, VERIFY IF WE IN, IN LIGHT OF OUR, OUR PAST SENTIMENTS TO BUY A LOCAL? THAT IS, IS THERE A DOCUMENTATION PROCESS TO SHOW THAT THROUGH THE PROCUREMENTS THAT WE HAVE DONE THAT WE, WE DID EVERYTHING THAT WE COULD TO BUY A LOCAL WITHOUT NECESSARILY SPENDING MORE THAN WE OTHERWISE WOULD SPEND? SO IN OTHER WORDS, LET'S SAY WE TRY TO BUY A LOCAL, BUT, BUT, UH, A LESS EXPENSIVE ALTERNATIVE IS ELSEWHERE THEN AT LEAST WE TRIED. BUT IS THERE ALREADY A PROCESS TO DOCUMENT THAT WHEN WE SEE THESE EXPENSES, THAT, THAT THERE WAS INDEED A PROCESS FOR EACH OF THOSE ITEMS FOR US PREFERABLY TO BUY LOCAL SO THAT WE COULD MAXIMIZE USING, UM, OUR FUNDS FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES THAT ARE BASED HERE IN WEST COVENA? UH, WHO WANT TO ANSWER THIS ? IT'S TOUGH QUESTION. YEAH, I WILL TRY. SO, UM, I DON'T HAVE THAT SECTION IN THE PURCHASING MANUAL MEMORIZED. UM, BUT I WILL SAY THAT A LOT OF GRANTS DON'T ALLOW YOU TO NECESSARILY SECLUDE TO LOCAL. SO OUR POLICIES AREN'T SET UP TO EXCLUDE TO LOCAL. HOWEVER, STAFF DOES GENERALLY, IF THEY'RE GOING TO BUY A WIDGET, THEY'RE GOING TO START WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS. UM, THERE'S NOTHING IN OUR PROCEDURES OR POLICIES THAT SAYS YOU CHECKED LOCAL FIRST, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO. SO AS, AS, AS A WAY TO SHORE UP THAT POLICY, WOULD IT BE, UM, UM, POSSIBLE FOR US AS A COUNCIL TO ESTABLISH, AS A POLICY THAT WE WOULD GO TO LOCAL FIRST AND THEN, AND THEN OUT AFTER THAT, UM, UH, PROCEED FORWARD WITH LOOKING FOR OTHER, OTHER POSSIBLE, UH, ENTITIES FROM WHICH TO PURCHASE? I THINK THAT WAS A MOTHER MAY I BY, UH, MAYOR PER LOPEZ, WE, WE ALREADY HAVE LEFT ON THE, UH, MAYOR POT, UH, LOPEZ VIDO. OKAY. OKAY. AND WE ALREADY REQUEST OKAY. THE POLICY TO SHOP LOCAL FIRST, BUT I AGREE WITH THE FINANCIAL DIRECTOR. OKAY. SOME GRANT, THEY, THEY, THEY HAVE A POLICY THEY NEED TO GO TO THE NATIONAL. OKAY. AND THAT MAY BE EXEMPT FOR SHOP LOCAL. WE REALLY WANT SHOP LOCAL, BUT SOMETIME LIKE YOU SAY, OKAY, THE GRANT MAY BE REQUIRE SOME NATIONAL OKAY. AND THE IP. SO ANYWAY. AND, UH, UH, DO I HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTION? IF NOT DO WITH THIS, DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON THIS? YES. YES. OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? THANK YOU SO MUCH, FINANCE DIRECTOR. OKAY, THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, DO I YOU PULL NUMBER SIX, YOUR VOTING, SORRY, YOU VOTING, WE SEE A FILE REJECT THE TWO, UH, RFPS. NO. NUMBER SIX, THIS SAYS REJECT RF P. YEAH. YES. OKAY. UH, OKAY. REJECT RF P. OKAY. OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MOVE THE MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND. OKAY. UH, ROLL CALL PLEASE. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, A SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM LOPEZ VIDO, UM, TO APPROVE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX, CONSIDERATION OF PURCHASING REPORT AND REJECTION OF UN AWARDED BIDS AND REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PRO TIM LOPEZ. VIDO AYE. MAYOR WU AYE. AND THE MOTION TO APPROVE FIVE ZERO. AND, UH, [7) CONSIDERATION OF THE SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT AND BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-25 .] WE GO TO NUMBER SEVEN. COUNCIL MEMBER. OKAY. YEAH, IF YOU COULD, CITY STOCK COULD JUST BRIEFLY EXPLAIN, UH, WHAT THIS ITEM IS TO THE PUBLIC. THIS ITEM IS THE QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE SECOND QUARTER. AND SO IT REFLECTS ALL OF THE TRANSACTIONS THAT HAVE OCCURRED. AND THEN THERE'S A PROPOSED BUDGET AMENDMENT TO, UM, THE MAIN, UM, PIECES ARE IN THERE THAT ARE IN THERE IS TO INCORPORATE, UH, THE TRANSFERS THAT WERE ESTABLISHED FROM THE CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN, FOLLOWING THROUGH TO OUR, UH, FINANCIAL POLICIES THAT COUNCIL ALSO APPROVED TONIGHT. AND THEN, UM, THE CIP ROLLOVER, UH, ANNUALLY, THE CITY LOOKS OR STAFF LOOKS AT, UH, OPEN PROJECTS AND ROLLS OVER THE FUNDING TO THE NEXT YEAR SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO BE WORKED ON. [01:40:01] UM, THOSE ARE THE MAIN ITEMS THAT ARE IN THE BUDGET AMENDMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE QUARTERLY FINANCIAL. GREAT. AND SO, UM, WE'RE VOTING ON A, AN A AMENDMENT TO ADMINISTRATION, CITY CLERK, FINANCE, FIRE, POLICE, PUBLIC WORKS, AND TRANSFERS. I THINK, YES. OKAY. WHAT WAS THE 30,000 FOR ADMINISTRATION? THE 30,000 FOR ADMINISTRATION IS, UH, THIS IS ALL OUTLINED IN THE QUARTERLY REPORT, BUT ON PAGE FOUR. BUT, UM, IT IS, UH, TO, IT INCLUDES THE $12,000 INCREASE FOR COUNCIL HEALTH INSURANCE, 15,000 FOR NEW COUNCIL CHAMBER CHAIRS, AND 3000 FOR, UH, STAFF OVERTIME. GREAT. MM-HMM . AND, UM, AND THEN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, THAT IS ACTUALLY A PROPOSED ROLLOVER FROM THE PRIOR YEAR SINCE IT'S NOT IN CAPITAL PROJECTS. IT'S OUTLINED SEPARATELY SINCE IT'S IN THE GENERAL FUND. UM, BUT THIS WAS PART OF THE LAST, UH, PORTION OF THE MUNICIPAL FEE STUDY. OKAY. THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. ANY OTHER QUESTION? OTHERWISE, DO I HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE APPROVE? OKAY. AND FOLLOWING, ADOPT A FOLLOWING RESOLUTION. DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVE. OKAY. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. OKAY. UH, ROLL CALL PLEASE. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CONTOS, A SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR. ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, CONSIDERATION OF THE SECOND YEAR FINANCIAL REPORT AND BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 20 24 25. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR APPROACH. TIM LOPEZ VIDO AYE. MAYOR. WOO. AYE, UH, MOTION TO APPROVE FIVE ZERO. [PUBLIC HEARINGS ] NOW MOVE, MOVING TO PUBLIC HEARING. ITEM NUMBER NINE, CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 25 CO AMENDMENT NUMBER 24 DASH ZERO ONE. OKAY. TO AMEND THE CHAPTER 26 OF THE WEST C CO MUNICIPAL CODE, UH, TO MAKE CORRECTION AND, UH, INCORPORATE REQUIRE UPDATE TO COMPLY WITH STATE LAW AND TO AMEND THE COMMERCIAL PORTION OF THE PLAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NUMBER ONE PCD DASH ONE FOR THE WEST COVINA PORTION OF WOODSIDE VILLAGE TO MAKE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE PCD DASH ONE ZONING CONSISTENT WITH THE CURRENT ZONING. OKAY. AND, UH, THIS IS RECOMMENDATION. DO WE HAVE, UH, OKAY. UM, BASICALLY WE GOING TO OPEN UP A HEARING OKAY. AND AT THIS TIME, OKAY. UH, OKAY. CITY CLERK. OKAY. HAVE YOU VERIFIED PROPER LEGAL NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN? YES. MAYOR, I FIND MY SCRIPT. OKAY. YES. GOD, I'M LOOKING AROUND. WHERE'S MY SCRIPT? OKAY. WELL, IN MY HAND. OKAY. UH, CITY, CITY CLERK. OKAY. YOU VERIFY. OKAY. UH, AT THIS TIME I WILL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROJECT. THERE WILL FIRST BE THE, UH, PRESENTATION OF THE STAFF REPORT. THEN WE SHALL HEAR FROM THE, THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE PROJECT OF THEN THE, THOSE, UH, OPPOSED. OKAY. AS CITY MANAGER WHO REPRESENT THE STAFF REPORT, PLEASE. OH. UM, MAYOR JOAN ANN BURNS THERE, DEPUTY, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR WILL BE PROVIDING PRESENTATION. GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING. HONORABLE MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND ALSO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. UM, I'LL GO AHEAD AND GO OVER THE DEVELOPMENT CODE. UPDATE TIMELINE AND PROCESS, UM, IN A, THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE PROCESS STARTED IN 2021 C COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS WERE HELD. IT WAS ULTIMATELY ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN FEBRUARY 20, 20, 24, AND TOOK EFFECT MARCH, 2024. WHEN IT WAS ADOPTED, IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT WE WOULD GO BACK TO CLEAN UP CERTAIN ITEMS, UM, THAT DIDN'T COMPLETELY WORK OR ANY, ANY OVERSIGHTS OR MISTAKES THAT, THAT WERE FOUND AFTER THE FACT. THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, THE CITY WAS ALSO WORKING WITH THE STATE AND UPDATING THE HOUSING ELEMENT. ON SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2024, HCD SENT THE CITY A LETTER STATING THAT THE HOUSING ELEMENT CERTIFICATION IS PENDING ADOPTION, THE ADOPTION OF CERTAIN CODE AMENDMENTS THAT THEY HAD PROVIDED US IN A LIST. UM, I'LL GO AHEAD AND FIRST GO OVER THE, THE, UM, ITEMS THAT WERE REQUIRED BY, BY HCD. UM, H UM, AS FAR AS MULTI-FAMILY, UM, RESIDENTIAL IS CONCERNED, UM, HCD STATED THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO CHANGE OUR CODE TO AL TO ALLOW FOR A MINIMUM LOT SIZE OF 20,000 SQUARE FEET FOR ANY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS. [01:45:01] UM, IN THE PAST WE HAD MF FOR MULTIFAMILY 8, 15, 20, AND 45, WHICH HAD DIFFERENT MINIMUM LOT SIZES. UM, MULTIFAMILY EIGHT, THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE, UM, WAS TWO ACRES, FOR INSTANCE. NOW THEY'RE SAYING THAT WE CANNOT ALLOW, WE CANNOT REQUIRE MORE THAN 20,000 SQUARE FEET. SO THAT IS PROPOSED IN THE CHANGE. UM, AND THEY WA ALSO WANTED US TO ADD LANGUAGE IN THE ORDINANCE THAT, THAT IF MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS THAT PROVIDED A MINIMUM OF 20% OF THE TOTAL DWELLING UNITS, UM, RESERVED FOR LOWER INCOME HOUSEHOLDS WOULD BE ALLOWED BY WRIGHT. UM, AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, UM, THEY HAD REQUIRED US TO CONSOLIDATE THE REQUIRED, UM, THE MINIMUM OR THE NU REQUIRED NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES FOR ALL MULTIFAMILY, UM, DEVELOPMENT TYPES LIKE CONDOMINIUMS, UM, MULTIFAMILY DWELLINGS, WHETHER THEY'RE IN A MIXED USE ZONE OR A MULTIFAMILY ZONE. SO JUST ONE, UM, STANDARD PARKING TYPE. AND FOR, UM, EMERGENCY SHELTERS WITH THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR UP TO 30 OCCUPANTS. UM, WE ARE GONNA BE REQUIRING A CUP FOR ALL OTHER ZONING. AND, UM, WITH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF, UH, MANUFACTURING IN THE, UM, REGIONAL MIXED USE ZONE, HCD IS ALSO REQUI, UM, REQUIRING THAT, WELL, THEY'RE SAYING THAT WE CAN'T REQUIRE BI BICYCLE PARKING FOR, FOR, UM, FOR MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT. AND SO IN THIS SEC, IN SECTION 25 IS ALSO ANOTHER SECTION THAT CONSOLIDATES THE, THE DEVELOPMENT, THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR MULTIFAMILY ZONING. UM, THERE, SINCE THE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE WAS, WAS COMPLETED, UM, THERE HAS BEEN CERTAIN CHANGES TO STATE LAW, UM, THAT WERE ADDRESSING IN THIS CLEANUP. UM, AND THESE CHANGES ARE ALREADY IN, IN EFFECT, AND CITIES ARE RE THE CITY, ALL CITIES ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH IT. SO WE DECIDED TO INCLUDE IT IN THE CLEANUP. SO THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTIFICATION PROCESS, IF IT INVOLVES A ZONE CHANGE AND A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT. UM, IN THE PAST IT WAS JUST 10 DAYS. NOW WE REQUIRE, UM, WE ARE REQUIRED TO NOTE TO HAVE A 20 DAY PUBLIC NOTIFICATION PROCESS. UM, AND SB ONE, SB 1211, UM, INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ADUS THAT ARE ALLOWED IN MORE, OR THAT ARE MANDATED CITIES TO ALLOW FOR MULTI-FAMILY, UM, DWELLING, UH, ZONES OR, OR USES FROM TWO UP TO TWO UNITS TO UP TO EIGHT UNITS OR ONE PER PRIMARY UNIT, WHICHEVER IS LESS. SO IF A MULTIFAMILY DWELLING HAS 20 UNITS, THEN THEY CAN HAVE UP TO EIGHT 80 US. BUT IF IT ONLY HAS EIGHT UNITS OR FOUR UNITS, THEN THEY CAN ONLY HAVE FOUR AUS. SO ONE PER PRIMARY UNIT. UM, ONE OF THE OTHER CHANGES IN THE PC D ONE ZONE, UM, IT REFERENCES A ZONING THAT IS NO LONGER THAT WE NO LONGER HAVE. UM, SO IT'S JUST CHANGING IT TO THE ZONING THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. UM, THERE ARE, UM, MY, I GUESS OTHER REVISIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED, UM, MINOR THAT I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO IN DETAIL. UM, LIKE CAPITALIZATION CHANGES, UM, SYNTAX CHANGES, UM, THE DEFINITION FOR A NEW STRUCTURE AND ALSO UNCLASSIFIED USE PERMITS WERE ADDED. UM, AND OTHER CLARIFYING CLARIFICATION, CLARIFYING DETAILS, UM, TO, TO CLARIFY WHAT THE INTENT IS FOR CERTAIN LANGUAGES THROUGHOUT THE, THE DEVELOPMENT CODE. UM, SOME, SOME PORTIONS OF THE DEVELOPMENT CODE WERE RENUMBERED. UM, WE HA WE ADDED QUANTIFIABLE STANDARDS FOR, UM, FOR THE RECREATION VEHICLE PARKING, UM, [01:50:01] ON HOW MUCH PERCENTAGE OF THE DRIVEWAY CAN BLOCK, UH, SO THAT IT, IT WOULD BE EASIER FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT TO ENFORCE THE, THE CURRENT CODE. UM, AND WE ADDED, UM, IT, WE ADDED, UM, THE COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AND CITY ATTORNEYS AS INITIATORS TO CODE AMENDMENTS. AND THIS PORTION THAT WAS, THAT WAS ADDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT CODE OR PROPOSED IN THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE CLEANED UP WHEN IT WENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION, WAS NOT RECOMMENDED BY, UM, TO THE CITY COUNCIL BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION. UM, NOTE THAT IF THE COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AND CITY ATTORNEY IS ALLOWED TO BE INITIATORS TO ANY CODE AMENDMENTS, THEN, UM, IF THE CODE AMENDMENT WOULD STILL REQUIRE PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEW AND THROUGH A PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS, AND IT WOULD REQUIRE, UM, CITY COUNCIL REVIEW THROUGH A PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS IN ORDER FOR THE CODE AMENDMENT TO BE ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE. UM, WE ALSO ADDED REGULATIONS ADDRESSING, UM, GLARES FROM SO SOLAR PANELS AND ALSO WE REVISED THE CITY'S CODE SO THAT IT'S CONSISTENT WITH STATE LAW. UM, ONE OTHER ITEM THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND GO THROUGH ITEMS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID NOT RECOMMEND. AND IF, IF THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, WOULD LIKE THE CITY TO CONSIDER OR NOT CONSIDER THE ITEMS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID NOT RECOMMEND, UM, IF DURING DISCUSSION OR THE MOTION, IF THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, MEMBER MAKING THE MOTION, UM, CAN SPECIFY WHICH SECTIONS YOU, YOU WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE OR NOT INCLUDE IN, IN THE, THE CODE INTRODUC THE ORDINANCE INTRODUCTION. SO SECTION 14 DEALS WITH STEP MASSING. UM, THIS SECTION OF THE CODE WAS ADDED IN ORDER. 'CAUSE THERE ARE CERTAIN AREAS IN THE CITY THAT ARE HILLSIDE LOTS. UM, AND THOSE, THIS SECTION ALLOWS FOR, FOR CONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING THE SLOPE OR HILLSIDE AREAS, UM, WITH, UH, IN DISCOURAGING IN EXTENSIVE CUT AND FEEL OR GRADING. SO IT'S TO, UM, BUILD ALONG THE SLOPE AND THEN IN THE NATURAL TERRAIN OF THE LAW. UM, IN PLEASE NOTE ON THE PHOTOGRAPH THAT HAS A CHECK MARK THAT SAYS MINIMUM CUT AND FILL. UM, IT'S, IT'S NOT EXACTLY THIS PHOTOGRAPH THAT, THAT WE ARE TRYING TO, WELL, THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE ALLOWING WITH THIS SECTION OF THE CODE BECAUSE THE CITY ONLY ALLOWS UP TO TWO STORIES. THE, THE BOTTOM STORIES WOULD JUST IMAGINE THE BOTTOM STORY NOT BEING IN THE PICTURE. UM, SO IT'S CONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING THE HILLSIDE, BASICALLY. AND JOANNE? YES. UH, OKAY. I HAVE A QUESTION. SURE. SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE HILLSIDE MAPPING? I'M SORRY? UH, THE HILLSIDE MASS. OKAY. YES, THE HILLSIDE MASSING. SO, SO WHAT IS THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CITY? IT WOULD BE TO ADOPT THE HILLSIDE, THE, THIS SECTION OF THE CODE FOR HILLSIDE MASSING BECAUSE IT ALLOWS, IT ALLOWS CONSTRUCTION ALONG THE SLOPE. 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW THE MAX, THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT IS TAKEN FROM THE LOWEST ADJACENT GRADE TO THE HIGHEST POINT. SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE PHOTOGRAPH RIGHT HERE, UM, IF, IF IT'S ON. I GOT IT. SO THE PLANNING, UH, COMMISSIONER, THEY DECLINE. THEY DID NOT RECOMMEND BECAUSE THEY FELT THAT IT SHOULD, THIS SHOULD BE A SEPARATE CODE AMENDMENT, UM, WITH FURTHER DISCUSSION BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND IT SHOULDN'T BE WITH THE CLEANUP. OKAY. SO THEY DID NOT, THEY WEREN'T NECESSARILY OPPOSED TO IT. THEY JUST WANTED TO BE A SEPARATE DISCUSSION IN A SEPARATE CODE AMENDMENT. BUT WHY IS THE CT POSITION? UM, WE, WE, WE INCLUDED IT, UM, IN, IN THE CL UM, IN THE CLEANUP. SO YOU ALREADY CLEAN UP. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, MOVE ON. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE BY THE WAY, UH, ANOTHER QUESTION ON HERE. SORRY. THIS WEST COVINA, I KNOW OTHER CITY HAVE A SO-CALLED VIEW ORDINANCE SO PEOPLE DON'T FIGHT WITH THEIR VIEW, SO THEY DON'T BLOCK PEOPLE'S VIEW. DO WE HAVE A LAB ORDINANCE? WE DO NOT HAVE A VIEW, VIEW RIGHTS ORDINANCE. SO HOW DO YOU THINK? BECAUSE I NEED, WE HAVE A LOT OF DISPUTE WHERE PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING OR MAYBE EVEN SUING EACH OTHER. OKAY. BECAUSE THE VIEW [01:55:01] IS VALUE OF THE PROPERTY. SO, SO MAYBE WE NEED TO ADD SOME ORDINANCE SO EVERYBODY BEING PROTECTED, THEY DON'T BUILD TOO HIGH TO BLOCK SOMEBODY'S VIEW. WE COULD DEFINITELY, UM, LOOK AT BRINGING THAT BACK TO COUNCIL. WOULD YOU PLEASE? YEAH. SO WE CAN, WE SAW A LOT OF DISPUTE OTHERWISE. OKAY. WE HAVE SO MANY HILL SIDE AND, UH, PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING ONE INCH OF THEIR VIEW. MM-HMM . OKAY. UH, MR. MAYOR, GO AHEAD. UM, IN BUILDING ON THAT SENTIMENT, UM, UH, IF THE CITY COULD ALSO LOOK UP, LOOK AT, UM, WHAT, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN SITUATIONS WHERE TREES ARE ALLOWED TO GROW SO HIGH THAT THEY OBSTRUCT VIEW THAT, THAT TO BE, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD FALL UNDER THIS OR NOT. AGREE. AGREE. I, I THINK THAT SOMEBODY HAVE A TREE SO HIGH AND THAT THEY DON'T TRAIN AND THEY BLOCK NEIGHBOR VIEW. AND I THINK THAT BECOME A ISSUE. SO I THINK WE NEED TO OKAY. INCLUDING LEAD BECAUSE VIEW IS HOT, PEOPLE PURCHASE THEIR PROPERTY AND, UH, I THINK WE NEED TO PROTECT THOSE PEOPLE, INVEST IN THEIR PROPERTY, ESPECIALLY ON THE HILLSIDE. AND, UH, AND UH, SO IN THAT WAY WE MAKE IT CLEAR AND THEN WE HAVE NO DISPUTE FOR ANY NEIGHBORS. WE, WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK AT THAT. UM, PLEASE AS IN BRING IT TO THE CITY, THE PLANNING COMMISSION, AND ALSO THE CITY COUNCIL AS A SEPARATE YEAH, I THINK WE NEED IT. OKAY. SINCE WE HAVE, UH, SO MANY PEOPLE BUILDING ON THE HILL SIDE AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE A DISPUTE. AND I KNOW A LOT OF CITY, THEY HAVE A VIEW ORDINANCE. MM-HMM . OKAY. UH, ANY OTHER QUESTION? OTHERWISE WE MOVE ON. CONTINUE PLEASE. AND THEN WE, WE, WE HAVE TEMPORARY, UM, WE HAVE TEMPORARY NON-COMMERCIAL SIGNS, UM, THAT, THAT WERE, THAT WERE REVIS. UM, HAVE ONE THE TEMPORARY NON-COMMERCIAL SIGNS SECTION OF THE CODE. I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT. OKAY. UM, JOANNE, SORRY. OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER TU HAS A QUESTION. GO AHEAD. YEAH, I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT. WHICH ONE ARE YOU ON RIGHT NOW? SECTION 27, 28 AND 29 27. WHICH, WHICH ONE? 27. 28 29. YES. OKAY, THANK YOU. YEAH, GO AHEAD. OKAY. SO, UM, WE'RE WE, UM, STAFF PROPOSED MAKING CHANGES TO THE, UM, SIGN PORTION OF OUR DEVELOPMENT CODE, UM, IN REGARDS TO TEMPORARY NON-COMMERCIAL SIGNS AND ALSO ELECTION SEASON SIGNS. SO, UM, THE, THE TEMPORARY NON-COMMERCIAL, THE TEMPORARY NON-COMMERCIAL SIGNS, UM, THERE, IT, UM, AND ALSO ELECTION SEASON SIGNS WERE, WERE REVISED TO MAKE IT MORE ENFORCEABLE, UM, AND TO, AND TO PROMOTE, UM, TO, TO PROMOTE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. OH, ALSO THIS SECTION, THE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID NOT RECOMMEND, UM, APPROVAL BY THE CITY COUNCIL. UM, THE DEVEL, ANOTHER SECTION IS REGARDING URBAN DWELLING UNITS. UM, THERE HAVE BEEN CHANGES TO STATE LAW OR CHANGES TO THE WAY THE STATE OR HCD HAS, HAS, UM, BEEN APPLYING THE A DU SECTION OF, OF, UM, THE GOVERNMENT CODE OR STATE OR STATE LAW. SO THIS CHANGE, UM, WOULD BE CONSISTENT TO, TO HOW HCD IS REQUIRING CITIES TO APPLY, UM, THE A DU STANDARDS ON HOW MANY ADUS ONE CAN HAVE PER LOT. SO, UM, IN THIS SENSE, THE STATE IS, AND MAKING THE CITY OR STATING THAT CITIES HAVE TO ALLOW, UM, AT LEAST FOUR UNITS PER PER SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL LOT. SO THE PRIMARY DWELLING UNIT, UM, UH, A DU CONVERSION, A SEPARATE DETACHED, A DU AND A-J-A-D-U. SO THE, UM, THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH, UM, STATE LAW. UH, ANOTHER SECTION THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE, WHICH IS SECTION 43 TO 51. UM, THIS IS REGARDING THE SUBDIVISION AND ALSO MAPS. THE SECTION, UM, ALLOWS THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO APPROVE LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS, LOT, LOT MERGERS AND, AND PARCEL MAPS. UM, LOT, LOT, LOT MERGERS AND LOT LINE ADJUSTMENTS, UM, AND ARE CURRENTLY DONE ADMINISTRATIVELY. UM, AND ALSO URBAN LOT SPLITS, WHICH IS A [02:00:01] TYPE OF PARCEL MAP, UM, IS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW TO BE APPROVED ADMINISTRATIVELY AS WELL. SO THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THAT. UM, IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT, UM, ALTHOUGH, ALTHOUGH, UM, MAP THESE MAPS ARE GOING TO OR ARE PROPOSED TO BE APPROVED BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, IF, IF THE, IF THE CITY COUNCIL ACCEPTS IT, UM, IT STILL WOULD HAVE TO GO, THE FINAL MAPS STILL WOULD HAVE TO GO, UH, TO THE CITY COUNCIL. TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO BE PRESENTED AND ACCEPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, THROUGH, THROUGH THE FINAL MAP PROCESS. SO BASICALLY WE STILL COME TO CITY COUNCIL. I KNOW, RIGHT? YES. OKAY. I HAVE A QUESTION. OKAY, GO AHEAD. UM, WHERE DOES IT SAY, OR GO BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL? UM, IT WOULD BE, UM, WELL, IT'S BY STATE LAW THAT FINAL MAPS HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL. AND WHAT WAS, WHAT WAS THE REASON TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR THIS TO BE ADDED? UM, FOR, BECAUSE THE, UM, STATE LAW ALREADY REQUIRES CERTAIN, CERTAIN TYPE SMALLER SUBDIVISIONS TO BE A, TO BE APPROVED AND ALLOWED BY. RIGHT. SO THIS WOULD BE, MAKE IT MORE CONSISTENT WITH WHAT STATE LAW REQUIRES. OKAY. AND THIS IS FOR ANY PROP? I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT SPECIFICALLY? UM, FOR, WELL, THIS IS ONLY, THERE ARE CERTAIN PORTIONS OF STATE LAW THAT REQUIRES SUBDIVISIONS OF 10 OR LESS UNITS TO BE APPROVED BY. RIGHT. BUT THIS IS NOT ADDRESSING THAT WE'RE GONNA DO A SEPARATE CODE AMENDMENT TO ADDRESS THAT STATE LAW. BUT THIS IS O THE PARCEL MAP. UM, IS O IS FOUR, UH, FOUR LAW OR LESS SUBDIVISION. DOES THAT INCLUDE COMMERCIAL PROJECTS TOO? UM, IT DOES INCLUDE COMMERCIAL PROJECTS, YES. SO IT INCLUDES BIG PROJECTS THEN POTENTIALLY? WELL, COMMERCIAL PROJECTS, IF THEY ARE, IF THEY ARE, UM, TYPICAL, IF THEY REQUIRE PARCEL MAP, THEY'RE TYP, THEY'RE TYPICALLY, THEY'RE TYPICALLY, UM, THEY TYPICALLY ALSO INCLUDE A PAR PRECISE PLAN APPLICATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION IN ITSELF. SO THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD STILL REQUIRE TO BE, TO GO TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL. THIS SPECIFIC SECTION, I'M SORRY? UH, THIS SPECIFIC SECTION, THIS SPECIFIC, UH, SECTION 43? YES. IT'S FOR SUBDIVISION, UM, NOT NECESSARILY INVOLVING CONSTRUCTION. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. AND ALSO, UH, THE PARCEL MAP PROCESS IS ALSO USED TO TO MERGE A LOT, UM, EV LIKE FOUR LOTS INTO, UM, POTENTIALLY ONE LOT, UM, IN, IN, IN CERTAIN TYPES OF PROJECT. SO. OKAY. , THANK YOU. UM, THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER, UM, RECOMMENDATION THAT WE HAVE. UM, LET ME GO AHEAD AND GET TO THAT. IT'S NOT SHOWING UP IN THIS PORTION OF MY SLIDE, BUT I THINK I HAD SKIPPED IT BEFORE I MOVE FORWARD WITH, WITH THE GENERAL RECOMMENDATION. SORRY, HELINA, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE SLIDES ARE? REPRESENTATION? SLIDES. SLIDES. ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION THAT THAT WE HAVE IS REGARDING CITY COUNCIL PROCEDURE CALL-UPS. THIS IS SECTION 26 DASH 1 96, UM, IN THE CITY'S IN THE CITY'S DEVELOPMENT CODE. SO, UM, PREVIOUSLY THE CITY DIDN'T HAVE, UM, CITY COUNCIL CALL-UPS. SO IF THE PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEWED, APPROVED, OR DENIED AN APPLICATION, THE CITY COUNCIL DID NOT HAVE THE [02:05:01] AUTHORITY TO CALL UP THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO APPEAL A PROJECT SIMILAR TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND PAY THE APPEAL FEES. SO THIS, THE CALL UP PROCEDURE ALLOWED THE CITY COUNCIL TO CALL UP ANY DECISION THAT WAS MADE BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO REVIEW IT DE NOVO AT A PUBLIC, AT A PUBLIC HEARING. HOWEVER, UM, THIS PORTION, THIS PORTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIRED A FOUR FIFTHS VOTE. UM, AND IN CERTAIN CASES, LIKE IF, IF, IF THE CITY COUNCIL WAS GOING TO HAVE A, A MEETING, IT WOULD HAVE TO, AND IF THE CITY COUNCIL WANTED TO CALL IT UP, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE DONE IMMEDIATELY AT THE MEETING IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING. HOWEVER, THERE MAY BE SOME INSTANCES WHERE, UM, THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY WAY THAT A FOUR FIFTHS VOTE CAN BE ACHIEVED. LIKE FOR INSTANCE, IF THERE WERE ONLY THREE COUNCIL, THERE'S A QUORUM, BUT ONLY THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT, THEN THE FOUR FIFTHS VOTE COULD NOT BE ACHIEVED. SO, UM, THIS, IN THIS CASE, UM, IT WOULD ALLOW TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS TO CALL UP A PROJECT IN WRITE, UM, IN WRITING, AND IT WOULD, UM, AND THE MEETING WOULD BE SET AT A LATER DATE WITHIN 60 DAYS AFTER THE INITIAL CALL UP. SO THIS, THIS, UM, PORTION OF THE CODE MAKES IT, UM, I GUESS COVERS ANY POTENTIAL POSSIBILITY. UM, THAT, THAT THERE'S CERTAIN SITUATIONS LIKE NO FOUR FIFTHS FOOT WOULD, WOULD, UM, WOULD BE PRESENT. YES. JOANNE? I I THINK THIS IS, UH, THIS CHANGE IS NEEDED BECAUSE SOMETIME WE NEED ANOTHER SAFETY. OKAY. AND THAT TO, OKAY, YOU'RE PLANNING APPROVED, BUT THEY MAY BE PROBLEMATIC. AND THE, AND THE OKAY, THEN THE RESIDENT DOESN'T KNOW OKAY. THIS UNLESS, SO THE CITY COUNCIL CAN HAVE A TWO VOTE OKAY. TO PUT AN AGENDA TO HAVE A HEARING AGAIN WITHOUT ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT. YES. AND IF, IF THAT DOES HAPPEN, THE, THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, THE PUBLIC HEARING WOULD STILL BE, WOULD STILL COM FOLLOW THIS, THE NOTIFICATION PROCESS AS A REGULAR PUBLIC HEARING. SO IT, IT'S, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT WHERE THE CITY COUNCIL JUST SAYS. OKAY. UM, WE'LL CALL IT UP AND WE'LL HAVE THE HEARING TODAY OR THE NEXT MEETING. OH, THEY STILL STILL HAS TO GO THROUGH THE, THE PROCEDURE. YEAH. PUBLIC HEARING, EVERYTHING HAS TO FOLLOW THE LAW PROCESS. UH, UH, COUNCILMAN KEN, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? J JUST SO JUST TO, TO CLARIFY. SO IN, IN THAT CASE, IF WE WERE TO LOWER THE NUMBER TO TWO, THEN THAT WOULD MEAN THAT IN THAT INSTANCE THERE IS NOT A MAJ NEED FOR MAJORITY FOR CD COUNCIL APPROVAL, JUST TWO, IS THAT THAT'S CORRECT. YES. AND JUST TWO. AND IT'S, UM, IT'LL JUST BE AT LEAST TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS ASKING TO, TO HEAR THE ITEM. UM, SO THE ITEM STILL WOULD BE HEARD. UM, AND IT STILL REQUIRES A MAJORITY CITY COUNCIL VOTE IN ORDER TO APPROVE OR DENY THE ITEM DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING THE TWO. SO ONLY FOR BRING TO TRIGGER IT TO TRIGGER TO TRIGGER THE REVIEW SO THE CITY COUNCIL CAN GET A DETAIL REVIEW ABOUT THE PROJECT THAT THE TWO CITY COUNCIL CONCERN AND HOPEFULLY ANOTHER SAFETY NET. OKAY. FOR ABOUT ANY DEVELOPMENT, UH, MAYBE HAVE A ISSUE OF PROBLEMATIC. UH, ANY OTHER COUNCIL? YEAH, GO AHEAD. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH. UM, YEAH, I THINK THIS IS, UH, IMPORTANT BECAUSE IN END OF THE DAY, I THINK, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL HOLDS A RESPONSIBILITY TO THE CONSTITUENTS OF WHO ELECTED THEM TO OFFICE. AND WHEN ITEMS HAVE TO GET COUNCIL'S ATTENTION, THIS WILL NOW GIVE THE COUNCIL THE MECHANISM, UH, TO BRING THIS ITEM FORWARD AT A PUBLIC CITY COUNCIL MEETING. UM, MY QUESTION IS FOR NOTIFICATION, UH, FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS, UH, WOULD THE COUNCIL HAVE, UH, DISCRETION IF WE WANTED TO NOTICE UP TO A THOUSAND FEET ON SOME, ON CERTAIN PROJECTS, OR WOULD THAT HAD TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS CODE? UPDATE IT, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS CODE UPDATE. OKAY. SO, SO HOW WILL WE RECOMMEND A EDIT, UH, TO THIS CODE UPDATE RIGHT NOW? UM, THIS IS THE, DURING THE MOTION, I GUESS THIS IS THE INTRODUCTION OF, OF THE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE CLEANUP TO, UM, SECTION 26 OF THE CITY'S MUNICIPAL CODE. SO YOU WOULD, UM, THE COUNCIL WOULD DIRECT, WOULD PUT THAT IN THE MOTION. OKAY. AND THEN WHEN IT GOES TO THE SE, UM, THE SECOND READING, IT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE STAFF REPORT AND ALSO THE ORDINANCE. OKAY, GREAT. YOU OKAY? YES. AND SO BASICALLY, UH, WHEN TWO CITY COUNCIL, UH, REQUEST TO PULL THAT APPROVE, UH, PROJECT FROM THE PLANNING, UH, COMMISSIONER OKAY. AND THEN CAN, CAN REQUEST MAYBE, UH, DUE TO THE SIZE [02:10:01] OKAY. THE RESIDENT CANNOT BE, UM, NOTIFIED, UH, DUE TO THE DISTANCE. OKAY. SO WE CAN OKAY. EXTEND TO FROM 500 FEET TO 1000 FEET. YES. OKAY. FOR, FOR, UM, IF, IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CALL YES. THE CITY COUNCIL CAN, CAN DO, CAN PROVIDE THAT DIRECTION. YEAH. BECAUSE OKAY. SOMETIME, OKAY. YOU'LL FIND YOUR FEET AND NOT EVEN GO OUT THE, UH, PARKING LOT SO THE RESIDENT WON'T BE OKAY. GET A NOTIFICATION AT ALL. SO HOPEFULLY WE WANT TO SEE EVERYBODY PARTICIPATE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. OKAY. UH, OTHER, OKAY, GO AHEAD, COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH, ONE MORE QUESTION, AND I THINK YURI WENT OVER THIS SECTION. SO JUST TO GO BACK ON IT IN REGARDS TO THE SIGNAGE, UH, CAMPAIGN SIGNAGE, UH, I THINK THIS QUESTION IS MORE FOR THE DEV, I MEAN FOR THE CONTRACTOR. UM, HOW WAS THAT UPDATED? HOW, HOW DID YOU GET THAT INFORMATION TO UPDATE IN THAT, IN THIS CODE SPECIFICALLY REGARDING THAT UPDATE CONTRACTOR? THIS ONE I THINK WE JUST, JUST LOOKED AT OTHER, UH, YOU WANT TO, I'M GOING TO DO WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. UM, MY NAME'S JOHN MORLAND WITH, UH, RCON CONSULTANTS, UH, FOR THE, UH, THE, UH, SIGN REGULATIONS, UH, THERE WAS A ANALYSIS CONDUCTED WITH, UM, UH, OTHER CITIES AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS AND, UH, UH, BEST PRACTICES WERE ESSENTIALLY, UH, INCORPORATED INTO THIS, UH, CODE. GREAT. AND MY, MY NEXT QUESTION FOR YOU IS, IS THERE ANY, UH, ANYTHING ELSE, UH, IN THIS CODE UPDATE, EVEN E EITHER ON THIS PA NOT OBVIOUSLY NOT IN THIS PACKET, BUT IN GENERAL, IN THAT BIG BOOK YOU GAVE, YOU GAVE TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND TO THE CONSOLE. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE IN THAT BOOKLET THAT WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THAT WAS CHANGED? ITEMS THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC'S INTERESTS, SUCH AS POLITICAL SIGNAGE AND OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE OF IMPORTANCE FOR THIS CONSOLE TO BE AWARE OF. AND HERE, I THINK EVERYTHING THAT WAS, UM, IDENTIFIED IN THE, UM, IN THE STAFF REPORT AS WELL AS, UH, JOANNE'S PRESENTATION, UH, SUMMARIZED AND ENCAPSULATED, UH, THE SUMMARY. OKAY. YEAH. 'CAUSE LIKE THE CAMPAIGN STUFF, WE DIDN'T LEARN ABOUT IT UNTIL AFTER THE FACT. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE IN THAT HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF BOOKLET YOU GAVE US. SO, GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I, UH, DO WE, WE DON'T NEED TO ASK FOR SPEAK IN FAVOR OR ANYTHING LIKE THIS. IT IS A PUBLIC, UH, UH, YEAH. HEARING SO YOU CAN OPEN UP, I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY SPEAKER, SPEAKER, SO WE'LL MAKE A MOTION. ANY SPEAKER FOR NO, UM, IN, UH, ANYONE WHO'D LIKE TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THE PROJECT? NO, THE ONLY, UH, NOTATION I HAVE IS THAT, UH, R ROBINSON IS NEUTRAL. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, SO, UH, SHOULD I CLOSE THE PUBLIC TESTIMONY PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK COUNSEL? WELL, THERE'S ANY OTHER FURTHER DISCUSSION? NOPE. OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION, UH, TO INTRODUCE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 5 2 5 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE CLEANUP? I'LL MAKE A MOTION, UH, TO APPROVE THAT WITH A AMENDMENT TO CHANGE THE RADIUS NOTIFICATION FROM 500 TO 1000 FEET. UH, YES. OKAY. UH, I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP 500 IN GENERAL, BUT IF WE OKAY. YEAH. YEAH. OH YEAH. SORRY. WE CAN CHANGE, LEMME FIX IT. YES. SO IT, IT'LL BE, IT WILL MAINTAIN 500 BUT, UH, THE CONSOLE, IF IT'S, IF IT'S APPEALED BY A CON, THE CONSOLE UNDER THE TWO, UH, MEMBER PRO POLICY THAT THE CONS, A CONS MAJORITY CAN REQUEST, UH, AT THAT TIME THAT A RADIUS BE EXTENDED TO A THOUSAND FEET FOR NOTIFICATION. WELL, 1000 OR EVEN MORE, OR EVEN OR, UM, DEPENDING ON HOW BIG THE POVERTY MAYBE, UH, YEAH. TOM, IS THERE A MAX, IS THAT JUST FOR THE APPEAL? THE CALL UP? YES. FOR THE CALL UP? YEAH, JUST FOR THE CO-OP. OKAY. YEAH, SO WE HAVE A FLEXIBLE TO OKAY. BECAUSE OTHERWISE IF 500, MAYBE NOT EVEN OUTSIDE THE PARKING LOT, THE WASTE WON'T GET NOTIFICATION. SO IF WE CAN EXTEND IT DUE TO 500, YEAH, WE GONNA DO THE 1000. SO CALLS IT UP, THEN YOU WANNA GO TO A THOUSAND. CORRECT? WE WILL DEPEND ON THE PROPERTY. OKAY. SOME PROPERTY FINANCIAL ALREADY ENOUGH FOR THE REGULAR READY AID, BUT SOME PROPERTY COMMERCIAL, THE PARKING LOT, HUGE, THAT FIVE ENGINE POSSIBLE AND PLUS THE FREEWAY THAT BASICALLY NOBODY WILL GET NOTIFICATION, BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. SO WE HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY AND TO GET A LITTLE BIT LONGER. OKAY. OF THIS, UH, COUNCIL, [02:15:01] COUNCILMAN CANTO, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? YES, MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU. UM, UM, JUST A QUESTION FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY, WOULD THIS BE ABLE TO BE WRITTEN IN A WAY THAT CAN SHOW I, UH, I MEAN, CAN MEET THE GOALS THAT WERE DESCRIBED BUT ALSO, UH, BE DONE IN A WAY THAT SHOWS IMPARTIALITY SO THAT ANYONE WHO'S PETITIONING CAN'T ALLEGE THAT WE'RE CHANGING THE NOTIFICATION SCOPE IN ORDER TO SHAPE A PAR PARTICULAR OUTCOME? MR. MAYOR COUNCIL WILL ENSURE THAT, THAT, UH, IT'S WRITTEN IN THE CORRECT MANNER. YEAH, BASICALLY IT'S 500 STILL 500. OKAY. AND THEN THE, THE COUNCIL HAVE A FLEXIBILITY TO EXTEND IT. THE, THE, THE LENGTH. OKAY. AND, AND BEFORE WE GO TO THE, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SOMEBODY MOVE ALREADY, RIGHT? YEAH, I MOVED. OKAY. WHO HAVE SECOND. SECOND. OKAY. AND, UH, SO WE HAVE FIRST AND SECOND. NOT YET. I'M NOT GONNA DO THE CALL. I HAVE A QUESTION BECAUSE ON OUR, THIS REVISED ORDINANCE IS THICK. OKAY. SO WHEN WE APPROVED LAST TIME AND THEN WE BASICALLY GET SENT BACK, A LOT OF THINGS STICK INSIDE. WE DON'T KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, A CAMPAIGN SIGN FOR 90 DAY THAT WAS FOREVER IN THE CITY. I WAS RUNNING IN 90 DAY AND THEY'D BE CHANGED TO 60 DAY. SO WE WON. WE DO NOT WANT ANY SURPRISE THAT WE DON'T KNOW IF WE KNOW, WE CAN BRING IT TO DISCUSSION, BUT IF WE DON'T KNOW, I WANNA MAKE SURE THIS SAKE OF DICTIONARY, THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING THAT CHANGED. THE CITY COUNCIL DON'T KNOW. IN THE PREVIOUS, UM, SORRY. SORRY, MAYOR, IF I MAY, IN THE PREVIOUS, UM, CODE, UM, DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE OR IN THIS CLEANUP IS, UM, ARE YOU ASKING, ARE YOU REFERRING, I'M ASKING THE CONSULTANT BECAUSE SOME OF THE CHANGE WE DON'T EVEN KNOW. AND I REMEMBER WE SIT IN A MEETING, UH, WITH THE SUBCOMMITTEE, UH, WENT THROUGH WITH YOU REGARDING, UM, UM, OKAY, THE DRIVE THROUGH AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA, BUT WE NEVER TALK ABOUT 90 DAY, 60 DAY, THE CAMPAIGN SIGNED ORDINANCE. SO I DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR 90 DAYS TO 60 DAY NOW WE WANNA BRING BACK TO THE STATE LAWS 90 DAY. SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYTHING WE COMPLY WITH, HOW OUR TRADITION AND THE, THE STATE LAW IS. AND AGAIN, MY POINT IS NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? I THINK CITY ATTORNEY UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE WE HAVE BECAUSE YOU, YOU GIVE US APPROVAL THIS THICK AND WE DON'T KNOW OKAY, WHICH ONE THAT HAS BEEN CHANGED, MODIFY, WE EVEN NOTIFY THE CITY COUNCIL. SO, SO, AND IF YOU CHANGE ANYTHING, YOU HAVE TO NOTIFY US SO WE CAN DISCUSS, SAY WE WANT TO ACCEPT THIS CHANGE OR, OKAY. UH, WE WON'T. OKAY. SO I THINK THIS IS A BASIC, UH, REQUIREMENT. SO WE WANT TO SHARE WITH US, UH, DO THEY HAVE ANY OTHER CHANGE THAT WE DON'T KNOW? I THINK THE, THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING MADE PART OF THIS DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE ARE INCLUDED, UM, AND OUTLINED IN THE STAFF REPORT. SO THOSE ARE ALL THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING MADE. SO WE WON'T GET SHOCKED NEXT TIME WHEN, WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS THAT, OH, YOU, YOU GOTTA APPROVE . NO. 'CAUSE IT'S ALL INCLUDED IN THE STAFF REPORT, IF I'M CORRECT. SO ALL OF THE CHANGES MADE BEING MADE ARE LISTED IN THE STAFF REPORT. GOT IT. SO ALL, ALL THE, SO WE STILL HAVE THE, THE SAME THING LIKE BEFORE, BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF REISE AND CLEAN UP, AND THIS TIME WE CLEAN UP EVERYTHING. NO SURPRISE. LAST TIME WHEN THE DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE WAS APPROVED, IT WAS A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING BECAUSE IT WAS UPDATING A PART OF THE, THE MUNICIPAL CODE THAT HADN'T BEEN UPDATED AND CLEANED UP ENTRY. YEAH. YEAH. SO THIS TIME WE ARE TO, TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE AS PART OF THAT WOULD'VE REQUIRED PAGES AND PAGES TO LIST THEM ALL OUT. SO THIS TIME, BECAUSE IT'S AN UPDATE TO WHAT WE ALREADY APPROVED, WE'RE ABLE TO OUTLINE THOSE SPECIFIC CHANGES. UM, BUT AS, UM, WE CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT CODE AND, UM, PROJECTS COME THROUGH, IF THERE'S THINGS THAT WE COME IN REALIZE THAT, OH, WE, THIS COULD BE WRITTEN BETTER, OR WE NEED TO LOOK AT UPDATING THIS, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CONTINUE, WE WILL CONTINUOUSLY DO. DO WE HAVE SENT THIS TO THE STATE? YES. YES. BECAUSE THEY PAY FOR IT THIS GRANT. RIGHT. OKAY. THIS IS HOW YOU GET PAID FOR THE STATE GRANT. THEY WANT US TO DO THIS UPDATE BECAUSE THEY WANT US TO GO WITH WHAT THEY WANT. SO THIS ALL HAD TO BE APPROVED BY THEM. OKAY. MR. MAYOR, GO AHEAD. UM, I'M GOING TO, TO, UM, VOTE TO APPROVE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I REALLY, REALLY OBJECT TO THE WAY THE STATE IS JUST RAMMING THIS ALL, ALL THIS, UH, SOME OF THIS STUFF DOWN OUR THROAT WITH REGARD TO FORCING US TO HAVE GREATER DENSITY THAT, THAT WE WANT. IT'S REALLY, REALLY AWFUL THAT THEY'RE TAKING, I MEAN, JUST THIS WHOLE STRUGGLE WITH, WE HAVE A, AS A CITY SHOULD, SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE CONTROL OVER OUR OWN ZONING HERE, BUT FOR THEM TO PUT A GUN TO OUR HEAD BASICALLY AND FORCE US TO DO THIS IS REALLY OBJECTIONABLE. SO I'M GONNA VOTE FOR IT, BUT I, WE HAVE NO CHOICE BECAUSE OTHERWISE THEY'RE GONNA COME AFTER US MORE. AND I JUST, I WANTED TO JUST REGISTER JUST MY ANGER OVER THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE RAMMING THINGS DOWN OUR THROAT THAT I JUST FEEL LIKE IT, IT'S JUST OVERREACH. BUT I JUST WANTED JUST [02:20:01] TO SAY THAT, UH, I, I AGREE WITH YOU. I THINK, OH, IF CITY COUNCIL AGREE. OKAY. AND, UH, THIS IS, UH, WE BASICALLY LOSE THE LOCAL CONTROL. OKAY? EVERYTHING RUN BY THE STATE. AND, UH, WE HAVE NO SAY, OKAY, WE CANNOT EVEN REQUIRE PEOPLE HAVE A GARAGE, OKAY? AND THEY CAN JUST PARK ON THE STREET AND HOW CAN WE JUST PARK ON THE STREET AND, UH, CREATE A SANITATION ISSUE AND THE OVERCROWDED ISSUE AND THIS AND THAT, BUT, AND, OKAY, THIS IS A HARD STATE AND PUT IT ON US IF WE DON'T DO IT. YOU SAW IT. THEY SUE THE HUNTINGTON BEACH, THEY SAW THE CITY, AND THEY CAN TAKE THE FUNDING AWAY FROM US. THEY JUST DO EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE YOU COMPLY. SO THAT'S WHY WE SITTING OVER HERE AND USING THE, THE, THE STATE GRANT AND TO UPDATE OUR CODE, MEANING, UH, ALL THE COMMERCIAL ZONING CAN BE DO, BUILT A RESIDENTIAL AND MIXED USE. THIS IS ON OUR HURDLE, BUT WE HAVE NO CHOICE. WE JUST HAVE TO GO WITH WHAT STATE FORCED TO DO AGAIN, THAT WE LOSE THE, UH, LOCAL CONTROL. BUT I, I, I, IN THE CALL COUNCIL GOVERNMENT, EVERYBODY COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS, BUT NOTHING YOU CAN DO. OKAY. BECAUSE THIS STATE LAW AND THEY WANT TO DO IT. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, GO AHEAD. YEAH. UM, UH, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN YOU HAVE, UH, WENT TO THE RESTROOM, UH, I HAD ASKED THE CONTRACTOR TO RESPOND PERSONALLY ABOUT, I HAVE TO SO LOUD TALK ABOUT, I'M SORRY, . JUST, I'M JUST, OKAY. WALK AWAY. WELL, YOU WALKED AWAY. YEAH. SORRY. UM, . . OKAY. I CANNOT HOLD TOO LONG. OKAY. NOW YOU UNDERSTAND. ME TOO. I GO TO THE RESTROOM TOO. OKAY, GO AHEAD. BUT, UM, UH, YEAH, I HAD ASKED THE CONTRACTOR TO RESPOND DIRECTLY ON WHY WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN SIGNS. SO IF HE COULD, UH, IF HE COULD RE IF YOU COULD REPEAT YOURSELF SO THE MAYOR COULD HEAR YOUR, YOUR, YOUR, UH, YOUR STATEMENT AS WELL. AND ALSO, UH, IN REGARDS TO, UH, ME THINKING ABOUT YOU. SO YOU, YOU TOOK INFORMATION FROM OTHER CITIES, BUT ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT I SAW WAS, UH, YOU, YOU LI THERE WAS A LIMIT ON HOW MANY CAMPAIGN SIGNS COULD BE ON SOMEONE'S PROPERTY. AND A CLU SAID THAT POTENTIALLY THAT WAS A VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. SO, I WANNA KNOW, I MEAN, WHO GAVE YOU THIS INFORMATION? I MEAN, WHO GAVE YOU THIS ADVICE TO AMEND THE CODE THAT WAY, BUT ALSO REPEAT WHAT YOU TOLD ME EARLIER. SO MAYOR WOOER ALSO HERE, AND THAT'S FOR THE CONTRACTOR. THE CONS, THE CONSULTANT CONSULTANT, UM, YES. I'LL REPEAT THE, THE SAME, UH, COMMENT. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, UH, MAYOR, UH, MAYOR WU. UH, WHAT I MENTIONED, UH, PREVIOUSLY WAS THAT, UM, WHAT WE, WHAT WE LOOKED AT FOR THE, UH, THE CAMPAIGN SIGNAGE IS, UH, COMPARED, UM, OTHER JURISDICTIONS, UM, AND HAS ESSENTIALLY KIND OF INCORPORATED THE BEST, UH, PRACTICES ESSENTIALLY INTO THIS UPDATE. AND ALSO, THE OTHER COMMENT THAT WAS, UH, THE OTHER ITEM THAT I MENTIONED AS WELL TOO, WAS THAT, UM, THE, UH, STAFF REPORT, UM, THE STAFF REPORT AS WELL AS THE PRESENTATION BY JOANNE, UM, THAT ENCAPSULATES ALL THE, UH, ALL THE AMENDMENTS, UM, THAT ARE, UH, THAT ARE BEFORE YOU. SO SHE DID A GREAT JOB, UH, SUMMARIZING EVERYTHING. YEAH. SO THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE IN THE, IN THIS BOOK THAT WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF. THAT WAS A HUGE CHANGE. CORRECT. OKAY. AND THEN W YEAH, I MEAN, IT, I MEAN, IT'S AFTER THE FACT, BUT WE SHALL ALWAYS DO, I MEAN, WE SHALL ALWAYS ENSURE, UH, THE CONSTITUTION'S FOLLOWING FREE SPEECH. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GOT THAT ADVICE, BUT ALONG WE'RE FIXING IT NOW. THAT'S WHAT COUNTS. SO THANK YOU. OH, NO, I THINK RIGHT NOW WE ALREADY MOVE TO 90 DAY. RIGHT? OKAY. SO WE BACK TO THE STATE, UH, LAW. THIS LIKE, YEP. I OKAY. USED TO. SO, SO, OKAY. SO ANYWAY, AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, FIRST AND SECOND ROLL CALL, PLEASE. YES. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, A SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2 5 2 0 WITH, UM, THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS TO BE ABLE TO INCREASE THE RADIUS ON APPEALS. YES. CALL UP COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PROAM LOPEZ VIRO AYE. MAYOR WU AYE. AND, UH, MOTION APPROVE. FIVE ZERO. I WANNA THANK JOANNE. OKAY. AND OUR CONSULTANT. OKAY. AND, UH, I THINK WE MATCH CHARTER FOR WHAT, TWO YEARS ALREADY. OKAY. AND, UH, THANK YOU. FINALLY GET IT DONE. HOPEFULLY APPROVED BY THE STATE. OKAY. AND, UH, AND ANYWAY, AND THANK YOU FOR THE HOW APPRECIATE. OKAY. UH, WE GO TO THE, WE HAVE A 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 PRESENTATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT MATTER THAT IS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, MOTHER MAY I OKAY. SOME COUNCIL REQUEST. SO LET'S [CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE ] GO TO THE NUMBER 10, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATE AND THE PRESENTATION AND OUR, UH, OKAY. PUBLIC HEALTH, UH, THE DR. BASIL IS AROUND. [02:25:01] OH, RIGHT THERE. GO AHEAD. UH, GOOD . YES, GO AHEAD. CITY MANAGER. SO I'LL GET THE PRESENTATION STARTED, AND THEN I WILL TURN IT OVER TO OUR, UH, HEALTH DIRECTOR, DR. BASIL. UM, SO JUST, THIS IS JUST TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE WITH, UM, THE CREATION OF A, UH, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR WEST COVINA, UM, IN 2000, UH, AND ONE STAFF CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO ESTABLISH A WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UM, IN APRIL OF THAT YEAR, THE PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR OFFICER WAS ADDED, UM, AS A POSITION TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE. UM, SO WE MADE VARIOUS CHANGES TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE THAT YEAR, NOT ONLY FOR THE POSITIONS, BUT ALSO TO INCLUDE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, CODE OR ESTABLISH IT IN OUR MUNICIPAL CODE. UM, AND THEN IN MAY OF 2021, UM, THE WEST COVINA, UH, SUBMITTED TO THIS STATE THE OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY, UM, TO THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. UM, AND THAT WAS A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE INTENDED FOR OUR HEALTH TO ESTABLISH OUR WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT. CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, THE CITY CONTINUES TO CONTRACT WITH THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. UM, WE HAVE THE COUNTY WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE WEST COVINA IN ITS CURRENT CAPACITY UNTIL THE, THE CITY'S HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS APPROVED AND ESTABLISHED. UM, THE PROCESS OF SEPARATING FROM THE COUNTY WILL BE A PHASED APPROACH. UM, CURRENTLY THE CITY'S FOCUS IS TO CONTINUE PURSUING STATE, UH, APPROVAL FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UM, AND SINCE MAY OF 2021, THE CITY HAS, UH, CITY STAFF, UM, HAS BEEN MEETING MONTHLY WITH, UM, THE CDPH OR CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT OF THE APPLICATION CERTIFICATION AND REGULATORY PROCESS. UM, SO WHEN WE SUBMITTED TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, OUR, UM, APPLICATION IS THE STATE RESPONDED SAYING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO, UM, REVAMP OR RE UH, UPDATE THE REGULATIONS FOR, UM, ESTABLISHING A HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UM, AND SO THERE'S A PROCESS THAT THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH. AND IN THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, CDBH HAS BEEN WORKING TOWARDS UPDATING THOSE PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO ESTABLISHING A NEW HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES. UM, IN FEBRUARY OF 2024, THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE CONTRACT WITH THE CITY OF LONG BEACH. THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, WE BELIEVE WILL BE, UH, A REQUIREMENT OR INITIAL, UH, UH, BE REQUIRED AS PART OF THE INITIAL APPLICATION, WHICH ALSO WILL REQUIRE A COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT. AND, UH, DR. BASIL WILL GO INTO MORE INFORMATION ON THAT. UH, THE COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, THE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND READINESS PLAN, THE PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICES AGREEMENT, AND POSSIBLY OTHERS. SO SINCE WE SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION, UM, THE CITY HAS BEEN WORKING TOWARDS, UH, MEETING THOSE INITIAL REQUIREMENTS, UM, THAT WE BELIEVE WE WILL NEED WHEN WE, UH, WHEN THE STATE'S READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR APPLICATION. UM, AT PRESENT TIME, WEST COVINA HAS COMPLETED A CITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN WITH A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND READINESS PLAN. WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK ON FINALIZING THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND THE COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. AND THEN I WILL TURN IT OVER TO DR. BASAL. MIKE MIKE'S DOWN. YEAH. YOU HAVE TO REPEAT AGAIN. OH, OKAY. OKAY. YOU WAS, WE STARTED HIM. HELLO. YES. UH, WEST VINER HEALTH, UH, ACCOMPLISHMENT DURING THE LAST, UH, THREE YEARS, ASIDE FROM COLLABORATING WITH CDPH, UH, ON THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UH, ORGANIZING, UM, AT LEAST 18 HEALTH FAIR WITH OVER AT LEAST 2000 PARTICIPANT, UH, WE OFFER, UH, SCREENING FOR ASTHMA, CARDIOVASCULAR RISK, UH, DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, MENTAL HEALTH, OBESITY, OSTEOPOROSIS, AND VISION SCREENING, AND SO FORTH. UH, WE ALSO COLLABORATED WITH, UH, SEVERAL LOCAL HOSPITAL TO PROVIDE AT LEAST, UH, 22 PLUS, UH, CONTINU MEDICAL EDUCATION SESSION FOR THE COMMUNITY PHYSICIAN, NURSES AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. UM, ALSO, WE SECURED SOME, UH, CO, UH, COVID-19 AND FLU VACCINATION AND TESTING FOR THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE, UH, DISTRIBUTED AT LEAST, UH, THREE TO 5,000 HEALTH EDUCATION MATERIAL, BOTH FROM C-D-C-C-D-P-H-N-I-H, AND ALL THE SPECIALTY MEDICAL SOCIETY TO LOCAL CHURCHES, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. WE HAVE CONDUCTED AT LEAST THREE, UM, HEALTH SURVEY WITH OVER 1000 [02:30:01] RESIDENTS PARTICIPATING. UH, AT THE PRESENT, WE GATHER A LOT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH DATA, PERFORM HEALTH, UH, NEED ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOP IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. WE ARE TRYING TO BUILD UP, UH, PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES, CHURCHES, CLINICS, HOSPITALS, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION. WE HAVE DEVELOPED A BUNCH OF, UH, HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM, WHICH WE HOPEFULLY WILL ROLL OUT THIS YEARS. ALSO, ONE THING WITH THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IS ALSO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL NURSES, UH, TRAINING PROGRAM. THE FIRST ONE WE WERE DONE WAS, UH, ABOUT THREE MONTHS AGO. UM, AND YOU ARE WELL RECEIVED, AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE, UH, ESTABLISH THAT PROGRAM WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHICH IS, UH, TAKING CARE ABOUT 10% OF OUR, UH, POPULATIONS. ALSO, THE REGULATION PACKAGE HAS UNDERGO FINAL REVIEW BY THE CDPH LEGAL COUNCIL BEFORE SUBMITTING IT TO THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF CDPH. AND IT WAS APPROVED, UH, IN THE MIDDLE PART OF 2024 FROM THE DIRECTOR APPROVAL. IT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE SECRETARY OF CALIFORNIA. HE AND HUMAN SERVICES AND GOVERNOR NEW SINCE SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR THEIR EXPEDITED APPROVAL AND ALSO WAS APPROVED. UH, AT PRESENT. THE PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATORY, UH, PACKAGE UPDATE IS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE POTENTIAL FUNDING FOR THE LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. UH, CDPH HAS NOT PROVIDE ANY ESTIMATE TIMEFRAME AS TO WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE WILL BE ABLE TO FINALIZE THEIR ANALYSIS AND FUNDING OF THE LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UH, UPON COMPLETION OF THE ANALYSIS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, CDPH WILL PREPARE FOR THE OPENING OF PUBLIC COMMENTS TO UPDATE, UH, ABOUT THE, UH, UPDATE PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION PACKAGE. THE PRESENT, UH, THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE FOR THIS PROJECT IS, UH, ABOUT 598,000. UH, WE HAVE SPENT ABOUT 498, UH, FIVE $501 34 CENTS, AND REMAINING BALANCE OF 99,688 AND 66 CENTS. AND THESE ARE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE INVOICE WE RECEIVED AT, UH, THE LAST, UH, THREE YEARS. UH, THE NEXT STEP, UH, WHEN THE PUBLIC'S COMMENT PERIOD AND AMENDMENTS ARE COMPLETED, THE PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION PACKAGE IN OUR APPLICATION CERTIFICATION AND REGULATORY PROCESS WILL BE FILED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE. UH, UPON FILING WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE, CDPH WILL ESTABLISH A NEW DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UPON, UH, UPON APPROVAL OF THE APPLICATION OF A NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, CDPH WILL GRANT THE LOCAL JURISDICTIONS A SO-CALLED PROVISIONAL STATUS WITH TWO YEARS, UH, PERIOD TO FULLY ESTABLISH A FULL SERVICE THAT WILL MEET THE LOCAL COMMUNITY NEEDS. UH, UPON GRANTING THE PROVISIONAL STATUS AND RECOGNIZED BY THE CDPH, THE NEW LOCAL, UH, HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO START, RECEIVE SOME FUNDING FROM CDPH, UH, FROM THE STATE, AND APPLY FOR AIDS AND GRANT TO SUPPORT THE VARIOUS FUNCTION OF THE LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UH, THE NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL BE EXPECTED TO EVENTUALLY ACCREDITED BY THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACCREDITATION BOARD, UH, FOR ANY ORGANIZATION THAT WAS WISH TO PARTNER WITH US WITH, UH, WESTCO VINEYARD HEALTH, I THINK WE CAN CONTACT THE, UM, CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AT 6 2 6 9 3 9 8 7 4 3. UH, LET'S END THIS. THAT WOULD END OF MY REPORT, AND THANK YOU IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU DR. BEZO AND, UH, UH, UH, CITY COUNCIL. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTION? UM, IF YOU GUYS WANT TO WAIT, I, I WANT TO SAY THIS, YOU KNOW, UH, WE STARTED, UH, 2021. OKAY. AND, UH, WE APPOINT YOU AS OUR HEALTH OFFICER, UH, WITH A VERY, UH, LITTLE BUDGET FOR THESE 3, 4, 4 YEARS ALREADY. AND WE DONE EVERYTHING CDPH WANTED TO DO, AND THEN WE ONCE A MONTH HAVE A MEETING WITH, UH, DR. CHAIRMAN. AND, UH, WE BASICALLY, AND DONE EVERYTHING THE CDPH WANT, AND I THINK I WANT TO THANK YOU. UH, YOU SACRIFICED A LOT OF, DOING A LOT OF, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FOR OUR SCHOOL, ESPECIALLY COVINA VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL. AND, UH, THEY'VE BEEN OKAY USING YOUR SERVICE FOR TR NURSES BECAUSE THEY HAVE ABOUT 15,000 STUDENTS, AND THEY HAVE ABOUT, WHAT, 30 NURSES, AND THEY NEVER BEEN REALLY INTO THE MEDICAL, UH, WITH YOUR MEDICAL BACKGROUND. UH, YOU REALLY TRAIN THEM AND TRY TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN. AND I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING IMPORTANT. AND I KNOW THEY EVEN RECOGNIZE YOU IN THEIR SCHOOL, UH, DISTRICT EVENT. SO I, I WANNA THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, UH, I KNOW, UH, THIS IS A VERY TOUGH ROAD [02:35:01] TO STOP BEING ANYTHING NEW. AND, UH, BUT THE IDEA IS PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF OUR RESIDENT BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN ANOTHER, UH, PANDEMIC GONNA HIT US. AND THAT WE KNOW CURRENTLY YOU HAVE EPIDEMIC IN THE EAST COAST, BUT WE HOPE NOTHING WILL HAPPEN IN OUR AREA. BUT, BUT THE THING IS, UH, I, MY QUESTION WILL BE THIS. OKAY. WE, WE DONE EVERYTHING AND, UH, WE DOING EVERYTHING THEY WANT. UH, AND I THINK WE SET UP ALL THE OKAY. AND THE DETAIL FOR THEM, INCLUDING OUR STRUCTURE, BUT THEY NEED TO GIVE US THE, UH, REQUIREMENTS SO WE CAN TALKING ABOUT THE SO-CALLED BUDGET. AND THE BUDGET WILL, INCLUDING THE STATE FEDERAL GRANT. THE STATE GRANT, JUST LIKE EXACTLY LIKE PASADENA. PASADENA RECEIVED A $20 MILLION. BUT WE KNOW CURRENTLY WE ARE NOT GOING TO FLY RIGHT AWAY. WE HAVE TO CRAWL AND THEN WALK AND LIKE A BABY STEP. SO THE FIRST THING WE NEED TO BE APPROVED, TELL MONTHS THE PROVISIONAL APPROVAL. OKAY. I THINK THAT IS HOW WE WANT TO GET THE PROVISIONAL APPROVAL. MEANING WHAT? INSPECTION. OKAY. INSPECTION FOR RESTAURANT INSPECTION, UH, FOR THE HOSPITAL INSPECTION FOR CAFETERIA, INSPECTION FOR, OKAY. AND, UH, UH, SUPERMARKET, ANYTHING WITH FEW. OKAY. AND INCLUDING THE, A MOTEL HOTEL IS A, IS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF OKAY. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, SOME HOTEL, THEY NEVER BEEN INSPECTED, UH, BY THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THEN THE CITY, WE CAN INSPECT THEM. SO MAKE SURE THEY COMPLY WITH, UH, ORDINANCE AND, UH, AND OKAY. ANOTHER THING. OKAY. BASICALLY, UH, WE OKAY. CAN MORE EFFICIENTLY PROVIDE A SERVICE RATHER THAN CURRENTLY, I THINK THE, THE PROBLEM WE EVERYBODY KNOW. SO, SO, SO I THINK HOW SOON WE CAN GET THIS PROVISIONAL APPROVAL, AND I KNOW DR. CHAIRMAN SAY VERY SOON, BUT, BUT CAN, CAN WE DO THIS? BECAUSE WHEN WE DOING THE INSPECTION, MEANING WHAT? THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY THE COUNTY ANYMORE. THEY PAY THE CITY AND CITY CAN INSPECT NOT ONLY THE HOTEL, MY UNDERSTANDING, A LOT OF SO-CALLED, UH, GROUP HOME. OKAY. THEY SERVICE SIX PERSON IN THEIR HOME. WE HAVE NO JURISDICTION, AND THEY CREATE NUON TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THEY ALLOW THEM TO JUST BUY R AND CITY HAS NO EVEN NO INFORMATION ABOUT THE SETUP. OKAY. AND, UH, THE FACILITY TO SERVE MENTAL HEALTH PEOPLE OR DRUG ADDED PEOPLE, OR, OR DRUG HOUSE OR A SAFE HOME. OKAY. AND HOW WE OKAY. SUPERVISE THEM. THAT'S SUPERVISED BY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. SO THAT'S WHY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT INSPECTION IS SO IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE IN CHECK AND PROTECT OUR, OUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT IS HOW, OKAY. WE NEED THIS INSPECTION. ASAP. DO YOU KNOW ANY TIMELINE? AND, UH, SINCE THIS IS THE SELF-SUFFICIENT, THIS INSPECTION WILL PAY, UH, BY THE SERVICE RENDER, DO YOU HAVE A KIND OF, UH, OKAY. ONE MONTH, TWO MONTHS, AND BASED ON DR. CHAIRMAN CAN GRANT US OKAY. THAT AT LEAST THE PROVISION, NO APPROVAL. GO AHEAD. YEAH. UH, AT THIS TIME, I THINK, UH, WE ARE WORKING WITH, UM, WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY WITH CDPH, AND WE'RE GONNA SEND THEM A LETTER BASICALLY, UH, EXPRESSING OUR POTENTIAL LEGAL RIGHT TO HAVE A, UM, UH, HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, UM, UH, AND MAYBE WE CAN, YOU KNOW, DO A SO-CALLED PHASE IN STARTING NOW UNTIL WE ARE ABLE TO GET THE, UH, APPROVAL FROM CDPH IN TERM OF RECOGNITION, CDPH HAS TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE US IN ORDER TO, UH, PASS ALONG THEIR FUNDING FROM CDC. UH, THE OTHER THING IS ALSO, UM, UH, KEEP IN MIND THAT ACTUALLY, FOR EXAMPLE, THE INSPECTION COMPONENT, UH, IS ACTUALLY SELF-FUNDED. AND IT CAN READILY ESTABLISH WHEN WE TURN AROUND BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE FISCAL YEAR FOR THE COUNTY STARTING JULY 1ST. AND IF WE WANT TO DO ANY INSPECTION, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY START, GIVE THEM NOTICE THAT WE WANT TO TAKE OVER THE INSPECTION PART. UH, AND THAT CAN BE TOTALLY SELF SUPPORTED WHILE WE ARE BUILDING UP THE REST OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS. SO HOPEFULLY WE, THROUGH THE LETTERS FROM OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND US, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, TO TALK TO CDPA, WHETHER THEY WILLING TO LET IT MOVE ON THAT NEXT STEP. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT CDPH IS SO HUGE AND A LOT OF SECTION, LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, VITAL RECORD AND SO FORTH, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO LET IT, UH, ASSESS THE DATA UNTIL WE ARE BEING RECOGNIZED BY CDPH. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE PROBABLY TO NEGOTIATE AS HARD TIMING. UM, AS FAR AS TIMING SO FAR, DR. CDPH HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO, UH, ESTIMATE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S REALLY OUT OF THIS, UH, CDPH UH, JURISDICTION IS REALLY UP TO THE STATE NOW, THE DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCE, UH, AFTER THE DEFENDANT APPROVED, [02:40:01] HOPEFULLY, UH, THIS MONTH WE'RE NOT ABLE TO MEET WITH THE CDPA BECAUSE THAT CHAIRMAN WAS NOT WELL. UH, SO WE'LL BE, UH, POSTPONE OUR MEETING TO, UH, MARCH 12TH, AND HOPEFULLY WE HAVE A BETTER UPDATE. AND IT'S GETTING CLOSE TO THE DEADLINE THAT WE NEED TO GIVE LA COUNTY TO IN TERM OF, UH, TAKING OVER THE INSPECTION FOR JULY 1ST. YEAH. GOT IT. OKAY. I THINK THE PROBLEM IS TO STAY IS SO HUGE. SIMPLY THAT COUNTY, YOU HAVE SO MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY DEPARTMENT AND SO MANY OF DIFFERENT LAYER OF GOVERNMENT, MAYBE WE NEED A DODGE FOR THEM. OKAY. SO HOPEFULLY YOU CAN CLEAN UP AND EVERYTHING WILL BE EFFICIENT AND SAVE TAXPAYERS MONEY. SO MAYBE CITY ATTORNEY CAN TALK ABOUT, OKAY. WHEN YOU CAN. CITY ATTORNEY. THE ATTORNEY. CITY ATTORNEY, OKAY. YEAH. SO THANK, SO WE'VE HAD CONVERSA I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THEIR ATTORNEY, UH, DR. BAZOS HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH, WITH DR. CHAPMAN, UM, ON THE BEST WAY TO APPROACH THIS AND WE'LL, AND WE HAVE IDEAS NOW. WE'LL GET A LETTER OUT TO THEM, PROBABLY YES. END OF NEXT WEEK TO LET THEM KNOW OUR POSITION. AND YES, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY, OUR CITY, UH, TO WRITE A LETTER, OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY. WITH, UH, CTE AND THE CITY ATTORNEY, OKAY? AND, UH, CHECKING EVERYTHING AND MAKE SURE THEY RECEIVE THIS LETTER IN THE PUBLIC CHANNEL, NOT GO INTO THE, THE BLACK HOLE AND INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONE. WE DO MAKE SURE THEY RECEIVE THE REQUEST THAT WE COMPLY WITH WHAT THEY WANT FOR FOUR YEARS ALREADY. I MANY LIVE FOUR YEARS. YOU HAVE, OKAY. AND TO GET THIS VERY EASY THING, OKAY. TO APPROVE JUST A PROVISIONAL APPROVAL, WHY ARE WE TAKING SO LONG? AND BY THE WAY, BASED ON THE CONTRACT, THAT CITY HAVE THE RIGHT TO SET WITH A 50,000 POPULATION CAN SET UP THEIR OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THAT'S PER OUR OKAY. JURISDICTION OF OUR CITY. OKAY. AND, UH, WE JUST COUNTER OUT TO COUNTY, AND THE COUNTY DON'T DO THE JOB. WE LIKE, WE CAN TAKE IT BACK AND WE WILL GET THE FUNDING FROM THE STATE AND FEDERAL LIKE PASADENA. AND WE ARE MORE THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND POPULATION WHY WE ARE TAKING SO LONG. SO I THINK THIS IS, UH, SOMETHING, UH, YOU NEED TO HURRY UP TO WRITE A LETTER WITH DR. BASO, AND MAYBE I CAN SIGN THE LETTER AS A MAYOR OKAY. TO REQUEST THEN. OKAY. BECAUSE PEOPLE'S LIVES IS IN DANGER WITH ALL THIS VIRUS GOING ON. WE NEED TO HURRY UP OKAY. TO MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC HEALTH OKAY. IS, IS IMPLEMENT TO OUR COMMUNITY AND OTHER CITY COUNCIL ONES WHO SAID, OKAY. UH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, GO AHEAD. YES. WHEN YOU SAY WE'RE, UH, LA COUNTY NEEDS NOTIFICATION, WHEN? BY JULY? WELL, THE FISCAL YEAR START JULY 1ST. AND WHAT, WHAT NOTIFICATION, WHAT NOTIFICATION ARE THEY LOOKING FOR? I'M, I'M SORRY, REPEAT. UH, WHAT TYPE OF NOTIFICATION ARE THEY LOOKING FOR? I THINK THEY NEED A NOTIFICATION WHETHER WE WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THE, UH, FOR, FOR THE SERVICE. BUT IF WE WANT TO TAKE OVER, WE HAVE TO, I THINK, HAVE TO GIVE THEM NOTICE BY MAY BECAUSE THAT'S THE TIME WHEN THEY HAVE TO SEND OUT THEIR, UM, NOTICE TO THE LOCAL BUSINESSES AND SO FORTH FOR THEIR LICENSING AND PERMIT FEE AND SO FORTH. SO THE, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE LOOK INTO WHAT, HOW CITY OF VERNON IS ABLE TO DO THEIR, UH, INSPECTIONS? NO, NOT OKAY. UM, . OKAY. UM, SO I THINK, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE, UH, I THINK WE'RE RUNNING OUTTA MONEY HERE. SO THERE'S $98,391 LEFT. SO WHAT'S, UH, THE CITY'S PROPOSITION OR PROPOSAL AND HOW TO GET MORE FUNDING FOR THIS IF, FOR THIS DEPARTMENT, IF IT, IF, IF THE COUNCIL WANTS THIS TO CONTINUE, UM, WHAT'S PROPOSITION HERE? HEY, WE ARE REALLY WORKING FOUR YEARS NOT GOING TO GIVE UP. OKAY. WE GOING TO, WE'RE ALMOST THERE. WE ON THE, ON THE OKAY. ON THE PICK. OKAY. AND A COUPLE STEP, WE ARE ON THE TOP. SO WE ARE GOING TO GIVE OUR PROFESSIONAL APPROVAL MM-HMM . OKAY? WE ARE NOT GOING LET THEM PLAY US. WE WORK WITH THEM FOR FOUR YEARS, SPEND MONEY, SPEND TIME, SPEND EFFORT, AND WE JUST GOTTA PLAY AND NOT GONNA HAPPEN. OKAY? SO WE ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE, OKAY, WE ARE GONNA GET WHAT WE GET. OUR ENTITLEMENT IS OUR RIGHT. OKAY. WE'RE NOT HERE ASKING FOR SOME SOMETHING LEFTOVER OR, OR, OKAY. MERCY, WE ASKING FOR OUR RIGHT TO PROTECT OUR RESIDENT MM-HMM . PERIOD. SO, SO LET'S GET THIS THING DONE, AND WE STILL HAVE 90 SOME THOUSAND DOLLARS. YEAH. OKAY. AND, AND WE, WE, AND IF BE CAREFULLY USING THE MONEY, OKAY. AND THEN WE WANT TO GET THIS THING DONE. AND ANOTHER THING, IF GOD FORBID, WE CAN GET A GRANT OR SOMETHING, OKAY? SO WE CAN CONTINUE, INJECT INTO IT. BUT CURRENTLY, I, I PREFER, LET'S GET IT WORK. OKAY? GET IT DONE. SO IN THAT WAY, WE CAN RECEIVE THE FUNDING OR RECEIVE THE INSPECTION. OKAY. FEE. AND THEN WE CAN SELF SUSTAIN. UH, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD. YEAH. SO HOW [02:45:01] MUCH, SO HOW, WHEN IS THIS, WHEN IS THIS FISCAL? SO FISCAL YEAR ENDS, WHAT? IN JUNE. SO THE AMOUNT IS BASED ON THE CONTRACT AND NOT ON A FISCAL, UH, BUDGET. OKAY. SO HOW MUCH IS THE CONTRACT, THE TOTAL, SORRY, LET ME PULL IT UP YEARLY. SO THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT HAS BEEN BUDGETED OR ALLOCATED FOR THE CONTRACT IS 598,190. UM, THAT'S NOT, UH, THAT MONEY DOES NOT EXPIRE OR GO AWAY AFTER THE CALENDAR YEAR. IT'S BASED ON THE CONTRACT. SO AS LONG AS THERE'S FUNDING IN THE CONTRACT FUNDING, NO, BUT HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH IS A YEARLY? THEY'RE SUBMITTING INVOICES. WE HAVE $98,000. SO IF WE'RE GONNA RUN OUT MONEY, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA, ARE WE GONNA TELL US THIS AFTER THE FACT, OR WE'RE GONNA FIGURE IT OUT NOW? NO, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT. . SO YOU'RE ASKING TO BE NOTIFIED OBVIOUSLY BEFORE, HOW, YEAH. HOW MUCH IS OUR, HOW MUCH IS OUR OBLIGATION YEARLY FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT? SO I COULD FIGURE OUT IF $98,000 IS ENOUGH TO COVER THIS DEPARTMENT. UM, MONTHLY INVOICES HAVE RANGE BETWEEN, UM, THREE TO 5,000. WHY IS THERE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN RANGE? WHAT DOES THE RANGE MEAN? UM, EACH, DEPENDING ON THE WORK THAT IS BEING DONE, WE GET INVOICED FOR THAT. SO IF THERE'S ONE MONTH THAT REQUIRES MORE HOURS, IT'S A, IT'S BEING PAID BY HOURLY SERVICES. CORRECT. SO IN ONE YEAR, SO, SO ROUGHLY HOW MUCH I MEAN, IS, SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IF $98,000 IS ENOUGH. UH, OKAY, LET ME, LET ME OWN THIS. OKAY. UH, I, I KNOW, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER , JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH FUNDING SO WE CAN ACHIEVE THE GOAL. SO WE DON'T WANT TO, LIKE, WE ALMOST THERE, BUT WE WANT ALL THE MONEY. BUT I, BUT I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION REGARDING WHERE THE MONEY SPENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE EVENT AND THEY HAVE A HOUSE, OKAY. AND COMING OUT WITH A BUNCH OF VOLUNTEER WITH THIS AND THAT, AND, UH, WITH JOSE, ONE OF THE STAFF, AND THAT COST MONEY. AND THEN WHEN WE HAVE MOON FESTIVAL, WE HAVE THEN TO COME OUT AND TO DO THE OUTREACH, OKAY? AND, UH, SPRING FESTIVAL, WE HAVE THEN TO COME OUT WITH OUTREACH AND, UH, WE HAVE, WE HAVE EVENT, IT COSTS MONEY OKAY. AND FOR PEOPLE TO DO, OKAY. AND EVEN WE HAVE A LOT OF INTERNSHIP, VOLUNTEER RESIDENCY FROM ALL YOUR CONNECTION, BUT SOME OF THE TABLE OKAY. THING WE, THEY RENT, IT COSTS MONEY. OKAY? AND JUST LIKE, SO, SO, OKAY, IF WE WANT MONEY, WE JUST ASK FOR DONATION, SO TO MAKE SURE THIS THING WILL CONTINUE, OKAY? WE WANT TO GET THIS THING DONE. AND, UH, AND I KNOW YOU, YOU SACRIFICE A LOT FOR YOUR CAREER. JUST HELP US TO GET THIS THING EARLY BECAUSE 3, 4, 3 3 $4,000 A MONTH, AND, UH, IT BASICALLY OUR HEALTH, HEALTH OFFICE DO IT FOR FREE. SO ANYWAY, AND THEN, BUT WE NEED TO FIND OUT A WAY WE DON'T RUN OUT THE, THE FUNDING FOR, UH, COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOR DO SOME OF THE SERVICE FOR OUR SCHOOL OKAY. AND NURSES, THIS AND THAT. OKAY. SO GO AHEAD, CONTINUE. YEAH. SO, UH, SO, SO BOTH EMPLOYEES FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ARE, ARE PAID HOURLY, THEN , MICROPHONE, UM, ALL OF THE INDIVIDUALS WORKING ON THIS PROJECT OR THROUGH THIS CONTRACT ARE HOURLY. SO WHAT PLAN DO YOU HAVE IN PLACE IF YOU RUN OUR MONEY? HOW WOULD YOU PUT MORE MONEY IN THERE? WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT OTHER FUNDING OPTIONS. AND WOULD THAT REQUIRE, AND WE WOULD ALSO COUNCIL'S APPROVAL? YES. WE WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK AND DO AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT. OKAY. MR. MAYOR, GO AHEAD. UH, COUNCIL MAN, ALI, THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, UH, PAULINA, HOW MUCH HAS BEEN SPENT IN TOTAL, THUS FAR IN, IN, IN DEDICATION TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN THESE RELATED EFFORTS? NOT JUST INCLUDING THIS CONTRACT OF 598,000, BUT WHERE JUST FROM THE TIME THIS STARTED, IS, IS 5 9590 8,000 THE UNIVERSE? OR DID WE SPEND MORE, UH, UNDER OTHER CONTRACTS? UM, NO, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT SPECIFICALLY OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, IT'S 598,190. THANK YOU. SO THIS IS FROM 2021 TIER NOW, AND THESE ARE ARPA FUNDS, SO FOR FOUR YEARS. OKAY. WE OKAY. UH, OR ANYTHING? YEAH, GO AHEAD. YEAH. SO MY CONCERN IS, IS THAT, UM, WE NEED SOME SORT OF ACTION PLAN HERE. SO THE LAW'S, THE LAW. [02:50:01] SO IF, IF IT'S SAYING ONE THING IN THE LAW, THEN WHY ARE WE NOT ENFORCING THE LAW? WE'RE JUST, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA BE WASTING MONEY ON AN ENDEAVOR THAT WILL NEVER BECOME POSSIBLE IF WE'RE NOT ENFORCING THE LAW AND HOW THE LAW IS WRITTEN TODAY. SO WE CAN'T JUST CONTINUE TO SPEND MONEY AND, AND HAVE, HAVE NO ACTION PLAN AS A RESOLUTION, IS MY CONCERN. SO, UH, SOMEONE'S GONNA HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION AND AN ACTION PLAN, UH, TO BE, TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO THIS CONSOLE. AND HOW, IF THESE GOALS ARE GONNA BE MET, HOW ARE WE GONNA DO THAT? AND, AND WHAT THE CURRENT LAW SAYS IN THE STATE'S CURRENT LAW ON THE CITY'S RIGHT, UH, TO DO ITS OWN PERMITTING OR NOT DO ITS OWN PERMITTING. AND BASED UPON WHAT THE LAW SAYS, UH, I IS HOW WE MAKE CONCLUSIONS HERE. BUT IF, IF WE DON'T KNOW THAT, THEN WE, WE CAN'T GET NOWHERE. SO WE'RE GOING BACK, WE'RE GOING BACK AND FORTH ON NOT PROGRESSING. AND SO, UH, LIKE MAYOR W SAYS HE IS, THIS HAS BEEN HOW MANY YEARS NOW? FOUR YEARS. FOUR YEARS. SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE LAW AND SEE WHAT THE LAW SAYS, AND, AND THEN BRIEF THIS COUNCIL BACK WITH THE PUBLIC BEING PART OF IT, AND, AND, AND LET THE PUBLIC KNOW AND, AND US KNOW. SO WE, UH, MAKE SURE THAT WE SPEND MONEY EFFICIENTLY FOR THE, FOR THE TAXPAYERS. OKAY. UH, GOOD. OKAY. THE FOUR YEARS, INCLUDING 20 21, 20 22, MY ELECTION THAT WE RECALL LAST YEAR IS OLD, BUT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, AND I'M STILL HERE, SO MEANING WHAT THE RESIDENT WANTED, OKAY. THEY WANT THE PUBLIC HEALTH TO PROTECT THEM. SO ANYWAY, OKAY. AND, UH, MAYOR POTENT LOPEZ. OKAY. LOPEZ VIDO. UM, THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, YES. TO FULFILL BOTH SIDES, UH, WITH THE REMAINING BALANCE LEFT, I BELIEVE, UH, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ WOULD LIKE FOR US TO SEE WHAT IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HOW THAT FUNDING IS GONNA BE USED, WHAT IS THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, UH, REQUIRES? AND WE THANK YOU FOR HAVING THESE, UM, HEALTH FAIRS. UM, BUT IF, IF THERE'S A CERTAIN LIMIT, BECAUSE IF, IF WE ONLY NEED TO HAVE TWO PER YEAR, THEN WHY WASTE THE MONEY AND HAVE 10, YOU KNOW? UM, SO IF WE COULD JUST POSSIBLY HAVE SOMETHING SO THAT WE KNOW THAT THIS FUNDS WON'T RUN OUT AND THAT IT'S PROPERLY BEING USED AND SET OF WHATEVER THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT IS, SO IT MAYBE THAT WILL FULFILL YOUR, UM, REQUEST IN MAKING SURE THAT THESE FUNDS WILL BE UTILIZED AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT FUND WILL LAST US MAYBE A YEAR, A YEAR AND A HALF, OR, YOU KNOW, THAT IT DOESN'T RUN OUT IN SIX MONTHS. SO IF MAYBE WE CAN REQUEST THAT. GOOD POINT. OKAY. I THINK, SO RIGHT NOW IS WE JUST NEED THE STATE TO GIVE US APPROVAL, OKAY? SO WE CAN RUN OUR INSPECTION, AND THEN WE CAN COLLECT FEET, COLLECT FEES, OKAY. AND THE OTHER CITY COUNCIL WANT TO TALK. OKAY? OTHERWISE, OKAY. ANY BRIAN? MATT, I'LL JUST SAY THAT I THINK A, ACCORDING TO SOME RESEARCH I DID, I THINK CERTAIN, THE CITY OF VERNON DOES NOT HAVE, UH, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, PUBLIC AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROVAL, RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT. THEY DO, UM, UH, HEALTH INSPECTIONS. SO THEY HAVE A, AN AGREEMENT WITH, UM, LOS ANGELES COUNTY HEALTH, RIGHT? YES, I THINK SO, YES. YEAH, ACCORDING TO CITY OF VERNON, YES. THEY SOMEHOW, BACK IN THE EIGHTIES, THEY WORKED OUT SOME ARRANGEMENT WITH LA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO DEDICATE THAT AUTHORITY. BUT AS FAR AS CDPH IS CONCERNED, THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE THEM AT ALL. SO THEY DON'T RECEIVE ANY FUNDING, BUT THEY, THEIR POPULATION IS ONLY LIKE COUPLE THOUSAND PEOPLE. SO, UH, THEY ACTUALLY HAS MORE WORKER IN THE CITY, SO THEY HAVE A LOT OF TAX DOLLAR ACTUALLY SUPPORTING ALL THE WORKERS WORKING IN THE CITY OF VERNON. SO FINANCE IS NOT ISSUE FOR THEM. BUT SO FAR, I DID KNOW HOW CDPH GONNA RESOLVE THAT ISSUE THAT THEY TECHNICALLY DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY FOR HEALTHCARE HEALTH INSPECTION. OH, THEY, THEY'VE BEEN, THEY'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR YEARS. YEAH. SO MY POINT IS, IS THAT IF WE'RE GONNA, ARE WE GONNA MAKE MONEY HERE OR NOT MAKE MONEY HERE? SO WE NEED TO START TAKING, WE NEED TO HAVE AN ACTION PLAN. SO, YEAH. UM, GOT IT. OKAY. I THINK THE POINT IS, WE, IF WE CAN HAVE OUR PROVISIONAL APPROVAL FOR INSPECTION, THERE IS MONEY COMING IN TO SUPPORT OKAY. OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT AT 12 MONTHS, AND AFTER THAT, WITH 24 MONTHS WITH MEDICAL AND LET, THERE WILL BE, THEY CAN, THE STATE CAN TAKE THEIR TIME TO GIVE A FUNDING IN THE MEDICAL, BUT ON THE PROVISIONAL APPROVAL, UH, INSPECTION, WE DON'T. OKAY. IT IS SELF-SUFFICIENT, IS TO PAY FOR ITSELF. OKAY. UH, OTHER THAN THAT, LET'S MOVE ON. OKAY. CAN WE MOVE ON? IS OKAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND CAN WE MOVE ON? OKAY. BUT I THINK I CAN SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF TUNNEL. OKAY. I'M MORE OPTIMISTIC. OKAY. I THINK WE FIGHTING FOR FOUR YEARS. I THINK [02:55:01] CITY MANAGER HAVE THE SAME CONFIDENCE. OKAY. I THINK CITY COUNCIL THE SAME THING TOO. AND I WANT TO THANK DR. BEZO TO CONTINUE TO THE SERVICE, ALMOST LIKE A VOLUNTEER LIKE US. OKAY. BUT APPRECIATE YOU HELPING US AND LET'S GET THIS THING HAPPEN. AND THE CITY ATTORNEY? CITY ATTORNEY, CITY ATTORNEY, OKAY. WOULD YOU PLEASE OKAY. HAVE, UH, UH, OKAY. ATTORNEY LETTER. OKAY. IF YOU NEED ME TO SIGN OKAY. MAYBE EVEN FILE CITY COUNCIL. OKAY. WE WANT THE CITY TO, TO STATE TO TELL US OKAY. WHEN IT IS THE END. OKAY. AND THE FOUR YEARS IS LONG ENOUGH. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. MR. MAYOR AHEAD. I OPPOSE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. DO NOT PUT MY NAME ON THAT LETTER, PLEASE. OKAY. IT'S FINE. IT'S FINE. IT'S FINE. OKAY. AND SO WE, WE AT LEAST WE HAVE A THREE OR FOUR VOTE OKAY. WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. OKAY. OKAY. AND NOW WE MOVE TO, UH, NEXT, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. SO JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, UH, WE'RE NOT HERE, I'M NOT HERE TODAY TO SAY WE'RE VOTING ON A HEALTH DEPARTMENT. WHAT, WHAT I'M SAYING IS WE NEED AN EXTRA PLAN TO MAKE MONEY. IF WE'RE NOT MAKING MONEY, THEN WE NEED A SOLUTION. SO I, I AM, UH, SAYING A SOLUTION IS NEEDED. AND, AND I THINK IT'S GONNA COME FROM OUR, OUR, UH, CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. SO IF ANYTHING, UM, WE, WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON. YEAH. OKAY. VERY GOOD. OKAY. SINCE, UH, THIS IS, UH, SO APPROVED OKAY. PRO PROJECT TO SET UP THIS, UH, HEALTH DEPARTMENT. OKAY? SO WE ARE CONTINUE TO DO IT UNLESS WE HAVE NEXT VOTE REGARDING WHAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE OR NOT. OTHER THAN THAT, CURRENTLY, UH, WE ARE GOING TO SET UP OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT. OKAY? UH, WE ARE MOVING TO NUMBER 11, UH, PRESENTATION, THE CITY WEST COVINA CURRENT EMERGENCY OPERATION PLAN. UM, SO WHO IS GOING TO PRESENT THIS? UM, OUR, UH, CHIEF, UH, CORINA AND CHIEF BROWN WILL BE PROVIDING, UH, SORRY, PRESENTATION. IT'S 10 O'CLOCK ALREADY, SO LET'S GO. WE TALK TOO MUCH. YOU'RE GONNA SIT THERE HERE? OR DO YOU WANNA SIT HERE? YEAH, LET'S GO AHEAD. OKAY. UM, GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. UH, CHIEF BROWN AND I, UH, WANTED TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF, UH, OVERVIEW OF OUR CITY'S EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, AS WELL AS, UH, TALK ABOUT THE RECENT ACTIVATION WE HAD WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THIS PLAN. UM, I'LL BE HANDLING THE PORTION COVERING OUR CURRENT PLAN AND JUST GIVING A VERY BRIEF, UH, EXPLANATION OF IT. AND THEN CHIEF BROWN WILL HANDLE THE RECENT ACTIVATION. SO THE, THE PURPOSE OF, UH, THE PRESENTATION IS OBVIOUSLY TO BRIEF THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE, THE CONTENTS OF THE UPDATED EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN. THAT WAS COMPLETED IN 2023. AND BRIEFLY DISCUSS THE RECENT EOC ACTIVATION AND WHY WE UPDATED THE PLAN IS IT HADN'T BEEN UPDATED IN QUITE SOME TIME. UM, WE NEED TO INCORPORATE NEW LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS, INCORPORATE BEST PRACTICES, ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH CALIFORNIA OFFICES, EMERGENCY SERVICES, AND US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY GUIDELINES, AND, UH, CONSISTENCY WITH PLANS OF NEIGHBORING CITIES. SO ALL THE, THE, UH, DISASTER AREA MANAGEMENT ZONES ALL USE UTILIZE THE SAME TEMPLATE TO ENSURE THAT THE COMMUNICATION BACK AND FORTH, UH, BETWEEN THE LOCAL AGENCIES AND THE STATE IS CONSISTENT. THE PURPOSE OF THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, UM, IS TO PROVIDE THE PLANNING BASIS FOR COORDINATED RESPONSE TO EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY SITUATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH NATURAL AND HUMAN CAUSE EMERGENCIES OR DISASTERS WITHIN OR AFFECTING OUR CITY. AND WHO WILL USE THE PLAN? CITY MANAGEMENT, CITY FIRST RESPONDERS, CITY SUPPORT DEPARTMENTS, AND EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS PARTIC PARTICIPATING IN A RESPONSE. THE OPERATIONAL GOALS ARE TO MITIGATE HAZARDS, MEET BASIC HUMAN NEEDS, ADDRESS NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH, UH, ACCESS AND FUNCTIONAL NEEDS, RESTORE ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND SUPPORT COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY. OUR OPERATIONAL PRIORITIES WITH THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN IS TO SAVE LIVES, PROTECT HEALTH AND SAFETY, PROTECT PROPERTY, AND PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT ELSE. NOW, AS FAR AS PLAN ACTIVATION, THE CITY'S EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN MAY BE ACTIVATED BY THE CITY MANAGER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES, FIRE CHIEF, POLICE CHIEF, OR DESIGNATED ALTERNATIVES UNDER ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CIRCUMSTANCES. AND THOSE ARE BY ORDER OF THE CITY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE FOR THE WEST COVIN MUNICIPAL CODE, CHAPTER EIGHT, SECTION 8.7, WHICH COVERS EMERGENCY POWERS [03:00:02] PRONG UPON, UH, PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR THAT A STATE OF EMERGENCY EXISTS AUTOMATICALLY ON THE PROCLAMATION OF A STATE OF WAR EMERGENCY UPON DECLARATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE EXISTENCE OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY, AND AUTOMATICALLY IN A RECEIPT OF AN ATTACK, WARNING, OR ACTUAL ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES, OR UPON OCCURRENCE OF A CATASTROPHIC DISASTER THAT REQUIRES IMMEDIATE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE. AND THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF EMERGENCY PROCLAMATIONS IN CALIFORNIA. THEY'RE A LOCAL EMERGENCY, A STATE EMERGENCY, AND A STATE OF WAR EMERGENCY. A LOCAL EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION MUST BE ISSUED WITHIN 10 DAYS OF THE ACTUAL OCCURRENCE OF A DISASTER, AND IT MUST BE RATIFIED BY THE CITY COUNCIL WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF THAT PROCLAMATION. CITY COUNCIL MUST REVIEW THE NEED TO CONTINUE EVERY 30 DAYS UNTIL THE LOCAL, UH, PROCLAMATION HAS BEEN ENDED AS FAR AS THE PLANNING PROCESS FOR OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN. THE PLANNING INITIATED IN OCTOBER OF 2022. UH, PLAN DEVELOPMENT WAS GUIDED BY A PLANNING TEAM OF REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE CITY DEPARTMENTS, UH, BASED ON STANDARD TEMPLATE TEMPLATES DEVELOPED BY DISASTER MANAGEMENT AREAS, C, D AND E, AND THE DRAFT DISTRIBUTED TO EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT. BEFORE THE FINAL DRAFT WAS COMPLETED, UH, THE EXTERNAL AGENCIES PROVIDE WERE, THAT WERE PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW OR COMMENT WERE THE AMERICAN RED CROSS ATHENS WASTE SERVICES, EMANATE HEALTH, FOOTHILL TRANSIT, SOCAL GAS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, EDISON ACCESS TRANSIT, AND THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT RED COORDINATOR. THE ELEMENTS OF OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN ARE PART ONE, THE OVERALL FRAMEWORK FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE, PART TWO, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER OPERATIONS. AND WE ADDITIONALLY HAD THE ANNEXES, WHICH PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DETAIL FOR RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC HAZARDS AND THE APPENDICES WITH JUST SUPPORTING INFORMATION. THE EOP PART ONE CONTAINS SITUATION ASSUMPTIONS, STANDARDIZED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, OR SIMS CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS ORGANIZATION AND ASSIGNMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES AMONGST CITY DEPARTMENTS, AS WELL AS EXTERNAL AGENCIES AND EOT. THE, THE EMERGENCY OPERATION PLAN PART TWO CONTAINS THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER ACTIVATION, THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER ORGANIZATION, THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER OPERATIONS AND TRAINING AND EXERCISES. THE ANNEXES THAT WERE COMPLETED ON THIS PROJECT WERE FOR SEVERE WEATHER, EARTHQUAKE, CRIMINAL SLASH TERRORIST ACTS, PANDEMIC SLASH HEALTH EMERGENCY AND WILDFIRE. AND THE APPENDICES CONTAINED A QUICK START GUIDE, RESOURCE REQUEST GUIDE, INFORMATION COLLECTING AND DISSEMINATION, DISSEMINATION GLOSSARY, AND AUTHORITIES AND REFERENCES. AS FAR AS, UH, FUTURE EMERGENCY PLANNING, UM, THE CITY WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN A GRANT FOR FULL FUNDING FOR A LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, AND I BELIEVE THAT WILL BE GOING TO RFP IN THE NEAR FUTURE. AND WE SHOULD ALSO EVENTUALLY LOOK AT ADDITIONAL EOP ANNEXES TO ADD TO THIS PLAN, WHICH COULD BE NOTIFICATION AND WARNING EVACUATION, CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT AND MASS CARE. WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO, UH, TURN IT OVER TO CHIEF BROWN TO TALK ABOUT OUR RECENT ACTIVATION AND PROCLAMATION. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. UH, IF WE CAN GET TO THE, UH, LOCAL EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION TIMELINE. I'M GONNA GO OVER, UM, OUR ACTIVATION, GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE HAD OUR RECENT WIND EVENT AND OUR LOCAL PROCLAMATION ON JANUARY 7TH, 2025 AT APPROXIMATELY NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. UH, CITY MANAGER, UH, PAULINA MORALES, MYSELF AND TONY CORINA, UH, DISCUSSED THE OPTIONS OF WHETHER WE NEEDED TO OPEN THE EOC AT THAT TIME. [03:05:01] UM, WHAT OUR PLAN WAS MOVING FORWARD THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND KIND OF WHAT OUR TRIGGER POINTS WERE, UM, AT 1500 HOURS, UH, VERDUGO DISPATCH, WHICH DISPATCHES, UH, OUR FIRE RESOURCES INITIATED WHAT THEY CALL EMERGENCY MODE, UH, TO LEVEL B, WHICH IS STILL NO CHANGE TO WEST COVINA SITUATION. WHAT LEVEL B MEANS THAT THE VERDUGO DISPATCH CENTER MEANS THEY'RE RECEIVING HIGH VOLUMES OF INCIDENT CALLS. ALL CALLS MAY BE DOWNGRADED, UH, TO A DIFFERENT RESPONSE THAN NORMAL. UH, REGARDLESS OF THE NATURE OR TYPE OF INCIDENT, UH, VERDUGO CONTINUES THE DISPATCHING AND EO EOCS MAY BE ACTIVATED AT THAT POINT. UM, AT 18, 18 HOURS, THE EATON FIRE, UH, STARTED IN ALTADENA AT 1900 HOURS. WEATHER RELATED CALLS BEGINNING, UH, BEGIN TO INCREASE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. UH, WE HAVE TO SKIP A COUPLE SLIDES THERE 'CAUSE THEY'RE, UH, DUPLICATES. UM, THEN, UH, AT 1915 HOURS, VERDUGO DISPATCH MOVED TO LEVEL C. UM, LEVEL C IS A POINT WHERE, UM, LEMME GET TO IT HERE. UM, LEVEL C IS A POINT WHERE VERDUGO DISPATCH GOT TO THE POINT WHERE THEY WERE OVERWHELMED WITH CALLS. UM, AND THEN WHAT THEY DO IS THEY MOVE THE, UM, DISPATCHING, THEY JUST GIVE YOU THE BASIC EMERGENCY INFORMATION, AND THEN THE BATTALION CHIEFS IN EACH CITY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DISPATCHING THEIR OWN RESOURCES OUT. UM, THAT WAS PART OF THE, UM, POINT THAT GOT US TO START THINKING THAT WE NEEDED TO MOVE IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION WITH THE INCREASED CALLS FOR SERVICE WITHIN OUR CITY. AND THE FACT THAT, UH, VERDUGO GOT TO LEVEL C, WHICH IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THAT DISPATCH CENTER, THAT THEY MOVED THAT FAR DOWN IN THEIR PROCESS. UM, AT 1945 HOURS, UH, CITY MANAGER, UH, MYSELF AND CHIEF CORINA DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD OPEN THE EOC AT LEVEL THREE. AND MIND YOU, THIS WAS ALL HAPPENING DURING CHIEF CORINA'S SWEARING IN CEREMONY. UM, UH, PAULINA AND MYSELF WERE TEXTING BACK AND FORTH DURING THE CEREMONY, UH, WHILE TONY WAS GETTING SWORN IN. SO, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME. UM, AND THIS WAS CALLED DUE TO THE, UH, AT THIS POINT, UM, FIRE CODE ENFORCEMENT AND THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT ALL CALLED IN ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO COME IN AND HELP, UH, MITIGATE THE SITUATIONS. UM, THIS SLIDE HERE, UM, SHOWS YOU THE THREE LEVELS OF ACTIVATION. I KNOW IT'S SMALL AND HARD TO READ, BUT BASICALLY TO GO OVER, UH, LEVEL THREE IS THE LOWEST LEVEL OF ACTIVATION. UH, REASONS FOR ACTIVATING OUR WEATHER. WEATHER ALERTS INVOLVING TWO OR MORE DEPARTMENTS, POWER OUTAGES TO NAME A FEW, UM, ALL OF WHICH WERE CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN THE CITY. UM, THIS REQUIRES A MINIMUM STAFFING LEVEL OF THE EOC DIRECTOR, OTHER SECTION COORDINATORS AS NEEDED. UM, TO GO OVER THE TIMELINE OF IT, UM, ON JANUARY 8TH, UH, THE LOCAL EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION WAS DECLARED BY THE CITY MANAGER. THAT WAS THE DAY AFTER THE EVENT HAPPENED. AND, UH, JUST TO REMIND YOU AGAIN, WE HAVE 10 DAYS FROM THE TIME THE EVENT STARTED TO DECLARE A LOCAL EMERGENCY. ON JANUARY 14TH, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL RATIFIED THIS PRO PROCLAMATION, UH, AGAIN, WITHIN THE SEVEN DAYS THAT'S REQUIRED. AND THEN ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 2025, THE LOCAL EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION WAS TERMINATED BY THE CITY COUNCIL. UM, JUST TO COMPARE WHAT OUR ACTIVATION WAS COMPARED TO OTHER CITIES, UH, NEARBY. UH, MIND YOU THAT WEST COVINA IS APPROXIMATELY 18 MILES AWAY FROM THE START OF WHERE THE EATON FIRE WAS. UM, UM, LET'S SEE, UH, GLENDALE, THEY'RE APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES AWAY. THEY MOVED TO LEVEL ONE ON TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, DOWNGRADED IT TO LEVEL TWO ON FRIDAY. AND THEN LEVEL THREE ON SATURDAY SOUTH PASADENA, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY 8.4 MILES AWAY, THEY WENT TO LEVEL TWO SHORTLY AFTER THE START OF THE EATON FIRE. AND THEN BY SUNDAY WE'RE BACK TO LEVEL THREE. UM, ALHAMBRA, APPROXIMATELY 9.8 MILES AWAY, WENT TO LEVEL TWO SHORTLY AFTER THE START AND BACK TO LEVEL THREE ON FRIDAY. [03:10:02] UH, TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE CITIES THAT ARE, WERE RELATIVELY THE SAME AS WHAT WE, OUR ACTIVATION WAS, UH, MONTEREY PARK IN ARCADIA, APPROXIMATELY 12 MILES AWAY. THEY WERE AT LEVEL THREE, UH, BURBANK, ROUGHLY THE SAME DISTANCE AS WEST COVINA IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE EATON FIRE LOCATION. UH, THEY WERE AT LEVEL THREE, AND THEN LAVERNE ARE, UM, CITY TO THE EAST OF US ALSO ACTIVATED TO LEVEL THREE. UM, IN MY OPINION, I THINK THAT OUR EOC ACTIVATION WAS IN LINE AND CONSISTENT WITH THE OTHER CITIES AFFECTED BY THE EATON FIRE. AND AT THIS POINT, UH, CHIEF CORINA AND I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU CHIEF. OKAY. AND, UH, UH, IS THAT WHY YOU REQUEST, OKAY. FOR THE EMERGENCY OPERATION PLAN, I THINK WE SHOULD WANT TO SET UP SOME KIND OF EMERGENCY PLAN RATHER THAN TALK ABOUT WHY YOU HAVE YEAH. NOT THE SECOND PART, BUT IT'S FINE. WE LOST, NOW WE KNOW , SO, SO YEAH. SO WE, WE JUST WANT TO, THE CITY HAVE EMERGENCY PLAN. OKAY. THE POLICE, FIRE AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH. OKAY. SEE, BECAUSE WHEN THING HAPPEN, YOU NEED ME, YOU NEED MEDICAL. OKAY. WE NEED A OKAY. MAYBE, UH, QUEENSLAND VALLEY OR IN THE COMMUNITY OR HOSPITAL WITH A DOCTOR, THIS AND THAT TO HAVE A TREATMENT. SO, SO I THINK THIS IS ALL CONNECTED TOGETHER WITHOUT THE MEDICAL, HOW YOU SERVE THE PEOPLE WHEN, WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR AMBULANCE OVER THERE, WHEN YOU, WHERE YOU SEND A TRIAGE. OKAY. THEN YOU NEED A, A MEDICAL DOCTOR, NURSES OVER THERE. SO THIS SHOULD BE ALL INCLUDED. OKAY. UH, LET'S GO TO THE, OKAY. WHO HAS THE QUESTION? I THINK MR. PUT YEAH, I JUST LET GO, GO FIRST. YEAH. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I JUST HAD A QUICK QUESTION ON THE, UH, PLAN ACTIVATION SLIDE. UH, IT LISTED THE, WHO MAY BE ACTIVATED, UH, WHO IS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY SERVICES, ROXANNE. HOPEFULLY WE CURRENTLY HAVE ONE. AND THAT WILL BE YOU, . YEAH. YOU WISH YOU WERE I'M THE DIRECTOR. YEAH, YOU'RE THE DIRECTOR NOW. OKAY. IT, IT IS JUST ON THERE. I KNOW IT SAYS ACTIVATED BY CITY MANAGER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, EMERGENCY FIRE CHIEF, POLICE CHIEF FOR DESIGNATED ALTERNATIVE. WAS CURIOUS ON THAT. YEAH. WE JUST VOTE FOR YOU TO DO IT. . I'VE ALREADY DONE MY NO EXTRA. PAY ME. OKAY. WE, YEAH, WE NEED TO HAVE OUR RANK AND FILE DO THE EMERGENCY. OKAY. UH, WHAT TO DO AND IF THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF, UH, EARTHQUAKE AND, UH, WHO WILL BE IN CHARGE, WHERE IS OUR OKAY. AND, UH, EMERGENCY. OKAY. UH, RESPOND TEAM. AND, UH, SO IN THAT WAY, UH, WE CAN SERVE THE, THE PEOPLE IN THE CURRENT THAT TIME, UH, MAYBE IN NEED OF HELP. SO I THINK THIS IS WHY WE TALK ABOUT EMERGENCY OPERATION PLAN, THE CITY DURING THE DISASTER. AND WE HAVE TO PREPARE BECAUSE THE EARTHQUAKE, OKAY, THEY SAY COMING AND NOW YOU SEE, YOU SAW OKAY. THE FILE THAT WE CANNOT BELIEVE THAT WILL HAPPEN AND IT HAPPENED. OKAY. AND, UH, SO, SO I, GO AHEAD. ANOTHER QUESTION, UM, BECAUSE I GO THROUGH EMERGENCY DISASTER TRAINING, UM, WHAT IS THE TRAINING THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA HAS IN REGARDS TO STAFF AND EVERYBODY WHEN DISASTER HITS? I THINK THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, LACKING CURRENTLY. UM, I THINK BRINGING IN A DIRECTOR, UM, THAT CAN OVERSEE THAT AND HELP WITH THE PLANNING, UM, THEY CAN ALSO HELP WITH THE CITY EVENTS THAT WE DO IN, UH, CREATING SAFETY PLANS FOR THAT AS WELL. IF I COULD ADD, SORRY. I THINK THAT'S PART ALSO WE HAD TALKED ABOUT, AND IT'S A MOTHER MAY I TO BRING A, UH, UH, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT TO HELP, UM, MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE AN A EOC, WHICH WE CURRENTLY DO, BUT, UM, MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PREPARED AND STAFF'S PREPARED. AND SO THEY, THAT'S, THAT WOULD BE THEIR GOALS TO HELP. THAT'LL BE AT THE NEXT MEETING. RIGHT. OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUT, GO AHEAD. OKAY, GREAT. AND THEN, UM, SO MY QUESTION IS, UM, SO WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE WE AMEND THE PLAN TO INCLUDE, UH, THE SUAN MR AREA. . YEAH. I THINK, YES. THE PLAN, THE PLAN IS A CITYWIDE PLAN. IT'S NOT SPECIFIC TO ANY, ANY PARTICULAR AREA. MM-HMM . SO THIS PLAN CAN BE PUT IN PLACE NO MATTER INCIDENT OCCURS WITHIN THE CITY. YEAH. SO, UM, I KNOW I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO SHEIK T SO IF WE CAN MAKE SURE WE CREATE A PLAN FOR THAT AREA TOO. IF I COULD ADD, WE ALSO HAVE A, UH, WE WERE AWARDED A GRANT FOR A HAZARDOUS MITIGATION PLAN. UM, SO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING FORWARD AND DEVELOPING THAT. AND THEN WHAT'S THE STATUS? PAULINA ON, UH, FEMA'S APPLICATION FOR THE NATIONAL EXERCISE PROGRAM THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED? I MAY, THAT WAS, UH, SUBMITTED ALREADY. OKAY. JUST COORDINATION BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN, UH, THE CITY AND, [03:15:01] UH, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON SPECIFIC INFORMATION THEY'RE ASKING, BUT IT'S ALREADY IN PROCESS. YEAH. 'CAUSE THERE'S A MARCH 3RD DEADLINE, RIGHT? YES, IT WAS, WE'RE, WE'VE ALREADY MET THAT DEADLINE. OKAY. AND THEN, UM, I THINK I WANTED A COPY OF THAT POLINA THAT WAS PART OF A CONSULT REQUEST. YEAH. AND THEN, UM, UM, SO WE, WE APPLIED FOR MULTIPLE, UH, TRAINING, UH, TRAINING THAT THEY WERE OFFERING THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS. YES. GREAT. AND THEN ARE WE GONNA BE SUBMITTING TO FEMA OUR, UH, COPY OF OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN TO BE CERTIFIED BY THEM? WAS THAT, DID WE SELECT THAT AS PART OF THE APPLICATION? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT FEMA OFFERED WAS A REVIEW OF EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN IN THAT APPLICATION. I'LL FOLLOW UP. YEAH. SO THAT'S WHY I WANTED IT. SO, UM, ALSO, BUT YEAH, OVER OVERALL, UM, OBVIOUSLY, UH, YOU BOTH ARE DOING A GREAT JOB, , I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE ARE, WE'RE APPLYING FOR ALL THAT FREE MONEY OUT THERE, BUT, UM, YEAH, YOU GUYS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. AND I THINK, UH, IT EXPLAIN, UH, IT EXPLAINED A LOT ABOUT WHAT OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN IS, AND I KNOW NEXT MEETING WE HAVE, UH, A PRESENTATION ON AN EMERGENCY OPERATIONS, UH, CONSULTANT, DIRECT SLASH DIRECTOR. UH, SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. UM, AND, UM, YEAH, I JUST, UH, IF WE COULD MAKE SURE WE, WE, I, I GUESS, UH, TOLD YOU CHIEF CHRISTINA TO COME UP WITH A PLAN FOR THAT AREA UP THERE, SO. OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, UH, COUNCILMAN ALDI. KENTOS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UH, FIRST, UM, WHEN ARE THERE PLANS FOR US TO HAVE TABLETOP EXERCISES WITH US AS ELECTED OFFICIALS HERE INCLUDED IN THAT, SO THAT IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY AND THERE'S A ROLE THAT WE EACH HAVE THAT WILL BE READY BECAUSE OF HAVING PRACTICE WITH THOSE TABLETOP EXERCISES? THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION. SO IF I COULD ANSWER THAT , UM, WHEN WE BRING ON THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT WILL BE, UM, COORDINATING NOT ONLY THOSE TABLETOPS, BUT ALSO THE, UM, AND I FORGOT WHAT THE CLASSES WERE, UM, BUT MAKING SURE THAT THE TRAINING, THE CLASSES AND, AND THEN THE TABLETOPS ARE ALL CONDUCTED. AND YES, WE WILL BE WORKING, UM, TO HAVE THOSE TABLETOPS WITH THE COUNCIL. THANK YOU. AND MY ONLY OTHER QUESTION, UH, THE SECOND QUESTION IS, UH, WITH REGARD TO MAKING SURE TO IDENTIFY VULNERABLE PERSONS, INCLUDING SENIOR CITIZENS AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, UM, UM, CAN YOU DESCRIBE FURTHER WHAT ARE THE PLANS TO IDENTIFY THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE ON OUR RADAR YET, AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CHECK ON THEM IN THE EVENT OF A MAJOR NATURAL DISASTER, INCLUDING EARTHQUAKES AND OTHERS, SUCH CALAMITIES? THERE ARE GENERAL GUIDELINES IN OUR PLAN, AND AGAIN, BRINGING ON AN EMERGENCY SERVICES OR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR, WE'LL BE ABLE TO HELP WITH THE CONTINUING EFFORTS TO REALLY LOCK DOWN, UM, SPECIFIC GUIDELINES. AND, AND THIS IS JUST A GENERAL TEMPLATE FOR US TO GO BY, BUT HAVING SOMEONE IN THAT POSITION WILL ALLOW US TO ESTABLISH, UM, THOSE SPECIFICS. THANK YOU. SO CAN THAT BE INCORPORATED PLEASE WHEN WE GO INTO THE FURTHER DETAILS WITH, WITH, UH, THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS DIRECTOR? YES, THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, IF I CAN JUST ADD TO SOME OF THOSE PATIENTS ARE ALREADY IDENTIFIED JUST IN OUR DAILY RESPONSES TO CERTAIN HOMES. UM, WE FLAGGED CERTAIN ADDRESSES BASED ON PREVIOUS CALLS WITH OUR DISPATCH CENTER. SO THAT INFORMATION IS ALREADY IN, UH, FOR SOME OF OUR PATIENTS IN THE CITY. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND, UH, YOU DONE COUNCILMAN? THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, UH, MORE QUESTION AND I WANT TO GO HOME. OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. YES. FINAL QUESTION. I KNOW. UM, SO THERE WAS THAT APPLICATION AND THERE WAS ANOTHER APPLICATION WHERE WE, UH, WHERE FEMA PAYS, UH, FULL FLIGHT, UH, HOTEL FOOD AND EVERYTHING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT FIREFIGHTERS TO BE TRAINED AT FEMA STATE OF THE ART FACILITY. DO WE KNOW IF REAPPLIED FOR THAT, UH, GRANT OR FOR THAT PROGRAM THAT THAT PARTICULAR TRAINING IS IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS FROM NOW? SO WE PUT IT OUT TO OUR OFFICERS AND I'LL, I'LL FIND OUT IF ANYONE WAS ABLE TO MAKE THOSE PERSONAL ARRANGEMENTS TO FLY OUTTA STATE IN THE SHORT NOTICE. YEAH, I KNOW THERE WAS, UH, I MEAN, IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, BUT IT'S, IT'S BEEN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, UH, PAULINA, UH, WHERE I GAVE YOU THAT, UH, DUE A CONSULT REQUEST. UH, AND THAT WAS FREE TRAINING FOR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS. SO IF WE'RE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS PROGRAMS, THEN WHAT ARE WE DOING? SO, BUT YEAH, THAT, THAT ONE PARTICULAR TRAINING WAS, UH, ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE. THERE, THERE WAS, UM, NO, THIS ONE WAS, UH, MULTIPLE, IT WAS MULTIPLE, UH, [03:20:01] IT WAS A LAW ENFORCEMENT SLASH FIRE WEEK THAT FEMA TRAINS, UH, ALL, UH, FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS AROUND THE COUNTRY ON EMERGENCY OPERATIONS FROM H DEALING WITH, UH, HAZARD MITIGATION, FROM DEALING WITH, UH, DANGEROUS CHEMICALS. I MEAN, THEY, THIS IS WHERE THEY TRAIN ALL HOMELAND SECURITY PERSONNEL. SO, SO, UH, SINCE THE RECOMMENDATION, IF THEY HAVE OPPORTUNITY AND THEN MAYBE CD OKAY. AND THE POLICE AND FIRE CAN UTILIZE, UH, THE SERVICE OR THE, THE RESOURCE. SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE TRIED TO, SO IF YOU CHANCE, IF YOU HAVE ANY, WELL, IF, IF, IF THEY DIDN'T APPLY FOR THAT, THEN IT'S PROBABLY TOO LATE NOW, BUT , SO NEXT TIME OKAY. IF WE STAY FEMA OKAY. AS THEY EXIST, THEN THEY APPLY THE OKAY. THE TRAINING THING. OKAY. ANY OTHER THING? I WANNA MOVE ON. IT'S OKAY. UM, BUT YEAH. YEAH, I THINK, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING WE PROBABLY SHOULD LOOK AT, UH, CREATING YOU GUYS NEXT YEAR, CREATE A DELEGATION OF OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS, UH, POTENTIALLY OUR SWAT O SWAT TEAM, SWAT TEAM OFFICERS, AND, AND SPECIAL PERSONNEL WITHIN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. OKAY. OH, I'M SORRY. ONE MORE THING, MR. MAYOR. OKAY, GO AHEAD. UM, UH, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE, ALLIED ALLIED RESTORATION HERE IN WEST COVIN HAS OFFERED TO, UM, TO PROVIDE, TO BE A STAGING AREA. SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT, BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T, IF YOU DON'T, IF YOU, IF YOU COULD REACH OUT TO THEM JUST TO SEE WHAT THEY COULD OFFER, THEN THAT COULD BE FACTORED INTO ANY EMERGENCY RESPONSE THAT WE, THAT WE PUT TOGETHER. THANK YOU. YEAH, WE'VE WORKED WITH THEM IN THE PAST, AND ACTUALLY ONE OF OUR, UH, FIRE ENGINEERS, UH, HIS WIFE WORKS FOR THAT COMPANY, SO OH, GREAT. YEAH, WE'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THEM, SO, OKAY. AND CAN WE MOVE ON? OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. FOR MY CITY COUNCIL COLLIE. OKAY. AND THE FINAL THING I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU, I THINK EMERGENCY. OKAY. AND, UH, EMERGENCY OPERATION PLAN IS IMPORTANT. SO DURING THE EMERGENCY, HOW WE REACT, HOW WE HAVE, UH, LET RANK AND FIRE ORGANIZATION TO HELP, UH, DURING THE OKAY. ISSUE WE HAVE. OKAY. FOR EXAMPLE, PREVIOUSLY THE BIG FIRE AND, UH, MAYBE HEAVY RAIN FLOODED ON THE HILLSIDE. AND, UH, AND OUR BKK, UH, POTENTIALLY MUST LIE OR SOMETHING, WE DON'T KNOW. OKAY. EARTHQUAKE, I THINK THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT, BUT I STILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO WORK WITH OUR APPOINTED HEALTH DIRECTOR OKAY. WORK WITH HIS RESOURCE, WITH A MEDICAL SERVICE THING. OKAY. TO BECOME A NETWORK. SINCE WE HAVE A MEDICAL NETWORK, WHY NOT UTILIZE POLICE AND FIRE ALL COMBINED TOGETHER? OKAY. THANK YOU, SIR. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THEN WE MOVE ON. NUMBER JOB. I THINK THAT WILL BE OUR POLICE CHIEF REMAINING STANDING THERE. SORRY. OKAY. AND THEN WE, WE WILL MAKE IT QUICK. OKAY. NUMBER JOB, UH, CITY [POLICE DEPARTMENT ] HALL, CCTV. OKAY. METAL DETECTORS. OKAY. DETECTOR AND THE IMPLEMENTATION. GO AHEAD. YES. SO THESE ARE, UH, TWO SEPARATE PROJECTS. UM, BUT I WAS ASKED TO, UH, GET A GENERAL ESTIMATE ON TO HAVE CCTV COVERAGE. UM, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT. I THINK THE CCTV IS A TWO LOCATION. ONE IS, UH, CITY HALL. OKAY. AND ANOTHER ONE IS 16 PARK. YEAH. FOR, FOR THIS PARTICULAR ONE, UM, ONLY THE CITY HALL ASKED TO COVER, UH, THE, IN SPECIFIC, THE CITY HALL EXTERIOR, THE CITY HALL PARKING LOT, THE INTERIOR OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, WHICH WOULD BE THE SEATING AREA, UM, TO HAVE ACCESS CONTROL PLACED AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER DOORS. AND ALSO TO REPLACE TWO OUTDATED CAMERAS THAT ARE BETWEEN THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND, UH, CITY HALL. AND ALSO JUST MAINTENANCE TO OUR CURRENT, UH, CAMPUS AREA EXTERIOR CAMERAS AROUND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH ARE ACCESS WAYS TOWARDS THE CITY HALL. AND I HAVE AN APPROXIMATE LABOR COST OF $65,000, AN APPROXIMATE MATERIAL COST OF $65,000 FOR AN APPROXIMATE TOTAL COST OF $130,000. UM, THE TYPES OF CAMERAS THAT I'LL JUST BRIEFLY GO OVER THE, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, JUST IN GENERAL, UM, FOR THE EXTERIOR CAMERAS, WE'RE LOOKING AT 4K, UM, AI CAPABLE CAMERAS, WHICH MEANS THEY CAN RECOGNIZE, UH, HUMAN SHAPES, UH, VEHICLES, UM, LICENSE PLATES, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. UM, IN THE INTERIOR, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT A VARIETY OF, OF DIFFERENT 4K CAMERAS WITH MULTIPLE SENSORS. UM, CHIEF, GOOD QUESTION. DO WE NEED AN IP ON THIS, OR NO? WE NEED IP ON, WE'D HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PURCHASING POLICY. WELL, WE STILL HAVE TO GO TO PURCHASING POLICY. YES. THAT'S WHY I HAVE, I I DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC COST. I HAVE AN AN, AN ESTIMATE. GOT IT. OKAY. AND THE MAYO PROJECT HAVE A QUESTION. YES. UH, TWO YEARS AGO, I PUT IN THAT REQUEST. WE HAD A, A SITUATION THAT OCCURRED AT THE PARKING LOT. AND SO I KNOW WE [03:25:01] PUT IN THIS REQUEST, AND I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS IN THE WORKS THAT THEY'RE, UM, PUTTING THE CAMERAS ON, AND I ASSUME THAT IT WAS ALREADY IN PLACE. SO WE DO HAVE, WE, THERE ARE CAMERAS AT CITY HALL. THIS WOULD BE TO ADD OR TO AUGMENT TO THE, THIS CURRENT SYSTEM. SO WHEN I WAS TOLD THAT THEY PUT CAMERAS ON THE PARKING LOT, THAT WAS NOT ACCURATE. THE, THERE ARE CAMERAS THAT ARE FACING THE PARKING LOT. THIS WOULD BE TO ENHANCE THE COVERAGE. OH, OKAY. YES. THANK YOU. ARE YOU DONE? OKAY. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER. YES. UM, SO DO WE NEED AN RFP PULLING FOR THIS OR NOT? IF IT'S EXTENDING CAMERAS WITHIN WHATEVER YOU ALREADY HAVE, OR, UM, OR DO YOU BE ABLE TO DO YOUR, THE PIGGYBACK THING? UM, IT WOULD DEPEND ON, UM, THE, THE VENDOR THAT WE PREVIOUSLY USED, IF WE'RE ADDING TO 'EM, AND THEN, UM, IF WE WOULD BE ABLE TO UTILIZE THEM AGAIN WITHOUT HAVING TO GO SIT, BUT I'D HAVE TO VERIFY YEAH. WITH THE PURCHASING POLICY. YEAH. THOSE PUBLIC SAFETY IS REALLY IMPORTANT. MM-HMM . YEAH. OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD. UH, CAN WE GET A GRANT FOR THIS? SO WE ONLY HAVE TO TOUCH THE GENERAL PHONE. WE CAN LOOK INTO THAT. CAN WE? ABSOLUTELY. WOULD YOU PLEASE? AND MAYBE TRAIN STACK CAN HELP US WITH A GRANT . OH, PAY FOR IT. SHE GIVE US A SOUNDS UP. SHE SAYS THEY WILL COVER EVERYTHING. YEAH. . OKAY. OKAY. UH, AND ANY OTHER QUESTION? I CONTINUE. OKAY. UM, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS THE, THE CAMERAS. AND, UM, I NOW WANNA MOVE ON. UH, I WAS ASKED TO DO SOME, UH, GENERAL RESEARCH ON CONSIDERATIONS FOR A METAL DETECTOR AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS. UM, AS FAR AS THE REQUIRED EQUIPMENT, YOU WOULD NEED A DETECTOR THAT YOU WOULD WALK THROUGH, WHICH WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $6,000. AND YOU WOULD ALSO WANT A SECONDARY HANDHELD, A DETECTOR, WHICH ARE APPROXIMATELY $300 US. UM, SOMETHING TO CONSIDER WITH, WITH INSTALLING THESE IS THE REQUIRED STAFFING THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE IN PLACE FOR THIS. AND, UH, TO DO IT PROPERLY, YOU WOULD NEED TWO SECURITY PERSONNEL IN PLACE, AND THEY'D HAVE TO BE IN PLACE FOR THE ENTIRE ENTITY OF THE, FOR THE ENTIRE MEETING. UM, AND SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT ROUGHLY $80 PER HOUR PER EMPLOYEE TO COVER THIS. UM, AT TWO COUNCIL MEETINGS A MONTH, PLUS A PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, WHICH LET'S SAY WE AVERAGED FOUR HOURS PER MEETING, WE ARE LOOKING AT A MINIMUM OF APPROXIMATELY $31,000 A YEAR TO COVER THIS. $31,000 A YEAR. OH, AT LEAST. OKAY. AT LEAST. GOOD QUESTION. UH, HOW MANY CT? IT'S A, OKAY. LET'S SAY SAME SIZE CITY LIKE PASADENA, EL MONTE, UH, POMONA, THE CITY COUNCIL, HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THIS, UH, PASADENA DOES, AND LA LA SPEAK CITY, UH, THEY NEED IT. OKAY. BUT, UH, I DON'T KNOW, UH, WE DON'T WANT TO WASTE THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY, OR WE THE GRANT, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO. OKAY. OVERPROTECTED. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANNA COMPARE. YES, GO AHEAD. SO, IN, UH, PASADENA, THEY DO HAVE THE, UH, METAL DETECTORS, BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE, UM, STAFFING TO ACTUALLY DO THE HANDHELD WAND. SO YOU JUST GO THROUGH, AND I, I, I'M NOT SURE IF IT WAS A, JUST A REGULAR PD, BUT, UM, IT WAS JUST, UH, PRETTY MUCH TO GO THROUGH YOUR PURSE AND THEN GO IN, UM, BUT NOT A METAL WAND. SO PASADENA HAS, OKAY. HOW ABOUT EL MONTE? I, I WOULD'VE TO CHECK ON, HOW ABOUT POMONA? I, I I NEED TO CHECK ON ALL THE OTHER CITIES SPECIFIC SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW? YEAH. THEY'RE SIMILAR SIZE. OKAY. THE PO POMONA IS ABOUT A HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE, A HUNDRED FIFTY, AND, UH, AND THE PASADENA IS ABOUT 140, AND WE ARE ABOUT 110, 120. OKAY. AMOUNT IS ABOUT 106 OR SEVEN. OKAY. SO IT'S UNDER ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND. OKAY. SO WE WANT TO COMPARE, UH, TO MAKE SURE WE ARE, IF THEY DON'T HAVE, MAYBE WE OKAY. OKAY. SO, SO, BUT WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, UH, WE JUST HAVE A PROPOSAL, BUT SEE THAT WILL, UH, WE HAVE ENOUGH OF FUND, OR IS THE NECESSARY OKAY. OR OUR OFFICE OVER HERE ALREADY ENOUGH TO PROTECT, TO MAKE THE ORDER. OKAY. IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER? YES. AND I MEAN, JUST THINGS TO CONSIDERED THE, THE TIME FOR PEOPLE TO GET IN WOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY DELAYED. UM, AND I, I DO BELIEVE HAVING THAT SECONDARY HAND ONE IS PROBABLY A, IF YOU'RE ALREADY DOING IT, YOU MIGHT AS WELL DO IT ALL THE WAY AND PROPERLY. SO, YEAH. YOU DON'T NEED A HANDHELD ONE. YEAH. COOL. COOL, COOL. ANYTHING? OKAY, [03:30:01] MR. MAYOR? YEAH, GO AHEAD. OKAY. COUNCILMAN, I'M JUST WONDERING TO, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE THERE PREVALENT INSTANCES OF, OF ISSUES OCCURRING IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS ACROSS EITHER THE STATE OR THE COUNTRY THAT WARRANT THESE METAL DETECTORS IN CHAMBERS? JUST, JUST FROM WHAT YOU GENERALLY KNOW. , I, I'M NOT REALLY AWARE OF ANY, UH, PARTICULAR VIOLENCE WITH FIREARMS THAT HAVE OCCURRED. MM-HMM . UM, I THINK IT'S MORE OF JUST A, A, A SAFETY THING WHERE PEOPLE MAYBE FEEL SAFE. UH, THE FIST FIGHT, I THINK, I THINK THERE'S BEEN A COUPLE OF TIMES WHERE THEY MURDERED COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUT IT'S, I COULD SEND YOU THE LINK SOLELY . I DON'T WANT TO KNOW. MY GOSH. OKAY. SO, UH, ANY OTHER QUESTION? OTHER, OTHER, CHIEF, YOU WANNA CONTINUE OR ARE YOU DONE? I AM DONE. OKAY. ANY OTHER, OTHER QUESTION? I HAVE A QUESTION. OKAY. GO AHEAD. UM, YEAH, SO I, I THINK, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC SAFETY, I THINK THAT'S NUMBER ONE, UH, TO THIS CONSOLE. AND I MEAN, I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, PAULINE, IF YOU COULD WORK ON THAT PRETTY FAST ABOUT THE CAMERAS, BECAUSE, UH, I MEAN, I, I DO FEEL SAFE FOR OUR OFFICERS BEING HERE, BUT I THINK IT'S FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY TOO, THAT THEY, THAT ARE, THEY HAVE ACCESS TO A CAMERA SYSTEM THROUGHOUT CITY HALL. AND, UM, ALSO I'LL JUST RECOMMEND ON SOME OF THESE CAMERAS, LIKE, UH, THIS ONE, TONY. MM-HMM . UM, YOU PROBABLY WANNA ASK 'EM FOR THE EIGHT MEGAPIXELS, , SIMILAR TO MY HOUSE, STRONGER. WE CAN, UH, UPDATE THE REQUEST TO EIGHT IF WE'RE GONNA, IF WE'RE GONNA DO IT RIGHT, THEN YOU WANNA MAKE SURE THEY GIVE US THE GOOD STUFF. OKAY. UH, THAT'S, THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER. SO NOW, OKAY. I THINK, UH, OUR REQUEST WILL BE IP FOR CAMERA AND, UH, TRANS TAKE ON PAY FORWARD , UH, NO, NO WORRY. OKAY. MAYBE YOU CAN LOOK INTO GRAND FOR US. I KNOW YOU GOT PRETTY GOOD AT THAT. OKAY. AND, UH, PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. OKAY. SO, ANYWAY, UH, THANK YOU, CHIEF. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, UH, THANK YOU, UH, REGARDING THE METAL, DICTATOR, DICTATOR, OR YOU GUYS SUGGESTION, OR, BUT YEAH, I THINK, LIKE, I THINK GUYS, CAMERAS ARE IMPORTANT. THE METAL DICTATOR. OKAY. SO WE JUST FOCUS ON CAMERA? YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. CONSENT WITH THE CONSOLE, WE FOCUS ON THE CAMERA. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [PUBLIC WORKS ] OKAY. OKAY. AND NOW WE MOVE NUMBER 13, PUBLIC WORK OPERATION. UH, WHO IS GOING TO PRESENT THIS, UH, MAYOR, UM, AND COUNCIL ASSISTANT, UH, CITY MANAGER, ROXANNE LERMA WILL BE PRESENTLY PRESENT. OKAY. OKAY. GO AHEAD, ROXANNE. AND GIMME JUST A MOMENT. UM, MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, I AM STEPPING IN ON BEHALF OF OUR DEPUTY PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, OR EXCUSE ME, OUR ACTING DEPUTY PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, UM, RAUL ALVARADO, WHO DOES HAVE ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT OR IMPRESSING FAMILY MATTERS TO ATTEND TO ON TUESDAY EVENING. SO I AM BRINGING HIS, NOT ONLY HIS APOLOGIES, BUT ALSO HIS WELL WISHES, UM, TO THIS BODY. UM, JUST LIKE, UM, CITY MANAGER PAULINA MORALES INDICATED I WILL BE GIVING THE PUBLIC WORKS, UM, PRESENTATION FOR THIS EVENING. UM, AS YOU MAY RECALL, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ HAD REQUESTED A PRESENTATION BACK IN DECEMBER ON THE CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. SO IT IS THE HOPES OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL AND SHED SOME LIGHT AS WELL AS ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBER AND THE COUN THE REST OF THE COUNCIL MAY HAVE. SO, REAL QUICK, AS AN OVERVIEW, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT CONSISTS OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND FACILITIES MAINTENANCE, PARK MAINTENANCE, STREET MAINTENANCE, GRAFFITI ABATEMENT, SEWER AND STORM WATER SYSTEMS, FLEET SERVICES, AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SPORTSPLEX. UM, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE STAFFING LEVELS, UM, I'LL ALSO READ THOSE OUT LOUD TO YOU AS WELL. ADMINISTRATION FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTS INCLUDES A DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, A PUBLIC WORKS SUPERINTENDENT, MANAGEMENT ANALYST, MAN, AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, AND AN OFFICE AIDE. UM, BUILDING AND FACILITIES MAINTENANCE IS ONE, BUILDING MAINTENANCE LEAD WORKER PARKS MAINTENANCE INCLUDES A MAINTENANCE SERVICES COORDINATORS WHO OVERSEES THE PARK CONTRACTS. STREET MAINTENANCE INCLUDES A MAINTENANCE SERVICES COORDINATOR, MAINTENANCE LEAD WORKERS, ONE THAT OPERATE, THAT WORKS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAYS, ONE THAT WORKS TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAYS. ONE OPERATOR TWO, ELECTRICIANS, TWO MAINTENANCE WORKERS, THREE AND NINE MAINTENANCE WORKERS. TWO THAT ARE ASSIGNED AS NEEDED. GRAFFITI ABATEMENT TEAM IS CONSISTENT, IS COMPRISED OF TWO MAINTENANCE WORKERS. TWO THAT WORK MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, SEWER AND STORM WATER SYSTEMS. UM, THIS IS ALSO STAFFED FROM STREET MAINTENANCE. SO IT'S THE MAINTENANCE LEAD WORKER TWO THROUGH THURSDAY ONE, MAINTENANCE WORKER THREE AND TWO, MAINTENANCE WORKER TWOS. FLEET SERVICES IS A MAINTENANCE SERVICES COORDINATOR. UM, AGAIN, THE, THAT PARTICULAR COORDINATOR OVERSEES, [03:35:01] UM, CONTRACTS, SO THE PARKS, MAINTENANCE SERVICES COORDINATORS, AND THE FLEET MAINTENANCE SERVICES COORDINATOR OVERSEES THE CONTRACTS, UM, IN THOSE VARIOUS AREAS. AND THEN THE WEST COVINA, SPORTSPLEX TWO MAINTENANCE, TWO WORKERS OPERATING MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, THREE MAINTENANCE WORKERS TWO TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAYS. HOWEVER, WHEN THERE ARE TOURNAMENTS THAT OCCUR UP AT THE SPORTSPLEX, WHICH, UM, WE DID RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM OUR DEPUTY COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR SUSIE PEREZ NOT TOO LONG AGO, AND SHE HAD DESCRIBED THE INCREASED ACTIVITY THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THE WAY OF TOURNAMENTS. THAT IS THOSE SAME, SAME MAINTENANCE WORKERS WHO DO WORK OVERTIME TO, UH, MAINTAIN THOSE FIELDS AND TO KEEP THOSE OPERATIONS FLOWING FOR THE TOURNAMENTS. I'M GONNA QUICKLY SHARE WITH YOU THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART. UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE ARE FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME MAINTENANCE, UM, STAFF MEMBERS THAT ARE SHOWN ON THIS CHART. UM, IT ALSO SHOWS THOSE POSITIONS THAT ARE OPENED VERSUS THOSE POSITIONS THAT ARE FILLED. SO HERE ARE SOME VISUALS FOR, UM, FOR YOUR REFERENCE OF SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM IS CAPABLE OF, UM, CEMENT AND ASPHALT POTHOLE REPAIR, REPAIR, GRAFFITI AND ILLEGAL DUMPING REMOVAL, RED CURB, CROSSWALK, STREET AND OTHER PAINTING, TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND TRAFFIC LIGHTING, REPAIR, SEWER AND LIFT STATION REPAIR, AND THEN CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION. SO WE TOUCHED A LITTLE BIT ON THE CONTRACTS THAT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HAS IN THEIR DOMAIN. I'M GOING TO GO INTO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER OF, UM, OTHER PUBLIC WORKS. CONTRACTS. CONTRACTS, SO ARBORISTS FOR PREVENTATIVE TREE CARE AND MAINTENANCE, UM, OF THE CITY'S URBAN FOREST LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE FOR THE CIVIC CENTER AND CITY PARKS LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE FOR SIX LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICTS, LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE OF CITYWIDE MEDIANS, RIGHT OF WAYS, COMMERCIAL ZONES, SIDEWALKS, TREE WELLS, AND OTHER AREAS. LOS ANGELES COUNTY AGREEMENT FOR CATCH BASIN, THAT THAT IS CITYWIDE CITY SIDEWALKS, INSPECTIONS AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENTS, JANITORIAL SERVICES, ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE, HVAC MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR, SECURITY AND FIRE ALARM MONITORING, MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR VEHICLE, HEAVY EQUIPMENT, FIRE APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT REPAIR, AUTO BODY AND PAINT. AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE, UM, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT ALSO PROVIDES, I WOULD USE THE WORD SUPPORT, UM, FOR SOME OF THE OTHER CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAVE WITH COW, TRANS REFUSE COLLECTION AND STREET SWEEPING. UM, WE SHOWCASE SOME OF THE WORK THAT OUR MAINTENANCE TEAM, OR EXCUSE ME, THAT OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM IS CAPABLE OF. I'M GONNA GO INTO, UM, PROVIDING YOU WITH SOME MORE DETAILS. SO AGAIN, THE CONCRETE WORK, MASONRY WORK, ELECTRICAL WORK, TRAFFIC, SIGNAL MAINTENANCE, HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATION, STREET ASPHALT REPAIR, TRENCHING, LANDSCAPING AND GROUNDSKEEPING, ATHLETIC FIELD RENOVATION AND MAINTENANCE, PAINTING, INTERIOR, EXTERIOR, STREET AND CURBS, WELDING AND FABRICATION, SEWER MAINTENANCE CAMERA, JETTING LINE REPAIR, LIFT STATION REPAIRS, PLUMBING, SPLASH PAD MAINTENANCE, DRYWALL AND FRAMING. SO THESE STAFF CAPABILITIES THAT WE, UM, HAVE SHARED WITH YOU TODAY, THOSE ARE THE AREAS THAT OUR MAINTENANCE WORKFORCE IS SKILLED IN. SO, AS YOU'LL NOTICE, UM, WE DO HAVE A, A SKILLED WORKFORCE, CURRENT FIELD MAINTENANCE STAFF. UM, THERE ARE NINE, UH, VACANCIES. THERE ARE SIX DEDICATED CREWS OF ELEC. THERE'S A DEDICATED CREW OF ELECTRICIAN, WHICH IS TWO BUILDING MAINTENANCE LEAD WORKER, OR, EXCUSE ME, BUILDING MAINTENANCE LEAD, WHICH IS ONE GRAFFITI ABATEMENT, WHICH IS TWO RIGHT AWAY. CREW, WHICH IS TWO, AND SPORTS PLEX STAFF, WHICH IS FIVE. SO WHEN WE HAVE, UM, WHEN WE HAVE ADDITIONAL PROJECTS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE SCHEDULED ROUTINE, UM, A LOT, WHAT TENDS TO HAPPEN IS THAT STAFF MEMBERS ARE PULLED, UM, TO WORK ON SOME OF THOSE ADDITIONAL ASSIGNMENTS THAT ARE GIVEN. UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT IMPACT THE CAPACITY OF THE WORKFORCE, WORKFORCE AVAILABILITY. UM, WE ARE LIMITED IN CLASS A DRIVERS, UNFORESEEN EMERGENCIES, AGING INFRASTRUCTURE, DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. AND THEN, LIKE I HINTED AT EARLIER, THE SPECIAL PROJECTS. THIS NEXT SLIDE ILLUSTRATES JUST AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE ROUTINE DEFERRED AND SPECIAL PROJECTS, UM, THAT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTS IN THE MAINTENANCE REALM HANDLES. UM, TAKING A LOOK AT THE SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE, YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S HIT ON A WEEKLY BASIS, A DAILY BASIS, A BIMONTHLY BASIS, UM, AS AVAILABLE OR AS NEEDED. AND QUARTERLY, UM, THE, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT ALSO HIGHLIGHTED SOME OF THE DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. THESE ARE THINGS, UM, THAT WE HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT WE WILL BE TAKING CARE, TAKING, NEED TO TAKE CARE OF AND WILL GET TO. [03:40:01] AND THEN SPECIAL PROJECTS, THOSE ARE PROJECTS THAT ARE AS DIRECTED BY THE CITY MANAGER. UM, MAJOR SPECIAL EVENTS, AND THEN HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS, UM, AND SOME OF THE STATISTICS AROUND THOSE. SO FOR EXAMPLE, HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS, UM, ASSISTING WITH THOSE CLEANUPS TWICE PER MONTH EVENTS, TAKING A LOOK AT EVENTS AS A WHOLE FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR, UM, 18 THAT, UH, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND MAINTENANCE ASSIST WITH. AND THEN OF COURSE, THE SPECIAL PROJECTS THAT ARE NEEDED, UM, FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, UM, I HOPE THAT COVERS YOUR MOTHER. MAY I REQUEST MAYOR RU I AM OPEN FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH, ROSEANNE. OKAY. THE GREAT REPORT. OKAY. PRESENTATION AND, UH, ANY CITY COUNCIL? I KNOW BRIAN WANT TO ASK QUESTION. OKAY. SO, AND, BUT I WANT TO GIVE OUT THE COUNCIL THE FIRST CHANCE, AND, UH, MAYBE COUNCIL MAY WANNA GO FIRST. NO. UM, I'LL GO SECOND. YOU GO SECOND. OKAY. HOW ABOUT MAYOR POT? SO YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM THE FIRST CHOICE? OKAY. BRIAN, GO FOR IT. WHAT WAS THAT? WAS THAT NO, NO, YOU GO FOR IT. YOU CAN START WITH OKAY. QUESTION. OKAY. MAKE IT SHORT AGAIN. MAKE IT TOO . YES. UH, GREAT JOB. UH, ROXANNE ON, ON MAKING THIS REPORT DETAILED. I LIKE, I LIKE HOW YOU GUYS, YOU DID THIS. UM, SO, YEAH. SO AS I, UH, EMPHASIZE IS THAT, UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF HARDWORKING, UH, PUBLIC WORKS, UH, OFFICIALS WORKING FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. UH, THEY'VE DONE A REMARKABLE JOB AND, UM, AT OBTAINING OUR CITY. AND, UM, I COMMEND THEM FOR THEIR WORK. AND I WANNA FIND WAYS THAT WE CAN SAVE MONEY. UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES INSTEAD OF OUTSOURCING A LOT OF OUR WORK, UH, THEIR, THEIR WORK, UH, IN PUBLIC WORKS, AND, AND THEY HAVE THE TALENT, THE CAPABILITIES OF DOING A LOT OF THAT, THAT WORK THAT WE'RE OUTSOURCING ON VARIOUS CONTRACTS. AND IF WE COULD FIND WAYS TO USE THAT MONEY TO EXPAND THEIR SCOPE OF WORK, TO COVER MORE OF THE CITY, ESPECIALLY OUR SCHOOL LOCATIONS, UH, I THINK THAT'S ESSENTIAL. YOU KNOW, I HAD A VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING, UH, WITH MELISSA FROM TRANSTECH EARLIER TODAY, AND WE SPOKE ABOUT FINDING WAYS, EVEN FOR OUR GRANTS TO SEE IF PUBLIC WORKS IS ABLE TO, UH, POTENTIALLY USE FUNDS FROM THERE TO DO THE PROJECTS THEMSELVES. SO I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE AGAIN, UH, THE NEED TO, UH, BE ABLE TO PUT MONEY BACK INTO PUBLIC WORKS. SO, SO ONE DAY WE COULD EVEN EXPAND ITS ABILITIES, ITS SERVICES, HIRING MORE PERSONNEL FOR THAT DEPARTMENT AND POTENTIALLY DOING PROMOTIONS WITHIN. SO, YEAH. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER. UH, I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE, UH, SIX VACANCY, SO WE STILL NEED ANOTHER SIX THAT IS CORRECT. IN VARIOUS CAPACITIES. UM, SO THE MAINTENANCE STAFF IS TAKING A LOOK AT, AND, AND WHEN WE SAY THE SIX VACANCIES, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR HAS PROMISED TO THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY COUNCIL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE POSITIONS THAT WE'RE, UM, REALLY MAXIMIZING IT TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. SO MAKING SURE THAT WE ALIGN THOSE POSITIONS WITH, UM, THE NEEDS THAT THE DEPARTMENT, UM, REQUIRES. SO YES, THEY'RE TAKING A LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS. WE'RE DO, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF GETTING THOSE RECRUITMENTS UP IN HOPES THAT WE CAN ATTRACT, UM, NEW STAFF TO COME AND JOIN OUR TEAM. GOT IT. SO, SO RECRUITMENT, OKAY. AND I, I CAN UNDERSTAND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MATERIALS AND EMPHASIZE AGAIN AND AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN, MANY, MANY TIMES, OKAY, HOW CAN WE HAVE A PROJECT AND SOMETHING IS NOT TOO HEAVY DUTY NOW, RATHER THAN SKIP MONEY OUT OF THE CONTRACTOR RIGHT NOW, WE DO IT IN-HOUSE. RIGHT? THAT'S WHY YOU WANT TO SAY, SO LET, LET'S LOOK INTO, OKAY. AND WHEN WE HAVE A PROJECT AND LIKE PAINTING, UH, THE STREET AND, UH, THE CROSSROAD OKAY. ALL THAT KIND OF THING, THAT, THAT CAN BE EASILY PERFORMED BY OUR STEP. I THINK THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY, AND THAT'S HOW MAYBE WE CAN SAVE THE MONEY RATHER THAN GO TO THE CONTRACTOR AND MONEY OUT THE WINDOW WHEN I GIVE TO OUR STAFF IF MM-HMM . IF IF THEY'RE CAPABLE TO DO IT, IF THEY HAVE ENOUGH MANPOWER TO DO IT, YEAH. WE SHOULD DO IT OURSELVES. OKAY. AND THEN MAYOR POT. OKAY. LOPEZ VIDO, THANK YOU. UM, IN REFERENCE TO THAT, OF COURSE, I DON'T WANNA OVERBURDEN OUR STAFF WITH ALL THE WORK, UM, BUT AS AN EXTRA INCENTIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S LIKE OVERTIME THAT OVERTIME COST WOULD STILL BE MUCH LESS THAN THE OVERALL PROJECT AS AN OUTSIDE YES. I, I AM INTERESTED IN THAT, UM, WHERE THEY, THE STAFF HAS THAT ABILITY TO CHOOSE TO DO CERTAIN PROJECTS, OR IF THERE IS THAT EXTRA INCENTIVE [03:45:01] THAT WE CAN PUT IN WHERE, YOU KNOW, THIS PROJECT COSTS THIS, IF YOU WANT, YOU KNOW, TAKE ON THIS ADDITIONAL PROJECT, IT'S AN EXTRA BONUS. UM, IF WE COULD DO THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO BE INCENTIVIZED BECAUSE IT IS, IT IS ALREADY DIFFICULT. UM, YOU KNOW, THIS PRESENTATION THAT YOU HAD, IT'S, IT'S BEAUTIFULLY, UH, CREATED, UM, AND THE VISUALS, AND THEY DO DO A LOT OF WORK. UM, SO I JUST WANT TO ALSO CONSIDER THAT, BECAUSE THEN I, I JUST DON'T WANT THEM TO BURN OUT AND BE LIKE, I'M DONE. YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE ONLY HUMANS. SO, UH, EXACTLY. I THINK THAT IS HOW, UM, THE OKAY, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER REGARDING, UH, WANT TO HAVE A CITY STEP TO DO IT, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE CAPACITY MM-HMM . ABILITY AND, UH, YES. JOB, JOB LOAD, NOT OVERWHELMING. YES. IF THEY'RE RUNNING AROUND CLEAN UP HERE YEAH. RUNNING AROUND DOING THIS, AND THEN WE HAVE, THEN WE HAVE COUNTRY THAT DIDN'T DO THEIR JOB AND UNTIL THE CLEAN UP. YEAH. SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE, OKAY, WE HAVE ENOUGH OF MANPOWER AT THE SAME TIME, AND THAT IF, UH, UH, OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR ROUTE, WE THINK THIS IS CAPABLE TO DO IT. OKAY. AND THE STEP WANTED TO DO IT, WHY NOT? THEY DIDN'T DO IT. YEAH. AND I THINK, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, RAUL AND, AND AND MIKE HAVE DONE GOOD IS THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO SCHEDULE THINGS AND, AND THEY, THEY BE ABLE BY THEIR, BY THEM SCHEDULING THESE PROJECTS, UH, SOMETIMES THEY'RE ABLE TO REARRANGE THEIR SCHEDULES. SO SOMETIMES THEY'RE WORKING AT NIGHT TO DO LIKE A BIG PROJECT LIKE THEY DID ON VINCENT AND BRENT. THOSE, THOSE PUBLIC WORKS OFFICIALS WORKED OVERNIGHT AND THEY VOLUNTEER FOR THAT TASK. SO THAT'S GREAT. I WANT TO GIVE THE CHANCE TO COUNCILMAN ALI TO SEE, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. UM, ROXANNE, CAN YOU DESCRIBE WITH SPECIFICITY OUR APPROACH FOR HIRING FROM WITHIN WEST COVINA TO FILL OUR VACANCIES WITHIN PUBLIC WORKS, SPECIFICALLY THE RELATIONSHIPS WE HAVE WITH COMMUNITY COLLEGES OR, OR VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH WE ALSO REACH OUT TO, TO, UH, OR BUILD A LIST OF ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES OF RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA, SO THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, BY, TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES THAT WERE JUST DESCRIBED, WE ALSO ADD TO THAT BY ALS BY, BY MAKING SURE FIRST TO HIRE FROM TALENT RIGHT. WITHIN WEST COVINA ITSELF. I'M GONNA BACK UP JUST A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE THERE'S ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT, AND, AND I'M GONNA GET TO YOUR QUESTION, COUNCIL MEMBER. UM, BUT THERE'S ONE THING WHEN WE HAD MENTIONED ABOUT THE SIX VACANCIES, WE CURRENTLY DO HAVE THREE IN BACKGROUND CHECKS RIGHT NOW. UM, SO THAT NUMBER IS DWINDLING DOWN. AND THEN FROM YOUR POINT, UM, COUNCILMAN CONTOS, WHAT I'M HEARING FROM YOU IS YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW WE GO ABOUT RECRUITING AND PRIORITIZING A LIST OF SKILL OF A SKILLED WORKFORCE, UM, AND NOT ONLY LOOKING AT THOSE WHO MAY HAVE CITY EXPERIENCE, BUT ALSO HOW WE CAN HELP SUPPORT STUDENTS IN THOSE IN TRADE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS. IS THAT CORRECT? YES, EXACTLY. OKAY. WHAT I'M GONNA SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ONE OF THE PROJECTS IN OUR NEXT PRESENTATION THAT WE HAD WITH THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION CORPS. SO YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS, UM, THAT WE DO IS WE WORK HAND IN HAND WITH OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT. AND SO WHEN JOB POSTINGS GO UP, THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, UM, WILL ASK US ABOUT, UM, VARIOUS PLACES THAT WE CAN HELP, THAT WE CAN PLACE SOME OF THESE JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS. WHAT I'M HEARING FROM YOU IS THAT YOU WANT, UM, ADDITIONAL FOCUS IN THOSE AREAS THAT YOU MENTIONED. UM, WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO, UM, PLACE AN EMPHASIS IN THAT. I'M LOOKING AT OUR SUPERINTENDENT, UM, THAT AS WE MAKE THOSE JOB POSTINGS, UM, BE SURE THAT HUMAN RESOURCES HAS THE INFORMATION THAT THEY NEED TO POST THOSE, UM, AT OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGES OR TRADE SCHOOLS, SO THAT WAY WE CAN GIVE THOSE LOCAL STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY. UM, SO I HOPE THAT THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION. I, I, I WANT TO ADD ON, OKAY. RECENTLY I GOT INVITED TO HAVE A COMMENCEMENT SPEECH FOR THE, UH, UEI, UH, VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN WEST COVINA. AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF VERY TALENTED GRADUATE AND, UH, AND THE, THEY NEED JOB AND THEY WANT TO WORK FOR WEST COVINA. WHEN I WENT OVER THERE AND THE, TO GIVE THE SPEECH. OKAY. AND I CAN SEE THE, THE PASSION I CAN SEE THEY WANT TO MAKE IN THEIR LIFE. WE NEED TO GIVE THEM THE CHANCE. OKAY. I, MY SUGGESTION IS SINCE WE HAVE A UEI CAMPUS AT, UH, SUSE NEXT TO STATE ABROAD, YES. WE, WE SHOULD POST OKAY. THE JOB INTO THEIR STUDENT AFFAIRS. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I WENT TO FIND JOB AT A STUDENT AFFAIRS. SO IF WE CAN POST OKAY. TO THEIR, SAY, WHICH COMPANY LOOKING FOR THIS AND THAT, THAT, THAT THEY HAVE ELECTRICIAN, THEY HAVE, UH, UH, UH, AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE, THEY HAVE, UH, UH, CLINICAL. OKAY. THEY HAVE A LOT OF TALENTED, UH, GRADUATE, HAVE A DIPLOMA. SO [03:50:01] I THINK I SAW THEM. THEY ALL WANT TO, I SELL WEST COVINA. I SOLD IT. OKAY. THEY LOVE IT. AND THEY, THEY WANT TO MOVE TO WEST COVINA. THEY WANT TO WORK IN OUR CITY, AND THEY WANT TO WORK FOR THE CITY. AND I TOLD THEM WE HAVE A JOB. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COUNCIL. UH, MAN. OKAY. KENTO, REGARDING THE SUGGESTION. THANK YOU. AND REAL QUICK TO HIGHLIGHT THE REPORT AND THEN MENTION THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN, IN THE WEST COVIN IS 5.6%. SO AT EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO LOWER THAT NUMBER BY HIRING FROM WITHIN, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. YEAH. WE WANNA GO TO NATIONAL 3%. YES. OKAY. SO LET, OKAY. 5.5 IS TOO HIGH. TOO HIGH. UNDERSTAND, MAKE SURE, OKAY. WE CAN GIVE THEM JOB. OKAY. YOUNG PEOPLE NEED JOB. OKAY. AND OTHER CITY COUNCIL. OKAY. BRIAN, GO AHEAD. YEAH, JUST LIKE, UH, MAYOR WU AND COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS, UH, STATED. SORRY I WAS WALKING . THAT'S OKAY. BUT, UM, UH, BUT YEAH, I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE COULD REACH OUT, ACTUALLY CREATE AN ACCOUNT. THEY ACTUALLY HAVE AN ACCOUNT, I KNOW FOR USC TO DO JOB POSTINGS FOR THEIR CAREER CENTER, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, COLLEGE KIDS, ESPECIALLY FROM USC AND UCLA WHO ARE HUNGRY FOR A NEW JOB OR RIGHT OUT OF EARNING A BACHELOR'S DEGREE OR A MASTER'S DEGREE. SO THIS WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO A CITY LIKE OURS. SO, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. UM, IF, UH, NO OTHER QUESTION, I WANT TO MOVE ON TO NEXT AGENDA AND NEXT PRESENTATION. OKAY. EVERYBODY OKAY? OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MY COLLEAGUE. OKAY, LET'S GO NUMBER 14, THEN WE CAN GO HOME. OKAY. SO, MEDIAN BEAUTIFICATION, WHO'S GOING TO PRESENT THIS? UH, MAYOR ROXANNE LERER, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. WORKING DOUBLE OVERTIME. THE CHAIR, IF I MAY, GIMME JUST A MINUTE TO GET THIS ONE UP. SO WE'RE GONNA WALK BACK IN TIME, JUST A TINY BIT. AND IT WAS A TIME NOT TOO LONG AGO, BACK IN 2021 WHEN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION CORPS. SO TO YOUR POINT, COUNCILMAN CONTOS, UM, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH OPPORTUNITIES. AND THIS IS ONE WAY THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA PROVIDED LOCAL STUDENTS, LOCAL YOUTH, UM, WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO, TO, UM, WORK FOR THE CITY IN A WAY. UM, SO THE CITY OF WEST COVINA INTO, ENTERED INTO A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION CORPS, A 5 0 1 C3 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. UM, THE AGREEMENT WAS IMPROVED, WAS APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN A FIVE TO ZERO VOTE BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2021. THE PRIORITY WAS SEVEN IDENTIFIED MEDIANS WITH A TOTAL OF 80 86 PLANTING AREAS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A CITY BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT, UTILIZING THE CITY'S BUDGET BUDGETED FUNDS IN ITS FISCAL YEAR, 20 21, 20 22 CIP PRO CIP BUDGET FOR JOB TRAINING, UTILIZING ARPA FUNDS. UM, UNDER THE AGREEMENT THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION CORPS, UM, PRODUCED CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS, SUPERVISE AND TRAINED STAFF, OR EXCUSE ME, TRAINED COURT MEMBERS, AGES 18 TO 26 TO WORK IN CREWS TO DESIGN, PLANT, BUILD, ESTABLISH, AND MAINTAIN SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC LANDSCAPES ACROSS WEST COTA. YEAH, I SMELL THAT. YEAH. HUH? A SKUNK, SKUNK INSIDE OUR CHAMBER. NO, WE'RE REALLY HOPING THAT'S A SKUNK IN THE, IN THE CEILING, PROBABLY . OKAY. YEAH, LET'S CONTINUE. OKAY. I, I HAVE STUFF IN THOSE I CAN ASK ME ANYTHING. YEAH. OKAY. I APOLOGIZE. SO, WE'RE, TALK ABOUT THE PRIORITY MEDIANS. UM, THERE WERE NINE MEDIANS ON, NOT ON GRAND AVENUE, THAT WERE IDENTIFIED, 23 MEDIANS ALONG AZUSA AVENUE, 10 MEDIANS ALONG GLENDORA AVENUE, 10 MEDIANS ALONG VINCENT AVENUE. SUNSET AVENUE WAS 17 MEDIANS. AMAR ROAD WERE 15. AND WEST COVINA PARKWAY WERE TWO MEDIANS. AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO EMPHASIZE, UM, WITH THE PROJECT THAT WE, UH, THE BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT THAT WE WERE UNDER CONTRACT FOR WITH THE CONSERVATION COURT, NOT ALL OF THESE MEDIANS WERE PART OF THE SCOPE OF THAT AGREEMENT. SO, AGAIN, UM, THESE PRIORITY AREAS WERE IDENTIFIED AS PART OF THE BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT. AND WHILE THE ST. GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION CORPS TOOK A PORTION OF IT, THEY DID NOT TAKE ALL OF IT. SO THERE ARE STILL, UM, IDENTIFIED AREAS, UM, FOR, UM, NOT ONLY IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT, BUT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FUTURE. SO AT FIRST, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, AN IDENTIFIED AREA FOR MEDIA IMPROVEMENT. UM, THAT WOULD BE THE A MR MEDIAN. UM, THE CITY IS WORKING WITH A CONTRACTOR, UM, BRIGHTVIEW ACTUALLY, UM, TO PLANT AND FILL THE MEDIAN ON A R WEST OF AZUSA TO [03:55:01] BRENTWOOD AVENUE. UM, THIS PROJECT IS SCHEDULED TO COMMENCE IN MARCH OF 2025, UM, AS IT IS THE OPTIMAL TIME OF YEAR FOR PLANTING. UM, THE PLANTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR THOSE MEDIANS, UM, ARE THE BOX CREPE MYRTLE, MONTANAS, AND DAY LILIES. AND SO THERE ARE STILL SOME OTHER OPPORTUNITIES, UM, FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON THE FOLLOWING THOROUGHFARES, UM, GRAND AVENUE, AZUA AVENUE, GLENDORA AVENUE, VINCENT AVENUE, SUNSET, AMAR, AND WEST COVINA PARKWAY. UM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT AZUSA AVENUE, HAVE, AND I'M SORRY. OKAY, GO AHEAD, ROXANNE. HOW ABOUT NOGALES? NOGALES, SOME PORTION IS BELONG TO WEST COVINA. IT'S A BIG STREET. YEAH. THE, THE CONSERVATION CORPS DID NOT WORK ON THOSE, BUT WE CAN ADD THAT TO AN AREA OF OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE UPON. SO ABSOLUTELY, WE CAN DO THAT. AND, AND ALSO, OKAY. VALLEY BOULEVARD. YES. WE CAN ADD THAT AS WELL. OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. SO, TO, TO YOUR POINT THAT YOU HAD BROUGHT UP EARLIER, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, TAKING A LOOK AT THE STAFF MEMBERS AND OUR SKILLED WORKFORCE, UM, WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH IS AS WE GO THROUGH EACH OF THESE AREAS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED FOR IMPROVEMENT, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE MOST FEASIBLE AS FAR AS HAVING STAFF VERSUS HAVING A CONTRACTOR. IN SPEAKING WITH OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR, HE DID ASSURE ME, UM, THAT HE IS WORKING ON PLANS FOR THOSE MEDIANS, UM, SO THAT HE CAN HAVE STAFF WORK ON THEM. UM, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE MEDIANS THAT HE, OR ONE OF THE AREAS THAT HE HAS IDENTIFIED FOR A PROJECT, UM, WOULD BE, WE CALL IT THE TRIANGLE. UM, THAT'S RIGHT OVER HERE OFF OF VINCENT AVENUE. IT'S THAT TRIANGLE PORTION. UM, YES, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ IS NODDING HER HEAD. YES, SHE'S FAMILIAR WITH IT. UM, AND SO DEPUTY DIRECTOR ALVARADO, UM, IS DESIGNING PLANS FOR THAT. AND HIS INTENT IS TO HAVE, UM, STAFF MEMBERS WORK, UM, ON THAT AREA. I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. OKAY. UH, CITY COUNCIL, ANYBODY HAVE A QUESTION? YEP. UH, BE BEFORE BRIAN. ANYBODY WANT TO GO FIRST? AND, UH, COUNCIL COUNCILMAN, YOU WANNA GO FIRST? I KNOW YOU GOT LIKE A CHITCHAT. I KNOW. TOMORROW. THIS IS THE LAST ONE. OKAY. YOU WANNA GO? FIRST QUESTION. OTHERWISE, I WANNA GIVE TO BRIAN . OH. UM, UH, WHAT IT'S, THANK, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT, ROXANNE. SO, UH, WITH, WITH THE, THE, THE BEAUTIF, UH, THE BEAUTIFICATION, UM, UM, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO BE WITH, WITH THE IMMEDIATE ACTION STEPS? HOW ARE, HOW ARE YOU ADDING STUDENTS NOW? YOU TALKED ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPS BEFORE, BUT HOW, HOW DO YOU BRING, UM, STUDENT INVOLVEMENT NOW TO SORT OF CULTIVATE THE, THE PIPELINE FOR, FOR GETTING THESE DIFFERENT BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS DONE? ONE OF THE CHALLENGES, AND I'M GONNA BE FRANK WITH YOU, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAD WITH THE CONSERVATION CORPS IS THAT THE PROJECT SCOPE WAS A CHALLENGE, UM, FOR THE CONSERVATION CORPS. UM, I THINK THAT THE STUDENTS AND THE STAFF WERE DEFINITELY WELL MEANING IN TRYING TO, UM, ABIDE BY THE SCOPE AND TO FULFILL THEIR REQUIREMENTS OF THE AGREEMENT. UM, SO ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAVE HAD ARE OTHER WAYS THAT WE CAN USE THE CONSERVATION CORPS INTO PROJECTS THAT THEY, THAT ARE MORE ALIGNED WITH, UM, WITH THEIR SKILLSET. UM, AND SOME OF IT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT WAS BL WAS BRUSH CLEARANCE. UM, WE'VE ALSO TALKED ABOUT, UM, SOME OTHER CLEANUP WORK AND SOME REPLANTING WORK, UM, TO REPLANT SOME PLANTS AND SOME TREES THAT MAY HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN. SO WE'RE WORKING ON IDENTIFYING AREAS AND THEN PERHAPS, UM, WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND REENGAGING WITH THE CONSERVATION CORPS, PERHAPS ANOTHER, UM, JOB DEVELOPMENT TYPE ORGANIZATION. SO THAT IS OUR PLAN IN THE IMMEDIATE, THOSE ARE THE INITIAL CONVERSATIONS, UM, THAT WE HAVE. BUT AGAIN, WE WILL BE WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER, UM, IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. YES. SO, UM, HOW MUCH IS THIS CONTRACT COSTING FOR? UH, A R MEDIUM? IT OKAY. IT, IT IS THROUGH BRIGHTVIEW. UM, THE COST OF THAT WORK IS APPROXIMATELY $8,000. $8,000. CORRECT. AND WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT DID IT, DOES IT INCLUDE NEW SPRINKLER SYSTEM? I'M ASSUMING NOT RIGHT? IT DOES NOT. SO JUST NEW PLANTS. PLANTS, UM, SOME REPAIRS THAT NEED TO BE MADE. UM, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF HARDSCAPE THERE AS WELL. IBEL, NO HARDSCAPE ON THAT ONE. OKAY. NO, HARDSCAPE PLANTS SOME REPAIRS. UM, THAT'S IT. WHEN SPEAKING TO , HE SAID THAT, UH, THEY, THAT THEY WERE CAPABLE OF [04:00:01] DOING A LOT OF THIS WORK. SO HENRY, WE SPEND, I, I MEAN, DEPENDING ON THE WORK, TECHNICALLY 8,000 FOR A CONTRACTOR WILL TECHNICALLY COST US PROBABLY ABOUT 2000 JUST FOR THE SUPPLIES, I'M ASSUMING. SO BIG, BIG DIFFERENCE. YEAH. YOUR, YOUR POINT IS ABSOLUTELY TAKEN. AND I THINK USING THE A MR AREA AS AN EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS DEFINITELY A CATALYST FOR RAUL AND THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE OTHER MEDIANS AND THE OTHER AREAS FOR, UM, THAT WERE IDENTIFIED AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT TO DEVELOP PLANS, UM, AND TO SCHEDULE STAFF. IT COMES DOWN REALLY TO SCHEDULING. I MEAN, I, I APPRECIATE YOU APPLAUDING AND GIVING KUDOS TO THE STAFF, ACTUALLY ALL OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. BUT IT COMES DOWN TO SCHEDULING. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH. SO, UM, I UNDERSTAND THE SCHEDULING THEY HAVE AND THEY'VE BEEN, RAUL'S BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN ACCOMPLISHING THOSE SCHEDULES. SO IT MAY TAKE US A COUPLE MORE WEEKS OR DAYS TO GET THIS PROJECT DONE COMPARED TO HIRING A CONTRACTOR, BUT AT LEAST WE'RE GONNA BE SAVING MONEY COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH. I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. I KNOW REALLY QUICK, I WANT TO ADD ON WHAT YOU SAY. I AGREE WITH YOU. WHAT DO YOU SAY? YEAH. OKAY. I JUST WANT TO ADD ON, I THINK WE SHOULD REQUEST A CITY OKAY. TO HAVE OUR PUBLIC WORK DEPARTMENT TO REVIEW. OKAY. THERE'S A REQUIREMENT. YEAH. OKAY. FIRST, IF THEY CANNOT DO IT, THEN WE HAVE NO TROUBLE CODE THE CONTRACTOR, BUT AT LEAST GIVE OUR DIRECTOR A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE PROJECT. SO I THINK IN THAT WAY, WE DON'T MISS ANY CHANCE AND JUST THROW MONEY OUTTA THE WINDOW. YEAH. BECAUSE WE HAVE ALREADY HAVE LABOR. WE PAY FOR THEIR SALARY. YEAH. YEAH. SO YOU NEED TO GIVE EXACTLY. CORRECT. YEAH. WHY WE NOT JUST BUY THE VEG. OKAY. AND ALSO PLAN. AND PLAN IT. YEAH. AND, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, AND, AND THIS GOES, I GUESS TO PAUL, IS THAT WE EMPHASIZE THE USE OF SAVING MONEY, AND WE MUST ACCOMPLISH THAT. WE'RE NOT HERE JUST TO TALK AND RAISE OUR VO OUR, OUR, OUR VOICE. UH, WE WANNA SAVE MONEY. WE WANNA BE ABLE TO EXPAND THESE SERVICES TO OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY. YEAH. COUNCIL MEMBER, I THINK WE CAN PUT A REQUEST. YEAH. OKAY. I THINK I, I ALREADY DID, BUT . YEAH. SO WE, WE CAN REQUEST ALL THE PROJECT, LET OKAY. LED OUR DEPUTY DIRECTOR TO SURVEY MM-HMM . IF WE CAN DO IT IN-HOUSE, THEN WE DO IT IN-HOUSE. YEP. OKAY. I'LL ADD IT TO MY COUNCIL, UH, CITY ATTORNEY. SHALL WE DO IT OVER HERE? OUR MOTHER MAY I, THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S A CLEAR REQUEST. UNLESS, IS ANYBODY OPPOSED? NO, NOBODY WILL OPPOSE. I THINK WE WANNA SAVE MONEY. THERE'S CLEAR DIRECTION THERE. OKAY. THANK YOU. THE DIRECTION IS UNDERSTOOD. WE'LL REVISIT THE PROJECT WITH, UM, DEPUTY DIRECTOR ALVARADO, UM, AND WE WILL REPORT THOSE FINDINGS TO THE CITY MANAGER AND WE WILL PROCEED ACCORDINGLY. EXACTLY. SO, SO GO TO OUR PUBLIC WORLD FIRST. OKAY. AND IF THEY CAN DO IT, UH, THEN LET'S DO IT. SAVE THE MONEY. AND IF THEY CAN DO IT, IT'S TOO BIG AND TOO COMPLICATED. OKAY. WE NEED MORE, THEN WE CAN GO TO THE CONTRACTOR. OKAY. AND GO TO IVP. OKAY. UH, ANY OTHER, GO AHEAD. YEAH. AND SO, YEAH. SO WE HAVE THIS ONE MORE THAT YOU IDENTIFY. SO I, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, UH, PAULINA, IF YOU COULD LET US KNOW, UH, WHAT IF, IF OUR PUBLIC WORKS TO GET THAT JOB DONE. UH, AND THEN THERE WAS OTHER MEDIUMS THAT I MENTIONED ON VINCENT AVENUE, UH, THAT RUNS, UH, IN BETWEEN, UH, CON COUNCILWOMAN, UH, LETTI LOPEZ, FIDO'S DISTRICT, AND MY DISTRICT ON VINCENT AVENUE, UH, ALSO ON, UM, SUNSET AVENUE. UM, WU INDICATED TO ME THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF, UH, DOING THOSE PROJECTS TOO, THAT WILL COST SAVE OUR CITY MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO, UH, WE REQUEST, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THINGS GET DONE BECAUSE, UH, LATER ON IN COUNCIL COMMENTS, I'M GONNA MENTION THINGS THAT HAVE NOT GET GOTTEN DONE THROUGH MY COUNCIL REQUEST. THAT WERE HAD DEADLINES, AND I GUESS WE'RE JUST IGNORING THEM OR NOT FULFILLING THEM. YEP. SO THINGS HAVE TO GET DONE. GOT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO, UH, CLEAR, UH, DIRECTION FROM THE FIVE C COUNCIL. OKAY. ANY PROJECT, MEDIAN OR THE VEGETATION. OKAY. A PLAN AND, UH, FOOD, ALL THIS. OKAY. BEAUTIFUL PLAN OVER THERE. UH, CLEAN UP. UH, LET'S GO TO OUR PUBLIC WORK FIRST. OKAY. SO I THINK THAT'S OKAY. ANY OTHER THING? YOU GUYS OKAY? OKAY. UH, THEN LET'S MOVE ON. UH, THANK YOU, ANNE. THANK YOU. OKAY. FOR YOUR TWO PRESENTATION. YOU'RE WELCOME. AT LEAST WE HAVE A VERY CLEAR DIRECTION. UH, WE LET, LET'S GO TO OUR PUBLIC WORK. UH, LET THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR TO REVIEW IT FIRST. OKAY. IF WE CAN DO IT, THEN WE DO IT IN-HOUSE. OKAY. UH, LET'S GO TO THE, [MAYOR/COUNCILMEMBERS REPORTS] UH, OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER REPORT. WHAT, I GUESS MY, OKAY. NOT YET. WE'RE NOT GOING HOME YET. WE STILL HAVE, SORRY. OKAY. WE'RE NOT DONE YET. OKAY. UH, OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER COMMON AND OR COUNCIL MEMBER REQUEST REPORT. GO AHEAD. UH, JUST WANTED TO REPORT [04:05:01] TO EVERYBODY THAT, UM, BECAUSE OF THE RELATIONSHIP I'VE BEEN BUILDING WITH AT AND T, THEY HAVE, UH, PUT IN A REQUEST FOR LAPTOP COMPUTERS TO BE GIVEN TO OUR, OUR, UH, UH, SENIOR CENTER. SO WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE STATUS OF THAT. THEY TOLD ME THEY'RE GOING TO LET ME KNOW, BUT I'M REALLY, REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE OF WANTING TO BRIDGE THE DI DIGITAL DIVIDE. THAT WAS SOMETHING I, I WORKED ON FOR A LITTLE BIT, AND IT JUST CAME OUT OF NOWHERE, LIKE FELL OUT OF THE SKY. SO LET'S JUST PRAY THAT IT'S GONNA WORK OUT. BUT IF IT DOES, THAT WILL MEAN THAT SENIORS WHO DON'T HAVE COMPUTERS WILL SOON HAVE ACCESS AT NO EXPENSE TO US. SO, WANTED TO REPORT THAT. THANK YOU. GOOD JOB. OKAY. AND, UH, DO WE HAVE OTHER REPORT? UH, I THINK WE'RE AT COUNCIL REQUEST, [CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION ] NO. YES. CONSOLE. OKAY. LET'S GO. COUNCIL REQUEST. YEAH. AND THEN I HAVE, OKAY, GO AHEAD. UM, OKAY. SO THE FIRST CONSULT REQUEST, UM, UH, SO I, I, I HAVE TO, UH, WE ALREADY APPROVED THIS, BUT I'M GONNA MAKE IT MORE CL MORE, UH, SPECIFIC AND CLEARER ON THE, SOME SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS. SO I MAKE A, I, I MAKE A, I WANNA, LIKE, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE DIRECTION, UH, TO THE CITY MANAGER, UH, TO INSTALL SPEED FEEDBACK RADAR MONITORS, WHICH IS THE SPEED, THE SPEED SIGNS THAT THE MONITOR, THE FLASHY ARE YES, THE FLASHY ONES. YEAH. THE FLASH ON NORTH ORANGE AVENUE AND SWEENEY. UH, ALSO ON MERCED BETWEEN ORANGE AND SUNSET. AND I WOULD LIKE RED AND BLUE STROBE, UH, LIGHTS TO BE PUT ON THEM INSTEAD OF ORANGE ONES, REGARDLESS OF COMPLIANCE WITH FHWA REGULATIONS. UM, OKAY. , I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT, SO, BUT TRANSTECH RIGHT THERE. OKAY. OUR TRAFFIC COMMITTEE. RIGHT. TRAFFIC, UH, ENGINEER OVER THERE. YEAH. SO MAYBE, OKAY. SO I, I, WE, I SPOKE TO, UH, THEM EARLIER TODAY. UM, UH, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN IT, BUT, UM, THEY DON'T RECOMMEND, THEY CAN'T RECOMMEND TO THE CITY RED AND BLUE STROBES. SO THAT'S WHY I HAD TO DO A CONCERT REQUEST THAT SPECIFICALLY SAYS, REGARDLESS OF FEDERAL HIGH RATE, UH, REGULATIONS THAT WE AS A, AS A CITY ARE DIRECTING. OKAY. SO, SO I THINK THIS IS, UH, MOTHER MAY I OKAY. AND SHOW IT'S A DIRECTION LIKE YOU GAVE FOR CORTEZ, CORRECT, CORRECT. RIGHT. BUT THAT ONE IS, UH, YELLOW FLASHING. YEAH. YEAH. BUT NOT A RED AND BLUE. YEAH. SO I DON'T KNOW, IT WOULD BE TOO COLORFUL LIKE CHRISTMAS. NO, NO, NO, NO. SAME, SAME, SAME BRIGHTNESS. IT'S JUST RED AND BLUE. IRVINGDALE USES IT. OTHER CITIES USE IT. AND IS THAT OKAY? THE RESIDENTIAL STREET? YES. YES. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. UH, MAYBE ENGINEER CAN EXPLAIN TO HER, THEN WE CAN MOVE ON. SO YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO HER WHY THAT IS THAT OKAY. FOR RESIDENTIAL WOULD BE TOO. OKAY. BECAUSE PEOPLE LIVING OVER THERE, I DO NOT WANT TO DISTURB, BUT WE JUST WANT TO SLOW DOWN THE TRAFFIC. SO WE DON'T, PEOPLE DON'T HAVE AN ACCIDENT KID THEMSELF. THE SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS CAN BE PLACED ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS AS BEING REQUESTED AND DISCUSSED HERE, THE COUNCIL MEMBER DID ALLUDE TO A DISCUSSION WE HAD PREVIOUSLY PER THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, FHWA, THEY'VE ISSUED A NOTICE THAT THE REQUEST THAT HE'S MAKING SPECIFICALLY THE BLUE AND RED FLASHING LIGHTS ARE NOT, UH, COMPLIANT WITH THE FHWA. SO HE'S NOT COMPLIANT. UM, NO. WELL, SO, SO IT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A RISK MANAGEMENT ISSUE. WE HAVE A, A LETTER. HOW ABOUT THE, JUST THE TYPICAL YELLOW FLASHING. THAT'S OKAY. THAT IS, THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. SO I WAS THINKING ABOUT WE JUST DO THAT THE YELLOW FLASHING. NO, NO, NO. SO IT'S THERE, IT'S, IT'S NO DIFFERENCE IN THE ORANGE ONES, IT'S JUST THE COLOR. CORRECT. SO NOTHING, IT'S, NO. SO I'M MENTIONING A PARK AND A SCHOOL SITE. I UNDERSTAND. BUT HE JUST MENTIONED THE FEDERAL. OKAY. AND THE TRAFFIC, THEY DID NOT RECOMMEND IT. THEY, THAT, THAT'S IN REGARDS TO CERTAIN GRANTS. LIKE IN CALIFORNIA, THE ALL CALTRANS HAD TO REMARK YELLOW STRIPPING ON THE FREEWAY. DO YOU REMEMBER ON THE FREEWAY YELLOWMAN COUNCIL MEMBER? YEAH. YEAH. UNDERSTAND. WE JUST DON'T WANNA SPEND THE MONEY AND THEN WE HAVE TO REMOVE IT. NO, YOU WON'T HAVE TO REMOVE IT. WE, WE, WE DON'T KNOW. OKAY. BUT BASED ON WHAT YOU SAYING, YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO REMOVE NO, HE SAY HE'S NOT, THAT'S NOT RECOMMENDED. HE, BECAUSE HE CAN'T, HE CAN'T RECOMMEND IT. HE, WE WENT IN A DISCUSS, I WENT IN A DISCUSSION WITH MELISSA AND THEM EARLIER TODAY, AND THEY SPECIFICALLY TOLD ME HOW TO DO THE CONSULT REQUEST. I GOT IT. OKAY. AND THE, UM, MAYOR PUTIN. YEAH. I WAS GONNA ASK, IS THE REASON FOR THIS COLOR JUST TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT'S POLICE? UM, IT, IT, IT HAS SHOWN THAT OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE IT, AND EVEN IRVING DALE'S, UH, POLICE ONE, THEY HAVE THAT'S, UH, TEMPORARY UP ON THEIR STREETS. IT SHOWS THAT CARS WILL SLOW DOWN WHEN THEY SEE RED AND BLUE AMBERS FLASHING AS THEIR, IT SAY SLOW DOWN, SPEED OVER THE SPEED LIMIT, WHATEVER IT SAYS, UH, IT HAS SHOWN TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE. OKAY. [04:10:01] WAS I OKAY? GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. SO YOU MENTIONED THAT IT WAS A TEMPORARY FIX, OR IS IT NO, NO, IT'S PERMANENT. IT'S, IT'S, UH, YEAH, SO IT'S, SO ONE LOCATION'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF, UH, ORANGEWOOD PARK RIGHT THERE NEXT TO THE HIGH SCHOOL. MM-HMM . AND THE OTHER LOCATION IS BASED UPON RES ACTUALLY ABOUT 40 RESIDENTS THAT I WALK. IT'S MY, IT'S THEN MY DISTRICT AREA. RIGHT. THEY HAVE SPECIFICALLY DEMANDED FOR ME THIS REQUEST. OKAY. WHEN I WAS ELECTED, UH, MAYOR POTENT. OKAY. HOLD ON YOU. I'M NOT DONE. OKAY. NEXT, LET HER FINISH PLEASE. SO, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A LOT OF, A LOT OF STREETS THAT HAVE SPEEDING ISSUES, AND ONE OF 'EM IS VINE. AND I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS THAT WE CAN DO WITH VINE. YEAH. AND, UM, EVERYONE JUMPS TO SPEED BUMPS AND OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T DO THAT. NO. MM-HMM. ESPECIALLY ON VINE. MM-HMM . UM, SO I MEAN, IS THIS AN, A REMEDY THAT I WILL, I WILL LIKE TO ALSO INCLUDE VINE AVENUE TO MY CONCERT REQUESTS. UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE 'EM ALL OVER . YES. YEAH. WE NEED, IT'S VERY EFFECTIVE. I, I HAVE SEEN UNITED STATES. I I GOT IT. WE, WE WANNA SAVE LIFE. BEVERLY HILLS HAS IT. I, UH, OKAY, GO AHEAD. UH, MAYOR POTEN, THANK YOU. I MEAN, IT IS A COOL CONCEPT AND I, I CAN SEE THE BENEFITS OF IT, BUT MY QUESTION IS, IF THAT IS INSTALLED, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT, AS WE MENTIONED, THEY'RE GONNA FORCE US TO REMOVE IT SO IT'S NOT A CASE OF BEING FORCED TO REMOVE I, I LET ME, OR PENALTY OR ANYTHING OF THAT, NICK, I CAN PROVIDE JUST A REAL BRIEF EXPLANATION. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION OVERSEES THE MANUAL ON UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. THE M-U-T-C-D, THE STATE HAS ADOPTED THE M-U-T-C-D AND THROUGH THE VEHICLE CODE, WE, THE CITY, ARE OBLIGATED TO FOLLOW THESE RULES. SO THIS SPECIFIC, UM, FEEDBACK SIGN WITH THE BLUE AND RED FLASHING LIGHTS, FHWA HAS ISSUED A LETTER THAT IT'S NON-COMPLIANT. SO MY ADVICE IN THE ROLE OF CITY ENGINEER IS I CANNOT RECOMMEND TO YOU MM-HMM . THAT YOU SHOULD GO OUT AND INSTALL A NON-COMPLIANT SIGN. HOWEVER, YOU'RE THE GOVERNING BOARD FOR THE CITY. YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DIRECT STAFF TO GO OUT AND INSTALL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. IT'S A RISK MANAGEMENT QUESTION OF SHOULD WE OR SHOULD WE NOT INSTALL SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW? 'CAUSE I'VE ADVISED THAT IT'S NOT COMPLIANT. GO AHEAD. AND WHAT IS THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THAT AND WHAT MAKES IT A RISK? I MEAN, THAT'S WHY YOU SAID NON NON COMPLIANCE. NO, I, YOU SAID RISK MANAGEMENT, BUT WHAT MAKES IT A RISK? AND I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WERE SO I CAN ADDRESS IT ON THE ENGINEERING SIDE. UM, I WOULD DEFER TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, THE ATTORNEY ATTORNEY, IF HE WOULD SPEAK UP IN A MOMENT. THE ATTORNEY. OKAY. IF THIS NONCOMPLIANT DEVICE, IF THEY HAVE AN ACCIDENT WITH CD KSU, BUT WE'RE OUT HERE IN OPEN SESSION, THAT'S PROBABLY A DISCUSSION FOR CLOSED SESSION. LET JUST TALK ABOUT LIABILITY. YES. OH, THIS IS A, YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S A MOTHER MAY I, SO WE'D LIKE TO MOVE THIS. SO YEAH, IT IS JUST A CONSULT REQUEST, UH, A CONSULT DIRECTION REQUEST, UH, AND OTHER CITIES HAVE IT. GOT IT. UH, IT, IT'S, IT'S NOT AN, A FORCABLE OFFENSE, SO YOU WON'T, THE CITY WON'T BE FINED FOR IT. NOW, WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDING, LIKE IF WE WERE TO SEEK A GRANT SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS LITTLE THING, WE WOULDN'T GET MONEY FOR IT. BUT IF WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR IT OURSELVES, OR I'LL EVEN FIND THE SPONSOR FOR THOSE THREE LIGHTS, THOSE THREE THINGS ON VINE AND THESE TWO STREETS, THEN THERE'S NOTHING IN THE, IN THE BOOK SAYING A CITY IS PROHIBITED. IT'S BODY. LIKE HE SAID, THE BODY CAN MAKE A, MAKE DECISIONS THAT BENEFIT ITS RESIDENTS AND PREVENT KILLINGS AND DEATHS. I, I GOT IT. OKAY. AND, AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW. WE CAN DO THIS. OKAY. AND I PREFER COMPLIANCE. OKAY. I WANT TO FOLLOW THE LAW, MR. MAYOR. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. GO AHEAD. SORRY. I AGREE. ACTUALLY, I, I WOULD PREFER COMPLIANCE BECAUSE, UH, IF, IF ANYTHING HAPPENS AND I REALIZE THAT THERE'S OPINIONS, I MEAN, IF IT'S A MOTHER, MAY I REQUEST TO LOOK INTO THE RECOMMENDATIONS, THAT'S FINE. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE, IT'S GOOD TO LOOK, BE INNOVATIVE, BUT ALSO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE ANY MOTHER, MAY I WITHIN THIS CONTEXT, ADDRESS THE MATTER OF RISK MANAGEMENT, BECAUSE I WOULD HATE FOR ANYONE TO SUE US AND SAY, RIGHT. YEAH. I, I'M JUST WORRIED ABOUT THAT. IT'S, IT'S NOT IN THE ENGINEERING'S PURVIEW TO SAY RISK MANAGEMENT. IT'S CITY, MA CITY. IT'S NOT ATTORNEY'S, UH, PURVIEW TO TELL US THAT THERE'S A RISK ASSOCIATED. SO WHY DO, WHY DO OTHER CITIES HAVE IT? WELL, I DON'T KNOW, BUT THE, IT'S NOT COMPLIANT. THE, THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT'S NOT COMPLIANT. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT, OKAY. THAT'S JUST A REGULAR, THAT'S JUST A ADVISOR. IT'S FINE. IT'S OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. UH, OKAY. BRIAN ? NO, I'M SORRY. MAY MAYOR BOLTON, YOU, YOU CAN ARGUE TO HE, IT JUST FOR DEVICE, JUST FOR THE CALL, PLEASE. PRETTY MUCH TO END THIS, HE'S REQUESTING A MOTHER. MAY I REQUEST SO THAT WE CAN GATHER ALL THE INFORMATION AND IT COULD BE BROUGHT TO COUNCIL [04:15:01] SO THAT WE UNDERSTAND AND CAN WEIGH OUT THE PROS AND CONS OF THE SITUATION. AND THEN WE CAN MAKE THE FINAL DECISION THEN. EXACTLY. BUT I'D LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, YEAH. LET'S MOVE FORWARD SO WE DON'T ARGUE OVER HERE. OKAY. LET'S MOVE. SO LET ME AMEND MY REQUEST. UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AS A DIRECTION, JUST LIKE WE DID FOR CORTEZ AVENUE. UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND DO WITH ORANGE LIGHTS FOR NOW. AND THEN INTERIMLY, UH, LET'S FIGURE OUT THIS RED AND BLUEISH. YES, YES, YES. YEAH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M GONNA DO TWO DIFFERENT REQUESTS. UH, I'M GONNA REQUEST THAT, UH, DOES VINE AVENUE ALREADY HAVE ONE? UH, ROSARIO? NO, JUST GET ONE. YEAH. SO IF WE COULD, IF WE COULD DO IT FOR CORTEZ, WE COULD DO IT FOR THESE STREETS. UH, NOT, NOT ONLY CORTEZ, I THINK THE A AND THE WEST POLE. OKAY. THE, THE THREE THREE PERSON KILLED. OKAY. OR MOTORCYCLE. YEAH. YEAH. WE NEED TO PUT THAT FLASHING. SPEEDING. SO SLOW DOWN THE TRAFFIC OR AMA SO WHEN PEOPLE SLOW DOWN AND READY TO GO LEFT TURN. OKAY. THEY SEE THE FLASHING LINE. SO NO, LET, WE NEED TO INSTALL RIGHT AWAY. YEAH. SO MY, MY POINT IS, IF PEOPLE ARE DYING, WE FIND MONEY WHEN WE WANNA FIND MONEY. OKAY. FINE. I MEAN, GOT, WE GOT SOMETHING DONE AT FORES TODAY. FINE. SO MY CONSOLE REQUEST IS TO INCLUDE AMAR AND WESTPORT, ORANGE AVENUE AND SWEENEY AND MERCED BETWEEN ORANGE AND BETWEEN ORANGE AND BETWEEN ORANGE AND SUNSET AVENUE ON MERCED AND CONTEXT, UH, ORANGE STROBE LIGHTS. UM, AND I, I WANT THIS PROJECT DONE WITHIN A MONTH. YEAH. AND, OKAY. UH, OKAY. MENTIONED NOT BUYING. YEAH, HE, HE MENTIONED ALREADY. YEAH. OKAY. LET'S, LET'S MOVE ON. VERY GOOD. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR COMPROMISE ABOUT THIS. OKAY. BUT AT LEAST WE CAN DO A COMPLIANCE WITH THE DEVICE. LET'S PUT THIS ON AND THEN WE LATER FIGURE OUT THIS THING. BUT AT LEAST LET'S MOVE ON. SO THAT'S A RE DIRECT, UH, RE DIRECTION TO GET THIS DONE WITHIN A MONTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INPUT. APPRECIATE. OKAY. I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW, UNDERSTAND WHAT IS COMPLIANCE, WHY IT'S NOT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR. OKAY. AND, UH, ANOTHER MOTHER, MAY I YES, YOU HAVE, UH, MORE GO AHEAD. AND THEN I DO A CONSOLE REQUEST TO HAVE THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE BRIEF THE CONSOLE ON, UM, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS SURROUNDING, UH, THE RED AND BLUE STROBES ON, UH, SPEED RADAR SIGNS IN OTHER CITIES AND, AND, AND WHAT FEDERAL REGULATIONS, UH, DICTATE AND STATE REGULATIONS. BUT ALSO WHY, UH, DID THOSE CITIES INSTALL IT REGARDLESS OF WHAT THOSE, UH, ADVISORIES SAY? I WOULD LIKE THIS PRESENTED BY, UH, WHATEVER FEBRUARY, BY THE FIRST MEETING OF APRIL. SO, UH, CITY ATTORNEY TO GIVE US A CLOSE ACTION REGARDING POTENTIAL ISSUE COMPARED WITH OTHER CITY, AND THAT'S WHY YOU WELL, I'M NOT, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THERE'S NO LIABILITY FOR US. I'M JUST ASKING FOR A GENERAL. SO I WANT IT DONE IN PUBLIC, THE PUBLIC DURING A, UH, UH, UH, STAFF PRESENTATION, UH, STAFF, UH, REPORTING. IS THAT YOU SAY WE NEED TO DO CLOSED SECTION FIRST. I'M NOT ASKING FOR A RISK ASSESSMENT. I'M ASKING WHAT, WHAT? YEAH, WE ALREADY MOVE ON. SO YOU GUYS, WELL, THEY, YEAH, WE MOVE ON A YELLOW ONE. THEY CAN, WELL, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO STICK BY WHAT THEIR, WHAT THEIR LICENSE REQUIRES THEM TO DO. THAT'S WHY IT'S THE CITY ATTORNEY'S JOB TO TELL US WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING AND NOT DOING. OKAY. UH, SHOULD WE DO IN THE CLOSE SECTION? OKAY, LET'S MOVE ON. OKAY. WHAT'S NEXT? YEAH. SO ARE WE GONNA DO A CLOSED SESSION OR PUBLIC CITY? YOU'RE THE CITY ATTORNEY TOWN MEAN? WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS ANY LIABILITY. IT SHOULD BE DONE IN CLOSED SESSION. LET'S DO CLOSED. OKAY. LET'S DO CLOSED SESSION. IT CAN BE OPEN SESSION. OKAY. NEXT. OKAY, GREAT. AS MOTHER MAY I, UM, LET'S SEE. THE NEXT ONE IS A, UM, UH, SO THERE WAS A CONSULT REQUEST THAT AN RFP FOR DOWN NORTH, THEY BE POSTED BY THE FIRST WEEK, EARLY, UH, FEBRUARY. UM, WE ARE NOW IN THE THIRD WEEK OF FEBRUARY, AND THE CITY MANAGER WAS, HAS NOT BEEN IN COMPLIANT COMPLIANCE WITH THAT DIRECTION. SO I WOULD LIKE FOR THE DOWN NORTH BAY PARK, RFP TO BE POSTED, UH, THIS WEEK BECAUSE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED TO, UH, LAST WEEK. CITY MANAGER. CAN, CAN YOU ANSWER THAT? YEAH. YES. IT'S CURRENTLY BEING REVIEWED RIGHT NOW SO THAT WE CAN POST IT. THERE HAD TO BE SOME CHANGES MADE TO THE CRI, UH, EVALUATION CRITERIA, AND THAT'S WHY, UM, IT HASN'T BEEN POSTED. SO WHEN YOU CAN POST IT, I BELIEVE WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT UP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO TRY TO MEET THAT DEADLINE. UM, BY THE WEEK ALREADY EXPIRED THE DEADLINE. YOU'RE TWO WEEKS LATE. OKAY. ASAP QUINN, GIVE US A DAY PLEASE. WE'D LIKE TO GET IT DONE BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THANK YOU. THE END OF THE WEEK. YOU SURE? ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO IT MONDAY OR YOU SURE AT THE END OF THE WEEK? THAT'S A THURSDAY. YEAH. YEAH, SHE'S, YEAH. 'CAUSE IT'S EASY. IT'S JUST A REPOST. YEAH. YOU CAN REPOST [04:20:01] READY TO BE SAFE IF WE COULD SAY MONDAY. OKAY. THE, ARE YOU GONNA STILL BE ABLE TO MEET THE APRIL DEADLINE? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CITY MANAGER. UH, WHAT'S NEXT? I WANNA, UH, DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER, UH, TO WORK WITH THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, ROXANNE LERMA AND CONTACT EDISON, UH, TO INSTALL OVERHEAD LIGHTS BEHIND THE ALLEYWAY ON THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN WEST COVINA AREA THAT CURRENTLY IS SEEN AN INCREASE IN CRIME INSTALL LIGHTS ON WHAT STREET HAVE YOU, UH, YOU REMEMBER WE HAVE A SHOOTING BEHIND THE GLENDORA ALLEYWAY. ALLEYWAY, AND IT'S VERY DARK. SO, OR POSSIBLE WE NEED SOME STREET LIGHT, AND THEN EDISON HAVE TO, SO THAT'S A, A, I SPOKE TO EDISON. EDISON SAYS THAT, UH, ROXANNE IS THE CONTACT FOR, UH, SOCAL EDISON. SO IF WE COULD DO THAT REQUEST TO EDISON TO TELL HIM THAT WE WANT LIGHTS, SAW THEIR, UH, GOT IT. WHATEVER METERS, POLES THEY HAVE. GOT IT. YOU WANT THE DATE? UM, IF YOU COULD REPORT BACK, UH, UH, SHE HAS TO, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A EMAIL PROCESS THAT HAPPEN. WHAT? HUH? EXCUSE ME. HEY. HEY, PLEASE. OKAY. HEY, PLEASE. OKAY. WE ALMOST DONE. LET US FINISH OUR MEETING, PLEASE. THANK YOU, SIR. OKAY. APPRECIATE, LET HELP EACH OTHER, PLEASE. OKAY. AND, UH, ROXANNE. OKAY. UH, WHEN YOU CAN SEE, YOU CAN, UH, GIVE US THE, UH, THE OKAY. ABOUT EDISON. LET ME, COR IF, IF I MAY, I'LL COORDINATE WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND WITH EDISON AND, UM, WE'LL WORK WITH ENGINEERING TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. UM, I DON'T WANNA GIVE YOU A DATE BECAUSE I DO NEED TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND EDISON. YEAH. DID NEED TO TALK TO THE, YEAH. SO IF YOU COULD, IF YOU COULD GIVE US AN, I GUESS JUST A GENERAL UPDATE, UM, DOING STAFF REPORTING, UH, FOR THE SECOND MEETING OF, UH, MARCH. OKAY. BECAUSE I KNOW EDISON DID TELL ME THAT IT'S A, IT'S A PROCESS. SO IF YOU COULD REACH OUT TO THAT ONE CONTACT, I THINK YOU HAVE, AND THEN DO THE EMAIL PROCESS THEY REQUIRE. YEAH. VERY GOOD. NEXT. OKAY. THE NEXT ONE, I WOULD LIKE TO BRING BACK THE ITEM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION VOTED ON, AND THE LAST MEETING REGARDING WEST VNA HOSPITAL AND SEND NOTICES TO THE PUBLIC WITHIN A 1000 FEET RADIUS. UM, TO ALSO INCLUDE REPORTS FROM THE WESTFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT, WESTFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND WEST VNA HELP. UH, OKAY. THIS ONE JUST RECENTLY, LAST WEEK, BEING APPROVED BY THE PLANNING, UH, DEPARTMENT E REQUEST FOUR OUT OF FIVE CITY COUNCIL TO BRING IT BACK. AND, UH, LATER ON, SINCE WE APPROVE THE OKAY. IN THE FUTURE, WE'LL BE ONLY TWO. AND, UH, I WILL SUPPORT TO BRING BACK TO THE COUNCIL TO GIVE THE DETAIL ABOUT THE PSYCHIATRIC OKAY. FACILITY WITH 74 BED AND, UH, WITH A PARKING ISSUE AND THE DISSERVICE ISSUE. AND I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE A POLICE AND DEPARTMENT AND FIRE DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING OUR PUBLIC HEALTH, TO GIVE US THE REPORT REGARDING WHAT WILL BE THE COMMUNITY IMPACT, UH, FOR THIS BIG FACILITY COMING TO WEST COVINA. SO I WILL SUPPORT THIS. ANY, ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? UH, THE OBJECTION, UH, MR. MAYOR, GO AHEAD. UM, I, I UNDERSTAND WE NEED TO BRING THIS UP. I JUST WANTED TO STAY FOR THE RECORD THAT, UM, UM, I'M, I'M A BIG SUPPORTER OF, OF MENTAL HEALTH, AND THERE, THERE ARE SOME, SOME THINGS THAT ARE, ARE BEING DESCRIBED AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IT'S GOING TO RE RESULT IN PEOPLE, UH, UH, ENDING UP ON THE STREETS OF WEST COVINA AND SO FORTH. SO, UM, I THINK THAT, THAT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD THING, UH, FOR THE RESIDENTS TO KNOW BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE TO REALLY FIND A WAY TO BE, TO, TO OPTIMIZE SUPPORT. SO I THINK THAT IF WE MOVE, UH, FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTS KNOW ABOUT IT, IT'LL OPTIMIZE A CHANCE TO EDUCATE THE, THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS ARE. AND THEN, AND THEN TO SUPPORT MENTAL, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT, UH, FOR, FOR PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED IT IN THIS COMMUNITY AND FOR, TO GIVE, UH, THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE, TO ASSURE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA THAT THEY, THIS WILL NOT RESULT IN PEOPLE, UH, WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS BEING RELEASED ONTO THE STREETS OF WEST COVINA. UM, AND ALSO TO, FOR THEM TO PROVIDE A, A STRONG RECORD OF THEIR PAST PERFORMANCE AND, UM, UH, OF, OF, IN, IN THIS SPACE. THAT WAY THEY CAN SHOW AND ASSURE THE, THE, THE, THE PEOPLE OF WEST COVINA. THAT, THAT NOT ONLY, UM, IS THIS, COULD THIS, COULD THIS BE A GOOD THING, BUT ALSO THAT IT, IT WOULD MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTS WILL STAY SAFE BECAUSE OF THE ASSURANCES PROVIDED, UM, AS, AS SHARED DURING THE COMMISSION MEETING, UH, ABOUT, UH, MAKING SURE THAT THERE ARE, UH, SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PEOPLE ARE DISCHARGED AT, AT EITHER ANOTHER FACILITY, UH, OUTSIDE OF WEST COVINA OR WITH FAMILY MEMBERS FAR AWAY. YOU KNOW, ALL OF THAT JUST HAS TO BE DISCUSSED [04:25:01] AND DESCRIBED IN DETAIL. AND WITH THIS, IT'LL GIVE, UH, UH, THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO PREPARE A REALLY EXTENSIVE WHATEVER IT WANTS THEY WANNA SHARE, SO THAT WAY THE COMMUNITY CAN, CAN, CAN KNOW WITH CERTAINTY, AND THAT WE CAN SEE WHATEVER THE POSSIBILITIES ARE AND JUST SORT OF SEE WHATEVER THEY SAY AND YES. AND THEN HOPEFULLY THAT, YOU KNOW, THEN THAT WE CAN GO FROM THERE. I, I THINK CONS, COUNCILMAN. OKAY. AND, UH, OLI CAN TELL, THAT'S EXACTLY, I THINK CITY COUNCIL WANT TO HAVE A OPEN DIALOGUE AND A HEARING. OKAY. I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS FACILITY. UH, WE NEED MENTAL, UH, HEALTH SERVICE, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE, OKAY. AND THEY PROVIDE, UH, THE SERVICE THAT OKAY. IN NEED OF OUR COMMUNITY AND, UH, ALL THE SAFETY NET, WE LIKE ANOTHER SAFETY NET. SINCE WE GET ELECTED, WE NEED TO, UH, TAKE THIS AS A GOOD FACE OKAY. TO DILIGENT TO REVIEW OKAY. AND OPEN UP FOR OUR RESIDENT, HAVE INPUT. OKAY. AND TO REVIEW THIS FACILITY AND MAKE SURE, OKAY. WHAT THEY WANNA BRING INTO OUR CITY IS POSITIVE AND PROVIDE SERVICE. OKAY. AND NOT JUST USING THE MAJOR H MONEY. OKAY. AND, UH, TO MUTE THE SYSTEM, BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THEY COMING IN AS A GOOD FACILITY AND PROVIDE GOOD SERVICE. I THINK THAT'S THE REASON WE WANT TO HAVE THIS. OKAY. HEARING. OKAY. SO WE WANT TO INVITE, THAT'S WHAT I, I SUPPORT COUNCIL MEMBER REGARDING 1000 FEET, BECAUSE THE ONE BLOCK IS ALL THOUSAND RESIDENTIAL, AND WE WANT THEM TO UNDERSTAND, AND THEY CAN COME OVER AND PARTICIPATE ABOUT, OKAY. THIS, UH, THIS, UH, FACILITY COME INTO THEIR COMMUNITY. YEAH, GO AHEAD. COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH. JUST TO, UH, I MEAN, UH, COINCIDE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. MAYOR RU I'M NOT SAYING THAT I'M AGAINST OR FOR THIS PROJECT. ALL I'M SAYING IS THAT, UH, THIS IS A PROJECT WITHIN DISTRICT ONE THAT INCLUDES A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. AND I THINK OUR RESIDENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE INFORMED, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE A, A OPPORTUNITY FOR THE APPLICANT TO DISCUSS THEIR PROPOSAL AND, AND FOR CONSTITUENTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, UH, TO HAVE A CHANCE TO SPEAK ON THE MATTER THAT WE CAN HEAR 'EM VERY GOOD. THIS MATTER MAY I, SO, UH, ANYBODY AGAINST THIS? OKAY. FIVE ZERO. OKAY. AND, UH, PUT AGENDA AND BRING BACK, AND WE WANT THE DETAIL AND, UH, HAVE, UH, THE APPLICANT COME IN TO GIVE US A, A PRESENTATION AT THE SAME TIME WE WANT THE POLICE FILE AND THE DR. BASO TO SEE OKAY. WHAT THEIR SUGGESTION. SO WE HAVE A ALL ROUNDED OKAY. DISCUSSION. AND, UH, AND EVEN, UH, I, I WATCHED THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, UH, UH, PLANNING, PLANNING COMMISSIONER, TALKING ABOUT THE PARKING, BUT THEY NOT SAFE. THE, THE PARKING RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET WITH THE EXIT COMING THROUGH. SO WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT NOBODY GET HURT WHEN THEY WALK OKAY. TO THE, TO THE HOSPITAL. SO ANYWAY, UH, LET'S BRING IT BACK. AND OTHER YOU DONE? NO, NO. . OKAY. LET'S CONTINUE. WE HAVE ALL NINE . NO. AND THE NEXT ONE WILL BE A CONSTANT REQUEST TO CHANGE THE HIRING REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL CITY POSITIONS TO HIGH SCHOOL OR EQUIVALENT PROVEN WORK, EXPER TO A HIGH, HAVING A REQUIREMENT OF A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR CUR EQUIVALENT PROVEN WORK EXPERIENCE TO ALIGN WITH FEDERAL AND STATE HIRING PRACTICES. IT'S LED TO FEDERAL AND THE STATE, UH, REQUIREMENTS. YES. THEY, THEY HAVE, UH, YOU COULD USE JOB EXPERIENCE AS A WAY TO, UH, ATTAIN STATE AND FEDERAL JOBS. UH, OKAY. UH, THE, UH, MAYOR POTENT, IS THIS FOR ALL POSITIONS OR JUST, NO, NO, NO, I, JOB. JOB. WHICH, UH, THE JOB. THE DIRECTOR? YEAH. OKAY. THE STAFF. EVERYBODY. THIS? YEAH. FOR ALL, EVERYBODY FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEE. YEAH. USUALLY IT FALLS UNDER THE DIRECTOR POSITIONS. AND SO DIFFERENT POSITIONS WITHIN, SO IT'S, I'M, I'M MAKING IT BROAD, BUT US IT'S ONLY GONNA COVER A HANDFUL OF POSITIONS WITHIN THE CITY. SO I WOULD SUPPORT THIS. OKAY. I THINK WE CANNOT DISCRIMINATE PEOPLE. OKAY. YOU HAVE COLLEGE DEGREE? NO, NO COLLEGE DEGREE. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE UNDER OKAY. ALREADY PROVE, PROVEN. UH, THEY ARE HONEST. OKAY. LOYAL AND, UH, EXCELLENT. UH, OKAY. WORK. I'VE MET SO MANY STAFF. OKAY. I, I THINK WE SHOULD OPEN IT UP. OKAY. MORE OF, UM, OKAY. OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE. AND AT THE SAME TIME, IF THEY WANT TO DO ANOTHER COLLEGE DEGREE, DOING THEIR PRIVATE ATTENDANCE, THAT'S ANOTHER ISSUE, BUT MM-HMM . WE NOW RESTRICT THE PEOPLE. SO, SO I ALWAYS SUPPORT. AND ANY OTHER ONE TO DISCUSS, MR. MAYOR? YEAH. YEAH, GO AHEAD. WELL, WHILE I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THE BROAD NOTION, THERE ARE CERTAIN POSITIONS, I'M, I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE WORD ALL. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD WORK, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN POSITIONS THAT DO REQUIRE COLLEGE DEGREES, AND THAT MUST, SO WITHOUT DEFINITION, IT CAN BE DANGEROUS 'CAUSE SLOPPY THE WAY IT'S, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE COULD REFINE THAT. OR MAYBE THE CITY. CORRECT. SO MAYBE I'LL EXAMPLE THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, FINANCE POSITION. MAYBE [04:30:01] THIS MOTHER MAY I, THIS MOTHER AI YEAH, WE COULD BRING IT BACK. YEAH. IT'S A, IT'S A, AT THIS MOTHER MAY I, I THINK IT'S OKAY. IT'S TO BRING IT BACK AND TO BRING IT BACK. AND WE CAN DISCUSS FOR CITY STAFF TO IDENTIFY POSITIONS. THIS IS NOW WE'RE GONNA APPROVE IT. OKAY. YES. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING. I WAS GONNA SAY, WE CAN IDENTIFY POSITIONS WHERE WE THINK THAT WE CAN THAT EXACTLY. OKAY, GOOD. EXACTLY. YEAH. SO WE NOW BLANKET, RIGHT? YEAH. YEAH. SO REALISTICALLY, FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, DIRECTOR POSITIONS, LIKE FOR PUBLIC WORKS OR, OR, OR CITY MANAGER POSITIONS OR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER POSITIONS. THOSE POSITIONS ALIGN CITY MANAGER. WE DON'T NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE. YEAH, EXACTLY. SO WE DON'T NEED, THEY ALIGN, THEY ALIGN WITH FEDERAL AND STATE STANDARDS THAT A LOT OF DIRECTORS WITHIN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UH, DON'T HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE. THEY, THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZES THOSE WHO HAVE A PROVEN TRACK RECORD AND YEARS AND YEARS OF YEAH. EVEN THE PHD DEGREE, NOT EXACTLY. CAN RUN THE CITY. YEP. OKAY. OKAY. ESPECIALLY I THINK JOB, JOB, JOB EXPERIENCE IS REALLY OKAY. AND, UH, SHOWING. BUT AGAIN, THIS WILL BE UNDER THE CITY STAFF, CITY MANAGER TO HIRE PEOPLE. BUT BRING IT BACK. BRING IT BACK SO WE CAN DISCUSS. YES. OKAY. AND, UH, THAT'S BETTER. IT'S OKAY. YES. BETTER EVERYBODY AGAINST THIS. OH, ALSO, SO IT'S A SUGGESTION TO CITY, LOOKING TO, UH, THE QUALIFICATION. OKAY. AND, UH, FOR ALL THE JOB. OKAY. REQUIREMENT. OKAY. UH, NEXT ONE. ARE WE DONE? YES. UH, I MAKE A COUNCIL REQUEST TO CHANGE THE, UH, THE CODE. UH, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A CODE OR POLICY, I, I FORGOT. BUT, UM, TO CHANGE THE POLICY FOR REMOVAL OF A COMMISSIONER, UH, TO CHANGE IT. CURRENTLY, IT HAS TO BE FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR, CAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE IT, FOR IT TO BE FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE TO REMOVE A COMMISSIONER IN GENERAL. UH, MAYOR PUTIN, UH, ISN'T IT RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, IF THE COUNCIL PERSON APPOINTS, THEN THE COUNCIL PERSON CAN ALSO REMOVE, UH, THE COUNCIL PERSON WHO ACTUALLY APPOINTS OR APPOINTS A POSITION ALSO HAS THE CAPABILITY TO REMOVE THAT PERSON WITHOUT, OR WITHOUT CAUSE. UH, THIS WILL GIVE, IT, GIVE ALL A MA A FOUR MEMBER, UH, BODY. THE, ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY, CURRENTLY FOUR MEMBERS CAN REMOVE A COMMISSIONER FOR CAUSE. UM, ONLY WHAT, WHAT I'M ASKING FOR IS TO CHANGE IT TO WIDTH OR WITHOUT CAUSE. OKAY. UH, I GOT IT. OKAY. I, I THINK IT'S FOUR OUT FIVE IS NEEDED. OKAY? MM-HMM. SO, BECAUSE, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT HERE FOREVER, IN THE FUTURE, IN CITY COUNCIL WITH THREE MAJORITY CAN JUST REMOVE MM-HMM . A COMMISSIONER, THAT'S, UM, THAT'S JUST GOING TO CREATE CHAOS. YES. I, I THINK FOUR OUT FIVE. OKAY. BUT I DON'T KNOW WITH CAUSE WITHOUT CAUSE WHY IS A DIFFERENT, UH, CITY ATTORNEY? MAYBE YOU CAN, YEAH. CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, THE, THE COUN THE COUNCIL MEMBER THAT APPOINTS CAN REMOVE IF, UH, THERE'S A VACANCY ON CITY COUNCIL, UM, THEN THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN, UH, APPOINT OR REPLACE UHHUH. OKAY. BUT IF THE COUNCIL'S FULL AND THEY'RE DESIRING TO REMOVE, UH, SOMEONE ELSE'S APPOINTMENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION, YOU CAN HAVE FOUR. IT SAYS IT'S CURRENTLY FOUR OUT OF FIVE WITH CAUSE AND IT LISTS THE CAUSE. I, I BELIEVE IT'S, UM, IT'S FOR ANY COMMISSION, BUT YEAH. YEAH. THERE, THERE, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY SPECIFIC. IT'S PRETTY, UH, DIFFICULT TO DO. SO THE REQUEST, AS I UNDERSTANDING, IS TO REMOVE WITH CAUSE. SO WITH OR WITHOUT, CAUSE FOR, FOR FIST VOTE, UH, FOUR OUT FIVE WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR SURE. YES. YEAH. I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP FOUR OUT FIVE. YES. OKAY. SO WE, SO IN THAT WAY, THESE THREE OUT FIVE IS EASY. MM-HMM . FOUR OUT FIVE WON'T BE THAT EASY. YES. MR. MAYOR. YEAH, GO AHEAD. I, I OPPOSE REMOVING FOUR. I MEAN, THERE HAS TO BE, CAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S GOING TO BE, I MEAN, IT GETS TO BE REALLY TENUOUS. WE GO DOWN A SLIPPERY SLOPE. OKAY. GOT IT. OKAY. AND HOW ABOUT, UH, ROSARIO? OKAY. YOU DON'T CARE. OKAY. YOU SAY EITHER WAY AND, UH, MALE PROTEIN. YEAH, EITHER WAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. AND, UH, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? THIS WILL CALL PLEASE, UH, COUNSEL. WHO WAS THE SECOND, UH, WHO, ONE SECOND WAS. ONE SECOND. OKAY. UH, MAY I PUT THAT ONE A SECOND? YOU SECOND. SO WE HAVE A MOTION MOVED BY, UH, THE MOTHER. MAY I FIND YOU REGARDING THE FOUR OUT FIVE AND, UH, WITH WE, OR WITH WITHOUT CALLS? I DON'T THINK IT WILL HAPPEN, BUT, BUT AGAIN, UH, OKAY. PLEASE. AND A SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. YES. COUNCILMAN CONTOS? NO. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. AYE. MAYOR PRO TEDO. AYE. MAYOR. WOO. AYE. OH, YOU GOT 4, 4, 1. YEAH. FOUR ONE. OKAY. OH, WE ALREADY SAID THE EXAMPLE. , SOMEBODY WOULD BE IN TROUBLE. NO. OKAY. UH, NEXT AGENDA, PLEASE. UH, NEXT MOTHER. MAY I, UM, YEAH. UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE A CONCERT REQUEST TO, UH, RECOMMEND [04:35:01] THAT, UH, STUDENT GOVERNMENT DAY ALSO INCLUDE NOGALES HIGH SCHOOL, BECAUSE IN DISTRICT, UM, UH, FIVE, I, I WANNA SAY THIS, THIS IS NOT OUR EVENT. YEAH. JUST A RECOMMENDATION. SO, OKAY. AND THIS IS, UH, KWANI. SO YEAH. SO KWANI NEED TO CONTACT THEM. MM-HMM . WE JUST, UH, HOST. OKAY. WE JUST, UH, A PLACE FOR THEM TO COME. YEAH. YEAH. OR HOW THEY ORGANIZE. WE HAVE NO SAY. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO YOU CAN SAY RECOMMENDED. YEAH. IT'S A RECOMMENDATION. AND I KNOW, I KNOW ROXANNE IS A MEMBER OF, UH, KIWANI. MAYBE YOU CAN, UH, MENTION TO, UH, BRAD THAT NOGALES, MAYBE NISSAN LOVE, BECAUSE THAT'S, HE'S A, HIS, HIS SCHOOL. YEAH. I, I, I, I GREW UP IN WEST SNA AND I WENT TO NOGALES HIGH SCHOOL, SO, UH, IN, IN REP. SO I KNOW FOR, OKAY, GOT IT. THERE'S RESIDENTS IN DISTRICT FOUR AND FIVE THAT GO TO NOGALES HIGH SCHOOL. YES. SO, YEAH. OKAY. AND LET'S HAVE A RECOMMENDED TO BRAD SEA, IF POSSIBLE, HE CAN INVITE TODAY. HE INVITED SOUTH HILL ACADEMY AND, UH, UH, THE, THE SAC OKAY. ACADEMY. THAT IS, IT'S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. YEAH, THAT'S GOOD. YEAH. SO MAYBE NEXT YEAR WE CAN INCLUDE AL. OKAY. I THINK THE KID OVER THERE MAYBE WANT TO JOIN TO SEE THE GOVERNMENT. OKAY. UH, NEXT ONE I HOLD. IT'S OVER. AND IS THAT LAST ONE? THIS ONE IS MAKE A COUNCIL REQUEST. THERE'S NOTHING LEFT, . THANK YOU. SO PAGE LONG. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BUT, BUT, BUT A LOT OF THINGS PRETTY OKAY. AND, UH, GOOD, GOOD POINT. AND OTHER, UM, REQUESTS. YES, GO AHEAD. UM, I NEED SOME, THE ASSISTANCE OF THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK. UM, SO THE FIRST MOTION, UH, THAT I'D LIKE TO MAKE HAS, HAS TO, UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE BOTH WITH RE REGARD TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. AND THE FIRST ONE, UH, DEALS WITH ESSENTIAL, ESSENTIALLY TRANSPARENCY WITH JUST MAKING SURE THAT ANY EXPENDITURE WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, THAT'S, THAT THAT COULD HAPPEN. THAT IT NEEDS TO COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL. UH, THAT'S ESSENTIALLY IT. BUT I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR THE RECORD FOR THE MOTHER, UH, MAY I, THAT I WROTE TO BE READ BY THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK. COUNCILMAN CONTOS, FIRST MOTHER MAY. I, IS IN A SPIRIT OF FULL TRANSPARENCY FOR THE PUBLIC. I ASK THAT THE CITY COUNCIL PLACE FOR APPROVAL ON THE AGENDA OF THE NEXT MEETING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 4TH, 2025, A RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH AS FORMAL POLICY, THE NEED FOR ALL NEW PROPOSED EXPENDITURES RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO BE PRESENTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR REVIEW AND CONSIDERATION FOR ADOPTION BY INTENT. THIS NECESSARILY MEANS PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF FULL DETAILS, INCLUDING SPECIFIC PROS AND CONS OF ACTIONS AS PROPOSED BY STAFF IN THAT SPIRIT TO CONTINUE OPTIMIZING TRANSPARENCY. IT MUST BE NOTED THAT ANY FURTHER BUDGETARY REALLOCATION RELATING TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT NOT OCCUR UNTIL AFTER THIS AGENDA IS ITEM IS DISCUSSED DURING AN OPEN SESSION OF THE COUNCIL. UH, YOU WANT TO EVERY DETAIL ON THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, YOU WANT THEM BRING US TO APPROVE WHEN IT COMES TO EXPENDITURES, WHENEVER THERE'S NEW MONEY THAT'S COMING IN FOR, FOR USE, LET'S SAY IF THERE'S MONEY THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, UH, UH, CURRENTLY BASED ON THE REPORT, WE HAVE ABOUT $90,000 LEFT. IS THAT OUTSIDE OF THE CURRENT CONTRACT COUNSEL? YES. OUTSIDE THE CURRENT CONTRACT. IF THERE'S, IF THERE'S ANY NEW EXPENDITURES, IT'S NOT TOUCHING THE CURRENT EXPENDITURE AT ALL. UH, THE CURRENT LEFT ALREADY $90,000. SO IF WE WANT TO INCREASE OKAY. THE BUDGET, THEN THEY NEED TO BRING TO CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. THAT'S WHY YOU SAY, RIGHT. YEAH. I JUST WANNA FORMALIZE THAT. OH, OF COURSE. BUT YOU, BUT THAT ONE IS FINE. OKAY. ANYTHING WANT TO INCREASE THE BUDGET, NEED TO COME TO CITY COUNCIL, THAT'S FOR SURE. BUT CURRENTLY WHAT THEY SPEND ON $90,000, YOU WANT THE DETAIL? NO, YOU HAVE TO PROVE, NO, NOT ABOUT, I MEAN, THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S, IT'S ALREADY DEDICATED, BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT ANY NEW OH, YES. OKAY. YES. UH, ANYTHING IF WE WANT TO INCREASE OR WE HAVE A GRANT, THIS AND THAT, AND THEN WE DISCLOSE TO THE COUNCIL, TO THE PUBLIC. YES. THEN WE CAN, WE CAN, UH, DISCUSS HERE OF, OF COURSE. OKAY. AND, UH, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? NO, NO. NOTHING. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND THEN THE SECOND MOTION. AND IT'S MY LAST, UH, FOR, WITH REGARDS TO THIS. YOU SURE YOU WANT MORE ? I, THE, HE, MY CALL, OUR COLLEAGUE HAS A RECORD THERE. THE SECOND ONE HAS TO DO, UH, IT'S ALMOST MIDNIGHT NOW. OH, WOW. WE'RE, WE'RE NOT QUITE THE RECORD, BUT WE'RE GETTING THERE. YEAH. HURRY UP. BUT THE, THE SECOND ONE, ONE HAS, HAS TO DO WITH, UM, ES ESTABLISHING, UH, THAT, THAT NO, UH, MONEY FROM, UH, AND THIS IS IN SUPPORT OF A FELLOW CO COUNCIL COLLEAGUE WHO ALSO, UH, I THINK HAD BROUGHT IT UP PREVIOUSLY, THAT NO MONEY BE ALLOCATED FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UH, AND THAT WE SET THAT AS POLICY. SO, UM, WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO ASK THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK TO READ THE SECOND MOTHER MAY I, THE SECOND MOTHER MAY I, FROM COUNCILMAN CONTOS. I ASK THAT THE CITY COUNCIL PLACE FOR APPROVAL ON THE AGENDA OF THE NEXT MEETING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 4TH, 2025, A RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH AS FORMAL POLICY [04:40:01] THAT NO FUND SHALL BE DI DIVERTED FROM THE GENERAL FUND, EITHER THROUGH DIRECT OR NON-DIRECT MEANS TO CONTINUE FINANCING OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OR ANY LIMITED, EXCUSE ME, OR ANY ASPECTS OF ITS POTENTIAL OPERATION OR FURTHER CONSIDERATION. TO BE CLEAR, THIS EXPRESSLY INCLUDES BID IS NOT LIMITED TO DEDICATION OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES THROUGH TRANSTECH OR ANY OTHER CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTOR TO COVER FOR STAFFING OFFICE AND OTHER EXPENSES. THE MOVEMENT OF FUNDS FROM DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS TO COVER EXPENSES RELATING TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OR REIMBURSEMENT OF BUSINESSES, EXPENSES, OR TO ANY OR ALL PERSONS WHO PROVIDE IN KIND SUPPORT WHOSE EXPENDITURES EXCEED THE AMOUNT ALREADY DEDICATED TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT WORK AS PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT. FUNDS ALSO AS LAID OUT IN THE AGENDA PACKET DISTRIBUTED IN CONNECTION WITH TONIGHT'S MEETING. TO BE CLEAR, THIS NECESSARILY ENTAILS THAT, PARTICULARLY SINCE THE COUNCIL ALREADY COMMITTED THE LAST OF ARPA MONEY TO OTHER PURPOSES IN DECEMBER, 2024, OUT OF ANY ARPA FUNDING THAT STILL REMAINS UNSPENT OTHER THAN WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN EARMARKED FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND RELATED WORK, ADDITIONAL ALLOCATION OF ARPA MONEY IS NOT AUTHORIZED. THIS IS A LOAN MAD MAY I, SORRY. SORRY. I FEEL LIKE I'M REALLY FOR CLARITY. UH, COULD YOU, COULD YOU REPEAT THREE TIMES SO WE CAN GO TO MIDNIGHT ? OKAY. UH, AND, UH, OKAY. SO BASICALLY, UH, COUNCIL, UH, MAN KENTO, OKAY. UH, JUST SAY, UH, YOU REQUEST NO GENERAL FUND, NO, NOT ANY, NOT EVEN CONSIDERATION THIS AND THAT IS WHY YOU REQUEST SAYING THAT, THAT, THAT NO, THAT WE SET AS POLICY THAT NO MONEY BE, UH, MOVED FROM, IIII WILL BE ABSOLUTELY AGAINST THIS. I UNDERSTAND, BUT I YEAH, BUT WHAT I'M SAYING IS THIS, OKAY. IF WE NEED ANYTHING YOU STILL NEED TO BRING TO CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVAL. SO CITY COUNCIL CAN DISCUSS WHY WE NEED IT. IF WE DECLINE, THEN THEY DON'T GET IT. BUT NOT BLANKET OKAY. FOREVER FOR SURE. NOT GOING TO TOUCH GENERAL FUND. OKAY. IF WE NEED MAYBE $2,000 ON GENERAL FUND FOR SOME ISSUE, AND THEY, THEY'RE NOT GOING TOUCH THIS AND THAT, BUT ANYWAY, AND NO DISCUSSION. OKAY. I AGAINST THIS. OKAY. SO, UH, YOU, YOU HAVE A MOTHER MAY I, OKAY. AND, OKAY. IT'S FORBIDDEN TO USE ANY GENERAL FUND FOR, UH, THE, THE, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THAT'S SEE WHY YOU REQUEST. YES. OKAY. AND, UH, SO, UH, DO, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING THE REQUEST. YOU JUST SAY, OKAY. ARE YOU SAYING POLICY? NO, GENERAL FUND TOUCH. OKAY. IN CASE WE NEED SOMETHING AND THAT WE CANNOT DO AS A POLICY. BUT WHAT I'M SAYING IS THIS, WE CAN BASICALLY BRING OKAY. IF THEY HAVE REQUEST TO BRING TO US TO DISCUSS. OKAY. IF THAT MAKES SENSE. WE MIGHT BE, CAN GET A LAST MILE, BUT IF NOT, WE DECLINE. SO WE CAN STILL OKAY. WITH THAT BUDGET COME TO US. SO ANYWAY, UH, OKAY. WE HAVE A FIRST. OKAY. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? DO WE FORESEE USING THE GENERAL FUND, THOUGH? WE DON'T FORESEE, WE DON'T FORESEE USING THAT YET. BUT NOW HE WANT TO JUST BLANKETLY AND STOP EVERYTHING, THIS AND THAT. I THINK IT'S TOO EARLY TO PREEMPT THIS. IT'S MORE LIKE A POLITICAL MOVEMENT AND THE I OKAY. NOT HAPPY ABOUT A POLITICAL MOVEMENT FOR THAT, BECAUSE ANYTHING WE WANNA DO IT WITH COME TO CITY COUNCIL FOR DISCUSSION AND WHY WE NEED TO DO THIS BEFORE EVEN WE HAVE ANYTHING COMING IN. YOU SAID THERE'S NO DISCUSSION, BUT YOU'RE INJECTING AN OPINION. OKAY. GOT IT. OKAY. SO LET'S, LET'S VOTE. DO WE HAVE A SECOND TO REPEAT MY, MY, MY, MY THE MOTHER MAY I, IS TO ESTABLISH THIS POLICY THAT WE WILL NOT USE ANY GENERAL FUND MONEY FOR, UH, FOR, UH, FOR ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURE FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? WE HAVE A SECOND. THE BENEFIT OF MY COLLEAGUE. DO I HAVE A SECOND? I HAVE ONE QUESTION. FOR PAUL. PAUL OR TOM? UH, DO GRANTS GO TO THE GENERAL FUND? CAN GRANTS GO DO THE GENERAL FUND? YEAH. GRANT, GO TO THE GENERAL FUND. UM, DO THEY, CAN THEY GO THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND GRANT GRANTS? WELL, WE CAN RECEIVE THE GRANT WHEN THEY GO. CAN THEY GO TO GENERAL SHARE? THEY USUALLY, NO, NO. WE WILL GO TO A SEPARATE ACCOUNT. SO THEY DON'T GET, UM, IF I STEPHANIE'S UP THERE , I, I, I DON'T THINK SO. I THINK SOME GRANT WILL GO TO GENERAL FUND. SOME GRANTS REQUIRE FUND OR MATCHING, AND SO THAT, YEAH. BUT THEY STILL GO TO GENERAL FUND. I'LL HAVE STEPHANIE CONFIRM. DEPENDING UPON THE GRANT, IT COULD GO TO THE GENERAL FUND. TYPICALLY, WE DON'T PUT ANY GRANTS IN THE GENERAL FUND, THOUGH. THEY GO TO A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND. WE HAVE A FUND, IF IT'S A, IF IT'S A RANDOM GRANT, THAT'S A NON-FEDERAL FUND [04:45:01] THAT WE USE FOR GRANTS THAT ARE NOT FEDERAL. SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT IF WE GOT A MILLION DOLLAR GRANT THAT POTENTIALLY COULD GO THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND? WE PROBABLY, I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND PUTTING A MILLION DOLLARS INTO THE GENERAL FUND FOR A GRANT, BUT IT COULD, THAT'S NOT UNDERSTANDING, CAN IT? SO IF WE'RE DOING A REIMBURSEMENT, WE HAVE TAKEN STUFF OUTTA THE GENERAL FUND, BUT IF THEY'RE GIVING US MILLION DOLLARS STRAIGHT UP, WE'RE GONNA PUT IT IN A SEPARATE FUND SO THAT WE CAN SEGREGATE IT AND TRACK IT APPROPRIATELY FOR THE GRANT PURPOSES. UH, YOU SAY POTENTIALLY CAN BE GO TO GENERAL FUND DEPENDING UPON THE GRANT? IT COULD. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, OKAY. UH, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I I CAN, UH, RE UH, MODIFY IF, IF THIS COULD HELP, UH, MY COLLEAGUE, UM, IF THERE'S MONEY THAT'S DEDICATED FOR THIS, AND IT'S MONEY THAT IS FOR SOMETHING, BUT IT'S NOT COSTING US ANYTHING, UH, AND LET'S SAY IT'S MONEY FOR IT, AND IT GOES TO THIS, THAT THAT'S NOT GOING TO HURT THE, THE, THE, THE CITY'S BUDGET. I JUST WANNA PROTECT THE GENERAL FUND. I UNDERSTAND. WE, WE, SO IF I CAN MODIFY THAT, THEN WOULD THAT, I, I WANT TO SAY THIS BECAUSE WE USING DIFFERENT FUND, FOR EXAMPLE, WE USING THE WATER FUND TO BUY CAR FOR THE COEN ENFORCEMENT. SO THE, THERE'S A LOT OF TIME. THE, THE GRANT NOT NECESSARILY GO INTO WHAT THIS, BUT STILL GRANT WE CAN USE. SO IF YOU IDENTIFY ONLY FOR LEAD, YOU RESTRICT IT WAY TOO MUCH THAT WE CANNOT EVEN GET ANYTHING OKAY. TO GET THE THING DONE. BUT ANYWAY, THAT INVITES, UH, ISSUES OF GAME GAMES WITH, WITH BUDGET. SO THAT'S, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? OKAY. 1, 2, 3. NO SECOND. OKAY. THE MOTION DIE. OKAY. AND, UH, DO WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE? UH, COUNCIL KENTO? NO. OKAY. UH, THE ROSARIO. OKAY. AND YEAH, GO AHEAD. UH, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, UH, MOVING FORWARD THAT OUR AGENDAS GET UPDATED. I KNOW ORAL COMMUNICATION STILL STATES FIVE MINUTES PER SPEAKER. SO WE'VE BE NO, IT'S THREE MINUTES. NO, IT'S A WEEK CHANGE. THREE MINUTES NOW. IT'S DONE. I JUST WANNA MAKE, WE, WE HAVE THE FIRST READING NEXT TIME WE THE SECOND READING, THEN IT WILL PRINT THAT. OKAY. BE WITH IT. WE ALREADY APPROVE. UH, [CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS ] DO WE HAVE A COUNCIL COMMENT? UH, BRIAN, GO AHEAD. YEAH, I JUST WANNA, JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR, UH, WE'RE NOT VOTING ON IF WE SUPPORT OR, OR AGAINST THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. I THINK, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS IS, UH, COUNCIL REQUEST TO ENSURE THAT ANY NEW FUNDING FOR THAT DEPARTMENT HAS TO BE APPROVED BY THIS CONSOLE IS ESSENTIAL TO ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, TO OUR RESIDENTS AND TO OUR CONSTITUENTS. AND I, UH, UH, APPLAUD COUNCILMAN ME CONTOS FOR BRINGING THAT FORWARD BECAUSE I, I WANNA MAKE SURE ALSO THAT, UH, FUNDING IS USED RIGHT. AND THAT WE'RE NOT AFFECTING, UH, FUNDING FROM THE GENERAL FUND, BUT THAT THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRANTS AND OTHER, IF THERE IS OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRANTS OR OTHER FUNDING, THAT WE DON'T ELIMINATE THAT. SO ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY AND BEING ABLE TO SAY YES OR NO, UH, TO ITEMS THAT COME BEFORE THAT DEPARTMENT. UH, I WANNA RE PRESERVE MY RIGHT TO DENY OR APPROVE THOSE OPTIONS. YES. YES. WE, WE, WE ALL HAVE A CHANCE WHEN THEY COME TO US, WE ALL HAVE A CHANCE TO SAY YES OR NO. OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENT? UH, MY NEXT COMMENT IS, UM, YEAH, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UM, APPLYING FOR FEDERAL GRANTS. UM, THESE, THESE GRANTS ARE, ARE WORTH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. AND IF WE'RE NOT APPLYING FOR THEM, THEN WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE'RE, WE'RE LOSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAINING, FOR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS TRAINING. THESE, THESE ARE GRANTS THAT, UH, THAT THIS COUNCIL DIRECTOR FOR PEOPLE TO, FOR, FOR THE CITY TO APPLY FOR. AND NOW WE'RE LEARNING THAT ONE OF THEM, ONE WAS NOT APPLIED FOR. SO IF WE'RE GONNA, IF WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR CONSULTANTS TO DO EMERGENCY OPERATION STUFF, THEN IT MAKES NO SENSE TO HAVE SOMEONE LIKE THAT IF WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE ADVANTAGE AND USE THE FUNDING THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS TO HELP OUR CITY PREPARE IT FOR THE NEXT DISASTER. AND SO I'LL JUST LEAVE MY COMMENT LIKE THAT. AND, AND ALSO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WHEN THIS COUNCIL PUTS DEADLINES ON WHAT THINGS HAVE TO BE POSTED OR, OR BROUGHT BACK AT THESE DEADLINES ARE MET. UH, IT'S AN OBLIGATION. IT IS A DIRECTION BY THIS COUNCIL AND IT HAS TO BE FOLLOWED. BUT THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU CO UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. OKAY. AND, UH, UH, CITY MANAGER, JUST OKAY. AND IF WE HAVE A CHANCE TO HAVE A FEDERAL FUND OKAY. OR GRANT, PLEASE. OKAY. AND, UH, HAVE C TO APPLY. OKAY. AND IF, UH, OTHER, OTHER, UH, CITY COUNCIL HAVE ANY [04:50:01] SUGGESTION CAN PROVIDE FOR YOU. OKAY. AND ANY OTHER COMMENT IS A MIDNIGHT NOW FIVE MINUTES. YOU WANT TO WAIT FOR FIVE MINUTES? SO, NO. NO, I DON'T WAIT. OKAY. ANY OTHER COUNCIL? OKAY. ANY COUNCIL? ANY, ANY OTHER ONE? DO I HAVE, UH, I'LL MAKE A MOTION. A MOTION TO AJO SECOND. OKAY. MEDIA. THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT'S A LONG. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.