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WELCOME TO OUR APRIL 1ST, 2025 CITY COUNCIL MEETING RIGHT NOW AT 7:00 PM OKAY.
ANY PERSON WISH TO ADDRESS TO CITY COUNCIL DURING THE ORAL COMMUNICATION? MUST COMPLETE A SPEAKER CALL THAT IS PROVIDE AT ENTRANCE OKAY.
TO THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER, AND SUBMIT TO THE CALL TO THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENTS OF ORAL COMMUNICATION.
SPEAKER CALL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER ORAL COMMUNICATION HAS STARTED.
AND TONIGHT INVOCATION WILL BE LED BY UNCLE PASTOR FELICIA.
FROM MEK CHAPEL SAINT PAUL, A ME CHURCH.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN KENTO WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEASURE OF ALLEGION.
PLEASE COME TO THE MIC, PLEASE.
UH, MAYOR WU ESTEEM, MEMBERS OF THE WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL, STAFF, CONSTITUENTS, AND ALL CONCERN AND ENGAGED MEMBERS PRESENT TONIGHT, LET US TAKE A MOMENT TO LOOK TO THE LORD GRACIOUS GOD OF ALL WE GATHER AS A COMMUNITY, UNITED BY OUR SHARED PURPOSE OF FOSTERING PROGRESS, FAIRNESS, AND WELLBEING FOR ALL WHO LIVE WITHIN OUR CITY LIMITS.
WE ASK YOU, GOD, FOR YOUR GUIDANCE, THAT WE MAY REFLECT ON OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SERVE WITH INTEGRITY, WISDOM, AND COMPASSION.
MAY OUR DISCUSSIONS TODAY BE MARKED BY JUSTICE, RESPECT, AND A COMMITMENT TO THE COMMON GOOD.
GRANT US THE CLARITY TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT ARE JUST AND FORWARD THINKING, AND THE HUMILITY TO LISTEN WITH OPEN HEARTS, TO ALL VOICES.
MAY WE BE INSPIRED BY A SENSE OF DUTY TO THOSE WE REPRESENT.
AND MAY OUR ACTIONS TODAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE BETTERMENT OF OUR CITY FOR GENERATIONS TO COME WITH OPEN MINDS AND HEARTS.
WE BEGIN THIS MEETING WITH THE HOPE THAT THE CHOICES WE MAKE WILL REFLECT THE BEST OF WHO WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY.
IN YOUR MIGHTY AND MATCHLESS NAME WE PRAY.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE FACE THE FLAG AND WE INVITE YOU TO REMOVE HATS, IF ANY, AND FOLLOW MY LEAD.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WICKED STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ IS OUT THIS EVENING.
COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ HERE.
UH, THE CITY ATTORNEY, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING? RECALL? FINAL CLOSING.
[PRESENTATIONS]
OUR PRESENTATION, THE NUM, THE FIRST ONE IS A PROCLAMATION AND PRESENTATION BY RECOGNIZING THE APRIL AS A DONATE LIFE.OH, EXCUSE ME, MAYOR, IF I MAY, I DID WANT TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I'LL BE PULLING ITEM NUMBER SIX, THE WEST COAST AIST AGREEMENT AND, UM, UH, ADDING IT TO THE APRIL 15TH COUNCIL MEETING.
BUT IT'S A CONSENT CALENDAR, SO WE CAN DO IT LATER.
BUT LET'S DO THE PRESENTATION FIRST, PLEASE.
AND, UH, SO I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT.
AND, UH, LISA, UH, THAT'S NEW YORK.
SUSAN, I'M A HORRIBLE PRONOUNCE PEOPLE'S NAME OR REMEMBER PEOPLE'S NAME.
I SAW YOU FOR THE, I DON'T KNOW, 10 TIMES ALREADY.
I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR DEDICATION.
UH, NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH WAS ESTABLISHED BY DONATE LIFE AMERICA.
AND THERE IS A PARTNER PARTNERING ORGANIZATION 2003, OBSERVED IN APRIL EACH YEAR, NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH HELP RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT DONATION, ENCOURAGE AMERICANS TO REGISTER AS ORGAN, EYE TISSUE DONOR, AND TO HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE SAVED LIFE THROUGH THE GIVE OF DONATION.
I THINK IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO REMEMBER, OKAY.
AND THAT DONATE THEIR ORGAN IS SAVED LIFE.
SO I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN DOING THIS ALL THE TIME.
IN APRIL, COME APRIL, GO NOW, IT'S ANOTHER APRIL, BUT WE NEED TO REMEMBER, AND IT'S OF OF COURSE, AT THE ROSE PARADE, WE SEE THE, THE OKAY ROSE
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PARADE, THE CAUSE WITH ALL THE DONOR WHICH PERSON SAVED AND THERE IS VERY TOUCHING.SO WE WANT YOU TO, AGAIN, AND TO TELL PEOPLE HOW IMPORTANT TO DONATE, UH, KNOW WHEN THEY HAVE THE CHANCE TO REGISTER AS A DONOR.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR WU.
AND THANK YOU TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY WHO ARE WATCHING FROM HOME, MAYBE
I'M AN AMBASSADOR FOR ONE LEGACY.
AND WHAT IS ONE LEGACY? LET ME GIVE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW BECAUSE THAT IS THE OREGON PROCUREMENT, UM, ORGANIZATION THAT'S COVERING OUR AREA FOR LOS ANGELES, INCLUDING OTHER COUNTIES, UH, ALL THE WAY FROM BAKERSFIELD OUT TO INLAND EMPIRE.
SO WE COVER SEVEN COUNTIES, WHICH IS OVER 20 MILLION PEOPLE IN POPULATION.
AND I WANTED TO DO A LITTLE BRAGGING ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY, UM, BECAUSE I AM VERY PROUD TO, TO BE AFFILIATED WITH IT.
RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TWO TRANSPLANT CENTERS IN AZUSA, IN REDLANDS, AND THEY JUST OPENED UP SOME EXTRA SATELLITE OFFICES.
SO THEY'RE GONNA BE COVERING ORANGE, MISSION HILLS, EL SEGUNDO, COIA, AND BAKERSFIELD BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A HUGE GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE.
AND THEY NEEDED, UM, MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE BECAUSE ONE LEGACY HAS GROWN AND THERE'S OVER 500 EMPLOYEES THERE NOW WITH 160 ACTIVE AMBASSADORS LIKE ME, VOLUNTEERS, AND WHAT DO THE VOLUNTEERS DO? BUT WE COME OUT TO DO OUTREACH.
WE'RE AT COMMUNITY EVENTS, WE'RE AT HIGH SCHOOLS, WE'RE AT THE DMV, WE'RE AT HOSPITALS CONSTANTLY TALKING TO THE PARTNERS THERE AND THANKING THEM FOR THEIR, THEIR PAY.
WE DO CARE FOR AFTERCARE FOR THE DONOR FAMILIES.
THERE'S A LOT OF GRIEF COUNSELING INVOLVED AND ANNIVERSARY CARDS.
UM, WE DO, UM, THE DAY OF THE DEAD, WE DO STUFF FOR KIDS CAMPS AND STUFF LIKE THAT SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN PROCESS THEIR GRIEF.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT'S, IT'S BECOME A NEW FAMILY AND A TRIBE FOR ME,
AND, AND SO WITH THAT, IT BECOMES A BIG LOVE FEST.
AND THAT'S WHAT THE APRIL RUN WALK IS TO ME.
UM, IT'S A CHANCE FOR EVERYBODY TO, TO MAKE THEIR TEAMS TO COME ON BEHALF OF THEIR MEDICAL INSTITUTION THAT HELP THEM, THEIR TRANSPLANTS, THE THE RECIPIENTS PEOPLE ARE THERE PERFORMING THAT HAVE BEEN RECIPIENTS, THAT ARE HONORING THAT, YOU KNOW, THEIR LOVED ONES.
AND THERE ARE TEAMS WITH, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL SEE POSTERS ALL OVER OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONATED.
AND THESE PROCLAMATIONS THAT, THAT I COLLECT FROM THE CITIES ARE ALSO DISPLAYED THERE.
SO I INVITE YOU ALL TO COME ON APRIL 26TH TO AZUSA PACIFIC COLLEGE.
UM, IF YOU CAN'T MAKE THE WALK OR THE RUN, THAT'S FINE, BUT COME AND JUST SEE THE FESTIVAL AND TO SEE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE.
THERE'S ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION IS THAT, UM, HAS ANYBODY HEARD XENOTRANSPLANTATION? YOU EVER HEAR THAT WORD? WORD? I DIDN'T.
OKAY, SO IT, IT'S, WELL, IT'S TRANSPLANTING FROM SPECIES TO SPECIES.
AND SO IN THE RECENT COUPLE OF YEARS ON THE EAST COAST, THEY HAVE TAKEN PIG HEART AND PIG, UH, KIDNEYS AND IMPLANTED IT INTO PATIENTS.
NOW, I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE PATIENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISQUALIFIED FROM THE TRANSPLANT FOR OTHER VARIOUS REASONS, AND THEY'RE VOLUNTEERING TO BE PART OF THIS STUDY.
SO, I MEAN, DON'T THINK THAT SOMEBODY'S JUST SNATCHED OFF THE STREET.
IT'S VERY COMPLICATED AND IT'S DONE IN, UH, RESEARCH FACILITIES AND HOSPITALS.
SO THERE WAS, UM, TWO MEN THAT HAVE RECEIVED PIG HEARTS.
UNFORTUNATELY, ONE DIED IN TWO MONTHS FROM OTHER COMPLICATIONS.
THE SECOND ONE, UH, DIED SIX WEEKS LATER AFTER, WITH A REJECTION.
YOU KNOW, WE ALL TAKE THAT CHANCE OF HAVING REJECTION.
UH, IN MARCH OF 2024, UM, A 60 YEAR, 2-YEAR-OLD MAN ACCEPTED A PIG KIDNEY.
AND HE ALSO LASTED ABOUT TWO MONTHS WITH IT.
BUT WE HAVE A WOMAN IN NOVEMBER, 2024 AND FEBRUARY 25TH, 2025 AS A MAN.
THEY BOTH HAD KIDNEYS FROM THE PIGS AND THEY'RE STILL ALIVE.
AND I, THAT, THAT IS JUST AMAZING.
IT IS NOT JUST THE DONORS THAT ARE HEROES IN MY BOOK, BUT THESE PATIENTS THAT ARE WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK TO FURTHER SCIENCE ON OUR BEHALF BECAUSE THERE'S OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE WAITING FOR ORGANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
KIDNEYS IN HIGH DEMAND, HIGH DEMAND.
AND IF THERE WAS A WAY TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY GET MORE FROM PIGS THAT ARE GENETICALLY MODIFIED AND KEPT IN A LAB AND CLEAN, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? UM, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT AID TO MANY, MANY PATIENTS THAT ARE OUT THERE.
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THAT, I'M JUST GONNA TELL YOU THAT I HAD HEART, UM, CARDIOMYOPATHY AND I LIVED WITH IT FOR 25 YEARS OF MEDICATIONS UNTIL I GOT TO THE POINT WHERE I WAS TOO BAD AND I HAD TO GO AND GET EVALUATED FOR A TRANSPLANT.AND I WAS REALLY BLESSED THAT I WAS ABLE TO GET THAT AT UCLA.
SO I AM, UH, ALMOST FIVE YEARS OUT AND THAT'S WHY I AM A REPEAT VISITOR HERE,
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING US.
WE WANT TO SEE YOU ANOTHER 10 YEARS, OKAY? OVER HERE, MAYBE ANOTHER 20 YEARS.
OKAY? BUT YOU WILL BE HERE, OKAY? BUT I THINK SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO CONTINUE WITH THE PASSION TO HELP PEOPLE, TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT, OKAY? AND TO REGISTER TO AS A DONOR, OKAY? AND, UH, BECAUSE IT SAVE LIFE, IT SAVES SO MANY, MANY LIVES, OKAY? AND, UH, I WATCH SO MANY OF, UH, DOCUMENTARY REGARDING EVEN THE REASON.
ONE IS ABOUT, UH, THE PARENTS SHOW UP TO SEE, TO LISTEN TO HEART FILE A RECIPIENT AND THEIR SON DONATE THE HEART TO THE PERSON, AND THEY JUST PUT THE EAR TO THE CHEST OF THE RECIPIENT AND THEY LISTEN, THEIR SON'S HEART BEATING RIGHT THERE IN SOMEBODY.
SO, SO THE PERSON LEAVE, CONTINUE.
A REALLY A GOOD, OKAY? UM, UH, OKAY, DOCUMENTARY ON THE YOUTUBE, AND I WATCH NUMEROUS TIMES BECAUSE IT'S VERY, VERY TOUCHING, OKAY? I THINK, AND ESPECIALLY, AND EVERY YEAR YOU HAVE LEFT FLOAT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE'S PICTURES, OKAY? AND ALL THE RECIPIENT ON THEIR THIS DEAL ALIVE.
I THINK THIS IS A BRING, OKAY? AND, UH, IMPORTANT ABOUT OKAY, HOW WE NEED TO SAVE LIFE BY OKAY, REGISTERS.
SO ONE DAY YOU CAN SAVE SOME PEOPLE TO CONTINUE TO LIVE ON THEIR LIFE.
OUR DONATED LIE MONTH, APRIL, APRIL IS A GOOD MONTH, IS SPRINGTIME AND, UH, WHERE TO GET BETTER.
AND HOPEFULLY PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT TO SAVE LIFE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH OF YOUR DEDICATION.
AND SEE YOU, SEE YOU NEXT YEAR, APRIL, AND LET YOU WILL BE THE MAYOR AND HE WILL BE TO GREET YOU
SO WE HAVE A BARGAIN, RIGHT? WE HAVE A PROMISE.
SUSAN, OH, SUSAN, WHAT I, WHAT I CALL HER? OKAY.
I, I ALREADY PUT A DISCLAIMER AT THE BEGINNING.
OKAY, SUSAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH, SUSAN.
UH, NEXT ONE WILL BE THE OKAY.
PROCLAMATION AND THE PRESENTATION.
RECOGNIZING APRIL IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT MONTH FOR NATIONAL ART.
ARTISAN SPECTRUM DISORDER IS A LIFELONG DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY CONSISTENT OF A BROAD GROUP OF DISORDER, THE VERY WIDELY FROM MILD TO SEVERE, AND IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE DIFFICULTY WITH THE SOCIAL INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION.
AND, UH, REPE, REPE, REPE, OKAY.
I WAS PRACTICED BY, THAT'S JUST GREW UP, OKAY? BEHAVIOR.
OKAY? THE ARTISAN SOCIETY RECOGNIZE THAT THE PRE PREVALENCE OF ARTISAN IN THE UNITED STATES HAS REASON, REASON FROM ONE IN 125 CHILDREN IN 2010 TO ONE IN 59 IN 2020.
SO IT'S A MAJOR INCREASE OF THE ARTISAN POPULATION RECOGNIZING THIS, CONTINUE INCREASING, INCREASE THE GOAL FOR A A M, MEANING THE ARTISAN.
AND, UH, APRIL ARTISAN NATIONAL ARTISAN MONTH TO FURTHER INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT ARTISAN SIGN.
OKAY? SYMPTOM AND OPPORTUNITY.
ALSO, A CURE FOR ARTISAN HAS NOT BEEN FOUND.
OKAY? A PERSON WITH ARTISAN CAN BE HELPED TO REACH THEIR GREATEST POTENTIAL ACCURATE EARLY DIAGNOSIS.
AND THE RESULTING APPROPRIATE INTERVENTION EDUCATION AND THE SUPPORT ARE VITAL TO THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE INVI INDIVIDUAL.
OKAY? AND, UH, I THINK ARTISAN IS A LOT OF, UH, OUR CHILDREN, A LOT OF PEOPLE OKAY? HAVE THIS SYNDROME.
AND, UH, AGAIN, WE SEE WHAT THEY, THE CHILDREN, WHEN THEY HAVE ISSUE, THEY CANNOT COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE.
THEY KIND OF COCOON THEMSELVES INSIDE THEIR, THEIR BODY, AND THEY CANNOT COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE.
AND HOW CAN WE HAVE ALL THESE CHILDREN GET A TREATMENT AND TRY TO INTER INTERACT WITH COMMUNITY AND IN INTER OKAY.
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THEIR PARENT, OKAY.AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO KNOW, BECAUSE IF ONE TO 59 IN 2022, SO MEANING WE HAVE A LOT OF POPULATION THAT CREATE ARTISAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT CREATE THAT INCREASE IS THE WATER OKAY? OR CHEMISTRY WE HAVE? OKAY.
DON'T KNOW WHAT CREATE WHY WE HAVE INCREASE.
I KNOW THE WATER COMPANY COMING UP TO SAY SOMETHING QUITE QUALITY OF WATER IS IMPORTANT.
OKAY? SO HOW, HOW CAN WE FALL ONE OF 220 BECOME 1 59? SO WHAT IS THE INCREASE? OKAY, IT'S THE AIR, THE WATER, THE CHEMISTRY, THE FUEL.
SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN FIND A WAY TO DECREASE, OR THIS CONTINUE TO INCREASE IF ONE OF 59 IN 2030, MAYBE ONE OF THE 20, OKAY, THAT WOULD BE SCARY.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE CAN FIND A ISSUE AND TO THAT, BUT THEY HAVE A MIRACLE AND THEY HAVE, OKAY, PEOPLE CAN ACHIEVE OKAY.
AND THEIR LIFE, EVEN THEY HAVE ARTISAN.
SEE, I'M BETTED WITHOUT THE SCRIPT.
BUT WHEN I TALK, OKAY, WITHOUT SCRIPT, I'M DOING BETTER JOB.
BUT THE ONE THING IS THIS, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PERSON, REALLY OKAY? TO INTERACT AND OVERCOME THEIR DEFICIT.
BE CONFIDENCE ABOUT WHO THEY ARE, INCLUDING MYSELF, OKAY? AND INCLUDING THE PERSON WITH ARTISAN.
SO HERE I WANT TO INTRODUCE A PERSON WITH A DEFICIT IN LIFE.
AND I WANT YOU TO REPRESENT THE ARTISAN, OKAY? SOCIETY, THE COMMUNITY THAT CAN BE OVERCOME.
I WANNA INTRODUCE OUR COUNCIL MEMBER,
SO MEANING HE OVERCOME HIS, UH, HIS, UH, HIS ISSUE.
AND, UH, WITH, UH, WITH HIS BACKGROUND AS A FOSTER CARE CHILD.
CHILD, WHEN YOU GROW UP, OVERCOME THAT OBSTACLE AND WITH AUTISM, AND, BUT HE NEVER GIVE UP IN HIS LIFE AND HE WENT TO OKAY.
AND, UH, ALL THE EDUCATION AND THEY NEVER GIVE UP HIS LIFE.
AND NOT ONLY HE DOING GOOD IN HIS LIFE, AND HE GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY NOW SERVING AS OUR CITY COUNCIL AND DOING GREAT JOB.
SOMETIMES A LITTLE BIT TOO AGGRESSIVE, BUT HE IS REALLY HELPING.
OKAY? AND, UH, AND THE COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY HIS DISTRICT ONE, HE WORKING SO HARD, OKAY? SO I WANT TO PUT THE MIC TO HIM SO HE CAN TELL US HOW YOU OVERCOME, HOW CAN WE CONTINUE, OKAY.
TO HELP THE AUTISM COMMUNITY AND HOW CAN THOSE COMMUNITY AND USE YOU AS EXAMPLE, AND TO CONTINUE, NEVER GIVE UP THE CHILD, NEVER GIVE UP.
WE NEED TO LET BRING THEM AND THEY'LL TREAT THEM EQUALLY LIKE EVERYBODY.
AND I WANNA THANK, UH, MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, UH, NOT ONLY THIS YEAR, BUT FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS FOR SUPPORTING, UH, AND BEING ADVOCATES FOR THE AUTISM COMMUNITY.
UH, I AM, I'M PROUD TO BE THE FIRST COUNCIL MEMBER ELECTED, UH, WITH AUTISM IN WEST CAMINA, CALIFORNIA.
I'M PROUD TO BE THE FIRST PERSON WITH AUTISM ELECTED IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
AND LIKE MAYOR WU STATED, NOW IT'S ONE IN EVERY 36 CHILDREN BORN TODAY WOULD HAVE AUTISM.
AND THE CURE IS UNKNOWN, BUT RESEARCH IS PROMISING.
AND, UH, AND, AND I AM HERE AS, AS YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER.
BUT, UH, AND I WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH HEART AND PASSION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN MY COMMUNITY.
UH, ME BEING HERE TODAY SHOWS THAT A PERSON WHO GREW UP IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM CAN SECEDE A PERSON, A CHILD WHO WAS ONCE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ABUSED AS A CHILD CAN SECEDE.
SO NO MATTER WHERE ONE PERSON COMES FROM IN LIFE, AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, THE IMPOSSIBLE IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE.
AND SO, I JUST WANNA REMIND EVERYONE WHO'S WATCHING AT HOME TOO, TO THE PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS, UM, AND, AND, AND GUARDIANS WHO KNOW SOMEONE OR WHO HAVE SOMEONE WITH AUTISM.
IT MAY BE HARD AT TIMES, BUT DO KNOW YOUR PASSION AND YOUR DEDICATION, WHO ONE DAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
SO ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AS A COUNCIL MEMBER FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, I COMMEND OUR PARENTS, OUR CAREGIVERS, OUR, OUR OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES WHO KNOW SOMEONE WITH AUTISM.
AND SO THAT'S MY SPEECH,
OKAY? LET'S GIVE YOU HAND, A HAND, UH, UH, UH, YOU, YOU, YOU CAN SEE, UH, HOW GREAT OUR RESIDENT VOTER THEY ARE, OKAY? THEY, THEY, NO MATTER HOW YOUR BACKGROUND, IF YOU WORK HARD, YOU CAN PERSUADE YOUR VOTER RESIDENT.
AND NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, YOU HAVE A CHANCE, OKAY? AND TO, TO LEAD THE CITY AND TO HELP AND TO SERVE THE CITY.
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AND I THINK YOU CAN SEE ALL THE, ALL THE COUNCIL SIT OVER THERE.EVERYBODY HAVE A DEFICIT OF THEIR BACKGROUND, BUT THEY'RE WILLING TO SERVE AND A RESIDENT WILL GIVE THEM A CHANCE.
AND, UH, IF YOU DO GOOD JOB, YOU GET REELECTED.
OTHERWISE, THEY WILL REMOVE YOU, OKAY? WITH SOMEBODY UP NEW.
OKAY? SO, SO, SO, SO THE POINT WILL BE, I KNOW SOMEBODY THIS, I SAY, OH MY GOD, YOU, YOU, BRUTAL.
BUT, BUT TO TELL THE TRUTH, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, BUT THE THING, SO YOU HAVE TO PERFORM AND SERVE AND FIRST, OKAY, YES, I KNOW
OKAY? SO BECAUSE I TALK, I I TALK TOO MUCH.
OKAY? BUT ANYWAY, I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING IS OVER HERE, THE ARTISAN IS, UH, IS BASICALLY IS IN OUR POPULATION, BUT YOU CAN SEE, UH, WITH, UM, THE NEVER GIVE UP, UH, WITH, UH, EDUCATION.
OKAY? I THINK EDUCATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
SO YOU LEARN HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE AND, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY, OKAY? SUPPORT.
AND YOU CAN SEE BRIAN IS EXAMPLE ABOUT OVERCOME THE ARTISAN.
AND, UH, OKAY, PEOPLE CAN BASICALLY RECOGNIZE YOUR EFFORT.
AS A CT AT WEST COVINA, WE WANT TO HAVE A PROCLAMATION, THE APRIL NATIONAL ARTISAN AWARENESS MONTH.
AND THEN WE WANT TO SHOW THE ARTISAN COMMUNITY HOW IMPORTANT AND AS YOU AS THE INSPIRATION, OKAY.
TO HAVE THE COMMUNITY AUTISM TO UNDERSTAND.
SKY'S A LITTLE BIT FOR THEM, OKAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND THE NEXT ONE I WANT TO CALL CHIEF BROWN.
BECAUSE A LOT OF, UH, UH, AFTER, AFTER PACIFIC PALATE, OKAY? AND THEY TURN THE FIRE HYDRANT AS NO OTHER COMING OUT, AND THEY SCARE EVERYBODY.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU CHECK IN AND THE WATER COMPANY, MAKE SURE ALL THE LINE HAVE A WATER INSIDE.
WE HAVE SO MANY HAIL, UH, UP AND DOWN, OKAY? AND HOPEFULLY, OKAY, EVERYTHING IS IN THE PROPER CONDITION, SO IF WE NEED IT, WE OPEN IT UP, THE WATER IS RIGHT THERE.
YOU WANNA USE THAT? YOU WANNA USE THAT? YEAH.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL STAFF AND CITIZENS OF WEST COVINA.
UH, TODAY WE'RE GONNA GIVE A PRESENTATION ON THE HYDRANTS AND WATER SUPPLY.
UH, THIS PRESENTATION IS TO ADDRESS, UH, PUBLIC CONCERN REGARDING THE WATER SYSTEMS IN WEST COVINA.
THE WATER SUPPLY IN WEST COVINA IS MANAGED BY EIGHT DIFFERENT WATER PURVEYORS.
THE CITY DOES NOT CONTROL ANY OF THE WATER SUPPLY IN WEST COVINA.
UP THERE IS A MAP THAT SHOWS THE EIGHT DIFFERENT WATER PURVEYORS, UM, YOU CAN SEE BY THE MIDDLE OF THE MAP.
THE PURPLE SECTION THAT'S SUBURBAN WATER IS THE BIGGEST, UH, WATER, UH, COMPANY FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF WEST COVINA, THERE ARE 2,890 FIRE HYDRANTS, UH, BY THOSE EIGHT WATER COMPANIES.
UH, THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE FIRE HYDRANTS.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ALSO HAS THE ABILITY TO SPOT CHECK HYDRANTS AS NEEDED.
NEXT, UH, NFPA REQUIRES, UH, ANNUAL INSPECTION FOR LEAKS, DAMAGE FUNCTION, AND CLEARANCE AROUND THE HYDRANTS.
FLOW TESTING IS REQUIRED EVERY FIVE YEARS TO ENSURE THE ANTS ARE, UH, HAVE THE PROPER FLOW COMING OUT OF THEM.
THIS MAP HERE SHOWS THE AREA BE, UH, UP THERE BY THE SPORTSPLEX AND BKK.
UM, IT RUNS BETWEEN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AND WALNUT, AND EXTENDS ALL THE WAY FROM AZUSA AVENUE ALL THE WAY OVER TO GRAND.
THAT'S PROBABLY OUR HIGHEST, UH, WILDFIRE, UH, AREA WITHIN THE CITY.
LIKE I SAID, SUBURBAN WATER IS THE BIGGEST AND ALSO, UH, RESPONSIBLE FOR PART OF THE AREA, UH, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND VALENCIA HEIGHTS WATER COMPANY IS THE OTHER WATER PURVEYOR THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AREA UP THERE IN SOUTH HILLS.
THIS MAP SHOWS THE LOCATION OF JUST THREE OF THE ELEVATED WATER TANKS THAT PROVIDE WATER IN THE EVENT THAT THE PUMPS GO OUT.
UM, THEY'RE ELEVATED SYSTEMS, THEY'RE GRAVITY FED THAT FEED BACK DOWN INTO THE SYSTEM.
IN THE EVENT THAT THERE'S A POWER OUTAGE,
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UM, IT, IT PREVENTS, UH, IT GIVES THE TIME TO THE WATER COMPANIES TO GET BACKUP GENERATORS OUT TO THOSE PUMP STATIONS IF THEY AREN'T ALREADY THERE TO GET THOSE ON.AND IT PROVIDES US TIME TO STILL HAVE WATER PROVIDED IN THE EVENT OF A POWER OUTAGE.
UH, THOSE ARE LOCATED ON GREENRIDGE TERRACE UP BY GALLER PARK, UH, AT THE TOP OF INSPIRATION POINT AND ONE OVER AT HERITAGE, UH, PARK.
THERE IS ALSO VERY, A LOT MORE IN THE CITY.
UM, BUT THOSE ARE THE THREE HIGHLIGHTED ONES UP THERE IN THAT AREA.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DOES, UM, HAS NOT EXPERIENCED AN ISSUE WITH DRY HYDRANTS OR LACK OF WATER PRESSURE.
UM, THE CITY HAS AN ISO RATED CLASS ONE WATER SYSTEM, UM, THAT IS EXCEPTIONAL.
UH, VALENCIA HEIGHTS WATER DISTRICT, UM, WANTED TO BE HERE.
UH, THE PERSON IS OUT ON BUSINESS, UH, BUT THEY PROVIDED A COUPLE SLIDES THAT THEY WOULD LIKE ME TO PRESENT.
SO I'LL PRESENT THAT ON BEHALF OF GLORIA GGL, UH, GLENDO, UM, VALENCIA HEIGHTS IS THE OTHER WATER DISTRICT UP IN SOUTH HILLS AREA.
UH, IT'S A WATER COMPANY WITH APPROXIMATELY 1700 SERVICE CONNECTIONS.
THE SERVICE AREA INCLUDES THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, UNINCORPORATED PARTS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, AND THE CITY OF COVINA.
THE WATER SYSTEM IS COMPRISED OF 11 RESERVOIRS WITH A CAPACITY TO STORE 5.5 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER.
THREE WELLS THAT HAVE A CAPACITY TO PUMP ANYWHERE BETWEEN 801,500 GALLONS PER MINUTE.
AND THEY HAVE 33 MILES OF PIPELINE.
UH, VALENCIA HEIGHTS HAS FOUR INTERCONNECTIONS WITH THE FOLLOWING WATER AGENCIES TO ENSURE WATER RELIABILITY DURING AN EMERGENCY EVENT.
CITY OF COVINA, METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT, SUBURBAN WATER SYSTEMS, AND WALNUT VALLEY WATER DISTRICT.
UH, VALENCIA HEIGHTS IS A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WATER AGENCY GROUP.
UH, IT'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT THAT INCLUDES 20 WATER AGENCIES THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
VALENCIA HEIGHTS GENERAL MANAGER IS THE CHAIR OF THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATION COMMITTEE.
UH, THEY HAVE TWO-WAY RADIOS TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER AGENCIES.
THEY HAVE MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS IN PLACE, UH, IF THEY HAVE THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES OR LABOR.
AND THE MEMBERS ARE ABLE TO HELP THE IMPACTED AGENCIES OF THE EATON FIRE.
VALENCIA WATER DISTRICT HAS BEEN ABLE TO SEND STAFF, UH, TO HELP OVER WITH THEIR WATER SYSTEMS. HOW DOES VALENCIA WATER PREPARE IN THE CASE OF A POWER OUTAGE, FIRE EVENT, OR ANY OTHER EMERGENCY? UH, THEY ENSURE ALL RESERVOIRS ARE FILLED TO CAPACITY.
THEY ENSURE THAT THE COMPANY'S TWO PORTABLE GENERATORS ARE TOPPED OFF WITH FUEL READY AND PRE-POSITIONED WHEREVER DEEMED NECESSARY.
COMMUNICATE WITH ALL STAFF, MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE IS AWARE OF A POSSIBLE EVENT.
THEY COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR MUTUAL AID PARTNERS, AND THE COMPANY HAS SEVERAL DAYS OF FUEL STORAGE FOR THE TWO GENERATORS AND THEIR FLEET.
VALENCIA WATER MAINTAINS OVER 200 HYDRANTS IN THE SERVICE AREA.
THE HYDRANTS ARE INSPECTED AS PART OF A VALVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM ON A ROUTINE BASIS, AS PART OF A CONTINUED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
VALENCIA WATER HEIGHTS, UPGRADES, HYDRANTS AS NEEDED.
THAT CONCLUDES VALENCIA HEIGHTS.
AT THIS POINT, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP CRAIG GOTT, PRESIDENT OF SUBURBAN WATER SYSTEMS AND MICHAEL DELGADO, UH, THE VICE PRESIDENT AND OF FIELD OPERATIONS.
UH, MICHAEL DERO, UH, VICE PRESIDENT OF FIELD OPERATIONS FOR SUBURBAN WATER, UH, IN ME, W UH, AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
THANKS FOR A THANK YOU FOR ASKING US TO COME AND TALK ABOUT, UM, OUR SYSTEM AND OUR, HOW OUR FIRE HYDRANTS WORK AND HOW FIREFIGHTING WORKS WITHIN OUR SYSTEM.
SO JUST GET SOME BACKGROUND, UM, ON SUBURBAN AS A WHOLE.
THE AREA IN THE RED HATCH MARKS IS THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
SO SUBURBAN HAS 300, WE SERVE 300,000 RESIDENTS.
WE HAVE 78,600, UH, WATER METER CONNECTIONS.
AND IN OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM, WE HAVE ALMOST 7,000 FIRE HYDRANTS.
AND TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THAT, WE HAVE 134 EMPLOYEES.
UM, IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ITSELF, WE HAVE 20,000 WATER CONNECTIONS AND ABOUT
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2100 FIRE HYDRANTS.SO PART OF OUR JOB AS A WATER UTILITY IS TO HELP, UH, MAINTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY AND TO HELP MAINTAIN PUBLIC HEALTH.
SO SUBURBAN HAS A VERY WELL MAINTAINED, UH, WATER SYSTEM AND A WELL-DESIGNED WATER SYSTEM.
AND REALLY, UM, AS CHIEF BROWN MENTIONED, THE SCORE FROM THE INSURANCE SERVICES OFFICE TO HAVE WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT BE A CLASS ONE RATED, WHICH IS THE HIGHEST CLASS, 40% OF THAT RATINGS BASED ON THE WATER SYSTEM.
UM, AND OUR WATER SYSTEM MEETS ALL, UM, HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS FOR WATER QUALITY.
AND ANYONE THAT'S INTERESTED CAN GO ONLINE AND LOOK UP A WATER QUALITY REPORT FOR THE WATER SERVED IN YOUR AREA.
AND IT'S CALLED THE CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORT.
AND ONE THING I'D WANT TO POINT OUT, WHEN, WHEN YOU LIVE IN WEST COVINA, YOU'RE PART OF WHAT WE CALL THE SAN JOSE HILLS WATER SYSTEM.
SO BECAUSE IT SERVES SOME OTHER AREAS AS WELL.
SO IF YOU WANNA LOOK UP THAT REPORT, GO AHEAD AND PULL UP THE SAN SAN SAN JOSE HILLS CONSUMER CONFIDENCE REPORT.
SO, UH, I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT TO, IN MY PRESENTATION ABOUT HOW THE WATER GETS TO THE HYDRANTS, RIGHT? SO, UM, SO THE WATER SYSTEM ENABLES THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO FIGHT STRUCTURE FIRES AND HELP PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
AND THERE'S ABOUT, AS I MENTIONED, AROUND 7,000 FIRE HYDRANTS IN OUR WATER SYSTEM AS A WHOLE.
SO WE GET WATER, THE SOURCE WOULD BE FROM WELLS, GROUNDWATER WELLS.
WE ALSO HAVE INTERCONNECTIONS WITH OTHER AGENCIES, UM, LIKE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT.
THAT WATER GOES INTO TANKS THAT MAYBE ARE AT LOWER ELEVATIONS, AND THEN THERE'S PUMP STATIONS THAT PUMP IT UP TO THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS WHERE THERE'D BE A TANK UP ON THE HILL.
AND THAT WATER IS WHAT COMES OUT OF THE HYDRANTS, RIGHT? THE HYDRANTS ARE TAPPED OFF TO THE WATER, MEANS THAT SERVE ALL THE CUSTOMERS AND ALL THE RESIDENCES.
SO, UM, THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE HYDRANTS, RIGHT, IS TO HELP SAVE LIVES.
THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WANTS TO DO, IS ALLOW PEOPLE TO GET OUT OF A BURNING STRUCTURE, MAYBE THE SECONDARY THINGS TO PROTECT PROPERTY AND KIND OF REDUCE THE SPREAD OF FIRE FROM, YOU KNOW, ONE STRUCTURE TO ANOTHER STRUCTURE.
UM, AND, AND THE THING TO REMEMBER IS LIKE THE WATER SYSTEMS AREN'T DESIGNED TO FIGHT WILDFIRES.
AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU GO IN THOSE AREAS, THOSE KIND OF NATURAL AREAS, THERE AREN'T HYDRANTS THERE, RIGHT? SO THE HYDRANTS ARE LOCATED ANYWHERE WHERE THERE'S A STREET AND WATER, WATER MAINS.
UM, OUR TEAMS INSPECT ABOUT 2000 FIRE HYDRANTS EVERY YEAR.
AND WHEN WE FIND ANY THAT ARE BROKEN OR NEED TO BE REPLACED, WE'LL REPLACE 'EM AS SOON AS WE FIND OUT.
AND WE SPEND ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR JUST REPLACING HYDRANTS.
UM, AND WHENEVER A NEW DEVELOPER COMES OR SOMEONE'S BUILDING A NEW BUILDING, BE IT A RESIDENCE OR A COMMERCIAL BUILDING, WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO A FIRE FLOW TEST OF THE HYDRANTS THAT ARE NEAR THERE.
WE RECORD ALL THAT INFORMATION, UM, AND IT HELPS US CALIBRATE WHAT WE CALL OUR HYDRAULIC MODEL, WHICH IS AN ELECTRONIC KIND OF SIMULATION OF HOW THE WATER SYSTEM WORKS.
SO WE CAN KEEP TRACK OF ANY AREAS THAT MIGHT HAVE ISSUES.
SO A REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF HOW THE HYDRANTS WORK, OR IS OUR PIPE PIPELINES.
SO SUBURBANS, 80% OF OUR PIPELINES WERE INSTALLED BETWEEN 1955 AND 1965.
THEY'RE BASICALLY THE AGE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, SO WE'VE BEEN DOING ABOUT A, A VERY PRUDENT 1% PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH REALLY, IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT IT WOULD TAKE A HUNDRED YEARS TO GET THROUGH ALL THE PIPELINES.
UM, AND WE INVESTED ABOUT $15 MILLION JUST IN 2025 IN REPLACING PIPELINES.
WE USE AI MODELING AND TESTING OF THE EXISTING MEANS TO HELP PRIORITIZE WHICH ONES NEED TO BE REPLACED FIRST.
UM, NOW WE ASKED FOR THAT AGAIN IN OUR RATE FILING WITH THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.
AND THEY ACTUALLY APPROVED LESS.
THEY WANTED, THEY WANTED US TO REPLACE LESS, WHICH ISN'T REALLY WHAT WE WERE FIGHTING FOR.
AND THEY ONLY APPROVED A 0.3% RATE, WHICH IS LIKE 333 YEARS TO GET THROUGH EVERYTHING.
SO, UM, WE'RE GONNA APPLY AGAIN AND ASK AGAIN TO BE ABLE TO REPLACE MORE LINES.
AND THE THING THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT THAT FOR FIREFIGHTING IS THAT'S HOW THE WATER GETS THROUGH THE MAINS.
YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IF THE FIRE, FIRE DEPARTMENT'S TRYING TO USE MORE THAN ONE HYDRANT, MAYBE 'CAUSE THE FIRE'S SPREADING, THE, THE MORE ROBUST AND BETTER CAPACITY THAT THE MAINS HAVE, THE EASIER IT IS FOR THAT WATER TO GET TO THOSE HYDRANTS.
UM, AND SO THOSE ARE INVESTMENTS
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THAT WE'RE GONNA KEEP MAKING.THE OTHER PART OF IT, AND WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE TANK.
SO WE HAVE A TANK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.
SO THEY PROVIDE A SHORT TERM STORAGE TO MEET PEAK WATER DEMANDS AND A COUPLE OF HOURS OF STORAGE FOR FIGHTING A FIRE.
UM, AND THE OTHER THING THAT WE USE 'EM FOR, YOU KNOW, WHEN THERE'S NOT A FIRE, IS TO REALLY PUMP AND FILL THEM ON THE OFF PEAK HOURS FROM EDISON TO LIKE REDUCE ENERGY USE.
UM, AND WE DO ROUTINE CONDITION ASSESSMENTS AND WE'LL INSPECT THE COATINGS AND WE CAN EXPECT INSPECT THE COATINGS BY DRAINING THE TANK.
AND WE ALSO USE PROFESSIONAL DIVERS THAT GO IN AND CAN VIDEO INSIDE OF THE TANKS AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE IN GOOD SHAPE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AS NEEDED, WE'LL DRAIN AND CLEAN THEM IN CASE SEDIMENT OR THINGS LIKE THAT CLICKS ON THE BOTTOM.
UM, AND THEN WE CAN PLAN AHEAD FOR ANY KIND OF THE REHABILITATION WE MIGHT NEED TO DO.
UM, AND WHEN WE DO THAT REHAB, LIKE IN THIS PICTURE, THEY'RE ACTUALLY LIKE SAND BLASTING A RESERVOIR, GETTING READY TO RECOAT IT, WE'LL UPGRADE SAFETY EQUIPMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT, LADDERS AND, AND THAT KIND OF STUFF.
AND IF THERE ARE, IF THERE ARE POWER OUTAGES, UM, IT MIGHT, IT MIGHT LIMIT OUR ABILITY TO PUMP WATER THROUGH THE PUMP STATIONS.
SO WE INSTALL PERMANENT GENERATORS AT A LOT OF CRITICAL FACILITIES.
AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WE TRY AND INSTALL THEM IN AREAS WHERE IT CAN LIFT THE WATER KIND OF TO THE HIGHEST TANKS.
SO MAYBE EVERY PUMP STATION DOESN'T NEED, UM, GENERATORS 'CAUSE THERE'S MORE THAN ONE PUMP STATION THAT CAN LIFT UP TO THOSE HIGHER TANKS.
UM, AND WE DO RE ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ROUTINE TESTING TO ENSURE THAT THEY WORK.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE PORTABLE GENERATORS THAT WE CAN MOVE AROUND IF WE NEED TO, TO DIFFERENT PUMP STATIONS AND, AND EACH OF THE PUMP STATIONS HAS, UM, WE CALL 'EM TRANSFER SWITCHES, BUT THERE'S A WAY TO PLUG IN THOSE BIG GENERATORS AND RUN THE PUMP STATION.
AND TO DO ALL THIS, UM, WE HAVE DEDICATED WATER OPERATORS THAT DO ALL THIS WORK.
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THEIR PROFESSION.
THEY HAVE BETWEEN THEM OVER A HUNDRED DISTRIBUTION AND WATER TREATMENT CERTIFICATIONS FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
AND THEY RUN EVERYTHING 24 HOURS A DAY, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, 365.
THERE'S STAFF RIGHT NOW THAT ARE LIKE MONITORING THE WATER SYSTEM REMOTELY.
SO WE DO ALL OF THAT WITH AFFORDABILITY IN MIND.
UM, AND IT'S REALLY LIKE A REALLY GOOD VALUE 'CAUSE WE ONLY CHARGE ABOUT HALF A CENT PER GALLON OF WATER.
UM, AND THAT SMALL INVESTMENT HELPS PROVIDE THAT SAFE AND RELIABLE WATER SERVICE.
AND IT ALLOWS US TO DO THOSE REPLACEMENTS LIKE OF THE PIPELINES OF THE HYDRANTS AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS.
UM, AND I, AND I KNOW SOME FOLKS, YOU KNOW, ARE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR BILL AND THE BEST WAY THAT THEY CAN REDUCE THEIR BILL IS THROUGH CONSERVATION.
AND THAT ONE THING TO THINK ABOUT IS ABOUT 70% OF WATER USE IS OUTDOORS.
SO REALLY LIKE PLANTING THE NATIVE DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS ARE, THAT ARE ADAPTED TO OUR CLIMATE WOULD BE THE BEST WAY TO REDUCE YOUR WATER BILL.
AND IF YOU GO TO OUR WEBSITE, WE ACTUALLY HAVE LINKS TO LIKE UPCOMING SEMINARS AND WEB, UH, WEBINARS THAT YOU CAN GO TO TO LEARN ABOUT MORE WAYS TO, UM, CONSERVE AND CHANGE YOUR LANDSCAPING.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO SAY THANKS FOR, AGAIN, FOR HAVING US UP HERE AND THANKS FOR LIKE, UH, THE CITY PARTNERING WITH SUBURBAN AND US BEING A PARTNER, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS AND HELPING WITH OUR CONSERVATION PROGRAM AND HELPING US MAKE A VIDEO TALKING ABOUT THAT.
UM, AND THERE'S, WE, THERE'S MORE PROGRAMS THAN I SHOW HERE IF YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE, BUT CUSTOMERS THAT REALLY NEED THAT ASSISTANCE CAN APPLY AND THEY'LL GET A $9 DISCOUNT PER MONTH OFF OF THEIR BILL.
UM, AND THEN WE'VE GOT A PROGRAM NOW IN PLACE WHERE IF YOU NEED HELP REPLACING LEAKING PLUMBING OR EVEN LIKE A LEAKING TOILET, YOU CAN APPLY AND GET UP TO A $500 REBATE TO HELP COVER THAT COST.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR LIFELINE PROGRAM THAT IF THE PART OF THE PIPE THAT COMES FROM THE METER TO YOUR HOUSE HAS A LEAK, WE'LL COME OUT AND REPLACE THAT.
UM, AND THAT WRAPS UP MY PRESENTATION AND, AND I CAN TAKE ANY QUESTIONS IF ANYONE HAS 'EM.
UH, THE COUNCIL, ANYBODY HAVE A QUESTION? UH, WHO WANNA GO FIRST? TI OKAY.
WHY DID THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION DENY AND LOWERED IT? AND WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT WAS THAT OCCURRED? ACTUALLY, THAT WAS JUST RECENTLY.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE STILL WAITING ON THE FINAL DECISION AND WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING READY TO APPLY FOR THE NEXT RATE CYCLE.
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KIND OF RELATED TO COST.THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO CUT THINGS TO CUT COSTS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, AS I POINTED OUT FOR HALF A CENT A GALLON, KIND OF HAVING THAT ABILITY FOR US TO DO THOSE INVESTMENTS IS JUST MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE.
AND DID THAT CHANGE BECAUSE OF THE FIRE? I MEAN, ARE THEY REEVA? NO, IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE THE FIRES.
WHEN THEY CAME OUT WITH THAT DECISION.
SO HAD THE FIRES HAPPENED BEFORE THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WOULD'VE MAYBE HAD DIFFERENT THOUGHTS.
AND THEN, UM, WHEN DRAINING THE TANK, HOW LONG IS, DOES IT STAY EMPTY PRIOR TO THE REFILL? OH, IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE WORK WE HAVE TO DO.
AND WHENEVER WE DRAIN A TANK, WE MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ANOTHER WAY TO SUPPLY THE ZONE THAT THAT TANK SERVES.
IN SOME PLACES, WE MIGHT HAVE TWO TANKS THAT ARE AT THE SAME LEVEL, SO THAT WAY WE CAN DO ONE TANK AT A TIME.
UM, WE CAN ALSO, UH, I THINK, NOT TO GET INTO LIKE SUPER DETAILS, BUT WE CAN PUT IN VALVES WHERE WE CAN FEED THAT, THAT ZONE WHERE THE TANK'S OUTTA SERVICE FROM A HIGHER ZONE AND THAT LIKE REDUCES THE PRESSURE DOWN TO SERVE THAT ZONE.
MY LAST QUESTION IS, UM, WATER USAGE.
AND YOU KNOW HOW, LIKE THERE'S TIMES WHERE WE ARE IN DROUGHT AND THEY MAKE ALL THE RESIDENTS SAY, YOU CAN ONLY USE WATER THREE TIMES, YOU KNOW, THESE DAYS, WHERE ARE WE AT WITH THAT? RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT IN A MANDATORY CONSERVATION, UM, ORDER FROM THE GOVERNOR, WHICH WAS LIKE AN EMERGENCY ORDER, BUT THERE IS CONTINUING LEGISLATION THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO START COMPLYING WITH CALLED, UM, MAKING WATER CONSERVATION IN CALIFORNIA A WAY OF LIFE.
AND IT'S A VERY LONG KIND OF DURATION TO WORK ON THAT.
AND IT, AGAIN, IT'S VERY COMPLICATED, BUT IT'S BASED ON WHAT THEY CALL THE ETO FOR THE AREA AND IT'LL MAKE A BUDGET FOR THE SUBURBAN AS A WHOLE TO BE EFFICIENT WATER USE.
ACTUALLY, YEAH, THIS ONE'S FOR THE FIRE CHIEF
CAN YOU CONFIRM IF ALL WATER COMPANIES SERVING THE CITY OF WESTFIELD ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TESTING REQUIREMENTS? UH, WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT.
WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF COMPLETING A, A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT WITH, UH, SUBURBAN WATER FOR THEIR RECORDS.
UH, VALENCIA HEIGHTS, UH, HAS A ONLY EIGHT EMPLOYEES, UM, AND THEY'RE THE SECOND LARGEST ONE.
UH, THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING US THOSE RECORDS.
UH, THEY JUST GOT THEIR, UH, GSI PERSON ALL HOOKED UP AND GOT THAT READY.
AND THEN WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF REACHING OUT TO THOSE SMALLER WATER COMPANIES WHO HAVE EVEN FEWER EMPLOYEES.
BUT YEAH, WE'RE GONNA KEEP WORKING ON THAT UNTIL WE GET THAT COMPLETED.
AND THEN JUST FOR, UH, MAYBE THIS IS A CITY ATTORNEY QUESTION, BUT ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO KNOW IF THESE WATER COMPANIES ARE IN COMPLIANCE PUBLICLY OR BECAUSE OF THE NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT THAT'S GONNA PROHIBIT IT? YEAH, I DON'T HAVE THE TERMS OF THE, OF THE NDA, UM, BUT TO THE EXTENT WE CAN INFORM THE COUNCIL OF THEIR COMPLIANCE, WE WILL.
SO, UM, YEAH, SO I GUESS I'LL JUST SAY, UM, IF YOU COULD, UM, APRIL, MAY YEAH, IF YOU COULD UP THE YEARS BY, HOPEFULLY BY THE FIRST MEETING OF JUNE, UH, UPDATE ON THAT COMPLIANCE.
AND I'M ASSUMING THERE'S ALSO WITHIN THE FIRE CODE, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO, YOU INCITE SOME OF THESE COMPANIES THAT HAVE DONE AN DENY IN COMPLIANCE, UH, THAT I'LL HAVE TO LOOK INTO.
BUT LIKE WE SAID, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO OUT AND EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T CONTROL THE WATER, WE AS A FIRE DEPARTMENT, YES, WE CAN SPOT CHECK ANYTHING THAT WE DEEM NECESSARY.
UH, WE HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR WATER COMPANIES, SO IF THERE IS A HYDRANT THAT'S OUTTA SERVICE, MOST OF THE TIME THEY NOTIFY US BEFORE WE EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT.
UM, IF ONE'S DAMAGED DURING A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THROUGH OUR VERDUGO DISPATCH, WE'LL NOTIFY THE WATER COMPANIES AND THEY NOTIFY US RIGHT AWAY WHEN THEY'RE BACK IN SERVICE.
SO WE HAVE A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH ALL OF OUR WATER COMPANIES TO ENSURE THAT OUR HYDRANTS ARE, ARE WORKING.
AND I'LL JUST, UH, LEAVE OFF BY SAYING THANK YOU FOR, UH, CHECKING OUR FIRE HYDRANTS, THANK OUR, UH, FIREFIGHTERS.
I KNOW, UM, WHEN I SPOKE TO YOU, I KNOW IT WAS A PRIORITY FOR YOU AND YOU WERE ABLE TO GO OUT THERE AND THEN TURN SOME OF THOSE FIRE HYDRANTS ON IN THE HILLS.
SO I KNOW, UH, THE RESIDENTS ARE VERY HAPPY TO KNOW THAT THEIR FIRE HYDRANTS WORK, SO THANK YOU.
AND WE, WE ALWAYS KEEP THAT AS A UTMOST PRIORITY IN OUR DEPARTMENT.
MR. MAYOR, COUNCILMAN? THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.
UH, A QUESTION FROM MIKE, FROM SUBURBAN, UH, TO WHAT EXTENT COULD IT BE HELPFUL IF, IF THIS CITY WERE TO, TO WRITE A LETTER OF SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF, OF SUBURBANS, UH, EFFORTS TO MAIN, TO MAINTAIN THE PIPES BY, BY, UH, HAVING, UH, MAINTENANCE
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AT A LEVEL OF 1% PER YEAR INSTEAD OF 33? UH, INSTEAD OF THE THIRD AS AS IT AS IT IS NOW? YEAH.COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS, THANK YOU.
UH, WHEN, WHEN WE'RE PREPARING OUR NEXT RATE FILING, WE'LL DEFINITELY APPROACH YOU TO ASK FOR A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR THAT.
'CAUSE AT THAT TIME, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE'RE PREPARING AHEAD TO, TO LOOK AT WHAT WE WANT TO PROPOSE FOR THE NEXT TIME, AND THEN THAT WOULD HELP INFORM THAT LETTER.
ANY OTHER? OTHERWISE I WANT TO INVITE, OKAY.
CRAIG C HERE, I WANT YOU TO BE ON TV TOO.
SO, SO MIKE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO.
I THINK PEOPLE CAN RECOGNIZE THIS IS OUR OKAY.
UH, UTILITY COMPANY PRESIDENT, BECAUSE THIS IS SERVED ALMOST ENTIRE CITY, ALMOST ABOUT 80%.
OKAY? IT WILL BE SERVED BY THE SUBURBAN WATER COMPANY FOR ENTIRE CITY.
OKAY? SO, SO HOPEFULLY, OKAY, I KNOW WHEN YOU GO TO THE 1% TO 0.3% POSSIBLE, I GOING TO INCREASE OUR WATER BILL.
IT'S THAT, WELL, IF WE GO TO 1% FOR 100 YEARS, WILL THAT INCREASING AND RESIDENT TO PAY DUE TO YOU NEED TO IMPROVE, UH, YOUR PIPE.
SO ARE YOU GOING TO CHARGE US? YES.
WHEN WE MAKE INVESTMENTS IN THE COMPANY, THAT AFFECTS, SO THAT'S THE REASON POSSIBLE FOR THE COMMISSIONER.
THEY DENY DUE TO YOU ARE GOING TO INCREASE DRAMATICALLY TO THE RESIDENT.
OKAY? AND BECAUSE FROM 1% TO 0.3%, SO THEY, WE TALK ABOUT THREE AND A HALF TIME.
SO THEY WOULD BE INCREASING FOR THE BURDEN FOR THE RESIDENT.
AM I RIGHT? SO THEY REDUCED OUR REQUEST FROM 1% TO A THIRD OF A PERCENT AND IT REDUCED IT BY, UM, YOU KNOW, PENNY'S, UH, C, CFI UNDERSTAND.
OKAY? AND SO, SO, SO POSSIBLE THERE'S A JUDGMENT CALL.
SO WE, UH, BUT AS LONG AS SAFETY IS THE ISSUE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOT OF AGENT PIPE BURST ALL THE TIME, OKAY.
AND HOW WE CAN INCREASE, BUT YOU NEED TO MAYBE GO TO COMMISSIONER AND HAVE APPROVED BY THE RESIDENT ABOUT THEY AGREE ABOUT THIS INVESTMENT FOR OUR UNDERGROUND, FOR THIS AND THAT.
AND THEN WE CAN INVITE YOU, COME BACK NEXT TIME FOR THE QUALITY OF THE WATER, THE DRINKING WATER, SINCE YOU PROVIDE ALL THE DRINKING WATER AND WE DRINKING NOTHING BUT GROUND WATER.
SO WE WANT TO SEE HOW THE WATER PROVIDE BY YOU GUYS AND HOW SAFE THAT THING, BUT LET'S THINK THERE WILL BE NEXT PRESENTATION.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, EVERYBODY REMEMBER THEY DON'T PUT ON MY FACE, PUT IT ON THEM, OKAY? SO PEOPLE CAN, PEOPLE CAN SEE, OKAY, OUR PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT PROVIDE, OKAY.
AND, UH, WATER SERVICE FOR OUR COMPANY.
HOPEFULLY NEXT TIME WE CAN INVITE THE GUEST COMPANY AND OUR OKAY.
AND SO WE CAN RECOGNIZE WHO SOLD OUR OKAY.
BUT WE THANK YOU SO MUCH BECAUSE IT'S SINCERE, SINCERE FOR YOU GUYS.
YOU HAVE BEEN SHOWED SINCERITY TO SHOW CITY COUNCIL IN PERSON AND UH, WE, WE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU AS OUR OKAY.
PARTNER AND UH, TRY TO NOT INCREASING TOO MUCH, OKAY? SO OTHERWISE, OKAY, WE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH YOU, OKAY? I DON'T WANNA PAY $500 A MONTH, BUT ANYWAY, AND OTHER COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTION OTHERWISE? OKAY.
YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD.
OH, I'LL JUST SAY THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY.
UM, AS MIKE MENTIONED, SUBURBAN WATER SYSTEM HAS 134 EMPLOYEES AND WE JUST WORK HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
WE WORK, UH, FROM GLENDORA DOWN TO LATA.
OUR CUSTOMER CALL CENTER IS IN LATA AND IN WEST COVINA.
WE'RE HERE, I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY.
UM, WHEN WE HAVE ISSUES WITH CUSTOMERS, UH, I'M INVOLVED, WE'RE ALL INVOLVED IN IT.
WE'RE REALLY PROUD OF WHAT WE DO.
WE'VE BEEN AROUND FOR 130 YEARS AND WE'RE GONNA BE AROUND AS LONG AS THE CITY'S HERE.
SO WE'RE PROUD TO SERVE THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
AND I REMEMBER SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AGO I TALKED TO YOU IN PERSON AND I WENT TO YOUR, UH, WATER EDUCATION AND I WENT TO THE SEA.
HOW THE DRINKING WATER COMING FROM AND I FIND OUT ONE THING IS WE DRINKING ANOTHER COLORADO SUITE.
OKAY? RIVER, WE DRINKING NOTHING BUT GROUND WATERS, OKAY? UNDERNEATH DUE TO MUCH CHEAPER, OKAY? OKAY.
FOR, TO PROVIDE THE WATER TO US.
BUT I THINK YOU TALK TO ME THAT TIME YOU SAY YOU WANT TO BRING YOUR HEADQUARTER TO WEST COVINA.
OKAY? HOPEFULLY ONE DAY YOU CAN BRING YOUR HEADQUARTER TO WEST COVINA SINCE WE SERVE YOU 80% OR 90%.
SO HOPEFULLY YOU CAN HELP US WITH ALL THIS SO-CALLED, UH, HEADQUARTERED TO US.
ANYWAY, IT'S JUST A SUGGESTION OKAY? OTHER THAN ANY OTHER QUESTION YOU GUYS HAVE, OKAY? UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
APPRECIATE AND I SEE YOU SOON FOR THE NEXT PRESENTATION.
AND WE ARE DONE WITH PRESENTATION, RIGHT? SO WE GO TO ORAL
[ORAL COMMUNICATIONS]
COMMUNICATION, OKAY? UM, OKAY.COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER, UNLESS NOTIFIED BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER OR CITY COUNCIL REQUEST TO SPEAK ON THE AGENDA ITEM WILL BE HEARD PRIOR TO REQUEST TO SPEAK ON THE NON AGENDA ITEM.
AGAIN, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT ENGAGE IN BEHAVIOR THAT IS DISRUPTIVE
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TO THE ELDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPEAKING OFF TOPIC, SPEAKING BEYOND THE SPEAKERS ALLOWED TIME LIMIT.MAKING SLANDEROUS OR PROFE REMARK OR USING LOUD THREATEN OR ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, WHICH DISRUPT DISTURB IN PLEAD OR RENDERS INVISIBLE, THE ELDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT THREATEN ANY PERSON WITH PHYSICAL HARM OR ACT A MANNER THAT MAY REASONABLE BE IN INTERPRETED AS AN ELEMENT THREAT OF A PHYSICAL HARM.
WHEN YOU HEARD YOUR NAME BEING CALLED, PLEASE START LINE UP IN THE CENTER ROW.
THE TIME WILL START WHEN YOU NAME IS CALLED.
HOW MANY SPEAKER WE HAVE? I HAVE 11 SPEAKERS.
JERRY PATRAS, FOLLOWED BY NICK LEWIS, FOLLOWED BY GLORIA GDO.
TONIGHT I'M GOING TO TALK, UH, COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEM TWO.
CHANGING THE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE REMOVAL OF COMMISSIONERS CHANGING CITY POLICY TO GIVE THE SUPER MAJORITY THE POWER TO REMOVE A MINORITY COUNCIL MEMBER.
COMMISSIONERS WITHOUT CAUSE IS A MALICIOUS POWER GRAB DESIGNED TO REDUCE THE VOICE OF THE MINORITY.
IT GOES AGAINST THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN OUR COUNTRY.
IT IS CONCERNING THAT AGENDA ITEM TWO IS AN ISSUE AT ALL.
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO REMOVE ANY COMMISSIONER WITHOUT CAUSE THIS IS WRONG.
A COMMUNITY IS STRENGTHENED WHEN DIVERSE VIEWS ARE CONSIDERED.
IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER DEVELOP COUNCIL MEETING AGENDAS.
IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT THIS ITEM IS EVEN ON THE AGENDA.
PLACING IT ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR MAKES IT WORSE.
CONSENT CALENDARS ARE, AND I'M QUOTING FROM TONIGHT'S MEETING AGENDA WHERE, WHERE ALL MATTERS LISTED UNDER THE CONSENT CALENDAR ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ROUTINE AND CAN BE ACTED ON BY ONE ROLL CALL VOTE.
THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF THESE ITEMS UNLESS MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL COMMUNITY OF DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION REQUEST SPECIFIC ITEMS BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR FOR SEPARATE DISCUSSION OR ACTION.
IT WAS OBVIOUSLY WRITTEN BY AN ATTORNEY.
UM, THE FACT THAT THIS ITEM IS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR UNDERSCORES THE MALICIOUS NATURE OF THIS EFFORT.
THIS ACTION STARTED AS A MOTHER MAY I REQUESTED BY COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ ON FEBRUARY 18TH, 2025.
IT WAS SECONDED BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ AND SUPPORTED BY THE COUNCIL.
SUPER MAJORITY COUNCILMAN CANTOS VOTED NO AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE SHOULD VOTE WHEN PRESENTED WITH A MALICIOUS POWER GRAB.
SOMEDAY YOU MAY BE IN THE MINORITY AND THIS MAY AFFECT YOU.
AGENDA ITEM TWO MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR AND STOPPED FROM ANY FURTHER ACTION.
IT IS MALICIOUS TO REDUCE THE RE TO REDUCE THE VOICE OF THE MINORITY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
FOLLOWED BY GLORIA GDO, FOLLOWED BY MARIO SILVAR.
I SUBMIT TO YOU THE DATE OF JANUARY 19TH, 2010, A DATE THAT PROBABLY MEANS NOTHING TO THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM.
HOWEVER, THIS WAS A DATE WHEN ANOTHER WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL MAJORITY MADE A TRULY FOOLISH AND UNFORCED ERROR IN PASSING AN ORDINANCE THAT TOOK AWAY THE ABILITY OF COUNCIL MEMBERS TO NAME THEIR OWN COMMISSIONERS.
IT TOOK FIVE YEARS FOR THIS FOOLISH ERROR TO BE OVERRIDDEN BY A SUBSEQUENT COUNCIL, BUT HERE WE ARE AGAIN.
SUDDENLY 10 YEARS LATER, THIS COUNCIL HAS HAS AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA, WHICH BRINGS ME BACK TO THAT DAY.
THIS NEEDLESSLY RESULTED IN THAT COUNCIL MAJORITY LOSING THE RESPECT OF MANY WHO VOTED FOR THEM.
NOW IT APPEARS THAT A NEW COUNCIL MAJORITY IS ON THE PRECIPICE OF DOING IT AGAIN.
HOWEVER, NOW WE LIVE IN A MUCH DIFFERENT WORLD.
NONE OF YOU HAS ELECTORAL LEGITIMACY OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN DISTRICT.
AND THEREFORE, THE IDEA THAT A MAJORITY OF THIS COUNCIL COULD RELEGATE A SEPARATE DISTRICT INTO THE REDHEADED STEPCHILD OF WEST COVINA SEEMS EVEN MORE ABSURD TODAY.
SO THE QUESTION IS, WHY WOULD SUCH A PROPOSAL GET SUPPORT BY THIS COUNCIL AT THIS STAGE WITHOUT ANY FACTUAL NEXUS, ALL OF MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS CHOSEN BY COUNCIL MEMBER CANTOS HAVE THIS SAME QUESTION.
WE'D ALL LIKE TO KNOW, WILL THE RESULT OF YOUR ACTIONS TONIGHT BE THAT YOU WILL WITHOUT CAUSE REMOVE ALL OF COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS COMMISSIONERS AND DEEM ANYONE HE CHOOSES WHO DOES NOT ACTIVELY SUPPORT YOU? UNACCEPTABLE.
WILL YOU BE INSTALLING YOUR OWN COMMISSIONERS IN LIEU OF HIS? IF THAT IS NOT THE MAJORITY'S INTENTION, THEN WHY IS THIS CHANGE NECESSARY WHEN YOU ALREADY HAVE THE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REMOVE A COMMISSIONER FOR CAUSE? MY
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QUESTION TO THOSE WHO WOULD GO ALONG WITH THIS SCHEME IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR DISTRICT IS THE ODD MAN OUT? UM, ARE, ARE, WOULD YOU GO AROUND OR WOULD YOU GO ALONG WITH THAT STATE OF AFFAIRS? ARE THE REST OF YOU PREPARED TO DECLARE WAR ON DISTRICT FOUR AND ALL THE RESIDENTS WHO EXPECT THAT THEIR COUNCIL MEMBER HAS A SEAT AND A VOICE ON THIS DAIS? WELL, I PREFER TO, UH, AVOID PREJUDGING THINGS.THIS IS NOT THE FIRST BIZARRE PROCEDURAL CHANGE THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS INTRODUCED THIS YEAR, SUCH AS LIMITING PUBLIC COMMENT TO THREE YEARS, WHICH IS WHY I'M TALKING SO FAST IN INTRODUCING PRO PROHIBITIONS ON SPEECH THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
FRANKLY, IF IT'S THE GOAL TO MAKE THIS CHAMBER MORE INVITING THE AVERAGE RESIDENT, YOU, YOUR RECENT CHANGES LEAVE THE OPPOSITE IMPRESSION, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF THE PROPOSAL, WHICH APPEARS TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN A POWER PLAY.
WHILE I DON'T KNOW ANY OF YOU PERSONALLY OUTSIDE OF ALI AND LETTY, GIVEN MY PREVIOUS SERVICE WITH LETTY ON THE COMMISSION ON THE COMMUNITY SERVICES COM COMMISSION, I'M EXTREMELY CONFUSED AS TO WHY SHE HAS BACKED THESE MOVES AND WHY SHE APPEARS POISED TO BACK THIS ORDINANCE AT NUMBER TWO TONIGHT.
HAVING WORKED WITH HER DIRECTLY, I DO NOT BELIEVE FOR ONE SECOND THAT SHE BELIEVES THE ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.
I, I AND, AND I HOPE I'M NOT PROVEN WRONG TONIGHT.
AS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THOSE NOT NAMED ALI CONTOS, I HOPE WE WILL THINK FOR A SECOND ABOUT WHAT SUCH A MOVE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY DO TO THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO MAY HAVE BACKED YOU FOR THE, FOR THE IDEAS THAT YOU ESPOUSED DURING THE LAST ELECTION.
AND JUXTAPOSE THOSE WITH THE, WITH THE IDEAS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU TONIGHT.
I HOPE YOU DON'T BURY YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND AND GO FOOLISHLY LEE DOWN THE SAME ROAD.
BUT IF YOU DO, YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT YOU'LL BE NOTHING MORE THAN A FOOTNOTE IN HISTORY THAT I CITE TO A DECADE FROM NOW WHEN THE NEXT MISGUIDED COUNCIL MAJORITY TRIES TO.
OKAY, UH, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
GLORIA GAND GANDARA, MARIO AND MR. G.
AND THE MICROPHONE LOWER PLEASE.
UM, I AM OPPOSED TO YOUR AMENDING SECTION 2 67 PROBABLY FOR THE SAME REASONS THAT THEY HAVE GIVEN.
IT IS APPARENT THAT, UH, YOU DISLIKE HEARING US BECAUSE YOU'VE LOWERED THE, UH, AMOUNT OF TIME THAT WE CAN USE FROM FIVE MINUTES TO THREE MINUTES.
AND IT'S CLEAR THAT YOU MAY NOT BE GETTING COMPLIANCE FROM COUNCILMAN TU.
SO WHAT WAY CAN YOU DO IT OTHER THAN REMOVING COMMISSIONERS THAT HE APPOINTS TO COMMISSIONS WITHOUT CAUSE? THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
FOLLOWED BY MR. G, FOLLOWED BY TOM KI.
COUNCIL MEMBERS, FELLOW RESIDENTS.
I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE OF THE ORDINANCE BEFORE US GIVING THIS COUNCIL THE POWER TO REMOVE COMMISSIONERS WITHOUT CAUSE.
IT IS A DANGEROUS, UNNECESSARY, AND FRANKLY HYPOCRITICAL POWER GRAPH.
LET'S START WITH COUNCIL O'BRIEN GUTIERREZ.
HE USED TO SERVE AS THE PLANNING COMMISSIONER.
HE KNOWS HOW VITAL THESE RULES ARE, HOW THEY SERVE AS INDEPENDENT VOICES FOR THE COMMUNITY.
BUT NOW THAT HE'S ON THIS DAIS, HE WANTS THE POWER TO FIRE ANY COMMISSIONER WITH A SIMPLE FOUR ONE VOTE.
COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ HASN'T EVEN APPOINTED A PLANNING COMMISSIONER HIMSELF.
THAT SEAT, THE VERY ONE HE WANTS OCCUPIED, IS STILL VACANT.
IF THESE POSITIONS ARE SO IMPORTANT, WHY HASN'T HE FILLED HIS OWN? WHY IS HIS FOCUS ON REMOVING COMMISSIONERS INSTEAD OF APPOINTING THEM? IT GETS WORSE.
HIS TWO APPOINTEES TO THE COMMUNITY AND SENIOR SERVICES COMMISSION DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP TO THEIR FIRST MEETING ON MARCH 11TH, FORCING THE MEETING TO BE CANCELED DUE TO LACK OF A QUORUM.
THIS COMMISSION FREQUENTLY STRUGGLES TO CONDUCT BUSINESS BECAUSE TOO MANY APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE AS POLITICAL FAVORS, NOT BASED ON QUALIFICATIONS OR COMMITMENT.
WE HAVE COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE EAGER TO SHOW UP TO PUBLIC EVENTS TO BE INTRODUCED AND RECOGNIZED TO WEAR THE TITLE LIKE A BADGE OF HONOR.
BUT THEN THEY DON'T SHOW UP TO THE MEETINGS WHERE REAL WORK HAPPENS.
THESE THAT'S NOT PUBLIC SERVICE, THAT'S VANITY POLITICS.
AND INSTEAD OF FIXING THIS BROKEN SYSTEM, USING THE EXISTING ORDINANCE, WHICH ALREADY ALLOWS COMMISSIONERS TO BE REMOVED AFTER MISSING THREE CONSECUTIVE MEETINGS, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ WANTS TO REWRITE THE RULES TO ALLOW BLANKET REMOVALS WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE.
NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT WHO HE IS, WHO HE IS APPOINTING.
IN JANUARY, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ APPOINTED PAUL SCHRIER TO THE HUMAN RESOURCES COMMISSION.
JUST FIVE DAYS AGO, MR. SCHRIER WAS CODED IN A FRONT PAGE LA TIMES ARTICLE AS COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ'S ATTORNEY DEFENDING HIS ROLE IN A FEDERAL CASE INVOLVING A RECORD EXECUTIVE CONVICTED OF VIOLATING THE KING PING ACT.
RIFER PUBLICLY PRAISED GUTIERREZ AS AN HONEST PERSON, WAS A DISTINGUISHED RECORD.
AND NOW THAT SAME ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTS HIM IN A CRIMINAL RELATED MATTER, SITS ON A CITY COMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE VERY MAN WHOSE REPUTATION HE JUST OFFENDED IN THE PRESS.
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THAT'S POLITICAL PROTECTION.AND SPEAKING OF INTEGRITY, AT THE MARCH 11TH PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY GAVE A BROWN ACT PRESENTATION.
ONE OF HER SLIDES DIRECTLY CONTRADICTED A POLICY.
THIS COUNCIL PASSED THE ONE PREVENTING SPEAKER CARDS FROM BEING SUBMITTED.
ONCE PUBLIC COMMENTS BEGIN, ACCORDING TO THE BROWN ACT, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION MUST REMAIN OPEN AND ACCESSIBLE.
AND THIS CITY IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSED TO VIOLATING THAT PRINCIPLE, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ, PRIOR PRIORITIES HAVE BECOME PAINFULLY CLEAR.
FAVOR YOUR FRIENDS, PROTECT YOURSELF, SILENCE ANYONE WHO DARESS TO SPEAK INDEPENDENTLY, WEST COVINA DESERVES BETTER.
IF YOU CAN'T APPOINT COMMISSIONERS WHO SHOW UP, IF YOU CAN'T FILL THE VERY SEAT YOU ONCE HELD, IF YOUR RESPONSE TO DYSFUNCTION IS TO REWRITE THE RULES AND CONSOLIDATE MORE POWER, THEN MAYBE YOU'RE NOT THE ONES WHO SHOULD BE WRITING THEM.
MR. G FOLLOWED BY TOM KE FOLLOWED BY VERONICA.
GOT A QUICK QUESTION IN REGARDS TO NUMBER FOUR.
HOW DOES IT, HOW WOULD A CITIZEN GO ABOUT RECOMMENDING A GUTTER OR A SIDEWALK TO BE REPAIRED? I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SHOULD BE BROUGHT UP.
WHETHER THE MANAGER WILL BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
'CAUSE I'D LIKE TO SUBMIT SOMETHING IN MY AREA.
AND AGAIN, I DO BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH AND I DON'T THINK THAT ANYONE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE REMOVED FROM ANY COUNSEL WITHOUT PROPER CAUSE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
TOM KEES, FOLLOWED BY VERONICA, FOLLOWED BY ROBERT ARNOLD.
THERE'S NOT MUCH FUNNY IN WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY, BUT, UH, HERE WE ARE.
I'M, I'M A VOLUNTEER OVER AT YOUR LOCAL LA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE CENTER.
JUST TWO MILES AWAY WHERE YOU'RE LOST AND SURRENDERED ANIMALS END UP.
THAT SAID, I'M HERE AS AN INDIVIDUAL IN MY OWN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE SHELTER THAT THEY'RE GIVEN IS EXTREMELY TEMPORARY.
THERE'S TWO WAYS OUT WALKING OUT THE FRONT DOOR OR BEING WHEELED OUT THE BACK AFTER BEING EUTHANIZED BECAUSE NO ONE CAME FOR THEM IN THE SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME THEY WERE GIVEN.
THE MORE THAT COME IN STRAYS AND SURRENDERS, AND THE FEWER THAT WALK OUT ADOPTIONS, RESCUES, AND RETURN TO THEIR OWNERS RESULTS IN A GREATER NUMBER OF THEM THAT NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT I'M NOT HERE TO DISCUSS POLICIES OR PROCEDURES.
I KNOW YOU ALL ARE LIMITED IN YOUR INFLUENCE REGARDING THE CARE CENTER.
WHAT I'M HERE TO DO IS PITCH SOME IDEAS ON HOW YOU ALL CAN MAKE CHANGES WITHIN THIS CITY THAT DIRECTLY HELP THE ANIMALS STANDING ON CONCRETE AND BEHIND BARS.
NUMBER ONE, WE'RE HOPING TO GET FEWER DOGS.
IN THE OTHER DAY, A WOMAN CAME IN AND REDEEMED HER DOG FROM THE SHELTER AND WE'RE ALL SHOCKED TO HEAR THAT WEST COVINA DOES NOT HAVE SPAY NEUTER LAWS OR REQUIRE RESIDENTS TO MICROCHIP THEIR PETS.
IT'S 2025 ACCORDING TO PETA SPAYING AND NEUTERING IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO TO SAVE CATS AND DOGS FROM ALL THE SUFFERING AND DEATH THAT OVERPOPULATION CAUSES.
JUST ONE UNALTERED FEMALE DOG IN HER OFFSPRING CAN PRODUCE 67,000 PUPPIES IN ONLY SIX YEARS, 67,000.
LET'S SAY THEY'RE OFF BY A FACTOR OF 10 FACTOR OF A HUNDRED.
NUMBER TWO, LET'S GET MORE OF THEM OUT ALIVE.
PEOPLE WITH ANIMALS THAT ARE MICROCHIPPED WITH INFO UP TO DATE VERY OFTEN FIND THEIR PETS WITHIN HOURS.
PEOPLE WITHOUT PETS THAT ARE CHIPPED VERY OFTEN NEVER DO.
IT'S NOT UNCOMMON FOR A SCARED DOG TO TRAVEL 20 MILES, WHICH COULD BE THE JURISDICTION OF SEVERAL COMPLETELY DIFFERENT UNRELATED SHELTER SYSTEMS. THE OTHER DAY AT A CITY SHELTER, I VOLUNTEERED A NUMBER OF THEM.
A DOG WAS RETURNED TO THE OWNER THAT WAS LOST IN SAN DIEGO, 120 MILES.
OKAY, HERE'S SOMETHING YOU COULD DO AND PROBABLY GREEN LIGHT, RIGHT? TONIGHT.
WE'RE HOPING YOU START A PET OF THE MONTH PROGRAM JUST AS SOME OF YOUR NEIGHBORS HAVE, NOT ONLY HIGHLIGHTING DIFFERENT ANIMALS EACH MONTH, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY RAISING AWARENESS.
POSSIBLY IT ENCOURAGES THE PEOPLE OF WEST COVINA NOT ONLY TO VISIT THE CARE CENTER AT 4 2 7 5 NORTH ELTON STREET OFF OF ROMANA BOULEVARD.
HINT, HINT, BUT TO ADOPT OR VOLUNTEER.
SO I HEARD THE REVEREND SAY, PLEASE LISTEN TO THE VOICES WITH HUMANITY AND RESPECT.
THERE WAS ALSO A STATEMENT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO SAVE LIVES.
THERE WAS A STATEMENT THEY CAN'T COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE.
AND ANOTHER STATEMENT, WHICH WAS PERFECT, HELP SAVE LIVES.
UH, NEXT, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
FOLLOWED BY ROBERT, FOLLOWED BY JOHN SHOEMAKER.
I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF ECHO SOME OF THE SENTIMENTS THAT TOM SAID ABOUT SPAYING AND NEUTERING YOUR DOG AND MICROCHIPPING.
AND IT'S VERY SIMPLE, BUT VERY IMPACTFUL.
UM, A CALLER IS JUST NOT ENOUGH.
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YOUR DOG IS A PERMANENT WAY TO ENSURE THAT IT ALWAYS HAS IDENTIFICATION, WHETHER IT'S LOST OR STOLEN.IT CAN BE SCANNED AT ANY VET OR ANY ANIMAL SHELTER.
AND IT CANNOT BE TAKEN OFF THE WAY THAT A CALLER CAN COME OFF AND BE GIVEN A NEW IDENTITY.
IF SOMEBODY FINDS IT OFF THE STREET OR WHAT IT MAY, WHAT MAY HAPPEN, IT CAN HELP NEIGHBORS HELP EACH OTHER REUNITE WITH THEIR LOST PETS BECAUSE ACCIDENTS HAPPEN AND OUR DOGS GETTING OUT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE.
IT IS A ONE-TIME FEE, BUT A PURCHASE THAT LASTS A DOG'S LIFETIME AND CAN BE UPDATED AS NEEDED.
SPAYING AND NEUTERING HAS MANY BENEFITS FOR BOTH ANIMALS AND HUMANS.
IT CAN LESSEN THE AGGRESSION AND MALE DOGS, WHICH CAN MEAN FEWER INCIDENTS OF DOGS ATTACKING OTHER ANIMALS OR HUMANS.
IT REDUCES THE NEED SLASH THE D DRIVE OF A DOG TO LEAVE THEIR HOUSE IN ROME, SEARCH FOR ANOTHER DOG TO MATE WITH AND KEEP THE PET SAFE.
BUT IT ALSO, ANYONE WALKING ON THE STREETS SAFE AS WELL.
IT CAN HELP PREVENT THE SPREAD OF ZOO ZOONOTIC DISEASES, WHICH ARE DISEASES THAT SPREAD FROM HUMANS TO, TO ANIMALS LIKE RABIES OR EBOLA.
THIS ALSO ALLOWS SHELTERS TO FOCUS MORE ON REHOMING THE DOGS IN THEIR CARE ALREADY, AS WELL AS PROVIDE A LONGER WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TO GET ADOPTED.
IT COSTS TAXPAYERS MONIES TO CARE FOR THESE ANIMALS, AND THE MORE ANIMALS IN THEIR CARE, THE MORE WE'LL HAVE TO PAY TO KEEP WITH THE DEMAND OF UNWANTED LITTERS BEING BORN.
A LOT OF THE TIME, NEWBORN KITTENS WILL BE EUTHANIZED WHEN BROUGHT TO THE SHELTER 'CAUSE THERE'S NOT A WAY TO OFFER WHAT THEY NEED.
SO HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS, BECAUSE WE ARE ALL CONNECTED.
THE LESS LITTERS BEING BORN, THE LESS STRAYS ON THE STREET, FEWER DOGS GETTING ABANDONED AND ENTERING THE SHELTER SYSTEM.
FEWER DOGS BEING PUT DOWN FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN HUMAN NEGLIGENCE REQUIRING RESIDENTS TO SPAY AND NEUTER AND MICROCHIP THEIR PETS SENDS THE MESSAGE THAT WEST COVINA ENCOURAGES THE, THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PET OWNERSHIP TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
ROBERT, FOLLOWED BY JOHN, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINA LA RIOS.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.
UM, I'VE BEEN A VOLUNTEER AT THE BALDWIN PARK ANIMAL SHELTER FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS NOW, BUT I'M HERE IN MY OWN CAPACITY.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION, I'M SURE EVERYBODY IS AWARE OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO, ALL THE NEWS TALKING ABOUT HOW THE CITY AND COUNTY SHELTERS ARE OVERWHELMED WITH INCOMING ANIMALS AND THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH SPACE.
AND THE 10 YEARS I'VE BEEN DOING THIS, I'VE NEVER SENT THE EUTHANASIA RATE SO HIGH, AND IT'S HEARTBREAKING.
UM, THERE AREN'T ENOUGH RESCUES OUT THERE TO RESCUE THESE ANIMALS.
THERE AREN'T ENOUGH FOSTERS OUT THERE TO FOSTER THESE ANIMALS.
SO WE ARE ALL WORKING, UH, OVERTIME TRYING TO GET THESE DOGS OUTTA HERE, AND WE CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE NUMBER THAT ARE COMING IN.
SO, SPEED AND NEU NEUTER PROGRAMS AND, UH, REGULATIONS ARE A MUST AMONG ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO REDUCE THE, THE PET AND ANIMAL POPULATION THAT'S OVERFLOWING THE SHELTERS.
UM, MOST CITIES DO NOT HAVE ANY SORT OF REQUIREMENTS OR REGULATIONS ON BREEDING.
UM, WE ASK THAT YOUR CITY AND OTHERS DO THIS, DO THIS AND STEP UP AND CREATE SOME SORT OF REGULATIONS TO TRY TO MITIGATE THE OVERWHELMING, UH, PROBLEM THAT THERE IS.
UM, DEPLORABLE BREEDING CONDITIONS LEAD TO THE ZOONOTIC, UH, OUTBREAKS.
OUR SHELTER ITSELF AS, UH, A WITNESSED, UH, UH, STREP ZOO IN THE LAST YEAR, AS WELL AS CONSTANT UPPER REPERTORY INFECTIONS.
SO WE NEED TO TRY TO CONTROL THE POPULATION.
I WON'T GO INTO THE GREAT STUFF THAT TOM AND VERONICA HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN ABOUT.
UM, IT WOULD JUST BE NICE IF, UH, IF CITIES COULD GET TOGETHER, WORK TOGETHER AND CREATE SOME SORT OF UNIFORMED SPAY AND NEUTER AND, UM, AND BREEDING REGULATIONS AND ENFORCE THOSE WHEN THEY'RE NOT MET.
UM, BUT AT THIS POINT, THAT MAY BE SOMETHING, A DREAM FOR THE FUTURE.
RIGHT NOW, WE JUST ASKING ONE CITY AT A TIME, IF THEY COULD STEP UP, BE RESPONSIBLE, AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
JOHN, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINA RIOS, FOLLOWED BY DOUG.
IS IT TRUE THAT THE ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY DID NOT CALL A PIVOTAL WITNESS BRIAN GUTIERREZ BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED GUTIERREZ IS A SERIAL LIAR AND OR IS IT TRUE FURTHER TRUE? HE WAS NOT CALLED TO TESTIFY BECAUSE THERE WAS CONCERNS HE'D BE ASKED IF HE'S STILL A PAID INFORMANT FOR THE FBI INVOLVED IN ANOTHER CASE, I MUST WONDER IF IT RELATES TO OUR CITY AS AT LEAST ONE PERSON CONTACTED THE FBI DISCUSSED ONE MEMBER OF THE CONSOLE, TONY WU.
A FELLOW MEMBER OF THIS CONSOLE MAY WELL BE INFORMING ON YOU TWISTING ANYTHING YOU SAY TO KEEP A CHECK COMING.
WE ALSO KNOW THE CEO OF GUTIERREZ'S FORMER EMPLOYER WAS CONVICTED OF DOING BUSINESS WITH A DRUG CARTEL.
SINCE GUTIERREZ KNEW ABOUT THIS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS UNTIL HE WAS FIRED, YOU HAVE TO WONDER IF THE MONEY HE DONATED TO OUR POLICE FIRE AND CITY WAS COMING FROM DRUG CARTELS OR THOSE WHO ARE DOING BUSINESS WITH DRUG CARTELS OR THE FBI.
IN ANY CASE, YOU SHOULD DEMAND A FULL ACCOUNTING OF THE, OF THE SOURCE OF THOSE FUNDS
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OR RETURN THE MONEY.OH, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, THE REASON I'M WEARING THIS VEST IS JUST IN CASE FOR ONCE IN HIS LIFE, GUTIERREZ IS TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DANGER.
I'D RECOMMEND YOU DO THE SAME AND I HAVE AN EXTRA ONE IF SOMEBODY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT.
CHRISTINA, FOLLOWED BY DOUG, FOLLOWED BY JD.
GOOD EVENING MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, STAFF AND RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA.
MY NAME IS CHRISTINA LARIOS AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF WEST COVINA LIBRARY.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME OF OUR UPCOMING EVENTS.
UM, AS I'VE MENTIONED IN THE PAST, WE DO HAVE OUR BABY STORY TIME ON THURSDAY MORNINGS, UH, 10:15 AM AND ON FRIDAYS WE HAVE OUR SMARTY PANTS STORY, TIME FOR CHILDREN, AGES TWO THROUGH FIVE.
WE DO HAVE ALL AGES PROGRAMS. AND COMING UP THIS SATURDAY IS OUR CHESS TOURNAMENT.
UM, THIS IS A, A FUN PROGRAM FOR ALL AGES, AND THIS WILL BE AT 10:30 AM UM, ALSO I WANTED TO MENTION THAT OUR FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY WHO, UH, DOES OUR BOOK SALE AND ALL THE PROCEEDS FROM THE BOOK SALE GOES DIRECTLY BACK INTO THE LIBRARY TO PURCHASE MATERIALS AND FUND PROGRAMS ARE HAVING A SECOND SATURDAY BOOK SALE ON SATURDAY APRIL 12TH FROM 10 30 TO 12:30 PM AND, UM, A COUPLE OTHER PROGRAMS I WANTED TO MENTION FOR TEENS.
UH, WE HAVE OUR TEEN ADVISORY BOARD MEETING, UH, TOMORROW APRIL 2ND AT 4:00 PM FOLLOWED BY A TEEN EGG HUNT ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9TH AT 4:00 PM.
LASTLY, I WANTED TO MENTION THAT ZUMBA IS BACK FOR ADULTS ON WEDNESDAY EVENINGS APRIL 16TH, 23RD AND 30TH.
SO PLEASE JOIN US AT 6:30 PM THANK YOU.
HELLO, MY NAME IS DOUG FOUR, RESIDENT DISTRICT FIVE, BUSINESS OWNER AND DISTRICT THREE.
I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT TWO SUBJECTS TONIGHT.
THE FIRST IS A HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
SINCE THE CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED THE PROJECT OVER FOUR YEARS AGO AT A COST OF OVER $600,000, I BELIEVE THE COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS OWNERS, UM, ARE OWED INFORMATION REGARDING HOW THE MONEY WAS SPENT AND WHAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED FOR THE $600,000.
AS I HAVE ASKED THAT THE LAST TWO BUSINESS MEETINGS HERE, I WILL ASK ONCE AGAIN, HOW MANY AND WHICH BUSINESSES ARE GONNA BE AFFECTED.
HOW MANY EMPLOYEES WILL BE REQUIRED TO RUN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT? WHAT WILL, UM, WILL THERE BE THEIR OWN DEPARTMENT WITHIN THE CITY? WHAT WILL BE THE BUDGET FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT? WHAT FUNDING SOURCE WILL BE USED FOR THIS FUND? HEALTH DEPARTMENT? WHAT BUSINESSES WERE INCLUDED IN THE PLANNING OF THIS HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND WHEN AND WHAT ARE THE PHASES GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED? SINCE TRANSTECH, THE VENDOR IN CHARGE OF THE STREET SWEEPING SIGNS IS ALSO IN CHARGE OF PHASE TWO OF CREATING THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
I ASKED THE CITY COUNCIL TO ASK THESE QUESTIONS TONIGHT, WHY THEY'RE PRESENTING ON THE STREET SWEEPING SIGNS THEY WORK FOR YOU.
THE COMMUNITY AND BUSINESSES AFFECTED DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT IS BEING DEVELOPED AT A COST OF $600,000.
AS I CONTINUE TO ASK FOR VERY SENSIBLE INFORMATION, I GREATLY QUESTION THE TRANSPARENCY OF SOME ON THE CITY COUNCIL CLAIM TO HAVE.
SECOND SUBJECT WAS MY REQUEST TO HAVE THE CITY ONCE AGAIN TAKE OVER THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BUSINESS LICENSE FEE COLLECTION.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE CITY CAN DO THIS TASK FOR MUCH LESS THAN WHAT WE'RE GIVING A NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMPANY, HDL.
LET'S KEEP THE MONEY IN WEST COVINA INSTEAD OF SENDING IT TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
I ALSO QUESTION IF THE CITY IS INCAPABLE OF COLLECTING BUSINESS LICENSING FEES, HOW ARE WE GONNA RUN A HEALTH DEPARTMENT? OKAY, THANK YOU.
[ CITY MANAGER'S REPORT]
MANAGER WANT TO RESPOND SOME OF THE SPEAKER REGARDING THEIR CONCERN? YES.GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, THERE'S A COUPLE SPEAKERS THAT CAME IN AND SPOKE ABOUT ITEM NUMBER TWO REGARDING, UM, THE, UH, AMENDMENT TO SECTION TWO DASH 67 OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE.
UM, THIS WAS A MOTHER MAY I THAT WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE, UH, OR THAT WAS, UH, REQUESTED AT A COUNCIL MEETING BY THE, UH, ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
IT WAS APPROVED, UH, BY THE MAJORITY OF COUNCIL, AND THAT'S WHY IT IS ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
UM, AND THE COUPLE OTHER ITEMS REGARDING THE, UH, ANIMAL, OUR ANIMAL CONTROL CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTY.
WE, UM, DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE CITY HAS, UH, A MANDATE OR REQUIREMENT TO SPAY AND NEUTER
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OUR ANIMALS.THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL, UH, FEE DIFFERENCE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE OR INCENTIVIZE, UH, OUR RESIDENTS TO SPAY AND NEUTER.
UH, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN WORK WITH COUNSEL IF THEY DECIDE TO.
AND ALSO, UM, I KNOW THAT MR. KEISHA, UH, PROVIDED SOME OPTIONS TO HELP, UM, INCLUDING PET OF THE MONTH PROGRAM.
UH, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN TAKE IN INTO CONSIDERATION.
UM, CHRISTINA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PROVIDING US UPDATES ON, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE, UH, LIBRARY.
UM, AND THEN REGARDING THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET, UM, AND THEN TAKING, UH, THE CITY TAKING OVER BUSINESS LICENSE FEE, UH, COLLECTION.
I BELIEVE WE HAD PRESENTATIONS ON BOTH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND A PRESENTATION BY, UM, OUR BUSINESS LICENSE CONSULTANT, HDL AS TO, UM, WHY WE HAVE THAT CONTRACT WITH THEM.
AND THAT WE ACTUALLY, UM, WHEN WE DID DO IT IN-HOUSE, THAT WE HAVE DONE IT IN-HOUSE AT ONE POINT IN OUR WEST COVINA HISTORY.
UM, WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO COLLECT MORE, UM, BUSINESS LICENSE FEES NOW THAT WE'VE GONE WITH HDL.
UM, AND IN REGARDS TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET, LIKE I SAID, WE DID DO A PRESENTATION ON THAT AS WELL, UM, WHERE THAT MONEY SPENT.
AND I BELIEVE THERE'S BEEN AN A REQUEST, UH, THAT WILL BE BROUGHT BACK, UH, REGARDING A DETAILED, UH, REVIEW OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET AT A LATER COUNCIL MEETING.
SO I HOPE THAT SATISFIES, UH, MY RESPONSE FOR THE, TO THOSE QUESTIONS.
ANY CITY COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTION? OTHERWISE, I WANT TO, YO.
UH, IF THE CITY MANAGER COULD, UH, EXPLAIN WHY IT WAS, WHY WE WENT TO THREE MINUTES AND, AND TALK ABOUT THE OTHER CITIES THAT, THAT ALSO HAVE THREE MINUTES THROUGHOUT THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.
SO WHEN WE DID THE PRESENTATION ABOUT HELPING, UH, MAKE OUR CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS MORE EFFICIENT, UM, I DID DO A SURVEY OF SURROUNDING CITIES AND WHAT THEIR, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT TIMEFRAMES WERE.
UM, THE MAJORITY OF THEM WERE THREE MINUTES, AND THAT'S WHY WE WENT FROM, UM, OUR PREVIOUS TIMEFRAME TO THE THREE MINUTES TO BE CONSISTENT WITH NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES.
UH, OTHER QUESTION? UH, THAT'S IT.
UH, I WANT TO GO THROUGH ABOUT, UH, AN ANIMAL LOVE THING AND I, I OWN DOGS.
AND, UH, I HAVE DENTAL CHIP OKAY.
SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THEY HAVE PROPER CARE.
AND I KNOW LAST TIME WE ASKED ABOUT CAN WE HAVE A COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL? CAN THEY DO OKAY CANVASSING, BUT THEY DON'T.
IF THEY DON'T DO CANVASSING, MAYBE OUR PUBLIC OKAY.
TO DO THE PROMOTION REGARDING ANIMAL UH, EDUCATION.
AND THEN WE MAYBE EVEN DO THE CANVASSING OKAY.
AND MAKE SURE OUR RESIDENT UNDERSTAND.
THEY, THEY HAVE TO DO, IF THEY WANT HAVE A DOG CAT, BUT THEY NEED TO HAVE A PROPER CARE SO WE DON'T FLOOD IT OKAY.
AND, UH, SHELTER AND, UH, BE KILLED.
I THINK THIS IS NOT WHAT WE WANT TO SEE.
WE WANT THE DO BE OUR COMPANION, BUT WE, THEY ARE ALIVE TOO, SO WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY.
NEAR FUTURE, QUICKLY, WE CAN BASICALLY, AND THEN TO SET UP SOME KIND OF, SEE THAT POSSIBLE OUR OKAY.
PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT CAN HANDLE THE, THIS TASK.
BUT ANYWAY, UH, CITY MANAGER YOU, DO YOU AGREE? YES.
OTHER CITY COUNCIL HAVE ANY OTHER ISSUE? WE DID INCLUDE IT.
IF I COULD ADD IN THE DISCOVER WHEN WE SWITCHED, UH, UH, BACK TO THE COUNTY, UM, WE DO INCLUDE IN DISCOVER TO GIVE, UH, RESIDENTS UPDATES.
WE HAVE POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT MORE PERIODICALLY AS WELL.
AND, AND AS I REMEMBER, UH, BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, OKAY.
ANIMAL CONTROL, THEY KNOCK ON MY DOOR.
THEY ASKING FOR THE TAG AND THE RAB SHOT AND ANY PROPER DOCUMENT, AND I HAVE TO PROVIDE ALL THE INFORMATION TO THEM.
SO THAT TIME THEY, THEY, THEY DID THE CANVASSING.
I'VE JUST BEEN INFORMED THAT THE, THE COUNTY, I GUESS, IS LOOKING TO BRING BACK CANVASSING AND WE HAVE ALREADY REQUESTED THAT WITH THE COUNTY.
UH, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO CANVASSING AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, UH, TO MAKE SURE, OKAY.
AND THAT WE HAVE, UH, SOME KIND OF EVENT TO HELP THE RESIDENT IF THEY WANT.
PET, BUT THEY RESPONSIBLE FOR PET WELLBEING SO THEY DON'T ABANDON THEM OR THEY, THEY NEED TO CHIP THEM.
SO ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL OTHER WAY I WANNA MOVE ON? NO.
AND, UH, UH, COUNCIL, UM, MAN, KENTO, YOU WANT TO, YOU OKAY? YES.
SO WE KNEW WE MOVED TO CONSENT CALENDAR, AND ANY PEOPLE WANT TO PULL ANY OTHER ITEM? MR. MAYOR,
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GO AHEAD.I'M, I WANT TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A OKAY.
READY? UM, SO ONE OF THE BIG INITIATIVES THAT WE ARE TAKING ON THIS YEAR IS THE PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN.
UM, WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE, UM, THREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP MEETINGS THAT WILL BE COMING UP.
WE WILL HAVE, UH, UH, UH, THE FIRST ONE AT CAMERON PARK, TUESDAY, APRIL 29TH FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM THE SECOND ONE, UH, MAY 18TH ON A WEDNESDAY FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM AT CORTEZ PARK.
AND THEN THE LAST WORKSHOP, MONDAY, JULY 7TH, UM, FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM AT THE WEST COVINA SPORTSPLEX.
UM, WE ARE WELCOMING THE COMMUNITY TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION AND GIVE THEIR INPUT.
THESE MEETINGS WILL BE INTERACTING, INTERACTIVE, ENGAGING, AND WILL BE LED BY, UM, THE RJM DESIGN GROUP THAT'S LEADING THIS, UM, PROJECT ALONG WITH CITY STAFF.
THE, UM, THE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP DATES, UM, AS I MENTIONED, ARE THE THREE DATES, AND WE HOPE THAT WE CAN GET COMMUNITY INPUT AND INVOLVEMENT.
SO WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE THERE.
UM, THE NEXT ONE IS THE, JUST A RECAP.
WE HAD OUR SPRING FESTIVAL OVER THE WEEKEND.
WE HAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF ENTERTAINMENT AND VENDORS, UM, AND WE HAD AN ENTERTAINMENT AND CARNIVAL.
SO WE WANTED TO THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR PARTICIPATING AND ALSO WANTED TO THANK OUR STAFF, UM, ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS THAT HELP MAKE THESE SPECIAL EVENTS POSSIBLE FROM COMMUNITY, UH, SERVICES, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY, POLICE AND FIRE, UM, AND OUR PUBLIC WORK STAFF THAT MAKE IT HAPPEN.
AND TO OUR RESIDENTS THAT HELP MAKE THESE EVENTS SO SPECIAL BY PARTICIPATING IN ATTENDING.
UM, NEXT, UH, WE, UM, ARE ALSO VERY EXCITED TO ON OVER THE HOLIDAY OR OVER THE SPRING FESTIVAL.
WE PROVIDED, UH, SOME RESIDENTS WITH SOME, UH, MAGNETS.
SO IF YOU WANNA KNOW UPCOMING EVENTS, YOU CAN GET A MAGNET FROM US AND YOU'LL HAVE ALL OF THE UPCOMING EVENTS FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR.
UM, SO IT'S A COMING UP WITH THE EASTER EGG EXTRAVAGANZA ARBOR DAY IN APRIL, AND SO ON.
SO IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY GOTTEN YOUR, UM, MAGNET, PLEASE, UH, FOLLOW UP WITH A STAFF MEMBER AND WE'LL HAVE THEM AVAILABLE NEXT.
UM, JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE A UPDATE ON THE, UH, WINDSTORM EMERGENCY THAT WE HAD.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH FEMA TO, UH, TO SUBMIT FOR THE REIMBURSEMENT REQUEST FOR ALL OF THE DAMAGES THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA INCURRED BECAUSE OF THE WINDSTORM.
AND SO WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING WITH THEM.
UM, WE HAD A MEETING, UH, WITH THEM, UH, MARCH 27TH LAST WEEK, AND WE'LL BE COORDINATING, UH, THE, ANOTHER MEETING WITH THEM THIS WEEK TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT, UH, REIMBURSEMENT REQUEST.
UM, A COUPLE UPDATES ON SOME CIP PROJECTS.
UH, A COUPLE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT FOR THE, UM, NOTICE OF COMPLETIONS IS FOR THE, UH, SENIOR CENTER ROOF AND HVAC REPLACEMENT PROJECT THAT WAS AT THE, UH, SENIOR CENTER, UH, UH, ROOF REPLACEMENT AND ALSO THE SIDEWALK CURB AND GUTTER PROJECT THAT WAS COMPLETED AT THE END OF FEBRUARY.
UM, THE CONCRETE REPLACEMENT OF THIS PROJECT, UH, WHICH IS DEPICTED ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, UH, INCLUDED REPAIRS, CURBS, AND GUTTERS, UH, TO SIDEWALKS AND DRIVEWAY APPROACHES AT 31 LOCATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
IT ADDRESSED CRACKS, UPLIFTED AND, UH, SETTLING, UH, REPORTED BY RESIDENTS AND THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
UH, THE, UH, SENIOR CENTER REROOF AND HVAC REPLACEMENT, UM, REPLACED 13 HVAC UNITS ACROSS BOTH THE SENIOR CENTER BUILDINGS, RETROFITTED THE NORTHERN BUILDING'S ROOF, REPLACED THE SOUTHERN BUILDING'S ROOF, UM, AND THESE UPGRADES PREVENTED LEAKS AND REDUCED MAINTENANCE COSTS AND ENHANCED SERVICE FOR OUR SENIOR, UM, SENIOR COMMUNITY.
UH, WE ALSO COORDINATED WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO MINIMIZE DISRUPTIONS TO THE SENIOR CENTER OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT.
UM, SO BOTH OF THEM ARE, UH, ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT FOR THE NOTICE OF COMPLETIONS.
LAST IS THE UPCOMING EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, WHICH IS APRIL 12TH.
UM, AND WE HAVE, I BELIEVE IT'S TWO LOCATIONS.
DO YOU KNOW DEEPAK AND CORTEZ PARK? YES.
AND THEN IT'S FROM NINE TO NOON, RAIN OR SHINE.
SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE AT THE, UH, THOSE TWO EVENTS, BOTH ON, UH, SATURDAY THE 12TH, AND THEN EARTH AND ARBOR DAY, APRIL 26TH.
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MY, UH, CITY MANAGER'S REPORT.AND, UH, COUNCIL, ANY QUESTION? YES, MR. GO AHEAD.
UH, COUNCILMAN OLI? UH, OLI KENTOS.
UH, MADAM CITY MANAGER, CAN YOU DESCRIBE IN FURTHER DETAIL THE, THE SPECIFIC EFFORTS THAT ARE BEING DONE TO NOTIFY RESIDENTS AROUND ALL OF THE 16 PARKS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY, AS WELL AS ALL OF THE SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT PERSONNEL AND PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS? WE'RE WORKING TO NOTIFY EVERYONE AND ANYONE, UM, THAT WE CAN, WE ARE SENDING EMAILS TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, UM, OUR, UH, SPORTS LEAGUE, UH, GROUP, OUR NONPROFIT GROUPS AS WELL, UM, TO GET THE WORD OUT THAT THESE COMMUNITY MEETINGS ARE COMING.
AND WE HOPE TO GET ALL OF THEIR INPUT.
WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE, UH, A WEBSITE WILL BE GOING UP BY THE END OF THE WEEK, IF NOT EARLY NEXT WEEK, SPECIFICALLY TO PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE PARK, UH, MASTER PLAN.
AND, UH, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE THEIR EFFORTS TO LEVERAGE SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGH FACEBOOK BOOST POSTS, AS WELL AS INSTAGRAM AND, AND, AND OTHER, OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, INCLUDING THROUGH PAID EFFORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL GEOGRAPHICALLY TARGETED RESIDENTS FROM THROUGHOUT WEST COVINA ARE, ARE INFORMED OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT, UH, AND TO PROVIDE INPUT FOR, AT, AT ANY OF THE THREE NAMED, UH, MEETINGS FOR THE PARK MASTER PLAN.
UM, WE COULD DEFINITELY LOOK AT, UH, WE WILL BE POSTING IT ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES.
WE CAN LOOK AT, UM, BOOSTING THOSE, UH, POSTS.
UH, COUNCILMAN KENTO, ANY OTHER COUNCIL? UH, GO AHEAD.
UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBER TI YEAH, I'LL JUST SAY MAKE SURE YOU'RE CONTACTING THE SCHOOLS.
UH, JUST DON'T OVERSPIN ON MARKETING ON FACEBOOK THOUGH,
AND IF NOT, I WANT TO JUST ADD QUICKLY, I WANNA PIGGYBACK AND I WANT A HUNDRED PERCENT SUPPORT.
UH, COUNCILMAN CANTOS REGARDING, WE NEED TO NOTIFY, UH, ALL THE SCHOOL AND NONPROFIT ORGAN ORGANIZATION.
EVERYBODY COULD PARTICIPATE AND HOW TO MAKE OUR MASTER PLAN MUCH MORE ROUNDED.
EVERYBODY PITCHING ABOUT THEIR IDEA AND INCLUDING OUR FUTURE, OUR, OKAY.
I THINK WE SHOULD DO THE SAME THING.
NOTIF NOTIFICATION, NOTIFY ALL THE AGENCY, NON-PROFIT, PROFIT, OR ANYBODY.
THAT THEY KNOW WE HAVE THE EVENT.
SO WE WANT PEOPLE TO SHOW UP AND, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH KAY AND PARK MASTER PLAN, WE WANT PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE AND INPUT ABOUT WHAT THEY, THEY LIKE, THEY WANT.
SO WE CAN PUT IT TOGETHER AND THIS FROM THE PEOPLE.
I WANT TO MOVE TO WHAT ON THE, OUR COUNCILMAN ALI CAN TELL.
[CONSENT CALENDAR ]
WANT TO PULL NUMBER TWO, RIGHT? YES.AND, UH, OTHER THAN ANYBODY PULL ANYTHING ELSE? NOPE.
SO DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? 1 3, 4, 5, 6.
DO I HAVE SECOND RIGHT? I HAVE A QUESTION.
I THOUGHT THE CITY MANAGERS, YOU'RE PULLING AN ITEM TWO, RIGHT? YOU'RE TAKING IT OFF.
YOU'RE TAKING OUT WHICH ONE? NUMBER SIX.
I'M GOING TO PULL ITEM NUMBER SIX WITH WEST COAST ARBORIST.
STAFF REPORT NUMBER SIX HAS BEEN REMOVED.
FOR THE FUTURE, YOU HAVE TO PREPARE FOR MORE DETAIL.
SO IT WOULD BE ONE TO FIVE EXCEPT TWO.
AND DO I HAVE MOTION TO APPROVE THE MOTION? OKAY.
UH, THE SECOND MAY I PUT THE MOVE, DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
I HAVE A MOTION BY, UH, COUNCIL, UH, EXCUSE ME, MAYOR PRO, TIM VITO WITH A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH FIVE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS PULLED BY COUNCIL MCC CONTOS.
AND NUMBER SIX, WHICH WAS PULLED BY, UH, CITY MANAGER COUNCILMAN CONTOS.
COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ IS ABSENT THIS EVENING.
AND THEN WE GO TO THE, UH, ITEM NUMBER TWO.
COUNCILMAN, I HAVE A QUESTION.
DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? I, I JUST HAVE A CLARIFICATION THERE, BUT BEFORE THAT, BEFORE WE GET TO ITEM TWO.
UH, NO, I, I JUST WANTED TO, FOR JUST FOR PUBLIC CLARIFICATION, UH, THE CITY MANAGER IS PULLING, UH, HER THE WEST COAST ARBORIST BECAUSE, UH, IT FAILED TO DISCLOSE THE SPECIFIC REASONS WHY THE MONEY WAS BEING ALLOCATED.
UH, SO THEREFORE, UH, SHE WILL BE BRINGING IT BACK WITH A MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS SO THE PUBLIC COULD HAVE, UH, INFORMATION ON WHAT THAT MONEY'S GONNA BE USED FOR, OR WHAT BILLS WE ACTUALLY OWE FOR THEM.
[2) CONSIDERATION OF INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2-67 OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO REMOVAL OF COMMISSIONERS ]
PLEASE.IS THERE STAFF PRESENTATION ON RELATING TO THIS ITEM? I COULD PROVIDE A BRIEF PRESENTATION.
UM, SO THIS IS A MOTHER MAY I REQUEST, THAT
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WAS MADE AT A COUNCIL MEETING.IT WAS APPROVED BY THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND BEFORE YOU, TONIGHT IS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION MAKING THE CHANGE, UM, FROM WHAT IT IS CURRENTLY WHERE IT REQUIRES, UH, REMOVAL OF A COMMISSIONER FOR JU UM, WITH THE MAJOR OR FOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
CAUSE THIS CHANGE WOULD GO FROM, UH, REMOVING THE GOOD CAUSE AND JUST REQUIRING FOR, UM, THE APPROVE OR FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO REMOVE A COMMISSIONER.
UM, UH, I'D LIKE TO ASK SID'S, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ WAS THE ONE WHO HAD THIS ITEM.
WHAT IS THE RATIONALE FOR MAKING THIS PROPOSAL? PLEASE GO AHEAD.
UM, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, AND FOREMOST, THERE WAS A LOT OF MISINFORMATION BEING PROVIDED EARLIER TODAY ABOUT, UH, THE, SOMEHOW I'M OUT TO GET YOU, WHICH IS UNTRUE OF, AND AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT, UM, THIS IS THE REASON WHY I BROUGHT THIS FORWARD WAS TO ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, JUST LIKE US WE'RE ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE WE'RE VOTED ON BY THE PEOPLE.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, UH, WHAT I, WHAT I'M SAYING IS YOU TAKE AWAY THE FOR CAUSE OR WITHOUT CAUSE I DON'T THINK IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE.
I THINK IT'S ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND FOR FAR TOO LONG THERE'S BEEN NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
UH, AND SO THIS IS AN INITIATIVE TO ENSURE MORE ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, MORE OVERSIGHT IN FULFILLING OUR DUTIES AS, AS MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE.
CAN YOU PROVIDE CLARIFICATION REGARDING INSTANCES IN WHICH THERE'S LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY THAT THIS PROPOSAL IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS? I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA GO BACK AND FORTH HERE, BUT, UH, WHAT I CAN SAY IS, UH, UM, WHAT WAS YOUR QUESTION AGAIN? NO, I GOT, I'D LIKE TO ASK ABOUT, YOU MENTIONED ACCOUNTABILITY.
SO MY QUESTION IS, TO YOU, WHAT ARE THE INSTANCES OF ABSENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY THAT THIS PROPOSAL IS IN, IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS? IT'S, IT'S, LEMME MAKE IT CLEAR HERE.
IF YOU'RE GONNA REMOVE SOMEONE FOR, CAUSE IT'S BROUGHT TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE ON IF YOU'RE GONNA REMOVE SOMEONE WITH A BEING PROPOSED RIGHT NOW, IF YOU'RE GONNA REMOVE SOMEONE WITHOUT CAUSE THIS COUNCIL WILL STILL HAVE TO VOTE ON IT.
UH, WHEN YOU APPOINT SOMEONE, THREE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL HAVE TO VOTE TO APPROVE IT.
SO, UH, WE ARE NOT, UH, THIS IS NOT A INTENT TO ELIMINATE SOME SORT OF, UH, UH, MISLEADING INFORMATION ABOUT, THIS IS AN AGENDA, UH, A PROPAGANDA AGENDA ITEM.
THIS IS, THIS IS A ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURE, UH, THAT WOULD ENSURE THAT THERE'S OVERSIGHT OF COMMISSIONERS BEING POINTED TO THIS, TO THESE COMMISSIONS.
UH, AND I COULD TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, UH, NONE OF YOUR COMMISSIONERS, UH, I HAVE NO, THERE WAS NOTHING RELATING TO YOU OR ANY OF YOUR COMMISSIONERS.
AND, AND THAT'S, UH, MISINFORMATION BEING BROUGHT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
UH, I HAVE NO ISSUES WITH ANY OF YOUR COMMISSIONERS.
UH, NOR WAS THIS ITEM INTENDED TO TARGET YOUR COMMISSIONERS.
UH, THIS IS A, A ITEM THAT IN CARRYING OUT MY AGENDA, IN ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY, UM, AND, AND JUST AS I HAVE WITHIN THE 100 DAYS OF TAKING OFFICE, UH, THIS IS ANOTHER WAY THAT THE COUNCIL HAS ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR, REGARDLESS IF IT'S FOR CAUSE OR WITHOUT CAUSE, IT WILL ALWAYS HAVE TO COME TO PUBLIC NOTICE.
OR PUBLIC NOTICE WILL ALWAYS HAVE TO HAPPEN.
UH, AND, AND THE PUBLIC WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THIS.
SO, JUST LIKE IF YOU'RE GONNA REMOVE THE MAYOR, THE PUBLIC HAD THE, THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME SPEAK ON THAT ITEM.
AND SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO, TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE COMMUNITY, THE PUBLIC, IS THE VOICE OF THIS CONSOLE.
AND SO, IF FOR A REASON SOMEONE WAS GONNA BE REMOVED FOR WITHOUT CAUSE, WELL, THEY'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO, TO PRESENT THEIR CASE IN FRONT OF THE PUBLIC AND, AND THE PUBLIC WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM.
I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.
AND, UH, LET'S GO TO MAYOR PUTIN.
UH, SO FOR THOSE WHO WANNA KNOW WHERE I STAND, UM, ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, JUST TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW, THIS WHOLE COMMISSION COUNCIL HAS GONE THROUGH CHANGES BACK AND FORTH IN THE PAST FEW YEARS.
UH, 15 YEARS AGO WHEN I WANTED TO BE A COMMISSIONER, I DID NOT KNOW ANYBODY.
UM, I WASN'T IN IT FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
AND BACK THEN, IN ORDER TO BE A COMMISSION, YOU HAD TO APPLY AND YOU HAD TO GET MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL'S VOTE.
SO I STOOD AT THAT PODIUM, GIVING MY BACKGROUND, MY RESUME, ALL THIS, AND I HAD TO GET MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL'S VOTE.
AND THEN A FEW YEARS LATER, THE COUNCIL CHANGED THE RULES AGAIN AND THEN
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SAID, NO, EACH COUNCIL'S GONNA GET APPOINTED.SO NOBODY KNEW ME AS, YOU KNOW, I JUST WAS FOCUSED AT MY JOB DOING THE WORK AS A COMMISSION.
AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL PICKED WHOEVER THEY WANTED TO PICK.
THEY DIDN'T GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY.
HE, I WAS INTERVIEWED, UH, TO MEET, GO OVER MY RESUME, WHY I SHOULD STAY AND KEEP MY POSITION AS A COMMISSIONER.
UM, AT THAT TIME, THERE WERE GOOD COMMISSIONERS THAT DID LEAVE, UNFORTUNATELY.
UM, AND THEN WHEN I WAS A COMMISSIONER, UH, ONE COMMISSIONER WENT ROGUE, DID A BUNCH OF THINGS, UH, COULDN'T, IT WAS JUST WENT A LITTLE CRAZY.
UM, AND SO AS A, WE WERE IN THE COMMISSION, THE COUNCIL, AGAIN, CHANGED CERTAIN RULES, WHAT THE COMMISSION CAN AND CAN'T DO.
I'M LIKE, OH, WE CAN'T DO THIS, SO WE CAN'T DO THIS.
SO I'VE GONE THROUGH THAT WHOLE PROCESS ON BOTH ENDS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION ADVISES THE CITY COUNCIL AND THEY REPRESENT THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE.
UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, IN REGARDS TO THIS, WITH THE VOTES, I DIDN'T WANT O OBVIOUSLY, I WOULDN'T AGREE IF IT WAS, UH, THREE VOTES TO KICK SOMEONE OUT.
NO, I WANT MAJORITY OF THE FOUR.
UM, BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN THAT, UH, LIKE I KNOW, UM, COUNCILMAN GUTTIER SAID, OKAY, LIKE, GETTING RID OF THE, UH, THE MAYOR, I MEAN, THREE WOULD'VE BEEN SUPER EASY, RIGHT? BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS IT, YOU NEEDED FOUR TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
UM, FOR THOSE THAT KNOW ME, THEY KNOW I AM PRETTY REASONABLE ON REASONS WHY I, UH, LET PEOPLE GO.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO ALSO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THE, UH, IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE COUNCIL OF APPOINTING WHOEVER THEY WANNA APPOINT.
THERE ARE SOME TIMES WE DISAGREE OF WHAT THEY, WHO THEY APPOINTED, BUT THEY HAVE THAT ABILITY TO APPOINT WHOEVER THEY WANNA APPOINT NOW, WITH OR WITHOUT.
CAUSE WE'VE HAD TWO SITUATIONS IN THE PAST, AND IT, IT WASN'T PUBLICLY KNOWN.
IT WAS AN, UH, AN INTERNAL THAT WAS DISCUSSED WHERE, UH, ONE COUNCIL, THEIR, UH, COMMISSIONER GOT OUTTA HAND.
SO THESE WERE REASONS, PERSONALLY, WHAT THEY DID AS A COMMISSIONER, NO PROBLEM.
WHAT THEY DID PERSONALLY IN THEIR PERSONAL LIVES ACTUALLY AFFECTED THE CITY AS A WHOLE.
SO THERE WAS ONE, UH, COMMISSIONER.
I MEAN, HE WAS LIKE HARASSING, YOU KNOW, INTERNAL STAFF.
AND HE WAS JUST, HE WAS HARASSER, BUT GREAT AT WHAT HE DOES AS A COMMISSIONER.
THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE, UH, STAFF WHO WANTED TO LIKE SUE.
AND SO WE'RE LIKE, THIS IS BAD.
AND, YOU KNOW, AS MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL SPOKE TO THE, UH, THE COUNCIL, AND IF THE COUNCIL IS UNREASONABLE AND JUST SAY, NO, I WANT THIS PERSON, BUT THIS CAN AFFECT US, THAT THAT HURTS US.
SO THAT, UNFORTUNATELY, WE WENT THROUGH AND THERE WAS OTHER INCIDENTS AND IT'S LIKE, CAN'T YOU SEE NOW THIS COMMISSIONER'S GONNA HURT US? FINALLY, THEY SAID, OKAY.
THEY GOT RID OF THAT COMMISSION.
UM, AND THEN WE HAD ANOTHER SITUATION.
WE HAD ANOTHER COMMISSIONER, UM, THAT LATER ON WAS OUT, WAS, UH, FOUND GUILTY OF, YOU KNOW, OF A CRIME.
AND SO AGAIN, WHAT THEY DID AS A COMMISSION HAD NO PROBLEM WHAT THEY DID PERSONALLY IN THEIR, IN THEIR PERSONAL SITUATION, AFFECT THE CITY.
UM, AND THAT WAS KIND LIKE THE SIMILAR SITUATION WHERE, YOU KNOW, MAJORITY, SO IT, IT ALREADY KIND OF OCCURRED WHERE THEY'RE, THEY'RE TRYING TO CREATE REASONS WITH THE, THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE, UM, TO MENTION THAT.
SO THAT GOES IN LINE TO LIKE WITH OR WITHOUT REASON, BUT AGAIN, WITH, IN REGARDS TO VOTING FOR FOUR, IT'S GONNA COME UP HERE.
AND FOR SOME COMMISSION WE WANNA SAVE FACE.
UM, THERE'S NOT, WE DON'T WANNA, YOU KNOW, PUBLICLY SHAME FOR WHATEVER PERSONAL THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING.
SO IT IS EMBARRASSING TO PUT 'EM UP HERE IF THE COUNCIL DOESN'T WANNA REMOVE THEM FOR WHATEVER REASON.
UM, BUT RIGHT NOW THE COUNCIL CAN.
AND SO IN THIS, IN THIS WAY, I'M JUST LETTING PEOPLE KNOW WHERE I STAND.
UM, IT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST.
OKAY? AND, UH, MR. MAY I WANT TO OKAY, AND, UH, PITCHING TOO, SINCE I'M THE PERSON, UH, THE LAST MOTHER MAY I AGREE.
AND, UH, AND I WANT TO SAY THIS, OKAY, NICK, NOBODY OKAY, TALK YOU OKAY? OKAY.
JUST WANT TO TELL YOU, THIS IS NOT ABOUT, OKAY, YOU CAN WORK TOGETHER.
MAYBE YOU HAVE A DIFFERENCE AND WE WANT TO TALK.
OKAY? I WOULD TELL ME, YOU, I WANT AGREE.
IF THIS IS THE REASON WHERE WE WANT TO ASSURE YOU, IT'S SUCH A DIFFICULTY TO HAVE PEOPLE TO SERVE OR OF A COMMUNITY, OKAY? TO SERVE, TO PLANNING, OKAY.
OKAY? AND IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO, LIKE YOU WILLING TO SERVE.
OKAY? BECAUSE IT'S A TOUGH JOB, OKAY? YOU HAVE TO FACING A LOT OF THINGS.
BUT AGAIN, AGAIN, I WILL ASSURE YOU THIS IS NOT OKAY.
WHAT WILL BE OTHERWISE I WOULD DISAGREE.
OKAY? SO, BECAUSE IT CLEARLY WE SEE AND WE
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APPEAL, THEN WE WILL POINT YOU AND NO, UH, NO.WE WANT TO CONTINUE AS LONG AS, UH, UH, UH, OKAY.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN OLLIE, HAPPY WITH YOUR SERVICE, OKAY? YOU SHOULD BE THERE, OKAY? BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING TO OVERRIDE ABOUT THE THING.
AND BY THE WAY, YOU'RE NOT APPOINTED BY OLLIE.
OKAY? SO I THINK YOU REMEMBER, OKAY? SO I THINK YOU GOT GOOD FRIEND, AND THEN, AND THEN YOU LIKE TO BE A PLANNING COMMISSIONER.
AND THEN WE NEED PLANNING COMMISSIONER.
BUT AGAIN, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING, CALLS OR NO CAUSE SAY HARD TO PROVE, BUT TO GET FORWARD, VOTE TOGETHER, IT'S ALMOST VERY DIFFICULT.
REMEMBER LAST TIME WE WANT TO SKIP THE MAIL THING, IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
IT'S NOT, IT IS VERY, VERY DIFFICULT.
AND YOU HAVE A RESIDENT COMING UP TO, TO, TO SAY THIS AND WHY, OKAY? IF PEOPLE DOING A GREAT JOB, OKAY? AND, BUT, UH, BUT THEY STILL HAVE SOME PEOPLE I REMEMBER DOING THE MY S UH, CITY COUNCIL, SOME PEOPLE IS DOING, I THINK, YOU KNOW, AND OKAY, HARASSER AND THIS PRETTY BAD.
SO, AND, UH, AND OR PEOPLE DON'T SHOW UP, BUT WE, WE, IS THAT CAUSE OR NO COST, OKAY? AND HOW WE REMOVE THE PERSON, OKAY? AND, UH, SO WE CAN HAVE SOME PEOPLE TO GO IN, BUT THE MORE IMPORTANT THING IS CAN WE ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE TO SERVE? OKAY? WE NEED TO SERVE, OKAY? AND, UH, TO COMMUNITY SERVICE, TO HR, OKAY? AND THEN, OKAY, AND, UH, TO PLANNING, BECAUSE THIS IS VERY PAY VERY LITTLE, OKAY? BUT YOU HAVE TO SPEND TIME TO, TO, TO, TO DO THE RESEARCH AND TRY TO OKAY.
WITH YOUR CONSCIENCE, OKAY? YOU WANT TO DO A GOOD THING FOR THE CITY, NO MATTER AGREE OR DISAGREE.
OKAY? THEY ALWAYS HAVE A DIFFERENT OKAY.
AND, UH, ANGLE AND TO SEE THING, OKAY? AND, UH, BUT WE JUST TRY TO DO THE BEST FOR THE CITY WITH A DIFFERENT OF OPINION.
SO IN REGARDS TO THE COMMISSION AS A WHOLE, THE COMMISSION JUST NEEDS TO BE REMINDED OF WHAT THEIR SCOPE OF WORK AND FUNCTION IS.
UM, SOMETIMES WE HAVE COMMISSIONERS THAT JUST GO AWOL OR THEY JUST, YOU KNOW, THINK THAT THEY'RE COUNCILMEN OR THEY GO AND STEP IN THE OTHER BOUNDARIES OF OTHER COMMISSIONS WHERE YOU KNOW, WHAT COMMISSION THEY'RE SERVING.
THEY NEED TO LIKE FOCUS AND ACTUALLY SERVE.
UM, I'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS A COMMISSIONER, WE HAD ONE, UM, THAT, I MEAN THERE WAS HISTORY OF, AGAIN, WHEN A COUNCIL APPOINTS CERTAIN PEOPLE, THERE'S REASONS BEHIND IT.
SOMETIMES THEY JUST APPOINT AND IT HAS NO REFERENCE OF THAT WORK AT ALL.
UM, AS A, I REMEMBER AS A COMMISSION, THEY, WHEN A COUNCIL APPOINTED ONE, WE FOUND OUT REASONS BEHIND IT.
WHY? UM, THIS ONE IS COMMUNITY SERVICE, FOCUS ON COMMUNITY SERVICE.
THEY WANTED TO BRING, UM, A SAFE HOUSE, WHICH IS A, WHERE THEY INJECT.
THEY USE ALL THESE NEEDLES AND ALL THAT STUFF, YOU KNOW, AND WE WENT THROUGH THIS AND WE'RE LIKE, WHAT? BUT GRANTED, OF COURSE WE UNDERSTAND WHY OF THE HISTORY OF THE, THE COUNCIL THAT WAS APPOINTED TO THAT.
UM, BUT THAT BEING SAID, WE WANT THE COMMISSIONS TO FOCUS ON WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO, UM, IN REGARDS TO COMMISSION.
YES, I HAVE SERVED WITH YOU AND YOU KNOW, I WAS HAPPY TO SERVE WITH NICK.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF IT DOES COME OUT.
SO THE, THE RUMORS OF COMING OUT AND SAYING, OH, WE'RE GONNA GET RID OF ALL COUNCILMAN CONTOS COMMISSION.
LIKE, I PERSONALLY DON'T HAVE A REASON TO.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW, YOU KNOW? SO AGAIN, IF IT'S FOUR, I MEAN THAT DEFINITELY IS A SAFE HOUSE.
IT'S NOT AN ISSUE, BUT THOSE THINGS WILL COME UP.
UM, SO YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT'S IT.
COUNCIL MINTO? YES, THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE THE, THE, THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT COMMISSIONER LEWIS.
IT'S ABOUT, IT'S NOT ABOUT ANY INDIVIDUAL COMMISSIONER.
THE, THE REQUIREMENT TO HAVE THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE NOW TO HAVE COMMISSIONERS REMOVED FOR CAUSE IS A SAFEGUARD AGAINST FURTHER, UH, AGAINST POLITICIZATION.
IT ALSO EN ENABLES EACH OF US TO PRESERVE OUR INDEPENDENCE WITH OUR EXERCISING OUR RIGHT AS ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR US TO APPOINT WHO WE BELIEVE TO BE BEST TO SERVE IN, IN THE VARIOUS SLOTS THAT, THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US.
THE THINGS THAT THE MAYOR PRO TEM HAS DISCUSSED WITH REGARD TO INDIVIDUAL CONDUCT, EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT, UH, DOING A BAD JOB ON THE COMMISSION, BUT THEY HAVE ISSUES OF MORAL TOR TURPITUDE THAT WOULD BE DEFINED THAT IT WOULD BE UNDER CAUSE AND THAT WOULD BE GOOD REASON TO REMOVE THE PERSON.
WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBER DECIDES TO REMOVE THE PERSON OR, UH, IF, IF, UH, THE, THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE DECIDES TO REMOVE THEM, THAT IS FOR CAUSE.
IF THE PERSON IS NOT DOING THEIR JOB, THAT'S FOR CAUSE.
IF THEY'RE, THEY FAIL TO ATTEND THREE MEETINGS, THAT IS FOR CAUSE.
REMOVING THE FOR CAUSE REQUIREMENT IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE.
AND I IMPLORE MY COLLEAGUES NOT TO DO THIS.
I'M LITERALLY GOING TO CONSIDER THIS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION OF, OF AGAINST ME.
IF YOU WERE TO, WERE TO DO THIS, BECAUSE THIS IS BEYOND MY, ME PERSONALLY, THIS IS ABOUT PRESERVING OUR OWN INDEPENDENT ABILITY TO APPOINT WHO WE WISH.
AND AFTER THEY, IT IS CONFIRMED BY THE COUNCIL OF A VOTE OF THREE.
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THEN OUR JUDGMENT SHOULD BE, SHOULD BE RESPECTED IF THERE, BECAUSE WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY HAPPEN IS IF THERE ARE FOUR INDIVIDUALS FOR WITHOUT CAUSE THEY JUST DON'T LIKE THE PERSON, CONCEIVABLY, THOSE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL CAN THEN GO AGAINST THE APPOINTEE OF THE FIFTH COUNCIL MEMBER.THAT WILL JUST CREATE MORE OF A CIRCUS AND GREATER POLITICIZATION.
NOW, THIS, I'M TELLING YOU, THIS IS THE SORT OF THING THAT IS ANGERING ME TO THE POINT WHERE YOU, I'M JUST TELLING YOU THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE ACCEPTABLE BY OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I'M ING YOU TO VOTE THIS DOWN.
I KNOW YOU KIND OF UPSET, BUT, BUT PLEASE, LET'S DISCUSS THIS.
OKAY? SO YOU, YOU FEEL LIKE THE CAUSE IS AN THE THIRD THING.
THE CAUSE HOW YOU PROVE THE CAUSE WHY IS CAUSE HOW YOU PROVE IT.
BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY, HEY, I, BECAUSE I HAVE FAMILY ISSUE, SO I DIDN'T SHOW UP.
SO, SO YOU PREFER WHAT? THREE? I PREFER THAT.
SO YOU, YOU PREFER, UH, THREE CITY COUNCIL WITH CALLS OR FOUR CITY COUNCIL WITHOUT CALLS OR CAUSE I WA OH, OKAY.
NO, NO, I'M JUST ASKING YOU, ARE YOU OKAY WITH CALLS? OKAY.
BUT THREE COUNCIL MAJORITY TO, TO DO IT.
AND IS THAT OKAY WITH YOU? OKAY.
I'D LIKE TO, TO KEEP, KEEP, KEEP IT AS THE, AS THE CURRENT STATUS QUO, WHICH HAS BEEN WORKING.
I DON'T WANT TO TOUCH THIS AT ALL.
IT'S ALREADY SO, SO ANYWAY, BECAUSE, OKAY, MY POINT IS, OKAY, CALLS ARE NO CALLS, OKAY? IS KIND OF HOW YOU PROVE SO-CALLED CALLS BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T SHOW UP PASS.
OKAY? IT'S THREE TIMES YOU DON'T SHOW UP, YOU CAN OKAY, TERMINATE AND THERE SOMEBODY, WE, WE NEED TO CHANGE YOUR THAT, BUT OTHERWISE WE DON'T HAVE A CAUSE RIGHT NOW.
OKAY? AND, UH, THE DON'T SHOW UP IS PERSON, OKAY? CURRENTLY IS NOW ON OUR GUIDELINE.
OKAY? AND THE THING, SO, SO SO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DEFINITION OF CAUSE WHAT CAUSE THERE WILL BE IS VERY VAGUE.
WERE PEOPLE YELLING OKAY, DURING THE MEETING, IS THAT A CAUSE OR ANOTHER? CAUSE THEY CAN DEBATING.
SO, SO THIS A, A VERY OKAY AND, UH, FINE LINE ON HOW TO PROVE WHAT IT CAUSE MEAN.
OKAY? AND SO, SO THAT, THAT IS THE WHY POSSIBLE.
OKAY? BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT IS WHAT, OKAY? AND, UH, THAT'S WHY I CANNOT AGREE WITH THE SUPER LONGEVITY IS NOT EASY TO HAVE FOUR PEOPLE TO AGREE UPON.
OKAY? AND, UH, SO IN THAT WAY, UH, POSSIBLE.
THE CAUSE IS HOW YOU APPROVE, HOW YOU APPROVE THAT.
THANK, OKAY, MAYOR PUTIN, THANK YOU.
UM, AND I, I WANTED TO GIVE ANOTHER EXAMPLE BECAUSE THE DEFINITION OF GOOD CAUSE VARIES AND ITS INTERPRETATION.
UH, WE HAD A COMMISSIONER, WE LOVED HIM.
THERE WAS ONE COUNCIL THAT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, AND THERE WAS A POTENTIAL LAWSUIT THAT WAS OCCURRING.
UM, AND ONE SAID IT, ONE SAID IT WAS, IT'S A GOOD CAUSE TO REMOVE HIM BECAUSE OF THAT POTENTIAL.
AND SO MAJORITY OF THEM, INCLUDING THE PERSON WHO APPOINTED, UM, THAT PERSON SAID, UH, NO.
UM, BUT THE GOOD CAUSE, I MEAN I, MY POINT WAS, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN, IT'S BEEN, WE'VE HAD THESE LIKE MEETINGS, UH, LIKE, UH, 'CAUSE IN CLOSE SESSION IT WAS DISCUSSED.
SO WE'VE HAD COMMISSIONERS ON BOTH ENDS WHERE SOMEBODY WANTED THEM REMOVED AND THEY DIDN'T, UH, WE, WE KEPT ONE AND, UH, ONE COMMISSIONER THAT WE LOVE, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I KNOW HE MOVED, UM, SO HE HAD TO LEAVE.
SO IT'S, IT, I, WHAT I'M SAYING IS IT'S BEEN DONE, LIKE WE'VE DONE THIS THREE TIMES SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE.
AND, UM, IT'S JUST PUTTING IT THERE IN REGARDS TO IT IS JUST THE DEFINITION OF GOOD CAUSE, UM, VARIES.
OKAY? AND, UM, UH, YOU DONE? OKAY.
AND, AND I THINK, UH, SOME OF THE CONCERNS I'VE HEARD FROM MY RESIDENTS IS, UH, LAWSUITS AND, AND THE MONEY THAT CITIES THAT OUR CITY HAS TO PAY OUT IN LAWSUITS.
AND, AND SO WHEN YOU ELIMINATE, UH, FOR CAUSE OR WITHOUT, CAUSE YOU ACTUALLY MINIMIZE THE CITY'S LIABILITY TO A POTENTIAL LAWSUIT IF A COMMISSIONER IS REMOVED, UH, IN THE, IF THEY'RE CURRENTLY, IF THEY'RE REMOVED WITHOUT CAUSE, UH, BECAUSE IT'S ALL ABOUT THE VOTE, UH, ON THIS CHAMBER.
SO THEY COULD BE REMOVED FOR, FOR WITHOUT, THEY COULD BE REMOVED TYPICALLY WITHOUT CAUSE.
UH, BUT THE CITY COULD SAY, OH, THEY WERE REMOVED, UH, FOR CAUSE.
AND SO THEN IT CREATES A LIABILITY ISSUE WHERE WE'RE PAYING OUT PEOPLE WITH THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY OF WEST COVINA TO, TO PAY OFF THESE PEOPLE TO GO AWAY.
AND, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I, I, I WILL NO LONGER STAND FOR, UH, AS A NEWLY ELECTED MEMBER FOR DISTRICT ONE.
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AGAIN, THIS IS A, THIS IS AN ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURE.UH, AND, AND I THINK, UH, MY COLLEAGUES WOULD AGREE THAT THIS IS ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND COUNCILMAN KENTO, YOU WANT TO ANSWER MR. MR. MAYOR, COULD WE CALL UPON THE CITY ATTORNEY TO GIVE THE GENERAL DEFINITION OF WHAT FOR CAUSE MEANS TO HELP CLARIFY? YEAH, GO AHEAD.
MR. MAYOR MEMBERS THE COUNCIL, WHEN YOU A WHEN YOU, WE REMOVE, UM, CAUSE OR WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE AND WHEN YOU DEFINE CAUSE AS IN IS EXISTING RIGHT NOW, IT SHOWS THE DEFINITION.
YOU CAN DEFINE CAUSE AS, AS WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE.
AND IN, IN YOUR ATTACHMENT NUMBER TWO, THERE'S A RED LINE VERSION THAT HAS A NUMBER OF, UH, UH, REASONS OF DEFINING WHAT CAUSE IS.
SO THERE IS NO ONE DEF DEFINITION OF CAUSE AND THIS JUST REMOVES IT AND IT'S JUST FOUR VOTES NOW WITH, WITH WITHOUT CAUSE.
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? UH, COUNCILMAN? YES, MR. MAYOR, GO AHEAD.
UM, IN, IN ADDITION TO WHAT I'VE STATED ALREADY, THIS, THIS IS GOING TO CREATE, UM, A SLAP, BE A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR, FOR RESIDENTS BECAUSE IT THEN CREATES THE POSSIBILITY OF GREATER POLITICIZATION.
AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL NOT, WE WILL NOT STAND.
I IDLY IDLY BY, AND FOR THE LONGEST TIME, I HAVE TRIED TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF EVERY MEMBER OF THIS COUNCIL ON MANY THINGS, INCLUDING BEHIND THE SCENES.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS CORE.
THAT TO ME, IF, IF, IF THIS GOES THROUGH, I, I, I JUST REALLY WILL BE VERY SORRY ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IT, WE, WE AS RESIDENTS NEED TO RECOGNIZE THERE NEED TO BE SAFEGUARDS.
AND WHEN YOU HAVE THE REASON THERE FOR CAUSE, IT PRESERVES THE ABILITY FOR THE COUNCIL STILL TO HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE APPOINTED TO DIFFERENT COMMISSIONS, BUT YET WITH THE SAFEGUARD OF HAVING A FOR CAUSE REQUIREMENT, AND AS ALREADY LITERALLY DEFINED THERE, IT IS SPECIFIC ENOUGH SO THAT WE CAN LEAVE IT INTACT.
AND THAT WILL ALLOW THE COUNCIL TO CONTINUE TO HAVE, UH, AN ABILITY INDIVIDUALLY TO APPOINT MEMBERS.
AND THEN ONCE CONFIRMED THEN FOR INDIVIDUAL, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ANY, ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
YOU, YOU, YOU SAID IT A COUPLE TIMES, WE UNDERSTAND.
OKAY, MAYOR FOR THEN, SO CURRENTLY AS IT STANDS, UM, A COMMISSIONER SHOULD BE REMOVED.
THERE'S A GOOD CAUSE TO REMOVE.
BUT IF A COUNCIL DOES NOT WANT TO REMOVE THEM, WHAT OCCURS, AND THERE'S GOOD CAUSE AND GOOD REASONS TO REMOVE THAT, WELL THEN IF THERE OBVIOUSLY ARE GOOD CAUSE REASONS TO REMOVE THEM, THEN COUNCIL SHOULD REMOVE THEM BECAUSE THERE'S CAUSE BUT THEN THAT GOES BACK TO THIS, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S THE FOUR, IT'S, IT'S GOING BACK TO VOTING FOR THE, FOR THE VOTE.
AND THEN SO IT GOES TO, IF YOU DO THREE, IF YOU, IF YOU GO WITH, UH, THREE, THREE IS TOO EASY, TOO EASY.
THERE'S, PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE LIKE, WELL LEAVE THAT COMMISSIONER THERE, NO MATTER HOW BAD IT IS, NO MATTER THE CAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S A GOOD CAUSE.
BUT MAJORITY WANTS THEM THAT COMMISSION 'CAUSE IT HAS HAPPENED.
WE'VE HAD COMMISSIONERS ON, UH, STAY AS A COMMISSION WHERE EVERYBODY WAS LIKE THAT, THAT PERSON NEEDS TO GO.
BUT THAT COUNT COUNCIL WAS LIKE, NOPE, I'M GONNA KEEP THAT PERSON.
I DON'T CARE HOW RUDE, OBNOXIOUS, OR ANYTHING, OR, YOU KNOW, HARASSING WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
I THINK COUNCIL MAN, KENTO HAS A IMPRESSION THAT THIS IS A TARGET TO HIM OR HIS, UH, COMMISSIONER.
I JUST WANT TO SAY I, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND, I KNOW YOU'RE STILL THINKING ABOUT THAT, BUT THE, THE, THE ISSUE IS, OKAY, SPEAKING TRUE.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY WE NEED TO, OKAY.
THIS IS NOT REALLY THE THING IS ISSUE IS, OKAY, HOW YOU DEFINE, CAUSE WHAT? CAUSE THE OKAY IS THE CAUSE WHAT, OKAY, I JUST MENTIONED IS THAT FIGHTING IS THE CAUSE, OKAY? OR, OKAY, THE DIFFERENT IDEAS IS THE CAUSE OR, OKAY, HARASSMENT IS THE CAUSE OR THREATENS THE CAUSE OR DIDN'T SHOW IT'S A CAUSE.
OKAY? IT, IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO DEFINE AND, AND THE THREE PERSON CAN REVOKE THE COMMISSIONER.
NOW IT'S FOUR PERSON, OKAY? AND, UH, CALLS ARE NO CAUSE, BUT IN THAT WAY IT'S NO LIABILITY TO SAY WE HAVE TO PRESENT A CAUSE.
BUT THE THING IS, UNLESS THAT COMMISSION IS REALLY CREATE POTENTIALLY ISSUE WHY WE WANT TO REMOVE THE COMMISSIONER, WE NEED PEOPLE TO SERVE ANYWAY.
SO I I I THINK, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND IT'S DIDN'T TALK TO ANYBODY AND, UH, AND, UH, FOR THE WORRY ABOUT THE PERSON, HE SHOULDN'T WORRY AT AT ALL AS LONG AS HE CONTINUE TO SERVE OKAY? WITH HIS CONSCIENCE TO DO A GOOD DEED, NO MATTER AGREE OR DISAGREE, HE'S SERVING THE COMMUNITY AND APPOINTED BY DORIE OR YOU OKAY.
OKAY? BUT ANYWAY, OTHER THAN THAT, OKAY? UM, OKAY, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, GO AHEAD.
YEAH, I, I JUST WANNA ECHO, UH, WHAT COUNCILWOMAN LOPEZ, FIDO SAID, AND, AND COUNCIL, UH, MAYOR WOLF SAID IS THAT I AS WELL, UH, HAVE NO ISSUES, UH, UH, WITH COMMISSIONER LEWIS.
UH, UH, I HAVE NO INTENTION OF MAKING ANY
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ACT, UH, TO REMOVE HIM.I, I DON'T SEE A REASON WHY, UH, I WILL WANNA DO THAT.
UH, I THINK YOU'RE A GOOD PERSON AND I HOPE THAT YOU CONTINUE TO SERVE IN THAT CAPACITY REPRESENTING THE RESIDENTS OF WEST FNA ON THAT PLANNING COMMISSION.
SO, OKAY, UH, MR. MAYOR, IMPORTANT, CAN I JUST MAKE A, ANOTHER REVERSE ROLE? UM, I, AS A COUNCIL APPOINTED A COMMISSIONER A FEW YEARS AGO AND I GOT AN EARFUL, LIKE SOME RESIDENTS SENDING ME EMAILS.
YOU GOTTA GET RID OF THAT COMMISSIONER, AND COMMISSIONER, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
JUST SENDING ME A BUNCH OF THINGS.
NOW, IF THE RESIDENTS, BECAUSE IT STILL GIVES THE POWER OF THE RESIDENTS, THE RESIDENTS CAN DEFINITELY GO AND TALK TO THEIR, EACH OF THEIR COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT.
AND IF THEY FELT THAT PASSIONATE AND THAT, YOU KNOW, YEAH, THAT PASSIONATE TO, TO DO THAT, THEN THE RESIDENTS CAN GO TO THEIR, EACH COUNCIL MEMBERS AND AT THAT TIME MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
BUT I, I AM PLAYING, I, I'M GIVING EXAMPLES OF BOTH ROLES I'VE HAD.
SO I'VE HAD RESIDENTS TELL ME, GET RID OF A COMMISSIONER.
SO I'VE SEEN ALL, YOU KNOW, SEEN ALL THE EXAMPLES ON ALL END.
SO I JUST WANTED TO JUST BRING THAT OUT AS WELL, THAT THE PEOPLE STILL HAVE THE POWER.
AND COUNCILMAN KENTO? YES, MR. MAYOR, TO CLARIFY, AGAIN, THIS IS NOT ABOUT COMMISSIONER LEWIS OR ANY OF MY COMMISSIONERS.
THIS IS THE BROADER PRECEDENT OF MAKING SURE TO PRESERVE COUNSEL INDEPENDENCE WITH EACH OF US HAVING THE JUDGMENT OF, OF PICKING.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE TO CLARIFY THAT.
DO I HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, THE CONSIDERATION OF INTRODUCTION OF ORDER AND AMENDING SECTION TWO DASH SIX SEVEN OF THE WESTFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE REMOVAL COMMISSIONERS.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AND A SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM LOPEZ VIDO FOR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO.
MAYOR WU AYE, UH, MOTION TO APPROVE THREE ONE.
OKAY, LET'S GO TO THE PRESENTATION.
[7) STREET SWEEPING SIGNAGE INSTALLATION UPDATE ]
OKAY.AND, UH, THE PRESENTATION THERE WILL BE THE ITEM NUMBER SEVEN STREET SWEEPING SIGNAGE INSTALLATION UPDATE.
UH, WHO IS GOING TO PRESENT THIS? I'M GONNA HAVE, UH, ROBERT ORTEGA, OUR CIP PROJECT MANAGER, PROVIDE A PRESENTATION ON THE STREET SWEEPING SIGNAGE INSTALLATION.
WE ALSO HAVE, UH, TRANS TEAM HERE TO HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS AS WELL AS OUR PUBLIC SAFETY.
GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
TODAY I'LL BE GIVEN A PRESENTATION ON THE STREET SWEEPING SIGNAGE PROJECT.
UH, SO A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THIS PROJECT.
UM, THE CITY HEALTH COMMUNITY MEETINGS ON JUNE 12TH, JUNE 17TH AND JUNE, UH, 26TH AND OCTOBER 19 TOGETHER, RESIDENT FEEDBACK ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO CURRENT STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM.
UM, ON DECEMBER 5TH, 2023, THE CITY COUNCIL OF WEST COVINA APPROVED THE CITYWIDE WEEKLY STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM.
AND, UH, STAFF PREPARED MAPS, STAFF PREPARED MAPS AND COUNTS ON WHERE SIGNS SIGNAGE SHOULD BE INSTALLED BASED ON FEEDBACKS FROM NATION NATIONWIDE, ENVIR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, NES.
INFORMATION FROM THIS FIELD OF REVIEW WAS USED TO PREPARE THE PROJECT NOTICE INVITING BIDS.
UM, ON OCTOBER 15TH, 2024, CITY COUNCIL AWARDED THE PROJECT TO SQUARE, SQUARE SIGNS LLC AS WELL AS APPROVED STAFF TO ORDER SIGNAGE AND MOUNTING EQUIPMENT.
UM, ON FEBRUARY 19TH, 2025, THE IN THE INSTALLATION WAS COMMENCED.
SO, STAFF, UH, STAFF COLLABORATED WITH NATIONWIDE, UH, TO DETERMINE IDEAL STREET SIGN LOCATIONS.
ENGINEERING STAFF ASSESSED EACH STREET, UM, EACH STREET REVIEWING INSTALLATION GUIDELINES, MATERIALS AND PLACEMENT OPTIONS, UM, ON NEW POLES, EXISTING SIGNS OR STREETLIGHTS.
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A DA GUIDELINES WERE ALSO CONSIDERED TO ENSURE, UM, CLEARANCE, PROPER CLEARANCE.AFTER FIELD REVIEWS, THE ENGINEERING STAFF CREATED A GOOGLE EARTH MAP FOR SIGN PLACEMENTS, WHICH WE USE VARIOUS AGENCY STANDARDS, UM, IN ADDITION TO CALTRAN STANDARDS.
AND BASED ON THIS, BASED ON THIS REVIEW, THE STAFF, THE STAFF ORDERED TWO SIZES OF PARKING SIGNS, LARGER ONES AT THE BLOCK, COMMUNITY ENTRANCES, AND SMALLER ONES AT MED BLOCK, ALONG WITH POLES ANCHORS AND MOUNTED EQUIPMENT POLES WERE SELECTED TO ENSURE AT LEAST SEVEN FEET OF SAFETY CLEARANCE.
UM, SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE TOTAL, THE TOTAL OF NUMBER OF SIGNS ORDERED FOR MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
TIMEFRAMES FRIDAY HAS FEWER SIGNS AS THEY ONLY PLACE AT COMMUNITY ENTRANCES RATHER THAN EVERY STREET.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ORDERED A TOTAL OF 1,548 LARGE SIGNS AND 3,647 SMALLER SIGNS MAKING IT A TOTAL OF 5,191.
THE SCHEDULES, THE SCHEDULES BASED ON SWEEPING DAYS, TIMES FROM THE GIS, UM, PAGE, WHICH THE GIS PAGE WAS SHOWN HERE ON THE LEFT.
AND THE PROJECT'S BASE TIMELINE SHOWN ON THE RIGHT, WHETHER DELAYS HAVE IMPACTED THE TIMELINE AND SCHEDULE MAY CHANGE ACCORDINGLY.
SO ENGINEERING STAFF INSPECTS AND INSTALL SIGNS DAILY BASED ON CONTRACTOR REPORT.
AND BY DRIVING THE, THE CITY DAILY, THEY ALSO ENSURE SIGNS ARE STRAIGHT, PROPERLY POSITIONED, NOT BLOCKING WINDOWS, UM, OR DRIVEWAYS, AND MEET PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS.
SO WHEN WE ADDRESS THE, THE RESIDENT'S CONCERN, ENGINEERING STAFF ASSESSES THE SIGN PLACEMENT AND DETERMINES IF IT CAN BE RELOCATED BASED ON GUIDELINES.
IF THE RELOCATION ISN'T POSSIBLE, RESIDENTS ARE INFORMED OF THE REASONING.
ADDITIONALLY, THESE SIGNS ARE PLACED IN OUR RIGHT OF WAY, WHICH RANGES ANYWHERE BETWEEN SEVEN FEET TO SEVEN FEET TO 12 FEET FROM BACK OF CURB TO THE PROPERTY.
SO THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
SO I ALSO HAVE
UH, COUNSEL, ANY QUESTION? WHO WANTS STARTED? OKAY.
SO AS THESE STALLS, I MEAN THESE, UH, SIGNS HAVE BEEN BEING INSTALLED.
I RECEIVED, UH, QUITE AMOUNT OF EMAILS FROM RESIDENTS REGARDING, UM, THE SIGN INSTALLATION, THE, UM, STREET SWEEPING SITUATION, DEPENDING ON THE AREA THAT THEY'RE, UM, WHERE THEY RESIDE.
SO I'VE, I KNOW I FORWARDED TO THE, UH, CITY MANAGER, UM, HOPE YOU WERE ABLE TO FORWARD THAT.
AND ARE THEY ABLE TO ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS, IF I CAN RESPOND TO THAT? SO, UM, SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT WE'VE HAD IS THE ACTUAL SCHEDULE OF THE STREET SWEEPING DAYS.
AND THAT HAS ALREADY, UH, WE'VE BEEN, WE RECEIVED DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL, AND THAT'S THE, THE SCHEDULE THAT WE'RE IMPLEMENTING.
UM, IT IS VERY COMMON, UH, STANDARD PRACTICE WITH OTHER CITIES TO DO, UM, STREET SWEEPING, SAME FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET.
UM, WE DID ACCOMMODATE FOR AREAS THAT HAVE HIGHER DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
AND SO THAT IN THOSE AREAS WE DID ALTERNATING DAYS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STREET.
UM, IF WE WERE TO DO THAT CITYWIDE, THERE WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL COST TO, TO IMPLEMENT, UH, ALTERNATE SIDES OF THE STREET CITYWIDE.
UM, SO, UH, THAT WAS ONE CONCERN.
I KNOW WE'VE ALSO HAD CONCERNS ABOUT THE ACTUAL PLACEMENT AND THE LOCATION OF SIGNS, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE HAD STAFF TRY TO ACCOMMODATE AS BEST AS WE CAN.
THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE TO MEET IN ORDER TO WHERE THE LOCATIONS, UH, THE SIGNS HAVE TO BE LOCATED IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO ENFORCE, UM, STREETS, THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT IN THOSE AREAS.
SO IN REGARDS TO, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU COVER THE HIGH DENSITY AREAS, UM, BUT IN AREAS WHERE, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE THEY, THEY DON'T HAVE SIDEWALKS, I'M NOT SURE IF THEY EVEN HAVE DRIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, DRIVE THEIR, THEIR DRIVEWAYS AND STUFF.
ARE THOSE ALSO TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IF THAT AREA OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T HAVE THAT LEEWAY AND, UM, TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THEIR CAR OR HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE TO MOVE THEIR VEHICLE SO THAT THEY'RE NOT TICKETED OR BEING AFFECTED BY THAT? I BELIEVE, UM, THAT WE DID FOCUS JUST ON THE HIGHER DENSITY, UM, UH, AREAS AND NOT ON AREAS WITHOUT SIDEWALKS.
NOT JUST THE SIDEWALKS, BUT LIKE THE, LIKE DRIVEWAYS, IF THEY DON'T HAVE DRIVEWAYS OR JUST ANY OF THAT.
UM, WE DIDN'T, I CAN DOUBLE CHECK, BUT I DO NOT
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BELIEVE WE TOOK THAT IN CONSIDERATION.IF THERE ARE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE THAT SITUATION, I KNOW, UM, BASED ON THE EMAILS THAT I HAVE SENT, IF YOU CAN HAVE A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND LOOK AT THE AREAS TO MAKE SURE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT IS FEASIBLE TO GET THE, THEIR VEHICLES MOVED.
UM, 'CAUSE I UNDERSTAND THOSE STREETS MIGHT BE SAME, UH, NO PARKING ON BOTH SIDES, SO THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO MANEUVER THEIR VEHICLE.
I, I WANT TO ADD ON THIS OKAY.
AND I THINK DURING THE HEARING LAST TIME, AND I THINK IT'S A YEAR OR MORE THAN A YEAR AGO, OKAY.
WE REQUEST, THEY REQUEST SIX HOURS.
AND THEY REMEMBER, AGAIN, WE SAY NO BECAUSE IT'S SO MUCH INCONVENIENT FOR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY HIGH DENSITY NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND WE, THEY PARK CAR, SO WE CUT DOWN TO FOUR HOURS.
SO WE JUST WANT THEM TO MOVE THE CAR FOUR HOURS SO WE CAN CLEAN, CLEAN THE STREET OKAY.
AND THEY CAN PARK THE CAR BACK.
SO, BUT BECAUSE IF WE DON'T CLEAN THE STREET, WE IN TROUBLE BECAUSE THE STREET IS REALLY FILTHY BECAUSE THE CAR NEVER MOVE OVER THERE OR THEY NEVER BEEN CLEANED.
SO HOPEFULLY THE COUPLE HOURS WE CAN HAVE THEM TO MOVE AND I AGREE.
THE CROSS STREET IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE, OKAY.
THE NATIONWIDE TWO C, THEY CAN DO THE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT TIME, SO TO CONVENIENT FOR PEOPLE CAN KIND MOVE THE CAR.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I RECEIVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE HAPPY WITH.
THEY SEE THE WEEKLY FREE SWEEPING AFTER TRASH DAY.
BUT NOW FINALLY WE CAN CATCH THE SWEEPER.
AND, UH, NEXT CITY COUNCIL WANT TO SPEAK.
UM, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIEREZ.
I HAVE A HUNDRED QUESTIONS KIND OF
UM, THE FIRST QUESTION I HAVE IS, WHO DETERMINED, UM, WHICH, WHICH, WHO DETERMINED WHEN THESE STREETS WERE BOTH GETTING, UH, STREET SWEEPING, BOTH SIDES THE SAME SIDE, OR BOTH AREAS WERE BEING BLOCKED OFF AT THE SAME TIME? WAS THAT SOMETHING THAT NATIONWIDE DID WITH STAFF DETERMINED OR, UM, THE, THE FINAL MAP FOR THE STREET SWEEPING SCHEDULE, INCLUDING THE ALTERNATE SIDE STREETS, WAS SOMETHING THAT, UM, WE WORKED WITH, UH, NOT ONLY NATIONWIDE WITH OUR PUBLIC WORK STAFF AND WITH TRANSTECH TO LOOK AT AREAS THAT NEEDED, WE NEEDED TO IDENTIFY AS, UM, THE HIGHER DENSITY AND, AND TRY TO HELP ADDRESS AREAS THAT, UM, WE HAD RECEIVED CONCERNS ABOUT.
AND WAS THERE A REASON WHY NOT ALL STREETS WERE AT ALTERNATE TIMES? YES.
I BELIEVE WE BROUGHT THAT UP AT THE, THAT, UH, COUNCIL MEETING WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE STREET SWEEPING SCHEDULE, THAT IF WE WENT TO CITYWIDE ALTERNATE DAYS, UM, IT WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE COST OF THE CONTRACT.
SO, SO WE DID THIS FOR NATIONWIDE, IN OTHER WORDS.
UM, MY SECOND QUESTION IS, UM, UM, UH, I, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR MYLAN.
UM, HAS, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY STARTED FOLLOWING, UH, THE STREET SWEEPERS TO GIVE, UH, THE PUBLIC NOTICES ABOUT HOW THE PROCESS IS GONNA START AND SO FORTH? UH, WE HAVE NOT STARTED ISSUING NOTICES.
DO YOU KNOW WHEN THAT WOULD HAPPEN? YES.
SO THE PLAN WAS WE WERE GONNA WAIT UNTIL THE SIGNS WERE ALL INSTALLED.
ALL THE OLD SIGNS WERE REMOVED BEFORE WE STARTED OUR WARNING NOTICE CAMPAIGN.
UM, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE SOME AREAS WHERE NEW SIGNS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED THAT MAY SAY, UH, NO PARKING SEVEN TO 11, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, NEXT TO THAT SIGN IS ANOTHER SIGN THAT SAYS NO PARKING FROM 10 TO TWO.
SO WHILE THERE'S ONE CREW GOING THROUGH INSTALLING THE NEW SIGNS, THERE'S A CREW COMING AROUND AND REMOVING THE OLD SIGNS.
SO ONCE PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING SIGNS OFF ON AN AREA THAT'S COM BEEN COMPLETED, THEN WE CAN LOOK AT START DOING OUR, ISSUING OUR WARNING NOTICES.
BUT RIGHT NOW THEY'RE IN THE TROUBLESHOOTING PHASE OF MAKING SURE ALL SIGNS ARE PROPERLY POSTED.
ALL STREETS ARE EQUALLY POSTED.
UH, BEFORE WE START ANY WARNING CAMPAIGNS.
WE DON'T WANNA CONFUSE THE RESIDENTS.
'CAUSE ONCE WE START THE WARNING CAMPAIGN, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT WE'D START ISSUING CITATIONS ROUGHLY 30 DAYS AFTER THAT TIMEFRAME.
SO ONCE WE START THE WARNING NOTICES, THAT WILL START THE TIME CLOCK OF WHEN OUR ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES WILL ACTUALLY BEGIN.
AND DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH EMPLOYEES RIGHT NOW TO, TO DO THAT? CURRENTLY, I HAVE ENOUGH EMPLOYEES TO START THE PROGRAM.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ONBOARDING SOME ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR THE PURPOSE OF STREET SWEEPING COMPONENT ITSELF.
AND THOSE WILL BE ONBOARDED BY THE END OF APRIL, THE FIRST PART OF MAY, WHICH WILL CORRESPOND WITH HOPEFULLY THE COMPLETION OF CERTAIN AREAS.
AND THEN WE WILL ROLL OUT THE WARNING NOTICES.
SO IF, SO, AND, AND THE THE REASON I ASK THIS IS NOT BECAUSE I WANNA, I WANNA CITE THE PEOPLE, BUT
I WANNA MAKE SURE THERE'S ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE CONTRACT.
UM, SO IF MY COLLEAGUES DON'T DISAGREE, I, I WOULD LIKE FOR CODING FOR PUBLIC SAFETY TO START FOLLOWING AS
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STREET SWEEPER TO ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY.UH, WE'RE PAYING HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO THIS STREET SWEEPER, AND I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THIS STREET SWEEPER COMES LATE, UH, EVEN ON THE NEW POSTER SIGN POSTED AREAS, UH, AND THAT THE GROUND IS NOT BEING CLEANED RIGHT AT IN SOME AREAS.
UH, AND SO I THINK IT'S VITAL IF IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, UH, THAT IF WE HAVE STAFF, UH, ENOUGH PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS, THAT WE, WE PUT THEM, UH, BEHIND THE STREET SWEEP TO START ASSURING ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, UH, WE CAN FACILITATE THAT.
AND, UH, THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
UM, UH, AND THEN LET OTHER COUNCIL HAVE A CHANCE.
YEAH, PAUL, QUESTION, WHO DETERMINED THE SIDE OF AUSTRALIA? SO, YEAH, SO I, I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, UH, PAULINA THAT YOU WORK, UH, WITH TRANSTECH, UH, AND OUR CITY STAFF TO FIGURE OUT, UH, THIS ISSUE.
UH, THERE'S SOME OF THESE STREETS HAVE DRIVEWAYS WHERE THEY CANNOT FIT MULTIPLE CARS.
AND WHAT'S MAKING IT WORSE IS THAT YOU HAVE THESE STREETS THAT HAVE THE SAME TIME PERIOD, PEOPLE ARE MOVING THOSE CARS, AND THEN GUESS WHAT? THE STREET SWEEPERS KNOW WHERE TO BE FOUND UNTIL AN HOUR AFTER THAT POSTING.
AND THAT'S PUTTING A BURDEN ON THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO MOVE THEIR CAR.
THEY DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GONNA GET A TICKET OR NOT.
AND SO YOU HAVE TO, WE NEED TO TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND ACT IN THE INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE.
SO I THINK IT'S MORE LIKE A COMMENT.
SO IS THAT QUESTION A COMMENT? IT'S A STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS AT DISTRICT ONE.
SO, UH, WE DON'T WANT TO INCONVENIENT BASED ON THAT.
THE PEOPLE, HOPEFULLY THEY PRECISE THE TIME THEY WANNA COME DURING THAT FOUR HOURS.
AND OUR SCIENTISTS SHOULD BE THERE, AND OUR, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY SHOULD BE FOLLOW THROUGH, SEE HOW'S THE QUALITY DOING.
SO THEY WILL HAVE SOME HICCUP, WE UNDERSTAND.
SO WE TRY TO KIND OF, UH, WORK IN PROGRESS TO IMPROVE OKAY.
AND MAKE SURE OUR STREET IS CLEAN.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN CANTO, GO AHEAD.
UH, IN LIGHT OF, OF THIS QUESTION FOR THE CITY MANAGER, UH, IN LIGHT OF YOUR, HAVING DESCRIBED THAT, UH, IF WE WERE TO, UH, CHANGE A CERTAIN SITUATIONS WHERE, UH, THE PARKING SITUATIONS NOW WHERE THERE'S NO PARKING ON BOTH SIDES, BUT IF WE WERE TO REMEDY THAT, THAT WOULD COST MORE, UH, WOULD THERE BE A WAY, UH, TO, UH, LOOK, UH, AN, AN, UH, A LOOK AT AREAS THAT, THAT ARE STILL RELATIVELY CLEAN AND THEN TO REDIRECT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, TIME AWAY FROM THERE IN ORDER TO, TO, UM, AC UH, ACCOMMODATE THOSE, THOSE SMALL AREAS WHERE THERE IS PARKING ON BOTH SIDES? IN OTHER WORDS, JUST SORT OF REALLOCATING BECAUSE THE WHOLE CITY IS NOT EQUALLY DIRTY.
IF THERE, IF THERE ARE, UH, MORE RESIDENTIAL AREAS WITH LOW TRAFFIC, THAT'S A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CLEANLINESS THAT'S REQUIRED, UH, THAN THAN AREAS THAT HAVE HIGH DENSITY.
SO WITHIN THE, THE CONFINES OF, OF THE OVERALL STREETS SWEEPING, COULD THAT BE A WAY TO HELP REMEDY THE, THE SITUATIONS THAT WERE DESCRIBED HERE AND ASKED ABOUT IN WHICH THERE'S NO PARKING ON BOTH SIDES, WHICH CAUSES RESIDENTS, UH, UH, A SIGNIFICANT DIFFICULTY? UH, UM, UH, DID YOU, OH, GO AHEAD.
UM, I THINK IF ONE OF THE CONCERNS RIGHT NOW ALREADY IS THE, THE TIMING AND THE SCHEDULE, AND RIGHT NOW, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY.
UM, WE'RE IN A TRANSITION PERIOD.
WE'RE GOING FROM BI-MONTHLY TO WEEKLY.
WE FINE TUNE WITH, AND THERE'S GONNA BE SOME FINE TUNING.
MAYOR W UM, BUT IN ADDITION, RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE THERE'S A TRANSITION OF THE SIGNAGE THAT'S OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, AS MYLAN MENTIONED, OUR, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR, UM, THE, THE STREET SWEEPING AND THE SIGNS ARE NOT GONNA ALIGN RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE ALIGNED BECAUSE WE'RE TRANSITIONING FROM ONE, ONE SYSTEM TO THE OTHER.
UM, SO ONCE WE HAVE ALL THE SIGNAGE UP, THAT'S WHEN WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THIS NEW WEEKLY STREET SWEEPING WITH THE SPECIFIC TIMEFRAMES ON THE SIGNAGE.
IF NOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT CHANGING IT BASED ON THE, THE DIRTINESS LEVEL OF ONE STREET COMPARED TO THE CLEANLINESS OF ANOTHER, I THINK THAT WOULD EVEN FURTHER COMPLICATE THE SCHEDULE FOR THE, THE ROUTES.
UM, SO I, I, I WOULD HAVE TO, UH, TALK TO, UH, TO ALL THE, THE VENDOR AND SEE HOW THAT WOULD, HOW WOULD WE ACCOMMODATE THAT? I THINK THAT WOULD FURTHER COMPLICATE I THINK THE SCHEDULING.
AND SOME OF THE THREE, FOR EXAMPLE, CODA SAID, OKAY, THE SWEEPER COMING IN, THEY GO THROUGH IT.
SO THEY HAVE BOTH SIDE, BUT THEY NEED TO DO IT ONE TIME BECAUSE THIS IS WITHIN THE FOUR HOURS AND THE, THE SWEEPER COMING IN GO TO CO SET AND COMING OUT AND CLEAN THE STREET AND THE ROD, AND YOU HAVE A, A BIG STREET AND YOU HAVE BOTH SIDE.
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OKAY.GO BACK TO ASK NATIONWIDE TO SEE CAN EITHER POSSIBLE ROBERT SAID THAT POSSIBLE WITH THAT BIG STREET.
AND UH, YOU JUST WITH ONE SIDE, FOUR HOURS SHOULD BE EVEN LOW ENOUGH OKAY.
FOR FINISHED WITHIN THE TIME LIMIT, THEN THE CAR CAN COME BACK.
AND THE ANOTHER OPPOSITE SIDE, THE LONE STREET CAN BE MAYBE IN THE AFTERNOON SOMETHING SO PEOPLE CAN HAVE A DIFFERENT TIME SO THEY CAN MOVE THE CAR ACROSS STREET.
SO, SO THIS IS A SUGGESTION FOR YOU TO GO BACK TO TALK NATIONWIDE, NOT INCREASING THE CHARGE, BUT IT'S JUST OKAY, WE ARRANGE OKAY.
AND THEN I THINK THERE'S PEOPLE CONCERNED.
THE STREET SWEEPING THAT IS OCCURRING ON BOTH SIDES, IS IT RIGHT BACK TO BACK OR IS THERE A GAP, LIKE, SO IF RESIDENTS LIKE TO SAY THEY'RE WANNA TAKE THEIR LUNCH BETWEEN, DO WE HAVE A GAP FOR THEM THAT WIGGLE ROOM? OR IS IT, YOU KNOW, NINE OF, I DUNNO, NINE TO 12 AND THEN THE OTHER SIDE 12 TOO, YOU KNOW? WELL, I THINK THAT IT IS CONCERN SAME TIME, AND WE CAN PULL UP THE MAP.
UH, ROBERT, THE GIS MAP FOR THE STREET, DO THEY HAVE NO PLACE TO PARK? UM, I THINK THAT THE, AND I BELIEVE MAYBE MYLAN CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS, BUT THERE IS A ROUTE THAT THE STREET SWEEPER GOES BY.
UM, AND SO SOMETIMES THEY HAVE TO GO BACK AND EMPTY OUT THE, THE SWEEPER IF IT GETS TOO MUCH DEBRIS.
AND SO THAT MAY DELAY THEM OR CHANGE THE ROUTE, YOU KNOW, THE TIMING FROM ONE SIDE OF THE STREET TO THE OTHER.
UM, THOSE INDIVIDUALS ALSO GET BREAKS AND LUNCH BREAKS.
AND SO THAT ALSO, UH, IF IMPACTS WHAT TIME THEY GO ON THEIR ROUTE.
BUT IT'S THE TIME THAT IS POSTED THAT THE RESIDENTS MM-HMM
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE GONNA BE CITED.
SO ONCE ALL THE SIGNAGE IS UP, WE WILL THEN BE ADHERING TO THOSE TIMEFRAMES THAT ARE BEING POSTED.
AND, UM, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIEREZ.
SO, UH, SO IS NATIONWIDE GOING OUT? SO BEFORE THERE'S NO SIGNS.
SO NATIONWIDE IS STILL DRIVING WHENEVER THEY WANT TO CLEAN OUR STREETS, OR YOU HAVE NEW SIGNS OUT THERE.
SO YOU KIND, YOU KIND HAVE TO, I THINK MAYOR WILL USE THIS AS, AS AN EXAMPLE FOR A DIFFERENT TOPIC.
UH, BUT IT'S LIKE, WHAT HAPPENS IF IT'S AT YOUR HOUSE, YOU'RE PARKING ON THE STREET, AND YOU HAVE THESE SIGNS UP THAT NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT IF THEY'RE BEING ENFORCED OR NOT.
IT'S GONNA PUT A, IT'S GONNA PUT A, A HEADACHE TO YOU AND BURN IT ON YOU THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO MOVE YOUR CAR.
AND, AND IT'S UNFAIR THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE TO SUFFER THAT.
AND SO IF NATIONWIDE IS BEING PAID, UH, TO DO A JOB, THEN THEY NEED TO FOLLOW THE SCHEDULE THAT'S BEEN PROPOSED.
UH, THEY, THEY PUT, THERE'S SIGNS UP ALREADY, SO THEY NEED TO START FOLLOWING THOSE SIGNS.
THEY'RE BEING, THEY'RE BEING PAID TO FOLLOW THE TIME.
AND I THINK THAT WILL BE WITH OUR PUBLIC SAFETY FOLLOW THROUGH TIME AND MAKE SURE, OKAY, GO AHEAD.
AND WE JUST WANT TO HAVE A QUALITY CONTROL.
AND, UH, WITH A CONTRACT SUPERVISING.
AND FOLLOW THROUGH THE SWEEPER, SEE THE LAYER IN THE TIME, AND MAKE SURE DOING IT FOUR HOURS.
AND AFTER THAT, OKAY, PEOPLE CAN PARK.
AND THEN THEY CANNOT CLEAN UP THE PLACE.
WE CAN START FOLLOWING THE SWEEPER AND PROVIDING THEY'RE FOLLOWING NEW ROUTES.
WE HAVE THOSE ROUTES, THOSE TIMEFRAMES FOR EACH DAY.
THERE'S THREE, THREE TIMEFRAMES FOR, UM, EACH DAY OF THE WEEK.
AND WE CAN HAVE STAFF FOLLOWING AND MAKING SURE THEY'RE AT LEAST THE, THE QUALITY OF THEIR WORK IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED.
WHETHER THE SIGNS ARE PHYSICALLY POSTED OR NOT.
THE FACT IS THEY'RE STILL SWEEPING WEEKLY.
THE ISSUE IS IF WE POST A SIGN THE TIME AND THERE'S ONLY TIME, OKAY.
THEY, THEY MOVE THEIR CAR AND THE SWEEPER HAVE TO BE THERE DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME.
SO MEANING, AND THEN HOW WE OKAY.
IMPLEMENT, UH, ENFORCE IS OKAY, WE OUR OKAY.
PUBLIC SAFETY BEHIND IT AND TO MAKE SURE AND THE RECORD RECORDED AND TO DATE COMPLY.
AND THAT WILL BE ON THEIR PERFORMANCE OF, UH, THEIR CONTRACT.
AND, AND JUST TO, UH, EMPHASIZE WHAT MAYOR WU SAID IS I THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT THAT YOU DOCUMENT.
SO IF, IF, IF YOU SEE 'EM SWEEPING AND NOTHING'S BEING SUCKED UP, THEN WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
AND, AND, UH, UH, WE WOULD LIKE FOR AND EXPECT IF YOU COULD, YOUR DEPARTMENT COULD, UH, DOCUMENT IF, IF IT'S BEING, IF, IF THERE'S ISSUES ON THE ROUTE, UH, JUST I WANT TO ADD ON, I THINK, AND THE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT, THEY EVEN OFFER, THEIR PERSON WILL PICK UP THE CAR, THIS, THAT, THE BIG ITEMS, SO THEY CLEAN AT THE SAME TIME.
WE WANT TO, AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK YOU WILLING TO HELP US BECAUSE WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE OUR CITY, THE STREETS CLEAN AND THAT'S WHY RESIDENT WANT, AND WE WILL MAKE SURE IT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED.
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BUT, BUT OKAY.RIGHT? IT'S ABSOLUTELY DOABLE.
AND THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE SHORTER TIMEFRAMES WILL WORK TO THE RESIDENTS ADVANTAGE AS WELL.
AND WHAT'LL ALSO HAPPEN IS, UH, I'VE WORKED FIVE CITIES AND RUN THIS PROGRAM.
THIS WILL BE MY FIFTH CITY RUNNING IT.
SO RESIDENTS WILL GET USED TO, THE SWEEPER'S GONNA SHOW UP EVERY WEEK AT BETWEEN SEVEN AND SEVEN 20, OR EIGHT 30 TO 8 45.
AND IT REMAINS PRETTY CONSISTENT UNLESS YOU HAVE HEAVY LEAVES, HEAVY TRASH OR SOMETHING.
THAT THROWS THEM OFF A LITTLE BIT.
BUT RESIDENTS WILL BECOME CONDITIONED AND THEY'LL UNDERSTAND ROUGHLY THE, THE 38 MINUTE TIMEFRAME OF WHEN THAT SWEEPER'S ACTUALLY GONNA SHOW UP.
AND WITH SOME WARNING NOTICES AND, YOU KNOW, ROLLING IT OUT LIGHTLY.
UM, IT SHOULD WORK OUT PRETTY WELL.
I THINK WE WILL HAVE GOOD COMPLIANCE.
SINCE I LIVE WESTCO SINCE 1989, AND I REMEMBER LIVE ON THE 2, 3, 5 LEAVE.
I MOVE MY CAR ALL THE TIME WEEKLY AND BECOME RELIGIOUS BECAUSE I KNOW THEY COMING.
I MOVE THE CAR THIS ON BECAUSE I, ONE MY CORNER IS, IS CLEAN, SO IT BECOME A HABIT.
IT'S NOT NO LONGER A BURDEN BECAUSE YOU REALLY WANT THIS TREE CLEAN, OTHERWISE YOU HAVE TO CLEAN IT.
SO, SO I DON'T WANNA CLEAN IT, SO I LET THE SWEEPER CLEAN IT.
UH, MY LAST, MY LAST, UH, UH, COMMENT OR, UH, QUESTION TO THE CITY MANAGER IS, UM, UH, PAULINA.
CAN YOU LOOK INTO THE COST ASSOCIATED, IF THE CITY WAS TO GO INTO A, UH, WHAT WAS THE TERM YOU USED? ONE SITE, ONE ALTERNATING, ALTERNATING.
A WHOLE CITYWIDE ALTERNATING SCHEDULE.
I, I THINK THAT WE, WE OWE THAT TO OUR RESIDENTS, SO I WOULD LIKE, I WOULD LIKE THE, THE NUMBERS.
UH, I'M JUST WONDERING IF, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE THESE ISSUES OF, OF NO PARKING IN BOTH SIDES, AN ISSUE ACROSS THE CITY, PROPORTION WISE.
AND THE SECOND THING IS, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST WE TELL THOSE RESIDENTS IN TERMS OF WHEN WE, WHEN WE MAY EXPECT RESOLUTION OF WHATEVER THOSE ISSUES ARE WITH REGARD TO HOW THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO PARK? I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE PERCENTAGE OF ISSUES OF ALTERNATING TO, TO NOT ALTERNATING STREETS.
I KNOW THAT WE HAVE, IT'S A BIG TRANSITION TO GO FROM BIMONTHLY TO WEEKLY.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THEN TO DO THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT.
UM, I THINK MAYOR WU MENTIONED THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE COMMUNITY.
IT'S BEEN AT THE DISCRETION OF THE RESIDENTS IN THAT STREET, WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANTED TO ENFORCE PARKING.
IT IS GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, REQUIRE, UH, OR PARTICIPATION WITH OUR RESIDENTS TO GET THIS PROGRAM UP AND RUNNING.
UM, AND THEN, WHAT WAS YOUR SECOND QUESTION? THE SECOND QUESTION IS BY WHEN, WHEN WITH, WHEN THEY ASK US BY WHEN SHOULD WE TELL THEM THAT THESE ISSUES WILL BE ADDRESSED OR REMEDIED OR RESOLVED? WHERE THERE'S SITUATIONS OF PARKING, NO PARKING ON BOTH SIDES.
WHEN THEY'RE SAYING, WELL, HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS BEFORE THERE'S A RESOLUTION? WHAT, WHAT SHOULD WE TELL THEM? WELL, I BELIEVE, UM, MILAN MENTIONED THAT THE SIGNAGE WILL BE UP IN MAY.
SO WE ARE CURRENTLY ACTIVELY PUTTING UP SIGNAGE FOR THE CURRENT PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE, UH, UP ON HERE.
ANY CHANGES TO THAT? WE'D PROBABLY HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL.
SO, UM, I WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK TO YOU ON AS TO WHAT THAT TIMEFRAME WOULD LOOK LIKE TO, TO GO TO ALTERNATING, IF THAT'S A DIRECTION THAT COUNCIL WANTS TO GO TO.
AND, UH, INSTALL THE SIGN AND ARRANGE THE SIGN.
WE, I THINK WE WILL ACCUMULATE SOME OF THE FINE TUNING.
FINE TUNING ABOUT THE, THE SIGN, THE LOCATION.
I, I GOT COUPLE, NOT A LOT OKAY.
WE HAVE A LADY TALKING ABOUT OKAY.
THE SIGN, MAYBE WE CAN HELP HER TO MOVE TO SIGN.
SO, SO WE ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE, LIKE, JUST BASED ON, BASED ON YOUR PRESENTATION.
WE TRY TO ACCOMMODATE AND THE LESS INTRUSION AS POSSIBLE.
AND THE ONE PEOPLE UNDER WAYS TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE DO WEEKLY IS WE REALLY NEED TO CLEAN THE STREET WEEKLY.
CURRENTLY THE PARK, PARK, THE CAR PARK OVER THERE.
WE HAVE NEVER, EVER HAVE A CHANCE TO CLEAN.
COUNCIL MEMBER GUTTIER, GO AHEAD.
UM, ALSO, UH, I ALSO WANNA, UH, THANK, UH, I KNOW ROBERT'S BEEN GOING OUT THERE SOMETIMES TO GO, UH, EXPECT SOME OF THESE SIGNS.
UH, UH, I KNOW TRANSTECH HAS BEEN ON IT TOO.
SO I, I DO WANT TO THANK THEM BOTH FOR GOING OUT THERE AND, AND TAKING A LOOK AT THESE SIGNS.
UH, JUST TRY TO, TRY TO, IF, IF THEY COULD BE MOVE, MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING, UH, PUBLIC WORKS TO MOVE THOSE SIGNS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
UH, BUT I DO THANK YOU GUYS ARE GETTING ON IT AND GETTING THE JOB DONE.
UM, IN ADDITION, UM, UM, WHAT ELSE WAS I GONNA SAY? I FORGOTTEN.
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ONE THING IS THIS, OKAY? ANY OF THIS IS A BIG PROJECT OKAY.AND IT IS GOING TO, UH, TRY TO CLEAN UP AND THE PEOPLE HA OKAY.
AND CHANGING TO MOVING FOUR, FOUR HOURS A WEEKLY.
SO THE COORDINATION WITH OUR OKAY.
PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE SWEEPER AND, UH, ENGINEERING AND, UH, OUR OKAY.
AND THE PROJECT MANAGER ALL WORK TOGETHER.
OKAY? AND THEN, UH, HOPEFULLY WE FINE TUNE IT AND PEOPLE, THEY, THEY TELL, THEY CAN SEE, AND OUR STREET IS REALLY CLEAN, OKAY? AND, UH, WITHOUT ANY ISSUE, THE STONE OR THE DRAIN WILL BE CLEAN.
AND THAT IS HOW WE KEEP OUR CT SAFE AND CLEAN AND SANITATION.
OKAY? I, I THINK THIS WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK IN PROGRESS AND WE CONTINUE TO UPDATE, SEE HOW IT GOES.
BECAUSE WE JUST STARTED, AND HOPEFULLY BY MAY WE CAN FINISH ALL THE SIGNAGE AND THE, AND THE, AND THE PUBLIC SAFETY THREAD TO COME BACK TO OKAY.
MAYBE GIVE US A REPORT ABOUT HOW IS EVERYTHING, HOW'S THE PERFORMANCE OF SWEEPER? OKAY.
AND THEN, AND BECAUSE WE STILL NEED TO GET THE CONTRACT DOWN WITH, UH, NATIONWIDE.
SO THEY HAD A LOT OF MOVING PARTS AND WE CONTINUE TO MAKE THE THING HAPPEN.
ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? YEAH, UH, MAYOR PUT, SORRY.
THE WHOLE, UM, STREET SWEEPING ON BOTH SIDES AT THE SAME TIME.
I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER, I MEAN, AGREED TO THAT.
'CAUSE I'M ALWAYS ABOUT HAVING THEM MANEUVER, UM, WITH, UH, I JUST FEEL LIKE THERE'S JUST GONNA BE AN ISSUE, ESPECIALLY DEPENDING ON THE STREETS AND IF IT IS A LONG WALK FOR THEM, OF LIKE THE NEAREST PARKING, IF IT'S BLOCKS AWAY.
UM, ESPECIALLY IN, IN CERTAIN AREAS.
UM, I KNOW DEFINITELY LIKE I CAN SEE SOME ISSUES LIKE IN MY DISTRICT.
UM, SO THAT, THAT'S A CONCERN.
I MEAN, HAS, DOES OTHER CITIES DO THAT? 'CAUSE WHEN I SEE OTHER STREET SWEEPING, IT'S USUALLY IF IT'S THE SAME DAY, THE TIMES ARE DIFFERENT.
YOU KNOW, ONE HERE MORNING, THE OTHER ONE IN THE AFTERNOON.
IS, UH, TRANSTECH SINCE THEY HERE, I THINK THEY COULD BETTER ANSWER THAT.
BUT THINK IT'S PRETTY, MAYBE, PROBABLY NOT.
WE DON'T WANT YOU SIT OVER THERE ALONE.
MAYBE COME OVER HERE, GIVE US THE ANSWER REGARDING OTHER CITY, HOW THEY DOING? BECAUSE I'M GETTING THESE EMAILS AND, YOU KNOW, I, I WANNA BE ABLE TO, WE WANNA ACCOMMODATE BEST TO OUR RESIDENTS AND NOT MAKE IT A BURDEN FOR THEM.
SO, UM, UNDERSTAND THE, THE CONCERN, UH, AND THE QUESTION.
AND SO IT'S NOT UNCOMMON IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS TO HAVE STREET SWEEPING POSTED SAME TIME PERIOD, SAME DAY.
AND SO THEREFORE THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT COMMUNITY HAS TO FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO PARK, WHETHER IT'S ON THEIR DRIVEWAY OR IN A DIFFERENT COMMUNITY.
SO IT, IT CAN BE DONE EITHER WAY AND REALLY, UM, STAFF WOULD CERTAINLY LOOK TO COUNCILS LEADERSHIP AND GUIDANCE ON A DIRECTION IF THEY PREFER ONE VERSUS ANOTHER.
HOW MANY CITIES ACTUALLY HAVE THAT? I, I WOULD HAVE TO DO A RESEARCH, RESEARCH IN TERMS OF HARD NUMBERS, BUT I CAN SAY CONFIDENTLY THAT I'M FAMILIAR WITH, WITH JURISDICTIONS THAT HAVE BOTH PROGRAMS IN PLACE.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT? NAME A FEW JURISDICTION? I'M JUST CURIOUS.
SO, UM, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I BELIEVE TEMPLE CITY HAS AREAS THAT HAVE BOTH SIDES, UH, AS WELL AS ROSEMEAD AND SOME OTHER JURISDICTIONS.
AND I COULD CERTAINLY REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL BEVERLY HILLS.
YEAH, BECAUSE I PAV IN MY SQUARE, MY PARKING LOT, SO I HAVE THE PARKING ON THE STREET AND THE BOTH SIDE.
I DIDN'T EVEN SEE THE, THEY, THEY SAID THEY PUT THE FRONT AND THE END, BUT IN THE MIDDLE THEY DIDN'T PUT ANY SIGN.
I, I STILL HAVE TO PAY THE TICKET.
UH, I'M THE VICTIM OF THAT, SO I KNOW I'VE HAD TO PAY TICKET TOO.
AND THEY, THEY HAVE A COPY BEHIND THE, THE SWEEPER AND I GOT A TICKET FROM THE LA LADY.
AND ANY OTHER, YEAH, GO AHEAD.
UM, I WAS GONNA SAY, UM, HE HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU? UH, NO, NOT FOR SURE.
UH, I THINK, UH, COUNCILMAN, UH, LOPEZ VDO MENTIONED AN IMPORTANT THING.
SO DID THE COUNCIL GIVE DIRECTION TO NOT DO ALTERNATIVE SCHEDULING? OR, OR CITY STAFF JUST DIDN'T PRESENT IT? I MENTIONED TOO, I REMEMBER MENTIONING THAT THAT WAS A, A THING TO ME.
I, I, THAT ONE I WAS VERY CLEAR, LIKE ALTERNATIVE WAS A BIG THING FOR ME.
WE, UM, YOU DID BRING IT UP, MAYOR PROAM LOPEZ.
UM, WE DID INDICATE THAT TIME THAT THIS, THE COST WOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED TO DO THE ALTERNATING ON ALL STREET CITYWIDE.
UM, AND SO THE COUNCIL DID DIRECT STAFF TO GO AND, UH, DO ALTERNATIVE IN THE HIGHER DENSITY AREAS, AND THEN TO ALSO DO THE, UM, UH, THREE TIMEFRAMES INSTEAD OF THE TWO TO KIND OF REDUCE THE RESTRICTED HOURS WITHIN THE CERTAIN AREAS.
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HOW MUCH MORE? SO I BELIEVE WE WERE GONNA DO TWO TIME ZONES IN EACH, ON EACH DAY, AND WE BROKE IT DOWN TO THREE TIME ZONES PER DAY.UH, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I MEAN, HOW MUCH MORE IN THE CONTRACT WOULD IT HAVE BEEN TO DO A CITYWIDE ALTERNATIVE DAYS? I DON'T REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT I WILL NOW GET THAT INFORMATION AND SHARE IT WITH COUNCIL.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
SO WE COULD, UM, DETERMINE IF, IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S THE, UH, THE WAY WE'RE GONNA GO.
AND THEN, UH, I THINK WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT'S THE LEEWAY ON, ON THE REMAINING SIGNS, UH, BEFORE WE SPEND, BEFORE WE WASTE THE MONEY ON SIGNS THAT ARE, THAT ARE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA END UP CHANGING AGAIN,
SO I THINK IF THERE'S LEEWAY, IT, IT, WE SHOULD NOTIFY, UH, THE, THE MANUFACTURER TO, TO WAIT FOR DIRECTION KIND OF THING.
UM, AND I, AND I THINK AGAIN, UH, YEAH, IT JUST IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, ALSO, UM, MILAN MENTIONED THAT HE'S READY TO, UH, HAVE HIS PUBLIC SAFETY GO OUT THERE AND FOLLOW THOSE STREET CLEANERS.
SO, PAULINA, TOMORROW, ARE YOU GONNA BE NOTIFYING NATIONWIDE TO FOLLOW THE SCHEDULE OF THE SCIENCE? I WILL WORK WITH, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONWIDE.
ARE WE GOING TO MOVE ON? PLEASE.
OTHERWISE, WE'LL STAY HERE FOR A WHOLE NIGHT.
AND, UH, THIS IS JUST A WORK IN PROGRESS, OKAY? AND IT IS NOT GOING TO ACHIEVE IN ONE NIGHT.
I THINK WE CONTINUE TO FIND THE ISSUE.
WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE IT, WE CONTINUE INVITE OKAY.
AND COME BACK AND SEE HOW IT GOES.
AND, UH, THEY ALWAYS WILL HAVE SOME COMPLAINT FOR SURE.
OKAY? BUT WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO WORK TO SEE HOW WE CAN STILL DOING OUR JOB TO CLEAN WHAT WE PROMISED TO CLEAN THE STREET, CLEAN THE, CLEAN THE CITY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, LESS INTRUSION FOR PEOPLE.
THE, THE PARKING THIS ISSUE, BUT, OKAY.
IT IS JUST WHY WE HAVE TO WORK THE BALANCE, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, OKAY.
THAT WE JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON IT AND MAKE SURE IT HAPPEN.
I WANNA MOVE ON NEXT AGENDA, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH, ROBERT.
AND I SEE YOU NEXT TIME, MAYBE IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, WE'RE GONNA BRING YOU GUYS BACK TO SEE HOW IT OKAY.
AND THE, THE PROGRESS AND HOW MAYBE, AND THE, UH, PUBLIC OKAY.
SAFETY DIRECTOR TO GIVE US HOW THEIR PERFORMANCE.
AND HOW'S THE SIGNAGE? AND ROBERT CAN TELL THE SIGNAGE AND TRANSIT TELL THE OKAY.
EVERYTHING AND THE PUBLIC OKAY.
AND, UH, UH, AND, UH, NATIONWIDE, THE SWEEPER CAN TELL US, OKAY, THEY MAKE SOME CHANGE TO MAKE LESS INCONVENIENT FOR THE PEOPLE.
[8) LOCAL HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HSIP) OVERVIEW ]
UH, EIGHT.NUMBER EIGHT, RIGHT? NUMBER EIGHT, REGARDING THE HIGHWAY THING.
OKAY? NUMBER EIGHT, LOCAL HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
AND, UH, WHO'S GONNA PRESENT THIS AGENDA? THIS, UH, RECEIVED FILE? YES.
UH, MAYOR, UH, MICHAEL LLOYD, OUR CITY ENGINEER, WILL BE PROVIDING THE, UH, PRESENTATION.
GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR, MAYOR PERAM AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT AN UPDATE ON THE CITY'S HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, ALSO KNOWN AS HSIP PROJECTS.
THE PURPOSE OF THE HSIP GRANT PROGRAM IS TO ACHIEVE A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES ON ALL PUBLIC ROADS.
UH, APPLICANTS MUST BE A PUBLIC AGENCY.
UH, THE HSIP PROGRAM PROVIDES STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS TO ASSIST ON PROJECTS, WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE SAFETY OF ALL LOCAL ROADWAYS.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY, IN ORDER TO APPLY FOR HSIP FUNDS, AN AGENCY MUST HAVE A COMPLETED LOCAL ROADWAY SAFETY PLAN.
THE CITY WAS SUCCESSFUL IN THE CYCLE 12, OR EXCUSE ME, CYCLE 10 UPDATE.
THE CITY RECEIVED 3.1, APPROXIMATELY $3.1 MILLION OF STATE FUNDS.
THE PROJECT IS TO INSTALL VARIOUS TRAFFIC SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS, UH, FOR BOTH VEHICLE TRAFFIC AND PEDE PEDESTRIANS.
UH, THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE PROJECT, IT'S CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
UH, THE CONTRACTOR IS CONDUCTING POTHOLING TO FINALIZE, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNAL POLE LOCATIONS IN ORDER TO GET THOSE ITEMS ORDERED.
AND THE EXPECTED COMPLETION DATE IS LATE 2026.
AND, UH, CYCLE 10 INCLUDED 10 INTERSECTION LOCATIONS.
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UH, PRIOR TO THE HSIP CYCLE, 12 SUBMITTAL, THAT WAS LAST YEAR, UM, THE STATE REQUIRED LOCAL ROAD ROADWAY SAFETY PLANS, LSPS TO BE, UH, ADOPTED BY ALL THE LOCAL AGENCIES.THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ADOPTED THEIRS ON IN SEPTEMBER OF 2022.
UH, THE LRSP IS A PLANNING DOCUMENT THAT INCLUDES RECOMMENDATIONS OF VARIOUS COUNTERMEASURES TO ADDRESS DIFFERENT TYPES OF COLLISIONS.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY, UH, AND, AND AS I MENTIONED, AN ADOPTED LRSP IS REQUIRED TO BE ELIGIBLE IN ORDER TO SUBMIT FOR HSIP FUNDING.
SO BACKGROUND ON THE HSIP CYCLE 12, UM, RECENT CALL FOR PROJECTS, UM, THE CALL WENT OUT LAST YEAR.
ENGINEERING STAFF, UH, COLLECTED DATA AS WELL AS REVIEWED THE CYCLE 12 PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS, PUT TOGETHER ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION INTO AN APPLICATION.
THE APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 2024.
IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, 2025, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA WAS INFORMED THAT WE HAD A SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATION.
UM, IT IS A VERY COMPETITIVE GRANT.
UM, MANY AGENCIES PURSUE IT, UM, OVER THREE, UH, APPROXIMATELY 330 APPLICATIONS FROM 165 DIFFERENT, UH, LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCIES WERE PART OF THE CYCLE 12 PROCESS.
SO THIS SLIDE PROVIDES INFORMATION ON CYCLE 12, UH, THE CITY WAS AWARDED $4.7 MILLION OF FEDERAL FUNDING.
THE CITY NEEDS TO PROVIDE A MATCH OF, OF 10%, SO APPROXIMATELY A HALF A MILLION OR $500,000.
UM, THERE'S 60 LOCATIONS THAT INCLUDE VARIOUS PIECES OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL, HARDWARE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, UPDATES, AS WELL AS INSTALLING PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
FOUR IN FOUR LOCATIONS, WE'LL INCLUDE THOSE ITEMS AS WELL AS PROTECTED LEFT TURN PHASING.
UM, AND IT'S WORTH NOTING, UH, THE NOTE HERE AT THE BOTTOM, UH, LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SLIDE, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA WAS AWARDED THE 11TH HIGHEST AMOUNT OF FUNDS OUT OF THE 283 AGENCIES THAT WERE AWARDED.
THIS NEXT SLIDE JUST PROVIDES SOME BASIC INFORMATION THAT WAS PART OF THE GRANT APPLICATION.
UM, THE TOTAL PROJECT COST IS APPROXIMATELY $5.2 MILLION.
UM, AS I MENTIONED, THE, THE GRANT FUNDING IS APPROXIMATELY $4.7 MILLION.
THERE IS A, UM, A FUNDING REIMBURSEMENT RATIO, UM, PER THE PROGRAM, 90%.
SO THERE'S A 10% MATCH REQUIREMENT.
AND THEN, UH, JUST TO SHOW HOW COMPETITIVE, UH, THE GRANT PROCESS IS, UH, REALLY TO BE COMPETITIVE, YOU NEED A BENEFIT, UH, TO COST RATIO GREATER THAN 18.
SO, IN OTHER WORDS, UH, PER CALTRANS AND THE FHWA, THEY, UH, MONETIZE OR QUANTIFY, UH, PROJECTED BENEFITS BASED ON THE IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THEN, UH, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A COST ASSOCIATED WITH INSTALLING THEM, WHICH PROVIDES THE BENEFIT TO COST RATIO.
AGAIN, THE, THE GRANT SCOPE, UH, THERE'S THREE TYPES OF COUNTERMEASURES INCLUDED IN THE HSIP CYCLE 12 PROJECT.
THERE'S THE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE ACTUAL SIGNAL HARDWARE.
SO SUCH AS THE SIGNAL HEADS BEING REPLACED, THERE'S IN INSTALLATION OF THE PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL TIMING, UH, OFTEN REFERRED TO AS LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS THAT WILL ADJUST, UH, SIGNAL TIMING AT THE INTERSECTION TO PROVIDE, UH, A BETTER ENVIRONMENT FOR PEDE PEDESTRIANS TO CROSS THE STREET.
AND THEN, UM, AS I MENTIONED, THERE ARE FOUR INTERSECTIONS THAT INCLUDE THE PROTECTED LEFT TURN PHASING.
SO NEXT STEPS, UM, THIS, AS I MENTIONED, IS FEDERALLY FUNDED.
SO WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING WITH CALTRANS.
UH, THERE IS A PROCESS, UH, IN TERMS OF SUBMITTALS AND PAPERWORK AND SO FORTH.
SO, UM, FIRST OFF, WE, WE HAVE TO GET OUR PAPERWORK IN, IN ORDER TO RE RECEIVE AUTHORIZATION TO BEGIN DESIGN WORK.
SO THAT PAPERWORK WILL GO IN, UH, ONCE CALTRANS APPROVES, THAT STAFF WILL PREPARE, UH, AN RFP FOR
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THE PRELIMINARY ENGINE ENGINEERING OR THE DESIGN WORK.AND THE SELECTED, UH, CONSULTANT WILL BE APPROVED, OBVIOUSLY, BY CITY COUNCIL.
SO THAT, UM, AGREEMENT WOULD COME FOR YOUR REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
AFTER THE DESIGN PHASE IS COMPLETED, THEN STAFF WOULD COORDINATE WITH CALTRANS, UH, FOR CONSTRUCTION PHASE APPROVAL.
UPON RECEIVING THAT APPROVAL FROM CALTRANS STAFF WOULD SOLICIT CONSTRUCTION BIDS AND THE LOWEST RESPONSIVE RESPONSIBLE BID WOULD AGAIN, BE BROUGHT BACK TO CITY COUNCIL FOR ITS, UH, CONSIDERATION AND CONTRACT AWARD.
AND THEN, UH, UPON COMPLETION OF THAT STEP, THEN THE SELECTED CONTRACTOR COULD GO THROUGH THE SUBMITTAL PROCESS AND GET THE PROJECT UNDERWAY.
UH, SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TRAFFIC SIGNAL POLLS, THOSE ARE LONG LEAD ITEMS. TYPICALLY, THEY TAKE ABOUT FIVE TO SIX MONTHS FOR DELIVERY UPON, UH, ORDERING.
SO THIS IS WHY THESE TYPES OF SIGNAL PROJECTS TEND TO TAKE LONGER TO GET DONE.
THIS NEXT SLIDE PROVIDES AN, PROVIDES BOTH CYCLE 10 AND CYCLE 12.
SO THE RED CIRCLES SHOW THE 10 INTERSECTION LOCATIONS PART OF CYCLE 10.
AND THEN THE, THE GREEN CIRCLES SHOW THE 64 INTERSECTIONS, UH, THAT WERE PART OF CYCLE 12 IN TOTAL FOR THE TWO CYCLES.
74 INTERSECTIONS ACROSS THE CITY, UH, WILL BE RECEIVING THE IDENTIFIED IMPROVEMENTS.
SO THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
AND, UH, ANY COUNCIL MEMBER HAVE A QUESTION? OKAY.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIEREZ? YES.
UM, SO FOR THESE, UH, THIS, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I MENTIONED, UH, BEFORE I KNOW TO TRANSTECH AND UM, AND TO MELISSA WAS, UH, THE NEED TO YES, UH, THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX WHEN IT COMES TO MODERN TECHNOLOGY.
AND, AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, I, I SEE THAT, UH, I SEE YOU DO HAVE SOME OF THE, THE, THE THINGS I RECOMMENDED, LIKE, UH, TRAVERSE RUMBLE STRIPS, THOSE ARE GREAT IDEAS.
THE, THE FLASHING LED STOP SIGNS THAT ILLUMINATE IN THE MIDDLE TOO.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WILL BE NEW IN OUR STREETS, THAT, THAT WILL BE INSTRUMENTAL.
AND I THINK FOR A LOT OF OUR, UM, SCHOOL SECTIONS, UH, A LOT OF THESE AREAS, I, I THINK SOMETHING ELSE WHERE WE CAN LOOK THAT TRANSECT COULD LOOK AT WHERE ALL THIS FUNDING THAT YOU GUYS SECURED US IS, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO MAYBE PUT THE, THE FLASHING YELLOW THINGS THAT GO ON THE GROUND FOR THE SCHOOL CROSS ROCKS AREAS.
AND THEN I THINK, UM, WERE YOU ON THAT ONE EMAIL? WHERE ABOUT THE, UH, SPEED SIGN OR I THINK, UM, I THINK, UM, I THINK, UH, WHERE, WHERE'S JANE JAYNA? ALRIGHT, JAYNA, WAS, GINA'S GONNA FORWARD IT TO YOU,
SO IT'S A LITTLE, IT'S A LITTLE BIGGER AND WIDER AND IT, IT GETS THE ATTENTION OF, UH, I THINK, UM, JANE, I COULD, UH, COMMENT ON WHAT, WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO, RIGHT? THE NEXT PRESENTATION IS MINE.
SO WE GO OVER SOME OF YOUR IDEAS.
NOW YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT HSIP IS HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
SO THIS IS WHERE WE DO A LOT OF THE SIGNALS.
THE A TP IS WHERE WE DO THE SCHOOL CROSSWALKS AND ALL OF THE, UM, THE FLASHING SIGNS, YOUR SPEED SIGNS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, IT'S NUMBER NINE.
SO THE THEN NUMBER NINE, RIGHT? WHAT WAS THAT? THE ONE HE'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT IS NUMBER NINE.
THE NEXT, NEXT ITEM THEN WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, SO NOW WE TALK ABOUT THE, THE FREE WEIGHT.
SO PRETTY MUCH ONCE YOU GET THE GRANT, YOU HAVE TO STICK WITH WHAT WE WENT FOR.
THIS IS THE GRANT WE ARE GOING TO USE IN THE COUNTER, RIGHT.
FOR, UH, ARE THESE FOR THE MAJOR INTERSECTIONS? YES.
SO YEAH, IN THIS CASE IT'S PRETTY INVOLVED TO GET INTO THE GRANT, BUT YOU TRY, YOU ONLY USED THREE COUNTERMEASURES.
AND THE COUNTERMEASURES ARE ALL FROM THE LOCAL SAFETY MANUAL.
AND YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE COUNTER MEASURES AND SEE WHAT APPLIES.
AND IT HAS TO APPLY TO EVERYTHING YOU'RE RECOMMENDING.
SO YOU ONLY GET THREE AND IT HAS TO APPLY TO EVERYTHING.
SO WHEN YOU'RE COMPETING, 'CAUSE THERE WAS OVER 400 APPLICATIONS, 'CAUSE EVERY CITY WANTS THE MONEY, THE GRANT TO DO AT LEAST SOMETHING.
UM, YOU KIND OF HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT IS, LIKE MICHAEL SAID, THE LOWER RATE, THE BE OVERSEE COST RATIO.
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SO YOU KIND OF HAVE TO JUGGLE A LITTLE BIT TRYING TO GET A HIGH COST RATIO.SO UNFORTUNATELY, I MEAN THIS IS, YEAH.
THE BEST WE COULD DO FOR THIS ONE TO KEEP 18 OR HIGHER CO BENEFIT COST.
SO I, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I MENTIONED TO, UH, OUR PUBLIC WORKS, UH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR WAS
I, I THINK THE ONES THAT HAVE A TINT, KIND OF LIKE A TINT TO IT.
SO IF YOU'RE ON THIS SIDE MM-HMM
THAT'S, THAT'S JUST AN ACCIDENT RATING TO HAPPEN.
'CAUSE THIS ONE, IT HAS SOME OF THE, THE 60 HAS SOME SIGNAL HEAD IMPROVEMENT.
SO YOU'LL SEE THE YELLOW OUTLINE, WHICH YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF CITIES ARE STARTING TO DO ALL THEIR SIGNALS.
AND CALTRANS ESPECIALLY, THEY WERE THE LEADER.
SO IF YOU DRIVE BY ANY RAMP, THEY HAVE THOSE YELLOW THINGS SO THAT AT NIGHT YOUR HEADLIGHT GOES AND SOME OF 'EM HAVE THOSE, SOME OF THE SIGNALS WILL BE UPDATED 'CAUSE THEY HAVE THE SMALL BALL ON THOSE SIGNAL HEADS.
WHAT, WHAT, SO THEY NEED TO BE UPDATED TO THE LARGER YEAH.
'CAUSE I, I KNOW SOME OF THEM HAVE, UH, I THINK THEY'VE BEEN, THEY'VE BEEN JUST RECENTLY BEEN PUT OUT, BUT THERE'S LIKE, IF YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE STREET, YOU CAN'T SEE, YOU CAN'T SEE THE LIGHT.
AND IT'S KIND OF A, AN OLDER YEAH.
THING THAT EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, BUT NOW THEY'RE CHANGING.
I REMEMBER AT ONE POINT IT WAS LIKE THE, THAT WAS THE NEW BEST PRODUCT.
OTHERWISE YOU GOT GOOD TALK FOREVER.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN ALLIE KENTO, GO AHEAD.
UM, WITHIN CYCLE 12, UM, AM I CORRECT IN REMEMBERING THAT AMAR AND WESTPORT MICHAEL IS ONE OF THE INTERSECTIONS? I AM JUST TRYING TO REMEMBER.
I THOUGHT IT WAS, BUT, UH, YOU ARE CORRECT.
COUNCILMAN CONTOS, IT IS ONE OF THE INTERSECTIONS THAT WILL BE, UH, THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE GRANT.
AND, AND CAN BE BECAUSE THAT PARTICULAR INTERSECTION HAS RECEIVED SO MUCH ATTENTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENCE.
I KNOW THERE'S A, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER INTERSECTIONS IN THERE, BUT CAN YOU PLEASE DESCRIBE WHAT ARE THE CHANGES THAT ARE GOING TO BE PUT INTO PLACE AND APPROXIMATELY BY WHEN? SO, YES, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, SO THIS PARTICULAR, UH, INTERSECTION, MR. AND WEST POINT WILL INCLUDE NEW SIGNAL, UH, EQUIPMENT, UH, THE SIGNAL HEADS, AS WELL AS WHAT'S CALLED LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS.
SO THERE'LL BE SOME SIGNAL, PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL TIMING ADJUSTMENTS, AND THEN THERE WILL BE THE PROTECTED LEFT TURN PHASING.
SO THERE WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL SIGNAL HEADS INSTALLED OUT THERE TO PROVIDE PROTECTED LEFT TURN, UM, MOVEMENTS.
UM, IN TERMS OF TIMING, UH, WHERE WE JUST RECEIVED, UH, NOTICE FROM CALTRANS THAT WE WERE SUCCESSFUL ON THE GRANT APPLICATION.
SO THERE IS A LENGTHY PROCESS, UM, UNFORTUNATELY JUST GIVEN DUE TO ALL THE SUBMITTALS AND PAPERWORKS AND APPROVALS AND SO FORTH.
SO, I, I HONESTLY, UM, I DON'T WANNA OVER PROMISE ANYTHING TO COUNSEL, BUT THE, THE REALITY IS BEFORE WE SEE CONSTRUCTION ON THIS, MOST LIKELY WE'RE LOOKING AT AN 18 TO 20 MORE, A 24 MONTH PROCESS TO GET THROUGH ALL THE APPROVALS.
UH, BEFORE, BEFORE I GIVE TO YOU.
I HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING THE SYNCHRONIZATION.
A SEPARATE OF THIS, RIGHT? OKAY.
IP THIS ON THAT, BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE, UH, BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS CUT DOWN EVERYTHING, TAKE THE MONEY BACK, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE CAN STILL HAVE THE MONEY WE NEED TO IMPROVE OUR SUICIDE REVENUE.
AND SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING THAT RFP OUT SO THAT WE CAN GET THE DESIGN WORK DONE AND GET IT UNDER CONTRACT TO GET THE SIGNAL TIMINGS ADJUSTED ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
AND INCLUDING A DA COMPLIANCE THAT IS NOT ONLY FOR A SINGLE NINE THAT IS CORRECT.
A DA COMPLIANCE TOO, MEANING THEY HAVE AN DO, DO, DO, DO SOME KIND OF, UH, THAT OKAY.
EVEN TO THAT PEOPLE CAN SAFELY CROSS.
BECAUSE IT'S, UH, SUICIDE IS VERY BUSY, BUSY STREET.
AND, UH, WE WANNA MAKE SURE PEOPLE CAN CROSS SAFELY AND, UH, WITH, UH, SYNCHRONIZATION AND PEOPLE DRIVING CERTIFIED MILES, THEY CAN GO ALL GREEN LIGHT AND, UH, INCLUDING THE FOUR HILLEL TRANSIT, INCLUDING THEIR DEVICE.
SO I THINK THIS SCENE INCLUDING ALL THIS, OKAY.
AND THE CALTRAN, THE HIGHWAY, OKAY.
TRAFFIC SCENE, EVERYTHING WE ALL COMBINE, UH, AND WE NEED TO GET THIS DONE.
A SAP P BEFORE ANYTHING HAPPENED FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
SO, UH, PAULINA, WHEN ARE, ARE YOU GONNA, WHEN ARE YOU GONNA BE POSTING THAT? RFP? WHICH ONE? THE $7 MILLION ONE.
OH, THE IZATION AND A DA HAVE YOU SENT OUT YET? UH OH.
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ARE DRAFTING IT AND PUTTING IT TOGETHER SO THAT WE CAN, UH, POST IT.SO THIS WOULD BE FOR THE DESIGN OF THE PROJECT.
THE NEXT ONE WOULD BE THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR.
THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR, YOU'RE GONNA POST IT THE ONE FOR DESIGN THIS YEAR, WE ARE ON A TIME CRUNCH BECAUSE THE FUNDING HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO CALTRANS WHO ADMINISTERS THE FEDERAL GRANT.
AND SO THERE IS A TIMEFRAME THAT WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY AN ORDER TO, SO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO THE DESIGN PERIOD AND THEN AWARD A CONTRACTOR.
WE HAVE TO GO OUT FOR BID FOR THE DESIGN OF THE PROJECT.
AND THEN I SUGGEST BEFORE YOU LOSE YOUR $7 MILLION THAT YOU START, THAT YOU, YOU MINIMIZE THE POSTING TO THE REQUIRED, THAT'S REQUIRED BY LAW TO THE MINIMUM TIME POSSIBLE.
AND YOU START THIS PROCESS BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA END UP LOSING $7 MILLION.
AND THE FIRST THING WE WANT TO MAKE SURE CALTRAN HAS $7 MILLION THAT WE ARE STILL HAVE THE MONEY.
AND THE SECOND THING WE ARE GOING TO SHOW THEM, WE ALREADY SEND OUT THE IP.
AND WHO IS DOING THIS? IP IS CAL IS, UH, OKAY.
SO TRANSTECH WILL BE WORKING ON THE DRAFT AND IT WILL BE ROUTED INTERNALLY HOW SOON YOU CAN, I'M SORRY? HOW SOON YOU CAN GET A DRAFT TO THE CITY SO WE CAN ATTORNEY.
SO WE NEED TO GET THIS THING ROLLING BECAUSE OUR EXPIRATION DATE IS NEXT YEAR.
AND THEN WE DON'T WANNA MISS THE $7 MILLION BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CURRENTLY, THEY TAKE THE MONEY BACK LIKE NO TOMORROW.
SO WE WANT TO FINALLY, WE GET THE $7 MILLION TO FIX OUR SUSE.
WE DO NOT WANT TO MISS THAT MONEY BECAUSE WE ARE WHERE THE DEADLINE AND WE ARE GONNA BE WORKING ON GETTING THAT RF.
ALSO, WE CAN GET A DRAFT, SO WE CAN ROUTE THAT TO WITHIN THE CITY THIS WEEK FOR REVIEW.
SO THIS WEEK REVIEW AND, UH, WHEN YOU SEND TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, YOU'RE GOING TO REVIEW IT, RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO HOW SOON YOU CAN SEND IT OUT SO WE CAN SEND RP.
SO IN THAT WAY WE CAN EVERYTHING ROLLING.
SO WE DON'T MISS THE MONEY, WE DON'T MISS THE BAR.
'CAUSE BECAUSE THE DESIGN PERIOD'S GONNA, IT'S GONNA BE, UH, IT'S GONNA TAKE MAJOR WORK.
SO, UH, WE NEED TO START THE DESIGNING PROCESS FAST BECAUSE INCORPORATING THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON.
INCORPORATING A DA ACCESSIBILITY INTO THE SUSE AVENUE CORRIDOR IS A, IS A BIG PROJECT TO OVER OVERTAKE AND, AND MAKING SURE, UH, THE SECRETIZATION HAPPENS, BUT ALSO A DA COMPLIANCE, UH, THROUGHOUT SUSE AVENUE, IT'S GONNA BE A MAJOR IMPROVEMENT AND A WAGE, A MAJOR WIN, UH, FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND, AND WHO NEED, UH, THAT IMPROVEMENT? AGREE.
I THINK THIS IS, UH, YOU CAN SEE HOW URGENCY OKAY.
AND BECAUSE THIS WHY WE ALREADY HAVE FUNDING.
SO MEANING THE MONEY'S ALREADY THERE, YOU GUYS JUST HAVE TO GET A DESIGN SUSPENDED.
SO WE CAN IMPROVE OUR ZU AVENUE WITH SYNCHRONIZATION AND, UH, A DA COMPLIANCE TO LET PEOPLE TO BE SAFELY DRIVING AND SAFELY CROSS.
ANY OTHER, OTHER QUESTION? YEAH, GO AHEAD.
SO, UH, TRANSECT, UH, US IN WRITING THE RFP? YES.
AND THEN DOES TRANSTECH PARTICIPATE IN SELECTING THE RFP, THE APPLICANT? NO, WE PREPARE THE DOCUMENT, BUT WE'RE NOT, GENERALLY SPEAKING, NOT PART OF THE SELECTION PROCESS.
THE QUESTION IS THAT, WHO IS THE C ACCOUNTABILITY QUESTION? WHO IS THE SELECTING COMMITTEES? ROBERT? OUR CITY STAFF.
DO YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD.
OH, I WAS GONNA SAY IT IS CITY STAFF THAT REVIEWS THE PROPOSALS THAT WE RECEIVED THROUGH A BID.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WE BRING IT TO CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION.
AND, AND I'LL JUST LEAVE OFF AGAIN BY SAYING, UH, THE DESIGN PROCESS FOR A SUSAN AVENUE CORRIDOR IS GONNA BE A MAJOR ON TAKE.
SO, UH, WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO REALLY FOCUS ON THAT.
WE NEED TO, UH, AND, AND, AND THE DESIGNER PRIORITIZE THAT BECAUSE, UH, YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
AND WHEN IS, DO WE KNOW THE EXPIRATION DATE ON THAT? 2096? I THINK SO.
JULY OR SOMETHING? JANUARY OF 2026.
WE DO HAVE THE TIMEFRAME FOR THE GRANT.
I DON'T REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT WE ARE VERY AWARE OF THE DEADLINE THAT WE HAVE TO MEET IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THAT FUNDING.
YOU ONLY HAVE A FEW MONTHS LEFT.
THAT'S HOW, OH, COUNCIL MEMBER.
I THINK THEY ALREADY KNOW THE URGENCY.
CHANCE STATE WILL GIVE THE DRAFT.
AND THEN WE WILL GIVE THE CITY ATTORNEY TO CITY ATTORNEY TOM
SO YOU CAN GO INTO, REVIEW IT QUICKLY AND SEND OUT TO CT AND, UH, AND THEN WE SEND OUT THE IP.
AND THEN WHEN YOU GET IP, PLEASE REVIEW IT QUICKLY AND GIVE A RECOMMENDATION.
WE NEED TO IMPROVE OUR
WHAT'S THE STATUS ON, UH, VINCENT AND ENTENTE? UH, TRANSECT,
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I KNOW LAST TIME I SPOKE TO THEM, I THINK THEY TOLD ME IT WAS GONNA TAKE SIX MONTHS.I THINK WE'RE ON APRIL NOW, SO I THINK THEY'RE, I THINK THEY WERE EXPECTED TO BE DONE IN TWO MONTHS, POTENTIALLY.
SO COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, THE INTERSECTION YOU REFERENCED IS PART OF CYCLE 10.
SO THE CONTRACTOR'S CURRENTLY WRAPPING UP THE POTHOLING EFFORTS TO GET THE EQUIPMENT ORDERED.
THAT'S A FIVE TO SIX MONTH PROCESS TO GET THAT, TO RECEIVE THAT TRAFFIC, SIGNAL, POLES, EQUIPMENT.
SO THAT'S ABOUT WHERE WE'RE AT, PROBABLY GIVEN WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY, PROBABLY SEVEN MONTHS BEFORE WE, AGAIN, SIX, SEVEN MONTHS MORE.
I SPOKE TO THEM IN JANUARY, THE CONTRACTOR, AND THE CONTRACTOR SAID THEY WERE LOOKING AT SIX MONTHS BACK IN JANUARY.
WE'RE NEVER GONNA GET IT DONE.
I GUESS
AND THEN THE CONTRACTOR ALSO TOLD ME THAT SOME CITIES DON'T REQUIRE, UH, TESTING OR, OR WHAT'S THE POTHOLE? THE POTHOLE IS A SOIL SAMPLING.
OR SOMETHING POT HAULING IS DONE IN ORDER TO DETERMINE IF THERE'S ANY UTILITY CONFLICTS WHERE THE PROPOSED POLE IS GOING TO BE LOCATED.
WE, THE LAST THING WE WANTED TO DO, THEY HAD SAID DRILLING A HOLE WITH A UTILITY THERE.
SO WE HAVE SOME EXISTING, UH, UH, POLES WHERE THEY'RE AT.
SO WHEN IT, WHEN IT, THEY COULDN'T USE THE SAME EXISTING LOCATIONS THAT WOULD COME DOWN TO THE DESIGN ENGINEER'S RECOMMENDATION ON WHETHER TO REUSE A LOCATION.
'CAUSE THEY WERE, THEY WERE KIND OF BLAMING YOU GUYS.
SO YOU GUYS PUT THE RESTRICTION ON THEM.
I'M SORRY? AND, AND, UH, COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER.
AND, UH, THEY ALL BLAME EACH OTHER.
AND SINCE I BUILD HOUSES, THEY ALL, EVERYBODY BLAME EACH OTHER.
SO, BUT HERE'S THE POINT, AND I THINK YOU CAN SEE THE URGENCY.
AND, UH, WE'VE BEEN REQUESTING THAT THING TO BE INSTALLED, SO PLEASE OKAY.
ASAP BECAUSE I THINK WE ALREADY GOT THE FUNDING AND THEN WE ALREADY APPROVE AND NOT JUST IMPLEMENT AND, UH, WITH, UH, OKAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER REQUEST, HE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THING CAN BE IMPLEMENTED SO PEOPLE, UH, WON'T HAVE ACCIDENT OVER THERE.
I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROJECT, WHEN IT BECAME, CAME BEFORE YOU, I BELIEVE IN FALL, I DON'T REMEMBER THE ACTUAL MONTH, BUT WE DID, UH, INDICATE THAT WE WERE GOING TO PRIORITIZE THAT INTERSECTION.
THAT WAS GONNA BE THE FIRST INTERSECTION THAT WAS GONNA BE COMPLETED AS PART OF HS YEAH.
SO NOW, NOW WE'RE A YEAR OUT MORE NOW, SO, OKAY.
I, I THINK NOTHING WENT OUT ALL THE WAY.
WE WILL ARGUE ALL NIGHT AND, UH, I'M NOT ARGUING.
AND, UH, AND THERE'S, OKAY, SO, SO BECAUSE SAFETY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ALL THE COUNCIL AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO COUNCIL MEMBER MATERIAL BECAUSE HE BEEN GOSPEL ABOUT THE INTERSECTION AND I HEARD MANY, MANY TIMES.
AND, UH, HE REALLY CARE ABOUT THAT.
PRIORITIZE, LET THIN, SINCE WE HAVE EVERYTHING, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? YEAH, GO AHEAD.
SO, UH, SO LIKE I WAS SAYING, UH, IF THERE'S REQUIREMENTS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO IMPOSE ON THESE INTER ON THESE, ON THESE ADDITIONAL CONTRACTORS, THEN WE SHOULD FIND A WAY NOT TO IMPOSE IT ON THEM.
UH, IF WE NEED TO UPDATE THE CODE, THEN UH, WE WILL LOVE TO HAVE TRANSTECH RECOMMEND THAT TO US TO MAYBE A CASE BY CASE BASIS.
UH, TRANSTECH COULD DETERMINE IF, IF, IF THAT IS NECESSARY FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS.
UH, THAT WAS JUST MY EMPHASIS.
AND THEN IF YOU COULD ALSO FOLLOW UP WITH, UH, THE CONTRACTOR TO GET A, UH, A FINAL ESTIMATE ON WHEN THEY EXPECT TO INSTALL.
UH, SO EXPECT, WHEN DO THEY EXPECT TO START INSTALLING THOSE POLES.
[9) WHATS NEW IN TRAFFIC — TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND GUIDELINES ]
ON, ON THE ITEM, ITEM NUMBER NINE.AND REGARDING WHAT NEW IN TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE AND THE GUIDELINE.
WHO'S GOING TO REPRESENT THIS? OKAY, AND PRESENT THIS, THE LAST ITEM, UH, MICHAEL WILL, OH, WHO WILL BE JANA.
WE'LL BE PROVIDING THE PRESENTATION.
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GO AHEAD PLEASE.MICROPHONE, MIC, MIKE, PLEASE.
AT THE REQUEST OF COUNSEL, A LAST MEETING, I'M GOING TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE TO SOME OF THE NEW TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, AS WELL AS SOME NEW GUIDELINES AND LAWS THAT APPLY TO WHAT WE CAN PUT ON CITY STREETS AS STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
UH, JUST AS AN OVERVIEW, THERE IS NEW TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, UM, HOW TO MAKE A CITIZEN REQUEST AND NEW STATE LAWS.
THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, UM, DECIDED THAT ALL TRAFFIC CONTROL PUT ON PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS SHOULD HAVE A UNIFORM OR STANDARD MEANING, SO THAT DRIVERS WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE, INTERPRET TRAFFIC CONTROL WHEREVER THEY'RE DRIVING.
SO EACH STATE IS ALSO ABLE TO ADOPT STANDARDS THAT WOULD BE MORE APPLICABLE TO THEIR STATE.
IN THIS CASE, CALIFORNIA HAS THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D.
THERE ARE SIGNS IN OTHER STATES YOU'LL NOTICE, AND THEY ARE GUIDED BY A NATIONAL M-U-T-C-D.
SO, BUT FOR CALIFORNIA, WE FOLLOW THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D AS WELL AS THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE.
SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND TRAFFIC CALMING TOOLS? TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES ARE LIKE STOP SIGNS, SPEED LIMIT SIGNS, AND THESE REQUIRE ENFORCEMENT TO FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY.
WHEREAS TRAFFIC CALMING TOOLS ARE SELF-ENFORCING.
UM, THEY TRY TO REDUCE SPEED AND VOLUME WITHOUT THE NEED FOR ENFORCEMENT.
THE NEXT SLIDE IS PUTTING, THIS IS A TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE.
SO, BUT IT INCREASES THE VISIT VISIBILITY FOR RESIDENTS, FOR DRIVERS IS PUTTING IN THE LARGER STOP SIGNS.
THEY HAVE 36 BY 36 INCH, UM, ADDING THE RED REFLECTIVE STRIP TO THE SIGNPOST.
AND THEN AS COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ HAS, UM, RECOMMENDED IS THE FLASHING LED STOP SIGNS ON THE RIGHT ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN PUTTING.
BUT ON THE, THE SINGLE ONE ON THE LEFT IS THE LED LIGHTS THAT ARE IN THE STOP AS WELL AS THE PERIMETER.
SO WE TRY TO, UM, PLACE THESE NOT WELL SOMEWHAT SPARINGLY, BECAUSE IF OVERUSE, THEY KINDA LOSE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IF EVERY, UM, STOP SIGN HAD IT.
UM, THE NEXT SLIDE IS A TRAFFIC CALMING TOOL, WHICH IS THE STRIPING OF WHITE EDGE LINES, OR WE CALL 'EM THE SIDE STRIPES.
IT SERVES TO NARROW THE ROADWAY VISUALLY TENDING TO WHEN WE NARROW THE ROADWAY MOTORS FEEL, THEY GO THAT THE, IT'S TIGHTER TO DRIVE.
THE NEXT ONE IS A TRAFFIC CONTROL MEASURE AS WELL AS A TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE, A TRAFFIC CALMING AND TRAFFIC CONTROL.
THE ELECTRONIC SPEED FEEDBACK SIGNS WHERE YOU SEE THE, YOUR SPEED.
UM, NORMALLY WHEN WE PLACE THE, YOUR SPEED BACK SIGNS, THEY MATCH THE COLOR OF THE, IN THE SPEED LIMIT.
SO IN THIS CASE, WE HAVE THE WHITE REGULATORY SPEED LIMIT, AND THEN WE HAVE THE WHITE, YOUR SPEED SIGN.
NOW, IN SOME CASES, WE PUT THEM NEAR CURVES OR BY AN ADVISORY SPEED LIMIT, AND THOSE ARE USUALLY YELLOW, AND YOUR SPEED IS USUALLY PLACED BELOW THE SPEED LIMIT THAT YOU WANT THEM TO FOLLOW, BECAUSE IT KIND OF REINFORCES THE SPEED.
THE NEXT ONE IS TRAFFIC CONTROL, UM, DEVICE.
IT IS THE FLASHING BEACON OR THE REC RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BEACONS.
WE HAVE NOW A FEW OF THE, QUITE A FEW OF THESE IN THE CITY, AND THERE WILL BE MORE WHEN THE A TP IS FINISHED.
THIS IS THE, THE PEDESTRIAN SIGN, WHETHER IT'S A SCHOOL OR PEDESTRIAN AS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE.
AND THEN IT HAS A, THE R-F-R-R-F-B, WHICH IS A RAPID FLASHING
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BEACON, AND THEN THE DOWNWARD ARROW.THEN WE ALSO NOW, UM, TO ADD VISIBILITY.
WE WOULD DO THIS AS A DOUBLE-SIDED SIGN SO THAT IF SOMEONE'S PARKING OR IN YOUR SECOND LANE, YOU WOULD STILL SEE WHERE PEDESTRIANS ARE CROSSING.
I KNOW, UM, INROAD LIGHTS IS ANOTHER DEVICE FOR TRAFFIC, FOR TRAFFIC CALMING.
NOW, THESE ARE ONLY PLACED AT MARKED CROSSWALKS.
UM, THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT INSTALLED AT YIELD STOP OR SIGNAL CONTROL.
AND THEY DO HAVE WHAT'S CALLED WARRANTS FOUND IN THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D FOR PLACEMENT OF THESE.
UM, WE HAVEN'T PLACED ANY IN THE CITY, RIGHT, AS OF RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE IN THE PAST IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT THESE ARE A LITTLE HARDER FOR MAINTENANCE BECAUSE OF THE, THEY TAKE A LOT OF ABUSE BECAUSE CARS RUN OVER THE LIGHTS, AND THEN IF ONE LIGHT IS OUT OF OUT, YOU CAN'T, IN SOME CASES, YOU HAVE TO REPLACE ALL OF THE LIGHTS.
SO NOW THEY'VE COMING OUT WITH SOME NEW TECHNOLOGY, WHICH HAS CHANGED A LITTLE BIT IN THE PAST, THE BATTERIES DIDN'T LAST AS LONG AS THE RFB, SO WE TENDED TO, UM, LOOK AT THE RFB INSTEAD OF THE INROAD LIGHTS.
THE NEXT ONE IS HAWK OR OVERHEAD PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL.
AND THIS IS, UM, A TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE BECAUSE IT HAS WARRANTS OR CRITERIA FOUND IN THE MUT CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D ON THE NUMBER OF PEDESTRIANS ON THESE, THESE ARE A HIGH TICKET ITEMS. SO USUALLY YOU WANT TO HAVE, ON A MAJOR STREET, YOU NEED 20 PEDESTRIANS PER HOUR FOR A COUPLE HOURS, 35 MILES PER HOUR, MORE WITH MINIMUM TRAFFIC VOLUMES.
AND YOU LOOK AT THE WIDTH OF THE STREET AND THE GAPS IN TRAFFIC FOR CROSSING FOR PEDESTRIANS.
NEXT ONE IS A NEW ONE IS THE TRANSVERSE RUMMEL STRIPS OR DOT BOTS.
UM, THESE ARE ALSO IN, IN A, A, AN APPROVED DEVICE IN THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D.
UM, YOU RUN OVER THESE AND IT HAS THAT HUM HUM THUMP SOUND.
SOMETIMES ON FREEWAYS, YOU'LL SEE IT ON THE, YOU KNOW, ON THE EDGE LINES.
IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OUT OF YOUR LANE, IT'LL, IT'LL RUMBLE.
SO THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO IT.
THERE'S THE PAINT THAT HAS LITTLE, UH, GLA NOT GLASS, BUT THESE CRYSTALS OR WHATEVER IN IT.
SO WHEN YOU RUN IT OVER, IT PROVIDES THE RUMBLE SOUND OR THERE'S A RUBBER, UM, FOR THE STRIPS, OR THEY'RE ALSO, AND YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN DOTS ON, I KNOW CORTEZ HAS SOME OLDER DOTS, THE
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS WAY IS GOOD THAT, UM, THESE ARE STRONGER, BUT YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER WHEN YOU HAVE PAVEMENT, WHEN YOU DO THE PAVEMENT, UH, REHAB, YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THEM AND THEN REPLACE 'EM.
THERE'S ALSO, UM, IN THE LEGENDS, YOU COULD PLACE THE KIND OF RUMBLE STRIPS OR DOTS OUTLINING IT AS WELL.
THEN WE HAVE THE SPEED HUMPS OR CUSHIONS.
AND THIS IS A TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE.
UM, THEY'RE NOT CONSIDERED A TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE SINCE THEY ARE A PHYSICAL FEATURE.
AND THE TRAFFIC DEVICE, THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D DOES NOT ADDRESS SPECIFIC DESI DESIGNS SUCH AS HEIGHT, WIDTH, OR SPACING.
NOW, THERE'S SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPEED HUMPS.
SPEED HUMPS ARE THE RUNS YOU SEE ALL THE TIME.
IT GOES ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE STREET.
UM, THE HEIGHT IS, YOU KNOW, TWO TO THREE INCHES HIGH WIDTH.
AND THEN YOU USUALLY PUT THE, UM, PAINT AS SHOWN.
IT'S LIKE A V AND THEN INVERTED V AND THEN YOU ALSO POST IT WITH SIGNS.
THEN THERE'S THE SPEED CUSHION, UM, WHICH ALLOWS THE FIRE TRUCKS TO GO AROUND THE SPEED HUMP.
SO THEY, THEY'RE WIDE ENOUGH BASE THAT THEY, UM, THE SPEED HUMP IS IN THE MIDDLE.
THE WHEELS ARE ON EITHER SIDE.
THE CITY DOES HAVE ITS, UH, SPEED HUMP GUIDELINES, AND THERE IS CRITERIA THAT MUST BE MET, MET BEFORE.
IT'S USUALLY PLACED ON A LOCAL STREET.
IT HAS NO MORE THAN A 25 MILE PER HOUR POSTED SPEED.
THE STREET WIDTH IS 40 FEET OR LESS.
THERE'S ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION, AND USUALLY HAS, OR AT LEAST THE GUIDELINES, HAS A MINIMUM, MINIMUM, UM, NUMBER OF VEHICLES AT 500 TO 3000 VEHICLES PER DAY.
AND THEN IT ALSO HAS ANOTHER COMMUNITY, UM, FUNCTION.
IS THAT IT, IT ASKS FOR A PETITION FROM THE
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RESIDENTS WHO LIVE ON THAT STREET, THAT 75% OF THOSE RESIDENTS ON THE STREET THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT SPEED HUMPS ARE IN AGREEMENT FOR SPEED HUMPS BECAUSE THERE IS IMPACT.'CAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THE THUMP, THUMP 24 7 AND IT'S FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE.
YOU CAN'T PUT 'EM NEXT TO A, UM, STOP SIGN, A SIGNAL.
AND USUALLY THERE'S A COUPLE SETS, DEPENDING ON HOW WIDE THE STREET IT OR HOW, HOW LONG THE STREET SEGMENT IS.
THE NEXT ONE, I JUST, WE JUST WANTED TO PUT IN HERE THAT THIS IS HOW CITIZENS CAN MAKE REQUESTS.
SO THEY WOULD FILL OUT A CITIZEN REQUEST, WHICH IS FOUND ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, FILL THAT OUT, AND THEN WE SEND IT IN WHAT YOUR COMPLAINT IS, WHAT YOUR CONCERN IS, AND THEN WE WOULD ANSWER THAT AND GET BACK TO YOU ON WHAT, WHAT CAN BE DONE.
SO WE HAD, WE KEEP A DETAILED LOG OF ALL THE REQUESTS THAT ARE COMING IN AND WHEN WE, UM, RESPONDED TO THE RESIDENT AND WHAT RESPONDED.
SO HERE'S JUST A, A LITTLE THING HOW TO FIND THE REQUEST.
YOU GO TO DEPARTMENTS, THEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, ENGINEERING DIVISION, AND THEN WE'LL POP UP.
IT'LL HAVE, UM, TRAFFIC CALMING RELATED REQUESTS, AND THEN IT HAS THE FORM THAT I SHOWED YOU.
AND THEN ALSO IT HAS LIKE, GUIDELINES FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF, UM, REQUESTS.
SO YOU CAN LOOK AT LIKE CROSSWALKS, CROSSWALKS, CURB MARKINGS, SCHOOL CROSSING GUARDS, SPEED HUMPS, STOP SIGNS, TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
SO THERE'S A BROCHURE WE CALL IT ON THE WEB SO THAT YOU CAN LOOK AND SEE IF, UM, YOU ARE REQUESTING SOMETHING THAT CAN BE INSTALLED.
SO THE STEPS, ONCE WE RECEIVE YOUR FORM, THEN WE LOOK AT AN PROVIDE AN ADMIN REVIEW.
WE LOOK AT THE SEGMENT IN QUESTION.
WE LOOK AT THREE YEARS OF COLLISIONS TO DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, THE ELIGIBILITY OF THE STREET FOR FURTHER STUDY OR WHAT COULD, AND ALSO THE, UM, TYPE OF REQUEST IF, IF WE CAN ACCOMMODATE.
UM, FIRST WE DO AN ADMIN REVIEW, THEN WE GO TO LEVEL ONE MEASURE.
WE ALSO SUBMIT THE REQUEST IF IT'S SPEEDING TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
SO THEY CAN DO SPOT CHECKS, AND THEY DO HAVE A SPEED TRAILER.
SO IF THEY CAN PUT THE SPEED TRAILER OUT IN THE MEANTIME, WHILE, WHILE A, UM, POTENTIAL STUDY IS BEING COMPLETED, SOME OF THESE STUDIES WILL NEED, UM, TRAFFIC COUNTS TO AND SPEED SURVEY TO DETERMINE WHAT IF IT'S A SPEED RELATED ISSUE, HOW BIG THE, UH, ISSUE IS.
ALL OF THESE, UM, RECORD REQUESTS THAT HAVE AN ADMIN REVIEW OR LEVEL ONE OR TWO, WHATEVER, THE PROCESS GOES TO THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION AND THEY MEET ONCE A MONTH AND THE ITEM IS PRESENTED TO TRAFFIC TRAFFIC COMMISSION AND THEY, UM, DISCUSS THE ITEM AND THEY EITHER, UM, MAKE CHANGES, THEY REVIEW, OR THEY, UM, AGREE THAT IT NEEDS TO GO TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.
SO COUNCIL HAS SEVERAL OVER THE COUPLE YEARS.
THEY HAVE SEVERAL PACKETS OF THINGS THAT ARE COMING THROUGH FOR REVIEW.
THE FINAL SECTION IS ABOUT NEW LAWS THAT HAVE THAT AFFECT TRAFFIC.
THE FIRST ONE IS AB FOUR 13, AND THIS ONE IS THE BILL PROHIBITS, PROHIBITS THE STOPPING STANDING OR PARKING OF A VEHICLE WITHIN 20 FEET OF THE VEHICLE APPROACH SIDE OF AN UNMARKED OR MARKED CROSSWALK, OR 15 FEET IF THERE'S AN CURB EXTENSION.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURE BEFORE AB 4 1 3 CARS WOULD, THIS IS A ONE-WAY STREET, BUT IT'S JUST A, AN EXAMPLE, UM, CARS WOULD PULL RIGHT UP TO THE CROSSWALK NOW ON A ONE-WAY STREET.
UM, THERE WOULD BE RED CURB OR THERE'S THAT, UM, SAFETY ZONE THAT NO ONE CAN PARK IN FRONT UP TO, UM, THE CROSSWALK.
NOW IT ALSO, UM, APPLIES TO UNMARKED CROSSWALKS.
SO IF THERE'S AN A DA RAMP, IT'S IMPLIED THAT PEDESTRIANS CAN CROSS, CROSS AND THE, AND THE SAME RULE WOULD APPLY.
I KNOW THERE WAS A QUESTION LAST TIME ABOUT, UM, THE SEVERAL CITIES HAVE THE SPEED SAFETY PILOT PROGRAM GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
IT'S CALLED AB 6 45, AND THAT'S ONLY FOR THE CITIES
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OF LOS ANGELES, SAN JOSE, OAKLAND, GLENDALE, LONG BEACH, SAN FRANCISCO.THEY ARE DOING A PILOT PROGRAM LOOKING AT RADAR SPEED SIGNS TO GIVE OUT TICKETS.
IT'S A LONG PROCESS TO GET, UM, APPROVED TO HAVE A PILOT.
AND IT'S BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF COLLISIONS THAT YOUR CITY HAS AT CERTAIN STREETS HAS TO BE IDENTIFIED IN A, LIKE YOUR LRSP TYPE, THAT, THAT IS A HIGH, UM, SAFETY INTERSECTION.
AND THEN THE NUMBER OF, UM, LOCATIONS OR, OR CAMERAS IN THE SPEED SIGNS THAT YOU HAVE IS, IS, UM, BASED ON POPULATION.
SO ANYWAY, YOU CAN LOOK UP THE WHOLE THING ON AB 6 45.
I KNOW IT'S KIND OF DRY, SORRY, BUT THIS HAS, UM, MADE CHANGES TO HOW WE LOOK AT POSTING THE SPEED LIMIT.
THE CITY HAS SOME DECISIONS TO MAKE ON THEIR CITYWIDE SPEED SURVEY.
SO SPEED SURVEYS USUALLY GO FIVE YEAR, SEVEN YEAR AT THE SEVEN YEAR MARK.
A SPEED SURVEY NEEDS TO BE SIGNED AND STAMPED BY A REGISTERED ENGINEER.
AND THEY ARE SAYING THAT NOTHING HAS CHANGED, THAT WE CAN CONTINUE THAT FOR ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS.
THAT'S CALLED RE-CERTIFYING YOURS, CITYWIDE SPEED SURVEY.
IF THERE ARE LOCATIONS THAT MAYBE HAD SOME CHANGES OR THE CITY IS LOOKING THAT THEY WANT TO POTENTIALLY CHANGE THE SPEED LIMIT OR LOOK AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS, THEN THOSE ITEMS ARE PULLED AND A NEW SPEED SURVEY IS DONE.
AB 43 HAS SOME NEW GUIDELINES.
SO NOW WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW WE POST OR DECIDE WHAT THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT IS, IT'S USED TO BE ALL, WELL, IT STILL IS.
IT'S ALL BASED ON THE 85TH PERCENTILE OF SPEED.
SO WHAT IT'S SAYING IS IF 85% OF THE CARS ARE TRAVELING AT A CERTAIN SPEED OR LESS, SO THAT 85TH PERCENTILE IS WHERE WE WANT TO WITHIN PARAMETERS POST THE SPEED LIMIT.
UM, SO IN THIS CASE NOW WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT LAND USE AND FACILITIES THAT GENERATE A LOT OF PEDESTRIANS TO, UM, POTENTIALLY LOWER THE SPEED LIMITS.
THIS INCLUDES LOCATIONS NEAR, UM, SCHOOLS, THE MALL SENIOR CENTER.
UM, CAN YOU CHANGE A POSTED SPEED LIMIT WITHOUT AN ENGINEERING STUDY? NO, IT'S STILL, YOU STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE MOTION OF DOING THE STUDY, SEEING WHAT THE 85TH PERCENTILE IS, BUT IT ALLOWS US TO ROUND DOWN THE SPEED LIMIT.
UM, ALSO, UM, WE'RE, YOU'RE ALLOWED TO GO TO, UM, 15 OR 20 MILES PER HOUR IN FRONT OF SCHOOLS, BUT IT, IT ALSO, YOU HAVE TO READ THE FINE PRINT.
IT ALSO, YOU HAS TO BE ONLY APPLIES TO, UM, STREETS IN FRONT OF A SCHOOL THAT HAS ONE LANE.
EACH DIRECTION HAS TO BE WITHIN 500 FEET OF THE SCHOOL GROUNDS, AND THE REGULAR SPEED IS 30 MILES PER HOUR, LESS AND DEFINED AS A LOCAL ROAD.
SO, UM, THIS, THIS NEXT SIX SECTION IS JUST PRETTY MUCH THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D AND THE VEHICLE CODE.
CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE ALWAYS GO HAND IN HAND.
SO WITH THESE CHANGES TO HOW SPEED LIMITS ARE CON OR SPEED SURVEYS ARE CONDUCTED, THE CVC ALSO CHANGED THEIR GUIDELINES TO MATCH.
SO, UM, THIS ONE, NOW THERE'S ANOTHER ADDED THING FOR THE SPEED LIMITS YOU CAN CHANGE.
UM, YOU CAN DESIGNATE SOME OF YOUR STREETS AS SAFETY CORRIDORS IF THEY'RE IDENTIFIED IN THE LRSP AS ONE OF THE TOP 10 OR SO, UM, SEGMENTS THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST COLLISION RATE.
THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER ADDED, UM, DIMENSION OF HOW YOU MAY BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE SPEED LIMIT.
BUT IN NO CASE CAN YOU CHANGE THE SPEED LIMIT LESS THAN, UM, 12.4 MILES PER HOUR FROM THE 85TH PERCENTILE.
SO THE OTHER ONE IS JUST ANOTHER, UM, CHANGE TO THE CVC.
AND THEN IT ALSO NOW, WHEN YOU'RE DOING A SPEED SURVEY, WHICH IS IMPORTANT, LIKE I SAID, IT WAS FIVE OR SEVEN YEARS, AND YOU COULD, WITH ENGINEER SIGN OFF, YOU COULD GO TO 10 YEARS.
NOW YOU GOT THE SEVEN YEAR MARK, YOU CAN GET AN ADDITIONAL SEVEN YEARS.
SO YOUR SPEED SURVEY'S GOOD FOR 14 YEARS.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS JUST SOME OF A TABLE THAT SHOWS, UM, WHERE WHAT TYPE OF LAND USES YOU CAN CONSIDER THAT ARE HIGH PEDESTRIAN GENERATORS WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT POSTED
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SPEED LIMITS.HOLY MICRO, EVERYBODY FALL ASLEEP.
I FEEL LIKE I'VE BACK IN COLLEGE AGAIN.
HOLY MIKE, I HAVE TO REMEMBER.
BEFORE I, BEFORE I START, OKAY, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO, OKAY, COUNCILMAN KENTO.
I THINK THIS IS DIFFICULT FOR YOU, VISUALIZE OKAY.
ABOUT THE GRAPHIC, ABOUT THE CROSSROAD.
I WANT TO GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO GO FIRST TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND SOME OF REPRESENTATION, OTHER CHANGE ABOUT THE LAW AND THIS AND THAT.
AND THE ONE THING'S VERY INTERESTING IS ABOUT CROSSROAD 15 FEET.
SO ALMOST ALL THE CORNER, LOT OF A STREET, THEY WERE PAINTING RED BASED ON THE NEW LAW.
AM I RIGHT, JANET? IT'S THE APPROACH, ONLY THE APPROACH TO A CROSSWALK.
SO IT WOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, APPROACHING IT WOULD BE THE RED FEET.
BUT IF YOU CROSS THAT INTERSECTION, THEN YOU'RE, YOU'RE NOT APPROACHING IT ANYMORE, SO YOU WOULDN'T NEED IT ON THE OTHER SIDE.
SO APPROACHING WITH 15 FEET, 20 FEET, 20 FEET, WE HAD A PAINTED RED, RIGHT? YOU DON'T, NOW, TECHNICALLY YOU COULD PAINT IT RED, BUT IT'S ALSO IN THE LAW.
SO IF YOU'RE PARKED WITHIN THAT 20 FEET, WE GET A TICKET.
STILL GET, YOU COULD STILL GET A TICKET.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND PAINT EVERYTHING RED.
UM, JANA, WITH THE EMAILS THAT WE FREQUENTLY HAVE COMBINED WITH THIS, YOUR, YOUR, YOUR VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS ARE AMAZING.
NO, BUT, UM, SO, UH, YEAH, SO I SAW A LOT OF THE, THE GOOD THINGS THAT WE'RE IMPLEMENTING.
UM, I THINK ANOTHER THING WE CAN LOOK AT, UH, I KNOW WE'VE BEEN BUYING THE, THE, THE FOR THE SCREW ZONES, WE BUY THE TWO, THE TWO LIGHTS THAT FLASH UNDERNEATH RRFB.
AND I WAS LOOKING AT, UH, THE ED LIGHTING SOLUTIONS.
I SEE THAT THERE'S ALSO RAPID FLASHING BEACON BEACONS THAT ACTUALLY, I GUESS IT'S LIKE A, IT'S LIKE A FOUR LIGHT SYSTEM UNDERNEATH IT, AND IT'S A, IT'S A FLASHING BEACON THAT'S, I THINK THAT WILL BE MORE, UH, MODERN TO, UH, WHAT WE HAVE NOT USED BEFORE AND RIGHT.
YOU JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WE FOLLOW THE CALIFORNIA M-U-T-C-D.
THERE'S SOME SIGNS AND SOME SIGN COMPANIES THAT SELL THESE.
AND IF YOU NOTICE, THEY'LL SAY IT'S M-U-T-C-D COMPLIANT.
BUT CALIFORNIA HAS ADOPTED ITS OWN STANDARDS, SO YOU JUST HAVE TO CHECK IT.
I'M JUST SAYING YOU NEED TO CHECK IT WHEN YOU LOOK.
I'M LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW WITH CALIFORNIA.
I THINK ALSO, YOU KNOW, UH, THE, THE LIGHTS THAT GO ON THE FLOOR, I UNDERSTAND IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A BIGGER, UH, MAINTENANCE TO MAINTAIN, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE GONNA BE SAVING LIVES.
SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT, REGARDLESS OF THE MAINTENANCE IT COMES WITH, I THINK THAT WE, WE SHOULD START IMPLEMENTING, UH, THE NEWER TECHNOLOGY, UH, BECAUSE, UH, THERE'S BEEN TOO MANY ACCIDENTS, UH, UH, DEATHS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND, AND I THINK IT'S TIME NOW.
WE, WE THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND, AND START DOING THAT MODERN, MODERN TECHNOLOGY, UH, AND THE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE OUT THERE, INCLUDING THE BEACONS THAT GO ON THE GROUND OR, OR THE, THE, THE FOUR LIGHT BEACON SYSTEM FOR THE CROSSWALKS.
UH, SO I KNOW THERE'S SO MANY STUFF OUT THERE.
I KNOW I, I SENT YOU SOME OF THE PICTURES THAT ARE ON THIS WEBSITE.
OBVIOUSLY YOU GUYS KNOW OF ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT'S OUT THERE THAT'S NEWER TECHNOLOGY.
SO YEAH, I WAS JUST, I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS START, IF YOU GUYS COULD START BUYING THE MORE MODERN STUFF, THE THINGS THAT FLASH MORE WHATEVER THE BIGGER SPEED SIGNS, LIKE I SENT ON A DIFFERENT EMAIL.
SO I THINK THAT'S, UH, VERY IMPORTANT SO WE CAN MINIMIZE, UH, THE TR TRAFFIC ALL LEGENDS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND, UH, ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER? NO.
WE'RE GONNA SEE YOU AGAIN BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF, UH, OKAY.
I THINK WE CHANGED THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE, THE TIME, AND THE COMMITTEE AND THE VOTING MEMBERS.
SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE A MORE PARTICIPANT OF, UH, OUR RESIDENT TO JOIN YOUR COM OKAY.
UH, TRAFFIC COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE, UH, THEIR AREA.
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YOU SO MUCH, JENNA.[CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS ]
NOW WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE COUNCIL, AB 1, 2, 3, 4, AND, UH, ANY OF, UH, REPORT, EVEN NOW, I'M GOING TO GO TO THE COUNCIL MEMBER REQUEST AND COMMENT.I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COUNCIL REQUEST TO REQUEST AN RFP, UH, FOR A STATE LOBBYIST BE INITIATED.
ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? I'M SORRY, WHAT IS THE REQUEST? YEAH, GO AHEAD.
UH, IT'S TO, UH, DO AN RFP, UH, TO LOOK FOR STATE, UH, STATE LOBBYISTS.
UH, UH, COUNCILMAN, CAN YOU GO AHEAD? JUST TO CLARIFY THAT, WE CURRENTLY HAVE A STATE LOBBYIST, BUT, UH, UH, IT'S JUST TO OPEN UP THE, THE PEOPLE CITY MANAGER.
I THINK SO THEY HAVE A, A CONCERN.
AND, UH, DO WE HAVE A LOBBYIST IN THE STATE? YES, WE DO.
DO WE PAY THE LOBBYIST? YES, WE DO.
HOW'S THE PERFORMANCE OF THE LOBBYIST? FOR US? THEY HAVE BEEN VERY HELPFUL WITH THE, UH, LOBBYING FOR THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE REQUESTED THEM TO HELP US WITH.
SO CURRENTLY YOU'RE NOT, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUE WITH THIS LOBBYIST OR YOU WANT OKAY.
I THINK, UM, AN, UH, UM, OKAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER
SO I, I'VE SPOKEN TO VARIOUS SENATORS AND ASSEMBLY MEMBERS, AND THEY TOLD ME, OH, UH, WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HE WAS YOUR LOBBYIST.
HE'S OBVIOUS LOBBYING FOR OTHER CITIES, NOT WEST COVINA.
SO WHEN I'M HEARING THIS, THEN IT'S PROBABLY BEST THAT WE OPEN, WE OPEN FAIRNESS.
AND HOW LONG HAVE WE HAD THIS LOBBYIST FOR PAULINA? SINCE THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF REDEVELOPMENT, SO MAYBE 13 YEARS.
WHY IS THE CONTRACT? DO WE HAVE A DUE DATE? WE DO HAVE A CONTRACT, AND I BELIEVE IT CONTINUES UNLESS OTHERWISE TERMINATED.
SAY THAT AGAIN? I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE CONTRACT.
SO YOU DON'T KNOW THE DUE DATE DAY, IS IT WHAT YOU JUST SAID? OR WAS SOMETHING OUT? I YOU JUST SAID THAT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S WHEN IT'S A CONTRACT, BUT IT'S, UH, WE COULD TERMINATE AT ANY TIME.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? EXTENDED UNLESS OTHERWISE TERMINATED.
THAT'S, OH, IT'S MONTHS, TWO MONTHS.
I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT TERMS. IF IT'S MONTH TO MONTH OR YEAR, LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE CONTRACT, UH, CITY ATTORNEY, CAN YOU LOOK INTO THE CONTRACT, PLEASE? YEAH.
AND, UH, I THINK WE CAN START ON THERE.
AND THEN WE'RE STARTING TO HAVE A PERFORMANCE REVIEW, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE GO TO THE, IF WE COUNCIL APPROVE.
WELL, AND, UH, BUT ANYWAY, UH, LET'S GET, TO BE FAIR, LET'S GO INTO THE, I THINK THE PROPER, PROPER PROCEDURE.
SO, UH, PROVIDE US A COPY OF THE CONTRACT.
I ASKED, ACTUALLY ASKED THIS, UH, FROM YOU A MONTH AGO, SO WE DON'T KNOW THE QUESTIONS.
BUT, UM, THE MOTHER MAY I WILL BE OKAY.
LET'S HAVE OUR STATE LOBBYIST OKAY.
WITH THEIR CONTRACT AND THEIR PERFORMANCE.
PROVIDE ME, PROVIDE THIS COUNCIL, UH, A LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS THE LOBBYIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
UH, PLEASE PROVIDE THAT BY THE SECOND MEETING ON MAY.
HAVE AT LEAST GIVE THIS LOBBYIST A CHANCE TO REVIEW WHAT HE HAS DONE AND THE CONTRACT, WHAT HE LOOK LIKE.
AND THEN WE, BASED ON THAT, WE GO TO MOVE ON.
UH, DO WE HAVE, UH, ANY OTHER COUNCIL, ANY OTHER REQUESTS? I'M NOT DONE YET.
YOU'RE NOT DONE? YOU HAVE MORE? YEP.
I MAKE A REQUEST THAT WE, UH, UH, BY THE, BY THE MAY 6TH COUNCIL MEETING, THAT THE COUNCIL BE PRESENTED IN PRESENTATION, UH, AND THAT THE, THE DISINFORMATION IS ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA PACKET FOR THE TOTAL COSTS FOR THE SPRING FESTIVAL, INCLUDING ANY OVERTIME ASSOCIATED WITH THAT COST.
UH, SO YOU WANT TO HAVE, UH, HOW MUCH COST FOR THE SPRING FESTIVAL? YES.
AND ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? OKAY.
HOW MUCH WOULD COST US AND HOW MUCH WE SPEND ON OUR, UH, DONATION AND, UH, WASTE COVINA FOUNDATION.
SO, SO HOW MUCH ARE YOU USING THE GENERAL FUND RIGHT? AS YEAH.
UH, IT INCLUDES OVERTIME, ANY EXPENSES RELATING TO OPERATING THE EVENT, AND IT SHOULD BE ATTACHED TO THE PUBLIC DOCUMENT.
AND NOBODY AGAINST THAT? RIGHT.
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WHAT NEXT? AND THEN BY THE SECOND MEETING OF MAY, UH, INVITE THE SANITATION DISTRICT TO COME PRESENT ON THE WORK THEY HAVE DONE IN THE COMMUNITY AND TELL 'EM WHAT TO EXPECT THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, THE ROADS THAT THEY, THEY DAMAGED.SO WE HAVE A SANITATION, UH, REPRESENTATIVE TO TALK ABOUT THEIR, UH, OKAY.
UH, PROJECT AND, UH, SEE HOW WE CAN COLLABORATE IN THE FUTURE.
UH, DON'T LOOK AT AND, UH, BEFORE WE, AFTER WE PAID THE STREET, AND THEN WE DID, DON'T WANT TO DIG UP THE STREET.
AND THEN THERE WAS A CONSULT REQUEST AT THE LAST MEETING, UH, PAULY AND I, AND YOU SAID THERE'S GONNA BE BE BROUGHT BACK FOR THE NEXT MEETING, RIGHT? OKAY.
I BELIEVE IT WAS ABOUT THE, UH, BREAKDOWN OF COST FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SO FAR.
SO THAT WOULD BE BROADBAND MAY 6TH.
MAY 6TH? NO, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ONE.
THAT WAS ACTUALLY DUE TODAY, BUT APRIL, APRIL 15TH.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS, UM, I WOULD LIKE A, UH, PRESENTATION ON, ON, ON POLICY FOR, FOR, UH, LET'S SEE.
SO I'LL KIND OF MAKE THIS BROAD.
SO, UM, SO YOU HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN OUR POLICE OFFICERS ARE ON PATROL, PATROL, THEIR CARS HAVE, UH, THEY ALL HAVE TRACKING DEVICES.
WHEN OUR FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO INCIDENTS, THOSE TRUCK HAVE, THOSE TRUCKS HAVE, UH, GPS SYSTEMS ON THERE TO ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS, UM, WHAT POLICIES OR, OR, OR RECOMMENDATIONS DOES THE CITY RECOMMEND, UH, EVEN FOR PUBLIC WORKS VEHICLES? OH, TALKING ABOUT GBS ON THE PUBLIC WORK.
UH, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? OKAY.
SO, UH, LET'S HAVE, UH, OKAY, G ARE YOU GOING TO ONLY PUBLIC WALL OR ALL THE VEHICLE, CT VEHICLE? UH, IT COULD, IT COULD BE ALL CITY VEHICLES, BUT THEN THERE'LL BE SOME EXEM EXEMPTIONS BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT GONNA, IT DEPENDS ON IF LAW ENFORCEMENT OR, OR OH, NO.
THE, ANY CT STAFF WITH THE CT CAR.
ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? UH, OKAY.
AND IF YOU COULD BRING, UH, THAT PRESENTATION, WHAT DO YOU NEED? YOU NEED THAT BY THE SECOND MEETING, UH, I MEAN, THE FIRST MEETING OF MAY OR SECOND MEETING OF MAY.
UM, YOU JUST WANNA SEE WHAT POLICY WE HAVE W WELL, AND WHAT POLICY WE'RE GONNA RECOMMENDATIONS WE WOULD BE MAKING.
THE GOAL HERE IS, IS TO EVENTUALLY IMPLEMENT A GPS SYSTEM FOR ALL CITY VEHICLES.
SO WE, WE CAN PROVIDE WHAT WE HAVE IF OUR POLICE ARE BURNING WITH IT, AND IF OUR FIREFIGHTERS ARE BURNING WITH IT, THEN WHY ISN'T THE OTHER VEHICLES BURNING WITH IT? SO IT'S REALLY TO SEE HOW, WHAT THE IMPLEMENTATION WILL BE.
AND IN THE PRESENTATION ON OPTIONS, UH, I THINK IT'S OKAY.
UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBER
SO THE, EVERYTHING WILL BE PROPERLY USED FOR THE CITY BUSINESS ONLY.
I'M SORRY, I JUST WANTED CLARIFICATION.
SO YOU JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT, IF WE HAVE A POLICY IN PLACE AND OR WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS WE WOULD MAKE FOR A POLICY YEAH.
AND, AND THE COST ASSOCIATED WITH WHEN IMPLEMENTING A GPS SYSTEM IN THESE VEHICLES.
WELL, MAYBE THE COST TOO, RIGHT? YOU WANNA PUT PI SEE THE YEAH, THE COST, IT WILL COST QUITE A LOT.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE MONEY FOR THAT, OR WE HAVE A GRANT FOR THAT.
YOU WANNA SAVE MONEY, BUT NOW WE'LL CREATE WASTE.
UH, I WANNA MAKE SURE OUR CITY, THAT OUR CITY PE SOME CITY PEOPLE ARE WORKING AND THEY'RE NOT JUST PARKED DOING NOTHING.
SO IT'S AN ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURE TO MAKE SURE THAT IF, IF, IF, IF OUR POLICE AND FIRE HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT, THEN PUBLIC WORKS SHOULD BE GOING THROUGH IT TOO.
AND, AND ACCOUNTABILITY SHOULD BE PLACED AND WE'LL LOOK AT OTHER VEHICLES IN THAT PROCESS AS WELL.
BUT WE BETTER TO LET PEOPLE, WE BELIEVE IN, WE HAVE THE TRUST.
AND, UH, SO HOPEFULLY NOT LIKE A YEAH.
BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG, BIG BROTHER WATCHING EVERYBODY.
BUT, BUT THIS HAS BECOME A VERY COMMON, OKAY.
ALL THE CARS BS, INCLUDING CHIPA, COME TO INSTALL MY BATTERY AND THEY GOT GPS.
THEY SAY I CANNOT ILE IN TOO LONG, SO I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU COMING FROM.
AND, UH, WHAT NEXT? YOU HAVE MORE OR ARE YOU DONE? UM, I HAVE, UH, 10 MORE APRIL FOODS.
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GOT ME TOO.AND, OKAY, COUNCIL, UH, MAN, KENTO, YOU HAVE ANY? YES, I HAVE, GO AHEAD.
FIRST, UH, I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR SUPPORT IN CITY STAFF, RESEARCHING OTHER CITY APPROACHES TO SPAYING AND NEUTERING DOGS AND A CAT OR PETS, ANIMALS.
AND, AND ALSO WITH REGARD TO THE, UH, EDUCATION.
EDUCATION AND, UH, MICROCHIPPING.
AND ALSO TO INCLUDE WITHIN THAT A COST ANALYSIS.
SO WE WOULD KNOW, WE'D SEE THE IMPLICATIONS OF WHATEVER IT IS THAT COULD BE ON THE TABLE FOR US TO CONSIDER, AND FOR THAT TO BE DONE BY THE SECOND MEET WE MEETING IN MAY.
I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING IF THE COUNTY DON'T DO IT, OKAY.
THEN WE MIGHT HAVE TO PICK, PICK UP THE PIECES AND MAKE SURE, UH, PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY, LIKE MYSELF, I HAVE A PAD, THEN I ABSOLUTELY WILL PUT A MICROCHIP.
SO IN THAT WAY THEY DON'T PRODUCE.
AND, UH, AND PLUS THEY HEALTHIER THIS WAY.
AND THE SECOND ONE IS IN SUPPORT OF ACCOUNTABILITY WITH REGARD TO COMMISSIONS, I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR THE STAFF TO PRODUCE THE ATTENDANCE RECORDS OF ALL COMMISSION MEETINGS OF EVERY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS OVER THE PAST YEAR.
AND TO INCLUDE THE NAMES OF WHO ATTENDED AND WHO, WHO DID NOT, AND WHO ARE THE, WHO ARE THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO APPOINTED EACH OF THOSE COMMISSIONERS.
UH, SO THAT WAY, AT LEAST FOR TRANSPARENCY, WE WILL SEE, UH, THE HOW WELL, UM, AND HOW FREQUENTLY, UH, FOLKS HAVE BEEN IN ATTENDANCE.
BUT THE THING IS, UH, I KNOW SOME COMMUNITY SERVICE, UH, COMMISSIONER, THEY SAY THEY NEVER RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION OR NOTIFICATION TO, OKAY.
BECAUSE THEY ONLY DO IT ONCE A MONTH.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THE PROPER NOTIFICATION HAVE TO BE GIVEN.
SO IN THAT WAY, THEY KNOW WHEN TO OKAY.
WELL, I, I THINK, I THINK THIS, UH, ISSUE IS ACCOUNTABILITY, SUBJECT TO CITY HAS TO BE ACCOUNTABILITY TO NOTIFY THE PROPER, OKAY, COMMISSIONER, HAPPY THERE, THEN WE NEED TO I AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT.
THEN WE NEED TO HAVE A ROLL CALL WITH HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOW UP WHEN THEY MISSING THIS, DECIDE WHY YOU MISS.
AND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IT, THEN WE WILL, UH, REPLACE WITH SOMEBODY WILLING TO DO IT.
HOPEFULLY, UH, LIKE YOU SAY, ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, AND, UH, OKAY.
UM, YOU, YOU DONE, YOU DONE WELL.
YOU JUST, AND, AND, AND IF THERE ARE EXPLANATIONS LIKE THAT, THEN THAT SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY NOTED.
SO THERE'S PROPER CONTEXT OF COURSE.
AND, UH, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO JUST, PEOPLE DON'T KNOW, THEY DIDN'T GIVE NOTIFICATION AND, UH, THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP AND THEY, THEY NOT HAPPY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY, THEY MISSED.
SO, SO, SO, SO WE WANT TO GET A, UH, A RECORD ABOUT EACH OF, UH, COMMISSIONER ABOUT THEIR TENDENCY AND, AND I, AND I'M SORRY, REAL QUICK, JUST TO CLARIFY, THAT ALSO INCLUDES MEETINGS THAT HAD, THAT DIDN'T HAVE A QUORUM.
UH, IF THERE WERE MEETINGS THAT HAD, THAT HAD TO BE CANCELED BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH PEOPLE, IT WASN'T CONSIDERED AN OFFICIAL MEETING, IT, IT SHOULD JUST NOTED ACCORDINGLY.
NOTIFICATION FROM COMMITTEE SERVICE AND, UH, REGARDING SHE DISAPPOINTED HIS NO CO CORRIN.
AND ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, HAVE ALL THE COMMISSION TO SHOW UP IF THEY'RE WILLING TO SERVE, THEY SHOULD SHOW UP TO SERVE LIKE US.
AND, AND THEN THE PROBLEM, LIKE YOU MENTIONED MAYOR WU, IS THAT THEY'RE NOT BEING CALLED.
SO, UH, YOU CAN'T EXPECT SOMEONE WHO HAS A LIFE TO BE CALLED 24 HOURS BEFORE AND SAY, SHOW UP TOMORROW.
AND, AND SO, UH, THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE ACCOUNTABILITY ON STAFF TO NOTIFY THESE COMMISSIONERS IN ADVANCE A MINIMUM OF TWO WEEKS ADVANCE NOTICE ON WHEN THEIR NEXT MEETING'S GONNA BE.
CAN THEY KEEP THE CALENDAR? DO, 'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA GET A LIST OF PEOPLE, BUT THEN WE'RE GONNA, WE, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN, WE'RE GONNA BLAME STAFF.
IT'S KINDA LIKE A VICE VERSA ISSUE HERE, BECAUSE I THINK ALL THE MEETING HAVE ALREADY PRESET, RIGHT? SO, SO WE HAVE A CALENDAR.
WHO IS, UH, YOU CAN PROVIDE A CALENDAR.
THEY ARE PRESET BECAUSE THEY ARE DETERMINED THAT THE DATE IS SET AND THE TIME IS SET.
AND SO IT'S JUST A MATTER IF WE CANCEL IT, THAT WE CANCEL IT THE WEEK BEFORE.
LET'S GET A, A TENDENCY REPORT FIRST.
INCLUDING WHY THEY MISS, ARE THEY STILL WANT TO CONTINUE TO SERVE.
AND IF YES, THEN WE SAY WHY YOU MISSED THE OKAY.
AND, UH, THE, UM, THE PARTICIPANT, BECAUSE WE NEED THEM, WE NEED THEM TO APPROVE A LOT OF, UH, OKAY.
AND I'LL JUST SAY STAFF, UH, START CALLING THE COMMISSIONERS AND NOTIFYING THEM OF MEETINGS IN ADVANCE.
UH, EVEN THOUGH IF YOU'RE SENDING THEM EMAILS, MAKE SURE THEY'RE SHOWING CALL THEM, REMIND THEM.
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NO, I THINK IT'S PART OF THE JOB.WHY IS THIS MOTHER MAY I, OKAY.
WE, WE, WHY? NO, YOU OKAY? WOO-HOO.
I'M, I ALREADY GOT KIND OF HALF AWAY.
SO, UH, OTHER CITY COUNCIL, ANYTHING, ANY, UM, COMMENT? LET'S MOVE TO COMMENT.
YOU STILL HAVE A REQUEST? NO, NO.
WELL, IN THAT CASE, LET ME MAKE ONE.
UH, SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE COMMUNITY, UH, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT APPLIED YET, UH, TO APPLY.
I AM LOOKING FOR A, A, A PLANNING COMMISSIONER.
I AM LOOKING FOR A HR COMMISSIONER AND, UH, ONE COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMISSIONER.
SO I DO INVITE, UH, UH, THE COMMUNITY TO APPLY, AND I ENCOURAGE DISTRICT ONE RESIDENTS TO APPLY TO, UM, SO I CAN REVIEW YOUR APPLICATIONS AND, AND DETERMINE IF YOU'RE THE, THE BEST PERSON TO SERVE IN THOSE POSITIONS, TO REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY IN THOSE VAR VARIOUS CAPACITIES.
AMIR PUTIN? NO, MY ONLY COMMENT IS, UH, I'D LIKE TO REQUEST TO ADJOURN
UH, YOU WANT TO JEN? GIMME ONE SECOND.
I JUST WANT TO THANK, UH, THE STAFF TO PUT THE SPRING FESTIVAL.
I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF EFFORT AND, UH, WE HAVE ROOM TO IMPROVE, SO HOPEFULLY OKAY.
THE PROGRAM AND, UM, UH, AND THE PROMOTION THAT CAN BE A ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE.
BUT ON SUNDAY NIGHT, AND, UH, YOU HAVE TONS OF PEOPLE OVER THERE VERY, VERY HAPPY.
AND THEY ALL THANK WEST COVINA.
AND TO PUT THE JOY TO THE PEOPLE'S FACE.
AND YOU CAN, I JUST REMEMBER ONE THING, HUH? OH, I JUST REMEMBERED ONE THING.
YOU, YOU, YOU SPEAK LESS THAN BRIAN, SO YOU GO.
I, UM, UM, I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE STAFF LOOK INTO, UH, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, UH, LANGUAGE TRANSLATION PROGRAMS. I ATTENDED A MEETING OF, UH, SPONSORED BY, BY, UH, THE LOS ANGELES.
MAY I JUST, SO NUMBER THREE, MOTHER MAY I AI TRANSLATION FOR, FOR, FOR FOR COUNCIL MEETINGS, SO THAT WAY PEOPLE WHO SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO HAVE ACCESS THROUGH THEIR PREFERRED LANGUAGE.
AND, UH, NOBODY AGAINST THAT, RIGHT? FIND, OKAY.
UH, I JUST WANT TO HAVE A, A QUESTION.
ALL THE, ALL AUDIENCE HAS A HARD TIME TO SEE THE PROJECTOR.
AND THEY'RE LOOKING OVER HERE.
AND THIS YEAR, TOO SMALL, EVEN IT 85.
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A NEW PROJECTOR? THAT OKAY.
THE PEOPLE CAN SEE CLEARLY FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND THE DATE FOR THAT WOULD BE THE, THE SECOND MEETING IN MAY, PLEASE.
OH, OH, THE SECOND MEETING IN MAY? YES.
AND HOW ABOUT PROJECTOR? WHEN WE GOING TO, I KNOW WE ALREADY APPROVED AND WHEN WE CAN INSTALL WHEN WE ALREADY PUT A NEW TV, BUT IT'S STILL OKAY.
TOO SMALL FOR PEOPLE SIT OVER THERE TO SEE.
AND I SEE, I SAW MR. G IS TRY TO OKAY.
BUT I, IT'S A, IT'S, IT'S, HEY, I, SAME HERE.
BUT HOPEFULLY THAT ONE, DO YOU HAVE AN, DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER? WE'RE GETTING IT AS SOON AS WE CAN.
SO WE, WE DID HAVE TO PLACE AN ORDER FOR IT, UM, FOR THE NEW PROJECTOR.
SO AS SOON AS, BECAUSE THIS IS VERY COMMON RIGHT NOW, IT'S REALLY PRETTY EASY TO INSTALL AND PURCHASE AND INSTALL.
AND I HAVE A BIG PROBLEM IF THIS IS A WELCOME ISSUE FOR ME TO SIT FOR SO LONG, BECAUSE BRIAN TALKING FOREVER.
YOU'LL HAVE THE CHAIRS FOR YOUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING.