* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [CALL TO ORDER] [00:00:07] GOOD EVENING. WELCOME TO MAY 20, 20, 25. CITY COUNCIL MEETING RIGHT NOW IS 7 0 2, AND MEETING IS NOW IN SESSION. OKAY. ANY PERSON WISH TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL DURING THE ORAL COMMUNICATION. MUST COMPLETE A SPEAKER CALL THAT IS PROVIDED AT ENTRY TO THE CITY CHAMBER COUNCIL CHAMBER, AND SUBMIT THE CALL, UH, TO THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK CLERK PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF ORAL COMMUNICATION. SPEAKER CALL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER ORAL COMMUNICATION HAS STARTED, AND TONIGHT INVOCATION WILL BE LED BY MY GIRLFRIEND, PASTOR PASTOR ALFRED RICHARDSON, FROM NEW BEGINNING CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPS ON OKAY. GLENDORA AVENUE. THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH OF WEST COVINA AND I WILL LEAD EARTH TO THE PLEDGE OF RELIGION. ALL RIGHTS PLEASE THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY ONCE AGAIN. BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE GO IN PRAYER. DEARLY FATHER, WE GATHER HERE TODAY, SEEKING YOUR GUIDANCE AND BLESSINGS UPON THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. BLESS HIS STREETS, ITS INFRASTRUCTURE IN EVERY CORNER THAT HOLDS THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF ITS PEOPLE. INFUSE THIS PLACE WITH YOUR PEACE, SAFETY, AND UNITY THAT ALL MAY WALK IN PATHS WITH CONFIDENCE AND ENTRUST, GUARD. PROTECT THOSE WHO SERVE THE FIREFIGHTERS, THE POLICE, HEALTHCARE WORKERS, THIS CITY COUNCIL, AND ALL WHO LABOR TIRELESSLY FOR THIS, FOR THIS CITY AND THIS COMMUNITY. POUR YOUR WISDOM UPON OUR LEADERS AND DECISIONS MAKERS THAT THEY MAY GOVERN WITH JUSTICE, COMPASSION, AND FORESIGHT. MAY THIS CITY BE A SANCTUARY OF KINDNESS, DIVERSITY, AND OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL WHO IS VALUED AND UPLIFTED IN IT. HELP US TO NATURE, A SPIRIT OF COOPERATION, UNDERSTANDING, AND LOVE AMONGST OUR NEIGHBORS AND STRANGERS, AND ALL WHO LIVE HERE AND WORK HERE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. GRANT US THE COURAGE TO FACE CHALLENGES WITH RE RESILIENCE AND THE HUMILITY TO LEARN FROM ONE ANOTHER. MAY THE LIGHT OF HOPE SHINE BRIGHTLY IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, INSPIRING, GROWTH, RENEWAL, AND HARMONY. WE ASK THESE PRAYERS IN YOUR SON JESUS NAME. AMEN. AMEN. DO I PLEASE PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND TO THE HEART AND FACE THE FLAG AND FOLLOW MY LEAD. READY I PLAN TO, TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND MR. REPUBLIC FOR WISHES. ONE. NATION, NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVIDUAL. HAVE A SEAT, PLEASE. UH, CITY ROLL CALL POLICE. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. COUNCILMAN CONTOS HERE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. HERE. MAYOR PROAM LOPEZ. VITO, PRESENT. MAYOR WU HERE. AND [REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION] CITY ATTORNEY, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING WE PULL OFF ON THE CLOSE SECTION? YES, MR. MAYOR, WITH REGARD TO ITEM NUMBER ONE ON A MOTION BY MAYOR WU, A SECOND BY MAYOR PROAM LOPEZ. VITO, THE COUNCIL VOTED THREE TO TWO WITH COUNCIL MEMBER DIAZ AND COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS VOTING NO TO NOT CONTINUE THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY MANAGER EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. AND ALSO ON ITEM NUMBER ONE ON A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, A SECOND BY MAYOR PROM LOPEZ VTO, THE COUNCIL VOTED FOUR TO ONE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS VOTING NO TO APPOINT PUBLIC DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY MILAN RACK AS ACTING CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU. AND [PRESENTATIONS] WE HAVE A PRESENTATION. WE HAVE A LOT OF PRESENTATION TONIGHT. IT'S ALL ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY. SO THE, THE FIRST ONE, AND WE MISSING APRIL WE ONE. OKAY. THE DISPATCHER APPRECIATES MONTH. OKAY. WE WANT TO COME BACK AND, UH, WE WANT TO OKAY. AND SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH AT THE FRONT LINER. UH, OKAY. AND, AND CHIEF, ARE YOU AROUND? TESTING, TESTING, TESTING. AND THEN CAN I FIND ANOTHER ONE? OH, THIS YOURS? YEAH. OH, THIS IS FOR ME. TESTING. OKAY. AND, UH, YEAH. OKAY. UH, LET ME READ THIS. OKAY. UH, SO I DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKE. OKAY. OUR OKAY. DISPATCHERS HAVE A VITAL ROLE ENSURING OUR COMMUNITY AND STAFF SAFETY AND WELLBEING, OUR DISPATCHER TEAM CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATE UNWAVERING, OKAY. COMMITMENT WITH A PROFESSIONALISM, COMPASSION AND CUSTOMER [00:05:01] SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY HERE TO ACCEPT THIS PROCLAMATION AND DISPATCHER SUPERVISOR, NATALIE LUNDY, AND I WANNA SAY THIS, OKAY. DISPATCHER IS THE FRONT, UH, LINER. OKAY? BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE A ISSUE WHO YOU CALL, YOU CALL NINE ONE ONE, RIGHT? YOU CALL THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO PICK IT UP, THE DISPATCHER PICK IT UP ABOUT THE ISSUE AND, AND THIS AND THAT. AND THEY PUT YOU IN THE RIGHT HELP AND WANT PEOPLE TO HELP YOU RIGHT AWAY. SO THIS ARE SO IMPORTANT. WITHOUT THEM, THE POLICE AND FIRE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. SO I THINK THIS IS, UH, SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT, AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO PUT YOU IN THE FIRST ITEM AND THE POLICE CHIEF, SINCE YOU IN CHARGE ALL THE SAFETY, MAYBE YOU SEE SOMETHING, THEN WE HAVE NATALIE SAY SOMETHING. WELL, JUST REAL, REAL BRIEFLY, UM, I WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR DISPATCH STAFF. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. UM, FOR SEVERAL YEARS I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK HAND IN HAND WITH THEM AND HAVE JUST WATCHED THEM, UM, DEVELOP THEIR PROFESSIONALISM, THEIR SKILLSET TO BE ONE OF THE BEST DISPATCHING, UH, TEAM THAT I'VE EVER SEEN. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THE AMOUNT OF THE TYPES OF CALLS THEY TAKE, THEY'RE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO ANSWER THE PHONE WHEN THE WORST THINGS HAVE HAPPENED TO PEOPLE. AND THEY DO AN AMAZING JOB OF DISPLAYING EMPATHY AND PROFESSIONALISM, ENSURING THE SAFETY FOR OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL AS OUR OFFICERS. AND I JUST COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD OF THEM. GO AHEAD, KEVIN. ABBY EVENING. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYONE FOR OUR SUPPORT. WITHOUT EVERYONE'S SUPPORT, WE SIMPLY CAN'T HAPPEN. WE DO ANSWER CALLS, YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE ARE AT THEIR WORST. BUT WE'RE THERE TO HELP. AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE UNDER STRESS. WE DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. ANYTIME THAT YOU NEED US, PLEASE CALL 9 1 1 OR OUR BUSINESS LINE FOR ANYTHING. IF IT, IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL US. UM, LAST YEAR WE HANDLED ABOUT 150,000 CALLS. UH, SOMETIMES OUR CENTER IS ONLY STAFFED WITH TWO DISPATCHERS, AND SOMETIMES WE'RE STAFFED UP TO THREE. SO SOMETIMES WE MIGHT BE A LITTLE SHORT WITH OUR CALLS, BUT PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY. THERE ARE A LOT OF INCOMING CALLS COMING IN. BUT AGAIN, WE JUST WANNA THANK EVERYONE FOR, FOR THEIR SUPPORT FOR US. LET, LET'S KEEP THAT AT HAND, OKAY? YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN YOU CALLED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR FILED, OKAY, FIRE, NOW WE GO TO VERDUGO, BUT OKAY. FOR A LONG TIME YOU GO TO OUR DISPATCHER, RIGHT? RIGHT OVER HERE, OKAY. IN OUR CITY HALL. AND THEN THEY'RE WORKING OVER 7 24 AND TO MAKE SURE OUR, UH, RESIDENT ARE SAFE. SO THE THING IS THIS, YOU CALL WHEN YOU NEED HELP, THEN SOMEBODY PICK UP THE PHONE. NOW YOU CAN SEE THEIR FACES. THAT'S WHAT THE PERSON OKAY. HELPING YOU AND TO TRY TO HELP YOU, TRY TO ASSIST YOU AND, UH, HELP YOU TO HOSPITAL OR HELP YOU WITH AMBULANCE, OR HELP YOU WITH A FIRE ENGINE, OR HELP YOU WITH A POLICE PATROL CAR TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAFE. SO THOSE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. REPRESENT THE GREAT CITY OF WEST COVINA. WE WANNA HAVE PROCLAMATION. WE WANNA THANK FOR YOUR, YOUR EFFORT, YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO REALLY KEEP OUR CITY SAFE. AND REMEMBER, OKAY, IN 2023, UH, WEST COVINA HAD BEEN AWARDED BY FOUR MAGAZINE OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND ABOVE POPULATION, THE NUMBER THREE, THE SAFEST CITY IN THE NATION. SO, BECAUSE YOU GUY, WE HAVE A LED OUTSTANDING OF, UH, A REPUTATION. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEAH. YES. SHE IS A OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE. OKAY, CHIEF, YOU HAVE TO STAY WITH ME. IT'S ALL ABOUT YOUR DEPARTMENT, OKAY? AND THE SECOND ONE, THE, OKAY, UH, PROCLAMATION. OKAY? YES. OKAY. PROCLAMATION HONORING THE NATIONAL POLICE WEEK. NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE OUR POLICE OFFICER FROM MAY 15 IS, UH, RECOGNIZED A NATIONAL PEACE OFFICER MEMORIAL DAY. I THINK YOU WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT YOUR TRIP TO WASHINGTON, DC OKAY? NOT A A DAY. OKAY. TO HONOR AND TO REMEMBER THE COURAGEOUS LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE, THE PERSONNEL WHO WERE KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY, MAY 11TH THROUGH MAY 17TH, A SMART NATIONAL POLICE WEEK, ALLOW US TO REMEMBER AND REFLECT ON THE SACRIFICE AND THE SERVICE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL NATIONWIDE. AND I THINK YOU JUST HAVE A BICYCLE, OKAY. THE UNITY TOUR. OKAY. SO I THINK YOU SHOULD EXPLAIN TO ALL OUR RESIDENT HOW TOUCHING AND TO REMEMBER ALL THOSE PEOPLE. OKAY. THEY SACRIFICE FOR US. YEAH, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. [00:10:01] CAN I PLEASE HAVE CORPORAL KENNY BONITA COME DOWN HERE AND I'D LIKE, UH, LIEUTENANT BRIAN DANIELS TO COME UP HERE. SO, FIRST, UH, I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY FITTING AND APPROPRIATE TO HAVE CORPORAL KENNY BONITA HERE TO ACCEPT THIS PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. NINE YEARS AGO, TO THIS DAY, CORPORAL BONITA WAS SERVING OUR COMMUNITY AND WAS SHOT IN THE LINE OF DUTY, PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITY. AND, AND, UH, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL THAT HE RECOVERED, WAS BACK, BACK IN PATROL, AND, UH, IS OUT STILL PROTECTING OUR, OUR STREETS TODAY. AND WE ARE JUST VERY GRATEFUL FOR EVERYTHING HE'S BEEN THROUGH AND HOW HE'S OVERCOME. UM, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS INCIDENT AND HAS HELPED OTHER OFFICERS WITH DEVELOPMENT, WITH, UH, SAFETY AND TACTICS THROUGH HIS EXPERIENCES. AND, UH, HE'S ONE OF OUR FINEST TRAINERS AND SWAT OPERATORS IN OUR DEPARTMENT TODAY. SO I THINK IT'S JUST ABSOLUTELY FITTING FOR HIM TO BE HERE TO ACCEPT THAT. SECONDLY, UM, THIS LAST WEEK, UH, AND I'LL LET, UH, LIEUTENANT DANIELS SPEAK ABOUT IT MORE. HE HAS MORE DETAIL, BUT JUST TO SUMMARIZE, UH, THERE'S A, A, UH, POLICE, UH, A LAW ENFORCEMENT BICYCLE RIDE THAT SPANS OVER 300 MILES ALONG THE EAST COAST AND ENDS IN WASHINGTON, DC RIGHT AT THE NATIONAL, UH, PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL AND REPRESENTING THE WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA RIDING THAT WAS LIEUTENANT DANIELS. AND THE AMOUNT OF TRAINING, THE MONTHS OF TRAINING THAT WENT INTO IT WAS JUST UNBELIEVABLE. I'LL LET HIM GO INTO MORE DETAIL WITH IT, AND NOT HERE TODAY, BUT I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE, UH, SERGEANT STEVEN MCLEAN THAT PROVIDED SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE RIDE, AS WELL AS HIS FATHER AND FORMER, UH, CORPORAL WITH WEST COVINA, CURTIS MCLEAN. UM, AND WE ALSO HAD OUR RETIRED LIEUTENANT HOUSTON CLEMENTS, UM, RIDE, UM, WITH, UH, LIEUTENANT DANIELS. AND I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO BE THERE, UM, TO WATCH HIM COME INTO THE FINISH LINE, NOT THE FINISH LINE, BUT AT THE END OF THE, UH, THE RIDE AND THE AMOUNT OF, UH, JUST COMPASSION AND PRIDE. THERE'S FAMILIES THERE. THEY'RE RIDING FOR FAMILIES THAT HAVE LOST THEIR LOVED ONES EITHER THIS LAST PAST YEAR OR THREE YEARS AGO. BUT THE FAMILIES ALL COME TO SUPPORT THESE OFFICERS, AND IT WAS EXTREMELY EMOTIONAL. AND, UH, UH, LIEUTENANT DANIELS IS PRETTY MUCH PUSHING ME TO RIDE NEXT YEAR. SO I GOTTA GET MYSELF A BICYCLE NOW, . BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST VERY PROUD OF HIM AND VERY GRATEFUL FOR HIM REPRESENTING OUR DEPARTMENT. AND, UH, I JUST FEEL SO LUCKY TO BE LEADING A DEPARTMENT WITH SUCH GREAT PEOPLE. AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO LIEUTENANT DANIELS, WHO WILL TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE UNITY TOUR. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE UNITY TOUR IS, BUT IT IS THE LARGEST FUNDRAISER FOR NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL. AND IN 2025, IT MARKED A 28TH ANNIVERSARY. THE UNITY RIDE CONSISTS OF RIDING ALMOST 300 MILES IN THREE DAYS. DURING EACH RIDE, WE WOULD STOP AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND WE WOULD HONOR AN OFFICER THAT HAD BEEN, UH, EITHER KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY OR DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. SOME OF THESE, UH, STOPS WOULD INCLUDE SOME OF THE SURVIVORS, THE FAMILY MEMBERS, AND THEY, UH, WOULD COME AND JOIN US FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THEIR, THEIR LOVED ONES THAT HAVE PASSED ON. THE POLICE UNITY TOUR'S MISSION IS TO ENSURE THAT NO POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY WILL EVER BE FORGOTTEN. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE POLICE UNITY TOUR IS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT HAVE BEEN, THAT HAVE DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. AND THE SECONDARY PURPOSE IS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL. OUR SOUTHERN CHAPTER THAT I PARTICIPATED WITH, UH, IS CHAPTER SEVEN, AND THEY RAISED ALMOST $500,000 FOR THIS CHAPTER. THERE'S A TOTAL OF SEV, UH, 13 CHAPTERS IN TOTAL YEAR. TO DATE, THE POLICE UNITY TOUR HAS RAISED OVER $40 MILLION FOR THE, UH, LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL. THE WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS PI PARTICIPATED FOR MANY YEARS. AND THIS YEAR I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE. I KNOW THAT OFFICER BENITEZ HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE PAST, AND IT, LIKE, UH, CHIEF SAID, IT'S, IT'S A VERY EMOTIONAL, UM, MOMENT WHEN YOU'RE RIDING IN AND YOU'RE SEEING ALL THE SURVIVORS OF THE LOVED ONES THAT THEY HAVE LOST OVER A PERIOD OF TIME. SO IT WAS, IT WAS AN HONOR TO, TO REPRESENT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, . AND, UH, I THINK YOU CAN SEE, I REMEMBER 2016 AND THAT WE, IN THE EVENT IN THE MORNING, AND THAT WE, WE RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION THAT ONE OF OURS, OKAY, GOT SHOT. OKAY? WE ARE SO SHOCKED. OKAY? WE JUST DON'T KNOW OKAY. WHAT TO EXPECT. BUT LATER ON THEY SAY, YOU, YOU, YOU, OKAY? OKAY. SO WE SAY HOLY MICRO BECAUSE, AND PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW FOR THE POLICE OFFICER AND THE PATROL ON THE STREET, THEY HAVE A BULLSEYE, BASICALLY IN THEIR BACK. OKAY? YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU PULL OVER [00:15:01] PEOPLE, SOME PEOPLE WILL BE DOING SOMETHING, OKAY? AND, UH, BECAUSE IN THE UNITED STATES, EVERYBODY, SOMETIMES THEY CARRY GUN, OKAY? ILLEGALLY OKAY. AT THIS AND THAT. SO YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW WHO IS YOUR, UM, PERSON THAT WOULD DO HARM TO YOU. SO, SO, SO THE THE COURAGE OKAY? AND THE SACRIFICE FOR OUR OFFICE AND THEIR FAMILY. AND THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. SO I, WE REALLY HAVE TO APPRECIATE, OKAY, THE, THE NATIONAL POLICE WEAK BECAUSE WE ALLOW THE POLICE, WE NOT GOING TO BE HERE. OKAY? THE SAME THING LAST TIME. WE TALK ABOUT THE APPRECIATION OF A MILITARY MONTHS BECAUSE WE ALLOW OUR MILITARY MIGHT TO PROTECT. WE DON'T HAVE A FREEDOM OVER HERE. BY THE SAME TIME, THE CITY, IF WE DON'T HAVE A POLICE AND THE FIRE OKAY, THAT YOU'RE NOT SAFE IN THE CITY. SO I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD REALLY APPRECIATE, OKAY? AND WHERE OUR TEXTILE GO TO IS BASICALLY GO TO OUR POLICE AND FIRE, MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S SAFE, BUT REPRESENT THE GREAT CITY OF WEST COVINA. WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING OF COUNTRY BILL, AND KEEP OUR CITY SAFE. ESPECIALLY, I WANT TO SAY AGAIN, NUMBER THREE, THE CIVIL CITY NATION NOW. SO I THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT. YEAH, YEAH, GO AHEAD. AND JUST ONE QUICK THING BEING IT'S INTERNATIONAL PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL WEEK, UM, I, I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE OUR THREE FALLEN OFFICERS, OFFICER FREDERICK HAM, OFFICER JAY JACKSON, AND OFFICER KENNETH RE, WHO ALL LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE LINE OF DUTY HERE, PROTECTING THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NA. REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. UH, NEXT ONE. OKAY. STILL, YEAH, STILL THE POLICE. OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY. OUR JAILER. OKAY, SO BASICALLY PROCLAMATION OR NATIONAL JAILER WEEK. OKAY. WE HAVE A JAIL IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. SO IF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW, OKAY, I, I TOUR, THEY PUT ME INSIDE. THEY'RE KIND OF SMALL. I SAY I HAVE A CLOSE PHOBIA. OKAY, SO, SO ANYWAY, SO I BETTER DON'T GET ARRESTED. OUR JAILER ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CUSTODY AND THE CARE OF THOUSANDS OF, UH, OFFENDER EVERY YEAR, AS WELL AS THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SAFE AND SECURE FACILITY. THEY PROVIDE A SAFE AND PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR OFFICER AND THE INMATE BOOK AND HOUSE IN OUR JAIL FACILITY, OFTEN TO THE RISK OF, UH, THEIR WELLBEING. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OUR LEADER JAILER. UH, JOE MARTINEZ IS OVER HERE. NO. OKAY. AND, BUT OVER HERE ON THE SCRIPT. BUT ANYWAY, I, I, YEAH, I WILL, I WILL HAVE A LIEUTENANT TO SAY SOMETHING AND OR CHIEF, THANK YOU SO MUCH. GO AHEAD. UH, I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, OBVIOUSLY OUR JAIL STAFF IS, UH, WE RUN A 24 7 OPERATION IN OUR JAIL. WE HAVE, UH, APPROXIMATELY 24 BEDS, AND OUR JAIL STAFF JUST IS, IS CONSTANTLY BUSY. SO THEY'RE IN THERE EVERY DAY, UH, BOOKING ALL THE, UH, PEOPLE THAT WE BRING IN, TAKING CARE OF ALL THE PAPERWORK AND, UH, BRINGING IN ANYBODY, TAKING CARE OF THEM. 'CAUSE THEY'RE, AT THIS POINT NOW, OUR RESPONSIBILITY, RIGHT? SO OUR JAIL STAFF WORKS VERY HARD. THEY KEEP US, UH, NICE AND, UH, OUT OF TROUBLE WITH THE STATE AND THE FEDS, AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING WE DO, WE DO ONLINE. AND, UH, ONE THING I JUST LIKE TO MENTION IS A LOT OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT EXPLORERS IN THE LAST MEETING. UH, OUR JAIL STAFFS SOMETIMES ALSO TURNS INTO POLICE OFFICERS. UH, ONE OF OUR JAILERS IS A, IS A RECRUIT. SO HOPEFULLY, UH, SHE WILL BE ATTENDING THE POLICE ACADEMY. I ACTUALLY STARTED HERE IN 1998 AS A JAILER. AND THEN AS OBVIOUSLY I'M WHERE I'M AT NOW. SO, UH, OUR JAIL IS ALSO ANOTHER RECRUITING GROUND THAT WE USE FOR OUR, UH, LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY. AND WE JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT THEY DO. SO, SO, SO YOU CAN, YOU, YOU CAN SEE, UH, WE HAVE A FULL SERVICE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE, UH, UM, OKAY. FOUND ALMOST ABOUT 112 BUDGET. OKAY? YOU'RE SMILING. OKAY, NOW, YEAH, WE WANT TO GO TO 120, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THE BUDGET IS OVER THERE. SO WE ARE FIGHTING FOR THE BUDGET AND BRING MORE INCOME TO US. SO WE CAN HAVE A 120,000 POPULATION, 1000 PER WE, WE NEED HAVE A, A MORE OFFICER TO PATROL OUR STREET, AND THEN THE FIRE WILL SAY, HEY, B TWO. OKAY? SO, OKAY. SO I KNOW. SO, SO WE HAVE TO BE FAIR AND TO, TO, UH, MAKE SURE POLICE AND FIRE ALL HAND IN HAND WALKING TOGETHER. HARMONY. AND I WANT SAY THIS, THE JAILERS OKAY. SAYING, THANK YOU SO MUCH, THAT WHIS COVINA HAS A JAIL, OKAY? 24 BED. SO WE ALL DON'T GET ARRESTED. BE CAREFUL. OKAY? I, I TRY TO STAY INSIDE. IT'S, IT IS, I SAY IT AGAIN. IT'S KIND OF SMALL, BUT IT'S PRETTY CLEAN. OKAY? BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH AS A, AS OUR GREAT CITY AGAIN, AND OKAY. PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL CORRECTIONAL OFFICER [00:20:01] WEEK. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION. OKAY. UH, NEXT THING, I I THINK YOU SHOULD, TWO OF YOU SHOULD STAY HERE, OKAY? YEAH. NO, DON'T GO AWAY. OKAY? I THINK IN LAST MEETING, LAST MEETING, UM, YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION ABOUT, UH, THE, I, TODAY, THIS MORNING, I JUST WENT TO NOGALES HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEY HAVE A POLICE ACADEMY INSIDE THE NOGALES HIGH SCHOOL, AND THE SAME TIME, AND WE LAST TIME YOU TALKING ABOUT EXPLORE PROGRAM. OKAY. SO TO RECRUIT OUR HIGH SCHOOL OKAY. AND THE STUDENT, AND TO GO TO THE OKAY. FUTURE, OKAY. AND, UH, MAYBE BECOME A POLICE OFFICER. OKAY? AND I KNOW WE HAVE EXPLORER FROM THE FIRE, THEY WILL GO TO THE FIRE, OKAY? AND THE FIRE BECOME A FIREFIGHTER. BUT THE THING IS, THE EXPLORE PROGRAM IS REALLY CAN HELP ALL THESE YOUNGSTERS TO JOIN AND TO LEARN AND ALSO DISCIPLINE. OKAY? AND THEN THEY SAY, OH, MAYBE GO TO THE POLICE ACADEMY AND COULD BECOME OUR POLICE OFFICER. I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. AND LAST TIME, I THINK, UH, UM, BRIAN OKAY. OR OUR, SOME OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER ASKING ABOUT, SO YOUR BUDGET OKAY. FOR, TO RECRUIT ALL THIS EXPLORER, BECAUSE I KNOW POA IS NOT REACHED. OKAY. I THINK YOU GUYS NEED A LOT OF DONATION. SO, AND THEN YOU KIND OF SAY, HEY, WE, WE, WE NEED SOME DONATION TO KICK OFF THIS PROGRAM. SO, AND THEN THAT WAS BROADCAST. AND THEN I HAVE A CHINESE ASSOCIATION, WEST COVINA, AND THEY, THEY, THEY REACH ME. OKAY? AND THEY SAY, HEY, WE WANNA HELP OUT FOR OUR FUTURE, BECAUSE COMMUNITY SHOULD BE ALL WORK TOGETHER. SO, OKAY. HERE, CHINESE ASSOCIATION, OKAY. WEST COVINA, WHICH COME UP, OKAY. AND THEY WANT TO DO A DONATION FOR YOUR EXPLORE PROGRAM. OKAY? I, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH, OKAY, MAYBE $10. OKAY? OKAY. I DON'T KNOW, YOU WOULD TAKE ANYTHING. THEY, THEY, THEY ACCEPT ANYTHING. SO HAVE YOU, HAVE, YOU EVER DON'T, DON'T SHOW THE CHECK. THAT THAT, OKAY. UH, GOOD EVENING, DEAR MAYOR. UH, DEAR UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND, UH, CHIEF OF POLICE AND OUR RESIDENTS, UM, MY NAME'S DANIEL. UH, I'M SO HONORED TO BE HERE, UH, REPRESENTING THE CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF VAS COVINA, UH, C-A-A-W-C. UH, TONIGHT, UH, CAWC WILL, UH, DONATE, UH, $7,500 TO VAS COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, FOR, UH, PROGRAM. AND I WANNA THANK YOU, UM, MAYOR TONY WU, WHO HAS PERSONALLY, UH, WHO HAS PERSONALLY MATCHED, UH, THE, THE AMOUNT OR WITH THIS, UH, 11,500 CONTRIBUTIONS. THANK YOU SO MUCH, . SO, UH, WITH THE TOTAL, UH, $15,000, WE'LL DEDICATE, UH, THE EMPOWER TO EMPOWER OUR, UH, YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THE EDUCATION AND THE ENGAGEMENT IN LAW, UH, ENFOR ENFORCEMENT. AND I THINK THE, UH, EXPLORE, UH, EXPLORE PROGRAM WILL, UM, SERVE AS THE VITAL BRIDGE BETWEEN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. UH, WE, UH, AND, UH, THE VALUE OF THE SERVICE, UH, THE LEADERSHIP AND THE COMMUNITY, UH, INVOLVEMENT. AND, UM, UH, ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS ARE A POLICEMAN, SO, UH, I, I FEEL LIKE I'M VERY SAFE, SO I'M REALLY SO PROUD OF, SO YOU HAD TO GET MORE MONEY, . WE LIVE A LONG, LONG TIME. AND THEN, UM, MY, UH, OUR, UH, MAYOR TONY W UH, USUALLY TOLD US THE POLICEMEN, UM, PLAY A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE COVE, UH, COVINA COMMUNITY. YES. SO ALL OF THOSE INSPIRE US TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM. SO TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE VES COVINA SAFER AND, UH, UH, MORE UNITED FOR A PLACE FOR WAR FROM YOUNG PEOPLE. THANK YOU. OKAY. WHERE, WHERE, WHERE'S THE MONEY? WHERE'S THE, WHERE'S THE, WHERE'S THE CHECK? OKAY. AND PRESENT A CHECK TO THE LIEUTENANT, OKAY? AND, UH, THIS IS OUR EXPLORER, RIGHT? IS THIS A OKAY. SEE, SEE, NOW YOU CAN GO TO COMPETITION, OKAY? YEAH, YEAH. OKAY. YOU HAVE MONEY NOW. OKAY? AND, UH, ONE THING IS THIS. OKAY? AND, UH, UM, WHEN I, THEY SAY THEY WANT TO, UH, DONATE $7,500, AND THEY SAY, I SAY, OKAY, LET ME FIND A DONOR. SO I, I GOT ANONYMOUS PERSON. WANT TO DONATE ANOTHER THOUSAND, UH, OKAY, 7,500. UH, THIS IS NOT FOR ME, OKAY? THIS IS ANONYMOUS. OKAY? SO THIS IS ANOTHER 7,500. NOW YOU BASICALLY, YOU GOT A 15,000. [00:25:01] NOW THEY, THEY HAVE A UNIFORM, OKAY? AND THEY HAVE A OKAY AND A COMPETITION. AND, AND, AND, AND YOU CAN SEE IT'S A VILLAGE TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN. OKAY? WE ALL TOGETHER AND TO MAKE SURE OUR CHILDREN HAVE A FUTURE AND THEY WANT TO BE EXPLORE. AND THEN LATER ON WE HAVE THE FIRE. WE IN TROUBLE. THE FIRE SAY, ME TOO. THEY WANT $7,500 TOO. OKAY? YOU BETTER GO TO DONATE. OKAY? FUNDRAISING, MORE MONEY TO, TO DONATE. OKAY? AND NEXT TIME, OKAY, NEXT TIME. OKAY, WELL, I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU COME IN TODAY, OKAY? SO, SO , OKAY, LET ME GO TO GO GET MY CHECKBOOK, OKAY? SO ANYWAY, OKAY? BUT ANYWAY, AND, UH, DO I HAVE A PROCLAMATION? NO, NO. RIGHT? SO BASICALLY, UH, THIS IS THE THING, OKAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY? AND, UH, I THINK YOU ARE GOING GO IN THE FRONT, OKAY? IN THE FRONT OF PICTURE. OKAY. SEE, SEE, WE, WE, WE WANT TO SUPPORT OUR, EXPLORE THE POLICE. YEAH. YEP. . YEAH, COME HERE. OKAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH AND, UH, BE GOOD AND BECOME OUR POLICE OFFICER. SO HUMBLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND THEN WE HAVE A NEXT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU, SIR. HEY, I, BRIAN, OKAY, COUNCILMAN, UM, . OKAY, LET'S, LET'S GET SOME FUNDRAISING FOR, FOR FIRE. OKAY? I'LL FIND YOU GUYS MONEY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. UH, UH, NEXT ONE, WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. OKAY? FIRE DEPARTMENT EXPLORER AND THE EAGLE SCOUT AWARD PRESENTATION. OKAY? UH, WHO IS GOING TO COME UP? CHIEF, OKAY. ACTING CHIEF, UH, BROWN. UH, AND, UH, MAYBE YOU CAN INVITE THEM OR COME UP OR DATA WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. YEAH, OKAY, GO AHEAD. YEAH, IF I COULD HAVE ENGINEER DE LA CRUZ COME UP, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE THE EXPLORER POST COME UP AS WELL. WHILE, WHILE THEY'RE COMING UP, I ALSO WANNA RECOGNIZE THE WEST COVINA, UH, POLICE DISPATCHERS. UM, EVEN THOUGH WE MOVED OVER TO VERDUGO, THEY STILL TAKE THE INITIAL CALL COMING IN FROM THE CITIZENS AND THEN TRANSFER IT OVER TO VERDUGO. SO EVEN THOUGH WE'VE MOVED OVER TO A FIRE DISPATCH, WE STILL APPRECIATE YOU, YOU'RE STILL PART OF OUR FAMILY AND WE WANNA RECOGNIZE YOU GUYS AS WELL. ALRIGHT, SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE DIFFERENT PARTS HERE. THE FIRST PART, WE WANNA RECOGNIZE THE WEST COVENA FIRE EXPLORER POST 4 6 5. UH, THEY RECENTLY PARTICIPATED IN THE FIRE EXPLORER MUSTER, AND I'M GONNA HAVE ENGINEER DE LA CRUZ, UH, SPEAK TO WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MUSTER. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS BRIAN DE LA CRUZ. I'M AN ENGINEER HERE AT FIRE STATION, UH, TWO ON THE QUINT. I'M ONE OF THE EXPLORER ADVISORS. UH, RECENTLY WE TOOK OUR EXPLORERS TO THE MYTA EXPLORER MUSTER. UH, MUSTER IS A COMPETITION. UM, THERE OUR EXPLORERS PARTICIPATED IN EVENTS THAT HELPED 'EM WITH TEAMWORK AND FUNDAMENTALS OF BASIC FIREFIGHTING. SO THEY HAD, UH, DIFFERENT COMPETITIONS, HANDS-ON, TIMED EVENTS. SOME OF THEM INCLUDED TWO MINUTE DRILL, HOSE DRAG, RACE, MAKE AND BREAK RACE, THE BUCKET BRIGADE AND THE TIRE DRAG RACE. SO SOME OF THESE SKILLS ARE KIND OF OLDER TECHNIQUES. UM, THEY'RE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF FIREFIGHTING, WHICH IS GOOD FOR THE EXPLORERS. IT KIND OF TEACHES 'EM KIND OF OLDER METHODS. UH, NOW WE HAVE ALL THESE MODERN DAY TOOLS, SO IT'S PRETTY NEAT FOR THE KIDS. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT TEACHES THEM TEAMWORK, HOW TO WORK TOGETHER AS A OPPOSED, UM, HOW TO COME TOGETHER, COMMUNICATE, UM, GET A, A TASK DONE. SO OVERALL THEY PLACED EIGHTH. UH, WE HAD TWO TEAMS, UH, 12 EXPLORERS, AND, UH, THERE WAS 13 TEAMS ACROSS, UH, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THEY DID REALLY WELL. UM, THEY REPRESENTED THEMSELVES AND THE DEPARTMENT REALLY WELL. SO, GOOD JOB, GUYS. YEAH, I JUST WANNA REITERATE HOW PROUD WE ARE OF OUR WEST COVINA EXPLORER POST. UM, THEY COME ONCE A WEEK ON THURSDAY NIGHTS, TRAIN EVERY NIGHT WITH OUR, ALONGSIDE OUR FIREFIGHTERS, UH, TO GAIN VALUABLE EXPERIENCE, UM, PREPARING 'EM TO GO ON TO EMT SCHOOL, THE FIRE ACADEMY. AND, UH, WE'VE HAD QUITE A FEW OF, OF OUR EXPLORERS GO ON TO GET HIRED FULL-TIME, INCLUDING ENGINEER DE LA CRUZ. THANK YOU. [00:30:01] OKAY, THANK YOU. FIRE DEPARTMENT, DEPARTMENT, THANK YOU, CHIEF. OKAY. YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE ALL THESE YOUNGSTER WILL ONE DAY BECOME OUR FIREFIGHTER. SO, UH, UH, CHINESE ASSOCIATION, MAYBE YOU NEED TO OPEN YOUR WALLET, OKAY? OKAY. UH, MAY GO BACK TO, OKAY. I THINK WE HAVE TO BE FAIR. OKAY? SO I, I WILL FIND ANOTHER ANONYMOUS PEOPLE, MAYBE BRIAN, SO WE CAN AND HELP YOU GUY OUT. BUT I THINK WE ARE VERY PROUD, NO MATTER POLICE ON FIRE, EXPLORE IS OUR FUTURE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN SEEING YOU GUY A LOT, AND YOU CAN BE HELPING THE CITY A LOT. WE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. WE PROUD OF YOU. I THINK YOU WILL BECOME ONE DAY AS OUR HERO AND, UH, BE HELPING OUR CITY. I THINK, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE TO HELP OUR YOUTH, OKAY? BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR FUTURE. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. LET'S GIVE THEM ANOTHER HAND. YOU DON'T HAVE A PROCLAMATION, NOT ONE. SO LOOK LIKE WE DON'T HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR YOU. WE JUST HAVE A THANK YOU. OKAY? YEAH. OKAY. AND WITH MY MOUTH, WITH MY LIP AND THE PO POSSIBLE CHECKING THE MAIL FROM THE CHINESE ASSOCIATION. SO, BUT ANYWAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU WANT TO COME UP TOGETHER SO WE CAN HAVE A PICTURE, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE PROUD OF YOU. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. APPRECIATE. OKAY, LET'S GET THAT ANOTHER HAND, PLEASE. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD JOB. THANK YOU. OKAY. YOU WANT TO DO PRESENTATION? YEAH. OKAY. THE NEXT PART WE WANNA RECOGNIZE, UH, EXPLORERS. DEVIN CORTEZ, JAYDEN SERVIN, AND JESSE SLOVAR. UM, THEY RECENTLY WENT TO THE US FOREST SERVICE, HOSTED A 31ST ANNUAL Y LAND FIREFIGHTER ACADEMY. IT CONSISTS OF FOUR WEEKENDS, SPANNING 120 HOURS OF TRAINING. AND ON APRIL 27TH, THEY GRADUATED AND WERE PRESENTED WITH A-N-W-C-G FIREFIGHTER TWO CERTIFICATE. SO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THEM GOING OUT AND GETTING ADDITIONAL TRAINING. UM, WE HELP SUPPORT THEM. WE MAKE THE CONTACTS WITH THE FOREST SERVICE, UH, TO WORK WITH THEM TO GET THEM INTO THESE ACADEMIES, UH, TO GAIN MORE EXPERIENCE. UH, BOTH, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS IN WILDLAND, UH, FIREFIGHTING. WE CAN TAKE A QUICK PICTURE, AND THEN WE HAVE ONE LAST ONE. UH, THE LAST ONE IS, UH, FOR MATTHEW CAMPOS. UH, HE IS ONE OF OUR EXPLORERS. HE IS ALSO PART OF THE, UH, BOY SCOUTS WEST COVINA TROOP. 4, 3 3, UM, COUPLE MONTHS AGO, HE REACHED OUT TO US, UH, APPROACHED ENGINEER DE LA CRUZ ABOUT AN IDEA THAT HE HAD FOR HIS EAGLE SCOUT PROJECT. SO, WITH THAT, I'M GONNA HAND THE MIC OVER TO MATTHEW AND LET HIM EXPLAIN, UH, WHAT HIS EAGLE SCOUT PROJECT IS. HAD A LITTLE SPEECH, I'M GONNA SAY. UM, GOOD EVENING. MAYOR WU, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, FIRE CHIEF BROWN FELLOW FIREFIGHTERS AND EXPLORERS, AND BOY SCOUTS. MY NAME IS MATTHEW CAMPOS AND I AM EX A SENIOR FOR WEST COVINA HIGH SCHOOL. I AM ALSO IN THE FIRE EXPLORER WITH THE WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND ALSO A LIFE SCOUT WITH TROOP 4 3 3 AT THE WEST COVINA BOY SCOUTS. I WANT TO THANK THAT WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR ALLOWING ME TO CREATE THESE FLAG RETIREMENT BINS FOR MY EAGLE SCOUT PROJECTS. I AM HONORED TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE THESE FLAG RETIREMENT BINS FOR [00:35:01] THE CITY AND ITS COMMUNITY MEMBERS. I WANT TO EXTEND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO FIREFIGHTER BRIAN DE LA CRUZ AND THE ADULT LEADERS FOR HELPING ME MAKE THIS, UH, FLAG RETIREMENT BINS. I COULDN'T DO WITHOUT YOU GUYS. UH, IT MEANS A LOT TO ME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT THIS? YEAH. SO, UM, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF IDEA OF WHAT THIS, UH, THIS, UH, FLAG DISPOSAL BOX IS. SO, UH, MATTHEW MADE A CONTACT WITH A POSTMASTER AND GOT THREE MAILBOXES DONATED FOR HIS PROJECT. UM, HE PUT THE WRAP ON THERE AND DID THE FULL DESIGN OF HOW IT IS. AND THE PURPOSE OF IT IS WHEN YOU'RE AT YOUR HOUSE AND YOU FLY THE FLAG PROUDLY, UM, AROUND YOUR HOST, UH, HOUSE OR AT YOUR BUSINESS, YOU KNOW, EVENTUALLY THE WEATHER GETS TO 'EM AND THEY BECOME TATTERED AND, UM, NOT READY OR, UH, YOU KNOW, NOT PROPERLY DISPLAYED. SO WHAT YOU CAN DO IS, UM, YOU DON'T WANNA THROW 'EM IN THE, IN THE TRASH THAT'S DISRESPECTFUL TO THE FLAG, UH, FOR THE COUNTRY THAT, UH, AND THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT SERVE OUR COUNTRY. SO WHAT YOU CAN DO IS, UH, WE PLAN TO KEEP ONE OF THESE BOXES HERE AT CITY HALL. UH, WE'RE GONNA PLACE ANOTHER ONE OVER AT OUR FIRE STATION, TWO BY THE SENIOR CENTER, AND THEN ANOTHER ONE AT, UH, FIRE STATION FOUR. SO THERE'LL BE SPREAD OUT AMONGST THE, UH, CITY. YOU CAN BRING YOUR FLAGS AT ANY TIME, JUST DROP IT IN, LIKE, UH, THE SAME WAY THAT YOU WOULD DO YOUR MAIL. AND THEN ONCE WE, UH, WE WILL PERIODICALLY CHECK 'EM, AND ONCE WE COLLECT ENOUGH OF 'EM, WE WILL, UH, BRING THEM EITHER TO THE AMERICAN LEGION POST SEVEN 90, LOCATED ON AZUSA OR THE WEST COVENA ELKS LODGE, UH, 1996, LOCATED ON MERCED, AND THEY WILL DISPOSE OF THE FLAGS PROPERLY WITH THE PROPER CEREMONY. SO THAT'S THE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS AND IT'S, IT'S WELL NEEDED WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND WE'RE SO PROUD THAT MATTHEW WAS ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS FOR US. AND I THINK IT WAS A GREAT PROJECT, NOT ONLY FOR HIS SCOUTS REPRESENTING HIS SCOUTS, REPRESENTING THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, REPRESENTING THE EXPLORER POST, BUT MOST OF ALL REPRESENTING THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. WELL, UH, MATTHEW, OKAY, THIS IS OUTSTANDING DESIGN. OKAY? I DON'T KNOW WHY NOBODY THINK ABOUT THIS, BUT THIS IS OUTSTANDING. YEAH, THIS IS REALLY CAN HELP. OKAY? WHEN YOU HAVE A FLAG, THIS GONNA RIP THIS AND THAT, THEN YOU HAVE A PLACE TO RECYCLE AND PUT THIS IN OTHER PLACES. SO, REPRESENT A GREAT CITY OF WEST COVINA, MATTHEW CAMPOS, SCOUTING AMERICAN TROOP, 4, 3, 3 FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING OF A DESIGN FOR THIS, FOR OUR CITY, AND FOR NOT ONLY LAND, ESPECIALLY TO RESPECT OUR FLAG, OKAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT. GREAT JOB. GREAT JOB, GREAT JOB, GREAT JOB. OKAY, AND, UH, NEXT ONE, THE LAST PRESENTATION IS A PUBLIC WORK. UH, DO WE HAVE PUBLIC WORK PEOPLE COMING UP? OKAY. AND WE HAVE, UH, MIKE AND, UH, RENEE. OKAY, WELCOME. OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY, YOU WANT TO COME UP? OKAY. OH, YEAH. SO LET ME READ THIS. OKAY. IF YOU DON'T MIND. THEY DID PREPARE. OKAY. SO I TRY TO BE FAST, OKAY? UM, NOT A JAILER. WE ARE REALLY PASSED. SO LET'S GO TO THE, OUR APPRECIATION OF PUBLIC WORK STAFF. OKAY? I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW, OKAY? AND THAT ON SOME HERO YOU SEE ON THE STREET, YOU SEE THE, THE PEOPLE WITH THE ORANGE TSHIRT AND, UH, WALKING UNDER THE HUNDRED DEGREE AND, UH, WALKING ON THE STREET AND TRY TO DO THE DRAINAGE AND TRY TO CLEAN THE STREET AND TRY TO HELP A LOT OF OUR ISSUE, OKAY? AND ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE HEAVY RAIN. AND, UH, THE PUBLIC WILL GO TO THE, UH, OKAY, THE, THE, THE OVERPASS UNDERPASS AND TO PUMP ALL THOSE FLOOD WATER SO PEOPLE CAN SAFELY GO THROUGH LAND. YOU CAN SEE THE, THE PUBLIC OKAY. WORK STAFF THAT YOU DON'T SEE THEM, BUT THEY ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT STAFF IN OUR CITY. SO WHOLE ANNUALLY IN MAY, UH, THIS YEAR THING IS, UH, OKAY, THE PEOPLE PURPOSE AND PRESENCE [00:40:01] HIGHLIGHT THREE. CORNERSTONE, IDEALLY THAT MOTIVATE PUBLIC WORK PROFESSIONAL TO SERVE IN THEIR COMMUNITY EVERY DAY. MEANING THE NEED PEOPLE IS WHO GIVE PUBLIC WORK ITS SENSE OF PURPOSE. MANY TIMES PUBLIC WORK PROFESSIONAL WILL NEVER MEET THOSE WHO LIVE HAVE BEEN IMPACT. BECAUSE WHEN THINGS ARE GOING RIGHT, NOBODY KNOW THE PUBLIC WORK IS THERE WHEN IT GOING ROUND. I HAVE A EARFUL, OKAY? THEY CHEW ON ME. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GRAFFITI? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TREE? WHY IS THAT OVERGROWN VEGETATION? AND I'VE BEEN BARK THEM ALL THE TIME TO HELP, TO CLEAN UP TO BEAUTIF BEAUTIFICATION OF THE CITY. SO PROBABLY WILL IS STA BUT WITHOUT THE FFA, PUBLIC WORK IS EVER PRESENT, OKAY? WORKING IN THE BACKGROUND TO ADVANCE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL, I THINK LET'S GIVE THAT A HAND, OKAY? BECAUSE FOR THE, FOR THE PEOPLE WORKING THE PUBLIC WORK, OKAY? THAT IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE CITY OKAY, NO PUBLIC WORK THAT BASICALLY THE CITY WILL BE A LOT OF TRASH, A LOT OF THING GOING ON. AND, UH, SO, AND UH, ANNE, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR WU. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR, UM, DEPUTY PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, RAUL ADO, COULD NOT BE WITH US TONIGHT, BUT WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS, FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL FOR ALWAYS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF OUR STAFF. WE HAVE, UM, VERY DEDICATED AND HARDWORKING STAFF MEMBERS, SO WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT, UM, AND THE LEADERSHIP THAT YOU PROVIDE. AND THEN OF COURSE, TO OUR STAFF, MIKE RENEE, I KNOW YOU ARE JUST A REPRESENTATION, UM, OF THE ENTIRETY OF THE DEPARTMENT. UM, FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO FOR THE COMMUNITY, FOR THE RESIDENTS, UM, FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. UM, I SAY THIS TIME AND TIME AGAIN, I, BUT I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE PUBLIC WORKS MAINTENANCE IS TRULY THE BACKBONE, UM, OF A CITY. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO. UM, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HONORING THE DEPARTMENT THIS WEEK. SO THANK YOU, UH, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. AND I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN DRIVING, THEN I SAW THE, OUR STAFF WITH THE YELLOW T-SHIRTS. I STOP AND I SAY, OH, WHOA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THEN I HAVE A SELFIE WITH THEM. PEOPLE SAY, YOU SELFIE AGAIN. NO, I WANT TO APPRECIATE WITH OUR STAFF. THEY'RE OVER THERE AND THEY'RE FIXING THE CONCRETE, THE SIDEWALK. AND I THINK IT'S MAGNIFICENT TO SEE THAT. AND IF YOU SEE OUR STAFF ON THE STREET, MAYBE OFFER THEM DRINK, MAYBE OFFER THEM SOME, ANYTHING FOR THEM TO COOL, COOL DOWN BECAUSE THE SUMMERTIME'S COMING UP AND THEY ARE WORKING VERY HARD FOR US. AND, UH, MIKE, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. UH, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US UP HERE TODAY. I WANNA LET YOU KNOW ON BEHALF OF OUR TEAM, IT'S AN HONOR TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY. UM, I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO WORK HERE FOR OVER 24 YEARS, AND, UH, I'M JUST A SMALL PART OF OUR TEAM. WE HAVE OVER 31 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE OUT ON THE STREET EVERY DAY TRYING TO KEEP OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER AND KEEPING YOUR LIFE VERY UNIMPACTFUL, TRYING TO KEEP EVERYTHING GOING FOR YOU. SO JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF MY, MY TEAM THAT I'M FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WORK WITH. UM, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE A GOOD GROUP OF GUYS AND THEY ARE WORKING EVERY DAY TO GET BETTER AT THEIR TA AT THEIR CRAFT AND DO WHAT THEY CAN. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, RENEE. YES, THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. UH, MY NAME IS RENEE CHAVEZ AND I'M THE MANAGEMENT ANALYST FOR THE DEPARTMENT. I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO OUR STAFF WHO SHOWS UP ALL DAY EVERY DAY FOR WHATEVER EMERGENCY AND THE REGULAR WORKDAY. I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE RECOGNIZE THEM FOR, THEY'RE THE PEOPLE YOU DON'T SEE AT THE BEGINNING OF EVENTS. THEY DO THE SETUP, THEY'RE THERE DURING THE EVENTS, AND THEY'RE THE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY TAKE EVERYTHING DOWN IN ADDITION TO RESPONDING TO THE VARIOUS EMERGENCIES. SO IT'S A WONDERFUL THING THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO CELEBRATE THEM THE ONE WEEK THAT IS ACTUALLY DEDICATED TO PUBLIC WORKS. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT IF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS COULD ACTUALLY SPEAK TO THAT AS WELL. YEAH. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WANTED TO SAY, OKAY. AND GREAT CITY WEST COVINA WITHOUT A GREAT PUBLIC WORK, THEN WE WILL SEE THE TRASH OUT AND THE GRAFFITI ALL THE PLACES. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ALREADY TOLD ME, SAY, THE GRAFFITI GET REMOVED FAST, SO I WANT TO THANK YOU BECAUSE WE, WE DON'T LIKE GRAFFITI BECAUSE IT'S LOOK LIKE, OKAY, GANG BANGER. SO WE WANNA COVER THAT UP RIGHT AWAY. WE WANT A CLEAN, SAFE, AND PROUD CITY. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT'S A, A GREAT CITY OF WEST COVINA. WE'RE SO PROUD TO PROCLAMATION REGARDING THE NATIONAL PUPPY WORK WEEK. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WORK HARD AND CLEAN UP OUR CITY AND MAKE SURE OUR CITY IS BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND, AND, UH, BEFORE I, BACK TO MY SEAT. SO WE CONTINUE TO, OUR OVERALL COMMUNICATION, I WANNA SAY THIS. OKAY? [00:45:01] THIS COMING, UH, OKAY, MONDAY, UH, IT IS A MEMORIAL, OKAY? UH, S CEREMONY, OKAY? OVER HERE IN KOREA, IT IS AT 10 O'CLOCK AND WE WILL HAVE, UH, A LOT OF OKAY, UH, GOLD STAR FAMILY TO COME INTO OUR CITY AND PLUS, OKAY, WE WANT TO REALLY SHOW OUR APPRECIATION, ESPECIALLY PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE PEOPLE WITH THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE. A LOT OF THEM COMING FROM OUR CITY, THEY, THEY FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM. AND WE SHOULD BE HERE TO SAY THANK YOU BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM, WE WON'T BE HERE WITH THIS FREEDOM AND TO DISCUSS THIS TO MOVE ON OUR CITY. SO PLEASE, IF YOU HAVE TIME, COME AND JOIN US OR THIS COMING MONDAY, AND IF YOU SAY OKAY, BESIDE THE CEREMONY, WHAT ELSE? UH, WE HAVE A LUNCH. I THINK WE HAVE A HAMBURGER OR HOT DOG FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO STAY WITH US, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. APPRECIATE. OKAY. OKAY. UH, YEAH. OKAY. ANY COUNCIL WANNA SAY SOMETHING? OKAY, GO AHEAD, BRIAN. YEAH, I JUST, I JUST WANNA SAY WHAT A, WHAT A REMARKABLE IDEA THAT OUR FIRE EXPLORERS AND OUR, AND OUR BOY SCOUTS CREATED. I HOPE, UH, OUR, OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT OR OUR, OR OR UH, OUR CITY STAFF COULD DO A PRESS RELEASE FOR THE MEDIA BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS SUCH A UNIQUE AND, AND SUCH A PRESTIGE IDEA, AND IT'S GONNA, I THINK IT'S SO SPECIAL TO HAVE THAT IDEA IN OUR CITY. AND, AND WHEN IT COMES TO OUR PUBLIC WORKS, I WANT TO THANK OUR PUBLIC WORKS WORKS EMPLOYEES FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THEY DO. I KNOW MOST RECENTLY THEY WERE ABLE TO REPLACE OUT THE, THE LIGHTS AT ORANGEWOOD SKATE PARK AND NOW IT'S BRIGHT AND ILLUMINATED. NOW THEY WERE ABLE TO CHANGE OUT THE BOBS. SO THANK, I WANT TO THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM, UH, FOR SHOWING UP AND WORKING VERY HARD, BUT YEAH, THAT'S IT. ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL WANNA SAY SOMETHING? OKAY. [ORAL COMMUNICATIONS] AND OKAY, THEN I'M GONNA MOVE TO ORAL COMMUNICATION. OKAY. UH, COMMON ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER, UNLESS MODIFIED 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. MEMBER OF PUBLIC MAY NOT ENGAGE IN BEHAVIORALLY IS DISRUPTED AND TO THE ELDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. OKAY, NOT INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE SPEAKING OFF TOPICS. SPEAKING BEYOND THE SPEAKER ALLOWED TIME LIMIT MAKING SLANDEROUS OR PROFANE REMARK OR USING LOUD THREATENING OR ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, WHICH DISRUPT DISTURB THE PLETE OR RENDER INVISIBLE THE ELDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT THREATEN ANY PERSON WITH PHYSICAL HARM OR ACT IN A MANNER THAT MAY REASONABLE BE INTERPRETED AS AN INTIMATE THREAT OF A PHYSICAL HARM. WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED, PLEASE UH, CAN YOU SIT IN THE FRONT ROW AND DESIGNATE FOR PUBLIC SPEAK SPEAKER, YOU CAN IN THE LINE OR YOU CAN SIT IN THE FRONT ROW AND THE TIME WILL START WHEN YOUR NAME IS CALLED. OKAY. CITY COURT. HOW MANY SPEAKER WE HAVE TONIGHT? MAYOR, WE HAVE, UH, NINE SPEAKERS. YEAH, GO AHEAD. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS JERRY PATRAS, FOLLOWED BY JIM GRITCH, FOLLOWED BY DOUG FOUR. GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. TONIGHT I'M GONNA TALK. YOU WANT LOWER YOUR MIC, PLEASE? YEAH. THANK YOU. IT STAYED. OKAY. I'M GONNA COMMENT ON FINANCIAL ISSUES. I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED, BUT NOT, I GUESS REALLY TO SEE THE CITY'S GOING TO HAS THE DEFICIT FOR FIVE YEARS AND IT'S ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR. THE CONSENT CALENDAR BEING FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW, IS WHERE ROUTINE ITEMS ARE PLACED THAT CAN BE ACTED ON BY ONE ROLL CALL VOTE UNLESS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL REQUESTS A SPECIAL ITEM. I HAVE A QUESTION. IT'S FIVE YEARS OF DEFICIT SPENDING. YOU HAVE A PLAN TO DEAL WITH IT. ARE YOU GOING TO DEAL WITH THE DEFICIT OR SHOULD WE RESIDENTS JUST LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT? IT'S OUR MONEY. AND I DO THINK WE ARE ENTITLED TO AN EXPLANATION OF WHAT YOUR PLAN IS BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN IN OFFICE FOR A LONG TIME AND HAVEN'T DEALT WITH IT EFFECTIVELY, AND THAT'S NOT OKAY AND IT NEEDS TO STOP. I THINK. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SINCERELY THANK COUNCILMAN [00:50:01] CANTOS, THE MAY 6TH, 2025 CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES SAID THAT HE REQUESTED THAT THE STAFF BE INSTRUCTED TO PUT TOGETHER A BUDGET STUDY GROUP WHERE THE COMMUNITY IS TOGETHER, ALONG WITH THE COUNCIL AT AN OPEN MEETING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT TO SPEND OUR MONEY ON, RECOGNIZING OUR NEED TO STAY IN THE BLACK. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO PRIORITIZE AND DO IT TOGETHER USING THE CITY OF WALNUT AS A MODEL. THERE WAS A SECOND BY DIAZ, THANK YOU. AND A VOTE AND IT WAS APPROVED THREE TO TWO. AND I'D LIKE TO THANK MAYOR PRO TEM LEDDY LOPEZ VEDO FOR SUPPORTING THAT AND COUNCILWOMAN ROSARIO DIAZ FOR SUPPORTING IT. THIS IS OUR CITY AND IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE WE'VE HAD ANY REAL SERIOUS INPUT INTO WORK BUDGET WORKSHOPS. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. SINCERE INPUT. THEY GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS. THANK YOU COUNCILMAN CANTOS FOR RECOGNIZING THE RESIDENTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JIM GRITCH, FOLLOWED BY DOUG FOUR, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINA LARIOS. I'D LIKE TO START WITH A PERSONAL NOTE. UM, I WAS SCOUT MASTER OF TROOP 4 33 45 YEARS AGO. MAKES ME A LITTLE OLD, BUT, OKAY, , UH, YOU'RE STILL YOUNG , UH, HAVE I WAS, I HAD THE HONOR TO, UH, HAVE FIVE EVIL EVIL SCOUTS WHILE I WAS SCOUT MASTER. THE 10 YEARS I WAS DOING THAT. AND ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR LIVES, AT LEAST IN THOSE DAYS. THE BOY SCOUTS REALLY WORKED, UH, AND DID WONDERS. UM, AND I ASKED THE SCOUT MASTER TO STAY, JUST TO HEAR THAT LITTLE, LITTLE SPEECH. UH, THE, UH, SECOND, UH, SECOND PART, UH, IS MORE SERIOUS CITY BUSINESS. UH, AS YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN COMING HERE FOR EIGHT YEARS. MAYBE YOU DON'T, I'VE BEEN COMING HERE FOR EIGHT YEARS AND I'VE BEEN ON THE AUDIT COMMITTEE FOR EIGHT YEARS. UH, I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT PRIMARILY ONE THING, WHICH IS DEFICIT SPENDING. YOUR, YOUR STATE AUDITOR HAS COME TO THE CITY THREE TIMES TO TELL YOU YOU SHOULDN'T DO THAT. YOU SHOULDN'T SPEND MORE THAN YOU TAKE IN, BUT YOU KEEP DOING IT. YOU'RE PROJECTED TO KEEP DOING IT FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. AND I, I'VE SEEN NO ACTION. UH, PRIOR TO, UH, THE TWO NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE, UH, COUNCILMAN CANTOS AND COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ FINALLY, UH, ARE PUTTING SOME THINGS ON THE AGENDA TO START TRYING TO DEAL WITH FISCAL DEFICITS. AND, UH, I'M HOPEFUL THAT THERE WILL BE A PLAN COMING AND TO STOP IT ONCE BEFORE YOU GO BANKRUPT, BEFORE YOU HAVE TO FIRE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE. UH, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE IT GOES WHEN YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING. AND, UH, I I, I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT THERE'S THREE OUTSTANDING AGENDA ITEMS AND THE AUDIT COMMITTEE VOTED TO GET STAFF TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE THREE ITEMS, WHICH IS ONE OF 'EM IS DEFICIT SPENDING. THE OTHER IS QUESTIONABLE USE OF CITY RESOURCES. AND THE THIRD IS, UH, INADEQUATE, UH, ATTENTION TO GETTING VALUE FOR YOUR CONTRACTS. UH, YOU SIMPLY DON'T LOOK FOR OTHER POSSIBILITIES AND SPENDING, AND, UH, I HOPE THAT YOU SERIOUSLY CONSIDER TAKING ACTION, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE BIGGEST ISSUE OF ALL, WHICH IS YOUR ENORMOUS PENSION LIABILITY. THAT IS WHAT'S ACTUALLY CAUSING THIS PROBLEM. UH, AND IT ALL I CAN DO IS ASK. I I'M NOT SITTING UP THERE. UH, I'M HOPING THIS TIME I'M HOPEFUL SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, JIM. OKAY. I APPRECIATE DOG FOUR, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINA RIOS, FOLLOWED BY MARIO ALVARO. HI GUYS. UM, THE FIRST ITEM I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS ITEM NUMBER SIX, THE SELLING OF THE $2 MILLION PROPOSITION, A MONEY FOR $1.5 MILLION, UM, TO GO INTO AN UNRESTRICTED GENERAL FUND MONEY. UM, THAT'S GIVEN UP A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. UM, SO NOT THAT I'M AGAINST IT, BUT MY QUESTION IS, HAVE WE REACHED OUT TO OTHER AGENCIES OR CITIES TO BUY THIS FOR A BETTER PRICE? UM, THE CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD IS CURRENTLY BUYING THEM RIGHT NOW. THE CITY OF LONG BEACH TRA OR NOT THE CITY LONG BEACH TRANSIT IS CURRENTLY BUYING THEM RIGHT NOW. SO I'M JUST ASKING IF WE'VE GONE OUT TO OTHER CITIES, UM, OR AGENCIES TO GET A BETTER PRICE ON THAT. OR [00:55:01] DID WE JUST GO WITH FOOTHILL TRANSIT? I KNOW WE SOLD THEM SOME IN 2020, UM, BUT WAS THAT THE ONLY PEOPLE WE TALKED TO TO BUY THESE? AND ARE WE GETTING THE BEST PRICE FOR OUR DOLLARS? UM, NOT AGAINST IT THOUGH. UM, SECOND, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, JUST ASK, ARE WE GONNA OPEN UP THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW CITY MANAGER? UM, WE DESERVE THE BEST. I AM NOT STANDING HERE TODAY SAYING, MY LAND IS NOT THE BEST. I AM JUST STANDING HERE TODAY SAYING, WHAT IS THE PROCESS AND ARE WE GONNA BE LOOKING FOR THE BEST CITY MANAGER, UM, UM, TO, TO FILL THIS POSITION. UM, ALSO, UM, THANK YOU ALI FOR STANDING UP FOR WE, UH, WEST COVINA, UM, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. UM, THE THIRD IS THE TRAFFIC CONTROL PARKING, UM, SIGN VENDOR TRANSTECH. WE HIRED FOR A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, UM, TO DO PHASE TWO OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. I KNOW I'VE BEEN UP HERE SEVERAL TIMES ASKING, UM, BUT WE STILL NEVER HEARD FROM THEM ON WHAT PHASE TWO AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE WITH A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. UM, I CONTINUE TO REQUEST THAT THEY GIVE US A DETAILED PRESENTATION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY REGARDING WHAT THE HALF A MILLION DOLLARS WENT TO. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HESITATION TO HAVE THEM DO A PRESENTATION AS THEY PRESENT ALL THE TIME ON PARKING AND TRAFFIC, UM, FOR YOU GUYS. UM, SO LET'S HEAR FROM THEM WHAT THEY'VE DONE WITH THAT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. LASTLY, UM, I'D LIKE TO JUST ASK THAT WE BRING BACK, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GREAT TO SEE THE DISPATCHERS HERE TONIGHT. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WE LET GO LAST YEAR OR WE DIDN'T LET 'EM GO, BUT WE DISSOLVED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DISPATCHERS. UM, LET'S BRING THOSE CITIES, LET'S BRING THOSE CITY JOBS BACK AGAIN. LET, LET'S BRING IT BACK. LET'S BRING, UM, THE FIRE DISPATCHERS BACK. LET'S NOT SEND IT TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND KEEP GIVING THEM OUR MONEY. UM, SAME WITH THE, THE BUSINESS LICENSE. LET'S BRING THAT BACK TO THE CITY AND GET OUR RESIDENTS JOBS IN THIS CITY AND BRING IT BACK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. CHRISTINA RIOS, FOLLOWED BY MARIO ALVARO, FOLLOWED BY LUIS SANCHEZ. GOOD EVENING MAYOR, MAYOR PROAM, COUNCIL MEMBER, STAFF AND RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA. I'M CHRISTINA LARIOS. I'M THE INTERIM, UH, LIBRARY MANAGER AT WEST COVINA LIBRARY. AND I WANTED TO SHARE, UM, THAT LA COUNTY LIBRARY IS GOING TO BE OFFERING FREE SEMI-PRIVATE TUTORING IN READING AND MATH FOR GRADES ONE THROUGH SIX. UM, I'M HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT WEST COVINA LIBRARY IS ONE OF THE SELECT LOCATIONS. UM, THE SESSION ONE IS FOR READING. IT BEGINS JUNE 17TH THROUGH JULY 10TH. SESSION TWO IS FOR MATH, WHICH STARTS JULY 15TH THROUGH AUGUST 7TH. SO, UM, IF, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, YOU CAN CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE, LA COUNTY LIBRARY.ORG/SUMMER-STARS, AND THIS IS FREE FOR GRADES ONE THROUGH SIX. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MARIO SORO, FOLLOWED BY LUIS SANCHEZ, FOLLOWED BY MARIO, UH, TO MARIO. THERE WE GO. UH, GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL. UH, NO PREPARED SPEECH TODAY. UM, ACTUALLY GLAD TO SEE TROOP 4 33. STILL GOING STRONG. I WAS A MEMBER OF THAT. MATTER OF FACT, MR. GR HERE WAS MY SCOUT MASTER WHEN I WAS OUTTA ST BACK IN THE DAY. , UH, I REMEMBER GOING IN HIS BACKYARD WITH ALL THE, YOU ARE TWO YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME, REDWOODS, BUT, UH, WHAT'S THAT? YOU GOT TWO YEARS OLD AT TIME? YEAH, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UH, YEAH, I REMEMBER. DIDN'T GO THE EAGLE ROUTE. I ENDED UP GOING INTO THE, UH, POLICE EXPLORER PROGRAM HERE IN MUS COVINA, UM, FROM THERE. BUT, UH, GLAD TO SEE THAT THEY'RE STILL GOING STRONG. UH, WANTED TO SPEAK ON TWO ITEMS. ONE WAS THE DOG PARK THAT I KIND OF HEARD, UH, LAST CITY COUNCIL MEETING, UM, 2018. I'M A AVID, UH, ATTENDEE OF THE DOG PARK. UH, WE ARE VERY AWARE THAT THERE IS A DEVELOPMENT COMING. WE ARE WOULD LIKE TO COLLABORATE WITH THE DEVELOPER TO, YOU KNOW, GET THE BEST OPTION. UM, I BELIEVE THEY HAVE TO HAVE A GREEN BELT. IF WE COULD GET THE GREEN BELT TO KIND OF INCORPORATE TO THE PARK AND MAKE THE PARK BIGGER, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. UM, BUT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. A LOT OF THE PEOPLE AT DOG PARK UNDERSTAND AND, UM, UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DISCUSSING WITH THE MATCHING, THE GRANTS AND SO FORTH. YOU KNOW, LET'S JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN. UM, CAMERA WOULD BE A NICE STOCK PARK AS WELL. UM, SECONDLY, UH, TODAY JUST HAPPENED TO BE IN THE AREA AND NOTICE THAT, UH, NAMES WERE PUT ONTO THE MEMORIAL WALL. SO I WANT TO THANK, UH, THOSE THAT WERE PARTY TO GETTING THAT DONE. IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND NOTICED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MARIO. UH, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. LUIS SANCHEZ, FOLLOWED BY MARIO M, FOLLOWED BY TREVOR JACKSON. HI, MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. MY NAME IS LUIS SANCHEZ. I LIVE IN WEST COVINA FOR ABOUT NINE YEARS NOW. I'M IN DISTRICT FOUR. I HAVE VOTED FOR YOU , BUT I WANTED TO ADDRESS SOMETHING ABOUT THE STREET [01:00:01] SWEEPING SIGNS THAT JUST RECENTLY WERE PUT UP IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. IT'S CREATED A LOT OF CONFUSION BECAUSE THEY BOTH ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET. THEY SAY IT'S THE SAME DAY AT THE SAME TIME. AND THEN WHEN WE WALK AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IT'S ALSO WEDNESDAY, SEVEN O'CLOCK TO 11:00 AM AND THAT'S CREATING A LOT OF, UM, CONFUSION AMONGST THE NEIGHBOR, MY NEIGHBORS, BECAUSE I HAVE AN OLDER GENTLEMAN WHO WORKS NIGHTS AND HE'S WONDERING WHERE HE'S GONNA PARK HIS, HIS, HIS WORK TRUCK. UH, 'CAUSE HE'S, HE'S FIGURING HE MIGHT HAVE TO STAY UP UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK TO BE ABLE TO PARK RIGHT BY HIS HOUSE. I HAVE A OLDER LADY WHO RENTS A ROOM DOWN THE STREET IN A HOUSE, AND SHE DOESN'T HAVE PARKING INSIDE THE DRIVEWAY, SO SHE HAS TO PARK IT ON THE STREET. AND SHE'S WONDERING WHERE SHE'S GONNA PARK. I KNOW THE PROGRAM HASN'T STARTED, AND I'M NOT DEBATING THE MERITS OF STREET SWEEPING. I'M JUST GIVING YOU FEEDBACK THAT ITS IMPLEMENTATION DOESN'T MAKE SENSE RIGHT NOW. IT USUALLY GOES, IF YOU GO TO ANY OTHER CITY ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET, IT'LL BE LIKE MONDAY STREET SWEEPING, AND THEN ON THE OPPOSITE, UH, SIDE OF THE STREET IT WOULD BE TUESDAY OR OR ANOTHER DAY, NOT ON THE SAME DAY. SO IF YOU GUYS CAN TALK TO WHOEVER'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE, THE ZONING OR THE, THE, THE PROGRAM ITSELF OF HOW IT'S GONNA BE IMPLEMENTED, UH, IT WOULD BE A BENEFIT TO THE CITY BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT JUST LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE PO YOU'RE PASSING AN UNDUE BURDEN ON THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY AS OPPOSED TO TRYING TO HELP KEEP THE STREETS CLEAN, KEEP THE DRAINS FLOWING, WHICH AGAIN, I'M NOT ARGUING ABOUT THE MERITS OF STREET SWEEPING, BUT THE IMPLEMENTATION SO FAR THAT I'VE SEEN HAS CREATED A LOT OF CONFUSION. AND I KNOW THE PROGRAM HASN'T BEEN, UH, SCHEDULED TO START UNTIL JUNE, UH, OR JULY. I, I CALLED THE OFFICE EARLIER. BUT PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA BE AFFECTED BY THIS IF IT'S NOT ROLLED OUT PROPERTY. THANK YOU FOR YEAH. WE STILL FINE TUNE IT. OKAY. DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT. I WAS JUST GIVING YOU FEEDBACK. I UNDERSTAND. I DON'T NORMALLY COME HERE, BUT THANK YOU. IT GOT TO A POINT WHERE I KNOW TWO NEIGHBORS WHO ARE REALLY UNDERSTAND, CONFUSED AND ARE AFRAID OF LIKE WE TRIED TO WORKING PROCESS ELSE TO BE DOING. YES, I DO APPRECIATE IT. WELL TAKEN. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. UH, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS MARIO M FOLLOWED BY TREVOR JACKSON, FOLLOWED BY MR. G. GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNSEL. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME THIS TIME TO SPEAK WITH YOU. I'M HERE ON TWO REASONS. UM, THE CITY IS INSTALLED ON THE EAST SIDE OF AZU AVENUE, CORTEZ, WALNUT CREEK PARKWAY, HOLBECK. THEY INSTALL STREET SWEEPING SIGNS THAT SAY NO PARKING ON WEDNESDAY FROM 11 TO SEVEN. HOWEVER, THE PROBLEM IS, IS THEY PUT IT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET. MEANING WE CAN'T PARK ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STREET AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE ON WALNUT CREEK PARK SUCH AS OURSELF, WE HAVE THREE VEHICLES AND ONE CAR GARAGE. AND OUR GARAGE IS USED AS A STORAGE BASICALLY. SO WE CAN'T PARK IN THE GARAGE. UH, SO WE HAVE NO PLACE IF THIS SIDE EXISTS, THIS EXISTS, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO PARK ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STREET BECAUSE YOU WANT, THIS SIGN SAYS WE GOTTA CLEAR THE ENTIRE STREET. THAT'S INCLUDES HOLBECK CORTEZ, OUR STREET, UH, EAST SIDE OF HOLLENBECK. AND I DROVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WEST OF HOLLENBACK, UH, WEST OF AZUA. UH, THEY HAVE OFF OF STEWART AND WALTON CREEK. THEIR SIGNS SAY THURSDAY. AND THE PROBLEM WITH THEM IS JUST LIKE OURS, IT'S ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET. SO EVEN ON THE WEST SIDE OF AZUA, THEY CAN'T PARK ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STREET. THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO MOVE THEIR CARS SOMEWHERE. NOW I TRY TO FIND AN AREA TO WHERE WE CAN PARK OUR CARS, BUT NOBODY CAN GIVE US A DEFINITE ANSWER WHERE TO PARK OUR CARS. NOW, DIRECT DI MR. THE DIRECTOR HERE, I DON'T, CAN'T PRONOUNCE HIS LAST NAME, HE SUGGESTED WE WIDEN OUR DRIVEWAYS PARK IN THE GARAGE. UH, THAT'S, THAT'S NOT A, THAT'S NOT AN OPTION FOR MOST OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE STREET. I EMAILED, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DI. THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLIES. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR REPLIES AND YOUR CONCERN ABOUT OUR CONCERNS. AND THAT, UH, IT'S A SIMPLE FIX. YOU JUST NEED TO HAVE ALTERNATIVE DAYS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET SO PEOPLE CAN MOVE THE ONE SIDE AND THEN MOVE IT TO THE OTHER SIDE THE NEXT DAY. THAT'S, THAT'S BEING SAID. I ALSO EMAILED, UH, MS. MS. CONS, MEN DIAZ SIGNS THAT MY MOM'S HOUSE IS IN VALINDA ON THE OTHER SIDE OF STATER BROTHERS OFF OF AMAR ROAD. NOW THEY USE MONDAY, ONE TUESDAY THE NEXT DAY. SO EVERYBODY CAN MOVE THEIR CARS ACCORDINGLY. AND THAT WAY THEY, NOBODY GETS A TICKET AND IT'S BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET GETS SWEPT. THAT'S ITEM NUMBER ONE. ITEM NUMBER TWO IS, I ALSO NOTICED THAT IF YOU'RE COMING IN FROM STEWART OR LOCK ALLEN ONTO STEWART, THEY HAVE DOUBLE YELLOW SIGN, DOUBLE YELLOW STREETS. THERE'S NO BREAK IN THE, IN THE LINES, MEANING IF YOU CROSSED OVER, YOU'RE CROSSING OVER A DOUBLE, DOUBLE YELLOW. AND IT'S ALSO THE SAME SIGN IS COMING IN FROM AZUA ON THE STEWARD. SAME SI, SAME SCENARIO. BOTH LINES GO LIKE THIS. THERE ARE STOP SIGNS THERE, BUT BOTH LINES ARE DOUBLE DOUBLE. SO IF YOU WERE TO COME IN FROM AZUA AND CROSS OVER AND GO ONTO WALNUT CREEK, YOU'RE CROSSING OVER TWO [01:05:01] DI TWO LINES. THAT'S A DOUBLE, DOUBLE YELLOW. THAT'S TWO TICKETS. SO ALL THEY HAVE TO DO FOR THIS ONE HERE IS GO BACK AND PAINT A BROKEN LINE ON THE INSIDE, AND NOW YOU CAN LEGALLY CROSS OVER. THANK YOU FOR MY THANK YOU. IT'S A GOOD POINT. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. CAN YOU LEAVE THAT, UH, TO OUR CITY? YOU ALREADY RIGHT? I'M SORRY. CONTACT INFORMATION MAYOR YOU GOT WITH YOU? YES. SO OUR NEXT SPEAKER AND SHE HAS MY CONTACT TOO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE YOUR, THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER IS TREVOR JACKSON, FOLLOWED BY MR. G. GOOD EVENING. YEAH, WELCOME BACK. THANK YOU. UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, AND, UH, RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA. FIRST, I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AND FOR HEARING ME OUT AGAIN FROM OUR PREVIOUS CONVERSATION. UH, MY NAME IS TREVOR JACKSON, AND AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, I'M A LOCAL ENTREPRENEUR AND ARTIST, BORN AND RAISED WITH A HEART FOR THE CITY. I'M HERE TODAY TO RESPECTFULLY FOLLOW UP ON MY REQUEST TO RECEIVE APPROVAL FOR A STREET VENDOR LICENSE. MY GOAL IS TO SET UP SHOP ON WEEKENDS, SPECIFICALLY SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS DURING THE SUMMER. I'M BUILDING SOMETHING MEANINGFUL THROUGH MY BRAND, YOUNG VISIONARIES, WHICH REPRESENTS POSITIVE IDENTITY, COMMUNITY PRIDE, AND FORWARD MOTION. THIS IS MORE THAN JUST A CLOTHING LINE. IT'S A PLATFORM FOR INSPIRING YOUTH, PROMOTING SMALL BUSINESS CULTURE, AND CREATING A SAFE, CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT BRINGS VALUE TO WEST COVINA. I TRULY BELIEVE THAT ALLOWING VENDORS LIKE MYSELF TO OPERATE IN DESIGNATED AREAS WILL BRING LIFE TO OUR WEEKENDS, BOOSTING LOCAL ENGAGEMENT, OFFERING SOMETHING FRESH FOR RESIDENTS, AND SHOWING, UH, CITY SUPPORT FOR HOMEGROWN BUSINESSES. I ALSO WANT TO EXPRESS MY INTEREST IN BECOMING A PERFORMER AT ANY UPCOMING CITY EVENTS. AS AN ARTIST, MY PERFORMANCES ARE NOT JUST ENTER ENTERTAINMENT. THEY'RE UPLIFTING, MOTIVATIONAL, AND ROOTED IN REAL STORIES. I REPRESENT THE KIND OF POSITIVE, CULTURALLY RELEVANT VOICE THAT RESONATES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES ALIKE. TO SUM IT UP, I'M HERE TO ASK TWO THINGS. MY REQUEST TO BE APPROVED FOR WEEKEND STRENGTH VI FOR LICENSING THIS SUMMER, AND MY DESIRE TO BE INCLUDED AS A PERFORMER FOR WEST COVINA, UH, UH, HOSTED EVENTS. THIS IS MY SECOND TIME COMING BEFORE YOU BECAUSE I TRULY CARE ABOUT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. I WANT TO CONTRIBUTE, UH, THE GROWTH AND VIBRANCY OF WEST COVINA, NOT JUST AS A BUSINESS OWNER, BUT AS A LOCAL WHO'S INVESTED IN OUR COMMUNITY'S FUTURE. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR TIME, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CHANCE OF SPEAKING WITH YOU GUYS AND BUILDING SOMETHING WITH YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MR. G. OKAY, GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL MEN AND WOMEN AND MAYOR AND STAFF. UM, I HAVE FIRST OF ALL, OLI, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IN THE BUDGET LAST WEEK. I MEAN, LAST TIME I HAVE A QUESTION I ASKED ONCE BEFORE. I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF A RESIDENT OR A CITIZEN WAS, BECAUSE I'VE NOTICED WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY ON NON-RESIDENTS. WE'RE RUNNING THE DEFICIT, SO I THINK WE SHOULD PROBABLY FOCUS ON OUR RESIDENTS FIRST. SO PLEASE, I'D LIKE A DEFINITION. ALSO, I, I NOTICED THAT SOME OF THE BUSINESSES HERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE PRO-POLICE AND STUFF LIKE THAT. PRO FIRE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE IT. WE'VE UPGRADED THE BACK ALLEYS OVER HERE IN OLD TOWN WEST COVINA, BUT THEY'RE STILL, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO ENFORCE THE LOITERING LAWS? WE ARE STILL PUTTING PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE GRAFFITI FOR THE BUSINESSES. I HAVE GONE AND FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS, ESTABLISHED GOING INTO BUSINESSES TRYING TO EAT THERE. AND I LOOK AROUND SOME OF THE POOR SMALL MOM POP BUSINESSES GET GRAFFITI. I MEAN, THIS TYPE SHOULDN'T BE TOLERATED. YOU SHOULD HAVE A HIGHER STANDARD. AND ALSO, ALONG WITH THE PARKING ISSUE, I THOUGHT THE PEOPLE THAT WERE GOING TO INSTALL THE PARKING WEREN'T GONNA PUT IT DEAD CENTER ON SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY. I WAS DRIVING TOWARDS SOUTH HILLS COUNTRY CLUB ON GOING EASTBOUND ON CAMERON FROM MISSA, AND I NOTICED THERE WERE OVER HALF OF THEM ARE DEAD CENTER IN SOMEBODY'S PIECE OF PROPERTY. I THOUGHT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE A JOINT TO ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER. SO IF YOU WALKED OUTTA YOUR HOUSE, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SEE A SIGN AND ON AROUND THE 2,500 BLOCK TO ABOUT THE 2100 BLOCK, OR EVEN A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THAT. THOSE SIGNS ARE DEAD CENTER, SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY THAT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR THE CITY. IT LOSES THE VALUE OF THE PEOPLE AND LOSES FAITH. AND I, I REMEMBER SPECIFICALLY HEARING THAT THEY WERE GONNA DO THEIR BEST. AND THEN FROM WHAT I SEE, [01:10:01] THEY NEED TO DO BETTER. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND, AND ESPECIALLY THE LOITERING AROUND THIS, THE OLD CITY CENTER. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THESE LITTLE BUSINESSES. TIME. THANK YOU, MR. APPRECIATE. THANK YOU. UH, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NO FURTHER SPEAKERS. MAYOR. OKAY. CITY MANAGER. DO YOU WANT TO ANSWER THE, SOME THE QUESTION? OKAY. AND, UH, YEAH, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I'M, TAKE A MOMENT JUST TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE, UM, DURING ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. FIRST OFF, I WANNA THANK, UM, BOTH JERRY CHARS AND JIM RIVI FOR YOUR CONTINUED INTEREST IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA FINANCIAL HEALTH. AS WE CLOSE OUT THIS FISCAL YEAR 24, 25, AND WORK TOWARDS THE BUDGET FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR, THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT WITH CITY STAFF ARE ALSO REVIEWING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES IN ORDER TO ADDRESS ANY CLEANUP OR CONCERNS THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. SO YOUR COMMENTS WERE NOTED, AND AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR COMING THIS EVENING. UM, DOUG, FOUR, WE APPRECIATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS REGARDING THE PROPOSITION, A EXCHANGE, TRANSTECH PRESENTATIONS, DISPATCH, BUSINESS LICENSE. IT'S EVIDENT THAT YOU DO, UM, YOU'RE COMING FROM A PLACE OF CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, TAKES YOUR THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS INTO CONSIDERATION. SO THANK YOU. UM, CHRISTINA RIOS, UM, WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. I DON'T KNOW THAT SHE, OH, THERE SHE IS. UM, THE WEST COVINA LIBRARY CONTINUES TO BE A CORNERSTONE OF OUR CIVIC CENTER COMPLEX AND A PARTNER IN OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING THE UPDATES EACH AND EVERY WEEK. AND IF WE CAN ASSIST YOU IN PROMOTING YOUR SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT. WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO DO SO. UM, MARIO, UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. YOUR CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AROUND PARKS AND PROGRAMS, AND OF COURSE, UM, THINKING AND ACKNOWLEDGING, UM, THE WORK THAT, UM, THE CITY COUNCIL AS WELL AS STAFF DID IN ORDER TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, TO HAVE THOSE THREE NAMES ADDED TO THE MEMORIAL WALL. WE APPRECIATE, UM, THE CONTINUED DIALOGUE THAT WE HAVE WITH YOU, UM, ALWAYS, UM, FOCUSING IT IN A POSITIVE MANNER. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, LUIS, MARIO, TREVOR, AND MR. G. UM, YOUR, UM, FEEDBACK REGARDING STREET SWEEPING SIGNS, UM, DID NOT GO UNNOTICED JUST AS MAYOR WU HAD INDICATED. UM, WE ARE STILL IN THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE. WE'RE STILL TWEAKING. UM, CODE ENFORCEMENT, EXCUSE ME, THE PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT IS PRESENT ALONG WITH P POLICE, UM, PUBLIC WORKS, ALL EARS ARE LISTENING AND, UM, ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE MADE. UM, I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHAT THOSE WILL LOOK LIKE AT THIS TIME AS WE ARE CONTINUING TO ASSESS, BUT THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING YOUR FEEDBACK. UM, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, I HOPE THAT ADDRESSES. YEAH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AS SENIOR CITY MANAGER. SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU GUY, OKAY. AND, UH, YES. OKAY. WE, IT IS A WORKING PROCESS. OKAY. WE, WE, WE TALKED TO THE, UH, SWISS SWEEPING COMPANY. WE TRIED TO WORK IT OUT AND INCLUDING THE, UH, INSTALLER C AND WE, LAST TIME WE HAVE A, A COUNCIL DIA. OKAY. HAVE A MOTHER MAY I, WE WANT TO HAVE A OKAY. SOME KIND OF IMPROVEMENT. SO WE ARE WORKING, SEE HOW WE CAN MINIMIZE, OKAY. THE, THE, THE, OKAY. THE INTERRUPT OF PEOPLE PARKING THIS AND THAT. AND THEN IT IS A COUPLE, IT'S ONLY THE COUPLE HOURS A, A WEEK. WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, OKAY. THE SWEEPER CAN OFFER CLEAN AND THE STREET. AND I JUST WANT TO, I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW WE ARE WALKING. OKAY. MAKE SURE THAT ISSUE WILL BE ADDRESSED. YEAH, I AGREE. THE TWO SIDE AND THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD ALL IN THE SAME TIME. IT IS WHERE YOU PARK. OKAY. AND IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. WE KNOW IT, OKAY. WE KNOW IT, BUT NOW WE JUST WANT TO FINISH UP AND THEN WE STARTING CLEAN IT UP AND THEN SEE, FIND THE FEEDBACK FROM THE RESIDENT AND SEE HOW WE CAN, UH, IMPROVE AND CORRECT IT. AND TO MAKE SURE, MINIMIZE ALL THE OKAY. INTERRUPT ABOUT YOUR LIVING IN, IN THE CITY. WE WANT YOU ENJOY IT. CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL, SAFE CITY. AND THAT IS OUR AGENDA. AND MAKE SURE WE CAN CLEAN YOUR STREET BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE IT. WE DON'T DO IT AND THE STREETS LOOK PRETTY FILTHY AND WE WANT, REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE, BUT WE WILL TRY TO MAKE SURE THIS ISSUE WILL BE ADDRESSED AND TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KIND OF, UH, MINIMIZE THE INTERRUPTION FOR YOUR DAILY LIFE. YES, COUNCILMAN? UM, OKAY. GUT, GO AHEAD. YEAH, AND JUST TO, UH, PIGGY OFF, PIGGYBACK OFF, UM, WHAT MAYOR RU STATED AND, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, ROSARIO DIAZ STATED, UH, WE'RE ALSO, UH, KEEPING TRACK OF THE STREETS THAT NEED TO BE REDONE ON, ON THOSE SIGNAGE AREAS. SO I KNOW, I THINK TRANSTECH, ARE THEY HERE TODAY? IS TRANSTECH HERE? OKAY, PERFECT. SO, SO THEY'RE NOTATING DOWN. THEY'RE GONNA NOTATE DOWN YOUR STREET TOO. AND, AND ONCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ALL THE INSTALLATIONS ARE DONE, THEY'RE GONNA REVIEW ALL THOSE STREETS TO SEE WHICH STREETS NEED TO BE REDO REDONE TO MAKE SURE THERE'S PARK HOLD YOU. SO SOMETHING. YEAH, YEAH. YEP, YEP, YEP. OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. WHICH, WHICH, OKAY. OKAY. YEAH, YEAH. I'M SORRY. OKAY. IT'S NO INTERACTION. WE JUST WANT TO FINISH. I'M SORRY. OKAY. JUST, WE JUST WANNA FINISH. OKAY. BUT, UH, AGAIN, UH, WELL TAKEN [01:15:01] ABOUT ALL YOUR CONCERN. UH, WE RECEIVED QUITE A EMAIL REGARDING FROM ALL THE AREA. THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME ISSUE. NOBODY NORTH, EAST, SOUTH. IT'S A BIG PROJECT. IMPLEMENT WEEKLY SWEET SWEEPING, AND WE UNDERSTAND, OKAY. THEY WILL HAVE SOME KIND OF, UH, FRUSTRATION, THIS AND THAT. BUT AGAIN, AGAIN, THE CITY WILL WORK WITH, UH OKAY. A CONTRACTOR AT THE SAME TIME WORKING WITH THE SWEEPER. OKAY. AND WE WANT TO MINIMIZE, BUT LET US CONTINUE TO WORK. YOU WON'T GET ANY TICKET. OKAY. SO WHAT WE ARE MOVING INTO THE CORRECTION AND MAKE SURE OKAY. EVERYBODY LIKE CAN PARK SOMEPLACE NOT TOO FAR. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. SO, SO UNDERSTAND, LET'S MOVE ON, ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR. OKAY. ANY CITY COUNCIL WANT TO, OKAY. UH, HOLD ON. CITY [CITY MANAGER'S REPORT] MANAGER, YOU WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING REPORT? WE DO HAVE A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT THAT I CAN GIVE ON BEHALF. YEAH, GO AHEAD. IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO DO SO WHY NOT? SOUNDS GOOD. ALRIGHT, FA SO YOU GONNA HELP ME OUT? ALL RIGHT, PERFECT. GO AHEAD AND ADVANCE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO WE WANTED TO PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY WITH AN UPDATE. I KNOW THAT MARIO HAD ALLUDED TO IT DURING OUR ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, BUT THE VETERANS MEMORIAL IS RECEIVING AN UPDATE. UM, WE ACTUALLY HAD OUR CONTRACTOR OUT TODAY TO GO AHEAD AND ADD THREE HONOREES, UM, TO BE NAMED ON THAT MEMORIAL JUST IN TIME FOR OUR UPCOMING MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES. UM, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF FORMER WEST COVINA, MAYOR LLOYD JOHNSON AND THE WEST COVINA HISTORICAL SOCIETIES. THESE NEW ADDITIONS WERE VERIFIED TO HAVE BEEN WEST COVINA RESIDENTS WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR II. THESE HONOREES ARE WILLIAM THOMAS LANG, JACK WINTON WILKIE, AND HOMER HOBERT. CUSHMAN. NEXT UP WE'D LIKE TO POINT OUT AN AWARD, UM, THAT WAS GIVEN TO OUR WEST COVINA CHAMBER. UM, THE AWARD WAS AWARDED ON THURSDAY, MAY 8TH, 2025, BY THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UM, THEIR 2025 AWARDS OF EXCELLENT PROGRAM. UM, AND SO THE CATEGORY THAT THEY, THAT THE WEST COVINA CHAMBER WAS RECOGNIZED IN WAS IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. THIS CATEGORY RECOGNIZES OUTSTANDING AND INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS, WHICH HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DURING 2024. PROGRAMS HAVE MANAGED THAT HAVE MANAGED RESOURCES TO INFLUENCE OR CARRY OUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN A PROGRESSIVE, TIMELY AND OR COST EFFECTIVE MANNER. ALSO DISCUSSED DURING OUR PRESENTATIONS, UM, WAS THE POLICE UNITY TOUR. UM, SO OUR OFFICERS ACTUALLY ATTENDED THIS YEAR FROM MAY 10TH, 2025 THROUGH MAY 12TH, 2025. THE 2025 POLICE UNITY TOUR IS AN ANNUAL BICYCLE RIDE TO RAISE AWARENESS AND HONOR FALLEN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. THE TOUR TAKE PLACE OVER SEVERAL DAYS AND CULMINATES IN A RIDE IN AND CEREMONY AT THE NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON, DC THANK YOU. GO BACK ONE, PLEASE. PERFECT. UM, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ACTUALLY HELD TWO MOTHER'S DAY CELEBRATIONS ON FRIDAY, MAY 9TH, 2025. UM, THERE WAS A MOMMY AND ME TEA PARTY AT THE SHADOW O COMMUNITY CENTER, THE FEATURED TEA APPETIZERS, FUN ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING PAINTING, AND THEN A MOTHER'S DAY AT CORTEZ PARK COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER, UM, THAT FEATURED LUNCH, MUSIC, DANCING, AND FUN. AND THERE IS OUR MAYOR WITH HIS DANCING SHOES ON . UM, SO THANK YOU MAYOR. AND I ALSO BELIEVE OUR MAYOR EM ATTENDED, UM, THE EVENT AT THE SHADOW OAK COMMUNITY CENTER. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE STAFF AND THE COMMUNITY. GO IN ADVANCE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. OKAY. AS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, UM, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL CONTROL, CARE AND CONTROL IS HOLDING THEIR TALES OF VALOR. IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY. THE DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL WILL BE OFFERING A SPECIAL ADOPTION PROMOTION FROM MAY 23RD THROUGH THE 31ST. DURING THIS TIME, ADOPTION FEES, INCLUDING SPAY, NEUTER, AND MICROCHIPPING FEES, WILL BE WAIVED FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY FAMILIES WHO ADOPT A CAT OR DOG FROM ONE OF THEIR SEVEN ANIMAL CARE CENTERS. OKAY. AND THEN LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, UM, WE WANTED TO MAKE A NOTE THAT ON MAY 19TH, 2025, THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SENT, UM, A LETTER TO THE CITY INDICATING THAT THE CITY'S HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW AND IS CERTIFIED. UM, THE CITY HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE HCD ON THE HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE SINCE 2020. UM, A CERTIFIED HOUSING ELEMENT ALLOWS THE CITY TO ACCESS, UH, KEY STATE GRANTS AND PROGRAMS, AND ALSO ALLOWS THE CITY TO RETAIN LOCAL CONTROL OVER LAND USE, AND PROTECTS THE CITY AGAINST, UM, BUILDERS REMEDY CONSEQUENCES AND RISKS OF CERTAIN LAWSUITS. AND THEN OF COURSE, [01:20:01] WE DO HAVE SOME UPCOMING EVENTS. UM, RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM US IS OUR MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY, WHICH IS SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, MAY 26TH, 2025, HERE AT THE BERG CENTER COURTYARD FROM 10:00 AM TO 1:00 PM OUR PARKS AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN WORKSHOP NUMBER TWO WILL TAKE PLACE ON MAY 28TH AT THE CORTEZ PARK M SENIOR CENTER FROM 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM. UH, WE HAVE A DISTRICT FOUR COMMUNITY MEETING, UH, HERE AT WEST COVINA CITY HALL ON JUNE 11TH FROM 4:00 PM TO 6:00 PM AND THE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS BEGINS NEXT MONTH, JUNE 18TH, AND WE'LL RUN THROUGH JULY 30TH. UH, MAYOR WU, MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, THIS CONCLUDES THE REPORT. THANK YOU. YEAH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY CITY COUNCIL WE WANT TO ADD ON OR A QUESTION? AND OTHERWISE [CONSENT CALENDAR] I'M GOING TO MOVE TO CONSENT CALENDAR. OKAY. WE HAVE, UH, 1, 2, 7. ANY CITY COUNCIL WANT TO PULL ANY? OKAY, GO AHEAD. OKAY. AND COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, ITEM NUMBER THREE. OKAY, ITEM NUMBER THREE. ANY CITY COUNCIL? UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, GO AHEAD. YEAH, I'LL DO, UM, NUMBER FOUR AND NUMBER SIX. NUMBER FOUR, AND NUMBER SIX. AND, UH, UH, OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER. AND OLLIE, I WAS GOING, I'LL ALSO ASK FOR SIX. SO IT'S ALREADY ADDED, SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU, . IF THE COUNCIL DOESN'T MIND, CAN WE DO, UM, NUMBER SIX FIRST, NUMBER FOUR, SECOND AND NUMBER HOLD. THREE. THREE. NO, NO, JUST GO TO THE NUMBER. DO AN ORDER. OKAY. THAT'S GO NUMBER, DON'T CONFUSE. OKAY. AND, OKAY. SO DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? UH, 1, 2, 5, AND SEVEN. A MOTION. A MOTION. OKAY. AND, UH, WHO WANNA GO FIRST? SECOND, UH, COUNCIL. COUNCIL? NO, NO. UH, COUNCILWOMAN? NOT YET. UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. OKAY. MOVE THE MOTION. SECOND BY, UH, MAYOR POTENT, UH, LETTER LOPEZ VIDO. UH, ROCO, PLEASE. THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, A SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM LOPEZ VIDO TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THREE, FOUR, AND SIX. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PRO TEM LOPEZ VIDO. AYE. MAYOR WU. AYE. UH, THE MOTION TO APPROVE AND FIVE ZERO. AND [3) CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE COMPOSITION AND DUTIES OF THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE] WE MOVE ON. ON ITEM NUMBER THREE. WHO PUT THIS? OKAY. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO, UM, FOCUS ON YES. AGREED. ATTACHMENT NUMBER TWO, SECTION 22 DASH 1 74. PARKING PROHIBITED DURING CERTAIN DAYS OR HOURS. PREFERENTIAL PARKING PER PERMITS UNDER THE, UH, NUMBER CI WANT TO ADD A COUPLE OF STREETS THERE THAT HAVE NOT INCLUDED. THAT SHOULD BE . SO, UM, THE STREETS, UH, THESE ARE SOUTH OF WORKMAN AVENUE. THAT WOULD BE NORTH PHILLIPS AVENUE. EAST IDAHO STREET, EAST SHAM WOOD STREET PAGE. YEAH. WHAT PAGE ARE YOU? I DON'T HAVE A, UH, I GUESS IT WOULD BE, IF I MAY, THROUGH THE CHAIR, UH, AT YOUR DESK IS A RED LINE VERSION OF ATTACHMENT NUMBER TWO. UM, THAT, UH, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT, UM, THE RED LINE VERSION DID NOT GET UPLOADED TO YOU. OH, RIGHT HERE. THEN THAT WOULD BE ON PAGE, IT WOULD BE ON THE LAST PAGE. OH, NO, TAKE THAT BACK. THAT WOULD BE ON, WELL, I, SECOND TO LAST REVISION. THE REVISION. OKAY. CHAPTER 2022. SO WHAT SECTION AGAIN? THAT WOULD BE 22 DASH 1 74 7 4. OKAY. SO YOU SEE UNDER PARENTI IT TALKS ABOUT THE FOLLOWING STREETS OR PORTIONS THEREOF ARE HERE, HERE DESIGNATED AS STREETS FOR WHICH PREFERENTIAL PARKING PERMITS MAY BE ISSUED. SO THESE ARE LISTED HERE, BUT, UM, WHEN I HAD A MEETING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD THERE, UM, THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR STREETS LISTED. AND I HAD REQUESTED THAT THIS BE INCLUDED AND IT WASN'T. SO YOU WANNA ADD ON, I WANNA ADD THESE ON HERE. OKAY. CAN WE ADD ON, UM, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING A SEPARATE ORDINANCE FOR, FOR THE, FOR THE STREET PARK, UM, STREET PARKING PROGRAM. HOWEVER, IT'S WITHIN THE CITY COUNCIL'S PURVIEW TO MAKE CHANGES TO ANY OF, OF THE ITEMS PRESENTED AT, UM, AT TODAY'S MEETING. IF, IF THE COUNCIL FEELS THAT IT'S NECESSARY, MR. MR. MAYOR, THIS CAME AS A COUNCIL REQUEST FOR THE COMPOSITION CHANGE IN COMPOSITION OF THE TRAFFIC COMMITTEE. AND SO YOU CAN SEE BY YOUR RED LINE THAT THAT SUBSECTION C WAS NOT TOUCHED. NO. BUT SINCE IT'S, AND THAT WAS NOT A DIRECTION BY THE COUNCIL, BUT I GUESS IT WAS A DIRECTION BY COUNCIL [01:25:01] EARLIER. BUT THIS IS, THIS IS FIRST READING OR INTRODUCTION. WE CAN ADD THOSE NOW. AND THEN SECOND READING, THEY'LL BE ADOPTED. THERE'S, OKAY. SO DO WE HAVE ANY ISSUE? DO WE NEED, OKAY. UH, TRAFFIC ENGINEER TO OKAY WITH THAT, DO WE NEED THAT? IT LOOKS LIKE THOSE STREETS ARE PO THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, DIAZ MENTIONED ARE POSTED, SO IT'S OKAY. UM, BUT IT IS NOT INCLUDED IN, IN THE, IN THE CURRENT CODE. UM, HOWEVER, SO IT CAN, IT CAN BE INCLUDED. IT CAN, IT CAN BE INCLUDED, YES. GOT IT. UM, HOWEVER, JUST NOTE THAT WE ARE PREPARING A SEPARATE ORDINANCE. SO THIS SECTION MAY, MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE AS WELL. UNDERSTAND. OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIEREZ, GO AHEAD. YEAH, I THINK THERE'S, UM, I THINK THERE'S ACTUALLY A COUPLE OF STREETS MISSING OFF THIS LIST. I THINK THERE'S SOME STREETS IN DISTRICT ONE THAT ARE NOT ON HERE EITHER. 'CAUSE THEY HAVE SIGNAGE THAT SAYS PERMIT PARKING ONLY, BUT THEY'RE NOT ON HERE. SO MAYBE, CORRECT. THAT WAS PART OF, THAT IS PART OF THE UPDATE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON. OKAY. SO YOU GUYS WILL, UM, WILL YOU GUYS HAVE TO BRING THAT BACK TO US OR YOU'LL DO IT BY YOURSELF? YES. WE, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF, UM, WRITING THAT UP. OH, OKAY. AND WE WILL BE BRINGING IT TO THE CITY COUNCIL. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE CAN APPROVE THIS FIRST AND THEN WE ADD ON. YEAH. IF WE NEED MORE OF, UH, THE THREE NEED TO BE ADD ON, WE CAN ADD IT FOR NEXT MEETING. UM, YES, YOU CAN DO THAT. OKAY. UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. OKAY. THE REASON WHY I WANNA ADD 'EM NOW IS BECAUSE I HAD REQUESTED THEM SINCE LAST YEAR. AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE THERE. AND MAYBE WHEN YOU CUT AND PASTE THE NEW ORDINANCE, THEN MY STREETS, MY STREETS WILL BE THERE. OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S FINE. OKAY, THEN LET'S DO THAT. SO, SO CAN WE ADD ON YES. DO WE NEED A MOTION FOR THAT? YES. OKAY. AND YOU WANT A MOTION? OKAY. OKAY. AND, UM, OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION I MAKE TO ADD? YEAH, I'LL MAKE, HOLD ON. HOLD ON. THAT'LL GO FIRST. I WAS MAKE A MOTION. SO GO FIRST. SO MAKE A MOTION TO ADD MOTION ADD YOUR STREET. OKAY. SO I'M GONNA MAKE A MOTION TO ADD THESE STREETS, WHICH IS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALREADY DID. YOU I I HAVE, UH, NOR, UH, NORTH PHILLIPS, EAST IDAHO AND EAST. UH, CHAM WOOD. CHAM WOOD. SHAM WOOD. AND THE, AND IT WOULD BE EAST IDAHO. I, IDAHO. I'M SORRY. IDAHO. IDAHO HOME. THANK YOU. AND THEN, UM, THE STREETS SOUTH OF EAST ROLAND AVENUE WOULD BE LABA AVENUE. AND I'M NOT QUITE SURE IF PHILLIPS IS PART OF THAT, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO VERIFY THAT. OR MAYBE I SHOULDN'T EVEN ADD IT. NOW LAB, THAT WOULD BE WHEN? SOUTHEAST ROLAND AVENUE, SOUTH ROLAND. DO YOU, HOW DO YOU THINK WE, WE HAVE A LIST OF STREETS THAT ARE, ARE PO THAT ARE CURRENTLY POSTED, UM, BUT ARE, BUT IS NOT IN THE MUNICIPAL CODE. WE, WE CAN JUST MOTION IT TO ADD ALL THE STREETS THAT WE HAVE ON THE LIST THAT'S POSTED, BUT NOT, BUT NOT IN HERE. SO, SO WHY YOU WANT IT? I JUST WANT, FOR THE RECORD THAT I DID THAT AND YOU WANNA ADD SOME STREET? OKAY. GO. LET GO FIRST. YEAH, GO AHEAD. COUNCIL MEMBER GUT. OH, AND THERE WE GO. TO MAKE, OKAY. UH, NO, UH, I WAS JUST GONNA, I WAS JUST WONDERING, UM, MAYBE, MAYBE BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA COME BACK WITH A LIST OF ALL, UH, MORE STREETS THAT ARE MISSING ON HERE. SO I WAS WONDERING MAYBE WE COULD MAKE SURE WE DOCUMENT, UH, CONS MEN'S STREETS. SO IT'S MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ON THE LIST THAT'S GONNA COME TO US. AND THEN ALSO MAKE SURE THE STREETS THAT ARE MISSING. AND, UH, I THINK MY DISTRICT ARE MISSING SOME STREETS ON HERE. WHICH ONE IS YOUR STREET? UH, THERE'S A COUPLE, BUT I DON'T KNOW 'EM OFFHAND. UM, YOU CAN ADD IN THIS, YOU CAN ADD IN THE FUTURE. YEAH. YEAH. SO MAYBE GO FIRST. YEAH. SO MAKE SURE, YEAH. SO MAYBE WE CAN ADD HERS AND THEN, UH, YOU'LL COME BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING WITH NOT LIST. YEAH. OKAY. AND, AND, UM, MAYOR PUTIN. THANK YOU. UH, MAYOR. I MEAN, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE JUST TO ADD ALL THE STREETS. 'CAUSE I KNOW IN MY DISTRICT, UM, THEY IMPLEMENTED NO PARKING 'CAUSE OF THEIR BORDER OF LA PUENTE AND THE APARTMENT COMPLEX HAD BEEN PARKING IN THEIR AREA. SO WHEN I THINK ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO OR SO, WHAT, THEY IMPLEMENTED THIS AND THEY PUT THAT IN THEIR, THEIR STREET. UM, SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE ALL STREETS, ALL DISTRICTS ARE IT, YOU HAVE THE STREET NAME. I DON'T, I CAN'T RECALL. WE CAN DO IT NEXT TIME. YEAH. I MEAN, IT'S NEAR BORDER. THAT'S A BUNCH OF, YEAH. OKAY. AND IF YOU, I MEAN, NOT ME DOING NEXT TIME, BUT IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND JUST GATHER IT SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE COMING FROM US TO EXPLAIN THIS. THAT'S QUITE TRUE. OKAY. COUNCIL, UH, MAN, OLI KENTOS, I'D LIKE TO SECOND, UM, UM, COUNCILMAN, UH, DIAZ'S MOTION TO ADD THE STREETS AS NAMED. OKAY. WHICH MR. MAYOR, THAT, THAT INCLUDED THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS ORDINANCE AND ADDING THOSE STREETS, CORRECT? RIGHT. UH, CURRENTLY WE ALREADY HAVE WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE ADD OKAY. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ ABOUT THOSE STREET THAT SHE'D BEEN ASKING, AND I REMEMBER SHE'D BEEN ASKING THOSE THREE OKAY. TO BE INCLUDED, THE LIST. AND SO I HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND, AND ROCO, PLEASE. THANK YOU. A MOTION BY, [01:30:01] UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CONTOS TO, UH, INTRODUCE THE ORDINANCE AND ADD A SPECIFIC STREETS. AND, UH, COUNCILMAN DIAZ'S. DISTRICT COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. WELL, I, SORRY. YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? SHE, THERE IS SOMETHING WE, WE ADD CALL. SO, IN, IN REGARDS TO THIS, UM, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU'RE GONNA DO A SEPARATE ORDINANCE FOR THE STREET SWEEPING ONE BECAUSE OF THE PARKING SIGNS? NOT, UM, NOT FOR THE STREET SWEEPING ONE, BUT FOR THE PARKING FOR THE NOTE PROGRAM IN GENERAL. OKAY. 'CAUSE I KNOW, UM, IT WAS DISCUSSED. I KNOW, UM, IN REGARDS TO ASSISTING THOSE THAT HAVE LIKE THE STREET SWEEPING, UH, I KNOW I'VE, I'VE DISCUSSED WITH STAFF THAT POSSIBLY THAT THEY WON'T SIGN, OR, UM, CITATION LIKE AFTER THE STREET SWEEPERS PASS THROUGH, EVEN THOUGH IT SAYS TILL 11 O'CLOCK. BUT IF THE STREET SWEEPER PASSED THROUGH AT 10, THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND PARK AT THAT LOCATION WITHOUT GETTING A PENALTY BECAUSE IT SAYS NO PARKING UNTIL 11. YES. I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IS, UM, MAYOR, THIS IS DIFFERENT THOUGH, WHILE WE TRY TO THROUGH. YES. I HAVE A, WE'RE WORKING ON THAT AS WELL, BUT THAT IS SEPARATE FROM THE STREET PARKING PERMIT PROGRAM. THIS IS A STREET PARKING PERMIT PROGRAM. YES. GO AHEAD, BRIAN. OH, JUST, JUST A QUESTION. I, I SUPPORT, UH, COUNCIL ME DIAZ THING. OH YEAH. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND. UH, DOES THAT ALSO INCLUDE TO ADD THE MISSING STREETS FROM I THINK DISTRICT THREE AND ONE? SO CAN I TALK? YEP. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THEY BROUGHT THIS BEFORE US MM-HMM . WHILE I WAS REVIEWING MY AGENDA, I WENT THROUGH AND I FOUND MISSING STREETS, THE MISSING STREETS IN THIS AREA. OKAY. SO I HAD ALREADY HAD THAT. OKAY. IN THE BACK OF MY MIND. YEAH. YEAH. SO I WANTED TO ADD 'EM. OKAY. WHICH I HAD REQUESTED SINCE LAST. YEAH. YEAH. IF YOU HAVE USED HISTORY, WE CAN ADD ON, BUT WE ONLY HAVE HER STREET IN THE FUTURE. I'M GUESSING WHEN THEY BRING BACK THE REVISED ORDINANCE, YOUR, AT THAT POINT YOU CAN CHECK TO SEE IF THEY HAVE YOUR STREETS. AGREE. THAT'S WHAT I'M HEY, CAN YOU ADD THAT? YEAH. ROLL CODE PLEASE. CAN YOU ADD THAT TO YOUR MOTION? ? NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. IT'LL BE BROUGHT BACK. I DON'T WANNA OKAY. YOU PUT IT BACK NEXT TIME. I DON'T WANNA MAKE IT COMPLICATED. YEAH, YEAH. PLEASE. WHEN IS IT COMING BACK? YEAH, WE'LL BRING BACK. OKAY. NEXT TIME. UH, ROLL CALL PLEASE. I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION. WHEN IS IT COMING BACK? WE, WE DON'T KNOW. WE'RE WORKING ON THAT. WE'RE WORKING ON IT. OKAY. IT, IT WILL COME BACK SOON. OKAY, GREAT. IT WILL COME BACK SOON. YOU OKAY? OKAY. ROCO, PLEASE. LET'S GET OVER. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. AYE. MAYOR PRO TE LOPEZ. VIDO AYE. MAYOR WU. AYE. AND, UH, APPROVE I ZERO. OKAY. OKAY. I THINK THEY HAVE SOME CONCERN BY THE OTHER DISTRICT. SO, UM, PLEASE BRING IT BACK MAYBE NEXT TIME. THIS IS HOW MANY, HEARING HOW MANY WHAT WE NEED. SECOND TIME, TWO TIME. YEAH. SO NEXT TIME YOU CAN BRING BACK WHEN WE DO THE SECOND OKAY. AND THE HEARING, THEN WE CAN ADD ONDALE STREET THE NEXT TIME. BRING YOUR THREE UP. YEAH. AND THEN WE CAN ADD ON NEXT TIME. SO YOU THINK LIKE IN TWO MONTHS WILL BE BROUGHT NO REVISION WILL BE BROUGHT BACK. NO, I THINK THIS, I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS REVISION. YOU'RE GONNA REVISE IT, RIGHT? UM, YES. WE'RE, WE'RE REVISING IT. IT'S NOT GONNA BE IN TWO MONTHS, IT'S GONNA BE SOONER. OH, OKAY. IT'LL BE VERY FAST. OKAY. YEAH. GREAT. SO, SO COULD YOU GIVE THE ESTIMATED TIME WHEN YOU CAN MAYBE, UH, NEXT MEETING IN JUNE. SECOND MEETING IN JUNE, UM, FOR THE SECOND READING, I THINK SECOND MEETING IN JUNE. YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. SO THEN YOU CAN BRING IT BACK JULY 17TH AND WE DON'T HAVE TO DO YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO, 17. YEAH. GOT IT. JUNE 17TH. THANK YOU, JOANNE. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE. OKAY, [4) CONSIDERATION OF LONG-RANGE FINANCIAL FORECAST FOR FISCAL YEARS ENDING 2026-2030] THEN WE'LL GO TO THE, OKAY. AGENDA NUMBER FOUR. NUMBER FOUR. YEAH, THAT'S FINE. OKAY. UH, COUNCILMAN. OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTTIER, GO AHEAD. YEAH. SO, UH, FOR NUMBER FOUR, UM, UH, I BELIEVE THERE'S MAJOR INACCURACIES ON THIS REPORT. UM, UH, BASED UPON THE RESEARCH I DID ON THE, ON THE FINANCIALS AND THE DOCUMENTS THAT I WAS, I WAS PRESENTED, UM, THIS, THIS PRESENTATION HAS MAJOR ERRORS AND MAJOR FLAWS. IT, IT STATES THAT WE'RE GONNA BE IN A, A DEFICIT, BUT WHEN WE WERE PROVIDED THIS, UH, OUR BUDGET ANALYSIS, IT SHOWED THAT, UH, EVERY DEPARTMENT GOT AN INCREASE IN THE BUDGET, WHICH RESULTED IN A, UH, LIKE A, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY IT, BUT PURPOSELY A DEFICIT. AND, AND, AND THIS DEFICIT IS NOT TRUE. SO, UH, I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, A MAJOR REVISION DONE ON THIS, ON THIS, ON THIS DOCUMENT, AND HOPEFULLY BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE NEXT MEETING. AND YOU WANT THE ACTING CITY, UH, TREASURER TO MAYBE SHARE SOME LIGHT WITH US HOW YOU COME UP WITH THIS NUMBER. MAYOR, WOULD YOU LIKE THE ACTING FINANCE DIRECTOR TO COME UP? OH, MARIA LUISA. YEAH. SHE ALREADY THERE. PERFECT. I SAW HER ALREADY. PERFECT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCILMAN. UM, AND COUNCILWOMAN, [01:35:02] I, I BRING BEFORE YOU THE LONG RANGE. IT IS A TIME TO RECALIBRATE, LOOKING, FORECASTING FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. I TRY NOT TO GO OVERLY CONSERVATIVE, ALSO NOT UNDER BUDGETING ANYTHING. THERE WERE SOME UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS. I DID HAVE PRUDENT ASSUMPTIONS WHEN IT CAME TO REVENUE. UM, HOWEVER, THE EXPENDITURES WERE GROWING AT A FASTER PACE THAN THE REVENUES WERE. AND THAT'S WHAT WAS PROJECTED. THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THAT, UM, IN THIS REPORT WERE THE UNFUNDED ACCRUED LIABILITY AND WORKERS' COMP AND GENERAL LIABILITY. SO I USE THE SAME ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE HAD FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS TO KIND OF GAUGE WHERE WE WOULD BE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, UM, FOR WORKERS' COMP AND GENERAL LIABILITY. SO THOSE WERE THE UNDERLYING, AND THEY WERE HUGE. TWO YEARS AGO, IF YOU REMEMBER, FOR OUR ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT, WE REPORTED THAT THE WORKERS' COMP AND GENERAL LIABILITY ACTUALLY DOUBLED. NOW, LAST YEAR IT DID DECREASE A MILLION, UM, BUT IT HAD ALREADY DOUBLED LIKE UP TO LIKE THE 12 MILLION. SO, AND THAT, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S IN A SEPARATE FUND, BUT STILL SOMETHING THAT GENERAL FUND WOULD ULTIMATELY BE LIABLE FOR. NOW WE ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW TO CLOSE THE GAP FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. AND THINGS ALWAYS CHANGE. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THERE'S CITIES THAT LIKE TO FORECAST 10 YEARS, 20 YEARS WERE, OR SOMETIMES EVEN LIKE WHEN THEY BUDGET FOR YOU, YOU HAVE SOME CITIES THAT BUDGET TWO YEARS IN ADVANCE. BUT I KNOW WE'RE A GOOD CITY. WE LIKE TO BUDGET ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE. WE REALLY LIKE TO SEE THIS. BUT THIS IS MORE JUST SO YOU SEE WHERE OUR FUND BALANCE IS, IF THERE'S ALWAYS CHANGES, UM, WITH PERSONNEL OR SOME CUTBACKS THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO AND SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN EACH YEAR FOR THE BUDGET. BUT THIS IS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE AS WE START RECALIBRATING AND KIND OF LOOKING AT WHERE, WHERE THE REVENUES AND THE EXPENDITURES ARE. BUT OF COURSE, EVERYTHING IS REVENUES EVEN RIGHT NOW. UM, THERE'S A LOT OF UNCERTAINTIES AND, BUT IS THERE SOMETHING SPECIFIC? YEAH, I DON'T KNOW. I KNOW IT GENERAL. YEAH. ONE OF THEM IS, UM, HOW ABOUT THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY LOANS? IT STATES BY THE YEAR 2030, WE'RE GONNA, THE TOTAL DEBT FOR WILL BE $14,000,522. THAT'S FOR THE SOLAR PANELS THAT ARE CURRENTLY UP IN THIS ROOF. YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT OUR, UM, LOANS WERE. YEAH, THAT'S, DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY WE'VE BEEN SAVING ON THAT FROM ? UM, EVERY YEAR? IT FLUCTUATES A LITTLE BIT, BUT I MEAN, I THINK WE HAD, I, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS AN ANALYSIS DONE AND REALLY THE SAVINGS WOULD BE, I THINK MORE FOUNDED IN A FEW MORE YEARS. BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT SEEING A CURRENT SAVINGS. YEAH. IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST WE, WE COULD HAVE BUILT A NEW FIRE STATION WITH THAT AMOUNT. BUT, UM, LET'S SEE. AND THEN, UM, I THINK THERE WAS SOME LIABILITY REGARDING, UM, FALLING TREES. I THINK I SAW SOMEWHERE ON THERE TALKING ABOUT GENERAL LIABILITY AND WORKERS' COMP, UHHUH, , THE OPEN CLAIM LIABILITIES. YEAH. WHAT ARE, UM, OR MAYBE THIS IS A, A CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING TO ADDRESS, TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ADDRESSING THE TREE ISSUE IN OUR CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CUTTING TREES AT A HIGHER PERCENTAGE TO TURN ON MORE SHORTER TO PREVENT FUTURE TREES FROM FALLING ON HOUSES OR CARS? MAYBE A ANSWER THAT YOU'RE ASKING MORE OF A, UM, FROM A WHAT THE CITY'S DOING FROM MORE OF AN OPERATIONS QUESTION. IS THAT CORRECT? YES. OKAY. UM, WE HAVE BE WE HAVE STARTED THOSE CONVERSATIONS OR WE HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AGAIN, UM, REGARDING THE TRIM CYCLES AND WHAT WE'LL BE DOING MOVING FORWARD. UM, WE WILL BE BRIEFING, UM, OUR ACTING CITY MANAGER, UM, OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS SO THAT SOME DECISIONS CAN BE MADE, BUT WE ARE WORKING, UM, WITH PUBLIC WORKS, UM, WITH OUR CURRENT CONTRACTOR AND THEN, UM, LOOKING OUT TOWARDS THE FUTURE AND ON WHAT, UM, CAN BE, WHAT ADJUSTMENTS CAN BE MADE. UM, WHILE THERE ARE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS TO IT, UM, WE'LL KEEP CLOSE WITH THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT IN DOING SO AND WE CAN REPORT THAT BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL AS WELL. RIGHT. AND IM MY LAST, OH, SORRY, I WAS JUST ABOUT TO ADD AS WELL AS YOU REMEMBER THAT THE RISK WAS ALSO PART OF OUR STATE, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN. AND SO IN THAT WE IN, WE NEED TO ALSO, UM, HIRE OUR, OUR HUMAN RESOURCES RISK MANAGEMENT MM-HMM . DIRECTOR AND PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, UM, YEAH. TO ADDRESS THOSE AS WELL. AND, AND THEN, AND MY LAST QUESTION WILL BE, UH, FOR THE SOLAR PANELS, IS THERE ANY WAY TO, I KNOW WE'RE OBVIOUSLY LOCKED INTO A CONTRACT, BUT IS THERE ANY WAY TO SAVE MONEY OFF THESE, THESE INTEREST RATES, [01:40:01] UH, POTENTIALLY REFINANCING OR ANY OTHER OPTION WE HAVE HERE? I MEAN, WE COULD REFINANCE, BUT WITH THE INTEREST RATES RIGHT NOW, I MEAN, I, IF YOU'RE GIVING ME DIRECTION, I, OH, I WAS JUST WONDERING IF, IF THERE IS, IS THERE WAYS TO FIGURE THAT OUT? I MEAN, IF THERE'S RATES THAT ARE LOWER, THEN THAT'S ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY. OKAY. GREAT. IT JUST HASN'T BEEN LOOKED AT. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, NO OTHER CITY COUNCIL ANY QUESTION? OKAY. IF NOT, OKAY, THEN I WILL. UM, OKAY. GO THROUGH, UH, WITH YOU REGARDING FORECAST, WHAT I SEE THE CT SINCE I LIVED THE CITY SINCE 1989, AND UH, I HAVE BEEN THE CITY SINCE AS A CITY CONSULTING SINCE 2015. SO I WENT THROUGH THE PHYSICAL, THIS AND THAT AND THIS. WHY YOU TALKING ABOUT THE FINANCIAL FORECAST IS A PROJECTION, RIGHT? IT'S FOR FUTURE, WHAT OUR INCOME AND OUR EXPENDITURE AND THE 2020, WHEN I WAS A MAYOR, UH, WE HAVE A 200 MILLION, $204 MILLION NON FUND LIABILITY. WE REFINANCED FOR 25 YEARS FIXED. AND LET'S SAY, YOU KNOW, ABOUT $5 MILLION INTEREST PAYMENT FOR THE INTEREST RATE FROM 7.8% DOWN TO FIXED RATE 25 YEARS FOR 3.7%. SO THAT, THAT, AND WE HAVE A NEW RETIRE. SO BASICALLY WE HAVE A NEW RETIREE AND THERE'S A ACCUMULATED MAYBE ONE OR $2 MILLION. BUT THE BIG ONE, THE NON FUND LIABILITY LED $206 MILLION HAS BEEN REFINANCED WITH A BOND WITH INTEREST RATES 3.6, 3.7% AND FIXED FOR 25 YEARS. SO THAT YOU CAN BUDGET THAT THE MAJOR DEFICIT THAT WE ARE OKAY. AND, UH, FACING. BUT THAT IS ALREADY REDUCED 50% OF OUR INTEREST PAYMENT. AND THEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EXPENDITURE? THE EXPENDITURE REGARDING OUR, EACH OF DEPARTMENT, UH, CURRENTLY WE DON'T HAVE A MAJOR OKAY. EXPANSION DESIGN. SO THE INCREASE WILL BE LIKE EVERY YEAR. OKAY. THAT 5%, 10% ADJUSTMENT, THAT, THAT, THAT'S EXPECTABLE. NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE INCOME. SO WE CURRENTLY, WEST COVINA IS ON THE MAP WITH A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES, THE CITY. SO MEANING WE HAVE A TEXTILES WAREHOUSE OKAY. THAT IS ALREADY READY TO SIGN CONTRACT. AND, UH, WE SELL THE LAND FOR $3 MILLION. I DON'T KNOW THAT WHEN WILL BE IN YOUR, OKAY. OKAY. OUR FORECAST AND PLUS WE ARE SELL SELLING THE CTR, THAT'S A 29 TO $35 MILLION. OKAY. THAT WILL COME INTO GENERAL FUND. OKAY. AND THEN WE HAVE, UM, HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT FOR 12 ACRE OF, UH, OUR OKAY. THE SCHOOL, UH, THERE ARE NO, UH, THE SCHOOL, IT'S OWNED BY THE SCHOOL, BUT THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BRING A LOT OF INCOME AND PROPERTY TAX TO US. AND PLUS, OKAY, THE NORTH SIDE FACE CHURCH 22 ACRE AND THEN WE IS ALREADY DOING THE DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE HOUSING AND THERE'S A MAJOR INCOME AND PUBLIC TAX TO US. SO HAVE YOU PUT IN THAT, IN YOUR FORECAST CONSIDERATION AS INCOME TO US? BECAUSE THAT'S THAT ALL ALSO THING WHERE ALL, ALL WILL HAPPEN AND PLUS A POSSIBLE, UH, ONE OR $200 MILLION DEVELOPMENT ON ALWAYS PLAZA, I THINK IT SHOULD KNOW THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. SO THAT IS GOING TO BRING MAJOR INCOME TO US. SO, SO I DON'T KNOW YOUR FOCUS BASED ON WHAT, WHY YOUR FOCUS WITH, UH, THAT KIND OF DEFICIT. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE BASED ON WHAT JUST READ FOR YOU WITH THOSE INCOME AND PLUS OUR PROPERTY TAX INCREASE DRAMATICALLY WITH ALL THE PROPERTY TAX INCREASE AND YOU GO TO THE, UH, OUR DEALERSHIP TOYOTA DEALERSHIP BECOME NUMBER EIGHT, THE HIGHER SELLING THE CAR, THEY'RE THE BIGGEST TOYOTA CURRENTLY IN SELLING A LOT OF CAR, MAKE A LOT OF SALES TAX FOR US AND PLUS ALL OTHER DEALER MAKING GREAT INCOME AND THERE'S PROBABLY TAX. SO HAVE YOU CALCULATED ALL THOSE PROJECTION AND PLUS WE TALKING ABOUT THE SALES TAX SINCE WE ARE THREE OR 4,000 OKAY. UH, IN THE BUSINESS. AND THAT GENERATE A LOT OF TAX. YOU SEE, YOU GO TO SEE MCINTYRE SQUARE, YOU GO TO SEE, OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY, THE SOUTH HILL SQUARE, YOU GO TO THE SF SUPERMARKETS SQUARE. OKAY? YOU GO TO THE, OUR WEST CORVINA PLAZA, IF FOUR PEOPLE ARE SHOPPING, YOU CANNOT EVEN FIND PARKING. SO YOU CAN SEE THOSE IS THE INCOME TO US. SO THERE'S A FORECAST, A PROJECTION, PEOPLE ARE, FEEL CONFIDENT AND SHOPPING IN WEST CORVINA. SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS THIS, THAT IS HOW YOU NEED TO GO INTO YOUR PROJECTION, BE MORE REALISTIC TO SEE WHAT THE CITY CURRENTLY LOOK LIKE. AND THEN EXPENDITURE AT, YOU SEE THE MAJOR EXPENDITURE THAT OUR MAJOR EXPENDITURE POSSIBLE THAT WILL BE OUR FIRE STATION. NUMBER ONE, WE'RE GOING TO REBUILD RIGHT IN THIS CORNER. AND THAT WILL BE [01:45:01] SELLING FOR OUR CTR. AND SO MONEY, 20, $30 MILLION COME TO, TO, TO, TO US AND PLUS EXTRA MONEY WE GOING TO BUILD A, A POLICE FIRE TRAINING FACILITY. AND THAT GOING TO HAPPEN SINCE WE OWN LAND. SO, SO WITH THAT, I I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT NUMBER COMING UP FROM YOU DOESN'T OKAY. IT DOESN'T MEAN IT IS REALLY DETAILED IS THINKING ABOUT THE INCOME EXPENDITURE. SO YOU HAVE, UH, I OWN BUSINESS, I KNOW FINANCE AND, UH, I I KNOW WHAT THE CITY FINANCING, I'M HERE FOR ALMOST 10 YEARS. SO, SO I WENT TO BUDGET MANY, MANY TIMES AND WEST COVID CURRENTLY IS VERY BRIGHT, ESPECIALLY CURRENTLY YOU HAVE A LOT OF INCOME COMING TO US. YOU CAN JUST NAME IT. OKAY. PEOPLE ARE BUYING OUR PROPERTY LIKE QUAI AND PEOPLE WANT TO DEVELOPING OUR CITY. A LOT OF RESTAURANT COMING OUT TO OUR CITY. WE MIGHT HAVE A COUPLE OF GRAND OPENING HAPPEN PRETTY SOON. SO, SO YOU ARE, I'M GONNA REJECT. OKAY. YOU ARE, UH, OKAY ON THE, UH, FORECAST. I THINK YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO, BASED ON WHAT I GAVE YOU ALL THE INFORMATION TO GIVE US A, A, A MORE REALISTIC FORECAST. OKAY. RATHER THAN SOMETHING JUST BASED ON THE COMPUTER AND COME UP OR, OKAY. WE HAVE DESIGN THAT IT, IT, IT DOESN'T MAKE TOO MUCH SENSE FOR ME TO SIT OVER HERE 10 YEARS GOING THROUGH THE FIVE YEARS AGO, SIX YEARS AGO, 2018 THAT TIME, AND WE PAYING THE 8% INTEREST RATE FOR CALPERS AND PLUS WE PAYING ONLY 3.7% FIXED RATE. AND RIGHT NOW WE CANNOT DO REFINANCE FOR ANYTHING BECAUSE INTEREST IS TOO HIGH. OKAY. SO, SO, SO, BUT GO BACK TO, UH, OKAY, FRANK. OKAY. AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER TALKING ABOUT I WAS THERE APPROVED THE ALLIANCE OR THE SET. OKAY. THE SET SOLAR PANEL. LIKEWISE, WE GIVE LOAN FOR $3 MILLION AND THEN THE INTEREST RATE, WERE BASICALLY OFF OFFSET WITH THE SAVING. WE, WE, WE, WE, WE HAVE FROM THE LED FROM ALL THIS OKAY. PANEL. SO, SO, SO IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING AND AFTER THREE YEAR WE WILL PAY OFF OUR 3 MILLION. SO NOTHING BUT SAVING FOR OUR EDISON BILL. SO THAT IS A SAVING, IT'S NOT A COST OTHERWISE WHY WE DO IT, WE SOLAR A PANEL. SO I THINK YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO REALLY LOOKING TO THE NUMBER. OKAY. BECAUSE I'VE BEEN HERE, ALL THAT NUMBER IS SOME VERY BOLD TO ME. OKAY. POSSIBLE YOU GET THE WRONG INFORMATION. I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE TRYING, YOU GUYS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING TO SPOOK US, BUT THE THING IS YOU NEED TO PROVIDE A FORECAST. IT'S BASED ON THE, THE THING WE ARE GOING ON CURRENTLY AND WITH ALL THE DEVELOPMENT IS ALREADY GOING ON AND THIS INCOME ERS ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL. OKAY, GO AHEAD COUNCIL. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTTI. YEAH, WHEN I LOOK AT THE, THE GENERAL FUND SUMMARY BY DEPARTMENT, AND IF ANY OF OUR RESIDENTS ON A COPY, I'M SURE LISA OR ROXANNE WILL GIVE YOU A COPY OF IT. BUT, UM, SO WHEN I LOOK AT THE GENERAL FUND, UH, SUMMARY BY DEPARTMENT, IT SAYS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GOT A TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THREE, TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY THREE 600,000 INCREASE. UH, YOU SEE FINANCE WITH A 9,400 INCREASE, YOU SEE THE GENERAL REVENUE INCREASE A 2.8 MILLION. YOU SEE POLICE, WHICH IS 1.11 MILLION INCREASE. YOU SEE PUBLIC WORKS WITH A SUBTRACTION FROM THEIR BUDGET OF 83,900, WHICH IS CONCERNING WHEN OUR, WHEN OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS CLEANING. YOU HAVE ADMINISTRATION, UH, INCREASE OF 257,000. YOU HAVE THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE TAKING A $267,000 CUT , AND I THINK THEY DO A LOT OF WORK THERE. UH, YOU HAVE, UH, CODE ENFORCEMENT, UH, WITH AN INCREASE OF 62,000. YOU, YOU HAVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WITH A 244,000. UH, AND SO IT GOES ON AND ON AND ON. SO WHEN WE'RE BALANCING A BUDGET, WE DON'T INCREASE MONEY OR TAKE AWAY MONEY AND WE'RE GONNA BECOME A DEFICIT. WE, WE HAVE TO BALANCE A BUDGET THAT'S GONNA PUT US FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, FISCALLY ABLE TO, TO, TO OPERATE OUR COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. AND AND THIS IS OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE DOING YOUR, UH, YOU'RE WORKING VERY HARD ON THAT, UH, MARIA MALIS, THERE'S NOTHING AGAINST YOU, IT'S JUST, JUST, I I I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT WE, WE DO A BUDGET, UH, ANALYSIS LIKE THIS THAT ACTUALLY DOES NOT POTENTIALLY PURPOSELY OVER OVERDRAFT US WHEN WE TYPICALLY ARE NOT EVEN IN THAT RED AREA AT ALL. SO YEAH. DO YOU HAVE A MOTION? YEAH, I WILL. OH, SORRY. I I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, TO BRING THIS BACK, UH, WITH AN UPDATED ANALYSIS. UH, I WOULD ALSO LIKE, UM, UH, FOR, FOR THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT TO, TO LOOK [01:50:01] AT WHAT, UH, MAYOR TONY WU STATED ABOUT THE SOLAR PANELS AND, AND, UH, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD BE SAVING MONEY ON THAT. SO MAYBE YOU COULD GIVE US SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WE'RE SAVING MONEY AND, AND ALTERNATES TO SAVING MORE MONEY. IF, IF IT'S, IF IT'S POSSIBLE LIKE, UH, REFINANCING AND SO FORTH. THAT'S MY MOTION. OKAY. UH, OKAY, SECOND. SO BASICALLY WE REJECT THIS, UH, FORECAST AND, UH, BRING BACK MORE REAL THIS WHAT WE JUST MENTIONED ABOUT OKAY. TO GET A NUMBER WITH A MUCH MORE, UH, REALISTIC OKAY. EXPENDITURE AND THE MORE REALISTIC ABOUT, I JUST MENTIONED ALL THIS DEVELOPMENT ALREADY HAPPENING. OKAY. AND THAT SHOULD BE OUR FORECAST. SO IN THAT WAY WE CAN SEE WE DON'T WANT TO BLOW OVER THE PROMO PROMOTION. WE HAVE A LOT OF MONEY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE DON'T WANNA UNDERPAY THAT WE ALREADY HAVE THING GOING ON AND YOU NEVER CALCULATE LESS THING. AND SO THEY, OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A ISSUE. SO ANYWAY, UH, DO ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL WANNA SAY SOMETHING? OKAY. YES, GO AHEAD, COUNCILMAN. OKAY, CANTO, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. MAYOR. JUST, JUST WAS WONDERING WITH THE VERY, UH, WITH MARIA LUISA, IF THERE ARE, WITH THE DIFFERENT INCREASES AMONG OTHERS THAT THAT COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ WAS, UH, LAYING OUT, WHAT IS THE RATIONALE BEHIND THOSE SPECIFIC INCREASES? JUST SO I CAN HAVE MORE, WE CAN HAVE MORE CONTEXT AS TO WHY THOSE INCREASES WERE PUT IN. SO THERE WERE QUITE A BIT OF INCREASES WHEN IT COME TO SALES TAX THAT ACTUALLY INCREASED, UM, A FEW MILLION AND I HAVE THAT IN THE LONG RANGE MM-HMM . AND THAT'S WHAT'S HELPING A LOT. UM, PROPERTY TAXES ARE LARGEST SOURCE OF INCOME FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVIN, AND THAT ALSO HAS A 3% INCREASE. UH, SALES TAX IS ABOUT 11% INCREASE THAT I HAVE OVER THE LAST YEAR'S ADOPTED BUDGET. MM-HMM . UM, SO THOSE WERE, I, I WASN'T CONSERVATIVE. I WASN'T BEING CONSERVATIVE. I, I, AND I WAS, UM, BUT I WASN'T THINK HOPING FOR THE BEST. OF COURSE, EVERYTHING'S UNCERTAIN WHEN YOU'RE DOING A FIVE YEAR, BUT, OR YOU, BUT YOU'RE TRYING YOUR BEST WITH, WITH THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT YOU DO HAVE. BUT I HAVE THOSE INCREASES AND WE'VE, UM, MET WITH OUR CONSULTANTS AS WELL. AND UM, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE SEEING FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR FOR THE REVENUES. NOW, I DID WANNA ALSO BRING UP, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THE SALE OF LAND THAT IS LIKE A ONE TIME THAT HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED, UM, IN THE BUDGET AS A ONE TIME OR ANYWHERE IN THERE, JUST DEPENDING ON WHEN THAT ACTUALLY DOES FINALIZE, BUT MOSTLY I FO THE FOCUS FOR THIS IS RECURRING, UM, REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES. SO THANK YOU. OKAY. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER, GO AHEAD. YEAH, I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS BROUGHT UP A GREAT POINT. SO MAYBE WHEN YOU BRING THIS BACK, YOU COULD TELL US WHY YOU'RE RAISING THOSE, THOSE, UH, BUDGETS FOR THOSE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND WHAT THE FUNDING IS GONNA BE USED FOR TOO. YEAH. UM, I AM BRINGING THE PROPOSED BUDGET ON THE NEXT MEETING JUNE 3RD. OKAY. SO AT THAT TIME, THAT COULD BE MORE SPECIFIC FOR A ONE YEAR, SINCE WE REALLY DO GO INTO DETAIL THEN, UM, THE FORECAST, THIS FORECAST IS NOT ANY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WAS APPROVED LAST YEAR AS WELL, UM, STATING THAT THERE WOULD BE, WE WOULD BE FACING A DEFICIT AND, UM, THAT WAS MADE AWARE TO COUNCIL. SO, SO LAST MAYBE WE DON'T INCREASE BUDGETS FOR FORECAST YEARS IF WE DON'T KNOW, I'M SORRY, MAY, MAYBE, MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T BE INCREASING BUDGETS FOR TERM YEARS OUT IF WE DON'T KNOW THE NUMBERS YET, KIND OF THING. LIKE WE SHOULDN'T, LIKE WE SHOULDN'T BE ON PAPER. WE SHOULDN'T BE PURPOSELY PUTTING US IN THE RED WHEN WE'RE NOT EVEN IN THE RED KIND OF THING, IS MY CONCERN. OKAY. UM, YOU MEAN IN PRIOR YEARS OR JUST, I, I THINK, I THINK IT'S IN GENERAL FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR OR NEXT FISCAL YEAR OR THE YEARS TO COME FIVE YEAR FORECAST. WE SHOULDN'T BE FORECASTING PURPOSELY TO PUT US IN THE RED WHEN WE'RE NOT IN THE RED. I MEAN, NOT, NOT NOT THAT WAY, BUT LIKE IN GENERAL TERMS. YEAH. OKAY. YOU DONE? YES. OKAY. UH, I WANT TO FOLLOW UP. OKAY. AND, UH, OTHER COUNCIL, OKAY, I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE AGAIN, OKAY. WHEN WE SELL THE LAND, IT IS NOT A ONE TIME DEAL. WE SELL THE LAND FOR DEVELOPER, WE BUILDING IN HUNDREDS OF HOME. OKAY? CURRENTLY WE HAVE NO INCOME BECAUSE WE OWN THE LAND. MM-HMM. SO YOU CANNOT SAY IT'S A ONE, ONE TIME DEAL. NO. IT'S GOING TO BUILD 200 HOME. OKAY? AND THE CDI GOING TO BUILD, I DUNNO HOW MANY HANDS YOUR HOME, THAT'S PROPERTY TAX, 24% PROPERTY TAX COME TO US, 40% PROPERTY COME TO US. THAT'S ADDITIONAL RECURRING EVERY YEAR. AND THEN FAITHFUL CHURCH, OKAY? THAT, THAT LAND GO TO THE GREEN LODGE AND THEN, THEN THEY MIGHT BE GO TO OKAY, HOUSING TOO. LET'S 22 ACRE. OKAY, SO WE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LET'S NOT ONE TIME DEAL. THIS IS A LOT OF HOUSING AND PUBLIC TAX. SO THAT IS [01:55:01] FORECAST THE PROJECTION. THAT'S WHAT YOU MENTIONED ABOUT. SO THAT SHOULD BE IN YOUR CONSIDERATION. OKAY? THAT IS COMING BECAUSE WHEN YOU BUDGET THE CITY, YOU, YOU HAVE A ONE YEAR PLAN, TWO YEAR PLAN, THREE YEAR PLAN, FIVE YEAR PLAN, BECAUSE YOU HAVE DEVELOPMENT GOING ON AND DEVELOPMENT NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. THEY HAPPEN TO SEE QUALITY ON LAND. SO YOUR CALCULATION IS AS SLOW AS THIS THING GOING ON. THEN THERE'S A FUTURE BUDGET. OTHERWISE, IF YOU GO TO THIS DOESN'T COUNT ACCOUNT, THEN WE WILL BE ALWAYS IN THE DEFICIT BECAUSE THE, ALL THOSE MONEY YOU NOT COUNTING INTO YOUR FORECAST. WE TALKING ABOUT THE FORECAST, WE NOW, WE TALKING ABOUT CURRENTLY WE TALK ABOUT FIVE YEARS FORECAST, FIVE YEARS. THE HOUSE BILL ALREADY LOOK THE VINCENT HOME, LOOK THE PIONEER HOME, LOOK THE CAMERA HOME AND O THOSE HOME CREATE A LOT OF SALES TAX TO US. AND BEFORE WE DON'T, BEFORE IT'S A SCHOOL YARD. SCHOOL YARD IS NONPROFIT, WE GET NOTHING AT ALL. BUT NOW WE GO GET PROPERTY TAX THE CITY, WHEN THE CITY OKAY. DEVELOP THE CITY, INCREASING THE REVENUE. THAT'S ABSOLUTELY. SO, SO, SO YOUR BUDGET, YOU SHOULD GO IN THAT CONSIDERATION. OKAY? OF COURSE EVERY YEAR YOU HAVE EXPENDITURE INCREASE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME WITH THE POPULATION WITH DEVELOPMENT, YOU HAVE INCOME COMING IN WITH SALES TAX COMING IN WITH PROPERTY TAX COMING IN AND WITH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY WITH PAYING THE FEE AND PAYING THE PERMIT FEE AND PAYING ALSOS WHAT THEY HAVE TO PAY TO THE CITY TO DEVELOP. SO ANYWAY, THAT'S WHY I WANT TO GET YOU TO GO BACK WHEN YOU GO TO SEE OKAY. AND THE CONSIDERATION AND GIVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE GENUINE, OKAY. A FORECAST, OKAY. AND THE GOOD AND BAD, BUT DOESN'T MATTER, BUT HAVE TO GO INTO THE REALITY, WHAT CURRENT OUR CITY SITUATION IS. SO ANYWAY, I HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND MAYOR. YEAH, GO AHEAD. UM, I'M JUST WONDERING, MARIA LUISA, AS, AS YOU REVISE ANY, ANY, ANY BUDGETARY PROJECTIONS, UH, WHERE WILL COMMUNITY INPUT BE FACTORED IN, IN TERMS OF HAVE PROVIDING THE COMMUNITY A CHANCE TO PRO TO SAY WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE THE SPENDING TO BE ON AS YOU ALSO DEVELOP A BUDGET AND YOU MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, THAT OUR BUDGET IS, IS DONE IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T PUT US IN THE RED. THIS YEAR, UM, WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. WE DID STILL HAVE THE BUDGET SURVEY THAT STARTED IN DECEMBER AND IT WAS LIVE UNTIL MAY. WE DID GET A LITTLE LESS THAN 30 RESPONSES. MM-HMM . AND SO THAT HAS BEEN INCORPORATED AND WE WILL BE REPORTING THANK YOU TO COUNSEL ON THAT AS WELL. OKAY. OKAY. UH, GO AHEAD, BRIAN. ONE LAST THING. UH, USUALLY DURING THE BUDGET YEARS WHEN WE'RE DOING BUDGETS, USUALLY THE CITY WILL HAVE COMMUNITY MEETINGS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICTS WORKSHOP WORKSHOPS. DO WE KNOW WHY THAT WASN'T DONE? OR, OR ARE THEY GONNA BE DONE? CAN WE GET IT DONE KIND OF THING. UM, STILL, WELL THERE WERE A LOT OF MOVING PARTS AND THINGS THAT WERE ON HOLD THIS YEAR OR THIS BUDGET YEAR. OKAY. UM, SO I THINK WE HAVE TO RECALIBRATE RIGHT. AS AN EXECUTIVE TEAM AND SEE WHERE WE'RE GONNA GO. BUT I THINK THE IDEA WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO IT AFTER, SINCE WE HAVE TO ADOPT THE BUDGET. OKAY, GREAT. BUT THE BUDGET SURVEY WOULD BE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS TO GIVE FEEDBACK. OKAY. MR. MAYOR? YEAH, GO AHEAD. UH, UH, BUILDING UPON, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ HIS THOUGHTS WITH THAT, I REALIZE THAT WHERE WE'RE SORT OF UNDER THE GUN AND THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE FAR EARLIER THAN NOW. AGREE. UH, BUT, BUT, BUT PLEASE TRY TO FIND A WAY TO HAVE, HAVE SOME SORT OF INTERACTION WITH THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT IT'S THEIR MONEY. AND SO WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE, AND I AGREE. I AGREE WITH BOTH OF YOU. YEAH. AND I WAS WORRIED AND I WAS, AND, AND ANXIOUS. OKAY. WHY? WHY WE DON'T HAVE A BUDGET WORKSHOP AND IT SHOULD BE DONE. OKAY. OR TWO TIMES. AND, UH, AND THE LIST IS VERY IMPORTANT. WE NEED TO PUT THIS NO MATTER PEOPLE SHOW UP NOW. WE NEED PEOPLE. I THINK THIS IS REQUIRED BY LAW OKAY. THAT WE NEED TO DO ALL THIS BUDGET OKAY. WORKSHOP AND, UH, HAVE A COMMUNITY INPUT. AND THIS IMPORTANT, I AGREE WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN KENTO REGARDING, OKAY, THIS IS A TAXPAYER'S MONEY AND THEY NEED TO INPUT ABOUT WHERE TO GO, THIS AND THAT. I THINK THIS A REQUIREMENT. UH, I MANAGER, DO YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? IF I MAY, UM, THROUGH THE CHAIR. UM, I DO HEAR WHAT YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THE NECESS THE NECESSITY OF HAVING A BUDGET WORKSHOP. UM, AND THEN YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT REVISITING THE FINANCIAL REPORT. THE FINANCIAL FORECAST. WE CAN SPEAK WITH THE CONSULTANTS THAT, UM, ARE ASKING NO, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. WE HAVE STEPHANIE, WHO'S THE CONSULTANT. THE ACTING FINANCE DIRECTOR ALLUDED TO CONSULTANTS. SO WE'LL READ. I UNDERSTAND, UNDERSTAND WHO IS ALL CONSULTANT? L HUH? H. D, L. OH, HL AND STEPHANIE? LIKE FOR, UH, FOR THE FORECAST? NO, NO. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW. OKAY. SEE, WE THE DOG. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW. WE HAVE A CONSULTANT. I WOULD THINK ABOUT A STEP DOING THIS THING. WHY WE EAT THE DOG? WE DON'T EVEN KNOW. WE'LL, WE'LL REVISIT THE, WE'LL REVISIT [02:00:01] THE FORECAST WITH THE ACTING CITY MANAGER AND THE CONSULTANT. CAN I AMEND MY, CAN I AMEND MY MOTION? YEAH, GO AHEAD. I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO MY MOTION TO ALSO REQUEST THAT THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER CONDUCT COMMUNITY TOWN HALLS AT LEAST THREE, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY. UH, AND, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE MARKETED TOO. AND, AND, UH, ALSO WE WANT TO, OKAY. THE CITY STAFF SHOULD BE UPFRONT WITH US IF THEY CANNOT DO THE, UH, JOB, THEY, IF I HIRE A CONSULTANT ISSUE, OKAY. LET US KNOW, OKAY. WHICH FUND YOU HIRE. OKAY. AND THEN, AND SO WE NOT IN THE DARK, I WOULD THINK THAT THIS IS FROM YOU OKAY. OR FROM YOUR STAFF. OKAY. BUT IF THIS IS FROM CONSULTANT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW. WE NEED CONSULTANT. WE HAVE CONSULTANT. BUT ANYWAY, UH, AND WE HAVE A FIRST AND WE HAVE A SECOND. UH, ROCO PLEASE. A SECOND. I SECOND. SO I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AND A SECOND BY MAYOR WU TO, UH, REJECT THE LONG RANGE FORECAST AND BRING IT BACK WITH ADDITIONAL, ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS. LOOK AT THE SOLAR PANELS, UH, PROVIDE INFORMATION ON WHY THE DEPARTMENTS HAD A BUDGET INCREASE AND THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND CITY MANAGER WORKED TOGETHER TO HOLD THREE TOWN HALL MEETINGS. YES. AND ADD, DON'T WHAT I JUST MENTIONED, ALL THE DEVELOPMENT THAT SHOULD BE IN THE FORECAST. AND I DON'T, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHEN IT'S NOT INCLUDING THE FORECAST AT ALL. SO ANYWAY, THIS IS WHAT OKAY. AMEND YOU OKAY WITH LETTER? YES. YEAH. SO ANYWAY, AND EVERYTHING ALL INTO THE CONSIDERATION, OKAY? OKAY. YOU HAVE A PROJECTION INCREASE, BUT YOU HAVE PROJECTION INCOME AND WE HAVE DEVELOPMENT ALREADY DOING IT, SO THAT ALWAYS SHOULD BE IN YOUR FORECAST FORECAST. SO ANYWAY, I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING OKAY. AND, UH, YES. UH, ROCCO PLEASE. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PROAM LOPEZ. VIDO. AYE. MAYOR WU. AYE. AND APPROVE FIVE ZERO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. APPRECIATE. OKAY. AND THEN [6) CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSITION A EXCHANGE WITH FOOTHILL TRANSIT] WE GO TO NUMBER SIX. HOW WAS NUMBER SIX? THIS NUMBER? FOUR. FOUR. NOW WE GO TO NUMBER SIX. YES. SO NUMBER SIX IS CONSIDERATION OF, UH, PROPOSITION OF EXCHANGE FOR HILL TRANSIT. YES. SO, UM, WELL, I WANNA THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION. UH, NOW I HAVE QUESTIONS. UH, IF WE HAVE $2 MILLION IN PROP A FUNDS, WHICH COULD BE USED TO, UM, PURCHASE NEW BUS STOPS, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR BUS STOPS THROUGHOUT OUR, OUR, OUR, THROUGHOUT OUR WHOLE CITY ARE FALLING APART. THEY'RE IN HORRIBLE CONDITION. MM-HMM . SO WHY WILL WE GIVE UP $2 MILLION IN RETURN FOR 1.5 MILLION? THAT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME AT ALL. ALTHOUGH I LOVE FOOTHILL, BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO GIVE UP $2 MILLION IF OUR BUS STOPS LOOK UGLY RIGHT NOW. , IT MAKES NO SENSE. SO MAYBE, UH, CITY, I MEAN, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S EVEN AN EXPLANATION FOR THAT, BUT YEAH. MAYBE YOU CAN SHARE SOME LIGHT. UM, WE'RE DOING AN EXCHANGE WITH FOOTHILL TRANSIT. UM, THIS HAS COME TO COUNCIL EVERY YEAR. CORRECT. AT LEAST THE LAST FIVE YEARS. BUT I KNOW IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS. WE HAVE NEGOTIATED A 75%, UM, EXCHANGE. NOW I KNOW THERE'S OTHER CITIES AROUND THAT WE, I'VE TALKED TO. AND ALSO THEY'RE DOING THE SAME. UM, THIS WAS INCORPORATED INTO THE BUDGET, THE ADOPTED BUDGET FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. SO WE DID ANTICIPATE THIS EXCHANGE WITH FOOTHILL TRANSIT AND, UM, I KNOW THERE'S OTHER CITIES NEARBY NEIGHBORING CITIES THAT ALSO DO THIS EXCHANGE. YEAH. NOW, IS THERE A USE FOR THESE FUNDS THAT WE COULD USE? YES. WE HAVE A LOT. WELL, WE HAVE LOCAL RETURN FUNDS THAT WE COULD USE. HOWEVER, WE HAVE ABOUT, WELL, UM, WE GET MEASURE M, MEASURE R, PROP C, THAT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE LIKE A COMBINED FUND BALANCE OF OVER 16 MILLION THAT WE ALSO NEED TO USE FOR BUS STOPS FOR TRANSPORTATION THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO USE. HOWEVER, IF WE DON'T USE THEM WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME, WE RUN THE RISK. HOW MUCH DO WE HAVE? OVER 16 MILLION? 16. 16. ONE SIX. ONE SIX. YEAH. WE TREATED FAULT, NOT 60, BUT 16. BUT WHY HAVEN'T WE FIXED OUR BUS STOPS THEN? RIGHT, EXACTLY. I THINK COUNCILMAN METOS ASKED FOR A MISSING BUS STOP. . EXACTLY. AND I THINK THE CHICK-FIL-A HAS NO BUS STOP THERE AT ALL. SO IT'S LIKE WE HAVE $16 MILLION SITTING IN THE ACCOUNT, BUT WE'RE NOT USING IT. WELL, I'M, I KNOW IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT. I KNOW IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT THOUGH. NOT THE OPERATIONS, BUT WHEN I, WHEN I TALK, IT'S IN GENERAL TERMS, NOT NOTHING AGAINST, IT'S JUST THE FINANCIALS. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. NOTHING AGAINST [02:05:01] YOU. AND WHEN I TALK, IT'S ABOUT GENERAL TERMS AND, AND SO IT'S CONCERNING TO ME THAT WE'RE NOT USING THE MONEY THAT THE TAXPAYERS EXPECT US TO USE THE MONEY FOR. AND SO THAT, THAT'S MY CONCERN. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND THE MAYOR, PLEASE. UH, THANK YOU. SO I WANTED TO KNOW IT JUST AS ONE OF, UM, THE RESIDENT MENTIONED ABOUT THE GOING TO OTHER CITIES, THE PRICE, UM, YOU KNOW, ARE WE GETTING THE BEST DEAL? UM, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED OTHER CITIES ARE USING IT, BUT ARE THERE ANY OTHER, UM, WHERE THE EXCHANGES CAN GO TO BESIDES FOOTHILL TRANSIT FOR THIS? I MEAN, THIS WAS DETERMINED LAST YEAR. I CAN LOOK FOR NEXT YEAR OR, UM, I KNOW I HEARD DURING PUBLIC COMMENT ALSO THE CITY OF HOLLYWOOD, I COULD REACH OUT TO CITY OF HOLLYWOOD, UM, BUT NOT ANYTHING THAT I WAS MADE AWARE OF. RIGHT. YES. I, I MEAN, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT YOU REACH OUT AND WE WOULD LIKE TO GET THE MOST BANG FOR OUR DOLLAR ON, I DO HAVE IT IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT'S COMING IN TWO WEEKS FOR IT TO ALSO BE AN EXCHANGE, UM, AT, AND WE'RE ASSUMING AT THAT EXCHANGE RATE, BUT I CAN, BEFORE IT COMES FORWARD, ALSO GIVE A CALL TO CITY OF HOLLYWOOD OR ANY OTHERS. AND, UM, I'D LIKE TO ALSO RECEIVE ALL, UM, WHAT FUNDING THIS COULD BE USED. I KNOW, I KNOW WE HAVE RESTRICTION FUNDS, BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN IT'S ONLY BUS STOPS. I KNOW A FEW YEARS AGO WE'VE HAD THEM, YOU KNOW, CLEAN OUT THE BUS STOPS. WE, 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T THINK WE HAD THAT MUCH MONEY. AND SO I'D LIKE TO BE PRESENTED WHAT, UM, THIS IS WHAT RESTRICTIONS IT'S ALLOWED TO BE USED FOR. YEAH. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT LIST. OKAY. OKAY. AND, AND I WANT TO ADD ON WHAT THE COUNCIL MEMBER JUST DISCUSSED ABOUT, AND AGAIN, I DON'T WANNA SAY OKAY. YEAH, I'VE BEEN HERE A WHILE, BUT, BUT, UH, IT IS A VERY COMMON, UM, FOR THE CITY TO DO THIS EXCHANGE. SO INTO THE GENERAL FUND BECAUSE WE NEED GENERAL FUND. GENERAL FUND IS REALLY TIGHT. NO, I UNDERSTAND. BUT WE WANNA GET THE MOST MONEY. YEAH, YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. SO I AGREE. I AGREE. IF WE, IF WE CAN SELL TO OTHER CITY, THEY CAN OFFER US MUCH HIGHER. SO WE DON'T MISS THAT. BUT IT'S NORMALLY 75%. THEY DON'T GIVE YOU THE FULL DOLLAR. BUT, BUT WE NEED THAT MONEY INTO THE GENERAL FUND. OKAY. BECAUSE THAT IS HOW WE BUDGET. BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PAY 70, 80% GO TO POLICE AND FIRE, AND THEN ANOTHER 20, 25% LAB GO INTO THE OTHER STAFF, OTHER PROGRAM, THIS AND THAT. SO, SO IF WE CAN GET ANY MONEY OKAY. AND TRANSFER INTO THE GENERAL FUND, THAT HAS BECOME A HABIT. I JUST WANNA SHARE WITH YOU, I THINK YOU'LL BE WITH ME. YEAH. AND, AND I SUPPORT THIS. I I'M NOT IN DISAGREEMENT YEAH. OF THIS, BUT OF COURSE I, LIKE I SAID, I GOT IT. OKAY. I'M DONE WITH MY MM-HMM . OKAY. AND THE COUNCILMAN, UH, KENTO, PLEASE. THANK, THANK YOU. I'D LIKE TO, TO REITERATE WITH THE, WITH, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD WE GIVE UP $2 MILLION FOR 1.5? I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. I REALIZE IT'S BEEN DONE, BUT IF WE CAN HAVE $2 MILLION WORTH OF SPENDING, THEN WE SHOULD KEEP $2 MILLION WORTH OF SPENDING. BECAUSE THEN THAT MEANS THAT WE SPEND $2 MILLION AS OPPOSED TO 1.5 MILLION. SO IN A WAY, IT'S A NET LOSS OF $500,000. I MEAN, 25%, WHATEVER. EVEN IF THERE'S NEGOTIATED AT ANOTHER RATE, WHY WOULD WE GIVE UP EVEN A DOLLAR IF WE, IF WE HAVE $2 MILLION, WE SHOULD KEEP THE $2 MILLION TO SPEND FOR WHAT OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS. SO I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE DO THIS. AND I BROUGHT THIS UP PRETTY PREVIOUSLY IN THE PAST, BUT IT, AND IT WASN'T FULLY ANSWERED. SO I'M JUST THE NEW YEAR. SO ASK AGAIN. I UNDERSTAND. UM, WE DO RUN THE RISK OF ALSO LOSING IT, UM, JUST LIKE THE OTHER, THE OTHER MEASURE R MEASURE M IF IT'S NOT USED DURING A PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALSO INTERNALLY DISCUSSING IN ORDER FOR PROJECTS TO MOVE FORWARD. S SO I GUESS THE DEEPER QUE SYSTEMIC QUESTION IS WHY WOULD WE TAKE US SO LONG TO SPEND MONEY THAT WE ALREADY HAVE THAT'S AVAILABLE TO US? WHY, WHY WOULDN'T WE SPEND THE MONEY? OKAY, GO AHEAD. UH, MAY I PUT IN YOU A QUESTION? NO, I MEAN, IN, IN REGARDS TO THIS, I KNOW BECAUSE WE ARE STUCK WITH TIME AND, UM, I, IF YOU CAN'T USE, I KNOW, UH, WHEN MONEY IS BEING RESTRICTED AND IT'S JUST THERE, RIGHT. I'D RATHER PUT IT TO OUR GENERAL FUND SO THAT IT COULD BE MORE OF A USE. YES. SO I DO SUPPORT, AGAIN, BRING THAT OUT. BUT I AGREE. I SEE, UH, UNDERSTAND ALSO. OKAY. UH, COUNSEL MENTIA. THANK YOU MAYOR. I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN CONTOS. I WONDER WHY CAN'T WE JUST SPEND THE MONEY ? I MEAN, IF WE KNOW WE NEED BUS STOPS, IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN USE IT ON, RIGHT? I MEAN, IF WE CAN USE YES. I MEAN, WHY NOT USE IT INSTEAD OF, IT JUST SEEMS TO ME LIKE IT'S BEEN A HABIT. MM-HMM . STATUS QUO. YEAH. THAT'S NOT GOOD. YOU KNOW? YEAH. WE CAN CHANGE THAT. YEAH. OKAY. AND, UH, UH, I THINK THIS NEED TO GO INTO THE FINANCE TO SEE WE CAN BALANCE THE BUDGET. OKAY. AND, UH, THE BIGGER $2 MILLION [02:10:01] FOR THIS, WE ONLY CAN RESTRICT, RESTRICT RESTRICTED TO USE. OKAY. AND THAT'S WHY EVERY YEARS, OKAY. THEY ALL TRANSFER INTO SELL IT TO, THEY DON'T GIVE YOU THE FULL AMOUNT. THEY WILL GIVE YOU DISCOUNT RATE. ANYTHING YOU SELL IN SOMETHING, IT WOULD NEVER GET A FULL AMOUNT. BUT I AGREE. WHERE WITH MAIL PRO, MAYBE WE CAN LOOK IN OTHER CITY, SEE WE CAN GET MOST OF VALUE, BUT I THINK YOU NEED THAT MONEY TO SPEND INTO YOUR BUDGET. THIS IS EVERY YEAR. AND THIS 1.5 IS ALWAYS IN OUR BUDGET. NOW WE TAKE OUT THIS 1.5. I THINK WE POSSIBLE WE HAVE A DEFICIT. WANT A DEFICIT. YEAH. AND IT'S TOO SCARY. OKAY. SO IF YOU RESTRICT THAT, YOU DON'T TAKE OVER THERE AND THEN THEN ADD ALL THE MONEY, GO INTO THE PLACE YOU DON'T USE IT. AND THEN, THEN, AND THEN WE HAVE SO MANY HUNGRY MOUTH AND THEN WE WILL IN TROUBLE. SO ANYWAY, THIS IS THE, THE ISSUE. IF WE ALWAYS, EVERY YEAR BUDGET IS $1.5 MILLION INTO OUR GENERAL FUND, AND THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE IF WE WANT TO KEEP THIS AS A, AS A $2 MILLION RESTRICTED. AND THEN WE MIGHT SHOW OVER 1.5. YEAH, GO AHEAD, MAYOR. PUT THAT. THANK YOU. UM, HOW MUCH DO WE RECEIVE YEARLY? AND I UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT WE'VE USED IT OR LOSE IT. UM, WHEN DOES IT EXPIRE? DO YOU HAVE FROM WHAT AMOUNT WILL BE LOST? I, I WANNA SEE THE UNDERSTAND THE FULL PICTURE OF WHAT WE RECEIVE, WHAT IS BEING OUT, WHAT DO WE LOSE, WHAT DO WE, YOU KNOW, JUST CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT PLEASE? WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT A LITTLE OVER 2.7 MILLION THAT WE GET AND IT'S BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT. NOW THERE ARE YEARS WHEN WE DON'T EXCHANGE AS MUCH THINKING LIKE THAT COULD BE USED, BUT I'M, WE DO IN ORDER TO BALANCE THE BUDGET SOMETIMES, LIKE THERE WAS ONE YEAR WHERE WE LET THE FUND BALANCE GO AND THEN IT'S LIKE, OKAY, WELL WE'LL NEED TO EXCHANGE IT AT THIS TIME. BUT PRETTY MUCH IT STAYS WITHIN, UM, SELLING ABOUT 1.5 MILLION TO 3 MILLION. BUT YOU SAID, UM, THAT WE RECEIVE ABOUT 2.7, 2.8 MILLION. THAT'S WHAT I HAVE PROJECTED FOR THE NEXT AND THEN ABOUT EXPIRING IF WE DON'T USE IT. IS IT A CERTAIN DATE? IS IT A CERTAIN AMOUNT? YEAH. AS SOON AS WE RECEIVE IT, I'LL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU. 'CAUSE THERE'S DIFFERENT LOCAL MEASURES, BUT I'LL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ABOUT PROPERTY. OKAY. YEAH, GO AHEAD. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. YEAH. SO DO YOU NEED THIS MONEY FOR THE GENERAL FUND RIGHT NOW? THAT IS CORRECT. IT'S, UH, IT'S INCORPORATED INTO THE AND WHO NEGOTIATED THE DEAL? 'CAUSE WE'RE LOSING $500,000. SO CAN WE GET, MAYBE WE COULD GIVE 'EM 200,000 BUT NOT 500,000. SO WHO, WHO NEGOTIATED THESE TERMS? KELLY? IS THAT YOU? NO. . NO, NO, BECAUSE AS IT'S PRESENTED TODAY, TODAY, TODAY IT IS, IT'S A HORRIBLE DEAL. SO, SO AS MUCH AS I WANT TO SUPPORT THE GENERAL FUND, WHAT MORE THE MOTION TO RENEGOTIATE? YEAH. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO RENEGOTIATE IF WE NEED THIS MONEY, IF YOU'RE TELLING US THAT WE NEED THIS MONEY FOR THE GENERAL FUND MM-HMM . ONE MORE. OR WE'RE GONNA, OR WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO JUST FUND THE GENERAL FUND IF WE DON'T DO THIS DEAL. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? CORRECT. DO WE NEED THIS DEAL? OKAY. CORRECT. OKAY, THEN. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION FOR YOU TO RENEGOTIATE THIS DEAL AT A HIGHER, UH, WE, WE WANT A HIGHER INTAKE THAT I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA GIVE FOR EXTRA 500,000 JUST BECAUSE, SO MAYBE NEGOTIATE A BETTER DEAL WITH THEM. TELL WISE HOLLYWOOD OR SOME, SOME OTHER CITY YEAH. OR ANOTHER CITY TOO. YEAH. ANY OPTIONS WE HAVE TO MAKE MORE BACK. UH, I THINK THAT THAT'S AN OPTION. AND I THINK THAT, UH, GOT IT. YEAH. AND IN REGARDS, AND ALSO I WANT TO ADD TO THE MOTION THAT THE REMAINING $16 MILLION, THE ONE $6 MILLION REMAINS THAT YOU BRING BACK A PRESENTATION TO THIS COUNCIL BY NO LATER THAN THE SECOND MEETING OF JUNE. UH, OPTIONS WE HAVE TO USE THOSE FUNDS, UH, THAT PROP A WAS MADE FOR. SO KIND OF LIKE WHAT MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS STATED, WE WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FUNDS COULD BE USED FOR AND, AND ALSO, UM, AND BASED UPON THAT WE WILL GIVE FURTHER DIRECTION AND, AND HOW TO USE THAT FUNDS NEXT. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND MAYOR PRO, PLEASE. UM, SO I MEAN, I'D LIKE TO REST REQUEST THAT FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING THAT YOU MAKE THAT PHONE CALL TO WEST HOLLYWOOD OR HOLLYWOOD, UM, TO SEE WHERE THEY DO THEIR EXCHANGE AND, UM, TRY TO MAKE THAT DEAL HAPPEN. AND THEN OF COURSE, IN RE REST, UH, IN REGARDS TO COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ, IN REGARDS, DO I HAVE, DO I HAVE A SECOND? I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FOOTHILL TRANSIT IS GOING TO THEIR BOARD AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, UM, PENDING ON THIS APPROVAL. UM, SO THINGS WOULD GET DELAYED, BUT THE EXECUTIVE BOARD [02:15:01] MEETS ALL THE TIME, SO DOEN COULD ALWAYS BRING IT BACK. JUST INFORMATION. YEAH. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? DO I HAVE A SECOND? AND THEN WE NEED TO DO THE ASAP? WELL, YEAH, I MEAN, I WOULD LIKE IT DONE AS SPI DON'T WANNA LOSE OUT ON THIS. WELL, WE, WE NEED A BUDGET, SO YEAH. SO MAKE MAKE SURE YOU CALL THEM TOMORROW. YEAH. SO I'M GONNA AMEN MY MOTION TO, IN, UH, IN, UH, ALSO ADD NEED BUDGET, COUNCILWOMAN DI UH, SORRY, COUNCILWOMAN TI LOPEZ FIDO'S, UH, REQUEST THAT IT BE THAT WE, YOU ACT ON THIS RIGHT AWAY STARTING TOMORROW. OKAY. AND, UH, COUNCIL, COUNCIL, UH, MAN, KENTO, UM, I, SO WE'RE SORT OF, OUR BACK IS AGAINST THE WALL IS BASICALLY, UH, MARIA LUISA WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AT THIS JUNCTURE. SO IN THE FUTURE, IS THERE A WAY TO, TO NOT ENGAGE IN THIS PRACTICE AND TO, AND TO BUDGET WHERE WE WE'RE NOT SO CLOSE TO A DEADLINE WHERE WE WE CAN LOSE OUT OR, YEAH. UM, I MEAN I, THIS COULD COME EARLIER. HOWEVER, WHAT I NOTED WHEN, UM, MAYOR PROTO LOPEZ, VITO SAID, YOU KNOW, LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE BECAUSE THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS COMING TO YOU, THAT'S FOR 25, 26, AND KIND OF MAKING THAT DECISION AT THAT POINT FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. THIS, THIS WAS BUDGETED FOR, I GUESS ANTICIPATED LAST YEAR AND BRINGING THIS FORWARD NOW. AND, AND THIS IS PART OF THE 24 25 BUDGET. UM, BUT IF YOU'D LIKE, I COULD, UH, JUST MOVING FORWARD, THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 25 26 IS COMING TO YOU NEXT IN TWO WEEKS OR THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. AT THAT POINT I CAN HIGHLIGHT, BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN A DISCUSSION OF WHAT PROP A AND WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED. OF COURSE, AFTER I TALK TO CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD, SEE IF THERE COULD BE A DIFFERENT RATE EXCHANGE, I CAN COORDINATE WITH THAT AND GIVE YOU THAT INFORMATION. THAT'S HOW EARLY WE DO THESE EXCHANGES. SO WE DO A YEAR BEFOREHAND LETTING YOU KNOW, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA EXCHANGE FOR 25, 26. I COULD DO A MIDYEAR OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME LIKE THERE'S A BUDGET AND LET YOU KNOW THIS IS WHAT THE EXCHANGE RATE, WE GOT A BETTER EXCHANGE RATE OR HAVE THAT COMMUNICATION, OR IF THERE'S A DIFFERENT PROPOSAL, WE CAN, OKAY. UH, OKAY. AND THE QUESTION WOULD BE, UH, SO IS IT $2 MILLION? SO BASICALLY $2 MILLION ANNUALLY. SO CAN THAT BE ACCUMULATED? WE DIDN'T USE IT. WE CAN GO CONTINUE, BUT I, I KNOW FOR PAST 10 YEARS WE ALWAYS BUDGET INTO GENERAL FUND AND WE SELLING A LOT OF THIS RESTRICTED FUNDING TO, TO MAKE INTO OUR GENERAL FUND SO WE CAN BALANCE THE BUDGET THEN IT BEEN A, A HABIT. OKAY. AND THAT THIS WE'VE BEEN APPROVING FOR ALL THE TIME. I THINK ALL THE COUNCIL WILL SHARE, WE APPROVE THIS FROM TIME TO TIME AND THE EXCHANGE FOR THIS INTO, BUT IT'S TRUE. OKAY. IT IS THAT THEY ONLY OFFER 75%, 35, 5% A DISCOUNT. AND CAN THEY GIVE US A BIT MORE, UH, AGAIN, LIKE WE KIND OF, UH, UH, IN A LAY THE GAME. SO KIND OF, UH, WE DON'T WANNA MISS ANY OTHER DEFICIT. GO AHEAD. YEAH, I WANNA CLARIFY THAT YOUR COMMENT ABOUT, WE'RE ON A DEADLINE BECAUSE I SERVE ON THE, FOR HILL JOINT POWERS BOARD, OBVIOUSLY BECAUSE OF NEXT, UH, UH, THE COUNCIL. UM, MY ONLY CONCERN IS YOU'RE SAYING THAT IT'LL GO TO THE NEXT MEETING. THAT'S BECAUSE DORAN WAS EXPECTING US TO VOTE ON THIS TODAY, BUT DORAN COULD ALWAYS BRING IT TO THE COM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE FOLLOWING MEETING, OF COURSE. LIKE WE DO HERE. YEAH. SO, SO THEREFORE WE'RE NOT ON A TIME CRUNCH, RIGHT? 'CAUSE DORAN COULD CAN PUT IT ON THE NEXT EXECUTIVE MEETING. UM, NOT NECESSARY. HE COULD ALWAYS, YES. YEAH. UM, HE COULD ALWAYS CHANGE. I JUST, I JUST WANT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO DORA AND SAY, CAN WE RENEGOTIATE THIS DEAL? AND THEN WHILE YOU'RE DOING THAT CONTACT LONG BEACH TRANSIT, CONTACT WEST LA CONTACT THESE OTHER TRANSITS, UH, OR METRO AND SEE IF THEY'RE WILLING TO BUY IT IN, IN A FAST PACE TOO. SO THAT IS CORRECT. THE TIMING IS IMPORTANT THOUGH, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR THAT I'M ACCRUING IT FOR. OKAY. SO IF I AM GOING TO, YOU KNOW, I'M FOLLOWING, SO MAYBE WE, MAYBE YOU TRY TO SEE IF YOU COULD, UH, ASK THESE OTHER ENTITIES IF THEY, IF THEY'RE ABLE TO PROCESS IT THAT FAST, IF THEY OFFER US A, A BETTER RATE. IF NOT, THEN JUST TELL FOOTHILL, FOOTHILL, CAN YOU GIVE US A BETTER DEAL? AND I'M SURE, I'M SURE DORIN WILL FIGURE OUT A WAY TO AT LEAST GIVE US SOMETHING BACK AND MORE . OKAY. OKAY. COUNCILMAN KENTO. THANK YOU. UM, MARIA LUISA. SO FROM A BUDGETARY STANDPOINT, LET'S JUST SAY WE, WE DON'T DO THIS, JUST SO I CAN UNDERSTAND THIS PROCESS. SO IF WE, IF WE DON'T DO THIS AND WE DON'T SELL OUR 2 MILLION AND WE, AND WE SPEND MONEY THEN BY SPENDING FOR, FOR THINGS THAT ARE UNDER PROPOSITION A, WOULDN'T THAT MEAN THAT WE WOULD THEN NOT HAVE TO DRAW FROM GENERAL FUNDS FOR OTHER THINGS? IN OTHER WORDS, WOULDN'T, WOULDN'T WE STILL GET MORE BANG FOR OUR BUCK BY KEEPING THE $2 MILLION AND, AND THEN BECAUSE OF WHAT WE SPEND WITH THE 16 MILLION OR WHATEVER THE NUMBER IS, THAT ACTUALLY HAS SOMEWHERE ELSE A, A NET EFFECT OF OUR NOT HAVING TO SPEND OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND THAT OTHERWISE WOULD, WE WOULD HAVE TO SPEND, [02:20:01] IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S SORT OF MOVING THINGS AROUND THAT WHERE WE COULD STILL HAVE THE FULL IMPACT OF KEEPING THE 2 MILLION WITHOUT LOSING OUR SPENDING POWER IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO ASK. UM, GENERAL FUND MONEY TYPICALLY DOESN'T FUND, UM, TRANSPORTATION STREETS BECAUSE WE HAVE ENOUGH FUNDING, LIKE I SAID, IN ALL THE OTHER LOCAL RETURN FUNDS THAT WE HAVE, LIKE MEASURE R, MEASURE, MTDA, UM, PROPOSITION C, SO WE USE THOSE FUNDS. SO THOSE ARE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, APPROPRIATED AND, AND SECLUDED FOR THOSE FUNDS. SO GENERAL FUND IS USED FOR, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING WE WANT TO USE AND WHAT WE'VE BUDGETED FOR. SO PROPOSITION A MONEY COULD, COULD THAT ALSO BE USED FOR ROAD, ROAD IMPROVING OUR, OUR, OUR PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX? OUR PCI AS AN EXAMPLE, I KNOW BUS STOPS ARE LIKE, I'D HAVE, THERE'S OTHER CERTAIN TRANSPORTATION GUIDELINES THAT I'D HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND I WILL PROVIDE TO YOU. UM, YOU SAID SPECIFICALLY STREETS? YES. LET'S SAY WE D FROM THERE'S YEAH, WE DO HAVE A DIFFERENT ONE. GAS TAX DOES. YEAH. GAS TAX THERE. GAS TAX FOR THAT. GAS TAX MM-HMM . BECAUSE I'M THINKING THAT IF THERE'S A WAY TO USE, JUST THINKING OUT LOUD, IF WE, IF WE WERE TO USE ALL TWO, $2 MILLION FOR SOMETHING AND IT WOULD BE FOR OUR ROADS IN SOME OTHER WAY, THEN WE WOULD BE MAXIMIZING THE SPENDING POWER WITHOUT HAVING TO GIVE UP 1 CENT OF THAT $2 MILLION TO ANYONE NO MATTER WHAT WE RENEGOTIATE IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT. MM-HMM . OKAY. YEAH, WE HAVE A LOT OF BALANCE. AND, UH, UH, MAYOR PUTIN, YOU WANT TO GO SPEAK? YES. UH, QUICK QUESTION. DOES FOOTHILL TRANSIT HAVE A TIER SYSTEM OF EXCHANGE RATE VERSUS LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A HIGHER DOLLAR IF YOU GO BY THE MILLIONS VERSUS THE THOUSANDS? IS IT JUST ONE FIXED RATE? NO. YEAH. OKAY. BUT YOU'RE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE THAT THOUGH, RIGHT? UM, THE, THE DIRECTION IS TO NEGOTIATE. I WOULD LIKE, UM, CLARITY IF IT'S FOR THE NEXT YEAR OR IF IT'S THIS YEAR, UM, YOU SEE ALREADY SPEND IT, YOU ALREADY SPEND 1.5, YOU SPENT, WELL, UM, IT'S IN THE ADOPTED BUDGET. YEAH. HE'S ALREADY ADOPTED BUDGET AND, AND, AND, AND, NO, AND THAT'S FINE BECAUSE IF ONCE WE USE THIS, THE, THE TOTAL BUDGET WILL STILL REMAIN AT 16 MILLION BECAUSE WE'LL BE RECEIVING ANOTHER 2.7 MILLION THAT WOULD COME IN. SO IT'S NOT, WE DON'T REALLY SEE THAT BIG OF A, A LOSS ON THE PROP. A, UM, JUST WANTING TO DOUBLE CHECK. I KNOW PROP A, UH, APPLIES TO ALL TRANSITS AND STUFF. WHEN WE UTILIZE ALL THESE SHUTTLING AND EVERYTHING, LIKE TO OUR, LIKE 4TH OF JULY, WHICH IS COMING UP, WE ARE UTILIZING THESE FUNDS, CORRECT? I HOPE SO. THE SHUTTLING, YEAH. OKAY. SO ALL SHUTTLES WHEN WE PROVIDE TO ALL THE RESIDENTS IS UTILIZING THESE FUNDS, CORRECT? I SEE THE CITY MANAGER, YOU WANT TO NO, THE SHUTTLE, THE GO WEST, BECAUSE WE HAVE TRANSFER PEOPLE TO JULY. YEAH, JUST, JUST LIKE KELLY MCDONALD HAD SAID, THE, UM, ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER. YES, WE DO USE PROP AID FUNDING FOR THAT. YES. AND FOR THAT, BECAUSE THAT IS AN ELIGIBLE EXPENSE, BUT THE BUT THE FIREWALL, EVERYTHING THERE IS THE GENERAL FUND COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION, CORRECT? YEAH. WEST COVINA FOUNDATION. OKAY. OKAY. AND, UH, SO WE HAVE A MOTION, I'M GONNA, SORRY, I NEED TO CLARIFY. UM, SO ARE YOU SAYING YOU HAVE TIME OR YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO RENEGOTIATE THIS OR FRED HILL, I'M ASSUMING IN BETWEEN, BETWEEN NOW AND THAT MEETING, YOU COULD RENEGOTIATE WITH FRED HILL IF, IF, IF THEY WANTED TO, RIGHT? WE HAVE TIME. YEAH. I MEAN, YES, IF YOU ARE SAYING I WAS GONNA LOOK INTO, I DIDN'T, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TIME POTENTIALLY FOR THE OTHER TRANSITS LOCATIONS BECAUSE IT'S COMPLICATED. BUT I THINK WE'RE FOOTHILL YOU HAVE TIME TO SAY DO, AND CAN YOU GIVE US A BETTER RATE AND, AND, UM, I WOULD HAVE TO DO THAT FOR NEXT MONTH. DEFINITELY. YEAH. UM, TO DO, HAVE THE PROPOSED AND, AND THE ADOPTED BUDGET TO COME FORWARD, UH, NEXT MONTH AS WELL AND BRINGING THAT FORWARD. BUT YEAH. SO CAN I MAKE A MOTION THAT, HOLD ON. I I WANT TO ADD ON THIS, WHAT YOU SAY, AND I WANT TO SAY THIS, ITS EVERY CT OR EVERY ENTITY IS LIKE US. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE QUICK. YEAH. SO I NEED A MEETING, THIS AND THAT. IT'S NOT LIKE THE BUSINESS. OKAY. I CALL YOU, COULD YOU GO GIMME A QUICK AND THEY SAY, OKAY, AND DONE. I THINK, NO, THIS, THIS ONE YOU NEED A BOARD MEMBER TO FOCUS ON FOOTHILL. YEAH. YEAH. THIS ONE, YOU NEED A BOARD MEMBER, YOU NEED TO GO TO CHECK, AND THEN THEY MAY BE REJECTED. THESE ARE COMPLICATION, LIKE, LIKE US. SO IT'S NOT, I DON'T THINK THIS WILL BE OVERNIGHT. YEAH. I THINK, I THINK THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD POTENTIALLY DO IS WE HAVE TIME AND THAT, BECAUSE THIS IS A BUDGET ISSUE. YEAH. AND EVERY YEAR WE DO THIS BUDGET FOR 1.5 AND WE NEVER SAY ANYTHING. AND CERTAINLY NOW WE HAVE A ISSUE, AND NOW WE ALREADY BUDGET THIS 1.5 INTO OUR SPENDING. SO IF WE DON'T DO IT, WE MIGHT HAVE A DEFICIT WITH 1.5. SO, SO THIS IS A THING. SO YEAH, GO AHEAD, MAYOR. PUT THAT, UM, YEAH, I WAS JUST KINDA QUICKLY LOOKING. UM, THERE'S SUMMARY EXCHANGE RATES. SO, UH, LIKE THE YEAR 20 21, 20 20 [02:25:02] OR BRADBURY 2025, WEST COVINA, DIAMOND BAR, SAN GABRIEL, TEMPLE CITY, BRADBURY, THEY EXCHANGED IT AT 75 CENTS FOR THE DOLLAR. UH, WEST HOLLYWOOD, UM, WITH LAKEWOOD, UH, WEST HOLLYWOOD HAS EXCHANGE ENGAGED IN EXCHANGES WITH THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD PURCHASING 2 MILLION IMPRO FUNDS FOR 1.4 MILLION GENERAL FUNDS RESULTING IN A 70, 70 CENTS PER DOLLAR RATE. BUT I MEAN, PLEASE, YOU KNOW, CLARIFY AND GET THAT, UM, CORRECTED TO SEE IF IT'S, BUT, UM, AND THEN JUST SOME USAGE HERE. I THINK IT'S THE INDUSTRY STANDARD, 75%, THEY DON'T GIVE YOU THE FACE VALUE STANDARD. AND NO MATTER HOW YOU NEGOTIATE, THEY'RE NOT GONNA PAY US ONE TIME MORE BASED ON THE REGULATION AND WHAT THEY APPROVED. I THINK 75 OR BELOW 70, TYPICALLY AROUND 75, THEY DON'T GIVE YOU THE FACE VALUE EVEN. WE WANNA SAVE THAT HAPPEN. YEAH, WE WOULD LIKE CONFIRMATION. DEFINITELY. GO AHEAD. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY . UH, FOR, FOR THE, FOR ATTACHMENT NUMBER ONE, FOR, UM, FOR ITEM NUMBER SIX, CAN, CAN I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE IT, BUT LEAVE BLANK? THE EXCHANGE RATE, SO MARIA LARISSA HAS TIME TO CALL FOR HILL AND SEE IF THEY COULD IN, UH, INTERNALLY CHANGE THE TRAINING AND IF NOT THEN, OR HOW, HOW WOULD, CAN THAT WORK, MR. SAMARA? THAT THAT'S A MATERIAL, UM, NUMBER THAT I WOULD NOT ADVISE YOU APPROVING A CONTRACT WITH THAT, WITH NOT, NOT THERE. SO, OKAY, SO HOW, HOW COULD WE, I DON'T KNOW THE TIMING OF THIS. MAYBE THIS COULD BE BROUGHT BACK. IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA APPROVE THIS AGREEMENT TONIGHT, I UNDERSTAND THIS IS FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. SO IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA DO IT TONIGHT, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY BRING IT BACK AT THE VERY NEXT MEETING. IS THAT CORRECT, MARIA? LUISA, DO WE HAVE TIME TO BRING IT BACK? OKAY. I JUST DON'T WANT TO YEAH. IMAGE OUR A DOUBT. OKAY. BECAUSE WE, IT'S A BIGGER, IT BE A COMMON INDUSTRY PRACTICE 75 OF THE FACE VALUE. IF YOU WANT TO EXCHANGE AND YOU, YOU JUST GIVE, BRING THE LIE. 70, 75, NOBODY GO TO 80%. THEY'RE, SO, AND, AND, AND THEN DO WE WANT TO RISK THIS THING? YEAH. TRY TO WASTE THE TIME. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM NUMBER SIX, CONSIDERATION PROPOSITION, A EXCHANGE FOR FEDERAL TRANSIT, BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE OUT OF TIME. UH, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, I WILL LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE USE THE REMAINING $16 MILLION THAT YOU BRING BACK TO THIS CONSOLE SEPARATELY, YOU BRING BACK TO THIS CONSOLE OPTIONS AND HOW TO USE THAT PROPERTY MONEY INCLUDING, UH, REMODELING AND, AND, AND REDOING BUS STOPS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. OKAY, I'LL SECOND. OKAY. AND, UH, DO OKAY, YOU GUYS WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? UM, THOSE ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS. I, I, I, GO AHEAD. HALF OF IT. SO HOW DOES THAT WORK AND WHICH ONE YOU SUPPORT? WHICH ONE I, I SUPPORT THE SECOND. OKAY. YOU DON'T SUPPORT THE YEAH. WITH THE, WITH GETTING BACK, THE YOU CAN SEPARATE, THEN YOU CAN SAY, THEN YOU CAN, THEY CAN SAY NO. OKAY. THEN YOU CAN BRING, YEAH, BECAUSE THIS ONES COMBINED TOGETHER. OKAY. YOU CAN SAY NOW. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, UH, SO, UH, ROLL CODE PLEASE. SO WE HAVE, UH, APPROVED OKAY. THAT THIS IS, UH, UH, OKAY. 1.5 TO GO INTO GENERAL FILE THAT EVERY, EVERY YEAR WE, WE'VE DONE THIS ALL THE TIME. OKAY. AND MAYBE NEXT YEAR YOU CAN DO, PREPARE THIS EARLIER. SEE, WE CAN, I DOUBT IT. OKAY. IF WE NEED THIS, THIS, AND THAT. SO, UH, ROCCO PLEASE. THANK YOU. TO CLARIFY THE, I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, THE SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM LOPEZ, VITO TO, UH, APPROVE. THANK YOU. TO APPROVE THE, UM, ITEM NUMBER SIX, AND THEN ALSO TO NEGOTIATE FOR NEXT YEAR MOVING FORWARD, AND TO BRING BACK A PRESENTATION ON WHAT THE 16 MILLION PROP A MONEY CAN BE USED FOR COUNCILMAN CONTOS NOTE TO THE FIRST HALF. UH, THAT'S, SO IT'S A NO, A NO, IT'S A NO THANK YOU. RECORD, YES. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PROAM LOPEZ. VITO AYE. MAYOR WU. AYE. ITEM PASSES. FOUR ONE. YEP. THANK YOU, LUISA. THANK YOU SO MUCH. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. OKAY. [8) CONSIDERATION OF PRIORITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DRAFT PROGRAM YEAR (PY) 2025-2029 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) CONSOLIDATED PLAN ] AND THEN LET'S MOVE ON TO THE, OKAY. PUBLIC HEARING CONSIDERATION OF, UH, PRIORITIZE, UH, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRAFT PROGRAM OF THE CDBG FUND. UH, WHO'S GONNA PRESENT THIS MAYOR WITH US THIS EVENING? WE HAVE ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER, KELLY MCDONALD, WHO WILL BE GIVING THE PRESENTATION. YEAH, GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING. UH, THIS HEARING CONCERNS THE PROGRAM YEAR 20 25, 20 29, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT, CDBG CONSOLIDATED PLAN. THE, UH, CITY RECEIVES AN ANNUAL GRANT OF CDBG FUNDS FROM THE US DEPARTMENT HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT. AND, UH, THE CDBG PROGRAM WORKS TO ENSURE DECENT, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, PROVIDES SERVICES TO THE MOST VULNERABLE IN THE COMMUNITY, AND [02:30:01] TO CREATE JOBS THROUGH THE EXPANSION AND RETENTION OF BUSINESSES. AS A RECIPIENT OF THE FUNDS, THE CITY'S REQUIRED TO PREPARE A CONSOLIDATED PLAN, WHICH COVERS A FIVE YEAR PERIOD AND SERVES AS A STRATEGIC DOCUMENT AND GUIDES THE INTENDED USE OF GRANT FUNDS. SORRY, MAYOR, IF I MAY, MAY, WE NEED YOU TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING OFFICIALLY. OKAY. OKAY. UH, LET ME READ THIS. AT THIS DASH, YOU'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRAFT PROGRAM YEARS 2025 TO 2029 CDVG CONSIDERATION PLAN. OKAY. AND THERE WILL BE CONSOLIDATE PLAN. OKAY. AND THERE WILL FIRST BE THE PRESENTATION OF THE STAFF REPORT, AND THEN WE SHALL HEAR COMMENT FROM THE PUBLIC. OKAY. AND THE CDC MANAGER. OKAY. I THINK KELLY ALREADY PRESENT HIS CDPG FUND. OKAY. YOU WANNA CONTINUE? SURE, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. IN RECENT YEARS, THE CITY HAS USED CDPG FUNDS FOR SUCH ACTIVITIES AS THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM ADVOCATE IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE SENIOR RULES PROGRAM, THE BUSINESS ASSISTANCE LOAN PROGRAM, THE HOUSING PRESERVATION PROGRAM, PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE, IMPROVEMENTS IN PUBLIC SERVICES SUCH AS FOOD BANKS, MEALS ON WHEELS, AND HOMELESS SERVICES. UH, THIS IS A FIRST OF TWO REQUIRED PUBLIC HEARINGS. THE PURPOSE OF TONIGHT'S MEETING IS TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY ON WHICH THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN WILL BE BASED. THE COUNCIL IS ALSO ASKED TO PRIORITIZE THE COMMUNITY NEEDS FOR THIS PURPOSE. UH, PRIORITY LEVEL DOES NOT REFER TO RELATIVE IMPORTANCE, BUT AS TO WHETHER OR NOT CDBG FUNDS WILL BE USED TO ADDRESS THE NEED, IF, UM, CDBG FUNDS WILL BE USED, THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A HIGH PRIORITY IF THEY MAY BE USED AS A MEDIUM PRIORITY, AND IF THEY WILL NOT BE USED, THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A LOW PRIORITY. TABLE ONE SHOWS THE PRIORITIZATION OF NEEDS FROM THE PRIOR CYCLE. THERE ARE, UH, EIGHT CATEGORIES OF NEED, WHICH ARE MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN ATTACHMENT ONE. UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOMELESSNESS, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSING, PUBLIC FACILITIES AND RENTAL HOUSING WERE PRIORITIZED AS HIGH. AND, UH, PUBLIC SERVICES AND NON-HOMELESS SPECIAL NEEDS WERE, UM, PRIORITIZED AS MEDIUM. THE NEEDS AND PRIORITY LEVELS MAY BE AMENDED TONIGHT OR AT ANY TIME WITH GIVEN PROPER NOTICE. THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS FOR THE, THIS PRIORITIZATION TO REMAIN STATUS QUO. UH, THIS IS BECAUSE AS STATED IN THE REPORT THAT THE, UH, FUNDING WAS ANTICIPATED TO BE FLAT. AND IN FACT, LAST WEEK WE WERE, UH, HUD POSTED ITS ALLOCATIONS AND WE'RE EXPECTING JUST UNDER, UH, $820,000, WHICH IS RELATIVELY FLAT. UH, THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES ARE INCLUDED AS ATTACHMENT ONE, AND THEY, UH, ARE MAPS FOR REFERENCE, UH, THE ELIGIBILITY. THIS IS BECAUSE, UM, MOST OF THE FUNDING IS GENERALLY DIRECTED TOWARD PUBLIC FACILITY OR PUBLIC, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS. AND THE ELIGIBILITY OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS IS GENERALLY MADE ON AN AREA BASIS, UH, THAT IS, UH, A SERVICE AREAS ESTABLISHED. AND, UM, THEIR RELATED CENSUS DATA IS EVALUATED. AND IF THE AREA MEETS HUD'S CRITERIA FOR INCOME, THIS IS A GOOD FIRST STEP IN QUALIFYING AN ACTIVITY. UH, THE MAP YOU SEE HERE IS A, UH, MAP OF ELIGIBLE CENSUS BLOCK GROUPS WITH SHADED AREAS INDICATED THOSE MEETING THE THRESHOLD. THERE ARE OTHER CONSIDERATIONS SUCH AS THE, UH, AREA BEING, UH, PRIMARILY RESIDENTIAL, BUT INITIALLY QUALIFYING THE AREA BASED ON, IN ON, UH, INCOME CRITERIA IS OFTEN THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE. UH, THIS NEXT SLIDE IS, UH, SHOWS THE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME, AND THAT'S FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH THE, UH, PRIOR MAPS. I'LL MOVE ON THE, UH, FINALLY HAVE THE, UH, PARK MAP OF THE PARK DISTRICTS. AND, UM, REASON I SHOW THIS IS FOR PURPOSE OF CDBG ELIGIBILITY OF PARKS. UH, THE CITY HAS HISTORICALLY USED ITS PARK DISTRICTS AS SERVICE AREAS FOR THE PARKS LOCATED WITHIN THEM. BASED ON THE CURRENT CENSUS DATA ONLY. UM, PARK DISTRICTS A AND PARK DISTRICT ARE AREA ELIGIBLE AT THIS TIME, AND THAT WOULD BE LIKE, UH, DEL DOTE PARK AND FRIENDSHIP PARK. WE DO ALREADY HAVE AN APPROVED, UM, PROJECT OVER AT FRIENDSHIP THAT IS IN DESIGN CURRENTLY. AND, UH, FINALLY, AN ONLINE SURVEY WAS USED TO BROADEN THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC INPUT. THE, UH, SURVEY WAS PROMOTED THROUGH DISCOVER IN THE CITY WEBPAGE, UH, AND HAS BEEN LIVE SINCE DECEMBER 60. RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED. AND THOSE RESPONSES ARE INCLUDED AS ATTACHMENT THREE. UH, ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES MOST STRONGLY SUPPORTED ARE STREETS AND ROAD IMPROVEMENTS, TREE PLANTING, BIKE AND WALKING PATHS, SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS, OWNER OCCUPIED REHAB, HOUSE OR HOUSING REHAB, A DA IMPROVEMENTS, UH, PARK AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, COMMUNITY CENTERS, AND NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS. [02:35:02] THE CITY, UH, COUNCIL HAS THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION OR PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE DIRECTION. UH, WITH THE APPROVAL OF THIS ITEM, STAFF WILL BEGIN TO DRAFT THE CONSOLIDATED PLAN, AS WELL AS THE PROCESS OF EVALUATING PUBLIC SERVICE PROPOSALS AND POTENTIAL CAPITAL PROJECTS AGAINST THE APPROVED PRIORITIZATION. ONCE A DRAFT IS FINALIZED, IT'LL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR A 30 DAY PUBLIC REVIEW AS REQUIRED BY HUD. THEN IT'LL BE PRESENTED ALONG WITH PROPOSED ACTIVITIES AND FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION IN A SECOND PUBLIC HEARING. UH, NOTICE FOR THIS HEARING WAS PUBLISHED ON MAY 9TH, AND NO COMMENTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THERE'S NO FISCAL IMPACT RELATED, UH, OR RESULTING FROM THIS REPORT. SO IT'S RECOMMENDED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL DIRECT STAFF TO DRAFT A, UH, PROGRAM YEAR 20 25, 20 29, CONSOLIDATED PLAN BASED ON THE NEEDS AND PRIORITIES DETAILED IN TABLE ONE OF THE REPORT. THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT, AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY COUNCIL HAVE A QUESTION? YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR ? GO AHEAD. YEAH. MY ONLY QUESTION WILL BE, UM, FOR STREET REPAIRS, UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR STREETS, UH, NEED MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS. UH, IS A LOT OF THAT MONEY GONNA BE USED FOR THAT? THAT'S WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING. YEAH. OKAY. WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, MOVING A, LOOKING AT THE, UM, PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN. THERE'S A, A PROJECT, UH, THAT'S INTENDED FOR 26 27 THAT IS, UH, NORTH OF THE FREEWAY TO THE, TO THE WESTERN BOUNDARY. AND, UM, OKAY. THAT WE'RE, UH, LOOKING AT LIKE THAT, UM, THE PARK DISTRICT A FOR LACK OF MY BETTER, UH, DESCRIPTION, BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M, UH, ADVOCATING. OKAY. IS THOSE TYPICALLY MOVE FORWARD FAIRLY QUICKLY. WE'VE I'VE ALREADY QUALIFIED THAT AREA AS BEING ELIGIBLE, AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE. OKAY. I'M RECOMMENDING. OKAY. OKAY. UH, THEN ANY OTHER QUESTION? IF NOT, I'M GOING TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY. ANY PEOPLE, UH, WANT TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM? NO, MAYOR. AND FOR THE RECORD, I'D LIKE TO, UH, VERIFY THAT THE NOTICE WAS PROPERLY, UH, ADVERTISED FOR THIS MEETING. YEAH. SO PROPER NOTIFICATION HAS BEEN ISSUED THAT YES. PROPER NO, UH, PROPER NOTICE. NOTICE OF VERIFICATION HAS BEEN CORRECT. IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT ON THE SCRIPT. I JUST, IT IS MY MEMORY. IT IS ON THE SCRIPT. OH MY. SO, ANYWAY, UH, SO IF FOR NOW I'M GONNA CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT, THEN WE COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION. OR DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSIDERATION PRIORITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DRAFT PROGRAM YEAR PA 2025 TO 2029. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT. I'LL SECOND. OKAY. UH, THE ROLL PLEASE. MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ A SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TE LOPEZ. VITO. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PRO TE LOPEZ. VITO AYE. MAYOR WU. AYE. UH, THE PRO FIVE ZERO. THEN WE GO TO THE [9) UPDATE ON GO WEST COVINA - MICROTRANSIT PILOT PROJECT] LAST ITEM, UH, UPDATE ON THE GO WEST COVINA. OKAY. AND, UH, WHO WILL PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT? MAYOR, WE, WE ACTUALLY HAVE, UM, REPRESENTATION FROM OUR CONSULTANTS HERE, SO THEY'RE GONNA COME ON UP AND PROVIDE YOU WITH THE REPORT THIS EVENING. HI, I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR WAITING. HI EVERYONE. YEAH, IT'S AN HONOR TO WAIT HERE AND IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE. KELLY. SORRY, ALEX, I'D LIKE TO, YEAH, JUST GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCE YOU. THANK YOU. UH, THIS ITEM IS AN UPDATE ON THE GO WEST COVINA SERVICE. IT'S THE, UH, CITY'S ONE ONE YEAR GRANT SUPPORTED MICRO TRANSIT PILOT PROJECT. AND, UH, AS PART OF A RECENT EVALUATION OF THE CITY'S TRANSIT PROGRAM WITH GOALS TO IMPROVE, UM, SERVICE AS WELL AS INCREASE RIDERSHIP, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A MICROT TRANSIT SERVICE WAS CONSIDERED AS AN OPTION TO EITHER PARTIALLY OR FULLY REPLACE THE FIXED ROUTE SERVICE. UH, SOME OF THE FEATURES OF A MICRO MICRO TRANSIT, I KEEP SAYING MICROSOFT MICROT TRANSIT MODEL, UH, INCLUDE THE ROUTING THAT'S FLEXIBLE AND DYNAMIC, UH, RATHER THAN FIXED. IT'S A TECHNOLOGY ENABLED SO THAT, UH, IT, UH, PERFORMS REAL TIME ROUTING THAT RESULTS IN EFFICIENT TRAVEL AND MINIMIZED, UM, WAIT TIMES FOR THE RIDERS. THE RIDES ARE, THE RIDES ARE SHARED, THE RIDES ARE BOOKED BY THE RIDERS, UH, USING A MOBILE PHONE APP OR CALLING INTO A CALL CENTER. AND THE PICKUPS AND DROP OFFS ARE CORNER TO CORNER. IN EARLY 2023, THE CITY, UH, LEARNED OF A GRANT OPPORTUNITY THROUGH LA METRO CALLED THE VISIONARY SEED FUND, WHICH, UH, WOULD FUND SIX INNOVATIVE PROJECTS IN THE GRANT CYCLE. IN RESEARCHING MIC MICRO TRANSIT PROGRAM STAFF CONNECTED WITH VIA TRANSPORTATION AND VIA THE CITY WORK COLLABORATIVELY TO DEVELOP AND SUBMIT A GRANT PROPOSAL TO THE PROGRAM FOR, UH, THE GO WEST COVINO ONE YEAR PILOT PROJECT. THE PROPOSAL [02:40:01] WAS SUCCESSFUL AND THE CITY WAS AWARDED, UM, 60% OF THE $1.1 MILLION. UH, PROJECT COSTS WILL BE FUNDED BY THE GRANT, AND 40% IS CONSIDERED, UM, THE MATCH, UH, FROM THE CITY. AND THE CITY WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE METRO TO THAT WE WOULD USE OUR, SOME OF OUR TRANSIT FUNDS, OUR, OUR MEASURE M TRANSIT FUNDS. SO THERE'S NO GE GENERAL FUND IMPACT RESULTING FROM THIS PROJECT. UH, AFTER SOME PRE-DEVELOPMENT LAST FALL, THE, UH, GO WEST COVINA PROGRAM LAUNCHED, UH, NOVEMBER 18TH, 2024. IT'S BEEN WELL RECEIVED AND SUCCESSFUL AS YOU'LL SEE IN A MOMENT. AND, UH, AT THIS POINT I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE, UH, ALEX PETI AND JOE, UH, MARTIN, WHO ARE HERE FROM VIA TO PROVIDE A PRESENTATION ON SERVICE TO DATE. THANK YOU, KELLY. AND IS IT CLICKER WISHFUL THINKING, OR DO I JUST, IT'S WISHFUL THINKING. JUST NEXT. NO WORRIES, WORRIES. NEXT SLIDE YOUR FINGER. I COULD DO THAT. I COULD DO THAT. WELL, MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. UM, I DON'T LIVE IN WEST COVINA. I LIVE, UH, OVER IN WEST LA BUT I HAVE THE GREAT PLEASURE OF VISITING AND WORKING WITH YOUR CITY REGULARLY AS IT RELATES TO GO WEST COVINA. AND I'M EXCITED HERE TO POST YOU ALL ON THE INCREDIBLE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE SINCE WE LAUNCHED THIS PILOT ABOUT MID-NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR. AND SO, NEXT SLIDE. UM, REALLY QUICKLY, YOU'VE MET ME AND JOE NOW, BUT I ALSO WANNA CALL OUT THAT THERE ARE MANY MEMBERS OF, UH, MY COMPANY, WHICH IS VIA, UH, BEHIND THE SCENES THAT ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS AND LONG-TERM CONSULTATIVE WORK AS IT RELATES TO GO WEST COVINA. UM, SOMEONE REFERENCED US AS AS CONSULTANTS, AS AS, UH, I WAS WA WALKING UP, BUT I WANNA ALSO CALL OUT THAT VIA IS THE TRUE TECH PROVIDER AND ALSO THE OPERATOR OF THE GO WEST COVINA SERVICE. AND GO, WEST COVINA IS ONE OF MORE THAN 800 SIMILAR SERVICES AROUND THE GLOBE. WE OPERATE IN MORE THAN 40 COUNTRIES, AND WE HAVE SERVED OVER 165 MILLION RIDES. AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IS A HOTBED OF THOSE SERVICES. WE HAVE 200 TEAM MEMBERS HERE IN CALIFORNIA. WE HAVE 80 MAJOR PUBLIC TRANSIT AGENCIES, CITIES, UNIVERSITIES, CORPORATIONS THAT, UH, LEVERAGE OUR SERVICES. AND IMPORTANTLY, WE, UM, ARE, YOU KNOW, THESE SERVICES, WE ARE THE SOFTWARE PROVIDER, WE ARE THE OPERATOR. THEY CAN BE MICRO TRANSIT, THEY CAN BE FIXED ROUTE, IT CAN BE DIAL RIDE PROGRAMS OR COMBINATIONS OF THESE. AND SO REALLY QUICKLY, UH, THIS IS KINDA THE BULK OF THE PRESENTATION. I WANNA TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE SUCCESSES THAT GO WEST COVINA HAS SEEN TO DATE. SO JUST TO BRIEF YOU REALLY QUICKLY, KELLY INTRODUCED THIS, BUT I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU SOME STATS AS IT RELATES TO THIS PROGRAM. SO IT IS A GRANT FUNDED PROGRAM. IT'S A PILOT FOR ONE YEAR. IT IS A $0 FARE FOR THE RIDER. IT OPERATES SEVEN TO SEVEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. WE HAVE FIVE GO WEST COVINA BRANDED VEHICLES IN THE SERVICE. AND HERE'S A MAP OF THE SERVICE ZONE, WHICH IS A SUBSECT OF THE BROADER, UH, BROADER WEST COVINA CITY BORDER. AND IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT ONE, IT IS INTELLIGENTLY DESIGNED TO INCORPORATE AS MANY OF YOUR COMMUNITY'S KEY POINTS OF INTEREST AS POSSIBLE SO THAT RIDERS CAN GET WHERE THEY NEED TO GO. UM, INTERESTINGLY, WE ALSO HAVE EXPANDED THIS TO INCLUDE CONNECTION TO OTHER, UH, MODALITIES OF PUBLIC TRANSIT THAT CAN GET RIDERS AND RESIDENTS OF YOUR CITY IN AND OUT OF, UH, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES. GO WEST COVINA HAS SEEN RAPID ADOPTION FROM THE COMMUNITY WITH CONSISTENT GROWTH SINCE LAUNCH. SO BY THE END OF APRIL, WE HAD 449 ACTIVE RIDERS ON THE APP AND MORE THAN 7,000 COMPLETED RIDES. BUT WE ARE ON TRACK FOR A RECORD MAY AT CURRENT RATES. WE'RE EXPECTING TO SEE SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 2,700 COMPLETED RIDES IN THIS MONTH. AND WE HAVE ALREADY SURPASSED 500 ACTIVE RIDERS. SO WE'RE INCREDIBLY ENCOURAGED BY THE GROWTH TO DATE. AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE USED TO HAVE A RED AND BLUE LINE BUS HERE IN WEST COVINA. WE DEPRECATED THAT SOMETIME IN, I THINK IT WAS FEBRUARY, REALLY EXCITINGLY, WE SAW THAT RIDERSHIP BE ADOPTED BY THE GO WEST COVINA MICROT TRANSIT PROGRAM BEFORE THOSE FIXED ROUTES WERE EVEN DEPRECATED. AND, UM, SINCE THEN, WE HAVE SEEN A 270% INCREASE IN RIDERSHIP RELATED TO WHAT THOSE TWO DEPRECATED FIXED ROUTES SAW. AND REALLY IMPORTANTLY, WE HAVE SEEN A 61% DECREASE IN THE COST PER RIDE RELATIVE TO THOSE DEPRECATED ROUTES. AND WHAT'S EXCITING IS THAT THE MORE RIDERS WE GET, THE MORE THAT THAT COST PER RIDE SAVINGS WILL GROW. SO WE'RE INCREDIBLY ENCOURAGED BY THE NUMBERS HERE. IMPORTANTLY, THE CITY HAS RESPONDED WELL AND YOUR RESIDENTS HAVE GIVEN US INCREDIBLE AND VERY OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE FEEDBACK RELATED TO THE SERVICE. WE HAVE A 4.8 OUTTA FIVE AVERAGE RIDE RATING. WE HAVE A F 4.9 OUTTA FIVE APPLE APPS STORE RATING. AND THE FEEDBACK WE GET IS SPECIFIC TO THE RIDERS, IT'S SPECIFIC TO THE EFFICIENCY, [02:45:01] THE CLEANLINESS OF THE SERVICE. AND SO WE ARE INCREDIBLY ENCOURAGED BY WHAT YOUR RESIDENTS ARE SAYING. AND RIDERSHIP GROWTH DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN. WE GET HEAVILY INVOLVED WITH THIS. AND SO WE HAVE MANY TEAMS THAT HAVE BEEN DEDICATED TO GROWING RIDERSHIP AND GETTING THE WORD OUT. WE'VE BEEN WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KELLY AND HIS OFFICE. UM, AND OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS TO DATE HAVE INCLUDED SOCIAL MEDIA AND PAID AD CAMPAIGNS. WE GOT SOME STREETS BLOG MEDIA COVERAGE WAS, WHICH WAS ASSISTED BY MY COMPANY'S PR TEAM. AND WE'VE ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TABLE AT A HANDFUL OF EVENTS. I WAS LUCKY TO ATTEND THE WEST COVINA TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY, SO I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS BUILDING AND IT PARKING LOT. BUT WE HAVE ALSO ATTENDED THE CORTEZ PARK COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER MERRILL GARDENS AND MUCH MORE THAN THAT. UM, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO SO AND GET THE WORD OUT. THAT IS SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SUCCESS WE'VE SEEN TO DATE. BUT A GOOD SERVICE DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN'T SEE A GREAT SERVICE. AND SO JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE FLAVOR OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE TO DATE AND SOME OF THE THINGS COMING DOWN THE PIKE, WE'VE IDENTIFIED SOME OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR INCREASED EFFICIENCY IN THE WORLD OF CO-MINGLING. SO CO-MINGLING, WE DEFINE IT AS WHEN MULTIPLE SERVICES, SO SAY, UH, MICRO TRANSIT, FIXED ROUTE, DIAL AIDE, SOME COMBO ALL EXIST WITHIN A SINGLE APP SO THAT RIDERS CAN USE ONE APP FOR MULTIPLE SERVICES AND VERY OFTEN EXIST WITH ONE PROVIDER. SO INSTEAD OF HAVING ONE APP, ONE PROVIDER FOR EACH OF YOUR SERVICES, ONE SERVICE MIGHT BE ABLE TO OPERATE MULTIPLE, AND THAT IMPROVES THE RIDER EXPERIENCE WITH A CONSISTENT, EASY WAY TO BOOK. WE HAVE HIGHLY TRAINED RI DRIVERS ACROSS MULTIPLE SERVICES. THEY'RE ABLE TO DRIVE FOR BOTH MICRO TRANSIT AND DIAL RIDE AS AN EXAMPLE. AND IMPORTANTLY INTERNALLY AT THE, UH, WITH THE CITY, YOU GET INCREASED VISIBILITY THROUGH A SINGLE TECH AND OPERATIONS PLATFORM, UNIFIED DATA IN REPORTING. AND SO THERE'S EFFICIENCIES THERE. OUR CONSULTING TEAM, WHICH YOUR, UH, YOUR CITY CONTRACTED AS PART OF THIS PILOT HAS LOOKED AT CO-MINGLING, SPECIFICALLY YOUR DIAL AIDE SERVICE WITH OUR MICRO TRANSIT SERVICE. AND I CAN DOUBLE CLICK ON THIS. I KNOW I ONLY HAVE FIVE MINUTES, SO STOP ME WHENEVER. BUT IMPORTANTLY, 5,000 OF YOUR 2024 DIAL AIDE RIDES EXISTED IN WHAT IS NOW THE GO WEST COVENA MICRO TRANSIT ZONE. SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT THOSE RIDES COULD HAVE BEEN SERVED JOINTLY WITH THE MICRO TRANSIT SERVICE. YOU COULD HAVE HAD MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF YOUR COMMUNITY UTILIZING MULTIPLE SERVICES IN A SINGLE VEHICLE. OUR TEAM HAS ESTIMATED THAT CO-MINGLING THESE COULD SAVE $115,000 A YEAR MOVING FORWARD JUST ON THESE, UH, JUST ON COMBINING THESE TWO SERVICES ALONE. AND SO THE LAST SIDE, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE NUMBERS RELATED TO THAT, WE COULD ESTIMATE A 40% DECREASE IN THE ANNUAL DIAL AIDE HOURS. THESE, THE DOLLARS SAVED FROM THESE HOURS CAN BE PUT TOWARDS, FRANKLY, WHATEVER THEY COULD BE PUT TOWARDS, WHICHEVER OF YOUR TRANSIT SERVICES YOU NEED. BUT WE ESTIMATE THAT SHIFTING THESE SAVED HOURS TO THE MICRO TRANSIT SERVICE COULD SEE AN INCREASE IN 80, 87% INCREASE IN DAILY RIDERSHIP ACROSS BOTH THESE SERVICES. AND THEN JUST AS A REALLY QUICK CASE, UH, CASE STUDY, I'M NOT SPEAKING IN HYPOTHETICALS HERE, WE DO THIS WITH OTHER CITIES. VERY RECENTLY, THE CITY OF SARASOTA, FLORIDA HAD US DO EXACTLY THIS. WE COMMINGLED THEIR DIAL AIDE AND THEIR MICROT TRANSIT SERVICE, AND WE SAW 700,000 SAVINGS IN THE FIRST YEAR. SO WE'RE INCREDIBLY EXCITED BY THAT. UM, WE HAVE EXPERIENCE IN OPERATING MULTIPLES OF THESE SERVICES. THE ONE THING I WANTED TO PLUG IS THAT NOT ONLY DO WE OPERATE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, BUT WE ARE NO STRANGERS TO THE SGV SPECIFICALLY. AND WE JUST FOUND OUT THAT WE WON OPERATIONS AND SOFTWARE FOR BOTH DIAL AIDE AND MICRO TRANSIT, UH, AT YOUR NEIGHBORING ROSEMEAD. SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. UM, THE ONLY OTHER THING I'LL SAY REALLY QUICKLY AS I WRAP UP IS THAT IF ANY OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS OR THE MAYOR WOULD LIKE TO DOUBLE CLICK ON ANY OF THIS OR LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SERVICE, PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME VIA KELLY. I'LL COME OUT HERE, WE'LL GET A COFFEE, WE'LL GET ON A PHONE. I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE, BUT I THINK THAT'S MY TIME AND THEN SOME, SO THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, UH, ANY COUNCIL MEMBER QUESTION? YEAH, UH, MAYOR PRO, GO AHEAD. UM, WELL I'M JUST PLEASED AND VERY HAPPY TO HEAR THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA OFFERS A VARIETY OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WITHIN THE LAST TWO, THREE YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN HERE. UM, GIVING THE RESIDENTS MANY OPTIONS TO CONTINUE TO EAT, SHOP, PLAY WITHIN OUR CITY. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, QUESTION ON THIS, UM, WHAT'S THE AGES? IS THIS ONLY FOR SENIORS OR IS IT ALL AGES? THE MICROT TRANSIT PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO BE FOR ALL AGES. I BELIEVE THE DIAL AIDE THAT YOU RUN IS 55. YES, THAT'S CORRECT. I THINK THE, THE AGE LIMIT TO TO RIDE ALONE IS 13. OH YES. 13 AND OVER. BUT ANYBODY TRAVELING WITHIN THE SERVICE AREA CAN USE THE SERVICE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A A WEST COVINA [02:50:01] RESIDENT. AND WE, AS ALEX ALLUDED TO, WE ALSO CONNECT TO, UH, THE, UH, TRAIN STATIONS IN BALDWIN PARK IN COVINA. SO DOES THIS PICK YOU UP FROM HOME OR IS THIS AT THE BUS STOPS? I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, THE SERVICE THAT IS BEING PROVIDED, I KNOW WE DO CONNECTIONS, BUT WHERE DO THEY PICK UP? WHERE DO THEY DROP OFF? YOU ONLY SHOWED ME FIVE BASED ON THE PRESENTATION THAT THERE WAS ONLY OH, YEAH, SO I, YEAH, SO I SHOULD CALL OUT. SO THE POINTS OF INTEREST THAT WE LABELED ARE JUST PARTS OF THE, THESE ARE JUST INSTITUTIONS IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT WE SEE A LOT OF RIDERSHIP AT. RIDERSHIP IS NOT LIMITED TO THOSE POINTS OF INTEREST. IT'S A CORNER TO CORNER SERVICE, WHICH MEANS THAT UNLIKE UBER, IF I'M PICKING MYSELF UP FROM MY ADDRESS, THE CAR COMES RIGHT OUT TO MY, LIKE, TO MY DRIVEWAY. CORNER TO CORNER MEANS THAT PERHAPS I'M WALKING LIKE THE NAME IMPLIES TO THE CORNER INSTEAD. SO THAT ALLOWS US TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE EFFICIENT. WE'RE NOT PULLING DOWN EVERY SINGLE SIDE STREET, BUT IT IS STILL TAILORED TOWARDS THE RIDE TO CREST THAT YOU PUT IN. WE'RE GETTING TOWARDS YOU. IT'S DESIGNED THAT IT'S A, IT'S ALWAYS A WALKABLE DISTANCE. WE'RE NOT MAKING INDIVIDUALS WALK HALF A MILE, UM, PERHAPS THE WAY THEY MIGHT FOR A BUS STOP. SO YOU, YOU COULD THINK OF CORNER TO CORNER, I'M, I'M OVERSIMPLIFYING IT, BUT MAYBE BETWEEN WALKING TO THE BUS THAT, YOU KNOW, A FEW STREETS OVER AND AN UBER THAT COMES DIRECTLY TO YOUR DOOR. WELL, WHEN YOU SAY CORNER TO CORNER, ARE YOU SAYING LIKE CORNER TO CORNER, MAJOR STREETS? BECAUSE AS YOU CONTINUE WITH EVERY CITY, THERE'S CORNERS EVERY BLOCK OF THE WAY SO THAT THAT'S CONSIDERED A CORNER. YEAH, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S A FAIR POINT. AND SO WHEN WE DESIGN THE SERVICE ZONE THERE, WE HAVE WHAT'S CALLED VIRTUAL BUS STOPS, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. AND THOSE ARE PLACED ON CORNERS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF THE CITY. SO IT IS, I DON'T WANNA SAY IT'S EVERY SINGLE INTERSECTION AND EVERY SINGLE CORNER OF THE CITY, BUT IT'S CLOSER TO THAT THAN NOT. SO ON THE APP, IT SHOWS WHICH VIRTUAL BUS STOP AND THEN THOSE AREAS DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE ANY POSTING OR SIGNS THAT IS PICKED UP THERE OR, AND THEN WHEN THEY DO PICK UP, YOU KNOW, WHICH CORNER DID THEY HAVE TO TOTALLY, YEAH. SO, SO WHEN, IF, IF I OPENED THE APP TODAY AND REQUESTED A RIDE, I WOULD BE MET WITH A RIDE PROPOSAL, IT WOULD SHOW ME MY DRIVER THE ESTIMATED TIME. IF I ACCEPTED IT WOULD THEN GIVE ME MY CUSTOM FOR THIS RIDE WHERE I NEED TO GO. SO IF I'M AT THE MIDDLE OF MAPLE STREET AND MAYBE IT'S MAPLE AND MAINE ON THE CORNER, IT'LL TELL ME EXPLICITLY WALK WEST TOWARDS THE END OF MAPLE STREET AND WAIT AT THE CORNER OF MAPLE AND MAINE FOR JOE TO COME PICK ME UP IN 30 MINUTES. AND YOU CAN SEE JUST SIMILAR TO UBER, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE HOW CLOSE IT COMES IN. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER CITY? COUNCIL? COUNCIL, COUNCIL MANTO. HI ALEX. UH, HI. HI THERE. UH, SO IN THE DISTANT PAST, I REMEMBER CALLING FOR A DIAL RIGHT IN AND WE HAVE TO WAIT ALMOST A WEEK, LIKE SIX DAYS OR SOMETHING. HOW I HAVEN'T USED IT FOR A LONG TIME. SO HOW WAS IT NOW, UH, LET'S SAY JUST BY NOT USING THE APP, BUT LET'S SAY FOR ANYBODY WHO CALLS IS, DO YOU STILL HAVE TO CALL SEVERAL DAYS IN ADVANCE OR HOW DOES IT WORK NOW COMPARED TO BEFORE? SO A I'LL YIELD TO KELLY ON THE UPDATE WITH THE DIAL AIDE SERVICE BECAUSE MY COMPANY DOESN'T YET, UH, OPERATE OR INVOLVED IN THAT. WE JUST OH, YOU'RE NOT, WE ARE JUST GO WEST COVINA. OKAY, GOT IT. YEAH, YOU OKAY. THANK YOU. RIGHT. THAT, THAT'S CORRECT. THEY MV TAKES THE, UH, DIAL RIDE RESERVATIONS A WEEK. THEY START TAKING 'EM A WEEK OUT. IF THEY CAN, UH, ACCOMMODATE YOU THE SAME DAY OR WITHIN THAT WINDOW, THEY, THEY DO. BUT, UM, THAT'S GENERALLY THE WINDOW. OH, BUT THIS OTHER MICRO TRANSIT. OKAY. CORRECT. THANK YOU. KIM, WHERE, WHERE, WHERE THIS, UH, SERVICES IS ON, ON DEMAND AND WHEN, I'M SORRY, WHAT? UH, TO GET BACK TO THE CORNER TO CORNER THING, UH, IF, WHEN FOLKS SIGN UP FOR IT, IF THERE'S AN ACCESSIBILITY ISSUE, IF THEY'RE ON CRUTCHES OR A WHEELCHAIR, WE DO HAVE A WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE. BUT, UH, IF THEY SPECIFY THAT THERE IS AN ACCESSIBILITY ISSUE, THEY WILL GO POINT TO POINT. IS THAT CORRECT, ALEX? YES. OKAY. AND OKAY, COUNSEL. OKAY. AND THE MAYOR PUTIN, UH, TO FOLLOW UP, UP, SIMILAR TO COUNCILMAN CONTOS QUESTION ON THIS, UM, HOW LONG IS NORMALLY THE WAIT YOU CAN PROCESS SAME DAY SERVICE AND YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. OUR SERVICES ON DEMAND, NOW WE HAVE OTHER SERVICES ELSEWHERE THAT ARE MORE LIKE THE DIALER RIDE THAT'S BEEN DESCRIBED WHERE MAYBE YOU'RE MAKING THESE PRE-BOOKED, UM, RIDES DAYS IN ADVANCE. BUT WITH THE GO WEST COVINA, IT'S AN ON-DEMAND SERVICE. WE'RE OUT OF SERVICE HOURS NOW, BUT A FEW HOURS AGO YOU WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO OPEN IT UP AND YOU MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CALL A RIDE, AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN HERE IN AS SHORT AS 15, 20 MINUTES DEPENDING ON HOW, UH, HOW SUBSCRIBED THE SERVICE IS. IF IT'S, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, COMMUTING HOURS, IT MIGHT BE MORE OF A BUSY TIME. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO WAIT UP TO 30, 45 MINUTES. UM, BUT YES. OKAY, SO THE SHORTEST 15 MINUTES, THE LONGEST 45 MINUTES. YEAH, THAT'S A, THAT'S A FAIR RANGE. I WOULD SAY. YOU, YOU CAN COME, YOU CAN, HE WON'T BE ABLE TO [02:55:01] HEAR THE, THE, THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE LISTENING IN ARE NOT ABLE TO, YEAH, YOU HAD TO COME, SO YOU'D HAVE TO SPEAK UNTIL MIC ARE, WE ONLY WAITED FIVE MINUTES THE OTHER DAY. WE, WE TOOK IT TO LUNCH. COULD BE AS LOW AS FIVE. YOU ON THE MIC. IT COULD BE AS LOW AS FIVE MINUTES. UM, THE AVERAGE I THINK HAS BEEN AROUND 15 MINUTES FOR THIS SERVICE, SO OH, MUCH BETTER THAN 45. YEAH, THAT COULD BE LIKE, IF IT'S PEAK HOUR COMMUTING TIME, LIKE, AND EVERYONE IS TRYING TO TAKE THE SERVICE, BUT AS KELLY JUST CALLED OUT, IT COULD BE AS LOW AS FIVE MINUTES TO GET A RIDE. AND THIS IS DIRECT TO THE LOCATION, OR DO YOU HAVE TO, UH, TRANSFER? SO IT, SO AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S THE CORNER TO CORNER SYSTEM, BUT PRACTICALLY SPEAKING, YOU CAN CALL IT FROM YOUR HOUSE TO THE TRADER JOE'S AND IT WON'T DROP YOU OFF AT THE FRONT DOOR NECESSARILY. UNLESS YOU ARE A WAVE ELIGIBLE, IN WHICH CASE IT WILL, IT'LL BE, UH, DOOR TO DOOR IN THAT CASE. BUT IT WILL GIVE YOU SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS. MAYBE IT, IT'S AT THE CORNER RIGHT OUTSIDE THE PARKING LOT AND YOU'RE AT YOUR DESTINATION, BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY AS TAILORED DOOR TO DOOR AS MAYBE AN UBER OR A TAXI SERVICES. AND ANYWHERE WITHIN THAT ZONE THOUGH, YOU CAN GO IN ONE SINGLE TRIP. YOU'RE NOT FORCED TO MAKE A CONNECTION. SO AS LONG AS YOU'RE IN, WITHIN THAT MAP THAT ALEX SHOWED EARLIER, YOU WERE ABLE TO TAKE A SINGLE TRIP TO THAT DESTINATION. AND THE RIDERSHIP. HAS OUR SENIORS BEEN ALSO TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS? BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY'S A LITTLE HARD. OKAY. IT IS. BUT THERE, THERE'S A CALL IN CENTER AS WELL. SO YOU, YOU CAN ACTUALLY TALK TO SOMEBODY. UH, BETWEEN THE OPERATING HOURS OF 77. I THINK WE HAVE ONE WHO'S GONNA BE UTILIZING IT. RIGHT? GREAT. I ACTUALLY CAME HERE WEST. WOW. WELL, HOW ARE YOU GONNA GET BACK THOUGH? SHORT AS THREE MINUTES. MR. G. MR. GGIG. COME OVER HERE, MR. THE CASE PUBLIC COMMENTS. SWEAR, I'VE NEVER MET THIS MAN BEFORE ON OUR WEBSITE. CAN YOU REPEAT THAT MR. G? I SAID LAST WEEK, I WANNA THANK WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THIS BECAUSE I AM A DISABLED SENIOR CITIZEN. I LOOK GOOD, GOOD. , , BUT, AND SINCERELY, I HAVE SPINAL CANCER, SO I GET DOOR TO DOOR 'CAUSE I'VE ASKED FOR IT. I HAVE BEEN IN PEOPLE WHERE THEY HAVE TAKEN SOMEBODY WHO IS A PARAPLEGIC FROM THE SENIOR CENTER AND TAKING THEM TO THEIR HOUSE. AND LIKE I SAID, I LITERALLY WAITED ONLY THREE MINUTES. THAT'S GOOD. AND, AND ONE TIME, OR A COUPLE TIMES DURING, BECAUSE SO MANY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS ARE LIKE THIS AND THEY DON'T WANT TO EVEN WALK FROM HERE TO THERE. , I GET STUCK IN THE LOOP. MM-HMM . AND IT MIGHT TAKE 45 MINUTES, BUT THAT'S A RARE CASE. MOST OF THE TIME IT'S WITHIN FIVE TO 15 MINUTES MAX. USUALLY AROUND, I'D SAY ON THE AVERAGE. VERY GOOD. I'VE WAITED ONLY FIVE TO SEVEN MINUTES. OKAY. THANK, IT'S GOOD TO KNOW. THANK YOU MR. G. THANK YOU. EXCITED ABOUT, I'M GONNA HAVE TO PUT YOU ON THEIR WEBSITE. I, I, I THINK OKAY. I THINK YOU GUYS, I THINK YOU GUYS NEED TO PAY HIM FOR THE COMMERCIAL TIME. . I WISH YOU CHARGED FOR THE SERVICE SO I COULD GIVE HIM SOME FREE RIDES, BUT, AND OKAY. ALL THE, OKAY. AND ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTION? OKAY. UH, YOU HAVE A QUESTION? YEAH, GO AHEAD. COUNCILWOMAN DIA. I HAVE A QUESTION. I JUST DOWNLOADED THE APP AND I WANNA SEE HOW IT WORKED. SO IF I DOWNLOADED IT, I MEAN, IF I'M GONNA REQUEST A RIDE AND I'M GONNA BRING MY HUSBAND WITH ME, DOES, DO WE HAVE TO HAVE A SEPARATE ACCOUNT? YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO ADD A PLUS ONE, BRING ALL FIVE FRIENDS WITH ME. A HUNDRED. WELL, , WE MIGHT BE PUSHING IT WITH FIVE. YOU DO GET PLUS ONES. AND UM, ALSO IMPORTANTLY, IT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER, KELLY CALLED OUT ACCURATELY THAT YOU HAVE TO BE 13 TO RIDE ALONE AND DOWNLOAD THE APP. BUT A MOTHER AND HER CHILD, SHE CAN ADD, YOU KNOW, A 3-YEAR-OLD AS A PLUS ONE. THERE'S NO ISSUE THERE. OF COURSE. OKAY. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? UH, OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH. MAYBE. UH, CAN YOU PR TEAM, UH, CREATED SOME, A FLYER OF SOME SORT THAT YOU COULD SEND TO KELLY DIGITALLY THAT TALKS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD GIVE TO OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS THAT TALKS ABOUT HUNDRED PERCENT THE AGE LIMIT. UH, OBVIOUSLY YOU GUYS ARE DOING BACKGROUND CHECKS AND THE SAFE, THE SAFETY AND ALL THAT STUFF THAT WE CAN GIVE TO OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS. WE CAN ABSOLUTELY GET YOU SOME MARKETING COMMS THAT'S SPECIFIC TO SCHOOLS. PERFECT. I DO JUST WANNA CALL OUT THAT, UM, OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM, UH, A COLLEAGUE OF MINE THAT'S BASED UP IN SACRAMENTO WAS DOWN HERE A FEW WEEKS AGO TABLING AT SOME OF THESE, UH, CENTERS THAT WE MENTIONED. WE MADE A VERY SPECIFIC AND CONCERTED EFFORT TO GET TO SENIOR CENTERS AND GET TO THAT POPULATION, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE TECH CAN BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER TOUCH. WE WANTED TO BE IN PERSON FOR THOSE, UH, THOSE LEARNING MOMENTS. BUT MORE THAN THAT, I HAVE A LIST OF A DOZEN DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS THAT WE'VE DROPPED OFF PAMPHLETS LIKE THAT AT. BUT, UM, I [03:00:01] WILL SYNC WITH KELLY AFTER THAT. WE WILL ABSOLUTELY GET SOME, SOME SCHOOLS SPECIFIC MARKETING COMMS. PERFECT. PUSH THAT OUT. A HUNDRED PERCENT. OKAY. ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? OKAY. EVERYTHING. OKAY. AND I HAVE A QUICK NO, NO, NOT YET. I I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. OKAY. BECAUSE OKAY. I WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND COME BACK. YOU'RE ALREADY DONE . SO, SO, SO I WANT TO YOU DON'T GIMME MUCH TIME. YEAH, I KNOW. I TAKE FOREVER. OKAY. OKAY. SO MY, MY QUESTION WILL BE, UH, UM, IT, THIS IS A SHARED DRIVE SHARED RIDE, RIGHT? THE THE, THE INTENTION IS THAT IT IS A SHARED RIDE. YOU'RE NOT GUARANTEED, DEPENDING ON WHAT TIME YOU CALL A RIDE. IT'S OKAY. IT'S OKAY. MIGHT NOT BE. YEAH, WE DON'T WANT TO. IT'S JUST 1%. OKAY. YOU MAYBE CAN PICK UP HERE, THERE ON, ON THE WAY. SO WHY IS THE MAXIMUM OKAY, RIDER INSIDE YOUR VAN? SO WE OPERATE, I THINK EXCLUSIVELY TOYOTA SIENNAS. TOYOTA SIENNAS. YEAH. SO, SO SEVEN SEAT IS IT SEVEN SEAT? WELL, SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE WA SOME OF THEM ARE WAVE COMPATIBLE, SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT LESS FOR THAT. IT MIGHT BE CLOSER TO YEAH, BECAUSE MY WIFE HAS A SIENNA, IT'S A A THE MIDDLE SEAT. YEAH. SEVEN SEAT. YEAH. THE MIDDLE SEAT WOULD BE EIGHT SEAT. YEAH. SIX THREE IN THE BACK. TWO AND TWO. YEAH. SO SEVEN SEAT. OKAY. SO YEAH, SIENNA IS A, IS A GOOD CAR. OKAY. AND, UH, SO, SO IT A SHARED SHE RIDE AND ONLY INSIDE WEST COVINA. EXACTLY. HOWEVER, WE, YOU KNOW, AS, AS I SHOWED WITH THE, UH, THE ZONE BOUNDARY EARLIER, YOU SAW TWO ODD LITTLE ISLANDS OUTSIDE THE ZONE TO THE TOP. THAT'S SPECIFICALLY SO THAT YOUR RESIDENTS, THE, THE SERVICE IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM WITHIN WEST COVINA TO UNDERSTAND, TO AN EXTENT UNDERSTAND. BUT WE ALSO HAVE THOSE ISLANDS TO CONNECT THEM TO LIGHT RAIL TO GET IN AND OUT OF THE CITY. CORRECT. MULTIMODAL TRANSIT. BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE SOME SENIOR, THEY WANT TO HAVE A RIDE TO THE METRO LINK OR TO GO LINE AND THERE'S OUTTA CITY BOUNDARY. MM-HMM . SO HOW WE ENTERTAIN THAT SITUATION. SO WE, WE DID BUILD THAT. SO WE HAVE TWO ISLANDS. I, I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THE MAP TO SEE EXACTLY WHICH METRO LINK STOPS THEY ARE. BUT THE TWO NEAREST THAT AREN'T TECHNICALLY IN THE WEST COVINA CITY BOUNDARY PARK, WE DID INCLUDE IT. SO EVEN THOUGH IT, IT'S LIKE AN ISLAND ATOP THE ZONE, YOU CAN STILL CALL TO THOSE. EXACTLY. SO IT'S BALDWIN PARK AND BALDWIN PARK AND COVINA. YEAH. THE METRO LINK STATIONS. SO, SO ANOTHER ANOTHER QUESTION BECAUSE A LOT OF, UH, WEST CO RESIDENT LIVE ON THE BORDER. SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE NEXT JASON CITY, LIKE HU, BUT WARN TO GO TO THE, UH, IKEA NO, NO. THE SUPERMARKET. UH, AUDI. THANK YOU. OKAY MAN. I'M A SENIOR AT THE TIME. OKAY. ALDI. OKAY. IF THEY WANNA GO TO WARN ALDI, BECAUSE WEST DOESN'T HAVE ALDI. SO CAN THEY GO? THEY CANNOT, RIGHT? EVEN THEY LIVE IN THE BORDER? NOT AT PRESENT. NO. WE, WE DO KEEP THE, THE ZONE BOUNDARY TO THE CITY. UM, WELL, IT'S ACTUALLY ACTUALLY ABOUT HALF OF THE CITY. SO, UH, THE NORTHERN PORTION, ALL THE NO OPPOSED WHEN WE GOING TO PROVIDE IT TO SOUTH SIDE, UH, WENT, WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT IT. THIS IS A PILOT PROGRAM THAT GOT IT. A PILOT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED THIS SERVICE AREA FOR THE, FOR THE GRANT, UH, THIS PILOT PROGRAM. HOW LONG IT'S LAST? ARE WE, I STARTED IN NOVEMBER. WE'RE ABOUT ON TRACK TO GO THROUGH NOVEMBER. UH, WE MIGHT, MIGHT HAVE FUNDING TO EXTEND BEYOND THAT, BUT, UH, AND HOW, HOW MUCH FOR ARRIVE FOR PEOPLE TO ORDER THEIR SERVICE. THERE'S CURRENTLY NO FARE FREE FOR NOW IT'S FREE. IT'S, IT'S FREE. $0 FREE. I KNOW ALI. ALI, I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE YOU HOME. YOU, YOU USING ? I'M DRIVING YOU HOME. OKAY. MY GAS, WE NEED TO END BY SEVEN. SO, SO ? YEAH. I I'M TRYING TO OKAY. MAKE IT FAST OR IT STOPS AT, SO IT IS A FREE AND THEN, THEN SO THE BUDGET, NO SIDE AND, UH, THIS PAY FROM OUR RESTRICTED FUND RIGHT. AND OUR GUEST TAX MONEY, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S CORRECT. 60% IS FUNDED BY THE, BY THE GRANT. 40% IS UH, FROM LOCAL RETURNS, THE RESTRICTED FUNDS FOR TRANSPORTATION RESTRICTED FUND. SO WHY IS THE BUDGET FOR THAT EVEN? THIS IS A FUND RESTRICTED FUND. SO CURRENTLY, UH, WE ARE GOING TO PILOT PROGRAM IN THE NORTH SIDE IN THIS BOUNDARY. WHY IS CURRENT BUDGET TO PAY THEM? UH, THE TOTAL PROJECT COST WAS 1.1 MILLION. FOR HOW LONG? FOR, FOR THE YEAR. FOR ONE WHOLE YEAR. WHEN ONLY THE NORTH SIDE. OKAY. BUT IF WE ADD THE SOUTH SIDE, IT'S GOING TO INCREASE. YEAH. RIGHT. YEAH. SO, SO WE HAVE THE SEED. DO WE HAVE, BUT WE, WE WANT TO TREAT EVERYBODY EQUALLY, RIGHT? YEAH, WE DID, WE DID KEEP THE GREEN LINE IN, IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION. YEAH. AND THE, THE CHALLENGE I, I THINK IS THAT THE, UH, THE RIDERSHIP LARGELY COMES FROM THE STUDENTS AT NALS. CORRECT. AND IT MIGHT BE, UM, MIGHT OVERWHELM THE VEHICLES. I MEAN, BECAUSE IT'S A, THE, UH, MORNING AND AFTERNOON, UH, YOU MAYBE HAVE 2020 PEOPLE GET ON ONTO A, A RIDE. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. AND I WANNA SAY QUICKLY THAT OUR INTENTION WITH MICROT TRANSIT IS NEVER TO [03:05:01] COMPETE WITH OTHER FORMS OF PUBLIC TRANSIT. AND SO THAT'S ACTUALLY WHY THIS ZONE WAS DESIGNED THE WAY THAT IT WAS. THE RED, AS YOU, AS YOU ALL WELL KNOW, THE RED AND BLUE LINES WERE SEVERELY UNDERUTILIZED. THE GREEN LINE THAT GOES TO THE SOUTH, NOT THE CASE. SO WE FELT THAT THAT PORTION OF THE CITY, THEIR TRANSIT NEEDS WERE NEEDS WERE BEING MET BY FIXED ROUTE. UM, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S ONLY A SUBSET OF THE CITY FOR NOW. SO WHAT, WHAT IS YOUR OPERATION TIME? 7 24. SEVEN TO SEVEN. SEVEN TO SEVEN SEVEN. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. MONDAY TO FRIDAY. SEVEN SEVEN IN THE MORNING TO SEVEN O'CLOCK EVENING. EXACTLY. BUT WE DO, AND WE CAN, BUT YOU DON'T DO SATURDAY, SUNDAY. NOT, NOT AT PRESENT. UM, BUT WE CAN ALWAYS AND DO EXTEND HOURS FOR SPECIAL EVENTS WHERE WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET THE COMMUNITY OUT THERE. SO, AND WE DO THIS ACROSS ALL SERVICES. WE EXTENDED HOURS FOR THE TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY LAST, UH, CHRISTMAS. YEAH, WE, WE HAVE A JULY 4TH COMING UP. FOUR. OKAY. SO I'LL EXTEND YOUR HOURS. YEAH, WE PAY POSSIBLE WE NEED A SERVICE TO OKAY. AND, UH, MOVE PEOPLE INTO THE FOURPLEX, UM, FOR THE, THE EVENT. OKAY. AND SO, SO CURRENTLY, UH, WHEN IS CONTRACT UP? NOVEMBER WHEN, WHEN WE'RE OUTTA MONEY? I GUESS THE END OF THE YEAR UNTIL NOVEMBER IS THE YEAR. UH, I'VE BEEN, YEAH. LAUNCHED NOVEMBER. SO WHEN WE LIKE A PROGRAM, SO WE HAVE TO APPROVE THIS PROJECT AGAIN. YEAH. AND MAYBE RECONSIDER PARAMETERS. YEAH. YOU KNOW, EXTEND TIMES POTENTIALLY. BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS IS WHAT WE PROPOSE TO METRO. SO WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR, WITHIN OUR GRANT CRITERIA. UH, WE HAVE TO WORK ON OUR GRANT TILL HE RUN OUT AND WORK WITH THEM. RIGHT. FULLY. HE WILL BE LONG TERM BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO DISAPPOINT MR. G. YEAH. . . UBER, YOU HAVE TO PAY. AND, UH, AND ANOTHER, I KNOW THAT'S ANOTHER THING. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO TAKE OLLIE HOME ALL THE TIME. SO , I CAN DO IT. AND MR. G, BECAUSE, AND MR. GEE. OKAY. UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBER. , GO AHEAD. UH, YEAH, I WAS GONNA SAY, UM, UH, ARE WE, THEY HAVE, HOW IS THE GRANT, UH, CURRENTLY ALLOWED? CAN WE REAPPLY FOR THAT GRANT? OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? I THINK BELIEVE IT'S A ONE TIME, ONE TIME. THERE, THERE ARE OTHER GRANTS THAT WE MIGHT QUAL MAY QUALIFY FOR. IF NOT, WE, WE WOULD USE THE, THE LOCAL RETURN MONEY WE HAVE FOR TRANSPORTATION TO, TO PUT THE FUNDING TOGETHER FOR. WOULD THAT BE PROP A? I WAS THINKING OF THE SAME THING. THAT'S ONE. YEAH. PROP A, PROP C MEASURES. OH, NOW R AND SO THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU HAVE 16 MILLION. I KNOW SOME OF THAT MILLION. WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO EXTEND YOUR HOURS ON MIDNIGHT DURING COUNCIL MEETINGS. YOU GUYS HAVE TO CUT. YOU GUYS HAVE TO CUT IT OUT. $16 MILLION IS NOT THAT MUCH OF MONEY. OKAY. OKAY. SO BE CONSERVATIVE. OKAY. IT'S A MOTION TO GIVE ALEX 16 MILLION. PLEASE GO AHEAD. HE HAD MY QUESTION ON PROP A. BUT THE HARD STOP TIME, IS THERE A HARD STOP? SO IF SOMEBODY PUTS IN AT 6 58, DO YOU STILL TAKE THEM? BECAUSE IT TAKES, UM, 20 MINUTES, 30 MINUTES TO COME BY AND IT, BY THE TIME THEY PICK YOU UP, IT'S ALREADY PAST SEVEN. YEAH. WHAT IT'S, WHAT WHAT YOU DESCRIBED AS ACCURATE, IF, IF SOMEONE'S CALLING A CAR AT THE END OF THIS SERVICE, WE, WE WILL INCORPORATE THAT IT'S AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. WHEN, LIKE IMAGINE THE APP SHUTS DOWN, YOU COULD NO LONGER, OKAY. SO THE APP APP WILL SHUT DOWN. SO YOU GOT A, IF YOU CALLED A RIDE AT SIX 50 AND YOU WERE MET WITH A RIDE PROPOSAL THAT WASN'T GONNA DROP YOU OFF UNTIL 7 0 5, THAT WOULD HAPPEN. PERFECT. BUT IT GIVES YOU ALTERNATIVES TOO, RIGHT? I THINK IT, UH, INCORPORATES THE LOCAL BUS LINES AS AS AN ALTERNATIVE. SO IT WOULD POINT YOU TO FOOTHILL AS, AS THE BEST. OH, OKAY. AVAILABLE ALTERNATIVE. UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO THANK ELLIE, YOU'VE BEEN AMAZING WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSPORTATION. THANK YOU. ON MANY LEVELS. YOU'VE HELPED SENIORS. I KNOW YOU'VE HELPED MY MOM, YOU'VE HELPED EVERYBODY WITH DIAL A RIDE THIS AND JUST TO WHOLE NAVIGATE THE WHOLE PROGRAM. UM, AGAIN, I WANNA THANK YOU KELLY, THANK YOU FOR ALL THESE THAT YOU'VE BROUGHT TO US. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANKS VERY MUCH. KELLY MAY BE QUIET, BUT HE DONE A LOT OF STUFF. HE DOES A LOT OF WORK. YOU'RE PROVEN. YOU'RE PROVEN. YOU'RE, I I I KNOW I, I IN THE SOUTH SIDE, ONE OF THE SENIOR, UH, THE RESIDENT, THE, THE LADY. OKAY. AND SHE BEEN CALLING YOU ALL THE TIME REGARDING WHEN YOU CAN GET A UBER MM-HMM . EFFECTIVE. AND, UH, AND YOU, SHE CALL YOU ALL THE TIME AND SHE, KELLY, CALL HER BACK ALL THE TIME. YOU, YOU, YOU'RE AMAZING. THANKS. AND THANK, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE CUSTOMER SERVICE. THANK YOU. YEAH. GOOD. THANK YOU. KELLY. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. AND, AND I THINK, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM AND UH, AS LONG AS A VERY PICKY MR. G, LIKE IT, IT MUST BE SOMETHING GOOD. THERE YOU GO. OKAY. AND SO, SO FOR THAT, AND OTHERWISE WE GOING TO RECEIVE FIGHT, BUT THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU ALL FOR THE TIME. THANK AGAIN, APPRECIATE YOU ALEX. THANK SO MUCH. OKAY. AND UH, AND THIS RECEIVE FIGHT, DO I NEED TO MAKE A MOTION? UH, OKAY. RECEIVE FIVE. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THEN, THEN WE'RE MOVING, UH, TO THE CITY COUNCIL REPORT. OKAY. AB 1 23. IF NOT, WE DON'T HAVE ANY [03:10:01] THEN THE CITY COUNCIL [CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION] REQUESTS. CITY COUNCIL COMMENT. OKAY. AND GO AHEAD. WHO WANNA GO FIRST? OLLIE, YOU WANNA GO FIRST? YES. I JUST WANTED TO ASK, I GUESS IT'S FOLLOWING UP ON, ON BEAUTIFICATION AGAIN. THE WEEDS ARE, AND THE MEDIANS ARE STILL A PROBLEM ALL OVER THE CITY. JUST ALL OVER. IT'S A AZUSA, THE FREEWAYS EVERYWHERE. SO PLEASE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHY THIS IS STILL THIS WAY. I'VE COMPLAINED ABOUT IT MULTIPLE TIMES, BUT I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO ASK OUR COLLEAGUES HERE IN COUNCIL PLEASE TO INSTRUCT, HAVE TO GET ON THAT. UH, I AGREE WITH YOU. I'VE BEEN DRIVING AND I SEE IT GETTING WORSE NOW. OUR SIDEWALK IS AND UH, IS, UM, BEARABLE TO SEE THE JUNGLE GOING UP ON THE SIDEWALK, I THINK. AND UH, AND THIS IS ALL THE PLACES ALL STREET, EVERYWHERE. EVERYWHERE. OKAY. AND, UH, SO EVERY TIME I SEE A BEAUTIFUL STREET, BEAUTIFUL HOME, I SEE OUR SIDEWALK AND I THINK WE PAY FOR, OKAY, THIS IS UH, RIGHT VIEW, RIGHT VIEW. YEAH. AND AGAIN, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR, UH, OKAY. CONTRACT, UH, THE SO-CALLED WE HAVE TO SUPERVISE THE CONTRACT AND BY OUR OKAY. STAFF. SO WHAT HAPPENED? SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT'S REALLY, I AGREE WITH YOU. OKAY. OLLIE, YOU HAVE A VERY GOOD SENSE OKAY. ABOUT THOSE ISSUE AND ANY OTHER COUNCIL AGREE ANY YEAH, GO AHEAD. RIGHT? YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COUNCIL REQUEST TO, UH, HAVE BRIGHTVIEW, UH, PRESENT, UH, AT THE, AT THE SECOND MEETING OF JUNE, IF, IF POSSIBLE. UH, AND, AND GO OVER SOME OF THE CONTRACT TERMS THAT THEY DO FOR OUR CITY. AND, AND, AND IF YOU COULD INVITE ONE OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, UH, TO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. OKAY. I THINK WE'VE DONE THAT BEFORE. I DON'T THINK ANY IMPROVEMENT, RIGHT? EITHER. THERE IS REALLY NO POINT FOR THEM TO COME OVER HERE, GIVE HER THE LIFT SERVICE, AND THEN WE ARE WASTING OUR TIME. OKAY. I THINK WE, WHEN DOES THE CONTRACT EXPIRE? WE REQUEST THE ACTING MANAGER TO TALK TO THE PUBLIC WORK TO SEE. WE CAN IF HOPEFULLY SOMETHING HAPPENED. OKAY. LET ME RE, LET ME RE LET ME REDO THE CONS REQUEST. I'LL REPHRASE IT, I'LL REPHRASE IT. CAN CITY STAFF, UH, UH, TELL US, UH, MAYBE AT THE NEXT MEETING OR THE MEETING AFTER WHEN THE CONTRACT TERMS ARE BRIGHTVIEW EXPIRE? YES, WE CAN, WE CAN COME FORWARD WITH A GAME PLAN AS WELL AS HOW WE'RE GOING TO APPROACH IT IN THE FUTURE. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME INITIAL CONVERSATIONS AS RECENTLY AS TODAY, UM, IN MAINTENANCE, EXCUSE ME, PUBLIC WORK STAFF DEPUTY DIRECTOR HAS, UM, ALSO REACHED OUT TO BRIGHTVIEW AS WELL. SO, UM, THEY HAVE BEEN PUT ON NOTICE, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL BRING FORWARD A PLAN. UH, NO, I, I THINK BESIDE WE ASK HIM TO ABOUT THE CONTRACT THING AND I THINK NOBODY AGAINST THAT. BUT I THINK THE PROBLEM IS CURRENTLY THE CITY SIDEWALK DOESN'T LOOK GOOD. OKAY. WE NEED TO TAKE CARE BY THE AWAY. SO CAN WE REQUEST A BY VIEW AND OUR STAFF. OKAY. PROBABLY WORK TO TAKE CARE OF THE ISSUE. MM-HMM . ASAP PROVIDE THE DIRECTION TO PUBLIC WORKS IN THE MORNING? YES. WOULD YOU PLEASE, MR. MAYOR? OKAY. ALI, THEN WHAT YOU WANT? YES. AS A QUICK SUB? AS A QUICK GO AHEAD ASSERTION. GO AHEAD. DO THEIR DOGGONE JOB. THAT'S IT. YEAH. THAT'S THE BEST. OTHER THAN SWEARING, WE JUST LIKE, WE LIKE A BROKEN RECORD AND WE'VE BEEN OKAY. REPORTED ALL THE PLACES AND, UH, IT'S LIKE NOTHING CHANGED. OKAY. AND WE JUST FRUSTRATED. OKAY. HOPEFULLY. AND, UH, WITH THE ACTING CITY MANAGER COME IN OKAY. TO HELP US TO MAKE THING HAPPEN. MAKE THING HAPPEN. UNDERSTOOD. YEAH. THANK YOU. AND ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? ANY REQUESTS? UM, MAYOR POTENT? NO, NOT YET. YOU HAVE A MAYOR? POTENT. YOU HAVE A MAYOR? NO, I JUST WANTED TO SAY, UH, YEAH 'CAUSE UH, JUST TO GO BACK WITH BRIGHTVIEW OF STUFF, UH, YEAH. 'CAUSE I ALSO KNOW THAT THEY, UH, I THINK THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE TO CLEAN OR TO DO THEY ALSO RESPONSIBLE TO CLEAN THE RESTROOMS AT THE PARKS AND STUFF TOO? OR BRIGHT VIEW'S? NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESTROOMS AT THE PARKS? NO, NO. OR THEY, THEY LOCK 'EM UP. I DON'T UNDERSTAND. OR SOMETHING. SAY THAT AGAIN. I'M SORRY. MERCHANT LOCKS THEM MERCHANTS LOCK UP RESTROOMS. MERCHANTS LOCKS UP THE RESTROOMS. MERCHANTS. OKAY. THAT'S MERCHANT SOCKS UP THE RESTROOMS AT THE PARK. OKAY. YEAH. BUT YEAH, WE WILL, LIKE I SAID, WE WILL BRING FORWARD, UM, WE'LL GET BACK TO, WE'LL GET BACK TO PUBLIC WORKS WITH THE DIRECTION AND WE'LL BRING SOMETHING FORWARD WITHIN THE NEXT MEETING OR TWO. YEAH. IF YOU COULD LET US KNOW MAYBE POTENTIALLY WHAT THOSE BOTH CON, 'CAUSE I THINK THOSE ARE THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT CONTRACTS. IF I MAY, IF I MAY THROUGH THE CHAIR, IF I MAY. GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD, PLEASE. UM, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE MULTIPLE CONTRACTORS, CORRECT. THAT DO MAINTENANCE AND PUBLIC WORK TYPES, FUNCTIONS, UM, THROUGHOUT OUR CITY. SO PERHAPS, UM, IT WOULD BE PRUDENT FOR STAFF TO BRING TO COUNCIL, UM, JUST AN OVERVIEW OF WHO DOES WHAT. I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL, BENEFICIAL, UM, AND THEN HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THOSE, WHAT THOSE CONTRACT RELATIONSHIPS ARE. UH, MY, MY UNDERSTANDING, I THINK WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR AGES. OKAY. THE PARK. OKAY. THAT IS ALL MERCHANT. OKAY. AND THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, AND THEN WE KEEP REWARD THEIR $1.3 MILLION [03:15:01] TO DO ALL THIS DISTRICT, UH, LMD SERVICE DISTRICT TO TRAIN ALL THE HILL, UH, TRAIN THE PARK AND ALL THIS PARK. WE AWARD THEM TO DO IT, BUT THEY HAVEN'T FINISHED YET. AND THEN IN THE MEDIAN. OKAY. SIDEWALK, LET'S BY VIEW. SO WE, AND MY UNDERSTANDING, WE ONLY HAVE TWO AND VERY CLEAR, AND THEN SOME OF THEM IS OUR STAFF. SO THIS IS, UH, WE NEED TO HOLD 'EM ACCOUNTABLE. HOLD ON. YEAH, I KNOW. UH, CURRENTLY OKAY. THE SIDEWALK OKAY. ON THE MEDIAN HAVE ISSUES, ESPECIALLY SIDEWALK. OKAY. AND, UH, SO, SO WE NEED A PRIVATE VIEW TO REALLY MM-HMM . STEP UP. BUT I THINK WE ABOUT COMPLAINING ABOUT BRIGHTVIEW MANY, MANY TIMES ALREADY. OKAY. SO HOPEFULLY THEY CAN MAKE SURE OUR SIDE IS PRESENTABLE AND THEN WE CAN GET, GET THIS THING. OKAY. MM-HMM . SO WE DON'T HAVE A CONTINUED TO LIKE, UH, NAY. OKAY. ALL THE TIME. REPETITION. SO ANYWAY, UH, THAT IS OKAY. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS. MM-HMM . WE ONLY HAVE TWO CONTRACTOR. YEAH. REVIEW AND MERCHANT. PERFECT. OKAY. SO, SO UNLESS WE WANT TO GO TO IP AND, BUT CURRENTLY I THINK LAST TIME DID COME WAS EXPIRE. AND DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE BY REVIEW WILL EXPIRE? WE'RE COMING, WE'RE COMING UP ON THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT. SO ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD INTERNALLY, UM, WAS TO, ONE OF THE OPTIONS WAS TO GO OUT FOR AN RFP IN ADVANCE OF THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT. I THINK JUNE, WE, OUR WEST COAST ES WILL BE TURNED OUT TOO. SO WE NEED TO SEND OUT IP. THAT IS CORRECT. YES. UM, STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING ON THAT. RFP WE'VE ACTUALLY COORDINATED AND THEN WE STILL WORK ON THE 1383 AND OKAY. CONTRACT. AND THEN WE STILL WORKING ON THE OKAY. AND OUR THREE SWEEPING CONTRACT AND I THINK WE, WE NEED TO GET ALL THIS THING DONE. SO ACTING CITY MANAGER. OKAY. YOU HAVE A HEAVY DUTY JOB. OKAY. UH, COUNCIL CAN, OKAY, COUNCIL REAL FAST. UH, THE, THE TREE WELLS ALSO SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS AND THE BROWNING OF THE HILLSIDE WHERE THE TREES WERE TAKEN AWAY. NOTHING REPLANTED. THAT HAS TO BE DONE TOO. YES. OKAY. OKAY. AND, AND TREES NEED TO BE CUT AT A HIGHER, UH, AT A MORE DEEPER IN AND PROBABLY 50 TO 60% CUT. YEAH. AND OR TREE. YEAH. TRAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WHAT THEY JUST TRIM THE 10, 30% AND THEY TRAIN ON THE HILL. OKAY. ALL THIS DEBRIS AND THE BRANCHES SHOULD BE REMOVED. OKAY. I SAW A LOT OF PLACES, THE BRANCHES AND ALL THESE DEBRIS STILL LIVE ON THE HILL AND THEY BECOME A FIRE, FIRE HAZARD. AND AGAIN, THAT SHOULD BE DONE BY OUR SUPERVISOR TO MAKE SURE, OKAY. ALL THIS THING THEY HAVE DONE. SO WE PAY THEM. IF THEY DON'T DO THEIR JOB, HOW CAN WE PAY THEM? IF THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T DO A PROPER JOB. WE JUST WANT A NICE CLEAN AND WHAT WE AGREE UPON. AM I RIGHT? YES. YES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND NOT, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO RETURN. UH, UH, NOT YET. WE DON'T [CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS] HAVE A COMMENT, . OKAY. I KNOW YOU WANNA GO HOME AFTER YOU FINISH. YOU WANNA GO HOME NOW? OKAY. HE DOESN'T HAVE AND, UH, EXACTLY. I APPRECIATE NEXT MEETING. KIDDING. OKAY, GO AHEAD MAY SO WE CAN GO HOME. NO, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, THANK THE, THE STAFF SPECIFICALLY THE LADIES OF WEST COVINA, THE STAFF AT, UM, SHADOW OAK FOR THE MOMMY AND ME. UM, THEY GAVE ME A LITTLE TOUR AND THEY HAVE UPGRADED, MADE IT MORE FESTIVE. AND UH, JUST TO SEE THE INCREASE OF PROGRAMMING IS AMAZING. I KNOW THAT'S THE FIRST YEAR THAT THEY EVER HAD A MOMMY AND ME. MM-HMM . UH, TEA AND I, I BROUGHT MY MOM AND MY DAUGHTER, BUT UM, I WAS SPEAKING TO SOME OF THE RESIDENTS INSIDE AND THEY WERE EXCITED. I HAD ONE, UM, MOM WHO HER 13-YEAR-OLD TOLD HER ABOUT THIS AND SHE BROUGHT HER 13-YEAR-OLD AND SHE BROUGHT HER MOTHER AND SHE WAS JUST SAYING, WHERE WAS THIS? THROUGHOUT THE MANY YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN HERE. AND, YOU KNOW, I'M LIKE, WELL, MORE IS COMING. SO I WANTED TO THANK THE STAFF FOR PUTTING THAT TOGETHER. UM, THEY ARE ALSO HAVING LIKE THIS FOR FATHER'S DAY AT TIARA AND, UH, THAI, UH, DANCE OR SOMETHING. SO I DEFINITELY SEE MORE PROGRAMMING, MORE EVENTS, MORE COMMUNITY CLASSES. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE STAFF. YES. YAY. SUSIE AND THE STAFF AND EVERYBODY, I KNOW SHE'S GONE FOR THE DAY, BUT THANK YOU. UM, AND THEY PUT A REALLY NICE EVENT AND THE CALIBER IS, IS TO PAR. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. SO, ANY OTHER COMMENT? OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO AGENDA? I'LL MAKE A MOTION. OKAY. AND, UM, AND MEDIA AGENDA. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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