* 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. [00:00:02] . [CALL TO ORDER] YEAH. GOOD EVENING. UH, WELCOME TO WEST CO CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT. TONIGHT. TODAY IS, UH, JUNE 17TH. OKAY. RIGHT NOW IS SEVEN O'CLOCK ON TIME AND, UH, MEETING SESSION RIGHT NOW. AND ANY PERSON WHICH TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL DURING ORAL COMMUNICATION MUST COMPLETE A SPEAKER CALL. LET PROVIDE AN ENTRY TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBER AND SUBMIT A CARD TO THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENTS OF ORAL COMMUNICATION. SPEAKER CALL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED WHEN ORAL COMMUNICATION HAS STARTED. TONIGHT, INVOCATION WILL BE LED BY PASTOR MASON KUBO FOR EMMANUEL FIRST LIN. AND THE COUNCIL MEMBER GUT WILL LEAD US IN THE LEDGE ALLEGIANCE. ALL RIGHT, PLEASE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. LET US PRAY. LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR ALL CIVIL SERVANTS SERVING WEST COVINA. BLESS THEIR HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE. GIVE DISCERNING HEARTS TO OUR CITY COUNCIL AS THEY GOVERN OUR CITY. GIVE THEM WISDOM SO THAT THEY MAY SOLVE PROBLEMS. DISTINGUISH BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG AND BRING ORDERS, STABILITY AND PROSPERITY TO OUR COMMUNITY. GIVE EACH OF US A SPIRIT OF UNITY, THAT WE MAY WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF OUR CITY, AND TO GLORIFY YOU. GIVE US HUMILITY AND LOVE. REMOVE ALL BARRIERS, WALLS AND STRONGHOLDS AND DIVISIONS, WHICH SEPARATE US. WE ASK US. IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. AMEN. THESE ARE YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART. READY? BEGIN. I ADVISE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC STANDS, NO NATION UNDER GOD. INDIVIDUAL VOTE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. ROLE. STATE PLEASE. AND CITY CLERK ROCO, PLEASE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. COUNCILMAN CONTOS. HERE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. HERE. MAYOR PRO. TELO LOPEZ. PRESENT. MAYOR W HERE. AND, UH, CJ, DO [REPORTING OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION] YOU HAVE ANYTHING REPORT OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION? NOTHING TO REPORT, MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU. OKAY. [PRESENTATIONS] AND THEN WE GO TO THE PRESENTATION. OH, I'M SORRY. MAY I ASK THAT IF, YOU KNOW, WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, ITEM, CAN IT BE MOVED INTO THE PRESENTATION SECTION? JUST BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE WHO MIGHT WANT, UH, NO, THIS IS A DEPARTMENT MATTER. SO WE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE, SO I HAVE A QUESTION. A PRESENTATION IS ONLY FOR THE CERTIFICATE, OR I'LL, I'LL SECOND TO MOVE IT TO NUMBER ONE. OKAY, THAT'S FINE. YEAH. YOU WANNA MOVE IT TO NUMBER ONE? OKAY. MOVE NUMBER ONE. UH, ONLY. YES. OKAY. SO MOVE AFTER PRESENTATION AT ORAL COMMUNICATION, WE CAN MOVE TO NUMBER ONE. OKAY. IT'S OKAY WITH YOU. SURE. OKAY. SO WE MOVE NUMBER ONE. ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? OKAY. SO WE HAVE A THREE, UH, PRESENTATION. OKAY. AND, UH, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE OUTSTANDING. OUR CHILDREN, OUR YOUNGSTERS, THEY HAVE A VERY, VERY GOOD PERFORMANCE. AND THEN WE HAVE A POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY HAVE A OUTSTANDING HERO. OKAY. AND THAT'S WHY WE PRESENT WHAT OUR PUBLIC SAFETY IS ABOUT. SO LET'S GO TO THE FIRST PRESENTATION. TESTING. AND, UH, CECILIA. OKAY. CECILIA. OKAY. UH, YEAH. COME WITH ME. COME OVER HERE, CECILIA. OKAY. UH, THE FIRST PRESENTATION IS ABOUT GIRL SCOUT. OKAY. AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, OUTSTANDING, LET, LET ME READ THIS, OR, OR YOU WANT TO INTRODUCE OR YOU WANT ME TO READ IT. OKAY. OKAY. THE GOLD AWARD IS THE HIGHEST OWNER OF A GIRL SCOUT CAN EARN ACHIEVED BY ONLY ABOUT 5% OF A GIRL SCOUT. NATIONWIDE. IT'S REPRESENT A VERY STRONG LEADERSHIP, DEDICATION, AND A LASTING IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY. TO EARN THIS PRESTIGIOUS HONOR AWARD, GIRL SCOUT MUST IDENTIFY AN ISSUE, CONDUCT IN DEPTH OF A RESEARCH, AND COMPLETE A, A MINIMUM OF 80 HOURS PLANNING AND IMPLEMENT TAKE ACTION PROJECT. THIS REMARKABLE YOUNG WOMAN, A PART OF WEST COVINA SERVICE UNIT, AND GIRL SCOUT OF A GREATER LOS ANGELES, WITH A 30,000 MEMBER WITH AGE ABOUT 12, 13 YEARS OLD, ACHIEVE OKAY. ACTING INVOLVEMENT IN THE GIRL SCOUT. THEY HAVE, UH, [00:05:01] EXEMPLIFY A LIFELONG COMMITMENT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. SO HERE, LET'S GIVE THAT A HAND. AND, UH, I THINK BEFORE I HAVE ALL THE LADIES OKAY. COME UP. MAYBE CECILIA, I WANNA SAY SOMETHING AND INTRODUCE ONE BY ONE OF EACH OF, UH, RECIPIENT. GO AHEAD. HI, MY NAME IS CECILIA. I'VE BEEN A VOLUNTEER WITH GIRLS SCOUT FOR 12 YEARS. UM, THESE GIRLS HERE REPRESENT, UM, DIFFERENT TROOPS IN OUR COMMUNITY IN WEST COVINA, AND THEY HAVE WORKED DILIGENTLY FOR THE LAST 12, 13 YEARS WORKING ON MAINLY COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS, UM, AS WELL AS, UM, UH, LEARNING, UH, DIFFERENT SKILLS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, CAMPING, HAVING FUN. BUT, UH, THEY, MOST OF THEM JUST EARNED THEIR GIRL SCOUT GOLD AWARD. AND AGAIN, THIS IS, LIKE HE SAID, THIS IS THE HIGHEST HONOR THAT A GIRL SCOUT CAN EARN. UM, DO YOU WANT ME TO CALL HIM UP? YEAH, YEAH. BRING IT UP. YEAH. ONE BY ONE. YOU WANT USE THEIR NAME. OKAY. SO THIS, UM, AWARD GOES TO ANGELIA PAHA. CAN YOU SAY WHAT YOUR PROJECT WAS ABOUT? OH, HEY. HI, EVERYBODY. FROM MY GOLD AWARD, I HELPED ORPHANS IN NEED, AND BY IN TO DO THIS, I CREATED, I HOSTED A WORKSHOP WHERE PEOPLE DESIGNED THEIR OWN PAGES THAT I PUT INTO AN ACTIVITY BOOK. AND THEN WITH THAT ACTIVITY BOOK, I CREATED A KIND OF KIT. AND THIS KIT HAD A DRAWSTRING BACKPACK, COLORING PENCIL, SHARPENER, ERASER, AND THEN THE ACTIVITY BOOK. I GAVE THIS TO THEM BECAUSE OFTENTIMES THEY BOUNCE FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE, AND THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE MANY BELONGINGS OF THEIR OWN TO ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES. AND THAT'S ALL I DID. UM, NEXT WE HAVE ASHLEY RIGO IN. HI. SO, FOR MY GOLD AWARD, I HELPED ORPHANS MENTAL HEALTH AND BASICALLY I RENOVATED THIS ORPHANAGE THERAPY ROOM. UM, I PUT IN NEW FURNITURE, I PAINTED THEIR, UH, THE ROOM, AND I ASKED THEIR THERAPIST WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITIES WOULD HELP THEM. SO I HOSTED A DONATION DRIVE TO GIVE THEM NEW THERAPY TOYS. AND YEAH. NEXT WE HAVE ERIN MELENDRES. HELLO, MY NAME IS ERIN, AND FOR MY GOLD AWARD, I REMODELED A FOOD PANTRY. AND WITH THAT, UH, WE REPLACED THE LIGHTING AND SOME OF THE FLOORING, SO IT'S MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THOSE WITH, UH, UH, DISABILITIES. JOSEPH IN CONTRERAS, THANK YOU. UM, FOR MY GOLD AWARD, I, UH, REBUILT AND RE RENOVATED, UM, MY COMMUNITY GARDEN AT MY OLD, UH, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND MADE A PROGRAM SO THAT ELEMENTARY STUDENTS CAN, UH, LEARN HOW TO GARDEN. THANK YOU. NEXT WE HAVE MS. JULIET PRECIADO. HI, MY NAME IS JULIA, AND MY GOLD AWARD WAS TO TEACH YOUNGER GIRL SCOUTS AND FELLOW COMMUNITY KIDS TO LEARN HOW TO SWIM. SO I HOSTED SWIM LESSONS AT MY LOCAL POOL AND TAUGHT THEM HOW TO SWIM AND YEAH. THANK YOU. NEXT WE HAVE MS. EVELYN RODRIGUEZ. HI. OH, MY NAME'S EVELYN. AND FOR MY GOLD AWARD, I MADE GRIEF WORKBOOKS FOR, UH, FAMILIES WHO HAVE SIBLINGS THAT HAVE LOST OTHER SIBLINGS. UM, AND I ALSO PARTNERED WITH LOCAL LIBRARIES AND LOCAL SCHOOLS IN ORDER TO GET THAT RESOURCE AVAILABLE AND FREE. AND THEN I CONNECTED WITH NATIONAL SHARE.ORG, WHICH IS AN ONLINE, UM, RESOURCE GUIDE, AND MADE SURE THAT THAT RESOURCE IS ALSO FREE, UM, TO THE PUBLIC AS WELL. NEXT [00:10:01] WE HAVE MAYA GARCIA HERNANDEZ. HELLO, EVERYONE. SO FOR MY GOLD AWARD, I HELD, UH, WORKSHOPS AT MY CHURCH. AND BASICALLY WE JUST TAUGHT GIRLS HOW TO COOK, SEW, UH, DANCE, AND ALSO HOW TO PAINT. AND THE MAIN FOCUS WAS TO, YOU KNOW, EMPOWER GIRLS AND, UH, HELP THEM FIND A NEW PASSION, YOU KNOW? OKAY. AND ALL THIS, OUR FUTURE LEADER POSSIBLE WITH FUTURE MAYOR, COUNTY SUPERVISOR, GOVERNOR OR PRESIDENT. OKAY. THIS IS YOUR FUTURE OR CEO. OKAY. YOU NEVER KNOW. OKAY. AND THEN WOULD YOU PLEASE COME OVER HERE? OKAY. IN THE MEET IN THE CENTER, PLEASE. OKAY. THERE'S A PICTURE TOGETHER, BUT I JUST WANNA SHARE WITH YOU. OKAY. A GIRL SCOUT. I WAS A, I KNOW YOU A U OLD, BUT I WAS A BOY SCOUT WHEN I WAS A KID, SO I KNOW HOW I LEARNED HOW TO CAMPAIGN SURVIVAL, THIS AND THAT. THAT IS OUTSTANDING TRAINING. AND THERE'S MEMORY TODAY. OKAY. AND STILL IN MY MIND ALL THE TIME HOW TO HELP PEOPLE ELECT. SO, GOOD. GOOD JOB. CONGRATULATIONS. WE PROUD OF YOU AS REPRESENT WEST COVINA, THE GREAT CITY WITH YOUR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT WITH 5%. THAT'S AMAZING. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOOD JOB. YOU WELCOME. IN THE MIDDLE AND THE MIDDLE. MOVE A LITTLE BIT HERE. YES. OKAY. YES. AND YEAH. DID I, DID I BLOCK YOU ? YEAH. COME, COME UP. COME UP. COME, COME, COME UP. COME UP, COME UP. YES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. CONGRATULATIONS. GREAT JOB. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GREAT JOB. UH, NEXT ONE IS, UM, OUTSTANDING TOO. OKAY. IT'S OUR HIGH SCHOOL KID, UH, SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL. AND, UH, SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL HAS A ONE OF OUTSTANDING PROGRAM. THEY HAVE A MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. SO IF SOMETHING GO WRONG, THE HIGH SCHOOL KICKING SAVE MY LIFE. OKAY. SO THAT'S WHAT THEY GET TRAINED FOR. AND I HAVE OUR, UH, DEPUTY OR ASSISTANT, UH, SUPERINTENDENT. OKAY. AND, UH, UH, JOSIE. MS. JOSIE. OKAY. WOULD YOU PLEASE COME UP? OKAY. MAYBE YOU CAN INTRODUCE ALL THIS, UH, AWARD. OKAY. AND I WENT TO SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL WITH A COUNCILWOMAN IDEA TO PRESENT THE AWARD TO THE OUTSTANDING, BECAUSE THE PARENT INVITE US AND WE WENT OVER THERE. I DON'T KNOW. IT IS FOR THE AWARD WINNING FOR ALL THE KIDS. IF I KNOW, THEN I WILL BRING ALL THE HUNDRED CERTIFICATE. I KNOW THE CITY MAYBE WILL DEDUCT FROM MY PAY. OKAY. EVEN I HAVE NO PAY. IT'S HUNDREDS OF THERE. A LOT OF KIDS GOT A AWARD, BUT THIS IS A SIX KID OKAY. NUMBER. OKAY. SIX OF THEM WON A WAR. OKAY. 18 HUNDREDS. OKAY. CAME TO COMPETE. OKAY. THEY STILL UNDER SIX, SIXTH PLACE AS A MEDICAL CARE COMPETITION. SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW. OUR HIGH SCHOOL HAS A MEDICAL PROGRAM AND TO TRAIN ALL THIS YOUNGSTER TO BECOME OUR FUTURE IN THE MEDICAL FIELD. SO I HAVE OUR, JOSIE, OUR DOCTOR TO TALK ABOUT HOW THIS PROGRAMS ARE INTRODUCED TO US. AND WE HAVE TWO TEACHER TOO. RIGHT. GREAT. TEACHER, WOULD YOU PLEASE COME UP? OKAY. WOULD YOU COME? OKAY. OKAY. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. UM, I'M, WE'RE GONNA ASK OUR TWO TEACHERS AND OUR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR TO COME ON UP. SO WE HAVE, SO RO JANICE IS OUR, UH, SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR. SHE'S COMING ON UP. AND WE ALSO HAVE NIKKI RODRIGUEZ HEARN. SHE'S ONE OF OUR, UH, MED TEACHERS. AND WE HAVE CINDY WYN, WHICH IS ANOTHER TEACHER. SO LET'S GIVE HIM APPLAUSE. SO I'M JUST GONNA TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND I'M, AND I'M GONNA READ A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA FORGET ANYTHING 'CAUSE IT'S VERY SPECIAL. UM, SO WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL A CAREER PATHWAY. UM, WE HAVE A MEDICAL PATIENT, UM, CARE PATHWAY, WHICH IS VERY UNIQUE. AND THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS' INTERESTS IN HEALTHCARE. AND IT IS A PATHWAY THAT AIMS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH PRACTICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND PATIENT CARE PRACTICES. AND OUR STUDENTS CAN GAIN HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE AND PREPARE FOR VARIOUS ROLES WITHIN THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR. AND IT'S A REALLY AN AWESOME PROGRAM. OUR STUDENTS GET A LOT OF EXPERIENCE AND THEY ALSO GET TO ACTUALLY GO IN AND EXPERIENCE. UM, THEY DO, WE HAVE PARTNERSHIPS AND THEY GET TO GO DURING THE DAY AND ACTUALLY GO IN AND DO, UM, THINGS IN WITHIN THE HEALTHCARE. WE ALSO DO, WE HAVE AN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM THAT THEY DO WITH THE HOSA, WHICH IS A FUTURE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL CHAPTER. [00:15:01] AND THIS OFFERS STUDENTS AN EXTRA OPPORTUNITY, UM, WHICH IS RELATED TO HEALTHCARE. AND SO THIS IS AN ORGANIZED, IT'S AN ORGANIZED AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM FOCUSED ON EMPOWERING FUTURE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL THROUGH EDUCATION, COLLABORATION, AND EXPERIENCE. SO THIS IS THE HOUSE SCHOOL'S CHAPTER, AND IT IS LED BY OUR PATHWAY TEACHERS, NIKKI AND CINDY. AND THEY'RE INVOLVED IN STATE AND INTER INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS WHERE OUR STUDENTS TEST THEIR SKILLS AND GAIN INSPIRATION. AND SO THIS YEAR THEY TOOK 'EM TO A STATE COMPETITION AND THEY GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET INVOLVED IN, UH, PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS. THEY GET TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPETE. AND LIKE, UM, MAYOR SAID THEY TOOK PLACE IN THE STATE COMPETITION. SO THAT'S AWESOME. THINK OF ALL OUT OF THE WHOLE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, OUR HIGH SCHOOL TOOK PLACE, SIXTH PLACE. AND SO WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE OUR STUDENTS TONIGHT, AND THEY'LL ALSO BE RECOGNIZED AT OUR, UM, OUR BOARD ON JUNE 26TH. SO IF YOU ALSO WANNA COME THAT NIGHT TO SEE THEM, WE'LL BE AT THE COVINA VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AT THE HAINES CENTER. AT WE, WE START AT SIX OR FIVE 30, BUT YOU PROBABLY WON'T SEE IT UNTIL SEVEN O'CLOCK. SO, UM, IF YOU WANNA COME AND BE ABLE TO SEE THEM THAT NIGHT, BE RECOGNIZED ALSO. YOU CAN COME. GOOD JOB. OKAY. AND, UH, LET'S GIVE IT ANOTHER HAND. OKAY. UH, WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, PROVIDE THIS PROGRAM, AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, TWO TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATOR TO PROMOTE THIS. OKAY. SO OUR CHILDREN IN THE HIGH SCHOOL OKAY. TO HAVE THIS PROGRAM. SO, AND I, I, I HAVE A TOUR, UH, WITH OUR COUNCILWOMAN DEAR. OKAY. WE, WE, IT'S AMAZING. IT'S A VERY GOOD, INCLUDING THE HUMAN BODY OVER THERE. OKAY. LUCKILY IT'S NOT MINE. OKAY. SO ANYWAY, SO, SO, SO, SO IT'S LIKE PEOPLE DOING THE CPR, THIS AND THAT, SO IT'S AMAZING. YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING AND, UH, INTRODUCE, AND MAYBE YOU CAN BRING OUR CHILDREN UP. OKAY. BRING THEM UP. SURE. OKAY. WE HAVE, UM, MISS SALLY ORTEGA, WHO WAS OUR HOSTA CHAPTER, UH, PRESIDENT, WHO WAS CHOSEN, UM, TO GO TO CAL STATE BERKELEY. UH, SHE'S GOING TO BE, SHE'S GOING TO SCHOOL TO BE A FUTURE PHYSICIAN. UM, OUR STUDENTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL WERE HOUR TO CLOCK IN OVER 3000 WORK-BASED LEARNING HOURS IN WHICH THEY WENT INTO VARIOUS CLINICS WITH MAYFLOWER AND EMINENT. AND FROM NOON UNTIL ABOUT FIVE 30, THEY WERE ABLE TO WORK AS, AS A NURSE WOULD INSIDE A MEDICAL OFFICE. SO SHE TOOK PART IN THAT. BUT WE ALSO HAVE, UH, IT WAS A, IT WAS A HUGE COMPETITION IN SACRAMENTO. HUGE. FOR FOUR DAYS WE WERE THERE. AND NEVAEH AND RILEY AND BELEN AND DENISE, UM, THEY CHOSE A VERY, UH, WHICH WAS COME UP CLOSE TO MY HEART. YEAH. RE AND COME UP. YES. WHICH IS CLOSE TO MY HEART. MY MOTHER PASSED AWAY IN FEBRUARY, AND THEY CHOSE TO DO THEIR, UM, PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ON ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA. AND IT WAS PHENOMENAL. EVERYTHING WAS HANDCRAFTED. DID, THEY DID THE VIDEO THEMSELVES. WE PRACTICED EVERY NIGHT TILL ABOUT 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, AND THEY, AND THEY PLACED SIX. NOW, THERE WERE ONLY TWO SCHOOLS IN SAN GABRIEL VALLEY THAT PLACE TO GO TO INTERNATIONAL, THAT'S HELD, HELD IN, UM, TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. SO, UH, THESE WONDERFUL STUDENTS MADE IT SIXTH PLACE. AND, UH, UNFORTUNATELY WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GO BECAUSE I DIDN'T GET MY REAL ID. SO I CAN'T TAKE THE KIDS, THEN I'M THE CHAPTER ADVISOR, AND I WOULD HAVE TO ATTEND WITH THEM. SO I PROMISED THEM THAT NEXT YEAR WE'RE GONNA PLACE, UH, SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL PLACED, UH, ANOTHER, UH, THE OTHER SCHOOL THAT PLACED WAS WALNUT HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS. THIS WAS OUR FIRST GO AROUND. MR. NGUYEN BROUGHT ALL OF HER EXPERTISE WHEN SHE CAME FROM, UM, BASSETT HIGH SCHOOL. AND WE HAVE A PHENOMENAL HOSA PROGRAM NOW AT SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL. AND, AND IT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL. IT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL TO HAVE. ANYONE THAT'S IN THE MEDICAL FIELD WILL KNOW WHAT HOSA STANDS FOR. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO MY SALLY'S LEAVING ME. AND, UH, YEAH. CINDY, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING QUICKLY? WANNA SAY SOMETHING QUICKLY? YEAH, GO AHEAD, GABE. YEAH. ABOUT HER RECOGNIZING, UM, YEAH, GO AHEAD. WAS IN CRITICAL NEED AT TARGET. OH, YEAH. YEAH. SO MY NAME IS, UH, CINDY NEWAN, AND I'M ONE OF THE MEDICAL PATHWAYS TEACHERS. I'M A LITTLE UNDER THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW, BUT SALLY HERE, SHE'S A LIFESAVER. UM, SHE WITNESSED SOMEONE AT TARGET AT THE EASTLAND MALL WHO WAS IN, UM, CRITICAL NEED OF SOME MEDICAL CARE, AND SHE JUMPED RIGHT IN AND SHE PERFORMED CPR JUST THE WAY SHE WAS TRAINED. AND SHE WAS AMAZING. SO, FOR THAT, LET'S GIVE HER A GREAT BIG HAND. WOW. GOOD JOB, SALLY. SHE WAS AN AMAZING, UM, PRESIDENT. YEAH. PRESIDENT. UM, TO OUR HOSA, AN [00:20:01] AMAZING STUDENT. UM, SHE'S GONNA GO FAR. SHE'S GONNA COME BACK AND JUST, JUST WOW US. JUST WAIT. SHE'LL WOW US AND SO WILL THESE FOUR. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU GUYS. THE, THEY WERE, THEY WORKED DILIGENTLY. THEY WERE PRACTICING AND REHEARSING AND I WAS TOUGH ON THEM. WE WERE TOUGH ON THEM, BUT LOOK WHERE IT LED. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU GUYS. GREAT JOB. GREAT JOB. THANK YOU, AGENT. AND, UH, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? THIS IS ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE AT SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL. THAT IS AMAZING. WE HAVE MANY PROGRAMS, SO PLEASE STOP BY SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL. BRING YOUR STUDENTS OF 9, 10, 11, AND 12. AND WE HAVE AMAZING ACADEMICS AND SPORTS ALTOGETHER. FIRE IT UP. IT UP. I I WON'T BE SAYING, HEY, TONY, YOU NOT FAIL. OKAY. BECAUSE MY KID WENT TO SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL. OKAY. . SO, SO, BUT, BUT THE SOUTH HILL HIGH SCHOOL IS A WALKING DISTANCE TO MY HOME AND IT'S AN OUTSTANDING OKAY. SCHOOL IN WEST COVINA. SO WE WANNA SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND I SAY SAUDI CONGRATULATION. OKAY. I, I, OKAY. AGAIN, IT'S NOT FAVORITISM. OKAY. I SAW HER, SAW HER, GREW UP IN THE SAME CHURCH, CHRIST CHURCH. OKAY. AND, UH, SHE WAS THIS BIG, OKAY? AND NOW SHE'S THIS BIG. OKAY. SHE TALLER THAN ME. OKAY. SHE GO TO UC, BERKELEY, AND ONE DAY WE BECOME A DOCTOR AND THIS AND THAT. AND I WANT TO HAVE OUR OKAY. AND, UH, OUR HOUSE DIRECTORS, DR. BAZO, TO SAY SOMETHING. UH, DR. BAZO WILL BE YOUR CONNECTION. THE FUTURE YOU WANT TO REFERENCE THIS AND THAT. HE WILL BE A GOOD REFERENCE WRITING SOMETHING FOR YOU GUY. OKAY? GO AHEAD. OKAY. I KNOW I, I PUT I PUT HERE ON THE SPOT AND MAKE SURE THEY GO TO GOOD COLLEGE AND BECOME A DOCTOR . WELL, CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY OF S COVINA AND S COVINA HEALTH. UH, THANK YOU FOR ACTUALLY A LOT OF YOU HELP US BE WITH THE COMMUNITY HEALTH SCREENING AND EDUCATION IN MANY OF THE HEALTH FAIR. SO YOUR GUY GOING TO BE THE FUTURE OF HEALTH, PROFESSIONAL DOCTORS, DENTISTS, NURSES, THERAPISTS. ANYWAY, YOU'RE GONNA BE THE LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY MAKING POLICY TO PROTECT US. SO I REMEMBER SEVEN YEARS AGO, I HAVE THREE STUDENTS SHADOWING ME. UH, THEY LATER ON ACCEPTED TO THE MEDICAL SCHOOL, AND THE END OF THIS MONTH, TWO OF THEM WILL BE FAMILY PHYSICIAN AND ONE INTERNAL MEDICINE FROM SCRIPP HEALTH, UH, SAN DIEGO. SO IN YOUR GO HIGH AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. SO, SO RESIDENCY AND THE INTERNSHIP AND ALL THIS WILL TAKE FOREVER. SO GOOD LUCK. OKAY. IT'S A LOT OF STUDY, OKAY. PERSISTENT THIS AND THAT, TO BE FAIR, QUICKLY, YOU WANNA SEE SOMETHING TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND, UH, WE ARE VERY HONORED TO HELP YOU TO OUR MARKET. AND ONE DAY YOU MAYBE BECOME MY DAUGHTER. OKAY, GO AHEAD. UH, HELLO, MY NAME IS RILEY. UH, I'M GOING TO BE A JUNIOR AT SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL, AND I'M VERY THANKFUL FOR EVERYONE WHO'S HERE, LISTENING, WATCHING, AND THANK YOU A LOT, UM, FOR MY TEACHERS IN THE MEDICAL PATHWAY FOR SUPPORTING ME THE WHOLE WAY. HI, MY NAME IS DENISE LEE AND I'M PART OF THE TEAM, UM, IN OSA. UH, YEAH, WE MADE A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. UM, WE BE QUALIFIED, UM, TO STATE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE IN SACRAMENTO, REPRESENTING SOUTH HILL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY IN SOUTHVILLE HISTORY. AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR MY TEACHERS ESPECIALLY. AND SALLY FINA IS THERE. SHE'S LIKE THE BEST LEADER WE COULD HAVE. UM, AND WE WERE THE FIRST, YEAH, VERY FEW, UM, SCHOOLS THAT QUALIFIED TO GO TO INTERNATIONAL STATE CONFERENCE IN TENNESSEE. UM, HOPEFULLY NEXT YEAR WE'RE GONNA GO FARTHER, GET FIRST AND BE MORE HONORED TO OUR SCHOOL. HI, MY NAME IS NEVAEH JOHNSON AND I'M A PART OF THE HOSA ORGANIZATION, AND I JUST WANTED TO THANK ALL THE TEACHERS AND MY GROUP FOR LIKE, PUSHING EACH OTHER SO WE CAN PLACE. AND YEAH, THAT'S IT. UM, HI, I AM BELEN HARROW. I'M A SENIOR AT SOUTH HILLS, AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY TEACHERS WHO PUT IN LIKE, SO MUCH EXTRA WORK JUST TO HELP US GET TO WHERE WE WENT. AND FOR MY TEAM, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THEM. 'CAUSE WE ALL LIKE ALL OUR HEART INTO OUR PROJECT AND MADE IT FAR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT. OKAY, I THINK WE ARE PROUD TEACHERS BECAUSE YOU GUYS SPEND A LOT OF TIME. I SAW THE CLASSROOM IS AMAZING AND YOU EVEN HAVE A, SOME KIND OF COZY ROOM OR SOME KIND OF, UH, OKAY, YOU HAVE A DOOR, THIS AND THAT. YOU CAN, SO QUIET ROOM. OKAY. YOU CAN SAY QUIET ROOM. GO OVER THERE. STAY. OKAY. SO, SO, OKAY. BE QUIET. OKAY. SO, BUT, BUT, OKAY. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THEY'RE VERY ACTIVE. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU GOT OUTSTANDING. WISH YOU THE BEST. OKAY? AND ALL THIS CERTIFICATE, I, I OWE YOU ONE, [00:25:01] OKAY? SO WE DON'T HAVE YOUR NAME, BUT, BUT I WILL GIVE YOU ONE. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, SAY GOOD JOB. OKAY? WE WANNA GET CLOSER. WE HAVE PICTURE TOGETHER. UH, WE REPRESENT OUTSTANDING. OKAY? OUR GREAT CITY WEST COVINA, WE PROUD OF YOU. WE WANT YOU TO CONTINUE. OKAY? CONTINUE. AND CONTINUE. OKAY? FIGHT HARD AND CONTINUE TO GET WHAT YOU ARE. OKAY? YOUR GOAL. MAKE SURE NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP. OKAY? THANK YOU. THANK, THANK YOU. HE'S WITH THE CAMERA. SORRY. NEXT ONE. OKAY, UH, THE, THE THIRD PRESENTATION, UH, CAN I HAVE OUR CHIEF COTINA? CHIEF, WOULD YOU PLEASE COME OVER HERE? OKAY. AND SHERRY, YOU LIKE MY, OUR REGULAR NOW LIKE EVERY MEETING YOU SHOW UP? YEAH, YEAH. WOMEN, WOMAN OF THE YEAR, CITIZEN OF THE YEAR, AND NOW THE HERO OF THE YEAR. I'M NOT THE, YOU'RE NOT THE HERO, OKAY? SO, SO LET, LET NO MATTER WHAT, YOU ARE ALWAYS A HERO TO US. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND ESPECIALLY YOUR OUTSTANDING SERVICE FOR, FOR THE SENIOR, MAYBE YOU CAN TELL US A STORY. SO RATHER I READ THAT THING, SO I THINK YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. AND THEN AFTER YOU FINISH, THEN WE CAN HAVE CHIEF TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HIS OUTSTANDING STAFF. GO AHEAD. YOU DIDN'T TELL ME I WAS GONNA SPEAK . I SENT BACK YOU. SO THANK YOU EVERYONE. UM, I AM THE GENERAL MANAGER AT MERRILL GARDENS WEST COVINA. AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, IT'S THE PREMIER SENIOR LIVING IN WEST COVINA, SENIOR LIVING. UM, OUR RESIDENTS ARE FROM 60 TO 104. WE DEPEND ON THE SERVICES OF WEST COVINA AND THE SERVICES WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ARE PHENOMENAL. BUT, BUT WHAT OUTSHINE THIS ON JUNE 5TH IS THE RESPONSE FROM THE FIRE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE HAD A RESIDENT CHOKING IN OUR DINING ROOM. WE CALLED 9 1 1 AND LITERALLY WITHIN TWO MINUTES THE POLICE ARRIVED, RAN IN AND, AND HELPED THE RESIDENT. AND THE RESIDENT, UM, WENT TO THE HOSPITAL. BUT BEFORE SHE LEFT, SHE WAS BREATHING ON HER OWN. AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THE QUICK RESPONSE. TWO MINUTES, TWO MINUTES TO GET HER BREATHING AGAIN AND TO GET THE FOOD OUT OF HER ESOPHAGUS OR THE SUN. HER, YOU CAN TELL HIM EXACTLY HIPPO GLOTTIS . UM, SO SHE'S HERE TODAY TO SAY THANK YOU WITH HER SON. UM, BUT THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE. AND OUR FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENT AREN'T RECOGNIZED ENOUGH FOR WHAT THEY GIVE AND WHAT THEY DO. SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE SHARED A FEEL GOOD STORY WITH EVERYBODY ABOUT THE SERVICE YOU GET IN WEST COVINA. THANK YOU, SHERRY. I WOULD, I WANNA THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I'M SO GRATEFUL OUR OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO GET THERE, AND NOW YOU'RE HERE TONIGHT. SO WE'RE JUST VERY, VERY GRATEFUL. UM, AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO HAVE CORPORAL DOUG WEAL COME DOWN HERE. . SO, UH, CORPORAL DOUG WISE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OFFICER GILBERT AMOS WERE THE FIRST ON SCENE AND, UM, IMMEDIATELY RUSHED IN AND, AND LIFESAVING MEASURES. AND I AM 100% CERTAIN, UM, THAT THEY A ABSOLUTELY SAVED YOUR LIFE. I'M VERY CERTAIN OF THAT. AND FOR THAT, UH, I'M VERY PROUD TO WORK AMONGST JUST GREAT PEOPLE. AND, AND I CAN VERY HONESTLY SAY THAT AT CORPORAL WISE SHALE AND CSO AMOS ARE TRULY HEROES AND THEY'RE HEROES THAT ARE HERE TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY IN WEST COVINA. SO I'D LIKE TO GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. AND I WANNA SAY THAT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO NINE ONE ONES LIKE THAT. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DOESN'T HAVE TO, BUT THEY DID. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND THIS WAS A, A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN OUR POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. I'M VERY PROUD OF OUR COLLABORATION. WE WORK TOGETHER IN MANY WAYS, UH, TO PROVIDE A SAFE COMMUNITY. AND IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, UH, WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE. UM, OUR OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO GET THERE IMMEDIATELY, START LIFE LIFESAVING MEASURES, COLLABORATE WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UH, AND NOW WE HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT WITH US. SO [00:30:01] I DO WANNA GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE ALSO TO OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR AMAZING WORK THAT NIGHT AS WELL. AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT CORPORAL DOUG YLE WITH THE WEST COA POLICE DEPARTMENT'S LIFESAVING AWARD. OH, WOW. WHOA, THAT'S PRETTY, THAT'S VERY PRETTY. THAT'S VERY PRETTY NICE. OKAY. UH, REPRESENT WEST COVINA. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU A PIECE OF PAPER. , UH, IT'S PRETTY IN GOAL. OKAY, SO THIS IS, UH, THE, THE TOP OWNER ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. TO SAVE LIFE. I HAVE TO SAY THIS OUR, UM, FIRE DEPARTMENT, THEY ACT VERY, VERY FAST TOO, BUT I THINK OKAY. LUCKILY, I THINK HE POSSIBLY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SO HE RIGHT AWAY WENT INTO THE, THE FACILITY. BUT I WOULD SAY IT'S OUTSTANDING SERVICE FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, POLICE AND FIRE HAND HAND TO HELP EACH OTHER NO MATTER WHAT. WE WILL BE THERE TO SAVE LIFE. AND I THINK OUR JOB IS TO SAVE LIFE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH WITH YOUR OUTSTANDING SERVICE. OKAY? WE'RE NOT TRYING TO LET YOU TO COMPETE WITH OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, BUT AS WE WORK TOGETHER OKAY. AND, UH, COMPETE COMPETITION. OKAY? SO, SO , SO, SO, SO, BUT THERE'S NO COMPETITION. YEAH. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT IS OUTSTANDING AND OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS OUTSTANDING TOO. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH TO SAVE LIFE. AND MAYBE, MOM, YOU WANT TO COME AND SAY SOMETHING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEAH. YOU OKAY? YEAH. OH, WHAT? YEAH, I GOT, YEAH. YOU OKAY? OKAY. YEAH. SEE, SHE'S VERY HEALTHY. SHE CAN DANCE WITH ME. YOU WANT, YOU WANT, YOU WANT TO DANCE? OKAY. I CAN'T THANK THE POLICE OFFICERS SO MUCH FOR SAVING MY LIFE. IT'S JUST, IT'S REMARKABLE. I MEAN, I JUST, I'M SO PROUD TO BE STANDING HERE AND LIVING BECAUSE A FEW DAYS AGO I HAD ALMOST LOST MY LIFE THROUGH THE HELP OF THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE SO QUICKLY TO RESPOND AND WERE ABLE TO GET THAT PEACE OUT OF MY MOUTH AND REALLY, AND JUST SAVED MY LIFE RIGHT THEN AND THERE. SO I HAVE TO JUST THANK THEM AND I'M GONNA THANK THEM FOR THE REST OF MY LIVES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. PICTURE, PICTURE WITH HER. YOU WANT NEXT TO, NEXT TO HIM? YEAH. THANKS. GREAT. GREAT JOB, MOM. OKAY. WE, WE, WE, SO HAPPY YOU STILL WITH US? OKAY. YOU WILL LIVE TO THE 120 YEARS OLD. OKAY. SO WE WERE HERE. YOU WERE ALL LIVE. ME. OKAY. I CAN TELL. OKAY. SO ANYWAY, CONGRATULATIONS, SON. YOU WANT TO COME UP? YEAH, BECAUSE I CALL YOU SON. THAT'S WHY I'M OLD. THAT'S FINE. I'M OLDER THAN YOU. I THINK I'M OLDER THAN YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. PERFECT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND, UH, I, I KNOW. OKAY. SHERRY IS GOING TO THROW A BIG PARTY FOR US. OKAY? AND, UH, CALL US. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE FEW AND DRINK IN YOUR PLACE. OKAY? SO EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY INVITED. OKAY. SO LET'S DO IT. LET'S DO IT AGAIN. AND THIS IS FOR ANOTHER OFFICER? YEAH. AND MR. MAYOR, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER GILBERT AMOS IS OUT OF TOWN THIS WEEK. THAT'S WHY HE COULDN'T BE HERE. BUT I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT HE ALSO WILL BE, UH, RECEIVING OUR WEST C POLICE DEPARTMENT'S LIFESAVING AWARD AS WELL. THANK YOU, SIR. GREAT JOB. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. IS THAT FOLLOW UP FOR ME? ? THAT'S GOOD. OKAY. AND, UH, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE OUR MEETING. THANK YOU SO MUCH. APPRECIATE. OKAY. YOU CAN LEAVE. YEAH, YOU CAN GO. YEAH. SUPPORT. [00:35:01] OKAY. UH, BEFORE WE MOVE TO ORAL COMMUNICATION, OKAY. UH, WE HAVE A GERMAN. OKAY. HE'S A, A KIND OF SAD STORY. OKAY. SAD NEWS. UH, ONE OF, UH, WE KNOW AND, UH, RESERVE FOR A LONG TIME, UH, AND ONE OF THE OFFICER, UH, OKAY. AND, UH, RESERVE OFFICER. OKAY. HE PASSED AWAY, SO, AND, UH, HE WITH US FOR A LONG TIME AND HE ALWAYS SEE THAT CORNER, UH, WITH US. OKAY. UH, IN THE MEMORY OF THE RESERVE, LIEUTENANT WILLIAM JT KAVANAUGH II, WITH A DEEP SORROW THAT WE ANNOUNCED THE PASSING OF A RESERVE. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM J TAI KAVANAUGH II, WHO PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON MONDAY, JUNE 9TH, SURROUNDED BY HIS LOVING FAMILY. AFTER COURAGEOUS BATTLE WITH LEUKEMIA, LIEUTENANT KAVANAUGH BEGAN HIS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE WITH THE WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT ON DECEMBER 17TH, 1994. SO IT'S ABOUT MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO WHEN HE JOINED US AS A RESERVE POLICE OFFICER. OVER THE NEXT THREE DECADES, TY SERVED THE COMMUNITY WITH OUR ING DEDICATION AND INTEGRITY RISING TO THE RANK OF THE RESERVE LIEUTENANT. HIS LEADERSHIP AND THE COMMITMENT WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE CONTINUED SUCCESS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT'S RESERVE OFFICER PROGRAM. IN ADDITION TO HIS DUTY WITHIN, SEEN THE DEPARTMENT T REGULARLY SERVED AS A SERGEANT AT ARM AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AND HE WAS A FAMILIAR FACE AND TRUST PERSON AT, UH, ALMOST ALL THE CITY EVENT. I, I MET HIM ALL THE CITY EVENT ALL THE TIME, AND PLUS HE WAS SITTING OVER THERE, THE CORNER SINCE I'VE BEEN SERVING AS A CITY COUNCIL FOR 10 YEARS, AND I KNOW HIM VERY WELL, HE'S SUCH A NICE, NICE AT THE FRIENDLY PERSON. AND, UH, THE COMMUNITY EXTENDED WELL BEYOND THE BADGE AND TOUCHING COUNTLESS LIFE WITH THE PROFESSIONALISM, COMPASSION, AND THE STEADFAST SENSE OF DUTY, ETERNAL COVENANT, LEGACY, WELL OF SERVICE, STRENGTH AND DEDICATION. HE WILL BE PROFOUNDLY MISSED BY HIS FAMILY, FRIEND, COLLEAGUE, AND ENTIRE WEST COVINA COMMUNITY. WE HONOR HIS MEMORY EXTENDS OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCE TO HIS FAMILY DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME. AND, UH, MAYBE ACTING CITY MANAGERS AND, UH, MAYBE WE CAN SEND SOME KIND OF, UM, UM, OKAY. THE, UH, LIKE, UH, UH, FLOWERS OR, UH, THE, THE NAME OF HIS NAME TO, TO HIS FAMILY, LIKE, UH, THE RETIREMENT. WE GIVE THE, THE NAME OF THE STREET AND LET THEM KNOW WE REALLY MISS HIM. HE'S, HE DISSERVICE A LONG TIME IN OUR CITY. SO SEND OUR CONDOLENCE TO THE FAMILY. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, [ORAL COMMUNICATIONS] UH, AT THIS TIME WE MOVE TO THE OVERALL COMMUNICATION. NOW WE KNOW WE NOW MOVE TO OVERALL COMMUNICATION. COMMENT ARE LIMITED FOR THREE MINUTES. OKAY. PER SPEAKER, UNLESS MODIFIED BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER OF THE CITY COUNCIL REQUEST TO SPEAK ON THE AGENDA ITEM WILL BE HEARD PRIOR TO REQUEST TO SPEAK ON THE NON AGENDA ITEM. MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT ENGAGE IN BEHAVIOR THAT IS DISRUPTED TO THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMIT TO SPEAKING OFF TOPIC, SPEAKING BEYOND THE SPEAKERS. UH, LIMITED TIME MAKING THE SLANDEROUS OF A PROFE PROFANITY REMARK OR USING LOUD THREATEN OF ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, WHICH DISRUPT DISTURB, IMP, PLEAD OR HORRENDOUS INVISIBLE THE ELDERLY CONDUCT OF THE MEETING. MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC MAY NOT THREATEN ANY PERSON WITH PHYSICAL HARM OR ACT IN THE MANNER THAT MAY REASONABLY BE INTERPRETED AS AN ENT THREAT OF THE PHYSICAL HARM. WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED, YOU MAY SIT IN THE FRONT WALL, A FRONT ROW, OKAY. DESIGNATE FOR PUBLIC SPEAKER. THE TIME WILL START WHEN YOUR NAME IS CALLED. OKAY. SINCE PHYSICAL, HOW MANY SPEAKER WE HAVE? WE HAVE 18 SPEAKERS. MAYOR YEAH, GO AHEAD. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS DOUG FOUR, FOLLOWED BY JOHN SHOEMAKER, FOLLOWED BY MATTHEW. GOOD EVENING. CITY COUNCIL AT THE MAY CITY COUNCIL MEETING. MR. WU WAS SURPRISED THAT THE CITY USED A CONSULTANT FOR THE BUDGET FORECASTING THAT WAS EVENTUALLY REJECTED BY COUNCIL. THE CITY CURRENTLY HAS A PRACTICE THAT ALLOWS CONTRACTS AND CONSULTANTS TO BE HIRED WITHOUT COUNCIL APPROVAL. [00:40:01] CURRENTLY, WEST COVINA AND COVINA VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND ITS CHARTER SCHOOLS MAKE PUBLIC ANY TYPE OF CONTRACT AND AGREEMENT THAT IT ENTERS INTO. YET THE CITY DOES NOT PRACTICE ANY TYPE OF THAT TYPE OF TRANSPARENCY. HOW MANY OTHER CONTRACTS ARE OUT THERE? THE, THE PUBLIC AND OR THIS COUNCIL ARE OUT THERE THAT WE ARE NOT, THAT WE ARE PAYING FOR? REGARDING STREET SWEEPING SIGNS, I THINK THE REAL QUESTION IS HOW DO WE GET HERE? TRANSTECH IS THE CITY'S TRAFFIC CONSULTANT RESPONSIBLE FOR ADVISING THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, CITY ENGINEERING, CITY MANAGEMENT, CODE ENFORCEMENT PLANNING COMMISSION, AND THE CITY COUNCIL ALL WHICH APPROVE THE IDEA OF THE DOUBLE-SIDED NO PARKING. HOW DID THIS PLAN EVER GET APPROVED? WHEN IS THE NEXT PLAN COMING AND IS TRANSTECH BEING AWARDED THE CONTRACT AGAIN? WE'VE ALREADY PAID TRANSTECH $750,000 FOR THE STREETS, THE STREET SIGNS THAT ONLY HALF OF THEM NOW ARE GOOD ANYMORE. HOW MUCH MORE IS THIS GONNA COST THE CITY? WHEN DO WE GET AN UPDATE AND WHEN ARE WE GOING OUT FOR BID FOR THE NEW SIGNS? THIRD, I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE CITY YARD TODAY. IN CLOSED SESSION, THERE WAS NEGOTIATIONS WITH, UM, VISSION HOTEL PARTNERS AGAIN ON FEBRUARY 21ST, 2023, IT WAS VOTED AND STOPPED WITH SELLING THE PROPERTY TO ENVISION HOTEL PARTNERS BECAUSE THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVIEWED THE TRANSACTION AND DEEMED IT ILLEGAL AND WOULD NOT APPROVE IT. AGENDA ITEM THREE. ON FEBRUARY 21ST, 2023 AGENDA. IT WAS ALSO STATED THAT IT NEEDED TO GO THROUGH THE SURPLUS LAND ACT PROCESS AGAIN. SO DID THE CITY GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS AGAIN OR DID MR. WU DOING HIS OWN THING ON THIS LIKE HE DID THE LAST TIME? UM, HE STATED TWO MEETINGS AGO THAT THE CITY WOULD GET $35 MILLION. AND WHY WASN'T THAT IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET? I HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH ENVISION GROUP BUYING THIS PROPERTY. IT OWNS AND OPERATES FOUR DEALERSHIPS IN THIS CITY, BUT IT SHOULD BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. ON THE SIDE NOTE, THE COUNCIL JUST IMPROVED IN VISION GROUP TO CHANGE COMMERCIAL ZONING AND MERGE LOTS AT LIGHTNING SPEED A COUPLE MONTHS AGO WHERE I'VE BEEN WAITING TWO YEARS TO HAVE TABLES OUTSIDE OF MY RESTAURANT APPROVED. SEEMS LIKE WE NEED SOME MORE TRANSPARENCY ON WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON HERE. LASTLY, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATE TONIGHT. IT'S BEEN FOUR YEARS. WE'VE SPENT A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS THREE HEALTH DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS LATER WITH REALLY NO INFORMATION EXCEPT FOR JOB FAIRS. WHY IS TRANSTECH NOT PREPARING THIS? THANK YOU. UH, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. MAYOR, I JUST WANNA REMIND, UH, OUR SPEAKERS THAT WE HAVE RESERVE SEATING FOR THEM TO SIT DOWN TO MAKE THE FLOW A LITTLE MORE, UH, EFFICIENT. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS JOHN SHOEMAKER, FOLLOWED BY MATTHEW, FOLLOWED BY JIM GRITCH. TWO ITEMS. THE FIRST ONE IS FOR YEARS, FIVE YEARS NOW, I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THE TREE THAT'S ON THE CITY PROPERTY TO BE TRIMMED BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS IT CAUSES AT MY HOUSE. SO FOR FIVE YEARS I'VE BEEN CLEANING THINGS UP AND I'VE DECIDED I'M TIRED OF IT. NEXT TIME I'M GONNA LEAVE IT IN THE TRASH BAG, BUT NEXT TIME I MIGHT DECIDE TO LEAVE IT HERE SO THE CITY CAN CLEAN IT UP. OR I MIGHT TAKE IT TO INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS' HOUSES SO THEY CAN CLEAN IT UP. SO GET YOUR BUTTS IN GEAR AND DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THE CITY LOOK GOOD. THE OTHER THING REGARDING THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, I CANNOT BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBER LOPEZ VITO MADE THE COMMENT SHE DID LAST TIME ABOUT, WELL, THE PEOPLE. I REMEMBER WHEN THIS IDEA FIRST CAME UP, YOU WERE SITTING AT THE CONS DIOCESE AND SAID, I CAN'T SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE COST IS. I CAN'T SUPPORT SOMETHING THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE COST IS. DO WE KNOW WHAT THE COST IS YET? YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU RECEIVED OR WHAT YOU WERE TOLD OR WHAT YOU WERE THINKING, BUT HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT ANYTHING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE COST IS? IT'S REALLY THAT SIMPLE. YOU KNOW, AND YOU, YOU KNOW THIS, WE'RE GONNA GET GRANTS. YEAH. GUY IN WASHINGTON SEEMS TO BE STOPPING A LOT OF THOSE RIGHT NOW. PROBABLY WON'T, UH, BRING THEM BACK EITHER. SO HOPEFULLY TONIGHT WE'LL GET, UH, SOME ANSWERS ON WHAT THE COST IS GOING TO BE INSTEAD OF SAYING, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS BECAUSE THE STATE HASN'T TOLD US WHAT WE CAN DO. HOW DO YOU START THE PROCESS WITHOUT HAVING AN IDEA TO BEGIN WITH? YOU KNOW, FROM THAT STANDPOINT. AND OH, BY THE WAY, SINCE OUR CITY MANAGER WAS THE PUBLIC SAFETY [00:45:02] DIRECTOR, MEANING TRAFFIC, UH, METER MAIDS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT. HOW DO WE HAVE STREETS AROUND THE DIFFERENT PLACES I LIVE THAT DON'T HAVE SIGNS YET? ONE STREET DOES. THE OTHER ONE DOESN'T. ONE STREET DOES, THE OTHER ONE DOESN'T. OR WHEN PERMIT PARKING SIGNS AND DIFFERENT NO. WHERE YOU NEEDED PERMIT PARKING MAGICALLY DISAPPEARED. 'CAUSE NOBODY REALIZED, OH, WE GOTTA KEEP THOSE THERE TOO. YOU COULDN'T EVEN DO THE OLD JOB RIGHT? LET ALONE THE NEW ONE. SO WE'LL TAKE IT FROM THERE, BUT I'LL LET YOU GUYS THROW THAT AWAY. TALK TO YOU LATER. NICE SPEAKER UP, PLEASE. MATTHEW, FOLLOWED BY JIM GRITCH, FOLLOWED BY VALERIE. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS MATTHEW ALBERT PREZINSKI. I AM REPRESENTING VALERIE LIGHT INDICES, THE BUS SCREW COMPANY. WHILE I WAS ON THAT BUS SCREW, I LEARNED A LOT OF THINGS. I LEARNED SO MUCH THAT I GOT MY ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE IN KINESIOLOGY AND I HAVE MY BOARD AND I AM A, UM, PRISON SPECIAL NEEDS. I JUST GRADUATED FROM VALLEY LIGHT INDUSTRIES WHILE I WAS THERE, THEY TAUGHT ME WORK ETHIC, WORK INTEGRITY, AND EVERYTHING. AS I LOOK AT THAT, THE TRASH HERE, I HAVE A SOLUTION. WHY DON'T WE HIRE PEOPLE WITH FASHION NEEDS TO USE A POWER WASH AND CLEAN IT. THEY'VE BEEN HERE FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS AND THEY DO A PHENOMENAL JOB. THEY WORK HARD AND THEY DO STUFF WITH THE PRIDE. WOULDN'T YOU GUYS WANNA HELP OUT WITH PEOPLE AS SPECIAL NEEDS? MS. MS. DIAZ, IF THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM, I HAVE A SOLUTION. MR. WI HAVE A SOLUTION COUNCIL MEMBERS, LET'S HIRE PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO CLEAN IT. LET'S HIRE SOMEBODY WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO GO AROUND THE CITY OF WEST COVINA TO CLEAN THESE PROBLEMS, I THINK IS A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE WHAT THEY USE IS A POWER WASH THAT THEY CLEAN AND THEY POUR THE HEART AND SOUL INTO IT. THEY, THEY GET VENEGAS I, IVAN CAMPOS J MICHAEL, LOOK AT THESE GUYS. WHEN DID YOU GUYS HIRE THESE GUYS TO DO THE JOB? THIS WAS YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER, WOULDN'T YOU? I WOULD BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT THE WORK THEY CAN DO. I'VE SEEN IT. I'VE BEEN THERE. SO THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME. THANK YOU. OKAY, AND NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. JIM GRITCH, FOLLOWED BY VALERIE MUNOZ, FOLLOWED BY BRIAN. HELLO, I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE, THE BUDGET THAT'S ON YOUR ADDEND TO ADOPT TONIGHT. UH, PREVIOUSLY I ASKED THAT, UH, THERE BE A RESPONSE TO THE RESIDENTS OF THIS CITY WHO HAVE TESTIFIED AT THREE DIFFERENT SESSIONS. UH, I NOTICED THAT THE CITY MANAGER DID PUT REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY TALKED AT THE SESSIONS, BUT THE ACTUAL REQUEST IS THAT YOU CONSIDER THEIR SUGGESTIONS. AND UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS NOT ON YOUR AGENDA WITH ONE EXCEPTION, UH, WHICH IS APPARENTLY THERE'S BEEN A DECISION MADE TO ALREADY, UH, DO ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS, WHICH IS TO INCREASE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. UM, UH, AND I'VE SPOKEN IN THE PAST ABOUT THAT AS THE HIGHEST PRIORITY OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY. UH, AND SO IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT IT BE CONSIDERED, BUT I DO HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE WAY IT'S BEING IMPLEMENTED. UH, IT SHOULDN'T BE AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET. UH, AND ESPECIALLY IT SHOULDN'T BE SOMETHING THAT'S ADDED WITHOUT CONSIDERATION OF THE CONSEQUENCES. THE CONSEQUENCES ARE VERY SERIOUS. YOU'RE IN EFFECT SPENDING DOWN YOUR CAPITAL OUTLAY FUND. THAT'S HOW IT'S BEING PAID FOR, WHICH IS A SERIOUS ERROR IN THE WAY FINANCE SHOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED. IF YOU TAKE ONE TIME ONLY MONEY, WHICH IS WHAT CAPITAL OUTLAY IS. UH, IN THIS CASE, IT WAS MOSTLY TO FIX AN ELEVATOR AND USE IT FOR A EXPENDITURE THAT WILL CONTINUE EVERY YEAR FOREVER. YOU ARE IN EFFECT CREATING A, A VERY LARGE DEFICIT IN YOUR BUDGET. AND I'VE SPOKEN MANY TIMES ABOUT DEFICIT SPENDING. THE STATE AUDITORS HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT IT SEVERAL TIMES. UH, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS DOING. AND THE THIRD [00:50:01] PART OF THIS THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE COST ON THE POLICE IS GROSSLY UNDERSTATED. IN THE DOCUMENT, IT SAYS 1.2 MILLION FOR 10 OFFICERS. I REFER YOU TO A WEBSITE CALLED TRANSPARENT CALIFORNIA. AND IF YOU LOOK AT OUR POLICE OFFICERS AND WHAT COMPENSATION THEY ACTUALLY MAKE, IT'S ROUGHLY $250,000 AVERAGE PER PER OFFICER, NOT 120,000. SO THE COSTS ARE BE DOUBLE WHAT WAS SUGGESTED TO YOU. YOU SIMPLY DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY, UH, AVAILABLE, AND IT WILL ALL END UP AS A DEFICIT. AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU'RE IN A RACE TO SEE HOW FAST YOU CAN SPEND DOWN YOUR, YOUR BALANCES SO THAT YOU'RE BANKRUPT. I I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THE CITIZENS HAVE SUGGESTED REDUCTIONS AND YOU'RE NOT SEEMING TO BE CONSIDERING ANY OF THAT. THANK GOOD, JIM. UH, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. VALERIE MUNOZ, FOLLOWED BY BRIAN, FOLLOWED BY ERNESTO GARCIA. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MAYOR WU, AND JUST WANTED TO COME BY AND STOP BY, AS YOU'RE REPRESENTED AS THE WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY. I'M ALSO YOUR NEIGHBORING COUNCIL MEMBER, CITY OF LA ENTENTE. UM, FOR ANY OF YOU IN THE AUDIENCE WHO IS NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY, WE WERE ESTABLISHED IN 1993 BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE. AND OUR WHOLE PURPOSE IS TO ENSURE THAT THE GROUNDWATER IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY IS CLEAN. UM, WE'VE DEVELOPED FINANCE AND IMPLEMENT PROGRAMS TO CLEAN THE CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER THAT SERVES PRIMARY DRINKING WATER FOR OVER MILLIONS OF PEOPLES IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY. AND WE WORK WITH LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL AGENCIES, INCLUDING THE EPA TO, UM, CREATE THESE PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN THE WATER. AND IT'S ALSO OUR GOAL TO KEEP THE RESPONSIBLE PARTIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT CLEANUP. SO IT'S NOT SENT, IT'S NOT TRANSFERRED OVER TO THE RATE PAYERS OR TO THE CONSUMERS ITSELF. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO JUST COME BY, SAY HELLO. I KNOW YOU HAVE A GREAT MEETING, SO I WON'T TAKE UP MUCH OF YOUR TIME. AND JUST ALSO INVITE ALL OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AS WELL AS ANY, UM, STAFF MEMBERS AND ALSO OPEN TO THE PUBLIC IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN, UM, IN TOURING THE GROUNDWATER TREATMENT CENTERS THAT WE HAVE. UM, I WISH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS HERE BECAUSE WE ALSO LIKE TO EXTEND INVITATIONS TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND JUST ALSO SHOW WHAT ALSO IS AVAILABLE IN WATER AND REGARDS TO REGARDS FUTURE CAREERS AND SO FORTH. SO, UM, AGAIN, VALERIE MUNOZ, NICE TO SEE YOU GUYS, AND I WILL LET YOU GO. NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU. OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRIAN, FOLLOWED BY ERNESTO GARCIA, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINA LARIOS. DEAN. I CAME TO SPEAK RECENTLY BECAUSE OF THE ICE RAIDS THAT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY. UH, I AM THE SON OF AN OF IMMIGRANTS. UH, I GREW UP HERE IN SAN GABRIEL VALLEY IN LA PUENTE, WEST COA MOVED AROUND AZUA, EVERYTHING. AND, UM, IT'S HEARTWARMING TO SEE THE POLICE OFFICERS AND FIRE DEPARTMENT HELPING PEOPLE. UM, BUT OTHER CITIES HAVE MADE THEIR STANCES AND HAVE, UH, ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTED ABOUT THESE ICE RAIDS SAYING THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO USE POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO HELP THE ICE RAIDS, TO HELP, UM, THE STAGING TO ANY CITY FACILITIES AND THINGS, UM, TO HELP THEM OUT IN ANY WAY, TO, TO TAKE AWAY, YOU KNOW, OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS. THEY'RE NOT AFFORDING THEM DUE PROCESS. A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE ARE, ARE IMMIGRANTS HERE. SOME OF THEM, THEY'RE NOT VIOLENT, THEY'RE NOT CRIMINALS. AND SO IT HAS AFFECTED US PERSONALLY. IT HAS AFFECTED US. I'M, I'M A BUSINESS OWNER, SO I TRY TO PROMOTE A LOT OF, UH, INCLUSIVITY DIVERSITY HERE IN, IN OUR CITIES. AND, UM, YEAH, WE'RE JUST CONCERNED AND WE'D LIKE TO GET SOME SORT OF STATEMENT FROM THE COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM, UM, THE WEST COVINA, JUST SOCIAL MEDIA, FACEBOOK, ANYTHING SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY STAND WITH THE COMMUNITY, THAT THEY WANT TO HELP THE COMMUNITY, THAT THEY DON'T WANNA, YOU KNOW, INTERACT WITH THESE THINGS. I DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO, BUT THE POLICE OFFICERS SORT OF, UM, YOU KNOW, HELPING KEEP EVERYTHING SAFE FOR PEOPLE. AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME FOR THANK YOU SO MUCH. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS ERNESTO, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINA LARIOS, FOLLOWED BY BRIAN CALDRON. TABBA. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS ERNESTO GARCIA. RETURNING TODAY TO SPEAK AGAIN ON WHAT IS THE THEME THAT KEEPS BRINGING ME BACK, UH, WHICH IS, UH, THE HOPE THAT THIS COUNCIL WILL FULFILL ITS OBLIGATIONS TO ALL OF ITS RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA. SPECIFICALLY TODAY, I'M ASKING THAT YOU BRING, UH, HELP TO BRING PEACE OF MIND TO OVER HALF OF OUR POPULATION BY DOING WHAT OTHER NEIGHBORING CITIES AND THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO DO. I'M HERE TO ASK YOU TO PLEASE DIRECT OUR CITY MANAGER TO CREATE A LIST OF ALL CITY OWNED PROPERTIES FOR THE PURPOSES OF DISSEMINATING THAT LIST, ALONG WITH INSTRUCTIONS EXPRESSING THE CITY'S WISHES TO NOT ALLOW, UH, IMMIGRATION AND, AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, AND ANY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY THAT IS CONDUCTING OR AIDING IN THE INHUMANE SEARCHES, DETAINMENTS [00:55:01] AND ABDUCTIONS OF OUR RESIDENTS. FURTHER, I ASK IF YOU SHOULD SEE A LEGAL REASON WHY THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE, THAT YOU CONSULT WITH ATTORNEYS ALREADY ON RETAINER BY THE CITY TO FIND LEGAL PATHS TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE. THE BEGINNINGS OF A PATH TOWARD THIS END MIGHT BE, MIGHT BE THAT MANY OF THESE ABDUCTIONS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT WITH LITTLE CONCERN FOR THE LAW ITSELF. YOU DON'T NEED TO LOOK VERY HARD TO FIND INSTANCES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS BEING HARASSED AND ARRESTED. THERE ARE ALSO MANY CASES WHERE PEOPLE WHO HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO BE IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE HAD THEIR RIGHT REVOKED BY PURELY POLITICAL REASONS, AND WITHOUT HAVING COMMITTED ANY CRIME AT ALL THAN BEING DEPORTED. ALL OF THIS WITHOUT THE DUE PROCESS GUARANTEED TO ANY AND ALL INDIVIDUALS WHO EXIST IN OUR COUNTRY BY NOTHING LESS THAN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. CONSTITUTION. I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO VIOLATE ANY FEDERAL LAW, BUT I AM ASKING THAT YOU DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO LIMIT COOPERATION WITH THESE AGENCIES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF WHAT THE LAW ALREADY ALLOWS SO THAT THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA CAN AT THE VERY LEAST KNOW THAT WE CARE FOR THEIR SAFETY AND THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO ACCESS PUBLIC SPACES AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES WITHOUT FEAR, REGARDLESS OF RESIDENCY STATUS. I HOPE YOU'LL DO THE RIGHT THING AND STAND UP FOR WEST COVINA. THANK YOU. UH, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS CHRISTINA LARIOS, FOLLOWED BY BRIAN CALDRON TABBA, FOLLOWED BY JOSH GUERRERA. GOOD EVENING MAYOR. MAYOR PROTE, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, STAFF AND RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA. I'M CHRISTINA LARIOS, THE INTERIM LIBRARY MANAGER AT THE LI WEST COVINA LIBRARY. UM, I WANTED TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT WE HAVE OUR SUMMER DISCOVERY PROGRAM FOR ALL AGES. YOU CAN COME AND JOIN US, UM, EARN, UH, PRIZES FOR YOUR READING. UH, WE HAVE PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES. UM, A FEW THAT WE HAVE COMING UP. UM, TOMORROW WE HAVE A MAGIC SHOW WITH, UH, MAGICIAN ARTIE LOON. IT'S GONNA BE A LOT OF FUN. THIS IS FOR AGES FIVE TO 12. IT'LL BE TOMORROW AT 2:00 PM AND THEN, UM, FOR TEENS ALSO TOMORROW WE HAVE TEEN CANDY. SUSHI TEENS CAN COME TO THE LIBRARY TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE CANDY INTO SUSHI. AND THEN ALSO, OF COURSE, WE HAVE OUR ZUMBA EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING FROM SIX 30 TO 7:30 PM AND JUST ANOTHER REMINDER FOR ADULTS COMING UP ON TUESDAY, JUNE 24TH, WE HAVE A DIY CANVAS ART. SO WE INVITE EVERYBODY AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL. THANK YOU. HOLD ON. OKAY. CAN YOU GIVE THE, THE PROGRAM TO OUR CITY SO MAYBE WE CAN POST ON THE WEBSITE SO PEOPLE CAN KNOW WE CAN PROMOTE EACH OTHER. OKAY. SO CAN YOU PROMOTE THIS? OKAY, BECAUSE IT SOUND VERY INTERESTING. I, I HAVE TO WORK, BUT I WANT TO GO. THE MESSAGE SHOULD LOOK VERY INTERESTING, SO, SO KEEP ALL THE PROGRAM YOU HAVE. OKAY. SO WE CAN POST FOR YOU. THANK YOU, MAAM. OKAY, THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BRIAN CALDER, FOLLOWED BY JOSH GUERRERO, FOLLOWED BY SHAAD. UH, GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. UH, I COME BEFORE YOU TONIGHT CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF THE TRAUMA I'VE SEEN INFLICTED ACROSS LA COUNTY TRAUMA CAUSED BY ICE RAIDS THAT TEAR FAMILIES APART AND LEAVE ENTIRE COMMUNITIES PARALYZED BY FEAR. I'VE SEEN IT AT THE SANTA FE SPRING SWAP MEET WHERE FAMILIES WERE CHASED BY MAAS MEN WHILE TRYING TO EARN A LIVING. I'VE HEARD THE HEARTBREAK OF PARENTS WHO MISSED THEIR CHILDREN'S GRADUATIONS FOR FEAR OF BEING DETAINED. I'VE SEEN CAR WASHES RAIDED IN LA PUENTE AND PEOPLE SNATCHED IN THE PARKING LOT, THE ROSEMEAD PLAZA, NOT IN THE COVER OF DARKNESS, BUT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. I'VE WATCHED MY OWN STUDENTS BECOME PROTECTORS AND BREADWINNERS DROPPING OUT OF SUMMER SCHOOL TO WORK SO THEIR MOMS AND DADS COULD BE SAFE. THESE ARE NOT ISOLATED INCIDENTS. THIS IS THE CRUELTY AND TERROR HAPPENING IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD IN OUR REGION. AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE TONIGHT. I'M HERE TO DEMAND THAT THE COUNCIL DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO IDENTIFY ALL PUBLIC FACING CITY PROPERTIES, SPORTSPLEX CIVIC CENTER, OUR PARKS AND COMMUNITY CENTERS, AND WORK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY TO ENSURE THESE SPACES ARE NEVER USED BY ICE OR ANY FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. WE NEED EXPLICIT LEGAL PROTECTIONS IN PLACE, NOT VEGAS ASSURANCES. THIS IS ABOUT SAFETY. THIS IS ABOUT DIGNITY, AND THIS IS ABOUT COMPLIANCE WITH CALIFORNIA'S OWN LAWS. LAWS DESIGNED TO PROTECT IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES FROM BEING HUNTED DOWN IN SPACES THEY SHOULD FEEL SAFE. LET'S BE CLEAR. COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND ORGANIZ ARE AWARE THAT ICE HAS BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE CITY ABOUT POTENTIALLY USING ITS FACILITIES AND YOUR SILENCE. IT IS NOT NEUTRAL NEUTRALITY, IT IS COMPLICITY. IF THIS COUNCIL CONTINUES TO TURN A BLIND EYE, IF YOU ALLOW EVEN THE PERCEPTION OF COOPERATION WITH ICE TO CONTINUE, THEN YOU LEAVE ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND EVERYDAY RESIDENTS, NO CHOICE BUT TO DEEPEN OUR EFFORTS HERE IN WEST COVINA TO ENSURE OUR COMMUNITY IS PROTECTED. IF OUR CITY IS SEEN AS ALIGNING ITSELF WITH FEDERAL ACTIONS THAT HARM IMMIGRANT FAMILIES, IT WON'T GO UNNOTICED. WEST COVINA WILL DRAW THE ATTENTION OF RESIDENTS AND ADVOCATES ACROSS THE REGION WHO ARE READY TO STAND UP FOR COMPASSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND JUSTICE. DO NOT BE THE CITY THAT TURNED ITS BACK ON ITS PEOPLE. [01:00:01] AND TO TONY, YOU OFTEN SHARE YOUR STORY BECOMING HERE ON A STUDENT VISA OF BEING AN IMMIGRANT WHO MADE IT. BUT WHERE ARE YOU NOW? PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ENDED STUDENT VISAS CALLED FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS, AND YOU'VE SAID NOTHING. NOT A WORD TO DEFEND THE VERY PATHWAY THAT ALLOWED YOU TO BE HERE. YOU STAND SILENT, NO POST, NO SPEECH, THE ONE TOPIC THAT KEEPS YOU QUIET TONIGHT. ALL OF YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO ON RECORD. DO WE PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS OR DO WE SELL OUT OUR SPACES TO THOSE WHO WOULD TEAR OUR FAMILIES APART? WHETHER YOU CHOOSE WORDS OR CHOOSE SILENCE TONIGHT, YOU WILL HAVE DECIDED WE ARE WATCHING. THANK YOU. AND, UH, JOSH GUERRERO, FOLLOWED BY SHAZAD, FOLLOWED BY MARIE. HOLD ON. OKAY. CORRECTION. OKAY, I CAME 1983 NA STUDENT VISA. I CAME IN AS AN IMMIGRANT WITH X-RAY AND, UH, WENT TO THE OKAY. IMMIGRATION CHANNEL. SO I'M A LEGAL IMMIGRANT, CAME IN LEGALLY. SO ANYWAY, JUST WANNA SHARE WITH YOU NOT NOT STUDENT, NOT STUDENT VISA. SO ANYWAY, UH, NEXT, NEXT SPEAKER, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. NICE SPEAKER, PLEASE. OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS JOSH DER, PLEASE. OKAY, DER, PLEASE. OKAY, QUIET. OTHERWISE I'M GONNA REMOVE YOU. OKAY. PLEASE BE QUIET. OKAY, NEXT. HEY, STAND HERE TODAY. IN LIGHT OF ALL THE ATTACKS AND KIDNAPPINGS THAT HAVE BEEN OCCURRING DUE TO ILLEGAL ICE OPERATIONS HERE IN OUR CITY, I COME HERE ON BEHALF OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES. LAST WEEK, PEOPLE WERE KIDNAPPED RIGHT HERE ACROSS THE STREET AT THE MALL. MORE RECENTLY HAVE THERE BEEN REPORTS OF ATTACKS, THREATS AND PEOPLE GETTING RUN OVER BECAUSE PEOPLE FEEL EMBOLDENED BY THE LACK OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN ACTION. ALL THIS VIOLENCE IS ON THE RISE BECAUSE ONE FACT REMAINS CLEAR. WE ARE ALL IN DANGER, WHETHER IT'S BY DIRECT ASSAULT OR BECAUSE OF THE HARM ALL THESE ACTIONS ARE HAVING IN OUR ECONOMY. BUSINESSES ARE SUFFERING AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER AND THEY WILL BECOME A LOT WORSE BECAUSE PEOPLE FEEL UNSAFE TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES. I HAD A WHOLE SPEECH WRITTEN OUT, TO BE HONEST, AND I CAN'T THINK BECAUSE I'M ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED TO LOOK UP HERE AND SEE THE FACE OF EVERY SINGLE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER. BECAUSE IN THESE FACES, I SEE FACES THAT REPRESENT EVERY SINGLE BRANCH OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT IS BEING NEGLIGENT, IMPACTED. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU WERE HERE, MAYOR PRO TEM, OR I'M SORRY, MAYOR. NO, DUE TO STUDENT VISA OR AS AN IMMIGRANT, THE FACT REMAINS, YOU ARE AN IMMIGRANT. ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES RELY ON IMMIGRANTS, OTHERWISE YOU WOULD NOT BE HERE RIGHT NOW. AND THE FACT THAT YOU REMAIN SILENT IS APPALLING TO SAY THE LEAST. BUT IT'S JUST DISGUSTING. IT IS JUST HARROWING TO KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE THAT WE'VE ELECTED CAN TURN THEIR BACKS ON US IN THE MOMENT OF OUR NEED. WHEN ALL IT TAKES IS JUST A WORD, A STATEMENT, ENFORCING LAWS THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLACE BY THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WHEN WE HAVE SO MANY RESOURCES THAT WE CAN DIRECT JUST A TINY BIT TO TRAINING OUR CITY OFFICIALS TO KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH ICE OPERATIONS THAT ARE BREAKING LAWS. BECAUSE WHEN LAWS GO OUT THE DOOR, THEN WHAT RESPONSIBILITY DO WE FEEL COMPELLED TO OBEY THEM AS WELL? WHAT COMPELS US TO BELIEVE IN CITY GOVERNMENT WHEN OUR CITY GOVERNMENT CHOOSES TO REMAIN SILENT DESPITE OF THEIR BACKGROUND. AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, TO LOWER YOURSELF TO MAKE A CORRECTION DIRECTION, TO TRY TO DISMISS THE REST OF WHAT OUR BROTHER BRIAN BY SAID, I STAND WITH HIS STATEMENT. I STAND WITH EVERYTHING HE'S BROUGHT UP AND IT SHOULD BE HIM IN YOUR PLACE RIGHT NOW. AND I STAND BY THOSE WORDS. THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS SHAZAD, FOLLOWED BY MARIE, FOLLOWED BY MICHAEL. GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL. HELLO WITH THE MIC, PLEASE. UM, I CAME TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS ZA. I CAME TO TONIGHT TO EXPRESS MY HORROR AT THE MANNER IN WHICH OUR UNDOCUMENTED RESIDENTS ARE BEING TREATED IN OUR CITIES. WE WERE PROMISED DEPORTATIONS OF CRIMINALS WHO ARE HERE ILLEGALLY, BUT WHAT WE ARE GETTING IS VERY, VERY DIFFERENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT DEPORTATIONS OF VIOLENT CRIMINALS HAVE BEEN ONGOING [01:05:01] FOR DECADES. SO THIS IS NOT NEW, AND I DO SUPPORT THAT POLICY. I DON'T WANT ILLEGAL PEOPLE TO BECOME HERE, PEOPLE TO COME HERE ILLEGALLY AND ABUSE OUR LAWS. INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE BEING SNATCHED OFF THE STREETS WITHOUT DUE PROCESS. THAT'S MY CONCERN. THEY DON'T HAVE A CHANCE TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE UNTIL AFTER THEY'VE ENDURED INHUMANE TREATMENT AND IMPRISONMENT. THIS IS NOT THE AMERICA. I KNOW. MANY OF THESE IMMIGRANTS HAVE FLED INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS IN THEIR COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN, SUCH AS MY DAD DID WHEN HE CAME TO THE COUNTRY AND ARE IN THE PROCESS OF SEEKING ASYLUM, WHICH ACTUALLY MAKES THEM LEGAL UNTIL THEY CAN HAVE A COURT HEARING, YET THEY'RE DEPORTED TO UNKNOWN LOCATIONS, LEAVING THEIR FAMILIES BEHIND. SOME DETAINEES HAVE ACTUALLY TURNED OUT TO BE US CITIZENS. I'M SURE YOU'VE SEEN THAT ON THE NEWS. PEOPLE ARE AFRAID, AND THAT IS NOT A HEALTHY COMMUNITY IN WHICH TO LIVE FOR ANYONE. OUR CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN SILENT ON THIS MATTER. I WAS SURPRISED WHEN I WAS REVIEWING SOME OF THE MEETINGS. NOTHING, NOTHING FROM YOU GUYS, AND THAT'S KIND OF CONCERNING. UM, I KNOW THAT THERE'S RESIDENTS IN THIS CITY WHO ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THE THREATS OF ICE RAIDS. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT ICE HAS ACTUALLY USED OUR CITY FACILITIES TO LAUNCH THEIR OPERATIONS. I HOPE THIS IS FAKE NEWS, BUT IF IT ISN'T, I WOULD ASK THAT THE CITY MANAGER DIRECT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO REFUSE ANY COLLABORATION WITH ICE, INCLUDING INFORMATION SHARING REGARDING OUR RESIDENTS, ALLOWING OUR PUBLIC FACILITIES TO BE USED BY FEDERAL AGENTS, BRINGS ON UNWANTED PROTESTS FROM THE COMMUNITY, AS HAS BEEN THE CASE IN ARCADIA, PASADENA, LOS ANGELES, ET CETERA. I DON'T WANT OUR CITY TO BE IN THE NEWS AND TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE DISRUPTIONS. SCHOOLS, AND PLACES OF WORSHIP SHOULD BE SAFE HAVENS AND OUR POLICE OFFICERS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO PROTECT US AGAINST ICE INTRUSIONS INTO THESE INSTITUTIONS. STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FILL ESSENTIAL ROLES IN INDUSTRIES LIKE AGRICULTURE, CONSTRUCTION, AND CAREGIVING. THEY PAY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TAXES, PROPERTIES, TAXES, SALES, AND EVEN INCOME TAXES WHILE BEING INELIGIBLE FOR MOST PUBLIC BENEFITS. WE ALSO KNOW THAT WHEN PEOPLE FEAR DEPORTATION, THEY'RE LESS LIKELY TO REPORT CRIMES OR SEEK MEDICAL HELP, WHICH COMPROMISES PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY. THANK YEAH. APPRECIATE. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE ASK THAT YOU TAKE A STAND AGAINST ICE MARIE. FOLLOWED BY MICHAEL, FOLLOWED BY A ADELA HARRIS. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. UH, MY NAME IS MARIE THOMAS. I'M A LONGTIME RESIDENT OF WEST COVINA. UH, WHEN YOU RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL SEATS, YOU EMPHASIZE THE NEED FOR A SAFE COMMUNITY. WELL, MANY OF US RESIDENTS NO LONGER FEEL OUR SAFETY IS PROTECTED. AND WHY DON'T WE FEEL THAT WAY? IT'S BECAUSE OF TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY AND ITS USE OF ICE AS ITS ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM. TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY DENIES BASIC LEGAL RIGHTS AND DUE PROCESS. IT USES RACIAL BIAS AND DISCRIMINATORY TACTICS. IT CRIMINALIZES INDIVIDUALS BASED ON IMMIGRATION STATUS. IT SHIFTS HUMAN AND MONETARY RESOURCES AWAY FROM COMBATING SERIOUS CRIME. IT HAS ENDANGERED OUR ECONOMY. HOW DOES TRUMP'S ENFORCEMENT OF HIS IMMIGRATION POLICY LEAVE MANY OF US FEELING? WELL, DOES IT MAKE US FEEL SAFE? IT LEAVES MANY OF US FEELING FEARFUL, WORRIED, INSECURE, LONELY, AND WITH A FOREBODING SENSE OF THE FUTURE. FOR THOSE OF US WHO DON'T FEEL IMMEDIATELY THREATENED, WE FEEL THE INJUSTICE OF TRUMP'S POLICY AND WILL FIGHT TO UNDO IT. TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION POLICY IS A POLICY OF CHOICE. WE DON'T HAVE TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION POLICY THE WAY HE DOES. OUR LAWMAKERS CAN CHOOSE DIFFERENT IMMIGRATION METHODS AND REFORMS. MEANWHILE, WE DON'T HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE A POLICY OF FEAR. WE DON'T HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE A POLICY OF INSECURITY. WE DON'T HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE A POLICY OF INJUSTICE. WE DON'T HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE A POLICY OF RACISM. MEANWHILE, IN SUMMARY, WE DON'T HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE ICE. THANK YOU. UH, NICE SPEAKER PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS MICHAEL, FOLLOWED BY ADELA, FOLLOWED BY JD. UH, I WAS, I WAS GONNA SAY, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY IF [01:10:01] IT, IF IT, IF THE IT DEPARTMENT COULD, UH, FOCUS ON THE SPEAKER SO WE CAN MAKE SURE, UH, WHOEVER'S SPEAKING GETS A ATTENTION ON ONLINE. OKAY. UH, NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. UM, I OWN A PROPERTY ON, UH, SOUTH GLENDORA AVENUE. I GOT IT. THANK YOU. TIME TIME, YEAH, GO AHEAD. ON SOUTH GLENDORA AVENUE, UH, 5 37 SOUTH WINDOR AVENUE, IT ZONED THAT THEY WANT NOW, UH, RESTAURANTS AND OTHER TYPES OF OF THINGS THERE. IT WAS A, UH, DRY CLEANERS. CAN YOU MOVE THE MIC HIGHER PLEASE? THE MIC HIGHER. OH, THANK YOU. ANYWAY, IT WAS A DRY CLEANERS FOR, I DUNNO, 30 OR 40 YEARS THEY'VE MOVED OUT. AND, UH, I OWN THE BUILDING AND THEY WANT IT TO BE A RESTAURANT OR SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES THREE PARKING SPACES PER THOUSAND SQUARE FEET. MY BUILDING'S 15,442 SQUARE FEET, REQUIRING 47 PARKING SPACES. THERE'S 10 IN THE BACK. IF I TAKE THE DRIVE THROUGH IN THE FRONT, THE MOST I CAN GET IS 12. SO I COULD GET 22 PARKING SPACES. AND THIS BUILDING COULD NEVER BE A RESTAURANT. UH, I DON'T THINK IT COULD BE MUCH MORE THAN STORAGE OR, OR A GIANT DRY CLEANING BUILDING. BUT, UM, I'M REALLY IN A SITUATION WHERE I CAN'T GET IT RENTED AND I CAN'T GET IT SOLD BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY WANT THIS BUILDING TO BE USED FOR. IT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE USED FOR. AND THEY INVITE ALL OF YOU TO COME OUT AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS THING. IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW IT COULD BE TURNED INTO SOMETHING ELSE, LET ME KNOW. BUT YOU'RE NEVER GONNA GET 47 PARKING SPACES THERE, AND YOU'RE NEVER GONNA BE ABLE TO TURN IT INTO A RESTAURANT. IT'S A BIG CONCRETE BUILDING MADE OUT OF A CONCRETE BLOCK. AND, UH, I AM REALLY IN A POSITION WHERE YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BANKRUPT ME IF SOMEONE DOESN'T COME OVER. AND AT LEAST LET ME KNOW WHAT I CAN DO WITH IT. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY. AND CITY MANAGER, WOULD YOU PLEASE OKAY. RECEIVE HIS, UH, REQUEST AND MAYBE HE CAN WORK WITH THE PLANNING. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER IS ADELA, FOLLOWED BY JD. FOLLOWED BY GLENN KENNEDY. ADELA. ADELA AND TIME PLEASE. NOT TOO GOOD TO SPEAK, BUT, UH, LO LOWER, PLEASE. YES, IT CAN BE NOT TOO GOOD TO SPEAK, BUT I WENT TO A CONCERN ABOUT MY, MY NEIGHBORHOOD, MY STREET AND HOME BIRTH IN WEST COVINA. AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, UH, ISSUES RIGHT THERE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PARKING ON THE, ON THE STREET IS ALL WEST COVID, I THINK IS, UH, SEVEN TO 11 THE SAME, THE SAME DAY THURSDAYS. SO YOU'RE SWEEPING PARKING? YEAH. OKAY. AND I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IT BECAUSE WE WORKING ON NIGHTS AND, UM, WE DON'T HAVE NO, NO PARKING WHERE WE HAVE, UM, FOUR, FOUR CARS. AND, UH, WE, WE, WE DON'T HAVE NO PARKING. WE DON'T HAVE PARKING. AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE PARKING. 'CAUSE THE STORE IS SEVEN 11 THURSDAY. MY STREET TOO. ALL SIDES IN THE STREET TOO. THE, UH, SOUTH HARVEY. AND NOW WE DON'T HAVE NO, NO PLACE TO PARK. AND I TRIED TO TO FIX THE PROBLEM, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW. CAN YOU GIVE THE ADDRESS TO OUR ACTIVITY MANAGER? YES. UHHUH . YOU PLEASE. THAT'S RIGHT THERE. OKAY. WE LOOK INTO IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS GLENN KENNEDY, FOLLOWED BY, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S NATALIE OR NELLE. NAZEL, FOLLOWED BY TREVOR JACKSON. GLEN KENNEDY. I SPEAK NOW. OKAY. THE HEALTH PARTY IS NOT A HEARING. YOU CAN SPEAK RIGHT NOW. OKAY. UM, COUPLE THINGS. UM, GIMME A SECOND HERE. TAKE YOUR TIME. TAKE, UM, I'M THE SON OF A, UH, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. UH, [01:15:01] IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW, MY, MY MOM, UH, MARY JOSEPHINE MELENDEZ KENNEDY. I'M HALF IRISH, HALF MEXICAN. UM, SHE GOT DEPORTED. AND, UH, 1938, I'M WITH MY AUNT. THEY WERE BOTH, UM, ONE IN LOS ANGELES. MY GRANDMA LIVES FROM CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, AND MY GRANDFATHER WAS FROM, UH, JUAREZ. MY GRANDFATHER CAME ACROSS THE BORDER QUAD IN WORLD WAR I, HE WAS GASSED IN THE BATTLE OF CHAMPAGNE, AND HE WAS DYING FROM TUBERCULOSIS. AND THEY, THEY KICKED HIM OUTTA THE COUNTRY. AND, UH, JESUS, HE WAS THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH. HE WAS HARMLESS. HE, HE WAS A PASTOR OF THE MEXICAN CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE IN BOTH LINCOLN HEIGHTS AND EL SERENA. AND THAT FUELED MY MOM THROUGH HER WHOLE LIFE. I'M GONNA TELL YOU, IT'S A SCAR THAT SHE NEVER GOT OVER. SO, UM, I'M VERY SENSITIVE TO THIS. UM, THE LAW IS NOT COMPROMISED IN, IN A LOT OF WAYS. UH, IMMIGRATION IS A, A, A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT. UM, I WAS NOT BORN INTO DEMOCRACY. I WAS BORN INTO A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, WHICH GIVES ME THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ANY TIME, ANY PLACE ON ANYTHING. I HAVE MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. I HAVE MY SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS, I HAVE ALL MY AMENDMENT RIGHTS. WITH THAT BEING SAID, THE D*****S PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS A LOT BETTER. OKAY? UM, I KNOW THIS IS NOT A SANCTUARY CITY, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ARE ALL AMERICANS AND WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS. AND, UH, UM, WE NEED TO SHOW SOME TYPE OF, UH, COMPASSION. THIS, THIS AIN'T WORKING. I PUT THE BLAME ON BOTH SIDES. WHEN THE DEMOCRATS HAD THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE, THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I AIN'T FINISHED. THANK YOU. AND THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING YEP. TO FIX THIS SITUATION. GRAHAM, THANK YOU. I, I, OKAY. WHATEVER. APPRECIATE IT. NO PROBLEM. IM NOT, I'M NOT SURE IF THE NAME IS NATALIE OR I, SPEAKER PLEASE, NATALIE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. UH, I AM A PHYSICIAN. I WORK IN THE AREA AND I, UH, WANT TO REITERATE WHAT MANY OF THE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID REGARDING, UH, HAVING OUR CITY COUNCIL, OUR CITY COLLABORATE WITH THE COMMUNITY TO HELP PREVENT CERTAIN SPACES. THEY HAVE MENTIONED, UH, SCHOOLS AND, UH, PLACES OF WORSHIP. AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD ALSO, HEALTHCARE FACILITIES, PUBLIC HEALTH CLINICS, HOSPITALS. UM, IF, AS ONE OF THE SPEAKERS SAID THAT, UH, THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT HAS REACHED OUT TO THE CITY TO USE THE CITY LANDS, AND IT MEANS YOU HAVE A CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION WITH THEM THAT YOU COULD PERHAPS USE FOR THE ADVANTAGE TO A TIPPING OFF HOSPITALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH CLINICS IF THESE RATES MIGHT HAPPEN. AND CAN WE NOT EMPLOY OUR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ACTUALLY STEM OFF OR BASICALLY PREVENT SUCH RATES FROM HAPPENING? UM, IF YOU GO INTO ANY HOSPITAL OR CLINIC, YOU WOULD SEE A SIGN THAT SAYS ALL PEOPLE HAVE TO BE TREATED EQUALLY REGARDLESS OF THEIR PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF ANY INSURANCE, OR WHAT THEIR ECONOMIC NEEDS ARE, OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL QUALIFICATION. AND WE SHOULD HOLD OUR ENTIRE CITY TO THAT SAME STANDARD OF TREATING ALL OF ITS CITIZENS WITH THE UTMOST DIGNITY AND RESPECT, AND JUST PROTECTING THEIR ABILITY TO GO ABOUT THEIR LIVES PEACEFULLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. NEXT SPEAKER, MAYOR. OUR FINAL SPEAKER IS TREVOR JACKSON. TREVOR, GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. HOW YOU GUYS DOING TODAY? PRETTY GOOD. I CAME HERE ORIGINALLY TO SPEAK ABOUT MY REQUEST FOR A STREET VENDING LICENSE, AND THAT STILL MATTERS DEEPLY TO ME. BUT AFTER HEARING THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA, UM, I'M NOT AN IMMIGRANT. I'M A BLACK MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE PROFILED, OVERLOOKED, AND PUSHED TO THE SIDE. I WANNA MAKE IT CLEAR. I STAND WITH MY COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE HURTING RIGHT NOW, AND I AGREE WITH WHAT'S BEING SAID TONIGHT. WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING WITH ICE RAIDS AND ALL THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN THIS COMMUNITY IS FLAT OUT WRONG, SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING, ESPECIALLY FOR WEST COVINA. LIKE WE, WE SH WE HOLD OUR CITY TO THE TOP. AND I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE AVERAGE EYE, THIS MAY SEEM LIKE IT ONLY AFFECTS ONE GROUP OR COMMUNITY, BUT I KNOW BETTER. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING TO MY PEOPLE [01:20:01] FOR DECADES. BEING SNATCHED UP OFF THE STREETS, SEPARATED FROM OUR FAMILIES, JUDGED BY APPEARANCES BEFORE ANYONE SEES OUR HEART. INJUSTICE IN ANY FORM SHOULD MATTER TO ALL OF US. BECAUSE WHEN WE TURN A BLIND EYE, JUST BECAUSE IT'S NOT HAPPENING TO YOU, YOU BECOME PART OF THE SILENCE THAT LETS, IT KEEPS HAPPENING. I'M HERE TO BUILD, I'M HERE TO CREATE SOMETHING POSITIVE AND LONG LASTING AND LONG LASTING. BUT I'M ALSO HERE TO STAND UP WHEN I SEE SOMETHING WRONG. AND WHAT'S WRONG BEING, UH, WHAT'S BEING DONE WRONG, EVEN IF IT DOESN'T DIRECTLY TOUCH ME. SO YES, I STILL ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT, BUT RIGHT NOW, THAT DOESN'T MATTER. WHAT MATTERS IS THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND WHAT THEY'RE FEELING AND WHAT'S AFFECTING US AS A WHOLE. SO, I THINK YOU GUYS SHOULD JUST HEAR THEM OUT AND TAKE NOTE TO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING, BECAUSE THIS IS THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, AND YOU GUYS ARE THE HEAD HONCHOS OF WEST COVINA. SO WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME, AND I THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. AND, UH, ANY OTHER SPEAKER? OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THE CITY ADDING [CITY MANAGER'S REPORT] CITY MANAGER, YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO THE, OUR SPEAKER? THANK YOU, MAYOR. YES, I WILL. UH, WE HAD A TOTAL NINE SPEAKERS SPEAK ON, UM, THE FEDERAL OPERATIONS, THE ICE ENFORCEMENT, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. AND WHILE IT'S NOT MY POSITION TO PROVIDE A STATEMENT AT THIS TIME OR AN OPINION, UH, I CAN ASSURE THE COMMUNITY AND THE PERSONS IN THIS AUDIENCE IS THERE'S BEEN NO COLLABORATION BETWEEN, UH, WEST COVINA, CITY HALL STAFF, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT OR OTHER ENTITY OF THE CITY TO COLLABORATE WITH ANY, UH, FEDERAL AGENCIES. UM, I'VE HAD NO CONTACT FROM THEM. IN FACT, LIKE MANY PEOPLE, UM, DURING THE DAY, I'M, I'M MONITORING SOCIAL MEDIA AND, AND THE LOCAL NEWS IN THE OFFICE TO FIND OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR LOCAL CITY AND, AND SURROUNDING JURISDICTIONS. SO I CAN'T PROVIDE A, A STATEMENT ON A LOT OF THINGS. I I DO HEAR YOU THEN UNDERSTAND THAT AND WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE CITY IS NOT COLLABORATING OR WORKING WITH ANY FEDERAL AGENCIES ON ANY OF THESE OPERATIONS. I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY COMING FORWARD STATING THEIR OPINIONS, THEIR CONCERNS. UM, THEY'VE BEEN HEARD, AND I'LL WAIT FOR DIRECTION, IF ANY, UM, TO PROCEED WITH WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE DONE. BUT I JUST WANNA ENSURE THE COMMUNITY THAT THERE'S NO COLLABORATION BETWEEN CITY HALL STAFF OR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. IN FACT, OUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS A VERY CLEAR AND DEF DEFINITIVE PROCESS AND POLICY AS FAR AS, UM, IMMIGRATION AND WORKING WITH OTHER AGENCIES. AND IT'S A HANDS OFF. THEY ARE NOT INVOLVED IN ANY WAY. SO I, I HOPE I CAN ASSURE THE COMMUNITY, AT LEAST AT THAT POINT. AT THIS TIME, I'M GONNA, DOUG, FOR YOU, GIMME LIKE 25 THINGS. SO I'M GONNA TRY TO PICK THEM OFF THE BEST I CAN HERE. UM, ON THE BUDGET CONSULTANTS, UM, FOLLOWING THE, THE LAST MEETING, UM, THAT YOU MENTIONED IN MAY, UM, I WAS PROVIDED DIRECTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL TO PROVIDE A COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF ALL CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTS THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FROM THE INCEPTION OF TIME THAT ARE STILL VALID. AND ALSO A LIST OF ALL CONTRACTS UNDER THE SIGNATURE AUTHORITY OF THE CITY MANAGER THAT THE COUNCIL WAS NOT AWARE ABOUT. RIGHT? SO I AM IN FINISHING UP THAT RIGHT NOW. BOTH LISTS WILL BE PROVIDED TO THE COUNCIL. IT'S A VALID POINT, IT'S A VALID CONCERN, AND ALL FIVE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL HAVE DIRECTED ME THAT IT IS THEIR CONCERN AS WELL. SO THAT IS BEING ADDRESSED. UM, AS FAR AS THE STREET SWEEPING, UM, I KNOW YOU BROUGHT UP ABOUT THE, THE SIGNAGE. SO THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A VERY BIG PROJECT IN THE CITY. SO MY DIRECTION TO THE, THE TEAM WORKING ON THIS PROJECT FROM THE CONTRACTOR, THE ENGINEERS AND EVERYBODY ELSE, IS TO FINISH THE INSTALLATION OF THE SIGNS. FROM THERE, WE'RE GONNA DO AN ASSESSMENT AND TROUBLESHOOT AREAS OF CONCERN. UH, THOSE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN LABELED AS HIGH DENSITY. UM, THOSE THAT ARE IN NEAR SENSITIVE LOCATIONS LIKE A SCHOOL. UM, OBVIOUSLY WHEN YOU HIRE A CONTRACTOR AND YOU ASK THEM TO INSTALL 7,000 SIGNS, UH, THEY'RE OUT THERE INSTALLING 7,000 SIGNS. UH, WE'VE BEEN TROUBLESHOOTING AND I THINK WE'VE ADDRESSED NEARLY 800 SIGNS THAT WERE LOCATED IN THE WRONG SPOT, UH, MAYBE IN DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF SOMEBODY'S HOUSE, OR COULD HAVE BEEN LOCATED IN A BETTER, BETTER AREA. UM, ALSO THE DETERMINATION, IF ANY SIGNS ARE TO BE CHANGED, WHETHER IT BE BY TIME OR DAY A DIRECTION HAS NOT BEEN PROVIDED ON THAT AT THIS TIME. UH, ONCE WE GET EVERYTHING INSTALLED AND WE DO A BETTER, UM, SURVEY OF WHAT'S CURRENTLY OUT THERE AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED, UM, I WILL COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL WITH SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEY'LL PROVIDE DIRECTION TO ME ON, ON WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. UM, AS FAR AS THE DISCUSSION ON THE, OF THE CITY YARD, UH, UH, YOU MENTIONED THE SURPLUS LAND ACT. THE CITY DID GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND SATISFIED THE REQUIREMENT, AND I AGREE [01:25:01] THAT IT SHOULD GO TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, AND THAT IS, I BELIEVE, THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNCIL AS WELL. THAT'S A FLUID SITUATION, AND I'M SURE THERE'LL BE MORE TO COME ABOUT THAT. AS FAR AS THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WE ARE GONNA HAVE AN UPDATE IN A LITTLE BIT ON THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, AS I MENTIONED AT THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, UM, THAT WE WOULD BE COMING BACK TODAY WITH AN UPDATE OF WHERE WE'RE AT AND HOPEFULLY ANSWERS THOSE QUESTIONS ON THE, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UM, MR. SCHUMAKER, IF, IF YOU'RE STILL HERE, I DUNNO IF HE IS, UM, IF YOU, IF HE'S WATCHING, THEN, UM, IF YOU PROVIDE ME THE LOCATION OF THE TREE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED, I'LL MAKE SURE THAT'S TAKEN CARE OF. UM, ON THE PARKING SIGNS OBVIOUSLY MEANT SOME STREETS HAVE TOO MANY, MAYBE SOME HAVE NONE. AGAIN, WE ARE ESTABLISHING A PUNCH LIST. WE'VE GOT A TEAM GOING OUT DAILY AND SURVEYING EACH STREET AND CORRECTING THOSE STREETS THAT MAYBE BE DEFICIENT IN SIGNS HAVE TOO MANY OR IMPROPERLY LOCATED, THAT'S BEING ADDRESSED. UM, SOME OF THE SIGNS IN THE CITY ARE OLDER AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED AND REMOVED. SO THE DIRECTION WAS ON THE OLD STREET SWEEPING SIGNS TO REMOVE THOSE. AS THE NEW SIGNS ARE BEING INSTALLED. ONE OF THE THINGS WE RAN INTO, WHICH, UH, WASN'T EXPECTED IS ON SOME OF OUR OLDER SIGNS, HALF THE SIGN MENTIONED STREET SWEEPING ON A GIVEN DAY AND TIME. THE SECOND HALF OF THE SIGN, ALL IN THE SAME PIECE OF METAL MENTIONED PERMIT PARKING ONLY, PREFERENTIAL PARKING ONLY. SO WHEN THEY, THEY DID WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO, THEY REMOVED THE OLD STREET SWEEPING SIGN, BUT INADVERTENTLY, IT ALSO TOOK DOWN THE SIGN THAT SAID PERMIT PARKING. SO, AS THOSE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO MY INTENTION, UM, I HAVE DUG, UM, DIRECTED OUR PUBLIC WORKS TO REINSTALL THOSE SIGNS. I KNOW AREAS LIKE MARINA AND TOLAND AND A FEW OTHERS WERE BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION. AND THOSE SIGNS HAVE BEEN REINSTALLED. AND AS WE'RE REINSTALLING THE SIGNS, I PROVIDED DIRECTION TO DO THE BEST YOU COULD TO USE EXISTING POLES AND SIGNS THAT ARE, ARE ALREADY THERE, INSTEAD OF SINKING MORE SIGNS INTO PEOPLE'S YARDS. SO THAT'S BEING ADDRESSED. UM, DOUG IS ALWAYS, ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, YOU HAVE MY NUMBERS. YOU CAN CONTACT ME AND I'LL, I'LL WORK WITH YOU. WHATEVER I CAN HELP YOU WITH. UM, MR, I'M SORRY IF I PRONOUNCE THE NAME. LESINSKI. UM, REPRESENTING AND SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF, UH, VALUE LIGHT INDUSTRIES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SPEAKING AND THE VALUE OF THE PROGRAM AND THE VALUE OF THE ORGANIZATION. UH, IT'S WELL RECEIVED. THANK YOU AGAIN. I'M GLAD TO SEE EVERYBODY HERE TONIGHT. THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT. UH, MR. GRITCH, UM, IS, WANNA MAKE SURE I GOT MY NOTES HERE CORRECT. UM, YOU, ONE OF THE TOPICS YOU SPOKE ON IS THE COST OF, UH, THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET, UM, TONIGHT. UM, THOSE FIGURES ARE BASED ON A ENTRY LEVEL ACADEMY, UM, TRAINEE, UM, PRIOR TO GRADUATING FROM THE ACADEMY. SO THAT'S WHERE THOSE NUMBERS CAME FROM. UM, OBVIOUSLY I'M FAMILIAR WITH TRANSPARENT CALIFORNIA. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE FULL BURDEN OF A, A POLICE OFFICER, UM, TRAINED AND OUT IN THE FIELD AND WORKING FOR US, UM, IS MORE, UM, THIS IS A, A PLAN TO ADD POLICE OFFICERS WHILE KEEPING IN MIND THAT WE'RE PLAYING CATCH UP ALL THE TIME WITH AGE FIVE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO HIRE, WE PROBABLY HAVE FI FIVE RETIREMENTS. AND THIS IS A SHORTAGE THAT'S BEING EXPERIENCED THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THE REGION, UM, TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH ATTRITION. UH, PEOPLE ARE RETIRING AND FILLING THOSE SPOTS. UM, AS FAR AS THE BUDGET PROCESS, UM, THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS. UM, I TRIED AND WORKED WITH OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT TO INCORPORATE, UM, AS MANY THINGS AS POSSIBLE FROM THOSE MEETINGS. AND ALSO FACILITATE, UM, GOALS AND DIRECTIVE OF THE COUNCIL, MANY OF WHICH WERE PRIOR TO MY SITTING UP HERE, OBVIOUSLY. UM, SO HOPE, AND THAT WAS THE INTENT TO INCORPORATE THOSE INTO THIS BUDGET DOCUMENT. UM, VALERIE MUNOZ, ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU AND MY FORMER BOSSES. UH, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING INFORMATION ON THE WATER QUALITY AUTHORITY UPDATE ON GOALS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. UH, CHRISTINA RIOS, UH, THANK YOU FOR, AGAIN, PROVIDING UPDATES ON THE, UH, WEST CONA LIBRARY, UM, INCLUDING SOME UPCOMING EVENTS. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING, UH, MAYOR WU AT THE MAGIC SHOW AND OUT THERE. THAT'D BE GREAT. MICHAEL, REGARDING, UM, YOUR PROPERTY AT 5 3 7 GLENDORA. I DON'T KNOW IF MICHAEL'S STILL HERE. UM, I ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH YOUR CONSULTANTS REGARDING THAT PROPERTY AND FACILITATING A MEETING WITH PLANNING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. AND WE'RE GONNA WALK THROUGH, UM, YOUR ISSUES, CONCERNS AND HOPEFULLY COME TO A, A, A RESOLUTION FOR YOU ON THAT PROPERTY. BUT I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH YOUR CONSULTANT FOR THAT PROJECT. UM, ADELA ON THE STREET, SWEEPING SIGNS, AGAIN, I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN THAT, UH, A GOOD NUMBER OF OUR STREETS IN THE CITY ARE POSTED FOR SAME SIDE OF THE [01:30:01] STREET, UM, DURING THE SAME TIMEFRAME. UM, THE EXPECTATION, AGAIN, IS GONNA BE THAT THE SWEEPER BE ALLOWED TO PASS, UH, AND THEN PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO REPARK. WE WILL HAVE THE PLAN IS TO HAVE SOMEBODY BEHIND THE SWEEPER. UM, THERE'LL BE FOUR SWEEPERS RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME. WE'LL HAVE SOMEBODY BEHIND EACH SWEEPER, AND THEY'LL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHICH VEHICLES IT'S GONE AROUND, AND THEN THEY WILL NOT BE CIRCLING BACK FOR THE REMAINDER OF THAT TIMEFRAME. EXAMPLE, IF THE AREA IS POSTED SEVEN TO 11:00 AM AND THE SWEEPER PASSES AT SEVEN 15 TO SEVEN 30 EACH WEEK, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL HAVE A GENERAL IDEA THAT YOU CAN REPARK IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT SWEEPER PASSES. AND THEN BETWEEN SEVEN 30 AND 11:00 AM THERE WON'T BE ANYBODY CIRCLING BACK TO DO ANY TYPE ENFORCEMENT FOR THOSE VEHICLES. AGAIN, IT'S A VERY LARGE PROJECT. THERE'S A LOT OF TROUBLESHOOTING, UH, THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE. UH, BUT STAFF IS LISTENING TO, UH, COMMUNITY CONCERNS. UH, IT'S AVAILABLE ON OUR WEST COVINA APP TO SUBMIT CONCERNS REGARDING SIGNAGE, UM, TIMEFRAMES, THOSE TYPE THINGS. AND AGAIN, WE'VE PROBABLY RECEIVED 800 REQUESTS FOR A VARIETY OF ISSUES, AND WE'RE TROUBLESHOOTING AND ADDRESSING THOSE ISSUES AS WE GO ALONG. UM, UM, MR. MAYOR, I BELIEVE THAT COVERS, UM, THE SPEAKERS FOR TONIGHT. YEAH, I, I THINK THIS IS VERY GOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE VERY DETAILED EXPLANATIONS AND RESPONSES. OKAY. AND, UH, CITY COUNCIL, ANYBODY? OKAY. AM MAYOR PROIN, GO AHEAD. I JUST HAD A, A QUICK STATEMENT, UM, FOR THE RESIDENTS. AGAIN, UH, WE ARE NOT WORKING WITH ICE. I WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR, NOR DO WE FREELY GIVE IN TO THEM. UM, AND I WILL SAY IT, I DO HAVE IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE LIVING HERE WHO ARE NOT CITIZEN, AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA HEAR FROM ME AND TELL THEM WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED, NOR WILL WE DO THAT WITH OUR OWN RESIDENTS, WHETHER YOU'RE A CITIZEN OR NOT. HOW, HOWEVER, IF YOU DO COMMIT A CRIME, WHETHER YOU ARE A CITIZEN OR NOT, YES, BY ALL MEANS, THEY CAN TAKE YOU CITIZEN OR IMMIGRANT COMMITTING A CRIME. UM, BUT WE ARE FOCUSED ON SAFETY, PEACEFUL PROTESTS WHERE I'M OKAY. HOWEVER, ONCE YOU CROSS THE LINE OF LOOTING RIOTING DAMAGE TO CITY PROPERTY LIFE INJURY OR THAT RPD WILL STEP IN, AGAIN, OUR FOCUS IS ON SAFETY. AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR PROTON. AND, UH, ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBER WANT TO? OKAY. UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBER, PREMIER MAYOR. OH, I'M SORRY. GO AHEAD. YOU WENT NEXT. OH, J JUST SO FOLKS KNOW, UM, SENATOR RUBIO PUT OUT A STATEMENT WITH REGARD TO THIS ISSUE, AND I CO-SIGNED IT LAST WEEK. UM, AND, UM, TO REALLY STAND WITH THE, THE COMMUNITY AND JUST TO SAY THAT WE, WE JUST REALLY NEED TO, UH, RESPECT EVERYONE'S RIGHTS. I JUST WANTED TO LET FOLKS KNOW. THANK YOU. UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL. COUNCIL, MAN KENTO AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUT. GO AHEAD. YES. SO, UH, THE KEY AGREEMENT THAT ALLOWS LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO, UH, WORK WITH ICE, OR THE IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENTS, IT'S CALLED 2 8 7 G AGREEMENTS. SO 2 8 7 G AGREEMENTS AUTHORIZES LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO WORK WITH ICE ON VARIOUS MODELS. FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S THE JAIL ENFORCEMENT MODEL, UH, THE TASK FORCE MODEL, THE WARRANT SERVICE OFFICER PROGRAM MODEL. AND, UH, I AM, UH, I HAVE CLARIFIED, UH, WITH CHIEF CORINA AND THE WEST POLICE DEPARTMENT DOES NOT HAVE A 2 87 G AGREEMENT IN PLACE. SO, AND, AND, UH, IN REGARDS TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALLEGED THAT SOMEHOW, UH, WE'RE OPENING OUR FACILITY FACILITIES, UH, THAT IS A FALSE RUMOR. UH, THE CITY OF WEST PHOENIX STATE'S COMMITTED ON FOCUSING ON, UH, THE LOCAL WAY OF, OF LOCAL, LOCAL ISSUES, LOCAL, THE LOCAL WAY OF LIFE, MAKING SURE, UH, PUBLIC SERVICES CONTINUE TO EXIST AND GROW IN OUR COMMUNITY. UM, AND, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S MY STATEMENT ON THAT. VERY GOOD. OKAY. AND, UH, ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBER? UH, NO. OKAY. UH, OKAY. I WANT TO SAY THIS, OKAY. AS MYSELF, AS AN IMMIGRANT INTO THIS COUNT, GREAT COUNTRY, OKAY? AND, UH, THE IMMIGRATION IMMIGRANT IS A BIG, BIG, OKAY? AND, UM, HELP TO OUR COUNTRY, OKAY? THAT IS WHAT WE HEAR. OKAY? IT'S A BROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD. AND THEN NO MATTER IS WHAT, OKAY? WE HERE TO HELP EACH OTHER, OKAY? WE NOT HERE, UH, TRY TO GIVE, OKAY, UNDER FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS ANY OF, UH, LEEWAY. BUT THE POINT IS VERY SIMPLE, IS WE HEAR IT. BASICALLY, IT'S UNITED, OKAY? AND, UH, IT'S NOT TRYING TO HAVE PEOPLE TO DIVIDE US BECAUSE OUR STATUS IS ON LAND AND OUR POLICE AND FIRE. WE, OUR JOB IS TO SAVE LIFE, OKAY? WE JOB IS HELP PEOPLE. SO IF NO MATTER WHAT YOUR STATUS, PLEASE REPORT TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING HAPPEN TO YOU, WE HERE TO PROTECT YOU NO MATTER WHAT YOUR STATUS. WE ARE ARE NOT HERE TO CARE ABOUT YOUR STATUS DESIGN, THAT OUR JOB IS PROTECT [01:35:01] OUR RESIDENT, AND WE DON'T GIVE A OKAY ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND, THIS AND THAT. THE THING IS THIS, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW OUR CITY, WE WANT TO PROTECT YOU. IF HAVE ANYTHING HAPPEN TO YOU, PLEASE REPORT TO OUR POLICE. AND THAT OUR CHIEF CORTINA TOLD US HIS JOB, AND OUR FIRE CHIEF TOLD US HIS JOB IS TO SAVE LIFE, TO HELP PEOPLE IN JAIL WHEN THEY IN NEED. SO PLEASE, OKAY. TRUST YOUR POLICE AND FIRES OKAY. AND OUR STAFF TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAFE. OKAY? THANK YOU. AND ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? OTHERWISE, I'M GOING TO GO TO CONSENT CALENDAR. OKAY? YEAH, I KNOW YOU HAVE A GO, GO AHEAD. YEAH. AND JUST TO, UM, UH, PIGGYBACK OFF, UH, WHAT MAYOR PRO TEM LETTI LOPEZ REALTO STATED, WHICH IS, UH, IN ALL CITIES AND, AND THROUGHOUT OUR, OUR STATE, UH, UH, WE, WE SUPPORT, UH, PEACEFUL PROTESTS. AND, AND THOSE WHO CHOOSE NOT TO DO, TO BE PEACEFUL, THOSE WHO DECIDE TO HARM POLICE OFFICERS AND THROW ROCKS TO THEIR HEADS, UH, UH, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND THE UNITED STATES, UH, ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAVE, HAVE, AND WILL CONTINUE TO PROSECUTE THOSE CASES. SO, REMEMBER, UH, THAT AN OFFICER, A POLICE OFFICER, THERE IS A TIME WHEN THEY TAKE OFF THAT BADGE AND THEY TAKE OFF THAT UNIFORM, AND THEY GO BACK HOME TO THEIR KIDS AND FAMILY. SO NEVER FORGET THAT A MEN, THE MEN AND WOMEN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME. AND DON'T FORGET THAT. SO, THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. IF NO STATEMENT, AND, UH, NO QUESTION. I'M GOING TO MOVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR, ONE TO 10. ANY CITY COUNCIL WANT TO APPROVE ANY ITEM? EXCUSE ME. MAYOR, I BELIEVE WE HAVE A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT. OH, I'M SO SORRY. AGAIN, , BECAUSE YOU TALK FOREVER, SO I THINK YOU ARE ALREADY DONE. OKAY. YEAH, GO AHEAD. CITY MANAGER, GREG, ABOUT ACHIEVEMENT. GO. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. I'LL, I'LL BE BRIEF. YOU CAN TAKE FOREVER AND IT'S OKAY. FIRST SLIDE. THE, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IS CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE OFFICE OF CONGRESSMAN GIL CISNEROS TO SECURE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE NEW FIRE STATION. ONE IN 2021 FIRE STATION ONE WAS CONDEMNED AND CLOSED DUE TO, TO INCREASING CONCERN OF SAFETY CONDITIONS AND UN SUITABILITY FOR HABITATION OPERATIONS. AND LIVING QUARTERS OF FIRE STATION ONE WERE TRANSFERRED TO A TEMPORARY TRAILER ON THE CITY YARD PROPERTY. UH, THE NEW FIRE STATION WILL PROVIDE PERMANENT OPERATIONS LIVING QUARTERS TO OUR FIREFIGHTERS, AND WILL MEET AND SATISFY, UH, SAFETY REQUIREMENTS TO ALLOW FOR STRATEGIC RESPONSE NEEDS TO THE OF THE COMMUNITY AND GENERAL NEUTRAL, UH, GENDER NEUTRAL ACCOMMODATIONS. THE NEW FACILITY WOULD HAVE ALSO ACCOMMODATE SPACE FOR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS TO EDUCATE, TRAIN FOR, AND COORDINATE RESPONSES, UH, TO A REGIONAL OR LOCAL DISASTER. UM, UPDATE ON OUR WEBSITE. UH, PRESENTATION ON THE STATUS OF OUR NEW CITY WEBSITE WILL BE GIVEN AT THE COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF JULY 15TH. UH, CIVIC PLUS WILL BE PRESENT TO PROVIDE CITY COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY, UH, WITH THE UPDATES. UH, LAST WEEK PUBLIC WORKS FINISHED 3,340 FEET OF RED CURBING ON SOUTH GARVEY AVENUE BETWEEN A AND HOLLENBECK, THE PALM VIEW PARK COMMUNITY CENTER, REOPENED AS AN ADAPTIVE RECREATIONAL FACILITY IN JUNE OF 2023. WORK, WORK ON, ON OPENING AS AN ADAPTIVE RECREATION FAMILY FACILITY STARTED IN THE SUMMER OF 2022. EACH YEAR, SINCE ITS 2023 OPENING, THE PALM VIEW PARK COMMUNITY CENTER HAS HELD AN OPEN HOUSE TO SHOWCASE THE PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES, RESOURCES, AND THE PARTICIPANTS WHO MAKE PALMVILLE PALM VIEW A SPECIAL PLACE. THIS YEAR, PALM VIEW HELD ITS OPEN HOUSE ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11TH, AND THIS YEAR, THE PARTICIPANTS SHARED ORIGINAL POETRY AS PART OF THE, UH, OPEN HOUSE. I BELIEVE WE HAVE A VIDEO TO SHOW TONIGHT. MY NAME IS RICHARD NGO. I'M A PERSON WITH DISABILITY. YES, I'M FELT WITH POSSIBILITY. I HAVE A VOTE, I LET AND BREATHE. WHY CAN'T YOU SEE THE GIVING ME NEED WITH THOUGHTS AND DREAMS? I AM HIGH. I AM, I PUSH WEIGHT LIMITS. I TOUCH THE SKY, DON'T SEE A CHILD, PICK BLISS SMALL. I MAKE DECISION. I STAND TALL. TAKE THE TIME, GET TO KNOW ME, AND YOU SEE THE STRETCH THAT SETS ME FREE. PERIOD. NEXT IS THE CORTEZ PARK COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER HELD HIS ANNUAL FATHER'S DAY ON FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH. OVER 180 SENIORS WERE IN ATTENDANCE. PARTICIPANTS ENJOYED DANCING AND SINGING WITH DJ RUDY. SHOUT [01:40:01] OUT TO THE, TO THE POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF WEST COVINA SPONSORING THE FOOD FOR THE EVENTS ON FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH, FROM FIVE TO 8:00 PM THE SHADOW, OUR SHADOW OAK COMMUNITY CENTER, HOSTED AS INAUGURAL TIES FOR TIARA'S FATHER'S DAY DANCE. THE EVENT WELCOMED 45 GUESTS WHO WERE TREATED TO CORS BOUTINE AIRS A DELICIOUS DINNER BALLOON, TWISTING A PHOTO BOOTH, AND A FUN-FILLED DANCE. OUR SUMMER CONCERT SERIES ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS STARTS TOMORROW NIGHT WITH SOTO BAND, UM, PLAYING HERE AT CITY HALL. AND OUR 4TH OF JULY SPECTACULAR WEST COVINA SPORTS COMPLEX WILL BE OBVIOUSLY ON JULY 4TH FROM 5:00 PM TO 9:30 PM WITH GATES OPENING AT 4:00 PM AND THAT CONCLUDES MY MAYOR'S, MY CITY MANAGER'S PRESENTATION FOR TONIGHT. OKAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. I WAS THINKING OF YOU. YOU HAVE TO BE LECTURE FIRST. OKAY. AND THEN YOU HAVE TO BE ROTATE. OKAY? SO, SO, AND WAIT FOR FIVE YEARS, BUT A ANYWAY. AND TOMORROW NIGHT. TOMORROW NIGHT, SIX O'CLOCK. OKAY. WE HAVE, UH, OUR DJ AND THEN SEVEN O'CLOCK, WE HAVE OUR FIRST SUMMER COUNCIL SERIES. PLEASE JOIN US. OKAY? AND, UH, AS ONE YEAR PASS SO FAST. SO WE ARE WELCOME AGAIN, SUMMER COUNCIL, TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE SIX O'CLOCK. SO SEE YOU THEN. OKAY. SEE YOU. EVERYBODY THERE. AND ANYBODY WANNA SAY SOMETHING? I, OTHERWISE, [CONSENT CALENDAR] I WANT MOVE QUICKLY TO CONSENT CALENDAR ONE TO 10. ANY COUNCIL MEMBER WANT TO PULL SIX? OKAY. UH, NUMBER SIX. OKAY, NUMBER SIX. AND ANY OTHER COUNCIL WANT TO PULL, UM, APU UM, EXCUSE ME, MAYOR, THROUGH THE CHAIR. WE WERE GOING TO TAKE THE, UM, I UNDERSTAND. OKAY. I WANT TO GO. COUNCIL CAN FIRST, THEN WE GO TO THE FIRST AGENDA. THAT WILL BE THE, THE ONE, LET ME FINISH. CONS, CANADA, PLEASE. YES, SIR. OKAY. SO I CAN SAVE TIME, OTHERWISE IT WOULD TAKE FOREVER. I DON'T, WE ALL WANT TO GO HOME BEFORE MIDNIGHT. SO ANYWAY, UH, ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? YEAH, PU UH, NUMBER, UM, NUMBER THREE. NUMBER THREE, AND NUMBER 10. NUMBER 10. SO, SO ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL WANT TO SET? RIGHT? OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE BESIDE NUMBER THREE? NUMBER SIX, AND NUMBER 10. I'LL MOTION ALSO. I HAVE A SECOND. OKAY. AND, UH, ROLL CALL PLEASE. I HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM LOPEZ. VITO, A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ TO PRO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH 10, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NUMBER THREE, AND NUMBER 10. NUMBER SIX, SIX NUMBER, EXCUSE ME. NUMBER SIX. CAN I, CAN YOU TELL ME WHO PULLED NUMBER THREE? NUMBER SIX AND NUMBER 10? NUMBER THREE. AND NUMBER 10. FOUND FRANK DI? YES. OKAY. AND NUMBER SIX, FOUND COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND WE APPROVED ALREADY, SO WE MOVED TO THE FIRST ONE. WHO'S GONNA TAKE ROLL CALL? MAYOR. OH, OKAY. SORRY. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE. COUNCILWOMAN COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. AYE. SIERRA PRO TEDO. AYE. MAYOR W AYE. UH, MOTION APPROVE. FIVE [CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE] ZERO. THEN WE MOVE. OKAY. NUMBER 13, ABOUT, ABOUT HOW DEPARTMENT, UH, WE SEE ON FILE UPDATE REPORT. OKAY, GO AHEAD. UH, WHO'S GOING TO PRESENT THIS? I WILL DO A BRIEF INTRODUCTION AND THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DR. THANK YOU. GO AHEAD. UM, JUST A LITTLE QUICK BACKGROUND. IN DECEMBER OF 2020, IN RESPONSE TO COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS COMMUNITY, A DESIRE TO PROVIDE A MORE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC BASED ON WEST COVE'S DATA, WEST COVINA CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO EXPLORE METHODS TO IMPROVE LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH, INCLUDING ALTERNATIVES TO THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. IN MAY OF 2021, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, ON A FOUR ONE VOTE, INTRODUCED FOR THE FIRST MEETING, ORDINANCE OF ORDINANCE 2, 4, 8, 4, ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. UM, LATER THAT MONTH, THE CITY SUBMITTED THE WEST COVINA SUBMITTED THE WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY TO THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. UM, SINCE THE MIDDLE OF 2021, UM, CITY STAFF AND THE THE TEAM HAVE BEEN MEETING MONTHLY AND WORKING WITH THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT HEALTH ON THE PROCESS, UH, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A, A CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. AND AS PROMISED, AT OUR COMMUNITY MEETINGS, I MENTIONED THAT WE WOULD HAVE A, AN UPDATE TONIGHT AFTER FOUR YEARS OF WORK. AND SO I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE DR. BASIL, WHO WILL PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENTS TESTING. OKAY. YEAH. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR W AND, UH, MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCILS. UH, I'M HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE STATE HAS COMPLETED AND APPROVED THE NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT APPLICATIONS. UM, DPH DASH 21 DASH 0 0 9, [01:45:02] RELEASED ON MAY 23RD, 2025. IT'S NOW OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, AND PUBLIC HEALING IS SCHEDULED ON JULY 10TH, 2025. THIS APPLICATION OF NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL MOST LIKELY TO BE THE FIRST IN THE NATIONS. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT APPLICATION IS TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA, AND BASICALLY IS TO SAVE LIVES DURING THE PANDEMIC. MANY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT THROUGHOUT THE STATES, UH, WILL OVERWHELM AND BURDENED BY THE DEMAND OF DIFFERENT SERVICES, UH, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN SUPPORTING OUR LOCAL HEALTH, OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR COUNTY AND STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY AND TO SAVE LIVES. UH, THE PACKAGE IS TO ENSURE A LOCATION OF STATE PUBLIC HEALTH FUNDING TO LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT MEET THE MINIMUM STANDARD AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR A MODERN HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THE PACKAGE IS ALSO DESCRIBED AT THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS FOR A NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT MUST FOLLOW TO ESTABLISH THEIR ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE AID. THE PACKAGE IS TO UPDATE AND MODERNIZE THE ELEMENT OF EXISTING PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATION BY ELIMINATING OUTDATED REQUIREMENT AND LANGUAGE. AND THE GOAL OF THE, AN OBJECTIVE OF THE REGULATION UPDATE IS ALSO TO UPDATE CURRENT REGULATIONS TO REFLECT MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH INDUSTRY STANDARDS. IT ELIMINATES REGULATION THAT NO LONGER APPLY TO MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH, UH, FOR LOCAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATIONS. THE UPDATE ALSO CREATED A PROCESS TO ESTABLISH ELIGIBILITY FOR QUALIFYING CITIES TO APPLY FOR THE STATE AID FOR LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THE UPDATE IS TO HOLD, UH, UPHOLD THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF CALIFORNIA BY ENSURING THE CREATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT CAPABLE OF MEETING MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH STANDARD AND ACCREDITATION BY INCORPORATING THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACCREDITATION BOARD, SO-CALLED FAB STANDARD MEASURE FOR INITIAL ACCREDITATION VERSION 2022 SPEC. UH, SPECIFICALLY THE UPDATE PACKAGE. PROVIDE DETAIL OF THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH FUNDINGS, INCLUDING AT INITIAL TRIAL MONTH, TEMPORARY FUNDING FOR STATE AID, FOR NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT MEETS CERTAIN REQUIRE SERVICE AND REPORT, INCLUDING A SITE VISIT, PERMANENT REGULAR FUNDING APPLICATION IS AVAILABLE AND NEED TO APPLY WITHIN 24 MONTHS OF RECEIVING TEMPORARY FUNDING APPROVAL. AND ONLY AFTER IMPLEMENTING ALL REQUIRED SERVICES, WE'LL FINALIZE ALL THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS AND MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR APPLICATION. AS SOON AS THE FINAL REGULATION PACKAGE IS FINALIZED BY THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE STATE, SOME OF THE REQUIRED, UH, DOC REQUIRED DOCUMENT WILL BE AS FOLLOW, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY, UH, OPERATION PLAN. UH, EOP IS ALREADY DONE, UH, THE COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN. UH, IN THE PROGRESS WE WILL FOLLOW, FINALIZE ALL THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED TO CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH FOR FINAL APPROVAL. SOME OF THE DOCUMENT MAY INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING, UH, COMMUNITY SUPPORT REPORT, FEASIBILITY STUDY REPORT, LONG-TERM STRATEGIC PLAN, DETAILED ORGANIZATION, INFORMATION WITH HUMAN RESOURCE REPORT, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PLAN, WRITTEN POLICY AND PROCEDURE, MANUAL BUDGET, AND OTHERS TO BE ANNOUNCED. I'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANKS CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND DR. RON CHAPMAN FOR HIS WISDOM AND HIS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WITH LOCAL STATE NATIONAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND ORGANIZATION IN LEADING THE TEAM FOR DOING THEIR DUE DILIGENCE VERY CAREFULLY AND WITH GREAT THOUGHT AND INSIGHTS IN WHAT PUBLIC HEALTH WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN MEETING 20TH CENTURY PUBLIC HEALTH DEMAND AND PRACTICE TO PREVENT DISEASE AND INJURY, PROMOTE HEALTHY LIVING, AND PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA AND OUR COMMUNITY. THEY PERFORMED AT MANY VERY CAREFUL DETAIL STUDIES AND ANALYSIS OF THE NEED OF A NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, AND UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FUNDING THAT YOU WILL NEED TO OPERATE TO MODERNIZE NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND PRACTICE TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF CALIFORNIA, AND BASICALLY TO SAVE LIVES. UM, FINALLY, I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR GUIDANCE, PATIENCE, AND [01:50:01] UNDERSTANDING IN THIS PROCESS. UH, THIS WILL CONCLUDE MY REPORT AND OPEN FOR ANY QUESTION THAT YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND THANK YOU. AND CITY COUNCIL, ANY QUESTION? THIS IS THE UPDATE. YEAH, GO AHEAD. YEAH. UM, SO, UH, YEAH, DR. DR. BESO, IF YOU COULD, UH, SO AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING, WHAT HAPPENS THEN? DR. BEZO, THE PUBLIC, UM, HEARING IS THAT AFTERWARD, IF THERE'S NOT ONLY MINOR CHANGES, THEY ONLY WOULD TAKE A FEW WEEKS TO FINALIZE THE DOCUMENT. IF THERE'S ANY MAJOR CHANGES, IT MIGHT TAKE ANOTHER ROUND OF PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR THE REVISIONS. UH, THERE WILL BE MAYBE ANOTHER 30 DAYS ACCORDING TO OUR MEETING DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CDPH. UH, SO WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH MODIFICATION YOU'LL BE NEEDING. SO AFTER THAT, THEN THE CDPH WILL FILE THEIR PAPERWORK WITH THE STATE, I MEAN, THE SECRETARY OF STATE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA OF PUBLIC HEALTH WILL ESTABLISH THEIR OWN DEPARTMENT TO OFFICIALLY FORMALLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS. GREAT. AND THEN, JUST TO CLARIFY, THE STATES WORKING ON A PACKAGE, UM, THAT WILL, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, THAT WILL ALLOCATE FUNDING TO THE CITY OF WEST GREENLAND TO ESTABLISH THAT HEALTH DEPARTMENT? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. SO THERE WOULD BE TWO, TWO FUNDING. ONE IS INITIAL TRAUMA TO HELP START THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. AND THEN ONCE ALL THE REQUIRED SERVICES IS ABLE TO IMPLEMENT AND MEET CERTAIN REGULATION DESCRIBED IN THE PROCESS, UH, THEN AFTER 12 MONTHS UP 24 MONTHS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR THE PERMANENT FUNDINGS THAT WOULD APPLY TO ALL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. GREAT. AND THEN MY LAST, UH, CLARIFICATION QUESTION WILL BE, UH, I THINK, UM, BASED UPON SOME PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT WERE SET TODAY, UH, I THINK ONE THING I WANT TO MAKE SURE AND CLARIFY TO THE PUBLIC IS THAT, UH, THERE HAS BEEN NO NEW ALLOCATION OF FUNDING FOR ON BEHALF OF THE TAXPAYERS OF WEST COVINA. UH, NO NEW FUNDING HAS GONE TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UH, I THINK IT'S ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT, UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE A, A, A COUNCIL ADOPTED POLICY THAT STATES THAT ANY NEW, NEW FUNDING THAT GOES TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, IF IT'S FROM THE GENERAL FUND OR FROM ANY FUND, UH, WITH THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, THAT IT, THAT THE COUNCIL HAS TO BE ALERTED ON IT AND VOTE ON IT. SO, UH, WE HAVE, UH, PUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN, IN THIS PROCESS. SO THANK YOU. OKAY. VERY GOOD. OKAY, MAYOR PORT. THANK YOU. UM, THE FUNDING FROM THE STATE, THE, UM, THE TEMPORARY AND THE PERMANENT FUNDING, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT, UH, NO. THEY'LL BE BASED ON PER CAPITA, SO THEY'LL BE BASED ON POPULATIONS. RIGHT. SO WE'LL BE EQUALLY RECEIVING BASED ON OUR POPULATION. SO AT LEAST THOSE ARE QUESTIONS WILL BE CLARIFIED, THE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND SO FORTH. YEAH. SO YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THE ESTIMATED COST? NO, I DIDN'T KNOW. OKAY. AND THEN, JUST FOR THE RECORD, I KNOW I HAVE MENTIONED WITH THIS WHOLE, I I, IT'S FUNNY HOW PEOPLE ARE HITTING ME WITH THE, THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, I, WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THE BUDGET, WE'VE MENTIONED, AND I'VE MENTIONED IT, THAT THE GENERAL FUND IS NOT GONNA BE TOUCHED, AND WE HAVE NOT TOUCHED THE GENERAL FUND WITH THIS, UM, HEALTH DEPARTMENT. BUT, UH, I JUST, YEAH, ONCE YOU GET THAT INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO THE STATE, UH, THE FUNDING AND SO FORTH, PLEASE, UH, LET US KNOW WHAT THAT INFORMATION WOULD BE. RIGHT. THE STATE ACTUALLY WANT TO LOOK AT OUR BUDGET AND SO FORTH TOO. OKAY. OKAY. VERY GOOD. OKAY. ANY OTHER, OKAY. YEAH, GO AHEAD. OKAY. COUNCILMAN KENDO. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR AND DR. BASIL. GOOD EVENING. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. UH, UH, SO WITH REGARD TO THE, THE, THE BUDGET, WHAT ARE, WHAT IS A PLANNED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR THIS AND, AND HOW, UH, IS, HOW, HOW IS THIS, UH, PILOT HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO BE STRUCTURED? UH, IF WE DON'T, UH, IN LIGHT OF OUR, NOT KNOWING EXACTLY HOW MUCH WE'LL BE ALLOCATED TO US THROUGH THE, THE GRANTS THAT WE'LL BE GETTING IN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS, WELL, THERE'S CERTAIN MODEL WE CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AT. UH, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, CITY OF PASADENA, UH, UH, CITY OF BERKELEY, UM, WE HAVE SOME ESTIMATE, UH, AND SOME PROJECTIONS, BUT THOSE WILL BE ALL DETAILED SPELL OUT IN THE PACKAGE. SO WE ACTUALLY HAD TO FOLLOW THE PACKAGE. WE HAD TO FOLLOW STEP BY STEP WHAT THEY REQUIRED US TO DO, AND SHOW THE DATA AND THE BUDGET FOR THEM FOR FINAL APPROVAL FOR THE INITIAL TEMPORARY FUNDING TO GET THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT STARTED. SO WHAT THEY DO IS THEY GONNA LOOK AT ALL OUR DATA AND MAKE SURE IT'S REASONABLE AND ACCEPTABLE, AND THEN THEY'LL APPROVE THE PACKAGE. SO IN MORE DETAIL, I'LL HAVE TO PRESENT YOU IN SOME OTHER MEETINGS. [01:55:01] WE, WE HAVE SOME ESTIMATE AND PROJECTION GOING ON, BUT IT IS JUST LIKE THE LAST MEETING. I SAY A LOT OF THIS STILL A LITTLE BIT PREMATURE UNTIL WE HAVE THE FINAL, UH, CONVERSATION WITH CDPH. UH, THEY'RE VERY UNDERSTANDING, THEY REALLY FEEL NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS IMPORTANT, AND THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE PROPER FUNDING TO GET IT GOING. THEY DON'T WANT TO HAVE A HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT START AT CLOSE IN, IN A YEAR TWO. SO THEY WANT TO HAVE A LONG TERM, AND THEY, THEY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. SO IN TERMS OF STEP-BY-STEP, THE NEXT STEP IS TO HAVE A HEARING ON JULY THE 10TH, AFTER WHICH BASED ON COMMENTS THEN, THEN THEY WILL FORMULATE WHAT THEY APPROVE US TO, TO HAVE OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT LOOK ALIKE. UH, NO, THEY ALREADY HAVE SOME IDEA ALREADY. AND THEY, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE, UH, ACCREDITATION BOARD, UM, FOR THE INITIAL ACCREDITATION. AND I HAVE ABOUT 400 PAGES HERE OF, UH, ACTUALLY IN THE BOOK HERE, FOUR, ABOUT 400 PAGES THAT YOU HAD TO FOLLOW. UH, AND THERE'S GUIDELINE 10, UH, ESSENTIAL FUNDAMENTAL SERVICES. AND YOU HAD TO MEET ALL THESE CRITERIA STEP BY STEP. SO IT WILL BE TOO MUCH INFORMATION TO PRESENT IT TO THAT. YEAH. OKAY. AND SO, UH, LOOKING TO THE LONGER TERM, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE FUNDING IS JUST IN ITS INITIAL TO GET THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT STARTED. UH, AND THEN AFTER THAT, WE, WE WOULD BE SUBJECT TO NEW FUNDING, OR WE'RE GOING TO ASK FOR NEW FUNDING. SO WHAT HAPPENS IN DIFFERENT CONTINGENCIES, WHETHER THE FUNDING IS APPROVED FOR, FOR, FOR FURTHER FURTHER, UM, BUILDING OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OR IF IT'S DENIED, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE, TO STRUCTURE THEN AFTER THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR? THE END OF THE FIRST YEARS? WELL, SO THE PLAN IS TO BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THE FIRST TWO YEARS WHILE WE ARE APPLYING FOR THE PERMANENT FUNDING. UH, IF WE FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES, THE STEP BY STEP PROCESS. AND SO FAR IT LOOK REASONABLE. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT ACHIEVABLE. UH, BECAUSE IF FOR A HEALTH DEPARTMENT, YOU REALLY SHOULD BE ABLE TO MEET THE ACCREDITATION STANDARD BECAUSE ALL NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, SOME OF THE CURRENTLY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS STILL DOESN'T MEET THE, UM, ACCREDITATIONS. APPARENTLY THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE 70% OF THE LOCAL HEALTH, I MEAN, THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT ONLY MEET THE ACCREDITATION STANDARD. SO, BUT FOR ALL NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WE DO NEED TO, BY YEAR TWO, WE HAVE TO MEET THE, THE, UH, STANDARD TO, UM, MEET THE ACCREDITATION. FOR EXAMPLE, I'M A, I AM A CME FOR CON, UH, I MEAN, CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION, SURVEYANCE AND FOR THE STATE FOR PHYSICIANS. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF STANDARD HAD TO GO BY. SO THIS IS SOMETHING I'M FAMILIAR WITH, AND WE KNOW HOW TO TRY TO AT LEAST MET THE CRITERIA AND TRY TO ACHIEVE THE JOURNEY. FOUR, UM, I MEAN, UH, PERMANENT FUNDING, UH, OF COURSE CONTINGENCY PLAN, IF MY PROJECTION IS CORRECT. UM, AND OF COURSE, DEPENDING ON COUNTY, HOW MUCH COUNTY WILL PROVIDE US SOME, THE FINANCIAL DATA THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED SO FAR, UH, I THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN CERTAIN AMOUNT OF, UM, UH, IF WORDS COME TO WORDS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE STATE RECOGNIZE THE CITY HAS THE RIGHT TO FORM THEIR OWN LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. THEY BASICALLY JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT ABLE TO DONE CORRECTLY AND MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE PUBLIC FUNDING. BECAUSE IN THE BEGINNING, WHEN WE START THIS PROCESS, CDPS REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO GET THE FUNDING AND THROUGH THEIR OWN DILIGENCE TO GO THROUGH THE WHOLE ANALYSIS SURVEY AND TALKING TO EVERYBODY ELSE, AND FEEL THAT, OF COURSE, FUNDING IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ANY NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, ESPECIALLY IN THE COUNTRY THAT WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC AND SO FORTH. WE DO HAVE TO BUILD A STRUCTURE. SO IN THE SENSE, A LOT OF CITY ALSO WANT TO BUILD A WHOLE NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT. SO THEY, EVERYBODY IS LOOKING AT VESCO, VENUS, SEE HOW WE GOING TO, TO DO IT. SO I'LL BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL USING ANY DOLLAR AND CENTS AND THEN BUILD UP CERTAIN BACKUP RESERVE TO WEATHER SOME OF THESE, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, EVENT AND UNFOR FORESEEABLE. THANK YOU. MY LAST QUESTION IS SEPARATE TOPIC, UM, WITH THE HEARING ON JULY THE 10TH, WHEN, WHEN IS IT AND HOW DO PEOPLE, UH, ATTEND THE HEARING? IT'S GOING TO BE THROUGH THE TEAM, THROUGH THE VIRTUAL, UH, BETWEEN 10 TO 12. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. VERY GOOD. OKAY. AND, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. THANK YOU, MAYOR. HI, DR. BAZO. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS PRESENTATION. SO, UM, RIGHT NOW, AS, AS WE SEE IT, UM, WE HAVE THE STATE THAT WILL BE PROVIDING US WITH THE FUNDS TO MANAGE THIS HEALTH DEPARTMENT. WELL, THERE ARE TWO, TWO TEMPORARILY, TWO PO. ONE IS TO, THEY KNOW THE FUNDING BECAUSE IN THE STATUTE, A LONG TIME AGO, LIKE 50, 60 YEARS AGO, OR EVEN LONGER, [02:00:01] , THEY ACTUALLY ALLOCATE A HUNDRED THOUSAND TO START THE NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT, A HUNDRED THOUSAND NOWADAYS, REALLY NOTHING. RIGHT? UH, SO THEY UNDERSTAND THAT A HUNDRED THOUSAND IS REALLY NEED TO BE UPDATED. SO, BUT THEY HAVE TO BASE ON SOME FORMULA. SO THAT FORMULA IS NOT DISCLOSED IN OUR PACKAGE YET. OKAY. SO, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE TO FILE OUT SOME MORE FROM CDPH AND THEN WHEN WE ARE ABLE TO GET THE, THE DEPARTMENT FULLY OPERATE TO THE, BECAUSE EACH LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS DIFFERENT, BECAUSE EACH COMMUNITY HAVE DIFFERENT NEED. THAT'S WHY WE ARE CONDUCTING THE COMMUNITY HEALTH NEED ASSESSMENT TO SEE WHAT OUR PROBLEM IS. UH, AND WE DIFFERENT FROM BEVERLY HILL, WE DIFFERENT FROM PACIFIC POLICY, WE DIFFERENT FROM CENTER ANNA, AND SO WE HAVE TO DEVELOP OUR OWN AND SEE WHAT OUR FULL SERVICE MEAN. EACH CITY IS DIFFERENT. SO, SO, AND THEN WHEN BESIDE WHEN WE GET THOSE DEPARTMENTS STARTED, THEN WE'LL APPLY FOR THE PERMANENT FUNDING. SO AT THIS POINT, WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY DEPARTMENTS WE'LL HAVE FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA. THERE'S SOME BASIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT WE, THE BASIC DEPARTMENT THAT WE NEED. THERE'S SOME FUNDAMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE THAT WE NEED TO PROVIDE. AND THE REST OF THEM, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU ARE TALKING TO FOOD PROGRAM AND SO FORTH, THERE WILL BE A DIFFERENT GRANT FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES. BUT THE BASIC FUNDAMENTAL, THERE'S CERTAIN BASIC FUNDAMENTAL THAT WE NEED TO PROVIDE. AND I THINK I'M FEEL VERY CONFIDENT THAT WE, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE IT. SO ONCE WE HAVE THE DEPARTMENTS CLARIFIED AND, AND WE KNOW WHAT KIND OF DEPARTMENTS WE'RE GONNA HAVE, ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO HIRE EMPLOYEES TO RUN THOSE DEPARTMENTS? YES. OKAY. AND DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY EMPLOYEES WE WOULD BE HIRING? UM, IT'LL BE GROW AS WE GROW OUR DEPARTMENT. I SEE. YEAH. SO, SO WE'LL START, START. SO DEPENDING ON HOW MANY PROGRAM WE GONNA HAVE AND HOW MANY, UM, WHAT THE NEED IS. AND THAT'S WHY LATER ON, WE REALLY NEED A COMMUNITY TO GET TOGETHER, LOOK AT OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT. WE ALREADY COMBINED SOMETHING LIKE FIVE, 600 PAGES OF DATA ABOUT VESCO, VIN, AND THE SURROUNDING AREA. AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE A SOFTWARE PACKAGE THAT LOOK AT THE EVERY DATA, ABOUT EVERYTHING ABOUT THE WHOLE REGION, SO WE CAN COMPARE OURSELVES WITH OTHER REGION AND HOW WE GOING TO OPERATE IN A WAY THAT IS, UH, UM, UH, PRUDENT AND ABLE TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY AND PREVENT FUTURE ISSUE AND SO FORTH. YEAH. THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS, RIGHT. UM, NOW YOUR, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS GONNA BE, IS IT GONNA BE ON THE CITY COUNCIL DAY OR IT'S NOT? NO, IT'S ON THE THURSDAY MORNING. OKAY. OKAY. AND THAT'S, UM, OUR COMMUNITY IS GONNA BE AWARE OF THAT. YES, IT IS. IT IS OPEN. OKAY. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND, UH, OKAY. I'M GOING TO, IT'S MY TURN. OKAY. OKAY. I'LL LET YOU GUYS GO FIRST. OKAY. AND SO IT'S MY TURN TO, AND THE FIRST THING I WANNA SAY THIS. OKAY, THEN I GO BACK TO YOU GUY. OKAY? SO EVERYBODY HAVE A CHANCE TO TALK. UH, I WANNA THANK DR. BEZO FOR FOUR YEARS ON OKAY. PREVALENCE. OKAY. PERSISTENT. OKAY. AND, UH, AND, UH, MONTHLY AND, UH, PERSEVERANCE. OKAY. MONTHLY TALKING TO, UH, DR. CHAPMAN AT, UH, CDPH. OKAY? THEN THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. AND I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN SPENT A LOT OF TIME AND, UH, AND TRY TO HELP AND TO SAVE LIFE, OKAY? I THINK, UH, BECAUSE WE WENT THROUGH IN 2020 THE PANDEMIC, AND I WAS THE MAYOR AT THE TIME, AND I CLEARLY REMEMBER, OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE A RESOURCE, WE DON'T HAVE NOTHING. AND, UH, EVERY TIME WE CALL THE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, WE GET NO ANSWER. AND, UH, THAT'S WHY THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED ON THE BRIDGE, QUICK RETIREMENT HOME, WHEN THEY HAVE OUTBREAK AND THEY HAVE NOTHING. SO THIS IS, UH, WHAT EVERYBODY KNOW. AND WHEN, BECAUSE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS, WE DON'T HAVE A PANDEMIC. WE NEVER THINK ABOUT, WE NEED CARE ABOUT THIS. WE ONLY CARE ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, POLICE AND FIRE. WE NEVER SEE A ONE VIRUS WILL WIPE US OUT, SHUT DOWN THE CITY AND SHUT DOWN THE BUSINESS, SHUT DOWN THE SCHOOL. AND, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE CONSEQUENCE. WE ARE STILL SUFFERING RIGHT NOW, A LOT OF MENTAL ISSUE AND CHILDREN, THIS AND THAT. SO THAT IS WHY WE UNDERSTAND. AND, UH, WITH, OKAY, CITY COUNCIL TO SEE, UH, THE, THE, THE 11 MILLION POPULATION, OKAY. OF A HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS NOT GOING TO WORK. IT'S JUST TOO HUGE. SO WE HAVE TO, AND YOU SEE PASADENA, THEY, THEY ABOUT 135,000 POPULATION, AND THEY GOT DIRECT DIRECTLY FUNDING AND THE RESOURCE FROM CDC FROM FEDERAL AND STATE. AND WE HAVE NOTHING. WE HAVE WAITING A LONG, LONG LINE BEHIND, OKAY? THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF COUNTY. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. CAN [02:05:01] WE, OKAY. WE HAVE TO GET A RESULT DIRECTLY. AND, UH, AND IT'S FUNDED LIKE PASADENA, BECAUSE PASADENA IS BUDGET NEUTRAL, BASICALLY 50% FROM FEDERAL, OR 25% FROM STATE, AND ANOTHER 25% FROM THE, OKAY. AND THE BUSINESS RENDER, MEANING INSPECTION, ATCH. SO THAT IS BASICALLY WHAT THE PASADENA BUDGET IS. AND I THINK, AND FOR APPROVAL, UH, FROM THE STATE, WHY TAKING SO LONG? BECAUSE THIS IS, UH, FOR A HUNDRED SOME YEARS, WE DON'T HAVE A HEALTH DEPARTMENT SET UP DUE TO, WE NEVER KNOW. WE NEVER KNOW WE NEED IT. BUT NOW WE KNOW WE NEED IT BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE, OKAY, THE VIRUS ATTACK THIS ON THAT, AND THAT TREMENDOUS LOSS. AND, UH, WE CAN NOW SAY, LET'S, LET'S GET THE LIVE BACK. THE LIFE LOSS IS LOST. SO WE REALLY HAVE TO INTUIT, AND I, AND I UNDERSTAND EVERYBODY WORRY ABOUT THE BUDGET OR HOW MUCH IS THE BUDGET. AND, UH, AND AGAIN, ROME DOESN'T BUILD IN ONE DAY. AND WE STARTING THIS AS A PIONEER. AND I THINK ENTIRE NATION IS WATCHING WITH COVINA DOING THIS. BUT SOMEBODY HAVE TO PUT THIS ON YOUR OWN SHOULDER. WE CANNOT JUST, OKAY. RUN, RUN AWAY. AND, UH, BECAUSE JUST HOPE FOR THE BEST AND MAYBE OTHER CITY CAN DO IT. I THINK I WANT TO THANK, UH, MY COLLEAGUE AND WILLING TO TAKE THIS, UH, TOP TASK. OKAY? AND, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN, OKAY, THIS VIRUS OR NEW VIRUS WILL COME TO OUR COMMUNITY AND BECOME AN ISSUE. BUT IF WE CAN HAVE A RESOURCE SWIPE AND RIGHT AWAY GO TO LONG BEACH, UH, LABORATORY, OKAY, AND, UH, AND TO CHECK LAB TO SEE WHAT KIND OF VIRUS IS LED, WE CAN RIGHT AWAY NOTIFY THE COUNTY, NOTIFY THE STATE, AND NOTIFY THE CDC. AND EVERYBODY WILL KNOW WHAT KIND OF VIRUS RIGHT AWAY SHOULD WE QUARANTINE THAT SMALL OKAY. OF A POPULATION THIS, UNLESS, SO WE DON'T NEED THE OUTBREAK. I THINK THIS IS A, HOW THE STATE AND FEDERAL UNDERSTAND THIS IS, UH, WHAT WE NEED TO MAKE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS SMALLER, OKAY? MORE OF LOCAL, SO WE KNOW OUR POPULATION AND TRY TO TAKE CARE, OKAY? THE, THE, THE OUR SCHOOL, OKAY. AND OUR SENIOR COMPLEX, AND AGAIN, AGAIN, I, OKAY, I UNDERSTAND THIS IS SOMETHING OKAY. WITH A, AS A STEP BY STEP AND, UH, JUST LIKE A BABY GRADUALLY BUILD UP, IT CANNOT, CANNOT HAPPEN ONE DAY, OKAY? I THINK IT WILL BE STEP BY STEP AND COME THE STATE WANT TO SEE US SUCCESS TOO, OKAY? AND THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE, AND WE WON'T BE SUCCESSFUL TOO, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO BE JUST LIKE FLY BY. WE WANT TO VERY, VERY CAREFULLY, OKAY. AND BUILD THIS AND BECOME A, A, A EXAMPLE OF OKAY, PROTOTYPE FOR ALL OTHER CITY. I UNDERSTAND 20, 30 CITIES BEHIND US ALL WANT TO DO THE SAME THING. AND THEY ARE AMAZED. WE DIDN'T SPEND A D OF GENERAL FUND AND WE ALL ALREADY FORCED THE STAY, OKAY? AND TO PUT 16 ATTORNEY AND PUT THIS PACKAGE OUT. AND THIS IS THE FIRST IN THE NATION. SO I'M VERY PROUD. I WANT TO THANK DR. BEZO TO BUILD THIS. I THINK IN THE FUTURE, PEOPLE WILL UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT TO UPDATE OUR HEALTH REGULATION FROM ALL THE COUNTY AND ALL ENTIRE UNITED STATES, HOW TO FOLLOW THE, UPDATE THE HEALTH REQUIREMENT, OKAY? AND HOW TO TAKE CARE OF OUR COMMUNITY AND HOW TO, OKAY. AND PROTECT THE POPULATION FOR ANY DISEASE, ANY VIRUS, BECAUSE I CAN TELL, I THINK EVERYBODY CAN TELL, INCLUDING THE MEDICAL FIELD, THEY WILL KNOW POSSIBLE. ANOTHER WAVE WILL COME TO US PRETTY SOON. SO WE NEED TO PREPARE THIS ASAP. AND I UNDERSTAND AGAIN, AGAIN, IS HOW WE CAN QUICKLY GET THIS DONE BY THE SAME TIME, CAREFULLY, STEP BY STEP, AND, AND MAKE SURE WE GET THE FUNDING FROM THE, THE STAY AND STARTING BUILDING WITH THE STRUCTURE AND STARTING, PUT THE MEAT INTO THE BODY AND FROM THE BABY GRADUAL TO BECOME A STRONG MAN SO WE CAN PROTECT OKAY. OUR COMMUNITY. I THINK THIS IS ABOUT, OKAY. AND, UH, AGAIN, AGAIN, I WANNA THANK YOU TO STICK WITH US, OKAY? WE ALLOW DR. BEZO, WE WILL HAVE NO HEALTH DEPARTMENT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T PAY YOU. YOU CAN PAY VERY, VERY LITTLE, OKAY? AND YOU DOING ALMOST LIKE US VOLUNTEER BECAUSE YOU HAVE A MISSION. LIKE US AS A DOCTOR, YOUR MISSION SAVE LIFE AND FOR US AS COMMUNITY, OKAY? ELECTED, WE WANNA PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY. SO, SO WE ARE HERE, BUT I, I WANT TO SHOW MY DEEPEST OKAY. APPRECIATION FOR YOUR EFFORT. AND WE ALMOST THERE. AND THEN WE JUST WANT TO FINISH AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN PROTECT OUR POPULATION AND MAKE SURE ALL, ALL THE CT AND, AND TECHNICIAN FOLLOWS THROUGH LIKE US. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANY OTHER, UH, MAYOR PORTING. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, SO I KNOW THIS HEALTH DEPARTMENT'S BEEN AN ISSUE FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND BECAUSE THIS HEALTH DEPARTMENT HASN'T BEEN, UM, IN DEVELOPMENT IN OVER A HUNDRED YEARS, I DO HAVE TO SAY [02:10:01] BECAUSE OF WEST COVINA, THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS CHANGED SOME OF THEIR PRACTICE. THEY'VE UPDATED A LOT OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT THEY'RE LIKE, OH, THIS IS NOT, NOT RELEVANT ANYMORE. THIS IS, UH, NO LONGER WITH US. UM, BECAUSE OF US, THIS WAS LIKE THE FIRST TIME FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THEIR, THEIR THINGS TO EXTEND THIS. UM, SO THAT, THAT ACTUALLY HELPED. AND ALSO WE LEARNED FROM THE PANDEMIC THAT YOU, OUR RESIDENTS WERE NEGLECTED. WE HAD TO BEG LA COUNTY TO GIVE US THESE RESOURCES. LA COUNTY'S HUGE AND, YOU KNOW, THEIR PRIORITIES ARE WHEREVER THEY MAY BE. BUT WHEN WE LEARN THAT BIG LESSONS ABOUT THE PRIORITIES OF, WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE OUR RESIDENTS ARE TAKEN CARE OF. I ALSO KNOW FIRSTHAND THE DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU HAVE, THE CITY HAS ITS OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UH, OBVIOUSLY WORKING WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, PASADENA, THAT THEY'RE FIRST, UM, I MEAN, THEY KEEP THE COMMUNITY SAFE, UH, INFORMED AND RESILIENT. UM, THEY'RE FIRST TO GET ALL THE THINGS, THE NEEDS THAT THEY WANT. UM, SO THAT'S WHAT I WANT. I WANNA FOCUS ON OUR RESIDENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE TAKEN CARE OF FIRST. THAT WHEN, UH, THINGS ARE DISASTER STRIKES THAT WE ARE AHEAD OF THE GAME, THAT WE CAN PRIORITIZE OUR RESIDENTS. UM, SO THAT I JUST, I WANTED TO SEE THE QUICKER ACTION THAT OCCURRED. UM, AND IN REGARDS TO WHETHER THIS HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UM, WHERE, WHERE I STAND OR JUST ANYTHING IN GENERAL, UM, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE COSTS WILL BE. NOBODY DOES. THAT'S WHY THIS IS IN THE WORKS RIGHT NOW. WE'RE GATHERING ALL THIS INFORMATION. WE'RE GETTING ALL THIS UP, BUT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD. WE ARE SEEING THAT. AND I, I KNOW I'VE GOTTEN EMAILS OR THINGS THAT ARE SAID ABOUT ME, UM, ESPECIALLY FROM THE LAST MEETING, UM, SAYING THAT I'VE LIED, BUT IT'S, I JUST WANTED, I HAD TO GO GET THE CITY CLERK TO GET THE INFORMATION BECAUSE THINGS THAT THEY SAID, I, I SAID WEREN'T INACCURATE. BUT I JUST, WHEN THEY SAID, OH, THE, THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA DON'T WANT A HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UM, I CAN FIRSTHAND SAY, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY WITH THE, THE LAST ELECTION, NOT ONE RESIDENT, AT LEAST IN MY DISTRICT, HAS MENTIONED ABOUT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. AND I KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, MAYOR TONY WU, WHEN HE RAN, EVERYBODY KNEW WHAT HE RAN AGAINST, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH BKK, THE, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. AND HE STILL GOT ELECTED WITH THAT. UM, AND SO I WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, GET THIS INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY SAID, OH, THIS IS NOT TRUE. THIS IS NOT TRUE. THAT WE HAVE THIS. UM, THERE WAS A COMMITTEE THAT WAS NAMED NO TO WEST COVINA HEALTH DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY GROUP, AND INCLUDED, AND I'M NOT GONNA MENTION THE NAMES, I MEAN, IT IS PUBLIC RECORD. UM, AND THE SIGNATURES ARE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS AT THE TIME AND SET BY THE ELECTION CODE. UM, AND THE INITIATIVE WAS RECEIVED ON MAY 18TH, 2021. UH, THE BALLOT SUMMARY AND TITLE WAS PREPARED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY AND RETURNED TO THE PROPONENTS ON JUNE 2ND, 2021, STARTING THE 180 DAY TIMELINE. UM, ON NOVEMBER 30TH, 2021, THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE RECEIVED A LETTER, I'M NOT GONNA MENTION THE PERSON'S NAME, THAT THE PROPONENTS DID NOT RECEIVE ENOUGH SIGNATURES, WHICH THEY NEED APPROXIMATELY, APPROXIMATELY 10% OF THE REGISTERED VOTERS AT THAT TIME. UM, THEY WERE INFORMED THAT THEY, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T GET AT LEAST 10% OF THE RESIDENTS. AND THIS COMMITTEE, I, I COMMEND THEM. THEY, THEY WENT DOOR TO DOOR. THEY DID GIVE OUT FLYERS THEY HANDED, 'CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, I'VE GOTTEN PHOTOS OF IT. UM, THEY, SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTED OUT THERE, SET UP TABLES, THEY WALKED DOOR TO DOOR TO GATHER ALL THESE SIGNATURES AND, UM, THEY COULD NOT RECEIVE AT LEAST 10% FROM THE RESIDENTS. BUT AGAIN, ALL THIS, WE HAVE HALF AND HALF. BUT AT THIS POINT, I MEAN, I JUST WANT THE SAFETY, THE, UM, AND I'M FOCUSING ON THE RESIDENTS. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT KNOWN AND PUT THAT OUT THERE. 'CAUSE OKAY. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GUT. YES. UM, AND, UM, I WAS GONNA ASK IF, IF THE COUNCIL'S NOT AGAINST IT, UH, MAYBE, UM, ROXANNE COULD POST IT ON OUR CITY WEBSITE BANNER, UH, THE LINK TO THE HEARING THAT'S COMING UP. WHAT I CAN DO, UM, I'M TAKING A LOOK AT THE CDP H'S WEBSITE, AND IT HAS INFORMATION ON, UM, WHEN THE PUBLIC HEARING IS SCHEDULED AS, UM, WELL AS, WHAT IS THIS, UM, THE NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING FOR THE NEW LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT APPLICATION. YEAH. SO JUST SO WE CAN MAKE THAT AVAILABLE. YEAH. JUST LIKE A TEMPORARY BANNER THAT GOES UP THERE. SO WHEN PEOPLE GO ON THE WEBSITE, THEY COULD CLICK ON IT AND IT TAKES THEM DIRECTLY TO WHATEVER. YEAH. WE CAN LINK IT TO THE CDP H'S WEBSITE. YEAH. AND THEN MY LAST THING IS UNRELATED. UH, IF, [02:15:01] I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, WILL, OR, OR SRUS HERE, IF THEY COULD FIX THE CAMERA. 'CAUSE I, I MEAN, I LOVE BEING ON CAMERA, BUT I WANNA BE ON THERE ALL DAY. BUT , UH, I, THEY TOLD ME THAT CAMERA IS BROKE. YEAH. THEY, THEY COME TOMORROW TO FIX IT. SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU, THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THIS. NO, NO, NO, NO. CAMERA BROKE. NO, I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA BE ON CAMERA. HUH. . HEY, EVERYBODY, EQUAL ATTENTION. OKAY. AND EVERYBODY CAN YELL AT IT AT THE SAME TIME. OKAY. AND OTHER, OTHERWISE I WANT TO OKAY. IF NO ANSWER, I WANNA MOVE ON. PLEASE. OKAY. LET'S, UH, RECEIVE FILE. WE DON'T NEED TO VOTE ON THIS, RIGHT. THEY JUST, UH, UPDATE. THANK YOU, DR. BEZO. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK. REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. OKAY. [3) CONSIDERATION OF AGREEMENT FOR BUS SHELTER CLEANING SERVICES] AND, UH, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT AGENDA WITH CONSENT. CALENDAR NUMBER THREE. UH, THIS WILL BE FROM OUR COUNCIL MEMBER . GO AHEAD. YES. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THE, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMPANY'S HERE, OUR COMPANY, UM, YES. CAN, UH, WE CALL HIM UP? YEAH. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. PLEASE. YEAH. YOU MEAN MAYOR? HI. GREAT. THANK YOU FOR COMING. UM, YEAH, I, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AND POTENTIALLY SOME CONCERNS. UM, WERE YOU ABLE TO GO OUT ON OUR STREET TODAY TO LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE THAT I THINK YOU'RE, I THINK TODAY, TUESDAY YOU HAVE, UH, I THINK SOME STREETS ON GLENDORA, UH, AVENUE AND SOME OTHER INTERSECTIONS, UH, THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE TODAY. HAVE YOU, HAVE YOU, DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT OR PASS BY THOSE BUS STOPS? I THINK MY, ACTUALLY, MY, THE INSTRUCTOR WHO ACTUALLY GOES, DOES THAT WAS HERE EARLIER. UH, HE COVERED THE SCHEDULE TODAY, BUT HE DIDN'T TELL ME OF ANY ANOMALIES OR ANYTHING THAT WAS ON OKAY. YEAH. TODAY. YEAH. SO I, I HAD A CHANCE TO, UH, GO OUT ON THE ROAD WITH, UH, ONE OF MY CO MY FELLOW COLLEAGUE HERE, OR COUNCILMAN METOS. AND A LOT OF THOSE BUS STOPS WERE NOT DONE. AND, AND SO IT, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S CONCERNING WHEN, WHEN IT'S NOT BEING DONE. AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I'M A BIG SUPPORTER, UH, OF OUR DISABILITY COMMUNITY. I, I HAVE SERVED ON VARIOUS COMMISSIONS FOR THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY. I HAVE AUTISM MYSELF, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THE CONTRACT IS BEING FULFILLED AND, AND THAT WE'RE GETTING THE JOB DONE, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE RESIDENTS WHO USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. AND, AND, UH, UNFORTUNATELY, A LOT OF THOSE STOPS TODAY. WERE NOT DONE AT ALL. UH, MAY, MAY I ASK, WELL, IF YOU CAN GIVE A LIST OF WHICH ONES AND WE CAN, UH, I THINK, I THINK, UH, A COUPLE OF, ONE MORE WERE ON, UH, I DON'T HAVE THE LIST ON ME, BUT WE ACTUALLY WENT DOWN THE LIST. STOS, MAYBE COULD, UH, GLENDORA, GLENDORA AVENUE, WEST COVINA PARKWAY, AZUSA AVENUE. UM, I THINK WE, WE, I THINK WE WENT AS FAR SOUTH AS AMAR, BUT WE WENT ON ALL, WE, WHAT WE LITERALLY DID IS LOOKED AT, AT THE CONTRACT, UH, UH, AND WE LOOKED AT THE SCHEDULE AND WE, WE DROVE AROUND TO JUST SPOT CHECK, JUST TO SORT OF SEE. AND, AND WE, UM, IT WAS JUST DESCRIBED THAT IT JUST WAS NOT LOOKING GOOD ANYWHERE. I MEAN, WE, WE, WE LOOKED EVERYWHERE. WE DIDN'T EVEN JUST SPOT CHECK WE, BECAUSE WE HAD THAT TIME. WE WENT TO EVERY PLACE THAT WE COULD BASED ON THE SCHEDULE. AND ON TOP OF THAT, WE DIDN'T EVEN SEE ANYONE WORKING. WE, MAYBE THEY WERE SOMEWHERE, BUT WE WENT EVERYWHERE OF WHERE THE SCHEDULE SAID, AND WE DIDN'T SEE PEOPLE. I DON'T KNOW. UH, I KNOW THAT THE CREW'S PRETTY VISIBLE BECAUSE OF THE FACT IS THAT THEY'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC. THEY DO WEAR VESTS, UH MM-HMM . YEAH. BEYOND GREEN. AND SO THEREFORE, THEY'RE ACTUALLY ARE OUT THERE. I KNOW THAT THEY ACTUALLY GO THERE ON A DAILY BASIS. WHENEVER WE HAVE AN ISSUE THAT'S KIND OF, UH, BEYOND OUR EXTENT OF WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO OR WHAT, YOU KNOW, THAT NEEDS A MEDIA ATTENTION, WE'LL DEFINITELY GO AND CONTACT MR. MIKE CRES, HAVE, AND SEND PHOTOS AND ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SO THAT THE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF RESIDENTS CAN KIND OF, UH, BE AWARE THAT IT NEEDS ATTENTION. MM-HMM . BUT I WILL GO AND LOOK INTO IT, BECAUSE I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE PRE PRESSURE WASHING ALL THE BUS, I MEAN, THE WHOLE STRUCTURE OF THE BUS STOP. YES. AND POTENTIALLY EVEN THE FLOOR AREA BY THE SITTING AREA. SO A LOT OF THOSE WERE, WERE, UH, 30, EVEN EVEN THE ONES THAT I THINK ARE ON A SCHEDULE FOR TWO TIMES, UH, UH, A WEEK WE WE'RE 30. MM-HMM . WE'LL DEFINITELY GO AND START LOOKING AT THAT. BUT I KNOW THAT WE'RE OUT THERE ON A DAILY BASIS. I KNOW THAT AFTER THEY ACTUALLY GET POWER WASHED, WE HAVE OUR CREW MEMBERS GO AND DRY THEM, UH, COMPLETELY SO THAT, UH, YOU DON'T LEAVE ANY RESID, UH, MOISTURE OR WATER RESIDUE SO THAT THE RESIDENTS CAN IMMEDIATELY GO AHEAD AND REUSE THOSE, UH, CENTERS RIGHT AWAY. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU, YOU ROUGHLY DO THOSE STOPS? I CAN ACTUALLY GET YOU HOURS OR THE TIMEFRAME THAT WE USUALLY PROBABLY ARE OUT THERE FROM LIKE, ABOUT NINE 30 TO ABOUT IN THE AFTERNOON. OKAY. GREAT. OKAY. YEAH. UH, OTHER CITY COUNCIL, UH, MISS, UH, MR. RAMIR, GO AHEAD. UM, Y YEAH, YOU, SO IT WAS NINE, UH, NINE TO [02:20:01] TWO. SO WE WERE OUT DURING THOSE HOURS AND WE TRAVELED THE ENTIRE, I MEAN, WE, HE LITERALLY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ HAD IN FRONT OF HIM THE, THE LIST. AND WE LITERALLY DROVE THE ROUTE BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT'S LISTED ON THE 120, THEY'RE LITERALLY LISTED IN GEOGRAPHIC ORDER. SO HE DROVE THAT. AND SO ORIGINALLY WE WERE GOING TO, I WAS ASKING IF HE COULD SNAP PICTURES OF THE, I MEAN, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO STOP, YOU KNOW, STOP. BUT, BUT WHAT ENDED UP HAPPENING WAS, THERE'S SO MANY THAT, I MEAN, IT WASN'T, WE THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE IF IT WAS MAYBE ONE OR TWO OR WHATEVER, BUT IT WAS ALL OF THEM, OR THE MAJORITY OF THEM. I MEAN, WE STOPPED, STOPPED AND STOPPED. I MEAN, IT WAS, WE WERE REALLY SURPRISED TO BE HONEST. YOU KNOW, I JUST, I KNOW THAT WE'RE OUT THERE ON A DAILY BASIS, SO, BUT I WILL GO AND LOOK INTO IT FURTHER. 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT I WAS, WE ACTUALLY HAD OUR, OUR CREW THAT ACTUALLY WAS OUT THERE TODAY. THEY WERE HERE, BUT, UH, GIVEN THE TIME, UH, THEY HAVE TO GO OUT TOMORROW MORNING, SO THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO GO AND LEAVE. BUT I WILL, IF YOU NEED TO, I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH SOMEBODY BY TOMORROW MORNING AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT THE UPDATE ON THAT IS. OKAY. UM, MR. MAYOR? YES. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF, IF MY COLLEAGUE HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT IS, IS THERE A WAY THAT WE, I, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M, I HAVE A QUESTION, BUT IT'S OKAY. I WANT YOU TO FINISH. I GUESS JUST IN LIGHT OF THE CONDITIONS, FIRST OF ALL, JUST TO STAY FOR THE RECORD, UH, WE REALLY SUPPORT, UH, A HIRING OF, OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. IT'S A BIG THING THAT, FOR ME, FOR 35 YEARS, IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT THAT THEY DO QUALITY WORK BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR PHILOSOPHY THAT IS NOT A MATTER OF CHARITY TO HIRE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. WE HIRE OUR PEOPLE BECAUSE WE SAY, LOOK, WE DO GOOD WORK. AND SO THAT WAS WHAT I HAD TO BE HONEST. I'M SURPRISED TODAY THAT, OF THE RESULTS OF OURS JUST LOOKING AROUND. SO I'M WONDERING IF THE COUNCIL WOULD BE, WOULD CONSIDER EITHER OUR TABLING THE APPROVAL OF THIS UNTIL THIS IS LOOKED INTO, OR POSTPONING IT TO THE NEXT MEETING, OR DOING A MONTH TO MONTH CONTRACT UNTIL THIS IS RESOLVED. BECAUSE I'M A LITTLE WORRIED THAT IF, IF WE JUST APPROVE THIS NOW, WHEN THESE, THESE ISSUES COULD BE SYSTEMIC, I DON'T WANT US APPROVE A, A CONTRACT OF THREE YEARS WITH A POSSIBLE EXTENSION OF ONE YEAR, ONE YEAR TO FIVE YEARS WITHOUT THESE FUNDAMENTAL QUALITY ISSUES BEING ADDRESSED. FIRST. UH, COUNCILMAN, I WILL SUPPORT YOU. I I HAVE THE SAME CONCERN LIKE YOU. I THINK WE ALL HAVE THE SAME CONCERN. OKAY. AND, UH, WHEN WE DRIVING AROUND, UH, WE SAW BASICALLY THE, OUR, OUR BUS STOP IS PRETTY FILTHY. OKAY. AND THE TRASH OKAY. COMING UP. WHO'S OUT? OKAY. I DON'T KNOW. WHO IS YOUR JOB OR, OKAY. AND THE, THE, UH, ATHENS JOB TO PICK UP THOSE TRASH? NO, WE ACTUALLY, OUR, OUR JOB IS TO KIND OF, WHEN WE GO TO THE BUS SHELTER, WE HAVE A 10 FOOT RADIUS, UH, AROUND THE SHELTER. I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, TRASH, AGAIN. TRASH. WE DO, YEAH. AND WE ACTUALLY TAKE IT AND DUMP THE CITY YARD. YEAH. AND THE, FOR EXAMPLE, BAREN. OKAY. AND BIRTH SHELTER OKAY. IS HORRIBLE. AND, UH, NEVER SEES CLEAN. OKAY. SO, SO I AGREE WITH MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE. OKAY. WE, WE, WE WANNA HIRE OKAY. YOU GUY. OKAY. ESPECIALLY, UH, FOR THE PEOPLE. OKAY. OKAY. CHALLENGE THAT. WE, WE WANT TO HAVE A JOB, BUT THE SAME TIME, I AGREE WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN KENTO, THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. IT'S NOT A FREE MONEY, IT'S A TAXPAYER'S MONEY. UH, WE HIRE YOU, WE WANT TO SEE THE PERFORMANCE, AND WE WANNA SEE, I PARTLY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, COUNCIL. YEAH. I, I AGREE. OKAY. SO, UH, CON OKAY. AND, AND HOLD ON. UH, AND, UH, COUNCIL KEN. OKAY. COUNCILMAN KENTO, YOU WANT TO MOVE THE MOTION TO ONCE TO MONTHS OR JUST TABLE? I THINK THAT HE HAS TO SAY SOMETHING. ME TOO. YEAH. AND I KNOW, I, I KNOW, BUT JUST LET HIM GO. THEN WE CONTINUE TO DISCUSS. SO YOU WANT MOVE MOTION BEFORE, BEFORE WE, I COULD STILL, ARE WE CURRENTLY IN CONTRACT WITH THEM OR NOT? OR WHERE'S, WHEN DOES IT EXPIRE? OH, THERE'S CALLIE . GO AHEAD. UM, WE'RE IN CONTRACT. THE CURRENT CONTRACT ENDS AT THE END OF THE MONTH. THE END OF THIS MONTH. RIGHT. SO IF SO, WE CAN MOVE TO MONTH TO MONTH. YEAH. OR WE CAN TABLE IT. OKAY. BUT MAYBE MONTH TO MONTH AND WE SEE, HOW DO YOU LOOK AT YEAH, I'LL MAKE, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO DO MONTH TO MONTH AND THEN TO BRING THIS, I THINK HE, HE MOVED ONLY IF YOU WANNA MAKE IT. YEAH, YOU CAN SECOND, I'LL SECOND IT TO BRING IT BACK MONTH TO MONTH. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE HAVE FIRST AND SECOND, THEN WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO DISCUSS. OKAY. AND BRING, BRING THEM BACK ON THE SECOND MEETING OF JULY. YES. OKAY. AND, UH, SO WE HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND TO GO TO MONTH TO MONTH. WE JUST WANT TO BE ACCOUNTABLE. OKAY. IF WE HIRE YOU GUY, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR BUS STOP IS PRESENTABLE. OKAY. AND THE, AND THE POWER WASH OR THIS ON THAT. AND THEN YOU REALLY NEED TO HIRE THOSE PEOPLE TO DO THE JOB. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. AND PLEASE. OKAY. SO, SO ANYWAY. AND THE COUNCILWOMAN DI YES. SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE BUS STOPS ARE OCCUPIED? WE ACTUALLY WILL GO IN, UH, IF THERE'S RESIDENTS, WE ASK 'EM IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO GO IN POWER WASH. IF THEY ARE A LITTLE BIT RESISTIVE WHERE THEY'RE NOT MOVING, THEN WE WILL GO AND PROCEED TO GO INTO, ONTO THE NEXT BUS SHELTER. WE WILL THEN KIND OF COME BACK AROUND AND, UH, WAIT UNTIL THAT, UH, BUS SHELTER IS ACTUALLY VACANT. OKAY. OKAY. AND, UH, MAY I PUT THAT, OKAY, SO [02:25:01] I KNOW, I SEE THAT YOU DO WEEKLY CLEANING, OR IS IT JUST ONCE A WEEK? IT'S ONCE A WEEK. AND, AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE A ROUTE AS TO WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AND THEREFORE IT'S ACTUALLY DONE, UH, AGAIN, ON A DAILY BASIS. SO EACH DAY HAS A CERTAIN SET OF, UH, SHELTERS THAT WE KIND OF GO. AND SO IN, IN REGARDS TO IF THERE ARE THOSE THAT ARE, ARE THERE AND THEY REFUSE TO LEAVE, LIKE, SO THAT MEANS THAT'S NOT GONNA BE TAKEN CARE OF? YES. ONE OF THE THINGS WE, WE'VE ACTUALLY HAVE HAD IS THAT WHEN WE ACTUALLY HAVE, UH, UH, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TRANSIENT, OR MAYBE USE IT AS A STATIONARY LOCATION WHERE THEY HAVE, UH, PERSONAL BELONGINGS, WE WILL NOT REMOVE OR TOUCH ANY OF THOSE ITEMS. WE WILL THEN MAYBE GO AHEAD AND CONTACT THE CITY, UH, UH, CITY YARD, AND WE HAVE OUR CONTACT, WHICH IS MIKE CRESS APP, AND WHICH WILL SEND BOTH PHOTOS AND, UH, UH, TEXTS AND PHONE CALLS TO LET HIM KNOW AS TO WHAT THE SITUATION IS. AND THEN HE WILL KIND OF, UH, HANDLE THAT. BUT AGAIN, WE ARE NOT, UH, DISPLACING ANYBODY FROM THE SHELTERS. IF ANYBODY REFUSES TO MOVE, THEN WE WILL KIND OF CONTINUE OUR, OUR ROUTE AND THEN COME BACK AT A LATER TIME. MARK, MY MY CONCERN IS FOR THE RESIDENTS OR THOSE THAT USE THE BUS STOP, THAT THEY'RE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THEM WHILE THEY'RE THERE, BECAUSE I KNOW SOME BUS STOPS, UM, IT, IT HAS A STRONG ODOR. I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S UNBEARABLE AND IT'S NOT FAIR FOR THE, YOU KNOW, THE STUDENTS OR ANYBODY THAT HAVE TO WAIT AROUND THERE TO, SO THAT, THAT'S ONE CONCERN. AND THE SECOND CONCERN IS SOME BUS STOPS. THE, THE TRASH JUST OVERFLOWS. UM, I KNOW I'VE HAD TO REPORT THAT IN. I'M LIKE, HEY, IT'S, IT'S FILLING TO THE FLOOR. UM, SO I, I DON'T KNOW. IT DOES NOT SAY WHICH AREAS ARE, ARE CLEANED MORE OFTEN BECAUSE THERE ARE CERTAIN BUS STOPS THAT ARE HEAVILY USED COMPARED TO OTHER ONES. I'M SORRY, NOT TO CUT YOU OFF, BUT ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE REALLY, UH, FOCUSED ON ARE WEST COVENA PARKWAY, WHICH IS THE SHELTERS, RIGHT. UH, IN FRONT OF THE, OF THE MALL. THOSE ARE THE ONES WE DO FREQUENTLY A BIT MORE ON THE, UH, BUS SHELTER. THERE'S A, UH, BUS SHELTER SCHEDULE. THERE'S A HANDFUL OF THEM THAT ARE BOLDED IN ITAL ITALICIZED THAT ARE CLEANED A A COUPLE OF TIMES A WEEK. THEY'RE, THEY'RE A HANDFUL THAT ARE, UM, CLEANED THREE. AND, UH, A COUPLE THAT ARE, UM, CLEANED TWICE THOSE BUSY AREAS. WEST COVINA PARKWAY, CALIFORNIA, AND OVER AT THE, UM, OVER AT, UH, EAST L ON BARRANCA. WHAT IS CITY OWNED AND ADVERTISING? UH, THE CITY OWNED ARE, ARE, UH, SHELTERS THAT THE CITY OWNS. THE ADVERTISED, UH, ONES WE ARE, WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH CLEAR CHANNEL. THOSE ARE THE ONES WITH THE ADVERTISING PANELS. AND, UH, THOSE ARE OWNED BY A DIFFERENT COMPANY. AND SO OVER THE YEARS, SOME OF THOSE HAVE BEEN HIGHLY TRAFFICKED AND CALLED IN. AND WE'VE BUILT THEM INTO THIS CONTRACT JUST TO, UH, HAVE AN EXTRA LAYER OF CLEANING. SO WHEN THOSE ADVERTISING, UM, GETS LIKE GRAFFITI OR, OR ETCHED IN, OR, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S HANDLED BY THE, UH, CLEAR CHANNEL COMPANY. OKAY. THE, UH, I WANT TO FOLLOW, OKAY. ON THE MAIL PROTEIN, THE ADVERTISEMENT I SAW WAS A LOT OF INSURANCE DESIGNER, THE GUY OVER THERE AND WITH A PHONE NUMBER WHO GET PAID, CITY GET PAID. RIGHT. CITY GETS PAID A PERCENTAGE. PERCENTAGE. 10, I THINK IT'S 10% OF THE, WE ONLY GET PAID 10%. I BELIEVE SO, YES. AND THEY, THEY, IT'S ALL BUST UP. OKAY. THEY, WE ONLY GET PAID 10%. I THINK WE NEED, WE NEGOTIATED TO GET A HIGHER PAY. THE COMPANY ACTUALLY OWNS THE, THE, UH, THE SHELTERS. THEY, THEY CAME IN AND INSTALLED THE SHELTERS. THEY OWN THAT. NO, A NEW ONE. . AND THEN THEY MAINTAIN THEM. THEY'RE OLD. HOLD ON. WHO OWNED THE, WE OWN THE BUS STOP SHELTER, RIGHT? NO, NOT THE ADVERTISING ONES. NO, NO. IT, I KNOW WE ALLOWED THEM TO PULL OVER THERE TO, THEN WE NEED TO CHARGE THEM MORE. YEAH. 'CAUSE THAT IS VERY VISIBLE. YEAH. OR THEY NEED TO, I TRY TO SEE THEM FALLING APART. ACCIDENT GUY OVER THERE. I KIND OF SAY, WHOA, THIS GUY MAYBE MAKING TONS OF MONEY FROM US. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE GET A GOOD PERCENTAGE FROM OKAY. THE AD. OKAY. BECAUSE IT'S VERY VISIBLE. IT'S ALL IN THE INTERSECTION. OKAY. AND PEOPLE CAN SEE THAT GET, BUT ANYWAY, UH, WE NEED TO RENEGOTIATE. THIS IS YOU GUY ALL AGREE, RIGHT? YEAH. YEAH. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO WE NEED TO NEGOTIATE 10% IS TOO LITTLE. WE NEED TO AT LEAST, WE SHOULD GET PAID 80%. HONESTLY. OR, OR DO YOU NEED TO PUT NEW BUS STOPS? DOES OUR CONTRACT REQUIRE NEW BUS STOPS AND SPEAKING TO PRETTY UGLY. I REALLY DON'T WANNA SEE THEIR PICTURE. I WANNA SEE MY PICTURE OVER THERE. NOW HIS PICTURES . WELL, TO FOLLOW UP ON, ON THE MAYOR REGARDING THE BUS STOP, BECAUSE THEN WE DON'T HAVE CONSISTENCY OF THE BUS STOP LOOKS BECAUSE THEIR BUS STOP'S GONNA LOOK DIFFERENT THAN THE CITY OWNED. CORRECT. THEY'RE THE SAME SIMILAR HARDWARE EXCEPT FOR THE PANELS. OKAY. OKAY. UH, AGAIN, UH, KELLY, OKAY. WE NEED TO RENEGOTIATE WITH OUR PERCENTAGE. MAYBE AT LEAST 50%, 50, 80%, MAYBE TOO HIGH, BUT I THINK 50%. LET'S [02:30:01] SEE HOW WE NEGOTIATE WITH THEM, BECAUSE I'M NOT KIDDING. THAT'S VERY VISIBLE. THAT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY. OKAY. JUST LIKE LED SIGN PUT OVER THERE. THIS LET'S LET PEOPLE GOING THROUGH INTERSECTION ALL THE TIME. SO IF WE ONLY GET 10%, I THINK WE CAN SHOW CHANGE. YEAH. I THINK WE NEED TO RENEGOTIATE OKAY. TO GET THE BETTER. OKAY. USE THAT MONEY TO CLEAN THE BUS STOP. WE USE THAT MONEY TO CLEAN THE BUS. STOP PAYING THEM WHILE THEY USE THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY. OKAY. SO ANOTHER THING IS, I JUST WANT TO HAVE A QUIZ. HOW MANY BUSTA WE HAVE YOU CLEANING YOUR SERVICE? SURE. 20 BEING REMOVED DUE THE FACT THAT, SO ABOUT 120. OKAY. UH, SO WE ARE, OKAY, GO AHEAD. UM, UH, MAY I PUT, SORRY, ONE MORE QUESTION ON THE NUMBERS THAT I SEE ON CITY OWNED AND ADVERTISING. THERE ARE, THE LOCATIONS HAVE THAT, THE NUMBER AND LOCATIONS, BUT IT SAYS ZERO. IS THAT BECAUSE IT'S JUST THE STAND, NOT AN ACTUAL BUS STOP? OR, I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT'S A ZERO? ZERO MEANS ZERO. THERE ISN'T A, A SHELTER EITHER AN ADVERTISING OR DEPENDING ON WHICH ONE YOU'RE, UH, SO FOR EXAMPLE, CLEANING DAY, MONDAY NUMBER 12, EASTBOUND WEST COVINA PARKWAY AT FASHION PLAZA CITY OWNED. SO ZERO ADVERTISING ONE. THAT'S JUST, SO FOR THAT PARTICULAR LOCATION, THERE'S ONLY A, UH, ADVERTISING ONE. THERE'S ONLY AN ADVERTISING IN SOME, SOME OF THOSE, UH, LOCATIONS, YOU HAVE MULTIPLE SHELTERS. MAYBE THE CITY OWNS TWO AND, AND CLEAR CHANNEL OWNS ONE. SO THAT, THAT'S THE DISTINCTION. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. UH, ANY OTHER QUESTION? OKAY. YEAH, GO, GO AHEAD, BRIAN. UH, YEAH. SO THIS IS, SO THE BUS, THE BUS STOP AGREEMENT, WE'RE ONLY GETTING 10%. UH, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE CONTRACT THAT REQUIRES THEM TO PRINT NEW BUS STOPS AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS? OR THEY JUST KEEP FREELOADING OFF US? , THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD PROBABLY NEGOTIATE. I, I THINK IF WE GOT OUTTA THE CONTRACT ALTOGETHER, WE, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO, I WOULD, I WOULD ASSUME THAT THERE, WE WILL HAVE IMMACULATE BUS STOPS AND MOVE THE HARDWARE. I THINK, UH, WE, WE DO HAVE A, A PROJECT THAT IS IN OUR CAP LIST CURRENTLY TO, TO, UH, REPLACE BUS SHELTERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. MM-HMM. I THINK, UH, TRANSTECH HAD REACHED OUT TO CLEAR CHANNEL TO, TO EXPLORE, UH, GETTING, UH, CONSISTENT HARDWARE, UH, IF WE COME. YEAH. I MEAN, IS TRANSTECH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NEGOTIATION THEN? OR, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW. I THINK THAT NO, I THINK IT'S OUR JOB. YEAH. . YEAH. AND, AND IF TRANSTECH REACHING OUT TO CLEAR CHANNEL, I WOULD SAY THAT TRANSTECH, UH, SHOULD NEGOTIATE A BETTER DEAL OR, OR BETTER BUS STOPS. NO, I THINK THIS, THIS IS OUR JOB, BUT I WOULD ASSUME THAT IT'S OUR CITY JOBS. I DON'T KNOW WHY TRANSTECH CONTACT CLEAR CHANNEL, BUT YEAH, IT'S NOT TRANSTECH JOB. IT'S OUR JOB. OKAY. IT'S OUR MONEY AND WE NEGOTIATE. OKAY. SO IT'S OUR JOB. OKAY. I DON'T WANT TO TRANSL NEGOTIATE WITH US BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CITY. OKAY. WE WANT THE CITY STAFF TO TRY TO FIGHT FOR THE BEST FOR THE CITY. OKAY. LET'S STILL THINK ABOUT 50% TOO, TOO, TOO LITTLE. WE SHOULD HAVE MORE. MAYBE. I WANT TO INSIST 80%. OKAY. OTHERWISE NO AD. OKAY. CLEANER. YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. I DON'T WANT TO EITHER GIVE US MORE MONEY OTHERWISE NO AD. YEAH. OR GIVE US STOPS. AND, UH, MAYOR, THEY HAVE 32 ADVERTISING BUS STOPS. SEE? CAN MONEY, LOCATION, THEY LOOK UGLY. MM-HMM . AND THAT GUY LOOK UGLY TOO. OKAY. SO I DON'T WANT THIS GUY. SO WE, WE NEED TO BASICALLY, EITHER THEY PAY US MORE MONEY OR THEY PUT IMMACULATE NEW BUS STOPS. YEAH. PUT NICE, BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN LOOK. CLEAN LOOK. YEAH. WITH A CITY LOGO ON THERE. CLEAN, CLEAN THE, YEAH. CLEAN THE BUS STOP. OKAY. SO WE HAVE FIRST AND SECOND. OKAY. WE, WE, NOT TRYING TO GIVE YOU A PROBLEM, WE JUST WANT A CLEAN BUS STOP. AND, UH, WE REALLY DON'T LIKE THE AD. WE SHOULD BE A CLEAN. OKAY. IF WE ONLY GET 10%, IT'S NOT EVEN WORTH THE MONEY. YEAH. IT JUST LOOKS, IT'S LIKE A POLLUTION OF EYE. OKAY. SO, YES. SO ANYWAY. AND WE FIRST, A SECOND. WELCOME, PLEASE. YES. I HAVE A FIRST BY, UH, I'M SORRY. A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CONTOS. A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR. ITEM NUMBER THREE TITLED, UH, CONSIDERATION OF AGREEMENT FOR BUS, BUS SHELTER, CLEANING SERVICES, UH, TO, AND THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO MOVE THE CONTRACT TO A MONTH TO MONTH AND BRING THIS ITEM BACK AT THE SECOND MEETING IN JULY. COUNCILMAN CONTOS. HOLD ON. I WANT TO ADD ON THE ADD. OKAY. WE NEGOTIATE BY OUR ACTING CITY MANAGER SEPARATE. YES. THAT, THAT, THAT'S ADDITIONAL DIRECTION. YES. I WANT TO ADD ON. OKAY. SO, SO TO EITHER PAY US MORE MONEY, WE CAN SATISFY BY, APPROVED BY COUNCIL, OR NO ADD. YEAH. LOOK, BRING, BRING US BACK A PROPOSAL THAT EITHER INCREASES OUR PERCENTAGE OR PROPOSES, UH, FULLY PAID BUS STOPS THAT ARE, THAT INTEGRATES THE CITY LOGO. IT MAKES OUR CITY LOOK LIKE YEAH. MAYBE CITY LOGO IS BETTER. SO THE MOTION OR COMMUNITY EVENT. YES. YEAH. YEAH. MAYOR, THE MOTIONS SHOULD GO MONTH TO [02:35:01] MONTH. THAT'S THE UNDERLYING MOTION. AND NOW THIS IS JUST DIRECTION TO HAVE CITY MANAGER NEGOTIATE. RIGHT. OKAY. UH, ROLL CALL PLEASE. COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. AYE. MAYOR PRO. TIM LOPEZ. VIDO. AYE. MAYOR. WOO. AYE. DO I NEED TO MAKE ANOTHER MOTION FOR THE NEGOTIATION FOR NO. ANYWAY, WE ARE WE ADDED. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. WHEN DO YOU WANT IT BACK, MAYOR? UH, I THINK ONE MONTH. SECOND MEETING. RIGHT. SECOND MEETING. JULY. ONE MONTH IS NOT FOR YOU TO CLEAN OR YOU NEED TWO MONTHS? HOW, HOW, HOW MANY ONE MONTH IS OKAY, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BUS STOP NEGOTIATION. OKAY. UH, THE SECOND MEETING OF JULY. I SEE YOU THEN YEAH, WE'LL BRING YOU BACK. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND MAKE SURE WE'RE DRIVING AROUND. SEE. NICE. GET ON. OKAY. APPRECIATE THEN, UH, NUMBERS ONE, ONE MORE THING. GO AHEAD. WELL FAST. UH, AND THEN JUST TO CLARIFY, UM, I THINK ROXANNE TOLD ME, UH, THAT ATENS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRASH AT OUR BUS STOPS, ATHENS TAKES OUT THE TRASH, SO THEY WILL TAKE OUT THE TRASH IN THE CANS. AND THAT WAS CONFIRMED TODAY. DID SPEAK WITH ATHENS AS WELL ABOUT THAT. SO THAT'S IN OUR CONTRACT WITH THEM. UM, THAT IS A SERVICE THAT THEY PROVIDE. YES. I BELIEVE IT WAS QUOTED AS THE ORIGINAL 1992 AGREEMENT. YOU'VE SEEN IT TOO? YEAH. OKAY. SO MAYBE YOU COULD TELL THEM THAT OUR TRASH ROOFS OVERFLOWING. YEAH. AND WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE FREQUENCY TOO. WE'RE GONNA WALK WITH THE COUNTRY ANYWAY, . OKAY. AND, UH, ARE WE OKAY, I'M GOING TO MOVE ON. OKAY. SORRY. JUST ONE MORE THING. UM, IN REGARDS TO THE BUS STOP, I'D LIKE TO FIND OUT HOW MANY BUS STOPS ARE JUST NOT BEING CLEANED BECAUSE THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE WHO REFUSE TO MOVE, BECAUSE IF THAT'S, THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER PROBLEM BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, AGREE JUST MULTIPLE THINGS. SO THAT THAT'S ALSO NOT ADHERING TO THIS CONTRACT IF THEY'RE CLEANING X AMOUNT OF BUS STOPS, BUT BECAUSE OF EACH AND EVERY BUS STOP HAS, SO YOU WANNA GIVE DIRECTION TO THE, UH, CITY MAN, UH, ACTING CITY MANAGER TO HAVE A PUPPY WORK OR SOMEBODY, OR A PUB. OKAY. UH, A PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT TO HAVE SOMEBODY TO LOOK INTO ALL, ALL THE BUS STOP, HOW THEY LOOK LIKE. OTHERWISE, WE CANNOT GO TO CHECK, CHECK ALSO WITH THE CONTRACTOR. UM, I MEAN, THE VENDOR, THEY COME, WELL, WOULD THE VENDOR, THE VENDOR SHOULD BE ABLE TO RELAY THE MESSAGE ON US. LIKE, UH, I THINK WE NEED MONTH, WE NEED THIS AMOUNT. WE NEED A CONTRACT SUPERVISOR. WE JUST, WE HAVE A SUPERVISOR, BUT NEVER WE MONITOR THE CONTRACT. AND THAT'S THE ISSUE. WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEBODY TO MONITOR ALL THESE 120 BUS STOP AND THE NEXT ONE MONTH LATER, TELL US HOW IT LOOK LIKE, AND THEN WE NEED TO, FOR OUR STEP TO TELL US HOW IT LOOK LIKE. YEAH. WE, WE CANNOT DRIVE 120. OKAY. SO WE NEED A STEP TO DO IT. YEAH. AND MAKE SENSE. MAKE SENSE? YEAH. YEAH. AND, AND THEN SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CON UH, UH, THIS RIGHT NOW, I THINK ALSO, YOU KNOW, OUR SIDEWALKS, UH, AND OUR MIDDLE ISLANDS ARE IN MANY PARTS OF OUR CITY ON, IN MULTIPLE OF OUR DISTRICTS ARE LOOKING FILTHY. THEY'RE LOOKING OVER OVERGROWN WEEDS IN OUR SIDEWALKS. THAT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE. UM, BRIGHTVIEW AND, AND WHAT'S OTHER COMPANY CALLED, UH, MERCHANT MERCHANTS NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE OR OUR CITY STAFF, OR WE'RE GONNA HOLD, WE SHOULD HOLD 'EM ACCOUNTABLE LEGALLY. SO, UH, THIS IS ANOTHER NEW ISSUE, BUT, UH, I THINK CI THINK CITY MANAGER, I THINK YOU, YOU HEARD A LOT OF, UH, OUR FIVE CITY COUNCIL COMPLAINING ABOUT OKAY. WHAT YOU MENTIONED ABOVE IS BASICALLY IT'S, UH, NOT PRESENTABLE, NOT WEST COVINA. WE, WE WANT A CLEAN SIDEWALK. WE WANT THE TREE. TREE. WELL, WOULD BE NO JUNGLE. UH, AND RIGHT NOW IT LOOK PRETTY BAD. YES. I UNDERSTAND, UH, THE CONCERNS AND I UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL, AND I BELIEVE THIS WAS A MOTHER MAY I, AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING. CORRECT. THIS IS CURRENTLY BEING ADDRESSED AND I WILL REPORT BACK. THANK YOU. AND [6) CONSIDERATION OF AGREEMENT WITH KIMLEY-HORN AND ASSOCIATES, INC. FOR PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING PHASE SERVICES FOR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL & PEDESTRIAN SAFETY PROJECT - PROJECT NO. ATPL05259(032)] AS A MOVE ON, UH, NUMBER SIX AND, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, DO WE HAVE SOMEONE THAT'S GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS OR SHOULD I JUST ADDRESS THIS? WHAT WAS YOUR QUESTION? GONNA BE PRESENTING IT? OH YEAH. HI, ROBERT. ROBERT ORTEGA, OUR CIP MANAGER IS HERE TO PRESENT AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. OKAY. EVENING. OKAY. SO I WAS REVIEWING THIS AND I CAME ACROSS, UM, ONE OF THE ISSUES. OH, WELL, I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF, UM, UPDATING, OR THE DESIGNS INCLUDE A LOT OF CROSSWALKS THAT WERE GONNA BE REPAINTED OR, UM, AND, UM, AND PUTTING UP SOME STOP SIGNS. AND, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I NOTICED IS THAT THERE WASN'T, UM, SOMETHING THAT I HAVE BEEN ADDRESSING TO OUR PREVIOUS CITY MANAGER, AND THAT IS WE USED TO HAVE THE CROSSWALKS IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOLS THAT HAD FLASHING LIGHTS MM-HMM . AND FLASHING STREET LIGHTS IN YELLOW, AND THEY REMOVED THEM. AND, UM, I WANTED TO KNOW IF MAYBE THIS COULD BE PART OF THIS PLAN, IF THEY COULD INCLUDE THAT. WE HAVE THREE MAJOR, UM, SCHOOLS THAT, UM, KIDS AND, AND PEDESTRIANS, EVEN WHEN YOU'RE WALKING. UM, IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE. MM-HMM . THEY ARE WALKING ON MERCED, UH, LIKE EDGEWOOD, [02:40:01] UM, MEED ELEMENTARY, THEY'RE WALKING ACROSS ON MEED. UM, THAT'S A BUSY STREET. AND ALSO THE OTHER SCHOOL THAT COMES TO MIND IS MESA ELEMENTARY, ANOTHER SCHOOL THAT HAS A BUSY, UM, STREET, WHICH IS BARRANCA. SO I WANNA KNOW IF WE CAN ADD THAT TO THIS, UM, DESIGN. GOT IT. YEAH, THAT'S SOMETHING. AND ACTUALLY, WE INVITED KIMLEY HOER HERE AND THE AUDIENCE. UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN EXPLORE AND LOOK INTO IN THE DESIGN. I'M SURE IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN INCORPORATE. UM, BUT YES, I CAN GET THE ANSWERS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AND REPORT BACK TO CITY MANAGER, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE GETTING GRANTS FOR THIS MM-HMM . AND IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I REALLY WANNA ADDRESSED. OKAY. THANK YOU. SOUNDS GOOD. YOU'RE DONE? YEAH. OKAY. AND, UH, YEP. OKAY. YEAH. SO MAY MAYBE, UH, MAYBE TRANSECT KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THAT. YOU GUYS KNOW. I THINK THEY KNOW . AND, AND, UH, JUST TO, UH, PIGGYBACK OFF, UH, WHAT COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ SAID, I THINK, UH, I THINK I CONS, MARTIA MENTIONED IT BEFORE, I THINK I MENTIONED IT BEFORE, AND IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE WE'RE INTEGRATING THE NEWER TECHNOLOGY ON, ON, ON THESE LOCATIONS. AND IF THAT'S INTEGRATING THE CROSSWALK LIGHTS THAT GO ON THE FLOOR, UH, THE, THE MORE HIGHER TECH, UH, SKEW CROSSING SIGNS THAT, THAT ILLUMINATE A BRIGHTER AND AND STRONGER TO, TO THE VEHICLE, UH, I THINK THAT'S ESSENTIAL TO PREVENT, UH, CRASHES AND, AND, AND DEATHS AND, AND, AND, AND HITS HIT OR HITS OUR KIDS BEING HIT IN, IN OUR STREETS. SO, UNDERSTOOD. AND WE WILL INCORPORATE IT THROUGH OUR DESIGN TEAM WHERE WE CAN, UM, AS WAS NOTED, THIS IS GRANT FUNDING. WE WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT OPPORTUNITY TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY. AND AS LONG AS IT'S WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE GRANT PROGRAM, WE WILL ABSOLUTELY INCLUDE IT. AND REALLY, IF WE CAN EXTEND IT NOT JUST TO THE CROSSWALKS IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOLS, BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF BUSY INTERSECTIONS THAT JUST HAVE THE FLASHING STOP SIGNS. BUT IF WE HAVE THE CROSSWALKS THAT WERE LIT UP AS WELL, THE WAY THEY DO IN YEAH. WHERE'S THAT AREA? BY THE BEACH? I KNOW WE'RE NOT A BEACH CITY, BUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE CAN SEE HOW MUCH IT COST. YEAH. IT'S, IF WE CAN GET SOME GRANTS, THAT'LL BE YEAH. RIGHT. THE ONLY, THE ONLY CAUTION I, I WOULD SHARE WITH, WITH COUNCIL AND IT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA. SO FULLY, FULLY APPRECIATE THE THOUGHT. UM, THERE'S THE MAINTENANCE SIDE, SO, UM, OH YEAH. WE JUST NEED TO CONSIDER, WE NEED TO CONSIDER THAT. YEAH. WE HAVE GRANT FUNDING FOR THE UPFRONT CAPITAL COST. IT'S THE LONG TERM MAINTENANCE. SO AS LONG AS WE'RE, IF IT'S A SAFETY ISSUE, THEN WE CAN PROBABLY WORK ON GETTING GRANTS. YEAH. RIGHT. AND I KNOW, AND I KNOW PUBLIC WORKS HAS SOMETIMES VOICED THEIR OPINION ABOUT NOT INTEGRATING THAT TECHNOLOGY BECAUSE IT, IT DOES REQUIRE MAINTENANCE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, UH, WE'VE BEEN ELECTED TO, TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY AND, AND MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER. SO IT IT, WHEN WE, I THINK WHEN WE RECOMMEND SOMETHING, IT'S, IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE THE INTERESTS OF OUR RESIDENTS AT HEART, SO. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND, UH, DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THE MOTION? DO I HAVE SECOND? I'LL SECOND. OKAY. UH, ROLL CALL PLEASE. THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR. OKAY. UH, ROLL CALL PLEASE. THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR. ITEM NUMBER SIX, CONSIDERATION NUMBER, AN AGREEMENT WITH KIMBERLY HORNE AND ASSOCIATES INC. FOR PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING PHASE SERVICES FOR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY PROJECT. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. AYE. THEY APPROACH HIM. LOPEZ VITO. AYE. MAYOR W AYE. AND, UH, APPROVE I ZERO. AND [10) CONSIDERATION OF SIXTH AMENDMENT TO MAINTENANCE SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH WEST COAST ARBORISTS, INC.] THEN WE MOVE INTO ITEM NUMBER 10. UH, BRIAN GUT PLEASE. YES, IS, UH, WEST COAST ARBORIST HERE. THE WHOLE EVEN MAY MAYOR. HI. HI. HI. YEAH, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. UM, THE FIRST QUESTION IS, WHAT PERCENTAGE LEVEL ARE YOU CUTTING OUR, OUR CITY TREES AT RIGHT NOW? UH, WHEN IT COMES TO THE TRIM LEVEL, WE, WE DO IT TO ISA STANDARDS, WHICH IS, UH, CALLS FOR NO MORE THAN 30%. 30%. AND AND WHY IS THAT? UH, THAT'S FOR THE GENERAL HEALTH AND OVERALL MAIN, UM, QUALITY OF THE TREE. AND, AND JUST SO I UNDERSTAND THE TREE BUSINESS, UH, YOU KNOW, USUALLY WHEN YOU CALL AN ARBORIST, YOU COME OUT KIND OF COMMERCIAL LOCATION OR EVEN RESIDENTIAL ZONES, SOMETIMES THEY'LL EVEN CUT IT TO 90%. THEY'LL, THEY'LL FULLY TRIM IT BALD. IT'S SOMETIMES, UH, I THINK SOMETIMES THEY'LL EVEN CUT IT TO, I THINK, UH, MOST RECENTLY YOU GUYS WERE ABLE TO DO, UH, A CO A COUPLE OF MONTHS, A FEW MONTHS BACK, UH, YOU GUYS WERE ABLE TO DO, UM, UH, ORANGEWOOD PARK, AND I THINK YOU DID, UH, I [02:45:01] BELIEVE POTENTIALLY DID ABOUT 60% OR 70%. DO YOU KNOW RECALL 60%? I BELIEVE I, I WOULD HAVE TO CHECK WITH THE, THE AREA MANAGER AND THE STAFF THAT, UH, YEAH. YEAH. SO I, I THINK POTENTIALLY IT WAS ABOUT 60 OR 60%, 60 TO 70%. AND, AND THOSE TREES ARE MORE HEALTHIER TODAY. THEY'RE MORE, MORE BEAUTIFUL TODAY. AND SO MY CONCERN IS, IS THAT IF WE'RE PAYING YOU A FOOD RATE, IS DOES IT COST US MORE FOR YOU TO CUT OUR TREES AT 60% RATE? TYPICALLY YES. AND BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IF YOU'RE TAKING MORE OUT, IT'S MORE WORK. UM, I THINK YOU, YOU'RE, I I, I DON'T WANT TO LIKE DISRESPECT YOUR OPINION OR, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT I THINK IF YOU READ ON THE LITERATURE, WHEN YOU TRIM 'EM REALLY HARD, YOU ARE CORRECT. WHEN THEY COME BACK REALLY BUSHY AND GREEN AND, AND THEY LOOK REALLY, THEY LOOK FULL. BUT AS FAR AS THE NEW GROWTH THAT COMES OUT, IT'S NOT HEALTHY AT THE ATTACHMENTS. IT'S WEAK ATTACHMENTS. THAT'S WHERE YOU GET MORE OF THE POTENTIAL OF, UH, LIMB FAILURE, THE NEW GROWTH THAT COMES OUT, AND IT REQUIRES MORE FREQUENT PRUNING. NOW THAT BEING SAID, IF THAT'S WHAT THE CITY WANTS TO DO, I'M ALL FOR THAT. BUT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS DO A GOOD QUALITY TRIM THAT WILL LAST AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. YEAH. SO YOU'RE NOT TRIMMING IT MORE FREQUENTLY AND SPENDING MORE MONEY ON IT. WELL, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE POTENTIALLY SPENDING MORE MONEY BECAUSE YOU'RE CUTTING AT POTENTIALLY 30% OR 20%. UH, AND, AND SOMETIMES, UH, I'LL GET PICTURES OF RESIDENTS THAT SHOW POTENTIALLY 10%. IT'S CUTTING ON BUSH DOWN, BUT MM-HMM. AND YOU, AND I THINK YOU'RE CHARGING US THE WHOLE FEE. AND, AND THAT'S A CONCERN TO ME AND, AND OUR RESIDENTS. UM, AND ANOTHER THING WAS IS THAT WHEN YOU REMOVE A, WHEN YOU HAVE TO REMOVE A DEAD TREE, UM, DO YOU JUST TAKE OUT THE TREE AND LEAVE THE HOLE OPEN SO SOMEONE COULD FALL IN? OR DO YOU COVER IT UP OR YOU NO, NO. YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE TO CONCEAL IT TOO, OR, OH, ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY. SO, SO YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO SELL IT? YES. SO WHAT WE DO IS WE DO THE COMPLETE TREE AND STUMP REMOVAL, WE GRIND, AND, UM, OUR POLICY IS WHEN WE BACKFILL, WE LEAVE A LITTLE HUMP. AND THE REASON FOR IT IS BECAUSE FOR THE SETTLEMENT, IF WE LEAVE IT LEVEL, THEN WHEN IT SETTLES, NOW YOU HAVE AN INDENTATION AND A POSSIBLE TRIP HAZARD. SO WHAT WE DO IS WE LEAVE IT WITH A SLIGHT PUMP. SO OVER A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS THAT SETTLES AND THEN YOU HAVE A LEVEL. YEAH. SO I WOULD, I WOULD ASSUME LIKE EVEN LIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE HAVE SOME BEAUTIFUL TREES OFF OUR MAIN STREETS, LIKE, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ON, UH, LET'S SEE, WHERE IS IT AT WEST PEANUT PARKWAY OR BY THE SPORTS PLEX, WE HAVE TREES THAT HAVE, UH, US SOMETIMES CRATES OVER THE TREE MM-HMM . TO MAKE IT REALLY LOOK REALLY BEAUTIFUL. AND, AND I'M ASSUMING THAT IF YOU'RE TAKING OUT A WHOLE TREE THAT YOU'RE ALSO FILLING THAT UP, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT LEAVING, YOU'RE NOT LETTING OUR RESIDENTS WALK RIGHT INTO THE HOLE, RIGHT? NO. YEAH. THERE'S SO MUCH LIABILITY THAT WOULD BE ON US IF THAT HAPPENED. YEAH. SO YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO FILL THAT HOLE. YES, ABSOLUTELY. OKAY, PERFECT. PERFECT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. YEAH. OKAY. MIR PUTIN, UH, TO FOLLOW UP, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ, UM, AN EXAMPLE OF THE TREE WITH THE GREAT THAT'S THERE, OBVIOUSLY THE GRATES A LITTLE HIGHER. THE, UH, HOW WOULD YOU, WHEN YOU REMOVE THAT TREE, WHAT DO YOU DO EXACTLY? SO WE REMOVE THE TREE, AND THEN THERE'S, TO REMOVE THE STUMP AND THE ROOTS, WE HAVE ROOT, UH, UH, STUMP GRINDERS. SO WHAT IT IS, IT'S A BIG HYDRAULIC WHEEL WITH CUTTING TEETH, AND IT JUST, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN LIKE AN ASPHALT GRINDER, SOME, SOMETHING LIKE THAT'S ABOUT A THREE FOOT WHEEL, AND IT ALTERNATES BACK AND FORTH, AND AS YOU'RE CUTTING IT, YOU'RE GOING DOWN DEEPER AND DEEPER UNTIL THE ROOTS ARE COMPLETELY GONE. WHAT THAT DOES IS IT JUST CREATES A BIG PILE OF, OF DEBRIS THAT'S MIXED WITH WOOD CHIP AND, AND DIRT. WE USE THAT TO GO AHEAD AND BACKFILL, AND THEN THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT FILL FULL. SO THOSE TREE WELLS THAT HAVE THOSE GRATES, DO YOU ACTUALLY REMOVE THE GRATE ITSELF AND TAKE CARE OF THAT? YES. IF THEY ARE REMOVABLE, WE DO. THEN WE ALSO WORK WITH CITY STAFF, UM, WITH, WHEN WE RUN INTO THE CHALLENGES LIKE THAT WHERE THERE'S TREE GRATES AND, UM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY FOR US TO GET THE STUMP OUT, WE HAVE TO REMOVE THE TREE GRATE. SO WE'LL SOMETIMES IF THEY'RE NOT REMOVABLE, WE'LL WORK WITH STACEY'S STAFF TO WHERE THEY ARRANGE, WHERE THEY REMOVE 'EM BEFORE I, WE COME OUT AND GRIND, AND THEN THEY, THEY REPLACE 'EM. OKAY. THEY REPLACE IT. AND YOU DON'T REPLACE THE TREES THAT ONCE REMOVED ON CERTAIN CITY AREAS? WELL, AT, AT CITIES REQUEST, IF THEY WANT THE TREE REPLACED, ABSOLUTELY WE WILL, WE WILL GRIND, UM, REPLANT AND THEN PUT THE GRATE BACK IN. BUT THAT'S AT CITY REQUEST IF THEY WANNA REPLACE A TREE OR NOT. AND DOES CITY REQUEST TO REPLACE THOSE? UH, USUALLY WHEN IT'S IN A SETTING WITH THE TREE GRATE IN A DOWNTOWN AREA THAT [02:50:01] YEAH, THEY WANNA REPLACE A TREE, YEAH. MOST LIKELY THEY WILL BE REPLACED. BUT SOMETIMES IN LIKE REDEVELOPMENT, UM, UH, PROJECTS, UH, TO WHERE THEY WANT TO DO AWAY WITH THE GRATES AND THEN JUST FILL THOSE IN WITH CONCRETE, UH, IT'S, IT'S ENTIRELY UP TO THE CITY ON WHAT THEIR PLAN IS. AND WE FOLLOW THOSE DIRECTIONS. THAT'S FREE. THAT'S, THAT'S FREE. THAT'S THOSE TREE I'M BLANK PLEASE. YEAH, I WAS ASKING THE CONS, THE THREE, I MEAN, THE, THE, THAT THAT'S, THAT'S PART OF THE CONTRACT REGARDING REPLACING THE TREES? YES. YES. AT, AT CITY'S REQUEST. YEAH. SO CAN, SHOULDN'T IT BE DEFAULT? BECAUSE I KNOW WHEN YOU WORK WITH CITY, YOU WORK WITH DIFFERENT CITY STAFF OR WHO, WHICH CITY STAFF DO YOU NORMALLY WORK WITH? WELL, UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE WORKING WITH RAW ALVARADO. OKAY. UM, HE, HE, UM, ORDERS ALL THE WORK TO BE DONE. HE GIVES US DIRECTION ON WHAT'S TO BE REMOVED, WHAT'S TO BE TRENDED, WHAT'S TO BE REPLACED. UM, I MEAN, I, I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT ONCE TREES REMOVED WITHOUT HAVING TO WAIT TO A CITY STAFF, BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON WHICH CITY STAFF, UM, SPEAKS TO YOU OR HOWEVER THAT MAY BE, THAT IT SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE REPLACED ONCE IT'S REMOVED, SHOULD BE REPLACED UNLESS CITY STAFF TELLS YOU NO. UM, THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE MOVING FORWARD. NOT, UM, WAITING UNTIL, SEE, I MEAN, THAT'S A POLICY THAT WE WANNA PUT IN PLACE AND ABSOLUTELY WITH ANY TREE THAT WE REMOVE WILL, YOU KNOW, WE'LL PLAN ANOTHER ONE. OKAY. THANK YOU. OH, OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY. UM, CONS, COUNCILMAN OLI, KENTO. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. SO IF THERE IS A TREE THAT'S REMOVED AND THERE'S A HOLE, AND AT LEAST UNDER CURRENT POLICY, THE CITY NEEDS TO REQUEST IT, IS THERE A CERTAIN TIME WITHIN WHICH, UH, THE, THE, THE HOLE IS FILLED IN, OR WHAT IS THE STANDARD PRACTICE? THE HOLE IS FILLED IN IMMEDIATELY AFTER WE REMOVE THE TREE, BUT IT'S, IT'S ONLY DONE AFTER THE, THE CITY REQUESTS THAT TREE TO BE RE REPLACED. AT LEAST THAT'S HOW IT IS CURRENTLY. AS FAR AS THE REPLACEMENT, YES, THERE'S, THERE'S A SPECIES OF TREES THAT NEED TO BE CHOSEN. UM, CITY STAFF HAS TO LET US KNOW, UM, TIMING ON WHEN, IF, IF THE POLICY, UM, STATES THAT, UH, AT THE TIME OF REMOVAL WE WANT IT REPLACED IMMEDIATELY, THEN WE CAN, UM, PROVIDE THE PLANTING CREW TO COME RIGHT BEHIND THE REMOVAL CREW AND REPLACE A TREE. THE, THE VERY DAY THAT WE REMOVE IT, IT, IT'S, IF THAT'S WHAT CITY STAFF, UH, DIRECTS US TO DO. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. AND, OKAY, UH, WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE A IP GOING ON RIGHT NOW? UH, YES. SO WHEN THE IP WILL BE OVER, UM, IT'S CURRENTLY IN REVIEW WITH OUR CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. UH, IT, IT'LL BE PUBLISHED HOPEFULLY WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO, AND WE'LL CIRCLE BACK TO THE COUNCIL. OKAY. AS CITY MANAGER, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? I'M SORRY. YES, IF I MAY, UM, MY LAND IS CORRECT THAT IT WAS WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE THAT HAS BEEN BOUNCED BACK FOR STAFF TO FINALIZE THE COMMENTS MADE BY THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. AND THAT WAS PROVIDED YESTERDAY. SO BASIC RP SENT OUT AND WE RECEIVED SOME BID ALREADY. NO, IT STILL NEEDS TO BE POSTED. SO THE COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED, WE NOT EVEN OUT YET. OH MY GOD. , I TAKE IT FOREVER. I THINK WE, WE RECEIVED STAFF, RECEIVED THE RFP BACK FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE YESTERDAY. WHAT? WHY? SO WHY SO SLOW? JOHNNY . TOM , TOM'S ON THE SPOTLIGHT AGAIN, . I, I, I TALKED TO THE ACTING CITY MANAGER ABOUT THIS. I DON'T, IT JUST TOOK A WHILE. UM, SO WE ARE GONNA SEND OUT, OKAY, SINCE WE GONNA SEND IP, SO YOU, YOU, OKAY. BECAUSE COUNTRIES UP, WE HAVE TO DO THE IP, HOWEVER YOU UNDERSTAND IS TYPICAL THE BUSINESS LIKE THIS. AND THEN, SO, AND THEN YOU CAN BID ON WHEN HOPEFULLY YOU GIVE US A GOOD PRICE. AND SO WE HAVE A, DO I HAVE A MOTION FOR MONTH TO MONTH? I'LL MAKE A, I'LL MAKE A A MOTION. UH, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A, UH, A INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF YOU'RE TRIMMING OUR TREES TO AT LEAST 60% COUNCIL, ALSO MEMBER GUT TERRACE. I THINK WE DISCUSSED THIS THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE, AND I'M MORE THAN HAPPY AT THE DIRECTION OF STAFF IF HE WANTS A LITTLE BIT MORE TAKEN OUT. WE'LL, WE WILL ACCOMMODATE THAT. IT DOESN'T, IT'S NOT STRICT 30%. THAT'S WHAT ISA RECOMMENDS. UM, BUT OF COURSE I'M GONNA WORK WITH, WITH CITY STAFF AND COUNCIL. IF YOU'RE MARK, YOU'RE HAPPIER WITH, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE 40 OR 50%, WE CAN, WE CAN PUSH IT. COUNCILMAN, BUT THIS IS ABOUT THE COUNTRY MONTH TO MONTH. YEAH. ABOUT EACH THREE DIFFERENTLY. SOME 30%, SOME MAYBE 60%. LET THE PUBLIC WORK DIRECTOR OR SUPERVISOR TO DECIDE EACH ONE CASE BY CASE. SO, BUT THIS IS ABOUT MONTH TO MONTH BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE, WE CONTRACT UP AND WE HAVE IP. YEAH. HOPEFULLY THEY SEND OUT ASAP, BUT CURRENTLY WE JUST WANT TO GIVE THEM CONTINUOUS SERVICES. OKAY. MONTHS AND MONTHS. AND THEN THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. YEAH. PERFECT. AND THEN, UH, WHEN IS THE RP [02:55:01] GONNA BE POSTED? TOM, YOU'RE SMILING. I'M ALWAYS SMILING. NO, SOMETIMES YOU'RE CRYING. , I'M SORRY, GO AHEAD. WHEN IS THE RFP GONNA BE POSTED? WE CAN GET IT UP THIS WEEK. STAFF IS WORKING ON IT THIS WEEK. OKAY, PERFECT. OKAY, SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE MONTH TO MONTH FOR NOW. OKAY. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. OKAY. UM, MO OKAY. UH, ROLL CODE PLEASE. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR. ITEM NUMBER 10, CONSIDERATION OF SIXTH AMENDMENT TO MAINTENANCE SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH WEST COAST ARBORISTS. COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PRO. TIM LOPEZ. VITO AYE. MAYOR A MO FIVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. APPRECIATE. AND, AND IF I COULD JUST SAY, UH, ONE THING, UM, AND SINCE HE'S, HE SINCE YOU, SINCE YOU COMMITTED TO, I THINK, UH, I THINK, UH, OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE, WILL PROBABLY HAVE A LIST OF, OF LOCATIONS THAT TREES WERE TAKEN OUT AND YOU COULD PLANT THE NEW TREES IN ACCORDANCE TO THE CONTRACT. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [PUBLIC HEARINGS] OKAY. AND, UH, NOW WE ARE GOING TO ITEM NUMBER 11. OKAY. WE REPORT, DOC, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. NOW I'M GONNA GO BACK TO MY SCRIPT. I CAN'T SORRY. IN REFERENCE TO THAT. GO AHEAD. JUST BECAUSE LIKE IN IN, IN MY DISTRICT I'VE HAD RESIDENTS HAD, UM, THEY HAD THEIR TREES REMOVED AND I WAS TOLD THAT, OH, THAT THEY CAN'T BE REPLACED. SO IF THEY CAN CHECK MY PREVIOUS EMAIL AND THOSE RESIDENTS, I BELIEVE I MIGHT HAVE THREE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS HEARTBROKEN THAT THEIR TREE WAS REMOVED AND THEY'VE BEEN WANTING IT REPLACED. IF WE CAN REPLACE THOSE TREES IN FRONT OF THE UH, YEAH. THE CITY. YEAH. UH, GIVE THE ADDRESS, UH, THAT WE HAVE, UH, THE WEST COAST TO REPLANT THE TREE. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND PLEASE HAVE, UH, INFORMATION SENT TO THE CITY AND UH, WE CAN TAKE CARE FOR THAT. OKAY. WE GO TO 18 ELEVENS, CITY OF WEST VIN JOB VACANCY AND THE RECRUITMENT AND, UH, RETAINING EFFORT. OKAY. WE REPORT ADOPTION AND UH, HERE TO BE AB 2 5 6 1, UH, CITY ATTORNEY. YOU TALKING, ARE YOU WANNA SHARE WITH US WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? NO, NO. LET'S GO TO THE, THE MATTER SET FOR PUBLIC HEARING IS REPORT ON THE CITY OF WEST COVINA JOB VACANCY AND THE RECRUITMENT AND THE RETENTION EFFORT. THE CITY CLUB VERIFY NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN NOTICE WAS GIVEN. OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND, UH, LET'S GO TO, AT THIS TIME I SHOULD OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING ON JOB VACANCY AND RECRUITMENT AND RETAINING EFFORT. THERE'LL BE SET A PRESENTATION OF THE STAFF REPORT, THEN WE SHALL HEAR COMMENT FROM THE PUBLIC. OKAY. ACTING CITY MANAGER WHO WILL PRESENT THIS STAFF REPORT. MR. MAYOR ACTING, UM, HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR CARMELITA UNDERWOOD WILL BE PRESENTING TONIGHT. YEAH, GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL MAYOR WU, MAYOR PRO PROAM COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF AND PUBLIC. I WILL BE PRESENTING ON AB 25 61 PUBLIC HEARING ON COUNCIL VACANCIES AND RECRUITMENT AND EFFORT RETENTION. IN SEPTEMBER 22, ON SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2024, GOVERNOR ANCE SIGNED AB 25 61 INTO LAW TO AMEND THE MEYER, THE MEYERS MILAN BROWN ACT AND EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST, 2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 25 61 MODIFIED THE MEYERS BROWN ACT TO UPDATE CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 35 0 2 0.3. THIS MODIFICATION INTRODUCED NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC AGENCIES TO ANNUALLY REPORT VACANT POSITION, RECRUITMENTS AND RETENTION EFFORTS. THE CITY IS REQUIRED TO PRESENT THE STATUS OF VACANCIES AND RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION EFFORTS DURING A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL AT LEAST ONCE PER FISCAL YEAR. AND THIS PRESENTATION MUST BE DONE PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF THE CITY FINAL BUDGET. THIS SECTION ALSO REQUIRES THE CITY TO IDENTIFY ANY NECESSARY CHANGES TO ANY POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND RECRUITMENT ACTIVITY THAT MAY LEAD TO OBSTACLES IN THE HIRING PROCESS. THE BARGAINING UNIT IS ALLOWED TO MAKE THEIR PRESENTATIONS AT THIS HEARING. IF A VACANCY WITHIN A SINGLE BARGAINING UNIT MEETS OR EXCEED OVER 20% OF THE AUTHORIZED FULL-TIME POSITIONS OF THAT BARGAINING UNIT, THE CITY MUST PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE VACANCIES AND REQUIREMENTS UPON REQUESTS OF THE BARGAINING UNIT. FOR THE CITYWIDE STAFFING LEVELS ADOPTED IN FISCAL YEAR 2010, IT KIND OF TRICKLED JUST A LITTLE BIT, BUT OVER THE LAST THREE FISCAL YEARS, IT REMAINED CONS CONSISTENT WITH 316 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. ONCE AGAIN, THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE PRESENTATION IS A PUBLIC HEARING AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR, UM, PRIOR TO THE FISCAL ADOPTING THE ANNUAL BUDGET. AND THE REQUIRED INFORMATION THAT [03:00:01] NEEDS TO BE PRESENTED TO COUNCIL AND TO PUBLIC IS STATUS OF THE VACANCIES, RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION EFFORTS AND IDENTIFYING ANY NECESSARY CHANGES THAT MAY LEAD TO AN OBSTACLE IN THE HIRING PROCESS. ALSO MUST BE ALLOWED IS THE RECOGNIZED EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS FOR A BARGAINING UNIT TO MAKE A PRESENTATION AT THE HEARING. E HR DEPARTMENT COORDINATES WITH FINANCE REGARDING THE BUDGET FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE JOB DESCRIPTION ARE REVIEWED AND UPDATED AS NEEDED PRIOR TO THE OPENING OF THE POSITION OR THE RECRUITMENT. AFTER THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS IS FINALIZED, THE POSITION IS POSTED AND PUBLISHED ON MAJOR BOARDS. AN ONLINE TRACKING SYSTEM IS USED TO ENSURE THAT ALL CANDIDATES ARE SYSTEMATICALLY REVIEWED AND HR PROCEED PRE-SCREEN ALL APPLICATIONS AND CANDIDATES WHILE WORKING WITH THE HIRING DEPARTMENTS TO CREATE A SCREEN AND INTERVIEW PLAN. AFTER CANDIDATES ARE INTERVIEWED, THE HIRING MANAGER SELECTS A CANDIDATE FOR THE POSITION AND AN OFFER LETTER IS CREATED AND SIGNED BY THE FINANCE DIRECTOR FOR VACANCY. OVERALL FISCAL YEAR 24 25, THE CITY AUTHORIZED 316 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES AND FISCAL YEAR 25 26 BUDGET PROPOSED 316 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES WITH THE RECLASSIFICATION. THE CITY OVERALL VACANCY RATE AS OF JUNE 2ND, 2025 IS 10.79%. AND THEIR VACAN, THE VACANCIES ARE 34% CITYWIDE AS OF JUNE 2ND, 2025. WE HAVE NINE VACANCIES BY THE BARGAINING GROUPS. WE HAVE NINE BARGAINING GROUPS AND AT THE CURRENT TIME, ONLY ONE OF THOSE BARGAINING GROUPS MET THE 20 OVER THE 25% VACANCY RATE, WHICH WAS THE GENERAL BARGAINING GROUP, WHICH HAD 22 FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES BUDGETED AND SIX VACANCIES GIVING THAT VACANCY RATE OF 27 POINT 27%. SO WITHIN THAT BARGAINING GROUP OF THE GENERAL, THE VACANCIES THAT OCCURRED FOR THE FULL-TIME BUDGET, THE POSITIONS WERE THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. ONE HAD ONE VACANCY, FIRE PROTECTION SPECIALIST HAD ONE VACANCY AND THE FLEET SERVICE COORDINATOR HAD ONE VACANCY AND THE POLICE OFFICER RECRUIT HAD THREE, GIVING IT A TOTAL OF SIX VACANCIES, WHICH PUT IT OVER THE 20 VAC, 20% VACANCY RATE. I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF DEPARTMENTS WITHIN, UM, THE BARGAINING GROUPS. CITY MANAGER OFFICE VACANCIES. WE HAVE THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, WHICH HAD THREE VACANCIES, BUT CURRENTLY THE CITY MANAGER IS FILLED AT AN ACTING CAPACITY. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR WAS ONE VACANCY AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HOUSING MANAGER WAS VAC ONE VACANCY. AND THAT POSITION IS CURRENTLY FILLED IN AN ACTING CAPACITY. THE CITY MANAGER VACANCY OCCURRED IN MAY OF 2025 AND THE ECONOMIC HOUSING MANAGER VACANCY OCCURRED DECEMBER, 2024. SO RIGHT NOW RECRUITMENT IS PENDING REVIEW. PRIOR TO OPENING ANY RECRUITMENTS FOR THOSE POSITIONS. FOR THE FINANCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENTS. FOR FINANCE, THERE WAS TWO VACANCIES, ACCOUNTANT ONE AND THE FINANCE DIRECTOR ONE. THE RECRUITMENT IS PENDING FINAL DECISION FOR THE FINANCE DIRECTOR AND THAT VACANCY WAS VACANT SINCE FEBRUARY OF 2025. THE ACCOUNTANT ONE IS PENDING PRIOR REVIEW AND OPENING UP A RECRUITMENT FOR THAT ACCOUNTANT POSITION. AND THAT VAC WAS, THAT VACANCY WAS WAS SINCE JANUARY OF 2025 FOR OUR HUMAN RESOURCES, UH, EXCUSE ME. AND THE FINANCE DIRECTOR IS FILLED AT A ACTING CAPACITY AS WELL FOR OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR. UM, THIS IS A NEW POSITION PROGRAMED IN FISCAL YEAR 20 24, 25. AND IT'S CURRENTLY WE ARE, THE RECRUITMENT IS CURRENTLY IN A CANDIDATE REVIEW AND INTERVIEW STAGE FOR OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE HAVE 15 VACANCIES THERE, A RETIRE, THERE WAS A RETIREMENT IN DECEMBER 24 FOR THE COMMUNICATION MANAGER, WHICH LEFT THE ONE VACANCY AND THERE WAS AN ACTIVE RECRUITMENT FOR THAT POSITION. THE JAILER POSITIONS HAVE BEEN, THERE WAS A RECENT RESIGNATION PLACED AND THE POLICE IS, POLICE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING WITH THE RE FOR THE RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES. OUR POLICE OFFICER AND RECRUIT HAVE EIGHT VACANCIES. HOWEVER, THERE HAS BEEN SIX NEW OFFICERS AND RECRUITS THAT STARTED ON JUNE 9TH. THE ADDITIONAL VACANCIES ARE ALSO POSTED AS JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR POLICE SPECIALIST RECORD SPECIALISTS. THAT'S AN ACTIVE RECRUITMENT DUE TO INTERNAL PROMOTION. FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCH POSITION, THERE'S THREE VACANCIES AND THERE IS AN ACTIVE RECRUITMENT TO FILL THOSE POSITIONS. [03:05:01] EXCUSE ME, I SKIPPED A SLIDE. I WANNA GO BACK TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE FIRE CHIEF, THERE'S SEVEN VACANCIES AND THE FIRE CHIEF IS ONE OF THEM. AND, BUT THAT'S FILLED AT AN ACTING CAPACITY, AND THAT'S BEEN VACANT SINCE NOVEMBER, 2024. FOR THE FIRE ENGINEER, THERE'S A RECENT RESIGNATION, UM, IN APRIL, 2025, AND THE DEPARTMENT IS PREPARING THE REQUEST FOR THE RECRUITMENT FOR FINANCE TO INITIATE THAT PROCESS. RECRUITMENT IS PENDING FOR THE FIRE PROTECTIVE SPECIALIST AND A FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC. HOWEVER, THERE IS TWO PART-TIME FIRE PROTECTION SPECIALISTS FILLING THE FULL-TIME POSITION WHILE THE RECRUITMENT IS UNDERWAY. AND FOR THE MANAGEMENT ANALYST, WE'RE PROPOSING TO RECLASS THAT TO THE DEPUTY FIRE MA IN FISCAL YEAR 25, 26. I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. FOR OUR PUBLIC WORKS, WE HAVE FIVE VACANCIES. WE HAVE OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR THAT IS CURRENTLY BUILT BEING UNDERFILLED WITH A PART-TIME DEPUTY DIRECTOR. AND THEN WE HAVE FOUR ADDITIONAL POSITIONS THAT EACH HAVE ONE VACANCY, WHICH IS THE EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, FLEET SERVICE COORDINATOR, MAINTENANCE WORKER THREE, AND THE STREET MAINTENANCE SUPERVISORS. AND THOSE RECRUITMENTS ARE PENDING REVIEW PRIOR TO OPENING RECRUITMENTS. LASTLY, THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CHALLENGE EFFORTS. THE CHALLENGES IS MAINTAINING COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION PACKAGES FOR ALL BARGAINING GROUPS, NOT OFFERING REMOTE OR HYBRID POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL POLICY. AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING TO RETAIN THE RETENTION EFFORT IS OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANNUAL MERIT INCREASE, PROMOTING POSITIVE WORKPLACE, DEVELOPING AN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, AND PARTNERING WITH LOCAL EDUCATION INSTITUTES, ENHANCING EMPLOYEES ONBOARDING EXPERIENCE AND ENCOURAGING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, EXPLORING NEW, NEW ADVERTISING METHODS AND ENHANCING SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE AND CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THE CITY BRANDING AS AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE. AND THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION FOR THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION EFFORT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREAT REPORT. OKAY. AND, UH, BEFORE, UH, WE ARE GOING TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTION? YEAH, GO AHEAD. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ? YES. UM, WHEN DO WE PLAN ON, UH, DURING A, UH, JO DURING THE JOB POSTING FOR FIRE CHIEF? DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATE ON THAT? UM, THOSE TOP THERE HAS BEEN TALKS WHEN WE WERE GOING TO PLAN. SO THE, IT'S BETWEEN THE FIRE CHIEF AND THE, UM, ACTING FINANCE DIRECTOR AS WELL AS IT SHOULD BE WITH THE NEW ACTING, UM, CITY MANAGER. SO THOSE TALKS I HAVE NOT BEEN, UH, PRIVY TO. OKAY. BUT THEY WILL BE GOING FORWARD, MOVING FORWARD. OKAY. SO WE, WE COULD POST NOW THE FIRE CHIEF POSITION? WE CAN, YEAH. OKAY. SO MAYBE, UH, AND THEN, UH, AND THEN WHO, WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT SEARCH? THE ACTING CITY MANAGER? UM, THE ACTING CITY MANAGER WILL BE THE ONE WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE WITH THE HELP OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS HUMAN RESOURCES. OKAY. GREAT. AND THEN, UM, AND IF FOR PUBLIC WORKS, UH, FOR THESE OPENINGS IN PUBLIC WORKS, I DON'T SEE ANY, UM, ADDITIONAL ELECTRICIAN, SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE SHOULD LOOK AT, UM, DOES, DOES ANY OF THESE DE ANY OF THESE POSITIONS ENTAIL LIKE A HIRING MORE ELECTRICIANS FOR OUR CITY ? SO I THINK ONE OF THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS REPORT, IT'S A POINT IN TIME OF THE REPORT. SO THE, THE NUMBERS AND STATISTICS ARE ACCURATE AS OF THE DATE OF THE REPORT. UM, SINCE THAT TIME, OBVIOUSLY IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HIRED, PEOPLE HAVE GONE OUT, INJURED, UM, AND ACTUALLY PEOPLE HAVE RETIRED. UM, SO THE CITY'S CONTINUALLY EVALUATING, UM, OUR POSITIONS AND A NEEDS ASSESSMENT. GREAT. AND THEN FOR POLICE OFFICERS, UH, FOR, UH, ENTRY LEVEL POLICE OFFICERS, I SEE THERE'S FIVE. DOES THAT, DOES THAT NOT INCLUDE THE CURRENT ONES THAT ARE IN, UH, THE ACADEMY CURRENTLY? SO THAT NUMBER INCLUDES A, AGAIN, A POINT IN TIME ON JUNE 2ND. UH, THOSE WERE, UH, OR THE DAY OF THE REPORT, THAT IS AN ACCURATE NUMBER. UH, I KNOW SINCE THEN WE'VE, UH, SWORN IN SOME OFFICERS, INCLUDING AS OF TODAY, CITY MANAGER. OKAY. I WANT TO ADD ON, UH, THE, OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER, BECAUSE HE WAS ASKING ABOUT THE ELECTRICIAN. I THINK WE ALREADY HAVE, UH, UEI ELECTRICIAN. YEAH. ALREADY, ALREADY APPLY, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. THAT COULD TAKE FOREVER. SO MAYBE ACTING CITY MANAGER CAN TELL US, UH, HOW SOON WE CAN, IF PEOPLE APPLY, WE DON'T WANT TO MISS THE OPPORTUNITY, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE ALREADY TRAINED. OKAY. AND THEN THEY WANT TO JOIN OUR OKAY. WORKFORCE, WHY WE DELAY THIS AND THAT AS, AS MS. UNDERWOOD, UM, STATED. UM, PART OF THE CHALLENGES AND EFFORTS IS WE HAVE REACTIVATED AN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, [03:10:01] WHICH WAS DORMANT FOR A WHILE. SO NOT ONLY WITHIN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, BUT ALL DEPARTMENTS. UM, AT THE REQUEST OF COUNCIL, WE ARE ONBOARDING INTERNS IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. YEAH. MY UNDERSTANDING, UEI GRADUATE ELECTRICIAN, HE HAS A DIPLOMA AND THE CREDENTIAL POSSIBLE, I THINK IT'S ALREADY APPLIED BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING. OKAY. BECAUSE I WENT TO UEI TO DO THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH, AND THEN THEY RIGHT AWAY COME TO APPLY, THEY'LL GRADUATE. SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN GIVE THEM A CHANCE AND THOSE WILL BE PERFECT KIDS TO HIRE ON A PART-TIME BASIS TO GET A LOT OF THE AREAS WORK FOR ELECTRICIAN WORK THAT WE NEED DONE IN THIS, THE CITY. SO MAYBE YOU COULD, UH, MAYBE USE YOUR, THE CITY MANAGER AUTHORITY THAT YOU HAVE TO, TO HIRE SOME OF THESE KIDS, UH, PART-TIME TO FINISH SOME OF OUR, A LOT OF OUR PARKS, A LOT OF OUR UNDERPASSES, THEY STILL NEED LED LIGHTS. SO AGREE. AGREE. AND IF I MAY THIS, GO AHEAD. IF I MAY. ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR. THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY POSITIONS FOR THE NEW FISCAL YEAR THAT HAS COME. GOT IT. GOT IT. GOT PROBLEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT'S GREAT. BUT WE JUST WANT, DON'T WANT TO MISS ANY OPPORTUNITY, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR YOUNGSTER. THEY, THEY WANT TO WORK FOR US AND THEY, THEY ALREADY TRAINED, UH, FROM THE UEI COLLEGE AND THEN THEY, AND THEIR PASSION TO SERVE US. WHY NOT GET, GIVE THEM A CHANCE? THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONLY THING. AND ESPECIALLY OKAY. AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CRITERIA TALK ABOUT ELECTRICIAN, AND THAT IS A SPECIAL SKILL. AND THEN THEY NEED TO BE TRAINED TO, AND THEN NEED TO GET EXPERIENCE. SO HOPEFULLY, UH, WE CAN RECRUIT THEM TO WORK FOR US. YEAH. GO AHEAD. YOU WANNA CONTINUE OR ARE YOU DONE? YEAH, YEAH. YEAH. I, I'LL JUST SAY, YEAH, IF WE COULD, IF WE COULD HIRE THEM ANY POTENTIALLY AS PART-TIME BASIS AS A MENTORSHIP PROGRAM, UH, AND THEY COULD BE MENTORED, BUT ALSO BE ABLE TO BE PAID PART-TIME AND, AND GET A LOT OF THE WORK THAT, THAT STILL NEEDS TO GET DONE IN, IN OUR CITY. UM, AND IN REGARDS TO, SO, UM, YEAH, SO I, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW, UH, MAYBE AT THE NEXT MEETING, UH, WHICH POLICE POSITIONS STILL REMAIN OPEN THAT HAVE NOT BEEN RECRUITED FOR, AND, AND I THINK, UH, YEAH, I THINK, YEAH, WHICH PO WHICH POLICE PO SORRY, WHICH POLICE POSITIONS STILL NEED TO BE FAILED AND IF THERE'S BEEN ANY, UH, OBSTACLES IN, IN GETTING APPLICANTS FOR THAT. SO WE COULD BE AWARE AS A CONSULT AND, AND SEE WHAT STEPS WE NEED TO TAKE TO INCREASE, UH, THE PROMOTION OR, OR INCENTIVE TO APPLY. SO. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND, UH, ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL? YES. YEAH. OKAY. AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCIL, COUNCILMAN OLI KENTOS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UH, REGARDING THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, CAN WE ASK, UH, THAT, THAT STAFF LOOK AT DIFFERENT COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY ALSO PAY, UH, SOME AMOUNT TO STUDENTS FOR INTERNING, SO THAT WAY THAT CAN SORT OF HELP WITH OUR RECRUITMENT EFFORTS WHILE MINIMIZING IMPACT ON OUR BUDGET AND YET GIVING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK FOR US? WELL, I JUST WANT TO FOLLOW UP. OKAY. WE ALREADY APPROVED THE CT HIGHER INTERNSHIP WITH MINIMAL WAGE PAY. SO IT'S NOT A NO PAY INTERNSHIP MM-HMM . OKAY. BECAUSE NOT ALL THE FAMILY OR KID CAN AFFORD IT NON-PAY AND WORK FOR FREE MM-HMM . SO WE ALREADY APPROVED COUPLE YEARS AGO. OKAY. MINIMUM WAGE. OKAY. JUST $18 OR SOMETHING. WHAT DOES THE COUNTY, UH, REQUIREMENT FOR CT TO PAY THE MINIMUM WAGE WE HAVE TO PAY? OH, I UNDERSTAND. BUT, BUT I'M SAYING THAT SOME INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS WHERE THEY, THEY COME WITH MONEY WHERE THE, THE, THEIR PROGRAMS THAT THEY'RE A PART OF WHERE THEY ACTUALLY THEMSELVES CAN BE PAID BY THE COUNTY FOR THE INTERNSHIP. YEAH. THEN WE, IT, WE COULD THEN HAVE THEM COME ABOARD ON A TRIAL BASIS, POTENTIALLY AS INTERNS AND THEN MAYBE SUPPLEMENT IT WITH OUR PAYING THEM, BUT IT WOULD ACTUALLY ENABLE US TO GET MORE HOURS OUT OF THEM FOR, FOR MINIMAL COST BECAUSE WE WOULD, WE WOULD, UH, PIGGYBACK OFF OF EXISTING COUNTY AND STATE PROGRAMS. GOOD. OKAY. IMAGING WANT TO ADD ON? YEAH, I UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTION AND I WILL FACILITATE THAT, AND I HAVE WORKED WITH THOSE PROGRAMS BEFORE. COUNCILMAN CONTOS, WE'LL EXPLORE THOSE. I'LL WORK WITH OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AND IMPLEMENT AND, UH, INCREASE OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND ALSO, I JUST WANNA SHARE WITH YOU CAL POLLY, UH, FACULTY DEEMED OKAY. AND, UH, THEY ALREADY CONTACT CONTACT ME, AND THEY WANNA HAVE A MEETING WITH THE CITY TO BRING THEIR CAL POLY STUDENT TO BE INTERNSHIP TO OUR CITY. SO WE ARE GOING TO COLLABORATE WITH CAL POLY VERY CLOSE BY ONLY FIVE MINUTES AWAY. SO WE GOING TO JOIN VENTURE TOGETHER. SO JUST WANNA SHARE WITH YOU, OKAY. OLLIE? YES. OKAY. UH, ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL WANT TO ADD ON? NO. OKAY. DO I HAVE A MOTION? OKAY. NO, HOLD ON. I WILL GO TO THE, SORRY. UH, WE GO TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC COMMENT. UH, DO I HAVE, RIGHT? YES. UH, DO I HAVE ANY PEOPLE WANT TO SPEAK TO ADDRESS ABOUT THIS ISSUE? YES, MAYOR, I HAVE ONE SPEAKER, DOUG. FOUR. HEY GUYS, I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT TWO THINGS. UM, AS I'VE EXPRESSED BEFORE, THERE IS A CLEAR CONCERN ABOUT TRANSPARENCY, UM, ON THIS REPORT RIGHT NOW. [03:15:01] PAGE NUMBER 10. UM, IT IS MY BELIEF THAT SOMETHING ON THAT IS NOT TRUE. UM, THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR, IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POSITION. UM, AND, UM, LAST MONDAY, AN EMAIL WAS SENT BY MS. UNDERWOOD, UM, TO THE APPLICANTS SAYING THAT, UM, THAT, AND I HAVE THE EMAIL HERE SAYING THAT THE POSITION IS NOT GOING TO BE MOVED FORWARD RIGHT NOW, AND THAT IT WILL BE REPOSTED AND, UM, IT WOULD RE BE REPOSTED AND THAT EVERYBODY COULD REAPPLY AGAIN. UM, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THAT WAS SENT OUT AND DONE. IF IT WAS NOT, IF IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE DIDN'T QUALIFY, THEN YOU WOULDN'T BE ASKING THEM TO APPLY AGAIN FOR IT. UM, SO WAS IT THAT SOMEONE DIDN'T GET THEIR NAME IN AND THEY'RE REOPENING IT NOW? UM, IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. IT'S SAYING THAT IT'S IN THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS RIGHT NOW AND THE INTERVIEW PROCESS, I FIND THAT HARD TO BELIEVE SINCE THIS EMAIL WAS DATED JUNE 9TH. UM, SO HOW MANY OTHER POSITIONS HAS THIS HAPPENED TO AND WHY DID IT HAPPEN TO THAT POSITION? IT SAYS THAT IN THE EMAIL, IT SAYS THAT THE CITY HAS DECIDED THAT, WHO DECIDED TO CLOSE OUT THAT AND REOPEN IT. UM, SO SECONDLY, REGARDING THE TRANSPARENCY OF HIRING, UM, THE CITY MANAGER. UM, MYLAN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS TONIGHT. UH, YOU DID A GREAT JOB, AND I AM NOT SAYING YOU ARE NOT THE CITY MANAGER OR WHO WE MIGHT NEED HERE, SO THIS HAS NO NOTHING ON YOU. UM, BUT, UM, WE NEED THE BEST PERSON FOR THIS JOB. IS THIS GETTING, UM, ARE WE HOSTING THIS JOB? THE LAST APPOINTMENT WAS A FIVE OH VOTE. MR. GUTIEREZ WAS NOT HERE YET. UM, BUT THEN A YEAR LATER, UM, SHE WAS DISMISSED BY GUT W AND LOPEZ VIDO AND TO REMOVE PAULINA. SO MAYBE THIS TIME WHEN WE'RE GETTING A, A CITY MANAGER, WE COULD HAVE A COMMUNITY CITIZENS, YOU KNOW, FEEDBACK OR MAYBE WE COULD HAVE A COMMITTEE THAT HAS CITIZENS ON IT TO, YOU KNOW, INTERVIEW THE NEW CITY MANAGER. UM, THANK YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. AND ANY OTHER SPEAKER? NO, MAYOR. I, WELL, IT WOULD BE OKAY. THAT'S OKAY. COME ON. YEAH. THANK YOU. YEAH, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. JUST REAL QUICK, REAL QUICK, I PROMISE. UM, THE, OF THE 316 EMPLOYEES, CITY EMPLOYEES, DOES THAT INCLUDE CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACT EMPLOYEES, OR IS THAT STRICTLY STRAIGHT EMPLOYEES WITH FRINGE BENEFITS AND WHAT HAVE YOU? JUST QUICK QUESTION. THANK YOU. GOOD QUESTION. OKAY. AND, UH, SO ANY OTHER SPEAKER IS NONE. I'M GONNA CLOSE PUBLIC SPEAKING. OKAY. COMMENT. OKAY. SO WE CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT AND THEN WE GO TO THE, UH, OKAY. COUNCIL TO COMMENT. MAYBE CITY ACTING CITY MANAGER WANT TO ANSWER THIS TWO QUESTION? ABSOLUTELY. I'LL, I'LL START WITH, UH, DOUG'S QUESTION ON THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR POSITION. UM, WHEN I CAME ABOARD IN THE ACTING ROLE, I INHERITED A RECRUITMENT PROCESS THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH STALE. PEOPLE HAD APPLIED ALMOST SIX MONTHS AGO AND GONE THROUGH THE INTERVIEW PROCESS AND WERE ON HOLD, UM, NOT KNOWING IF THOSE PEOPLE WERE EVEN STILL INTERESTED IN THE JOB DIRECTION, WAS TO START THE PROCESS OVER. SO I HAD IT FROM INCEPTION TO THE PERSON BEING HIRED AND WAS ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE PART OF MY EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I CHOOSE AND HIRE THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB. SO I WOULD'VE BEEN INHERITING, UM, A RECRUITMENT INTERVIEW, FIRST INTERVIEW SECOND INTERVIEWS FROM PEOPLE THAT ARE NO LONGER WITH THE CITY. AND I HAVE NOTHING EVEN TO REFERENCE BACK TO. SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WHEN IT'S GONNA BE POSTED, IT'S GONNA BE POSTED AGAIN TOMORROW, AND IT'LL BE ON THE WEBSITE. WE'LL BE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS AGAIN. UH, THE PEOPLE THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY APPLIED, I ENCOURAGE ALL OF THEM TO APPLY AGAIN. AGAIN, THE PROCESS WAS RESTARTED BECAUSE IT WAS STALE AND I WANTED TO BE IN IT FROM INCEPTION TO, UM, THE ACTUAL HIRING OF THE PERSON, MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE POSITION. GREAT. AND THAT NEXT QUESTION, THE SECOND PART IS THE FTES THAT, UH, THE 300 AND SOME THAT, UH, CARMEL MENTIONED, THOSE ARE CITY EMPLOYEES EXCLUDING ANY CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTS, HIRED HELP OR ANYTHING ELSE. THOSE ARE ACTUALLY CITY EMPLOYEES, FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT CITY EMPLOYEES. THANK YOU. SO BASICALLY FULL-TIME WITH BENEFIT? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. SO, SO LIKE OUTSOURCING, LIKE A TRANSTECH THAT THEIR STAFF DOESN'T INCLUDE IT IN THAT IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THEM AND THE CONSULTANT CAN TEMPORARY DOESN'T INCLUDE IT. THANK YOU. UM, [03:20:01] SO, UH, I'M CURIOUS ABOUT, OKAY, THE RESIDENT TALK ABOUT THE EMAIL THAT I'M, I NEVER WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM. I, I DIDN'T NEVER SEE THE EMAIL. I DIDN'T RECEIVE THE EMAIL. UH, CARLI I'LL LET YOU COMMENT ON, UH, THE EMAIL THAT SENT OUT THROUGH, UH, NEO GOV. SO WE ARE, UM, HR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR UPDATING THE CANDIDATES FOR, UM, IN THE PROCESS OF THE, OF THE RECRUITMENT. SO WE SENT OUT AN EMAIL, UH, BEFORE JUNE 12TH, INDICATING THAT THOSE WHO ARE STILL INTERESTED CAN REAPPLY AND IT WILL BE RERAN. SO IT WAS OPEN, THE, UM, ACTUAL POSITION IS OPEN AS OF JUNE 12TH. SO THAT'S WHERE THE EMAIL CAME. WE SENT THAT OUT THROUGH THE SYSTEM OF NEO GOV, JUST INFORMING THEM, AND WE UPDATE THEM PER YEAR. GOT IT. SO SENT TO THE PUBLIC. TO THE PUBLIC. CORRECT. GOT IT. OKAY. SO THAT'S, WE DIDN'T THE APPLICANT TO APPLY. SO WHOEVER WOULD THE CANDIDATE OR APPLICANT THAT APPLIED, THEY WILL RECEIVE THAT EMAIL. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR EXPLANATION. OKAY. ANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL YOU WANT TO, OKAY. UM, BRIAN, GUT YOU, LET'S GO AHEAD. YEAH. AND THEN SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JOBS, UH, MAYBE I CAN ALSO MENTION, UH, I THINK, UH, THERE WAS SOME, UH, QUESTIONS REGARDING, UH, THE POSTING OF A, I THINK MOST RECENT, I THINK THE CITY POSTED SOME, UH, FOR THE AUDIT COMMITTEE. AND SO I WAS JUST WONDERING IF, UH, LISA COULD EXPLAIN, UH, THE CITY CODE AND, AND THE REQUIREMENT TO ASK THAT, I THINK, UH, IN REGARDS TO THE PROCESS ON WHY YOU HAD TO POST THE POSITION AGAIN. AND IN REGARDS, OR MAYBE THAT'S TOM, THE REASON WHY UNDER THE CODE, WHY YOU HAVE TO POST A POSITION EVERY, WHAT IS IT, EVERY TWO YEARS OR SOMETHING? YES. THE TERMS HAVE EXPIRED. THE, AND THEN THEY CAN REAPPLY IT AGAIN. THEY CAN REAPPLY. I HAVE SENT AN EMAIL TO THOSE WHOSE TERMS HAVE EXPIRED FOR THEM TO REAPPLY. AND THEN THE JOB, UH, THE POSTING HAD AN ISSUE WITH THE APPLY BUTTON THAT HAS BEEN FIXED. AND WE HAVE ENCOURAGED THE AUDIT MEMBER, AUDIT COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO REAPPLY. OKAY. PERFECT. OKAY. UH, AND THE FOLLOW THROUGH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, I THINK HE APPOINTED HR, UH, EDDIE. OKAY. LAB BEEN APPROVED. AND, UH, IT'S, IT'S BEEN APPROVED, RIGHT? MM-HMM . WE ALREADY APPROVE IT, RIGHT? YES, YES, YES. SO, YEAH, HE SENT ME THE EMAIL. HE'S JUST A QUESTION. WOULD YOU PLEASE NOTIFY HE ALREADY, I'LL REACH OUT TO HIM AGAIN, MAYOR. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. ANY OTHER, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER? ANY QUESTION? DO I, DO WE NEED TO APPROVE THIS? NO, BUT WE DO NEED TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. IT'S, WE CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING, SO, OKAY. SO, UH, OKAY. AND, UH, UH, UH, ACTIVE CITY MANAGER HAVE, YEAH, I, I DIDN'T ANSWER ONE PART OF THE QUESTION, AND I WANTED TO ADDRESS DOUG AND THE COMMUNITY THAT I AGREE THAT THE CITY DESERVES THE HIRE THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB. UM, I'M NOT MARRIED TO THIS POSITION. I'M ST I'VE STEPPED IN, IN AN ACTING ROLE TO FACILITATE AND MOVE THINGS FORWARD, AND I'LL SERVE THAT ROLE AS LONG AS I'M HERE. UH, BUT I AGREE THAT THE CITY SHOULD SEARCH AND FIND THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB, WHETHER IT BE SOMEBODY IN-HOUSE OR OUTSIDE. UM, I BELIEVE FULLY IN THE TRANSPARENCY, AND I PREACHED THAT AT THE MEETINGS AND THE PLACES I'VE SPOKE. SO TRUST ME, UM, THAT IS A, I WANNA SEE FOR ALL POSITIONS, WHETHER IT BE A EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT OR AN ENTRY LEVEL POSITION, THE CITY DESERVES THE BEST QUALITY EMPLOYEES, UM, TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY. OKAY. THANK YOU, SIR. OKAY. FILL THAT UP. OKAY. LET'S GET ALL OUR STAFF. OKAY. AND ALL THE DIRECTOR. SO WE HAVE ALL THE LINK AND MEANS FORCE TO SERVE OUR CITY. SO I'M GONNA CLOSE THIS HEARING ON OTTAWA. DO WE NEED TO DO A MOTION TO OR ANYTHING? NO, NO. ARE WE DONE, RIGHT? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THEN WE MOVE TO [FINANCE DEPARTMENT] THE LAST ITEM, THE ITEM NUMBER 13. OKAY. AND CONSIDERATION OF FISCAL YEARS OF 20 25, 20 26. OPERATION AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM BUDGET. OKAY, GO AHEAD. UH, WHO'S GONNA PRESENT THIS, UH, ACTING? SO I HAVE OUR ACTING ASSISTANT, CITY MANAGER, UH, PATRICIA MASSINO, FINANCE HERE. FINANCE, I'M SORRY. FINANCE DIRECTOR. . . WE DON'T WANT SO MANY ACTING WE WANT, I'M ALREADY ASSIGNING PEOPLE NEW TITLES. YEAH. YOU'RE GONNA GET PROMOTED. I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU. OH, NO. MARIA, LARISSA . SHE WENT TO VACATION. YEAH. MARIA LARISSA IS GONNA BE MAD WATCHING SOME ONLINE. OH, OH, SHE'S BEING REPLACED. OKAY. YEAH, GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD. HI. MICROPHONE, MIC. OKAY. SORRY. YEAH, WE GOT IT. YOU NEED MAYOR WU. COUNCIL MEMBERS. UM, SO I AM THE ACTING, UH, FINANCE DIRECTOR, CURRENTLY ACTING IT ASSISTANT FINANCE. SORRY. SEE, I'M GETTING CONFUSED. IT'S TOO LATE ALREADY. SORRY. UM, SO LET'S GO THROUGH THIS, PATRICIA. YES. UM, LET ME HOP IN HERE. I WAS, YES, PLEASE. I FELL OFF. MAYBE YOU [03:25:01] SHOULD DO AN INTRODUCTION. YEAH. SO, SUMMARY. FIRST OF ALL, I WILL START WITH A SUMMARY. UH, MAYOR W MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL ON MAY 21ST, I STEPPED INTO THE ROLE OF ACTING CITY, ACTING CITY MANAGER. ON MY FIRST DAY, I IMMEDIATELY BEGAN, BEGAN WORKING WITH OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT LED BY ACTING FINANCE DIRECTOR MARIE LUIS OLEO, AND OUR EXCEPTIONAL TEAM ON THE, THE CITY BUDGET. AND I'D LIKE TO PERSONALLY THANK THEM, UH, FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION TO THE PROCESS. UH, WE BEGAN DAY ONE WITH A PROPOSED BUDGET THAT SHOWED A PROJECTED DEFICIT COUPLED WITH MINIMAL COMMUNITY INPUT. WE SUBSEQUENTLY ARRANGED THREE BUDGET WORKSHOP MEETINGS, ONE AT CITY HALL, ONE A SHADOW PARK, AND ONE AT PALMVIEW PARK. UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT AND THANK MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, FOR ATTENDING AND SHARING THEIR IDEAS AND CONCERNS REGARDING THE BUDGET. UH, WHILE WE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO INCORPORATE EVERYTHING IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, UM, I WANT THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE BEEN HEARD, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITY ON WHAT I BELIEVE WILL BE A MORE PRODUCTIVE AND INTERACTIVE PROCESS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY MOVING FORWARD. UM, MAYOR WU AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT, I'M VERY EXCITED TO PRESENT A BALANCED BUDGET THAT INCORPORATES THE COMMUNITY'S INPUT AS WELL AS THE GOALS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, INCLUDING INCREASED PUBLIC SAFETY, HILLSIDE MITIGATION, AND FIRE PREVENTION, GRAFFITI ABATEMENT, AND PREVENTION, AND FILLING ALL VACANT EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT POSITIONS. UM, ACTING ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR PATRICIA MACINO AND I ARE MORE THAN HAPPY. ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE? YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. AND, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, ANYBODY HAVE A QUESTION OR COMMENT? OKAY. AND, UH, OLLIE, YOU WANNA GO FIRST? NO. YOU, YOU HAPPY WITH THE BUDGET? YES. OH, I'M VERY HAPPY WITH YOU. OKAY. UH, OKAY. I, BRIAN AGAIN. OH, CAN I BELIEVE IT? I OKAY, GO AHEAD, BRIAN. YES. I, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, COMMENCE STAFF AND, AND, AND THANK, UH, MILAN, UH, FOR HIS HARD WORK AND, AND, AND, AND WORKING WITH STAFF TO GET THIS BUDGET DONE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO, SUCH GREAT THINGS THAT ARE COMING OUT FROM THIS BUDGET. YOU KNOW, UM, THE CONSOLE HAS SPOKEN, AND ACTION HAS BEEN DONE. AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, LIKE MY, MY END STATED, WE NOW HAVE, I BELIEVE, $1.5 MILLION IN GOING INTO THE HILLSIDE MITIGATION AND FIRE PREVENTION FOR THE ALL THE HILLSIDE, UH, THAT INCLUDES GLISTER PARK TO PREVENT WILDFIRES FOR DESTROYING MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF HOMES, AND DESTROYING, UH, THE MAJOR, PREVENTING THE NEXT MAJOR DISASTER FROM THAT AREA. FROM OCCURRING. WE SAVE MONEY BY ELIMINATING UNNECESSARY EXPENSES ON OUR ELEVATOR SYSTEMS, UH, WHEN IT CAME TO A DA COMPLIANCE. AND, UH, AND I ALSO THANK MAYOR WU AND, AND MYAN FOR ALSO VOICING MY CONCERNS AT THE LAST MEETING, , THAT I COULDN'T MAKE IT, BUT YOU DID VOICE MY CONCERNS. AND I DO SEE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED. AND, AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S REMARKABLE TO SEE THAT WE'RE NOW SA SAVING MONEY. WE'RE, WE'RE NOT, UH, SPINNING BEYOND OUR MEANS. I THINK ONE OF OUR CONCERNS WAS YOU DON'T WRITE A CHECK THAT'S GONNA BOUNCE. AND, AND YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DONE THAT. MYLAN AND YOUR CITY STAFF AND, AND OUR CITY STAFF THAT WORK VERY HARD, UH, TO PUT THIS BUDGET TOGETHER. SO, THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS ON PUTTING THE TAXPAYERS FIRST. SO THANK YOU. SO I SOUND LIKE WE HAVE ANOTHER SECOND. OKAY. CITY COUNCIL. VERY HAPPY . OKAY. AND, UH, NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER, OKAY, MAY I PUT, OR YOU, OKAY. AND NOW I WANT TO ADD ON, OKAY, ON TOP OF, UH, TWO CITY COUNCIL. OTHER ONE IS VERY HAPPY. I DON'T WANNA SAY ANYTHING. AND ONE SAY A LOT OF THINGS. VERY HAPPY, OKAY? AND I WANT TO KIND OF OKAY. MUTUAL IN BETWEEN, UH, I THINK ONE THING, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT LAST TIME, OKAY. AND, UH, HOW YOU PRIORITIZE HOW WE SPEND THE MONEY WITH OUR BUDGET AND THE PUBLIC SAFETY IS NUMBER ONE. OKAY? I THINK THAT'S WHAT, AND THE TAXPAYER WANTED TO MAKE SURE ALL THE MONEY AND SPEND IN THE RIGHT PLACE. AND THAT IS PUBLIC SAFETY, I THINK, REGARDING THE HILLSIDE. OKAY? AND, UH, THAT IS COME FROM, UM, OKAY, COUNCIL MEMBER . OKAY? AND, UH, AND WE CONCERNED, WE REQUEST THAT MANY, MANY YEARS. AND FINALLY THIS YEAR WE GOT A BUDGET. AND SECOND THING THAT WE APPROVED 10 POLICE OFFICER, OKAY? EVEN THIS IS LEVEL ONE OR THE, FROM THE ACADEMY, BUT WE GO 1 1 2, 112 WEST COVINA FOR A LONG TIME. HAVEN SEEN 112 POLICE OFFICER. AND WE MADE THIS YEAR 2025 TO 2086. SO RESIDENTS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT. AND THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO ANSWER AND WANT TO THANK OUR CITY MANAGER TO MAKE THIS THING SOLID. 1, 1 2. OKAY? AND THEN, AND WE ARE GOING TO WORK ON THE FIRE REGARDING THE AMBULANCE ON THIS, UNLESS, SO THAT'S GOING TO WORK ON THE WORK ON PROCESS. I THINK THIS IS HOW, WHAT THIS BUDGET'S ABOUT PRIORITIZE WHERE SPEND THE MONEY IS TO PROTECT LIFE AND, [03:30:01] UH, PROTECT PROPERTY AND MAKE SURE ALL THIS FIRE HAZARD, BECAUSE WE SAW OTHER COMMUNITY BEEN DONE, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN WEST COVINA. WE NEED TO DO A PREVENTION FOR ALL THE HILLSIDE. AND, UH, AND PUT TO PUT THIS, FINALLY HAVE THIS BUDGET FOR A LONG TIME, LONG TIME, 30 YEARS, OKAY? AND MAYBE EVEN LONGER. OKAY? THE WEST COVINA CITY, OKAY. PRE, PREVIOUSLY NEVER REALLY PAID ATTENTION OF THOSE OVERGROWN TREE VEGETATION. AND, UH, THAT WE CAN SEE IT NOW WITH THE WEATHER, THIS AND THAT, IT BECOME A MAJOR ISSUE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, TO ADDRESS THIS AND EVEN BALANCE THE BUDGET, AND THAT IS WHAT WE WANT. OKAY? SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND, UH, IF WE NOT HAVE ANY COMMENT, THEN I'M GOING TO, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO, WE HAVE A MOTION. DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE, I'LL MAKE A MOTION AND THEN, UH, I'LL MAKE A MOTION. AND ALSO, IF IT'S OKAY, UH, I'D LIKE TO SEE IF A STAFF COULD LOOK INTO, I THINK WE STILL HAVE A APPROXIMATELY $5 MILLION, UH, RESTRICTED FUND SURPLUS. SO IF WE COULD USE SOME OF THAT MONEY TO ALLOCATE IT TO ROAD IMPROVEMENTS. UH, YES. UH, OKAY. AGAIN, WHEN WE LOOK INTO IT, OKAY. AND DON'T SPEND ALL THE MONEY, OKAY? YEAH. BUT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE DON'T WANT . YEAH. LET'S, LET'S GIVE SOME CUSHION OVER THERE, OKAY? AND, UH, YOU DON'T HAVE MONEY RIGHT AWAY, SPEND EVERYTHING. OKAY? BUT, BUT WE WANT TO REPAY THE STREET. AND IF THEY ARE REALLY HORRIBLE, I THINK THIS IS WHAT WINS WANT. UH, OKAY, SO, SO I THINK CITY MANAGER ALREADY GOT THE DIRECTION MM-HMM . AND THEN I HAVE A MOTION ALREADY MOVE, OR DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. COUNCILMAN OLI KENTO. SO WE HAVE FIRST AND SECOND ROCO, PLEASE. COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. EXCUSE ME. I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER CONTOS TO APPROVE. ITEM NUMBER 13, CONSIDERATION OF FISCAL YEAR 20 25, 26, OPERATING AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM BUDGET. COUNCILMAN CONTOS AYE. COUNCILMAN DIAZ? AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ AYE. MAYOR PRO LOPEZ VIDO AYE. MAYOR. WOO. AYE. AND A MOTION APPROVE. I ZERO. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HARD WORK. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND, UH, WORK VERY HARD AND SEE, OKAY. EVEN WE DON'T HAVE A DIRECTOR, BUT WE STILL HAVE EVERYBODY PUT IT TOGETHER AND WORKING VERY HARD. I KNOW LAST, LAST WEEK YOU GOT WORK TILL MIDNIGHT, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY. AND, UH, AND, UH, OKAY. NO OVERTIME, PLEASE. OKAY, SO WE HAVE CONTROLLED BUDGET, OKAY? SO, OKAY, NOW WE GO TO THE, [CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION] UM, COUNCIL. OKAY. AND, UH, COMMENT AND REQUEST. DO I HAVE, UH, ANY REQUESTS? MOTHER, MAY I, OKAY. ANYBODY? OKAY, GO AHEAD. OKAY. COUNCILMAN ALDI. KENTO, THANK YOU. I HAVE SEVERAL, UH, DY MICHAEL, NOT 15 OR ANYTHING. BRIAN, YOU CAN BECOME BRIAN NOW. NO, IT WON'T BE, IT WON'T RIVAL THAT. OKAY. UH, THE FIRST ONE IS I'D LIKE TO, UM, ASK THE COUNCIL, UH, APPROVE OF, OF, UH, UH, COMMISSIONING A, A STUDY BY THE STAFF WITH REGARD TO A PUBLIC SAFETY TAX, INCLUDING THE PROS, CONS, WHAT, WHAT ARE DIFFERENT CITIES DOING AROUND US? WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS, PITFALLS, WHATEVER. UH, JUST, JUST SO, UH, THAT WE CAN JUST LOOK AT THE ISSUE WARRANT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY REQUEST. UH, AND, UH, OKAY. I CANNOT SUPPOSE IT, I'M THE GUY IN THE ANTI ANY TAXES. OKAY? SO I'M BASICALLY, AND I WANT TO CUT TAXES, RIGHT? AND WASTE TAXES. SO, BECAUSE PEOPLE ALREADY GET RAISED TAXES WAY TOO MUCH. AND LOOK, RIGHT NOW, OUR SALES TAX, WE TEND, AND THE THEN THE QUARTER AND THE HALF PERCENT ADDITIONAL GO TO THE MAJOR A AND, UH, LET'S GO TO SO-CALLED HOMELESS. IT'S GONNA WASTE THE MONEY. I DON'T THINK WE, WE, WE NOT EVEN GET A DIME. OKAY? SO, AND, AND $12 MILLION OUR SALES TAX AS A BIG CT WITH COMMERCIAL, GO TO THE COUNTY, AND WE WON'T SEE ANY SERVICE AT ALL. JUST LIKE, SO, SO, I, I CAN, I, MAYBE ALL THE COUNCIL CAN SUPPORT, BUT I WON'T SUPPORT THIS. I JUST WANNA CLARIFY, UH, COUNCILMAN METOS, ARE YOU ONLY ASKING FOR TOM'S OFFICE? I THINK TOM'S OFFICE HAS A TAX, UH, TAX LAWYER EXPERT. YES. I'M JUST ASKING, ASKING FOR A STUDY FOR A BASIC STUDY TO TELL US THE PROS AND CONS. YES, THAT IS LITERALLY IT. THEN I'LL, THEN I'LL SECOND IT. OKAY. UH, WE HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND, UH, ROCCO, PLEASE. COUNCILMAN? UH, COUNCILMAN CONTOS? AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. AYE. MAYOR PRO TEDO. AYE. MAYOR. WOO. NO. OKAY. UH, FOUR, ONE AND, UH, MOTION. OKAY. AND THE MOTHER, MAY I APPROVE OKAY. FOR, UH, CITY ATTORNEY TO LOOK INTO. OKAY. THE POSSIBILITY OF THAT. OKAY. AND, UH, NEXT, NEXT, PLEASE. THANK YOU. THE NEXT, THE NEXT ITEM IS, I'D LIKE TO ASK THAT WE, WE BEGIN THE PROCESS OF, UH, BRINGING ON BOARD AN INDEPENDENT, UH, UH, ENTITY TO BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR A, A PERMANENT CITY MANAGER. AND IS THAT ALREADY YEAH. IS THAT, WE ALREADY AT WORK. OKAY. IS OUR COMMITTEE OKAY. OUR, IT HAS NOT BEEN YET FORMALLY INSTRUCTED YET, SO WANTED TO ASK THAT WE BEGIN THAT PROCESS. IT'S, UH, UH, ACTING CITY MANAGER. SO THAT ALREADY, BASED ON WHAT YOU SAY, IT'S ONLY AT WORK ALREADY RIGHT [03:35:01] AT THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNCIL, WE WILL START THE RECRUITMENT FOR PERMANENT CITY MANAGER. OKAY. SO, OKAY. SO THE MOTION, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? YEAH, GO AHEAD. NO, WELL, PRIOR TO RECRUITMENT, I DO WOULD LIKE TO, UM, TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHAT ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS SAID IS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING INTO A CITY, CITY MANAGER. UM, I KNOW WHEN I FIRST CAME IN, THE CITY MANAGER I WAS LOOKING FOR WAS, I KNOW WHEN WE WERE GOING DOWN, UH, WHERE THEY, WHERE PEOPLE WERE TELLING ME, I'M FOOLISH TO RUN BECAUSE THE CITY'S GOING THROUGH BANKRUPTCY. THAT WAS LIKE MY GOAL AT THAT TIME FOR BUDGET AND, AND, UM, DEVELOPMENT AND SO FORTH. UH, GRANTED THINGS HAVE CHANGED. UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW I'M NOT IN A QUICK RUSH JUST BECAUSE WE JUST, WE HAD SOME CHANGES. SO I'M NOT IN A QUICK RUSH TO GET SOMEBODY RIGHT AWAY. UM, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THAT TIME TO SEE WHAT IT IS THAT WE ENVISION, WHAT WE, WE, WHAT WE WANT AS A CITY, UM, ESPECIALLY AS A COUNCIL ENVISIONING MOVING FORWARD. BUT YES, I MEAN, I, I DO AGREE WITH THAT, BUT I LIKE TO ALSO OKAY. CALL THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. OKAY. SO, SO WE HAVE A FIRST, YOU HAVE A SECOND TO ANYBODY AGAINST THIS? NO, MR. MAYOR, YOU WANNA TALK? YEAH, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY A COMMENT, UH, I WAS JUST GONNA MAKE SURE, JUST WANNA SAY, UH, LIKE MY COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, LA LOPEZ VEDO STATED, SO MAYBE THE THIRD PARTY WHO DOES, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SEARCH, UH, COMES TO THE COUNCIL MEETING TO HEAR, UH, SOME OF THE POINTS THAT WE HAVE AND, AND SOME OF THE COMMUNITY POINTS IN THE SEARCH FOR A NEW CITY MANAGER. OKAY. UH, AND SO APPROVED. OKAY. FIVE ZERO. OKAY. UH, NEXT, THANK YOU. UH, THE, THE, THE NEXT ONE I'D LIKE TO ASK OUR COUNCIL, ESTABLISH, ESTABLISH AS OUR POLICY. AS OUR POLICY, UH, THE, THE ESTABLISHING THE PRINCIPLE OF PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE WITH REGARD TO THE, THE EVALUATION, RETENTION AND, AND, UH, OF, OF, AND POSSIBLE DISCIPLINE OR NOT OF THE CITY MANAGER. IN OTHER WORDS THAT WE ESTABLISH A PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE PO UH, POLICY WITH, WITH REGARD TO ANYONE SITTING IN THE SEAT OF CITY MANAGER IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH NAMELY GOALS, METRICS OF, UH, PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT AND, AND THE EVALUATION. HUH. UH, I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND. OKAY. SO, SO IN OTHER WORDS, IT JUST PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM BEING LET GO WITHOUT GIVING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, IMPROVE IN CASE THERE ARE CONCERNS. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S ESTABLISHING A PROCESS WHERE, WHERE THERE WOULD BE A FORMAL EVALUATION PROCESS WHERE WE AS A COUNCIL AS A WHOLE WOULD SET THE GOALS AND THEN WE WOULD EVALUATE THE, THE INCUMBENT PERIODICALLY ON MEETING THOSE GOALS. AND TO WHATEVER EXTENT WE HAVE, I'M JUST, UH, AND IF YOU, I GOT IT. OKAY. I THINK IF YOU MENTIONED ABOUT PREVIOUS, UH, CITY MANAGER. OKAY. HER CONTRACT IS 12 MONTHS TO 10 MONTHS UP. SO SHOULD WE EXTEND THE CONTRACT OR NOT? IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DISCIPLINE. IT'S ABOUT RENEW THE CONTRACT. I UNDERSTAND. OKAY. BUT IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, OKAY. UH, THE, THE CITY MANAGER, UH, NEED TO BE DOCUMENT, OKAY. OR REVIEW. SO I DON'T KNOW THE PROCEDURE, UH, TOM OKAY. C ATTORNEY, DO YOU, CAN YOU SHINE SOME OF, UH, LIE ON THIS REQUEST? YEAH. IT'S JUST A REQUEST TO ADD A POLICY FOR ALL EMPLOYEES IF THEY HAVE AN IMPROVEMENT PLAN. DO ANY OTHER CTU HAVE, UH, ANY POLICY? YES. MANY CITIES. DO WE JUST HAVE A, JUST DIRECT HR TO LOOK INTO IT? I BELIEVE THE REQUEST, SO WELL, LET'S, OKAY. ANY OTHER CITY CAN COME, UH, YEAH. LOOKING INTO IT, BECAUSE I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN APPOINTED POSITIONS VERSUS, UH, REGULAR POSITIONS, THEY'RE DIFFERENT. AND ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE UNDER PROBATION. PROBATION, THERE'S USUALLY NO PIP UH, PIPS USUALLY, UH, INVOLVE, YOU KNOW, PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN IS USUALLY FOR THE CITY EMPLOYEES THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN WHO HAD PASSED PROBATION AND SO FORTH. UM, BUT FROM MY KNOWLEDGE, MOST APPOINTED POSITION, UH, DOESN'T HAVE THOSE, LIKE HIP AND STUFF. AGREE. BUT, YOU KNOW, LOOKING INTO IT, I'M, I'M OKAY IF TO SEE, I JUST HAVE A, A CONCERN BECAUSE ON, ON THE GUIDELINE, OKAY. FOR THE CITY MANAGER, UH, APPOINT OR HIRE HIS DIRECTOR IS WITH HIS PLEASURE. OKAY? RIGHT. OKAY. MEANING ANYTIME DIRECTOR SAY, I DON'T LIKE YOU, YOU FIRE, SAME TOKEN. OKAY. AND IF YOU GOT A THREE VOTE, THEY DON'T LIKE, OKAY. THE, THE WAY THE CITY, UH, MANAGER IS LED, THE SAME TOKEN IS, UH, UNDER THE, THE, THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THEIR DESCRIPTION. OKAY. IT'S NOT LIKE A, A A BECAUSE A DIRECTOR POSITION, APPOINTED POSITION IS NOT LIKE AN EMPLOYEE. YOU HAVE A DISCIPLINARY, THIS SOUND LIKE THIS IS A, A EMPLOYEE LOWER LEVEL THING. OKAY. MY UNDERSTANDING, JUST LIKE YOU APPOINTED THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SAME THING TOO. ANYTIME THE PRESIDENT CAN SAY, OKAY, YOU OKAY, YOU FILE NEXT PERSON. YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO EXCUSES OR ANY OF, UH, DOCUMENTATION. SAME THING FOR THE CITY. MY UNDERSTANDING, THE CITY MANAGER CAN FILE HIS OR HER. OKAY. THE DIRECTOR HE HIRE, OR SHE SHE HIRE [03:40:01] OKAY. WITHOUT ANY OF A REASON. OKAY. THE ONLY WORDS COME TOWARDS IS THEY, THEY CAN LAWSUIT THROUGH THIS. BUT THIS IS WHAT MY UNDERSTANDING IS, A DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY MANAGER, CEO TO DECIDE WHO YOU WANNA HIRE, FIRE THIS AND THAT. AND THE SAME THING TOO OF THE CITY COUNCIL. OKAY? MAJORITY HAVE THE RIGHT TO HIRE FIRE. THE CITY ATTORNEY OR CITY MANAGER. THIS IS MY UNDERSTANDING, AND CITY ATTORNEY WANT TO SHINE ABOUT THIS, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S ALL ACCURATE, WHAT YOU SAID, AND IT'S ALL ACCURATE, RIGHT? CUSTOMER CONSCIOUS WANTS TO LOOK INTO A POLICY OF, UM, A PIP OR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT. 'CAUSE I DON'T WANT TO TIE UP THE, OKAY. BECOME TREATING CITY MANAGERS EMPLOYEE WITH ALL THIS, OKAY, DA DA DA, THIS, THAT. BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS MAJORITY CITY COUNCIL HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO HIRE, FIRE THE CITY MANAGER, FOR EXAMPLE, ELECTION COME INTO NEW, THE NEW, THE NEW MAJORITY COMING UP, THEY CAN CHANGE IT TO CITY THE DIRECTION AND CHANGE IT TO CITY MANAGER. IT HAPPEN TO ALL CITY, RIGHT? THEY'RE AT WILL EMPLOYEES. IT'S JUST AT WILL. THEY CAN BE TURNED. YES. SO IT'S NOT LIKE THEY HAVE ALL THIS KIND OF, BUT ANYWAY, UH, OKAY. COUNCILMAN COUNTER WANNA LOOK INTO IT. I, I, YES, I UNDERSTAND. IT'S, IT'S JUST ESTABLISHED THIS AS A BEST PRACTICE. I REALIZE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING NOW. YEAH. THIS DIRECTOR POSITION IS NOT THE EMPLOYEE. OKAY. MORE OF, UH, THIS IS, UH, AS, AS WEAK ELECTED PRIVILEGE. OKAY. UH, YES. MAY PUT THAT I WAS JUST GONNA ADD BECAUSE, UM, BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE AND EVEN CURRENTLY, UM, HAVING TO DEAL WITH EMPLOYEES, WHETHER THEY'RE ON PROBATION AND, AND OR WHETHER THEY'RE NOT, UH, SEEING, YOU KNOW, PIP VERSUS, YOU KNOW, THE PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE, UM, YOU KNOW, AT THE END IT'S, IT'S, CAN YOU DO THE JOB OR NOT? UM, I KNOW SOMETIMES WE GIVE, UH, PEOPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOWCASE AND HOPEFULLY PROVE TO US TO BE ABLE TO DO THE JOB AND IF THEY CAN'T, AND ALSO WITH FIVE COUNCILS, UH, EACH COUNCIL PERSON HAS THEIR OWN, UH, GOAL OR THEIR OWN, UM, THEIR OWN, YEAH, THEIR OWN GOALS OR WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE WITHIN THE CITY MANAGER. SO I KNOW THE CITY MANAGER HAS IT TOUGH BECAUSE THEY HAVE FIVE BOSSES AND SOMETIMES WE ARE NOT IN AGREEMENTS, OR WHAT I VALUE IS MIGHT NOT BE THE SAME AS WHAT THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS MIGHT VALUE. SO THAT ALL HOLDS ONTO THAT, BUT YEAH. OKAY. UH, ANYBODY I AGAINST THAT? OKAY. ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? OTHERWISE? DO I HAVE A SECOND? I HAVE A SECOND. OKAY. SO, AND UH, LOCAL PLEASE. I HAVE A, UH, COUNCILMAN CONTOS. AYE. COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, IT'S JUST GONNA BE BROUGHT BACK, RIGHT? TO LOOK INTO, LOOK INTO, YEAH. OKAY. YES. MAYOR PRODO. AYE. MAYOR WU? NO. OKAY. FOUR ONE APPROVED. OKAY. THE BRING BACK. OKAY. WHAT FINDING IS THIS ALL THAT. OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY. NEXT. MAD MAYOR AND MY, MY LAST ONE. ARE YOU SURE? IT'S THE LAST ONE YOU WANT? IT IS MY LAST ONE. WE HAVE ALL NIGHT FOR YOU, . THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. THE LAST ONE IS SORT OF REVISITING AN OLD ISSUE ABOUT, ARE YOU READY? DRUM ROLL. THE, THE, THE LAST ISSUE, IS ABOUT THE MORATORIUM. UH, UM, AND SO I REALIZED THE GENERAL MAJORITY'S SENTIMENTS ABOUT THE MOR MORATORIUM, I ACTUALLY VOTED TO PUT IT INTO PLACE, BUT IN LIGHT OF A SPECIFIC SITUATION IN ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES DISTRICTS, I FEEL LIKE IF WE COULD LOOK INTO INCREASING THAT, THE, THE NUMBER FROM 27 TO ONE HIGHER OR TO A HIGHER NUMBER OVERALL, IT WOULD ASSIST IN, IN, IN, IN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOR THAT AREA. AND I CAN DESCRIBE THAT IF FOLKS WOULD LIKE, I DON'T UNDERSTAND. OKAY. MORIAL OR WHAT? HMM. MORATORIUM WHAT MOR SORRY. THE MORATORIUM ON THE, ON ON THE NUMBER OF FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS IN, IN, IN TOWN. OH, DRIVE THROUGH. DRIVE THROUGH. SORRY. THANK YOU. OKAY. I WAS SORRY ABOUT THAT. SO I THINK I BOUGHT YOU WANT CURFEW? OH, NO, NO. SO, SO I'M SORRY I, I'M GETTING LATE. BUT BASICALLY, I MEAN, BECAUSE THERE'S A SPECIFIC SITUATION THAT I KNOW OF, UM, IN ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES' DISTRICTS WHERE THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO MAKE USE OF THAT PROPERTY BECAUSE OF THE MORATORIUM AND YES. . AND SO I WANTED TO JUST BE SUPPORTIVE OF, OF, OF FURTHER DEVELOPING THAT BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN AN EYESORE. WE'VE ALL COMPLAINED ANYONE CAN DRIVE THERE. IT HAS BEEN A PROBLEM, BUT ALSO LOOKING AT IT MORE BROADLY. SO YOU SAY MAYBE LOOKING TO, UH, THAT, THAT VERY GOOD PLACE. I FORGOT. YEAH, MAYBE EXEMPTING THAT SPECIFIC LOCATION. LOCATION. JUST EXEMPT CAPITAL. YEAH, WE COULD, YEAH, WE SURE. I, I, I AGREE. YEAH. AND IT'S EXEMPTING LOCATION. I I GOT IT. OKAY. SO WE JUST WANT TO EXAMINE THAT ONE NOW BECAUSE DID YOU SEE WHEN WE MORATORIUM ABOUT DRIVE THROUGH, WE GOT A LOT OF OKAY. TEXTILE COMING IN. KIM KIM FISH COMING. A LOT OF GOOD RESTAURANT COMING IN. YEAH. SO IF YOU, IF YOU ALLOW, WE ARE THE, WE ARE THE NUMBER ONE DRIVE THROUGH. OKAY. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO WE, WE, WE REALLY HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO YEAH. SIT IN TO SIT HOWEVER WAY TO ADDRESS THE PROPERTY. SO YOUR MOTION IS TO MAKE A, JUST, JUST FOR THAT LOCATION, RIGHT? OLLIE? YES. THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING YOUR LOCATION. I KNOW. JUST CAN YOU BE MORE DETAILED? YEAH. OKAY. DON'T HAVE, I'LL SECOND THAT AROUND THE BUSH EXCEPTION FOR THAT PUTS THE BURDEN OFF. [03:45:01] WE HAVE A FIRST AND WE HAVE A SECOND. NO, I THINK, UM, IS JOANNE, LADIES GENTLEMAN, JOANNE BURNS MAYOR, IF I MAY, UM, IT'S, NO, IT'S NOT A MORATORIUM CURRENTLY IT'S CODE NOW. SO IN ORDER TO MAKE CHANGES TO IT, IT WOULD BE CODE AMENDMENT VARIANCE. YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO A, A VARIANCE BECAUSE IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A USE VARIANCE AND USE VARIANCES ARE NOT ALLOWED BY STATE LAW. OKAY. SO WE COULD, WHAT DO WE DO? WE COULD EXEMPT THAT SPECIFIC LOCATION BY BRINGING THAT WE CODE BACK A CITY ATTORNEY'S QUESTION MAYBE, OR TOM. WE COULD, WE CAN LOOK AT THAT. THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED SPOT ZONING THOUGH. IF YOU'RE GOING TO JUST EXEMPT ONE PIECE OF PROPERTY. EXACTLY. SPOT ZONE. IT'S PART OF THE DOWNTOWN PLAN AND CODE. SO IT WOULDN'T, UM, IF YOU MAKE AMENDMENTS TO THE DOWNTOWN PLAN CODE, OKAY. YOU CAN SPECIFY IT. GOT IT. UM, TO CERTAIN, UH, I THINK THEY CHANGED THE MOTION TO LOOK INTO SEE WE CAN EXAM. WE DON'T WANT TO, WE DON'T WANT AGAINST THE LAW. YEAH. AND WE, WE SET THE LAW AND THEN WE, WE VIOLATE THE LAW. IT'S, NO, IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. OKAY. AND WE, FOR THE COMMON GOOD, JUST FOR NOW, FOR ONE LOCATION, CURRENTLY WORKING CURRENTLY, YES. WE HAVE A LOT OF GOOD RESTAURANT COMING TO OUR CITY. THAT'S WHAT WE WANT BECAUSE WE ARE THE NUMBER ONE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, HAVE THE MOST DRIVE THROUGH. AND, AND, UH, BECAUSE WE ARE, WE ALONE THE FREEWAY EXIT. SO THESE PEOPLE WANT TO DO DRIVE THROUGH AND A ANOTHER OF GOOD RESTAURANT WILL BE REPLACED BY DRIVE THROUGH. SO, SO, BUT, BUT OKAY. UM, OLLIE, CAN YOU ACCEPT? OKAY. AND I'LL START. SO WE, WE, WE JUST OKAY. SITTING LOOKING INTO, CAN WE SEND THAT LOCATION TO FIND THE BEST USE? OKAY. SO WE BE NOT BECOME A ISO RIGHT NOW. OKAY. WE CAN LOOK INTO THAT. MAINLY BECAUSE IT, THE, THAT LOCATION, SPOTLESS BURGER ALREADY HAS A DRIVE THROUGH. CORRECT? SO WE CAN WRITE SOME GRANDFATHER, WE CAN POTENTIALLY WRITE SOMETHING IN THE CODE. GRAND FATHER THAT, THAT ALLOWS AN GRAND DRIVE THROUGH TO BE MODIFIED. YES. YEAH. OKAY. WITH APPROVAL OF THE COMMISSIONERS, WE COULD, IS THERE ANY UPDATE ON TEXAS ROADHOUSE? HUH? AT IS IS THERE ANY UPDATE ON TEXAS ROADHOUSE? NO. NO, THIS IS NOT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. LATER ON, WE'LL ASK YOU. YEAH. APPRECIATE, WE'LL ASK YOU NEXT MEETING. , YOU HAVE ANYTHING WANNA SAY? THAT'S NOT ME, JOANNE. OKAY. YES, THIS IS, OKAY, SO WHAT, THIS IS NOT TEXAS ROADHOUSE. THIS IS OKAY. THIS IS NOT ON OUR AGENDA. THANK YOU, JOANNE. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. OKAY. I SECOND THOMAS. THANK YOU JOANNE. WE WANNA GO HOME. OKAY. UH, OKAY, SO BASICALLY APPROVE. OKAY. AND, UH, FIVE ZERO TO LOOK INTO IT AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, RIGHT? AND, UH, DON'T TELL ME YOU HAVE A 15. I HAVE 20 . I'M JUST KIDDING. OKAY. OKAY. BRIAN, GO AHEAD. HOW MANY, UH, TWO. TWO IS GOOD. TWO WHAT? TOO MANY, I'M KIDDING. I'M KIDDING. YOU GO BACK TO GERMANY. YOU GO BACK TO GERMANY. OKAY, GO AHEAD. SO MY FIRST REQUEST IS, UH, I KNOW MILAN MENTIONED IT EARLIER, AND I THINK WE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT, UM, THE PUR THE PURCHASING ON UNDER OUR PUR THE PURCHASE PURCHASING MANAGER'S AUTHORITY ON, UM, ABOUT GETTING, UH, MONTHLY REPORTS. AND I THINK MILAN'S COMMITTED TO MAKING THAT HAPPEN AND UPDATING THE CONSOLE ON A MONTHLY BASIS ON THAT REPORT. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO MAKE THAT OFFICIAL CONSOLE POLICY MOVING FORWARD. THAT'S MY FIRST MOTHER. MAY I OKAY. ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? OKAY. UH, OKAY. MAY PUT CONFUSED. I'M KIND OF CONFUSED TOO. YOU WANT TO KIND MORE? UH, YES. SO I BELIEVE THERE WAS, UH, I THINK THERE WAS A ISSUE WITH, UH, I THINK EVEN, EVEN WITH THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACTS ABOUT, I THINK, UH, THERE WAS ISSUE ABOUT WHO WE WERE. WHO, UH, C THE CITY MANAGER WAS HIRING AS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND THE CITY COUNCIL WAS IN A FORM OH, GOT ALL THOSE CONTRACTS. CONSULTANT. CONSULTANT, YES. CONSULTANTS. YES. SO, SO BASICALLY, I THINK THIS IS WHAT WE REQUEST OUTSIDE, WE DON'T KNOW, WE DON'T EVEN KNOW PREVIOUS CITY MANAGER HIRE A CONSULTANT AND THAT WAS OUR PREVIOUS OKAY. AND, UH, FINANCE DIRECTOR WILL NOT EVEN NOTIFY US. SO, SO WE WANT TO, WE DON'T WANNA BE IN THE DARK. OKAY. ANY, ANY EVEN UNDER YOUR OKAY. AUTHORITY OF TO HIRE WITH THAT BUDGET, YOU STILL NEED TO, UH, BRING OKAY. AND, UH, A TRANSPARENCY AND BRING, UH, NOTIFY CITY COUNCIL ABOUT WHAT CONSULTANT YOU HIRE. RIGHT? RIGHT. THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT. YES. OKAY. AND, UH, RIGHT. OLLIE, YOU OKAY WITH THAT? YES. YES. SO IN THAT WAY, EVERYBODY IN THE SAME PAGE, WE UNDERSTAND, OKAY? WE NOT AGAINST YOU TO, WITH YOUR AUTHORITY TO DO HIRE ANYBODY, BUT AT LEAST YOU NOTIFY US NOW, LIKE LAST TIME, WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WE HIRE SOMEBODY AND I KNOW YOU, YOU TERMINATE THE CONTRACT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND LOOK, YOU CAN SEE, AND WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL BUDGET, OKAY? SO ANYWAY, AND, UH, ANYBODY, ANYBODY AGAINST THAT? OKAY, GOOD. OKAY. NEXT. AND THEN MY LAST ONE IS, UM, MY NEXT ONE IS [03:50:01] TO, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, A GREAT EVENT THAT HAPPENS YEARLY. AND I, AND I THINK, UH, YOU DO A REMARKABLE JOB AND, AND IT BRINGS TONS AND TONS OF PEOPLE AND, AND SO WHICH ONE, HUH? ? I, I, I, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL SAY RIGHT? YEAH. I WANTED TO, UH, UH, MAKE A CONSTANT REQUEST TO HAVE THE CITY MANAGER INVITE, UM, THE CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST GREEN TO PROVIDE A PUBLIC PRESENTATION, UH, IF POSSIBLE BY THE, EITHER THE SECOND MEETING OF JULY OR, OR, OR, OR WHEN THEY'RE AVAILABLE IN AUGUST. UH, IN REGARDS TO THE MEGA MOON FESTIVAL, UH, MAYBE THEY COULD PRESENT ON THE NUMBER OF BOOTHS THE VENDOR FEES COLLECTED FOR THE LAST TWO EVENTS IN THIS UPCOMING EVENT. UH, SOME VOLUNTEER STAFFING AND, AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. UH, A SUMMARY OF CITY CONTRIBUTIONS, STAFF MATERIALS AND SERVICES FOR THE LAST TWO EVENTS. AND UPCOMING, UM, THE GROWTH AND NET REVENUE GENERATED BY THE EVENT FOR THE LAST TWO EVENTS AND THE CONTRACTUAL TERMS FOR THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL AND, AND THE LAST FESTIVAL. AND WHETHER THE CITY WILL COLLECT VENDOR FEES AS IT'S DONE WITH OTHER CITY SUPPORTIVE FESTIVALS. YEAH. OKAY. GOT IT. UH, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, IT'S A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION IS NOT BELONG TO THE CITY. AND, UH, SO THEY ARE CHARITY EVENT. IF YOU MAKE IT SO STRICT, NOBODY WANT TO DO A CHARITY EVENT. OKAY? I JUST LET YOU UNDERSTAND BECAUSE NOBODY WANNA COME OVER HERE UNDER, BECAUSE THIS, THEY'RE NOT USING THE CITY BUDGET, SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU, OKAY. IF YOU'RE DOING THIS, THEN ANYBODY TO DO A CHARITY EVENT, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, HOW ABOUT, OKAY, AND, UH, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THE, UM, OKAY, OKAY. WHAT'S THE KIWANI CLUB? THEY DO THE, OKAY. ALL THE EVENT, INCLUDING THE, THEN YOU WANT THEM TO COME OVER HERE, PRESENT IT, HOW MUCH THEY SPEND THE MONEY, HOW THEY THIS COLLECT THE MONEY, HOW THEY DOING THIS AND THAT. THEY'RE DOING THE THEY DO, THEY, THEY, THEY HELP US OKAY. AND PAY FORWARD, UH, FOR THE OKAY. A COUNT. AND THEY, THEY DOING THE, I THINK THEY DOING ANOTHER EVENT FOR CAR SHOW AND THEY DO ANOTHER EVENT, OKAY. FOR THE BIG ONES IS CHRISTMAS, OUR CHRISTMAS PARADE. YEAH. AND THEN YOU WANT THEM TO COME OVER HERE BECAUSE IF YOU DOING THAT, THEN ALL THE PEOPLE DOING THAT HAVE COME OVER HERE EQUALLY FOR NONPROFIT TO PRESENT TO ALL THAT. SO I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU JUST SINGLE OUT THE CHINESE AMERICAN OKAY. ASSOCIATION WHEN THEY DONATE ALL THE MONEY INTO THE PAY FOR THE PROGRAM. YEAH. IT'S, THEY ARE, THEY ARE NOT SEEKING ENTITY. YEAH. AND I'LL SHARE WHY I I'M BRINGING THIS FORWARD. UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS GOING TO THE BUDGET, I ASKED WHY COMMUNITY SERVICES, UH, WE WAS REQUESTING MORE MONEY AND, AND, AND, UH, I'M NOT GONNA SAY WHICH WHO'VE TOLD ME THAT BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA GET THEM IN TROUBLE, BUT THEY BROUGHT IT TO MY ATTENTION WITHOUT ME ASKING. AND THEY INDICATED THAT THE, THE, THE MEGA MOOD FESTIVAL IS RECEIVING APPROXIMATELY UP TO ABOUT 48,000 SOMETHING DOLLARS IN RESOURCES IN ADDITION TO, UH, STAFF OVERTIME. SO ROUGHLY BETWEEN, ABOUT ABOUT ROUGHLY UP TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN TAXPAYERS MONEY. AND SO THIS IS JUST A TRANSPARENCY. UH, THIS WAS BROUGHT HOW ABOUT, HOW ABOUT, HOW ABOUT DO THIS, HOW ABOUT I TELL THEM TO CANCEL IT? OKAY. HOW ABOUT I TELL THEM TO CANCEL IT AND CITY CAN DO THEIR OR MOVE OKAY. FOR FESTIVAL, AND, UH, THEY DON'T HAVE TO SPEND ALL THE MONEY AND TIME AND THEY TRY TO DO DONATION. OKAY. AND, UH, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THE MOON FESTIVAL. I TELL IT'S NOT AGAINST YOU EITHER. NO, NO, NO, NO. BUT, BUT THE THING IS THIS, YOU TRY TO DISCOURAGE THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY PAY FOR ALL THE RENTAL, EVERYTHING, AND THEY PUT A PROGRAM OVER THERE, OKAY? AND THEY GET A DONATION AND THEY DONATE, DONATE ALL THE MONEY, INCLUDING THEY DONATE $10,000 TO THE CITY FOR THEIR OVERTIME, THIS AND THAT. TELL ME WHICH, UH, ENTITY DOING THAT. YEAH. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH. OKAY. AND, UH, UH, KIWANI CLUB. SO IF YOU ARE DOING THAT, THEN ALL THE, THEY BASICALLY DISCOURAGE ANY OF ENTITY OKAY. TO HELP THE CITY TO SPONSORSHIP THE PROGRAM. THEN WE DON'T HAVE ANY PROGRAM. THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE TAXPAYER PROGRAM. OKAY. EVERYTHING THAT WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE IF YOU WANNA DO MOON FESTIVAL BY THE CITY AND CITY CAN DO EVERYTHING THEMSELVES. I DON'T MIND. I THINK I WOULD TELL THEM, SAY, FORGET IT, HAVE A CITY TO GET ALL THE BOOTH, EVERYTHING, THE PROGRAM AND CITY DOING IT. OKAY. SO IN THAT WAY THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO UNDER THE SCHOOL NEED BASED ON WHAT YOU SAY. AND THEY HAVE COME HERE AND ASKING WHERE YOU, HOW YOU SPEND THIS AND THAT. OKAY. AND, AND IT, IT'S JUST LIKE, OKAY, YOU PENALIZE PEOPLE WANT TO DO COMMUNITY EVENT. OKAY? AND BECAUSE YOU SAY, BECAUSE SOMEBODY TOLD YOU THEY SPEND CITY SPEND WAY TOO MUCH MONEY, THINGS VERY SIMPLE. THEN WE CANCEL THE EVENT. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT. OKAY? BECAUSE THE, BECAUSE I, I DON'T THINK, BASED ON WHAT CAWC TOLD ME, UH, THEY DIDN'T MAKE PROFIT. AND IF THEY HAVE ANY, THEY ALL DONATE OUT, INCLUDING ALL THE, YOU SEE HOW MUCH MONEY THEY DONATE? YEAH. SO, SO, SO ANYWAY, IT, SOME, IT SOUND VERY, [03:55:01] I DON'T WANNA SAY IT, IT JUST SOUND VERY DISAPPOINTED FOR SOMEBODY WANT TO DO SOMETHING AND THEN YOU WANT THEM TO PRESENT THIS AND THAT. WHY NOT ASK THE KIWANI DO THE SAME THING? YEAH. NO, IT'S, OTHER PEOPLE DO THE SAME THING. IT'S BECAUSE IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION. UH, AND, AND, AND WHEN I ASKED, WELL, DON'T WE, DON'T WE COLLECT VENDOR FEES? DON'T WE CREATE SPONSORSHIP FEES? AND THEY SAID, NO, UH, THE CHINESE ASSOCIATION COLLECTS ALL FEES AND, AND THE CITY'S NOT MAKING NOT ONE PENNY BACK. THE, THEY, THEY INDICATED THAT THE CHINESE ASSOCIATION IS MAKING A, A SUR A SURPLUS PROFIT OFF THAT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS INVESTMENT. AND, AND SO OBVIOUSLY HOLD ON. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, OKAY. AND THEN MAYBE YOU CAN HAVE THE PERSON TELLING YOU TO TALK TO CAWC AND SAY, OKAY, HOW MUCH WE SPEND THIS AND THAT, AND THEN HOW MUCH MONEY, OKAY. THEY DONATE OUT TO THE CHARITY, INCLUDING, OR OVER HERE. OKAY. IT IS NOT LIKE THIS CHARITY, ANYTHING THEY MAKE. YEAH. I MEAN, THEY COULD, THEY COULD, THEY COULD DECLINE THE OFFER. BUT I THINK AS A TRANSPARENCY, WE'RE VIDING A, OH, I, I THINK OKAY. SOUND LIKE, UH, UH, UH, WITCH HUNT. OKAY. YOU SOUND LIKE, OH, THEY, THEY COLLECT THE MONEY, SO THIS IS A PROBLEM, OKAY? WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO DO SOMETHING AND THEN SOMEBODY JUST SECOND GUESS ABOUT THEIR INTENTION, OKAY? IT, IT, IT'S A NON-PROFIT. EVERY DIME HAVE BEEN ORDERED BY NONPROFIT. ALL THE MONEY THEY HAVE HAS TO DONATE INTO THE CHARITY, AND THAT'S WHY THEY DONATE THE MONEY, INCLUDING THE EXPLORE PROGRAM AND THIS AND THAT. AND THEN WHEN YOU SAY, OH, THEY'RE MAKING ALL THE MONEY, BUT THEY PAY FOR 40,000, $50,000 OF RENTAL, INCLUDING THE STAGING, INCLUDING ALL THIS DECORATION. OKAY? AND THEY, THEY, THEY PAY FOR A PERFORMANCE. THEY EVEN PAY THOSE PEOPLE COME, OKAY. AND PAY THEM THE, THE WHAT'S THE PROFIT MARGIN? I DON'T KNOW. YOU HAVE THE S THE, IT'S NOT ME. I'M NOT CAWC. SO, SO YEAH, GO AHEAD. YEAH. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, SO I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE, UM, I ATTENDED THE BUDGET MEETINGS, AND DURING THE BUDGET MEETINGS, THEY DISPLAYED WHAT THE EXPENSES WERE. AND, UH, ONE OF SEVERAL ITEMS WERE, UH, ONE OF THE ITEMS WAS THE MOON FESTIVAL, WHICH WAS ABOUT 40 SOME THOUSAND. UM, THE SPRING FESTIVAL, WHICH WAS AROUND THE SAME AMOUNT, UM, THE EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA, THEY LAID EVERYTHING OUT. SO I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT, BUT IF THAT'S WHAT YOU SAY THAT YOU HEARD, UM, SO THAT'S PART OF THE BUDGET THAT I WANNA SAY. NOW, THE OTHER THING IS, IF WE'RE GOING TO, UM, AUDIT ALL THESE EVENTS, THEN WE NEED TO BE TRANSPARENT AND AUDIT ALL OF THEM. AUDIT ALL OF 'EM, FIND OUT WHO GAVE, WHO GAVE US, UM, SPONSORSHIPS, WHO DIDN'T GIVE ALL OF IT. JUST OPEN IT ALL UP. YEAH. WE CAN'T JUST FOCUS ON ONE. NO, I AGREE. SO OPEN IT ALL UP FOR EVERYONE AND THEN WE'LL GO FROM THERE. THAT I, YOU KNOW, I, I, AGAIN, I I THINK IT'S PARALYZED. ALL THIS CHARITY GROUP, INCLUDING THE KIWANI, INCLUDING ALL OF, UM, POTENTIALLY NONPROFIT. THEY WANT TO DO A, A SPONSORSHIP, UH, JUST, OKAY. AND DON'T FORGET, WE HAVE, UH, UH, AN WEST COVINA FOUNDATION, OKAY. DONATION TO DO CHARITY. OKAY. TO DO THE EVENT. AND IF WE DOING THIS, THEN NOBODY WANT TO CO COLLABORATE, UH, WITH THE CITY. AND, AND I STRONGLY AGAINST TO, TO HAVE, UH, KIWANI COME OVER HERE, TALK ABOUT THIS FOR ROTARY AND THIS AND THAT. THEY, THEY, THEY WANT TO DO THE PROJECT. WE CAN CITY CAN EASILY REJECT, SAY, WE DON'T WANT TO SPONSOR, YOU HAVE TO PAY THIS AND THAT, ALTHOUGH WE WANT THE CITY CAN DO IT LESS THING. SO, SO RATHER THAN, RATHER THAN SAY, HEY, UH, WE WANT TO YOU DOING THIS, COME OVER HERE. LIKE, THEY, THEY MAKE MONEY FROM THE CITY. SO CITY HAVE TO CHECK ALL THEIR THING. YOU CAN ASK THEM, OKAY, SEE THEY WANNA DO IT, OR THEY MAY SAY, FORGET IT. IN THAT CASE, I DON'T WANNA WORK WITH YOU GUY. OKAY. AND, UH, IN THAT WAY, IN THE FUTURE, MAYBE NOBODY WANNA DO IT. OKAY. OR MAYOR PUTIN, YOU WANT TO, YOU WANT, OR DO YOU WANT GO FIRST? OH, UP, UP TO, YEAH, THAT'S OKAY. ALL YOU GO. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU. I ACTUALLY DON'T, I DON'T KNOW NONPROFITS WHO WOULD, WHO WOULD FEEL OFFENDED ABOUT JUST SAYING WHAT THEY'RE DOING. I MEAN, I DON'T THINK, I'M NOT SAYING WE SHOULD OPPOSE, I MEAN, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO TARGET ANY ONE THING, BUT I LIKE, UM, UM, COUNCILWOMAN ROSARIO HAS THIS IDEA ABOUT THE WHOLE EXPANSION THING BECAUSE I THINK THAT WHEN NONPROFITS, THEY'RE ALL DOING BUSINESS FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD ANYWAY. AND, AND THERE'S NO REASON NOT TO SHOW, I MEAN, IT'S NOT HARD, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY WHETHER IT'S KIWANIS OR ANYBODY. SO THEN THAT WAY, THAT'S JUST, WE, WHENEVER WE DO PARTNERSHIPS TOGETHER, WE JUST SORT OF COMMUNICATE WHAT ARE THE OKAY. BENEFITS. THANK YOU. OKAY. GO AHEAD. UH, MAY I PUT THEN, THANK YOU. I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS WITH CITI AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, WHETHER THEY'RE NON-PROFITS FOR-PROFITS, WE NEED TO REALLY LOOK AT, UM, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PARTNERSHIP, SPONSORSHIP, [04:00:01] UM, OR IF THEY'RE ON THEIR OWN, THAT THEY COMPLETELY DO THAT, BECAUSE THAT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE ON HOW THINGS ARE OPERATED. UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT SHOULD BE THE REAL FOCUS, BECAUSE NOW THERE'S AN ISSUE IF THE CITY, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS ACCURATE, BUT IF THE CITY IS ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WRITING OUT A CHECK TO THE NONPROFIT DIRECTLY, THEN THAT, THAT, THAT CAUSES A RED FLAG. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AS PEOPLE KNOW SINCE FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS WITH FILM AT WEST COVINA, WE DON'T EVEN MAKE MONEY AT ALL. BUT WE DON'T BURDEN THE CITY, BUT WE HANDLE LIKE THE, THE COMMITTEE, ESPECIALLY THE STUDENTS. 'CAUSE IT'S ALL STUDENT RAN. THEY'RE THE ONES WHO'S OUT THERE GETTING THE SPONSORSHIP, GETTING THE, UM, INFORMATION, SETTING UP THE BOOTH, AND IT'S A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY. SO IT'S NOT, THE CITY DOES NOT CUT US OUT A CHECK AT ALL. MM-HMM . UM, YOU KNOW, THERE, WE, WE PARTNER WITH THE THERE AND THEY'RE, BUT IN REALITY, WE SHOULD REALLY LOOK AT THE, THE DIFFERENCE OF WHAT CONSIDERS A PARTNERSHIP, A SPONSORSHIP, UM, AND YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE ON THEIR OWN AND WHAT QUALIFIES AND YEAH, THAT THAT'S WHAT I, I THINK THAT SHOULD BE, BECAUSE KIWANIS IS A GREAT, UM, SPONSOR. I MEAN, A PARTNER ESPECIALLY WITH OUR CHRISTMAS, UM, AND THEY'RE THE ONES WHO HANDLE A LOT OF THE STUFF, YOU KNOW, THE, THE TOYS AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALSO, UH, GAVE TO THE CITY AS WELL. SOME OF THESE NONPROFITS HAVE DONATED TO THE CITY AS WELL. BUT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CHRISTMAS KEANE'S HANDLES AND TAKES CARE OF A BUNCH OF, BUNCH OF THE THINGS, THE, THE BOOTH, THE, I THINK THE CAWC SIM TOKEN, AND THEY DONATE A LOT. OKAY. COME OVER HERE. THEY ARE THE ONLY ONE AGENCY OKAY. OR A NONPROFIT COME OVER HERE, CONSISTENTLY DONATE TO ALL THE STUDENT AND THIS AND THAT, AND EVEN FOR LAST TIME, EXPLORE. OKAY? THEY WANT TO DO SOMETHING. AND THE WAY OKAY. TO SOUND LIKE, UH, OKAY. CITY PAY WAY TOO MUCH MONEY FOR OKAY, UH, SPONSORSHIP, OKAY. FOR POLICE AND FIRE, IT, IT, IT SOUND, UH, VERY OKAY. BITTERNESS ABOUT THEY TRIED TO DO SPEND TIME AND THEN THE CITY DIDN'T PAY THEM ANYTHING. THEY VOLUNTEER, COME OVER HERE, DO THE THING TO THE PROJECT, AND SOME PEOPLE SAY, OH, THEY DON'T THIS ON THAT AND TALK ABOUT THIS AND THAT. WHY NOT TALK ABOUT KIWANI CLUB? AND THEY DO THE DONATION RECEIPT. I, OKAY, THEY DO THE DONATION. OKAY. CWC DONATE TO KIWANI CLUB TOO FOR THEIR CHRISTMAS, THIS ON THAT. SO THEY, THEY, THEY, SAME THING TOO. SAME TOKEN, EVERYBODY HELPING EACH OTHER. SO I DON'T KNOW WHY THE CT STAFF JUST SINGLE OUT CAWC. WHY THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT KIWANI OKAY. OR ANY OTHER, I THINK WE WE'RE CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW ONLY KNOW ONLY TWO GROUP IS REALLY DONATE AND DOING FOR OUR CHILDREN ONCE ONE CAWC. SO I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT ANYONE, BUT IT, IT, IF THE WAY SOUND LIKE, UH, LIKE THIS, I DON'T KNOW. YOU CAN, YOU CAN SEE, YOU CAN TELL THEM, SAY, HEY, WE WANT YOU THIS AND THAT. THEN MAYBE SAY, SCREW AND I'M NOT GOING DO THIS ANYMORE. THEN YOU'RE GOING MISSING A LOT OF WHAT THEY DID AND THAT IT'S NO POINT. OKAY. AND I DON'T EVEN ANY KNOW ANY OTHER CITY, THEY WILL ASK THEM TO ANY OTHER GROUP. I THINK ALL THE CITY, THEY JUST BEGGING FOR ANY GROUP TO HELP OUT TO PAY FOR IT. OKAY. AND IT'S NOT LIKE THEY NOT PAY FOR IT. THEY PAY FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING. OKAY. AND THEY, SO, SO, SO, SO FOR, FOR THE THING, OKAY. AND THE, LIKE, MAYOR PUTIN SAY, UNLESS THE CITY PAY THEM THE CHECK AND THEY WANT TO SEE WHERE THIS CHECK GO TO, RIGHT? IT IS OPPOSITE IS THEY PAY $10,000 TO THE CITY AND THEY SHOULD TELL THE CITY, SAY WHY YOU SPEND THIS $10,000, WE WANNA ALL SEE YOU WHERE YOU SPEND THAT MONEY. AND SOMETHING THAT COULD ALSO BE LOOKED AT IS WHAT IS CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY VERSUS NONPROFITS, UH, RESPONSIBILITY, WHO COVERS WHAT COST. UM, THAT COULD BE ALSO LOOKED AT. YEAH. BUT I THINK, I THINK, UH, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT, AND THIS IS JUST SO TO ME BY STAFF, BUT I'M ALSO, I I AM OPEN TO DO WHAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ IS RECOMMENDING AND AND COUNCILWOMAN ENCANTO IS RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD BE FAIR TO ALL NONPROFITS TO DO THE SAME. AND, AND I DON'T THINK, I DON'T THINK A NONPROFIT SHOULD WORRY OR BE, WANNA HIDE THE TRUE NUMBERS OF WHAT THEIR PROFIT MARGIN IS. AND I THINK IF WE'RE GIVING A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, UH, AND THAT COULD BE IN, IN, IN, IN THE SHAPE OF PUBLIC RESOURCES, POLICE AND FIRE OVERTIME. THAT COULD BE DECORATIONS, THAT COULD BE A STAGE THAT'S ALL CONSIDER GOT IT. GOT IT. PUBLIC RESOURCES. SO BASICALLY, OKAY, YOU, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, OKAY, I THINK HAVE THEY OPENED A BOOK AND TO REVIEW THIS AND THAT IT'S QUITE ALL RIGHT BECAUSE IT IS A PUBLIC RECORD ANYWAY, UH, THIS AND THAT. OKAY. BUT INVITE IN THE, IN THE CITY COUNCIL AND THEY SAY THEY OPEN THE BOOK AND HOW YOU SPEND THIS ON THAT. I THINK WE CAN HAVE A CITY STAFF OKAY. AND TO SAY, HEY, WE WANT TO SEE HOW MUCH YOU MAKE THIS ON THAT. OKAY. AND KIWANI, HOW MUCH YOU MAKE [04:05:01] THIS ON THAT AND PUT THAT NUMBER. OKAY. SEE HOW, AND SEE WHAT THEY SAY. OKAY. SO THEY WANT DO A PUBLIC RECORD FOR THIS AND THAT, BECAUSE OKAY. YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? IF I MAY, UM, JUST TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT, UM, THE MAYOR PRO TEM SAID, SO A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION. SO TAKING BOTH NON-PROFIT GROUPS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE C-A-A-W-C AND THE QIS CLUB, THE CITY DOES ENTER INTO AN MOU WITH BOTH. AND SO IT ARTICULATES IN THE MOU WHAT IS GONNA BE THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITIES VERSUS WHAT IT'S GONNA BE THE ORGANIZATION'S RESPONSIBILITIES. AND WE COME TO A MUTUAL AGREEMENT BASED UPON THAT, HEARING WHAT THE MAYOR WAS SAYING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, HAVING THOSE NONPROFIT GROUPS, YOU KNOW, GIVE ACCESS TO THE BOOKS. MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONSIDER PUTTING IN THE MOU, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS PARTNERSHIP, UM, THAT THE CITY HAS, UM, THE ABILITY TO AUDIT THOSE. UM, YEAH. YES. BUT, BUT WHAT WAS, WHAT'S THE CONCERN IN INVITING, IF IT'S A-C-A-W-W, IF IT'S, IF THE, IF IT'S A CHINESE ASSOCIATION OF WEST VIDA, WHAT IS THE CONCERN OR, OR WHAT IS THE CONCERN FOR THE PUBLIC TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW AT A PUBLIC MEETING WHAT THEIR PROFIT, GROSS PROFIT MARGIN IS AND WHAT THEIR NET PROFIT IS? IF WE'RE GIVING A ENTITY A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND NOT ALLOWING ANY OTHER NONPROFIT IN OUR CITY THAT OPPORTUNITY AND THEN YOU'RE DENYING OTHER, ANYONE ELSE THAT OPPORTUNITY. OKAY. GOT IT. AND THEN HOW DO YOU I HAVE A, I KNOW, BUT I'M STILL TALKING, SO, YEAH. SO IF, IF, IF YOU, IF YOU PREVENT THAT OPPORTUNITY FROM OTHER NONPROFITS FROM APPLYING FOR THAT, IT'S AN UNFAIR PROCESS. A PROCESS. AGREE AND AGREE. UH, AND I THINK THAT IF WE'RE, IF WE'RE GONNA TRY TO, UH, HIDE OR, OR, OR, AND NOT AGREE, PREVENT THE NONPROFIT FROM BEING INVITED, WHY CAN'T WE JUST INVITE THEM AND SEE IF THEY WANNA SET? I WANT, I WANT TO SAY THIS. OKAY. AND, UH, I THINK THE, THE DISPUTE IS HOW MUCH CT PAY. I THINK THIS IS WHAT, UM, OKAY. BECAUSE, UH, HOW MUCH AND THE, ALL THE NTT PAY ABOUT THE EVENT. OKAY. AND THEN HOW MUCH, OKAY, THE, UH, CT PAY AS A SPONSORSHIP EVENT, THEN WHEN YOU SAY A HUNDRED THOUSAND, IS THE CITY PAY A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS? I DON'T KNOW IF CITY PAY FOR A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS? YEAH, IT'S 48 THOU ABOUT 48 SOMETHING IN, IN SUPPLIES ANOTHER 50,000 IN OVERTIME PAY PERSONNEL. SO BASICALLY, SO BASICALLY CITY PAY A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, ROUGHLY 95,000 FOR LAST YEAR. UH, MOON FESTIVAL. WE CAN TAKE A LOOK, WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THE STAFFING COSTS AND THE OVERTIME COSTS AND WORK WITH FINANCE TO COME TO THOSE FIGURES FOR, FOR TWO TODAY AND THE CITY PAY $45,000 SALARY OVERTIME. THEN, THEN, THEN IN THAT WAY, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE EVENT. YEAH, I'M, I'M, I'M NOT SAYING IT'S A BAD EVENT, I'M JUST SAYING THAT OH, I UNDERSTAND. BECAUSE WHY CAN'T WE NOT INVITE THE NONPROFIT TO COME PRESENT AND SAY, FINE, WE'RE GIVING, GIVING YOU A HUNDRED THOUSAND, BUT YOU'RE MAKING 300,000 IN VENDOR FEES AND SPONSORSHIPS, THEN WE PUT MY HAVE A PROBLEM AND WE NEED TO RESTRUCTURE THE AGREEMENT. IF, IF YOU HAVE, UH, IF YOU THINK ABOUT THIS, IF, UH, YOU HAVE, UH, 150 AND A PLUS YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF NON-PROFIT, MY UNDERSTANDING NON-PROFIT IS FREE. OKAY. AND I THINK IT'S THE FUEL, I THINK LAST TIME, MY UNDERSTANDING, BASED ON THE POST, I THINK'S ABOUT FIVE, $600 FOR TWO DAYS OR $300 A DAY. AND THEN FOR FU IT'S ABOUT A HUNDRED DOLLARS. SO I THINK THIS IS, UH, THE PRICE IS VERY CHEAP. OKAY. MY UNDERSTANDING, BECAUSE THEY WON'T HAVE A LOT OF VENDOR TO SHOW UP. OKAY. SO I THINK THEY HAVE A BOOK. SO YOU CAN, YOU CAN CD CAN LOOK INTO AN S-C-A-W-C PROVIDE A BOOK FOR YOU. OKAY. AND, UH, REGARDING THE VENDOR, HOW MANY VENDOR, AND, UH, I THINK THE DONATION, YOU CAN ASK SEE A WC BECAUSE IT'S ON THE RECORD. OKAY. HOW MANY DONATION IS ALL ON THE, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE FLYER? I SAW IT. AND, UH, THEY, THEY TALK THING ABOUT THE DONOR. OKAY. BUT MY, I'M MORE CURIOUS. OKAY. I THINK NO PROBLEM TO, OKAY. ASK THE CAWC TO OPEN HOW MUCH THEY MAKE LAST YEAR REGARDING OKAY. AND THE THING, UH, SO WHY IS, UH, TOTALLY. AND HOW MUCH THEY, THEY PAY FOR EVERYTHING DETAIL SHOULD GIVE YOU A SPREADSHEET. I THINK THIS, I THINK YOU CAN REQUEST TO CAWC FOR THEM TO DO IT. AND THEN, BUT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT, OKAY, THE CITY PAY, OKAY. IF THE CITY, I DON'T, I DIDN'T SEE ANY DETAIL BECAUSE THERE'S A PUBLIC MONEY. SO IF WE CAN SEE HOW MUCH IS OKAY, THE CD PAY, IF THE OVERTIME OKAY. AND PLUS OTHER THING WE WANT TO ADD TOGETHER, HOW MUCH IS, UH, IS THAT, IS THAT WORTH IT TO CONTINUE TO DO THIS JOINT VENTURE? IF, UH, IF IT IS TOO MUCH MONEY TO PAY FOR IT, EVEN WE GOT 20,000 PEOPLE AND PUT WITH CDA ON THE MAP. OKAY. BUT IF PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THIS IS, UH, WAY TOO MUCH OF MONEY, OKAY, I I, I HAVE NO NOTHING AGAINST TO GO INTO CAWC OKAY. AND ASK THEM TO [04:10:01] THE BOOK. OKAY? I, I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANY PROBLEM. DO YOU MAY, MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THEM SPEAK HERE, BUT DO YOU MIND IF WE INVITE THEM MAYBE FOR THE SECOND MEETING OF, I MEAN, SORRY, IF CITY STAFF PRESENTS A REPORT THAT CAWC PROVIDES THE CITY ON THOSE NUMBERS? YES. I, I, I DIDN'T AND, AND CITY STAFF WILL PRESENT THESE NUMBERS TO THE CITY COUNCIL. YES. AND ESSENTIALLY, I, I AGREE. AND THEN YOU COULD DECIDE IF WE ALL DECIDE IF, IF WE NEED TO MAYBE AMEND THE MOU TO ADDRESS. I AGREE. OKAY. I THINK IN THE FUTURE, OKAY, TO BE FAIR, MAYBE ALL THE EVENT AND THE ALL HAVE TO BE OKAY, THE COMING UP HOW MUCH CD PAY, OKAY? NO MATTER ANY EVENT, INCLUDING THE, UH, SPRING FESTIVAL, OKAY? WE WANNA SEE HOW MUCH CD PAY, OKAY? AND, UH, WITH, UH, HOW MUCH VENDOR, OKAY? AND, UH, TO BENEFIT, OKAY? TO CT, OKAY. TO SERVE, TO KIND OF, UH, OKAY, UH, SUBTRACT OKAY. ABOUT THE, THE, THE EXPENDITURE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO MAKE AN INCOME TO PAY FOR, YOU CAN JUST ALL DEPEND ON THE CT. AND, UH, I UNDERSTAND THE CITY ALWAYS HAVE A, UH, BEER GARDEN AND HOW MUCH WE MAKE ON THE BEER GARDEN, OKAY? AND THAT SHOULD BE OKAY, INCLUDING, BECAUSE CIBC DOESN'T MAKE ANY MONEY FROM THE, FROM THE BEER GARDEN. BEER GARDEN IS FROM THE CITY. OKAY? SO, SO I THINK IN THAT WAY, UH, IF WE WANT TO GO TO THAT ROUTE, THEN THE CITY HAVE TO GO THROUGH HOW MUCH WE SPEND. OKAY? AND, UH, OKAY, HOW MANY, HOW MANY STAFF? OKAY? AND OKAY, WHERE THIS MONEY COMING FROM IS THEY COME FROM OUR GENERAL FUND AT THE SAME TIME AND WE WANT TO ALL ENTITY. ENTITY, OKAY. TO OPEN UP HOW MUCH YOU MAKE FOR VENDOR FEE, HOW MUCH OKAY. BASED ON HOW YOU CHARGE, OKAY? AND, UH, IT'S ALL PUBLIC RECORD ANYWAY, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY PAY AND, AND INCLUDE THE RECEIPT, EVERYTHING, AND THEN HOW MUCH, OKAY? AND THE CT, THEY PAY FOR THE, ALL THE RENTAL FEE AND THE, THEY SHOULD HAVE ALL THE RECEIPT TOO. AND I THINK THAT AND IS TRANSPARENCY FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE. OKAY? BUT SEE, IT'S WORTH IT FOR BOTH SIDES, OKAY? I THINK, OKAY. YOU CAN REQUEST CAWC TO PROVIDE ALL THIS AND ALL THAT. AND SAME THING I AGREE WITH, UH, OTHERWISE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE YOU SINGLE, SINGLE OUT. OKAY? ONLY CAWC. HOW ABOUT KIWANI? YOU, I KNOW YOU'RE THE MEMBER OF KIWANI, OKAY? SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A KIWANI TO OPEN UP THE BOOK, OKAY? INCLUDING HOW MUCH THEY SPEND, OKAY? AND THIS AND THAT, INCLUDING HOW MUCH CITY SPONSOR WITH ALL THIS OF, UH, KEY ZONE, THIS AND THAT. SO ADD TOGETHER, THEN WE CAN OPEN A PRESENTATION FOR IT. MAKE SENSE? MM-HMM . YES. OH, I AGREE WITH THAT. OKAY. I THINK THIS WOULD BE, I GLAD TO HAVE THEM TO COME OVER HERE. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. I THINK JUST THEY CAN PRESENT ON IT THEN. YEAH. THEY HAVE TO GET ALL THE INFORMATION AND PRESENT TO ALL FUND OUR SPRING FESTIVAL TO, OKAY. AND, UH, SUMMER COUNCIL OKAY. AND, UH, INTO THE, OKAY, JULY 4TH. OKAY. AND THEN WE GO TO THE TOUCH A TRUCK, OKAY? AND INCLUDING THE OKAY, THE JULY, JULY 4TH AND TOUCH A TRUCK AND THE STATE OF CITY, OKAY? AND THEN WE GO TO THE MOON FESTIVAL, AND THEN WE WANT DETAIL FOR THE CTO SIDE IS A PUBLIC MONEY. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT OVERTIME, $50,000, THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY FOR TODAY. MM-HMM . THAT'S A, IT IS A, I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT NUMBER IS CORRECT. I, I WANNA SEE IT BECAUSE I, I ONLY, I ONLY, YEAH, I ONLY SEE TWO, TWO POLICE OFFICER. OKAY. AND, UH, AND, UH, I ONLY SEE COUPLE OF, UH, PUBLIC WORK AND I SEE A BUNCH OF, UH, OKAY. COMMUNITY SERVICE STAFF. HOW CAN IT BE 45,000 FOR TODAY? OKAY? AND THEN, THEN, THEN OUR EVENT WILL BE WAY TOO PRICEY FOR IF WE HAVE THAT MANY, THEN, THEN WE IN TROUBLE WITH COMMUNITY SERVICE BECAUSE IT COSTS SO MUCH MONEY, OKAY? AND IN THAT WAY, THE CITY CANNOT HAVE A NO COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT. WE NEED EVENT. YEAH. AND WE, WE WANT ALL THE ENTITY, INCLUDING HISPANIC GROUP TO, TO, TO SPONSOR SO THEY CAN PAY HALF, OKAY? AND THEY, THEY CAN DO THEIR OKAY. OTHERWISE, WE GET MONEY, THEIR MONEY WILL COME IN FROM IT. AND IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT A BAD EVENT AT ALL. I JUST WANNA SEE HOW MAYBE WE COULD MAYBE, MAYBE OKAY. WHAT WE LEARN, WE COULD, MAYBE WE HAVE TO CHANGE IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT WHATEVER. NO, NO. OKAY. OKAY. IN THAT WAY, WE SHOULD HAVE ALL THE EVENT IN DETAIL ABOUT THE, UH, OKAY. THE, THE ACCOUNTANT. OKAY. AND, UH, THEN YOU SEND A REQUEST FOR CAWC AND, UH, KIWANI AND ANY OF NTT, OKAY? INCLUDING THE, UH, OKAY, THE, UH, UH, AND THE HISTORIC SOCIETY, IF THEY HAVE ANY EVENT WITH CT, JOIN JOINT VENTURE. AND NO MATTER WHAT, EVERYBODY EQUALLY SHOULD OPEN IT UP, OKAY. AND DO A PRESENTATION. BUT I REALLY, AGAIN, DETAILED CITY AND, UH, WE, REGARDING THE BILLING ABOUT, IF YOU SAY SPEND A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, THAT IS AMAZING. HOW, HOW CAN WE SPEND TWO DAY FOR A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IF CAWG PAY FOR ALL [04:15:01] THE RENTAL, EVERYTHING, ALL THE PROGRAM, HOW CAN THAT THEN, THEN WE CANNOT DO, OKAY? UH, CLOSE THE STREET BECAUSE IT COST WAY TOO MUCH MONEY. SO WE MAYBE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT MAYBE JUST DOING OVER HERE. OKAY? WE DON'T HAVE THE CODE DOWN THE STREET. SO, SO IF YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT WAY TOO MUCH MONEY FROM THE CITY, THEN WHY WE GO TO THE GLENDORA. OKAY? SO, SO, SO IT'S A SAD, IF WE END UP CITY BECOME A BURDEN, THEN, THEN WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW OTHER CITIES, LIKE YOUR CITY, THE POINT THEY DO THE NIGHT MARKET, HOW WE BALANCE THE NIGHT MARKET THAT IS VERY SUCCESSFUL. AND A HAMBURG SUNDAY FARMER MARKETS PACK, HOW THEY DO IT EVERY SUNDAY. AND I, I KNOW THEY STEP WORKING ON A SUNDAY, THEY SEND ME THE PICTURE AND I'M VERY JEALOUS WITH THEIR SUCCESS. SO, SO HOW ARE THE CITY DOING ALL THIS CONSISTENTLY? AND THEN NOW BOWEN PARK HAS A SUMMER, OKAY? AND, UH, MARKET THEY PACK TOO WITH ALL THE VENDOR, THIS AND THAT. WHY WE HAVE NOTHING. I THINK IF THAT CASE, THE CITY SHOULD DO EVERYTHING THEMSELF, FORGET ALL THIS ENTITY TO, TO HELP OUT IF, UH, SO IF YOU THINK ABOUT CITY PAYING HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, THEN IF CITY PAY FOR EVERYTHING, HOW MUCH WILL BE LET, IF I MAY, I'M NOT SURE WHERE THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS QUOTE CAME FROM. UM, SO WHAT, FROM YOUR FINANCE, FROM YOUR ACTING FINANCE DIRECTOR? SO I THINK YOU SHOULD LET FINANCE FOCUS. YEAH, THAT'S, YEAH. THAT'S NOT, SO I KNOW SOME OF THE COMMENTS ARE BEING DIRECTED TO ME. AND, AND AS I SAID, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING TO, WE CAN WORK TO PUT TOGETHER SOME NUMBERS. UM, THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO JUST BASED ON STAFFING SCHEDULES, UM, AND LOOKING BACK TO SEE WHEN PEOPLE WORKED AND COMPARING THAT TO THE STAFFING SCHEDULES. UM, AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOUR NUMBER IS, IS INCORRECT. I'M NOT SAYING THAT EITHER. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ. UM, BUT IT JUST FEELS LIKE SOME OF THESE COMMENTS ARE DIRECTED AT ME AND I WANT TO JUST BE CLEAR. OH, NOT AT ALL. I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR. I I HAVE A QUESTION. I HAVE A QUESTION. OKAY. AND THIS, OKAY, IF A MOON FESTIVAL AS SAYS $95,000 FOR THE STAFFING, THIS AND THAT, HOW MUCH FOR THE, UH, SPRING FESTIVAL? SPRING FESTIVAL, UH, UH, ROXANNE? YES. SPRING FESTIVAL, HOW MUCH WOULD COST US OKAY, FOR EVERYTHING? IF, UH, IF, UH, IF, UH, OKAY. IF A MOON, IF A MOON FESTIVAL, OKAY. AND THE CITY SAY PAY $95,000 FOR TWO DAY SPRING FESTIVAL, TWO DAYS, EXACTLY THE SAME LOCATION. HOW MUCH IS THAT? IF YOU RECALL, WE DID HAVE A REPORT THAT WENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL, GIVEN BY OUR DEPUTY COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR, SUSIE PEREZ BACK IN MAY ABOUT THOSE EXPENSES. I THINK THE FINANCE DIRECTOR COME. YEAH. AND THAT DID COME TO OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. AND, AND JUST TO CLARIFY, UH, 'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S SOME CONFUSION HERE MM-HMM. WHEN I SAY A STAFF MEMBER TOLD ME, JUST TO CLARIFY FOR THE RECORD, IT WAS NOT ROXANNE LMA. SO I WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR. SO ROXANNE, I DIDN'T, I WAS NOT DIRECTING OH, I, I DIDN'T TO YOU. I NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS, YOU TOLD ME IT'S HER. NO, NO, NO, NO. I DIDN'T. NOT ALWAYS ME. NO. , I TELL EVERYBODY I HAVE A LOT OF GET IT TO END. NO, I THINK YOU SAY IT TO TOM, TOM, NO. YEAH. TOM, TOM, TOM, YOU HAVE ALL THE NUMBER. NO. YEAH, NO, I THINK IT'S, IT'S NOT YOU AT ALL. IT'S A FAIR QUESTION. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE FAIR QUESTION. YEAH. BECAUSE IF, IF, IF A SPRING FESTIVAL AND MOON FESTIVAL ALL HAVE THE, THE OKAY, THE SAME OKAY. LOCATION, THE SAME TWO DAY. OKAY. AND, UH, OKAY. BUT ONLY DIFFERENT IS I THINK, UM, MOON FESTIVAL HAS A, A LITTLE BIT MORE VENDOR OKAY. BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF NON-PROFIT, A LOT OF, UH, OKAY. AND, UH, BARBECUE THING, I SAW A LOT OF SMOKE. OKAY? BUT THE SPRING FESTIVAL LOOK A LITTLE BIT LESS VENDORS, SO THAT'S A DIFFERENT, BUT, BUT THE, THE, THE STAFF STAFFING SHOULD BE THE SAME. BUT DID YOU, DO YOU HAVE A NUMBER FOR, UH, SPRING FESTIVAL? WELL, WE, THAT WASN'T INCLUDED IN THE STAFF REPORT BACK IN MAY. IT WAS ABOUT, UH, THE LAST FESTIVAL BECAUSE SPRING. SPRING, THAT WAS THE LAST ONE, RIGHT? YES. UH, THAT WAS $50,000 IN OVERTIME ACCORDING TO FINANCE. SO, SO, AND THE WAY THEY COMPARE THE MEGA MOOD FESTIVAL WAS THAT THEY SAID THAT IN THE PAST THEY DID NOT ACCOUNT SPECIFICALLY, UH, FOR THE HOURS BEING USED IN OVERTIME FOR C CITY EVENTS, BUT THAT THEY JUST RECENTLY STARTED ACCOUNTING FOR THESE CITY EVENTS TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ACCOUNTING PER EVENT GOING FORWARD, AND THAT THEY DID THAT ON THEIR, THEIR OWN. YEAH. SO, SO ON THE OVERTIME WHILE WILL BE THE OKAY. THE STAFF, IT IS A POLICE, IT'S A, I BELIEVE IT, POLICE, UH, FIRE PUBLIC WORKS. UM, PUBLIC SAFETY. PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES. SERVICES, YEAH. EVERYBODY SERVICES. YEAH. SO, SO, SO IF, IF, UH, BECOME VERY PRICEY AND IF WE HIT OUR GENERAL FUND. OKAY, BUT WHERE THIS FUNDING [04:20:01] ANNE ANNE, ONE NIGHT, 119,000 WAS IN THE STAFF REPORT. GO AHEAD, LISA. YES. I PULLED THE STAFF REPORT. THE, UH, EXPENDITURES VERSUS FEES CALCULATED. THE NET COST WAS $119,702. WHICH ONE? FOR THE SPRING FAST FESTIVAL. SPRING FESTIVAL? MM-HMM . SO HOW MUCH IS THAT? A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS? YES. THE TOTAL EXPENDITURES WERE 133,000. OKAY. AND THEN, THEN HOW MUCH FOR THE LAST YEAR? MOON FESTIVAL? OH, I'M SORRY. I DON'T HAVE, I OH, OKAY. SO WE'RE PULLING FROM AN OLD, FROM THE STAFF REPORT. THE STAFF REPORT THAT WENT TO COUNCIL IN MAY. YEAH. UH, OKAY. OKAY. BECAUSE THEY ABOUT THE SAME EVENT. SO IF, IF THE CITY PAYING A HUNDRED SOME THOUSAND DOLLARS, THAT'S HOW THEY, SO THAT WOULD BE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS, OKAY. AND, UH, UH, THE, THE, THE, OKAY, CWC PAY FOR ABOUT 50, $60,000 MM-HMM . SO IT'S A CITY. SO ONLY A NEGATIVE MAYBE 50,000 BUCKS IF, IF THE NUMBER IS CORRECT, BECAUSE THEY, THE SWING FESTIVAL CITY HAVE TO PAY FOR ALL THE RENTAL. MM-HMM . MO FESTIVAL, UH, IS PAID BY CAWC MM-HMM . INCLUDING THE STAGE, INCLUDING THE, THE DECORATION, THE, THE SOUND EFFECT. AND THAT MY UNDERSTANDING, THEY PAY ALMOST EVERYTHING AND THEY EVEN GIVE $10,000. YEAH. I, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION. SO I SAY YOU, SO I I UNDERSTAND, BUT I'M MAKE IT, I'LL MAKE IT TRANSPARENCY. OH, NO, NO, I'M NOT PLAYING ON YOU. OKAY. LIKE YOU ARE TRYING TO ATTACK. OKAY. BUT IT'S OKAY, YOU JUST HAVE A QUESTION YOU WANT TO ANSWER. OKAY. I THINK IT'S FAIR. OKAY. SO LET'S GET ALL THIS NUMBER, BUT LET'S, UH, LET'S GET ALL THE EVENT MAKE SENSE? YES. OKAY. AND THEN, AND LET'S COMPARE WITH, UH, SPRINT AND THE FOUR, OKAY? OKAY. OKAY. FESTIVAL. OKAY. THE SAME IN THAT WAY. UM, BECAUSE WITH, WITH ANOTHER ENTITY, THEY'RE PAYING NO MATTER WHAT, THEY'RE PAYING FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING. OKAY? SO, BUT THEY, THEY DIDN'T PAY FOR OVERTIME. OKAY? THAT IS POSSIBLE. WHAT THE STAFFING OVER THERE. AND PLUS, I THINK THAT THE KEY ZONE IS DONATED BY THE CITY TOO. YEAH. BUT YEAH, THERE ARE SOME EXPENDITURES THAT THE CITY DOES, UM, PAY FOR THE LITTLE TREND. I THINK THE CITY PAY FORWARD AND, UH, THE BALLOON OR SOMETHING. THE FA FA FACE SIGNAGE. YEAH. THAT, THAT, THAT'S AND CHEAP. OKAY. SO ANYWAY, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO SHOW CHANGE THE KIT. OF COURSE NOT. YOU WANNA DO THE EVENT? WE WANT TO DO A NEXT EVENT. WE DON'T WANT TO LIKE, OKAY. THEY HAVE TO PAY $5 TO PAINT THE FACE OR SOMETHING. OKAY. UH, NOBODY, YEAH, GO AHEAD. NO, I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE MOTION IS. HOW THE MOTION IS. WANNA DO MOTION. THE MOTION IS, UH, IS, UM, UH, HAVE ALL THE NTT TO PROVIDE THEIR BOOK AT THE SAME TIME FOR THE CT AND TO PROVIDE CT BOOK REGARDING THE OVERTIME, THE STAFF, EVERYTHING. SO EVERYTHING. SO IN THAT WAY WE, WE, WE CAN SEE, BECAUSE SEE THE COMPARISON IS VERY SIMPLE BECAUSE, UH, ON THE SPRING FESTIVAL AND THE FOUR FESTIVAL IS EXACTLY IDENTICAL, BUT THE DIFFERENCE, OKAY. PART THE DIFFERENCE IS THE MO OKAY? THE MO FESTIVAL HAS THE SPONSORS WITH ALL THE RENTAL AND ALL THE, ALL THE OKAY. PAY FOR IS, UH, MAJORITY THE EXPENDITURE AND THEN, AND THE SEND REQUEST TO CAWC. AND THEY HAVE THEN TO GIVE YOU ALL THE NUMBER OKAY. AND INCLUDING THE VENDOR, THE DONATION, AND HOW MUCH THEY PAY FOR IT. OKAY. AND WITH RECEIPT. OKAY. AND SOMETHING TO KIWANI AND OTHER GROUP TOO, IF THEY HAVE ANY EVENT. SO IN THAT WAY WE CAN SEE ALL, EVERYTHING OPEN BOOK AND THAT YOU CAN DO THE PRESENTATION. ABSOLUTELY. THANKS. SO THE, THE PROFIT AND THEN ALSO THEIR EXPENSE. YEAH, I THINK WE SHOULD, YEAH, OF COURSE. EVERYTHING A FULL AUDIT. EXACTLY. YEAH. THE FULL AND ALL THE MOTION TO DO ALL THAT. I'LL SEC, I'LL SECOND AND THEN NOBODY AGAINST IT. OKAY. UH, NEXT MOTION. THAT'S IT. IS THAT, ARE YOU SURE? A COMMENT, COMMENT, COMMENT? ANY ANYBODY WANNA COMMENT? I ACTUALLY HAVE A MOTHER MAY . YOU DO? I DO. IT'S ABOUT, IT'S ABOUT TIME. GOSH. WELL, I, I KNOW WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS IN THE PAST REGARDING CONTRACTS IN GENERAL. UM, WE'VE JUST BEEN HAVING SO MUCH ISSUES WITH ALL THE CONTRACTS THAT WE HAVE, AND IT'S NOT, I KNOW CITY ATTORNEY JUST DOES THE BASIC REVIEW OF THE CONTRACT OF WHAT THE WORD IS, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY A BENEFIT TO US OF WHAT, WHAT WE NEED. WE MISS OUT ON A LOT OF, UM, DETAILS. I, I'D LIKE TO SEE, AND, AND I KNOW THEY, THEY DISTRIBUTE, LIKE THESE CONTRACTS ARE GIVEN TO THIS DEPARTMENT, THIS DEPARTMENT, BUT IN REALITY, NOT ALL THE STAFF ARE, I'M NOT SAYING CAPABLE OR LIKE THAT FULL UNDERSTANDING. 'CAUSE SOME OF THESE CONTRACTS ARE VERY THICK AND DETAILED. AND SO IN THE PAST, I'VE NOTICED, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THE TREE, LIKE THEY SAID, NO, THE, THE CITY AND I HAVE EMAILS WHERE THEY SAID THE CITY DOESN'T REPLACE, BUT IT WAS IN THE CONTRACT. AND WHEN YOU TELL CITY STAFF OR STAFF TO LOOK INTO THE CONTRACT, THEY MISS IT. THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND IT. BUT SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO REALLY LOOK AT THESE CONTRACTS, GIVE THE FULL DETAILS, LET THE STAFF KNOW [04:25:01] WHAT IT CONSISTS OF. AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT TO HOLD THESE VENDORS, UM, BUSINESSES ACCOUNTABLE BY DOING THE INSPECTION. I KNOW WE BURDEN OUR CITY STAFF FOR LIKE, I KNOW EARLIER TODAY, UH, WE SAID, OKAY, HAVE PUBLIC WORKS OR MAINTENANCE AND SO FORTH TO GO THROUGH THAT, BUT THEY'RE ALL BEING SPREAD THIN. BUT WE JUST NEED SOMEBODY TO REALLY FOCUS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT, I MEAN, NOT ONLY WE'RE GETTING OUR MONEY'S WORTH, BUT, UM, THAT THE JOB IS BEING DONE AND THE, THAT THE JOB IS BEING DONE THE RIGHT WAY. WE CA WE SPEND MONEY FOR, LET, LET'S SAY, I MEAN, AND OTHER CITIES HAVE THE SAME ISSUES TOO. UM, THEY GET A CONTRACT, LET'S SAY THEY PUT LIKE AN AC OR, OR DO SOME WORK, AND THEN IT, IT DOESN'T WORK. AND YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE WARRANTY OR THE LIMITATIONS OF THAT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF, IF IT'S LIKE A SPECIFIC PERSON OR HAVE A CONTRACTOR CONSULTANT TO JUST FOCUS ON THAT AND TO FOLLOW UP AND MAKE SURE THAT THINGS ARE DONE AND THEN BRING IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL. LIKE THESE CONTRACTS, THEY'RE BEING DONE OR THEY'RE NOT DOING THIS. BECAUSE I KNOW, LIKE US AS A COUNCIL, WE'RE THE ONES GOING ON THE STREETS OR, YOU KNOW, TAKING PICTURES OR RESIDENTS ARE SENDING US EMAILS AND IT JUST, WE JUST KEEP COMING BACK. AND I, I KNOW WE'RE, WE JUST, UH, ALWAYS HAVE TO TELL THE STAFF LIKE, HEY, THIS, THIS, THIS. AND IT JUST COMES BACK EVEN IN CLOSED SESSION OR HERE, THE SAME ISSUE KEEPS, UM, COMING UP. AND SO IF THERE'S A SYSTEM THAT COULD BE PUT IN PLACE OR JUST SOMETHING IN, IN SPECIFIC WITH JUST CONTRACTS, ALL OUR CONTRACTS THAT WE HAVE. SO EVEN, EVEN MAKING OUR CONTRACTS STRICTER AND TAKING THE LIABILITY OFF THE CITY TOO, I THINK IS IMPORTANT. UH, SO THERE'S A PROBLEM IS, OKAY, LAY ON THE ATTORNEY. AM I RIGHT? WELL, NO, I MEAN, ATTORNEY IS ONE SECTION. YES. NO, NO, BECAUSE, BECAUSE ATTORNEY REVIEW THE CONTRACT TO MAKE SURE ALL THE WORDING TO PROTECT THE CITY, BUT THERE'S THE WORDING PART. OKAY. SO, SO, SO I THINK THE, THE ISSUE WE HAVE EVERY TIME WE GOT A LAWSUIT AND IT COME TO US IS REGARDING, OKAY, WE MISLED. WE MISLED. I NEVER HEARD ABOUT, WE ARE SO PROTECTED AND WE CAN COME TO PROTECT THEM. IT'S ALWAYS LIKE, WE ARE MISSING THIS AND MISSING THAT. OKAY. BECAUSE OUR CONTRACT DIDN'T SPECIFY, WE DIDN'T STATE THAT WE, THE CITY DIDN'T PUT THAT IN THE CONTRACT. SO, SO I, I DON'T KNOW. OKAY, YOUR MOTHER MAY HOW TO DELIVER. 'CAUSE THIS IS A CONTRACT BECAUSE WE, WE ALWAYS DOING SOMETHING AND WE, OKAY, I GOT IT. LET ME FINISH. OKAY? AND, UH, AND THE, OKAY, WE HAVE TO GIVE TO ATTORNEY TO REVIEW AND THEY SET UP THE CONTRACT, OKAY? AND THIS CONTRACT IS SUPPOSEDLY PROTECT US. BUT THE PROBLEM IS WHEN THE PROBLEM HAPPENED AND, UH, WE REVIEW THE CONTRACT, AND THEN WE GOT THE PROBLEM THAT WE DID, WE FORGOT THAT WE FORGOT THIS. JUST LIKE, UM, WE HAVE A LONG DOLLARS, OKAY, ON THE STREET, AND THAT IS SOUTH OF EMA. BEFORE YOU GO TO LANGA HIGH SCHOOL AND LET'S SIDEWALK ALWAYS FILTHY WITH TREE, THIS AND THE TRASH. AND I HAVE BEEN COMPLAINED BY THE RESIDENT ALL THE TIME, AND I, OKAY, I TALK TO THE PUBLIC WATER, THEY END UP AND THEY NEVER, INCLUDING IN THE CONTRACT, INCLUDING AZUA, REMEMBER THE AZUA, REMEMBER THAT SUSE MEDIAN, IT NEVER INCLUDED THE CONTRACT. REMEMBER THAT? YES. SO, SO WHO, WHO PUT THIS CONTRACT TOGETHER? WHO REVIEW THIS CONTRACT AND HOW CAN WE HAVE THIS HUGE AZUA? WE JUST PUT BEAUTIFUL PLANT, BEAUTIFUL VEGETATION, AND THEN WE ARE NOT INCLUDING IN THE BRIGHT VIEW FOR THEM TO DO A BASIC MAINTENANCE AND A LOT OF BIG STREET LIKE A CAMERA, EVEN CAMERA IS NOT INCLUDING, SO I HAVE NOT UNDERSTAND THEY THAT WAY WAS INCLUDE IN THIS COUNTRY. THEY GO AHEAD. WE, WE TAKE DIRECTION FROM STAFF AND WE PUT IT IN OUR CONTRACT. WE HANDLE THE INDEMNIFICATION AND THE INSURANCE, AND WE APPROVE AS TO FORM MM-HMM . SCOPE. UM, WE LEAVE IT UP TO STAFF, CITY MANAGER. YOU WANNA SEE SOMETHING? THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. IT'S REALLY COMES DOWN TO IT. WE WORK IN TANDEM WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. SO WE DEVELOP THE SCOPE, UM, FROM TIME TO TIME. THERE ARE, UM, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF BACK AND FORTH THAT GO JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SCOPE IS GOING TO BE IN LINE, UM, WITH WHAT'S GOING TO, UM, BE AT THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY. UM, BUT YEAH, WE, WE REALLY, IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO SCOPE. WHAT, WHAT'S COMING UP NOW. AND, AND I'VE NOTICED THIS TREND AMONGST THE COUNCILS WE'RE ASKING FOR GOING BACK OUT FOR RFP, I THINK IT'S A RESPONSIBLE DECISION, A RESPONSIBLE CHOICE, BECAUSE THAT FORCES, UM, THE CITY'S HAND TO REALLY GO BACK TO OUR SCOPE AND TO REDEVELOP IT RATHER THAN JUST RELYING ON SCOPES THAT HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR YEARS. SO RIGHT. FIRST QUESTION WOULD BE THERE, HOW WE AVOID ALL THIS MISTAKE AND FATAL MISTAKE FOR THE FUTURE BECAUSE THIS MISTAKE HAPPENED WAY TOO OFTEN. OKAY. AND, UH, JUST TALKING ABOUT THE CONTRACT, WHO, WHO, WHO IN CHARGE OF THIS CONTRACT, FOR EXAMPLE, TO SIGN WITH BRIGHTVIEW TO SIGN WITH MERCHANT. [04:30:01] OKAY. AND, UH, WHO REVIEW THAT CONTRACT TO MAKE SURE HE, HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY FLOP. SO IN THAT WAY, WE, WE, WHEN WE GO TO THE CITY ATTORNEY AND THEY CHECKING ALL THE LEGALITY DESIGN THAT, AND THEY SIGN BY THE CITY MANAGER. SO IN THAT WAY, BUT NOW WE FIND OUT THIS NOT INCLUDING, NOT INCLUDING CAMERON'S, NOT INCLUDING MONGO'S, NOT INCLUDING, IT'S ALL THE MAJOR STREET. SO, SO, SO WE GOT A PROBLEM IS THAT NO WONDER PEOPLE DRIVING THE MAJOR STREET AND OUR WORLD HAVE A JUNGLE ON OUR SIDEWALK. YES. ASSOCIATE MANAGER, GO AHEAD. IF I, I'M SORRY I TO KNOW , IF YOU WANTED TO, AND THEN I CAN JUMP IN HOWEVER YOU WANNA HANDLE THAT. SURE. BECAUSE YOU DISCUSS SCOPE AND, AND THIS IS NOT JUST OUR CITY BECAUSE I'VE SEEN IT WITH OTHER CITIES AS WELL. UM, WHOEVER'S DOING THE SCOPE, THEY HAVE THE STAFF DOING IT, BUT SOMETIMES THE STAFF IS NOT AN EXPERT IN THAT. AND THAT'S WHAT I'VE SEEN INCLUDING AT WORK, IS THEY PUT THIS OUT AND THEN WHILE THEY'RE DOING IT, THOSE WHO ARE ON THE FIELD WERE LIKE, YOU DIDN'T PUT THAT IN. YOU DIDN'T PUT THAT IN. SO MY ISSUE IS WHOEVER'S DOING THE SCOPE, THERE SHOULD BE A SECOND LOOK OF SOMEBODY OF THAT EXPERT FIELD TO HAVE THE SECOND EYES OF THAT SCOPE TO ADD ON. AND SO THAT, I MEAN, THIS CONTRACT ISSUE, I HAVE TWO PARTS OF THE CONTRACT, JUST THE CONTRACT ITSELF AND THEN LIKE THE ENFORCEMENT AND, UM, THE, YEAH, THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CONTRACT AND THE REVIEW TO MAKE SURE THINGS ARE DONE CORRECTLY. A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, I'M SORRY, GO AHEAD MYLAN. I'M SO SORRY. NO PROBLEM. UM, WHEN I CAME ABOARD, THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION AND THE ISSUE OF CONTRACTS, WHETHER THEY'RE APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, OR ADMINISTRATIVELY UNDER THE SIGNATURE AUTHORITY, THE CITY MANAGER, UM, PART OF THE MAIN CONCERN WAS YES, THE SCOPE OF WORK IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND ALSO IDENTIFYING WHO THE CONTRACT MANAGER IS AND WHO'S ACCOUNTABLE TO THAT CONTRACT. WHAT I FOUND WAS WHERE THE CITY MAY HAVE EXAMPLE, SAY 25 CONTRACTS WITH DIFFERENT COMPANIES, THE PERSON ON THE CONTRACT AND ON OUR SHEETS IDENTIFIED AS THE PROJECT MANAGER AND THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE MAYBE THREE OR FOUR EMPLOYEES AGO AND NO LONGER HERE. SO IT HAS TO BE REASSIGNED TO SOMEBODY ELSE. AND THAT HAS NOT BEEN DONE. SO MOVING FORWARD, AGAIN, I BROUGHT UP EARLIER ABOUT THE POINT OF HIRING. UM, PEOPLE I BELIEVE ARE THE BEST FOR THE DIRECTOR POSITIONS, EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT IS TO TAKE CHARGE OF THAT PROCESS, MAKE SURE WE DO HAVE THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS ASSIGNED TO EACH OF THOSE CONTRACTS, THE SCOPE OF WORK, MAKING SURE THAT THE PERSON THAT IS ASSIGNED FOR THAT CONTRACT IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. AND THEN I'M ALSO LOOKING AND MOVING FORWARD ON HIRING A PERSON WITH THAT SPECIFIC SKILLSET TO OVERSEE ALL THE DEPARTMENTS FOR, UM, ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, TO THOSE CONTRACTS, UH, THAT THEY'RE FULFILLED AND WE'RE FOLLOWING THE SCOPE OF SERVICES AND THAT THEY'RE REVIEWED REGULARLY. YEAH. OKAY. UH, YEAH. FINE. AND THEN, UH, AND YEAH, AND, AND, AND, AND MY NAME'S REALLY GETTING THE JOB DONE. AND, AND I ALSO WANTED TO BRING UP, UH, THE DISCUSSION I HAD WITH, UH, TOM EARLIER TODAY. UH, AND, AND MAYBE TOM COULD, UH, ELABORATE SO YOU COULD GET SOME OF THAT HEAT OFF YOU . UH, IS THAT, I THINK BRITTANY, WHO'S YOUR CONTRACT LAWYER, UH, WAS DOING A LOT OF THIS KIND OF HAVING TO FILL IN ALL THE GAPS ON THE STAFF REPORT. AND, AND I THINK THAT'S WHY MINE'S WORKING REALLY HARD TO FIND THESE DIRECTORS. UH, BECAUSE Y YOUR OFFICES WERE BRITTANY, MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT SHE WAS DOING A LOT OF THE ACTUAL STAFF WORD FOR THE STAFF. CAN YOU ELABORATE ON THAT? SO THE WHOLE COUNCIL KNOWS ABOUT THAT. I, I THINK I'VE TOLD COUNCIL, I DON'T WANNA ELABORATE TOO MUCH IN, IN, IN PUBLIC, IN A PUBLIC FORUM, BUT YEAH, WE ARE, WE'RE DOING, WE'RE GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND AT OUR OFFICE AND, AND, AND WE'RE A TEAM PLAYER AND WE'VE BEEN UNDERSTAFFED AND WE'VE HAD A LOT OF TURNOVER, UH, AT THE CITY. SO WE'VE CERTAINLY STEPPED UP AND HELPED OUT WHERE, WHERE WE COULD HELP OUT AND, AND, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THAT UNTIL MYLAN BUILDS HIS TEAM UP AND GETS THE CONTRACT MANAGER AND UNTIL THEY GET DIRECTORS WHERE WE CAN JUST REVIEW. YEAH, TAKE A HALF AN HOUR INSTEAD OF, AND THEN, AND THEN GOING BACK WITH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, LETTI LOPEZ, REALDO MENTIONED IS THAT MAYBE, UM, MAYBE GOING FORWARD, BRITTANY COULD, SINCE SHE'S YOUR CONTRACT LAWYER, UH, MAYBE SHE COULD WRITE THEM IN A WAY THAT SHOULD TAKE SOME OF THAT, UH, RELIABILITY OFF THE CITY AND PUT IT ON THE CONTRACTOR. UH, ANYTHING THAT'S IMPORTANT. HE DOES A GREAT JOB WITH IDENTIFICATION. ALSO. WE HAVE TO STREAMLINE THINGS. WE HAVE A-A-P-S-A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WHERE IT'S A STANDARD FORM AND WE PLUG IN, BUT WE STILL LOOK AT IT, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE USING THE CORRECT FORM. AND WE ALSO, UM, HAVE A COUPLE OTHER STANDARD FORMS WHERE YOU JUST PLUG IN INFORMATION AND IT STREAMLINES IT AND IT'S ALREADY THERE. AND THE INDEMNIFICATION LANGUAGE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, WHICH [04:35:01] IS THERE, AND THEN MAKE SURE HAVE THE RIGHT. YEAH, I, I THINK WE, WE RAN INTO SOME OF THOSE ISSUES EARLIER TODAY, BUT OBVIOUSLY NOT TO GO INTO THE SUBJECT, BUT, SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CAN WRITE THOSE AGREEMENTS MORE STRICTER, MORE, MORE, MORE IN A WAY THAT TAKES THAT LIABILITY OFF THE CITY. OKAY. I, I THINK THE, UH, THE ISSUE KIND OF LOSS ABOUT YOUR MOTHER. MAY I, OKAY, SO, SO I, WITH ALL THIS LAW DISCUSSION, I DON'T KNOW EVEN KNOW WHAT'S YOUR MANDATE, OKAY? YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE SUGAR, RIGHT, YOUR CONTRACT WILL BE PROTECTED, BUT THIS IS VERY VAGUE. SO WHAT YOU REALLY OKAY. WANT TO SAY IS WHAT IS YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE? WELL, THE BIGGEST ISSUE THAT I SEE IS NOT SO MUCH THE TECHNICALITY IS MORE THE SCOPE OF WORK. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT CAN BE FULLY ADDRESSED PROPERLY. BECAUSE WHEN WE DO A CONTRACT, I'M NOT EVEN SURE IF, YOU KNOW, THE CITY EVEN TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION HOW OTHER CITIES, I UNDERSTAND THEIR CONTRACT. I UNDERSTAND, BUT WHAT IS, WHAT MOTHER MAY I, YOU WANT ABOUT THE COUNTER ACCOUNTABILITY? I WANT THE ACCOUNTABILITY. I WANT THE SYSTEM, BUT I WANT SOMEBODY, I I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHO, I MEAN IF, YOU KNOW, MYLAN SAID THE CONTRACT MANAGER, BUT WHAT THAT ENTAILS, SO I'D LIKE FOR THE, THE CITY TO BRING FORWARD TO US OF WHAT SYSTEM THAT YOU WILL HAVE IN PLACE FOR CONTRACTS, UM, THAT ADDRESSES ALL THE CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE. I, AND AT THIS IMAGE, YOU GOT IT. MAYBE WITH THE NEW DIRECTORS, YOU GOT IT. I UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTOR. YOU GOT IT. RIGHT. SO BASICALLY IT IS, UH, YOU NEED TO, YOU NEED TO ENFORCE YOUR CITY ATTORNEY, , . OH, MAKE SURE THEY TIME'S IN THE HOT SEAT. MAKE SURE THEY PERFORM, MAKE SURE THEY MAKE SURE THEY GET PAID FOR WHAT THEY DESERVE TO GIVE US A CONTRACT WITHOUT LOOPHOLE, NOT A COOKIE CUTTER. THAT THE PROBLEM, WE HAVE A LOT OF LOOPHOLE RIGHT NOW. OKAY. AND UH, WHEN WE SIT IN THE CLOSE ACTION, WE JUST PULLING OUR HAIR, SO HOPEFULLY WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE TO PULL OUR HAIR AGAIN BECAUSE THE COUNTRY IS NOT OKAY. TOO MUCH OF PROTECTION. SO ANYWAY, UH, IT IS LIKE WHY YOU GOT ONE, RIGHT? YEAH. AND, AND THE SECOND COMPONENT IS JUST TO MAKE SURE, AND NOT ONLY JUST THE ENFORCEMENT, BUT THAT THE JOB IS BEING DONE. SO I DON'T KNOW WHO WOULD BE THE PERSON DELEGATING THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT IS INCLUDED IN THAT. YEAH, YEAH. I'LL, I'LL SECOND. YEAH, IT'S ALREADY DONE. EVERYBODY. NOBODY, NOBODY AGAINST IT. YEAH, NOBODY AGAINST IT. OKAY. OKAY. I, I THINK IT'S JUST THE CITY MANAGER LOOKING TO, TO MAKE SURE THE CONTRACT THAT OUR CITY ATTORNEY CAN PERFORM WITH THAT CONTRACT WILL BE, AND PLUS, OKAY, AT THE BEGINNING WHEN YOU, BEFORE YOU SEND IT TO THEM, ALL THE ROLE, ALL THIS AND ALL THE TREE, THIS AND THAT. WHAT, BECAUSE IT'S NOT, THEY UNDERSTAND. OKAY, SO CITY SHOULD HAVE OUR PROFESSIONAL WITH EACH ISSUE, LIKE A LAB CAN BE ADDRESSED AND WITH ANOTHER LAYER OF SUPERVISION, SO WE DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE, FATAL MISTAKE, UH, UNDERSTOOD. AND, AND CURRENTLY WE DO HAVE A PROCESS IN-HOUSE WHERE WE'RE ROUTING, UM, ALL CONTRACTS, OUR ALL RFPS TO THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. UM, BUT INTERNALLY WE CAN GET BETTER, UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN AS WE HIRE SOME, UH, NEW DIRECTORS AND PUT SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE YES. TO ASSURE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR WHATEVER WE ENTER INTO IT. BASICALLY IT'S YOUR DIRECTOR. ABSOLUTELY. I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION. CAN THESE CONTRACTS BE PUT OUT WHERE THE RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO VIEW AND IF THEY HAVE UNDER THEIR DISCRETION, WE GET THE EXTRA EYES OUT THERE SO THAT THEY CAN SEE, UM, AND THEN THEY'RE, BECAUSE THEY CAN ALSO TELL US LIKE, HEY, MY STREET'S NOT INCLUDED ON THAT ONE, OR YOU GUYS FORGOT ABOUT THAT. IS THAT A POSSIBILITY TO KIND OF PUT IT OUT THERE SO THAT THEY CAN, THAT ALSO HELPS WITH THE SCOPE OF WORK? I DON'T KNOW THE COUNCIL. OKAY. CONFIDENTIALITY. THAT'S A SEE THE ATTORNEY, CAN WE DO THAT? ALL, ALL OUR CONTRACTS ARE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. I BELIEVE THEY'RE ALL GO AHEAD, LISA. ALL OF OUR CONTRACTS ARE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. ANY RESIDENT AT ANY TIME CAN REQUEST THEM. THERE IS A ROUTING PROCESS FOR THE CONTRACTS. THEY, THEY, THERE'S A ROUTING SHEET WHERE THE CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR IS IDENTIFIED IF THE CITY ATTORNEY HAS REVIEWED THE CONTRACT. I UNDERSTAND IF I GOT UNDERSTAND, BUT, BUT THE, BEFORE THEY SIGN THE CONTRACT, CORRECT. DURING THE RFP PROCESS, BEFORE THE CITY ATTORNEY, CITY MANAGER OR MAIL SIGN BEFORE LEAD SO PEOPLE CAN SEE CHANGE NO, NO, NO. TALKING ABOUT THE RESIDENTS, CORRECT. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? YEAH. WHAT THEY SAY IS EXTRA. I, IF WE POST ON THE, THE WEBSITE, WE DON'T PO WE DON'T POST DRAFT CONTRACTS ON THE WEBSITE FOR THE RESIDENTS TO VIEW. YOU GAVE ME A GOOD IDEA. I HAVE A CONCERT REQUEST. , OH MY GOD. ON TOP OF MY HEAD. WE COULD BEEN, WE'VE BEEN THERE ALREADY. THEY GAVE ME A GOOD IDEA. GO AHEAD AS WELL. OKAY. UH, IN OTHER CITIES, I, I HAVE SEEN IN OTHER CITIES THAT THEY ACTUALLY CREATE A PLATFORM ON THE WEBSITE WHERE RESIDENTS CAN GO ONTO A TAB AND THEY ACCESS ALL THE CITY'S CONTRACTS. SO I AM A STAFF OF TWO. NO, NO, I DON'T WANT YOU TO DO THAT. NO. THERE'S NO, BUT THE CONTRACT, YOU COULD LOOK INTO IT. HEY, THE CONTRACTS THAT IS THE SIGN ALREADY WHEN THIS SIGN IS TOO LATE. OKAY. WELL IT'S, [04:40:01] WE HAVE TO, I THINK, UM, UH, MAIL POTENT IDEA IS OKAY BEFORE IT SIGN AND PEOPLE LOOK INTO TO DO THE CORRECTION, BUT IF WE SIGN, IT'S ALREADY SIGNED AND THEN, THEN, THEN IT IS ALREADY BECOME A BINDING CONTRACT OR PRIOR TO A CONTRACT BEING SIGNED, IT'S BROUGHT TO THE COUNCIL SO THAT IT CAN BE DISCUSSED SO THAT THE RESIDENTS COULD ALSO HAVE AN INPUT AND CATCH SOMETHING THAT WE MIGHT NOT HAVE CATCH BEFORE. THE FINAL SIGNATURE, I, I DON'T REMEMBER FOR 10 YEARS, THEY E EVER BRING THE CONTRACT FOR, TO REVIEW. WELL, THAT'S WHY OUR CONTRACT IS A MESS. AND SO IT'S EXTRA THEY SHOULD DO THEIR JOB. BUT THE POINT IS, IS THE CITY STAFF, THEY ARE FULL-TIME STAFF, THEY SHOULD DO THEIR JOB, BUT IT'S NOT OUR JOB. THERE ARE CERTAIN STAFF, THE CONTRACT STAFF THAT WOULD MISS IT BECAUSE OF THEIR, YOU KNOW, EXPERTISE FORTE. OKAY. OKAY, GOT IT. I THINK IT'S JUST A CITY, A CITY MANAGER TO LOOK INTO TO MAKE SURE OUR CONTRACT IS COMPLETE AND ALLOW LOOPHOLE AND THIS AND THAT AND MAKE SURE THE CITY ATTORNEY COMPANY WILL DO THEIR JOB OFF OBJECT. OBJECTION. OKAY, YOUR HONOR. OBJECTION. OKAY. I KNOW. OVERRULED. NOBODY AGAINST THAT THEN. THEN DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENT? NO. OKAY. SECOND, I'LL SECOND THAT MEDIA. JIM, THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYBODY. * 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.