Apr 07, 2026 City Council

COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ HERE.

ROLL CALL PLEASE.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

COUNCILMAN WU? YEP.

COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.

HERE, MAYOR PRO.

TEMP CONTOS HERE, MAYOR LOPEZ.

VITO, PRESENT, UH, CLOSED SESSION WAS CANCELED THIS EVENING, SO THERE'S NOTHING TO REPORT OUT, UH, ONTO

[PRESENTATIONS]

PRESENTATIONS, TESTING.

SO THE FIRST PRESENTATION, WE HAVE TASTE OF WEST COVINA, RECOGNIZING LOLAS BY MFK.

WE'D LIKE TO INVITE HENRY PINEDA TO THE FRONT.

COME ON OVER.

SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR BOLD, AUTHENTIC FILIPINO FLAVORS IN WEST COVINA, DISCOVER LOLA'S BY MFKA MODERN FILIPINO KITCHEN, SERVING UP A COMFORT FOOD WITH A FLAVORFUL TWIST FROM SAVORY CLASSICS TO CRAVE WORTHY SPECIALTIES.

EVERY DISH IS CRAFTED WITH RICH TRADITION AND FRESH INGREDIENTS.

WHETHER YOU'RE GATHERING WITH FAMILY OR GRABBING A QUICK BITE, LOLA BRINGS OF WARMTH, THE FILIPINO HOSPITALITY TO EVERY TABLE COME.

EXPERIENCE THE TASTE OF HOME RIGHT HERE IN WEST COVINA FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL.

LOLA BY MFK WILL OFFER ALL CUSTOMERS A FREE ORDER OF PANCAKES AND COFFEE WITH A PURCHASE OF ANY ENTRY.

SIMPLY MENTION THE TASTE OF WEST COVINA ON YOUR VISIT.

SO WE HAVE HENRY HERE.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT LOLA BY MFK? YEAH, THANK YOU.

I WROTE A LITTLE SOMETHING.

I HAVE IT ON MY PHONE.

ALRIGHT, SO, HI EVERYONE.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

MY NAME IS NICO PINEDA.

UH, HENRY'S ACTUALLY MY BROTHER.

UM, I'M HERE REPRESENTING, UH, OUR RESTAURANT, UH, UH, LOLA'S BY MFK IS A MODERN FILIPINO KITCHEN IN ANAHEIM, AND RECENTLY JUST OPENED HERE IN WEST COVINA AT THE HONG KONG PLAZA.

UH, WE'RE A FAMILY BUSINESS THAT PUTS OUR TWISTS ON FILIPINO BRUNCH.

UH, CHEF HENRY PINEDA IS KNOWN FOR ITS SIGNATURE DISHES, WHICH INCLUDES CICI, UH, , UH, COMBINE PLATTERS, FRENCH TOAST, AND PANCAKES AND MORE.

UM, I SHOULD ADD, IF YOU LOVE UBE, WE'RE THE PLACE TO BE.

UM, AND

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THEN AGAIN, I JUST WANNA INVITE EVERYBODY FOR, UH, TO JOIN US AT OUR RESTAURANT FOR, UM, WE'RE OPEN FOR BRUNCH THURSDAYS THROUGH MONDAY, 8:30 AM TO 2:00 PM UM, AND THEN YOU'LL ESPECIALLY WANT TO JOIN US NOW DURING TASTE OF WESTS COVINA BECAUSE WE'RE OFFERING A FREE COFFEE AND AN ORDER OF OUR SPECIALTY PANCAKES, IF YOU MENTION TASTE OF WESTS COVINA.

AND, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN, ALL FOR, UH, SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESS IN THE CITY, AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU ALLALL SOON.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WAIT, COME HERE, COME BACK.

WE HAVE ONE MORE ACTUALLY, QUICK FUN FACT IN TAGALOG.

DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT LOLA MEANS? GRANDMA.

GRANDMA, THERE IT IS.

SO LOLA DOES MEAN GRANDMA.

SO WE THANK YOU.

AND THAT'S THE HOME COMFORT FOOD.

I HAVE TASTE OF THE FOOD, SO PLEASE TRY IT OUT.

WE ALL ALWAYS LIKE TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS.

SO ON BEHALF OF WEST COVINA, WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THE TASTE OF WEST COVINA, LOLA'S BY MFK.

SO UP NEXT, THE TASTE OF WEST COVINA.

WE'D LIKE TO BRING JUNE B MATCHA AND TEA INVITE.

WE HA TO THE FRONT.

IS HE HERE TODAY? OH, THERE, YES.

OKAY, PERFECT.

SO IF YOU'RE CRAVING SOMETHING REFRESHING, ENERGIZING, AND DELICIOUS, STEP INTO JUVI MATCHA TEA AND EXPERIENCE PREMIUM, HIGH QUALITY MATCHA LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

FROM SMOOTH, CREAMY MATCHA LATTES TO VIBRANT FRUIT TEAS.

THERE'S SOMETHING FOR EVERY TASTE, WHETHER YOU'RE ON THE GO OR LOOKING FOR NEW FAVORITE HANGOUT SPOT.

JUNE BE'S THE PERFECT PLACE TO RECHARGE AND REFRESH.

SO FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL, JUNE, BE MATCHA TEA WILL OFFER ALL CUSTOMERS 15% OFF THEIR ORDER.

SIMPLY MENTION THE TASTE OF WEST COVINA ON YOUR NEXT VISIT.

SO WE WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT JUNE MATCHA TEA? HI, I AM WENDY.

I'M HIS WIFE.

WE, UM, SO ON BEHALF OF OUR ENTIRE TEAM, WE WOULD LIKE TO SINCERELY THANK THE CITY OF WEST COVINA FOR THIS RECOGNITION, THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TASTE OF WEST COVINA.

UM, WE'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK DR, UH, MAYOR VEDO FOR AN, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT COORDINATOR GERARDO ROJAS, FOR REACHING OUT TO US, THE CITY COUNCIL AND EVERYONE AT THE CITY HALL FOR THE SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESSES AND BRINGING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER.

OUR MATCHA CAFE IS PROUDLY LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED, AND WE'RE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, A COMMUNITY FOR EMBRACING AND SUPPORTING US.

IT IS TRULY AN HONOR TO BE PART OF THE TASTE OF WEST COVINA.

AND, UH, WE THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

SO, I, I ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR TEA OR KIDS EAT, UH, DRINK, UH, THERE ALL THE TIME.

BUT WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND FOR ANYBODY WHO COMES HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME? OR WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE? SEE, I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND LIKE OUR STRAWBERRY MACHA LATTE.

UH, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD STARTER.

YOU GUYS HAD MATCHA BEFORE.

IT'S VERY FAMILIAR FLAVORS.

UM, ANOTHER ONE IS OUR PYRO MADAGASCAR VANILLA MACHA LATTE.

THERE'S ANOTHER REALLY POPULAR ONE.

UM, YEAH, LIKE ALL OUR MATCHA, WE SOURCE IT STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN.

WE GET IT FROM A HUNDRED YEAR OLD FARM.

UM, WE WORK DIRECTLY WITH THE FARMERS, SO IT, IT'S LIKE LITERALLY FARM TO CUP.

THERE'S NO MIDDLEMAN.

SO WE GET CONTROL OVER LIKE THE QUALITY.

UM, THEY KIND OF LIKE, UM, MAKE OUR MATCHA HOW WE LIKE IT.

SO, UM, YEAH, IT'S, AND THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING FOR CHILDREN AS WELL.

YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN THERE'S, UM, SOFT SERVE.

WE HAVE VANILLA SOFT SERVE AND A MAA SOFT SERVE OF COURSE.

AND SOME KID FRIENDLY DRINKS AS WELL.

YEAH, WE'RE DEFINITELY LIKE A REALLY FAMILY KIND OF ORIENTED PLACE AS WELL.

SO WE DO HAVE AN EXTENSIVE KIND OF NON-CAFFEINATED MENU.

UM, LIKE STRAWBERRY.

OUR STRAWBERRY MILK IS EXTREMELY POPULAR.

OUR KIDS, AGAIN, MY WIFE MENTIONED, UM, OUR SOFT SERVE.

UM, YEAH, YEAH.

HIS EXPERTISE SPANS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT,

SO THERE YOU GO.

FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL, TRY FOOD, TRY DRINKS ALL HERE IN WEST COVINA.

SO AGAIN, ON BEHALF OF WEST COVINA, WE'D LIKE TO THANK JUN VI MACHA TEA FOR THIS MONTH'S TASTE OF WEST COVINA.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

SO, NOW THAT EVERYBODY'S HERE WAITING FOR, WE HAVE THE BADGE PINNING CEREMONY FOR FIRE CHIEF GREG MCCANNON.

SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE HIM AND HIS WIFE AND MIKE BROWN TO THE FRONT.

SO CHIEF MCKEON BRINGS MORE THAN 35 YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED EXPERIENCE IN FIRE SERVICE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER.

HE HAS DEMONSTRATED EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP, STRATEGIC VISION, AND A STRONG COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

HIS EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND INCLUDES SENIOR LEADERSHIP ROLES WITH THE ORANGE COUNTY FIRE AUTHORITY, OCFA AND THE CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES, CAL OES, WHERE HE SERVED IN KEY POSITIONS SUCH AS DIVISION CHIEF AND ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF.

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OPERATIONS AND ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP.

SO I'M GONNA HAND OFF TO THE MICROPHONE TO MIKE BROWN.

AND AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DID AND ALL THE TRANSITION THAT'S OCCURRING AND YOU'LL TAKE OVER.

HERE USED TO.

ALRIGHT.

PLEASE PLACE YOUR LEFT HAND ON THE BIBLE AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.

I SAY YOUR NAME, I GREG MCEWEN.

DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR.

DO YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, AGAINST ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC THAT I WILL BEAR TRUTH, FAITH, AND ALLEGIANCE.

I'LL BEAR TRUTH, FAITH, AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION.

AND THAT I WILL WELL, WELL AND FAITHFULLY.

THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY, UH, WELL AND FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE TO THE DUTIES.

DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF FIRE CHIEF OF THE CITY, OF WEST COVINA OF FIRE, CHIEF OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, ACTING TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, ACTING TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY.

CONGRATULATIONS, CHIEF.

WOOHOO.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS TO A NEW CHIEF? HAVE SOME PREPARED WORDS? YEAH.

BUT WE, WE WANT THE MICROPHONE TO MAKE SURE THOSE CAPTURING YEAH.

LET'S PIN BADGE.

SO FIRST OF ALL, WHAT I REALLY WANNA SAY FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART IS THANK YOU.

UM, VERY, VERY GRATEFUL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.

UM, IT'S JUST BEEN, UM, A GREAT PROCESS AND I'LL SPEAK TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.

FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU TO OUR CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TRUST AND SUPPORT.

IT MEANS A LOT, UM, TO MYSELF, THANK YOU TO OUR HUMAN RESOURCES STAFF FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE THROUGH THIS RECRUITMENT.

IT'S BEEN NOTHING BUT, UH, SMOOTH AND VERY INFORMATIVE, AND I HAVE SOME MORE TO DO ON MONDAY, BUT I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT, TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PROFESSIONAL STAFF WHO ARE HERE TONIGHT.

UM, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND OUR, AND OUR FIRE PREVENTION FOLKS AS WELL.

UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

SHERRY, WHERE'S SHERRY? SHERRY, RAISE YOUR HAND.

SO I KNOW YOU ALL KNOW SHERRY, BUT COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT HER.

SHE'S BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF AMAZING HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL, HER FORWARD THINKING AND PROFESSIONALISM.

REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

A LITTLE BIT MYSELF THROUGHOUT MY CAREER HAVE CONSISTENTLY PUT OTHERS AND I HAVE OTHERS FOR MYSELF, UM, HIGHLIGHTED BECAUSE IT'S REALLY ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT OTHERS THROUGHOUT MY, ALL OF MY CAREER OF MANY YEARS AND PUTTING THEIR NEEDS BEFORE MY OWN.

TO OUR AGENCY PARTNERS.

AND I KNOW, UM, WE HAD SOME HERE AND HOPEFULLY THEY'RE STILL HERE IF THEY DIDN'T LEAVE, UM, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR COMING.

UM, AND OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS AS WELL, FROM, FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR OTHER FIRE AGENCIES.

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING AND YOUR SUPPORT.

IT MEANS A LOT TO MYSELF AND MY FAMILY, THE SUPPORT OF MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND ATTENDANCE TONIGHT.

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

UM, THANK YOU FOR COMING.

AND, UH, THOSE THAT AREN'T ABLE TO BE HERE, UM, I, I, HOPEFULLY THEY'RE WATCHING ONLINE AND IT'S TRULY UPLIFTING TO MYSELF, TO THE WEST COVY AND FIRE DEPARTMENT, SPECIFICALLY OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT FAMILY.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD TRUST AND RESPECT UP AND DOWN THE ORGANIZATION WHILE WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS.

YOU HAVE MY SINCERE GRATITUDE.

YOUR SERVICE AND SKILLS AND COLLABORATION AND FORWARD THINKING WILL ENSURE A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR OUR AGENCY TO OUR CITY STAFF AND LEADERSHIP.

I LOOK FORWARD TO BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH ALL OF YOU.

I'VE ALREADY HAD THE ABILITY AND THE, UM, THE ADVANTAGE OF DOING SO THIS WEEK, AND IT WAS MUCH APPRECIATED.

SO THANK YOU.

AND NOT, NOT, UH, NOT LASTLY, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, OUR COMMUNITY.

UM, WE'LL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE HERE AT, AT, AT THE WEST NEW FIRE DEPARTMENT, EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE WHILE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTNER WITH OUR COMMUNITY.

I PLAN TO BE PRESENT AND AVAILABLE FOR YOUR QUESTIONS, NEEDS AND YOUR IDEAS

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SO YOU CAN, YOU CAN EXPECT THAT FROM ME, THAT I'LL PUT MYSELF LAST AND PUT YOU MOST, MOST FIRST.

IN EVERYTHING WE DO.

THERE IS A TRUE SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT WHEN THE TEAM DOES WELL, AND WE CONTINUE TO BUILD UPON OUR GREAT TEAM AND OUR FIRE FAMILY.

I'VE USED THE TERM FIRE FAMILY, UH, OR FAMILY A FEW TIMES TONIGHT, BUT I WOULDN'T BE HERE WITHOUT MY FAMILY SUPPORT WHO ARE HERE.

IT'S QUITE A LARGE CREW.

I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THE NAMES REAL QUICK.

JUST RAISE YOUR HAND AND, UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME.

SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, MY WIFE, WE WERE MARRIED IN 1987, SO YOU COULD DO THE MATHS ABOUT 38 YEARS.

AND SHE'S BEEN THROUGH THICK AND THIN WITH MY, WITH ME THROUGH, UM, MY CAREERS AND, UH, REALLY SUPPORTIVE AND LOTS OF NIGHTS AWAY, LOTS OF WEEKS AWAY AND MONTHS AWAY FROM HOME.

SO THANK YOU TO MY KIDS.

SO MY OLDEST NOAH AND HIS GIRLFRIEND ANDY, THEY'RE HERE TONIGHT.

SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

UM, I LOVE YOU GUYS, UM, TO MY OLDEST DAUGHTER, ASHTON AND HER HUSBAND TROY AND THEIR KIDS, MY GRANDKIDS, JOHN, ELLIE, JOY, RAYA, AND MARY, MY YOUNGEST SON, UH, JACK AND HIS WIFE HANNAH.

AND THEN MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, SOPHIA WITH HER HUSBAND, UH, ANDREW AND MABEL.

HI .

WE'VE GOT FIVE GRANDKIDS AND TWO MORE ON THE WAY.

SO IT'S, IT'S PRETTY, IT'S GONNA BE AN AMAZING YEAR.

LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

TO MY MOM, DIANE, AND MY STEPFATHER LARRY, AND MY MOM'S TWIN SISTER DURAN.

SO WE'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.

AND MY NEPHEW JAKE, WHO'S HERE TONIGHT.

I THINK I GOT FRIENDS ARE HERE.

WE'LL GET TO THOSE LATER.

BUT YEAH, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR ALL BEING HERE.

UM, I REALLY, REALLY COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT, AND I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LOT OF LONG DAYS AND A LOT OF NIGHTS AWAY, AND TRULY PROUD OF ALL OF YOU.

YOU'VE ALL DONE AMAZING THINGS AND I SEE AMAZING THINGS AHEAD WITH THAT.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

I AM GRATEFUL FOR THIS AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE OPPORTUNITY AND GETTING TO WORK.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

SO WE WILL BE TAKING A QUICK RECESS.

MAYOR, IF I MAY, WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER.

OH, WE DO.

WE, UH, CHRIS CONCEPTION IF YOU WANTED TO GO AHEAD.

GOOD EVENING.

I AM CHRIS, CO CONCEPTION, AND, UM, I'M PRETTY SURE GREG'S A LITTLE NERVOUS RIGHT NOW.

THE, HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT'S GONNA COME OUTTA MY MOUTH.

SO I FIRST MET GREG 35 YEARS AGO, UH, WHEN WE WERE ASSIGNED TO, UH, AS ROOKIE FIREFIGHTERS TO TRUCK, UH, 49 OF ORANGE COUNTY FIRE BACK THEN, GREG AND I'S PRIORITY WAS COLLECTING BASEBALL CARDS AND STAYING OUTTA TROUBLE FROM THE SENIOR FIREFIGHTERS.

AND WHILE WE MET AS COWORKERS, WE QUICKLY BECAME FAMILY.

AND IT'S THE BEST KIND OF FAMILY BECAUSE IT'S THE KIND YOU GET TO CHOOSE.

SO I RETIRED THIS PAST JANUARY AFTER 10 PLUS YEARS AS A FIRE CHIEF.

SO I CAN TELL YOU LUMPY, YOU SIGNED UP FOR ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING JOBS YOU'LL EVER HAVE, BUT ALSO VERY REWARDING.

AND I WANNA SPEND A COUPLE OF MINUTES TELLING THE COMMUNITY AND THE FIREFIGHTERS OF, OF WEST COVINA WHY YOU GUYS GOT THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB.

AS I SAID, I'VE KNOWN GREG A LONG TIME, AND FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, GREG STOOD OUT, NOT BECAUSE HE HAD ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT BECAUSE HE CARED.

HE CARED ABOUT THE JOB, HE CARED ABOUT MOSTLY ABOUT THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM, AND HE CARED ABOUT DOING THINGS THE RIGHT WAY.

AND HERE'S THE THING, WHILE TIME HAS CHANGED THIS PHYSICALLY, I THINK HE DIES HIS HAIR .

THE ONE THING THAT HASN'T CHANGED IS THE FACT THAT GREG STILL CARES.

OVER THE YEARS, GREG AND I HAVE STAYED CLOSE, BOTH PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY.

OUR FAMILIES GREW UP TOGETHER.

WHEN WE MET, UM, AT TRUCK 49, IT WAS JUST NOAH.

NONE OF THE OTHER KIDS WERE BORN YET.

AND IT WAS JUST MY OLDER OLDEST DAUGHTER.

UM, SO, UM, EIGHT KIDS BETWEEN THE TWO OF US.

UM, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR OUR FAMILIES GREW UP TOGETHER.

WE HAVE LOTS OF STORIES TOGETHER, AND I COULD BE HERE ALL NIGHT.

UM, SOME OF THEM PROBABLY NOT APPROPRIATE FOR THIS CROWD,

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BUT THROUGH ALL OF IT, I'VE HAD A FRONT ROW SEAT TO THE KIND OF MAN GREG IS.

AND THAT'S WHY, UM, I CAN SAY WITH COMPLETE CONFIDENCE, WES COVINA DIDN'T JUST HIRE A FIRE CHIEF.

YOU GAINED A LEADER WHO WILL PUT PEOPLE FIRST, LIKE YOU SAID, EVERY SINGLE TIME I'M WITNESS TO THAT.

I KNOW THAT'S TRUE, GREG.

THIS JOB ISN'T EASY.

IT'LL TEST YOU.

IT'LL DEMAND LONG HOURS, TOUGH DECISIONS AND MOMENTS WHERE THERE IS NO PERFECT ANSWER.

AS FIRE CHIEF, YOU CARRY THE WEIGHT OF THE ORGANIZATION, YOUR FIREFIGHTERS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND THIS COMMUNITY.

BUT THERE'S ONE THING I KNOW ABOUT GREG.

IT'S THIS, HE DEEPLY CARES ABOUT DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR THE RIGHT REASON AT THE RIGHT TIME.

AND IN THIS PROFESSION, AS WE ALL KNOW, THAT'S EVERYTHING, GREG.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT, EVEN THOUGH YOU ALWAYS TELL ME YOU ARE , NONE OF US ARE.

BUT YOU DO HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT, HONEST, AND GROUNDED IN YOUR VALUES, AND YOU'VE BEEN THAT PERSON THE ENTIRE TIME THAT I'VE KNOWN YOU.

SO TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT, I CAN GUARANTEE YOU YOU'RE IN REALLY GOOD HANDS TO THE COMMUNITY.

YOU HAVE A FIRE CHIEF WHO WILL SERVE YOU WITH ABSOLUTE INTEGRITY.

GREG, MY FRIEND, MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER.

YOU'VE EARNED THIS MOMENT AND I COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD OF YOU.

JUST REMEMBER, NO MATTER HOW BIG THE JOB GETS, YOU'RE STILL THE SAME GUY I NICKNAMED LUMPY 35 YEARS AGO, .

CONGRATULATIONS, CHIEF MCEWEN.

I WILL HAVE, UH, COUNCIL, HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A FEW WORDS.

I'LL START WITH MAYOR PRO TEM CONTOS.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, CHIEF MCEWEN, IT IS SUCH A PLEASURE TO WITNESS THIS MOMENT OF YOUR ASCENDANCY.

HERE, UH, BEGINS A NEW CHAPTER FOR US AS A CITY WITH YOU AS OUR NEW FIRE CHIEF.

IT'S, IT'S A TIME OF, OF CHANGE AND IT'S ALSO A TIME OF NEW AND WONDERFUL IDEAS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BRING TO FRUITION NOT ONLY THROUGH WHAT YOU CONCEIVE, BUT ALSO THROUGH HOW YOU WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS WITH ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR FIREFIGHTING TEAM, CIVILIAN AND SWORN, TO MAXIMIZE THE DIFFERENCE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE IN SAVING LIVES AND OPTIMIZING THE WAYS THAT YOU CONTRIBUTE TO EVERYONE THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US AS OUR CHIEF AND MY MY APPRECIATION TOO FOR, UH, TO BRENDA AND THE KIDS AND GRANDKIDS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY FOR LENDING, UH, YOU TO US AND, AND FOR ALL ALL THAT THAT THEY DO TO BACK YOU UP BEHIND THE SCENES.

AND I AM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT ALL THAT IS TO COME.

SO, SIR, CONGRATULATIONS.

THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, CHIEF MCEWEN, I'M REALLY HAPPY AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF YOU AND, UM, I THINK THAT OUR STAFF IS GONNA, ALL OUR FIREFIGHTERS ARE GONNA BE VERY, VERY HAPPY WITH YOU AND I'M SURE ALL OUR STAFF IS, AND OUR COMMUNITY.

SO I JUST WANNA CONGRATULATE YOU AND I WANT TO THANK YOUR FAMILY FOR BEING HERE TO BE ABLE TO, UH, CELEBRATE WITH YOU AND, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF FUN.

COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ? YES.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS, CHIEF MC MCKINNON.

I WANT TO BEGIN BY CONGRATULATING OUR NEW FIRE CHIEF GREG MCKINNON.

THIS IS A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY AND I WISH YOU NOTHING BUT SUCCESS AS YOU LEAD OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT FORWARD.

THE MEN AND WOMEN UNDER YOUR COMMAND SERVE THIS COMMUNITY WITH COURAGE EVERY DAY, AND YOUR LEADERSHIP WILL PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN SUPPORTING THEM AS YOU STEP INTO THIS ROW.

I ALSO WANT TO EMPHASIZE SOMETHING JUST AS IMPORTANT AS OPERATIONAL NCE INTEGRITY.

LEADERSHIP IS JUST NOT ABOUT MAKING DECISIONS.

IT IS ABOUT SPEAKING UP WHEN SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT, EVEN WHEN IT COMES AT A PERSONAL COST.

WE HAVE SEEN IN OUR OWN CITY THAT LEADERSHIP AND INTEGRITY CAN SOMETIMES COME WITH CONSEQUENCES.

BOTH FIRE CHIEFS, VINCENT CAPELLI AND LARRY WOODHORN SPOKE UP WHEN THEY BELIEVED SOMETHING WAS WRONG.

MR.

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RIT HORN'S CASE, A JURY ULTIMATELY FOUND IN HIS FAVOR AN AWARD OVER $4 MILLION, REINFORCING THE PRINCIPLE THAT ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRUTH MATTER, THAT HISTORY IS IMPORTANT.

NOT TO DRAW ON THE PAST, BUT TO REMIND US ALL OF THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT COMES WITH LEADERSHIP.

CHIEF MCKINNON, MY HOPE FOR YOU IS SIMPLE, LEAD WITH STRENGTH, LEAD WITH FAIRNESS, AND ALWAYS LEAD WITH INTEGRITY.

IF SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT, SAY SOMETHING.

THAT IS HOW WE BUILD TRUST, PROTECT OUR FIREFIGHTERS, AND TRULY SERVE OUR COMMUNITY.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN, CHIEF MCKINNON.

I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU AND WISH YOU GREAT SUCCESS IN YOUR ROLE.

CONGRATULATIONS, CHIEF COUNCILMAN TONY WU.

CONGRATULATIONS, OUR NEW CHIEF.

OKAY? THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL CITY'S VERY PROUD CITY, VERY PROUD WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT.

NOW YOU'RE GOING TO LEAD THIS PROUD, VERY PROUD WEST COVINA FIRE DEPARTMENT.

WE HAVE FIRE STATION, WE HAVE A LOT OF EQUIPMENT.

WE HAVE A LOT OF TRUCK, WE HAVE A LOT OF AMBULANCE, WE HAVE A LOT OF PARAMEDIC, WE HAVE A LOT OF STAFF, AND THEY ARE ALL WORKING VERY HARD.

OKAY? IT'S A GREAT CITY.

HE'S A GREAT DEPARTMENT.

SO NOW YOU'RE THE LEADER OVER THERE AND DO YOUR JOB TO LEAD AND SAVE.

BUT ONE THING, I'M VERY GENEROUS.

I'M VERY JEALOUS.

YOU HAVE SO MANY FAMILY AND YOU HAVE SO MANY GRANDKIDS.

I HAVE NONE.

AND YOU'RE VERY PRODUCTIVE, OKAY? SO NOT ONLY YOU ARE GOOD, OKAY? AND AS A LEADER, YOU ARE A GOOD, PRODUCTIVE PERSON TOO.

AND THEN WE NEED POP, WE NEED POPULATION, OKAY? AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHY MY KIDS START PRODUCING, OKAY? SO I WANT TO, OKAY, FOLLOW YOUR FOOTSTEP, OKAY? AND FORCE MY KID TO HAVE BABY.

OKAY? SO, SO I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING SHOWING FAMILY OVER THERE TO SUPPORT YOU, BUT FAMILY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.

THAT'S HOW WE CAN BE SITTING OVER HERE BECAUSE OF FAMILY SUPPORT AND UNITED AND WE STAND AND I SEE ALL THE MEMBERS SHOWING UP.

YOUR KID AND GRANDKID OVER HERE, WE ARE VERY PROUD.

WE'RE PROUD TO HAVE YOU.

I WISH YOU THE BEST.

THIS IS A GREAT AGENCY, AND WITH YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOU CAN LEAD AND MAKE THEM PROUD AND MAKE A WISH OF BE NOT SAFE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, SIR.

TODAY IS YOUR DAY AND THE FOCUS IS ON YOU.

AND WE WANT TO SAY A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW FIRE CHIEF, ALL YOUR FAMILY THAT ARE HERE TODAY.

IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE ALL THE SUPPORT.

WE AS THE CITY AND THE COUNCIL SUPPORT YOU.

WE DO HAVE A WONDERFUL FIRE DEPARTMENT.

THEY ARE GREAT.

UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR LEADERSHIP IN ENHANCING WHAT WE HAVE AND MAKING IT BETTER AND MAKING THE FUTURE BRIGHTER.

UM, WE JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU.

I KNOW YOUR FAMILY IS GONNA BE SACRIFICING BECAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF DAYS AND TIMES AND HOURS THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE COMMITTED AND PUTTING YOUR TIME FOR TO SERVE OUR RESIDENTS.

SO WE THANK THE FAMILY FOR THAT AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR, 2026, AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT CAN BRING FORTH.

SO THANK YOU AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS.

AND TODAY WE DO HAVE REFRESHMENTS AND CAKE.

AND SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE WILL TAKE A RECESS SO THAT WE CAN QUICKLY ENJOY, UH, THE COMPANY OF OTHERS AND THEN GET BACK TO DOING BUSINESS AS USUAL.

SO, CONGRATULATIONS.

TO THE CITY MANAGER'S REPORT, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN BY ACTING CITY MANAGER MYLAN.

MEETINGS BACK IN SESSION.

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN WHILE EVERYBODY'S GOING UPSTAIRS TO HAVE REFRESHMENTS.

UH, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE OUR MEETING.

SO ON

[CITY MANAGER'S REPORT]

THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR.

OKAY, WE'RE GOOD.

ON FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH, THE CORTEZ PARK COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER HOSTED A SPRING TAILGATE CELEBRATION FOR 200 PARTICIPANTS.

DJ PHIL BROUGHT THE ENERGY TO THE DANCE FLOOR.

THANK YOU TO THE POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF WEST COVINA FOR THE FOOD DONATION.

THE PALM VIEW PARK AND COMMUNITY CENTER HOSTED ITS ANNUAL EASTER EVENT ON THURSDAY, APRIL 2ND.

IT WAS A JOYFUL AND INCLUSIVE EVENT THAT BROUGHT TOGETHER INDIVIDUALS OF ALL ABILITIES TO CELEBRATE THE SPRING SEASON.

WITH OVER 65 PARTICIPANTS IN ATTENDANCE, THE PARTY FEATURED A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING AN EASTER EGG HUNT PHOTOS WITH EASTER BUNNY, BASS PAINTING, BALLOON TWISTING PIZZA AND DANCE PARTY.

WITH MUSIC, EVERYONE COULD ENJOY SPORTSPLEX FACILITY REN, LAFD SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT.

ON SATURDAY, APRIL 4TH, THE WEST COVINA SPORTSPLEX HOSTED THE LA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT ANNUAL BEAR CLASSIC TOURNAMENT.

THE EVENT WELCOMED 26 STATIONS AND OVER A THOUSAND FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS WERE IN ATTENDANCE TO SUPPORT THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT.

THE SPORTS PLEX SPORTSPLEX COLLECTED APPROXIMATELY

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$9,000 IN ADMISSION AND RENTAL FEES ON THURSDAY, APRIL 2ND, THE COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT PARTICIPATED IN THE MELINDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIR STAFF DISTRIBUTED DELIVERABLES AND INFORMATION OF ALL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES PROVIDED CITYWIDE TO APPROXIMATELY 100 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

THE CAMERON COMMUNITY CENTER HOSTED A SPRING YOUTH BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT FROM MARCH 22ND TO MARCH 20TH TO MARCH 22ND, FEATURING A TOTAL OF 24 GAMES THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND.

THE EVENT DREW AN ESTIMATED 600 ATTENDEES AND INCLUDED VENDORS SUCH AS LAZY DOG AND ATHENS, ALONG WITH A SMALL LOCAL BUSINESSES THAT OPERATED IN THE SNACK BAR AND A PERFORMANCE BY THE WEST COVINA CHEER TEAM.

THE TOURNAMENT CREATED A LIVELY COMMUNITY-FOCUSED ATMOSPHERE THAT FOCUSED ON PLAYERS HAVING FUN.

ON APRIL 4TH, THE CORTEZ COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER CELEBRATED EASTER DANCE STYLE PARTICIPANTS ENJOYED AN ACON ENTERTAINMENT, JUST DELICIOUS MEAL AND GREAT FUN.

THANK YOU TO ALIGNMENT HEALTH PLAN FOR BEING OUR EVENT SPONSOR.

ON MARCH 16TH, THE CORTEZ PARK COMMUNITY AND SENIOR CENTER CELEBRATED ST.

PATRICK'S DAY WITH 200 IN ATTENDANCE.

LUCK OF THE IRISH BROUGHT DJ RUDY, A DELICIOUS MEAL PREPARED BY CHEFS, HOLLY AND THERESA.

AND GREAT FUN.

ON SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE QANTAS CLUB OF WEST COVINA, HOSTED THE EASTER EGG STRIKE EGG ZA.

I ALWAYS HAVE A TOUGH TIME WITH THAT WORD EXTRAVAGANZA.

EXTRAVAGANZA EGG EXTRAVAGANZA.

YOU GOTTA TO DO THAT.

I, THAT ONE GETS ME EVERY TIME.

EVENT AT CORTEZ IN DEL NORTE PARKS DRAWING APPROXIMATELY 3,500 PARTICIPANTS AT EACH PARK.

FAMILIES ENJOYED EASTER EGG HUNTS, FEATURED OVER 30,000 EGGS, ALONG WITH A POTATO SACK RACE.

LIVE MUSIC VENDORS FACE PAINTING, BALLOON TWISTING, PETTING ZOO, AND PONY RIDES.

THE COMMUNITY TRULY ENVO ENJOYED THIS MEMORIAL M MEMORABLE EVENT.

UM, BRUSH CLEARANCE AT ALSER PARK.

UH, THE CITY IS ADVANCING A PLAN TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CON CONDITIONS AT ALSER PARK BY DE DEVELOPING A SCOPE OF WORK TO REMOVE DEAD AND OVERGROWN VEGETATION.

THIS EFFORT WILL FOCUS ON REDUCING FIRE RISK, ENHANCING VISIBILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY, AND ESTABLISHING ONGOING MAINTENANCE PRACTICES TO SUPPORT A SAFER AND CLEANER AND MORE SUSTAINABLE PARK COMMUNITY.

UM, THIS PROJECT WAS APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, LAST BUDGET SESSION, AND WE ARE GETTING CLOSER TO LAUNCHING OUR, UH, CLEANUP PROGRAM FOR, UH, THIS AREA.

THE ANNUAL EARTH ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION IS SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH AT GALSTER PARK.

IN ADDITION TO THE CEREMONY, THE CITY IS HOSTING A COMMUNITY CLEANUP EVENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ANNUAL EARTH ARBOR DAY EVENT.

WE ARE SEEKING MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO HELP US BEAUTIFY OUR HIKING TRAILS, PICNIC AREAS, AND GREEN SPACES.

THE COMMUNITY CLEANUP WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 9:00 AM TO 11:00 AM AND WILL CULMINATE WITH THE EARTH DAY ARBOR DAY FESTIVITIES THAT WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 11:00 AM TO 1:00 PM THOSE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING OUR COURAGE TO WEAR LONG SLEEVE SHIRT, PANTS, AND CLOSED TOE SHOES AND A HAT IS RECOMMENDED.

THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IS COOPERATING WITH THE, WITH VACCINE VETS TO OFFER PET VACCINE CLINICS ON THE FOURTH SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH AT DEL NORTE PARK FROM 2:00 PM TO 3:30 PM.

SERVICES WILL INCLUDE A COMBINATION OF FREE AND LOW COST OPTIONS ON A WALK-IN BASIS ONLY A PRESENTATION WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR A CITY COUNCIL MEETING IN MAY TO INTRODUCE THE COMMUNITY TO THE VACCINE VETS.

AGAIN, UPCOMING EVENTS, EARTH DAY, ARBOR DAY, AND COMMUNITY CLEANUP.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH AT GALSTER PARK.

THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION FOR TONIGHT.

WE WILL MOVE ON TO ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.

SO BEFORE MOVING ON TO ORAL COMMUNICATION, WE'D LIKE TO ADJOURN THIS MEETING IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSA MARIA ROCHA.

UH, ROSA MARIA ROCHA WAS AN IMMIGRANT FROM SINALOA, MEXICO.

SHE MIGRATED TO TUCSON, ARIZONA IN 1945 AND THEN TO CALIFORNIA IN 1955.

FINALLY SETTLING IN WEST COVINA IN 1970.

UPON ENTERING THE US SHE LEARNED ENGLISH AND TOOK COURSES TO BETTER HERSELF.

ON SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1974, SHE BECAME A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES IN HER COMMUNITY.

SHE WAS CHARITABLE AND GIVING TO THE LESS FORTUNATE SHE WOULD GIVE MONEY OR FOOD, AND OFTEN OPENED UP HER HOME.

SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER KINDNESS AND CARING NATURE.

SHE'S THE MOTHER OF ONE OF OUR PLANNING COMMISSIONER ROSA MADE AN IMPACT IN HER COMMUNITY AND TO HER FAMILY.

SHE WAS EVERYTHING.

A LOVING MOTHER TO SIX CHILDREN.

YOLANDA, LUPE, ROSE, ARTURO, MARSHA ER.

SHE WAS CHERISHED.

SHE WAS A CHERISHED GRANDMOTHER TO 18 GRANDCHILDREN, A PROUD GREAT-GRANDMOTHER TO 51 AND A GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER TO FIVE, HER LEGACY LEAVES LIVES ON THROUGH GENERATIONS WHO WERE SHAPED BY HER LOVE AND GUIDANCE.

SHE'LL BE DEEPLY MISSED, FOREVER LOVED, AND NEVER FORGOTTEN.

NOW

[ORAL COMMUNICATIONS ]

COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER, UNLESS MODIFIED BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER OR THE CITY COUNCIL REQUEST TO SPEAK ON.

AGENDA

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ITEMS WILL BE HEARD PRIOR TO REQUEST TO SPEAK ON THE NON AGENDA ITEMS, AS I, WE ALL KNOW THE DRILL, NOT GONNA READ THE WHOLE THING, BE RESPECTFUL AND SO FORTH.

AND, UH, WHEN YOU HEAR YOUR NAME BEING CALLED, YOU MAY SIT IN THE FRONT ROW DESIGNATED FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS.

THE TIME WILL START WHEN YOUR NAME IS CALLED.

SO, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK.

HOW MANY SPEAKERS DO WE HAVE TONIGHT? WE HAVE SIX SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.

MAYOR.

OKAY, GO AHEAD.

JOHN.

JOHN SHOEMAKER, FOLLOWED BY JERRY PATCHES, FOLLOWED BY MR. G.

OH, WAIT, I'M SORRY.

IS YOUR MIC ON? NOPE.

THERE'LL PROBABLY BE A FEW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE TOPIC.

I CAN, THE, THE, UH, UM, NO PARKING AND, UH, FOR SWEEPING DAYS.

YOU KNOW, IT GOES BACK TO I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW SOMETHING COULD BE MORE EXPENSIVE TO FIX THAN DOING IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.

LET'S JUST PRETEND WE DIDN'T DO IT AT ALL AND START ALL OVER AGAIN.

OR JUST QUIT, QUIT THE STUFF OF ENFORCING, UH, THESE PARKING REGULATIONS BECAUSE THE CITY IS DESPERATE FOR MONEY.

SOLVES THE PROBLEM.

YOU KNOW, THE OTHER THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS AFTER WATCHING LAST, UH, THE LAST MEETING, YOU KNOW, 120 MINUTES OF, UH, NONSENSE AND NEVER LISTENING TO THINGS, THERE WERE TWO PIECE, TWO NUGGETS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT.

AND I HAVE TO COMPLIMENT, UH, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ ABOUT IT.

ONE, HE POINTED OUT THAT DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL ARE USING PRIVATE EMAILS FOR CITY BUSINESS.

YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT HE'S ACTUALLY BEING SUED FOR.

YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE NEED TO ADD A FEW MORE PEOPLE TO THAT LAWSUIT ON, UH, THE CITY.

THE OTHER THING THAT I HAVE TO GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR WAS WHEN IT CAME TO THE APPOINTMENT OF BILL ELLIOT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, HE ACTUALLY SHOWED JUDGMENT IN A GUY WHO WAS UNDER CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND CHARGES FOR BEATING UP A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC REPRESENTING OUR CITY.

I MEAN, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE RIGHT THING TO DO, YOU KNOW, AND SOME OF THE REASONS THAT WERE GIVEN FOR IT, WE KNOW WE DON'T NEED TO GET INTO, BUT HE WAS RIGHT, YOU KNOW, TO SHOW YOU HOW RIGHT HE WAS.

BY NOT APPOINTING THIS PERSON WHO WAS ACTUALLY ADMITTED TO ALL THE THINGS HE WAS ACCUSED OF, THAT HE REPEATEDLY SAID, I DIDN'T DO, HE DID DO REPEATEDLY HOW CORRECT COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ WAS HIS OWN WIFE, COUNCIL MEMBER DIAZ WOULD NOT APPOINT HIM.

THAT TELLS YOU A WHOLE LOT RIGHT THERE.

NOW, AFTER EVEN HAVING THOSE GOOD POINTS OF HAVING THE INTELLIGENCE NOT TO APPOINT SOMEBODY WHO IS BANNED FROM CITY HALL, THAT'D BE KIND OF HARD TO, UH, BE ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION WHEN YOU ARE BANNED FROM CITY HALL.

BUT THEN TONIGHT WE GET A NEW FIRE CHIEF AND HE HAS TO BRING UP SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE MAN INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU KNOW, HOPE YOU HAVE A LONG, STRONG CAREER IN THE CITY.

YOU KNOW, DOES ONE THING SMART AND THEN DOES SOMETHING STUPID TO OFFSET IT.

UNBELIEVABLE.

A HALF DOLLARS FOR THREE ALTERNATE ROUTE OPTIONS AND 600,000 FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT.

NEXT SPEAKER, JERRY PATRAS, FOLLOWED BY MR. G, FOLLOWED BY JUSTIN.

GOOD EVENING COUNSEL.

AND THANK YOU FOR THE PET VACCINATION CLINIC CONCEPT IS WONDERFUL.

UH, AGENDA ITEM 10 OR THE STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY STATE AUDITORS REPEATEDLY TELL WEST COVINA THAT IT MAKES POOR DECISIONS BECAUSE IT DOES NOT ACTUALLY ANALYZE THE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF DECISIONS.

BEFORE IMPLEMENTING A PROGRAM THIS PIECEMEAL AND AD HOC APPROACH WASTE TAX DOLLARS, THE CITY HAS SPENT OVER A MILLION DOLLARS ON A PROGRAM THAT RESIDENTS DON'T WANT.

WE WANT CLEAN STREETS AT A REASONABLE COST AND WITH MINIMAL IMPACT ON TO OUR LIFESTYLE.

TONIGHT YOU HAVE A STAFF REPORT THAT UPDATES THE STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM FOR ALTERNATE SIDES ON ALTERNATE DAY.

SWEEPING THAT REPORT EXPRESSES MORE CONCERN ABOUT THE NEGATIVE IMPACT ALTERNATE DAY SWEEPING WILL HAVE ON CITY STREETS, THE CITY YARD, AND OTHER ISSUES EMPLOYEES DEAL WITH THAN IT DOES TO THE SOLVING THE PROBLEMS RESIDENTS ARE EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT WITH NO PARKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET.

DURING STREET SWEEPING, THAT REPORT ALSO RECOMMENDS OUTRAGEOUS STAFFING LEVELS AND STREET SWEEPING INCREASES, COSTING OVER A MILLION AND

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THAT 2.1 MILLION IS ABOVE WHAT THE CITY'S ALREADY SPENT.

THE STREET SWEEPING OPTIONS CONSIDERED TONIGHT ONLY HAVE COSTS FOR TWO OPTIONS, WHEN IN FACT THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS THAT WOULD BE MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE.

FIRST, THE CITY COULD GO BACK TO THE WAY STREET SWEEPING WAS DONE FOR MANY YEARS.

EVERY OTHER WEEK THAT WOULD SAVE MILLIONS OR STREETS WOULD BE CLEAN, RESIDENTS WOULD BE HAPPIER.

WE WERE IN COMPLIANCE BACK THEN.

SECOND, INSTEAD OF HAVING A CODE OFFICER ACCOMPANY EACH STREET SWEEPER, THE CITY COULD ADOPT RANDOM PARKING ENFORCEMENT METHODS BY HAVING CODE ENFORCEMENT AND OR POLICE VOLUNTEERS ENFORCE PARKING AS PART OF THE REGULAR DUTIES.

RANDOM ENFORCEMENT IS SURPRISINGLY EFFECTIVE.

I KNOW I WORKED WITH IT.

FINALLY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, AFTER SIGN INSTALLATION BEGAN, IT WAS SAID DURING A COUNCIL MEETING THAT 800 RESIDENT HOUSEHOLDS CONTACTED THE CITY EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT NO PARKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET, SWEEPING DURING, DURING STREET SWEEPING.

PLEASE CARE ABOUT THE 800 PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO PLACE TO PARK.

THANK YOU, MR. G.

FOLLOWED BY JUSTIN, FOLLOWED BY JOSH MURRAY.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

COUNCILMAN STAFF.

WHY IS SHE WITH SWEET? SWEEPING IS THE EFFICIENCY.

WHEN I WAS A KID, I WAS FASCINATED BY 'EM.

WHEN THEY DROVE BY MY STREET AND STUFF LIKE THAT, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTRIES I GROW UP.

ONE THING I HAVE NOTICED, THE LACK OF WATER, 90% OF THE TIME THEY THROW THE DUST UP GOES ON THE SIDEWALK GOES ON THE THING.

SO ARE THEY REALLY CLEANING? NOW HOW YOU ENFORCE IT? WHAT YOU DO, YOU DECIDE.

BUT A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT, WE HAVE NOWHERE TO PARK.

WELL, THEY PROBABLY PUT AN A TO YOU.

THEY HAVE 17 PEOPLE LIVING IN A TWO BEDROOM HOUSE AND THE R ONE RESIDENT BECAUSE THEY SWITCHED THE PLANS AND ALLOWING PEOPLE TO PUT IN BABY FARMS FACTORIES IN THEIR HOME.

I'M ABOUT PRO BUSINESS.

BUT WHEN THEY'RE RUNNING ILLEGAL ALIEN BUSINESSES IN THESE AREAS WHERE THEY HAVE A LARGE ISSUES WITH A PARKING ON THE STREET, WHOSE FAULTS THAT.

ALSO, THE FACT IS IN SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT I DRIVE BY, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR DOORS, THEY HAVE THE SIGNS.

I DON'T KNOW WHO WENT DOWN AND LOOKED AT THAT.

IT'S THE EFFICIENCY AND THE PROSPECT OF, I WOULD HATE MY NEIGHBOR HAS A SIGN RIGHT IN FRONT OF THIS DOOR AND STILL THERE.

NO ONE SAT DOWN AND LOOKED AT THE QUALITY OF CONTROL OF WHAT'S GOING ON.

YOU CLEAN THE STREET, CLEAN IT, USE THE PROPER AMOUNT OF WATER.

SO IT GETS SUCKED UP.

ALSO, IN CONSTRUCTION SITES, ONE OF THE THINGS FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT, MAKE SURE IN THE LARGE, YOU'VE SEEN IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES TRUCKS COME BY, THEY HAVE TO HAVE, MAKE SURE THEY KICK THE TURT OFF THE TIRES BEFORE THEY GO ON THE STREET.

ALSO, SOMEBODY'S GONNA MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE NAILS, BECAUSE I'VE, THEY TAKE THOSE SWEEPERS, THEY GRAB THE NAILS, THEY DON'T GET INTO THE BACK OF THE TRUCK, THEY SEND 'EM TO ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD.

I'VE HAD TO REPLACE MY TIRES SEVERAL TIMES.

MY NEIGHBOR NOW WALKS DOWN AND MAKES SURE POLICE IS THAT AREA BECAUSE ONE, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SUCTION IN THOSE SINKS.

I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU AND, AND WISH YOU AND OF A LADY HAPPY EASTER.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

SWEEPING PROGRAM, UM, IT'S LOOKING AT A POTENTIAL JUMP TO OVER 5 MILLION AND IT'S FIRST IT YEAR COST AND SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED, UH, ENFORCEMENT.

JUSTIN.

FOLLOWED BY JOSH MURRAY, FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINA LIVA.

CHRISTINE, THANK YOU.

GOOD EVENING.

EXCUSE MY VOICE.

OH, KIND OF LOSING IT, YELLING TOO MUCH.

UH, MY NAME'S JUSTIN.

I'M A WEST COVINA RESIDENT.

UM, UH, I JUST WANNA SPEAK ON TRANSPARENCY AND PROCESS, UH, SPECIFICALLY REGARDING ITEM FOUR AND A BROADER PATTERN THAT WE'RE STARTING TO SEE, UM, ON THE FIRE STATION THREE EMERGENCY DECLARATION.

UH, I UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO ACT QUICKLY, UH, WHEN THERE'S A REAL HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK, BUT BASED ON THE STAFF REPORT, THE SITUATION IS DESCRIBED AS ONGOING, UH, DETERIORATION AND DEFERRED MAINTENANCE.

SO THAT'S A RACE CONCERN.

UM, AN EMERGENCY BY DEFINITION SHOULD BE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED.

SO MY QUESTION IS, HOW DID THIS REACH A POINT WHERE COMPETITIVE BIDDING IS NOW BEING BYPASSED ENTIRELY? UM, AND RELATED TO THAT, WHAT SPECIFIC PROCESS WAS USED TO SELECT SUNSHINE SPECIFIC GROUP? UM, WERE THERE OTHER CONTRACTS CONSIDERED, OR WAS THIS THE DIRECT SELECTION? AND, UM, IF YOU'RE SKIPPING A STANDARD, BIDDING TRANSPARENCY MATTERS EVEN MORE, NOT LESS.

AND THEN ON THE STREET

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SO JUST WANNA ASK CLEARLY, WHAT IS THE PROJECTED INCREASE IN CITATIONS UNDER THESE NEW MODELS? UM, AND HOW'S THE CITY ENSURING THESE PROGRAM IS IN, IS FOCUSED ON SERVICE, NOT REVENUE GENERATION, UH, THROUGH ENFORCEMENT.

UM, THIS IS NOW MORE THAN ONE INSTANCE WHERE NORMAL PROCESSES ARE BEING BYPASSED OR SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED.

UM, SO THE FINAL QUESTION IS, WHAT SAFEGUARDS ARE IN PLACE TO ENSURE THESE EXPECTATIONS DON'T BECOME THE NORMAL? UM, I'M NOT HERE TO OPPOSE NECESSARY WORK.

I'M JUST HERE TO MAKE SURE DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE IN A WAY THAT PROTECTS THE PUBLIC TRUST, NOT JUST EXPEDITES OUTCOMES.

THANK YOU GUYS.

THANK YOU JOSH.

FOLLOWED BY CHRISTINE.

UH, HELLO AND GOOD EVENING MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

MY NAME IS JOSH MURRAY.

I AM HERE ON BEHALF OF WEST COVINA LIBRARY.

I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNITY, AGES FIVE TO 12 AND THEIR PARENT OR CAREGIVER TO LEARN ALL ABOUT SEEDS AT THE MIRACLE OF SEEDS, UH, PROGRAM ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8TH, TOMORROW FROM THREE 30 TO 4:30 PM JOIN US AS WE DISCOVER HOW SEEDS BECOME PLANTS AND OTHER FUN FACTS ABOUT SEEDS.

THEN DECORATE A FLOWER POT AND PLANT A SEED TO CARE FOR AND OBSERVE AT HOME.

SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED IN ADVANCED REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED ON OUR WEBSITE, LA COUNTY LIBRARY.ORG.

ALSO, I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE TEENS OF THE COMMUNITY TO TEEN GAME DAY ON THE SAME DAY TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8TH, FROM FOUR TO 5:00 PM TEENS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY VARIOUS GAMES FROM CONNECT FOUR GIANT JENGA, PICTIONARY, APPLES TO APPLES, AND MUCH, MUCH MORE.

AND SO THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY EXCITING EVENT FOR OUR TEENS.

THIS PROGRAM IS FOR AGES 12 TO 17, AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

CHRISTINE LE US HELLO.

I'M RESIDENT HERE AT WEST COVIN HOMEOWNER FOR OVER 40 YEARS.

I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT C CITY MARKET.

CAN YOU PUT THE MIC ON YOU? SORRY.

THE LOUD NOISE, THE LOUD MUSIC THAT'S COMING FROM THAT, THAT PARTICULAR VENUE OR WHATEVER IT IS.

I LIVE 37, UM, POINT 37 FEET OR 3,700 FEET FROM THAT, FROM THAT MARKET.

AND THE, AND THE MUSIC GOES JUST RADIATES AND, AND VIBRATES INTO MY WHOLE STREET AND INTO MY HOUSE.

I CAN'T EVEN SIT IN MY PATIO OUTSIDE ON SATURDAY NIGHT BECAUSE THE MUSIC IS LIKE, LIKE RIGHT THERE.

IT'S LIKE A BAR.

LIKE I'M IN A BAR OR SOMETHING.

AND ALL ALSO IN MY FRONT YARD.

IT'S SAME THING.

I CAN'T OPEN UP MY, MY, UH, BEDROOM WINDOW TO GO TO SLEEP BECAUSE THE MUSIC GOES STRAIGHT IN.

AND THAT, BECAUSE MY BEDROOM WINDOW FACES THAT THAT MARKET.

DO THEY HAVE, I THINK YOU'RE IN VIOLATION OF THE, OF, UM, WEST COVINA ORDINANCE ON NOISES 15 DASH, WHAT IS IT? 80 SOMETHING? UM, 85.

AND ALSO, DO THEY HAVE PERMITS FOR THIS? AND THIS IS EVERY WEEKEND.

THEY START FROM THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY LIVE BAND MUSIC.

AND YOU'RE SCREAMING, HOW CAN, HOW CAN I LIVE IN THAT, IN THAT ENVIRONMENT? THEY'RE VIOLATING MY PRIVACY, YOU KNOW, AND, AND IT'S, I'VE CALLED, I, I OPENED UP AN ISSUE WITH THE CITY AND THEY CLOSED IT RIGHT AWAY.

OH, WE'RE WORKING ON IT.

WE'RE WORKING ON IT.

I DID ONE LAST YEAR.

NOTHING HAPPENED.

I DID ONE THIS YEAR AND THEY SAID, WELL, WE HAVE OTHER VIOLATIONS WE'RE WORKING ON.

UM, I GUESS I'M AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST.

NO, I SHOULD BE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST BECAUSE IT IS OUTSIDE OF THAT AREA.

IT IT'S IRRADIATING INTO MY COMMUNITY.

IT'S A BEDROOM COMMUNITY.

THIS IS WHEN I MOVED IN HERE.

IT'S BEEN A BEDROOM COMMUNITY.

IT'S NOT A BAR OF COMMUNITY.

'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, THAT'S WHAT'S COMING OUT OF THIS PLACE.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANNA COME TO MY, TO MY STREET.

COME AND SIT THERE AND YOU CAN, AND YOU, YOU WON'T ENJOY IT.

SO CAN I HAVE, DO, DO THEY HAVE PERMITS FOR THIS, FOR OUTDOOR AT THE END WE GIVE EVERYBODY AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE A THREE MINUTES.

AND THEN AT THE END, OUR CITY MANAGER WILL ANSWER ALL THE CONCERNS AT THE END OF PUBLIC COMMENT.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

I HAVE A LATE SUBMISSION IF YOU WILL ALLOW IT.

UH, GO AHEAD.

MARIO AVARO.

MARIO .

I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LAY.

I HAD A LOOSE HORSE HORSES TO DEAL WITH EARLIER.

SO, , UM, FINGERS, UH, CITY COUNCIL FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.

UH, A COUPLE OF TOPICS WANTED TO BRING UP HERE.

UH, MARCH 26TH, WE HAD OUR TOWN HALL 1922 EVENT WITH THE STUDENTS.

WEST COVINA CAME IN VICTORIOUS WIS

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COVINA.

UH, YEAH, THEY CAME OUT STRONG, UH, TO THAT EVENT.

UM, MAYOR , UH, CONTOS WAS PRESENT.

UH, THE STUDENTS KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK.

WE ARE WORKING ON THE, UH, RECORDING EDITING TO GET THAT OUT, YOU KNOW, TO YOUTUBE SO PEOPLE CAN WATCH IT.

UM, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY CONCERNS ABOUT OUR YOUTH AND OUR FUTURE, UM, YOU SHOULDN'T, I MEAN, THESE KIDS REALLY, REALLY DID A GREAT JOB.

UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WE ARE DONE JUDGING THE POSTER CONTEST AND WE WILL BE, UH, PUTTING THOSE UP ON DISPLAY AT THE LIBRARY.

THIS SAT THIS COMING SATURDAY.

WE'RE WORKING WITH JOSH ON THAT.

TWO SATURDAYS.

OH, TWO SATURDAYS FROM NOW.

UM, WHAT ELSE GOING ON? UH, NOT SURE THE RESIDENT WAS SPEAKING ON WITH REGARDS TO THE MARKET, BECAUSE OUR MARKET DOESN'T TAKE PLACE TILL, UH, APRIL 17TH, UH, FRIDAY.

IT'S THE FIRST NIGHT MARKET AT HEARST RANCH.

UM, WE DO HAVE PERMITS.

WE HAVE, UH, WORKED WITH THE CITY AND YEAH, WE ARE VERY, UM, CONDESCEND OF THE NOISE, UM, AND POSITIONING SO THAT THAT DOES NOT POLLUTE OUT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.

UH, THAT IS GOING FROM 5:00 PM TO 10:00 PM UM, AGAIN, APRIL 17TH.

WE HAVE A LOT OF GOOD VENDORS COMING OUT.

IT'S GONNA BE FOOD, MUSIC, LOTS OF FUN.

HOPE PEOPLE CAN MAKE IT OUT TO THAT.

UM, AND THAT'S IT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

SO THAT ENDS OUR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.

WE'LL HAVE OUR ACTING CITY MANAGER PLEASE RESPOND TO ALL THE CO UH, PUBLIC COMMENT CONCERNS.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR.

UH, MR. SCHUMAKER, UH, MS. PAROS, MR. G.

UM, JUSTIN, UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE COMMENTING ON SOME AGENDA ITEMS AND I'LL WAIT FOR, UM, THAT DISCUSSION TO COME UP AFTER.

UM, ANSWER A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS HERE.

UM, JOSH MURRAY, THANK YOU ON THE UPDATE FOR THE WEST COVINA LIBRARY.

UM, MS. LEAVE US FOR THE HAVEN CITY MARKET.

UM, THEY DO HAVE A CUP.

THEY DO HAVE PERMITS, UH, FOR MUSIC ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAYS AT HAVEN CITY.

UM, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, I WILL HAVE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY MANAGER, UH, SPEAK WITH YOU ABOUT THE NOISE AND MAKE SURE IT'S IN COMPLIANCE WITH THEIR CUP CONDITIONS, BUT THEY ARE LICENSED AND PERMITTED TO HAVE MUSIC.

MARIO, THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE ON THE TOWN HALL AND THE UPDATE ON HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

AND THAT CONCLUDES MY RESPONSES FOR TONIGHT.

CONSENT CALENDAR, COUNSEL, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR? I'LL DO ONE.

ON TO

[CONSENT CALENDAR]

SO, UH, WE HAVE COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ ONE AND THEN ANYBODY ELSE? YES.

AND FOUR.

SO WE HAVE TWO.

SO DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS ONE THROUGH FOUR WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE AND FOUR, SO MOVE SECOND.

WE HAVE A FIRST AND A SECOND.

ROLL CALL, PLEASE.

YOU HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WU AND A SECOND BY MAYOR TIM, MAYOR PRO TIM CONTOS TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITEM NUMBER ONE AND ITEM NUMBER FOUR, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ.

COUNCILMAN WU? AYE.

COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE.

MAYOR PRO, TIM CONTOS.

IF I MAY REALLY QUICK ON ITEM, UH, THE JPIA ITEM.

I JUST WANNA, FOR THE RECORD, CLARIFY THAT THE MAYOR, UH, COUNCIL, UH, MAYOR PROM CONTOS, AND THE FINANCE DIRECTOR ARE ALL APPOINTED AS, UH, DELEGATES TO JPIA.

IT'S YOU AND I.

AND AS, AS A QUICK COR UH, ALSO CORRECTION TO THE RECORD.

UH, MY NAME IS O UH, OLI DE CANTOS.

THEI, NOT RIO CANTOS.

GUTIERREZ JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY.

, I DON'T KNOW.

YOU MARRIED IT TO HIM.

ALL RIGHT.

GOT THAT CORRECTION.

ONTO ITEM NUMBER FOUR, UH, MAYOR PROTI CONTOS.

[1) CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF THE MARCH 17, 2026, CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY REGULAR SESSION MEETING MINUTES AND THE MARCH 17, 2026, CITY COUNCIL/SUCCESSOR AGENCY CLOSED SESSION MEETING MINUTES. ]

SO ONTO ITEM NUMBER ONE.

GO AHEAD.

COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ.

I JUST WANT A ROLL CALL ON THAT ONE, BUT WE JUST DID A ROLL CALL.

A SEPARATE OKAY.

ROLL CALL.

SO, UH, SO MOVE.

SO SECOND, I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WU.

AS SECOND I MAY APPROACH TIM CONTOS FOR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE.

COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ? NO.

COUNCILMAN WU AYE.

COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE.

[4) EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO FIRE STATION 3 AND APPROVAL OF CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH SUNSHINE PACIFIC GROUP AMERICA, INC. ]

HISTORY OF DEFERRED MAINTENANCE, UH, IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND OUR FACILITIES.

UH, WITH THIS IS WITH REGARD TO THE EMERGENCY, UM, THAT WE NEED NEED TO, I, I JUST NEEDED TO ASK STAFF, HOW WAS THIS ALLOWED TO DETERIORATE TO THE POINT WHERE THIS WAS AN EMERGENCY? I MEAN, THIS WHOLE THING WITH RATS AND MICE AND SUCH, I MEAN, THAT THAT IT, IT MUST TAKE SOME TIME BEFORE IT DETERIORATES TO THAT DEGREE.

SO HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? WELL, I, I CAN BEST ANSWER THAT IT'S BEEN A, A

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AND THIS INCLUDES THE FIRE STATION NUMBER THREE THAT'S BEING DISCUSSED TONIGHT.

S SO HOW HAS THIS DIS DISCOVERED? UM, I'LL ASK MIKE.

CRESS UP OUR PUBLIC WORK SUPERINTENDENT TO COME UP AND, UM, HE'S BEEN FIRSTHAND, UH, DEALING WITH THIS ISSUE.

UM, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, MAYOR, MAYOR, PRO TEM.

COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, TWO SEPARATE ISSUES.

THE INFANT STATE, THE INFESTATION WAS DISCOVERED BY THE FIREFIGHTERS THAT ARE HOUSED AT THE, AT THE LOCATION.

UM, REGULAR ROUTINE PEST CONTROL WAS PART OF IT, BUT THE SITUATION JUST GOT WORSE IN A, IN, YOU KNOW, IN A VERY FAST MANNER.

AS FAR AS THE STATE OF THE FIRE STATION.

IT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS REGULARLY BEEN DISCUSSED IN CIP.

THIS COUNCIL HAS APPROVED MONEY FOR FIXING AND REPAIRING, UM, NOT ONLY FIRE STATIONS, BUT ALL OF OUR FACILITIES.

SO KIND OF TWO SEPARATE ISSUES THERE.

WHAT MADE THE ISSUE DIRE IS THE ACTUAL INFESTATION THAT WE JUST RECENTLY FOUND OUT ABOUT.

SO, UH, WHEN WAS THIS DISCOVERED AND BASED ON THE INFESTATION DEGREE, HOW LONG DID, HOW LONG DID THE INFESTATION EXIST? UM, THE SECOND WE WERE NOTIFIED ABOUT IT WAS ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO.

AND WE, WE GOT ON IT RIGHT AWAY CALLED OUT PEST CONTROL AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT VENDORS AND DID WHAT WE COULD TO GET INTO IT.

THE ISSUE IN THIS SCENARIO IS THE AGE OF THE FACILITY AND THEN THE CONDITION OF THE FACILITY.

THERE ARE ENTRY POINTS AND OTHER AREAS THAT THERE'S CONCERN THAT THERE MIGHT BE, UM, NEST AND, AND PLACES FOR RODENTS TO HIDE AND AFFECT THE CONDITION OF THE FACILITY.

SO IN THIS CASE, THAT'S ALL EVERYTHING'S GONNA HAVE TO BE PULLED OUT, SEALED AND DONE.

THAT.

AND WHEN OBVIOUSLY PULLING ALL THAT OLD MATERIAL OUT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO REPLACE IT, PUTTING IT BACK IN.

SO WE'RE JUST GONNA PUT IN, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA PUT IN STANDARD, YOU KNOW, STANDARD EQUIPMENT FOR THAT.

WOULD WE, WOULD THAT WE WOULD USE.

NOW, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT, BUT HOW WAS IT THAT THIS WASN'T DETECTED EARLIER FOR THE, CONSIDERING THE SIZE OF THE INFESTATION? HOW COULD THIS HAVE TAKEN THIS LONG TO EVEN DETECT AT ALL? BECAUSE I WORRY THAT, THAT OUR, OUR FIREFIGHTERS WERE, WERE LIVING IN REALLY DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS AND THERE ARE OTHER HEALTH IMPLICATIONS WITH REGARD TO RAT DROPPINGS AND OTHER THINGS, AND THAT, THAT JUST CAUSES OTHER ISSUES.

BUT HOW I JUST, I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE HOW THIS COULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO, TO BE, I MEAN, FOR IT TO JUST BE DISCOVERED THREE WEEKS AGO.

DOES THAT MEAN THAT THERE WAS A LACK OF, OF INSPECTION TO, TO DETECT THINGS EARLIER? OR IS THERE A SYSTEM IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE SORTS OF INFESTATIONS DON'T OCCUR AT ANY OF OUR FIRE STATIONS? UM, THE QUESTION I, I, I WANT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION CORRECTLY.

UM, THE FIRE STATIONS, YOU KNOW, ARE NOT LIKE OUR CITY HALL OR COMMUNITY CENTERS THAT HAVE A CONTRACT IN CLEANING, YOU KNOW, UH, JANITORIAL SERVICES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

THE FIRE STATIONS ARE KEPT UP BY THE, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HOUSED THERE.

SO AS ISSUES ARE REPORTED, WE, YOU KNOW, WE ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.

UM, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION OF WHY IT TOOK SO LONG.

YOU KNOW, WHEN THE, WHEN THE ISSUE CAME TO ME, I WENT STRAIGHT TO THE CITY MANAGER AND I ADDRESSED THE ISSUE TO THE BEST I COULD IN THAT MOMENT AND THEN ALSO MOVING FORWARD.

SO I CAN'T EXPLAIN WHY IT WASN'T TALKED ABOUT PRIOR TO THAT.

UM, IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME WE'VE HAD A RAT IN A BUILDING, YOU KNOW, TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE RATS, BUT TO EXPLAIN WHY THIS GOT SO SEVERE SO FAST, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

JUST TYPICALLY FOR, FOR THAT TYPE OF INFESTATION, IT COULD TAKE SIX WEEKS OR, AND SO IT, IT JUST IS, UH, SURPRISING THAT, THAT THE INFESTATION HAD TO GET THIS BAD BEFORE WAS REPORTED.

SO AT A SYSTEMIC LEVEL, UH, SUPERINTENDENT CRESS UP WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN DETECT THESE THINGS EARLY.

BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS AT A PRACTICAL LEVEL IS THAT NOW WE ARE FORCED INTO AN EMERGENCY WHERE WE HAVE TO SPEND $123,000 THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO SPEND IF THIS WERE CAUGHT EARLY.

AND, AND IF THERE ARE OTHER FESTERING ISSUES LIKE THIS, EITHER IN OUR FIRE STATIONS OR ANY OTHER CITY FACILITIES, WE'RE GOING TO BE HERE IN THE FUTURE AGAIN, WHERE THERE WILL BE AN EMERGENCY THAT WILL BE FORCED TO GRAPPLE WITH AND SPEND MORE MONEY THAN WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED HAD SOMETHING BEEN CAUGHT EARLY ENOUGH SO THAT WAY WE COULD AT LEAST GET A COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS AND GET THE BEST PRICE.

BUT INSTEAD, BECAUSE OF THE EMERGENCY, WE'RE WE'RE HAVING TO SPEND MORE THAN WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED HAD THIS BEEN TAKEN CARE OF WHILE THIS WAS STILL NOT A LARGE PROBLEM.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S A SYSTEMIC ISSUE THAT I WANTED TO GET TO THE HEART OF HERE.

MAYOR PROAM CONTOS, I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS AND OUR GOAL IS TO BE AS PROACTIVE AS WE CAN IN ALL SCENARIOS AND, AND STAY AHEAD OF ALL ISSUES FROM INFANT INFESTATIONS TO WEEDS AND ALL THOSE THINGS.

THOSE ARE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE EVALUATING EVERY DAY LOOKING AT OUR SCOPES, OUR CONTRACTS, UH, OUR MANPOWER, OUR PROCEDURES USING C-J-P-I-A FOR INSPECTIONS.

UM, IN

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GENERAL, WE ARE JUST TRYING TO BE MORE PROACTIVE IN MAKING SURE WE'RE STAYING ON TOP OF THAT.

BUT I DON'T HAVE A DIRECT ANSWER FOR YOU.

THIS PARTICULAR MOMENT, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DISCUSS WITH, UM, ACTING CITY MANAGER, MILAN, AND WE CAN WORK TOWARDS, UM, A, A, A MORE DETAILED ANSWER.

BUT IN THIS MOMENT, I CAN'T 100% ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.

SO AT A SYSTEMIC LEVEL, CAN YOU PUT TOGETHER A, A CHECKLIST OF CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE SHOULD DO ON A PROACTIVE BASIS TO GO THROUGH ALL THE FIRE STATIONS, INCLUDING CHECK, CHECK YOU FOR RATS, ROACHES, RODENTS, WHATEVER ELSE, AND, AND OTHER HABITABILITY ISSUES SO THAT WAY WE CAN CHECK THINGS OFF EARLY, UH, BEFORE THINGS GET SO BAD.

AND THEN IF THERE ARE ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED, THEN TO PUT THAT THROUGH A, A PROCUREMENT PROCESS THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO, TO GET THE BEST PRICE WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME TO, TO TAKE CARE OF THINGS BEFORE THE JOBS BECOME SO LARGE AND, AND FRANKLY EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE TO HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF.

AND WE CAN WORK WITH OUR USERS, WHETHER IT BE, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICES AT THEIR FACILITIES, CITY HALL, USERS, FIRE, WE CAN WORK WITH ALL OF THEM AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE, THE TOOLS TO REPORT AND IDENTIFY ISSUES SO WE CAN MOVE QUICKLY AND BE AS COST EFFECTIVE AS POSSIBLE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING INTO SITUATIONS LIKE THIS AGAIN.

THANK YOU MR. CRESS UP REAL QUICK, UM, BEFORE I FORGET, I, I'D LIKE TO ASK THE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK TO MAKE A NOTE THAT I'M GOING TO ASK LATER FOR A MOTHER MAY I, FOR US TO ASK CITY STAFF TO PUT TOGETHER A COMPREHENSIVE CHECKLIST SO THAT WAY WE CAN CHECK THESE FACILITIES TO PREVENT THESE UNNECESSARY EMERGENCIES FROM OCCURRING.

AGAIN, ACTUALLY IS, I'M JUST CURIOUS 'CAUSE I KNOW LIKE IN MY FACILITY AT WORK, WE ALREADY HAVE TRAINING THAT, YOU KNOW, MICE, RODENTS PREPARATION AND CLEANING AND SO FORTH.

DOES THE CITY OF WEST CONA HAVE THAT WITH TRAINING AT LEAST, UH, TO LET STAFF KNOW WHETHER IT'S A QUARTERLY TRAINING, YEARLY TRAINING AND SO FORTH? I DO NOT RECALL A TRAINING ON RODENTS AND, AND INFESTATIONS, NO.

UH, QUESTION.

COUNCILMAN WU? YEAH.

UM, JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU, I HAVE A SEPARATE GARAGE.

AND A COUPLE YEARS AGO, I HAVE, UH, JUST CERTAINLY I HAVE A WRECK COMING TO BE MY GUEST.

AND NOT ONLY THEY SHOW UP, THEY EVEN HAVE BABY.

OKAY? SO I UNDERSTAND SOMETIMES JUST THINGS JUST HAPPEN AND THEY JUST CONTINUE TO PRODUCE AND I'M TRY TO VERY HARD A FOUR CAR GARAGE AND VERY HARD TO GET THEM OUT AND EITHER HIRE PEOPLE TO DO IT BECAUSE, AND SO SAME THING TOO.

WE NEED THE HEAVY RAIN AND I HAVE, UH, UH, RED AND THEN WAY INTO, UH, MAYBE SCROLL OR RED WAY INTO MY HEATER.

OKAY? COMPARTMENTS AND, UH, STUDY MAKING THE NET.

SO SOMETIMES THIS THING HAPPEN.

OKAY? SO, SO, AND NOW WE FIND OUT A PROBLEM AND WE HAVE TO FIX IT RIGHT AWAY.

AND, UH, THE ONLY THING I CARE IS WE HAVE TO FIX THE ISSUE, OKAY? AND MAKE SURE, OKAY, WE HAVE NO RED DROPPING.

I RIGHT AWAY HIRE PEOPLE TO GET RID OF, UH, THE INFESTATION, THE RED, THE ISSUE.

AND UH, AND THE SAME THING TOO.

I BLOCK ANY OF, UH, POTENTIALLY ENTRY.

FOR THE, THE, THE ANIMAL THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SHELTERS, THE WINTER, THE RAIN, THIS AND THAT.

SOME, SOME SOMETHING HAPPEN.

SO, SO, OKAY.

AND, UH, I THINK WE, THE CITY MANAGER HAVE, UH, AUTHORITY TO USE A HYDRO THOUSAND DOLLAR TO FIX THE ISSUE RIGHT AWAY.

AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE OUR FIREFIGHTER LIVE IN THE SAFE ZONE WITHOUT THE RED DROP.

DROPPING AND, UH, SAME THING.

SO, AND I WANT TO MOVE THE MOTION TO APPROVE WELL, BEFORE WE DO SO, UH, BUT I HAVE ONE MOTION, YOU CAN HAVE THIS MOVE THE MOTION.

UH, I AM COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.

I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

I'M JUST WONDERING, IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN HAVE LIKE A MAINTENANCE PROGRAM WITH THE PEST, UM, PEST CONTROL COMPANY? OKAY.

WE CURRENTLY DO HAVE A MAINTENANCE PROGRAM ON THERE.

IF WE GET ANY COMPLAINTS AT ANY FACILITY, WE GO ON, UH, YOU KNOW, WE STARTED A MONTHLY BASIS.

IF THAT DOESN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM, THEN WE UP THE, THE, THE FREQUENCY OF THE, UM, EXTERMINATION OR WHATEVER THEY, WHAT MEASURES THEY PUT IN PLACE, WHETHER IT BE TRAPS, I'M, HOW OFTEN DO THEY DO THIS? UH, WE START OUT IN A MONTH, BUT IN SOME LOCATIONS WE'VE HAD TO GO UP TO BI-WEEKLY OR WEEKLY AS WELL.

AND THESE ARE FOR ALL THE FIRE STATIONS, FIRE STATIONS, COMMUNITY CENTERS, WHATEVER, WHEREVER WE HAVE AN ISSUE.

FORWARD WITH THAT TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS AND MAKE SURE WE GET THE FACILITY BACK UP AND RUNNING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

IF AN ISSUE'S REPORTED TO US, WE, WE BRING OUT SOMEONE, WE BRING OUT A PROFESSIONAL RIGHT AWAY.

SO IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WERE WORKING ON IT AND YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT IT AND YOU'RE ADDRESSING IT.

SO, OKAY.

I'LL SECOND THAT.

ALRIGHT.

UM, THE QUESTION, I KNOW THAT WAS, UH, CONCERN, I KNOW WITH THE PUBLIC IN REGARDS TO THE COMPETITIVE BIDS.

UM, HOW WAS THAT AND WAS ALL THESE ITEMS THAT ARE LISTED, ARE THOSE ALL EMERGENCY AND ARE IS, ARE THOSE ABLE TO BE A SEPARATE BID TO MAKE SURE THE COST IS THE LEASE AS POSSIBLE? WELL, IN THIS CASE, OUR GOAL IS TO GET THE FIRE STATION BACK OPERATIONAL AND PEOPLE BACK INTO THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THEY'RE USING THE FACILITY, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A SAFE, CLEAN, HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT AND IT DOESN'T AFFECT THEIR WORK, YOU KNOW, THE SERVICE AREA OR WORK, UM, THAT THEY HAVE TO DO.

SO IN THIS CASE, EMERGENCY WAS DECIDED AS A WAY TO MOVE

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UM, ALL THESE THINGS DO HAVE TO, ALL THESE THINGS ARE PART OF THE MITIGATION.

SO, UM, THERE'S CONCERN ABOUT SOME WALL AREAS, SOME STUFF BEHIND KITCHEN CABINETRY.

UH, THE TILE, THE CEILING TILES, THERE ARE, UH, ARE AN OLDER STYLE TILE THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UM, ATTACHED DIRECTLY TO THE BEAMS AND THERE'S SOME CRACKS AND SOME ENTRY POINTS.

SO THE GOAL IS TO SEAL OFF ALL ENTRY POINTS AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO PLACE FOR THEM TO HIDE ANY CORNER, SEE IT BACK INTO, SO ALL THE STUFF HAS TO BE REMOVED AND GONE BACK IN THE EMERGENCIES JUST TO GET THIS BACK UP AND OPERATIONAL AND MAKE SURE THAT THE FACILITY IS WORKING PROPERLY FOR THE, FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS WORKING THERE IN A TIMELY MANNER.

RIGHT.

AND ON YOUR END, UM, UH, MAKING SURE THAT WE GOT THE BEST AMOUNT AND HOW MANY, HOW MANY WAS REACHED OUT? HOW MANY BITS CAME? I REACHED OUT TO THREE COMPANIES.

ONE, UH, ONE COMPANY DIDN'T EVEN RESPOND.

REACHED OUT TO A TI WHO'S AN INSURANCE COMPANY THAT JUST DID, UH, OUR FLOOD HERE AT CITY HALL AND THEY, THEY COULD NOT GET BACK TO US IN A TIMELY MANNER AND COULDN'T EVEN START THE JOB FOR OVER A MONTH.

AND THE THIRD VENDOR GAVE US THE QUOTE AND CAN START RIGHT AWAY.

SO, UM, I DO BELIEVE THE COST IS COMPETITIVE.

I DIDN'T GET A NUMBER BACK TO COMPARE THAT TO WHERE WE'VE PUT IT IN THE REPORT, BUT MORE THAN ONE CONTRACTOR WAS REACHED OUT TO.

COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ? YES.

SOUNDS GOOD.

UM, SO YOU, YOU SAY THERE'S AN INFESTATION PROBLEM, RIGHT? THERE'S RATS, CORRECT.

IN THE FIRE STATION.

HOW LONG HAS FIRE STATION NUMBER THREE HAVE HA HAVE, HAS HAD RATS? I KNOW THE ANSWER, BUT I WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THE ANSWER.

UH, THEY HAVE HAD RATS PRIOR TO THIS AND, BUT I CAN'T TELL YOU DATES OR WHATEVER IT IS.

IT'S BEEN YEARS, RIGHT? YEAH.

UH, I, I, I CAN'T SAY THAT FOR SURE.

I CAN'T ANSWER THAT CORRECTLY.

THEY, THERE HAS BEEN RATS AT THAT FACILITY AND OTHER FACILITIES, BUT THE EXTENT OF THIS CASE, UH, I, IN MY TIME IN MAINTENANCE, I HAVE NOT SEEN IT AS THAT.

I HAVEN'T SEEN, UM, WHERE I WAS GETTING SNAPSHOTS EVERY DAY FROM THE KITCHEN OF TRAPS GOING OFF AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

SO YES, THERE WERE, THERE HAVE BEEN RATS THERE BEFORE.

I CAN'T SPECIFY HOW, HOW OFTEN OR HOW MANY YEARS.

BUT, UM, I WILL SAY THAT IN MY SEVEN YEARS OF MAINTENANCE, I HAVE NOT SEEN IT TO THIS EXTENT.

'CAUSE I REMEMBER, UH, GOING THERE WITH CHIEF BROWN, AND I BELIEVE THE FIREFIGHTERS ALSO HA HAD CONDUCTED A, THE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION HAS HAD ALSO CONDUCTED A TEST TO TEST FOR MODE, UH, PESTOS AND SO FORTH.

AND, AND SOME OF THOSE TESTS CAME BACK POSITIVE.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY VOICED A, A, A LONG HISTORY OF CONCERNS THAT RATS WERE COMING UP FROM THE, THE, THE PLACE, THE BUILDING NEXT TO IT.

THEY USED TO BE THE FORMER LIBRARY SITE AND BELIEVE THE WATER WAS CUT OFF.

SO THE RATS, MY UNDERSTANDING HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW.

NOW WE HAVE AN IN IN INFESTATION ISSUE RIGHT NOW, RODENTS.

WHY ARE WE HIRING A SOLAR COMPANY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE? OH, WE'RE NOT USING A SOLAR COMPANY.

WE'RE USING A GENERAL CONTRACTOR.

THEY DO FLOORS, UM, ALL KINDS OF PACKAGE PACIFIC.

THERE'S CONCERN THAT, THAT THERE IS AREAS BEHIND THE CABINETS THAT, THAT, UM, NEST AND, AND RODENTS ARE LIVING IN AND OTHER PESTS AND BUGS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

PACIFIC GROUP AMERICA INC.

THEIR WEBSITE IS A SOLAR PANEL COMPANY.

LIKE I SAID, THEY'RE A GENERAL THAT'S DONE OTHER WORK THAT MEETS ALL THE CRITERIA.

THEY'RE REGISTERED WITH THE DIR, THEY HAVE ALL THE PROPER INSURANCE, UM, AND THE, AND THE, AND THE WORK THAT WE HAVE BID OUT, THEY'VE DONE A GOOD JOB FOR US.

SO, LIKE I SAID, IT WAS, IT'S A TIME FACTOR.

THEY CAN, THEY CAN START THE JOB RIGHT AWAY AND GET THE FACILITY BACK UP AND RUNNING QUICKLY.

AND, AND WHAT WAS THE REASON WHY, UH, MILAN COULDN'T USE HIS EMERGENCY MAN EMERGENCY? UH, I MEAN HIS, HIS ALLOCATED FUNDS.

I'M SORRY, CAN YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? WHY COULDN'T MI WHY COULDN'T YOU USE YOUR ALLOCATED, I MEAN, YOUR, YOUR BUDGETARY LIMITS? WHEN, UM, MR. CRESSA BROUGHT THIS TO MY ATTENTION, I AUTHORIZED THE IMMEDIATE, UH, REPAIRS TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.

AND THIS COMES BACK FOR RATIFICATION FROM THE COUNCIL AT THIS POINT.

UM, I BEEN PAID, YOU KNOW, ONE THING DIFFERENT FROM THIS STRUCTURE TO OTHER CITY FACILITIES IS WE HAVE PEOPLE LIVING, EATING, SLEEPING IN THIS, UH, FIRE STATION.

SO AS LONG AS THE KITCHEN AND THE AREAS ARE NOT HABITABLE, I MEAN, WE HAVE PEOPLE HAVING TO EAT THREE MEALS OUT EVERY DAY INSTEAD OF BEING ABLE TO COOK INSIDE THE STRUCTURE.

SO IT WAS APPROVED, UH, FOR IMMEDIATE REPAIRS.

UH, IT COMES BACK TO YOU NOW FOR RATIFICATION.

AND ARE THEY CURRENTLY PERFORMING THE WORK RIGHT NOW AT THE STATION? WORK WILL START IMMEDIATELY WHEN THIS IS, IF THIS IS APPROVED, BUT WE'RE RATIFYING IT.

SO IT WAS ALREADY APPROVED.

RIGHT.

UH, I APPROVED UNDER MY AUTHORITY, BUT WE'RE COMING BACK TO THE COUNCIL, UM, TO GET YOUR APPROVAL.

IT SHOULDN'T BE RATIFICATION, IT'S JUST YOUR APPROVAL AT THIS TIME.

AND, AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE REMOVING THE CABINETS AND THEN PUTTING TRAPS IN THE WALLS OR NO, NO, NO.

PUTTING EMPLOYEES IN,

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SO TO ENSURE THAT THE WALL IS SEALED, DRYWALLED CORRECTLY AND EVERYTHING DONE, ALL THAT STUFF'S GONNA HAVE TO COME OFF AND THEN IT WILL BE PUT BACK.

UM, THE CEILING WILL BE DRYWALLED.

CURRENTLY IT'S A, IT'S A TILE WHERE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, IN CERTAIN AREAS THERE'S, THERE'S TILES FALLING CRACKS THAT WILL ALL BE DRYWALLED AND AND SEALED.

SO THERE'S NO AREA THAT, YOU KNOW, RANS CAN, RATS CAN RI, YOU KNOW, GO THROUGH THE RAFTERS AND COME DOWN THROUGH INTO THEIR LIVING AREA.

SO MY MY CONCERN IS OUR FIREFIGHTERS WILL STILL BE LIVING THERE AND SLEEPING THERE WHILE THAT IS GOING ON.

AND THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT THE OTHER CITY HAS TESTS RESULTS IN OUR, IN, IN, IN OUR POSSESSION THAT SHOWS POSITIVE RESULTS FOR POTENTIAL MODE AND, AND ABBEEL.

SO HOW ARE WE GONNA TO ADDRESS THAT? YEAH, THAT REPORT WAS GIVEN TO ME AND THAT THAT REPORT WAS GIVEN TO THE CONTRACTORS FOR THE BID.

SO ALL THE PROPER ABATEMENT THAT IS GONNA BE DONE IN THAT AREA IS GONNA BE HANDLED IN THAT THE AB ASBESTOS IN THE TILE, THE, UM, THERE'S LEAD IN THE PAINT, BUT THAT REPORT WAS GIVEN AS PART OF THE BID.

SO THOSE AREAS WILL ALL BE ADDRESSED AND MITIGATED PROPERLY.

SO THEY WILL, I MEAN, BECAUSE THERE'S A BEDROOM RIGHT OUTSIDE THAT KITCHEN.

SO I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA CAUSE A RISK MANAGEMENT ISSUE BECAUSE WE'RE APPROVING A CONTRACT THAT COULD CAUSE, UM, HEALTH EFFECTS TO OUR FIREFIGHTERS.

WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE FIREFIGHTERS THAT ARE WORKING AT THAT STATION AND DISCUSSING ALL THOSE ISSUES.

UM, MYLAN AND I HAVE DISCUSSED IT AS WELL, AND WE, WE, WE ARE GONNA DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE WHAT THEY NEED TO WORK DURING THE, THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD AND, UM, WHATEVER ACCOMMODATIONS NEED TO TAKE PLACE.

UM, MYLAN HAS, HAS APPROVED ALREADY.

YEAH, SO I, I, I MEAN, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA SUPPORT THIS 'CAUSE IT, IT, IT'S, IT'S TO SUPPORT OUR FIREFIGHTERS, BUT I WANNA MAKE IT VERY CLEAR ON THE RECORD THAT WE AS A CITY HAVE AN LEGAL OBLIGATION UNDER CAL OSHA TO ENSURE THAT ANY WORK WE DO, THAT OUR FIREFIGHTERS ARE PROTECTED DURING THAT CONSTRUCTION PROCESS.

AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE STAY ON TOP OF THAT.

COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ? AYE.

THAT IS DEFAULTED.

AND RIGHT HERE, IT'S RODENT PEST ABATEMENT.

AND I MEAN, THAT'S WHY THE PRICE IS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN NORMAL BECAUSE THEY'RE INCLUDING ALL THESE THINGS THAT, UH, NEED TO KEEP THE FIRE SAFE.

THAT BEING SAID, WE HAVE A FIRST AND WE HAVE A SECOND ROLL CALL, PLEASE.

, THINK I HAVE APPROVED, I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN WU.

A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN D IS TO APPROVE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM NUMBER FOUR, EMERGENCY REPAIRS TO FIRE STATION THREE.

AND APPROVAL OF CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH SUNSHINE PACIFIC GROUP AMERICA.

COUNCILMAN WU? AYE.

COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? AYE.

MAYOR PRO, TIM CONTOS.

MAYOR LOPEZ, VIDO AYE.

MOTION PASSES.

I HAVE, I HAVE ONE COMMENT AND I JUST WANNA SAY IT'S COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ.

EXCUSE ME.

OH, YEAH.

I HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR STAFF.

UM, AND THEN ALSO IT, IT'S STATE, IT'S STATED, UM, UM, THAT THE EMERGENCY POWERS WILL CONTINUE.

YES.

IS THERE A LIMIT ON ON HOW MUCH IT'LL, IT'LL CONTINUE.

IT'LL CONTINUE.

YOU'LL BRING BACK EVERY MEETING UNTIL THE WORK IS COMPLETED.

THIS IS A PUBLIC CONTRACT CODE.

THIS IS A PUBLIC BUILDING, A PUBLIC PROJECT.

SO MYLAN COULD NOT IMMEDIATELY EXPEND THAT MONEY.

HE NEEDED TO DECLARE IT AN EMERGENCY, WHICH HIS COUNCIL JUST DID.

MM-HMM .

ON A FIVE OH VOTE.

BUT TO BE PROACTIVE, UH, ACTING CITY MANAGER WITH, UH, MIKE SUP.

GOT THE BALL ROLLING, GOT EVERYTHING, DID ALL THE LEG WORK, ALL THE MISSIONARY WORK, AND BROUGHT IT TO YOU IN A TIMELY MANNER.

AND NOW THAT YOU VOTED ON TONIGHT, THEY'LL IMMEDIATELY START TOMORROW AND MAKE SURE, UM, ALL THESE ISSUES ALL RESOLVED.

GREAT.

SO ONCE THIS IS COMPLETED, UM, IT'LL COME BACK TO COUNSEL ON CONSENT CALENDAR FOR YOU GUYS TO EITHER AT THAT POINT IN TIME, TERMINATE, UH, THE EMERGENCY BECAUSE IT'S BEEN RESOLVED.

GREAT.

I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

AND EVERY MONTH, EVERY 30 DAYS.

JUST QUICK QUESTION.

SO OUR PROJECT MANAGERS, ROBERT, UH, WILL BE ON TOP OF THIS TOO, RIGHT? YES.

IT'S GONNA BE A TEAM EFFORT ON THIS ONE FOR SURE.

YES.

SO WE HAVE A SUPERVISOR ON TOP TO SEE HOW THE CONTRACT GO AND, UH, HOW FAST IT CAN COMPLETE.

WE WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S A CLEAN AND COMPLETE JOB.

ABSOLUTELY.

ALSO, NOW OVER THE BUDGET.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THAT LAST ITEM? ALL RIGHT.

SEEING NONE DEPARTMENT

[5) CONSIDERATION OF UPDATE TO STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM FOR ALTERNATE SIDES ON ALTERNATE DAY SWEEPING]

REGULAR MATTERS.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE, CONSIDERATION OF UPDATE TO STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM FOR ALTERNATE SIDES OR ON ALTERNATE DAY SWEEPING.

UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD, MR. MILAN, WHO WILL PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT.

I HAVE AN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

UH, AHAD IS HERE, AND BRIAN CERVANTES IS HERE.

ROBERT ORTEGA IS ALSO HERE.

MATT ARISE IS ALSO HERE TO ANSWER ANY ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU, MILAN.

CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME? YES.

OH, OKAY.

ALRIGHT.

UM, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR.

MAYOR PROAM, MEMBERS OF

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CITY COUNCIL.

I'M ARI, CONTRACT CITY ENGINEER FOR THE CITY OF WEST COA.

PLEASURE TO BE HERE.

UM, WE HAVE A, UH, POWERPOINT, UH, TO SHARE WITH THE CITY COUNCIL.

UM, A LOT OF THE INFORMATION GOES BACK TO 2023, BUT I'M GONNA WALK EVERYONE THROUGH THE PROCESS, YOU KNOW, THE BACKGROUND, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW WE GOT TO THIS POINT.

THE, UH, THEN FROM THERE I'M GONNA GO TO THE ROUTE OPTIONS.

UH, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY WHAT WE, UH, PRACTICE TODAY, YOU KNOW, CURRENT PRACTICE, AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE, UM, WHAT THE ALTERNATE, UH, APPROACH, WHICH ALTERNATE SIDE ON ALTERNATE DAYS WOULD REALLY LOOK LIKE, YOU KNOW, BOTH FROM THE OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT AS WELL AS THE COST.

UM, SO THERE ARE THREE CATEGORIES OF COST THAT I'M GONNA, UH, GO THROUGH.

STREET SWEEPING COSTS, ENFOR ENFORCEMENT COSTS, SIGNAGE COSTS, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA SHARE SOME ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE TOTAL COST, AND THEN IT, IT'S FOR THE CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION AND PROVIDE INPUT.

NEXT SLIDE.

SO REAL QUICK ON THE BACKGROUND, UM, THERE WERE SEVERAL COMMITTEE MEETINGS BACK IN, UH, 2023 TO DISCUSS THE OVERALL PROGRAM.

UM, IN NOVEMBER OF THAT YEAR, STAFF BROUGHT THE CONSIDERATION FOR THE STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL IN DECEMBER OF THAT LA UH, SAME YEAR, CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF, UH, FOR TRANSITION FROM BI-WEEKLY, WHICH IS EVERY OTHER WEEK TO WEEKLY SCHEDULE.

UM, IN OCTOBER OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THE CITY COUNCIL AWARDED A CONTRACT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF STREET SWEEPING SIGNAGE, FEBRUARY 4TH, 2025.

LAST YEAR, THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED THE ORDINANCE RELATED TO THIS, UM, AND THEN AMENDED THE MUNICIPAL CODE TO UPDATE THE SWEEPING, UH, PARKING RESTRICTIONS.

A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE BACKGROUND.

UM, IN FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR, THE CITY, UH, STAFF ISSUED THE NOTICE TO PROCEED FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE SIGNS.

UM, IN JULY, THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, APPROVED THE PURCHASE OF A COUPLE OF TRUCKS, OR I'M SORRY, FOUR TRUCKS AND TWO, UH, POLICE INTERCEPTORS, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PROGRAM.

IN AUGUST OF LAST YEAR, THE CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO REVISE THE PROGRAM TO AN ALTERNATE SIDE, ALTERNATE DAY, UH, OPTION, UH, AND SCHEDULE.

AND IN NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR, THE CITY COUNCIL ACCEPTED THE, UH, COMPLETED WORK AS FAR AS THE SIGNAGE INSTALLATION, WHICH, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS, UH, PRESENTATION, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THAT PHASE ONE OF THE INSTALLATION OF THE SIGNS.

SO THE GETTING INTO THE ROUTE OPTIONS, UM, OPTION NUMBER ONE TONIGHT REPRESENTS THE CURRENT PRACTICE THAT WE HAVE, UH, AS THE CITY COUNCIL AND GENERAL PUBLIC KNOW EACH STREET TO SWEPT THE DAY AFTER THE TRASH COLLECTION.

UM, THE MAP TO THE RIGHT, UH, COLOR CODED SHOWS THE TRASH, UH, DAYS, YOU KNOW, FOR DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IN THE DENSE AREAS OF, OF THE CITY THAT ARE, UM, SHOWN WITH THOSE CIRCLES, UH, ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING FOR, UH, FOR THE RESIDENTS IS ALREADY AVAILABLE.

AND THEY DO IT, UH, ON THE ALTERNATE SIDE, SWEEPING, UH, AND CURRENTLY WE HAVE THREE, UH, FOUR HOUR TIME ZONES FOR EACH, UH, UH, DAY OF, OF THE SWEEPING WHERE THE PARKING IS RESTRICTED.

UM, WITH THE CURRENT PRACTICE, WE HAVE FOUR SWEEPERS THAT ARE IN MOTION.

NEXT SLIDE.

AND, YOU KNOW, SUCH, YOU KNOW, GO ON THE OTHER SIDE AND IT BECOMES, UH, COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.

OPTION NUMBER TWO, UH, IS REALLY THE FIRST OPTION TO LOOK AT THE ALTERNATE SIDE, ALTERNATE DAYS, THREE SWEEPING.

AND SO, UH, THE CHARACTERISTICS IS THAT, UH, ONE SIDE IS SWEPT ONE DAY AFTER THE TRASH COLLECTION.

AND THE SECOND, THE, THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET IS SWEPT TWO DAYS AFTER THE TRASH COLLECTION.

UM, THE ALTERNATE SIDE, THE PARKING LOT PARKING ALLOWED ON THE, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET, IS ALLOWED FOR, UH, FOR THE RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, NOT JUST THE, UH, THE DENSE AREAS.

AND IN THIS PARTICULAR OPTION, WE HAVE TWO FIVE HOUR TIME ZONES.

UM, FOR THE PARKING RESTRICTION IN THIS PARTICULAR OPTION, UH, IN ADDITION TO THE FOUR SWEEPERS THAT WE HAVE, THE REQUIREMENT IS TO HAVE SEVEN

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SWEEPERS.

THE, UH, OPTION NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS REALLY THE SECOND OPTION FOR, UH, THE NEW PROGRAM, OR NOT THE NEW PROGRAM, BUT THE ALTERNATE SIDE, ALTERNATE DAY.

UH, SIDE ONE IS SWEPT, UM, TWO DAYS AFTER TRASH COLLECTION.

SIDE TWO IS SWEPT THREE DAYS AFTER TRASH COLLECTION.

AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET IS, UH, PROVIDED FOR PARKING.

AGAIN, YOU KNOW, SEVEN SWEEPERS ARE GONNA BE REQUIRED IN THIS CASE AS WELL.

AND THEN FINALLY, THE LAST OPTION, UH, WHICH IS AGAIN, YOU KNOW, ALTERNATE SIDE, ALTERNATE DAY, UH, THE FOUR DAYS SWEEPING PROGRAM.

WELL, ONE THING THAT I FORGOT TO MENTION IS THAT THE PREVIOUS TWO OPTIONS, OPTIONS, TWO AND THREE, UM, FIVE DAYS OF SWEEPING WILL OCCUR.

WHEREAS THIS ONE, UM, IS GONNA BE A FOUR DAY SWEEPING PROGRAM INSTEAD OF FIVE FREQUENCY.

UM, THE, UM, UH, SWEEPING WILL BE DONE ONE DAY AFTER THE TRASH COLLECTION UP TO THREE DAYS.

ON THE OTHER SIDE, IT WOULD BE AFTER THREE DAYS, UH, AFTER THE TRASH COLLECTION.

AND THEN, UH, VERY SIMILAR TO THE OTHER OPTIONS, YOU KNOW, O OBVIOUSLY THE ALTERNATE SIDE IS, UH, IS, IS, UH, IS AVAILABLE FOR THE PARKING AND TWO, FIVE HOURS.

AND AGAIN, IT REQUIRES SEVEN SWEEPERS.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

SO, GETTING INTO THE FIRST CATEGORY OF THE COST IS REALLY THE SWEEPING COSTS, AS I MENTIONED, UH, EARLIER.

UH, OPTION NUMBER ONE IS THE CURRENT PRACTICE.

UH, IT, IT DEMONSTRATES THAT YOU HAVE NO ADDITIONAL COST FOR THE STREET SWEEPER, UH, EQUIPMENT.

THE CURRENT CONTRACT IS 1.3 MILLION AND CHANGE.

UM, AND THEN OPTION TWO, OPTION THREE AND OPTION FOUR, UH, IT WILL REQUIRE TO, UH, PURCHASE ADDITIONAL SWEEPERS, UH, WHICH IS A, IS IS ABOUT 1.6 MILLION.

AND THEN IT, IT WILL INCREASE THE, UM, CONTRACTS, 65%, 65% FOR OPTION TWO AND THREE, AND THEN 55% FOR OPTION NUMBER FOUR.

THE SECOND CATEGORY OF SWEET SWEEPING, UH, IS THE ENFORCEMENT COST AND STAFFING, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S, UH, IT'S VERY SELF-EXPLANATORY.

UM, IN OPTION NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS THE CURRENT PRACTICE, WE HAVE FIVE FULL-TIME OFFICERS.

UH, TOTAL COST IS 370,000, ONE SUPERVISOR AT 85,000 FOR I GUESS THE TOTAL OF $455,000.

AND THEN, UH, ALL THE OTHER OPTIONS WHICH RELATE TO THE ALTERNATE SIDE.

ALTERNATE DAY, UH, WILL BE QUITE A BIT MORE BECAUSE THE OFFICERS ARE GONNA BE EIGHT THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED.

AND THEN THE COST IS GONNA GO 5 92 PLUS THE 85 SOME $677,000 FOR THE, UH, THE, UH, THE OPTION TWO THROUGH FOUR.

NEXT, UH, SLIDE PLEASE.

AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER COST, UH, CATEGORY IS, UH, SWISS SWEEPING ENFORCEMENT COSTS AND EQUIPMENT, AGAIN, SELF-EXPLANATORY.

YOU KNOW, THESE, UH, DEMONSTRATE ALL THE FIELD EQUIPMENT, YOU KNOW, BOTH FOR THE OFFICERS AS WELL AS THE SUPERVISOR.

AND I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO THE DETAIL AGAIN.

YOU KNOW, OPTION NUMBER ONE, UH, IS QUITE A BIT LESS, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, COMPARED TO, UM, TWO THROUGH FOUR AND THE SIGNAGE COST, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, ALL THE SIGNS ARE INSTALLED.

SO UNDER CURRENT PRACTICE, THERE WILL BE NO COST.

WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, ALTERNATE SITE, ALTERNATE DAY OPTION TWO THROUGH FOUR, UH, THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF COST INVOLVED.

UH, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS STICKER UH, PLACEMENT ON THE SIGN, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL SIGNS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

NOW, FEW OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, UM, IN TWO CATEGORIES I WANTED TO SHARE WITH CITY COUNCIL.

ENVIRONMENTAL, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, UM, YOU KNOW, SHOULD THE CITY COUNCIL CONSIDER THE ALTERNATE DAY ALTERNATE, UH, SWEEPING, UH, ALTERNATE DAY, ALTERNATE SWEEPING, IT WOULD, IT WOULD, UH, REALLY INCREASE THE FUEL CONSUMPTION.

YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE SWEEPER HAS TO GO THERE TWICE.

UH, THERE IS NOISE ISSUE.

UH, THERE IS, UH, ALSO AIRBORNE DUST, UM, INCREASED EMISSIONS.

UH, YOU KNOW, ME PERSONALLY HAVING HAD EXPERIENCE IN THE OTHER CITIES, UH, MANAGING STREETS SWEEPING PROGRAM, UM, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS ALTERNATE DAY, YOU KNOW, ALL IT TAKES IS ONE WIND, YOU KNOW, ALL THE LEAVES

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UM, EQUIPMENT WEAR.

IT'S, IT'S ANOTHER, UH, CONSIDERATION, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SWEEPERS.

AND ALSO, UH, THE WEAR AND TEAR ON OUR PAVEMENTS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THERE'S MORE LOAD, THERE'S MORE TRIPS, YOU KNOW, GOING ON OUR STREETS.

SO, UH, WHAT IS TOTAL COST FOR CURRENT PRACTICE COMPARED TO ALTERNATE DAY? ALTERNATE SWEEPING? UH, THIS SLIDE DEMONSTRATES THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS, UH, THERE IS A CATEGORY FOR ONE TIME COST, YOU KNOW, WHICH, UH, IS FOR A STREET SWEEPING PURCHASE AND OTHER STUFF.

AND THEN THE ANNUAL COST AFTER, UH, THE FIRST YEAR.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, CURRENTLY, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S 1.9, 1.7, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT JUMPS TO, YOU KNOW, MULTIMILLION 5 MILLION, YOU KNOW, 2 MILLION.

UH, AND THE ONLY REASON IN THE OPTION NUMBER FOUR IS A LITTLE BIT LESS IS BECAUSE OF THE FOUR DAY SWEEPING AS OPPOSED TO FIVE DAY SWEEPING, UM, STAFF, UH, UH, RESEARCH SOME OF THE CITIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF, OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AND ROSEMEAD, CERRITOS, CHINO, LADA, UH, MONROVIA, MONTEBELLO, AND MONTEREY PARK.

THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME CURRENT PRACTICE THAT WE HAVE.

YOU KNOW, THEY DO BOTH SIDES ON THE SAME DAY.

UM, AND THEN I THINK THAT PRETTY MUCH TAKES CARE OF MY PRESENTATION.

I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION.

UH, THANK YOU.

UH, WHERE IS THAT OPTION OF THE SAME STREET SWEEPING WITH, UH, THE EXCEPTION OF THE HIGH DENSITY? AND THEN WE SENT YOU A BUNCH OF EMAILS OF RESIDENTS OF CERTAIN EXCEPTIONAL AREAS THAT THEY'RE NOT HIGH DENSITY, BUT BECAUSE OF THE LAYOUT, LOGISTICS AND EVERYTHING, UM, THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ADDED TO THAT.

SO HOW COME I DON'T SEE THAT ON THIS OPTION? BECAUSE WE WANTED TO KEEP THE, BECAUSE THERE'S LOTS OF PARTS IN THE CITY THAT IS OKAY WITH SAME DAY, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE IT COULD, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE PLACES, BUT THEN THERE ARE OTHER PARTS IN THE CITY, NOT JUST THE HIGH DENSITY AREAS, MEDIUM DENSITY, BUT IT'S THE LAYOUT, THE LOGISTICS OF THAT STREET, PER SE.

AND WE DID GET THOSE EMAILS, BUT I DON'T SEE THAT.

I WAS HOPING TO SEE THAT IN THIS PRESENTATION, MADAM MAYOR.

UM, WHEN WE, WE STARTED THE INITIAL ROLLOUT DOING THE WARNING NOTICES, AND YES, WE, WE HAD CONCERNS REGARDING THE, THE POSTING OF SIGNS, LOCATIONAL POLLS, AND, UH, THE LACK OF PARKING.

UM, AT, AT SOME POINT WE WERE ASKED TO STOP THE, UH, WARNING NOTICES AND THEN CONTINUED DOING THE ENTIRE CITY FOR A EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.

WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH OPTION ONE IS TO, AGAIN, REVISIT AND REINSTITUTE THE WARNING NOTICES, UM, AND THEN IDENTIFY AREAS THAT, UM, NEED ADDITIONAL, UM, ATTENTION CONCERN AS YOU'RE MENTIONING.

'CAUSE THE HIGH DENSITY AREAS HAVE ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED.

THEY'RE ALREADY POSTED WITH ALTERNATING SIDE OF THE STREET, UNDERSTANDING THAT SOME STREETS OF THE CITY, MAYBE IT'S A CUL-DE-SAC, MAYBE IT'S A STREET WITH NO DRIVEWAY, SOMETHING LIKE THAT MAY NEED SOME SPECIAL ATTENTION.

UH, BUT UNTIL WE DO A, UH, ROLL OUT THE PROGRAM COMPLETELY AND, AND DO IT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO CAPTURE WHAT IS ACTUALLY A PROBLEM AND WHAT IS ACTUALLY, UM, PERSONS USING THE STREET FOR THE PERMANENT STORAGE OF VEHICLES, THE ABANDONMENT OF VEHICLES ON THE STREETS.

UM, THE IDEA WOULD BE TO, UM, IDENTIFY THOSE, UH, RUN THE PROGRAM FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR, COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL AFTER A YEAR, AND GIVE A COMPLETE UPDATE ON WHAT WE'VE DONE TO ADDRESS ISSUES AS WE'VE IDENTIFIED THEM.

AND THEN AT THAT TIME, MAKE ANY MODIFICATIONS, PERMANENT MODIFICATIONS OF THE PROGRAM.

BUT I THINK BY ROLLING OUT THE PROGRAM WITH OPTION ONE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY, CAPTURE, AND RESOLVE MOST OF THE ISSUES THAT RESIDENTS HAVE.

SO MY ISSUE IS WE WASTED A FEW MONTHS, AND I WANTED TO KNOW WHY THIS WASN'T COMPLETED.

WE'VE ASKED IN THE COUNCIL TO PUSH THIS BECAUSE WE WERE GIVING WARNING SIGNS.

WE HAVE RECEIVED EMAILS OF THOSE THAT ALREADY FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THEY'RE EXPECTING THE STREET SWEEPING AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE SAYING THAT THEIR NEIGHBORS ARE NOT MOVING, AND IT'S STILL, IT'S STILL THERE.

THEY WANTED TO SEE, YOU KNOW, CITATIONS OR GET THAT GOING.

AND IT'S LIKE, WE HAVE THESE SIGNS, AND I THOUGHT WHEN WE WERE A FEW MONTHS AGO, WE SAID, GO AHEAD AND PUSH THIS.

AND AS WE WERE RECEIVING EMAILS, WE WERE BRINGING THAT TO YOU, TO YOUR ATTENTION SO THAT YOU CAN SEE WHICH STREETS NEEDED SPECIAL ATTENTION.

SO MY THING IS, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALREADY BEING IMPLEMENTED BECAUSE THESE WARNINGS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALREADY DONE.

SO WHY ONE, WHY WASN'T THAT BEING DONE? BECAUSE AS YOU'VE SEEN, WE FORWARD YOU EMAILS THAT WE GET FOR COMPLAINING ON BOTH SIDES.

I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE ARE PEOPLE, RESIDENTS THAT WANT THE STREET SWEEPING AND THEY'RE SAYING, WHY AREN'T WE ISSUING ANYTHING? AND THEY'RE JUST, WHY ARE WE NOT ENFORCING IT? SO, I'M HEARING IT FROM BOTH SIDES, BUT I'VE SAID IT IN THE PAST, THOSE SPECIAL STREETS, WE'VE FORWARDED

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THOSE EMAILS OF THOSE CONCERNS.

SO ONE, WHY WASN'T IT BEING IMPLEMENTED AND GETTING THAT DONE? AND TWO, IF THIS IS ALREADY GOING TO, LET'S SAY WE APPROVE WITH WHICHEVER, WHEN IS THIS ENFORCEMENT GONNA CON, WHEN IS IT GONNA START? I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTIONS.

SO INITIALLY, WHEN WE WERE STARTING THE PROGRAM WITH THE WARNING NOTICES, WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF RECRUITMENT AND HIRING OF STREET SWEEP OFFICERS TO WORK THE STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM.

WE DID HIRE THE BODIES THAT WE WERE EXPECTING TO HIRE.

'CAUSE THE PROGRAM WAS BEING PUT ON HOLD.

WE NEVER FINISHED THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS.

SO WE'RE USING EXISTING STAFF TO OFF, UM, SUPPLEMENT THE PROGRAM BY GETTING OUT THERE AND DOING THE WARNING NOTICES.

SUBSEQUENTLY, OVER THE LAST SIX, EIGHT MONTHS, UH, WE'VE LOST THOSE STAFF TO OTHER CITIES, OTHER PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, WHETHER IT BE LAW ENFORCEMENT OR OTHER FIELD.

SO WE DIDN'T HAVE THE STAFF.

UM, THE VEHICLES THAT WE PURCHASED, UM, ORIGINALLY, UM, THOSE ARE STILL YET TO BE OUTFITTED.

UH, WE WERE WAITING FOR APPROVAL FROM THE COUNCIL FOR A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO MOVE THIS MONEY FROM, UH, TO USE THE MEASURE MONIES TO FINISH OUTFITTING, UH, ALL OF OUR, UH, EQUIPMENT, OUR VEHICLES, AND ALSO TO HIRE THE STAFF NEEDED FOR THIS PROGRAM.

AND THAT'S NOT BEING PUT AND GIVEN TO US PRIOR FOR THESE BUDGET AMENDMENTS.

WELL, WE NEED TO DECIDE, THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO DECIDE WHAT PROGRAM WE'RE GONNA GO WITH FIRST.

BECAUSE IF WE'RE GONNA HIRE, IF WE'RE GONNA GO WITH OPTION ONE, WE'D BE ABLE TO START THE WARNING NOTICES, UH, ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.

PROBABLY HAVE ENFORCEMENT WITHIN 30 DAYS, IF THAT'S WHAT THE COUNCIL WANTED.

IF WE WERE TO GO TO ANOTHER OPTION, UM, 2, 3, 4, UH, WE WOULD HAVE TO DO A FULL RECRUITMENT HIRE, ADDITIONAL STAFF, AND THAT DOES TAKE TIME.

WE'D HAVE TO, UH, HAVE ADDITIONAL VEHICLES.

AND AGAIN, WE'D HAVE TO ORDER ADDITIONAL STREET SWEEPING EQUIPMENT, UM, FROM GOING FROM FOUR STREET SWEEPERS TO SEVEN STREET SWEEPERS.

AND THE PART-TIME MODEL FOR STAFF USING THAT MANY, UM, SWEEPERS IS, IS NOT FEASIBLE.

I WOULD NEED TO, WE'D NEED TO HIRE ANYWHERE FROM 24 TO 28 OFFICERS IF WE WERE TO GO TO, UM, ANY OF THE OTHER OPTIONS.

SO ALL THE EMAILS THAT WE HAD SENT AND FORWARDED, THAT PROBABLY DOES NOT BELONG IN HIGH DENSITY AREAS, ARE THEY GONNA BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WITHIN, LIKE, IF WE CHOOSE OPTION ONE, ARE THOSE ALREADY PART OF THAT AND IS GONNA BE MOVED FORWARD WITH CHANGING IT TO ALTERNATE SITES? YEAH, WE WILL BE IDENTIFIED.

WE, WE DO HAVE THAT LIST OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE SUBMITTED REQUESTS AND, AND A LOT OF THE REQUESTS WERE MORE, UH, COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE SIGNAGE THEMSELVES.

THEY DIDN'T WANT POLLS IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE.

THEY DIDN'T WANT THE SIGNAGE, THEY DIDN'T WANT THE PROGRAM, PERIOD.

UM, WHETHER THERE'S A TRUE, UM, NEED TO ADJUST SIGNAGE, THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD NEED.

MAKE THE DETERMINATION, YOU, YOU CAN'T MAKE THE DETERMINATION JUST OFF FOLLOWING MAYBE ONE WEEK OR TWO WEEKS.

WE NEED TO FOLLOW FOR A GOOD 30 DAYS, UH, WEEKLY, UH, TO IDENTIFY WHAT'S A REAL CONCERN AND WHAT IS, UH, PEOPLE MADE US, AGAIN, USING THE STREET FOR THE STORAGE OF THEIR VEHICLES.

COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ? YES.

I'M GONNA LET MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES BEFORE I CONTINUE ON.

UM, I THINK THE MAYOR LOPEZ VIDO BROUGHT A, BROUGHT A GOOD POINT.

UM, I, I BELIEVE THE COUNCIL VOTED TO, FOR, FOR THE CITY TO TRACK THOSE EMAILS AND COME BACK TO US WITH A REPORT SO WE COULD KNOW HOW WE COULD ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AS A WHOLE FOR THE WHOLE CITY.

AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE BEING ASKED TO AUTHORIZE MORE MONEY, EVEN OPTION ONE, IT'S ASKING FOR $50,000 FOR A, A NEW VEHICLE AND THEN 87,000 FOR STAFF EQUIPMENT.

BUT I DON'T, I, I, I JUST DON'T, I DON'T KNOW HOW I COULD SUPPORT SOMETHING THAT AUTHORIZES MORE FUNDING WHEN WE FIRST HAVE NOT EVEN GOTTEN THAT DATA BACK FROM THE FIRST ASK THAT THE CONSOLE ASK AS A WHOLE, UM, WHICH WAS A, A, A REPORT FROM EVERYONE WHO HAD CONCERNS IN, IN THOSE HIGH DENSITY AREAS.

SO MAYBE IT'S MORE COST EFFICIENT IF WE JUST ADDRESS THOSE SPECIFIC AREAS.

UH, INSTEAD OF DOING A, A HUGE ROLLOUT THAT'S GONNA COST US, UH, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

AND THEN MY SECOND CONCERN IS, UH, AND MAYBE THIS IS A KAREN KAREN'S QUESTION, BUT, UH, THESE, THE, THE STAFF, WHEN IT SAYS ENFORCEMENT STAFF SUPERVISOR, 85,000, BUT THEN IT SAYS, UM, FULL TIME ENFORCEMENT STAFF, 60,000 FOR OPTION ONE.

IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE BENEFITS OR ANY OTHER BENEFITS THAT WE HAVE TO PAY ON TOP OF THAT.

MAY, MAYBE KAREN CAN ANSWER THAT.

I'LL ASK KAREN TO COME DOWN.

BUT WHEN WE CALCULATED THE COST FOR STAFF, UH, WE WERE LOOKING AT FULLY BURDENED COST.

WE WEREN'T LOOKING JUST AT THE HOURLY.

IT WAS FULLY BURDENED $60,000 FOR A FULL-TIME STAFF.

IT'S WITH BENEFITS, IT CAN'T BE, ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE EQUIPMENT COST? I'M SEEING OPTION ONE UNDER STREET SWEEPING ENFORCEMENT COSTS, MIKE OH,

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IS THE, NO ONE WANTS TO SEE HERE.

IS FULLY, OH, MIKE, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.

JUST, I'M SORRY.

THE COSTS THAT ARE INDICATED HERE FOR THE EMPLOYMENT COSTS IS FULLY BENEFIT, WHICH MEANS INCLUDES THE BENEFITS, THE TAXES, ANYTHING RELATED TO THE EMPLOYMENT.

SO WHAT'S THE BASE SALARY THEN WITHOUT BENEFITS FOR A FULL-TIME ENFORCEMENT STAFF MEMBER? UH, I WOULD SAY IT'S PROBABLY AROUND 48 TO, UH, MAYBE 58, 8 60.

'CAUSE RETIREMENT COSTS.

AND, BUT YES, IT'S FULLY BURDEN, WHICH INCLUDES ALL EMPLOYMENT COSTS.

SO MY, MY CONCERN IS, I MEAN, I, I THINK ANY, I MEAN, FOR ME TO SUPPORT ANYTHING LIKE THIS, I, I WOULDN'T EVEN PICK ONE OF THE OPTIONS RIGHT NOW.

I WILL PROBABLY SAY LET'S GET THAT REPORT BACK BEFORE WE CAN EVEN MAKE A DECISION ON, ON AN ITEM LIKE THAT.

BUT THAT'S MY QUESTIONS.

OH, UH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.

OH, YOU WANNA GO? YEAH, I CAN GO FIRST.

COUNCILMAN YOU.

YOU WANT THE LADY FIRST? OH, SURE.

MAYOR ROCK PAPER.

I REGRETTED THAT I, I DON'T RECALL REQUESTING SOME SORT OF A REPORT AND GATHERING EMAILS TO, UH, COME UP WITH A REPORT.

I DO RECALL THAT WE ASKED FOR, UM, AN ESTIMATE OR AN AMOUNT OF WHAT IT WAS GONNA COST TO HAVE ALTERNATE, UM, SIDES OF THE STREET THAT I DO REMEMBER, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER HAVING, UM, HAVING A REPORT THAT NEEDED TO BE, UM, PROVIDED FOR THE COUNCIL.

GO AHEAD.

AND, I MEAN, THIS IS WHAT WE WANTED.

WE WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT WAS GONNA COST.

AND, UM, IT, THIS IS TELLING ME IT'S A LOT OF MONEY TO HAVE IT ALTERNATE AND THAT WOULD BE CITYWIDE.

AND I THINK THAT YOUR SUGGESTION, UM, ABOUT IMPLEMENTING WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY AND, AND THEN LOOKING AND WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

LET, LET'S WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE RESIDENTS.

LET'S SEE WHERE WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE PROBLEMS AND THEN ADDRESS 'EM AT THAT POINT.

ANOTHER THING I WANT ADDRESSED IS THE SIGNS, BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT THOSE SIGNS.

IT WAS, UM, WAY TOO MANY SIGNS ON, ON THESE STREETS.

SO, I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT I THINK WE SHOULD ADDRESS.

SO AT THIS POINT, UM, I SAY WE LEAVE IT AT OPTION ONE, THE WAY WE HAVE IT, AND DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS AS THEY COME AND FIND OUT WHERE THOSE, YOU KNOW, HIGH DENSITY AREAS THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT OR NOT ADDRESSED ANYWHERE, AND ADDRESS THE SIGNS.

THAT'S, ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE THE MOTION? WELL, MY THING, THE REPORT.

MY REPORT? YES.

THE, CAN I, CAN I SAY SOMETHING? HOLD ON ONE MOMENT.

UM, THE FOR TABLE ONE YOU WROTE, BOTH SIDES OF THE STREETS ARE SOAP.

ONE DAY AFTER TRASH COLLECTION, IT SHOULD BE INCLUDED BECAUSE THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HIGH DENSITY, IT'S, IT WASN'T LISTED ON THERE.

SO THAT NEEDS TO BE CLEAR.

SO IF ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC PULLS A REPORT, THEY ALREADY KNOW, UH, ALTERNATIVE SITES ARE FOR HIGH DENSITY AREA, AND IT'D BE GREAT FOR THE PUBLIC AND FOR US TO KNOW WHICH ARE THOSE SITES AND, AND WHAT STREETS.

BUT THAT'S JUST A COMMENT.

NOW.

GO AHEAD, COUNCILMAN.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, MAYOR, UH, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT OPTION TWO, RIGHT? NO.

ONE ONE.

OH, OPTION ONE.

NOBODY CAN AFFORD AN MOTION.

TWO.

NO, NO.

I MEAN, NO, I THOUGHT I FILE BA OPTION 2, 3, 4.

UH, ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE THE MOTION TABLE ONE? YOU MEANT I MOVE THE MOTION? HAVE QUESTION.

I'M GOING TO HAVE A SECOND.

YEAH, I'M GO TO YOU.

OKAY, LET ME FINISH ONE.

ABOUT SOMEBODY HAVE A DU, SOMEBODY D 20 PEOPLE LIVE INSIDE A 30 CAR ON THE PARKING LOT, THIS AND THAT ON THE, ON THE STREET.

AND, AND I WANNA SAY THIS, OKAY.

AND, UH, IT HAVE BEEN DELAY AND DELAY AND DELAY.

I, I RECEIVE BOTH SIDE.

I RECEIVE A LOT, A LOT OF COMPLAINT THAT WE PUT A SIGN, BUT WE NEVER ENFORCE.

AND A LOT OF RESIDENT COMPLAINING ABOUT THE CAR PARKING IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE ALL THE TIME FOREVER.

SO, AND THEY, THEY WANT THEIR STREET CLEAN.

SO THERE'S ONE SIDE AND THE ISLANDS FIELD TALKING ABOUT, OKAY, THEY, THEY, THEY NEED TO HAVE A PLATE TO PARK THEIR CAR ON BOTH SIDES.

SO WE HAVE BOTH SIDES.

BUT THE THING IS THIS, SINCE THIS IS ALREADY APPROVED, AND UH, WE NEED TO GO TO THE OPTION ONE, SOMETHING THAT WE AFFORDED 2, 3, 4, 5, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

IT'S TWO TO $5 MILLION.

YOU'RE GOING TO SQUEEZE OUR PAVING.

THE STREET, YOU'RE GOING TO SQUEEZE ABOVE OUR STREET IMPROVEMENT, THE TRAFFIC SIGN, THE SAFETY, THE PARK, THE OKAY PAVING.

OKAY? AND THE STRIPING THE SCHOOL, IT, IT, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

SO I THINK, OKAY, I THINK OPTION ONE, BUT WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT AND TO SEE HOW IT GOES.

AND I AGREE WITH MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE TALKING ABOUT, OKAY, WHY WE DIDN'T GET THE, SOME OF THE, THE DATA I'VE BEEN ASKING ABOUT, IF WE IMPLEMENT, WE FOLLOW, THEN WE WILL SEE THE PROBLEM.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE THEM THE TICKET, WE GIVE THE WARNING, BUT WE CAN FIND OUT THE PROBLEM WITH THAT PROBLEM.

WE DO IMPROVEMENT, SEE HOW WE CAN DO IT.

BUT A LOT OF TIME IF YOU A ONE RESIDENT, SOME OF MY NEIGHBOR, THEY, IF THEY OWN 10 CARS, THEY CANNOT PARK ON OUR STREET FOREVER BECAUSE THEY OWN 10 CARS.

OR LIKE, OKAY, OUR RESIDENT TALKING

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AND THAT WOULD BE THE ISSUE.

SO, SO BECAUSE A LOT OF AD WE DON'T REQUIRE GARAGE, SO THEY WILL PARK ON THE STREET.

SO, SO, BUT WE NEED TO CLEAN THE STREET, OKAY.

WEEKLY AND THEN MAKE SURE OUR DEBRIS LOOK AT THE HEAVY RAIN, RAIN, A HEAVY WIND, OR YOU CAN SEE THE LEAF ON THE STREET LIKE CRAZY.

SO I THINK WE HAVE TO AT LEAST GIVE A TRY OKAY.

AND SEE HOW IT GOES.

AND THEN, THEN, AND CONTROL THE BUDGET, OKAY? BECAUSE I KNOW THIS RESTRICTED FUND, BUT STILL WE NEED TO CONTROL THE BUDGET USING THIS MONEY NOT ONLY FOR THREE SWEEPING, BUT ALSO FOR OTHER PROJECT.

AND THEN BY THE SAME TIME, WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT THE ENFORCEMENT.

YOU HAVE A LAW APPROVED, OKAY, ALL THE NURSE APPROVED, BUT WE DON'T ENFORCE AND RESIDENT, WE LAUGH AT US, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? OKAY? OTHERWISE, WE, WE SHOULDN'T, FROM THE BEGINNING, IF WE APPROVE, ENFORCE, AND SEE HOW IT GOES, AND MAKE SURE THE EDUCATION GIVE TIME.

FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE TRASH, TRASH.

NOW THE BLUE BIN, EVERYBODY PULL THE BLUE.

ALL MY NEIGHBOR, WE, MY WIFE RECYCLE LIKE RELIGIOUSLY.

OKAY? MAKE SURE EVERYTHING SEPARATE, THIS AND THAT AND THAT BASED ON, OKAY, THE CHURCH COMPANY, THERE'S LIKE, WHAT, 250 MILLION TONS OFF THE, OKAY.

THE DOWNSIDE.

SO THIS IS A LOT OF THING.

WE HAVE NO CHOICE IF WE WANT TO, OKAY, UH, CLEAN OUR TREE AND MAKE SURE OUR LIVING THE OKAY AND SAFE AND OKAY.

AND WITH OKAY, SANITATION OKAY.

SANITIZED WITH, WITH ALL THIS PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.

AND WE NEED TO, UH, MAKE SURE OUR CITY IS CLEAN, STREETS CLEAN.

SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE WILLING TO DO THIS.

AND MAKE SURE THE CAR DON'T PARK OVER THERE FOREVER, EVEN INCLUDING THEY HAVE A COVER ON THERE AND LIKE THE PARKING LOT.

SO ANYWAY, OKAY.

I WON'T REALLY WANT TO SEE THE CITY TO IMPLEMENT AND TO GIVE A TRY AND TO MAKE SURE, OKAY.

HAVE PEOPLE FOLLOW.

I, MY OFFICE IN TEMPLE CITY, I GOT, I GOT PARKING TICKET BECAUSE OKAY, I PAID PAVING MY PARKING LOT AND THEN I FORGOT IT'S A, A SWEEPING DAY I GOT TICKET.

AND, UH, RIGHT AWAY, OKAY, AND EVEN I RUN OVER THERE, SHE SAYS, SORRY, YOU'RE TOO LATE.

SO I STILL GOT A TICKET, BUT MY, MY POINT IS THIS, ALL OTHER CITY IMPLEMENT TRY TO CLEAN THEIR STREET AND WE SHOULD DO THE SAME THING.

THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN.

I'M SORRY.

UH, MAYOR POT.

TIM OLI.

THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR.

I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

I I HAVE SEVERAL, UH, QUESTIONS.

UH, FIRST OF ALL, UH, TO OUR ACTING CITY MANAGER WITH REGARD TO ABANDONED VEHICLES, I, IS IT NOT TRUE THAT WE ALREADY HAVE A WAY TO REPORT IF THERE ARE ABANDONED VEHICLES THAT SHOULD BE MOVED, THEN SOMEBODY CALLS IT INTO THE CITY AND THEN IT'S MARKED AND THEN THEY HAVE THREE DAYS TO MOVE IT AND THEN THAT, SO THAT DOES, DOES THAT MECHANISM FOR ADDRESSING ABANDONED VEHICLES ALREADY EXIST AS THINGS STAND NOW? UH, THAT DOES EXIST.

AND, UH, WE DO HAVE RESIDENCE REPORT, UH, VEHICLES THAT APPEAR TO BE ABANDONED ON PUBLIC STREET.

THEY ARE MARKED FOR 72 HOURS AND AFTER 72 HOURS THEY ARE SUBJECT TO REMOVAL.

AND HOW FREQUENTLY DO RE UH, JUST ON A ROUGH ESTIMATE, UM, HOW FREQUENTLY DO WE RECEIVE REPORTS OF ABANDONED VEHICLES ON AN ANNUAL BASIS? JUST ROUGHLY? UH, I WOULD THINK 500 TO 700 A YEAR.

AND THEN THOSE ARE HANDLED INDIVIDUALLY.

ABSOLUTELY.

UM, AND UM, AHMAD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR, YOUR DEGREE OF DETAIL.

I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

I, I WANTED TO ASK, UH, WITH REGARD TO THE, THE COSTS, FROM WHAT I, I'M UNDERSTANDING, UH, OPTION ONE HAS A ONE INITIAL COST OF ALMOST $2 MILLION, AND THEN, UM, OPTION, UH, I MEAN, AFTER THAT IT'S, IT'S $1.8 MILLION FOR EACH YEAR FOLLOWING, IS THAT CORRECT? THAT THAT'S CORRECT.

DEFERRED, UM, UNTIL LATER POINT IN TIME.

UM, SO, UH, JUST HAVING VERIFIED THAT, UH, UH, KAREN, UH, IN, IN LIGHT OF OUR BUDGETARY SITUATION, UH, AT, AT PRESENT, UH, WHAT WOULD THAT DO TO OUR, HAVING A BALANCED BUDGET? AND IF WE WERE TO HAVE TO SPEND AN ADDITIONAL 1.8 TO $2 MILLION A YEAR FOR EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR, WHAT, WHAT WOULD THAT DO TO OUR, OUR GENERALLY GENERAL OPERATING BUDGET IN TERMS OF WHAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO FOR OTHER THINGS? THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TAM.

WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I TO POINT OUT, FOR THE STREET SWEEPING, THIS IS NOT GENERAL FUND MONIES.

THIS IS, UH, BASICALLY USING SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS.

SO LIKE YOUR MEASURE W SOME OF YOUR MEASURE R NOT GENERAL FUNDS, UH, WHAT WILL THE FISCAL IMPACT BE? IF YOU COULD IMAGINE, UM, TAKING TWO OR 3 MILLION FROM YOUR SPECIAL REVENUES FOR STREET SWEEPING AND IT'S GONNA BE DIVERTED FROM SAY, STREET PROJECTS OR OTHER CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT YOU MAY WISH TO DO, THOSE WILL HAVE TO BE DELAYED OR

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SO WOULD, WOULD, WHAT WOULD, COULD THOSE MONIES BE USED FOR OTHER THINGS SUCH AS CONTINUING TO IMPR INCREASE OUR, OUR PCI INDEX WITH OUR ROADS? ABSOLUTELY.

AND SO FROM, BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE FROM THE PAST WITH WHAT WE HAVE APPROVED IN THE PREVIOUSLY WITH REGARD TO IMPROVEMENT OF OUR ROADS WITH ALL OF THE 16 ZONES, WHAT WOULD AN ADDITIONAL 1.8 MILLION TO $2 MILLION DO PER YEAR FOR INCREASING THE SPEED FOR US TO REPAIR OUR, OUR MOST SERIOUSLY, UH, DETERIORATING ROADS ALONG WITH, UH, MAINTAINING OTHER ROADS THROUGH SL SLUR E SEAL? WELL, IN, IN ONE TO 2 MILLION, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO, UH, DO RESURFACING PROJECTS.

NOT THE ENTIRE CITY, BUT RESURFACING PROJECTS MOST DEFINITELY, AS AN EXAMPLE.

BUT WHAT, WHAT, TO WHAT EXTENT WOULD WE HAVE ADDED CAPACITY IF WE WERE TO USE THE MONEY FOR THAT INSTEAD? I'M JUST CURIOUS.

JUST, JUST, I REALIZE THIS IS SORT OF PUTTING YOU ON THE SPOT, BUT JUST BALLPARK, BECAUSE YOU REVIEWED AND, AND, AND, UM, HAVE, HAVE BEEN OVERSEEING THAT CONTRACT FOR OUR, OUR ROAD REHABILITATION PROGRAM MM-HMM .

I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY CAN, CAN CHECK, BUT WHAT I'M CURIOUS ABOUT IS HOW MUCH DO WE SPEND ON OUR ROADS NOW AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE WERE TO SPEND THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY ON ROAD CONDITION REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT? YEAH.

MAY MAYOR PROAM, UH, UH, I DON'T HAVE AN UH, EXACT NUMBER AS TO HOW MUCH WE SPEND ON THE STREETS, UH, AT THE MOMENT.

WE CAN DEFINITELY PROVIDE THAT.

BUT AS FAR AS 1.8 OR ABOUT 2 MILLION, YOU KNOW, HOW FAR DOES IT GO AS FAR AS ADDITIONAL STREETS? UM, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, IT, IT WILL BE A GOOD SUPPLEMENT TO THE EXISTING STREET PAVING PROGRAM, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA GO, YOU KNOW, VERY FAR.

UH, IT, IT MIGHT, IT MIGHT ADD ANOTHER, UH, I DON'T KNOW.

I MEAN, DEPENDS HOW MANY MILES ROUGHLY.

YEAH, IT DEPEND DEPENDING ON WHETHER IT IS GRIND AND OVERLAY OR, SURE.

I UNDERSTAND.

IF, IF IT IS SLURRY SEAL, YOU KNOW, IT WILL PROBABLY COVER A LARGER AREA.

SURE.

BUT IF IT IS, UH, GRINDING AND OVERLAY, YOU KNOW, SOME DIG OUTS, RECONSTRUCTION OF PAVEMENT, YOU KNOW, I WANNA SAY PROBABLY A MILE AND A HALF.

SO OVER TIME, UM, AND HOW MANY, YOU MAY RECALL THIS FROM YOUR PAST WORK WITH US HERE, HOW MANY MILES OF ROADS DO WE HAVE THAT ARE IN NEED OF, I MEAN, 'CAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE COULD, WE, WE WERE, WE DO ROAD REPAIR ON AN ONGOING BASIS, AND OUR GOAL IS TO INCREASE OUR PCI SCORE IDEALLY TO 80, AND WE'RE ONLY AT 70 SOMETHING NOW.

SO IN ITS AGGREGATE, IF WE WERE TO ADD ANOTHER ONE MILE TO TWO MILES OF ROAD REPAIR EACH YEAR, THAT WOULD, IN, WOULD IT SUFFICE TO SAY THAT THAT WOULD INCREASE THE SPEED FOR OUR ROAD REHABILITATION TO ELIMINATE POTHOLES ON A MORE MM-HMM .

FREQUENT BASIS? SO AS TO, UH, TO, TO EXPEDITE THE, THE, UH, OUR ROAD REHABILITATION PROGRAM IN LIGHT OF PLANNED, UH, IMPLEMENTATION WITH THE 16 ZONES? YEAH.

SO I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT, UM, UH, CENTER MILES, BUT IN, IN THE REPORT IT SAYS WE SWEEP 463 CURB MILES.

SO IF YOU DIVIDE THAT BY TWO, YOU KNOW, IT'S A NUMBER YOU KNOW TO CONSIDER.

BUT GOING BACK TO YOUR QUESTION, UM, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, UM, I CAN'T SAY THAT IT WON'T IMPACT ON IMPROVING THE PCI.

THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO ASK.

IT MAY NOT BE A HUGE PACE.

SURE.

CONSIDERING THE LARGE CITY AS WEST COVINA IS, SURE IT WON'T, IT WON'T BE ZERO EITHER, BUT IN THE AGGREGATE IT DOES, IT DOES INCREASE OUR ABILITY TO EXPEDITE AND INCREASE CAPACITY FOR, FOR ROAD REHABILITATION.

WE'LL DEFINITELY CONTRIBUTE TO IT.

ALL OF THIS ENFORCEMENT THIS WAY WITH A, THE VAST MAJORITY OF 93% OF THE CITY NOT REALLY HAVING ENFORCEMENT ISSUES BEFORE WE DID ALL OF THIS BECAUSE THE STREETS WERE ALREADY CONSIDERED CLEAN, WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPLICATIONS IN TERMS OF, UH, OUR BEING ABLE TO USE THAT MONEY INSTEAD TO MAKING SURE TO ADVANCE WHAT THE COUNCILMEN MEN HAS SAID ABOUT KEEPING STREETS CLEAN, BUT YET NOT APPLYING A, A A A SOLUTION WHERE IF THERE'S A PROBLEM IN 7% OF THE CITIES, OR 10 OR 15% OF THE CITY, WE DON'T APPLY THAT SOLUTION OVER BROAD WITH AREAS THAT WEREN'T REALLY DIRTY IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE THEY WERE FINE WITH, UH, STREETS SWEEPING TWICE A MONTH.

THAT THEN THE NEXT QUESTION I, I'D HAVE, I HAVE IS, UM, I, I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN WU THAT WE DO, WE NEED OUR STREETS CLEAN.

UH, WE, WE ABSOLUTELY DO.

UH, IN THE PAST, IN WHEN WE DID OUR, OUR MEETINGS, UH, IN MAY, JUNE AND OCTOBER OF 2023, THOSE WORKSHOPS REVEALED SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING.

DURING EACH OF THOSE MEETINGS, FOLKS WERE ASKED, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE CLEANLINESS OF YOUR STREETS? AND OUT OF THE DOZEN PLUS PEOPLE, THERE ARE ROUGHLY DOZEN, MAYBE ONE OR TWO.

AND THEN WHEN, WHEN FURTHER INQUIRY WAS ASKED WITH REGARD TO, WELL, WHAT IS THE SITUATION IN THOSE AREAS, IT HAPPENED TO BE MORE DENSE AREAS OR MAYBE A NEIGHBOR WHO HAD MULTIPLE RENTERS, THAT SORT OF THING.

SO THEY WERE RELATIVELY MORE ISOLATED.

SO WHAT WOULD BE YOUR OPINION, AHMAD, WITH REGARD TO, UH, DOING A MORE TAILORED APPROACH WHERE WE, IF WE WERE TO DEDICATE OUR STREET SWEEPING RESOURCES TO ATTACKING THOSE AREAS THAT ARE IN NEED OF, OF GREATER STREET CLEANING, AND THEN INSTEAD OF, OF DOING

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UH, WE DO HAVE THE STREET SWEEPING COMPANY HERE, UM, OR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS ON THAT.

UH, I BELIEVE OUR ANALYSIS WHEN WE MET WITH THE STREET SWEEPING COMPANY IS WOULDN'T SAVE US VERY MUCH MONEY.

IT'D BE ADDITIONAL COSTS IF WE WENT TO, UH, THESE, UM, SOME SORT OF HYBRID MODIFIED, UM, ROUTES.

BUT I'LL ASK NISHKE TO COME UP TO ANSWER QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY.

OH, HI, NISH.

RECENTLY, AND ONE THING YOU SHOULD ALSO RECOGNIZE, COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCIL, UH, MAYOR PROAM, IS WE CURRENTLY ARE UNDER CONTRACT FOR 1.3 MILLION AS OUR EXISTING CONTRACT.

WHETHER WE'RE DOING ENFORCEMENT OR NOT, WE'RE STILL PAYING THE 1.3 MILLION.

I UNDERSTAND RIGHT NOW.

I UNDERSTAND THAT.

DAY, AGAIN, A PROPER STUDY GOTTA BE DONE, SURVEYS GOTTA BE DONE.

HI, NA, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU, MAYOR.

NICE TO SEE YOU.

MS. UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MY NAME IS NIAN.

UH, TO ADDRESS THAT QUESTION, I THINK THAT IS THE APPROACH THAT'S BEING FORMULATED BY THE ACTING CITY MANAGER, WHERE, UH, MAINTAINING THE CURRENT PROGRAM, UH, IN A SENSE WE RESTART IT CORRECTLY AND, UM, IDENTIFY THOSE DENSE AREAS TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO CONVERT INTO SET ALTERNATE DAY.

BUT THAT WILL TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS, PERHAPS SIX MONTHS TO DO PROPER STUDY AND TARGET THOSE AREAS.

AND, UM, AGAIN, UH, REPOST THEM ACCORDINGLY.

BUT OVERALL, I THINK THE CURRENT PROGRAM THAT'S IN PLACE, IT JUST NEEDS TO BE, UH, PROPERLY ENFORCED AND, UM, IMPLEMENTED.

SO NIJ, FROM, FROM YOUR LOGISTICS STANDPOINT, AND I'VE, I'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH YOU AND I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR OPERATIONAL KNOWLEDGE.

I WANNA SAY THAT HERE, YOU ARE REALLY, REALLY GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO.

YOU'VE BEEN AT, AT THIS FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.

AND, AND SO, UH, IN, IN LIGHT OF ALL OF YOUR OPERATIONAL EXPERTISE, WHAT WOULD BE THE COST IMPLICATIONS IF WE, WE WERE TO CONTINUE WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH YOU ALREADY WITH A 1.3 UNDER CONTRACT, BUT FOR ANY ADDITIONAL STREET SWEEPING THAT'S NEEDED TO APPLY THOSE RESOURCES MORE TOWARD AREAS THAT, THAT NEED, UH, UH, STREET SWEEPING ONCE A WEEK VERSUS, UH, VERSUS OTHER AREAS THAT ONLY NEED STREET SWEEPING TWICE A MONTH BECAUSE THOSE AREAS REALLY AREN'T DIRTY BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THEY'RE SET UP AND IT'S NOT AS DENSE AND SO FORTH.

SO WHAT WOULD BE A POSSIBILITY THERE FOR US TO, TO IN INCREASE THE, THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL WITH, WITH, WITH SURGICAL PRECISION BY LOOK, BY DEDICATING OUR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES JUST TO THOSE AREAS THAT REQUIRE MORE ATTENTION, BUT YET WITHOUT HAVING TO DO EXTRA STREET, STREET SWEEPING, LET'S SAY FOUR TIMES A MONTH VERSUS TWO, WHICH IN OTHER WORDS, INSTEAD OF SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY FOR ALL OF THAT, WHICH WAS WASN'T NECESSARY IN THE FIRST PLACE, BECAUSE RESIDENTS HAVE SAID THAT IT'S NOT REALLY DIRTY WITH, YOU KNOW, ONLY TWICE A MONTH.

IF WE WERE TO DO WITH SURGICAL PRECISION AND SPEND MORE RESOURCES TOWARD THE PROBLEM AREAS, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE IN YOUR EYES? UH, CLEARLY THAT'S UP TO THE CITY TO DECIDE, NOT FOR ME TO HAVE ANY INPUT, BUT FOR COMMONALITY AND FAIRNESS OF, UH, OUR PRACTICES, IT'S, UH, COMMON TO SWEEP THE ENTIRE CITY UNDER THE SAME FREQUENCY.

SO, UH, IF ONE AREA OF THE CITY IS BEING SWEPT ONCE A WEEK, OTHER, UH, TWICE A MONTH, IT, THERE'S AN IMBALANCE THERE.

EVERYBODY PAYS THEIR TAXES, EVERYBODY'S, UH, EXPECTING THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICE.

SO FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW, UH, IT'S GOTTA BE A BLANKET FREQUENCY.

HOWEVER, THE WAY IT'S, UH, DIVIDED BETWEEN ALTERNATE SET ALTERNATIVE DATA, THAT'S CASE BY CASE AREA BY BY AREA.

BUT, UH, ONCE A WEEK ACROSS THE BOARD IS THE RIGHT APPROACH FROM MY POINT OF VIEW, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, BE BECAUSE NA AS YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCENARIOS WHERE SOME, SOME HOUSES HAVE DRIVEWAYS WHERE THERE'S NO AVAILABILITY TO PARK IN THE FRONT, AND THEN THEY PARK, THERE'S AN ALLEYWAY IN THE BACK, SOME HAVE TWO CAR GARAGES.

THERE ARE OTHER PLACES WHERE THERE'S MORE PARKING DENSITY DUE TO MORE ADUS OR OTHER SITUATIONS IN WHICH THERE ARE MORE APARTMENTS OR CONDOS AND SO FORTH.

AND WOULD YOU SAY THAT THE NEEDS OF THOSE AREAS ARE THE SAME AS THOSE IN IN LESS DENSE AREAS? UM, MINUS THE, UH, THE PATTERN OF THE ROUTE? UM, IT SHOULD BE THE SAME ONCE A WEEK.

SWEEPING SHOULD BE ACROSS THE BOARD.

HOWEVER, UH, THE APPROACH OF DIVIDING THE STREET TO ALTERNATE SET, ALTERNATE

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AND THEN THE SOLUTION IS BASICALLY, UH, THROUGH A CERTAIN AREAS TO ALTERNATE SET ALTERNATE DAY, UH, VERSUS BOTH SIDES ON THE SAME DAY.

UH, HOWEVER, THAT ONCE A WEEK FREQUENCY SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT ACROSS THE BOARD FOR EVERY STREET.

A AGAIN, UM, SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE SAYING THAT IT'S, EVEN IF THERE ARE AREAS THAT ARE LESS DIRTY, THAT IT'S STILL APPROPRIATE TO, TO SWEEP THOSE STREETS JUST AS FREQUENTLY AS OTHER AREAS THAT REQUIRE MORE ATTENTION? THAT HAS BEEN THE STANDARD OF THE INDUSTRY.

THAT'S A VERY COMMON, AND FOR THE, AGAIN, SAKE OF FAIRNESS, THAT EVERYBODY GETS EQUAL AMOUNT OF SERVICES ONCE A WEEK ACROSS THE BOARD, THROUGHOUT THE CITY IS THE RIGHT FREQUENCY.

AND THAT'S WHAT I RECOMMEND FROM MY EXPERIENCE.

BUT AGAIN, UP TO THE CITY, I UNDERSTAND, BUT I'M, I'M JUST, AND I APPRECIATE, I'M JUST ASKING FROM AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, BECAUSE IF THERE ARE AREAS THAT ARE, THAT ARE NOT AS DIRTY AND WHO HA WHERE RESIDENTS HAVE LITERALLY SAID THAT TWICE A MONTH WAS FINE WITH THEM, THEN THEORETICALLY THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THOSE AREAS THAT ARE IN LESS NEED OF STREET SWEEPING WITH HIGHER FREQUENCY, THOSE RESOURCES CAN THEN BE DEDICATED TO THE HIGHER NEED AREAS WHERE IN THE HIGHER NEED AREAS, WE COULD, WE CAN MAKE SURE TO CONTINUE TO, TO SWEEP ONCE A WEEK BECAUSE OF THE, THE THINGS THAT, THE SCENARIOS THAT I'VE DESCRIBED.

UH, SO, UH, I, I GUESS THE, THE, THE, THE THING THAT I'D LIKE TO PROPOSE TO THIS COUNCIL, UH, IS, IS WELL ACTUALLY TO BRING SOMETHING ELSE, UH, BRING SOMETHING ELSE UP TO ALL OF THIS ENFORCEMENT AS RESIDENTS, WE, WE DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN AN EXCESSIVE POLICE STATE.

UH, WE ALREADY HAVE THERE, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING AS IT IS ALREADY.

UH, AND THEN, AND THEN THERE ARE SOME SITUATIONS WHERE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOWHERE TO PARK, AND THAT HAS TO BE ADDRESSED, AND THAT HAS TO BE MORE WITH PRECISION, WITH FIGURING OUT THE PARKING RULES AND HOW THAT'S GOING TO BE, AND THAT THAT HAS STILL TO CONTINUE.

AND THEN WHAT, WHAT ALSO HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE GO ON VACATION AND THEY LEAVE FOR MORE THAN A WEEK, THEN IF THERE'S AN, IF, IF THAT HOUSEHOLD HAS MORE THAN ONE, UH, CAR, CAR THAT HAS TO BE PARKED IN THE STREET THAT CAN'T BE MOVED BECAUSE THEY'RE AWAY FOR LONG PERIOD OF TIME, THEN, THEN THAT CAUSES A DIFFICULTY FOR THEM BECAUSE THEN NOW THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY FINES.

LET'S SAY THE PARKING FINE IS $60 PER CAR PER, PER VIOLATION, THAT CAN ADD UP TOO.

AND SO WHAT I'M PROPOSING TO OUR COUNSEL IS THAT WE, WE, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF OUR BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS AND, AND THE, THE, THE DEFICIT THAT COULD RESULT FROM OUR UNNECESSARY AND EX AND EXCESSIVE SPENDING, AND ESPECIALLY GIVEN HOW PEOPLE ARE ALREADY UNHAPPY ABOUT THE, THE SIGNED POLLUTION THAT HAS, THAT HAS ALREADY, UH, TAKEN PLACE THAT WE'VE ALL GOTTEN COMPLAINTS ABOUT, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN ADDING TO THE FACT, UH, THAT PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THAT FEELING, THAT, THAT THIS IS SORT OF AN INDIRECT TAX ON THEM BECAUSE, BECAUSE EVENTUALLY THEY HAVE, THEY, THEY, THIS IS JUST A WAY TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE TO THE CITY.

WHETHER THAT'S TRUE OR NOT, THAT FEELING OF RESIDENTS IS NOT A GOOD THING EITHER, BECAUSE THEY'RE TRY, OUR RESIDENTS ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE DUE IN THEIR LIVES AND THEY, THIS, THIS, THE STUFF THAT WE DO SHOULD BASICALLY BE OPERATING IN THE BACKGROUND.

SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO PROPOSE IS, IS THAT WE, THAT WE, WE, WE DO A RESET, UH, IN A SENSE WHERE WE CONTINUE TO USE, UH, NATIONWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AND AT THE LEVEL THAT WE, WE ARE, BUT, BUT IF WE CAN PLEASE, UH, MODIFY THIS, WHERE WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEND ALL OF THAT MONEY ON THAT, EXCESSIVE MONEY ON ENFORCEMENT, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN IT, WHEN IT COMES TO, OH, WELL, THE MONEY WILL BE THE, THERE'LL BE REVENUE COMING IN FROM PARKING TICKETS.

WELL, WHEN PEOPLE GET PARKING TICKETS, EVENTUALLY THEY, THEY STOP IT AND THEN THAT REVENUE GOES DOWN, WHICH WILL MEAN WE WILL HAVE LONGER TERM ONGOING BUDGETARY COSTS AS EVEN WITH OPTION ONE, THAT'S A PROBLEM.

SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST IS THAT WE BE REALLY PRECISE WITH THIS AND ASK STAFF TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD TO HAVE A MORE PRECISE APPROACH WHERE WE COULD LOOK AT DOING A RESET WHERE WE, WE RETURN TO WHERE THINGS WERE PRIOR TO JANUARY, 2025.

UM, BUT, AND THEN TO ADDRESS THE AREAS THAT DO NEED STREET SWEEPING, SWEEPING EVERY WEEK.

THAT WAY WE CAN DEDICATE OUR RESOURCES IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY POSSIBLE.

AND THEN WITH AREAS THAT DON'T NEED STREET SWEEPING AS MUCH, AND THAT ALREADY HAVE A SIGN POLLUTION IN THOSE, THOSE MORE, MORE, UH, SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREAS, WE, WE, WE CAN REDUCE THE STREET SWEEPING THERE.

IT'S NOT A MATTER OF FAIRNESS.

IF THE STREETS ALREADY CLEAN AND THEY'RE FINE, THEN THERE'S, IT'S NOT AN ISSUE.

IF THE STREETS ARE DIRTY BECAUSE OF LESS FREQUENCY, THEN THEY CAN BE ADDED TO THE LIST.

SO IT'S NOT EVEN MERELY A MATTER OF DOING WHAT'S FAIR.

IT'S, IT'S THE BIGGER ISSUE.

WHAT'S FAIR IS OUR SPENDING, OUR TAX, THE TAXPAYER MONEY THAT WE'VE BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH IN A WAY THAT'S FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.

SO I LIKE TO, TO ASK AND, AND I KNOW THERE'S A MOTION, I I REALLY, THERE'S A SECOND ALREADY, BUT I'D LIKE TO REQUEST THAT WE GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD

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AND ASK STAFF TO FOLLOW THIS, THIS PLAN THAT I'VE GENERALLY OUTLINED.

UM, POINT HOLDER.

YEAH, I KINDA UNDERSTAND.

AND WANT TO HAVE A, A MAYOR.

PERMISSION.

I THINK YOU WANT TO SUBSTITUTE MOTION BECAUSE WE ALREADY A MOTION.

I HAVE A SECOND.

SO IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE SECOND.

SO, SO IS, AM I RIGHT ATTORNEY? I, WELL, I STILL WAS ARTICULATING MY, MY MOTION THOUGH THEN, THEN IT WOULD BE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION, UNLESS YOU'RE GONNA ASK THE MAKER OF THE MOTION TO AMEND AND THE, AND THE, AND THE COUNCIL MEMBER DIAZ, UM, OR MAYOR OR COUNCIL MEMBER WU WAS, NO, NO, IT'S, UH, THE SECOND YEAH.

TO, TO ACCEPT THE AMENDMENT.

BUT, UM, IF IT'S A LONGER MOTION, IT CHANGES IT ENTIRELY.

JUST DO A SUBSTITUTE MOTION.

IT IS MORE LIKE A SUBSTITUTE BECAUSE CHANGE EVERYTHING.

SO I WISH TO MAKE THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION REFLECTING WHAT I'VE JUST ARTICULATED.

I'LL SECOND.

AND WHICH INCLUDES GOING BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, UH, DOING A RESET, UH, ADDRESSING THIS WITH PRECISION IN ORDER TO BE MORE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, JUST LIKE I'VE OUTLINED OVER THE PAST FIVE MINUTES.

I'LL SECOND IT.

BASED UPON WHAT THE MAYOR ALSO ARTICULATED EARLIER ABOUT, UH, WHAT WAS WILL YOU, WHAT MAYOR LOPEZ VIDO STATED EARLIER TOO.

UH, SO, OKAY, BEFORE WE ROLL, YEAH.

BEFORE WE ROLL CALL.

CAN I SAY SOMETHING? GO AHEAD.

UH, I, I THINK THIS IS THIS.

THIS IS A RESTRICTED FUND.

RECEIVED FUND IS ABOUT $58 MILLION AND GENERAL FUND ABOVE $58 MILLION.

WE SHOULD FOUND, BASICALLY FOUND ALL THESE GAS TAX OKAY.

AND A MAJOR, OKAY.

ALL THIS BASICALLY JUST FOR THE STREET.

AND SO, OKAY.

THIS, UM, ONE POINT A, NO MATTER WHAT WE PAYING 1.3, SO WE STILL HAVE, UH, WE ALREADY HAVE A CONTRACT.

SO WE BASICALLY INCREASE HALF A MILLION DOLLARS UNDER TO DO THE WEEKLY THREE SWEEPING.

AND, UM, I A HUNDRED PERCENT DISAGREE.

WE ONLY GO TO CERTAIN AREA, GO TO WEEKLY, AND THEN OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD GO TO, I DON'T THINK IT'S WON'T WORK BECAUSE OTHER RESIDENT WILL ABSOLUTELY SUE THE CITY.

IT'S NOT FAIR BECAUSE THEY PAY TAXES AND THEY WANT THE TAXES BE EQUALLY, NO MATTER HOW CLEAN THEY ALWAYS SWEEP THEIR STREET.

THEY WANT THAT WEEKLY STREET SWEEPING OVER THERE TOO.

I RECEIVE A LOT OF PHONE CALL ABOUT THAT.

SO, SO MY POINT IS THIS, OKAY.

PAVING INDUSTRY, THAT FUNDING, I THINK WE ALREADY LAY OUT ON THE BUDGET THAT ON THE RESTRICTED FUND, AND YOU ALREADY HAVE A, A MAP WHEN YOU PAVING, WHEN THIS ON THAT YOU, WE ALREADY BUDGET ON THE RESTRICTED FUND ABOUT THIS ONE POINT A OR $1.3 MILLION FOR THREE SWEEPING.

AND THIS IS ANOTHER BUDGET.

OKAY? AND THAT'S TO MAKE SURE OUR STREET'S CLEAN AND, UH, ALL DEBRIS NOT GOING TO GO TO THE STONE DRAIN.

AND THAT IS WHAT THE STATE REQUIRE US TO DO IT.

AND, UH, EVEN WE PUT A OKAY AND STONE CAPTURE FOR THE DEBRIS, BUT THEY STILL HAVE GREASE AND THIS A LOT OF THING.

AND MY STREET EVEN.

OKAY? NOT SO MANY CAR PARKING OVER THERE, BUT STILL HAVE SOME CAR BECAUSE OF SCHOOL.

I LIVE IN THE SCHOOL ZONE THERE A LOT OF CAR PARK OVER THERE.

AND THEREFORE THEY GONE THE, IT IS FILTHY BECAUSE THEY, THEY, THEY ING AND THIS AND THAT.

OKAY? AND SOMETIMES I HAVE TO CLEAN IT MYSELF.

BUT THE, THE POINT IS THIS WITH A TREE LEAF, OKAY? AND THE, THE, THE WEEKLY TREE SWEEPING IS A NECESSITY IS NECESSARY FOR THIS.

SO I, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T SEE ANY CITY WILL DO A SPECIAL FOR ONE AREA.

AM I RIGHT, SIR? ABSOLUTELY.

RESIDENT WILL HEAR US SAY, OH, WE WANT YOU TO DO THIS AND YOU CANNOT MAKE IT HAPPEN.

THAT'S, IT'S NOT A COMMON PRACTICE.

WE HAVEN'T DONE IT.

YEAH, BECAUSE OKAY, I CAN GUARANTEE SAME FREQUENCY.

ALTERNA SAID ALTERNATIVE TO BE FAIRNESS, EVERYBODY PAY, EVERYBODY PAY TAXES AND EVEN MORE DIFFICULT FOR YOU AND TO OPERATE SOME AREA DOING THIS, SOME AREA THIS AND THAT.

AND IT IS NOT LIKE NEGATIVE ROUTINE.

THE ROUTINE IS THE ROUTE.

THIS AND THE, THE, THE SWEEPER GO OUT, CLEAN IT.

OKAY? MAKE SURE THE STREET CLEAN.

SOMEBODY SAY NIGHT NOT WATER.

MAKE SURE THE WATER AND, UH, CAN SUCK OUT ALL THE DEBRIS AS A A OKAY.

TRASH COLLECTOR AND MAKE SURE OUR STREET IS CLEAN SPARKLES.

IT'S HOW WE PAY YOU FOR, OKAY? AND IT'S WHAT STAY WANT US TO DO IT.

SO, SO IN THAT WAY, UH, I I DON'T THINK THAT ALTERNATIVE, THIS WILL WILL WORK.

AND THAT, AND UH, AGAIN, AGAIN TO GIVE THE CT WE APPROVED FOR TWO YEARS AGO, OKAY? AND WE HAVE AN IMPLEMENT AND THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY ABOUT WHY WE HAVEN'T MAKE SURE, OKAY, THAT THE OTHER NEIGHBOR PARKING ON THERE AND CREATE A LOT OF NEIGHBOR FIELD.

OKAY? AND IF WE CAN MAKE SURE THE CAR JUST ONE WEEK, ONE DAY, COUPLE HOURS, OKAY, MOVE YOUR CAR, OKAY.

AND WE SWEEP, SWEEP A GUN, MOVE YOUR CAR BACK, IT'S FINE, BUT JUST LET US CLEAN THE STREET, OKAY? IT'S NOT WHOLE DAY, NOT OVERNIGHT, JUST DURING THE THREE SWEEPING TIME.

SO KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN.

KEEP OUR CITY BEAUTIFUL.

OKAY? AND WE NEED TO, AND I THINK BACK AND FORTH AND SENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, DRAWING BOARD AGAIN.

THIS THING WILL NEVER HAPPEN AND OUR

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SO, SO, SO, SO I WILL, AGAINST THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION, I WILL SUPPORT, OKAY, OUR COUNCILMAN DI COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, OKAY, A MOTION.

AND LET'S GIVE A TRY, HAVE THIS CT TO MAKE SURE, AND, UH, AND THEN MAKE SURE WE NOT HERE TO TICKET PEOPLE OR FIND PEOPLE HERE WARNING AND MAKE SURE THEY CAN COMPLY.

AND WHEN THE RESIDENCY, LIKE ANY OTHER CTC, THE SWEEPER, THEY UNDERSTAND, LET'S MOVE THE CAR, LET THEM CLEAN, MOVE YOUR TRASH CAN.

SO OUR SWEEPER, WE PAY FORWARD, CAN CLEAN, CLEAN THE STREET.

I THINK ESPECIALLY DURING THE TRASH DAY, THEY HAVE A LOT OF TRASH, DEBRIS ON THE GROUND, ON THE FLOOR, ON THE STREET.

SO HOPEFULLY THAT CAN BE CLEANED.

SO IN THAT WAY, NOT EVERYBODY CAN JUST GO TO STREETS, SWEEP IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE.

BUT I THINK THEY ALL DEPEND ON THE SWEEPER TO CLEAN IT.

I THINK AS, AS A CITY COUNCIL, WE ARE HERE TO DO SOMETHING.

I KNOW A FEW OKAY, RESIDENT COMPLAIN.

BUT WE HERE FOR THE COMMON BENEFIT FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH, OKAY? PUBLIC SAFETY, MAKE SURE OUR CITY NICE AND CLEAN AND, AND, AND, AND, UH, CLEAN AND AS WHAT, THAT'S WHAT RESIDENT WANT US TO DO.

SO WE JUST HAVE TO TAKE THIS VERY TOUGH TASK.

EVEN SOME PEOPLE COMPLAIN, BUT WE WON'T SAY, PLEASE WORK IT OUT.

SEE HOW CAN WE WORK IT OUT AND TO MAKE SURE WE CAN DO OUR JOB AND TO DELIVER OUR PROMISE.

SO, SO, SO AGAIN, I I WAS SUPPORT A COUNCILWOMAN DEAL, THE CITY TO DO THE OKAY, AND THE, THE OPTION ONE TO GIVE A TRY.

OKAY? AND AFTER THAT, AND SEE HOW WE WORK IT OUT AND MAKE SURE RESIDENT, OKAY.

AND WE WILL HEAR FROM PEOPLE.

I, I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT TO IMPLEMENT FIRST COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.

THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR.

UM, I UNDERSTAND, UM, COUNCILMAN CONTOS IS CONCERNED ABOUT SPENDING OR OVERSPENDING TAXPAYER'S DOLLARS.

AND, UM, BUT I STILL THINK THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE WITH THE OPTION ONE AS FAR AS THE STREET SWEEPING AND BEING CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.

HOWEVER, I'M WONDERING IF IT EVEN MAKES A DIFFERENCE IF WE, UM, AFTER ALL THE STREET SWEEPING ISS DONE AND WE HAVE OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT, UM, ENFORCING THE STREET SWEEPING, IF IT COME A TIME WHEN THEY DON'T NEED IT, WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE CODE ENFORCEMENT BEHIND.

AND WE CAN JUST ENFORCE THAT IN AREAS WHERE WE HAVE PROBLEMS WHERE PEOPLE DON'T COMPLY.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT THE MONEY'S COME OUT OF THE, UH, RESTRICTED FUNDING FOR THEIR SALARIES, BUT I'M JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE AS AN OPTION.

IF YOU WANNA SAVE MONEY, THAT IS POSSIBLE.

I'VE SEEN CITIES WHERE THEY'VE REDUCED THE NUMBER OF STAFF BASED ON, UH, COMPLIANCE BY THE, UH, RESIDENTS.

A COUPLE THINGS TO POINT OUT IS, UM, THE PROGRAM'S CURRENTLY FUNDED UNDER MEASURE MONEY AND ALL THE OPTIONS ARE CONSIDERED UNDER REVENUE.

UH, MEASURE MONEY, REVENUE FROM STREET SWEEPING, LET'S SAY THE CITATIONS THEMSELVES, ANY CITATION REVENUE WOULD NOT GO TO GENERAL FUND.

THAT WOULD GO BACK TO THE MEASURE MONEY, THE REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE, UM, SAY STREET IMPROVEMENTS, STUFF LIKE THAT.

SO IF IT COSTS 400,000 FOR ENFORCEMENT, THE IDEA IS THAT THE PROGRAM ITSELF WOULD BE SELF-FUNDED, UH, BY THE REVENUE, AND THAT WOULD BE RETURNED TO THE MEASURE MONEY.

HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, IT ALSO OFFSETS SOME OF THE COST OF THE INITIAL, UM, THE CONTRACT COST OF THE STREET SWEEPING, UM, UH, MAYOR PRO CONTOS, WHILE I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOUR, YOUR POINT, UM, THE CITY'S ALREADY POSTED WITH, YOU KNOW, 7,000 SIGNS.

AND EVEN IF WE WERE TO TRY TO GO WITH, UH, SOME SORT OF HYBRID MODEL, NOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT, UM, REPOSTING AREAS OF THE CITY, LET ALONE WE WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT STREETS OR WHAT AREAS, UH, NEED ADDITIONAL SWEEPING OR LESS SWEEPING UNTIL WE ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM.

AND WE HAVE STAFF FOLLOWING, UM, THE SWEEPERS.

SO UN UNTIL WE IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM, WE WILL HAVE NO DATA TO EVEN REPORT BACK OF IF THERE WAS AN AREA THAT, UH, NEEDED LESS OR, OR MORE STREET SWEEPING.

I THINK THE IDEA OF MOVING FORWARD WITH OPTION ONE AND THE, THE CURRENT PROGRAM, AND THEN THROUGH A PERIOD OF TIME IDENTIFYING AREAS THAT NEED ADJUSTMENT, UM, STAFF WILL WORK WITH NATIONWIDE AND ADJUST THOSE STREETS ACCORDINGLY.

WE'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED WITH NATIONWIDE TO TAKE ALL THE SCHOOL ZONES WHERE WE ARE CURRENTLY POSTED IN FRONT OF, UM, STREET SWEEPING IN FRONT OF SCHOOLS, AND TO SWEEP THOSE AT A TIME WHEN THERE'S NOBODY AROUND.

SWEEP 'EM AT FIVE OR SIX IN THE MORNING, UM, AND GET THOSE OUT OF THE WAY ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

SO WE DON'T RUN INTO SCHOOL, UH, IN SESSION OR OUTTA SESSION, UM, CROWDS.

SO WE'RE ADJUSTING.

BUT UNTIL WE HAVE THE, UH, MANPOWER TO GET OUT THERE AND DO ROLL OUT THE PROGRAM, WE REALLY CAN'T CAPTURE THE DATA.

AND SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE, I WILL SAY THAT THE INITIAL, UM, WHEN WE FIRST POSTED THE SIGNS, WE, THE COMPLAINTS WE RECEIVED A, A LOT OF 'EM, IF NOT MOST OF 'EM, WERE BEFORE WE EVEN STARTED DOING WARNING NOTICES, THEY WERE JUST GETTING AHEAD OF IT SAYING, I'LL HAVE NO PLACE TO PARK.

WHETHER THAT'S

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TRUE OR NOT, WE DON'T KNOW UNTIL WE ROLL OUT THE PROGRAM IN SOME AREAS OF THE CITY, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE MAY BE PARKING THEIR VEHICLE ON THE STREET AND UNABLE, UNABLE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE MAYBE THEY HAVE THREE ABANDONED VEHICLES IN THEIR DRIVEWAY, OR MAYBE THEY DO HAVE A LEGITIMATE CONCERN AND THEY DON'T HAVE A DRIVEWAY AND, UH, LIMITED PARKING.

BUT UNTIL WE GET OUT THERE AND DO AN HONEST ROLL OUT OF THIS PROGRAM AND FOLLOW THE SWEEPER FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, AT LEAST A MONTH, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.

UH, BUT WE FIRST NEED TO GET OUT THERE.

SO, MADAM MAYOR, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

SO AS A POSSIBLE HYBRID APPROACH, CAN WE COMMIT TO LESS, UH, MONEY AND JUST DO THIS OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS TO SEE THE, IN ORDER TO DO THE BASE TRIAL PERIOD? WELL, THE OTHER, WELL, ACTUALLY, THE OTHER THING THAT I WORRY ABOUT IS, UH, WITH REGARD TO THE, THE, THE, THE THING THAT WE, WE SOLVE ONE PROBLEM BUT CREATE ANOTHER.

BECAUSE LET'S SAY RIGHT NOW I'M AWARE THAT THERE ARE MOTOR, THERE'S, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO PARK THEIR CARS ON THEIR GRASS, WHICH IS ALSO A PROBLEM, BUT THEY HAVE NOWHERE TO GO BECAUSE OF ALL THE, OF THE, THE CARS THAT THEY HAVE AT THEIR HOUSE AND, AND IT SO FORTH.

AND SO HOW, HOW IS IT THAT IT WOULD BE LESS PRUDENT FOR US TO BE MORE SURGICAL WITH THE EXPENDITURE OF OUR RESOURCES THAN FOR US TO RUSH THROUGH WITH THIS, WITH WITHOUT, IN, IN LIGHT OF THE CONCERNS THAT I, THAT I'VE, I'VE, UH, ENUMERATED.

WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'D CAPTURE THE DATA YOU'RE REQUESTING WITHOUT HAVING THE STAFF TO FOLLOW THE SWEEPERS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

OKAY, SO, OKAY, GO AHEAD.

UM, WELL FIRST I JUST WANNA SAY I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ONE EMAIL THAT SAID, NO, DON'T DO WEEKLY, UH, STREET CLEANING.

UM, THE ONLY CONCERNS IS THE PARKING SITUATION.

UM, THE SECOND IS WHAT MAY BE CLEAN TO ONE PERSON.

THE NEIGHBOR MIGHT SAYS, NO, I, IT'S NOT CLEAN IN MY STANDARDS.

SO EVERYBODY HAS DIFFERENT STANDARDS, SO EQUALITY SHOULD BE THERE.

UM, AND EVERY STREETS HAVE, ITS, ITS ISSUES.

I KNOW WITH, UM, WE WOULD GET COMPLAINTS WHEN WE HAD THE MASS WINDS, ALL THE DEBRIS WAS ON THE STREET.

THEY WERE COMPLAINING TO US, GET THAT CLEAN, YOU KNOW, CLEAR THAT OUT, BUT IT'S NOT STREET SWEEPING YET.

AND UM, AND THEN THE SECOND ISSUE IN REGARDS TO LIKE PARKING, THERE'S CURRENTLY STREET SWEEPING THAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

SO EVERYBODY IS ALREADY TRAINED TO MAKE THINGS WORK.

UM, WE HAVE THINGS IN PLACE, SO WHETHER THEY'RE ON VACATION AND THEY LEAVE THEIR CAR FOR OVER A WEEK, THEY COULD BE REPORTED THE 72 HOURS.

UM, AND THEN THERE, THERE'S THAT.

WE HAVE STREET SWEEPING.

SO IT'S THE SAME SITUATION.

THE ENFORCEMENT IS TO COMPLY.

AND AS WE SAID, WE'RE NOT HERE CHARGING PEOPLE MAKE YOU PAY.

WE'RE HERE TO TRY TO CREATE A SYSTEM TO MAKE SURE WHAT WE HAVE IN PLACE WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T WORK.

AND THAT'S WHY WHAT WE HAD SAID WHEN, UH, WHEN WE HAD RESIDENTS EMAIL US, WE SAID, LET'S TRY THIS OUT, SEE HOW IT WORKS OUT.

IF WE NEED TO MAKE CHANGES, WE NEED TO, NOW THE COMPLAINTS THAT I RECEIVED, THEY'RE LIKE, THEY, THEY'RE FINE WITH THE SAME DAY, UH, SAME DAY, BUT THEY REQUEST ALTERNATE TIMES FOR JUST TO BE ABLE TO MOVE THE CAR ACROSS AND THEN BACK ON THAT SAME DAY.

SO WHETHER IT'S NOT AN ALTERNATE DAYS, LIKE PICK A DIFFERENT DAY, THEY'RE OKAY FOR, UM, THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW I HAD ONE RESIDENT WHO MENTIONED ALL THE, LIKE, THEY CAN'T FIND A PARKING SPOT FOR, YOU KNOW, MILES AWAY BECAUSE ALL THAT STREET IS HAPPENS TO BE STREET CLEANING.

SO THAT'S A FAR WALK.

AND SO THAT IS A VALID CONCERN.

SO AGAIN, THOSE MIGHT NOT BE IN HIGH DENSITY AREAS, BUT IT'S THE LOGISTICS AND, AND THE SITUATION OF WHAT IT WAS WAS SO THAT, THAT IS WHAT I WAS BRINGING FORTH TO THIS.

SO I'M OKAY WITH OPTION ONE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HIGH DENSITY.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL WELL, WELL, WE GOT THE SCHOOLS ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF, BUT THE HIGH DENSITY AND THE SPECIAL STREETS THAT HAVE, UM, LOGISTIC CONCERNS, WHETHER, YOU KNOW, THE PARKING SITUATION OR THE STREETS, YOU KNOW, SOME, IT'S LIKE ALL RED, THEY CAN'T PARK, WHATEVER IT MAY BE.

SO THAT IS WHAT I'M, OKAY.

AND SO IT MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY BE ALTERNATIVE DAYS.

SO WE DON'T HAVE THE STREET SUPERS COME BACK, IT'S JUST LITERALLY THEY JUST GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND THEN THE NEXT THREE HOURS IS AT OTHER STREET.

SO THOSE WERE THE CONCERNS THAT WAS BROUGHT TO, AT LEAST FOR MY ATTENTION THAT I HAD FORWARDED TO CITY STAFF.

SO THAT'S WHAT I WANNA SEE.

OPTION ONE WITH, UM, THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE TWO TO MAKE IT WORK.

AND WHILE WE ARE PROCESSING WITH THIS ROLLOUT, THE ADDITIONAL DATA WOULD COME IN.

SO WE WOULD, WHETHER IT'S LIKE, OKAY, SIX MONTHS WE'RE GONNA GO THIS, BUT THEY DO NEED THAT, THAT ENFORCEMENT, WHETHER THAT'S WARNING, SO THAT THEY KNOW, HEY, THIS IS REALITY, THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WE NEED TO GET THIS GOING.

AND THEN THEY CAN, OF COURSE THE EMAILS ARE GONNA FLOOD IN IF THEY DO.

SOME MAY NOT, SOME MAY DO.

AND THEN WE CAN HELP CORRECT AND FIX THAT.

AND THEN FROM THERE, THAT CAN COME UP BACK TO THE COUNCIL IF WE NEED TO MAKE MODIFICATIONS.

BUT MODIFICATIONS IS ONLY SPECIFICALLY TO THOSE AREAS OF CONCERN, NOT THE ENTIRE CITY.

SO, UM, THAT IS MY, UM, INPUT.

THAT'S WHAT I WISH WITH OPTION

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ONE.

WITH THOSE EXCEPTIONS, I CAN TELL YOU STAFF'S COMMITTED ALONG WITH NATIONWIDE TO ADDRESS AND TROUBLESHOOT ANY CONCERNS, UM, THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.

I MEAN, IF AN AREA WE'VE IDENTIFIED WHAT WE BELIEVE ARE THE HIGH DENSITY AREAS, BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, IF WE IDENTIFY AN AREA WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE SUFFICIENT PARKING, WE NEED TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENTS.

WE'RE COMMITTED TO DOING THAT.

UH, BUT AGAIN, UNTIL WE ROLL OUT THE PROGRAM, WE WON'T KNOW IF SOMETHING'S REALLY A PROBLEM.

SOME PEOPLE SAY IT'S A PROBLEM, BUT I THINK WHAT YOU'VE WE'RE SEEING IS EVEN WITHOUT THE ENFORCEMENT, I THINK WE HAVE HAD MORE VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE.

PEOPLE ARE GETTING USED TO, HEY, THE SWEEPER COMES BY AT 8:39 AM HEY, WHERE'S THE ENFORCEMENT BEHIND THIS SWEEPER? 'CAUSE THEY GOT THAT ONE NEIGHBOR THAT'S NOT MOVING THAT CAR.

I HAVE RECEIVED THOSE EMAILS ABOUT COMPLAINING.

AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE RECEIVING MORE NOW, IS PEOPLE ASKING, WHY AREN'T WE DOING THE ENFORCEMENT? WHY AREN'T PEOPLE FOLLOWING THE SWEEPER RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T HAVE THE STAFF TO DO THAT.

UM, OPTION ONE ALLOWS US TO MOVE FORWARD AND FULLY IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM.

IT'S NOT IN THE MILLIONS.

THAT GUT.

SO I HAVE CONCERNS BECAUSE YOU SAID THE SAME THING WHEN THIS FIRST CAME TO US.

YOU SAY YOU NEEDED MORE STAFF.

SO YOU, YOU HAVE DESIGNATED POSITIONS ALLOCATED TO CODE ENFORCEMENT RIGHT NOW.

SO WHY DON'T WE FILL THOSE POSITIONS FIRST AND THEN IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM? WE DID NOT HIRE.

SO THE PEOPLE WE ORIGINALLY HIRED TO START THE STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM ARE NO LONGER WITH US.

AND WE NEVER REFILLED THOSE POSITIONS.

WE CURRENTLY DON'T HAVE ANY BODIES DEDICATED FOR STREET SWEEPING.

BUT NOW YOU'RE ASKING US TO ALLOCATE YOU MORE POSITIONS.

WE'RE LOOKING TO ALLOCATE SIX POSITIONS TO THE STREET SWEEPING PROGRAM RATHER THAN HIRING 18 TO 24 PART-TIMERS.

THAT'S CORRECT.

UH, THE LA THE LAST TIME WE IMPLEMENTED THIS, WE ALREADY AUTHORIZED FOR YOU TO OPEN UP MORE POSITIONS.

SO YOU ALREADY HAD THAT ALLOCATED IN THE BUDGET.

THE MONEY WAS NOT ALLOCATED IN THE BUDGET.

UM, UNDER THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, UH, MEASURE MONEY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEDICATED FOR STREET SWEEPING WAS NOT DEDICATED TO STREET SWEEPING.

AND THAT'S PART OF WHY THERE'S A A, A SMALL INCREASE NOW IS 'CAUSE THERE WASN'T MONIES, UH, BUDGETED FOR, UH, THE OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE NEEDED, INCLUDING THE STAFF.

UM, THE, THE MONEY THAT WAS ALLOCATED WAS FOR THE, THE FOUR VEHICLES WHICH WERE PURCHASED? THAT'S CORRECT.

AND, AND THEN SO WE, WE GOT, WE GOT THE MORE WE, WE PURCHASED THE ADDITIONAL VEHICLES THAT, UH, THE CITY REQUESTED.

BUT NOW WE'RE ASKING FOR MORE VEHICLES.

WE'RE ASKING FOR ONE MORE VEHICLE.

THAT'S CORRECT.

AND DO WE, WE NOT HAVE ANY OTHER VEHICLES LAYING AROUND, UNFORTUNATELY IN THE PAST YEAR, AND MIKE KRESS OF EASIER CAN SPEAK TO IT.

WE'VE PROBABLY DECOMMISSIONED, UM, THREE OR FOUR VEHICLES.

MOST OF OUR VEHICLES ARE REPURPOSED, UM, THE REPURPOSED FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT AND FIRE DEPARTMENT.

SO AS THEY GET TO 200,000 MILES, THEY FINALLY BREAK DOWN AND THEY'RE DECOMMISSIONED.

SO THOSE VEHICLES THAT WE HAD SIX, EIGHT MONTHS AGO, WE NO LONGER HAVE.

YEAH, I MEAN I, I SEE A BUNCH OF BRAND NEW ONES UPSTAIRS, AND MY CONCERN IS OPTION ONE SPECIFICALLY STATES MAINTAIN THE EXISTING STREET SWEEPING SCHEDULE AND ROUTES AND DIRECT STAFF TO REVIEW CURRENT SIGNAGE FOR POTENTIAL CITYWIDE POSTING IMPROVEMENTS.

NOW, I SUPPORT THAT, BUT I DON'T SUPPORT $2 MILLION TO DO THAT JOB.

I MEAN, WHY CAN'T WE DO THAT JOB FIRST AND THEN COME BACK TO US AND TELL US WHAT REALISTICALLY WE NEED TO FINANCIALLY APPROVE TO IMPLEMENT ANY CHANGES? 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE, WE'RE TAKING THE BEING, UH, IT'S A, IT'S A BLINDSIDED VOTE.

'CAUSE YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU'RE GONNA DO THIS, WHICH I SUPPORT OPTION ONE ON THE TOP, BUT THEN, BUT THEN YOU'RE ASKING FOR 1.9 MILLION AND THEN 1.7 MILLION JUST TO DO OPTION ONE.

WHICH OPTION ONE DOES NOT INCLUDE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ALTERNATE SIZE STREET SWEEPING SCHEDULE.

SO I'M CONFUSED.

OPTION ONE, AS IT'S WRITTEN RIGHT NOW, I SUPPORT IT BECAUSE IT HAS NO MONEY TAKE TO IT.

BUT THEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE REPORT, OPTION ONES ARE ALL OVER THE REPORT AS AS FINANCIAL A FINANCIAL COST TO US.

SO I'M, I'M CONFUSED.

WHY CAN'T WE JUST IMPLEMENT OPTION ONE, FIND THAT ANALYSIS, GET THAT ANALYSIS DONE, THAT OPTION ONE TECHNICALLY EXACTLY ENTAILS, AND THEN WE COULD ALLOCATE FUNDING.

AND IF YOU NEED 10 MORE CARS, OR IF YOU NEED SIX MORE EMPLOYEES, LET'S DO IT.

BUT WE CAN'T GET THERE IF WE DON'T DO OPTION ONE WITHOUT A PRICE TAKE FIRST.

'CAUSE THAT'S TECHNICALLY AN ANALYSIS AND WE CANNOT IMPLEMENT AN ANALYSIS IF WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN FRONT OF US.

SO WE'RE, WE'RE TECHNICALLY TECHNICALLY APPROVING A BLANK CHECK FOR 1.9.

BUT ONCE YOU DO THE ANALYSIS, YOU MIGHT FIND OUT THAT YOU ACTUALLY NEED MORE EMPLOYEES, MORE CARS.

AND THAT'S A CONCERN I HAVE.

SO RIGHT NOW YOU, YOU'RE ALREADY SPENDING THE 1.3, RIGHT? SO THE INCREASE YOU'RE LOOKING AT ANNUALLY UNDER OPTION ONE IS ABOUT $400,000.

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UM, AND AGAIN, TO DO THE ANALYSIS, YOU WOULD NEED THE STAFF TO DO THE ANALYSIS.

I DON'T HAVE ANYBODY RIGHT NOW, THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE ANYBODY RIGHT NOW TO EVEN FOLLOW THE SWEEPERS YEAH.

OR IDENTIFY THAT.

NOW LOOK, IF WE HIRE SIX PEOPLE TO DO THE STREET SWEEPING, AND IN A YEAR FROM NOW WE SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE'S REALLY NO NEED FOR THEM, THEN WE'LL REMOVE THEM FROM THE BUDGET.

UH, BUT UNTIL YOU HAVE STAFF TO DO THE ANALYSIS, I, I DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER WAY TO IDENTIFY WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOES NOT WORK.

BUT I DON'T THINK OUR CITY, IN THE HISTORY OF OUR CITY, WE DON'T LIKE HIRING PEOPLE AND FIRING THEM BECAUSE I THINK, I THINK FEMA HAS A, A, A FIRE PROGRAM THAT THE CONSULT WE DID NOT APPROVE TO IMPLEMENT.

AND, AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, UM, AND, AND SO AGAIN, OPTION ONE, AS IT'S WRITTEN, IT'S CONFUSING BECAUSE OPTION ONE, AS IT'S WRITTEN RIGHT HERE THAT YOU'RE ASKING THE CONS TO VOTE DOESN'T HAVE A PRICE TAG CORRECTED.

WHAT, WHAT PRICE WITHIN THE REPORT THAT YOU, THAT YOU COULD, I GUESS READ THROUGHOUT THE REPORT.

BUT OPTION ONE ITSELF DOES NOT SAY AUTHORIZED, UH, FINANCIAL.

IT JUST SAYS MAINTAIN THE EXISTING STREET SWEEPING SCHEDULE AND ROUTES AND DIRECT STAFF TO REVIEW CURRENT SIGNAGE FOR POTENTIAL CITYWIDE POSTING IMPROVEMENTS.

SO AS IT READ, AS IT AS IT'S WRITTEN RIGHT NOW, MY UNDERSTANDING OF THAT, IT DOESN'T NOT, IT'S BASED UPON THAT WORDING.

IT'S NOT AUTHORIZING AN X AMOUNT OF MONEY.

WE ARE ASKED.

THE CITY ATTORNEY COULD CLARIFY HOW IT'S WRITTEN, BUT WELL, I I THINK IF YOU GO TO THE LAST PAGE AND YOU LOOK AT THE FISCAL IMPACT, IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALREADY SPENDING THE 1.3, UH, MILLION DOLLARS ON THE CONTRACT.

WE'RE ALREADY COMMITTED TO THAT.

UH, WE'RE ASKING, RECOMMENDING THAT TAKE OPTION ONE, WHICH WILL ADD THE ENFORCEMENT STAFF TO FOLLOW THE SWEEPER TO ROLL OUT THE PROGRAM, UH, ISSUE THE WARNING NOTICES, START ENFORCEMENT, DO A COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF NOT ONLY WHAT AREAS SHOULD BE DEEMED, UM, SHOULD BE MAYBE CAPTURED UNDER ALTERNATING SIDES, UM, HIGHER DENSITY OR HAVE UNIQUE PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRE ALTERNATING SIDES.

ALSO, TO HAVE THE STAFF TO IDENTIFY IF SIGNAGE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED, UH, OR UPDATED, RELOCATED.

UM, THAT WAS OUR COMMITMENT.

TO ADJUST ANY SIGNAGE IN THE CITY THAT NEED TO BE ADJUSTED.

AND, AND, AND BASED UPON WHAT YOU SAID, THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED OPTION THREE IN AN ALTERNATE DIRECTION BECAUSE OPTION ONE'S PRETTY CLEAR.

AND THE WAY OPTION ONE IS CURRENTLY WRITTEN, AGAIN, I SUPPORT IT AS IT'S WRITTEN, BUT I I I, I'M, I'M OWNING RAISING A CONCERN BECAUSE WE, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MONEY HERE OPENLY AND WITHIN THE REPORT.

SO, UM, AND THAT'S, THAT'S, I UNDERSTAND.

I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT.

SO OPTION ONE WOULD BE ROUGHLY A 400,000 POINT ORDER.

OKAY? AND, AND, AND GO AHEAD.

PERMISSION WITH, UH, OKAY.

AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT YOU GOT BACK AND FORTH, SAY 17, 10 TIMES, OKAY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THIS.

I CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT OKAY, THIS ACTING CITY MANAGER ABOUT, BECAUSE WE APPROVED ONE WEEKLY SWEEP, SWEEPING $1.3 MILLION, BUT NOW YOU HAVE A STAFFING AND POSSIBLE YOU NEED A CAR, YOU NEED A BUDGET.

SO WE NEED TO APPROVE MAYBE ADDITIONAL THIS THREE OR $400,000 PROJECTION.

SO IT CAN BE MORE, IT CAN BE LESS, BUT AT LEAST WE GIVE YOU A WORKING CAPITAL TO HIRE PEOPLE AND STUDY, IMPLEMENT.

SO, SO I UNDERSTAND.

I THINK WE NEED TO GIVE YOU, WE ONLY APPROVE, OKAY, 1.2, WE HAVEN'T APPROVED THE REST.

SO TONIGHT IS, WE JUST WANT YOU TO, NOW YOU HAVE NO EXCUSES, NO ENFORCEMENT.

NOW YOU HAVE, OKAY, WE APPROVE TONIGHT, THEN YOU ARE GOING TO OPTION ONE TO GIVE A TRY.

AND TO IMPLEMENT.

AND TO MAKE SURE, AND THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SWEEPER TO LOOK AROUND HOW THEY CLEAN IT, IF THEY CLEAN OR NOT.

IF NOT, THEN NATIONWIDE WILL BE IN TROUBLE.

OKAY? WE MIGHT TERMINATE YOUR CONTRACT.

SO WE HAVE SOMEBODY WATCHING YOU ALL THE TIME TO MAKE SURE OUR STREET IS SO CLEAN WE CAN SLEEP ON THAT.

OKAY? SO, SO THAT IS WHAT OUR OKAY.

AND WANT YOU TO PERFORM AND REGARDING.

OKAY? AND THE, THE, THE, THE, OKAY.

THE PARKING AND THAT KIND OF THING.

AND WE WANT THE PEOPLE TO KIND OF COLLABORATE, COOPERATE, AND COUPLE HOURS MOVE.

AND IF THEY, I KNOW I TALK TO A LOT OF RESIDENT, THEY KNOW WHAT TIME THEY COMING AND THEY KNOW WHAT TIME THEY CROSS STREET.

SO IN THAT WAY THEY CAN KIND OF, UH, MEASURE THE TIME TO MOVE THEIR CAR JUST CROSS STREET BECAUSE THE SWEEP IS START COMING THE SAME TIME BOTH WAY.

THEY COME IN ON THIS WAY AND THEY COME BACK AFTER, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY HOURS THEY COME BACK IN THE AFTERNOON IN THE CROSS STREET, OKAY.

TO CLEAN OVER THERE.

SO IN THAT WAY, I THINK DUE TO THEY CAN MOVE IN THAT THE THING.

SO TO MAKE SURE, OKAY, UH, THEY, THEY CAN LET OUR SWEEPER YOU SWEEPER TO CLEAN.

SO I THINK IF WE DISCUSS THIS, WE'RE GOING TO STAY OVERNIGHT OVER HERE.

I THINK WE ALREADY HAVE MOTION.

OKAY, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE TWO MOTIONS.

MAIL.

CAN YOU SEE?

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AND, UH, THE FIRST ONE, DO WE JUST GO AHEAD AND ROLL CALL? AND IF THAT APPROVES YOU START FROM THE TOP DOWN.

YOU HAVE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION COUNCIL MEMBER.

I WAS THE SECOND GUTTER IS SECONDED IN, AND THEN WANTED TO ADD SOME COMMENTS THAT YOU MADE, MAYOR, AND THEN IT DID NOT FINISH THAT.

IF HE'S GONNA ADD COMMENTS TO THAT SECOND MOTION, THEN THE MAKER OF THE MOTION, MAYOR PRO TEM CONTOS, IS GONNA HAVE TO ACCEPT THOSE AMENDMENTS.

SO COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, UM, I MEAN TECHNICALLY IT'S, IT'S TECH, IT'S TECHNICALLY ADDING, WHICH IS WHAT OPTION ONE CURRENTLY STATES, BUT IN AN ANALYSIS.

SO WE DID HEAR FROM RESIDENTS WHO HAD CONCERNS AND UH, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD, TYPICALLY, IT'S IT, I MEAN, YOU COULD TAKE THAT OFF.

TAKE THAT PART.

SO ARE YOU, ARE YOU, ARE YOU NO LONGER GONNA SECOND MAYOR CON? NO, I'M SECOND IT.

YEAH, I'LL SECOND HIS ORIGINAL.

OH, SO YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE A, TO CLARIFY THE, MY, MY MOTION IS TO DO A MORE PRECISION APPROACH, UH, THAT I, THAT I OUTLINED EARLIER BY DEDICATING MORE RESOURCES TO THE AREAS NEEDED IT, NEEDING IT, BUT AT LESS RESOURCES TO AREAS THAT ARE LESS IN NEED OF WEEKLY STREET SWEEPING.

THAT'S COOL.

SO WE'RE VOTING ON, ON THAT, ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.

AND, AND IN REFERENCE TO THAT, THE, THE NEED IS SUBJECTIVE.

SO I'M FOR ABOUT EQUALITY AND I DIDN'T WANNA GET ADDITIONAL COMPLAINTS SAYING, WELL, WHY ONLY THAT AREA? SO, BUT GO AHEAD.

WE CAN, WE CAN YOU HAVE CALL, I HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TIM CONTOS, A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, TO NARROW THE SCOPE, UM, WITH WHAT MAYOR PROAM CONTOS HAS SAID.

COUNCIL MEMBER GUTIERREZ, I HAVE ONE QUESTION THOUGH.

UM, KAREN, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, THIS MONEY, THIS RESTRICTED FUNDS COULD ALSO BE USED FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, DOING EXCHANGE, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH FOOTHILL TRANSIT TO BE ABLE TO ALLOCATE SOME OF THIS FUNDING TO GENERAL FUND MONEY THAT COULD THEN BE USED TOWARDS BUILDING UP A NEWER FIRE, HELPING OUR FIRE STATIONS REMODEL OUR FIRE STATIONS ADDRESS SOME OF THESE, UH, HEALTH CONDITIONS OUR FIREFIGHTERS ARE LIVING IN.

CAN I ASK WHAT THIS IS? I MEAN, 'CAUSE WE'RE WE HAVE THIS MOTION AND I, I'M, SO I'M ASKING THAT'S A WHOLE NEW DIFFERENT TOPIC.

SO, AND I KNOW THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE, BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT.

YEAH, YEAH.

NO, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S THE SAME TOPIC.

WHAT I'M ASKING IS, CAN THIS RESTRICTED FUNDS THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR? I MEAN, AGAIN, IT YOU'RE CONFUSING, SO, WELL, WE HAVE A MOTION AND HIS WAS VERY SPECIFIC IN REGARDS TO JUST DEDICATING CERTAIN AREAS OF WHAT SUPPOSEDLY IS AT NEED.

SO THAT IS, THAT'S, UH, MAYOR PROM'S THING.

SO I'M JUST GONNA HYPOTHETICALLY, IF IT, IN YOUR DISTRICT, IF THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S A NEED, THEN YOUR DISTRICT'S NOT GONNA HAVE ANY STREET CLEANING WEEKLY.

IT'S ONLY ON CERTAIN AREAS IF THERE IS CERTAIN AREAS AND, BUT THAT IS ALL SUBJECTIVE.

SO THAT IS WHAT HE MOTION YOU SECOND WE'RE DOING A ROLL CALL AND THEN OPTION.

SO THEN, AND THEN OPTION ONE IS AUTHORIZING HOW MUCH MORE ADDITIONAL FUNDS.

IT'S RIGHT HERE WE HAVE SUBTOTAL, UH, A ONE TIME COST.

IT'S ALL ON THE, THE EACH ONES HAVE COST 37,000.

SO ANY OPTIONS WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL COST.

BUT AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE MOTIONING THIS.

SO WHY DO, WHY ARE WE JUMPING SO HIGH AFTER THAT? WELL, IF YOU DO THE MATH FROM OPTION ONE, LINE ITEM TWO IS 370,000, THAT ALONE, AND YOU, YOU ADD ON THAT BRINGS UP 4 55.

SUBSTITUTE MOTION SUB.

YEAH, SUBSTITUTE.

SO WE'RE UNDER A ROLL CALL MM-HMM .

GO AHEAD.

YOU WANT YES, YES OR NO? SO IT'S 137,001 TIME COSTS, BUT THEN A TOTAL RECURRING ANNUAL COST OF 455.

BUT THAT'S NOT ON THE MOTION.

THE MOTION IS HIS SUBJECTIVE.

I KNOW, BUT I HAVE A QUESTION BEFORE WE GO TO A ROLL CALL OR, OR, OR BEFORE I VOTE.

SO IT'S A ONE-TIME COST OF 137,000, BUT THEN YOU HAVE AN ANNUAL RECURRING COST OF 455.

HOW, HOW DOES IT JUMP SO HIGH ANNUALLY AFTER, I BELIEVE YOU'RE LOOKING, SO ARE YOU LOOKING AT OUR ANNUAL STREET SWEEPING ENFORCEMENT STAFF STREETS, FULLY BURDENED STREET ENFORCEMENT COSTS OPTION ONE UNDER FISCAL IMPACT? UM, YEAH, I BELIEVE IT'S UNDER THE, IT'S NOT NUMBER.

IT'S, IT'S UNDER THE TOTAL REOCCURRING ANNUAL COSTS.

AND THAT OPTION ONE IS THE LOWEST COST AT 455,000 VERSUS OPTION TWO, THREE AND FOUR IS AT 677,000.

SO WHAT ARE WE NOT DISCLOSING? BUT IT'S ALL WRITTEN DOWN.

THEY HAVE THE BREAKDOWN FOR THE ENFORCEMENT COST.

IT'S LITERALLY ON, I MEAN, IT'S NOT ON THE PAGE, BUT IF IT'S ON PAGE FOUR, PAGE FOUR, THAT NUMBER OF FULL-TIME STAFF, THE FULL-TIME ENFORCEMENT STAFF, AND THE STAFF EQUIPMENT, THE, UH, YEAH, THE SUPERVISOR COSTS THE UNIFORMS, HANDHOLD RADIOS, VEHICLES, STREET SWOOPING ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES, VEHICLE EQUIPMENT, LIGHT BAR DECALS, POLICE RADIO.

THE BREAKDOWN IS ALL RIGHT THERE.

SO I SEE THE ONE, YEAH, THE ONE TIME COST 1 37.

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SO IT'S JUST A MATH.

YOU JUST ADD, WHICH ONE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? UH, THE SAME PAGE.

TABLE SIX.

SEEING OPTION ONE? YES.

OPTION ONE ON TABLE SIX.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE BREAKDOWN, THERE'S THE MATH, SO IT CAN'T BE JUST 1 37, YOU'RE LOOKING AT TOTAL ONETIME COST.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT TOTAL FULL-TIME ENFORCEMENT STAFF COSTS FULLY BURDEN, ANNUAL RATE, THAT ALONE IS 370,000.

AND THEN YOU HAVE 60,000 FOR THE STAFF EQUIPMENT, UNIFORMS, HANDHOLD, AND THE LIST GOES ON TO TOTAL 455,000.

AND, AND, AND SO BEFORE I, I VOTE, UH, AGAIN, I HAVE CONCERNS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA APPROVE A BUDGET THAT ADAM MAYOR, YOU, YOU HAVE A VOTE? OKAY.

YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT.

SO WE DO, WE ALREADY HAVE, WE'RE GONNA START THE ROLL CALL.

HE, WE ALREADY, WE ALREADY, UH, ARE WE WITH YOU FOR POINT ALL POINT OF ORDER? WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.

LET'S PLEASE VOTE.

I HAVE AN ACCOMMODATION TO ALLOW TO TALK BEFORE I VOTE.

HONOR, I HAVE NOT RECEIVED, YOU HONOR RECEIVED ANY ACCOMMODATION.

HONOR, I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY ACCOMMODATION.

OH MY GOD.

WE'RE GONNA DO THIS AGAIN.

HERE WE GO AGAIN.

IT'S ALREADY FINISHED.

MADAM MAYOR, FINISH YOUR COMMENT AND LET'S DO THE ROLL CALL.

WE'RE ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.

I, I, I, I, I'M OKAY.

COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ, IF I MAY ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ON PAGE FOUR, THERE IS AN, UM, TABLE NUMBER SIX AND IT'S TITLES, STREET SWEEPING INFORMANT ENFORCEMENT COSTS.

THE ONETIME COST HAS ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED.

YOUR QUESTION WAS, WHAT IS THE ANNUAL REOCCURRING COST? WHEN WE LOOK AT TABLE SIX, IT IS THE SECOND LINE ITEM SIX, 370,000 IS FOR THE FULL-TIME STAFF.

PLUS WE HAVE THE STAFF FOR THE SUPERVISOR COSTS, WHICH IS 85,000.

THAT EQUATES TO YOUR REOCCURRING COST OF 455,000.

I HOPE I ANSWERED THAT QUESTION.

SO, OKAY.

SO BEFORE I VOTE, I JUST WANNA SAY AGAIN, UM, I, I FIND IT A CONCERNING TO HIRE ADDITIONAL STAFF, UH, WHEN NO PLAN, ACTION, AND PLAN.

YOU'RE TECHNICALLY SAYING YOU'RE GONNA DO THE SAME THING, BUT THEN ALLOW AUTHORIZING ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT COULD BE USED TO REPAIR OUR STREETS AND, AND, AND SUPPORT OUR FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE LIVING IN HORRIBLE CONDITIONS.

SO IN, IN REGARDS TO MAYOR CONTOS.

MAYOR PROTO CONTOS IS MOTION.

I'LL SAY YES.

COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? NO, IT'S MY TURN.

OH, EXCUSE ME.

I'M SORRY.

COUNCILMAN WU, THIS IS FOR THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.

COUNCILMAN WU? NO.

COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? NO.

MAYOR APPROACH TEMP CONTOS.

MAYOR LOPEZ, VIDO NO.

MOTION FAILS ONTO THE FIRST MOTION OF OPTION ONE, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE, I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE TO ADD THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE OPTION ONE COVERS THE, WHETHER IT'S ALTERNATIVE DAYS OR ALTERNATIVE TIMES.

SO THE BURDEN IS NOT ON THE RESIDENT.

SO IF THAT IS COVERED AND THAT'S INCLUSIVE OF THAT, THEN I, UH, CONTINUE.

WE'LL, WE'LL, WE HAVE THE MOTION IN THE SECOND AND WE'LL DO ROLL CALL.

IS THAT OKAY WITH THE MAKER'S ORIGINAL MOTION? IS THAT OKAY WITH, UM, COUNCILMAN WOUND? COUNCILMAN? PARDON? COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ? PARDON? IT'S, IT'S OPTION ONE WITH MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE DATA, DATA AND THEN WE HAVE, WE, WE MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF THE RESIDENTS WITH THE ALTERNATIVE DAYS OR TIMES THAT WILL BE, SO THIS, THIS IS GONNA COME BACK TO US AGAIN AFTER WE ROLL THIS OUT, JUST TO, YOU KNOW, SEE HOW IT WORKS, THE DATA AND EVERYTHING, AND A FEW MONTHS LATER, THEN WE CAN COME UP AND THEN WE CAN MAKE, UM, ADJUSTMENTS TO THE STREETS THAT ARE IN NEED.

THAT WAS MY, OKAY.

SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND WE HAVE A SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER GUT.

I NEED CLARIFICATION.

UM, SO ARE YOU ASKING THAT THAT BE DONE BEFORE WE EXPENSE ? YOU NEED THE EXPENSE TO ROLL IT OUT.

I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE LAUGHING AT ME.

I'M ASKING YOUR QUESTION.

I, BECAUSE WE WENT OVER, OVER, OVER AGAIN BEING DISRESPECTFUL.

NO, I'M NOT.

YES, YOU ARE.

SO, OKAY.

CAN YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION PLEASE? I'M ASKING YOU A QUESTION.

THIS IS PART, IT'S ON THE AGENDA ITEM.

IT'S LISTED IN THERE, AND THIS IS PART OF ROLLING IT OUT.

OKAY, SO, AND SIGNAGE PART.

SO I KNOW OPTION ONE, BUT THEN YOU'RE ADDING TWO, YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO AMEND THEIR MOTION TO ADD IT'S ADD YOU JUST STATED THEY'VE MENTIONED THAT IT'S ALREADY INCLUDED.

YEAH, I'LL ASK.

WE'RE MAKE, ASK THE CITY CLERK TO CLARIFY IT.

UH, SINCE THE CITY CLERK, CAN YOU CLARIFY THE MOTION? I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ, A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN WU TO APPROVE OPTION NUMBER ONE, INCLUDING DATA THAT COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ HAS ASKED FOR WITH, UH, PARKING, CITATIONS, WARNING CITATIONS, AS WELL AS INFORMATION BY MAYOR LOPEZ VIRO REGARDING HIGH DENSITY SPECIAL STREETS WITH LOGISTICAL CONCERNS LIKE RED, RED CURBS, ALTERNATE TIMES, POSSIBLY ALTERNATE DAYS.

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AND SIGNAGE, YEAH.

SO, UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, UH, AGAIN, I HAVE, I HAVE CONCERNS REGARDING ALLOCATING FUNDING BEFORE WE ACTUALLY GET THAT DONE.

SO IT'S LIKE A SMOKE SCREEN, BUT, SO NO COUNCILMAN W AYE, COUNCILWOMAN DIAZ.

MAYOR PROTOS, THIS IS A FISCAL LONG TERM MISTAKE.

NO, MAYOR PRO TEDO.

MOTION PASSES.

ALL RIGHT, SO NOW ITEM NUMBER FIVE HAS BEEN COMPLETED.

WE ARE GOING TO CITY COUNCIL REPORTS.

AB 1 12 3 4 CONFERENCE AND MEETING REPORT.

ANY? NOPE.

[CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS FOR REPORTS, STUDIES OR INVESTIGATION]

CITY COUNCIL REQUESTS.

I HAVE A COUNCILMAN WU.

UH, OKAY.

I HAVE A, UH, MME. MAY I, AND TO INVITE CALTRAN.

MAYBE DO A PRESENTATION WHY THEY HAVEN'T CLEANED UP ALL OUR OFF RENT ON RAMP.

I THINK RIGHT NOW THE, THE GRASS IS OVERGROWN.

OKAY? IT IS LIKE JUNGLE OVER THERE.

IT'S A FIRE HAZARD AND PLUS IT'S REALLY NOT PRESENTABLE FOR OUR CITY.

SO BASICALLY ENTIRE HOUR, 10, 11 EXIT, YOU CAN SEE THE TRASH, THE, THE OVERGROWN.

WE WANT TO, AND WE WANT, I REQUEST, OKAY.

AND OUR PUBLIC WORK TO TALK TO THEIR PUBLIC WORK, I WILL CALL CALTRAN MANY TIMES, INCLUDING THE ACCIDENT IN FRONT OF MCINTYRE SQUARE.

AND THEN THEY STILL, THEY SAY IT IS NOT OUR, IT'S NOT THEIR JURISDICTION.

SO WE WANT TO CLARIFY IT'S STILL JURISDICTION OR OUR CITY, BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING CITI BEEN TRYING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT RA AND SAY WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING.

BECAUSE THERE, THIS, THEIR JURISDICTION, WE CAN EVEN PUT THE STOP SIGN OR ANYTHING ON GARVEY.

SO WE WANT TO CLARIFY AND HAVE, UH, CALTRAN TO DO A PRESENTATION FIRST TO TALK TO THEM, TO CLARIFY.

UM, BECAUSE THE, THE ATTORNEY, THE RESIDENT ALREADY SEND THE OKAY.

ATTORNEY LETTER TO THEM BECAUSE THE, THE, THE, THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING FOR US.

OKAY? AND SECOND THING IS, OKAY, INVITE THEM, LIKE BEFORE THEN THEY THEN COME TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO DO A PRESENTATION.

WHY? WHEN THEY CAN DO A REGULAR MAINTENANCE.

TO MAKE OUR, UH, FREEWAY LOOK MUCH MORE PRESENTABLE.

NOT RIGHT NOW.

SO I DO WANNA SECOND THAT IN REGARDS BECAUSE WE ARE IN A TOPIC OF STREET CLEANING.

AND SOMETIMES WE GET COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS THAT SAY, HEY, YOU'RE NOT CLEANING YOUR STREETS.

BUT MIND YOU, THE RESIDENTS DON'T KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T BELONG TO WEST COVINA.

IT BELONGS TO CALTRANS.

SO WITHIN THAT PRESENTATION, I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY PRESENT SO THAT THE RESIDENTS KNOW WHERE THAT JURISDICTION LIES AND THAT THE RESIDENTS KNOW WHO TO CONTACT.

UM, I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES WE PUSH TO LIKE CLEAN, CLEAR THAT FIX THAT, AND THEY IGNORE US, OR, YOU KNOW, AND OF COURSE THE PUBLIC HAS MORE POWER.

SO BY ALL MEANS, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS HERE.

THE RESIDENTS ARE HERE ABLE TO LISTEN, THE RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO KNOW WHAT THEIR, UH, CONTACTS, HOW TO RECTIFY ALL THOSE SITUATIONS.

AND ADAM, ONE THING, THE PRESENTATION, TALK ABOUT HOW THEY DEAL WITH THE HOMELESS CAMPING, OKAY.

ENCAMPMENT ISSUE BECAUSE WE HAVE NO JURISDICTION AGAIN, TO THEIR POVERTY UNDER THE BRIDGE AND, UH, THE, THEIR COMMON AREAS.

OKAY? SO, AND, UH, ALL THIS, OKAY, YOU CAN SEE THE CAMPING RIGHT AT DELL, OKAY? THEIR OFF RENT ON RAMP AREA, IT'S A BIG AREA, BUT THEY, OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE JURISDICTION TO DO ANYTHING TO THEM.

SO WE WANT CALTRAN TO GIVE US AUTHORITY TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP THOSE HOMELESS PEOPLE OKAY.

TO FIND A SHELTER FOR THEM.

BUT CURRENTLY MY, I TALK TO THE POLICE TO SAY WE CAN, I EVEN GO INSIDE.

AND THE SAME THING TO PANHANDLE ON ALL THE EXIT AND THEY TRASH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

OKAY? AND THEY STANDING OVER THERE ALMOST ALL THE EXIT OR ON MY OFF RUN, YOU CAN SEE THE PANHANDLING, LIKE REGULAR, LIKE A JOB.

EVERY DAY THEY'RE OVER THERE WITH THEIR OFFICE.

WE STILL SIGN EVERYTHING.

SO, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE HOW CAN WE DEAL WITH THE ISSUE, OKAY.

AND THEN MAKE SURE, UH, AGAIN, CLEAN UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND IF, IF THEY ARE NOT SCAMMED, UH, HOW CAN WE HELP THEM? OKAY.

ANY OTHER COUNCIL COMMENTS? YEAH, I HAD, UM, EXCUSE ME.

OH, I'M SORRY.

WE'RE STILL COUNCIL REQUEST BY, UH, MAYOR PROTE CONTOS.

I HAVE ASKED CITY STAFF TO PUT TOGETHER A COMPREHENSIVE LIST AND IT KIND OF, IF YOU COULD, UH, FINISH THAT FOR ME.

SURE.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER, UH, TO ASK THAT WE, WE INSTRUCT STAFF TO PUT TOGETHER A, A COMPREHENSIVE CHECKLIST OF SOME SORT TO GO THROUGH THE FIRE STATIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC OR OTHER CITY FACILITIES TO INSPECT FOR HABITABILITY ISSUES AND OTHER ISSUES RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE EMERGENCY SITUATIONS ARISE, LIKE WHAT WE HAD TO APPROVE TODAY.

ANY OTHER OBJECTIVES, OBJECTIONS? NO.

UH, LONG WHILE AGO, I ASKED FOR US TO DELAY THE, THE CITY MANAGER EDUCATION RE REQUIREMENT, UM, FOR A LATER TIME.

SO WE HAVE TWO THAT'S MOVING FORWARD FOR COUNCIL REQUESTS.

UH, ANY OTHER COUNCIL REQUESTS? UH, Y YES.

UM, UM, IN THE PAST, UH, I,

[02:40:01]

I'M JUST WONDERING, UH, I THINK FOR UNDER OUR ORIGINAL, THE, THE PROOF OF APPROVED BY THE MAJORITY, WE, WE MOVED IT TO MAY THE 21ST ROUGHLY, OR THE SECOND MEETING IN MAY.

I'D LIKE TO ASK THAT WE MOVE THAT UP TO THIS NEXT, UM, UM, IMMEDIATE, UH, MEETING COMING UP.

IS, DO I HAVE A SUPPORT FOR THAT? I'LL, I'LL SECOND.

OH, WHAT'S, UH, MOTION? OH, HE WANTS TO MOVE UP THE CITY MANAGER FOR, REGARDING THE EDUCATION.

IT WAS ORIGINALLY TO BE MOVED UP TO MAY, BUT YOU WANNA MOVE IT UP EARLIER.

IS THERE A REASON? WELL, FROM WHAT I, I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE WHOLE BODY IS HERE AND I, I, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF I, FROM WHAT I, I THOUGHT I HEARD THAT, THAT THERE MAY BE AN ABSENCE AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ANYTHING WE DO IS DONE IN THE, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ENTIRE BODY OF THE COUNCIL.

BUT MY QUESTION IS, I REMEMBER, 'CAUSE I I CLEARLY REMEMBER THIS BECAUSE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING IT UP LAST YEAR MM-HMM .

AND YOU SAID NO, YOU WANTED TO MOVE IT UP TO MAY.

SO I WANTED TO KNOW WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN THE RUSH FROM MAY TO EARLY ON.

WELL, BECAUSE, BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WHEN IT'S SCHEDULED TO COME UP, THAT THERE WILL BE A PENDING COUNCIL ABSENCE.

AND I DON'T, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO HAVE, UH, THIS COME UP AT A, AT A TIME WHEN A, A MEMBER OF OURS IS NOT PRESENT.

AND THEN THERE'S A SECOND.

AND THEN ANY JUST, IS IT EXTEND OR EXTEND? I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD.

I'D LIKE TO, BUT WE CANNOT DO IT.

WANTS TO SEE IF WE CAN EXTEND OR IN REGARDS TO ACTING CITY MANAGER HIS, UH, 'CAUSE REGARDING THE EDUCATION, BRING IT UP THE SECOND MEETING IN MAY, I BELIEVE, AND YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE A FULL BODY HERE, HE WANTS A FULL BODY HERE.

WANT THE FULL BODY HERE? THAT'S, YOU CAN BRING IT, UH, THE FIRST MEETING IN MAY.

YOU CAN, IT'S UP TO THE COUNCIL.

BUT HE WAS ASKING, IS IT, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT COULD BE EXTENDED? EXTENDED MEANING WHAT? THERE'S THERE LATER DATE BACK, MOVE BACK, OR, YOU KNOW, DELAY UP TO THE BODY.

IT'S UP TO THE BODY.

GO TO GO TO JUNE 1ST MEETING THAT, THAT'S UP.

IT'S UP TO THIS BODY.

IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S EX NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED.

WE HAVE AN EXISTING POLICY WHERE THE DEGREE REQUIRED FOR ALL THESE POSITIONS.

IT'S NOT EXTENDING ANYTHING.

IT'S GONNA, WE DON THIS.

WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS IF IT'S CHANGED BY THE COUNCIL.

SO YOU PICK A DATE.

WOW.

BUT, BUT OH, SO WE CAN JUST LEAVE IT? YEAH, I THINK WE DON'T NEED TO DO IT.

YOU CAN DO IT NEXT MEETING.

YOU CAN DO FIRST MEETING IN MAY, JUNE.

IT'S UP TO YOU.

IS THIS A NECESSARY WELL, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ONLY, IT'S LITERALLY NOT EVEN RELATING TO THE MERITS.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHENEVER IT DOES COME UP, IF IT COMES UP THAT IT'S DONE WHEN, WHEN THE ENTIRE BODY'S PRESENT.

THAT'S LITERALLY ALL.

SO THE FIRST MEETING, MAYOR, I HAVE A QUESTION.

UH, MAYOR, GO AHEAD.

DO WE NEED TO DO IT THERE? THERE'S NO URGENCY.

NOW A DEGREE IS REQUIRED.

IT'S GONNA BRING TO THE BODY IF YOU WANT TO, MY UNDERSTANDING IS NOT HAVE I WITHDRAW COUNSEL'S SECOND MEETING IN MAY.

SO IF THIS BODY WANTS TO GO THE FIRST MEETING IN MAY, OR GO WITH THE FIRST MEETING IN JUNE, IT'S UP TO YOU.

IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED WHEN EVERYONE IS HERE.

THAT'S ALL I ASKING.

IF THERE'S NO URGENCY.

SO HE JUST SAID HE'LL WITHDRAW.

OKAY, DONE.

SO THERE'S NO, NO NEED.

DON'T NEED ANY DRAMA.

I HAVE A QUESTION.

UM, BUT THEN WE'RE GONNA OPEN UP THE CITY MANAGER POSITION IN MAY, RIGHT? BECAUSE OF OUR ORDINANCE, BECAUSE OF THE VOTERS', BECAUSE OF THE, THE VOTER ENACTED ORDINANCE WE HAVE.

SO I THINK BY MAY IT'S BE A ONE YEAR.

AND SO, WHICH MEANS THAT IF WE DON'T USE ONE ONE YEAR IS AN AN ISSUE.

IT'S, UM, WE DO, WE DID.

YOU DID RETAIN AN OUTSIDE FIRM TO DO, UM, UH, SEEK, SEEK OUT A NEW CITY MANAGER.

UM, THEY'RE PREPARED.

THEY WANT TO MEET WITH COUNCIL.

THEY'RE PREPARED TO START WHEN THIS BODY'S READY TO START LOOKING.

BUT WE HAVE A DEADLINE TO DO THAT, RIGHT? NO, THERE'S NO DEADLINE.

THE, OUR CODE SAYS AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE OR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

I BELIEVE IT SAYS THAT OUR MUNI CODE SAYS THAT.

SO WE COULD KEEP MAILING LONGER THAN A YEAR.

SO YOU CAN KEEP MAILING FOREVER.

AW .

WE HAVE NO, THE NEXT ONE IS COUNCIL COMMENTS.

SO SINCE THAT MOTION HAS BEEN DROPPED, WE DON'T NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH ANYTHING, ANY OTHER COUNCIL REQUESTS? UM, MOTION TO ADJU.

I HAVE A, I HAVE A COMMENT.

WE HAVE,

[CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS]

UH, COUNCILMAN GUTIERREZ? YES.

UH, I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, AND, AND, AND THE STATISTICS CONTINUING TO, TO LESSEN EVERY YEAR, BUT ONE IN EVERY 64 CHILD, ONE, EVERY ONE IN EVERY 64 CHILDREN BORN TODAY, UH, WILL BE BORN WITH AUTISM.

AND ON APRIL 2ND WAS WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH.

AND I WANTED TO, UH, CREATE AWARENESS.

UH, I AM WEARING BLUE IN HONOR OF AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH.

UH, AUTISM IS A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY.

UH, BUT TO ALL PARENTS, UM,

[02:45:01]

INTO OUR COMMUNITY AND TO OUR TO CAREGIVERS, TO FOSTER PARENTS, UH, WHO MAY KNOW SOMEONE WITH AUTISM ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

AT TIMES IT MAY BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES, IT MAY BE CHALLENGING, BUT KNOW THAT YOUR PASSION, YOUR HEART, ONE, THEY WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

I AM HERE TODAY, UH, REPRESENT BEING, BEING ELECTED AS THE FIRST COUNCIL MEMBER ELECTED WITH AUTISM IN, IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND IT IS A REMINDER THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM IN LIFE, THAT AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, THE IMPOSSIBLE IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE.

NO MATTER IF YOU GREW UP POOR LIKE I DID, NO MATTER IF YOU WERE PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY ABUSED AS A CHILD LIKE I WAS, AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE AND NEVER GIVE UP AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, THAT'S ALL THAT COUNTS.

AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING YOU WANT IN LIFE WHEN YOU DREAM AND DREAM BIG.

ANY OTHER COUNCIL COMMENTS? I HAVE ONE.

UM, UH, WE ATTENDED THE EASTER EGG EXTRAVAGANZA.

THE STAFF DID A FABULOUS JOB.

30,000 EGGS WERE DISTRIBUTED.

THERE'S A LOT OF HAPPY CHILDREN AND HAPPY FAMILIES.

UM, THE ONLY THING I WOULD PROBABLY ASK IS BECAUSE WE, WE HAD IT AT CORTEZ PARK AND THEN WE HAD IT AT DEL NORTE.

AND WHAT I NOTICED IS AFTER WE DID THE EGG HUNT AT CORTEZ, THEY ALL FLED TO GO TO DEL NORTE.

AND SO I WAS LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU ALREADY DID THE EGG HUNT.

SO THEY WERE DOUBLING IT UP.

AND, UM, SO I THINK MAYBE, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD CONSIDER MAYBE COMBINING IT.

UM, BOTH SIDES HAD DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, BUT IT'D BE NICE TO PROBABLY IN THE FUTURE, MAYBE THAT'S A COUNCIL REQUEST TO PUT THAT TOGETHER AND JUST HAVE ONE BIG EVENT.

BECAUSE WHAT I'VE NOTICED IS THEY WERE DOUBLE DIPPING.

UM, AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAD SOME NEW COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

UH, WE DID HAVE A LOT OF OTHER OUTSIDE CITIES COMING IN BECAUSE WHEN I WAS AT DELL NORTECH, YOU KNOW, I SAW OTHER PHASES AND I KNOW, UH, WHEN COUNCILMAN TONY WOO HAS HIS, UH, EVERYDAY COMMENT OF SAYING, DO YOU LOVE WEST COVINA? AND THEN WHEN WE WERE AT, UH, CORTEZ, NORMALLY TRADITIONALLY, EVERYBODY SAYS YES.

AND THEN HE WAS WONDERING, HMM, I WONDER IF IT'S WEST COVINA RESIDENCE? WHERE IS WEST COVINA? SO, SO WHEN WE WENT TO DEL NORTE, I WAS SPEAKING, I JUST HAD TO ASK LIKE, HEY, WHO'S REPRESENTING LA PUENTE? AND WE HAD A FEW PEOPLE GO, WOO.

AND WHO'S REPRESENTING IRWINDALE? YOU KNOW, ALL THE OTHER LOCAL CITIES SURROUNDING, AND I'M LIKE, THAT'S WHY WHEN THEY SAID DULA WAS CO WE DIDN'T HAVE AS MANY ON CERTAIN AREAS BECAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF OUTSIDE.

UM, AND WHICH IS FINE THAT THAT'S GREAT.

THE, WE WELCOME ALL.

BUT, UM, AGAIN, SINCE I JUST SAW THAT WITH KIDS, LITERALLY AFTER THE EGG HUNT, THEY LEFT AND THEN I SAW A LOT OF THEM AGAIN AT DEL NORTE FOR THE EGG HUNT.

AND I GET IT, THEY WANNA WIN THAT GOLDEN EGG AND EASTER EGG HUNT.

BUT OVERALL IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL EVENT.

IT WAS GREAT.

UM, JUST, THAT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT, UM, I WANNA SEE IF WE WANTED TO WORK ON, NOW YOU HAVE A COMMENT YOU'D LIKE TO DO? YEAH, NO, LY I WANT TO GO HOME, BUT, UH, OH, I'LL GO TO THE, OKAY.

THE, THE, THE INSTALLATION OF, UH, COVINA MAY THING.

BUT, BUT I WANNA SAY THIS.

I SAY OKAY.

AND, UH, IT'S A GREAT EVENT.

OKAY? I WANNA THANK THE CITY STAFF TO PUT IT TOGETHER.

IT IS A, HEY SUSIE, BEAUTIFUL EVENT.

I HAVEN'T SEEN SO MANY BABY AND KID FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.

OKAY? I SAY THIS IS A POPULATION, IT'S ABOUT TIME.

OKAY? BECAUSE THE BABY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE KIDS ARE VERY HAPPY.

AND I UNDERSTAND A LOT OF DAY'S NOT FROM OUR CITY, BUT IT'S OKAY.

THEY MAY BE, THEY TOLD MOVE INTO OUR CITY, OKAY? BECAUSE, BECAUSE THEY SEE THE WEST COAST IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CITY AND WE LOVE OUR KID.

I MEAN, NO MATTER WHERE THEY COMING FROM, BUT THEY HAVE A GREAT TIME.

I AGREE.

I I THINK WE SHOULD PUT IT, UH, THE, IN A BIG PARK AND MAYBE GIVE MORE EGGS.

PROVIDE MORE EGGS.

SO MAYBE LAST THEY TOLD ME 12,000 EGGS, SO MAYBE NEXT TIME WE GET 20,000 EGGS.

OKAY, SO THEY HAD 30,000, 30,000 EGGS, 16,000 ON ONE.

THAT, THAT ALL THE CHILDREN COME TO OUR CITY HAVE A GREAT TIME AND SHOWING THE, THE POWER OR THE LOVE FROM WEST COVINA.

BUT I, I WANT TO THANK YOU OKAY.

AND, UM, THIS GREAT EVENT AND UH, AND PEOPLE CAN SEE AND THE WEST COVINA CITY REALLY SAW A GREAT PARTY AND THE KIWANI CLUB.

OKAY? THANK YOU SO MUCH.

BUT CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US, OKAY? AND, UH, THIS IS GREAT EVENT AND WE CONTINUE TO DO OKAY FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND ALSO ON ALL THE RESIDENT CHILDREN UNITED WE STAND.

THE COMMITTEE EVENT IS BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.

I THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? SEEING NONE.

MEETING ADJOURNED.