CALL TO ORDER / FLAG SALUTE / ROLL CALL | |
INSPIRATION | |
PUBLIC COMMENT | |
AGENDA APPROVAL FOR CITY COUNCIL | |
PRESENTATIONS | |
Item 1 - World Wetlands Day Proclamation | |
Item 2 - Black History Month Proclamation | |
Item 3 - Ventura County Area Agency on Aging (VCAAA) Update from City Representatives | |
CONSENT CALENDAR | |
PUBLIC HEARINGS – None |
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Item 9 - Update on Local Storm and Flood Emergency Declared on December 21, 2023 | |
Item 10 - Award of Contract to Staples Construction, Inc., for the Bubbling Springs Park Renovation Project in the Amount of $11,452,432.00 (Base Bid + Add Alternates) and Approve a Ten (10%) Percent Construction Contingency of $1,145,243.00 for the Bubbling Springs Renovation Project |
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Item 11 - Acquisition of Easement 1211 Evergreen Lane | |
Item 12 - Out of State Travel Request for Mayor Pro Tem Mcqueen-Legohn and Councilmember Hernandez |
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CITY MANAGER COMMENTS AND REPORTS | |
COUNCILMEMBERS’ REPORTS AND COMMENTS | |
Request for future agenda items | |
ADJOURNMENT |
And welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order the now. The time is now 6:30 PM. | 00:01:36 | |
Please join. | 00:01:44 | |
Me in the flag, Sal. | 00:01:45 | |
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. | 00:01:53 | |
Madam Clerk, will you please take? | 00:02:12 | |
Council member Gama. | 00:02:17 | |
Here, Councilmember Hernandez, Here Councilmember Martinez, present Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune, and Mayor Perez. | 00:02:19 | |
Tonight's inspiration will be given by Councilmember Hernandez. | 00:02:28 | |
Thank you, Mayor Pere. | 00:02:32 | |
This evening I'd like to deliver an inspiration coming from Maya Angelou, and this is kind of an honor of. | 00:02:35 | |
Black History Month, and it also speaks to what we're going through right now with the storms that we're experiencing here and. | 00:02:43 | |
Throughout California, for those of you who don't know, Maya Angelou is a poet, a singer, an autobiographer and a civil rights | 00:02:51 | |
activist. | 00:02:56 | |
She inspires us with her beauty and the call to action. | 00:03:00 | |
Of were her words, her most famous work is is I Know why, the Caged. | 00:03:04 | |
Sings an autobiography about her childhood. | 00:03:09 | |
The book is a testament to the need for resilience in the face of discrimination. | 00:03:13 | |
Has the image of the caged bird illustrates there is power and grace in facing adversity head on. | 00:03:18 | |
There was one particular quote that stood out for me that I had no idea she actually coined this phrase. And that is hope for the | 00:03:25 | |
best. Be prepared for the worst. | 00:03:30 | |
And that's the tie into the storms that we've been going through, I think all of. | 00:03:36 | |
Didn't know what was going to happen on December 21st. We prepared as much as we thought we should. | 00:03:42 | |
And we were hoping for the best we can prepare for the worst and hope for the best. And we got the worst. | 00:03:47 | |
Fortunately with the storms that we're experiencing right now this the rains coming in fairly steady and we're not having all the | 00:03:55 | |
rain come all at once, but I think. | 00:03:59 | |
The inspiration? | 00:04:03 | |
From these storms comes from the level of preparedness that I'm seeing out in the community, because we as a city have a | 00:04:05 | |
responsibility to be prepared, but our community does too and we can only be just as prepared as our community is. So I'm really | 00:04:12 | |
proud of our residents who went out and got their sandbags and heeded the warnings and stayed home. | 00:04:19 | |
During the heaviest part of the rains and I just hope that as we move forward in these storms that will remember this phrase by | 00:04:26 | |
Maya Angelou, hope for the best and be prepared for the worst. Thank you. | 00:04:32 | |
Thank you, Councilmember Hernandez. | 00:04:39 | |
We will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. | 00:04:41 | |
This process will be the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, are there any public comments? Yes. Our | 00:04:48 | |
first public comment will be from Timothy Fergal. | 00:04:52 | |
Run out of the Community Center. Story time is still taking place Tuesday mornings at 10:30. The first week after the storm we | 00:05:35 | |
were still having thirty families and their children showing up for programs. We had a lot of requests for the continuation of the | 00:05:41 | |
book club and just. | 00:05:46 | |
Again, showing the importance of the library in the community. Library staff have been reassigned to six other locations, so I've | 00:05:52 | |
been busy taking care of them and we look forward to partnering with the city again to, you know, continue to offer library | 00:05:57 | |
services to the community. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:06:02 | |
Next is Patti. | 00:06:11 | |
Thank you. | 00:06:20 | |
Good evening, Mayor Perez, City Council members, and City of Port Hueneme residents. | 00:06:21 | |
My name is Patty Braga and I'm the executive director of Ventura County Leadership Academy. | 00:06:27 | |
VCLA is a locally based, not-for-profit, whose mission and purpose. | 00:06:32 | |
Is to connect issues and people to strengthen our county. | 00:06:36 | |
We do this by taking a diverse network of passionate capable. | 00:06:40 | |
In the business, education, not-for-profit and public sectors and immerse them in the critical issues shaping Ventura County. | 00:06:45 | |
We hear from subject matter experts on water and housing, transportation, education, a host of other subjects. | 00:06:53 | |
We build relationships across the county and across industries. | 00:07:00 | |
VCLA has a network of 715 alumni and we are currently in our 29th year. | 00:07:05 | |
I'm here to share with you our 21st annual Journey to Leadership Award honorees and invite you to this annual event. | 00:07:12 | |
The Journey to Leadership Awards luncheon recognizes leaders in the business education, not-for-profit. | 00:07:19 | |
And public sect. | 00:07:25 | |
Who have made an exceptional impact on our community. | 00:07:27 | |
This year's honorees. | 00:07:30 | |
Business of the year, Amgen. | 00:07:33 | |
Nonprofit Leader of the Year. | 00:07:35 | |
David Marin, the vice chair for the Ventura County Civic Alliance. | 00:07:37 | |
Public sector leader. | 00:07:42 | |
Tracy Mcalee, management analyst for the County of Ventura. | 00:07:44 | |
Our Alumna of the Year is Linda Rossi, who is the President and CEO of Ventura County Credit Union. | 00:07:48 | |
And our Founders Award this year will go to Bill. | 00:07:55 | |
I hope you can join us Thursday, April 25th in Camarillo to celebrate these amazing honorees. Thank you. | 00:07:58 | |
Thank you. | 00:08:05 | |
Dulce. | 00:08:07 | |
Good evening, Mayor Perez and City Council members. | 00:08:17 | |
I'd like to bring awareness. | 00:08:21 | |
To where there's some losses. | 00:08:23 | |
That have have occurred and could repeat and this is related to the. | 00:08:25 | |
Of December and not Winneme Bay. It's. | 00:08:30 | |
Somewhere else? | 00:08:33 | |
So I'm speaking from Surfside 3. | 00:08:35 | |
Where I live and. | 00:08:38 | |
My car is one of several assigned to a shared carport spot. It happens to be right next to a storm drain. | 00:08:40 | |
Primary storm drain going out to surfside? Draw a surfside drive into your municipal system. | 00:08:46 | |
So that was developed in the 70s that that, that. | 00:08:52 | |
Drainage system for search. | 00:08:57 | |
Apart from the water damages to my Subaru in the dark of night, nobody knew what was going on with high water. | 00:09:01 | |
Alexis Parks Park next. | 00:09:07 | |
Was found to be a total. | 00:09:10 | |
And then? | 00:09:12 | |
Has some did some drying out on a long desert drive and we still don't know if there's a toxic implications. | 00:09:14 | |
The underlying. | 00:09:22 | |
Mold or whatever SO33 cars, Three single women, two fully employed, one retired, all different ages. | 00:09:24 | |
We're also not all. | 00:09:31 | |
The ethnicity we we cover a spectrum here. | 00:09:34 | |
So in short, I have a diagram. It's so small, I'm just going to be really brief, but it's kind of like our car, the carport we | 00:09:39 | |
share. It's at the bottom bracket of the bicycle. | 00:09:44 | |
And a public works officer, retired public works officer used a bicycle as a metaphor to me about how storm drains are designed. | 00:09:50 | |
Or storm. | 00:09:53 | |
Drainage systems, but the bottom The bottom bracket gets the. | 00:09:57 | |
In bicycles. And so where I live, building one is along, there's there's drainage here. | 00:10:02 | |
Along building 1 N is that way surfside? | 00:10:09 | |
But you also have drainage. | 00:10:13 | |
Sea Wind Way, Blue Water Way all. | 00:10:15 | |
Into the. | 00:10:18 | |
Townhomes and such. | 00:10:22 | |
And others from landscaping. So we had a pond. We had a pond in the in the carport. | 00:10:24 | |
This is private property. Why should you care? Well, maybe there could be some pilot project, Maybe there could be something. | 00:10:32 | |
More permeability. | 00:10:44 | |
And already 1 owner has expressed interest and couldn't we raise the payment and and then that would mean the roof of the carport | 00:10:49 | |
also another idea is to relocate carport. | 00:10:54 | |
This may come to you for sight. | 00:11:00 | |
And. | 00:11:04 | |
And so I'm just. | 00:11:05 | |
I live there. It's a sacrifice stone. Right now we're in the sacrifice zone, the owners in that shared carport. We're down slope | 00:11:07 | |
and nobody thought about what could happen to our our cars. | 00:11:12 | |
So I think my 3 minutes might be up. I'm not used to seeing this time thing flashing. | 00:11:18 | |
But I had a little more to say related to the storm drain and the sandbags. I know you have a staff report touching on some of | 00:11:24 | |
that, but I will say that for later in February. | 00:11:29 | |
Because there was some things, some lessons learned. | 00:11:34 | |
So just as a quickie, none of these 24 places are in Port Wing Nimi and this is where the websites direct people to go for | 00:11:37 | |
sandbanks. | 00:11:42 | |
Both from the county site and from the fire station 53. | 00:11:47 | |
So we. | 00:11:51 | |
You know, we don't know unless the information gets to us. | 00:11:55 | |
Thank you. Thank you. | 00:11:58 | |
I can just quickly. | 00:12:02 | |
Respond to a couple points and one is I think I've either talked to you or your neighbors, one of your neighbors recently, so I | 00:12:04 | |
think. | 00:12:07 | |
Planning to do some sort of follow-up discussion after this set of storms, so just so. | 00:12:11 | |
To sort of speak to that that you know we're going to go out there and talk to you and we'll get make sure that if there is some | 00:12:17 | |
planning or it's something like that that we get you in touch with the right people. | 00:12:21 | |
And then just about sandbags, we did notice, So we were posting information, sharing information that we have public, that we have | 00:12:25 | |
sandbags at our public works yard. We did notice that the county page was referring to the county agencies and the County Fire | 00:12:31 | |
departments, but for us, we did it with our own staff, so we weren't on the list. | 00:12:37 | |
So we'll follow up with them. We'll get on the list. But I think I wanted to use it as an opportunity to say right now our plan is | 00:12:43 | |
anytime we have rain coming, we're going to have sandbags at our public works yard. So if in doubt, everybody can go to the public | 00:12:47 | |
works yard on Surfside and. | 00:12:52 | |
And ask for sandbags. | 00:12:57 | |
And we'll try to get on that list. | 00:12:59 | |
Any further comments? | 00:13:06 | |
No further comments. Thank you. | 00:13:08 | |
All right, so now we're going to move on to agenda approval for the City Council. May I have a motion and a second to approve the | 00:13:13 | |
agenda? | 00:13:16 | |
So moved second. | 00:13:19 | |
Thank you, Madam Clerk. All in favor. Aye, all. | 00:13:21 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 00:13:26 | |
Thank you. Do any members of Council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda? | 00:13:29 | |
So now we're going to start presentations. The first presentation will be the World Wetlands Day proclamation. | 00:13:38 | |
By council. | 00:13:44 | |
Martinez Thank you, Madam Mayor. | 00:13:45 | |
I'll be reading the World Wetlands Day Proclamation. | 00:13:49 | |
Whereas World Wetland stays a global awareness campaign that gives voice to wetlands around the globe. | 00:13:53 | |
And whereas on February 2nd, 1971, the Convention on Wetlands was adopted as an international treaty and was the first of the | 00:14:00 | |
modern global multilateral environmental agreements. | 00:14:06 | |
And the only one devoted to a specific ecosystem. | 00:14:12 | |
Wetlands. | 00:14:15 | |
And whereas today the Convention has a global membership of 172 countries, officially known as contracting parties. | 00:14:17 | |
And whereas World Wetlands Day is celebrated. | 00:14:25 | |
Every February 2nd since. | 00:14:29 | |
In 1990. | 00:14:32 | |
And whereas world wetland stays supported by the United Nations, where the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2021 | 00:14:34 | |
establishing February 2nd as World Wetlands Day, inviting all 193 UN member states to observe the day. | 00:14:41 | |
And whereas the wetlands theme for 2024 is wetlands and human well-being, spotlighting how all aspects of human well-being are | 00:14:50 | |
tied to the health of the world's wetlands, physically, mentally and environmentally. | 00:14:57 | |
Elucidates how interconnected wetlands and human life have been throughout history. | 00:15:04 | |
And underscores the critical need for human stewards. | 00:15:09 | |
Of the world's. | 00:15:13 | |
And whereas wetlands sustain life and are central to human well-being by providing clean water, food security and nutrient, | 00:15:15 | |
nutritional variety, clean air, medicines. | 00:15:21 | |
Climate Stabil. | 00:15:27 | |
Protection against extreme weather, recreational opportunities, jobs and positively impacts mental well-being. | 00:15:29 | |
And whereas wetlands are the Earth's most threatened ecosystem and the world, Wetlands Day increases global understanding of how | 00:15:37 | |
much wetlands do for humanity. | 00:15:41 | |
And that we must care, nurture, and support them for a sustainable future. Now, therefore be it proclaimed that the City Council | 00:15:47 | |
of the City of Port Hueneme does hereby recognize February 2nd, 2024 as World Wetland State, and encourages all to value and | 00:15:54 | |
steward our wetlands. Proclaim this fifth day of February 2024. | 00:16:01 | |
Thank you. | 00:16:09 | |
I also want to mention that we have coastal keepers here, we have Rafa and I'd like to invite him to come up. | 00:16:10 | |
Say a couple words if. | 00:16:18 | |
Thank you for this opportunity. You want to say hello, Mayor Pettis, City Council community members. | 00:16:29 | |
I'll keep this short and sweet. It's amazing to think back there, back three years ago. Around this time, we're just trying to | 00:16:36 | |
clean our beach, our wetland over at Ormond and we need beach. | 00:16:40 | |
And we decided to start from My name Beach instead of Arnold on this specific day. And that's where. | 00:16:45 | |
City Council Mayor at the time, Mr. Gama came up to us and asked for about 15 of us. It's like, where are you guys from? What is | 00:16:52 | |
the name of your organization? In a friendly manner, of course. | 00:16:57 | |
And that day is where coastal keepers originally began. I would. | 00:17:02 | |
So we command your leadership and thank you for your invaluable support of coastal keepers since day one. | 00:17:06 | |
Together with the City of Oxnard Assembly Member Steve Bennett, we feel that we have a core of foundation foundational members | 00:17:14 | |
that can come together and invite others to help. | 00:17:18 | |
Restore, rehabilitate, and reintroduce resiliency into our shared environment. | 00:17:23 | |
We look forward to discussing next step with each of you and thank you to everyone that's been involved for. | 00:17:29 | |
Just restoring our Orman and Wyndeman beach back to its original matter. And thank you so much to Desiree Muddy Baz. | 00:17:36 | |
And everybody else has been involved with the board members and even volunteers. | 00:17:44 | |
Thank you. | 00:17:48 | |
A quick question if I may. If one were wanted to make a donation to coastal keepers, what's the mechanism for doing that? | 00:17:50 | |
So we've had a fiscal sponsor and as of last year that has gone away and we went through that. But this year we're working with | 00:18:00 | |
another fiscal sponsor and I believe it's getting. | 00:18:06 | |
Right now we're just taking donations through Venmo or personal donations and stuff. Thank you so much. | 00:18:12 | |
Do you want to get? | 00:18:26 | |
If I may. | 00:18:28 | |
With the council line, Yeah, exactly. | 00:18:39 | |
We wear many hats. | 00:18:43 | |
Yeah, three years ago. I remember that day, and a lot has. | 00:19:10 | |
Happened since. | 00:19:16 | |
Both from. | 00:19:18 | |
The Northside of a Perkins Rd. In Ormond Beach from Arnold Rd. And we always seem to meet in the middle. | 00:19:20 | |
And that was the case this past Saturday. | 00:19:27 | |
We had a group of youth. | 00:19:31 | |
Oh, hi. And one of the things we discovered in Randall Thomas was helping with this. | 00:19:35 | |
And the kids asked the question where did this? | 00:19:41 | |
And we started thinking about it and we realized that all the trash that we're picking up, if someone didn't walk out there and | 00:19:44 | |
drop it there. | 00:19:47 | |
It floated in and it's coming from the arroyo's, the creeks. | 00:19:52 | |
Coastal. | 00:19:56 | |
When? | 00:19:58 | |
And we have volunteers every weekend. | 00:20:00 | |
The difference that. | 00:20:04 | |
Is huge. | 00:20:07 | |
We filled 4 dumpsters. | 00:20:10 | |
This past. | 00:20:12 | |
We dragged A dumpster worth the trash over a mile 20. | 00:20:13 | |
Mostly teenagers, we thought we weren't going to make it, but we made it. And so the passion, the energy, the interest is there | 00:20:18 | |
and we've been working behind the scenes to bring all the interested parties together. Want to thank? | 00:20:25 | |
City Manager Vega For that, we met with Assemblyman Bennett. | 00:20:33 | |
Beacon we went. Rafa and I went to the City of Oxnard council meeting and invited them. And so we look for great things in the | 00:20:39 | |
future in protecting our wetlands. Thank you. | 00:20:44 | |
Thank you. The next proclamation will be read by Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune. And that's the Black History Month proclamation. | 00:20:51 | |
Thank you, Mayor. Black History Month, February 2020. | 00:20:59 | |
Whereas much of the City of Port Hueneme's honor, strength, and distinction can be attributed to the diversity of culture and | 00:21:03 | |
traditions that are celebrated by our residents. | 00:21:08 | |
And whereas African Americans have played a significant role in the history of our nation and California's economic. | 00:21:14 | |
Cultural, spiritual and political development while working tirelessly to promote their culture and history. | 00:21:21 | |
And whereas as a result of their determination, hard work and persever. | 00:21:28 | |
African Americans have made valuable and lasting contributions to our community and our state. | 00:21:34 | |
Achieving exceptional success in all aspects of society, including business. | 00:21:40 | |
Education. Politics. | 00:21:45 | |
And the arts. | 00:21:48 | |
And whereas in 1970. | 00:21:49 | |
Like History Month was formally AD. | 00:21:52 | |
To honor and affirm the importance of black history throughout our American experience and is full of individuals who took a | 00:21:55 | |
stance against prejudice. | 00:22:00 | |
Advanced The cause of civil. | 00:22:05 | |
Straightened Families, communities, and our. | 00:22:08 | |
And whereas all Americans are encouraged to reflect on past successes and challenges of African Americans and look to the future | 00:22:12 | |
to improve society so that we live up to the ideals of freedom, equality and justice, now therefore be it proclaimed that the City | 00:22:19 | |
Council of the City of Port Hueneme. | 00:22:26 | |
Does hereby proclaim the month of? | 00:22:34 | |
2024 as Black History Month and invites everyone to celebrate the traditions. | 00:22:36 | |
The diversity and character of our community and highlights the importance of sharing our culture. | 00:22:44 | |
Customs and traditions with those around. | 00:22:50 | |
Proclaim this fifth day of February 2024 and I would like to add. | 00:22:54 | |
That. | 00:23:01 | |
February's Black History Month. | 00:23:02 | |
But black history is part of American history. | 00:23:04 | |
So we should not. | 00:23:07 | |
Trying to understand and research history in just February, so I ask that you look all through the year. | 00:23:09 | |
At what African Americans have provided to this country and continue to look into those things, I also would like to say thank you | 00:23:18 | |
to Councilmember Gama. | 00:23:23 | |
From last year, last chapter last council. | 00:23:28 | |
Reminding me of the children's. | 00:23:33 | |
So I just want you all to know there is a video out either on. | 00:23:36 | |
Vmo, Vimeo, Vimeo, Vimeo, Vimeo, Vimeo or YouTube If you Google the children's March of 1963, you will see the mighty work that | 00:23:46 | |
the children did in the Civil rights movement. | 00:23:52 | |
Council member Gama brought it up last week and you remind me, and I've been talking about it ever since, so I appreciate you | 00:24:00 | |
doing that. So Google it. You don't want to miss it. It's important to know what our children. | 00:24:06 | |
Did as it relates to the civil rights movement in that video, 41 Minutes will give you a clip, you know a piece of that and so | 00:24:12 | |
encourage you to take a look at that. | 00:24:17 | |
Thank you. | 00:24:21 | |
Thank you. Our final presentation. | 00:24:23 | |
I just wanted to add that. | 00:24:27 | |
A bunch of children. | 00:24:29 | |
12/13/14 year old introduced me to that movie in Ohio. Somehow I got connected with the Ohio Youth Foundation and we do things | 00:24:31 | |
together and. | 00:24:35 | |
They invited me up and to screen that movie and I was like, man, it is so powerful. If you haven't seen it, you really have to see | 00:24:41 | |
it because I Don. | 00:24:45 | |
Enough of us know about. | 00:24:50 | |
How the children Ste. | 00:24:52 | |
Thank you. | 00:24:56 | |
The final presentation will. | 00:24:57 | |
The Ventura County Area Agency on Ag. | 00:25:00 | |
The VCAA an update from city representative Louie Mendez. | 00:25:04 | |
Good evening, Mayor Perez. City Council staff, I don't believe Joni is in town, so I'll just be doing this myself. This is my | 00:25:12 | |
first report I'm giving to you guys, so I'm. | 00:25:17 | |
We're going to see how it goes. We did meet this year for the first time back on the 10th of January where we were introduced to | 00:25:22 | |
everybody that sits on the board for the Area Advisory Council on Aging. And their main goal this year is to actually create a new | 00:25:29 | |
strategic plan for the organization. They are required to do so every four years. | 00:25:36 | |
And So what they did is we actually all took a survey. There's about 2530 of us. | 00:25:43 | |
From different organizations in every city of Ventura County and they pulled us on what we thought was needed, you know that to | 00:25:48 | |
basically help the aging community in our areas. Two of the biggest things that me and Joni agreed on that we wanted to implement | 00:25:54 | |
was more information. We think information is key in the dissemination of it. You know, to the public is where there's kind of a | 00:26:01 | |
gap in people knowing what's out there or what's available to them. And so that's one of our goals this year. | 00:26:08 | |
Be a little bit more. | 00:26:15 | |
Giving the information to the city you know to disseminate on their website or even myself, I post sometimes on Facebook. | 00:26:17 | |
Another big thing we wanted to add given that we had just went through the December 20th floods was to add a disaster relief plan | 00:26:23 | |
or maybe even budget for that area housing or area Council on Aging. So that way seniors, you know I was at Whitney Bay, there's | 00:26:30 | |
some people don't have cars limited mobility and that they if they could reserve some funds and volunteers for that specifically | 00:26:37 | |
when those happen, it might be more advantageous in our aging community, could take advantage of in those situations. | 00:26:45 | |
It is an ongoing process, I think going through through March and they'll be edited and updated as we go. So I will be giving you | 00:26:52 | |
guys updates as the new plan comes together. | 00:26:56 | |
The second thing they discussed at the meeting, they actually released the 2023 Volunteer Impact Report. The Agency on Aging | 00:27:02 | |
released the and presented it. It showcases the invaluable contribution made to their dedicated volunteers. The report highlights | 00:27:07 | |
the significant. | 00:27:13 | |
That volunteers have had on their mission to enhance the quality of life for older adults, people with disabilities and their | 00:27:19 | |
caregivers in Ventura County. | 00:27:23 | |
Just a couple of highlights on that. On their Impact Snapshot, they have a total of 87 volunteers that worked in 2023. | 00:27:27 | |
The total hours that they contributed were about 4446 hours. | 00:27:35 | |
And the way they calculate the value in the state of California is about $37.32 per hour per volunteer. So that means the grand | 00:27:40 | |
total in 2023 the volunteer hours are putting were $165,930 worth of. | 00:27:48 | |
So our goal is to increase volunteers and hopefully that will come along with disseminating the information again to the public | 00:27:57 | |
for people that want to help. | 00:28:00 | |
Others, the last portion that we discussed I know was released back in October. It's the California Senior Legislative Committee. | 00:28:04 | |
What they do as part of this organization is they create measures to get either state assembly or Senator to sponsor to help pass | 00:28:11 | |
bills that benefit our aging community, whether it's healthcare, they have a couple of privacy things. I think the biggest thing | 00:28:17 | |
that's going on this year is the use of AI in determining. | 00:28:24 | |
Care for elderly and seniors. And so there's a big push to prevent that from happening because they still feel that it should be | 00:28:31 | |
doctors and people making decisions for our seniors. | 00:28:36 | |
Um, as far as that's all I have for now. The next meeting will be in March and I can bring back any other information that you | 00:28:41 | |
guys. | 00:28:44 | |
May be necess. | 00:28:48 | |
Thank you. Any questions? | 00:28:49 | |
Mr. Mendez, thank you so much for serving on that committee and representing our community. We have, as many of you know, a large | 00:28:54 | |
senior population and they often get forgotten and and you were out there. | 00:29:00 | |
After the storms you saw, you know the difficulties that some of them are facing and. | 00:29:06 | |
It's so helpful to have you representing our city and and with the goal of bringing more information for our seniors. I think | 00:29:11 | |
that's going to make a huge difference in a way we communicate with that community and and the rest of our senior community. So | 00:29:17 | |
thank you so much. I appreciate that and thank you guys for the opportunity. Thank you. Have a good evening. | 00:29:23 | |
OK. That concludes presentations. We're going to move on to the consent calendar. | 00:29:32 | |
We'll now hear items consider items on the consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless a council member has a | 00:29:36 | |
request to remove an item for discussion. | 00:29:41 | |
No. OK, move to approve second. | 00:29:49 | |
Madam. | 00:29:53 | |
All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Hearing None. Motion passes unanimously. | 00:29:55 | |
Thank. | 00:30:01 | |
We have no public hearing, so the next items will be business items. | 00:30:03 | |
The first one will be an update on local storm and flood emergency declared on December 21st, 2023. Will staff please present the | 00:30:07 | |
report? | 00:30:11 | |
Thank you. Yeah, it's almost sad that when we say which we say storm, now we have to specify which date because we're we seem to | 00:30:15 | |
be getting so many of them, but. | 00:30:19 | |
This item is focused on the the storm from December 21st, the one where we saw a lot of local impacts. | 00:30:25 | |
And so we just want, I think primarily we want to let the council and the community know that we are still working on that. I | 00:30:31 | |
think as I run into people, one of the immediate questions is. | 00:30:38 | |
You know, are we forgetting about them And we aren't. We're still working for to try to help with the recovery. We're still | 00:30:45 | |
advocating for our community in that recovery. And so we just wanted to make sure we we continue to give some updates on what's | 00:30:50 | |
going on with that and and where we're at with that. | 00:30:55 | |
This item is related to that recovery effort from the December 20. | 00:31:01 | |
Storms, the staff report includes a full list of all the recovery efforts in the last. | 00:31:06 | |
30 plus days, maybe closer to 40-5 days now. | 00:31:14 | |
But I think we wanted to highlight some of the more recent items, and there's essentially 4 recent ones we want to let people know | 00:31:17 | |
about. | 00:31:21 | |
1st and people may have seen this. | 00:31:25 | |
Some information go out on this, but we've partnered with the Ventura County Community Foundation to launch a fundraiser to help | 00:31:30 | |
the victims of the floods. | 00:31:34 | |
And the partnership so far, we've launched that fundraiser about maybe maybe about 10 days ago or so, and we've been able to get | 00:31:38 | |
some pretty significant donations through that fundraiser and we're now working. | 00:31:45 | |
The Ventura County Community Foundation who who is helping to coordinate that fundraiser? | 00:31:54 | |
And with the city of Oxnard and ourselves to to workout the process for now, how we're going to be able to distribute some of that | 00:31:59 | |
assistance we're getting? | 00:32:03 | |
And so we are working on that currently and there will be more information on how to sign up and and and be helped from that | 00:32:08 | |
fundraising coming out shortly. | 00:32:14 | |
And that I'll probably kind of mention this on each of these, but. | 00:32:22 | |
That is our effort to try to help start filling the gap that we're seeing still from the. | 00:32:27 | |
From FEMA not declaring. | 00:32:33 | |
The December 21st storm a Federal Emergency yet and not. | 00:32:35 | |
Providing the funding directly to the residents, which is really what's needed and what we're still continuing to advocate for. | 00:32:40 | |
But while that while we're going through that process and while we're waiting for all those decisions, we wanted to start working | 00:32:47 | |
on things locally. So we're we're partnering on that fundraiser is is one of the big steps. | 00:32:53 | |
Second, we've continued to advocate with county, county, state and federal agencies for more assistance for our residents. | 00:33:00 | |
One result, both from us advocating, but also from the storm the following week that hit San Diego. | 00:33:09 | |
Is that the state and Governor Newsom has declared a California State of emergency that was retroactive and included our local | 00:33:17 | |
storm. | 00:33:22 | |
So that was a positive that opened up some more relief. It opened up some things like. | 00:33:29 | |
Utilities like Southern California Ed. | 00:33:35 | |
Have relief available to residents when it's a state of emergency, but otherwise would not be able to provide relief. | 00:33:38 | |
They're starting to roll out their relief programs now, so it's it. | 00:33:46 | |
Helping to kind of get more programs, more assistance out. | 00:33:51 | |
But the state still doesn't have. Again, going back to that FEMA comment, the state doesn't have any direct funding to residents. | 00:33:54 | |
So. | 00:33:59 | |
It's a step, but it still did not get us to. | 00:34:04 | |
The point where either FEMA or the state would just give funding directly to those who were impacted. So it's a positive step, | 00:34:08 | |
but. | 00:34:12 | |
Everywhere I want to be. We're still trying. | 00:34:17 | |
Work with FEMA. | 00:34:20 | |
I do think we were sort of getting to the point of feeling like. | 00:34:22 | |
FEMA was just really getting, was just gonna decline to provide assistance. | 00:34:26 | |
But we're hoping that similar to what the governor did where because there's more storms and more people impacted and the governor | 00:34:33 | |
grouped those together and declared a state of emergency. | 00:34:38 | |
We're hoping that maybe with these next round of storms, in the round of storms yesterday, that maybe FEMA will declare a state of | 00:34:43 | |
emergency, so. | 00:34:47 | |
So that is still something we're pushing for, but in the meantime, the state has declared that state of emergency to open up some | 00:34:52 | |
additional resources. | 00:34:56 | |
3rd We continue to meet regularly with our recovery partners, such as 211 in the in the nonprofits in our community to try to | 00:35:03 | |
coordinate. | 00:35:07 | |
Resources and help for people. | 00:35:11 | |
Who need it? | 00:35:13 | |
I think the elephant is still in the room from the last couple discussions, and that is just until FEMA comes with money. It's. | 00:35:15 | |
There's only so many resources to go around. | 00:35:23 | |
We're doing our best to coordinate those, but there's just not enough resources. We all, we all know it. We all feel it. We all | 00:35:26 | |
see it. | 00:35:30 | |
But the a lot of credit has to go to 211 and are in the different Voad and our volunteer partners that they are really finding | 00:35:34 | |
ways to provide assist. | 00:35:40 | |
Even without that. | 00:35:46 | |
Funding coming? | 00:35:48 | |
And so we meet regularly with them each week, and we we try to figure out how to make sure that nobody's falling through the | 00:35:49 | |
cracks and that we're trying to get people assistance. | 00:35:53 | |
Even without those, the major resource. | 00:35:59 | |
So we're still doing that regularly. | 00:36:02 | |
And then lastly, we mentioned the last meeting. | 00:36:03 | |
The liability claims related strictly to. | 00:36:06 | |
Garage door damage from an emergency or allegedly from an emergency vehicle. | 00:36:10 | |
And we continue to work with our insurance company on that. We want people to know that we aren't. We aren't forgetting that. | 00:36:15 | |
We continue to work with our insurance company and we expect to have some good news for some of those residents. | 00:36:22 | |
This by the end of this week is what we're aiming for. So, so we're still working on those we realize, you know, especially if | 00:36:27 | |
you're in that situation right now. | 00:36:31 | |
Of being impacted by the. | 00:36:36 | |
It's not enough help and it's taking too long, but we're trying our best to try to push all these things forward and and provide | 00:36:38 | |
some help and some assistance. | 00:36:42 | |
So with that, that is our update on the December 21st storm recovery. | 00:36:47 | |
Thank you. | 00:36:53 | |
At this time, we're going to. | 00:36:55 | |
Thank you, Mr. City Manager, for the report. | 00:37:00 | |
I wanted to ask about the distribution of the donations. I understand that's going to be a city's responsibility to figure out. | 00:37:03 | |
The criteria for distributing those donations, and it's going to, the mechanism is going to. | 00:37:11 | |
Come from the city. | 00:37:18 | |
Is that correct versus not quite at this point? | 00:37:20 | |
Three parties are the Ventura County Community Foundation, the City of Oxnard in the City of Winemie. | 00:37:26 | |
At this point we are all trying to work out the criteria as as that group of three. | 00:37:31 | |
OK, but the actual distribution of the funding will be a city responsibility, right? | 00:37:37 | |
That hasn't been determined at this time. | 00:37:43 | |
And then the the $2,000,000 estimate in damages, do you have a breakdown of that? | 00:37:47 | |
I do, and we can provide that. | 00:37:55 | |
And does that include the liability claims? No. So the $2,000,000 estimate of damage is damaged specifically to public facilities. | 00:37:59 | |
Yeah, a breakdown would be great. Thank. | 00:38:08 | |
Any other questions? Yes. I wanted to ask in regarding the Edison Relief Program, how would someone apply? How do we let the | 00:38:12 | |
public know? | 00:38:16 | |
That process of applying for. | 00:38:22 | |
Program. Yeah, so Southern California Edison has told us they're going to launch a information campaign, but they did provide us | 00:38:24 | |
the website that's in the staff report, sce.com/safety/assist. | 00:38:31 | |
Center and it's in the staff report. They did provide us that and they said that while they're doing their campaign people we can | 00:38:38 | |
direct people there to get information on it and how to apply for for that. We it's interesting because. | 00:38:44 | |
To me, in the scheme of things, with so many impacts, I did not think the electric bill was going to be like the hot topic, but | 00:38:51 | |
when we went out, we met with everybody. | 00:38:56 | |
People are seeing are starting to get their electric bills with how much it costs to run their fans all the all day. And | 00:39:02 | |
humidifiers, dehumidifier, humidifiers, all that stuff. | 00:39:07 | |
And we heard loud and clear that that's becoming a big impact and a big burden. | 00:39:12 | |
So we had started to reach out at Edison with Edison at that point and now the minute the since we were on it and then the minute | 00:39:18 | |
the governor declared the state of emergency, we knew that that was their trigger. So. | 00:39:23 | |
They should be able to go there and get help At this point. I also have a second question. | 00:39:29 | |
I'm not really sure how we would go about this, but I have have an idea of. | 00:39:36 | |
You know, sending out a letter to Senator Limon and Assembly member Steve Bennett from like the Council of the Council wishes to | 00:39:40 | |
do something like this, but I think. | 00:39:44 | |
A letter saying, you know, California should. | 00:39:49 | |
A program where if something like this happens that we can help out people in California, because I from our last meeting I heard | 00:39:53 | |
that other states have these programs. | 00:39:58 | |
But California does not. | 00:40:03 | |
So I was. I was. | 00:40:05 | |
You know, council would be interested. | 00:40:08 | |
Sending out a letter. | 00:40:10 | |
Saying like. | 00:40:12 | |
California should do something, you know, to both Assembly member Steve Bennett and Senator. | 00:40:14 | |
I can actually comment on that, Mayor. Actually, FEMA has changed their rules and changed their threshold. | 00:40:21 | |
But it doesn't apply, unfortunately to the December. | 00:40:29 | |
Storm, So the nature of the letter might want to change. If you're going to send a letter, change it so that you emphasize. | 00:40:33 | |
The December 21 storm be included. | 00:40:42 | |
But it's it's a very remote possibility that FEMA assistance is going to come through. | 00:40:45 | |
I was even thinking just even in future instances, but I think what I hear is the idea that, like, if the state had a fund for | 00:40:51 | |
this, then by them declaring a state of emergency, we'd be qualifying for it. Yeah, So that's something I think. | 00:40:58 | |
My guess is if I look to the city attorney, he'd say that that's something we consider, but it would have to be a future agendized | 00:41:06 | |
item. So if there's an interest in that, we can we can put that on a future agenda if if there's an interest from council. | 00:41:13 | |
Thank you. | 00:41:20 | |
Had one more common if I may. | 00:41:21 | |
Louis is gone now, but Mr. Mendez had brought up the value of volunteers and I just wanted to emphasize of the value that | 00:41:24 | |
volunteer groups brought to our city in helping not only the Winemie Bay residents, but also. | 00:41:31 | |
Via Seville and the residents on Evergreen. | 00:41:40 | |
And I have some information here that they estimate has of today they have donated 256 hours. | 00:41:43 | |
Of assisting households. This is a volunteer hours donated. | 00:41:52 | |
Umcor and Team Rubic. | 00:41:57 | |
And when I calculated it out, they actually calculate it less than what caretakers get and if the amount is 3180. | 00:42:00 | |
An hour. So that comes out to 8140. | 00:42:08 | |
And that can actually be used against the federal share of when we go into request reimbursement. So I'll get those that | 00:42:12 | |
information to you Mr. City Manager, so we can include that in our financial documentation. | 00:42:18 | |
Thank you. | 00:42:25 | |
Any other questions? Comments? | 00:42:28 | |
OK. We will move on to. | 00:42:34 | |
We're going to take a vote, a public comment. Oh, we do. I'm off tonight. Yes. Do we have any public comments? We do have a public | 00:42:38 | |
comment from Martin Sanchez. OK. | 00:42:42 | |
Excuse my ignorance, this is the first time I've ever addressed a group like this, so please excuse if I don't follow your | 00:42:55 | |
protocols. | 00:42:59 | |
Good evening, Mayor and council. | 00:43:05 | |
I'm a resident of Scott St. and Shrub Side. | 00:43:07 | |
And what I've heard up to now, it really hasn't even addressed the issues that we have on that street. | 00:43:12 | |
My main concerns. | 00:43:20 | |
And some questions. | 00:43:23 | |
The pump. | 00:43:25 | |
Everyone is referring. | 00:43:28 | |
The Inc. | 00:43:30 | |
December 20. | 00:43:32 | |
I remember that. | 00:43:34 | |
Around one 2:00 in the morning, my daughter woke up and she says, Dad, we. | 00:43:39 | |
So I got up and accidentally. | 00:43:44 | |
That was the second time that's happened. It happened in 1990. | 00:43:48 | |
And but this time it was a lot worse. | 00:43:52 | |
I put on my hip waiters and went about to see what. | 00:43:55 | |
The issue was. | 00:43:59 | |
It's a good thing that the pump house was. | 00:44:01 | |
And I could see it. | 00:44:04 | |
I walked on the high side of the lots on. | 00:44:05 | |
South side of the street, which is a little bit higher. | 00:44:09 | |
Walking in a sidewalk and how to get the water inside my boots. | 00:44:13 | |
So anyway, I was able to make it to the Creek. | 00:44:17 | |
And I could see that the pump house was. | 00:44:20 | |
However. | 00:44:23 | |
That pump house was no longer pumping anymore. | 00:44:26 | |
And consequently the level of the water. | 00:44:29 | |
Continue to increase and even if it stopped. | 00:44:35 | |
The water level raised. | 00:44:39 | |
The water had no place. | 00:44:41 | |
And we need to remember that the. | 00:44:43 | |
Drainage for that. | 00:44:48 | |
From Pleasant Valley Rd. | 00:44:51 | |
On the. | 00:44:54 | |
Why Nimi wrote on the South. | 00:44:56 | |
And Ventura Rd. on the. | 00:44:59 | |
And the city boundary on J Street. | 00:45:02 | |
All those. | 00:45:06 | |
Lead up to Scott. | 00:45:08 | |
Ultimately to the pump. | 00:45:11 | |
So if that pump house is not working. | 00:45:13 | |
We're. | 00:45:16 | |
And it's not. | 00:45:18 | |
Big storm like one and 24 on 20. | 00:45:20 | |
For it to happen again. | 00:45:23 | |
Because if the water has no place to go. | 00:45:25 | |
That water level is going. | 00:45:28 | |
And we're going to have the same. | 00:45:31 | |
I apologize for not having put my my comments on the beginning like the other lady did, but like I said, this is my first time in | 00:45:33 | |
addressing this this body, and now I was not. | 00:45:39 | |
Constant of the procedures anyway, I mean yeah we on our addition in the back which is in a slab and the front which is on race | 00:45:46 | |
found. | 00:45:51 | |
The water went inside the vent holes on the front of the part of the house. | 00:45:56 | |
And a whole addition in the. | 00:46:01 | |
We got about. | 00:46:04 | |
Just enough to damage the drywall. | 00:46:06 | |
And I've been removing the bottom portion of the drywall and the insulation. | 00:46:09 | |
We had to move all the furniture from those two rooms on the bottom. | 00:46:16 | |
To the front of the part of the house, so we're kind of scudding. | 00:46:20 | |
With passageways block. | 00:46:24 | |
We gotta. | 00:46:27 | |
Stuff out safe. | 00:46:29 | |
So that's. | 00:46:30 | |
Argument that I have and bring you to your attention. | 00:46:35 | |
It's not gonna take. | 00:46:40 | |
A big storm for that to happen again. | 00:46:42 | |
If that pump house is not. | 00:46:45 | |
So my quest. | 00:46:47 | |
Why wasn't the pump working in the latter part of the special event? | 00:46:50 | |
Has it been repaired? | 00:46:56 | |
And what contingency plans do you guys have? Does the city? | 00:46:59 | |
So that the pump house. | 00:47:02 | |
Will continue to work even if there's a power outage. | 00:47:04 | |
There seems to be some sort of. | 00:47:08 | |
Bypass. | 00:47:12 | |
Put. | 00:47:14 | |
I did pump house but I don't know if it's working or not. | 00:47:16 | |
That's my second question. | 00:47:19 | |
Thank you. At this time Council is not able to respond to your questions, but staff has taken note of it. | 00:47:21 | |
We'll have our public works department get back to you. | 00:47:29 | |
Not this last time last late last year, but the previous time that the Creek was clean. | 00:47:33 | |
I made a point of watching what they were doing and. | 00:47:39 | |
I can't recall his name. He's from Public Works and. | 00:47:42 | |
I addressed their issue with him. I asked him, what are your plans for the pump? | 00:47:47 | |
He says well, if there's no. | 00:47:52 | |
How we? | 00:47:55 | |
Well, that's why you. | 00:47:56 | |
To retrofit it so that you can hook up a. | 00:47:59 | |
And then, of course, the sea has to have a contingency plan. | 00:48:01 | |
To have a. | 00:48:04 | |
Agenda available to hook it up and that can be done because there's numerous contractors that rent out those specific generators | 00:48:07 | |
for that. And we do have some protocols in place, some mobile pumps and things like that. You mentioned earlier that you don't | 00:48:12 | |
come to the meetings much. | 00:48:17 | |
We aren. | 00:48:22 | |
The council is not able to respond and and we're not able to get into a back and forth at this point. But I'll have the public | 00:48:24 | |
works department follow up with you. We have your contact information and I do appreciate that they brought up. | 00:48:29 | |
Portable Pump. | 00:48:36 | |
But that portable pump, probably from the distance like I was probably about an 8 inch. | 00:48:38 | |
Pipe those pump houses, they have two 12 or 20 inch pipes coming out. | 00:48:43 | |
And also at the same. | 00:48:50 | |
What maintenance does the pump house have? | 00:48:53 | |
Are the galleries clean out each year? | 00:48:56 | |
And and so we'll get somebody in touch with you. You can answer all your questions. | 00:48:59 | |
Local residents in the area, we've been talking. | 00:49:04 | |
So I decided I would come in. So I. | 00:49:07 | |
Gotta bring some questions or in answers to them. OK, thank you. That we have on on the agenda a flood update, so could could we | 00:49:10 | |
not? | 00:49:14 | |
Have a little back and forth, or at least a discussion on the pumps and and. | 00:49:19 | |
Because I do know there's a number, there's a series of pumps. | 00:49:23 | |
That operate on the lower side of town. | 00:49:26 | |
And so I understood. | 00:49:30 | |
The other pumps got clogged. | 00:49:32 | |
And that stopped them for some so. | 00:49:34 | |
Yeah, but am I correct that we? | 00:49:38 | |
This is a flood presentation update can so we could talk about it under the flood item, I don't know did we go to, did we did a | 00:49:41 | |
vote start and are we able to keep talking? I'm not sure where we were at. | 00:49:46 | |
We are able to keep talking. This is a receive and file item so there is no action to be taken. The only question that I really | 00:49:52 | |
have is. | 00:49:56 | |
Looking at the description of the agenda item getting into causes of floods versus the update of it, it doesn't seem to be as | 00:50:01 | |
specific as I would like it for a Brown Axe compliance issue, so I would recommend that if this was going to be spoken about, I'm | 00:50:07 | |
sure there are other people who viewed. | 00:50:13 | |
This agenda item who may or may not have shown up if they recognize that the city was going to be talking specifically about the | 00:50:20 | |
pumps and we're not afforded the opportunity to do so. | 00:50:24 | |
So. | 00:50:34 | |
I think what I can do is ask Public Works if there's a quick simple statement we can provide. I think my quick simple statement is | 00:50:36 | |
just going to be I've heard thousands of different reasons why the flood happened and the the answer is the flood happened because | 00:50:41 | |
3 inches of rain fell fell in an hour. | 00:50:47 | |
And and you know the. | 00:50:52 | |
Pumps like like we talked about the county channel, there was nowhere for the water to go. You know that just seems to be what the | 00:50:57 | |
counties said and everything else. So I think. | 00:51:01 | |
We I can ask the public works department if there's a very simple statement, I think to the city attorney's concern of not making | 00:51:08 | |
this an item that's focused on one drain and and we are, we also aren't. | 00:51:14 | |
Prepared to just analyze a drain on the spot. So is you know Fred, are you aware of any issues there? Is there anything you can? | 00:51:20 | |
Provide any statement you can provide related to that. | 00:51:29 | |
Good evening Mayor, Council, Mayor Pro Tem. | 00:51:42 | |
Yes. | 00:51:47 | |
We're monitoring the event not only at that particular pump station, but others. | 00:51:50 | |
Exist, as was mentioned, the county. | 00:51:56 | |
Is the one that receives all of the water ultimately that drains the entire corridor. The whining me drain. | 00:51:59 | |
The station that's right there off of Surfside. | 00:52:06 | |
That's. | 00:52:09 | |
To. | 00:52:12 | |
There's a series of catch basins that run through that area. | 00:52:13 | |
And funnel that water to the pump. | 00:52:18 | |
Those pumps, we have 3 pumps in that station. | 00:52:22 | |
One of them is to handle what we call nuisance blows where? | 00:52:26 | |
A lighter. | 00:52:30 | |
That pump will go ahead and trigger and pump that. | 00:52:32 | |
When we get heavier events, we. | 00:52:35 | |
Have the other two. | 00:52:39 | |
20 inch. | 00:52:41 | |
Pumps that are able to turn on and. | 00:52:43 | |
Massive amounts of water. | 00:52:46 | |
Part of the design on that station when it was built, which was in 1956. | 00:52:49 | |
Was designed for what was in place at that time. | 00:52:54 | |
So. | 00:53:00 | |
We've repaired replaced those pumps. | 00:53:03 | |
Night 2013, we replaced both those pumps brand new. | 00:53:07 | |
We put in a new control panel which operates the level sensors. | 00:53:11 | |
And the controls that houses the controls that. | 00:53:16 | |
Runs those pumps. | 00:53:21 | |
What our staff noted when they went out there, because we checked that station weekly, whether it's the summer or the winter, it | 00:53:23 | |
gets checked every week to make sure that those pumps operate. | 00:53:28 | |
So even in the summer time, when there's no water in them, the station will be turned on. Each pump will be turned on. | 00:53:34 | |
Briefly, they're not meant to operate in a dry condition. | 00:53:40 | |
So they they get turned on just to make sure that the bearings don't freeze. | 00:53:45 | |
The. The. | 00:53:51 | |
Mechanical things that might bind if you don't run them periodically. | 00:53:54 | |
Those stay running. | 00:54:00 | |
They have different fittings for. | 00:54:02 | |
To keep stuff lubricated. | 00:54:06 | |
And then in the winter time. | 00:54:09 | |
Obviously, when storm events happen, they're. | 00:54:12 | |
But here, regardless of what time of year it is, they get checked weekly. | 00:54:15 | |
We did note that there were some problems with pumps when we spoke with the. | 00:54:21 | |
And they were having some issues. | 00:54:27 | |
Debris getting stuck into. | 00:54:30 | |
Pumps which bounded. | 00:54:32 | |
Shafts are wrapped around the shafts which sees the. | 00:54:35 | |
They do have an emergency pump out there, which they got. | 00:54:39 | |
But with the amount of rain that fell that fast, the time it took them to get. | 00:54:43 | |
Those things assembled that are meant for an emergency purpose. | 00:54:48 | |
The water had already backed up so much that it actually. | 00:54:53 | |
Reached. | 00:54:58 | |
Which posed another. | 00:54:59 | |
Once the Creek breaches and in that particular area there where the pump station is. | 00:55:02 | |
That water drains to that same station, So what happens is. | 00:55:09 | |
Even if the pumps are working, they're pumping the water into a Creek that's already overflowed its bank. | 00:55:13 | |
And that water just recirculates, so it's not doing anything. | 00:55:20 | |
But continuing to sit in one area. | 00:55:24 | |
Part of. | 00:55:28 | |
Could possibly have. | 00:55:30 | |
Prevented Had the county station been operating? | 00:55:33 | |
At its. | 00:55:36 | |
But that didn't happen. They had debris get stuck and it caused pumps to seize and it was only capable of moving so much water. | 00:55:38 | |
Thank you, Fred. And I'm just going to make. | 00:55:46 | |
We've been asked a lot of questions about county, county drain and county practices and county maintenance. | 00:55:48 | |
And we've been pretty adamant about telling people that we should not speculate as the city. We don't know those things for sure | 00:55:55 | |
and we don't know what their standard practices are for sure. So we are advising people to reach out to the county if they have | 00:55:59 | |
those questions. | 00:56:04 | |
Thank you. | 00:56:09 | |
That concludes public comment. | 00:56:18 | |
Thank you. So this is the. | 00:56:21 | |
We need to take a vote on this, don't we? No, it's just a receiving. | 00:56:25 | |
Oh, OK. | 00:56:29 | |
Got it. | 00:56:31 | |
The only vote would be if there was any additional direction to be provided. Got it? | 00:56:32 | |
So item number 10 is going to be the award of contract to Staples Construction Inc for the Bubbling Springs Park renovation | 00:56:38 | |
project. | 00:56:42 | |
In the amount of 11,452,430. | 00:56:46 | |
Dollars, which is the base bid plus ad plus alternatives. | 00:56:52 | |
And approve a 10% construction contingency of $1,145,243 for the building Springs renovation project. | 00:56:57 | |
Thank you. | 00:57:08 | |
We have a presentation we're going to provide here in a minute and to sort of remind people what the Bubbling Springs Park project | 00:57:11 | |
is and what's included in the bid. | 00:57:15 | |
But the this item is to award the contract because we went to bid as approved by the council on November 6th and we received bids | 00:57:20 | |
and we are now recommending. | 00:57:26 | |
Awarding a contract to Staples Construction. | 00:57:31 | |
In the amount of $11,093,442. | 00:57:36 | |
Plus some add alternate items that we'll discuss here in a moment. | 00:57:42 | |
As probably most people recall, this project is being funded by some ARPA funds and and some grant funds. So it's on a tight | 00:57:48 | |
timeline that we have to stick to. We've been aggressive to stay on that timeline. The most recent step in the process, as I | 00:57:55 | |
mentioned was November 6th when the council authorized staff to prepare and release a request for proposals. | 00:58:03 | |
And so we are back today to talk about the bids and recommend moving forward with one of those bids. | 00:58:11 | |
And so to give a quick overview, I'm going to ask our Housing and Facilities Director, Gabby Basua to highlight the project. | 00:58:18 | |
Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members. | 00:58:33 | |
This this evening I'm going to be presenting a PowerPoint presentation. But before I start, I just want to make sure I let you all | 00:58:37 | |
know we did have a bid protest. | 00:58:42 | |
On this. | 00:58:49 | |
Project. So what? What does that mean? That just means that another person that bid on this project. Sorry, this microphone. | 00:58:51 | |
Basically said that the bid by Staples. | 00:59:00 | |
Was not consist. | 00:59:04 | |
We have gone ahead and vetted that internally with the City attorney and we are recommending that you deny the bid protest and | 00:59:07 | |
that you do award this contract to Staples and you will find more information in regards to that in the staff report. | 00:59:15 | |
So with that, the PowerPoint presentation before you is a recap of the bubbling Springs project along with add alternates that we | 00:59:26 | |
will be asking you to approve tonight. | 00:59:32 | |
In front of you, I'm Georgiana. Should have handed you 2. | 00:59:40 | |
Yes, 2 sheets there. It has fiscal impact on top. I just went ahead and pulled these two slides from this presentation. I just | 00:59:44 | |
thought it would be a lot easier for you to have a visual on the impact as I go through the presentation that that's all that's | 00:59:51 | |
intended to do. But those slides are part of this presentation. | 00:59:58 | |
There we go. | 01:00:16 | |
So to recap. | 01:00:17 | |
We are going to be renovating the entire Bubbling Springs Park and it includes the renovation of four multi use ball fields, the | 01:00:21 | |
expansion of one ball field. | 01:00:26 | |
And the addition of. | 01:00:33 | |
Other improvements includes new fencing and warm up areas, new backstops. | 01:00:36 | |
New outfield irrigation system and new dug. | 01:00:41 | |
The most important thing to note here within this scope is that staff is requesting. | 01:00:45 | |
The ad alternate of adding an additional sports lighting to the T-ball field. | 01:00:52 | |
So currently we have 4. | 01:00:58 | |
Fields only three are includ. | 01:01:01 | |
Lighting. | 01:01:05 | |
So in order for us to have a more inclusive area, staff is recommending the addition. | 01:01:06 | |
Of lighting in the T-ball field That comes at a price of $91,997. | 01:01:14 | |
So if that if it is your desire tonight not to approve that we will only have lighting in three fields. | 01:01:22 | |
And not the 4th 1:00. | 01:01:30 | |
The other thing to note within this slide is. | 01:01:32 | |
The We did ask for an ad alternate of synthetic. | 01:01:36 | |
And that would be on the baseball fields only in the infield. | 01:01:41 | |
Staff is recommending that you do not approve that and the reason behind that it's just one the cost and it would just be again | 01:01:46 | |
more inclusive and we just do the entire thing with with natural grass. | 01:01:52 | |
Then we are also adding trash enclosures. | 01:02:05 | |
Much if I can get this thing to. | 01:02:09 | |
I can. The base bid includes a trash enclosure. | 01:02:12 | |
Within J. | 01:02:16 | |
Area here, this is J Street and then this is Park. | 01:02:18 | |
This appear is barred. We are proposing to add two additional in trash closures 1 located near the. | 01:02:23 | |
Barred parking lot and another one near what is going to be the dog park and soccer fields. | 01:02:32 | |
That comes at a cost of 112,861 and staff is requesting that in order to make staff job obviously a little bit more effective. | 01:02:39 | |
Otherwise staff is going when they're out there doing their cleanups, they're going to have to travel. | 01:02:48 | |
All this? | 01:02:59 | |
To get to the trash. | 01:03:02 | |
So that that is why we are recommending that we add the two additional trash enclosures. | 01:03:05 | |
Next thing is we are going to be renovating this what we're calling the Sports Plaza that comes with concessions community. | 01:03:14 | |
Room storage building and which I'm really excited about a restroom building in that area. | 01:03:23 | |
It's going to have the ability to store the baseball equipment. It's going to be able to hold a meeting there. | 01:03:30 | |
We are asking for two additional items within this area. | 01:03:39 | |
One is the at alternate #4. It's the addition of a batting cage. | 01:03:44 | |
That actually came at a cost of $0.00. So we are asking for a request to approve that the AD Alternate #5 is adding a remote | 01:03:49 | |
lighting control system to the baseball and soccer field, and that is at a price tag of 5000. | 01:03:57 | |
854. | 01:04:05 | |
Next thing is we are going to be constructing a new inclusive playground. It is very important to know that the playground itself, | 01:04:13 | |
as far as the equipment, is not included in this base price. | 01:04:20 | |
Staff plans to go out for an. | 01:04:27 | |
In order to procure the playground. | 01:04:31 | |
And that RFP will be coming back to you at a later date. | 01:04:34 | |
This is another item where we are going to be constructing 2 picnic areas with within Bubbling Springs Park and they're supposed | 01:04:41 | |
to be shaded areas. | 01:04:47 | |
One thing to note is that this here is what we call a cloth shade structure. That is what's included in the base price. | 01:04:55 | |
Staff is recommending that you author. | 01:05:06 | |
Us to spend 148,278 to upgrade the structure to a wood frame masonry shade structure. We would we believe this is more cost | 01:05:09 | |
effective in the long run for staff. It's going to be easier A to maintain. We run a possibility which it has happened in other | 01:05:17 | |
cities if we go with the cloth. | 01:05:25 | |
Of it being damaged and vandalized. | 01:05:33 | |
And if that was to happen, the price tag on that I believe came up like $35,000 just to replace one. | 01:05:37 | |
Can I quickly just note it right there? I think this is a good example of just so everybody kind of understands what we were | 01:05:47 | |
trying to do. | 01:05:51 | |
When we went to bid, we tried to bid out in some of these cases. | 01:05:55 | |
The bid and then an altern. | 01:05:59 | |
Knowing that one was going to be more expensive. | 01:06:01 | |
But trying to see how big of a difference it was and if the cost savings of the maintenance and everything would justify it. | 01:06:04 | |
And so this was a good example because I think our original goal and our original plans was to have that wooden shade structure we | 01:06:12 | |
bit out both knowing that the project was. | 01:06:17 | |
Coming in expensive. | 01:06:23 | |
To see if the savings would be a big difference. | 01:06:24 | |
And then when we got it back and they weren't as far apart as we thought and then we realized all of the maintenance costs with | 01:06:27 | |
the shade structure, we're just recommending to continue with the original night. What I would say is nicer wood. | 01:06:33 | |
Structure and so just that's sort of how we looked at a lot of these alternate options. We're trying to look for options to find | 01:06:40 | |
some savings and if it didn't really result in very much savings, then we didn't recommend cutting the item basically. | 01:06:47 | |
The next thing that we're adding to the Bubbling Springs project is a large dog park, a small dog park. | 01:06:57 | |
Which is going to have drinking fountains and lit walk. | 01:07:03 | |
And we are improving the new storm drainage. | 01:07:07 | |
The next thing is this what we're calling the multi use soccer football field. | 01:07:13 | |
This is the only area within a part within the park that it will have synthetic turf. | 01:07:20 | |
As part of the proposed scope of work, so this is already included. | 01:07:27 | |
Bit in the base bid and the reason behind that is because it is going to be a multi use. So soccer and football have different | 01:07:32 | |
regulations. This will allow us to bring in the synthetic field and have the linings that you see if we choose not to do this or | 01:07:39 | |
if you choose that this is not something that you want to do. What's going to happen is we're going to have an open area of grass | 01:07:46 | |
and it won't, we will have to go and chalk it. | 01:07:52 | |
Every time somebody wants to use it for soccer, for football, it would just be. | 01:08:00 | |
Piece of grass. | 01:08:05 | |
So this again is part of the proposed scope of work, and it's already within the basement. | 01:08:07 | |
We're renovating the landscape throughout the park, new irrigation throughout. | 01:08:16 | |
And increasing the number of. | 01:08:20 | |
We are constructed constructing exercise stations and walking circuits throughout the park. | 01:08:24 | |
And we're also bringing in a lot of sidewalks. There will be accessibility throughout the park now. | 01:08:31 | |
With sidewalks. | 01:08:39 | |
The Community Center parking lot is getting a facelift. Very much needed facelift and is going to make ADA accessible. | 01:08:43 | |
Now for the fun part. | 01:08:53 | |
Fiscal. | 01:08:56 | |
Council has already. | 01:08:59 | |
Appropriated $7.5 million from the grant, plus they've already appropriated 2.87. | 01:09:01 | |
Million from ARPA funding. | 01:09:10 | |
Tonight we're here. We're asking you to appropriate. | 01:09:13 | |
$65,000. | 01:09:18 | |
That $65,000 is from the Winimi Beach Playground. | 01:09:20 | |
We found bond proceeds that we can use. | 01:09:26 | |
Instead of ARPA money. So we would just like you to reallocate those. | 01:09:29 | |
We also have $75,000 of ARPA unappropriated. | 01:09:34 | |
Allocation still available, we are asking for those additional fund. | 01:09:41 | |
The Measure U project Within your staff report you will find a little bit more information in regards to that. The Measure you | 01:09:46 | |
committee has requested that we appropriate the $1.7 million that. | 01:09:53 | |
Currently in in our unassigned balance fund that is measure you money for this project. | 01:10:01 | |
And staff is also asking for the 3.1 to $4 million from the unassigned fund balance. | 01:10:08 | |
Given us a total of 15. | 01:10:20 | |
So how, how? How did we get here? | 01:10:27 | |
So this is what staff is working on for the entire budget for this park. We are asking for the $11,452,432.00 which includes. | 01:10:31 | |
The base. | 01:10:47 | |
And the alternates that we just went through, which includes alternate #1, which is the T-ball sporting light. | 01:10:50 | |
The trash enclosures the batting cage. | 01:11:01 | |
The remote lighting control and the shade. | 01:11:04 | |
We have a We're asking for a contingency. | 01:11:08 | |
Of 1.145 that is 10% of the project. It is my hope. | 01:11:11 | |
And I'm really hoping we don't touch this money. | 01:11:20 | |
It is cont. | 01:11:23 | |
In order to pay. | 01:11:25 | |
Things that we might find that we were not expecting. | 01:11:27 | |
The remaining construction buyout, What does that mean? | 01:11:32 | |
That means. | 01:11:35 | |
We still have to pay for Boring Line connections, Edison meters, and monument signs, and that is what we're calling remaining | 01:11:38 | |
construction Buyout. We have about $56,000 still that still need to be allocated to these items here. | 01:11:46 | |
Then we have the remaining city furnished equipment. That means we have the playground equipment that I just said we needed to | 01:11:55 | |
purchase. We have to purchase benches we've got to purchase. | 01:12:01 | |
The appliances for the snack bar. | 01:12:09 | |
We've. | 01:12:12 | |
Outdoor fitness equipment, those are all items that staff will be procuring in house that we have not procured yet. So that's our | 01:12:15 | |
budget for that. And then we have the project soft cost which includes all our consultants. | 01:12:21 | |
And we've got additional meters coming in also that is part of this. We have spectrum gas, we've got the CSG consultants, American | 01:12:29 | |
Environmental, we've got our American. | 01:12:36 | |
Native American monitoring that we still need to. | 01:12:44 | |
So all that, that's what we're calling the project soft. | 01:12:47 | |
Is at 1.9 million. | 01:12:51 | |
And we have a total. | 01:12:53 | |
Budget at $15,360,753. | 01:12:56 | |
Thank you, Miss Basua and I'm available to answer any questions you may have. Council have any questions? | 01:13:04 | |
I have one question. | 01:13:12 | |
How important is the T-ball sport lighting? I'm just curious, is it going to be used or? | 01:13:15 | |
I mean, I'm just curious. I mean, I think it's a great idea. I think they should have lighting. But I'm just T-ball. I don't. | 01:13:21 | |
We we we believe it's it. | 01:13:27 | |
It's it'll it'll be inclusive it'll make the park a whole so at least the Sports Complex side of it because then we will have 3 | 01:13:30 | |
fields with lights and then one at the. | 01:13:36 | |
And that'll be. | 01:13:42 | |
Yeah, yeah, I think that's part of it is, you know, you're going to look at the baseball fields and you're going to see one that's | 01:13:44 | |
missing something. Yeah. And I think and and and this is just my opinion, you know, you might have our resident that said what? | 01:13:50 | |
Why did it? Did they forget to add lights? | 01:13:57 | |
We just want to make sure if it's the desire of the council not to have them, that's perfectly fine, we can remove it and that is | 01:13:59 | |
part of this discussion now is this is the opportunity. If there is anything that we've added that the council would like to | 01:14:05 | |
remove that this is an opportunity to discuss those. Or alternatively if council wants to add the item we didn't recommend would | 01:14:10 | |
be the other one. | 01:14:15 | |
I think the last just point on that too is we were talking about that that was one that was probably the one that was the that we | 01:14:21 | |
were sort of torn on ourselves. | 01:14:25 | |
And I think one point is particularly in this time of year, it gets dark at 5:00 PM, you know, for several months here. And so you | 01:14:30 | |
know, at first we were like, well, the kids that are T-ball aged aren't going to go out and play in the dark, but. | 01:14:37 | |
Time. Like right now when it's 5:00 PM and it's dark. Kids might want to go out and practice. Still, so. | 01:14:46 | |
Have the whining me Little League. | 01:14:53 | |
Weighed in on the T-ball lights. We did, we did ask, I believe. | 01:14:57 | |
Yes, I'm sure it is an amenity they would love. | 01:15:05 | |
But underst. | 01:15:07 | |
If it's not possible, if you don't want it, we can save 90 grand. So tell us if we're wrong. | 01:15:09 | |
Yeah, I I think encouraging T Ballers to play. | 01:15:16 | |
T-ball is probably a good idea. | 01:15:20 | |
Right. I mean if it gets used right? | 01:15:23 | |
It does get used. So good evening everybody. | 01:15:26 | |
I believe during our first conversations. | 01:15:29 | |
That was one of the first things. | 01:15:32 | |
I thought, they're gonna cut back on. That's gonna be the first thing that gets chopped. | 01:15:35 | |
But and and everything made sense and I know that we said. | 01:15:40 | |
If the budget allows, of course we would love. | 01:15:44 | |
We there's two divisions that play in left field T-ball, which usually requires about an hour play. | 01:15:47 | |
And then our machine pitch division, they do go about an hour and 30 minutes, so we work. | 01:15:54 | |
Gonna cut that. Like, really, really close. | 01:16:01 | |
Hey, you guys have to hurry. | 01:16:05 | |
Because the field is going to be. | 01:16:07 | |
But it would allow. | 01:16:09 | |
Won tournaments, which is one of the things that we're hoping that we get more people to come out here because we would we would | 01:16:10 | |
be hosting. | 01:16:14 | |
Now with our extended major field be able to have more tournaments, I'm right now trying to see how I could keep Blackstock in the | 01:16:18 | |
back pocket to be able to expand. | 01:16:23 | |
A little bit further and bringing more awareness to poor whining me and we we post these Flyers with. | 01:16:29 | |
You could drive to the beach in 5 minutes. You know it's. | 01:16:35 | |
But back to the lighting. Yes, we would like that. Any chance we could have AT Ball World Series? | 01:16:39 | |
They would probably be a lot more fun to watch than the other ones. | 01:16:46 | |
Are you done with your questions? | 01:16:52 | |
OK. Thank you, Miss Pasua, for your presentation, I. | 01:16:57 | |
When we look at these dollar amounts. | 01:17:01 | |
They're a little scary considering our budget. | 01:17:04 | |
I I'm looking at the original allocation and it looks like it's about 10 million, three 70. | 01:17:07 | |
And then the final amount looks like we're asking for. | 01:17:16 | |
Is it maybe 5 million, close to 5 million, more, close to 5 million? | 01:17:21 | |
So we're looking for an additional 5 million approximately. | 01:17:26 | |
And three million of that. | 01:17:30 | |
You're asking to come from the unassigned fund balance, so my question. | 01:17:34 | |
What is currently in the unassigned fund balance? Because I know that that account is dwindling. Yeah. And part of why we are, | 01:17:38 | |
part of why we've been talking about the budget and what we're trying to prepare for is that. | 01:17:44 | |
Projects went up 40 to 50% during COVID. | 01:17:53 | |
And since COVID I have, I haven't seen them come back down yet. So you know, I looked and I saw this project was budgeted at $10 | 01:17:57 | |
million a few years back and it's, you know, right off the bat we said add 40 to 50% and sure enough we come back and it's 50%. | 01:18:05 | |
So we knew that was coming. It's part of why we had the budget discussions, because I expected that we're gonna have to take, | 01:18:14 | |
we're gonna have to have money in the unassigned fund balance to use for this project. | 01:18:20 | |
And that's why we had that prioritization discussion of the CIP and what items are really priority this year because we need to | 01:18:26 | |
clear some funding for these projects. | 01:18:30 | |
So we've been all those discussions have been working towards this and so. | 01:18:35 | |
We were able to reduce our budget impact by about $1,000,000. | 01:18:40 | |
Council meeting we're bringing more adjustments and recommendations back to try to. | 01:18:45 | |
Clear another $1,000,000 in the budget. | 01:18:51 | |
But so as of this moment prior to that $1,000,000. | 01:18:55 | |
There's funding. | 01:18:59 | |
After this project. | 01:19:02 | |
After after we pay for everything, we'd have $5.5 million in the unassigned fund balance. | 01:19:04 | |
And so, is that less than I would like? Yes. Is it? | 01:19:11 | |
You know, closer than I would have been comfortable with, yes, but at this point? | 01:19:17 | |
You know we're we're into the project, we have grant funding that's close to expiring that we need to keep moving forward for. So | 01:19:23 | |
our recommendation is prioritize this project and some other things we'll have to get pushed back a couple years and and use that | 01:19:29 | |
funding to get this project done. So that's part of that whole kind of. | 01:19:34 | |
The All the budget reviews and everything we've been doing. | 01:19:41 | |
So is it possible that? | 01:19:45 | |
Part of this project, some of the amenities that we're talking about here could be pushed back. | 01:19:47 | |
So we don't make. | 01:19:54 | |
Drastic impact. | 01:19:56 | |
Contingency. | 01:19:58 | |
Or the unassigned, may I, may I? So yes, to answer your question, yes. But what will happen is that our mobilization will be will | 01:20:00 | |
be higher. So for example, the trash enclosures, we already have construction crew out there. We've already mobilized them. It is | 01:20:08 | |
a lot less expensive for them to do it because they're doing other stuff if we've got to mobilize them again. | 01:20:15 | |
It's going to bring the price up. So the prices you're seeing here are not going to be the prices that you're going to get in 3-4 | 01:20:24 | |
years. | 01:20:27 | |
All right. Thank you. That makes sense. | 01:20:32 | |
Then my I think my final question is, is the playground. So if we're taking. | 01:20:34 | |
The monies or the funds from the Wine Amy Beach Playground? Does that mean that we are not going to do the Wine Amy Beach | 01:20:41 | |
Playground? | 01:20:45 | |
No. So we are take, we are basically reallocating. | 01:20:49 | |
Bond proceeds that can be used only at Winemie Beach Park. So we are instead using the bond proceeds that we have available and | 01:20:54 | |
freeing up the ARPA funds for this project. OK, so. | 01:21:00 | |
Will we be hearing a report on the Winemay Beach Playground? | 01:21:09 | |
Soon, will there be a status report on? I don't, I don't expect an update on that soon. I think when we had our CIP discussion a | 01:21:12 | |
few months back and we talked about. | 01:21:18 | |
Really prioritizing all our staff but all our money and everything into this. | 01:21:23 | |
I think at that time. | 01:21:28 | |
We agreed. I don't know that everybody was happy with it, but we agreed that the whining me, some of the other projects like the | 01:21:29 | |
playground at the beach were going to get pushed back. | 01:21:33 | |
A year or two. So I. | 01:21:38 | |
I think our thought right. | 01:21:40 | |
We're all in on getting this project done and as soon as we get this done then we will start on the projects like the playground | 01:21:42 | |
at the beach. I only ask because I I think the public has an, you know, residents have an expectation that. | 01:21:48 | |
Playground is going to be built. | 01:21:55 | |
They're anxious for it and they're waiting for it. | 01:21:59 | |
Yeah, we could try to do some public relations too. I think we did. I think we created a flyer that had said what projects were | 01:22:03 | |
prioritized for this year and then which ones are going to be on hold. And we had done it right after that meeting. | 01:22:09 | |
And we could probably try to get that out and get it out in different ways and things. | 01:22:16 | |
Just to let people know and I if I'm remembering right, we had agreed to you know to prioritize this. And then we had talked about | 01:22:22 | |
doing some of the, the little things that we've done like getting the fire pits and things like that out is the immediate | 01:22:29 | |
improvements to the beach. And we also have the volleyball, two additional courts that are going to be coming. | 01:22:36 | |
And if I could just finish my statement here I, you know, I'm just concerned about. | 01:22:43 | |
The delay with the playground at the beach and it seems like the. | 01:22:47 | |
Comes up a lot. I mean is there any way that we. | 01:22:52 | |
Something, at least with the swings. Get the swing set back out there. Yes, the public works team. | 01:22:55 | |
Is working on bringing at least a Swing set back. | 01:23:03 | |
Yeah. So we did agree to kind of bring that. | 01:23:07 | |
With the rest of the playground pending, Yes, thank you. And we're probably gonna get told to get back on to get back on track. | 01:23:10 | |
I'm gonna ask Mr. | 01:23:15 | |
Do you have a question? | 01:23:21 | |
OK. OK, Go. | 01:23:23 | |
I just wanted to. The bigger issue is, is what we could afford and what we can't afford and I think previously we were being told | 01:23:28 | |
Skate Park, Beach Park, Bubbling Springs, you get it all. | 01:23:34 | |
And I really appreciate the fact that our city manager comes along and. | 01:23:40 | |
And kind of. | 01:23:45 | |
Tamp down those expectations because I think they were a little too too much. | 01:23:47 | |
And I do believe we all agreed to focus on Bubbling Springs because we have a very large grant. | 01:23:52 | |
And unfortunately, costs. | 01:23:58 | |
Exceeded so. | 01:24:00 | |
It's really important for us as a body to pay attention to our budget. | 01:24:03 | |
And take one step at a time and this is. | 01:24:08 | |
And then we can prioritize. And I just want to be realistic with the public. | 01:24:12 | |
You know, we're drawing down our general fund. | 01:24:18 | |
To a place that we'd rather not be. | 01:24:22 | |
And we're doing it for the betterment of the city with this wonderful big project. And so I think we should just focus on this | 01:24:25 | |
project and. | 01:24:29 | |
Get it done with the budget if possible. | 01:24:34 | |
And then we'll start building our our cost savings and building our unassigned fund. | 01:24:39 | |
For the future. | 01:24:46 | |
Any further questions from council? | 01:24:49 | |
Or comments? | 01:24:52 | |
I'll just end. | 01:24:53 | |
I heard mention of an MLB grant, potentially that we. | 01:24:56 | |
Yes. And we were trying to get that ready for this item and I may have even at one point when I sort of. | 01:25:00 | |
Listed the items that we are trying to bring back that might have been in in one of those communications, but I think it's going | 01:25:08 | |
to be on the February 20th agenda. | 01:25:12 | |
The timing should be OK, but it was a chicken or the egg. We needed to know all the details from this bid to then submit it to the | 01:25:17 | |
MLB Grant for the the. The goal is we're trying to apply for the MLB grant to get some of the baseball field amenities paid for. | 01:25:24 | |
So we will bring that on February 20th locked in because we'll have all the final bid numbers and everything so. | 01:25:32 | |
Yeah. My final final question is do we expect any more changes to this project, any more additions to it, because I think we've. | 01:25:42 | |
A couple of changes since we began. | 01:25:51 | |
Right now, we don't anticipate any additional budgetary. | 01:25:54 | |
We will be back though, so you can award the Native American monitoring contract there's there's things still that you are | 01:25:59 | |
approving. | 01:26:04 | |
And allocating the money for, but we don't have contracts for yet, so we will be returning. | 01:26:11 | |
For that this is the last. | 01:26:16 | |
Really big step. The last really big. | 01:26:18 | |
Once council approves the bid and at any ad alternates, we pretty much are going forward, full steam ahead and to the point where | 01:26:22 | |
we're talking about ground breaking on February 26th and we'll get some information out to everybody on that. But today's really | 01:26:30 | |
the last big council approval. So are you saying that you're coming back the remaining construction buyout you're going to be? | 01:26:38 | |
Are you coming back for that? So, So what we're asking for today is the entire 15,360,800 and within that, the only thing we still | 01:26:46 | |
have about, I'm going to say about $2,000,000 that we have not spent, that's we're waiting on contracts to come in. So you will be | 01:26:55 | |
seeing that in your City Council meetings, but on the fiscal side, we will be saying you have allocated this money already. | 01:27:04 | |
So we're not asking for more than the 15 minutes. And you found a source of funding for every single item that's on this? Yes. | 01:27:15 | |
Great. Thanks. | 01:27:18 | |
So inquiring minds want to know how do you get a batting cage for $0.00? | 01:27:23 | |
I think it's what Gabby said about they're already mobilizing. They're already out there with the equipment, the materials, | 01:27:28 | |
because batting cage is really. | 01:27:31 | |
Uh, chain link fence. | 01:27:35 | |
They're out there, but leftover material. We have the bids in there and one can do it out there free and the other one was not | 01:27:37 | |
free, not free. So, so with the free thought that was a no brainer. | 01:27:43 | |
I would just like to thank staff for all the work they've put into this. We know it's been a roller coaster since day one for good | 01:27:50 | |
reason. They've had a lot of. | 01:27:54 | |
Surprises with our budget, Surprises with. | 01:28:00 | |
But I want to thank them for their due diligence and everything they've put into this project. This is going to be probably one of | 01:28:03 | |
the biggest projects whining me has ever had. | 01:28:06 | |
Or at least in a long time. And I think when it's finally done, the community is. | 01:28:11 | |
Really happy to see it, so thank you for everything. | 01:28:15 | |
I want to say sue suck. That means good luck, good job in Vietnamese. I had to bring something back from Vietnam. It makes a good | 01:28:18 | |
job. Thank you. And just so the council is aware, you know, we have a large team behind this. It has been almost a year. | 01:28:26 | |
That we started the design process and it goes without saying that we have. | 01:28:34 | |
Very good consultants, but and we have a great awesome. | 01:28:41 | |
Here at the city, the public works team has been amazing. My facility staff, the Cummings Group. | 01:28:45 | |
We've got our architect file here and we're looking forward to working with Staples. | 01:28:53 | |
So it has been a team. | 01:29:01 | |
And I'm really proud to call Winemia Place that I. | 01:29:04 | |
We have amazing staff. | 01:29:10 | |
Thank you. | 01:29:12 | |
There any public comments? We have a public comment from David Scriven. | 01:29:14 | |
Good evening, everybody. | 01:29:26 | |
I had a bunch of things I was going to say. You've answered a lot of my questions up to this point. | 01:29:28 | |
My major consent, and I'm completely in favor of this project. It's my kids played ball over there. It's going to be a big | 01:29:33 | |
addition to the city. | 01:29:37 | |
I think that all the studies show if you give kids something to do, they do it and they stay out of trouble more or less. So I | 01:29:42 | |
think it's it's good all around. My concern is that we're spending ourselves down into nothing. | 01:29:49 | |
And if we're going to do this or you're going to vote for this, there needs to be some changes in. | 01:29:56 | |
Kind of how you're spending money moving forward. | 01:30:03 | |
Our revenues from. | 01:30:06 | |
The cannabis stuff are dropping down. | 01:30:09 | |
I'm on the measure you committee, we're expecting less money coming into that because the economy not a lot less but but a bit | 01:30:12 | |
less so. | 01:30:17 | |
We can all recall maybe 10 years ago when the city was out of money. | 01:30:24 | |
Stop. Stop doing things. Everything fell apart. It took many years to start bringing things back up and and you've done a good job | 01:30:29 | |
of the cities in good shape at this point where I can see but if we're down to $5 million. | 01:30:35 | |
That's one storm that knocks the pier down. That's one. | 01:30:43 | |
I don't know if we're going to get through this year given this atmospheric rivers that are coming through here, so. | 01:30:47 | |
I think it's really critical that you make decisions to cut back, spend less money. | 01:30:54 | |
Until we build that back up. | 01:31:00 | |
You know, if you can get it back to $10 million. | 01:31:03 | |
I don't really care what you spend the money on, but up until now you don't want the checkbook to go empty, so that's why I said | 01:31:07 | |
my concern. | 01:31:10 | |
Thank you. | 01:31:15 | |
OK, the recommendation is to. | 01:31:18 | |
Deny the untimely bid protests submitted by Environmental Construction Inc as to Staples Construction. | 01:31:24 | |
And award a construction contract to Staples Construction Inc for the Bubbling Springs Park renovation project in the amount of | 01:31:30 | |
$11 million. | 01:31:33 | |
$93,442. | 01:31:38 | |
Approve Add alternate #1 T-ball Sport lighting in the amount of $91,997. | 01:31:42 | |
Approve out alternate #3 trash enclosures in the amount of $112,871. | 01:31:49 | |
Approve Add alternate #4 Batting cage in the amount of. | 01:31:55 | |
Add, approve, add, alternate #5, remove lighting control, I'm sorry, remote lighting control in the amount of $5854. | 01:32:00 | |
Approve Add alternate #6 shade structure in the amounts of $148,278. | 01:32:10 | |
Authorize a 10% construction contingency in the amount of $1,143,243. | 01:32:17 | |
And authorize the city manager to execute to execute all applicable documents. | 01:32:25 | |
O moved. | 01:32:30 | |
We have. | 01:32:32 | |
2nd for all items. | 01:32:33 | |
All in favor. | 01:32:37 | |
Aye all. | 01:32:38 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 01:32:41 | |
Good job, staff. Thank you. | 01:32:44 | |
We'll move on to item number 11, which is the acquisition of Easement 1211 Evergreen Lane. Will staff please present. | 01:32:50 | |
Good evening Mayor Perez and honorable Council members. Miss Basua just gave us a wonderful update on. | 01:32:59 | |
All of the nice infrastructure we're going to have it bubbling springs. | 01:33:07 | |
Bubbling Springs will also have new restroom facilities and concession facilities. And this brings us to the. | 01:33:12 | |
More unsavory aspects of infrastructure and that is a sewer lateral line easement so that we can connect these new structures to | 01:33:20 | |
the sewer system in the city. And so staff had identified the most efficient route to connect the sewer lateral. | 01:33:27 | |
And that runs right through the property commonly known as 1211 Evergreen Lane. | 01:33:34 | |
And. | 01:33:40 | |
Public Works staff has made contact with the property owner, has discussed this with the property owner who was more than more | 01:33:42 | |
than amenable to granting such an easement in order to run that sewer lateral and allow the city to upkeep it and maintain it and | 01:33:46 | |
such. | 01:33:51 | |
And my understanding is there's a tacit agreement currently for $1000 for a grant of sewer lateral easement. | 01:33:55 | |
Which is drafted and part of the agenda packet And So what we're looking for now is authorization for the city manager or as | 01:34:03 | |
design. | 01:34:07 | |
To purchase this sewer lateral easement for $1000 and authorization to execute all documents and record set. | 01:34:11 | |
Thank you. Any questions or comments from staff from council? | 01:34:21 | |
Then there's no cost associated with doing this work. This is just. | 01:34:27 | |
$1000 for the. | 01:34:32 | |
Consideration for the acquisition for the acquisition of the property. | 01:34:35 | |
How? How will the line be established to tunneling Or I'm just curious? | 01:34:40 | |
Would be done through trenching. I can defer to our public works staff on that. | 01:34:46 | |
Board. | 01:34:52 | |
Totally. | 01:34:55 | |
OK. OK. Well. | 01:34:58 | |
I'll make. | 01:35:01 | |
Are there any public comments? No public comments. Thank you. We have a motion. | 01:35:04 | |
So moved. | 01:35:09 | |
2nd. | 01:35:12 | |
Madam Clerk. | 01:35:14 | |
All in favor. | 01:35:15 | |
Aye all. | 01:35:16 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 01:35:19 | |
The final Is that the final? | 01:35:24 | |
Yes. | 01:35:26 | |
Is the out-of-state travel request for Mayor Pro Tem McQueen, Lejeune and Councilmember Hernandez, Will staff please present the | 01:35:28 | |
report? Yes, thank you. | 01:35:32 | |
So there's. | 01:35:36 | |
Out of state travel requests for the same conference are the same trip. I'm sorry, the regional defense partnership lobbying trip. | 01:35:38 | |
And so there's a request from Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune to attend. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune is the primary representative | 01:35:47 | |
of the city to the regional defense partnership. | 01:35:53 | |
Board There's a request for Mayor Pro Tem to attend and. | 01:35:59 | |
I'll talk about the budget here in a second. | 01:36:05 | |
So there's that first request and then there's a second request, and that is the request for Councilmember Hernandez, who is our | 01:36:09 | |
alternate representative. | 01:36:13 | |
To attend the regional defense partnership trip to Washington, DC to also attend. | 01:36:18 | |
The reason why normally out-of-state travel requests are consent items on the agenda. | 01:36:24 | |
The reason why this is a business item relates to sort of a first time we've had. | 01:36:30 | |
This sort of budget question for the Council to consider. | 01:36:37 | |
And that is that typically how we budget for travel is each council member has a $3000. | 01:36:42 | |
Training budget. | 01:36:51 | |
And. | 01:36:52 | |
And typically if that. | 01:36:55 | |
If the training falls within that budget, it's typically included as a consent item for approval. | 01:36:58 | |
In this situation, we have. | 01:37:05 | |
Sort of a new question, which? | 01:37:07 | |
For mayor pro. | 01:37:13 | |
Trip, she is going to use that Councilmember training fund for a portion and then. | 01:37:14 | |
She is not asking for any additional funds for the amount that might exceed that council member training portion. | 01:37:20 | |
Essentially, that would be paid out of pocket. | 01:37:28 | |
For a council member Hernandez's request, the request is for. | 01:37:32 | |
To use the remainder of that $3000 training fund. | 01:37:36 | |
But then to. | 01:37:40 | |
A separate. | 01:37:43 | |
Budget a separate line item. | 01:37:45 | |
And that is a separate pooled travel fund that was created in this year's budget. | 01:37:47 | |
In this year's budget, the line item was created that includes $15,000. | 01:37:53 | |
It doesn't for just council member pooled travel. It doesn't say how it's to be used, how it's to be approved, if it's for any | 01:37:59 | |
specific purpose. | 01:38:04 | |
So this is the first request. | 01:38:09 | |
To use. | 01:38:12 | |
And essentially for staff purposes we need direction. | 01:38:13 | |
From the council on how they'd like to use that and if they'd like to use it for requests such as this. | 01:38:18 | |
So, so the pending question is essentially the two out-of-state travel requests and then. | 01:38:23 | |
The third. | 01:38:30 | |
If the council is willing to authorize the additional reimbursement of the $1000 that exceeds the individual travel. | 01:38:32 | |
Line item and that would come from the $15,000. | 01:38:40 | |
Travel line item. | 01:38:44 | |
Last point I'll make, just because we just talked about the budget, we are bringing a budget review back on March 20 or I'm sorry, | 01:38:46 | |
February 20th. | 01:38:50 | |
And just to all the points that were kind of made earlier in the. | 01:38:54 | |
Where we're looking to try to find additional savings to. | 01:38:59 | |
Balance the budget a little bit. | 01:39:04 | |
Better to cover the CIP costs and to. | 01:39:06 | |
Have more money in the unassigned fund balance for the projects like the ones we just discussed. | 01:39:10 | |
So that is being brought back and as part of that we are looking at things like the travel funds for employees and for the council | 01:39:15 | |
to to recommend some modifications. | 01:39:20 | |
So we're looking at that, but it's still the council's decision whether to approve the reimbursement of the $1000 in travel. | 01:39:26 | |
From that $15,000 pooled travel expense at this time? | 01:39:35 | |
May I? | 01:39:40 | |
I thought all those council members had a same budget for travel and conferences. Is that true? | 01:39:42 | |
My understanding is in past years there was a line item for each council member with the same amount for each council member. | 01:39:50 | |
This year, and I'm sorry if I didn't explain it clearly, but this year. | 01:39:57 | |
There was that $3000 for each council. | 01:40:01 | |
And then a. | 01:40:05 | |
Pooled travel fund of $15,000 but there was never criteria or. | 01:40:06 | |
The criteria that I recall is that we all have the same budget. | 01:40:12 | |
And I know there was a Cal Cities event that I was interested in maybe last year and. | 01:40:17 | |
City clerk says, well this is going to put you over. I said OK then I won't go. | 01:40:22 | |
So I think all our council members need. | 01:40:26 | |
Abide by that, especially in this budgetary time, then secondly. | 01:40:32 | |
Didn't we just send? | 01:40:36 | |
Team over to Washington DC with RDP 20. | 01:40:38 | |
No. So that there was a trip in August, I think it was it was the port city. | 01:40:42 | |
Committee went to Washington DC to do advocacy for the city in the in the port and partners, but that was not the same as RDP 21 | 01:40:51 | |
and then. | 01:40:55 | |
As it, I tried to review our. | 01:41:02 | |
Policy guide. I didn't see anything about alternate versus. | 01:41:04 | |
So do we have any precedent on that? | 01:41:09 | |
There's not. Uh. | 01:41:12 | |
The the terms primary and alternate. We have no definitions of. | 01:41:14 | |
How they're treated differently in situations like these? So it's purely up to the council. And then my last question is did I | 01:41:20 | |
hear you correctly in in that? | 01:41:24 | |
Our primary representative. | 01:41:29 | |
Mayor Pro Tem. | 01:41:32 | |
Lajon is going to pay out of her pocket to go the amount that exceeds the the budget amount. | 01:41:34 | |
That's my understanding, but I'll. | 01:41:41 | |
Yeah, that is correct. | 01:41:43 | |
I guess it was a couple of months back we had a discussion about our budget. | 01:41:46 | |
And I on that night committed to not exceeding my budget. | 01:41:50 | |
And so I'm sticking to that. So I have 500. | 01:41:55 | |
More in my budget. I will go on the trip, but I'll pay it out of my pocket. That's very admirable. | 01:41:59 | |
Appreciate that. Can I just? | 01:42:05 | |
Comment on a few things. | 01:42:08 | |
Or did you? | 01:42:10 | |
No, that's fine. OK, go ahead. OK, So I believe Mayor Pro Tem. | 01:42:12 | |
McQueen Le. | 01:42:20 | |
Had made that commitment prior to finding out that there was a line item in the City Council travel budget. | 01:42:21 | |
For 15,000. | 01:42:29 | |
I agree with the city manager that we don't know how that was supposed to be used. It looks like it's there for over. | 01:42:31 | |
I did. Umm. | 01:42:39 | |
In with the prior city. | 01:42:41 | |
Alert him to the need to budget for the RDP Washington DC trip because it had not been. | 01:42:43 | |
Budgeted in prior. | 01:42:50 | |
And it does force committee members to exceed their travel allocation of $3000. | 01:42:52 | |
I can only assume that that $15,000 was put in there for overages, but I don't know for sure. | 01:43:02 | |
But I did ask for it. I was told that they it would be done. But I I I don't know that where it was actually reflected. | 01:43:09 | |
In the travel. | 01:43:19 | |
As far as. | 01:43:21 | |
The issue between primary and alternates. | 01:43:25 | |
Issued I'd like. | 01:43:29 | |
I thought I'd like the council to entertain here. Is that we've overlooked. | 01:43:33 | |
The fact that while. | 01:43:38 | |
Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Leon. | 01:43:41 | |
Serves has the. | 01:43:44 | |
She is the primary for the general membership. | 01:43:46 | |
And I am the primary for I am her alternate for the general membership meetings, but I also the primary. | 01:43:50 | |
Which is a standing committee for the strategic committ. | 01:43:58 | |
And have been for four. | 01:44:02 | |
So in that capacity has a primary on the strategic planning committee. | 01:44:06 | |
I believe. | 01:44:13 | |
We should for all. | 01:44:15 | |
Have the support, the financial support to carry out our. | 01:44:18 | |
This kind of reminds me of the discussion that we had with a sister city program where two of us were placed on that committee. | 01:44:22 | |
We volunteer graciously to do this job. | 01:44:31 | |
But then get challenged at the financial costs of. | 01:44:35 | |
Performing our duties it's almost like giving an employee a responsibility, but not giving them the tools to carry out that job. | 01:44:39 | |
Or that responsibility. | 01:44:47 | |
So I am asking for an additional $1000 to go to. | 01:44:49 | |
Washington, DC to advocate on behalf of the base. It's a different agenda than what the Port took with them when they went to DC. | 01:44:55 | |
I'm also asking the council to consider the fact that costs have gone up, travel costs have gone up. I am searching for the | 01:45:05 | |
lowest. | 01:45:08 | |
Airfare possible. The hotel costs can't be helped because we're all being asked to stay basically in the same hotel. | 01:45:12 | |
I'm trying to keep the cost down as much as possible, but it ended up coming out to $1000. | 01:45:22 | |
Including the 1368 which is currently in my travel budget. | 01:45:30 | |
And there is precedent for two members of the council to go to Washington DC with RDP. | 01:45:34 | |
In prior years, Councilman Sharkey and Councilman Hensley have gone together. | 01:45:44 | |
And this is a carryover from those years. And I'm not saying just because it was done then, we should do it now. | 01:45:50 | |
But I do want to emphasize that I serve a key function on the strategic planning committee has a primary member, and I think that | 01:45:56 | |
there that should be sufficient justification. | 01:46:02 | |
To to go and to have the city cover my, my. | 01:46:09 | |
Man, so when it comes to the Port Washington trip, I think that one's obviously a benefit to the city. | 01:46:14 | |
I don't see any benefit to the city. | 01:46:23 | |
The defense. | 01:46:26 | |
Navy base do whatever they're going to do. | 01:46:30 | |
We have a. | 01:46:33 | |
We all have. | 01:46:35 | |
A budget and I think we need to be mindful. | 01:46:37 | |
Of where we are now and I think we need to manage our budgets appropriately and decide. | 01:46:40 | |
Like I did, If it's gonna put me over, I'm not gonna go. | 01:46:45 | |
That's how I feel I could address that. | 01:46:50 | |
Council Member Martinez, Yes, thank you, Mayor Perez. | 01:46:53 | |
I had a question in terms of, you know, where the where did those $15,000 come from? Because I had never heard of that since I | 01:46:58 | |
been on council and I did I just hear correctly that? | 01:47:04 | |
Councilmember Hernandez had asked the prior city manager to add that item. Because that's what I just, I just heard because. | 01:47:10 | |
Council didn't approve that, at least not that I know. | 01:47:17 | |
So how was that added on there? | 01:47:21 | |
I don't have the history of it. It was added in the budget before I arrived at the city, so I don't have the history of it. Well, | 01:47:27 | |
that $15,000 wasn't there before. | 01:47:32 | |
So I asked for an increase in that $15,000 was put in. I didn't ask for $15,000. OK, I I will. I Do you have a comment? Yeah, I | 01:47:38 | |
just wanted to just respond to Councilmember Gamma statement. | 01:47:45 | |
So as someone who worked for the military for quite some time, we're in the city of Port Hueneme. We have the Naval Base Ventura | 01:47:53 | |
County in our city. The naval base Ventura County is not only ACB base, it also encompasses the Point Magoo base. | 01:48:02 | |
So I think it's important that the City of Port Hueneme elected officials participate in any lobbying as it relates to the | 01:48:11 | |
military. | 01:48:15 | |
We have. | 01:48:20 | |
Provided this to the city manager and. | 01:48:22 | |
Maybe he'll provide it to you all, but it's the accomplishments of the RDP 21. | 01:48:25 | |
And I'll just say on the very first page it talks about. | 01:48:31 | |
The command moving from 70 command. | 01:48:35 | |
To 100 commands based on the lobbying of the RDP 21. So that means there's more commands. | 01:48:38 | |
There's more people. | 01:48:45 | |
There's more res. | 01:48:46 | |
There's more revenue. And so I think that it is very important that we support. What I think would possibly not go well is if we | 01:48:49 | |
have other elected official and other people lobbying for us and we're not participating. | 01:48:58 | |
And so I think it's important that we participate part of my. So I'm not, I'm not talking right now about the vote. | 01:49:07 | |
I'm talking about our support city, support for the military base. | 01:49:14 | |
And as far as the support that we have been providing, it hasn't cost the city anything except what we've had for travel budget. | 01:49:20 | |
And so I think we it's a our return on investment. | 01:49:29 | |
Is greater. | 01:49:34 | |
Than what we are we. | 01:49:35 | |
Paying for what we're getting in. | 01:49:37 | |
Is is at the highest value I think and we should. | 01:49:40 | |
Continue that I actually have a. | 01:49:45 | |
A what? A suggestion. | 01:49:51 | |
That we actually put money in the budget specifically for this item. It doesn't have to be part of our $3000 that we get, but I | 01:49:54 | |
think it's important enough. | 01:49:59 | |
That people from this city need to be people in Washington, DC Our legislators, our senators and congressmen need to see that it's | 01:50:05 | |
important to us as well. And so I'm going to ask that it be put in. | 01:50:11 | |
Now, I'm not talking about right now, but I'm talking about for the future. I think whether it's me and council, a member, | 01:50:18 | |
Hernandez or someone else, I don't think it really matters who it is. But I think we have to support. I support. I'm going to | 01:50:23 | |
speak on now, so I don't, I'm not going to get into. | 01:50:29 | |
The importance of this organization, this committee, because I don't, I don't understand a lot of it. I don't know a lot about it. | 01:50:35 | |
But that's not an issue for me. I'm not going to. | 01:50:40 | |
Argue the validity of it or not. My problem is, I don't know where this $15,000 increase came either. It's concerning to me that. | 01:50:44 | |
Council was not brought up to speed on that and none of us, most of us, were not aware of. | 01:50:54 | |
Especially at a time where our city manager is asking every department in our city to make cuts. | 01:50:59 | |
That are unnecessary and not spend money where that's not necessary so that he can try to fix. | 01:51:05 | |
The issues that have come upon because of our budget. | 01:51:11 | |
And I will point out to. | 01:51:15 | |
As of now, has 3000 per person for. | 01:51:17 | |
RPD. | 01:51:22 | |
A training budget for its sworn only of 19,000 total. | 01:51:25 | |
That is less than $1000 per sworn officer for mandatory and necessary training that they get every year. | 01:51:30 | |
And council has $3000. | 01:51:39 | |
For conferences, not mandatory training. | 01:51:42 | |
It's really, I haven't went in three years. It's not really mandatory. It's good to do it, you know provides networking. | 01:51:46 | |
But I have it. I have a really significant issue of increasing our training budget. When we're cutting everywhere in the city and | 01:51:53 | |
our sworn PD can barely send they, Not everyone gets to go to training, and some of this is mandatory for them to be even sworn | 01:51:58 | |
officers. | 01:52:04 | |
And I have an issue with that and every department in our city. | 01:52:09 | |
And we're asking for increase and I think. | 01:52:13 | |
Us, as council members, need to be leading the way. | 01:52:16 | |
And be the example set for the city and all the other departments and joining them in the fact that we need to make. | 01:52:19 | |
Strategic, smart, efficient budget issued budget decisions. | 01:52:26 | |
At least until we can get that rectified. | 01:52:31 | |
And I think too if I could just interject. | 01:52:34 | |
I believe that we do need to revisit the $15,000. I understand that it's going to be discussed as a separate agenda item at our | 01:52:38 | |
February 20th meeting and that's the appropriate time to decide. | 01:52:43 | |
Whether or not to keep it or keep a portion of. | 01:52:50 | |
But tonight. | 01:52:53 | |
On approval for. | 01:52:55 | |
Members of this council to go to DC with a request for me to. | 01:52:59 | |
To at least draw upon $1000 overage. There's other point of order. | 01:53:05 | |
Is is the agenda item. | 01:53:12 | |
Is it 2 agenda? Are we approving both at the same time or one at 3 separate items? Three separate items, so we take them one at a | 01:53:17 | |
time? The request from Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune. | 01:53:22 | |
Second, the request from Councilmember Hernandez and then third OK approving the additional. | 01:53:28 | |
The budget to come from the pool I have, I have finished my sentence, please. | 01:53:33 | |
You know. | 01:53:40 | |
May I finish my statement without being interrupted? I don't think I was done, but go ahead. | 01:53:41 | |
Thank you. So I was going to say. | 01:53:46 | |
The request tonight is to allow me. | 01:53:49 | |
Full reimbursement of my trip. | 01:53:53 | |
There are other line items in the travel budget that they that we can draw upon. There's another $5200 in there for memberships, | 01:53:56 | |
which I don't know that any of us have access. | 01:54:02 | |
So in the whole scheme of things, I don't think $1000 is. | 01:54:07 | |
Make that much of a difference if it's not approved by this council. | 01:54:12 | |
That's fine. I'll just pay for it out of my pocket. | 01:54:16 | |
I have complete faith in. | 01:54:22 | |
Hold on, let's keep things in order. | 01:54:24 | |
I have complete faith and mar. | 01:54:28 | |
McQueen and John to represent our interests very strongly. As she stated, she's very experienced in the military and knows the | 01:54:31 | |
insurance and outs. | 01:54:34 | |
She's the primary and so at this moment, I'd like to just make a motion to approve. We do have a public comment, so. | 01:54:38 | |
OK. Are there any further questions or comments by council? Yes, I just have one question, just because like I said, I had never | 01:54:48 | |
heard of the 15,000. | 01:54:52 | |
Councilmember Hernandez, when you had request, when you said you asked the previous city manager, was it the interim city manager | 01:54:58 | |
or previous city manager when you asked that to be added, I think I may have discussed it with both. | 01:55:04 | |
And that again, I wasn't requesting $15,000. | 01:55:13 | |
Just alerting them to the. | 01:55:17 | |
We we had, we stood the chance of going over the 3000. | 01:55:20 | |
And in order to participate in the RDP. | 01:55:25 | |
Responsibilities, committee responsibilities and again, I just want to end with, you know, if we're going to serve on these | 01:55:30 | |
committees. | 01:55:33 | |
I think it's really important. | 01:55:37 | |
Are given the. | 01:55:39 | |
To do so. | 01:55:41 | |
Councilman Martinez, you experienced the same thing with the sister city. You have the same kind of argument, so thank you. | 01:55:43 | |
We have public comments and yes, we have one public comment from Rich Rollins. | 01:55:51 | |
Hi, Some of this may be a recap of some of the conversation that I heard, but first of all, I want to commend Mayor Pro Tem | 01:56:02 | |
McQueen for thinking so strongly of this that she's willing to put her money into it. I too was in the RDP committee for a number | 01:56:08 | |
of years. | 01:56:13 | |
And I see it of a great benefit to our community, not only from an economical standpoint, but from a strategic defense in a | 01:56:19 | |
national. | 01:56:24 | |
Along with that, however, I am extremely concerned that. | 01:56:30 | |
We have spent money on things that traditionally are not things that the City Council will spend money on for trips. | 01:56:36 | |
And it was alluded to earlier the sister city. | 01:56:44 | |
In almost any city within California. | 01:56:49 | |
Public funds are not used to support City Council staff to go to city to. | 01:56:53 | |
To Sister City. | 01:57:04 | |
There may be City Council members that are. | 01:57:06 | |
But they use their own money as a general citizen to participate in those things. | 01:57:10 | |
I think those are great. | 01:57:15 | |
I do also think like in a time. | 01:57:18 | |
The meeting that I knew of when I was a Councilman, with a reduced revenues coming in that we just like a family, we need to cut | 01:57:21 | |
back our budget. | 01:57:26 | |
So a lot of things that we would like to do, but we have to look at the essentials and see what we do. | 01:57:31 | |
I would much rather see our city staff. | 01:57:36 | |
Go to trainings that directly. | 01:57:40 | |
The performance of their job help provide services to our community, be it the Police Department, the General Services, Those | 01:57:44 | |
types of trainings I think are essential. | 01:57:49 | |
I know when I was a city employ. | 01:57:55 | |
Many years ago, and there was a. | 01:57:58 | |
We had to. | 01:58:02 | |
You know, tighten up our budget, we can go to all the different things that we would like to go to because just like your family | 01:58:04 | |
budget, there may be many things that are worthwhile and essential. | 01:58:10 | |
But you have to go with like what you absolutely. | 01:58:15 | |
And so those are just my points on it. So thank you. | 01:58:20 | |
Before we take the vote, I just wanted to comment and just so the public understands. | 01:58:26 | |
That the sister city program was not paid for. | 01:58:31 | |
Public funds. It was paid through the Community Benefit Fund. | 01:58:36 | |
Which is fee generated from. | 01:58:40 | |
Not public funds. | 01:58:42 | |
And I also want to say. | 01:58:43 | |
I am. I am very. | 01:58:47 | |
The spending of. | 01:58:50 | |
In fact, I don't even charge for mileage like we're entitled to. I don't think I've ever really asked for mileage reimbursement to | 01:58:51 | |
travel to and from. | 01:58:55 | |
Meetings. | 01:58:59 | |
So I just I just wanted to put that out there. Thank. | 01:59:01 | |
Any further public comments? | 01:59:06 | |
No further public. | 01:59:08 | |
Thank you. The recommendation is to consider the request for out-of-state travel from Sunday, March 17th, 2024 through Thursday, | 01:59:11 | |
March 21st, 2024 for Primary Representative Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune. | 01:59:17 | |
To attend the regional Defense partnership lobbying trip to Washington, DC in the support of the Naval Base Ventura County Point | 01:59:24 | |
Magoo and Port Hueneme, using only individual councilmember budgeted funds. | 01:59:29 | |
Is that the first one? Yeah, that's the first one. You may want to take them one by one individually. OK, that's fine. We have a | 01:59:38 | |
motion for that. Yes, I'd like to move to approve. You have a second? | 01:59:43 | |
I'll second that. | 01:59:51 | |
Thank you. | 01:59:52 | |
I'm just going to take these ones roll call, so council member. | 01:59:56 | |
Yes, Councilmember Hernandez. | 02:00:01 | |
Councilmember Martinez yes. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune, yes. And Mayor Perez yes. | 02:00:04 | |
Motion passes UN. | 02:00:09 | |
Item number two, to consider the request for out-of-state travel from Sunday. I don't have to read the entire thing over again. | 02:00:11 | |
It's fine to just say the same request, but the same request for Councilmember. | 02:00:19 | |
Hernandez. | 02:00:23 | |
Do we have a motion or? | 02:00:25 | |
I'll make a motion to approve. | 02:00:28 | |
We have a second. | 02:00:31 | |
I approve. | 02:00:35 | |
2nd. | 02:00:37 | |
Council Member G. | 02:00:40 | |
No Council member Hernandez. Yes, Council member Martinez. | 02:00:42 | |
Yes, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lash. | 02:00:48 | |
Yes, I wanted to read the whole thing. Sorry guys. Yes. And mayor press yes. Motion passes unanimously for one council member Gama | 02:00:58 | |
voting no. I mean, sorry, not unanimously for. | 02:01:03 | |
The final recommendation is to consider Alternate Representative Councilmember Hernandez request to authorize reimbursement of | 02:01:09 | |
travel costs in the amount of $1000 from the $15,000 City Council polled conference travel budget line item. | 02:01:15 | |
Do we have a motion? | 02:01:22 | |
Stating there is no motion, the motion fails. | 02:01:28 | |
Thank you. | 02:01:36 | |
OK, so we're moving on to city manager comments and. | 02:01:41 | |
Thank you. We actually have a few items to that we wanted to update. And Georgina, can I just ask you to. | 02:01:47 | |
Are you getting the clicker? | 02:01:55 | |
Thanks. Thank you. | 02:01:57 | |
So we had a couple of items that we wanted to just give an update on. We have this week we released the February 2024 newsletter | 02:02:01 | |
and so that is available on our website on Facebook and we're taking out about 100 copies to to some locations throughout the city | 02:02:07 | |
to distribute that. | 02:02:13 | |
And so we have the February addition out now, so people can can read that. | 02:02:21 | |
There were a couple of items we wanted to draw to that are actually included in the newsletter that we wanted to draw people's | 02:02:26 | |
attention to and let people know about. First is. | 02:02:30 | |
We are happy to announce that the fire pits that were approved in, I believe it was last year's budget. | 02:02:36 | |
Have now been installed on our beaches and we're getting some good suggestions and good feedback. | 02:02:43 | |
From members of the community. So we'll provide some updates on these on some of the things we're hearing. But I think in general | 02:02:49 | |
people seem to be excited about them and are I think everybody's waiting for the rain to end to actually get out there and use | 02:02:56 | |
them. I think we put it out the day before the storm. So but they're out and available for use and so they're going to be they're | 02:03:03 | |
free to use and they'll be available during the regular hours at the Miami Beach park. | 02:03:10 | |
2nd We just wanted to bring people's attention to this. | 02:03:18 | |
Our big first ever 5K that had received. | 02:03:22 | |
More registration than we had anticipated. We had over 500 people register. We finally had to to cut it off, just because we | 02:03:27 | |
couldn't fit that many more people than that in the race. | 02:03:32 | |
I was supposed to happen yesterday and with the rain and the forecast that showed that the storm was supposed to start hitting us | 02:03:38 | |
at about midnight on Saturday, we had. | 02:03:44 | |
Pivot. And so the race is now happening on Saturday, February 24th. | 02:03:49 | |
And so we wanted to let people know and just bring everybody's attention. It's going to be the Run for Your Heart 5K and a free | 02:03:55 | |
health and Wellness fair that's going to have a lot of good community health and Wellness booths. | 02:04:00 | |
So come join us. Even if you're not going to join the race, you can still come and join the Health and Wellness Fair on February | 02:04:07 | |
Saturday, February 24th. | 02:04:11 | |
Races at 9:00 AM, Health and Wellness affairs at 9:30 AM. | 02:04:15 | |
And then we got a lot of questions from people when we announced that it was postponed, just asking if there would be more | 02:04:19 | |
opportunities to register and so we do, we are seeing some people who are dropping out because of the date change, not a lot but | 02:04:24 | |
a. | 02:04:28 | |
And so we will make those spots available so people could still go to run, signup, calm and try to sign up for those spots as they | 02:04:33 | |
become available. | 02:04:38 | |
Come and cheer the runners on as well. | 02:04:43 | |
Yeah, yeah, exactly. People standing on the streets cheering runners. Yeah. And I've heard people had costumes planned and | 02:04:45 | |
everything else. Absolutely. | 02:04:49 | |
Last thing, this isn't in the newsletter, but I wanted to let everybody know I wanted to highlight it. We're going to have. | 02:04:54 | |
It's his first day so I didn't want to have him do a 15 hour day on his first day, so he's going to come to the next meeting. | 02:05:01 | |
He'll do a 15 hour day on his second week on the job instead, but we do want to let people know we have. Our new human resources | 02:05:08 | |
manager frankly has started with us this morning. | 02:05:14 | |
Frank IT will do a full introduction, but he had served as the division manager for the HR department in Palo Alto. | 02:05:21 | |
And had prior experience with the Department of Homeland Security, California Department of Public Health and served in the in the | 02:05:27 | |
US Army. So Franks got a. | 02:05:32 | |
Feedback so far, so far. It was first, yeah, it was first day and I think he spent his first four hours with me, so I don't know | 02:05:38 | |
that anybody else really got to talk to him. | 02:05:42 | |
So, but we're going to get them out there. And he's excited to meet everybody and work with everybody. So we'll bring him to the | 02:05:47 | |
next meeting and we'll introduce everybody. But if you see a new name start popping up, we wanted to let people just know that | 02:05:53 | |
he's here and he's legitimate. He's not an impersonator. | 02:05:58 | |
So that's the city managers report, thank you. His credentials look pretty good, so he should be able to handle. | 02:06:06 | |
I think. | 02:06:11 | |
Thank you. | 02:06:15 | |
So now when we move on to council members, reports and comments. | 02:06:18 | |
Council Member Martinez, do you have anything? Yes, Madam Mayor. A couple comments. The sister city meeting is this Wednesday at | 02:06:22 | |
6:00 PM. Anybody That's interesting, Interested. And if you're interesting, everybody's an interesting person. Tim, I expected to | 02:06:28 | |
be there, just if you can make it. | 02:06:34 | |
We're going to be talking about the bylaws and also our first fundraiser for the sister city. | 02:06:41 | |
I also on on a side note, REACH is going to be having what we call an open house meeting next month, March 13th at 5:30. I'll I'll | 02:06:49 | |
bring it up again in the next council meeting, but we're inviting new members to reach. | 02:06:56 | |
Basketball has been doing great at the Boys and Girls Club, so much so that we have so many people showing up that sometimes | 02:07:04 | |
people don't get a chance to actually play. So what we're doing is, and we just started this last Tuesday, instead of going up to | 02:07:09 | |
15 points every, we're going up to seven points. That way everybody gets a chance to play. | 02:07:15 | |
The fire pits look nice. I want to mention the fire pits. | 02:07:22 | |
Even though I brought it up, it was not my idea. It was a volleyball coaches idea, Mia. | 02:07:27 | |
From the whining me girls volleyball team who told me that we should have fire pits at our beach. So that's one of the reasons why | 02:07:32 | |
I was fighting to get fire pits if you guys remember at that. | 02:07:37 | |
Summer meeting, emergency finance meeting. Like I was fighting for pits and I just want to fire pits. So I just want to thank the | 02:07:43 | |
council for approving them and if you haven't gone out to go look at them, you know I recommend you do. | 02:07:49 | |
And then the Run for Your Heart 5 Ki got postponed. But that just means we have more time to train, All right? Because I'm going | 02:07:55 | |
to be racing city manager Vega, so I. | 02:08:00 | |
I need the other. | 02:08:07 | |
Days for training. Thank you. That's all. | 02:08:08 | |
Councilmember Gama. | 02:08:11 | |
Yeah, I'm just so thrilled with whining me Beach cleanup this past Saturday. We just had a wonderful time out there. We brought. | 02:08:13 | |
20 kids from Ohio. | 02:08:21 | |
A lot of. | 02:08:23 | |
I never knew this place existed and their parents were saying the same thing. | 02:08:25 | |
And I said, yeah, well, our city manager came from your city, so. | 02:08:29 | |
But yeah, it's just going great getting the young. | 02:08:35 | |
Kids involved in environmental stewardship. It's awesome. | 02:08:37 | |
As most you know. | 02:08:42 | |
My personality is once I get on something, it's hard for me to get off of it. And so I've talked about. | 02:08:44 | |
Pedestrian safety. Over the last couple of meetings, and I'm still talking about it with myself, I actually prepared a PowerPoint. | 02:08:51 | |
And my wife and I. | 02:08:59 | |
Actually, she did. She came up with the concept and I hope that we could all talk about it and and work on it. And there's a song | 02:09:02 | |
that's called Respect Yourself. | 02:09:06 | |
Well, we want to have a campaign that says reflect. | 02:09:11 | |
City of Port Hueneme Pedestrian Safety campaign. | 02:09:15 | |
Pedestrian safety in our walkable city When you're walking in the city of port, when you reflect yourself. When you're in the | 02:09:18 | |
morning and the evening, walking and talking reflect yourself. Cars can't see you unless. | 02:09:23 | |
You reflect yourself when in self reflection. Always REM. | 02:09:28 | |
Reflect yourself. | 02:09:33 | |
Every morning when I go to work, I'm telling you guys, I see people dressed in black and it startles me. | 02:09:35 | |
And I think that if we started promoting reflective clothing Trinkets, arm bands. | 02:09:42 | |
We could really have fun with this. There's all kinds of reflect. | 02:09:48 | |
Alternatives. Shoes. Hoodies. | 02:09:52 | |
Hats. But if we could just start this campaign to get the people walking in our city to reflect themselves, I think we could | 02:09:55 | |
improve safety. | 02:09:59 | |
And people would be much more willing to walk around. In our city we see it all the time. I see it every day. I don't know, 2-3 | 02:10:03 | |
hundred people walk to the lighthouse a day and they walk back. | 02:10:08 | |
In the dark time, we really need people to reflect themselves, so I'm going to be handing over my research to the city manager and | 02:10:14 | |
I hope. | 02:10:18 | |
Get the police involved, get others involved and find a way to to bring excitement to walking around the city of Port Hueneme. | 02:10:23 | |
That's it for me. | 02:10:27 | |
Councilmember Hernandez. | 02:10:35 | |
Thank you, Mayor. | 02:10:37 | |
I attended a recent meeting with Skag. Otherwise I was gone for two weeks and to a lovely on a lovely trip to Vietnam. | 02:10:39 | |
Umm, so that's really all I've done in the last since our last meeting was that one meeting at SKAG. And I have no other further |