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Went to the closed session portion of tonight's meeting. I'm calling this meeting the order. | 00:02:07 | |
The time is now 5:00 PM. | 00:02:12 | |
Madam Clerk, can you please take roll? | 00:02:15 | |
Council member Hernandez. | 00:02:17 | |
Here. Councilmember McQueen, Lesean here. | 00:02:20 | |
Mayor Pro Tem Perez here. | 00:02:22 | |
Mayor Martinez, President and let the record reflect that Council Member Gomez is currently absent. | 00:02:24 | |
We will now hear public comments soon. Participants, please use the Raise Your Hand feature. | 00:02:30 | |
Everyone's going to get 3 minutes. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? | 00:02:35 | |
No public comments for closed session. | 00:02:41 | |
OK, Mr. City Attorney, can you please read the closed session item into the record? Thank you, Mayor Martinez. There are two items | 00:02:43 | |
on closed session tonight. The 1st is conference with legal counsel existing litigation pursuant to Government Code Section | 00:02:48 | |
54956.9, subdivision D. | 00:02:52 | |
The case name is OV Coalition at All versus Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency at All. The case number is Santa Barbara | 00:02:57 | |
County Superior Court with the number listed in the agenda. The second item of business is Public Employee Performance Evaluation | 00:03:03 | |
pursuant to Government Code Sections 54957. | 00:03:08 | |
And 54954.5 subdivision E for the position of city manager. | 00:03:14 | |
Alright, and we just had council member gonna show up, I know, working a double shift. | 00:03:22 | |
Do any council members have any conflicts to disclose for the listed closed session agenda items? | 00:03:29 | |
Hearing none, Council will recess to close session. The time is now 5:02 PM We'll be back at 6:30 PM. | 00:03:36 | |
Welcome everyone to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:31 PM. | 01:33:04 | |
Can everyone please stand and join me for the flag salute? | 01:33:12 | |
Ready. Begin. | 01:33:21 | |
Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. | 01:33:23 | |
And to the Republic for which it stands. | 01:33:28 | |
One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 01:33:31 | |
Madam Clerk, can we please take roll? | 01:33:40 | |
Council Member Gamma. | 01:33:43 | |
Here. | 01:33:45 | |
Council Member Hernandez here, Council Member McQueen Lejean here, Mayor Pro Tem Perez here, and Mayor Martinez present. | 01:33:46 | |
Tonight we will be hearing our inspiration. | 01:33:53 | |
By Council member Hernandez. I thought we do. | 01:33:56 | |
OK. | 01:33:59 | |
Good evening everybody. Welcome. I'm really honored to give the inspiration this evening. I. | 01:34:02 | |
Actually didn't come very prepared, but then I thought of something that. | 01:34:07 | |
Was very inspiring. That happened to our city last week with a visit from our sister city. | 01:34:11 | |
Representatives from Puerto Vallarta. It was our inaugural event. | 01:34:18 | |
On Monday and Tuesday of last week we had. | 01:34:22 | |
8 visitors from Puerto Vallarta as part of our sister city program. | 01:34:26 | |
And we also had guests who share Puerto Vallarta as a sister city. | 01:34:31 | |
From Santa Barbara, also in attendance. So it was a group of about 15 to 20 people. | 01:34:36 | |
And we had volunteers from our city who assisted in. | 01:34:42 | |
Giving them a tour of our of our great city, we spent two days. | 01:34:46 | |
Touring around the city and. | 01:34:51 | |
Getting to know each other and there was this one moment where we had just finished lunch at Surfside Restaurant. | 01:34:53 | |
And we were getting ready to go on to our next location. | 01:34:59 | |
And the music was playing Beach Boys and we all were kind of just standing around and pretty soon we everybody just started | 01:35:03 | |
nodding their head. | 01:35:07 | |
And we saw, you know what, we all started dancing and we just, it was just so spontaneous and it was just, you know, they just | 01:35:11 | |
felt so comfortable and it was they were just enjoying our weather, enjoying the company and we even got former mayor Rich Rollins | 01:35:18 | |
up there to dance. And that to me was one of the most, one of the memorable moments of our visit. And we'll share more because we | 01:35:26 | |
we reflect on that, on that program and and what we did last week. But that to me was just inspiring that we could be that. | 01:35:33 | |
Comfortable each other and have such a good time so. | 01:35:41 | |
That's my inspiration. Thank you, Council Member Hernandez. | 01:35:43 | |
Mr. City Attorney, can you please provide the closed session report? | 01:35:47 | |
Absolutely, Mayor Martinez. | 01:35:51 | |
With respect to the first item of business in closed session conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation. | 01:35:53 | |
Council gave unanimous authority to file an answer in the OPV Coalition at Al versus Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency | 01:36:00 | |
case. | 01:36:03 | |
In order to protect its and its, its water rights as well as its member membership water rights with respect to HWA. | 01:36:07 | |
Thank you, Mr. Spalding. We will not hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. | 01:36:16 | |
Soon participants, please use the Raise Your Hand feature if you'd like to comment. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. | 01:36:21 | |
Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? | 01:36:28 | |
We do, Mr. Mayor. The first one is from Jamie Beavers. | 01:36:32 | |
My name is Jamie Beavers. Thank you for the opportunity to talk with the City Council to address the ongoing problem of dogs on | 01:36:47 | |
Wanami Beach. | 01:36:50 | |
I am a resident and dog owner in the Surfside Two complex on Ocean View Drive in Port Wanami since 2021. | 01:36:55 | |
We made certain that we purchased a property that was not on a dog beach. | 01:37:02 | |
As I run on the beach approximately 4 to five days a week. | 01:37:08 | |
I do not take my dog on the beach and she is never off leash outside of our home. | 01:37:11 | |
I made a 911 call after a terrifying confrontation with three dogs, one of which was a pit bull. | 01:37:16 | |
Unleashed and uncontrolled by their owner on May 5th. | 01:37:22 | |
2023. | 01:37:25 | |
I likely prevented an injury, unlike the child bitten on our beach in 2021 by carrying a stick and pepper spray. | 01:37:26 | |
The officer I spoke with that day suggested it was an isolated incident. | 01:37:34 | |
The unfortunate part of this incident is that it is not isolated. I chose to live near a beach to run on. That prohibits dogs, but | 01:37:39 | |
I still have to carry protective measures. | 01:37:43 | |
Because the laws are generally ignored and are not being enforced. | 01:37:48 | |
Every time I run on the beach, I encounter one to four unleashed dogs in addition to a multitude of leash dogs on the sand. | 01:37:52 | |
The officer stated nothing could be done. | 01:37:59 | |
Unless I had been bitten. | 01:38:01 | |
I would imagine our community is not willing to wait for an individual to be seriously injured to begin to enforce our current | 01:38:03 | |
laws. | 01:38:07 | |
I read the responses on Facebook to the child bitten by a dog in 2021 and the citizens of Port Winema One are beach to be safe | 01:38:10 | |
from risk and possible disease. | 01:38:15 | |
The American Veterinarian Medical Association states on their website that there are nearly 90 million nice dogs, but that any dog | 01:38:21 | |
can bite. | 01:38:25 | |
Dog bites. | 01:38:30 | |
Pose a serious health risk to our communities and societies. | 01:38:31 | |
More than 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year in the United States, and half of those are children. | 01:38:35 | |
I appreciated reading that some of our City Council members support the addition of a dog park to our beach. | 01:38:42 | |
It could be useful to alleviate the existing problem if it was enforced. | 01:38:48 | |
Online, I have read that some dog professionals and owners are opposed to dog parks due to the lack of vaccine enforcement. | 01:38:53 | |
Inability to separate aggressive dogs from non aggressive. | 01:39:00 | |
And concern over injury and disease. | 01:39:04 | |
I noted there was no location on the Port Wanami website for reported concern regarding Animal Control. | 01:39:06 | |
I suspect this is because the number of reports became overwhelming. | 01:39:12 | |
I've seen Ventura County Animal Regulation stop on our Ventura on our beach. | 01:39:16 | |
The last two weeks but they never leave the vehicle. | 01:39:21 | |
I greatly appreciate the opportunity to present this and. | 01:39:24 | |
Would like to volunteer in any way I can to help alleviate the problem. | 01:39:28 | |
Thank you Miss Beavers. | 01:39:33 | |
Thank you. | 01:39:34 | |
May I? | 01:39:36 | |
Yes. So just Mayor, thank you. So as noted council is not able to respond because the item is not on the agenda but as. | 01:39:37 | |
The staff we will get your information if you've given it to the clerk and we will follow up with you and and look at some of | 01:39:46 | |
those suggestions. | 01:39:49 | |
Becky burning. | 01:39:55 | |
Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem. | 01:40:07 | |
Council staff. | 01:40:09 | |
I'm here tonight representing real guppy outdoors. | 01:40:11 | |
And. | 01:40:15 | |
I want to follow up on what Laura said about the sisters. | 01:40:16 | |
City being here, they did come by. | 01:40:19 | |
Our Learning Center. | 01:40:23 | |
And they were so impressed with what we had to offer, they invited us. | 01:40:24 | |
To go to Puerto Viatra to teach their their children out of fish. | 01:40:30 | |
Umm. | 01:40:35 | |
So we we enjoyed having them there. | 01:40:36 | |
Also. | 01:40:41 | |
The law, the poor winning me run. | 01:40:42 | |
We had such great turnout for that. | 01:40:46 | |
And I want to thank Mayor. | 01:40:49 | |
Martinez for. | 01:40:51 | |
Setting that up for us. | 01:40:53 | |
Our next family fish day is this coming Sunday. | 01:40:56 | |
8:30 to 11:30. | 01:41:01 | |
Have the end of Wanami Pier. | 01:41:03 | |
You don't need to bring anything, just bring yourself. We furnish everything. | 01:41:05 | |
That's it. | 01:41:11 | |
Thank you, Miss Becky. | 01:41:13 | |
John Welty. | 01:41:15 | |
It's. | 01:41:33 | |
Sorry, Mayor, That's for an agenda item for the. | 01:41:37 | |
Later. | 01:41:41 | |
They'll put that to the side. We do have a couple of written comments that I'll just read. | 01:41:43 | |
One is from Tracy Susan Phillips, she said. Good evening, Mayor Martinez, City Council and staff. | 01:41:48 | |
The Winema Chamber of Commerce will host a new morning mixer event, Rise and Shine Networking, this Wednesday, July 19th from 7:00 | 01:41:54 | |
AM to 8:30 AM. | 01:41:59 | |
Sponsored by Anna Cappuccino, we invite you to join us and jump start your day. The Chamber will be treating guests to a free cup | 01:42:04 | |
of coffee. Meet local leaders and like minded business professional to exchange leads and increase your business contacts. | 01:42:10 | |
Chamber members and non members welcomed. As always, we do hope to see you there. | 01:42:17 | |
Remember, the early bird gets the lead. | 01:42:21 | |
The next public comment is from Joan Tharp. | 01:42:26 | |
Dear Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, Council members and staff, I am requesting that item 14 be pulled from the consent calendar for | 01:42:29 | |
further discussion. | 01:42:33 | |
While I am in full support of an interactive and inclusive playground, I don't think placing it on the sand on either side of the | 01:42:37 | |
pier is a well thought out idea. | 01:42:42 | |
On and around July 4th of this year, we had high tides of close to seven feet that, even with recent beach replenishment and | 01:42:46 | |
public works best efforts, inundated the area around and West of the pier. | 01:42:52 | |
These high tides and sea level rise will continue to challenge our city's infrastructure, and adding a playground on the beach | 01:42:58 | |
seems a little like testing fate. | 01:43:02 | |
There is no guarantee that we will continue to get the support needed to replenish the sand from the federal government. | 01:43:07 | |
Regardless of how supportive Congresswoman Brownlee has been. | 01:43:12 | |
In addition, my experience tells me that sound does what it wants to do. | 01:43:16 | |
The climate crisis is going to continue to challenge beach communities, and we should be smart about our ability to be resilient | 01:43:19 | |
in the face of this challenge. | 01:43:23 | |
The area between lots B&C seemed like a more suitable space for this project. | 01:43:27 | |
While I would personally like to see this lot restore to natural habitat, we do need more recreational areas for our youth, and | 01:43:31 | |
this area is both currently protected from sea level rise by the dunes and not too close to the Ormond Wetlands. | 01:43:38 | |
Thanks June 3rd. | 01:43:45 | |
And that concludes public comment. | 01:43:47 | |
OK. Thank you, Madam Clerk. | 01:43:49 | |
We will now move on to agenda approval for tonight for the City Council. May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? | 01:43:52 | |
So moved. | 01:43:59 | |
2nd. | 01:44:00 | |
Madam Clerk, can we please take a vote? | 01:44:01 | |
All in favour. | 01:44:03 | |
Aye, all opposed. | 01:44:04 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 01:44:06 | |
Do any members of council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for anyone item on the agenda? | 01:44:09 | |
All right, we will now recess the City Council meeting and call to order the Housing Authority special meeting. | 01:44:17 | |
The time is now 6:42 PM. | 01:44:25 | |
Madam Clerk, can you please take roll? | 01:44:29 | |
Member Brown. | 01:44:33 | |
Member Blackwell. | 01:44:35 | |
Member Gamma. | 01:44:37 | |
Member Hernandez here, Member McQueen, Lesean here, Vice Chair Perez here and Chair Martinez present. | 01:44:39 | |
Madam Clerk, are there any public comments? | 01:44:46 | |
No public comments. | 01:44:49 | |
We will now consider items on the consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion. | 01:44:51 | |
Unless there is a request to remove an item for discussion, may I have a motion and a second to approve our consent calendar? | 01:44:55 | |
Move to approve. | 01:45:02 | |
2nd. | 01:45:03 | |
Madam Clerk, can we please take a vote? | 01:45:05 | |
All in favour. | 01:45:07 | |
Aye, all opposed. | 01:45:09 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 01:45:11 | |
There are no business items tonight, so we will now move. | 01:45:15 | |
Onto Authority members reports, comments and requests for future agenda items. | 01:45:18 | |
We'll start with member Blackwell. | 01:45:24 | |
I don't have anything to add. | 01:45:28 | |
No, on this consent calendar, you're just we're not going to it. | 01:45:31 | |
Like. | 01:45:37 | |
It says locate request for out of state travel. | 01:45:37 | |
Registered this Christmas at that that we're going to. | 01:45:42 | |
Are you approved that or that's what we approved? | 01:45:46 | |
OK. | 01:45:50 | |
My fault. | 01:45:51 | |
Miss McQueen. | 01:45:54 | |
John. | 01:45:55 | |
All right. The Housing Authority will adjourn to its next regular meeting of September 5th, 2023 at 6:30 PM, and we will now | 01:46:01 | |
reconvene the City Council regular meeting. The time is now 6:44 PM. | 01:46:06 | |
And we will move on to presentations. | 01:46:13 | |
#4 or Oath of office for our City Manager. | 01:46:19 | |
I'd like to welcome everyone welcome our new. | 01:46:23 | |
City Manager James Vega and have the city clerk administer the oath of office. | 01:46:27 | |
Mr. Vega, would you like to say a few words after or before? I'll say a couple before if I may. Thank you, Mayor. | 01:46:31 | |
I don't have much to say and I know we have a lot of business to do, but I think I spoke a little bit at a meeting about a month | 01:46:40 | |
ago. | 01:46:43 | |
And just to reiterate, I am thrilled to be here. I have. | 01:46:47 | |
Deep ties to Port Wanami I. | 01:46:51 | |
Moved here while I was in college and. | 01:46:54 | |
Lived in. | 01:46:58 | |
And a cap of you and then? | 01:47:00 | |
Bought My wife and I bought our first house after College in port wine emy. | 01:47:03 | |
And we still have a property in Portland, even we're still invested in the community. | 01:47:07 | |
And we. | 01:47:12 | |
Have been getting back into the community. When I had gone to work in Ohio, we had. | 01:47:15 | |
We had moved out there with our two pigs and and we've been coming back. We did the fun run yesterday and starting to reconnect | 01:47:20 | |
and see. | 01:47:25 | |
People that we hadn't seen in in in a while and starting to get back involved in the community has been great. So thank you to the | 01:47:30 | |
community for. | 01:47:34 | |
For welcoming us back and just as far as some background, I have 14 years of experience in local government. I worked for the city | 01:47:38 | |
of Oxnard. | 01:47:42 | |
For nine years in the city of Ohai. For six years. | 01:47:48 | |
And ended up I think it's the Goldilocks. | 01:47:52 | |
Affect I went to Oxnard and it and it was a little too big and I went to Ohio and it was a little too small and I think I found I | 01:47:56 | |
found my Goldilocks here in Fort Wayne. | 01:48:01 | |
So I've. | 01:48:07 | |
Those experiences with the last six years being city manager of the City of of Ohio. | 01:48:09 | |
And one thing that most people who know me know that I'm proud of is I. | 01:48:14 | |
Started in Oxnard as the. | 01:48:18 | |
One of the absolute lowest paid employees on our. | 01:48:22 | |
Multiple page salary schedule. | 01:48:26 | |
And I worked for nine years and worked my way up and worked my way up. And then I moved to Ohio and and and got to the point of | 01:48:29 | |
being the city manager. | 01:48:33 | |
And I for that reason, I think that I connect with all the employees. I have a lot of pride in knowing how people feel and what it | 01:48:37 | |
feels like to be in different positions. | 01:48:42 | |
And I work well with the staff. And then likewise, because I lived in Port Wanami, I think I. | 01:48:48 | |
I know what a lot of concerns are in the community. | 01:48:55 | |
And I. | 01:48:58 | |
I know when I was living here as a resident, I, you know, saw dogs on the beach without leashes. So I understand the concern. | 01:49:00 | |
And a. | 01:49:08 | |
Know how important those things are to our residents, so I am thrilled to be here and I'm looking forward to working with the | 01:49:10 | |
community for. | 01:49:13 | |
For as long as you're happy, so thank you. | 01:49:17 | |
Madam Clerk, can you may you please administer the oath of office? | 01:49:22 | |
So should I base the? | 01:49:40 | |
All right. OK. | 01:49:43 | |
In the state of California, that I take this obligation freely, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental | 01:50:16 | |
reservation, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion. And I will well and faithfully, and I | 01:50:21 | |
will well and faithfully faithfully discharge the duties, discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter, upon which I'm about | 01:50:26 | |
to enter. Thank you. | 01:50:32 | |
Mr. Vega, would you like to say some additional words before? | 01:50:47 | |
Mr. City Manager James Vegan No, I I think that is great. And just again, thank you everybody for having me. | 01:50:50 | |
OK. | 01:50:58 | |
Would any of the council members like to say some words? | 01:50:59 | |
I think we've already shared what we want Mr. Vega to know, but we are so glad to have you and looking forward to working with you | 01:51:03 | |
and all the great things you have. | 01:51:07 | |
In store, Forest City. | 01:51:12 | |
I think it's most impressive that his last day with the city of Ohio was Friday and here he is today. He didn't ask for time off. | 01:51:14 | |
He's here to get busy and start working for the benefit of all you and for that. | 01:51:19 | |
Extremely grateful. Thank you, Sir. | 01:51:24 | |
Yes, I like the opportunity to welcome you. Mr. Vega has our city manager. I'm very happy to have you here, along with your | 01:51:28 | |
experience. And everywhere I've gone in the county, somebody inevitably comes up to me and says that we've really got a jam having | 01:51:36 | |
you as our city manager DA Eric Nazarenko shared that with me. Supervisor Board Chair Matt Levier shared the same thing with me. | 01:51:45 | |
I also watched your last meeting. I'm still it was 5 hours long. | 01:51:54 | |
I'm still watching it, but I know that you're. | 01:51:59 | |
Ohh hi. The city of Ohio was really sorry to lose you, so that says a lot to what we're getting here. So welcome. | 01:52:02 | |
Look forward to working with you. | 01:52:08 | |
Yes, I'll Ditto all of my colleagues and sentiments. And I too have had many people come up in the community who've been around. | 01:52:11 | |
Of inter county for a while who have nothing but positive things to say and said that. | 01:52:19 | |
Ohh, I doesn't realize what they've lost and now it's gone. So I appreciate your experience. | 01:52:23 | |
I appreciate. Obviously we can't talk about. | 01:52:29 | |
What we discussed but. | 01:52:32 | |
The plan ahead? | 01:52:33 | |
And what we're going to be doing for the city, I'm excited and looking forward to it. So thank you for being here. | 01:52:34 | |
And I just want to mention that earlier this year when? | 01:52:41 | |
When we decided that we were not gonna renew the. | 01:52:44 | |
Pass city managers contract. I had said a prayer. | 01:52:48 | |
And I had to ask. | 01:52:52 | |
That we select the best person, the best city manager for our city here in the city of Fort Wayne. Amy. | 01:52:53 | |
And I have tremendous faith that we have done that. | 01:52:58 | |
And I'm. | 01:53:01 | |
I would love to welcome. | 01:53:01 | |
Our new City Manager, James Vega to the City of Portland, Amy. | 01:53:03 | |
We will now move on to presentations 5:00 and 6:00. | 01:53:13 | |
I like to call up Chief Federico for our next two presentations. | 01:53:16 | |
Yes. | 01:53:36 | |
OK. | 01:53:37 | |
So our first proclamation honoring Sergeant Eric Starna for his service to the City of Fort Wayne, Amy, will be read. | 01:53:38 | |
By council member. | 01:53:45 | |
Laura Nandez, The proclamation. | 01:53:47 | |
Want to say a few words first or yes I can. OK, just say I can bring Eric up and. | 01:53:50 | |
We yes, we are losing. | 01:53:55 | |
Sergeant Eric Starna who? | 01:53:59 | |
We spent. | 01:54:02 | |
So much time and dedication for the city and led so many programs. | 01:54:05 | |
In the department. | 01:54:09 | |
With. | 01:54:11 | |
Strong leadership and true devotion to some of these programs, and you're taking them all with you. | 01:54:12 | |
But it's not. | 01:54:19 | |
A sad moment. This is a. | 01:54:20 | |
New journey moment. And he's gonna be leaving us to go be a commander with the city of Santa Paula, which is something he had a | 01:54:22 | |
dream of for a long time. | 01:54:26 | |
So we're going to wish him the best on that journey. | 01:54:30 | |
And then there's a proclamation for you. | 01:54:34 | |
So it's my honor to read the proclamation honoring Sergeant Eric Starna for his service to the city of Port Wanami. Eric and I go | 01:54:37 | |
way back. I worked with him when I was. | 01:54:42 | |
In charge of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services, he was the city's emergency manager at the time. | 01:54:47 | |
So I I know of the experience and the quality person that he is and. | 01:54:55 | |
I also have my. | 01:55:01 | |
Have a heart for Santa Paula, having grown up there for many years and I still go to church there on Sunday, so hopefully I'll get | 01:55:04 | |
a chance to see you there and let me just go ahead and read the proclamation because I could go on. | 01:55:10 | |
Whereas Eric was hired as a Sergeant with the city of Port Winema in 2008 and held multiple roles such as patrol, Sergeant, | 01:55:17 | |
detective, Sergeant. | 01:55:21 | |
And Training Manager and whereas Eric was recognized as Supervisor of the Year for the Port Wanami Police Department in 2011 and | 01:55:26 | |
in 2019. | 01:55:30 | |
And whereas Eric has. | 01:55:35 | |
Trained through the Federal Emergency Management, FEMA and Emergency Management and served as. | 01:55:36 | |
Emergency manager for the City of Fort Wayne. | 01:55:41 | |
Portraying me during the Pandemic and whereas Eric Starna has held several leadership roles within the organization, particularly | 01:55:44 | |
in projects that have increased efficiency and productivity, and has served in several collateral assignments, such as reserve | 01:55:50 | |
Sergeant, training Sergeant and volunteer coordinator. | 01:55:56 | |
And whereas Eric has been recognized for his proactive law enforcement approach leading to arrests. | 01:56:02 | |
And has consistently led his teams in proactive enforcement, specifically in DUI arrests, which has provided for safer roadways | 01:56:08 | |
within our community. | 01:56:12 | |
And whereas Eric has received several letters of commendation during his service to the community, which include his interactions | 01:56:17 | |
with the residents detailing his dedication, professionalism and compassion, and recognition of his commitment to a safe community | 01:56:24 | |
and whereas his colleagues know him as a steady, dependable and dedicated teammate and friend. | 01:56:31 | |
Who takes pride in his work with the community and who is always ready to lend moral support or a helping hand would needed? | 01:56:39 | |
And whereas Eric has improved the quality of life for residents of the City of Port Wanami during his tenure with the Police | 01:56:46 | |
Department and will be greatly missed, now therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of Port Wanami hereby recognizes and | 01:56:53 | |
honors Police Sergeant Eric Starna for his dedication, commitment and service to our community and wish and wishes him well in his | 01:56:59 | |
future endeavors. | 01:57:05 | |
Thank you so much, Eric. We're going to miss you. It's a loss to our city. | 01:57:11 | |
And I'll just come down. | 01:57:15 | |
Ohh, here you can. You can go ahead. | 01:57:17 | |
Present that to him. Thank you. | 01:57:19 | |
Santa Paula's Gain or Loss. | 01:57:31 | |
Sergeant Sarno, would you like to say a few words? | 01:57:45 | |
I always promised my wife I'm not gonna cry. These things, you have to be at the mic so the audience can hear you. | 01:57:50 | |
I. | 01:57:56 | |
Mayor, Mayor, Protem, City manager, welcome to the city. | 01:57:58 | |
Gaining a lot by coming here. | 01:58:04 | |
Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for saying goodbye like this. And it's not goodbye. I'm just a couple of cities over. | 01:58:07 | |
I'm, I'm reachable, available. | 01:58:10 | |
For those of you that showed up tonight to show support, my friends, my colleagues, I want to say thank you for supporting me | 01:58:15 | |
throughout this whole time here. I have nothing but fond memories. | 01:58:20 | |
We did a lot as as a city, as a community, and I'm very proud of that. So I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for | 01:58:25 | |
showing up here and and recognizing me. I appreciate that. Thank you. | 01:58:30 | |
Thank you. | 01:58:36 | |
Would anybody like to say some words? | 01:58:43 | |
Sure. | 01:58:47 | |
So we have not had an opportunity to spend any time together, but as you heard in the proclamation and from the chief, your work | 01:58:49 | |
is. | 01:58:55 | |
Has been. | 01:59:01 | |
Not just beneficial, but but quite an honor for you to be serving here for us and so this one saying that. | 01:59:04 | |
I I. | 01:59:14 | |
Was thinking when you were up. Talking is too much is given. | 01:59:15 | |
Much is required. | 01:59:20 | |
And I have no doubt whatever is required of you, you're going to be successful at it. So thank you for all that you've done for | 01:59:21 | |
us. | 01:59:25 | |
Thank you. | 01:59:31 | |
Mr. Starner for your service and thank all the police officers for serving in the city of Port Wanami. | 01:59:32 | |
And service to our communities. | 01:59:38 | |
Connecting to the city and Ventura County is equally important and. | 01:59:41 | |
I recently went to Santa Paula and I was blown away at how fancy and nice their Main Street is and it's a pretty cool place. | 01:59:46 | |
There's no beach there, but it's alright, you know. And I just from the moment I ever met, I first met you. You're always smiling, | 01:59:53 | |
you're always positive and you're always moving forward and. | 01:59:59 | |
You know, I just want to wish you well and thank you for your many years of great service to our city. Thank you so much. | 02:00:06 | |
Congratulations, Commander. I think this is a great opportunity for you and your family. I know your wife is proud. | 02:00:18 | |
And this is an opportunity that not many people get, so good luck to you. Be safe. | 02:00:24 | |
And I thank you for your service to Wanami. We appreciate you. | 02:00:30 | |
I just want to mention it must have been. | 02:00:35 | |
12. | 02:00:38 | |
10 years, I can't really remember. But I I know I was a lot younger back then when I had somebody break into my car and and take | 02:00:39 | |
my passport. I don't know why I would leave my passport that one night, you know, just it just happened to be bad luck and I made | 02:00:45 | |
a police report and that's when I first met you. | 02:00:50 | |
And I just remember feeling so. | 02:00:56 | |
So happy that I made the report and that I met you because you made me feel much more comfortable. Made me feel like. | 02:00:59 | |
You know, even though it was my fault, it it made me feel better knowing that somebody wasn't. | 02:01:05 | |
Yelling at me, telling me that why am I leaving my passport in my car, you know? | 02:01:09 | |
So I know you're gonna treat everyone with kindness. | 02:01:14 | |
And I just want you to know that you were respected, loved and appreciated here in the city of Fort Wayne. | 02:01:17 | |
Thank you. | 02:01:23 | |
Lori, did you want to say anything? I think I've said OK. | 02:01:25 | |
All right, Sergeant Sarna. | 02:01:28 | |
Thank you for your service. | 02:01:30 | |
We have one more proclamation honoring Senior police Officer Nora Starna for her service to the City of Portland. | 02:01:37 | |
Yeah, as you heard, we're losing the other half of the team Starna. | 02:01:45 | |
Also for many years of dedication. | 02:01:50 | |
In service to our city. | 02:01:55 | |
But with Nora, you have to understand you're also losing one of the most tenacious detectives that we've had in in recent years | 02:01:57 | |
and also comes with. | 02:02:03 | |
A very compassionate detective. | 02:02:09 | |
Who was a very sincere to to our victims. | 02:02:12 | |
And also found the time in her later years to. | 02:02:16 | |
We use that same compassion and tenacity to take care of our senior residents, especially through our Heart program, so. | 02:02:20 | |
Somebody who will be truly missed. | 02:02:29 | |
And we thank you. | 02:02:31 | |
And. | 02:02:33 | |
Have a proclamation on. | 02:02:34 | |
Whereas Nora Starna was hired as a police officer with the city of Port Onemi in February 2007, promoted to senior officer in July | 02:02:37 | |
2021, and honorably retired from the city of port when you meet on July 9th, 2/20/23. | 02:02:44 | |
And whereas Nora held multiple roles within the Port Wanami Police Department, including field training officer, investigator and | 02:02:51 | |
active Detective Sergeant. | 02:02:56 | |
And whereas Nora was recognized as Offers of the Year for the Port Wanami Police Department in 2009, Mad Deuce Award in 2009, and | 02:03:00 | |
C IT Officer of the Year in 2023. | 02:03:06 | |
And whereas Nora was awarded the 11th annual Whining Me Bay First Responder Award by Whining Me Bay Carefree Living Association | 02:03:12 | |
and has been actively involved as the coordinator for the Whining Assist Residents Together program. | 02:03:18 | |
And whereas Nora has received several letters of commendation during her service to the community. | 02:03:25 | |
Including assisting with organizations such as. | 02:03:30 | |
Ladarius compensates. | 02:03:34 | |
And Partnership for Safe Families. | 02:03:37 | |
And also coordinated the law enforcement Special Olympics torch run. And whereas Nora has been recognized by her supervisors for | 02:03:39 | |
her dedication, work ethic and diligence in protecting the residents of Port Wanami. | 02:03:45 | |
She has been further recognized by the District Attorney's Office for her thoughtfulness and commitment to her to her cases to | 02:03:51 | |
ensure that justice is achieved. | 02:03:55 | |
And whereas her colleagues know her as a steady, dependable teammate and friend who takes pride in her work with the community and | 02:04:00 | |
was always ready to lend moral support or helping hand when needed. | 02:04:05 | |
And whereas Nora has improved the quality of life for the residents of the city of Port Wanami. | 02:04:10 | |
During her tenure with the Police Department and will be greatly missed. | 02:04:15 | |
Now, therefore be it proclaimed. | 02:04:19 | |
That the City Council, the City of Port Wanami hereby recognizes and honors senior police officer. | 02:04:21 | |
Nora Starna for her dedication, commitment and service to her community and wishes her well in all her future endeavors. | 02:04:26 | |
And folks, it should be noted that. | 02:04:41 | |
She is also going on to another great journey. She's going to leave us to be an investigator with the Ventura DA's office and they | 02:04:43 | |
really do choose from the best for investigators. It's a tough club to get into, so. | 02:04:48 | |
Still doing incredible things. | 02:04:54 | |
Thank you. | 02:04:57 | |
I just want to say a few words, Mayor. | 02:05:14 | |
Mayor Pro Tem. | 02:05:17 | |
And to the community members here, it was an honor serving here in the city of Port Wanami, my elderly community. I am very | 02:05:18 | |
humbled to serve this great city that I will be missing. | 02:05:23 | |
Thank you. | 02:05:29 | |
Would anyone? | 02:05:38 | |
Yes. | 02:05:40 | |
Yeah, I I wanted to thank you. | 02:05:41 | |
Nora for your service to the city of Port Wanami. | 02:05:44 | |
Has a female officer you've you've been a role model for other women to follow? | 02:05:48 | |
I know you're a great detective, and I know that the DA's office only takes the cream of the crop. | 02:05:53 | |
Umm. | 02:05:58 | |
You know, I met Nora. | 02:05:59 | |
I'll dare say behind a tree when I was escaping a crisis situation and I was told to. | 02:06:02 | |
To go to an area, and I was supposed to look for an officer somewhere, and I couldn't find the officer, but there was Nora. She | 02:06:08 | |
picked her head around the tree and and there she was, and I felt so safe. | 02:06:14 | |
Kind of behind that tree with you. So I thank you for your service. Always remember that moment. And I wish you the best of luck | 02:06:21 | |
working for our DA Eric Nesterenko. I know you'll do great. Thank you. | 02:06:26 | |
Yes, congratulations. We're definitely losing a strong female presence in our Police Department and I appreciate your service that | 02:06:34 | |
you've done for the community, both of you and. | 02:06:39 | |
Good wishes and be safe out there in your next careers, so thank you. | 02:06:44 | |
I thought you were retiring. | 02:06:51 | |
And really appreciate all the interaction I've had with you over the years. I think you helped my mom. | 02:06:55 | |
When my Christmas present was stolen out of her car and. | 02:07:03 | |
Yeah, I I'm really thrilled that the DA's office is going to have you working to make our community better. Our community is | 02:07:10 | |
connected in so many ways, and it's so great to know that this little city of Port Winema is spreading goodness. | 02:07:16 | |
Throughout Ventura County. So thank you, Starnes. You're making that happen. Thank you so much. | 02:07:23 | |
And I'll just say thank you for your service. | 02:07:29 | |
I wasn't going to say anything about women, but I I think since my other two colleagues has, I'll go ahead and add to that. | 02:07:33 | |
So you probably don't see people that look like you. | 02:07:40 | |
In your role. | 02:07:44 | |
And you probably won't see too many people that look like you in your new role. | 02:07:46 | |
But isn't it wonderful to be hand selected? | 02:07:51 | |
And so when you don't get there by just being. | 02:07:54 | |
You know, coming to work every day, it's something special that puts you there. And so I just. I'm so excited for you, for your | 02:07:58 | |
future. But thank you for all that you've done for Port Whiny And I know the officers and our new chief is gonna really miss you, | 02:08:04 | |
but we send our blessings with you as you go to your new role. | 02:08:10 | |
Yes, thank you, Officer Nora Starna for your service here in the city of Port Annie. Thank you. | 02:08:18 | |
Our next presentation will be will be given by the Ventura County Economic Development Collaborative if they could. | 02:08:31 | |
Now make their way up, please. | 02:08:38 | |
Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members, staff recently President, CEO, Economic Development Collaborative | 02:08:41 | |
and as you often say in these circumstances and a resident of the Ohio Valley, I'm sorry Bruce, let's let's give them. | 02:08:48 | |
30 seconds or so too to make their way out and I was going to say in a tough act to follow by the way. | 02:08:57 | |
And then? | 02:09:15 | |
Tony If. If. | 02:09:17 | |
Mr. Stewart. | 02:09:19 | |
If you feel like they're gonna be out there, could could you close the door just for a bit? | 02:09:22 | |
Thank you. | 02:09:26 | |
Don't rush him. It's their moment. | 02:09:28 | |
Thank you. Chris Hensley, President and CEO, Economic Development Collaborative. We're going to try and do just a couple of things | 02:09:39 | |
here tonight, try to be fairly brief. | 02:09:43 | |
I'll provide a little bit of overview on who we are at EDC, why we do and how we do the things that we do. Alondra Gaitan, our | 02:09:47 | |
Director of Strategic Relations is going to pop up focus more specifically on the services and our opportunities for partner | 02:09:52 | |
together. | 02:09:56 | |
The slide deck that I've given you has several slides that I won't address in detail a little bit of context. | 02:10:01 | |
But I'll follow up at the end with some. | 02:10:07 | |
And contextual stuff about where we see why anemia in the context of Ventura County and some opportunities going forward. | 02:10:09 | |
And that's what that slide says, I think. Wow, there we go. | 02:10:16 | |
So just a couple of orientation points down here. | 02:10:19 | |
We like to ground this by saying that as an economic development organization, while we focus first and foremost on business and | 02:10:22 | |
the economy, we want to do that in a manner that we refer to as triple bottom line. That is, we want to be conscious, respectful | 02:10:27 | |
of. | 02:10:31 | |
Aware of our impacts and the work that we're doing to the environment and then most specifically this notion of social equity or | 02:10:36 | |
broadly shared opportunity. It's not about business only for the sake of business, but for the sake of quality jobs and | 02:10:41 | |
environment conducive to entrepreneurship and building community. | 02:10:47 | |
The second piece up there? Practice of economic development. Three pieces. | 02:10:52 | |
To demystify what we do, it's not that complicated. We focus on retaining and growing the business base. We focus on attracting in | 02:10:56 | |
some cases businesses to the region. | 02:11:01 | |
And then we focus on entrepreneurship. And I should stop when I say less pieces. | 02:11:06 | |
I learned pretty much everything I know about economic development from Steve Kenney, who's been in this. | 02:11:10 | |
Profession for a generation and is a leader in the region and really respect what he's taught me and everything that I don't know | 02:11:15 | |
is not his fault, just by the way, so be. | 02:11:20 | |
So an overview of who we are and what we do. To be very clear, we're a public private partnership. We're A501C3 corporation. We | 02:11:26 | |
partner with groups by. When I say that like Chambers of Commerce, we are not an advocacy organization. It's not our role to go | 02:11:33 | |
yell at Sacramento or DC about the business climate. Rather it's to work directly with business to find resources. | 02:11:40 | |
To facilitate business growth and strategy and work. | 02:11:47 | |
We believe the city is our partner and equally a partner and a client for us as the businesses that we serve. | 02:11:50 | |
We're a regional organization. Our grounding is in Ventura County, but we serve Santa Barbara as a small business center and our | 02:11:58 | |
lending services that our laundry will go into more detail. A lot of services in LA and San Luis Obispo County, but again Ventura | 02:12:02 | |
is our ground. | 02:12:07 | |
Home and a lot of partnerships that we'll get into, maybe a little bit with the Governor's Office of Business and Economic | 02:12:12 | |
Development and others. | 02:12:15 | |
When I said there are kind of three strategies you can look at business growth and retention. | 02:12:19 | |
And attraction and entrepreneurship were mostly about growth and retention. A little bit where I should say increasingly about | 02:12:24 | |
entrepreneurship, the idea of taking local innovation and talent and creating new business. | 02:12:29 | |
We have a great partnership. We call Fathom works with several of the commands at Navy Base Ventura County. | 02:12:35 | |
And with support and others. | 02:12:41 | |
And we do a lot of work in global trade. | 02:12:43 | |
We do a lot of work if you go to our website and research and analysis trying to understand the driving factors of our region. | 02:12:45 | |
And I should close my piece on this by saying we want to be in our very specifically performance based. That is, we don't want to | 02:12:52 | |
just talk about what we're doing in economic development, we want to measure it. | 02:12:58 | |
And make sure that we're having actual impact on a case by case with businesses. | 02:13:03 | |
I'll turn it there over to Alondra. | 02:13:08 | |
Our Director of Strategic Relations. | 02:13:10 | |
Thanks, Bruce. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem and council and staff of course. | 02:13:15 | |
My again, my name is Alondra Reitan and I'm going to talk about our services that the CDC provides. | 02:13:20 | |
We obviously provide one-on-one technical assistance services. So we have 50 business advisors that provide one-on-one assistance. | 02:13:27 | |
So these advisors assist businesses with anything that goes from starting their business, strategic planning, finance or operating | 02:13:35 | |
their operations, access to capital, marketing, branding and being able to become a lien. | 02:13:43 | |
Efficient operation. So we provide services to manufacturers and those such industries. We do have a lending program and one of | 02:13:52 | |
the main purposes of our lending program is to be able to provide. | 02:13:59 | |
A job. So once they receive funding through our DC loan program, we expect that they create a job with the funding that we provide | 02:14:07 | |
them for their business. Most of our capital goes up to $250,000 that we're able to lend and we also have a childcare loan fund | 02:14:15 | |
that we provide to childcare centers and childcare businesses. | 02:14:24 | |
And these are the areas of business advising that we provide at the EDC. We also do venture matchmaking. We support folks with | 02:14:34 | |
human resources and legal issues as well as market identification, customer service. | 02:14:42 | |
And government contracting and procurement, as Bruce mentioned, we do have a relationship with Fathom works in the port and so we | 02:14:50 | |
have. | 02:14:54 | |
A number of initiatives that we're working on with Fathom Works. | 02:14:58 | |
Some of our initiatives involve our SBA Export Trade Technical Assistance program, which is a Greater Los Angeles program that we | 02:15:03 | |
have. So it covers the LA area of Ventura County. | 02:15:09 | |
Santa Barbara County and we support folks who are importing and exporting and who need assistance managing relationships with the | 02:15:15 | |
foreign service. We also have our work based learning training team and we received a grant through our digital upskilling | 02:15:23 | |
initiative through Jackie Congresswoman, Jackie Irwin's office. And so we're providing training for workers and connecting workers | 02:15:30 | |
to pathways to create businesses and. | 02:15:38 | |
Be successful in the digital era. We also have an initiative currently with the Uplift Central Coast which is the six county | 02:15:45 | |
partnership supporting with our California Economic Resiliency fund we're currently working with. | 02:15:52 | |
Community members to listen to what their needs are and the barriers they are facing and being able to prioritize where we're | 02:16:01 | |
going as a Central Coast for a regional strategic plan. And again, we also have an initiative for our early childhood education. | 02:16:09 | |
And I'll kick it over to Bruce now. | 02:16:24 | |
So just a couple of real quick things here. So probably the most important thing we could talk about is what can we do together in | 02:16:31 | |
terms of options for partnering with the city? | 02:16:35 | |
And we've done this with other cities. We haven't been doing a whole lot here in the city of Port Wine, Emy, So we want to do | 02:16:39 | |
that. | 02:16:42 | |
We can collaborate with the city and its various departments and the chamber and others to make sure we're doing more blanket | 02:16:44 | |
outreach to the community to get business out. I know you already do that, but we can collaborate add resources to that. | 02:16:51 | |
And we've done workshops that are targeted specific industry sectors or types of business. | 02:16:57 | |
Could be retail, it could be types of things like access and capital and business management issues. | 02:17:02 | |
We can do those live, We can do them here, We can take them through webinars online. | 02:17:08 | |
We can focus on practical issues like financial management, QuickBooks. | 02:17:14 | |
You name it, we can customize that information or that training. | 02:17:19 | |
Or that collaboration to whatever is sort of community need or priority interests identified by any of you and your team. | 02:17:24 | |
And and when we do this, we can also draw in a variety of additional partners. We work with a group called Women's Economic | 02:17:32 | |
Ventures. | 02:17:35 | |
As well Andrew mentioned, we do more one-on-one direct professional technical assistance with business owners about solving | 02:17:39 | |
individual or specific problems. | 02:17:43 | |
Weave as a partner is much more oriented and expert at doing classroom based activity and also work incredibly well with women | 02:17:47 | |
entrepreneurs. | 02:17:51 | |
And we partnered with Chambers. We can work with the workforce, board, community colleges, Navy, port, etcetera. | 02:17:56 | |
So. | 02:18:02 | |
I'll leave that and move on to a couple of other points, but that's the main thing we want to do is plant the flag, plant the | 02:18:03 | |
notion. | 02:18:06 | |
That whatever we can do in collaboration with you on behalf of the businesses and industry and the residents of the city, we're | 02:18:10 | |
all in. | 02:18:13 | |
So I want to go with a couple of other points before I hop out of the way. | 02:18:17 | |
Most everything you do right in a business and economic development department or an activity is done in a context right? And it's | 02:18:21 | |
generally thought that you read the press in California's falling into the ocean and we do have problems, but there's also a ton | 02:18:26 | |
to celebrate in the strengths. | 02:18:31 | |
Of California, coastal California, Ventura County. | 02:18:36 | |
Whining me in particular, there's this thing called the National Natural Amenities Index, and I can't help but throw this up. | 02:18:39 | |
Every time I talk to a group, the USDA federal government looks at 3111 counties around the United States of America. | 02:18:46 | |
And has concluded, and I quote Ventura County is the absolute most desirable place to live in America. | 02:18:52 | |
That of course helps if you can afford the home, and I don't mean to make fun of that, but we get the idea. And these other ones | 02:18:59 | |
the same thing. They identify, yes. | 02:19:03 | |
Well, we have issues when you cut through all of the various categories that deliver quality of life or inhibit quality of life or | 02:19:07 | |
actually a very competitive place. | 02:19:12 | |
Very quickly, and I won't go into this, we could summarize our economic competitiveness. | 02:19:18 | |
You probably know these Pines. We've got deep assets in all of these areas that are listed here. | 02:19:22 | |
We can come back and talk about those another time. | 02:19:27 | |
But we also have some extraordinary regional weaknesses and we know that the high cost of living, the high cost of housing in | 02:19:30 | |
particular, we know that we've got a lot of retail and commercial property. | 02:19:35 | |
Vacancies, particularly during COVID as we move to online sales. | 02:19:41 | |
This is both a problem and an opportunity to reuse resources. | 02:19:46 | |
Umm. | 02:19:51 | |
And I'm going to hit just a couple of other items here. We're going to skip the COVID piece. You know these we went through a deep | 02:19:52 | |
recession. | 02:19:56 | |
We are actually recovering incredibly well. We're covering, I think, better than most of the regions around us. There's a lot of | 02:20:00 | |
debate around that. | 02:20:03 | |
But I would defend the points that show Ventura counties actually in a in a powerful recovery. | 02:20:07 | |
I'm gonna leave you with just a couple of thoughts here. We took some data and the handouts that we provided you. | 02:20:11 | |
There is a very detailed numeric summary of where does the City of Port Winema exist in terms of jobs within the city as compared | 02:20:17 | |
to the number of jobs in the same categories by industry sector in the county. | 02:20:24 | |
This is not a look at resident occupations, this is a look at the jobs that are based within the city. | 02:20:31 | |
And there are just a couple of real macro points I want to hit on that .1. | 02:20:38 | |
Is and I don't want to be a downer on this, but I want to make sure that we're clear on the point and I'm sure you're aware of it. | 02:20:42 | |
The city of Portland anemia is somewhere around 2.6%, maybe 2.5% of the county's population. | 02:20:47 | |
But only about 1.2% of the jobs. | 02:20:54 | |
Are located in the city. | 02:20:57 | |
So there's an opportunity there to create more, more jobs. | 02:20:59 | |
This is a challenge relative to a landlocked, surrounded community and how you manage real estate. And those are the expert issues | 02:21:03 | |
that you have, not me. | 02:21:08 | |
But it is an opportunity or or an issue, right? | 02:21:12 | |
You also have a high concentration of jobs that don't pay necessarily the highest wages. | 02:21:16 | |
There's a concentration in food. | 02:21:20 | |
Not so much accommodation. You're about the same as the county and the density of retail jobs. | 02:21:23 | |
But a couple of areas that you're underrepresented with an economy that's attached to the ocean, our arts, entertainment and | 02:21:28 | |
recreation, there's some opportunities there. | 02:21:33 | |
But we can look at those and figure out, you know, sort of what are some of the strengths and weaknesses. | 02:21:38 | |
Last this slide, I was somewhat reluctant to put this in there. | 02:21:43 | |
And this is actually not an unusual slide or a picture relative to Ventura County generally. | 02:21:47 | |
Only about 20% of Ventura County's workforce. | 02:21:52 | |
Both lives and works in the city. | 02:21:56 | |
In the same city. | 02:21:59 | |
That's a very severe issue in the city of Port Winema, where only about 350 of your labor force residents actually live in the | 02:22:00 | |
city. | 02:22:04 | |
They commute out to work elsewhere. | 02:22:09 | |
There's no magic switch and button and finger snap to retain those folks. | 02:22:11 | |
But it's something to think about. But this is a Ventura County problem. | 02:22:16 | |
We have people who love their neighborhoods but find employment somewhere else. | 02:22:19 | |
And if I were the director of VCTC, the Transportation Commission, I would say that's a problem because we've got people running | 02:22:24 | |
all over. | 02:22:27 | |
But one of the points that we want to leave you with is this notion that everybody talks in Ventura County about we need more | 02:22:31 | |
housing. | 02:22:34 | |
But as an economic development organization, we want to also echo the point that we also need more jobs we want to do more about | 02:22:38 | |
thinking about. | 02:22:42 | |
How we create opportunity for retaining? | 02:22:46 | |
Quality, high paid jobs for our residents. It's not easy to do, but if you don't think about it, you don't measure it. | 02:22:48 | |
You don't do it, so we want to be a partner with you and thinking about. | 02:22:54 | |
How we're creating jobs, How we're creating opportunity and retaining the talent. | 02:22:58 | |
Of our residents, not just in Wanami 4 Wanami, but for Ventura County generally. | 02:23:02 | |
Driving to Los Angeles, Santa Barbara. | 02:23:06 | |
We mentioned here there's some real opportunities. We believe in Ventura County and quote UN quote light manufacturing, the whole | 02:23:10 | |
research and development, it doesn't take. | 02:23:14 | |
Huge industrialization. It just takes craft and land. Land opportunities. | 02:23:18 | |
Well, you have a ton of transportation jobs in in in Wyoming. Not a lot of jobs in the wholesale trade side. | 02:23:23 | |
Again, not an easy connection to make, but generally they go together and there's some opportunities there. | 02:23:30 | |
We say agriculture and food systems. Ventura County is, of course, enormously concentrated in the ag sector. | 02:23:36 | |
But we think there's even more opportunity for growth in what they call craft food. | 02:23:42 | |
Et cetera. You know, people want to know where their food came from. They want to know that it's local. They want to know that | 02:23:47 | |
there's quality and we think there's huge opportunities there. | 02:23:51 | |
And finally to the last three pints. | 02:23:56 | |
We can do a lot together to make sure that we're building with our resources and other organizations, other partners. | 02:23:59 | |
To build the capacity of, the strength of and competitiveness of the businesses in the city and use that as a foundation and a | 02:24:05 | |
catalyst to grow. | 02:24:09 | |
We also believe in investing in early child education. | 02:24:13 | |
You know, there's an old phrase, what if we educate them and they leave? And the answer to that is what if we don't educate them | 02:24:16 | |
and they stay? And while that can be a joke, it's also a very serious statement and we want to close by saying we recognize. | 02:24:23 | |
But they're huge assets and they're tricky assets, the Navy and the part. | 02:24:30 | |
We're working with them and we want to work with the city to figure out how we make sure that we're a facilitator of connecting | 02:24:34 | |
those opportunities. | 02:24:37 | |
We are there and we'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. | 02:24:42 | |
Thank you, Bruce and Alondra for your presentation. | 02:24:46 | |
Do any members of? | 02:24:49 | |
Council have. | 02:24:51 | |
Questions. I have one question. | 02:24:52 | |
In the job. | 02:24:55 | |
Calculations. | 02:24:56 | |
Did you you considered the port? | 02:24:57 | |
Jobs. | 02:24:59 | |
Not no, because they have to be resident to the boundaries of the City of Port Wine Emy. And so I may be answering the question | 02:25:01 | |
wrong. It's. | 02:25:06 | |
It's not in. My answer would be this. | 02:25:11 | |
The data doesn't suggest that they're all captured. | 02:25:16 | |
Because I think it would be a larger number. | 02:25:18 | |
Right. And that would. | 02:25:20 | |
Venture this suggests that the the Navy provides a lot of jobs as well. Absolutely. And I'm pretty sure you're not counting those. | 02:25:22 | |
It's a it's a tricky calculation when you ever look at municipal boundaries, adjacent or overlapping federal institutions like a | 02:25:29 | |
Navy base, right. So you're spot on. I should have led with that. That makes the data. | 02:25:35 | |
Challenging. | 02:25:42 | |
But when we're thinking of the city specifically I'm thinking of your neighborhoods and commercial zoned properties and optimizing | 02:25:44 | |
those opportunities. Well, I would settle for counting the pork chops and we could leave the Navy out of it. But Fairpoint and I | 02:25:51 | |
and I bundle, I do believe the port of Wyoming is in the city of Wyoming. I think you're right, support jobs those several 100. | 02:25:58 | |
Yes, my mistake you're. | 02:26:06 | |
Thank you. | 02:26:08 | |
OK, good questions. | 02:26:10 | |
I don't have a question, but I thank you for coming and giving us a presentation. | 02:26:14 | |
I appreciate them. | 02:26:18 | |
Since I see you once a month or at least twice a month as a regular, I should have mentioned, we appreciate your participation on | 02:26:20 | |
our board and on our Executive committee. Thank you for the leadership. Yeah, I thank you for the work you do with small business. | 02:26:25 | |
Yes, Bruce and and Alondra, I'd like to thank you guys for your presentation. I just. | 02:26:31 | |
Want to let you know that I I had. | 02:26:35 | |
Asked for this presentation after I had met Louisa Out, one of your employees out at Santa Paula when I she was doing a | 02:26:38 | |
presentation for. | 02:26:42 | |
For Santa, Paula and I asked her what? What is it? What is it gonna take? | 02:26:48 | |
To get these presentations, these workshops for our community here in Fort Wayne, Amy. | 02:26:53 | |
And I also want to thank our interim city manager, former interim City Manager Tony. | 02:26:59 | |
Stewart, for putting it on the agenda. Thank Thank you very much for putting it on the agenda. | 02:27:05 | |
What? | 02:27:10 | |
Workshops do you recommend that we do in our community or what can you offer in terms of like what? What would you say is like a | 02:27:11 | |
strong base of workshops? | 02:27:15 | |
Given that about 12% of the jobs resident to the city are in the retail and related sector and those are small businesses working. | 02:27:20 | |
And too often with the shoe box managing their finances, the one that you mentioned. | 02:27:29 | |
Louisa something related to? | 02:27:34 | |
Financial Management, QuickBooks Identifying Sources of Investment and Revenue would be. | 02:27:37 | |
Probably a high density place to start and then I'm not sure expanding beyond that. We would have to work with you and. | 02:27:43 | |
And survey the residents. | 02:27:50 | |
Check with Mr. Kenney and others and figure out how we might craft strategy. | 02:27:52 | |
And and you would be more than happy to. | 02:27:56 | |
Do. | 02:27:59 | |
Some sessions like say. | 02:28:00 | |
Four or five different sessions across how many months? | 02:28:03 | |
We could customize that however it makes sense. | 02:28:07 | |
The only trick there is. | 02:28:09 | |
The stick to it. You gotta make it. | 02:28:11 | |
Tight and compact enough. | 02:28:13 | |
For people to want to be there, and business owners of course struggle to. | 02:28:15 | |
Find the time to go find others. So. | 02:28:20 | |
We try and craft something that makes sure that. | 02:28:22 | |
It doesn't take them away from their work and home, but also gives them some sort of high impact. | 02:28:25 | |
But beyond that, we're wide open. | 02:28:30 | |
Generally, we found that anything that runs more than a handful of weeks consecutive and a handful of hours or maybe an hour in | 02:28:32 | |
each. | 02:28:36 | |
You start to have people dropping out. | 02:28:41 | |
But. | 02:28:44 | |
If it's compelling enough. | 02:28:45 | |
We can do it. | 02:28:47 | |
Yes. | 02:28:49 | |
Are you familiar with Jan Burke? | 02:28:51 | |
She's in the back there of. She's the chairperson of a coalition of. | 02:28:53 | |
HOA's in our community, I'm not. And thank you for the introduction. Be happy, right? And I think the last meeting that I attended | 02:28:58 | |
they talked about community economic development and. | 02:29:03 | |
And perhaps going in that direction and and being a resource for us. So I just wanted to let you know that Jen is back there. | 02:29:09 | |
Thank you. Other answer, I think I skipped over it. I think some workshops and entrepreneurship on identifying both youth and | 02:29:18 | |
adults or people who are thinking about starting a job. | 02:29:23 | |
You know, everybody talks about why don't you get somebody to move here, but our greatest asset is our innovative talent locally | 02:29:29 | |
and facilitating their. | 02:29:33 | |
Ideas. Putting them into business is a lot bigger, bang for the buck and less resistance to getting it done. | 02:29:38 | |
So. | 02:29:44 | |
All right. Thank you, Mr. Stansley. Hopefully City Council can approve to have you come back and maybe approve some. | 02:29:45 | |
Some sessions for our community. Follow up and we'll follow up. City manager, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Andre. | 02:29:51 | |
We will now consider items. | 02:29:59 | |
On the consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless the Council member has a request to remove an item for | 02:30:01 | |
discussion. | 02:30:04 | |
Mayor if I could. | 02:30:09 | |
I actually. | 02:30:11 | |
I reviewed the agenda yesterday and there's actually an item I'd like to continue to. | 02:30:13 | |
It's item 14, which we received a public comment on. | 02:30:20 | |
And I just wanna continue it. The RFP's not drafted yet and for public transparency, I wanna get into the process and into the | 02:30:23 | |
routine of. | 02:30:28 | |
Having the RFP included in the packet, so I'd like to pull it and then bring it back and I I know there was. | 02:30:32 | |
Sometimes sensitivity, but I think that would only impact us by a week or two. | 02:30:38 | |
At the end of the day, OK. | 02:30:42 | |
Motion. | 02:30:45 | |
Move to approve removing item 14. | 02:30:47 | |
Or for a later date. | 02:30:50 | |
And I would also like to mention that I'd like to pull item number 11 for just a brief discussion. | 02:30:52 | |
2nd. | 02:31:00 | |
And I would also. | 02:31:02 | |
Well, make another motion I guess for the two items. Move to approve removing item 11 for further discussion. | 02:31:04 | |
And to remove item 14 to a later date. | 02:31:12 | |
I'll second that motion. | 02:31:16 | |
OK. Does that include approving the remainder of the and approving the remainder of the items? | 02:31:18 | |
It's all meant. Do I need to amend the motion or are we good? Mayor Pro Tem Perez just confirmed the amendment and as long as | 02:31:27 | |
you're good with your second and you're good to go. | 02:31:32 | |
OK. | 02:31:37 | |
So all in favor? Aye. All opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. | 02:31:38 | |
OK. | 02:31:44 | |
So the only reason why I wanted to bring up. | 02:31:45 | |
Item number 11 I don't see There isn't. I don't have an issue with this. It's authorizing out-of-state travel for both myself and | 02:31:48 | |
Mayor Pro Tem Perez. | 02:31:52 | |
For the City Port Joint Advocacy Trip to Washington, DC. | 02:31:57 | |
There's $20,000 that were approved from the. | 02:32:01 | |
Port. | 02:32:04 | |
For us to do this trip. One of the things I just wanted to mention though. | 02:32:07 | |
Hopefully we can approve for some of that money to be used. | 02:32:10 | |
To cover my sub right now my substitutes. | 02:32:14 | |
Right now I'm at -. 3 personal days. | 02:32:17 | |
Because I don't have anymore personal days, I've been taking days off this past year so that I can attend to city. | 02:32:21 | |
City agenda items. | 02:32:29 | |
And so I just, I don't think we're necessarily approving anything. | 02:32:31 | |
But I'm hoping that maybe in the future we can discuss that edit code that's available to all Oxnard Union High School. | 02:32:35 | |
District employees. | 02:32:43 | |
That are also holding a a. | 02:32:45 | |
An office, Kevin. | 02:32:47 | |
Yeah, I just wanted to to reiterate that it wouldn't be approval of, yeah, it's paying that Ed code to the school district to | 02:32:50 | |
cover the Subs that would come back to council. Yes. Yeah, I'm just, I just wanted to bring it up. | 02:32:55 | |
I'm I'm just mentioning it. I understand there is no approval. | 02:33:01 | |
And and if I may. | 02:33:05 | |
On item 11. | 02:33:08 | |
I'm excited for mayor and mayor Pro Tem to go to Washington. | 02:33:11 | |
But at the same time I also wanna slide a. | 02:33:15 | |
An issue, but you know regard to the dredging process and how. | 02:33:18 | |
I I don't know who we talked, you know? | 02:33:24 | |
I don't know the protocol and making sure that. | 02:33:26 | |
We're keeping that conversation alive and keeping data. | 02:33:30 | |
So maybe I could. | 02:33:33 | |
Put up. | 02:33:36 | |
Put together a little presentation or something that you could carry some of the things that we can discuss here. That definitely | 02:33:37 | |
was one of the items we will be dealing with when we're there. It was mentioned, OK, excellent. | 02:33:41 | |
Yeah. If I could just take on to that discussion, in the packet under attachment A, there's a list of items that you will be | 02:33:47 | |
lobbying for. | 02:33:51 | |
And I just wanted to recommend that it would it might be helpful to sit down with Mike Tripp, who is. | 02:33:56 | |
The project lead for the. | 02:34:02 | |
Dredging and to to get his. | 02:34:05 | |
Suggestions on issues that you might want to relate in while you're in Washington, but I'm really happy that the both of you are | 02:34:10 | |
going. I I think for myself and and maybe for Councilwoman Martha McLean, it was really a really good experience. It was eye | 02:34:16 | |
opening and. | 02:34:22 | |
You come back feeling like, yeah, you this is something that. | 02:34:28 | |
You could add to your your skill set, you know in the future cause we all took turns. | 02:34:31 | |
Introducing. | 02:34:36 | |
The team. | 02:34:37 | |
Identifying the issues and. | 02:34:39 | |
You know, we each got a chance to do that and it was it was a good learning experience. So I'm really excited for you guys to to | 02:34:41 | |
go. So good luck. | 02:34:44 | |
Thank you. | 02:34:47 | |
So Motion to Approve item 11. | 02:34:49 | |
2nd. | 02:34:51 | |
All in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 02:34:55 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 02:34:58 | |
And and so just to confirm is the city attorney mentioned the. | 02:35:01 | |
Kind of the the point that the mayor made would come back to the council on the first meeting in September, which would still be | 02:35:05 | |
prior to that trip. | 02:35:08 | |
For council to approve. | 02:35:12 | |
All right. We don't have any public hearings tonight, but we do have a couple business items. | 02:35:17 | |
Item number 17/20/23 Annual. | 02:35:23 | |
Why Nimi Hero Award? Will staff please present the report. | 02:35:26 | |
Good evening, Mayor, council, members of the public, city staff. | 02:35:32 | |
For the record. | 02:35:37 | |
Charles Parrott's empty city manager. | 02:35:38 | |
Give a brief presentation on this item. | 02:35:40 | |
By way of a quick review. | 02:35:44 | |
The City Council approved the Heroes Historic Preservation and Cultural Heritage Policy. | 02:35:48 | |
Back in November of 2020. | 02:35:53 | |
That policy established various. | 02:35:55 | |
Processes to honor individuals and organizations that embody and exemplify community values. | 02:35:58 | |
One of the particular. | 02:36:05 | |
Items approved in that policy is the annual Winema Hero Award, which is found in Section 5 of the policy. | 02:36:07 | |
It provides a process to honor persons or groups that have made unique contributions to the areas of either public safety | 02:36:13 | |
community development. | 02:36:17 | |
Cultural heritage. | 02:36:21 | |
Community Service environment. | 02:36:22 | |
And economic development. | 02:36:24 | |
As has been done in the past and as prescribed by the policy. | 02:36:27 | |
Nominations are requested. | 02:36:30 | |
And when received, our first vetted by staff and then presented to the Citizen Advisory Commission for review. | 02:36:33 | |
And for recommendation to the Council. | 02:36:39 | |
This year we received a total of 13 nominations. | 02:36:42 | |
In total, four different individuals were nominated. | 02:36:47 | |
At last Monday, July 10th meeting of the Citizen Advisory Commission. | 02:36:51 | |
The Commission spent some time. | 02:36:56 | |
Reviewing the nominations and discussing this item. | 02:36:59 | |
The staff report contains information about the nominees. | 02:37:02 | |
Along with the brief summary. | 02:37:06 | |
And then there is an attachment that contains all of the nominations that were received. | 02:37:09 | |
In summary, the action taken by the Citizen Advisory Commission. | 02:37:14 | |
By a vote of four, zero, with Chair Bruning having recused herself from the vote and the discussion. | 02:37:19 | |
They see AC voted to recommend. | 02:37:25 | |
That the current CAC chair, Becky Brunning, be selected as the 2023 Winema Hero Award recipient. | 02:37:28 | |
As is noted in the information. | 02:37:36 | |
Miss Browning, or Becky, as most of us know her, serves as a member of the Port Wanami Historical Governance Committee. | 02:37:39 | |
She is and has been a museum committee. I'm sorry, a museum volunteer for many. | 02:37:45 | |
Many years. | 02:37:51 | |
She is currently the treasurer of the Real Guppies organization in our city. | 02:37:52 | |
And she, as mentioned, is the chair of the citizen advisory. | 02:37:58 | |
Commission. She also served. | 02:38:02 | |
With another one of our volunteers. | 02:38:05 | |
Juliet Rodriguez to assist with the 75th anniversary postmark event. | 02:38:08 | |
And then lastly, it should be noted that she also previously served as the President. | 02:38:15 | |
Of the Friends of the Bard Mansion. | 02:38:20 | |
Group. | 02:38:22 | |
So with that summary and brief presentation, I open it up to the Council for any questions. | 02:38:23 | |
Or discussion and ultimately requesting your. | 02:38:31 | |
Action and approval for the 2023 ONEMI Hero Award. | 02:38:34 | |
Any questions? | 02:38:39 | |
Thank you, Mr. Peretz for the presentation. And I wanted to also thank the. | 02:38:43 | |
Citizens Advisory Commission for their work on this. | 02:38:49 | |
I wanted to know if you could refresh my memory on the deadline for submitting nominations and if there were any nominations | 02:38:53 | |
submitted after the deadline. | 02:38:57 | |
The policy indicates that we should receive nominations by June 1st. We had a late start this year, so we. | 02:39:04 | |
Allowed until the end of June. | 02:39:11 | |
In all, 13 nominations that were received were received. | 02:39:14 | |
I believe the latest one we received was June 16th and we did not receive any after that date. OK, thank you. | 02:39:17 | |
Any more questions? | 02:39:24 | |
Comment. | 02:39:27 | |
I just want to congratulate them. | 02:39:31 | |
Miss Jennifer. | 02:39:33 | |
T home. | 02:39:35 | |
Miro. | 02:39:36 | |
Tomorrow. | 02:39:37 | |
Tim Ross. | 02:39:38 | |
Miss Anna Lissette Bolo and Mr. Brian Barber. | 02:39:40 | |
I guess these were the finalists and and all of these residents are deserving of this award. Unfortunately, we're just going to | 02:39:44 | |
award it to 1. | 02:39:48 | |
But. | 02:39:53 | |
I just think it's important for us to highlight and courage and bring more people to the table to to supporting their community | 02:39:54 | |
and I've worked with the. | 02:39:59 | |
Becky a lot. | 02:40:04 | |
At the museum, Real guppies. And it's. | 02:40:06 | |
I know Kevin is ecstatic to have you there, and I know it's a. | 02:40:10 | |
It. | 02:40:14 | |
It really brings joy. It's not work, it's joy and really appreciate the fact that you're here with us tonight and. | 02:40:15 | |
I don't want to take anything away from the other three. They're all great. | 02:40:23 | |
Residents in our community who are working hard to make our community better. | 02:40:29 | |
And. | 02:40:32 | |
So I just wanted to acknowledge the other candidates and. | 02:40:34 | |
Fully support Becky in this endeavor. | 02:40:38 | |
Are there any public comments regarding this item? | 02:40:42 | |
We do have a public comment from Juliette Rodriguez. | 02:40:44 | |
Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and Council. | 02:40:56 | |
I'd like to 1st begin by extending a warm wini welcome to our new City Manager. | 02:41:00 | |
Um. | 02:41:04 | |
City Manager Vega. | 02:41:06 | |
And also extend appreciation to our former Interim City Manager, Tony Stewart, who I was able to work with. | 02:41:07 | |
In. | 02:41:16 | |
Preparing for the 75th anniversary so. | 02:41:17 | |
Um. | 02:41:20 | |
With all that being said, the reason I'm here this evening is. | 02:41:21 | |
Not long ago, the city did a call for nominations for the annual Winning Me. | 02:41:24 | |
Hero. | 02:41:30 | |
Award. | 02:41:31 | |
And it didn't take me long to think of someone that really. | 02:41:32 | |
Exemplified this award and that is Becky Bruning. | 02:41:36 | |
Becky Brunning has been a resident of Port Wanami for over 71 years. | 02:41:41 | |
And there's not very many people that can say that in our community. | 02:41:46 | |
Maybe Irvine Carpenter, but anyway, there there are a handful of people that have been here that duration and longer. | 02:41:50 | |
But during those 71 years? | 02:41:58 | |
It was interesting to talk with Becky and to hear about. | 02:42:01 | |
All of the support she has given to so many organizations during her residency here. | 02:42:05 | |
I have been able to work with her in some overlapping activities. | 02:42:10 | |
With the museum. | 02:42:15 | |
And also most recently on the museum governance committee that we both. | 02:42:16 | |
Share. | 02:42:22 | |
A spot on. | 02:42:23 | |
And. | 02:42:24 | |
Also observe her in so many other. | 02:42:25 | |
Organizational capacities. | 02:42:28 | |
And the one thing that I was quick to note about Becky is she is. | 02:42:30 | |
The very first person to ever. | 02:42:34 | |
When asked for any kind of assistance, she's the first one to say. | 02:42:37 | |
I'll be there. | 02:42:41 | |
Count me in. I can do this. You know she's. | 02:42:42 | |
She's always, always there. | 02:42:45 | |
And. | 02:42:47 | |
So. | 02:42:49 | |
I submitted this nomination and there are. | 02:42:50 | |
I was glad to see that there were a number of entries that were submitted. | 02:42:54 | |
And all the entries had stellar contributions to our community. | 02:42:58 | |
I would encourage anyone watching this meeting. | 02:43:02 | |
That if you've ever thought of doing anything for your city, there are so many opportunities. | 02:43:05 | |
For you to give. | 02:43:10 | |
Even an hour or two hours of time a month, but there are many opportunities and I hope that. | 02:43:11 | |
Hearing about this program and this nomination inspires you to also give back to our community. | 02:43:18 | |
Umm. | 02:43:24 | |
You know, one thing I will conclude with is we listed some of the opportunities that. | 02:43:24 | |
That Becky has been involved with. | 02:43:31 | |
But while this nomination has been circulating, she also jumped in to help with the sister city support Wani. | 02:43:32 | |
Committee so she lets nothing go by without jumping in, so I'd like to again encourage you to approve the citizens advisory. | 02:43:38 | |
Committees recommendation. | 02:43:47 | |
To recognize Becky pruning as the 2023. | 02:43:49 | |
Umm. | 02:43:53 | |
Why Need me, Hero? | 02:43:54 | |
And thank you so much. | 02:43:56 | |
Thank you, Juliet. Are there any more public comments? | 02:43:58 | |
That concludes public comment. | 02:44:02 | |
The recommendation is to approve. | 02:44:04 | |
The Citizen Advisory Commission recommendation to recognize Miss Becky. | 02:44:07 | |
As a recipient of the 2023 Wanami Hero Award, may I have a motion and a second? | 02:44:11 | |
2nd. | 02:44:18 | |
I don't know if we want a discussion. Yeah, real quick. I just want to make a comment. | 02:44:21 | |
Congratulations Becky. You know, everywhere I go in the community, whenever we have an event, she's there doing, you know, | 02:44:26 | |
staffing a booth, representing. | 02:44:30 | |
The library representing the museum. | 02:44:35 | |
And this? | 02:44:38 | |
A reward is a much deserved. | 02:44:39 | |
And I I look forward to. | 02:44:42 | |
Being there when you receive it during the Wanami Beach Festival, But there was one. | 02:44:44 | |
Peace or accomplishment that I think was left out and that's the fact that Becky. | 02:44:50 | |
Sits through our City Council meetings and she is there until the very end. | 02:44:55 | |
So I mean, that alone I think is deserving of this award. So congratulations, Becky, and thank you for all you do for our city. | 02:45:01 | |
And citing through our council meetings. | 02:45:09 | |
Took my comment right away. | 02:45:12 | |
Alright, well let's have this approved then. May I have a motion? And we did get a motion, right? Ohh. Madam Clerk, can we please | 02:45:15 | |
take a vote? I'm sorry I missed the second. Who provided the second actually me. | 02:45:21 | |
All in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 02:45:28 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Becky. | 02:45:31 | |
Remember. | 02:45:35 | |
Mayor Martinez, may I request a 5 minute break? | 02:45:37 | |
Yes, thank you. We'll recess for 5 minutes. We'll be back at 7:50 PM. | 02:45:41 | |
Let's say 7:50, but that was actually 7 minutes. So it's been 5 minutes. So we're gonna continue on with our meeting and move on | 02:50:11 | |
to item number 18, broadband. | 02:50:15 | |
Master plan. | 02:50:21 | |
Will staff please present the report? | 02:50:22 | |
Yes, thank you. And Mr. Penney's going to give a presentation on the broadband master plan. | 02:50:25 | |
We've been mayor, mayor, protem, council. My only introductory comment here is just to. | 02:50:31 | |
Point out that in the presentation that Bruce Hensley just made to you bit ago. | 02:50:37 | |
There were two or three references to broadband sprinkled. | 02:50:41 | |
Throughout this presentation, just to sort of elevate the. | 02:50:45 | |
The stature of broadband within the world of economic development, it's recognized county wide. | 02:50:49 | |
How important that is is one of the sort of basic building blocks. | 02:50:55 | |
One of the utilities, if you will, to make a truly. | 02:51:00 | |
Competitive city and county. | 02:51:05 | |
So that's the reason that we launched this to begin with and why we are here tonight to hear the outcome of the consultant study | 02:51:10 | |
and then decide how to move forward from there. I will just bring to your recollection the fact that we launched this. | 02:51:17 | |
In the fall of last year, October or so. | 02:51:25 | |
To approve this, this contract for this plan tonight. | 02:51:28 | |
It was one of the ARPA. | 02:51:32 | |
Funded projects that you all approved last year. | 02:51:33 | |
And anything else that I might say about the? | 02:51:37 | |
The project or the consultant team or the plan itself is included in their presentation, so I'll just step aside and introduce to | 02:51:41 | |
you. | 02:51:45 | |
Jeff Lewis and Preston Young. | 02:51:51 | |
There are two principles of the Government Technology Group firm that will be. | 02:51:53 | |
Presenting to you tonight. | 02:51:59 | |
Honorable Mayor and Council and City staff, it's my pleasure to be here to present this presentation. | 02:52:05 | |
I'm sorry, could you repeat your name? Jeff Lewis. OK, yes. I'm Jeff Lewis. I'm the managing partner for the Government Technology | 02:52:13 | |
Group. | 02:52:16 | |
We do broadband planning and strategic planning. I'll skip ahead. I'm going to have that on our slide, but. | 02:52:21 | |
To who we are. | 02:52:26 | |
And. | 02:52:27 | |
So when Preston is our industry expert. | 02:52:28 | |
And professional for the for the team. | 02:52:32 | |
So tonight we're going to go over about who we are in the group itself. We're going to go over the master plan overview. | 02:52:39 | |
We'll do a we did a market analysis of the City of Port Wanami. | 02:52:45 | |
We identified goals and needs for the project conceptual design. | 02:52:50 | |
We're gonna discuss a little bit about policy. | 02:52:54 | |
And go over partnership opportunities and give our recommendations. | 02:52:57 | |
And well, well, it's this question is at the end. Feel free to ask any questions during the presentation. | 02:53:01 | |
So with that, I'm Jeff Lewis, the managing partner. We also have two other partners, Clancy Priest and Mark Gunther. | 02:53:08 | |
Who help out mostly with strategic planning and assessments and other security needs. | 02:53:14 | |
And then Preston is an industry expert from UH has done most of the planning for the Bay Area for the broadband for AT&T Wave. | 02:53:19 | |
Verizon. | 02:53:26 | |
And all those. So he he brings their expertise to us. | 02:53:27 | |
So the master plan overview, the primary adjectives that we were given for this was inclusivity. And that's really what the state | 02:53:34 | |
and federal government wants. They want to make sure that we get broadband, broadband out to entire communities, not just the area | 02:53:39 | |
that the providers usually pick and choose. You know, they're there to make a profit and they're not going to go to neighborhoods | 02:53:44 | |
that don't make a profit, so. | 02:53:49 | |
That's what all the grant funding is out for. | 02:53:55 | |
We wanna make sure that I think the direction was given a reliable network. You'll see from the workshops and the surveys we did, | 02:53:58 | |
there was a complaint about reliability and some of these issues. | 02:54:02 | |
Everybody wants a reasonable cost. | 02:54:07 | |
Broadband, the more competition you have, the better the cost. I mean like if you bring Google in the community, the the cost goes | 02:54:09 | |
drastically down. | 02:54:13 | |
And if you build if if city builds out or works with a partner or regional effort, you can drive the cost down as well. | 02:54:17 | |
And we want to provide broadband infrastructure that supports economic development in smart city initiatives and that was brought | 02:54:23 | |
out during the review, the surveys and the workshops as well. | 02:54:28 | |
Some things that we noticed during this study was that the city lacks a dig once policy. | 02:54:33 | |
I was actually having a off a conversation with the IT your IT manager this afternoon. | 02:54:39 | |
And he expressed that that could help build out in your community as well. It lowers costs because once you dig the street, you | 02:54:45 | |
drop something in, it's a lot cheaper than trying to dig it, you know, put it in without that effort that's going on. | 02:54:51 | |
With some things we found was a port Wanami has redundant fiber. So they they we met up and discussed with them. | 02:55:02 | |
And they're very well supported with broadband. | 02:55:09 | |
But they are willing to be a partner, so they're willing to share some of their infrastructure. | 02:55:11 | |
And there's already broadband infrastructure from their location to the. | 02:55:16 | |
Police Department, I think that was put in in the past for the possibility of putting the license plate reader cameras or remote | 02:55:20 | |
access for the public safety purposes. | 02:55:24 | |
The Navy is also well served at this time. | 02:55:29 | |
The Portland Amy Beach Park is not well served, we found, with either Y4 set or coverage, especially during the office. | 02:55:32 | |
The big season, Your peak season. | 02:55:39 | |
And he he knew Me Bay is an area of need. | 02:55:41 | |
And that was highlighted by both the state and federal maps as well. | 02:55:44 | |
While most residents are covered with high speed broadband, there were complaints about reliability, as we mentioned earlier. | 02:55:52 | |
And a lack of fiber. Frontier is beginning to, you know, to build out that. But there are areas your city just don't have that | 02:55:57 | |
ability, availability. | 02:56:01 | |
Comment providers from the conversations we had aren't looking at building anything further at this time. | 02:56:06 | |
The city has multiple areas that are underserved, like say. We confirmed that with the maps. | 02:56:12 | |
We also do a study that we call we. | 02:56:17 | |
And we pick various addresses within the city and we test to see what's there. And so we've that helps us validate that in | 02:56:20 | |
addition to the workshops and surveys we perform. | 02:56:24 | |
There are high priority areas in the city for the California Public Utilities Commission. | 02:56:31 | |
Which are eligible for last mile funding, and I'm not sure if you're aware, but the city did recently approve the ability to go | 02:56:35 | |
after that small funding. | 02:56:39 | |
And we anticipate assisting the city to get 4 to $5 million for its community. | 02:56:43 | |
To build broadband infrastructure. | 02:56:48 | |
Ventura County is planning the middle mile project, including Port Wanami. | 02:56:51 | |
They're gonna run. There's part of middle mile. So just a discussion what that is. | 02:56:55 | |
As that's from connecting city to city. | 02:56:59 | |
And last mile is from the city to the homes within the community or the businesses of the residents. | 02:57:01 | |
So there's a project right now that's connecting all the cities together in the area in the port. Bonus part of that process? | 02:57:07 | |
With that I'll. | 02:57:16 | |
Preston Young speak to it. | 02:57:18 | |
Hello Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, thank you for the opportunity we have to stand in front of you. | 02:57:22 | |
Like Jeff said, I come from the private sector. I'm not real familiar with all the government terms, technology, you know the way | 02:57:27 | |
that. | 02:57:30 | |
You speak so if I get a little informal. | 02:57:33 | |
I apologize now. | 02:57:36 | |
During the market analysis, one thing you have to understand is we're trying to figure out not just who's in town, but what are | 02:57:38 | |
they doing in town. | 02:57:41 | |
Are they in this? Are they gonna be building today? Provide enough broadband? Enough. And I guess broadband, if you wanted to find | 02:57:44 | |
it, is just how we connect to the Internet. It's not the Internet itself. | 02:57:49 | |
It's actually how we connect. | 02:57:53 | |
Fiber, wireless, cellular coverage, whatever it is, that's how we connect. So that's what we're talking about. | 02:57:55 | |
You know. | 02:58:00 | |
Do you have 4 main? | 02:58:01 | |
Main with two main providers. In town you have 4. | 02:58:02 | |
In total. | 02:58:06 | |
Charter Spectrum has pretty much the city covered with coax with the with what we call a cable or hybrid fiber coax system. | 02:58:07 | |
Frontier does. They bought the old Verizon FiOS. | 02:58:16 | |
Network which is all fiber optic to the home network. | 02:58:19 | |
They do some businesses as well. | 02:58:22 | |
Yondu is a provider that's pretty much just in Wanami Bay Area. | 02:58:24 | |
And Wi-Fi Harbor also is just up and when you meet Bay. | 02:58:28 | |
So as part of the market analysis, we did two different broadband outreach meetings where we talked to the public. | 02:58:33 | |
We invite them. We try to get them to talk. What are their experiences that they're having in town? | 02:58:40 | |
What are some other concerns? You know? Should the city be spending money on this? Should the city not, or do they have enough | 02:58:45 | |
reliability? | 02:58:48 | |
So it's these two meetings that we had are very informative as far as what the the citizens attitudes. | 02:58:52 | |
If there's business people that show up, kind of what are the businesses? How are they feeling about broadband? | 02:58:58 | |
The meetings were well attended. The first one was held in the evening. | 02:59:03 | |
At the Community Center and then the second one is held up in Wynee Bay up at the. | 02:59:08 | |
Big. | 02:59:12 | |
Room clubhouse. Thank you for that. | 02:59:15 | |
And. | 02:59:18 | |
Wanami Bay itself is very underserved. It's not a good connected area. | 02:59:19 | |
And we'll talk about that in just a little bit more in just a second. | 02:59:24 | |
And. | 02:59:27 | |
As. | 02:59:29 | |
Even though the frontier and. | 02:59:30 | |
Charter cover the city. There are areas, neighborhoods that they don't. | 02:59:32 | |
But there's just simply not enough coverage. | 02:59:37 | |
Wasn't even Bears one but also neighboring was outside of Winnipeg Bay. Don't have very good coverage there's. | 02:59:39 | |
Isolated things that that. | 02:59:44 | |
Or identified by the State of California as what they call priority areas that need help serving. | 02:59:46 | |
And we look at the HLD, we'll go into that a little bit. | 02:59:51 | |
So these two FCC maps one on the. | 02:59:55 | |
I guess it's my left. Hope it's your left too. | 02:59:59 | |
It shows you the people that have access to fiber. So if it's a green, they have access to fiber optic network, fiber to the home | 03:00:02 | |
network. | 03:00:05 | |
And you can see a lot of red. | 03:00:09 | |
If you go to the one on the right, that is what people have access to. | 03:00:11 | |
What is 100 megabit down, 20 megabit up? | 03:00:15 | |
Broadband speeds. | 03:00:18 | |
So you can see on the. | 03:00:19 | |
The one. | 03:00:21 | |
Yes. | 03:00:22 | |
Yes, yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's this is my name. | 03:00:25 | |
It's an FCC map, so trying to get the city limits put on there is like. | 03:00:29 | |
Impossible. | 03:00:33 | |
So yes, it is. | 03:00:35 | |
Fort Wayne EMI. | 03:00:37 | |
The big. The big. | 03:00:40 | |
Blocked out areas, the Navy and the southern part is the port. | 03:00:41 | |
Umm. | 03:00:45 | |
So if you can see that most people have access to at least 120, that's very good for residential, not as good for businesses. | 03:00:46 | |
Businesses typically have off site data storage and things where they need a lot more upload speed. | 03:00:53 | |
So the fiber optics? | 03:00:58 | |
Is what we're really. | 03:01:01 | |
Focusing on a little bit more. | 03:01:03 | |
And that's where the red spots come in. They don't have. | 03:01:04 | |
Access to fiber optics. | 03:01:07 | |
So during the broadbands we do a broad and online broadband survey where people can get on the answer questions and part of that | 03:01:10 | |
they do a speed test, they can click it. | 03:01:14 | |
Automatically downloads their speeds. It uploads it into our things. We know what people are actually getting at their homes. | 03:01:19 | |
Yeah. | 03:01:26 | |
They're paying for 5500, but they're only getting 100, right? We can look at all that data. | 03:01:26 | |
And see who is not getting it. One of the questions we ask. | 03:01:31 | |
How is reliable as your service? | 03:01:35 | |
As you can see here, 41.1% reliable enough. | 03:01:37 | |
That's kind of a questionable yes or no. | 03:01:41 | |
Only 15.1% of the people said it was very reliable. | 03:01:44 | |
That's kind of a concerning issue. | 03:01:47 | |
When? | 03:01:49 | |
There's such a reliability issue. | 03:01:50 | |
Umm. | 03:01:53 | |
That needs to be addressed. | 03:01:53 | |
So when we're done with doing all the market analysis, we do what's called a gap analysis, that's. | 03:01:56 | |
What you have and what we need. | 03:02:01 | |
And how do we get, how do we put those two things together? | 03:02:04 | |
I don't want to go through all of these. There's gaps in policies. There's gaps in. | 03:02:08 | |
In. | 03:02:13 | |
Like Wanami, Bay needs a little bit extra help. They just don't have the coverage that they need. | 03:02:14 | |
There's a little, but as far as the city, what are the city needs is it it won't Wi-Fi at all the parks they want. | 03:02:19 | |
Connecting all the city facilities together, do they want smart traffic control systems? | 03:02:24 | |
What are all these different things that need to happen? | 03:02:29 | |
And then we put that together with a conceptual design. | 03:02:31 | |
This is what would need to be built. | 03:02:35 | |
And we break it down into phases. | 03:02:37 | |
Phase one. | 03:02:40 | |
Is as we're talking about the Ventura County, they have this middle mile project where they're trying to connect all the city. | 03:02:41 | |
At least the city halls together. | 03:02:47 | |
They also want to connect some anchor institutions if there's big. | 03:02:49 | |
Health care institutions or fire stations or any other government facilities. | 03:02:53 | |
That's what they're focusing on. | 03:02:58 | |
Umm. | 03:03:00 | |
So the phase one is help encourage that to happen. | 03:03:01 | |
And if you can't see it, it's down to the bottom. | 03:03:04 | |
Pinkish. | 03:03:07 | |
It doesn't show up very good on this, but there's a. | 03:03:08 | |
Little pink line comes over into. | 03:03:10 | |
Up to City Hall. | 03:03:12 | |
The second would be connecting city facilities together. | 03:03:14 | |
Then going after some schools and then what we call diversity is the yellow. | 03:03:18 | |
That is, anytime you have a network, you want to be able to serve it from many different areas if something gets cut or broken. | 03:03:22 | |
You can serve from a different direction and. | 03:03:28 | |
You no longer have that outage. | 03:03:30 | |
The last one that we're going to talk about is actually one of the first things we recommend is the last mile funded areas. | 03:03:32 | |
And these are what we got approval for to help try to get that funding. | 03:03:38 | |
The $45 million to get. | 03:03:41 | |
The state to help pay for this. | 03:03:44 | |
And these attacks, those areas on those maps that don't have access to fiber optic networks. | 03:03:45 | |
It's stuff that's been identified by the state of California. | 03:03:52 | |
As you know, areas that have need and you can see up in the top north area there's the Wanami Bay, but also the neighborhood right | 03:03:55 | |
next to it to the left. | 03:03:59 | |
That has a lot of. | 03:04:03 | |
Need. | 03:04:06 | |
And this helps get that. | 03:04:07 | |
So we're gonna try to help get that money to help build the network that will get it up there. | 03:04:10 | |
So when we do the high level design, we break it down into different phases. How long will it take? | 03:04:16 | |
On this one you can see. | 03:04:22 | |
This is how many months it would take for each one of the phases on top of each other. | 03:04:26 | |
Umm. | 03:04:30 | |
This is what the actual overall cost would be. | 03:04:33 | |
The $7.9 million is with a with a 10% contingency, because nothing, if you've ever done construction, nothing ever goes to plan. | 03:04:35 | |
There's always something that gets in the way. | 03:04:43 | |
So we do. What we do is if a very basic quick. | 03:04:45 | |
Yet Conservative budget and then we add a little on top of it because you never want to be surprised by something at the end. | 03:04:49 | |
And it breaks it down by phase, each phase how much it's going to cost for each one of those phases. | 03:04:55 | |
Again, hopefully we can get the last mile funding and that'll pay for a lot of this. | 03:05:01 | |
There's even parts of it that diversity we found out just the other day. | 03:05:06 | |
For the CP says, the CPC, California Public Utilities Commission said. | 03:05:09 | |
That you can actually add in the diversity as part of the last mile funding. | 03:05:15 | |
So the last mile and also the diversity, we're above that. | 03:05:19 | |
Could actually be paid for by the last mile funding. | 03:05:23 | |
So that was good news. We found out just the other day. | 03:05:25 | |
Yeah. | 03:05:30 | |
Looking at the numbers and the total. | 03:05:33 | |
I see. | 03:05:36 | |
The last four. | 03:05:36 | |
Seem to be more than $7,000,000. | 03:05:38 | |
Am I looking at this correct? | 03:05:42 | |
If the total 7.2 million you have 3,000,000 ohh what? | 03:05:45 | |
Yeah, it's kind of a confusing thing. So it'll break down like if you look at the last mile. | 03:05:51 | |
It gives us subtotal and then right below it it gives the total. | 03:05:56 | |
So it's the same number. It's the same number. | 03:06:00 | |
Because if you look like up at the city facilities are two separate lines, so it adds those and gives you a total. | 03:06:03 | |
So it's a little confusing. Very confusing, yeah. You can look at the left hand. Yeah, Yeah. | 03:06:08 | |
OK, you would add a just the. | 03:06:13 | |
The shaded ones appreciate it. | 03:06:15 | |
Just checking your math. Yes, thank you. Good. Yeah. Well, you know, and when you pointed out that I'm like, it's kind of a credit | 03:06:18 | |
map, Isn't there a credit table? | 03:06:22 | |
I should have cleaned that up, yeah. I think it's just. | 03:06:26 | |
The colors are off. I think that's what it is. Yeah. Yeah, I apologize for that. But yes, it's. | 03:06:29 | |
Read the only the lines that say total. | 03:06:35 | |
OK. And I will turn it back over to Jeff. | 03:06:40 | |
Yes. So some of the things we noticed were gaps in the policy and governance. | 03:06:46 | |
The biggest one is probably doing a dig once. Joint French policy. We highly recommend that. | 03:06:51 | |
We know that you're mostly built out, so development of you may may not be a big impact for the city, but it's something you need | 03:06:56 | |
to take into account for with development agreements. | 03:06:59 | |
And another big one is trying to take advantage of capital projects if you have old streets. | 03:07:03 | |
Our pipes in your streets that need to be rebuilt. That's a great time to drop in conduit if it's not already there. | 03:07:08 | |
Partnership opportunities, You're in a rare occasion right now. We usually don't walk in someplace where there's already a big | 03:07:18 | |
regional project going on. | 03:07:21 | |
So right now there is an opportunity to partner with the regional JPA. We're highly recommending that you do that. | 03:07:26 | |
As I mentioned to Steve earlier. | 03:07:32 | |
Usually when you go out to try to find a private sector partner with the funding you get from the last mile funding. | 03:07:35 | |
It's a six to nine month project that cost 20 to $30,000. The county's already gone through that process and I I can't say who it | 03:07:41 | |
is because I don't know, but they're gonna announce it on Wednesday. | 03:07:46 | |
They've already identified a partner that's willing to build out within the region. | 03:07:52 | |
Which is great for the city if you guys join that, because it's about all that work is already done. | 03:07:56 | |
So that's the regional effort is near completion. The JPA was recently approved, they had a lot of grant for $500,000. | 03:08:01 | |
That was recently approved, so they are now funded. Do that regional effort and create the JPA. | 03:08:08 | |
What's provides for the for the region and why we had to recommend that the city move forward is you're gonna be at the same level | 03:08:14 | |
all the other cities. You're not gonna be left out because if they build fiber and you don't, you're gonna be less competitive. | 03:08:21 | |
Um, So what we're recommending is in joining the regional effort, plus going for the Last mile grant. | 03:08:27 | |
You guys will be in that competitive mode right from the start. | 03:08:32 | |
And I know that in the future they're supposed to be bringing in another big fiber line for the Navy. It's been worked on for | 03:08:36 | |
about 10 years, I believe, and it may be within two years, I've been told. | 03:08:41 | |
They might be putting that together. So that will be a big effort to drive economic development within the area. | 03:08:46 | |
When you join, when you do the joint. | 03:08:53 | |
Private sector partnership that provides you an opportunity for savings, but with a regional effort that drives that up even more, | 03:08:57 | |
you have a a larger economy of scale. | 03:09:01 | |
Which provides a greater benefit to community. I'm not sure how the county is set up to do this yet. | 03:09:05 | |
But we'll find out soon. But there's possible revenue sharing. | 03:09:12 | |
And usually you do non exclusivity and what that means is you're you're building a network that is open, so you have competitive | 03:09:15 | |
competition, so you drive down cost. | 03:09:20 | |
So our recommendations overall is the former a designated broadband Advisory Board. This is a group that would help you know lead | 03:09:29 | |
this and make sure that the efforts moving forward. | 03:09:33 | |
Unfortunately with the CPC and the federal funding. | 03:09:39 | |
It does really expedite the project. You move them pretty fast, so the faster than normal. | 03:09:42 | |
Create policies and workflows. The biggest one would probably be * **** once policy. | 03:09:48 | |
We recommend creating a Technology Enterprise Fund. | 03:09:52 | |
And what that allows you to do is when someone is digging up the street and you identify that as an area where you want to build, | 03:09:56 | |
you have the funding available to put conduit or fiber in the. | 03:10:00 | |
In there. So it's kind of like the crawl, walk, run. | 03:10:05 | |
Approach where you build it incrementally overtime. You may not get there today, but maybe in 10 years you'll use that piece. And | 03:10:09 | |
I've done that. I was a CIO. | 03:10:13 | |
Chief information officer of three cities, and we did that in every city, every one of those. | 03:10:18 | |
We recommend that you pursue the last mile funding. You've already signed up to do that, which is great and like, say we | 03:10:23 | |
anticipate. | 03:10:26 | |
There's $20 million set aside for this county. | 03:10:30 | |
And we're only aware that Ventura. | 03:10:33 | |
City of Ventura and the County applying. | 03:10:36 | |
So you're very well positioned to obtain funding for that. We recommend taking part of the regional effort. | 03:10:38 | |
We recommend creating a. | 03:10:45 | |
Private Public Private Partnership. | 03:10:47 | |
And like say with the opportunity to join the JP who's already done this, that's a great opportunity. | 03:10:49 | |
As I mentioned, incredibly build out broadband infrastructure. | 03:10:55 | |
And support digital inclusion. Like say you have a huge need in the Port Wanami Bay. | 03:10:58 | |
And this, the funding that's being provided by Last Mile will help resolve that. | 03:11:03 | |
And with that, we're happy to answer any questions you may have. | 03:11:10 | |
Thank you, Mr. Lewis for your presentation questions at this time. | 03:11:14 | |
Yeah, it's funny when I think of broadband and I'm trying to put my head around it. I think back to when I was a teenager and | 03:11:19 | |
Brown Band for me in high school, was having a dime and access to a payphone. | 03:11:25 | |
If I got in trouble and so when I see these areas that are in dire need for me, it's like a safety issue like. | 03:11:31 | |
You know, if you're at the beach and you're having an emergency and then you don't have service, I mean, you know, that just | 03:11:40 | |
ruins, you know, the. | 03:11:43 | |
Greatness of having a cell phone. So my question is how do we? | 03:11:47 | |
How do we address those lacking areas first? | 03:11:52 | |
Well, the the funding, the whole phases is usually that's a long set of phase. | 03:11:57 | |
But with the funding that's coming in, we anticipate that probably being expedited. | 03:12:03 | |
Because you're going to get funding in there, in the funding from the last mile. | 03:12:08 | |
Is there and it's made specifically for those unserved areas. | 03:12:11 | |
And if you've seen the plan we there it doesn't go all the way to the beach area, but we are aware that that's a an area of need. | 03:12:15 | |
So we've we've put one of the phases which extends fiber optics down to the beach. So now you can extend high speed broadband | 03:12:22 | |
Internet there. | 03:12:26 | |
Some of the luxuries that you're going to get if you join a GPA into this regional effort, I think you're going to get no matter | 03:12:31 | |
what. | 03:12:33 | |
But they're the part of the very first beginning phase from the counties. They're extending fiber optics to your City Hall, which | 03:12:36 | |
means you're connected to the regional effort, which means you have access to hubs. | 03:12:41 | |
Of wholesale vendors for Internet access. | 03:12:46 | |
Now you have the ability for the city and for you to extend it to the schools to get wholesale broadband Internet, which | 03:12:49 | |
drastically reduces the cost. | 03:12:53 | |
And if you're extending it out to your beach? | 03:12:58 | |
Yeah, you you've already got the fiber out there. Now it's gonna be a lot easier to extend Wi-Fi technology for your your all your | 03:13:00 | |
during the peak season. | 03:13:03 | |
So. | 03:13:08 | |
Mike, so we can address those. | 03:13:09 | |
Most needy areas first you have to with the last mile funny, that's funny, yes, yes, OK that's where it's go through. But we gave | 03:13:12 | |
the other phases cause that's those things that you take into consideration, you know, working with your schools. Your schools may | 03:13:17 | |
already have a broadband need, so maybe you don't need to connect to schools. | 03:13:23 | |
So and then we're but that's we always put that in the plans cause we highly recommend that you do that because once you get | 03:13:30 | |
access to the wholesale Internet access. | 03:13:33 | |
That can even drive their costs down. And it's always, you know, education to me is a highly important so that there's | 03:13:37 | |
opportunities for partnering. And yes, exactly, the school district, it's a different public entity than us. Yeah. And the school | 03:13:43 | |
districts, the same funding that gives them low Internet access for broadband can also be used to build infrastructure. | 03:13:49 | |
So if you partner with them and they're and they're good partners, you can actually share additional cost. | 03:13:56 | |
Thank you. | 03:14:01 | |
Question. | 03:14:04 | |
This weekend I had an opportunity to talk to Hugh Riley with the Ventura Council of Governments and he mentioned that. | 03:14:06 | |
There was a Public Utilities grant that was of multi $1,000,000 millions of dollars for broadband. | 03:14:13 | |
Do you know if that's the middle mile project or if it's for something else? Are you aware of? | 03:14:22 | |
So the middle mile project is already funded. They're in the process of building it right now. We anticipate that they're going to | 03:14:29 | |
be coming to City Hall in Port Wanami in the year, you know, 2425. | 03:14:34 | |
That extra money is the money for building the last mile. That's the blue line you saw on the map earlier, which covers a lot of | 03:14:40 | |
your city already, and especially the unserved areas. | 03:14:44 | |
What we recently found out that Preston mentioned earlier, we always had tentative CPUC meeting and a couple of days ago. | 03:14:49 | |
And they announced that yes, you can. | 03:14:56 | |
With diversity, diversity means you're trying to come in from two different directions, not and not into the same spot. You're | 03:14:59 | |
you're offsetting, you're kind. | 03:15:02 | |
Hitting different places, so it's not redundancy. You could be the same spot. Diversity is now you're you're highly protected. | 03:15:05 | |
And they're saying that you can't fund that depending on how you allocate the grant. So we will be working very hard to try to get | 03:15:11 | |
that included into your grant. Great. I'm looking forward to hearing more about that. | 03:15:17 | |
The other opportunity I had. | 03:15:23 | |
Not too long ago was to meet with a spectrum representative and he mentioned that. | 03:15:27 | |
They are installing. | 03:15:31 | |
Broadband. I don't know if it's fiber optics or some other. | 03:15:34 | |
Method at Myneni Bay. So there is work being done. Were you aware of that? | 03:15:38 | |
OK. There have been discussions, I see. OK. | 03:15:48 | |
OK. | 03:15:52 | |
And and our our practice when we see when we're coming in doing a broadband plan is that it does raise the attention of the | 03:15:53 | |
broadband providers in that area and then they start taking a look at these things. | 03:15:58 | |
We really, we're evangelist. We we want broadband everywhere, so we don't care how it's built. If it gets their peaks or | 03:16:04 | |
attention, they get it there. That's great. But most of the time we find us at the lake tactic. | 03:16:09 | |
City governments trying to do something and they come in and say they're gonna do something. | 03:16:15 | |
And they end up not doing it cause it's still not a return on investment. | 03:16:18 | |
I see. OK. Thank you. | 03:16:23 | |
OK. | 03:16:25 | |
Are there any public comments regarding this item? We have a public comment from John Welty. | 03:16:26 | |
Greetings everyone. | 03:16:40 | |
It's my pleasure to address you tonight. I'm John Welty. I'm an engineer with Wi-Fi Harper Internet, which we are winning me Bay | 03:16:42 | |
right now. | 03:16:45 | |
This is the president of the company, Mike Taylor. | 03:16:49 | |
Ohh, we've been. | 03:16:52 | |
Wi-Fi harbors. | 03:16:55 | |
Been in Winnie Bay for eight years. We've been providing. | 03:16:56 | |
Fixed wireless Internet, which isn't super high speed, but it is reliable. | 03:17:00 | |
We have 360 customers at this time that are very happy with our personalized service that we do give them. | 03:17:05 | |
I have a background in owning an Internet company myself. I also have. | 03:17:10 | |
30 years in May Constructing facilities for television and. | 03:17:14 | |
And post production facilities and network facilities in in the LA Hollywood area. | 03:17:20 | |
I worked with Mike now for six months. | 03:17:26 | |
We have proposed a. | 03:17:29 | |
Wi-Fi harbor doing and a fiber optic infrastructure project at Wainui Bay. | 03:17:31 | |
In competition with. | 03:17:37 | |
Spectrum. | 03:17:38 | |
Spectrum would do like a standard thing where they give Internet to everybody like they do. | 03:17:40 | |
They offer for around $50 or something like that. | 03:17:44 | |
We would do the same thing, but we're proposing a very robust. | 03:17:47 | |
Bidirectional high speed enterprise type system that gives 2 fibers directly from our head in. | 03:17:51 | |
To every resident. | 03:17:56 | |
Instead of one that wraps around and and distributes it like that. | 03:17:58 | |
We also are very. | 03:18:02 | |
Public safety, safety minded as well. We want to provide. | 03:18:03 | |
Local access points for for Wi-Fi in the whole. | 03:18:07 | |
Area in the pool and clubhouse area. | 03:18:11 | |
We're also looking at putting points of access throughout the entire community for PTZ. | 03:18:14 | |
Cameras as well as licensed free license plate readers at the. | 03:18:18 | |
Point of entries reminding me Bay. | 03:18:23 | |
And then we would have a Internet, we would have a fiber optic link that would go from Miami based hub where we're at right now. | 03:18:25 | |
To the city. | 03:18:31 | |
That would go into your infrastructure eventually, so your Police Department could look at our cameras. | 03:18:32 | |
And then of course, in the future it would be great for the city. | 03:18:37 | |
With this regional project going on that you'd have inter municipality. | 03:18:41 | |
Connectivity for public safety as well we're. | 03:18:45 | |
City of Ventura and Oxnard could look at. | 03:18:47 | |
Our cities. | 03:18:50 | |
Cameras and license readers. | 03:18:51 | |
And vice versa. | 03:18:53 | |
We, like I said, we're a local company. We provide excellent service. | 03:18:54 | |
In the last business meeting, they were announced that there was going to be Spectrum, Yondu and Wi-Fi Harbor. | 03:18:59 | |
And when they mentioned Wi-Fi Harbor, there was applause among the residents because the service that we provided them. | 03:19:04 | |
That personal service and attention they've had. | 03:19:09 | |
Has been very well received. | 03:19:12 | |
And they want us to do our our fiber optic installation. | 03:19:14 | |
If you go to wi-fiharbor.net. | 03:19:18 | |
Which after the meeting, I'm going to give you all business cards blank. And I will. | 03:19:20 | |
You can go to our website and see our fiber app fiber optic plan. | 03:19:24 | |
That we're proposing to Wanami Bay. | 03:19:28 | |
And of course, we'd like to have some of the last final funding, because the return on investment is impossible without it. | 03:19:31 | |
And we'd like to get that funding as well. Thank you for your time. It's a pleasure. | 03:19:36 | |
Thank you, Mr. Walty. Thank you. | 03:19:41 | |
Are there anymore? That concludes public comment. | 03:19:43 | |
OK. | 03:19:45 | |
The. | 03:19:47 | |
Hello. Hi, I'm Susan Levin. I live in one any day. | 03:20:03 | |
I have been the coordinator of the project for the board of directors of comparing different. | 03:20:06 | |
Opportunities for us? | 03:20:13 | |
As you can imagine we are 773 non professional. | 03:20:15 | |
Internet users. | 03:20:20 | |
And it's been a huge project for us to figure it out we have put together. | 03:20:22 | |
Um, an extensive. | 03:20:26 | |
Comparison of the. | 03:20:29 | |
Opportunities that we have. | 03:20:31 | |
And we would like to get started because we have a broad community. | 03:20:33 | |
That um. | 03:20:38 | |
We're all 55 and older. | 03:20:39 | |
Um, but. | 03:20:41 | |
Some people are working and doing a lot of creative work and they need high speed Internet. There are other people who are just | 03:20:43 | |
happy to be able to. | 03:20:46 | |
Do their enter their e-mail and that's it and that's all they know and they want to know. So we're trying to accommodate a very | 03:20:52 | |
large. | 03:20:55 | |
Group of diverse people. | 03:20:59 | |
And as we get older, the new people coming in are younger. | 03:21:02 | |
And they want even more. | 03:21:06 | |
Because their expectations are higher. | 03:21:08 | |
Um. | 03:21:11 | |
As I said, we've worked very hard putting together three different bids. I have a lot of extensive information. | 03:21:11 | |
We would value being able to work with the city or with your consultants. | 03:21:18 | |
To make a final decision so that we make the best decision that coordinates with the needs of the city. | 03:21:24 | |
And with us, and we are. | 03:21:29 | |
Um. | 03:21:31 | |
Doing what works for the entire community. | 03:21:32 | |
So any help or any recommendations that anyone has we would appreciate that we are getting ready to vote. | 03:21:35 | |
But as I said, we're not professionals, so we would appreciate the help of all the professionals that we could get to make the | 03:21:44 | |
best decision. | 03:21:47 | |
Thank you. | 03:21:51 | |
Thank you, Miss Levin. | 03:21:55 | |
The recommendation is to approve the Broadband Master Plan as prepared by. | 03:21:57 | |
Government Technology Group, LLC and directs staff to return to council with a recommendation. | 03:22:01 | |
A recommended set of steps to begin the implementation of the plan. | 03:22:07 | |
May I have a motion and a second? | 03:22:12 | |
Move to approve. | 03:22:15 | |
2nd. | 03:22:16 | |
Madam Clerk. | 03:22:21 | |
Can you please take a vote? | 03:22:23 | |
It's Mr. Mayor. I don't know if. | 03:22:25 | |
They needed the steps identified. | 03:22:27 | |
Or are you good? | 03:22:30 | |
It says what the recommended set of steps to begin the implementation plan. | 03:22:34 | |
Did you need something? | 03:22:39 | |
Identified and laid out or are you good with their recommendation as is? | 03:22:41 | |
I think we got it. I I understood it to be the steps from the master plans. Ohh, got it. Sorry. OK. Thanks all in favor. | 03:22:45 | |
Aye. | 03:22:53 | |
Aye, all opposed. | 03:22:54 | |
Hearing none motion passes unanimously. | 03:22:56 | |
Just make a comment because we went into that vote really quick. | 03:22:59 | |
Umm. | 03:23:02 | |
You know, I I think that the need and why Mimi is is great and I hope that we can figure out a way to help why Mimi secure a | 03:23:04 | |
better service in their community. You know we've been struggling for years and how. | 03:23:10 | |
In communicating with Winema residents, and my thinking has always been, well, not all of them are on computers, so we have to | 03:23:17 | |
send them hard copy information if we're going to communicate with them. So it just makes our job much easier if we can get. | 03:23:25 | |
Why Nami residents up to speed on on? | 03:23:32 | |
Broadband, so we can do a better job ourselves in communicating with you. So I'm glad to hear that you've been working on it and. | 03:23:35 | |
And that's you're you're still out there in minimi? | 03:23:42 | |
I'm going to look you up. Thank you. | 03:23:45 | |
So. | 03:23:47 | |
I know we voted and I know we approved it, but I do have a. | 03:23:48 | |
Question. | 03:23:51 | |
How do we make sure Minimi Bay? | 03:23:54 | |
Is getting the benefit of. | 03:23:57 | |
What you're developing and what you're working on because. | 03:23:59 | |
It would be. | 03:24:02 | |
It would be a colossal. | 03:24:03 | |
Blunder if. | 03:24:06 | |
Why Mimi Bay? | 03:24:08 | |
Went in the direction that didn't conform with. | 03:24:09 | |
The direction that you're taking us. | 03:24:12 | |
I I I hear that you know that they're looking at alternatives right now and and and I just want to make sure that. | 03:24:15 | |
Waiting I Bay is embedded into this plan. | 03:24:21 | |
Ohh, good point, Council member. | 03:24:25 | |
And. | 03:24:27 | |
Really. Since the community workshop that was held at Miami Bay earlier this year, we've been coordinating pretty closely with | 03:24:28 | |
with Susan. | 03:24:32 | |
I hope you'll agree. | 03:24:37 | |
And and already have made connections between Wanami Bay. | 03:24:40 | |
And and Preston. | 03:24:44 | |
Specifically for some discussions there and. | 03:24:46 | |
I think. | 03:24:50 | |
From this point forward, and I'll just keep that coordination in place so that they know what's going on. Am I correct in feeling | 03:24:51 | |
that there's a little bit uncertainty in terms of where you're going with your decision? | 03:24:58 | |
Very. | 03:25:09 | |
Interesting. | 03:25:11 | |
Yes, please. | 03:25:15 | |
We we have three opportunities, three companies that have. | 03:25:23 | |
Submitted. | 03:25:28 | |
Formal bids to us. We put out an RFP and you know, went through the whole thing and each of them has different strengths. | 03:25:29 | |
And. | 03:25:37 | |
As you know, spectrum is a. | 03:25:38 | |
International company or national company and they have a certain strength and they have. | 03:25:40 | |
A certain ability Wi-Fi harbor is a a very local company. | 03:25:45 | |
They have some strength just because they're local. And then we have Yondu, which is a division of Mid-Atlantic Broadcast. | 03:25:50 | |
Which has been serving Wanami Bay. | 03:25:58 | |
With some problems. | 03:26:01 | |
With coax. | 03:26:03 | |
Not. | 03:26:05 | |
Not fiber. Which are they are interested in coming in and putting in? | 03:26:06 | |
Fibre and all of these fibres. | 03:26:10 | |
Will demand that we. | 03:26:14 | |
Basically rip up. | 03:26:15 | |
The streets, the. | 03:26:17 | |
The alleys the. | 03:26:18 | |
Grasp everything if you're familiar with what Winnie Bay looks like. | 03:26:20 | |
There's a whole lot of buildings that have to be connected. | 03:26:24 | |
So we want to make the right decision with the company that has the right facilities that has the. | 03:26:26 | |
Funding to do it, and I've put together a lot of information that I could. | 03:26:32 | |
Supply that. | 03:26:37 | |
The Council or. | 03:26:38 | |
With Preston and and Steve and work with them to help us make our final decision. | 03:26:40 | |
Because it's pluses and minuses all the way which. | 03:26:46 | |
As you all know, if you do contracting. | 03:26:49 | |
When it comes down to the end. | 03:26:52 | |
It's not just who you're like, it's who can do the job and do it fast. | 03:26:54 | |
Right. And for me? | 03:26:58 | |
I'm over 55. Welcome to 1:00 every day. But you know, it's very difficult to. | 03:27:01 | |
Master all these technologies and options and what's best and worst did he go in and so I just want to make sure that. | 03:27:10 | |
That. | 03:27:17 | |
You are. | 03:27:17 | |
Getting it. | 03:27:18 | |
Advice or assistance or that you're meeting and that, that. | 03:27:20 | |
You're getting all the needed information to make the best possible decision. | 03:27:24 | |
Well, I I think that will really help now that you have endorsed the plan that. | 03:27:29 | |
They brought to you because Preston was always very clear that he was working for the city, not for one Amy Bay, and was good, you | 03:27:34 | |
know, working and developing his project for them. But he did give us in the past. | 03:27:40 | |
Some advice that made us go back to our contractors and ask more questions. | 03:27:47 | |
Um, so that was very helpful already. | 03:27:52 | |
That we learned some of the things that we need to. | 03:27:55 | |
To look for in a contract. | 03:27:58 | |
As you can imagine, Spectrum especially has a contract that's like this thick that covers every single little thing you can | 03:28:00 | |
imagine. It's dense. | 03:28:05 | |
It's eight point type, you know. | 03:28:11 | |
So. | 03:28:14 | |
And others were more informal. But informal doesn't make it worse necessarily, and we're just trying to. | 03:28:15 | |
Finalize a decision because we don't want to hang around anymore. This has been a problem for seven years since communication | 03:28:22 | |
services pulled out. | 03:28:25 | |
And that coax cable is no longer any good. So we're not using it at all. They have to do new tunneling to get in. So we would. | 03:28:29 | |
Value in. | 03:28:38 | |
If you just make sure that they know they can work with us, then we'll we'll be happy. | 03:28:40 | |
So thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. And just to that point, I was, I'd stepped away just to make | 03:28:45 | |
sure I had everybody's contact information well. | 03:28:50 | |
I I'm not sure exactly what level of assistance the consultants can provide, but we will connect everybody and make sure that | 03:28:54 | |
we're doing what we what we can't do. So thank you. | 03:28:59 | |
Alright, thank you. | 03:29:06 | |
We're gonna move on to item number 19, discussion of potential community benefit fund projects for fiscal year 2023-2024. | 03:29:07 | |
Will staff please present the report? | 03:29:15 | |
Yes, thank you, Mayor. This item is on the agenda per the council request at the July 3rd special meeting. | 03:29:20 | |
A little bit of background. The Community Benefit Fund. | 03:29:30 | |
Was created per the 2015. |