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CALL TO ORDER / FLAG SALUTE / ROLL CALL
INSPIRATION
PUBLIC COMMENT
AGENDA APPROVAL FOR CITY COUNCIL
CONFLICT OF INTEREST and LEVINE ACT DISCLOSURES
PRESENTATIONS
ITEM #1: Quarterly Employee Recognition
ITEM #2: Autism Acceptance Proclamation
ITEM #3: State of the Port Presentation by Kristin Decas, CEO/Port Director of The Port of Hueneme - Oxnard Harbor District
RECESS THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING / CALL TO ORDER THE PORT HUENEME HOUSING AUTHORITY REGULAR MEETING
ROLL CALL
HOUSING AUTHORITY PUBLIC COMMENT
HOUSING AUTHORITY CONSENT CALENDAR
AUTHORITY MEMBERS’ REPORTS, COMMENTS, & REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
ADJOURNMENT OF THE PORT HUENEME HOUSING AUTHORITY REGULAR MEETING / CALL TO ORDER THE HUENEME HOUSING INC MEETING
ROLL CALL
HUENEME HOUSING INC PUBLIC COMMENT (
HUENEME HOUSING INC BUSINESS ITEM
ITEM #6: Initial Meeting of Board of Directors; Approval of Bylaws; Appointment of Officers; and Filing of Statement of Information
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HUENEME HOUSING INC MEETING / RECONVENE THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CONSENT CALENDAR
BUSINESS ITEMS
ITEM #11: Ventura County Organized Retail Theft Task Force
ITEM #12: Planning and Management of 2024 Hueneme Beach Festival
ITEM #13: Authorize Purchases Exempt From Formal Contract Procedure for Emergency Repair of City Sewer Main
CITY MANAGER COMMENTS AND REPORTS
COUNCILMEMBERS’ REPORTS AND COMMENTS
REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
ADJOURNMENT

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	I.	00:02:00
	I think this clock is off.	00:02:10
	Good evening. Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I am calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30. Please stand	00:02:17
	and join me for the flag salute.	00:02:23
	I pledge allegiance to the flag.	00:02:34
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call?	00:02:53
	Councilmember Hernandez.	00:02:56
	Here, Councilmember Martinez.	00:02:59
	Present Councilmember Gama.	00:03:03
	And Mayor Perez?	00:03:05
	Tonight's inspiration will be given by myself, and I do. I forgot about it tonight so I had to do a quick.	00:03:08
	Research on what could be an inspiration. So my inspiration tonight comes from something I experienced this weekend. My first 10K	00:03:16
	and I was not ready for running a 10K. I'm maybe at 4 miles without my body deciding we're done.	00:03:24
	But I ran my first K 10K and.	00:03:32
	It was quite difficult. It was actually really, really painful and really difficult. So my inspiration tonight is for runners.	00:03:35
	Runners embody the essence of perseverance, pushing boundaries and chasing dreams with every step.	00:03:42
	Their dedication to the journey, the passion they bring to the track or field or wherever they run.	00:03:47
	And the resilience they display in overcoming challenges inspire us all to strive for greatness in our own pursuits.	00:03:52
	And I know I was surrounded by so many people. They were just joyful to be there.	00:03:59
	And it was quite dreadful for me. So I do not understand the runner's high or how people can enjoy running, but I'm going to try	00:04:03
	and keep pushing my body to keep running.	00:04:08
	So that's my inspiration.	00:04:14
	We will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. This process will be	00:04:20
	the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments?	00:04:26
	We do. We'll start with Becky Burning and followed by Paul Copley.	00:04:32
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, council members and staff.	00:04:44
	I'm here tonight representing real copy outdoors.	00:04:48
	We had a fantastic weekend.	00:04:52
	We had.	00:04:55
	Ten month, $10 a month Pledges made.	00:04:58
	We had.	00:05:02
	A couple of $100 pledges made which we really needed.	00:05:04
	And we are having our fundraiser dinner on May 19th.	00:05:11
	I do have tickets with me tonight if anybody's interested in buying them.	00:05:17
	They are $60.00 a person.	00:05:22
	Or $600.00 for a table of 10.	00:05:25
	I also have our sponsorship pamphlets if anybody's interested in looking at one of those.	00:05:29
	Thank you. Thank you.	00:05:37
	Paul Copley.	00:05:41
	Good evening, Mayor Perez, esteemed City Council members and staff. My name is Paul Copley and I'm the founder of the Ventura	00:05:49
	County Voting Reform Project.	00:05:53
	I'm here tonight to talk about what the City of Port Hueneme can do to fend off an expensive and frivolous lawsuit. The City of	00:05:58
	Port Hueneme elects its City Council using a plurality at large system. What this means is that every voter gets one vote for	00:06:03
	every available seat.	00:06:08
	Now while this might seem like a logical and well thought out system, in reality it allows for the majority to completely dominate	00:06:14
	any minority groups.	00:06:18
	As long as they have 51% of the votes, they're able to control 100% of the seats. Because of this, the California Voting Rights	00:06:22
	Act has made it illegal to use plurality at large elections in most circumstances.	00:06:29
	Every city in Ventura County, with the exception of Port Hueneme.	00:06:36
	Has transitioned to district based elections in the last few years as a result of a CVRA threat letter.	00:06:40
	While many of the cities were not actually in violation of the CVRA, it is often more expensive to fight these bogus allegations	00:06:46
	than to simply concede to the attorneys demands.	00:06:51
	The most common solution is to transition to single winter district based elections and this is what has been implemented across	00:06:56
	the county. However, at the end of last year the state Supreme Court specifically outlined another method, proportional ranked	00:07:01
	choice voting.	00:07:06
	For many cities and protected groups, single winter districts are not a good solution.	00:07:11
	PRCV provides a much better solution. It allows cities to continue conducting at large elections, but does so in a way that	00:07:17
	prevents majorities from dominating and satisfies the requirements of the CVR A.	00:07:23
	For the record, I do not believe that poor Guinea is in violation of the CVRA, but unfortunately that doesn't matter. You will get	00:07:30
	your letter just like every other city in Ventura County has.	00:07:35
	Port Hueneme has the opportunity to act in a preventative measure, protect itself against frivolous and costly lawsuits, and	00:07:41
	ensure it is in full compliance with the CVRA, And it virtually guarantees that no legitimate attorney will seek to sue the city.	00:07:49
	If you want to take, If you want to wait until after the threat letter arrives to take actions, your options become severely	00:07:58
	limited.	00:08:02
	I strongly urge the City Council to put a discussion of proportional ranked choice voting on its next agenda and invite either	00:08:06
	myself or another representative from my organization to deliver to the City Council a presentation on PRCV how it works its many	00:08:12
	benefits.	00:08:17
	For the City of Port Hueneme and the options for implementing it in a timely, effective and costly manner, please don't hesitate	00:08:23
	to reach out to me if you have any questions. My contact information is on the statement that you've all been provided. Thank you	00:08:28
	for your time and have a great evening.	00:08:33
	Greg Ross.	00:08:40
	I.	00:08:42
	Hi, good evening.	00:08:49
	Esteemed City Council.	00:08:52
	Thank you for your service. Thank you for listening.	00:08:53
	This is my second time.	00:08:57
	Presenting a little update. We live in the.	00:08:59
	Close to the to the shore surfside area.	00:09:04
	139 Sea Spray Way.	00:09:08
	I've been a Ventura County resident since the.	00:09:11
	1970.	00:09:14
	And Port Way, enemy resident since the early 1990s.	00:09:16
	So without wasting your time, I have a fun story to tell you. I was I was in the Jacuzzi with my daughter, my granddaughter, this,	00:09:22
	this this afternoon.	00:09:27
	He says. Where are you going tonight? I'm going to the City Council meeting. What happens? Well, these are people that care about	00:09:33
	the city of Port Hueneme.	00:09:37
	And they they run the city.	00:09:42
	And she said, well, why? I said, well, because they want to make the city better, she says.	00:09:45
	Well, that's wonderful.	00:09:50
	This is a three-year old, It was great and she's right. So a quick update.	00:09:52
	We're concerned about the amount of pollution.	00:10:01
	That's coming from the port.	00:10:05
	And I'm here to tell you first of all.	00:10:07
	Transparency. We don't have any science yet.	00:10:10
	But we're we're getting closer. We do have a video that I don't want to waste your time with.	00:10:14
	That was taken on March 25th of this year.	00:10:20
	It was a roll on, roll off row, row boat that was had its engines on because of all of the problems at the port, we understand	00:10:25
	that.	00:10:29
	And it was spewing a lot of black.	00:10:35
	Diesel particulate matter.	00:10:38
	It's a concern to us. We still don't have our science yet.	00:10:42
	But we're working on it. We're getting.	00:10:45
	And that that science is important because.	00:10:48
	Coming to you with these updates that aren't really.	00:10:51
	Anything of any actual substance.	00:10:55
	Is. It's seemingly a little bit of a waste of your time, but we want.	00:10:58
	Just to make you aware.	00:11:02
	We do know that.	00:11:04
	The website at the port.	00:11:08
	With the two pollution monitoring systems that they have one at Haycox Elementary.	00:11:10
	And one.	00:11:15
	The port itself.	00:11:17
	Are up and running that they found the spider.	00:11:18
	In the in the pollution monitoring device at the port. So it's now up and running and you can go on their website. I got an e-mail	00:11:22
	from Giles from the port and you can actually see what's going on and it's and it's good news.	00:11:28
	We're we're concerned more about our community, which is a pretty high density.	00:11:36
	Of people so.	00:11:41
	That's our update.	00:11:42
	I will send you the the video, Mr. Vega.	00:11:44
	And we'll go from there.	00:11:48
	Thank you for listening.	00:11:50
	Thank you.	00:11:51
	Rattle, Thomas.	00:11:54
	Mayor, just quickly if I could note, I know we can't debate public comments, but at the last council meeting the council did adopt	00:11:56
	the goals for this year and working and collaborating with the Port and there were Green Port initiatives on there. So we are	00:12:02
	already reaching out to the port to start talking about those and the port was receptive to that.	00:12:08
	That first conversation. So we plan to have some to keep working on that throughout the year.	00:12:14
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council.	00:12:27
	City staff and members of the public.	00:12:30
	I am here to speak about the presentation of the ports going to give. I would just like to say that I'm very glad that they're	00:12:33
	here.	00:12:37
	Yep, Yep, they're still here.	00:12:41
	So I'm very glad that they're here. I'm very excited to see what the port's going to present to the community. I'm glad that it's	00:12:43
	in an area where it can definitely.	00:12:47
	Be recorded and watched constantly so people can go back to the information that the ports going to present and I'm.	00:12:51
	Just want to hope that whatever the port presents in terms of.	00:12:58
	There are growth aspects and their future goals is that it also includes the city of port where I need me significantly and how it	00:13:03
	can not just benefit the port, but the city and the communities within, because all of us working together is how we build a	00:13:08
	better place to live in aggregate.	00:13:13
	Not just for today, but for 10 and 20 and 30 years down the line.	00:13:18
	That's all I have to say. Thank you very much.	00:13:22
	And Jan Burke.	00:13:26
	Good evening, Mayor and council.	00:13:41
	Port represent.	00:13:44
	And neighbors.	00:13:46
	I want to thank the court for coming today to give a presentation. I'm very much looking forward to it.	00:13:48
	I'm here on behalf of the Whining Me HOA coalition.	00:13:54
	To express our concerns about the relationship between the port and the city.	00:13:57
	We're here to ask the port and the city.	00:14:03
	To begin rebuilding and forging a positive and meaningful working relationship that is much more collaborative.	00:14:05
	It is critical that we work together to find the right balance.	00:14:12
	For the proposed strategic plan.	00:14:16
	That will mutually benefit our port, our city, and your neighbors.	00:14:18
	As we rebuild a cohesive partnership, we ask that you consider the following objectives. Encourage collaborative participation	00:14:22
	that includes input from stakeholders.	00:14:26
	Of your host city.	00:14:31
	Listen to the concerns of the community you work in.	00:14:33
	Develop good stewardship and good neighbor policies, not just public relation optics.	00:14:36
	Satisfy the communities need.	00:14:41
	Requirements relating to economic inputs, quality of life, infrastructure and safety.	00:14:43
	Recognize the port and city.	00:14:49
	Interdependence and build meaningful community support and stronger economic relations that will realize a long term success.	00:14:54
	Encourage debate that challenge actions.	00:15:04
	That are deemed not to be in the best interest of the city or the majority.	00:15:07
	And work for the change where change is needed.	00:15:12
	Our port is a specialty niche port. Our city is a.	00:15:16
	City Forbes states that niche providers can provide far more potential.	00:15:20
	And more profit with less.	00:15:26
	At different rates your your operation and leaves no.	00:15:29
	In what you stand for with services delivered with genuine conviction, people.	00:15:33
	Will trust and pay more for that expert knowledge delivering product.	00:15:38
	Products and services.	00:15:42
	As the owner of a niche company, I can attest to the statement from Forbes.	00:15:44
	And we have been successful for 50 years. Bigger is not always better.	00:15:48
	We envision a small, successful and environmentally clean niche port working with a small, beautiful beach.	00:15:53
	Host City.	00:16:01
	A smart and significant competitive advantage providing less impact.	00:16:02
	And greater economic benefits for wine.	00:16:07
	And a sustainable future for all stakeholders.	00:16:09
	We ask that you come together to do a unique and to do unique and great things.	00:16:13
	As only our port and our city can do.	00:16:17
	Thank you.	00:16:21
	That concludes public comment. Thank you. We will now move on to agenda approval for City Council. May I have a motion and a	00:16:24
	second? So moved.	00:16:28
	Thank you, Madam Clerk. All in favor, Aye?	00:16:33
	All opposed.	00:16:37
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	00:16:38
	The Conflict of Interest and Levine Act disclosures Do any members of council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any	00:16:42
	item on the agenda?	00:16:45
	Seeing none, we will move on to presentations. The first presentation is the quarterly employee recognition given by Deputy City	00:16:52
	Manager Charles Perez.	00:16:57
	So tonight is the latest installment of our quarterly recognition of employees for their years of service.	00:17:12
	To my left tonight, we are honoring Aaron.	00:17:20
	Wade, admire our.	00:17:23
	Information Technology Manager.	00:17:24
	For his 20 years of service with the city.	00:17:27
	Aaron was hired on March 25th, 2004.	00:17:30
	And initially held the title of MIS manager.	00:17:34
	Aaron told me he was thrilled when he started with the city.	00:17:39
	And he couldn't wait to share the information.	00:17:42
	About his new job and his new title.	00:17:44
	With all friends and family.	00:17:46
	Aaron told me that during this exciting time.	00:17:48
	It was a valued family member who was also a Port Hueneme resident.	00:17:51
	Who looked at his business card?	00:17:55
	Which again said MIS manager and asked him.	00:17:57
	What is it exactly that you mismanaged?	00:18:01
	Well, fortunately for Aaron, during his career in the city, his title changed.	00:18:05
	So first it changed to Information Systems and Technology Manager and then ultimately to his current title.	00:18:12
	Of Information Technology Manager so simplified.	00:18:19
	When asked what he likes best about working for the city, Aaron says that he enjoys working with such a friendly staff.	00:18:24
	He knows nearly everybody.	00:18:30
	That works for the city by their first name.	00:18:32
	When asked about his favorite moment in his work career.	00:18:35
	Aaron gave me two examples. First, he said.	00:18:38
	It was the day that former City Manager Bob Hunt.	00:18:41
	Hired him and offered him the job.	00:18:44
	And the second one, which is I think telling about who Aaron is as an employee, was the day that the hte.	00:18:46
	Our former ERP system.	00:18:53
	Was implemented.	00:18:55
	And this is cited because it was something outside of Aaron's comfort zone, something he had never done a project like that before	00:18:56
	and he really relished.	00:19:00
	The challenge and the opportunity to take it on and was really.	00:19:04
	Pleased with that accomplishment.	00:19:07
	Lastly, when asked if there was anything else, I.	00:19:11
	Aaron would like to share. He noted that he and his wife share an important connection, the loyalty and dedication to their	00:19:14
	employers.	00:19:18
	His wife is about to celebrate 34 years working with her employer, Lockheed 30.	00:19:22
	She's already celebrated 34. She's almost at 35 with her employer, Lockheed Martin, and that'll happen later this year.	00:19:28
	So please join me in congratulating Erin on 20 years of service with Port Whitney.	00:19:36
	We have our certificate signed by all council members, a Certificate of recognition, the states. In recognition of your hard work	00:19:47
	and dedication of 20 years with the City of Port Hueneme, your devotion to the city is inspiring.	00:19:53
	Your longevity and loyalty are recognized and appreciated.	00:19:59
	Your contribution leaves a footprint on the City of Port Hueneme and is the city councils honor to recognize your service?	00:20:02
	Thank you #2 presentation for tonight is the Autism Acceptance Proclamation.	00:20:22
	And I'll go ahead and read, unless someone else wants to do the honor.	00:20:30
	You want to read, OK.	00:20:33
	Written written by read by Councilmember Gama.	00:20:34
	I look forward to this night because I get to wear my autism awareness tie.	00:20:40
	It's a puzzle.	00:20:45
	And so here we go, Autism Acceptance Month, April 2024, whereas April is designated as Autism Acceptance Month End.	00:20:47
	Whereas autism also known as Autism Spectrum Disorder.	00:20:56
	Represents a broad group of disorders and vary widely from mild to severe, and is characterized by difficulty with social	00:21:00
	interaction, communication, severely severely limited interests, and repetitive behaviors, and whereas the lifelong nature of ASD	00:21:07
	and other developmental disabilities require a variety of types of assistance at different points.	00:21:13
	In an individual's life, and whereas our understanding of autism has grown tremendously since it was first diagnosed, as there is	00:21:20
	no known cure for autism, early diagnosis and the resulting appropriate education and intervention are vital to the.	00:21:27
	Future growth and development of the individual and whereas a variety of public and private organizations and agencies strive to	00:21:35
	provide quality care, support or services to children and adults with ASD to enable them to live as independently as possible and	00:21:42
	to reach their full potential. And whereas hope lies in a broad spectrum of treatments and in an informed public and community	00:21:49
	committed to providing support and service to individuals diagnosed with autism.	00:21:56
	Disorders. And.	00:22:04
	Whereas the Port Hueneme Police Department will wear patches and pins as an outward expression of an inner commitment to connect	00:22:06
	with our community to create acceptance and support those dealing with lifelong neurological disorder and.	00:22:13
	Whereas we joined the Autism Society of Ventura County and proclaiming.	00:22:20
	April 2024 as Autism Acceptance Month NOW, therefore BE, it proclaimed that the City Council of Port Hueneme hereby recognizes and	00:22:25
	proclaims April 2024 as Autism Acceptance Month.	00:22:33
	Thank you.	00:22:43
	Just a few words.	00:22:49
	On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff at Autism Society of Ventura County, it is my honor to accept this proclamation for	00:22:51
	Autism Acceptance Month.	00:22:55
	ASBC has a very active and diverse board of directors.	00:22:59
	One of our board members, Velia Soto, is here with me tonight.	00:23:03
	And the month of April is not only dedicated to awareness, understanding and acceptance, but is also to celebrating the diverse	00:23:07
	minds and talents that individuals on the autism spectrum bring into our lives.	00:23:13
	The autistic mind contributes so much to our world and to our communities. We invite you all to Ought to run at CSU CI on April	00:23:20
	28th, the largest autism celebration on the West Coast, and you can learn about it at Ought to run.org.	00:23:28
	Autism effects one in 36 in the United States, according to recent estimates from CDC. This statistic underscores the urgency of	00:23:37
	our mission. It is not a distant reality, but one that touches many of our own community.	00:23:44
	In Ventura County, as in many places across the nation, people with autism and their families navigate a world that is often under	00:23:52
	prepared to meet their needs.	00:23:57
	From challenges in education and employment to difficulties in accessing health care and community services, their world is full	00:24:02
	of barriers and it is a path we are committed to transforming.	00:24:08
	This month we celebrate the strides we have made towards an inclusive society.	00:24:14
	Autism Society of Ventura County is filled with pride and joy that the City of Port Hueneme recently added the word inclusive into	00:24:19
	its City Council goals without prompting. Other cities have followed. Thank you Port Hueneme for being a leader in building	00:24:24
	inclusive policy.	00:24:29
	Autism Society, Ventura County and its advocacy committee will continue to push for policies that ensure individuals on the	00:24:35
	spectrum have access to quality education, meaningful employment and comprehensive health care.	00:24:42
	We advocate for environments that are inclusive and celebrate differences. And most importantly, we must foster a community that	00:24:49
	listens and values to the voices of autistic individuals themselves.	00:24:56
	As we move forward, let us remember that acceptance is not merely about tolerance. It is about active engagement, understanding,	00:25:03
	and support. It is about recognizing the potential and every person, regardless of how they experience the world. Thank you for	00:25:09
	standing with us today and every day as we work towards a world where every person on the autism spectrum can live fully. We value	00:25:16
	and respect your community members.	00:25:22
	And all who emperor and.	00:25:29
	Who are embraced who they are.	00:25:33
	For more information about our programs and services, please visit us at autismventura.org or you can reach out to me at	00:25:36
	advocacy@autismventura.org. Thank you very much. Thank you.	00:25:41
	No, just kidding. High value.	00:25:57
	Yeah.	00:26:01
	All right, Thank you. Tonight, we will now recess to the City Council, will recess the City Council meeting and call.	00:26:27
	Oh, I'm sorry.	00:26:35
	I apologize, #3 is the state of port.	00:26:38
	Presentation by Kristin Dicus, the CEO and Port Director of the Port of Winemie.	00:26:41
	Good evening, Mayor, City Council members, it's a privilege to be before you this evening. This is our annual address to the City	00:26:51
	Council where we deliver a state of the port, give some updates of what's going on and look for opportunities for collaboration.	00:26:57
	As you know, when we were in Washington, City Council member Mr. Martinez and and Mayor Perez, we went with this, this slogan, if	00:27:04
	you will. There is no commerce without community and there's no community without commerce and it's.	00:27:11
	I think very telling and true and I think we have a lot to do to work together and have exciting times ahead. So with that, I'll	00:27:18
	kick off and just kind of go into what's going on at the port One. I'd like to introduce the President of our board, the first	00:27:24
	Latino to actually serve as President of our Board, Selena Zacharias. She's with us this evening.	00:27:29
	Yes, congratulations. I also have staff with me tonight if there are questions on our finances. Our CFO, Austin is here. Austin	00:27:36
	Yang and Leticia Austin is with us ahead of our government relations program team. So we're here to answer any questions that you	00:27:41
	may have after this presentation. But as a quick reminder, we are governed by five Elected Harbor Commissioners and our goal is	00:27:47
	not to become a rich port.	00:27:52
	We don't collect any money from the taxpayer. The money that comes into the port comes through the private sector and our	00:27:58
	customers.	00:28:01
	And our goal is to enrich our committee, our community by having access to the global stage for trade. So many of our customers	00:28:04
	may be profit driven. We're not. We're here to make enough money to reinvest in the port so we can be a strategic global player in	00:28:11
	international markets, but at the for the purpose of creating economic and social good for our community.	00:28:19
	Here's some wild stats as some of If you're in the backyard of LA and Long Beach, a lot of people don't realize our play in global	00:28:28
	trade. We actually move about 16 plus billion dollars worth of cargo with the number one West Coast port for banana trade and	00:28:34
	actually #2 in the nation number six for containers on the West Coast #5. I love the stat. This is new. I just learned this in the	00:28:40
	new study. We're #5 for total refrigerated cargo in the country moving more Chicago than the port of Long Beach. So that's a fun	00:28:46
	statistic.	00:28:52
	Or #16 in the United States for containers, number six for cars, and the top 10% of the nation's seaport. So this is really your	00:28:58
	port that's going to work, doing all this great business internationally, creating lots of opportunity for our community.	00:29:05
	In terms of how our performance is going, we are moving ahead very strong. We've realized about 80% increases in volume over the	00:29:12
	last decade and revenue is up about 133% since 2012. So we brought in new business.	00:29:19
	Business recover a little bit there in terms of our overall play in the economy here in Ventura County. Trade and transportation	00:30:34
	strongly outport forms the overall economy of Ventura County. So we're very important to the.	00:30:41
	Economic health of our county. And just to kind of talk a little bit about our strategic plan, we're hoping to adopt this by the	00:30:48
	end of this fiscal year. We've been working on this for four years. We've had a lot of public meetings, Charettes open,	00:30:53
	transparent processes.	00:30:57
	And we are looking to adopt it probably in July or June of this year. And these are strategic pillars. So it's economic vitality,	00:31:03
	infrastructure, environment, community and innovation. And I'll touch quickly on each of these and provide an update to the	00:31:08
	council.	00:31:13
	So in terms of economic prosperity are when the port does well, we see dividends come back in terms of jobs, tax revenues to	00:31:18
	communities and economic activity. Overall economic activity is actually up 150% with our growth job creations up 144% and tax	00:31:25
	revenue is up 224%. And City Council Member Hernandez, I know you've asked me to get the Economist in front of me and I will make	00:31:31
	that happen. I know I owe you that. So we'll make it happen.	00:31:38
	This is the economic impacts in terms of revenues coming directly to the city port, Wanimi from the businesses that work at the	00:31:46
	port. This is the type of revenue generate in terms of taxes outside any other revenues that are coming in through the seaport.	00:31:52
	Terms of job creation here locally drilled down to direct jobs, we employ close to 3500 people through the port customers or the	00:31:59
	port itself. And I think it's important to note that about 12% of all the jobs at the port are for residents of this fine city. So	00:32:06
	very important to and these are good paying jobs, high paying jobs, good quality of life paying jobs, so important stats in terms	00:32:12
	of providing for our community.	00:32:19
	To touch on a little bit of, I wanted to speak to partnership a little bit and the revenue sharing agreements and kind of speak to	00:32:27
	some of the revenues that you'll be seeing in the future and what is this all about, so these revenue sharing?	00:32:32
	Four different contracts, 3 revenue sharing agreements and a settlement agreement and over the last.	00:33:13
	How many years is it Austin since it's been since 1983?	00:33:18
	40 years, it's produced about $36 million in revenues for the city and this is the breakout by each individual agreement. I think	00:33:24
	we're forecasting next fiscal year about 2.9 million going.	00:33:29
	We make more than $13 million in revenue, $100,000 goes into the bank for the city and the port to come together and strategically	00:34:10
	decide on good projects to invest in.	00:34:14
	That are of mutual benefit to the city and the port, so we'll be working on the next round and we've done some good work in the	00:34:20
	past.	00:34:23
	I think this is a video from this year's Lego First event where we had 1500 high school students come out and the $5000 from the	00:34:26
	CBF supported that event hosted at the port. So just really good stuff that we can do to uplift our community and create	00:34:32
	opportunities through the CBF fund.	00:34:38
	This just shows you just a snapshot of it is significant funding. We're second in line from property taxes in terms of the money	00:34:46
	that goes into the general fund. So if you look here this what fiscal year 2023 is about 10.3% of your general fund is being	00:34:52
	furnished by the city in that second two year property taxes.	00:34:59
	Infrastructure.	00:35:38
	We have about $105 million that we're putting to work through a variety of grants. We got an $80 million grant from the state.	00:35:40
	We've gotten other money from BCTC, from earmarks, from our Congresswoman Julia Brownlee among others. And we're putting that	00:35:46
	money to work to not only expand our opportunities in terms of creating trade and expansion, but also do it with a nod towards the	00:35:52
	environment. So exciting things we're going for full port wide electrification, harbor deepening so we can bring more sand to	00:35:58
	local your local beach here.	00:36:04
	New stormwater systems and we're getting a we got a 850,000 earmarked from Julia Brownlee for electric sweeper, and as we all know	00:36:11
	from the recent story how important that is.	00:36:15
	Work on a traffic Traffic Safety enhancements at our gate green hydrogen to run our reefer plugs, which is the containers that we	00:36:20
	plug in that are full of blueberries and bananas and avocados among other things. And then also we got $2,000,000 for workforce	00:36:27
	development. So we can really help uplift our local community and have access to the good paying jobs affiliated with the port.	00:36:33
	On the environment front, I'll just say that our blueprint to decarbonization is in front of the CEC. Now we do have robust goals	00:36:41
	set in that decarbonize port operations.	00:36:46
	Put our best foot forward and achieve it.	00:37:23
	The gentleman talked about our air quality website. Indeed, that's been up. It has been a work in progress, but it does report	00:37:27
	out. We collect data about our air every second, every day and we are now posting that live on the Internet and videos and things	00:37:35
	that explain that data. I will point out that there are a lot of other actors in our community and so.	00:37:42
	There.	00:37:52
	The, the air that we're measuring isn't all port air, right? It's all of our air and all the different actors in the community	00:37:54
	that are adding to any pollution that we might see come out in this data. But we're the ones that are capturing it and we're	00:37:59
	sharing it and we're doing our best to mitigate our footprint in terms of the business that we do here in your community.	00:38:05
	Trucks, just quickly touch on trucks, drayage trucks or or trucks that do short haul moves. So that's a container that's coming in	00:38:13
	from a port and then it will go to a distribution facility. That short move is called drayage move. So there has been a new	00:38:20
	regulation that came out from ARB and all of the new purchases for these drayage trucks have to be electric starting January 1st	00:38:28
	of this fiscal year of this of this calendar year, excuse me, January 1st, 2024.	00:38:36
	Also, any existing trucks that are in system must be newer than 2009. They have to be 2010 or newer. This law though has been	00:38:44
	challenged by a trucker association because it wasn't approved by the EPA. So it's been paused, but we suspect that it will be	00:38:52
	approved by the EPA and will be live in relatively short order. But that's good news in terms of some of the impacts of the trucks	00:39:00
	that move through our communities. And I'd like to report out to that. Recently, we conducted a freight study with Ventura County.	00:39:08
	Transportation Commission. And from that study we learned that we're only responsible for .6% of all trucks in the county.	00:39:16
	And 23% of the trucks on port when he me corridor.	00:39:24
	Our freight corridor, which means 77% of the trucks, come from somewhere else.	00:39:28
	Shoreside power. We know we had a hiccup here. This is the all hands on deck.	00:39:35
	A press event that we had to get the money to rebuild our shoreside power system that was damaged by the storm on the 21st. As we	00:39:41
	know our community here was hit pretty hard. The good news is, is that we did because of the value of the damage, $40 million. It	00:39:48
	did open up the coffers for state relief disaster relief funding. So our application has been approved and the door is now open	00:39:54
	for your community for public infrastructure.	00:40:01
	To get fixed and repaired from the damage and access to these funds. So James, not sure we can talk offline, but you're able to	00:40:08
	apply and get your application in for the library among other things that may have been impacted from the storm.	00:40:14
	And we're doing our best, all hands on deck. We want to build this fast and we want to get it up, but it takes time, their lead	00:40:20
	times in parts. So we're going to be honest, it's probably going to be about a year and a half.	00:40:24
	Till it's rebuilt, but we're looking at other systems to reduce emissions and maybe bring those online as early as this summer if	00:40:29
	we can. The bonnet system I think I mentioned is you put like a hat on the stack of a ship and it captures the emission. So we're	00:40:34
	working hard to get new technologies in here why we rebuilt.	00:40:40
	A lot of high school programs, So it's great to say that Fathom works is just killing it. They're doing really, really well.	00:41:19
	All right and community.	00:41:26
	Just to close and wrap up, you know, it's so important that we work together and do exciting things to support a community. We	00:41:30
	really are and want to be part of the fabric of the community, the Port of Wenimi. We do about $300,000 in sponsorships every	00:41:38
	year. We've had about 100 community food drives throughout the county or our customers have contributed £1.8 million of bananas.	00:41:45
	And if you look at the picture there with the kids going like this, they come and dragging their feet, but when they leave they	00:42:25
	sing cranes and boats and all kinds of cool stuff, green bananas. So it's been a very well received program and something to get	00:42:29
	kids.	00:42:33
	To see something right there in their backyard that they might not know about.	00:42:38
	And then finally, there's just a lot of wonderful opportunities for our continued collaboration, whether it's around the annual	00:43:42
	biannual dredging, excuse me, of the beaches.	00:43:46
	Our annual trip to DC economic development strategies, tomorrow I'm going to be meeting with your consultant and get interviewed	00:43:51
	on opportunities there. So look forward to that. Then of course on innovation environment, so we can be the first greenest port in	00:43:56
	the country. We look forward to doing that with you.	00:44:01
	So with that, I think that concludes my presentation.	00:44:06
	Thank you, Kristen. Does Council have any questions while we have her here?	00:44:10
	Thank you, Kristen. The presentation was wonderful. I just wanted to go back to the slide for the the taxes because it went by	00:44:17
	really fast. I just want to, I just want to look at it a little bit more. OK. Let's see if I'm that talented.	00:44:22
	Can you put it back up and I can jump to it?	00:44:29
	But I thought the presentation was.	00:44:32
	I know everyone talks about improving our relationship, but I don't. I don't think they give the staff enough credit.	00:44:36
	You have wonderful staff, including yourself and I think you guys have done a great job.	00:44:43
	Connecting with our community.	00:44:49
	Thank you, City Council member. Here's the tax slide. Was there a specific question? OK, no, no, I just, I just, it was really	00:44:51
	quick and I just wanted to get a chance to see it a little bit. So those are revenues that are created from the businesses that	00:44:55
	do.	00:44:59
	Work with the board. And so BMW has someone that lives in port when naming, pays taxes, owns a home, those sorts of things, that's	00:45:03
	where those it's like a trickle effect.	00:45:07
	The economics, that's actually exactly I was going to clarify because one of the slides, a couple slides later.	00:45:12
	You mentioned that the revenue sharing from the agreement is about $2.9 million a year and so this is this is impact from	00:45:18
	businesses, not the actual revenue sharing.	00:45:23
	I think I got it, yeah. They're different numbers, yeah.	00:45:29
	Customer gamma.	00:45:32
	Yeah. Thank you, Kristen. I really appreciate you being here tonight. I find myself in a very unique position. As you know, I'm	00:45:34
	employed by one of your major tenants and I love it. I live close proximity to the port, therefore I'm affected and I see all look	00:45:40
	good in the.	00:45:45
	Maybe concerning things. And then I'm a City Council person. And so when it comes to communication, you know, I have to be mindful	00:45:51
	of my hat. And believe me, at Yara I go through Jay, you know, sometimes I go around him, but you know, I do want to keep my	00:45:57
	livelihood so but.	00:46:03
	I'm most concerned about safety and the.	00:46:10
	The Port Logistics Robotics Competition. I was heading to my friend's house for dinner.	00:46:15
	Got caught in the traffic jam and.	00:46:24
	Studied UMM.	00:46:28
	Pedestrian safety.	00:46:29
	And there's a lack of sidewalks around the port.	00:46:31
	There's buses, there's kids coming out behind buses and cars. I mean parking at the beach and.	00:46:33
	And I just hope that.	00:46:40
	That we could.	00:46:42
	Communicate and partner and start planning for next year so that we could avoid that gridlock situation. I think there's some	00:46:44
	really great opportunities coming up.	00:46:49
	So communication wise like if as a resident's.	00:46:54
	I see something is there. How do we communicate directly to the?	00:46:59
	I could share one that property across from the port entrance we're going to have to be removing dirt. Perhaps that could be	00:47:44
	converted to a temporary parking lot.	00:47:48
	You know looking at sidewalks and then the other issue that kind of.	00:47:53
	Haunts me every morning at 5:30.	00:47:57
	It's very dark at the entrance of the port and I saw some kids there the other night and couldn't see him and maybe we could.	00:48:01
	Work at lightening that up or getting more lights out there. But how do we as a council Again, I'm in a new position, I work	00:48:09
	there, I live close by and I'm a council member.	00:48:14
	How do we communicate ideas? Because I find that it's difficult to do that.	00:48:20
	So I think you could agendize items that you would like to discuss to bring into those committee meetings. You could definitely do	00:49:04
	that.	00:49:08
	And then at the port city meetings, we would do the same thing. We could agendize our ideas at the port level and then bring them	00:49:12
	in. We can always have joint meetings too. We've done that historically. There's a lot of opportunities. Yeah. And I met with you	00:49:18
	directly a couple times. And so is there a problem with me sending a letter as a resident to.	00:49:24
	The port, it's the United States of America. I'm sure it's fine for you to send a letter as a resident, of course, OK, because I'm	00:49:30
	just trying to. Again, I think we do need more communication and we need to encourage more communication.	00:49:37
	And hopefully we could address.	00:49:45
	Sidewalk safety crosswalks and the things that really where we interact.	00:49:48
	Business and our community interact, you know. And so, yeah, I think you have opportunities to resident of course, to bring your	00:49:52
	concerns directly to us. And then we have the opportunity through our various bodies to have official discussions and formalize	00:49:58
	strategy and come up with good ideas for security and safety, all for it.	00:50:03
	Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Gama, Councilmember Hernandez.	00:50:09
	I don't have any questions, but I just want to thank you for your presentation. I appreciate everything the port does for our	00:50:13
	community. Not only are you an economic driver and not only support an economic driver for for the county has a whole.	00:50:19
	We do benefit from through the community benefit fund and I'm very appreciative of that, but I'm also appreciative of the fact	00:50:26
	that you do things for our community that we can't do as a city.	00:50:32
	And you outline those those actions in your slide on community. So I just want to say thank you for that. Thank you Council	00:50:38
	Member.	00:50:42
	Thank you, leadership.	00:50:46
	Mayor Pro Tem Yeah, no questions. But again, thank you for the presentation. I feel like a lot of information. I think every time	00:50:49
	I hear it, I kind of log something else in my brain. So appreciate it very much and again, thank you for all that you continue to	00:50:55
	do for our community. It's it's important that the community members see you and see us. And so we appreciate all the efforts.	00:51:01
	Thank you, Councilmember.	00:51:07
	Thank you, Kristen. Glad you came today. And I know that you and James have talked about what the city's goals are with the port	00:51:13
	and I'm looking forward to meeting to discuss that further and more ideas from the council as to what their ideas, what that looks	00:51:19
	like. So I hope we can have more meetings. Besides, I know last year we didn't get a chance to have that many meetings.	00:51:26
	So maybe we could put some time down and actually, yeah, together more often.	00:51:33
	Thank you, Mayor. Thank you everyone. Enjoyed my time with you this evening. You know, I do have one last question if that's OK. I	00:51:38
	was wondering if if.	00:51:41
	The, the, the port meetings we're going to be.	00:51:45
	Recorded anytime soon if there was any plans on recording those meetings.	00:51:48
	I have no objection to that. I think that would be the will of the decision makers at the at the meeting itself to decide to do	00:51:54
	that, I think.	00:51:57
	Yeah, oh, but but nothing has been decided yet.	00:52:02
	It hasn't even been brought to my attention officially, but I think our next meeting is the 16th and we certainly could talk about	00:52:05
	it. I don't think we have done it historically, but I I don't see why there would be objection to it. It's public meeting.	00:52:11
	Thank you, Kristen. Yeah. OK. Thank you. All right. Thank you.	00:52:16
	All right, so now we will recess the City Council meeting and call to order the Port Wanimi Housing Authority regular meeting.	00:52:22
	The time is.	00:52:29
	7/20.	00:52:31
	And.	00:52:39
	We might as well, because we're missing one.	00:52:41
	And I'll, I'll just explain, yeah. And so there's going to be a couple things and just to explain to the public, so.	00:52:45
	We are gonna.	00:52:50
	Call our Housing Authority meeting to order. But we're also forming a new entity called that Wine EMI Housing.	00:52:52
	Incorporated. So we'll be calling that to order as well. So it's going to get maybe a little confusing for a minute.	00:52:58
	And we'll take a one minute.	00:53:04
	If you've seen Inception, you should be able to follow along pretty well.	00:53:08
	Inception.	00:53:13
	The movie.	00:53:16
	Oh God, a nightmare.	00:53:19
	Council meeting.	00:53:31
	I told you it was going to go up eventually because it went, it went down for something.	00:53:45
	Not too much, but you know what? You made a great comment on the parking.	00:53:57
	Just wanted to let you know when they have those robotic things.	00:54:07
	It's great, but I live in Marissa, they take.	00:54:12
	All our party and he come with trucks with big old trailers.	00:54:16
	I mean, and we have nowhere to.	00:54:21
	Nowhere.	00:54:24
	We're at the park three blocks away.	00:54:26
	Housing Authority Regular meeting to order.	00:56:12
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call?	00:56:16
	Member, Brown resident.	00:56:21
	Member Gama.	00:56:25
	President Remember Hernandez. Remember Martinez, present Vice Chair McQueen Lejeune, Chair Perez here. And let the record reflect	00:56:26
	that member Blackwell is absent.	00:56:30
	Thank you.	00:56:36
	We will now hear public comments pertaining to items not on the agenda for the Housing Authority agenda. Madam Clerk, are there	00:56:38
	any public comments?	00:56:42
	No public comments.	00:56:47
	And we will now consider items on the Housing Authority consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless a authority	00:56:50
	member has a request to remove an item for discussion.	00:56:54
	May I have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar? I moved to approve the consent calendar.	00:57:00
	We have a second. Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:57:06
	All in favor.	00:57:10
	All opposed.	00:57:13
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	00:57:14
	We now move on to the Authority members reports, comments and requests for future agenda items.	00:57:20
	Are there any Members that have a request for a future agenda item?	00:57:26
	Well, I'm sorry.	00:57:31
	I do. OK, go ahead.	00:57:35
	I just talked to Mr. Custom and Grandma here.	00:57:38
	About the parking when they had the robotic.	00:57:42
	I mean, that's great and everything, but like I live in Mar Vista there and.	00:57:45
	They take up all the project. We don't hardly have any pocket ourselves to begin with.	00:57:52
	And then I don't even move my car. I get somebody to take me somewhere because if I move, I'm not going to get a parking for.	00:57:58
	The whole.	00:58:05
	I think that is a great agenda item, but I don't know that it's appropriate for the Housing Authority.	00:58:08
	And I think the the port mentioned this, but we did tell them that we want to work with them next year to plan.	00:58:15
	In advance, so we'll make sure we keep everybody in the loop on that and keep everybody informed. Thank you.	00:58:25
	Anyone else?	00:58:30
	Future agenda item.	00:58:32
	Seeing none.	00:58:34
	We will adjourn the Housing Authority regular meeting. The Port Wine EMI Housing Authority will adjourn to its next regular	00:58:35
	meeting scheduled for May 6/20/24 at 6:30 PM. The time is now.	00:58:40
	726.	00:58:46
	For you.	00:58:48
	Yeah.	00:58:52
	Sorry about that, I'm wondering about the window project.	00:58:56
	Has it been completed yet?	00:59:00
	They're replacing sliding glass doors, yeah.	00:59:03
	Mar Vista.	00:59:07
	So we have we do have our housing director Gabby on Zoom, so I'll ask.	00:59:08
	Her if she can update us on the window project.	00:59:14
	Hello, good, good evening. I.	00:59:18
	Members of the board.	00:59:21
	Actually, yes, the.	00:59:22
	Window and Sliding door project was completed probably about a year and a half ago.	00:59:25
	OK.	00:59:31
	All right. Anything further?	00:59:34
	A year and a half ago.	00:59:37
	Thank you, Director.	00:59:39
	All right. So now we will adjourn the Housing Authority regular meeting. The time is 7/27.	00:59:42
	And we will call to order the Whining Me Housing Inc meeting.	00:59:48
	The time is 7/27.	00:59:52
	Roll call, please, Madam Clerk.	00:59:56
	Board member Gomo.	00:59:59
	Board Member Hernandez, Board Member Martinez, President, Vice Chairman Queen Lejeune, and Chair Perez here.	01:00:04
	We will now hear public comments pertaining to items not on the Whining Housing Inc agenda. Madam Clerk, are there any public	01:00:12
	comments? No public comments. Thank you.	01:00:16
	We will have a business item to discuss for the Wyoming Housing Inc and that will be the initial meeting of Board of Directors,	01:00:22
	approval of Bylaws, appointment of officers and filing a Statement of Information. Will staff please present the report?	01:00:28
	Yes, thank you, Mayor. And I'm going to introduce.	01:00:37
	Gabby, pursue our housing director to provide the report.	01:00:41
	And just reiterate because I think I might have said it when we went to break that. I know this agenda is a little confusing	01:00:44
	because it's the first meeting of creating the Whining Me Housing Incorporated entity.	01:00:49
	And so we're going to walk through why we're doing that and and the next steps. So with that, I'll introduce Gabby Upisua.	01:00:55
	Thank you, Mr. Vega.	01:01:07
	The item before you today is the approval of the bylaws for the Port Hueneme Incorporated. It isn't going to be a nonprofit.	01:01:10
	Board the mission is to provide low income housing.	01:01:21
	To the city of Fort Wayne.	01:01:25
	Umm, today is your first official meeting. You have the bylaws in front of you which will establish the board and.	01:01:29
	I am available to answer any questions that you may have.	01:01:37
	If it's regarding their mission, the Purpose and Kevin is also available to answer any legal questions that you may have	01:01:41
	concerning the corporation.	01:01:46
	Thank you, Director Basua. Does Council have any questions?	01:01:52
	I do thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Miss Basua for the staff report and staff who worked on this. Congratulations. I think it's	01:01:56
	very exciting that we're establishing this new entity and I I think it'll be good for the city and give the housing Inc some	01:02:05
	flexibility and bringing more affordable housing to the city. I just had some questions about the structure of the.	01:02:14
	Of the new organization and I submitted some in writing earlier and I just wanted to publicly ask them so.	01:02:23
	I understand that there are some city staff members who will be serving.	01:02:34
	Has the treasure as the president. You'll be serving as the president, Miss Masu.	01:02:38
	Miss Lupe Etcetera will be the Treasurer.	01:02:44
	And Miss Georgiana Alvarez will be the secretary. But what will be the role of the city manager, if we have a question, for	01:02:47
	instance?	01:02:50
	Regarding.	01:02:54
	The Housing Inc.	01:02:56
	Do we go through, do we still go through the city manager or do we go through the president? What's the process here?	01:02:59
	It would still go through the city manager based on the the city.	01:03:06
	Council policy and Procedures Manual and the city's municipal code notwithstanding, however, it's important to keep in mind that	01:03:11
	this is a separate and distinct legal organization. And so.	01:03:16
	The the type of work I'm informed this is going to be doing.	01:03:23
	Almost all conversations would exclusively be happening in a public meeting. I don't foresee any real reason to be talking to	01:03:27
	staff behind the scenes, given my understanding of what this nonprofit will eventually be doing.	01:03:33
	It should all be very transparent and and I know that there's anticipation that this will be a busy nonprofit, at least initially,	01:03:40
	but a lot of kind of what's going on behind the scenes with this nonprofit as things get started and complying with HUD and	01:03:45
	potential leveraging with refinance and whatnot.	01:03:51
	Will not be things that will be disclosed individually to individual council members or board members. It will be something that's	01:03:56
	addressed at the board level when appropriate, right. And I wouldn't expect that. I would expect to follow the the process. I just	01:04:02
	it was not clear in the attachments.	01:04:08
	Which were worthy.	01:04:14
	Article One of the organization with the role of this city manager is and there was number mention of an executive Director. So	01:04:17
	that was somewhat confusing given the current structure of the Port Winneme Housing Authority. The executive structure of the	01:04:24
	Housing Authority was matched with respect to the creation of the nonprofit. OK, very good.	01:04:30
	And if I could just add and we we did discuss that and at this point we ultimately decided.	01:04:37
	To just match the existing structure.	01:04:44
	But we did talk about if we do have that desire to revisit that that the board will have the power to amend these bylaws and and	01:04:47
	can make that change. So we will look at it and when we feel it's time to to look at that, we'll make that recommendation very	01:04:52
	good.	01:04:57
	And will we still have a representative of the tenants?	01:05:03
	Like Mar Vista, will that still be part of the?	01:05:08
	Board of Directors.	01:05:12
	For the Housing Authority, yes, that would be correct. Where it's appropriate for a tenant organization or a tenant representative	01:05:15
	to exist form the property owner and the landlord side, I don't believe it's appropriate for the board of directors, no.	01:05:21
	So now you make me want to ask another question. Is the Housing Authority going away?	01:05:28
	No, it is not. The Housing Authority is still going to be engaging with with HUD and processing payments and what not. It's.	01:05:33
	This isn't I think it's. I think it's probably best. My current understanding is is to think of the nonprofit corporation as the	01:05:41
	property owner, as the landlord, instead of essentially going out and finding private residents who are willing to.	01:05:48
	Rent or lease their properties for in return for vouchers.	01:05:56
	And then what will be the meeting schedule? Will it follow council?	01:06:01
	Be attached to council meetings. It's yet to be determined the way the bylaws are.	01:06:05
	Written at the moment is the meeting schedule be approved by resolution of the board once things are kind of finalized and we get	01:06:11
	a clear idea as to what the schedule is going to look like, but I anticipate.	01:06:16
	And I've been informed by Miss Basua that at least initially, the board is going to be fairly busy, so I would anticipate a	01:06:21
	regular meeting schedule.	01:06:24
	Thank you. I have no more questions. Go ahead.	01:06:28
	I'm curious as to what would constitute being fairly busy just doing all the paperwork filings.	01:06:31
	There's no Go ahead, Gabby.	01:06:43
	OK, I I can probably.	01:06:46
	Answer that. So I do anticipate that this board will, we will be bringing presentations to this board in order to acquire land.	01:06:49
	To build we.	01:06:59
	The My vision, at least for this nonprofit, is to acquire land and be a builder for low income housing.	01:07:01
	For our city. So you will be having to make make decisions of whether or not that is something that you would like to see in the	01:07:12
	city.	01:07:15
	You are going to be considered the landlord and the owner.	01:07:20
	Of the.	01:07:25
	And in terms of indemnification and liability insurance?	01:07:28
	Is this we just extend our current coverages over to this new nonprofit?	01:07:34
	With respect to liability insurance?	01:07:41
	Insurance as a whole. Like insurance as a whole, this is a separate entity, so they have to get their own and where are they going	01:07:44
	to get it?	01:07:47
	It's up to the board to decide, and it's up to how this entity is funded in order to finance it.	01:07:51
	And then with the JPIA.	01:07:59
	In the businesses offering.	01:08:02
	These nonprofits coverage off the top of my head. I'd have to look into it, but my my initial, my initial indication or idea is	01:08:05
	that this is a private organization, This is not a local agency. So I'm not sure that CJPIA would offer coverage to this.	01:08:12
	And so then to our city manager, How do we guide them to? Because that seems to me might be.	01:08:20
	First priority.	01:08:27
	Yeah, exactly. I think so.	01:08:29
	Today is adopting the bylaws and implementing those and then I think there's going to be some immediate business which is sort of	01:08:33
	what the reference to having some busy first couple of meetings.	01:08:38
	But we're going to have some immediate business things to take care of and those will be some of those things. So if the city had	01:08:46
	a piece of property that we think would be great for low income housing, could we would we then initiate contact through?	01:08:53
	This nonprofit or are we?	01:09:01
	Wait to be contacted or how does that work? Who starts the process?	01:09:05
	It's possible that the nonprofit would do so. We're we're getting pretty far afield. We've still got.	01:09:12
	We've still got IRS and FTB filings. We still haven't filed a statement of information with the Secretary of State. We're still in	01:09:18
	the incorporation phase. So as of right now, as far as the Secretary of State knows is this corporation exists and tonight it's	01:09:24
	having its initial meeting. Other than that, nothing's been decided. There's there's going to be at least eight months of filings	01:09:29
	and things before any of this gets discussed.	01:09:34
	So it's we're still, it's important to remember that this corporation is still very much in its infancy.	01:09:40
	And then there's the Housing Authority. They're they're packaged under the city's insurance program. Is that correct?	01:09:46
	Yes, and Miss Basua can correct me if if she has the answer better than my. My understanding is the Housing Authority statutes in	01:09:54
	the state of California create a separate department within the city that is the Housing Authority. But the Housing Authority is	01:10:00
	in fact a city department, not a separate entity, and so the nonprofit is.	01:10:07
	The nonprofit is a separate private entity, OK. And just to remind everybody because we did a presentation maybe two or three	01:10:13
	months ago on the concept.	01:10:18
	And there's a.	01:10:24
	It's a hoop we have to jump through to be able to raise funding to either build units or acquire property or what have you to to	01:10:26
	actually develop affordable housing.	01:10:32
	And so just we as the city.	01:10:38
	We couldn't do things like mortgage or property but the nonprofit can can mortgage a property so, so and then just to go back to	01:10:42
	the question of you know is there.	01:10:46
	The possibility that either the city approaches the housing group with like here's properties that maybe would be good potential	01:10:51
	for you and let's have that conversation or with the housing group approach us, I expect both of those things will happen and into	01:10:57
	some level. We've already had some of those initial conversations of some of the things that could be mutually beneficial to the	01:11:03
	city and the housing. Wanami Housing Inc.	01:11:09
	It's I I can give a little bit more information regarding kind of the reason why this is such an attractive proposition is.	01:11:15
	Typically the way that HUD and everybody used to operate was that a 55 year covenant was required on a property that was offered	01:11:24
	for affordable housing purposes.	01:11:28
	And so HUD required a 55 year covenant. They also required numerous documents to be recorded in the chain of title like regulatory	01:11:33
	agreements and whatnot that discussed.	01:11:37
	How the properties had to be leveraged, how they had to be financed, how they had to be in order to ensure that those properties	01:11:41
	would continue to exist and continue to be available for affordable housing purposes for the next 55 years.	01:11:46
	Ultimately, what HUD has discovered over?	01:11:52
	55 years of doing this is that that prevents those properties from being capable of refinance.	01:11:55
	They don't appreciate the same as other properties.	01:12:00
	They don't. It's it's almost impossible to continue to fund those properties and to rehabilitate them after 55 years has elapsed	01:12:02
	because no bank is willing to invest in them.	01:12:07
	So this is HUDS effort of getting around the 55 year covenant which renders title to the property unmarketable.	01:12:13
	This now allows you to leverage increased property values in an effort to.	01:12:20
	Rehabilitate those properties, modernize them. Make the appropriate ADA repairs.	01:12:24
	Do the things that you otherwise couldn't do without very complicated transactions.	01:12:29
	Through various banks with subordination agreements as well as regulatory agreements that took months to negotiate.	01:12:36
	And still resulted in diminished value received from properties that were.	01:12:42
	Essentially burdened by extensive coven.	01:12:47
	And so this allows us to get around that.	01:12:50
	And realize the value of these properties with the end goal of improving those properties for residents.	01:12:52
	All right. Thank you, Kevin, for that explanation.	01:13:02
	Are there any public comments on this item?	01:13:06
	No public comments, thank you. So the recommendation is to review and adopt the draft bylaws, appoint Miss Gabriela Basua as the	01:13:09
	president, appoint Miss Lupe Aceto as the treasurer and appoint Miss Georgiana Alvarez as the secretary of said corporation.	01:13:15
	It is further recommended that the proposed Board of Directors authorize Kevin Spaulding to file a statement of information for	01:13:22
	the corporation with the Secretary of State.	01:13:27
	I'd like to make a motion to approve the recommendation. I have a second.	01:13:33
	Madam Clerk.	01:13:41
	All in favor? Aye. All opposed.	01:13:43
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	01:13:47
	Thank you. So we will now.	01:13:49
	Adjourn the Whining Me Housing Inc meeting and we will reconvene the City Council meeting. The time is now 741.	01:13:52
	And moving on to the consent calendar, we will now consider items on the consent wait, do we need to do roll call again for those?	01:14:08
	No.	01:14:12
	No, because we called back to order.	01:14:16
	So we will now consider items on the consent calendar, which will now be enacted in one motion unless a council member has a	01:14:21
	request to remove an item for discussion. May I have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar?	01:14:26
	Move to approve.	01:14:34
	2nd Thank you.	01:14:36
	Madam Clerk.	01:14:39
	All in favor, aye.	01:14:41
	All opposed.	01:14:42
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	01:14:44
	We have no public hearings and we're moving on to business items. The first business item is the Ventura County Organized Retail	01:14:47
	Theft Task Force. Will staff please present the report.	01:14:52
	Yeah, and I'm going to actually introduce our police Chief Federico and our partner from the Sheriff to give an overview.	01:14:58
	On the.	01:15:06
	Project on the proposal in the project.	01:15:08
	Good evening, everyone. Tonight I'm joined by Captain Ron Chips with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and Assistant Sheriff	01:15:14
	Vic Fazio.	01:15:18
	Staffs recommended the City Council authorize us to execute an.	01:15:25
	UH Mou for an Organized Retail Theft Task Force with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.	01:15:29
	A little background on this in December of 2023.	01:15:38
	Ventura County was named the safest large county in all of California.	01:15:41
	Ventura County law enforcement officials attributed the this designation to the collaborative working relationship amongst all	01:15:46
	your law enforcement agencies.	01:15:51
	The partnership has provided another opportunity in the form of the Ventura County Organized Retail Theft Task Force.	01:15:57
	Retail theft has become a crisis in many areas across the state and country.	01:16:05
	And was estimated to cost over 110 billion across the country last year.	01:16:09
	Ventura County law enforcement agencies are proactively.	01:16:15
	Proposing development to join a task force to address this issue.	01:16:18
	So I'm going to.	01:16:23
	Captain Chips to talk about the task force.	01:16:24
	Good evening, Madam Mayor, council members, Mr. Vega.	01:16:28
	My name is Ron Ships. I'm a captain with the Venture County Sheriff's Office. Thank you for the opportunity to talk with you and	01:16:31
	give you just a brief overview of the Venture County Organized Retail Theft Task Force.	01:16:36
	On September of last year, the Sheriff's Office applied for and was was awarded a $15.6 million grant.	01:16:41
	Focusing specifically on organized retail theft, auto theft, auto part theft, so like catalytic converters.	01:16:47
	And also cargo theft.	01:16:54
	This with that grant money, we created a multi agency task force that was focused on addressing the nearly $10 million estimated	01:16:58
	loss in Ventura County each year.	01:17:03
	Due to organized retail theft related crimes.	01:17:09
	Our grant covers a 44 month period which ends in the end of December in 2026.	01:17:13
	And provides funding for salary, benefits for a total of 8 sworn positions within the task force and some non sworn professional	01:17:19
	staff.	01:17:23
	The sworn staff includes 2 sergeants. One is a Sergeant with the Venture County Sheriff's Office who's currently in place.	01:17:28
	And then one should your Council approve the OR authorize the, the execution of this memorandum of agreement.	01:17:34
	Would be from the Port Winding Police Department.	01:17:42
	Starting hopefully around April 15th.	01:17:44
	The task force has 8 sworn investigators who operate underneath the two sergeants, four of which will come from the Sheriff's	01:17:48
	Office and are actually currently in place.	01:17:52
	And then two from other agencies within the county.	01:17:57
	Currently we have an agreement with the Simi Valley Police Department to fill one of those outside agency spots with a detective	01:18:01
	starting April 15th.	01:18:05
	This grant, amongst other things, also provides funding for a vehicle, so the the.	01:18:10
	Sergeant will be driving a.	01:18:16
	Funded vehicle and also other related equipment.	01:18:18
	That may be necessary for any member of the task force.	01:18:22
	Obviously, our overall goal is to reduce the instances of ORT organized retail theft and related crimes by 50% over the three-year	01:18:26
	grant period.	01:18:30
	We're going to accomplish this by signing each reported case of organized retail theft and related crimes.	01:18:37
	To one of the task force investigators.	01:18:43
	Utilizing intelligence LED policing principles to identify, apprehend thieves and and hold them accountable for the crimes that	01:18:45
	they commit in our county.	01:18:49
	The count, the task force is currently up and running with the staff that we have from the Sheriff's Office.	01:18:53
	We've been operating for about a week. We have, like I said, one Sergeant from the Sheriff's Office and four senior deputy	01:18:58
	investigators.	01:19:01
	We've already had one success story. As of last Friday. We arrested two.	01:19:05
	Out of three suspects who were involved in a multi $1000 theft from sunglass retailers in the cities of Cameroon, Thousand Oaks.	01:19:10
	Additionally, I.	01:19:19
	As part of that case, we kind of a byproduct was we were able to identify an online marketplace where some of these stolen items	01:19:21
	are being sold.	01:19:24
	Throughout the state so.	01:19:27
	That's going to help us hopefully continue to curtail the problem.	01:19:29
	And identify other suspects and recover stolen property.	01:19:33
	So that's a brief overview of the program. I'll turn it back over to the Chief. So I appreciate the opportunity again to describe	01:19:38
	the program to you and I'll be happy to answer any questions at the end of the presentation.	01:19:42
	So folks, much much respect from Sheriff Freihoff and.	01:19:48
	Assistant Sheriff Fazio for inviting.	01:19:54
	Your report or any Police Department to be a team leader on this task force.	01:19:57
	We're fortunate enough to have Sergeant Baltazar Tapia amongst our ranks who has prior Task force experience.	01:20:01
	And as a Sergeant.	01:20:07
	Sergeant Tapia can can basically get started right away because he has prior task force experience and he has a skill set.	01:20:09
	To help lead and mentor in this team again.	01:20:18
	Your smallest PD in the county is being asked by the sheriff to come lead it, and that's a lot of respect from them. Appreciate	01:20:21
	it. The timing is very right for this position. As you all remember, Officer Gutierrez was sworn in not too long ago.	01:20:28
	His position as he's getting off field training now can replace this position with Tapia.	01:20:35
	Give you a little.	01:20:41
	Bit more about career development and in our personnel, we can put Senior Officer Henry Montelongo into a supervisor role to	01:20:43
	replace Tapia Shift.	01:20:48
	Because folks, I have a few years to get our less tenured people up and running to take this department over for the number of.	01:20:53
	Retirements that are approaching.	01:21:01
	In the near future, and it's a big part of what I'm doing, is succession planning and career development.	01:21:03
	And as quickly and effectively as we can and this is a perfect opportunity and timing for that.	01:21:09
	This is a fully funded position, equipment to vehicle.	01:21:16
	Fully funded salary benefits.	01:21:20
	This allows us.	01:21:23
	Two, there'll be two parts to this. The first part's going to be a salary savings at first, but the second part is going to be we	01:21:25
	will have an opportunity like no other.	01:21:29
	To over hire for that.	01:21:34
	So we don't have any gaps.	01:21:37
	In our future succession planning.	01:21:39
	As people retire, we will already have trained up personnel.	01:21:41
	There's retirements potentially in the next one to three years and this is a three-year funded position.	01:21:44
	So we can take this opportunity that is unique.	01:21:50
	To try to stop the gap on vacancies and have trained people ready to take over.	01:21:53
	There's a.	01:22:03
	This is one more assignment in your department that we do not currently have.	01:22:04
	This allows me to help recruit lateral officers to our department if I can create more assignments.	01:22:09
	We have a limited number.	01:22:16
	Of assignments in a small department, but this is another.	01:22:19
	Assignment somebody could rotate into during their career.	01:22:22
	I need a variety of assignments and this is 1.	01:22:27
	Working the.	01:22:31
	Organized retail theft operations in our city will bring extra resources.	01:22:33
	Into our city that we don't have.	01:22:37
	It'll also bring added security to our port, as some of the operations we're going to do isn't going to involve.	01:22:39
	Cargo theft.	01:22:46
	And talking to my federal partners, my port partners on Kristen's.	01:22:47
	There's there's a lot we need to start looking into into our port and this team is going to allow us to do that.	01:22:55
	Port security is something that's been on my priority list since I came back as chief.	01:23:04
	And this is a big step to get us back into the footprint of the port.	01:23:09
	We do not have a surveillance team, folks. We have to assemble them quickly. Borrow from others when we need one.	01:23:13
	There are times when we need them.	01:23:21
	Within hours.	01:23:25
	This is going to be a one phone call activation of a surveillance team by calling Sergeant Tapia if we need them.	01:23:26
	Another benefit that comes from this.	01:23:37
	Task force assignment is a separate overtime budget that comes back to us in the city.	01:23:41
	And I can utilize that.	01:23:48
	To prevent even some of our shoplifting.	01:23:51
	Retail theft in the North End I can actually fund.	01:23:54
	Some bike patrol details.	01:23:57
	In our shopping centers. With that I can fund some details at the port. With that I can fund catalytic converter thief.	01:23:59
	Details with that overtime budget that also comes.	01:24:07
	In our 400 plus Part 1 crimes that are reported to you last year at a prior meeting, 85% of those were property crimes.	01:24:13
	Of the 85%, about a third were retail related.	01:24:21
	Of the remaining 10%.	01:24:27
	You had catalytic converter thefts and other vehicle park thefts, something that this task force will look into.	01:24:28
	Out of another 10% of that.	01:24:36
	Those thefts were stolen vehicles. Again, something else the Organized Retail Theft Team is going to look at.	01:24:38
	And investigate.	01:24:45
	And then something else that we need as a small PD. All small PDS do.	01:24:49
	There are crimes occurring.	01:24:54
	In all of our cities that are from.	01:24:56
	Suspects outside the area.	01:25:00
	And that is something you need a task force for. He just said they worked a case.	01:25:02
	You start to, you put the.	01:25:07
	Start to put the lines together. Where property's going, you realize it's outside. A good example is we just had a distraction	01:25:09
	theft case on our beach this weekend.	01:25:13
	And some the victims were elderly and some people drove up in a car.	01:25:18
	And started talking about their jewelry and showing them jewelry they had and by the time.	01:25:23
	This elderly couple realized what's going on. These people are swapping off their jewelry and they're driving away. Well, we did a	01:25:28
	lot of research and to find out that suspect vehicle because we have some technology in the city.	01:25:32
	And unfortunately, our suspects are out of Orange County.	01:25:38
	Imagine this. You have a suspect hitting our beach here in Orange County.	01:25:42
	The same day they could hit Ventura. The same day they could stop off the 101 and hit somebody at a mall in Thousand Oaks. And	01:25:47
	they're going to keep going.	01:25:50
	That's why you have a task force, because once 1 triggers and we get the task force going and you make a phone call.	01:25:54
	They'll they'll have team members on the other side of the county.	01:25:59
	That may already be watching for.	01:26:02
	And a task force already set up to start looking at cameras and other stuff.	01:26:05
	And if this goes to Orange County, this is a task force. That's not a tide to here.	01:26:09
	They can go down to Orange County and they can do a surveillance down there on our suspects from up here.	01:26:13
	Real life story just happens this weekend. These are things that are possible with the task force.	01:26:18
	So with that.	01:26:24
	I can open it up for questions.	01:26:26
	Thank you. Does Council have any questions?	01:26:28
	Councilmember.	01:26:31
	So I think I.	01:26:37
	We talk about hiring officers. I'm all for that. I think this is a great opportunity for the city, so I really appreciate.	01:26:39
	The city getting an opportunity to participate.	01:26:47
	But I keep, I keep, I'm under the, always under the impression that we're right sized.	01:26:51
	Right the right size, we have what we need.	01:26:56
	And so when we are sending someone.	01:27:00
	To do other.	01:27:03
	What is not being done in the?	01:27:05
	Or how soon will you be hiring someone to do the work of the person who's going to be out doing something else?	01:27:08
	So it's an immediate replacement for all of our staffing levels. I have a couple of other priority positions I'll be creating down	01:27:16
	the road.	01:27:20
	But the timing's not right for those because they're being handled collaterally.	01:27:24
	So the timing on this?	01:27:28
	Movement of this position is good, and there's one for one right now with Gutierrez filling it.	01:27:30
	And I have several lateral applicants that are being interviewed next week that we can hire on in the department.	01:27:35
	To fill our last two vacancies, which will give us a couple of.	01:27:43
	Overlapping spots on patrol.	01:27:48
	So as people are being.	01:27:50
	Position something is vacant.	01:27:54
	However, however, so right now with your existing.	01:27:56
	With your existing staff.	01:28:02
	We are efficient and effective we are.	01:28:04
	There's a couple more spots I want to create patrol detectives and the the collaterals we have.	01:28:07
	So those are good.	01:28:12
	What what I wanted for this to happen.	01:28:14
	Was that one more body which we just got in Officer Gutierrez?	01:28:17
	So he's gonna go in to fill that.	01:28:22
	That 22nd.	01:28:25
	For Tapia and as Tapia leaves with our laterals that we have coming in, we'll have the.	01:28:26
	Opportunity to fill those last two positions and potentially.	01:28:33
	Higher for Tapia's position as well, which will give us one more.	01:28:37
	Over the.	01:28:42
	24 to 25 officers, but it's a budget neutral position because we're getting compensated by the county task force. Great. So I'll	01:28:44
	ask one more question and I'll be done, I think.	01:28:49
	So everything is still going to be done.	01:28:55
	And we're not over tasked taxing any of our officers to cover.	01:29:00
	To until we until you hire someone else so everything's covered everything. The only person who gets over task is your chief when	01:29:05
	he decides to take a bike out on Saturday. OK, and go hang out with real guppies on the pier. OK, thank you. If I could just maybe	01:29:11
	add to that too. Just quickly so.	01:29:17
	We had three vacancies in our Police Department. We just filled one officer, Gutierrez, so we're down to two vacancies.	01:29:24
	And I think when we talk about being right sized, I think we do have the right size department. But we had operated with a lot of	01:29:32
	vacancies for a long time and that's not unique. That's the problem going county wide. I think the Sheriff's Department is	01:29:38
	struggling to fill positions right now. Well, all police departments are struggling to fill positions right now.	01:29:44
	We've all heard about Santa Paula and their situation, for example.	01:29:50
	So we're actually pretty fortunate that we're actually kind of getting back to fully staffed. Well, this is going ragging rights,	01:29:54
	yeah, yeah. And so that's a rare problem to have right now. So we've we've actually built back up and so we're, I think that was	01:30:00
	what Chief Federico has explained when he said by filling that position, we actually kind of reached a level we hadn't been at for	01:30:05
	a while because we had the vacancies.	01:30:11
	And we're actually working on recruiting another lateral officer at this time.	01:30:17
	And and where we'd be.	01:30:21
	Even only have one vacancy at that point, so.	01:30:24
	So that's what kind of freed up the ability to do this and and then this down the line.	01:30:28
	The great thing about this that even I didn't expect was.	01:30:35
	This is a three-year MOU.	01:30:39
	And so that three-year commitment does open up possibilities when we look at the budget to say, well if we know that that this is	01:30:41
	paid for by this grant then.	01:30:45
	What can we do with that, What we can actually get more services for our community so?	01:30:50
	So that'll be talked about separately with the budget. So thank you, Councilmember Hernandez. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you,	01:30:55
	Chief, your presentation, Captain. And welcome, Assistant Sheriff Ozzie. Oh, good to see you.	01:31:00
	I want to preface my questions with a.	01:31:07
	With the fact that I am very supportive.	01:31:09
	Of regional planning regional.	01:31:12
	Coordination with our local law enforcement agencies. I think it's great.	01:31:15
	And the need for this task force I think is, is certainly there based on the trends that we're seeing out there.	01:31:20
	In criminal activity and the organized theft.	01:31:27
	And I'm glad that you mentioned.	01:31:31
	The cargo security on the port because.	01:31:33
	It was mentioned in the report, but I didn't know that was it was going to be referencing the port of Winemay, which is I think	01:31:37
	we've needed to do that for a long time and I'm sure that they welcome the assistance.	01:31:43
	I do have some similar questions though regarding.	01:31:50
	Losing Sergeant Tapia, who was just recently promoted to Sergeant.	01:31:54
	He has a lot of great experience, good investigative experience, one of our top cops.	01:31:58
	And he's going to.	01:32:05
	You know rightly go to a stellar agency now and and work on this task force, but will Gutierrez be able to match his experience?	01:32:07
	How do you, how do you figure that Gutierrez isn't matching his experience? Henry bout Delongo is taking his position and then	01:32:16
	Gutierrez just filling basically the officer spot to remove Henry out of there. So I feel like we're playing chess here. It would	01:32:23
	be. I would love to see a diagram so that you could show us. I think that would be better. I would better be able to understand if	01:32:29
	I may ask a, are we getting into personnel discussions here? Yeah, I think.	01:32:36
	I think that the big picture answer, without getting into personnel issues, is that.	01:32:44
	We've recently filled a position that gives us this flexibility and then I think I would encourage everybody not to talk about	01:32:48
	qualifications of individual officers, but the chief is.	01:32:53
	Managing those positions that we have and.	01:32:58
	I know is looking at this as an opportunity to actually expand our our resources and our qualifications.	01:33:01
	And so I think that's our response, but for one response, you said it.	01:33:10
	A successful succession plan in any organization is chess, and it's something I've been planning since day. One night I got her.	01:33:15
	So I didn't, I didn't mean to delve into personnel issues, but I just wanted to express, you know, how we feel about Sergeant	01:33:23
	Tapia and his experience and.	01:33:28
	And it does, You know, it is a concern. We don't want to lose that level of experience and not be able to replace it. If I can, go	01:33:33
	on, please.	01:33:37
	So it's not we.	01:33:42
	OK. Council Member Hernandez, can you please finish? Yes, if I'd like. OK, my my next question is in 2026, what happens with the	01:33:45
	program? Do we return the vehicle? Does the position come back then to the to the?	01:33:52
	To our agency.	01:33:59
	I fully expect that given the statewide issue that we're seeing with organized retail theft.	01:34:01
	Crimes. I expect there will be another organized retail tap.	01:34:09
	Grant program.	01:34:14
	But unfortunately I can't say standing here today that that that's a that's a for sure thing.	01:34:16
	But I would say we have a very good shot especially with the program that we're that we're creating with.	01:34:23
	The the Multi Agency.	01:34:28
	You know, coordinated task force.	01:34:31
	We're definitely going to be on the on the forefront and and have the the eye of the state of the governor in in future grant	01:34:34
	programs.	01:34:38
	OK, very good. Well, thank you. I think that concludes my questions. Thanks again for coming out tonight. Appreciate it very much.	01:34:43
	Any other questions from council?	01:34:47
	All right. Could I just maybe add one more comment because I think one thing that the Chief hit on that I really want to drive	01:34:52
	home is.	01:34:56
	Is especially for smaller agencies when you know retirements and things like that are coming.	01:35:00
	And I've been through this myself, where you don't have a position to start training, then to bring in the next person and train	01:35:06
	them up to be prepared to take their place and to get the experience and the knowledge from them.	01:35:13
	And what I've seen and what I've lived through is that.	01:35:20
	3 Two or three years later, you look back and go. I wish we had figured out a way to bring somebody in to learn from this person	01:35:24
	before they left.	01:35:27
	And I think for us that was a legitimate concern we have looking at our officers and anticipating probably some retirements in a	01:35:31
	couple years.	01:35:35
	That we don't have the.	01:35:41
	Budget to start.	01:35:43
	Kind of giving people those experiences to be ready to replace or to step into those shoes.	01:35:45
	So that is I think an important piece of this as well. And so this is an opportunity for us to do that.	01:35:50
	And I think lastly just and I understand the concern about like are we losing service to our community I think.	01:35:58
	That I can speak for the chief and he correct me if I'm wrong, but we believe this is a gain of more resources for the community	01:36:06
	and I don't think we would we would even be proposing it if that wasn't the case so.	01:36:11
	Thank you. I'll end with thanks you Chief and thank you Captain for the presentation and I have full confidence in the Chief and	01:36:18
	his ability to determine.	01:36:21
	Who goes where? Who's capable? Who's ready? And I have no doubt that.	01:36:25
	Senior Officer Montelongo will fill the shoes for Tapia when he leaves and I think this is a great opportunity for Sergeant Tapia,	01:36:31
	so congratulations to him.	01:36:34
	So given that, do we have any public comments on this item?	01:36:40
	No public comments. Thank you. So the recommendation is to authorize staff to execute the attached Memorandum of Understanding	01:36:45
	with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office to join the Ventura County Organized Retail Theft Task Force. And it takes steps needed	01:36:50
	to implement the MOU. May I have a motion and a second, please?	01:36:55
	Motion to approve staff's recommendation second. Thank you.	01:37:01
	No further discussion.	01:37:06
	All in favor.	01:37:08
	Aye, all opposed.	01:37:10
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:37:12
	Next item, Business item Tonight is the planning and management of the 2024 Whining Me Beach Festival. Will staff please present	01:37:17
	the report.	01:37:20
	Yes, thank you and Deputy City Manager Charles Perez will be presenting this. He had gone through the Citizen Advisory Commission	01:37:26
	and and and come back with recommendations from them and presented those to council.	01:37:33
	A couple months back. And so this is the next step in that process. So he'll walk us through.	01:37:41
	The process to date and what we're recommending at this time.	01:37:47
	Thank you, city Manager. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, members of the public, city staff.	01:37:53
	Item 12 on your agenda does pertain to the planning and management of.	01:37:59
	This year's Wenimi Beach Festival and seeks council's approval of four separate recommendations.	01:38:04
	By way of quick background on September 5th of last year.	01:38:12
	The council approved a list of topics that were appropriate for.	01:38:16
	Citizen Advisory Commission to review.	01:38:20
	The list included a review of city sponsored large scale events.	01:38:23
	Consistent with that direction at their October 9th and November 13th meetings.	01:38:27
	The CAC reviewed a summary of the 2023 festival.	01:38:32
	And offered recommendations pertaining to.	01:38:37
	To the conduct of the 2024 event.	01:38:39
	On December 18th, this information along with a summary.	01:38:43
	Of the Citizen Advisory Commission's recommendation was presented to the.	01:38:46
	Council provided specific feedback to be used in the planning of the 2024 event.	01:38:51
	And authorized staff to analyze in-house management options.	01:38:56
	And issue a request for proposals as a contingency plan.	01:39:00
	Quick reminder, the specific direction that council provided in terms of feedback and planning concept.	01:39:07
	Was that?	01:39:13
	Community and nonprofit organizations should be a key focus.	01:39:15
	The event itself should be assured to have a community focus.	01:39:20
	We should look to increase the usage of Winemie Beach.	01:39:25
	Ensure youth involvement and sports activities are part of the event.	01:39:30
	At that time there was a discussion about reducing the event to a one day event and ensuring that we avoid conflicts with other	01:39:34
	events in the county.	01:39:38
	Ensure that there was a presence of Navy, Navy, Chumash and Community group participation.	01:39:43
	Ensure that resources serving our community were present and part of the event.	01:39:50
	Focus on the event being financially self-sustaining.	01:39:55
	Increase the regional draw and to maximize attendance of the event.	01:39:59
	And ensure that the cannabis presence is retained in the event.	01:40:05
	Pursuant to the direction given at that meeting.	01:40:13
	The city explored the possibility of using staff resources to organize and oversee the festival, while also reviewing proposals	01:40:16
	received in response to the RFP.	01:40:20
	Because the city is fortunate to have staff members that possess a deep familiarity with the whining community and have expertise.	01:40:25
	In running events, we are recommending that the Council cancel the RFP.	01:40:33
	And authorize the use of a staff committee to plan and manage this year's event.	01:40:38
	The Police Explorer program, which offers valuable training and education to young members of the community in the field of law	01:40:43
	enforcement.	01:40:46
	Would be part of the program.	01:40:49
	The festival provides an opportunity for the explorers to participate in crowd control.	01:40:51
	Large event planning and to assist the city and other valuable.	01:40:56
	Tasks.	01:41:00
	During staff's preliminary investigation, it became evident that reducing the event to a one day event would not reduce	01:41:03
	significantly, would not reduce expenses.	01:41:08
	But would likely have a substantive impact on revenues generated both in the form of sponsorships and on site.	01:41:13
	Revenue generation.	01:41:19
	As such, staff is recommending to continue hosting A2 day festival.	01:41:22
	This year, the proposed dates would be September 7th and September 8th.	01:41:26
	Finally, staff is recommending A modification to the footprint of the festival.	01:41:31
	That would incorporate the use of beach activities.	01:41:36
	And reduce the traffic impacts along Surfside Drive.	01:41:40
	So there was a preliminary budget attached to the staff report, most importantly as it pertains to the city's contribution.	01:41:49
	Last year, the city was asked to provide an event sponsorship of $25,000.	01:41:57
	And at the conclusion of the event, the city was responsible for almost $46,000 of a deficit. So the.	01:42:03
	Total contribution of those two items was approximately $71,000.	01:42:10
	This year, the preliminary budget proposes A sponsorship from the city of $35,000.	01:42:15
	And a $25,000 donation to the Explorers for their participation and assistance with the event.	01:42:20
	So that's $60,000, representing an approximate $11,000 year over year decrease in the city's contribution to this event.	01:42:27
	So in summary, the recommendation from staff includes 4 items.	01:42:38
	To cancel the RFP and not award a contract to a vendor.	01:42:44
	To approve the use of an employee committee to plan and manage the festival.	01:42:48
	Authorize a $25,000 donation to the Explorer program.	01:42:53
	And authorized the city manager to consider and accept in kind donations.	01:42:57
	In lieu of fees for local nonprofits.	01:43:01
	The last recommendation I didn't explain, so I'll just touch on that.	01:43:04
	As noted earlier in the Planning concepts, we want to encourage and facilitate nonprofit organizations involvement in the festival	01:43:08
	and we thought that in addition to having booths, we could use some of our local nonprofits to participate provide activities.	01:43:15
	In in exchange for that, we would waive.	01:43:24
	The fees that would normally be associated with being a vendor at.	01:43:27
	The event.	01:43:31
	So that's the reason to authorize the city manager to have that discretion.	01:43:32
	That concludes the presentation. City Manager and I are available for any questions.	01:43:36
	Thank you, Mr. Perez. Do Council have any questions for staff?	01:43:41
	Mr. Councilmember Gama.	01:43:45
	I was.	01:43:49
	I thought I was told or I heard or that we're gonna scrap the cannabis.	01:43:50
	Part of it as being non.	01:43:58
	Whatever. So as the council shortly knows, in the years past there has been a cannabis Cove that has been an element of the	01:44:01
	festival.	01:44:06
	This year's conceptual plan at this time does not envision continuing the cannabis Cove.	01:44:11
	But the comment was made when we went to council that we should retain a cannabis presence, so the thought is that we would.	01:44:16
	Where did that come from? Because I don't recall that. I don't, I don't think.	01:44:23
	I don't think having cannabis and a youth centered activity makes a lot of sense.	01:44:28
	We're happy to take whatever direction of the Council. Previously it was discussed that it is an integral part of our community	01:44:34
	and it should be retained in some fashion.	01:44:38
	At this time it was envisioned that the cannabis vendors would be able to be present and have booths there, but we would not have	01:44:43
	a cannabis.	01:44:47
	Cove where there would be any product discussions or any sale of any goods.	01:44:52
	If the council wishes to provide different direction on that matter, we're happy to receive that this evening. So this is this is	01:44:57
	vastly different than before. Then you're saying that can become an advertise their business, but not.	01:45:02
	So there would be no cannabis code. There would be no sale of problem. There wouldn't be an exclusive Cannabis Cove area that	01:45:08
	there was before, it would just be there. They can sponsor like any other sponsor and have their name on a banner or they can have	01:45:14
	a booth like any other booth. So it would be a different, it would be.	01:45:19
	It would still be incorporated, but it would be, it would be much lower key. Yeah, lower key than in the past, that idea. Thank	01:45:26
	you.	01:45:30
	Councilmember Martinez, do you have any questions?	01:45:35
	No. I see that there's a request for more sports, but it isn't.	01:45:38
	Set exactly what sports.	01:45:44
	We're gonna be incorporated.	01:45:46
	Those types of details would be worked on with the committee.	01:45:49
	Should the Council give us authority to move in this direction?	01:45:53
	OK, I would recommend.	01:45:55
	Contacting any of the volleyball teams in our local high schools, especially since beach volleyball is going on right now.	01:45:57
	I do understand.	01:46:04
	They wanted to do a tournament. We would need at least one more volleyball court out there.	01:46:06
	I've been pushing for a volleyball court and at least one more for a while, but.	01:46:11
	I think that would be nice, having like a volleyball tournament.	01:46:14
	Yeah, the preliminary discussions, we have been focused on school teams, both volleyball and potentially soccer. Again, details	01:46:17
	should be determined, but those are things that we anticipate making contacts. Should the council be supportive of this approach?	01:46:21
	Of course.	01:46:25
	Councilmember Hernandez.	01:46:30
	Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Bratz, for.	01:46:33
	Your report. I did submit some questions, some of which have been answered so far, but.	01:46:37
	A lot of them have to do well. My primary question has to do with the approach in.	01:46:43
	Hiring and kind using in kind staff.	01:46:48
	To conduct, to plan for.	01:46:50
	Organize and implement the festival.	01:46:54
	For a while now, we've been hearing that we shouldn't be asking staff to take on additional projects. That many staff are wrapped	01:46:57
	up.	01:47:01
	Existing day-to-day duties, the Bubbling Springs project, now we have.	01:47:06
	The public works.	01:47:10
	Pipeline project that's going on.	01:47:13
	And so I'm wondering what the impact this is actually going to have?	01:47:16
	On staff in terms of their time, I understand that.	01:47:21
	Henry Montelongo has been had to do the organization and the explorers will.	01:47:25
	Be assisting in that and I'm all for them gaining that special event experience.	01:47:32
	But there's also mentioned in the report that there's going to be an employee committee and can you tell us more about that? Who	01:47:39
	will be?	01:47:42
	What departments will be committing staff to that committee and?	01:47:47
	And what the impact of this is going to be on staff because we have less than six months to put this event on.	01:47:50
	So at this time, we anticipate participation from a recreation and community services.	01:47:57
	Public works as well. You mentioned Henry Montel.	01:48:04
	Frank Montelongo has been the individual that we have communicated with. He and Henry certainly have experience with various	01:48:08
	events, so.	01:48:12
	We'll probably pull experience and expertise from both of those individuals, but we anticipate.	01:48:17
	A member of Again Recreation Public Works.	01:48:23
	And those individuals from the Police Department to participate and what's the time commitment do you think is?	01:48:27
	They will be.	01:48:33
	So utilizing.	01:48:36
	Towards the planning and implementation.	01:48:40
	Is there, Are they going to be meeting weekly?	01:48:43
	Monthly how many hours in in?	01:48:46
	Are we going to be committing? So two thoughts I think initially I just wanted to point out in the past, although we have not had	01:48:49
	city staff lead.	01:48:53
	And facilitate the entirety of the.	01:48:58
	There have been city staff members that have been involved in the planning and preparation for the event. Undoubtedly this this	01:49:01
	year will require additional resources and additional time.	01:49:06
	Direct answer to your question, initially it's anticipated that will be weekly meetings.	01:49:12
	And as additional tasks are identified and as we get closer to the event.	01:49:17
	The frequency of those meetings will assuredly need to increase.	01:49:22
	I think the specific outline for that type of plan will be identified again. Should council agree with and provide direction to	01:49:26
	move forward, we'll kind of create a.	01:49:31
	Specific schedule on a specific plan of action for meetings and tasks that need to be completed.	01:49:37
	So was was the thinking and going to using in kind?	01:49:42
	Staff a budgetary decision. Was it thinking that we would save money?	01:49:47
	There's a there's a variety of factors.	01:49:53
	I think a couple of points is every staff person that right now we're envisioning being part of the committee has been part of.	01:49:57
	The committee over the last several years.	01:50:06
	So I think if if we're thinking we're starting with we didn't have any staff time in the past, that's not accurate. So yeah, I	01:50:09
	know that's not what I'm saying. So, so the it's the same group of people who've worked on it with.	01:50:16
	In years past they worked with an event manager.	01:50:24
	And so this year we talked to those to the different people that are involved.	01:50:28
	And we had three proposals for event managers to come in who had not done the Beach fest before, and we're not.	01:50:33
	Familiar with the community and, you know, things like that. And so I think all of us sat down and looked at those and realized	01:50:41
	that.	01:50:45
	There was a sense that.	01:50:49
	We can do this ourselves easier than bringing someone in who isn't familiar with the community and doesn't.	01:50:51
	Know what Beach Fest is and will essentially be paying someone to still be on the committee telling them how to do everything.	01:50:57
	So there were there's a variety of reasons just when you look at the big picture.	01:51:04
	The reason we went to proposal, the reason we went to RFP was because.	01:51:11
	I didn't want.	01:51:15
	I didn't want to do it by our employee committee unless our team felt like they could do it.	01:51:18
	So we went to RFP and we wanted to have that option available.	01:51:24
	When the proposals came back we all got together and decided we want to do this internally. So, so.	01:51:28
	So with that in mind then.	01:51:35
	One of the things that we haven't done over the past years is quantified staff time in the budget.	01:51:37
	You know we've.	01:51:44
	We've dedicated police resources, public works resources and we haven't quantified that in the budget. So really to get a true	01:51:45
	picture of what our costs are for putting this festival together, I think we have to be.	01:51:51
	Realistic and transparent in describing what those costs are.	01:51:57
	Because if we're looking to save money under Expenses under Event Management, it's 0.	01:52:03
	So if there's some way we can quantify that, I'd be more comfortable in approving this.	01:52:12
	Tonight.	01:52:17
	Then the other comment I wanted to make.	01:52:21
	There's there's a couple of things that are zeroed out here that.	01:52:25
	I had questions about.	01:52:30
	So I noticed that the VIP lounge has been zeroed out. Does that mean that?	01:52:32
	There is going to be no How will the sponsors be recognized? How would they be?	01:52:39
	Will it be just advertising or what are they going to get for their contributions?	01:52:45
	So the the primary change to the items that are provided to sponsors. In the past they were given tickets to the VIP lagoon.	01:52:50
	And they were given some preferential parking spaces.	01:52:59
	The proposal as you might have known with zero under the parking revenue is that we will are not proposing a charge for revenue.	01:53:03
	We are not proposing to charge for parking this year. In your comment about the VIP, it is proposed that that would be eliminated.	01:53:09
	So those would be things that would be removed from the benefits sponsors would receive.	01:53:16
	Other than that, it would primarily be the same. They would their their logos or their information would be part of marketing and	01:53:23
	advertising materials both in print and in social media.	01:53:27
	They would receive individualized banners that would be present at the event.	01:53:32
	They would be given access to booths for display and communication about their products or services.	01:53:38
	And they would have their logos included on digital imaging on the screen at select times throughout the festival.	01:53:45
	And then we're going down to one stage, right?	01:53:53
	So the community stage used to be the stage where we would showcase local talent.	01:53:56
	Is the local talent now going to be?	01:54:02
	I'm hoping it is moving to the to the Mainstage.	01:54:05
	Because we have a lot of great local bands and I think that's where we incurred a lot of costs and bringing in these tribute	01:54:08
	bands.	01:54:11
	Maybe if we could focus on local bounds. So we're we're not necessarily committed to removing a second stage. Last year we had a	01:54:15
	second stage that was a DJ focused stage. So we're thinking that we may continue that.	01:54:21
	But with the two day event preliminarily we've focused on potentially one day being primarily local musician based and the other	01:54:27
	one.	01:54:32
	Being acts that aren't necessarily local based, so we are looking to incorporate.	01:54:36
	Local bands and musicians? OK, great. That sounds wonderful.	01:54:43
	I just noticed it was zeroed out, so it looked like it was being eliminated. Yeah. Some of the costs that are zeroed out, it's	01:54:47
	because we think we've identified.	01:54:51
	Ways to do them without costs.	01:54:55
	More efficient ways to do them.	01:54:57
	And then I have another question regarding.	01:55:03
	The sale of beer and wine.	01:55:06
	Umm, you've zeroed out the tips that are paid to those organizations that?	01:55:09
	Sell the beer.	01:55:16
	Is. I'm hoping that that's not going to happen because last year that was the only way that they.	01:55:18
	Made any kind of they had any kind of benefit or any kind of incentive?	01:55:24
	To participate.	01:55:28
	That was one of the things that I think was of concern last year was that.	01:55:30
	They used to be paid to sell beer and wine these nonprofits.	01:55:36
	But that was taken away. I'm hoping we can look at ways to put that back.	01:55:41
	Because it's a highly profitable.	01:55:45
	Endeavor to sell the beer and wine. It's one of the highest profit making.	01:55:49
	Ventures for from the festival.	01:55:54
	To take that away from the nonprofit's I think.	01:55:56
	Was a mistake.	01:55:59
	So I'd like to see that put back in.	01:56:00
	And allow them to also earn the tips if possible.	01:56:03
	I think the the thought there was.	01:56:07
	Those costs or revenues don't need to be represented in the budget as it's not an actual event expense or new events revenue. It	01:56:10
	would just be.	01:56:14
	Funds that would go directly to a group that supported the event? Yeah, it goes back with the general idea of trying to simplify	01:56:18
	things in the past.	01:56:22
	Everything would get collected and then.	01:56:27
	Divvied and everything else. And for us on some of these things like where if we have a nonprofit running a booth, we're going to	01:56:30
	let the nonprofit run the booth. And so that's where it's going to.	01:56:35
	Making it a little bit easier, but there's no reason for us to then show that as revenue to the city which it was shown as in the	01:56:41
	past, so.	01:56:44
	So final question then I'll let.	01:56:48
	I'll stop We'll.	01:56:52
	Will staff be coming back with a plan on implementation?	01:56:54
	Because, you know, we've went out to RFPs for RFP's, these organizations submitted plans.	01:56:59
	What is the Explorers plan? What is Henry's plan to implement? So organizational approach, is he going to use? Yeah, so today is.	01:57:06
	So that would be something that would come back to council.	01:57:44
	OK. Well, you know to me it makes sense that there be some plan because if we we ask these businesses to submit a plan, I mean we	01:57:47
	should apply the same standards to our.	01:57:52
	To our own organization to come forth with the plan.	01:57:58
	That's just my thinking. Thank you. Have a question?	01:58:01
	No, no questions. Just a comment on the.	01:58:05
	Council meeting soon.	01:58:18
	Of our last year.	01:58:20
	The cost the city was paying for the event.	01:58:38
	I believe that information was presented at the December 18th meeting, but as the City Manager indicated, when we do come back	01:58:43
	with a footprint some additional information, we'll be sure to include that. Just off the off the top, the calculated cost for	01:58:49
	staff support of last year's event was approximately $27,000.	01:58:54
	And I think big picture, we didn't want to commit to it at this point because we still need to develop the plan, but we think we	01:59:01
	can accomplish it for about the same cost. So that was why we didn't.	01:59:05
	Show you know a cost last year and what we expect the cost to to change this year. Our goal is to basically.	01:59:10
	Manage it with about the same amount of staff time and to the city manager's point, there will be more staff time in the planning	01:59:17
	phases, clearly because we're taking a larger share there.	01:59:22
	But based on changes we made are proposing to make to the execution of the event and the footprint of the event and the	01:59:26
	elimination of parking.	01:59:31
	There will be less staff time associated with the actual management and on site for the event, less overtime.	01:59:37
	Thank you. My apologies if that got by me.	01:59:43
	Councilmember Gama.	01:59:46
	After participating in the Havana Nights, was it called I have 1000% confidence in the Montelongo's?	01:59:48
	To manage this event.	01:59:58
	And to exceed our most wild expectations, and I think we as a council should just get out of their way and let them.	01:59:59
	Do what they do if you didn't attend the Havana nights at the Camaro airport.	02:00:08
	It was an event that was put on by Henry Montelongo and.	02:00:14
	I have never been to an event so well managed, so professional and so amazing, so I'm super excited to.	02:00:18
	To get out of Henry's way and let him do what he does, and I appreciate the fact that we're already showing $11,000.	02:00:26
	Savings.	02:00:35
	And I will add also the June car show they put on every year as well. It's a big success for the city and for the organization.	02:00:36
	They they bring in a lot of money for the Explorers for that event.	02:00:41
	Are there no further questions?	02:00:47
	No comments, Councilmember Martinez.	02:00:49
	Is is there a big push to get the festival on the sand like on the actual beach and make it more like a like a whining me beach	02:00:52
	festival theme?	02:00:56
	Yeah, there's there's a commitment to ensure that some of the activities and events associated with the festival happen on the	02:01:02
	beach. I won't say the entirety of the festival, but yes, we're looking at opportunities for educational activities as well as	02:01:07
	athletic competitions on the beach.	02:01:12
	Looking forward to.	02:01:17
	Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any public comments? No public comments. Thank you. So the recommendation is to cancel the	02:01:18
	Request for Proposals for Wyoming Beach Festival Event Planning and Management Services and award no contract.	02:01:25
	Approve the use of an employee committee to plan and manage the 2024 Wyoming Beach Festival.	02:01:31
	Authorize a donation of 25,000 to the Port Winneme Police Explorers to provide services associated with the execution of the 2024	02:01:37
	festival.	02:01:41
	And authorized the city to consider and or accept in kind donations in lieu of vendor fees for local nonprofit organizations. May	02:01:45
	I have a motion and a second. So moved second.	02:01:51
	No further discussion. We will move on to a vote.	02:01:58
	All in favor, aye.	02:02:02
	All opposed hearing, None Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	02:02:04
	Moving on to the final business item, is the authorized the purchase exempt?	02:02:09
	From formal contract procedure for emergency repair and city sewer main well staff, please present the report.	02:02:14
	Yes, thank you. I wish they were all as fun as Beach Fest, but now we got to talk about a sewer main.	02:02:21
	So I'll ask Public Works, our team for Public Works to help me, but just a little bit of background is that people probably	02:02:28
	noticed a couple weeks ago on March 13th.	02:02:33
	All of a sudden, we closed the lane on Ventura Rd.	02:02:39
	At the intersection of Ventura Road and Pearl Street.	02:02:42
	And the reason we we closed the lane was that we received a report that a sinkhole was developing and we went out immediately and	02:02:46
	and saw that we we had a a sinkhole developing.	02:02:52
	So we took. We jumped into action. We addressed the sinkhole.	02:02:59
	We repaired the pipe.	02:03:05
	It was a 60 year old pipe and.	02:03:08
	Which should have lasted 70 to 75 years. So you know on one hand it's it wasn't quite to its expected its life expectancy but on	02:03:12
	the other hand we should.	02:03:17
	Probably be we should be preparing for 60 year old pipes starting to fail.	02:03:23
	I think a lot of our infrastructure is getting to that age.	02:03:27
	But so we.	02:03:31
	We addressed the sinkhole and that issue, but as we were making the repair we noticed.	02:03:33
	Problems along the whole section of the pipe and that it was failing.	02:03:39
	And so at that time we got together and we realized we need to replace the the entire section of pipe, which I believe is about	02:03:43
	4500 linear feet basically from Pleasant Valley.	02:03:50
	All the way down Ventura Road to.	02:03:58
	I think it was Surfside.	02:04:01
	And we need to replace that whole section I.	02:04:03
	And so we are trying to get that done quickly before we have more issues, before we have a major failure of the pipe because we're	02:04:08
	already we can just physically see problems with the pipe. And so we're asking the council to authorize a.	02:04:15
	The US to purchase the.	02:04:24
	To perform the emergency repair by exempting us from our normal formal contract procedures because of the condition of the pipe	02:04:29
	and the need to make the repair.	02:04:34
	As soon as possible. So I guess I'll ask public works, did I miss anything or we could OK.	02:04:40
	So.	02:04:49
	Sorry, Fred. Mayor Pro Tem Council.	02:04:52
	Staff members of the public? Yeah, City Manager Vega in a nutshell. Got that all accurate.	02:04:56
	What we need to do?	02:05:05
	Our opinion of looking at what happened out there and seeing the.	02:05:09
	Adjacent areas that were exposed during the original repair is that.	02:05:14
	We need to take action to do something with this pipe before we continue to have these problems.	02:05:19
	We are already in contact with.	02:05:26
	Contractors that specialize one of the the attachment here, attachment A, is a bypass. So we've already started doing.	02:05:32
	A design for.	02:05:39
	But it's a draft design because we need to speak to.	02:05:41
	Experts that perform this type of work that can confirm what hour.	02:05:46
	Thought process is whether that will work or it won't and the idea behind that is.	02:05:51
	To go ahead and remove all of the flow that's coming down that line, which?	02:05:57
	The naval base.	02:06:01
	Um. And also.	02:06:03
	All of the neighborhood from Bryce Canyon to Pleasant Valley in between Jay and Ventura Rd. Every. Every one of those.	02:06:06
	Businesses and homes.	02:06:15
	Runs through that line.	02:06:17
	So we.	02:06:21
	Are in the process already of.	02:06:23
	Certain actions to make sure that we can.	02:06:26
	Try and eliminate.	02:06:29
	This from potentially having.	02:06:32
	Other breaks along the way.	02:06:35
	If you look at attachment A, you'll notice that.	02:06:37
	There are going to be some inconveniences and again, this is a draft, so some things may change before we actually get into.	02:06:41
	Setting this up but.	02:06:51
	You'll see it.	02:06:53
	Pleasant Valley Rd. That's where the point of connections are.	02:06:55
	That will have to begin this work at and then the.	02:06:58
	Thought processes to run the above ground.	02:07:02
	Bypass line which would take all of that.	02:07:06
	Wastewater that's flowing through.	02:07:10
	Damaged line.	02:07:13
	And run it above ground. We'd be putting K rail alongside of it, and we'd be putting it in the fast lane of southbound Ventura Rd.	02:07:14
	So we'd be removing that lane. You'll see there also on the attachment that there's some.	02:07:22
	Parking that will be lost because we'll need to take the bike lane in order to turn that into a travel lane.	02:07:30
	And we're we're.	02:07:37
	Trying to also do the best we can with minimizing.	02:07:40
	Blocking the entire.	02:07:45
	Cross sections of Ventura Rd.	02:07:47
	But again, we've.	02:07:50
	Looked at this, you'll see on B Street we've got some left turns, so from B Street.	02:07:52
	It's proposed that they wouldn't be able to make a left turn from.	02:07:58
	B Street on the north northbound Ventura.	02:08:02
	Also, similarly northbound Ventura, you wouldn't be able to make A left across onto B Street.	02:08:05
	We are trying to keep all of the major streets section cross sections open.	02:08:14
	Clara.	02:08:22
	Scott St. Winemie Rd.	02:08:25
	All those are proposed to go underground at those areas.	02:08:27
	The question might be, well why not put it all underground so you don't have to do any of this because that turns into a much more	02:08:32
	expensive project and this is a temporary.	02:08:37
	Line so we can go ahead and do the work on.	02:08:43
	The original line.	02:08:48
	And be able to.	02:08:49
	Repair all of that without having to place a new line in place.	02:08:52
	And as you go down on the attachment, you'll see there are.	02:08:58
	Other areas Seaview St. would be affected.	02:09:05
	Leaving out of Surfside Village on the Ventura Rd.	02:09:09
	There are areas that are going to have some minor inconvenience and we will have some things that we're going to be will be	02:09:15
	traffic delays.	02:09:18
	It's the nature of the project is.	02:09:24
	Going to necessarily cause some of these things, but ultimately we think.	02:09:27
	With what we believe on how we can get this done, including this bypass, it will be the least disruptive.	02:09:32
	Process to.	02:09:40
	Everybody. The public, The poor, the base.	02:09:42
	So with that, if you have any questions, I will.	02:09:48
	Answer those.	02:09:53
	Director Camarillo, thank you for that. But what I'm hearing in essence is this is a mess.	02:09:54
	You're going to do your best to fix it.	02:09:59
	And Please be patient. We're asking the community to understand, understanding and patient while you work as best you can to get	02:10:01
	this taken care of.	02:10:05
	Yeah, that's well said. And and the last thing is we'll commit.	02:10:09
	We are going to try to get notices out to people at least 72 hours in advance to let people know what's going on so that we don't	02:10:13
	catch people by surprise. Thank you. Does council have any questions?	02:10:18
	Counselor Gama Yeah, I think 60 years for any pipe is probably pretty good, right? I hope so.	02:10:23
	And so.	02:10:29
	Director Camarillo.	02:10:32
	Is it going to be done in sections or are you? I understand that you have to bypass the entire line, but is it going to be done in	02:10:34
	sections at a time? Are you going to bypass the whole line and then just start from one end and work all the way to the other end?	02:10:41
	Well, it's going to be a combination of both. Part of it will be based on what the final process is that we end up using to do	02:10:49
	this.	02:10:54
	Some of them are. They may be able to do multiple things at a time, so we'll have areas that are opened up in the street that	02:11:01
	they'll be able to work from.	02:11:05
	Again it.	02:11:10
	Our thought is to try and get this accomplished.	02:11:12
	With the least amount of disruption to.	02:11:15
	Traffic and the general public so.	02:11:20
	We believe that it can be done. We've already started with discussions.	02:11:25
	With people that do this.	02:11:29
	And they're confident as well just based off of again just talking to them, we haven't had anybody come out on site yet, but we	02:11:32
	have that set up coming this week.	02:11:36
	So they can take a.	02:11:40
	Tour of the layout.	02:11:42
	So they know what they're working with.	02:11:46
	And we hope to get feedback from them if there's something that we.	02:11:48
	Thought about and they determined that that's probably not the best way to do it. We're we're looking for them to give us their	02:11:55
	expertise in this as well.	02:11:58
	And I would.	02:12:03
	Believe that this is coming out of the enterprise fund, correct? Not the general fund, right. And I know that our reserves are	02:12:05
	quite well over there.	02:12:10
	There. Well, I wouldn't say quite, but I'm concerned. They're OK. They're well and it's something that we'll keep an eye on and	02:12:15
	keep watching and let we'll come back if, we if and when we need to deal with that too, so.	02:12:21
	Yeah. And again, I just focus on the +60 years, is a long time for any pipe in the ground And I think did you say we're going to	02:12:29
	get 60 years out of this new pipe or is it new and improved?	02:12:35
	Some of the technologies we're looking at there.	02:12:43
	They vary from 60. Some of them go up to over 100 years depending on what you use.	02:12:46
	Who's gonna be around?	02:12:53
	One of the things we also have to consider though is.	02:12:57
	Where the alignment of the current pipe is.	02:13:00
	So some processes may not be.	02:13:03
	Amenable to the other field conditions, so that's something else we have to take into consideration when we do this.	02:13:07
	You mean you weren't here when they put the pipe in the ground?	02:13:15
	No, I wasn't. I've been here a long time, but not that long. Thank you, Councilmember Hernandez. Thank you, Mayor.	02:13:18
	Thank you Director Camarillo for your staff report and I especially appreciate the diagram. I find it pretty interesting contrary	02:13:25
	to.	02:13:29
	To the city manager's comment, verse this versus the festival. I actually find it very interesting.	02:13:34
	I don't know if you said this, but what is the length of time that the project will take?	02:13:41
	We're hoping that we can have this done within two to three months and again it'll depend on the process and which one we may be	02:13:47
	able to use.	02:13:52
	Some can be done much quicker than others.	02:13:57
	But there's also some prep work. Obviously the first line of action is going to be to get the bypass, so we can actually start	02:14:00
	doing planning to do the work on correcting the line.	02:14:05
	And then after that, depending on what process we end up ultimately going with, some are a little bit faster than others, but.	02:14:11
	We have a lot of things to do. We got to find out everything else that's underground where we're going to be digging.	02:14:19
	We have to, you know, work with all the other utilities there. There's a lot of work that's going to go into.	02:14:26
	Pre planning before we do anything, so we don't.	02:14:32
	'Cause other damage. Hopefully no more surprises. Yeah, that's. We can expect that, I'm sure. So thank you so much. Good luck.	02:14:36
	Mayor Putin, do you have any questions?	02:14:41
	Council Member Martinez, Nothing. All right. Thank you. Director Camarillo. I have full faith in your experience of your team. A	02:14:46
	lot of years on that team, a lot of expertise.	02:14:51
	So I believe it'll be.	02:14:57
	Done appropriately and two months really doesn't sound that like a lot of time.	02:14:58
	Well, and that's we're we're hopeful that it can be a short project, but again some.	02:15:04
	Field conditions will determine what happened ultimately.	02:15:10
	So I do have a question and I.	02:15:14
	This is not the only pipeline in our city that's this old.	02:15:16
	What is the possibility that we have to do this anywhere else? Is there any?	02:15:19
	We well as far as the sewer system goes and this is the sewer line.	02:15:26
	We've completed 90% of our.	02:15:32
	Master plan from our sewer master plan, so.	02:15:36
	This is really one of the last remaining things that is.	02:15:40
	This big?	02:15:45
	That will need to be addressed as far as the sewer goes.	02:15:47
	Now we have other utilities. I mean, they are water.	02:15:50
	Which does have old lines as well and they have a master plan in place too and our water manager is actively.	02:15:54
	Pursuing, getting those lined up and getting work done for those. So we have other things that are.	02:16:02
	Are older but.	02:16:07
	In this case, on the sewer side of things, this is the last one that we have.	02:16:12
	We do have other projects that are also scheduled to be done.	02:16:17
	But they.	02:16:22
	Aren't as critical as this one is because of the nature of.	02:16:24
	How this works. This takes.	02:16:30
	Wastewater from two locations and sends it down this line.	02:16:32
	So to.	02:16:36
	Bypass and.	02:16:39
	If if this line would have completely failed, it would be.	02:16:42
	Not good. All right. Well, thank you again. Do we have any public comments for this item?	02:16:45
	No public comments? Great. So the recommendation is to authorize purchases exempt from formal contract procedures for the	02:16:51
	emergency repair of a city sewer force main.	02:16:55
	Authorized the City Manager to immediately proceed with performing the necessary preparations and repairs without compliance with	02:17:00
	the City's normal purchasing ordinance. Staff has determined that the public would be performed, oops, sorry that the work would	02:17:06
	be to be performed. Is not a public project as defined by public contract code sections 2161 Subdivision C, which excludes	02:17:12
	maintenance and repair from said definition.	02:17:17
	Would determine the purchase of goods. Materials and services are exempt from the City's formal contract procedure pursuant to	02:17:24
	Port Hueneme Municipal Code Section 2564, Subdivisions B&C as follows.	02:17:30
	2564 Exemptions from formal contract procedure.	02:17:37
	Be the City Council may authorize purchases.	02:17:40
	Of supplies, equipment and services without complying with this chapter, when, in the opinion of the City Council, compliance with	02:17:44
	the procedure is not in the best interests of the City.	02:17:48
	Or C The City Manager may authorize emergency purchases of supplies, equipment, or services for the purpose of this chapter.	02:17:54
	Emergency purposes purchases are those procurements required to prevent the immediate interruption of cessation of necessary.	02:18:01
	City services or to safeguard life, Property or the public health and welfare. May I have a motion and a second?	02:18:09
	Motion to approve all Staffs recommendations.	02:18:18
	Thank you, Madam Clerk. No further discussion.	02:18:22
	All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk.	02:18:25
	All in favor? Aye, aye. All opposed.	02:18:27
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Great. So now I'll move on to City Manager comments and reports. Mr. City Manager, do you	02:18:31
	have any comments or reports? Just two quick items. One just for planning purposes our next council meeting.	02:18:38
	We have three items currently scheduled. One will be.	02:18:46
	Actually, the Measure You committees annual report.	02:18:50
	And they'll they'll explain when they give the report, but it's actually the first ever measure you committee annual report. It's	02:18:54
	something they've been working on for for several years to get to this point and they'll explain.	02:18:59
	That history and and and the good news that they've gotten to this point, so.	02:19:05
	So the Measure You committee's annual report, our second update related to the upcoming budget which is going to be.	02:19:10
	Having our sales tax consultant come give a presentation on what?	02:19:20
	They're projecting for.	02:19:26
	Next year as it relates to our sales tax and and how that could impact us. And then third, our second partnership goals	02:19:27
	discussion, the first one was with the port and the second one would be with the Navy and as soon as we.	02:19:34
	As soon as we got through tonight and we set those items, I'm going to let the Navy know so that they can join us if they if they	02:19:42
	choose to do that. So, so we'll have those three items on our next agenda as our three as our business items.	02:19:49
	And then the only other thing I have is.	02:19:57
	This Friday is our first coffee with with the city.	02:19:59
	Event and we're going to do it at Anna Cappuccino at 8:30 AM.	02:20:06
	And it will be the first one we decided to kind of.	02:20:11
	Start with the first one being myself, our police chief and the mayor just figuring that typically the first I.	02:20:16
	Question people ask is for either the police chief or the mayor. People don't know I exist, which is nice. So, but, so we're going	02:20:25
	to do the first session this week, this Friday and we're hoping to do more of these and kind of do a series of them. But the first	02:20:31
	one is this Friday at Anna Cappuccino. So hope to see everybody there and that's all I have. Thank you.	02:20:38
	I've had several constituents ask about the schedule for reopening the library. Do you?	02:20:47
	Do you know what the schedule is by any chance?	02:20:54
	Yeah.	02:20:58
	We did get an update on that from the county librarian.	02:21:00
	I want to say that it was still looking at.	02:21:05
	July, I think, but let me pull that up. I actually have it right here.	02:21:10
	June, right. The update we got two weeks ago is that.	02:21:15
	Currently planning to reopen in June or July.	02:21:20
	And so that's the latest update from them.	02:21:24
	Any further questions for city manager?	02:21:28
	Thank you Councilmember reports and comments.	02:21:31
	Councilmember Martinez, start with you.	02:21:34
	Oh yes, I just want to mention that now that.	02:21:36
	The nonprofit for the city's housings. Then I might spoke to the.	02:21:39
	City attorney looks like we're going to move forward with creating the nonprofit for the sister city.	02:21:45
	He just needs a couple details, like purpose, you know, basic stuff.	02:21:53
	Unfortunately, I think we're gonna have to postpone this Sister city meeting tomorrow.	02:21:59
	But that's pretty much it. That's I don't have any other.	02:22:06
	Comments. Thank you, Councilmember Gama.	02:22:09
	So I think all the council members may be aware that there is.	02:22:14
	Some controversy going on at the Animal Services Commission.	02:22:19
	And I thought I would just.	02:22:24
	Kind of talk a little bit about that because we haven't had a meeting for a while and I don't quite understand why our meetings	02:22:26
	are being cancelled.	02:22:31
	But I do understand that there's.	02:22:36
	A big debate?	02:22:39
	Regarding.	02:22:41
	Euthanizing animals.	02:22:43
	And the one thing I could say is that the staff there at.	02:22:45
	Ventura County Animal Services are amazing. They take great care of the animals there and.	02:22:51
	You know, we tried to adopt A dog and it didn't turn out very well.	02:22:58
	And we had to.	02:23:03
	Surrender the dog to A.	02:23:04
	Very crowded Animal Services, so if there's.	02:23:07
	Anyone out there that has it in them to adopt A dog?	02:23:12
	Considerate, but.	02:23:16
	Things are.	02:23:20
	Seemingly starting to workout a little better, I'm not quite sure but.	02:23:21
	I'm going to make contact with the chair supervisor Laver and and see.	02:23:27
	When we're going to get on track to another meeting so that we could.	02:23:34
	See what's going on.	02:23:38
	So that's.	02:23:40
	That's it.	02:23:43
	Councilmember Hernandez.	02:23:46
	Thank you, Mayor.	02:23:48
	Let's see, just came back from Washington, DC a couple weeks ago. Was it a couple weeks already? A great trip. I would like the	02:23:50
	opportunity to report more out on that.	02:23:56
	At our next meeting I didn't come very prepared, but I did submit a write up for the newsletter along with pictures for the City	02:24:02
	Manager to include in our upcoming newsletter. I know that you asked for highlights Mr. City Manager, but it was really hard to	02:24:07
	highlight.	02:24:13
	Our visits without leaving somebody out. So I did the best. Martha and I did the best we could.	02:24:19
	To summarize the trip, so hopefully that will meet the needs of the.	02:24:26
	The newsletter I've got a SCAG meeting this week. I'll be attending in downtown Los Angeles. The port tour that was scheduled for	02:24:30
	Friday has been canceled due to weather I guess we're expecting.	02:24:35
	Some rain again this Friday.	02:24:42
	We almost canceled the mural committee meeting on Friday due to weather, but it's back on, so we'll be.	02:24:44
	Able to report back to the Council after that is.	02:24:51
	That meeting is held and give you an update on where we are with them.	02:24:55
	Mural The library mural.	02:24:59
	Umm, other than that I will have a few staff and agenda requests.	02:25:02
	But other than that, I think I'm good.	02:25:07
	Mayor Putin.	02:25:10
	Yes, thank you, Mayor.	02:25:13
	Council Member Hernandez mentioned the RDP trip that we did to DC.	02:25:16
	I just want to take just a quick moment like she said. We did have a summary that we turned over to the city manager. I just	02:25:22
	wanted to give our residents an idea.	02:25:26
	Just of some some of the offices that we visited so that you know we saw.	02:25:31
	The Minority Leader for the House Armed Services Committee.	02:25:39
	We visited the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy.	02:25:44
	We visited Commander Naval Installation, who's the commander of all US Naval installations?	02:25:48
	We saw visited, so I came back after two days. It was a third day that I missed on the third day.	02:25:56
	They visit the team visited Senator Alex Padilla's office.	02:26:04
	Umm, The Advisor for Defense, Foreign Affairs and Veterans.	02:26:08
	Congresswoman Brownlee's office and Congressman Ken Calverts office.	02:26:14
	So we did. I think we visited at least two days. I was there at the Pentagon three times.	02:26:19
	So we, I think we did our due diligence.	02:26:27
	As a committee to see as many people as we possibly could.	02:26:30
	And I think we came back with some additional information.	02:26:34
	On ways that we can.	02:26:38
	Or avenues by which we.	02:26:40
	Can probably use to.	02:26:42
	Support infrastructure. That's one of the biggest things that I came back with. So we had a great trip.	02:26:44
	And I think it's going to be value added for the committee and what we're going to be able to see how we're going to be able to	02:26:50
	support.	02:26:53
	Naval base Ventura County, both up Port Wyoming and Point Magoo.	02:26:57
	Other than that, I'll be attending.	02:27:01
	I have three committee meetings this week, so I'll be attending those.	02:27:04
	And hopefully have something.	02:27:08
	Additional report Next, Next.	02:27:11
	Thank you.	02:27:13
	I have two committee meetings this week, so I have nothing to report on any of the committees. The Easter celebration was very	02:27:15
	well done.	02:27:19
	I want to thank staff for putting that together and I want to thank.	02:27:23
	The future members of the Whining Me Lions Club who came in to help provide.	02:27:26
	Some much needed support and setting up that event because it was we're a bit short staffed and I want to thank the facilities who	02:27:32
	came in to help at the end of taking away all the K roles that were.	02:27:37
	Way too heavy for us girls to be carrying away. We will move on now to request for future agenda items. I'd like to remind Council	02:27:43
	members that all requested items will require a motion, a second and majority vote per adopted council policies to be placed on a	02:27:48
	future agenda item.	02:27:54
	Councilmember Martinez, I will start with you. No agenda items, Not today. Councilmember Gama. Yes, we got some bad news from	02:28:00
	Washington that they cut our dredging budget in half, and I think we need to.	02:28:05
	Get this on the agenda so that we could all talk about it as a council.	02:28:11
	So I'm looking for a second to.	02:28:19
	Put second. Thank you.	02:28:21
	Madam Clerk.	02:28:24
	All in favor, aye.	02:28:25
	All opposed.	02:28:27
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	02:28:29
	Councilmember Hernandez, Mayor May I.	02:28:33
	Digress and go back to an event announcement which I forgot to mention.	02:28:37
	The memorial for Pedro Valdez is going to occur again this year.	02:28:43
	On April 19th, it's not a city sponsored event, it's going to be sponsored by the Ventura County Resource Center by our Lamont	02:28:49
	Hayes who's here in the audience.	02:28:54
	And it will be taking place at the Gazebo on Surfside versus the bike station. Last year the bike station was the.	02:29:00
	The focal point, but we don't want to block traffic, bicycle traffic. So we're going to move over to the gazebo and that'll start	02:29:09
	at 4:00 and end at 5:00.	02:29:14
	And I will be moderating the program and we'll have the pleasure of.	02:29:20
	The mayor also providing a few words and so everybody's welcome to attend.	02:29:25
	Again starts at 4:00 April 19th.	02:29:31
	With regards to agenda requests, I meant to mention this last at our last meeting but forgot and that is David Maron has offered	02:29:34
	to do a presentation on the state of the region out of from the Civic Alliance and for some of you who.	02:29:44
	Not seeing the the book that was published through the civic alliance, it's a great.	02:29:53
	Resource book on.	02:29:59
	Our demographics. Everything from agriculture to.	02:30:01
	Community statistics are included in the book and I think that it would be beneficial for our community as well as our City	02:30:05
	Council.	02:30:09
	To here, so I'd like to ask for.	02:30:15
	A second to have him come and speak.	02:30:18
	To our Council in a future meeting.	02:30:21
	Anybody interested?	02:30:26
	Second, you moved. OK, great. Thank you.	02:30:30
	The other request I have.	02:30:34
	All in favor, aye.	02:30:37
	All opposed.	02:30:39
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	02:30:41
	The other request I have is not A and well, maybe it is an agenda request, but it has to do with updating our policy and	02:30:44
	procedures to include.	02:30:48
	Information on working with the press.	02:30:54
	And defining what constitutes a city sponsored event.	02:30:56
	So I Do we need to discuss that as an agenda item or can we just direct the city attorney to?	02:31:03
	To update our policies and procedures, I think the appropriate deal would be to address it as an agenda item, should council	02:31:11
	determine that it needs to be amended and come back OK, very good.	02:31:16
	Is there a second?	02:31:22
	Sing oh The motion was to update the policies and procedures to address how to work with the media.	02:31:29
	Do's and don'ts of working with the media and also to better define.	02:31:38
	For council members, what constitutes a city sponsored event?	02:31:42
	I second thank you.	02:31:48
	All in favor.	02:31:50
	Aye, all opposed.	02:31:52
	May I ask a question?	02:31:55
	Are we going to look at?	02:32:00
	The entire manual? Or are we just going to look at these two items?	02:32:02
	Yeah, well, I would like to amend the motion and.	02:32:08
	Add council member behavior as something having to do to help council members are supposed to stay out of personnel actions.	02:32:13
	I mean, I I.	02:32:22
	If we're going to look at the policy manual, we should look at the whole thing.	02:32:24
	Without getting into discussion, we can agenda as an item for Council to essentially discuss any potential amendments they need	02:32:29
	for the Council Policy and Procedures manual.	02:32:34
	OK.	02:32:40
	Going to be your amended motion.	02:32:42
	I think I can just bring that.	02:32:45
	I just want to finish the vote because it potentially looked like there was two that were about to say no, so.	02:32:49
	I will just do it real cool, real quick. Councilmember Gama, shall we restate the so now the motion has been amended. Is that it?	02:32:56
	We voted on it. We didn't complete voting.	02:33:04
	If there's a second on the amended motion for basically to review and revise.	02:33:09
	The Council policy manual, as appropriate, based on Council direction. Do we have a second on that? A second?	02:33:16
	Council member, comma.	02:33:22
	Councilmember Hernandez Yes.	02:33:25
	Councilmember Martinez.	02:33:27
	No. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen, Lashawn, yes. And Mayor Perez yes. Motion passes for one, with Councilmember Martinez voting no.	02:33:28
	Any other future agenda items?	02:33:39
	No, no. But I'd like to apologize. I forgot to mention the museum committee.	02:33:43
	We did have a working group meeting this past Saturday that got cancelled due to rain.	02:33:48
	So we'll be coming back together on April 19th.	02:33:54
	I believe that's the date for a meeting Friday.	02:33:58
	Friday 19th, I think. Anyway, we'll report back. The museum has been the work from the facilities, folks. They've turned it back	02:34:02
	over.	02:34:07
	And so I haven't been in it, but I've seen some pictures, it looks really good. So we're excited about starting to be able to go	02:34:13
	back in and.	02:34:17
	Do the work to get it prepared, so we'll report again after the meeting.	02:34:21
	All right. So seeing no other future agenda items then I would like to adjourn this meeting had there be nothing else.	02:34:26
	OK, next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 15th, 2024 at 6:30 PM.	02:34:34
	This meeting is now adjourned. The time is 9:02.	02:34:40

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	I.	00:02:00
	I think this clock is off.	00:02:10
	Good evening. Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I am calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30. Please stand	00:02:17
	and join me for the flag salute.	00:02:23
	I pledge allegiance to the flag.	00:02:34
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call?	00:02:53
	Councilmember Hernandez.	00:02:56
	Here, Councilmember Martinez.	00:02:59
	Present Councilmember Gama.	00:03:03
	And Mayor Perez?	00:03:05
	Tonight's inspiration will be given by myself, and I do. I forgot about it tonight so I had to do a quick.	00:03:08
	Research on what could be an inspiration. So my inspiration tonight comes from something I experienced this weekend. My first 10K	00:03:16
	and I was not ready for running a 10K. I'm maybe at 4 miles without my body deciding we're done.	00:03:24
	But I ran my first K 10K and.	00:03:32
	It was quite difficult. It was actually really, really painful and really difficult. So my inspiration tonight is for runners.	00:03:35
	Runners embody the essence of perseverance, pushing boundaries and chasing dreams with every step.	00:03:42
	Their dedication to the journey, the passion they bring to the track or field or wherever they run.	00:03:47
	And the resilience they display in overcoming challenges inspire us all to strive for greatness in our own pursuits.	00:03:52
	And I know I was surrounded by so many people. They were just joyful to be there.	00:03:59
	And it was quite dreadful for me. So I do not understand the runner's high or how people can enjoy running, but I'm going to try	00:04:03
	and keep pushing my body to keep running.	00:04:08
	So that's my inspiration.	00:04:14
	We will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. This process will be	00:04:20
	the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments?	00:04:26
	We do. We'll start with Becky Burning and followed by Paul Copley.	00:04:32
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, council members and staff.	00:04:44
	I'm here tonight representing real copy outdoors.	00:04:48
	We had a fantastic weekend.	00:04:52
	We had.	00:04:55
	Ten month, $10 a month Pledges made.	00:04:58
	We had.	00:05:02
	A couple of $100 pledges made which we really needed.	00:05:04
	And we are having our fundraiser dinner on May 19th.	00:05:11
	I do have tickets with me tonight if anybody's interested in buying them.	00:05:17
	They are $60.00 a person.	00:05:22
	Or $600.00 for a table of 10.	00:05:25
	I also have our sponsorship pamphlets if anybody's interested in looking at one of those.	00:05:29
	Thank you. Thank you.	00:05:37
	Paul Copley.	00:05:41
	Good evening, Mayor Perez, esteemed City Council members and staff. My name is Paul Copley and I'm the founder of the Ventura	00:05:49
	County Voting Reform Project.	00:05:53
	I'm here tonight to talk about what the City of Port Hueneme can do to fend off an expensive and frivolous lawsuit. The City of	00:05:58
	Port Hueneme elects its City Council using a plurality at large system. What this means is that every voter gets one vote for	00:06:03
	every available seat.	00:06:08
	Now while this might seem like a logical and well thought out system, in reality it allows for the majority to completely dominate	00:06:14
	any minority groups.	00:06:18
	As long as they have 51% of the votes, they're able to control 100% of the seats. Because of this, the California Voting Rights	00:06:22
	Act has made it illegal to use plurality at large elections in most circumstances.	00:06:29
	Every city in Ventura County, with the exception of Port Hueneme.	00:06:36
	Has transitioned to district based elections in the last few years as a result of a CVRA threat letter.	00:06:40
	While many of the cities were not actually in violation of the CVRA, it is often more expensive to fight these bogus allegations	00:06:46
	than to simply concede to the attorneys demands.	00:06:51
	The most common solution is to transition to single winter district based elections and this is what has been implemented across	00:06:56
	the county. However, at the end of last year the state Supreme Court specifically outlined another method, proportional ranked	00:07:01
	choice voting.	00:07:06
	For many cities and protected groups, single winter districts are not a good solution.	00:07:11
	PRCV provides a much better solution. It allows cities to continue conducting at large elections, but does so in a way that	00:07:17
	prevents majorities from dominating and satisfies the requirements of the CVR A.	00:07:23
	For the record, I do not believe that poor Guinea is in violation of the CVRA, but unfortunately that doesn't matter. You will get	00:07:30
	your letter just like every other city in Ventura County has.	00:07:35
	Port Hueneme has the opportunity to act in a preventative measure, protect itself against frivolous and costly lawsuits, and	00:07:41
	ensure it is in full compliance with the CVRA, And it virtually guarantees that no legitimate attorney will seek to sue the city.	00:07:49
	If you want to take, If you want to wait until after the threat letter arrives to take actions, your options become severely	00:07:58
	limited.	00:08:02
	I strongly urge the City Council to put a discussion of proportional ranked choice voting on its next agenda and invite either	00:08:06
	myself or another representative from my organization to deliver to the City Council a presentation on PRCV how it works its many	00:08:12
	benefits.	00:08:17
	For the City of Port Hueneme and the options for implementing it in a timely, effective and costly manner, please don't hesitate	00:08:23
	to reach out to me if you have any questions. My contact information is on the statement that you've all been provided. Thank you	00:08:28
	for your time and have a great evening.	00:08:33
	Greg Ross.	00:08:40
	I.	00:08:42
	Hi, good evening.	00:08:49
	Esteemed City Council.	00:08:52
	Thank you for your service. Thank you for listening.	00:08:53
	This is my second time.	00:08:57
	Presenting a little update. We live in the.	00:08:59
	Close to the to the shore surfside area.	00:09:04
	139 Sea Spray Way.	00:09:08
	I've been a Ventura County resident since the.	00:09:11
	1970.	00:09:14
	And Port Way, enemy resident since the early 1990s.	00:09:16
	So without wasting your time, I have a fun story to tell you. I was I was in the Jacuzzi with my daughter, my granddaughter, this,	00:09:22
	this this afternoon.	00:09:27
	He says. Where are you going tonight? I'm going to the City Council meeting. What happens? Well, these are people that care about	00:09:33
	the city of Port Hueneme.	00:09:37
	And they they run the city.	00:09:42
	And she said, well, why? I said, well, because they want to make the city better, she says.	00:09:45
	Well, that's wonderful.	00:09:50
	This is a three-year old, It was great and she's right. So a quick update.	00:09:52
	We're concerned about the amount of pollution.	00:10:01
	That's coming from the port.	00:10:05
	And I'm here to tell you first of all.	00:10:07
	Transparency. We don't have any science yet.	00:10:10
	But we're we're getting closer. We do have a video that I don't want to waste your time with.	00:10:14
	That was taken on March 25th of this year.	00:10:20
	It was a roll on, roll off row, row boat that was had its engines on because of all of the problems at the port, we understand	00:10:25
	that.	00:10:29
	And it was spewing a lot of black.	00:10:35
	Diesel particulate matter.	00:10:38
	It's a concern to us. We still don't have our science yet.	00:10:42
	But we're working on it. We're getting.	00:10:45
	And that that science is important because.	00:10:48
	Coming to you with these updates that aren't really.	00:10:51
	Anything of any actual substance.	00:10:55
	Is. It's seemingly a little bit of a waste of your time, but we want.	00:10:58
	Just to make you aware.	00:11:02
	We do know that.	00:11:04
	The website at the port.	00:11:08
	With the two pollution monitoring systems that they have one at Haycox Elementary.	00:11:10
	And one.	00:11:15
	The port itself.	00:11:17
	Are up and running that they found the spider.	00:11:18
	In the in the pollution monitoring device at the port. So it's now up and running and you can go on their website. I got an e-mail	00:11:22
	from Giles from the port and you can actually see what's going on and it's and it's good news.	00:11:28
	We're we're concerned more about our community, which is a pretty high density.	00:11:36
	Of people so.	00:11:41
	That's our update.	00:11:42
	I will send you the the video, Mr. Vega.	00:11:44
	And we'll go from there.	00:11:48
	Thank you for listening.	00:11:50
	Thank you.	00:11:51
	Rattle, Thomas.	00:11:54
	Mayor, just quickly if I could note, I know we can't debate public comments, but at the last council meeting the council did adopt	00:11:56
	the goals for this year and working and collaborating with the Port and there were Green Port initiatives on there. So we are	00:12:02
	already reaching out to the port to start talking about those and the port was receptive to that.	00:12:08
	That first conversation. So we plan to have some to keep working on that throughout the year.	00:12:14
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council.	00:12:27
	City staff and members of the public.	00:12:30
	I am here to speak about the presentation of the ports going to give. I would just like to say that I'm very glad that they're	00:12:33
	here.	00:12:37
	Yep, Yep, they're still here.	00:12:41
	So I'm very glad that they're here. I'm very excited to see what the port's going to present to the community. I'm glad that it's	00:12:43
	in an area where it can definitely.	00:12:47
	Be recorded and watched constantly so people can go back to the information that the ports going to present and I'm.	00:12:51
	Just want to hope that whatever the port presents in terms of.	00:12:58
	There are growth aspects and their future goals is that it also includes the city of port where I need me significantly and how it	00:13:03
	can not just benefit the port, but the city and the communities within, because all of us working together is how we build a	00:13:08
	better place to live in aggregate.	00:13:13
	Not just for today, but for 10 and 20 and 30 years down the line.	00:13:18
	That's all I have to say. Thank you very much.	00:13:22
	And Jan Burke.	00:13:26
	Good evening, Mayor and council.	00:13:41
	Port represent.	00:13:44
	And neighbors.	00:13:46
	I want to thank the court for coming today to give a presentation. I'm very much looking forward to it.	00:13:48
	I'm here on behalf of the Whining Me HOA coalition.	00:13:54
	To express our concerns about the relationship between the port and the city.	00:13:57
	We're here to ask the port and the city.	00:14:03
	To begin rebuilding and forging a positive and meaningful working relationship that is much more collaborative.	00:14:05
	It is critical that we work together to find the right balance.	00:14:12
	For the proposed strategic plan.	00:14:16
	That will mutually benefit our port, our city, and your neighbors.	00:14:18
	As we rebuild a cohesive partnership, we ask that you consider the following objectives. Encourage collaborative participation	00:14:22
	that includes input from stakeholders.	00:14:26
	Of your host city.	00:14:31
	Listen to the concerns of the community you work in.	00:14:33
	Develop good stewardship and good neighbor policies, not just public relation optics.	00:14:36
	Satisfy the communities need.	00:14:41
	Requirements relating to economic inputs, quality of life, infrastructure and safety.	00:14:43
	Recognize the port and city.	00:14:49
	Interdependence and build meaningful community support and stronger economic relations that will realize a long term success.	00:14:54
	Encourage debate that challenge actions.	00:15:04
	That are deemed not to be in the best interest of the city or the majority.	00:15:07
	And work for the change where change is needed.	00:15:12
	Our port is a specialty niche port. Our city is a.	00:15:16
	City Forbes states that niche providers can provide far more potential.	00:15:20
	And more profit with less.	00:15:26
	At different rates your your operation and leaves no.	00:15:29
	In what you stand for with services delivered with genuine conviction, people.	00:15:33
	Will trust and pay more for that expert knowledge delivering product.	00:15:38
	Products and services.	00:15:42
	As the owner of a niche company, I can attest to the statement from Forbes.	00:15:44
	And we have been successful for 50 years. Bigger is not always better.	00:15:48
	We envision a small, successful and environmentally clean niche port working with a small, beautiful beach.	00:15:53
	Host City.	00:16:01
	A smart and significant competitive advantage providing less impact.	00:16:02
	And greater economic benefits for wine.	00:16:07
	And a sustainable future for all stakeholders.	00:16:09
	We ask that you come together to do a unique and to do unique and great things.	00:16:13
	As only our port and our city can do.	00:16:17
	Thank you.	00:16:21
	That concludes public comment. Thank you. We will now move on to agenda approval for City Council. May I have a motion and a	00:16:24
	second? So moved.	00:16:28
	Thank you, Madam Clerk. All in favor, Aye?	00:16:33
	All opposed.	00:16:37
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	00:16:38
	The Conflict of Interest and Levine Act disclosures Do any members of council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any	00:16:42
	item on the agenda?	00:16:45
	Seeing none, we will move on to presentations. The first presentation is the quarterly employee recognition given by Deputy City	00:16:52
	Manager Charles Perez.	00:16:57
	So tonight is the latest installment of our quarterly recognition of employees for their years of service.	00:17:12
	To my left tonight, we are honoring Aaron.	00:17:20
	Wade, admire our.	00:17:23
	Information Technology Manager.	00:17:24
	For his 20 years of service with the city.	00:17:27
	Aaron was hired on March 25th, 2004.	00:17:30
	And initially held the title of MIS manager.	00:17:34
	Aaron told me he was thrilled when he started with the city.	00:17:39
	And he couldn't wait to share the information.	00:17:42
	About his new job and his new title.	00:17:44
	With all friends and family.	00:17:46
	Aaron told me that during this exciting time.	00:17:48
	It was a valued family member who was also a Port Hueneme resident.	00:17:51
	Who looked at his business card?	00:17:55
	Which again said MIS manager and asked him.	00:17:57
	What is it exactly that you mismanaged?	00:18:01
	Well, fortunately for Aaron, during his career in the city, his title changed.	00:18:05
	So first it changed to Information Systems and Technology Manager and then ultimately to his current title.	00:18:12
	Of Information Technology Manager so simplified.	00:18:19
	When asked what he likes best about working for the city, Aaron says that he enjoys working with such a friendly staff.	00:18:24
	He knows nearly everybody.	00:18:30
	That works for the city by their first name.	00:18:32
	When asked about his favorite moment in his work career.	00:18:35
	Aaron gave me two examples. First, he said.	00:18:38
	It was the day that former City Manager Bob Hunt.	00:18:41
	Hired him and offered him the job.	00:18:44
	And the second one, which is I think telling about who Aaron is as an employee, was the day that the hte.	00:18:46
	Our former ERP system.	00:18:53
	Was implemented.	00:18:55
	And this is cited because it was something outside of Aaron's comfort zone, something he had never done a project like that before	00:18:56
	and he really relished.	00:19:00
	The challenge and the opportunity to take it on and was really.	00:19:04
	Pleased with that accomplishment.	00:19:07
	Lastly, when asked if there was anything else, I.	00:19:11
	Aaron would like to share. He noted that he and his wife share an important connection, the loyalty and dedication to their	00:19:14
	employers.	00:19:18
	His wife is about to celebrate 34 years working with her employer, Lockheed 30.	00:19:22
	She's already celebrated 34. She's almost at 35 with her employer, Lockheed Martin, and that'll happen later this year.	00:19:28
	So please join me in congratulating Erin on 20 years of service with Port Whitney.	00:19:36
	We have our certificate signed by all council members, a Certificate of recognition, the states. In recognition of your hard work	00:19:47
	and dedication of 20 years with the City of Port Hueneme, your devotion to the city is inspiring.	00:19:53
	Your longevity and loyalty are recognized and appreciated.	00:19:59
	Your contribution leaves a footprint on the City of Port Hueneme and is the city councils honor to recognize your service?	00:20:02
	Thank you #2 presentation for tonight is the Autism Acceptance Proclamation.	00:20:22
	And I'll go ahead and read, unless someone else wants to do the honor.	00:20:30
	You want to read, OK.	00:20:33
	Written written by read by Councilmember Gama.	00:20:34
	I look forward to this night because I get to wear my autism awareness tie.	00:20:40
	It's a puzzle.	00:20:45
	And so here we go, Autism Acceptance Month, April 2024, whereas April is designated as Autism Acceptance Month End.	00:20:47
	Whereas autism also known as Autism Spectrum Disorder.	00:20:56
	Represents a broad group of disorders and vary widely from mild to severe, and is characterized by difficulty with social	00:21:00
	interaction, communication, severely severely limited interests, and repetitive behaviors, and whereas the lifelong nature of ASD	00:21:07
	and other developmental disabilities require a variety of types of assistance at different points.	00:21:13
	In an individual's life, and whereas our understanding of autism has grown tremendously since it was first diagnosed, as there is	00:21:20
	no known cure for autism, early diagnosis and the resulting appropriate education and intervention are vital to the.	00:21:27
	Future growth and development of the individual and whereas a variety of public and private organizations and agencies strive to	00:21:35
	provide quality care, support or services to children and adults with ASD to enable them to live as independently as possible and	00:21:42
	to reach their full potential. And whereas hope lies in a broad spectrum of treatments and in an informed public and community	00:21:49
	committed to providing support and service to individuals diagnosed with autism.	00:21:56
	Disorders. And.	00:22:04
	Whereas the Port Hueneme Police Department will wear patches and pins as an outward expression of an inner commitment to connect	00:22:06
	with our community to create acceptance and support those dealing with lifelong neurological disorder and.	00:22:13
	Whereas we joined the Autism Society of Ventura County and proclaiming.	00:22:20
	April 2024 as Autism Acceptance Month NOW, therefore BE, it proclaimed that the City Council of Port Hueneme hereby recognizes and	00:22:25
	proclaims April 2024 as Autism Acceptance Month.	00:22:33
	Thank you.	00:22:43
	Just a few words.	00:22:49
	On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff at Autism Society of Ventura County, it is my honor to accept this proclamation for	00:22:51
	Autism Acceptance Month.	00:22:55
	ASBC has a very active and diverse board of directors.	00:22:59
	One of our board members, Velia Soto, is here with me tonight.	00:23:03
	And the month of April is not only dedicated to awareness, understanding and acceptance, but is also to celebrating the diverse	00:23:07
	minds and talents that individuals on the autism spectrum bring into our lives.	00:23:13
	The autistic mind contributes so much to our world and to our communities. We invite you all to Ought to run at CSU CI on April	00:23:20
	28th, the largest autism celebration on the West Coast, and you can learn about it at Ought to run.org.	00:23:28
	Autism effects one in 36 in the United States, according to recent estimates from CDC. This statistic underscores the urgency of	00:23:37
	our mission. It is not a distant reality, but one that touches many of our own community.	00:23:44
	In Ventura County, as in many places across the nation, people with autism and their families navigate a world that is often under	00:23:52
	prepared to meet their needs.	00:23:57
	From challenges in education and employment to difficulties in accessing health care and community services, their world is full	00:24:02
	of barriers and it is a path we are committed to transforming.	00:24:08
	This month we celebrate the strides we have made towards an inclusive society.	00:24:14
	Autism Society of Ventura County is filled with pride and joy that the City of Port Hueneme recently added the word inclusive into	00:24:19
	its City Council goals without prompting. Other cities have followed. Thank you Port Hueneme for being a leader in building	00:24:24
	inclusive policy.	00:24:29
	Autism Society, Ventura County and its advocacy committee will continue to push for policies that ensure individuals on the	00:24:35
	spectrum have access to quality education, meaningful employment and comprehensive health care.	00:24:42
	We advocate for environments that are inclusive and celebrate differences. And most importantly, we must foster a community that	00:24:49
	listens and values to the voices of autistic individuals themselves.	00:24:56
	As we move forward, let us remember that acceptance is not merely about tolerance. It is about active engagement, understanding,	00:25:03
	and support. It is about recognizing the potential and every person, regardless of how they experience the world. Thank you for	00:25:09
	standing with us today and every day as we work towards a world where every person on the autism spectrum can live fully. We value	00:25:16
	and respect your community members.	00:25:22
	And all who emperor and.	00:25:29
	Who are embraced who they are.	00:25:33
	For more information about our programs and services, please visit us at autismventura.org or you can reach out to me at	00:25:36
	advocacy@autismventura.org. Thank you very much. Thank you.	00:25:41
	No, just kidding. High value.	00:25:57
	Yeah.	00:26:01
	All right, Thank you. Tonight, we will now recess to the City Council, will recess the City Council meeting and call.	00:26:27
	Oh, I'm sorry.	00:26:35
	I apologize, #3 is the state of port.	00:26:38
	Presentation by Kristin Dicus, the CEO and Port Director of the Port of Winemie.	00:26:41
	Good evening, Mayor, City Council members, it's a privilege to be before you this evening. This is our annual address to the City	00:26:51
	Council where we deliver a state of the port, give some updates of what's going on and look for opportunities for collaboration.	00:26:57
	As you know, when we were in Washington, City Council member Mr. Martinez and and Mayor Perez, we went with this, this slogan, if	00:27:04
	you will. There is no commerce without community and there's no community without commerce and it's.	00:27:11
	I think very telling and true and I think we have a lot to do to work together and have exciting times ahead. So with that, I'll	00:27:18
	kick off and just kind of go into what's going on at the port One. I'd like to introduce the President of our board, the first	00:27:24
	Latino to actually serve as President of our Board, Selena Zacharias. She's with us this evening.	00:27:29
	Yes, congratulations. I also have staff with me tonight if there are questions on our finances. Our CFO, Austin is here. Austin	00:27:36
	Yang and Leticia Austin is with us ahead of our government relations program team. So we're here to answer any questions that you	00:27:41
	may have after this presentation. But as a quick reminder, we are governed by five Elected Harbor Commissioners and our goal is	00:27:47
	not to become a rich port.	00:27:52
	We don't collect any money from the taxpayer. The money that comes into the port comes through the private sector and our	00:27:58
	customers.	00:28:01
	And our goal is to enrich our committee, our community by having access to the global stage for trade. So many of our customers	00:28:04
	may be profit driven. We're not. We're here to make enough money to reinvest in the port so we can be a strategic global player in	00:28:11
	international markets, but at the for the purpose of creating economic and social good for our community.	00:28:19
	Here's some wild stats as some of If you're in the backyard of LA and Long Beach, a lot of people don't realize our play in global	00:28:28
	trade. We actually move about 16 plus billion dollars worth of cargo with the number one West Coast port for banana trade and	00:28:34
	actually #2 in the nation number six for containers on the West Coast #5. I love the stat. This is new. I just learned this in the	00:28:40
	new study. We're #5 for total refrigerated cargo in the country moving more Chicago than the port of Long Beach. So that's a fun	00:28:46
	statistic.	00:28:52
	Or #16 in the United States for containers, number six for cars, and the top 10% of the nation's seaport. So this is really your	00:28:58
	port that's going to work, doing all this great business internationally, creating lots of opportunity for our community.	00:29:05
	In terms of how our performance is going, we are moving ahead very strong. We've realized about 80% increases in volume over the	00:29:12
	last decade and revenue is up about 133% since 2012. So we brought in new business.	00:29:19
	Business recover a little bit there in terms of our overall play in the economy here in Ventura County. Trade and transportation	00:30:34
	strongly outport forms the overall economy of Ventura County. So we're very important to the.	00:30:41
	Economic health of our county. And just to kind of talk a little bit about our strategic plan, we're hoping to adopt this by the	00:30:48
	end of this fiscal year. We've been working on this for four years. We've had a lot of public meetings, Charettes open,	00:30:53
	transparent processes.	00:30:57
	And we are looking to adopt it probably in July or June of this year. And these are strategic pillars. So it's economic vitality,	00:31:03
	infrastructure, environment, community and innovation. And I'll touch quickly on each of these and provide an update to the	00:31:08
	council.	00:31:13
	So in terms of economic prosperity are when the port does well, we see dividends come back in terms of jobs, tax revenues to	00:31:18
	communities and economic activity. Overall economic activity is actually up 150% with our growth job creations up 144% and tax	00:31:25
	revenue is up 224%. And City Council Member Hernandez, I know you've asked me to get the Economist in front of me and I will make	00:31:31
	that happen. I know I owe you that. So we'll make it happen.	00:31:38
	This is the economic impacts in terms of revenues coming directly to the city port, Wanimi from the businesses that work at the	00:31:46
	port. This is the type of revenue generate in terms of taxes outside any other revenues that are coming in through the seaport.	00:31:52
	Terms of job creation here locally drilled down to direct jobs, we employ close to 3500 people through the port customers or the	00:31:59
	port itself. And I think it's important to note that about 12% of all the jobs at the port are for residents of this fine city. So	00:32:06
	very important to and these are good paying jobs, high paying jobs, good quality of life paying jobs, so important stats in terms	00:32:12
	of providing for our community.	00:32:19
	To touch on a little bit of, I wanted to speak to partnership a little bit and the revenue sharing agreements and kind of speak to	00:32:27
	some of the revenues that you'll be seeing in the future and what is this all about, so these revenue sharing?	00:32:32
	Four different contracts, 3 revenue sharing agreements and a settlement agreement and over the last.	00:33:13
	How many years is it Austin since it's been since 1983?	00:33:18
	40 years, it's produced about $36 million in revenues for the city and this is the breakout by each individual agreement. I think	00:33:24
	we're forecasting next fiscal year about 2.9 million going.	00:33:29
	We make more than $13 million in revenue, $100,000 goes into the bank for the city and the port to come together and strategically	00:34:10
	decide on good projects to invest in.	00:34:14
	That are of mutual benefit to the city and the port, so we'll be working on the next round and we've done some good work in the	00:34:20
	past.	00:34:23
	I think this is a video from this year's Lego First event where we had 1500 high school students come out and the $5000 from the	00:34:26
	CBF supported that event hosted at the port. So just really good stuff that we can do to uplift our community and create	00:34:32
	opportunities through the CBF fund.	00:34:38
	This just shows you just a snapshot of it is significant funding. We're second in line from property taxes in terms of the money	00:34:46
	that goes into the general fund. So if you look here this what fiscal year 2023 is about 10.3% of your general fund is being	00:34:52
	furnished by the city in that second two year property taxes.	00:34:59
	Infrastructure.	00:35:38
	We have about $105 million that we're putting to work through a variety of grants. We got an $80 million grant from the state.	00:35:40
	We've gotten other money from BCTC, from earmarks, from our Congresswoman Julia Brownlee among others. And we're putting that	00:35:46
	money to work to not only expand our opportunities in terms of creating trade and expansion, but also do it with a nod towards the	00:35:52
	environment. So exciting things we're going for full port wide electrification, harbor deepening so we can bring more sand to	00:35:58
	local your local beach here.	00:36:04
	New stormwater systems and we're getting a we got a 850,000 earmarked from Julia Brownlee for electric sweeper, and as we all know	00:36:11
	from the recent story how important that is.	00:36:15
	Work on a traffic Traffic Safety enhancements at our gate green hydrogen to run our reefer plugs, which is the containers that we	00:36:20
	plug in that are full of blueberries and bananas and avocados among other things. And then also we got $2,000,000 for workforce	00:36:27
	development. So we can really help uplift our local community and have access to the good paying jobs affiliated with the port.	00:36:33
	On the environment front, I'll just say that our blueprint to decarbonization is in front of the CEC. Now we do have robust goals	00:36:41
	set in that decarbonize port operations.	00:36:46
	Put our best foot forward and achieve it.	00:37:23
	The gentleman talked about our air quality website. Indeed, that's been up. It has been a work in progress, but it does report	00:37:27
	out. We collect data about our air every second, every day and we are now posting that live on the Internet and videos and things	00:37:35
	that explain that data. I will point out that there are a lot of other actors in our community and so.	00:37:42
	There.	00:37:52
	The, the air that we're measuring isn't all port air, right? It's all of our air and all the different actors in the community	00:37:54
	that are adding to any pollution that we might see come out in this data. But we're the ones that are capturing it and we're	00:37:59
	sharing it and we're doing our best to mitigate our footprint in terms of the business that we do here in your community.	00:38:05
	Trucks, just quickly touch on trucks, drayage trucks or or trucks that do short haul moves. So that's a container that's coming in	00:38:13
	from a port and then it will go to a distribution facility. That short move is called drayage move. So there has been a new	00:38:20
	regulation that came out from ARB and all of the new purchases for these drayage trucks have to be electric starting January 1st	00:38:28
	of this fiscal year of this of this calendar year, excuse me, January 1st, 2024.	00:38:36
	Also, any existing trucks that are in system must be newer than 2009. They have to be 2010 or newer. This law though has been	00:38:44
	challenged by a trucker association because it wasn't approved by the EPA. So it's been paused, but we suspect that it will be	00:38:52
	approved by the EPA and will be live in relatively short order. But that's good news in terms of some of the impacts of the trucks	00:39:00
	that move through our communities. And I'd like to report out to that. Recently, we conducted a freight study with Ventura County.	00:39:08
	Transportation Commission. And from that study we learned that we're only responsible for .6% of all trucks in the county.	00:39:16
	And 23% of the trucks on port when he me corridor.	00:39:24
	Our freight corridor, which means 77% of the trucks, come from somewhere else.	00:39:28
	Shoreside power. We know we had a hiccup here. This is the all hands on deck.	00:39:35
	A press event that we had to get the money to rebuild our shoreside power system that was damaged by the storm on the 21st. As we	00:39:41
	know our community here was hit pretty hard. The good news is, is that we did because of the value of the damage, $40 million. It	00:39:48
	did open up the coffers for state relief disaster relief funding. So our application has been approved and the door is now open	00:39:54
	for your community for public infrastructure.	00:40:01
	To get fixed and repaired from the damage and access to these funds. So James, not sure we can talk offline, but you're able to	00:40:08
	apply and get your application in for the library among other things that may have been impacted from the storm.	00:40:14
	And we're doing our best, all hands on deck. We want to build this fast and we want to get it up, but it takes time, their lead	00:40:20
	times in parts. So we're going to be honest, it's probably going to be about a year and a half.	00:40:24
	Till it's rebuilt, but we're looking at other systems to reduce emissions and maybe bring those online as early as this summer if	00:40:29
	we can. The bonnet system I think I mentioned is you put like a hat on the stack of a ship and it captures the emission. So we're	00:40:34
	working hard to get new technologies in here why we rebuilt.	00:40:40
	A lot of high school programs, So it's great to say that Fathom works is just killing it. They're doing really, really well.	00:41:19
	All right and community.	00:41:26
	Just to close and wrap up, you know, it's so important that we work together and do exciting things to support a community. We	00:41:30
	really are and want to be part of the fabric of the community, the Port of Wenimi. We do about $300,000 in sponsorships every	00:41:38
	year. We've had about 100 community food drives throughout the county or our customers have contributed £1.8 million of bananas.	00:41:45
	And if you look at the picture there with the kids going like this, they come and dragging their feet, but when they leave they	00:42:25
	sing cranes and boats and all kinds of cool stuff, green bananas. So it's been a very well received program and something to get	00:42:29
	kids.	00:42:33
	To see something right there in their backyard that they might not know about.	00:42:38
	And then finally, there's just a lot of wonderful opportunities for our continued collaboration, whether it's around the annual	00:43:42
	biannual dredging, excuse me, of the beaches.	00:43:46
	Our annual trip to DC economic development strategies, tomorrow I'm going to be meeting with your consultant and get interviewed	00:43:51
	on opportunities there. So look forward to that. Then of course on innovation environment, so we can be the first greenest port in	00:43:56
	the country. We look forward to doing that with you.	00:44:01
	So with that, I think that concludes my presentation.	00:44:06
	Thank you, Kristen. Does Council have any questions while we have her here?	00:44:10
	Thank you, Kristen. The presentation was wonderful. I just wanted to go back to the slide for the the taxes because it went by	00:44:17
	really fast. I just want to, I just want to look at it a little bit more. OK. Let's see if I'm that talented.	00:44:22
	Can you put it back up and I can jump to it?	00:44:29
	But I thought the presentation was.	00:44:32
	I know everyone talks about improving our relationship, but I don't. I don't think they give the staff enough credit.	00:44:36
	You have wonderful staff, including yourself and I think you guys have done a great job.	00:44:43
	Connecting with our community.	00:44:49
	Thank you, City Council member. Here's the tax slide. Was there a specific question? OK, no, no, I just, I just, it was really	00:44:51
	quick and I just wanted to get a chance to see it a little bit. So those are revenues that are created from the businesses that	00:44:55
	do.	00:44:59
	Work with the board. And so BMW has someone that lives in port when naming, pays taxes, owns a home, those sorts of things, that's	00:45:03
	where those it's like a trickle effect.	00:45:07
	The economics, that's actually exactly I was going to clarify because one of the slides, a couple slides later.	00:45:12
	You mentioned that the revenue sharing from the agreement is about $2.9 million a year and so this is this is impact from	00:45:18
	businesses, not the actual revenue sharing.	00:45:23
	I think I got it, yeah. They're different numbers, yeah.	00:45:29
	Customer gamma.	00:45:32
	Yeah. Thank you, Kristen. I really appreciate you being here tonight. I find myself in a very unique position. As you know, I'm	00:45:34
	employed by one of your major tenants and I love it. I live close proximity to the port, therefore I'm affected and I see all look	00:45:40
	good in the.	00:45:45
	Maybe concerning things. And then I'm a City Council person. And so when it comes to communication, you know, I have to be mindful	00:45:51
	of my hat. And believe me, at Yara I go through Jay, you know, sometimes I go around him, but you know, I do want to keep my	00:45:57
	livelihood so but.	00:46:03
	I'm most concerned about safety and the.	00:46:10
	The Port Logistics Robotics Competition. I was heading to my friend's house for dinner.	00:46:15
	Got caught in the traffic jam and.	00:46:24
	Studied UMM.	00:46:28
	Pedestrian safety.	00:46:29
	And there's a lack of sidewalks around the port.	00:46:31
	There's buses, there's kids coming out behind buses and cars. I mean parking at the beach and.	00:46:33
	And I just hope that.	00:46:40
	That we could.	00:46:42
	Communicate and partner and start planning for next year so that we could avoid that gridlock situation. I think there's some	00:46:44
	really great opportunities coming up.	00:46:49
	So communication wise like if as a resident's.	00:46:54
	I see something is there. How do we communicate directly to the?	00:46:59
	I could share one that property across from the port entrance we're going to have to be removing dirt. Perhaps that could be	00:47:44
	converted to a temporary parking lot.	00:47:48
	You know looking at sidewalks and then the other issue that kind of.	00:47:53
	Haunts me every morning at 5:30.	00:47:57
	It's very dark at the entrance of the port and I saw some kids there the other night and couldn't see him and maybe we could.	00:48:01
	Work at lightening that up or getting more lights out there. But how do we as a council Again, I'm in a new position, I work	00:48:09
	there, I live close by and I'm a council member.	00:48:14
	How do we communicate ideas? Because I find that it's difficult to do that.	00:48:20
	So I think you could agendize items that you would like to discuss to bring into those committee meetings. You could definitely do	00:49:04
	that.	00:49:08
	And then at the port city meetings, we would do the same thing. We could agendize our ideas at the port level and then bring them	00:49:12
	in. We can always have joint meetings too. We've done that historically. There's a lot of opportunities. Yeah. And I met with you	00:49:18
	directly a couple times. And so is there a problem with me sending a letter as a resident to.	00:49:24
	The port, it's the United States of America. I'm sure it's fine for you to send a letter as a resident, of course, OK, because I'm	00:49:30
	just trying to. Again, I think we do need more communication and we need to encourage more communication.	00:49:37
	And hopefully we could address.	00:49:45
	Sidewalk safety crosswalks and the things that really where we interact.	00:49:48
	Business and our community interact, you know. And so, yeah, I think you have opportunities to resident of course, to bring your	00:49:52
	concerns directly to us. And then we have the opportunity through our various bodies to have official discussions and formalize	00:49:58
	strategy and come up with good ideas for security and safety, all for it.	00:50:03
	Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Gama, Councilmember Hernandez.	00:50:09
	I don't have any questions, but I just want to thank you for your presentation. I appreciate everything the port does for our	00:50:13
	community. Not only are you an economic driver and not only support an economic driver for for the county has a whole.	00:50:19
	We do benefit from through the community benefit fund and I'm very appreciative of that, but I'm also appreciative of the fact	00:50:26
	that you do things for our community that we can't do as a city.	00:50:32
	And you outline those those actions in your slide on community. So I just want to say thank you for that. Thank you Council	00:50:38
	Member.	00:50:42
	Thank you, leadership.	00:50:46
	Mayor Pro Tem Yeah, no questions. But again, thank you for the presentation. I feel like a lot of information. I think every time	00:50:49
	I hear it, I kind of log something else in my brain. So appreciate it very much and again, thank you for all that you continue to	00:50:55
	do for our community. It's it's important that the community members see you and see us. And so we appreciate all the efforts.	00:51:01
	Thank you, Councilmember.	00:51:07
	Thank you, Kristen. Glad you came today. And I know that you and James have talked about what the city's goals are with the port	00:51:13
	and I'm looking forward to meeting to discuss that further and more ideas from the council as to what their ideas, what that looks	00:51:19
	like. So I hope we can have more meetings. Besides, I know last year we didn't get a chance to have that many meetings.	00:51:26
	So maybe we could put some time down and actually, yeah, together more often.	00:51:33
	Thank you, Mayor. Thank you everyone. Enjoyed my time with you this evening. You know, I do have one last question if that's OK. I	00:51:38
	was wondering if if.	00:51:41
	The, the, the port meetings we're going to be.	00:51:45
	Recorded anytime soon if there was any plans on recording those meetings.	00:51:48
	I have no objection to that. I think that would be the will of the decision makers at the at the meeting itself to decide to do	00:51:54
	that, I think.	00:51:57
	Yeah, oh, but but nothing has been decided yet.	00:52:02
	It hasn't even been brought to my attention officially, but I think our next meeting is the 16th and we certainly could talk about	00:52:05
	it. I don't think we have done it historically, but I I don't see why there would be objection to it. It's public meeting.	00:52:11
	Thank you, Kristen. Yeah. OK. Thank you. All right. Thank you.	00:52:16
	All right, so now we will recess the City Council meeting and call to order the Port Wanimi Housing Authority regular meeting.	00:52:22
	The time is.	00:52:29
	7/20.	00:52:31
	And.	00:52:39
	We might as well, because we're missing one.	00:52:41
	And I'll, I'll just explain, yeah. And so there's going to be a couple things and just to explain to the public, so.	00:52:45
	We are gonna.	00:52:50
	Call our Housing Authority meeting to order. But we're also forming a new entity called that Wine EMI Housing.	00:52:52
	Incorporated. So we'll be calling that to order as well. So it's going to get maybe a little confusing for a minute.	00:52:58
	And we'll take a one minute.	00:53:04
	If you've seen Inception, you should be able to follow along pretty well.	00:53:08
	Inception.	00:53:13
	The movie.	00:53:16
	Oh God, a nightmare.	00:53:19
	Council meeting.	00:53:31
	I told you it was going to go up eventually because it went, it went down for something.	00:53:45
	Not too much, but you know what? You made a great comment on the parking.	00:53:57
	Just wanted to let you know when they have those robotic things.	00:54:07
	It's great, but I live in Marissa, they take.	00:54:12
	All our party and he come with trucks with big old trailers.	00:54:16
	I mean, and we have nowhere to.	00:54:21
	Nowhere.	00:54:24
	We're at the park three blocks away.	00:54:26
	Housing Authority Regular meeting to order.	00:56:12
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call?	00:56:16
	Member, Brown resident.	00:56:21
	Member Gama.	00:56:25
	President Remember Hernandez. Remember Martinez, present Vice Chair McQueen Lejeune, Chair Perez here. And let the record reflect	00:56:26
	that member Blackwell is absent.	00:56:30
	Thank you.	00:56:36
	We will now hear public comments pertaining to items not on the agenda for the Housing Authority agenda. Madam Clerk, are there	00:56:38
	any public comments?	00:56:42
	No public comments.	00:56:47
	And we will now consider items on the Housing Authority consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless a authority	00:56:50
	member has a request to remove an item for discussion.	00:56:54
	May I have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar? I moved to approve the consent calendar.	00:57:00
	We have a second. Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:57:06
	All in favor.	00:57:10
	All opposed.	00:57:13
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	00:57:14
	We now move on to the Authority members reports, comments and requests for future agenda items.	00:57:20
	Are there any Members that have a request for a future agenda item?	00:57:26
	Well, I'm sorry.	00:57:31
	I do. OK, go ahead.	00:57:35
	I just talked to Mr. Custom and Grandma here.	00:57:38
	About the parking when they had the robotic.	00:57:42
	I mean, that's great and everything, but like I live in Mar Vista there and.	00:57:45
	They take up all the project. We don't hardly have any pocket ourselves to begin with.	00:57:52
	And then I don't even move my car. I get somebody to take me somewhere because if I move, I'm not going to get a parking for.	00:57:58
	The whole.	00:58:05
	I think that is a great agenda item, but I don't know that it's appropriate for the Housing Authority.	00:58:08
	And I think the the port mentioned this, but we did tell them that we want to work with them next year to plan.	00:58:15
	In advance, so we'll make sure we keep everybody in the loop on that and keep everybody informed. Thank you.	00:58:25
	Anyone else?	00:58:30
	Future agenda item.	00:58:32
	Seeing none.	00:58:34
	We will adjourn the Housing Authority regular meeting. The Port Wine EMI Housing Authority will adjourn to its next regular	00:58:35
	meeting scheduled for May 6/20/24 at 6:30 PM. The time is now.	00:58:40
	726.	00:58:46
	For you.	00:58:48
	Yeah.	00:58:52
	Sorry about that, I'm wondering about the window project.	00:58:56
	Has it been completed yet?	00:59:00
	They're replacing sliding glass doors, yeah.	00:59:03
	Mar Vista.	00:59:07
	So we have we do have our housing director Gabby on Zoom, so I'll ask.	00:59:08
	Her if she can update us on the window project.	00:59:14
	Hello, good, good evening. I.	00:59:18
	Members of the board.	00:59:21
	Actually, yes, the.	00:59:22
	Window and Sliding door project was completed probably about a year and a half ago.	00:59:25
	OK.	00:59:31
	All right. Anything further?	00:59:34
	A year and a half ago.	00:59:37
	Thank you, Director.	00:59:39
	All right. So now we will adjourn the Housing Authority regular meeting. The time is 7/27.	00:59:42
	And we will call to order the Whining Me Housing Inc meeting.	00:59:48
	The time is 7/27.	00:59:52
	Roll call, please, Madam Clerk.	00:59:56
	Board member Gomo.	00:59:59
	Board Member Hernandez, Board Member Martinez, President, Vice Chairman Queen Lejeune, and Chair Perez here.	01:00:04
	We will now hear public comments pertaining to items not on the Whining Housing Inc agenda. Madam Clerk, are there any public	01:00:12
	comments? No public comments. Thank you.	01:00:16
	We will have a business item to discuss for the Wyoming Housing Inc and that will be the initial meeting of Board of Directors,	01:00:22
	approval of Bylaws, appointment of officers and filing a Statement of Information. Will staff please present the report?	01:00:28
	Yes, thank you, Mayor. And I'm going to introduce.	01:00:37
	Gabby, pursue our housing director to provide the report.	01:00:41
	And just reiterate because I think I might have said it when we went to break that. I know this agenda is a little confusing	01:00:44
	because it's the first meeting of creating the Whining Me Housing Incorporated entity.	01:00:49
	And so we're going to walk through why we're doing that and and the next steps. So with that, I'll introduce Gabby Upisua.	01:00:55
	Thank you, Mr. Vega.	01:01:07
	The item before you today is the approval of the bylaws for the Port Hueneme Incorporated. It isn't going to be a nonprofit.	01:01:10
	Board the mission is to provide low income housing.	01:01:21
	To the city of Fort Wayne.	01:01:25
	Umm, today is your first official meeting. You have the bylaws in front of you which will establish the board and.	01:01:29
	I am available to answer any questions that you may have.	01:01:37
	If it's regarding their mission, the Purpose and Kevin is also available to answer any legal questions that you may have	01:01:41
	concerning the corporation.	01:01:46
	Thank you, Director Basua. Does Council have any questions?	01:01:52
	I do thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Miss Basua for the staff report and staff who worked on this. Congratulations. I think it's	01:01:56
	very exciting that we're establishing this new entity and I I think it'll be good for the city and give the housing Inc some	01:02:05
	flexibility and bringing more affordable housing to the city. I just had some questions about the structure of the.	01:02:14
	Of the new organization and I submitted some in writing earlier and I just wanted to publicly ask them so.	01:02:23
	I understand that there are some city staff members who will be serving.	01:02:34
	Has the treasure as the president. You'll be serving as the president, Miss Masu.	01:02:38
	Miss Lupe Etcetera will be the Treasurer.	01:02:44
	And Miss Georgiana Alvarez will be the secretary. But what will be the role of the city manager, if we have a question, for	01:02:47
	instance?	01:02:50
	Regarding.	01:02:54
	The Housing Inc.	01:02:56
	Do we go through, do we still go through the city manager or do we go through the president? What's the process here?	01:02:59
	It would still go through the city manager based on the the city.	01:03:06
	Council policy and Procedures Manual and the city's municipal code notwithstanding, however, it's important to keep in mind that	01:03:11
	this is a separate and distinct legal organization. And so.	01:03:16
	The the type of work I'm informed this is going to be doing.	01:03:23
	Almost all conversations would exclusively be happening in a public meeting. I don't foresee any real reason to be talking to	01:03:27
	staff behind the scenes, given my understanding of what this nonprofit will eventually be doing.	01:03:33
	It should all be very transparent and and I know that there's anticipation that this will be a busy nonprofit, at least initially,	01:03:40
	but a lot of kind of what's going on behind the scenes with this nonprofit as things get started and complying with HUD and	01:03:45
	potential leveraging with refinance and whatnot.	01:03:51
	Will not be things that will be disclosed individually to individual council members or board members. It will be something that's	01:03:56
	addressed at the board level when appropriate, right. And I wouldn't expect that. I would expect to follow the the process. I just	01:04:02
	it was not clear in the attachments.	01:04:08
	Which were worthy.	01:04:14
	Article One of the organization with the role of this city manager is and there was number mention of an executive Director. So	01:04:17
	that was somewhat confusing given the current structure of the Port Winneme Housing Authority. The executive structure of the	01:04:24
	Housing Authority was matched with respect to the creation of the nonprofit. OK, very good.	01:04:30
	And if I could just add and we we did discuss that and at this point we ultimately decided.	01:04:37
	To just match the existing structure.	01:04:44
	But we did talk about if we do have that desire to revisit that that the board will have the power to amend these bylaws and and	01:04:47
	can make that change. So we will look at it and when we feel it's time to to look at that, we'll make that recommendation very	01:04:52
	good.	01:04:57
	And will we still have a representative of the tenants?	01:05:03
	Like Mar Vista, will that still be part of the?	01:05:08
	Board of Directors.	01:05:12
	For the Housing Authority, yes, that would be correct. Where it's appropriate for a tenant organization or a tenant representative	01:05:15
	to exist form the property owner and the landlord side, I don't believe it's appropriate for the board of directors, no.	01:05:21
	So now you make me want to ask another question. Is the Housing Authority going away?	01:05:28
	No, it is not. The Housing Authority is still going to be engaging with with HUD and processing payments and what not. It's.	01:05:33
	This isn't I think it's. I think it's probably best. My current understanding is is to think of the nonprofit corporation as the	01:05:41
	property owner, as the landlord, instead of essentially going out and finding private residents who are willing to.	01:05:48
	Rent or lease their properties for in return for vouchers.	01:05:56
	And then what will be the meeting schedule? Will it follow council?	01:06:01
	Be attached to council meetings. It's yet to be determined the way the bylaws are.	01:06:05
	Written at the moment is the meeting schedule be approved by resolution of the board once things are kind of finalized and we get	01:06:11
	a clear idea as to what the schedule is going to look like, but I anticipate.	01:06:16
	And I've been informed by Miss Basua that at least initially, the board is going to be fairly busy, so I would anticipate a	01:06:21
	regular meeting schedule.	01:06:24
	Thank you. I have no more questions. Go ahead.	01:06:28
	I'm curious as to what would constitute being fairly busy just doing all the paperwork filings.	01:06:31
	There's no Go ahead, Gabby.	01:06:43
	OK, I I can probably.	01:06:46
	Answer that. So I do anticipate that this board will, we will be bringing presentations to this board in order to acquire land.	01:06:49
	To build we.	01:06:59
	The My vision, at least for this nonprofit, is to acquire land and be a builder for low income housing.	01:07:01
	For our city. So you will be having to make make decisions of whether or not that is something that you would like to see in the	01:07:12
	city.	01:07:15
	You are going to be considered the landlord and the owner.	01:07:20
	Of the.	01:07:25
	And in terms of indemnification and liability insurance?	01:07:28
	Is this we just extend our current coverages over to this new nonprofit?	01:07:34
	With respect to liability insurance?	01:07:41
	Insurance as a whole. Like insurance as a whole, this is a separate entity, so they have to get their own and where are they going	01:07:44
	to get it?	01:07:47
	It's up to the board to decide, and it's up to how this entity is funded in order to finance it.	01:07:51
	And then with the JPIA.	01:07:59
	In the businesses offering.	01:08:02
	These nonprofits coverage off the top of my head. I'd have to look into it, but my my initial, my initial indication or idea is	01:08:05
	that this is a private organization, This is not a local agency. So I'm not sure that CJPIA would offer coverage to this.	01:08:12
	And so then to our city manager, How do we guide them to? Because that seems to me might be.	01:08:20
	First priority.	01:08:27
	Yeah, exactly. I think so.	01:08:29
	Today is adopting the bylaws and implementing those and then I think there's going to be some immediate business which is sort of	01:08:33
	what the reference to having some busy first couple of meetings.	01:08:38
	But we're going to have some immediate business things to take care of and those will be some of those things. So if the city had	01:08:46
	a piece of property that we think would be great for low income housing, could we would we then initiate contact through?	01:08:53
	This nonprofit or are we?	01:09:01
	Wait to be contacted or how does that work? Who starts the process?	01:09:05
	It's possible that the nonprofit would do so. We're we're getting pretty far afield. We've still got.	01:09:12
	We've still got IRS and FTB filings. We still haven't filed a statement of information with the Secretary of State. We're still in	01:09:18
	the incorporation phase. So as of right now, as far as the Secretary of State knows is this corporation exists and tonight it's	01:09:24
	having its initial meeting. Other than that, nothing's been decided. There's there's going to be at least eight months of filings	01:09:29
	and things before any of this gets discussed.	01:09:34
	So it's we're still, it's important to remember that this corporation is still very much in its infancy.	01:09:40
	And then there's the Housing Authority. They're they're packaged under the city's insurance program. Is that correct?	01:09:46
	Yes, and Miss Basua can correct me if if she has the answer better than my. My understanding is the Housing Authority statutes in	01:09:54
	the state of California create a separate department within the city that is the Housing Authority. But the Housing Authority is	01:10:00
	in fact a city department, not a separate entity, and so the nonprofit is.	01:10:07
	The nonprofit is a separate private entity, OK. And just to remind everybody because we did a presentation maybe two or three	01:10:13
	months ago on the concept.	01:10:18
	And there's a.	01:10:24
	It's a hoop we have to jump through to be able to raise funding to either build units or acquire property or what have you to to	01:10:26
	actually develop affordable housing.	01:10:32
	And so just we as the city.	01:10:38
	We couldn't do things like mortgage or property but the nonprofit can can mortgage a property so, so and then just to go back to	01:10:42
	the question of you know is there.	01:10:46
	The possibility that either the city approaches the housing group with like here's properties that maybe would be good potential	01:10:51
	for you and let's have that conversation or with the housing group approach us, I expect both of those things will happen and into	01:10:57
	some level. We've already had some of those initial conversations of some of the things that could be mutually beneficial to the	01:11:03
	city and the housing. Wanami Housing Inc.	01:11:09
	It's I I can give a little bit more information regarding kind of the reason why this is such an attractive proposition is.	01:11:15
	Typically the way that HUD and everybody used to operate was that a 55 year covenant was required on a property that was offered	01:11:24
	for affordable housing purposes.	01:11:28
	And so HUD required a 55 year covenant. They also required numerous documents to be recorded in the chain of title like regulatory	01:11:33
	agreements and whatnot that discussed.	01:11:37
	How the properties had to be leveraged, how they had to be financed, how they had to be in order to ensure that those properties	01:11:41
	would continue to exist and continue to be available for affordable housing purposes for the next 55 years.	01:11:46
	Ultimately, what HUD has discovered over?	01:11:52
	55 years of doing this is that that prevents those properties from being capable of refinance.	01:11:55
	They don't appreciate the same as other properties.	01:12:00
	They don't. It's it's almost impossible to continue to fund those properties and to rehabilitate them after 55 years has elapsed	01:12:02
	because no bank is willing to invest in them.	01:12:07
	So this is HUDS effort of getting around the 55 year covenant which renders title to the property unmarketable.	01:12:13
	This now allows you to leverage increased property values in an effort to.	01:12:20
	Rehabilitate those properties, modernize them. Make the appropriate ADA repairs.	01:12:24
	Do the things that you otherwise couldn't do without very complicated transactions.	01:12:29
	Through various banks with subordination agreements as well as regulatory agreements that took months to negotiate.	01:12:36
	And still resulted in diminished value received from properties that were.	01:12:42
	Essentially burdened by extensive coven.	01:12:47
	And so this allows us to get around that.	01:12:50
	And realize the value of these properties with the end goal of improving those properties for residents.	01:12:52
	All right. Thank you, Kevin, for that explanation.	01:13:02
	Are there any public comments on this item?	01:13:06
	No public comments, thank you. So the recommendation is to review and adopt the draft bylaws, appoint Miss Gabriela Basua as the	01:13:09
	president, appoint Miss Lupe Aceto as the treasurer and appoint Miss Georgiana Alvarez as the secretary of said corporation.	01:13:15
	It is further recommended that the proposed Board of Directors authorize Kevin Spaulding to file a statement of information for	01:13:22
	the corporation with the Secretary of State.	01:13:27
	I'd like to make a motion to approve the recommendation. I have a second.	01:13:33
	Madam Clerk.	01:13:41
	All in favor? Aye. All opposed.	01:13:43
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	01:13:47
	Thank you. So we will now.	01:13:49
	Adjourn the Whining Me Housing Inc meeting and we will reconvene the City Council meeting. The time is now 741.	01:13:52
	And moving on to the consent calendar, we will now consider items on the consent wait, do we need to do roll call again for those?	01:14:08
	No.	01:14:12
	No, because we called back to order.	01:14:16
	So we will now consider items on the consent calendar, which will now be enacted in one motion unless a council member has a	01:14:21
	request to remove an item for discussion. May I have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar?	01:14:26
	Move to approve.	01:14:34
	2nd Thank you.	01:14:36
	Madam Clerk.	01:14:39
	All in favor, aye.	01:14:41
	All opposed.	01:14:42
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	01:14:44
	We have no public hearings and we're moving on to business items. The first business item is the Ventura County Organized Retail	01:14:47
	Theft Task Force. Will staff please present the report.	01:14:52
	Yeah, and I'm going to actually introduce our police Chief Federico and our partner from the Sheriff to give an overview.	01:14:58
	On the.	01:15:06
	Project on the proposal in the project.	01:15:08
	Good evening, everyone. Tonight I'm joined by Captain Ron Chips with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and Assistant Sheriff	01:15:14
	Vic Fazio.	01:15:18
	Staffs recommended the City Council authorize us to execute an.	01:15:25
	UH Mou for an Organized Retail Theft Task Force with the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.	01:15:29
	A little background on this in December of 2023.	01:15:38
	Ventura County was named the safest large county in all of California.	01:15:41
	Ventura County law enforcement officials attributed the this designation to the collaborative working relationship amongst all	01:15:46
	your law enforcement agencies.	01:15:51
	The partnership has provided another opportunity in the form of the Ventura County Organized Retail Theft Task Force.	01:15:57
	Retail theft has become a crisis in many areas across the state and country.	01:16:05
	And was estimated to cost over 110 billion across the country last year.	01:16:09
	Ventura County law enforcement agencies are proactively.	01:16:15
	Proposing development to join a task force to address this issue.	01:16:18
	So I'm going to.	01:16:23
	Captain Chips to talk about the task force.	01:16:24
	Good evening, Madam Mayor, council members, Mr. Vega.	01:16:28
	My name is Ron Ships. I'm a captain with the Venture County Sheriff's Office. Thank you for the opportunity to talk with you and	01:16:31
	give you just a brief overview of the Venture County Organized Retail Theft Task Force.	01:16:36
	On September of last year, the Sheriff's Office applied for and was was awarded a $15.6 million grant.	01:16:41
	Focusing specifically on organized retail theft, auto theft, auto part theft, so like catalytic converters.	01:16:47
	And also cargo theft.	01:16:54
	This with that grant money, we created a multi agency task force that was focused on addressing the nearly $10 million estimated	01:16:58
	loss in Ventura County each year.	01:17:03
	Due to organized retail theft related crimes.	01:17:09
	Our grant covers a 44 month period which ends in the end of December in 2026.	01:17:13
	And provides funding for salary, benefits for a total of 8 sworn positions within the task force and some non sworn professional	01:17:19
	staff.	01:17:23
	The sworn staff includes 2 sergeants. One is a Sergeant with the Venture County Sheriff's Office who's currently in place.	01:17:28
	And then one should your Council approve the OR authorize the, the execution of this memorandum of agreement.	01:17:34
	Would be from the Port Winding Police Department.	01:17:42
	Starting hopefully around April 15th.	01:17:44
	The task force has 8 sworn investigators who operate underneath the two sergeants, four of which will come from the Sheriff's	01:17:48
	Office and are actually currently in place.	01:17:52
	And then two from other agencies within the county.	01:17:57
	Currently we have an agreement with the Simi Valley Police Department to fill one of those outside agency spots with a detective	01:18:01
	starting April 15th.	01:18:05
	This grant, amongst other things, also provides funding for a vehicle, so the the.	01:18:10
	Sergeant will be driving a.	01:18:16
	Funded vehicle and also other related equipment.	01:18:18
	That may be necessary for any member of the task force.	01:18:22
	Obviously, our overall goal is to reduce the instances of ORT organized retail theft and related crimes by 50% over the three-year	01:18:26
	grant period.	01:18:30
	We're going to accomplish this by signing each reported case of organized retail theft and related crimes.	01:18:37
	To one of the task force investigators.	01:18:43
	Utilizing intelligence LED policing principles to identify, apprehend thieves and and hold them accountable for the crimes that	01:18:45
	they commit in our county.	01:18:49
	The count, the task force is currently up and running with the staff that we have from the Sheriff's Office.	01:18:53
	We've been operating for about a week. We have, like I said, one Sergeant from the Sheriff's Office and four senior deputy	01:18:58
	investigators.	01:19:01
	We've already had one success story. As of last Friday. We arrested two.	01:19:05
	Out of three suspects who were involved in a multi $1000 theft from sunglass retailers in the cities of Cameroon, Thousand Oaks.	01:19:10
	Additionally, I.	01:19:19
	As part of that case, we kind of a byproduct was we were able to identify an online marketplace where some of these stolen items	01:19:21
	are being sold.	01:19:24
	Throughout the state so.	01:19:27
	That's going to help us hopefully continue to curtail the problem.	01:19:29
	And identify other suspects and recover stolen property.	01:19:33
	So that's a brief overview of the program. I'll turn it back over to the Chief. So I appreciate the opportunity again to describe	01:19:38
	the program to you and I'll be happy to answer any questions at the end of the presentation.	01:19:42
	So folks, much much respect from Sheriff Freihoff and.	01:19:48
	Assistant Sheriff Fazio for inviting.	01:19:54
	Your report or any Police Department to be a team leader on this task force.	01:19:57
	We're fortunate enough to have Sergeant Baltazar Tapia amongst our ranks who has prior Task force experience.	01:20:01
	And as a Sergeant.	01:20:07
	Sergeant Tapia can can basically get started right away because he has prior task force experience and he has a skill set.	01:20:09
	To help lead and mentor in this team again.	01:20:18
	Your smallest PD in the county is being asked by the sheriff to come lead it, and that's a lot of respect from them. Appreciate	01:20:21
	it. The timing is very right for this position. As you all remember, Officer Gutierrez was sworn in not too long ago.	01:20:28
	His position as he's getting off field training now can replace this position with Tapia.	01:20:35
	Give you a little.	01:20:41
	Bit more about career development and in our personnel, we can put Senior Officer Henry Montelongo into a supervisor role to	01:20:43
	replace Tapia Shift.	01:20:48
	Because folks, I have a few years to get our less tenured people up and running to take this department over for the number of.	01:20:53
	Retirements that are approaching.	01:21:01
	In the near future, and it's a big part of what I'm doing, is succession planning and career development.	01:21:03
	And as quickly and effectively as we can and this is a perfect opportunity and timing for that.	01:21:09
	This is a fully funded position, equipment to vehicle.	01:21:16
	Fully funded salary benefits.	01:21:20
	This allows us.	01:21:23
	Two, there'll be two parts to this. The first part's going to be a salary savings at first, but the second part is going to be we	01:21:25
	will have an opportunity like no other.	01:21:29
	To over hire for that.	01:21:34
	So we don't have any gaps.	01:21:37
	In our future succession planning.	01:21:39
	As people retire, we will already have trained up personnel.	01:21:41
	There's retirements potentially in the next one to three years and this is a three-year funded position.	01:21:44
	So we can take this opportunity that is unique.	01:21:50
	To try to stop the gap on vacancies and have trained people ready to take over.	01:21:53
	There's a.	01:22:03
	This is one more assignment in your department that we do not currently have.	01:22:04
	This allows me to help recruit lateral officers to our department if I can create more assignments.	01:22:09
	We have a limited number.	01:22:16
	Of assignments in a small department, but this is another.	01:22:19
	Assignment somebody could rotate into during their career.	01:22:22
	I need a variety of assignments and this is 1.	01:22:27
	Working the.	01:22:31
	Organized retail theft operations in our city will bring extra resources.	01:22:33
	Into our city that we don't have.	01:22:37
	It'll also bring added security to our port, as some of the operations we're going to do isn't going to involve.	01:22:39
	Cargo theft.	01:22:46
	And talking to my federal partners, my port partners on Kristen's.	01:22:47
	There's there's a lot we need to start looking into into our port and this team is going to allow us to do that.	01:22:55
	Port security is something that's been on my priority list since I came back as chief.	01:23:04
	And this is a big step to get us back into the footprint of the port.	01:23:09
	We do not have a surveillance team, folks. We have to assemble them quickly. Borrow from others when we need one.	01:23:13
	There are times when we need them.	01:23:21
	Within hours.	01:23:25
	This is going to be a one phone call activation of a surveillance team by calling Sergeant Tapia if we need them.	01:23:26
	Another benefit that comes from this.	01:23:37
	Task force assignment is a separate overtime budget that comes back to us in the city.	01:23:41
	And I can utilize that.	01:23:48
	To prevent even some of our shoplifting.	01:23:51
	Retail theft in the North End I can actually fund.	01:23:54
	Some bike patrol details.	01:23:57
	In our shopping centers. With that I can fund some details at the port. With that I can fund catalytic converter thief.	01:23:59
	Details with that overtime budget that also comes.	01:24:07
	In our 400 plus Part 1 crimes that are reported to you last year at a prior meeting, 85% of those were property crimes.	01:24:13
	Of the 85%, about a third were retail related.	01:24:21
	Of the remaining 10%.	01:24:27
	You had catalytic converter thefts and other vehicle park thefts, something that this task force will look into.	01:24:28
	Out of another 10% of that.	01:24:36
	Those thefts were stolen vehicles. Again, something else the Organized Retail Theft Team is going to look at.	01:24:38
	And investigate.	01:24:45
	And then something else that we need as a small PD. All small PDS do.	01:24:49
	There are crimes occurring.	01:24:54
	In all of our cities that are from.	01:24:56
	Suspects outside the area.	01:25:00
	And that is something you need a task force for. He just said they worked a case.	01:25:02
	You start to, you put the.	01:25:07
	Start to put the lines together. Where property's going, you realize it's outside. A good example is we just had a distraction	01:25:09
	theft case on our beach this weekend.	01:25:13
	And some the victims were elderly and some people drove up in a car.	01:25:18
	And started talking about their jewelry and showing them jewelry they had and by the time.	01:25:23
	This elderly couple realized what's going on. These people are swapping off their jewelry and they're driving away. Well, we did a	01:25:28
	lot of research and to find out that suspect vehicle because we have some technology in the city.	01:25:32
	And unfortunately, our suspects are out of Orange County.	01:25:38
	Imagine this. You have a suspect hitting our beach here in Orange County.	01:25:42
	The same day they could hit Ventura. The same day they could stop off the 101 and hit somebody at a mall in Thousand Oaks. And	01:25:47
	they're going to keep going.	01:25:50
	That's why you have a task force, because once 1 triggers and we get the task force going and you make a phone call.	01:25:54
	They'll they'll have team members on the other side of the county.	01:25:59
	That may already be watching for.	01:26:02
	And a task force already set up to start looking at cameras and other stuff.	01:26:05
	And if this goes to Orange County, this is a task force. That's not a tide to here.	01:26:09
	They can go down to Orange County and they can do a surveillance down there on our suspects from up here.	01:26:13
	Real life story just happens this weekend. These are things that are possible with the task force.	01:26:18
	So with that.	01:26:24
	I can open it up for questions.	01:26:26
	Thank you. Does Council have any questions?	01:26:28
	Councilmember.	01:26:31
	So I think I.	01:26:37
	We talk about hiring officers. I'm all for that. I think this is a great opportunity for the city, so I really appreciate.	01:26:39
	The city getting an opportunity to participate.	01:26:47
	But I keep, I keep, I'm under the, always under the impression that we're right sized.	01:26:51
	Right the right size, we have what we need.	01:26:56
	And so when we are sending someone.	01:27:00
	To do other.	01:27:03
	What is not being done in the?	01:27:05
	Or how soon will you be hiring someone to do the work of the person who's going to be out doing something else?	01:27:08
	So it's an immediate replacement for all of our staffing levels. I have a couple of other priority positions I'll be creating down	01:27:16
	the road.	01:27:20
	But the timing's not right for those because they're being handled collaterally.	01:27:24
	So the timing on this?	01:27:28
	Movement of this position is good, and there's one for one right now with Gutierrez filling it.	01:27:30
	And I have several lateral applicants that are being interviewed next week that we can hire on in the department.	01:27:35
	To fill our last two vacancies, which will give us a couple of.	01:27:43
	Overlapping spots on patrol.	01:27:48
	So as people are being.	01:27:50
	Position something is vacant.	01:27:54
	However, however, so right now with your existing.	01:27:56
	With your existing staff.	01:28:02
	We are efficient and effective we are.	01:28:04
	There's a couple more spots I want to create patrol detectives and the the collaterals we have.	01:28:07
	So those are good.	01:28:12
	What what I wanted for this to happen.	01:28:14
	Was that one more body which we just got in Officer Gutierrez?	01:28:17
	So he's gonna go in to fill that.	01:28:22
	That 22nd.	01:28:25
	For Tapia and as Tapia leaves with our laterals that we have coming in, we'll have the.	01:28:26
	Opportunity to fill those last two positions and potentially.	01:28:33
	Higher for Tapia's position as well, which will give us one more.	01:28:37
	Over the.	01:28:42
	24 to 25 officers, but it's a budget neutral position because we're getting compensated by the county task force. Great. So I'll	01:28:44
	ask one more question and I'll be done, I think.	01:28:49
	So everything is still going to be done.	01:28:55
	And we're not over tasked taxing any of our officers to cover.	01:29:00
	To until we until you hire someone else so everything's covered everything. The only person who gets over task is your chief when	01:29:05
	he decides to take a bike out on Saturday. OK, and go hang out with real guppies on the pier. OK, thank you. If I could just maybe	01:29:11
	add to that too. Just quickly so.	01:29:17
	We had three vacancies in our Police Department. We just filled one officer, Gutierrez, so we're down to two vacancies.	01:29:24
	And I think when we talk about being right sized, I think we do have the right size department. But we had operated with a lot of	01:29:32
	vacancies for a long time and that's not unique. That's the problem going county wide. I think the Sheriff's Department is	01:29:38
	struggling to fill positions right now. Well, all police departments are struggling to fill positions right now.	01:29:44
	We've all heard about Santa Paula and their situation, for example.	01:29:50
	So we're actually pretty fortunate that we're actually kind of getting back to fully staffed. Well, this is going ragging rights,	01:29:54
	yeah, yeah. And so that's a rare problem to have right now. So we've we've actually built back up and so we're, I think that was	01:30:00
	what Chief Federico has explained when he said by filling that position, we actually kind of reached a level we hadn't been at for	01:30:05
	a while because we had the vacancies.	01:30:11
	And we're actually working on recruiting another lateral officer at this time.	01:30:17
	And and where we'd be.	01:30:21
	Even only have one vacancy at that point, so.	01:30:24
	So that's what kind of freed up the ability to do this and and then this down the line.	01:30:28
	The great thing about this that even I didn't expect was.	01:30:35
	This is a three-year MOU.	01:30:39
	And so that three-year commitment does open up possibilities when we look at the budget to say, well if we know that that this is	01:30:41
	paid for by this grant then.	01:30:45
	What can we do with that, What we can actually get more services for our community so?	01:30:50
	So that'll be talked about separately with the budget. So thank you, Councilmember Hernandez. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you,	01:30:55
	Chief, your presentation, Captain. And welcome, Assistant Sheriff Ozzie. Oh, good to see you.	01:31:00
	I want to preface my questions with a.	01:31:07
	With the fact that I am very supportive.	01:31:09
	Of regional planning regional.	01:31:12
	Coordination with our local law enforcement agencies. I think it's great.	01:31:15
	And the need for this task force I think is, is certainly there based on the trends that we're seeing out there.	01:31:20
	In criminal activity and the organized theft.	01:31:27
	And I'm glad that you mentioned.	01:31:31
	The cargo security on the port because.	01:31:33
	It was mentioned in the report, but I didn't know that was it was going to be referencing the port of Winemay, which is I think	01:31:37
	we've needed to do that for a long time and I'm sure that they welcome the assistance.	01:31:43
	I do have some similar questions though regarding.	01:31:50
	Losing Sergeant Tapia, who was just recently promoted to Sergeant.	01:31:54
	He has a lot of great experience, good investigative experience, one of our top cops.	01:31:58
	And he's going to.	01:32:05
	You know rightly go to a stellar agency now and and work on this task force, but will Gutierrez be able to match his experience?	01:32:07
	How do you, how do you figure that Gutierrez isn't matching his experience? Henry bout Delongo is taking his position and then	01:32:16
	Gutierrez just filling basically the officer spot to remove Henry out of there. So I feel like we're playing chess here. It would	01:32:23
	be. I would love to see a diagram so that you could show us. I think that would be better. I would better be able to understand if	01:32:29
	I may ask a, are we getting into personnel discussions here? Yeah, I think.	01:32:36
	I think that the big picture answer, without getting into personnel issues, is that.	01:32:44
	We've recently filled a position that gives us this flexibility and then I think I would encourage everybody not to talk about	01:32:48
	qualifications of individual officers, but the chief is.	01:32:53
	Managing those positions that we have and.	01:32:58
	I know is looking at this as an opportunity to actually expand our our resources and our qualifications.	01:33:01
	And so I think that's our response, but for one response, you said it.	01:33:10
	A successful succession plan in any organization is chess, and it's something I've been planning since day. One night I got her.	01:33:15
	So I didn't, I didn't mean to delve into personnel issues, but I just wanted to express, you know, how we feel about Sergeant	01:33:23
	Tapia and his experience and.	01:33:28
	And it does, You know, it is a concern. We don't want to lose that level of experience and not be able to replace it. If I can, go	01:33:33
	on, please.	01:33:37
	So it's not we.	01:33:42
	OK. Council Member Hernandez, can you please finish? Yes, if I'd like. OK, my my next question is in 2026, what happens with the	01:33:45
	program? Do we return the vehicle? Does the position come back then to the to the?	01:33:52
	To our agency.	01:33:59
	I fully expect that given the statewide issue that we're seeing with organized retail theft.	01:34:01
	Crimes. I expect there will be another organized retail tap.	01:34:09
	Grant program.	01:34:14
	But unfortunately I can't say standing here today that that that's a that's a for sure thing.	01:34:16
	But I would say we have a very good shot especially with the program that we're that we're creating with.	01:34:23
	The the Multi Agency.	01:34:28
	You know, coordinated task force.	01:34:31
	We're definitely going to be on the on the forefront and and have the the eye of the state of the governor in in future grant	01:34:34
	programs.	01:34:38
	OK, very good. Well, thank you. I think that concludes my questions. Thanks again for coming out tonight. Appreciate it very much.	01:34:43
	Any other questions from council?	01:34:47
	All right. Could I just maybe add one more comment because I think one thing that the Chief hit on that I really want to drive	01:34:52
	home is.	01:34:56
	Is especially for smaller agencies when you know retirements and things like that are coming.	01:35:00
	And I've been through this myself, where you don't have a position to start training, then to bring in the next person and train	01:35:06
	them up to be prepared to take their place and to get the experience and the knowledge from them.	01:35:13
	And what I've seen and what I've lived through is that.	01:35:20
	3 Two or three years later, you look back and go. I wish we had figured out a way to bring somebody in to learn from this person	01:35:24
	before they left.	01:35:27
	And I think for us that was a legitimate concern we have looking at our officers and anticipating probably some retirements in a	01:35:31
	couple years.	01:35:35
	That we don't have the.	01:35:41
	Budget to start.	01:35:43
	Kind of giving people those experiences to be ready to replace or to step into those shoes.	01:35:45
	So that is I think an important piece of this as well. And so this is an opportunity for us to do that.	01:35:50
	And I think lastly just and I understand the concern about like are we losing service to our community I think.	01:35:58
	That I can speak for the chief and he correct me if I'm wrong, but we believe this is a gain of more resources for the community	01:36:06
	and I don't think we would we would even be proposing it if that wasn't the case so.	01:36:11
	Thank you. I'll end with thanks you Chief and thank you Captain for the presentation and I have full confidence in the Chief and	01:36:18
	his ability to determine.	01:36:21
	Who goes where? Who's capable? Who's ready? And I have no doubt that.	01:36:25
	Senior Officer Montelongo will fill the shoes for Tapia when he leaves and I think this is a great opportunity for Sergeant Tapia,	01:36:31
	so congratulations to him.	01:36:34
	So given that, do we have any public comments on this item?	01:36:40
	No public comments. Thank you. So the recommendation is to authorize staff to execute the attached Memorandum of Understanding	01:36:45
	with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office to join the Ventura County Organized Retail Theft Task Force. And it takes steps needed	01:36:50
	to implement the MOU. May I have a motion and a second, please?	01:36:55
	Motion to approve staff's recommendation second. Thank you.	01:37:01
	No further discussion.	01:37:06
	All in favor.	01:37:08
	Aye, all opposed.	01:37:10
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:37:12
	Next item, Business item Tonight is the planning and management of the 2024 Whining Me Beach Festival. Will staff please present	01:37:17
	the report.	01:37:20
	Yes, thank you and Deputy City Manager Charles Perez will be presenting this. He had gone through the Citizen Advisory Commission	01:37:26
	and and and come back with recommendations from them and presented those to council.	01:37:33
	A couple months back. And so this is the next step in that process. So he'll walk us through.	01:37:41
	The process to date and what we're recommending at this time.	01:37:47
	Thank you, city Manager. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, members of the public, city staff.	01:37:53
	Item 12 on your agenda does pertain to the planning and management of.	01:37:59
	This year's Wenimi Beach Festival and seeks council's approval of four separate recommendations.	01:38:04
	By way of quick background on September 5th of last year.	01:38:12
	The council approved a list of topics that were appropriate for.	01:38:16
	Citizen Advisory Commission to review.	01:38:20
	The list included a review of city sponsored large scale events.	01:38:23
	Consistent with that direction at their October 9th and November 13th meetings.	01:38:27
	The CAC reviewed a summary of the 2023 festival.	01:38:32
	And offered recommendations pertaining to.	01:38:37
	To the conduct of the 2024 event.	01:38:39
	On December 18th, this information along with a summary.	01:38:43
	Of the Citizen Advisory Commission's recommendation was presented to the.	01:38:46
	Council provided specific feedback to be used in the planning of the 2024 event.	01:38:51
	And authorized staff to analyze in-house management options.	01:38:56
	And issue a request for proposals as a contingency plan.	01:39:00
	Quick reminder, the specific direction that council provided in terms of feedback and planning concept.	01:39:07
	Was that?	01:39:13
	Community and nonprofit organizations should be a key focus.	01:39:15
	The event itself should be assured to have a community focus.	01:39:20
	We should look to increase the usage of Winemie Beach.	01:39:25
	Ensure youth involvement and sports activities are part of the event.	01:39:30
	At that time there was a discussion about reducing the event to a one day event and ensuring that we avoid conflicts with other	01:39:34
	events in the county.	01:39:38
	Ensure that there was a presence of Navy, Navy, Chumash and Community group participation.	01:39:43
	Ensure that resources serving our community were present and part of the event.	01:39:50
	Focus on the event being financially self-sustaining.	01:39:55
	Increase the regional draw and to maximize attendance of the event.	01:39:59
	And ensure that the cannabis presence is retained in the event.	01:40:05
	Pursuant to the direction given at that meeting.	01:40:13
	The city explored the possibility of using staff resources to organize and oversee the festival, while also reviewing proposals	01:40:16
	received in response to the RFP.	01:40:20
	Because the city is fortunate to have staff members that possess a deep familiarity with the whining community and have expertise.	01:40:25
	In running events, we are recommending that the Council cancel the RFP.	01:40:33
	And authorize the use of a staff committee to plan and manage this year's event.	01:40:38
	The Police Explorer program, which offers valuable training and education to young members of the community in the field of law	01:40:43
	enforcement.	01:40:46
	Would be part of the program.	01:40:49
	The festival provides an opportunity for the explorers to participate in crowd control.	01:40:51
	Large event planning and to assist the city and other valuable.	01:40:56
	Tasks.	01:41:00
	During staff's preliminary investigation, it became evident that reducing the event to a one day event would not reduce	01:41:03
	significantly, would not reduce expenses.	01:41:08
	But would likely have a substantive impact on revenues generated both in the form of sponsorships and on site.	01:41:13
	Revenue generation.	01:41:19
	As such, staff is recommending to continue hosting A2 day festival.	01:41:22
	This year, the proposed dates would be September 7th and September 8th.	01:41:26
	Finally, staff is recommending A modification to the footprint of the festival.	01:41:31
	That would incorporate the use of beach activities.	01:41:36
	And reduce the traffic impacts along Surfside Drive.	01:41:40
	So there was a preliminary budget attached to the staff report, most importantly as it pertains to the city's contribution.	01:41:49
	Last year, the city was asked to provide an event sponsorship of $25,000.	01:41:57
	And at the conclusion of the event, the city was responsible for almost $46,000 of a deficit. So the.	01:42:03
	Total contribution of those two items was approximately $71,000.	01:42:10
	This year, the preliminary budget proposes A sponsorship from the city of $35,000.	01:42:15
	And a $25,000 donation to the Explorers for their participation and assistance with the event.	01:42:20
	So that's $60,000, representing an approximate $11,000 year over year decrease in the city's contribution to this event.	01:42:27
	So in summary, the recommendation from staff includes 4 items.	01:42:38
	To cancel the RFP and not award a contract to a vendor.	01:42:44
	To approve the use of an employee committee to plan and manage the festival.	01:42:48
	Authorize a $25,000 donation to the Explorer program.	01:42:53
	And authorized the city manager to consider and accept in kind donations.	01:42:57
	In lieu of fees for local nonprofits.	01:43:01
	The last recommendation I didn't explain, so I'll just touch on that.	01:43:04
	As noted earlier in the Planning concepts, we want to encourage and facilitate nonprofit organizations involvement in the festival	01:43:08
	and we thought that in addition to having booths, we could use some of our local nonprofits to participate provide activities.	01:43:15
	In in exchange for that, we would waive.	01:43:24
	The fees that would normally be associated with being a vendor at.	01:43:27
	The event.	01:43:31
	So that's the reason to authorize the city manager to have that discretion.	01:43:32
	That concludes the presentation. City Manager and I are available for any questions.	01:43:36
	Thank you, Mr. Perez. Do Council have any questions for staff?	01:43:41
	Mr. Councilmember Gama.	01:43:45
	I was.	01:43:49
	I thought I was told or I heard or that we're gonna scrap the cannabis.	01:43:50
	Part of it as being non.	01:43:58
	Whatever. So as the council shortly knows, in the years past there has been a cannabis Cove that has been an element of the	01:44:01
	festival.	01:44:06
	This year's conceptual plan at this time does not envision continuing the cannabis Cove.	01:44:11
	But the comment was made when we went to council that we should retain a cannabis presence, so the thought is that we would.	01:44:16
	Where did that come from? Because I don't recall that. I don't, I don't think.	01:44:23
	I don't think having cannabis and a youth centered activity makes a lot of sense.	01:44:28
	We're happy to take whatever direction of the Council. Previously it was discussed that it is an integral part of our community	01:44:34
	and it should be retained in some fashion.	01:44:38
	At this time it was envisioned that the cannabis vendors would be able to be present and have booths there, but we would not have	01:44:43
	a cannabis.	01:44:47
	Cove where there would be any product discussions or any sale of any goods.	01:44:52
	If the council wishes to provide different direction on that matter, we're happy to receive that this evening. So this is this is	01:44:57
	vastly different than before. Then you're saying that can become an advertise their business, but not.	01:45:02
	So there would be no cannabis code. There would be no sale of problem. There wouldn't be an exclusive Cannabis Cove area that	01:45:08
	there was before, it would just be there. They can sponsor like any other sponsor and have their name on a banner or they can have	01:45:14
	a booth like any other booth. So it would be a different, it would be.	01:45:19
	It would still be incorporated, but it would be, it would be much lower key. Yeah, lower key than in the past, that idea. Thank	01:45:26
	you.	01:45:30
	Councilmember Martinez, do you have any questions?	01:45:35
	No. I see that there's a request for more sports, but it isn't.	01:45:38
	Set exactly what sports.	01:45:44
	We're gonna be incorporated.	01:45:46
	Those types of details would be worked on with the committee.	01:45:49
	Should the Council give us authority to move in this direction?	01:45:53
	OK, I would recommend.	01:45:55
	Contacting any of the volleyball teams in our local high schools, especially since beach volleyball is going on right now.	01:45:57
	I do understand.	01:46:04
	They wanted to do a tournament. We would need at least one more volleyball court out there.	01:46:06
	I've been pushing for a volleyball court and at least one more for a while, but.	01:46:11
	I think that would be nice, having like a volleyball tournament.	01:46:14
	Yeah, the preliminary discussions, we have been focused on school teams, both volleyball and potentially soccer. Again, details	01:46:17
	should be determined, but those are things that we anticipate making contacts. Should the council be supportive of this approach?	01:46:21
	Of course.	01:46:25
	Councilmember Hernandez.	01:46:30
	Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Bratz, for.	01:46:33
	Your report. I did submit some questions, some of which have been answered so far, but.	01:46:37
	A lot of them have to do well. My primary question has to do with the approach in.	01:46:43
	Hiring and kind using in kind staff.	01:46:48
	To conduct, to plan for.	01:46:50
	Organize and implement the festival.	01:46:54
	For a while now, we've been hearing that we shouldn't be asking staff to take on additional projects. That many staff are wrapped	01:46:57
	up.	01:47:01
	Existing day-to-day duties, the Bubbling Springs project, now we have.	01:47:06
	The public works.	01:47:10
	Pipeline project that's going on.	01:47:13
	And so I'm wondering what the impact this is actually going to have?	01:47:16
	On staff in terms of their time, I understand that.	01:47:21
	Henry Montelongo has been had to do the organization and the explorers will.	01:47:25
	Be assisting in that and I'm all for them gaining that special event experience.	01:47:32
	But there's also mentioned in the report that there's going to be an employee committee and can you tell us more about that? Who	01:47:39
	will be?	01:47:42
	What departments will be committing staff to that committee and?	01:47:47
	And what the impact of this is going to be on staff because we have less than six months to put this event on.	01:47:50
	So at this time, we anticipate participation from a recreation and community services.	01:47:57
	Public works as well. You mentioned Henry Montel.	01:48:04
	Frank Montelongo has been the individual that we have communicated with. He and Henry certainly have experience with various	01:48:08
	events, so.	01:48:12
	We'll probably pull experience and expertise from both of those individuals, but we anticipate.	01:48:17
	A member of Again Recreation Public Works.	01:48:23
	And those individuals from the Police Department to participate and what's the time commitment do you think is?	01:48:27
	They will be.	01:48:33
	So utilizing.	01:48:36
	Towards the planning and implementation.	01:48:40
	Is there, Are they going to be meeting weekly?	01:48:43
	Monthly how many hours in in?	01:48:46
	Are we going to be committing? So two thoughts I think initially I just wanted to point out in the past, although we have not had	01:48:49
	city staff lead.	01:48:53
	And facilitate the entirety of the.	01:48:58
	There have been city staff members that have been involved in the planning and preparation for the event. Undoubtedly this this	01:49:01
	year will require additional resources and additional time.	01:49:06
	Direct answer to your question, initially it's anticipated that will be weekly meetings.	01:49:12
	And as additional tasks are identified and as we get closer to the event.	01:49:17
	The frequency of those meetings will assuredly need to increase.	01:49:22
	I think the specific outline for that type of plan will be identified again. Should council agree with and provide direction to	01:49:26
	move forward, we'll kind of create a.	01:49:31
	Specific schedule on a specific plan of action for meetings and tasks that need to be completed.	01:49:37
	So was was the thinking and going to using in kind?	01:49:42
	Staff a budgetary decision. Was it thinking that we would save money?	01:49:47
	There's a there's a variety of factors.	01:49:53
	I think a couple of points is every staff person that right now we're envisioning being part of the committee has been part of.	01:49:57
	The committee over the last several years.	01:50:06
	So I think if if we're thinking we're starting with we didn't have any staff time in the past, that's not accurate. So yeah, I	01:50:09
	know that's not what I'm saying. So, so the it's the same group of people who've worked on it with.	01:50:16
	In years past they worked with an event manager.	01:50:24
	And so this year we talked to those to the different people that are involved.	01:50:28
	And we had three proposals for event managers to come in who had not done the Beach fest before, and we're not.	01:50:33
	Familiar with the community and, you know, things like that. And so I think all of us sat down and looked at those and realized	01:50:41
	that.	01:50:45
	There was a sense that.	01:50:49
	We can do this ourselves easier than bringing someone in who isn't familiar with the community and doesn't.	01:50:51
	Know what Beach Fest is and will essentially be paying someone to still be on the committee telling them how to do everything.	01:50:57
	So there were there's a variety of reasons just when you look at the big picture.	01:51:04
	The reason we went to proposal, the reason we went to RFP was because.	01:51:11
	I didn't want.	01:51:15
	I didn't want to do it by our employee committee unless our team felt like they could do it.	01:51:18
	So we went to RFP and we wanted to have that option available.	01:51:24
	When the proposals came back we all got together and decided we want to do this internally. So, so.	01:51:28
	So with that in mind then.	01:51:35
	One of the things that we haven't done over the past years is quantified staff time in the budget.	01:51:37
	You know we've.	01:51:44
	We've dedicated police resources, public works resources and we haven't quantified that in the budget. So really to get a true	01:51:45
	picture of what our costs are for putting this festival together, I think we have to be.	01:51:51
	Realistic and transparent in describing what those costs are.	01:51:57
	Because if we're looking to save money under Expenses under Event Management, it's 0.	01:52:03
	So if there's some way we can quantify that, I'd be more comfortable in approving this.	01:52:12
	Tonight.	01:52:17
	Then the other comment I wanted to make.	01:52:21
	There's there's a couple of things that are zeroed out here that.	01:52:25
	I had questions about.	01:52:30
	So I noticed that the VIP lounge has been zeroed out. Does that mean that?	01:52:32
	There is going to be no How will the sponsors be recognized? How would they be?	01:52:39
	Will it be just advertising or what are they going to get for their contributions?	01:52:45
	So the the primary change to the items that are provided to sponsors. In the past they were given tickets to the VIP lagoon.	01:52:50
	And they were given some preferential parking spaces.	01:52:59
	The proposal as you might have known with zero under the parking revenue is that we will are not proposing a charge for revenue.	01:53:03
	We are not proposing to charge for parking this year. In your comment about the VIP, it is proposed that that would be eliminated.	01:53:09
	So those would be things that would be removed from the benefits sponsors would receive.	01:53:16
	Other than that, it would primarily be the same. They would their their logos or their information would be part of marketing and	01:53:23
	advertising materials both in print and in social media.	01:53:27
	They would receive individualized banners that would be present at the event.	01:53:32
	They would be given access to booths for display and communication about their products or services.	01:53:38
	And they would have their logos included on digital imaging on the screen at select times throughout the festival.	01:53:45
	And then we're going down to one stage, right?	01:53:53
	So the community stage used to be the stage where we would showcase local talent.	01:53:56
	Is the local talent now going to be?	01:54:02
	I'm hoping it is moving to the to the Mainstage.	01:54:05
	Because we have a lot of great local bands and I think that's where we incurred a lot of costs and bringing in these tribute	01:54:08
	bands.	01:54:11
	Maybe if we could focus on local bounds. So we're we're not necessarily committed to removing a second stage. Last year we had a	01:54:15
	second stage that was a DJ focused stage. So we're thinking that we may continue that.	01:54:21
	But with the two day event preliminarily we've focused on potentially one day being primarily local musician based and the other	01:54:27
	one.	01:54:32
	Being acts that aren't necessarily local based, so we are looking to incorporate.	01:54:36
	Local bands and musicians? OK, great. That sounds wonderful.	01:54:43
	I just noticed it was zeroed out, so it looked like it was being eliminated. Yeah. Some of the costs that are zeroed out, it's	01:54:47
	because we think we've identified.	01:54:51
	Ways to do them without costs.	01:54:55
	More efficient ways to do them.	01:54:57
	And then I have another question regarding.	01:55:03
	The sale of beer and wine.	01:55:06
	Umm, you've zeroed out the tips that are paid to those organizations that?	01:55:09
	Sell the beer.	01:55:16
	Is. I'm hoping that that's not going to happen because last year that was the only way that they.	01:55:18
	Made any kind of they had any kind of benefit or any kind of incentive?	01:55:24
	To participate.	01:55:28
	That was one of the things that I think was of concern last year was that.	01:55:30
	They used to be paid to sell beer and wine these nonprofits.	01:55:36
	But that was taken away. I'm hoping we can look at ways to put that back.	01:55:41
	Because it's a highly profitable.	01:55:45
	Endeavor to sell the beer and wine. It's one of the highest profit making.	01:55:49
	Ventures for from the festival.	01:55:54
	To take that away from the nonprofit's I think.	01:55:56
	Was a mistake.	01:55:59
	So I'd like to see that put back in.	01:56:00
	And allow them to also earn the tips if possible.	01:56:03
	I think the the thought there was.	01:56:07
	Those costs or revenues don't need to be represented in the budget as it's not an actual event expense or new events revenue. It	01:56:10
	would just be.	01:56:14
	Funds that would go directly to a group that supported the event? Yeah, it goes back with the general idea of trying to simplify	01:56:18
	things in the past.	01:56:22
	Everything would get collected and then.	01:56:27
	Divvied and everything else. And for us on some of these things like where if we have a nonprofit running a booth, we're going to	01:56:30
	let the nonprofit run the booth. And so that's where it's going to.	01:56:35
	Making it a little bit easier, but there's no reason for us to then show that as revenue to the city which it was shown as in the	01:56:41
	past, so.	01:56:44
	So final question then I'll let.	01:56:48
	I'll stop We'll.	01:56:52
	Will staff be coming back with a plan on implementation?	01:56:54
	Because, you know, we've went out to RFPs for RFP's, these organizations submitted plans.	01:56:59
	What is the Explorers plan? What is Henry's plan to implement? So organizational approach, is he going to use? Yeah, so today is.	01:57:06
	So that would be something that would come back to council.	01:57:44
	OK. Well, you know to me it makes sense that there be some plan because if we we ask these businesses to submit a plan, I mean we	01:57:47
	should apply the same standards to our.	01:57:52
	To our own organization to come forth with the plan.	01:57:58
	That's just my thinking. Thank you. Have a question?	01:58:01
	No, no questions. Just a comment on the.	01:58:05
	Council meeting soon.	01:58:18
	Of our last year.	01:58:20
	The cost the city was paying for the event.	01:58:38
	I believe that information was presented at the December 18th meeting, but as the City Manager indicated, when we do come back	01:58:43
	with a footprint some additional information, we'll be sure to include that. Just off the off the top, the calculated cost for	01:58:49
	staff support of last year's event was approximately $27,000.	01:58:54
	And I think big picture, we didn't want to commit to it at this point because we still need to develop the plan, but we think we	01:59:01
	can accomplish it for about the same cost. So that was why we didn't.	01:59:05
	Show you know a cost last year and what we expect the cost to to change this year. Our goal is to basically.	01:59:10
	Manage it with about the same amount of staff time and to the city manager's point, there will be more staff time in the planning	01:59:17
	phases, clearly because we're taking a larger share there.	01:59:22
	But based on changes we made are proposing to make to the execution of the event and the footprint of the event and the	01:59:26
	elimination of parking.	01:59:31
	There will be less staff time associated with the actual management and on site for the event, less overtime.	01:59:37
	Thank you. My apologies if that got by me.	01:59:43
	Councilmember Gama.	01:59:46
	After participating in the Havana Nights, was it called I have 1000% confidence in the Montelongo's?	01:59:48
	To manage this event.	01:59:58
	And to exceed our most wild expectations, and I think we as a council should just get out of their way and let them.	01:59:59
	Do what they do if you didn't attend the Havana nights at the Camaro airport.	02:00:08
	It was an event that was put on by Henry Montelongo and.	02:00:14
	I have never been to an event so well managed, so professional and so amazing, so I'm super excited to.	02:00:18
	To get out of Henry's way and let him do what he does, and I appreciate the fact that we're already showing $11,000.	02:00:26
	Savings.	02:00:35
	And I will add also the June car show they put on every year as well. It's a big success for the city and for the organization.	02:00:36
	They they bring in a lot of money for the Explorers for that event.	02:00:41
	Are there no further questions?	02:00:47
	No comments, Councilmember Martinez.	02:00:49
	Is is there a big push to get the festival on the sand like on the actual beach and make it more like a like a whining me beach	02:00:52
	festival theme?	02:00:56
	Yeah, there's there's a commitment to ensure that some of the activities and events associated with the festival happen on the	02:01:02
	beach. I won't say the entirety of the festival, but yes, we're looking at opportunities for educational activities as well as	02:01:07
	athletic competitions on the beach.	02:01:12
	Looking forward to.	02:01:17
	Thank you, Madam Clerk. Are there any public comments? No public comments. Thank you. So the recommendation is to cancel the	02:01:18
	Request for Proposals for Wyoming Beach Festival Event Planning and Management Services and award no contract.	02:01:25
	Approve the use of an employee committee to plan and manage the 2024 Wyoming Beach Festival.	02:01:31
	Authorize a donation of 25,000 to the Port Winneme Police Explorers to provide services associated with the execution of the 2024	02:01:37
	festival.	02:01:41
	And authorized the city to consider and or accept in kind donations in lieu of vendor fees for local nonprofit organizations. May	02:01:45
	I have a motion and a second. So moved second.	02:01:51
	No further discussion. We will move on to a vote.	02:01:58
	All in favor, aye.	02:02:02
	All opposed hearing, None Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	02:02:04
	Moving on to the final business item, is the authorized the purchase exempt?	02:02:09
	From formal contract procedure for emergency repair and city sewer main well staff, please present the report.	02:02:14
	Yes, thank you. I wish they were all as fun as Beach Fest, but now we got to talk about a sewer main.	02:02:21
	So I'll ask Public Works, our team for Public Works to help me, but just a little bit of background is that people probably	02:02:28
	noticed a couple weeks ago on March 13th.	02:02:33
	All of a sudden, we closed the lane on Ventura Rd.	02:02:39
	At the intersection of Ventura Road and Pearl Street.	02:02:42
	And the reason we we closed the lane was that we received a report that a sinkhole was developing and we went out immediately and	02:02:46
	and saw that we we had a a sinkhole developing.	02:02:52
	So we took. We jumped into action. We addressed the sinkhole.	02:02:59
	We repaired the pipe.	02:03:05
	It was a 60 year old pipe and.	02:03:08
	Which should have lasted 70 to 75 years. So you know on one hand it's it wasn't quite to its expected its life expectancy but on	02:03:12
	the other hand we should.	02:03:17
	Probably be we should be preparing for 60 year old pipes starting to fail.	02:03:23
	I think a lot of our infrastructure is getting to that age.	02:03:27
	But so we.	02:03:31
	We addressed the sinkhole and that issue, but as we were making the repair we noticed.	02:03:33
	Problems along the whole section of the pipe and that it was failing.	02:03:39
	And so at that time we got together and we realized we need to replace the the entire section of pipe, which I believe is about	02:03:43
	4500 linear feet basically from Pleasant Valley.	02:03:50
	All the way down Ventura Road to.	02:03:58
	I think it was Surfside.	02:04:01
	And we need to replace that whole section I.	02:04:03
	And so we are trying to get that done quickly before we have more issues, before we have a major failure of the pipe because we're	02:04:08
	already we can just physically see problems with the pipe. And so we're asking the council to authorize a.	02:04:15
	The US to purchase the.	02:04:24
	To perform the emergency repair by exempting us from our normal formal contract procedures because of the condition of the pipe	02:04:29
	and the need to make the repair.	02:04:34
	As soon as possible. So I guess I'll ask public works, did I miss anything or we could OK.	02:04:40
	So.	02:04:49
	Sorry, Fred. Mayor Pro Tem Council.	02:04:52
	Staff members of the public? Yeah, City Manager Vega in a nutshell. Got that all accurate.	02:04:56
	What we need to do?	02:05:05
	Our opinion of looking at what happened out there and seeing the.	02:05:09
	Adjacent areas that were exposed during the original repair is that.	02:05:14
	We need to take action to do something with this pipe before we continue to have these problems.	02:05:19
	We are already in contact with.	02:05:26
	Contractors that specialize one of the the attachment here, attachment A, is a bypass. So we've already started doing.	02:05:32
	A design for.	02:05:39
	But it's a draft design because we need to speak to.	02:05:41
	Experts that perform this type of work that can confirm what hour.	02:05:46
	Thought process is whether that will work or it won't and the idea behind that is.	02:05:51
	To go ahead and remove all of the flow that's coming down that line, which?	02:05:57
	The naval base.	02:06:01
	Um. And also.	02:06:03
	All of the neighborhood from Bryce Canyon to Pleasant Valley in between Jay and Ventura Rd. Every. Every one of those.	02:06:06
	Businesses and homes.	02:06:15
	Runs through that line.	02:06:17
	So we.	02:06:21
	Are in the process already of.	02:06:23
	Certain actions to make sure that we can.	02:06:26
	Try and eliminate.	02:06:29
	This from potentially having.	02:06:32
	Other breaks along the way.	02:06:35
	If you look at attachment A, you'll notice that.	02:06:37
	There are going to be some inconveniences and again, this is a draft, so some things may change before we actually get into.	02:06:41
	Setting this up but.	02:06:51
	You'll see it.	02:06:53
	Pleasant Valley Rd. That's where the point of connections are.	02:06:55
	That will have to begin this work at and then the.	02:06:58
	Thought processes to run the above ground.	02:07:02
	Bypass line which would take all of that.	02:07:06
	Wastewater that's flowing through.	02:07:10
	Damaged line.	02:07:13
	And run it above ground. We'd be putting K rail alongside of it, and we'd be putting it in the fast lane of southbound Ventura Rd.	02:07:14
	So we'd be removing that lane. You'll see there also on the attachment that there's some.	02:07:22
	Parking that will be lost because we'll need to take the bike lane in order to turn that into a travel lane.	02:07:30
	And we're we're.	02:07:37
	Trying to also do the best we can with minimizing.	02:07:40
	Blocking the entire.	02:07:45
	Cross sections of Ventura Rd.	02:07:47
	But again, we've.	02:07:50
	Looked at this, you'll see on B Street we've got some left turns, so from B Street.	02:07:52
	It's proposed that they wouldn't be able to make a left turn from.	02:07:58
	B Street on the north northbound Ventura.	02:08:02
	Also, similarly northbound Ventura, you wouldn't be able to make A left across onto B Street.	02:08:05
	We are trying to keep all of the major streets section cross sections open.	02:08:14
	Clara.	02:08:22
	Scott St. Winemie Rd.	02:08:25
	All those are proposed to go underground at those areas.	02:08:27
	The question might be, well why not put it all underground so you don't have to do any of this because that turns into a much more	02:08:32
	expensive project and this is a temporary.	02:08:37
	Line so we can go ahead and do the work on.	02:08:43
	The original line.	02:08:48
	And be able to.	02:08:49
	Repair all of that without having to place a new line in place.	02:08:52
	And as you go down on the attachment, you'll see there are.	02:08:58
	Other areas Seaview St. would be affected.	02:09:05
	Leaving out of Surfside Village on the Ventura Rd.	02:09:09
	There are areas that are going to have some minor inconvenience and we will have some things that we're going to be will be	02:09:15
	traffic delays.	02:09:18
	It's the nature of the project is.	02:09:24
	Going to necessarily cause some of these things, but ultimately we think.	02:09:27
	With what we believe on how we can get this done, including this bypass, it will be the least disruptive.	02:09:32
	Process to.	02:09:40
	Everybody. The public, The poor, the base.	02:09:42
	So with that, if you have any questions, I will.	02:09:48
	Answer those.	02:09:53
	Director Camarillo, thank you for that. But what I'm hearing in essence is this is a mess.	02:09:54
	You're going to do your best to fix it.	02:09:59
	And Please be patient. We're asking the community to understand, understanding and patient while you work as best you can to get	02:10:01
	this taken care of.	02:10:05
	Yeah, that's well said. And and the last thing is we'll commit.	02:10:09
	We are going to try to get notices out to people at least 72 hours in advance to let people know what's going on so that we don't	02:10:13
	catch people by surprise. Thank you. Does council have any questions?	02:10:18
	Counselor Gama Yeah, I think 60 years for any pipe is probably pretty good, right? I hope so.	02:10:23
	And so.	02:10:29
	Director Camarillo.	02:10:32
	Is it going to be done in sections or are you? I understand that you have to bypass the entire line, but is it going to be done in	02:10:34
	sections at a time? Are you going to bypass the whole line and then just start from one end and work all the way to the other end?	02:10:41
	Well, it's going to be a combination of both. Part of it will be based on what the final process is that we end up using to do	02:10:49
	this.	02:10:54
	Some of them are. They may be able to do multiple things at a time, so we'll have areas that are opened up in the street that	02:11:01
	they'll be able to work from.	02:11:05
	Again it.	02:11:10
	Our thought is to try and get this accomplished.	02:11:12
	With the least amount of disruption to.	02:11:15
	Traffic and the general public so.	02:11:20
	We believe that it can be done. We've already started with discussions.	02:11:25
	With people that do this.	02:11:29
	And they're confident as well just based off of again just talking to them, we haven't had anybody come out on site yet, but we	02:11:32
	have that set up coming this week.	02:11:36
	So they can take a.	02:11:40
	Tour of the layout.	02:11:42
	So they know what they're working with.	02:11:46
	And we hope to get feedback from them if there's something that we.	02:11:48
	Thought about and they determined that that's probably not the best way to do it. We're we're looking for them to give us their	02:11:55
	expertise in this as well.	02:11:58
	And I would.	02:12:03
	Believe that this is coming out of the enterprise fund, correct? Not the general fund, right. And I know that our reserves are	02:12:05
	quite well over there.	02:12:10
	There. Well, I wouldn't say quite, but I'm concerned. They're OK. They're well and it's something that we'll keep an eye on and	02:12:15
	keep watching and let we'll come back if, we if and when we need to deal with that too, so.	02:12:21
	Yeah. And again, I just focus on the +60 years, is a long time for any pipe in the ground And I think did you say we're going to	02:12:29
	get 60 years out of this new pipe or is it new and improved?	02:12:35
	Some of the technologies we're looking at there.	02:12:43
	They vary from 60. Some of them go up to over 100 years depending on what you use.	02:12:46
	Who's gonna be around?	02:12:53
	One of the things we also have to consider though is.	02:12:57
	Where the alignment of the current pipe is.	02:13:00
	So some processes may not be.	02:13:03
	Amenable to the other field conditions, so that's something else we have to take into consideration when we do this.	02:13:07
	You mean you weren't here when they put the pipe in the ground?	02:13:15
	No, I wasn't. I've been here a long time, but not that long. Thank you, Councilmember Hernandez. Thank you, Mayor.	02:13:18
	Thank you Director Camarillo for your staff report and I especially appreciate the diagram. I find it pretty interesting contrary	02:13:25
	to.	02:13:29
	To the city manager's comment, verse this versus the festival. I actually find it very interesting.	02:13:34
	I don't know if you said this, but what is the length of time that the project will take?	02:13:41
	We're hoping that we can have this done within two to three months and again it'll depend on the process and which one we may be	02:13:47
	able to use.	02:13:52
	Some can be done much quicker than others.	02:13:57
	But there's also some prep work. Obviously the first line of action is going to be to get the bypass, so we can actually start	02:14:00
	doing planning to do the work on correcting the line.	02:14:05
	And then after that, depending on what process we end up ultimately going with, some are a little bit faster than others, but.	02:14:11
	We have a lot of things to do. We got to find out everything else that's underground where we're going to be digging.	02:14:19
	We have to, you know, work with all the other utilities there. There's a lot of work that's going to go into.	02:14:26
	Pre planning before we do anything, so we don't.	02:14:32
	'Cause other damage. Hopefully no more surprises. Yeah, that's. We can expect that, I'm sure. So thank you so much. Good luck.	02:14:36
	Mayor Putin, do you have any questions?	02:14:41
	Council Member Martinez, Nothing. All right. Thank you. Director Camarillo. I have full faith in your experience of your team. A	02:14:46
	lot of years on that team, a lot of expertise.	02:14:51
	So I believe it'll be.	02:14:57
	Done appropriately and two months really doesn't sound that like a lot of time.	02:14:58
	Well, and that's we're we're hopeful that it can be a short project, but again some.	02:15:04
	Field conditions will determine what happened ultimately.	02:15:10
	So I do have a question and I.	02:15:14
	This is not the only pipeline in our city that's this old.	02:15:16
	What is the possibility that we have to do this anywhere else? Is there any?	02:15:19
	We well as far as the sewer system goes and this is the sewer line.	02:15:26
	We've completed 90% of our.	02:15:32
	Master plan from our sewer master plan, so.	02:15:36
	This is really one of the last remaining things that is.	02:15:40
	This big?	02:15:45
	That will need to be addressed as far as the sewer goes.	02:15:47
	Now we have other utilities. I mean, they are water.	02:15:50
	Which does have old lines as well and they have a master plan in place too and our water manager is actively.	02:15:54
	Pursuing, getting those lined up and getting work done for those. So we have other things that are.	02:16:02
	Are older but.	02:16:07
	In this case, on the sewer side of things, this is the last one that we have.	02:16:12
	We do have other projects that are also scheduled to be done.	02:16:17
	But they.	02:16:22
	Aren't as critical as this one is because of the nature of.	02:16:24
	How this works. This takes.	02:16:30
	Wastewater from two locations and sends it down this line.	02:16:32
	So to.	02:16:36
	Bypass and.	02:16:39
	If if this line would have completely failed, it would be.	02:16:42
	Not good. All right. Well, thank you again. Do we have any public comments for this item?	02:16:45
	No public comments? Great. So the recommendation is to authorize purchases exempt from formal contract procedures for the	02:16:51
	emergency repair of a city sewer force main.	02:16:55
	Authorized the City Manager to immediately proceed with performing the necessary preparations and repairs without compliance with	02:17:00
	the City's normal purchasing ordinance. Staff has determined that the public would be performed, oops, sorry that the work would	02:17:06
	be to be performed. Is not a public project as defined by public contract code sections 2161 Subdivision C, which excludes	02:17:12
	maintenance and repair from said definition.	02:17:17
	Would determine the purchase of goods. Materials and services are exempt from the City's formal contract procedure pursuant to	02:17:24
	Port Hueneme Municipal Code Section 2564, Subdivisions B&C as follows.	02:17:30
	2564 Exemptions from formal contract procedure.	02:17:37
	Be the City Council may authorize purchases.	02:17:40
	Of supplies, equipment and services without complying with this chapter, when, in the opinion of the City Council, compliance with	02:17:44
	the procedure is not in the best interests of the City.	02:17:48
	Or C The City Manager may authorize emergency purchases of supplies, equipment, or services for the purpose of this chapter.	02:17:54
	Emergency purposes purchases are those procurements required to prevent the immediate interruption of cessation of necessary.	02:18:01
	City services or to safeguard life, Property or the public health and welfare. May I have a motion and a second?	02:18:09
	Motion to approve all Staffs recommendations.	02:18:18
	Thank you, Madam Clerk. No further discussion.	02:18:22
	All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk.	02:18:25
	All in favor? Aye, aye. All opposed.	02:18:27
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Great. So now I'll move on to City Manager comments and reports. Mr. City Manager, do you	02:18:31
	have any comments or reports? Just two quick items. One just for planning purposes our next council meeting.	02:18:38
	We have three items currently scheduled. One will be.	02:18:46
	Actually, the Measure You committees annual report.	02:18:50
	And they'll they'll explain when they give the report, but it's actually the first ever measure you committee annual report. It's	02:18:54
	something they've been working on for for several years to get to this point and they'll explain.	02:18:59
	That history and and and the good news that they've gotten to this point, so.	02:19:05
	So the Measure You committee's annual report, our second update related to the upcoming budget which is going to be.	02:19:10
	Having our sales tax consultant come give a presentation on what?	02:19:20
	They're projecting for.	02:19:26
	Next year as it relates to our sales tax and and how that could impact us. And then third, our second partnership goals	02:19:27
	discussion, the first one was with the port and the second one would be with the Navy and as soon as we.	02:19:34
	As soon as we got through tonight and we set those items, I'm going to let the Navy know so that they can join us if they if they	02:19:42
	choose to do that. So, so we'll have those three items on our next agenda as our three as our business items.	02:19:49
	And then the only other thing I have is.	02:19:57
	This Friday is our first coffee with with the city.	02:19:59
	Event and we're going to do it at Anna Cappuccino at 8:30 AM.	02:20:06
	And it will be the first one we decided to kind of.	02:20:11
	Start with the first one being myself, our police chief and the mayor just figuring that typically the first I.	02:20:16
	Question people ask is for either the police chief or the mayor. People don't know I exist, which is nice. So, but, so we're going	02:20:25
	to do the first session this week, this Friday and we're hoping to do more of these and kind of do a series of them. But the first	02:20:31
	one is this Friday at Anna Cappuccino. So hope to see everybody there and that's all I have. Thank you.	02:20:38
	I've had several constituents ask about the schedule for reopening the library. Do you?	02:20:47
	Do you know what the schedule is by any chance?	02:20:54
	Yeah.	02:20:58
	We did get an update on that from the county librarian.	02:21:00
	I want to say that it was still looking at.	02:21:05
	July, I think, but let me pull that up. I actually have it right here.	02:21:10
	June, right. The update we got two weeks ago is that.	02:21:15
	Currently planning to reopen in June or July.	02:21:20
	And so that's the latest update from them.	02:21:24
	Any further questions for city manager?	02:21:28
	Thank you Councilmember reports and comments.	02:21:31
	Councilmember Martinez, start with you.	02:21:34
	Oh yes, I just want to mention that now that.	02:21:36
	The nonprofit for the city's housings. Then I might spoke to the.	02:21:39
	City attorney looks like we're going to move forward with creating the nonprofit for the sister city.	02:21:45
	He just needs a couple details, like purpose, you know, basic stuff.	02:21:53
	Unfortunately, I think we're gonna have to postpone this Sister city meeting tomorrow.	02:21:59
	But that's pretty much it. That's I don't have any other.	02:22:06
	Comments. Thank you, Councilmember Gama.	02:22:09
	So I think all the council members may be aware that there is.	02:22:14
	Some controversy going on at the Animal Services Commission.	02:22:19
	And I thought I would just.	02:22:24
	Kind of talk a little bit about that because we haven't had a meeting for a while and I don't quite understand why our meetings	02:22:26
	are being cancelled.	02:22:31
	But I do understand that there's.	02:22:36
	A big debate?	02:22:39
	Regarding.	02:22:41
	Euthanizing animals.	02:22:43
	And the one thing I could say is that the staff there at.	02:22:45
	Ventura County Animal Services are amazing. They take great care of the animals there and.	02:22:51
	You know, we tried to adopt A dog and it didn't turn out very well.	02:22:58
	And we had to.	02:23:03
	Surrender the dog to A.	02:23:04
	Very crowded Animal Services, so if there's.	02:23:07
	Anyone out there that has it in them to adopt A dog?	02:23:12
	Considerate, but.	02:23:16
	Things are.	02:23:20
	Seemingly starting to workout a little better, I'm not quite sure but.	02:23:21
	I'm going to make contact with the chair supervisor Laver and and see.	02:23:27
	When we're going to get on track to another meeting so that we could.	02:23:34
	See what's going on.	02:23:38
	So that's.	02:23:40
	That's it.	02:23:43
	Councilmember Hernandez.	02:23:46
	Thank you, Mayor.	02:23:48
	Let's see, just came back from Washington, DC a couple weeks ago. Was it a couple weeks already? A great trip. I would like the	02:23:50
	opportunity to report more out on that.	02:23:56
	At our next meeting I didn't come very prepared, but I did submit a write up for the newsletter along with pictures for the City	02:24:02
	Manager to include in our upcoming newsletter. I know that you asked for highlights Mr. City Manager, but it was really hard to	02:24:07
	highlight.	02:24:13
	Our visits without leaving somebody out. So I did the best. Martha and I did the best we could.	02:24:19
	To summarize the trip, so hopefully that will meet the needs of the.	02:24:26
	The newsletter I've got a SCAG meeting this week. I'll be attending in downtown Los Angeles. The port tour that was scheduled for	02:24:30
	Friday has been canceled due to weather I guess we're expecting.	02:24:35
	Some rain again this Friday.	02:24:42
	We almost canceled the mural committee meeting on Friday due to weather, but it's back on, so we'll be.	02:24:44
	Able to report back to the Council after that is.	02:24:51
	That meeting is held and give you an update on where we are with them.	02:24:55
	Mural The library mural.	02:24:59
	Umm, other than that I will have a few staff and agenda requests.	02:25:02
	But other than that, I think I'm good.	02:25:07
	Mayor Putin.	02:25:10
	Yes, thank you, Mayor.	02:25:13
	Council Member Hernandez mentioned the RDP trip that we did to DC.	02:25:16
	I just want to take just a quick moment like she said. We did have a summary that we turned over to the city manager. I just	02:25:22
	wanted to give our residents an idea.	02:25:26
	Just of some some of the offices that we visited so that you know we saw.	02:25:31
	The Minority Leader for the House Armed Services Committee.	02:25:39
	We visited the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy.	02:25:44
	We visited Commander Naval Installation, who's the commander of all US Naval installations?	02:25:48
	We saw visited, so I came back after two days. It was a third day that I missed on the third day.	02:25:56
	They visit the team visited Senator Alex Padilla's office.	02:26:04
	Umm, The Advisor for Defense, Foreign Affairs and Veterans.	02:26:08
	Congresswoman Brownlee's office and Congressman Ken Calverts office.	02:26:14
	So we did. I think we visited at least two days. I was there at the Pentagon three times.	02:26:19
	So we, I think we did our due diligence.	02:26:27
	As a committee to see as many people as we possibly could.	02:26:30
	And I think we came back with some additional information.	02:26:34
	On ways that we can.	02:26:38
	Or avenues by which we.	02:26:40
	Can probably use to.	02:26:42
	Support infrastructure. That's one of the biggest things that I came back with. So we had a great trip.	02:26:44
	And I think it's going to be value added for the committee and what we're going to be able to see how we're going to be able to	02:26:50
	support.	02:26:53
	Naval base Ventura County, both up Port Wyoming and Point Magoo.	02:26:57
	Other than that, I'll be attending.	02:27:01
	I have three committee meetings this week, so I'll be attending those.	02:27:04
	And hopefully have something.	02:27:08
	Additional report Next, Next.	02:27:11
	Thank you.	02:27:13
	I have two committee meetings this week, so I have nothing to report on any of the committees. The Easter celebration was very	02:27:15
	well done.	02:27:19
	I want to thank staff for putting that together and I want to thank.	02:27:23
	The future members of the Whining Me Lions Club who came in to help provide.	02:27:26
	Some much needed support and setting up that event because it was we're a bit short staffed and I want to thank the facilities who	02:27:32
	came in to help at the end of taking away all the K roles that were.	02:27:37
	Way too heavy for us girls to be carrying away. We will move on now to request for future agenda items. I'd like to remind Council	02:27:43
	members that all requested items will require a motion, a second and majority vote per adopted council policies to be placed on a	02:27:48
	future agenda item.	02:27:54
	Councilmember Martinez, I will start with you. No agenda items, Not today. Councilmember Gama. Yes, we got some bad news from	02:28:00
	Washington that they cut our dredging budget in half, and I think we need to.	02:28:05
	Get this on the agenda so that we could all talk about it as a council.	02:28:11
	So I'm looking for a second to.	02:28:19
	Put second. Thank you.	02:28:21
	Madam Clerk.	02:28:24
	All in favor, aye.	02:28:25
	All opposed.	02:28:27
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	02:28:29
	Councilmember Hernandez, Mayor May I.	02:28:33
	Digress and go back to an event announcement which I forgot to mention.	02:28:37
	The memorial for Pedro Valdez is going to occur again this year.	02:28:43
	On April 19th, it's not a city sponsored event, it's going to be sponsored by the Ventura County Resource Center by our Lamont	02:28:49
	Hayes who's here in the audience.	02:28:54
	And it will be taking place at the Gazebo on Surfside versus the bike station. Last year the bike station was the.	02:29:00
	The focal point, but we don't want to block traffic, bicycle traffic. So we're going to move over to the gazebo and that'll start	02:29:09
	at 4:00 and end at 5:00.	02:29:14
	And I will be moderating the program and we'll have the pleasure of.	02:29:20
	The mayor also providing a few words and so everybody's welcome to attend.	02:29:25
	Again starts at 4:00 April 19th.	02:29:31
	With regards to agenda requests, I meant to mention this last at our last meeting but forgot and that is David Maron has offered	02:29:34
	to do a presentation on the state of the region out of from the Civic Alliance and for some of you who.	02:29:44
	Not seeing the the book that was published through the civic alliance, it's a great.	02:29:53
	Resource book on.	02:29:59
	Our demographics. Everything from agriculture to.	02:30:01
	Community statistics are included in the book and I think that it would be beneficial for our community as well as our City	02:30:05
	Council.	02:30:09
	To here, so I'd like to ask for.	02:30:15
	A second to have him come and speak.	02:30:18
	To our Council in a future meeting.	02:30:21
	Anybody interested?	02:30:26
	Second, you moved. OK, great. Thank you.	02:30:30
	The other request I have.	02:30:34
	All in favor, aye.	02:30:37
	All opposed.	02:30:39
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	02:30:41
	The other request I have is not A and well, maybe it is an agenda request, but it has to do with updating our policy and	02:30:44
	procedures to include.	02:30:48
	Information on working with the press.	02:30:54
	And defining what constitutes a city sponsored event.	02:30:56
	So I Do we need to discuss that as an agenda item or can we just direct the city attorney to?	02:31:03
	To update our policies and procedures, I think the appropriate deal would be to address it as an agenda item, should council	02:31:11
	determine that it needs to be amended and come back OK, very good.	02:31:16
	Is there a second?	02:31:22
	Sing oh The motion was to update the policies and procedures to address how to work with the media.	02:31:29
	Do's and don'ts of working with the media and also to better define.	02:31:38
	For council members, what constitutes a city sponsored event?	02:31:42
	I second thank you.	02:31:48
	All in favor.	02:31:50
	Aye, all opposed.	02:31:52
	May I ask a question?	02:31:55
	Are we going to look at?	02:32:00
	The entire manual? Or are we just going to look at these two items?	02:32:02
	Yeah, well, I would like to amend the motion and.	02:32:08
	Add council member behavior as something having to do to help council members are supposed to stay out of personnel actions.	02:32:13
	I mean, I I.	02:32:22
	If we're going to look at the policy manual, we should look at the whole thing.	02:32:24
	Without getting into discussion, we can agenda as an item for Council to essentially discuss any potential amendments they need	02:32:29
	for the Council Policy and Procedures manual.	02:32:34
	OK.	02:32:40
	Going to be your amended motion.	02:32:42
	I think I can just bring that.	02:32:45
	I just want to finish the vote because it potentially looked like there was two that were about to say no, so.	02:32:49
	I will just do it real cool, real quick. Councilmember Gama, shall we restate the so now the motion has been amended. Is that it?	02:32:56
	We voted on it. We didn't complete voting.	02:33:04
	If there's a second on the amended motion for basically to review and revise.	02:33:09
	The Council policy manual, as appropriate, based on Council direction. Do we have a second on that? A second?	02:33:16
	Council member, comma.	02:33:22
	Councilmember Hernandez Yes.	02:33:25
	Councilmember Martinez.	02:33:27
	No. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen, Lashawn, yes. And Mayor Perez yes. Motion passes for one, with Councilmember Martinez voting no.	02:33:28
	Any other future agenda items?	02:33:39
	No, no. But I'd like to apologize. I forgot to mention the museum committee.	02:33:43
	We did have a working group meeting this past Saturday that got cancelled due to rain.	02:33:48
	So we'll be coming back together on April 19th.	02:33:54
	I believe that's the date for a meeting Friday.	02:33:58
	Friday 19th, I think. Anyway, we'll report back. The museum has been the work from the facilities, folks. They've turned it back	02:34:02
	over.	02:34:07
	And so I haven't been in it, but I've seen some pictures, it looks really good. So we're excited about starting to be able to go	02:34:13
	back in and.	02:34:17
	Do the work to get it prepared, so we'll report again after the meeting.	02:34:21
	All right. So seeing no other future agenda items then I would like to adjourn this meeting had there be nothing else.	02:34:26
	OK, next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 15th, 2024 at 6:30 PM.	02:34:34
	This meeting is now adjourned. The time is 9:02.	02:34:40