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CALL TO ORDER / FLAG SALUTE/ROLL CALL
INSPIRATION
PUBLIC COMMENT
PRESENTATION Item No. 1
AGENDA APPROVAL FOR CITY COUNCIL
PRESENTATION Item No. 2
PRESENTATION Item No. 3
CONSENT CALENDAR
BUSINESS Item No. 6
BUSINESS Item No. 7
BUSINISS Item No. 8
CITY MANAGER COMMENTS AND REPORTS
COUNCILMEMBERS’ REPORTS AND COMMENTS
REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
ADJOURNMENT

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	I'm going to.	00:00:00
	Good evening.	00:00:04
	Welcome to the closed session portion of the City Council meeting. I am calling this meeting to order. The time is 5:00 PM.	00:00:07
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? Councilmember Gama, Councilmember Hernandez.	00:00:14
	My power's out on my.	00:00:22
	We're good.	00:00:24
	That we're back. I'm here still.	00:00:27
	Here. Councilmember Martinez, present Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune here.	00:00:30
	We will now hear public comments. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. Madam Clerk, does anyone have any public comment tonight? No	00:00:39
	public comments for closed session. Thank you. Mr. City Attorney, Please read the closed session items into the record.	00:00:45
	Absolutely. Mayor Perez, we have two items on closed session tonight. The first one is Conference regarding Public employee	00:00:51
	performance evaluation for the City Attorney pursuant to Government Code Section 54957, subdivision B1.	00:00:57
	The second item is conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation. That case and Ventura County Superior Court number	00:01:03
	is spelled out in the agenda.	00:01:07
	Thank you. Do any Council members have any conflicts of interest to disclose for the listed closed session items on the agenda?	00:01:12
	Hearing none, we will recess to closed session. The time is 5:01 PM.	00:01:20
	I.	01:31:51
	Good evening.	01:32:23
	Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 632.	01:32:25
	Please stand and join me for the flag salute.	01:32:33
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.	01:32:42
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? Council Member Gama, Council Member Hernandez.	01:33:00
	Here, Councilmember Martinez, present, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lashon here and Mayor Perez here.	01:33:06
	Our inspiration tonight will be given by Council Member Hernandez.	01:33:12
	Thank you, Mayor Perez. I just wanted to.	01:33:20
	Share with all of you inspirational moment I had yesterday and that was the attending the free concert at the Ocean View Pavilion.	01:33:23
	It was a Ventura County was Ventura County.	01:33:31
	Orchestra Group, I believe was the correct name. It was funded through the Ventura County.	01:33:34
	Office of Education, Office of Continuing Education.	01:33:39
	And I couldn't believe the number of people who turned out for it and was mostly seniors.	01:33:43
	And the beautiful thing about it, which to me was so inspirational, was the fact that George.	01:33:48
	Did this a concert for our community for free?	01:33:54
	George does a lot of things for free for our senior community, so this is all for the seniors. I want to extend a huge thanks out	01:33:57
	to George for what he does for our seniors and for all of you to remember our senior community in our decisions that we make. And	01:34:03
	when you see them out in the street, make sure you make them feel welcomed as a member of our community. Thank you, thank you and	01:34:09
	well deserved.	01:34:15
	We'll now move on to closed session report. Mr. City Attorney, please provide the closed session report.	01:34:22
	Thank you, Mayor Perez. There is no legally reportable action taking place in closed session, however.	01:34:27
	I did want to comment on the public employee performance evaluation for the city attorney, and while the rest of the council knows	01:34:33
	and whatnot, I have tendered my resignation to the law firm of Green Departowski.	01:34:39
	And I will no longer be serving as city attorney to this wonderful city. It's been an honor. It's been a privilege. But.	01:34:44
	I have another opportunity that I am very eager to embark on, and part of the reason for the performance evaluation is Andre	01:34:52
	Debornowski and John Smythe of the law firm are seated right down here.	01:34:58
	And they will be taking over providing legal services to the city.	01:35:04
	Thank you all so much.	01:35:08
	Thank you.	01:35:09
	Thank you, Kevin, and we appreciate your service to the city and we.	01:35:13
	Wish you well in your next ever.	01:35:17
	We will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. This process will be	01:35:21
	the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments? May we address the conflict of	01:35:26
	interest? Oh yes, yes, yes.	01:35:32
	Do any council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item?	01:35:47
	Yes, I do. In regards to the second item on closed session, I live probably 992 feet away from the Surfside Motel.	01:35:52
	And I need to be more than 1000 feet away to avoid any perceived or.	01:36:02
	Property valuation game.	01:36:10
	With whatever transpires in that litigation. So I recused myself.	01:36:13
	OK. Anything further? Good, alright.	01:36:18
	Any public comments, Madam Clerk? Yes, we have public comments. We'll be starting with Becky Bruning.	01:36:22
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, Council staff.	01:36:36
	An audience. I'm here representing Roca P Outdoors.	01:36:40
	And on Sunday the 27th will be our family fish day at the end of the pier.	01:36:45
	From 8:00 to 11:00.	01:36:52
	You need more information, go to our website.	01:36:54
	Broke up the outdoors org.	01:36:58
	And I want to remind everybody that May.	01:37:01
	19th is our dinner or surf and turf dinner.	01:37:04
	And I do have tickets with me if you're interested.	01:37:11
	They are going fast so I would get them if you want them.	01:37:16
	Thank you.	01:37:20
	Timothy.	01:37:22
	Good evening, Mayor Perez, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen, Legion, esteemed council members, city staff, I'm providing an update on the Ray	01:37:31
	Pruder Library in Port Hueneme. We continue to remain closed because of the damage that we sustained during the Christmas storms.	01:37:38
	We anticipate reopening in July. However, there have been some delays that are being caused, you know, working through the	01:37:46
	insurance company and the insurance claim process. So once the construction starts.	01:37:53
	It should be a three to four month project. We are hopeful that we can be starting within before the end of the month.	01:38:01
	So again, our anticipated reopening will be in July and our Friends of the Library will be working.	01:38:08
	To have a reopening celebration, so stay tuned For more information about that thank you for your time, Thank you for your	01:38:14
	support, Thank you.	01:38:18
	Tom King, Mr. King has provided some documents that I'll provide to you later. If any member of the public wishes to see such	01:38:24
	documents, you can please contact me.	01:38:29
	Madam Mayor, Council members, staff, I'm here basically to represent those that are opposed to a proposed monument.	01:38:35
	Over by the.	01:38:45
	Area of Surfside and Market Street.	01:38:47
	I've supplied 10 names so far. I have a total of 40, but that's all that I really wish to present tonight.	01:38:51
	But the purpose of the petition is to oppose the proposed site location of the Bard monument at Winami Wharf and Flag Plaza	01:38:59
	located at Surfside Drive and Market Street, and to urge the Port Hueneme City Council to vote no.	01:39:06
	To this as the location site.	01:39:15
	The Port Commission the 11 foot, 1000 LB. Monument of Richard Bart. The port wants the monument.	01:39:18
	At that Plaza.	01:39:24
	Total respect to the Bart family.	01:39:27
	Certainly to the port and what they do for our community.	01:39:30
	But there's a strong.	01:39:34
	I'll say surge of support for those that are opposed to the placement of this.	01:39:38
	Monument.	01:39:44
	I also included in the handout. I don't know if you have it.	01:39:47
	But the very last page of the presentation that was made on March 18th to the City Council.	01:39:50
	Is the draft of the survey that.	01:39:57
	The port.	01:40:02
	Oxnard Harbor District wanted to present It's Only a draft.	01:40:04
	But they've indicated that the name of the location that we're talking that I'm talking about.	01:40:09
	Is Barnsworth and Flag Plaza.	01:40:16
	I don't believe the city renamed that area.	01:40:19
	I was going to name the 10 people that have signed this particular petition, so I'd like to do that and then yield.	01:40:24
	Myself, Tom King.	01:40:34
	Jessica Lamb, Tom Shannon, Gary Johnson.	01:40:36
	Time Melton John I.	01:40:39
	Elaine Smith, Randall Adams, Steve.	01:40:42
	Boehm and Cheryl McMichael.	01:40:45
	I've indicated in a transcript of those names. Also the preferred location site.	01:40:48
	And I provided the contact information.	01:40:57
	With our clerk.	01:41:00
	Thank you.	01:41:02
	We have one last public comment which was written.	01:41:04
	Dear Can I just quickly respond?	01:41:08
	So just a brief response. So tomorrow we have a joint meeting with the City Council and the port committee and we are expecting to	01:41:11
	get an update on that And so there will be an update provided at that time.	01:41:16
	Dear.	01:41:23
	Could we provide the time and location of that meeting?	01:41:26
	It is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 16th, at 3:30 PM here in the Council Chamber.	01:41:31
	OK, dear Port Wenemee City Council, My name is Jasmine Duran and I am the Advocacy and Community Impact Coordinator for Autism	01:41:37
	Society, Ventura County's Advocacy Committee. Thank you for this proclamation that acknowledges Fair Housing Month.	01:41:44
	At Autism Society of Ventura County, we're emphasizing the importance of fairness, inclusion and.	01:41:51
	Justice and Housing. It's vital to remember that discussions on diversity, equity and inclusion DEI often missed a crucial group.	01:41:57
	People with disabilities.	01:42:05
	Disabilities don't shield anyone from poverty. In fact, many people with disabilities live in abject poverty and never graduate	01:42:06
	out of poverty.	01:42:10
	Not everyone fits into the group home setting that our local regional center offers, yet this is the most common option and offer	01:42:15
	for people with developmental disabilities in Ventura County.	01:42:20
	With at least 10,000 individuals with developmental disabilities in Ventura County, we need to ask.	01:42:27
	How well are we housing them? What programs are there? Who is their advocate when housing is discussed?	01:42:33
	Are there needs being considered? Are they being met? Are there needs being planned for?	01:42:38
	It's time to focus on universal design and reserved housing set asides for people with developmental disabilities. While Port	01:42:43
	Renee has been a champion for housing, it's important for our planning departments to note that being accessible means more than	01:42:49
	just accommodating wheelchairs or physical access.	01:42:54
	It's about making spaces comfortable and usable for everyone, or are universally designed. We hope to work together for a future	01:43:00
	where everyone in our community has a place they can probably call home not just this month, but all year round.	01:43:07
	Thank you for your time and attention Jasmine Duran, that concludes public comment.	01:43:14
	Thank you. And we will now move on to the conflict of interest in Levine Act disclosures for the agenda. Do any council members	01:43:19
	have any conflicts of interest to disclose for the anything on the agenda?	01:43:24
	Seeing none, we'll move on to presentations. Our first presentation is the Fair Housing Month proclamation.	01:43:31
	I'd like to call up DEI Committee Vice Chair Kathy Sullivan and Director of Government Affairs Rob Leatherwood of the Ventura	01:43:38
	County Coastal Association of Realtors.	01:43:43
	To accept a proclamation in honor of Fair Housing Month.	01:43:48
	While they are making their way up, I will read the proclamation.	01:43:52
	Unless somebody else wants to.	01:43:56
	Fair Housing Month 2024, whereas the Fair Housing Act enacted on April 11th, 1968.	01:44:01
	Enshrined into federal law the goal of eliminating racial segregation and ending housing discrimination in the United States.	01:44:08
	And whereas the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination.	01:44:15
	In housing based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, and disability.	01:44:19
	And commits recipients of federal funding to affirmatively further fair housing in their communities.	01:44:26
	And whereas the Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors and the Real Estate Fraud Advisory Team are committed to the	01:44:31
	highlighting Fair Housing Act by continuing to address discrimination in our community by supporting programs that will educate	01:44:37
	the public about the right to equal housing opportunities and by continuing partnerships efforts, partnership efforts with other	01:44:44
	organizations to help assure everyone of their rights to fair housing.	01:44:50
	And whereas the City of Port Hueneme is committed to the mission and intent of Congress to provide fair and equal housing	01:44:57
	opportunities.	01:45:01
	And whereas our social fabric, the economy, health and environment are strengthened in diverse, inclusive communities.	01:45:05
	And whereas more than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, discrimination persists and many communities remain	01:45:12
	segregated.	01:45:16
	And whereas the Acts Acts of housing discrimination and barriers to equal housing opportunity are repugnant to a common sense of	01:45:21
	decency and fairness.	01:45:25
	And whereas the National Association of Realtors Code of Ethics commits all Realtors to provide equal professional services	01:45:30
	without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, familiar status, handicapped sexual orientation, gender identity, or	01:45:35
	national origin.	01:45:40
	Now, therefore, the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, CA.	01:45:46
	Does hair.	01:45:50
	Excuse Me does hereby proclaim April 2024 as Fair Housing Month and begins a year long commemoration of the Fair Housing Act in	01:45:52
	the City of Port Hueneme and urges all citizens to wholeheartedly recognize the celebration throughout the year.	01:46:00
	Good evening, everybody. Thank you, Mayor Perez. Thank you, esteemed council members.	01:46:39
	Thank you neighbors.	01:46:44
	My name is Kathy Sullivan. I'm a local licensed real estate agent.	01:46:45
	I'm also.	01:46:50
	Port Hueneme resident.	01:46:52
	Thank you for allowing us a few moments to speak.	01:46:54
	Excuse me for not being able to remember anything I.	01:47:00
	I'm here this evening as the 2024 DEI Committee Vice Chair.	01:47:04
	I'm representing over 2000 members of the Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors.	01:47:11
	For those who may not know, DEI stands for Diversity, equity and inclusion.	01:47:18
	This April marks the 56th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Title Eight of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.	01:47:25
	And Fair Housing Month across the country.	01:47:33
	As Realtors, we are committed to highlighting the Fair Housing Act by continuing to address discrimination in our community.	01:47:37
	By supporting programs that will educate the public about the right to equal housing opportunities.	01:47:44
	And by planning partnership efforts with other organizations to help ensure that everyone has access to fair housing.	01:47:51
	This brings me to why I'm before you this evening while the process of finding and buying a home.	01:48:01
	Has certainly changed over the last several decades, and generally for the better, more than 50 years after the passage of the	01:48:08
	Fair Housing Act.	01:48:11
	Discrimination persists, and many communities do remain segregated.	01:48:16
	We appreciate this proclamation by the City Council recognizing April as a National Fair housing month.	01:48:22
	And hope you will join us for a year long commemoration of the Fair Housing Act.	01:48:30
	And Port Hueneme and across Ventura County.	01:48:35
	We urge all citizens to wholeheartedly recognize the celebration throughout the year.	01:48:39
	Thank you so much for your time, Council Mayor.	01:48:45
	And my neighbors have a great evening. Thank you.	01:48:49
	Before we move on, I'm going to get an agenda approval.	01:48:55
	May I have a motion in a second?	01:48:59
	So moved.	01:49:01
	Madam Clerk.	01:49:04
	All in favor, aye.	01:49:06
	All opposed.	01:49:08
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:49:09
	Moving on to the second presentation is the Arbor Day Proclamation I'm going to turn this over to.	01:49:12
	Are you doing OK? I'm turning it over to you, Yeah. And so I I get the the privilege of introducing Arbor Day and the proclamation	01:49:19
	honoring Arbor Day this year. Just a little bit of background because people probably notice we do the Arbor Day.	01:49:27
	Proclamation in honor of Arbor Day each year.	01:49:36
	Is that Port Hueneme is a tree city USA, which is something that we take pride in.	01:49:39
	And some people don't know all of what that entails. But.	01:49:44
	Being a tree city, USA city.	01:49:50
	There's a couple of requirements and one is each year we are have to basically reaffirm our commitment to to Arbor Day.	01:49:53
	By recognizing it in a public meeting. And so this helps us actually meet our requirement of continuing to be a tree city USA.	01:50:01
	There's a couple other requirements, things like we have to do a certain amount of tree maintenance each year and we have to have	01:50:09
	an ordinance to manage the trees and things like that. So so we we do all of those things all year round, but each day, each year	01:50:15
	we have one day where we honor Arbor Day.	01:50:20
	And so today is the day that we are introducing our proclamation to celebrate Arbor Day, which will be Thursday, April 18th.	01:50:26
	We're actually holding an event outside out front of City Hall on Thursday the 18th at 10:00 AM.	01:50:35
	We're inviting everybody to come out. If you want to help us actually plant a tree, we're going to have a couple trees actually	01:50:42
	ready to plant so you can come help us plant a tree.	01:50:47
	And kind of help reaffirm our our status as a tree city, USA.	01:50:52
	We're going to be planting on that day a total of 18 trees, mostly California Sycamore trees. Almost all of them are California	01:51:00
	Sycamore trees.	01:51:04
	With the exception of in Winemay Bay on and one of the areas we're going to plant 2 pine trees. So we'll be out planting trees	01:51:09
	that week and we invite everybody to come out on the 18th at 10:00 AM to to help us do that.	01:51:16
	And so with that, we have a proclamation honoring Arbor Day in our city.	01:51:23
	I will read it quickly.	01:51:28
	So whereas in 1872, Jay Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the	01:51:32
	planting of trees.	01:51:36
	And the holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. And whereas	01:51:41
	Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world.	01:51:45
	And whereas trees can reduce wind and water, erosion of our precious topsoil, lower our heating and cooling costs, moderate the	01:51:51
	temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife.	01:51:56
	And trees are a renewable resource, giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires and countless other wood products. And	01:52:03
	whereas trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautify our community.	01:52:09
	And trees, wherever they are planted, are a source of joy and spiritual renewal.	01:52:17
	Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of Port Wine.	01:52:22
	Hereby proclaims the third Thursday in April April 18th.	01:52:25
	As Arbor Day in the City of Port Hueneme and all citizens are urged to celebrate Arbor Day and to support efforts to protect our	01:52:29
	trees and Woodlands.	01:52:32
	We urge all citizens to plant and care for trees, to gladden the heart and promote the well-being of this and future generations.	01:52:37
	And thank you.	01:52:44
	Thank you, Mr. City Manager, I do have a question.	01:52:46
	Is that time set in stone? As you are aware, as I was just reading it, I realized we are opening our grocery store that day and	01:52:49
	most of us will be at the ribbon cutting. So stay tuned. We'll post after this meeting a new time for for that. You should be able	01:52:54
	to adjust that.	01:52:59
	Did you have something to say? Yes. There's two trees here at City Hall that I am particularly proud of. And there are two coastal	01:53:04
	oak trees, and they're out front. And they're in honor of two former mayors, Douglas Breeze and Alice Green.	01:53:12
	And because I'm weird, I'd love to watch these trees because they're slow growing and they're really doing well. So take notice of	01:53:20
	the two coastal oaks out front and watch them slowly grow. And they're in. Like I said, they're in honor of two former mayor's	01:53:27
	Douglas Breeze and Ellis Green.	01:53:33
	And I thank you for explaining that. I think we had a conversation at one time where nobody understood how we became a tree city,	01:53:40
	and you're the first person to actually explain what that meant.	01:53:45
	All right. So moving on, we are going to have a presentation on the sister city presentation by committee Representative Bobby	01:53:51
	Martinez.	01:53:55
	Hi, can everyone hear me? I good evening council, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem.	01:54:08
	City staff and members of the public.	01:54:14
	It's good for me to be out here and give you guys another presentation. As you may remember, this isn't my first presentation	01:54:16
	talking about the sister city program here in our city. Back in 2021, I was given the task of bringing a sister city to to our	01:54:22
	city, our lovely city of Port Hueneme.	01:54:29
	First year I think I pretty much spent the time learning what Sister Cities was, and then the second year.	01:54:36
	Figuring out like picking the city.	01:54:42
	And then by the 3rd year it turns out I was the mayor and then the mayor was the person that goes to the city and and meets with	01:54:45
	the other mayor from the other city and.	01:54:50
	And they agree on creating the sister city committee.	01:54:55
	So I want to and in this presentation, I want to go ahead and and just show you some of the pictures that I took from our.	01:54:59
	Visitation in last November for the other Los Muertos celebration.	01:55:08
	And so before I begin, I just want to show you guys this picture. So if you guys see this is something that I created, but it's,	01:55:13
	it's a blending of both cities. I don't know if you can see it, but Winemie Beach is on there and then you can also see Puerto	01:55:18
	Vallarta too. But it's it's a, it's a blending of bold pictures and then you can also see our logo.	01:55:24
	And all of this is on, it's on our website which the domain is pending, but we do have a Facebook group and then we also have an	01:55:29
	Instagram.	01:55:33
	So here goes.	01:55:37
	So one of the first things that you'll notice about Puerto Vallarta is, which is our sister city, is that there's a lot of art.	01:55:40
	And so one of these days I would like to see similar letters like these in our city, but maybe say Port Hueneme.	01:55:47
	They do have a port Puerto means port in Spanish. So they're they're basically port Vallarta. Like if you think about it they they	01:55:54
	also have a nice beach.	01:56:00
	It's it's a little bit different than our beach.	01:56:07
	They have a harbor.	01:56:09
	They they have a walkway which is really nice, so just.	01:56:11
	One of the first things that I liked about the trips is that it gives us ideas on what we can bring back from the other cities.	01:56:16
	And they're big on tourism. We're not, but I think we can learn a little bit from them, even though I don't think we want to	01:56:23
	become like fully touristy city, but we can definitely learn from.	01:56:28
	From our sister city.	01:56:33
	They have a lot of art on the beach and so these are some interesting chairs. I think they have them all throughout the the major	01:56:35
	cities in Mexico. But people basically go and sit down and take pictures on on these chairs. I think they're like bronze.	01:56:43
	This one is really interesting too. People can go up and take photos. I don't know if that's a liability though, but.	01:56:51
	But it it was fun.	01:56:59
	And just lots of statues throughout the whole.	01:57:02
	It's called.	01:57:07
	Just it'll come back to me. But it's called El Malecon. So when you go to the beach, like by the edge, this is called the Malecon	01:57:10
	and it's a whole walkway that people would like to do. So they go up and down the Malecon.	01:57:16
	So again, lots of lots of art throughout the city.	01:57:23
	I thought it was really nice.	01:57:26
	We did go for the other Los Muertos, so it's a celebration that takes place in Mexico where they honor the people that have passed	01:57:29
	on in their lives.	01:57:33
	And one of the other things that they do in terms of that celebration is they.	01:57:38
	They've been doing this for the last couple years, but getting the biggest cut, the world's biggest Katrina.	01:57:43
	This isn't the world's biggest Katrina, but this was the Puerto Vallarta, Santa Barbara committees, Katrina. So all these	01:57:48
	organizations also have their own Katrinas and they they do a little competition.	01:57:53
	But this is the big Katrina.	01:57:59
	And so they ended up celebrating having the world's largest Katrina in the entire world. So it was a really nice celebration.	01:58:01
	There was honesty out thousands of people. You can't really see it in in in this picture, but.	01:58:08
	The people inside the yellow tape, those are the sister city members from Santa Barbara.	01:58:14
	And then on the other side, it's all the tourists.	01:58:18
	They had a celebration, they had an ASTIG dance, they had some musicians.	01:58:22
	They they had a nice show for us.	01:58:27
	And I even got a chance to go up on on stage and I'm sitting to my.	01:58:32
	To my right or your left, it's the secretary of tourism's.	01:58:38
	The State Secretary of Tourism of the State of Jalisco, and then to her.	01:58:45
	Right. Is the the mayor of the city of Puerto Vallarta and they call their mayor's president is so like the president of the city.	01:58:49
	So that's something that I also learned.	01:58:54
	This was at the cemetery. I kind of wanted a block off.	01:59:00
	The first picture, the one in the background, because I don't know if everybody was OK with me taking pictures of them. It was,	01:59:04
	it's like sensitive. There was people, they were crying, there was people that were celebrating. A lot of people brought in	01:59:10
	musicians, there was flowers, so.	01:59:15
	I didn't take too many pictures in this in this at the cemetery, but it was a learning experience. They also had a.	01:59:21
	A parade, which was really nice.	01:59:28
	So these are some of the people that came out on the parade.	01:59:31
	And so it was. It was similar to our parade.	01:59:33
	Just just so you guys gonna get idea. Wasn't like a very huge parade, but it was a nice celebration. There was a lot of people in	01:59:36
	the parade. Lasted a really, really long time.	01:59:40
	And this was probably like my favorite picture. So a little girl like on a horse that thought it was really cute.	01:59:45
	And then right after the parade, there was also a celebration that the committee had for the Santa Barbara import enemy members.	01:59:52
	And they had some competitions, some prizes, and so it kind of gave me some ideas of what we would do next when they come and	01:59:59
	visit us in our city.	02:00:03
	There was another celebration, totally separate day, so they party a lot.	02:00:09
	But there was they they had different types of dancers from different regions of Mexico, which was nice, and they also had some	02:00:15
	singers.	02:00:19
	And then the people that wanted to take a photo took a picture at the end. Not that wasn't everybody that was there. There was a	02:00:23
	lot of people that didn't want to take a picture, which was fine. I'm somewhere in there in the back.	02:00:28
	But there was a lot of things that we did while we were out there, so it wasn't really a vacation. I know a lot of people consider	02:00:35
	it like a vacation, but Lisa Burns?	02:00:39
	She's the one that told me it's a it's really a working vacation because there's a lot of stuff that you're doing throughout the	02:00:43
	entirety of the trip, and This Is Us meeting with the mayor.	02:00:47
	And planning on some of the things that we can do in the future.	02:00:52
	So that was, that was an honor for me to meet the mayor because in Mexico it's it's.	02:00:55
	It's a little bit different than than here in the United States. Not, not that we're not a special being on council, but over	02:01:01
	there they see it as a really, really.	02:01:06
	Prestigious title to be on, on council or and to be the mayor of of a city.	02:01:12
	And another thing that that Santa Barbara celebrated was breakfast.	02:01:19
	Where they were giving out the scholarship to some of the students and so this is one of the students that received one of the	02:01:24
	scholarships in Mexico.	02:01:27
	School is not free and even though it might not be a lot to pay for school, like say $100 per year, it's some families might not	02:01:31
	be able to afford it. So one of the things that Santa Barbara does is they have these scholarships available for.	02:01:37
	For some of the students out in Mexico. So that's just one of the students.	02:01:44
	They also had a marathon at the time when I was there, so that's when I was like imagining a marathon here in our city. And	02:01:48
	thankfully we had our first ever 5K, which was super cool.	02:01:53
	So that was, it was a really hot day, by the way. It was really, really hot.	02:01:58
	I also visited Bibliotheca Los Mangos on behalf of the our library from Tim Frugal who's who's here and and so he gave me some	02:02:03
	stuff to take to the library. I met their librarian and as you can see right there to the right on the bottom right it's some of	02:02:09
	the letters and some of the books that.	02:02:15
	The students and our youth in our community gave to the community and Puerto Vallarta.	02:02:21
	I also met with the manager of the the museum, their Maritime Museum, so we also have a Maritime Museum. So one of the goals about	02:02:28
	Sister City is trying to connect different businesses and organizations that might have similarities and maybe.	02:02:35
	You can learn from some of the good things that they're doing and then and maybe you can also give them some some ideas. So I	02:02:42
	thought this was cool now.	02:02:46
	I'm still working on the like the our museum to want to.	02:02:52
	Want to work with their museum, but because it's like a military museum, I guess it's it's a little bit more.	02:02:56
	Difficult, but I'm still, I'm still on that.	02:03:01
	I think I get this question asked a lot. You know, what's the point of sister cities?	02:03:06
	Really it's it's like what you want to make of it and it's all about fostering relationships and and growth.	02:03:12
	Sister cities began because right after World War 2, obviously you all know that it was a really bad situation in the whole entire	02:03:19
	world and so.	02:03:24
	President Eisenhower wanted to unite a lot of the communities and cities all throughout the world, so maybe we can promote peace	02:03:29
	and unity amongst all of us.	02:03:34
	So we did get a lot of time to spend with.	02:03:41
	You know people that.	02:03:45
	From a different culture. So right there on the left is Dulce and and she hosted technically, myself, Stephanie, Lisa Burns and	02:03:47
	Scott Burns who are there. They had two guest rooms, so we I stayed with them for two nights before I went back to the beach.	02:03:54
	But she took us out and showed us around, which was nice. But ultimately Puerto Vallarta was beautiful. There was a lot of art.	02:04:01
	And it was a wonderful experience. Our sister city is our nonprofit still not hasn't been created but we've been we've been	02:04:07
	hosting meetings since October. So we're just waiting on the the nonprofit in order for us to to you know to get going and we do	02:04:13
	have members that.	02:04:19
	That want to move forward.	02:04:25
	And like I said, we do have a website and Instagram and Facebook and.	02:04:28
	We're excited to see what we can bring from the city of Puerto Rico over here and I'm hoping it'd be like art and and and	02:04:34
	relationships, fostering relationships.	02:04:39
	So I think that'd be really nice and maybe a little bit of tourism. I hope the public's OK with that. I know we like being a quiet	02:04:44
	city, but I think we would benefit a lot from that.	02:04:48
	And so if there's any questions, I'm all yours.	02:04:53
	Council have any questions?	02:04:56
	Thank you, Councilmember Martinez, for your presentation.	02:05:00
	OK, hope you guys enjoyed it. And if you want to learn more, I actually posted a 26 minute video on my entire trip. I wasn't going	02:05:03
	to show you guys the video, but it's a 26 minute video on my it's on my own personal YouTube channel though, so thank you. Yeah,	02:05:08
	you're welcome. Thank you.	02:05:13
	Mayor, could I quickly note, so we just set a time to not interfere with the Grocery Outlet grand opening, which is at 10:00 AM	02:05:22
	currently. So our Arbor Day celebration will be 3:00 PM that that day so that people can come over after they tire themselves out	02:05:27
	at the Grocery Outlet. Thank you.	02:05:33
	We will move on now to the consent calendar. We will now consider items on the consent calendar which will be enacted in one	02:05:40
	motion unless a Council member has a request to remove an item for discussion.	02:05:45
	May I have a motion and a second?	02:05:50
	Motion to approve Second calendar. Thank you.	02:05:54
	Are there any items that any Councilman would like to remove for discussion?	02:05:59
	Hearing none.	02:06:03
	Madam Clerk.	02:06:04
	All in favor.	02:06:06
	Aye, all opposed.	02:06:08
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We have no public hearings.	02:06:10
	So we'll move on to business items. The first business item is the transaction and use tax Citizens Oversight Committee or	02:06:16
	measure.	02:06:20
	Annual report.	02:06:24
	Well, staff, please present the report.	02:06:25
	Yes. And I think we actually have the measure you chair David Scrivener here to present as well. So I'll just introduce.	02:06:27
	That as part of Measure you and Measure you passed in the City Council created a committee.	02:06:35
	To oversee the measure, you fund our measure you funds.	02:06:42
	And as one of the tasks that was given to the committee at that time was to provide an annual report to the Council.	02:06:47
	Detailing, you know, their their review of measure U and and recommendations et cetera.	02:06:54
	And to date, my understanding is we have never done that and today is the first one and so it marks some history.	02:06:59
	And so I'm going to introduce the Measure You committee, the Tax Citizens Oversight Committee, to give their first ever annual	02:07:08
	report.	02:07:12
	Thank you. Good evening Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, Council staff.	02:07:17
	We have three of us here tonight. I'll do the presentation, but we can ask questions of all of us. This is Beth Williams. She's	02:07:25
	the Vice chair.	02:07:28
	This is Galen Victoria, who's another member of the committee.	02:07:33
	So I think there's a presentation you all have. I don't want to go through the whole thing. It's kind of lengthy, but you can the	02:07:38
	history is there. So I thought I'd just start off with.	02:07:42
	A brief introduction of what this is all about.	02:07:48
	Brief history and then we can talk about where we are now.	02:07:51
	As you all know and have to deal with, we have a really small tax base in Port Hueneme and.	02:07:55
	And we're trying to.	02:08:03
	Have a good police station, I mean Police Department and have quality of life issues here and I think we've done a really good job	02:08:05
	at this but.	02:08:09
	There clearly wasn't enough money.	02:08:14
	Face of these obstacles.	02:08:17
	So in 2018.	02:08:19
	The council put a measure called Measure U on the ballot to basically charge a penny for every dollar of the citizen. Support	02:08:22
	Wayne me.	02:08:27
	Called a transition.	02:08:32
	And something I didn't discover till later is it doesn't matter whether you spend your money in Oxnard, Camarillo or Fort Wayne,	02:08:34
	you still pay the tax.	02:08:39
	Unless you go in there and give them some cash and don't tell you who you are, you're going to get tasked with it. So.	02:08:45
	Basically what happened was the council was unclear. Well.	02:08:51
	The rules are basically that. It took I think a 2/3 majority.	02:08:56
	In order to pass a tax that would go to a dedicated purpose.	02:09:00
	And it took a 51% to go.	02:09:05
	Money that would go into the general fund.	02:09:09
	So the council was unclear whether they would have enough votes.	02:09:11
	Do the the former.	02:09:16
	And so measure you basically goes into the general fund and.	02:09:18
	They made promises where the money would.	02:09:23
	And committed an oversight committee to review things and report back to the council.	02:09:26
	Basically, did you keep your word? OK.	02:09:31
	As it turns out, it was highly popular. It would have passed at the higher level.	02:09:35
	And it received a lot of support.	02:09:40
	So in 2019, we started collecting the money. OK, and?	02:09:42
	Started running into some difficulty.	02:09:51
	Bluntly with some of the former staff members who refused to set up regular meetings didn't give us any data.	02:09:54
	This got really frustrating.	02:10:01
	Many of the people dropped off the.	02:10:04
	The board.	02:10:07
	The one of the difficulties is we can't talk to each other outside of a meeting with an agenda on it.	02:10:10
	And so we can even talk with each other about this by the time.	02:10:16
	We got back on track again. I did. I think I'm the only one who was left and I didn't even know who was on the on the committee	02:10:20
	anymore, so.	02:10:24
	Long and short of it is, Tony Stewart became the interim manager. I asked him to.	02:10:27
	Set meetings and give us the data. He immediately did that and we started back on track again. So.	02:10:34
	Have to thank him for that. I think it was the beginning of good things at that point.	02:10:40
	Tony left. We've got a new city manager, things that got even better. OK, so.	02:10:46
	We asked where was an accounting? Basically, how much money came in, where did it go? And the answer was they didn't know.	02:10:51
	OK, so we had to do.	02:11:00
	Forensic accounting and.	02:11:02
	That Lupe as Arrow did it and and spent quite a bit of time figuring out.	02:11:05
	Where the money all went OK, so.	02:11:10
	It to summarize.	02:11:12
	We have the data.	02:11:16
	Up until 2000.	02:11:17
	222022242324 that we haven't received that data yet.	02:11:20
	And we have a budget for 2425.	02:11:27
	So coming up into that time.	02:11:30
	Essentially had brought in about three and a half, $1,000,000 a year, $3,000,000 a year varied a little bit.	02:11:34
	We had about 10.7.	02:11:41
	$1,000,000 that have been collected.	02:11:44
	And when we did the accounting, we figured out that a million seven had not been spent.	02:11:46
	On on anything that that was remotely clear.	02:11:52
	That we were mandated to look at so.	02:11:56
	We we asked us to.	02:12:01
	Get that money in a separate account and.	02:12:03
	City manager went ahead and set it up in a.	02:12:07
	Reserve fund of some sort. I forget the name of it.	02:12:13
	But so we have the money set aside.	02:12:15
	And then the next thing that happened was we realized that the bubbling springs.	02:12:18
	Park did not was was underfunded because of.	02:12:24
	The time had passed and all the bids went up.	02:12:27
	And we authorize that that money.	02:12:30
	We don't authorize it. We recommended that that money be spent on Parks and Rec because that was.	02:12:34
	One of the major things that money was supposed to be spent for. So measure U the money is supposed to be spent on.	02:12:40
	Public safety, which is fairly broad, OK?	02:12:48
	Essentially Public Works Again Broad and Parks and Rec.	02:12:51
	So to date, about half the money has gone to the Police Department.	02:12:57
	About 1/4 of the money has gone to public Works and a quarter of money to Parks and Rec.	02:13:01
	That big chunk of 1,000,007 brought us up to those numbers, if that makes sense so.	02:13:09
	We looked at all the where the money went. I think we came up with one questionable thing after all these years, which was.	02:13:15
	Some some improvements were made to the.	02:13:26
	Public works.	02:13:29
	I don't know room.	02:13:32
	What we call it.	02:13:36
	The break room, which seemed a little sketchy, but.	02:13:38
	It was $8000 out of all these millions, so that was the only thing.	02:13:42
	I felt, or you felt, I think that was even questionable, so.	02:13:47
	We're here tonight to say.	02:13:52
	You get your word.	02:13:55
	OK, now we don't have all we can do is to report our findings to you. We don't have anything.	02:13:56
	We have no authority to say where the money goes or whatever. We can simply say, did the City Council do what they said they were	02:14:04
	going to do? And yes, you have.	02:14:07
	So at this point.	02:14:12
	We also made another transition with the new city manager.	02:14:15
	To have some input on making recommendations about the future where money may go.	02:14:19
	Again, these are recommendations. It's up to you to decide to accept them or not.	02:14:24
	And I think for.	02:14:30
	2425 budget year, I guess that's a.	02:14:34
	I think it goes June to June or something like that. I forget.	02:14:39
	Essentially, the one thing we did want was to not spend all the money.	02:14:42
	OK, there, most of the years we have.	02:14:47
	You kept money and kept it in the general fund and we had a surplus a couple years it went over.	02:14:50
	Legitimate expenses, but we felt like.	02:14:56
	Who knows what's going to happen? Probably be better to have a little bit of cushion.	02:14:59
	So that was one of the recommendations.	02:15:03
	I think we also talked about.	02:15:06
	Maybe some sort of recommending some sort of scholarships for kids who can't afford to be in the junior lifeguard program?	02:15:09
	Which has been highly successful in.	02:15:16
	This is a good way to keep people from drowning going into the future if you want you learn.	02:15:19
	How to deal with ocean currents? You're not going to drown unless you.	02:15:23
	Go to strand when it's 25 foot and.	02:15:28
	Try to go swimming. Hopefully you know not better and the other thing was.	02:15:32
	It turns out there's an enormous amount of children who can't swim.	02:15:41
	That was unheard of when I was to get everybody went swimming, he went to public stuff, everybody swimming, lakes and then pools.	02:15:46
	It's not the case anymore, so.	02:15:52
	One of the things that we thought about was, you know, putting.	02:15:56
	Something into helping kids learn how to swim.	02:15:59
	So those were the.	02:16:02
	Do you guys have any more that you thought about her?	02:16:04
	So again, those are those are our recommendations. They're not binding.	02:16:09
	Oh, then one last thing is.	02:16:14
	The video surveillance systems at Miranda Park and at the pier, apparently.	02:16:17
	Don't work. A lot of money was put into him.	02:16:22
	They've been very valuable tools at different points and we thought.	02:16:26
	Again, that would be another thing that could you could take a look at and if we can get those up and running.	02:16:31
	It's going to be really helpful to us so.	02:16:37
	Thank you. Does any Council member have any questions?	02:16:39
	Sure. Thank you, Mr. Scribner, and members of the committee for your work and for your report tonight. I was looking through the	02:16:45
	staff report and I.	02:16:50
	Was trying to capture your recommendations. I don't see them in writing.	02:16:56
	Were they not included if we?	02:17:00
	So the.	02:17:04
	Two big recommendations that the Measure you committee has made that were referred to. One was.	02:17:07
	Already implemented by the council, it went to council as part of the Bubbling Springs project and that was the recommendation	02:17:14
	where the $1.7 million that hadn't been spent.	02:17:18
	Used to fund the bubbling springs gap.	02:17:24
	So that was the first one mentioned. The second one is budget recommendations for next year's budget.	02:17:29
	Which were the list of projects Mr. Scrivener mentioned at the end?	02:17:34
	Those will be coming to council as part of the budget process.	02:17:38
	Thank you again for your work. Appreciate it. Councilmember Martinez. Yes, I don't have any questions. I just want to say thank	02:17:42
	you for the presentation. I've been looking forward to this presentation since I got on council.	02:17:50
	And I think this is something that.	02:17:58
	And I think the entire council had have seen they they've known your value and we wanted we want you to be successful and I want	02:18:02
	to thank Tony Stewart and also our new city manager for.	02:18:07
	Giving you a place to to hold your meetings and you know, to do what you guys are here to do.	02:18:13
	You know, so thank you for your work.	02:18:19
	Yes, thank you.	02:18:22
	You need to hold us accountable just as much as anyone else says, and that was the whole purpose of the committee, was to hold	02:18:24
	that fund accountable and it's been a bit frustrating.	02:18:29
	To say the least of not being able to hear what was been going on about that. So we are very glad to see it moving forward. So	02:18:34
	thank you.	02:18:37
	Any further?	02:18:42
	Just want to.	02:18:44
	Reiterate what Council Member Martinez said. And Mayor Perez is that the the value of the committee is standing before us and the	02:18:46
	report speaks for itself and I look forward to.	02:18:51
	You working through this next year and helping us?	02:18:56
	Do better.	02:19:00
	Yes, thank you so much for the report. You know, sometimes there's nothing like holding people accountable.	02:19:03
	And I really appreciate your committee being candid.	02:19:09
	About the history.	02:19:12
	The process that you all had to go through, so I really appreciate that. And then based on your report, you have a quarterly	02:19:14
	meetings.	02:19:18
	Yeah, that you'll there be a drum beat for that. So looking forward to, I think we're on track to do that now. OK, great. Great.	02:19:23
	Good to hear. Thank you so much.	02:19:27
	Madam Clerk, are there any public comments regarding this item?	02:19:32
	No public comments. Thank you.	02:19:35
	I guess in closing, I'd just like to say.	02:19:38
	And kind of opening up this can of worms.	02:19:43
	You're not going to find any big problems and the City Council through various and not just you, but we've had other other people	02:19:46
	on the council has really done what they said they were going to do and promised.	02:19:52
	To the voters was capped, so that's made me feel really good. I feel like we're.	02:19:58
	This is an ethical process. You're doing a good job and thank you.	02:20:03
	Well, any news is good news, even if it's bad news, because then it gives us an opportunity to correct whatever mistake was made.	02:20:07
	So we appreciate that.	02:20:10
	So the recommendation is to receive a presentation form from and file the report provided by the Transactions and Use Tax Citizens	02:20:15
	Oversight Committee. May I have a motion and a second?	02:20:20
	Motion to Approve.	02:20:25
	Thank you. No further discussion.	02:20:28
	Madam Clerk.	02:20:30
	All in favor? Aye. All opposed.	02:20:32
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	02:20:35
	The next presentation will be the joint City Port Committee direction, including consideration.	02:20:40
	Of community benefit fund allocations and future priority topics. Will staff please present the report?	02:20:46
	Yes, thank you. And we have.	02:20:53
	A couple of slides here, but we'll keep it.	02:20:55
	Brief thank you.	02:20:59
	This item is on the agenda tonight with, as I mentioned earlier, we have a joint City and Port committee meeting tomorrow here in	02:21:02
	Council chambers.	02:21:07
	So it's really on the agenda here tonight to give the Council an opportunity to provide some of the direction to the committee and	02:21:12
	some of the.	02:21:16
	And in a little bit of the brainstorming of potential projects and programs that can be part of the Community Benefit Fund, which	02:21:21
	is expected to be one of the.	02:21:25
	Major topics at tomorrow's meeting.	02:21:31
	And so just as a reminder and as some background for anybody who doesn't know what the Community Benefit fund, that's what the	02:21:34
	Community Benefit Fund is.	02:21:38
	It's that separate fund that's part of our agreement with the port.	02:21:42
	That in addition to the revenue sharing each year, the port contributes $100,000 annually to a community benefit fund.	02:21:47
	As long as their gross revenues exceed $13 million, there's a little bit of inflation. So it's grown to actually about $130,000 a	02:21:57
	year from the 100, from the 130, I'm sorry, $100,000 that was originally.	02:22:05
	Contributed.	02:22:14
	So we expect it to be about $130,000 this year.	02:22:15
	And the agreement specifies that there's four categories.	02:22:19
	Of Umm.	02:22:23
	Projects that can be funded.	02:22:25
	And the headings for those four categories are shoreline protection projects.	02:22:27
	Community development related projects.	02:22:32
	Opportunistic endeavors. And then #4 is other projects agreed to by both parties.	02:22:35
	So it's pretty broad as long as basically the city and the Board of Harbor Commissioners agree at the end of the day.	02:22:41
	And so tomorrow, we expect tomorrow to be sort of the kickoff meeting on this year's process to talk about the community benefit	02:22:50
	fund moving forward.	02:22:54
	And so I.	02:23:00
	We can talk about, there's probably a couple different elements and one would just be we had talked a little bit about changing	02:23:03
	the process for the community benefit fund and that's something that the port has expressed some interest in talking about, so.	02:23:09
	That's something that that the Council could provide some direction on.	02:23:16
	But I think primarily.	02:23:19
	Our expectation is that it's going to be an early brainstorming of projects.	02:23:22
	And so we wanted to get to provide a list of the projects that have been previously funded by the Community Benefit fund.	02:23:26
	And then give the Council an opportunity to identify any priorities or any new types of projects that would be interested at this	02:23:34
	point.	02:23:38
	And so the next two slides this, this and the following show the prior allocations to the community benefit fund and the projects.	02:23:43
	We will come back to these when we discuss them as it's.	02:23:49
	Fairly lengthy.	02:23:55
	But umm.	02:23:56
	I already talked about that and.	02:24:00
	So the recommendation for this item is for the Council to provide any feedback on the Community benefit fund and projects that the	02:24:04
	Council members would like to see this year.	02:24:09
	And then secondarily, to provide direction to the joint City Port Committee representatives from the city.	02:24:15
	Regarding any future priority topics that the Council wants to make sure that the city representatives.	02:24:23
	Pursue this year at the Joint City Port.	02:24:31
	So those are the two items. I'll hand it back over and then I'll just leave the project slides up and there's two so we can go	02:24:34
	back and forth if people have questions. But that is the staff report. Thank you, City Manager. And I'd like to reiterate just for	02:24:39
	public information because this seems to get lost in translation.	02:24:45
	This is port funds. This does not come from the city. We do not contribute any funds whatsoever to this Community benefit fund. It	02:24:51
	is primarily the port.	02:24:55
	So I think we should start off by discussing.	02:25:01
	Ideas to put forth as anybody, any council member, has any new ideas I'd like to present.	02:25:05
	So we'll start with Councilmember Martinez.	02:25:10
	Did you just see just new ideas or any of these that we would want to continue? Anything that you want to add?	02:25:15
	Or so. When I was on the committee last year, one of the things that the committee had agreed upon was the scholarship, the	02:25:20
	$10,000 scholarship. I know it hasn't happened yet, and it's not one $10,000 scholarship. It was.	02:25:27
	$10,000 for a scholarship ceremony and I think we agreed on most of the money being for the scholarships.	02:25:34
	Like $8500 and then like $1500 for like.	02:25:43
	The dinner and the venue, I think the Port Said that they can get a really good deal on the museum, that they have a contract with	02:25:47
	the museum at the Channel Islands Harbor. So I think that they talked about hosting it there.	02:25:53
	And they that they thought $1500 would be more enough to do the event, but then $8500 would be for scholarships and.	02:25:59
	While we haven't seen the event, I think that would be something to that would be nice to see continue.	02:26:07
	The other thing that we had agreed on was the city port community events at 16,350.	02:26:13
	Originally those were brought up because the CEO.	02:26:20
	Of the poor Kristen Dicas, Mystic Cos.	02:26:24
	She had. I had gone to her for some of the events from last year.	02:26:27
	Such as the last in last April we did, we we hosted a music.	02:26:31
	And literature event which all the entire council participated.	02:26:37
	And and that was funded through just the like the port you know, helping out. And so she had mentioned like hey Bobby, how about	02:26:42
	we use the community benefit fund to do some of these events and that's how that money was allocated for, for those events.	02:26:49
	So maybe next year it would be nice to see something like a music and literature event. I know that this year it was agreed for	02:26:57
	two.	02:27:02
	Like fun runs. Let's just call them fun runs. I know the first one was Run for Your Heart 5K.	02:27:07
	So I would like to see.	02:27:13
	Those those continue, but it I mean I think everybody liked the 5K.	02:27:14
	And I think everybody liked the The Fun Run and I think everybody liked the music and literature event.	02:27:20
	And I think of the city and the port work together.	02:27:25
	They can be better events because if you, as you remember, I was the one that was kind of running around, you know running the	02:27:29
	show on on those two events.	02:27:32
	And maybe I was out of place, you know, doing that, But I really, really wanted to see.	02:27:37
	These events in our community.	02:27:42
	And all the only thing that was lacking was, was the funds and now we have the funds for this year and I think it'd be nice to.	02:27:44
	Continue to see those.	02:27:50
	And my last idea would be.	02:27:52
	Maybe continuing art. I know I'm on the Art Mural Committee with Councilmember Hernandez, and one of the things that we've talked	02:27:55
	is like we're doing a mural and it's going to be a really nice mural on the library.	02:28:00
	But it would be nice to continue to see art grow throughout the city. And so those are the three things that I would want to	02:28:07
	continue to see would be the scholarships.	02:28:11
	The city and poor events so like a joint.	02:28:16
	And and then some some more art and I think that would benefit everyone.	02:28:20
	So I think before we voted individually on these as a council and approved them to move forward or how did we do that before?	02:28:25
	Yeah.	02:28:32
	OK.	02:28:36
	And I think the scholarship is already funded. Money is set aside for that. It just hasn't been in the process for that. Well,	02:28:37
	that's for this year, but aren't we talking about for next, next year, you wanna do a second allocation of scholarship? All I'm	02:28:43
	asking for and it doesn't have to be that amount. It could be less or it could be more, but.	02:28:49
	I would like to continue to see that it'd be nice for our city to be known for like hey are the art port in our city.	02:28:55
	Work together and give scholarships to our youth, to the youth in our community.	02:29:02
	So I think it'd be nice.	02:29:07
	So while we're looking at prior allocations, there are some items on here that have not, like you said, been implemented.	02:29:10
	It might not be necessary to allocate an additional 10,000 if the 10,000 for scholarship.	02:29:18
	Has not been used.	02:29:25
	Well, well, that's supposed to happen this year. Like the the logistics of it still haven't been figured out. I'm not on the	02:29:26
	committee anymore. So now it's up to the new committee members to to to create the process and that's where we left off and.	02:29:34
	You know, I I said I'd be more than open to.	02:29:41
	Give feedback, but I have faith that.	02:29:44
	You know our mayor and our mayor Pro Tem.	02:29:47
	You can make that happen this year.	02:29:49
	The staff or who was that assigned to?	02:29:52
	No, that was that. We haven't moved past the discussion and that the idea part, we haven't moved into the next phase of deciding	02:29:54
	between the port and the city how that's going to look.	02:29:59
	But that would be good to.	02:30:05
	Yeah. So great idea. I think scholarships.	02:30:07
	Scholarships are being accepted now.	02:30:13
	And if we're talking about, we haven't even started yet.	02:30:15
	I think we might miss the window.	02:30:18
	For scholarships? And are you talking about high school students?	02:30:20
	Yeah, I was talking about high school students. Yeah, so.	02:30:24
	Scholarships are being handed out everywhere now. Usually they select applications in April.	02:30:28
	No, I I know that. But I mean, I was a student not that long ago and I know scholarships go all around. I know there's usually a	02:30:35
	cut off in December, but it doesn't mean that we can have a cut off in, say, July. I mean, why? Why would a student not want to	02:30:40
	continue to like if there's a scholarship opportunity, why wouldn't they want to apply for a scholarship opportunity like?	02:30:46
	In July, in June and sometime in the summer.	02:30:52
	You know, so Councilmember Gama, yeah, I think we definitely need to follow through on on that and any others that are languishing	02:30:55
	out there.	02:31:00
	The accounting is got me a little.	02:31:05
	Confused So.	02:31:08
	Let's just look at the top item, the most expensive item, $120,000, which was collected over three years, so in the next year.	02:31:12
	There isn't going to be a $40,000 allocation for the.	02:31:21
	Statue.	02:31:25
	Correct.	02:31:26
	The proposed list well, so next allocation is our.	02:31:30
	Deciding of a monument. That's the next phase. Since theirs is already done it, we're up next.	02:31:35
	Well, I would just want to get on record that I don't want to spend $120,000 on a statue, I think.	02:31:40
	Like.	02:31:47
	Scholarships Real Guppies, Police, Explorers, Boys and Girls Club FIRST Robotics.	02:31:50
	Already mentioned the scholarship support, winemie, high school booster, athletic program. I think these are things that all of us	02:31:57
	could get behind.	02:32:00
	I think in the past we've talked about supporting the youth of our community because many youth in our community are underserved	02:32:04
	and we just learned that there's a high number of kids that don't know how to swim. And we've provided Learn to swim program with	02:32:11
	conjunction with Winemie High School and Oxygen High School District. So I'm.	02:32:17
	I feel good about a lot of the.	02:32:25
	Items on this.	02:32:28
	I don't know what why Nimi Park Sand Enhancement enhancement means. Where did that $20,000 go?	02:32:29
	Yeah, that was a project from three years ago, so I don't have all the detail. This is every allocation we've made in the last	02:32:37
	three years. OK, So there's $20,000 that hasn't been spent in the name of May or May not. I'm just, I'm not sure. There's no	02:32:41
	counting on it.	02:32:46
	OK, so I think.	02:32:51
	I think it would be really nice to.	02:32:53
	To see what we have for the next year like because this has already been spent the 120 thousand 50,000 it's already been spent.	02:32:56
	But to go back on your comment about the public monument barred face the whole process we agreed we council already approved with.	02:33:06
	The port 4 phases.	02:33:15
	And they've already completed their first one.	02:33:18
	They have asked for we and then we asked for our own phase and then there are two other phases that they're interested in. So if	02:33:20
	we do not allocate.	02:33:24
	Our decision on what we want to do for our phase, they will move forward on their two other phases which everyone is they want to.	02:33:28
	So it's not going to stop the phases of monuments just to let you know, well we already approved it.	02:33:33
	Can we rediscuss it, re examine it? I mean, I don't know about how well this first phase is going. The first phase is done.	02:33:39
	There's no more, it's there's no more money going into it.	02:33:45
	Right. The second phase, we agreed, was the City Council doing a tribute in some way to Chumash, OK, And we don't have to do a	02:33:50
	monument, we could do anything we want with it. But sticking on first phase?	02:33:56
	So there's still a.	02:34:02
	There's no decision where the statute is going to go.	02:34:06
	So the statues been built.	02:34:11
	For the first phase.	02:34:13
	But it has not been. A location has not been approved yet, but it's been built.	02:34:15
	And there's no additional funding anticipated for that statue at this time.	02:34:19
	Does that answer kind of, Yeah. And so.	02:34:25
	So again, I think we just need to see what we have available to spend if we funded all the obvious things scholarship.	02:34:28
	I mean, I don't know of any council member that doesn't want to support police explorers.	02:34:37
	Anybody. So there's I think there's a number of things that we all agree on.	02:34:42
	And I think if we could just clear those out.	02:34:46
	And then look at.	02:34:49
	A number that's leftover that we could get creative or.	02:34:51
	New ideas?	02:34:59
	Or for phase two?	02:35:01
	Well, that's what we're looking at now. Do you have any new ideas you'd like to add in addition to what's here if you want to	02:35:04
	reiterate, well again what again what I'm trying to get past is where there's not going to be a $40,000.	02:35:10
	Allocation for the barred face, so.	02:35:16
	Maybe we should get this.	02:35:20
	Presented in a way that says this is how much money we have to allocate. I mean, like I said, there's a number of things here that	02:35:23
	I'm pretty sure that we'll continue to support.	02:35:27
	Can I can I ask that a couple of items remain on the list and maybe that'll get us started? Yes. And then I don't know if there	02:35:37
	needs to be a vote between that. I'd like to just before, I don't remember if we called public comments yet, but we did get it.	02:35:44
	Yes, let's go to public comments right now. Are there any public comments? We have one public comment from Rich Roland. Thank you.	02:35:51
	I.	02:36:00
	Good evening, City Council, Mayor, staff.	02:36:06
	I would like to.	02:36:12
	Provide some suggestions. I know we're all being creative tonight.	02:36:13
	And possible uses for the upcoming.	02:36:19
	Community Benefit Fund.	02:36:22
	Some of it has been mentioned earlier but the port.	02:36:24
	Is a major financial engine and it provides revenue and jobs.	02:36:27
	And community projects throughout the county.	02:36:32
	The initial intent of this Community Benefit fund.	02:36:36
	Was for the city in port to get together to finance projects.	02:36:40
	Focused on providing direct benefits to the residents of Port Hueneme.	02:36:44
	There are some great examples.	02:36:51
	Of how this has been accomplished.	02:36:53
	Some of the things have already been mentioned, but like Little League, the Beach Festival.	02:36:56
	The Real Gupp.	02:37:01
	Port Hueneme Museum.	02:37:03
	With a limited amount of money, $100,000.	02:37:06
	I think this council should look towards prioritizing.	02:37:10
	On projects that specifically?	02:37:14
	Benefit the residents of Port Hueneme. The county provides a lot of different projects that.	02:37:16
	Benefit the county all overall, but $100,000 or now 130,000 is directly for the residents.	02:37:23
	I have a lot of suggestions. I put my creative mind to work.	02:37:33
	Some of these have been mentioned but and I will provide a list to the Council when they're moving forward.	02:37:38
	High school scholarships to.	02:37:45
	For high school students.	02:37:47
	Additional funding for the Historical Museum.	02:37:49
	Picnic facilities at Bunker and.	02:37:54
	Miranda Park.	02:37:57
	A demonstration Water efficient landscaping to show our community.	02:38:00
	How they can save water?	02:38:05
	And still provide quality attractive.	02:38:08
	Attractive landscaping.	02:38:14
	Perhaps think about we're talking about arts in many communities. They have a portable stage that goes throughout the community	02:38:16
	and provides music and art, and it can be used for a variety of of our special events.	02:38:23
	I've seen that work quite effective.	02:38:30
	On a art mural project, Some of.	02:38:34
	People that I've talked to have thought about the ideas of perhaps.	02:38:40
	Decorating and providing murals for the beach lifeguard stands.	02:38:45
	There's also been thoughts about providing art money to do crosswalks within the community.	02:38:49
	Art. Make our community stand out.	02:38:58
	One of the more successful programs that we've had this year.	02:39:01
	Is making that make making the community a.	02:39:05
	Be able to use the Boys and Girls Club gym for various different activities and I think that might be a thought that we could	02:39:11
	expand on that.	02:39:15
	It's right now. It's open two days a week and it's available seven days a week for various different community.	02:39:19
	Involvement.	02:39:26
	I one of the things that they're they're struggling with right now is a tutorial program for the library. A lot of kids especially	02:39:29
	in this community.	02:39:34
	Need a special help for providing tutoring so that the kids can be successful in school?	02:39:41
	And finally, a little thing on that I've gotten a lot of requests at Miranda Park for a tennis backboard.	02:39:49
	There's a lot of people who want to develop their skills, kids and stuff like that. I've talked to the coach.	02:39:57
	And providing A backboard which would be 5 to 10,000 dollars.	02:40:04
	That's something for you to consider.	02:40:10
	The The cost of these projects may exceed what's available for this year.	02:40:13
	But I think they could be incrementally, incrementally done throughout the next few years.	02:40:18
	And I would like you all to consider these projects. Thank you. Thank you.	02:40:25
	Are there any other public comments?	02:40:31
	No more public comments. Thank you. I forgot to mention something. Thank you, Mr. Rollins for.	02:40:37
	Regenerating some of my thoughts.	02:40:44
	So one of the things I think is very important is to support the youth of our community, but also if we could use.	02:40:46
	For example, pedestrian safety at the entrance to the port. It's something that I see.	02:40:53
	Every day and I think.	02:40:59
	Maybe we could use community benefit to address the crosswalking and the safety for pedestrian safety in and around the port.	02:41:02
	Egress when you leave the port.	02:41:13
	I know that we're going to be looking at pedestrian safety across the board, but perhaps.	02:41:16
	We could get creative and use a little bit of community benefit fund to benefit the community who walks to the beach. Thank you. I	02:41:21
	know you're excited, but let me call on you so that I can make sure everybody gets a chance to talk as well.	02:41:27
	Councilmember Hernandez, thank you.	02:41:33
	Were you talking about me being excited or no?	02:41:37
	OK, I am excited.	02:41:41
	Yeah, the first thing I wanted to.	02:41:45
	Ask about is the process Umm.	02:41:48
	The process has evolved over several years now, at least since I've been on the Council.	02:41:51
	With it's been a process of independent.	02:41:58
	Parties weighing in on what they would like on this list of.	02:42:03
	Proposed ideas.	02:42:08
	And I'm wondering if the city port committee has considered.	02:42:10
	Refining that process so that maybe there's an and I don't want to complicate it, I don't want to burden staff with.	02:42:15
	With this.	02:42:22
	The idea of an application process. So we're just not.	02:42:23
	Hand picking we we get the nonprofits out there to actually come to us and say we'd like.	02:42:28
	To be funded to do.	02:42:34
	1-2 and three. So yes. So the port at a previous meeting did discuss and they say they wanted to come up with a.	02:42:36
	Rebranding and a.	02:42:43
	Better way to go about this process so that conversation has not happened but that is something that was.	02:42:45
	Brought up and to be a future agenda item.	02:42:50
	Do we know if it's going to happen tomorrow?	02:42:52
	So we tried to write the agenda broad enough tomorrow that it essentially.	02:42:55
	Whatever direction we want to go on it, we should be able to go. If it's talking about the process and starting an application	02:42:59
	process or if everybody has come together and already knows exactly what projects they are, then there's that possibility too. So	02:43:06
	that could be direction from the council would be wanting to see a more thorough application process. I can imagine it wouldn't be	02:43:12
	something that would happen maybe this year, but maybe leading into next year.	02:43:19
	Umm. So with that said, I'm glad to hear that. Umm.	02:43:26
	I know that this port actually does have a sponsorship sponsorship application process that works. Seems to work very well with	02:43:31
	them, so maybe there's something can?	02:43:35
	Something similar can be done for the Community Benefit Fund.	02:43:40
	As far as projects are concerned, I do want to suggest.	02:43:44
	Several projects that be added to the list. I definitely would like to see a.	02:43:50
	More public line item for public art. It could include another mural. It could be another type of public art piece.	02:43:56
	It could be the artistic crosswalk.	02:44:04
	Which we've already been discussing.	02:44:07
	So.	02:44:10
	The other thing I'd like to add is the Audubon Society. We've funded them.	02:44:14
	In previous years, I'd like to make sure that they're on the list for next year.	02:44:19
	I know they have a need I was given. I was talking to Cynthia Hartley a couple of weekends ago and I don't. I think it has to do	02:44:26
	with fencing.	02:44:30
	They were looking for some assistance with fencing around the.	02:44:36
	A snowy Clover.	02:44:39
	Nesting area.	02:44:41
	Several years back we also funded the Cat's Cradle to do trap and releasing of cats.	02:44:43
	Around the port, this was both a benefit to our residents and to.	02:44:49
	The port itself.	02:44:53
	Cat's Cradle I think stopped doing it, but I believe there is. Either they started doing it again or there's another organization	02:44:56
	that does it. But I I would like to see a line item for the trapping and releasing of feral cats.	02:45:03
	Which is a public nuisance and I think something that we can do something about using the Community benefit funds.	02:45:10
	As far as event planning, if we have an idea for events, I'd like to see the money go toward our beach festival.	02:45:19
	I would think the Beach Festival could probably use some additional funding.	02:45:27
	That would definitely be a joint project with the with the port and the.	02:45:32
	The city also as far as seeing we're doing a lot for youth and I, I I love the idea of doing things for youth, but I don't want to	02:45:36
	forget our seniors. We only have one program here in town for seniors and that's the recreation.	02:45:43
	Um, class that that Sharon Cloris does, and I'd like to see more programs done for seniors.	02:45:52
	The museum could also use some funding I'm sure, as they're trying to. Umm.	02:45:58
	Upgrade.	02:46:04
	Open up soon. I'm sure they could use some funding. I like the idea about the mobile stage. I just don't know.	02:46:05
	Where it could be stored and who would be responsible for putting putting that out?	02:46:12
	Of course the library library could always use some funding. I would be all for that supporting that idea.	02:46:17
	And I think that.	02:46:25
	Concludes my list of suggestions. Thank you before we move on did.	02:46:28
	Council member Gama and Martinez or were any items on the list currently? Did you want to keep on the list?	02:46:33
	Are there any specific?	02:46:40
	That like to keep.	02:46:43
	Yeah, no, of course. Police Explorers. Real guppies in LA. Catch. I know, I know.	02:46:45
	I don't think it's on here, but I know we had supported the Boy Nimi Beach Festival in the past, but then what the port also wants	02:46:51
	is also then to support the banana festival, which is obvious is which makes sense.	02:46:57
	But one of the things that I.	02:47:04
	Did forget to mention his.	02:47:06
	I don't know, maybe even like I like the idea of picnic tables. Maybe some more bonfire pits. I've had people tell me like hey,	02:47:09
	well there's not enough bonfire pits. Umm, I know I happened to Councilmember Gama. She showed up a little too late for his	02:47:13
	birthday and there was number more bonfire pits for him to.	02:47:17
	Enjoy his birthday.	02:47:23
	We still had a fire. You still had a fire, but not on the beach.	02:47:24
	And.	02:47:29
	The another idea that this was brought up by.	02:47:32
	Mike Falcone, He's a resident here in Wine Amy. He works with me at the at the school. He he had talked about maybe having like a	02:47:36
	decorated entrance at front of the pier.	02:47:41
	You know, that's an idea, but I think something like that might be expensive. But I'm just, I'm just throwing it out. I just	02:47:46
	thought I'd at least bring it up.	02:47:49
	But I would really push for like, big city letters, you know? That's just my opinion. Like for. Yeah, sign like.	02:47:53
	Yeah, marquee letters and.	02:48:00
	I think that would be great and I obviously support the Boys and Girls Club or even the opening up the gym.	02:48:02
	And in the library. So I mean I think if we could just give a little bit to each.	02:48:09
	It could $100,000 might not sound like a lot and I think it's 130,000.	02:48:15
	But if you just put like 5000 here, 5000 there, 5000 like it, we can hit a.	02:48:20
	We can do a lot.	02:48:25
	Councilmember.	02:48:27
	I think the Learn to Swim program needs to be a part of that. I know Councilmember Martinez wanted to say it, but.	02:48:29
	Yes.	02:48:35
	But for me any any.	02:48:38
	Any support for the youth of our community is money well spent and.	02:48:40
	I think we've seen the.	02:48:46
	Benefit have you?	02:48:48
	What's going on? Do you have anything?	02:48:51
	I'd like to continue the partnership for the Lego first.	02:49:01
	I think that's actually Lego first. I think it's.	02:49:05
	Robotics.	02:49:08
	Is it?	02:49:12
	Yeah, so I want to go back to the.	02:49:21
	I'm not against scholarships.	02:49:28
	But I am for being intentional.	02:49:30
	And so I just want us to.	02:49:35
	Not just saying, hey, we're gonna do scholarships and we're just gonna.	02:49:40
	No.	02:49:43
	Yeah, I think we definitely need to create a process.	02:49:48
	The tennis wall for the.	02:50:06
	Tennis courts. So I'd like to.	02:50:09
	And another thing that I'd like to and I don't know.	02:50:12
	But we also have a lot of elementary schools.	02:50:24
	And I hardly ever hear us talk about those. So I want to talk a little bit more about the elementary schools as well.	02:50:27
	Can I ask what specifically what do you mean? Like elementary schools? Like what do you want to do? No, I'm just saying.	02:50:36
	We don't do. We don't when we talk about supporting financially or programs.	02:50:41
	I don't see that we think about the elementary schools.	02:50:48
	So we went to a science fair recently to one of the local schools, right? And I know there is a reading that we do, but actually	02:50:52
	going in and.	02:50:57
	Providing some funding.	02:51:02
	Funding for some type of resource.	02:51:04
	Like I said, I'm not sure what it is, but when I?	02:51:06
	What I'm saying is that I want to be inclusive.	02:51:08
	And not just think about certain educational, you know, organizations or facilities, I want to make sure we're thinking	02:51:11
	holistically.	02:51:14
	About the things that we're doing for.	02:51:18
	The students and the children in our city.	02:51:20
	And I think a couple of these things can be removed. For instance whining me beach, parks, bike station can be removed. I think	02:51:24
	the VCLA Academy should be removed.	02:51:28
	Those aren't necessarily proposed for this year. It's just the history of everything we've we funded. So I started, I know it got	02:51:37
	confusing, so I started right now. Just anything that I heard mentioned we put on the list and we can start, you know, maybe with	02:51:42
	that and then.	02:51:47
	Agree on which ones to remove, Boys and Girls Club? We're up to 16 or 17. Which, just as a reminder, if it's $130,000 it means	02:51:53
	that's less than $10,000 each each group. So.	02:51:58
	I also I also wanted to umm.	02:52:05
	Suggests that if we're not going to use the park and sand enhancement, I was told that it was supposed to replenish the sand	02:52:08
	around.	02:52:13
	The playground.	02:52:17
	But I don't know if that's.	02:52:19
	Still necessary considering the situation and status of the current.	02:52:21
	It's a good question. The plan ground the playground.	02:52:26
	So if that's not going to be used for sand, let's throw it back into the pot.	02:52:29
	And anything else that hasn't been spent yet, I guess that's the only one that I see so far.	02:52:34
	We'll double check that between. So there's a process, right? And we all know that, but there's a process and it'll.	02:52:42
	Go to the joint committee and then come back. So when we come back, we'll come back with more information on if any of these are	02:52:48
	still pending.	02:52:51
	Thank you.	02:52:55
	Now the second part of this is future agenda items for the Port City Committee.	02:53:01
	Does any council member have anything they'd like us to present to discuss?	02:53:07
	Yes, I was. We made some news tonight. So the Community Benefit Fund has a COLA.	02:53:13
	Yes, CPI.	02:53:21
	A CPI adjustment. And so that's why it's kind of gradually crept up to I think last year is $127,000. So it's, it's creeping up	02:53:24
	from the original $100,000, OK.	02:53:30
	In terms of a.	02:53:37
	Items to discuss with the board. I think we need to start discussing revenue sharing agreements.	02:53:39
	I think we need to start discussing.	02:53:47
	Pedestrian safety in and around the port. I've already mentioned that.	02:53:50
	I think we need to discuss.	02:53:54
	Sidewalks.	02:53:57
	In and around the port.	02:53:58
	Just to give you an example where I think we missed the opportunity, both the port and the city.	02:54:02
	And the port did a real answer.	02:54:08
	And they installed a lot of rocks and I saw a guy riding a skateboard the other day and he hit a rock and he fell down.	02:54:11
	And you know.	02:54:18
	Don't go well with rollerblading or skateboarding and stuff like that, so I'm just hoping that we could have more engagement with	02:54:20
	the port when.	02:54:24
	Particularly when it concerns.	02:54:29
	The area of market and surfside all the way down to the beach, I think we really need to start focusing on Traffic Safety.	02:54:32
	And pedestrian safety.	02:54:39
	So I would like those two items to be on the agenda. But the agenda is already set, isn't it? No, this is a future. A future. OK,	02:54:42
	So these will be direction for the committee to work on in this coming year.	02:54:48
	Councilmember Martinez, I'm going to go back to you. Do you have anything?	02:54:54
	No, I I think, I think we've done a lot of improvements and at least in terms of like our relationship and like our our.	02:55:02
	But I can I go back and just mention, I don't know if everybody would be interested in in that like sign at the pier.	02:55:11
	Like let's just see if the committee doesn't want it, that's fine. But I at least wanted to bring it up, you know, not not	02:55:18
	Venture, it was. I just looked it up. It was Santa Monica, you know, I know. I think you guys know what Santa, you know. OK yeah.	02:55:24
	Kind of like the Ventura that's that's what Mike had mentioned to me. And so I don't again, you guys can discuss it and but that's	02:55:29
	that's one of the things I just kind of want to throw out there. I'm actually.	02:55:35
	Really happy with this list. I don't think we've.	02:55:42
	We've ever worked this well as a council since I've been on here. I think a lot of the time we're like fighting and bickering and	02:55:44
	like deciding where the money is going to go. We're doing a really good job and I'm really happy with the way that we're going	02:55:49
	about this. And so overall, I see this as an improvement.	02:55:55
	Not just here, but also when we go to the port.	02:56:00
	Right now there isn't anything that I can think of, but I know that we'll like at a future time. If I, if I come with some, come	02:56:04
	up with something, I'll let you know.	02:56:07
	I think I did raise my hand. I do. I think if we could like.	02:56:11
	Have two categories for discussion. Community Benefit Fund is a category in and of itself.	02:56:16
	And then mutual benefit.	02:56:22
	Items.	02:56:27
	That we could work with the port.	02:56:28
	To make our community.	02:56:31
	Friendly for walkers and bikers and all that stuff.	02:56:34
	So.	02:56:38
	In terms of.	02:56:40
	I think Traffic Safety is something that we need to discuss.	02:56:43
	Pedestrian safety, I've already mentioned.	02:56:46
	The revenue sharing agreements moving forward.	02:56:50
	And I think those are the top ones for me.	02:56:55
	I've made I've made note of them.	02:56:58
	Councilmember Hernandez, thank you Mayor's.	02:57:00
	I think this process is working because we've actually scheduled it to be discussed on the agenda.	02:57:04
	And thank you, Mayor.	02:57:10
	Sorry, Councilman Martinez, for for saying that, because this points to the need to continue scheduling.	02:57:13
	Time on our city agenda.	02:57:21
	Before the next city port meeting so we can have these discussions.	02:57:24
	And one of the discussions I'd like to have for us before the next meeting, the next city port meeting, is a discussion on what we	02:57:29
	would like the mayor and mayor Pro Tem to take with them to Washington DC when they do the port trip. So we didn't have an	02:57:34
	opportunity.	02:57:40
	To weigh in on that, what some of our city issues.	02:57:45
	Were or are and what we want advocated.	02:57:50
	On our behalf, when you go to DC, yes, thank you. We did discuss that and we definitely wanted to have a planning session because	02:57:54
	this is going to be a lot more about us.	02:57:58
	And and what we can get out of the DC trip, the first one was.	02:58:03
	They're being in support of the port and pushing the city as well, but we want to be a bigger presence in this next DC trip. So,	02:58:07
	and I know that security for the port is, is an issue and one of the things that came out of our DC trip was.	02:58:14
	It actually they didn't get funded from by FEMA.	02:58:23
	To get the security that they want the security.	02:58:27
	Project funded that they wanted.	02:58:29
	And justice, so that everybody knows here says what actually kind of hurt them was because they have a.	02:58:32
	We have a shared port.	02:58:37
	Shared report between the Oxnard Harbor district and the Navy base. So I think when we do our advocacy, we have to be careful	02:58:39
	with.	02:58:43
	With using that as.	02:58:47
	Has an advantage or a highlight of what makes U.S. special because it actually, in this case worked against.	02:58:49
	Against them because the responsibility got laid on the.	02:58:56
	On the Navy says. Well, if you're partnering with the Navy, the Navy should take care of your security.	02:58:59
	Yeah, so they lost out on the security grant.	02:59:04
	So if I could, I'm sorry to go back to the trip, I think.	02:59:08
	I think we need to continuously.	02:59:15
	Every annually is.	02:59:19
	Keep working to educate about the need for.	02:59:22
	Dredging and the moving of the sand to.	02:59:26
	You know.	02:59:28
	Sea level rise. But here, you know we seem.	02:59:31
	And we're going to discuss it a little bit later, but.	02:59:35
	You know dredging is always an issue, and then it shouldn't be, but it is.	02:59:38
	We're working through some issues right now, so maybe that could be a.	02:59:42
	Start working.	02:59:48
	Today, for two years out, because it does come quick.	02:59:50
	So I think dredging.	02:59:54
	Partnership addressing that.	02:59:57
	For the future.	03:00:01
	OK. If nothing may report him. Do you have anything to add?	03:00:06
	City manager it says city marquee letters and.	03:00:11
	Is that the same as pure sign answer? Is that different?	03:00:14
	I had understood two different things, but up to the Council that.	03:00:17
	Yeah. One I think is the idea, like Puerto Viarta, head of the block letters. That would be somewhere along the walkway, I think	03:00:20
	understood it.	03:00:24
	And then the other is some sort of sign over the pier so but obviously it can be combined or?	03:00:28
	Yeah. In terms of those marquee letters, maybe this would be a good selling point for the port. There can be some that's a port of	03:00:34
	whining me so that there's some just for the port and then there's some for the cities, you know, just just throwing it out.	03:00:40
	I'm sure they would like that and it could be like on the side by the port, you know?	03:00:46
	So can we just add the 5K?	03:00:51
	Talked about, Oh yeah, the the events.	03:00:54
	City events or the City Port events?	03:00:57
	Yeah.	03:01:00
	You know, on the mayor pro tems thought about reaching out to the elementary schools. Maybe we could.	03:01:08
	Really push the Learn to Swim program, expand that and really make it available because because it is super important to get as	03:01:14
	many kids.	03:01:18
	Able to swim, particularly we live near ocean.	03:01:24
	O Maybe we could expand that.	03:01:28
	And then also I think.	03:01:30
	We propose.	03:01:32
	Maybe in the next year where we have an application process where we could go out and.	03:01:34
	Advertise.	03:01:42
	I don't know.	03:01:44
	But I mean, we're pretty set in.	03:01:46
	I mean, look at our list right now, these are.	03:01:48
	Groups that we've supported in the past, we're going to continue to support, and I don't ever see that support waning.	03:01:51
	So maybe a process of opening up to everybody might work against us, but it's something to consider.	03:01:58
	OK. I think we have it down pretty much unless there's anything further.	03:02:10
	So did you have anything? I'm good. So the recommendation is to create a list of projects and programs recommended for funding for	03:02:16
	the Community Benefit Fund and to provide members of the Joint City Committee with direction regarding future priority topics,	03:02:22
	including the Council's identified partnership goals.	03:02:27
	Move to. Approve the recommendation list and.	03:02:34
	The topics for discussion.	03:02:37
	2nd.	03:02:41
	Yes, please, all in favor.	03:02:46
	All opposed.	03:02:49
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	03:02:50
	Thank you.	03:02:53
	The final presentation item is the Dredging project update.	03:02:55
	Mr. City Manager, thank you.	03:03:01
	I'm going to be very brief at this point because it's.	03:03:04
	Our intent is that we're.	03:03:09
	Trying to be sort of one step ahead and and bring the item to the council to get the direction to continue to prioritize this as	03:03:11
	a.	03:03:16
	A project and then continue to work and advocate aggressively for the city.	03:03:21
	But just at a basic level for anyone who's not familiar.	03:03:27
	Our beach is dependent on a dredging project every.	03:03:32
	Few years and.	03:03:38
	And we lose our sand.	03:03:40
	Throughout the year and are the way the port and other items are configured. The sand doesn't isn't able to get back to our beach	03:03:43
	so we have to dredge and with our goal with the county was to dredge about 2.2 million cubic yards biannually so every two years.	03:03:53
	And over the past three dredging cycles.	03:04:03
	Starting with the most recent in 2023, we were able to dredge 2.4 million, which was the first year we had exceeded that goal for	03:04:07
	for quite a while.	03:04:11
	In 2021 we had dredged 1.9 million cubic yards and in 2019 1.6 million cubic yards.	03:04:15
	That.	03:04:21
	A few years prior where we weren't able to dredge the sand as needed, and most people probably remember that was the year that the	03:04:23
	the sand at the beach essentially essentially was gone and we had water right up to our retaining walls.	03:04:30
	And so it's an important project for the city.	03:04:37
	And one of the positives that I can report at this point is we've had some early meetings with the port, with the Channel Islands	03:04:40
	Harbor representatives, with the United States Navy, Beacon and others.	03:04:46
	Involved the Army Corps of Engineers too, as an example.	03:04:53
	And the positive is everybody that we're talking to understands it's important. And for most of those agencies, it's equally	03:04:58
	important. For example, the port and the Navy also. These are critical projects for their benefit as well.	03:05:04
	So the reason why it's on the why it was added to the agenda by the council at the prior meeting, but the reason it was added is	03:05:11
	because of sort of an initial report back from a couple of the agencies involved that the initial budget allocation that they	03:05:18
	expected to see.	03:05:24
	That it wasn't where they expected to see it.	03:05:31
	And so we've had a number of meetings. We've issued letters of support to our senator, representative to the county supervisors	03:05:35
	office, to.	03:05:39
	Different represent.	03:05:44
	And.	03:05:46
	To boil down kind of the summary of what we're hearing talking to them is that it's just the process is happening a little bit	03:05:48
	differently this year.	03:05:53
	But all of those parties involved have told us that this is a priority for them. They've the fact that we came together with the	03:05:58
	port, Beacon and other.	03:06:03
	Groups the harbor and others right away and reached out to them as soon as we had seen that it looked different this year.	03:06:10
	We caught their attention that they understand the importance to us and they understand it's a priority and we've got some	03:06:18
	commitment from some of those.	03:06:21
	Representatives to also.	03:06:26
	Put some effort into making sure that the project's going to happen the way we need it to happen.	03:06:28
	So at this time.	03:06:33
	There isn't any like immediate action. We're meeting with those groups. We've set up some more meetings. The county supervisors	03:06:35
	office is actually going to host kind of a stakeholders meeting that we're going to participate in.	03:06:41
	Beacons already scheduling their sand summit which is another part of this process. So everybody's doing those things and we're	03:06:48
	all making sure we're working together. And so those things are happening. But essentially we wanted to give that status update	03:06:54
	and then just reaffirm what the council and and kind of so everybody understands.	03:07:00
	We're we're going to be in that.	03:07:06
	Process for the next few months and we expect to spend some time doing some of those advocacy items and going into those meetings	03:07:08
	and representing the city.	03:07:13
	And so it's just.	03:07:17
	Kind of explaining that and getting the direction from the Council to make this a priority over the next 6 to 12 months and moving	03:07:21
	forward. Thank you.	03:07:25
	Thank you, the Council. Have any questions at this time? I do, Mr. Gama.	03:07:30
	I have ignored the last few times.	03:07:36
	And allow me to call on you please. Thank you.	03:07:40
	Councilmember Martinez, do you have any questions?	03:07:44
	Council Member Gama, do you have any questions?	03:07:49
	Trying to remember it.	03:07:53
	So I think it's really important when we talk about advocacy to Washington.	03:07:55
	You know, every two years we have to go through this, it seems like.	03:08:01
	And I'd left ten years ago. When?	03:08:04
	Surfside Drive was falling in the ocean and the pier was closed for two years.	03:08:07
	But it just.	03:08:12
	Drives me kind of nuts that.	03:08:14
	Two years ago we thought we finally got to the right people in Washington, and that they understood how critical it is.	03:08:17
	To replace the sand that disappears.	03:08:24
	And then here we are again struggling. So I just want to thank the city manager for getting on this, bringing all the parties	03:08:26
	together. And I think clearly we, you know, we need to do more advocacy on our behalf because it's critically important to our	03:08:32
	community, the port and the Navy.	03:08:37
	Councilmember Hernandez.	03:08:43
	Thank you for your report, Mr. City Manager.	03:08:48
	I'm here for.	03:08:52
	Do you have anything?	03:08:55
	Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments on this item?	03:09:07
	No public comments, Madam Mayor. Thank you.	03:09:12
	So there is no action to be done on this item, this was just to receive a report.	03:09:15
	So the report is received. Thank you City Manager for the update. Thank you.	03:09:21
	And now we'll move on to the City Manager comments and reports.	03:09:26
	Thank you and I have just a few things.	03:09:30
	One, and I know I probably confuse people earlier by scheduling on the fly, but just a reminder that Thursday is a big day for us.	03:09:34
	We have at 10:00 AM the Grocery Outlet Grand opening where I will have our will be able to participate with the ribbon cutting	03:09:43
	which we're excited about.	03:09:48
	And so that's going to happen Thursday at 10:00 AM.	03:09:54
	And then at 3:00 PM with that adjustment, we will have our Arbor Day celebration here outside of City Hall. So we'll be planting	03:09:57
	our trees at that point. So just a reminder on those two we also.	03:10:04
	I just wanted to thank everybody who came out for the Coffee with the City event a couple weeks ago now, which we had a good	03:10:13
	crowd. It was actually a lot more people than I expected. I was sitting out with one person and I kind of was like, well, if we	03:10:20
	talk to one person today, I guess it's it's worth the effort. And then next thing I know there was a lot of people and I was	03:10:27
	behind on handing out the coffee tickets. So it was it got.	03:10:34
	Crowded quickly.	03:10:42
	But that was a very interesting and our hope is we plan to do a couple more and we'll bring some different people.	03:10:42
	We were talking about bringing some of the officers that are involved with some of the different services we provide and bringing	03:10:49
	like our Public works team and some other people. And so we'll try to advertise those in the future with like who's going to be	03:10:55
	there so that when people have questions about certain topics, they can come get information.	03:11:01
	So there's those and then just future agenda items. So for the month of May, each of those meetings in May we'll have, we expect	03:11:07
	to have.	03:11:12
	A meeting where we don't have the full 5 council members because there's some travel going on.	03:11:19
	So a couple of the items.	03:11:25
	That are really important, like the budget and our policy reviewing our Council policies.	03:11:28
	My recommendation is that we do that when we have all five. So that's probably going to both of those would probably be that first	03:11:36
	meeting in June.	03:11:39
	So we're going to shift some things around to make sure we have everybody here for the important or for the most important topics.	03:11:42
	So right now for the May 6th agenda, we have a couple of items scheduled and one is to discuss. Last year the Council asked for an	03:11:49
	opportunity to discuss a flag policy.	03:11:55
	And so we'll bring that at the next meeting.	03:12:01
	And then?	03:12:04
	Let me see.	03:12:07
	We actually worked with the Citizens Advisory Commission committee to update our citywide legislative platform, so we'll bring	03:12:10
	that.	03:12:14
	To that meeting as well.	03:12:18
	And then we'll have our presentation from our sales tax representatives to tell us what the budget sales taxes are looking like	03:12:20
	this coming year. So right now, that's the plan for May 6th. Like I said, just because a couple of those items, I think it's more	03:12:26
	important to have all 5 participate than to rush them, so.	03:12:32
	So those are the items planned for May 6th.	03:12:39
	Any questions for the city manager?	03:12:41
	And yes, Councillor. OK, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. City Manager, I have one question about the Heroes and Heritage	03:12:45
	nominations for this year. When is that application due?	03:12:50
	I don't know offhand, but Charles may know and I.	03:12:58
	I think he's eagerly waiting to come up.	03:13:02
	They're due by June. We just recently made a social media post announcing it and we'll continue to do that a few more times so.	03:13:10
	I'll have to double check one. I think it's June 1, so I think you like about six weeks for nominations.	03:13:18
	Great. Thanks.	03:13:25
	OK, we will now move on to council member reports and comments. I'll start with Council Member Martinez. Thank you, Mayor Perez,	03:13:27
	Sister city. We just had our committee meeting last week. It went well. We're still working on the bylaws, I.	03:13:35
	I don't think you guys want to know everything that went on, but we're we're still just trying to get our nonprofit going. Our	03:13:43
	next meetings on May 1st.	03:13:47
	REACH is having a special meeting tomorrow at 3:00 PM.	03:13:52
	We're still figuring out some stuff to water agency, lots of stuff going, but it might be a little bit boring, right? To mention	03:13:56
	some of this stuff. But what might be interesting, the murals going well, I don't know if Councilmember Hernandez wants to say any	03:14:01
	a little bit more.	03:14:06
	But yeah, it's it's, I'm, I'm excited for the mural. I think it's going to be really, really nice and.	03:14:13
	I don't even know what it's gonna look like, but I know it's gonna be good, you know? That's all I know.	03:14:19
	Thank you, Councilmember Gama, every Saturday.	03:14:25
	Wind, rain, fog.	03:14:28
	We're doing our Winami Beach cleanup. We got the buckets. We got the sticks. So if you're looking to do some Wellness for Wyoming	03:14:32
	Beach, come on down and join us.	03:14:36
	We meet at 8:30 AM at the.	03:14:40
	Memorial.	03:14:46
	My switch keeps going off.	03:14:48
	Councilman Hernandez, thank you Mayor. This Thursday I will be attending the.	03:14:51
	Groundbreaking not the groundbreaking. The blue ribbon. The ribbon cutting for.	03:14:59
	Yeah, I guess we're all getting punchy for Grocery Outlet at 10:00 AM. I'm going to have to break away from the 32nd Annual Water	03:15:04
	Symposium I'll be attending also on Thursday to do that.	03:15:09
	It starts at 7:00 AM and ends at 1:30 and be representing the city at that.	03:15:14
	Symposium and thank you for.	03:15:21
	Umm, for the?	03:15:25
	Complimentary admission to that. I'm glad we don't have to pay $300.00 for me to did.	03:15:27
	To attend that.	03:15:32
	That's five hours of talking about water.	03:15:35
	I know you don't like water. I like water.	03:15:38
	You don't have to worry about water anymore.	03:15:42
	Last week I attended the SCAG Southern California Association of Governments Transportation Committee, which I'm a member, and the	03:15:47
	two takeaways were one is they are announcing.	03:15:53
	The release of the California Active Transportation Program guidelines for 2025.	03:16:00
	That means there's grant money available. Unfortunately, it's grants are due April 30th, but there'll be another round of grants	03:16:06
	next year.	03:16:10
	And just put your thinking caps on and to continue the conversations that we've had around some of these items.	03:16:15
	Infrastructure projects can be funded. That's capital improvement projects.	03:16:21
	Planning for bicycle pedestrians safe routes to school.	03:16:26
	If we want to get a plan done, we can apply for funds to have somebody come in and tell us how to have safe travel routes in our	03:16:31
	city.	03:16:36
	There's non infrastructure projects that could be funded infrastructure projects with non infrastructure components.	03:16:41
	Quick build projects like artistic sidewalks and other traffic calming measures.	03:16:47
	The other fun thing that I heard at this presentation is how many of you remember the Jetsons?	03:16:54
	I know, OK, I know Rich did. OK, we were dating ourselves. But, you know, we might be able to see that in our lifetime. Be we	03:17:00
	heard a fascinating presentation about unmanned aerial vehicles that will transport people for short term.	03:17:08
	Short term trips in Los Angeles, It's actually going to happen there. We're working on it. This Southern California Association of	03:17:18
	Governments is actually working on all the things that have to be thought of.	03:17:23
	Umm in working with the FAA and implementing these?	03:17:29
	Unmanned.	03:17:34
	Vehicles that will transport both people and cargo, so um.	03:17:36
	I think that's to come. So we'll hear more about that has the committee work Consentios and then the mural committee. We had a	03:17:41
	great couple of meetings actually meeting with the artist who the three art top three artists who were selected to provide	03:17:47
	renderings of the vision that we we provided to them.	03:17:53
	They're going to go back now and do several renditions of of.	03:17:59
	Capturing hopefully the the ideas that we provided to them through the committee and other members who participated in the	03:18:04
	process.	03:18:08
	So we'll look forward to having those come back and then there'll be a selection process and everybody will get to see and kind of	03:18:13
	on weigh in on.	03:18:17
	The final product. So we're excited about that.	03:18:21
	And I think that's all I have. Thank you.	03:18:24
	Meerut Protem.	03:18:29
	Thank you, Mayor. I have a lot of things going on with the committees that I participate in.	03:18:30
	The Air Pollution Control Board just approved Councilmember Gammas.	03:18:37
	Onto the APCD Advisory committee.	03:18:42
	And so congratulations for that.	03:18:44
	There is. There was also a hearing.	03:18:48
	To approve the 2023 annual report for air toxins.	03:18:51
	There was about 11 pages of locations throughout Ventura County. The city of Port Hueneme only had four.	03:18:56
	In a naval base, Ventura County, the Air National Guard, Pack Foundries, and USA Gasoline and they were all under the levels	03:19:05
	required to be reported, so that's good news.	03:19:11
	So we should be getting this city should be getting that report.	03:19:18
	For Gold Coast Transit, the board just approved a new fare structure.	03:19:22
	Which is the first one since 2011. So they've been the same prices since 2011. So we just approved the new structure.	03:19:28
	And GCTD wants everyone. This is a notice that they would like everyone to continue to keep in mind. Whenever you think about	03:19:37
	planning any kind of event or any kind of work in your cities to please keep transit in mind. And I know we're we'll we'll be	03:19:44
	having some work done.	03:19:51
	Here on a Ventura road and do want to make sure that we communicate with the transit folks so they know, so they can keep on time	03:19:58
	with their bus routes and all the other things that they have to do.	03:20:03
	The Governance Museum Governance Committee will be meeting on this Friday. We are working continuously trying to get ourselves to	03:20:10
	the point so we can reopen the museum. So work is continuing and we again will be meeting on this Friday to discuss a little more.	03:20:19
	For VCTC, a couple of announcements a.	03:20:28
	VCTC, which is the Ventura County transit.	03:20:33
	Commission. They launched the emergency emergency shuttle service between Santa Paula.	03:20:38
	And Ohio due to the closure of Hwy. 150 and so.	03:20:43
	Some of the things that were happening, you had people in Santa Paula that would go 15 minutes, the 1:50 to take their kids to	03:20:49
	drop off at school and what was happening, they were having to drive an hour around each way.	03:20:56
	Because of the.	03:21:04
	Of the closure of the 1:50. So VCTC launched the emergency shuttle and they'll be doing that until they come up with some	03:21:06
	resolution for the closure of 150.	03:21:12
	And finally just want to share.	03:21:19
	April the 22nd Monday is Earth Day.	03:21:22
	And in celebration of Earth Day, the Ventura County Transit.	03:21:26
	Will be giving free bus rides, and there'll also be free Metrolink rides.	03:21:31
	And so that's all I have. Thank you.	03:21:37
	Thank you. I attended my committee meetings. There's nothing to really report out relevant to.	03:21:39
	The city of Port Hueneme. But I do want to say congratulations to Port Winnie. Me.	03:21:45
	PD Explorer Sergeant Tiffany Zavala for being named Explorer of the Year.	03:21:50
	So they had that ceremony and it was a very nice ceremony and.	03:21:55
	Apologize if anyone did not get the notification for that. I don't think it went out.	03:21:59
	But congratulations to her, who's well deserved. She's um.	03:22:04
	Great addition to the Explorers and puts in a lot of hours and she's going to be a great police officer one day.	03:22:08
	Also, just wanted to make a little note of.	03:22:15
	Working on creating a whining Lions Club charter, which is independent of any other and it's a community service organization to	03:22:19
	help out with volunteerism, support community events and to just provide community service in any area that's needed in the city.	03:22:28
	If anyone is interested in getting involved in that or wants to know what the Lions Club does, who we are and how they can help.	03:22:37
	Get in touch with me and I'll let you know what that means. It's very little effort on your part. Just have a heart for community.	03:22:45
	Have a heart for volunteerism.	03:22:49
	And want to help make a difference in your city.	03:22:53
	And that's all I have.	03:22:56
	Thank you, Mayor. I knew I forgot something. I saw Tom fellow sitting out here in the audience and I just wanted to congratulate	03:23:00
	him on being appointed commander for our local VFW. And I'm surprised to see you here because I thought you were celebrating your	03:23:06
	anniversary. But I want to also say congratulations on your.	03:23:11
	Marriage Your anniversary with a marriage to Marcy.	03:23:18
	Again, thank you and congratulations and.	03:23:27
	Keep up the good work.	03:23:29
	Next, we'll move on to requests for future addenda items. I'd like to remind council members that all requested items will require	03:23:31
	a motion, a second, and a majority vote per adopted council policies to be placed on a future agenda. Do any council members have	03:23:35
	any agenda items?	03:23:39
	Councilmember.	03:23:45
	Council member Hernandez.	03:23:47
	Mayor, pretend.	03:23:49
	All right. No future agenda items. You guys are off the hook.	03:23:51
	I want to thank everyone for attending tonight's meeting and I would like to adjourn this meeting at 8:24.	03:23:55
	We're getting there.	03:24:06

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	I'm going to.	00:00:00
	Good evening.	00:00:04
	Welcome to the closed session portion of the City Council meeting. I am calling this meeting to order. The time is 5:00 PM.	00:00:07
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? Councilmember Gama, Councilmember Hernandez.	00:00:14
	My power's out on my.	00:00:22
	We're good.	00:00:24
	That we're back. I'm here still.	00:00:27
	Here. Councilmember Martinez, present Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lejeune here.	00:00:30
	We will now hear public comments. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. Madam Clerk, does anyone have any public comment tonight? No	00:00:39
	public comments for closed session. Thank you. Mr. City Attorney, Please read the closed session items into the record.	00:00:45
	Absolutely. Mayor Perez, we have two items on closed session tonight. The first one is Conference regarding Public employee	00:00:51
	performance evaluation for the City Attorney pursuant to Government Code Section 54957, subdivision B1.	00:00:57
	The second item is conference with legal counsel regarding existing litigation. That case and Ventura County Superior Court number	00:01:03
	is spelled out in the agenda.	00:01:07
	Thank you. Do any Council members have any conflicts of interest to disclose for the listed closed session items on the agenda?	00:01:12
	Hearing none, we will recess to closed session. The time is 5:01 PM.	00:01:20
	I.	01:31:51
	Good evening.	01:32:23
	Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 632.	01:32:25
	Please stand and join me for the flag salute.	01:32:33
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.	01:32:42
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? Council Member Gama, Council Member Hernandez.	01:33:00
	Here, Councilmember Martinez, present, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lashon here and Mayor Perez here.	01:33:06
	Our inspiration tonight will be given by Council Member Hernandez.	01:33:12
	Thank you, Mayor Perez. I just wanted to.	01:33:20
	Share with all of you inspirational moment I had yesterday and that was the attending the free concert at the Ocean View Pavilion.	01:33:23
	It was a Ventura County was Ventura County.	01:33:31
	Orchestra Group, I believe was the correct name. It was funded through the Ventura County.	01:33:34
	Office of Education, Office of Continuing Education.	01:33:39
	And I couldn't believe the number of people who turned out for it and was mostly seniors.	01:33:43
	And the beautiful thing about it, which to me was so inspirational, was the fact that George.	01:33:48
	Did this a concert for our community for free?	01:33:54
	George does a lot of things for free for our senior community, so this is all for the seniors. I want to extend a huge thanks out	01:33:57
	to George for what he does for our seniors and for all of you to remember our senior community in our decisions that we make. And	01:34:03
	when you see them out in the street, make sure you make them feel welcomed as a member of our community. Thank you, thank you and	01:34:09
	well deserved.	01:34:15
	We'll now move on to closed session report. Mr. City Attorney, please provide the closed session report.	01:34:22
	Thank you, Mayor Perez. There is no legally reportable action taking place in closed session, however.	01:34:27
	I did want to comment on the public employee performance evaluation for the city attorney, and while the rest of the council knows	01:34:33
	and whatnot, I have tendered my resignation to the law firm of Green Departowski.	01:34:39
	And I will no longer be serving as city attorney to this wonderful city. It's been an honor. It's been a privilege. But.	01:34:44
	I have another opportunity that I am very eager to embark on, and part of the reason for the performance evaluation is Andre	01:34:52
	Debornowski and John Smythe of the law firm are seated right down here.	01:34:58
	And they will be taking over providing legal services to the city.	01:35:04
	Thank you all so much.	01:35:08
	Thank you.	01:35:09
	Thank you, Kevin, and we appreciate your service to the city and we.	01:35:13
	Wish you well in your next ever.	01:35:17
	We will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to 3 minutes. This process will be	01:35:21
	the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments? May we address the conflict of	01:35:26
	interest? Oh yes, yes, yes.	01:35:32
	Do any council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item?	01:35:47
	Yes, I do. In regards to the second item on closed session, I live probably 992 feet away from the Surfside Motel.	01:35:52
	And I need to be more than 1000 feet away to avoid any perceived or.	01:36:02
	Property valuation game.	01:36:10
	With whatever transpires in that litigation. So I recused myself.	01:36:13
	OK. Anything further? Good, alright.	01:36:18
	Any public comments, Madam Clerk? Yes, we have public comments. We'll be starting with Becky Bruning.	01:36:22
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, Council staff.	01:36:36
	An audience. I'm here representing Roca P Outdoors.	01:36:40
	And on Sunday the 27th will be our family fish day at the end of the pier.	01:36:45
	From 8:00 to 11:00.	01:36:52
	You need more information, go to our website.	01:36:54
	Broke up the outdoors org.	01:36:58
	And I want to remind everybody that May.	01:37:01
	19th is our dinner or surf and turf dinner.	01:37:04
	And I do have tickets with me if you're interested.	01:37:11
	They are going fast so I would get them if you want them.	01:37:16
	Thank you.	01:37:20
	Timothy.	01:37:22
	Good evening, Mayor Perez, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen, Legion, esteemed council members, city staff, I'm providing an update on the Ray	01:37:31
	Pruder Library in Port Hueneme. We continue to remain closed because of the damage that we sustained during the Christmas storms.	01:37:38
	We anticipate reopening in July. However, there have been some delays that are being caused, you know, working through the	01:37:46
	insurance company and the insurance claim process. So once the construction starts.	01:37:53
	It should be a three to four month project. We are hopeful that we can be starting within before the end of the month.	01:38:01
	So again, our anticipated reopening will be in July and our Friends of the Library will be working.	01:38:08
	To have a reopening celebration, so stay tuned For more information about that thank you for your time, Thank you for your	01:38:14
	support, Thank you.	01:38:18
	Tom King, Mr. King has provided some documents that I'll provide to you later. If any member of the public wishes to see such	01:38:24
	documents, you can please contact me.	01:38:29
	Madam Mayor, Council members, staff, I'm here basically to represent those that are opposed to a proposed monument.	01:38:35
	Over by the.	01:38:45
	Area of Surfside and Market Street.	01:38:47
	I've supplied 10 names so far. I have a total of 40, but that's all that I really wish to present tonight.	01:38:51
	But the purpose of the petition is to oppose the proposed site location of the Bard monument at Winami Wharf and Flag Plaza	01:38:59
	located at Surfside Drive and Market Street, and to urge the Port Hueneme City Council to vote no.	01:39:06
	To this as the location site.	01:39:15
	The Port Commission the 11 foot, 1000 LB. Monument of Richard Bart. The port wants the monument.	01:39:18
	At that Plaza.	01:39:24
	Total respect to the Bart family.	01:39:27
	Certainly to the port and what they do for our community.	01:39:30
	But there's a strong.	01:39:34
	I'll say surge of support for those that are opposed to the placement of this.	01:39:38
	Monument.	01:39:44
	I also included in the handout. I don't know if you have it.	01:39:47
	But the very last page of the presentation that was made on March 18th to the City Council.	01:39:50
	Is the draft of the survey that.	01:39:57
	The port.	01:40:02
	Oxnard Harbor District wanted to present It's Only a draft.	01:40:04
	But they've indicated that the name of the location that we're talking that I'm talking about.	01:40:09
	Is Barnsworth and Flag Plaza.	01:40:16
	I don't believe the city renamed that area.	01:40:19
	I was going to name the 10 people that have signed this particular petition, so I'd like to do that and then yield.	01:40:24
	Myself, Tom King.	01:40:34
	Jessica Lamb, Tom Shannon, Gary Johnson.	01:40:36
	Time Melton John I.	01:40:39
	Elaine Smith, Randall Adams, Steve.	01:40:42
	Boehm and Cheryl McMichael.	01:40:45
	I've indicated in a transcript of those names. Also the preferred location site.	01:40:48
	And I provided the contact information.	01:40:57
	With our clerk.	01:41:00
	Thank you.	01:41:02
	We have one last public comment which was written.	01:41:04
	Dear Can I just quickly respond?	01:41:08
	So just a brief response. So tomorrow we have a joint meeting with the City Council and the port committee and we are expecting to	01:41:11
	get an update on that And so there will be an update provided at that time.	01:41:16
	Dear.	01:41:23
	Could we provide the time and location of that meeting?	01:41:26
	It is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 16th, at 3:30 PM here in the Council Chamber.	01:41:31
	OK, dear Port Wenemee City Council, My name is Jasmine Duran and I am the Advocacy and Community Impact Coordinator for Autism	01:41:37
	Society, Ventura County's Advocacy Committee. Thank you for this proclamation that acknowledges Fair Housing Month.	01:41:44
	At Autism Society of Ventura County, we're emphasizing the importance of fairness, inclusion and.	01:41:51
	Justice and Housing. It's vital to remember that discussions on diversity, equity and inclusion DEI often missed a crucial group.	01:41:57
	People with disabilities.	01:42:05
	Disabilities don't shield anyone from poverty. In fact, many people with disabilities live in abject poverty and never graduate	01:42:06
	out of poverty.	01:42:10
	Not everyone fits into the group home setting that our local regional center offers, yet this is the most common option and offer	01:42:15
	for people with developmental disabilities in Ventura County.	01:42:20
	With at least 10,000 individuals with developmental disabilities in Ventura County, we need to ask.	01:42:27
	How well are we housing them? What programs are there? Who is their advocate when housing is discussed?	01:42:33
	Are there needs being considered? Are they being met? Are there needs being planned for?	01:42:38
	It's time to focus on universal design and reserved housing set asides for people with developmental disabilities. While Port	01:42:43
	Renee has been a champion for housing, it's important for our planning departments to note that being accessible means more than	01:42:49
	just accommodating wheelchairs or physical access.	01:42:54
	It's about making spaces comfortable and usable for everyone, or are universally designed. We hope to work together for a future	01:43:00
	where everyone in our community has a place they can probably call home not just this month, but all year round.	01:43:07
	Thank you for your time and attention Jasmine Duran, that concludes public comment.	01:43:14
	Thank you. And we will now move on to the conflict of interest in Levine Act disclosures for the agenda. Do any council members	01:43:19
	have any conflicts of interest to disclose for the anything on the agenda?	01:43:24
	Seeing none, we'll move on to presentations. Our first presentation is the Fair Housing Month proclamation.	01:43:31
	I'd like to call up DEI Committee Vice Chair Kathy Sullivan and Director of Government Affairs Rob Leatherwood of the Ventura	01:43:38
	County Coastal Association of Realtors.	01:43:43
	To accept a proclamation in honor of Fair Housing Month.	01:43:48
	While they are making their way up, I will read the proclamation.	01:43:52
	Unless somebody else wants to.	01:43:56
	Fair Housing Month 2024, whereas the Fair Housing Act enacted on April 11th, 1968.	01:44:01
	Enshrined into federal law the goal of eliminating racial segregation and ending housing discrimination in the United States.	01:44:08
	And whereas the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination.	01:44:15
	In housing based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, and disability.	01:44:19
	And commits recipients of federal funding to affirmatively further fair housing in their communities.	01:44:26
	And whereas the Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors and the Real Estate Fraud Advisory Team are committed to the	01:44:31
	highlighting Fair Housing Act by continuing to address discrimination in our community by supporting programs that will educate	01:44:37
	the public about the right to equal housing opportunities and by continuing partnerships efforts, partnership efforts with other	01:44:44
	organizations to help assure everyone of their rights to fair housing.	01:44:50
	And whereas the City of Port Hueneme is committed to the mission and intent of Congress to provide fair and equal housing	01:44:57
	opportunities.	01:45:01
	And whereas our social fabric, the economy, health and environment are strengthened in diverse, inclusive communities.	01:45:05
	And whereas more than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, discrimination persists and many communities remain	01:45:12
	segregated.	01:45:16
	And whereas the Acts Acts of housing discrimination and barriers to equal housing opportunity are repugnant to a common sense of	01:45:21
	decency and fairness.	01:45:25
	And whereas the National Association of Realtors Code of Ethics commits all Realtors to provide equal professional services	01:45:30
	without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, familiar status, handicapped sexual orientation, gender identity, or	01:45:35
	national origin.	01:45:40
	Now, therefore, the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, CA.	01:45:46
	Does hair.	01:45:50
	Excuse Me does hereby proclaim April 2024 as Fair Housing Month and begins a year long commemoration of the Fair Housing Act in	01:45:52
	the City of Port Hueneme and urges all citizens to wholeheartedly recognize the celebration throughout the year.	01:46:00
	Good evening, everybody. Thank you, Mayor Perez. Thank you, esteemed council members.	01:46:39
	Thank you neighbors.	01:46:44
	My name is Kathy Sullivan. I'm a local licensed real estate agent.	01:46:45
	I'm also.	01:46:50
	Port Hueneme resident.	01:46:52
	Thank you for allowing us a few moments to speak.	01:46:54
	Excuse me for not being able to remember anything I.	01:47:00
	I'm here this evening as the 2024 DEI Committee Vice Chair.	01:47:04
	I'm representing over 2000 members of the Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors.	01:47:11
	For those who may not know, DEI stands for Diversity, equity and inclusion.	01:47:18
	This April marks the 56th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Title Eight of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.	01:47:25
	And Fair Housing Month across the country.	01:47:33
	As Realtors, we are committed to highlighting the Fair Housing Act by continuing to address discrimination in our community.	01:47:37
	By supporting programs that will educate the public about the right to equal housing opportunities.	01:47:44
	And by planning partnership efforts with other organizations to help ensure that everyone has access to fair housing.	01:47:51
	This brings me to why I'm before you this evening while the process of finding and buying a home.	01:48:01
	Has certainly changed over the last several decades, and generally for the better, more than 50 years after the passage of the	01:48:08
	Fair Housing Act.	01:48:11
	Discrimination persists, and many communities do remain segregated.	01:48:16
	We appreciate this proclamation by the City Council recognizing April as a National Fair housing month.	01:48:22
	And hope you will join us for a year long commemoration of the Fair Housing Act.	01:48:30
	And Port Hueneme and across Ventura County.	01:48:35
	We urge all citizens to wholeheartedly recognize the celebration throughout the year.	01:48:39
	Thank you so much for your time, Council Mayor.	01:48:45
	And my neighbors have a great evening. Thank you.	01:48:49
	Before we move on, I'm going to get an agenda approval.	01:48:55
	May I have a motion in a second?	01:48:59
	So moved.	01:49:01
	Madam Clerk.	01:49:04
	All in favor, aye.	01:49:06
	All opposed.	01:49:08
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:49:09
	Moving on to the second presentation is the Arbor Day Proclamation I'm going to turn this over to.	01:49:12
	Are you doing OK? I'm turning it over to you, Yeah. And so I I get the the privilege of introducing Arbor Day and the proclamation	01:49:19
	honoring Arbor Day this year. Just a little bit of background because people probably notice we do the Arbor Day.	01:49:27
	Proclamation in honor of Arbor Day each year.	01:49:36
	Is that Port Hueneme is a tree city USA, which is something that we take pride in.	01:49:39
	And some people don't know all of what that entails. But.	01:49:44
	Being a tree city, USA city.	01:49:50
	There's a couple of requirements and one is each year we are have to basically reaffirm our commitment to to Arbor Day.	01:49:53
	By recognizing it in a public meeting. And so this helps us actually meet our requirement of continuing to be a tree city USA.	01:50:01
	There's a couple other requirements, things like we have to do a certain amount of tree maintenance each year and we have to have	01:50:09
	an ordinance to manage the trees and things like that. So so we we do all of those things all year round, but each day, each year	01:50:15
	we have one day where we honor Arbor Day.	01:50:20
	And so today is the day that we are introducing our proclamation to celebrate Arbor Day, which will be Thursday, April 18th.	01:50:26
	We're actually holding an event outside out front of City Hall on Thursday the 18th at 10:00 AM.	01:50:35
	We're inviting everybody to come out. If you want to help us actually plant a tree, we're going to have a couple trees actually	01:50:42
	ready to plant so you can come help us plant a tree.	01:50:47
	And kind of help reaffirm our our status as a tree city, USA.	01:50:52
	We're going to be planting on that day a total of 18 trees, mostly California Sycamore trees. Almost all of them are California	01:51:00
	Sycamore trees.	01:51:04
	With the exception of in Winemay Bay on and one of the areas we're going to plant 2 pine trees. So we'll be out planting trees	01:51:09
	that week and we invite everybody to come out on the 18th at 10:00 AM to to help us do that.	01:51:16
	And so with that, we have a proclamation honoring Arbor Day in our city.	01:51:23
	I will read it quickly.	01:51:28
	So whereas in 1872, Jay Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the	01:51:32
	planting of trees.	01:51:36
	And the holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. And whereas	01:51:41
	Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world.	01:51:45
	And whereas trees can reduce wind and water, erosion of our precious topsoil, lower our heating and cooling costs, moderate the	01:51:51
	temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife.	01:51:56
	And trees are a renewable resource, giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires and countless other wood products. And	01:52:03
	whereas trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautify our community.	01:52:09
	And trees, wherever they are planted, are a source of joy and spiritual renewal.	01:52:17
	Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of Port Wine.	01:52:22
	Hereby proclaims the third Thursday in April April 18th.	01:52:25
	As Arbor Day in the City of Port Hueneme and all citizens are urged to celebrate Arbor Day and to support efforts to protect our	01:52:29
	trees and Woodlands.	01:52:32
	We urge all citizens to plant and care for trees, to gladden the heart and promote the well-being of this and future generations.	01:52:37
	And thank you.	01:52:44
	Thank you, Mr. City Manager, I do have a question.	01:52:46
	Is that time set in stone? As you are aware, as I was just reading it, I realized we are opening our grocery store that day and	01:52:49
	most of us will be at the ribbon cutting. So stay tuned. We'll post after this meeting a new time for for that. You should be able	01:52:54
	to adjust that.	01:52:59
	Did you have something to say? Yes. There's two trees here at City Hall that I am particularly proud of. And there are two coastal	01:53:04
	oak trees, and they're out front. And they're in honor of two former mayors, Douglas Breeze and Alice Green.	01:53:12
	And because I'm weird, I'd love to watch these trees because they're slow growing and they're really doing well. So take notice of	01:53:20
	the two coastal oaks out front and watch them slowly grow. And they're in. Like I said, they're in honor of two former mayor's	01:53:27
	Douglas Breeze and Ellis Green.	01:53:33
	And I thank you for explaining that. I think we had a conversation at one time where nobody understood how we became a tree city,	01:53:40
	and you're the first person to actually explain what that meant.	01:53:45
	All right. So moving on, we are going to have a presentation on the sister city presentation by committee Representative Bobby	01:53:51
	Martinez.	01:53:55
	Hi, can everyone hear me? I good evening council, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem.	01:54:08
	City staff and members of the public.	01:54:14
	It's good for me to be out here and give you guys another presentation. As you may remember, this isn't my first presentation	01:54:16
	talking about the sister city program here in our city. Back in 2021, I was given the task of bringing a sister city to to our	01:54:22
	city, our lovely city of Port Hueneme.	01:54:29
	First year I think I pretty much spent the time learning what Sister Cities was, and then the second year.	01:54:36
	Figuring out like picking the city.	01:54:42
	And then by the 3rd year it turns out I was the mayor and then the mayor was the person that goes to the city and and meets with	01:54:45
	the other mayor from the other city and.	01:54:50
	And they agree on creating the sister city committee.	01:54:55
	So I want to and in this presentation, I want to go ahead and and just show you some of the pictures that I took from our.	01:54:59
	Visitation in last November for the other Los Muertos celebration.	01:55:08
	And so before I begin, I just want to show you guys this picture. So if you guys see this is something that I created, but it's,	01:55:13
	it's a blending of both cities. I don't know if you can see it, but Winemie Beach is on there and then you can also see Puerto	01:55:18
	Vallarta too. But it's it's a, it's a blending of bold pictures and then you can also see our logo.	01:55:24
	And all of this is on, it's on our website which the domain is pending, but we do have a Facebook group and then we also have an	01:55:29
	Instagram.	01:55:33
	So here goes.	01:55:37
	So one of the first things that you'll notice about Puerto Vallarta is, which is our sister city, is that there's a lot of art.	01:55:40
	And so one of these days I would like to see similar letters like these in our city, but maybe say Port Hueneme.	01:55:47
	They do have a port Puerto means port in Spanish. So they're they're basically port Vallarta. Like if you think about it they they	01:55:54
	also have a nice beach.	01:56:00
	It's it's a little bit different than our beach.	01:56:07
	They have a harbor.	01:56:09
	They they have a walkway which is really nice, so just.	01:56:11
	One of the first things that I liked about the trips is that it gives us ideas on what we can bring back from the other cities.	01:56:16
	And they're big on tourism. We're not, but I think we can learn a little bit from them, even though I don't think we want to	01:56:23
	become like fully touristy city, but we can definitely learn from.	01:56:28
	From our sister city.	01:56:33
	They have a lot of art on the beach and so these are some interesting chairs. I think they have them all throughout the the major	01:56:35
	cities in Mexico. But people basically go and sit down and take pictures on on these chairs. I think they're like bronze.	01:56:43
	This one is really interesting too. People can go up and take photos. I don't know if that's a liability though, but.	01:56:51
	But it it was fun.	01:56:59
	And just lots of statues throughout the whole.	01:57:02
	It's called.	01:57:07
	Just it'll come back to me. But it's called El Malecon. So when you go to the beach, like by the edge, this is called the Malecon	01:57:10
	and it's a whole walkway that people would like to do. So they go up and down the Malecon.	01:57:16
	So again, lots of lots of art throughout the city.	01:57:23
	I thought it was really nice.	01:57:26
	We did go for the other Los Muertos, so it's a celebration that takes place in Mexico where they honor the people that have passed	01:57:29
	on in their lives.	01:57:33
	And one of the other things that they do in terms of that celebration is they.	01:57:38
	They've been doing this for the last couple years, but getting the biggest cut, the world's biggest Katrina.	01:57:43
	This isn't the world's biggest Katrina, but this was the Puerto Vallarta, Santa Barbara committees, Katrina. So all these	01:57:48
	organizations also have their own Katrinas and they they do a little competition.	01:57:53
	But this is the big Katrina.	01:57:59
	And so they ended up celebrating having the world's largest Katrina in the entire world. So it was a really nice celebration.	01:58:01
	There was honesty out thousands of people. You can't really see it in in in this picture, but.	01:58:08
	The people inside the yellow tape, those are the sister city members from Santa Barbara.	01:58:14
	And then on the other side, it's all the tourists.	01:58:18
	They had a celebration, they had an ASTIG dance, they had some musicians.	01:58:22
	They they had a nice show for us.	01:58:27
	And I even got a chance to go up on on stage and I'm sitting to my.	01:58:32
	To my right or your left, it's the secretary of tourism's.	01:58:38
	The State Secretary of Tourism of the State of Jalisco, and then to her.	01:58:45
	Right. Is the the mayor of the city of Puerto Vallarta and they call their mayor's president is so like the president of the city.	01:58:49
	So that's something that I also learned.	01:58:54
	This was at the cemetery. I kind of wanted a block off.	01:59:00
	The first picture, the one in the background, because I don't know if everybody was OK with me taking pictures of them. It was,	01:59:04
	it's like sensitive. There was people, they were crying, there was people that were celebrating. A lot of people brought in	01:59:10
	musicians, there was flowers, so.	01:59:15
	I didn't take too many pictures in this in this at the cemetery, but it was a learning experience. They also had a.	01:59:21
	A parade, which was really nice.	01:59:28
	So these are some of the people that came out on the parade.	01:59:31
	And so it was. It was similar to our parade.	01:59:33
	Just just so you guys gonna get idea. Wasn't like a very huge parade, but it was a nice celebration. There was a lot of people in	01:59:36
	the parade. Lasted a really, really long time.	01:59:40
	And this was probably like my favorite picture. So a little girl like on a horse that thought it was really cute.	01:59:45
	And then right after the parade, there was also a celebration that the committee had for the Santa Barbara import enemy members.	01:59:52
	And they had some competitions, some prizes, and so it kind of gave me some ideas of what we would do next when they come and	01:59:59
	visit us in our city.	02:00:03
	There was another celebration, totally separate day, so they party a lot.	02:00:09
	But there was they they had different types of dancers from different regions of Mexico, which was nice, and they also had some	02:00:15
	singers.	02:00:19
	And then the people that wanted to take a photo took a picture at the end. Not that wasn't everybody that was there. There was a	02:00:23
	lot of people that didn't want to take a picture, which was fine. I'm somewhere in there in the back.	02:00:28
	But there was a lot of things that we did while we were out there, so it wasn't really a vacation. I know a lot of people consider	02:00:35
	it like a vacation, but Lisa Burns?	02:00:39
	She's the one that told me it's a it's really a working vacation because there's a lot of stuff that you're doing throughout the	02:00:43
	entirety of the trip, and This Is Us meeting with the mayor.	02:00:47
	And planning on some of the things that we can do in the future.	02:00:52
	So that was, that was an honor for me to meet the mayor because in Mexico it's it's.	02:00:55
	It's a little bit different than than here in the United States. Not, not that we're not a special being on council, but over	02:01:01
	there they see it as a really, really.	02:01:06
	Prestigious title to be on, on council or and to be the mayor of of a city.	02:01:12
	And another thing that that Santa Barbara celebrated was breakfast.	02:01:19
	Where they were giving out the scholarship to some of the students and so this is one of the students that received one of the	02:01:24
	scholarships in Mexico.	02:01:27
	School is not free and even though it might not be a lot to pay for school, like say $100 per year, it's some families might not	02:01:31
	be able to afford it. So one of the things that Santa Barbara does is they have these scholarships available for.	02:01:37
	For some of the students out in Mexico. So that's just one of the students.	02:01:44
	They also had a marathon at the time when I was there, so that's when I was like imagining a marathon here in our city. And	02:01:48
	thankfully we had our first ever 5K, which was super cool.	02:01:53
	So that was, it was a really hot day, by the way. It was really, really hot.	02:01:58
	I also visited Bibliotheca Los Mangos on behalf of the our library from Tim Frugal who's who's here and and so he gave me some	02:02:03
	stuff to take to the library. I met their librarian and as you can see right there to the right on the bottom right it's some of	02:02:09
	the letters and some of the books that.	02:02:15
	The students and our youth in our community gave to the community and Puerto Vallarta.	02:02:21
	I also met with the manager of the the museum, their Maritime Museum, so we also have a Maritime Museum. So one of the goals about	02:02:28
	Sister City is trying to connect different businesses and organizations that might have similarities and maybe.	02:02:35
	You can learn from some of the good things that they're doing and then and maybe you can also give them some some ideas. So I	02:02:42
	thought this was cool now.	02:02:46
	I'm still working on the like the our museum to want to.	02:02:52
	Want to work with their museum, but because it's like a military museum, I guess it's it's a little bit more.	02:02:56
	Difficult, but I'm still, I'm still on that.	02:03:01
	I think I get this question asked a lot. You know, what's the point of sister cities?	02:03:06
	Really it's it's like what you want to make of it and it's all about fostering relationships and and growth.	02:03:12
	Sister cities began because right after World War 2, obviously you all know that it was a really bad situation in the whole entire	02:03:19
	world and so.	02:03:24
	President Eisenhower wanted to unite a lot of the communities and cities all throughout the world, so maybe we can promote peace	02:03:29
	and unity amongst all of us.	02:03:34
	So we did get a lot of time to spend with.	02:03:41
	You know people that.	02:03:45
	From a different culture. So right there on the left is Dulce and and she hosted technically, myself, Stephanie, Lisa Burns and	02:03:47
	Scott Burns who are there. They had two guest rooms, so we I stayed with them for two nights before I went back to the beach.	02:03:54
	But she took us out and showed us around, which was nice. But ultimately Puerto Vallarta was beautiful. There was a lot of art.	02:04:01
	And it was a wonderful experience. Our sister city is our nonprofit still not hasn't been created but we've been we've been	02:04:07
	hosting meetings since October. So we're just waiting on the the nonprofit in order for us to to you know to get going and we do	02:04:13
	have members that.	02:04:19
	That want to move forward.	02:04:25
	And like I said, we do have a website and Instagram and Facebook and.	02:04:28
	We're excited to see what we can bring from the city of Puerto Rico over here and I'm hoping it'd be like art and and and	02:04:34
	relationships, fostering relationships.	02:04:39
	So I think that'd be really nice and maybe a little bit of tourism. I hope the public's OK with that. I know we like being a quiet	02:04:44
	city, but I think we would benefit a lot from that.	02:04:48
	And so if there's any questions, I'm all yours.	02:04:53
	Council have any questions?	02:04:56
	Thank you, Councilmember Martinez, for your presentation.	02:05:00
	OK, hope you guys enjoyed it. And if you want to learn more, I actually posted a 26 minute video on my entire trip. I wasn't going	02:05:03
	to show you guys the video, but it's a 26 minute video on my it's on my own personal YouTube channel though, so thank you. Yeah,	02:05:08
	you're welcome. Thank you.	02:05:13
	Mayor, could I quickly note, so we just set a time to not interfere with the Grocery Outlet grand opening, which is at 10:00 AM	02:05:22
	currently. So our Arbor Day celebration will be 3:00 PM that that day so that people can come over after they tire themselves out	02:05:27
	at the Grocery Outlet. Thank you.	02:05:33
	We will move on now to the consent calendar. We will now consider items on the consent calendar which will be enacted in one	02:05:40
	motion unless a Council member has a request to remove an item for discussion.	02:05:45
	May I have a motion and a second?	02:05:50
	Motion to approve Second calendar. Thank you.	02:05:54
	Are there any items that any Councilman would like to remove for discussion?	02:05:59
	Hearing none.	02:06:03
	Madam Clerk.	02:06:04
	All in favor.	02:06:06
	Aye, all opposed.	02:06:08
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We have no public hearings.	02:06:10
	So we'll move on to business items. The first business item is the transaction and use tax Citizens Oversight Committee or	02:06:16
	measure.	02:06:20
	Annual report.	02:06:24
	Well, staff, please present the report.	02:06:25
	Yes. And I think we actually have the measure you chair David Scrivener here to present as well. So I'll just introduce.	02:06:27
	That as part of Measure you and Measure you passed in the City Council created a committee.	02:06:35
	To oversee the measure, you fund our measure you funds.	02:06:42
	And as one of the tasks that was given to the committee at that time was to provide an annual report to the Council.	02:06:47
	Detailing, you know, their their review of measure U and and recommendations et cetera.	02:06:54
	And to date, my understanding is we have never done that and today is the first one and so it marks some history.	02:06:59
	And so I'm going to introduce the Measure You committee, the Tax Citizens Oversight Committee, to give their first ever annual	02:07:08
	report.	02:07:12
	Thank you. Good evening Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, Council staff.	02:07:17
	We have three of us here tonight. I'll do the presentation, but we can ask questions of all of us. This is Beth Williams. She's	02:07:25
	the Vice chair.	02:07:28
	This is Galen Victoria, who's another member of the committee.	02:07:33
	So I think there's a presentation you all have. I don't want to go through the whole thing. It's kind of lengthy, but you can the	02:07:38
	history is there. So I thought I'd just start off with.	02:07:42
	A brief introduction of what this is all about.	02:07:48
	Brief history and then we can talk about where we are now.	02:07:51
	As you all know and have to deal with, we have a really small tax base in Port Hueneme and.	02:07:55
	And we're trying to.	02:08:03
	Have a good police station, I mean Police Department and have quality of life issues here and I think we've done a really good job	02:08:05
	at this but.	02:08:09
	There clearly wasn't enough money.	02:08:14
	Face of these obstacles.	02:08:17
	So in 2018.	02:08:19
	The council put a measure called Measure U on the ballot to basically charge a penny for every dollar of the citizen. Support	02:08:22
	Wayne me.	02:08:27
	Called a transition.	02:08:32
	And something I didn't discover till later is it doesn't matter whether you spend your money in Oxnard, Camarillo or Fort Wayne,	02:08:34
	you still pay the tax.	02:08:39
	Unless you go in there and give them some cash and don't tell you who you are, you're going to get tasked with it. So.	02:08:45
	Basically what happened was the council was unclear. Well.	02:08:51
	The rules are basically that. It took I think a 2/3 majority.	02:08:56
	In order to pass a tax that would go to a dedicated purpose.	02:09:00
	And it took a 51% to go.	02:09:05
	Money that would go into the general fund.	02:09:09
	So the council was unclear whether they would have enough votes.	02:09:11
	Do the the former.	02:09:16
	And so measure you basically goes into the general fund and.	02:09:18
	They made promises where the money would.	02:09:23
	And committed an oversight committee to review things and report back to the council.	02:09:26
	Basically, did you keep your word? OK.	02:09:31
	As it turns out, it was highly popular. It would have passed at the higher level.	02:09:35
	And it received a lot of support.	02:09:40
	So in 2019, we started collecting the money. OK, and?	02:09:42
	Started running into some difficulty.	02:09:51
	Bluntly with some of the former staff members who refused to set up regular meetings didn't give us any data.	02:09:54
	This got really frustrating.	02:10:01
	Many of the people dropped off the.	02:10:04
	The board.	02:10:07
	The one of the difficulties is we can't talk to each other outside of a meeting with an agenda on it.	02:10:10
	And so we can even talk with each other about this by the time.	02:10:16
	We got back on track again. I did. I think I'm the only one who was left and I didn't even know who was on the on the committee	02:10:20
	anymore, so.	02:10:24
	Long and short of it is, Tony Stewart became the interim manager. I asked him to.	02:10:27
	Set meetings and give us the data. He immediately did that and we started back on track again. So.	02:10:34
	Have to thank him for that. I think it was the beginning of good things at that point.	02:10:40
	Tony left. We've got a new city manager, things that got even better. OK, so.	02:10:46
	We asked where was an accounting? Basically, how much money came in, where did it go? And the answer was they didn't know.	02:10:51
	OK, so we had to do.	02:11:00
	Forensic accounting and.	02:11:02
	That Lupe as Arrow did it and and spent quite a bit of time figuring out.	02:11:05
	Where the money all went OK, so.	02:11:10
	It to summarize.	02:11:12
	We have the data.	02:11:16
	Up until 2000.	02:11:17
	222022242324 that we haven't received that data yet.	02:11:20
	And we have a budget for 2425.	02:11:27
	So coming up into that time.	02:11:30
	Essentially had brought in about three and a half, $1,000,000 a year, $3,000,000 a year varied a little bit.	02:11:34
	We had about 10.7.	02:11:41
	$1,000,000 that have been collected.	02:11:44
	And when we did the accounting, we figured out that a million seven had not been spent.	02:11:46
	On on anything that that was remotely clear.	02:11:52
	That we were mandated to look at so.	02:11:56
	We we asked us to.	02:12:01
	Get that money in a separate account and.	02:12:03
	City manager went ahead and set it up in a.	02:12:07
	Reserve fund of some sort. I forget the name of it.	02:12:13
	But so we have the money set aside.	02:12:15
	And then the next thing that happened was we realized that the bubbling springs.	02:12:18
	Park did not was was underfunded because of.	02:12:24
	The time had passed and all the bids went up.	02:12:27
	And we authorize that that money.	02:12:30
	We don't authorize it. We recommended that that money be spent on Parks and Rec because that was.	02:12:34
	One of the major things that money was supposed to be spent for. So measure U the money is supposed to be spent on.	02:12:40
	Public safety, which is fairly broad, OK?	02:12:48
	Essentially Public Works Again Broad and Parks and Rec.	02:12:51
	So to date, about half the money has gone to the Police Department.	02:12:57
	About 1/4 of the money has gone to public Works and a quarter of money to Parks and Rec.	02:13:01
	That big chunk of 1,000,007 brought us up to those numbers, if that makes sense so.	02:13:09
	We looked at all the where the money went. I think we came up with one questionable thing after all these years, which was.	02:13:15
	Some some improvements were made to the.	02:13:26
	Public works.	02:13:29
	I don't know room.	02:13:32
	What we call it.	02:13:36
	The break room, which seemed a little sketchy, but.	02:13:38
	It was $8000 out of all these millions, so that was the only thing.	02:13:42
	I felt, or you felt, I think that was even questionable, so.	02:13:47
	We're here tonight to say.	02:13:52
	You get your word.	02:13:55
	OK, now we don't have all we can do is to report our findings to you. We don't have anything.	02:13:56
	We have no authority to say where the money goes or whatever. We can simply say, did the City Council do what they said they were	02:14:04
	going to do? And yes, you have.	02:14:07
	So at this point.	02:14:12
	We also made another transition with the new city manager.	02:14:15
	To have some input on making recommendations about the future where money may go.	02:14:19
	Again, these are recommendations. It's up to you to decide to accept them or not.	02:14:24
	And I think for.	02:14:30
	2425 budget year, I guess that's a.	02:14:34
	I think it goes June to June or something like that. I forget.	02:14:39
	Essentially, the one thing we did want was to not spend all the money.	02:14:42
	OK, there, most of the years we have.	02:14:47
	You kept money and kept it in the general fund and we had a surplus a couple years it went over.	02:14:50
	Legitimate expenses, but we felt like.	02:14:56
	Who knows what's going to happen? Probably be better to have a little bit of cushion.	02:14:59
	So that was one of the recommendations.	02:15:03
	I think we also talked about.	02:15:06
	Maybe some sort of recommending some sort of scholarships for kids who can't afford to be in the junior lifeguard program?	02:15:09
	Which has been highly successful in.	02:15:16
	This is a good way to keep people from drowning going into the future if you want you learn.	02:15:19
	How to deal with ocean currents? You're not going to drown unless you.	02:15:23
	Go to strand when it's 25 foot and.	02:15:28
	Try to go swimming. Hopefully you know not better and the other thing was.	02:15:32
	It turns out there's an enormous amount of children who can't swim.	02:15:41
	That was unheard of when I was to get everybody went swimming, he went to public stuff, everybody swimming, lakes and then pools.	02:15:46
	It's not the case anymore, so.	02:15:52
	One of the things that we thought about was, you know, putting.	02:15:56
	Something into helping kids learn how to swim.	02:15:59
	So those were the.	02:16:02
	Do you guys have any more that you thought about her?	02:16:04
	So again, those are those are our recommendations. They're not binding.	02:16:09
	Oh, then one last thing is.	02:16:14
	The video surveillance systems at Miranda Park and at the pier, apparently.	02:16:17
	Don't work. A lot of money was put into him.	02:16:22
	They've been very valuable tools at different points and we thought.	02:16:26
	Again, that would be another thing that could you could take a look at and if we can get those up and running.	02:16:31
	It's going to be really helpful to us so.	02:16:37
	Thank you. Does any Council member have any questions?	02:16:39
	Sure. Thank you, Mr. Scribner, and members of the committee for your work and for your report tonight. I was looking through the	02:16:45
	staff report and I.	02:16:50
	Was trying to capture your recommendations. I don't see them in writing.	02:16:56
	Were they not included if we?	02:17:00
	So the.	02:17:04
	Two big recommendations that the Measure you committee has made that were referred to. One was.	02:17:07
	Already implemented by the council, it went to council as part of the Bubbling Springs project and that was the recommendation	02:17:14
	where the $1.7 million that hadn't been spent.	02:17:18
	Used to fund the bubbling springs gap.	02:17:24
	So that was the first one mentioned. The second one is budget recommendations for next year's budget.	02:17:29
	Which were the list of projects Mr. Scrivener mentioned at the end?	02:17:34
	Those will be coming to council as part of the budget process.	02:17:38
	Thank you again for your work. Appreciate it. Councilmember Martinez. Yes, I don't have any questions. I just want to say thank	02:17:42
	you for the presentation. I've been looking forward to this presentation since I got on council.	02:17:50
	And I think this is something that.	02:17:58
	And I think the entire council had have seen they they've known your value and we wanted we want you to be successful and I want	02:18:02
	to thank Tony Stewart and also our new city manager for.	02:18:07
	Giving you a place to to hold your meetings and you know, to do what you guys are here to do.	02:18:13
	You know, so thank you for your work.	02:18:19
	Yes, thank you.	02:18:22
	You need to hold us accountable just as much as anyone else says, and that was the whole purpose of the committee, was to hold	02:18:24
	that fund accountable and it's been a bit frustrating.	02:18:29
	To say the least of not being able to hear what was been going on about that. So we are very glad to see it moving forward. So	02:18:34
	thank you.	02:18:37
	Any further?	02:18:42
	Just want to.	02:18:44
	Reiterate what Council Member Martinez said. And Mayor Perez is that the the value of the committee is standing before us and the	02:18:46
	report speaks for itself and I look forward to.	02:18:51
	You working through this next year and helping us?	02:18:56
	Do better.	02:19:00
	Yes, thank you so much for the report. You know, sometimes there's nothing like holding people accountable.	02:19:03
	And I really appreciate your committee being candid.	02:19:09
	About the history.	02:19:12
	The process that you all had to go through, so I really appreciate that. And then based on your report, you have a quarterly	02:19:14
	meetings.	02:19:18
	Yeah, that you'll there be a drum beat for that. So looking forward to, I think we're on track to do that now. OK, great. Great.	02:19:23
	Good to hear. Thank you so much.	02:19:27
	Madam Clerk, are there any public comments regarding this item?	02:19:32
	No public comments. Thank you.	02:19:35
	I guess in closing, I'd just like to say.	02:19:38
	And kind of opening up this can of worms.	02:19:43
	You're not going to find any big problems and the City Council through various and not just you, but we've had other other people	02:19:46
	on the council has really done what they said they were going to do and promised.	02:19:52
	To the voters was capped, so that's made me feel really good. I feel like we're.	02:19:58
	This is an ethical process. You're doing a good job and thank you.	02:20:03
	Well, any news is good news, even if it's bad news, because then it gives us an opportunity to correct whatever mistake was made.	02:20:07
	So we appreciate that.	02:20:10
	So the recommendation is to receive a presentation form from and file the report provided by the Transactions and Use Tax Citizens	02:20:15
	Oversight Committee. May I have a motion and a second?	02:20:20
	Motion to Approve.	02:20:25
	Thank you. No further discussion.	02:20:28
	Madam Clerk.	02:20:30
	All in favor? Aye. All opposed.	02:20:32
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	02:20:35
	The next presentation will be the joint City Port Committee direction, including consideration.	02:20:40
	Of community benefit fund allocations and future priority topics. Will staff please present the report?	02:20:46
	Yes, thank you. And we have.	02:20:53
	A couple of slides here, but we'll keep it.	02:20:55
	Brief thank you.	02:20:59
	This item is on the agenda tonight with, as I mentioned earlier, we have a joint City and Port committee meeting tomorrow here in	02:21:02
	Council chambers.	02:21:07
	So it's really on the agenda here tonight to give the Council an opportunity to provide some of the direction to the committee and	02:21:12
	some of the.	02:21:16
	And in a little bit of the brainstorming of potential projects and programs that can be part of the Community Benefit Fund, which	02:21:21
	is expected to be one of the.	02:21:25
	Major topics at tomorrow's meeting.	02:21:31
	And so just as a reminder and as some background for anybody who doesn't know what the Community Benefit fund, that's what the	02:21:34
	Community Benefit Fund is.	02:21:38
	It's that separate fund that's part of our agreement with the port.	02:21:42
	That in addition to the revenue sharing each year, the port contributes $100,000 annually to a community benefit fund.	02:21:47
	As long as their gross revenues exceed $13 million, there's a little bit of inflation. So it's grown to actually about $130,000 a	02:21:57
	year from the 100, from the 130, I'm sorry, $100,000 that was originally.	02:22:05
	Contributed.	02:22:14
	So we expect it to be about $130,000 this year.	02:22:15
	And the agreement specifies that there's four categories.	02:22:19
	Of Umm.	02:22:23
	Projects that can be funded.	02:22:25
	And the headings for those four categories are shoreline protection projects.	02:22:27
	Community development related projects.	02:22:32
	Opportunistic endeavors. And then #4 is other projects agreed to by both parties.	02:22:35
	So it's pretty broad as long as basically the city and the Board of Harbor Commissioners agree at the end of the day.	02:22:41
	And so tomorrow, we expect tomorrow to be sort of the kickoff meeting on this year's process to talk about the community benefit	02:22:50
	fund moving forward.	02:22:54
	And so I.	02:23:00
	We can talk about, there's probably a couple different elements and one would just be we had talked a little bit about changing	02:23:03
	the process for the community benefit fund and that's something that the port has expressed some interest in talking about, so.	02:23:09
	That's something that that the Council could provide some direction on.	02:23:16
	But I think primarily.	02:23:19
	Our expectation is that it's going to be an early brainstorming of projects.	02:23:22
	And so we wanted to get to provide a list of the projects that have been previously funded by the Community Benefit fund.	02:23:26
	And then give the Council an opportunity to identify any priorities or any new types of projects that would be interested at this	02:23:34
	point.	02:23:38
	And so the next two slides this, this and the following show the prior allocations to the community benefit fund and the projects.	02:23:43
	We will come back to these when we discuss them as it's.	02:23:49
	Fairly lengthy.	02:23:55
	But umm.	02:23:56
	I already talked about that and.	02:24:00
	So the recommendation for this item is for the Council to provide any feedback on the Community benefit fund and projects that the	02:24:04
	Council members would like to see this year.	02:24:09
	And then secondarily, to provide direction to the joint City Port Committee representatives from the city.	02:24:15
	Regarding any future priority topics that the Council wants to make sure that the city representatives.	02:24:23
	Pursue this year at the Joint City Port.	02:24:31
	So those are the two items. I'll hand it back over and then I'll just leave the project slides up and there's two so we can go	02:24:34
	back and forth if people have questions. But that is the staff report. Thank you, City Manager. And I'd like to reiterate just for	02:24:39
	public information because this seems to get lost in translation.	02:24:45
	This is port funds. This does not come from the city. We do not contribute any funds whatsoever to this Community benefit fund. It	02:24:51
	is primarily the port.	02:24:55
	So I think we should start off by discussing.	02:25:01
	Ideas to put forth as anybody, any council member, has any new ideas I'd like to present.	02:25:05
	So we'll start with Councilmember Martinez.	02:25:10
	Did you just see just new ideas or any of these that we would want to continue? Anything that you want to add?	02:25:15
	Or so. When I was on the committee last year, one of the things that the committee had agreed upon was the scholarship, the	02:25:20
	$10,000 scholarship. I know it hasn't happened yet, and it's not one $10,000 scholarship. It was.	02:25:27
	$10,000 for a scholarship ceremony and I think we agreed on most of the money being for the scholarships.	02:25:34
	Like $8500 and then like $1500 for like.	02:25:43
	The dinner and the venue, I think the Port Said that they can get a really good deal on the museum, that they have a contract with	02:25:47
	the museum at the Channel Islands Harbor. So I think that they talked about hosting it there.	02:25:53
	And they that they thought $1500 would be more enough to do the event, but then $8500 would be for scholarships and.	02:25:59
	While we haven't seen the event, I think that would be something to that would be nice to see continue.	02:26:07
	The other thing that we had agreed on was the city port community events at 16,350.	02:26:13
	Originally those were brought up because the CEO.	02:26:20
	Of the poor Kristen Dicas, Mystic Cos.	02:26:24
	She had. I had gone to her for some of the events from last year.	02:26:27
	Such as the last in last April we did, we we hosted a music.	02:26:31
	And literature event which all the entire council participated.	02:26:37
	And and that was funded through just the like the port you know, helping out. And so she had mentioned like hey Bobby, how about	02:26:42
	we use the community benefit fund to do some of these events and that's how that money was allocated for, for those events.	02:26:49
	So maybe next year it would be nice to see something like a music and literature event. I know that this year it was agreed for	02:26:57
	two.	02:27:02
	Like fun runs. Let's just call them fun runs. I know the first one was Run for Your Heart 5K.	02:27:07
	So I would like to see.	02:27:13
	Those those continue, but it I mean I think everybody liked the 5K.	02:27:14
	And I think everybody liked the The Fun Run and I think everybody liked the music and literature event.	02:27:20
	And I think of the city and the port work together.	02:27:25
	They can be better events because if you, as you remember, I was the one that was kind of running around, you know running the	02:27:29
	show on on those two events.	02:27:32
	And maybe I was out of place, you know, doing that, But I really, really wanted to see.	02:27:37
	These events in our community.	02:27:42
	And all the only thing that was lacking was, was the funds and now we have the funds for this year and I think it'd be nice to.	02:27:44
	Continue to see those.	02:27:50
	And my last idea would be.	02:27:52
	Maybe continuing art. I know I'm on the Art Mural Committee with Councilmember Hernandez, and one of the things that we've talked	02:27:55
	is like we're doing a mural and it's going to be a really nice mural on the library.	02:28:00
	But it would be nice to continue to see art grow throughout the city. And so those are the three things that I would want to	02:28:07
	continue to see would be the scholarships.	02:28:11
	The city and poor events so like a joint.	02:28:16
	And and then some some more art and I think that would benefit everyone.	02:28:20
	So I think before we voted individually on these as a council and approved them to move forward or how did we do that before?	02:28:25
	Yeah.	02:28:32
	OK.	02:28:36
	And I think the scholarship is already funded. Money is set aside for that. It just hasn't been in the process for that. Well,	02:28:37
	that's for this year, but aren't we talking about for next, next year, you wanna do a second allocation of scholarship? All I'm	02:28:43
	asking for and it doesn't have to be that amount. It could be less or it could be more, but.	02:28:49
	I would like to continue to see that it'd be nice for our city to be known for like hey are the art port in our city.	02:28:55
	Work together and give scholarships to our youth, to the youth in our community.	02:29:02
	So I think it'd be nice.	02:29:07
	So while we're looking at prior allocations, there are some items on here that have not, like you said, been implemented.	02:29:10
	It might not be necessary to allocate an additional 10,000 if the 10,000 for scholarship.	02:29:18
	Has not been used.	02:29:25
	Well, well, that's supposed to happen this year. Like the the logistics of it still haven't been figured out. I'm not on the	02:29:26
	committee anymore. So now it's up to the new committee members to to to create the process and that's where we left off and.	02:29:34
	You know, I I said I'd be more than open to.	02:29:41
	Give feedback, but I have faith that.	02:29:44
	You know our mayor and our mayor Pro Tem.	02:29:47
	You can make that happen this year.	02:29:49
	The staff or who was that assigned to?	02:29:52
	No, that was that. We haven't moved past the discussion and that the idea part, we haven't moved into the next phase of deciding	02:29:54
	between the port and the city how that's going to look.	02:29:59
	But that would be good to.	02:30:05
	Yeah. So great idea. I think scholarships.	02:30:07
	Scholarships are being accepted now.	02:30:13
	And if we're talking about, we haven't even started yet.	02:30:15
	I think we might miss the window.	02:30:18
	For scholarships? And are you talking about high school students?	02:30:20
	Yeah, I was talking about high school students. Yeah, so.	02:30:24
	Scholarships are being handed out everywhere now. Usually they select applications in April.	02:30:28
	No, I I know that. But I mean, I was a student not that long ago and I know scholarships go all around. I know there's usually a	02:30:35
	cut off in December, but it doesn't mean that we can have a cut off in, say, July. I mean, why? Why would a student not want to	02:30:40
	continue to like if there's a scholarship opportunity, why wouldn't they want to apply for a scholarship opportunity like?	02:30:46
	In July, in June and sometime in the summer.	02:30:52
	You know, so Councilmember Gama, yeah, I think we definitely need to follow through on on that and any others that are languishing	02:30:55
	out there.	02:31:00
	The accounting is got me a little.	02:31:05
	Confused So.	02:31:08
	Let's just look at the top item, the most expensive item, $120,000, which was collected over three years, so in the next year.	02:31:12
	There isn't going to be a $40,000 allocation for the.	02:31:21
	Statue.	02:31:25
	Correct.	02:31:26
	The proposed list well, so next allocation is our.	02:31:30
	Deciding of a monument. That's the next phase. Since theirs is already done it, we're up next.	02:31:35
	Well, I would just want to get on record that I don't want to spend $120,000 on a statue, I think.	02:31:40
	Like.	02:31:47
	Scholarships Real Guppies, Police, Explorers, Boys and Girls Club FIRST Robotics.	02:31:50
	Already mentioned the scholarship support, winemie, high school booster, athletic program. I think these are things that all of us	02:31:57
	could get behind.	02:32:00
	I think in the past we've talked about supporting the youth of our community because many youth in our community are underserved	02:32:04
	and we just learned that there's a high number of kids that don't know how to swim. And we've provided Learn to swim program with	02:32:11
	conjunction with Winemie High School and Oxygen High School District. So I'm.	02:32:17
	I feel good about a lot of the.	02:32:25
	Items on this.	02:32:28
	I don't know what why Nimi Park Sand Enhancement enhancement means. Where did that $20,000 go?	02:32:29
	Yeah, that was a project from three years ago, so I don't have all the detail. This is every allocation we've made in the last	02:32:37
	three years. OK, So there's $20,000 that hasn't been spent in the name of May or May not. I'm just, I'm not sure. There's no	02:32:41
	counting on it.	02:32:46
	OK, so I think.	02:32:51
	I think it would be really nice to.	02:32:53
	To see what we have for the next year like because this has already been spent the 120 thousand 50,000 it's already been spent.	02:32:56
	But to go back on your comment about the public monument barred face the whole process we agreed we council already approved with.	02:33:06
	The port 4 phases.	02:33:15
	And they've already completed their first one.	02:33:18
	They have asked for we and then we asked for our own phase and then there are two other phases that they're interested in. So if	02:33:20
	we do not allocate.	02:33:24
	Our decision on what we want to do for our phase, they will move forward on their two other phases which everyone is they want to.	02:33:28
	So it's not going to stop the phases of monuments just to let you know, well we already approved it.	02:33:33
	Can we rediscuss it, re examine it? I mean, I don't know about how well this first phase is going. The first phase is done.	02:33:39
	There's no more, it's there's no more money going into it.	02:33:45
	Right. The second phase, we agreed, was the City Council doing a tribute in some way to Chumash, OK, And we don't have to do a	02:33:50
	monument, we could do anything we want with it. But sticking on first phase?	02:33:56
	So there's still a.	02:34:02
	There's no decision where the statute is going to go.	02:34:06
	So the statues been built.	02:34:11
	For the first phase.	02:34:13
	But it has not been. A location has not been approved yet, but it's been built.	02:34:15
	And there's no additional funding anticipated for that statue at this time.	02:34:19
	Does that answer kind of, Yeah. And so.	02:34:25
	So again, I think we just need to see what we have available to spend if we funded all the obvious things scholarship.	02:34:28
	I mean, I don't know of any council member that doesn't want to support police explorers.	02:34:37
	Anybody. So there's I think there's a number of things that we all agree on.	02:34:42
	And I think if we could just clear those out.	02:34:46
	And then look at.	02:34:49
	A number that's leftover that we could get creative or.	02:34:51
	New ideas?	02:34:59
	Or for phase two?	02:35:01
	Well, that's what we're looking at now. Do you have any new ideas you'd like to add in addition to what's here if you want to	02:35:04
	reiterate, well again what again what I'm trying to get past is where there's not going to be a $40,000.	02:35:10
	Allocation for the barred face, so.	02:35:16
	Maybe we should get this.	02:35:20
	Presented in a way that says this is how much money we have to allocate. I mean, like I said, there's a number of things here that	02:35:23
	I'm pretty sure that we'll continue to support.	02:35:27
	Can I can I ask that a couple of items remain on the list and maybe that'll get us started? Yes. And then I don't know if there	02:35:37
	needs to be a vote between that. I'd like to just before, I don't remember if we called public comments yet, but we did get it.	02:35:44
	Yes, let's go to public comments right now. Are there any public comments? We have one public comment from Rich Roland. Thank you.	02:35:51
	I.	02:36:00
	Good evening, City Council, Mayor, staff.	02:36:06
	I would like to.	02:36:12
	Provide some suggestions. I know we're all being creative tonight.	02:36:13
	And possible uses for the upcoming.	02:36:19
	Community Benefit Fund.	02:36:22
	Some of it has been mentioned earlier but the port.	02:36:24
	Is a major financial engine and it provides revenue and jobs.	02:36:27
	And community projects throughout the county.	02:36:32
	The initial intent of this Community Benefit fund.	02:36:36
	Was for the city in port to get together to finance projects.	02:36:40
	Focused on providing direct benefits to the residents of Port Hueneme.	02:36:44
	There are some great examples.	02:36:51
	Of how this has been accomplished.	02:36:53
	Some of the things have already been mentioned, but like Little League, the Beach Festival.	02:36:56
	The Real Gupp.	02:37:01
	Port Hueneme Museum.	02:37:03
	With a limited amount of money, $100,000.	02:37:06
	I think this council should look towards prioritizing.	02:37:10
	On projects that specifically?	02:37:14
	Benefit the residents of Port Hueneme. The county provides a lot of different projects that.	02:37:16
	Benefit the county all overall, but $100,000 or now 130,000 is directly for the residents.	02:37:23
	I have a lot of suggestions. I put my creative mind to work.	02:37:33
	Some of these have been mentioned but and I will provide a list to the Council when they're moving forward.	02:37:38
	High school scholarships to.	02:37:45
	For high school students.	02:37:47
	Additional funding for the Historical Museum.	02:37:49
	Picnic facilities at Bunker and.	02:37:54
	Miranda Park.	02:37:57
	A demonstration Water efficient landscaping to show our community.	02:38:00
	How they can save water?	02:38:05
	And still provide quality attractive.	02:38:08
	Attractive landscaping.	02:38:14
	Perhaps think about we're talking about arts in many communities. They have a portable stage that goes throughout the community	02:38:16
	and provides music and art, and it can be used for a variety of of our special events.	02:38:23
	I've seen that work quite effective.	02:38:30
	On a art mural project, Some of.	02:38:34
	People that I've talked to have thought about the ideas of perhaps.	02:38:40
	Decorating and providing murals for the beach lifeguard stands.	02:38:45
	There's also been thoughts about providing art money to do crosswalks within the community.	02:38:49
	Art. Make our community stand out.	02:38:58
	One of the more successful programs that we've had this year.	02:39:01
	Is making that make making the community a.	02:39:05
	Be able to use the Boys and Girls Club gym for various different activities and I think that might be a thought that we could	02:39:11
	expand on that.	02:39:15
	It's right now. It's open two days a week and it's available seven days a week for various different community.	02:39:19
	Involvement.	02:39:26
	I one of the things that they're they're struggling with right now is a tutorial program for the library. A lot of kids especially	02:39:29
	in this community.	02:39:34
	Need a special help for providing tutoring so that the kids can be successful in school?	02:39:41
	And finally, a little thing on that I've gotten a lot of requests at Miranda Park for a tennis backboard.	02:39:49
	There's a lot of people who want to develop their skills, kids and stuff like that. I've talked to the coach.	02:39:57
	And providing A backboard which would be 5 to 10,000 dollars.	02:40:04
	That's something for you to consider.	02:40:10
	The The cost of these projects may exceed what's available for this year.	02:40:13
	But I think they could be incrementally, incrementally done throughout the next few years.	02:40:18
	And I would like you all to consider these projects. Thank you. Thank you.	02:40:25
	Are there any other public comments?	02:40:31
	No more public comments. Thank you. I forgot to mention something. Thank you, Mr. Rollins for.	02:40:37
	Regenerating some of my thoughts.	02:40:44
	So one of the things I think is very important is to support the youth of our community, but also if we could use.	02:40:46
	For example, pedestrian safety at the entrance to the port. It's something that I see.	02:40:53
	Every day and I think.	02:40:59
	Maybe we could use community benefit to address the crosswalking and the safety for pedestrian safety in and around the port.	02:41:02
	Egress when you leave the port.	02:41:13
	I know that we're going to be looking at pedestrian safety across the board, but perhaps.	02:41:16
	We could get creative and use a little bit of community benefit fund to benefit the community who walks to the beach. Thank you. I	02:41:21
	know you're excited, but let me call on you so that I can make sure everybody gets a chance to talk as well.	02:41:27
	Councilmember Hernandez, thank you.	02:41:33
	Were you talking about me being excited or no?	02:41:37
	OK, I am excited.	02:41:41
	Yeah, the first thing I wanted to.	02:41:45
	Ask about is the process Umm.	02:41:48
	The process has evolved over several years now, at least since I've been on the Council.	02:41:51
	With it's been a process of independent.	02:41:58
	Parties weighing in on what they would like on this list of.	02:42:03
	Proposed ideas.	02:42:08
	And I'm wondering if the city port committee has considered.	02:42:10
	Refining that process so that maybe there's an and I don't want to complicate it, I don't want to burden staff with.	02:42:15
	With this.	02:42:22
	The idea of an application process. So we're just not.	02:42:23
	Hand picking we we get the nonprofits out there to actually come to us and say we'd like.	02:42:28
	To be funded to do.	02:42:34
	1-2 and three. So yes. So the port at a previous meeting did discuss and they say they wanted to come up with a.	02:42:36
	Rebranding and a.	02:42:43
	Better way to go about this process so that conversation has not happened but that is something that was.	02:42:45
	Brought up and to be a future agenda item.	02:42:50
	Do we know if it's going to happen tomorrow?	02:42:52
	So we tried to write the agenda broad enough tomorrow that it essentially.	02:42:55
	Whatever direction we want to go on it, we should be able to go. If it's talking about the process and starting an application	02:42:59
	process or if everybody has come together and already knows exactly what projects they are, then there's that possibility too. So	02:43:06
	that could be direction from the council would be wanting to see a more thorough application process. I can imagine it wouldn't be	02:43:12
	something that would happen maybe this year, but maybe leading into next year.	02:43:19
	Umm. So with that said, I'm glad to hear that. Umm.	02:43:26
	I know that this port actually does have a sponsorship sponsorship application process that works. Seems to work very well with	02:43:31
	them, so maybe there's something can?	02:43:35
	Something similar can be done for the Community Benefit Fund.	02:43:40
	As far as projects are concerned, I do want to suggest.	02:43:44
	Several projects that be added to the list. I definitely would like to see a.	02:43:50
	More public line item for public art. It could include another mural. It could be another type of public art piece.	02:43:56
	It could be the artistic crosswalk.	02:44:04
	Which we've already been discussing.	02:44:07
	So.	02:44:10
	The other thing I'd like to add is the Audubon Society. We've funded them.	02:44:14
	In previous years, I'd like to make sure that they're on the list for next year.	02:44:19
	I know they have a need I was given. I was talking to Cynthia Hartley a couple of weekends ago and I don't. I think it has to do	02:44:26
	with fencing.	02:44:30
	They were looking for some assistance with fencing around the.	02:44:36
	A snowy Clover.	02:44:39
	Nesting area.	02:44:41
	Several years back we also funded the Cat's Cradle to do trap and releasing of cats.	02:44:43
	Around the port, this was both a benefit to our residents and to.	02:44:49
	The port itself.	02:44:53
	Cat's Cradle I think stopped doing it, but I believe there is. Either they started doing it again or there's another organization	02:44:56
	that does it. But I I would like to see a line item for the trapping and releasing of feral cats.	02:45:03
	Which is a public nuisance and I think something that we can do something about using the Community benefit funds.	02:45:10
	As far as event planning, if we have an idea for events, I'd like to see the money go toward our beach festival.	02:45:19
	I would think the Beach Festival could probably use some additional funding.	02:45:27
	That would definitely be a joint project with the with the port and the.	02:45:32
	The city also as far as seeing we're doing a lot for youth and I, I I love the idea of doing things for youth, but I don't want to	02:45:36
	forget our seniors. We only have one program here in town for seniors and that's the recreation.	02:45:43
	Um, class that that Sharon Cloris does, and I'd like to see more programs done for seniors.	02:45:52
	The museum could also use some funding I'm sure, as they're trying to. Umm.	02:45:58
	Upgrade.	02:46:04
	Open up soon. I'm sure they could use some funding. I like the idea about the mobile stage. I just don't know.	02:46:05
	Where it could be stored and who would be responsible for putting putting that out?	02:46:12
	Of course the library library could always use some funding. I would be all for that supporting that idea.	02:46:17
	And I think that.	02:46:25
	Concludes my list of suggestions. Thank you before we move on did.	02:46:28
	Council member Gama and Martinez or were any items on the list currently? Did you want to keep on the list?	02:46:33
	Are there any specific?	02:46:40
	That like to keep.	02:46:43
	Yeah, no, of course. Police Explorers. Real guppies in LA. Catch. I know, I know.	02:46:45
	I don't think it's on here, but I know we had supported the Boy Nimi Beach Festival in the past, but then what the port also wants	02:46:51
	is also then to support the banana festival, which is obvious is which makes sense.	02:46:57
	But one of the things that I.	02:47:04
	Did forget to mention his.	02:47:06
	I don't know, maybe even like I like the idea of picnic tables. Maybe some more bonfire pits. I've had people tell me like hey,	02:47:09
	well there's not enough bonfire pits. Umm, I know I happened to Councilmember Gama. She showed up a little too late for his	02:47:13
	birthday and there was number more bonfire pits for him to.	02:47:17
	Enjoy his birthday.	02:47:23
	We still had a fire. You still had a fire, but not on the beach.	02:47:24
	And.	02:47:29
	The another idea that this was brought up by.	02:47:32
	Mike Falcone, He's a resident here in Wine Amy. He works with me at the at the school. He he had talked about maybe having like a	02:47:36
	decorated entrance at front of the pier.	02:47:41
	You know, that's an idea, but I think something like that might be expensive. But I'm just, I'm just throwing it out. I just	02:47:46
	thought I'd at least bring it up.	02:47:49
	But I would really push for like, big city letters, you know? That's just my opinion. Like for. Yeah, sign like.	02:47:53
	Yeah, marquee letters and.	02:48:00
	I think that would be great and I obviously support the Boys and Girls Club or even the opening up the gym.	02:48:02
	And in the library. So I mean I think if we could just give a little bit to each.	02:48:09
	It could $100,000 might not sound like a lot and I think it's 130,000.	02:48:15
	But if you just put like 5000 here, 5000 there, 5000 like it, we can hit a.	02:48:20
	We can do a lot.	02:48:25
	Councilmember.	02:48:27
	I think the Learn to Swim program needs to be a part of that. I know Councilmember Martinez wanted to say it, but.	02:48:29
	Yes.	02:48:35
	But for me any any.	02:48:38
	Any support for the youth of our community is money well spent and.	02:48:40
	I think we've seen the.	02:48:46
	Benefit have you?	02:48:48
	What's going on? Do you have anything?	02:48:51
	I'd like to continue the partnership for the Lego first.	02:49:01
	I think that's actually Lego first. I think it's.	02:49:05
	Robotics.	02:49:08
	Is it?	02:49:12
	Yeah, so I want to go back to the.	02:49:21
	I'm not against scholarships.	02:49:28
	But I am for being intentional.	02:49:30
	And so I just want us to.	02:49:35
	Not just saying, hey, we're gonna do scholarships and we're just gonna.	02:49:40
	No.	02:49:43
	Yeah, I think we definitely need to create a process.	02:49:48
	The tennis wall for the.	02:50:06
	Tennis courts. So I'd like to.	02:50:09
	And another thing that I'd like to and I don't know.	02:50:12
	But we also have a lot of elementary schools.	02:50:24
	And I hardly ever hear us talk about those. So I want to talk a little bit more about the elementary schools as well.	02:50:27
	Can I ask what specifically what do you mean? Like elementary schools? Like what do you want to do? No, I'm just saying.	02:50:36
	We don't do. We don't when we talk about supporting financially or programs.	02:50:41
	I don't see that we think about the elementary schools.	02:50:48
	So we went to a science fair recently to one of the local schools, right? And I know there is a reading that we do, but actually	02:50:52
	going in and.	02:50:57
	Providing some funding.	02:51:02
	Funding for some type of resource.	02:51:04
	Like I said, I'm not sure what it is, but when I?	02:51:06
	What I'm saying is that I want to be inclusive.	02:51:08
	And not just think about certain educational, you know, organizations or facilities, I want to make sure we're thinking	02:51:11
	holistically.	02:51:14
	About the things that we're doing for.	02:51:18
	The students and the children in our city.	02:51:20
	And I think a couple of these things can be removed. For instance whining me beach, parks, bike station can be removed. I think	02:51:24
	the VCLA Academy should be removed.	02:51:28
	Those aren't necessarily proposed for this year. It's just the history of everything we've we funded. So I started, I know it got	02:51:37
	confusing, so I started right now. Just anything that I heard mentioned we put on the list and we can start, you know, maybe with	02:51:42
	that and then.	02:51:47
	Agree on which ones to remove, Boys and Girls Club? We're up to 16 or 17. Which, just as a reminder, if it's $130,000 it means	02:51:53
	that's less than $10,000 each each group. So.	02:51:58
	I also I also wanted to umm.	02:52:05
	Suggests that if we're not going to use the park and sand enhancement, I was told that it was supposed to replenish the sand	02:52:08
	around.	02:52:13
	The playground.	02:52:17
	But I don't know if that's.	02:52:19
	Still necessary considering the situation and status of the current.	02:52:21
	It's a good question. The plan ground the playground.	02:52:26
	So if that's not going to be used for sand, let's throw it back into the pot.	02:52:29
	And anything else that hasn't been spent yet, I guess that's the only one that I see so far.	02:52:34
	We'll double check that between. So there's a process, right? And we all know that, but there's a process and it'll.	02:52:42
	Go to the joint committee and then come back. So when we come back, we'll come back with more information on if any of these are	02:52:48
	still pending.	02:52:51
	Thank you.	02:52:55
	Now the second part of this is future agenda items for the Port City Committee.	02:53:01
	Does any council member have anything they'd like us to present to discuss?	02:53:07
	Yes, I was. We made some news tonight. So the Community Benefit Fund has a COLA.	02:53:13
	Yes, CPI.	02:53:21
	A CPI adjustment. And so that's why it's kind of gradually crept up to I think last year is $127,000. So it's, it's creeping up	02:53:24
	from the original $100,000, OK.	02:53:30
	In terms of a.	02:53:37
	Items to discuss with the board. I think we need to start discussing revenue sharing agreements.	02:53:39
	I think we need to start discussing.	02:53:47
	Pedestrian safety in and around the port. I've already mentioned that.	02:53:50
	I think we need to discuss.	02:53:54
	Sidewalks.	02:53:57
	In and around the port.	02:53:58
	Just to give you an example where I think we missed the opportunity, both the port and the city.	02:54:02
	And the port did a real answer.	02:54:08
	And they installed a lot of rocks and I saw a guy riding a skateboard the other day and he hit a rock and he fell down.	02:54:11
	And you know.	02:54:18
	Don't go well with rollerblading or skateboarding and stuff like that, so I'm just hoping that we could have more engagement with	02:54:20
	the port when.	02:54:24
	Particularly when it concerns.	02:54:29
	The area of market and surfside all the way down to the beach, I think we really need to start focusing on Traffic Safety.	02:54:32
	And pedestrian safety.	02:54:39
	So I would like those two items to be on the agenda. But the agenda is already set, isn't it? No, this is a future. A future. OK,	02:54:42
	So these will be direction for the committee to work on in this coming year.	02:54:48
	Councilmember Martinez, I'm going to go back to you. Do you have anything?	02:54:54
	No, I I think, I think we've done a lot of improvements and at least in terms of like our relationship and like our our.	02:55:02
	But I can I go back and just mention, I don't know if everybody would be interested in in that like sign at the pier.	02:55:11
	Like let's just see if the committee doesn't want it, that's fine. But I at least wanted to bring it up, you know, not not	02:55:18
	Venture, it was. I just looked it up. It was Santa Monica, you know, I know. I think you guys know what Santa, you know. OK yeah.	02:55:24
	Kind of like the Ventura that's that's what Mike had mentioned to me. And so I don't again, you guys can discuss it and but that's	02:55:29
	that's one of the things I just kind of want to throw out there. I'm actually.	02:55:35
	Really happy with this list. I don't think we've.	02:55:42
	We've ever worked this well as a council since I've been on here. I think a lot of the time we're like fighting and bickering and	02:55:44
	like deciding where the money is going to go. We're doing a really good job and I'm really happy with the way that we're going	02:55:49
	about this. And so overall, I see this as an improvement.	02:55:55
	Not just here, but also when we go to the port.	02:56:00
	Right now there isn't anything that I can think of, but I know that we'll like at a future time. If I, if I come with some, come	02:56:04
	up with something, I'll let you know.	02:56:07
	I think I did raise my hand. I do. I think if we could like.	02:56:11
	Have two categories for discussion. Community Benefit Fund is a category in and of itself.	02:56:16
	And then mutual benefit.	02:56:22
	Items.	02:56:27
	That we could work with the port.	02:56:28
	To make our community.	02:56:31
	Friendly for walkers and bikers and all that stuff.	02:56:34
	So.	02:56:38
	In terms of.	02:56:40
	I think Traffic Safety is something that we need to discuss.	02:56:43
	Pedestrian safety, I've already mentioned.	02:56:46
	The revenue sharing agreements moving forward.	02:56:50
	And I think those are the top ones for me.	02:56:55
	I've made I've made note of them.	02:56:58
	Councilmember Hernandez, thank you Mayor's.	02:57:00
	I think this process is working because we've actually scheduled it to be discussed on the agenda.	02:57:04
	And thank you, Mayor.	02:57:10
	Sorry, Councilman Martinez, for for saying that, because this points to the need to continue scheduling.	02:57:13
	Time on our city agenda.	02:57:21
	Before the next city port meeting so we can have these discussions.	02:57:24
	And one of the discussions I'd like to have for us before the next meeting, the next city port meeting, is a discussion on what we	02:57:29
	would like the mayor and mayor Pro Tem to take with them to Washington DC when they do the port trip. So we didn't have an	02:57:34
	opportunity.	02:57:40
	To weigh in on that, what some of our city issues.	02:57:45
	Were or are and what we want advocated.	02:57:50
	On our behalf, when you go to DC, yes, thank you. We did discuss that and we definitely wanted to have a planning session because	02:57:54
	this is going to be a lot more about us.	02:57:58
	And and what we can get out of the DC trip, the first one was.	02:58:03
	They're being in support of the port and pushing the city as well, but we want to be a bigger presence in this next DC trip. So,	02:58:07
	and I know that security for the port is, is an issue and one of the things that came out of our DC trip was.	02:58:14
	It actually they didn't get funded from by FEMA.	02:58:23
	To get the security that they want the security.	02:58:27
	Project funded that they wanted.	02:58:29
	And justice, so that everybody knows here says what actually kind of hurt them was because they have a.	02:58:32
	We have a shared port.	02:58:37
	Shared report between the Oxnard Harbor district and the Navy base. So I think when we do our advocacy, we have to be careful	02:58:39
	with.	02:58:43
	With using that as.	02:58:47
	Has an advantage or a highlight of what makes U.S. special because it actually, in this case worked against.	02:58:49
	Against them because the responsibility got laid on the.	02:58:56
	On the Navy says. Well, if you're partnering with the Navy, the Navy should take care of your security.	02:58:59
	Yeah, so they lost out on the security grant.	02:59:04
	So if I could, I'm sorry to go back to the trip, I think.	02:59:08
	I think we need to continuously.	02:59:15
	Every annually is.	02:59:19
	Keep working to educate about the need for.	02:59:22
	Dredging and the moving of the sand to.	02:59:26
	You know.	02:59:28
	Sea level rise. But here, you know we seem.	02:59:31
	And we're going to discuss it a little bit later, but.	02:59:35
	You know dredging is always an issue, and then it shouldn't be, but it is.	02:59:38
	We're working through some issues right now, so maybe that could be a.	02:59:42
	Start working.	02:59:48
	Today, for two years out, because it does come quick.	02:59:50
	So I think dredging.	02:59:54
	Partnership addressing that.	02:59:57
	For the future.	03:00:01
	OK. If nothing may report him. Do you have anything to add?	03:00:06
	City manager it says city marquee letters and.	03:00:11
	Is that the same as pure sign answer? Is that different?	03:00:14
	I had understood two different things, but up to the Council that.	03:00:17
	Yeah. One I think is the idea, like Puerto Viarta, head of the block letters. That would be somewhere along the walkway, I think	03:00:20
	understood it.	03:00:24
	And then the other is some sort of sign over the pier so but obviously it can be combined or?	03:00:28
	Yeah. In terms of those marquee letters, maybe this would be a good selling point for the port. There can be some that's a port of	03:00:34
	whining me so that there's some just for the port and then there's some for the cities, you know, just just throwing it out.	03:00:40
	I'm sure they would like that and it could be like on the side by the port, you know?	03:00:46
	So can we just add the 5K?	03:00:51
	Talked about, Oh yeah, the the events.	03:00:54
	City events or the City Port events?	03:00:57
	Yeah.	03:01:00
	You know, on the mayor pro tems thought about reaching out to the elementary schools. Maybe we could.	03:01:08
	Really push the Learn to Swim program, expand that and really make it available because because it is super important to get as	03:01:14
	many kids.	03:01:18
	Able to swim, particularly we live near ocean.	03:01:24
	O Maybe we could expand that.	03:01:28
	And then also I think.	03:01:30
	We propose.	03:01:32
	Maybe in the next year where we have an application process where we could go out and.	03:01:34
	Advertise.	03:01:42
	I don't know.	03:01:44
	But I mean, we're pretty set in.	03:01:46
	I mean, look at our list right now, these are.	03:01:48
	Groups that we've supported in the past, we're going to continue to support, and I don't ever see that support waning.	03:01:51
	So maybe a process of opening up to everybody might work against us, but it's something to consider.	03:01:58
	OK. I think we have it down pretty much unless there's anything further.	03:02:10
	So did you have anything? I'm good. So the recommendation is to create a list of projects and programs recommended for funding for	03:02:16
	the Community Benefit Fund and to provide members of the Joint City Committee with direction regarding future priority topics,	03:02:22
	including the Council's identified partnership goals.	03:02:27
	Move to. Approve the recommendation list and.	03:02:34
	The topics for discussion.	03:02:37
	2nd.	03:02:41
	Yes, please, all in favor.	03:02:46
	All opposed.	03:02:49
	Hearing none motion passes unanimously.	03:02:50
	Thank you.	03:02:53
	The final presentation item is the Dredging project update.	03:02:55
	Mr. City Manager, thank you.	03:03:01
	I'm going to be very brief at this point because it's.	03:03:04
	Our intent is that we're.	03:03:09
	Trying to be sort of one step ahead and and bring the item to the council to get the direction to continue to prioritize this as	03:03:11
	a.	03:03:16
	A project and then continue to work and advocate aggressively for the city.	03:03:21
	But just at a basic level for anyone who's not familiar.	03:03:27
	Our beach is dependent on a dredging project every.	03:03:32
	Few years and.	03:03:38
	And we lose our sand.	03:03:40
	Throughout the year and are the way the port and other items are configured. The sand doesn't isn't able to get back to our beach	03:03:43
	so we have to dredge and with our goal with the county was to dredge about 2.2 million cubic yards biannually so every two years.	03:03:53
	And over the past three dredging cycles.	03:04:03
	Starting with the most recent in 2023, we were able to dredge 2.4 million, which was the first year we had exceeded that goal for	03:04:07
	for quite a while.	03:04:11
	In 2021 we had dredged 1.9 million cubic yards and in 2019 1.6 million cubic yards.	03:04:15
	That.	03:04:21
	A few years prior where we weren't able to dredge the sand as needed, and most people probably remember that was the year that the	03:04:23
	the sand at the beach essentially essentially was gone and we had water right up to our retaining walls.	03:04:30
	And so it's an important project for the city.	03:04:37
	And one of the positives that I can report at this point is we've had some early meetings with the port, with the Channel Islands	03:04:40
	Harbor representatives, with the United States Navy, Beacon and others.	03:04:46
	Involved the Army Corps of Engineers too, as an example.	03:04:53
	And the positive is everybody that we're talking to understands it's important. And for most of those agencies, it's equally	03:04:58
	important. For example, the port and the Navy also. These are critical projects for their benefit as well.	03:05:04
	So the reason why it's on the why it was added to the agenda by the council at the prior meeting, but the reason it was added is	03:05:11
	because of sort of an initial report back from a couple of the agencies involved that the initial budget allocation that they	03:05:18
	expected to see.	03:05:24
	That it wasn't where they expected to see it.	03:05:31
	And so we've had a number of meetings. We've issued letters of support to our senator, representative to the county supervisors	03:05:35
	office, to.	03:05:39
	Different represent.	03:05:44
	And.	03:05:46
	To boil down kind of the summary of what we're hearing talking to them is that it's just the process is happening a little bit	03:05:48
	differently this year.	03:05:53
	But all of those parties involved have told us that this is a priority for them. They've the fact that we came together with the	03:05:58
	port, Beacon and other.	03:06:03
	Groups the harbor and others right away and reached out to them as soon as we had seen that it looked different this year.	03:06:10
	We caught their attention that they understand the importance to us and they understand it's a priority and we've got some	03:06:18
	commitment from some of those.	03:06:21
	Representatives to also.	03:06:26
	Put some effort into making sure that the project's going to happen the way we need it to happen.	03:06:28
	So at this time.	03:06:33
	There isn't any like immediate action. We're meeting with those groups. We've set up some more meetings. The county supervisors	03:06:35
	office is actually going to host kind of a stakeholders meeting that we're going to participate in.	03:06:41
	Beacons already scheduling their sand summit which is another part of this process. So everybody's doing those things and we're	03:06:48
	all making sure we're working together. And so those things are happening. But essentially we wanted to give that status update	03:06:54
	and then just reaffirm what the council and and kind of so everybody understands.	03:07:00
	We're we're going to be in that.	03:07:06
	Process for the next few months and we expect to spend some time doing some of those advocacy items and going into those meetings	03:07:08
	and representing the city.	03:07:13
	And so it's just.	03:07:17
	Kind of explaining that and getting the direction from the Council to make this a priority over the next 6 to 12 months and moving	03:07:21
	forward. Thank you.	03:07:25
	Thank you, the Council. Have any questions at this time? I do, Mr. Gama.	03:07:30
	I have ignored the last few times.	03:07:36
	And allow me to call on you please. Thank you.	03:07:40
	Councilmember Martinez, do you have any questions?	03:07:44
	Council Member Gama, do you have any questions?	03:07:49
	Trying to remember it.	03:07:53
	So I think it's really important when we talk about advocacy to Washington.	03:07:55
	You know, every two years we have to go through this, it seems like.	03:08:01
	And I'd left ten years ago. When?	03:08:04
	Surfside Drive was falling in the ocean and the pier was closed for two years.	03:08:07
	But it just.	03:08:12
	Drives me kind of nuts that.	03:08:14
	Two years ago we thought we finally got to the right people in Washington, and that they understood how critical it is.	03:08:17
	To replace the sand that disappears.	03:08:24
	And then here we are again struggling. So I just want to thank the city manager for getting on this, bringing all the parties	03:08:26
	together. And I think clearly we, you know, we need to do more advocacy on our behalf because it's critically important to our	03:08:32
	community, the port and the Navy.	03:08:37
	Councilmember Hernandez.	03:08:43
	Thank you for your report, Mr. City Manager.	03:08:48
	I'm here for.	03:08:52
	Do you have anything?	03:08:55
	Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments on this item?	03:09:07
	No public comments, Madam Mayor. Thank you.	03:09:12
	So there is no action to be done on this item, this was just to receive a report.	03:09:15
	So the report is received. Thank you City Manager for the update. Thank you.	03:09:21
	And now we'll move on to the City Manager comments and reports.	03:09:26
	Thank you and I have just a few things.	03:09:30
	One, and I know I probably confuse people earlier by scheduling on the fly, but just a reminder that Thursday is a big day for us.	03:09:34
	We have at 10:00 AM the Grocery Outlet Grand opening where I will have our will be able to participate with the ribbon cutting	03:09:43
	which we're excited about.	03:09:48
	And so that's going to happen Thursday at 10:00 AM.	03:09:54
	And then at 3:00 PM with that adjustment, we will have our Arbor Day celebration here outside of City Hall. So we'll be planting	03:09:57
	our trees at that point. So just a reminder on those two we also.	03:10:04
	I just wanted to thank everybody who came out for the Coffee with the City event a couple weeks ago now, which we had a good	03:10:13
	crowd. It was actually a lot more people than I expected. I was sitting out with one person and I kind of was like, well, if we	03:10:20
	talk to one person today, I guess it's it's worth the effort. And then next thing I know there was a lot of people and I was	03:10:27
	behind on handing out the coffee tickets. So it was it got.	03:10:34
	Crowded quickly.	03:10:42
	But that was a very interesting and our hope is we plan to do a couple more and we'll bring some different people.	03:10:42
	We were talking about bringing some of the officers that are involved with some of the different services we provide and bringing	03:10:49
	like our Public works team and some other people. And so we'll try to advertise those in the future with like who's going to be	03:10:55
	there so that when people have questions about certain topics, they can come get information.	03:11:01
	So there's those and then just future agenda items. So for the month of May, each of those meetings in May we'll have, we expect	03:11:07
	to have.	03:11:12
	A meeting where we don't have the full 5 council members because there's some travel going on.	03:11:19
	So a couple of the items.	03:11:25
	That are really important, like the budget and our policy reviewing our Council policies.	03:11:28
	My recommendation is that we do that when we have all five. So that's probably going to both of those would probably be that first	03:11:36
	meeting in June.	03:11:39
	So we're going to shift some things around to make sure we have everybody here for the important or for the most important topics.	03:11:42
	So right now for the May 6th agenda, we have a couple of items scheduled and one is to discuss. Last year the Council asked for an	03:11:49
	opportunity to discuss a flag policy.	03:11:55
	And so we'll bring that at the next meeting.	03:12:01
	And then?	03:12:04
	Let me see.	03:12:07
	We actually worked with the Citizens Advisory Commission committee to update our citywide legislative platform, so we'll bring	03:12:10
	that.	03:12:14
	To that meeting as well.	03:12:18
	And then we'll have our presentation from our sales tax representatives to tell us what the budget sales taxes are looking like	03:12:20
	this coming year. So right now, that's the plan for May 6th. Like I said, just because a couple of those items, I think it's more	03:12:26
	important to have all 5 participate than to rush them, so.	03:12:32
	So those are the items planned for May 6th.	03:12:39
	Any questions for the city manager?	03:12:41
	And yes, Councillor. OK, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. City Manager, I have one question about the Heroes and Heritage	03:12:45
	nominations for this year. When is that application due?	03:12:50
	I don't know offhand, but Charles may know and I.	03:12:58
	I think he's eagerly waiting to come up.	03:13:02
	They're due by June. We just recently made a social media post announcing it and we'll continue to do that a few more times so.	03:13:10
	I'll have to double check one. I think it's June 1, so I think you like about six weeks for nominations.	03:13:18
	Great. Thanks.	03:13:25
	OK, we will now move on to council member reports and comments. I'll start with Council Member Martinez. Thank you, Mayor Perez,	03:13:27
	Sister city. We just had our committee meeting last week. It went well. We're still working on the bylaws, I.	03:13:35
	I don't think you guys want to know everything that went on, but we're we're still just trying to get our nonprofit going. Our	03:13:43
	next meetings on May 1st.	03:13:47
	REACH is having a special meeting tomorrow at 3:00 PM.	03:13:52
	We're still figuring out some stuff to water agency, lots of stuff going, but it might be a little bit boring, right? To mention	03:13:56
	some of this stuff. But what might be interesting, the murals going well, I don't know if Councilmember Hernandez wants to say any	03:14:01
	a little bit more.	03:14:06
	But yeah, it's it's, I'm, I'm excited for the mural. I think it's going to be really, really nice and.	03:14:13
	I don't even know what it's gonna look like, but I know it's gonna be good, you know? That's all I know.	03:14:19
	Thank you, Councilmember Gama, every Saturday.	03:14:25
	Wind, rain, fog.	03:14:28
	We're doing our Winami Beach cleanup. We got the buckets. We got the sticks. So if you're looking to do some Wellness for Wyoming	03:14:32
	Beach, come on down and join us.	03:14:36
	We meet at 8:30 AM at the.	03:14:40
	Memorial.	03:14:46
	My switch keeps going off.	03:14:48
	Councilman Hernandez, thank you Mayor. This Thursday I will be attending the.	03:14:51
	Groundbreaking not the groundbreaking. The blue ribbon. The ribbon cutting for.	03:14:59
	Yeah, I guess we're all getting punchy for Grocery Outlet at 10:00 AM. I'm going to have to break away from the 32nd Annual Water	03:15:04
	Symposium I'll be attending also on Thursday to do that.	03:15:09
	It starts at 7:00 AM and ends at 1:30 and be representing the city at that.	03:15:14
	Symposium and thank you for.	03:15:21
	Umm, for the?	03:15:25
	Complimentary admission to that. I'm glad we don't have to pay $300.00 for me to did.	03:15:27
	To attend that.	03:15:32
	That's five hours of talking about water.	03:15:35
	I know you don't like water. I like water.	03:15:38
	You don't have to worry about water anymore.	03:15:42
	Last week I attended the SCAG Southern California Association of Governments Transportation Committee, which I'm a member, and the	03:15:47
	two takeaways were one is they are announcing.	03:15:53
	The release of the California Active Transportation Program guidelines for 2025.	03:16:00
	That means there's grant money available. Unfortunately, it's grants are due April 30th, but there'll be another round of grants	03:16:06
	next year.	03:16:10
	And just put your thinking caps on and to continue the conversations that we've had around some of these items.	03:16:15
	Infrastructure projects can be funded. That's capital improvement projects.	03:16:21
	Planning for bicycle pedestrians safe routes to school.	03:16:26
	If we want to get a plan done, we can apply for funds to have somebody come in and tell us how to have safe travel routes in our	03:16:31
	city.	03:16:36
	There's non infrastructure projects that could be funded infrastructure projects with non infrastructure components.	03:16:41
	Quick build projects like artistic sidewalks and other traffic calming measures.	03:16:47
	The other fun thing that I heard at this presentation is how many of you remember the Jetsons?	03:16:54
	I know, OK, I know Rich did. OK, we were dating ourselves. But, you know, we might be able to see that in our lifetime. Be we	03:17:00
	heard a fascinating presentation about unmanned aerial vehicles that will transport people for short term.	03:17:08
	Short term trips in Los Angeles, It's actually going to happen there. We're working on it. This Southern California Association of	03:17:18
	Governments is actually working on all the things that have to be thought of.	03:17:23
	Umm in working with the FAA and implementing these?	03:17:29
	Unmanned.	03:17:34
	Vehicles that will transport both people and cargo, so um.	03:17:36
	I think that's to come. So we'll hear more about that has the committee work Consentios and then the mural committee. We had a	03:17:41
	great couple of meetings actually meeting with the artist who the three art top three artists who were selected to provide	03:17:47
	renderings of the vision that we we provided to them.	03:17:53
	They're going to go back now and do several renditions of of.	03:17:59
	Capturing hopefully the the ideas that we provided to them through the committee and other members who participated in the	03:18:04
	process.	03:18:08
	So we'll look forward to having those come back and then there'll be a selection process and everybody will get to see and kind of	03:18:13
	on weigh in on.	03:18:17
	The final product. So we're excited about that.	03:18:21
	And I think that's all I have. Thank you.	03:18:24
	Meerut Protem.	03:18:29
	Thank you, Mayor. I have a lot of things going on with the committees that I participate in.	03:18:30
	The Air Pollution Control Board just approved Councilmember Gammas.	03:18:37
	Onto the APCD Advisory committee.	03:18:42
	And so congratulations for that.	03:18:44
	There is. There was also a hearing.	03:18:48
	To approve the 2023 annual report for air toxins.	03:18:51
	There was about 11 pages of locations throughout Ventura County. The city of Port Hueneme only had four.	03:18:56
	In a naval base, Ventura County, the Air National Guard, Pack Foundries, and USA Gasoline and they were all under the levels	03:19:05
	required to be reported, so that's good news.	03:19:11
	So we should be getting this city should be getting that report.	03:19:18
	For Gold Coast Transit, the board just approved a new fare structure.	03:19:22
	Which is the first one since 2011. So they've been the same prices since 2011. So we just approved the new structure.	03:19:28
	And GCTD wants everyone. This is a notice that they would like everyone to continue to keep in mind. Whenever you think about	03:19:37
	planning any kind of event or any kind of work in your cities to please keep transit in mind. And I know we're we'll we'll be	03:19:44
	having some work done.	03:19:51
	Here on a Ventura road and do want to make sure that we communicate with the transit folks so they know, so they can keep on time	03:19:58
	with their bus routes and all the other things that they have to do.	03:20:03
	The Governance Museum Governance Committee will be meeting on this Friday. We are working continuously trying to get ourselves to	03:20:10
	the point so we can reopen the museum. So work is continuing and we again will be meeting on this Friday to discuss a little more.	03:20:19
	For VCTC, a couple of announcements a.	03:20:28
	VCTC, which is the Ventura County transit.	03:20:33
	Commission. They launched the emergency emergency shuttle service between Santa Paula.	03:20:38
	And Ohio due to the closure of Hwy. 150 and so.	03:20:43
	Some of the things that were happening, you had people in Santa Paula that would go 15 minutes, the 1:50 to take their kids to	03:20:49
	drop off at school and what was happening, they were having to drive an hour around each way.	03:20:56
	Because of the.	03:21:04
	Of the closure of the 1:50. So VCTC launched the emergency shuttle and they'll be doing that until they come up with some	03:21:06
	resolution for the closure of 150.	03:21:12
	And finally just want to share.	03:21:19
	April the 22nd Monday is Earth Day.	03:21:22
	And in celebration of Earth Day, the Ventura County Transit.	03:21:26
	Will be giving free bus rides, and there'll also be free Metrolink rides.	03:21:31
	And so that's all I have. Thank you.	03:21:37
	Thank you. I attended my committee meetings. There's nothing to really report out relevant to.	03:21:39
	The city of Port Hueneme. But I do want to say congratulations to Port Winnie. Me.	03:21:45
	PD Explorer Sergeant Tiffany Zavala for being named Explorer of the Year.	03:21:50
	So they had that ceremony and it was a very nice ceremony and.	03:21:55
	Apologize if anyone did not get the notification for that. I don't think it went out.	03:21:59
	But congratulations to her, who's well deserved. She's um.	03:22:04
	Great addition to the Explorers and puts in a lot of hours and she's going to be a great police officer one day.	03:22:08
	Also, just wanted to make a little note of.	03:22:15
	Working on creating a whining Lions Club charter, which is independent of any other and it's a community service organization to	03:22:19
	help out with volunteerism, support community events and to just provide community service in any area that's needed in the city.	03:22:28
	If anyone is interested in getting involved in that or wants to know what the Lions Club does, who we are and how they can help.	03:22:37
	Get in touch with me and I'll let you know what that means. It's very little effort on your part. Just have a heart for community.	03:22:45
	Have a heart for volunteerism.	03:22:49
	And want to help make a difference in your city.	03:22:53
	And that's all I have.	03:22:56
	Thank you, Mayor. I knew I forgot something. I saw Tom fellow sitting out here in the audience and I just wanted to congratulate	03:23:00
	him on being appointed commander for our local VFW. And I'm surprised to see you here because I thought you were celebrating your	03:23:06
	anniversary. But I want to also say congratulations on your.	03:23:11
	Marriage Your anniversary with a marriage to Marcy.	03:23:18
	Again, thank you and congratulations and.	03:23:27
	Keep up the good work.	03:23:29
	Next, we'll move on to requests for future addenda items. I'd like to remind council members that all requested items will require	03:23:31
	a motion, a second, and a majority vote per adopted council policies to be placed on a future agenda. Do any council members have	03:23:35
	any agenda items?	03:23:39
	Councilmember.	03:23:45
	Council member Hernandez.	03:23:47
	Mayor, pretend.	03:23:49
	All right. No future agenda items. You guys are off the hook.	03:23:51
	I want to thank everyone for attending tonight's meeting and I would like to adjourn this meeting at 8:24.	03:23:55
	We're getting there.	03:24:06