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55th Annual Professional Municipal Clerks Week Proclamation
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| Thank you, Mayor. | 00:00:39 | |
| So I know we're going to be reading a proclamation regarding the mental health awareness. So I want to touch a little bit about | 00:00:41 | |
| mental health. And so I was at an event this weekend. And, you know, sometimes we forget how we need to take care of ourselves and | 00:00:48 | |
| some things that we can do to take care of ourselves. But when people say it, you like, yeah, that's it. | 00:00:54 | |
| And so I'm going to share just a little bit with you. And I know some of you have been on an airplane. For those who you have not, | 00:01:01 | |
| that have not, this is what they tell you when it's time for oxygen to come down if it ever happens to you in a plane, they say. | 00:01:09 | |
| Put the oxygen mask on yourself before you put it on someone else. Because if you try to put it on someone else, let's say a | 00:01:18 | |
| child, and then it gets bad and then you don't have a chance to put it on yourself, then you're no help. OK, So that's kind of | 00:01:23 | |
| what I'm going to talk to you about tonight. | 00:01:28 | |
| And so self-care. | 00:01:35 | |
| And so before I get started, just just remember when when we talk about self-care. | 00:01:37 | |
| Don't look at it as being selfish. | 00:01:44 | |
| Taking care of yourself is not selfish, and so we need to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of others. So place the | 00:01:47 | |
| oxygen mask on yourself first before helping small children or others who may be in need of assistance, OK? | 00:01:55 | |
| So I know at my age, I'm I'm in my last year of the 50s and so I'm taking care of my mother. But I can't take care of my mother if | 00:02:04 | |
| I can't take care of myself. | 00:02:09 | |
| So there are some things that we need to make sure that we're doing for ourselves to be healthy, relaxation. Want to take care of | 00:02:15 | |
| your body by maybe running, walking, riding a bike, taking a nap? I'm retired, so I take a nap in the afternoons, so that's always | 00:02:23 | |
| good for me. Practice. Deep breathing is very helpful for your mind. You could take a break from social media maybe. Sometimes I | 00:02:31 | |
| get in social media when I realize it's been an hour, hour and a half, two hours later. | 00:02:38 | |
| And I think of some things that I could have been doing more valuable and then I feel bad, right? | 00:02:46 | |
| Umm, you can write down your thoughts or your worries. Take them out of your head and put them on a piece of paper. You can go on | 00:02:53 | |
| a long drive. | 00:02:57 | |
| For your soul, you can spend time in nature. | 00:03:02 | |
| You can create a bucket list. | 00:03:07 | |
| And in Port Hueneme, it's real easy to go to the beach, watch the sunrise or the sunset. But to effectively accomplish any of this | 00:03:10 | |
| self-care, you have to find those things that you enjoy. You'll only continue to do the things if you really enjoy what they are. | 00:03:18 | |
| So to close, self-care prompts us to slow down and turn inward to discover how we can show up for ourselves. | 00:03:27 | |
| It isn't selfish. Instead, it helps us fill our cup so that we can pour into others who have less in their cup than we do. | 00:03:36 | |
| Thank you so much. That was great. | 00:03:47 | |
| So we will now move on to public comments. We will hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are | 00:03:50 | |
| limited to 3 minutes. This process will be the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we have any | 00:03:55 | |
| public comments? Yes. First up is Becky Burning. | 00:04:00 | |
| Good evening, Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, council members, staff and audience. I'm here tonight representing Rogue Guppy Outdoors. Our | 00:04:14 | |
| fundraiser dinner will be May 19th. We have like 6 tickets left, so if you're interested, let me know tonight or there will be | 00:04:22 | |
| gone. Thank you. Have a good night. Thank you. | 00:04:29 | |
| Martha Kalerof. | 00:04:39 | |
| Mr. King, you will be after. | 00:04:47 | |
| Thank you all for letting me speak for a minute or so here. First I want to tell you all. | 00:04:57 | |
| Thank you during our flood. | 00:05:03 | |
| I'm from carefree living association Minimi Bay. | 00:05:06 | |
| When we had our flood, the mayor was there, Lord was there. | 00:05:10 | |
| And their rebellion, the manager, everybody pitched in and everything was very helpful and we thank you very much. I should have | 00:05:15 | |
| been down here sooner, but as you know, there's always something else planned. | 00:05:23 | |
| And that it means a lot to us, babe, but tell you how much we appreciate it because you guys were up and beyond. | 00:05:31 | |
| And that's well appreciated. Thank you, Laura and also. | 00:05:39 | |
| I have. We're going to have a Azon from carefree living is Barbara Page and she will be dealing with whoever she needs to for us | 00:05:44 | |
| to help with any problems we may have. | 00:05:51 | |
| Good evening, Mayor and members of the council. Again, my name is Barbara Paige and I've been. | 00:06:01 | |
| Appointed by our Board of Directors at Wanami Bay to represent Wanami Bay to the city. Kind of as a communication person to take | 00:06:07 | |
| information back and forth. | 00:06:12 | |
| I did a little calculation and it as it turns out in in terms of the housing dwellings in the city, Wanami Bay is about 9.3% of | 00:06:18 | |
| the housing. | 00:06:25 | |
| So we feel like, you know, it's good to have a Rep So thank you and I look forward to doing that position. Thanks a lot. | 00:06:32 | |
| Thank you. | 00:06:40 | |
| Mr. King. | 00:06:42 | |
| Hi. | 00:06:48 | |
| Mayor Perez, your words are really great, so just want to acknowledge that. And by the way, the art is fantastic. | 00:06:51 | |
| And council members staff. I'm here to provide an update. I provided the clerk with some paperwork. | 00:07:01 | |
| The last time I stood before you, it had to do with the opposition of the location of this 11 foot monument that the port kind of | 00:07:10 | |
| has a hard case for in terms of putting it at the end of Surfside and Market Street, the count now of people that are opposed to | 00:07:17 | |
| that location. | 00:07:24 | |
| Is 110 and growing up. | 00:07:31 | |
| And what I provided in front of you is a breakdown of the Port Hueneme residents that have signed the petition 102 out of 110 that | 00:07:36 | |
| comes out to a little over 92% and others Oxnard and Thousand Oaks about 7 1/4%. | 00:07:46 | |
| The alternative sites that were in this. | 00:07:57 | |
| Drafted survey that the port was going to propose but I felt was very biased I. | 00:08:00 | |
| 40% of the choices of the people signing the petition were for the Port of Guinea main gate. | 00:08:10 | |
| 14% for Bubbling Springs Park and 38% for Wyoming Historical Museum. About 7% had no real opinion. | 00:08:20 | |
| So with that, I just like to go through some names really quickly of additional people. I read you 10 names in the past. | 00:08:32 | |
| John Wigglers, Robert Bartlesby, Rosemary Tobin. | 00:08:42 | |
| Tyler Eisen, Al Mayfield, Rose Mayfield, Kevin Harbison, Sherry are Rodney William Lang. | 00:08:48 | |
| Becky Eisen, Chris Leverson. | 00:08:59 | |
| Can't read this one. | 00:09:05 | |
| Jeffrey Scarborough Randall, Thomas Greg Ross, Jan Burke, Daniel Scrivener. | 00:09:07 | |
| Dave's curve. Sorry. Jacqueline Doherty, Barbara Page and I'll yield my time. Thank you. | 00:09:14 | |
| Thank you. | 00:09:22 | |
| And Oh well, let me just say that my comments are really directed to the City Council. | 00:09:24 | |
| Who I know have the final vote on this and for anybody that's sitting on the fence or in their own way has a bias towards the | 00:09:30 | |
| port. | 00:09:35 | |
| And I respect the port. | 00:09:41 | |
| And I was at the joint meeting recently. | 00:09:44 | |
| And just Ramirez had some incredible things to say about senior and youth programs anyway. | 00:09:47 | |
| It's directed to those who might be on the fence regarding the location. Thank you. | 00:09:57 | |
| Thank you. And just the item is not on the agenda, so the council is not able to discuss it. But for anybody who's watching or | 00:10:02 | |
| who's interested, I think Mr. King was at the joint meeting where the port noted that they are going to look at an alternative | 00:10:09 | |
| option on their property and report back. So that's the current status of that project at this time. | 00:10:15 | |
| Andy Mcduff. | 00:10:23 | |
| Hello there council people. I've lived in Waimea over 50 years on Myrna Drive. | 00:10:31 | |
| And it's a dead end St. with 23 houses. 85% of the people have been there over 10 years. Three of the houses are rentals. | 00:10:37 | |
| And they're putting in two more no sweeping signs. | 00:10:49 | |
| And. | 00:10:54 | |
| Amazes me is they already had existing poles. | 00:10:56 | |
| And light poles to hang these signs, but they've reduced the four foot sidewalk to less than 3 foot. | 00:11:00 | |
| Creating a liability for the city. I I don't understand this and I asked the residents on the street is anybody requested a sign? | 00:11:07 | |
| It's been like that for 30 years. We have 4 signs for 23 houses and it's a dead end St. it. It makes no sense to me. It's to me | 00:11:14 | |
| it's a waste of resources. | 00:11:21 | |
| That's all I've got to say. | 00:11:30 | |
| Thank you. If I could again, so it's not on the agenda so the council can't discuss but just as a quick update, I think it's | 00:11:35 | |
| related to we were trying to update the signage and change alternate the street sweeping dates to try to make parking easier for | 00:11:42 | |
| people. But I hear the concern about maybe maybe a couple of the areas we're looking to to add signage maybe we didn't need. So | 00:11:50 | |
| we'll have public works follow up with you I, I, I can kind of see where you're going there but are you trying to say that the. | 00:11:57 | |
| And there's access to that. Why could we stripe it and put AJ St. as an Oxnard? Well, you could have a joint venture. You could | 00:12:37 | |
| both make money off the parking there and it can be optional for the people. See, that's what I understand on our street because | 00:12:43 | |
| they all have driveways. | 00:12:48 | |
| And they all have lawns. | 00:12:55 | |
| So why is there no place to park? Got it? We'll have somebody from Public Works get back in touch with you and then we can go from | 00:12:57 | |
| there also. | 00:13:02 | |
| Spend all that money putting wheelchair accessible corners in there at 4 foot and they put a sign in the street signpost giving | 00:13:10 | |
| less than 3 foot. | 00:13:15 | |
| And there is already existing poles. Light poles, sign poles. | 00:13:22 | |
| Off the sidewalk to put these. | 00:13:27 | |
| It is of grave importance that locally native species of trees be planted in the project rather than non-native species. Ones that | 00:14:02 | |
| are beautiful, easy to care for, drought tolerant and are key to our ecosystems and wildlife. If you go to the park now and sit | 00:14:08 | |
| under a non-native eucalyptus tree you will hear dead silence. But if you simply stand next to the native Arroyo Willow trees | 00:14:15 | |
| there is a whole song from birds such as sparrows and hummingbirds, a plant pellet using native plants for that section of the | 00:14:21 | |
| Greater Recreational Corridor. | 00:14:27 | |
| I also think city staff should do more to work and collaborate with the neighboring city of Oxnard to aid the homeless. That is | 00:15:06 | |
| all. Thank you and that concludes public comment. | 00:15:11 | |
| Thank you. | 00:15:16 | |
| We will now move on to agenda approval. May I have a motion and a second? | 00:15:19 | |
| So moved, so moved. | 00:15:26 | |
| 2nd Thank you Madam Clerk. | 00:15:27 | |
| All in favor, we're going to vote. | 00:15:36 | |
| 1st All in favor, aye all opposed. | 00:15:39 | |
| Hearing none motion passes and I'd like to make a recommendation recommendation to move the presentation for the Explorer of the | 00:15:43 | |
| year to ahead of the Housing Authority. | 00:15:49 | |
| Can I have a motion? | 00:15:56 | |
| 2nd That oh, I'll motion that. Thank you. | 00:15:57 | |
| Do you have a second? | 00:16:01 | |
| 2nd. | 00:16:02 | |
| All in favor, aye, Motion passes. Thank you. So we now move to presentation of the Explorer of the year. | 00:16:05 | |
| Given by Chief Federico. | 00:16:14 | |
| Good evening everyone, our Explorer of the Year. | 00:16:24 | |
| The Share for the Portland Police Explore program is Explorer Sergeant Tiffany Zavala. | 00:16:27 | |
| You can come on. | 00:16:36 | |
| You get to stand up here with me while I talk about you. | 00:16:40 | |
| It's a. | 00:16:43 | |
| She's incredibly humble, but you'll hear she accomplishes a lot. | 00:16:45 | |
| Tiffany was born and raised in the city of Oxnard. She graduated from Malibu High School and is currently attending Oxnard | 00:16:51 | |
| College. | 00:16:54 | |
| And in line with her dedication of public safety. | 00:16:58 | |
| Tiffany is employed as a crossing guard for the city of Oxnard. | 00:17:01 | |
| Tiffany plans on studying forensic science and applying what she learns to a career in law enforcement. | 00:17:05 | |
| Tiffany joined the Port Runnemie Police Explorer program in 2018 and attended the auctioneer Port Hueneme Explorer Program, | 00:17:10 | |
| Explorer Academy. | 00:17:14 | |
| Once graduating from the Explorer Academy, Tiffany took on a leadership role and was not never hesitant on taking on new | 00:17:19 | |
| responsibilities. | 00:17:23 | |
| Tiffany is routinely recognized by her explorer, advisors and fellow explorers for her exemplary performance of her duties, her | 00:17:29 | |
| communication skills, and her character. | 00:17:34 | |
| Because of this, she has achieved the rank of Explorer Sergeant. | 00:17:40 | |
| During Tiffany's tenure with Poor Running Me Police Explorers, she has volunteered over 1000 hours to the program in the Port | 00:17:46 | |
| Wanami community. She has also played a vital role in helping to organize various community events such as Cops for Tots, National | 00:17:52 | |
| Night Out, Thanksgiving Dinner giveaways, Autism awareness, and Breast Cancer awareness. | 00:17:58 | |
| One interesting fact about Tiffany is that during an Explorer training range day, Tiffany found out that she had a natural talent | 00:18:06 | |
| for shooting. | 00:18:10 | |
| Tiffany was able to score so high that she achieved the highest sharpshooting status of the Explorer post, making her a | 00:18:15 | |
| distinguished expert. | 00:18:20 | |
| With that training and talent. | 00:18:28 | |
| She brought home a first place in the Sniper Challenge, beating out fifty other Explorer posts at the Chandler, AZ Explorer | 00:18:31 | |
| competition. | 00:18:35 | |
| Join me once again in recognizing Explorer Sergeant Tiffany Zavala for all her hard work and dedication to the Police Explorer | 00:18:42 | |
| program in the Port Hueneme community. | 00:18:46 | |
| And to you, Tiffany, on your. | 00:18:56 | |
| Certificate of Recognition. | 00:19:00 | |
| It is in recognition of your hard work and dedication with the City of Port Hueneme. Your devotion to the city is inspiring. Your | 00:19:02 | |
| longevity and loyalty are recognized and appreciated. Your contributions leave a footprint in the City of Port Hueneme. And it is | 00:19:09 | |
| the City Council's honor to recognize your prestigious award for Explorer of the Year. | 00:19:16 | |
| Congratulations. Thank you. | 00:19:24 | |
| What was that? | 00:20:03 | |
| Yeah, we can do that since we. | 00:20:05 | |
| I would also like to request to move the in essence of time and the people who've come to receive this I'd like to move the mental | 00:20:08 | |
| health presentation as well can I get a motion for that I'll move. | 00:20:13 | |
| Do you have a second? | 00:20:20 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed hearing, None. Motion passes. | 00:20:24 | |
| Thank you. So we have with us the team from Victoria County Behavioral Health with Doctor de Nearing and who else do we have with | 00:20:29 | |
| us? | 00:20:33 | |
| We're all crazy. | 00:20:47 | |
| Hello, Council. Thank you so much. Loretta Dearing. I'm the Interim Director of Ventura County Behavioral Health Department. I | 00:20:49 | |
| have with me some staff, our access and outreach Chief Sarah Sanchez, our click administrator wherever Crisis Services Ruby Avila | 00:20:55 | |
| and our Youth and Family Division Chief Cheryl Fox. So we are honored to be here tonight. And thank you very much for this | 00:21:01 | |
| recognition. We thank you for being here. You're an important partner for mental health in this community, and we appreciate your | 00:21:07 | |
| service. | 00:21:13 | |
| So I will read the proclamation that will present to you tonight. | 00:21:19 | |
| Treatment of mental illness. | 00:23:12 | |
| Thank you. | 00:23:48 | |
| Nice to meet you. | 00:23:51 | |
| OK. | 00:23:59 | |
| No. | 00:24:03 | |
| We should do the next proclamation. OK, so I would like to request a motion for the final presentation, which is the. | 00:24:06 | |
| 5050 Fifth Annual Professional Municipal Court Clerk Weeks Proclamation will be read by Council member Laura Hernandez. Thank you, | 00:24:15 | |
| Mayor Perez. | 00:24:19 | |
| I didn't do a motion for that. | 00:24:25 | |
| Can I ask a motion to move that presentation move to approve? | 00:24:27 | |
| OK, second. | 00:24:32 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 00:24:38 | |
| Motion passes. | 00:24:41 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 00:24:46 | |
| So it's my honor to read the proclamation recognizing the 55th Annual Professional Municipal Clerks Week from May 5th to May 11, | 00:24:48 | |
| 2024. Whereas the Office of the Professional Municipal Clerk, a time honored and vital part of local government, exists throughout | 00:24:55 | |
| the world. And whereas the office of the Professional Municipal Clerk is the oldest among public servants and whereas the Office | 00:25:02 | |
| of the Professional Municipal Clerk provides the professional link between the citizens. | 00:25:09 | |
| The local governing bodies and agencies of government at other levels. And whereas professional municipal clerks have pledged to | 00:25:17 | |
| be ever mindful of their neutrality and impartiality, rendering equal service to all. And whereas the professional municipal clerk | 00:25:24 | |
| serves has an Information Center on functions of local government and community. And whereas the professional municipal clerks | 00:25:31 | |
| continually strive to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of the professional municipal clerk through | 00:25:38 | |
| participation in education programs. | 00:25:45 | |
| Seminars, workshops, and the annual meetings of their state, provincial, county and international professional organizations. | 00:25:52 | |
| And whereas it is most appropriate that we recognize the accomplishments of the office of the professional municipal clerk. | 00:26:00 | |
| Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme does hereby recognize the week of May 5th | 00:26:08 | |
| through the 11th, 2024, has Professional Municipal Clerks Week and further extends appreciation to our professional Municipal | 00:26:15 | |
| Clerk, Georgiana Alvarez, and to all professional Municipal Clerks for the vital services they perform and their exemplary | 00:26:22 | |
| dedication to the communities they represent. | 00:26:29 | |
| Proclaimed on this sixth day of May 2024. | 00:26:36 | |
| Thank you, Georgiana. We appreciate you. We appreciate you very much. Georgiana. You're my favorite clerk. | 00:26:45 | |
| You're all an amazing council to work for. | 00:26:52 | |
| All right. Can I just say that? | 00:26:55 | |
| Oh yeah, Good that. I always kind of see like the council's like a basketball team because there's five players, you know, that | 00:26:58 | |
| play on the court. But it's not just the basketball team, it's everyone. And I feel like when we picked up Georgiana, we picked up | 00:27:04 | |
| an All Star player, you know? So I just, I just want to say that you you've been amazing and I appreciate you very much. Georgiana | 00:27:09 | |
| James, can we get a picture with you and Georgiana down front of us, behind? | 00:27:15 | |
| So we will now recess to the City Council meeting and call to order the Port Hueneme Housing Authority regular meeting. | 00:28:05 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 00:28:13 | |
| Member Brown. | 00:28:16 | |
| Member Martinez present. | 00:28:20 | |
| Member Hernandez here. | 00:28:22 | |
| Vice Chair McQueen was on here and Chair Perez here. Please let the record reflect that Member Blackwell and Member Gama are | 00:28:25 | |
| absent. | 00:28:29 | |
| Thank you. | 00:28:34 | |
| So we will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda, on the Housing Authority agenda. Madam Clerk, do we | 00:28:37 | |
| have any public comments? No public comments for the Housing Authority. Thank you. | 00:28:42 | |
| We will now consider items on the Housing Authority consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless an authority | 00:28:49 | |
| member has a request to move an item for discussion. May I have a motion and a second to approve? Move to approve? | 00:28:55 | |
| Do we have a second second? | 00:29:03 | |
| All in favor. | 00:29:06 | |
| All opposed. | 00:29:09 | |
| Hearing none motion passes. | 00:29:10 | |
| And now we will go on to the public hearing. | 00:29:13 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 00:29:17 | |
| The public living room will be the 2024-2025 Public Housing Annual Plan. Do you have proof of publication as required by law and a | 00:29:19 | |
| complete file of records and exhibits? Yes, Madam Mayor, thank you. Will staff please present the report? | 00:29:26 | |
| Yes, thank you. And our housing Director, Gabby Basu will be providing the annual plan. | 00:29:35 | |
| Good evening Chair, Co Chair, members of the Board, City staff. The item before you tonight is a routine item we are here to ask | 00:29:43 | |
| for authorization to. | 00:29:49 | |
| Submit the plan to HUD. It's our annual plan which requires us to do this on a yearly basis. So you have heard my little spill | 00:29:56 | |
| every year. This year we don't have any major changes, but very important to note, we will return back for an amendment to the | 00:30:03 | |
| annual plan in September. At that time, we will be implementing Hotmail, which is something that HUD is allowing housing | 00:30:10 | |
| authorities to do in order to streamline our operations. | 00:30:18 | |
| So we are excited about that. We are waiting on our software vendor in order to implement. | 00:30:26 | |
| The next phase of these regulations and that's basically it, nothing is really changing until September and I'm available to | 00:30:32 | |
| answer any questions that you may have. All right. Are there any questions for staff? | 00:30:38 | |
| Seeing none at this time. | 00:30:46 | |
| The public hearing is now open for public input at 701. Are there any public comments regarding this item? | 00:30:48 | |
| No public comments. | 00:30:56 | |
| Thank you. Seeing none from the public, we will close the public hearing. The public hearing has concluded. I will now close the | 00:30:58 | |
| public hearing, the time being Seven O 1. | 00:31:03 | |
| We have a force, a recommendation to adopt A resolution entitled A Resolution of the Housing Authority of the City of Port | 00:31:08 | |
| Hueneme, CA approving the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Public Housing Annual Plan. May I have a motion and a second? | 00:31:15 | |
| I motion to approve. | 00:31:25 | |
| Thank you. | 00:31:27 | |
| Any second. Second. | 00:31:28 | |
| Is there any further discussion on this item? | 00:31:32 | |
| Seeing none, Madam Clerk, please take a vote, A roll call vote. | 00:31:36 | |
| Member Brown. | 00:31:42 | |
| Member Martinez Yes. | 00:31:44 | |
| Yes, Vice Chair McQueen. Legend and Chair Perez. | 00:31:48 | |
| Yes, motion passes. | 00:31:52 | |
| Thank you. So there are no Housing Authority business items. We'll move on to Housing member reports, comments and requests for | 00:31:55 | |
| future agenda items. Do we have any such item? | 00:32:00 | |
| I just had a question I. | 00:32:07 | |
| I hope that member Robert Black was OK just want to know if we've heard from him. | 00:32:10 | |
| We did hear from him. He was supposed to attend today, so. | 00:32:21 | |
| OK. Any further? | 00:32:27 | |
| Seeing none, we will now adjourn. | 00:32:30 | |
| The Housing Authority regular meeting and reconvene to the City Council regular meeting. | 00:32:33 | |
| The Port Hueneme Housing Authority will adjourn to its next regular meeting scheduled for June 3rd, 2024 at 6:30 PM, and we will | 00:32:39 | |
| now reconvene the City Council meeting. The time now is 7 O3. I think that was the fastest meeting we've ever had. | 00:32:45 | |
| All right, since we already moved to presentations, actually we need to go back and do a conflict of interest. And is it Levine | 00:32:54 | |
| Act disclosure? Is that pronouncing OK? | 00:32:59 | |
| Do any members of council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda? | 00:33:04 | |
| Seeing none. Thank you. | 00:33:10 | |
| Occurring at the beach during the kind of peak summer schedule. So we are going to reconfigure our schedule, bring it back at the | 00:33:44 | |
| next meeting with the schedule to try to lessen the impact on the community. So we'd like to just pull it for now. OK then I will | 00:33:52 | |
| ask for a motion to consider item 789111213, motion to approve the consent calendar minus item number 10. | 00:34:00 | |
| Do you have a second? | 00:34:09 | |
| 2nd. | 00:34:12 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Hearing. None. Motion passes. Thank you. We have no public hearings. | 00:34:16 | |
| Moving on to business item, the first business item is the adoption of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Port | 00:34:23 | |
| Hueneme, CA establishing an outdoor flagpole display policy, which includes the Pride flag for the month of June. | 00:34:29 | |
| Well, staff, please present the report. | 00:34:37 | |
| Yes, thank you. And it's just a quick introduction. The last year in June of 2023, the City Council designated June 2023 as Pride | 00:34:40 | |
| Month through a proclamation that was issued. And at that time, the council expressed the intent to have the Pride flag displayed | 00:34:48 | |
| annually in perpetuity in June to honor Pride Month. | 00:34:57 | |
| And later at that meeting the Council. | 00:35:07 | |
| Asked as a future item if staff would return with some sort of policy. | 00:35:11 | |
| Pertaining to the display of flags on outdoor flagpoles owned by the city and to to prepare that policy to implement the. | 00:35:17 | |
| A flag policy, but also to include the pride flag being flown in perpetuity for the month of June and so. | 00:35:26 | |
| Fast forward now and now we're getting ready for June of this year. | 00:35:35 | |
| Somehow time flies, but we have prepared a policy, a flag policy, that is intended to implement that direction, the policy also. | 00:35:39 | |
| Is it creates a policy for the city so that the City Council? | 00:35:54 | |
| Upon request by, the Council can consider. | 00:36:01 | |
| Flags that can be flown at our main flagpole location here. | 00:36:05 | |
| In front of City Hall, the council has the ability to determine what flags to fly by exercising essentially the City Council and | 00:36:11 | |
| the city's freedom of speech. And this policy allows the council to do that in what we believe is inappropriate way by creating | 00:36:19 | |
| the policy to set that. And so we've prepared a policy. | 00:36:28 | |
| OK. We're prepared to the policy. The city attorney and I are here if there's any questions I. | 00:36:39 | |
| But if the council were to approve the policy as it's drafted, the. | 00:36:48 | |
| Not only would we have a process for requests to be considered, but we at this time it would implement and approve the Pride flag | 00:36:55 | |
| being flown for the month of June on our flagpole here at City Hall. So we're both available with any questions. Thank you. Does | 00:37:01 | |
| council have any questions for staff? | 00:37:07 | |
| I have one question. First of all, thank you very much for coming forward with this policy. I think it was long overdue and I'm | 00:37:14 | |
| very happy to see that the pride flag is now part of our policy and that we will be raising the pride flag every June of every | 00:37:23 | |
| year from here on out until the policy changes. And hopefully it doesn't in any case under the. My question is under the. | 00:37:32 | |
| Policy in Exhibit A, there are three locations. City Hall, the OR being S Carpenter Community Center and the Historical Museum. I | 00:37:43 | |
| believe last year, a couple of years ago, we wanted to also fly it a. | 00:37:51 | |
| At a second location. So would this policy permit us to do that? | 00:38:01 | |
| Council has the ability to. | 00:38:07 | |
| Specify that as part of adopting this policy, the way the policy is drafted, we drafted it. | 00:38:11 | |
| To only include the are to only start with the flagpole at City Hall, but if the council wanted to include a second flagpole, that | 00:38:19 | |
| could be stated and included in the policy. | 00:38:25 | |
| OK, because it kind of implies. | 00:38:31 | |
| In here, unless does it say specifically the pride flag to be flown only at City Hall? | 00:38:35 | |
| Yeah, yeah, it does. OK. And So what we did was because we had kind of that same thought process and we listed all of the | 00:38:45 | |
| flagpoles that we have and and maybe it would have been better just to list the City Hall one, but we listed all of the ones we | 00:38:52 | |
| have. And then, yeah, it's in the text on the second page that we said and if approved, we would fly the commemorative flags at | 00:38:59 | |
| City Hall. But again, that's within the power of the City Council. So it could be the other flags. | 00:39:05 | |
| But we just, we focused on the City Hall flag and we looked at a couple other cities who have flown like actually adopted policies | 00:39:14 | |
| to fly flags and it's not unusual that they picked kind of the the main primary location. So that makes sense to me and I think | 00:39:20 | |
| that we have other flags flying, like doesn't public works yard have a flag. | 00:39:26 | |
| They may well we were we were talking about that that even we pull flags out we're going to pull flags out for the Memorial Day | 00:39:36 | |
| ceremony for example and we have flags here at Council chambers so. So we were trying to focus on the city owned ones like | 00:39:44 | |
| permanently installed at our facilities. I think these are the the three but we may have missed we may have missed one. All right. | 00:39:51 | |
| Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there a possibility that we would add a fourth flagpole like at the beach? | 00:39:59 | |
| There is a flagpole at the beach. It's just not functional. It's not a yeah it's not. | 00:40:07 | |
| A functional flagpole. But it's possible the flagpole policy can be modified a lot of ways in the future. And one would be like if | 00:40:14 | |
| we installed new flagpoles, we can we'd bring it back and, you know, add that to it. And then there'd be the ability of the | 00:40:21 | |
| council to say if they wanted to also include commemorative flags there or not, you know, so. So the policy is intended to be. | 00:40:28 | |
| You know if it's this flag, but this location? If it's another flag. All those things can be specified. But we started with the | 00:41:14 | |
| current three and the proposal to include the Pride flag at City Hall. | 00:41:19 | |
| I think it's important that. | 00:41:25 | |
| This Council exercise its First Amendment rights, and particularly with respect to flags, because it can get rather problematic, | 00:41:28 | |
| I. | 00:41:33 | |
| And the way for the council to do that is with a resolution. And then when you want to change that First Amendment expression, you | 00:41:39 | |
| come back and we'll put it on the agenda and then make a change. So that's the really the way, the safest way to do this. I have a | 00:41:46 | |
| question about what if a community member makes a request to fly a certain flag, Is there a procedure on how that gets proposed to | 00:41:52 | |
| us? | 00:41:58 | |
| So the procedure as proposed would essentially be any person can come at any meeting and submit a public comment. And so if | 00:42:05 | |
| somebody were to come to a council meeting and say I I think the city should fly X flag, it would then be up to the council to to | 00:42:11 | |
| request the policy to come back at a future meeting, OK. | 00:42:18 | |
| Any further questions for? | 00:42:25 | |
| Seeing none, we will move on to the wreck. Is there any public comments on that? | 00:42:28 | |
| Regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, displaying the Pride flag is a powerful symbol of solidarity with the LGBT. | 00:43:07 | |
| DQ Plus Community signaling your commitment to creating a safe and supportive environment for all residents. | 00:43:16 | |
| At Autism Society of Ventura County, we believe that inclusive communities are strong communities. We would also like to kindly | 00:43:23 | |
| request that the City Council also consider the inclusion of flags representing Missing in Action, Mia and Prisoners of War POW | 00:43:30 | |
| alongside the Pride flag. These flags serve as reminders of the sacrifices made by brave servicemen and women who have defended | 00:43:36 | |
| our freedoms, often at great personal cost. A commitment to flying the Pride flag and our military flags would reinforce the | 00:43:42 | |
| message of inclusivity. | 00:43:49 | |
| And unity, reflecting the diverse tapestry of experiences and identities that make Port Winey me so unique and special. | 00:43:55 | |
| Autism Society Ventura County commends the City Council for their dedication to promoting equality and acceptance. By standing | 00:44:03 | |
| together in solidarity with marginalized communities and honoring the sacrifices of our veterans, we can continue to build a more | 00:44:10 | |
| compassionate and inclusive society for all. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for your continued leadership in | 00:44:16 | |
| advancing social justice and equality in Port Hueneme. Thank you for your time, Jasmine Duran. | 00:44:23 | |
| I am glad to see that last year's process deficiency is being remedied this evening. That said, my preference would be that this | 00:45:04 | |
| council decide to join the hundreds of other cities that have voted to raise only official government flags that represent all of | 00:45:12 | |
| the diverse members of our community equally and are all inclusive. Also, considering that people of Port Hueneme take great pride | 00:45:19 | |
| in being a military town with many active and retired Navy residents, I would encourage council to consider raising the POW. | 00:45:27 | |
| On Memorial Day, veteran's day and National POW Mia Recognition Day. Thank you and thanks to our city clerk on Municipal Clerk. | 00:45:36 | |
| That concludes public comment. | 00:45:45 | |
| Thank you so if. | 00:45:46 | |
| We wanted to make a recommendation to make an adjustment. | 00:45:49 | |
| Can we do that right now? | 00:45:53 | |
| Yes, you could choose to identify like additional flags under the policy. The other thing that could be done, and it's actually | 00:45:56 | |
| the great thing about the policy is. | 00:46:02 | |
| I think my. | 00:46:10 | |
| Typical recommendation would be. | 00:46:12 | |
| That. | 00:46:15 | |
| Normally when the process occurs, they'd ask for it and then we'd come back at the, you know, at one of the next couple meetings | 00:46:17 | |
| with the policy. And that actually gives us the time to sort of research it and understand, you know, like for example, with the | 00:46:22 | |
| POWMIA. | 00:46:27 | |
| I wouldn't know off the top of my head exactly what dates we are supposed to fly that flag. | 00:46:33 | |
| And so. | 00:46:39 | |
| The normal process would be, you know, bring the policy back and then we'd have that opportunity to do it. | 00:46:40 | |
| So, but I guess it sounds like it should be an agenda item, a future agenda item request. So maybe ask them. Yeah. And I think | 00:46:46 | |
| that's the I would recommend sort of just starting with that process and following that process because it ensures that everybody | 00:46:54 | |
| has the time to like we can put it together and everybody understands what we're exactly committing to, you know what days. | 00:47:01 | |
| At what priority level? All that stuff? | 00:47:10 | |
| All right, so the recommendation is to adopt A resolution entitled a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, | 00:47:14 | |
| CA, establishing an outdoor flagpole display policy, which includes the implementation of council direction to display the Pride | 00:47:20 | |
| flag for the month of June. May I have a motion and a second. | 00:47:26 | |
| Move to approve and I just I just had a comment like thinking about adding new flags. | 00:47:33 | |
| I don't know if it'd be an issue or not adding when. | 00:47:38 | |
| When Puerto Vallarta comes and visits the city like for 2-3 days, if if we could do something like raising the Mexican flag or I | 00:47:42 | |
| don't know if Jalisco has a flag, I don't know if that's going to be a problem. So you know, I'm just, I'm just throwing it out. | 00:47:47 | |
| So I'm just throwing it out with some of the other flags that were mentioned as well. Do we have a second for the motion? I'll | 00:47:53 | |
| second. Thank you. No further discussion. | 00:47:58 | |
| That was my only discussion. | 00:48:06 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 00:48:08 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 00:48:09 | |
| Hearing none motion passes, thank you. The next item is the fiscal year 2024 budget preparation. | 00:48:13 | |
| Sales tax review. | 00:48:21 | |
| Hinder later. | 00:48:23 | |
| De Llamas and associates HDL. | 00:48:25 | |
| So I'll just do a quick quick introduction. It's a little bit of a different item, unique item than we've had in the past. But but | 00:48:30 | |
| I think really before I turn it over to our expert from HDL, we're about to enter year two of a two year budget and those are | 00:48:37 | |
| typically just kind of very minimal review and and. | 00:48:44 | |
| Usually not a whole lot of changes. I think we are. We started to anticipate a couple of issues that are. | 00:48:54 | |
| Going to impact us and we. | 00:49:03 | |
| One by one have actually been bringing those back and we've kind of had many kind of budget reviews at the last couple of or a | 00:49:06 | |
| couple times over the last couple of months. Because really as we're getting closer to the budget, I think it's becoming clear | 00:49:14 | |
| there's going to be about four big impacts on the budget and this sales tax and cannabis tax are two of the big ones that are | 00:49:22 | |
| going to impact our revenues and we expect our revenues to to come in to start reducing from what we had adopted previously. | 00:49:30 | |
| And then the other two were expenses and those were pension increases and inflation increases. And so we had done that pension | 00:49:38 | |
| review, a couple, a couple maybe a month or two back where we were talking about pension costs. We're seeing about a 20% increase | 00:49:46 | |
| in pension costs across the board right now. So the point of today's is to focus on those two that we hadn't talked about yet that | 00:49:53 | |
| we are seeing that impact and the great thing is with sales tax and cannabis tax. | 00:50:00 | |
| We contract with HDL who's really I think has a reputation across the state of being experts in this field. They consult for | 00:50:08 | |
| probably probably every city in the county I would would guess and they they're they really look at the data and look at the | 00:50:16 | |
| trends and can really help us accurately forecast. So well we figured we'd ask the expert to come in and tell us what they're | 00:50:23 | |
| seeing for next year and it's just going to help us all kind of know what to expect. | 00:50:31 | |
| As we get closer to the budget, which we plan to bring a month from now on the first meeting in June. So with that, I'll turn it | 00:50:39 | |
| over to to HDL. | 00:50:44 | |
| Wonderful. Thank you very much. City Manager Vega, just by a show of thumbs, you guys can hear me. OK, wonderful. And if possible, | 00:50:51 | |
| I'm not, I'm not able to share my screen, so I don't know if there's somebody that can allow for that change. I'd be happy to | 00:50:58 | |
| share the presentation. I believe staff had already included the the presentation with your council agenda packet. They're | 00:51:05 | |
| allowing you access now. Wonderful. Appreciate that. There we go. | 00:51:13 | |
| And all back together. OK, there we go. | 00:51:23 | |
| So, so, yes, Madam Mayor, Council members, thank you so much. I'm glad to be able to join you tonight and very appreciative that | 00:51:26 | |
| you allow me to do this presentation virtually. As you can imagine, just travel and otherwise. Sometimes it can be a bit of a | 00:51:34 | |
| challenge, but I'm so happy to be able to provide you the information as City Manager Vega had mentioned just by way of quick | 00:51:41 | |
| introduction, you could see again I included this with the with the packet myself. | 00:51:49 | |
| Along with my experience, I'm currently been with HDL for over 10 years now. I'm currently the Director of Client Services. I lead | 00:51:56 | |
| a team of 12 professionals that every quarter our process is to analyze the quarterly sales tax data we receive from the | 00:52:03 | |
| California Department of Tax and Fee Administration or CDTFA and really dissect through it to find all of the trends that are | 00:52:10 | |
| happening within the California consumer economy and where we as consumers are spending our money or maybe those change, those | 00:52:16 | |
| trends have been changing. | 00:52:23 | |
| So first we start at a very high level, statewide level, then we work our way down to the local level. And yes, as City Manager | 00:52:30 | |
| Reggae mentioned, we are blessed to work with so many clients here, especially here in California. We've been serving cities, | 00:52:37 | |
| counties and special districts for over 40 years. We serve over 400 collective agencies here in California, 700 nationwide | 00:52:45 | |
| spanning now coast to coast and we are so blessed to. | 00:52:52 | |
| Maintain a 99% client retention rate, which we hopefully feel represents the quality level of service that we strive to provide to | 00:53:00 | |
| to each local agency and and the communities you serve. | 00:53:07 | |
| So as we talk about sales tax, just to start framing the conversation a little bit. | 00:53:16 | |
| On the screen you see here a total sales tax rate locally with import Wanami of 8.75% and just how that breaks down. You can see | 00:53:21 | |
| the top line up here. About 4% goes into the state's general fund. | 00:53:29 | |
| Locally, we've got our 1%, what we call the Bradley Burns or the normal 1% that every incorporated agency within the entire state | 00:53:37 | |
| receives as a part of the base sales tax rate. | 00:53:44 | |
| Now on top of that base sales tax rate, we have our two locally approved measures, Measure You and Measure W Measure W as the half | 00:53:52 | |
| cent measure you see here enacted back in 2008. Then the full 1 cent you see here is representative of Measure U, which as we | 00:53:59 | |
| probably all know a little bit more was enacted in November of 2018. Revenue flow began in April of 2019. Below that you'll see | 00:54:06 | |
| some county. | 00:54:14 | |
| Agencies or county pieces of the. | 00:54:22 | |
| The base sales tax rate Prop 172, half cent rate county realignment, mental health, welfare, public safety represents about a 1 | 00:54:25 | |
| 1/2% of the rate and then specifically designated here quarter cent for county wide transportation projects and that's how we get | 00:54:32 | |
| to the 8.75 S All of the most of the well the trends and the data that we're going to be looking at really do highlight or I'll | 00:54:40 | |
| break I'll be showing you. | 00:54:48 | |
| Kind of represent the 1% Bradley Burns and also our collective 1 1/2 cent local measures. | 00:54:56 | |
| So hopefully that keeps us on the right track. So as I made mention each quarter when we get data, we first look at it as a | 00:55:04 | |
| statewide basis. So I'm going to take a couple of minutes to talk through what we see has been going on statewide because some of | 00:55:10 | |
| those trends are going to come down to the local level. | 00:55:15 | |
| Even if we don't always feel like you know all of them represent in some form or fashion because of our locally adopted measures, | 00:55:22 | |
| they actually do so up top here are the quarter, most recent quarter of the results. If we go to the far left here, you could see | 00:55:29 | |
| coming as we started to come out of the pandemic. As a harsh reminder for all of us, the pandemic really set in. We have business | 00:55:37 | |
| closures back in the second quarter of 2020, the April, May, June time period. | 00:55:44 | |
| Continue to drop all the way down to the end of that calendar year, the start of the next UH. | 00:55:52 | |
| Calendar year there, first quarter 21, then we began our rise back up to a little bit more to where we are and have been recently. | 00:55:57 | |
| So you can see most notably on pretty much every type of trend report, you'll see the fourth quarter be kind of an ultimate peak | 00:56:05 | |
| and that has to do with the normal holiday shopping period of October, November and December locally, especially within the | 00:56:12 | |
| coastal communities. We do see revenue spike during the second and third quarter which is usually the summer months and when we | 00:56:19 | |
| get a lot of tourism and beachgoers. | 00:56:27 | |
| That end up spending locally. So but statewide we do see the ultimate peak is fourth quarter. So if we start to look here what's | 00:56:34 | |
| been going on recently especially during the calendar year of 2023, you could see the line here. | 00:56:41 | |
| Kind of lagging a little bit from where we were back during the calendar year 2022. I've got another slide coming up. We're really | 00:56:49 | |
| kind of lay this in with regards to percentage differences, but most certainly this entire calendar year we've seen revenues | 00:56:56 | |
| slowing down. We as consumers have not been spending nearly as much. | 00:57:02 | |
| As we had back in 2022 and probably a little bit closer to where we were back in 2021. So coming out of the pandemic and you can | 00:57:10 | |
| really see this down on the bottom line here, Pandemic hit during the calendar year 2020, pulled revenues down and we immediately | 00:57:18 | |
| shot up, especially these last two calendars. We attributed a lot of that to the fact that you know we've got remote work | 00:57:26 | |
| environments or allowances there allowing more money for homeowners or as individuals employees. | 00:57:34 | |
| Plus these last two years or the prior two years, we had seen a tremendous amount upcoming money coming in from the federal, | 00:57:42 | |
| federal government by way of tax policy changes really kind of pushing money back to us as consumers. We did exactly what they | 00:57:50 | |
| were hoping we would do and spent it. And so we saw a very dramatic rise in sales tax now here in 2023 as I made mentioned, | 00:57:58 | |
| slowing our pace down just a little bit overall inflation as we as consumers and many times as I'm talking about. | 00:58:06 | |
| Or thinking about sales tax, I also attribute my own personal feelings. What am I doing in my household? What are my friends | 00:58:15 | |
| doing? What? What other trends locally? Or? Or just tangibly thinking, maybe that's the same as millions of others around the | 00:58:22 | |
| entire state. So we have started to pull back. Higher inflation, higher interest rates throughout the entire calendar year. 2023 | 00:58:29 | |
| have most certainly changed spending habits when we compare them to the prior years. | 00:58:36 | |
| But one of the reasons why we've got this long graft here in the line that you see that inevitable trend line, really what we're | 00:58:43 | |
| doing is cooling off from the last two years of dramatic expansion growth after a year of heavy impacts due to COVID and the | 00:58:51 | |
| pandemic. But now we're back a little bit more on trend. And so we attribute that and we've heard about it much a lot at the | 00:58:59 | |
| federal level and the Fed Treasury really wanting to cool inflation for a soft landing on our economy. | 00:59:07 | |
| And many of us as either economists or pseudo economists like myself believe we've we've accomplished that with regards to the | 00:59:16 | |
| economy and and us as consumers, we've slowed it down and gotten back on trend. | 00:59:23 | |
| Then every quarter as we sit around all twelve of us, my entire team, as we get the results, we spend 6 hours really kind of going | 00:59:33 | |
| through all of the different aspects, some of which you see here whether it be interest rates and inflation. We look at. We have | 00:59:41 | |
| certain data points that we look at for consumer spending and savings trends, household savings trends, tourism, business travel, | 00:59:49 | |
| so pertinent for port 1:00 AM either then also most recently as approved and implemented April one. | 00:59:57 | |
| Conversation is much different otherwise when gas prices are going up, for the most part we as consumers are really going to | 01:00:45 | |
| continue to slow down and think about how we're going to spend our overall household income. | 01:00:52 | |
| This slide here is just a quick reminder. When we think about inflation, most of the time we as consumers feel like it's a bad | 01:01:00 | |
| thing. If we put our city hat on, that actually changes a little bit when it comes to sales tax. And so whether it be a steady | 01:01:08 | |
| demand for consumer goods much like what we saw during 2021 and 2022 and ends up having upward pressure on prices, which has then | 01:01:15 | |
| upward pressure or we see more sales tax assuming consumers buy. | 01:01:22 | |
| The same amounts or you know whatever is available, which is exactly what we did during that period. But also and go back to 2020 | 01:01:31 | |
| and 21, you know kind of post pandemic, we heard a lot about supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages which ended up having | 01:01:38 | |
| downward pressure on supply. But if we again put our kind of economics hat on, it ends up having upward pressure on prices, which | 01:01:46 | |
| it did and that too also increases, inevitably increases sales tax or has a potential to increase sales tax. | 01:01:54 | |
| So with regards to inflation, if we're keeping our city hat on and thinking about sales tax revenue, it's not always the bad thing | 01:02:02 | |
| I. | 01:02:06 | |
| In that consideration now for us as consumers normally it means that we're going to start to change our spending habits. 11 trend | 01:02:10 | |
| it is been so prominent is kind of online versus brick and mortar and and how sales tax revenue has flown or just sales in | 01:02:17 | |
| general. Within this we are blessed to have so much data statewide. We're able to really bifurcate a lot of the pieces and bring | 01:02:23 | |
| it back down to this level. | 01:02:29 | |
| As you can imagine, before the pandemic we were cruising along with a nice big gap in between. The bottom line here, the blue | 01:02:37 | |
| line, is online sales, and it had been steadily growing, especially as more and more retailers began to voluntarily collect and | 01:02:46 | |
| remit right up until 2019 when you see here 8147 or California's implementation of the Wayfair decision at the Supreme Court. | 01:02:56 | |
| The National Supreme Court. It basically said that California was able to require out-of-state online retailers to collect and | 01:03:06 | |
| remit local sales tax. That immediately began increasing. | 01:03:14 | |
| UH sales tax from out-of-state online retailers or the Collective online. | 01:03:24 | |
| Also what also happened during the calendar year 2020 was the pandemic and you could see a sharp decline out of our brick and | 01:03:30 | |
| mortar stores. Inevitably, you know, we all as consumers shifted to online which caused the the line to go up And now most | 01:03:39 | |
| recently over these last basically 2 calendars years, you could see on total allocations from online retailers fairly flat. | 01:03:47 | |
| And at that same time when stores reopened and we continued to spend, you can see the peak of the brick and mortar hit and then | 01:03:56 | |
| again that's inevitable slowdown that that we've experienced here out of calendar year 2023. It's not too much a surprise. We do | 01:04:03 | |
| attribute kind of two things here to the brick and mortar especially there is within consumers and for us as consumers there's | 01:04:10 | |
| inevitable point where we have to go to brick and mortar. | 01:04:18 | |
| Volume shopping like at the major retailers, Walmart, Target, Costco, Sam's Club and the like is there's a lot of that volume | 01:04:25 | |
| shopping can only be done in person or a brick and mortar versus online and and that's really. | 01:04:32 | |
| That along with fuel sales which also happen at some of those major retailers ends up being included in the data here and pushing | 01:04:40 | |
| the numbers higher whereas online. | 01:04:45 | |
| The feeling is that consumers have kind of figured out exactly what and how much they want to spend and it's been fairly fairly | 01:04:53 | |
| flat these last couple of years. | 01:04:58 | |
| So to kind of recap, this was the slide I mentioned looking at percentages here of what's been going on, you can see to the far | 01:05:05 | |
| left during the especially the fiscal year 2122. | 01:05:11 | |
| Quarter over quarter double digit gains out of sales tax. | 01:05:19 | |
| You know, definitely spiked and inflated. We kind of knew it at the time, didn't know exactly how much. But now over this last | 01:05:24 | |
| calendar year you could see four continuous quarters of negative declines. With then what our feeling is going to be, whoops, I'm | 01:05:31 | |
| sorry there our feeling is going to be here out of the first quarter 2024 is where we're expecting to see another slight pullback | 01:05:39 | |
| when we compare even to the first quarter 23 the. | 01:05:46 | |
| And that it won't be until really summertime AB 12/28 and what a restaurant is going to do, what are we consumers going to do? | 01:05:54 | |
| That's really, really when we're expecting to see a little bit more return of positive growth as we go forward. Definitely not | 01:06:02 | |
| double digits, definitely not even high single digits. This is going to be a kind of a slower recovery or slow trend out of the | 01:06:10 | |
| period that we've been in for now collectively, you know it's been in what would that be about 15 months? | 01:06:17 | |
| With regards to a year and a quarter period, the blue lines or the blue period that I have represented here represents the current | 01:06:26 | |
| fiscal year, especially at the local level. July to June, July of 23 to June of 24, where you can see the majority of the current | 01:06:33 | |
| fiscal year has been seen negative trends. | 01:06:40 | |
| So if I shift over here, you can see again kind of on that statewide fiscal year basis, it's what represents A. | 01:06:49 | |
| -1.1 expectation, that's what we're forecasting right now. And then it's not until the next two years where we're then starting to | 01:06:58 | |
| see. | 01:07:02 | |
| Some nominal growth. I would tell you here in 202425 our current outlook it's. | 01:07:06 | |
| We're still in the process of defining it because it has a lot to do with what are the feds going to do with interest rates. We | 01:07:13 | |
| believe that that's going to be a major marker for sales tax here in California because of how tangibly it represents or works its | 01:07:20 | |
| way into auto sales building and construction because of tapping into home equity loans and being able to put money as homeowners | 01:07:26 | |
| be able to put money back into their house. We know home values have continued to increase, so most homeowners are sitting on | 01:07:32 | |
| probably likely. | 01:07:39 | |
| Most likely some equity that they with lower interest rates they would tap into and spend that money. So that is really in the | 01:07:45 | |
| short run what we see. | 01:07:50 | |
| Happening here statewide with a longer, smoother growth in the out years. Not that I'll spend anytime talking about it tonight, | 01:07:56 | |
| but we know that there is a national election this November. And I can tell you over the last like 2 weeks, I've been having | 01:08:03 | |
| discussions with some about well, what is the, what is the sales tax forecast look like depending on who gets elected. And those | 01:08:10 | |
| might be two different scenarios. | 01:08:18 | |
| For our for our longer term outlook, but this is what we've got in the short run. | 01:08:26 | |
| So that was kind of the trends statewide and again now bringing it down to the local level. | 01:08:31 | |
| I want to want to focus here for just a moment where with all of the data you heard me mention, we kind of break it and piece it | 01:08:37 | |
| apart. We have what we call major industry groups and whether it be all the way down here at the bottom you see autos and building | 01:08:44 | |
| construction or locally food and drugs, restaurants and general consumer goods. | 01:08:50 | |
| When we think about the Bradley burns, and this is what gets generated out of our local brick and mortar stores, you can see the | 01:08:58 | |
| percentage of where the Bradley burns comes from, which types of businesses, 31% comes from food and drugs. And yes, we'll be | 01:09:05 | |
| having the discussion about cannabis and you guys know that all too well. But also 24% comes from local restaurants. | 01:09:12 | |
| With with others down below, the great catch all on the Bradley Burnside is the county wide use tax pool which we generate 17% of | 01:09:20 | |
| our Bradley Burns income from. When we then shift over to the local add-on measures measure U&W, you can see there is no county | 01:09:27 | |
| pool. | 01:09:35 | |
| That the the mechanism for allocating changes, when we're talking about the local measures, it all depends on where the goods are | 01:09:43 | |
| shipped. So for us As for Portland consumers, when goods, when they're buying goods online and having them shipped to their house. | 01:09:51 | |
| Then those goods may not end up coming via the pool. They will come directly under what our category of general consumer goods we | 01:10:01 | |
| do still collect from the local measures from food and drugs. | 01:10:08 | |
| Cannabis grocery stores, drug stores in restaurants, but the percentages change because of that dynamic where the pool comes out | 01:10:15 | |
| and gets distributed otherwise. But then also we we look down below here for autos on the Bradley Burns side, we know that we | 01:10:24 | |
| don't have auto dealerships, many of those are up in Oxnard and Ventura. But for the local measures because of the way that the | 01:10:32 | |
| rules are regarding local add on taxes is when a Port Hueneme resident buys a vehicle from anywhere including. | 01:10:40 | |
| Oxnard, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Measure U and Measure W will be applicable and they will be remitting that collecting. The local | 01:10:50 | |
| dealerships will be collecting, remitting it. So we see a much bigger percentage here. | 01:10:56 | |
| Of measure U&W come from auto dealerships. | 01:11:05 | |
| So if you reflect back when I was mentioning, you know when we're talking about the statewide trends on the Bradley Byrne side, | 01:11:09 | |
| not all of them are applicable, but they are when we're thinking about measure U&W and my team and my staff, we are very cognizant | 01:11:15 | |
| of the differences there, especially when providing forecasts and how dramatic the change could be especially for a smaller | 01:11:21 | |
| community like Portland you need. | 01:11:28 | |
| Then for perspective, you could see statewide and how the how. | 01:11:35 | |
| Sales tax is broken down throughout the state. Very small percentage comes from food and drugs, whereas locally we're more | 01:11:40 | |
| dependent on it. | 01:11:44 | |
| As you can imagine, general consumer goods autos. | 01:11:49 | |
| Business and industry which is kind of a catch all, it's very diverse category and restaurants tend to be. | 01:11:52 | |
| The biggest generators for us throughout the state. | 01:11:58 | |
| So that was just kind of a you know get again keeping us focused locally and and how we're made-up and why we focus on the the. | 01:12:03 | |
| The local train. The local trends and changes. | 01:12:13 | |
| Some steady trends and I'll talk a little bit more about cannabis on the next slide. But the blue line that you see here is the | 01:12:49 | |
| steady flow from restaurants and hotels and you really then see it, it kind of peak out again during those summer months, two Q | 01:12:55 | |
| and three Q. When we do see restaurant growth, most notably we had a nice summer and here into the fourth quarter starting to see | 01:13:01 | |
| a tick down, something we're keeping our eye on. It normally happens from third quarter to fourth quarter, but really kind of | 01:13:07 | |
| watching. | 01:13:13 | |
| And. | 01:13:20 | |
| In anticipation within the revenue within the restaurant industry is the implementation of AB 12/28 and the increase in minimum | 01:13:21 | |
| wage. | 01:13:25 | |
| The the other kind of maybe more as you're looking really closely at some of these lines, kind of stands out is this lavender line | 01:13:30 | |
| light purple where you see kind of some some spikes in it and occasionally because of the proximity to the port and I. | 01:13:39 | |
| Naval base and and others within the area. We do see some one time activity that ends up helping us when it comes to sales tax. | 01:13:49 | |
| And really kind of when we're thinking about the the fiscal year forecast, it really ends up kind of benefiting when maybe some | 01:13:56 | |
| other industries are cooling off a little bit. We definitely had a nice big spike during the fourth quarter 2022 which helped us | 01:14:02 | |
| during fiscal year. | 01:14:09 | |
| 2223 and but as far as forecasting purposes, we don't normally build that in. So for 2324 and going forward, we're not | 01:14:16 | |
| anticipating one time even though we recognize that it does occasionally happen. | 01:14:23 | |
| So as the as we stay here the top of right is overall Bobby, what's that can I ask quick question on the spike, do we know what | 01:14:32 | |
| created that spike couldn't been the Banana Festival, I mean I believe it was it's large pieces of equipment, right. I think when | 01:14:39 | |
| we looked into one it was literally like a probably like $1,000,000 crane or probably more than $1,000,000 actually but you know | 01:14:47 | |
| multi $1,000,000 crane and either the military or the port will buy that and then. | 01:14:55 | |
| The sales tax gets attributed because it was local to Port Hueneme, yeah. | 01:15:03 | |
| All right. Thank you. Yeah. You'll also hear me be kind of sensitive talking about some of those spikes because we do want to | 01:15:09 | |
| watch confidentiality. | 01:15:14 | |
| With the data, we want to make sure we're very cognizant of taxpayers and and privacy with regards to sales tax information, but | 01:15:20 | |
| yeah. | 01:15:25 | |
| That's my that's my consultants part, so I gotta put that out there. | 01:15:31 | |
| So you can see the overall city trend and and how much the especially these last two quarters or yeah two quarters, but then the | 01:15:37 | |
| longer trend there that we're seeing from food and drugs and especially cannabis, how it's impacted results recently then by | 01:15:44 | |
| fiscal year actually this is by calendar year. Sorry about that, I forgot to change it. 2023 has seen a drop off. Now that's going | 01:15:50 | |
| to be twofold because remember this one time spike happened in four Q 22 plus the decline that that we're experiencing out of the | 01:15:57 | |
| cannabis industry. | 01:16:04 | |
| So to focus on cannabis just a little bit more and again we're blessed to have a lot of data, but I've got to also watch my | 01:16:12 | |
| confidentiality and making sure that I represent everybody equally here to the left. This is our local data. Again very consistent | 01:16:20 | |
| with the line that we just saw at a food and drugs dramatic decrease here throughout most of 2023, whereas in comparison if you | 01:16:28 | |
| look here in the middle it's the entire county of Ventura, you can see not seeing quite the same drop off. | 01:16:35 | |
| As you can imagine, it does coincide. The most recent results locally do coincide with other agencies coming online with their | 01:16:44 | |
| cannabis retailers. Many of us know Ventura and Oxnard have both come on board, also within the county with the city of Ohio that | 01:16:50 | |
| has remained steady. | 01:16:56 | |
| With their so there's some competition around. | 01:17:03 | |
| The for the cannabis retailers that you we don't see the same trend going on county wide And so it's I think it's important to | 01:17:06 | |
| note but then when you go to the far right here on the screen you'll see the trend statewide most certainly since you know the | 01:17:15 | |
| post pandemic boom when people had money had time we saw cannabis really increase that trend has been steadily decreasing whether | 01:17:23 | |
| it be the accumulation of the total tax rate which many many times is what we hear out of the industry. | 01:17:31 | |
| Or just simply. | 01:17:40 | |
| Desire to consume cannabis. You can see that trend falling along a little bit more in line with what we saw, what we see locally. | 01:17:43 | |
| I have a question. | 01:17:53 | |
| Regarding since we're on the cannabis trend, how does the recent the? | 01:17:54 | |
| Changing classification at federal level for marijuana, now they don't have to pay the 70% tax anymore. How is that going to | 01:18:01 | |
| impact us? | 01:18:05 | |
| Yeah, great question. | 01:18:10 | |
| I think there's there's two two points to that right. How's it going to, how's it going to impact the industry or you know what | 01:18:14 | |
| the what the industry will see and then what's gonna happen locally? | 01:18:19 | |
| And I differentiate those because. | 01:18:26 | |
| It could have a positive impact with regards to the total cost of cannabis, thereby consumers maybe. OK, yeah. Now it's not as | 01:18:30 | |
| expensive and and go ahead and consume more in the future, but locally I think we're still dealing with the competitive nature | 01:18:39 | |
| that you know is is isn't going to go away, which is simply the fact that we've got Ventura and Oxnard. | 01:18:48 | |
| And Ojai as far as just locale. | 01:18:58 | |
| You know. | 01:19:02 | |
| Thank you. | 01:19:04 | |
| Yeah. | 01:19:05 | |
| So that was that was kind of the. | 01:19:09 | |
| Top of it, I'm going to kind of get through the rest of these and then definitely have it open for more questions and I can go | 01:19:11 | |
| back through slides if needed if we. So that was the Bradley Burns. Remember a lot of that is just our brick and mortar. When we | 01:19:17 | |
| shift over to measure U&W, the trends that you see, you can see here. | 01:19:23 | |
| The lighter green line becomes food and drugs and yes, it, you know, it kind of plays and it's the same downward trend that that | 01:19:31 | |
| we were just talking about. | 01:19:36 | |
| However, general consumer goods hanging in a little bit more steady and remember this is because it now includes more of the | 01:19:41 | |
| online sales activity. | 01:19:46 | |
| As you know as as goods are delivered to to local residents, we still for those two transactions taxes, we do see kind of the | 01:19:54 | |
| spike out of business and industry and we'll leave that because we already discussed it. But it does have an impact because that | 01:20:02 | |
| those goods were delivered locally and thereby measure U&W become become a part of it Autos and transportation because as I made | 01:20:10 | |
| mention earlier when local residents go and buy vehicles will see that trend. | 01:20:18 | |
| So, umm. | 01:20:26 | |
| Yes, we saw nice big jump up here in 23, but otherwise expecting it to follow. | 01:20:28 | |
| The same trend that we've got statewide, which is because of higher interest rates, the likelihood of people are going to be | 01:20:34 | |
| pulling back on auto purchases a lot sooner and maybe for an extended period of time versus other less expensive goods. | 01:20:41 | |
| So those trends are here. So Measure U or I'm sorry, Measure W, which again was enacted in 2008, we started seeing revenue back in | 01:20:49 | |
| 2009. You can see the longer trend line most recently these last couple of years very similar right, to other trends we saw go | 01:20:55 | |
| above the otherwise normalized trend. And now we're just coming back a little bit more on trend, probably going to pull, pull | 01:21:01 | |
| lower. | 01:21:07 | |
| In the in the short run for Measure U which it was enacted in 2000, approved in 2018, began collections in 2019, we got the | 01:21:14 | |
| benefits of the two. You know these last few couple of years as it first we first started generating revenue and inevitably hit | 01:21:21 | |
| kind of more of the same trend of pulling back. | 01:21:28 | |
| The the longer trend line obviously doesn't represent. | 01:21:36 | |
| Quite the same. | 01:21:39 | |
| So to to bring this as city manager Vega had mentioned, now starting to kind of look at it locally. | 01:21:41 | |
| And its impacts when you start thinking about the current. | 01:21:50 | |
| Current budget or proposed budget coming up the as adopted the fiscal year 2324 was we were expecting a pullback of about a half a | 01:21:55 | |
| percent didn't see that. I think staff is looking to revise the current year's. | 01:22:05 | |
| Estimate. | 01:22:17 | |
| Increasing it by about half a percent over what we had in 23/22/23. | 01:22:18 | |
| But, but then when you look at really kind of looking forward to the fiscal year. | 01:22:26 | |
| The adopted 2425 was expecting again solid growth and this is where our heads were at I think on the two year cycle just a couple | 01:22:32 | |
| years back when we saw steady steady sales tax returns now and incorporating this most recent. | 01:22:40 | |
| Activity on the cannabis side, expecting a little bit more of a double digit decrease or anticipating the double digit decrease as | 01:22:48 | |
| it extends throughout the calendar year over the fiscal year 2425. | 01:22:54 | |
| The graph that you see below here is just a stacked bar chart of each one of the different revenue streams. | 01:23:03 | |
| And kind of going back again to you know past fiscal years where we saw the big run up and now inevitably as we look in the out | 01:23:11 | |
| out years, it's that downward turn in that that we've been I've been talking about so far. | 01:23:18 | |
| That's the last slide. Any any particular questions you may have? | 01:23:28 | |
| Council have any questions for him? | 01:23:33 | |
| Council Member Hernandez, thank you so much, Mr. Young for your report. It was, you know, really fascinating to see how our taxes | 01:23:36 | |
| are are broken down. I did have a question on the previous slide. I think it's your slide 14. | 01:23:43 | |
| There are off to the left hand side. | 01:23:54 | |
| Counts like for instance, under food and drugs, count 32, restaurants count 61. What does that represent? What do those counts | 01:23:59 | |
| actually represent? Yeah, so kind of simply the number of reporting businesses within that, within that group, I would tell you | 01:24:07 | |
| probably more accurately, it's the total number of accounts that are still open. | 01:24:15 | |
| With CD, TFA or if you had a business who may have you know closed, but if they didn't, you know, simultaneously close their | 01:24:24 | |
| account with CDTFA, it would remain as part of the count. So it's a general. | 01:24:33 | |
| Idea of how many businesses do report sales tax under each one of those, but it's not perfect because of the. | 01:24:44 | |
| Potential longer, you know, left open with CDTF. CDTFA is what. | 01:24:53 | |
| California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, yeah. | 01:25:00 | |
| It's kind of it got renamed from Board of Equalization and the day-to-day duties got got put under the governor back in 2017. And | 01:25:05 | |
| so then it became a California Department rather than the BOE. | 01:25:13 | |
| OK. | 01:25:23 | |
| Thank you so much. You're welcome. | 01:25:25 | |
| I have a question. There was another law that was recently or I don't think it's been implemented, but a law banning the service | 01:25:28 | |
| fee for restaurants in California. | 01:25:32 | |
| You know what I'm talking about. | 01:25:38 | |
| I do not. | 01:25:41 | |
| I think our governor just passed a new law banning service fees for restaurants and I was just curious if you had an opinion as to | 01:25:43 | |
| how that's going to affect, but since you don't know about it. | 01:25:48 | |
| There it's it's steady, especially right now with the with the open session, open session in Sacramento, so many different | 01:25:55 | |
| proposals and what's actually getting signed and passing through. | 01:26:00 | |
| With AB 12/28 and as we know, I think just my initial impressions would be helping consumers on that side is probably a really | 01:26:08 | |
| good thing. | 01:26:13 | |
| It's also being a consumer myself, I could say I don't always look at the the bills so long as it looks reasonable to know. | 01:26:20 | |
| If if a service fee has been included, a service fee would not be taxable. So it should not otherwise impact sales tax from a | 01:26:30 | |
| negative perspective. But but I can see it being a little bit more of a positive if folks aren't don't have to worry as much that | 01:26:38 | |
| they're going to be kind of hit with tips and service fees and add on charges at the end of the end, at the end of the bill. OK, | 01:26:46 | |
| Thank you. Does council have any further questions? | 01:26:53 | |
| Seeing none. | 01:27:02 | |
| Oh, OK, go ahead, Councilmember Hernandez. | 01:27:03 | |
| Yes, thank you. Mr. Young. When we talk about the AB 147, those are taxes on out of state purchasing. I happen just to notice it | 01:27:08 | |
| on my tax forms when I was working on my tax return that they wanted you to report that I. | 01:27:17 | |
| We haven't, this hasn't been in effect long enough, right, to realize what the impact is going to be on brick and mortar versus | 01:27:27 | |
| online purchasing. Is that are we still waiting to see how that pans out? | 01:27:35 | |
| No, we have a pretty good idea now. So as you see on the screen here, going back, AB 147 was approved in 2018 and acted in 2019 | 01:27:43 | |
| and we really started to see the dramatic rise from all forms of online retailers. | 01:27:54 | |
| I don't. | 01:28:06 | |
| Believe that it's very similar to the idea of taxes when it comes to purchasing a vehicle. Most of us as consumers, it's kind of | 01:28:08 | |
| the last thing to think about or if we think about it at all, right. Most of us as consumers are really focused on the price of | 01:28:18 | |
| the goods, not so much what the tax rate is. So even if we go back you know into the before periods back in let's say 2010 and. | 01:28:27 | |
| Comparison to be had. | 01:29:12 | |
| And as you can see, there's still a a good gap in between what we're seeing sales tax revenue from strictly online versus brick | 01:29:14 | |
| and mortar I. | 01:29:19 | |
| I can tell you I met with many of clients before the pandemic hit and said look, these two lines will never cross. | 01:29:26 | |
| There will always be this gap that brick and mortar has over online and lo and behold the pandemic and these two lines got really | 01:29:33 | |
| close and I was like Oh my goodness, we've since re separated and created I think these last two years of flattening also tell us | 01:29:41 | |
| that or show us with the data that consumers there's only so much volume, there's only so much dollar wise that will be purchased | 01:29:48 | |
| online versus the in person brick and mortar. So I think we've seen quite a bit and. | 01:29:56 | |
| We're not expecting too much. The other big piece and some of you may have kind of heard about it, especially there locally City | 01:30:04 | |
| of Ox within the city of Oxnard, Amazon opened up a big facility which because of AB 147. | 01:30:12 | |
| And the rules around how sales tax from online purchases should be allocated. | 01:30:20 | |
| The The new rule was wherever the goods are located, that's where the sales tax dollars go. | 01:30:29 | |
| So you know, City of Oxnard is definitely benefiting from having the Amazon fulfillment center there locally because of the laws | 01:30:37 | |
| under AB147 and the rules under AB 147. | 01:30:42 | |
| Given that we've seen so many years speaking to the council members questions specifically is so many years since 2019, we've | 01:30:49 | |
| really now have seen it all kind of play out within the data and we've been watching the trends most certainly, but we've really | 01:30:54 | |
| now understand. | 01:30:59 | |
| And seeing the initial shift from maybe? | 01:31:07 | |
| Out of state. | 01:31:11 | |
| Is where merchandise was located to? Nope. It's in state, it's local, it's the last mile, it's the same day, you know, same maybe | 01:31:13 | |
| you know, next hour delivery that a lot of online retailers are trying to provide. I think we've seen the majority of it shift | 01:31:20 | |
| over now. OK, well, thank you. I didn't, I didn't realize it had been adopted. AB 147 had been adopted years ago, but now that I | 01:31:28 | |
| recall, I remember now when it was when it happened. So thank you very much. | 01:31:36 | |
| Yes, thank you. That was very informative and pretty much what I took away from it was had we not had COVID, we're pretty much at | 01:31:44 | |
| where we're would have been, but it just seems so or we where we should be. But it seems so shocking because of what was going on | 01:31:49 | |
| with COVID. So it seems so. | 01:31:54 | |
| Yeah, it's it's, it's pretty fascinating for us as well. When we think about and where is it, it's back here when we look at the | 01:32:02 | |
| statewide trend, we had seen dramatic growth. We had you know really low interest rates even back in you know 18 and 19. And | 01:32:11 | |
| really what the pandemic caused for our economy was a mild recession was basically that 2% slow down where then when we look at | 01:32:19 | |
| the current fiscal year this you know 1.1% decrease, it's obviously not as bad but. | 01:32:27 | |
| It has. We've seen the same similar, you know, almost similar impacts to where it's just kind of a slowing of the economy. So | 01:32:36 | |
| yeah, for us as individuals, you know what the pandemic meant and then, you know, a little bit different for for our economy. OK, | 01:32:42 | |
| Thank you. Are there any public comments regarding this item? | 01:32:48 | |
| No public comments, thank you, and no further questions or comments from council. | 01:32:54 | |
| All right, so this is to receive and file items. So we'll move on to the next item, I guess so. | 01:33:00 | |
| No, no action. I think the, the intent was just, yeah, with the budget coming up and like I said, normally it'd be a very minor | 01:33:07 | |
| review on the two year budget. This year it's going to be a little bit more of a review because we're going to have to look at | 01:33:13 | |
| some expenses to offset some of the reductions we're expecting. So we'll bring that back in June. All right. Thank you for your | 01:33:19 | |
| time. Thank you so much, Council. | 01:33:25 | |
| The next item is the review of City of Fort Wayne legislative platform. | 01:33:32 | |
| Will staff please present the report? | 01:33:37 | |
| Thank you. And this is going to be presented by Charles Parrots, our Deputy City Manager, who recently worked with the Citizen | 01:33:39 | |
| Advisory Commission to go through and recommend some updates to the legislative platform. So he'll be walking us through that. | 01:33:48 | |
| Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, City staff, members of the public, SO item. | 01:33:59 | |
| 16 As the City Manager indicated, pertains to review and potential update to the city's legislative platform. | 01:34:05 | |
| The platform was adopted initially in February 2023. | 01:34:11 | |
| The document allows the city to promptly take action and support or opposition to propose legislation. | 01:34:17 | |
| As the document itself establishes the city's position on various issues. | 01:34:24 | |
| Periodic review of the document is prudent to ensure that it accurately reflects the city's stance on different topic areas. | 01:34:29 | |
| As part of its purview, the Citizen Advisory Commission is tasked with reviewing and advising the council regarding the content of | 01:34:37 | |
| the city's legislative platform. | 01:34:41 | |
| The CAC reviewed the platform at its April 4th meeting. | 01:34:47 | |
| And offered four separate recommended changes. | 01:34:51 | |
| The proposed amendments, which are summarized in the staff report and noted in the Red Line version of the attachment, include the | 01:34:55 | |
| following deleting language from Section 1 to be This section pertains to reforming workers compensation process, and the CAC | 01:35:02 | |
| recommends that the phrase quote, creating a disincentive for those that do not return to available modified duty in alternate | 01:35:09 | |
| positions be deleted. | 01:35:15 | |
| The second change involves adding language to section 31F, which pertains to the enhancement of local control over various public | 01:35:23 | |
| nuisances. The recommendation here is to add words, but not limited to. | 01:35:30 | |
| So it's clear that the nuisances noted are examples and not an exhaustive list. | 01:35:37 | |
| The third change is recommending changes to Section 3 to C. | 01:35:44 | |
| Which pertains to local governments ability to administer anti opiate medications such as Narcan. | 01:35:49 | |
| The Commission recommends that the word community be replaced with situation. | 01:35:57 | |
| And that language regarding the use of current medical research be added. | 01:36:02 | |
| Lastly, the Commission recommends adding language to Section 10 One A to, in addition to arts and historic preservation, emphasize | 01:36:07 | |
| the important role that cultural resources have in enhancing the communities quality of life. | 01:36:15 | |
| Thank you, Charles. I think you may have missed one under item 2, Local Government Finance, 1G and H Yeah. So those were the four | 01:36:25 | |
| recommended changes from the Citizen Advisory Commission staff is recommending an additional change, which is language that | 01:36:32 | |
| advocates legislation that would require public comment and input for all proposed utility rate changes, which I think is is the | 01:36:39 | |
| change that you're referring to Mayor. Yes. | 01:36:47 | |
| So those are the the changes that have been included in the red line version of the document and are recommended for your review. | 01:36:55 | |
| Also, as noted in the report, there are a handful of topics and subject matter areas that the Council has discussed over the | 01:37:00 | |
| course of the last month, which I. | 01:37:06 | |
| The group may wish to consider additional amendments. Those include advocacy for Environmental Protection of the beach and action | 01:37:13 | |
| against beach erosion. | 01:37:18 | |
| The enhancement of pedestrian and vehicular safety and lastly, prioritizing and emphasizing the importance of funding for public | 01:37:24 | |
| art. | 01:37:29 | |
| That concludes the staff presentation and available for. | 01:37:34 | |
| Council may have, thank you. Does Council have any questions for staff right now? | 01:37:39 | |
| I do OK. | 01:37:45 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Peretz for your report. I went through the, I watched the meeting and appreciated the discussion by the Citizens | 01:37:47 | |
| Advisory Commission and thank you for your work here. I do have some questions about if I could just start with Section 2, Local | 01:37:54 | |
| government finance. | 01:38:01 | |
| #1A Support full reimbursement to the city for all federal, state, and county mandated programs. I'm wondering if there's language | 01:38:11 | |
| that could be entered in here having to do with disaster response costs. I. | 01:38:18 | |
| Does that, I mean, it's not really a mandated program. | 01:38:26 | |
| If it is, we get grant money from from the state and the feds. But I'm just thinking because in light of you know what happened to | 01:38:31 | |
| our community in December that we would want to be supportive of opportunities for disaster reimbursement and I I don't know if | 01:38:36 | |
| you can. | 01:38:42 | |
| Include that language anywhere, or if it's already included, maybe the city managers got an idea. Yeah, it was sort of debating | 01:38:49 | |
| whether it's included, but it's not really a better I was thinking. | 01:38:54 | |
| FEMA and federal, but it's not really a mandated program, so. | 01:39:00 | |
| That could be something we add in there, perhaps even just support full cost reimbursement city for all federal, state and county | 01:39:05 | |
| mandated programs and for Natural. | 01:39:11 | |
| For costs associated with that emergency response, for example. | 01:39:19 | |
| Disaster response, Disaster response, Yeah. | 01:39:25 | |
| That would be good. | 01:39:28 | |
| And and yeah, I think that would be good. We this emergency situation, we the council authorized the emergency powers, which gave | 01:39:29 | |
| us some flexibility to advocate. But it's good, especially now that that emergency power is over and we still, you know, we still | 01:39:36 | |
| find ourselves trying to fight for funding for our communities. | 01:39:42 | |
| OK. And then under public protection? | 01:39:50 | |
| Again, I don't see anything that mentions legislative support for emergency preparedness and response. And going through our | 01:39:54 | |
| strategic plan, I noticed that emergency preparedness is actually one of our strategic initiatives. So I think it needs to be in | 01:40:02 | |
| here somewhere that we would support legislation that advances emergency preparedness and in response. | 01:40:10 | |
| Capabilities. | 01:40:20 | |
| I think that it would help us, as Charles said, one of the goals with this document is trying to basically. | 01:40:22 | |
| Think ahead over the next year or two of what we may need to respond to very quickly that we can get pre approved and I think that | 01:40:30 | |
| those are are very good things to be prepared for. | 01:40:35 | |
| And then on the. | 01:40:42 | |
| The one relating to support legislation that provides local government the power to determine, based on medical research, whether | 01:40:45 | |
| anti opiate medication should be deployed in a given situation. I'm a little concerned about the language of current medical | 01:40:51 | |
| research because it's such. | 01:40:57 | |
| That term opens up so much room for interpretation on what's current medical research. | 01:41:04 | |
| And I think if we're looking at a situation like with Kovid or even with the anti opiate medication, those I. | 01:41:11 | |
| Powers or those guidelines are going to come down from either the feds, the state or the county. So I'm wondering if we should say | 01:41:21 | |
| instead there that we would support legislation that provides local government the power to determine. | 01:41:29 | |
| Whether anti opiate medications should be deployed depending on federal state which, which? | 01:41:37 | |
| Is aligned with federal state and county guidelines and. | 01:41:45 | |
| Applied research. Applied medical research. I just. | 01:41:52 | |
| I'm just a little concerned and I heard the discussion about it because there was some differences as to whether or not, for | 01:41:56 | |
| instance, that the public health department actually made the right decision in COVID. So if we're going to have that argument, | 01:42:01 | |
| this is going to. | 01:42:06 | |
| Continue to exasperate the. | 01:42:13 | |
| The problem of interpretation. | 01:42:15 | |
| If we if we just leave it, current medical research is just going to open the door for that, because that makes sense. Maybe | 01:42:18 | |
| instead of based on current medical research, something like in alignment with federal and state guidelines. | 01:42:25 | |
| You just replace that. | 01:42:32 | |
| And thank you. And then the last one was? | 01:42:35 | |
| Under Arts and Cultural Resources program that the statement just feels a little wonky. Like maybe you need some, maybe it needs | 01:42:40 | |
| to just be rewritten, or maybe some commas need to be. | 01:42:45 | |
| Entered in here support legislation for continued state funding that recognizes the importance of local art and. | 01:42:52 | |
| Local art, culture and historic preservation, maybe that that whole statement needs to be a little reworked, I think. | 01:43:01 | |
| Just to make it more. | 01:43:07 | |
| Clear. | 01:43:09 | |
| I think it can be as simple as support legislation for continued state funding that recognizes the importance of local arts, | 01:43:15 | |
| cultural preservation and historic preservation and enhancing a community's quality of life. Move the word role. | 01:43:22 | |
| And that's all I have. Thank you. | 01:43:33 | |
| All right. Did I already ask if there's any public comments on this item? | 01:43:42 | |
| I believe so, and there's none. OK. Thank you. | 01:43:46 | |
| Any food further comments or discussion from council? | 01:43:50 | |
| All right, so the recommendation is to review the city's legislative platform, consider amendments and adopt A revised document | 01:43:54 | |
| that will provide guidance and allow staff to advocate for city programs and priorities in the coming year. | 01:44:00 | |
| May I have a motion and a second? | 01:44:05 | |
| Move to Approve second. | 01:44:10 | |
| And does that move to approve with the changes we perfect? | 01:44:12 | |
| And you second that. | 01:44:18 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 01:44:21 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 01:44:23 | |
| Hearing none motion passes. | 01:44:26 | |
| Thank you, Charles. | 01:44:28 | |
| We'll move on to City manager comments and reports. | 01:44:31 | |
| A couple of quick ones. I think the main item is actually the preview of the next council meeting. We have a few items that we're | 01:44:37 | |
| preparing for the next council meeting. We're bringing back the cannabis ordinance with the changes that we had discussed at | 01:44:45 | |
| council a few months back. We're bringing back the ordinance staff actually implement those changes and we're bringing as well an | 01:44:53 | |
| update to our accessory dwelling unit ordinance, which is a hot topic right now and we're starting to see. | 01:45:01 | |
| In the meantime, we've been sort of in process with HCD, the state housing and community development department to we were trying | 01:45:51 | |
| to get into compliance with what they their requirements are. And now I guess we'll have the extra question of if we have any | 01:46:00 | |
| flexibility since we are a charter city to to maybe modify those requirements. So, so we'll bring that back next meeting too. But | 01:46:08 | |
| that is just we're just seeing so many more people come in every every month to ask about ADUS. It's it's a hot topic right now. | 01:46:17 | |
| And then we're also planning to do a presentation, this one we're working on. We hope to have ready for the next meeting. But | 01:46:26 | |
| about all the state parking law changes and the the those impacts that those are having and then some options for us to look at | 01:46:32 | |
| that hopefully can help address some of the issues that are going to be created with things like the state is saying now there has | 01:46:38 | |
| to be like more distance between intersections and parked cars and things like that. So it's just all the different pressures on | 01:46:45 | |
| parking so. | 01:46:51 | |
| So we're going to bring those three items at the next meeting and that's all I have. | 01:46:58 | |
| OK. | 01:47:04 | |
| Any council member reports and comments? I'll start with Councilmember Martinez. Nothing, OK? | 01:47:05 | |
| Council Member Hernandez OK, I've got a I've attended all my meetings, except I was. | 01:47:10 | |
| Not able to attend the regional assembly hosted by SCAG and Palm Desert, my mom went into the hospital and I had to cancel and it | 01:47:15 | |
| looks like I might have to cancel this JPIA training as well. | 01:47:22 | |
| Because my mom's now requiring a higher level of care, I just wanted to. | 01:47:29 | |
| Really thank a bunch of people who've shown up for several events that we've had over the last couple of weeks. The Grocery Outlet | 01:47:35 | |
| event was great and I'm glad that so many members of the City Council were able to be there and staff was there. And I want to | 01:47:41 | |
| thank Tracy Sasan Phillips with the Chamber of Commerce for helping with the ribbon cutting. I thought it was a great event and we | 01:47:48 | |
| got to. | 01:47:54 | |
| Just really, I just want to put my arm around that store and make sure that we take good care of it because the graffiti, we need | 01:48:02 | |
| to do something about those graffiti. | 01:48:06 | |
| Problems that they're having, but hopefully with cameras. | 01:48:11 | |
| Alleviate the problem there. I also want to thank Mayor Perez and her husband Rick and Lamont Hayes for the support and | 01:48:15 | |
| participation in the Pedro Valdez memorial. It went very well. It was really it was really touching event and I appreciate | 01:48:24 | |
| everybody's support in that and you did a great job with your your words to the families appreciate that. | 01:48:33 | |
| And I wanted to also thank the Friends of Port Hueneme Library for participating in our annual fundraiser of the Ventura County | 01:48:43 | |
| Library Foundation. This is not a city sponsored committee, but I I do serve on that board. We had our annual event Rising from | 01:48:49 | |
| the Ashes. It's our annual fundraiser and we usually walk away with 20 to $30,000 in money that we raise for local library. | 01:48:56 | |
| Ventura County Libraries and they friends of the library, Friends of Port Hueneme Library help volunteer on registration. So I | 01:49:03 | |
| wanted to thank. | 01:49:10 | |
| The the members who came out for that. | 01:49:19 | |
| And Earth Day, I just want to thank the city manager and public works staff for allowing us to help plant a couple of trees out on | 01:49:21 | |
| Ventura Rd. It was really nice gathering. Members of the community came out for it and it just, it was just nice doing something, | 01:49:28 | |
| you know, with staff. | 01:49:35 | |
| And I just it was. | 01:49:42 | |
| Just a real feel good event. | 01:49:43 | |
| So thank you for setting that up. | 01:49:45 | |
| I did attend. I'm a member of the League of United Latin American Citizens and the statewide conference was held here locally at | 01:49:48 | |
| the Mandalay Beach Hotel. And one of the key takeaways was there was a session there that I attended on the deportation of | 01:49:55 | |
| military veterans, believe it or not, veterans who are not citizens of the United States, they go to serve in the military and | 01:50:02 | |
| they can be the poor and they can and are deported. | 01:50:09 | |
| To their home countries. In fact, there's over 53 countries throughout the world that where our veterans have been sent to because | 01:50:17 | |
| of deportation. | 01:50:23 | |
| Guidelines. And so there was a group from San Diego who was here presenting on the topic and people are just astonished to hear | 01:50:30 | |
| that this is happening. And it caused me to go and talk to our Tom Fiala here from VFW 3935 and ask him to come and hear the | 01:50:39 | |
| presentation and meet the people from San Diego so that he can take it back to the VFW and help raise awareness around this issue. | 01:50:48 | |
| So I just want to share it with this council, you know that you know has a means of building awareness that that continues to be a | 01:50:58 | |
| a problem for military veterans and their families because they lose out not only on. | 01:51:05 | |
| They they get deported to a home they don't know that they don't they didn't grow up in and then their families also don't have | 01:51:13 | |
| the don't get the benefit. | 01:51:17 | |
| So thank you, Tom. | 01:51:23 | |
| And then also on April 27th, I sat on a panel with Eric Nassarenko on murdered and missing Indigenous women. | 01:51:25 | |
| Believe it or not, it's still happening and I know it's not really a city issue, but again, it's the ideas that it really speaks | 01:51:35 | |
| to domestic violence and. | 01:51:41 | |
| And education and access to services for tribal nations and for people, for women of color. | 01:51:49 | |
| And that's kind of what I walked away with and I just wanted to also. | 01:51:56 | |
| Bring that to City Council has a way of building awareness around this issue, which is. | 01:52:02 | |
| Quite prevalent, and not only in tribal nations outside the state, but we have the most tribal nations in California and it's | 01:52:09 | |
| still. | 01:52:13 | |
| Here in our state. | 01:52:19 | |
| I'm looking forward to. | 01:52:21 | |
| The annual sand summit that's going to be held May 9th and I. | 01:52:23 | |
| I don't know if. | 01:52:27 | |
| The rest of the council has been. | 01:52:29 | |
| If the zoom link has been shared but it's it's open to agencies I believe, right? It's is it. | 01:52:31 | |
| I'll confirm that I think he sent Beacon. The beacon director sent the link to our two council member representatives on Beacon | 01:52:38 | |
| and myself. He didn't say if it's open, so I'll confirm that and then send it out. | 01:52:45 | |
| And then the mural project we are looking. | 01:52:56 | |
| A meeting on. | 01:53:02 | |
| Wednesday, May 22nd to review these submittals from the three selected artists and we were going to go through the. | 01:53:04 | |
| The review of the submittals and then we'll have a discussion following that meeting with the with the ARTS team. | 01:53:16 | |
| So we're moving along really well. Yeah, the committees, the committee is really doing a good job and we've got a good group of | 01:53:23 | |
| people. So that's all I have. Thank you. | 01:53:28 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem. | 01:53:35 | |
| Thank you Mayor. Just a couple of things. GCTD is participating in the upcoming free fair days and so May 17th, a Bike to work day | 01:53:37 | |
| biker ride. Bike riders can ride the bus for free and then again on June 17th is dump the pump and so that's writers ride free. On | 01:53:46 | |
| that day the staff has been participating in collaborative meetings and outreach. | 01:53:56 | |
| To communicate to riders and and. | 01:54:06 | |
| Residents throughout the county of the upcoming adjustment rate changes that are supposed to begin in July. So these are the first | 01:54:11 | |
| adjustments since 2011. So they're working really hard to get the word out. They have begun to decrease some of the routes they | 01:54:19 | |
| have, begin to start them later and finish earlier because the lack of the necessary bus drivers. So that said, they are hiring. | 01:54:27 | |
| So if you're interested, go to gctd.org. | 01:54:36 | |
| Slash careers and finally for GCTD. Just as a reminder, we want to always think about transportation. | 01:54:44 | |
| As an integral part of our planning. So that's for GCTD, the museum. | 01:54:52 | |
| Preparation for the museum reopening continues. The committee met this past Friday and we'll meet again next Friday. Discussion | 01:55:00 | |
| have been focused around the creation of artifacts, the professional history, poster boards and other items that will be in the | 01:55:06 | |
| first display. | 01:55:12 | |
| Additionally, we talked a little about next steps. | 01:55:18 | |
| Of the Ad Hoc committee and we are meeting BI Weekly and will continue. I'll continue to report out as as the information comes | 01:55:22 | |
| up. | 01:55:26 | |
| And then finally, I was able to participate on behalf of our mayor, the Take Five and read to Kids Kick Off Breakfast at Cal State | 01:55:31 | |
| Channel Islands. | 01:55:36 | |
| A couple weeks ago and then last week, I attended the Ports 11th Annual World Trade Week event. | 01:55:41 | |
| This is Mental Health Awareness month, so I'll be attending several different Wellness fairs throughout the county. Just try to | 01:56:21 | |
| raise awareness. | 01:56:25 | |
| For mental illness as part of the Lyons Mental Health Committee. | 01:56:29 | |
| When is tomorrow actually there's a social at port? | 01:56:36 | |
| I'm not sure what that's called. Port, it's over by Ventura Harbor. It's a community over by Port Harbor, I think it's called. | 01:56:43 | |
| On Thursday is the Boys and Girls Club Breakfast which is a free event and Jackie Joyner Kersey is the the special speaker that we | 01:56:53 | |
| have that day. I'll be attending the Navy League Lunch to present the CB of the Year certificate. | 01:57:01 | |
| I attended all of my committee meetings, Nothing to tell on any of those on Friday. I'm part of the an organization called All | 01:57:10 | |
| Children Thrive Equity Advisory Group, and it's a partnership between the state of California and behavioral health and UCLA | 01:57:18 | |
| Health to try to find ways of combating childhood trauma. And so that meeting is on Friday, and I'm hoping to bring back some much | 01:57:25 | |
| helpful information for our own community because I know that wine, EMI, and South Oxnard is a hotspot for childhood trauma. | 01:57:33 | |
| So trying to bring back some information on how we can combat that and and help families that are struggling. | 01:57:41 | |
| The red for blue. Yes, on on Saturday. Does anyone have any numbers as to how many officers how many writers came in on that? I | 01:57:49 | |
| don't have a number yet. OK well we that's a it's in the 5th annual. | 01:57:55 | |
| 5th annual It comes through every city in the county and came on Saturday to wine Amy. And there's a lot of pictures and videos | 01:58:02 | |
| all over social media about that is it's such a beautiful event to see all those writers come in and all the different first | 01:58:06 | |
| responders and then. | 01:58:11 | |
| Having our city be able to. | 01:58:18 | |
| Have be a host cities they can stop and take a break and get water and do what they need to do and I think Oxnard gave a 2 hour | 01:58:20 | |
| lunch which is. | 01:58:23 | |
| Let me see if I have anything else. I don't think I have anything else coming up this month. | 01:58:29 | |
| And that is it for me. | 01:58:34 | |
| Sure. I just want to say thank you to me, Elementary, who provided the art in this room. It's fabulous. I hope we can continue to | 01:58:38 | |
| do that because the walls are made for art here in this room. It really changes. It just really does. It just brings a warmth and | 01:58:44 | |
| color to. | 01:58:50 | |
| To rather bland environment, otherwise bland environment. So thank you for for agreeing to do that. I love it. | 01:58:58 | |
| The next thing is to ask for any future agenda items. I'll start with Councilmember Martinez. No future agenda items, OK? | 01:59:05 | |
| I still have a couple pending the climate change. | 01:59:14 | |
| And then policies and procedures. I think I want to add an item on the policies and procedures update having to do with | 01:59:18 | |
| alternates, the role of alternates because they seem to vary according to what committees you sit on. | 01:59:26 | |
| It's not as clean as I think we we once they once were. | 01:59:35 | |
| And then how are we going to address the flag policy? Were you going to ask for that? I'll let you do that. Thank you. | 01:59:40 | |
| On the climate change if I could just respond very quickly the climate change we the request that the last meeting was to. | 01:59:47 | |
| To schedule a climate change presentation. And the thought at that point was perhaps asking Giles from the port to come present. | 01:59:57 | |
| So we did reach out to him and he said that the presentation he gave like a couple meetings previous to that is the exact | 02:00:04 | |
| presentation he would give for this, for that purpose. And so we don't, I guess it's not on the agenda. So we can't discuss it. | 02:00:10 | |
| But yeah, so we need to, we need to find an alternative idea. | 02:00:17 | |
| Do you have any future agenda? OK. | 02:00:25 | |
| Then I would like to request a future agenda item to consider the PLW flag and obviously do some research and find out what's | 02:00:28 | |
| appropriate for when that's supposed to be flown and not. Can I have a second for that? | 02:00:34 | |
| Thank you. | 02:00:42 | |
| Madam Clerk, all in favor? Aye. All opposed. Hearing None. Motion passes. | 02:00:43 | |
| That's all I have. And I just want to thank you today for your just you jumped right in there where you thought it was appropriate | 02:00:49 | |
| and that's what I like to see take initiative and just if you think something needs to be said, don't be afraid to speak out. | 02:00:54 | |
| Thank you. It's my honor to be here. | 02:01:00 | |
| Maybe we should do that. | 02:01:08 | |
| Yeah, I'll introduce myself. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Joan Smyth. I am your new city attorney, which is my | 02:01:12 | |
| honor and and thrilled to to act as I've been doing municipal law now for close to 30 years. | 02:01:20 | |
| I'm having graduated from law school in 1985, so it's been a little while. Not quite ready to retire yet, but maybe in five or ten | 02:01:29 | |
| years, something like that. But I. | 02:01:35 | |
| I worked most recently doing a lot of code enforcement. I do a lot of litigation. I do a lot of contract work for for | 02:01:43 | |
| municipalities, and I thank you all for your support. | 02:01:49 | |
| Thank you. We appreciate you being here. | 02:01:56 | |
| All right, so if there is nothing further, I'm going to adjourn this meeting. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday, | 02:02:00 | |
| May 20th at 6:30 PM. The meeting is now adjourned at 8:32. | 02:02:05 |