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CALL TO ORDER / FLAG SALUTE/ROLL CALL
INSPIRATION
PUBLIC COMMENT
AGENDA APPROVAL FOR CITY COUNCIL
RECESS TO HOUSING AUTHORITY MEETING
RECONVENE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
PRESENTATION Item No. 4 Quarterly Employee Recognition
PRESENTATION Item No. 5 Breast Cancer Awareness Proclamation
PRESENTATION Item No. 6 Domestic Violence Awareness Proclamation
CONSENT CALENDAR
PUBLIC HEARINGS
BUSINESS Item No. 10 Update on City Traffic and Pedestrian Safety Efforts
BUSINESS Item No. 11 Award of Contract for Cannabis Revenue Audit Services
BUSINESS Item No. 12 Community Benefit Fund – 2024 Project List
CITY MANAGER COMMENTS AND REPORTS
COUNCILMEMBERS’ REPORTS AND COMMENTS
REQUEST FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS
ADJOURNMENT

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	Good evening everyone. Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30 PM.	00:00:01
	Please everyone stand and join me for the Flex loop.	00:00:06
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to.	00:00:18
	One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:26
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call?	00:00:37
	Councilmember Gama.	00:00:39
	Here, Councilmember Hernandez here, Councilmember Martinez present, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lashawn here, and Mayor Perez here.	00:00:42
	Tonight's inspiration is given by myself and so I'm going to talk about inspiration in general.	00:00:50
	October is filled with events, initiatives that can inspire positive action, reflection and community spirit. Some of these	00:00:57
	examples are Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Bullying Prevention Month, World Mental Health Day, Indigenous Peoples Day,	00:01:03
	International Day of the Girl, World Food Day and.	00:01:09
	Domestic violence awareness Domestic violence awareness. These events offer an opportunity for reflection, action, community	00:01:16
	building, inspiring people to contribute to important causes. And finding inspiration is a personal journey and it comes from	00:01:24
	experience, environments or reflections that resonate within you. So I would encourage everyone to find something that you can be	00:01:31
	inspired by and just come out and join it. Join whatever 'cause it is and support whatever inspires you.	00:01:38
	We now move on to public comments, public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes.	00:01:50
	This process will be the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, does anyone have any public comment	00:01:56
	tonight? We do. First up is Becky Brody.	00:02:02
	Good evening, mayor, mayor Pro Tem, council, city staff, audience. I'm here tonight representing Rook up the outdoors, the 27th,	00:02:16
	which is a Sunday. We will have our family fish day and that will be the last one for the year. We're calling it spectacular	00:02:25
	because we want you to wear your costumes. We will be giving out prizes. Thank you. Thank you.	00:02:33
	Next is Seth Bonilla.	00:02:44
	Good evening, Council.	00:02:54
	Although imperfect values nonetheless.	00:03:27
	After Councilmember Gammos e-mail to me, the City Manager reached out to me via e-mail stating in short, that another resolution.	00:03:29
	Was drafted to now include the POW flag which is honored by all and me included. Yet this was done to self adjust as to not	00:03:36
	exclude other group other groups.	00:03:41
	Yet my request to fly the Christian flag has been ignored or simply not given consideration. Riverside Council has voted	00:03:47
	unanimously, unanimously to go flag neutral, simply and clearly because the intentional division that has been caused in their	00:03:55
	city. Your representation, your representation Council is to fully serve all people at all times equally. And this is the result,	00:04:02
	A resolution that is worthy of a lawsuit to write your political ambitions and to get your counsel back.	00:04:09
	To serve the community without further intentional division.	00:04:18
	It is shameful, to say the least, that this entire Council, including the ones with religious backgrounds, would allow such a	00:04:22
	resolution to fully.	00:04:26
	Resolution without fully considering its impact on city, in the city and those who live within it and who are opposed to it, I'm	00:04:32
	going to skip the rest of this. My point is, is that the resolution that you made, there was a resolution that was made on July	00:04:39
	1st, 2024. And in it exclusively right here, it says the policy outlines a procedure for the City Council to review requests to	00:04:46
	display commemorative flags below the city flag at City Hall.	00:04:53
	During the requested time when you did that, you created a public forum.	00:05:01
	Now what you want to do?	00:05:06
	With your new resolution that came from the city manager via corpspendence with me is you excluded that now and you're trying to	00:05:09
	make it a government speech.	00:05:15
	So I have no choice but to litigate this in court with you because what it has done and what it's continuing to do is to create a	00:05:22
	separation within this community that is unjust. And why you don't see that is beyond me. Why do you think that the Riverside City	00:05:28
	Council, all five members said enough of this?	00:05:34
	It causes division within a community. That's exactly what it's done here. I am not against the LGBTQ community whatsoever. I know	00:05:40
	them.	00:05:44
	I help them, I feed them, I service them when they need help.	00:05:48
	You created the problem each one of you individually has.	00:05:52
	Is that my time?	00:05:56
	Yes, you're out of time. Thank you, Sir. Yeah, no problem. I'll be back next. I will be back next time. I do want to respond. And	00:05:58
	I'll take the opportunity now to respond to your threat to sue the Well, let me tell you something, Sir, if you'll give me a	00:06:04
	moment. Every action taken by this board.	00:06:10
	In connection with its flag policy was done completely legally and an exercise of this Board's First Amendment rights.	00:06:17
	Now you can take, you can do a lawsuit, whatever you want to do, go ahead and do it. I'm just telling you that as a practicing	00:06:26
	lawyer of 40 years, I'm well aware of what is legal and what is not legal. And this council in its flag resolution policy	00:06:33
	exercised its First Amendment right, just like you have a First Amendment right. Well, it doesn't seem to apply right now.	00:06:41
	Sure it does. There is a policy in place. Policy is different than law.	00:06:49
	That's not, that's not accurate at all. It sure is. No, it's not, Sir. Yes, any local policy. Ma'am does not trump state law.	00:06:54
	It does not is being fully compliant. You wrote it in your resolutions. I have your resolutions right here during during public	00:07:01
	comment. We're not able to debate back and forth. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The opportunity. I'm sorry. And if there's any further	00:07:07
	follow-up I could connect you to. Yeah. Why don't you do that? Yes. Awesome. Thank you.	00:07:13
	I'll be here next time.	00:07:20
	Anheim.	00:07:21
	And now I'm really nervous.	00:07:27
	Hopefully this won't be very contentious at all.	00:07:31
	Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, the City Council and staff, thank you so much for allowing me to comment tonight. I sent the City Council	00:07:37
	and the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and the city Manager an e-mail last week requesting your assistance with a public works permit for	00:07:43
	my residential construction project.	00:07:49
	I would like to summarize my request. My husband and I are currently completing a remodel of our home in Port Hueneme. We	00:07:56
	converted the original 2 car garage into a granny flat for my mother.	00:08:02
	And now we're conducting a remodel on the main house. We added a bedroom, and as a result of adding that bedroom, building and	00:08:08
	safety said we had to add.	00:08:13
	A new two car garage, which we did. My general contractor submitted a public works permit request for a new.	00:08:17
	Driveway approach to the new garage in accordance with approved plans. He met with Public Works last week and was told that we now	00:08:26
	must demo and reconstruct the entire existing driveway approach. Our lot is positioned at the end of a cul-de-sac and has a	00:08:34
	reverse pie shape. I did submit all of this in my e-mail to you and then I also brought paper copies tonight for you to review.	00:08:42
	It has an unusually small frontage footprint, but very wide at the back.	00:08:51
	We have a shared driveway because of the position in the cul-de-sac as well as the size of the lot and the layout of the lot with	00:08:58
	our next door neighbor. Poor guy just moved in next door to a giant construction project and now we're going to have to RIP up his	00:09:05
	approach, which is potentially going to limit his ability to actually park on his driveway.	00:09:13
	Narrowing the approach for him because I understand that we can't actually use part of our property.	00:09:22
	To give him that extra approach room. So there are also 2 water meters for our main house and the granny flat, as well as one for	00:09:28
	our neighbor positioned in the same approach. We just had the third water meter added.	00:09:35
	And all three meters will need to be moved and or modified. I don't believe the code requirement to remove the existing approaches	00:09:42
	equitable because it doesn't account for the unique property footprint of my lot at the end of a cul-de-sac with the strange	00:09:49
	reverse reverse pie shape. I'm concerned that this will be a burden on my next door neighbor during the demolition and	00:09:55
	reconstruction phases and that he won't have access to his full driveway.	00:10:01
	And a reconstructed approach will potentially limit his ability to utilize the driveway once the new approaches created.	00:10:09
	We are requesting a variance to allow the existing approach to remain in place. I've provided copies and you guys have my e-mail.	00:10:16
	Sorry I'm a little bit nervous. Thank you very much for your time.	00:10:21
	Thank you. And although we can't get into details since it's not on the agenda, I've asked the Public Works Department to review	00:10:27
	the matter and update us. So thank you.	00:10:32
	And there is one last public comment, which is written last month. I spoke at the City Council meeting and asked for help with the	00:10:38
	epidemic of graffiti incidents in Miranda Park and Surfside Village. The perpetrators were hitting the area multiple times a week,	00:10:45
	leaving tags as large as 8 foot high and 20 foot long. City workers and volunteers from Surfside Village immediately responded to	00:10:52
	these incidents and were usually able to cover them within a couple hours. While our efforts quickly eliminated the.	00:10:59
	Similar tags showed up in a day or so. The situation was out of control. I'm happy to report that the cycle ended. It's now been a	00:11:06
	few weeks since we have experienced a major attack. It's hard to know why the attacks ended, but I suspect that Port Hueneme	00:11:12
	Police Department efforts to stop these outrageous incidents have been effective. Thank you. On another note, homeless numbers	00:11:18
	have increased. Many of these individuals appear to be under the influence of hard drugs or experienced psychotic episodes. It's	00:11:24
	getting creepy.	00:11:30
	When Amy has devoted precious resources to holding events that bring people here, few of the folks who attend these events will	00:11:36
	return when they experience psychotic people wandering around aimlessly yelling at invisible enemies, or drugged out people laying	00:11:41
	on the ground who look like they might be dead.	00:11:47
	The primary reason for this increase is that the city of Oxnard has once again decided to allow massive encampments in and around	00:11:53
	Ormond Beach. Oxnard pushed homeless people out of North Oxnard into South and Central Oxnard. There are no homeless people in the	00:11:59
	collection or any of the upscale neighborhoods near it. There are hundreds of people occupying Ormond Beach, starting fires,	00:12:05
	trashing sensitive wetlands, and posing a threat to anyone entering the area.	00:12:11
	Wanami Beach is the closest area to where these encampments exist, and many of these people migrate here to spend the day or roam	00:12:19
	around in the streets in the middle of the night.	00:12:23
	Unless something changes, it's a matter of time until we experience a replay of 2019 when hundreds of dangerous vagrants were	00:12:27
	encamped on Ormond Beach and came into Waimea to steal anything insight and attack innocent people. Anyone who thinks that the	00:12:33
	homeless crisis in California is going to be resolved in the next decade is living in a fantasy world. Cities that allow homeless	00:12:39
	people to live in the streets will attract more homeless people. History has shown that offering services to treatment resistant	00:12:45
	homeless people has failed miserably.	00:12:51
	In part because they were allowed to keep living on the streets thanks to our recent court decision, grants passed versus Johnson.	00:12:57
	Cities can now enforce urban camping bans. I urge the council to authorize PHPD to aggressively enforce the ordinance. We can't	00:13:04
	solve homelessness, but we can make it uncomfortable for folks to migrate here and create a safe and secure environment for our	00:13:11
	residents. Thanks, David Scrivener, president, Surfside Village HOA. That concludes public comment. Thank you. The next item is	00:13:18
	the agenda approval. May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? So moved.	00:13:26
	2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:13:35
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	00:13:38
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously.	00:13:42
	Do any members of Council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda?	00:13:45
	Not seeing any, we will move to recess the City Council meeting and call to order the Port Hueneme Housing Authority regular	00:13:51
	meeting.	00:13:55
	We will now recess the City Council meeting and call to order the time being.	00:13:59
	644.	00:14:04
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call for the Housing Authority?	00:14:06
	Member Brown.	00:14:11
	Member Gama here, Member Hernandez here, Member Martinez, President, Vice Chair McQueen Legend here and Chair Perez here. Let the	00:14:12
	record reflect that Member Blackwell is absent. Thank you.	00:14:19
	We will now hear public comments. Madam Clerk, are there any public comments for the Housing Authority? No public comments.	00:14:27
	Thank you.	00:14:32
	We move on to the Consent Calendar. We'll consider items on the Housing Authority Consent Calendar, which will be enacted in one	00:14:35
	motion unless an authority member has a request to remove an item for discussion. Do any members have a reason to remove any item	00:14:39
	for discussion?	00:14:44
	I'm not seeing any. May I have a motion and a second to approve so move?	00:14:50
	2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:14:55
	All in favor, aye?	00:14:58
	All opposed.	00:15:01
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	00:15:02
	Mayor, can I just add something? So I just wanted to explain to everybody and kind of make a note and apologize for that brief	00:15:09
	Housing Authority agenda today and the fact that it's just a consent calendar. We won't normally do that and, you know, require	00:15:15
	our housing board members to come out and everything just for a consent calendar. But I wanted to explain that the reason we did	00:15:22
	that is that the disbursements.	00:15:28
	There's requirements by state law and and our own fiscal policies to.	00:15:35
	Basically share those with the public in a specified period of time and not to go too long without sharing those. So that's why we	00:15:42
	had to bring the disbursements to council today, even though there wasn't any other agenda items. So, so apologize for the short	00:15:49
	meeting, but it was an effort to be transparent and appreciate everybody accommodating it. Thank you. We have no business items	00:15:55
	for the Housing Authority. We'll move on to member reports, comments or requests for agenda items.	00:16:02
	Do any member have a report request or a comment?	00:16:10
	Thank you.	00:16:17
	Sorry to hear that.	00:16:21
	Yeah, I would just like to request an update at the next meeting. I noticed that the Willowbrook remodels are I believe are	00:16:24
	kicking off and getting moving and so.	00:16:29
	Just looking to get an update on that.	00:16:35
	Update on the Willowbrook project. OK, do we need to do gender requests for that Councilmember Gama's request?	00:16:38
	2nd.	00:16:48
	Madam Clerk.	00:16:49
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	00:16:51
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you if no member have anything further.	00:16:55
	Then I'm going to adjourn the Housing Authority seeing none.	00:17:01
	The Housing Authority will adjourn to its next regular meeting, scheduled for November 4th, 2024 at 6:30 PM. You will now	00:17:06
	reconvene the City Council regular meeting. The time is now.	00:17:11
	647.	00:17:17
	We move on to presentations, the first item up, and.	00:17:19
	Is uh.	00:17:23
	The quarterly employee recognition, 20 years of service.	00:17:24
	Are we having H?	00:17:30
	Human Resource risk manager frankly to come up. Thank you.	00:17:33
	Thank you, Johnny.	00:17:38
	Feel better?	00:17:41
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, citizens of Port Hueneme, frankly HR risk manager.	00:17:48
	Each quarter of the city we'd like to celebrate and recognize employees who reach milestones. And this quarter we celebrate Mr.	00:17:55
	Aurelio Reyes, who for serving 20 years with the city. And unfortunately Mr. Reyes couldn't be here today, but I call Director	00:18:01
	Camarillo to introduce Mr. Rios to the Council.	00:18:07
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council, members of the audience and staff.	00:18:26
	As Mr. Lee mentioned, Aurelio could not be here tonight with us, but he did take the opportunity to fill out the sheet that is	00:18:32
	handed out to all the employees that get this recognition. So I will give you the answers that he supplied for us when asked what	00:18:40
	is his favorite moment.	00:18:48
	Or what he liked most about working for the city. His response was that he enjoyed this and sincere appreciation received from his	00:18:59
	managers and his team alike.	00:19:05
	He's made many friends, he's working with great people over the years and has gained a lot of knowledge and been able to develop	00:19:12
	his leadership throughout those years.	00:19:18
	When asked what his most memorable moments were, he stated his best memorable moments have been sharing camaraderie, camaraderie	00:19:24
	with his fellow coworkers, being able to train all the new incoming drivers, and being able to lead by example.	00:19:34
	That becoming the earning the solid waste lead position was by far his best accomplishment here that he's had with his years at	00:19:46
	the city.	00:19:51
	And that he will continue to strive to lead the division and those that he's in charge of to the best of his ability and give the	00:19:57
	best customer service to the residents and customers.	00:20:03
	When asked if there was anything that he wanted to address to the City Council, he said that receiving this service award fills	00:20:11
	him with great pride and gratitude and he wanted to thank you all for acknowledging his loyalty and contributions made over the	00:20:19
	years. And he's very thankful for the the award and it's.	00:20:26
	He feels like it's a testament to the stronger relationship he's built with the city and his time here and.	00:20:34
	Aside from that, I mean, I've had the pleasure of working with Aurelio for all 20 years he's been here for the last about 12 or so	00:20:42
	much closer.	00:20:46
	With my involvement with solid waste over the years, Aurelio isn't a man of a lot of words.	00:20:52
	Very quiet, very kind.	00:21:00
	But he, as he mentioned, he does take great pride in his work. He's he's really a great guy who cares about making sure that the	00:21:05
	people that he's working with and others have everything that they need to succeed. And so I'd like to.	00:21:15
	Ask you to join me in recognizing 2 decades of service to the city.	00:21:26
	Director Cameron, on behalf of the City Council, please let him know that we appreciate his dedication to our city. The 20 years	00:21:36
	is a long time and so we understand that he he chose our city to continue working here. He could have left at any time. So we	00:21:43
	appreciate the fact that he's still here after 20 years. And that certificate obviously is recognition of that.	00:21:49
	I will let him know, thank you.	00:21:57
	The next presentation is the Breast Cancer Awareness Proclamation, which will be read by Councilmember Gama.	00:22:02
	Thank you, Mayor Perez. So I have a connection with breast cancer. Actually, I don't have breast breast cancer. I have the gender	00:22:08
	equivalent prostate cancer I've been treating for.	00:22:14
	Eight years now and I'm doing well and so this I think it's fitting that I get to read this proclamation. Breast Cancer Awareness	00:22:22
	Month October 2024. Whereas considerable progress has been made in the fight against breast cancer, it still remains the most	00:22:29
	frequently diagnosed type of non skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in our community. And	00:22:36
	whereas this year alone an estimated 310 + 1000 women.	00:22:43
	And 2800 men in the United states will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and nearly 42,000 lives will be lost and whereas	00:22:50
	knowing what may contribute to breast cancer, it.	00:22:56
	Is an important part of its prevention risk factors for breast cancer include family personal history, radiation therapy to the	00:23:04
	chest for previous cancers, obesity and certain generic changes and whereas getting regular screenings may help lower the chances	00:23:11
	of developing breast cancer in women and men are encouraged to talk with their healthcare provider about the risk and what they	00:23:18
	can do to mitigate them. And whereas, thanks to early detection and better treatments, mortality.	00:23:26
	Rates for breast cancer have steadily decreased in the last decade. And WHEREAS, during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we	00:23:33
	stand with our mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends, and we recognize all who have joined their loved ones in fighting their	00:23:39
	battle, as well as the advocates, researchers, and healthcare providers whose care and hard work gives hope to those living with	00:23:45
	breast cancer. And WHEREAS. By educating ourselves and supporting innovative research, we will improve the quality of life for all	00:23:51
	Americans affected by.	00:23:57
	Breast cancer and one day defeat this terrible disease. And whereas a city, excuse me and whereas the Port Hueneme Police	00:24:04
	Department is committing to raising awareness and helping support all those affected by breast cancer. Now, therefore, let it be	00:24:11
	proclaimed that the City Council of Port Hueneme hereby recognizes October 20.	00:24:18
	24 as breath.	00:24:26
	Cancer Awareness Month in the city of Paroni and encourages the community to help raise awareness and support in the fight against	00:24:28
	breast cancer. My sister's.	00:24:33
	Had stage 4 breast cancer and it wasn't looking good when she started her treatment and I was 15 years ago and she's defeated and	00:24:40
	she's with us and she's couldn't be happier and she she too.	00:24:45
	Works very hard to spread awareness and thank you for bringing this up, Chief.	00:24:52
	Yes, thank you Council, the as it was mentioned, the Police Department will be donning our pink patches, our ribbons. I do dual	00:24:58
	because if we have both domestic violence and our cancer awareness month, but they'll also be other symbols on our uniforms, cars	00:25:06
	and we have participated in some community cancer awareness events. We will continue to.	00:25:14
	Participate more. However, we did ask this year.	00:25:22
	One of our local community, Winnie me community heroes to receive this Becky, come on up here for the reason of I wanted to	00:25:26
	receive the proclamation because not only is she, as I refer to her, the Duchess of Waimea, not only is she my spirit animal and	00:25:35
	all her positivity, but she's been involved in Relay for Life and cancer awareness for many years. This last year she did a lot.	00:25:43
	As one of the coordinators for the West County Relay to get many representatives from the local cities involved.	00:25:52
	To step up and speak and even helped us squeeze in a couple of teams last minute. And you know, she's the quiet, humble one who	00:26:00
	gets all the stuff done behind the scenes. And I just want to say thank you. And we think you should receive this proclamation for	00:26:05
	all the work you've done.	00:26:10
	Thank you.	00:26:15
	I.	00:26:38
	I thank you for this honor.	00:26:59
	I am a breast cancer survivor. I'm also a lung cancer survivor.	00:27:02
	And.	00:27:08
	This means so much to me, thank you.	00:27:09
	Thank you, Becky.	00:27:14
	The next presentation is for Domestic Violence Awareness Proclamation, and before you read that, Councilmember Hernandez, I would	00:27:20
	like to make a request to dedicate this in the memory of Jessica to Noko, who was a recent victim of domestic violence in Simi	00:27:27
	Valley and who had a lot of family and friends that came out for a vigil at Winnie Me Pier last about a week ago.	00:27:34
	Yeah.	00:27:42
	OK. Thank you very much, Mayor.	00:27:43
	So October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the city would like to.	00:27:47
	Provide this proclamation to the families of miss and all the victims of domestic violence and the women and the children who are	00:27:54
	in the crossfire of these incidents. Whereas October is designated as domestic violence awareness month and Whereas domestic	00:28:02
	violence is a crime which effects all races, cultures and social demographics, and whereas domestic violence has a profound impact	00:28:09
	on families and the community and whereas children that.	00:28:16
	Up in violent homes are believed to be abused and neglected at a higher rate than the national average.	00:28:24
	And whereas only a coordinated community effort will put a stop to this atrocious crime. And whereas Domestic Violence Awareness	00:28:30
	Month provides an excellent opportunity.	00:28:35
	For residents to learn more about preventing domestic violence and show support for the numerous organizations and individuals who	00:28:39
	provide critical advocacy services and assistance to victims and Whereas the Port Hueneme Police Department, City of Port Hueneme	00:28:47
	and community based organizations are in a position to provide education, information, and services to assist victims in the	00:28:54
	understanding that they have the right to be safe, feel safe and live free from.	00:29:02
	Violence at home and in the workplace and whereas we all must continue to help and advocate for victims and the criminal justice	00:29:09
	system and law enforcement must continue to hold offenders accountable and whereas we will continue our efforts to end violence in	00:29:17
	our homes, schools and communities. Now therefore be it proclaimed that the City Council Port Hueneme hereby recognizes October	00:29:24
	2024 has Domestic Violence awareness month in the city of Port Hueneme and.	00:29:32
	Urges the community to participate in programs and outreach efforts aimed towards educating and supporting those who are victims	00:29:40
	of domestic violence. Proclaim this 7th day of October 2024 and as as mentioned, your Police Department not only shows our	00:29:47
	symbolism with our our purple ribbons and and other symbols, but you know, we continue the assertiveness on patrol with addressing	00:29:54
	domestic violence and and calls for service.	00:30:01
	Our detectives continue aggressively prosecuting, working with the District Attorney's office to do so.	00:30:09
	And and advocating along the way. But Speaking of advocating, I asked our.	00:30:14
	This is actually we're a unique agency to have our own in-house victims advocate for the poor morning Police Department, and	00:30:22
	that's Pat Majors and Pat's been with us for.	00:30:27
	For the RPD alone for 20 years, but let's talk about many, many years beyond that at assisting other agencies here in the county	00:30:32
	and and working with victims and.	00:30:37
	Amongst the support and guidance of resources and helping.	00:30:44
	Those involved in the investigations get through the court journey and get restraining orders. She's there for them because it	00:30:50
	takes a special caring person and a special heart to.	00:30:56
	Do the support through the time of contact from the police all the way to the time of court and trial. So we'd like Pat to receive	00:31:03
	this.	00:31:08
	Thank you, Pat.	00:31:14
	Thank you for allowing me to serve the citizens of Fort Wenemie. It's been an honor and from those.	00:31:18
	Survivors that I serve, thank you very much. Thank you.	00:31:27
	Thank you.	00:32:11
	I didn't know we had such a person.	00:32:13
	To assist, of course, yes.	00:32:15
	Pat, I just wanted to thank you for being able to put yourself in the position to help people that are suffering through a	00:32:19
	terrible moment. And I know we've had.	00:32:24
	Several instances where you're there and it really does take a special person to to be able to provide comfort in the most	00:32:31
	difficult times and.	00:32:35
	And we thank you for that.	00:32:41
	That concludes our presentations for the evening. We will now move on to the consent calendar.	00:32:45
	We will now consider items on the consent calendar which will be enacted in one motion unless a council member has a request to	00:32:51
	remove an item for discussion. Do any council member have a request to remove an item? I have a quick question on the	00:32:55
	disbursements.	00:33:00
	So let's pull that for discussion.	00:33:06
	So can I get a motion to approve item 7:00 and 9:00?	00:33:10
	Motion to approve 7:00 and 9:00.	00:33:15
	2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:33:17
	All in favor, aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously.	00:33:21
	OK, Thank you, Mayor. I Mayor, I just wanted to.	00:33:28
	Ask our city manager and maybe a finances here about the Orkin Services of California.	00:33:34
	Cost here for the removal of the whale and you know I.	00:33:42
	I don't know if this is a shared cost or if it's a reimbursable cost. Oh, no, that was not Orkin. That was this. That was	00:33:48
	regarding the bedbugs somewhere else. But there's a $5000 expense here for the removal of the whale. And I was wondering if the	00:33:55
	you could tell us a little bit more if there's any relief funding for situations like this because I imagine it'll happen again.	00:34:02
	Yeah, not really, unfortunately, I think.	00:34:09
	We were kind of joking our our luck if the water had taken it a little bit.	00:34:17
	In one way or the other, we wouldn't have been on the hook, but it landed on our beach. So we're we're on the hook. So credit to	00:34:22
	public works, we were able to jump on it and get get the the.	00:34:28
	Body carcass of the whale out before it started to stink too bad. But the unfortunate aspect is we are on the hook for it and we	00:34:36
	don't expect to have like a cost sharing or anything like that. We did talk about in the future though, sort of planning and	00:34:43
	budgeting for some. We have a beach and there's a lot of great things about that, but we we probably need to plan and have a	00:34:51
	contingency for things happen at the beach, you know, and so it's probably something we'll look at budgeting.	00:34:58
	Currently in the future, but the good news was the cost was much lower than we were initially.	00:35:05
	Concerned it was and our team worked with them and we're able to get it out on a day where the water was taking it. So the cost	00:35:12
	was about half of what we had feared it would be so did we actually have a company come in and remove it or and then that was they	00:35:20
	were assisted by our public works personnel so they the company actually came out and, and actually essentially.	00:35:28
	Debating how much we want to get into this. Disassembles the body of the well and then.	00:35:37
	Pulls it back out to sea and has to pull it out far enough that it doesn't just float right back. And then we have to do the same	00:35:44
	thing over again. So yeah, Well, thank you so much because, yeah, I imagine this is kind of a unique situation and I was just	00:35:50
	really curious. Hopefully it doesn't happen again anytime soon. Thank you for that. I agree that, you know, having a contingency	00:35:56
	fund is a good idea. So thank you for that. So. Saturday.	00:36:02
	Couple weeks ago during beach clean up we we wanted to go check it out and the.	00:36:09
	I forget the name, the the biology people were there taking tissue samples and stuff and it was really interesting because they	00:36:15
	slice and dice the whale and it was actually like a balloon. And so when they dissected it, it makes it viable to be.	00:36:23
	Towed out to the ocean so that it'll sink and the wildlife will take care of it and it ends up feeding a bunch of sharks. But it	00:36:33
	was a.	00:36:38
	The I was able to talk to the project leader and they towed it 26 miles out in the ocean and they let it.	00:36:45
	They let it go free.	00:36:56
	Free Willy.	00:36:59
	And it was a it was a minky whale, which was the smallest species of baleen whale. So I did learn a little bit that day.	00:37:01
	OK. I'll move for approval of item number eight of our consent agenda register of disbursements.	00:37:10
	Have a second please second.	00:37:17
	Thank you. All in favor, Aye. All opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Moving on, we have no public	00:37:20
	hearings tonight, so we'll move on to business items. The first business item is the update on the city traffic and pedestrian	00:37:25
	safety efforts.	00:37:30
	Thank you, Mr. C Manager, you'll presenting the report. Yes, Thank you, Mayor.	00:37:36
	And.	00:37:42
	Over the last year we've done, we've had a couple discussions at council about the efforts we were implementing regarding Traffic	00:37:45
	Safety and traffic improvements, but also we had a couple conversations about pedestrian safety. And a few months back we had a	00:37:53
	conversation talking about doing a pedestrian safety campaign and the council had asked for some more information and so.	00:38:01
	We're bringing back information on both, both some of the efforts that we've implemented.	00:38:10
	And it's we're sort of trying to.	00:38:15
	Show everybody the holistic approach we took towards addressing the traffic issues and we've really kind of looked at all options	00:38:18
	to do that. And then also we have some information related to some of the pedestrian issues that were that we've seen and then	00:38:24
	we're proposing doing a pretty.	00:38:31
	Simple pedestrian safety campaign that would allow us to partner with our partner agencies like the the Port and the Base and	00:38:39
	others.	00:38:43
	To really get the word out, school kids and all those things to get the word out about pedestrian safety. So, so we have a slide	00:38:49
	here to start it off and it lists some of the traffic measures we've implemented this year. Things like reinstating the traffic	00:38:55
	division in our Police Department, including reinstating motorcycle enforcement, commercial traffic enforcement, and bringing the	00:39:01
	parking enforcement team in house into the Police Department so that they could work with hand in hand with the traffic team and	00:39:07
	focus on.	00:39:13
	Things like line of sight and visibility issues that that really make a difference on traffic and pedestrian safety. We've	00:39:20
	installed, our public works team has installed striping crosswalks and rapid flashing beacons in different locations throughout	00:39:24
	the city to really try to.	00:39:29
	Increase awareness of some of these issues and provide some safe areas for people to cross streets and things like that. We also	00:39:36
	about within the last year reduced speed limits on several streets, including Channel Islands Blvd.	00:39:42
	And we did the traffic study to justify that reduction in speed limits and we've updated ADA accessibility ramps and especially at	00:39:49
	some key locations right next to the schools so that it's just safer and you don't have the trip and fall hazards for people to	00:39:56
	walk across the streets in some key areas.	00:40:02
	We've installed the truck route signs around the city to try to make sure that the trucks are adhering to the designated routes.	00:40:09
	Before we have those signs, we'd find that the trucks would be on the wrong streets, so we've been trying to put them in the right	00:40:14
	places. I.	00:40:18
	And then we've created programs for a stop sign request program, a speed hump request program, and then most recently the	00:40:24
	installation of the rubber medians to prevent Donuts. And that's still in the pilot phase, but we're getting good feedback that	00:40:30
	people feel like it's working. So we'll we'll come back to council at the end of the pilot to really walk through that. But we	00:40:36
	created all of those programs to try to help address traffic issues.	00:40:43
	And then, as I mentioned a moment ago, a few months back, the council talked about doing a pedestrian safety campaign but	00:40:50
	requested more data and information. And so one of the things we wanted to do in this report was provide some of that information.	00:40:56
	And we'll keep it pretty high level at this point. I think there's a lot of data out there, but we.	00:41:03
	Pulled our Tim's transportation injury mapping system data, which is sort of the the standard public facing data on accidents and,	00:41:12
	and things like that. And looking at our map, it's pretty obvious this is the data from the last five years that the most of those	00:41:19
	dots that reflect accidents and and they'll show the numbers that talk about how many accidents at each of those locations are on	00:41:27
	Channel Islands Blvd. and Ventura Road. And I don't think that.	00:41:34
	Anybody those are sort of the the arteries of Port Hueneme. And so we we have had accidents on those streets. This goes back to	00:41:42
	2019. So over five years about 260 accidents across the city, most of them in those areas. But we've been doing things like I	00:41:48
	mentioned over the last year to try to address that and we've lowered the speed limits and we've added striping and we've added	00:41:55
	crosswalks so.	00:42:02
	We're expecting to see that make impacts and for these numbers to drop in the future.	00:42:09
	And relevant to pedestrian data, out of those 262 reported incidents, about 30, three were bicycle or pedestrian involved. And so	00:42:16
	this next slide shows the locations of those bicycle and pedestrian incidents. And so you can see similarly that most of those	00:42:24
	incidents happen on Channel Islands Blvd. and Ventura Rd. very similarly.	00:42:32
	One interesting thing that we saw when we started to look at this data is that there a lot of these actually happened near our bus	00:42:40
	stops.	00:42:44
	It makes sense in a way because you're, you're guaranteeing that pedestrians and people and bicyclists and everybody are in that	00:42:48
	area for these accidents to happen and they're generally kind of high trafficked areas. So that led us to, when we were talking	00:42:57
	about what we could do to address that, we talked about doing.	00:43:05
	A The pedestrian safety campaign that the City Council had discussed previously.	00:43:15
	But focusing it on educational information at the bus stops on our poster boards that we have at our bus stops, having safety tips	00:43:19
	on those poster boards and and including those on our bus stops is something we can do that's relatively easy and low cost and we	00:43:26
	can include it there. But also getting these out to and even handouts out to the partner agencies like the Navy base, the Port of	00:43:34
	Waimea and local.	00:43:41
	Schools to get out to people that may be walking every day. And at that last council meeting when we talked about this, we talked	00:43:49
	about, you know, how could we get people to maybe wear more reflective items. And so the idea we came up with that's a very low	00:43:55
	cost is focused on the school kids, which is the slap bracelets that if anybody is familiar with the slap bracelets that you kind	00:44:01
	of slap onto your wrists and the, and kids usually love those.	00:44:08
	We can order high visibility snap bracelets and distribute those with our every time our officers go out to the schools or every	00:44:15
	time we have an event like a touch or truck event, we can give those out to kids.	00:44:20
	And encourage them to want to wear high visibility items so.	00:44:26
	Like I said, our report was intended. We wanted to report back on some of the efforts and then talk about this next recommend	00:44:34
	doing this next step, which is this pedestrian safety campaign and ordering these high visibility bracelets to distribute out	00:44:40
	events. They're less than $0.50 per bracelet. So we were planning to to spend a minimal amount of of money to get those and hand	00:44:47
	them out at our upcoming events and and our school visits. So.	00:44:54
	With that, we're happy to answer questions.	00:45:02
	But the item was to receive the update on these traffic and pedestrian safety efforts and to provide direction, and we're	00:45:05
	recommending that that direction be moving forward with this campaign.	00:45:12
	Thank you. Does Council have any questions for staff at this time?	00:45:20
	I have a question and comment.	00:45:25
	First of all, thank you so much for listing the initiatives. When we get questions from our constituents and residents about what	00:45:29
	the city is doing, what the PD is doing, about Traffic Safety, now we've got a list of things we can tell them. So thank you for	00:45:36
	that. I'll keep that one handy. The other question I had was on the map. The first map you showed didn't wasn't in our packet, but	00:45:44
	can you just quickly tell us what the difference is between the green?	00:45:51
	Globes. And they look like little globes.	00:45:59
	And then the blue globes, yeah. And so the the different.	00:46:02
	Dots in the different sizes and the different numbers is the frequencies of frequency of accidents and it's a little hard to see	00:46:09
	we intended to include it in the packet but maybe we only got the bicycles. Yeah and but so those are reflecting how many	00:46:16
	incidents are in each of those locations and.	00:46:23
	The bigger the dot, the more accidents and then also it has the the number there, but it's just reflecting that data. So it's not	00:46:33
	distinguishing between pedestrian only or bicycle versus car or no.	00:46:40
	The second map is the one that reflects just the bicycles and pedestrians, so the turquoise versus the green.	00:46:50
	Doesn't mean different categories in this one. Yes it does and it's. Yeah, we should have included a legend. I believe it's the	00:46:57
	teal color are the.	00:47:03
	The bicycle accidents and then the blue color of the pedestrian OK accidents, which is also there's fewer pedestrian incidents, so	00:47:11
	that's why those ones don't have larger numbers. The teal there's more of and and in some cases there have been more than one.	00:47:19
	That's really helpful, and the legend may be on the on the initial.	00:47:28
	OK. Good job. Thank you. Thank you.	00:47:36
	Thank you staff, I really appreciate the poster. I think it.	00:47:39
	I know I talk a lot. I know I.	00:47:43
	Probably talked a little too much on coming up with a reflect Yourself campaign, but I think the poster really captures the the	00:47:47
	idea is, you know, awareness. And I shared this poster with the Superintendent McCoy. I got a thumbs up. You know, we do need to	00:47:53
	help teenagers I.	00:47:59
	Recognize that there are not invincible and how many times do we see people walking around in dark clothing? If I were to walk	00:48:07
	home tonight, this jacket bad the reflective jacket.	00:48:13
	Here good. So I really I think the poster is amazing. I don't know who created that. Was that HR Mr. Flee?	00:48:19
	Actually, Brian Popovich, our administrative analyst, Yeah. And so I think I think this would be a great campaign to spread across	00:48:28
	our local schools and just make sure kids know that we need to be seen. You need to be seen when you're walking, biking in and	00:48:34
	around the city of Port Hueneme. Thank you.	00:48:40
	I would just.	00:48:46
	May add to that at night, right? Because daylight savings time is coming up in November. Unfortunately, not before.	00:48:48
	Halloween. But yeah, these are to be used at night. Yes, correct. And you just reminded me of something. You know, there's six	00:48:56
	candidates running for council, and I know you're going to be knocking on doors. And so reflect yourself when you're out there,	00:49:00
	OK?	00:49:04
	Make sure you're a candidate when the vote occurs, all right?	00:49:10
	Thank you. Do you have any questions? Thank you. Madam Clerk. Are there any public comments on this item? No public comments. All	00:49:13
	right. The recommendation is to receive an update on the cities traffic and pedestrian safety efforts and received requested	00:49:19
	pedestrian related data and provide direction. May I have a motion and a second?	00:49:24
	Specifically and that can we include the direction is to move forward with the pedestrian safety campaign which will be I think we	00:49:31
	estimated less than $500.00. So can I have a motion to approve to move forward with the suggested?	00:49:37
	Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:49:46
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	00:49:48
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. The next item up is the award of contract for cannabis revenue Audit services.	00:49:52
	Yes. And I'm going to introduce our Finance Director, Lupe Acero to to walk us through. And just note that I really appreciated	00:50:00
	the efforts of Mississippi Arrow and our Community and Economic Development Director, Tony Stewart on this. They worked through	00:50:07
	the RFP process essentially with the goal of reducing costs for our cannabis businesses and I think they've been able to do that	00:50:13
	pretty well, but.	00:50:20
	Misses Sarah will walk us through how they did that. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council staff and	00:50:28
	members.	00:50:31
	Of the public, I am going to provide you some highlights on the process for our recommendation tonight to award the RFP for audit	00:50:36
	services for our cannabis businesses.	00:50:42
	The annual development agreements actually call for two audit services a year. In the past we've done 1. You know, audits are very	00:50:50
	time consuming and comprehensive. We did get a little bit not behind, but we had a gap in in during COVID, so we had some catching	00:50:55
	up to do.	00:51:01
	The Cannabis Initial Cannabis RFP that was issued in 2018 when the agreements were first signed, was awarded to HDL companies.	00:51:09
	They were the ones that were conducting all of the audits on an annual basis of all of the businesses.	00:51:20
	And costs have gone up as everything else has gone up. So currently, cannabis businesses are paying $10,000 per audit. And this is	00:51:28
	for traditional, you know, your traditional walk in cannabis business, but it's $10,000 per audit.	00:51:37
	Staff issued an RFP request for proposal for a full scope audit, which is what we have currently right now, which is what HDL is	00:51:48
	doing is a full scope revenue audit and an attempt to get some competitive pricing from other business firms and companies that	00:51:57
	that perform audits in in the effort to reduce costs for the businesses. We receive 4 responses from 4 different farms.	00:52:06
	And as City Manager mentioned, the review committee, which was myself, Tony Stewart, Community and Economic Development Director	00:52:16
	and two of my staff, Angela Kusick and Diana de Costa, who are very involved with the cannabis businesses were part of the	00:52:23
	committee. We reviewed all of the responses and we had follow up interviews with all of the.	00:52:31
	Agencies or firms that responded during the interviews we requested.	00:52:40
	A change of scope to further reduce the cost. So if we went from a full scope revenue audit to a limited scope audit and we	00:52:47
	requested all of the respondents to provide us a cost proposal for a limited scope audit. And really a limited scope audit is less	00:52:55
	extensive and is less expensive. So really what it does, it's still looking at critical records.	00:53:03
	But not it's eliminating some of the audit steps that the audit firm would do.	00:53:12
	We're still looking at the core documents which are your point of sale, which is your register.	00:53:17
	We're still requesting for them to look at the tax returns that they file with the with the.	00:53:24
	State agencies and then their general Ledger, so they're there, their records, so tying all those out.	00:53:30
	They're not looking at, for example, bank statements, they're not looking at purchases, they're not looking at inventory. So	00:53:38
	that's really your difference. So they're limiting the scope, just focusing on the core documentation.	00:53:45
	And based on our review for the limited scope audit, we're proposing to award this audit.	00:53:52
	To Booth Management Consulting, this is a large international firm that very reputable that has over 25 years of experience and	00:54:03
	they do audits compliance various businesses throughout the US.	00:54:12
	Including the Washington State Department of Commerce, they were involved with some cannabis.	00:54:23
	Audits with them and.	00:54:28
	Their prices were extremely competitive.	00:54:33
	So we were looking at that was actually one of the main reasons for doing this. I just want to mention kind of as businesses have	00:54:35
	been down overall in the state just overall because of I think market saturation, but specifically in part why anemia. The	00:54:43
	businesses here have experienced significant decreases in sales and obviously more cost pressures.	00:54:51
	The cost that we receive, the cost estimate for this audit or the proposal is $18180.00. So under 2000 for a traditional.	00:54:59
	Business and then 17164 businesses under three and a half, $1,000,000. So that's some of our business is traditional walk-in	00:55:11
	businesses are under 3.5 and then it certainly applies to all of the delivery businesses which are much smaller.	00:55:19
	One note I have here for our businesses and we do plan to have a meeting with our businesses to ensure that they have proper	00:55:30
	record keeping because that certainly could increase the cost of the audit. If an auditor comes in and they don't have all of the	00:55:37
	records in place or they're not able to get documentation and they spend more than what is reasonable amount of time, it could	00:55:43
	cost them more for the audit.	00:55:49
	We're comfortable because most businesses have gone through at least the one audit, if not more.	00:55:56
	And so they're they're aware of what records were requested during these audits. We're also comfortable because we've already seen	00:56:02
	some of the findings that would they experienced in the last couple of audits and and that's the reason we're comfortable with the	00:56:07
	limited scope audit.	00:56:12
	And again, we'll have a meeting, that's our intent to have a meeting with our businesses to make sure that they have all the	00:56:21
	records. We're probably providing a list of records and documents that they should have available.	00:56:26
	Their recommendation for tonight is to authorize City Manager to award the contract for cannabis revenue audit services, the	00:56:34
	limited scope audit to booth management consulting BMC and again, they're anticipating that this will significantly reduce cost	00:56:42
	for the local businesses.	00:56:49
	Thank you. Director Acero, does any Council member have any questions?	00:56:58
	Yes, Thank you, Mayor.	00:57:04
	I have a couple of process questions. I noticed. OK. So the cost of this contract with Booth is under $10,000, so.	00:57:07
	Is it customary that this comes before council for something that's.	00:57:18
	Less than, I mean is there a threshold here? It is, it's 1800. It's so it's under 2000 per business. So we have like 13 businesses	00:57:23
	that businesses. So it's not going to exceed 10,000 overall. It is a professional service, but because this was also brought to	00:57:30
	council when we talked, I think it was maybe last fall about you know, working with businesses to reduce costs. One of the one	00:57:38
	other area was allowing the excise tax.	00:57:45
	Deduction reduction from their what they pay the city and this was another component to do an RFP and secure.	00:57:53
	Another audit firm, so it's probably hovering around there. Depending on how many audits they do, we May 13 or 14 businesses. So	00:58:01
	we'd probably get right up to the limit. The limit typically is $25,000. So it's close, but we talked about it. But like Mr. Sarah	00:58:08
	mentioned, we had brought the RFP to the council initially. So we also wanted to kind of close the book. And then also	00:58:16
	importantly, we're recommending going from a full scope to a limited scope and we think we have good reason to.	00:58:23
	Do that, but that's still the council's call to say I was just curious and then you answered my other question about the number of	00:58:31
	businesses that would be subject to these services.	00:58:36
	So that answers that and then.	00:58:45
	And then you refresh my memory that we did approve the RFP, right? OK, so where is the?	00:58:47
	The proposal from Booths? I don't see it in here.	00:58:54
	Is there, was it supposed to be in here the approved? No, I think what we included in the package was the RFP, that request for	00:58:58
	proposal and the agreement.	00:59:03
	We do not include their response, but we can.	00:59:10
	Not customary. I think it's something that we can provide. It's something that we'll we'll try to provide in the future.	00:59:15
	I think for us the main thing was wanting to walk the council through what the limited scope means and what it means compared to a	00:59:28
	full scope, so we wanted to do that today. So it's up to the.	00:59:34
	Council, we recommend approving it, we could have and probably in the future will include.	00:59:41
	But the Council has the choice of asking for it if desired.	00:59:47
	I personally for me, I'd like to see.	00:59:54
	What Booth's response was? Learn a little bit about their company, what you know.	00:59:58
	What kind of services they're offering, how they're organized, those are kinds of things I like to see. So maybe just in the	01:00:04
	future. OK, Sure. Sure. Thank you. Tim, do you have any questions? No questions. Thank you.	01:00:11
	I have a comment if that's OK.	01:00:18
	Sure. No, I appreciate staff work and I appreciate your summary and sometimes I think it's.	01:00:21
	Better to save trees and overload us with with data. But but what I think is great is that I.	01:00:28
	I wasn't on council when cannabis came to being. And so there's been this big roller coaster ride. And at first it was a lot of	01:00:37
	money coming in, $10,000 probably didn't seem that much. And then as we all knew we we were anticipating the competition coming in	01:00:45
	and other cities coming in. And I think it's, it's really a testament to our city.	01:00:53
	Past and present that were trying to work with these.	01:01:03
	Entities and trying to help them as best we can and I think that's a very sizable reduction to them that I know it's appreciated	01:01:08
	but you know it's competitive out there and.	01:01:15
	We had what, 13 and maybe three years from now we might not have 13. So I think it's a great effort on the staff's behalf to, to	01:01:22
	work with our local businesses to try to help them be successful. So thank you, Director. Sarah, just for the record, 'cause I I	01:01:30
	expect that you already do, but I just want to confirm that the limited scope, you have full confidence.	01:01:38
	In what you're going to be provided, will disclose it full transparency of all the information that you need.	01:01:47
	To satisfy whatever requirements for each business. Yes, that's correct. They're looking at the court documentation and so that is	01:01:53
	correct. And if I can add one thing I was going to add is that.	01:02:00
	We do have.	01:02:07
	Very different sized cannabis businesses and we have a few that are that are doing well and that are very large and that that	01:02:10
	still produce a lot of revenue for the city. And then there's several though that aren't and several that are struggling. And we	01:02:16
	had talked about it that I think there's a couple that honestly the $10,000 audit fee is more than they're going to generate in	01:02:22
	revenue to us. And so you know, the logic of telling them to pay $10,000 to audit, you know, $7000 that they're going to pay the	01:02:28
	city.	01:02:34
	And so one of those things was going through a full audit every year is going to require weeks of a staff person that they may or	01:03:11
	may not have at that point. So, so to me, this was a win win because it's not reducing any revenue to the city. It's strictly the	01:03:18
	fee that a business has to pay to the auditor. So it's not impacting the city and in that way, but it's making their lives a	01:03:26
	little bit easier and reducing their costs at a time that I think they could.	01:03:33
	Use it.	01:03:40
	And then like Mrs. Sarah said, because we just finished an audit and we just walked through all these with them in depth over the	01:03:42
	last year, we're comfortable that they now have those processes in place. So but we'll we'll be able to keep spot checking those	01:03:49
	things. And I mean, it's an really giving the businesses an opportunity to have their records in place.	01:03:56
	If we run into, well not us, but if the audit firm runs into challenges with this type of scope and we're not able to get	01:04:05
	comfortable that we can't validate the sales, we may come back to council and.	01:04:11
	Go back to full scope audit, which will be a little bit more expensive, OK.	01:04:18
	Thank you.	01:04:23
	Are there any public comments regarding this item? Mayor, I do have one question.	01:04:25
	Just to confirm, the audit is also going to include the 1% tax revenue on in terms of like how they disperse that money? No, that	01:04:31
	has never been part of the road. It's strictly just gross revenues.	01:04:36
	Yeah, it's not part of the scope now.	01:04:43
	So the 1%, how we handle that now, well, we've implemented is we've created a process now where a finance staff person we have	01:04:48
	works with them and gets a report from them I.	01:04:54
	We're trying to do it monthly, but it's a battle, right. It's a hit and miss with some businesses, but it's on the form now and	01:05:01
	the monthly form that they complete on a monthly basis for them to include where that 1% donation who it was made out to and and	01:05:07
	provide us the support. And it's really a tracking that finances tracking it and reaching out to the businesses when we're missing	01:05:13
	information to provide council report. I do have to say we don't have we have some businesses that do it very diligently and we	01:05:19
	get all that info.	01:05:24
	And some we don't, so we're still trying to compile that to present to council, but it.	01:05:31
	Yeah, that's how we compile that, but we do ask him for the support and thank you. Mrs. said oh, OK, so no comments, correct, No	01:05:35
	public thank you. So the recommendation is to authorize the city manager to award the contract for cannabis revenue audit services	01:05:42
	limited scope to booth management consulting or BMC may have a motion and a second.	01:05:49
	So moved.	01:05:56
	Thank you, Madam Clerk.	01:05:58
	All those in favor, all those opposed.	01:06:00
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Doctor Sarah.	01:06:04
	The final.	01:06:09
	Business item is the Community Benefit Fund 2024 project list.	01:06:11
	Thank you, Mayor.	01:06:18
	So sort of Step 2 in the process we actually the Council had discussed.	01:06:20
	The CBF previously and had identified the 1st $113,000 in projects, but there was still the question of the last $30,000 in	01:06:27
	projects. So we're back tonight with the full list. And just as a little bit of background and a reminder more, maybe more for the	01:06:35
	public that the community benefit fund is the fund created in our agreement between the city and the port and.	01:06:43
	Essentially, when we had a new agreement in 2015 or a settlement agreement in 2015.	01:06:52
	The port agreed to contribute $100,000 annually and then it was subject to inflation. So that's how we get to a number of $143,000	01:06:58
	this year. But they contribute that money annually for projects that the city and the port meet together. The we each have a	01:07:05
	committee, we meet together and we identify projects in key category shoreline protection community to develop development	01:07:12
	opportunistic endeavors.	01:07:20
	Or the fantastic category of other projects which really narrows it down. But so, so we we got together this year, we came up with	01:07:27
	our initial list, which is everything on this slide other than that bolded item, everything else we had already talked about at	01:07:35
	the Council and we had agreed with the port on that initial $113,000.	01:07:42
	We had $30,000 left that we were trying to come to an agreement on. We, we at our council meeting previously had wanted to, we had	01:07:51
	identified focusing on public safety and mental health Wellness projects when we went back recently and we had our committee	01:07:58
	meeting with the port, the port.	01:08:05
	Noted essentially that they had been aware that we were working on an economic development plan and that they wanted to work with	01:08:13
	the city on that economic development plan.	01:08:18
	And so as that joint committee, we agreed to recommend that.	01:08:22
	Well, let me add that at that meeting I noted that we just adopted a plan and now we have to figure out how to pay for it. So we	01:08:29
	it was opportunistic to the city because we're looking for funding to to implement some of those things.	01:08:35
	And so we talked about that and we talked about recommending to the council and their committees recommending to their board that	01:08:42
	we earmark that $30,000 for an economic development plan implementation funding. The specific project is not noted, but the idea	01:08:49
	was that I would come back and and meet with our community and economic development Director, Tony Stewart and go through our plan	01:08:57
	and recommend the.	01:09:04
	Projects that we thought could be funded with that money that would also benefit the city and the port, and then we would meet.	01:09:12
	With the port CEO and see if that's something they're interested in. When we found a project that worked for both parties, then	01:09:20
	we'd each come back to our boards. So, so it's not a specific project yet, but it's essentially funding a project from our	01:09:27
	economic development plan. And so with that I believe and the committee is.	01:09:34
	Mayor Pro Tem McQueen legend and Councilmember Perez. Mayor Perez, so they can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe our	01:09:44
	committee came to the consensus that we were recommending.	01:09:49
	Allocating that $30,000 towards the economic development plan if ever, if the Council and the Board agree to it, this would	01:09:55
	represent our project list for this year. And so we are recommending moving forward with this as the project list and we can	01:10:02
	answer any questions. Does Council have any questions?	01:10:08
	So this kind of goes into the other column.	01:10:16
	The.	01:10:20
	Well, actually, I mean, because there's no, there's no specifics. There's actually category. Ironically, this is actually probably	01:10:22
	1 project that actually really fits into a category other than other, which is we, one of the categories is actually community	01:10:28
	development in our settlement agreement. And it says implementing joint initiatives that foster the community's economic, social	01:10:34
	and environmental well-being. So this actually economic development falls right into that category too in the settlement	01:10:40
	agreement, we don't have any.	01:10:46
	It's not specific yet. Yeah. So we, we, we're going to get creative and try and figure out how to.	01:10:53
	It's going that direction. So we'll bring a project back that well, we'll try to find one that we think is mutually beneficial to	01:11:00
	the port, check with the port CEO and make sure that we find one that's mutually beneficial. And then we'll each bring it back to	01:11:06
	our boards to recommend to fall in line with our economic development plan that we recently approved. OK.	01:11:13
	And justice as an example, because there were a lot of things in that plan, but, you know, there's things that I think could be	01:11:20
	mutually beneficial, like, you know, enhanced updated signage that reflects both the city and the port and in certain areas and	01:11:26
	things like that that that I think would fall in line. But the economic development plan was pretty broad. It even included some	01:11:32
	like food truck events and things like that. So.	01:11:38
	We can go through that and try to find the one that gets both the city and the port excited about working together.	01:11:45
	Just reminded me, I think I heard you say earlier like getting port trucks to go the designated route.	01:11:52
	Is there a designated route or are the port trucks supposed to go down Waimea to Rice or or specifically port trucks? It's our	01:12:00
	that we have our commercial truck routes and so it includes most port trucks, but it's not only the port trucks and so commercial	01:12:08
	trucks, yeah, we do have commercial truck routes that we that we've adopted and signed so.	01:12:16
	OK, so if I were to ask a question off topic and get a look from the attorney, we're going to stick to the community Benefit Fund.	01:12:25
	Council Member Hernandez, thank you so much.	01:12:29
	Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Vega for the.	01:12:35
	The report and thank you to our committee members for representing us at the Port City Committee. That's how our city gets	01:12:39
	represented.	01:12:43
	When it comes to port discussions, I do have a question on the economic development plan that we adopted. Did we, I don't recall,	01:12:49
	but did we prioritize the projects, the list of recommended projects in that plan?	01:12:56
	No. The plan included a work plan essentially, and so we adopted that, but we didn't specifically go through those projects and	01:13:05
	assign priority level. So will council have an opportunity to weigh in on the prioritization of those projects and which projects	01:13:12
	we might like to see?	01:13:19
	Funded by this $30,000 Yes. Yes. And that's essentially by agreeing to do this, we'd have to come back and talk about what	01:13:27
	projects we'd want to implement with this funding. Very good. All right. Thank you.	01:13:33
	Seeing none, are there any public comments regarding this item? No public comments. Thank you. So the recommendation is approved	01:13:42
	the implementation funding for the City's economic development plan as the final project on the 2024 CBF project list. May I have	01:13:47
	a motion and a second?	01:13:53
	So moved second. Thank you, Madam clerk. All in favor, Aye, all opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Great job. Look	01:13:59
	at that. Let's move on to city manager comments and reports.	01:14:06
	Yeah, it's funny how time gets away because by our agreement we have to have that done by December 31st and somehow we actually	01:14:14
	got into October, but.	01:14:18
	Pretty good.	01:14:23
	So we have a couple of slides in the city manager's report. We just wanted to highlight some recent events and some upcoming	01:14:25
	events and recent events. We've had quite a few. We September 21st we had our coastal cleanup day and we collected somehow 42150	01:14:33
	lbs of trash and recyclables and.	01:14:40
	As noted here, we cleaned with our partners 3 miles of coastline and included some unusual items such as a whole couch, which I	01:14:49
	did not see this year. Last year I had seen the couch, but this year I missed it. I was working the booth, I missed the couch. So,	01:14:56
	so thank you to everybody who joined us for that And another successful Coastal Cleanup day and the pictures there that we posted	01:15:04
	online to we had our junior ROTC come out and they they were a force out there.	01:15:11
	It was a good event.	01:15:18
	And then this weekend we had our Touch a truck event and it just continues to grow. It was it was a pretty large crowd. I think we	01:15:20
	estimate about 1500 kids came out and that doesn't count the families with them. It's just the kids that we were handing out our	01:15:28
	passports to the booth passports. So is our third annual Touch of truck. They keep getting bigger and I think more successful. And	01:15:35
	then I think the exciting thing for us is more and more agencies are.	01:15:43
	Wanting to participate in it, we had, our goal had been to get the Navy to participate and we did it this year. And I think that	01:15:50
	they were really happy with it and more eager to participate next year. So, so it's all all good stuff. And then there's a couple	01:15:57
	rumors that a couple other cities are reaching out to our team asking how to do this. So it might grow from there where you might	01:16:05
	start seeing some other Touch of Truck events in the county, which is always, it's always good, just more community events.	01:16:12
	And then the other thing that launched this last week is our community emergency response team training, our cert training. We had	01:16:20
	a pretty full class as you can see in the photo on the right, we had 28 participants. And it's a very impressive because because	01:16:27
	it's, it's actually a little bit of a time commitment when these people are all part committing to participate in this for the	01:16:35
	next several weeks and so six weeks.	01:16:42
	And so they will be working on that for the next six weeks. I think they'll finish. I think it was right before Thanksgiving. At	01:16:50
	one point it was going to end on Thanksgiving and we thought that would be a terrible way to spend Thanksgiving. So, so cert is	01:16:59
	training is underway now. So, and thank you to our Police Department and our fire department for all the work on that.	01:17:07
	We wanted to give a quick reminder. I think we're kind of getting through this, but we had we're upgrading all our financial	01:17:18
	systems and it's always change and, and, and change is always not preferred. And so about September 10th, our new system, our	01:17:25
	utility billing payment went online utility billing system.	01:17:33
	The feedback we're getting once people get used to it is I think we're hearing that people like it and that it they like it a	01:17:41
	little more than the old one, but it's just that initial change.	01:17:46
	I think that we're trying to get the word out on. A lot of the word we're trying to get out is if you signed up for autopay before	01:17:50
	September 10th and you just set it and forget it.	01:17:55
	You will have to remember one time to reset it and then you can set it and forget it all over again. So we're just trying to	01:18:01
	remind people who may not have heard that that's going on and if and any anything set prior to September 10th needed to be reset	01:18:08
	now for for this new portal. So.	01:18:15
	And credit to the finance department who is set up, we've set up a kiosk in the front of City Hall and they actually are walking	01:18:23
	people through pretty constantly walking people through setting it up with the hope that most of them are setting up auto pay and	01:18:30
	they have to do it once here and then never have to do it again. So.	01:18:36
	And then we have a couple upcoming events. One is the Spooktacular Celebration, which is another one that Rick has put on that	01:18:44
	just keeps growing and has gotten more popular over the years. That's on October 23rd from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. This this year we'll	01:18:51
	have music, photo booths, treats, pumpkin patch, maze, train ride, face painting, carnival games, and more at Miranda Park.	01:18:58
	And so that's coming up. We also, I think 4 days before that on October 19th, have the, I think it's the last movie in the park	01:19:06
	series this year it was Wonka at Booker Park. And that's a free event that we invite our community out to.	01:19:15
	And then the notice on the right is good news, but it's we're also just letting people know that the construction is going to be	01:19:25
	happening. And so people are aware that we're doing our walk sidewalk repairs at the beach and that's going to include the new	01:19:32
	concrete pad and walkway to the swing set, which is now going to be we're moving forward with the installation at the beach. So	01:19:38
	that work is all going to be happening over the next.	01:19:45
	45 days or so.	01:19:54
	And I wanted to quickly note and the next slide will show that we, we.	01:19:57
	May have an item on this on the next agenda depending how it's how it's going. But we wanted to give a quick dredging update. It's	01:20:04
	not on the agenda. So I can just briefly note that we, we as in the city, the port and the harbor were notified recently of some	01:20:11
	potential issues at the state and federal level, which potentially could lead to delays to not just our dredging project, but all	01:20:19
	dredging projects that were scheduled in the state of California.	01:20:26
	And so we, the city, the port and the harbor have been working together diligently and immediately to start contacting all of our	01:20:34
	state and federal representatives and starting to contact the Corps of Engineers and the State Water Control Quality Control Board	01:20:40
	to really bring attention to this and try to get it resolved as quickly as possible to avoid any any potential delay. And so we've	01:20:47
	had several.	01:20:53
	Meetings and several conversations with the different folks involved.	01:21:00
	And today, with a thank you to Congresswoman Brownlee's office, who sent a letter urging everybody to get involved in and solve	01:21:04
	the issue, we have been, I think, making progress on it. And so we've been notified at this point that the Army Corps of Engineers	01:21:12
	are expecting to issue their projects project solicitation this week. And so that would be a big step. And we think that's a good	01:21:19
	sign. But the city port in the harbor.	01:21:27
	Gonna plan to stay on it and keep meeting and keep pushing just to try to make sure that that we keep the project on track. It's	01:21:34
	just when a project involves state.	01:21:40
	Regions, counties, cities, every other board in between. And then also, you know, even the federal government, but with the US	01:21:47
	Army Corps of Engineers, there's a lot of possible little hiccups. So we're all just going to try to work together to really keep	01:21:54
	it on track. So, so for now, that's the update. And then as noted, it's there on the the end of this slide for the next meeting if	01:22:01
	we need to give more of an update and, and take some actions on it.	01:22:08
	We'll, we'll put an item on the agenda for that purpose. We're hoping that's not the case. We're hoping that it's sort of resolved	01:22:16
	in an on track before that time. But it's noted on the slide for October 21st along with a few items presentations. We're planning	01:22:23
	to do our Down syndrome Awareness month, National Community Planning Month proclamation, and then the district attorney's office	01:22:31
	is offering to do presentations to each city on gun violence restraining.	01:22:38
	Which has become a tool that they're really using. It's one of those things and they'll go through it. But I think five years ago	01:22:46
	they'd have like 1A year across the county and now there's 50-60 a year. And so it's really becoming more of a tool that they're	01:22:53
	using and they've they've asked to come to a presentation on that and it's an opportunity to educate the community on it and that	01:23:00
	this option even exists out in the world and then.	01:23:07
	So those are the presentations we have planned, business items we're bringing back our Wanami Beach Fest wrap up report.	01:23:14
	And the bringing back the item that came to council a few months ago, we were asked to do more research on the no smoking	01:23:21
	ordinance. So that'll be coming back. And then as mentioned, we have a dredging update penciled in it if needed. So that's the	01:23:27
	plan for the October 21st agenda at this time. Thank you, city manager. We'll move on to council member reports and comments,	01:23:34
	council member Martinez. Thank you, mayor Perez.	01:23:40
	I'll keep mine short, Sister city. I think we're just waiting on that EIN number. We might have already gotten it, but we're	01:23:47
	planning.	01:23:50
	We're planning the visit in February, so we're going to finalize that hopefully sometime soon and at our next meeting. And then	01:23:53
	for Reach, we're going to have our second pickleball tournament on November 9th. It's mixed double s, so that's going to be fun.	01:24:01
	That way you can take your significant other and and compete and there's all levels including.	01:24:09
	The lower levels for myself and the it's $75 per team and it includes sure if you sign up.	01:24:19
	Before October 28th.	01:24:26
	Thank you, Councilmember Gama.	01:24:30
	Thank you, Mayor Perez.	01:24:33
	In the next agenda item, I'm going to be making a request to waive fees for the Orvene Carpenter Community Center because.	01:24:35
	Orvan Carpenter and his granddaughter approached me and.	01:24:44
	Want to celebrate his 100th birthday on January 31st at the Orven Carpenter Community Center and so.	01:24:48
	The dates available and.	01:24:58
	Like I said, I'll be making a request to agendize so that we could waive the fees and and celebrate the Patriarch of Port Hueneme.	01:25:01
	I came across a book called.	01:25:07
	Paul and me an winemie, and I just want to real quickly read a couple experts from it. Wainimi. Me and Paul grew up there. It	01:25:14
	isn't there anymore. There is a town by the name, well, almost like a Plymouth set winemie disappeared, written over, dredged,	01:25:23
	buried, redesigned, obliterated. It's been going on for over 50 years now.	01:25:32
	Port Hueneme visitors or Newcomb seen the word for the first time.	01:25:41
	Couldn't handle it. Puzzled, but willing enough to give it a shot. They'd say something like we need me or Hugh need me. And then	01:25:45
	a lady by the name of Miss Miranda came up with Winema, which stuck for a while. So if you get a chance, search out that book, Me	01:25:52
	and Paul and Winnie, me. And then I just have to say that.	01:25:59
	You know, this dredge thing, I thought we had it wrapped up. It's been a cycle every two years. And you know, last year we, we	01:26:08
	felt victorious because for the first time in 20 cycles, we actually got the amount of sand that we need to get in order to mimic	01:26:16
	Mother Nature. And so I just, I know I really appreciate the work that's going on, but it's, it's just shocking to.	01:26:25
	Hear that because of a rule, they're not going to let our dredge project go forward, obviously.	01:26:34
	The port and city manager Vega have worked it out, but just imagine if like every two years you had to negotiate for your	01:26:41
	allotment of oxygen to sustain yourself. And, and I say that jokingly but seriously because Wayne Beach.	01:26:48
	Will not be sustained if we don't get that 4.2 million cubic yards of sand every two years. And I hope before the day comes when	01:26:56
	I'm no longer a City Council person that it'll be etched in stone and then we won't have to go through this process every two	01:27:02
	years to, you know, go begging and make sure that we get that allotment. So I'll just leave it at that. Thank you, Councilmember	01:27:08
	Hernandez.	01:27:15
	Thank you for a good meeting also.	01:27:23
	Let's see, my notes are a little mixed up here. I'll try to make this quick. I just wanted to share with the council and our	01:27:27
	public here that first of all, I want to thank our city staff who assisted with the coastal cleanup and all the volunteers who	01:27:34
	came out to help make it a great event. Our public works department, our Police Department, our City Council, city manager,	01:27:41
	everybody who came out it just everybody contributed to making it.	01:27:49
	Great event this year.	01:27:56
	And I, I look forward to doing it again next year. I also attended after Coastal Cleanup, the AWA annual award meeting and heard	01:27:59
	some great speakers talk about water issues that are we're going to be facing in the next year. And there were some really	01:28:06
	interesting comments made about how native vegetation can't be our priority, that we, we have to start working Better Together	01:28:13
	more collaboratively between the water agencies and the cities.	01:28:19
	In finding solutions to future water problems.	01:28:27
	I also attended the Military Appreciation Night with the West Ventura County Business Alliance and had an opportunity to meet some	01:28:31
	of our residents who serve on our who serve our military and live here in Port Hueneme. We got to meet the person in charge of the	01:28:38
	canine unit on the Navy base. They got a lot of dogs there. It's pretty impressive and it was just a great evening overall just	01:28:45
	realizing the the things that.	01:28:52
	Our service men and women do for our community and and that's because of the Navy base here.	01:29:00
	That we have the benefit of their expertise and their talents and they do give back even though they don't.	01:29:07
	Always stay here and they move on. They do give back to our community while they're here. So that was very much appreciated to	01:29:13
	learn about that. Let's see.	01:29:18
	Umm, October 17th. Coming up next week is the Great Shakeout, and I understand the city will be doing a simple annual exercise	01:29:24
	simulating a response to a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault. For those of you who don't know, that's a 2	01:29:33
	minute worth of shaking that we will experience with a magnitude earthquake of that size.	01:29:41
	If you want more information and you want to see how it starts at the Salton Sea and comes up through Ventura County, go to www.	01:29:51
	Dot shakeout.org and you can actually see the footage I used. I've used to use that in a lot of trainings and it's pretty	01:29:59
	effective in getting people to understand.	01:30:03
	The threat that we we live under here in earthquake country. And I think it's very timely to that this exert class is going on	01:30:08
	because then we'll have members of our community who will know what to do, who can even step up and take leadership positions and	01:30:15
	be better prepared. So I'm very grateful that that class is going on.	01:30:21
	Umm, let's see. Oh, I also attended the SCAG demographic Workshop. It was hosted by the Southern California Association of	01:30:29
	Governments and the USC Price School of Public Policy. It was all day and I wasn't able to attend most a lot of it, but I tended a	01:30:37
	part of it and what it did was basically released and shared with over 400 attendees the American Community Survey data that was	01:30:44
	released earlier this year.	01:30:51
	September. So there's new data out there on our demographics and I think that's really good for all of us to know.	01:30:59
	That that's a good reason that that's a new resource available to all of us and when we want to learn more about our our community	01:31:06
	I.	01:31:10
	One of the points that it showed is that the real household income growth in Southern California has outpaced national growth over	01:31:16
	the past year and in fact the last decade and it's reflecting long term economic well-being for the region's median household. So	01:31:23
	that's a positive thing that this data is is now showing. And then coincidentally, Bill Fulton who did our economic development	01:31:30
	plan was the events keynote speaker. So he's well respected and well known and well qualified and.	01:31:38
	I'm glad that we selected him to do our economic development plan.	01:31:45
	Umm, I also attended online at the Institute of Local Government session offering on public meetings.	01:31:51
	They discussed updates to the Brown Act and new legislation. And I do have some questions which I'll have for the our city	01:31:57
	attorney coming up, which so look forward to my emails. So we'll be talking tomorrow. And then I want to say finally, happy	01:32:04
	birthday to VFW, which celebrated their 80th birthday on October 1st. The city issued a proclamation to them. Thank you for doing	01:32:12
	that, Georgiana and city Manager.	01:32:19
	They had a celebration on Sunday and then this morning some of us had the opportunity to attend that take on Limon for Latino	01:32:27
	History Month celebration with Senator Monique Limon. And she talked about the some of the important legislation that she has	01:32:37
	passed. She was joined by Salud Carbajal and Assemblyman Steve Bennett. And one of the interesting things I took away from that.	01:32:46
	Was one of the bills that she helped pass was removing medical debt?	01:32:57
	From credit reporting and I've never thought of that because I, I have medical. So, but for the residents, people who have to pay	01:33:02
	their medical debts and, and they can become quite enormous, it just hurts them and sets them back. It's, it's regressive and it	01:33:09
	sets them back if they have to, if that's reflected on their credit report. So that was really nice to hear that she, she worked	01:33:16
	on that legislation.	01:33:23
	So, OK, that's all I have. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.	01:33:30
	Couple of things wanted to thank.	01:33:36
	Council Member Hernandez and Gamma for coordinating the organization that I work with to come out to the Coastal Cleanup very	01:33:40
	helpful and we had a great time and so we didn't have much trash, which is a good thing.	01:33:47
	Yeah. So appreciate that. Thank you so much. I, too, attended the military appreciation dinner for service members. I want to ask	01:33:56
	Becky, who's in the room, what committee is she not working on because she was part of the planning committee for that event.	01:34:06
	Also.	01:34:17
	Let's see, I also attended the Latino History Month this morning. Was really good, very informative. I've got a shout out from.	01:34:18
	A salute Carbajal, who I went to school with, so that was pretty nice. And finally I participated in the APTA conference. That's	01:34:28
	the American.	01:34:33
	Public Transportation Association their annual conference in it as where transit professionals come together and communicate their	01:34:38
	best practices so across the US.	01:34:44
	So it's pretty informative being that I'm on GCTD and VCTC. So that was really good. Got an opportunity to kind of connect some of	01:34:50
	the things that I've been.	01:34:54
	Learning in those committees or commissions.	01:34:58
	So that and just to back to all my meetings and very busy these days.	01:35:02
	Yes, City Manager Vega was there as well. I forgot to mention one important thing.	01:35:11
	So as you know, we do a Winami Beach cleanup every Saturday and this past Saturday we had a special guest in our city attorney.	01:35:17
	And.	01:35:25
	Between the two of us, we picked up.	01:35:30
	147 I think cigarette butts. But we did have a contest and I won.	01:35:33
	But thank you very much for coming out and it was a great lead up to the touch of truck event. And I, I'm pretty confident in	01:35:40
	saying Mr. city Manager, there were more kids than adults and it was wonderful. It really was. So yes, I was not able to attend	01:35:47
	this morning because the Fort Wayne Lions Club started a teacher of the month program where we honor a Wanami Elementary School	01:35:55
	teacher. Today was the very first presentation to Mr. Ortiz at Larson Elementary, so congrat.	01:36:02
	To Mr. Ortiz at Larsen Elementary on teacher of the month and I went to the touch truck event. I volunteered for the city and that	01:36:10
	was a great event. I had so many people coming up to the info booth talking about how great this was from out of town and and	01:36:16
	comparing our events and what we do in the city to other cities and that we're blowing everyone away with, with all the different	01:36:22
	community events that we do. So great job, Parks and recs.	01:36:29
	I was not able to attend the.	01:36:36
	Coastal Cleanup Day I did stop by to say hi, but I was participating on Team Becky for the Relay for Life, so I supported Becky	01:36:39
	and others there. Other government officials doing a presentation for Relay for Life presentation. I presented a proclamation at	01:36:46
	the Banana Festival on behalf of the port and the 11th annual Beach Festival. So I was happy to be able to represent myself and	01:36:52
	Council Member Martinez for the city.	01:36:59
	And I attended the two committees that I have this month, nothing report out on that. And I think oh cert is underway in the hopes	01:37:06
	of that 28 of us will be that when there's a disaster, when we need to mobilize and get people in places where we can help like we	01:37:13
	did, we needed for the floods recently because that was a very eye opening experience for me. And which is one reason why I'm so	01:37:21
	glad that our chief brought back the service program and that our our.	01:37:28
	Our County Fire got together and got that taken care of now because it was all the earthquakes happening, you know, we need to get	01:37:36
	that rolling. I didn't want to delay that any longer. So first, that was last week, I believe was the first class, right?	01:37:42
	No, on the third, yeah, OK.	01:37:49
	And that's it, that's all I have for my reports and committee comments. So we're going to move on for future agenda items. I'd	01:37:52
	like to remind Council that requested items will require a motion, a second and majority vote per adopted council policies to be	01:37:57
	placed on the agenda. Council Member Martinez.	01:38:03
	Councilmember Gama Yes, I'd like to request an agenda item to consider waiving the fees for Orphan Carpenters 100 birthday party	01:38:09
	at the Orvine Carpenter Community Center.	01:38:15
	2nd.	01:38:21
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	01:38:23
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:38:26
	Councilmember Hernandez.	01:38:30
	Mayor Pro Tem.	01:38:32
	I would like to have an agenda item. I've had a lot of concerned Wyoming Bay residents with the potential blind spot that's from	01:38:36
	eastbound turning into Lodi.	01:38:42
	Lido I'm sorry, I wrote it down and now I that's how I said it wrong. So yes, so turning into Winami Bay and a blind spot with I	01:38:50
	guess it's westbound traffic coming up Channel Islands Blvd. that there's a blind spot and they don't see traffic that comes up.	01:38:56
	So I'd like to have possibly public works go out there and just take a look and see what is going on.	01:39:02
	I'll 2nd that I was assuming that the council agrees. If so, we'll check it out and then bring back options to council if the	01:39:09
	council agrees to put it on the Internet.	01:39:14
	OK. All in favor, all opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:39:19
	Anything further before we go?	01:39:27
	All right, Say we are going to adjourn this meeting at the time is now 809.	01:39:30
	Thank you everyone.	01:39:36

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	Good evening everyone. Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30 PM.	00:00:01
	Please everyone stand and join me for the Flex loop.	00:00:06
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to.	00:00:18
	One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:26
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call?	00:00:37
	Councilmember Gama.	00:00:39
	Here, Councilmember Hernandez here, Councilmember Martinez present, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lashawn here, and Mayor Perez here.	00:00:42
	Tonight's inspiration is given by myself and so I'm going to talk about inspiration in general.	00:00:50
	October is filled with events, initiatives that can inspire positive action, reflection and community spirit. Some of these	00:00:57
	examples are Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Bullying Prevention Month, World Mental Health Day, Indigenous Peoples Day,	00:01:03
	International Day of the Girl, World Food Day and.	00:01:09
	Domestic violence awareness Domestic violence awareness. These events offer an opportunity for reflection, action, community	00:01:16
	building, inspiring people to contribute to important causes. And finding inspiration is a personal journey and it comes from	00:01:24
	experience, environments or reflections that resonate within you. So I would encourage everyone to find something that you can be	00:01:31
	inspired by and just come out and join it. Join whatever 'cause it is and support whatever inspires you.	00:01:38
	We now move on to public comments, public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes.	00:01:50
	This process will be the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, does anyone have any public comment	00:01:56
	tonight? We do. First up is Becky Brody.	00:02:02
	Good evening, mayor, mayor Pro Tem, council, city staff, audience. I'm here tonight representing Rook up the outdoors, the 27th,	00:02:16
	which is a Sunday. We will have our family fish day and that will be the last one for the year. We're calling it spectacular	00:02:25
	because we want you to wear your costumes. We will be giving out prizes. Thank you. Thank you.	00:02:33
	Next is Seth Bonilla.	00:02:44
	Good evening, Council.	00:02:54
	Although imperfect values nonetheless.	00:03:27
	After Councilmember Gammos e-mail to me, the City Manager reached out to me via e-mail stating in short, that another resolution.	00:03:29
	Was drafted to now include the POW flag which is honored by all and me included. Yet this was done to self adjust as to not	00:03:36
	exclude other group other groups.	00:03:41
	Yet my request to fly the Christian flag has been ignored or simply not given consideration. Riverside Council has voted	00:03:47
	unanimously, unanimously to go flag neutral, simply and clearly because the intentional division that has been caused in their	00:03:55
	city. Your representation, your representation Council is to fully serve all people at all times equally. And this is the result,	00:04:02
	A resolution that is worthy of a lawsuit to write your political ambitions and to get your counsel back.	00:04:09
	To serve the community without further intentional division.	00:04:18
	It is shameful, to say the least, that this entire Council, including the ones with religious backgrounds, would allow such a	00:04:22
	resolution to fully.	00:04:26
	Resolution without fully considering its impact on city, in the city and those who live within it and who are opposed to it, I'm	00:04:32
	going to skip the rest of this. My point is, is that the resolution that you made, there was a resolution that was made on July	00:04:39
	1st, 2024. And in it exclusively right here, it says the policy outlines a procedure for the City Council to review requests to	00:04:46
	display commemorative flags below the city flag at City Hall.	00:04:53
	During the requested time when you did that, you created a public forum.	00:05:01
	Now what you want to do?	00:05:06
	With your new resolution that came from the city manager via corpspendence with me is you excluded that now and you're trying to	00:05:09
	make it a government speech.	00:05:15
	So I have no choice but to litigate this in court with you because what it has done and what it's continuing to do is to create a	00:05:22
	separation within this community that is unjust. And why you don't see that is beyond me. Why do you think that the Riverside City	00:05:28
	Council, all five members said enough of this?	00:05:34
	It causes division within a community. That's exactly what it's done here. I am not against the LGBTQ community whatsoever. I know	00:05:40
	them.	00:05:44
	I help them, I feed them, I service them when they need help.	00:05:48
	You created the problem each one of you individually has.	00:05:52
	Is that my time?	00:05:56
	Yes, you're out of time. Thank you, Sir. Yeah, no problem. I'll be back next. I will be back next time. I do want to respond. And	00:05:58
	I'll take the opportunity now to respond to your threat to sue the Well, let me tell you something, Sir, if you'll give me a	00:06:04
	moment. Every action taken by this board.	00:06:10
	In connection with its flag policy was done completely legally and an exercise of this Board's First Amendment rights.	00:06:17
	Now you can take, you can do a lawsuit, whatever you want to do, go ahead and do it. I'm just telling you that as a practicing	00:06:26
	lawyer of 40 years, I'm well aware of what is legal and what is not legal. And this council in its flag resolution policy	00:06:33
	exercised its First Amendment right, just like you have a First Amendment right. Well, it doesn't seem to apply right now.	00:06:41
	Sure it does. There is a policy in place. Policy is different than law.	00:06:49
	That's not, that's not accurate at all. It sure is. No, it's not, Sir. Yes, any local policy. Ma'am does not trump state law.	00:06:54
	It does not is being fully compliant. You wrote it in your resolutions. I have your resolutions right here during during public	00:07:01
	comment. We're not able to debate back and forth. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The opportunity. I'm sorry. And if there's any further	00:07:07
	follow-up I could connect you to. Yeah. Why don't you do that? Yes. Awesome. Thank you.	00:07:13
	I'll be here next time.	00:07:20
	Anheim.	00:07:21
	And now I'm really nervous.	00:07:27
	Hopefully this won't be very contentious at all.	00:07:31
	Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, the City Council and staff, thank you so much for allowing me to comment tonight. I sent the City Council	00:07:37
	and the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and the city Manager an e-mail last week requesting your assistance with a public works permit for	00:07:43
	my residential construction project.	00:07:49
	I would like to summarize my request. My husband and I are currently completing a remodel of our home in Port Hueneme. We	00:07:56
	converted the original 2 car garage into a granny flat for my mother.	00:08:02
	And now we're conducting a remodel on the main house. We added a bedroom, and as a result of adding that bedroom, building and	00:08:08
	safety said we had to add.	00:08:13
	A new two car garage, which we did. My general contractor submitted a public works permit request for a new.	00:08:17
	Driveway approach to the new garage in accordance with approved plans. He met with Public Works last week and was told that we now	00:08:26
	must demo and reconstruct the entire existing driveway approach. Our lot is positioned at the end of a cul-de-sac and has a	00:08:34
	reverse pie shape. I did submit all of this in my e-mail to you and then I also brought paper copies tonight for you to review.	00:08:42
	It has an unusually small frontage footprint, but very wide at the back.	00:08:51
	We have a shared driveway because of the position in the cul-de-sac as well as the size of the lot and the layout of the lot with	00:08:58
	our next door neighbor. Poor guy just moved in next door to a giant construction project and now we're going to have to RIP up his	00:09:05
	approach, which is potentially going to limit his ability to actually park on his driveway.	00:09:13
	Narrowing the approach for him because I understand that we can't actually use part of our property.	00:09:22
	To give him that extra approach room. So there are also 2 water meters for our main house and the granny flat, as well as one for	00:09:28
	our neighbor positioned in the same approach. We just had the third water meter added.	00:09:35
	And all three meters will need to be moved and or modified. I don't believe the code requirement to remove the existing approaches	00:09:42
	equitable because it doesn't account for the unique property footprint of my lot at the end of a cul-de-sac with the strange	00:09:49
	reverse reverse pie shape. I'm concerned that this will be a burden on my next door neighbor during the demolition and	00:09:55
	reconstruction phases and that he won't have access to his full driveway.	00:10:01
	And a reconstructed approach will potentially limit his ability to utilize the driveway once the new approaches created.	00:10:09
	We are requesting a variance to allow the existing approach to remain in place. I've provided copies and you guys have my e-mail.	00:10:16
	Sorry I'm a little bit nervous. Thank you very much for your time.	00:10:21
	Thank you. And although we can't get into details since it's not on the agenda, I've asked the Public Works Department to review	00:10:27
	the matter and update us. So thank you.	00:10:32
	And there is one last public comment, which is written last month. I spoke at the City Council meeting and asked for help with the	00:10:38
	epidemic of graffiti incidents in Miranda Park and Surfside Village. The perpetrators were hitting the area multiple times a week,	00:10:45
	leaving tags as large as 8 foot high and 20 foot long. City workers and volunteers from Surfside Village immediately responded to	00:10:52
	these incidents and were usually able to cover them within a couple hours. While our efforts quickly eliminated the.	00:10:59
	Similar tags showed up in a day or so. The situation was out of control. I'm happy to report that the cycle ended. It's now been a	00:11:06
	few weeks since we have experienced a major attack. It's hard to know why the attacks ended, but I suspect that Port Hueneme	00:11:12
	Police Department efforts to stop these outrageous incidents have been effective. Thank you. On another note, homeless numbers	00:11:18
	have increased. Many of these individuals appear to be under the influence of hard drugs or experienced psychotic episodes. It's	00:11:24
	getting creepy.	00:11:30
	When Amy has devoted precious resources to holding events that bring people here, few of the folks who attend these events will	00:11:36
	return when they experience psychotic people wandering around aimlessly yelling at invisible enemies, or drugged out people laying	00:11:41
	on the ground who look like they might be dead.	00:11:47
	The primary reason for this increase is that the city of Oxnard has once again decided to allow massive encampments in and around	00:11:53
	Ormond Beach. Oxnard pushed homeless people out of North Oxnard into South and Central Oxnard. There are no homeless people in the	00:11:59
	collection or any of the upscale neighborhoods near it. There are hundreds of people occupying Ormond Beach, starting fires,	00:12:05
	trashing sensitive wetlands, and posing a threat to anyone entering the area.	00:12:11
	Wanami Beach is the closest area to where these encampments exist, and many of these people migrate here to spend the day or roam	00:12:19
	around in the streets in the middle of the night.	00:12:23
	Unless something changes, it's a matter of time until we experience a replay of 2019 when hundreds of dangerous vagrants were	00:12:27
	encamped on Ormond Beach and came into Waimea to steal anything insight and attack innocent people. Anyone who thinks that the	00:12:33
	homeless crisis in California is going to be resolved in the next decade is living in a fantasy world. Cities that allow homeless	00:12:39
	people to live in the streets will attract more homeless people. History has shown that offering services to treatment resistant	00:12:45
	homeless people has failed miserably.	00:12:51
	In part because they were allowed to keep living on the streets thanks to our recent court decision, grants passed versus Johnson.	00:12:57
	Cities can now enforce urban camping bans. I urge the council to authorize PHPD to aggressively enforce the ordinance. We can't	00:13:04
	solve homelessness, but we can make it uncomfortable for folks to migrate here and create a safe and secure environment for our	00:13:11
	residents. Thanks, David Scrivener, president, Surfside Village HOA. That concludes public comment. Thank you. The next item is	00:13:18
	the agenda approval. May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? So moved.	00:13:26
	2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:13:35
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	00:13:38
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously.	00:13:42
	Do any members of Council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda?	00:13:45
	Not seeing any, we will move to recess the City Council meeting and call to order the Port Hueneme Housing Authority regular	00:13:51
	meeting.	00:13:55
	We will now recess the City Council meeting and call to order the time being.	00:13:59
	644.	00:14:04
	Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call for the Housing Authority?	00:14:06
	Member Brown.	00:14:11
	Member Gama here, Member Hernandez here, Member Martinez, President, Vice Chair McQueen Legend here and Chair Perez here. Let the	00:14:12
	record reflect that Member Blackwell is absent. Thank you.	00:14:19
	We will now hear public comments. Madam Clerk, are there any public comments for the Housing Authority? No public comments.	00:14:27
	Thank you.	00:14:32
	We move on to the Consent Calendar. We'll consider items on the Housing Authority Consent Calendar, which will be enacted in one	00:14:35
	motion unless an authority member has a request to remove an item for discussion. Do any members have a reason to remove any item	00:14:39
	for discussion?	00:14:44
	I'm not seeing any. May I have a motion and a second to approve so move?	00:14:50
	2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:14:55
	All in favor, aye?	00:14:58
	All opposed.	00:15:01
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	00:15:02
	Mayor, can I just add something? So I just wanted to explain to everybody and kind of make a note and apologize for that brief	00:15:09
	Housing Authority agenda today and the fact that it's just a consent calendar. We won't normally do that and, you know, require	00:15:15
	our housing board members to come out and everything just for a consent calendar. But I wanted to explain that the reason we did	00:15:22
	that is that the disbursements.	00:15:28
	There's requirements by state law and and our own fiscal policies to.	00:15:35
	Basically share those with the public in a specified period of time and not to go too long without sharing those. So that's why we	00:15:42
	had to bring the disbursements to council today, even though there wasn't any other agenda items. So, so apologize for the short	00:15:49
	meeting, but it was an effort to be transparent and appreciate everybody accommodating it. Thank you. We have no business items	00:15:55
	for the Housing Authority. We'll move on to member reports, comments or requests for agenda items.	00:16:02
	Do any member have a report request or a comment?	00:16:10
	Thank you.	00:16:17
	Sorry to hear that.	00:16:21
	Yeah, I would just like to request an update at the next meeting. I noticed that the Willowbrook remodels are I believe are	00:16:24
	kicking off and getting moving and so.	00:16:29
	Just looking to get an update on that.	00:16:35
	Update on the Willowbrook project. OK, do we need to do gender requests for that Councilmember Gama's request?	00:16:38
	2nd.	00:16:48
	Madam Clerk.	00:16:49
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	00:16:51
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you if no member have anything further.	00:16:55
	Then I'm going to adjourn the Housing Authority seeing none.	00:17:01
	The Housing Authority will adjourn to its next regular meeting, scheduled for November 4th, 2024 at 6:30 PM. You will now	00:17:06
	reconvene the City Council regular meeting. The time is now.	00:17:11
	647.	00:17:17
	We move on to presentations, the first item up, and.	00:17:19
	Is uh.	00:17:23
	The quarterly employee recognition, 20 years of service.	00:17:24
	Are we having H?	00:17:30
	Human Resource risk manager frankly to come up. Thank you.	00:17:33
	Thank you, Johnny.	00:17:38
	Feel better?	00:17:41
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, citizens of Port Hueneme, frankly HR risk manager.	00:17:48
	Each quarter of the city we'd like to celebrate and recognize employees who reach milestones. And this quarter we celebrate Mr.	00:17:55
	Aurelio Reyes, who for serving 20 years with the city. And unfortunately Mr. Reyes couldn't be here today, but I call Director	00:18:01
	Camarillo to introduce Mr. Rios to the Council.	00:18:07
	Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council, members of the audience and staff.	00:18:26
	As Mr. Lee mentioned, Aurelio could not be here tonight with us, but he did take the opportunity to fill out the sheet that is	00:18:32
	handed out to all the employees that get this recognition. So I will give you the answers that he supplied for us when asked what	00:18:40
	is his favorite moment.	00:18:48
	Or what he liked most about working for the city. His response was that he enjoyed this and sincere appreciation received from his	00:18:59
	managers and his team alike.	00:19:05
	He's made many friends, he's working with great people over the years and has gained a lot of knowledge and been able to develop	00:19:12
	his leadership throughout those years.	00:19:18
	When asked what his most memorable moments were, he stated his best memorable moments have been sharing camaraderie, camaraderie	00:19:24
	with his fellow coworkers, being able to train all the new incoming drivers, and being able to lead by example.	00:19:34
	That becoming the earning the solid waste lead position was by far his best accomplishment here that he's had with his years at	00:19:46
	the city.	00:19:51
	And that he will continue to strive to lead the division and those that he's in charge of to the best of his ability and give the	00:19:57
	best customer service to the residents and customers.	00:20:03
	When asked if there was anything that he wanted to address to the City Council, he said that receiving this service award fills	00:20:11
	him with great pride and gratitude and he wanted to thank you all for acknowledging his loyalty and contributions made over the	00:20:19
	years. And he's very thankful for the the award and it's.	00:20:26
	He feels like it's a testament to the stronger relationship he's built with the city and his time here and.	00:20:34
	Aside from that, I mean, I've had the pleasure of working with Aurelio for all 20 years he's been here for the last about 12 or so	00:20:42
	much closer.	00:20:46
	With my involvement with solid waste over the years, Aurelio isn't a man of a lot of words.	00:20:52
	Very quiet, very kind.	00:21:00
	But he, as he mentioned, he does take great pride in his work. He's he's really a great guy who cares about making sure that the	00:21:05
	people that he's working with and others have everything that they need to succeed. And so I'd like to.	00:21:15
	Ask you to join me in recognizing 2 decades of service to the city.	00:21:26
	Director Cameron, on behalf of the City Council, please let him know that we appreciate his dedication to our city. The 20 years	00:21:36
	is a long time and so we understand that he he chose our city to continue working here. He could have left at any time. So we	00:21:43
	appreciate the fact that he's still here after 20 years. And that certificate obviously is recognition of that.	00:21:49
	I will let him know, thank you.	00:21:57
	The next presentation is the Breast Cancer Awareness Proclamation, which will be read by Councilmember Gama.	00:22:02
	Thank you, Mayor Perez. So I have a connection with breast cancer. Actually, I don't have breast breast cancer. I have the gender	00:22:08
	equivalent prostate cancer I've been treating for.	00:22:14
	Eight years now and I'm doing well and so this I think it's fitting that I get to read this proclamation. Breast Cancer Awareness	00:22:22
	Month October 2024. Whereas considerable progress has been made in the fight against breast cancer, it still remains the most	00:22:29
	frequently diagnosed type of non skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in our community. And	00:22:36
	whereas this year alone an estimated 310 + 1000 women.	00:22:43
	And 2800 men in the United states will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and nearly 42,000 lives will be lost and whereas	00:22:50
	knowing what may contribute to breast cancer, it.	00:22:56
	Is an important part of its prevention risk factors for breast cancer include family personal history, radiation therapy to the	00:23:04
	chest for previous cancers, obesity and certain generic changes and whereas getting regular screenings may help lower the chances	00:23:11
	of developing breast cancer in women and men are encouraged to talk with their healthcare provider about the risk and what they	00:23:18
	can do to mitigate them. And whereas, thanks to early detection and better treatments, mortality.	00:23:26
	Rates for breast cancer have steadily decreased in the last decade. And WHEREAS, during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we	00:23:33
	stand with our mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends, and we recognize all who have joined their loved ones in fighting their	00:23:39
	battle, as well as the advocates, researchers, and healthcare providers whose care and hard work gives hope to those living with	00:23:45
	breast cancer. And WHEREAS. By educating ourselves and supporting innovative research, we will improve the quality of life for all	00:23:51
	Americans affected by.	00:23:57
	Breast cancer and one day defeat this terrible disease. And whereas a city, excuse me and whereas the Port Hueneme Police	00:24:04
	Department is committing to raising awareness and helping support all those affected by breast cancer. Now, therefore, let it be	00:24:11
	proclaimed that the City Council of Port Hueneme hereby recognizes October 20.	00:24:18
	24 as breath.	00:24:26
	Cancer Awareness Month in the city of Paroni and encourages the community to help raise awareness and support in the fight against	00:24:28
	breast cancer. My sister's.	00:24:33
	Had stage 4 breast cancer and it wasn't looking good when she started her treatment and I was 15 years ago and she's defeated and	00:24:40
	she's with us and she's couldn't be happier and she she too.	00:24:45
	Works very hard to spread awareness and thank you for bringing this up, Chief.	00:24:52
	Yes, thank you Council, the as it was mentioned, the Police Department will be donning our pink patches, our ribbons. I do dual	00:24:58
	because if we have both domestic violence and our cancer awareness month, but they'll also be other symbols on our uniforms, cars	00:25:06
	and we have participated in some community cancer awareness events. We will continue to.	00:25:14
	Participate more. However, we did ask this year.	00:25:22
	One of our local community, Winnie me community heroes to receive this Becky, come on up here for the reason of I wanted to	00:25:26
	receive the proclamation because not only is she, as I refer to her, the Duchess of Waimea, not only is she my spirit animal and	00:25:35
	all her positivity, but she's been involved in Relay for Life and cancer awareness for many years. This last year she did a lot.	00:25:43
	As one of the coordinators for the West County Relay to get many representatives from the local cities involved.	00:25:52
	To step up and speak and even helped us squeeze in a couple of teams last minute. And you know, she's the quiet, humble one who	00:26:00
	gets all the stuff done behind the scenes. And I just want to say thank you. And we think you should receive this proclamation for	00:26:05
	all the work you've done.	00:26:10
	Thank you.	00:26:15
	I.	00:26:38
	I thank you for this honor.	00:26:59
	I am a breast cancer survivor. I'm also a lung cancer survivor.	00:27:02
	And.	00:27:08
	This means so much to me, thank you.	00:27:09
	Thank you, Becky.	00:27:14
	The next presentation is for Domestic Violence Awareness Proclamation, and before you read that, Councilmember Hernandez, I would	00:27:20
	like to make a request to dedicate this in the memory of Jessica to Noko, who was a recent victim of domestic violence in Simi	00:27:27
	Valley and who had a lot of family and friends that came out for a vigil at Winnie Me Pier last about a week ago.	00:27:34
	Yeah.	00:27:42
	OK. Thank you very much, Mayor.	00:27:43
	So October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the city would like to.	00:27:47
	Provide this proclamation to the families of miss and all the victims of domestic violence and the women and the children who are	00:27:54
	in the crossfire of these incidents. Whereas October is designated as domestic violence awareness month and Whereas domestic	00:28:02
	violence is a crime which effects all races, cultures and social demographics, and whereas domestic violence has a profound impact	00:28:09
	on families and the community and whereas children that.	00:28:16
	Up in violent homes are believed to be abused and neglected at a higher rate than the national average.	00:28:24
	And whereas only a coordinated community effort will put a stop to this atrocious crime. And whereas Domestic Violence Awareness	00:28:30
	Month provides an excellent opportunity.	00:28:35
	For residents to learn more about preventing domestic violence and show support for the numerous organizations and individuals who	00:28:39
	provide critical advocacy services and assistance to victims and Whereas the Port Hueneme Police Department, City of Port Hueneme	00:28:47
	and community based organizations are in a position to provide education, information, and services to assist victims in the	00:28:54
	understanding that they have the right to be safe, feel safe and live free from.	00:29:02
	Violence at home and in the workplace and whereas we all must continue to help and advocate for victims and the criminal justice	00:29:09
	system and law enforcement must continue to hold offenders accountable and whereas we will continue our efforts to end violence in	00:29:17
	our homes, schools and communities. Now therefore be it proclaimed that the City Council Port Hueneme hereby recognizes October	00:29:24
	2024 has Domestic Violence awareness month in the city of Port Hueneme and.	00:29:32
	Urges the community to participate in programs and outreach efforts aimed towards educating and supporting those who are victims	00:29:40
	of domestic violence. Proclaim this 7th day of October 2024 and as as mentioned, your Police Department not only shows our	00:29:47
	symbolism with our our purple ribbons and and other symbols, but you know, we continue the assertiveness on patrol with addressing	00:29:54
	domestic violence and and calls for service.	00:30:01
	Our detectives continue aggressively prosecuting, working with the District Attorney's office to do so.	00:30:09
	And and advocating along the way. But Speaking of advocating, I asked our.	00:30:14
	This is actually we're a unique agency to have our own in-house victims advocate for the poor morning Police Department, and	00:30:22
	that's Pat Majors and Pat's been with us for.	00:30:27
	For the RPD alone for 20 years, but let's talk about many, many years beyond that at assisting other agencies here in the county	00:30:32
	and and working with victims and.	00:30:37
	Amongst the support and guidance of resources and helping.	00:30:44
	Those involved in the investigations get through the court journey and get restraining orders. She's there for them because it	00:30:50
	takes a special caring person and a special heart to.	00:30:56
	Do the support through the time of contact from the police all the way to the time of court and trial. So we'd like Pat to receive	00:31:03
	this.	00:31:08
	Thank you, Pat.	00:31:14
	Thank you for allowing me to serve the citizens of Fort Wenemie. It's been an honor and from those.	00:31:18
	Survivors that I serve, thank you very much. Thank you.	00:31:27
	Thank you.	00:32:11
	I didn't know we had such a person.	00:32:13
	To assist, of course, yes.	00:32:15
	Pat, I just wanted to thank you for being able to put yourself in the position to help people that are suffering through a	00:32:19
	terrible moment. And I know we've had.	00:32:24
	Several instances where you're there and it really does take a special person to to be able to provide comfort in the most	00:32:31
	difficult times and.	00:32:35
	And we thank you for that.	00:32:41
	That concludes our presentations for the evening. We will now move on to the consent calendar.	00:32:45
	We will now consider items on the consent calendar which will be enacted in one motion unless a council member has a request to	00:32:51
	remove an item for discussion. Do any council member have a request to remove an item? I have a quick question on the	00:32:55
	disbursements.	00:33:00
	So let's pull that for discussion.	00:33:06
	So can I get a motion to approve item 7:00 and 9:00?	00:33:10
	Motion to approve 7:00 and 9:00.	00:33:15
	2nd Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:33:17
	All in favor, aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously.	00:33:21
	OK, Thank you, Mayor. I Mayor, I just wanted to.	00:33:28
	Ask our city manager and maybe a finances here about the Orkin Services of California.	00:33:34
	Cost here for the removal of the whale and you know I.	00:33:42
	I don't know if this is a shared cost or if it's a reimbursable cost. Oh, no, that was not Orkin. That was this. That was	00:33:48
	regarding the bedbugs somewhere else. But there's a $5000 expense here for the removal of the whale. And I was wondering if the	00:33:55
	you could tell us a little bit more if there's any relief funding for situations like this because I imagine it'll happen again.	00:34:02
	Yeah, not really, unfortunately, I think.	00:34:09
	We were kind of joking our our luck if the water had taken it a little bit.	00:34:17
	In one way or the other, we wouldn't have been on the hook, but it landed on our beach. So we're we're on the hook. So credit to	00:34:22
	public works, we were able to jump on it and get get the the.	00:34:28
	Body carcass of the whale out before it started to stink too bad. But the unfortunate aspect is we are on the hook for it and we	00:34:36
	don't expect to have like a cost sharing or anything like that. We did talk about in the future though, sort of planning and	00:34:43
	budgeting for some. We have a beach and there's a lot of great things about that, but we we probably need to plan and have a	00:34:51
	contingency for things happen at the beach, you know, and so it's probably something we'll look at budgeting.	00:34:58
	Currently in the future, but the good news was the cost was much lower than we were initially.	00:35:05
	Concerned it was and our team worked with them and we're able to get it out on a day where the water was taking it. So the cost	00:35:12
	was about half of what we had feared it would be so did we actually have a company come in and remove it or and then that was they	00:35:20
	were assisted by our public works personnel so they the company actually came out and, and actually essentially.	00:35:28
	Debating how much we want to get into this. Disassembles the body of the well and then.	00:35:37
	Pulls it back out to sea and has to pull it out far enough that it doesn't just float right back. And then we have to do the same	00:35:44
	thing over again. So yeah, Well, thank you so much because, yeah, I imagine this is kind of a unique situation and I was just	00:35:50
	really curious. Hopefully it doesn't happen again anytime soon. Thank you for that. I agree that, you know, having a contingency	00:35:56
	fund is a good idea. So thank you for that. So. Saturday.	00:36:02
	Couple weeks ago during beach clean up we we wanted to go check it out and the.	00:36:09
	I forget the name, the the biology people were there taking tissue samples and stuff and it was really interesting because they	00:36:15
	slice and dice the whale and it was actually like a balloon. And so when they dissected it, it makes it viable to be.	00:36:23
	Towed out to the ocean so that it'll sink and the wildlife will take care of it and it ends up feeding a bunch of sharks. But it	00:36:33
	was a.	00:36:38
	The I was able to talk to the project leader and they towed it 26 miles out in the ocean and they let it.	00:36:45
	They let it go free.	00:36:56
	Free Willy.	00:36:59
	And it was a it was a minky whale, which was the smallest species of baleen whale. So I did learn a little bit that day.	00:37:01
	OK. I'll move for approval of item number eight of our consent agenda register of disbursements.	00:37:10
	Have a second please second.	00:37:17
	Thank you. All in favor, Aye. All opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Moving on, we have no public	00:37:20
	hearings tonight, so we'll move on to business items. The first business item is the update on the city traffic and pedestrian	00:37:25
	safety efforts.	00:37:30
	Thank you, Mr. C Manager, you'll presenting the report. Yes, Thank you, Mayor.	00:37:36
	And.	00:37:42
	Over the last year we've done, we've had a couple discussions at council about the efforts we were implementing regarding Traffic	00:37:45
	Safety and traffic improvements, but also we had a couple conversations about pedestrian safety. And a few months back we had a	00:37:53
	conversation talking about doing a pedestrian safety campaign and the council had asked for some more information and so.	00:38:01
	We're bringing back information on both, both some of the efforts that we've implemented.	00:38:10
	And it's we're sort of trying to.	00:38:15
	Show everybody the holistic approach we took towards addressing the traffic issues and we've really kind of looked at all options	00:38:18
	to do that. And then also we have some information related to some of the pedestrian issues that were that we've seen and then	00:38:24
	we're proposing doing a pretty.	00:38:31
	Simple pedestrian safety campaign that would allow us to partner with our partner agencies like the the Port and the Base and	00:38:39
	others.	00:38:43
	To really get the word out, school kids and all those things to get the word out about pedestrian safety. So, so we have a slide	00:38:49
	here to start it off and it lists some of the traffic measures we've implemented this year. Things like reinstating the traffic	00:38:55
	division in our Police Department, including reinstating motorcycle enforcement, commercial traffic enforcement, and bringing the	00:39:01
	parking enforcement team in house into the Police Department so that they could work with hand in hand with the traffic team and	00:39:07
	focus on.	00:39:13
	Things like line of sight and visibility issues that that really make a difference on traffic and pedestrian safety. We've	00:39:20
	installed, our public works team has installed striping crosswalks and rapid flashing beacons in different locations throughout	00:39:24
	the city to really try to.	00:39:29
	Increase awareness of some of these issues and provide some safe areas for people to cross streets and things like that. We also	00:39:36
	about within the last year reduced speed limits on several streets, including Channel Islands Blvd.	00:39:42
	And we did the traffic study to justify that reduction in speed limits and we've updated ADA accessibility ramps and especially at	00:39:49
	some key locations right next to the schools so that it's just safer and you don't have the trip and fall hazards for people to	00:39:56
	walk across the streets in some key areas.	00:40:02
	We've installed the truck route signs around the city to try to make sure that the trucks are adhering to the designated routes.	00:40:09
	Before we have those signs, we'd find that the trucks would be on the wrong streets, so we've been trying to put them in the right	00:40:14
	places. I.	00:40:18
	And then we've created programs for a stop sign request program, a speed hump request program, and then most recently the	00:40:24
	installation of the rubber medians to prevent Donuts. And that's still in the pilot phase, but we're getting good feedback that	00:40:30
	people feel like it's working. So we'll we'll come back to council at the end of the pilot to really walk through that. But we	00:40:36
	created all of those programs to try to help address traffic issues.	00:40:43
	And then, as I mentioned a moment ago, a few months back, the council talked about doing a pedestrian safety campaign but	00:40:50
	requested more data and information. And so one of the things we wanted to do in this report was provide some of that information.	00:40:56
	And we'll keep it pretty high level at this point. I think there's a lot of data out there, but we.	00:41:03
	Pulled our Tim's transportation injury mapping system data, which is sort of the the standard public facing data on accidents and,	00:41:12
	and things like that. And looking at our map, it's pretty obvious this is the data from the last five years that the most of those	00:41:19
	dots that reflect accidents and and they'll show the numbers that talk about how many accidents at each of those locations are on	00:41:27
	Channel Islands Blvd. and Ventura Road. And I don't think that.	00:41:34
	Anybody those are sort of the the arteries of Port Hueneme. And so we we have had accidents on those streets. This goes back to	00:41:42
	2019. So over five years about 260 accidents across the city, most of them in those areas. But we've been doing things like I	00:41:48
	mentioned over the last year to try to address that and we've lowered the speed limits and we've added striping and we've added	00:41:55
	crosswalks so.	00:42:02
	We're expecting to see that make impacts and for these numbers to drop in the future.	00:42:09
	And relevant to pedestrian data, out of those 262 reported incidents, about 30, three were bicycle or pedestrian involved. And so	00:42:16
	this next slide shows the locations of those bicycle and pedestrian incidents. And so you can see similarly that most of those	00:42:24
	incidents happen on Channel Islands Blvd. and Ventura Rd. very similarly.	00:42:32
	One interesting thing that we saw when we started to look at this data is that there a lot of these actually happened near our bus	00:42:40
	stops.	00:42:44
	It makes sense in a way because you're, you're guaranteeing that pedestrians and people and bicyclists and everybody are in that	00:42:48
	area for these accidents to happen and they're generally kind of high trafficked areas. So that led us to, when we were talking	00:42:57
	about what we could do to address that, we talked about doing.	00:43:05
	A The pedestrian safety campaign that the City Council had discussed previously.	00:43:15
	But focusing it on educational information at the bus stops on our poster boards that we have at our bus stops, having safety tips	00:43:19
	on those poster boards and and including those on our bus stops is something we can do that's relatively easy and low cost and we	00:43:26
	can include it there. But also getting these out to and even handouts out to the partner agencies like the Navy base, the Port of	00:43:34
	Waimea and local.	00:43:41
	Schools to get out to people that may be walking every day. And at that last council meeting when we talked about this, we talked	00:43:49
	about, you know, how could we get people to maybe wear more reflective items. And so the idea we came up with that's a very low	00:43:55
	cost is focused on the school kids, which is the slap bracelets that if anybody is familiar with the slap bracelets that you kind	00:44:01
	of slap onto your wrists and the, and kids usually love those.	00:44:08
	We can order high visibility snap bracelets and distribute those with our every time our officers go out to the schools or every	00:44:15
	time we have an event like a touch or truck event, we can give those out to kids.	00:44:20
	And encourage them to want to wear high visibility items so.	00:44:26
	Like I said, our report was intended. We wanted to report back on some of the efforts and then talk about this next recommend	00:44:34
	doing this next step, which is this pedestrian safety campaign and ordering these high visibility bracelets to distribute out	00:44:40
	events. They're less than $0.50 per bracelet. So we were planning to to spend a minimal amount of of money to get those and hand	00:44:47
	them out at our upcoming events and and our school visits. So.	00:44:54
	With that, we're happy to answer questions.	00:45:02
	But the item was to receive the update on these traffic and pedestrian safety efforts and to provide direction, and we're	00:45:05
	recommending that that direction be moving forward with this campaign.	00:45:12
	Thank you. Does Council have any questions for staff at this time?	00:45:20
	I have a question and comment.	00:45:25
	First of all, thank you so much for listing the initiatives. When we get questions from our constituents and residents about what	00:45:29
	the city is doing, what the PD is doing, about Traffic Safety, now we've got a list of things we can tell them. So thank you for	00:45:36
	that. I'll keep that one handy. The other question I had was on the map. The first map you showed didn't wasn't in our packet, but	00:45:44
	can you just quickly tell us what the difference is between the green?	00:45:51
	Globes. And they look like little globes.	00:45:59
	And then the blue globes, yeah. And so the the different.	00:46:02
	Dots in the different sizes and the different numbers is the frequencies of frequency of accidents and it's a little hard to see	00:46:09
	we intended to include it in the packet but maybe we only got the bicycles. Yeah and but so those are reflecting how many	00:46:16
	incidents are in each of those locations and.	00:46:23
	The bigger the dot, the more accidents and then also it has the the number there, but it's just reflecting that data. So it's not	00:46:33
	distinguishing between pedestrian only or bicycle versus car or no.	00:46:40
	The second map is the one that reflects just the bicycles and pedestrians, so the turquoise versus the green.	00:46:50
	Doesn't mean different categories in this one. Yes it does and it's. Yeah, we should have included a legend. I believe it's the	00:46:57
	teal color are the.	00:47:03
	The bicycle accidents and then the blue color of the pedestrian OK accidents, which is also there's fewer pedestrian incidents, so	00:47:11
	that's why those ones don't have larger numbers. The teal there's more of and and in some cases there have been more than one.	00:47:19
	That's really helpful, and the legend may be on the on the initial.	00:47:28
	OK. Good job. Thank you. Thank you.	00:47:36
	Thank you staff, I really appreciate the poster. I think it.	00:47:39
	I know I talk a lot. I know I.	00:47:43
	Probably talked a little too much on coming up with a reflect Yourself campaign, but I think the poster really captures the the	00:47:47
	idea is, you know, awareness. And I shared this poster with the Superintendent McCoy. I got a thumbs up. You know, we do need to	00:47:53
	help teenagers I.	00:47:59
	Recognize that there are not invincible and how many times do we see people walking around in dark clothing? If I were to walk	00:48:07
	home tonight, this jacket bad the reflective jacket.	00:48:13
	Here good. So I really I think the poster is amazing. I don't know who created that. Was that HR Mr. Flee?	00:48:19
	Actually, Brian Popovich, our administrative analyst, Yeah. And so I think I think this would be a great campaign to spread across	00:48:28
	our local schools and just make sure kids know that we need to be seen. You need to be seen when you're walking, biking in and	00:48:34
	around the city of Port Hueneme. Thank you.	00:48:40
	I would just.	00:48:46
	May add to that at night, right? Because daylight savings time is coming up in November. Unfortunately, not before.	00:48:48
	Halloween. But yeah, these are to be used at night. Yes, correct. And you just reminded me of something. You know, there's six	00:48:56
	candidates running for council, and I know you're going to be knocking on doors. And so reflect yourself when you're out there,	00:49:00
	OK?	00:49:04
	Make sure you're a candidate when the vote occurs, all right?	00:49:10
	Thank you. Do you have any questions? Thank you. Madam Clerk. Are there any public comments on this item? No public comments. All	00:49:13
	right. The recommendation is to receive an update on the cities traffic and pedestrian safety efforts and received requested	00:49:19
	pedestrian related data and provide direction. May I have a motion and a second?	00:49:24
	Specifically and that can we include the direction is to move forward with the pedestrian safety campaign which will be I think we	00:49:31
	estimated less than $500.00. So can I have a motion to approve to move forward with the suggested?	00:49:37
	Thank you, Madam Clerk.	00:49:46
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	00:49:48
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. The next item up is the award of contract for cannabis revenue Audit services.	00:49:52
	Yes. And I'm going to introduce our Finance Director, Lupe Acero to to walk us through. And just note that I really appreciated	00:50:00
	the efforts of Mississippi Arrow and our Community and Economic Development Director, Tony Stewart on this. They worked through	00:50:07
	the RFP process essentially with the goal of reducing costs for our cannabis businesses and I think they've been able to do that	00:50:13
	pretty well, but.	00:50:20
	Misses Sarah will walk us through how they did that. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council staff and	00:50:28
	members.	00:50:31
	Of the public, I am going to provide you some highlights on the process for our recommendation tonight to award the RFP for audit	00:50:36
	services for our cannabis businesses.	00:50:42
	The annual development agreements actually call for two audit services a year. In the past we've done 1. You know, audits are very	00:50:50
	time consuming and comprehensive. We did get a little bit not behind, but we had a gap in in during COVID, so we had some catching	00:50:55
	up to do.	00:51:01
	The Cannabis Initial Cannabis RFP that was issued in 2018 when the agreements were first signed, was awarded to HDL companies.	00:51:09
	They were the ones that were conducting all of the audits on an annual basis of all of the businesses.	00:51:20
	And costs have gone up as everything else has gone up. So currently, cannabis businesses are paying $10,000 per audit. And this is	00:51:28
	for traditional, you know, your traditional walk in cannabis business, but it's $10,000 per audit.	00:51:37
	Staff issued an RFP request for proposal for a full scope audit, which is what we have currently right now, which is what HDL is	00:51:48
	doing is a full scope revenue audit and an attempt to get some competitive pricing from other business firms and companies that	00:51:57
	that perform audits in in the effort to reduce costs for the businesses. We receive 4 responses from 4 different farms.	00:52:06
	And as City Manager mentioned, the review committee, which was myself, Tony Stewart, Community and Economic Development Director	00:52:16
	and two of my staff, Angela Kusick and Diana de Costa, who are very involved with the cannabis businesses were part of the	00:52:23
	committee. We reviewed all of the responses and we had follow up interviews with all of the.	00:52:31
	Agencies or firms that responded during the interviews we requested.	00:52:40
	A change of scope to further reduce the cost. So if we went from a full scope revenue audit to a limited scope audit and we	00:52:47
	requested all of the respondents to provide us a cost proposal for a limited scope audit. And really a limited scope audit is less	00:52:55
	extensive and is less expensive. So really what it does, it's still looking at critical records.	00:53:03
	But not it's eliminating some of the audit steps that the audit firm would do.	00:53:12
	We're still looking at the core documents which are your point of sale, which is your register.	00:53:17
	We're still requesting for them to look at the tax returns that they file with the with the.	00:53:24
	State agencies and then their general Ledger, so they're there, their records, so tying all those out.	00:53:30
	They're not looking at, for example, bank statements, they're not looking at purchases, they're not looking at inventory. So	00:53:38
	that's really your difference. So they're limiting the scope, just focusing on the core documentation.	00:53:45
	And based on our review for the limited scope audit, we're proposing to award this audit.	00:53:52
	To Booth Management Consulting, this is a large international firm that very reputable that has over 25 years of experience and	00:54:03
	they do audits compliance various businesses throughout the US.	00:54:12
	Including the Washington State Department of Commerce, they were involved with some cannabis.	00:54:23
	Audits with them and.	00:54:28
	Their prices were extremely competitive.	00:54:33
	So we were looking at that was actually one of the main reasons for doing this. I just want to mention kind of as businesses have	00:54:35
	been down overall in the state just overall because of I think market saturation, but specifically in part why anemia. The	00:54:43
	businesses here have experienced significant decreases in sales and obviously more cost pressures.	00:54:51
	The cost that we receive, the cost estimate for this audit or the proposal is $18180.00. So under 2000 for a traditional.	00:54:59
	Business and then 17164 businesses under three and a half, $1,000,000. So that's some of our business is traditional walk-in	00:55:11
	businesses are under 3.5 and then it certainly applies to all of the delivery businesses which are much smaller.	00:55:19
	One note I have here for our businesses and we do plan to have a meeting with our businesses to ensure that they have proper	00:55:30
	record keeping because that certainly could increase the cost of the audit. If an auditor comes in and they don't have all of the	00:55:37
	records in place or they're not able to get documentation and they spend more than what is reasonable amount of time, it could	00:55:43
	cost them more for the audit.	00:55:49
	We're comfortable because most businesses have gone through at least the one audit, if not more.	00:55:56
	And so they're they're aware of what records were requested during these audits. We're also comfortable because we've already seen	00:56:02
	some of the findings that would they experienced in the last couple of audits and and that's the reason we're comfortable with the	00:56:07
	limited scope audit.	00:56:12
	And again, we'll have a meeting, that's our intent to have a meeting with our businesses to make sure that they have all the	00:56:21
	records. We're probably providing a list of records and documents that they should have available.	00:56:26
	Their recommendation for tonight is to authorize City Manager to award the contract for cannabis revenue audit services, the	00:56:34
	limited scope audit to booth management consulting BMC and again, they're anticipating that this will significantly reduce cost	00:56:42
	for the local businesses.	00:56:49
	Thank you. Director Acero, does any Council member have any questions?	00:56:58
	Yes, Thank you, Mayor.	00:57:04
	I have a couple of process questions. I noticed. OK. So the cost of this contract with Booth is under $10,000, so.	00:57:07
	Is it customary that this comes before council for something that's.	00:57:18
	Less than, I mean is there a threshold here? It is, it's 1800. It's so it's under 2000 per business. So we have like 13 businesses	00:57:23
	that businesses. So it's not going to exceed 10,000 overall. It is a professional service, but because this was also brought to	00:57:30
	council when we talked, I think it was maybe last fall about you know, working with businesses to reduce costs. One of the one	00:57:38
	other area was allowing the excise tax.	00:57:45
	Deduction reduction from their what they pay the city and this was another component to do an RFP and secure.	00:57:53
	Another audit firm, so it's probably hovering around there. Depending on how many audits they do, we May 13 or 14 businesses. So	00:58:01
	we'd probably get right up to the limit. The limit typically is $25,000. So it's close, but we talked about it. But like Mr. Sarah	00:58:08
	mentioned, we had brought the RFP to the council initially. So we also wanted to kind of close the book. And then also	00:58:16
	importantly, we're recommending going from a full scope to a limited scope and we think we have good reason to.	00:58:23
	Do that, but that's still the council's call to say I was just curious and then you answered my other question about the number of	00:58:31
	businesses that would be subject to these services.	00:58:36
	So that answers that and then.	00:58:45
	And then you refresh my memory that we did approve the RFP, right? OK, so where is the?	00:58:47
	The proposal from Booths? I don't see it in here.	00:58:54
	Is there, was it supposed to be in here the approved? No, I think what we included in the package was the RFP, that request for	00:58:58
	proposal and the agreement.	00:59:03
	We do not include their response, but we can.	00:59:10
	Not customary. I think it's something that we can provide. It's something that we'll we'll try to provide in the future.	00:59:15
	I think for us the main thing was wanting to walk the council through what the limited scope means and what it means compared to a	00:59:28
	full scope, so we wanted to do that today. So it's up to the.	00:59:34
	Council, we recommend approving it, we could have and probably in the future will include.	00:59:41
	But the Council has the choice of asking for it if desired.	00:59:47
	I personally for me, I'd like to see.	00:59:54
	What Booth's response was? Learn a little bit about their company, what you know.	00:59:58
	What kind of services they're offering, how they're organized, those are kinds of things I like to see. So maybe just in the	01:00:04
	future. OK, Sure. Sure. Thank you. Tim, do you have any questions? No questions. Thank you.	01:00:11
	I have a comment if that's OK.	01:00:18
	Sure. No, I appreciate staff work and I appreciate your summary and sometimes I think it's.	01:00:21
	Better to save trees and overload us with with data. But but what I think is great is that I.	01:00:28
	I wasn't on council when cannabis came to being. And so there's been this big roller coaster ride. And at first it was a lot of	01:00:37
	money coming in, $10,000 probably didn't seem that much. And then as we all knew we we were anticipating the competition coming in	01:00:45
	and other cities coming in. And I think it's, it's really a testament to our city.	01:00:53
	Past and present that were trying to work with these.	01:01:03
	Entities and trying to help them as best we can and I think that's a very sizable reduction to them that I know it's appreciated	01:01:08
	but you know it's competitive out there and.	01:01:15
	We had what, 13 and maybe three years from now we might not have 13. So I think it's a great effort on the staff's behalf to, to	01:01:22
	work with our local businesses to try to help them be successful. So thank you, Director. Sarah, just for the record, 'cause I I	01:01:30
	expect that you already do, but I just want to confirm that the limited scope, you have full confidence.	01:01:38
	In what you're going to be provided, will disclose it full transparency of all the information that you need.	01:01:47
	To satisfy whatever requirements for each business. Yes, that's correct. They're looking at the court documentation and so that is	01:01:53
	correct. And if I can add one thing I was going to add is that.	01:02:00
	We do have.	01:02:07
	Very different sized cannabis businesses and we have a few that are that are doing well and that are very large and that that	01:02:10
	still produce a lot of revenue for the city. And then there's several though that aren't and several that are struggling. And we	01:02:16
	had talked about it that I think there's a couple that honestly the $10,000 audit fee is more than they're going to generate in	01:02:22
	revenue to us. And so you know, the logic of telling them to pay $10,000 to audit, you know, $7000 that they're going to pay the	01:02:28
	city.	01:02:34
	And so one of those things was going through a full audit every year is going to require weeks of a staff person that they may or	01:03:11
	may not have at that point. So, so to me, this was a win win because it's not reducing any revenue to the city. It's strictly the	01:03:18
	fee that a business has to pay to the auditor. So it's not impacting the city and in that way, but it's making their lives a	01:03:26
	little bit easier and reducing their costs at a time that I think they could.	01:03:33
	Use it.	01:03:40
	And then like Mrs. Sarah said, because we just finished an audit and we just walked through all these with them in depth over the	01:03:42
	last year, we're comfortable that they now have those processes in place. So but we'll we'll be able to keep spot checking those	01:03:49
	things. And I mean, it's an really giving the businesses an opportunity to have their records in place.	01:03:56
	If we run into, well not us, but if the audit firm runs into challenges with this type of scope and we're not able to get	01:04:05
	comfortable that we can't validate the sales, we may come back to council and.	01:04:11
	Go back to full scope audit, which will be a little bit more expensive, OK.	01:04:18
	Thank you.	01:04:23
	Are there any public comments regarding this item? Mayor, I do have one question.	01:04:25
	Just to confirm, the audit is also going to include the 1% tax revenue on in terms of like how they disperse that money? No, that	01:04:31
	has never been part of the road. It's strictly just gross revenues.	01:04:36
	Yeah, it's not part of the scope now.	01:04:43
	So the 1%, how we handle that now, well, we've implemented is we've created a process now where a finance staff person we have	01:04:48
	works with them and gets a report from them I.	01:04:54
	We're trying to do it monthly, but it's a battle, right. It's a hit and miss with some businesses, but it's on the form now and	01:05:01
	the monthly form that they complete on a monthly basis for them to include where that 1% donation who it was made out to and and	01:05:07
	provide us the support. And it's really a tracking that finances tracking it and reaching out to the businesses when we're missing	01:05:13
	information to provide council report. I do have to say we don't have we have some businesses that do it very diligently and we	01:05:19
	get all that info.	01:05:24
	And some we don't, so we're still trying to compile that to present to council, but it.	01:05:31
	Yeah, that's how we compile that, but we do ask him for the support and thank you. Mrs. said oh, OK, so no comments, correct, No	01:05:35
	public thank you. So the recommendation is to authorize the city manager to award the contract for cannabis revenue audit services	01:05:42
	limited scope to booth management consulting or BMC may have a motion and a second.	01:05:49
	So moved.	01:05:56
	Thank you, Madam Clerk.	01:05:58
	All those in favor, all those opposed.	01:06:00
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Doctor Sarah.	01:06:04
	The final.	01:06:09
	Business item is the Community Benefit Fund 2024 project list.	01:06:11
	Thank you, Mayor.	01:06:18
	So sort of Step 2 in the process we actually the Council had discussed.	01:06:20
	The CBF previously and had identified the 1st $113,000 in projects, but there was still the question of the last $30,000 in	01:06:27
	projects. So we're back tonight with the full list. And just as a little bit of background and a reminder more, maybe more for the	01:06:35
	public that the community benefit fund is the fund created in our agreement between the city and the port and.	01:06:43
	Essentially, when we had a new agreement in 2015 or a settlement agreement in 2015.	01:06:52
	The port agreed to contribute $100,000 annually and then it was subject to inflation. So that's how we get to a number of $143,000	01:06:58
	this year. But they contribute that money annually for projects that the city and the port meet together. The we each have a	01:07:05
	committee, we meet together and we identify projects in key category shoreline protection community to develop development	01:07:12
	opportunistic endeavors.	01:07:20
	Or the fantastic category of other projects which really narrows it down. But so, so we we got together this year, we came up with	01:07:27
	our initial list, which is everything on this slide other than that bolded item, everything else we had already talked about at	01:07:35
	the Council and we had agreed with the port on that initial $113,000.	01:07:42
	We had $30,000 left that we were trying to come to an agreement on. We, we at our council meeting previously had wanted to, we had	01:07:51
	identified focusing on public safety and mental health Wellness projects when we went back recently and we had our committee	01:07:58
	meeting with the port, the port.	01:08:05
	Noted essentially that they had been aware that we were working on an economic development plan and that they wanted to work with	01:08:13
	the city on that economic development plan.	01:08:18
	And so as that joint committee, we agreed to recommend that.	01:08:22
	Well, let me add that at that meeting I noted that we just adopted a plan and now we have to figure out how to pay for it. So we	01:08:29
	it was opportunistic to the city because we're looking for funding to to implement some of those things.	01:08:35
	And so we talked about that and we talked about recommending to the council and their committees recommending to their board that	01:08:42
	we earmark that $30,000 for an economic development plan implementation funding. The specific project is not noted, but the idea	01:08:49
	was that I would come back and and meet with our community and economic development Director, Tony Stewart and go through our plan	01:08:57
	and recommend the.	01:09:04
	Projects that we thought could be funded with that money that would also benefit the city and the port, and then we would meet.	01:09:12
	With the port CEO and see if that's something they're interested in. When we found a project that worked for both parties, then	01:09:20
	we'd each come back to our boards. So, so it's not a specific project yet, but it's essentially funding a project from our	01:09:27
	economic development plan. And so with that I believe and the committee is.	01:09:34
	Mayor Pro Tem McQueen legend and Councilmember Perez. Mayor Perez, so they can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe our	01:09:44
	committee came to the consensus that we were recommending.	01:09:49
	Allocating that $30,000 towards the economic development plan if ever, if the Council and the Board agree to it, this would	01:09:55
	represent our project list for this year. And so we are recommending moving forward with this as the project list and we can	01:10:02
	answer any questions. Does Council have any questions?	01:10:08
	So this kind of goes into the other column.	01:10:16
	The.	01:10:20
	Well, actually, I mean, because there's no, there's no specifics. There's actually category. Ironically, this is actually probably	01:10:22
	1 project that actually really fits into a category other than other, which is we, one of the categories is actually community	01:10:28
	development in our settlement agreement. And it says implementing joint initiatives that foster the community's economic, social	01:10:34
	and environmental well-being. So this actually economic development falls right into that category too in the settlement	01:10:40
	agreement, we don't have any.	01:10:46
	It's not specific yet. Yeah. So we, we, we're going to get creative and try and figure out how to.	01:10:53
	It's going that direction. So we'll bring a project back that well, we'll try to find one that we think is mutually beneficial to	01:11:00
	the port, check with the port CEO and make sure that we find one that's mutually beneficial. And then we'll each bring it back to	01:11:06
	our boards to recommend to fall in line with our economic development plan that we recently approved. OK.	01:11:13
	And justice as an example, because there were a lot of things in that plan, but, you know, there's things that I think could be	01:11:20
	mutually beneficial, like, you know, enhanced updated signage that reflects both the city and the port and in certain areas and	01:11:26
	things like that that that I think would fall in line. But the economic development plan was pretty broad. It even included some	01:11:32
	like food truck events and things like that. So.	01:11:38
	We can go through that and try to find the one that gets both the city and the port excited about working together.	01:11:45
	Just reminded me, I think I heard you say earlier like getting port trucks to go the designated route.	01:11:52
	Is there a designated route or are the port trucks supposed to go down Waimea to Rice or or specifically port trucks? It's our	01:12:00
	that we have our commercial truck routes and so it includes most port trucks, but it's not only the port trucks and so commercial	01:12:08
	trucks, yeah, we do have commercial truck routes that we that we've adopted and signed so.	01:12:16
	OK, so if I were to ask a question off topic and get a look from the attorney, we're going to stick to the community Benefit Fund.	01:12:25
	Council Member Hernandez, thank you so much.	01:12:29
	Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Mr. Vega for the.	01:12:35
	The report and thank you to our committee members for representing us at the Port City Committee. That's how our city gets	01:12:39
	represented.	01:12:43
	When it comes to port discussions, I do have a question on the economic development plan that we adopted. Did we, I don't recall,	01:12:49
	but did we prioritize the projects, the list of recommended projects in that plan?	01:12:56
	No. The plan included a work plan essentially, and so we adopted that, but we didn't specifically go through those projects and	01:13:05
	assign priority level. So will council have an opportunity to weigh in on the prioritization of those projects and which projects	01:13:12
	we might like to see?	01:13:19
	Funded by this $30,000 Yes. Yes. And that's essentially by agreeing to do this, we'd have to come back and talk about what	01:13:27
	projects we'd want to implement with this funding. Very good. All right. Thank you.	01:13:33
	Seeing none, are there any public comments regarding this item? No public comments. Thank you. So the recommendation is approved	01:13:42
	the implementation funding for the City's economic development plan as the final project on the 2024 CBF project list. May I have	01:13:47
	a motion and a second?	01:13:53
	So moved second. Thank you, Madam clerk. All in favor, Aye, all opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Great job. Look	01:13:59
	at that. Let's move on to city manager comments and reports.	01:14:06
	Yeah, it's funny how time gets away because by our agreement we have to have that done by December 31st and somehow we actually	01:14:14
	got into October, but.	01:14:18
	Pretty good.	01:14:23
	So we have a couple of slides in the city manager's report. We just wanted to highlight some recent events and some upcoming	01:14:25
	events and recent events. We've had quite a few. We September 21st we had our coastal cleanup day and we collected somehow 42150	01:14:33
	lbs of trash and recyclables and.	01:14:40
	As noted here, we cleaned with our partners 3 miles of coastline and included some unusual items such as a whole couch, which I	01:14:49
	did not see this year. Last year I had seen the couch, but this year I missed it. I was working the booth, I missed the couch. So,	01:14:56
	so thank you to everybody who joined us for that And another successful Coastal Cleanup day and the pictures there that we posted	01:15:04
	online to we had our junior ROTC come out and they they were a force out there.	01:15:11
	It was a good event.	01:15:18
	And then this weekend we had our Touch a truck event and it just continues to grow. It was it was a pretty large crowd. I think we	01:15:20
	estimate about 1500 kids came out and that doesn't count the families with them. It's just the kids that we were handing out our	01:15:28
	passports to the booth passports. So is our third annual Touch of truck. They keep getting bigger and I think more successful. And	01:15:35
	then I think the exciting thing for us is more and more agencies are.	01:15:43
	Wanting to participate in it, we had, our goal had been to get the Navy to participate and we did it this year. And I think that	01:15:50
	they were really happy with it and more eager to participate next year. So, so it's all all good stuff. And then there's a couple	01:15:57
	rumors that a couple other cities are reaching out to our team asking how to do this. So it might grow from there where you might	01:16:05
	start seeing some other Touch of Truck events in the county, which is always, it's always good, just more community events.	01:16:12
	And then the other thing that launched this last week is our community emergency response team training, our cert training. We had	01:16:20
	a pretty full class as you can see in the photo on the right, we had 28 participants. And it's a very impressive because because	01:16:27
	it's, it's actually a little bit of a time commitment when these people are all part committing to participate in this for the	01:16:35
	next several weeks and so six weeks.	01:16:42
	And so they will be working on that for the next six weeks. I think they'll finish. I think it was right before Thanksgiving. At	01:16:50
	one point it was going to end on Thanksgiving and we thought that would be a terrible way to spend Thanksgiving. So, so cert is	01:16:59
	training is underway now. So, and thank you to our Police Department and our fire department for all the work on that.	01:17:07
	We wanted to give a quick reminder. I think we're kind of getting through this, but we had we're upgrading all our financial	01:17:18
	systems and it's always change and, and, and change is always not preferred. And so about September 10th, our new system, our	01:17:25
	utility billing payment went online utility billing system.	01:17:33
	The feedback we're getting once people get used to it is I think we're hearing that people like it and that it they like it a	01:17:41
	little more than the old one, but it's just that initial change.	01:17:46
	I think that we're trying to get the word out on. A lot of the word we're trying to get out is if you signed up for autopay before	01:17:50
	September 10th and you just set it and forget it.	01:17:55
	You will have to remember one time to reset it and then you can set it and forget it all over again. So we're just trying to	01:18:01
	remind people who may not have heard that that's going on and if and any anything set prior to September 10th needed to be reset	01:18:08
	now for for this new portal. So.	01:18:15
	And credit to the finance department who is set up, we've set up a kiosk in the front of City Hall and they actually are walking	01:18:23
	people through pretty constantly walking people through setting it up with the hope that most of them are setting up auto pay and	01:18:30
	they have to do it once here and then never have to do it again. So.	01:18:36
	And then we have a couple upcoming events. One is the Spooktacular Celebration, which is another one that Rick has put on that	01:18:44
	just keeps growing and has gotten more popular over the years. That's on October 23rd from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. This this year we'll	01:18:51
	have music, photo booths, treats, pumpkin patch, maze, train ride, face painting, carnival games, and more at Miranda Park.	01:18:58
	And so that's coming up. We also, I think 4 days before that on October 19th, have the, I think it's the last movie in the park	01:19:06
	series this year it was Wonka at Booker Park. And that's a free event that we invite our community out to.	01:19:15
	And then the notice on the right is good news, but it's we're also just letting people know that the construction is going to be	01:19:25
	happening. And so people are aware that we're doing our walk sidewalk repairs at the beach and that's going to include the new	01:19:32
	concrete pad and walkway to the swing set, which is now going to be we're moving forward with the installation at the beach. So	01:19:38
	that work is all going to be happening over the next.	01:19:45
	45 days or so.	01:19:54
	And I wanted to quickly note and the next slide will show that we, we.	01:19:57
	May have an item on this on the next agenda depending how it's how it's going. But we wanted to give a quick dredging update. It's	01:20:04
	not on the agenda. So I can just briefly note that we, we as in the city, the port and the harbor were notified recently of some	01:20:11
	potential issues at the state and federal level, which potentially could lead to delays to not just our dredging project, but all	01:20:19
	dredging projects that were scheduled in the state of California.	01:20:26
	And so we, the city, the port and the harbor have been working together diligently and immediately to start contacting all of our	01:20:34
	state and federal representatives and starting to contact the Corps of Engineers and the State Water Control Quality Control Board	01:20:40
	to really bring attention to this and try to get it resolved as quickly as possible to avoid any any potential delay. And so we've	01:20:47
	had several.	01:20:53
	Meetings and several conversations with the different folks involved.	01:21:00
	And today, with a thank you to Congresswoman Brownlee's office, who sent a letter urging everybody to get involved in and solve	01:21:04
	the issue, we have been, I think, making progress on it. And so we've been notified at this point that the Army Corps of Engineers	01:21:12
	are expecting to issue their projects project solicitation this week. And so that would be a big step. And we think that's a good	01:21:19
	sign. But the city port in the harbor.	01:21:27
	Gonna plan to stay on it and keep meeting and keep pushing just to try to make sure that that we keep the project on track. It's	01:21:34
	just when a project involves state.	01:21:40
	Regions, counties, cities, every other board in between. And then also, you know, even the federal government, but with the US	01:21:47
	Army Corps of Engineers, there's a lot of possible little hiccups. So we're all just going to try to work together to really keep	01:21:54
	it on track. So, so for now, that's the update. And then as noted, it's there on the the end of this slide for the next meeting if	01:22:01
	we need to give more of an update and, and take some actions on it.	01:22:08
	We'll, we'll put an item on the agenda for that purpose. We're hoping that's not the case. We're hoping that it's sort of resolved	01:22:16
	in an on track before that time. But it's noted on the slide for October 21st along with a few items presentations. We're planning	01:22:23
	to do our Down syndrome Awareness month, National Community Planning Month proclamation, and then the district attorney's office	01:22:31
	is offering to do presentations to each city on gun violence restraining.	01:22:38
	Which has become a tool that they're really using. It's one of those things and they'll go through it. But I think five years ago	01:22:46
	they'd have like 1A year across the county and now there's 50-60 a year. And so it's really becoming more of a tool that they're	01:22:53
	using and they've they've asked to come to a presentation on that and it's an opportunity to educate the community on it and that	01:23:00
	this option even exists out in the world and then.	01:23:07
	So those are the presentations we have planned, business items we're bringing back our Wanami Beach Fest wrap up report.	01:23:14
	And the bringing back the item that came to council a few months ago, we were asked to do more research on the no smoking	01:23:21
	ordinance. So that'll be coming back. And then as mentioned, we have a dredging update penciled in it if needed. So that's the	01:23:27
	plan for the October 21st agenda at this time. Thank you, city manager. We'll move on to council member reports and comments,	01:23:34
	council member Martinez. Thank you, mayor Perez.	01:23:40
	I'll keep mine short, Sister city. I think we're just waiting on that EIN number. We might have already gotten it, but we're	01:23:47
	planning.	01:23:50
	We're planning the visit in February, so we're going to finalize that hopefully sometime soon and at our next meeting. And then	01:23:53
	for Reach, we're going to have our second pickleball tournament on November 9th. It's mixed double s, so that's going to be fun.	01:24:01
	That way you can take your significant other and and compete and there's all levels including.	01:24:09
	The lower levels for myself and the it's $75 per team and it includes sure if you sign up.	01:24:19
	Before October 28th.	01:24:26
	Thank you, Councilmember Gama.	01:24:30
	Thank you, Mayor Perez.	01:24:33
	In the next agenda item, I'm going to be making a request to waive fees for the Orvene Carpenter Community Center because.	01:24:35
	Orvan Carpenter and his granddaughter approached me and.	01:24:44
	Want to celebrate his 100th birthday on January 31st at the Orven Carpenter Community Center and so.	01:24:48
	The dates available and.	01:24:58
	Like I said, I'll be making a request to agendize so that we could waive the fees and and celebrate the Patriarch of Port Hueneme.	01:25:01
	I came across a book called.	01:25:07
	Paul and me an winemie, and I just want to real quickly read a couple experts from it. Wainimi. Me and Paul grew up there. It	01:25:14
	isn't there anymore. There is a town by the name, well, almost like a Plymouth set winemie disappeared, written over, dredged,	01:25:23
	buried, redesigned, obliterated. It's been going on for over 50 years now.	01:25:32
	Port Hueneme visitors or Newcomb seen the word for the first time.	01:25:41
	Couldn't handle it. Puzzled, but willing enough to give it a shot. They'd say something like we need me or Hugh need me. And then	01:25:45
	a lady by the name of Miss Miranda came up with Winema, which stuck for a while. So if you get a chance, search out that book, Me	01:25:52
	and Paul and Winnie, me. And then I just have to say that.	01:25:59
	You know, this dredge thing, I thought we had it wrapped up. It's been a cycle every two years. And you know, last year we, we	01:26:08
	felt victorious because for the first time in 20 cycles, we actually got the amount of sand that we need to get in order to mimic	01:26:16
	Mother Nature. And so I just, I know I really appreciate the work that's going on, but it's, it's just shocking to.	01:26:25
	Hear that because of a rule, they're not going to let our dredge project go forward, obviously.	01:26:34
	The port and city manager Vega have worked it out, but just imagine if like every two years you had to negotiate for your	01:26:41
	allotment of oxygen to sustain yourself. And, and I say that jokingly but seriously because Wayne Beach.	01:26:48
	Will not be sustained if we don't get that 4.2 million cubic yards of sand every two years. And I hope before the day comes when	01:26:56
	I'm no longer a City Council person that it'll be etched in stone and then we won't have to go through this process every two	01:27:02
	years to, you know, go begging and make sure that we get that allotment. So I'll just leave it at that. Thank you, Councilmember	01:27:08
	Hernandez.	01:27:15
	Thank you for a good meeting also.	01:27:23
	Let's see, my notes are a little mixed up here. I'll try to make this quick. I just wanted to share with the council and our	01:27:27
	public here that first of all, I want to thank our city staff who assisted with the coastal cleanup and all the volunteers who	01:27:34
	came out to help make it a great event. Our public works department, our Police Department, our City Council, city manager,	01:27:41
	everybody who came out it just everybody contributed to making it.	01:27:49
	Great event this year.	01:27:56
	And I, I look forward to doing it again next year. I also attended after Coastal Cleanup, the AWA annual award meeting and heard	01:27:59
	some great speakers talk about water issues that are we're going to be facing in the next year. And there were some really	01:28:06
	interesting comments made about how native vegetation can't be our priority, that we, we have to start working Better Together	01:28:13
	more collaboratively between the water agencies and the cities.	01:28:19
	In finding solutions to future water problems.	01:28:27
	I also attended the Military Appreciation Night with the West Ventura County Business Alliance and had an opportunity to meet some	01:28:31
	of our residents who serve on our who serve our military and live here in Port Hueneme. We got to meet the person in charge of the	01:28:38
	canine unit on the Navy base. They got a lot of dogs there. It's pretty impressive and it was just a great evening overall just	01:28:45
	realizing the the things that.	01:28:52
	Our service men and women do for our community and and that's because of the Navy base here.	01:29:00
	That we have the benefit of their expertise and their talents and they do give back even though they don't.	01:29:07
	Always stay here and they move on. They do give back to our community while they're here. So that was very much appreciated to	01:29:13
	learn about that. Let's see.	01:29:18
	Umm, October 17th. Coming up next week is the Great Shakeout, and I understand the city will be doing a simple annual exercise	01:29:24
	simulating a response to a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on the southern San Andreas Fault. For those of you who don't know, that's a 2	01:29:33
	minute worth of shaking that we will experience with a magnitude earthquake of that size.	01:29:41
	If you want more information and you want to see how it starts at the Salton Sea and comes up through Ventura County, go to www.	01:29:51
	Dot shakeout.org and you can actually see the footage I used. I've used to use that in a lot of trainings and it's pretty	01:29:59
	effective in getting people to understand.	01:30:03
	The threat that we we live under here in earthquake country. And I think it's very timely to that this exert class is going on	01:30:08
	because then we'll have members of our community who will know what to do, who can even step up and take leadership positions and	01:30:15
	be better prepared. So I'm very grateful that that class is going on.	01:30:21
	Umm, let's see. Oh, I also attended the SCAG demographic Workshop. It was hosted by the Southern California Association of	01:30:29
	Governments and the USC Price School of Public Policy. It was all day and I wasn't able to attend most a lot of it, but I tended a	01:30:37
	part of it and what it did was basically released and shared with over 400 attendees the American Community Survey data that was	01:30:44
	released earlier this year.	01:30:51
	September. So there's new data out there on our demographics and I think that's really good for all of us to know.	01:30:59
	That that's a good reason that that's a new resource available to all of us and when we want to learn more about our our community	01:31:06
	I.	01:31:10
	One of the points that it showed is that the real household income growth in Southern California has outpaced national growth over	01:31:16
	the past year and in fact the last decade and it's reflecting long term economic well-being for the region's median household. So	01:31:23
	that's a positive thing that this data is is now showing. And then coincidentally, Bill Fulton who did our economic development	01:31:30
	plan was the events keynote speaker. So he's well respected and well known and well qualified and.	01:31:38
	I'm glad that we selected him to do our economic development plan.	01:31:45
	Umm, I also attended online at the Institute of Local Government session offering on public meetings.	01:31:51
	They discussed updates to the Brown Act and new legislation. And I do have some questions which I'll have for the our city	01:31:57
	attorney coming up, which so look forward to my emails. So we'll be talking tomorrow. And then I want to say finally, happy	01:32:04
	birthday to VFW, which celebrated their 80th birthday on October 1st. The city issued a proclamation to them. Thank you for doing	01:32:12
	that, Georgiana and city Manager.	01:32:19
	They had a celebration on Sunday and then this morning some of us had the opportunity to attend that take on Limon for Latino	01:32:27
	History Month celebration with Senator Monique Limon. And she talked about the some of the important legislation that she has	01:32:37
	passed. She was joined by Salud Carbajal and Assemblyman Steve Bennett. And one of the interesting things I took away from that.	01:32:46
	Was one of the bills that she helped pass was removing medical debt?	01:32:57
	From credit reporting and I've never thought of that because I, I have medical. So, but for the residents, people who have to pay	01:33:02
	their medical debts and, and they can become quite enormous, it just hurts them and sets them back. It's, it's regressive and it	01:33:09
	sets them back if they have to, if that's reflected on their credit report. So that was really nice to hear that she, she worked	01:33:16
	on that legislation.	01:33:23
	So, OK, that's all I have. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem.	01:33:30
	Couple of things wanted to thank.	01:33:36
	Council Member Hernandez and Gamma for coordinating the organization that I work with to come out to the Coastal Cleanup very	01:33:40
	helpful and we had a great time and so we didn't have much trash, which is a good thing.	01:33:47
	Yeah. So appreciate that. Thank you so much. I, too, attended the military appreciation dinner for service members. I want to ask	01:33:56
	Becky, who's in the room, what committee is she not working on because she was part of the planning committee for that event.	01:34:06
	Also.	01:34:17
	Let's see, I also attended the Latino History Month this morning. Was really good, very informative. I've got a shout out from.	01:34:18
	A salute Carbajal, who I went to school with, so that was pretty nice. And finally I participated in the APTA conference. That's	01:34:28
	the American.	01:34:33
	Public Transportation Association their annual conference in it as where transit professionals come together and communicate their	01:34:38
	best practices so across the US.	01:34:44
	So it's pretty informative being that I'm on GCTD and VCTC. So that was really good. Got an opportunity to kind of connect some of	01:34:50
	the things that I've been.	01:34:54
	Learning in those committees or commissions.	01:34:58
	So that and just to back to all my meetings and very busy these days.	01:35:02
	Yes, City Manager Vega was there as well. I forgot to mention one important thing.	01:35:11
	So as you know, we do a Winami Beach cleanup every Saturday and this past Saturday we had a special guest in our city attorney.	01:35:17
	And.	01:35:25
	Between the two of us, we picked up.	01:35:30
	147 I think cigarette butts. But we did have a contest and I won.	01:35:33
	But thank you very much for coming out and it was a great lead up to the touch of truck event. And I, I'm pretty confident in	01:35:40
	saying Mr. city Manager, there were more kids than adults and it was wonderful. It really was. So yes, I was not able to attend	01:35:47
	this morning because the Fort Wayne Lions Club started a teacher of the month program where we honor a Wanami Elementary School	01:35:55
	teacher. Today was the very first presentation to Mr. Ortiz at Larson Elementary, so congrat.	01:36:02
	To Mr. Ortiz at Larsen Elementary on teacher of the month and I went to the touch truck event. I volunteered for the city and that	01:36:10
	was a great event. I had so many people coming up to the info booth talking about how great this was from out of town and and	01:36:16
	comparing our events and what we do in the city to other cities and that we're blowing everyone away with, with all the different	01:36:22
	community events that we do. So great job, Parks and recs.	01:36:29
	I was not able to attend the.	01:36:36
	Coastal Cleanup Day I did stop by to say hi, but I was participating on Team Becky for the Relay for Life, so I supported Becky	01:36:39
	and others there. Other government officials doing a presentation for Relay for Life presentation. I presented a proclamation at	01:36:46
	the Banana Festival on behalf of the port and the 11th annual Beach Festival. So I was happy to be able to represent myself and	01:36:52
	Council Member Martinez for the city.	01:36:59
	And I attended the two committees that I have this month, nothing report out on that. And I think oh cert is underway in the hopes	01:37:06
	of that 28 of us will be that when there's a disaster, when we need to mobilize and get people in places where we can help like we	01:37:13
	did, we needed for the floods recently because that was a very eye opening experience for me. And which is one reason why I'm so	01:37:21
	glad that our chief brought back the service program and that our our.	01:37:28
	Our County Fire got together and got that taken care of now because it was all the earthquakes happening, you know, we need to get	01:37:36
	that rolling. I didn't want to delay that any longer. So first, that was last week, I believe was the first class, right?	01:37:42
	No, on the third, yeah, OK.	01:37:49
	And that's it, that's all I have for my reports and committee comments. So we're going to move on for future agenda items. I'd	01:37:52
	like to remind Council that requested items will require a motion, a second and majority vote per adopted council policies to be	01:37:57
	placed on the agenda. Council Member Martinez.	01:38:03
	Councilmember Gama Yes, I'd like to request an agenda item to consider waiving the fees for Orphan Carpenters 100 birthday party	01:38:09
	at the Orvine Carpenter Community Center.	01:38:15
	2nd.	01:38:21
	All in favor, aye. All opposed.	01:38:23
	Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:38:26
	Councilmember Hernandez.	01:38:30
	Mayor Pro Tem.	01:38:32
	I would like to have an agenda item. I've had a lot of concerned Wyoming Bay residents with the potential blind spot that's from	01:38:36
	eastbound turning into Lodi.	01:38:42
	Lido I'm sorry, I wrote it down and now I that's how I said it wrong. So yes, so turning into Winami Bay and a blind spot with I	01:38:50
	guess it's westbound traffic coming up Channel Islands Blvd. that there's a blind spot and they don't see traffic that comes up.	01:38:56
	So I'd like to have possibly public works go out there and just take a look and see what is going on.	01:39:02
	I'll 2nd that I was assuming that the council agrees. If so, we'll check it out and then bring back options to council if the	01:39:09
	council agrees to put it on the Internet.	01:39:14
	OK. All in favor, all opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.	01:39:19
	Anything further before we go?	01:39:27
	All right, Say we are going to adjourn this meeting at the time is now 809.	01:39:30
	Thank you everyone.	01:39:36