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| Good evening everyone. Oops, my mic is. | 00:00:03 | |
| A little loose. | 00:00:08 | |
| Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30 PM Please stand and join me | 00:00:09 | |
| for the flag salute. | 00:00:13 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:22 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:28 | |
| Thank you, Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? | 00:00:39 | |
| Councilmember Gama here, Councilmember Hernandez here. | 00:00:43 | |
| Councilmember Martinez present Mayor Perez here, and please let the record reflect that Mayor Pro Tem McQueen legend is absent. | 00:00:47 | |
| Thank you. Tonight's inspiration will be given by Councilmember Gama. | 00:00:52 | |
| Thank you. There's so much to be inspired from and within our community, I have a long list of things to talk about. So hopefully | 00:01:00 | |
| I could just go real quick and everybody will be inspired. So you know, it's May time. May is the time for graduation. So many | 00:01:06 | |
| high school students are getting ready to graduate. What an exciting time I can remember back when I was a high school student, | 00:01:12 | |
| graduating, graduating, it seems like yesterday. And so you get to live and you see the excitement, the joy that these young | 00:01:18 | |
| persons are going to be. | 00:01:24 | |
| Going for in their future life goals when he be Little League just finished their season and it was a little trying season because | 00:01:31 | |
| their ball fields are under construction. But they finished with smiles and they had a great season and they they stepped up and | 00:01:38 | |
| had to be a little bit uncomfortable but man they really enjoyed themselves last night. Real Guppies is making an impact across | 00:01:46 | |
| Ventura County and we saw that in their fundraising event for the surf and turf thing. Mayor Perez was there as with. | 00:01:53 | |
| Many, many supporters, Becky was there and we had a great time supporting a great great. | 00:02:01 | |
| Group these walls These walls are filled with inspiration and. | 00:02:09 | |
| Artists and their 7th and 8th graders and they're from Waimea Elementary. So if you get a time look around and just enjoy the | 00:02:16 | |
| artwork and if you don't enjoy life, well you better start because we live in an amazing place and. | 00:02:22 | |
| Each and every day we should count our blessings as we go through this wonderful city of ours in the ocean and the beach, life and | 00:02:30 | |
| all that. And then there's George George Mahogan. | 00:02:36 | |
| And smile and get to know new people. And this past weekend's event was catered by our Chief of police. He makes some baked ziti | 00:03:23 | |
| at Caesar salad and Wyoming bake house provided some garlic bread. And it was just wonderful to see our chief and his support | 00:03:32 | |
| staff come out and do that so you don't have to look far here in Waimea to be inspired. And of course. | 00:03:42 | |
| A lot of us live here because of the beach and I got this calendar from a meeting I was. That's a tied calendar and I just want to | 00:03:53 | |
| read the back of it. To close this out, to be aware of ones environment is to be aware of oneself. By living near and using the | 00:04:00 | |
| ocean, we stay in touch with a pure source of life, the curving lines on these pages. | 00:04:06 | |
| Actually represent interaction between our moon, sun and the planets traveling through eternal space. | 00:04:14 | |
| While the flow of the tides is endless, we spend but a few short moments of influence on this earth. For many reason reasons, this | 00:04:20 | |
| time in history seems most critical. We have the power to destroy or preserve our ocean environment. The responsibility of its | 00:04:27 | |
| preservation is in the hands of we who use and enjoy the ocean. These are but words. While actions alone create results, there are | 00:04:34 | |
| many ways to help with preservation. Please take the time to find and use them. | 00:04:42 | |
| So respect your environment, enjoy each and every day. And thank God you live in the city of Port Hueneme. Thank you. Thank you | 00:04:50 | |
| Councilmember Gama. We will now move on to public comments. We will hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. | 00:04:57 | |
| Comments are limited to 3 minutes. This process will be the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we | 00:05:03 | |
| have any public comments? We do. First up is Becky Bruning, followed by Tom King. | 00:05:10 | |
| Good evening, Mayor, council members, staff and audience. | 00:05:24 | |
| I'm here with broke up the outdoors. We did have a fantastic night last night, raised a lot of money. | 00:05:30 | |
| And this Sunday is our family fish day out at the end of Wyoming pier from 8:30 to 11:30. So come out and join us and have some | 00:05:39 | |
| fun. Thank you. | 00:05:45 | |
| I'm here, Perez, City Council member staff. | 00:05:57 | |
| On its neighbors, I'm just here to give a quick update. When I first stood before you on the matter of the petition to oppose the | 00:06:01 | |
| location of the Bard monument at Surfside and Market Street at the Flag Plaza, I had about 40 signatures and it became 80. Now | 00:06:10 | |
| it's over 150. | 00:06:18 | |
| I know the port from time to time indicates well, maybe they're not so solidly. | 00:06:29 | |
| Hard in terms of having that is their location, but it's important, I think to at least indicate that it's not one person up here | 00:06:36 | |
| right now. It's about 152 people. So I thank you for listening. I. | 00:06:44 | |
| Really. We're trying to encourage you to. | 00:06:52 | |
| Acknowledge that that's the wrong. | 00:06:57 | |
| Location for that monument. So thank you. Thank you. | 00:06:59 | |
| Mr. Randall Thomas and then Jan Burke. | 00:07:04 | |
| Good afternoon, mayor, council, city staff, neighbors and community members. I'm here to talk about the community benefit fund and | 00:07:12 | |
| kind of what our neighbors have kind of come up with. So that way we can kind of have a path forward so we can all see everything | 00:07:18 | |
| aligned and united. | 00:07:24 | |
| The way that the current process involves the community fund can be a little confusing. We're just looking for a standard | 00:07:32 | |
| operating procedure. | 00:07:37 | |
| Aligned upon how things specifically go and get approved and some ideas we have was an establishment of an advisory committee of | 00:07:42 | |
| Wanami residents to help create the new structure and process. | 00:07:48 | |
| For an updated Wine Me Community Benefit Fund program, we suggest that each Council member appoint one advisory committee member. | 00:07:54 | |
| The committee would then meet on an agreed upon schedule on a regular basis, select projects for funding, and then these projects | 00:08:02 | |
| would then be presented to Council for final approval to bring to the Our Namey Community Benefit Fund meeting with the Port. | 00:08:11 | |
| Second thing would be this new structure would be more aligned with a grant process where funds are processed and distributed to | 00:08:21 | |
| local nonprofits and community based programs that apply for the fund with the focus and goal to enhance the quality of life in | 00:08:26 | |
| the port My name community. | 00:08:31 | |
| 3rd would be encouraging matching funds for projects from local businesses, organizations and residents who would love to provide | 00:08:38 | |
| better and greater benefit to the overall community fund to increase that dollar amount. It encourages community involvement and | 00:08:44 | |
| increases pride in our city. I know a lot of people would probably like to see that Community Benefit Fund baseline number | 00:08:51 | |
| increase and I think having the community also contribute to that. | 00:08:58 | |
| Would do really well for a city to show everyone here that we're a united city and we want to make this place an even better place | 00:09:05 | |
| to live than it already is. | 00:09:09 | |
| The fourth thing would be having this grant application process that assures the approved programs are a substantial projects that | 00:09:13 | |
| produce. | 00:09:17 | |
| Quantifiable outcomes for the community and a few things that we kind of came up with was senior and youth programs, safety police | 00:09:21 | |
| canines, coastal programs and environmental projects such as charging stations, solar and lighting projects and other things of | 00:09:29 | |
| the sort. City beautification projects as well, such as murals and landscaping upgrades to artwork and whatnot, would also be a | 00:09:37 | |
| substantial benefit to the community. This was also brought to the Port Commission meeting that I attended earlier today. | 00:09:44 | |
| And one of the poor commissioners mentioned what's beneficial to both organizations or agencies and I would like to know kind of | 00:09:53 | |
| what that settlement states specifically to what? | 00:09:59 | |
| Benefits an agency or a community, So I'm not sure who I need to get in contact with to be able to see what that settlement | 00:10:07 | |
| agreement states, but if I could get in contact with somebody, that would be great. Thank you very much. | 00:10:13 | |
| Thank you. | 00:10:20 | |
| And I can just note real quick, so we will contact you to let you know how to how to get that information. | 00:10:23 | |
| Mr. Lamont Hayes, you'll be after Miss Burke. | 00:10:35 | |
| No, no, Miss Burke. Go ahead. | 00:10:39 | |
| Thank you, Randall. | 00:10:47 | |
| Good evening. | 00:10:50 | |
| Council. | 00:10:52 | |
| Staff neighbors. | 00:10:53 | |
| My goodness, there's a bunch of them Today I. | 00:10:57 | |
| I appreciate what Randall has said. This was a synopsis of what our HOA coalition put together. I hand it out to you sort of a | 00:11:00 | |
| summary that we came up with. We we were, we were very concerned with the. | 00:11:08 | |
| Last joint meeting between the Council and the. | 00:11:16 | |
| The port and we did present this just today, this afternoon, to the port. | 00:11:21 | |
| And I think we came away a bit more confused because there seems to be. | 00:11:26 | |
| Push back and concerns about what the intent of these funds are for. | 00:11:32 | |
| And I would like to get. We would like to get. | 00:11:39 | |
| Some better clarity on what the agreement is about because. | 00:11:42 | |
| One of the commissioners said. | 00:11:48 | |
| And I quote that this agreement was made in 2015 as a settlement and it was a settlement between the port and the city to create a | 00:11:50 | |
| fund that would benefit the city. | 00:11:56 | |
| And the port. | 00:12:03 | |
| Organizations. | 00:12:06 | |
| Not the community. | 00:12:09 | |
| But the city and the port organizations, and that was. | 00:12:11 | |
| A little startling to me because I didn't. I mean, it's called a community benefit fund, right? So it's a little contradictory to | 00:12:15 | |
| what? | 00:12:19 | |
| Where our interpretation or our? | 00:12:23 | |
| Our perception is. | 00:12:26 | |
| And we, you know, we've been watching this process and it's been a little cumbersome and I think that we feel that. | 00:12:28 | |
| We'd like to create some structure to it so where it's clear to the public what it's for. | 00:12:37 | |
| And it's clear that it's a community benefit fund or not. And. | 00:12:43 | |
| Because it's very interesting even today and some of the topics and subjects that came up, it was a soccer team that wanted to get | 00:12:49 | |
| some funds and they wanted to get some funds for a trip because they won the Southern California soccer and. | 00:12:56 | |
| They they. Somebody asked. Is this a community benefit fund funding? | 00:13:04 | |
| And the Commission said no. | 00:13:09 | |
| So what is it for? | 00:13:12 | |
| And I think that this is where, I mean that's a great example of a good community benefit, right. So I guess I would like to get | 00:13:14 | |
| clarity and I and I think that if it's Wanimi specific, it seems to me it should be because it was part of the Waimi settlement | 00:13:20 | |
| between the port and the and the city. | 00:13:26 | |
| Then let's get that clear. And so it's not a lot of random and and small onesie twosies. And let's do something that's meaningful | 00:13:33 | |
| and impactful to our community. That's what our, our, the coalition really would like to see that we want to help. | 00:13:40 | |
| And so I just leave it at that. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:13:49 | |
| Good evening, Council. | 00:14:03 | |
| Staff members of the public to the chief. | 00:14:05 | |
| Federico and to the officers here, Good evening. My name is Lamont Hayes. I represent the Ventura County Resource Center, Started | 00:14:09 | |
| a nonprofit organization to help the community. We're having a resource fair on June 1st from 1:50 at the Boys and Girls Club of | 00:14:19 | |
| Greater Oxnard in Port Hueneme, 1900 W 5th St. in the City of Oxnard. This event is to gear everyone together. | 00:14:29 | |
| And hear about the resources that our county represents and have. | 00:14:39 | |
| So you have all the different organizations, nonprofits, the health department, the venture County Health Department will be | 00:14:43 | |
| there, public health will be there. Different departments that usually don't go to community events are coming. We worked out | 00:14:50 | |
| something with them. So you're here more about a lot of the resources that they have, the district attorney's office, we have BMX | 00:14:58 | |
| coming that's going to bring their bikes up, as well as ramps to show some skills. | 00:15:06 | |
| Which I invited BMX up to kind of talk to the Oxnard fixie crew to talk to them about safety and to really impact them as well, | 00:15:13 | |
| talk with the Highway Patrol. California Highway Patrol was bringing a rodeo until Oxnard decided they wanted to host a rave on | 00:15:22 | |
| the same day. So we have the Ox. RPD is going to come with their motorcycles and and try to do some education as well. On that day | 00:15:30 | |
| we have bikes that were donated. We have several bikes with helmets, with helmets and gear, skateboards. | 00:15:39 | |
| The event is going to be audible. They're going to have speakers throughout the space. A lot of times when you go to large events, | 00:15:49 | |
| you don't get to go and talk. | 00:15:53 | |
| There's agencies. I've sent people over there. There's also Oxnard College that's helping. So that's going to be June 1st, 1:50 at | 00:16:32 | |
| the Boys and Girls Club, 1900 W 5th St. and the city of Oxnard. Follow the signs. I'm going to put some out. Thank you. | 00:16:39 | |
| And then we have two written public comments. | 00:16:49 | |
| City Council During the last council meeting on May 6, the following statement was made from the dais at the beginning of the flag | 00:16:53 | |
| policy agenda item. | 00:16:57 | |
| I'm very happy to see that the pride flag is now part of our policy and that we will be raising the pride flag every June of every | 00:17:01 | |
| year from here on out until the policy changes and hopefully it doesn't. | 00:17:06 | |
| They should be heard before a decision is made and announced, not after. As for the new flight policy itself, hopefully a future | 00:17:44 | |
| City Council will see the wisdom in representing all of port huenemes, diverse residents equally under all inclusive city flag. | 00:17:51 | |
| Thank you and Happy Asian, American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Jeffrey Scarberry. | 00:17:58 | |
| Dear City Council members, it is with desperation that I beg you to address the ongoing issues with Miranda Park, specifically the | 00:18:08 | |
| corner of the overflow lot bordering the residential area on Beach Port Drive. This area is a hot spot for loitering, dawn to | 00:18:16 | |
| dusk, drug use, drinking, loud music, mobile mechanic work, littering, sexual activity, defecation and urination. These issues | 00:18:23 | |
| include, but are nowhere near limited to, litter being thrown or blowing all over the wall. | 00:18:30 | |
| The ongoing stench of human excrement, noise, nuisance, and even once a crack pipe being thrown over the wall shattering only feet | 00:18:37 | |
| away from a residents special needs child. People have even jumped the wall to come vandalize personal property. Our fine officers | 00:18:44 | |
| do what they can and have admittedly increased patrols, but without action patrols do not deter this behavior. The other day a | 00:18:50 | |
| complaint was made about obvious loud mechanic work in the park and PHPD, although responding quickly drove right past without | 00:18:56 | |
| doing anything. | 00:19:02 | |
| Without proper enforcement as a clear message that these actions will not be tolerated, how can we expect to change? I'm sure | 00:19:09 | |
| everyone is familiar with the quote. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. This is one | 00:19:15 | |
| of those situations. To our fine police and City Council, you are all good people. I challenge you to do something. Address this | 00:19:21 | |
| once and for all. I will be a regular at upcoming City Council meetings until change happens. Thank you for your time and | 00:19:27 | |
| consideration. | 00:19:33 | |
| Tebow, Robert, vice president of Beach Port Villas, HLA. And that concludes public comment. | 00:19:39 | |
| Can I, Eric, if I could just quickly respond to that comment. Just to note that we are aware of some issues in that parking lot | 00:19:47 | |
| area at Miranda Park. And as mentioned in the comment, we have worked with our teams to get more presence in the area and more | 00:19:55 | |
| patrols in the area and we'll continue to work on those and try to have the presence to. | 00:20:03 | |
| To stop the issue from happening or to respond if if issues keep happening. So we are working on that. We'll keep focusing on that | 00:20:14 | |
| moving forward. So we will let the resident know that as well. | 00:20:20 | |
| Thank you. | 00:20:26 | |
| We'll now move on to agenda approval for City Council. May I have a motion and a second? | 00:20:28 | |
| So moved. | 00:20:34 | |
| Thank you, Madam Clerk. | 00:20:36 | |
| All in favor. | 00:20:38 | |
| Aye, all opposed hearing none Motion passes. | 00:20:39 | |
| Thank you. | 00:20:44 | |
| Move to the conflict of Conflict of interest and Levine Act disclosures. Do any members of council have any conflicts of interest | 00:20:45 | |
| to disclose for any item on the agenda? | 00:20:50 | |
| Seeing none, we will move on to presentations. | 00:20:56 | |
| The first presentation is the Peace Officers Memorial Day and National Police Week proclamation. I have the proclamation I will | 00:20:59 | |
| read, and then we will have a few words by our Chief of Police. | 00:21:05 | |
| Peace offers a Memorial Day and National Police week May 15th, 2024 and May 12th through 18th, 2024. Whereas Congress and | 00:21:14 | |
| President of the United States have designated May 15th, 2023 as National Police Officers Memorial Day and in the week in which it | 00:21:21 | |
| falls as Police Week and whereas there are approximately 900,000 law enforcement officers serving in communities across the United | 00:21:28 | |
| States, including the dedicated members of the Port Wanami Police Department. | 00:21:35 | |
| And whereas the members of the Port Rooney Me Police Department recognizes the duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and | 00:21:43 | |
| property, by protecting them against violence or disorder, and by protecting the innocent against deception and the weak against | 00:21:48 | |
| oppression or intimidation. | 00:21:53 | |
| And whereas it is proper that we express our gratitude for the dedicated service and courageous deeds of the men and women of the | 00:21:58 | |
| Port Wanami Police Department and for the contributions they have made to the security and well-being of all people in our | 00:22:02 | |
| community. | 00:22:07 | |
| And whereas more hundred more than 20,000 law enforcement officers in the United States have made the ultimate sacrifice and have | 00:22:12 | |
| been killed in the line of duty, including sworn officers in the County of Ventura. Whereas the names of these dedicated public | 00:22:18 | |
| servants are engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC And whereas May 15th, 2024 | 00:22:25 | |
| is designated as National Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of the service and sacrifice of all officers killed in the line of | 00:22:31 | |
| duty and their families. | 00:22:37 | |
| Now, therefore, be it proclaimed the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, formally designates May 12th through May 18th, 2024 | 00:22:45 | |
| as Police Week and May 15th, 2024 as Police Officers Memorial Day in the City of Port Hueneme, and publicly salute the service of | 00:22:52 | |
| law enforcement officers in our community and in communities across the Nation. | 00:22:59 | |
| Good evening everyone and thank you. Just as was stated, May 15th is National Peace Officer Day, so it is there to memorialize our | 00:23:08 | |
| fallen officers. | 00:23:14 | |
| The 138 from last year, 59 so far this year across the country. | 00:23:22 | |
| And it's also there to honor our current peace officers and staff that serve you to today. | 00:23:28 | |
| So no Police Department can be truly effective without the support and the trust of its community. So it is much appreciated. | 00:23:35 | |
| Thank you. | 00:23:41 | |
| Thank you and can we get a picture of everyone? | 00:23:48 | |
| Some of this team that I'm very proud of up here, this incredible team. | 00:23:51 | |
| Oh, you didn't know it was a photo op? | 00:23:55 | |
| The mic. | 00:24:36 | |
| Drop the mic, Mike. | 00:24:37 | |
| Thank you. Thank you for. | 00:24:40 | |
| All right, the next presentation is the Dispatcher of the Year Awards Certificate of Recognition presented to Police Dispatcher | 00:24:48 | |
| Samantha Durant. | 00:24:53 | |
| Sam, come on up here while I talk about you and stand here awkwardly. | 00:25:02 | |
| Very proud of our dispatch team. | 00:25:08 | |
| So Samantha, AKA Sam, started her law enforcement career when she joined the Oxnard Police Explorer Program in 2013. | 00:25:11 | |
| She moved up the ranks to the position of Explorer Lieutenant. | 00:25:20 | |
| She was then hired by auctioneer PD as an intern in crime analysis while steel in a high school. | 00:25:23 | |
| Sam had several roles at Oxnard PD, including IT assistant and eventually becoming a full time traffic Services assistant and a | 00:25:32 | |
| failed trainer for that position. | 00:25:36 | |
| Due to her sincerity and teamwork with others, Sam was also a member of the police department's peer support team. | 00:25:41 | |
| Now Sam has been with Fort Worthy PD since 2022. | 00:25:50 | |
| When she was hired as a community service officer. | 00:25:54 | |
| Soon after coming on board as a CSO. | 00:25:56 | |
| Sam became part of the dispatch team as a dispatcher. | 00:25:59 | |
| She's had several challenging and exciting moments in the PHPD dispatch center. On one occasion, Sam was the primary dispatcher | 00:26:03 | |
| when our city experienced major devastating flooding in December of 2023, as you can all remember. | 00:26:10 | |
| She ended up staying over and helping during the crisis, working a 16 plus hour shift. | 00:26:19 | |
| Was one of the highest volume of calls to come into the Comm center in such a short amount of time. | 00:26:24 | |
| While at the same time. | 00:26:31 | |
| She had to dispatch coordinating police officer rescue responses and relay information to Ventura County fire. | 00:26:34 | |
| Sam was also working during a shooting homicide in our city. In that incident, Sam fielded multiple 911 calls, relayed info from a | 00:26:43 | |
| direct witness to our responding units and had to coordinate the approach of officers as the victim and the suspect were in a | 00:26:47 | |
| residential alley. | 00:26:52 | |
| On another shooting incident, Sam received a phone call from a frightened victim. | 00:26:58 | |
| Calmed and questioned the victim, while at the same time coordinating police units to the victims location as well as to the | 00:27:03 | |
| location of the fleeing suspects. | 00:27:07 | |
| When Sam was nominated. | 00:27:14 | |
| Some of her Co workers commented. | 00:27:17 | |
| That Sam was an extremely quick learner and adapted quickly to her solo environment. | 00:27:20 | |
| Sam will come in at a moment's notice and steps up when covering shifts. | 00:27:26 | |
| In order to ensure that we have enough staffing for our community. | 00:27:31 | |
| Another one said Sam is always professional, always courteous. | 00:27:37 | |
| And a few said. | 00:27:42 | |
| Sam was a pleasure to work with and it's a very good dispatcher. | 00:27:43 | |
| Sam has an associate's degree in criminal justice and also in social and behavioral science. | 00:27:48 | |
| If you paid attention to the years and the numbers that I mentioned, folks, you got to see Sam did a lot of that in her first | 00:27:55 | |
| year. | 00:27:58 | |
| It's pretty incredible. It shows the type of people we bring on board here for your community, but Sam did all that in her first | 00:28:02 | |
| year. | 00:28:06 | |
| Folks, please join me in honoring Samantha Duran is your pH. PD Dispatcher of the Year. | 00:28:10 | |
| And. | 00:28:20 | |
| From your council, your certificate of recognition presented to police dispatcher Samantha Durham. | 00:28:22 | |
| A recognition of your hard work and dedication with the City of Port Hueneme. Your devotion to the city is inspiring. Your | 00:28:28 | |
| longevity and loyalty are recognized and appreciated. | 00:28:32 | |
| Your contributions leave a footprint on the City of Port Hueneme, and it is the City Council's honor to recognize your prestigious | 00:28:36 | |
| award for Dispatcher of the Year. | 00:28:41 | |
| Did you get a photo? | 00:28:51 | |
| Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. | 00:29:11 | |
| Thank you. | 00:29:18 | |
| And our final presentation tonight is National Public Works Week Proclamation and Councilmember Gama will be reading the | 00:29:20 | |
| proclamation. | 00:29:24 | |
| I think I said earlier, there's inspiration all around us and. | 00:29:29 | |
| We've just seen it right now. Really appreciate the. | 00:29:33 | |
| Our dispatcher of the year, That's an amazing story. Thank you for serving our city and our residents. | 00:29:37 | |
| National Public Works Proclamation Advancing Quality of Life for All, May 19th through May 25th, 2024. | 00:29:44 | |
| Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities and services that are vital importance to the sustainable | 00:29:54 | |
| and resilient communities and the public health, high quality of life and well-being of the people of the City of Port Hueneme. | 00:30:01 | |
| And whereas these infrastructure, facilities and services cannot be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works | 00:30:09 | |
| professionals who are engineers, managers and employees at all levels of our government and the private sector. | 00:30:16 | |
| And the Canadian Public Works Association, be it now. | 00:31:04 | |
| Therefore be it proclaimed that the city of. | 00:31:08 | |
| That the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme do hereby designate the week of May 19th through May 25th, 2024 as National | 00:31:13 | |
| Public Works Week. We urge all citizens to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and government | 00:31:19 | |
| agencies and activities, events and ceremonies designed to play pay tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, | 00:31:25 | |
| managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our National Health, safety, and | 00:31:32 | |
| advancing. | 00:31:38 | |
| The quality of life for all here in the city of Port Hueneme. And with that I'd like to introduce our Public Works Director, Fred | 00:31:45 | |
| Camarillo. | 00:31:48 | |
| Thank you. | 00:31:53 | |
| Good evening, Mayor Council. | 00:31:57 | |
| City manager, city attorney, Members of the audience. | 00:32:00 | |
| I'd like to, on behalf of the entire department, say thank you for the recognition and the proclamation. | 00:32:05 | |
| As you are all aware, we've had quite a few things happen over the last six months that public works and everybody really that's | 00:32:13 | |
| an employee here had to respond to. We take great pride in doing what we do. I know that everybody loves doing what they do as | 00:32:20 | |
| well. | 00:32:28 | |
| We don't have anything that we've actually planned for this week. I know some agencies go ahead and and set things up where you | 00:32:37 | |
| can go, but. | 00:32:40 | |
| Some of the things that we do have that are related to public works is maybe not everybody's aware we can offer tours to the water | 00:32:44 | |
| agency. I know some of you have gone and go taking that tour to see how the water treatment plant works. Public Works is very | 00:32:52 | |
| involved in the beach festival, the Banana Festival, the Touch a Truck event. So we will be at all of those events at each of | 00:33:00 | |
| those we. | 00:33:07 | |
| Take our equipment and have people set up to be able to show how things work. | 00:33:16 | |
| What we do if there's questions on on any of this stuff that they see, we give out information. | 00:33:25 | |
| It's something that we do not just for as a part of a public works week, but more of a around the year. | 00:33:34 | |
| Notifications and presentations so people have the ability to learn more about what Public Works does and what services we have to | 00:33:42 | |
| offer. And again I'd like to say thank you for recognizing that and. | 00:33:48 | |
| Thank you. | 00:33:57 | |
| Thank you. Can we get a picture? I can get Charles and Dennis to come up to our water manager and our principal engineer. | 00:33:57 | |
| Can't review 3 just. | 00:34:31 | |
| Thank you. | 00:34:33 | |
| All right. That concludes the presentations for tonight. Now we move on to the consent calendar. | 00:34:40 | |
| We'll consider items on the consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless a council member has a request to remove | 00:34:51 | |
| an item for discussion. | 00:34:55 | |
| Does any Council member have a request to remove an item? | 00:34:59 | |
| Seeing none, may I have a second, a motion and a second? | 00:35:03 | |
| Sorry to interrupt, but we have one correction or maybe more of a well, it's a correction slash clarification that we'd like to | 00:35:07 | |
| recommend, which is on item 6 calling for the election. We had listed the positions. | 00:35:14 | |
| With of mayor and council member being up for election because we don't have an A directly elected marriage should be council | 00:35:24 | |
| member and council member up for election. So if if council can include just that correction. | 00:35:31 | |
| Motion that we can make that correction kind of a motion to approve all including the correction made to item number six. | 00:35:39 | |
| So moved second. Thank you, Madam Clerk. | 00:35:45 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed Hearing, None. Motion passes. Great. | 00:35:49 | |
| We'll now move on to public hearings, right? We're on the same one. I didn't skip anything. | 00:35:55 | |
| OK. The first item for public hearing is the update to the cannabis ordinance and that will be given by Staff Director Tony | 00:36:00 | |
| Stewart I assume. | 00:36:05 | |
| Thank you. | 00:36:10 | |
| First of all, Madam Clerk, do we have proof of publication as required by law and a complete file and report and exhibits? Yes, | 00:36:23 | |
| Madam Mayor, thank you. | 00:36:27 | |
| All yours, Mr. Stewart. | 00:36:31 | |
| All right. | 00:36:33 | |
| Thank you, Madam Mayor and members of council staff audience, this should be a fairly straightforward hearing here. | 00:36:35 | |
| As you probably remember, just three months ago we updated our ordinance based on several changes that were recommended by staff | 00:36:44 | |
| as well as the community and council as well. However, we found that there were three additional revisions that should be made to | 00:36:51 | |
| the ordinance. So the first one is to remove the requirement that employees go through the city's life scan background review. So | 00:36:59 | |
| recall this was actually changed in the implementing ordinance. | 00:37:06 | |
| Are implementing resolution, but we do need to also change the ordinance accordingly and this was basically per the Chief of | 00:37:14 | |
| Police's recommendation and it's also a great cost savings to the business owners. However, the business owners themselves and | 00:37:20 | |
| their security guards will still be required to go through the process. | 00:37:27 | |
| The second one came to us fairly recently when we had one of our. | 00:37:34 | |
| Business owners come to us and ask that they not be required to have an armed guard at their facility during business hours. Now | 00:37:40 | |
| we require those because they're part of the security plan and part of the certificate of approval process. And as the council | 00:37:47 | |
| well knows as the community, one of the reasons why our process or our program here in the city has been so successful is because | 00:37:54 | |
| of these armored guards that are present. | 00:38:00 | |
| They have statistically been proven to lower crime rates around some of our dispensaries. And so speaking with the Chief of Police | 00:38:08 | |
| and some of the other committee members that approve these applications, we determine that actually, no, we did not want to not | 00:38:14 | |
| require them and instead actually require them for the ordinance, which would be the strongest way to do so. So that's what we are | 00:38:20 | |
| recommending this evening here. | 00:38:26 | |
| And then the final one is just a cleanup of our last ordinance update. We approved the allowance for stand alone consumption | 00:38:33 | |
| lounges and we just want to make sure that the the ordinance stated that new standalone lounges had to go through the entire | 00:38:41 | |
| process and not just an update. So we just qualified that in the ordinance and so with that. | 00:38:48 | |
| The project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act and there is no fiscal impact as a result of this particular | 00:38:57 | |
| ordinance update. And with that, that concludes my presentation and open for any questions that you have. Thank you. Does council | 00:39:02 | |
| have any questions for staff? | 00:39:08 | |
| Council Member Hernandez, thank you, Mr. Stewart for your presentation. It's much appreciated. I just have a a clarified question | 00:39:14 | |
| for clarification on item one. So are we staying here that we used to require all employees to get live scanned and go through a | 00:39:21 | |
| background. So now we're just eliminating that to the security officers and and the actual business owners. And the business | 00:39:29 | |
| owners, yeah, in fact, the business owners actually have to go through 2 background processes. | 00:39:36 | |
| And that's because of these cost a couple $100 a piece and with the constant turnover, it is just very difficult for the business | 00:39:44 | |
| owners to keep track of. Understood. Thank you and then nothings really changing. | 00:39:51 | |
| On the armed guard, we're just really just saying that. | 00:40:00 | |
| We're caught up buying it. Yeah, they do need to have one and then the third one. | 00:40:04 | |
| Umm, if it's if. | 00:40:11 | |
| The lounge is attached. They don't have to have a new certificate of approval and entitlements. They go through a modified | 00:40:13 | |
| process. Yeah, as you know, Wheelhouse and Skunk Masters have already done that. It's a much simpler process for them, but a new | 00:40:20 | |
| stand alone process requires a complete analysis. So we start at the beginning with that. | 00:40:27 | |
| Thank you. Councilmember Martinez, do you have any questions? | 00:40:36 | |
| I have a question for public edification, the removal of the requirement for life scans for employees, does that will that bring | 00:40:40 | |
| up an issue with potentially who's being employed, whether or not they have a criminal background or not? Could that cause an | 00:40:46 | |
| issue since they're working in the marijuana industry? | 00:40:52 | |
| That probably be a better question for the chief of police, but their requirements of the DCC requirements are not as strict for | 00:40:59 | |
| employees as they are for the business owners. The business owners do have a criminal background and they most likely are not | 00:41:06 | |
| allowed to open the business. But I don't believe that that's the case for the employees, which is why we're recommending the | 00:41:12 | |
| change at this point. Got it. Thank you. | 00:41:18 | |
| OK, we are now going to open the public hearing and take public comment. The public hearing is now open for public comment input | 00:41:25 | |
| at 7:11 PM. Are there any public comments regarding this item? No, Madam Mayor. | 00:41:31 | |
| Thank you. | 00:41:38 | |
| Within the city, subject to regulatory parameters that protect public health, safety and welfare and make a determination, the | 00:42:13 | |
| project is exempt under Sequa. May I have a motion and a second So moved. | 00:42:19 | |
| 2nd Thank you Madam Clerk. | 00:42:26 | |
| Any further discussion before we move on for a final vote? | 00:42:28 | |
| Seeing none. Thank you. | 00:42:32 | |
| Councilmember Goma. | 00:42:34 | |
| Yes. Council Member Hernandez, Yes. Council Member Martinez, yes. And Mayor Perez. Motion passes. | 00:42:36 | |
| Thank you. | 00:42:43 | |
| The next public hearing will be the introduction of ordinances emitting sections 10802 and one 08/03 of Chapter 6 of Article 10. | 00:42:46 | |
| Of the Fort Wayne Municipal Code pertaining to development standards for accessory dwelling units and density bonus regulations, | 00:42:57 | |
| respectively. | 00:43:01 | |
| It's simpler for staff to make the necessary updates and bring them back to you with the standalone ordinances. | 00:43:39 | |
| So starting with our Adu ordinance, you'll see that I had to add the word former there, former California government code sections | 00:43:46 | |
| 65852, et cetera, set forth Adu development standards for all jurisdictions including charter cities such as ours here in the | 00:43:53 | |
| state of California. However, I was just informed a couple hours before this meeting that actually the state has already changed | 00:44:00 | |
| the statutes. They now have new reference numbers starting with 66310. And So what staff is recommending here is that the Adu | 00:44:08 | |
| ordinance be updated. | 00:44:15 | |
| Simply to state something such as an any succeeding state code sections. So if they do change in the future, we don't have to come | 00:44:22 | |
| back to you and change them. So because that's not a substantive change, we can go ahead and do that between now and the second | 00:44:28 | |
| reading at our next meeting without any further discussion. | 00:44:34 | |
| So the intent of the state law is to overcome barriers for affordable housing by providing housing choices to serve different | 00:44:40 | |
| populations. In fact, per the government code, accessory dwelling units offer lower cost housing to meet the needs of existing and | 00:44:47 | |
| future residents within existing neighborhoods, while respecting architectural character. | 00:44:53 | |
| And to ensure as much land use as possible, which is continually being stripped away from us, the City must adopt an Adu ordinance | 00:45:01 | |
| or we are required simply to abide by Allstate mandates, whether or not they would be something that was beneficial to the city. | 00:45:10 | |
| So then the ordinance has to be approved by the state's Department of Housing and Community Development, commonly known as HCD. | 00:45:20 | |
| As you probably all recall, we just recently updated our ad ordinance. It seems to happen almost annual basis at this point. | 00:45:29 | |
| And we didn't. We sent it to HD who replied back on January 24th of this year with three issues. So the former City Attorney and I | 00:45:38 | |
| met with the the HED staff a couple of times to iron out what we hope is ironing out the issues to discuss them, see where they | 00:45:45 | |
| were coming from. | 00:45:51 | |
| And therefore staff is now recommending the following three basic revisions to the ordinance to hopefully satisfy HDS comment | 00:45:59 | |
| letter. And I shouldn't say three is 2, but we'll go into that further. | 00:46:06 | |
| So the first item was to clarify the number of Adus allowed on a single family lot. | 00:46:14 | |
| Keep in mind we're talking single family lots and not multi family. | 00:46:19 | |
| The current AD ordinance allows one attached Adu plus one Junior Adu or J Adu. | 00:46:22 | |
| Per lot or one detached Adu plus one junior Adu per lot. | 00:46:30 | |
| HCD disagrees and believes that property owners should be allowed to have one Adu attached, one detached Adu plus AJADU. | 00:46:36 | |
| And they cite it for, well, basically one government code section with with four subsections A through D. | 00:46:46 | |
| Now, the city disagrees with this. We had a discussion. It was a pretty colorful discussion. | 00:46:55 | |
| For two reasons. First of all, when you read the code sections. | 00:47:01 | |
| Section A talks about single one attached Adu plus one attached junior Adu per single family lot period. | 00:47:06 | |
| Section B is 1 detached Adu plus one junior Adu per single family lot. Period. | 00:47:17 | |
| Section C moves on to multifamily dwellings and it talks about the number of attached adus that can be allowed with a multi family | 00:47:23 | |
| project period. | 00:47:28 | |
| And section D pertains to detached Adus on multifamily lots period. I mentioned the word period because there are no Ands or ORS | 00:47:34 | |
| between ABC and D. | 00:47:39 | |
| Um, so first of all, the the way that it's being interpreted versus how it actually reads per state statute is incorrect because | 00:47:47 | |
| again, it's not A + B, it's it's one or the other. | 00:47:53 | |
| The other thing where they're wrong is that C&D don't even pertain to single family lots, so a single family lot is not going to | 00:48:01 | |
| have a multi family dwelling on it and so those are completely irrelevant to the argument here. | 00:48:08 | |
| So to hopefully satisfy HCD's comments though. | 00:48:17 | |
| Staff is proposing to revise section D6. | 00:48:22 | |
| A through D of our ordinance, which is pages 5:00 and 6:00. To quote state law at this point, just simply quote the state law. | 00:48:27 | |
| That also requires us to remove our previous multi family development standards because they're now brought into this new one. | 00:48:36 | |
| And staff will just simply continue to interpret the state law as we have been. But at least it's clearly stated in our ordinance | 00:48:44 | |
| what the state requires. | 00:48:49 | |
| We're hoping that works, but. | 00:48:55 | |
| We'll see because with item number 2. | 00:48:57 | |
| It addresses setbacks, and the current ordinance basically repeats state law. In fact, it doesn't. Basically, it does. | 00:49:01 | |
| Where it talks about when you have 181, one genuine Adu per lot, they are allowed provided that, and I quote the side and rear | 00:49:11 | |
| setbacks are sufficient for fire and safety. | 00:49:18 | |
| Now, it doesn't mention any specific number such as 4 foot, setbacks, et cetera. Just as sufficient for fire and safety, this is | 00:49:26 | |
| actual state law. | 00:49:30 | |
| HCD took issue with their own state law and thought it was too subjective. | 00:49:35 | |
| So we are recommending that we add to this the words as required by the Uniform Building and Uniform Fire codes as adopted by the | 00:49:39 | |
| city. Hopefully that's objective enough because those codes actually do allow less than 4 foot setbacks depending on the the | 00:49:46 | |
| design of the, the structure basically. So for us to put in four foot would at that point be out of compliance with the state law. | 00:49:53 | |
| So we're hoping that this satisfies them by at least. | 00:50:01 | |
| Specifying which exact codes a developer would need to abide by. | 00:50:09 | |
| And then our final item is one that HCD has had some issues with in the past and that's our affordability covenant. As we | 00:50:16 | |
| discussed in the past and as I discussed at the beginning of this presentation, since ADUS are considered by state law to be an | 00:50:23 | |
| affordable type of residential unit, we require a covenant to be recorded with each Adu and it's basically an affordable housing | 00:50:31 | |
| covenant for 55 years to ensure that the units remain affordable to low income. | 00:50:39 | |
| Households Umm. | 00:50:47 | |
| Now, this does not apply to if the Adu is built for family members such as a true granny flat or a senior or a caregiver. | 00:50:49 | |
| But most are not and when HCD. | 00:50:58 | |
| Were alerted of this. They were first alerted by an out of town developer who again wanted to just come in, redevelop and you | 00:51:02 | |
| know, rent aid you out for whatever the market rate would be, basically to the detriment of the community basically. | 00:51:09 | |
| Then the second one that alerted them was a local property owner of a small apartment complex. All the units are older one bedroom | 00:51:18 | |
| units. State law actually now allows this person to build 2 detached Adus on the site and they're actually allowed to be full on | 00:51:24 | |
| three bedroom units. So you're going to have families living in there, which is great, but they don't have to pay school fees, | 00:51:30 | |
| impact fees or what not. | 00:51:37 | |
| First units before they can get the 80, the new 80 use because again, we don't want the whole place to go from flames or whatnot, | 00:52:16 | |
| so we are allowed to do that. | 00:52:20 | |
| Well, HCD took issue because they felt that our code was prohibiting. | 00:52:24 | |
| Folks from getting building permits before they had the affordability covenant recorded with the county. But if you look at our | 00:52:32 | |
| current standards, it says prior to occupancy. So folks can get a building permit, they just need to make sure that they get the | 00:52:39 | |
| covenant approved or recorded prior to us issuing the occupancy permit. So we're not recommending any changes to our code because | 00:52:47 | |
| we're already in basically in compliance with what we feel HED is saying which is just got those permits issued. | 00:52:54 | |
| So our current code allows that to happen. We'll just make sure the staff continues to allow that basically and that we don't have | 00:53:02 | |
| any confusion at the counter. | 00:53:07 | |
| And so with that. | 00:53:13 | |
| I'll move into the density bonus order. | 00:53:17 | |
| Here, so the density bonus ordinance is governed by a different section of the government code. | 00:53:20 | |
| And what it does is basically allows a developer to. | 00:53:27 | |
| Exceed the maximum density allowed in the zone, for instance. | 00:53:33 | |
| If the density is. | 00:53:37 | |
| Say 5 units per acre for a multifamily development. They may be able, depending on how many affordable units they provide on the | 00:53:40 | |
| site, they have 10 units per acre. They can double that for instance. And we went through something similar when we approved the | 00:53:45 | |
| Surfside Motel project. | 00:53:51 | |
| And it also talks about what are called concessions or incentives, which are a nice way of saying variances without having to meet | 00:53:59 | |
| the state variance requirements. And again, this is in exchange for the provision of affordable units on a project and that the | 00:54:05 | |
| developer does have to. | 00:54:11 | |
| Prove that these additions are necessary to basically finance the project. | 00:54:19 | |
| So our ordinance is a little out of date. We initially adopted it in 1999 and revised back in 2012, but since then there have been | 00:54:29 | |
| many, many changes to state login. | 00:54:34 | |
| Now, unlike Adu laws, there are no provisions for any kind of adjustments to suit local needs. We are mandated, whether we're | 00:54:40 | |
| Charter City or not, to comply with all density bonus law. | 00:54:47 | |
| But you may ask, why do we even have this? And it really is just more of a service so that you know that the developers and staff | 00:54:55 | |
| and you as the decision makers when it comes to you know what the requirements are. It's just already in our ordinance. | 00:55:02 | |
| So we did have to make quite a few revisions. The first one deals with the actual density bonus. | 00:55:10 | |
| This is on tables five and six of the red line ordinance that you had. | 00:55:17 | |
| And basically what it does now is it grants an additional amount of density depending on the type of project, the level of income. | 00:55:22 | |
| But it also requires that if, for instance, say the very low, they're on top go. It used to be 35% was the top density, now allows | 00:55:31 | |
| up to 50%. But it also requires additional affordable units to get that additional density. | 00:55:40 | |
| There are a few new. | 00:55:50 | |
| Groups in there as well, such as the foster youth, veterans, homeless persons, students, as well as 100% affordable projects. So | 00:55:53 | |
| those we all need to. | 00:55:59 | |
| Basically provide for as well at this point. | 00:56:07 | |
| The second one is a whole brand new section for our ordinance. We've never had this before because this is a recent. | 00:56:13 | |
| Requirement of the state and this allows commercial projects to have commercial density bonuses such as additional parking, | 00:56:20 | |
| additional floor area ratio, additional building height if the developer partners with a residential developer to either build | 00:56:28 | |
| affordable units on the site such as mixed-use project or at least within close proximity within the city. | 00:56:35 | |
| So we had to add a section E 4 to the ordinance, which is on pages eight and nine of the ordinance there to address the new state | 00:56:43 | |
| laws with regard to this. | 00:56:48 | |
| This will be kind of interesting. For instance, if we ever you know through the general plan we had changed say the $0.99 center, | 00:56:53 | |
| making it mixed-use. Be interesting to see if a future developer comes and wants to take advantage of something like this. | 00:56:59 | |
| The third change is a pretty quick one and that is that increases the term of affordability from 30 years to 55 years and that's | 00:57:08 | |
| that's standard for affordable projects. That's actually a good thing because it means the life of the affordable project is, is | 00:57:14 | |
| that much longer. | 00:57:19 | |
| The 4th one changes the number of concessions or incentives allowed for a project. It used to be a maximum of three. Now it's a | 00:57:26 | |
| maximum of five, but again, that if they want more concessions then it means that they have to provide more affordable units. And | 00:57:34 | |
| an example of concession again is reduced parking, reduced setbacks, additional building height or whatnot. | 00:57:41 | |
| And Speaking of increased building height, state law allows that if a project is within half mile of what they call a major | 00:57:50 | |
| transit stop, which is, for instance, the intersection of two transit lines or a bus terminal or something like that. And above | 00:57:58 | |
| and beyond everything else that the developer could ask for, they can get up to three additional stories of their building. | 00:58:06 | |
| The good news, for whiny me at least, is we have none of that. So we're. | 00:58:15 | |
| We don't have to worry about this right now, but it's still in the table, just in case. | 00:58:20 | |
| Get to that point. | 00:58:24 | |
| So we'll see. | 00:58:25 | |
| With additional development we made some time, so we'll see. | 00:58:26 | |
| And then we also are now required to address waivers. | 00:58:33 | |
| So in addition to everything else I've told you, a developer can ask for if there's anything our municipal code that would | 00:58:39 | |
| prohibit them from developing their site with all of these concessions and additional height and density and whatnot. | 00:58:46 | |
| Then they can ask for additional now they're called waivers instead concessions, but basically additional concessions or waivers | 00:58:54 | |
| to deviate from those other standards in the code. So in other words. | 00:58:59 | |
| There are there's a great loss in land use. | 00:59:06 | |
| Authorization at this point, you know we've just pretty much if the developer can prove that all of this is necessary to provide | 00:59:11 | |
| the affordable housing, they can ask for it basically and and it's very, very difficult to deny any of these regulations as as you | 00:59:18 | |
| again know from the Surfside Motel project. | 00:59:24 | |
| And so with that, the project is exempt from Sequa in two ways. First of all, in fact it kind of demonstrates how these have taken | 01:00:09 | |
| away even the power of Sequa where Adu ordinances are now statutory exempt from sequence no longer category. It's just they are | 01:00:16 | |
| flat out exempt from Sequel. And then because this this particular project will not generate any actual development, the | 01:00:24 | |
| developments that do come through will be analyzed at the time that they come through to you. | 01:00:31 | |
| It's also exempt from Sequin that regard. | 01:00:40 | |
| And that there will be no direct fiscal impact but. | 01:00:42 | |
| This increased density could feasibly increase property values, which of course increases property taxes for us. So we'll see, | 01:00:47 | |
| We'll see how that plays out in the future. And also we do have that SB 2 grant, I think you may be aware of or recall when we got | 01:00:54 | |
| that and so that's that paid for some of my time as well as Rincon's time we hired them to actually go through all the state | 01:01:01 | |
| density bonus law because there was so much of it to go through at this point, so. | 01:01:07 | |
| So that is being reimbursed by the planning grant. | 01:01:15 | |
| And so with that, I think, James, you were our city manager. Vega, you were going to mention something. Yeah. Thank. Thank you, | 01:01:21 | |
| Tony. Thank you for the presentation. I think there's no simple way to really explain all of these changes. It's very complicated, | 01:01:29 | |
| very dense. But we received a comment and Georgina will read those and we might hear some more comments. And I think some of the | 01:01:37 | |
| comments were focused on the idea of these new state mandates and. | 01:01:45 | |
| Not being not as a city, just a. | 01:01:53 | |
| And So what we're recommending and what we're proposing is intended to get us in compliance with the state's requirements. I think | 01:02:32 | |
| we heard in the presentation that some of the statutes and things have already changed. I expect that to be an ongoing theme. | 01:02:38 | |
| Every year the state is trying harder and harder to push for more Adus, more units to be built, more, more housing to be | 01:02:44 | |
| available. So I think we're going to just see every year we're going to get new requirements and it will. It'll be something we | 01:02:50 | |
| keep chasing. | 01:02:56 | |
| But I don't think the intent at this time and the impression we're trying to give isn't that we're fighting in the state, it's | 01:03:03 | |
| that we're working with them to get in compliance, but maintaining whatever local control we have, which really should be maybe | 01:03:08 | |
| our theme as we work with them. | 01:03:13 | |
| There are some cities who've tried to take a hard line with the state and have spent a lot of money to do it and so far the | 01:03:19 | |
| results haven't been very good. So it's just not a path that that we would look to take at this point. I think one thing from the | 01:03:25 | |
| recent meeting we had with the state that I thought was. | 01:03:30 | |
| So there's enough supply that, you know, costs will eventually come down. I don't know that I agree with that. When you're in a | 01:04:06 | |
| community that everybody wants to move to and everybody wants to live in and you can keep adding and people still want to keep | 01:04:13 | |
| moving. But that focus of the state mandates has sort of shifted to build as many units as possible, make the codes as easy as | 01:04:20 | |
| possible for people to build those units and that's what we're trying to. | 01:04:26 | |
| Satisfy without giving up all of our local our local control so. | 01:04:34 | |
| So with that, we recommend adopting the ordinance. | 01:05:19 | |
| I think also you mentioned Mr. City Manager was first making sure the state is happy with. | 01:05:24 | |
| The wording and you mentioned they want things built, yeah, they just want more buildings built. But we have our own priority | 01:05:31 | |
| which is affordable housing to be built. So that is also a part of our ordinance as well is still to allow the buildings to be | 01:05:36 | |
| built but to also. | 01:05:42 | |
| Keep our affordable housing and that's included in the ordinance. I think that was a good example from our meeting with the state | 01:05:49 | |
| where some of the some of the arguments over the last year I think really boiled down to the state is OK with an affordable | 01:05:55 | |
| housing covenant but. | 01:06:01 | |
| Which we think based on that conversation get us where we need to be to move forward. So thank you, Director Stewart for your | 01:06:37 | |
| presentation. Does council have any questions? | 01:06:41 | |
| Go ahead, Councilmember Gama. | 01:06:46 | |
| Thank you, Tony. Thank you. As city manager, so I think you answered my first question is, so HCD, is the state correct? Yeah, | 01:06:49 | |
| they're the agency that is state agency charged with basically regulating Adu. OK. And I could share with everybody that I don't | 01:06:57 | |
| think there's a city in California that's kind of thrilled about this. It's a mandate strips away local control and it's, you | 01:07:05 | |
| know, there's basically nothing you could do about it. | 01:07:12 | |
| But I. | 01:07:21 | |
| When we get into a situation when I heard you earlier say that the city disagrees, so when we disagree with HCD, we're we're | 01:07:22 | |
| locking horns with the state. | 01:07:28 | |
| And I know it's difficult to understand all this because I be honest with you, I don't really understand how complicated this | 01:07:35 | |
| could be, but it is very complicated. I will say that the Adus that I've seen locally around here that are. | 01:07:43 | |
| In my view, probably 3/4 of the way completed. | 01:07:52 | |
| There are very nice addition to the Big Lots that they're being put on. There's one right over here on Pleasant Valley that you | 01:07:57 | |
| know. | 01:08:01 | |
| It's great, but when I look at it, I realize affordability it's not going to. | 01:08:05 | |
| There's no way that things going to. | 01:08:11 | |
| Rent out for less than $3000 a month. I mean the rents in our area being. | 01:08:13 | |
| What they are are already extremely high and so it just kind of I don't know I don't understand how is this being deemed | 01:08:19 | |
| affordability and the only thing that. | 01:08:25 | |
| I'm a little concerned about IS. | 01:08:32 | |
| Are we obligating every ad you junior Adu attached family, to be affordable housing units? Is that what we're doing? | 01:08:35 | |
| And does that, does that. | 01:08:47 | |
| Does that diminish? | 01:08:49 | |
| Owners. | 01:08:52 | |
| Enthusiasm for building Adu. | 01:08:55 | |
| So far it has not. | 01:08:58 | |
| Like I said, the only two instances that we have are the two that I submit spoke to earlier and those are folks that are either | 01:09:01 | |
| out of town, developers or. | 01:09:06 | |
| Basically. Well, basically they're property owners and developers. These are not your your mom and pops and whatnot. And also as I | 01:09:13 | |
| mentioned, we do have exceptions already built into the ordinance for Adus that are for family members, caretakers and seniors. So | 01:09:20 | |
| they don't need to have those covenants anyway. So if somebody wants to truly build one for their family member. | 01:09:27 | |
| Such as their in laws or whatnot. They do not need to have that coming in. It's for the folks that are wanting to rent these out | 01:09:35 | |
| as an additional rental unit. And part of the reasoning behind this is that there's the assumption that. | 01:09:42 | |
| And this is actually the state's assumption and if you see, you know, the parking regulations or whatnot that they've now | 01:09:51 | |
| basically taken away. | 01:09:56 | |
| Their assumption is that people that are moving into these units are not going to require vehicles, but we know that they do and | 01:10:02 | |
| what not and especially if you are renting them out to you know, full on families and not necessarily affordable lower income | 01:10:09 | |
| families. The other thing that we found in the past too is that there you know, we are a beach community. | 01:10:16 | |
| And so if somebody builds this Adu and it's being rented out during the summer months, say for three months and they're you know | 01:10:24 | |
| renting a 5K a month or something and then they're not renting it out for the rest of the year, that is not even a family unit at | 01:10:30 | |
| that point. That's just a vacation unit. And so that is those are several of the reasons why we require the covenant for the for | 01:10:37 | |
| profit rental units. | 01:10:44 | |
| And I was going to circle back to that. So the simple answer to that first part of your questions, we do require a covenant. | 01:10:51 | |
| Subject to there's exceptions built in for specific circumstances. That is something that the that is a policy choice. The council | 01:10:58 | |
| can can look at that and revisit that, I think. | 01:11:04 | |
| Mr. Stewart gave sort of the explanation, the answer of of sort of the challenges we're seeing with it and why. | 01:11:13 | |
| You know why a lot of communities are putting those requirements in place? Because I guess to your point is. | 01:11:22 | |
| They still aren't very affordable to build. And then once you build it, people are trying to make the investment back and that | 01:11:28 | |
| means they aren't renting. You know, without those covenants in place, they don't rent, they're not naturally affordable. You | 01:11:36 | |
| know, a lot of people, I think if you own the land right now, I've heard numbers of 350 to 450,000 to build an accessory dwelling | 01:11:44 | |
| unit A an affordable unit. So if there isn't that covenant in place, my guess is it would be 3000 to $4000 a month rent or more. | 01:11:52 | |
| So, so it's it's a policy decision that the council could look at, but I think up until now and in the prior ordinances, the goal | 01:12:01 | |
| of allowing AD US was to increase affordable housing unit availability. So it's been included in the ordinance up till this point. | 01:12:07 | |
| One more question. | 01:12:13 | |
| So I really like Gill St. I love that street. The lots are huge and it's the perfect area for AD Us. It really is. Whether the | 01:12:21 | |
| owners of those properties can afford it or not, that's a separate issue, but let's just say that. | 01:12:29 | |
| The majority of those property owners are able to establish the Adu. Maybe they're doing it for retirement, for, you know, | 01:12:39 | |
| security into the future. | 01:12:43 | |
| But if if. | 01:12:49 | |
| Say 70% of those units or those lots of their very large lots. I mean, I'd love that street. | 01:12:50 | |
| Then you would have a situation where no parking. | 01:12:58 | |
| Too many people trying to live in one little area. And then what does the city do? Do we? | 01:13:02 | |
| Do we unrealistically say, well they're not going to have cars? I mean I I just feel like at some point when you have enough | 01:13:12 | |
| supply that the the cost of housing should go down. But I just don't see that happening here. And I may be wrong, but any ideas as | 01:13:18 | |
| to the affordability question down the road? | 01:13:25 | |
| Yeah, I think those are good points. We've we met, Tony myself in the public works team met and we were talking through some of | 01:13:32 | |
| the issues and there's even more than just parking and remember there's a parking item on the agenda that almost relates back to | 01:13:36 | |
| this of just. | 01:13:41 | |
| Everything's getting more dense and it's creating new parking issues, new traffic issues, line of sight issues. The more units and | 01:13:46 | |
| the more people get squeezed into smaller spaces which is just again for the record the state mandate that we don't have any | 01:13:52 | |
| option over except basically you know whether we make them de restricted and and that kind of thing. So there's challenges but we | 01:13:58 | |
| talked about some of the other challenges that people don't think about like our water system and our sewer system and if you're | 01:14:04 | |
| adding. | 01:14:10 | |
| You know, two more families per property, how long can our sewer system support that? And there's there's real challenges like | 01:14:17 | |
| that. Thankfully there are some allowances in our code and and that the state hasn't taken away yet where we can make some | 01:14:25 | |
| decisions based on if it's going to just cause our sewer system to fail, for example. But those are things that we have to start | 01:14:33 | |
| preparing for as now the state has opened this up a lot more than it used to be. | 01:14:40 | |
| I think as far as it goes to affordability. | 01:14:49 | |
| That's really like at a basic level, the policy decision at this point is I think that us and others, a lot of other cities have | 01:14:51 | |
| decided that. | 01:14:56 | |
| Or maybe even more frequently in the future. Thank you, Councilmember Hernandez. Thank you, Mayor Press. | 01:15:34 | |
| Thank you, Tony, Mr. Stewart for your report. I know this. The housing element, the general plan, all this stuff ties together and | 01:15:41 | |
| it's H. | 01:15:46 | |
| CD does not make your job very much easier. | 01:15:52 | |
| We're not alone. | 01:15:56 | |
| I know. | 01:15:59 | |
| Through my work on the committee's through Skaggs, Southern California Association of Governments. | 01:16:00 | |
| California League of Cities recently at Peacock. All cities are complaining about the heavy handedness of HCD. | 01:16:06 | |
| And I think there's even some legislation now cropping up to push back on HCD, so. | 01:16:15 | |
| I think the general feeling is they just have too much control, too much authority and it doesn't seem like for us it's an | 01:16:25 | |
| efficient way of doing business. | 01:16:31 | |
| Especially if we don't, it doesn't result in affordable homes. So I guess like there was a question in there somewhere and the | 01:16:38 | |
| question is based on their the way HCD has been working and the fact that you had a recent change before coming to this meeting, | 01:16:44 | |
| What's the likelihood that we're going to see another change before this comes back for a second reading? That's it's a very good | 01:16:50 | |
| question and one of the things I didn't mention earlier, but I will now is and Mayor Perez brought this up at the last meeting, | 01:16:57 | |
| which was. | 01:17:03 | |
| The recent strike down at the SB-9 laws for charter cities and that was, you know, it's a similar type of legislation, but it was | 01:17:11 | |
| struck, stricken down or struck down because it was not, it was too general. The way HED was interpreting it basically in the | 01:17:18 | |
| state was applying it to everybody. And I say that because looking at it from a legal point of view and even though I'm an | 01:17:25 | |
| attorney, but been around this enough to know. | 01:17:32 | |
| That, you know, really even our discussions this evening, Adu laws also are being interpreted differently by different agencies | 01:17:40 | |
| and whatnot, including HD for their own state statutes. And so it might be kind of interesting as you just mentioned that you | 01:17:47 | |
| know, there's becoming quite a bit of pushback and so we may actually see some of it go in the other direction, but I do think | 01:17:53 | |
| that. | 01:18:00 | |
| There will continue to be changes as they come through. You can always, we can always readdress. | 01:18:07 | |
| Again, the idea of whether or not we want to have those covenants. | 01:18:13 | |
| Right now we're recommending that we keep them in for the time being and see what HDD says, but at some point if they continue to | 01:18:18 | |
| push back, we will need to most likely have a discussion about what policy, which way we want to take this policy basically. Thank | 01:18:25 | |
| you for taking them to task, both you and the city manager. Much appreciated. | 01:18:33 | |
| Council member Martinez. | 01:18:42 | |
| Yes, I was going to bring up the charters that all the charter cities getting together that I saw that through SCAG and Cal's | 01:18:44 | |
| League of cities and everyone, all the charter cities coming together to push back against the state. So I was wondering are we | 01:18:49 | |
| participating in that or are we? | 01:18:53 | |
| Where are we in that regard? | 01:18:59 | |
| Well, we did send a letter of support for the pushback on the SB-9 last year. | 01:19:01 | |
| At this point there hasn't. I'm not aware of an actual push again, but if there is one, then we can again internally decide | 01:19:08 | |
| whether or not we want to support that push or not. But again. | 01:19:14 | |
| You know the push back as long as it doesn't cost us any money. | 01:19:22 | |
| You know, again, it's trying to protect our local land use authority and because you know, it's been established to ensure that | 01:19:27 | |
| our community is what it is. | 01:19:32 | |
| And to protect it. And so you know, right now the policy or at least is that we know we'll continue to at least try to protect | 01:19:37 | |
| that as long as it doesn't really become a cost for the city. Because you know, we're not a large city and we don't have the funds | 01:19:43 | |
| to fight the state, fight the state basically. Well, at least that's what we're discussing now. We'll have to again have that | 01:19:49 | |
| discussion if we do get there at some point. | 01:19:55 | |
| All right. Thank you. So I will open the public hearing and take public comment. The public hearing is now open for public input | 01:20:02 | |
| at 7:50 PM. Are there any public comments regarding this item? | 01:20:07 | |
| I have one written comment. | 01:20:14 | |
| Staff is asking the council to authorize new ordinance controlling ad use in Waimea. The current ordinance was rejected by Housing | 01:20:18 | |
| and Community Development HCD, which is a state agency controlling housing policy in California. City staff and HCD have gone back | 01:20:26 | |
| and forth over these issues, and neither side has appeared to back down. The current ordinance contains the same policies that | 01:20:33 | |
| have been repeatedly rejected by HCD. There is no reason to expect a different outcome if the current ordinance is adopted. | 01:20:40 | |
| These are the outstanding issues the ordinance requires owner occupancy. State law AB976 specifically removes the owner occupancy | 01:20:48 | |
| requirement for 80 use and keeps it for J-80 use. | 01:20:55 | |
| State law eliminates some parking requirements for ad use if there is a public transportation available within 1/2 mile. | 01:21:02 | |
| City staff interprets this to mean a major transit center. The HCD handbook clearly states public transportation, not a major | 01:21:10 | |
| transit center. | 01:21:15 | |
| One would be hard pressed to find any law in Waimea that is more than half a mile from a bus stop. | 01:21:20 | |
| The ordinance requires that homeowners rent 80 used to low income tenants for the next 110 years and demands annual reports from | 01:21:25 | |
| homeowners each CD rejected. The low income requirement requiring 80s to be rented to low income residents will limit the number | 01:21:33 | |
| of 80 US being constructed. A combination of market rate and government subsidized AD US will increase housing units. A better | 01:21:41 | |
| policy would be to end the low income requirement and offer incentives to entice builders to accept low income tenants. | 01:21:48 | |
| State law appears to limit each residential property to 280 Use an Adu and AJ Adu. The ordinance is consistent with this, however | 01:21:57 | |
| HD rejected it. Their position is at 380 use are allowed. They include one unit from the conversion of a previously permitted | 01:22:04 | |
| structure, one new built in 1J80U. The city's policy is in line with everything I have read on the subject. It is also the current | 01:22:11 | |
| policy in Ventura County. On the face of it, the city seems to be right, but it's looking like it will take litigation or | 01:22:19 | |
| legislative action to resolve the issue. | 01:22:26 | |
| In the meantime, the city's ordinance is out of compliance and may be unenforceable. | 01:22:33 | |
| Unless city staff can convince HCD to modify their demands, which seems unlikely, or city staff backs off, it appears that these | 01:22:39 | |
| issues are headed for litigation with the state. | 01:22:44 | |
| Refuses to comply with HCD may also put the city at risk for individual lawsuits for violating state law. Is this how the council | 01:22:50 | |
| wants to spend tax dollars? Seems like a better idea to create an ordinance that HCD will accept and make changes as a court sort | 01:22:57 | |
| these issues out. In other words, let municipalities with deeper pockets litigate these issues and change the ordinance as these | 01:23:04 | |
| issues are resolved in court. Thanks for listening, David Scrivener. | 01:23:11 | |
| And that. | 01:23:18 | |
| Mayor, can I just make one comment there and it would have made more sense for my comment to come after that because I sort of | 01:23:22 | |
| addressed that. But it's a lot of good points and like we said the the we really don't want to get into that situation with HCD of | 01:23:29 | |
| of potentially litigating it. I think the the three points that were mentioned and how the comment was that it looks like we're | 01:23:36 | |
| just adopting the same ordinance and we're not responding to those 3. | 01:23:43 | |
| In a very brief summary, that meeting we had was specifically on those three items and there were literally situations where one | 01:23:51 | |
| word difference. | 01:23:55 | |
| The state said that would make. | 01:24:01 | |
| So, so we're recommending. | 01:24:38 | |
| Council consider that all right. I trust you on that. You were the ones in the meeting with the state, so you understand what | 01:24:41 | |
| their. | 01:24:44 | |
| Issues were well, too as much as you can. | 01:24:49 | |
| So I will now that concludes public comment. So I will now close the public hearing, the time being 755. | 01:24:52 | |
| See if I could. | 01:25:04 | |
| State this away had it. | 01:25:05 | |
| So these are the responses from HCD to our proposed new ordinance ordinance Or are we going to pass the ordinance, kick it off to | 01:25:08 | |
| them and then be back with? | 01:25:14 | |
| It wouldn't surprise me if it comes back and there's one or two more things that they ask for, but we're we're doing what they | 01:25:57 | |
| asked. And as an example, you know, the comment was made about the. | 01:26:03 | |
| HCD says that you can have three basically Adu, Junior Adu and another Adu on each property. The staff report, we note that we | 01:26:10 | |
| disagreed with that, we met with them and we told them we disagreed with it, but we ultimately included that language in in the | 01:26:17 | |
| ordinance to satisfy that requirement. So, so that's where we are trying to to address those concerns that HCD had with the prior | 01:26:24 | |
| ordinance. So the worst case scenario here then could be that. | 01:26:31 | |
| A new manager comes to the unit that manages the City of Port Hueneme and they. | 01:26:39 | |
| Throughout the whole ordinance and say what? What are you guys thinking? Potentially. But typically the way it works is if you're | 01:26:46 | |
| making progress, they send you back a letter saying thank you for your next attempt. But here's now the two things we need you to | 01:26:52 | |
| fix for it to be in compliance. And then you go through that kind of over and over again. Seems like you're used to this. Yeah. | 01:26:57 | |
| Well, remember and you know, I don't think it was. | 01:27:03 | |
| Poor enemy was got had a fairly good Reina and so it wasn't really talked about as much here, but Reina Regional Housing Unit | 01:27:10 | |
| allocation. | 01:27:16 | |
| Was a hot topic in every other city last year, and that was the last round with HCD, where HCD was telling every city that they | 01:27:22 | |
| had to submit their housing elements with that met their Reno requirements and cities that don't build very much. We're getting | 01:27:28 | |
| huge numbers and it was scaring people because they had to basically allow for huge numbers of units to be built. So we got lucky | 01:27:34 | |
| in important e-mail. We didn't really get a lot of that pressure, but a lot of cities did. In the process was very similar to this | 01:27:40 | |
| of just kind of working. | 01:27:46 | |
| Submittal by submittal to get closer to getting it approved and then finally getting approved. So I think we're in that process | 01:27:52 | |
| and we've told, I think the last meeting we had, we got those last three hiccups out of the way as long as nothing changes between | 01:27:58 | |
| now and then. So I think our number was 125. | 01:28:04 | |
| But still, where are we going to put 125? | 01:28:13 | |
| To the comment earlier about you know. | 01:28:17 | |
| Does the affordable affordability covenant impact demand of 80 use? We're seeing the highest number of ad use applied for that | 01:28:20 | |
| we've seen and I think it was 50 something last year. | 01:28:25 | |
| Close to that, yeah. So that's that's a lot for us in the past before the last couple years is probably single digits is my guess. | 01:28:30 | |
| OK. No further comment. I might Mayor. You know keep in mind these statutes are written for big cities, not just communities and | 01:28:39 | |
| they're not, they're not geared towards a unique community like this. So they don't really apply very well. I think what staff has | 01:28:44 | |
| done is written an ordinance that accommodates their needs whether or not HD is going to come back with something else. They are | 01:28:49 | |
| changing their minds continually. So no, I was in a SCAG meeting and we were everybody was up in arms and discussing their numbers | 01:28:55 | |
| and I recall. | 01:29:00 | |
| I was thinking. | 01:29:07 | |
| I am in a city with no land or landlocked by an ocean, a base and another city. What am I going to do, start building into the | 01:29:08 | |
| ocean? We're going to create a harbor, have some houseboats out there. I mean, what are we going to do? Yeah, like, but our | 01:29:15 | |
| council years ago, when they tried to build up, depending on where it was, they said no. You know, people said no who had vacation | 01:29:22 | |
| homes, didn't want their views blocked. It's like, what do we do? But anyway, thank you. No further questions by council. | 01:29:29 | |
| All right, seeing none, we will close the public hearing, the now time being 7:59 PM. | 01:29:37 | |
| We have a recommendation before us to introduce the first reading by title only, waiving further reading of an ordinance entitled | 01:29:43 | |
| An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, CA. Amending Section 10802 of Chapter 6 of Article 10 of the Port | 01:29:50 | |
| Hueneme Municipal Code pertaining to Development Standards for Accessory Dwelling Units and Introduced for First Reading by title | 01:29:58 | |
| only. Waiving further reading of an ordinance entitled An Ordinance of the City Council of the City Port Hueneme, CA. | 01:30:05 | |
| Amending Section 10803 of Chapter 6 of Article 10 of the Port Hueneme Municipal Code pertaining to density bonus requirements and | 01:30:13 | |
| make a determination The project is exempt from under Sequa. May I have a motion and a second? | 01:30:19 | |
| I'll move. | 01:30:28 | |
| Don't you guys go? I'll go at first at once, guys. | 01:30:33 | |
| 2nd, 2nd thank you. | 01:30:37 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 01:30:40 | |
| Madam Clerk, we please take a vote. | 01:30:43 | |
| Councilmember Goma. | 01:30:45 | |
| I don't like state mandates and what we heard from our city attorney, this was not written for small cities, but unfortunately I'm | 01:30:50 | |
| going to have to support our staff and vote yes. | 01:30:55 | |
| Council member Hernandez. | 01:31:01 | |
| Council member Martinez. | 01:31:03 | |
| Yes, yes, motion passes. Thank you. | 01:31:05 | |
| Moving on to business items. | 01:31:11 | |
| The first business item is the Panama Street parking concerns an option for stop sign installation. Will staff please present the | 01:31:15 | |
| report? | 01:31:19 | |
| Thank you. We'll have a brief presentation. | 01:31:24 | |
| This item actually kind of fits after the last item because it's part of what we're trying to do is knowing that these changes are | 01:31:28 | |
| coming, knowing that some of these state mandates are coming. We're starting to look. | 01:31:35 | |
| Proactively at some things that we. | 01:31:42 | |
| Might have to start thinking about a little differently. And as an example, you know as units get added into properties, as lot | 01:31:45 | |
| splits are allowed by the state and people can can split their lots and add more units, we are going to start seeing some parking | 01:31:53 | |
| impacts. We're going to start seeing like sort of state mandated densification and so. | 01:32:02 | |
| We wanted to start looking proactively at that and our public works department and and I and Mr. Stewart had met and we had talked | 01:32:11 | |
| about some of these impacts and we talked about coming up with some ideas and one of those was a stop sign. | 01:32:20 | |
| Process that would allow for a situations where the city could install stop signs where in the past maybe they weren't necessary | 01:32:30 | |
| or weren't. | 01:32:33 | |
| Weren't required or justified, and so our city code allows. | 01:32:39 | |
| Us to install stop signs for in special circumstances if it's approved by the council. And so we put together a policy to try to | 01:32:45 | |
| start identifying when and how we're going to do that. So with that, I'll introduce Charles Cable, our Principal Engineer for the | 01:32:53 | |
| city, to give a little bit more detail. | 01:33:01 | |
| Hello. OK. | 01:33:12 | |
| Good evening, Madam Mayor, Council members and the general public. | 01:33:13 | |
| James summarized it pretty well, but I have a little presentation here to go over how this came about in the Panama St. area. | 01:33:18 | |
| And some of the parking restrictions we're going to be facing in the future. | 01:33:25 | |
| In the spring of 2023, we received a complaint about sight distance being impacted by parked cars at Panama St. intersecting with | 01:33:31 | |
| AB and C St. | 01:33:35 | |
| Sight distance is the distance needed for minimum visibility of drivers on a side street to see oncoming traffic to pull out | 01:33:41 | |
| safely into an intersection. | 01:33:44 | |
| When we receive the complaint, we hired a contract traffic engineer to investigate the area and they provide a recommendations | 01:33:49 | |
| that included paying the curb bread to increase site distance in the summer of 2023, The Streets crew. | 01:33:56 | |
| Where it was deployed to start painting the curbs red for the recommendations. As they were painting the curbs, the complaints | 01:34:03 | |
| started to roll in. | 01:34:06 | |
| The complaint had to do with the red curves affecting the parking, so we instructed the streets crews to immediately hold off | 01:34:11 | |
| painting the curb as we reevaluated the intersections. | 01:34:15 | |
| The primary concern is always safety for pedestrians and vehicles. However, we are sensitive to the parking issue in the | 01:34:25 | |
| neighborhood, so we had the traffic engineer come back and reevaluate the red curb. His evaluation indicated that we could | 01:34:31 | |
| potentially use stop signs to increase the site distance and remove some of the red curb. | 01:34:37 | |
| The stop signs could be installed per standard operating procedures that are included in your packet and in those procedures they | 01:34:44 | |
| outlined where we can install stop signs and how to remove them after an evaluation period and that's what we're presenting as a | 01:34:49 | |
| recommendation today. | 01:34:54 | |
| So if we were to install stop signs, per the recommendation, we would remove 40 feet of red curb on B Street and install stop | 01:35:04 | |
| signs at B Street and Clara. | 01:35:09 | |
| So while we were reevaluating the intersections, California passed a before 13, also known as the daylighting law. | 01:35:17 | |
| Reaffirming our finding for increasing sight distance at intersections for safety reasons. | 01:35:24 | |
| The law prohibits parking within 20 feet of any marked or unmarked crosswalk. | 01:35:29 | |
| The state continues to implement regulations that increase densities in neighborhood like like this. | 01:35:34 | |
| Via the Adu and Density Bonus Ordinance. | 01:35:41 | |
| So the the law came into effect. | 01:35:45 | |
| Beginning of the year and. | 01:35:47 | |
| Whether the curbs are marked red or not. | 01:35:51 | |
| Motorists are not are prohibited from parking at the intersections within 20 feet. | 01:35:55 | |
| So we have looked at solutions to address the parking issues in the neighborhood while still also addressing the original | 01:36:00 | |
| complaint. | 01:36:04 | |
| So. | 01:36:09 | |
| Here. | 01:36:11 | |
| So we have looked at the solution. OK, sorry. | 01:36:17 | |
| If City Council elects to add stop signs, then we can add an additional 60 feet of parking on Panama. The City manager and the | 01:36:20 | |
| public Works Director also worked with the naval base to remove street parking and restrictions on San Pedro. | 01:36:26 | |
| Netting an additional 40 spaces for the neighborhood. | 01:36:32 | |
| If we install the stop signs on B Street, we'll be allowed to remove the red curb. | 01:36:36 | |
| And the recommendation is that the City Council consider whether to approve an 18 month demonstration installation of the stop | 01:36:41 | |
| signs for four way stop control at Panama St. intersecting with Clara and B Street. | 01:36:47 | |
| And that concludes the presentation. | 01:36:56 | |
| Thank you. Does Council have any questions for staff? | 01:36:58 | |
| Did you say it was going to take 18 months? We're going to evaluate it for the first six months and per the procedure, we're going | 01:37:04 | |
| to look at if there's an increase in car accidents since the red curbs were installed, there's only been one on Panama Street. I | 01:37:11 | |
| couldn't pull the exact cause of the accident because the sword system was down. That's where we report our traffic collision | 01:37:18 | |
| data. But since August, there's only been one in the prior years was in 3/20/22 and 20/21. There's been three on Panama St. | 01:37:25 | |
| So the the process would be kind of the next steps is if council approves this policy, we'd bring a resolution back at we're | 01:37:33 | |
| aiming for the next council meeting to actually install the ones at the Panama location. There has to be a resolution approved by | 01:37:39 | |
| council to be. | 01:37:45 | |
| Satisfy our code requirements that it be council approved. So we would install the stop sign after that's approved as quickly as | 01:37:52 | |
| possible and then the six months and the 18 months is when we would we would have a review if there's any accidents. | 01:38:00 | |
| So we, you know if there is any sign that it wasn't safe, we would bring it back and and review that and consider it. That's | 01:38:08 | |
| correct. | 01:38:11 | |
| I saw some audience participation in regards to that accident. I think the gesture was that it may have been a drunk driving a. | 01:38:16 | |
| OK. | 01:38:27 | |
| OK, umm. | 01:38:29 | |
| So does that the fact that the accident was the result of drunk driving, does that take it out of the equation or how does that? | 01:38:30 | |
| We can't. We're not getting you on the recording. Do you want to come up and speak at the podium? | 01:38:39 | |
| No problem. | 01:38:51 | |
| We have a lot of red painting that we started painting down the roads. Some of them are more than the 20 foot law that came into | 01:39:22 | |
| effect. | 01:39:26 | |
| So my big concern that it's not necessarily that there's no visibility, its speed. So if we can slow down the traffic with some | 01:40:08 | |
| stop signs, I think that can help some of the safety issues on that street. | 01:40:13 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. | 01:40:19 | |
| Any further questions for council? | 01:40:22 | |
| Seeing none. | 01:40:25 | |
| And we have no public comments on this item. | 01:40:27 | |
| No, thank you. | 01:40:31 | |
| So the recommendation is to consider whether to approve an 18 month demonstration installation of stop signs for multi waste stop | 01:40:33 | |
| control at Ponona. | 01:40:37 | |
| Panoma. | 01:40:43 | |
| Intersecting with Clara and B street. May I have a motion and a second? | 01:40:45 | |
| Thank you, Madam Clerk. | 01:40:52 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 01:40:55 | |
| Hearing none motion passes. Thank you, Charles. | 01:40:59 | |
| The next item up is the fiscal Year 2022 to 23 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. | 01:41:06 | |
| Staff, please present the report. | 01:41:14 | |
| Yeah, I'm going to introduce Lupe, and this time I'm going to try not to spoil the presentation like I think I just did with with | 01:41:16 | |
| Charles. I stole his Thunder. | 01:41:20 | |
| The this is our annual comprehensive financial report. It used to be called the *****. People might remember. I think they | 01:41:26 | |
| switched used to be comprehensive annual financial report. Now it's annual comprehensive financial report. But really what it what | 01:41:31 | |
| it is without the acronyms is. | 01:41:36 | |
| Yeah, I know I don't. I can't say it yet. So but what is what? It's what it is, is at the end. | 01:41:43 | |
| When we closeout A fiscal year and the fiscal years are confusing because they don't line up with our calendar years. So in this | 01:41:49 | |
| case, we closeout our fiscal year that ended. | 01:41:53 | |
| June 30th, 2023 and then it gets closed and then we hire an auditor to come audit us and make sure we did everything appropriately | 01:41:57 | |
| and then we get our used to be ****** now it's an acker I guess and basically they'll identify if there's any issues, any problems | 01:42:05 | |
| and they'll and then it also kind of summarizes our financial position. So I will introduce our Finance Director who's going to | 01:42:13 | |
| walk us through now that we're complete what the findings were and what are position is. | 01:42:21 | |
| Thank you. | 01:42:29 | |
| Didn't sound like it. | 01:42:34 | |
| OK. Good evening, Mayor and council and staff and members of the public. So we have two parts to this presentation. The first part | 01:42:36 | |
| is typically presented by the outside audit firm who conducts the audit and then I have a short presentation, just a couple slides | 01:42:44 | |
| just to summarize internally from our staff and city perspective on the audit. So with that, I'm going to pass it on to Adam Guys, | 01:42:51 | |
| he is the audit partner on the OR was the audit partner on this engagement. | 01:42:59 | |
| And I'm going to be going, he's going to be going through the slides and he is. They're working on getting him up. OK. So I don't | 01:43:07 | |
| know if you want to start with yours or just give him a couple minutes. I'll give him a couple of minutes and I know he's going to | 01:43:15 | |
| talk about briefly mention this. This is the first year that this audit firm is doing the audit for the city. It is. | 01:43:22 | |
| Normal practice and recommended that we change auditors every three to five years to maintain that independence. | 01:43:31 | |
| Therefore, last time it was the **** group that did it for I think they did two terms, three-year terms and then we did an RFP. So | 01:43:38 | |
| we brought Moss, Levy and hard time on. So we have two more years for the audit. So this was the first year that they conducted | 01:43:43 | |
| the audit. | 01:43:48 | |
| Can we ask about the auditing firm or is that? | 01:43:57 | |
| Not appropriate. | 01:44:00 | |
| What is your? Do you have an opinion on? Is there a difference between this one and the previous one we used? We did an RFP, so we | 01:44:03 | |
| got a good number, I'm going to say about 10. | 01:44:07 | |
| Responses to the RFP and we selected the firm based on. | 01:44:14 | |
| Knowledge everything else that we had on the in the RIP requirements. One of them was knowledge of minutes smaller municipality, | 01:44:19 | |
| city similar to ours. And so the auditors were on site. The last audit form wasn't so that was a big plus. So when they did all | 01:44:26 | |
| the audit testing they came on site twice. Their firm is based at least Adam is out of Santa Maria, so it's not that far. So they | 01:44:33 | |
| were able to come and bring their their team to do the audit. OK, thank you. | 01:44:40 | |
| OK, he's, he's here. | 01:44:48 | |
| Hi, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. | 01:44:53 | |
| Hi. So yeah, my name is Adam Geiss. I was the partner in charge of the the Cities audit this year. | 01:44:58 | |
| We came out the city two separate times during the year to do our audit procedures. The first time we came out, we were | 01:45:06 | |
| concentrating on looking at the city's internal controls, reviewing the various processes for how payroll is run, how receipts are | 01:45:12 | |
| taken in, how checks are cut for disbursements and approved. And then the second time we came out, we did more of the traditional | 01:45:18 | |
| auditing work. | 01:45:25 | |
| Where we get all the balances from the the city's financial system and then we go through. | 01:45:32 | |
| All the backup documentation and and find supporting information to support those balances. So what is here is the final financial | 01:45:40 | |
| statement audited report that the Ackford is how it's called now. | 01:45:48 | |
| And this is for the fiscal year ended June 30 of 2023. | 01:45:58 | |
| And so there was just a few things that I wanted to go through. I don't know if you have the PowerPoint in front of you. We do. | 01:46:08 | |
| Yes, we're on the first slide. | 01:46:12 | |
| OK. | 01:46:18 | |
| So again, I was a partner in charge for Moss leaving Hearts Time and this was our first year of engagement with the city. | 01:46:19 | |
| And. | 01:46:30 | |
| We were able to do all of our audit procedures, get all the backup from staff I. | 01:46:31 | |
| And we were satisfied with all the numbers that are presented here in the report and therefore we are issuing an unmodified audit | 01:46:38 | |
| opinion, which is the best type of audit opinion. | 01:46:45 | |
| One thing that I wanted to point out is there was a new. | 01:46:54 | |
| Gatsby pronouncement, you know every few years there seems to be some new pronouncement that has a large impact on the | 01:46:59 | |
| governmental financial statements. For the year ended June 30th of 2023, Gatsby 96 was the new one. Basically what it is is | 01:47:07 | |
| looking at long term. | 01:47:14 | |
| Agreements for like computer software subscriptions. | 01:47:23 | |
| And instead of reporting those as just expenditures, whenever they're the annual payments or monthly payments or whatever they are | 01:47:29 | |
| are paid, it actually creates A liability that goes on to the the city's books and then that liability is lowered as the payments | 01:47:36 | |
| are made until the. | 01:47:43 | |
| The terms of the subscription are. | 01:47:51 | |
| So this actually added about $1.6 million worth of liabilities to the books in this last fiscal year. | 01:47:55 | |
| And it was kind of similar treatment to what the Gatsby 87 did for for city leases in the previous fiscal year. | 01:48:03 | |
| And then when we were out there doing all of our our audit procedures, we reviewed all the internal controls and it looked like | 01:48:15 | |
| all the internal controls were well set up and that they were operating as intended. So we don't have any significant audit | 01:48:22 | |
| findings to report to the council today. | 01:48:29 | |
| The next. | 01:48:39 | |
| Page. | 01:48:41 | |
| Did we skip a slide there? | 01:48:48 | |
| I put it back the pension, liability and payments. | 01:48:52 | |
| Up OK. | 01:48:56 | |
| So one of the major changes this year that you'll notice in the cities liability section is the net pension liability. | 01:49:00 | |
| In the fiscal year ended 2022, the miscellaneous and safety plan added up to about $22.3 million worth of of pension liability. | 01:49:12 | |
| For the fiscal year presented here, 2023, that number jumped by over $17.2 million. | 01:49:21 | |
| To 39.6 million. | 01:49:33 | |
| What we're what's happening here is the pension liability calculations are done looking at long term costs of all of your current | 01:49:37 | |
| all of your current current employees, all of your current retirees and how those costs are going to affect the city's books in | 01:49:46 | |
| the future. And those calculations are highly sensitive to how CalPERS is doing with its investment. | 01:49:55 | |
| And in addition to that, CalPERS does everything on kind of a one year lag. So when you're looking at the fiscal year 2023, that's | 01:50:06 | |
| based off of how CalPERS investments did as of June 30th, 2022, which at the time the stock market was not doing very well. | 01:50:15 | |
| And that is the major reason why there was a large increase in the liability. | 01:50:27 | |
| I can report that in the next fiscal year. So in the fiscal year that's ending this next June, that liability will decrease some | 01:50:34 | |
| because the investments did fare quite a bit better in the year ended June 30th, 2023. So again there the city has control over | 01:50:42 | |
| some portions of the pension liability. | 01:50:50 | |
| But that number is is highly subject to changes in CalPERS investments as well as assumptions at CalPERS I. | 01:50:59 | |
| If you want to look at, so while the liability was almost 40 million, if you want to look at the amount that was actually paid to | 01:51:09 | |
| CalPERS for city employees, you can see that that number went from about 3.8 million to about 4.4 million. So it's a significant | 01:51:16 | |
| number, but it is just a fraction of that liability calculation. | 01:51:23 | |
| A few other items that I wanted to mention. The Ng project was a large construction project that was completed during that fiscal | 01:51:39 | |
| year and all of the work that was done on the project was done through the city's capital projects funds and when the project was | 01:51:48 | |
| completed, a portion of the project itself as well as some of the the liabilities that were. | 01:51:57 | |
| Obtained to In order to do the construction, we're allocated out to the various enterprise funds, the water, the wastewater and | 01:52:07 | |
| solid waste funds in order to more accurately report how those funds use. | 01:52:15 | |
| The, the Ng project, so if you look at the capital asset notes and the long term liability notes, you'll notice that there was | 01:52:24 | |
| some movement of of the capital assets and movement of the related debt from the government activities to the business type | 01:52:31 | |
| activities and that was what what was happening there. Another thing that I wanted to point out just in the accounting, the | 01:52:39 | |
| internal service funds were effectively closed by the end of the year. | 01:52:46 | |
| So they were reduced all the way down to 0 net position as the city was restructuring its accounting system for implementation of | 01:52:54 | |
| the new citywide accounting system and decided to move those internal service funds into the general fund. | 01:53:04 | |
| Any. | 01:53:17 | |
| Questions or or anything to report. I just wanted to say that while we were out at the city, we were able to get everything that | 01:53:20 | |
| we wanted from the city. And I know it's it's a lot of work on city staff to maintain their normal duties while getting everything | 01:53:26 | |
| that that we're asking them for. And I appreciate all the hard work by city staff to keep things organized and get us all the | 01:53:33 | |
| information needed so that the audit could be completed. | 01:53:39 | |
| Adam, I think there's the one last slide is the general fund balance. | 01:53:47 | |
| I just put it up, I think it skipped it. OK, OK. | 01:53:53 | |
| Going back to the general fund, so the general fund had a total ending fund balance of 47.7 million during the year, which was an | 01:53:59 | |
| increase of over 2 million from the prior year of the fund balance. Though there are a few different portions that are either | 01:54:08 | |
| committed, which is the reserves for fiscal policy of about 18.3 million and what that means is that. | 01:54:18 | |
| Those monies were specifically set aside by council action into different reserves. | 01:54:27 | |
| 2.2 million was officially restricted and that was mostly in the Parr's trust fund that that money is sitting in the general fund | 01:54:34 | |
| but is not available for for use other than for the specific purpose and then there is a large advance payable. | 01:54:43 | |
| Between the general fund and the water fund for 11.3 million and that balance sits in non spendable fund balance. So at the end of | 01:54:55 | |
| June 30, 2023, the unassigned fund balance was about 15.9 million of the total general fund balance. | 01:55:04 | |
| All right. Thank you so much. Just council have any questions for staff for presentation? | 01:55:16 | |
| Council Member Gomez, thank you. | 01:55:22 | |
| I'm sorry, I did. I forgot your name. Adam. Adam. Thank you. Apologize for that. Adam. Adam, did our unfunded position with the | 01:55:25 | |
| unfunded liability pension obligation go down or up? | 01:55:32 | |
| Off the top of my head, I'm not sure. | 01:55:43 | |
| That number does have quite a large percentage interest rate assigned by CalPERS to it. You know, ideally it's going down over | 01:55:47 | |
| time, but it just depends on on CalPERS calculations as they update them and off the top of my head I don't remember how that | 01:55:54 | |
| number changed from the prior year. | 01:56:01 | |
| I think Lupe can probably answer, and I'm going to guess that it went up. | 01:56:10 | |
| It's mostly because like Adam mentioned is the interest rate. So when you look at 2022, we were using reports from the prior year | 01:56:14 | |
| when we had that really strong return. I think it's 21%. So that was the biggest factor impacting the the pension liability. | 01:56:22 | |
| Yeah. But I'm just trying to gauge overtime, are we closing the gap or is it just widening on us? And part of the reason why I was | 01:56:30 | |
| saying, I would guess, I was guessing it went up as we had that our unfunded pension liability specialists come present to council | 01:56:38 | |
| a couple months ago. And if you remember, they showed that chart and it showed that for a few more years our costs are going to be | 01:56:45 | |
| rising and then I forgot the years at 2030. | 01:56:53 | |
| Council Member Hernandez, do you have any questions? | 01:57:38 | |
| Just one quick question. Thank you, Mrs. Mrs. Sarah for your presentation and thank you, Adam. Was this the first time we've done | 01:57:41 | |
| an audit since we implemented the new financial management system? | 01:57:48 | |
| Actually the audit, it was still done in the legacy system. This will be the new one in 2024. Thank you. | 01:57:55 | |
| Councilmember Martinez. | 01:58:05 | |
| Questions. No. OK. Thank you. | 01:58:07 | |
| Thank you. It looks like here that we have an unqualified clean audit opinion. So what are the different audit opinions? What are | 01:58:09 | |
| the How do they range? | 01:58:14 | |
| I can take that one. So this is an unmodified audit opinion. It used to be called unqualified. Why they changed the terminology, | 01:58:23 | |
| I'm not quite sure, but the other types of audit opinions, there's an adverse opinion that means that we that the auditor looked | 01:58:30 | |
| at your books and knows that there is an inaccuracy that's being reported in the financial statements. | 01:58:37 | |
| Or a no opinion. | 01:58:46 | |
| Is where their auditor is unable to obtain enough information to support some of the balances that are presented in the financial | 01:58:50 | |
| statements, so the auditor cannot. | 01:58:55 | |
| Basically, cannot rely on some of the numbers in the statements and then the last type would be a qualified opinion where the | 01:59:02 | |
| auditor was able to obtain supporting documentation and agrees with the majority of the balances in the financial statements. | 01:59:10 | |
| Except for something that's that's noted. Whereas the unmodified opinion means that the auditor was able to complete their work | 01:59:18 | |
| and I. | 01:59:22 | |
| And the numbers presented are reliable. | 01:59:29 | |
| So that means we've got a A+ plus. | 01:59:32 | |
| Correct. Were there any suggestions that you had that you? | 01:59:35 | |
| Advised to staff to make things better easier. I'm really unfamiliar with audit how audits work, but was there any? | 01:59:42 | |
| Helpful tips, suggestions that were given or anything like that that happened in this. | 01:59:49 | |
| Conversation. Or was it just you primarily going through the books to look at everything? | 01:59:54 | |
| Yeah, no, it's a two way process as we're going through especially with the controls testing. You know as we go through we're | 01:59:58 | |
| we're trying to figure out why the city is doing things in certain ways and we're talking through that with staff and a lot of | 02:00:05 | |
| minor recommendations are made at that point directly to staff. If there was anything that we deemed to be significant then it | 02:00:13 | |
| would be reported in a letter to the to the City Council and as as I mentioned earlier there was no significant audit findings. | 02:00:20 | |
| Great. Well, good job all around staff and. | 02:00:27 | |
| Adam, though no further questions from Council then. Are we moving on to Mrs. Arrows brief report? Yes, thank you, Adam. Thank | 02:00:30 | |
| you. | 02:00:35 | |
| Thank you. | 02:00:42 | |
| My presentation is brief and I just want to continue basically what where Adam we left off at the end of fiscal year 2023. So it's | 02:00:49 | |
| a quick summary of what Adam just mentioned. We are happy that we received an unmodified opinion is a clean opinion. Again the | 02:00:57 | |
| auditors were here twice and finance staff and other staff in the city as well. So I want to thank all the departments. | 02:01:06 | |
| Work with the auditors to provide all the information that they needed. I think that's key in getting. | 02:01:16 | |
| For them to understand and review all of what they need to review to do their work. | 02:01:20 | |
| In in 2023, so I wanted to point this out, that's important. The city and council approved the capital general fund capital | 02:01:27 | |
| investment reserve policy. Even though that was approved in fiscal year 2024, we still hadn't closed officially closed the books | 02:01:35 | |
| and we were able to transfer the initial funding into that reserve of 1,000,005. | 02:01:42 | |
| So that is represented in the 2023 financials because we were able to still do that in fiscal year 2023. | 02:01:50 | |
| And then the last point that I wanted to make is in regards to the unassigned fund balance that Adam pointed out part of the | 02:01:57 | |
| auditor financials at the end of 2020, fiscal year 2023 was 15.8 million and that's what's shown on the Aqua. On the report we | 02:02:04 | |
| did, he did mention that we transfer some funds. So the one fund that was significant that we transferred that was always funded | 02:02:10 | |
| if there was a shortfall would be funded from general fund was the fleet and risk and those are now part of the general fund. So | 02:02:17 | |
| we we they're separate divisions. | 02:02:23 | |
| So we still want to track them because they have their separate costs, but there they were when we came and started migrating to | 02:02:30 | |
| the new Tyler system, it was easier from on a county standpoint and and simpler to just make a division under general fund. So | 02:02:38 | |
| that's what he was referring to that. Then we had some other fun small ones, one that I can point out was the RDA bond proceeds, | 02:02:45 | |
| the redevelopment agency, if those loans, the obligations were satisfied in 2023 and we just had some small. | 02:02:53 | |
| Fund balance that we're going to utilize restricted for capital projects of 260,000 and instead of just keeping that fund open, we | 02:03:01 | |
| brought that over to general fund. | 02:03:06 | |
| So with that said, it's about 1.1 million that's restricted, it's in that 15,000,000 but we know it's not general fund | 02:03:11 | |
| unrestricted. We have to, we have, we're using it for specific purposes and that's what I wanted to show here kind of like A roll | 02:03:20 | |
| forward of what Adam mentioned. This first slide just shows the unassigned fund balance in fiscal year 2122, it was 16.7 million. | 02:03:28 | |
| Physical year 2223 which is the audit period that we just finished adjusted for that 1.1 million is 14.7 million. | 02:03:36 | |
| And then and 2324, I'm so sorry, that should be 2324, not 2425. It's 6.5 million and that's because there was an appropriation by | 02:03:45 | |
| council for the bubbling springs. So that's the significant drop into this fiscal year and this kind of shows the same | 02:03:52 | |
| information. | 02:03:59 | |
| Just. | 02:04:08 | |
| In a different format, but we started with a 14.7 million and then the 4.8 was committed, has been committed for bowling springs | 02:04:09 | |
| and then the 1.5 as well is going to be part of that reserve and then. | 02:04:16 | |
| There's other transfers and there was other CIP and and this year capital in 24 that's also being transferred or you or the | 02:04:25 | |
| unassigned is being used to fund those projects. We transferred to their reserves every year. So we have committed resource for | 02:04:31 | |
| stability economic reserve which is 6 months of operations and every year we do a true up. And so that's what I mean by that 1.9 | 02:04:37 | |
| that there's adjustments. So every year we adjust that and and we make that equal 6 months. So we have to transfer from | 02:04:44 | |
| unassigned. | 02:04:50 | |
| We transfer that at that time and right now the estimated unassigned. | 02:04:56 | |
| As of now is 6.5 million and we'll be bringing that to council when we do the revised budget in two weeks. | 02:05:03 | |
| So we'll have that and we'll have 2425. | 02:05:11 | |
| Any questions? | 02:05:17 | |
| Council have any questions for Mrs. Arrow? | 02:05:19 | |
| OK. Seeing none. Thank you. Thank you. | 02:05:23 | |
| So we are going to move on to public comments. Are there any public comments regarding this item? No, Madam Mayor. Thank you. | 02:05:28 | |
| Seeing no further comments or questions from Council. | 02:05:36 | |
| This is a receive and file, so no action or vote is going to be taken, so we'll move on to the next item. | 02:05:40 | |
| Which is city manager comments and reports. | 02:05:45 | |
| Thank you, Mrs. Cero. | 02:05:49 | |
| Thank you. I have a few things today. I'll try to keep them quick. | 02:05:52 | |
| 1st we have a few. | 02:05:57 | |
| Happenings that we wanted to let people know about first and we'll be posting some some things on social media in the next couple | 02:06:00 | |
| days on this. But one week from today, we have our first annual Memorial Day event at Wanami Beach and at our Wanami Pier at 8:30 | 02:06:07 | |
| in the morning. Everyone's invited to that event and we'll be posting information on the program and and what we're going to be | 02:06:15 | |
| doing. | 02:06:22 | |
| But we just wanted to let everybody know that is the first Memorial Day event one week from today at 8:30 in the morning at Waimea | 02:06:30 | |
| Pier and so. | 02:06:34 | |
| Put that on your calendar if you're interested in attending. A couple of items related to, we had some storm damage over at the | 02:06:40 | |
| Recreation Center and the Community Center and a couple of the classrooms there. And the good news is little by little we're | 02:06:48 | |
| getting those buildings back reopened. The teen center has officially reopened and they are back on site using that facility. Our | 02:06:55 | |
| classrooms have reopened and those are back. | 02:07:03 | |
| Being used for programming. | 02:07:12 | |
| Currently the kind of the last phase there is we're working on the office and the auditorium and so those are in progress now and | 02:07:15 | |
| we're hoping to to make progress on the the offices in the next a couple of weeks. And then the auditorium is going to take a | 02:07:23 | |
| little bit longer because it's just a larger space. So but the rec classrooms and the teen center are back and open for business. | 02:07:30 | |
| And so last and I should have said this earlier when we had some of our commenters here, but. | 02:07:38 | |
| The a couple of comments came in about the community benefit fund and we have set the next joint city port meeting for May 30th at | 02:07:47 | |
| I believe it's 3:30 PM. And so those we put an agenda out and and let people know. So we'll make sure that we get that posted. But | 02:07:54 | |
| that meeting is scheduled. So any of the the people who had questions about that meeting could attend or get information from that | 02:08:01 | |
| meeting. | 02:08:08 | |
| And. | 02:08:16 | |
| The. | 02:08:19 | |
| We'll post some information on this too, but we just wanted to let people know. Gold Coast Transit District did announce last week | 02:08:22 | |
| that effective July 7th they will be updating and their fair structures and the biggest thing is it will increase the regular fare | 02:08:31 | |
| for Gold Coast buses from 1:50 to $2.00 for the regular adult base fare. | 02:08:41 | |
| The reduced rates all will increase accordingly since most of them are based on that regular rate. So we'll be posting information | 02:08:51 | |
| on that. And Gold Coast is posting information as well, so anybody who uses Gold Coast transit should be aware that that's taking | 02:08:56 | |
| effect July 7th. | 02:09:02 | |
| And then last, just for next council meeting, it's actually it's a full agenda with some. | 02:09:09 | |
| Major items that will definitely want to make sure we have the time to work through. We're planning to bring our budget revise for | 02:09:19 | |
| the upcoming fiscal year of the CIP capital improvement projects with that budget revised and then also we're bringing back the | 02:09:26 | |
| council policy and procedures discussion that was requested. | 02:09:33 | |
| A couple of meetings back and so those are it'll be a full meeting and then we actually were looking ahead and really the next | 02:09:41 | |
| three meetings into July and then we have our recess, they're all pretty full. We have a lot of items that are coming back and and | 02:09:48 | |
| so we have about I think it's four meetings left and then August recess and then we're back in September. So we're we're already | 02:09:56 | |
| seeing. | 02:10:04 | |
| Full agendas for almost the whole time up until the summer recess, so we'll be bringing those items back. But the next meeting | 02:10:12 | |
| budget, capital improvement projects and Council policy and procedures. So does Council have questions, Councilmember Goma. | 02:10:19 | |
| Is the community benefit fund meeting going to be here and is it going to be televised? | 02:10:27 | |
| Did we select a location? We're working. | 02:10:33 | |
| Details of the park. | 02:10:36 | |
| Because I would just. | 02:10:38 | |
| I don't know if I have to make a motion or make an agenda, but make a motion today, Yeah, yeah. But I would hope that that would | 02:10:39 | |
| be the case. I think we need to be transparent with that and. | 02:10:44 | |
| Being that some of the. | 02:10:50 | |
| Some of the attitudes expressed in prior meetings, I think need to be viewed by the public. | 02:10:55 | |
| I will say we are highly recommending that, yeah we I think we recommended that we do it here. And the other part is the port | 02:11:00 | |
| agreed the last time we were here that we offered to videotape these and and make the video available and they agreed to do that | 02:11:08 | |
| while we're here. So we've we've we've offered and recommended to use our site but it hasn't been like agreed to yet so. | 02:11:15 | |
| Council member Hernandez. | 02:11:24 | |
| So I also thought that we decided on a practice of scheduling on the agenda, on our City Council agenda, a discussion. | 02:11:26 | |
| On what's going to the port committee. | 02:11:36 | |
| City port committee meeting. | 02:11:39 | |
| And I this is the tonight's the last opportunity to do that. It's not on the agenda. We do what is on the agenda for I I can the | 02:11:43 | |
| 30th, I can explain. So we did have the council's already discussed the items on that agenda. | 02:11:51 | |
| Yeah, not that we're aware of at this time, but we haven't gotten, we haven't gotten the answers from the port of do we know | 02:12:00 | |
| what's on the agenda, these community benefit fund which has come to the council. | 02:12:06 | |
| Now, what about the Citizens Advisory Commission? I understand there's going to be a meeting to discuss the Community Benefit | 02:12:13 | |
| Fund. Is that going to be before the 30th? It will be on the 28th, I believe is the date they're planning, OK. And that the | 02:12:20 | |
| purpose of that discussion is, so that's on the list of items approved by the council for the CAC and actually assigned to the to | 02:12:27 | |
| the CAC is to annually review the allocations to the CPF. | 02:12:33 | |
| OK. So they could possibly have recommendations that go to the? | 02:12:40 | |
| The May 30th meeting? Or would they have to come to council first? No. So at this point, council had the initial brainstorming | 02:12:45 | |
| session. | 02:12:49 | |
| A couple weeks back we had a joint port city CBF meeting scheduled. The port came and said they they had not had a chance to | 02:12:53 | |
| discuss it at all unlike we had we had discussed it. So they asked for more time. So we have now rescheduled this meeting which | 02:13:00 | |
| will be that same item that we've already prepared for and so but the as part of the process the CAC can provide any input. So | 02:13:08 | |
| we're taking the brainstorming list of them. | 02:13:15 | |
| Asking them for input and then that would go to the joint committee. OK. It's a process. All right. Thank you. | 02:13:23 | |
| Any further questions for City Manager Vega? | 02:13:30 | |
| Seeing none, we will move on. Oops, sorry about that. To Council member reports and comments, Council Member Gama. | 02:13:33 | |
| Thank you, Mayor Perez. I just returned from the California CJPIA Insurance Authority. It was a really nice elected official | 02:13:41 | |
| summit. Got to listen to a lot of council members from other jurisdictions having the same. | 02:13:50 | |
| Issues with mandated. | 02:13:59 | |
| Mandated state requirements as related to housing. | 02:14:02 | |
| Had a beacon meeting this past Friday. | 02:14:10 | |
| We've reaffirmed our. | 02:14:13 | |
| Or a science committee. | 02:14:18 | |
| Doctor Patch is continuing to be the chair of that. | 02:14:20 | |
| We. | 02:14:25 | |
| Instituted a 3% CPI increase. | 02:14:27 | |
| And. | 02:14:32 | |
| That's about it for that we're still moving forward with our. | 02:14:35 | |
| Solicitation for projects moving forward and. | 02:14:43 | |
| Trying to workout how to. | 02:14:47 | |
| Make them all come to the benefit of the organization. | 02:14:49 | |
| We really. | 02:14:53 | |
| I think we really have fine-tuned. | 02:14:55 | |
| The fact that each member of Beacon has different issues, different coastal issues and. | 02:14:58 | |
| The organization is working as a regional organization, but also working to support the issues of its member agencies and and our | 02:15:08 | |
| current. | 02:15:13 | |
| Need as usual with every two years as to work on the dredging. | 02:15:19 | |
| The dredging. | 02:15:26 | |
| Allocation process, which is very, very complicated. And so we're still trying to bring clarity to that so that we don't have to | 02:15:28 | |
| go through this exercise every two years, but everybody's. | 02:15:34 | |
| Hands on. | 02:15:41 | |
| On that issue for us, one of the things that we did, we appointed Brian Brennan as a special project advisor and we're really | 02:15:43 | |
| looking at. | 02:15:49 | |
| Beach use and user data that's being collected through cell phones, it's really fascinating to really understand like who's coming | 02:15:55 | |
| to the beach and what are they doing. And cell phones are just an incredible tool to to collect that data. So it's really | 02:16:02 | |
| fascinating to see how that's going on. | 02:16:08 | |
| A lot of conversation about sea level rise, sediment management and how we all could support each other in that process, but also | 02:16:16 | |
| realize that we're all different. | 02:16:22 | |
| And that's kind of the strength of Beacon is being able to. | 02:16:28 | |
| Cater to the individual needs of the member cities and so we're looking for a grant. | 02:16:34 | |
| More grant opportunities I. | 02:16:40 | |
| And one thing that came up over my trip to Alaska, I met a a graduate student working on. | 02:16:44 | |
| Kelp restoration projects, and that's a project that beacon. | 02:16:53 | |
| Did few years back and we're still interested in and so I was able to. | 02:16:57 | |
| Talk with this person and get information and hopefully we could get some collaboration between Doctor Patch and this particular | 02:17:03 | |
| individual is working under the toolage of Doctor Patches colleague at the University of Santa Cruz and so kind of got a little | 02:17:10 | |
| excited about the prospect for bringing back a. | 02:17:17 | |
| More aggressive and. | 02:17:25 | |
| Long planned. | 02:17:28 | |
| Kelp restoration project. And if you don't know, kelp produces more oxygen than trees, which is kind of mind boggling so and here | 02:17:31 | |
| in this county we we lost. | 02:17:37 | |
| Many, many kelp forces during El Nino and they haven't recovered yet and so we're trying to. | 02:17:44 | |
| Trying to help that process along SO. | 02:17:49 | |
| And that's it for now. | 02:17:53 | |
| Thank you, Councilmember Hernandez. | 02:17:54 | |
| Thank you, Madam Mayor. I attended all my regular meetings. What was different was the. | 02:17:57 | |
| Sam Summit, I sat in on that meeting. That presentation was done on the ninth. It was very well done and we actually had Army | 02:18:05 | |
| Corps of Engineers this year which we've not had in previous years. So it was really well attended. I think there was a lot of | 02:18:13 | |
| interest on to hear Doctor Kiki Patch and and to hear what some of the other jurisdictions are doing. So kudos to Beacon for | 02:18:20 | |
| putting that together for us. I also attended the V cog meeting has an alternate and. | 02:18:27 | |
| A couple of things that came out of that were, well. One thing I wanted to highlight was the presentation. | 02:18:35 | |
| By the Ventura County Behavioral Health Department on the Care Act and Proposition 1. | 02:18:42 | |
| And for those of you who are following what's happening to our mental health system? | 02:18:48 | |
| And to the changes at the state level not to mention this governors amid A revised budget indicating billions of dollars in in a | 02:18:53 | |
| shortfall that we're going to be having to that will be feeling in the the next years to come I. | 02:19:01 | |
| The proposition 1 is. | 02:19:12 | |
| Really from what I took away was it's it's not going to really help homeless situations and that it's really redirecting resources | 02:19:16 | |
| into an area of helping people who are severely mentally ill, schizophrenia, other psychosis, and there's very few. There's a | 02:19:26 | |
| smaller percentage of the homeless population who suffer from that. | 02:19:36 | |
| But a majority of the money is going to work in that area. So we're going to be seeing some definite changes in how mental health | 02:19:46 | |
| resources are allocated in this county. And I think we just need to keep advocating that we we need mental health services for all | 02:19:53 | |
| and while it's. | 02:19:59 | |
| It's interesting that we were focusing on the most severe mentally ill. I don't know how far it's going to go in helping others | 02:20:08 | |
| especially those who are homeless. So it'll be interesting to watch. The other meeting I attended was the Ventura County Regional | 02:20:15 | |
| Energy Alliance and thank you Mr. City Manager for sending Jose to attend that he did a good job participating and I think he got | 02:20:23 | |
| some networking in there and and met a few people and. | 02:20:31 | |
| We walked away with some good information. This was the energy champion meeting where the actually it's the worker bees from each | 02:20:40 | |
| of the city departments who come and talk about what they're doing in the area of climate change energy's. | 02:20:47 | |
| And. | 02:20:55 | |
| In other areas of reducing GHG emissions, so one of the things I heard at that meeting through the Clean Power Alliance is that | 02:20:57 | |
| they're going to be allocating 1/4 of $1,000,000 to local jurisdictions who are participating for the putting together of a | 02:21:05 | |
| climate action plan. So I hope we can keep that on our radar and when we officially join them, take advantage of that funding | 02:21:13 | |
| source. You know, I had to ask him twice, Are you sure you said a quarter million dollars? | 02:21:20 | |
| For a climate action plan, because I know we don't have money for that, but I think it's important we do develop one, so hopefully | 02:21:28 | |
| that opportunity will will make its way to us soon. | 02:21:34 | |
| Other than that, there is a lot of legislation that's being considered right now. I have the packet that I'll leave in the Council | 02:21:41 | |
| office for those of you who are interested in taking a look at it. And that concludes my comments. Thank you. Thank you, | 02:21:46 | |
| Councilmember Martinez. | 02:21:52 | |
| Yes, thank you Mayor. I also want to thank you for inviting me to the Boys and Girls Club Breakfast. | 02:21:59 | |
| And then I'm excited. I believe we have a meeting for the Art Mural Committee this week. Is it Wednesday? | 02:22:05 | |
| OK. | 02:22:11 | |
| I'm also excited that the city announced the new scholarship. | 02:22:13 | |
| Opportunities for our youth. | 02:22:18 | |
| City manager, can you remind us the deadline to apply for that? | 02:22:21 | |
| Believe that one, because we have two things right now. We have that in the poster contest. So I believe that one's May 31st | 02:22:26 | |
| that's open to high school seniors who reside in Port Hueneme. And then we're also doing the. | 02:22:33 | |
| Art contest, that's the scholarship. And then we're doing the Beach Fest Art contest, which is I think open till June 7th and I | 02:22:40 | |
| like the next week and that one's open to more age groups. So information on both of those are on our website and Facebook pages. | 02:22:49 | |
| Thank you and regarding. | 02:22:59 | |
| The sister city committee, I'm happy to announce that it sounds like the city new city attorney's taking that challenge and | 02:23:02 | |
| getting going with creating the nonprofit. | 02:23:07 | |
| Our next meetings on June 5th and also I got a call last week from the new sister city president from Puerto Vallarta and they're | 02:23:12 | |
| thinking about visiting in on August 3rd, so being here reminding me around that time. So that that's all I have for today. Thank | 02:23:18 | |
| you. Thank you. | 02:23:25 | |
| So yes, the boys and Girls Club had their annual breakfast, which is a big success, and we had Jackie Joyner. Kersey was our | 02:23:32 | |
| keynote speaker and we try to find somebody. | 02:23:36 | |
| Who grew up in the Boys and Girls Club and then made an impact in their lives and they were able to come and to testify as to how | 02:23:43 | |
| that affected them and where they are now. And her story was great to hear Boys and Girls Club. Port Hueneme is getting ready to. | 02:23:50 | |
| I think we're doing RFP for construction, but we're not ready to do a huge overhaul inside and out for that building. It was a | 02:23:57 | |
| long time coming. We've been all the fundraising has been doing so much good to allocate to that building it's been. | 02:24:04 | |
| How long have we had that? Anybody know how long we've had that building for Boys and Girls Club? | 02:24:13 | |
| 1510, yeah, I think so. So it's it's due, it needs to be overhauled completely. So I'm excited about that. So our city manager and | 02:24:17 | |
| our Chief of Police. | 02:24:23 | |
| Came up with a Wellness event for our city which is a team run concept and if we each individual city member wants to join us for | 02:24:30 | |
| a run that we're doing around the city, they send out an all hands invite. And this weekend on Sunday we had the Seaside Marathon. | 02:24:38 | |
| So I'd like to congratulate a few city employees who participated. We have Dennis Dennis Martinez who participated in the 10K, so | 02:24:45 | |
| congratulations on that. | 02:24:52 | |
| We have James Vega and wife who participated in the 10K as well. There's a Michelle Gutierrez, her husband and I believe her | 02:25:00 | |
| child. They participated in the 5K. | 02:25:05 | |
| Jocelyn Lopez and I believe her daughter, please correct me if I'm wrong, participated in the five 5K of Gerardo Moreno and he | 02:25:10 | |
| pushed a stroller and had a young child with him doing the 5K as well. And then Sergeant Perez and wife, he did the half marathon | 02:25:17 | |
| and I did the 5K. So I want to congratulate all the city employees who came out and participated in that and please it's open to | 02:25:24 | |
| council as well. So let us know if you want to be part of team runway. | 02:25:31 | |
| You can walk. You don't have to run. | 02:25:39 | |
| This one this weekend, what's that part of the team? Yeah. OK, so there's two more races in Ventura coming up in July and I | 02:25:42 | |
| believe September and then maybe some in between that I'm sure will be sending out invites if anybody wants to get registered and | 02:25:48 | |
| get join our team. So congratulations to all staff who participated in that. | 02:25:54 | |
| That's all I have. | 02:26:01 | |
| So we move on to requests for future agenda items. | 02:26:03 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 02:26:06 | |
| Council member Hernandez. | 02:26:09 | |
| Councilman Martinez, Seeing none, we will move on to adjournment. I'd like to adjourn this meeting of at 856. A regular next | 02:26:11 | |
| meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 3rd, 2024 at 6:30 PM. The time is 8:56 and we are adjourned. | 02:26:19 |