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| Good evening. | 00:00:02 | |
| Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I am calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30 PM. Please join me in the | 00:00:05 | |
| flag salute. | 00:00:09 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:20 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:25 | |
| Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? | 00:00:39 | |
| Councilmember Goma here, Councilmember Hernandez here, Councilmember Martinez present, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Legend here, and | 00:00:42 | |
| Mayor Perez here. Tonight's inspiration will be given by yours truly. | 00:00:48 | |
| And this inspiration will be in honor of Father's Day, since we just had that on Sunday. | 00:00:54 | |
| And I wrote a little bit yesterday, we celebrated fathers, the unsung heroes who shape our lives in countless ways. Fathers are | 00:01:02 | |
| our first teachers, guiding us with wisdom and strength. They're the pillars of our families, providing support and protection | 00:01:06 | |
| with unwavering love. | 00:01:11 | |
| Through their actions, fathers teaches the value of hard work, integrity and compassion. I lost my own father when I was nine. My | 00:01:17 | |
| mother remarried and I was raised by a stepfather. That brings me to stepfathers. | 00:01:22 | |
| Stepfathers are not bound by blood, but by the profound love they choose to give. They step into a family often with open hearts | 00:01:29 | |
| and open arms, embracing not just a partner but also the children who come with. | 00:01:36 | |
| These men teach us that family is not defined by genetics, but by the bonds we build, the trust we nurture, and the love we share. | 00:01:44 | |
| They show us resilience in the face of new challenges and patience as relationships grow and evolve. And their commitment and | 00:01:50 | |
| dedication demonstrates that real fathers are those who step up when needed most. And this is in in honor of my children's | 00:01:56 | |
| stepfather, my husband, Sergeant Perez, who embraced my children and has been raising them as if he were their own. And I want to | 00:02:02 | |
| thank him for. | 00:02:08 | |
| All the support he gives to them and unwavering support without question. So thank you. | 00:02:15 | |
| Next, move to public comments. | 00:02:23 | |
| We will hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes and this process will be | 00:02:25 | |
| the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments? | 00:02:31 | |
| We have some public comments. First will be Becky Burning, followed by Michael J Murphy. Thank you. | 00:02:38 | |
| Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council members and staff. | 00:02:49 | |
| And the audience. | 00:02:53 | |
| I'm here on behalf of the real Guppy Outdoors tonight. | 00:02:55 | |
| We are having our family fish day this Sunday from 8:30 to 11:30, so we expect to see all of you out there. | 00:03:00 | |
| That's it. Thank you. | 00:03:09 | |
| 8:30 to 11:30. | 00:03:13 | |
| Michael Murphy. | 00:03:19 | |
| Have to take him off to see. | 00:03:30 | |
| I haven't done a microphone in a long time. I want to thank you Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and all the rest of the City Council members. | 00:03:36 | |
| I thank you for allowing me to speak here tonight. | 00:03:42 | |
| I did vote for everyone of you. | 00:03:46 | |
| But I strongly disagree with the Council's decisions in one particular area and I have to come share that with you. | 00:03:49 | |
| Number one. | 00:03:58 | |
| There's actually 2. | 00:03:59 | |
| Number one is June 5th, 2023. Item number six, the Pride Flag discussion and Pride Month. | 00:04:01 | |
| Proclamation. | 00:04:08 | |
| Read all the comments. I had a. | 00:04:10 | |
| Good time going through there. | 00:04:12 | |
| Website and doing searches and things of that nature to try and find out how that process took place with the people that I voted | 00:04:13 | |
| for. | 00:04:17 | |
| There was public comments. The city attorney LED a discussion. | 00:04:23 | |
| The council recommended back in 2023. | 00:04:27 | |
| My memory doesn't serve me correctly, but I think the pride flag was flying earlier than 2023. | 00:04:30 | |
| So I don't know how that happened, but I couldn't find anything. | 00:04:37 | |
| So it was amended and was seconded to raise a pride flag. | 00:04:42 | |
| In perpetuity. | 00:04:46 | |
| The motion passed 5. | 00:04:50 | |
| To 0. | 00:04:52 | |
| I don't know if it's everybody here. | 00:04:54 | |
| At least that's what it said in the notes. | 00:04:58 | |
| Then it was I only have the draft. | 00:05:01 | |
| June 3rd, 2024. | 00:05:03 | |
| The Pride Month proclamation. | 00:05:06 | |
| A little bit of the background information. | 00:05:09 | |
| There was a City Council agenda staff report dated May 8th, 2024. | 00:05:11 | |
| And that was sent up. I've got copies of it here. | 00:05:17 | |
| But it was to. | 00:05:20 | |
| Adopt A resolution Adopt an outdoor flag pole policy which included the Pride flag for the month of June. | 00:05:22 | |
| The discussion I'm going to read. | 00:05:31 | |
| Exhibit AI might be running out so much if I could steal a minute of her, but anyway, the City of Portland need me. Outdoor Flag | 00:05:33 | |
| Display Policy governs the outdoor display of the flags of the United States State of California and commemorative flags on flag | 00:05:40 | |
| poles at city owned facilities. In adopting the policy, the City Council declares that the city's flagpole are not intended to | 00:05:47 | |
| serve as a forum for free expression to the public. | 00:05:53 | |
| I understand that. | 00:06:02 | |
| I'm going through the bottom here. | 00:06:03 | |
| The purpose of this policy to provide procedural guidance for the outdoor display of flags on city owned things. The city flag | 00:06:05 | |
| poles are not intended to serve as a forum for free expression by the public. | 00:06:11 | |
| And I don't know this yet, but there's something called government speech. | 00:06:18 | |
| And I'm not aware of that. | 00:06:24 | |
| I ran into it first. | 00:06:27 | |
| Remember the flash shall not be displaced displayed in the last. | 00:06:29 | |
| Commemorative flags shall be displayed in the last position of half a paragraph here. | 00:06:34 | |
| I just don't understand that you wrote the policy. | 00:06:41 | |
| To give yourself the exception. | 00:06:46 | |
| To hang a pride flag there. | 00:06:48 | |
| And I just don't understand it. I don't know where the debate was. I don't know where the understanding came from. | 00:06:51 | |
| I've got 17 grandchildren. | 00:06:58 | |
| I use all the facilities in port enemy. | 00:07:00 | |
| I run around all the time on the beach every day. I don't go on Saturday, sorry, but one of these days I will. I do clean up as I | 00:07:03 | |
| walk every day. But the bottom line is. | 00:07:07 | |
| The citizens of the City of Port Hueneme do enact this charter to secure the greatest degree of home rule possible for all the | 00:07:12 | |
| citizens of the city. That's from the preamble to the charter to the City of Poinemy. | 00:07:18 | |
| I couldn't find your oath of office. I. | 00:07:26 | |
| Can't hold you to it because I don't know what how it is. | 00:07:29 | |
| I could not find it on the website anywhere. | 00:07:32 | |
| The pride flag. | 00:07:35 | |
| Does not represent all the people in poinemy. | 00:07:37 | |
| You can fly it anywhere you want. | 00:07:40 | |
| But on the city flag, I did 27 years in military. I was in 68 countries. I did 10 deployments over 10 months, most of them right | 00:07:42 | |
| out of here at Port Hueneme. And I come back and I find this, and I'm really upset. I retired in 2001. I've been working with my | 00:07:48 | |
| grandkids. | 00:07:53 | |
| And I just I have to do something. | 00:07:59 | |
| It's not warranted a place next to those flags of honor. | 00:08:02 | |
| And you understand that? | 00:08:07 | |
| If you truly work for the people, I ask that you. | 00:08:09 | |
| Ask the people. | 00:08:12 | |
| I asked for referendum. | 00:08:14 | |
| For the election. | 00:08:17 | |
| November. | 00:08:19 | |
| I've written a graph one if you want a copy of it. | 00:08:20 | |
| The City of Huntington just did the same thing. | 00:08:23 | |
| They put it to the people and I ask that you would do the same. Thank you for your time. | 00:08:27 | |
| Barbara Page. | 00:08:35 | |
| Going for a walk, I only wanted to just ask because I was at the. | 00:08:47 | |
| That group that's looking to rebrand us and do you know the city, the downtown and all that it was at that meeting, I just wanted | 00:08:54 | |
| to know what was happening with the rebranding and if that was going back on the election. | 00:09:01 | |
| Just didn't pass the last time that's why I really wanted to know, OK, and I can speak to that quickly. So right now we're doing | 00:09:08 | |
| an economic development plan which. | 00:09:13 | |
| Is going to come back to the City Council with the draft plan at the second meeting in July, so about a month from now. But it's a | 00:09:18 | |
| economic development plan. It's not a rebranding plan. So just I know that word scares people sometimes It's not it doesn't talk | 00:09:25 | |
| about rebranding, but it does talk about economic development and some ideas that we can do for economic development. So that'll | 00:09:33 | |
| come back to the council for in the public can comment on it on July 17th or I might have the date. | 00:09:41 | |
| If that's a Monday, the 2nd or the 3rd Monday in July, that's the meeting it's coming to. | 00:09:51 | |
| OK. But are we even considering putting that back on the vote? It's not part, not as part of the economic development plan? | 00:09:55 | |
| That's what was discussed. Basically all the people who did attend there, everybody wants us to rebrand because without | 00:10:02 | |
| rebranding, we're not going anywhere as a city. That's basically where I guess I was going to bring that there because. | 00:10:10 | |
| You know, it's, you know, we got the Port of LA You know, you don't call the whole city of Los Angeles the Port of LA. It's just | 00:10:18 | |
| the same thing. | 00:10:22 | |
| If people don't understand that really what we have here is our beach, there's really nothing for people to really draw much | 00:10:26 | |
| attention. So it's not there. Again, it's not like we want to be, and this is what happened at that meeting. | 00:10:33 | |
| Some people there were business owners and whatever, and it's just you can't really entice people to, you know, be at a port and | 00:10:41 | |
| granted the port. Oh my goodness. | 00:10:46 | |
| Coombs are not used to doing this. No. It's very good feedback, thank you. | 00:10:50 | |
| It just you can't really entice businesses or you know, industry or anybody who really wants to come here without it being knowing | 00:10:56 | |
| about the beach. I didn't even know when I moved here. I moved here from Santa Clarita. I didn't even know it was a beach here. We | 00:11:01 | |
| went driving around with a friend that lived in Oxnard. She said this beach is weird. And she took us to the bathroom. Be kidding | 00:11:06 | |
| me. And that's when the trailers were up and that's how we bought our home. | 00:11:11 | |
| But people don't even know we exist. And like I mentioned to them, you know, we have the college right down in Camarillo. It's | 00:11:18 | |
| such a great opportunity to bring them here, but a lot of people don't know there's a beach. | 00:11:23 | |
| What we have our jewel, that's our jewel. So I hope that comes back for the election. That's all. That's my opinion. Thank you. | 00:11:29 | |
| Thank you. I hope it keep an eye out and you can submit public comment or come and talk about it at that meeting, OK. At this | 00:11:35 | |
| meeting, at this kind of meeting, the July, July 17th Council, July 17th. Thank you very much. Thank you. | 00:11:41 | |
| Dakota Hernandez. | 00:11:49 | |
| So when I'm at my house, I can barely go outside because these people, these teenagers, they block our driveway and they flash gun | 00:11:59 | |
| them. They flash the gun me about twice so I can't go outside. And when they. | 00:12:07 | |
| And if they do something bad, they don't get in trouble. But if I do something bad, they get in trouble. If I get in trouble, I | 00:12:16 | |
| get in trouble. | 00:12:20 | |
| And I have a question, Do you think that's fair? | 00:12:25 | |
| Thank you. | 00:12:34 | |
| And I think, I think Mr. Hernandez, I think you're already in touch with our Police Department. So I'm just going to remind you | 00:12:36 | |
| and our police are here today, so you can feel free to contact our Police Department on that matter. | 00:12:42 | |
| Andrew Hernandez. | 00:12:49 | |
| And just while Andrew's coming up, Dakota, we couldn't answer you because we're not supposed to enter into a dialogue while we're | 00:12:51 | |
| up here. But thank you for your presentation. Hello, Council, as well as community members, police, fire first responders. My name | 00:12:58 | |
| is Andrew Hernandez. I know I've emailed a few of you guys before of what happened. | 00:13:05 | |
| I am disabled. | 00:13:12 | |
| I have invisible disabilities of PTSD as well as physical disabilities which lead me disabled. I'm doing the best I can to provide | 00:13:14 | |
| for my child. I work 4 jobs. I work currently as a Navy contractor. My other job is Securities Security Services in Ventura County | 00:13:22 | |
| for over 15 years as well as caregiving. I am a person that's a giver and wanting to heal. | 00:13:29 | |
| Recently, since we moved here three years ago and it's becoming more of an issue. Within the last few weeks, we've had teenagers | 00:13:39 | |
| literally harassing and terrorizing our neighborhood. We've called Police Department and we've asked for the investigator to I've | 00:13:45 | |
| I've I've. | 00:13:51 | |
| I've emailed him. | 00:13:58 | |
| And he responded back with pretty much a generic e-mail just saying, yes, we're doing the best we can, we know everything that's | 00:14:00 | |
| going on, but yet there's no activity being done to protect the neighborhood from the Oxnard residents attacking Jane Drive. I've | 00:14:06 | |
| been told that Jane Drive is a bad neighborhood. It's been known. This is not a first time issue. | 00:14:13 | |
| There's been Dr. Bys on our block. There's been other issues. Today on the way here, we were not able to leave our driveway | 00:14:19 | |
| because these teen gains were blocking our driveway. I called in respect to the Police Department for assistance and letting them | 00:14:24 | |
| know that we were able to leave our driveway. | 00:14:29 | |
| That when I got home, they were flashing signs in our front yard, gained about 1520 of them. I could show you on my ring phone. | 00:14:34 | |
| Right now there's about 15 or 20 of them flashing gain signs in their front yard, literally having fistfights in the front, recall | 00:14:38 | |
| police and then gaslighted. | 00:14:43 | |
| Why is a pedestrian, Why is a law of biting a citizen being gaslit by the local Police Department? What safe actions do I have? I | 00:14:49 | |
| asked to press charges that night when I was assaulted, yet I was told we do not do that here in Port Hueneme. Why are my rights | 00:14:54 | |
| being violated? | 00:14:59 | |
| I have every right to press charges. I have every right to press a citizen's arrest once I'm assaulted. I was on the phone with | 00:15:06 | |
| 911 and your officers failed to do what they were doing. It's been over two weeks. I still have injury on my side. I'm still | 00:15:12 | |
| having pain. It's not right that my son's having to go through this abuse of these kids, these teenagers because they're low | 00:15:18 | |
| income or because they're, no, they're, they're poor degenerates. You know what? I came from a small area. I came from the | 00:15:24 | |
| neighborhood to ride the gang activity. | 00:15:30 | |
| I'm pulling myself up, I'm raising my son the right way. I'm trying to tell him to call the police. Can we do a neighborhood watch | 00:15:37 | |
| program? What can we do to safeguard ourselves on Jane Drive? | 00:15:42 | |
| This is not right. It's so bad that Topper's Pizza won't even deliver to us as my son with this bill, right? If it happened to | 00:15:47 | |
| you, would you, city clerk, city attorney, city manager, Madam mayor, Madam mayor and council member, would would you guys feel, | 00:15:54 | |
| do you guys feel safe walking around your house with a loaded firearm or a potential loaded firearm to feel safe in your own home? | 00:16:02 | |
| Would you feel comfortable answering the door to open your door to have somebody at your doorsteps barricading you into your home, | 00:16:10 | |
| throwing beer cans at you and assaulting you and being told you're not allowed to protect yourself because they're teenagers? | 00:16:16 | |
| Being told you're not allowed to know protect yourself or your home because they're not past your threshold? | 00:16:23 | |
| To file a stay away order from these kids and these two people are these two households. | 00:17:03 | |
| Has been brought to their attention. It has been forwarded to their e-mail. I like I said I. | 00:17:42 | |
| I contacted your internal investigations unit. I tried contacting your two watch commanders which they said that I do not have | 00:17:49 | |
| right suppressed charges which I'm very concerned about. | 00:17:53 | |
| No, I've tried communicating with your Police Department. They gaslight me. | 00:18:00 | |
| I've tried contacting your Police Department, I've tried contacting the District Attorney as well as victim services for my child | 00:18:03 | |
| for having a gun put to his head. | 00:18:07 | |
| It's not right. | 00:18:12 | |
| As a law following citizen, am I allowed to carry my Second Amendment right to ensure my safety because the Police Department is | 00:18:14 | |
| failing to negotiate their part of their business terms with the city? OK, we'll have somebody get in touch with you. But we have | 00:18:19 | |
| we do have to continue. Thank you. Thank you for letting me be heard because this is not right. I should not be having to live in | 00:18:25 | |
| fear. I lived in fear with domestic abuse for 10 years. Now I'm trying to heal. | 00:18:30 | |
| Well, thank you for our team. Get it back in touch with you. Thanks. | 00:18:36 | |
| Pedestrians at Volcker Internal Islands thanks Ricardo Holden, and that concludes public comment. Thank you. | 00:20:19 | |
| We will now move on to agenda approval. May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? | 00:20:27 | |
| So move. | 00:20:35 | |
| 2nd. | 00:20:37 | |
| Do any members of the Council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda tonight? | 00:20:39 | |
| Seeing none. | 00:20:47 | |
| We move on to presentations. The first presentation we have is the 2023 State of the Region report by Ventura County Civic | 00:20:49 | |
| Alliance. | 00:20:53 | |
| Madam Mayor before can we just finish the vote for the agenda really quick? Oh, all in favor, all opposed hearing none. Motion | 00:20:58 | |
| passes unanimously trying to move us on. | 00:21:04 | |
| Yeah. | 00:21:10 | |
| Thank you. | 00:21:12 | |
| Go ahead, you're up. | 00:21:14 | |
| Good evening. I'm David Marin with the Ventura County Civic Alliance. Every two years, we produce the State of the Region report, | 00:21:17 | |
| which covers a variety of information throughout the county for the audience. This is also available on our website at | 00:21:24 | |
| civicalliance.org. You can donate it for free. We go around the county to share this with City council's community organizations. | 00:21:31 | |
| We cannot give these books away for free without the generosity of our sponsors. | 00:21:38 | |
| A few larger sponsors Ventura County Community Foundation, Ventura County Community College District, Era Energy at T Channel | 00:21:46 | |
| Islands University, Lehman Era County of Ventura and the Port of Wyoming. | 00:21:52 | |
| So I'm going to cover quite a few things, but I want to start off with this page. Eight and nine are key statistics. The city of | 00:21:59 | |
| Port Hueneme is the 4th youngest or you have the fourth lowest number of people under 18. But the key take away is in that upper | 00:22:06 | |
| right corner where you see the median age is up to 38.7. That was in 2021. Looking at the years, you can see we are consistently | 00:22:13 | |
| getting older. And in 2022 the number from this US Census is 39 years old. So we have a problem in Ventura County that we're | 00:22:20 | |
| getting older. | 00:22:26 | |
| And we're not well and I'll deal with that a little more later. So I had some highlights with agriculture. So strawberries | 00:22:36 | |
| continue to power our agricultural industry. We have about $2 billion of agricultural work in our county, represents about 4% of | 00:22:43 | |
| our overall economy. We ship our products all around the world. | 00:22:49 | |
| Your elected officials. So I would like to show the statistics looking at the registration Blue as Dems, Green is no party | 00:22:57 | |
| preference, red is Republican. You can see over the last 22 years that Dems have increased slightly, but the no party preference | 00:23:03 | |
| has really increased at the expense of the Republican Party. | 00:23:10 | |
| You can also see this number by city Ventura. As far as Portland Emia, it is now a majority Democratic city. The only city in the | 00:23:17 | |
| county that is plurality Republican is Simi Valley. So over time we've seen quite a bit of change from the last 20-30 years. I'd | 00:23:26 | |
| like to share this screen about nonprofits because it's overlooked as far as how large our nonprofit sector is. Over 10,000 people | 00:23:34 | |
| in the county work in the nonprofit community, generating almost half a billion dollars worth of wages. | 00:23:42 | |
| In the economy, this is a tougher slide to show here, but I want to let you see how to look at it. There's one for the cost of the | 00:23:54 | |
| goods producing industries. This is for service providing salaries and jobs. The top is jobs, the bottom is salaries. And what you | 00:24:01 | |
| see that we're seeing some increase in salaries pretty much across the board on the bottom. But what we're having the problem with | 00:24:09 | |
| in the top is that we're losing jobs in the higher paying industries, so things like financial services. | 00:24:17 | |
| We see a decline, but those salaries are up over 100,000. So we have an imbalance in Ventura County. We are creating more jobs in | 00:24:25 | |
| the hospitality and lower pain areas and our young people need to be able to have higher paying jobs to be able to afford to live | 00:24:30 | |
| here. | 00:24:36 | |
| Our gross county product much like the nation, but this is for Ventura County. We've been hovering in the 50 billion range for | 00:24:43 | |
| quite a while. This is adjusted for inflation dollars. So it is a true representation. The problem is and we are doing worse than | 00:24:51 | |
| the state in the nation. The state and the nation have been seen their gross domestic products increase. But when we hit our next | 00:24:58 | |
| recession, Ventura County may not be ready for it. It may hit us pretty hard. | 00:25:05 | |
| Taxable sales is good news for most of our cities. This is, of course, over the pandemic. 2020 is orange, blue is 2022. You can | 00:25:14 | |
| see that Port Hueneme had an increase. But what we've done here is show you the sales per capita in the county and you can see | 00:25:22 | |
| that at $9500, Port Hueneme is at the low end of all of the cities. Obviously cities like Thousand Oaks, they have car sales, they | 00:25:30 | |
| have a huge shopping mall, so they are going to be stronger. | 00:25:38 | |
| You're fighting back with cannabis to stay in the running, but you could see that Port Hueneme just doesn't match up with somebody | 00:25:47 | |
| like Ohai where they have a lot more tourism. | 00:25:52 | |
| This is the transient occupancy tax. Speaking of Ohio, you can see they're off the charts, but they have the Ohio Valley Inn. Mr. | 00:25:59 | |
| Vega, I know you know Ojai very well, and congratulations on your move. As far as City Port Hueneme, though, you've seen some nice | 00:26:04 | |
| growth in tourism. | 00:26:09 | |
| Education, I spoke earlier about we're getting older and this is where it's starting to show up is where we see declining | 00:26:16 | |
| enrollment across the. | 00:26:19 | |
| Age band. So this projects that we're going to continue to see declining enrollment for the audience. The blue at the top is | 00:26:25 | |
| grades kindergarten through 8th. Green is for our high schools. The steep decline that's happening in the elementary schools, | 00:26:32 | |
| we're going from 97,000 in 2014 expecting to get down to 72,000. | 00:26:40 | |
| In 20-30, so that's going to have repercussions as well. | 00:26:47 | |
| Here is what it looks like in your community. Oh why Nimi Elementary? You can see back just really of 20/19/20 there was 7900 | 00:26:52 | |
| students and that's fallen by over 10% to 2022 number. I'm often asked, well isn't that just kids being homeschooled? And no, the | 00:27:00 | |
| numbers are just too dramatic to be reflected in home school. | 00:27:07 | |
| Community colleges saw a decline because of the pandemic especially from what I've heard. Those numbers are coming back but I | 00:27:17 | |
| don't think it's going to be quite as strong as pre pandemic anytime soon. The red up there is Channel Highlands University. The | 00:27:23 | |
| purple in the middle is California Lutheran. You can see the steep decline. | 00:27:30 | |
| That they are seen as well. | 00:27:37 | |
| OK. | 00:27:40 | |
| It's a good slide. I always like to show it's the value of education. If you have a child or a grandchild, wondering should I go | 00:27:42 | |
| on to high school or to college? For a High School graduate, I'll use a male. They make about an average of $37,000 a year. But if | 00:27:50 | |
| that same male continues and gets their bachelor degree, they can look forward to making over twice that amount per year. So think | 00:27:58 | |
| of how much that pays over a lifetime. And even if you only go to Community College, it pays off. It's same for men and women. | 00:28:06 | |
| Unfortunately we have an equity issue where women aren't paid as much as men, but if you have the wherewithal to go to college it | 00:28:14 | |
| can surely pay. | 00:28:18 | |
| Land use, we are really not building enough homes. You can see we've plateaued over here on the housing permits. | 00:28:25 | |
| And this is the staggering one as far as what the apartments are going for in Ventura County. So as of 2023, the Oxnard Port | 00:28:32 | |
| Hueneme average rent for all sizes averaged out was $2500. You can see on the top part of that slide the blue. We were pretty much | 00:28:40 | |
| level for many years till about 2014 and then things started taking off. The average around the county, $2700 for a two-bedroom | 00:28:48 | |
| unit. Why is that happening? | 00:28:56 | |
| Well, the Green Line is showing you the vacancy rate, and we have such low stock that landlords are in the driver's seat. Less | 00:29:04 | |
| than 3% of the apartments in our county are available. So the landlord could ask for multiple pieces of earnings. They can want to | 00:29:12 | |
| look at your social media, whatever they want. They're not worried. They know they can rent that apartment, but it's supply and | 00:29:20 | |
| demand, and there's a lot of demand. Where this gets really bad, though, is imagine your child graduates from CI. | 00:29:28 | |
| They want to get a job. The higher paying jobs might be in Thousand Oaks, but the more affordable place to live is Fillmore. So | 00:29:36 | |
| now they're on the road. So it's more traffic congestion because of these things. So we. | 00:29:43 | |
| We have a lot to work on. Not all bad news. Ventura County is doing really well in the environment. Our oceans are clean. Our air | 00:29:50 | |
| quality is at record low lows as far as pollution. Solar energy, we've been growing that every year. We almost make as much as the | 00:29:58 | |
| old Ormond Beach plant, so good news there. Oil and gas. We have been using less oil or pulling less out of the ground. Same with | 00:30:05 | |
| natural gas. That's what we want. People are transitioning to solar. We're making more power that way. | 00:30:13 | |
| There's more charts about this in the report. Now, of course, that's a financial thing. Once things get expensive for oil, you'll | 00:30:21 | |
| see the more drilling. | 00:30:26 | |
| Port Hueneme does great on the average water use per person in the city. | 00:30:31 | |
| Public health, this one, just to spend a couple of moments, this is where our problem is. We have a declining birth rate. In 2021, | 00:30:37 | |
| only 8800 children were born in our county. If you go back to 1980, about the same number, 9100 were born. And back then the | 00:30:44 | |
| county had a third lesser of the population. You can see in 1990, we were having about 19 births per hundred per thousand | 00:30:51 | |
| residents were down to 10. This is the challenge and it's because young people are thinking I can't afford to live here, so they | 00:30:57 | |
| move away. | 00:31:04 | |
| Or they're deciding that we can only have one kid, not two or three. I think all of us have to figure out better policies to | 00:31:11 | |
| encourage family formation. And it's a really tough problem. My times just about up. So I'll just move through here. Ventura | 00:31:19 | |
| County is the safest county of the 15 largest. We do break out property crime and violent crime. Port Hueneme is the second | 00:31:27 | |
| highest city on these numbers for property crimes. A little bit better on the violent crime. So something to keep an eye on. | 00:31:35 | |
| There's the property crime you can see at 18.4 and this is based off this the Department of Justice numbers so. | 00:31:45 | |
| We have homeless in here, transportation, vehicle miles traveled, and I know my time's up. So thank you very much. If you have any | 00:31:55 | |
| questions, I'm happy to answer it. Again, the report is available online@civicalliance.org and we'll do our next report next year. | 00:32:03 | |
| Does Council have any questions? | 00:32:11 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 00:32:14 | |
| Could you go back to the fentanyl slide that you, oh, skipped over, elaborate on what that means to our county and our region? | 00:32:15 | |
| Whoops. | 00:32:25 | |
| Public Health. | 00:32:31 | |
| And we have a serious problem here in Ventura County with opioids. And as a reminder, opioids can be both prescription, It doesn't | 00:32:37 | |
| mean illegal drugs. It could be people getting hooked on Percocet or Oxycontin. This one chart here is showing the fentanyl dust. | 00:32:44 | |
| And it surprises many people to see that our rate of death from fentanyl is higher than LA County and Orange County. Now the good | 00:32:51 | |
| news is police are now carrying the. | 00:32:59 | |
| Narlox, Yeah. | 00:33:07 | |
| The injectable to help bring this down, but from 2019, we had 40 deaths from fentanyl. We quadrupled that in about four years. So | 00:33:09 | |
| significant problem and it's still out there very much. Thank you for the opportunity to show that, Mister Gama. | 00:33:17 | |
| Any further questions from Council? | 00:33:26 | |
| Seeing none. Thank you so much for your presentation and I've left reports for you, Mr. Vega and your staff. | 00:33:29 | |
| Thank you. | 00:33:35 | |
| The next presentation is the 201 Ventura County Port Hueneme City Stats Prison presentation by Interface Children and Family | 00:33:37 | |
| Services. | 00:33:41 | |
| Good evening Mayor Pro Tem, council members and staff appreciate the opportunity to come and speak with you. Eric Stern, Adam, the | 00:33:46 | |
| Executive Director at Interface Children Family Services. And we operate the 211 program for the County of Ventura. So we had | 00:33:54 | |
| about 70,000 unique visitors contacting 211. And so I'm here representing that half a billion dollar industry that David was just | 00:34:01 | |
| talking about, the nonprofit industry. | 00:34:09 | |
| Across the across the county, so, so you can reach two on one in a number of different ways and 211 really is funded through the | 00:34:17 | |
| contributions of the cities including yours. We appreciate that and the county and, and this is how we're able to bring, bring the | 00:34:25 | |
| service forward to the community. 211 is just one of the programs that interface. So we have on the screen the different kinds of | 00:34:33 | |
| of services that interface provides to the community. | 00:34:41 | |
| Domestic violence and child abuse prevention, human trafficking prevention, intervention, justice services, which is quite a large | 00:34:50 | |
| and growing area for us both with adults and juveniles, mental health, trauma treatment and then youth crisis and homeless | 00:34:57 | |
| services. So our two on one work is really embedded in a wide array of services that we have, making us kind of one of the unique | 00:35:04 | |
| 2 on ones in California. So what is 211211 is a single place for the public to reach any kind of Health and Human service. | 00:35:12 | |
| That they're looking for. | 00:35:20 | |
| So the folks can search three ways by just dialing the three digit two on one number or searching at two on one ventura.org. And | 00:35:22 | |
| you can search yourself for resources or texting your zip code to 898211. And so this is a, this is a shot, a screenshot that's | 00:35:28 | |
| similar to the website where there's kind of a guided search you can go through. You can also type in specific things. But if | 00:35:35 | |
| you're not really sure what you're looking for, this can be an easy way to navigate so the public can look for whatever available | 00:35:42 | |
| resources are in the community. | 00:35:48 | |
| We can't provide what isn't available, but what we absolutely can do, and we do this all the time, is scour the resources that are | 00:35:56 | |
| available from county services to nonprofits to faith-based organizations, whatever services are available, and then bring those | 00:36:03 | |
| to bear so that folks can gain access to them when they're looking for help. So again, thank you for helping us to get this out to | 00:36:10 | |
| the public that these are three very simple ways that folks can reach 211. | 00:36:17 | |
| And we know that city staff are also able to call us, make their job much quicker because we know exactly what services are | 00:36:25 | |
| available, what the eligibility criteria are. And we can save city staff time in terms of connecting residents to the to the types | 00:36:32 | |
| of services that they that they might need. | 00:36:38 | |
| So here's, here's kind of a range of numbers to look at from the callers that called into 211 from, from Port Hueneme. So about | 00:36:46 | |
| 500 information referral contacts, about 200 were first time callers. Mostly it's word of mouth or or referrals from other | 00:36:54 | |
| nonprofits saying, hey, we're going to help you with XY and Z, but if you need other support, you can call 211. And we we love to | 00:37:02 | |
| be partnering up with them that way. | 00:37:09 | |
| So you see the about 70 families with, with kids under 5 and about 4% of all the calls that come in are crisis calls. We're not a, | 00:37:17 | |
| we're not marketed as a crisis hotline, but we do get suicide calls, We get active domestic violence calls, Rape Crisis calls. So | 00:37:26 | |
| these are important calls that we can either patch directly into 911 into our law enforcement partners or to other emergent | 00:37:34 | |
| services as there are available in the community for them. | 00:37:42 | |
| We categorize all of the requests for service through a national taxonomy system. It's like the Dewey Decimal system, which I'm | 00:37:51 | |
| aging myself by describing it that way. But those of you of a certain age will remember that library system. So it's a, it's a | 00:37:59 | |
| system of 100 different classifications of the types of needs. And then we're able to then report this data. You can also go on | 00:38:07 | |
| and I would encourage the city staff to look at. | 00:38:15 | |
| The two on one Ventura org site, we have a live Power BI version that you can drill down to. You can compare Port Hueneme to other | 00:38:23 | |
| cities. You can look at it across time, you can look at different issues and drill down and see what is it that people are asking | 00:38:29 | |
| for from your community. | 00:38:35 | |
| So for about 10 years across the entire county, it's been housing, housing, housing. As you heard from David's presentation, this | 00:38:41 | |
| is a huge issue and the public is calling two on one looking for either shelter or rental support or or housing. | 00:38:49 | |
| Generally speaking, then you see some of the other breakdowns and these again are all from Port Hueneme residents specifically | 00:38:59 | |
| looking for support in the community. | 00:39:03 | |
| We do some special projects at Two on One as well because again, if we have 70,000 people querying the system that we have and | 00:39:09 | |
| looking for help, this is also an opportunity to be able to plug people into services that might be helpful for them. So we were | 00:39:16 | |
| actually approached 2 on one at the state level, was approached by the public health department at the state level wanting to say, | 00:39:23 | |
| hey, can you offer access to a smoking cessation or to tobacco cessation programs? And in fact, two on one is probably even more | 00:39:30 | |
| successful. | 00:39:37 | |
| Than health care is in terms of getting people to to move off of tobacco products. | 00:39:44 | |
| And we just do that by making referrals. We're working with younger and more hard to reach population, but it's very successful | 00:39:50 | |
| and that's really improving the overall health of residents. Interface itself actually created a multi year contract with the with | 00:39:58 | |
| both Southern California Edison and PG&E up in the north to help residents out during public safety power shut offs. We're now in | 00:40:05 | |
| our third year of that and we had a pretty amazing presentation. | 00:40:13 | |
| From PG&E recently, which I think is probably mirrored in Southern California Edison, the third top reason consumers are calling | 00:40:21 | |
| up in the North is actually to reach 211. So it's been very successful as a way to get resources to vulnerable families when there | 00:40:28 | |
| is any kind of de energization that happens. We're running a venture versus hate program, which is a hate reporting line for any | 00:40:36 | |
| community members who feel like they've been a subject of a hate crime. | 00:40:43 | |
| And this is a way for us to then help guide them to available resources in the community. | 00:40:51 | |
| And then lastly, we're part of a Southern California 211 ride program. So imagine if someone's car breaks down a Sunday night, | 00:40:57 | |
| they need to get to work in the morning. They don't use the bus system. They don't know how that works. They can reach two on one. | 00:41:03 | |
| We can help them with trip planning and say take the Orange line 42 and then transfer to this line and help someone to keep their | 00:41:09 | |
| job and keep them mobile even in those kind of emergency situations. So that's a great free resource. About 1/3 of the callers are | 00:41:16 | |
| unable to reach. | 00:41:22 | |
| Thank you so much for your presentation. This Council. Have any questions, Councilman? | 00:42:06 | |
| I was trying to write down that it says text your zip code 2 to get services texture zip code to 898211 and that will then start a | 00:42:11 | |
| text conversation 898211 and so that will deliver you to a menu of services and help you. Now what that will actually do is put | 00:42:19 | |
| you in touch with our staff directly just via text. Some people would rather have that conversation via text as opposed to a phone | 00:42:27 | |
| call. Thank you. You're welcome. It's a great way then also for residents to have the record of their information. | 00:42:36 | |
| And the resource that we've given them in text. And so sometimes even for voice callers, we'll ask them, would you like us to text | 00:42:44 | |
| this information to you? Now they have a permanent record of all the resources that we provided for them. | 00:42:50 | |
| Did you bring any marketing material or Flyers or anything like that? I didn't to to hand out, but we certainly can do that. But | 00:42:56 | |
| but I did bring some packets for you that shows some of the types of material that we have. So if that's of interest, we can | 00:43:03 | |
| absolutely get you some some rack cards or we actually created some business sized cards for law enforcement because it was a | 00:43:09 | |
| great way for them to be able to hand that 211 call card out, enable them to get on to their next call and provide something | 00:43:15 | |
| tangible for residents that might need it. | 00:43:21 | |
| Perfect. Thank you. Anyone else have questions? Yeah, I have a quick question. Hi, Eric. Good to see you. | 00:43:28 | |
| So two on one I. | 00:43:34 | |
| Worked with you before years ago and it's developed quite well. I mean it's just it's really nice to see the online capacity now | 00:43:36 | |
| that you have. | 00:43:41 | |
| I will wonder if you could just walk us through what happens when somebody calls, you get a voice call for somebody who needs. | 00:43:47 | |
| A place to live? Sure. What happens? Yeah. How do they, how does that referral work? Yeah, that's a great question. So we'll start | 00:43:54 | |
| out with just a brief question. We'll ask folks, what are that? What's the zip code you live in? So that helps us to really narrow | 00:44:00 | |
| down what are those available resources near them. | 00:44:06 | |
| Do they have transportation to get to those those any resources will also then explore what some of the other features of that | 00:44:11 | |
| family are because sometimes. | 00:44:17 | |
| Someone's asking for housing because they can't afford the place they're in now, but maybe we find out that they might qualify for | 00:44:22 | |
| another program that helps offset their budget to the extent that then now they can afford that fact. I took a call myself a | 00:44:30 | |
| couple years back and spoke with a woman who was the single breadwinner for her family. Her her parents were elderly and they were | 00:44:38 | |
| in the eviction process. They were going to lose the family home, her parents home, and we found out that she qualified for food. | 00:44:46 | |
| Support from financial support because of the number of of mouse she was feeding and if we had only gotten her a couple of months | 00:44:55 | |
| before they could have kept their house right so so that's really part of what 211 can do is explore the immediate issue that's | 00:45:01 | |
| presented. But then we also know what other services are available and other ways that folks can maybe try to solve that problem | 00:45:08 | |
| and and that's sometimes kind of complex to do so so we'll kind of do that general surveying and then we'll provide the actual | 00:45:14 | |
| resources so here's a. | 00:45:21 | |
| Can't someone just get this by searching Google? | 00:45:59 | |
| Well, try that, try say I don't have housing, you'll get, you know, 50 resources, you know, that don't give you any help at all. | 00:46:02 | |
| And then of course, it'll miss some of these other other really important ways to solve those problems. So it is because these are | 00:46:09 | |
| these tend to be more complex situations. Having a human do that is is pretty vital. That's great, great service. Thank you for | 00:46:17 | |
| coming tonight to speak to us. And please extend my thanks to your call takers. Will do. | 00:46:25 | |
| Thank you, happy to do that. | 00:46:33 | |
| All right, Thank you so much. All right, thank you. | 00:46:36 | |
| The next presentation we have up is the annual Regional Defense Partnership trip to Washington, DC presentation. | 00:46:40 | |
| And I believe Mayor Pro Tem and Councilman Hernandez are going to be giving that presentation. Mayor Pro Tem is going to start off | 00:46:47 | |
| perfect. I'll just fill in the gaps if there are any. | 00:46:51 | |
| Good evening everyone. | 00:47:09 | |
| So we're going to give a brief presentation regarding the trip that myself and Councilwoman Hernandez took with the Regional | 00:47:14 | |
| Defense Partnership. We traveled to DC in March at 18th through the 20th. I actually participated the 18th through the 19th. I | 00:47:21 | |
| came back early for a. | 00:47:28 | |
| Waimea Elementary School event. So I'm going to present. This is not meant to be a history behind the RDP or is it meant to give | 00:47:36 | |
| you all the information about all the things RDP has done, but it's about the trip that we actually took. So I have some slides | 00:47:43 | |
| here that can be available to you at your request. I won't be reading every word on the slide and I might not spend a lot of time | 00:47:51 | |
| on each slide, but I'm just going to give you the information that I think you want to know. | 00:47:59 | |
| About your council members going out of the state, attending a conference or an event. So this is our way of providing you that | 00:48:06 | |
| information. | 00:48:11 | |
| OK, so this is the mission of is this RDP 21, but we've now changed the name to RDP. So we got rid of the 21st century. And as I'm | 00:48:18 | |
| talking to you, if you're very interested in the topic, if you would just be reading through while I highlight on some things. But | 00:48:25 | |
| I think the important thing here to know that RDP is a collaborative. It's a collaborative effort with the military, the | 00:48:32 | |
| communities. | 00:48:39 | |
| And to try to entice people to take advantage of the things that the military has and the community has, and in that | 00:48:47 | |
| collaboration, hopefully come up with something better. | 00:48:54 | |
| That's good for all of us. | 00:49:01 | |
| So the RDP partnership is made-up of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, mayor, City Council members, elected officials, | 00:49:04 | |
| there are some senior base officials. We have the Ventura Economic Development Collaborative, local Chamber of Commerce. So | 00:49:11 | |
| there's a lot of people who are involved with the RDP partnership. | 00:49:18 | |
| Now this is just a organizational chart, so to speak, of the folks that are officially. | 00:49:26 | |
| Tide to RDP in its board and also in its strategic committee. And as you see, I am a council member that is a RDP member along | 00:49:33 | |
| with Kelly Long supervisor, Kelly Long, Supervisor Vinaya Lopez and then we have our other members of RDP down at the bottom. | 00:49:41 | |
| Terry Clark is a retired senior service executive from the Department of the Navy. Then we have Charlotte Craven who is the | 00:49:49 | |
| secretary. | 00:49:57 | |
| Or treasurer. And then down at the bottom, you might know Selena Zacharias, who is serves as a senior director of community and | 00:50:06 | |
| government relations at Cal State Channel Islands, who's also the president of the port. | 00:50:12 | |
| And on the right side there, you'll see the folks who actually went on the trip this year. | 00:50:20 | |
| And so some people you might be familiar with in this room is we had Councilmember. | 00:50:27 | |
| A Gabby Basua. She joined us this year. Myself again. | 00:50:33 | |
| Councilmember Woman Hernandez. You see some supervisors in there. | 00:50:39 | |
| Chief of Staff for Supervisor Lopez, Supervisor Long and Supervisor Long. | 00:50:44 | |
| So there was a good group of folks that represent a lot of organizations across Ventura County who are members or tied to RDP and | 00:50:50 | |
| who went to Washington, DC to lobby for support and give appreciation to those organizations who have already provided the | 00:50:57 | |
| military. And when I say the military, Naval Base Ventura County, we have to remember that we have, I say constituents. We have | 00:51:05 | |
| residents. | 00:51:12 | |
| That actually work on base and and so we are not just providing, we should not look at it only as a military base, but it's a it's | 00:51:20 | |
| a organization who helps with our own economic development as well. | 00:51:25 | |
| And so this is the list of the purpose of our visit, to make and support legislative requests, address important issues to visit | 00:51:33 | |
| based sponsors and customers and to gather information about some things that might be available to us that we don't know. And | 00:51:40 | |
| then to provide information to those that we visit to provide them information they may not be aware of. | 00:51:48 | |
| And so Naval Naval Base Ventura County is made-up of the Point Magoo Naval Base, San Nicholas Island, and also the Port Hueneme | 00:51:57 | |
| base here. | 00:52:03 | |
| And this is just a list of some facilities that are tied to the Naval Base Ventura County. | 00:52:12 | |
| And down at the very bottom is a really important area that I think needs to be called out. That's the Navy's largest air and sea | 00:52:18 | |
| test range. And what's what's really interesting about the test range there is that the port actually the ships that go to the | 00:52:27 | |
| port actually come through that the sea range to actually come into the port and deliver goods. | 00:52:35 | |
| So there's a tie in as well. | 00:52:44 | |
| This is some additional information. At the bottom, bottom corner, there is that the photo of the port. And if you look at the | 00:52:48 | |
| very far bottom right and then the maybe bottom to the left, middle left, that is the section of the port that the military uses. | 00:52:57 | |
| And so the port actually has the port, the portion that's at the top middle portion of this this this picture here. And so the | 00:53:06 | |
| uniqueness of the Naval Base Ventura County is that it has a course, a deep water port, it has railhead. | 00:53:15 | |
| And that's where we have real railroads that traffic that start and depart from a location on MBVC, 36,000 square miles of test | 00:53:24 | |
| range. We talked about that 125,000 square miles of instrumented sea and space range. So out of the Point Magoo military facility, | 00:53:34 | |
| they have access, they are watching the seas. They have 125,000 miles of instrumentation that sees the seas and the heirs. | 00:53:45 | |
| And then there's some additional information there. | 00:53:55 | |
| OK. So this is really what's what really was very important to us being able to go to DC to do the lobbying. So prior to going to | 00:54:02 | |
| DC we have pre visits with local. | 00:54:08 | |
| Leaders on the military facilities, these leaders are both military and civilians. And so these are the list of leading up to that | 00:54:17 | |
| April 18th departure, 3 weeks, about 3 weeks before we went to meet. | 00:54:25 | |
| All of the office of all of these folks. And So what the conversation was around is like what what what's eating your lunch? What | 00:54:33 | |
| is stopping you from getting your job done? What are some of the things that are pertinent to. | 00:54:41 | |
| Military security that we need to be talking to folks, legislators, congressmen, senators in Washington, DC And so this photo here | 00:54:50 | |
| is just our visit at the Channel Islands Air Station National Guard. | 00:54:57 | |
| And so these are the 2024 primary issues that we went to DC and we spoke to folks about. And so you may have heard some of these. | 00:55:08 | |
| Some of them, for instance, the naval base, electric power resiliency. So that's an issue that both Point Magoo, we know both | 00:55:21 | |
| Point Magoo and Port Hueneme has continued to deal with when we went to visit with the leaders at Point Magoo. | 00:55:30 | |
| They had just come, I think the day before they had just come off of a electrical shutdown. | 00:55:39 | |
| That was caused because critters got into underground and bit into some wires, right? And so the whole bait, not the whole base, | 00:55:46 | |
| but there was a majority of the base and the ranges that were shut down, they could not do work. | 00:55:53 | |
| Because of that purpose and so one of the big issues was trying to get. | 00:56:01 | |
| An updated electrical grid so that they don't have to worry about. | 00:56:06 | |
| Little animals biting into wires and creating shutdowns that cause hundreds of millions of dollars. | 00:56:12 | |
| There is another one, the Intelligence Community Directive 705 impacts, that is one that is talking about infrastructure requiring | 00:56:22 | |
| a higher level. | 00:56:27 | |
| Facilities than they currently have. And so the inability to do high level gender or top secret work, they're lacking | 00:56:35 | |
| infrastructure to do that. And so when you don't have infrastructure to do that and you don't have infrastructure to have | 00:56:41 | |
| classified conversations. | 00:56:47 | |
| That really holds up a lot of very important work. So that was another item. So I hope you all had a chance to read through some | 00:56:54 | |
| of these, but these are the 8 items that we went to Washington DC and spoke to those that we met on that day. Some we talked about | 00:56:59 | |
| maybe one thing and someone else we talked about another thing. So we didn't talk about all things to everyone, just the folks | 00:57:05 | |
| that it was pertinent to. | 00:57:10 | |
| And so these were the talking points. Some of the other things we talked about unmanned systems here at Port Hueneme, the Stingray | 00:57:18 | |
| and a number of other concerns with hangers and housing where they house the the equipment, airplanes and things that are | 00:57:27 | |
| classified nature upgrades on the pier talked about again unmanned the DDG 1000 other unmanned surface ship and mill cons for | 00:57:35 | |
| laboratories. Mil cons are just military construction. | 00:57:43 | |
| And usually those are over several millions of dollars. And the issue here is that we could only. | 00:57:51 | |
| Go to DC and lobby for things that were already in the queue. So we found that some of the things that we really would have liked | 00:57:57 | |
| to help with, they were not in the queue already. | 00:58:02 | |
| So we couldn't really do too much about them, but there were some items we were able to talk about. | 00:58:08 | |
| And so these are just the list of visits that we had. You see some photos here. We met with or went to Senator Lufthansa Butlers | 00:58:13 | |
| office. We did meet with someone else. She wasn't there. | 00:58:19 | |
| We went to Senator Senator Alex Padilla, Congresswoman Julia Brownlee, Congressman Salute Carbajal, the office of Kent Calvert | 00:58:27 | |
| House Armed Service Committee, the we saw the Minority Leader and so. | 00:58:33 | |
| So we we were in the rooms with some people who really had the authority to make some decisions. And so we were appreciative of | 00:58:42 | |
| that. And then these are some of the other offices that we went to. | 00:58:49 | |
| And these are some of the results today that have happened already. So we made and supported legislative requests and issues so. | 00:59:04 | |
| So we've asked people for things, right? We asked for letters, we asked for them to make connections, talk to other people that | 00:59:15 | |
| had maybe a higher level authority. So we weren't shy at what we really wanted and we we asked for it. | 00:59:23 | |
| Let's see. | 00:59:32 | |
| You see here, you all probably all know Congresswoman Brownlee. We asked her for a request letter. | 00:59:34 | |
| To the Navy on the power issue, what was happening is that we were asking for information from the military facility and we | 00:59:41 | |
| weren't able to get it. So we asked Congresswoman Brownlee to request it and provide that to us so that we could see what our next | 00:59:49 | |
| steps would be for us. And we did have from the test Resource Management center we visited, they're already working with Moorpark | 00:59:57 | |
| College and Cal State Channel Islands on a non degree artisan intern program. | 01:00:04 | |
| And So what this came from is we talked to a lot of folks from the military. And so a lot of times it's really, it's not that | 01:00:13 | |
| difficult to get a degree Engineers, right, because we know we need engineers. We people go to school for engineering, but we | 01:00:21 | |
| don't find a lot of time that people are going for the undegreed areas like mechanics, like technicians and other areas. So those | 01:00:29 | |
| are the areas that we're looking at trying to help. | 01:00:37 | |
| The military and other organizations get folk get programs so that we can train up in those areas that we find that we're we're, | 01:00:46 | |
| we're we're lacking these days. You know, we used to have mechanics, car, you know, doing the hard work, carpenters. And we used | 01:00:53 | |
| to have things in school where people could, the students could learn those skills from technical schools and different things | 01:01:01 | |
| like that. And we just don't have those anymore. So we're really lacking in those areas. | 01:01:09 | |
| So we have had some contact already with that. The NDAA included our request, we talked about the power grid, the hangar funding | 01:01:17 | |
| and again when I talked about classified information and infrastructure for classified. | 01:01:24 | |
| Work laboratories and even just conversation, that's where we have the skips issue and impacts of funding. What we found with that | 01:01:33 | |
| is that there have been some rules put in place to where organizations have to upgrade their infrastructures to be able to. | 01:01:42 | |
| And I know I had 10 minutes, so you all please tell me. I might be there now, but tell me. | 01:01:52 | |
| So what what's happening is that there has been some rules placed on the need for higher classification infrastructure to do | 01:01:59 | |
| business, but there's been no funding to do that. So organizations are struggling to get the infrastructure they need because they | 01:02:05 | |
| can't get the funding. If you can't get the funding, you cannot upgrade their infrastructure. So it's like a cyclical kind of | 01:02:11 | |
| thing. | 01:02:17 | |
| And so last slide and so the change of command for the Naval Base Ventura County's commander. | 01:02:25 | |
| Commander Kim Knock, we we know we had a great rapport with him. We create a great relationship with him. The change of command | 01:02:35 | |
| has now happened. He's been relieved. We have a new naval base. Ventura County Commander it is Captain Daniel DBS is call sign DB | 01:02:41 | |
| Brown. And so it looks like to me. | 01:02:48 | |
| We're going to be starting over and developing some relationships. And so I'm sure we're going to be on that really quickly. And | 01:02:55 | |
| we all got a chance, most of it got a chance to meet him either at the RDP meeting, last RDP meeting, or at the change of command. | 01:03:02 | |
| So we're really looking forward to working with the new commander and BVC commander and getting to know him and let him get to | 01:03:10 | |
| know us so he knows that we're all about getting the business done. And so that is the presentation. | 01:03:17 | |
| Councilwoman Hernandez, did you have anything to add? | 01:03:26 | |
| You did a great job. Thank you. I just, I wanted to say for all the issues that we took to DC, we had issue papers developed | 01:03:28 | |
| through the strategic planning committee so that we could operate from the same page. And we took turns introducing the issues and | 01:03:35 | |
| introducing the group and who RDP was. And we work very closely with the lobbyists there. So I think it was a very productive | 01:03:41 | |
| trip. You know, we, we actually see results, you know, when we come back, we hear that some things have passed and some things | 01:03:47 | |
| have been approved. So. | 01:03:53 | |
| Worthwhile effort. So thank you for approving us to go. If I can just say two more things. One of the things that we know is that | 01:04:00 | |
| NBC is working right now to get a new tenant command on base bringing 700 new employees. That's important. The other thing that I | 01:04:07 | |
| think we learned at going back at least a couple times that we've been back the last couple of years is that the Navy is, is it's | 01:04:15 | |
| a big Navy, but it's not a big Navy. | 01:04:22 | |
| When we went into the military offices that we were very, there was quite a few of our meetings in the rooms that we went in. Some | 01:04:30 | |
| of us knew people that were in these positions. So we already had rapport, relationship created, which really helped at us being | 01:04:38 | |
| able to talk about the things that we were requesting and needing. So everyone was receptive. There were some people, I tell you, | 01:04:46 | |
| when we share with them what the concerns were and what the issues that were being had in our local areas, they had no idea. | 01:04:55 | |
| And you can't really do something about something when you don't know that it's happening. And so that was I think of added value. | 01:05:03 | |
| We were able to communicate and then learn some information about possibility of some grants that might be available because we | 01:05:09 | |
| are outside the gate from a military facility. So thank you. | 01:05:15 | |
| Thank you very much, Mayor Pro Tem. You give a presentation like a teacher. | 01:05:21 | |
| Very good, very well done. Does council have any questions? Council Member Martinez? No, thank you so much. Mayor Pro Tem McLean, | 01:05:25 | |
| John for the presentation. I was wondering did the power grid affect affect families homes too? | 01:05:32 | |
| I wasn't aware of that. Yeah, yes, it did. Some homes there on the base, on port talking about Point Magoo at this time. So there | 01:05:41 | |
| was some loss at Point Magoo. Were there any other talking points that directly were like to help our residents that live on the | 01:05:49 | |
| base or any of the local military families? I didn't see any in in your prison. Yeah, there was one very quick and I think it was | 01:05:56 | |
| added with something else. So part of the conversations we had were about services. | 01:06:03 | |
| Services to the military and military families what came out of a visit we had at Point Magoo. | 01:06:11 | |
| And so it surrounded daycare military folks at Point Magoo taking sometimes an hour away from their work to have to drop their | 01:06:18 | |
| children off and go back to work because there used to be a daycare center at well, there is there was there, I don't know. I | 01:06:25 | |
| believe it's not there now at the level that they they have over here. But they used to have a daycare. They used to have a | 01:06:31 | |
| grocery store. Now they only have any. They don't have a, what do you call it, any acts? They don't have any acts. They have a | 01:06:38 | |
| small one like a grocery store, like a market. | 01:06:44 | |
| But that's all they have at Point Lagoon. And so they have to travel over to Port Hueneme to get the services, medical services, | 01:06:52 | |
| medical services as well. They have a small dispensary, but it doesn't provide medical care. You can go there and get medicines | 01:06:57 | |
| and stuff like that, but it doesn't. So, so yeah, so that was that was we, we did talk, we talked about that. We actually met | 01:07:02 | |
| with. | 01:07:07 | |
| I think it was no CNIC. That's not Rosen, is it? | 01:07:14 | |
| No, I think he's not. | 01:07:18 | |
| In the Southwest. | 01:07:27 | |
| Region and so. | 01:07:30 | |
| We were able to communicate that and. | 01:07:34 | |
| Yeah. So, so we didn't. So we talked about everything that we thought that we got from all the organizations and that was one of | 01:07:38 | |
| them. The other thing is that, you know, family housing for there is some family housing in Camarillo. And think about you have to | 01:07:44 | |
| go from Camarillo, you have to come to Fort Wayne and drop your kids off at daycare. Then you have to go to Point Me, go to work. | 01:07:50 | |
| And you have to do that, then you have to be there by a certain time. So there's a lot of things that. | 01:07:57 | |
| We talked about services, military services. Are there any other ideas or talking points that RDP can directly help our residents | 01:08:03 | |
| here? Any other ideas such as or even just with the base like providing like how we used to provide services in the past? Have | 01:08:09 | |
| there been any talks like that so that we can do more work with the with the base? Yeah. So let me just I'll say, I'll say it this | 01:08:14 | |
| way. | 01:08:20 | |
| So when we went to visit the our pre visits, we really took the top items that those commanders and those leaders wanted us to | 01:08:26 | |
| take to Washington DC. And so they didn't get too in depth about specifically other things, but they did talk about having housing | 01:08:33 | |
| for military people who come here that can't afford to live. We heard tonight paying 20 something $2500, you know, a month or | 01:08:40 | |
| whatever, but. | 01:08:48 | |
| Housing was one, daycare was one and then medical, but I don't think they went too far down from that a few years ago. Another | 01:08:56 | |
| issue was the licensing for the wives of the enlisted who would come here from out of state. They had a. | 01:09:05 | |
| Cosmetic. | 01:09:15 | |
| Cosmetic license or. | 01:09:17 | |
| Yeah, and teachers, their license didn't apply here because it didn't meet California standards. So we lobbied for that in DC and | 01:09:21 | |
| they actually initiated some legislation after that to allow them to work in California with existing license from other states in | 01:09:27 | |
| those areas. So that really helped with their income. You know, they don't make a lot of money. And so it helped with with their | 01:09:34 | |
| families. | 01:09:41 | |
| But as far as communities, I think most of the efforts are really directed at supporting base operations, making sure that base | 01:09:49 | |
| can function. When it comes to community relations, there is that one organization that I think the military committee will be | 01:09:55 | |
| working on. I think you sit on that, right. | 01:10:01 | |
| Well, thank you for the presentation. | 01:10:09 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 01:10:12 | |
| I just want to, I think what I I, I hear from Councilmember Martinez and is that the enlisted personnel that come here have real | 01:10:15 | |
| needs and sometimes we see some of the. | 01:10:22 | |
| Tragic outcomes. | 01:10:29 | |
| Of not having their needs addressed. So I do just echo that like, you know, hey, let's let's think about the human factor, the | 01:10:32 | |
| residents that come to Waimea. | 01:10:36 | |
| 211 might be a great service for them as well, but let's see if we could bring all our greatest ideas and programs together so | 01:10:41 | |
| that not only are these great services available to the residents, but also more importantly to the new residents that come here | 01:10:47 | |
| that find themselves in crisis trying to get acclimated to a new place. I think that goes with our partnership goals with the | 01:10:54 | |
| Navy, talking about what they need and what we can do. | 01:11:00 | |
| To help make sure they get the things that they need. | 01:11:08 | |
| Do you have anything, Councilman Hernandez? | 01:11:12 | |
| Well, that's one of the things we are thinking about as we plan for the 700 families that are going to be. | 01:11:16 | |
| Coming to to live here with the next new command. | 01:11:21 | |
| I think it's new. | 01:11:25 | |
| There's a lot of commands on that base. | 01:11:28 | |
| Thank you so much. | 01:11:30 | |
| So we'll move on to the consent calendar. Could I quickly, during the city manager's report tonight, we were going to, I was going | 01:11:33 | |
| to ask Commander Albertson to speak for just one moment about the 4th of July and how we're taking steps to prepare for that. But | 01:11:40 | |
| looking at the agenda and seeing it's a very long meeting and that we'll be doing it probably pretty late at night and we won't | 01:11:48 | |
| have anybody watching at that point, I would ask if the Council would allow Commander Everson to give that brief explanation now. | 01:11:55 | |
| Do you need a? Do you need a motion to bring it forward? No, I think we can. | 01:12:03 | |
| Allow Commander Albertson to give the presentation. We just can't take any action on it. So it's just a verbal update and again, | 01:12:09 | |
| just cuz I know we've been talking about it, but we know that the public is going to start preparing for 4th of July soon, so. | 01:12:15 | |
| Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of City Council, members of staff, members of the public. | 01:12:24 | |
| So some of the things that we're doing so far to address 4th of July in the fireworks situation. | 01:12:29 | |
| Is we've started a social media campaign. | 01:12:35 | |
| We'll continue to do that throughout the next coming weeks, upcoming weeks, we also plan on deploying our message boards, | 01:12:38 | |
| reminding the residents that fireworks, all fireworks, are illegal, reminding them of what the maximum fine is if they're cited or | 01:12:44 | |
| arrested. | 01:12:50 | |
| We plan on putting on several special enforcement and suppression details which will include regular patrol, extra patrol, bike | 01:12:57 | |
| patrol, foot patrol, patrol with our off road Polaris down at the beach and then and that will continue from now until 4th of | 01:13:06 | |
| July, maybe even a little beyond 4th of July depending on what the what the circumstances are after, after the holiday is over. | 01:13:15 | |
| And then 4th of July itself, we do plan to up staff so that we will have extra patrol deployment that night that's. | 01:13:26 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. And and I just will note, I have actually had a couple people who emailed me and just said. | 01:13:35 | |
| If I know someone who's who fires off fireworks every year, what should I do? And we told them today in the last couple days, if | 01:13:42 | |
| you know someone's doing it, send us the information because we can always go out and try to talk to people and just remind them | 01:13:48 | |
| of what is and is not allowed. So, so if you know something, say something over the next couple weeks. And then otherwise we've | 01:13:54 | |
| got our officers and, and our plan for how we're going to handle it. So yeah, we do have, we have a dedicated fireworks e-mail | 01:14:00 | |
| address, but we also. | 01:14:06 | |
| Ask people when it's happening to call. | 01:14:13 | |
| A lot of times we'll get emails two or three days later. It's important that if residents see someone lighting fireworks offer | 01:14:15 | |
| they they know it's happening at certain residents to give us a call when it's actually happening. That makes it a lot easier for | 01:14:20 | |
| us to to take action. Thank you. I think Jones about to tell us not to talk anymore about it. | 01:14:25 | |
| Thank you, Commander. I guess we can. It's not on the agenda. Of course, call 911 or call your non-emergency line. | 01:14:34 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 01:14:45 | |
| All right, now we will move forward to the consent calendar. | 01:14:47 | |
| So we'll consider items on the consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless a council member has a request to | 01:14:52 | |
| remove an item for discussion. Do any council members have a request to remove an item? I do which number #8? | 01:14:58 | |
| OK, any other? | 01:15:06 | |
| I have, I have one question, you could remove it or I can ask a question regarding probably should be removed. OK, let's remove | 01:15:08 | |
| it. And that was the one about the dog. | 01:15:13 | |
| That's not on consent. OK, got it. Thank you. So then can I have a motion to approve all items except #8? | 01:15:20 | |
| Move to approval. Approve all items except #8. | 01:15:28 | |
| I saw gamma movies, there's like. | 01:15:33 | |
| Sorry, I'm sorry, who is the 2nd? | 01:15:37 | |
| It was Hernandez. | 01:15:41 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed. | 01:15:45 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 01:15:48 | |
| OK. So item 8 is the Ventura County Transportation Commission Safe grant program and I understand that we have applied for a | 01:15:53 | |
| $31,000 grant and we'll be getting some vital equipment which includes. | 01:16:00 | |
| A drone, a scale and some retrofitting of a patrol truck bed and I would like to ask if either. | 01:16:09 | |
| Commander Albertson or Sergeant Bates could come up and tell us a little bit about what you have planned for this equipment. | 01:16:22 | |
| If you could come up and and share that with us, I and I, while he's coming up, I want to say thank you for the good job in | 01:16:31 | |
| writing this grant. I actually spoke to one of the grant reviewers and she pulled me aside and she just wanted to say that | 01:16:37 | |
| Sergeant Bates, who wrote this grant, did an excellent job. | 01:16:43 | |
| In writing the grant and I was and she said he did a really good job who's outstanding grant and of course it was awarded so I | 01:16:50 | |
| just wanted to publicly thank you for doing a good job of making our city shine so thank you Tell us more about what the plans are | 01:16:58 | |
| for this grant. This will be this will be equipment to outfit our newly formed commercial traffic enforcement unit. So we will be | 01:17:06 | |
| outfitting a current patrol truck that we have with equipment that we can go out and. | 01:17:13 | |
| Have the tools we need to enforce our commercial enforcement along our truck routes within the city. | 01:17:23 | |
| As you know, in the grant, we have over 255,000 big rigs that come in and out of our city annually. | 01:17:31 | |
| This will allow us to do a lot of checks and balances on the safety. | 01:17:42 | |
| Licensing the weights, the length requirements, and it basically comes down to Traffic Safety. | 01:17:48 | |
| OK. So will you be setting up like a location where trucks will be required to pull over? And so we have there are different | 01:17:56 | |
| levels of inspections. So currently we have three officers that are level two and three CHP certified for commercial enforcement. | 01:18:06 | |
| Myself included, this allows us to conduct traffic enforcement traffic stops. Level one would be like your CHP scales. That would | 01:18:16 | |
| be more of like a a checkpoint where you would be static and require vehicles without any reasonable cause or any reason at all to | 01:18:25 | |
| come into your checkpoint. We will not be doing those. Those are level 1, so we will be mobile and the need for the truck. | 01:18:34 | |
| Well, thank you very much. Congratulations on the grant and good luck with your new program. | 01:18:46 | |
| Can I have a motion to approve item 8 move to approve? | 01:18:51 | |
| 2nd. | 01:18:55 | |
| Thank you. | 01:18:57 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. | 01:18:59 | |
| We will now move on to. | 01:19:06 | |
| Public hearings. | 01:19:09 | |
| The first public hearing will be the amendment to the development agreements for all cannabis business operating in the city and | 01:19:11 | |
| determination the project. | 01:19:15 | |
| Is exempt from SEQU. | 01:19:20 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have? | 01:19:24 | |
| Proof of publication as required by law and a complete file of reports and exhibits. Yes, Madam Mayor, thank you. Will staff | 01:19:26 | |
| please present the report? | 01:19:29 | |
| Great. Thank you, Mayor and good evening Mayor, council, staff, audience. This is basically for all intents and purposes a clean | 01:19:35 | |
| up item, so to speak. | 01:19:40 | |
| As you recall, we've recently made over the last year or so several changes to our cannabis program, For instance, not including | 01:19:46 | |
| the excise taxes within the definition of gross revenues any longer, allowing consumption lounges to stay open longer. | 01:19:54 | |
| Allowing dispensaries to stay open longer as well for moving background checks, et cetera. | 01:20:03 | |
| However, the City Council has also been asking for consistency with regard to the charitable contributions that each cannabis | 01:20:10 | |
| business is supposed to be providing to the city. | 01:20:16 | |
| And as well, while the businesses currently are required to pay for up to two audits, we've been generally just requiring one | 01:20:22 | |
| annual audit, so. | 01:20:28 | |
| What we're proposing to do with regard to these amendments, while the ordinance and the resolution that we've already passed take | 01:20:34 | |
| care of some of these items, such as the hours of operation and whatnot. | 01:20:39 | |
| There are really three cleanup items that we need to look at here. And so that's what we're doing here this evening. The 1st is to | 01:20:45 | |
| divine gross revenues clearly. | 01:20:49 | |
| Over the past four to five years, that definitions changed and so we want to nail it down and also make sure that sales and excise | 01:20:55 | |
| taxes. | 01:20:59 | |
| Are excluded as we've all agreed upon. The second would be to clean up the audit requirements and just verify that the one annual | 01:21:03 | |
| audit is what's required. | 01:21:09 | |
| And then add language regarding the charitable contributions to our older agreements, it's not in there at all. As well As for all | 01:21:15 | |
| 17 agreements to require that the payments be reported to the city monthly and that the contributions will directly benefit the | 01:21:22 | |
| cities residents. So that way we've got more teeth when we basically, for instance, reject ones that are safe for the city of | 01:21:29 | |
| Oxnard as opposed to Fort Wayne, Amy. So we're proposing those amendments. | 01:21:36 | |
| And then there and this applies to all seventeen of them. So if you've read these, they're they're all pretty straightforward. | 01:21:45 | |
| They all look the same. All of the ordinances pretty much read the same as well. However, as you are aware, we do have three | 01:21:51 | |
| businesses that have not been built out yet. All three are micro businesses. | 01:21:58 | |
| The first one was the pH Organics Micro business over on the 475 W Channel Islands Blvd. | 01:22:05 | |
| And back in October when we reviewed their development agreement, we the City Council. | 01:22:11 | |
| Went with staff's recommendation to give them twelve additional months to build out the project. And so at this point, because we | 01:22:19 | |
| are now bringing back the development agreements, we are recommending that that 12 months start basically today and end on June | 01:22:25 | |
| 30th of next year. | 01:22:30 | |
| We've also amended their gross revenues to be for the cultivation component all only to be reduced from 5% to 3% per hour November | 01:22:37 | |
| 20th decision back at the time. This particular business does have a cultivation component, so it would be applicable there. | 01:22:45 | |
| And then we're also for the Red Mule, a project also recommending the one year completion date being moved out to June 30th the | 01:22:55 | |
| next year as well. However, because they do not have a cultivation component, we don't have to amend their development agreement | 01:23:00 | |
| with regard to that. | 01:23:05 | |
| And then the final one is Tradecraft. And as you will recall, we continued their hearing from October to November 20th. And the | 01:23:12 | |
| developers at that meeting basically told you that they could not afford to build out their facility per the original plans, but | 01:23:19 | |
| that they would partially build it out per what they call phase one, which is adding an additional cultivation room. There was a | 01:23:27 | |
| big discussion on the number of lamps that they could afford to put in. | 01:23:35 | |
| A room for immature plants and then build out the 2nd floor with regard to their dry room and their distribution packaging areas. | 01:23:44 | |
| And after a discussion with the city manager, city attorney, it was decided, well, some build out is better than no build out. So | 01:23:51 | |
| as long as they. | 01:23:56 | |
| Were to show good faith we would allow them an extension. However, what wasn't decided upon was full build out of the facility at | 01:24:03 | |
| all, and so the commitment though was to at least build out the first phase within a year. | 01:24:11 | |
| At this point. | 01:24:22 | |
| Six months on, seven months on, we're not aware of any actual activity taking place to commence that build out, however. | 01:24:24 | |
| So at that point, we are recommending this time for a couple of reasons. One, just because we're looking at all 17 development | 01:24:35 | |
| agreements at the same time, but two, to basically hopefully put some heat under them is to require them to build out phase one | 01:24:42 | |
| within 12 months of today basically, which would be June 30th. | 01:24:49 | |
| Next year. | 01:24:56 | |
| But however to to actually put an end date to the development agreement, what we are recommending that they be given one | 01:24:58 | |
| additional year to finish build out of the rest of the facility. | 01:25:04 | |
| They're always again able to come to you if they can't do so and we can renegotiate the development agreement at that time. | 01:25:11 | |
| However, upon learning about this, because all of the developers, all of the businesses have been given copies of their amended | 01:25:19 | |
| development agreements and. | 01:25:25 | |
| Ordinances Tradecraft did request that because they're out of town at the time at this time. | 01:25:32 | |
| That they be able to delay their action on their particular agreement until this coming September, when the Council is back in | 01:25:38 | |
| session. | 01:25:43 | |
| And so with that, we've heard from several of the businesses, they are all in favor of the changes being made. Again, these | 01:25:50 | |
| basically do benefit them. Several others have not replied to staff and then we have not had any objections other than again | 01:25:57 | |
| Tradecraft asking for that continuance. | 01:26:03 | |
| So at this point the project is exempt from Sequel. I won't read all of that, but it is basically no expansive view, so to speak. | 01:26:11 | |
| And then the fiscal impact this was has restated of what we discussed back in November, which will be that there will be a small | 01:26:20 | |
| hit to the general fund from that cultivation operations being reduced from 5% to 3%. But that's only applicable to two businesses | 01:26:28 | |
| and that's assuming that they begin operations right now. So we're not taking that hit at all. But if they do begin operations and | 01:26:36 | |
| this helps them to to build out, then we'll see a larger increase from the rest of their operations. | 01:26:43 | |
| To benefit the General fund. | 01:26:51 | |
| And then any changes to the 1% charitable contributions would not affect the general fund that goes straight to the charities. | 01:26:53 | |
| And so with that, it's recommended that the City Council introduced for first reading by title only and way for further reading of | 01:27:01 | |
| the ordinance entitled An Ordinance Approving and Adopting an Imminent Development Agreement under Government Code sections 65864 | 01:27:08 | |
| and 65869.5 and ordinance #796 of the Fort Wayne Municipal Code. | 01:27:14 | |
| Really relating to the operation of a cannabis facility and this would be for all 17 of the cannabis businesses currently entitled | 01:27:21 | |
| in the city. And then to further find the project exempt under Sequel. And that concludes my presentation. I'm available for any | 01:27:28 | |
| questions. Thank you. Director Stewart, does council have any questions for staff? | 01:27:34 | |
| Hi, thank you for your report. Just a couple of questions. Can you tell me when we met, I can't remember the date when we last met | 01:27:45 | |
| with Tradecraft, what was their commitment to us then? | 01:27:52 | |
| It was that within a year, and this was back in November, they would be. | 01:27:59 | |
| Building out that phase one, which again was the additional flower room, the additional immature plant room and build out of the | 01:28:05 | |
| 2nd floor with regard to the distribution. | 01:28:09 | |
| And I think you said that you've seen no progress, correct? | 01:28:15 | |
| And then you mentioned something about, and forgive me, I don't remember the words. I was kind of writing some notes. You, you | 01:28:18 | |
| said something about they're out of town. | 01:28:23 | |
| Correct or out of yes, some of them are out of town right now because they're out of town. Well, the management team basically is | 01:28:28 | |
| who's out of town. No, they're on site manager who probably isn't the best person to answer questions about the overall build out | 01:28:36 | |
| is in town and they're operational, but the owners are out of out of the country right now and so. | 01:28:44 | |
| And so because of that, they're asking to push instead of today being the start date that it be pushed to September. | 01:28:54 | |
| OK. And then? | 01:29:06 | |
| So what happened since it's been since November and we've we've seen no progress to date. What happens when we get to that year | 01:29:09 | |
| and if we don't see any progress, what what happens then we push it back another year? Well, tonight we're actually asking to push | 01:29:17 | |
| it back already about seven months. So basically restart that 12 month clock tonight. So we're already looking at that. And then | 01:29:25 | |
| yes, within a year we'll be coming back for the annual reviews of all these amendments basically. | 01:29:33 | |
| So expect a long discussion because we have 17 at one time, but at that point then we can have the discussion if there has not | 01:29:42 | |
| been. | 01:29:46 | |
| Good faith, basically. | 01:29:51 | |
| Yeah, I remember. I just remember November, the discussion that went on and on and on, and I felt like I. | 01:29:54 | |
| They understood and. | 01:30:04 | |
| Made the commitment. | 01:30:06 | |
| Rather than keep saying, OK, we'll give you a due date later. I think at some point we have to give a due date. And then when we | 01:30:41 | |
| have that due date, if we need to talk more and if we see progress and we, we think that. | 01:30:47 | |
| You know, we can come back and say we know this is getting done, we just need more time, then we will do that. We'll be | 01:30:55 | |
| reasonable, but we have to start seeing the progress at some point, so. | 01:30:59 | |
| Director Steward, I know at some point in time the discussion was part of the problem was because of Southern California Edison. | 01:31:05 | |
| And not being able to upgrade the rooms that they need in order to do some of this business, is that still an issue? | 01:31:11 | |
| I would believe that yes, it is. I'm not aware of Edison making any changes on their end, any of this. So we don't know if there's | 01:31:19 | |
| been any movement on Southern California Edison's part as to. | 01:31:23 | |
| Helping to get these, I know there's several, they're not the only one who's having that issue, but do we have any info about | 01:31:29 | |
| that? I don't have any new information, let's put it this way. So my assumption would be that we're in the same situation as we | 01:31:33 | |
| were last year. | 01:31:37 | |
| Any further questions from Council? | 01:31:43 | |
| Seeing none, we will now open this hearing for a public hearing. | 01:31:46 | |
| The public hearing is now open for public input at 8:01 PM. Are there any public comments regarding this item? | 01:31:51 | |
| No public comments. | 01:31:57 | |
| Thank you. Seeing none, we will close the public hearing. The public input has concluded. I will now close the public hearing. The | 01:31:59 | |
| time being 801. | 01:32:03 | |
| We have before us a recommendation to introduce the first reading by title only, waiving further reading of an ordinance entitled | 01:32:10 | |
| An Ordinance Approving and Adopting an Amendment Development Agreement. | 01:32:15 | |
| Under Government Code sections 65864265869.5 and ordinance #796 of the Fort Wayne Municipal Code relating to the operation of a | 01:32:21 | |
| cannabis facility for each of the 17 cannabis businesses currently entitled in the city and to find the project is exempt from | 01:32:29 | |
| further review by from Sequa. May I have a motion and a second? | 01:32:36 | |
| So moved. | 01:32:45 | |
| 2nd Thank you. Any further discussion before we vote? | 01:32:46 | |
| So. | 01:32:53 | |
| Talking about the June start date. | 01:32:56 | |
| Correct. So that may be something that you want to entertain or not. If, if you don't want to continue the hearing per their | 01:33:01 | |
| request, then tonight you'd be approving the June start date, yes. | 01:33:09 | |
| I don't know the procedure, but I'm I'm, I'm willing to be heard if you'd like. I'm the general counsel for Dub Brothers and | 01:33:18 | |
| Tradecraft. | 01:33:22 | |
| We've made this request that we have this continuance so that we have time to work with staff in order to come up with a agreement | 01:33:27 | |
| that we can sign off on. | 01:33:33 | |
| But I don't know the proper procedure to appear before you. | 01:33:40 | |
| City attorney do. | 01:33:44 | |
| Did you fill out a comment card for I didn't know I was supposed to. I, I let staff know and Mr. Stewart know that we'd requested | 01:33:50 | |
| the continuance and I asked for guidance on how best to appear tonight and I told them through several emails that I was coming | 01:33:56 | |
| and that I would be here tonight. But you did not fill out a comment card? I did not fill out a comment card. And it's up to the | 01:34:01 | |
| council's discretion if it wants to. | 01:34:07 | |
| Just a minute. | 01:34:21 | |
| And just for the record, I do want to clarify that we did not receive any emails from you and the only thing we received was the | 01:34:26 | |
| letter that Georgiana has from Paula. So I just want to make it clear that City Council that this is the first time that we've | 01:34:33 | |
| been made aware of his appearance this evening. I'm, I'm happy to show you I've, I've my phone with me. I'm happy to show you the | 01:34:41 | |
| sent messages of three emails that I sent today. I'm actually reading one correspondence from you dated June 13th. | 01:34:48 | |
| 2024 I think at this point it would be appropriate for the Council to. | 01:34:56 | |
| Hear from the witness, as it were, the person. | 01:35:04 | |
| What, 3 minutes? | 01:35:10 | |
| 3 minutes. Thank you very much. I appreciate the courtesy. So my name is David D Jote and I'm the General Counsel for Tradecraft. | 01:35:12 | |
| Are there lawyers on the council? | 01:35:22 | |
| No, so I can disparage myself then. I know nothing other than what I'm told. I'm simply the mouthpiece. But from what I | 01:35:26 | |
| understand, and I was here in November, we did make a commitment to build out the growery. There's this phase one and phase two. | 01:35:34 | |
| Phase two is very, very problematic, as we've commented to Mr. Stewart many times and to Council when we were here in November. | 01:35:43 | |
| Our goal in asking for this three months continuance is to ideally get an amendment to the agreement where we can actually. | 01:35:52 | |
| Full throated LY agree to and. | 01:36:01 | |
| Our goal, rather than bring competing versions to the council, would be to work with staff to get A to get an amendment to the | 01:36:05 | |
| agreement that we can agree to and whatever we don't agree, perhaps then it would be appropriate to ask for Council's guidance on | 01:36:11 | |
| our then version or staff's version. | 01:36:18 | |
| But. | 01:36:25 | |
| As to the build out, I'm quite sure that. | 01:36:26 | |
| Committing the client, but I'm quite sure that we're prepared to go forward and we appreciate the extra time that we have to do | 01:36:32 | |
| it. The purpose of the continuance is not to delay, but it's actually to, to work through in order to get an agreement with our | 01:36:40 | |
| input that we can live with. And we've got our CFO prepared to tell you about the finances and what's happened. We, we have | 01:36:47 | |
| financing that we've just gotten in place to build out the rooms. | 01:36:55 | |
| We do have some suggestions. I don't have them with me because we got this too quickly for me to be able to make a presentation | 01:37:03 | |
| tonight about what I think would be acceptable to the Council. I. | 01:37:09 | |
| With that, I can reserve the rest of my time. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Are there any questions from | 01:37:17 | |
| Council? | 01:37:20 | |
| So are you saying that you currently has your agreement stands in the packet that we have now that you're not in a you want us to | 01:37:26 | |
| do something different other than what we're trying to do tonight? Yes, what I think is happening tonight isn't it is the first | 01:37:32 | |
| reading of Mr. Stewart and staff's recommendation on the proposal that they sent to us modifying our development agreement with | 01:37:38 | |
| the city that. | 01:37:44 | |
| Was part of the packet. | 01:37:52 | |
| And we said through emails. | 01:37:55 | |
| You know, wait a minute here, we've got some suggestions and. | 01:37:58 | |
| We'd like some time to work with you so that we can see if we can make an agreement that we can live with. | 01:38:03 | |
| Because as Council remembered and I heard some of the statements, you were quite right in remembering that the environment of the | 01:38:11 | |
| cannabis world has cratered with the devaluation of what cannabis can sell for in a gross way and that directly effects our | 01:38:18 | |
| profitability. We are losing, and I don't have the figures with us, but we're losing between 300 and $500,000 per year on this | 01:38:26 | |
| facility. | 01:38:33 | |
| And what we're trying to do is tread water with the hope that cannabis. | 01:38:42 | |
| Sales value increases so we can make a profit and also that we, you know can withstand without going out of business. | 01:38:48 | |
| Does council have any other? | 01:38:59 | |
| I just, I guess I just don't, I wanted to finish. I just guess I don't understand. We're almost giving you two years up to two | 01:39:01 | |
| years potentially, right? | 01:39:05 | |
| I don't see what. | 01:39:13 | |
| I didn't. I didn't hear you that last comment. | 01:39:14 | |
| You don't think it's No, I I don't see what the problem is, why we can't go through with the section he's considering. We're | 01:39:17 | |
| giving you almost two years. | 01:39:21 | |
| An extension. | 01:39:27 | |
| I did have just one question. I just want to. | 01:39:28 | |
| Deju DE Capital JUTE, first name David. | 01:39:39 | |
| You mentioned that. | 01:39:44 | |
| Phase two is complex. | 01:39:48 | |
| So what's the status of phase one? | 01:39:55 | |
| Basically again it says stand still. Like I said, we have not seen any activity occur. | 01:39:58 | |
| So and that was what we were going to give the additional. | 01:40:06 | |
| 12 months to and then phase two would be the further 12 months. | 01:40:09 | |
| Let me just ask the question before you answer. So you you mentioned about the complexities of phase two. What is the complexity | 01:40:16 | |
| of phase one if it there's been no movement? | 01:40:21 | |
| There's no complexity other than our getting financing, which we've gotten and we know that we are not. We're still timely in | 01:40:28 | |
| having been completed. Mr. Stewart, in sending us the staff's proposal, said, and I'm paraphrasing, but it's almost an exact | 01:40:35 | |
| quote. It's problematic leaving phase two open-ended. When we were here last November, we were only talking about phase one and | 01:40:43 | |
| many of those. | 01:40:50 | |
| Comments got implemented and we're grateful to that. | 01:40:57 | |
| In this current proposal. | 01:41:01 | |
| But when we were talking in November, we were saying what we can do and what we can commit to do is to do phase one. Phase two is | 01:41:05 | |
| problematic. | 01:41:10 | |
| We can't afford to do phase two. Mr. Stewart now says he's uncomfortable having it open-ended. And so we have a difference of | 01:41:16 | |
| opinion, you know, we'd either like to. | 01:41:22 | |
| Find a way of doing phase two, cancel phase two. But I don't want to commit to something that I cannot do and then come back to | 01:41:29 | |
| you and say, yeah, I know we agreed to this amendment, but yeah, it's become impossible. | 01:41:37 | |
| You know, I'd rather do that up front with full transparency than. | 01:41:46 | |
| Surreptitiously. | 01:41:52 | |
| Madam Mayor, I'd like to move to a vote. | 01:41:55 | |
| You have any further questions? Yes, what's the difference between phase one and phase two? Just just to clarify and I don't have | 01:41:57 | |
| all the details, but it's basically phase one has to do, we don't have to do the power upgrade and I think it is to do two | 01:42:03 | |
| additional rooms which we. | 01:42:08 | |
| Are prepared to do. | 01:42:16 | |
| Phase two has to do with increasing the Mr. Stewart undoubtedly knows better than I do, but increasing the footprint of the place | 01:42:17 | |
| to do more indoor growery. I think we're the only ones doing Growers indoor in Port Hueneme. It's become very expensive and there | 01:42:25 | |
| are many more dispensaries now. | 01:42:32 | |
| Both here and in neighboring communities, making it even more challenging. | 01:42:40 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 01:42:47 | |
| OK. I'd like to move for a vote. Do you have a second? | 01:42:49 | |
| It was second. | 01:42:56 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 01:42:58 | |
| Is there a first? | 01:42:59 | |
| I I have one more question so. | 01:43:03 | |
| So back in November, you had asked for more time. | 01:43:06 | |
| We gave you more time, but now you're saying that what we approved on November wasn't what you wanted. We didn't really. There was | 01:43:11 | |
| no resolution about phase two. What would happen in November is fine. With respect to phase one, there are some details that I | 01:43:17 | |
| think we would like the chance to put input about. | 01:43:24 | |
| Audits the price of audits when they have to be audited. | 01:43:32 | |
| Several other things that I can't remember right now that the CFO wanted to run by Mr. Stewart, but. | 01:43:36 | |
| Those go to the overall agreement. | 01:43:45 | |
| As to building out two rooms in phase one, that's not a problem. When we spoke in November, there was no resolution on phase two. | 01:43:48 | |
| We only spoke about phase one. But now in doing this amended proposal, Mr. Stewart rightfully wants to tie up loose ends and we | 01:43:54 | |
| don't think we addressed phase two at the council meeting in November other than to say phase one is going to be difficult, Phase | 01:44:01 | |
| two is impossible. | 01:44:08 | |
| And then and you say you you had sent emails to Mr. Stewart, but Mr. Stewart says that he hasn't received any emails. | 01:44:15 | |
| So someone received my emails, but I mean, I'm happy to show you my my e-mail log. I don't know why Mr. Stewart wouldn't receive | 01:44:23 | |
| them. | 01:44:26 | |
| Madam Clerk, go ahead. | 01:44:31 | |
| If I could ask Mr. did you so phase one, are you all willing and able to perform on phase one within one year from today? OK. So, | 01:44:34 | |
| so one thought would be and one suggestion I would have is that we can start by with, with their particular agreement with setting | 01:44:41 | |
| phase one for one year from today and then between now and the next review, Mr. Stewart and I can work with them to come back on | 01:44:49 | |
| phase two. | 01:44:57 | |
| And bring back a proposal for phase two, of course, that that would be a compromise because I think, and I think it's worth | 01:45:05 | |
| considering because phase two is maybe complicated and more complex than most of the other development agreements that we're | 01:45:14 | |
| reviewing. So there'd be that option or the recommended option in the packet or the option of. | 01:45:23 | |
| Not approving it at this time, but I think that's a good compromise option of starting to set the date for phase one so that that | 01:45:33 | |
| date doesn't continue to slip into the future. So who had the motion? So I have a motion by Councilmember Gama, seconded by | 01:45:39 | |
| Council Member Martinez for staff's recommendation. | 01:45:44 | |
| I'll make a motion to approve. | 01:45:53 | |
| City manager's recommendation. | 01:45:58 | |
| It's approving all of them with the exception of for Tradecraft only approving our implementing phase ones deadline and then | 01:46:00 | |
| directing staff to come back on phase 2IN coming months, so. | 01:46:07 | |
| I will second the amended motion. | 01:46:15 | |
| That's a new motion. He seconds that motion. Yeah, it's a new motion for 2nd. | 01:46:19 | |
| And I'll do a roll call vote, just to be clear, I second the new motion, yes. | 01:46:26 | |
| Perfect. | 01:46:31 | |
| Councilmember Martinez, yes. Councilmember Gama, yes. Councilmember Hernandez, yes. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Legend and Mayor Perez. | 01:46:33 | |
| Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Can I just say I appreciate the council's courtesy and consideration. Thank you. Thank you, | 01:46:38 | |
| Mr. Stewart. | 01:46:43 | |
| Thank you City Manager for. | 01:46:51 | |
| Recommending that. | 01:46:54 | |
| So the next item up is the levee and collection of the annual assessments for Assessment district #87-1, Assessment district | 01:46:56 | |
| #91-1, and Assessment district #95-3 and agreement with the Ventura County Auditor Controller for billing of direct assessments. | 01:47:02 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have a proof of publication as required by law and complete file reports and exhibits? Yes, Madam Mayor, thank | 01:47:09 | |
| you. We'll stop. Please present. | 01:47:15 | |
| Good evening, Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem. | 01:47:22 | |
| Members of the Council, staff and audience, this is the second and final step of the process for levying these for these | 01:47:25 | |
| assessment districts. At the June 3rd meeting you approved and adopted the resolutions. | 01:47:33 | |
| With the intent to do the collection of these assessments, it also preliminary approved the engineers reports and set this evening | 01:47:42 | |
| for the public hearing that is required. So before you tonight is the second portion of that which is actually ordering, ordering | 01:47:49 | |
| the levy of the collection of the assessments. | 01:47:57 | |
| Approving adopting the engineers reports and also a. | 01:48:05 | |
| Authorizing the city clerk to file with the county Auditor all the necessary paperwork. That's all due by July 5th of this year. | 01:48:11 | |
| We went over the costs of the various assessments last time. Those have not changed. | 01:48:24 | |
| But if you have any questions, then I will answer them. Do we have any questions for staff, for director? | 01:48:31 | |
| Seeing none, we'll now open the public hearing. The public hearing is now open for public input at 8:18 PM. Are there any public | 01:48:39 | |
| comments regarding this item? No public comments. Thank you. Seeing no public comments, we will close the public hearing. The | 01:48:45 | |
| public hearing has concluded. I will now close the public hearing, the time being 8:19 PM. | 01:48:51 | |
| We have before us a recommendation to adopt A resolution of the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, CA ordering the levy and | 01:48:58 | |
| collection of assessments within the Lighting Maintenance Assessment district #87-1 for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2024 | 01:49:06 | |
| and ending June 30th, 2025, pursuant to Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972. | 01:49:13 | |
| To adopt A resolution of the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, CA, ordering the levy and collection of assessments within | 01:49:21 | |
| the Parkway and Median Maintenance Assessment district #91-1. | 01:49:26 | |
| For the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2024 and ending June 30th, 2025, pursuant to the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972. | 01:49:32 | |
| To adopt A resolution of the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, CA, ordering the levy and collection of assessments within | 01:49:42 | |
| the Port Hueneme Drainage Maintenance Assessment district #95-3 for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 2024 and ending June 30th, | 01:49:48 | |
| 2025, pursuant to the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972, and authorized the City Manager to execute the agreement. May I have a | 01:49:54 | |
| motion and a second? | 01:50:01 | |
| Motion to approve. | 01:50:09 | |
| 2nd. | 01:50:10 | |
| Councilmember Martinez. Yes, Councilmember Gama. Yes. Councilmember Hernandez. | 01:50:15 | |
| Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen. Legend. Yes. And Mayor Perez? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 01:50:21 | |
| With a mouthful. | 01:50:28 | |
| We'll move on to business items. | 01:50:31 | |
| The first business item up is the approval of the mural design. | 01:50:34 | |
| Director Stewart, are you presenting the report? | 01:50:39 | |
| Thank you. | 01:50:41 | |
| All right. Thank you again, Madam Mayor and members of Council staff audience. | 01:50:44 | |
| So hopefully this a little bit more exciting than the last item, but this is a discussion. | 01:50:48 | |
| Where in the mural committee is requesting. | 01:50:55 | |
| That the City Council review and authorized the committee to move forward with the. | 01:50:59 | |
| Actual installation of the mural. | 01:51:05 | |
| So just a quick history for everybody. Back in 2021, the City Council created what we call the Monument and Mural Community | 01:51:07 | |
| Benefit Fund project. | 01:51:11 | |
| And then subsequent to that, the mural and the monument were separated into two different projects. | 01:51:17 | |
| In 2023, the City Council authorized the city to enter into an agreement and this was after our P process with the Oxnard | 01:51:22 | |
| Performing Arts Center, or OPAC to guide the mural project. | 01:51:28 | |
| And since then, the committee has been meeting regularly to discuss the actual production of the mural itself on the exterior | 01:51:35 | |
| walls of our local Ray D Pruder Library. | 01:51:41 | |
| And so just by way of introduction this evening, most of us are here. The committee consists of council members Hernandez and | 01:51:47 | |
| Martinez. | 01:51:51 | |
| OPEC members Carolyn Mullen, Denise Sindelar and Raphael and probably got murderer name but Paria de la Kabada. | 01:51:55 | |
| Our county librarian, Nancy Schramm, she's in a meeting this evening, so she's going to try to zoom in. | 01:52:04 | |
| As well as Ned Branch from the library, County Library, we have our city librarian, Tim Frugal Fergal here at this evening and | 01:52:10 | |
| plus myself on the committee. So that's all of us. And like I said, we've been meeting regularly about this project for several | 01:52:16 | |
| months now. | 01:52:22 | |
| So to initiate. | 01:52:29 | |
| Didn't we council members appoint members of the committee as well? OK cuz I thought yes that's. | 01:52:33 | |
| Coming right up. So to initiate the process, subcommittee was formed and that subcommittee was consisted of appointees from each | 01:52:39 | |
| one of the five council members, as well as from the County Library and the port and the Ventura County's arts and culture | 01:52:45 | |
| manager. | 01:52:51 | |
| And so the purpose of this committee, they met virtually, was to review all of the initial proposals that came in. We got 38 of | 01:52:57 | |
| them, which is quite a few. We were really surprised. And so the committee did a great job reviewing all of those proposals and | 01:53:03 | |
| they narrowed them down to 9 semifinalists. | 01:53:09 | |
| And so those nine semifinalists were then presented back to the mural committee that I just mentioned introduced you to. | 01:53:15 | |
| And we reviewed all of those and chose the top three and it was not unanimous amongst us. There was quite a bit of a discussion | 01:53:23 | |
| and we almost came up with four, but we got it down to three. And then we invited those three top finalist teams to come back to | 01:53:30 | |
| the city and well, to come to the city and tour it as well as the the site itself and to provide. | 01:53:37 | |
| The committee a draft mural design for further consideration. What the subcommittee was looking at was basically just works by | 01:53:45 | |
| each of the the submitting teams, but not specific designs for our mural. | 01:53:52 | |
| So back on May 22nd of this year, the committee met with each of the three artists finalist teams and this was to review their | 01:54:01 | |
| actual proposed designs as well as their public engagement concepts, because that was going to be an important component of the | 01:54:06 | |
| project. | 01:54:11 | |
| And after hearing from these three teams, the committee unanimously this time is pretty easy actually I think selected a proposal | 01:54:16 | |
| by the team of Renee Fox and David Russell AKA the Mobile Mural Lab. | 01:54:22 | |
| And why we chose them, well, there are several reasons really. First was just, and I'll show you the graphic in a minute here, but | 01:54:30 | |
| the overall graphic presentation such as the colors, the style, how it appeared on the building. | 01:54:36 | |
| Or would appear on the building, I should say, so it's not there yet. As well as the message to the artist wanted to basically | 01:54:43 | |
| present with regard to Wainimi and our past, present and future and a cohesive design. We also felt that there are public outreach | 01:54:49 | |
| program was the best of the three. It includes ongoing educational programs, community involvement, reaching out to the local | 01:54:56 | |
| Chumash tried to make sure that they are. | 01:55:02 | |
| Input is properly portrayed in the mural itself and they're also wanting to establish an internship with the local student and I | 01:55:09 | |
| know that was a discussion point earlier on the process to have them assist with the actual mural production and perhaps move on | 01:55:15 | |
| to future projects here in the city. | 01:55:21 | |
| So this is a graphic that they proposed. This was their first draft and basically what it portrays, it takes up three walls on the | 01:55:29 | |
| library, the primary wall. | 01:55:35 | |
| Do we have a whole pointer here? Yes, we sort of do. Primary wall here, which is facing the libraries parking lot, consists of | 01:55:42 | |
| wave elements that are meant to basically work with the architecture of the building itself. There's a blue Heron, there's a | 01:55:49 | |
| Chumash boat at the mall, and we have a couple of butterflies here. And it does wrap around the the front of the building and then | 01:55:57 | |
| wraps over to this portion of the side of the building. There are also several. | 01:56:04 | |
| Verbal graphics with regard to Chumash's sayings here on the the proposal. | 01:56:14 | |
| And this is a close up of the primary part with the the two walls. And you see again the Heron also this little, if I can get it | 01:56:22 | |
| here, this is here, this little purple thing is supposed to represent the current equipment and cranes out at the at the port to | 01:56:28 | |
| draw in our present basically. | 01:56:34 | |
| And so again, the the listening to the artist and whatnot, the committee was excited to hear this and see this presentation. The | 01:56:41 | |
| other two presentations when we felt, for lack of a better term, was a little bit immature for the, for the project. And the other | 01:56:46 | |
| one was just. | 01:56:52 | |
| It was very vivid. It looked basically like a full library bookshelf. It was very unique, but we just felt that this particular | 01:56:58 | |
| design was was the most representative for the city. | 01:57:03 | |
| Now, that said, the committee doesn't think that this is perfect and there will be a little bit further outreach as well. Again, | 01:57:10 | |
| meetings with the True Mass show. This design has not been nailed down completely, but it's for all intensive purposes. It's | 01:57:16 | |
| pretty much there. What we've recommend that they do, for instance. | 01:57:22 | |
| We've got some lemon blossoms here and the artist said that that was basically to represent produce from the county leaving the | 01:57:30 | |
| port. But. | 01:57:34 | |
| We don't have a whole lot of lemon Groves here in the city, and so the committee felt that, well, why don't we use instead some | 01:57:40 | |
| native plant species that are indicative for our local Wyoming Beach area. So we made that suggestion to them. | 01:57:46 | |
| Also. | 01:57:54 | |
| Tim had asked for additional waves to be put around the boat to make it look a little bit more water going. | 01:57:56 | |
| And then we also felt one of the, the other proposals actually showed if I can get this thing working, the mural coming, their | 01:58:03 | |
| mural proposal coming all the way out here. And so we thought that it would be good to get additional waves put out here and maybe | 01:58:09 | |
| a couple of snowy plovers, which would one, represent our snowy plover, but also two, it gives that that physical. | 01:58:16 | |
| Separation between the plover and the Heron, which is a predator of the plover. But that way at least we still get them both on | 01:58:24 | |
| there, so. | 01:58:28 | |
| And it also ties in the last, the last really visible wall of the library. So at this point, those suggestions have been brought | 01:58:32 | |
| back to the to the artist. | 01:58:37 | |
| And so right now project is on schedule. Currently we are working on an agreement with the artists. | 01:58:44 | |
| And we meaning OPEC, sometime during the summer, the artists are going to conduct their public engagement. They're also going to | 01:58:52 | |
| hire the intern and finalize the design based on the input. Again, they'll be final tweaking. So that won't be a wholesale change | 01:58:58 | |
| to what you're seeing here this evening. | 01:59:04 | |
| They plan to actually do the installation and the early fall, probably around September, and then there'll be a public unveiling | 01:59:11 | |
| along with what wasn't intended to be done at the time. But now it is thanks to great flood of the the library's reopening. And so | 01:59:18 | |
| that'll occur sometime in October and November. So that's when we plan on having the Maryland bailed to the public. | 01:59:25 | |
| So at this point. | 01:59:33 | |
| Just the semantics. There's no impact in the general fund. This is being funded strictly through the Joint City Port Community | 01:59:36 | |
| Benefit Fund. | 01:59:39 | |
| And again, our recommendation is to ensure that the project stays on schedule and and ask the City Council to approve this draft | 01:59:44 | |
| design and authorize the committee to move forward with coordinating completion. | 01:59:49 | |
| Or I ask if there are any questions. I'd like to introduce Carolyn and. | 01:59:55 | |
| Denise from OPEC to say a few words about the project and fill in anything I may have missed. Tim from the library is also going | 02:00:04 | |
| to come up and I believe we have. | 02:00:08 | |
| A Tracy Gallagher from the county supervisor's office here. Hi Tracy to also come and join us and I do see that we do have Nancy | 02:00:15 | |
| also online with this our County Library so that Carolyn, Denise. | 02:00:22 | |
| Just thank you so much for this opportunity. It's been such a joyous pleasure to create this committee and foster this process. | 02:00:30 | |
| And I think this is the beginning of hopefully a very long road of public art and arts activation in your city. And thank you for | 02:00:36 | |
| allowing OPEC to be to be involved in this. I'm happy to answer any questions, but I think Director Stewart did a phenomenal job. | 02:00:42 | |
| So. | 02:00:47 | |
| Denise, I'm serving as the project manager on this project, so it's been a great honor to be part of this project. I worked for | 02:00:54 | |
| the City of Ventura for very many years managing their public art program. And I think this is a great project to kind of kick off | 02:01:01 | |
| and to introduce the City of Port Hueneme to the broader region and your embracing of public art and creating a creative, excuse | 02:01:07 | |
| me, cultural legacy for your residents. | 02:01:14 | |
| Thank you. | 02:01:21 | |
| Thank you. | 02:01:22 | |
| Council have any questions for staff, hopefully introduce. Let Tim real quick speak as well as the representative from Supervisors | 02:01:24 | |
| Lopez office. Good evening everyone. I'll make this brief and then turn it over to Nancy. Again, thank you for the opportunity. | 02:01:31 | |
| Thank you for thinking of us. Great public art brings the community together the way that a library can also bring a community | 02:01:37 | |
| together. So we're very grateful for the opportunity and really appreciate the city's partnership. So, Nancy, was there anything | 02:01:43 | |
| you'd like to add? | 02:01:49 | |
| Hi, good evening everybody. Is it OK if I speak now? | 02:01:59 | |
| Of course. OK, I just wanted to make sure. So I am Nancy Schramm. I'm the library Director for the Ventura County Library. And I | 02:02:03 | |
| just wanted to say on behalf of all of us here at the Ventura County Library, how pleased we are to partner with the City of Port | 02:02:14 | |
| Hueneme on the exterior mural at the Ray D Pruder Library. And we're just so proud to host what we think will be. | 02:02:24 | |
| An inspiring piece of artwork for the community. We are a community institution that aims to inspire our community members to | 02:02:34 | |
| explore and discover and connect, and this mural will play a key role in helping us to achieve that goal. We do support the chosen | 02:02:44 | |
| design and we can congratulate the talented artists. | 02:02:55 | |
| Like so many of the book cover illustrations found on the shelves of the library, this mural artistically and beautifully | 02:03:06 | |
| illustrates a story, this one about Or Wanimi and the inspiration that can be found within the walls of the local library. I do | 02:03:16 | |
| want to thank the city for making this project possible. Also thank you to Council Members Hernandez and Martinez. | 02:03:27 | |
| For their work on the mural committee, this mural is a wonderful example of how we can do more for the community through | 02:03:37 | |
| collaboration and the ongoing partnership between the County of Ventura and the City of Port Hueneme. So thank you very much. | 02:03:45 | |
| Thank you. Now, does Council have any questions? One more, finally, one more if if we can allow Miss Gallagher from Supervisor | 02:03:52 | |
| Lopez's office to speak. | 02:03:59 | |
| Good evening, Mayor Perez and Mayor Pro Tem Council members, Mr. City Manager, members of the public. I have some comments | 02:04:08 | |
| prepared by the supervisor that I would like to share on her behalf. | 02:04:14 | |
| Honourable Mayor and Council members, as the County Supervisor representing the 5th District of the County of Ventura, home to the | 02:04:22 | |
| Ray D Pruder Library, I extend my heartfelt thanks to the City of Port Hueneme for making this mural project possible. | 02:04:28 | |
| Your recognition of the value of art in public spaces and its ability to inspire learning and curiosity is greatly appreciated, | 02:04:35 | |
| and I enthusiastically offer my support for this project. | 02:04:40 | |
| The chosen design for the mural at the Ray Deputy Library captures the natural beauty of our cherished coastline, beloved by all | 02:04:46 | |
| Ventura County residents. When thoughtfully planned, projects such as these reflect the unique history, culture and values of the | 02:04:51 | |
| community in which they are located. | 02:04:57 | |
| That will benefit both residents and visitors of Ventura County. Thank you for your time and consideration. | 02:05:37 | |
| Sincerely, Vienna Lopez. | 02:05:43 | |
| Any further comments or people? | 02:05:47 | |
| Does Council have any questions? | 02:05:51 | |
| Council member comma. I have comments that I'd like to provide some input. I think it's a very good start. | 02:05:54 | |
| But the lemon, I don't get the lemon and I would like to see. | 02:06:01 | |
| Ocean Island. | 02:06:07 | |
| In place of the lemon and the lemon blossoms. But I do. I think the concept is beautiful. The rolling waves are beautiful. But | 02:06:09 | |
| again. | 02:06:13 | |
| My ask. | 02:06:19 | |
| Is to incorporate what makes the city of Port Hueneme the city of Port Hueneme, and it's the ocean. | 02:06:22 | |
| And so I think it's the butterfly beautiful. | 02:06:30 | |
| But again, I just think it needs a little more ocean, maybe an island. | 02:06:35 | |
| Nautical to really bring out the city of port when he, but I think it's a great start. | 02:06:40 | |
| And I'll just oh, and then I would even go as far as to mention the California poppies. | 02:06:48 | |
| As a substitute for the start. | 02:06:54 | |
| So I don't have any questions, but I do have comments now. I 100% support everything about the mural project and I believe the | 02:06:58 | |
| artists are very talented. That's beautiful. | 02:07:04 | |
| Thing that they've showed us but it. | 02:07:10 | |
| For a community member to walk by and look at this, it needs a lot of interpretation. When I first looked at this without reading. | 02:07:13 | |
| What the concept was from the artists and why they are doing what they're doing, why they put this the the herring there or the | 02:07:23 | |
| the waves there. I wouldn't have known that this had any real connection to Waimea, to be honest with you. | 02:07:30 | |
| And that. | 02:07:38 | |
| I thought was the basis of the mural was to bring the history of Wine Me out in art for the community members to enjoy. And it's | 02:07:41 | |
| it's a lovely picture, but it just. | 02:07:46 | |
| It leaves a lot of interpretation for Winemi in my opinion. | 02:07:53 | |
| And without a breakdown next to it, I don't know that the average community member is going to get that this is. | 02:07:58 | |
| The history of wine EMI. | 02:08:05 | |
| And I think that is what should be important to a mural is the people that walk by with their children going to the park, going to | 02:08:07 | |
| the library, is they're going to understand when they see this is this is the history of Waimea. And then they understand that | 02:08:12 | |
| when they're looking at it without having to read something to tell them this is what the butterfly means for whiny me and you | 02:08:18 | |
| know, so on so. | 02:08:23 | |
| That's the only issue I had with it is that it leaves a lot of interpretation for people. | 02:08:30 | |
| To understand. | 02:08:35 | |
| Mayor I think that's the beauty of the art, is for people to see it and try to and then learn about it because I don't think. | 02:08:42 | |
| Myself, I've been on council less than, I guess it's been 2 years, less than two years. I wasn't really, I didn't know anything | 02:08:55 | |
| about the, was it Tamolo the boat until I went to a museum in Santa Paula, right? And so I think the beauty of art is not to know | 02:09:01 | |
| exactly what the art is. | 02:09:08 | |
| Is it's about finding what what it is. I think that's the beauty of art. I love it. And I when I saw it, I said, Oh, this is | 02:09:15 | |
| wonderful. And then I start saying, OK, what like you said, what are what are these pieces? Right? And then I read the artist. | 02:09:23 | |
| The explanation and I was like, oh wow. And it made it look better to me because then I knew that. | 02:09:32 | |
| Yeah, and so I really love it. I love it. So I think you all did a good job. I'm with council. | 02:09:37 | |
| Um, men Gamma and I think Mr. Stewart, you already talked about the lemon being replaced with some native plants or something | 02:09:44 | |
| else. So that's really nice. I do, I do like the fact that that it was expanded to carry over to those other walls and even across | 02:09:52 | |
| the doors. And so I think it would be nice to have, like you said, to have something else on that side to kind of complete it. | 02:09:59 | |
| But I like it. | 02:10:10 | |
| So that's my that's just my brain, my personal brain. Yeah. And I don't, I don't know if the the rest of the committee agrees, but | 02:10:12 | |
| there was another artist that let's just say painted what, or rendered a painting like the one that you described where like it | 02:10:20 | |
| tells the history, but we just felt like it was just too much. And then this allows for. | 02:10:29 | |
| A little bit more imagination. Let's let's just say so. | 02:10:38 | |
| I mean, I I like it too. There are some changes that we had suggested, like the snowy plover or the librarian Tim Frugal suggested | 02:10:44 | |
| more waves for the ocean. So there are some some. | 02:10:49 | |
| Ideas that we've added that aren't being shown in this picture, just so you know. | 02:10:57 | |
| Thank you, Mayor. | 02:11:05 | |
| First of all, I want to thank the committee for the fabulous journey that we've been on to bring the mural to where it is today, | 02:11:07 | |
| and I want to thank this council for appointing representatives to participate in the process. I want to thank Beverly Kelly, who | 02:11:13 | |
| helped with the historical aspect and the library for for their participation as well. It's been almost close to a three-year | 02:11:19 | |
| journey just to get to where we are now, and I encourage the council members, if you haven't done so already, to read the artist | 02:11:26 | |
| description. | 02:11:32 | |
| Of the mural because for me it draws the idea is to draw a person's curiosity and if you haven't read the staff report, I | 02:11:39 | |
| encourage you to read the public outreach internship proposal which talks about how the mural will have an educational website | 02:11:46 | |
| including aqr code embedded into the mural to allow users to interpret the mural and educate viewers, thereby encouraging viewers | 02:11:53 | |
| to. | 02:12:01 | |
| Look into the mural further and even read about it. Wow, what a concept. It's a library, you know this is encouraged him to read | 02:12:09 | |
| and also to provide access to documents within the library such as interactive worksheets, coloring pages that directly could | 02:12:16 | |
| correspond with a mural design to engage local youth with a mural and and then the idea of the internship, I think are all ways | 02:12:23 | |
| that not only engage the community but encourage people to learn more about. | 02:12:31 | |
| What its meaning is and the whole idea behind the art that. | 02:12:39 | |
| The beauty of the art and talk about it. So I think it's going to serve its exact purpose and to generate that sense of community | 02:12:44 | |
| among those who see it. So thank you again, OPEC, we've got a great partnership. I hope we can work together again in the future. | 02:12:50 | |
| I think we have a couple of more projects actually that we have to complete. So thank you so much and thank you, Tim and Tony. | 02:12:55 | |
| Thank you. | 02:13:01 | |
| And Councilman Martinez. | 02:13:08 | |
| I no doubt I agree with. | 02:13:11 | |
| A lot that has been said here and again, but I just want to emphasize the point that. | 02:13:15 | |
| You know the ocean. I think the. | 02:13:22 | |
| Tom Will. | 02:13:25 | |
| Have ocean underneath it. I mean This is why Nimi. | 02:13:27 | |
| And. | 02:13:31 | |
| When it launched out in the ocean, it would be on a clear day with no fog and the island would be visible. | 02:13:33 | |
| So I just feel strongly that those two items are missing. | 02:13:40 | |
| And I think they would go great where the lemon is. | 02:13:45 | |
| And and there's can make some adjustments, but I do, I think it's a great start. But again, for me, I would just like to see us | 02:13:49 | |
| incorporate the island, the ocean and a little more definition on the port because obviously the port is a. | 02:13:57 | |
| I mean, if you didn't tell me that that was a crane, I would have never figured it out. | 02:14:07 | |
| So I hope that we could. | 02:14:11 | |
| Take this collaborative from us council members and maybe make some tweaks so that we could all. | 02:14:15 | |
| I love it. I like it. Again, the points that I think are missing are the ocean, the nautical, the island. | 02:14:20 | |
| Porto wine EMI resting place launching spot that was. | 02:14:31 | |
| To launch out to the islands for the coastal business of the Chumash, so. | 02:14:35 | |
| OK. | 02:14:41 | |
| So I imagine there's going to be some kind of graffiti resistance something. Can you tell us a little bit about that? | 02:14:45 | |
| I'm probably turn that over to OPEC, but yes, there will be a graffiti coating put on that. | 02:14:54 | |
| To hopefully allow us to wipe off any graffiti as to as opposed to having to have the mural touched up or whatnot. | 02:15:00 | |
| Now if we do have to touch at the mural though, we'll work with the artists on that to get their approval to do so and whatnot, | 02:15:08 | |
| just per standard protocol. | 02:15:13 | |
| Where there'll be an opportunity for us to see the little tweaks that are being discussed. | 02:15:17 | |
| To be included in that. | 02:15:24 | |
| I'm assuming yes. I think the. | 02:15:27 | |
| That's sort of the question for the Council at this point. I think when we brought this initially, the. | 02:15:30 | |
| The recommendation was basically to give us the sort of the final approval to just now do everything we need to do to implement | 02:15:37 | |
| it. But. | 02:15:41 | |
| The council has the option to say, well, we want to see the design like the final design before we do give the final approval. So | 02:15:46 | |
| that's the choice of the council at this point. So I think some of the changes that have been discussed, I think they would help | 02:15:52 | |
| with the snowy plover being added that would add more whiny me touch and little things taking away the lemon and whatever was | 02:15:58 | |
| added. I think that would be a good concept to see before it goes to final one more time. So do we have any public comments | 02:16:03 | |
| regarding this item? We do. | 02:16:09 | |
| That are incorporated, possibly including sea life. The mural concept is beautiful and with some Navy and nautical elements I | 02:17:21 | |
| believe Port Hueneme would be well represented. | 02:17:25 | |
| Well done. I look forward to seeing this Myopian painted. Thanks Ricardo Holden mural panelists. And that concludes public | 02:17:31 | |
| comment. OK. | 02:17:34 | |
| Mayor, may I just mention I think we should have probably reached out to the panelists. I feel bad that we didn't. I. | 02:17:39 | |
| If I was in your shoes, I would, I would want to see what it looks like before it gets put on. I would just but me being on in the | 02:17:46 | |
| end, I would say you should trust you. You can, you can trust this, but I'm just saying that I would if I was in your shoes, I | 02:17:52 | |
| would also want to see what it's going to look like. | 02:17:57 | |
| But. | 02:18:04 | |
| I don't think we did so. So if I may, somebody mentioned to me that the the butterfly on the left look like it's flying into the | 02:18:06 | |
| building and whereas the one to the right looks like it's flying out of the building. So I think maybe that's a tweak that could | 02:18:11 | |
| be made as well. | 02:18:16 | |
| But could I make a motion that after hearing all of our input that you make adjustments and come back so that we could all approve | 02:18:21 | |
| it in in one and then know what we're approving? | 02:18:27 | |
| Are you talking about making a motion or did you make a motion? Because I have a comment that I'd like to make before you make a | 02:18:34 | |
| motion. Sure, I'd like to make a motion that we ask the committee or. | 02:18:39 | |
| Is it anyways, we asked that they consider the comments that have been made, give us a final rendering so that we could all | 02:18:45 | |
| approve it and know what we're going to get. So that is a motion. | 02:18:50 | |
| I 2nd. | 02:18:57 | |
| Yes, I do want to make a comment I. | 02:18:58 | |
| So I've already kind of shared what my feeling is about the the, the mural. I do think that there are some options to make some | 02:19:02 | |
| adjustments. I would like to see what something is before it's on the wall and if you can't do anything about that. But I also | 02:19:09 | |
| want to say thank you to the committee subcommittee, if there was a subcommittee, all those who submitted proposals. And I do want | 02:19:17 | |
| to say that based on the report. | 02:19:24 | |
| That this out of the three, this one was unanimously voted on and that each of us on the council picks someone to be on the | 02:19:32 | |
| committee and we have to give at least some level of trust to the people that we chose to make the decision. So yes, let's let's | 02:19:40 | |
| look at the let's look at the the final rendering or close to being the final rendering. But I do want to thank everyone and let | 02:19:48 | |
| the folks, at least the person that I picked that I trust. | 02:19:56 | |
| Him, just like you all trust the folks that you picked that voting this this, this art unanimously says a lot about everyone that | 02:20:04 | |
| we picked to be on the committee to make the decision for us. So thank you. | 02:20:11 | |
| OK. | 02:20:20 | |
| I think we have a vote on the table. All in favor, aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much. | 02:20:21 | |
| Can I just make sure that we that we have everything we need. So did we. | 02:20:28 | |
| Need any other approval at this time for does the artist need like a contract before they make these revisions or do they already | 02:20:36 | |
| have a contract? I'm not sure if we have any everything we need for them to move forward with it. I'll refer that to Carolyn or | 02:20:42 | |
| Denise. I do want to point out that this probably is talking to Denise briefly. This probably will push out the the overall | 02:20:48 | |
| completion of the project though. Just keep that in mind because the artists are going to have to revise their work at this point, | 02:20:54 | |
| so. | 02:21:00 | |
| Carolina. Denise, do you have an answer with regard to the contract? | 02:21:07 | |
| So we're working on the draft contract now and it's been in review with county legal staff as well as the City of Port Hueneme. | 02:21:12 | |
| There will be a memorandum of understanding between the three bodies, the County Library, the City of Port Hueneme and the artist. | 02:21:19 | |
| And then there will be a separate contract under which OPAC will be commissioning the artist to actually do the mural with a | 02:21:25 | |
| timeline that we have established come. And I'm not sure when you're back from your break. So I, I guess my question to you all is | 02:21:32 | |
| when will you be back? | 02:21:38 | |
| In session so that we can time the return with that final rendering for your approval. So we can we can get this on what either of | 02:21:45 | |
| the July meetings. So before we go to break. | 02:21:50 | |
| OK, if the artist is able to, you know, work that quickly, perfect, then that should be. We'll communicate all of these comments | 02:21:56 | |
| to the artist team tomorrow and give them the direction that they need. We'll be executing a contract hopefully this week that | 02:22:03 | |
| will allow them to move forward on the revised designs. And then if you'll keep us posted on the timeline, I'm sure they'll be | 02:22:10 | |
| able to make the revisions. Thank you. Thank you. | 02:22:17 | |
| OK. | 02:22:26 | |
| Further, we will move on to the next item. | 02:22:27 | |
| Which is to authorize to purchase a search only non apprehension police canine. | 02:22:30 | |
| Commander Albertson is presenting the report. | 02:22:38 | |
| Yeah, people may notice I wasn't doing introductions today because I figure this is going to be a long meeting and the last thing | 02:22:43 | |
| we need is me talking a bunch on top of it. But I'll give the introduction on this one to Commander Albertson, who's going to | 02:22:48 | |
| provide some background on the item. | 02:22:54 | |
| Doesn't sound like it. | 02:23:03 | |
| There it is. | 02:23:04 | |
| Thank you. | 02:23:05 | |
| Good evening again, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, a member of City Council, members of staff. So the item I'm bringing for you tonight is | 02:23:08 | |
| authorization to purchase a search only non apprehension police, canine and any related items with an estimated cost of | 02:23:16 | |
| approximately 25 to $30,000 using identified funds as indicated in the fiscal impact. | 02:23:23 | |
| Currently, the Police Department has no police canines. The department has previously had a long history of having canines. | 02:23:33 | |
| The first agency in Ventura County to have a canine program. We were one of the first departments in the state to have a canine | 02:23:42 | |
| program. At one point in time we actually had five working canines. | 02:23:47 | |
| This canine would be an explosion, explosive, explosive and firearms detection canine will not be used for apprehending suspects, | 02:23:58 | |
| will not be used for for bite work or any of those types of activities. | 02:24:05 | |
| We have spoken to the port and to the Navy base and there is a need for us to have a canine currently at the port. If they need a | 02:24:13 | |
| canine that could detect explosives, they have to bring one from Long Beach and that's if one is available. Same with the Navy | 02:24:21 | |
| base. They do have explosive and firearm canines available on some of that is depending on where they would be coming from. So it | 02:24:29 | |
| definitely be an asset to the port and the Navy base for us to have firearms and explosive detecting canine. | 02:24:37 | |
| The funding for the training has already been budgeted, so the only thing we would really be coming forward to ask is funding for | 02:24:46 | |
| the actual purchase of the dog itself, as well as any related equipment. | 02:24:53 | |
| And the funds for the purchase in the amount not to exceed $30,000 are available from salary savings within the departments fiscal | 02:25:00 | |
| 2425 adopted budget. Estimated salary savings are from the one unfilled police officer position that we have. We are currently | 02:25:08 | |
| recruiting, but we don't anticipate that that position will be filled before October of this year. | 02:25:15 | |
| And with that, I'll open it up to any questions. | 02:25:24 | |
| If I could just add 2 quick points. And one is what Commander Albertson just said. We do want to make sure it's clear and people | 02:25:27 | |
| understand that we aren't pausing any recruitments to have the vacancy savings for this. It's just that we know we have vacancy | 02:25:35 | |
| savings because the current recruitment will take several months. And so we just want people to know we're not holding off on | 02:25:42 | |
| other priority items that we need for this. It's, it's reallocating those resources that we won't otherwise use. | 02:25:50 | |
| And then second, the we were focused on this year's budget because this year's budget is so tight. And so the we showed how we | 02:25:58 | |
| would fund the canine in this year's budget using those vacancy savings. But on an ongoing basis, we do anticipate the regular | 02:26:07 | |
| expenses for the canine program will total about $10,000 a year. And so that's something that we didn't, we didn't want to. | 02:26:16 | |
| And not disclose and have that be a surprise, but we missed it in the report, but it would be in future years essentially a | 02:26:26 | |
| $10,000 impact. And the really the only other like expense that could potentially happen is that if we ended up buying a new | 02:26:32 | |
| vehicle that. | 02:26:38 | |
| Could be used for the canine then that would be possible, but we aren't planning to buy a new vehicle at this point and I think | 02:26:46 | |
| our thought is if a grant comes along that would have fund that, then we'd bring that grant to council. | 02:26:51 | |
| So it's something that we'd hope we'd look at doing if some grant funding became available. And so at this point, the big expenses | 02:26:58 | |
| purchasing the canine and some related items this year, we've identified that in the budget and then ongoing costs of about | 02:27:05 | |
| $10,000 is what we expect. Thank you. Does Council have any questions for staff? Council member? | 02:27:11 | |
| How does the canine get named that's. | 02:27:20 | |
| Big big question. I have a couple names in mind. And secondly, does the canine get a special dwelling unit and who gets to take | 02:27:23 | |
| them home and take care of the dog? | 02:27:29 | |
| So from my experience, from what I understand with our previous canines is they're named when we purchased them. But I do know | 02:27:36 | |
| some departments that actually purchase their dogs and then name their canines. So I I don't know which method we would use. | 02:27:44 | |
| And yes, so the the canine would live with the handler and the handler would be required to have a a kennel at their house and | 02:27:56 | |
| would be required to take care for the canine off duty. | 02:28:02 | |
| I was really surprised because I do recall over the years always seeing canines, but. | 02:28:10 | |
| We had five of them at one point in time. We had five, yes. | 02:28:17 | |
| The most recent one recently. | 02:28:21 | |
| OK, that's it. But I think. | 02:28:25 | |
| Tool for both the Navy and the Portland. | 02:28:28 | |
| Commend you guys for. | 02:28:31 | |
| What's wrong with your mic? | 02:28:34 | |
| Keeps cutting out. | 02:28:36 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez Yes, thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commander Albertson for your report and bringing this program to us | 02:28:38 | |
| because we're not just asking for a dog here, we're asking to reinstitute a canine program from what I understand, right? | 02:28:46 | |
| Yes, although technically the the program is still implemented, it was never actually ended. But we haven't had canines in years. | 02:28:56 | |
| It's it's bringing back the first canine. So I'm wondering what are the number of incidents that? | 02:29:03 | |
| This the Police Department has experienced where you need a canine for firearms. | 02:29:11 | |
| I'm concerned about. | 02:29:19 | |
| The report not being not fully justifying the need for a canine. So can you help me? | 02:29:22 | |
| Understand. | 02:29:28 | |
| How often we we come across this, this kind of incident where we need a canine. Yeah. So in 2023, we had 69 firearms that were | 02:29:30 | |
| booked into our property and evidence room. | 02:29:36 | |
| 37 of those were seized related to crimes or fire firearm prohibitions, meaning that the people that had the firearm were | 02:29:42 | |
| prohibited from owning them, possessing them, or we issued a gun violence restraining order on how to seize those weapons or they | 02:29:48 | |
| were taken during like a domestic violence incident. | 02:29:54 | |
| A good example, I I I could sit here and then recite, yeah, there were 37 incidents. But I just finished an evaluation for one of | 02:30:02 | |
| my sergeants a couple weeks ago. And one of the calls that he was evaluated on was a shooting we had at the beach. And the suspect | 02:30:10 | |
| ran and threw the gun somewhere along the route where he ran. And he, he made it quite a distance and it took an entire shift. | 02:30:18 | |
| Quite a while to locate that gun, whereas if we had a dog that could detect a firearm, we might have found it very quickly. And so | 02:30:27 | |
| one incident where we miss a gun where some kid picks it up is, to me, justifies having the dog. And why wouldn't mutual aid or | 02:30:34 | |
| automatic aid, calling Oxnard PD or the Sheriff's Department be a reasonable option rather than purchasing a dog? Couldn't you | 02:30:42 | |
| just call for mutual aid by one of our I've seen us do that before. | 02:30:49 | |
| We have some other agencies. | 02:30:57 | |
| We have, I will say that there are times that we have requested dogs when they weren't available because they they are handling | 02:30:59 | |
| calls or they're off duty or they're at training. I don't know offhand how many dogs in the county are firearms trained. | 02:31:06 | |
| Typically, a dog will fall into several categories. Narcotics detection dog, Explosive firearms detection dog. | 02:31:15 | |
| Like a Bloodhound, a tracking dog, or apprehension dog. | 02:31:22 | |
| Patrol dog so I understand that there's a lot of dogs now who aren't trained for cannabis, right They're trained maybe for opioids | 02:31:27 | |
| and fentanyl and stuff like that for but this dog is not going to be a drug sniffing dog correct My understanding is our intention | 02:31:33 | |
| is to have this dog be explosives, firearms, canine. Well, my concern there is the the cannabis businesses I hope that they don't | 02:31:40 | |
| they don't perceive this as a marijuana sniffing dog. I know that those are far and few between now they don't train them that way | 02:31:47 | |
| because. | 02:31:54 | |
| Marijuana is so prevalent, but I'm just hoping that we can. | 02:32:01 | |
| Assure our cannabis businesses that that's not what we're we're doing. Yeah, part of us, like city manager had had mentioned, the | 02:32:06 | |
| canine program was never really suspended or ended. We still have a standing canine policy. | 02:32:13 | |
| And we just didn't have a canine. So part of rolling it back out will be the public education on what the dog is and what it does | 02:32:21 | |
| and what it'll be used for. | 02:32:26 | |
| Let's see if I have any. | 02:32:36 | |
| So in the retrofit of a vehicle, I think that's included in the cost of $30,000 because you need to. | 02:32:39 | |
| Retrofit vehicles for the dog. | 02:32:45 | |
| Yeah. So, so we currently have a vehicle that was a canine vehicle than it was reallocated to general use to training property and | 02:32:49 | |
| evidence backup patrol unit. | 02:32:56 | |
| That would be. | 02:33:05 | |
| Potentially retrofitted back to being AK 9 unit, which really will only consist of removing the the back seat. | 02:33:07 | |
| OK. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. | 02:33:14 | |
| Police K9. | 02:33:24 | |
| I read the report and quite a few times it's mentioned non. | 02:33:26 | |
| Dog but. | 02:33:31 | |
| So are you saying there will be no at no time will? | 02:33:35 | |
| A dog. | 02:33:38 | |
| This canine. | 02:33:39 | |
| Come in contact with someone. | 02:33:41 | |
| Smell a gun? | 02:33:44 | |
| Whatever and want to attack. | 02:33:45 | |
| This is a this, this will be a detection dog. It's not a dog that's going to be trained to bite. It's not going to be a dog that's | 02:33:49 | |
| trained to apprehend suspects. So it'll strictly be for detection. Very similar when you go to LAX and they're walking around with | 02:33:55 | |
| the dogs smelling your luggage. That's basically what it is. | 02:34:00 | |
| Thank you. | 02:34:07 | |
| Any further questions from council? All right, sounds good. I make a motion to approve the recommendation. Do we have any public | 02:34:09 | |
| comments on this item? | 02:34:13 | |
| No public comments. Thank you. Second. | 02:34:19 | |
| OK. | 02:34:23 | |
| I just wanted to say that. | 02:34:26 | |
| You know, we've been over the last six. | 02:34:28 | |
| Been told that we really. | 02:34:30 | |
| The midst of a structural. | 02:34:36 | |
| And now that's been repaired and. | 02:34:39 | |
| So here we are, buying a dog. | 02:34:43 | |
| And it just seems to me while other departments are taking cuts, I think we need to be sensitive to that and, and continue to | 02:34:45 | |
| watch our spending. I'm not opposed to the, the canine, but it, it just, I, I think, I think we need to, we, we just need to watch | 02:34:51 | |
| our spending because it just doesn't seem. | 02:34:57 | |
| Seem right that we continue to spend when we we've been told to to watch our spending even something like $30,000. I mean it all | 02:35:03 | |
| adds up. So I would like to add that comment. I'd like to add a comment if I may. | 02:35:09 | |
| So I recall a gun was recovered from a trash can at Miranda Park and that was great and. | 02:35:17 | |
| Any chance to recover firearms throughout our community is great and I think This is Money well spent. And the fact that I learned | 02:35:26 | |
| something tonight, 69 weapons checked in. So having a asset that could detect firearms, really. | 02:35:36 | |
| Takes away the chance of missing it, and so for that, this money is probably the best money we'll spend this year. | 02:35:48 | |
| Also make a comment that the importance this will play in towards port and Navy security. I know that they need they would like to | 02:35:55 | |
| have this. They've made comments that this will be a benefit to them. So I know it'll be a great support for our community | 02:36:01 | |
| partnership with the port and the Navy. | 02:36:06 | |
| So, Madam Clerk. | 02:36:13 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed. | 02:36:15 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you, Commander, for your report. | 02:36:18 | |
| So we're now moving on to the usage data for open play at Boys and Girls Club 3 Point Basketball contest and basketball league | 02:36:24 | |
| costs, resources and considerations. | 02:36:29 | |
| This is Deputy City Manager Charles Pritz. | 02:36:37 | |
| Good evening. Consistent with the city manager's earlier comment, no introduction necessary. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, | 02:36:41 | |
| council members, members of the audience, so fellow city staff members. | 02:36:46 | |
| Item 19 is presented in response to the Council's request for data regarding the number of people that have participated in city | 02:36:53 | |
| programming offered at the Boys and Girls Club. | 02:36:58 | |
| As part of the council's request, staff was asked to provide information about the costs and resources necessary to run a | 02:37:04 | |
| basketball league and then subsequently that information regarding a three-point community contest. | 02:37:10 | |
| So the city began offering open play for basketball on Tuesdays and Saturdays beginning in the middle of September last year. | 02:37:18 | |
| Saturday play has averaged about 10 participants each day and has seen a single a single day highest attendance of 29 people, | 02:37:26 | |
| which is shown there. | 02:37:33 | |
| In April of this year. | 02:37:40 | |
| Similarly, the Tuesday play has seen an average of 17 participants over its time, with a single highest day participant of. | 02:37:45 | |
| 35 and we had that on two different days on Tuesdays. | 02:37:56 | |
| And between January 9th and March 7th. | 02:38:02 | |
| We opened the Thursday nights at the Boys and Girls Club for pickleball activity. | 02:38:08 | |
| And we saw an average of 11 people with a single. | 02:38:15 | |
| Highest day attendance of 19. | 02:38:20 | |
| For that activity. | 02:38:23 | |
| I think this was referenced at the last Council meeting, but we wanted to provide the Council with a little bit of information | 02:38:25 | |
| about about the. | 02:38:29 | |
| Facilities renovation plans that we've heard from our colleagues over at the Boys and Girls Club. So we've been advised that | 02:38:33 | |
| renovations will begin in sometime in the middle of August. | 02:38:38 | |
| With a targeted completion date of the end of January. | 02:38:44 | |
| The renovation, of course, will impact the city and others. | 02:38:48 | |
| Access to the facility and our ability to hold regular programming. | 02:38:52 | |
| Details about the costs and resources needed to run a basketball league were included in the staff report. However, based on the | 02:38:57 | |
| plans, facility renovation staff is not recommending that we discuss that in further detail at this time, but rather wait until | 02:39:02 | |
| the construction project is complete. | 02:39:08 | |
| And then? | 02:39:15 | |
| The last meeting there was a mention about a three-point contest and we've put together. | 02:39:17 | |
| A proposed plan should the Council be interested in cutting that direction to move forward. | 02:39:22 | |
| The event could be held at the gym on Saturday, August 3rd of this year. If we were to hold the competition, we would have five | 02:39:28 | |
| shooting location locations, each with five basketballs. The way it would work is the first four would be worth one point. We'd | 02:39:34 | |
| have a different colored ball called the Money Ball that would be worth 2 points. At the end of each shooting location rack, | 02:39:41 | |
| participants would be given 60 seconds per round. Each person would have two rounds to shoot and the total score from both rounds | 02:39:48 | |
| would be used to determine the winner. | 02:39:54 | |
| We would plan to have an event DJ to provide live music during the event and also to provide some fun commentary about the the | 02:40:02 | |
| day's activities. | 02:40:07 | |
| The event would be supported by city staff members, volunteers and we would look to non shooting participants to help **** balls | 02:40:13 | |
| and keep the event moving along. | 02:40:18 | |
| We anticipate that the event would be held for a cost not to exceed $2000. | 02:40:24 | |
| And because of the facility renovations and anticipated savings on facility rentals due to our inability to have all of the days | 02:40:30 | |
| and times that we're we have been used to, we are not requesting any additional appropriations and feel as though the savings from | 02:40:36 | |
| the facility rental would be able to pay for the cost of this event. | 02:40:42 | |
| It includes the staff presentation and we're available for any questions the council has. | 02:40:50 | |
| Thank you. Does Council have any questions? | 02:40:54 | |
| I have a question. Can you refresh my memory and how this got on to the agenda? Did we? I'm not familiar with. Yeah, I I know you, | 02:41:00 | |
| you're behind it, but I I don't. Was there a motion to approve it? I'm asking staff, please. | 02:41:07 | |
| Yes, I think I put in the report there was a request and the council approved a motion to receive information about the data usage | 02:41:16 | |
| and information about the basketball league. And then at the last meeting there was a brief discussion about that and there was an | 02:41:23 | |
| additional request for information about a three-point contest. OK. I just, I didn't remember the league part. I did remember the | 02:41:29 | |
| three-point contest part. OK, So the total cost not to exceed 2000, does that include staff time? | 02:41:36 | |
| In planning and implementing it does. | 02:41:43 | |
| That's not a lot of stuff done. | 02:41:48 | |
| OK, very good. Thank you. | 02:41:51 | |
| Any further questions? | 02:41:53 | |
| Yeah, I think I read that because of the renovations and the closing of the gym and the savings from the regular Boys and Girls | 02:41:54 | |
| Club. | 02:41:59 | |
| Basketball. | 02:42:07 | |
| Anyway, you know what I mean. | 02:42:09 | |
| That the 2000 would not be an increase, it would be taken out of what would not be spent because of the renovation. | 02:42:11 | |
| That's correct. We are not asking for any additional appropriations and believe the savings from the reduced amount of facility | 02:42:19 | |
| rentals would be able to pay for the cost of the event, right. And since there's three items on this one agenda item, I'll go | 02:42:26 | |
| ahead and and reference the your recommendation for the basketball league. | 02:42:32 | |
| And so I'm in agreement with. | 02:42:38 | |
| Not moving forward with the league, that's a lot of work that requires I think you said in here 8 teams and if it's. | 02:42:42 | |
| 18 that's at least five, at least five people, I would imagine, if you're talking about basketball, right? | 02:42:50 | |
| Plus 40 people. | 02:42:56 | |
| On a regular basis on A10 week period and I think that's going to take a little more time. | 02:42:57 | |
| To consider then. | 02:43:02 | |
| Just saying yes right now. | 02:43:04 | |
| Thank you. | 02:43:06 | |
| OK, Madam Clerk, are there any public comments on this item? | 02:43:07 | |
| No public comments. Thank you. So the recommendation is to receive information pertaining to the usage of the Boys and Girls Club | 02:43:11 | |
| for the Cities open basketball play program, consider whether to approve all three basketball shooting contests as identified in | 02:43:17 | |
| the staff report and or modifications and receive information related to resources, costs and other considerations associated with | 02:43:22 | |
| the creation of a basketball league. May I have a motion and a second? | 02:43:28 | |
| I'm making a motion to approve all three recommendations to the City Council. | 02:43:35 | |
| I'll 2nd. | 02:43:40 | |
| No further discussion needed. Yes, following the motion. Is there any did I read in here? I don't recall reading. What is a cost? | 02:43:43 | |
| What cost that you all might have put to have in a league? | 02:43:49 | |
| Well, and if I can quickly so the motion to accept three recommendations. | 02:43:58 | |
| We didn't recommend starting a league at this point, so the motion is not to start a league at this point. | 02:44:04 | |
| And so I think the only real change are the only thing being approved by that motion as I understood it would be, it would give us | 02:44:09 | |
| the direction to hold a three-point contest on Saturday, August 3rd. | 02:44:14 | |
| Bobby could tell me if I may. | 02:44:21 | |
| If I may. So Tuesdays, as you saw, there's a couple times where there was 39 basketball players. | 02:44:25 | |
| If you show up, there's a chance you might not play. And So what what the players started doing is changing the the instead of | 02:44:33 | |
| going up to 15 points, make it 7 points all. Every shot counts as one, No 3 pointers, everything, just one. And so that kept them | 02:44:41 | |
| moving a little bit faster. But even then, it's still too many basketball players on one court for two hours. But. | 02:44:49 | |
| Whoever is in charge of the score, the scoreboard, they were the ones that that were running, running the games. | 02:46:04 | |
| So that's why I brought up earlier in the year, I brought up the idea of, you know, let's let's at least talk about a league. I | 02:46:13 | |
| know that the boys and Girls Club is going to have a new, new gym. And so I thought it it would be a good idea like to segue from | 02:46:20 | |
| a new gym and then starting a league. I know we're not we're not approving a league right now, but that's the reason why I had | 02:46:27 | |
| brought it up. And it's it's just because Tuesdays super PAC. | 02:46:34 | |
| 39 players, that's that's too many people on one court when only 10 players can play. And if you don't, if you lose, you're not | 02:46:42 | |
| going to get a chance to play. So you, you might, you just came to play one game and then you're out. So I thought it'd be easier | 02:46:48 | |
| if we did have set times that people can show up and play and then it would, it would be more efficient. That's, that's the idea | 02:46:53 | |
| behind it. | 02:46:59 | |
| Yeah, thank you for that. The other the other comment is, you know, when you have 17 people, 35 people, 29 people, 10 people, | 02:47:06 | |
| that's great. But when you have a team, the expectation is the identified people will be there. And so I I just don't get that | 02:47:13 | |
| from here, you know what I mean? So if 17 people come out, 17 people might be 17 people on four different teams, you still have | 02:47:21 | |
| enough to pay a game. | 02:47:28 | |
| Right, because they're not on the same team. So I think we just need to think a little deeper about the league thing because that | 02:47:36 | |
| is a that is a commitment for 10 weeks I'm hearing. And you know, I don't know if getting the numbers that we have is, is a big | 02:47:43 | |
| enough commitment to have a league. | 02:47:49 | |
| But we have a few months before we can discuss that further since we don't even have a gym. | 02:47:59 | |
| I just love the talk of this and getting getting our residents involved in Wellness and, you know, gamemanship and all that. And I | 02:48:08 | |
| recall when I first moved in and around Miranda Park, I mean, there is softball games just about every night there. | 02:48:15 | |
| And it I really enjoyed hearing. | 02:48:24 | |
| The sound of people having a good time. | 02:48:27 | |
| Constantly being used on Saturdays, there's big games going on, a lot of enthusiasm, so I know there and unfortunately I can't | 02:48:33 | |
| play basketball even if I could, I'm terrible. So. But there's a lot of interest and I think, you know, when people become aware | 02:48:39 | |
| that, I think it's valuable and there's a lot of basketball being played at Miranda Park regardless of what's going on down at the | 02:48:46 | |
| Boys and Girls Club, so. | 02:48:52 | |
| I think it's a great idea to try and keep people engaged in positive. | 02:49:00 | |
| Wellness activities. | 02:49:06 | |
| So we have a motion on the floor. | 02:49:08 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 02:49:11 | |
| The final presentation we or business item we have tonight is the regional Defense Partnerships budget request for fiscal year | 02:49:20 | |
| 202425. | 02:49:24 | |
| Yes, thank you, Mayor, and I'll keep it very brief. The Regional Defense Partnership in years past their annual. | 02:49:29 | |
| Budget request to the city was about $5000 for for literally decades. I think it was about 20 years that it was about $5000. And | 02:49:41 | |
| they have notified us starting this year that they have recognized that that's not sustainable for RDP at this point anymore. And | 02:49:52 | |
| they've asked for an increase of all of the agencies. And so they calculate the dues for each agency by. | 02:50:02 | |
| A calculation based on the percentage of employees at the base, civilian employees at the base whose W twos are identified as | 02:50:15 | |
| belonging in your your city. So it's essentially based on how many base employees you have in your city and so. | 02:50:23 | |
| Our our new calculation would be proposed to increase from $5000 to $8362.00 for this year and then. | 02:50:32 | |
| Also worth noting is that in future years, they noted that they plan to do a cost of living adjustment every year now, rather than | 02:50:44 | |
| wait 20 years and make a big adjustment as they did in the past. | 02:50:50 | |
| So we've attached their detailed letter explaining the basis for it in the agenda. I will just note originally we had planned to | 02:50:57 | |
| bring this along with the budget and it maybe made a little more sense because we were going to be approving sort of the expenses | 02:51:05 | |
| and then building them into the budget in the same night. We ended up doing the budget last meeting and we didn't want to hold it | 02:51:12 | |
| up for this. So this is coming after the fact, but so, so it's a little bit out of sync, but. | 02:51:20 | |
| The item is on the agenda for the council to approve moving forward with the $8362.00 and future cost of living adjustments. We | 02:51:28 | |
| noted in the staff report that there's really three main options is that council could approve the budget appropriation, council | 02:51:35 | |
| could identify additional questions that we could request additional information from the RDP or three, if the council were to | 02:51:41 | |
| choose to decline, we would have a follow up conversation with RDP regarding options, but those are the three options for the | 02:51:48 | |
| council to consider at this time. | 02:51:54 | |
| Thank you. Does Council have any questions for staff? | 02:52:01 | |
| Seeing none, are there any public comments on this item? | 02:52:07 | |
| No public comment. Thank you. So the recommendation is to consider the approval of an increased budget appropriation in the amount | 02:52:10 | |
| of $8362.39 and and an annual cost living just adjustment from 5000 in prior years to continue participation with the RDP for | 02:52:18 | |
| fiscal year 2425. May I have a motion and a second? | 02:52:26 | |
| Motion to approve. | 02:52:35 | |
| Second, any further discussion? | 02:52:37 | |
| Thank you, Madam Clerk. All in favor? Aye, all opposed. | 02:52:40 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 02:52:45 | |
| Thank you. Moving on to City Manager comments and reports. Yes, thank you. We have a couple. | 02:52:47 | |
| So we already talked about the 4th of July, so. | 02:52:55 | |
| Won't go through that again. | 02:52:58 | |
| Give me one second. | 02:53:02 | |
| Thank you. | 02:53:04 | |
| So just a couple of items. One is this weekend we had our first movie night of the year at Miranda Park June 15th. We have some | 02:53:08 | |
| photos here on the slide and we want to do highlight and remind people that our next one is already planned and scheduled for July | 02:53:18 | |
| 12th. It'll be Finding Nemo at Waimea Beach Park at 8:15 PM. And so come join us at the Wyoming Beach Park for that one the. | 02:53:27 | |
| Events are free admission with free parking. And then we have popcorn machines. And so bring your own blankets and your chairs and | 02:53:37 | |
| then join us for movie night. And we have here the full list of scheduled movie nights this year. And we've also posted this | 02:53:43 | |
| information online. | 02:53:49 | |
| We also just wanted to take a moment. I think a lot of the questions we're getting a lot of and a lot of the inquiries we're | 02:53:57 | |
| getting right now are related to Anime Beach. And I think it's that time of year that people are preparing for summer time to | 02:54:04 | |
| start. I think it's officially this weekend that summer starts. And so we just wanted to kind of answer some of the frequently | 02:54:12 | |
| asked questions and we also did some social media outreach on these over the last couple days and, and 1:00 today as well. | 02:54:19 | |
| That we just want to highlight that. | 02:54:27 | |
| Lifeguard season officially starts on June 19th. From June 19th, August 20th, lifeguards will be at the beach seven days a week. | 02:54:31 | |
| After August 20th, lifeguards will be there at Wanami Beach on weekends through October 14th. | 02:54:37 | |
| We're reminding everybody to follow all posted rules, and one of the big ones that we have our big electronic signboard out down | 02:54:46 | |
| at the beach right now is the reminder that no dogs are allowed on the sand. So we're asking everybody to follow that. And our | 02:54:52 | |
| lifeguards have our Autobahn Society provided brochures and they'll be reminding people. | 02:54:59 | |
| Of that moving forward. | 02:55:07 | |
| And, and then we have made our annual parking permits available this month because we saw a lot of requests from people to to be | 02:55:10 | |
| able to get them before the year starts and be ready for July 1st to use them. And so those are available now and residents can | 02:55:17 | |
| come to our front counter here at City Hall and purchase an annual parking pass and there is a discounted parking pass for | 02:55:24 | |
| residents. | 02:55:30 | |
| Lastly, we just wanted to highlight we, I think caught some people by surprise that we had our officers out in the Polaris | 02:55:39 | |
| vehicle, which is the beach vehicle pictured here. It looks like a photo shoot, but he's actually working. And so we've, we had | 02:55:47 | |
| the have, we've had the officers out on the beach a few times and they're getting the Polaris back out and putting it to use. And | 02:55:55 | |
| we plan to have a presence out on the beach this year with some of our bike patrols and also the Polaris vehicle, so. | 02:56:03 | |
| If you have questions while at the beach, we have our lifeguards available and hopefully you'll see the officers patrolling | 02:56:11 | |
| through one of those. | 02:56:15 | |
| The bikes are the Polaris and so we plan to have a presence at the beach this year during the summer. So, so we're getting ready | 02:56:21 | |
| for summer at Waimea Beach. And then last is we wanted to let everybody know about we've been trying to get the word out through | 02:56:29 | |
| various outlets about our updated St. sweeping schedule. | 02:56:36 | |
| And just reminding people. | 02:56:44 | |
| I think. | 02:56:47 | |
| Some people maybe forgot why we were doing this, and I saw different theories on why because the discussion was quite a while ago. | 02:56:49 | |
| But we're just reminding everybody that we're implementing this really to reduce the impact on parking for all of our residents | 02:56:56 | |
| and to try to make life a little bit easier. But we know change is always hard and I think right now the some of the changes may | 02:57:04 | |
| be causing a little bit of stress. So we want to highlight that. | 02:57:11 | |
| We announced when when we were putting the signs up that parking enforcement is paused. We didn't say how long initially because | 02:57:20 | |
| we're still hoping people follow the signs as much as they can. But I think we got so many questions that we just came out and | 02:57:26 | |
| said it, that parking enforcement is going to be paused for a while. We're planning to really pause and I should be clear, parking | 02:57:33 | |
| enforcement related to St. sweeping. So not all parking enforcement, but parking enforcement related. St. sweeping is going to be | 02:57:40 | |
| paused through July 14th. | 02:57:46 | |
| And then starting on July 15th issues our warnings will be issued, but we're not going to cite until after back to school. So we | 02:57:54 | |
| want to give everybody the chance to get used to it. And then also you know throw in the the first week of going back to school | 02:58:01 | |
| and how stressful that is, we want to give people that time period to get through that. And so actual enforcement's going to begin | 02:58:08 | |
| on September 4th, 1st related to the street sweeping schedule and then. | 02:58:15 | |
| Just as a note, because we saw a lot of people ask if notices were going to be in utility bills, they are going to be in the bills | 02:58:24 | |
| that those notices are coming out in the bills that will be mailed out on June 28th. And so our plan was to get the word out to | 02:58:31 | |
| everybody before any possibility of anybody getting a ticket or anything related to St. sweeping. So so we're we're rolling this | 02:58:39 | |
| out now. Signs have been updated officially at this point. We've got a couple questions or there's a couple of like. | 02:58:47 | |
| Schedule, like maybe scheduling issues that we're looking at. And so we're going to plan to, to get that information, take | 02:58:55 | |
| questions and if we need to adjust, we can adjust. But for the most part, response once people understand that they that there's a | 02:59:02 | |
| pause in parking enforcement and they're not going to get a ticket for not knowing what's going on, right, right. You know, right | 02:59:10 | |
| on that first day, most of the response has been pretty positive. | 02:59:17 | |
| To appreciating that we're trying to do something that makes. | 02:59:25 | |
| Life a little bit easier, so we're asking people to bear with us for the first couple weeks as we get through that. | 02:59:28 | |
| Thank staff for that because it's been a long time coming. Thank you. | 02:59:35 | |
| And then last July 1st, we wanted to show what we're planning on the agenda right now. | 02:59:40 | |
| And I have up top a reminder that I almost forgot is that I'm still getting used to it. It's my first ever opportunity to | 02:59:47 | |
| celebrate Juneteenth. I know last year several cities adopted or, you know, adopted the holiday and and my prior city, it hadn't | 02:59:55 | |
| adopted it. So so I'm still getting used to it. And I was told. | 03:00:03 | |
| That it was Wednesday and I was like, oh, really? So, so I'm, I'm learning, but so City Hall is going to be closed on June 19th, | 03:00:11 | |
| Wednesday in honor of Juneteenth. And then when we come back, we'll be working on the agenda for July 1st. We have presentation | 03:00:18 | |
| scheduled our quarterly employee recognition, Parks and Recreation month proclamation and a presentation from reach with some. I | 03:00:26 | |
| think it's going to be. | 03:00:33 | |
| Sort of their plan as they kind of get restarted. | 03:00:40 | |
| And then for business items, we have a few things we're bringing back. We're going to bring it back the survey results we have | 03:00:47 | |
| taken the survey from. | 03:00:51 | |
| Multi unit property owners regarding whether they would support non-smoking policies and if it would help them to be able to to | 03:00:56 | |
| kind of give them the ability to to require that from tenants. And so we're going to bring back those results. | 03:01:03 | |
| We're going to bring back when we adopted the flag policy, we were asked to also do some research on the prisoner of war missing | 03:01:12 | |
| an action flag for specific holidays and we decided to try to bring it back before 4th of July, which would potentially be one of | 03:01:19 | |
| the holidays that the council could consider. | 03:01:25 | |
| Including that on and Will, I should have mentioned that when I think is Mr. Murphy who spoke about the flag policy and we'll | 03:01:32 | |
| reach out to him since we have his information and let him know that that that's coming back to council on the July first meeting. | 03:01:40 | |
| And then we have an item that's going to be some issues or some efforts that we're trying to bring forward to address some of the | 03:01:47 | |
| issues on Surfside Drive and Market Street, things like the rapid flashing beacons at crosswalks and and those types of things. | 03:01:55 | |
| And then lastly, the Measure U committee. | 03:02:03 | |
| Had. | 03:02:07 | |
| Asked us to do some in their recommendations for their Measure U funds. One of that asks was whether we could do something like a | 03:02:10 | |
| graffiti removal kit to help private property owners. So we are planning to bring an item back to talk about that as well. So, so | 03:02:16 | |
| those are the items planned for July 1st at this point. And with that, that's the City manager's report. Does anyone have any | 03:02:23 | |
| questions for City Manager Vega? | 03:02:30 | |
| Thank you. Now we'll move on to Councilman reports and comments. Council Member Martinez. Yes, thank you, Mayor Perez. In regards | 03:02:38 | |
| to the sister city, I think we're moving slowly. I'm thankful to have Joan on our team. She says the nonprofit is moving smoothly. | 03:02:43 | |
| Right. | 03:02:49 | |
| And we're set for Puerto Vallarta to visit on August 5th if anybody wants to see any of our. | 03:02:55 | |
| The minutes from our meetings, it's on the website Why Nimi Sister Cities org, you just go on the tab that says minutes and then | 03:03:04 | |
| our meetings. And then it has a list of all the meetings. And so if you, if you want to see what's going on, you can go on the | 03:03:11 | |
| website. But just to recap, we went over the bylaws, we went over the mission vision and values. We talked about the, the possible | 03:03:17 | |
| dates for the Puerto Vallarta visit and what we can do. So we're thinking about hosting a breakfast here in the city and showing | 03:03:24 | |
| them a little bit about the city. | 03:03:30 | |
| Maybe taking them to the City Museum? And none of this is set in stone just for the records. These are just ideas that we were | 03:03:38 | |
| bouncing off of each other. And then maybe having a potluck slash BBQ at the beach later that day. | 03:03:45 | |
| And and use the the bonfire pits. Maybe do some s'mores on Tuesday. | 03:03:52 | |
| Thank thankfully the ports been showing up to every single one of our meetings. And so one of the things that they mentioned is | 03:03:59 | |
| that they can do a Bolt tour and a presentation, especially because a lot of the people that are going to be showing up this time | 03:04:05 | |
| are more likely than not going to be new. And, and it's not going to be the same people that showed up last time. And we were | 03:04:11 | |
| thinking about hosting a Fiesta event and instead of doing Mexican food, maybe catering Filipino food. | 03:04:17 | |
| Showing them how we have We're very diverse here in our city. | 03:04:24 | |
| And then and then showing real guppies, maybe this time at at the at the pier and then showing them how to fish. And then maybe | 03:04:27 | |
| ending on Wednesday at at full Saigon. But those were some of the ideas. I just want to mention that anybody can see our our. | 03:04:37 | |
| Our agenda and our minutes at www.winemisisterscities.org. But you have to type in the WWW. OK, I made the website and I'm not | 03:04:46 | |
| sure exactly something happened. So I, I, I'm still figuring that out. You know, I haven't actually looked into it since the last | 03:04:55 | |
| meeting, so I'm just being honest. And then in regards to, on our next meetings on July 3rd at 6:00 PM, we're going to try to also | 03:05:03 | |
| apply a Zoom component to that so that Council member Hernandez can attend and, and some of the other members. | 03:05:11 | |
| Oh, the basketball and pickleball tournaments would be fundraisers, Yeah. | 03:06:05 | |
| Thank you. Anything further, Councilmember Martinez? | 03:06:12 | |
| I just want to say that I'm a very happy council member today. The mural. | 03:06:16 | |
| The three-point contest, the canine, I think all of these are things that we can celebrate. Obviously with some of the public | 03:06:22 | |
| comments that we had in early on, there's always going to be room for improvement. But from my from my my experience here on City | 03:06:28 | |
| Council is that we've been continually improving and making the city a better place for all of our residents and our neighbors as | 03:06:34 | |
| well. Absolutely, councilmember. | 03:06:41 | |
| I couldn't agree more with that and I think it's a it was really healthy going through the mirror looking at it. It's great and we | 03:06:47 | |
| all give our little input and then it's going to come back even better and there's a lot of great things going on in the city. I | 03:06:53 | |
| was able to attend the movie in the park at Miranda Park and it was just such a comfortable looking event. | 03:07:00 | |
| Everybody's happy and whether you like the movie or not, you're gonna have a good time and I just enjoy seeing that and and this | 03:07:08 | |
| 211 thing. I can't get it off on my my mind and I would like to challenge everyone up here on the dyess. Hey, let's let's all get | 03:07:15 | |
| familiar with this and let's figure out hey, how we can work it and then once we. | 03:07:22 | |
| Enjoy it and learn. Then let's really push this out because this has a value that I think. | 03:07:31 | |
| Just love that. | 03:08:12 | |
| So we've waited me Beach cleanup is becoming something of a phenom and. | 03:08:14 | |
| I'll be honest with you, sometimes it's hard and I hope, I hope not too many people show up today because I'd like to like to be | 03:08:23 | |
| done early. And, and, and the other last week. Well, Lena showed up and they, they gave me a last minute courtesy call, which was | 03:08:30 | |
| nice, but they brought like 50 people. And at first I'm like, but then it turns into joy. Had to run home and get some more | 03:08:37 | |
| equipment. And, but it really is a joy. And I think back at all the kids and their community service hours and all the good things | 03:08:44 | |
| that are happening. | 03:08:51 | |
| It's pretty cool. So we and then coastal keeper Surfrider was out there this Saturday. | 03:08:59 | |
| And I, you know, and I'm a terrible data person, but I bet if I started keeping data, the numbers would be just blow, blow your | 03:09:06 | |
| mind. So for example, in a year's time, how many people come to either Orman or Winami Beach to do beach cleanup? The number has | 03:09:15 | |
| to be over 1000, maybe 1500, maybe more. And then we start thinking about how much trash have we dragged off the beach that | 03:09:23 | |
| sometimes we do drag on reinforced plastic trash off the beach. And it's a what it's like a team building exercise and. | 03:09:32 | |
| So it's really good and then the beach is clean, it looks good and people appreciate it and I'm really stoked about that. I just | 03:09:41 | |
| want to make a comment regarding going green. And I think going green is great, especially if you live over here on this side of | 03:09:48 | |
| town and it's a hot night and you have your window open and, and there has been many times where you could smell the emissions | 03:09:56 | |
| coming in from the port coming into my windows that are open. So I really applaud the effort to minimize emissions and go green. | 03:10:03 | |
| Then there's the however part and recently there was a some dead discarded EV batteries were off gassing at the port of Waimea and | 03:10:12 | |
| apparently they caught fire and it led to an evacuation of the port for six hours and. | 03:10:20 | |
| If you're downwind from it, you know, that could be a really interesting way to wake up. But I think looking forward and realizing | 03:10:29 | |
| that there's going to be more and more and more electric vehicle batteries piling up. And if you think about in the past of those | 03:10:37 | |
| big piles of black tires, is there going to be big piles of EV batteries degrading off gassing, Catching Fire in our environment? | 03:10:44 | |
| So I just hope that we. | 03:10:52 | |
| Start thinking about how are we going to manage batteries when they become obsolete, when they become discarded. The cost is very, | 03:11:00 | |
| very high. And I think, I think we should. I'm not going to ask for a agenda, but I just would encourage us to start thinking | 03:11:08 | |
| about that because the port has big plans to go. | 03:11:15 | |
| All electric from what I understand, from their ocean blue thing last week, which I was unable to attend. But like I said, they're | 03:11:24 | |
| they're they had a fire they had to evacuate and I think we should. | 03:11:32 | |
| Pay heed to that and know that. | 03:11:42 | |
| Prudent and responsible management of battery disposal is going to be a big issue into the future as we become more and more green | 03:11:46 | |
| and using electric vehicles. | 03:11:51 | |
| And that's it. | 03:12:00 | |
| All right, Councilmember Hernandez. | 03:12:01 | |
| I attended all my meetings and plan to attend my meetings this week and up until our next meeting. I have no items. Thank you. | 03:12:04 | |
| Puts him. | 03:12:14 | |
| Yes, just a couple of items. I. | 03:12:17 | |
| Thank you to our City Manager for bringing up a Juneteenth. I participated in the Oxnard 33rd Annual Juneteenth Celebration as an | 03:12:21 | |
| elected official. I was called on stage and, and in the absence of our mayor, I was not, I did not know. I know, I know they just | 03:12:28 | |
| get a list and call all elected officials and come up on the stage. And so anyway, I should be there. So anyway, I spoke on your | 03:12:35 | |
| behalf and just, you know, thank folks for being out and talk about the history. | 03:12:43 | |
| But I would like to ask the city to if we can. | 03:12:51 | |
| In the future, make sure that we do AI can give you the information, maybe a proclamation for Juneteenth and. | 03:12:56 | |
| While it's Oxnard's, while it's under the heading of Oxnard, it is the Ventura County. | 03:13:04 | |
| Juneteenth. That's kind of. | 03:13:11 | |
| The title that they go under, so I'd like to make sure that we can provide them a approximate. | 03:13:13 | |
| Every year and it so, so Juneteenth is on the 19th, but it was at the event was on the 15th. So we have to keep that in mind | 03:13:19 | |
| because it's generally on a Saturday. | 03:13:24 | |
| Did participate in the ports press event, the Ocean 0 emission blue blueprint event. So I I just participated in the the press | 03:13:30 | |
| event portion. I had another meeting I had to go to and then participated. Of course we heard today in the RDP report change of | 03:13:39 | |
| command. So Commander Kim Knock has been relieved. New commander is Commander Daniel DB Brown. | 03:13:48 | |
| And then the final thing is so. | 03:13:58 | |
| To go to the change of command. I missed the VCTC meeting so I gave them a heads up and said I have another. | 03:14:02 | |
| Event and I missed the previous one. I must have been sick or on vacation. I don't know what it was, but I missed. And one of the | 03:14:11 | |
| Port Hueneme residents saw me at Juneteenth and said I've been looking for you. You missed two meetings. And so I'm just saying | 03:14:18 | |
| that out loud so you all know that they're watching us. And you know, and I said, well, I'm so glad you at least look for me to | 03:14:26 | |
| know that I wasn't there and I promise I'll be at the next one. | 03:14:34 | |
| So, so yeah, so I thought that was interesting, but you know, I'm never, I'm glad he said it cuz sometimes, sometimes we get lacks | 03:14:43 | |
| a days ago and we kind of say we're not gonna do, but I don't do that. I'm gonna talk about me. But yeah. So he told me that I | 03:14:48 | |
| hadn't been there and I said you're absolutely right. And I had. | 03:14:54 | |
| Explain myself. | 03:14:59 | |
| And so, yeah, so I thought that was pretty, pretty neat. | 03:15:01 | |
| Thank you. I attended. I was, I participated this year in the Torch run for the first time and got to be the handoff for the torch | 03:15:06 | |
| from Oxnard PD to wine me with members of our Port Winemi Police Department and our City manager. I only did 2 miles of that race | 03:15:14 | |
| because I had to get back to work, but I was proud to participate in that anyway. That was a hard run, let me tell you just that, | 03:15:21 | |
| 2 miles. I was not practicing or running for the previous two weeks, so I was not ready for that. | 03:15:29 | |
| It was it was pretty rough that day. | 03:15:37 | |
| I'd held the torch. Yeah, that thing is heavy, let me tell you. | 03:15:40 | |
| So then we I. | 03:15:45 | |
| I, along with others colleagues, attended the Navy change of command and that was such a moving ceremony. He brought me to tears | 03:15:48 | |
| with his comments. Captain Kim knock with his and he was funny. He kept it. It was it was engaging and he's very charismatic and | 03:15:55 | |
| it was I laughed and cried and it was a really sweet ceremony. I. | 03:16:03 | |
| And the Port Hueneme PD Explorer car show, I hear was a huge success, although we haven't heard the details from that, but they do | 03:16:12 | |
| a great year, great job every year. And we presented along with the Port their $5000 community benefit fund check. So we did that | 03:16:17 | |
| presentation that day. | 03:16:23 | |
| The port city meeting, yes, I need to do a report on that. So the basics of that last meeting we had with the port. | 03:16:33 | |
| Was to kind of go over. | 03:16:42 | |
| Our list versus their list and they recommended and that we reduce the amount of. | 03:16:44 | |
| Agencies and entities and people that we give to and pick some solid ones and give more to. So we kept the which. | 03:16:53 | |
| Which organization did we keep? I know we kept the Real Guppies Port, We need Me Explorers in Laquette, and I think there were a | 03:17:03 | |
| couple more that we kept, the nonprofits that we support, maybe Little League. And yeah, I think Little League was the Little | 03:17:08 | |
| League, and then there might have been one more. | 03:17:14 | |
| We added the elementary school to support them in whatever need that they have uniforms for their performing arts groups. Yes. And | 03:17:20 | |
| then the report recommended that we invest money in a grant writer to help us with some really large grants that we want to | 03:17:28 | |
| possibly take advantage of that I guess, require a lot more time than what the city has. | 03:17:36 | |
| You just reminded me, if I may. So when the port talks about grants, big grants that they get, those are tax dollars, right? It's | 03:17:47 | |
| coming from the government. And so how can we be a part of that because. | 03:17:54 | |
| Any big grant that the port gets impacts the city of Port Hueneme. And so I was wondering, is there a way to tie those like for us | 03:18:03 | |
| to just make that realization that, hey, you know, because you got to come through the city to get to the port. So I think that's | 03:18:08 | |
| the thought process with this is that if we apply for some grants for mutually beneficial projects where, you know, like for | 03:18:14 | |
| example. | 03:18:20 | |
| But. | 03:19:01 | |
| A little bit more so than what we did the last one and really hone in on what why Nimi needs and what we can get out of that trip. | 03:19:35 | |
| So we'll be having planning meetings before that's we're probably not doing that until October. So I expect we'll have planning | 03:19:42 | |
| meetings to talk about what all of us would like to get out of that DC trip. That'll give us plenty of time to do that. There's | 03:19:50 | |
| also still money that has not been allocated. So there was some discussions, but they are coming back with. | 03:19:57 | |
| Some other stuff is with. | 03:20:05 | |
| Right. That was my last take is they're coming back again with some other ideas, but there's still money that has not been | 03:20:07 | |
| allocated. | 03:20:09 | |
| So that was the gist of that meeting and to go over. | 03:20:12 | |
| James went over our budget and what was going on with the city and how that impacts. | 03:20:16 | |
| Possibly some stuff with them. And I think there was one more thing that we went over. | 03:20:21 | |
| Oh, Nope, that was it. OK, that's pretty much it from the Port City committee meeting. | 03:20:29 | |
| And moving on. | 03:20:37 | |
| Any future agenda items, Councilman Martinez? | 03:20:40 | |
| Councilman Mcgonagall. | 03:20:44 | |
| No. All right. Then I am going to adjourn this meeting. | 03:20:46 | |
| The next regularly scheduled meeting is Monday, July 1st at 6:30 PM. The meeting is now adjourned. | 03:20:50 | |
| I almost forgot about that. I knew a motive memo on it earlier. | 03:21:00 |