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| Good evening. | 00:02:18 | |
| Welcome to the closed session portion of the City Council meeting. I am calling this meeting to order. The time is now 5:30 PM. | 00:02:24 | |
| Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call, Councilmember Gama. | 00:02:30 | |
| I'm here, Councilmember Hernandez here, Council Member Martinez, President, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Legend and Mayor Perez. | 00:02:36 | |
| We will now hear public comments. Comments are limited to three minutes. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? No | 00:02:45 | |
| public comments for closed session. Thank you. | 00:02:49 | |
| Madam City Attorney, will you please read the closed session item into the record? | 00:02:56 | |
| Thank you, Miss Mayor. We do have one matter going into closed session. That is the public employee performance evaluation. | 00:03:00 | |
| Awkwardly, it's for the position of city attorney pursuant to government code section 54957 B one. And at the end of the closed | 00:03:08 | |
| session and prior to the beginning of the regular agenda, to the extent there's any reportable action, I will report out. Thank | 00:03:16 | |
| you. Do any members of council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for the listed closed session item? | 00:03:23 | |
| Seeing none. | 00:03:32 | |
| Well, Council, we're going to recess now to closed session. The time is 5:31 PM. | 00:03:34 | |
| Good evening everyone, nice to see you all. | 01:01:50 | |
| Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I am calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30 PM. | 01:01:54 | |
| Please stand and join me for the flag salute. | 01:02:00 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and. | 01:02:07 | |
| One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 01:02:14 | |
| Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? | 01:02:24 | |
| Councilmember Gama here, Councilmember Hernandez here, Councilmember Martinez, President, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen, Lashawn here, and | 01:02:27 | |
| Mayor Perez here. Tonight's inspiration will be given by Councilmember Gama. | 01:02:33 | |
| So my inspiration tonight for July 15, 2024 is a surfer. | 01:02:47 | |
| Councilmember Gama, sorry, can you pick up the mic? I think you all know what a surfer does. It's a person who rides a wave | 01:02:54 | |
| towards the shore. | 01:02:57 | |
| In Waimea, an iconic and inspirational surfer was Butch Towers. He made close to 30,000 surfboards in our community and everybody | 01:03:02 | |
| knew Butch. You could always find Butch at the base of the pier just about every single day. | 01:03:09 | |
| Surfboards have a long history that used to be really long. | 01:03:16 | |
| Now they're kind of short, but women surf too. In the middle is Beth Bethany Hamilton. She's a huge inspiration. She's a young | 01:03:20 | |
| lady that got her arm bit off by a tiger shark in Kauai at a place called Kahili. Why? Actually, that's where her local beach was. | 01:03:28 | |
| But her arm got bit off at Poly Holly and I actually got to surf with her when I was living in Kauai. | 01:03:36 | |
| Glamorous surfing in the older days. Not so glamorous, but doing it anyways. | 01:03:45 | |
| Look at these kids learning how to surf. We have a wonderful junior lifeguard program here in Waimea. We have programs to help | 01:03:53 | |
| people with disabilities to get out there and be inspired. | 01:03:58 | |
| They're all inspirational. This guy, this guy set us surfers back a few years. He gave us a really bad rap, you know? But I'm here | 01:04:04 | |
| to tell you that surfers aren't like Spicoli. The surfer mentality is a mindset that's focused on living in the present moment, | 01:04:10 | |
| embracing challenges and enjoying the journey. | 01:04:16 | |
| It's a philosophy that can be applied to all areas of life, from work to relationships, personal development. | 01:04:23 | |
| Adopt the surfer mentality. I'm here to tell you, practice mindfulness. Be present in each moment, moment and without judgment. | 01:04:29 | |
| There's so many ways to practice mindfulness, meditation, yoga. We just had about 30-40 people participate in yoga this weekend at | 01:04:35 | |
| Miranda Park. It's really nice. | 01:04:41 | |
| Self improvement, surfing, walking, improve yourself and or the environment around you all is a great way to give yourself | 01:04:48 | |
| mindfulness. Challenge yourself to step outside your comfort zone and try new things. Don't be afraid to fail. Failure is an | 01:04:54 | |
| opportunity to learn and we all need to fail at things in order to grow as people. So whether it's surfing or not, find something | 01:05:00 | |
| you're passionate about and when you're passionate, it's easier to stay in present in the moment and enjoy the journey. Surfer | 01:05:06 | |
| dude, this is the actual headline from. | 01:05:12 | |
| March 30th, 2016. | 01:05:19 | |
| And. | 01:05:21 | |
| The City Council was trying to hire a city manager and I was not a City Council person at the time, but I got up here at this | 01:05:23 | |
| podium and I said hire a surfer. | 01:05:27 | |
| They understand the beach, they understand who we are. | 01:05:33 | |
| So I'm here to tell you that our city manager, he's a surfer. | 01:05:36 | |
| Thank you. I'm just going to point out, you don't say good surfer. | 01:05:41 | |
| So don't get too excited. | 01:05:46 | |
| Thank you, Councilmember Gama. | 01:05:50 | |
| Madam City Attorney, will you please provide the closed session report? | 01:05:54 | |
| Thank you, Miss Mayor. There's no reportable action. | 01:06:00 | |
| Thank you. Straight to the point. | 01:06:03 | |
| Well, now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes. This process will be | 01:06:05 | |
| the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item as well. | 01:06:10 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? | 01:06:15 | |
| We do. There are several, and we'll start off with David Scribner and then go on to Karen Meyer. | 01:06:18 | |
| Good evening everybody. I have some prepared comments but I think I'll just try and ad Lib here because it'll go better I. | 01:06:40 | |
| About a year ago. | 01:06:49 | |
| A bunch of us came to, got together and came to the City Council asking for help with the Surfside Hotel, which is a disaster at | 01:06:51 | |
| that point. The good news is that you listen to us. The police stepped in code enforcement, and we've been able to get out of the | 01:06:58 | |
| vagrants who are living in there. They were really creating havoc, jumping over fences, riding through our neighborhood, stealing | 01:07:05 | |
| things. So the good news is that there's nobody there now. | 01:07:12 | |
| Bad news is it's still a disaster. It's been going on 10 years now. | 01:07:20 | |
| I don't know what the steps moving forward are, but we seem to be stalled at this point. It's ported, the front part is boarded | 01:07:27 | |
| up, the back part looks like a war zone and. | 01:07:32 | |
| Every time you go past it, there's more graffiti that they won't get rid of. | 01:07:39 | |
| So I'm wondering if you can. | 01:07:43 | |
| Give us some an update on where we are with this. I know you can't do that tonight, but I'd like to get some sense of what | 01:07:46 | |
| happened last time. We requested that the city attorney wrote a pretty good description of where we were and that was quite | 01:07:51 | |
| helpful. But. | 01:07:55 | |
| Seemingly we're just stuck at this point so. | 01:08:01 | |
| That's what I like to ask from you. Thank you. | 01:08:04 | |
| Thank you. And just to note for the public council is not able to respond or make comments on public comments, but staff is taking | 01:08:07 | |
| notes or staff can follow up if there's anything that necessary to say. And and what I will quickly note is we are actually | 01:08:13 | |
| working on an update that we'll be putting out similar to last year. | 01:08:19 | |
| Just updating on status and what the next steps are. | 01:08:26 | |
| Good evening. My name is Karen and I live in Ventura County and that have been a resident of California for over 40 years. I'm a | 01:08:31 | |
| volunteer with United Sovereign Americans, not a spokesperson. United Sovereign Americans is a nationwide organization with | 01:08:37 | |
| thousands of active volunteers in over 20 states. | 01:08:42 | |
| Today my colleagues and I come to you as concerned citizens sharing alarming information about our states voter base voter | 01:08:49 | |
| database uncovered through thousands of hours of research conducted by highly qualified and credentialed data teams. While the | 01:08:56 | |
| numbers are staggering and somewhat difficult to comprehend, one thing is clear, they don't add up. | 01:09:03 | |
| We're here to educate and inform you and the public that USA's audit of the certified 2022 election, using only official data | 01:09:11 | |
| provided by state elections officials, shows that the votes cast and counted were not all valid and accurate under the | 01:09:17 | |
| Constitution and under the law. | 01:09:23 | |
| We do not cast any blame or aspersions on anyone. We do not suggest the wrong candidate in any race was wrongly declared the | 01:09:30 | |
| winner. | 01:09:34 | |
| Nor do we advocate for the overturning or rerunning of any past election. | 01:09:39 | |
| Tonight, we will present you with a resolution demanding an end to the inaccuracy and uncertainty plaguing our elections, along | 01:09:43 | |
| with a summary of our findings. | 01:09:48 | |
| And the laws that apply. | 01:09:53 | |
| Our next three speakers will read the resolution in three parts and our final speaker will conclude our presentation. Thank you. | 01:10:30 | |
| Sheila Johnson, then Mary Gallegos. | 01:10:41 | |
| Hello I am Sheila Johnson I'm a resident of Ventura County I've Californian for over 70 years. Resolution for a legally valid 2024 | 01:10:47 | |
| general election whereas it is a recognized civil right in the United states for every citizen to have free and fair elections | 01:10:53 | |
| quote. | 01:11:00 | |
| And the right of suffrage can be denied by a debasement or dilution of the weight of a citizen's vote just as effectively. | 01:11:07 | |
| As by wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise. End Quote US Supreme Court, Reynolds versus Sims, 1964. Whereas it is | 01:11:15 | |
| the duty of our election officials to guarantee our elections are accurate and free from distortion or manipulation. Quote | 01:11:23 | |
| Congress seeks to guard the election of members of Congress against any possible unfairness by compelling everyone concerned in | 01:11:31 | |
| holding the election to a strict and scrupulous observance of every duty devolved upon him while so engaged. | 01:11:39 | |
| The evil intent consists in disobedience to the law. | 01:11:47 | |
| In quote US Supreme Court in Raekwon 1888 whereas our constitutional system of representative government only works when the | 01:11:51 | |
| following four tenants of an election are upheld 1 the voter rolls must be accurate. National Voter Registration Act 1993 two | 01:11:59 | |
| voters count votes counted must be from eligible voters. US Constitution 14th Amendment, Section 2-3 The number of votes counted | 01:12:06 | |
| must equal the number of voters who voted. | 01:12:14 | |
| Four, there can be no more than one in 125,000 ballots in error by the voting system. That's the Help America Act Voter Act 2002. | 01:12:22 | |
| Whereas open source audit of the California 2022 general election conducted by California citizens has uncovered evidence of | 01:12:33 | |
| massive inaccuracies appear to violate both federal and state laws, including 5,886,198 ineligible or uncertain registration. | 01:12:44 | |
| Violations found within. | 01:12:55 | |
| The California State Voter Roll database, 2,776,939 votes cast by ineligible or uncertain registrations. | 01:12:56 | |
| 123,785 more votes counted than voters who voted. No one knows who cast them. | 01:13:09 | |
| 2,776,849 Apparent voting violations are in excess of the legal standard of system accuracy for a valid federal election. The | 01:13:17 | |
| maximum allowable system errors for the 2022 general election in California was 90. | 01:13:27 | |
| Certification, as defined by law and attestation of accuracy and compliance appears to have been fraudulent and illegal. | 01:13:37 | |
| Good afternoon. My name is Mary Gallegos. | 01:13:53 | |
| Whereas these findings trample legal accuracy requirements of the voting system during a federal election, accuracy is defined as | 01:13:56 | |
| the ability of the system to capture and report the specific selections and absence of selections made by a voter without error. | 01:14:03 | |
| Whereas the intent of the voters must be known factually before certification can be lawfully conducted. Certification of an | 01:14:11 | |
| election that varies from the law is an abridgement of the civil rights of the citizen. A fraud. Ebenezio. | 01:14:19 | |
| United States versus Truck Mountain, 1878 Quote From time immemorial, an election to public office has been, in point of substance | 01:14:27 | |
| no more and no less than the expression of qualified electors of their choice of candidates in quote US Supreme Court United | 01:14:33 | |
| States versus Classic 1941. | 01:14:39 | |
| Whereas California 2022 general election appears to have been invalid, depriving us of the guaranteed protection of our natural | 01:14:47 | |
| rights under a government duly and provably chosen by us, the American people, resulted in incalculable, incalculable damage to | 01:14:53 | |
| our families, our way of life. | 01:14:59 | |
| And the fabric of these United States. Therefore, we call upon our representatives to provide relief to the people and an | 01:15:06 | |
| assurance of domestic tranquility by joining us in demanding a valid 2024 general election that oppose these existing laws and | 01:15:14 | |
| equitable principles of law. 1 Proof of citizenship, identity and eligibility required to register and vote not anonymous at the | 01:15:22 | |
| station. 2 Voter rolls certified, accurate and available for public review and challenge. | 01:15:30 | |
| 30 days before the start of early voting. Voters added after that date must bring proof of his citizenship, identity and address | 01:15:38 | |
| in person to a qualified official at each polling place. Three hand marked secure ballots similar to currency. | 01:15:46 | |
| Where imaging technology is used for tabulation, the security features must be verifiable in the ballot image. | 01:15:55 | |
| Four systems, machines, security measures, infrastructure and conduct are required to be compliant with federal law. | 01:16:02 | |
| For fraud prevention regarding risk assessment, certification, testing and implementation. | 01:16:10 | |
| AJUDIC 5 Adjudication must be signed off by a party candidate and trained citizens after being given full and effective | 01:16:16 | |
| observation rights. Candidates and trained citizens must be allowed immediate access to ballots, ballot images, and Castrol | 01:16:22 | |
| records. | 01:16:27 | |
| Hello, I'm Cindy. I've lived here for 49 years. Number six, regardless of entry source, election operations and systems must | 01:16:39 | |
| maintain end to end chain of custody for voters to vote. Count to final canvas including audibility and witness transfer with | 01:16:49 | |
| proper records. 7 The National Institute of Standard and Technology compliance randomized statistical valid end to end audit. | 01:16:59 | |
| With the 95% confidence level of all elections pursuant to the 14th Amendment, Section 2 must be performed. These audits are to be | 01:17:09 | |
| conducted by qualified, insured and bonded security for her and six or financial auditors, not personnel from within the election | 01:17:16 | |
| system. | 01:17:22 | |
| Reconciliation will include the vote count, real physical ballots, adjudication, vote cast records, ballot count, qualified voter | 01:17:29 | |
| count, custody transfer, and all other paper and electronic election system including logs. If the total of the unique variance | 01:17:36 | |
| above is more than 10% of the margin victory, a new election must be held in the state for those candidates affected unless the | 01:17:44 | |
| issue can be provable. | 01:17:51 | |
| Corrected by a manual hand count and a full review of records 9 Waiver of these of the requirements is not allowed. Only end to | 01:17:59 | |
| end system compliance from registration through certification can guarantee the attempt of the people in accurately recorded. | 01:18:08 | |
| To be resolved that the Port Hueneme City Council members stand in support with the consumed concerns and remedies presented here. | 01:18:18 | |
| We employ the Ventura County border supervisors, the California legislature's federal legislatures, law enforcement, federal and | 01:18:29 | |
| state prosecutors, judges, both the California State. | 01:18:36 | |
| Secretary of State and the County Register of Voters to cooperate and fulfill these firm requests of the people. Thank you. | 01:18:44 | |
| Ron Meyer. | 01:18:57 | |
| And then Steve Totem. | 01:18:59 | |
| My name is Ron. I live in Ventura County and have been a resident of California for well over 40 years. | 01:19:03 | |
| I am also a volunteer and not an official spokesperson with United Sovereign Americans. | 01:19:09 | |
| What you heard tonight is the culmination of thousands of hours of work by our highly qualified and credentialed volunteer data | 01:19:16 | |
| teams, data teams from California and across the country. It's a powerfully written resolution offering massive OR. | 01:19:24 | |
| Outlining massive inaccuracies in our 2022 elections, from registration through certification. | 01:19:34 | |
| In it, you heard us ask for meaningful remedies that will proactively protect the validity of our 2024 general election for all | 01:19:41 | |
| Americans. | 01:19:45 | |
| In fact, the resolution cited many US Supreme Court precedents that support the need for such actions. | 01:19:50 | |
| Let's step back for a second and look at the big picture. | 01:19:59 | |
| Large numbers of Americans, including many right here in California, have questions about the trustworthiness of our elections. | 01:20:03 | |
| We can all agree that we wish this was not the case, but official data show these concerns are valid, and the law says resolving | 01:20:11 | |
| them is essential to securing our liberty. | 01:20:17 | |
| How much is it costing us not to fix the problem? | 01:20:24 | |
| How much is it costing our GDP, our military, our foreign policy, our health, the self esteem of our children and young people? | 01:20:28 | |
| And how much is it costing our dignity to keep fighting each other? | 01:20:35 | |
| The cost is immeasurable. | 01:20:43 | |
| So we urge you to get this resolution on the agenda for the next City Council meeting where you can vote to join us in support of | 01:20:46 | |
| Fair, honest and valid elections. | 01:20:51 | |
| Our website. | 01:20:58 | |
| Showcases our initiatives nationwide and has some extremely informative videos. | 01:21:00 | |
| Revealing the anomalies and. | 01:21:08 | |
| Apparent violations. | 01:21:12 | |
| Of California law. | 01:21:15 | |
| The website is Unite for freedom.com. That's Unite the number four freedom.com. | 01:21:17 | |
| I encourage you to check it out and learn more about our organization one more time. Unite the number four freedom.com. | 01:21:27 | |
| Thank you very much for your time tonight. | 01:21:37 | |
| Hello, my name is Steve Totten. I am also a Ventura County resident of 30 years. | 01:21:46 | |
| I'm actually the Ventura County Coordinator for the United Sovereign Americans, and I appreciate your time and listening to us. We | 01:21:52 | |
| would love it if you could put it on the agenda so if you had questions, we could answer them. Everyone has the resolution in | 01:21:58 | |
| front of you and we just appreciate your time. Thank you very much. | 01:22:04 | |
| Carolyn Guilt and then Gloria Massey. | 01:22:13 | |
| Hello. | 01:22:36 | |
| My name is Carolyn Guillo. I've been a resident. It's California most of my life. | 01:22:37 | |
| And Ventura County for over 16 years. | 01:22:42 | |
| I'd like to read to you facts related to current voter rolls and election reports. | 01:22:47 | |
| These are the results from canvassing just over 400 homes in Ventura County. | 01:22:54 | |
| I have personally knocked on dozens of doors myself, so I know very well about this situation. | 01:23:01 | |
| At least two dead people were sent ballots. Both died two years ago. | 01:23:09 | |
| At least two voters received and voted ballots, but have not lived in Oxnard for over 2 years. Because they are. | 01:23:15 | |
| Full time residents of Canada. | 01:23:25 | |
| Interestingly, one of them received from Democrat Congressman Julia Brownlee $110,000 grant in 2015. | 01:23:28 | |
| Dozens and dozens of voters were mailed ballots and don't live at the address of record dozens of the current. | 01:23:39 | |
| Sorry, doesn't the current residents have lived at the address for years but have no idea who the voters are that are registered | 01:23:48 | |
| at the residence address? | 01:23:53 | |
| There are at least a dozen scientists addresses that are commercial businesses in PO Boxes. | 01:23:58 | |
| 13 voters are over the age of 105. All were sent ballots and three of them voted. Five are 106 years old, one is 107, one is 108, | 01:24:05 | |
| one is 109, one is 121, and four were born in 1850 before the Civil War. | 01:24:17 | |
| I will refer to that again in a minute. | 01:24:30 | |
| 47,934 voters don't list places of birth. Several voters return ballots before turning 18 on Election Day. | 01:24:34 | |
| There are records of voters voting twice in the same election, and in some instances they voted in different precincts. | 01:24:45 | |
| And their ballots are recorded with different return methods. | 01:24:52 | |
| Senator Alex Padilla, who was elected but is listed on the Current. | 01:24:56 | |
| June 724 Incumbent list is having been appointed to a vacancy. | 01:25:02 | |
| As these numbers may indicate, there are too many elected bodies. | 01:25:16 | |
| I'm sorry, is my time up? No, I'm sorry. As these numbers may indicate, there are too many elected bodies in Ventura County that | 01:25:23 | |
| govern with less than 30% of the vote. Said another way, 70% of the voters did not vote. | 01:25:31 | |
| For people that are representing them. | 01:25:40 | |
| As referred to previously, 1850, we've been told is a placeholder. | 01:25:44 | |
| Grandfathered in by the elections code and the elections division says they cannot do anything about it. | 01:25:51 | |
| In Ventura County, these are our elections. It is wrong for elections division to have that. They have their hands tied, and it is | 01:25:58 | |
| wrong to have a birth date before the Civil War. | 01:26:05 | |
| Alright, thank you. Your time hasn't expired. Thank you. | 01:26:13 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. | 01:26:16 | |
| Good afternoon, honorable Mayor. | 01:26:24 | |
| And distinguished council members. | 01:26:27 | |
| Thank you for the time allotted, you know, for our public comments. My name is Gloria Massey China. I'm a resident of Ventura | 01:26:30 | |
| County for the last 44 years. | 01:26:35 | |
| As you heard and saw in the previous presentations. | 01:26:41 | |
| That you have been presented and have a resolution in front of you. We have in our hands a Gordian knot. | 01:26:46 | |
| And as all you know, a Gordian knot is commonly used to describe a complex, quasi unsolvable problem. | 01:26:56 | |
| What you heard you can assume to be a complex and unsolvable problem. | 01:27:07 | |
| But Alexander the Great in 3333 before Christ conquer to solve the issue by unraveling the elaborate knots. | 01:27:14 | |
| In his warrior chariot wagon because he listened and worked with his army. | 01:27:27 | |
| He was a victor. | 01:27:35 | |
| We, as your constituent, are asking you to again read the resolution and grant us the opportunity to the resolution on your next | 01:27:37 | |
| public City Council agenda and take the steps to sign unanimously this resolution. | 01:27:46 | |
| Together we can serve. | 01:27:56 | |
| The Guardian. | 01:27:59 | |
| Like with Shakespeare, his play Henry the Fifth a Shake your praise for Henry the Fifth having the ability to lose the Gordian | 01:28:01 | |
| knots of politics. | 01:28:08 | |
| Be our Henry the Fifth. | 01:28:15 | |
| Be our champions. I ask the Lord and the Holy, His Holy Spirit to grant you wisdom and his might, power, mighty power, and to put | 01:28:18 | |
| on full armor of God, belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the gospel of peace, shield of faith, helmet of | 01:28:28 | |
| salvation, and the sword of the Spirit of soul. Peace. Gordon not. | 01:28:37 | |
| Be our champions and continue. | 01:28:47 | |
| To be the great city of poor wine, Amy. Poor wine Amy the friendly city by the sea. I can feel the joy you are as our | 01:28:51 | |
| representatives. So please help us solve this Gordian knot. Thank you very much. | 01:29:00 | |
| Jacqueline Doherty. | 01:29:13 | |
| And then Walter Davidson. | 01:29:15 | |
| Good evening Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem and City Council members. | 01:29:39 | |
| I don't normally speak in public but I thought it was important to tonight to do so. | 01:29:45 | |
| I've been a Ventura County resident for many years. I grew up in Thousand Oaks. | 01:29:52 | |
| And. | 01:29:57 | |
| I'm going to talk tonight about the Vote Voters Choice Act. | 01:29:59 | |
| I support the state Certified Voters Choice Act and our county elections office. The Voters Choice Act was enacted to give greater | 01:30:04 | |
| flexibility and convenience for all voters. | 01:30:11 | |
| There's a ballot mail to every registered voter motto. More days, more ways to vote. Please protect our electoral system in | 01:30:18 | |
| Ventura County. We have safe, secure and accessible voting in our county. We need to encourage more people who have registered to | 01:30:26 | |
| vote and expand our voting participation in our democratic process, not make voting more difficult. Voters Choice Act was written | 01:30:34 | |
| and approved for all eligible voters. | 01:30:42 | |
| With greater flexibility in their many options of voting, I oppose any barriers or restrictions to the Voters Choice Act Citizens | 01:30:51 | |
| who are elderly or have disabilities as well as working people have many more options to vote in the county that are secure and | 01:31:01 | |
| burden free. Voters Choice Act has also increased voter participation. 90% of the ballots cast statewide. | 01:31:12 | |
| Since 20/22 were from voting by mail. | 01:31:23 | |
| All Ventura County voters receive vote by mail ballots. Voters Choice Act has been great for our county and our state. There has | 01:31:27 | |
| been no legitimate evidence of widespread fraud in any of our approved methods of voting. Any effort to withdraw or change the | 01:31:37 | |
| Voters Choice Act would be viewed by the majority of Ventura County voters as voter suppression. If anything, we should enhance. | 01:31:47 | |
| Voter accessibility, not suppress it. | 01:31:58 | |
| Many of us will be paying close attention to what happens next with our voting rights. Please do not be bullied or intimidated to | 01:32:01 | |
| make changes to the Voters Choice Act to satisfy a small group of misinformed citizens. | 01:32:08 | |
| Thank you. My name is Jackie Doherty. Did I say that? I don't remember. | 01:32:17 | |
| Walter Davidson. | 01:32:25 | |
| Good evening everybody. Thanks Wyoming City Council for letting us have the ability to speak. | 01:32:36 | |
| I'm here at #1 about fireworks. I want to come in the morning. Me Police Department. They've been doing a good job considering | 01:32:41 | |
| what it is. It's chaos. There's no rhyme or reason. We as we all know, I mean, because 4th of July, I'll give it to you July 3rd. | 01:32:47 | |
| My point is, I was reading the article, the news Hawk paper. It's a Santa Barbara base paper. Santa Maria started this past year. | 01:32:54 | |
| There's an article in it. They wrote 50 violations that was pending further review. They used drones or drone. They used an | 01:33:00 | |
| aircraft. Pinpoint that. So basically. | 01:33:06 | |
| Like in the case for me, I call the city all the time and bug I may like this yada, yada, address the same address. The people | 01:33:13 | |
| smartly go in there, they have a group of them run out, go back inside the garage. And so they do it strategically. So that way | 01:33:19 | |
| the cops and they've been coming by and seeing and I know there's a lot of other issues prioritized, but if we know of an | 01:33:25 | |
| addresses there, is that something the City Council consider and maybe budget for that and look into what Santa Maria did. I've | 01:33:31 | |
| heard Ventura's done that. I'm not sure. | 01:33:37 | |
| But I've heard that but I know the Santa Maria article is the news new socks. So I'm proposed that are suggesting to the City | 01:33:43 | |
| Council if you guys can think about some kind of way of doing it because I think if people. | 01:33:48 | |
| Had an alternative they might because people are scared to call like I'll say with one person in my neighborhood, he lives right | 01:33:55 | |
| across from this person. He doesn't want to call it that because I'm living there. So I go, I will call and I don't care because | 01:34:00 | |
| it's basically, you know, unreasonable. So that was the number one issue I wanted to call about. So if you guys could consider | 01:34:04 | |
| reviewing it and look at that to find out. | 01:34:09 | |
| Maybe what a remedy is and in the Flyers you hand out, not saying those people give a damn, but maybe, you know, just to remember | 01:34:14 | |
| like, you know, remind them, hey, you know what? This is not to say in season, but you know, beyond the other dates, we all know | 01:34:18 | |
| it what's going on. We've all heard it. | 01:34:23 | |
| My second one is it kind of seems like there's an inconsistency in regards to the code enforcement in Waimea. | 01:34:29 | |
| I'm a 53, I'm assuming a 58 year resident of Port Hueneme and a veteran but for that. But there seems to be selective enforcement | 01:34:35 | |
| in regards to I know a person close by he couldn't put a swing set and it'll slide in his front yard. Then around the corner from | 01:34:43 | |
| there there's a house that has that, a slide and some other like a jungle gym. So it's confusing. | 01:34:51 | |
| And I know one of the, I know the one person for sure because he told me he couldn't do it. He put it up and they took it down | 01:34:59 | |
| South. What is the consistency in that? Is there a consistency? And you know, maybe that's something that can be brought out and | 01:35:03 | |
| highlighted because. | 01:35:07 | |
| And basically those are my two, those are my two concerns in, but I appreciate the time and definitely hope you guys can look into | 01:35:13 | |
| the fireworks thing too and look at what the other. | 01:35:17 | |
| Cities have done and with the result of it is and so forth. So thanks for your time and thank you. | 01:35:23 | |
| Thank you. And I'll just briefly say on fireworks exactly what what our residents said at the end there, that of looking at what | 01:35:28 | |
| other cities are doing on what's working and all that. And so we always are looking at those things and we'll look at those for | 01:35:34 | |
| future years. And on the code enforcement issue, we will have somebody contact you. There is some complication where homeowners | 01:35:40 | |
| association sometimes have different rules in the city and that seems to cause a lot of confusion if one person lives in one | 01:35:45 | |
| association or another. | 01:35:51 | |
| But since we weren't able to get to that specificity here, we'll have somebody contact you. | 01:35:58 | |
| Can I get a drone myself? | 01:36:04 | |
| The house by two blocks from me or any other violator and basically like say hey, you know what this is? | 01:36:12 | |
| When we have. | 01:36:19 | |
| When we have somebody get back to you on the code stuff, we'll we'll loop that in. There's a, there's regulations from other | 01:36:22 | |
| agencies on that so. | 01:36:26 | |
| Thank you. | 01:36:34 | |
| Thank you. | 01:36:35 | |
| Mr. Greg Ross. | 01:36:38 | |
| Good evening, City Council, Madam Mayor, Madam Proctem. | 01:36:48 | |
| Thanks for listening. | 01:36:54 | |
| I wow. | 01:36:57 | |
| I'm here with something that's really brief and just an update. So I think except maybe the city attorney might not have this, but | 01:37:00 | |
| this is what's going in my back porch. | 01:37:06 | |
| Tomorrow. | 01:37:13 | |
| It's a pollution monitoring device, so we can know what's happening with the prevailing winds that come from the West to the east | 01:37:15 | |
| and encompass some of the the particulate matter, carbon particulate matter that's coming from the ships, from the port. | 01:37:24 | |
| So that's an update and now something that's maybe a little more fun. | 01:37:34 | |
| I hope. | 01:37:40 | |
| First of all. | 01:37:42 | |
| I should note, because everyone else said it, I was born in California. | 01:37:43 | |
| I've lived in Ventura County since 1971, so my roots are here. | 01:37:49 | |
| And we would like to beautify the city as best we can. And So what you have in front of you is a KCLU article about MB Hammerhan, | 01:37:55 | |
| who's going through the Bell Arts Factory. And she is a great artist. She does it by herself. The articles in front of you and. | 01:38:06 | |
| The lifeguard stations could be beautified. | 01:38:18 | |
| The the port, the tanks that are out there, they're pretty ugly. They could be beautified. So we're asking if you can do that. And | 01:38:21 | |
| I appreciate you listening. Thank you. | 01:38:27 | |
| Stacy Lane. | 01:38:35 | |
| And then Dulce Satterfield you'll be after. | 01:38:37 | |
| Thank you. | 01:38:41 | |
| Thank you for your time. My name is Stacy Lang. I'm the new Chief Commercial Officer at the Port of Waimi and I wanted to give two | 01:38:46 | |
| brief updates. First, an update on the graffiti complaints about the walls along Surfside Drive and Perkins Gate. The Port of | 01:38:54 | |
| Huanimi Facilities team has been working to ensure access to the railroad tracks is further restricted. We're using sheet metal | 01:39:02 | |
| protective barriers at the entrance gates. In addition, it will help deter trespassers as well as minimize the field of vision. | 01:39:09 | |
| Of the vagrants during the night, there's no timeline for completion as of yet, but the ports putting this together as a committee | 01:39:17 | |
| to craft recommendations for other improvements to address the graffiti in the area. | 01:39:24 | |
| And then also, I'm new to the role. This is my first meeting. I, I started last Monday, so brand new to this. But they poured as a | 01:39:31 | |
| group. Latisha's joining me as well. Leticia, Adam on the public affairs side, Drew and Miguel on the community relations side are | 01:39:39 | |
| going to start attending these meetings. All of them to be a resource to you. We hope that the information sharing will help. | 01:39:46 | |
| US and you be able to move the community forward and move events forward and different initiatives. So thank you very much for | 01:39:54 | |
| your time and Leticia will speak in a little while on another agenda item. | 01:39:59 | |
| Thank you. | 01:40:05 | |
| Dorsey. | 01:40:09 | |
| Good evening Mayor Perez, City Council members, staff. | 01:40:27 | |
| I came to work and live in Port Hueneme. Commit to it over 15 years ago. | 01:40:31 | |
| This evening we're going to start next to the beach. | 01:40:37 | |
| In a medium density neighborhood. | 01:40:40 | |
| Folks question the tagline Friendly city by the sea. We feel unfriended with properties deemed a noise pollution sacrifice zone. | 01:40:42 | |
| Context The State Health and Safety Code section 46000 says all Californians are entitled to a peaceful and quiet enjoyment | 01:40:50 | |
| without the intrusion of noise, which may be hazardous to their health or welfare. | 01:40:57 | |
| Context Our general plan frames noise pollution in technical terms. | 01:41:04 | |
| Yet when have council members and staff posed tough questions? | 01:41:10 | |
| Including technical metrics. | 01:41:16 | |
| Example car show. | 01:41:19 | |
| Now I'm not here to pick on the police with their Explorer program. My granddad joined LAPD 100 years ago once he gained | 01:41:22 | |
| citizenship. | 01:41:27 | |
| But please consider you don't come into chambers just to bless youth programs you're keen on and rubber stamp fundraisers. Duty | 01:41:32 | |
| includes standing up for what is healthy and safe. | 01:41:38 | |
| And transparent for residents, for my neighbors welfare and for mine. | 01:41:45 | |
| Let's revisit June 9th. | 01:41:51 | |
| Condo and townhome dwellers had hours of shaking windows and harsh distortions in the blast zone of elevated speakers. | 01:41:54 | |
| That sound system faced dunes and Ormond Beach Plus. | 01:42:01 | |
| People's homes there, so people looked online for the source of disturbance. | 01:42:05 | |
| A Sunday hikers outing stood out. So hikers were blamed at first and I emailed and said no, that's not what it is because. But the | 01:42:11 | |
| city did shun transparency. I looked at the municipal calendar. | 01:42:18 | |
| There was number mention of the car show and I searched all those different features here. No car show, no car show. | 01:42:25 | |
| So getting on with it. | 01:42:39 | |
| A local man drilled down to read Resolution 4398 which was passed for permitting events. Content is flawed with date mix UPS. No | 01:42:43 | |
| June 9th is included for the car show. In fact, June 24th is cited for car show 2024, a weekday. Let's expect better. | 01:42:53 | |
| Calendar savvy is not rocket science. Maybe it's a fourth grader skill set. The city opts for outreach to a wide array of car | 01:43:03 | |
| lovers while treating locals as if properties are fair game as pollution dumping grounds. Let's change that. | 01:43:12 | |
| I'm not done yet. | 01:43:22 | |
| There's more. I'll be speaking with you again shortly and thank you. | 01:43:24 | |
| And also I'm another surfer or I wish I were my, my body is giving out on that. | 01:43:30 | |
| Part of life. | 01:43:35 | |
| And Mayor, if I could just state, we actually responded to some emails that we got about the car show. We met with the car show | 01:43:37 | |
| group after the car show and we met with our whole team and we talked about putting some different. | 01:43:44 | |
| Standards in place that'll help make sure that the noise is reduced in the future. So we have followed up on that so. | 01:43:53 | |
| If they choose to regulate smoking and residential buildings, will they specify the substance addressed? | 01:44:37 | |
| If this council decides to regulate smoking in residential buildings, will that open doors for business buildings to sue because | 01:44:43 | |
| the city allows smoking of marijuana in the marijuana parlors? | 01:44:48 | |
| Regarding business Item number 10, City Council Agenda 71, July 1st, 2024. | 01:44:54 | |
| Revising the city's outdoor flagpole display at the May 6th Council meeting, the City Council decided to fly the Pride flag for | 01:44:59 | |
| the month of June on an annual basis. | 01:45:04 | |
| If the city is so concerned about equity, why are the PIO WMIA flag flown on a single date? | 01:45:10 | |
| The City Council cares more about income from cannabis shops than the injury to citizens around smoke. Further, their month long | 01:45:16 | |
| pride display insults the millions of men and women who have died for our nation, not to mention the example it sets for the youth | 01:45:22 | |
| of our country. Mark Zavala And that concludes public comment. | 01:45:28 | |
| Nothing bother him. | 01:45:38 | |
| On the smoking and multi unit housing, I'll just note that the direction from the council was that on that was to do more research | 01:45:42 | |
| and come back. So those are exactly the types of questions we'll be returning with with more information on so. So nothing was | 01:45:48 | |
| adopted on that or implemented at this point. Is there any info as to why the specific dates were picked for the PLW flag? | 01:45:55 | |
| Yes, for the pow flag. | 01:46:03 | |
| We had done some research with. | 01:46:06 | |
| Veterans Affairs, I believe was, was the group that we had reached out to our that we had, we had done some research and we got | 01:46:11 | |
| some information that the POWMIA flag should be flown on specific holidays. So we proposed flying it on those holidays. Thank you. | 01:46:18 | |
| All right. Thank you all for the public comment. So we'll now move on to agenda approval. May I have a motion and a second to | 01:46:28 | |
| approve the agenda? | 01:46:31 | |
| So moved. | 01:46:35 | |
| Do have a second? | 01:46:38 | |
| 2nd. | 01:46:40 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Do any members of Council have any conflicts of | 01:46:42 | |
| interest to disclose for any item on the agenda? | 01:46:48 | |
| Seeing none, we'll move on to we're going to now recess the City Council meeting and call to order the Housing Authority special | 01:46:54 | |
| meeting. It is now 715. | 01:46:59 | |
| Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? | 01:47:04 | |
| Member Brown, Yeah. Member Blackwell, Member Gama here, Member Hernandez here, Member Martinez, present Vice Chair McQueen Legend | 01:47:06 | |
| here and Chair Perez here. | 01:47:12 | |
| We will now hear public comments regarding items on the Housing Authority agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes. Do we | 01:47:19 | |
| have any public comments regarding that? No public comment. Thank you. | 01:47:24 | |
| We will now consider items on the Housing Authority Consent Calendar, which will be enacted in one motion unless an Authority | 01:47:29 | |
| member has a request to remove an item for discussion. Do any members have a request to remove any item for discussion? | 01:47:36 | |
| Seeing none, Madam Clerk, can we please take a vote? | 01:47:44 | |
| They get a motion and I move approval of the consent agenda. | 01:47:47 | |
| Oops, you're sorry. | 01:47:51 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed. | 01:47:54 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 01:47:57 | |
| So we have no business items I. | 01:48:02 | |
| Are there any member reports, comments or requests for future agenda items from any member? | 01:48:06 | |
| OK. | 01:48:15 | |
| We're now going to adjourn the Housing Authority to its next regular meeting, scheduled for September 3rd, 2024 at 6:30 PM, and we | 01:48:16 | |
| will now reconvene the City Council meeting. | 01:48:22 | |
| The time is 7:16 PM. | 01:48:29 | |
| We have presentations and the first presentation is the certificate of recognition presented to Police Officer Anthony Martinez in | 01:48:32 | |
| recognition of receiving the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Award. | 01:48:37 | |
| Yes, Chief Federico will be presenting that. | 01:48:44 | |
| Award. | 01:48:48 | |
| Do you want to have your wife and. | 01:48:56 | |
| Oh yeah, you brought him here. | 01:49:04 | |
| I'd rather hear kids loud than other people yelling, so I'll take that any day. | 01:49:07 | |
| Yeah, because you've been chasing. | 01:49:28 | |
| Hello. | 01:49:30 | |
| All right. | 01:49:34 | |
| So good evening everyone. I'll make it quick for somebody's patience here. As mentioned, our Port Wanami Police recipient of the | 01:49:36 | |
| 2024 Mothers Against Drunk Driving. | 01:49:42 | |
| Hero Award is Anthony Martinez. No surprise that it is your motor traffic officer who's probably one of our most popular people on | 01:49:48 | |
| social media. | 01:49:53 | |
| So. | 01:50:00 | |
| Before I even point out that he made 24 arrests for last year, I have to point out a couple of things you would assume. | 01:50:03 | |
| That that's because these are traffic motor officer. But if you remember thanks to all the work. | 01:50:12 | |
| The team and you did. As a council. We didn't get his motorcycle. He did not start the traffic officer till the end of the year. | 01:50:17 | |
| So he did this mostly during nine or ten months as patrol officer. And if you understand how time consuming, first of all, it | 01:50:24 | |
| takes a special skill set to handle Duis. There's a lot of work involved and there's a lot of knowledge to understand the science. | 01:50:31 | |
| Then once you begin a DUI investigation on a driver, it's a lot of work for the shift and it takes time. | 01:50:40 | |
| So not only did he accomplish all these DUI's folks, but he was a patrol officer handling all the other responsibilities that a | 01:50:46 | |
| patrol officer has to and break from reports and go handle calls. | 01:50:51 | |
| So in all that work, you can understand what his passion was, your dad's passion. | 01:50:56 | |
| Right, all the passion that he had to get to where he was to be the traffic officer for the city, 1st in years. | 01:51:02 | |
| And it's that passion and that drive that he's built into his new position as a traffic officer. | 01:51:12 | |
| So with that I would like to present to you. | 01:51:20 | |
| Anthony Martinez is our recipient of the 2024. | 01:51:23 | |
| Mad officer here. | 01:51:27 | |
| You want to get in the picture. | 01:51:55 | |
| I. | 01:51:58 | |
| Congratulations, Officer Martinez. | 01:52:05 | |
| All right, brother. | 01:52:15 | |
| Keep up the good work. | 01:52:21 | |
| The next presentation is the introduction of our Community Services Officer, Jessica Baca. | 01:52:26 | |
| Come on, stand next to me while I talk about you. | 01:52:35 | |
| So as some of you may know, Jessica started out with us actually last year as our part-time records. | 01:52:38 | |
| But then promoted to our Community Service Officer position earlier this year and has finished her failed training in that | 01:52:44 | |
| position. | 01:52:48 | |
| But let me explain her history. They got her here, and while we're fortunate as a city to have her. | 01:52:54 | |
| Jessica is a dedicated and accomplished professional with extensive experience in public safety. | 01:53:01 | |
| Currently serving as our Community Service Officer and previously as our part-time Support Services Technician and records. | 01:53:07 | |
| She's dedicated the core values of public service and is passionate about driving effective change and improving quality of your | 01:53:15 | |
| life for the residents of Port Hueneme. Why? Because she too as a resident of Port Royal Navy and has been for many years very | 01:53:20 | |
| active in the community. | 01:53:25 | |
| Previously, Jessica served several years at the Santa Monica Police Department. | 01:53:31 | |
| Where I can vouch I watched her successes and her accomplishments. | 01:53:36 | |
| First she served as a community services officer, then a lead public services officer. | 01:53:41 | |
| And as a Public Services Officer supervisor, where she played a key role in interdepartmental coordination and community | 01:53:46 | |
| engagement. | 01:53:50 | |
| Ensuring seamless collaboration between the Police Department, other city departments, local businesses and the community. It's a | 01:53:54 | |
| very busy industry down there and she had played a lot of important roles in making successes down there. | 01:54:03 | |
| But before that, Jessica served as a public safety professional at the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office in in Colorado, working | 01:54:12 | |
| both in county jail and in the Sheriff's Records division. | 01:54:17 | |
| And a fun fact about Jessica. | 01:54:23 | |
| Is amongst these law enforcement roles. | 01:54:26 | |
| She also went to work and served as a flight attendant for an airlines. Why? Because she wanted to promote public safety even | 01:54:29 | |
| 40,000 feet above. | 01:54:33 | |
| Jessica has a proven track record in prioritizing the safety and security of diverse stakeholders while fostering collaboration | 01:54:40 | |
| with team environments across various departments. | 01:54:45 | |
| She holds a master's degree in organizational leadership with a focus on human resources management. | 01:54:51 | |
| As well as a bachelors degree in Applied Social Sciences with a focus on victimology. | 01:54:57 | |
| She received both of those from Colorado State University. | 01:55:04 | |
| Jessica is also a meditation and mindfulness instructor and has future goals of becoming a consultant, focusing on teaching others | 01:55:07 | |
| about effective leadership techniques. | 01:55:12 | |
| Mindfulness and the power of meditation. | 01:55:18 | |
| Her forward thinking leadership, commitment to public safety, and ability to optimize efficiency and maximize results make Jessica | 01:55:21 | |
| an asset here to the community of Port Hueneme. | 01:55:26 | |
| Beyond her professional achievements, Jessica is committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement, always seeking ways to | 01:55:32 | |
| learn something new or to contribute to the community in a positive way. In her free time, Jessica enjoys spending time with | 01:55:37 | |
| family, including her two dogs. And one of them's. Like really, really big. | 01:55:43 | |
| Yeah, it's a big like Saint Bernard, like the kind of thing that used to carry the barrel under its neck. | 01:55:49 | |
| And she travels, goes to the beach and painting. | 01:55:55 | |
| Ladies and gentlemen. | 01:56:01 | |
| Your newest CSO, Jessica. | 01:56:02 | |
| Welcome to Wayne. | 01:56:04 | |
| We have any comments from council and we want to take a picture, yes. | 01:56:12 | |
| Yeah, and you're definitely in the right spot. We got yoga, surfing, meditation and all kinds of good stuff. | 01:56:19 | |
| Yeah. | 01:56:25 | |
| Thank you and welcome. | 01:56:35 | |
| Thank you, Jessica. Obviously your education and your experience makes you the perfect fit for this position and we're just lucky | 01:56:38 | |
| to have that. You also live in Wanami, so. | 01:56:42 | |
| Welcome and thank you. | 01:56:47 | |
| OK. We have the next presentation is the Regional Climate Action Planning Ventura County Collaborations presentation by Ventura | 01:56:53 | |
| County Regional Energy Alliance and I believe we have the Ventura County program and Administrator Victor Briones perfect. | 01:57:01 | |
| Good evening, Mayor Pettis, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members. My name is Victor Briones and I am a program administrator for the | 01:57:15 | |
| County of Ventura Sustainability Division. | 01:57:20 | |
| Thank you for inviting me to speak with you all. Today I will be presenting on the County's regional climate action planning | 01:57:25 | |
| efforts and the collaborations formed throughout this process. | 01:57:29 | |
| Perfect. Before I get into the main portion of the presentation, I want to give you a little bit of a background on the | 01:57:38 | |
| sustainability division. | 01:57:41 | |
| We've been around for about 5 years and has and our division has had a lot of growth in that time. We're housed in the County | 01:57:45 | |
| Executive office and our team of 12 works on a number of initiatives which include the Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance or | 01:57:51 | |
| BCRA, tri-county Regional Energy Network, 3C Rent and Climate Action Planning or CAP. | 01:57:58 | |
| VCRA is a joint powers authority comprised of public agencies working in collaboration with various entities in the region to | 01:58:09 | |
| collectively preserve and enhance our community. BCRA partners with cities and other agencies to install EV charging stations | 01:58:15 | |
| throughout Ventura County to support the deployment of new electric vehicles. | 01:58:21 | |
| 3 CRN is a partnership between the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura, established to deliver energy saving | 01:58:28 | |
| programs and industry trainings that help reduce energy use, strengthen local job markets, and support efforts to achieve climate | 01:58:35 | |
| goals. 3C RUN works on many projects that include energy upgrades for single and multi family homes, workforce training, building | 01:58:41 | |
| professionals, and more. I'll talk a little bit more about these two initiatives later on in the presentation. | 01:58:48 | |
| And for climate action planning, the Sustainability Division leads on implementation of the County of Ventura's Climate Action | 01:58:56 | |
| Plan and works with county departments and agencies to complete the measures and actions included in the county's CAP. | 01:59:01 | |
| Recently, our division received funds to create a regional climate action plan and has been working with our jurisdictions with | 01:59:08 | |
| all our jurisdictions, including the City of Port Hueneme, to create a plan that best suits the region. | 01:59:13 | |
| The funding came from EPA's Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program, or CPRG. | 01:59:24 | |
| CPRG provides grants to develop and implement ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful pollutants. | 01:59:29 | |
| The grant program has two main phases, planning and implementation. | 01:59:36 | |
| For planning, it was a non competitive grant providing funding for agencies to design climate action plans incorporating a variety | 01:59:40 | |
| of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | 01:59:45 | |
| The implementation grant phase was a competitive opportunity open to entities applying for funds to implement measures included in | 01:59:50 | |
| a applicable Priority Climate Action Plan, or P CAP for short. | 01:59:56 | |
| More on that in the next two slides. | 02:00:02 | |
| Our division received a $1 million CPRG planning grant to develop a regional climate action plan for the Ventura County region. | 02:00:06 | |
| This planning grant has three deliverables that need to be met. The 1st is a priority Climate Action Plan or P cap. The 2nd a | 02:00:13 | |
| comprehensive climate action plan or C cap and a status report. The status report will be an update to EPA on our progress and is | 02:00:19 | |
| due at the end of the four year grant period in August of 2027. | 02:00:25 | |
| During the planning process, our division created a CPRG Advisory group that is comprised of local governments, special districts | 02:00:34 | |
| and community based organizations to inform P cap development. The group was key in identifying the priority sectors and measures | 02:00:38 | |
| for the region. | 02:00:43 | |
| And I did want to highlight and say thank you to the city of Port Hueneme as you have been a member and active participant in the | 02:00:48 | |
| group. | 02:00:51 | |
| The group identified building energy, transportation and solid waste as a priority sectors for the P cap. | 02:00:54 | |
| With the priority sectors selected, the group went on to identify measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful | 02:01:02 | |
| pollutants within each one. | 02:01:06 | |
| In total, the group came up with seven measures, 3 for building energy, 3 for transportation and one for solid waste. | 02:01:10 | |
| This may not sound like a lot, but keep in mind that the peak up measures are meant to be implementation ready. | 02:01:16 | |
| The measures included in the PCAP touch on renewable energy, indoor air quality, home energy, retrofit programming, EV charging, | 02:01:22 | |
| transportation hubs, vessel speed reduction, and organic waste diversion. | 02:01:28 | |
| If you would like to see the full description of the of each of these measures along with their associated greenhouse gas | 02:01:36 | |
| emissions reductions, you can view the P cap document which can be found in our system, excuse me, on our Sustainability division | 02:01:42 | |
| website using the web address on this slide. This address will direct you to the web page that houses the PC app. | 02:01:48 | |
| With pcap done, we move on to the implementation grant. | 02:01:57 | |
| The County invited implementation ready project ideas from the City of Port Hueneme and the other advisory group members. Based on | 02:02:00 | |
| the information gathered, the County and VCREA, on behalf of all CPRG Advisory group members, applied for about $48 million to | 02:02:06 | |
| implement 3 projects that address priority measures included in the PCAP. | 02:02:12 | |
| The grant application included funds to expand 3 CRN's existing home energy savings incentives, install charging stations and | 02:02:19 | |
| purchase battery electric vehicles for Dial a Ride transit services, and develop an electric bike incentive program that targets | 02:02:25 | |
| low income or disadvantaged communities or Lydax and farm worker populations. | 02:02:31 | |
| If awarded, we will work with all the cities through our VCRA initiative to implement these projects throughout the region. | 02:02:38 | |
| Next, we will begin working on the Comprehensive Climate Action Plan. | 02:02:46 | |
| This plan is due August of 2025 and will expand on the P cap touching on all greenhouse gas emitting sectors. Our division will | 02:02:50 | |
| continue working with the advisory group to develop the CCAP. | 02:02:55 | |
| Advisory group members include all Ventura County cities, the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District, the Ventura County | 02:03:01 | |
| Transportation Commission, the Port of Winami and the Central Coast Climate Justice Network. | 02:03:07 | |
| The C cap elements will include a greenhouse gas inventory with projections and reduction targets, quantified reduction measures, | 02:03:13 | |
| a benefits analysis, a review of authority to implement and plan to leverage funding opportunities. | 02:03:19 | |
| We want all jurisdictions within the county, Ventura County to have the opportunity to utilize the CCAP, so it is important that | 02:03:29 | |
| we have the cities continued involvement to ensure that we capture your climate action goals. | 02:03:34 | |
| What does this look like for the city? | 02:03:39 | |
| Be participating in monthly meetings, voicing the city's climate action goals and priorities, submitting data requests and sharing | 02:03:43 | |
| that information with the county to develop a countrywide greenhouse gas inventory, and sharing out surveys with the public. And | 02:03:48 | |
| of course, reviewing CCAP drafts and providing feedback. I also want to note that some of the cities will have the opportunity to | 02:03:54 | |
| receive a city specific inventory. | 02:03:59 | |
| Aside from climate action planning, the City may also be interested in our other initiatives, one of which Council Member Adnan | 02:04:08 | |
| This is familiar with as she is the Chair of the VCRA Board, the Council. Thank you Council Member at on this for your support and | 02:04:12 | |
| involvement in BCRA. | 02:04:17 | |
| The CRA manages the County the Ventura County EB Ready Blueprint, which supports the development, the deployment of EVs and | 02:04:22 | |
| charging stations throughout the county. BCRA provides grant support and applies for grants to fund EV charging and other zero | 02:04:28 | |
| emission vehicle centered projects. | 02:04:33 | |
| Recently, VCRA was awarded funds through the Department of Transportation's Charging and Fueling Infrastructure or CFI, program | 02:04:40 | |
| and the California Energy Commission's reliable, equitable and accessible charging for multifamily housing 2.0 or REACH 2.0. We | 02:04:45 | |
| also included EV projects in our CPRG application. | 02:04:51 | |
| BCRA also organizes quarterly Energy Champion meetings where partners can share information and discuss collaborations for future | 02:04:58 | |
| projects. | 02:05:01 | |
| Additionally, VCRA keeps a running list of funding ready charging station projects. We are always looking to add more sites to | 02:05:06 | |
| that list. | 02:05:09 | |
| If you would like to submit a site, you can e-mail our EV Coach EV Coach at ventura.org for more details on what information to | 02:05:14 | |
| include in your submission. | 02:05:18 | |
| We're also currently preparing to apply for round two of CFI funding and looking for sites to place off grid charging stations | 02:05:23 | |
| near or in multifamily housing, trucks and community centers. So please send us the sites you would like to see charging stations | 02:05:28 | |
| at for the port for Port of Wanami. | 02:05:33 | |
| And our 3C rent initiative also has program offerings focused on energy efficiency and decarbonization across multiple sectors. | 02:05:42 | |
| There are three existing programs and three new programs currently under development. The existing programs include Home Energy | 02:05:49 | |
| savings, Energy Code Connect, and Building performance training. | 02:05:54 | |
| And the new programs on their way include energy assurance Services, commercial Energy Savings and AG Energy Solutions. | 02:05:59 | |
| I also want to note a couple things about the home energy savings program. The single family offering is out of incentives for | 02:06:07 | |
| 2024, but we'll have additional incentives available in 2025. And the multifamily offering is expected to be fully subscribed for | 02:06:13 | |
| 2024, but is taking reservations for projects that will be completed in 2025 or later. | 02:06:19 | |
| That brings me to the end of my presentation. If you would like to learn more about any of our programs, you can visit our | 02:06:28 | |
| Sustainability Division website at www.sustain.ventura.org. Or if you have any questions about the information I presented on | 02:06:34 | |
| today, you can send an e-mail to sustainability@ventura.org and you will be directed to the staff who can best answer your | 02:06:40 | |
| question. Thank you. Mr. Briones, does council have any questions? | 02:06:46 | |
| Mr. Goma, No. | 02:06:53 | |
| Yes, I am. I am becoming more and more aware of EV battery fires and as I think into the future 15 years from now. | 02:06:55 | |
| Do you have detailed plans to manage an obsolete batteries as they come out of service? How are they going to be processed? How | 02:07:08 | |
| are they going to be made rendered not harmful? And I understand that the fire department has issues with the batteries Catching | 02:07:15 | |
| Fire and, and, and the resulting smoke creates health issues. And so I was wondering, are you researching that or, or is that | 02:07:23 | |
| going to come in a later time? | 02:07:30 | |
| So we're always looking into the potential outcomes for these projects that we're working on. That's something that I will take | 02:07:38 | |
| back to the team and see if there's something we can follow up on, on what we're looking towards for solving that. | 02:07:44 | |
| Mr. Brianna's thank you so much for coming out tonight and sharing the information about the climate action planning that's the | 02:07:56 | |
| county is definitely taking the lead on NBCREA. You know, it's really nice to know that we're not going about this alone, that | 02:08:02 | |
| it's a regional collaborative effort and I just think want to say thank you to you and the staff for the hard work that you're | 02:08:07 | |
| doing and the. | 02:08:13 | |
| The plans that are to come. So thank you so much. Of course, thank you. | 02:08:20 | |
| Nothing further from Mr. Briones. All right. Yes. Thank you again for your presentation. Thank you for having me. | 02:08:25 | |
| The next presentation that we have is an update on Bubbling Springs Park project given by Housing and Facilities Director Gabby | 02:08:35 | |
| Basua. | 02:08:38 | |
| Good evening mayor, Mayor Pro temp council members and city staff. Today's presentation is just a receiving file. Wanted to give | 02:09:02 | |
| you an update on the Bubble Link Springs project before we go dark. Here with me is two members of the Cummings Group who are | 02:09:11 | |
| actually our feet on the ground during this project. We have Ace Contreras and Mark de Vault here. They're they're here. There are | 02:09:19 | |
| experts. If you have any questions that I may not answer because it's construction, they are here to answer those questions. | 02:09:28 | |
| Wrong button. | 02:09:41 | |
| So just just to recap, these are some project renderings of what the beautiful Bubbling Spring Park is going to look like once | 02:09:42 | |
| it's completed. Again, these renderings are not that accurate, but this is pretty much what you can expect once the park is | 02:09:47 | |
| completed. | 02:09:52 | |
| Again, it's just the initial update. The project construction budget was at 11.4. We have a contingency on this project. Currently | 02:10:02 | |
| the balance to complete as of last week is about $8 million. | 02:10:11 | |
| And and the contingency that we have is 1.145. If you recall you, you allowed us to have a contingency of that money. We have | 02:10:22 | |
| currently spent 33,000 of those funds and I will explain in our other slides why it was that we spent this money. | 02:10:30 | |
| I'm going to highlight some of the things that we have accomplished up to today. All demolition and grading in the entire area has | 02:10:43 | |
| been completed. Building footings are in place and CMU installation is ongoing. And if you're asking what is CMU, that's basically | 02:10:51 | |
| our walls or brick walls are currently going up. Irrigation and electricity are at 90% completed. Our sidewalk installation has | 02:11:00 | |
| started. It's at the South end of the park, so you will see construction starting. | 02:11:08 | |
| By the Community Center. | 02:11:17 | |
| So-called gas that has been a bit you know challenging and I'll explain why, but we are about 80% completed with getting. | 02:11:20 | |
| Our utilities into the park. | 02:11:29 | |
| Just another recap right above this, you're going to see a chart with dates. This is basically what we have given our construction | 02:11:34 | |
| company, what they've given us and what we can anticipate was the starting and the finishing. So as of right now, we are still on | 02:11:40 | |
| track. | 02:11:46 | |
| And I say that as of right now, that can change at any moment. And if that does, we will make sure that our city manager gives you | 02:11:53 | |
| that information. But as of right now, we are expected to open up the park in late March. | 02:12:00 | |
| So not, not everything you know has gone as we had wanted and it is construction. So that we did anticipate having some issues | 02:12:10 | |
| arise. One of the biggest things has been the groundwater. We had a lot of rain this year and we did anticipate groundwater in | 02:12:18 | |
| this area. We knew it was going to be tough. We've known that for a long time. But we just did not anticipate the amount of | 02:12:26 | |
| groundwater that we have faced. It has been a challenge, but we are moving forward. | 02:12:34 | |
| Also, another thing was the transite pipe. As soon as we started breaking ground, we found a lot of transite pipe. That is where | 02:12:43 | |
| the $33,000 came into play. We had to pay to have it removed. It was removed safely. | 02:12:50 | |
| But that was a cost that we did not anticipate. We did not realize we were going to hit transite pipe when we opened the ground. | 02:12:59 | |
| Another issue has been working with SCE. In order to get all the amenities to the park, we needed to install 3 new meters. | 02:13:07 | |
| We have been successful and we're very close to energizing. Two of them we are still. | 02:13:16 | |
| Having issues with energizing one which is the one closest to the dog work. | 02:13:24 | |
| So exciting things are happening. This is ball field one. | 02:13:33 | |
| As you see, demolition is completed, it's been hauled away, rough grading has been completed, irrigation and underground | 02:13:40 | |
| electricity is underway. And I'm excited about these lights that are going to be coming into the neighborhood, which is going to | 02:13:46 | |
| allow for some nighttime play for our kids. | 02:13:52 | |
| Ball field to same thing stadium lightings and footings and rebar installation is continuing and underground electricity will | 02:14:00 | |
| start soon. | 02:14:06 | |
| Ball field 3 almost same thing. | 02:14:14 | |
| This is ballfield 4. This is the T-ball field. | 02:14:20 | |
| In order to save some money, we kind of decided early on that we wanted to keep the fencing, which is right here. And we were | 02:14:24 | |
| really trying to do this in order to save some money. But now that we've started the construction, we're looking at it and it kind | 02:14:31 | |
| of doesn't look that nice, right? And I see you shaking your head. So I've asked to get a quote to replace it, and that will be a | 02:14:38 | |
| decision that will be later on. | 02:14:46 | |
| Depending on you know the entire project, but I just want to let you know that as of right now, this is a fence that we did | 02:14:54 | |
| determine early on that we were going to leave and we will be getting pricing to replace. | 02:15:00 | |
| That fencing and backstop. | 02:15:09 | |
| This is the playground and picnic areas. | 02:15:11 | |
| And I apologize, I just saw a misspelled word up there. | 02:15:16 | |
| Demolition is complete and hauled away, rough grading is complete. Irrigation and underground electricity is at 90%. | 02:15:20 | |
| The dog park or famous dog park grating is complete, irrigation and underground and electrical is 100% completed. | 02:15:29 | |
| Soccer fields again. Grading is complete. Irrigation in electricity is at 90%. Stadium lighting, footings and excavation and rebar | 02:15:39 | |
| installation will continue. | 02:15:46 | |
| Our concession and the restrooms buildings here you have. | 02:15:55 | |
| Our restrooms and we have our concession stands, Grading is complete. Underground utilities are about 80% and as you can see, the | 02:16:01 | |
| CMU walls are going up. | 02:16:06 | |
| This is our shade structure and trash enclosures. I think Public Works is probably, I'm really happy with the trash enclosures | 02:16:16 | |
| that they will have in order to service this park and you will see where the shade structure will be going. Currently the shade | 02:16:23 | |
| structure steel columns are under fabrication and once we have those then they will continue with the construction. | 02:16:31 | |
| That is a really quick presentation. | 02:16:40 | |
| So, are you available to answer any questions that you may have? | 02:16:43 | |
| All right. Thank you, Director Basua, This Council, have any questions? | 02:16:47 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 02:16:51 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez. | 02:16:53 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem. | 02:16:55 | |
| Thank you. | 02:16:57 | |
| Do we have any comments? Yeah, thank you. Great work and it's exciting. I know more just like going to be right. It's right around | 02:16:58 | |
| the corner. It's going to come up fast and you're making great progress. So thank you. Thank you. It's exciting to see. | 02:17:05 | |
| Yeah, I just, I wanted to say, if no one else said it, I wanted to say credit to the team because this really is a huge project. | 02:17:13 | |
| We keep saying the biggest project we've done and then we can't think of when the last time we did a project this big was. So it's | 02:17:20 | |
| a huge project and it's moving forward. And thank you to the team for for moving that forward. So has been here about 20 years. So | 02:17:28 | |
| can you think of a project that's no, I cannot, but Director Camarillo has been here even longer. | 02:17:35 | |
| He is also older than probably. | 02:17:44 | |
| His projects are bigger probably. | 02:17:47 | |
| Can you think of a bigger project that we've done in the city? | 02:17:50 | |
| Not in cost. | 02:17:56 | |
| They compare us to what's happening at Oxnard or why can't Oxnard do this and why can't Oxnard do be like, why need me? But | 02:18:44 | |
| otherwise, we thank you. Thank you. | 02:18:48 | |
| So we move on to the consent calendar. We will now consider items on the consent calendar which will be enacted in one motion | 02:18:56 | |
| unless a council member has a request to remove an item for discussion. Do any council members have a request to remove any items? | 02:19:02 | |
| I do it's it's a long a large consent calendar and. | 02:19:07 | |
| I marked three items and I thought maybe item 11. | 02:19:15 | |
| 1316. | 02:19:21 | |
| In 19 but. | 02:19:25 | |
| Maybe we could just have a quick rundown. I don't, I don't know. I know we have a long evening tonight, but so those are the four | 02:19:28 | |
| items you would like to pull for a brief summary. Just an update perhaps from the city manager. Any other council members want to | 02:19:33 | |
| add the any others? I haven't just a comment on item 10. Should we have it moved? Does that need to be removed for her to make a | 02:19:39 | |
| comment? | 02:19:44 | |
| Yes. OK. So then so then we will do you still want to make a comment? | 02:19:51 | |
| Yeah, sure. OK, so we're gonna move also #10 and #14. | 02:19:55 | |
| Can we have a motion to approve the remainder? And do you need us to specify what numbers those are? So we have 1011131416 and 19 | 02:20:01 | |
| being removed? | 02:20:06 | |
| That's correct. | 02:20:12 | |
| Do you need a specific motion for the other items to approve? Now you're making that the motion to remove those items and approve | 02:20:13 | |
| the rest OK. | 02:20:17 | |
| It's open to our first and a second. | 02:20:22 | |
| Do we have a 1st and 2nd? | 02:20:24 | |
| 1st to approve the you don't have to repeat it. | 02:20:28 | |
| Second, all in favor? Aye. All opposed. | 02:20:34 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 02:20:38 | |
| OK, so who had item number 10? I had item number 10. And I did discuss this with our city manager earlier. He didn't think this | 02:20:43 | |
| is, you know, my concern was going to affect the vote, but I did want to go on record noting that reach is not a. | 02:20:51 | |
| The recreation, education, arts and culture in Waimea, it doesn't stand for that legally. It is the recreation, education, | 02:21:01 | |
| activities and culture in Waimea. So I think in the future, if we could make sure that gets corrected, we should be using the the | 02:21:08 | |
| correct title. But where did you find that at under their their nonprofit status or their? | 02:21:16 | |
| Associated with their EIN, Under Secretary of State and Secretary of State, Yeah, reach out to them, I think. | 02:21:26 | |
| The confusion is I think all the stickers and everything that they put does say so. So we'll reach out to them and find out what | 02:21:33 | |
| they want. Maybe they want to change it or update it, but it's currently not. It doesn't include the word arts. OK, so do we want | 02:21:38 | |
| to do a motion to approve item 10? I'll move to approve. | 02:21:44 | |
| 2nd, thank you and moving on to Item 11. | 02:21:51 | |
| Yeah. And so quickly I could just say this. It's a response to a grand jury report that was issued to all cities, and I believe to | 02:21:56 | |
| the Sheriff's Department. It's all cities, law enforcement teams, including the Sheriff's Department. And the grand jury report | 02:22:04 | |
| was focused on, and it's a known issue and it's an issue that cities have been trying to solve for a few years now that each. | 02:22:13 | |
| And so. | 02:22:57 | |
| The grand jury now has put out a report saying, yeah, this is a problem and they're asking all cities to move forward to fix it. | 02:22:59 | |
| The cities in the county have been working on an MOU to get it in place to to fix the problem and partner together. The obstacle | 02:23:07 | |
| has been what it always is, which is the who's going to pay for it and the cost of the system. And so we're working on that. But | 02:23:15 | |
| there's been good news lately where this seemed maybe further apart and now it's, it's closer because the county. | 02:23:22 | |
| Has come up with some ideas of how to pay for it that's going to reduce the impact on on most of the cities, including the smaller | 02:23:30 | |
| cities. So essentially with the grand jury report, we're agreeing that we all know that this is an issue and we are agreeing to. | 02:23:37 | |
| To move forward on working on this Mou and presenting it to Council in coming months. | 02:23:46 | |
| Yeah, my years at Oxford Union High School District, I know that we had the same issue within the district. You had Camarillo, El | 02:23:52 | |
| Rio, and it was a real problem 20 years ago. And I'm really glad to see that where it's coming to an end and. | 02:23:59 | |
| Do we need to approve each one individually like this or? | 02:24:08 | |
| Approve each one individually. Make a motion to approve item number 11. | 02:24:13 | |
| Perfect. | 02:24:19 | |
| I think the next one is number 13, correct. And then just because I didn't get the complete vote on item 10, can I just work | 02:24:21 | |
| backwards real quick? So it was a motion made by Council member Hernandez with the second by Council member Gama. So that was for | 02:24:26 | |
| the item 10. | 02:24:32 | |
| Yes. So all in favor, aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. | 02:24:39 | |
| And then for item 11, Councilmember Gama making the motion, Councilmember Hernandez seconding, all in favor, all opposed hearing | 02:24:46 | |
| none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 02:24:52 | |
| Item 13. So item 13, each year we've participated in California Coastal Cleanup Day. This year California Coastal Cleanup Day is | 02:24:59 | |
| coming up in September. And so when we had started to look at this, I think it's something we've always done, but we hadn't really | 02:25:06 | |
| ever that I could find at least in several years come to the council and actually gotten the authorization to do it and use the | 02:25:13 | |
| staff time in the and resources to do it. | 02:25:20 | |
| And then we've also. | 02:25:28 | |
| Typically for the last several years designated to council members to serve as city representatives. But again. | 02:25:30 | |
| Hadn't found where that was actually done by the council. So the item is essentially to get that support from the council to do | 02:25:36 | |
| California Coastal Cleanup day to. | 02:25:41 | |
| Use our staff time and resources to support it and to designate council members Gamma and Hernandez as city representatives. And | 02:25:48 | |
| then obviously as part of that, the council has the option if they want to change any of those things. But it's on consent with | 02:25:55 | |
| just the recommendation to to make it official how we've been doing it and and kind of put that on the record so. | 02:26:02 | |
| Yep, and just to. | 02:26:09 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez and I have been the site captain since 2015, I believe 2016. Yeah, it's been a while. And so I think I | 02:26:12 | |
| think we need to organize a meeting with surf rider, coastal keepers, the port because we do have literally hundreds of volunteers | 02:26:20 | |
| show up at at our site. And then we also. | 02:26:27 | |
| Would like to coordinate through Fish and Game if we're going to bring dumpsters out there. | 02:26:36 | |
| And so I wanted to discuss this so that we could perhaps set a meeting at some point, maybe August. | 02:26:41 | |
| No, Yeah, I think we've reached out to set a meeting assuming this would get approved. Now the main step today is getting is | 02:26:50 | |
| having it approved. So all right, do we have a motion so moved second? | 02:26:57 | |
| 2nd Madam Clerk. | 02:27:05 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. | 02:27:07 | |
| Moving on to item 14. | 02:27:13 | |
| Item 14 was me. My apologies first for not reaching out before the meeting tonight, but can you just share with me or share with | 02:27:16 | |
| us in this area talks about the delinquent utility accounts that's total to amount over the last four years 300,000. Can you just | 02:27:23 | |
| share? | 02:27:29 | |
| How does that work? How do we get to a delinquent 300,000? And are these commercial, are they residents and what do we do when | 02:27:38 | |
| people become delinquent in their payments? Yeah. And those are all the questions we're trying to address with this item. Really. | 02:27:46 | |
| There hasn't been a process in place really. And so and no collections process specifically. So you know, you I shouldn't say no | 02:27:54 | |
| process. The process right now is we'll send reminders essentially and you know, third, first notice, second notice, third notice. | 02:28:02 | |
| But there's no teeth to it. And I have seen this before and typically people figure out that there is no teeth to to it and they | 02:28:11 | |
| don't maybe even open the 2nd and 3rd notices, you know, and so, so we had talked about it. | 02:28:21 | |
| And another challenge is that after about four years, there's a statute of limitations. And so if we don't get the accounts paid, | 02:28:33 | |
| then it just gets written off and we essentially lose out on revenue. And so we haven't had that like any any process that really | 02:28:40 | |
| has teeth to it in the past. We're trying to put that in place and the way that you typically do that as you contract out with the | 02:28:47 | |
| collections agency because we're a relatively small. | 02:28:54 | |
| City so we don't have our own in-house collections process, but this is a firm that I've used and actually that this this city, | 02:29:02 | |
| the city of Fort Wayne has used in the past on different projects and they essentially work off of collecting a portion of the the | 02:29:08 | |
| fees. So we're putting this in place to try to. | 02:29:15 | |
| Start addressing that and not having that amount be have it get to that point where you have $300,000 in revenue that you know | 02:29:21 | |
| you're essentially at risk of losing because you haven't collected it. So so we're trying to address that. They are your the | 02:29:28 | |
| question about what types of accounts. | 02:29:34 | |
| Both it's, but residential accounts are a big chunk of that and we do typically have on a maybe a monthly basis, you know maybe | 02:29:43 | |
| 200 or so. Probably about 5 to 10% of our accounts do end up at least like getting one delinquent notice. So it's not uncommon for | 02:29:53 | |
| us, it's just that we hadn't had the the process with teeth to address it when that starts to happen so. | 02:30:02 | |
| Sound like another cleanup issue. | 02:30:13 | |
| OK. | 02:30:15 | |
| One question, so just so that I'm clear. | 02:30:17 | |
| So we're talking collections like we would any other type of collections. | 02:30:21 | |
| You're asked to pay, you don't pay. | 02:30:27 | |
| Then it starts to hit your FICO score and yeah, so somebody doesn't pay and they get a first, second, third notice and they don't | 02:30:31 | |
| pay. And then then we send it to this company data ticket who has the ability to put it on their records and which then typically | 02:30:38 | |
| motivates a big chunk of people to actually pay so. | 02:30:46 | |
| The resident doesn't pay their bill and they still live there. How are they getting service? | 02:30:58 | |
| It's not disconnected. | 02:31:07 | |
| Yeah, there's a. | 02:31:08 | |
| A few months with that first, second, third notice process, you can pile, you know, you can rack up three or four months of | 02:31:10 | |
| charges before you before you get disconnected. A lot of times you have something like if you have multiple residents in one unit | 02:31:18 | |
| and one racks up three or four months and then doesn't pay and then somebody else calls and puts it in their name. And so you can | 02:31:25 | |
| have that kind of thing going on. So we do go through, we have a process right now and we have. | 02:31:33 | |
| That process includes shutting it down if it gets to that point, shutting off service if it gets to that point. So that's not the | 02:31:41 | |
| issue. It's just that then there's no motivation to for them to pay it after that point. So this is intended to sort of get the | 02:31:46 | |
| payment made after that time, so. | 02:31:52 | |
| I have a question, Do we inform these residents that there is, there are nonprofits out there that provide utility assistance that | 02:31:59 | |
| if they're having difficulty making ends meet that they can contact some of these nonprofits for assistance? Do we do we provide | 02:32:07 | |
| that information to them at all? So we actually had a meeting last week with this item coming to council. We had a meeting with | 02:32:14 | |
| Community Action and we talked to them about. | 02:32:21 | |
| Whether they have the funds right now and then setting up a process to be able to either have us refer people to them or we, we | 02:32:31 | |
| haven't figured out the exact mechanics of it. But so we're working on sort of that process to go hand in hand with this of having | 02:32:37 | |
| when we have that available notifying people. That would be wonderful. Thank you. | 02:32:44 | |
| Can we have a motion to approve? | 02:32:51 | |
| Move to approve 2nd. | 02:32:54 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. All right, Item 16. I was delighted to see this on the | 02:32:58 | |
| consent calendar. I know that we've heard about our swing set for some time and. | 02:33:05 | |
| I was wondering though is this? I don't recall this in our CIP project. | 02:33:14 | |
| Forward list, so maybe just a little brief update. | 02:33:21 | |
| Yes, I believe we had this under the CIPI believe as Wanami Beach walkway replacement project. And then we, we had the swing set | 02:33:26 | |
| project separately, but it wasn't specifically for the IT didn't specifically call out the swing set pad. And I see Charles going | 02:33:33 | |
| up, so maybe I'll let him speak. Yeah, just to give a quick update. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council members, I'm | 02:33:41 | |
| sorry, introduce yourself for the public. | 02:33:48 | |
| Yes. This is Charles Cable, City Engineer with the City of Port Wanami. This is actually two projects that we combined to save | 02:33:55 | |
| cost that the CIP project was for the swing set and then the Winnie Beach walkway replacement. So we combine the projects to | 02:34:02 | |
| actually save cost on mobilization for the concrete because most of the swing set is concrete. | 02:34:09 | |
| So that's why we did that and then we've. | 02:34:16 | |
| Also reallocated funds from the parking lot project to fund this project when we did our. | 02:34:19 | |
| Our bid opening, we found that this project came out higher than what we than the engineers estimate. | 02:34:27 | |
| And I think just two points on top of what Charles just said. First, I think you said most of the project is concrete. I think | 02:34:36 | |
| somebody made a noise on audible side. I think most of the cost is the concrete pad, but the swing set itself is not concrete. But | 02:34:45 | |
| yeah, it'll be a interesting swing set. So thank you for that. But then I. | 02:34:53 | |
| I'm glad somebody pulled this. It's the challenge with having these consent agendas and not being able to get into them. But I | 02:35:03 | |
| will use this opportunity to know there is a trend if anybody's looking closely at these items that the contract awards are | 02:35:11 | |
| trending more expensive. You know, and we we said that we're aware that that's happening. We're hearing it engineers are | 02:35:19 | |
| recommending to increase your expect, your estimated costs and we see it today with I think all three of these items. | 02:35:27 | |
| Trended another, you know, we're already accounting for an increase, but we're still seeing inflation and still seeing an | 02:35:35 | |
| increase. So to the point Mr. Cable made that we looked we had to look at each of these projects and figure out how to fund some | 02:35:42 | |
| of those differences. And so on this project, for example, we looked at we had a. | 02:35:48 | |
| Parking lot improvement, CIP project that was intended to fund multiple parking lots getting redone this year. And we're | 02:35:56 | |
| recommending taking some of that money from there and doing this because we also expect those parking lot bids will come in higher | 02:36:03 | |
| and we'll probably need to cut one out anyway. So it's the jigsaw puzzle we're trying to figure out, but we're definitely seeing | 02:36:10 | |
| costs still increasing and, but so far we've been able to get creative to figure out how to fund them. So that's a credit to our | 02:36:16 | |
| our team doing that so. | 02:36:23 | |
| Any further questions for Mr. Cable? I have a question. Is this the item that contains the ADA mat that I think was you referred | 02:36:31 | |
| to in that public inquiry? Yeah. So no, this includes a pad for the swing set that makes the swing set ADA accessible, but. | 02:36:42 | |
| And that will come in a separate contract later. | 02:37:23 | |
| Thank you. The motion to approve item 16 like to make a motion to approve item 16. | 02:37:26 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed. | 02:37:34 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. And the final item number 19. | 02:37:37 | |
| Yeah, I just wanted to pull this item so that we could talk about these great heroes in our community. Kevin Brennan and George | 02:37:43 | |
| Mahogan are going to be the recipients of our 2024 Winnie Hero Award. And if you don't know anything about these two, they're | 02:37:48 | |
| they're addressing the OPP. | 02:37:53 | |
| Deficit spectrums of our community. one-on-one hand, you got Kevin spending valuable time. | 02:37:59 | |
| Creating memories with young kids, fishing and stewardship and how to come to the windy beach and be respectful. And on the other | 02:38:05 | |
| hand, you have George organizing and managing what he calls the Savvy Senior Evenings. And he's done nine of them. And he does it | 02:38:13 | |
| out of his own pocket. And again, he's bringing seniors together so that they can make new friends, dance and enjoy each other. | 02:38:21 | |
| And I've been, I've been lucky enough to, to help with the volunteer part of it and. | 02:38:28 | |
| I couldn't think of two more deserving people for this year's award, and I just wanted to bring attention to both Kevin Brennan | 02:38:37 | |
| and George Mahogan. | 02:38:41 | |
| Thank you for pulling this item because I had some comments regarding the recommendation from the Citizens Advisory Commission. I | 02:38:48 | |
| watched the meeting twice and observe the discussion regarding the the Hero Award and unfortunately they failed to mention two | 02:38:57 | |
| other applicants who were nominated one. One was the last name of Lee and then the other one was Nancy Galloway who does. | 02:39:07 | |
| The Pantry on Market Street. And you know, this is the first time that we've nominated two people for the Heroes Award. | 02:39:18 | |
| And I. | 02:39:28 | |
| I thought that Nancy also should have been considered, if not this year, maybe next year because of the. | 02:39:30 | |
| The fact that. | 02:39:38 | |
| That food pantry really addresses for our community those people who are a food insecure and are suffering from food insecurities. | 02:39:39 | |
| And I think that's really important. I mean, it's not something that we we as a council observe all the time. Like we see Kevin | 02:39:47 | |
| out there all the time and, and we know that, you know, George is what George is doing. It's very public, but this is kind of | 02:39:54 | |
| something that we don't always observe readily and and so. | 02:40:02 | |
| You know, I would really like to see Nancy Galloway at some point acknowledged and recognized for the work that they're doing and | 02:40:09 | |
| feeding our people who are food insecure. | 02:40:15 | |
| I just want to add that I think the very first time we did this, we recognize Friends of Ormond Beach and I think it was like 6 to | 02:40:22 | |
| maybe eight people who were part of that group, so. | 02:40:29 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 02:40:38 | |
| I'd like to move to approve 2nd 19. | 02:40:40 | |
| All in favor. | 02:40:44 | |
| Aye, all opposed. | 02:40:46 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 02:40:48 | |
| All right. | 02:40:51 | |
| We will next move on to public hearings. | 02:40:54 | |
| So the public hearing is to adopt A resolution granting special use permit #08-24 to allow the City of Port Hueneme to host the | 02:40:57 | |
| Wyoming Beach Festival with ancillary live entertainment stages, a sandcastle competition, a youth wrestling tournament, food and | 02:41:03 | |
| vendor booths, and arts and crafts area, a carnival, alcohol, booze, and find the event exempt from sequa. Madam Clerk, do we have | 02:41:09 | |
| proof? And publication is required by law and a complete file of reports and exhibits. Yes, Madam Mayor, thank you. Will staff | 02:41:15 | |
| please present the report? | 02:41:22 | |
| Yeah, and Jose Kyoto. | 02:41:29 | |
| Associate planner will be presenting the report from the planning perspective and then Frank Montelongo from our Police Explorers | 02:41:34 | |
| Urban Police Department team is will be available to answer questions about the beach festival itself. So with that, I'll turn it | 02:41:40 | |
| over to Jose. | 02:41:45 | |
| Hi, good evening Mayor Perez and City Council. Tonight before you, you have the Wanami Beach Festival Special use Pyramid 08/24. | 02:41:51 | |
| So the request, based on city councils direction, is to hold a public event known as the Wanami Beach Festival, featuring live | 02:42:05 | |
| entertainment stages, a sandcastle competition, youth wrestling matches, food and vendor booths, and arts and crafts, a carnival | 02:42:11 | |
| and alcohol booths. | 02:42:17 | |
| The festival is set to occur on Saturday, September 7th and Sunday, September 8th, 2024 from 11:00 to 7:00 PM. There's | 02:42:23 | |
| approximately 15,000 patrons that will take place daily. | 02:42:29 | |
| General Information A special use permit is required based on the event being proposed at the Wanami Beach Festival and along | 02:42:37 | |
| Ocean View Drive. This project is exempt under SEQUA with those subsections as the project use is utilizing existing facilities | 02:42:45 | |
| and its minor temporary use of the land and the conditions of approval ensure that the environmental areas are to be undisturbed. | 02:42:52 | |
| So the festival area. | 02:43:01 | |
| Ocean View Dr. will be the main entrance and walkway into this festival, providing a first aid tent, information booth, and food | 02:43:03 | |
| and general retail stalls. Parking Lot B will be used to hose the live entertainment mainstage, food court and two alcohol serving | 02:43:09 | |
| areas. | 02:43:15 | |
| East Ocean View Drive and off to parking Lot C will feature a carnival area, food vendors, arts and crafts locations and alcohol | 02:43:21 | |
| servicing area and a second festival performance stage. | 02:43:28 | |
| Waimea Beach will be used to host the youth tournament in a sand sculpture competition. | 02:43:35 | |
| Surfside Drive will remain open and unchanged and open to the public where parking can go ahead and happen. | 02:43:41 | |
| So here's the site plan of the festival's area. As can be seen, the general shape continues to be the same year after year, with | 02:43:48 | |
| the difference being that Surfside Drive will be open and so vehicle access will continue as the current circulation that exists | 02:43:54 | |
| right now and will feature the main entrance. | 02:44:01 | |
| Down at the beach will be the wrestling competition that is to be hosted on Saturday, September 7th and the sand competition | 02:44:08 | |
| that's going to be on Sunday the 8th. | 02:44:13 | |
| The main area again will be along Ocean View Drive, where all the stalls and main entrance will be ending at the Carnival area to | 02:44:19 | |
| the South. | 02:44:23 | |
| And then to the West area there will be the food court and the mainstage area. | 02:44:29 | |
| So for the entertainment and the contest entertainment, the festival event lineup is currently being finalized and once completed, | 02:44:36 | |
| will be available on the Wanami Beach Festival's main website, which can be accessed through the city's main website. | 02:44:42 | |
| Live music performance will be provided at the main and festival stages on both days, with music selections including Banda, | 02:44:50 | |
| classic rock, pop and R&B and Spanish rock. | 02:44:55 | |
| In order to engage the nearby schools, a high school marching band competition is planned for Saturday, September 7th with with | 02:45:01 | |
| students participating from Channel Islands, Huanimi, and Oxnard High schools. Finally, a contest, a sand sculpture contest, will | 02:45:07 | |
| be held on Sunday, September 8th at 11:00 AM. Contestants are encouraged to sign up before the event by accessing the festival's | 02:45:12 | |
| main website. | 02:45:18 | |
| And now I'll turn it over to Frank Montelongo to go over the youth wrestling tournament. | 02:45:25 | |
| That schedule will be on September 7th, Saturday morning of the festival. Registration fee per athlete is $30.00 for the event. | 02:46:09 | |
| We're anticipating participation from about 80 to 100 wrestlers from ages 4:00 to 5:00 to the high school level. The athletes must | 02:46:15 | |
| possess a active USA Wrestling card, so in order to compete in these competitions for the tri-county Wrestling Association they | 02:46:21 | |
| have to be an active member. They either have the card prior to the event or if an athlete comes the day of the are able to | 02:46:27 | |
| purchase a one day. | 02:46:34 | |
| Wrestling card which gives them the secondary liability insurance for the athlete to compete in the competition. | 02:46:41 | |
| Student athletes that are at not in high school, junior high, and elementary school practicing then when that concludes in the | 02:47:24 | |
| high school or usually come in and practice. | 02:47:27 | |
| California Beach Wrestling is the organization that participates with Beat the Streets and there's as far as the tri-county, | 02:47:31 | |
| there's only been one beach wrestling competition and that happened about a month ago in the city of Oxnard hosted by Beat the | 02:47:37 | |
| Streets on Oxnard chapter and we this September would be the second one held in the county. | 02:47:43 | |
| Moving on to the security and parking part of this proposal, security, like with past years, there would be a enclosed fencing | 02:47:53 | |
| around the temporary event. Private security company will be provided on site, basically screening prospective guests before | 02:48:01 | |
| entering and also to observe when they're leaving and making sure that alcohol stays within the festival ground area of the | 02:48:10 | |
| alcohol servicing area. And lastly, Park Wyoming police staff will monitor the gate and screening areas as needed. | 02:48:18 | |
| Finally, parking will be made available free to all guests in parking Lots A along Surfside Drive, Ventura Road and Market Street. | 02:48:27 | |
| Vendors will utilize Parking Lot E Accessible parking will be available in Parking Lot A, and once again, Service Site Drive will | 02:48:34 | |
| remain open to help with parking and circulation. | 02:48:40 | |
| Fiscal Impact This is a city sponsored event. Furthermore, beach parking revenues will not be collected for beach parking lots | 02:48:49 | |
| abce and along Surfside and Ocean View drives. The event is expected to be offset by business sponsorships, donations, vendor fees | 02:48:56 | |
| and beverage sales. | 02:49:02 | |
| Strategic plan consistency. | 02:49:11 | |
| This means two of our consistency alignments 1 optimal levels of service for residents and businesses to support and establish | 02:49:13 | |
| programs and events that create a strong sense of community pride and a connection to our history and our heritage. | 02:49:20 | |
| And finally, innovation and opportunity retain and maximize opportunity for local businesses as the backbone of our community. | 02:49:27 | |
| Now turn it back over to Frank to highlight the festival youth poster contest. | 02:49:37 | |
| As a whole this year we did get a sponsor at Lujan Transportation is going to be providing a $350.00 winner a sponsorship to each | 02:50:18 | |
| each participant that won for the festival. And our plan is, is to add those pollsters onto our advertising poster for the beach | 02:50:25 | |
| festival this year. So we want to have a couple different variations to show the use artwork and we wanted to figure out a way how | 02:50:31 | |
| we're going to display the rest of the poster that we received from it on there. And as you can see, we had two elementary school | 02:50:37 | |
| winners, an upper and lower. | 02:50:43 | |
| Age group, one junior high and one high school winner, so the next slide should show. So the first one for the lower elementary | 02:50:49 | |
| school winner is 1/3 grader from Saint Anthony School. | 02:50:54 | |
| The second elementary school winner was a fifth grade from Drift Elementary School. As you can see on this poster, they included | 02:51:01 | |
| the snow loop over the windy beach sign. So a little bit different black and white, but it we enjoyed the detail of the poster. | 02:51:08 | |
| Our third winner with our Junior Hyde winner, which was a 6th grader out of Ocean View Junior High and. | 02:51:16 | |
| They incorporated everything for the for what we saw, for the beach, for the city of Wanami. | 02:51:24 | |
| And then our high school winner was a 9th grade, a 9th grader at Hawaii ME High School. And this was a submission they had | 02:51:29 | |
| submitted for the poster. Very cool. | 02:51:34 | |
| No, they they're eating ice cream. They're possible. | 02:51:39 | |
| So with that, Staff's recommendation for the City Council is to adopt the resolution that conditionally approves Special Use | 02:51:45 | |
| Permit 0824 and find the project to be categorically exempt from Sequel. Staff is available for questions. Thank you both for the | 02:51:52 | |
| presentation. This sounds amazing. Do we have any questions for staff? | 02:51:58 | |
| Councillor Mcgoma. | 02:52:06 | |
| I'm just still blown away by the amount of participants and engagement you got from the youth art project So. | 02:52:08 | |
| Looking forward to see where this goes in the future, it looks really nice. | 02:52:17 | |
| Between Ocean View and Surfside and having the patrons that align on the sidewalk as they're entering on both sides of the | 02:52:54 | |
| festival. | 02:52:57 | |
| And then on the wrestling, you said that people can acquire a membership card that day of how do you know that there are wrestling | 02:53:02 | |
| athlete and they're just not somebody who's going to come in there for the fun of it, you know just I mean. | 02:53:08 | |
| Could anybody, just really anybody, so anyone technically could go on the tri-county Wrestling Association to get an ID card. They | 02:53:16 | |
| got it. They have the waivers, the forms to fill them out. So in theory, yes, anyone could show up to to register. From what I've | 02:53:22 | |
| seen in the past and being at different events or being a former participant myself, you really don't see just ran a random person | 02:53:28 | |
| coming in because there is a technique and it's a specialized training to be able to do a freestyle Greco Roman type wrestling | 02:53:34 | |
| that. | 02:53:39 | |
| A national championship and on the college level trainers amount of scholarship to be handed out for female wrestlers because the | 02:54:19 | |
| sports just growing especially in this region itself within our local high school. That's great to know. And then one last | 02:54:25 | |
| question, are we going to see a budget? Is council going to? | 02:54:31 | |
| Council's approved a council approved a budget and then we're working within that at this point and I would say at this point. | 02:54:37 | |
| I don't want to put any pressure on the team, but they're doing a great job and really managing it very closely. And I think I was | 02:54:46 | |
| looking for the opportunity to to just make one point and it's weaved into almost everything that we're providing, including just | 02:54:52 | |
| this diagram is. | 02:54:58 | |
| I want to give a lot of kudos to the team that they are really looking at this event and trying to to meet some of those goals | 02:55:05 | |
| that the council set out of making this a local focus, a community focus, including our local youth and our actual local high | 02:55:12 | |
| school youth and looking for ways to make it less impactful on the residents. And so it might not seem like it, but that that new | 02:55:19 | |
| site map, that was a lot of work to figure out the intent of that is to reduce that impact on the residents and not have them have | 02:55:25 | |
| to deal with that extra. | 02:55:32 | |
| Closed streets and, and all those things and then and then incorporating the beach and actually having our beach festival allow | 02:55:40 | |
| people out onto the beach. So all of those things were. | 02:55:46 | |
| More work this year, but the team is like stepped up to the challenge and is taking that on and looking for those opportunities to | 02:55:52 | |
| get the high school marching band and the high school youth competition sports and things like that involved. So we're we're | 02:55:57 | |
| pretty proud of it. So they want to add one more thing I forgot to mention the logo you see on top of the PowerPoint that is going | 02:56:03 | |
| to be the design for the metals that will be handed out to all the athletes. So they take first, second and third at the | 02:56:08 | |
| tournament. | 02:56:14 | |
| Very nice, I like that. | 02:56:20 | |
| And you brought up a Memory when you talking about. | 02:56:22 | |
| Boys and girls wrestling my son wrestled when he was younger and. | 02:56:24 | |
| He forfeited a game because he did not want to wrestle and hurt a girl. | 02:56:28 | |
| I would just like to add that we had a CIF champion from Wanami High School in Amanda Diaz and hopefully she'll be here. I know | 02:56:35 | |
| she's in college now but I'm pretty sure she's in town some. | 02:56:41 | |
| Really looking forward to hearing what the kids have to say about this because wrestling, a lot of us don't really know this, but | 02:56:49 | |
| wrestling is huge in high school. It's amazing. It's not a spectator sport per SE like football and basketball, but there's so | 02:56:55 | |
| many participants and I'm sure. | 02:57:00 | |
| Excited to be able to come in and participate in something that they love, so thank you for doing that. | 02:57:07 | |
| I have one more question. Can you go back to the diagram? I had a question about the stage. | 02:57:13 | |
| So we have some ambiance of music in the area where the carnival rights are at for the participants. So it helps keep the noise | 02:57:52 | |
| away from the residents. I imagine and are one of the stage is going to be designated has the Tony Young stage to get back. So | 02:57:59 | |
| because most likely it'll probably be Lot C. | 02:58:05 | |
| Thank you. Good work. I was trying to think of any big changes that I that we may have not highlighted. And I think maybe the two | 02:58:12 | |
| would be the no cannabis Cove this year, although we are and I think kind of mutually we've been talking to the dispensaries and | 02:58:18 | |
| we've talked about how they'd like to participate moving forward. And I think everybody was sort of over and past the cannabis | 02:58:24 | |
| COVID idea. So, so there won't be the Cannabis Cove, but the dispensaries who want to participate, we're we're going to make sure | 02:58:30 | |
| they can and then. | 02:58:36 | |
| No VIP tent this year. And so again it all goes together with trying to reduce the impact of the footprint and the impact on on | 02:58:43 | |
| every the community and everything. But it resulted in we had to kind of find a more efficient way to do it. So. | 02:58:51 | |
| Thank you. And then one thing on the if you'll see in the middle area where we had traditionally last year they had the canopies | 02:58:59 | |
| where the seating area for the residents. | 02:59:03 | |
| We went back, I guess you could say kind of old school. We're going to go with the round tables with the umbrellas. I remember the | 02:59:07 | |
| festival having their Bella. So you kind of got to feel the sun coming down, but still shaded if you wanted it. So the center area | 02:59:13 | |
| of Lot B will be all umbrella tables for the for the residents. Very nice. OK. | 02:59:18 | |
| So no further comments or questions. We are now open the public comment, the public hearing and take public comments. The public | 02:59:25 | |
| hearing is now open for public input at 827. Are there any public comments regarding this item? Yes, we have one public comment | 02:59:30 | |
| from Dulce Satterfield. | 02:59:35 | |
| Hello again, Mayor, council members, staff. | 02:59:46 | |
| I'm going to continue. If you can remember a little where I was at with the earlier. | 02:59:51 | |
| Because. | 02:59:55 | |
| There's more to say that also relates to the beach. | 02:59:57 | |
| Festival, which I've gone to a number of times and I stopped caring for it two years ago and that. | 03:00:01 | |
| It was very hard to hear someone even this close. You had to shout, which is a rule of thumb of. | 03:00:07 | |
| Being excessive noise. | 03:00:15 | |
| And that was I was trying to sign up for the. | 03:00:19 | |
| Farm fresh to you. They had a booth right by the entrance and then I left as soon as that became impossible. | 03:00:22 | |
| OK, so I'm going to start with the take away. | 03:00:28 | |
| A worthy cause is never a complete and compelling reason to Foster and host events if elements of such events and the overall | 03:00:33 | |
| setup degrade a beach neighborhood. | 03:00:38 | |
| The city must not do medium density residential land use to serve as a noise pollution dumping ground. I think we went over that | 03:00:43 | |
| earlier. | 03:00:48 | |
| We're not a sacrifice zone. | 03:00:53 | |
| OK, so with noise pollution growing, technology is not to blame. People are making poor choices, allowing sound towers as tall as | 03:00:56 | |
| palm trees emitting the world. Word amplification in resolutions. I didn't hear it tonight. I heard live music. I heard ambiance. | 03:01:04 | |
| But let's change that. If there's amplification, let's get at the technical metrics. And I have surveyed some of the cities of | 03:01:11 | |
| state parks in Ventura County, and such amplification is being dealt with in in. | 03:01:18 | |
| Technical terms here and there. I could share more of that later, but you can also do your own research. | 03:01:26 | |
| Sound waves reach way beyond event boundaries. Example. | 03:01:33 | |
| Well, first of all, a recent resolutions have said that. | 03:01:41 | |
| Events border an urban area. | 03:01:45 | |
| Huh. We the general plan says we're a residential area. | 03:01:48 | |
| Near the beach with all those. | 03:01:53 | |
| Homes. | 03:01:56 | |
| And we have the Creek and Miranda Park close by. | 03:01:58 | |
| OK, so on days with non-stop noise I'm even wondering how the birds are behaving and maybe we should find out. | 03:02:01 | |
| Maybe the Channel Islands State University can help with that. | 03:02:07 | |
| Sound spillage effects all ears in proximity and as distant as the self Storage business by J Street. Normally the owners there | 03:02:11 | |
| here Ormond Beach surf. | 03:02:16 | |
| That sound is a major coastal amenity. | 03:02:21 | |
| But amplification overrides the ocean voice so that words been missing I heard live. | 03:02:25 | |
| Music. But the band is also live music, the marching band. So why not step it up? Show us, you get it. | 03:02:31 | |
| There's some things that could be said that so that there's not a cover up and so things are fair. | 03:02:39 | |
| So please don't let opaque music, opaque wording conceal things. | 03:02:45 | |
| You're here to promote coastal amenities, not diminish them according to the strategic priorities featured on the municipal | 03:02:52 | |
| website at least since last year. Your mission is not to drown out saturation and other shoreline sounds, so don't cling to a bias | 03:02:59 | |
| towards noisy equipment situated on paved over areas. That carnival area and where maybe the festival stage will be better there I | 03:03:05 | |
| don't know, but I know if someone who's lived at Searchlight three since it was built. | 03:03:11 | |
| And she was. | 03:03:18 | |
| Really rattled by her windows rattling last year. And that was just you have generators, you have you have other stuff in that | 03:03:20 | |
| area. It goes towards residential land use. Was that my sound thing or was that the morning time being OK? I'm sorry. Thank you | 03:03:27 | |
| very much. Thank you. And I'll just note, I know I already commented, but the we talked about after the car show trying to make | 03:03:33 | |
| sure exactly that point that the sound level is reduced so that people can have conversations. And that was one of our key | 03:03:40 | |
| takeaways. | 03:03:46 | |
| And so we are. | 03:03:53 | |
| Making those adjustments and coming into this aware of that, we aren't trying to hide that it's amplified sound. | 03:03:55 | |
| And. | 03:04:03 | |
| The in our report we note that that we are reviewing and proposing sound mitigation options. So that's something we're aware of | 03:04:05 | |
| and planning to address. And so we do want people to be able to have those conversations. And the whole event is to bring people | 03:04:12 | |
| together and part of that is being able to to talk to each other. So we're we're looking forward to that so. | 03:04:19 | |
| No further public comments. | 03:04:27 | |
| No further public comments. Thank you. So I will now close the public hearing. The time is 8:32. | 03:04:29 | |
| So we have before us a recommendation to open the public hearing to take a testimony on documentary evidence, close the public | 03:04:37 | |
| hearing, consider evidence, adopt A resolution approving special use permit #08-24, the Waning Beach Festival, find the project to | 03:04:42 | |
| be categorically exempt from SEQUA, and take additional related actions that may be desirable. May I have a motion and a second to | 03:04:48 | |
| approve? | 03:04:54 | |
| So moved second. | 03:05:01 | |
| Perfect. Thank you. Is there any further discussion before we vote? | 03:05:03 | |
| Seeing none, Madam clerk, we tease, please take a vote. Can I just mention I do want to say that I appreciate the city manager | 03:05:07 | |
| bringing up that we are going to be looking at least not making sure that basically making sure that we don't have noise pollution | 03:05:14 | |
| and basically dropping the sound levels of like either the stages, the DJs, whoever is on playing music. So yes, and I also want | 03:05:21 | |
| to add in there thanks to staff rather hard work on this. We know it's been daunting for you, but we appreciate it. | 03:05:28 | |
| We thank you. If I may, I would like to add to that. What won't be happening this year is there won't be a stage on Surfside Drive | 03:05:36 | |
| and that may have been the one echoing through the condominiums and sort so I. | 03:05:43 | |
| That should make a difference to our. | 03:05:52 | |
| Resident. | 03:05:55 | |
| OK, it'll be a roll call. Vote Council member Gama. | 03:05:57 | |
| Yes. Council Member Hernandez. Yes. Councilmember Martinez. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen. Legend. Yes. And Mayor Perez. Yes. Motion | 03:06:00 | |
| passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. | 03:06:05 | |
| The next item is to adopt A resolution granting Special Use Permit 09-24 to allow the City of Port Wanami to host the Winami | 03:06:11 | |
| Summer Beach Run with ancillary beach, beachside sporting activity stations, food trucks, vendors and live entertainment and | 03:06:17 | |
| define the event exempt from SEQUA. | 03:06:23 | |
| Madam Clerk, do you have proof of publication as required by law and a complete File of reports and exhibits? Yes, Madam Mayor, | 03:06:29 | |
| thank you. Well, staff, please present the report. | 03:06:34 | |
| Hi again, City Council, mayor and mayor Pro Tem. Once again, this is Jose Quilt and I'm here to go ahead and go over Port Wanami | 03:06:40 | |
| Recreation and Community Service Division event known as the Wanami Summer Fun Run Special use permit, permit 09/24. | 03:06:49 | |
| So the applicants request is to hold a Waning Me Summer Fun Run featuring a fun walk and fitness competition. This event is set to | 03:07:02 | |
| occur on Saturday, August 10th, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM with approximately 200 participants. | 03:07:11 | |
| The run wall competition will commence at the Wanami Wharf Flag Plaza and continue down the promenade to the Port Wanami | 03:07:19 | |
| Lighthouse. Circling back to the start, an optional fitness competition will take place on the beach adjacent to the pavilion. | 03:07:27 | |
| The fitness competition will include beachside sporting activity stations, food trucks, vendors and live entertainment to really | 03:07:36 | |
| have the participants in a lively mood. | 03:07:41 | |
| So general information, once again, we're here before you because this event is at the Wanami Beach Festival or at the Wanami | 03:07:48 | |
| Beach Park, and this event once again is under SEQUA exemption for those sections listed up there. As the project is, use is going | 03:07:54 | |
| to be within existing facilities. It's Minor and temporary use of the land and the conditions of approval ensure the protection of | 03:08:00 | |
| the environment. | 03:08:06 | |
| Fiscal impact, this is a city sponsored event and actually I think there was a slide a city and a port community benefit fund | 03:08:16 | |
| event, but it got a little complicated on that point. I think the we talked about the Run for your Heart was ACBA community | 03:08:24 | |
| benefit fund event and then it we ended up kind of making that bigger and allowing more participants. So we ended up allocating | 03:08:32 | |
| the community benefit fund project to that event. | 03:08:39 | |
| And so this event would not be a community benefit. OK, thank you for the clarification. | 03:08:47 | |
| Sorry about that the the slide got a little bit changed out, but yes, we are in the correct slide. Fiscal impact This is a city | 03:08:53 | |
| sponsored event. Beach parking revenues will not be collected as free parking will be provided to the participants in parking Lots | 03:09:01 | |
| AB and along Surfside Drive. The anticipated event operational budget is what we just discussed 2500 which includes the race bibs, | 03:09:08 | |
| participation medals, entertainment, DJ, obstacle course components, route defining, signage and refreshments. | 03:09:15 | |
| This once again is the Recreation and Community Service divisions. Community Promotions line item account will be absorbed as | 03:09:24 | |
| associated with this event. | 03:09:28 | |
| Certificate plan consistency, optimal levels of service for residents and businesses. Support and establish programs and events | 03:09:34 | |
| that create a strong sense of community pride and a connection to our history and our heritage. | 03:09:39 | |
| So this is the proposed event site plan. I'll turn it over to Anna Haley. | 03:09:47 | |
| Sure. So here you can see the starting point for this event is based at the Wyoming Wharf Plaza is discussed. One of the things | 03:09:53 | |
| we're looking forward to this year is having all of the successful to the participants within one location. So the starting and | 03:10:01 | |
| end point opportunity with use of the jetty included will be centered on this end of the beach. We're going to have the | 03:10:08 | |
| participants with all of that stamina that they have available in the beginning. | 03:10:15 | |
| Head West. | 03:10:23 | |
| Out to the end of the jetty and back. And then again, this community, this event is marketed to the community at large. So we're | 03:10:24 | |
| hoping that this draws participation from all demographics and all members of our community, all ages. And the stations that we're | 03:10:33 | |
| offering. As far as the fun element when they return to the sand would include the hula hoop activity, a limbo item. And then we | 03:10:41 | |
| wanted to include a visual aid as far as the inflatable obstacle course, because I think that can sound somewhat intimidating. | 03:10:49 | |
| And we wanted to show everyone that this is a very straightforward concept, but still it's going to add that visual sort of impact | 03:10:57 | |
| in that it's a large scale item. It's obvious that something's going on and we're bringing an event to the beach that everyone can | 03:11:05 | |
| participate in. And so it's straightforward and that it's a vinyl floor, it's not going to be inflated. So again, this is an | 03:11:12 | |
| accessible opportunity for all participants within our community. And that's why we've chosen the Maze Inflatable. | 03:11:20 | |
| As you can see, and then we're going to have everyone go through a soccer competition and then the finish line. And I think in in | 03:11:28 | |
| another opportunity in some of these events is this team component. Well, logistically it's difficult to manage that. I think as | 03:11:33 | |
| they're crossing the finish line, you may not have all of the participants of your team finish at the same time. So we're going to | 03:11:39 | |
| supplement this activity with a tug of war opportunity and this is something that you may see done in this county and the | 03:11:45 | |
| corporate games. | 03:11:51 | |
| So it's engaging, it's fun, but we'll still have a chance to have teams within our city. So organizations that may be able to | 03:11:57 | |
| unify and come out as a group that may be more inclined to participate, as you know, in that form of togetherness. We're going to | 03:12:04 | |
| intend to market this to two groups to also form teams in the supplemental activity in the form of tug of war. So I guess that's | 03:12:11 | |
| sort of a high level overview of what we intend. | 03:12:17 | |
| And then this is the proposed event race route. Once again, it goes out to the lighthouse and circling back around in the red | 03:12:28 | |
| there. | 03:12:31 | |
| Recommendation is for the City Council to adopt A resolution that conditionally approves Special Use Permit 09/24 and find the | 03:12:38 | |
| project to be characterically examined from sequel. | 03:12:42 | |
| That concludes staff's presentation. Thank you so much. Does Council have any questions for staff? | 03:12:53 | |
| Council Member Martinez, thank you for the presentation. You have no idea how excited I am for this because I didn't actually get | 03:13:00 | |
| a chance to participate at last year's fun run. | 03:13:04 | |
| Since I was basically, you know, part of the team that was, you know, facilitating, facilitating all the runners. | 03:13:10 | |
| Are you guys gonna use stickers? | 03:13:17 | |
| But I think there is an incentive for people to have that distinction, an opportunity to win something. And so we still want to | 03:13:54 | |
| carry that through and we'll be doing that by way of how they are issued their bid during the registration process. OK. And then | 03:14:01 | |
| is there a cost like how much is it going to cost for people to participate? It is free. It is free. OK, like last year. | 03:14:08 | |
| Absolutely. OK, that's cool. And then when can we start signing up or is it only on the day of? | 03:14:15 | |
| No, we'll be asking for. | 03:14:22 | |
| Registration in advance, but all of that will be forthcoming pending this approval. | 03:14:25 | |
| Alright, thank you. No, no more questions, Councilmember Gama. | 03:14:30 | |
| I'll be walking fast. | 03:14:35 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez, I'm worried about the hula hoop and the limbo. I mean, are these going to be senior friendly activities? | 03:14:38 | |
| I think we'll accommodate anyone that wants to participate. | 03:14:49 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem, do you have any questions? | 03:14:56 | |
| All right, so we have, I'm going to open the public hearing and take public comment. The public hearing is now open for public | 03:14:59 | |
| input. The time being 843. Are there any public comments regarding this item? We have one public comment from Dulce Satterfield. | 03:15:06 | |
| I will do the hula hoop. I won second place as a 8 year old on the Waikiki beach. First year ever. | 03:15:18 | |
| There was a contest. My sister went first. | 03:15:24 | |
| OK. | 03:15:28 | |
| So I didn't hear one person asked the question, is there going to be amplification? What are the technical metrics? So I guess | 03:15:29 | |
| I'll be persistent. I'll keep coming back here. You'll be seeing a lot of me, I guess. | 03:15:36 | |
| Umm. That said, I'm not expecting this event to be as loud as some others have been. | 03:15:44 | |
| Still, I want to touch on a few things. | 03:15:50 | |
| That. | 03:15:53 | |
| When you're approving an event. | 03:15:57 | |
| I don't get it why existing ordinances are ignored. | 03:16:00 | |
| We have an existing ordinance 3436, no amplification on the beach. | 03:16:04 | |
| If there's amplification at this particular event, Other events? | 03:16:10 | |
| I think it bears mention. | 03:16:14 | |
| I don't think it's good for them to just. | 03:16:17 | |
| Pretend like it's not there, make suspend it. Do something They do something explicit another another ordinance is 4009. Anyone | 03:16:20 | |
| know what that one is? | 03:16:25 | |
| No. OK, Well, you asked, right? You can't speak. I can speak. So that's about loud noises. | 03:16:31 | |
| Also vulgar and lewd blah blah blah. So explicitly suspend them or waiver them, whatever it takes. And you're maybe the city | 03:16:37 | |
| attorney has comments later. | 03:16:42 | |
| That's my suggestion. | 03:16:48 | |
| But going on community, pride, history, heritage. | 03:16:52 | |
| An aspect of that, I'm just gonna wing it, but. | 03:16:58 | |
| We do have some wildlife still around near the beach, near the Creek, Miranda park, etc. | 03:17:01 | |
| Not just birds, but mammals etc. | 03:17:07 | |
| So I have been looking at things about noise pollution and wildlife. | 03:17:11 | |
| Ventura City, actually City of Ventura actually has stuff in their municipal code. | 03:17:16 | |
| And say that human produced sound and noise interferes with animal communication, mating behavior, foraging behavior, spatial | 03:17:21 | |
| orientation on land and in aquatic systems. What does full level is too loud for birds? Well. | 03:17:27 | |
| My balcony is too loud for birds if it's at the level of the car show and if it's at the level of last year's. | 03:17:35 | |
| Beach Festival. I don't know about this particular event because I don't think I was around for it last year. | 03:17:45 | |
| So bear that in mind, maybe down the road this kind of thing can be studied. Maybe I'll fund some of the studies. | 03:17:54 | |
| Laboratory studies and field research have been done on the East Coast, New York mainly. I don't have all the notes on that, but | 03:18:01 | |
| it does say four ways. There's four main ways animals are adversely affected by noise pollution. | 03:18:07 | |
| And then another source. That's the National Institute of Health. OK, I'm done. | 03:18:14 | |
| You can hear about that one another time. | 03:18:20 | |
| If and when I return. Thank you. | 03:18:24 | |
| No further public comments. Thank you. And I'll just note the reason we didn't talk about the sound as much as this is on the | 03:18:28 | |
| other side of the beach and we purposely moved it away from, from houses. So we're attempting to to try to balance those things | 03:18:35 | |
| and and make some of those better design, design decisions up front. And just one point is, I strongly would not recommend | 03:18:43 | |
| suspending the noise ordinance because then everybody can go out with, with amplified sound. | 03:18:50 | |
| These permits give us the ability, or whoever applies for and meets the requirements, the ability to use amplified sound under | 03:18:59 | |
| specific circumstances. | 03:19:03 | |
| So. | 03:19:08 | |
| It's important not to lift that noise ordinance, so, so thank you. | 03:19:10 | |
| Thank you. We will now public input. | 03:19:16 | |
| Has concluded. I will now close the public hearing. The time being 8:47 PM. We have before us a recommendation to open the public | 03:19:18 | |
| hearing, to take testimonial and documentary evidence, to close the public hearing and consider the evidence, to adopt A | 03:19:25 | |
| resolution approving special use Permit number 0924, the Windy Meet Summer Fun Run and find the project to be categorically exempt | 03:19:32 | |
| from SEQUA and to take such additional related action that may be desirable. May I have a motion and a second motion to approve? | 03:19:39 | |
| 2nd thank you. | 03:19:48 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 03:19:51 | |
| Yes, Councilmember Hernandez. | 03:19:53 | |
| Yes, Councilmember Martinez. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem McQueen, Legend yes. And Mayor Perez. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 03:19:56 | |
| Moving on to business item, the first item up is the approval of mural design. Continued discussion. | 03:20:04 | |
| Yes, thank you. And I'm going to hand it over to Tony Stewart, our Community and Economic Development Director, who will give a an | 03:20:13 | |
| overview. | 03:20:18 | |
| All right. Thank you, James, and good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council staff and audience. | 03:20:31 | |
| Yes. So this is basically a. | 03:20:38 | |
| A continuation of a discussion we had just about a month ago with regard to the city's proposed draft mural design. | 03:20:42 | |
| Back on June 27th, you heard a presentation about the design from the mural committee. | 03:20:49 | |
| And after the discussion of the City Council made the following comments regarding the design. | 03:20:56 | |
| Basically, the majority of the Council liked the overall concept, however, there were some. | 03:21:03 | |
| Changes that were requested, for instance, Mayor Perez wanted to see more historic Port Hueneme specific interpretation. | 03:21:10 | |
| Councilmember Gama suggested several revisions, including removing the lemon and related blossoms, considering including | 03:21:18 | |
| California poppies instead, add more emphasis on ocean imagery and proximity and view to the islands from the coastline, possibly | 03:21:24 | |
| with the watermark silhouette. | 03:21:30 | |
| And he also supported emphasizing the port and Navy symbolism, suggesting that the stylized cranes be a little bit more realistic. | 03:21:37 | |
| Council Member Martinez requested the addition of a snowy plover to the left hand side of the mural. And then comments were made | 03:21:43 | |
| in general about the the two ash boat, the tumulus perspective and how it would look if not viewed from the corners that was | 03:21:49 | |
| proposed. | 03:21:55 | |
| And comments were also made that the mural should be expanded to go around the wall at the library's northeast corner to face Park | 03:22:02 | |
| Ave. | 03:22:06 | |
| So based on that and I'll show you in the next slide a comparison of the the two designs at this point. But I just want to go | 03:22:12 | |
| through here the revised design elements. | 03:22:16 | |
| So the artist met with Julie to my Stinsley and Casey Rodriguez. | 03:22:21 | |
| At the Chumash to validate the title of the mural, which is Once Upon a Time. | 03:22:27 | |
| The cranes were moved to the right corner and made to appear more realistic, the snowy plover was added to the far left, the two | 03:22:34 | |
| ash boat was made to appear more realistic and there were additional wave elements added around it, and the lemon and lemon | 03:22:41 | |
| blossoms were replaced by California poppies. But also there are a few more revisions in fine tuning that could be made, so the | 03:22:48 | |
| committee will most likely be talking to the artists about this as well. | 03:22:56 | |
| And that is to replace the uppermost poppy and sand dollar with an outline of the island. Add another snowy plover to the left so | 03:23:03 | |
| we've got a couple of them there. And add and wrap wave elements around the corner to face Park Ave. | 03:23:10 | |
| So the top design was the initial design that everybody saw back on June 17th. | 03:23:19 | |
| And then the bottom design shows a few of the additions and see if I can get this thing working here so. | 03:23:25 | |
| You've got the poppies in this area here now. The cranes have been moved over here and even though they're shadow style, they're | 03:23:32 | |
| more realistic in design. More wave elements have been added as opposed to the the lemon blossoms before. | 03:23:40 | |
| And then over here we bought our snowy Clover and we're asking for further changes would be to take out this poppy in this sand | 03:23:48 | |
| dollar and instead create more of an island type shadow effect to basically connect us to the to the Channel Islands. | 03:23:58 | |
| As well as to add another one of the plovers over here and then some of the waves coming around the corner here. So. | 03:24:09 | |
| Let's see. | 03:24:18 | |
| Then the council also requested that the subcommittee that had been formed to be responsible for reviewing the submissions, the | 03:24:19 | |
| initial submissions that came in, that they be shown the selected design that you just saw and provide feedback. So on June 24th, | 03:24:26 | |
| OPAC emailed the subcommittee and members the initial design along with the list of the recommended changes that were made at the | 03:24:32 | |
| June 17th meeting and asked for their feedback. | 03:24:38 | |
| To date, we've received comments, or the committee's received comments from members Cosa, Ortega and Holden regarding the design | 03:24:45 | |
| and the process. | 03:24:49 | |
| The members were also invited to view the selected design in person, as well as the two that were not selected this past week on | 03:24:55 | |
| July 9th. | 03:24:59 | |
| And so with that, just to repeat from last time, the project is still on schedule. | 03:25:06 | |
| We do, or at least the committee. OPEC will enter into agreement with the artists here shortly. | 03:25:12 | |
| In June through August, the artists will conduct the public engagement. | 03:25:18 | |
| Possibly a survey, for instance, of the community and hire an intern to finalize and finalize the design based on all of the input | 03:25:24 | |
| and get the intern ready to go. The final design will be brought back to the City Council at their September 3rd meeting. Then the | 03:25:30 | |
| artists are anticipated to install the mural in early fall with the public unveiling along with the library and maybe at this | 03:25:36 | |
| rate, the Community Center. | 03:25:42 | |
| Reopening in October or November. | 03:25:49 | |
| So with that, there is no impact of the general fund. This project is being completely paid for from the joint City Port Community | 03:25:51 | |
| Benefit Fund. | 03:25:56 | |
| And so at this point, the recommendation tonight is not to approve the mural, but instead to consider the revised draft mural | 03:26:02 | |
| design and authorize the mural committee to move forward with coordinating the public outreach for further input on the design and | 03:26:08 | |
| bring the final design back for City Council consideration on September 3rd. | 03:26:14 | |
| And with that, I'm available for questions. We also have Carolyn Mullen available here from OPEC as well as Denise Sindelar from | 03:26:22 | |
| OPEC. She's the one that's basically being been coordinating most of this and she is on Zoom here this evening. Thank you. Does | 03:26:27 | |
| Council have any questions? | 03:26:32 | |
| Go ahead. OK. | 03:26:39 | |
| So the direction that. | 03:26:41 | |
| Staff received at the June meeting. When we reviewed the first designs, the initial designs was to. | 03:26:45 | |
| Where is it? | 03:26:56 | |
| Approve the draft mural design and authorizing mural committee to move forward and coordinating completion of the project. And now | 03:26:57 | |
| I see that there's a public input. | 03:27:02 | |
| Continuation request on here. So what happened? What was what was the thinking behind wanting the committee to seek more public | 03:27:09 | |
| input? | 03:27:14 | |
| While this has always been a component of the project since the the time that Opaque sent, there are a request for qualifications | 03:27:21 | |
| and submittals out to the artist teams. So that's not changed at this point. OK, is this going to? | 03:27:29 | |
| Is this going to extend? | 03:27:38 | |
| Go beyond the agreement that we have with OPEC. Is it going to cause them extra work? | 03:27:43 | |
| No, no it will not. In fact because the mural as you know will only take a couple of weeks to actually be installed. This will | 03:27:50 | |
| continue to happen through the summer and we will be on continue to be on schedule to bring this back to you with the finalization | 03:27:56 | |
| on September 3rd. So there should not be any delay whatsoever. | 03:28:03 | |
| And then I just an artistic comment about the poppies. I don't know how the rest of the council feels. I know this was suggested | 03:28:11 | |
| by Councilman Gama, but I just, I think there's too many or that the color is just kind of over. | 03:28:18 | |
| Overwhelms the bird, the blue Heron, and then kind of take the monarch orange against the monarch orange. It's just I'm wondering | 03:28:26 | |
| because it's also a California designation. The poppy is associated with the California flower. If we can still ask the artist to | 03:28:34 | |
| consider something more native to wine EMI. | 03:28:41 | |
| What is a flower native to Wainy? Me, Do we? Well, it's a hibiscus. | 03:28:50 | |
| Is from what I understand that is true, however, I did suggest a couple species that are found out in the sand the area where the | 03:28:56 | |
| snowy plover lives and so possibly we could look into those Those are actually found on our our landscape design guidelines list | 03:29:04 | |
| as well. Okay, that sounds great. Are we allowed to make a comment or is this just questions? You can make a comment yes so. | 03:29:12 | |
| I must have been remiss, but. | 03:29:22 | |
| I was disappointed to. | 03:29:26 | |
| Find out that. | 03:29:28 | |
| The person that each council member. | 03:29:31 | |
| Appointed to the committee was left out of the process. | 03:29:34 | |
| I mean, I'm really disappointed because I have complete trust in the person I nominated. And then when I contacted him to get his | 03:29:38 | |
| feedback, he's like, what? He didn't even know it was coming to council. And you know, I thought the purpose was for the five of | 03:29:45 | |
| us to nominate a resident of Waimea so that this could be a Waimea driven thing, and then to find out that they were cut out of | 03:29:51 | |
| the process. | 03:29:58 | |
| I don't know and. | 03:30:06 | |
| And I'm just going to be honest here, I feel like we took a step backwards. I don't. | 03:30:07 | |
| See the ocean? I don't feel the ocean underneath the tunnel. I don't know. I don't see the island. I don't, I don't know. I don't | 03:30:14 | |
| those those two things have been requested, so those are still yet to be included. | 03:30:21 | |
| And I think if I wasn't done, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Thank you. So my biggest complaint is that I. | 03:30:29 | |
| Thought the five people that we appointed were going to be the drivers of this committee and to learn that they weren't. | 03:30:39 | |
| Very disappointed. | 03:30:47 | |
| So that's that's all I have to say. | 03:30:51 | |
| I'll just. | 03:30:54 | |
| Quickly note that. | 03:30:57 | |
| I think that's part of what's what's trying to be addressed right now and I think it's partially what the committee was looking at | 03:31:00 | |
| with the idea of. | 03:31:05 | |
| It might be our motorcycle officer. | 03:31:11 | |
| But I think that's partially what the committee was looking at with the idea of doing more outreach over the summer and getting | 03:31:15 | |
| making sure that they are getting input from all of the key parties. I. | 03:31:21 | |
| I think I. | 03:31:29 | |
| I think it's, it's what they're trying to address with the idea of taking the next month and getting more feedback. But, but I, I | 03:31:31 | |
| don't know if any, but are, are the people that we appointed going to be the drivers behind this? Because that, that's what maybe | 03:31:37 | |
| I wrongly assumed. | 03:31:42 | |
| In talking to Mayor Pro Tem, we're really excited to hear back from our person that we appointed and then to find out that they | 03:31:49 | |
| weren't even a part of the process was very disappointing. | 03:31:55 | |
| Is there anybody available that can speak to that? | 03:32:02 | |
| Denise should be on Zoom. | 03:32:06 | |
| Far as asking what the plan is to incorporate them. | 03:32:10 | |
| OK, I'm hoping that you can hear me here. | 03:32:18 | |
| So my understanding when the council appointed 5 representatives, as does, as did Ventura County Library, was that they were going | 03:32:24 | |
| to review the 38 applications score the applications. I'm happy to send out to the entire council the instructions that were sent | 03:32:33 | |
| out back in January. | 03:32:41 | |
| To the committee that they were creating the short list of artists. They narrowed the field from 38 down to 8 and those top | 03:32:50 | |
| scoring artists and artists teams were then forwarded to the mural committee. What I have deduced over this time is that your | 03:32:57 | |
| appointees. | 03:33:03 | |
| Felt that they were being appointed to the mural committee, but they were actually the subcommittee who was doing all of the | 03:33:11 | |
| initial vetting. So I think that there was some miscommunication that occurred when those folks were asked to participate. And I | 03:33:19 | |
| have done my best to communicate with all of them what the steps were throughout the process. And so my apologies if there was a | 03:33:26 | |
| misstep along the way, but it was not done in any way in which to loop them out of the process. | 03:33:34 | |
| They were the subcommittee vetting down the initial call and then the mural committee made-up of the three members from the | 03:33:43 | |
| Ventura County Library, Mr. Stewart, Council Members Hernandez and Martinez reviewed those scores and then they selected the three | 03:33:52 | |
| finalists. So hopefully that explains that situation and then as we move forward, we are happy and open to including their. | 03:34:02 | |
| Feedback. | 03:34:13 | |
| On this process and I've heard back from three of the six folks that served on that initial capacity and I've done my best to | 03:34:14 | |
| address their concerns. So I I apologize for. | 03:34:20 | |
| For their feeling that they were looped out, it was not intentional. | 03:34:30 | |
| Thank you. | 03:34:35 | |
| Thank you, Denise. And and I, I think where the communication gap may have occurred is that while you were very thorough and | 03:34:38 | |
| explaining the role of the subcommittee and what their responsibilities were going to be, the council may not have been aware of | 03:34:47 | |
| what that process was. So I think now you've outlined it in the staff report here, it's included as an attachment which clearly. | 03:34:57 | |
| Outlines what the what their role was going to be, what they were responsible for doing. And we know we very much appreciate their | 03:35:08 | |
| input. And I agree, I think from here on out we can we can definitely loop them back in if they have any further comments on the | 03:35:15 | |
| final. So thank you very much for your hard work and being so responsive. | 03:35:22 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem. | 03:35:30 | |
| Yes, thank you so much Denise for your your explanation. And so I will say if you all remembered last council meeting, my comment | 03:35:31 | |
| about the mural was I thought it looked great and I trust the person that I selected to be on the committee. And then after that I | 03:35:38 | |
| found out the person that was on the committee had nothing to do with the selection. So then I had to kind of step back and say | 03:35:45 | |
| OK, what happened? And so I will tell you if you all read the. | 03:35:53 | |
| The agenda item as it relates to this item that you know, some of the folks that we pick said if they knew that they were only | 03:36:00 | |
| going to be winnowing down. | 03:36:05 | |
| What was submitted, they probably wouldn't have participated and given up the time to do that. So I know as a council member and | 03:36:10 | |
| the person that I picked, I had no knowledge that they weren't going to work through the whole process. I understand that now and | 03:36:17 | |
| and so I'm OK with that. The other thing is, so we are so close to being done. I think we're talking about approving at the next | 03:36:25 | |
| meeting. So how are we going to be able to take? | 03:36:32 | |
| Input from the community, right? So what are we going to do with that input? I mean, do we have the time to, to, you know, add, I | 03:36:43 | |
| mean, I what I don't want the community to feel like they're given input and then we're not even taking it right. So if we get | 03:36:52 | |
| input from the community, what are we going to do with that and be able to come back at the next meeting and approve? | 03:37:00 | |
| A mural. | 03:37:10 | |
| Sure. So the members of the community when this goes back out, first of all they have I went back up to real quick and just say | 03:37:11 | |
| that the subcommittee still played an important part because they vetted it out and and they gave us the artists that we selected. | 03:37:19 | |
| So they did have part of they did have some decision making authority there with regard to the the final public outreach | 03:37:27 | |
| component. And now that the design is what you've seen the basic design that will be what's introduced to the. | 03:37:35 | |
| To the public basically for the review and their final comments on that. So it'll be, it should be fine tuning at this point like | 03:37:43 | |
| we're doing with, with the five of you, then we'll get that back to you. And of course in September, September 3rd again, if, if | 03:37:50 | |
| we need to push it out a little bit further, we, we can, we've got a little bit, little bit of leeway in the schedule. | 03:37:58 | |
| So I want to say it again. So I'm concerned because we we've already said we're going to put an island, we're going to change one | 03:38:09 | |
| of the poppies to something. So we already have a plan to do these things and then we're going to get additional input from the | 03:38:15 | |
| community. How are we going to be able to? | 03:38:22 | |
| That's kind of what, yeah, that's what I was going to try to address in your question. The I, I think the committee, the mural | 03:38:29 | |
| committee is going to meet again to decide a course of action on how we're going to do that. One of the ideas, you know, of | 03:38:37 | |
| course, we'll probably use social media, but the other idea I had that I'll take to the committee is to put physical, physical | 03:38:44 | |
| design up at the museum. | 03:38:52 | |
| And allow the public to come and see the designs at the museum. That won't be the only location, but it may might be just one of | 03:39:00 | |
| few locations where people can actually go and see it physically and then make their comments, maybe through AQR code or or a | 03:39:07 | |
| Dropbox, you know, suggestion box. So I think that's something that the committee is now tasked to do. | 03:39:15 | |
| Just one more question. | 03:39:25 | |
| Is there a possibility that something that is currently on the mural won't be on the mural when it comes back? | 03:39:28 | |
| I would say that the, the majority of what is on the mural now, you know, the, the tomo, the, the idea of the cranes, the, the | 03:39:38 | |
| waves, a flower element, for instance, the Heron, the plovers and whatnot. They will remain, they might be again, fine-tuned a | 03:39:46 | |
| little bit, but they, they are the main component that, that everybody's pretty much agreed to at this point. | 03:39:53 | |
| I think the answer is technically yes. Like for example the sand dollar is going to be removed right was my understanding. | 03:40:02 | |
| One of them, possibly, yes. | 03:40:09 | |
| At least, possibly some of them. | 03:40:17 | |
| Of course. | 03:40:21 | |
| So I just want to. | 03:40:23 | |
| Express that I am even more disappointed. | 03:40:26 | |
| And I would like to see the five people that we appointed to. | 03:40:29 | |
| Be the drivers of this project. And I feel like our Wanami residents are being cut out of this. And I hear things like panel | 03:40:36 | |
| committee, well, who's on the panel versus who's on the committee because my understanding was we're appointing five members of | 03:40:42 | |
| our community to guide us on this very important community project. And I feel like it was outsourced, no offense to Oxnard, but | 03:40:49 | |
| to Oxnard. | 03:40:55 | |
| And I don't have a problem with OPAC participating, but my understanding was that the five people we appointed residents of Waimea | 03:41:03 | |
| were going to be the driving forces of this and and I, I can't support anything other than that. | 03:41:11 | |
| So at this point. | 03:41:21 | |
| I mean, I want to see the five people we appointed come before us and give us their input because we trusted them. | 03:41:24 | |
| Work on our behalf. | 03:41:36 | |
| Near, if I may, I can tell we're all very heavily invested in this project because if I, if I may remind everyone, it's our first | 03:41:38 | |
| mural. So I think it's something that we need to celebrate and instead of instead of having more disappointment, I think we should | 03:41:44 | |
| have more appreciation and. | 03:41:50 | |
| It is something that's very important to the committee and I know we might have had people that we appointed, but they did have a | 03:41:57 | |
| job that they served and it was very important, as Tony had just mentioned. | 03:42:03 | |
| However, the art itself was dictated a lot by the artists that provided the renderings and so. | 03:42:10 | |
| One of the suggestions that was brought up to us is let them be free and express their art. And if we keep adding more and more | 03:42:18 | |
| things to the art, it's it's going to take that away from them. And so I'm very satisfied with the way that the murals looking. | 03:42:25 | |
| It's, it's really beautiful. So I think it's something that we should all celebrate in my opinion. And it's and it hasn't been | 03:42:33 | |
| easy. So it's our first mural. We're not perfect. Denise and OPEC have been doing an amazing job. | 03:42:41 | |
| And I think, yeah, maybe we overlooked the fact that we should have. | 03:42:49 | |
| Project that's taken place and and and so it's we can't make everyone happy essentially is what I'm saying. But I just want to say | 03:43:30 | |
| that it's it's been a really really great journey to get to where we are now and I'm looking forward to the mural. You know that. | 03:43:37 | |
| Thanks Tony and thanks so pack and thanks suit to Laura and council for appointing us on this. | 03:43:44 | |
| You know, arts mural committee. | 03:43:54 | |
| So I have a comment. While I appreciate everything, everybody has contributed to this. I appreciate the work. | 03:43:56 | |
| Of everyone involved. | 03:44:02 | |
| Appreciate the artists vision, but part of that vision was supposed to be tailored to Winemi whether freedom or not. At freedom of | 03:44:05 | |
| expression it was supposed to be about Winemi and the initial rendering left that to question. And regarding the individuals that | 03:44:14 | |
| we appointed, a few of those are actual certified artists and they wanted to be involved in the further the process and. | 03:44:23 | |
| That was the reason why they were picked. They were picked because they are actual artists, have degrees in art and have history | 03:44:32 | |
| and art and they wanted to be a part of this mural. They were excited about having our first mural in our city and being part of | 03:44:39 | |
| that process. And when they found out that it was only to pick the artists and that the nobody else reached out for any other. | 03:44:45 | |
| Part of this, it was a bit disappointing and. | 03:44:53 | |
| One of them I don't know if. | 03:44:57 | |
| Whoever there's a public comment regarding that, that we're going to have read. She wanted it specifically read because she | 03:44:59 | |
| thought it was important that this mural was supposed to be about Wayne EMI. It did not. | 03:45:05 | |
| Leave that to the artists who are involved. They have some concern about it, but I do appreciate the steps that have been taken to | 03:45:12 | |
| correct that, the suggestions that we've been given. | 03:45:18 | |
| Yes, there could be a couple of other things tweaked. | 03:45:25 | |
| But I think it's going in the right direction as long as we keep listening to the people that are involved and that. | 03:45:30 | |
| Want to be more involved, which is the committee members that we selected. So I think that's important that we try to get that | 03:45:38 | |
| involved. | 03:45:41 | |
| So I think we should go to reading the public comments. | 03:45:46 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments on this item? We have 1 written public comment. | 03:45:50 | |
| While there are two mashed symbols, nothing else about the mural has support. Part of Port Wanami, it comes across as symbols that | 03:46:27 | |
| were thrown together last minute. The flower, bird and lemons are not native to Wine Me. A different pick of those kind of symbols | 03:46:33 | |
| are needed. Furthermore, the whole concept does not flow and fails to tell the story of the city. The composition of the piece is | 03:46:40 | |
| very scattered and the symbols chosen do not seem to match a cohesive style. | 03:46:47 | |
| The mural should include better representation of the Chumash people, our Navy base, and most of all our community. The library is | 03:46:55 | |
| meant to draw in people, especially our youth. If the mayoral tells the story of the history and what our city is today, then it | 03:47:01 | |
| would encourage our youth to pick up books related to Chumash, Navy or Army, or even about the history of the city. As for the QR | 03:47:08 | |
| code to learn more about the mural, I think that is an idea chosen in poor taste. | 03:47:14 | |
| Nowadays, people have grown to not like QR codes. They're most commonly found in restaurants where people have to scan it for the | 03:47:23 | |
| menu. Nobody enjoys having to scan for a menu as phones can like or it's hard to navigate. So relying on a QR code for the mural | 03:47:29 | |
| will not work as the mural should be able to speak for itself. | 03:47:36 | |
| The viewers should not have to stand there confused and walk away not understanding the mural, but rather be able to stand there | 03:47:42 | |
| and absorb the rich history of the city. It will not be well known that there is a QR code waiting to be scanned. The mural should | 03:47:49 | |
| be able to speak for itself and people who pass by while driving or walking will be enticed to go to the library because of the | 03:47:55 | |
| captivating mural. Sincerely Lila Ortega and that concludes public comment. | 03:48:01 | |
| There, if I could just note to we did receive a similar e-mail from another committee member or subcommittee member, Ricardo | 03:48:09 | |
| Holden, and that's in the packet. So that's why it's not red. That was in the packet and I believe it may have been read at the | 03:48:15 | |
| June 17th meeting. | 03:48:21 | |
| And. | 03:48:29 | |
| I'm trying to find a. | 03:48:31 | |
| Political way to say this and I can't. But I think the concern I have that as I'm hearing this and kind of knowing where this | 03:48:35 | |
| project is going is I think we are essentially at a deciding decision point where if we're moving forward with this design, if we | 03:48:43 | |
| move forward with this design today, this is the design because the artist is starting to hire people and you know all these | 03:48:51 | |
| things. So, so that's one path and I think the other one that I'm just hearing with some of the questions. | 03:48:58 | |
| And. | 03:49:06 | |
| And you know, some of the questions of like, well, how do we have meaningful public input at this point? | 03:49:07 | |
| I'm trying to think on the fly here, but the other one would be, you know, there's what was what 38 designs that got whittled down | 03:49:14 | |
| to 19 by the subcommittee. Was that about what the numbers were down to 9:00 to 9:00, down to three that we reviewed. So the other | 03:49:22 | |
| would be to, you know, there could be a path to say, go and get feedback on those nine designs. That's, that's a possibility. | 03:49:29 | |
| And I don't, I think it comes down to what the Council's preference is. I don't know exactly what it is and I'm. | 03:49:39 | |
| Right, so. | 03:50:16 | |
| Does Joan have something to say? As your city attorney? I can tell that this is a very emotional issue for the council members and | 03:50:18 | |
| I would just caution you to not indicate what your vote will be prior to the clerk calling for the vote. | 03:50:26 | |
| OK, I'm trying to understand what are the two alternatives. | 03:50:36 | |
| And it's essentially. | 03:50:41 | |
| Move forward with this design with the. | 03:50:42 | |
| Process laid out or something similar. The council could, you know, tweak that and the other would be. | 03:50:46 | |
| Do we want to identify some process to look at other design, to look at the original designs or some variation or you know some | 03:50:53 | |
| group of those designs or? | 03:50:57 | |
| But I think those are the paths at this point. So my issue. | 03:51:03 | |
| Moving forward. | 03:51:08 | |
| Is that? | 03:51:10 | |
| The people. | 03:51:13 | |
| That we appointed. | 03:51:15 | |
| Aren't making the recommendation. | 03:51:18 | |
| And so again, did I misunderstand what we're doing early on? | 03:51:21 | |
| I think. | 03:51:27 | |
| But again, we appointed A5 member group. | 03:51:30 | |
| Who we had confidence in and then hearing that, you know, they weren't involved. In fact, when I called my appointee, I said, hey, | 03:51:36 | |
| tell me about your experience and. | 03:51:41 | |
| And you know, it's in the agenda. And he's all what? | 03:51:46 | |
| I go, what, you haven't even seen it? He goes, no, I haven't seen it. So the first time he saw it is when I called him. | 03:51:50 | |
| To get his input and he was surprised that it was in the agenda and he's never seen it. | 03:51:57 | |
| So that's my issue. | 03:52:04 | |
| Yeah, couple of questions. So can you go back to your options again? Are you saying that approve this option with the changes? | 03:52:09 | |
| That will be coming, are you saying? | 03:52:19 | |
| Approve it and this is it. No, I think what I'm trying to explain is that I think by moving forward with this design, I think | 03:52:22 | |
| we're hitting that point of no return. | 03:52:27 | |
| Does that make sense? Am I making sense that if you know, if we don't select tonight, we're at a point of no return if we don't | 03:52:33 | |
| select tonight, if we move forward with the proposed? | 03:52:38 | |
| Plan of going and getting more outreach where we are still moving forward with this design to the point that we're locked in on | 03:52:44 | |
| this design. | 03:52:49 | |
| And so I think, and it was partially what you said of like, well, how what if, you know, we want the public to believe that we're | 03:52:54 | |
| actually taking their feedback. Well, at this point with this design, if the public comes back and says we don't like that design, | 03:53:00 | |
| you can't take that feedback because you're already contracting with the artist. What's the point of having the public feedback | 03:53:06 | |
| then, Right. And so it is sort of, yeah. Can I, can I just say something, you know? | 03:53:13 | |
| So not only did we in terms of the public input process, not only were each one of us allowed to pick. | 03:53:20 | |
| A representative to be part of the process, but you also delegated to Council Member Martinez and myself along with the Library | 03:53:30 | |
| committee and OPEC and Tony to be. | 03:53:37 | |
| To make some decisions. | 03:53:45 | |
| In this process and in the selection. | 03:53:47 | |
| So it's not just the five people, but there were members from the library, there was Tony, there was OPEC staff, artistic staff | 03:53:50 | |
| who were involved in this. And so there was a larger community of people involved. Now what I would like to suggest is a | 03:53:57 | |
| recommendation is we have a point of order. | 03:54:04 | |
| I don't want to be interrupted. Please let me finish my thought. | 03:54:12 | |
| So the recommendation here is that. | 03:54:17 | |
| And staff, according to to Mr. Vega. | 03:54:21 | |
| We thought this out very well and came up with a recommendation to consider the revised draft mural design. | 03:54:26 | |
| And authorized the mural committee to move forward with coordinating public outreach. | 03:54:33 | |
| And I would add to that to include the five appointees who are members of the subcommittee. So we will. | 03:54:39 | |
| I think if we send this back to the mural committee, we can come up with a course of action that will include the five members | 03:54:48 | |
| from the subcommittee and and. | 03:54:54 | |
| And get their input as we make the final. | 03:55:01 | |
| Changes to the current design as it is, but to go back now, it's going to cost more money. | 03:55:04 | |
| You know, we can't go back to the nine people that they. | 03:55:12 | |
| Recommended because we've already made a selection. We narrowed it down to three and we made a selection we've already appointed. | 03:55:16 | |
| Pretty much told the artists that they've been selected. So to go back to the original 9 is. | 03:55:23 | |
| Is like starting over. Mary put him right. Mr. Stewart, can you just tell us what does it look like to go out to the public to ask | 03:55:28 | |
| for input? What's the plan? | 03:55:34 | |
| Well, again, that's what we're going to bet out our next committee meeting. | 03:55:41 | |
| So we haven't ironed out the details exactly yet. That's what we want to discuss. And part of that is based upon what input you | 03:55:45 | |
| had this evening with regard to that. OK, I just want to put it on the record. I don't have a problem with the mural in making | 03:55:53 | |
| adjustments to the mural. My my only concern is we've come too far to now step back and ask the community for input. I think we, | 03:56:01 | |
| we, we missed that boat. | 03:56:08 | |
| And I don't think that we should go back to that because and, and I'm all about community, community engagement, but I think we | 03:56:17 | |
| missed a step in the process. And so right now, I believe that we need to go forward and apologize to the community that we left | 03:56:27 | |
| them out of it initially. That was not our plan to do that, but I think we're opening a door that we really don't want to. | 03:56:37 | |
| Not knowing how much feedback we might now, what happens if we get 100 suggestions right? We know we can't do that. | 03:56:48 | |
| We know we can't do that. What if we got fifty? We know we can't do that. | 03:56:58 | |
| Right. So I think we should regroup, go back to the committee. If you're going to add the five people, I think that's great. It'd | 03:57:02 | |
| be, I would imagine our five people that we've been talking to have been talking to people already, right, And might have some | 03:57:09 | |
| input. But I just think that we're sometimes having too many people is a bigger problem than not having enough. Council member | 03:57:16 | |
| Gama had a point of order. If he will continue, please. OK, so. | 03:57:23 | |
| We appointed 5 people. | 03:57:31 | |
| Maybe I wrongly assume they were going to be the driving force behind this Merle project, which I was extremely comfortable with. | 03:57:34 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez mentioned that there were people from the library and the Friends of the Library involved. Who? | 03:57:40 | |
| Who? That's not a point of order. | 03:57:48 | |
| But that's what you said and we. | 03:57:51 | |
| I'm not gonna debate with you. My question is. | 03:57:55 | |
| My. | 03:57:58 | |
| Councilmember Gama, please continue with your point of order. | 03:58:01 | |
| My point is that the people we appointed to do this work. | 03:58:08 | |
| It sounds like other people were. | 03:58:15 | |
| Put in their place and. | 03:58:19 | |
| I had extreme confidence in the five people that we pointed to lead this project and then for them not to lead this project, to be | 03:58:22 | |
| left out of the decision making, to not even know what the final design is, is that's a big mistake and I think we need to correct | 03:58:29 | |
| it. I could be the only one that feels this way, but that's how I feel. | 03:58:36 | |
| And, and at this point, you know. | 03:58:43 | |
| I would like the five people we appointed to be the drivers of this project so that because their community members that were | 03:58:47 | |
| appointed by council members. | 03:58:53 | |
| And I think we. | 03:58:59 | |
| We messed up. | 03:59:01 | |
| Councilmember Martinez, I have a question for Tony Stewart. Was the panel supposed to be the driving force of this mural? | 03:59:03 | |
| No, it wasn't. The original plan was that, and this went to council a couple of years ago. Actually, at this point, it was to have | 03:59:11 | |
| a committee made-up of the two of you basically at the library. Well, I should say 2 council members because originally this goes | 03:59:18 | |
| way back to when Councilman Rollins was initially on the accounts on the committee. | 03:59:25 | |
| And it was to again be the two council members of the library as well as a member of staff to at least guide it. And then we | 03:59:34 | |
| subsequently came back a little over a year ago, as you may recall, with the the idea that we would send out an RFP to. | 03:59:43 | |
| Have a hire a manager so to speak. And so the the proposals that we got back OPEC was the one that's chosen. | 03:59:55 | |
| And so they were to lead the actual. | 04:00:04 | |
| Artistic portion of the project along with the mural committee and it was actually the mural committee and the OPEC who came up | 04:00:09 | |
| with the idea of informing the subcommittee to again get out the initial applications that came in those 38 applications. So that | 04:00:17 | |
| was the the process that was originally envisioned for guiding this project. | 04:00:25 | |
| And then just answer your Councilmember Gamma's question of who from the library will and I know you say Tim Frugal is the best | 04:00:35 | |
| library in the world. He was part of that Arts Mural Committee and then two other librarian representatives, Nancy and. | 04:00:41 | |
| Ned from the county offices as well. | 04:00:49 | |
| And then US 3. | 04:00:52 | |
| OK, so obviously we are well past the point of a public input. I agree with Mayor Pro Tem that. | 04:00:55 | |
| How does that gonna look? We're gonna gauge 50 people. They're gonna have 50 new ideas. We can't incorporate that in there. If | 04:01:03 | |
| this is the, this is the item that we're doing, to go backwards is going to cost more money, obviously. | 04:01:08 | |
| How do we incorporate 50 new ideas on this? There's not enough space for starters. And what does it look like actually so. | 04:01:15 | |
| What do you hope for the purpose of a public outreach? | 04:01:24 | |
| What if you do get 50 new ideas? What's this? What's the process? How do we say no to those people? Or have we can't? | 04:01:28 | |
| Add those ideas. | 04:01:35 | |
| Well, again, at this point, the committee hasn't vetted out this process and part of this discussion tonight is to determine if | 04:01:37 | |
| that process needs to be basically. | 04:01:42 | |
| Ended at this point. So again that that's something that you can make that decision. Who is the committee because when you say | 04:01:48 | |
| committee, are you including the five people we appointed? | 04:01:54 | |
| No, so again I was not finished with my comment so. | 04:02:00 | |
| Next, obviously a few of us misunderstood the whole purpose of our committee members. | 04:02:06 | |
| That's neither here nor there or well past that. We can't do anything about that now. I mean, we're already almost at the | 04:02:13 | |
| completion of the mural itself, so. | 04:02:17 | |
| At this point. | 04:02:22 | |
| I would suggest that we move forward with the recommendation. | 04:02:25 | |
| Including the recommended future or additional. | 04:02:30 | |
| Items that were being recommended. | 04:02:36 | |
| And then have you guys discuss whether or not you really want to hold a public hearing for community outreach. I think at this | 04:02:38 | |
| point is probably. | 04:02:42 | |
| A bad idea, but unfortunately. | 04:02:47 | |
| That's up to you to decide. | 04:02:51 | |
| I'm not advocating that, but I am advocating is let the five people we appointed. | 04:02:53 | |
| I wasn't done and to include. | 04:02:58 | |
| Our five committee members in the next process. | 04:03:02 | |
| Yeah, he's having their feedback and it's kind of the recommendation. | 04:03:07 | |
| Modification that I made just a few moments ago was to do that. | 04:03:12 | |
| I think sounds like kind of that seems to be. | 04:03:16 | |
| Kind of the compromise of what what I'm hearing of, I think the idea of opening this up to the public. | 04:03:20 | |
| Now. | 04:03:27 | |
| It creates more problems than it solves, but the subcommittee was appointed to be the representatives of the public, so I think, I | 04:03:29 | |
| think. | 04:03:33 | |
| Bringing those, the subcommittee back in and having a meeting. | 04:03:38 | |
| Giving direction to the team to include them in the process and then report back on recommendations. And I think that's also | 04:03:42 | |
| manageable because if it's many more than five people. | 04:03:47 | |
| It's not going to be very manageable. So, so that sounds like that maybe could address most of the issues we're talking about. OK, | 04:03:53 | |
| so. | 04:03:57 | |
| Are we clear on that recommendation? | 04:04:04 | |
| Can I have a motion? | 04:04:06 | |
| So it's the just to make sure we are clear. So it is moving forward, but with the sub, with the subcommittee outreach and feedback | 04:04:09 | |
| for further input on the mural design and bring a final design back to council at the September 3rd meeting. Subcommittee being | 04:04:15 | |
| defined as the five people we appointed, correct? | 04:04:22 | |
| We're not going out to the public. We're going to rely on those. | 04:04:29 | |
| If you talk to your appointee, you may want to suggest that they get feedback from people and talk to people in the meantime. So | 04:04:33 | |
| can we have a motion to approve that move to approve? | 04:04:38 | |
| You know, but I actually think that the committee did a good job on picking like the artist because, I mean, you would just have | 04:05:15 | |
| to take my word for it, but OK, All right. | 04:05:19 | |
| Madam Clerk, can we have a vote, please? | 04:05:25 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed. | 04:05:28 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 04:05:32 | |
| The next business item is the proposed First Amendment to employment agreement for City Manager. | 04:05:36 | |
| Who is going to be presenting that report? Frankly, our human resources manager will be presenting as it is extremely awkward for | 04:05:42 | |
| me to present it. | 04:05:46 | |
| Glee. | 04:05:51 | |
| Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, citizens and staff. | 04:05:55 | |
| My name is frankly HR risk manager for City Port Wanami. Next item is a recommendation to I'm sorry, it's a proposal to the First | 04:06:00 | |
| Amendment amendment, First Amendment to the employment contract for City Manager Vega and in this amendment it's being recommended | 04:06:06 | |
| that. | 04:06:12 | |
| For a 4% cost of living adjustment and also a 5% merit adjustment for highly favorable performance as rated by the City Council. | 04:06:20 | |
| And this adjustment is also, this amendment is also consistent with the current cities employment practices and the executive | 04:06:30 | |
| leadership group as well. So if anybody has any questions, I can address them. OK. Does anyone have questions for Mr. Lee? | 04:06:38 | |
| You have a question. | 04:06:52 | |
| I have a comment. | 04:06:57 | |
| OK. | 04:06:59 | |
| It feels good to be able to celebrate a decision that we made a year ago, and I'm really pleased with our city manager. | 04:07:03 | |
| In addition to being a surfer, he's a great city manager and I'm. | 04:07:13 | |
| I really feel good about the direction the city's heading. | 04:07:17 | |
| Couldn't be happier with them. | 04:07:22 | |
| The collective decision this group has made. | 04:07:24 | |
| And then I might add that. | 04:07:29 | |
| Hope I can openly say that it was a unanimous decision by the whole council to to approve. | 04:07:32 | |
| To prove this. | 04:07:39 | |
| Proposed amendment to the employment agreement for the city manager because we're all pleased with. | 04:07:42 | |
| With the job that you're doing here in our city, Thank you. I think Joan was going to say it was a unanimous evaluation. | 04:07:48 | |
| But but it's not approved until officially tonight. | 04:07:56 | |
| You know. | 04:08:02 | |
| Now that I think about it. | 04:08:04 | |
| We'd like to move the recommendation. | 04:08:07 | |
| 2nd. | 04:08:11 | |
| No further discussion. You didn't have a comment after all. | 04:08:13 | |
| I didn't have a question, so that's why it kind of held it back, but I did have a comment. I just want to say. | 04:08:17 | |
| Out loud, how much that I appreciate, how much we appreciate our city manager. | 04:08:24 | |
| You know. | 04:08:30 | |
| It's evidenced when you have a good leader. City manager in this case is when the residents don't call. | 04:08:32 | |
| About him. And so we appreciate that and it doesn't seem like a year, but when you look at all the accomplishments. | 04:08:40 | |
| To date. | 04:08:47 | |
| It they add up to a year, so really appreciate you. | 04:08:49 | |
| Yeah, I will add, I appreciate the concern. It's a stark contrast from where we were a few years ago. So I appreciate the concern | 04:08:54 | |
| that he takes in deliberate decisions that he makes for the city because he has a heart for the city. He cares about the | 04:09:00 | |
| residents. It's he has a good understanding of his role when it relates to council. | 04:09:07 | |
| And. | 04:09:14 | |
| That makes for a great city manager, so I appreciate everything. | 04:09:16 | |
| So let's. | 04:09:20 | |
| We have a motion and a second. And Madam Clerk, can we please take a vote? Mayor Perez, can you just confirm the second for me? I | 04:09:21 | |
| heard two at once. So. | 04:09:26 | |
| Do we have a second council member? Martinez. OK. I thought we had one. OK. Thank you. So all in favor? Aye. All opposed Hearing | 04:09:32 | |
| none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 04:09:39 | |
| The next item is the adoption of the economic development plan. | 04:09:49 | |
| Thank you, Mayor, and I'm going to introduce. | 04:09:56 | |
| Tony Stewart and who will introduce our team who worked on this plan and and give an overview. Thank you. | 04:10:02 | |
| Yes, thank you again, James, and good evening again everyone. I'm just going to go ahead and turn this straight over to our | 04:10:10 | |
| consultants from PFM Group. We have Bill Fulton, who will be doing the introduction and a couple of parts and then Ellen Ramaj. | 04:10:17 | |
| Well, we'll go ahead and fill in the middle part and then Bill will wrap it up for us. So Bill, I'll turn it over to you. Thank | 04:10:24 | |
| you. Thank you, Tony. Good evening, Mayor Council. Congratulations, Mr. City Manager. | 04:10:31 | |
| If we can, I've got the. I've got it right here, you know, now I just got to figure out how to work it. | 04:10:40 | |
| I'll give you a quick project overview, then Ellen will come up and give you a little bit of background on the economic context, | 04:10:48 | |
| the economic structure of Fort Wenemi. She'll also talk about the public engagement process we went through. I'll come back and | 04:10:55 | |
| give a quick summary of our SWOT analysis and give you the 8 recommendations that we are making. | 04:11:01 | |
| And and then a series of public engagement efforts that Ellen will describe. So I'll turn it over to Ellen, give you the economic | 04:11:43 | |
| context and talk about the public engagement and then I'll come back with the recommendations. | 04:11:49 | |
| Sure. Hello everyone. So the next section we're just going to go over a brief economic analysis of Port Hueneme. This first slide | 04:11:57 | |
| here indicates what jobs people who live within the city do as per what they reported to the census. Notably here there is a | 04:12:04 | |
| considerable amount of manufacturing, retail trade and food services. | 04:12:10 | |
| You'll see in comparison with Ventura County, Oxnard in Port Hueneme have a relatively lower amount of adults over the age of 25 | 04:12:18 | |
| with bachelor's degrees. So it is a primarily blue collar workforce who would say. | 04:12:24 | |
| But I think that positions the city well to, you know, work closely with the with the port and the naval base. | 04:12:30 | |
| And Oxnard College as their logistics program that they're developing. | 04:12:37 | |
| Now this, this I found most interesting. So this we pulled from the census. I do want to caveat this that like every, you know, | 04:12:43 | |
| every census database, they all have slightly different methodologies. So the numbers may vary slightly. But the general idea here | 04:12:49 | |
| is that most people, that there are very few people that live in Port Hueneme and work in port, work in Port Hueneme as well. | 04:12:55 | |
| There's about 10,000 people that out commute. | 04:13:00 | |
| Every day and about this says 3000 people come in to work. Now that's very important. This does not include the Navy. We consider | 04:13:07 | |
| that we estimate there's probably about 10,000 people coming in. But the real important number here is that 381, almost 400 | 04:13:14 | |
| people, that only 400 people basically live here and work here. | 04:13:20 | |
| This is the list of principal employers. So who in Port Hueneme is actually employing people? | 04:13:29 | |
| You can see the naval base is a very large employer. The port provided us this number directly. So they've got about 3500 people | 04:13:36 | |
| that they've employed. But also the school district is a large employer. I'm sure you're familiar with all these numbers. And then | 04:13:41 | |
| of course, you have over 300 businesses that have licenses within the city. I think most notably here there is a large amount of | 04:13:46 | |
| retail, there's a large amount of restaurants. | 04:13:51 | |
| Now, part of this process is my favorite part. We used a foot traffic software called Placer Labs. So they basically track your | 04:13:58 | |
| cell phone pings. I'm not going to get into the whole methodology there, but essentially what Placer is telling us. And again, | 04:14:05 | |
| this is where I like to remind you that there's different methodologies between this and the census I. | 04:14:11 | |
| This is basically showing where the people that work in Port Hueneme live, and you can see that it's about. | 04:14:18 | |
| About 10% of people, which is similar to the amount that the port provided us. It's about the same ratio of people that live in | 04:14:25 | |
| the city who work at the port. Same thing the police are showing us, the people that work in the city, about 10% live here. What's | 04:14:32 | |
| interesting here that this is about the same amount of people who who work in Port Hueneme live in Camarillo. So there is some | 04:14:38 | |
| opportunity there. One of the challenges that Bill is going to bring up later, I'm sure you're all very familiar with this, is | 04:14:44 | |
| that land is very limited here. | 04:14:51 | |
| The naval base really dominates. I'm sure you guys all know how the land is used, but this just provides like a nice picture of of | 04:14:58 | |
| of where that is. | 04:15:02 | |
| And then we also use Placer Labs to look at beach activity. | 04:15:08 | |
| Los Angeles. | 04:15:47 | |
| I would like to point out that this does include people who maybe are here on the weekend for like their second home. | 04:15:49 | |
| Their place of residence will be counted, you know, where they are during the week. So that could skew this data a little bit. But | 04:15:56 | |
| I thought this was really interesting, the show, like how far you're drawing people from. | 04:16:00 | |
| So, yeah, so the public engagement piece, so as Bill indicated, this is sort of an ongoing since January. I think we interviewed | 04:16:05 | |
| most if not all of you. So hello again. We also subcontracted with a community outreach firm, Ariana Ariana Associates, who did a | 04:16:11 | |
| lot of bilingual outreach. So they did. | 04:16:18 | |
| They help through outreach for our virtual in person public workshop. Both of those has Spanish interpretation. | 04:16:25 | |
| They did like a neighborhood walk to like, walk around and like, you know, do door knocks at businesses to sort of advertise it. | 04:16:31 | |
| They posted our community survey, which was in English and Spanish. For that. We got 77 responses between residents and business | 04:16:36 | |
| owners. | 04:16:41 | |
| I'm going to kind of go into those results a little bit here. Again, there's much more detail in the report provided, but this is | 04:16:47 | |
| sort of the high level. I think what's most important here is that when people were asked what makes port winding me special? | 04:16:52 | |
| As outdoor recreation, the beach also notable when asked people's views of the impact of the naval base and the port on their | 04:16:58 | |
| quality of life. | 04:17:03 | |
| Overwhelmingly, people felt positively about it and less than 50% had a negative view of the port or the naval base. | 04:17:08 | |
| And then in terms of what people are doing, where they're going, this this is also kind of interesting. A lot of people are | 04:17:17 | |
| leaving for entertainment, shopping, dining, social gatherings, but it does seem there is there, there are some things to do here. | 04:17:22 | |
| And, and you can also see that outdoor recreation, hiking, which we define as hiking, pick hiking, picnicking, biking, all those | 04:17:27 | |
| things I. | 04:17:32 | |
| Unsurprising that people are doing that here. | 04:17:38 | |
| Yeah, I'll turn it back to Bill. | 04:17:40 | |
| Thank you, Ellen. We did a SWOT analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. I'll go over that very briefly. | 04:17:45 | |
| Obviously, the Navy and the port are tremendous strengths. They're two of the biggest. | 04:17:50 | |
| Employers in the county, the beach is a tremendous strength. We also wanted to point out that in our view, Fathom Works is an | 04:17:56 | |
| important vehicle that's a collaboration of the port, the Navy and entrepreneurs to try to encourage spin off, particularly tech | 04:18:02 | |
| industry. | 04:18:07 | |
| For the beach festival opportunities include as you saw tonight with the two items on your on your agenda increase when he when he | 04:18:45 | |
| meet each park activity. We the port LED us to talk to Oxnard College about this logistics program, which I'll talk about in the | 04:18:52 | |
| recommendations, which is a tremendous opportunity we believe. | 04:18:59 | |
| Additional events at the beach to attract visitors like you saw tonight. Among the threats, you know, the threats on the Canyon, | 04:19:06 | |
| on your cannabis revenue from the surrounding cities. In addition, uncertainty about retail. On the one hand, you see the $0.99 | 04:19:12 | |
| store closing. That's not a. | 04:19:17 | |
| Port winning me specific item, but you see this uncertainty in the discount retail and also we found although we didn't put it in | 04:19:23 | |
| the economic context, there's a retail leakage our estimate out of port Winnie me of about 200 million a year that is to say. | 04:19:30 | |
| There's 200 million a year of more of retail borrowing power, buying power in the city. | 04:19:39 | |
| Then is actually spent in this city $200 million a year, which would be James, correct me, I'm wrong, 2 million a year in sales | 04:19:46 | |
| tax revenue or more more actually probably because of your additional add-on tax, right goes out of the city. So on to the | 04:19:54 | |
| recommendations. There are 8, as I said, the first one is we believe that the city can publicize, emphasize and support in many | 04:20:01 | |
| ways efforts to link local residents to local jobs. | 04:20:08 | |
| And we particularly believe that this logistics program at Oxnard College, which is starting up this fall, is a tremendous | 04:20:16 | |
| opportunity for your residents to be able to work, to be able to be trained, to work at the naval base and at the port, not only | 04:20:23 | |
| be. And so we believe the city should take every step it can to publicize this to your residents and also publicize the fact that | 04:20:30 | |
| that because of financial support from the port. | 04:20:37 | |
| Many of the students in this program will receive financial assistance. Secondly, we we do believe that you should find ways to | 04:20:45 | |
| incentivize incentivize upgrading aging commercial centers and hotels. | 04:20:51 | |
| We most of almost all of your commercial centers and hotels were built 40 to 60 years ago and have not really been upgraded. | 04:20:58 | |
| There's a couple of exceptions, but that's generally the case. | 04:21:03 | |
| So we identified in the retail leakage you probably have capacity for another grocery store in town. I know Grocery Outlet just | 04:21:09 | |
| opened. | 04:21:14 | |
| But you still have a lot of retail leakage in groceries, you have a lot of retail leakage in restaurants. So we are suggesting you | 04:21:18 | |
| might find some way to financially incentivize your your retail center owners to work with you, possibly with a sales tax rebate | 04:21:25 | |
| program to to upgrade their centers to attract those specific tenants. | 04:21:31 | |
| And on the on the hotel side, were you to pursue an increase in the bed tax and your bed tax is below I believe the county | 04:21:39 | |
| average, perhaps you could take some of that money and also create a fund to help to help financially assist the hotels in | 04:21:46 | |
| upgrading. Item 3, this is the Fathom Works angle. Encourage local business startups that link opportunities of the port of the | 04:21:54 | |
| naval base. Fathom Works is on the port site right now. They're looking for a location off site off the port. | 04:22:01 | |
| We believe that you should work with with all of these players so that Fathom Works can have a walk in a storefront center | 04:22:09 | |
| somewhere in the downtown area. And we also believe that you can follow on with that by working with these other partners to try | 04:22:17 | |
| to create a business incubator for some of those businesses that are using Fathom Works as it as it is. We we found in our public | 04:22:24 | |
| outreach that although there was no support for large scale development on the beach, that's no surprise to you. | 04:22:32 | |
| There was considerable support for additional activity, particularly events, retail and and and restaurant activity. So we would | 04:22:40 | |
| suggest that you build on the current successful events such as the ones you you, you approve tonight and execute a plan for a | 04:22:47 | |
| larger number of events. And at least in the short run, try to bring in more food trucks and pop up vendors more often as a way to | 04:22:54 | |
| get it get draw more people there, increase the number of events and visitors and increase your own sales tax revenue. | 04:23:02 | |
| The city #5 the city owns land in three different strategic locations. The beach, as you know, in the designated area, downtown | 04:23:09 | |
| along Market and then along Pleasant Valley right near the gate to the naval base. We suggest that in the long run, you do a | 04:23:17 | |
| request for information to developers about possible additional restaurant or retail development, permanent development on the | 04:23:24 | |
| beach. We also think that particularly with the Fathom Works play. | 04:23:32 | |
| It's worth talking to the having a conversation with Fathom Works, the port in the Navy, about how to develop your property that | 04:23:39 | |
| you own on in the Market Street area to stimulate those those if those startup businesses need more places to go. | 04:23:46 | |
| I don't have to tell you about the the downslide in the cannabis revenue. We make a number of suggestions here. We suggest that | 04:23:55 | |
| you work with the cannabis businesses to strongly brand the Green Mile as a as a unique cannabis experience in Ventura County. Not | 04:24:02 | |
| just a place where you go to a dispensary, where you have lounges, you have what's sometimes called a cannabis crawl, like a pub | 04:24:09 | |
| crawl, things like that, and possibly help. | 04:24:16 | |
| Create a funding source that can be used to promote unique experiences such as lounges, as I said. | 04:24:24 | |
| Opposed as opposed to dispensaries, we suggest that you pursue consistent branding in the wayfinding and signage. You've got a lot | 04:24:29 | |
| of wayfinding and signage signs. | 04:24:35 | |
| All over the city, some of them are very old, some of them are not consistent with one another and we suggest that you update | 04:24:41 | |
| that. And finally. | 04:24:45 | |
| Neither the business community nor the city is going to be able to implement this plan without having the capacity to do it. So we | 04:24:51 | |
| suggest that the city and the chamber work with specific groups of businesses so that they can be more tightly knit together, work | 04:24:57 | |
| together strategically, particularly the cannabis people, the retail people, the restaurants. | 04:25:04 | |
| ETC. And we also would suggest that the city might want to consider hiring probably a part-time economic development or technician | 04:25:11 | |
| or coordinator whose sole function is not to strategize about about economic development, but implement the actions in this plan. | 04:25:20 | |
| Within the Community development department. So those are our recommendations and thank you very much. Happy to answer any | 04:25:29 | |
| questions and take it from there. | 04:25:33 | |
| Thank you very much. Do Council have any questions for? | 04:25:37 | |
| OK, Council Member Hernandez. | 04:25:43 | |
| How many of us have had a chance to read this? | 04:25:46 | |
| Yes. | 04:25:51 | |
| I was going to ask to pull it because it just seemed like. | 04:25:57 | |
| There was a lot to digest here. Your presentation helped quite a bit. | 04:26:00 | |
| To get to my questions, I noticed that there is no pie chart or discussion on. | 04:26:04 | |
| Our source of revenue is there. | 04:26:13 | |
| Typical of a Yeah, I'm having a little trouble hearing if you could pull your microphone closer to you. | 04:26:16 | |
| I noticed there was number discussion on our current source of revenues, right. This is not, this is not really a fiscal report. | 04:26:22 | |
| This is a report on economic development, which is not only about the fiscal impact on the city, but is also about jobs at | 04:26:28 | |
| creating jobs and businesses in the community. So that's pretty typical, yes, so. | 04:26:35 | |
| How? How does do we? | 04:26:43 | |
| What's the economic impact of having people? | 04:26:47 | |
| Work and live within the city. I mean, this is common throughout California. People, a lot of people commute, yes, that's right. | 04:26:51 | |
| Usually not as usually, not as much as in Portland, Amy, but yes, that's quite common. The more the the you may remember as well | 04:26:57 | |
| that in the economic development background report for your general plan. | 04:27:04 | |
| The conclusion based on some similar data to what you we used indicated that an extraordinary number of people who live in Port | 04:27:12 | |
| Wanami drive a very long distance to work. The farther they they drive to work, the less they are in town, the less money they | 04:27:19 | |
| spend here. Not only that, they're much more, they're much less likely to be coach of the soccer team, right. So it's a | 04:27:26 | |
| fundamental part of community strengthening and strengthening of the local economy and revenue source to have people. | 04:27:33 | |
| Live and work as close together as possible that will that that strengthens your community fabric and revenue in many ways. OK and | 04:27:41 | |
| then what about business license fees and. | 04:27:47 | |
| Business and permits was there, did you find anything in that area that we could do differently? No, we, we did not find anything. | 04:27:55 | |
| We, we did not find anything in particular in that area. We did not find the business owners dissatisfied with that there are | 04:28:00 | |
| about the. | 04:28:05 | |
| There's about 14 or 1500 business businesses that have business licenses, I recall, Tony, but only about 300 hundred of them are | 04:28:11 | |
| actually located in Port Wanami. Am I right about that? That would be correct. The others are, for instance, contractors and | 04:28:17 | |
| whatnot that do business here in the city, but aren't necessarily located here. | 04:28:24 | |
| And then my my other question, I had a number of questions that I won't take up all the time tonight. | 04:28:31 | |
| Asking them is in the list, your list of stakeholders. I don't see the county of Ventura on here, but I was told that you did talk | 04:28:37 | |
| to the county economic. We talked to the EDC. Oh yeah, we had a lot of conversations with the EDC. | 04:28:44 | |
| Realtors, we didn't. You mean residential Realtors? We did not talk to residential Realtors. | 04:28:52 | |
| And Ocean View Pavilion, did you have any discussions with? Yes, we did. They participated in our workshop and they participated | 04:29:03 | |
| in our virtual workshop and then they hosted our our in person workshop. OK, great. | 04:29:09 | |
| And he was also one of George was one of our stakeholders as well. That was in yeah, we talked. I didn't see it on the list. So | 04:29:16 | |
| that's why I was asking. | 04:29:19 | |
| Real quick, I. | 04:29:24 | |
| OK, I think I think that's it for now. Thank you, Councilmember Gama. | 04:29:26 | |
| Yes, you mentioned the $0.99 store and it's a, I don't know, probably what 20,000 square feet more than that. | 04:29:30 | |
| So what can we do as a city to aid in the marketing recruitment? | 04:29:39 | |
| What what would be the most ideal business for that location? You know, what can we do to, to, to really hone in on, you know, | 04:29:49 | |
| what would be the best mix for that use, right, That's a good question. | 04:29:56 | |
| You have. | 04:30:04 | |
| You have a, you have, I think, 10 shopping centers of various sizes. Really only one of them, which is Mandalay Bay Village. Is | 04:30:06 | |
| that what that meant? Is that what that's called Mandalay Bay? Really only one of them is highly successful, right? That's | 04:30:13 | |
| Mandalay Bay Village. It draws from Channel Islands and so forth. | 04:30:19 | |
| And that just got taken over by a new owner is part of a big corporate shift that they participated as well in our in our | 04:30:27 | |
| workshop. | 04:30:31 | |
| I would say a couple of things. One is to try to to try to do a little research, a little more research than we were able to do on | 04:30:37 | |
| the retailers. Try to figure out what what kind of, because you know what the default solution is, $0.99 store goes out in Dollar | 04:30:44 | |
| Tree comes in because Dollar Tree is taking over the $0.99 store. | 04:30:51 | |
| Locations and then the other $0.99 or the other Dollar Tree closes, right. That's probably what's going to happen. I, I think that | 04:30:59 | |
| if you hire a economic development coordinator, that economic development coordinator can work with Tony in two different ways. | 04:31:06 | |
| One is to do a little bit of research on what, where the and, and our work with Placer Labs can help with this. | 04:31:13 | |
| What determining what retail business is slightly more upscale could go there and let's say the $0.99 location and the other one. | 04:31:19 | |
| And the other thing would be, as I said, try to work with with the commercial property owners to see if there's any way the city | 04:31:25 | |
| through sales tax rebates or something can incentivize an upgrade to bring in the right kind of the design, I'm sorry, the desired | 04:31:31 | |
| type of tenant. | 04:31:37 | |
| Yeah. Anytime I have to go to Home Depot or Lowe's, it's way on the other side of that. Yeah, Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. | 04:31:44 | |
| I'm not sure that a warehouse store of that scale would fly. | 04:31:51 | |
| Both because of the size of your centers and also the your location far away from the freeway are hard to come by, right. So, but | 04:32:00 | |
| but yeah, you got one gas station, you probably got no hardware stores there. There is probably an additional there. There is | 04:32:06 | |
| probably some some work that can be done with that. | 04:32:12 | |
| They were missing a huge opportunity in certain areas. I'm sure you saw is like the corner of Victoria and Channel Islands. | 04:32:19 | |
| That is a prime location for a lot of revenue. If yes, the owner was interested in doing anything with that center, upgrading it | 04:32:27 | |
| and then bringing in some higher end retails, some obviously entertainment. I thought it was interesting. | 04:32:34 | |
| That a lot of our people go outside for entertainment or for social stuff is because they don't have anything. | 04:32:42 | |
| In the city for that. | 04:32:47 | |
| I'll give Tony a lot of credit for doing a good job of trying to stay in touch with those commercial property owners. He knows who | 04:32:50 | |
| they are. He talks to them. It it if a commercial property owner has owned a piece of property for a very long time. | 04:32:57 | |
| Such as I believe the $0.99 store center owner has, it's very difficult to get them to do anything because they have no mortgage | 04:33:05 | |
| and it got pre prop 13 taxes right. All they need is something sitting there generating revenue for them and they're making money. | 04:33:11 | |
| So that's why I think it requires. | 04:33:17 | |
| Targeting Targeting the desired retail stores. | 04:33:24 | |
| Staying in close touch with the commercial property owners and finding some way to financially incentivize them to upgrade their | 04:33:29 | |
| centers in order to in order to attract the desired tenants. | 04:33:34 | |
| Which is part of the reason you need more capacity at the city level to do all that stuff. You know the cathode VMR is going | 04:33:40 | |
| through a. | 04:33:44 | |
| Rendering decision. I noticed that there it looks like they're closing out their tennis courts and that they may be contemplating | 04:33:49 | |
| on what the future is going to look like. Any conversations with them? And I'll defer to Tony on that. I don't think we did. | 04:33:57 | |
| There are several property owners there, but we have been conversing with some. They along with the $0.99 areas, you may recall | 04:34:06 | |
| when we did the general plan, have been or are in the process of being rezoned to mixed-use so that we could look at possible | 04:34:13 | |
| redevelopment of those areas. The tennis courts, you mean in regards to Casa VMR. So again, I'm trying to understand what can a | 04:34:20 | |
| city do to incentivize? Well, as I say. | 04:34:27 | |
| Nudging the property owners, helping to identify who the prospective tenants are and then creating some kind of financial | 04:34:37 | |
| incentive out of the tools that you current that you do have because you, you know, your long pass redevelopment, those three | 04:34:44 | |
| things together might make a difference. It requires a sustained effort, which is why I, as I say, you have to have the capacity | 04:34:50 | |
| in house. Tony can't do everything himself, although we all expect him to. | 04:34:57 | |
| That's right. That's right. We have any further questions? | 04:35:06 | |
| So I don't know where I saw this but is so I'll just ask the question I. | 04:35:11 | |
| If this is adopted tonight, does this become part of the general plan? | 04:35:19 | |
| No, this is its own standalone document. Yeah. So it's much like our city parks and master plan or whatnot. So this is a | 04:35:25 | |
| standalone, but it does connect to many of our other plans. So my concern is where are we going to get or how will we get input | 04:35:32 | |
| from the stakeholders into this plan if we approve it tonight? | 04:35:39 | |
| Who had been involved in the stakeholder process to make sure they knew this was on the agenda tonight? | 04:36:24 | |
| All right. Thank you. Any further questions? | 04:36:31 | |
| OK, so we have a recommendation to adopt A resolution. | 04:36:35 | |
| Oh. | 04:36:40 | |
| We have one public comment from Leticia Boston. | 04:36:41 | |
| So good evening, Honorable Mayor Perez and City Council members. My name is Leticia Austin, Public and Government Relations | 04:36:54 | |
| Manager for the Port of Waimea. And 1st, I would like to recognize the tremendous effort put into the development of the economic | 04:37:01 | |
| development plan. The information provided was very insightful and I am here this evening to ask the members of the City Council | 04:37:07 | |
| to consider offering a time extension to this item that on the agenda pertaining to the approval of the city's economic | 04:37:14 | |
| development plan. | 04:37:21 | |
| This will provide additional time for port staff and City of City of Port Hueneme constituents to read and understand the plan and | 04:37:27 | |
| to provide educated comments. Thank you. | 04:37:33 | |
| OK. So given that public comment, do we have any comments? | 04:37:42 | |
| My comment would be to allow for time extension. | 04:37:48 | |
| I mean I had a. | 04:37:51 | |
| I was rushed to read through it and I imagine other people, I mean, we got this on Thursday. | 04:37:52 | |
| I had a busy weekend. | 04:37:58 | |
| I think for the benefit of our stakeholders and. | 04:38:00 | |
| And ourselves, I think we should. Do you want to? | 04:38:04 | |
| You want to do that in a recommendation. | 04:38:08 | |
| And that we, Councilmember Hernandez, can you just pull the mic a little closer? Sorry. | 04:38:12 | |
| I'm always, when I watch it, I'm always like God, I can't hear them because they don't have the mic close and I'm doing the same | 04:38:18 | |
| thing. So the recommendation I would make is to extend. | 04:38:24 | |
| Let's see delay adoption of the resolution at this time providing enough time for stakeholder input. If I can make a comment to | 04:38:31 | |
| something that's probably important to know before we do that is so we do have a limited scope with the consulting team and we | 04:38:40 | |
| don't have money in the budget to add tasks and add scope to this project. So I. | 04:38:49 | |
| I think just realized that as if we continue to extend it, it means we're gonna have to cut some other things out of the budget | 04:38:59 | |
| this year. So can I ask a question? So is it possible that we release the contractors, the plan becomes ours and that we can | 04:39:07 | |
| incorporate anything in addition that we might hear through? We can always do that. We can adopt the plan and still take feedback | 04:39:15 | |
| and still meet with stakeholders and you know, adjust as, as needed and bring back recommendations. | 04:39:23 | |
| I think that would be. | 04:39:32 | |
| The path I would recommend because because of that timeliness issue and the scope of work for the consultants so. | 04:39:36 | |
| Would you like? | 04:39:47 | |
| Well, my question was what, what else needs to be added or what would the port like to see? I mean, I'm just, I'm just curious, | 04:39:49 | |
| what would the this extra time allow for the port or in any constituents to. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm asking Leticia. Yeah. You just | 04:39:54 | |
| have to come back to the mic. | 04:40:00 | |
| We, I don't want to say have issue with, but we want to provide feedback to, you know. | 04:40:43 | |
| I'm sorry. | 04:40:49 | |
| I think we're all in. | 04:40:52 | |
| Collaboration mode, I think that's really healthy and I think it's something that we should do more vigorously. | 04:40:53 | |
| But I don't recall the port ever asking for our input and what their plans are and so. | 04:41:00 | |
| Maybe this could be the start of some real collaboration I. | 04:41:08 | |
| You know, I'll just give you an example. The port just did a landscape project and they didn't put a sidewalk in where I see | 04:41:12 | |
| disabled people getting ready to walk to the White House, the lighthouse and they don't have a sidewalk to exit their vehicle. And | 04:41:18 | |
| it's again. So I'm just making the point that collaborations got to go both ways. And so I'm wondering is that the ports practice | 04:41:25 | |
| when they are getting ready to release a plan, do they come to us and ask us what we think about it? Yes, we do. Actually we have | 04:41:31 | |
| our 10 year strategic plan. | 04:41:38 | |
| And we're working on that. We've asked for feedback from the communities and our stakeholders and it's still in that open mode | 04:41:45 | |
| right now. So we're still continuing to ask for feedback and returns to in regards to our strategic plans. So yes, we do we work | 04:41:50 | |
| operatively. | 04:41:55 | |
| I heard a rumor that the port is going to try to make. | 04:42:02 | |
| Any vehicle that's not electric not allowed to go onto the port. Is that something that's happening? I need to make a comment | 04:42:07 | |
| here. Are we in public comment or? | 04:42:11 | |
| How is this being handled? I had to step out for a moment. I just want to confirm where we out where we are at. This is a public | 04:42:17 | |
| comment. | 04:42:21 | |
| That I don't think, I don't think it was a discussion. I think we pulled, I think she was pulled back, yes. So I think it's really | 04:42:25 | |
| not on the agenda, I think is the answer. So we'll try to connect and get that answer for Council member Gama. | 04:42:33 | |
| I think, but in terms of collaboration, like how do we move forward on that? I was going to go in that in that direction. I think | 04:42:43 | |
| one thing I would say is at this point this the consulting team met with every stakeholder. | 04:42:50 | |
| And in fact, we actually, I actually specifically requested an additional meetings for the port CEO, which we did have those | 04:42:57 | |
| meetings and we included that feedback and we included data from the the port. I would say it's unusual to now say we're going to | 04:43:05 | |
| hold off adopting this plan to let one agency look at it and modify our plan or provide feedback on our plan. I think, I don't | 04:43:12 | |
| think that's a precedent I would recommend. | 04:43:19 | |
| What I was saying at all, So I was, I was. | 04:43:28 | |
| We can take that even if we adopt the plan, so I'm fine with that. | 04:44:06 | |
| So then. | 04:44:10 | |
| No further comment. I'd like to make a motion to approve. | 04:44:11 | |
| We have a 2nd, 2nd. | 04:44:17 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 04:44:22 | |
| All opposed. | 04:44:24 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you so much. | 04:44:26 | |
| You're done with us. | 04:44:33 | |
| All right, it's late, guys. We're tired. | 04:44:38 | |
| No more going to the bathroom. | 04:44:48 | |
| Just kidding. | 04:44:50 | |
| So the next item is City Manager comments and reports. | 04:44:52 | |
| Got my microphone. | 04:44:59 | |
| I'll keep it as brief as I can. | 04:45:00 | |
| We are. Thank you. | 04:45:06 | |
| It's, we did the proclamation last council meeting recognizing July as Parks and Recreation Month. And so a lot of our items sort | 04:45:11 | |
| of relate to that today because we have a lot of activities planned as part of Parks and Recreation Month. And so First off, we | 04:45:18 | |
| just want to let people know that there's a lot of items planned. And you can go to the link on this website, it's our city | 04:45:26 | |
| website, the Recreation Community Services page to find out more about all the Parks and Rec Month activities planned this month. | 04:45:33 | |
| We wanted to highlight that one of the first things we kicked off this month was we started with the grand opening of the Port | 04:45:41 | |
| Wyndham Historical Museum and they are open now Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and people can drop in. And we | 04:45:49 | |
| already had a a movie night last week on July 12th at Wanami Beach. I think I heard that they estimate over 700 people attended. | 04:45:56 | |
| So that was probably one of our biggest ones ever so far. | 04:46:04 | |
| And then we had as part of Parks and Rec Month yoga Miranda Park on July 13th, and we had about I think 30 participants is what | 04:46:12 | |
| they said at the Yoga at Miranda Park event. | 04:46:19 | |
| And then we put a list together. We are dark for August. We have council recess so our next regular meeting is Tuesday, September | 04:46:28 | |
| 3rd. And almost all of these events are between now and then. So we just wanted to take an opportunity to to advertise those. We | 04:46:35 | |
| have Kite Day at Wanami Beach on July 20th, a recreation meet and greet on July 25th, Recreation popsicle party on July 31st. | 04:46:42 | |
| Waimea Police Department is participating in National Night Out this year. | 04:46:50 | |
| And that's going to be August 6th here in front of City Hall. | 04:46:58 | |
| We have the sister city committee coming in in early August with an event around August 6th. Can I mention that the three-point | 04:47:03 | |
| contest is missing on there? Oh yeah, the three-point contest on August 3rd. | 04:47:09 | |
| The I'll get to it, the sister city committee I mentioned movie night with the next movie being Aladdin at Waimea Beach, August | 04:47:17 | |
| 9th Recreation fun run August 10th, Rams on the one on September 2nd. So that's pending. We probably normally wouldn't advertise | 04:47:25 | |
| it yet, but because we don't have a meeting between now and then where we're going to go ahead and advertise it. We are working | 04:47:33 | |
| with the LA Rams to have their Rams mobile come out to Wanami Beach and. | 04:47:41 | |
| So we'll advertise it more as we get closer to the event since we're still finalizing all the paperwork. But that is right now | 04:47:49 | |
| we're about 99% of the way there, so. | 04:47:54 | |
| And then Wanami Beach, the name in case anybody is wondering Rams on the one I think it's that they go along Pacific Coast Highway | 04:48:00 | |
| essentially. So when Amy Beach festival has approved is the weekend of September 7th movie night on September 13th with will be | 04:48:09 | |
| Shrek and then we approved earlier today the California coastal cleanup event as well. So all of those events in the next. | 04:48:18 | |
| What is that two months? So and that is it today. Any questions for Mr. Vega? | 04:48:29 | |
| What kind of kite will you be flying on Saturday? | 04:48:40 | |
| The hopefully I'll get one of those the free first fifty, because otherwise I don't have one. | 04:48:45 | |
| And when we want to. Councilman reports and comments. Councilmember Martinez Yes, thank you. Mayor Perez, I just want to mention | 04:48:53 | |
| that we're going to have a meeting this Wednesday for the Wyoming Sister Cities Committee. | 04:48:58 | |
| Thanks to Joan for filing the nonprofit. And the main reason that we're having the meeting is because we're going to. | 04:49:05 | |
| Plan the event of receiving our sister city committee from Puerto Vallarta. | 04:49:14 | |
| And reaches also have a meeting this Thursday to plan out the pickleball tournament. I think that's going to be a really fun | 04:49:20 | |
| event. And I just want to mention that I still haven't seen any posts regarding the three-point contest because I did start | 04:49:25 | |
| telling people and people are asking me where can they go to register and just. | 04:49:31 | |
| I don't know, I'm excited. I hope all of you join. | 04:49:37 | |
| On Saturday, August 3rd. | 04:49:42 | |
| That's that's all, Council member Gama. | 04:49:45 | |
| Have a Beacon meeting this Friday which I'll be attending. | 04:49:49 | |
| Really. | 04:49:57 | |
| I can't express how. | 04:49:59 | |
| Waimani beach cleanup is really good for me and and good for the beach and good for the participants that come and. | 04:50:03 | |
| We over the last 6-7 years, we've really got to know Copacabana Beach soccer and. | 04:50:13 | |
| They are excellent group. They from my perspective, they do a good job in cleaning up after themselves. They come and there's just | 04:50:25 | |
| great family engagement activities and I I always get to spend time and talk to various different people and it's just one of the | 04:50:31 | |
| most. | 04:50:37 | |
| Wholesome sporting events around because it's it's beach soccer, which is really, really strange to me, but it's amazing at how | 04:50:44 | |
| many kids come to participate. And as we are wrapping up Winami Beach clean up this past weekend, a group of guys came with a | 04:50:52 | |
| bunch of electric stuff. | 04:50:59 | |
| They had electric. | 04:51:07 | |
| Bikes electric scooter this electric thing and they're gearing up to ride to Ohio and back and one of the things I don't even know | 04:51:08 | |
| what it's called but it just got me thinking I. | 04:51:15 | |
| That umm uh. | 04:51:23 | |
| We are going to have to start at some point. Consider. | 04:51:24 | |
| Something to deal with? | 04:51:30 | |
| The speed at which these electric scooters and bikes are. | 04:51:33 | |
| Attaining they're on sidewalks sometimes they're in the street and the fact that these guys are going to ride these things all the | 04:51:38 | |
| way to Ohio and back, I'm like, man, that's that's really something. But you know, these things are hitting 50 miles an hour, 35 | 04:51:45 | |
| miles an hour and they're not regulated as motorbikes and they really should be motorbikes. And you know, at some point we're | 04:51:51 | |
| going to I think we're going to have to deal with that. And then the batteries are, you know, the batteries are becoming | 04:51:57 | |
| increasingly. | 04:52:03 | |
| Problematic. And you know, remember that. | 04:52:10 | |
| Boat that burned out there in the ocean and. | 04:52:13 | |
| It's late. | 04:52:52 | |
| That's it. | 04:52:54 | |
| Council Member Hernandez. | 04:52:57 | |
| Excuse me while I wake up. | 04:53:01 | |
| OK, so. | 04:53:04 | |
| I did attend the V Cog meeting, has an alternate this week. Also attended the AWA meeting. I was really pleased to attend the | 04:53:07 | |
| opening of the Port Hueneme Museum open House on Saturday. | 04:53:14 | |
| It just brought me into tears. I thought it was just, it looked great and I just want to extend my gratitude to the committee and | 04:53:24 | |
| all the hard work that they put into. | 04:53:28 | |
| Making this happen. | 04:53:35 | |
| I know that there's still more work to be done, but it just looks wonderful and has a good feeling to it. And one of the things I | 04:53:36 | |
| suggested to the committee is on weekends is maybe ask if PD can put the lighted sign on the corner of Ventura Road and and Wanami | 04:53:44 | |
| Rd. to say museum open today to maybe draw some. There's more visitors to the museum. I've also attended various legislative | 04:53:52 | |
| briefings. The legislature, state legislature is going on summer recess. So there were a lot of. | 04:54:00 | |
| Status reports on various pieces of legislation and I just want to say thank you to. | 04:54:10 | |
| City Manager Vega and staff for Really. | 04:54:17 | |
| Supporting our legislative platform and getting letters out. | 04:54:21 | |
| And participating in supporting important legislation. We've not done that in the past. And I really do appreciate the extra | 04:54:27 | |
| effort it takes to to get those letters out. So thank you. | 04:54:32 | |
| That's all I have. | 04:54:39 | |
| Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem Martha McQueen. Lee John. | 04:54:40 | |
| Thank you Mayor. So I missed the RDP meeting last week due to my personal travel. | 04:54:44 | |
| GCTD Gulf Coast Transit, they have their new fares are now in place. They started on the 7th of July. | 04:54:53 | |
| There's also a new bus book that's out with everything you want to know about riding the bus, Gold Coast Transit, so you can go to | 04:55:01 | |
| Facebook and just look up Gold Coast Transit and see all the information. I'll be attending a VRSD special meeting on the 25th. | 04:55:10 | |
| I did attend the open house and agree with everything that Councilman Hernandez said. Very nice. I. | 04:55:21 | |
| The the both the volunteers and the city staff have done a great job and preparing and now manning the museum and then all my | 04:55:30 | |
| other meetings are on. | 04:55:38 | |
| Hiatus and I'll be going back in September. | 04:55:47 | |
| Thank you. Yeah. I had no committee meetings. They're all dark. Everyone decided to take vacations in July. | 04:55:49 | |
| So, but I do want to I received information that a resident is having a birthday in August while we will be dark so she. | 04:55:56 | |
| Person asked for a shout out to wish Jean Marshall, who's turning 102 years old on August 15th, a very happy birthday and I | 04:56:04 | |
| believe the police are going to do a birthday drive by as well. So happy birthday to Gene Marshall. | 04:56:12 | |
| So next. | 04:56:24 | |
| For request for agenda items. | 04:56:26 | |
| Council member Gama. | 04:56:29 | |
| Council Member Hernandez. | 04:56:31 | |
| All right. Seeing none, I'm going to adjourn this meeting, the time being 10:24 PM Thank you. | 04:56:33 |