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| Portion of the City Council meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 5:30 PM. | 00:00:13 | |
| Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call, Councilmember Gama. | 00:00:19 | |
| Here, Councilmember Hernandez. Here Councilmember Martinez. | 00:00:23 | |
| Present Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Legend and Mayor Perez here. | 00:00:26 | |
| We will now take public comments. Comments are limited to three minutes. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? No | 00:00:31 | |
| public comments for closed session. | 00:00:34 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 00:00:38 | |
| Madam City Attorney, will you please read the closed session items into the record? Thank you. Miss Perez. Yes, we have 1 closed | 00:00:40 | |
| session matter. It is a public employee performance evaluation, the position of the city manager, and we are going into closed | 00:00:47 | |
| session under Government Code Section 54957 B as in boy one. And to the extent there is any reportable action after the closed | 00:00:54 | |
| section, we will report out. | 00:01:00 | |
| Great. Do any members of Council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for the listed closed session item on the agenda? | 00:01:08 | |
| Seeing none, I will now recess to closed session. The time is 5:30. | 00:01:16 | |
| Everyone. | 01:00:58 | |
| Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 630. Please stand and join me for | 01:01:01 | |
| the flag salute. | 01:01:04 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 01:01:14 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 01:01:19 | |
| Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? Council Member Gama here, Council Member Hernandez here, Council Member Martinez, | 01:01:31 | |
| President Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Lashawn and Mayor Perez here. | 01:01:36 | |
| Tonight's inspiration will be given by Councilmember Hernandez. Thank you Mayor. I was going to do a. | 01:01:42 | |
| A statement of inspiration regarding a documentary I saw on PBS last night called. | 01:01:50 | |
| Water of the future Future of water but instead I ended up going to the. | 01:01:58 | |
| Ocean View Pavilion for the Air Force Band. And I was so inspired by the music I thought I'd talk about music instead. You know, | 01:02:05 | |
| music is a great leveler. It is. | 01:02:10 | |
| It knows no boundaries and it's it can change your mood, which it did for me this afternoon listening to some of Stevie Wonder, | 01:02:19 | |
| Whitney Houston, I forget some of the other I. | 01:02:25 | |
| Songs they they played, but it was just, it was really uplifting. And you know, if you're feeling down and you want to be | 01:02:33 | |
| uplifted, try going to a summer concert. There's so many out there this summer. There's a lot of music out there. And go and find | 01:02:39 | |
| your joy in music. That's my inspiration. Thank you. | 01:02:45 | |
| Madam City Attorney, please provide the closed session report. | 01:02:53 | |
| Thank you, Miss Mayor. Yes, we do have a matter that comes back. There's the council voted on four to 05 to 05 to 0 to approve | 01:02:57 | |
| amending the city manager's contract after a very positive review and that amended contract will come back to you on the next | 01:03:04 | |
| council session. | 01:03:11 | |
| Thank you. | 01:03:19 | |
| We will now hear public comments, public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes. | 01:03:21 | |
| This process will be the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? We | 01:03:26 | |
| do. Our first up is Alexis Suarez. | 01:03:31 | |
| Hi, everybody. Good evening. | 01:03:50 | |
| Apologies for my name is Alexis Jolin Juarez. My family has been residents of Port Hueneme for the past 40 plus years since the | 01:03:52 | |
| 70s and I'm speaking to you today to request revisions to the home inspections being done by the Community and Economic | 01:03:58 | |
| Development Department. This is in response to an inspection that occurred on our property last month. On May 17th we received a | 01:04:04 | |
| letter in English stating that our home will be inspected due to numerous people being seen entering and leaving the home and an | 01:04:10 | |
| overabundance of vehicles. | 01:04:16 | |
| It was also stated that we had seven days to schedule an inspection for a possible violation of the health and safety code. Last | 01:04:22 | |
| week we had the inspection, the codes and compliance officer and an associate partner visited our multi unit residents and stated | 01:04:27 | |
| that they needed to enter our families home and our neighborhoods home in our order to count beds and inspect if people are | 01:04:32 | |
| residing in garages. Granted this has happened four times over the past five years so they have already came to our residence to | 01:04:37 | |
| inspect and count beds. | 01:04:43 | |
| Upon request of the specific code being used on the basis for the inspection, the codes compliance officer stated that they don't | 01:04:50 | |
| know the code number. | 01:04:53 | |
| Somebody from local government coming to my family's home and stating that they need to enter our homes without stating that the | 01:06:29 | |
| code, without stating the code they're referencing the complaint record or the fact that this is a voluntary process insinuates | 01:06:35 | |
| that residents cannot, cannot deny access to their homes. And then in the last five seconds, please identify potential resources | 01:06:41 | |
| and programs to address identified needs. Thank you. Thank you. | 01:06:47 | |
| And I'll make this comment up front for public comment. The council is not able to. | 01:06:55 | |
| Ask our to engage because it's not on the agenda so that items not on the agenda, but I'll ask the supervisor of the code | 01:07:01 | |
| enforcement department to get back to you and talk through some of those issues. | 01:07:07 | |
| Tom King. | 01:07:14 | |
| Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council members. | 01:07:21 | |
| City Manager. | 01:07:25 | |
| I'm really here today to say thank you. | 01:07:30 | |
| At the most recent committee for the city and the port, Chris Sandikas indicated that the port in particular was going to pivot | 01:07:34 | |
| and not put the monuments of the 12 foot monument out by the beach, but instead at the entry to the port. So I really wanted to | 01:07:43 | |
| thank everybody here as well as the commissioners. | 01:07:51 | |
| Kristen Dicus I know James, our city manager, was very involved, but especially also our neighbors. We had just short of 200 | 01:08:00 | |
| people who had expressed opposition to the location, but. | 01:08:08 | |
| Today I just wanted to say thank you. | 01:08:17 | |
| That's it. | 01:08:20 | |
| Greg Ross. | 01:08:23 | |
| Good afternoon or good evening. | 01:08:40 | |
| First of all, City Council, city manager, mayor Pro Tem, mayor, thank you for listening and thank you for your service. Maybe | 01:08:43 | |
| everybody thanks you, but. | 01:08:49 | |
| It's never enough, right? You all spent a lot of time and energy, and we appreciate that. | 01:08:56 | |
| I've lived in southern Ventura County since. | 01:09:02 | |
| 2001. | 01:09:07 | |
| And in Ventura County since 1971. | 01:09:09 | |
| My name is Greg Ross. I've been here before, here with an update and not to not to waste your time. We've grown to really. | 01:09:13 | |
| Love Port Hueneme, it's a it's a great city and the people that work here are, are always very friendly and we're very happy to to | 01:09:23 | |
| live here. There's just one little thing that we want to hopefully fix. | 01:09:30 | |
| And it involves the port. So I handed out a sheet to to the clerk. It's a quote from the president of Clean Air Engineering | 01:09:40 | |
| Maritime. | 01:09:46 | |
| He's one of the people that involved, is involved in putting these barges out there with hats on the railroads. You're probably | 01:09:54 | |
| all aware of that. I made this presentation to the Harbor Commission last week, learned that. | 01:10:02 | |
| One of the harbor commissioners and one of the other people that worked for the port in the room live in Silver Strand. | 01:10:11 | |
| And so they say, well, we're part of this, you know, this area, except. | 01:10:19 | |
| The prevailing winds 90% of the time or more are coming our way, not their way. | 01:10:25 | |
| So keep that in mind. We are the ones that are breathing this in. | 01:10:33 | |
| Every day. | 01:10:39 | |
| I know that they've got a plan. I know that they're working on it. I know that we've got they've, they've got, they're up against | 01:10:41 | |
| the deadline January 1st and they've got to, they've got to get the pollution from these diesel engines from the ships down. | 01:10:49 | |
| I just want to tell you that the update I'm talking about is we've now signed leases for two pollution monitoring devices for our | 01:10:59 | |
| neighborhood. | 01:11:04 | |
| And they're going to be installed in a week or two, and then I'll come back to you. | 01:11:10 | |
| Not waste your time with some science about what's in the air that we're breathing, because as you can see from that quote, this | 01:11:16 | |
| is some of the most toxic pollution, pollutant, carbon, particulate matter that really hurts people's lungs. | 01:11:23 | |
| Thank you for listening. | 01:11:31 | |
| That concludes public comment for general comments. Thank you. | 01:11:35 | |
| We will now move on to agenda approval. May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? | 01:11:41 | |
| Move to approve 2nd. | 01:11:48 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 01:11:50 | |
| All those in favor, aye. All those opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Do any members of council have any conflicts | 01:11:51 | |
| of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda? | 01:11:56 | |
| Not seeing any, we will move on to the first presentation, which is the quarterly employee recognition and that will be given by | 01:12:04 | |
| Deputy City Manager Charles Perez. | 01:12:08 | |
| Evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council staff members and members of the public. | 01:12:22 | |
| So it is that time of year, our quarterly update before the Council will recognize those employees celebrating significant years | 01:12:27 | |
| of service. | 01:12:31 | |
| With the city tonight, we have two and they're both in the Department of Public Works. So I'll invite Public Works Director Fred | 01:12:35 | |
| Camarillo to come up and speak about these two wonderful employees. | 01:12:39 | |
| Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, council, members of the audience staff. Tonight we have two employees we're recognizing the | 01:12:50 | |
| 1st is and I don't see him in the audience, Antonio Almanza. Antonio is a member of our Landscape Maintenance division. He began | 01:13:00 | |
| his career here in April of 1989. So he's got 35 years of service here. | 01:13:09 | |
| I believe that's probably the second longest tenure that's active right now. | 01:13:19 | |
| Many of you probably know Antonio. He's. | 01:13:27 | |
| A man of very few words, but an excellent employee always does. | 01:13:31 | |
| Whatever is needed, irregardless of what it might be. | 01:13:37 | |
| He's. | 01:13:42 | |
| Really. Again, he's not a man of a lot of words. He leads by example. He's someone that. | 01:13:44 | |
| Also is very popular with the beach cleanup crowd. I know a lot of the times we use our equipment and use our dumpsters to go out | 01:13:53 | |
| and take stuff and when we have the cleanups we get a lot of the organizers that ask is Antonio going to be out there? So they | 01:14:00 | |
| know him by name because of the job, the job that he does so well so. | 01:14:06 | |
| With the questionnaire that was given out to the employees, one of the questions is what do you like best about working for the | 01:14:14 | |
| city of Fort Wayne? He stated that he loves working with the citizens and his coworkers and that he appreciates how nice his | 01:14:22 | |
| interactions with the citizens are. He always gets positive feedback. His favorite moment thus far in his career with the city, he | 01:14:30 | |
| said. Being able to go out and work at the beach and being able to be out there by the ocean. | 01:14:38 | |
| See that the islands out there says he really loves that, so he's very excited about that. | 01:14:47 | |
| And then one thing I wanted to end with, about two weeks ago, he was out working at the beach and we received a comment from a | 01:14:55 | |
| member of the public. So I'm just going to read what that person wrote in so. | 01:15:01 | |
| Said yesterday, Thursday June 20th at around 11 AMI went to the Port Wayne Beach. I paid for parking, parking fee and returned to | 01:15:09 | |
| my car to place the receipt on the dash. | 01:15:14 | |
| When I unlocked the car door, I slung my purse strap over the side view mirror, placed through seat on the dash and hit it off | 01:15:20 | |
| where I walk with my dog. | 01:15:24 | |
| I knew I wasn't going to stay long just to walk to the Alaska Airline Memorial and back. | 01:15:28 | |
| I recently lost a loved one and have been a bit distracted. I wanted to go to a place where loved ones are remembered. | 01:15:34 | |
| When I got back to the parking lot, I saw it. My purse was still hanging on my mirror. Antonio, who was working in the parking | 01:15:42 | |
| lot, was. | 01:15:46 | |
| In the area and must must have seen my purse. I know he was busy working in the area but he still kept an eye out. | 01:15:51 | |
| I really wasn't gone that long, but I let out a sigh relief when I realized what had happened and how Antonio had helped me out. I | 01:15:59 | |
| thanked him over and over. But I want him to know. I want you to know how grateful I am for his kindness, for the kind of people | 01:16:06 | |
| you have working for your city. And that was from Robin Ruth Roberts, from the city of Camarillo. And that's who Antonio is. | 01:16:13 | |
| And so I'd like to, although he's not here, I'll present this tomorrow. Thank Antonio for 35 years of service. | 01:16:21 | |
| The second person is Dennis Martinez, our water general manager, who is here. | 01:16:37 | |
| Dennis began his career here on August 4th, 2004, so he is a 20 year recipient. | 01:16:44 | |
| His career started with facilities maintenance and he was there for approximately 9 years and after that he moved over to the | 01:16:53 | |
| water division and where he's worked his way through all the various steps of the water operations and is now currently our Water | 01:16:58 | |
| General Manager. | 01:17:04 | |
| When asked what he liked best about working for the city, he said the best part about working for the City of Port Hueneme Water | 01:17:11 | |
| Department is being able to directly impact our community by ensuring everyone has clean. | 01:17:17 | |
| Safe drinking water and find it incredibly fulfilling to be part of such a vital service and work alongside skilled operators who | 01:17:24 | |
| are dedicated to their craft. | 01:17:29 | |
| His favorite work moment? He said. Over my 20 year career with the city, I've cherished numerous favorite work moments. Among | 01:17:36 | |
| them, one of the most fulfilling aspects has been witnessing the formation of a great team over the last few years, not just | 01:17:42 | |
| within the water division, but across the entire city. | 01:17:48 | |
| When asked if you wanted to share anything personal about his family, he stated, I want to thank my wife Monique, as well as my | 01:17:55 | |
| son Austin, who's 14 and 12 year old daughter Brooklyn for their support throughout his journey here at the city. And on a | 01:18:03 | |
| personal side, I've known Dennis for quite a long time, I think even before he started working here because I knew his mom who | 01:18:10 | |
| happened to work here in the finance department before he got here. So Dennis is a great guy. He. | 01:18:17 | |
| Always has a positive attitude. Again, does whatever is necessary. | 01:18:25 | |
| He's dedicated to improving himself and taking care of the water division and the plant, the water plant and he has grown his | 01:18:32 | |
| group. | 01:18:37 | |
| Excellently so. I'd like to thank Dennis for 20 years of service. | 01:18:45 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. | 01:18:56 | |
| The next presentation we have is the Parks and Recreation Month Proclamation. | 01:19:00 | |
| And that will be. | 01:19:05 | |
| Red yes. Could we take a photo with the Dennis and sorry about that before you're off the hook. And I just, I just wanted to say | 01:19:07 | |
| about both of them that a, it's rare that you have employees in a city who have that dedication the last 20 and 35 years nowadays | 01:19:14 | |
| in modern times, but also that they are working hard every day still after 20 and 35 years. So we really, I really appreciate it | 01:19:21 | |
| and I know the community and the residents and the council appreciate it. So thank you. | 01:19:28 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, Dennis. | 01:19:59 | |
| All right, now we will have the. | 01:20:06 | |
| Parks and Recreation Proclamation read by Councilmember Gama. | 01:20:08 | |
| I'm really excited to read. | 01:20:13 | |
| Parks and Recreation Proclamation you know, Winami Beach, Bubbling Springs, we have some great parks, great outdoor areas here in | 01:20:15 | |
| the. | 01:20:19 | |
| So I'm really. | 01:20:24 | |
| WHEREAS, our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community and provide a place for children and | 01:21:40 | |
| adults to connect with nature and recreate outdoors. And whereas, the US House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and | 01:21:48 | |
| Recreation Month. And WHEREAS the City of Port Hueneme recognizes the benefits derived from Parks and Recreation resources. NOW | 01:21:56 | |
| therefore, be it proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme does hereby proclaim that the month of July. | 01:22:04 | |
| Is recognized as Parks and Recreation Month in the city of Port Hueneme, proclaimed this first day of July 2024. All right. | 01:22:12 | |
| Councilmember Gama, you're, you're reading inspired me. So if I could just say a few words about the city's recreation and | 01:22:29 | |
| Community services team. As many of us in this room know and many community members know, the team does a number of different | 01:22:35 | |
| things. One of them is they run special events in the city such as the 5K Run for your heart event, the Movies in the park, the | 01:22:41 | |
| Halloween Spectacular, Memorial Day event, Touch of Truck Extravaganza, just to name a few. They also offer the regular | 01:22:47 | |
| programming that we often see in the city. | 01:22:54 | |
| The senior exercise program, the yoga, gymnastics, ballet, Taekwondo, Learn to swim classes, just a name again a few. | 01:23:00 | |
| And they also provide important input, working with our colleagues over in public works and facilities on park input and | 01:23:08 | |
| programming needs in our facilities. | 01:23:13 | |
| So those are the, the, the services that they provide, the important benefits that that are provided to the city. And I mentioned | 01:23:19 | |
| public works and facilities and it's important to mention them, recreation and community services, events programs, park design. | 01:23:26 | |
| But we work with our our colleagues in those divisions or those departments rather that are responsible for both maintaining and | 01:23:33 | |
| repairing both the facilities and the amenities, making sure that the parks look beautiful. So we thank them for that partnership. | 01:23:39 | |
| Lastly, in recognition of July being. | 01:23:47 | |
| Parks and Recreation Month. I just wanted to note a couple of things that the the city is doing that month to help celebrate July | 01:23:50 | |
| 6th. This Saturday is going to be the reopening of the Port Hueneme Historic Museum. We encourage everybody to come out. The | 01:23:56 | |
| address is 220 N Market St. | 01:24:01 | |
| It's been closed for some time and we're excited to have it reopened. We encourage all interested members of the public to come | 01:24:08 | |
| join us, see what the museum looks like today and get familiar with the history of Port Hueneme. July 12th, we're going to have | 01:24:14 | |
| our movie night in July at the beach. It's going to be Finding Nemo. | 01:24:19 | |
| The next day, July 13th, we're going to have a yoga class, a free yoga class at Miranda Park, 9:00 AM. | 01:24:26 | |
| July 20th we're going to do something somewhat unique and have a kite festival at Winami Beach. We encourage everybody bring your | 01:24:32 | |
| favorite kite and if you don't have a kite, we will have kites to hand out to the 1st 50 participants so you don't have to have a | 01:24:39 | |
| kite to participate. We want everybody to come out and have a great time at that event. | 01:24:46 | |
| July 25th, we're going to do something else a little bit unique. Staff is going to give interested residents a tour of our | 01:24:53 | |
| recreation corridor, starting at Bubbling Springs Park, going all the way down to the beach. | 01:24:58 | |
| To point out key points of interest for those that may not be familiar with all of the recreation features that we have. And it'll | 01:25:04 | |
| also be an opportunity for members of the public to speak to staff members to ask questions and learn about the programs, the | 01:25:09 | |
| events that we put on here in Port Hueneme. And then lastly, July 31st, 3:30 PM at the Community Center, we're going to have a | 01:25:15 | |
| popsicle event. The purpose is twofold 1. | 01:25:20 | |
| The Community Center has been under renovation as we've been recuperating from the storms and we just want to say thank you to all | 01:25:27 | |
| of our participants who have been rolling with it as we have gone through the the renovation and repair process of the Community | 01:25:33 | |
| Center. We hope to have that done in mid to late July. So this will be a celebration of that. And we're also inviting our our | 01:25:39 | |
| contractors and instructors to be present at that event so that people can learn about the programs that we offer, ask questions | 01:25:45 | |
| of the instructors. | 01:25:50 | |
| And hopefully drum up even more support than we already have. So just wanted to hit those highlights. And again, thanks the thanks | 01:25:57 | |
| to the the recreation and community services team for all their their hard work. | 01:26:02 | |
| Deputy City manager have a question about kites. Is there any size requirements or limits for kites? | 01:26:08 | |
| I'm going to answer that question by saying more details for the event will be produced and we will put that together. I don't | 01:26:17 | |
| have the answer to that question, but I don't think there's going to be any limits on it. But we're going to put together a flyer | 01:26:21 | |
| and promote the information. So that'll be on social media and we'll distribute that through our regular channels. So if I have an | 01:26:25 | |
| 8 foot octopus, that's OK. | 01:26:30 | |
| I don't foresee a problem with that, but I actually really looking forward to seeing the IT. So you answered a question. I had a | 01:26:35 | |
| resident ask me if we could ever do kites as no, we've never seen kites on the beach, I don't think ever. And they somebody | 01:26:42 | |
| thought that we had a restriction due to the Navy base or having kites. So that answers the question that we do not. | 01:26:48 | |
| We're moving forward with the event on our beach. OK, well, good to know. Thank you. | 01:26:56 | |
| Can I bear just quickly thank and and we have a great recreation and community services team. I think when people are one thing, | 01:27:00 | |
| people may not realize it's actually very small recreation and community services team. And so it's great because I can thank them | 01:27:07 | |
| all by name right now very quickly. And I'm going to do that. But it's also it's a lot of work that that a small group does. And | 01:27:15 | |
| so just as a thank you to Anna, our recreation manager, Taylor, Penny, Jason and Veronica. | 01:27:23 | |
| And did I miss anybody, Charles? I don't think so. I mean, we have a lot of life lifeguards and, you know, thank you to all them. | 01:27:31 | |
| But those are our key people who are putting all these programs together. So just a thank you to all of them for for all that work | 01:27:37 | |
| for a very small group of people. Absolutely. We appreciate our staff and the hard work they do. | 01:27:43 | |
| The final presentation is the Recreation, Education, Arts and Culture in Waimea or better known as REACH Presentation by former | 01:27:50 | |
| Mayor Rich Rollins. | 01:27:55 | |
| Before I get into my presentation, I just want to reiterate what a great recreation and park staff we have. And it's close to my | 01:28:11 | |
| heart because for 35 years that was my profession working in various cities and you have a top notch staff here and they do some | 01:28:17 | |
| great creative things for our community. | 01:28:24 | |
| The other thing, I want to just renumerate what Councilman Hernandez said. I went to that I. | 01:28:32 | |
| Event just recently, the concert, and it warmed my heart. There were like hundreds of people. They had contemporary music. It's | 01:28:41 | |
| just what makes winey me, winey me. | 01:28:46 | |
| So now for the presentation. | 01:28:53 | |
| Approximately 8 years ago, the city of Port Hueneme was in poor financial condition. This is pre cannabis area. | 01:28:56 | |
| The city had to make some major cutbacks to, say, solvent. | 01:29:05 | |
| One such cutback was the elimination of the Senior Holiday Luncheon, which serves traditional meals and fun entertainment to our | 01:29:10 | |
| older American population. We have over 200 people who participate in that. | 01:29:17 | |
| To prevent this, a few of us got together and did a fundraising campaign to save the event. | 01:29:26 | |
| We were so successful that we raised over $10,000. | 01:29:33 | |
| Which was enough to keep the event going for a number two or three years. | 01:29:37 | |
| Fueled by this success. | 01:29:43 | |
| We worked with City Council and staff to develop a permanent nonprofit corporation, which was called Reach Recreation Education, | 01:29:46 | |
| Arts Culture in Waimea. | 01:29:52 | |
| Our goal was to raise money for programs, organizations and events that improve the quality of life within our community. | 01:30:01 | |
| By being nonprofit, we could seek out grants. | 01:30:10 | |
| And tax deductible donations that the city could not. | 01:30:14 | |
| Initially, the bylaws were established to have a board composed of representatives of city staff, the council and various citizen | 01:30:19 | |
| leaders. | 01:30:23 | |
| In the early years we were very successful to raise money for such programs as the Sea Cadets, the fledgling real guppies back | 01:30:29 | |
| then. | 01:30:34 | |
| Elementary school programs beach cleanup. | 01:30:39 | |
| Community brick program, commemorative brick program, and other types of programs. | 01:30:43 | |
| A few years back, the board decided to hire a part-time executive director. | 01:30:50 | |
| The reasoning was. | 01:30:56 | |
| A part A director could provide a more comprehensive fundraising campaign to allow Reach to do even greater things for our | 01:30:59 | |
| community. | 01:31:03 | |
| In addition, Reach agreed to partner with the city to sponsor the Wyoming Beach Recreation of Wyoming Beach Festival. | 01:31:09 | |
| As not only a community celebration, but is also a fundraiser to be able to do more things. | 01:31:19 | |
| These moves were not successful. | 01:31:26 | |
| And they had a reverse effect on our financial stability. | 01:31:29 | |
| Some of our board members chose to resign and we no longer have a paid director. | 01:31:34 | |
| Our current situation. | 01:31:42 | |
| The remaining community members on the board. | 01:31:44 | |
| Took a look at this situation as an opportunity to reinvent reach and make it a truly voluntary community program. | 01:31:48 | |
| We recently had an open house to encourage people to become a part of Reach and it was quite successful. We had probably 10 to 15 | 01:32:00 | |
| people interested. | 01:32:05 | |
| One of our first orders of business now is going to be to improve our financial situation. | 01:32:12 | |
| By conducting fundraisers in the coming year. | 01:32:19 | |
| We are looking to have 4 pickleball tournaments. | 01:32:24 | |
| That will be both run and organized by REACH volunteers. | 01:32:28 | |
| Not only will this fulfill a community needs, but will also raise funds. | 01:32:34 | |
| We are looking to have the city Co sponsor these events and perhaps waive the court fees. | 01:32:40 | |
| We will have competitions for adults, seniors and youth. We hope to raise anywhere between 500 to 2000 per event over the next | 01:32:46 | |
| year, assuming they're successful. | 01:32:53 | |
| The first one is scheduled for August 24th and 5th, Saturday and Sunday. We hope you can all come out for that. | 01:33:00 | |
| In addition, we are working with Ocean View Pavilion to do a fundraising concert as a way to generate funds. | 01:33:11 | |
| Also in the plans are perhaps a fundraising dinner, again to raise fees. | 01:33:22 | |
| Raise money to be able to do things for our community. | 01:33:29 | |
| Recently we received a donation from Apple. | 01:33:33 | |
| To purchase trash picker. | 01:33:37 | |
| Trash picker uppers, I'm not sure exactly what they're called, but they're those little grabbers that you do and they donated $500 | 01:33:41 | |
| to reach so that we could do that. | 01:33:46 | |
| In the future, we hope to partner with the city to conduct basketball leagues for youth and adults. A city beautification project, | 01:33:53 | |
| perhaps decorating the lifeguard towers and the utility boxes with some form of a mural and artwork, getting the kids involved in | 01:33:59 | |
| the development of that artwork. | 01:34:06 | |
| Perhaps expanding the commemorative brick program. It's all sold out, folks. If you want a brick, you can't get a brick right now. | 01:34:14 | |
| You so, but it has been very popular. | 01:34:19 | |
| And finally, perhaps doing a zero scape education program to teach kids and the community how to save water and still have a | 01:34:27 | |
| pretty garden. | 01:34:32 | |
| We are a flexible working group and I emphasize working group. | 01:34:39 | |
| This is a big undertaking. | 01:34:45 | |
| We are raising the bar quite high for ourselves, but that's how good things happen. | 01:34:47 | |
| I would like to introduce at this point in time some of the board members who are currently here. We have your own Councilman, | 01:34:53 | |
| Bobby Martinez. | 01:34:57 | |
| We have Tom Fial. | 01:35:03 | |
| And we have Sharon Claris, who was just recently at the the band concert, and a few others that my senior memory leaves me. But | 01:35:06 | |
| we're hoping to have basically the structure where we have a board and we have a large working group of volunteers as part of it. | 01:35:15 | |
| So I. | 01:35:29 | |
| That's basically about it, if you have any questions. Does Council have any questions for Mr. Rollins? | 01:35:32 | |
| Well, I guess I do OK. | 01:35:43 | |
| So. | 01:35:45 | |
| The event that you're the ticket ball event, are you going to come back for a use permit or go through a process of permission to | 01:35:48 | |
| do that? And that's I think one of the intensive today was to preview some of the programs reach wants to do and then those will | 01:35:56 | |
| be coming back as needed for approvals. So in that case we do have a policy that any reservation of the court has to be for a non | 01:36:04 | |
| profit and then the council approves it. So that will be coming to the council before that. | 01:36:12 | |
| Date, so that will come back to the Council. | 01:36:22 | |
| We're dark in August. | 01:36:26 | |
| Yeah, one of the strategies behind it is because. | 01:36:28 | |
| The courts are so popular. | 01:36:33 | |
| We've gotten a lot of interest from our people throughout the county to run events there. | 01:36:36 | |
| And a group of us have thought that what better way to do is to have the events kind of homegrown? | 01:36:41 | |
| So that the money raised for that will go back into our community. | 01:36:48 | |
| Let me first say that I love the sound of pickleball. | 01:36:55 | |
| I live close to the park and it's probably not many people like you. No, and I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why because I could | 01:36:59 | |
| hear the. | 01:37:04 | |
| The screams of excitement, let's say. | 01:37:10 | |
| And it just, it just makes me feel good to know that so many people are out there recreating and doing positive things. | 01:37:13 | |
| You know, because there was a time where people weren't doing positive things over there and that the park, and I largely credit | 01:37:20 | |
| you, Mr. Rollins, it is bubbling over. You're the first one to bring pickleball to Miranda Park with your insistence. And the | 01:37:28 | |
| amount of people that come there every day, it's just wonderful. And I enjoy it. So I'll be cheering you on. Yeah, I was going to | 01:37:35 | |
| say, like, one of the things that the council discussed earlier was how to bring in positive tourism. | 01:37:43 | |
| And I'm not going to stay for the rest of the Commission meeting. I'm, it's a little personal now because I found out a week ago | 01:38:26 | |
| that my son, one of the people that he manages, is going to be performing at the White House. If you ever see July 4th, they have | 01:38:32 | |
| the music and all that. | 01:38:38 | |
| And he got us tickets to the grandstand to go see the 4th of July. And then afterward we get to go to the White House for a tour | 01:38:44 | |
| and stuff. So, so normally I lasted out, but my wife told me get the heck out of here. So thank you, Mr. Rollins, have a safe | 01:38:50 | |
| trip. You're welcome. | 01:38:55 | |
| We will now move on to the Consent Calendar. We will consider items on the Consent calendar, which will be enacted in one motion | 01:39:02 | |
| unless a council member has a request to remove an item for discussion. Do any council members have a request to remove an item? | 01:39:08 | |
| Seeing none, may I have a? | 01:39:16 | |
| Actually. | 01:39:19 | |
| #8 is there a? So then let's let's approve items. | 01:39:25 | |
| One through 8, one through 7. I have a motion. Oh, sorry. Four through. Yeah, I've moved to approve 4 through 7 second. | 01:39:31 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed. | 01:39:42 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 01:39:46 | |
| My question is, what does it look like? | 01:39:54 | |
| I was just wondering. | 01:39:58 | |
| The scope of it because I know there are some real fancy ones out there, but if you could just. | 01:40:00 | |
| Yes, I think we do have a photo of those, right? Yes, if George, the city clerk will please pull it up. | 01:40:06 | |
| These are the locations. | 01:40:16 | |
| Oh, shoot, OK. Is that what the blue things are? | 01:40:18 | |
| Those are going to be the locations that we've selected for these containers. Those are all bus stops because the funding came | 01:40:22 | |
| through. | 01:40:27 | |
| The. | 01:40:33 | |
| Gold Coast Transit District so we had asked for, applied for, and received funding for these containers to be put at these | 01:40:35 | |
| locations. | 01:40:40 | |
| I don't know if any of you have gone down to downtown Ventura. They have the same types of containers. | 01:40:48 | |
| So basically these are and we brought this a few years ago, we were looking to maybe do something out at the beach. | 01:40:57 | |
| They are. | 01:41:04 | |
| Enclosed. So they're tamper resistant, they're solar powered, they're compact. They're actually solar powered compactors. | 01:41:07 | |
| I have seen them in other cities, larger cities have them now and they're OK. They look like a really fancy trash can, high tech | 01:41:15 | |
| trash can. They are. And they, they also have software so we can collect data from them. We, we have their, they have applications | 01:41:23 | |
| that we can use on a computer or phone, which will theoretically cut down on visits because we can set the limits of when we want | 01:41:30 | |
| to be notified, when they need to be serviced. So rather than having to go to check them all the time. | 01:41:38 | |
| They'll tell us when they need to be checked. | 01:41:46 | |
| And they have the ones we ordered, we actually have the ability to put. | 01:41:50 | |
| Advertisements in them or you can wrap them with with different kinds of art. So there's a lot of different things we can do to | 01:41:57 | |
| promote events or have other types of advertising that might go in there or notifications that we want to get out to the public. | 01:42:05 | |
| For public information, what is the initial purpose? | 01:42:15 | |
| That you would want to put one of these items in. | 01:42:20 | |
| What's the? | 01:42:23 | |
| Well, it, it helps, I mean, a lot of it is we're hoping that it will help with just general cleanliness because some of the trash | 01:42:24 | |
| cans that we have out there now, people dig through them, birds get into them and make some mess. That stuff ends up getting blown | 01:42:32 | |
| by the wind or washed away in the rain and ends up in our storm drains and ends up out on the beach, which the beach cleanups can | 01:42:40 | |
| testify to. So that is the, the main purpose of this is to try and keep something that. | 01:42:48 | |
| Can't be tampered with. | 01:42:56 | |
| And try and keep the locations where they're set to be a cleaner place so they can't be tampered with. And are they heavy so they | 01:42:59 | |
| can't be stolen? Yes they are heavy. And they also can be mounted so you have a concrete pad. We can attach them to the concrete | 01:43:05 | |
| or you can attach them to different locations. They have different ways you can attach them so they're not movable but they are | 01:43:11 | |
| heavy if they weren't. | 01:43:17 | |
| Attached to something. | 01:43:25 | |
| Someone could or a couple of people would be able to do something with them. They're they're not going to be able to get into them | 01:43:27 | |
| unless they really made a great effort to do that. So. | 01:43:32 | |
| So it's like a compactor, right? It, it'll compact it and then it'll notify you when it's time to go. And then how heavy, how much | 01:43:39 | |
| compaction will happen? And what's the, do you have an idea of what the weight is? And I'm just curious because really. | 01:43:47 | |
| Containers right receptacles. | 01:43:55 | |
| Could you repeat that for the recording? Oh, 50 gallon containers, but with the compaction, they're about 150 gallons worth of | 01:44:06 | |
| trash that can be picked into one collection. | 01:44:11 | |
| Nice. Any further? So are these for public use? Yes, so the public can access. | 01:44:17 | |
| You can put stuff in them, you just can't take anything back out once you put it in there. | 01:44:25 | |
| And are they? | 01:44:29 | |
| Or do they take recycle materials? | 01:44:32 | |
| There we're going to have a dual station, so one for trash and one for recycling. | 01:44:37 | |
| Then if I could just make the point that this is a good opportunity and a good. | 01:44:42 | |
| Test project, essentially, because we're able to put these in at the bus stops using the Gold Coast Transit District. | 01:44:49 | |
| TDA funding. So it's just a good opportunity for us to try them out and and we're hearing from other cities that they work and | 01:44:56 | |
| people like them so we're. | 01:45:00 | |
| Trying to start with putting them at our bus stops. | 01:45:06 | |
| Thank you. | 01:45:10 | |
| Any further questions? Can I have a motion to approve item 8? | 01:45:10 | |
| 2nd. | 01:45:15 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed. | 01:45:17 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We have no public hearings tonight. In the next item in the business items and | 01:45:20 | |
| the first one on the list is the smoking and multi multi unit residential buildings survey results and consideration of city | 01:45:26 | |
| regulations. Will staff please present the report? | 01:45:31 | |
| Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council members, members of the public. | 01:45:52 | |
| City staff. | 01:45:55 | |
| Item number 9 is presented in response to the City Council's request to survey property managers and owners regarding potential | 01:45:58 | |
| smoking regulations in multi unit residential buildings. | 01:46:03 | |
| So it's by way of quick background. Last November, the council received some public comments advocating for smoking prohibitions | 01:46:11 | |
| in apartment buildings. | 01:46:15 | |
| Council reviewed a report. | 01:46:20 | |
| Regarding that topic at the subsequent meeting in early December. | 01:46:22 | |
| And as a result of that review in the Council's discussion. | 01:46:27 | |
| Council provided direction to reach out to property owners and managers managers to obtain feedback about the level of support and | 01:46:30 | |
| or concern. | 01:46:34 | |
| Regarding such smoking regulations. | 01:46:39 | |
| Survey was developed and distributed. | 01:46:42 | |
| In February and responses were received by the city through the month of March. | 01:46:45 | |
| More than five dozen commercial properties were contacted. | 01:46:52 | |
| And 31 points of contact. | 01:46:56 | |
| Were established. | 01:46:58 | |
| In total, the city ended up receiving 13 responses. | 01:47:00 | |
| The results indicate that property managers and owners do not receive many smoking related complaints. | 01:47:05 | |
| 7 respondents indicated that they've never had a complaint, while five indicated a frequency of less than once per month. | 01:47:11 | |
| Only one property owner or manager indicated that they received between 1:00 and 4:00 complaints per month. | 01:47:17 | |
| Ten of the 13 respondents indicated that they currently have a smoking policy in place. | 01:47:25 | |
| The survey also sought information about the locations where smoking restrictions might be supported. | 01:47:36 | |
| 12 of the 13 respondents expressed support for prohibiting smoking in individual units. | 01:47:41 | |
| That includes 1 respondent that checked the other box and expressed support for prohibition in all areas. | 01:47:48 | |
| Restrictions in common areas and patios were also topics. | 01:47:55 | |
| That received widespread support from the respondents. | 01:47:59 | |
| The last question focused on policy enforcement. | 01:48:03 | |
| And eight of the respondents. | 01:48:06 | |
| That have smoking prohibitions, I'm sorry, 8 respondents indicated that they have existing smoking prohibitions, five of which | 01:48:08 | |
| indicated that they have established property rules and that is how it's enforced and three indicated that they currently have | 01:48:14 | |
| language in their property lease agreements and that's the enforcement enforcement mechanism that is used. | 01:48:20 | |
| In summary, the survey results indicate support for smoking regulations in multi unit residential buildings. | 01:48:28 | |
| If the city were to consider adopting such regulations. | 01:48:36 | |
| It should consider and give direction to staff regarding the method of enforcement. | 01:48:40 | |
| Keeping in mind costs and expectations for enforcement. | 01:48:44 | |
| As well as educational outreach that the city would need to conduct. | 01:48:47 | |
| As noted in the report and, as I believe discussed last year in the presentations before council, the City of Moorpark's ordinance | 01:48:52 | |
| required property owners to incorporate language regarding the prohibition in their leases. | 01:48:58 | |
| To post signage. | 01:49:04 | |
| And to remove all smoking amenities from common areas. | 01:49:06 | |
| That city assisted the property owners by providing sample language for property leases and assisted with the distribution of | 01:49:10 | |
| educational information. | 01:49:14 | |
| So in summary, the recommendation is for the Council to receive and review the information in the staff report. | 01:49:22 | |
| To consider public input received and provide appropriate direction to staff. | 01:49:29 | |
| Thank you. Mr. Pretz, does Council have any questions for staff at this time? | 01:49:34 | |
| In early in your survey you said that a number of respondents said they do have a smoking policy. So are we to interpret that mean | 01:49:42 | |
| that they don't allow smoking inside the the rooms or? | 01:49:49 | |
| Could it be that they allow smoking on balconies or in common areas or? | 01:49:56 | |
| Yeah, there's. | 01:50:03 | |
| They have a smoking policy. The degree to which the prohibition applies will vary from property to property. | 01:50:04 | |
| Some may disallow it just in individual units and may also extend that to common areas and balcony areas. So there's not A1 size | 01:50:10 | |
| fits all. It's just that there is an existence of a prohibition of some kind. | 01:50:17 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Perez for your report and the survey. I can see a lot of work went into this. I got my question answered about. | 01:50:29 | |
| The cannabis businesses and the vaping businesses as to whether or not they were contacted. My concern there is just if we do. | 01:50:38 | |
| Request stronger language and set up enforcement procedures on the City side. My concern is what this could do to the cannabis | 01:50:48 | |
| economy and the and the vape shops. | 01:50:54 | |
| Just. | 01:51:02 | |
| Just wondering, I don't know if we're there yet. | 01:51:03 | |
| It depends I guess what action we take on this, but it seems to me that we have HOA's who are enforcing or have have a policy. | 01:51:07 | |
| Most there are a number of them that have policies in place and they're enforcing them themselves, so why would the city? | 01:51:18 | |
| Go further than that the. | 01:51:26 | |
| There's already. | 01:51:29 | |
| The choice already doing their own thing. | 01:51:30 | |
| Well, the city. | 01:51:35 | |
| Doesn't have to go further than that. We have the option of going further than that and I think that. | 01:51:39 | |
| Typically. | 01:51:46 | |
| The discussion involves. | 01:51:49 | |
| The sometimes the property owners. | 01:51:53 | |
| Ask for cities to. | 01:51:56 | |
| Put rules in place to give their rules more teeth and so that they have, you know, the backing of the city. | 01:51:59 | |
| In enforcing. | 01:52:06 | |
| Because sometimes just like us, the property owners struggle to get compliance with all of their rules and, and those types of | 01:52:08 | |
| things. So I think that's probably what was reflected in most of the comments. I think we did have one comment from somebody | 01:52:14 | |
| opposing the idea is sort of just said don't tell people what to do in their houses, basically. But most of the comments that we | 01:52:20 | |
| had were along the lines of saying, you know, we, we tried to do this and we try to enforce it, but it's a challenge. So I'd | 01:52:27 | |
| appreciate, you know, that extra. | 01:52:33 | |
| Level, I think the caveat that I have been upfront with and told everybody is that. | 01:52:41 | |
| We don't have the resources to really enforce this aggressively and so. | 01:52:49 | |
| We, you know, just to give people an idea of if the city were to have to go through a process and get a warrant and go into | 01:52:56 | |
| somebody's house and, and enforce something like this, you're talking thousands and thousands of dollars. So it's not something | 01:53:01 | |
| that we would typically enforce, but what we've heard and what we've seen in other cities is. | 01:53:07 | |
| They adopt these things to give those, those property owners who want to enforce it an extra level of, of support there. And we | 01:53:14 | |
| did reach out to Moorpark because Moorpark was cited as the the example city when when this was first brought to the council and | 01:53:21 | |
| we did reach out and that is essentially what Moorpark is done. So. | 01:53:28 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem, do you have a question? | 01:53:37 | |
| So are there any other cities in the county? | 01:53:41 | |
| Only more park. | 01:53:48 | |
| Yeah. And so Moorpark adopted it I think four or five years ago. | 01:53:50 | |
| No, I think John was letting us know that. I think Calabasas might have one as well. But but. | 01:53:57 | |
| And they did assist with the educational campaign and created a flyer so that everybody could understand what the new ordinance. | 01:54:34 | |
| Was about. | 01:54:40 | |
| Thing that they shouldn't be doing so. | 01:55:13 | |
| A couple more questions, So. | 01:55:16 | |
| So we had a survey. | 01:55:20 | |
| Based on the report, it says there were 63 properties. | 01:55:23 | |
| Identified. | 01:55:28 | |
| It said 31 provided. | 01:55:29 | |
| Points of contact information. | 01:55:33 | |
| Our report is based on 13 responses. | 01:55:36 | |
| Just want to make sure those are correct numbers. | 01:55:40 | |
| And so. | 01:55:43 | |
| Do we believe 13 responses is enough? | 01:55:45 | |
| To really understand it. | 01:55:48 | |
| Or how people feel. | 01:55:51 | |
| I think that's a fair question for the Council to consider. | 01:55:53 | |
| So we don't have any idea how successful more parks program is really in deterring smoking I guess at this point. | 01:55:59 | |
| Yeah, I think, I think it's sort of like what, what's the goal? What are you trying to accomplish? And I think for them talking to | 01:56:08 | |
| some of their leadership there the. | 01:56:13 | |
| You know, they wanted to do the educational piece. They wanted to help those property owners enforce, give them the extra | 01:56:19 | |
| enforcement tools. So I think they look at that as successful. But if you're measuring it by, you know, has the city gone out and | 01:56:26 | |
| stopped this from happening? I don't, I don't think. | 01:56:33 | |
| That's how, I don't think that's how they've measured it. So I don't know if I can mention it, but one of the public comments that | 01:56:40 | |
| we received had some really interesting information, three different levels of enforcement. I don't know if everyone had a chance | 01:56:45 | |
| to look at it. | 01:56:49 | |
| We were emailed. | 01:56:55 | |
| We have none here. | 01:56:57 | |
| But yes, I was gonna ask if we have any public comments here but. | 01:56:59 | |
| That would be something that maybe Joan could take a look at to see if any of those things are. | 01:57:02 | |
| And Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments on this item? | 01:57:09 | |
| We do. Did you want me to start with the written or in person? Whatever your heart desires. OK, I'll start with the in person | 01:57:12 | |
| Javier Garnica. | 01:57:17 | |
| Good evening, council members, members of the public. | 01:57:28 | |
| There's people who do not smoke. | 01:58:05 | |
| Passing the smoke free ordinance would benefit not just tenants, but property owners as well. As you know, the results of the | 01:58:08 | |
| survey the city conducted shows that there is great support for for a smoke free ordinance. | 01:58:14 | |
| Some already prohibit smoking in their complexes, and others will welcome an ordinance to help maintain their property smoke free. | 01:58:20 | |
| We know that enforcing such an ordinance might be a challenge, but we believe that following an educational approach to | 01:58:26 | |
| enforcement may reduce costs and be more proactive in helping smokers quit as well as educate residents. | 01:58:31 | |
| On the dangers of second enter-hand smoke. | 01:58:37 | |
| The City of Carpet area is currently in the process of passing a smoke free ordinance where they will be using an educational | 01:58:40 | |
| approach to their enforcement. Carpenter's ordinance can serve as a model that power enemy can use to draft theirs. I, I actually | 01:58:46 | |
| forgot to print out the, the, the model ordinance so that I could share with you all, but I'll make sure to e-mail that to, to all | 01:58:52 | |
| of you. And they had a similar concern about the enforcement as well. So I, I think using them as a model as well will will help | 01:58:58 | |
| you out a lot. | 01:59:04 | |
| But yeah, we should not hesitate to act to protect the health of our community, our loved ones and the most vulnerable. Thank you. | 01:59:12 | |
| Ernesto J Carrillo. | 01:59:21 | |
| An estimated 2 out of every five children are exposed to 2nd and secondhand smoke in the United States. Second and third hand | 02:00:03 | |
| smoke is in multi unit housing disproportionately affects the Latin and low and low income communities and their families who make | 02:00:10 | |
| up the majority of occupants living in multi unit housing. I want to stress I want to stress that smoke free ordinance benefits | 02:00:17 | |
| not only community members health but also property owners. A recent study found that causing properties that allow smoking. | 02:00:25 | |
| Everywhere we're nearly double the amount related costing incurred at smoking smoking properties. An estimated 7 and 7600 smoke | 02:00:33 | |
| smoking related fires occurred in residential buildings each in the United States, States and statewide. Surveys also demonstrate | 02:00:41 | |
| that as many as 78% of residents, including smokers, will will choose to live in smoke free complex. Your survey as properties | 02:00:49 | |
| owners mirrors these statistics. From what I read, most property owners already have smoke free policies. | 02:00:58 | |
| And others will welcome such policies to support them and maintain smoke free policy properties. | 02:01:07 | |
| I believe the solution is simple, we should act the best interest in our residents by ensuring the safely of our community | 02:01:12 | |
| children and most vulnerable for second and third hand smoke. Nobody should have to sacrifice their health for affordable housing. | 02:01:18 | |
| Thank you so much for your time. | 02:01:23 | |
| Jose Martin. | 02:01:30 | |
| Are exposed to second and third hand smoke. Despite the tremendous progress the US has made an eliminating second hand smoke in | 02:02:13 | |
| workplaces and public places, much progress remains to be achieved in protecting everyone's right to breathe smoke free air at | 02:02:19 | |
| home. Currently, the city of Carpentaria in the neighboring county is working towards passing a similar policy due to the hard | 02:02:24 | |
| work of our youth. | 02:02:30 | |
| If passing a policy like this is possible in a more affluent city like Carpenter, why not here? | 02:02:38 | |
| So I understand that you were talking about enforcing policies so the city can rely on nonprofits that can do the education aspect | 02:02:45 | |
| of enforcement. So let's take action now to ensure the safety of the residents of Port Hueneme and ensure the community remains | 02:02:52 | |
| smoke free. Thank you. | 02:02:58 | |
| That concludes in person public comment. I will start with a written comment. Good afternoon City Council members. My name is | 02:03:08 | |
| Danielle Gonzalez and I am the organizing director of Future Leaders of America. Thank you for adding smoke free multi unit | 02:03:14 | |
| housing to tonight's agenda as well as conducting a property survey on the topic and considering potential options for prohibiting | 02:03:20 | |
| smoking in multi unit housing. We hope that tonight you will take action to address this issue that affects current and future | 02:03:26 | |
| renters, including children. | 02:03:32 | |
| A recent study found that costs in properties that allow smoking everywhere were nearly double that of smoking related costs | 02:04:09 | |
| incurred at smoke free properties. | 02:04:13 | |
| Nobody should have to sacrifice their health for affordable housing. Respectfully submitted Daniel Gonzalez. | 02:04:55 | |
| And then the following written comments were received but will not be read in their entirety since they were submitted directly to | 02:05:04 | |
| council and have been made available to the public on the website and copies are included with the agenda packet in the back. | 02:05:10 | |
| Has an adequate phase in period, contains no requirements for no smoking science, and provides liability protection for landlords | 02:05:50 | |
| if tenants or their guests smoke in a unit. | 02:05:55 | |
| And that concludes public. | 02:06:01 | |
| Thank you. | 02:06:03 | |
| So the recommendation is to receive the data from the survey pertaining to potential smoking prohibitions in multi unit housing | 02:06:06 | |
| and provide direction regarding further future actions. Does Council have any further discussion on this item? | 02:06:13 | |
| Excuse me? | 02:06:21 | |
| Appreciate. | 02:06:23 | |
| Your tenacity, future leaders of America. | 02:06:24 | |
| We've been engaged with you now for six years and I really admire the passion and the worker to bring into this. I think I said | 02:06:28 | |
| this the very first time we interacted here in a council meeting when I was eight years old. I had my tonsils out, I was in the | 02:06:34 | |
| hospital and people were smoking from their hospital beds. | 02:06:40 | |
| When I was in high school, football coach would be smoking a cigarette on the sideline while we're playing football. This is | 02:06:47 | |
| probably unbelievable to you, but when we would go to class, some teachers would be out in front of their classroom door smoking | 02:06:54 | |
| two or three cigarettes in that 5 minute break. Believe it, it's true. So focusing on the positive. | 02:07:01 | |
| Because of your efforts, we've made strong gains and. | 02:07:09 | |
| I mean, there, there used to be cigarettes everywhere. And so the government started taxing them to address some of the health | 02:07:15 | |
| issues and then the usage is going down. So my point is that I think that through education. | 02:07:22 | |
| There's a family harassed me, but through education I think we could. | 02:07:29 | |
| We could appeal to the common sense and the courtesy of people Now. | 02:07:35 | |
| When I lived at Beachport Villas, I had a neighbor that the wife and the husband smoked inside their house, probably 2 packs a day | 02:07:40 | |
| between the two of them. And the smoke was coming into my house. It was horrible. And so having an ordinance is great, but if | 02:07:47 | |
| you're living next to somebody like I did, and I'm constantly, I had to put plastic in the vent. I had to try to stop it, right? | 02:07:54 | |
| And it was, it was horrible, so I understand. | 02:08:02 | |
| What what what this is coming, but if we. | 02:08:10 | |
| I believe that we could appeal to the. | 02:08:13 | |
| Common decency of most people, and most people would respond and I would. I don't know. We don't have an action on this tonight, | 02:08:16 | |
| so we're not going to take action tonight. | 02:08:21 | |
| But anything that we would do, I would like to see heavy-handed on education and. | 02:08:27 | |
| Enforcement, we would have to. We have, this is not going to sound right, but you know, the police have a very difficult job in | 02:08:36 | |
| policing our community. | 02:08:42 | |
| And I don't think it would be a good use of their time to be enforcing this. So that that's the problem is like, how do we enforce | 02:08:49 | |
| it? But I do believe the efforts that you're doing are really good. And I would continue to to do those efforts. And perhaps that | 02:08:55 | |
| we could look at this as a as a not to eradicate inside smoking, but to bring information and education to people who may not | 02:09:02 | |
| realize how much. | 02:09:08 | |
| Correct. | 02:09:47 | |
| Yes, Councilmember Martinez. | 02:09:49 | |
| We'll get to that. Thank you, Mayor Perez. In response to Councilmember Gamma's comment. I I agree and I think an ordinance would | 02:09:53 | |
| support our local residents and the businesses the the multi unit housing and for them to enforce it. And that being said, I like | 02:10:01 | |
| to recommend that the council direct staff to draft an ordinance to prohibit smoking and multi unit resident residencies similar | 02:10:10 | |
| to that of Moorpark and maybe even do a little bit more research and come back with the ordinance for us. | 02:10:18 | |
| Do we need a second on that? | 02:10:30 | |
| I will second it. | 02:10:32 | |
| Yeah, so. | 02:10:41 | |
| So yes, no, I think there's a lot of work to do. | 02:10:45 | |
| Smart enough about. | 02:10:49 | |
| Just yet. And so I would, I would like to I don't know if I'm asking for an ordinance, but I would like some additional | 02:10:51 | |
| information on what might be the options that we can take here in Port Hueneme that we could actually. | 02:10:59 | |
| In. | 02:11:09 | |
| Either enforce or at least have a clear idea about. | 02:11:10 | |
| About what are some of the things we can do? And then let us come up with what it is that we think is the right thing. | 02:11:16 | |
| And then allow them to go get it right an ordinance around that rather than right one now without. | 02:11:23 | |
| Having that dialogue. | 02:11:27 | |
| Is there any support for that so? | 02:11:31 | |
| Go ahead. | 02:11:34 | |
| Yeah, I can, I can support it. I I just feel like we don't have enough information right now. I mean, I like all the public | 02:11:35 | |
| comments that were submitted. That helps a great deal in pointing out the problem. But the solution, I don't even know if the | 02:11:43 | |
| solution is in, in the Moorpark example. I'd like to see what we already have in place and then how it might be modified to. | 02:11:51 | |
| To provide better. | 02:12:01 | |
| I don't want to say enforcement, but to educate, yeah, better guidance on. | 02:12:03 | |
| How people can reduce the impact of their smoking on their neighbors. | 02:12:11 | |
| So I agree with that as well. I'm not ready to create an ordinance, but there was some, as I mentioned earlier, there was some | 02:12:15 | |
| information. | 02:12:18 | |
| Given in a public comment that we should look at that three options of. | 02:12:21 | |
| Support or enforcement types that I would like to consider and look at. | 02:12:26 | |
| And then take a look at the Carpinteria ordinance. I would like to know what they're doing and how that could possibly help us or | 02:12:33 | |
| and then compare it with more parks and see where we can find something that works for our community. I have a point of order. So | 02:12:40 | |
| we have a motion in a second. And is that applicable to what the discussion is taken? | 02:12:46 | |
| I'd like to offer an alternate motion, so I move that the staff. | 02:12:52 | |
| Go back, provide us some options. | 02:13:03 | |
| And allow us to look through what those possibilities are before we move forward with an ordinance and take a look at the | 02:13:07 | |
| Carpinteria. And let me keep adding. Now we know more Park has an ordinance and we hear that Carpenteria is working on one. | 02:13:16 | |
| But I'd also like to know if any of the Ventura County cities have moved forward and hit any hiccup to where they could not move | 02:13:25 | |
| forward or they had. So I want to know, you know, as much as we can. Do we have a second for this? | 02:13:33 | |
| I'll 2nd. | 02:13:40 | |
| Are we clear on the motion? | 02:13:43 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 02:13:44 | |
| Yes, and return. Return with more analysis and more options and explanation of potential issues rather than just an ordinance. | 02:13:47 | |
| OK, I will do a roll call vote. | 02:13:58 | |
| So, Councilmember Martinez. | 02:14:01 | |
| I thought we could have done it now, you know, but I think that this is a good it's in a positive direction. So just so you guys | 02:14:08 | |
| know, my my vote is yes. | 02:14:13 | |
| Council member comma. | 02:14:18 | |
| Yes, Councilmember Hernandez. | 02:14:21 | |
| Yes, Mayor Perry McQueen, Legend and Mayor Perez. Yes, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 02:14:23 | |
| If you guys want to share that Carpinteria information with us, and I know you have my e-mail so you can share that with us and | 02:14:32 | |
| then we'll let you know when it's coming back. | 02:14:35 | |
| Thank you. | 02:14:40 | |
| The next item is the adoption of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme, CA, revising the City's outdoor | 02:14:42 | |
| flagpole display policy to include flying the POW Mia flag on specified dates. | 02:14:49 | |
| And our deputy city manager giving that report. | 02:14:58 | |
| Oh, got it. OK, perfect. That report. Thank you, Miss Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem, council members, I. | 02:15:03 | |
| Staff and audience when we were here. On May 6, 2024, the City Council approved a resolution establishing an outdoor flagpole | 02:15:10 | |
| policy. | 02:15:15 | |
| The policy outlines a procedure for this council to review requests to display commemorative flags below the city flag. | 02:15:22 | |
| On the city owned flagpoles so during the request. | 02:15:31 | |
| For future agenda items at that meeting, the May 6 meeting, Mayor Perez made a motion for a future consideration of flying the POW | 02:15:38 | |
| Am IA flag and that motion was seconded by Council Member Hernandez and approved by a four to zero vote. | 02:15:46 | |
| So according to the city's policy, city flagpoles are designated as a platform for government speech and they are not a public | 02:15:55 | |
| forum. The policy requires the City Council approval in order to display member to flags. You know that you already display the | 02:16:04 | |
| the Pride flag during the month of June. And this would be for the MIAPOW flag to be flown on five specific dates. And that is | 02:16:14 | |
| Armed Forces Day, which is the third Saturday in May, Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, Independence Day, which is July 4. | 02:16:23 | |
| The National POW MI a recognition day which is the third Friday of September and also veteran's day November 11th. | 02:16:33 | |
| We brought this to you. | 02:16:43 | |
| Particularly because of the significance of the base and our relations with the with the military, We are also members on the | 02:16:46 | |
| Regional Defense Partnership and the Association of Defense Communities. So based upon the important role that the base plays and | 02:16:55 | |
| in our community and to honor those held in captivity as well as those that are that remain missing. | 02:17:03 | |
| The City Council may wish to consider amending its policy outdoor flag policy. | 02:17:13 | |
| To allow the POWMIA flag to be flown at City Hall. | 02:17:19 | |
| Thank you. Does Council have any questions for our city attorney? | 02:17:23 | |
| I have one question. | 02:17:28 | |
| Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Attorney, Mr. Attorney for Jones, my Joan for your report was well done. I do have a | 02:17:30 | |
| question as far as the dates that are being proposed here, the the holidays or the days, where did these come from? Did we consult | 02:17:38 | |
| with maybe Tom Viola or somebody from the Navy base? Yes, and I believe, I believe it was specifically with the VFW that we | 02:17:46 | |
| consulted and those were the suggested dates. I just wanted to make sure we did that. Thank you. | 02:17:54 | |
| Perfect, Councilmember Gama. | 02:18:03 | |
| Did I hear that our policy is not current with our current actions? Well, the existing policy is was simply to allow for the pride | 02:18:06 | |
| flag to be flown for any other commemorative flag that the Council may wish to. | 02:18:14 | |
| Fly the policy requires that that come to the Council and then you'd be amending that resolution. | 02:18:23 | |
| OK. | 02:18:31 | |
| Thank you anyone else. | 02:18:32 | |
| Actually was looking at the there was actually an additional day. | 02:18:41 | |
| I can't remember what that is right now so I just wanted to make sure if there is another day if we have a complete list. | 02:18:45 | |
| Life goes on there. | 02:19:00 | |
| I think that was the complete list. | 02:19:05 | |
| Yeah. | 02:19:10 | |
| I would just like to add that I was in Santa Paula for their Citrus Music festival and they had a POW flag flying on a pole next | 02:19:13 | |
| to the American in California flag. | 02:19:18 | |
| OK. | 02:19:27 | |
| Are there any public comments regarding this item? We have one right in public comment. Dear Port Wanami City Council members, my | 02:19:28 | |
| name is Jasmine Duran and I'm representing Autism Society Ventura County's advocacy committee. Our committee would like to thank | 02:19:35 | |
| you for bringing back the addition of the POWMIA flight policy after adding the pride flag into your flag policy last month. | 02:19:42 | |
| And that includes public comment. | 02:20:31 | |
| All right, thank you. The recommendation is to consider whether to adopt A resolution entitled Resolution of the City Council of | 02:20:32 | |
| the City, Port Hueneme, CA revising the city's outdoor flagpole display policy to include flying the PLW Mia flag on specified | 02:20:38 | |
| dates. Do I have a motion and a second I move approval? | 02:20:44 | |
| 2nd, 2nd. | 02:20:51 | |
| No further discussion. | 02:20:52 | |
| Not seeing it. | 02:20:55 | |
| We're flying the American flag, right? And California flag. Yeah. OK, OK, then. We're good. We're good. | 02:20:57 | |
| All those in favor, aye. All those opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 02:21:06 | |
| The next item is the Surfside Dr. improvements, including pilot program for rubberized raised meridians at the intersection of | 02:21:15 | |
| Surfside Drive and Market Street. | 02:21:20 | |
| We have our engineer, Charles Cable, to present the report. | 02:21:26 | |
| Good evening, Mayor. | 02:21:39 | |
| Mayor, Mayor Perez, Mayor Pro Tem, council members, staff and members of the public. | 02:21:40 | |
| For the record, my name is Charles Cable, Principal Engineer of the City of Fort Wayne Public Works Department. Today I'm | 02:21:45 | |
| presenting a recommendation to the Council to approve the installation of a pilot program for placing painted and rubberized | 02:21:51 | |
| raised medians at the Surf Site and Market Street intersection and along Surfside Drive. | 02:21:57 | |
| This program aims to reduce reckless driving maneuvers like Donuts along Surfside Drive and increase traffic calming. The city has | 02:22:03 | |
| received numerous complaints from residents along Surfside Drive about Donuts in the area. | 02:22:09 | |
| City staff has made efforts to address these issues, such as increasing traffic enforcement. | 02:22:16 | |
| However, we realize additional efforts are needed. | 02:22:22 | |
| Public Works staff consulted with the traffic engineer to provide recommendations to address the complaints. | 02:22:26 | |
| Traffic Engineer provided several recommendations, of which a painted and raised River Eyes median was selected as the most | 02:22:31 | |
| affected. | 02:22:34 | |
| And appropriate. | 02:22:38 | |
| The installation of the raised medians would be a temporary solution to evaluate its effectiveness over a period of time. | 02:22:40 | |
| The duration of the pilot program would be 12 months, with regular assessments and potential adjustments based on the observed | 02:22:47 | |
| outcomes and community feedback. | 02:22:51 | |
| The pilot program will require an initial investment for the design and construction of raised medians. | 02:22:55 | |
| Funding can be allocated from the city's Gas Tax Fund. The Public Works Department's also investigating potential funding for this | 02:23:01 | |
| and other traffic calming projects from the Southern California Association of Governments SCAG Quick Build program. | 02:23:08 | |
| The estimated cost for the pilot project is $10,000. | 02:23:16 | |
| However, this However, at this time staff recommends that City Council authorized staff to utilize and not to exceed $25,000. | 02:23:19 | |
| From the city, the city speed cushion account. | 02:23:27 | |
| As funding is available in that location, the additional funding would be available if any changes are needed during the pilot | 02:23:32 | |
| program. | 02:23:35 | |
| In addition to the raised curve medians, we will be adding a rectangular rapid flashing beacon at the crosswalk on Surfside to | 02:23:39 | |
| increase pedestrian safety. | 02:23:43 | |
| That completes the report. | 02:23:48 | |
| Thank you. Any Council comments, Mr. Gama, I have a question. So is that? | 02:23:50 | |
| Depiction of what it's going to look like there. Yeah. So this was included in the council packet, but we have a blow up on the | 02:23:57 | |
| next page of what it's going to look like. More detail. | 02:24:02 | |
| That actually is a blow up of the intersection. | 02:24:14 | |
| And the design is that way so that during the dredging operation, large vehicles can get into the promenade. And so that is what | 02:24:17 | |
| it's going to look like. We have a specification sheet that shows. | 02:24:22 | |
| The rubberized medians you can go to the next page. | 02:24:29 | |
| That's it. That's what it's gonna look like. | 02:24:37 | |
| So I'm I'm having a little difficulty seeing the wisdom behind. | 02:24:39 | |
| The previous slide. | 02:24:45 | |
| I mean, it's still, I could see the the doughnut right there. | 02:24:53 | |
| So. So are these black marks raised medium? Is that what you're talking about? Yes, that's what they are. | 02:24:58 | |
| And so. | 02:25:04 | |
| I can see it a little better now, but I'm I guess I can. | 02:25:09 | |
| Just trying to understand how. | 02:25:12 | |
| If a driver is not satisfied with the donut area, is he or she going to just move to the left and spin out in the areas where | 02:25:16 | |
| there is no cushion? | 02:25:22 | |
| Or. | 02:25:29 | |
| Is the driver going to go to parking lot B or C? | 02:25:31 | |
| So I'm just I'm just trying to understand. I just I don't get it. | 02:25:35 | |
| So so. | 02:25:40 | |
| These. | 02:25:42 | |
| Non existing there to clarify that these are proposed and it's a pilot program. So we would put this in this area because this is | 02:25:43 | |
| where we're getting the most complaints. | 02:25:47 | |
| And we would extend this down serve side drive if we feel like this option is working for us. | 02:25:52 | |
| So the. | 02:26:00 | |
| Configuration there. The intent is they won't be able to do the doughnut, hopefully because if the median blocks them from going | 02:26:02 | |
| over. | 02:26:07 | |
| There's going to be a rubber bump where they won't be able to go over that median. Those little dashes are the cushion, those | 02:26:14 | |
| little dashes are the cushions, and then on the. So they're typically in the median going down the street, but as you can see, | 02:26:20 | |
| there's two areas there because that area might have still been wide enough where they could go into that little. | 02:26:26 | |
| Cul-de-sac for lack of a better word, and do the loop, but those those bumps will be added to prevent them from being able to do | 02:26:33 | |
| that. So could you just extend? | 02:26:37 | |
| The cushions rather than like. | 02:26:43 | |
| I don't know. | 02:26:48 | |
| I don't I don't understand the. | 02:26:49 | |
| The curvy part I can't show you with my finger. So I think what he's asking is that the number one and two arrows are yes, yes. So | 02:26:51 | |
| the intent there is so that they don't go in. They don't go in and close to the curb and do the Donuts still. So there's going to | 02:26:59 | |
| be some bumps there to prevent them from doing that because it's a wide area, because that that area is the one wide area. The | 02:27:06 | |
| rest of the street, it's not wide enough shouldn't be wide enough for them to be able to do the doughnut still without. | 02:27:14 | |
| Potentially running into one of the bumps. | 02:27:21 | |
| Right. And then let's say this is effective at stopping it here, then where do they go from here? There's always the possibility | 02:27:23 | |
| that you fix it in one location and and they find another. And I think we've been pretty successful right now where it seems like | 02:27:30 | |
| this is the area where they are congregating. So we're trying to address that and but that's part of the whole idea with. | 02:27:37 | |
| Doing it as a pilot project and we will report back if we see that it creates a bigger problem somewhere else. | 02:27:45 | |
| Correct. And I just want to point out that these are adjustable. So we bolt these down to the ground similar to our speed | 02:27:52 | |
| cushions, so we can move these out or in as we evaluate the program. | 02:27:57 | |
| And and then let's just be honest. I mean, we can't control everybody's behavior. I mean, I've seen them do Donuts in front of the | 02:28:03 | |
| port late at night. You've said some of the parking, you know, areas in the beach. But I guess this is a step forward. But I think | 02:28:09 | |
| the other question he had was or I have at least. | 02:28:15 | |
| Which ones are the are you going to utilize? The zipper zeros? The zebras? The zebra zeros? | 02:28:21 | |
| The the The Zebra planters turn it into an art project. | 02:28:29 | |
| Do you know? Because I'm assuming those things. | 02:28:34 | |
| Those are two different ones that are going to be used, but I don't know if I, if I was, if it was clear to me which ones we were | 02:28:37 | |
| gonna use. I, I like the zipper zeros, you know, but that's my opinion. All the public works team knows I hate Zebra Dillos. I had | 02:28:44 | |
| a bad experience with them at a priority. So, so they've recommended the, what is it the bus curb? It's the, it's the same | 02:28:52 | |
| manufacturer that does our, our speed cushions. It's a, it's a, it's not an abrupt stop like the Zyklas. | 02:28:59 | |
| The Z clothes are recommended in the in the memo that the traffic engineer prepared. | 02:29:07 | |
| But those are made in Europe and like I said, they're more abrupt, so if somebody hits it hard or a cyclist. | 02:29:11 | |
| Yeah, or a cyclist could get injured. | 02:29:19 | |
| So real quick, so we're not going with the zippers, we're not going with those. We're going with the bustling ones on the on the | 02:29:23 | |
| third sheet there. Can you Scroll down and so we can take a look at that? | 02:29:29 | |
| Georgiana, can you Scroll down? | 02:29:37 | |
| They're the last attachment on the. | 02:29:40 | |
| On the handout. So it looks like you're gonna put like 30 or 40 of them, maybe even more 37. Yeah, that's gonna be, that's not | 02:29:42 | |
| gonna be good for them. | 02:29:46 | |
| They try to roll over that. | 02:29:50 | |
| So this is what they look like. | 02:29:54 | |
| Yeah, that's an installation. | 02:30:01 | |
| Picture. | 02:30:03 | |
| I think something is needed. I just want. | 02:30:07 | |
| To make to hope that whatever we we do is. | 02:30:10 | |
| Can stand the test of time. | 02:30:15 | |
| I I just have a feeling these enterprising. | 02:30:20 | |
| Future NASCAR wannabe drivers, I don't know, might see this as another opportunity to do something silly. Well, one problem at a | 02:30:23 | |
| time, right? I would say we can't fix the world. We can only do one little thing at a time. I think the just the comment about | 02:30:31 | |
| standing the test of time, I think these are literally intended to be a test project, you know, So it's actually, if this works, | 02:30:38 | |
| then we can come back and talk about like permanent improvements that can have that same impact. | 02:30:45 | |
| And so, so these really are a pilot project. | 02:30:53 | |
| So any further questions? | 02:30:57 | |
| Do we have any public comments on this item? | 02:31:00 | |
| No public comments. | 02:31:03 | |
| Right. So the recommendation is to consider. | 02:31:04 | |
| Oops, wrong page. | 02:31:08 | |
| To receive information on city efforts to address concerns related to Surfside Drive and improve the installation of a pilot | 02:31:11 | |
| program for placing painted and rubberized raised mediums. Do we have a motion and a second? I'd like to make the motion and to | 02:31:18 | |
| make sure that they're not the zebra type. Yeah. The the rubber form bus lane curve. I second that. That was your recommendation, | 02:31:24 | |
| Right. So I second that recommendation, Madam Clerk. | 02:31:31 | |
| All in favor, aye. All opposed Hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. | 02:31:38 | |
| The final item for this section is the measure you recommendation to provide graffiti removal kits. | 02:31:47 | |
| Yeah, I'll keep this pretty brief. | 02:31:54 | |
| We we've been working with our transaction use tax and citizen oversight committee, the Measure You committee. We've been working | 02:31:59 | |
| with the committee this proactively in the last six months to really work with each other to identify needs in the budget that | 02:32:07 | |
| fall in line with the goals of the Measure You funding and what we committed to use Measure You funding for. | 02:32:15 | |
| And in the the most recent Measure You committee meeting, we went through a bunch of the proposed projects. And at that point, | 02:32:23 | |
| that same week we had, it was a bad week as far as graffiti goes. That was the week people may remember where Bubbling Springs | 02:32:31 | |
| Park got hit like four or five times in in one week with pretty large graffiti. | 02:32:38 | |
| And so it was on everybody's mind. And so the measure you committee had had wanted to talk about some ideas that of things we can | 02:32:47 | |
| do to to kind of stay focused on graffiti and improving. | 02:32:53 | |
| Issues related to graffiti. | 02:33:01 | |
| And so when we were talking about it, I think the consensus was on public property, the city is actually pretty responsive and we | 02:33:04 | |
| tend to get out there quick and take care of it before to, you know, just kind of send the message that that we don't allow | 02:33:12 | |
| graffiti in our community. But we talked, we started to talk about the issues related to private property and. | 02:33:20 | |
| Just comments about, you know, that the challenge tends to be when they get somebody's private property and then the city can't go | 02:33:29 | |
| on their property and take care of the graffiti on the private property. | 02:33:34 | |
| And so the committee had asked for some, you know, is there anything we could do related to graffiti on private property? | 02:33:40 | |
| And so we talked a little bit about one thing that a few cities have implemented and is that a positive reaction is to provide a | 02:33:47 | |
| number of graffiti removal kits which are just essentially buckets with. | 02:33:54 | |
| You know, glasses? Protective eyeglasses. | 02:34:02 | |
| Brushes and in the graffiti remover. | 02:34:06 | |
| Spray our chemical solvent, yeah. And so we talked about that and the the committee was interested in in trying that out and | 02:34:12 | |
| providing some of the those to residents so that. | 02:34:18 | |
| If somebody gets graffiti on their private property, that at least they have some tools to be able to take care of it and so as | 02:34:24 | |
| part of that in this year's budget. | 02:34:29 | |
| We. | 02:34:34 | |
| Recommended earmarking about. | 02:34:36 | |
| $2500 which would be enough to order about 100 kits to start. And so we are recommending that we move forward with that the. | 02:34:39 | |
| Uh, kits are about $50, I'm sorry, $25 each and there's two different kinds of kits for different surface types. So we're | 02:34:52 | |
| recommending just starting with ordering half and half in each and providing those and making them available while supplies last. | 02:34:59 | |
| We would publicize that they're available. The kids would be branded with Port Hueneme logos and things like that. We'd publicize | 02:35:06 | |
| that they were available to the community and then. | 02:35:13 | |
| We'd expect to, when we provide them, just have an acknowledgement signed that, you know, clarifies that the city is not | 02:35:22 | |
| responsible for, you know, for if somebody gets hurt using them or anything like that, but which we don't anticipate. But so we | 02:35:29 | |
| would do that as part of our process. So we recommend at this point taking the $2500 and ordering 100 of the kits and trying it | 02:35:36 | |
| out and going from there, so. | 02:35:43 | |
| We're recommending council approve that. | 02:35:51 | |
| Thank you. Does council have any questions? I do go ahead. So I just send that list of questions today to to Joan and to James. | 02:35:54 | |
| And I just thought I'd share them with the rest of the council and with the community here. My first question and I, I say this | 02:36:00 | |
| because Kevin would be the first. | 02:36:06 | |
| Person to raise this issue is this a gift of public funds and I don't know if you I didn't get an answer to that from you Joan so. | 02:36:13 | |
| I mean, would this be considered a gift of public funds if we're giving kids away? It could be, it could be. I don't, I don't have | 02:36:23 | |
| an answer for that one right off the top of my head, but it could be a gift, public funds, if I could maybe just add that. | 02:36:30 | |
| Many cities do this, including people may have in their garages. Oxnard used to. | 02:36:39 | |
| They have, I don't know if they kept the funding available for it in this year or recent years, but the graffiti action kits are. | 02:36:46 | |
| We wouldn't be the first city to. That's good to know. I like the kids, I like the way they look. You didn't mention paint though. | 02:36:53 | |
| Do they not come with paint? They don't come with paint. They come with the solvent to remove paint. | 02:37:00 | |
| OK, well that's good. So putting the city logo on we're not going to put it on the solvent, are we? No, it'd be on the the bucket | 02:37:07 | |
| that everything comes in. OK, cuz I just. | 02:37:13 | |
| I'm concerned about. | 02:37:18 | |
| The solvent ending up somewhere where it shouldn't be or not properly disposed. What if somebody wants to get rid of it and they | 02:37:21 | |
| bring it back to us for disposal? Are we going to take possession of it if they they don't want it and dispose of it because | 02:37:27 | |
| there's costs associated with that? Yeah, I wouldn't anticipate that we would take anything back, but that's something we could | 02:37:33 | |
| look at. | 02:37:39 | |
| I just, it was like the sandbags, you know, we, we gave out the sandbags and the people wanted to get them back to us. So I just | 02:37:47 | |
| wanted to make sure we're we're thinking of all possibilities here. Councilmember Gama yes. | 02:37:53 | |
| The high school district is an expert in greedy graffiti removal kits, and there's a. | 02:38:00 | |
| Citrus based aerosol spray which is extremely effective. | 02:38:08 | |
| So I think it might be a good idea to contact Superintendent McCoy and see what, what they use because they've been dealing with | 02:38:15 | |
| this issue for years and years and years. And they're, they have every grounds maintenance office has these graffiti kits and I've | 02:38:22 | |
| seen them in action and they work very well. So maybe we could get away from solvents. There might be other products out there | 02:38:28 | |
| that might be better suited. | 02:38:35 | |
| I had one more question and did. | 02:38:43 | |
| Did you want to say something to him? | 02:38:47 | |
| I will. OK. So the other question I had was would the kits be available to businesses as well? We could make them available, I | 02:38:49 | |
| think typically. | 02:38:54 | |
| Typically they're focused at residential and you require that they show some proof that they live in the city. So that's what we | 02:39:00 | |
| had sort of designed it in mind with, but it could be available to businesses who prove they do business in Port Hueneme. | 02:39:07 | |
| So we could do that. And then just going back to the gifted public funds question. | 02:39:14 | |
| I think the justification which I should have mentioned that most cities have for doing these types of things is that there is a | 02:39:19 | |
| value to the community in the idea of getting graffiti removed from private property quickly. And so, so that's sort of the, you | 02:39:28 | |
| know, if the community, if the community were to say, well, how does this benefit me? That's how unsightly The comment I was going | 02:39:37 | |
| to make was as your attorney, to look very carefully at the systems in place for disposal of these units. | 02:39:45 | |
| As we want to be sure that, you know, you're putting the city's logo on something, you want to be sure that it gets disposed of | 02:39:54 | |
| properly and doesn't cause any environmental damage or anything like that, which would then be a liability to the cities. There | 02:40:02 | |
| has to be all sorts of waivers and and a process in my mind for disposal, which could support the mention that Council Member Gama | 02:40:09 | |
| suggested about the citrus. Maybe those are more biodegradable, friendly, non-toxic. | 02:40:16 | |
| We're at the Alaska Memorial a month ago I think and it got hit really bad and city staff came down and I think they were using | 02:40:25 | |
| the citrus based spray and. | 02:40:30 | |
| It was incredible because it was gold paint and it was a large area and it literally washed off after they put this and it came | 02:40:36 | |
| out of a can, I believe. I'm not sure. Yeah. And that's, I was going to say, I think we do use that internally for graffiti | 02:40:43 | |
| removal. I think the cost might be. | 02:40:50 | |
| Too much challenging to be able to get kits with them are it would limit how many kids we can provide. Yeah because I think and I | 02:40:58 | |
| know I've helped Mr. Scrivener a few times paint over and. | 02:41:05 | |
| Big areas of graffiti on our walls at our neighborhood. | 02:41:12 | |
| It it can be labor some right? | 02:41:17 | |
| Can you come? | 02:41:26 | |
| Guessing the answer is yes. We have a long history of being hit with graffiti at Surfside Village and we've given up trying to | 02:41:31 | |
| hire somebody to paint over it because it would cost us thousands of dollars. So I and one other guy are the graffiti removal | 02:41:38 | |
| people and we just went and bought a bunch of paint and as soon as we see it, we get rid of it. And that has made it mark | 02:41:44 | |
| difference in in how much of this happened so. | 02:41:50 | |
| Councilman Gama helped us one day when we had a huge one that took place and soon it was identified, everybody showed up, we got | 02:41:58 | |
| rid of it. | 02:42:03 | |
| The next day with another place was hit, we got rid of it and then they move on someplace else. So the one comment I would like to | 02:42:08 | |
| make is that the city staff is. | 02:42:13 | |
| Fantastic it get rid of this stuff I walk around every morning I see pictures of your feet I see graffiti I put it on the go away | 02:42:19 | |
| anime app it's gone the next day and it's it's really remarkable service that they do however, if it's on private property, then | 02:42:26 | |
| code enforcement has to call up and and that that's there's a delay there and so the longer the delay is the more likely | 02:42:33 | |
| somebody's going to come over and crossover what was there and you get these wars going on so. | 02:42:41 | |
| From my experience. | 02:42:49 | |
| The quicker this stuff is gone, the less of what we're going to get. And if a homeowner can simply go to the city and get a kit | 02:42:51 | |
| and get rid of it, which won't work in some areas because it's just too big, but if they can do that, we'll have less graffiti. So | 02:42:57 | |
| thank you. | 02:43:03 | |
| Thank you. Any more questions or comments from Council? | 02:43:08 | |
| I am at a little pause because of proper disposal. These are. | 02:43:15 | |
| These are. | 02:43:23 | |
| Yes, and these are materials that can be misused. I know that the the graffiti spray can be misused, so we just need to. | 02:43:25 | |
| Really think it through, be cautious and make sure I don't know have a criteria maybe to. | 02:43:36 | |
| Training. There are some. | 02:43:44 | |
| Well, I'll tell you, if you witness how effective it is, the paint literally drips off. And there's a reason, because it's really | 02:43:50 | |
| good stuff, you know, but it can be misused. Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments on this item? | 02:43:56 | |
| No public comments. All right so the recommendation is to receive the measure you committees recommendation to purchase and | 02:44:03 | |
| provide approximately 100 graffiti removal kits to port only me residents do I have a motion? | 02:44:09 | |
| Motion to approve. | 02:44:15 | |
| 2nd, 2nd. | 02:44:17 | |
| All in favor. | 02:44:21 | |
| All opposed. | 02:44:23 | |
| Arena motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 02:44:25 | |
| We are moving on to City Manager comments and reports. Thank you. | 02:44:29 | |
| I have a few slides. Our recreation report ended up including some of the. | 02:44:34 | |
| Announcements, so I'll go over those briefly and one was yes the museum is reopening on July 6th at 11:00 AM and so we are | 02:44:41 | |
| inviting everybody to come start coming by there they will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at this point so | 02:44:50 | |
| come by on Saturday or Sunday and so but the grand opening is this Saturday at on July 6th so. | 02:44:59 | |
| And then we. | 02:45:10 | |
| Mentioned all the recreation programming. We actually wanted to highlight a couple of things and one is that, and I sent an e-mail | 02:45:12 | |
| on this to the council as well, but a lot of cities are struggling right now to get lifeguards and you find cities sort of | 02:45:20 | |
| cannibalizing each other and stealing each other's lifeguards and and not being able to get enough lifeguards to maintain. | 02:45:28 | |
| The safety, beach safety or pool safety and we are very fortunate, although it's. | 02:45:38 | |
| It's due to a lot of hard work in our recreation department and our human resources team too. But we have a very good lifeguard | 02:45:43 | |
| program with a lot of committed lifeguards. And so we don't take that for granted. And we have the people will see them out at the | 02:45:49 | |
| beach starting now essentially with the summer season. And so we wanted to highlight that, but we also wanted to talk about one of | 02:45:56 | |
| the other cool things we have that that might be might kind of feed into that is our junior lifeguard program with. And so we just | 02:46:02 | |
| had our. | 02:46:09 | |
| Latest session and we had over 100 hundred children participate in this Junior Lifeguard program. | 02:46:17 | |
| And in the program, kids learn about ocean safety, beach environments, wildlife and basic first aid. And I was jealous actually | 02:46:23 | |
| finding out some of the things they get to do because they get to go hiking, swimming and paddling on Santa Cruz Island, which I | 02:46:31 | |
| still haven't gotten to do. So I might have to sign up one year. And they'll be doing the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab research | 02:46:39 | |
| coming up. So that program is going on now. It's got a lot of participants, so we wanted to highlight it. And then it's something. | 02:46:47 | |
| People should look to sign up for whenever it becomes available because the participants love it. So you're gonna sign it for the | 02:46:55 | |
| junior lifeguard program? I think I'm gonna have to. | 02:46:59 | |
| Fit in. | 02:47:05 | |
| Kneel down a little bit, yeah. | 02:47:07 | |
| And then this was mentioned earlier too, and we're highlighting some of the recreation things today with it being recreation | 02:47:10 | |
| month. But July 12th is the next Movie in the Park night. Finding Nemo will be at Waimea Beach Park and Showtime is at 8:15 PM and | 02:47:16 | |
| it's free for all ages. | 02:47:22 | |
| And then last, the next agenda, July 15th agenda, we wanted to preview that meeting. It's the last meeting before the summer, the | 02:47:29 | |
| August break. So we have several time sensitive items that we're going to be bringing on that July 15th agenda and it'll probably | 02:47:36 | |
| it's, it's looking to be a full meeting. | 02:47:44 | |
| But we'll have some presentations. We'll have the Mothers Against Drunk Driving award presentation. We'll be introducing our new | 02:47:53 | |
| community services officer, Jessica Baca, and we'll bring her to this, to the council meeting. And then we are bringing back the | 02:47:59 | |
| requested presentation on climate change. And I believe we got Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance is going to be the group | 02:48:05 | |
| that presents that. | 02:48:11 | |
| And then for public hearings, we'll have two ones that we know we're getting a lot of questions about, we know people want to know | 02:48:18 | |
| about. So when we come for the permits, it'll be our chance to tell people the details and how it's going to work this year. But | 02:48:25 | |
| one will be the Beachfest getting that permit issued because it's hard as it's hard to believe that after the summer break, it's | 02:48:32 | |
| basically Beachfest. So the week after the after the after we come back. | 02:48:39 | |
| So Beach Festival and then the whiny me fun run, we are looking at doing the fun run which we had started last year and doing | 02:48:46 | |
| again as sort of year 2. And so we're we'll be presenting both of those. | 02:48:52 | |
| And then three business items planned at this point. One is just a Bowling Springs Park update because we we just want to give | 02:49:00 | |
| regular updates on that project because we know it's a big important project in the community. | 02:49:06 | |
| We'll be bringing the Wine EMI Hero Award application approval to the Council. | 02:49:13 | |
| And that's going to the Citizen Advisory Commission meeting, which is July 8th. So we'll be bringing their recommendation back to | 02:49:20 | |
| council. | 02:49:24 | |
| And then last, we're going to present the economic development plan, which we've been working with our team to finalize and | 02:49:29 | |
| prepare to bring back. So, so a big meeting with a lot of those topics that I think it's like right when people start to ask | 02:49:36 | |
| what's going on with this thing, our goal is to to bring it back and let people know what's going on. So those are five big ones. | 02:49:43 | |
| Any questions for Mr. City Manager? | 02:49:51 | |
| OK, we will move on to the Council member reports and comments. We'll start with Councilmember Martinez. | 02:49:54 | |
| That want to participate. | 02:50:34 | |
| Probably not going to see their meetings, but he wants to help and that's what we need because like it was mentioned at today's | 02:50:38 | |
| presentation is we want to be a working committee. So that's what we're working for and that's and just to mention that's | 02:50:44 | |
| something that I had been wanting since day one since I got on on Reach because when I first got on there, I thought it was really | 02:50:49 | |
| weird that we'd get together and just. | 02:50:54 | |
| Not really be active, proactive and I started being proactive by doing the basketball tournaments, the soccer, the soccer events, | 02:51:01 | |
| the volleyball events. I ran a coaching clinic. So that was part of reach, but I really wanted everyone to to be a part of it and | 02:51:09 | |
| it really wasn't happening in the beginning. In regards to the sister city, there is going to be a visit on the. | 02:51:17 | |
| On the 5th through the 7th of August and I've invited Mayor Perez to join us and she agreed to also provide a State of the City | 02:51:27 | |
| presentation. | 02:51:31 | |
| She's going to brush up on her Spanish, but. | 02:51:38 | |
| But the new, the new president, the new sister city president from Puerto Vallarta is going to join us along with 12 visitors. So | 02:51:44 | |
| we have a lot to talk to to in tomorrow's meeting. So we have our meeting tomorrow at 6:00 PM. And I do also want to mention that | 02:51:51 | |
| I've been really proud to see that we've been having consistent port representation. Today. We have Drew Rodriguez from the port | 02:51:58 | |
| and we have, I have noticed that Leticia Austin and Adam Vega have been showing up. So I think that's. | 02:52:05 | |
| A really great turning point that I want to point out that I haven't seen in my four years of being on City Council, and this year | 02:52:12 | |
| it's been happening, so that's really great to see. | 02:52:17 | |
| I I also want to encourage everybody to get their beach parking pass because I think today's the first day that if, if you bought | 02:52:24 | |
| one last year, then yours expired so you need to, you need to buy a new one. I. | 02:52:29 | |
| And I'm one of the first people to experience the stop signs on Panama St. since I live on on Scott St. and I have to use Panama | 02:52:37 | |
| to get to my parents. And so I I've been hearing great things. I myself aren't like a big fan of like speed bumps and, and stop | 02:52:45 | |
| signs, but I hear everyone else saying great things and saying, hey, I feel safe. There's more parking. And it just what people | 02:52:53 | |
| saying that they feel safe at the intersection is, is a win because I, I wouldn't always feel safe when I'd ride my bike. | 02:53:01 | |
| Because it'd be difficult to see some of the cars and some of the cars would be speeding. So I think that's a really great win for | 02:53:10 | |
| our city. But yeah, it's, it's looking like it's a great summer and I'm on vacation, so. | 02:53:15 | |
| Just happy to be here. | 02:53:23 | |
| That's the life, especially when you live in Waukee. It's a good place to be on vacation. | 02:53:27 | |
| Just really pleased with the Waimi Beach cleanup and a former mayor. Councilmember Rollins mentioned earlier that they received | 02:53:33 | |
| money for Grabbers, but there's a little more to the story than that, so I just want to clarify it. So a group that was going to | 02:53:40 | |
| film a commercial at Waimea Beach. The husband of the producer is a surfer and he surfs Wanami Beach a lot. And so he's always | 02:53:48 | |
| talking to me about beach cleanup on Saturday. | 02:53:55 | |
| And when they were going to do this project, he said, hey, we want to we're going to inconvenient you because it's being on a | 02:54:03 | |
| Saturday. We want to do something for you. And I said, well, yeah, we need grabbers. He goes, all right, let me cut you a check | 02:54:08 | |
| for $500. I'm like, well, hold on a second. | 02:54:12 | |
| That's not going to work. And so I got together with our fearless city managers and hey, I mean, come on, I want the grabbers. But | 02:54:19 | |
| you know, I don't think it's a good idea for me to take a check. So we contacted Reach and and we were able to. | 02:54:27 | |
| Go through a lot of paperwork, believe it or not, Apple, but we were able to have Reach receive the donation. And then I went and | 02:54:37 | |
| purchased the grabbers and presented a receipt and got reimbursed. So really cool. And I just want to say to the REACH board | 02:54:44 | |
| members, yes, we, I'm ready to help fundraise, do whatever we can to, to make REACH a viable nonprofit in our community because it | 02:54:51 | |
| really is the essence of our city. | 02:54:58 | |
| Recreation, Education, Arts. | 02:55:07 | |
| Community. | 02:55:11 | |
| Culture, culture. Seven years, I still can't get it right. But anyways, we all need to pitch in and help reach and make them. | 02:55:12 | |
| What the potential is out there? | 02:55:21 | |
| And I do appreciate increased collaboration with the port. And I just want to bring up an example. There's been ships anchored | 02:55:24 | |
| offshore and I've been here 26, maybe seven, I don't know, longer years. I've never seen 4 ships anchored off our coast. And so | 02:55:32 | |
| people have been asking me what's going on with them. Like I think it's the Baltimore thing because I remember reading that BMW | 02:55:39 | |
| has a plant that was affected and maybe they're coming over here. But again, it's just. | 02:55:46 | |
| It would be nice if we had had the information to share with with with our residents when they asked me because I don't know and | 02:55:54 | |
| then. | 02:55:58 | |
| And I just want to make the point that the residents of Waimea, we love the port. We. | 02:56:06 | |
| We we endure the consequences of success at the port. We heard a little bit about it earlier, but I will say this, if those ships | 02:56:13 | |
| were anchored off Silver Strand Beach, there would be an outcry. And so I hope that we could at least have the information to let | 02:56:22 | |
| residents know the reason why it's happening. I think that would be really good. | 02:56:30 | |
| I'm enjoying summer and I'm enjoying the newsletter and a. | 02:56:44 | |
| Thank you for indulging me. | 02:56:48 | |
| Hernandez. | 02:56:51 | |
| Thank you, Mayor Perez. I don't really have. | 02:56:54 | |
| Anything I'm The SCAG meetings are dark for July. I understand we're going dark August. That's probably when the SCAG meetings | 02:56:57 | |
| will start back up. So I'll be busy during August. I I do want to discuss with you, Mr. City Manager, the other part of the mural | 02:57:05 | |
| contract having to do with the interactive murals and seeing if we can get one I. | 02:57:12 | |
| Created for In Time for the Beach Festival. | 02:57:21 | |
| So. | 02:57:25 | |
| Councilmember Martinez is available. Maybe the three of us can get together and and talk about that. I've already put a bug in | 02:57:28 | |
| Carolyn's ear. | 02:57:31 | |
| Under that contract, I think we still have two more murals and I think July 15th we're planning to bring the mural back to | 02:57:37 | |
| council. So we can sort of just loop that in with that and. | 02:57:43 | |
| Well, we'll talk about it. Any approval we might need, we can loop in there. If we don't need approval, then then it's a different | 02:57:50 | |
| approach. I just want to make sure we get. | 02:57:54 | |
| All done. | 02:57:58 | |
| Thanks. | 02:58:04 | |
| So if two council members. | 02:58:08 | |
| Got together with the city manager to discuss the mural and we've all discussed it before. | 02:58:10 | |
| Amongst us, in various Ways and Means. Would that be a Brown Act violation? | 02:58:16 | |
| OK. | 02:58:55 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem. | 02:58:57 | |
| Yeah. Just would like to share that I have a couple of meetings coming up in the next couple of weeks, but a few of them have | 02:59:00 | |
| been. | 02:59:05 | |
| Cancelled for July and so they're dark in August so most of my meetings are going to start again in September. So that's all. | 02:59:11 | |
| Thank you. I had one meeting at the Boys and Girls Club Which? | 02:59:20 | |
| The only thing that was really of any relevance to us is that they'll be out for most of the rest of the year. | 02:59:24 | |
| Starting September, I believe, and they'll open up, March, I believe is the time frame for their major, major construction. So | 02:59:32 | |
| that's going to be exciting. It's going to be completely unrecognizable is what the architects and all the staff and the drawings | 02:59:37 | |
| and everything to say. So I'm looking forward to seeing that. | 02:59:43 | |
| I have a brief summary of our port city meeting. | 02:59:49 | |
| So we met on June 26th and the agenda consisted of four items, which was the Bard monument update, the community benefit fund | 02:59:54 | |
| discussion and recommendations, 2024 Washington DC trip and other city port initiatives. The board monument was a brief summary by | 03:00:01 | |
| Kristen where they just reiterated and and discussed that that we placed in the monument on their property. And then we talked | 03:00:09 | |
| about the community of benefit fund, which was a consensus of the port and city to reduce the overall list of projects. | 03:00:16 | |
| And to focus and to narrow the focus of projects and increase the funding for those projects. And we agreed to remove certain | 03:00:24 | |
| projects and focus that those that didn't follow within those. | 03:00:29 | |
| Categories and the categories were Economic Community development, Enhancement, Public safety, the joint DC trip grant writing. | 03:00:35 | |
| And. | 03:00:44 | |
| The confirmed approximately 33,000 left or 33,000 yeah, 33,000 leftover. So they finalized the list which was previously given to | 03:00:45 | |
| council of the nonprofits that were going to. | 03:00:53 | |
| Receive money and then the port added potential mental health related projects. | 03:01:01 | |
| And we requested scholarships for the junior lifeguard program. | 03:01:07 | |
| Which was a public comment recommendation at that meeting. In addition to public safety projects, one of the port commissioners | 03:01:14 | |
| also talked about wanting to put the canine program. | 03:01:19 | |
| To assist with that. So that will be going back to their board for approval and we'll come back to us. We'll approve those three | 03:01:26 | |
| items as well. | 03:01:30 | |
| The three students met the criteria for scholarships and the remaining money will roll over for another series because they just | 03:01:35 | |
| couldn't find enough students to meet their criteria. So they're looking at maybe a brighter, a broader scope, maybe including | 03:01:42 | |
| private schools that might have Fort Wayne residents because we do have some local ones where some of our students go there. But | 03:01:49 | |
| it just wasn't a lot of applicants that came in for the scholarships. So that will be rolled over until the next session. | 03:01:56 | |
| And the DC trip, there was some discussion about potentially delaying it because there's elections coming, but they're going to | 03:02:03 | |
| bring back their DC people at the next meeting to discuss the issues with that. And so that may be held over until spring because | 03:02:10 | |
| we also have elections and change of mayor and mayor Pro Tem in December. So it just might not be a good time to do ADC trip in | 03:02:17 | |
| the fall. | 03:02:23 | |
| And that was pretty much it. Is there anything that I left out of that? I sent this list to city manager and mayor Pro Tem for any | 03:02:31 | |
| follow up and make sure I didn't miss anything. And that was pretty much. | 03:02:37 | |
| The consensus and I have one update, it's a private update. It has nothing to do with City Council stuff, it's just a thing that I | 03:02:43 | |
| created. I was able to successfully charter a Lions Club for the City of Port Hueneme and we have 26 members now confirmed. It's | 03:02:50 | |
| growing fast as a lot of waning citizens excited to get involved in community service and to support the city. We had a community | 03:02:58 | |
| event at Volcker Park, which was a huge clothing drive. | 03:03:05 | |
| I am Food Share. The Salvation Army brought 120 food boxes. We got rid of half of that and then we were able to donate with the | 03:03:12 | |
| permission of a city manager and director Basua. We we deposited the rest of the food at Mar Vista. | 03:03:19 | |
| And then the clothing drive was huge success. It was pretty consistent all day long of just a lot of people coming in and getting | 03:03:28 | |
| clothing for various ages. So. | 03:03:32 | |
| We'll be doing a lot of fundraising. Our first board meeting will be next Wednesday if anybody's interested. That's a public | 03:03:37 | |
| meeting, so it'll be Zoom. | 03:03:42 | |
| Wednesday at six, so if you want, it's Zoom. So if you want, get in touch with me and I can send you a link. | 03:03:47 | |
| Our first meeting is July 10th at Pizza Man Dance at 5:30 and anyone is welcome to come. We always encourage guests to come. | 03:03:55 | |
| We'll be partnering with the Grocery Outlet in terms of their independence from food, from Hunger Month, which is us volunteering, | 03:04:03 | |
| bagging, helping people to the cars, getting information out about what the Lions Club does and hoping to gain members. And yeah, | 03:04:10 | |
| I know it's off to a really great start and we have a lot of momentum and. | 03:04:18 | |
| This is it's open to Winnie, me and Oxnard or Ventura. You don't have to be a resident of Waimea to join. | 03:04:26 | |
| And that's all I have. | 03:04:32 | |
| So now we'll move on to agenda items. I'd like to remind Council that their requested agenda items will require a motion, a second | 03:04:35 | |
| and a majority vote per adopted council policies to be placed on a future agenda item. Do we have any agenda items, Mr. Martinez? | 03:04:43 | |
| I'm not sure if this requires a motion. I I want to ask Council if they think we should look into the first public comment. I | 03:04:50 | |
| didn't get the the full name, but I think the girl's name was Alexis and it was regarding the code. Code enforcement. | 03:04:57 | |
| Going through the residents homes, I don't know if maybe the city I was a I'm just maybe expecting like a response and depending | 03:05:05 | |
| on what you say, like maybe we can make a motion or not. Yeah. My suggestion is it's a specific code compliance case which we | 03:05:12 | |
| should not really discuss in public or we can't really discuss in public. We're not asking for a discussion on this. So we'll make | 03:05:18 | |
| sure that that somebody from code compliance gets back to them and provides the information. But can we at least have an | 03:05:24 | |
| understanding of what would trigger? | 03:05:31 | |
| The government to knock on someone's door and say, hey, we're coming in and inspecting you because I, I don't understand that. And | 03:05:39 | |
| that might be getting into operations that's outside of our, I don't know what is our city attorney. | 03:05:45 | |
| Say about whether that's Privy for council. | 03:05:52 | |
| I think it would be appropriate for the council to have a basic understanding of when code enforcement can go to a private | 03:05:58 | |
| residence and. | 03:06:03 | |
| Enforcement activities as a general concept, getting into the specific no, we don't want that. I just want to understand that. | 03:06:08 | |
| What? What's the scenario where that would happen? | 03:06:18 | |
| I think that's I'll make I'll make a motion for an item to be brought up to council so that we can get educated on on on that | 03:06:23 | |
| process 2nd. | 03:06:27 | |
| All in favor. | 03:06:35 | |
| Aye, all opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. | 03:06:36 | |
| Any further Mr. | 03:06:42 | |
| Martinez. | 03:06:44 | |
| Councilman Ragama. | 03:06:46 | |
| All right. Seeing no other future agenda items, I will adjourn this meeting. The time is 8:37. Thank you for attending. | 03:06:49 |