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Well, good afternoon everyone. Thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the joint City of Port committee meeting. 00:00:05
I'd like to call disputed order. 00:00:11
Mayor Perez here. President Perez here. Mayor Pro Tem McKenzie, Vice President Ramirez City Manager. 00:00:17
Here, City Attorney Smith is absent part legal counsel Duran, Thank you. Next item C Public comments. Any public comments? 00:00:28
Thank you. 00:00:44
Discussion minutes Recommendation. Approval of the April 16th City Port Committee meeting. 00:00:46
Thank you. I did have one question. OK, just on just wanna make sure I understood on page 4, I'm looking at my page four in the 00:00:53
area that says minded that project. On the last sentence it says we're talking about phase one, 2-3 and four for the monuments and 00:01:03
it says future clarifying that phase two would have to come back as a new project for approval. 00:01:13
Just want to make sure we didn't mean approval that we will go forward, but an approval of what it will be. That's correct. 00:01:23
I just want to make sure that that's what that's correct. Thank you so much. Thank you. So we have a 1st and 2nd, 2nd. Thank you 00:01:32
all in favor any opposed or abstentions? 00:01:38
Thank you. Next item is for discussion is Community benefits Fund projects recommendations and provide recommendations if desired. 00:01:46
I'll just add just to remind everybody on process where we're at, OK, so we are. 00:01:55
Closing up this fiscal year on June 30, so starting July 1st is kind of our 190 day window. Michelle, can you help me remember the 00:02:02
amount I think that Austin said we had somewhere between them it is. 00:02:11
Available with the CPI adjustment this is 100,000. Adjusted by CP is upwards of $130,000. 00:02:23
I'm sorry, I don't have it right now. I'll text, I'll, I'll get the confirmation on that. But just in terms of process, so it's in 00:02:31
that neighborhood of around 100 and 3000 and $35,000 and we have 190 days to delivery and come up with the full process. So we 00:02:37
start here, we get through projects. We this time are ready with input from our board. You were ready last time, but now we can 00:02:43
share input. 00:02:49
Move forward with each year's allocation. So we are in that approaching fast, approaching 190 day window and a little bit ahead of 00:03:28
the game. 00:03:32
Right, because we're doing it before the post of the fiscal year. So just in terms of process, that's where we're at, 00:03:36
Commissioners and City Council members. Great. I do have a technical question for you, please. This list that we have attached 00:03:43
here, this is the one that the City of Camarillo, Camarillo presented last time around, right? And I know that there was a lot of 00:03:49
discussion last time when you clarified for us, Kristen, the difference between and the share revenue agreements. And I'm just 00:03:56
curious if we have a historical perspective on. 00:04:02
These projects and whether they fall in line with the four items on the legal document. 00:04:09
Did you all when you all came up with these? So these are most of these are on previous list already and had previous allocation 00:04:17
they've been, it's been a trend for a lot of these to have received. 00:04:23
There really wasn't much to do this year. I think there might have been one or two things like the tennis back or something that 00:04:31
hasn't been on the list. 00:04:35
Hey, Cortana, Senior programming safety. Yeah, but most of them are items that have been funded by the CVS in the past. Tennis 00:04:40
backboard owned by the city. So it's asking for a backboard other city tennis courts. So that would be considered general fund, a 00:04:50
public. Yeah, comment request. And I'll just note that and just don't remind me that that list was essentially a brainstorming. 00:05:00
Yeah. So and then be able to have the joint meeting to start talking about what ideas the joint committee wants to recommend this 00:05:10
year. Because my only thought is I think that we're in a good place that we should. I, I personally feel that this is, this has 00:05:17
been and I put it for me is the, if we went back to the agreement and looked at those four sections and said, OK, this is a good 00:05:24
time to go back and refocus on what we're supposed to be using these funds for. 00:05:31
Mr. Turner. 00:05:39
Madam President, would it be helpful if I shared with the group my notes on what that agreement says as to those four categories 00:05:41
we're talking about? 00:05:45
Thanks. 00:05:51
Alright, so this comes from. There are two sections of the 2015 settlement agreement that control here. The 1st is section 9 which 00:05:52
is the general. 00:05:56
Statement of kind of what this is meant for. It says the CVS quote may only be spent on approved projects that benefit both the 00:06:01
city and the district and the communities they serve. So that's the overarching kind of controlling. 00:06:08
Goal for that for better word and then Section 10 is what President is talking about. Section 10 authorizes that CBS funds funds 00:06:17
be spent on a shoreline protection. 00:06:22
Community development through joint initiatives, which is, you know, it is somewhat broad, but community development means 00:06:29
something in our business, right in the city business and it's been in the special districts, opportunistic endeavors like 00:06:37
economic development or environmental mitigation and then other projects agreed by the board and the City Council, of course upon 00:06:44
recommendation from this body. So as as long as we're as you are identifying projects that fit within those general parameters. 00:06:51
And, and your point is well taken, Kristen, I apologize for for. 00:07:40
And but my point was that it was it was a serious negotiation. There was a lot of back and forth. And I think all the parties were 00:07:44
happy to get it done, happy to get that settlement agreement signed and sort of being able to move forward from where they had 00:07:50
been in the years immediately preceding that settlement agreement. So thank you for the reminder. Just a quick question for you. 00:07:55
And I don't have it. I have it, but I don't have it in front of me. So you read the areas and then you ended it with other items 00:08:01
that are approved by. 00:08:07
The board. 00:08:14
Board of Harbor Commission attend the City Council, right? So do you need those four items as approved or those four items and 00:08:15
other items that are approved and and? 00:08:20
Haven't been there. An idea was to create some latitude. 00:08:29
To what was relevant at the church. 00:08:33
And I know that we came up with some items, but I would like us to consider going to take a step back and say do these and do ours 00:08:41
all within these parameters because it's a good time to clean house and really focus on that. 00:08:50
What are you asking if they have? 00:09:13
Perez asked about this particular page. I don't have that document at all. No, that's the settlement. That's the settlement 00:09:18
agreement. Yeah, exactly. 00:09:22
That's something you want to forget. 00:09:27
So I think. 00:09:48
You're saying that? 00:09:52
Maybe take a step back from diving right into projects and I would like to have a memo whistle criteria. 00:09:54
No, I'll defer to my board. I mean if you wanna say this is we discussed this in our last board meeting and I think there was some 00:10:05
communication that maybe less is more. If you did put more towards less things, you might get bigger Bank of those. So that's just 00:10:11
something that was more conversational. 00:10:17
And then there were some specific core areas that thought well shoreline protection senior activities or or grant writing in the 00:10:23
DC trip kind of came out through our commissioners board is something that we should bring back. 00:10:29
When talking about community development, what items do you on the list? I'd like to know what you consider. 00:10:38
Are we talking about the settlement agreement? 00:10:51
How does this the list that we have? Oh yes. 00:10:54
Coincide with that section. 00:10:58
Before I'm not and I'm just more of just asking in general. 00:11:01
Because I think that we've gone. 00:11:06
Away from those four items, and I totally agree where Chris made this. If we put allocate more money, let's say for example, for 00:11:10
granted, I think that there's tremendous opportunity for federal funding as we saw we went to our DC trip, but we did. You can't 00:11:15
set aside $5000. 00:11:21
$25,000 for grant writer to really be researching and writing this grant should probably be the bank. I don't know that we need do 00:11:28
we need that we have a new position and is he? 00:11:34
I think we we created a new analyst position. We have a new panelist that analyst is starting to track grants. But I think that 00:11:41
the idea I heard from a prior meeting was looking at grants that could be applied for that would be beneficial to both important 00:11:48
and the city. I think in that case having somebody has expertise in that. 00:11:54
Something that can kind of do that by contract for both agencies value to it and our analyst is going to be learning that skills 00:12:02
here. So it might be a good year to actually have a year where we have a contractor doing it and can get our analysts tied in with 00:12:09
them and kind of learn how to get some context. 00:12:15
Responsible and overseas our grant writing and it's a heavy lift and Adamson department, but you have to get all the letters of 00:12:24
support. So they give some context. We spent think 45,000 forty $45,000 to write our grant to the state for the Pfizer grant that 00:12:32
we got and it succeeded in getting us 80 million, but it took $40,000 to get that. So it's it's it's it takes a lot of bandwidth 00:12:39
and firms usually have kind of that bandwidth to help them just to get confidence. 00:12:47
I mean, at the university we have one person grant research, grant writing and once again they'll put the return is tremendous. 00:12:55
Yeah, I got a contractor last year in my prior city and even a fairly low cost contractor. We ended up paying $60,000 for one year 00:13:06
to apply for three days I think. 00:13:13
That was just one Grant was keep it forget. You know, we it's expensive to write for this, OK. 00:13:21
Yeah, but if you get the right people, you get them. 00:13:27
So, yeah, so I would like to hear thoughts on what we think are opportunistic ideas and community development if we want to talk 00:13:31
about. 00:13:35
Bringing those in, Can I ask a quick question about Grant while we're on it? So the manager, what do you think our expectation is 00:13:39
coming this year? 00:13:44
And is that because we don't have? Yeah, I think in the past we've sort of applied for three or four that we get every year. And 00:13:52
typically those fall into like public safety. There's literally a grant called the COPS grant and COPS stands for something. But 00:13:59
like every city, every year you put an application in. So the past week we got things like that. So we haven't really like. 00:14:07
I Adam, I don't know if it's possible to pick it up, but the aftermath of our DC trip. 00:14:54
There were certain ones that, you know, there was kind of areas that we were encouraged to go for. One was inside DoD because we 00:15:03
are a community in a port abutting a Navy. I recall that one. There was another where a lot of community grants for EPA where we 00:15:09
could do clean port and clean city. And, and you know, those are some of the top of my head, but I think they're we went to a lot 00:15:16
of meetings. We kind of had this debrief and we haven't really followed through because we don't have this resource. 00:15:22
This is, yeah, I think the same. Mm-hmm. 00:15:29
We already, we've heard of a lot of ground opportunities, but then we have to say we come back, right, We get busy, right? 00:15:34
Exactly, Yeah, exactly. And I was just going to. 00:15:39
With our RDP truck, I got the kind of gone back out for the university and now we're going to start an internship program for 00:15:48
engineering students in summer 2025. But there's follow report that has to be done, right? But that's part of my job that we have 00:15:53
someone assigned to the grant money portion. It could be very difficult for the city and for for the court on having someone 00:15:58
focused on those particular items. 00:16:04
I think maybe the second piece of comment sounds like this is the feedback. 00:16:15
Report that some of these things will be bigger chunks, bigger costs. So it might be the case of having to do fewer things that 00:16:20
cost more rather than a lot of small things. So that's that's what I want to think about. 00:16:28
Hey, Cortana, shoreline protection should be an obvious one for both of the benefit both of us, right? And then Washington DC 00:16:37
joint trip, I think we should keep on there because we live with not sure, I think that there's a lot more possibilities. 00:16:44
The last year with us pretty much tagging along and seeing how everything's going and now we have an actual game plan that we want 00:16:52
to make sure that we prepare for that we can attack from our side as well. Not just not not just which is it's beneficial to go 00:16:59
there and support the port as well, but we want to make sure that well, I think exactly. So I think that's my understanding of 00:17:05
those that joint trip is to benefit both of us. So if you have. 00:17:11
Well, yeah, I don't know. I did get that as well. And they were all all very congratulatory to us for the fact that we were able 00:17:52
to do this, but we know we could have left. How do we? 00:17:58
Could have leveraged it a little better and I think we're going to make sure we do that this time. 00:18:06
Yeah. No, but but it was really well received. And I think if there's priorities that you have and the priors we have, we go in 00:18:15
there together. 00:18:19
They're more likely to get attention at the federal level for sure. 00:18:24
Do we know offhand, Kristen, what the dollar amount was set aside for that DC trip so we can deduct it from that? We didn't in our 00:18:30
board meeting put in any numbers. 00:18:35
I will ping Austin and find out what it actually cost 'cause I know we brought extra people that we didn't tag to the CPF. We made 00:18:42
sure it covered the city folks. And that's, again, they're in the midst of reconciling everything. So if you have any outstanding 00:18:49
invoices or they would have to make sure everybody was made whole for that trip. 00:18:56
But we had put $10,000 in the past. I think it's kind of like. 00:19:05
That's what we did in the past just 'cause it's, it's the airfare and hotels and if you do it in two days. But if you want, it 00:19:10
depends who you wanna bring. 00:19:15
You know, three people is good. 00:19:21
Yeah. 00:19:24
Right at that level. 00:19:34
I'll find out from Austin, sorry. 00:19:37
The one thing on Charlene protection and I'm not sure. 00:19:40
All this financed to correct me, but we've been trying to reconcile and so I think we made good progress so we'll. 00:19:45
Follow up with you guys on that after, but I'm but there was that project on the 2019 list I think it was that said something like 00:19:52
sand replenishment. 00:19:58
It was on one of the prior discipline. 00:20:06
Projects, and I don't think we could figure out what that was. 00:20:10
Record. 00:20:17
And I will just say like $20,000 like. 00:20:21
It's not much for Sandra Flemishment. We're talking about a $18 million budget. That would be more advocacy is how I would see it 00:20:27
in education or something like that. So that's that's a category of our contract, the shoreline protection. So maybe we would 00:20:35
wanna have something there, but I think we should define it a little bit better what exactly we're expecting it to be and what 00:20:42
we're looking to do with it. And maybe we'll just be, you know, some funding to advocate with the. 00:20:49
Army core needs to be. 00:20:58
Along those lines and so time what timeline wise you said 190 day windows starts July 1st so it doesn't have to be. 00:21:01
Running start here, we're ahead of her so yeah, so we have the clock really starts clicking from July 1 but it's good to to start 00:21:17
kind of reading through things because. 00:21:21
We start here, the goal is to come out and we do have monthly meetings now, but to come out of this meeting with a joint list that 00:21:27
we all love and then bring that back to our mutual boards for approval. I do like and I would like to see if everyone agrees, the 00:21:35
5K event that we did in March joined collaboration between the two. I believe that was CDF funds before. 00:21:42
That I think that falls under community with community development. 00:21:53
I, I, people in my neighborhood got really jazzed about that run. And then a woman that lives across the street from me couldn't 00:22:46
run and she had to go away. So she's like, here, give my shirt and number to somebody else. So she did. And that person won. And 00:22:53
the trophy is still sitting in my kitchen. So no, I gotta give it back. 00:23:01
I actually know who won, so you know, I have their trophies, OK, With the trophy, I have it. It's in my kitchen. I look at it and 00:23:09
it's hard and everything and I keep forgetting to bring it in. 00:23:15
Item number 2 for senior activities, I kind of requested last time as to what, what did you say doing for. Yeah. And I think that 00:23:22
for us, our recreation program has some senior activities. The one that is well known that everybody talks about is the sizzling 00:23:30
seniors and that's the senior exercise program that's on I think it's Wednesday and Friday and maybe everybody knows there's a, we 00:23:39
have an instructor Sharon who does that and. 00:23:47
Does the senior exercise classes. So we do that programming. There's also, we had talked a little bit about this, but there's also 00:23:56
a new thing that's been developing that we sort of sponsor and it was the Ocean View Pavilion is doing something now called. 00:24:03
Sammy Seniors. 00:24:10
So that'd be a possibility, but those are probably the two biggest things. Other than that, you know, we have recreation 00:24:46
programming that's open to everybody, but there's not a whole lot of. So we have a. 00:24:51
It's not our community centers just by not a specific, just specific citizens. 00:24:57
What about like like the library based on on the Christian Science Monitor model? You know how different cities, big big cities, 00:25:02
have a Christian Science library? 00:25:09
Well, Boston's headquarters, you should know about that. 00:25:19
It's it's it's it's a Free Library where, you know, seriously. Well, it's actually open to the public, but we have a light. Yeah. 00:25:24
Can I just say this real quick? So that that's the only one that I really had questions on because we have like our city manager 00:25:30
was saying, we have our Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We have our senior exercise first Monday of the month, we have social and 00:25:37
then we have so we have some things. But my question is. 00:25:44
I'm always good with senior activities. 00:25:53
But do we have the bandwidth exactly to? 00:25:56
Additional, right. And I think as far as programming goes, we went back, we talked to REC. 00:26:01
100 people who show up, three guys exercise or yoga, it's an hour long and there is a yoga class we do, we do yoga classes. They 00:26:47
just aren't senior specific. It's open to the public so seniors wanna sign up. In Canada, they don't. 00:26:55
You know, one thought there though, maybe this is too disconnected, but could maybe tie into maybe some of the museum program or 00:27:38
something because that's, that's something we're getting a lot of senior volunteers and things for. 00:27:45
As when just you got me thinking when you said space for seniors, I was thinking that that museum could be something we. 00:27:53
Have like some senior programs. 00:27:59
Question for you on the 5K, how much money do you call it? 00:28:03
Think it's 5000. Think what we did this time was. 00:28:07
Expensive because there's a lot more than it. Turned into a bigger thing because originally we expected only about 150 to 200 00:28:16
participants over 500. And so we had actually closed it. If people remember the 1st 200 closed it and then overwhelming demand. So 00:28:23
we reopened it. So it ended up being probably double what we budgeted. 00:28:29
And so I think last this year it was something like we did 5000 from each test, 5000 Banana Fest 5 and then 5000 each for two, two 00:28:38
different events was the that was the general idea. 00:28:44
And so in the future that would be one thing would be do we wanna go bigger, you know, keep the 5K and just go bigger there, or do 00:28:52
we still wanna do 2 events and scale down? 00:28:56
For example, I serve on the board of CNH and CMHS. This is one of the areas that we want to ask to be a sponsor. 00:29:04
Of that will help offset any excess about the $5000 which I'm willing to to help facilitate the health care facility as well. 00:29:15
Exactly exactly. So we can start with, if we're going to keep that on the list, let's start finding out jointly on who's not going 00:29:21
to reach out to, to help offset any additional cost beyond the $5000. 00:29:28
That's a good idea most most of the sponsorships. 00:29:38
And we, I, I, I think that's what happened. 00:29:44
And then the six we ended up spending, you should probably charge us all of the six for the one and then. 00:29:47
Alright, so this is what we did. OK. So do you see you guys were right, it was 20. That's probably enough. 00:30:31
And then these were the other things that we did last year. 00:30:38
So if you look. 00:30:41
What is the Healthy Community on the Bottom 6350? 00:30:45
6350. 00:30:52
They're, you know, you have a lot of Santa like that or you have good coffee. 00:31:39
Trucks and things like that, but. 00:31:43
Every marathon we signed up for is at least $50. OK. Right. So if we wanted to, yeah, look at that. We even if we went to 2025, 00:32:18
yeah. You know, people could pay people. We got a lot of feedback that people said it was it was a good deal. Yeah. OK. 00:32:26
Even the Fillmore little 5K they had for their Wellness that recently was a $30 fee. 00:32:37
Did I interrupt you? No, I was just going to comment that we'll try to get a date on the calendar, but if everybody. 00:32:46
The winter is so weird. 00:32:54
So we'll try to kind of keep that in mind end of February, I think, not beginning of February. 00:32:59
Well, I guess there are other things on their list that so, so far with DC training, is there anything else that you know a lot of 00:33:17
these organizations in the past, I just leave it to the discretion of the leadership here what how you feel about. 00:33:25
The other items. 00:33:33
I'm not sure what city marquee letters were or that was just a random. 00:33:35
Thought like there were a few of these that were added that were just kind of random, yeah. 00:33:41
First, I mean, I don't know that seems to be one that. 00:33:48
It's the the Lego first doesn't get a lot of mileage if we did want to do a short money and it's not a heavy lift to staff. 00:33:52
So on your list, did that come up through? Yeah, that came up. So let me just ask a question here. I've been to the last two and I 00:34:07
really enjoyed them. 00:34:10
But when I put my hat on about what's the benefit to the port and of the city, of me understand that it's gonna go back to this. 00:34:14
Is there any leeway there to ask Velma? We can go back and ask her. I'll tell you this when I get a couple things. We did a 00:35:29
debrief. It's got to be better parking period. This community cannot be impacted that way. Even if we sponsored or not, it cannot 00:35:36
happen like that again. It has to use the beach lots, bus the kids in it's but I know a lot of people stayed at the little hotel 00:35:44
here 'cause I I saw lots of backpacks, you know, going over there and I'm sure they probably walked over, but we could probably. 00:35:51
And then they get a little ticket that's, you know, maybe they get, you know, we help the companies with it, right, As part of 00:36:33
the, yeah, the CPF funding. But you get a 10% discount if you go to Anacapa per capita. You get like, you give them a little 00:36:40
passport. So they'll go to the different businesses in the city. What was it this year? 2400 students? Yeah. So, so obviously they 00:36:48
they have to eat. Yeah. I mean, you know, anything that can bring people into our city. 00:36:55
Yeah, I'm sure they do. But we could help it along. Tucker, who does the Ventura? 00:37:03
Lodges Association yes that he he's great at marketing so he can help market Let's figure out how to market this into folks to 00:37:12
stay in our hotels and work with visit Thelma Thelma is work with her on getting these this information these links to the hotels 00:37:20
to the restaurants to the parents before when they register give them a list and we should have more than a minute in the opening 00:37:28
to be able to like get an opportunity to educate these like on the city and the port like so they walk away with a. 00:37:36
Not like, oh, we only get a second. 00:37:44
Do we have any local school? Grace Brethren, Although BC County I think went really far. 00:37:48
So I just wanna have a conversation. So that was what my question was about. The other part of the question was I run into a lot 00:37:58
of folks that are from Port Wyoming that don't even know that the the event is happening. So I think the strategy you know. 00:38:06
Marketing 'cause, you know, we go as an educator, you know, I know that there's a great benefit in our local kids going out and 00:38:15
seeing young people do these things. So that's kind of where I'm coming from. 00:38:21
They'll do a robotics in LA somewhere and and and in our society. 00:38:29
Yeah, exactly. 00:39:14
And were there any comments from the city on any of the other items on here that you wanted to bring up that we want to move 00:39:20
forward or? 00:39:24
At least we have decided could come off, right. We removed that. Yeah, because they're not doing that. Yeah, there's a when we 00:39:30
did, we're in the midst of that reconciling that we mentioned and we found that they actually haven't really taken money the last 00:39:36
couple of years. So we actually love to figure that out too. But I think that can come off. 00:39:42
There's, there's, there's one item that they sent you on this list and it was suggested to me by one of your one of your winning 00:39:48
residents, and that is a public shower for dogs at the beach. 00:39:55
Yes. 00:40:03
No, no. But for dogs, this is specifically for dogs. That's I don't think. 00:40:19
Well, at the beach. 00:40:25
To allow dogs, believe it or not, it's actually one of our more controversial things. Yeah, the council members know. I got an 00:40:28
e-mail that they were all blind copied on. Remember the public when I was on vacation, just outraged about why we weren't 00:40:34
arresting people with their dogs on the beach. So I think for us, it's still a area like we're careful about it, what to do, what 00:40:40
to do with that Walker dog every every morning at the beach. 00:40:46
Yeah, yeah, 'cause I know there's restrictions on the Yeah, you can't use the regular on the same, they're not allowed on the 00:40:53
sand. 00:41:00
We didn't. It was created for our. 00:41:06
I'm still trying to brainstorm as to how to. There's been a few ideas over the years, but it's never we've never been able to come 00:41:09
to a consensus. I'm glad I'm a catalogue. 00:41:15
So just so I, I, I'm understanding direction correctly. So right now we have 4 things on the list. So it's DC grant running 00:41:23
healthy communities in Lego are the ones that we kind of gave affirmation to. I just want to make sure that there's something. 00:41:30
More and if not James, OK, I do have one. OK, I I'd like to just propose it to you all and then it won't come up and it's on the 00:41:37
list. It says elementary school programs. And so we you all know we're getting ready to do scholarships for folks. So the 00:41:45
elementary school I'm talking about Port Hueneme Elementary School District. I spoke to Doctor Walker. I got the action to go and 00:41:52
talk to her and find out what are some things that might be. 00:42:00
They might need money. 00:42:09
And so I spoke with her just today and she said that they do have. 00:42:11
A Performing Arts Center, she said most of the items are covered by the school district and she said however, they have throughout 00:42:17
all the local Miami school district elementary schools have bands, they have mariachi, they have musicals. You all know they get 00:42:24
ready to have one at. 00:42:30
At the OPAC and she said that the only area that would be really nice if they can get a supplement is helping. 00:42:38
Me, so that's around. 00:42:48
She would be able to expect even at the most level she I mentioned you know most of them around 5000. 00:42:52
Anything that you could get would be this is for the band for for the either the band or just through the Arts Center. So I'm put 00:43:06
that out there and let you all kind of talk to them. And the only reason I brought it up today is that we're talking about 00:43:13
scholarships for high school students. So I don't see that we've done anything in the past for the elementary school. 00:43:20
OK, and you don't have a good band, 'cause I I judge the Saint Patrick's Day parade. But you know, I do have to go to the uniform. 00:43:29
What about the density firm that this lady by the name of Jewel has? It's in the school district, right? So it's covered by the 00:43:36
Yes. It's in the arms. Yeah. It's covered by the school districts. Yes. All that in the arts. She said it's the band. Anything in 00:43:42
the in the arts, Dancing, Singing. But she specifically talked about the band, the mariachi and the school dance. And she said all 00:43:48
of the programs are at all of the Whitening High School. 00:43:54
That sounds like uniforms aren't necessarily covered under all that. So with that list, then James and I can get together with the 00:44:02
accountants and put some numbers here to bring back at our next meeting and see. 00:44:08
If you like them and then we can bring them back to our report. I mean, just ask a couple questions. So you have the Banana 00:44:17
Festival there. 00:44:21
Those are events we're gonna put on. Oh yeah, we're gonna do them. Exactly. 00:44:58
OK, what was the whining youth program in education? 00:45:04
Maybe you programming education. I think that was yours. Oh, no, no, wait. This is this year. That's last year. So the youth music 00:45:09
and cultural programs one or which one? Programming education 5000. No idea. I was thinking like cache and like cache was used to 00:45:16
be used music. Oh yeah, that's right. It's the one right above. Oh, right above it. OK, I don't know what that one was. And then 00:45:22
it could have been real guppy. Did we do? 00:45:29
Yeah, yeah. 00:45:36
Oh, what game? 00:45:41
Yes, because the Explorer program is already on there. So we did the Explorer program which is youth interested in law enforcement 00:45:47
and I believe the winning youth program was real guppy. 00:45:51
Oh yeah, yeah. 00:45:56
That was the CARES program. 00:46:00
We don't know that. We will mention where that came from. 00:46:05
The brainstorming list explorers and real guppies on are those ones that we want to keep on the list. And I I guess in the cache 00:46:11
is the other one. Cache, yeah. 00:46:16
And. 00:46:23
Yeah, we don't have them on the list this year. 00:46:26
Do you have? Yes, I think we did Little League because we did. There was a hiccup for them and are they back in business or not 00:46:32
yet? 00:46:37
Which is gonna continue through this year. So at the beginning of next year, they'll be back in business. Their next season of 00:46:43
2025, they'll be back in ******. But right now they're and that's gonna be a bubble in Springs Park because I know you mentioned 00:46:50
it when we gave them the money. Yeah. So is that going to be an express practical practice for you guys? 00:46:57
That's a $16,000,000. We got a $10 million grant. So the rest is coming from a series of grants that totaled about. 00:47:04
Yeah, the grants and ARPA funding. So it's the biggest project we've probably done in decades. 00:47:15
$16,000,000 including because everything went crazy price wise during COVID, about 5 million we're going to have to pay out of our 00:47:21
own pocket, which was not the original plan. So. 00:47:26
So that's that's a big project. And then a lot of things came in that we didn't necessarily anticipate. For instance, it required 00:47:33
us to 88 everything all the way around, including at the sidewalk and fixing the the last one was the parking lot at the Community 00:47:41
Center, which we didn't know we were gonna have to do what we have to do that as well. So so when is. 00:47:49
Practical, sorry. 00:47:59
When is the project going to be finished? At the end of the year? It has to be by December 2024. It's spring of 23 or it's spring 00:48:02
of 25. Wow, I thought the deadline was the December it. 00:48:07
Would be great if we can get it done. There's like a deadline of December and then we have to report that everything's done in 00:48:13
like April or May. So we, we really are gonna be cramping. So exciting. Yeah. So it's a big project. It's it'll be cool when we 00:48:20
can do the groundbreaking. So my hearing notice that we wanna keep police Explorers Little League on there and just kind of play 00:48:27
with numbers and bring it back. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah. That'll be the community, community development category. 00:48:34
OK. Along with the label first? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Then we have the elementary school in there, too, along with DC grant writing. OK, 00:48:42
We'll play with numbers and see what we can do. OK. 00:48:47
Thank you. And then item number three, city. 00:48:53
Yeah. And so it's part of just me saying that at some point that we'll start trying to come proactively to talk about our budget 00:48:58
and kind of tell everybody what's going on and what the plans are. 00:49:04
The city adopts A2 year budget and actually technically the budget was adopted about a week before I got here. So I haven't really 00:49:11
gotten to like a job, my own budget from scratch yet. So I just explained that because so this is a big year revision at this next 00:49:19
council meeting. And so we're making a lot of adjustments to try to. 00:49:27
Can you meet the new economic realities? And I wanted to come and sort of explain that and give a little overview. But the caveat 00:49:37
is like, this isn't a full budget and I'm not starting from scratch and I don't have like the ability to make a lot of changes. 00:49:43
So, but in a nutshell. 00:49:49
You know our budget is. 00:49:58
I would say our budget in general we're in good shape, but we're seeing the impacts of the end of the the monopoly we had on 00:50:00
cannabis for all those years. And so luckily when people forgot about it maybe didn't make all the headlines when we got cannabis, 00:50:08
we also adopted measure you, the sales tax measure. And so cannabis is going away, but we still have that measure you sales tax 00:50:15
increase and that's gonna really I think help. 00:50:23
Kind of if that's really gonna be the thing that helps to stabilize this into the future, whereas in the past, you know, a decade 00:50:31
ago and beyond, our city would, you know, occasionally have serious financial issues. 00:50:37
We don't expect that, but it is sort of like I keep saying it's like we have to get back. We've kind of gotten used to a luxury 00:50:44
lifestyle the last few years and it's time to kind of get back to our real life stuff. You know, the the reality. Yeah, the the 00:50:50
year of winning mulatto is over. Yeah. And so this year is kind of the year where Justin that. So I'm pretty sure the day I got 00:50:56
here we started to look at that and. 00:51:02
We anticipated Canada's revenue dropping, so we started to make adjustments where we had vacancies, we froze them even though it 00:51:09
was kind of before we had, you know, those challenges. 00:51:14
And so that has worked out because it ended up we got the news that we're going to have about one, I think it was a $1.2 million 00:51:18
reduction in cannabis yearly moving on, moving forward 1.2 million and then right. 00:51:26
I think it's 600,000 and we've been looking at 400 pages of numbers the last month, so I might be getting them off a little bit 00:51:36
but. 00:51:40
But the another 600,000 or so that is because of the Amazon warehouse moving into Oxnard and taking a portion of every city sales 00:51:44
tax. So those are two big challenges that I think are coming for us and we're gonna do the new normal. And so, so we expect to 00:51:52
have some budget impacts there. And so we are looking closely, we have some positions that we help vacant where we're doing those 00:52:01
types of things. But at the end of the day, we're bringing a proposed balanced budget back to the council on this. 00:52:09
You know, yeah, to use the money. 00:52:54
But in this year's budget with it being revised, there's two main areas that the funding is, is is planned to be used and that is 00:52:56
primarily. 00:53:01
To provide about a million and a half dollars towards the operation of the Police Department and then just big picture. So our 00:53:08
Police Department is about $11 million a year to operate. Police are not cheap. I would say that's. 00:53:17
I think it's fair to say in most cities it's the biggest expense and the biggest. 00:53:25
You know, challenge and pension costs increasing and all that. 00:53:29
So it's about $11 million and so we propose using about 1.5 million of the 2.6 million or so towards. 00:53:33
Police costs and then that relates to our chief is very focused on also connecting with the port and trying to make sure it feels 00:53:44
like the port feels like we're getting the service. Are you getting the service from the Police Department that you expect and 00:53:51
kind of working proactively with Kristen? I think Mikey, that's perfect. Aligns with the contract. Yeah, yeah. And one of the 00:53:58
goals of, you know, both the city and the port, I think is, you know, it's really the security of the community. 00:54:06
That's crime or economic development. Yeah, exactly. So. So that's a big chunk of it. And then the second one, which is that 00:54:14
that's probably gonna be something that we look at trying to do like annually. The second one is more of a one time expense, but 00:54:18
this is the year we're gonna try to pay Rd. 00:54:23
And it's a big expense to do the whole section of ****** Rd. It'll probably end up being about 2.1 or 2.2 million. That's what 00:54:29
we're estimating. And so we're proposing sort of using some of the revenue worth basically a split where the city will pay half of 00:54:35
it and then that revenue pays half of the road project. 00:54:42
And and again, we're trying to look for mutually beneficial projects. I think it's we all know that's a critical Rd. for both, 00:54:50
both parties. 00:54:54
And good news to you, you have another 200,000 to spend. 00:55:36
Oh, I'll take it. So it's looking like it's 2.8. That's what we put in our budget for your, our, our contracted fees to you next 00:55:40
year. We have to disclose the forecast heading off the disaster for us coming in and pretty much with staff and and getting us on 00:55:48
track where we need a week or we're a little off track. We're in a good place. The crazy thing in it, you guys are going to 00:55:55
pension costs. 00:56:02
They're always the charge, but they're spiking at a level I haven't seen. And, you know, feels like it's always bad news. Either 00:56:11
the stock market's doing great and for some reason that could pass pension costs negatively or how far it says it's fun. Little 00:56:16
formula. Exactly. You know, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah. OK. 00:56:21
Great. Well, thank you. Appreciate that update. Thank you. 00:56:31
Item number 4, Washington DC trip, I think we talked about that. 00:56:35
Well, but we don't leave on a Monday. 00:57:15
Yeah, Banana Fest is coming up to the end of September. So we're not maybe we'll maybe what we should do is we can get we'll get, 00:57:17
we'll pull and then find a good time to go because we could even go November. You can go end up there's. No, it doesn't. We're not 00:57:23
beholden to any date. We just want to go. We also probably should talk to John and Kiriakis and find out good time. Yes. Yes, 00:57:29
exactly. Yeah. When are people in session and when is it, you know, and when are they competing with other things and stuff like 00:57:35
that? Yeah. 00:57:41
I just wanted to make sure we get it on our calendar before it starts getting up and then we can start playing on the head now and 00:57:48
getting that general idea of what we want to do. 00:57:52
Think about. 00:57:59
Being in the sun two whole days and then to Washington, Yeah, I'm not gonna. 00:58:01
If I could just take off the table though the week of September 30th. 00:58:09
That whole week, because I am in DC already for the university. So. Well, unfortunately, unfortunately, people let me split. I 00:58:17
tried that Wednesday. It was just so weird. Did we like the program? I mean, you were there last year. Is that good? Two days. 00:58:24
That's probably sufficient, right? I was exhausted by these. Yeah, it was a lot. No, we had a great time. Yeah. And left us plenty 00:58:32
of time in the Vietnamese. Yeah. It was a lot of work during the day. 00:58:39
It was, it was Wednesday, Thursday and then so when Tuesday and Sunday later and some of us extended a couple of days. I think one 00:58:46
of the best things is the transportation being altogether. Yeah, I feel like I was a celebrity. 00:58:55
The people that were escorting us is that woman. She was tough looking. She could take somebody out. 00:59:06
That's good. Well, perfect then. Thank you. And then item number 5, umm, other committee in coordination. 00:59:14
Great. 00:59:25
So we are officially over at 4:32 PM. 00:59:31
Thank you very much and we'll see you next month. 00:59:35
Yeah, it was on the Wednesday schedule. Oh, that's right, We said that. Yeah. And I love the idea that we're doing this once a 00:59:43
month. 00:59:46
A future day. We want to go every other month. That's great, but I can just pull it all together. Yeah, this is good for both of 00:59:51
us, but I believe August will need to be. 00:59:55
OK. 01:00:01
So we can take and this is on our website, it goes back to all the ones that we've funded over the years. 01:00:05
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Transcript

Well, good afternoon everyone. Thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the joint City of Port committee meeting. 00:00:05
I'd like to call disputed order. 00:00:11
Mayor Perez here. President Perez here. Mayor Pro Tem McKenzie, Vice President Ramirez City Manager. 00:00:17
Here, City Attorney Smith is absent part legal counsel Duran, Thank you. Next item C Public comments. Any public comments? 00:00:28
Thank you. 00:00:44
Discussion minutes Recommendation. Approval of the April 16th City Port Committee meeting. 00:00:46
Thank you. I did have one question. OK, just on just wanna make sure I understood on page 4, I'm looking at my page four in the 00:00:53
area that says minded that project. On the last sentence it says we're talking about phase one, 2-3 and four for the monuments and 00:01:03
it says future clarifying that phase two would have to come back as a new project for approval. 00:01:13
Just want to make sure we didn't mean approval that we will go forward, but an approval of what it will be. That's correct. 00:01:23
I just want to make sure that that's what that's correct. Thank you so much. Thank you. So we have a 1st and 2nd, 2nd. Thank you 00:01:32
all in favor any opposed or abstentions? 00:01:38
Thank you. Next item is for discussion is Community benefits Fund projects recommendations and provide recommendations if desired. 00:01:46
I'll just add just to remind everybody on process where we're at, OK, so we are. 00:01:55
Closing up this fiscal year on June 30, so starting July 1st is kind of our 190 day window. Michelle, can you help me remember the 00:02:02
amount I think that Austin said we had somewhere between them it is. 00:02:11
Available with the CPI adjustment this is 100,000. Adjusted by CP is upwards of $130,000. 00:02:23
I'm sorry, I don't have it right now. I'll text, I'll, I'll get the confirmation on that. But just in terms of process, so it's in 00:02:31
that neighborhood of around 100 and 3000 and $35,000 and we have 190 days to delivery and come up with the full process. So we 00:02:37
start here, we get through projects. We this time are ready with input from our board. You were ready last time, but now we can 00:02:43
share input. 00:02:49
Move forward with each year's allocation. So we are in that approaching fast, approaching 190 day window and a little bit ahead of 00:03:28
the game. 00:03:32
Right, because we're doing it before the post of the fiscal year. So just in terms of process, that's where we're at, 00:03:36
Commissioners and City Council members. Great. I do have a technical question for you, please. This list that we have attached 00:03:43
here, this is the one that the City of Camarillo, Camarillo presented last time around, right? And I know that there was a lot of 00:03:49
discussion last time when you clarified for us, Kristen, the difference between and the share revenue agreements. And I'm just 00:03:56
curious if we have a historical perspective on. 00:04:02
These projects and whether they fall in line with the four items on the legal document. 00:04:09
Did you all when you all came up with these? So these are most of these are on previous list already and had previous allocation 00:04:17
they've been, it's been a trend for a lot of these to have received. 00:04:23
There really wasn't much to do this year. I think there might have been one or two things like the tennis back or something that 00:04:31
hasn't been on the list. 00:04:35
Hey, Cortana, Senior programming safety. Yeah, but most of them are items that have been funded by the CVS in the past. Tennis 00:04:40
backboard owned by the city. So it's asking for a backboard other city tennis courts. So that would be considered general fund, a 00:04:50
public. Yeah, comment request. And I'll just note that and just don't remind me that that list was essentially a brainstorming. 00:05:00
Yeah. So and then be able to have the joint meeting to start talking about what ideas the joint committee wants to recommend this 00:05:10
year. Because my only thought is I think that we're in a good place that we should. I, I personally feel that this is, this has 00:05:17
been and I put it for me is the, if we went back to the agreement and looked at those four sections and said, OK, this is a good 00:05:24
time to go back and refocus on what we're supposed to be using these funds for. 00:05:31
Mr. Turner. 00:05:39
Madam President, would it be helpful if I shared with the group my notes on what that agreement says as to those four categories 00:05:41
we're talking about? 00:05:45
Thanks. 00:05:51
Alright, so this comes from. There are two sections of the 2015 settlement agreement that control here. The 1st is section 9 which 00:05:52
is the general. 00:05:56
Statement of kind of what this is meant for. It says the CVS quote may only be spent on approved projects that benefit both the 00:06:01
city and the district and the communities they serve. So that's the overarching kind of controlling. 00:06:08
Goal for that for better word and then Section 10 is what President is talking about. Section 10 authorizes that CBS funds funds 00:06:17
be spent on a shoreline protection. 00:06:22
Community development through joint initiatives, which is, you know, it is somewhat broad, but community development means 00:06:29
something in our business, right in the city business and it's been in the special districts, opportunistic endeavors like 00:06:37
economic development or environmental mitigation and then other projects agreed by the board and the City Council, of course upon 00:06:44
recommendation from this body. So as as long as we're as you are identifying projects that fit within those general parameters. 00:06:51
And, and your point is well taken, Kristen, I apologize for for. 00:07:40
And but my point was that it was it was a serious negotiation. There was a lot of back and forth. And I think all the parties were 00:07:44
happy to get it done, happy to get that settlement agreement signed and sort of being able to move forward from where they had 00:07:50
been in the years immediately preceding that settlement agreement. So thank you for the reminder. Just a quick question for you. 00:07:55
And I don't have it. I have it, but I don't have it in front of me. So you read the areas and then you ended it with other items 00:08:01
that are approved by. 00:08:07
The board. 00:08:14
Board of Harbor Commission attend the City Council, right? So do you need those four items as approved or those four items and 00:08:15
other items that are approved and and? 00:08:20
Haven't been there. An idea was to create some latitude. 00:08:29
To what was relevant at the church. 00:08:33
And I know that we came up with some items, but I would like us to consider going to take a step back and say do these and do ours 00:08:41
all within these parameters because it's a good time to clean house and really focus on that. 00:08:50
What are you asking if they have? 00:09:13
Perez asked about this particular page. I don't have that document at all. No, that's the settlement. That's the settlement 00:09:18
agreement. Yeah, exactly. 00:09:22
That's something you want to forget. 00:09:27
So I think. 00:09:48
You're saying that? 00:09:52
Maybe take a step back from diving right into projects and I would like to have a memo whistle criteria. 00:09:54
No, I'll defer to my board. I mean if you wanna say this is we discussed this in our last board meeting and I think there was some 00:10:05
communication that maybe less is more. If you did put more towards less things, you might get bigger Bank of those. So that's just 00:10:11
something that was more conversational. 00:10:17
And then there were some specific core areas that thought well shoreline protection senior activities or or grant writing in the 00:10:23
DC trip kind of came out through our commissioners board is something that we should bring back. 00:10:29
When talking about community development, what items do you on the list? I'd like to know what you consider. 00:10:38
Are we talking about the settlement agreement? 00:10:51
How does this the list that we have? Oh yes. 00:10:54
Coincide with that section. 00:10:58
Before I'm not and I'm just more of just asking in general. 00:11:01
Because I think that we've gone. 00:11:06
Away from those four items, and I totally agree where Chris made this. If we put allocate more money, let's say for example, for 00:11:10
granted, I think that there's tremendous opportunity for federal funding as we saw we went to our DC trip, but we did. You can't 00:11:15
set aside $5000. 00:11:21
$25,000 for grant writer to really be researching and writing this grant should probably be the bank. I don't know that we need do 00:11:28
we need that we have a new position and is he? 00:11:34
I think we we created a new analyst position. We have a new panelist that analyst is starting to track grants. But I think that 00:11:41
the idea I heard from a prior meeting was looking at grants that could be applied for that would be beneficial to both important 00:11:48
and the city. I think in that case having somebody has expertise in that. 00:11:54
Something that can kind of do that by contract for both agencies value to it and our analyst is going to be learning that skills 00:12:02
here. So it might be a good year to actually have a year where we have a contractor doing it and can get our analysts tied in with 00:12:09
them and kind of learn how to get some context. 00:12:15
Responsible and overseas our grant writing and it's a heavy lift and Adamson department, but you have to get all the letters of 00:12:24
support. So they give some context. We spent think 45,000 forty $45,000 to write our grant to the state for the Pfizer grant that 00:12:32
we got and it succeeded in getting us 80 million, but it took $40,000 to get that. So it's it's it's it takes a lot of bandwidth 00:12:39
and firms usually have kind of that bandwidth to help them just to get confidence. 00:12:47
I mean, at the university we have one person grant research, grant writing and once again they'll put the return is tremendous. 00:12:55
Yeah, I got a contractor last year in my prior city and even a fairly low cost contractor. We ended up paying $60,000 for one year 00:13:06
to apply for three days I think. 00:13:13
That was just one Grant was keep it forget. You know, we it's expensive to write for this, OK. 00:13:21
Yeah, but if you get the right people, you get them. 00:13:27
So, yeah, so I would like to hear thoughts on what we think are opportunistic ideas and community development if we want to talk 00:13:31
about. 00:13:35
Bringing those in, Can I ask a quick question about Grant while we're on it? So the manager, what do you think our expectation is 00:13:39
coming this year? 00:13:44
And is that because we don't have? Yeah, I think in the past we've sort of applied for three or four that we get every year. And 00:13:52
typically those fall into like public safety. There's literally a grant called the COPS grant and COPS stands for something. But 00:13:59
like every city, every year you put an application in. So the past week we got things like that. So we haven't really like. 00:14:07
I Adam, I don't know if it's possible to pick it up, but the aftermath of our DC trip. 00:14:54
There were certain ones that, you know, there was kind of areas that we were encouraged to go for. One was inside DoD because we 00:15:03
are a community in a port abutting a Navy. I recall that one. There was another where a lot of community grants for EPA where we 00:15:09
could do clean port and clean city. And, and you know, those are some of the top of my head, but I think they're we went to a lot 00:15:16
of meetings. We kind of had this debrief and we haven't really followed through because we don't have this resource. 00:15:22
This is, yeah, I think the same. Mm-hmm. 00:15:29
We already, we've heard of a lot of ground opportunities, but then we have to say we come back, right, We get busy, right? 00:15:34
Exactly, Yeah, exactly. And I was just going to. 00:15:39
With our RDP truck, I got the kind of gone back out for the university and now we're going to start an internship program for 00:15:48
engineering students in summer 2025. But there's follow report that has to be done, right? But that's part of my job that we have 00:15:53
someone assigned to the grant money portion. It could be very difficult for the city and for for the court on having someone 00:15:58
focused on those particular items. 00:16:04
I think maybe the second piece of comment sounds like this is the feedback. 00:16:15
Report that some of these things will be bigger chunks, bigger costs. So it might be the case of having to do fewer things that 00:16:20
cost more rather than a lot of small things. So that's that's what I want to think about. 00:16:28
Hey, Cortana, shoreline protection should be an obvious one for both of the benefit both of us, right? And then Washington DC 00:16:37
joint trip, I think we should keep on there because we live with not sure, I think that there's a lot more possibilities. 00:16:44
The last year with us pretty much tagging along and seeing how everything's going and now we have an actual game plan that we want 00:16:52
to make sure that we prepare for that we can attack from our side as well. Not just not not just which is it's beneficial to go 00:16:59
there and support the port as well, but we want to make sure that well, I think exactly. So I think that's my understanding of 00:17:05
those that joint trip is to benefit both of us. So if you have. 00:17:11
Well, yeah, I don't know. I did get that as well. And they were all all very congratulatory to us for the fact that we were able 00:17:52
to do this, but we know we could have left. How do we? 00:17:58
Could have leveraged it a little better and I think we're going to make sure we do that this time. 00:18:06
Yeah. No, but but it was really well received. And I think if there's priorities that you have and the priors we have, we go in 00:18:15
there together. 00:18:19
They're more likely to get attention at the federal level for sure. 00:18:24
Do we know offhand, Kristen, what the dollar amount was set aside for that DC trip so we can deduct it from that? We didn't in our 00:18:30
board meeting put in any numbers. 00:18:35
I will ping Austin and find out what it actually cost 'cause I know we brought extra people that we didn't tag to the CPF. We made 00:18:42
sure it covered the city folks. And that's, again, they're in the midst of reconciling everything. So if you have any outstanding 00:18:49
invoices or they would have to make sure everybody was made whole for that trip. 00:18:56
But we had put $10,000 in the past. I think it's kind of like. 00:19:05
That's what we did in the past just 'cause it's, it's the airfare and hotels and if you do it in two days. But if you want, it 00:19:10
depends who you wanna bring. 00:19:15
You know, three people is good. 00:19:21
Yeah. 00:19:24
Right at that level. 00:19:34
I'll find out from Austin, sorry. 00:19:37
The one thing on Charlene protection and I'm not sure. 00:19:40
All this financed to correct me, but we've been trying to reconcile and so I think we made good progress so we'll. 00:19:45
Follow up with you guys on that after, but I'm but there was that project on the 2019 list I think it was that said something like 00:19:52
sand replenishment. 00:19:58
It was on one of the prior discipline. 00:20:06
Projects, and I don't think we could figure out what that was. 00:20:10
Record. 00:20:17
And I will just say like $20,000 like. 00:20:21
It's not much for Sandra Flemishment. We're talking about a $18 million budget. That would be more advocacy is how I would see it 00:20:27
in education or something like that. So that's that's a category of our contract, the shoreline protection. So maybe we would 00:20:35
wanna have something there, but I think we should define it a little bit better what exactly we're expecting it to be and what 00:20:42
we're looking to do with it. And maybe we'll just be, you know, some funding to advocate with the. 00:20:49
Army core needs to be. 00:20:58
Along those lines and so time what timeline wise you said 190 day windows starts July 1st so it doesn't have to be. 00:21:01
Running start here, we're ahead of her so yeah, so we have the clock really starts clicking from July 1 but it's good to to start 00:21:17
kind of reading through things because. 00:21:21
We start here, the goal is to come out and we do have monthly meetings now, but to come out of this meeting with a joint list that 00:21:27
we all love and then bring that back to our mutual boards for approval. I do like and I would like to see if everyone agrees, the 00:21:35
5K event that we did in March joined collaboration between the two. I believe that was CDF funds before. 00:21:42
That I think that falls under community with community development. 00:21:53
I, I, people in my neighborhood got really jazzed about that run. And then a woman that lives across the street from me couldn't 00:22:46
run and she had to go away. So she's like, here, give my shirt and number to somebody else. So she did. And that person won. And 00:22:53
the trophy is still sitting in my kitchen. So no, I gotta give it back. 00:23:01
I actually know who won, so you know, I have their trophies, OK, With the trophy, I have it. It's in my kitchen. I look at it and 00:23:09
it's hard and everything and I keep forgetting to bring it in. 00:23:15
Item number 2 for senior activities, I kind of requested last time as to what, what did you say doing for. Yeah. And I think that 00:23:22
for us, our recreation program has some senior activities. The one that is well known that everybody talks about is the sizzling 00:23:30
seniors and that's the senior exercise program that's on I think it's Wednesday and Friday and maybe everybody knows there's a, we 00:23:39
have an instructor Sharon who does that and. 00:23:47
Does the senior exercise classes. So we do that programming. There's also, we had talked a little bit about this, but there's also 00:23:56
a new thing that's been developing that we sort of sponsor and it was the Ocean View Pavilion is doing something now called. 00:24:03
Sammy Seniors. 00:24:10
So that'd be a possibility, but those are probably the two biggest things. Other than that, you know, we have recreation 00:24:46
programming that's open to everybody, but there's not a whole lot of. So we have a. 00:24:51
It's not our community centers just by not a specific, just specific citizens. 00:24:57
What about like like the library based on on the Christian Science Monitor model? You know how different cities, big big cities, 00:25:02
have a Christian Science library? 00:25:09
Well, Boston's headquarters, you should know about that. 00:25:19
It's it's it's it's a Free Library where, you know, seriously. Well, it's actually open to the public, but we have a light. Yeah. 00:25:24
Can I just say this real quick? So that that's the only one that I really had questions on because we have like our city manager 00:25:30
was saying, we have our Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We have our senior exercise first Monday of the month, we have social and 00:25:37
then we have so we have some things. But my question is. 00:25:44
I'm always good with senior activities. 00:25:53
But do we have the bandwidth exactly to? 00:25:56
Additional, right. And I think as far as programming goes, we went back, we talked to REC. 00:26:01
100 people who show up, three guys exercise or yoga, it's an hour long and there is a yoga class we do, we do yoga classes. They 00:26:47
just aren't senior specific. It's open to the public so seniors wanna sign up. In Canada, they don't. 00:26:55
You know, one thought there though, maybe this is too disconnected, but could maybe tie into maybe some of the museum program or 00:27:38
something because that's, that's something we're getting a lot of senior volunteers and things for. 00:27:45
As when just you got me thinking when you said space for seniors, I was thinking that that museum could be something we. 00:27:53
Have like some senior programs. 00:27:59
Question for you on the 5K, how much money do you call it? 00:28:03
Think it's 5000. Think what we did this time was. 00:28:07
Expensive because there's a lot more than it. Turned into a bigger thing because originally we expected only about 150 to 200 00:28:16
participants over 500. And so we had actually closed it. If people remember the 1st 200 closed it and then overwhelming demand. So 00:28:23
we reopened it. So it ended up being probably double what we budgeted. 00:28:29
And so I think last this year it was something like we did 5000 from each test, 5000 Banana Fest 5 and then 5000 each for two, two 00:28:38
different events was the that was the general idea. 00:28:44
And so in the future that would be one thing would be do we wanna go bigger, you know, keep the 5K and just go bigger there, or do 00:28:52
we still wanna do 2 events and scale down? 00:28:56
For example, I serve on the board of CNH and CMHS. This is one of the areas that we want to ask to be a sponsor. 00:29:04
Of that will help offset any excess about the $5000 which I'm willing to to help facilitate the health care facility as well. 00:29:15
Exactly exactly. So we can start with, if we're going to keep that on the list, let's start finding out jointly on who's not going 00:29:21
to reach out to, to help offset any additional cost beyond the $5000. 00:29:28
That's a good idea most most of the sponsorships. 00:29:38
And we, I, I, I think that's what happened. 00:29:44
And then the six we ended up spending, you should probably charge us all of the six for the one and then. 00:29:47
Alright, so this is what we did. OK. So do you see you guys were right, it was 20. That's probably enough. 00:30:31
And then these were the other things that we did last year. 00:30:38
So if you look. 00:30:41
What is the Healthy Community on the Bottom 6350? 00:30:45
6350. 00:30:52
They're, you know, you have a lot of Santa like that or you have good coffee. 00:31:39
Trucks and things like that, but. 00:31:43
Every marathon we signed up for is at least $50. OK. Right. So if we wanted to, yeah, look at that. We even if we went to 2025, 00:32:18
yeah. You know, people could pay people. We got a lot of feedback that people said it was it was a good deal. Yeah. OK. 00:32:26
Even the Fillmore little 5K they had for their Wellness that recently was a $30 fee. 00:32:37
Did I interrupt you? No, I was just going to comment that we'll try to get a date on the calendar, but if everybody. 00:32:46
The winter is so weird. 00:32:54
So we'll try to kind of keep that in mind end of February, I think, not beginning of February. 00:32:59
Well, I guess there are other things on their list that so, so far with DC training, is there anything else that you know a lot of 00:33:17
these organizations in the past, I just leave it to the discretion of the leadership here what how you feel about. 00:33:25
The other items. 00:33:33
I'm not sure what city marquee letters were or that was just a random. 00:33:35
Thought like there were a few of these that were added that were just kind of random, yeah. 00:33:41
First, I mean, I don't know that seems to be one that. 00:33:48
It's the the Lego first doesn't get a lot of mileage if we did want to do a short money and it's not a heavy lift to staff. 00:33:52
So on your list, did that come up through? Yeah, that came up. So let me just ask a question here. I've been to the last two and I 00:34:07
really enjoyed them. 00:34:10
But when I put my hat on about what's the benefit to the port and of the city, of me understand that it's gonna go back to this. 00:34:14
Is there any leeway there to ask Velma? We can go back and ask her. I'll tell you this when I get a couple things. We did a 00:35:29
debrief. It's got to be better parking period. This community cannot be impacted that way. Even if we sponsored or not, it cannot 00:35:36
happen like that again. It has to use the beach lots, bus the kids in it's but I know a lot of people stayed at the little hotel 00:35:44
here 'cause I I saw lots of backpacks, you know, going over there and I'm sure they probably walked over, but we could probably. 00:35:51
And then they get a little ticket that's, you know, maybe they get, you know, we help the companies with it, right, As part of 00:36:33
the, yeah, the CPF funding. But you get a 10% discount if you go to Anacapa per capita. You get like, you give them a little 00:36:40
passport. So they'll go to the different businesses in the city. What was it this year? 2400 students? Yeah. So, so obviously they 00:36:48
they have to eat. Yeah. I mean, you know, anything that can bring people into our city. 00:36:55
Yeah, I'm sure they do. But we could help it along. Tucker, who does the Ventura? 00:37:03
Lodges Association yes that he he's great at marketing so he can help market Let's figure out how to market this into folks to 00:37:12
stay in our hotels and work with visit Thelma Thelma is work with her on getting these this information these links to the hotels 00:37:20
to the restaurants to the parents before when they register give them a list and we should have more than a minute in the opening 00:37:28
to be able to like get an opportunity to educate these like on the city and the port like so they walk away with a. 00:37:36
Not like, oh, we only get a second. 00:37:44
Do we have any local school? Grace Brethren, Although BC County I think went really far. 00:37:48
So I just wanna have a conversation. So that was what my question was about. The other part of the question was I run into a lot 00:37:58
of folks that are from Port Wyoming that don't even know that the the event is happening. So I think the strategy you know. 00:38:06
Marketing 'cause, you know, we go as an educator, you know, I know that there's a great benefit in our local kids going out and 00:38:15
seeing young people do these things. So that's kind of where I'm coming from. 00:38:21
They'll do a robotics in LA somewhere and and and in our society. 00:38:29
Yeah, exactly. 00:39:14
And were there any comments from the city on any of the other items on here that you wanted to bring up that we want to move 00:39:20
forward or? 00:39:24
At least we have decided could come off, right. We removed that. Yeah, because they're not doing that. Yeah, there's a when we 00:39:30
did, we're in the midst of that reconciling that we mentioned and we found that they actually haven't really taken money the last 00:39:36
couple of years. So we actually love to figure that out too. But I think that can come off. 00:39:42
There's, there's, there's one item that they sent you on this list and it was suggested to me by one of your one of your winning 00:39:48
residents, and that is a public shower for dogs at the beach. 00:39:55
Yes. 00:40:03
No, no. But for dogs, this is specifically for dogs. That's I don't think. 00:40:19
Well, at the beach. 00:40:25
To allow dogs, believe it or not, it's actually one of our more controversial things. Yeah, the council members know. I got an 00:40:28
e-mail that they were all blind copied on. Remember the public when I was on vacation, just outraged about why we weren't 00:40:34
arresting people with their dogs on the beach. So I think for us, it's still a area like we're careful about it, what to do, what 00:40:40
to do with that Walker dog every every morning at the beach. 00:40:46
Yeah, yeah, 'cause I know there's restrictions on the Yeah, you can't use the regular on the same, they're not allowed on the 00:40:53
sand. 00:41:00
We didn't. It was created for our. 00:41:06
I'm still trying to brainstorm as to how to. There's been a few ideas over the years, but it's never we've never been able to come 00:41:09
to a consensus. I'm glad I'm a catalogue. 00:41:15
So just so I, I, I'm understanding direction correctly. So right now we have 4 things on the list. So it's DC grant running 00:41:23
healthy communities in Lego are the ones that we kind of gave affirmation to. I just want to make sure that there's something. 00:41:30
More and if not James, OK, I do have one. OK, I I'd like to just propose it to you all and then it won't come up and it's on the 00:41:37
list. It says elementary school programs. And so we you all know we're getting ready to do scholarships for folks. So the 00:41:45
elementary school I'm talking about Port Hueneme Elementary School District. I spoke to Doctor Walker. I got the action to go and 00:41:52
talk to her and find out what are some things that might be. 00:42:00
They might need money. 00:42:09
And so I spoke with her just today and she said that they do have. 00:42:11
A Performing Arts Center, she said most of the items are covered by the school district and she said however, they have throughout 00:42:17
all the local Miami school district elementary schools have bands, they have mariachi, they have musicals. You all know they get 00:42:24
ready to have one at. 00:42:30
At the OPAC and she said that the only area that would be really nice if they can get a supplement is helping. 00:42:38
Me, so that's around. 00:42:48
She would be able to expect even at the most level she I mentioned you know most of them around 5000. 00:42:52
Anything that you could get would be this is for the band for for the either the band or just through the Arts Center. So I'm put 00:43:06
that out there and let you all kind of talk to them. And the only reason I brought it up today is that we're talking about 00:43:13
scholarships for high school students. So I don't see that we've done anything in the past for the elementary school. 00:43:20
OK, and you don't have a good band, 'cause I I judge the Saint Patrick's Day parade. But you know, I do have to go to the uniform. 00:43:29
What about the density firm that this lady by the name of Jewel has? It's in the school district, right? So it's covered by the 00:43:36
Yes. It's in the arms. Yeah. It's covered by the school districts. Yes. All that in the arts. She said it's the band. Anything in 00:43:42
the in the arts, Dancing, Singing. But she specifically talked about the band, the mariachi and the school dance. And she said all 00:43:48
of the programs are at all of the Whitening High School. 00:43:54
That sounds like uniforms aren't necessarily covered under all that. So with that list, then James and I can get together with the 00:44:02
accountants and put some numbers here to bring back at our next meeting and see. 00:44:08
If you like them and then we can bring them back to our report. I mean, just ask a couple questions. So you have the Banana 00:44:17
Festival there. 00:44:21
Those are events we're gonna put on. Oh yeah, we're gonna do them. Exactly. 00:44:58
OK, what was the whining youth program in education? 00:45:04
Maybe you programming education. I think that was yours. Oh, no, no, wait. This is this year. That's last year. So the youth music 00:45:09
and cultural programs one or which one? Programming education 5000. No idea. I was thinking like cache and like cache was used to 00:45:16
be used music. Oh yeah, that's right. It's the one right above. Oh, right above it. OK, I don't know what that one was. And then 00:45:22
it could have been real guppy. Did we do? 00:45:29
Yeah, yeah. 00:45:36
Oh, what game? 00:45:41
Yes, because the Explorer program is already on there. So we did the Explorer program which is youth interested in law enforcement 00:45:47
and I believe the winning youth program was real guppy. 00:45:51
Oh yeah, yeah. 00:45:56
That was the CARES program. 00:46:00
We don't know that. We will mention where that came from. 00:46:05
The brainstorming list explorers and real guppies on are those ones that we want to keep on the list. And I I guess in the cache 00:46:11
is the other one. Cache, yeah. 00:46:16
And. 00:46:23
Yeah, we don't have them on the list this year. 00:46:26
Do you have? Yes, I think we did Little League because we did. There was a hiccup for them and are they back in business or not 00:46:32
yet? 00:46:37
Which is gonna continue through this year. So at the beginning of next year, they'll be back in business. Their next season of 00:46:43
2025, they'll be back in ******. But right now they're and that's gonna be a bubble in Springs Park because I know you mentioned 00:46:50
it when we gave them the money. Yeah. So is that going to be an express practical practice for you guys? 00:46:57
That's a $16,000,000. We got a $10 million grant. So the rest is coming from a series of grants that totaled about. 00:47:04
Yeah, the grants and ARPA funding. So it's the biggest project we've probably done in decades. 00:47:15
$16,000,000 including because everything went crazy price wise during COVID, about 5 million we're going to have to pay out of our 00:47:21
own pocket, which was not the original plan. So. 00:47:26
So that's that's a big project. And then a lot of things came in that we didn't necessarily anticipate. For instance, it required 00:47:33
us to 88 everything all the way around, including at the sidewalk and fixing the the last one was the parking lot at the Community 00:47:41
Center, which we didn't know we were gonna have to do what we have to do that as well. So so when is. 00:47:49
Practical, sorry. 00:47:59
When is the project going to be finished? At the end of the year? It has to be by December 2024. It's spring of 23 or it's spring 00:48:02
of 25. Wow, I thought the deadline was the December it. 00:48:07
Would be great if we can get it done. There's like a deadline of December and then we have to report that everything's done in 00:48:13
like April or May. So we, we really are gonna be cramping. So exciting. Yeah. So it's a big project. It's it'll be cool when we 00:48:20
can do the groundbreaking. So my hearing notice that we wanna keep police Explorers Little League on there and just kind of play 00:48:27
with numbers and bring it back. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah. That'll be the community, community development category. 00:48:34
OK. Along with the label first? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Then we have the elementary school in there, too, along with DC grant writing. OK, 00:48:42
We'll play with numbers and see what we can do. OK. 00:48:47
Thank you. And then item number three, city. 00:48:53
Yeah. And so it's part of just me saying that at some point that we'll start trying to come proactively to talk about our budget 00:48:58
and kind of tell everybody what's going on and what the plans are. 00:49:04
The city adopts A2 year budget and actually technically the budget was adopted about a week before I got here. So I haven't really 00:49:11
gotten to like a job, my own budget from scratch yet. So I just explained that because so this is a big year revision at this next 00:49:19
council meeting. And so we're making a lot of adjustments to try to. 00:49:27
Can you meet the new economic realities? And I wanted to come and sort of explain that and give a little overview. But the caveat 00:49:37
is like, this isn't a full budget and I'm not starting from scratch and I don't have like the ability to make a lot of changes. 00:49:43
So, but in a nutshell. 00:49:49
You know our budget is. 00:49:58
I would say our budget in general we're in good shape, but we're seeing the impacts of the end of the the monopoly we had on 00:50:00
cannabis for all those years. And so luckily when people forgot about it maybe didn't make all the headlines when we got cannabis, 00:50:08
we also adopted measure you, the sales tax measure. And so cannabis is going away, but we still have that measure you sales tax 00:50:15
increase and that's gonna really I think help. 00:50:23
Kind of if that's really gonna be the thing that helps to stabilize this into the future, whereas in the past, you know, a decade 00:50:31
ago and beyond, our city would, you know, occasionally have serious financial issues. 00:50:37
We don't expect that, but it is sort of like I keep saying it's like we have to get back. We've kind of gotten used to a luxury 00:50:44
lifestyle the last few years and it's time to kind of get back to our real life stuff. You know, the the reality. Yeah, the the 00:50:50
year of winning mulatto is over. Yeah. And so this year is kind of the year where Justin that. So I'm pretty sure the day I got 00:50:56
here we started to look at that and. 00:51:02
We anticipated Canada's revenue dropping, so we started to make adjustments where we had vacancies, we froze them even though it 00:51:09
was kind of before we had, you know, those challenges. 00:51:14
And so that has worked out because it ended up we got the news that we're going to have about one, I think it was a $1.2 million 00:51:18
reduction in cannabis yearly moving on, moving forward 1.2 million and then right. 00:51:26
I think it's 600,000 and we've been looking at 400 pages of numbers the last month, so I might be getting them off a little bit 00:51:36
but. 00:51:40
But the another 600,000 or so that is because of the Amazon warehouse moving into Oxnard and taking a portion of every city sales 00:51:44
tax. So those are two big challenges that I think are coming for us and we're gonna do the new normal. And so, so we expect to 00:51:52
have some budget impacts there. And so we are looking closely, we have some positions that we help vacant where we're doing those 00:52:01
types of things. But at the end of the day, we're bringing a proposed balanced budget back to the council on this. 00:52:09
You know, yeah, to use the money. 00:52:54
But in this year's budget with it being revised, there's two main areas that the funding is, is is planned to be used and that is 00:52:56
primarily. 00:53:01
To provide about a million and a half dollars towards the operation of the Police Department and then just big picture. So our 00:53:08
Police Department is about $11 million a year to operate. Police are not cheap. I would say that's. 00:53:17
I think it's fair to say in most cities it's the biggest expense and the biggest. 00:53:25
You know, challenge and pension costs increasing and all that. 00:53:29
So it's about $11 million and so we propose using about 1.5 million of the 2.6 million or so towards. 00:53:33
Police costs and then that relates to our chief is very focused on also connecting with the port and trying to make sure it feels 00:53:44
like the port feels like we're getting the service. Are you getting the service from the Police Department that you expect and 00:53:51
kind of working proactively with Kristen? I think Mikey, that's perfect. Aligns with the contract. Yeah, yeah. And one of the 00:53:58
goals of, you know, both the city and the port, I think is, you know, it's really the security of the community. 00:54:06
That's crime or economic development. Yeah, exactly. So. So that's a big chunk of it. And then the second one, which is that 00:54:14
that's probably gonna be something that we look at trying to do like annually. The second one is more of a one time expense, but 00:54:18
this is the year we're gonna try to pay Rd. 00:54:23
And it's a big expense to do the whole section of ****** Rd. It'll probably end up being about 2.1 or 2.2 million. That's what 00:54:29
we're estimating. And so we're proposing sort of using some of the revenue worth basically a split where the city will pay half of 00:54:35
it and then that revenue pays half of the road project. 00:54:42
And and again, we're trying to look for mutually beneficial projects. I think it's we all know that's a critical Rd. for both, 00:54:50
both parties. 00:54:54
And good news to you, you have another 200,000 to spend. 00:55:36
Oh, I'll take it. So it's looking like it's 2.8. That's what we put in our budget for your, our, our contracted fees to you next 00:55:40
year. We have to disclose the forecast heading off the disaster for us coming in and pretty much with staff and and getting us on 00:55:48
track where we need a week or we're a little off track. We're in a good place. The crazy thing in it, you guys are going to 00:55:55
pension costs. 00:56:02
They're always the charge, but they're spiking at a level I haven't seen. And, you know, feels like it's always bad news. Either 00:56:11
the stock market's doing great and for some reason that could pass pension costs negatively or how far it says it's fun. Little 00:56:16
formula. Exactly. You know, it doesn't make any sense. Yeah. OK. 00:56:21
Great. Well, thank you. Appreciate that update. Thank you. 00:56:31
Item number 4, Washington DC trip, I think we talked about that. 00:56:35
Well, but we don't leave on a Monday. 00:57:15
Yeah, Banana Fest is coming up to the end of September. So we're not maybe we'll maybe what we should do is we can get we'll get, 00:57:17
we'll pull and then find a good time to go because we could even go November. You can go end up there's. No, it doesn't. We're not 00:57:23
beholden to any date. We just want to go. We also probably should talk to John and Kiriakis and find out good time. Yes. Yes, 00:57:29
exactly. Yeah. When are people in session and when is it, you know, and when are they competing with other things and stuff like 00:57:35
that? Yeah. 00:57:41
I just wanted to make sure we get it on our calendar before it starts getting up and then we can start playing on the head now and 00:57:48
getting that general idea of what we want to do. 00:57:52
Think about. 00:57:59
Being in the sun two whole days and then to Washington, Yeah, I'm not gonna. 00:58:01
If I could just take off the table though the week of September 30th. 00:58:09
That whole week, because I am in DC already for the university. So. Well, unfortunately, unfortunately, people let me split. I 00:58:17
tried that Wednesday. It was just so weird. Did we like the program? I mean, you were there last year. Is that good? Two days. 00:58:24
That's probably sufficient, right? I was exhausted by these. Yeah, it was a lot. No, we had a great time. Yeah. And left us plenty 00:58:32
of time in the Vietnamese. Yeah. It was a lot of work during the day. 00:58:39
It was, it was Wednesday, Thursday and then so when Tuesday and Sunday later and some of us extended a couple of days. I think one 00:58:46
of the best things is the transportation being altogether. Yeah, I feel like I was a celebrity. 00:58:55
The people that were escorting us is that woman. She was tough looking. She could take somebody out. 00:59:06
That's good. Well, perfect then. Thank you. And then item number 5, umm, other committee in coordination. 00:59:14
Great. 00:59:25
So we are officially over at 4:32 PM. 00:59:31
Thank you very much and we'll see you next month. 00:59:35
Yeah, it was on the Wednesday schedule. Oh, that's right, We said that. Yeah. And I love the idea that we're doing this once a 00:59:43
month. 00:59:46
A future day. We want to go every other month. That's great, but I can just pull it all together. Yeah, this is good for both of 00:59:51
us, but I believe August will need to be. 00:59:55
OK. 01:00:01
So we can take and this is on our website, it goes back to all the ones that we've funded over the years. 01:00:05