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35 minutes. 00:00:02
When you took a train or what? 00:00:11
I know. 00:00:20
Perfect. OK, Well, go ahead and call the meeting to order please at 3:31 PM. 00:00:39
On July 24th of the. 00:00:45
City of Portland Union, Oxford Harbor District Joint City Port Committee meeting. 00:00:49
Roll call, please Representatives of the city of port Windeney, Mayor Perez here, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Leon here city manager 00:00:53
Vega and representatives of the Oxford Harbor District, President Zacharias here, Vice President Ramirez and. 00:01:01
Yeah, we could. Legal counsel Rich Rand joining us as well and Stacy Lane filling in for Mistika today. 00:01:11
Perfect. Thank you. Any public comments at this time? 00:01:21
Great. Moving on to item, Devon is discussion approval of the minutes for our meeting back on June 26th. 00:01:27
Thank you. Second, I'll second. Thank you all in favor aye, any opposed Thank you. Motion carries next item Item 2-3 benefits of 00:01:37
an existing projects update and reconciliation reconciliation status recommendations. 00:01:45
So thank you all. I'll give a quick overview and then also we've got. 00:01:56
Adam in Here are the ideas needed to do any clarifications, but here's a quick summary of the 2024 proposed projects. The ones on 00:02:02
the top are the mutually agreed projects and there's a remaining 33,000 with suggestions being mental health, public safety, the 00:02:11
lifeguard program, scholarships. So with these, they're all under review and then they'll be brought into board and city. 00:02:19
In the coming weeks and months or week weeks really and just for just for clarification purposes. 00:02:28
OK. I'll cut the question purposes the mutually discussed projects, we both have not gone to our respective bodies for approval to 00:02:42
move forward, am I correct, Correct. That's correct. And then we'll we'll go to do that in our meeting in August and you'll do it 00:02:48
in the meeting in September, 1st week of September. May I ask a question? 00:02:55
On that, on mental health, what is the thing that we mean by mental health? 00:03:03
I brought that up because I know that. 00:03:08
Mayor Perez is very involved. 00:03:10
So I just brought that up as a topic, but she mentioned she didn't have anything at the top of her mind on what to focus on. So 00:03:15
that's something. The bottom ones are just suggestions. We talked about when we have 1-2 ones in those categories. And I believe 00:03:22
it was she was going to go back to the board to see if they had any suggestions for mental health specific items. But I didn't at 00:03:29
the time it was being discussed. But someone is working on on that signing up program for whatever you mean by. 00:03:36
Services. 00:03:45
Well. 00:03:46
It's very, yes, which is why we wanted to go back to our respective boards to kind of narrow that scope, right. And we may not go 00:03:50
down that direction, but I see that. 00:03:54
Passion of course, so that's why I suggested it, but there's nothing fine-tuned yet in that particular one. Now one thing that I 00:03:59
was mentioning to Michelle earlier was that perhaps in for future. 00:04:06
Meetings, we could have a category on this site here that says this particular item falls under option one, this particular item 00:04:14
falls on option two. And then that way we can go back if we're finding out where a lot of our projects are followed in other, then 00:04:20
we could say, OK, we need to revisit what we're doing. 00:04:26
Get an idea of where each falls in the category and so we can get a better idea of where we need to focus. 00:04:34
Exactly. Thank you. Before you go on the process question, so. 00:04:41
So we've agreed upon the top mutually discussed project and so we have the committee. 00:04:48
Yes, yes, yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. So we we in this room and so process is now the port will go back and look at it 00:04:55
and prove it. 00:05:00
I'm saying improvement. The Council will go back and approve. Are we this is it. We're not taking anything back to do other 00:05:07
recommendations other than we're talking about those bottom three and is the expectation is at the top will be approved even at 00:05:13
the bottom three or not, correct. 00:05:19
Yes, yes, yes. And, and let's say for example, if you come back and your group and the City Council says no, we don't want to do 00:05:28
the littling, then we can discuss. We can discuss at that time when we could reconvene what the port agreed upon and what the city 00:05:34
agreed upon it. If all goes well, then all those will involve. 00:05:40
And because they're mutually discussed project, we've talked about them several times already. We don't have an expectation that 00:05:47
anything is going to drop off the list and then we have to reconvene again. 00:05:53
To suggest new ones, most of these have already been funded before. So they're, we're already used to seeing those names. I'm 00:05:59
just, I'm just asking the question because the timeline is pushing back. We keep getting, keep pushing back. So just want to know 00:06:04
if we can when we go away. So we won't be back until September. So we're already looking at September. Now if we look at September 00:06:10
and then someone says, oh, I have another recommendation. 00:06:15
Then now we're in October, right. And so I thought that's just a process check for me exactly. Now here's a question. A technical 00:06:21
question along those lines though is since we know Washington DC is probably not going to happen until spring of 2025, what 00:06:27
happens to those funds? Do we need to now reallocate those funds to the 33,000 or No, I don't. I think it's part of the fiscal 00:06:34
year. 00:06:40
OK, perfect. 00:06:47
Thank you. 00:06:50
And answer some. They're actually a few of the subsequent slides. 00:06:51
Maybe the maybe the point I think. 00:06:57
Even best case scenario now is we adopt mid-september, I'm sorry, July, August, September, three months into the new fiscal year. 00:07:00
So maybe the point is sort of encourage our joint committee members to encourage their boards or our council to try to have it be 00:07:06
a final. 00:07:12
Yes, yes, Madam President, another, another way to look at those numbers there is. 00:07:19
The remaining $33,000 as suggestions that number has arrived at assuming that all those things on top get approved by each of the 00:07:26
bodies. So that number is subject to change of course. But as to your point, Madam Mayor? 00:07:33
Technical question for you, Ruben, is can we discuss the remaining funded suggestions? Can we discuss? Of course not because I, I 00:07:43
know that we as a group, as a committee, really appreciated the comments that gentlemen made at our last meeting with regards to 00:07:49
Life by Life Part Program scholarships. 00:07:55
Do we want at this time? 00:08:02
What does a scholarship cost? 00:08:12
Question I would say. 00:08:18
I think we currently have like. 00:08:23
We have a current scholarship when the city has never sought scholarships. But I think the idea suggested by actually Mr. 00:08:25
Scripture exactly was sort of developing a program that would be aimed specifically at those who can't afford the programming. So 00:08:31
maybe matching, I think the current one that we have is something like $3000 per person. Yeah. So how much it costs to go to the 00:08:38
post? 00:08:44
$3000 total. So I think maybe for now we could earmark our, you know, suggest $3000 then I could go back to rack and figure out. 00:08:51
Do we know how much 3000, how many students that 3000 would cover? I wanna say I'm I'm sort of talking about the the. 00:09:05
Top of mind, but I think that we have a current one that's like $3000 and I think it's a current program that is $3000 and 00:09:14
provides maybe 10 to 15 students or something, something along those lines. So, so we can start out penciling that and we'll come 00:09:20
back with. 00:09:26
Which would drop our remaining money to about 30,600. 00:09:33
So can I get a motion to set aside them for the lifetime program scholarships $3000? Yes, I move that we allocate the 3000 to 00:09:39
$3000 for the lifeguard program scholarships. Thank you all in favor aye. Any opposed? Thank you motion carries. And for 00:09:47
clarification, fees are 350 per child, 250 per child with resident discount proof of residency. 00:09:55
Yeah, see this is through that 305 hundred so. 00:10:05
So that would be about 20 students, twenty students for the 3000. 00:10:08
Great. Thank you. 00:10:14
Time into the comments and the concerns on the schedule, did want to just point out that while the 3033 thousand or no 30,000 is 00:10:17
not allocated, we do still have time because it's slotted for September for decisions. So it's just an overview of the timeline. 00:10:25
Any questions or comments? 00:10:35
I thought we were meeting every month. 00:10:37
So we'll we'll be able to approve our part for documents. 00:10:43
And it's, I think it's September 3rd, I think is our next meeting. So it should be, should be. 00:10:46
This is an overview of the 2023 recipients. 00:10:54
And actually in the next slide, we give a little bit more details, but it's just an overview with your remaining. 00:11:00
Questions and again, Adam actually shared some additional information, but here are the events. We kind of spoke to some of these, 00:11:06
some are already complete. Next upcoming is the Senior scholarship Award and that one's coming the banquets on the 30th. These are 00:11:13
the events that are currently in progress. 00:11:19
And there's another slide here. 00:11:27
Can you go back once? Like absolutely. 00:11:29
Sure, there's a better way to do it than that, I know. 00:11:32
That's OK. The Adam, do you want to elaborate a little bit on the scholarship? Yeah, Myself, Charles and Brian from the City of 00:11:37
Waimea put together an application process and kind of screening system amongst the port and city. We reached out to some of the 00:11:43
local high schools and counsellors, as well as doing a social media blitz on our own personal accounts, and we're really excited. 00:11:50
We originally voted. 00:11:57
To do 8 scholarships at $1000 each and then allocate the remaining $2000.00 for an extra section. I think because of the school 00:12:04
year and this being the first time, it wasn't, I think something that actually made it to a lot of the students. But the ones that 00:12:10
did submit an application, they're really compelling and we felt comfortable in allocating those scholarships to those students. 00:12:16
So we've so far. 00:12:23
Awarded 3 students $1000 but because of the. 00:12:30
Amount being a little bit lower than anticipated, we decided to have a reception for 1000 rather than 2000. So at the last joint 00:12:35
Court City meeting, I know we had originally intended to do an event on the 23rd, but because of the quick turn around and I think 00:12:43
scheduling conflicts of some of the folks from each entity, we decided to push it back a little bit to the 30th. So this is going 00:12:50
to be at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum. We're going to have a lasagna dinner. 00:12:58
And we're also going to have a short program honoring the students, allowing them to invite their families as well to celebrate 00:13:06
their success. Anyone in everyone. 00:13:10
Are you are you looking, are you talking about a reception for three students who are getting scholarships, 3 students and then 00:13:16
their family and friends that they chose to invite the City Council meeting? What do you mean? Is that the discussion of the 00:13:23
board? But I mean to me that would be a wisdom and that was something that was requested the last go around. 00:13:30
Between another previous mayor and it was approved by that board, it was approved by that. 00:13:38
We did address it and Adam mentioned we agreed to reduce the budget of that ceremony. Yeah, we don't want to spend more on the 00:13:47
ceremony than the scholarships, so. 00:13:53
And good news is we're doing at the Maritime since we already have a contract with them. 00:14:01
Great. And then with regards to the Fun run, is that particular one, is that funding for a new fund run or no, that's so that one 00:14:04
sort of pivoted. I think in our last meeting we discussed it that the Run for your Heart event ended up being twice the size of 00:14:11
what we expected it to be. So we had talked about initially there was funding approved that half was going to go to the Fun run 00:14:19
and half was going to go to the run. 00:14:26
That we pivoted and we had the funding go to the ground for your heart because that was the big event that had 600 participants. 00:14:34
The Fun Run is a much smaller scale event that you expect. 00:14:40
It's so so that one that I don't think was still supposed to be on the list, but. 00:14:47
Yeah, So it just it pivoted to run through your heart, 5K being a bigger event. 00:14:56
And I think moving forward with suggesting just having the run for your heart be the big OK, so that one that. 00:15:00
If it is not happening in July, 'cause we don't have a couple days, but it's a small scale recreation event, so OK, not on the 00:15:08
list for community. Yeah, OK, perfect. That's great. 00:15:15
Well, I just put in the comments to reflect that the funding for the July fun run will be allocated to the original Frontier hard 00:15:23
5K. So now just to show, you know, so that's like 175 will be for the February, February. OK, perfect. And then with regards to 00:15:28
the sister city. 00:15:34
Does anybody have an update on that? 00:15:41
So myself and Stacy attended the last meeting. 00:15:44
It was our understanding that the corporation is moving along just fine and I think that the funds will be cooled from the 2015, 00:15:48
2016 community benefit fund authorization, leaving about 5000 for the sister city group to use towards events, any other 00:15:56
fundraisers or galas, things that they'd like to do when they invite? 00:16:04
The delegation from. 00:16:14
So there is a date, a few dates, August 5th through 7th, in which the sister city community is gonna be inviting a small 00:16:16
delegation from Puerto Vallarta because Santa Barbara also has a sister city relationship with that. So since they'll be in Santa 00:16:23
Barbara couple days earlier, they're going to make their way down here before a train to what's the last time. We have three days 00:16:29
planned. 00:16:36
Monday will be kind of getting familiar with the the the Filipino culture. 00:16:44
Tuesday, spending a day with LaPorte, later breaking for lunch. Wednesday there's a small kind of beach potluck plant as well. So 00:16:49
we'll be covering the port section with the port tour presentation and a small tour of the harbor with our own watercraft to 00:16:57
reduce the amount of funds that would have to be utilized for outsourcing the larger boat and the amount of, you know, 3500 to 00:17:04
4000 depending on how much you need. So we're working as best as we can to try and reduce. 00:17:12
The cost of that, that $5000 can really go to programmatic expenses and we're working in conjunction with the same that folks on 00:17:19
the city. OK, great. Yes, and then just let them make sure that the synthesis gets and now I need the program so they're available 00:17:24
to attend. 00:17:29
Thank you. 00:17:35
Yeah, those are my questions. That was it for my questions. 00:17:41
Yeah, there's one more here. I'm sorry. There's one more here on the. 00:17:51
Schedule. 00:17:57
Any other questions on the upcoming schedule? Yeah, I wouldn't just go back to the first slide. We looked at the the items that we 00:17:59
have agreed to. There were three items down there. We talked about two. We didn't say anything about the safety, public safety. So 00:18:04
just wanted an opportunity to kind of. 00:18:09
Summarize again what that means. I think the context was talking about an additional dog. 00:18:17
What was initially mentioned? 00:18:27
I don't know any further. 00:18:30
No, that was the only comment that OK. Thank you. 00:18:33
Just moving on, the last part of this will be the reconciliation process. We've gone through and gotten balanced down to $0.71. So 00:18:38
I'll dig beyond that, but and then we've got the details on the individual line items if anybody wanted to dig into that. 00:18:46
That would conclude this portion of the presentation. So I do have a a technical question on this. OK, umm so on the payment and 00:18:55
queue for 19 and 2021 and not yet paid. 00:19:01
Why is that not yet paid? Andy, are you able to add some clarification and would it be better to use this next slide for this? 00:19:09
Yes, for the city to clear up all the older items. So that would that would clear up the items from 20/15/2016. 00:19:21
So what was the reasoning why they're showing? I think that was the question, so. 00:19:34
Yeah, I can speak a little bit to that and I'll give, I'll give some credit to your finance team and and some to our finance team 00:19:41
because we ended up I think Kristen and I had about 10 finance people crammed into one office that was built for about four people 00:19:47
to fit into. And we we went through all these documents and. 00:19:53
Short answer is that some of the projects that had been allocated back even back to 2015 sixteen either you know, we're in 00:20:02
progress, got stuck or some. 00:20:06
Were completed, but they weren't really completed exactly the way that you know, was initially approved. And so just over the 00:20:11
years, five or six years of that there were. 00:20:15
A lot of, there's a lot of reconciliation to do. And I'll give an example. I think the one that we talked about from 2015 was 00:20:21
$12,000 for sand replenishment. And so we all looked at each other like did we do something in 2015 for Sanford punishment? Nobody 00:20:28
in the room was really here in 2015 to know. So we had to then go back. 00:20:35
And basically find invoices, find documentation. OK, Yes, we did do something in 2015% replenishment. OK, let's our team get back 00:20:44
to your team so you can process it. So we've been making a lot of progress over the last three months. I think we've reconciled 00:20:52
about $170,000 going back to 2015. And then I have terrible eyesight, so I can't. 00:20:59
There's a few more things that we're that we're working on still that we're still reconciling and then some projects that are just 00:21:08
still in progress. So some of the ones that say in queue, for example. 00:21:13
You know, like the scholarships are a good example. We just mentioned we'll end up paying out about $4000. There's still going to 00:21:19
be $6000. So that will now, you know, be in queue and then it might get paid next year if we do another round of scholarships or 00:21:25
if the board and the council members decide to reallocate that or, you know, what have you. So, so it's just a function of some of 00:21:32
the projects taking time or, you know. 00:21:38
Years to get done in some cases OK so so the not yet paid means that we're holding the money we're just waiting for you to invoice 00:21:45
the city to invoice yes and then there's some other for the most part there's some other situations like where even the the person 00:21:52
who applied for our you know requests the money never. 00:21:58
Never contacted either the city or the board to actually get the money. The goal we talked about at the last meeting was the Cats 00:22:06
Cradle version. Oh yes, yes. And I think the story I heard and you know, wasn't when I was here, but I think somebody from the 00:22:12
city actually contacted them and they said we're not doing that program anymore. So we're not interested in in that funding 00:22:17
anymore. So that money essentially could be sitting there. 00:22:22
You know, we might have to figure out how to get back to that's correct. But that actual that $5000 was allocated to the next 00:22:29
year. So OK. Yeah. And that was part of part of the reconciliation was going back and trying to figure out which things have been. 00:22:35
Reallocated overtime and not so so there's, but there's just a few examples like that, so. 00:22:42
OK, great. I just wanna make sure 'cause I I thought if the money's still there, who has it? A, we have it and B, we're just 00:22:47
waiting for the city to invoice the invoice. 00:22:51
Yeah, so, so the not yet paid I think. 00:22:58
I'm sure you just explained, but it didn't really. 00:23:02
So, so those dollar amounts have been confirmed already. I believe our finance teams have confirmed all the numbers on that chart. 00:23:06
If it's the one that I've seen, which I can't, I can't see it to see it, but we've confirmed it. We've confirmed and recently 00:23:14
received $100,000, which probably reflects on there. And we're we just confirmed with the finance team another $70,000 that will 00:23:21
be coming and I think. 00:23:28
I remember I had something like $16,000 left of project. I don't know whether I'll just tell you how my mind works. When I see the 00:23:36
word balance, that means that's what to do, but that's not what that's saying. That's saying there's a 0 balance. 00:23:44
So correct if I'm wrong, the Eddie is the port can't confirm the not yet paid. That means that we still have those funds, yes. So 00:23:53
this is this is the most recent check request from the city. So that will clear out all the old projects right now. 00:24:02
But we have, it's just about 220,000 that are projects that we have but, but no one has claimed, claimed that balance yet. So on 00:24:10
the, on the next slide, you're going to see 220,000 on the, on the next slide. So here's the one for sister cities for 5000 and 00:24:18
they're remaining and everything else is a 220. So these are the, these are the open projects where no one's claimed the balance 00:24:25
yet. And then I'm sure that's the one she will. 00:24:32
And you so you have this great. Thank you. 00:24:42
So at this point, that's the last slide and if anyone had any questions then I can. 00:24:48
Thank you so much. 00:24:55
Going back to the $50,000 that was allocated for the Washington trip. 00:24:57
It's gonna be used for next year. That will be used for spring of 25, which is still in the fiscal year. 00:25:02
No, no, no. I just, I just started to be a good idea just to buy the dog for the Police Department and then get that off the list. 00:25:15
Yeah, OK. 00:25:27
Absolutely. 00:25:33
I'm not recording so I just want to make sure that I have. 00:25:37
Thank you so much. OK, great. We'll be right along then the next time I don't have a three community correspondence that could be 00:25:45
benefits fund. I know that there was an e-mail sent by the homeowners association and inquiring about the community benefits fund 00:25:53
and because we are basically been around but Martha and. 00:26:01
Marquette and they're arguing to as well as far as far as. 00:26:10
Diving deep into the community benefits fund, the details as well as the revenue insurance agreements. So I think that's really 00:26:15
good for us to just take a step back and have our local experts who created these documents really touch on the details of what 00:26:23
the response are about, but also is what can and can't be done. What have you been written in? 00:26:32
Thank you, Madam President. I don't want to give anybody my back, so I'm going to give the 40 minutes. Maybe I'll just move over 00:26:41
here. How's that? 00:26:45
And I will say that at a recent community advisory committee, is that what the committee that the city uses? It's called Deputy 00:26:50
City Manager Charlie Perez. 00:26:56
Did a very good job of describing to that committee the contours of what the Community Benefit Fund is, is set up to do sort of 00:27:04
it's it's. 00:27:09
Its provenance or its origination, essentially, to put it into very easy to understand terms, I think the city and the court were 00:27:16
engaged in litigation in 2012, 1314. And as a result of that litigation, the parties decided, rather than continue to fight in 00:27:23
court, let's reach a settlement on all the issues that the city and the port had been essentially arguing about. It has to do with 00:27:30
the flow of money. 00:27:37
From the port to the city. 00:27:45
Under three different agreements that have existed historically at that time already for 2530 years, some of them going back to 00:27:47
1983. It's called the 1983 agreement in 1987, agreement in 19. 00:27:53
89 agreement. 00:28:00
I don't have a slide in front of me, but suffice it to say that there were, there were just not, not meeting. I, I, I mind to mind 00:28:02
the city and the port. And so the parties decided, let's wrap up the litigation and let's all agree on the best way to move 00:28:11
forward. Part of that settlement was that the court agreed to the extent. 00:28:19
Our annual revenue exceed $13 million we will set aside. 00:28:29
A certain amount of money into what's called the Community Benefit fund so that the port and the city could work together. And 00:28:33
that's really, I mean, all the numbers that we just went through come from what was born out of that settlement agreement. And I 00:28:39
think to to your question, Madam Mayor. 00:28:45
Madam, Madam President, Madam President, I apologize. 00:28:52
I had to have the list up on my phone and then I took it away. Let me let me pull it up again because the settlement agreement 00:28:57
essentially sets forth 4 categories of types of projects that can be funded with this money and then funneled through this body 00:29:03
here this. 00:29:09
Four of you, and then to go to each of the respective bodies on one hand, and the Board of Harvard Commissioners on the other, to 00:29:17
give final approval to projects and fund funding that fall within the categories I am about to. 00:29:24
Share with you. 00:29:34
OK. And I know that we hear it the more we understand, OK, you know what, when we're selecting these projects, we need to. 00:29:36
Are we selecting the majority under category other or are we really making an impact by selecting the the other one which is 00:29:48
category right? I'm not sure who's suggesting it was to include a notation as to OK, what is this? I have them in my e-mail as 00:29:54
ABCD, right? Just in terms of the what the categories are, whatever it is that the body decides to to to call them as whatever 00:30:00
works for you, but they fall into the following categories. 00:30:06
1st which to me signals it's the most, at least it was to the parties at the time, the most important of the categories and that 00:30:12
is shoreline protection. 00:30:17
2nd is projects that advance community development through joint initiatives. Somewhat of a. 00:30:22
General category right community development through joint initiatives. So things that come together from the port and the city, 00:30:31
opportunistic endeavours like economic development or environmental, environmental mitigation. And I think that really gets to is 00:30:37
recognizing that what we have here at the at the Port of Huanene with the city of Port Hueneme and the city of Oxnard is sort of 00:30:43
unique in the state, right It's a very. 00:30:49
It's a very close relationship, it can be very symbiotic and mutually beneficial. 00:30:56
But we're essentially here around the harbor with its long history with the Navy there and then the port here since 1937 and the 00:31:02
city here since 1950, something 75 years. So that that phrasing of opportunistic endeavors means let's let's, in my mind at least, 00:31:09
of course, open to interpretation, but it means let's take advantage of these unique situation, unique relationship we have here 00:31:17
by virtue of being at this harbor in this place. 00:31:24
And the reference to environmental, environmental mitigation I think is what it sounds like, right. To the extent this body can 00:31:32
come up with projects that help mitigate environmental impacts on the community, that's something that should be looked at by the 00:31:39
City Council and by the Board of Harbor commissioners. And then finally, the catch all. 00:31:45
Other. Yeah, exactly. The catch all is other projects agreed to by the board and the City Council. And what that means essentially 00:31:53
is. 00:31:57
If this body is unable to come to agreements on whatever balance you have, a fund should be spent. Then you go back to the City 00:32:02
Council, you go back to the board of harbor commissioners for those larger bodies to come up with their own projects and 00:32:09
essentially Duke it out right to come to come to an agreement on how to spend the rest of this money. Whatever is not spent in a 00:32:17
given year rolls over to to another year. But of course, we've seen here that the intention and I'm I'm glad to. 00:32:24
Effect ultimately used to put the money to use to the to the within 75 or $0.71 of of what has been transferred from the port to 00:32:32
to. 00:32:37
To this body for its use that is that sort of what you were looking for and could you clarify the courts process and the city's 00:32:43
process are two totally different processes absolutely right. And this body is I think the clearest example of that right you you 00:32:51
meet jointly, but you're representing your your party in that litigation ultimately the the court represented by the chief court 00:32:58
representatives here the city. 00:33:05
By the mayor and the mayor Pro Tem here and each of those entities those bodies has autonomy under the system that's been set up 00:33:13
to determine what goes into their own decision right Or what goes into the their own suggestions here at this table, their own 00:33:22
interests, their own ultimate choices right and. 00:33:31
I made reference to the CAC earlier, it is clear to me. 00:33:41
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the city has chosen a part of a formal process to inform the decisions made on behalf of the 00:33:47
city at this body. And that's completely within the city's prerogative and control. And I don't think the port will speak on 00:33:54
behalf of the port a little bit. I don't think the port would in any way want to interfere with that in the same way that the port 00:34:01
would not want the city to interfere with any process or not process that we have, right. So that's that's. 00:34:09
Recognition again, that these two independent autonomous bodies have come together primarily to settle the litigation, but also to 00:34:16
find a way to move forward for mutual benefit. And you just want to ask that question. So when you refer to the city, you're 00:34:23
really talking about city staff, City Council. 00:34:29
Well, so here at Ave. Pacific attorney, we're here, she and I would probably have a really good time giving you giving you the the 00:34:36
the 101 of what it means to us as lawyers to what an organization is right the city. 00:34:42
Is is a municipal entity right formed under the general laws of the State of California. It it is represented by the five duly 00:34:48
elected representatives on the City Council for for from my perspective as an attorney. 00:34:56
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to thank you lawyers. We'd like to hear ourselves. I just want to just, you know, yeah. Our our 00:35:06
residents hold us responsible as elected officials. And so we're elected officials for the city of Port Hueneme. 00:35:13
And that's as far as our responsibility goes to the city members. We can't talk to them about the port because that's the porch 00:35:21
responsibility to talk to the city, the residents, because, you know, just like we're elected officials, you all are elected 00:35:28
officials, right? And so they are your constituents. And there are constituents. So when they come and speak on our mics at our 00:35:35
council meeting, we're listening because we know we have to respond, right? 00:35:42
So I just want to make sure that we have city members sitting here as I, we represent the City of Port Wine. So when you come to 00:35:50
talk to us, you're talking to us. You are not talking to the poor. If you want to talk to the poor, you have to talk to the poor. 00:35:56
And so just want to make sure that you know, when I, I assume you met when you said city, you meant the city of the body of the 00:36:04
city. Absolutely yes. Yes. Because remember, Madam Mayor pro chairman and for those who are unfamiliar with kind of the basic 00:36:12
structure of the of the port, it is a harbor district formed under separate state law called the harbors navigation code and. 00:36:20
Its territory is is not just the city of Fort Wayne, right? It's territory is the city of Port Hueneme, the city of Oxnard, and 00:36:28
some unincorporated areas of the county. 00:36:33
And that that is our, we call it our corpus, right? That's that's the harbor commissioners elect doors. They are responsible to to 00:36:37
their own constituents in the way that the mayor, the mayor Pro Tem and their colleagues and the council are responsible to I'm 00:36:45
assuming folks here is city of Port Hueneme residents there. So in the same thing, it just happens to be a different scale. Sure. 00:36:52
On the City side and going back to a point Ruben made was recently we had a citizen advisory Commission meeting and our committee 00:37:00
meeting and Ruben and Kristen attended and spoke at that meeting. And we, the item on the agenda for us at that meeting was 00:37:09
talking about the city process. It's, it's, you know, that I've heard sort of across the board from the City Council. 00:37:17
Council and and our community and our staff that that we need to really. 00:37:25
Fine tune the city process and. 00:37:32
Define that and where it goes in what order, 'cause we have three or four checks that are balances now and sometimes it goes to 00:37:34
the next step and it goes back and you know, all that kind of stuff. So, so we had our CAC meeting where we essentially said as 00:37:40
far as the city process goes, we're gonna work next year. We're gonna put a report together spelling out what the process will be, 00:37:46
what we recommend the process to be for the City side. 00:37:52
And so that was a good conversation and, and positive and everything. And we got some feedback on, on that and you know, umm, 00:38:00
where public hearing should be and things like that. Umm, and then subsequent to that, umm, last week, Kristen and I actually 00:38:06
spoke at the HOA Coalition meeting that's referenced in the attachment on July 18th. So we talked about that a little bit more. 00:38:13
And I think, I think we sort of did get to like the root of the question there. 00:38:20
Because. 00:38:27
You know, it's on the agenda to talk about sort of that request and and Kristen and I were talking at the meeting and essentially 00:38:30
the question was, OK, so the community or the HOA coalition said OK, so we understand that process. 00:38:37
What's the process from the port side? You know, like how do we provide input to the port side and at the meeting at Kristen's not 00:38:47
here. So This is why I'm raising it at the meeting, you know, Kristen said, Well, that's a conversation to have with with the 00:38:53
board members and you know, the board decides what that process is. But I do think we sort of got to the root that that was the 00:38:59
question that they've been asking that we've been struggling to answer. 00:39:05
Because for us, we've been answering like we have a process, we go through C, our citizen advisory Commission and then we go to 00:39:11
this meeting and then we go to the council like it's that's our process. So I won't speak for anybody in the room. And actually on 00:39:17
that topic, one question I was going to ask is if we have public comment on each item or not. Because I think I think we should, 00:39:23
but it's not on the agenda. OK, Yeah. And so, you know, I think some of the HOA coalition members are here and so they can speak 00:39:29
to it better if I'm not. 00:39:35
Stating it accurately, but when we had that meeting, it sort of that was how the conversation kind of split was sort of like, OK, 00:39:41
so what's the city's process? And now it's the ports process. And I don't know, that might be an answer that the board has to give 00:39:47
in a board meeting, you know, but but anyway, so. 00:39:53
I'll leave it at that. 00:40:00
I'm happy to sit down whenever you're done with me. 00:40:03
So can we I my apologies, I did see public comments on here. So I didn't say public comments on everything. That's OK if if any 00:40:08
public would like to speak on one on the agenda item discussed. 00:40:14
Yeah, I thank you for change that comment. Yes, I think that that's what we came away with when we met with Kristen last week. 00:40:21
And I think that this sort of bubbled up because of the statute, the whole community sort of became more aware of this concern 00:40:30
about what are these funds going to, why are we spending money on the statute. And then so it brought up over time a bigger 00:40:37
question of what is this process, right? And so we brought it to the city and asked about creating a better process. It says 00:40:45
community benefit fund. So we want to make sure that it's really benefiting the community and. 00:40:52
Just a rare quality of life. And there's been a number of things bantered around. And, you know, we've talked about how do you 00:41:00
quantify the benefit to the community, not just in dollars, but in in people's lives that you're in that you're impacting. And, 00:41:06
you know, we did a deeper dive on the history of the community benefit fund. And you know, only 9% of the funds since 2015 have 00:41:12
been spent on shoreline protection. 00:41:18
55% of it has been spent on basically public relations which we subsidized category under the Community Development Fund, which is 00:41:25
events and sponsorships opportunities to endeavours, which is the DC coalition, I mean. 00:41:34
Coalition and then other projects. I put the statue public mural anyways. 00:41:42
Half $1,000,000 right. So I mean, so where's, where's the public safety, where's the the community benefit? How do we quantify the 00:41:49
quality of life programs that we're putting together to impact those people's lives. So this is what we started prompted our 00:41:56
coalition from wanting to get. 00:42:02
Some process in place with the city and hopefully with the port so that we come together to come up with a stronger program. 00:42:10
The benefits support benefits the city benefits our community since it's a community benefit fundamental. So that's really where 00:42:20
this this bubbled up out of and I think that we've all had a variety of different ideas and, and wanted to share those. And I 00:42:25
think that. 00:42:30
Accountability and measurability and. 00:42:37
Making sure that we're doing good things together has always been our goal. We did that. We came together as a coalition about two 00:42:40
years ago because we wanted to, we wanted to help improve the, the, our city and improve the quality of life and, and that kind of 00:42:46
development of our city. We want to do the same with the board. That's our that's our goal is to do is to be a good neighbor and 00:42:52
provide. 00:42:58
Feedback good and bad when it's needed so that we can work together to find solutions and come together for those purposes. And so 00:43:06
the for the community benefit. But we want to have a voice with you to help you and if there's a way that we can help you with 00:43:12
this process, we're open to your suggestions. Thanks. Any any other comments from some of the other. Well, I and I think you have 00:43:18
because the gentleman's comments. 00:43:24
Last meeting about the lifeguard, I thought that I had no idea if that existed. So that's fabulous. So that's a fabulous 00:43:32
suggestion. So I think that that type of input is extremely important. 00:43:36
I appreciate your analysis of this. You know, 9% here, 52% here because I think that's important. I think that that's where having 00:43:41
these meetings on a monthly basis, as much as my colleagues may say not another meeting, it's important because we're getting back 00:43:46
on the right track. 00:43:51
But we're back on it. We're getting on the right track, right? And we're really saying, wait, we need to make more impact like for 00:43:58
example, the category on. 00:44:02
The grant writer that I think is going to be tremendous the impact it's going to have on us right on on increasing our dollars for 00:44:08
future projects. So I think that's fabulous. I do believe in the quantifiable stuff. How how impactful was this? How many 00:44:15
residents did we touch? I mean, so just a little analysis of 11 sheet write up saying that we had on the on the heart run because 00:44:21
that was a really good one. We had 600 participants of all ages we had. 00:44:28
You know, the hospitals out there, what hospitals were there, they were monitoring heart rate, etcetera. 00:44:36
Overview of I do wanna say though, we have to remember and I was not here in the years of the statue creation, but we have to 00:44:41
remember is that there were other folks at the table. So that statute my is that that statue of conversation has been going on for 00:44:48
quite some time. Yes. And the only reason why it came to the forefront is because of the placement of the statute. But even the 00:44:56
placement was already discussed but never finalized. 00:45:03
I just want to make sure that, you know, there's good things happening, but we're trying to, we're trying our best as a committee 00:45:10
to get us back on the right track. And I think by doing all this analysis of the dollars, where they're being spent, how, you 00:45:16
know, suggestions like the gentleman. 00:45:23
Thanks. I've been a commissioner for a long time and I know that the shoreline of our beach has always been very, very important 00:45:30
to the Commission and support now that you you quoted 9%. 00:45:38
That shoreline has been is protected by other grants because we always make sure that we get plenty of sand and and that beach. 00:45:48
I'm just looking at the actual items that you put in 2015. 00:45:53
Spent 44,000 in A2, 2020, 20/20/2020 and 2021. We spent about 50,000 but I know that we spent millions of dollars on. 00:46:00
But it comes up from from a different, different budget, not that it's fun. And I have a comment about that. We know that when it 00:46:13
comes time to have to replenish our beach, $40,000 is absolutely nothing to that balance. So. 00:46:21
I think it might be a good idea to maybe move that category because we don't have enough money in the even if we had all the money 00:46:31
for the community fund to put in shortly, it's still like 1% of what is necessary to actually make any dent in that. So. 00:46:40
That's a suggestion. 00:46:51
So here's what was on this in the very beginning of 2002, I think I thought I went back and looked at it because I said, what did 00:46:54
you do in 2015 for the 1544 thousand? So you had a beast nurse nourishment for 25,000. 00:46:59
Had a beach advisory Commission, which was interesting at 10,000. I don't think you still have that. So it even did anything. And 00:47:05
then interagency coalition and punishment, right. And so then there was, you know, nothing happened with that whole beach 00:47:13
replenishment or shoreline protection until 2020 and 2021. 00:47:21
And there were some things like 88 Beach, you know, retrofitting. 00:47:30
When he needs arcs and enhancement. 00:47:36
And so the coastal keepers and some donations along those lines, but that's AI mean, you know, and and to your point, I mean, the 00:47:39
the categories are kind of funny, right? I mean, I consider community development different things than public relations. And then 00:47:46
opportunities to get members is kind of a funny category too than other. Because if you look at what we put money into, it's I 00:47:53
would say it's majority is nonprofits helping out other nonprofits who do things in the community. 00:48:01
Seems to be the trend over the years. Madison President, Madam Mayor, if I could so remember that we're talking about. 00:48:09
Yeah. So blame the lawyers, right? That's that's but but as a lawyer, I'm I'm going to say, and it was one of my lawyers who was 00:48:19
working on that agreement. 00:48:24
They were, those lawyers were simply trying to get those two parties to agree on something, right, to put that litigation behind 00:48:30
them. So every ward in that settlement document was vetted not only through the lawyers, but by the respective clients. And that's 00:48:37
what it took to stop that bloodletting, for lack of a better word. And that is, and all due respect to you, Madam Mayor, that is, 00:48:45
that is sort of what what you're stuck with, right? That's not the right way to put it, but that's what that's the state of. 00:48:52
That's a state of play. And so to remove any of these categories is not something within the purview of this spine. With respect, 00:49:00
exactly. 00:49:05
But I will say, you know, practically speaking over time, what appears to have happened is that this body and then ultimately your 00:49:12
respective bodies have have sort of done that, right. They have placed less emphasis on the shoreline protection and more emphasis 00:49:17
on these other categories and. 00:49:23
They've got the room to do that under the under the agreement to keep the peace. 00:49:30
Exactly. And that's whether that's, I'm sorry, whether that's a wise thing to do or not is entirely up to this slide to, you know, 00:49:36
exactly. And I think that if James states for a while and Chris, and we know she's fabulous. I think that that that leadership 00:49:43
right there will help keep us focused, right. In regards to the sound replenishment part. That's the core of Army engineers, if 00:49:50
I'm not mistaken. And that's that's a bigger project and that's huge. But please know. 00:49:57
Their style is about seeking these friends to make sure that that happens. 00:50:33
We're, we're currently working Kristen and I and the representatives from the harbor and others we're currently working right now 00:50:36
on what looks to be getting $16 million for Sandra punishment this year. So, so that is something that happens and maybe isn't 00:50:43
reflected here, but. 00:50:50
Just. 00:50:58
Thought, and I think Rubin's right, that the agreement is the agreement. We don't wanna, we don't wanna go in that direction. But 00:51:00
the question, the maybe dirty secret from my perspective about cities is most agreements are written very vaguely with the intent 00:51:08
that they last over time as the decision makers change that they then have the ability to say, well, this is what that meant or 00:51:15
this is what that meant. And so I think the real thing and we talked about this like at the last few meetings. 00:51:23
So maybe the real question to get to the bottom of is just like what do the current council and the current Commission, what do 00:51:30
they feel like are those four categories, you know define them? And we have you mentioned earlier we're planning to meet monthly 00:51:38
as we get through the CBF projects, maybe we spend a couple months saying what you know, what's the vision for what these funds 00:51:45
will be used for? How are we defining those categories moving forward? 00:51:52
What the community benefits on whether that is appropriate term for what this is? 00:52:31
And he says we can't touch it because, well, so I mean, she was talking about. 00:52:37
If if the four of you and then you respect the bodies say, well, we're going to call these funds, the funds themselves. 00:53:13
I don't know. 00:53:21
Something else then start to calm something else. No, I think it's fine. I'm just mentioning it just didn't cover Marks and this 00:53:22
was something that Kristen had brought up, but I don't know if it's still something they were contemplating or not. I think it's 00:53:28
fine. I just think we need to narrow down more focus on actually what we want to put the money towards and maybe be more 00:53:35
intentional in community benefit opportunities and how we go about that is the question of the day. 00:53:41
For both sides then may I suggest that can I ask questions one second so. 00:53:49
It has this person who lives in Portland, Amy, and also votes for harbor commissioners. We're kind of in these two spots. 00:53:56
When this whole statue thing came up, everybody went Oh my God. 00:54:05
Why all this money going on something that frankly most people didn't want? OK. And so we started taking a deeper look at things 00:54:12
and the 1st place to go is to the city. And I think we've got a process in place right now that looks like it's maybe some 00:54:18
variation with it as time goes on. 00:54:23
But it seems pretty good. We have committee average not put on the hat as a poor constituent. It's I have no idea what goes on. 00:54:29
It's there's been talk about outreach and stuff, but I'm pretty active. I don't hear any of this stuff ever. So like with the 00:54:37
statue, for example, the first time I heard about that was somebody put a petition up saying we want to stick this thing in the 00:54:44
spot that nobody wanted. I mean, they've been going on for years so. 00:54:51
What I would request is the commissioners is to make it more open. 00:54:59
Process where you can get feedback from not just the people might need me. Obviously if you represent a bigger constituency and it 00:55:05
makes it more transparent and and participatory, I think because it seems like there's support. This is boundary, right? Who knows 00:55:11
what's going on in there. 00:55:17
I think people are showing up much to the meetings to be part of that, what you're doing, what you're doing. 00:55:26
But I think if we could make this more transparent and get more feedback from the community about this stuff would certainly help 00:55:32
us get to a better place, you know, And I absolutely love that that suggestion. I believe the city manager and Kristen or CEO are 00:55:38
working on putting notices in the waterways, am I correct? 00:55:44
Yeah, Wasn't what the community benefits the funding is going towards. So keeping it more in front of of the community on what 00:55:52
we're doing with the funds, what you're putting something into the the utility. I think we had talked about doing some 00:55:57
advertising. 00:56:02
We haven't we haven't narrowed down. Yes, I think we should. We should because we should be keeping that community with regards to 00:56:07
statutes that have been called upon for years from the City Council. Unfortunately it was before my time, but I don't know what 00:56:14
that process was. But I do agree with you is we need to put it out there more often. Please, please, please look at our social 00:56:21
media accounts and go on our website and put a lot of this information out there. I think it's it's really important that. 00:56:28
You know that that we take that Ave. as well. 00:56:36
One suggestion I would make different parts to mayor's suggestion about what categories do we want to go through since you are 00:56:39
dark in August, maybe we'll and you know and we will do it as a commissioners is go back and maybe work with Kristen. I'll we'll 00:56:46
work with Kristen and you can work with your city manager. 00:56:53
What do we consider category A? What project type of projects do voluntary category? What category B, Category C And then we come 00:57:02
back and see if that's what we are in treatment with and maybe it'll help. 00:57:07
Help enhance our understanding of those categories and how we interpret them. 00:57:16
Madam President, you mentioned social media and I was looking at that screen there as a gentleman was talking. And I mean, it's 00:57:24
not going to surprise you to hear the lawyer say this, but everything the port does is open and transparent in the same way that 00:57:31
the city does. They're subject to the same sense of laws. So the the, the noticing on the meeting. 00:57:39
They're openly transparent. But where can you watch? Like all the City Council meetings are live streamed. They're posted on on 00:57:48
the YouTube the next day. 00:57:52
Invested through a grant fund that we received into a whole new video system that will be implemented in September. 00:58:27
And that will be going through in September. We'll, we'll be able to broadcast live events and the website that we have we're 00:58:36
having issues with. And that what I sent you all the minutes by e-mail has been fixed. So if you go on to our new website, you'll 00:58:43
be able to get all of our minutes and everything on that now. So that has been resolved. 00:58:50
Just to be able to watch meetings, 'cause if you see, if you see me coming up, like community benefit fund is on the agenda. You 00:58:58
could, you could send a comment or show up and make a comment or you can, but you can do that now. So I mean, they don't have 00:59:04
access. The agendas are posted since you can't watch the meetings like, you know, unless you show up. I would, I would love to be 00:59:10
able to do a couple of blocks, but I would love to be just watching my iPad at home, you know, instead of having to come. 00:59:16
It'd be great for me. And that's that is a great point and it is helpful to some of us who can't always come to a meeting live at 00:59:23
but we can watch it the next day if we miss something. And we wanted to provide some comment later. And so that we're informed, 00:59:29
you know, I mean, all we learned is be informed so that we can again be the neighbors. And I should note that this meeting is 00:59:34
being recorded. 00:59:39
We have recorded the last few meetings that are available on the city's website and on our website. So if you want to go back and 00:59:45
watch the last names, you're more than welcome to go back and be those. And once again in September, we plan on having a broadcast 00:59:51
live. That was the earliest that we could get our contractors to be able to come out. I'm on your website. Now that you have a new 00:59:57
one, am I going to be? 01:00:03
Transport. Do I have to go and sign up again? No, you should still be. 01:00:10
Any other comments? 01:00:16
That's moving forward if you look at grants for operations or infrastructure grants, and the city needs to take care of. 01:00:49
And then those are very helpful in my day job. I do that a lot with the university and I go out to the community and say we need 01:00:59
this grant for this particular purpose. We'll do by the letter of support. So that's where you can become very helpful to us. So I 01:01:04
appreciate it. Thank you. And then the next item then moving along is scholarship perception. We talked about that. Anything you 01:01:09
want to add to that, Adam? 01:01:14
We have enough food for about 30 individuals. I reached out to each of the recipients. They plan to bring 45I assume that our 01:01:21
staff will be doing the same on each side. So enough for 30, it's going to be catered and then reaching out to Charles and 01:01:28
yourselves to see who's available. Then I'll be able to build out a little bit of a a program later for us to have opportunities 01:01:34
for speaking and some pictures with the recipients as well. 01:01:41
Thank you. And then next item, Washington DC trip, any other questions about that particular one? No, I think it became clear to 01:01:49
us that this year is not a good time because of all the election that are happening. So we need to spring it a lot more active 01:01:55
activity and things will be. 01:02:01
I don't understand the benefits of the city and I and I guess you know, is there a benefit And I don't have, I haven't asked the 01:02:14
city of this question yet, but I would like to, to hear what the benefit is to the city in this particular because it's a big 01:02:22
expense. 01:02:30
It's a very expensive to go to the no good news. This is the first year we did it. Uh-huh. And what was what was the, what was the 01:02:38
agenda, the, the vision for that trip? So since it was our first time, we were really unsure as to how we would fit in all that 01:02:45
and how it would actually benefit us. So the main part of it, which we went to was to support. They had a few grants they were 01:02:51
trying to get. 01:02:57
So we went to support them and in the meantime we gathered our own information and all these different agencies that we talked to. 01:03:03
I think we we visited for the four or five a day. 01:03:08
All the major agencies to kind of get an understanding is actually what can we do the next time we do this? Where can we actually 01:03:13
push for our own assistance and help with that. So that was the first one was a learning opportunity for us. And now we realized 01:03:20
we have a game plan. So there's a lot of grants we've been told that we can push for getting connected to all these agencies open 01:03:27
up a bunch of grant opportunities for us. So that the second time around was us making a game plan starting now. 01:03:34
To push for our own agenda and adjusted to support the next time we went there so we have more of an understanding of what what we 01:03:42
need to say, who we need to talk to, what we need to do the first time. 01:03:47
We did it and we learned a lot now that we can use that to our benefit. 01:03:53
Question, I, I know, I think that the government gives $2,000,000 every couple of years ago to replenish the same. Now, does that 01:04:00
come as a grant or is that because the contract doesn't have anything for inflation or anything? So you get the same thing for the 01:04:07
last 30 years. Yeah. So I think that's how people summarize it, but it's not quite exactly how it works. And so like we don't 01:04:15
actually get like a check every year that we hold or anything. 01:04:22
The real the way it works is really it's like the government makes the allocation and then. 01:04:31
The contract doesn't even really go through us, it's the contract with the. 01:04:37
Army Corps of Engineers And so it works out for this year. 01:04:43
For the last few years, it's gonna end up being $60 million. 01:04:49
To answer, maybe the root of your question is does it adjust for inflation, Not as much as we would like it to because it was 01:04:55
about $16 million last night and so it's not $2,000,000. 01:05:01
It's the $16 million this time isn't gonna go as far as the 16,000,000 last time. So, so it's something we have to work on. Is the 01:05:08
was the contract based on the amount of sand or the amount of money? 01:05:14
Problem, right? Yeah, it's money, and that's the problem. And so even last year we got more sand. 01:05:22
Then we are, we got forcing them the cycle prior, but we didn't, we still didn't get our target goal to send. And then this year 01:05:29
the concern and we're, we're advocating, we're working with the board to we've had meetings trying to push because the concern is, 01:05:35
you know what if we're getting a business issue because $60 million doesn't go as far as it needs to do so. So we're working on 01:05:41
that and but it's, it's a concern. 01:05:47
Yeah. And and that we talked to, we actually met with someone who pushes for that. So we went to DC and we met with her and we 01:05:54
pushed for that and her advocating on rehab. But that is also a benefit to meeting all of our elected officials. 01:06:00
So they can advocate for us when it comes times around, we need a grant, we need assistance, they'll remember who we are, our 01:06:06
name, what we came for and what we need to. You know, we met with you in DC. You know, we had a great meeting. This is what you 01:06:12
told us and we'd like you to advocate for us to get this funds. And that was a big, that was a big part of it as well. 01:06:18
Because they're looking for to give put shuttles on campuses because the fact that, you know, it'll have the students stop driving 01:07:25
around, cancel for Parkinson's, but it's really overturning these grants and having someone focus on that research to be able to 01:07:31
do them. So I think that will be better prepared. 01:07:37
I have a question, does the city of anime have a representative in Washington DC like we do? Obviously something that I would I 01:07:45
brought up to the council when I got here, it said it was something I'd like to do when we have the money. 01:07:53
Yeah, Yeah. Well, we follow. We haven't had the money only because we, you know, we go to Washington. You know, we don't go as 01:08:02
that group. We go as an individual throughout the year. I mean, our director probably goes to Washington maybe 10 times a year for 01:08:09
for special grants. That's why we need money. She's out there. Yeah. Yeah. But we have very good connections with our with our 01:08:15
network guide. 01:08:21
Yeah, I worked in Oxnard and Oxnard contracts with the same. 01:08:29
Yeah, and he knows. He knows when there's money available and you know, he'll give a call in either. And those are the 01:08:34
relationships you've built because I get calls from our our federal legislators saying, Selena, there's a scrap coming up, you 01:08:40
might want to flag that this is what it does. So those those are the strong connections. 01:08:47
I think it's part of our long term goals. 01:08:53
Great. Any other comments? 01:08:57
I see Cortana, enjoy yourself. Thank you. 01:09:00
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35 minutes. 00:00:02
When you took a train or what? 00:00:11
I know. 00:00:20
Perfect. OK, Well, go ahead and call the meeting to order please at 3:31 PM. 00:00:39
On July 24th of the. 00:00:45
City of Portland Union, Oxford Harbor District Joint City Port Committee meeting. 00:00:49
Roll call, please Representatives of the city of port Windeney, Mayor Perez here, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Leon here city manager 00:00:53
Vega and representatives of the Oxford Harbor District, President Zacharias here, Vice President Ramirez and. 00:01:01
Yeah, we could. Legal counsel Rich Rand joining us as well and Stacy Lane filling in for Mistika today. 00:01:11
Perfect. Thank you. Any public comments at this time? 00:01:21
Great. Moving on to item, Devon is discussion approval of the minutes for our meeting back on June 26th. 00:01:27
Thank you. Second, I'll second. Thank you all in favor aye, any opposed Thank you. Motion carries next item Item 2-3 benefits of 00:01:37
an existing projects update and reconciliation reconciliation status recommendations. 00:01:45
So thank you all. I'll give a quick overview and then also we've got. 00:01:56
Adam in Here are the ideas needed to do any clarifications, but here's a quick summary of the 2024 proposed projects. The ones on 00:02:02
the top are the mutually agreed projects and there's a remaining 33,000 with suggestions being mental health, public safety, the 00:02:11
lifeguard program, scholarships. So with these, they're all under review and then they'll be brought into board and city. 00:02:19
In the coming weeks and months or week weeks really and just for just for clarification purposes. 00:02:28
OK. I'll cut the question purposes the mutually discussed projects, we both have not gone to our respective bodies for approval to 00:02:42
move forward, am I correct, Correct. That's correct. And then we'll we'll go to do that in our meeting in August and you'll do it 00:02:48
in the meeting in September, 1st week of September. May I ask a question? 00:02:55
On that, on mental health, what is the thing that we mean by mental health? 00:03:03
I brought that up because I know that. 00:03:08
Mayor Perez is very involved. 00:03:10
So I just brought that up as a topic, but she mentioned she didn't have anything at the top of her mind on what to focus on. So 00:03:15
that's something. The bottom ones are just suggestions. We talked about when we have 1-2 ones in those categories. And I believe 00:03:22
it was she was going to go back to the board to see if they had any suggestions for mental health specific items. But I didn't at 00:03:29
the time it was being discussed. But someone is working on on that signing up program for whatever you mean by. 00:03:36
Services. 00:03:45
Well. 00:03:46
It's very, yes, which is why we wanted to go back to our respective boards to kind of narrow that scope, right. And we may not go 00:03:50
down that direction, but I see that. 00:03:54
Passion of course, so that's why I suggested it, but there's nothing fine-tuned yet in that particular one. Now one thing that I 00:03:59
was mentioning to Michelle earlier was that perhaps in for future. 00:04:06
Meetings, we could have a category on this site here that says this particular item falls under option one, this particular item 00:04:14
falls on option two. And then that way we can go back if we're finding out where a lot of our projects are followed in other, then 00:04:20
we could say, OK, we need to revisit what we're doing. 00:04:26
Get an idea of where each falls in the category and so we can get a better idea of where we need to focus. 00:04:34
Exactly. Thank you. Before you go on the process question, so. 00:04:41
So we've agreed upon the top mutually discussed project and so we have the committee. 00:04:48
Yes, yes, yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. So we we in this room and so process is now the port will go back and look at it 00:04:55
and prove it. 00:05:00
I'm saying improvement. The Council will go back and approve. Are we this is it. We're not taking anything back to do other 00:05:07
recommendations other than we're talking about those bottom three and is the expectation is at the top will be approved even at 00:05:13
the bottom three or not, correct. 00:05:19
Yes, yes, yes. And, and let's say for example, if you come back and your group and the City Council says no, we don't want to do 00:05:28
the littling, then we can discuss. We can discuss at that time when we could reconvene what the port agreed upon and what the city 00:05:34
agreed upon it. If all goes well, then all those will involve. 00:05:40
And because they're mutually discussed project, we've talked about them several times already. We don't have an expectation that 00:05:47
anything is going to drop off the list and then we have to reconvene again. 00:05:53
To suggest new ones, most of these have already been funded before. So they're, we're already used to seeing those names. I'm 00:05:59
just, I'm just asking the question because the timeline is pushing back. We keep getting, keep pushing back. So just want to know 00:06:04
if we can when we go away. So we won't be back until September. So we're already looking at September. Now if we look at September 00:06:10
and then someone says, oh, I have another recommendation. 00:06:15
Then now we're in October, right. And so I thought that's just a process check for me exactly. Now here's a question. A technical 00:06:21
question along those lines though is since we know Washington DC is probably not going to happen until spring of 2025, what 00:06:27
happens to those funds? Do we need to now reallocate those funds to the 33,000 or No, I don't. I think it's part of the fiscal 00:06:34
year. 00:06:40
OK, perfect. 00:06:47
Thank you. 00:06:50
And answer some. They're actually a few of the subsequent slides. 00:06:51
Maybe the maybe the point I think. 00:06:57
Even best case scenario now is we adopt mid-september, I'm sorry, July, August, September, three months into the new fiscal year. 00:07:00
So maybe the point is sort of encourage our joint committee members to encourage their boards or our council to try to have it be 00:07:06
a final. 00:07:12
Yes, yes, Madam President, another, another way to look at those numbers there is. 00:07:19
The remaining $33,000 as suggestions that number has arrived at assuming that all those things on top get approved by each of the 00:07:26
bodies. So that number is subject to change of course. But as to your point, Madam Mayor? 00:07:33
Technical question for you, Ruben, is can we discuss the remaining funded suggestions? Can we discuss? Of course not because I, I 00:07:43
know that we as a group, as a committee, really appreciated the comments that gentlemen made at our last meeting with regards to 00:07:49
Life by Life Part Program scholarships. 00:07:55
Do we want at this time? 00:08:02
What does a scholarship cost? 00:08:12
Question I would say. 00:08:18
I think we currently have like. 00:08:23
We have a current scholarship when the city has never sought scholarships. But I think the idea suggested by actually Mr. 00:08:25
Scripture exactly was sort of developing a program that would be aimed specifically at those who can't afford the programming. So 00:08:31
maybe matching, I think the current one that we have is something like $3000 per person. Yeah. So how much it costs to go to the 00:08:38
post? 00:08:44
$3000 total. So I think maybe for now we could earmark our, you know, suggest $3000 then I could go back to rack and figure out. 00:08:51
Do we know how much 3000, how many students that 3000 would cover? I wanna say I'm I'm sort of talking about the the. 00:09:05
Top of mind, but I think that we have a current one that's like $3000 and I think it's a current program that is $3000 and 00:09:14
provides maybe 10 to 15 students or something, something along those lines. So, so we can start out penciling that and we'll come 00:09:20
back with. 00:09:26
Which would drop our remaining money to about 30,600. 00:09:33
So can I get a motion to set aside them for the lifetime program scholarships $3000? Yes, I move that we allocate the 3000 to 00:09:39
$3000 for the lifeguard program scholarships. Thank you all in favor aye. Any opposed? Thank you motion carries. And for 00:09:47
clarification, fees are 350 per child, 250 per child with resident discount proof of residency. 00:09:55
Yeah, see this is through that 305 hundred so. 00:10:05
So that would be about 20 students, twenty students for the 3000. 00:10:08
Great. Thank you. 00:10:14
Time into the comments and the concerns on the schedule, did want to just point out that while the 3033 thousand or no 30,000 is 00:10:17
not allocated, we do still have time because it's slotted for September for decisions. So it's just an overview of the timeline. 00:10:25
Any questions or comments? 00:10:35
I thought we were meeting every month. 00:10:37
So we'll we'll be able to approve our part for documents. 00:10:43
And it's, I think it's September 3rd, I think is our next meeting. So it should be, should be. 00:10:46
This is an overview of the 2023 recipients. 00:10:54
And actually in the next slide, we give a little bit more details, but it's just an overview with your remaining. 00:11:00
Questions and again, Adam actually shared some additional information, but here are the events. We kind of spoke to some of these, 00:11:06
some are already complete. Next upcoming is the Senior scholarship Award and that one's coming the banquets on the 30th. These are 00:11:13
the events that are currently in progress. 00:11:19
And there's another slide here. 00:11:27
Can you go back once? Like absolutely. 00:11:29
Sure, there's a better way to do it than that, I know. 00:11:32
That's OK. The Adam, do you want to elaborate a little bit on the scholarship? Yeah, Myself, Charles and Brian from the City of 00:11:37
Waimea put together an application process and kind of screening system amongst the port and city. We reached out to some of the 00:11:43
local high schools and counsellors, as well as doing a social media blitz on our own personal accounts, and we're really excited. 00:11:50
We originally voted. 00:11:57
To do 8 scholarships at $1000 each and then allocate the remaining $2000.00 for an extra section. I think because of the school 00:12:04
year and this being the first time, it wasn't, I think something that actually made it to a lot of the students. But the ones that 00:12:10
did submit an application, they're really compelling and we felt comfortable in allocating those scholarships to those students. 00:12:16
So we've so far. 00:12:23
Awarded 3 students $1000 but because of the. 00:12:30
Amount being a little bit lower than anticipated, we decided to have a reception for 1000 rather than 2000. So at the last joint 00:12:35
Court City meeting, I know we had originally intended to do an event on the 23rd, but because of the quick turn around and I think 00:12:43
scheduling conflicts of some of the folks from each entity, we decided to push it back a little bit to the 30th. So this is going 00:12:50
to be at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum. We're going to have a lasagna dinner. 00:12:58
And we're also going to have a short program honoring the students, allowing them to invite their families as well to celebrate 00:13:06
their success. Anyone in everyone. 00:13:10
Are you are you looking, are you talking about a reception for three students who are getting scholarships, 3 students and then 00:13:16
their family and friends that they chose to invite the City Council meeting? What do you mean? Is that the discussion of the 00:13:23
board? But I mean to me that would be a wisdom and that was something that was requested the last go around. 00:13:30
Between another previous mayor and it was approved by that board, it was approved by that. 00:13:38
We did address it and Adam mentioned we agreed to reduce the budget of that ceremony. Yeah, we don't want to spend more on the 00:13:47
ceremony than the scholarships, so. 00:13:53
And good news is we're doing at the Maritime since we already have a contract with them. 00:14:01
Great. And then with regards to the Fun run, is that particular one, is that funding for a new fund run or no, that's so that one 00:14:04
sort of pivoted. I think in our last meeting we discussed it that the Run for your Heart event ended up being twice the size of 00:14:11
what we expected it to be. So we had talked about initially there was funding approved that half was going to go to the Fun run 00:14:19
and half was going to go to the run. 00:14:26
That we pivoted and we had the funding go to the ground for your heart because that was the big event that had 600 participants. 00:14:34
The Fun Run is a much smaller scale event that you expect. 00:14:40
It's so so that one that I don't think was still supposed to be on the list, but. 00:14:47
Yeah, So it just it pivoted to run through your heart, 5K being a bigger event. 00:14:56
And I think moving forward with suggesting just having the run for your heart be the big OK, so that one that. 00:15:00
If it is not happening in July, 'cause we don't have a couple days, but it's a small scale recreation event, so OK, not on the 00:15:08
list for community. Yeah, OK, perfect. That's great. 00:15:15
Well, I just put in the comments to reflect that the funding for the July fun run will be allocated to the original Frontier hard 00:15:23
5K. So now just to show, you know, so that's like 175 will be for the February, February. OK, perfect. And then with regards to 00:15:28
the sister city. 00:15:34
Does anybody have an update on that? 00:15:41
So myself and Stacy attended the last meeting. 00:15:44
It was our understanding that the corporation is moving along just fine and I think that the funds will be cooled from the 2015, 00:15:48
2016 community benefit fund authorization, leaving about 5000 for the sister city group to use towards events, any other 00:15:56
fundraisers or galas, things that they'd like to do when they invite? 00:16:04
The delegation from. 00:16:14
So there is a date, a few dates, August 5th through 7th, in which the sister city community is gonna be inviting a small 00:16:16
delegation from Puerto Vallarta because Santa Barbara also has a sister city relationship with that. So since they'll be in Santa 00:16:23
Barbara couple days earlier, they're going to make their way down here before a train to what's the last time. We have three days 00:16:29
planned. 00:16:36
Monday will be kind of getting familiar with the the the Filipino culture. 00:16:44
Tuesday, spending a day with LaPorte, later breaking for lunch. Wednesday there's a small kind of beach potluck plant as well. So 00:16:49
we'll be covering the port section with the port tour presentation and a small tour of the harbor with our own watercraft to 00:16:57
reduce the amount of funds that would have to be utilized for outsourcing the larger boat and the amount of, you know, 3500 to 00:17:04
4000 depending on how much you need. So we're working as best as we can to try and reduce. 00:17:12
The cost of that, that $5000 can really go to programmatic expenses and we're working in conjunction with the same that folks on 00:17:19
the city. OK, great. Yes, and then just let them make sure that the synthesis gets and now I need the program so they're available 00:17:24
to attend. 00:17:29
Thank you. 00:17:35
Yeah, those are my questions. That was it for my questions. 00:17:41
Yeah, there's one more here. I'm sorry. There's one more here on the. 00:17:51
Schedule. 00:17:57
Any other questions on the upcoming schedule? Yeah, I wouldn't just go back to the first slide. We looked at the the items that we 00:17:59
have agreed to. There were three items down there. We talked about two. We didn't say anything about the safety, public safety. So 00:18:04
just wanted an opportunity to kind of. 00:18:09
Summarize again what that means. I think the context was talking about an additional dog. 00:18:17
What was initially mentioned? 00:18:27
I don't know any further. 00:18:30
No, that was the only comment that OK. Thank you. 00:18:33
Just moving on, the last part of this will be the reconciliation process. We've gone through and gotten balanced down to $0.71. So 00:18:38
I'll dig beyond that, but and then we've got the details on the individual line items if anybody wanted to dig into that. 00:18:46
That would conclude this portion of the presentation. So I do have a a technical question on this. OK, umm so on the payment and 00:18:55
queue for 19 and 2021 and not yet paid. 00:19:01
Why is that not yet paid? Andy, are you able to add some clarification and would it be better to use this next slide for this? 00:19:09
Yes, for the city to clear up all the older items. So that would that would clear up the items from 20/15/2016. 00:19:21
So what was the reasoning why they're showing? I think that was the question, so. 00:19:34
Yeah, I can speak a little bit to that and I'll give, I'll give some credit to your finance team and and some to our finance team 00:19:41
because we ended up I think Kristen and I had about 10 finance people crammed into one office that was built for about four people 00:19:47
to fit into. And we we went through all these documents and. 00:19:53
Short answer is that some of the projects that had been allocated back even back to 2015 sixteen either you know, we're in 00:20:02
progress, got stuck or some. 00:20:06
Were completed, but they weren't really completed exactly the way that you know, was initially approved. And so just over the 00:20:11
years, five or six years of that there were. 00:20:15
A lot of, there's a lot of reconciliation to do. And I'll give an example. I think the one that we talked about from 2015 was 00:20:21
$12,000 for sand replenishment. And so we all looked at each other like did we do something in 2015 for Sanford punishment? Nobody 00:20:28
in the room was really here in 2015 to know. So we had to then go back. 00:20:35
And basically find invoices, find documentation. OK, Yes, we did do something in 2015% replenishment. OK, let's our team get back 00:20:44
to your team so you can process it. So we've been making a lot of progress over the last three months. I think we've reconciled 00:20:52
about $170,000 going back to 2015. And then I have terrible eyesight, so I can't. 00:20:59
There's a few more things that we're that we're working on still that we're still reconciling and then some projects that are just 00:21:08
still in progress. So some of the ones that say in queue, for example. 00:21:13
You know, like the scholarships are a good example. We just mentioned we'll end up paying out about $4000. There's still going to 00:21:19
be $6000. So that will now, you know, be in queue and then it might get paid next year if we do another round of scholarships or 00:21:25
if the board and the council members decide to reallocate that or, you know, what have you. So, so it's just a function of some of 00:21:32
the projects taking time or, you know. 00:21:38
Years to get done in some cases OK so so the not yet paid means that we're holding the money we're just waiting for you to invoice 00:21:45
the city to invoice yes and then there's some other for the most part there's some other situations like where even the the person 00:21:52
who applied for our you know requests the money never. 00:21:58
Never contacted either the city or the board to actually get the money. The goal we talked about at the last meeting was the Cats 00:22:06
Cradle version. Oh yes, yes. And I think the story I heard and you know, wasn't when I was here, but I think somebody from the 00:22:12
city actually contacted them and they said we're not doing that program anymore. So we're not interested in in that funding 00:22:17
anymore. So that money essentially could be sitting there. 00:22:22
You know, we might have to figure out how to get back to that's correct. But that actual that $5000 was allocated to the next 00:22:29
year. So OK. Yeah. And that was part of part of the reconciliation was going back and trying to figure out which things have been. 00:22:35
Reallocated overtime and not so so there's, but there's just a few examples like that, so. 00:22:42
OK, great. I just wanna make sure 'cause I I thought if the money's still there, who has it? A, we have it and B, we're just 00:22:47
waiting for the city to invoice the invoice. 00:22:51
Yeah, so, so the not yet paid I think. 00:22:58
I'm sure you just explained, but it didn't really. 00:23:02
So, so those dollar amounts have been confirmed already. I believe our finance teams have confirmed all the numbers on that chart. 00:23:06
If it's the one that I've seen, which I can't, I can't see it to see it, but we've confirmed it. We've confirmed and recently 00:23:14
received $100,000, which probably reflects on there. And we're we just confirmed with the finance team another $70,000 that will 00:23:21
be coming and I think. 00:23:28
I remember I had something like $16,000 left of project. I don't know whether I'll just tell you how my mind works. When I see the 00:23:36
word balance, that means that's what to do, but that's not what that's saying. That's saying there's a 0 balance. 00:23:44
So correct if I'm wrong, the Eddie is the port can't confirm the not yet paid. That means that we still have those funds, yes. So 00:23:53
this is this is the most recent check request from the city. So that will clear out all the old projects right now. 00:24:02
But we have, it's just about 220,000 that are projects that we have but, but no one has claimed, claimed that balance yet. So on 00:24:10
the, on the next slide, you're going to see 220,000 on the, on the next slide. So here's the one for sister cities for 5000 and 00:24:18
they're remaining and everything else is a 220. So these are the, these are the open projects where no one's claimed the balance 00:24:25
yet. And then I'm sure that's the one she will. 00:24:32
And you so you have this great. Thank you. 00:24:42
So at this point, that's the last slide and if anyone had any questions then I can. 00:24:48
Thank you so much. 00:24:55
Going back to the $50,000 that was allocated for the Washington trip. 00:24:57
It's gonna be used for next year. That will be used for spring of 25, which is still in the fiscal year. 00:25:02
No, no, no. I just, I just started to be a good idea just to buy the dog for the Police Department and then get that off the list. 00:25:15
Yeah, OK. 00:25:27
Absolutely. 00:25:33
I'm not recording so I just want to make sure that I have. 00:25:37
Thank you so much. OK, great. We'll be right along then the next time I don't have a three community correspondence that could be 00:25:45
benefits fund. I know that there was an e-mail sent by the homeowners association and inquiring about the community benefits fund 00:25:53
and because we are basically been around but Martha and. 00:26:01
Marquette and they're arguing to as well as far as far as. 00:26:10
Diving deep into the community benefits fund, the details as well as the revenue insurance agreements. So I think that's really 00:26:15
good for us to just take a step back and have our local experts who created these documents really touch on the details of what 00:26:23
the response are about, but also is what can and can't be done. What have you been written in? 00:26:32
Thank you, Madam President. I don't want to give anybody my back, so I'm going to give the 40 minutes. Maybe I'll just move over 00:26:41
here. How's that? 00:26:45
And I will say that at a recent community advisory committee, is that what the committee that the city uses? It's called Deputy 00:26:50
City Manager Charlie Perez. 00:26:56
Did a very good job of describing to that committee the contours of what the Community Benefit Fund is, is set up to do sort of 00:27:04
it's it's. 00:27:09
Its provenance or its origination, essentially, to put it into very easy to understand terms, I think the city and the court were 00:27:16
engaged in litigation in 2012, 1314. And as a result of that litigation, the parties decided, rather than continue to fight in 00:27:23
court, let's reach a settlement on all the issues that the city and the port had been essentially arguing about. It has to do with 00:27:30
the flow of money. 00:27:37
From the port to the city. 00:27:45
Under three different agreements that have existed historically at that time already for 2530 years, some of them going back to 00:27:47
1983. It's called the 1983 agreement in 1987, agreement in 19. 00:27:53
89 agreement. 00:28:00
I don't have a slide in front of me, but suffice it to say that there were, there were just not, not meeting. I, I, I mind to mind 00:28:02
the city and the port. And so the parties decided, let's wrap up the litigation and let's all agree on the best way to move 00:28:11
forward. Part of that settlement was that the court agreed to the extent. 00:28:19
Our annual revenue exceed $13 million we will set aside. 00:28:29
A certain amount of money into what's called the Community Benefit fund so that the port and the city could work together. And 00:28:33
that's really, I mean, all the numbers that we just went through come from what was born out of that settlement agreement. And I 00:28:39
think to to your question, Madam Mayor. 00:28:45
Madam, Madam President, Madam President, I apologize. 00:28:52
I had to have the list up on my phone and then I took it away. Let me let me pull it up again because the settlement agreement 00:28:57
essentially sets forth 4 categories of types of projects that can be funded with this money and then funneled through this body 00:29:03
here this. 00:29:09
Four of you, and then to go to each of the respective bodies on one hand, and the Board of Harvard Commissioners on the other, to 00:29:17
give final approval to projects and fund funding that fall within the categories I am about to. 00:29:24
Share with you. 00:29:34
OK. And I know that we hear it the more we understand, OK, you know what, when we're selecting these projects, we need to. 00:29:36
Are we selecting the majority under category other or are we really making an impact by selecting the the other one which is 00:29:48
category right? I'm not sure who's suggesting it was to include a notation as to OK, what is this? I have them in my e-mail as 00:29:54
ABCD, right? Just in terms of the what the categories are, whatever it is that the body decides to to to call them as whatever 00:30:00
works for you, but they fall into the following categories. 00:30:06
1st which to me signals it's the most, at least it was to the parties at the time, the most important of the categories and that 00:30:12
is shoreline protection. 00:30:17
2nd is projects that advance community development through joint initiatives. Somewhat of a. 00:30:22
General category right community development through joint initiatives. So things that come together from the port and the city, 00:30:31
opportunistic endeavours like economic development or environmental, environmental mitigation. And I think that really gets to is 00:30:37
recognizing that what we have here at the at the Port of Huanene with the city of Port Hueneme and the city of Oxnard is sort of 00:30:43
unique in the state, right It's a very. 00:30:49
It's a very close relationship, it can be very symbiotic and mutually beneficial. 00:30:56
But we're essentially here around the harbor with its long history with the Navy there and then the port here since 1937 and the 00:31:02
city here since 1950, something 75 years. So that that phrasing of opportunistic endeavors means let's let's, in my mind at least, 00:31:09
of course, open to interpretation, but it means let's take advantage of these unique situation, unique relationship we have here 00:31:17
by virtue of being at this harbor in this place. 00:31:24
And the reference to environmental, environmental mitigation I think is what it sounds like, right. To the extent this body can 00:31:32
come up with projects that help mitigate environmental impacts on the community, that's something that should be looked at by the 00:31:39
City Council and by the Board of Harbor commissioners. And then finally, the catch all. 00:31:45
Other. Yeah, exactly. The catch all is other projects agreed to by the board and the City Council. And what that means essentially 00:31:53
is. 00:31:57
If this body is unable to come to agreements on whatever balance you have, a fund should be spent. Then you go back to the City 00:32:02
Council, you go back to the board of harbor commissioners for those larger bodies to come up with their own projects and 00:32:09
essentially Duke it out right to come to come to an agreement on how to spend the rest of this money. Whatever is not spent in a 00:32:17
given year rolls over to to another year. But of course, we've seen here that the intention and I'm I'm glad to. 00:32:24
Effect ultimately used to put the money to use to the to the within 75 or $0.71 of of what has been transferred from the port to 00:32:32
to. 00:32:37
To this body for its use that is that sort of what you were looking for and could you clarify the courts process and the city's 00:32:43
process are two totally different processes absolutely right. And this body is I think the clearest example of that right you you 00:32:51
meet jointly, but you're representing your your party in that litigation ultimately the the court represented by the chief court 00:32:58
representatives here the city. 00:33:05
By the mayor and the mayor Pro Tem here and each of those entities those bodies has autonomy under the system that's been set up 00:33:13
to determine what goes into their own decision right Or what goes into the their own suggestions here at this table, their own 00:33:22
interests, their own ultimate choices right and. 00:33:31
I made reference to the CAC earlier, it is clear to me. 00:33:41
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the city has chosen a part of a formal process to inform the decisions made on behalf of the 00:33:47
city at this body. And that's completely within the city's prerogative and control. And I don't think the port will speak on 00:33:54
behalf of the port a little bit. I don't think the port would in any way want to interfere with that in the same way that the port 00:34:01
would not want the city to interfere with any process or not process that we have, right. So that's that's. 00:34:09
Recognition again, that these two independent autonomous bodies have come together primarily to settle the litigation, but also to 00:34:16
find a way to move forward for mutual benefit. And you just want to ask that question. So when you refer to the city, you're 00:34:23
really talking about city staff, City Council. 00:34:29
Well, so here at Ave. Pacific attorney, we're here, she and I would probably have a really good time giving you giving you the the 00:34:36
the 101 of what it means to us as lawyers to what an organization is right the city. 00:34:42
Is is a municipal entity right formed under the general laws of the State of California. It it is represented by the five duly 00:34:48
elected representatives on the City Council for for from my perspective as an attorney. 00:34:56
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to thank you lawyers. We'd like to hear ourselves. I just want to just, you know, yeah. Our our 00:35:06
residents hold us responsible as elected officials. And so we're elected officials for the city of Port Hueneme. 00:35:13
And that's as far as our responsibility goes to the city members. We can't talk to them about the port because that's the porch 00:35:21
responsibility to talk to the city, the residents, because, you know, just like we're elected officials, you all are elected 00:35:28
officials, right? And so they are your constituents. And there are constituents. So when they come and speak on our mics at our 00:35:35
council meeting, we're listening because we know we have to respond, right? 00:35:42
So I just want to make sure that we have city members sitting here as I, we represent the City of Port Wine. So when you come to 00:35:50
talk to us, you're talking to us. You are not talking to the poor. If you want to talk to the poor, you have to talk to the poor. 00:35:56
And so just want to make sure that you know, when I, I assume you met when you said city, you meant the city of the body of the 00:36:04
city. Absolutely yes. Yes. Because remember, Madam Mayor pro chairman and for those who are unfamiliar with kind of the basic 00:36:12
structure of the of the port, it is a harbor district formed under separate state law called the harbors navigation code and. 00:36:20
Its territory is is not just the city of Fort Wayne, right? It's territory is the city of Port Hueneme, the city of Oxnard, and 00:36:28
some unincorporated areas of the county. 00:36:33
And that that is our, we call it our corpus, right? That's that's the harbor commissioners elect doors. They are responsible to to 00:36:37
their own constituents in the way that the mayor, the mayor Pro Tem and their colleagues and the council are responsible to I'm 00:36:45
assuming folks here is city of Port Hueneme residents there. So in the same thing, it just happens to be a different scale. Sure. 00:36:52
On the City side and going back to a point Ruben made was recently we had a citizen advisory Commission meeting and our committee 00:37:00
meeting and Ruben and Kristen attended and spoke at that meeting. And we, the item on the agenda for us at that meeting was 00:37:09
talking about the city process. It's, it's, you know, that I've heard sort of across the board from the City Council. 00:37:17
Council and and our community and our staff that that we need to really. 00:37:25
Fine tune the city process and. 00:37:32
Define that and where it goes in what order, 'cause we have three or four checks that are balances now and sometimes it goes to 00:37:34
the next step and it goes back and you know, all that kind of stuff. So, so we had our CAC meeting where we essentially said as 00:37:40
far as the city process goes, we're gonna work next year. We're gonna put a report together spelling out what the process will be, 00:37:46
what we recommend the process to be for the City side. 00:37:52
And so that was a good conversation and, and positive and everything. And we got some feedback on, on that and you know, umm, 00:38:00
where public hearing should be and things like that. Umm, and then subsequent to that, umm, last week, Kristen and I actually 00:38:06
spoke at the HOA Coalition meeting that's referenced in the attachment on July 18th. So we talked about that a little bit more. 00:38:13
And I think, I think we sort of did get to like the root of the question there. 00:38:20
Because. 00:38:27
You know, it's on the agenda to talk about sort of that request and and Kristen and I were talking at the meeting and essentially 00:38:30
the question was, OK, so the community or the HOA coalition said OK, so we understand that process. 00:38:37
What's the process from the port side? You know, like how do we provide input to the port side and at the meeting at Kristen's not 00:38:47
here. So This is why I'm raising it at the meeting, you know, Kristen said, Well, that's a conversation to have with with the 00:38:53
board members and you know, the board decides what that process is. But I do think we sort of got to the root that that was the 00:38:59
question that they've been asking that we've been struggling to answer. 00:39:05
Because for us, we've been answering like we have a process, we go through C, our citizen advisory Commission and then we go to 00:39:11
this meeting and then we go to the council like it's that's our process. So I won't speak for anybody in the room. And actually on 00:39:17
that topic, one question I was going to ask is if we have public comment on each item or not. Because I think I think we should, 00:39:23
but it's not on the agenda. OK, Yeah. And so, you know, I think some of the HOA coalition members are here and so they can speak 00:39:29
to it better if I'm not. 00:39:35
Stating it accurately, but when we had that meeting, it sort of that was how the conversation kind of split was sort of like, OK, 00:39:41
so what's the city's process? And now it's the ports process. And I don't know, that might be an answer that the board has to give 00:39:47
in a board meeting, you know, but but anyway, so. 00:39:53
I'll leave it at that. 00:40:00
I'm happy to sit down whenever you're done with me. 00:40:03
So can we I my apologies, I did see public comments on here. So I didn't say public comments on everything. That's OK if if any 00:40:08
public would like to speak on one on the agenda item discussed. 00:40:14
Yeah, I thank you for change that comment. Yes, I think that that's what we came away with when we met with Kristen last week. 00:40:21
And I think that this sort of bubbled up because of the statute, the whole community sort of became more aware of this concern 00:40:30
about what are these funds going to, why are we spending money on the statute. And then so it brought up over time a bigger 00:40:37
question of what is this process, right? And so we brought it to the city and asked about creating a better process. It says 00:40:45
community benefit fund. So we want to make sure that it's really benefiting the community and. 00:40:52
Just a rare quality of life. And there's been a number of things bantered around. And, you know, we've talked about how do you 00:41:00
quantify the benefit to the community, not just in dollars, but in in people's lives that you're in that you're impacting. And, 00:41:06
you know, we did a deeper dive on the history of the community benefit fund. And you know, only 9% of the funds since 2015 have 00:41:12
been spent on shoreline protection. 00:41:18
55% of it has been spent on basically public relations which we subsidized category under the Community Development Fund, which is 00:41:25
events and sponsorships opportunities to endeavours, which is the DC coalition, I mean. 00:41:34
Coalition and then other projects. I put the statue public mural anyways. 00:41:42
Half $1,000,000 right. So I mean, so where's, where's the public safety, where's the the community benefit? How do we quantify the 00:41:49
quality of life programs that we're putting together to impact those people's lives. So this is what we started prompted our 00:41:56
coalition from wanting to get. 00:42:02
Some process in place with the city and hopefully with the port so that we come together to come up with a stronger program. 00:42:10
The benefits support benefits the city benefits our community since it's a community benefit fundamental. So that's really where 00:42:20
this this bubbled up out of and I think that we've all had a variety of different ideas and, and wanted to share those. And I 00:42:25
think that. 00:42:30
Accountability and measurability and. 00:42:37
Making sure that we're doing good things together has always been our goal. We did that. We came together as a coalition about two 00:42:40
years ago because we wanted to, we wanted to help improve the, the, our city and improve the quality of life and, and that kind of 00:42:46
development of our city. We want to do the same with the board. That's our that's our goal is to do is to be a good neighbor and 00:42:52
provide. 00:42:58
Feedback good and bad when it's needed so that we can work together to find solutions and come together for those purposes. And so 00:43:06
the for the community benefit. But we want to have a voice with you to help you and if there's a way that we can help you with 00:43:12
this process, we're open to your suggestions. Thanks. Any any other comments from some of the other. Well, I and I think you have 00:43:18
because the gentleman's comments. 00:43:24
Last meeting about the lifeguard, I thought that I had no idea if that existed. So that's fabulous. So that's a fabulous 00:43:32
suggestion. So I think that that type of input is extremely important. 00:43:36
I appreciate your analysis of this. You know, 9% here, 52% here because I think that's important. I think that that's where having 00:43:41
these meetings on a monthly basis, as much as my colleagues may say not another meeting, it's important because we're getting back 00:43:46
on the right track. 00:43:51
But we're back on it. We're getting on the right track, right? And we're really saying, wait, we need to make more impact like for 00:43:58
example, the category on. 00:44:02
The grant writer that I think is going to be tremendous the impact it's going to have on us right on on increasing our dollars for 00:44:08
future projects. So I think that's fabulous. I do believe in the quantifiable stuff. How how impactful was this? How many 00:44:15
residents did we touch? I mean, so just a little analysis of 11 sheet write up saying that we had on the on the heart run because 00:44:21
that was a really good one. We had 600 participants of all ages we had. 00:44:28
You know, the hospitals out there, what hospitals were there, they were monitoring heart rate, etcetera. 00:44:36
Overview of I do wanna say though, we have to remember and I was not here in the years of the statue creation, but we have to 00:44:41
remember is that there were other folks at the table. So that statute my is that that statue of conversation has been going on for 00:44:48
quite some time. Yes. And the only reason why it came to the forefront is because of the placement of the statute. But even the 00:44:56
placement was already discussed but never finalized. 00:45:03
I just want to make sure that, you know, there's good things happening, but we're trying to, we're trying our best as a committee 00:45:10
to get us back on the right track. And I think by doing all this analysis of the dollars, where they're being spent, how, you 00:45:16
know, suggestions like the gentleman. 00:45:23
Thanks. I've been a commissioner for a long time and I know that the shoreline of our beach has always been very, very important 00:45:30
to the Commission and support now that you you quoted 9%. 00:45:38
That shoreline has been is protected by other grants because we always make sure that we get plenty of sand and and that beach. 00:45:48
I'm just looking at the actual items that you put in 2015. 00:45:53
Spent 44,000 in A2, 2020, 20/20/2020 and 2021. We spent about 50,000 but I know that we spent millions of dollars on. 00:46:00
But it comes up from from a different, different budget, not that it's fun. And I have a comment about that. We know that when it 00:46:13
comes time to have to replenish our beach, $40,000 is absolutely nothing to that balance. So. 00:46:21
I think it might be a good idea to maybe move that category because we don't have enough money in the even if we had all the money 00:46:31
for the community fund to put in shortly, it's still like 1% of what is necessary to actually make any dent in that. So. 00:46:40
That's a suggestion. 00:46:51
So here's what was on this in the very beginning of 2002, I think I thought I went back and looked at it because I said, what did 00:46:54
you do in 2015 for the 1544 thousand? So you had a beast nurse nourishment for 25,000. 00:46:59
Had a beach advisory Commission, which was interesting at 10,000. I don't think you still have that. So it even did anything. And 00:47:05
then interagency coalition and punishment, right. And so then there was, you know, nothing happened with that whole beach 00:47:13
replenishment or shoreline protection until 2020 and 2021. 00:47:21
And there were some things like 88 Beach, you know, retrofitting. 00:47:30
When he needs arcs and enhancement. 00:47:36
And so the coastal keepers and some donations along those lines, but that's AI mean, you know, and and to your point, I mean, the 00:47:39
the categories are kind of funny, right? I mean, I consider community development different things than public relations. And then 00:47:46
opportunities to get members is kind of a funny category too than other. Because if you look at what we put money into, it's I 00:47:53
would say it's majority is nonprofits helping out other nonprofits who do things in the community. 00:48:01
Seems to be the trend over the years. Madison President, Madam Mayor, if I could so remember that we're talking about. 00:48:09
Yeah. So blame the lawyers, right? That's that's but but as a lawyer, I'm I'm going to say, and it was one of my lawyers who was 00:48:19
working on that agreement. 00:48:24
They were, those lawyers were simply trying to get those two parties to agree on something, right, to put that litigation behind 00:48:30
them. So every ward in that settlement document was vetted not only through the lawyers, but by the respective clients. And that's 00:48:37
what it took to stop that bloodletting, for lack of a better word. And that is, and all due respect to you, Madam Mayor, that is, 00:48:45
that is sort of what what you're stuck with, right? That's not the right way to put it, but that's what that's the state of. 00:48:52
That's a state of play. And so to remove any of these categories is not something within the purview of this spine. With respect, 00:49:00
exactly. 00:49:05
But I will say, you know, practically speaking over time, what appears to have happened is that this body and then ultimately your 00:49:12
respective bodies have have sort of done that, right. They have placed less emphasis on the shoreline protection and more emphasis 00:49:17
on these other categories and. 00:49:23
They've got the room to do that under the under the agreement to keep the peace. 00:49:30
Exactly. And that's whether that's, I'm sorry, whether that's a wise thing to do or not is entirely up to this slide to, you know, 00:49:36
exactly. And I think that if James states for a while and Chris, and we know she's fabulous. I think that that that leadership 00:49:43
right there will help keep us focused, right. In regards to the sound replenishment part. That's the core of Army engineers, if 00:49:50
I'm not mistaken. And that's that's a bigger project and that's huge. But please know. 00:49:57
Their style is about seeking these friends to make sure that that happens. 00:50:33
We're, we're currently working Kristen and I and the representatives from the harbor and others we're currently working right now 00:50:36
on what looks to be getting $16 million for Sandra punishment this year. So, so that is something that happens and maybe isn't 00:50:43
reflected here, but. 00:50:50
Just. 00:50:58
Thought, and I think Rubin's right, that the agreement is the agreement. We don't wanna, we don't wanna go in that direction. But 00:51:00
the question, the maybe dirty secret from my perspective about cities is most agreements are written very vaguely with the intent 00:51:08
that they last over time as the decision makers change that they then have the ability to say, well, this is what that meant or 00:51:15
this is what that meant. And so I think the real thing and we talked about this like at the last few meetings. 00:51:23
So maybe the real question to get to the bottom of is just like what do the current council and the current Commission, what do 00:51:30
they feel like are those four categories, you know define them? And we have you mentioned earlier we're planning to meet monthly 00:51:38
as we get through the CBF projects, maybe we spend a couple months saying what you know, what's the vision for what these funds 00:51:45
will be used for? How are we defining those categories moving forward? 00:51:52
What the community benefits on whether that is appropriate term for what this is? 00:52:31
And he says we can't touch it because, well, so I mean, she was talking about. 00:52:37
If if the four of you and then you respect the bodies say, well, we're going to call these funds, the funds themselves. 00:53:13
I don't know. 00:53:21
Something else then start to calm something else. No, I think it's fine. I'm just mentioning it just didn't cover Marks and this 00:53:22
was something that Kristen had brought up, but I don't know if it's still something they were contemplating or not. I think it's 00:53:28
fine. I just think we need to narrow down more focus on actually what we want to put the money towards and maybe be more 00:53:35
intentional in community benefit opportunities and how we go about that is the question of the day. 00:53:41
For both sides then may I suggest that can I ask questions one second so. 00:53:49
It has this person who lives in Portland, Amy, and also votes for harbor commissioners. We're kind of in these two spots. 00:53:56
When this whole statue thing came up, everybody went Oh my God. 00:54:05
Why all this money going on something that frankly most people didn't want? OK. And so we started taking a deeper look at things 00:54:12
and the 1st place to go is to the city. And I think we've got a process in place right now that looks like it's maybe some 00:54:18
variation with it as time goes on. 00:54:23
But it seems pretty good. We have committee average not put on the hat as a poor constituent. It's I have no idea what goes on. 00:54:29
It's there's been talk about outreach and stuff, but I'm pretty active. I don't hear any of this stuff ever. So like with the 00:54:37
statue, for example, the first time I heard about that was somebody put a petition up saying we want to stick this thing in the 00:54:44
spot that nobody wanted. I mean, they've been going on for years so. 00:54:51
What I would request is the commissioners is to make it more open. 00:54:59
Process where you can get feedback from not just the people might need me. Obviously if you represent a bigger constituency and it 00:55:05
makes it more transparent and and participatory, I think because it seems like there's support. This is boundary, right? Who knows 00:55:11
what's going on in there. 00:55:17
I think people are showing up much to the meetings to be part of that, what you're doing, what you're doing. 00:55:26
But I think if we could make this more transparent and get more feedback from the community about this stuff would certainly help 00:55:32
us get to a better place, you know, And I absolutely love that that suggestion. I believe the city manager and Kristen or CEO are 00:55:38
working on putting notices in the waterways, am I correct? 00:55:44
Yeah, Wasn't what the community benefits the funding is going towards. So keeping it more in front of of the community on what 00:55:52
we're doing with the funds, what you're putting something into the the utility. I think we had talked about doing some 00:55:57
advertising. 00:56:02
We haven't we haven't narrowed down. Yes, I think we should. We should because we should be keeping that community with regards to 00:56:07
statutes that have been called upon for years from the City Council. Unfortunately it was before my time, but I don't know what 00:56:14
that process was. But I do agree with you is we need to put it out there more often. Please, please, please look at our social 00:56:21
media accounts and go on our website and put a lot of this information out there. I think it's it's really important that. 00:56:28
You know that that we take that Ave. as well. 00:56:36
One suggestion I would make different parts to mayor's suggestion about what categories do we want to go through since you are 00:56:39
dark in August, maybe we'll and you know and we will do it as a commissioners is go back and maybe work with Kristen. I'll we'll 00:56:46
work with Kristen and you can work with your city manager. 00:56:53
What do we consider category A? What project type of projects do voluntary category? What category B, Category C And then we come 00:57:02
back and see if that's what we are in treatment with and maybe it'll help. 00:57:07
Help enhance our understanding of those categories and how we interpret them. 00:57:16
Madam President, you mentioned social media and I was looking at that screen there as a gentleman was talking. And I mean, it's 00:57:24
not going to surprise you to hear the lawyer say this, but everything the port does is open and transparent in the same way that 00:57:31
the city does. They're subject to the same sense of laws. So the the, the noticing on the meeting. 00:57:39
They're openly transparent. But where can you watch? Like all the City Council meetings are live streamed. They're posted on on 00:57:48
the YouTube the next day. 00:57:52
Invested through a grant fund that we received into a whole new video system that will be implemented in September. 00:58:27
And that will be going through in September. We'll, we'll be able to broadcast live events and the website that we have we're 00:58:36
having issues with. And that what I sent you all the minutes by e-mail has been fixed. So if you go on to our new website, you'll 00:58:43
be able to get all of our minutes and everything on that now. So that has been resolved. 00:58:50
Just to be able to watch meetings, 'cause if you see, if you see me coming up, like community benefit fund is on the agenda. You 00:58:58
could, you could send a comment or show up and make a comment or you can, but you can do that now. So I mean, they don't have 00:59:04
access. The agendas are posted since you can't watch the meetings like, you know, unless you show up. I would, I would love to be 00:59:10
able to do a couple of blocks, but I would love to be just watching my iPad at home, you know, instead of having to come. 00:59:16
It'd be great for me. And that's that is a great point and it is helpful to some of us who can't always come to a meeting live at 00:59:23
but we can watch it the next day if we miss something. And we wanted to provide some comment later. And so that we're informed, 00:59:29
you know, I mean, all we learned is be informed so that we can again be the neighbors. And I should note that this meeting is 00:59:34
being recorded. 00:59:39
We have recorded the last few meetings that are available on the city's website and on our website. So if you want to go back and 00:59:45
watch the last names, you're more than welcome to go back and be those. And once again in September, we plan on having a broadcast 00:59:51
live. That was the earliest that we could get our contractors to be able to come out. I'm on your website. Now that you have a new 00:59:57
one, am I going to be? 01:00:03
Transport. Do I have to go and sign up again? No, you should still be. 01:00:10
Any other comments? 01:00:16
That's moving forward if you look at grants for operations or infrastructure grants, and the city needs to take care of. 01:00:49
And then those are very helpful in my day job. I do that a lot with the university and I go out to the community and say we need 01:00:59
this grant for this particular purpose. We'll do by the letter of support. So that's where you can become very helpful to us. So I 01:01:04
appreciate it. Thank you. And then the next item then moving along is scholarship perception. We talked about that. Anything you 01:01:09
want to add to that, Adam? 01:01:14
We have enough food for about 30 individuals. I reached out to each of the recipients. They plan to bring 45I assume that our 01:01:21
staff will be doing the same on each side. So enough for 30, it's going to be catered and then reaching out to Charles and 01:01:28
yourselves to see who's available. Then I'll be able to build out a little bit of a a program later for us to have opportunities 01:01:34
for speaking and some pictures with the recipients as well. 01:01:41
Thank you. And then next item, Washington DC trip, any other questions about that particular one? No, I think it became clear to 01:01:49
us that this year is not a good time because of all the election that are happening. So we need to spring it a lot more active 01:01:55
activity and things will be. 01:02:01
I don't understand the benefits of the city and I and I guess you know, is there a benefit And I don't have, I haven't asked the 01:02:14
city of this question yet, but I would like to, to hear what the benefit is to the city in this particular because it's a big 01:02:22
expense. 01:02:30
It's a very expensive to go to the no good news. This is the first year we did it. Uh-huh. And what was what was the, what was the 01:02:38
agenda, the, the vision for that trip? So since it was our first time, we were really unsure as to how we would fit in all that 01:02:45
and how it would actually benefit us. So the main part of it, which we went to was to support. They had a few grants they were 01:02:51
trying to get. 01:02:57
So we went to support them and in the meantime we gathered our own information and all these different agencies that we talked to. 01:03:03
I think we we visited for the four or five a day. 01:03:08
All the major agencies to kind of get an understanding is actually what can we do the next time we do this? Where can we actually 01:03:13
push for our own assistance and help with that. So that was the first one was a learning opportunity for us. And now we realized 01:03:20
we have a game plan. So there's a lot of grants we've been told that we can push for getting connected to all these agencies open 01:03:27
up a bunch of grant opportunities for us. So that the second time around was us making a game plan starting now. 01:03:34
To push for our own agenda and adjusted to support the next time we went there so we have more of an understanding of what what we 01:03:42
need to say, who we need to talk to, what we need to do the first time. 01:03:47
We did it and we learned a lot now that we can use that to our benefit. 01:03:53
Question, I, I know, I think that the government gives $2,000,000 every couple of years ago to replenish the same. Now, does that 01:04:00
come as a grant or is that because the contract doesn't have anything for inflation or anything? So you get the same thing for the 01:04:07
last 30 years. Yeah. So I think that's how people summarize it, but it's not quite exactly how it works. And so like we don't 01:04:15
actually get like a check every year that we hold or anything. 01:04:22
The real the way it works is really it's like the government makes the allocation and then. 01:04:31
The contract doesn't even really go through us, it's the contract with the. 01:04:37
Army Corps of Engineers And so it works out for this year. 01:04:43
For the last few years, it's gonna end up being $60 million. 01:04:49
To answer, maybe the root of your question is does it adjust for inflation, Not as much as we would like it to because it was 01:04:55
about $16 million last night and so it's not $2,000,000. 01:05:01
It's the $16 million this time isn't gonna go as far as the 16,000,000 last time. So, so it's something we have to work on. Is the 01:05:08
was the contract based on the amount of sand or the amount of money? 01:05:14
Problem, right? Yeah, it's money, and that's the problem. And so even last year we got more sand. 01:05:22
Then we are, we got forcing them the cycle prior, but we didn't, we still didn't get our target goal to send. And then this year 01:05:29
the concern and we're, we're advocating, we're working with the board to we've had meetings trying to push because the concern is, 01:05:35
you know what if we're getting a business issue because $60 million doesn't go as far as it needs to do so. So we're working on 01:05:41
that and but it's, it's a concern. 01:05:47
Yeah. And and that we talked to, we actually met with someone who pushes for that. So we went to DC and we met with her and we 01:05:54
pushed for that and her advocating on rehab. But that is also a benefit to meeting all of our elected officials. 01:06:00
So they can advocate for us when it comes times around, we need a grant, we need assistance, they'll remember who we are, our 01:06:06
name, what we came for and what we need to. You know, we met with you in DC. You know, we had a great meeting. This is what you 01:06:12
told us and we'd like you to advocate for us to get this funds. And that was a big, that was a big part of it as well. 01:06:18
Because they're looking for to give put shuttles on campuses because the fact that, you know, it'll have the students stop driving 01:07:25
around, cancel for Parkinson's, but it's really overturning these grants and having someone focus on that research to be able to 01:07:31
do them. So I think that will be better prepared. 01:07:37
I have a question, does the city of anime have a representative in Washington DC like we do? Obviously something that I would I 01:07:45
brought up to the council when I got here, it said it was something I'd like to do when we have the money. 01:07:53
Yeah, Yeah. Well, we follow. We haven't had the money only because we, you know, we go to Washington. You know, we don't go as 01:08:02
that group. We go as an individual throughout the year. I mean, our director probably goes to Washington maybe 10 times a year for 01:08:09
for special grants. That's why we need money. She's out there. Yeah. Yeah. But we have very good connections with our with our 01:08:15
network guide. 01:08:21
Yeah, I worked in Oxnard and Oxnard contracts with the same. 01:08:29
Yeah, and he knows. He knows when there's money available and you know, he'll give a call in either. And those are the 01:08:34
relationships you've built because I get calls from our our federal legislators saying, Selena, there's a scrap coming up, you 01:08:40
might want to flag that this is what it does. So those those are the strong connections. 01:08:47
I think it's part of our long term goals. 01:08:53
Great. Any other comments? 01:08:57
I see Cortana, enjoy yourself. Thank you. 01:09:00