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| Good evening and welcome to the. | 00:00:39 | |
| City of Port Hueneme. | 00:00:42 | |
| Closed session. | 00:00:44 | |
| Today is Tuesday, September the 2nd. | 00:00:46 | |
| Calling the meeting to order at 5:30. | 00:00:49 | |
| Roll call please. | 00:00:55 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 00:00:57 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez here. | 00:00:59 | |
| Councilmember Perez here here Pro Tem Lopez. | 00:01:00 | |
| Here and Mayor McQueen, La Shawn. | 00:01:03 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments? No public comments for closed session. | 00:01:06 | |
| Thank you. | 00:01:11 | |
| We will now have. | 00:01:13 | |
| Our City Attorney, Reed. | 00:01:14 | |
| The closed session items on record. | 00:01:16 | |
| Thank you honorable Mayor and council members. We have 1 closed session item this evening. It is labor negotiations. | 00:01:18 | |
| And it's pursuant to Government Code 54957.6. | 00:01:24 | |
| Agencies designated representatives of Mr. Vega and Mr. Lee, your human resources manager. | 00:01:28 | |
| The employee association is the SEIU. | 00:01:33 | |
| Service Employees International Union 721. | 00:01:37 | |
| To the extent this reportable action, we were reported at the commencement of the regular session. | 00:01:39 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 00:01:43 | |
| Do we have any members of the Council that have conflict of interest for the listed item? | 00:01:45 | |
| If not, we'll recess to closed session. The time is now 531. | 00:01:53 | |
| Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting. | 01:00:41 | |
| To order the time is now 630. | 01:00:45 | |
| Please stand for the flag salute. | 01:00:49 | |
| If I could have everybody put your your right hand over your heart. | 01:00:55 | |
| Ready. Begin. | 01:00:59 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag. | 01:01:01 | |
| Which it stands one nation under God. | 01:01:07 | |
| Thank you. | 01:01:14 | |
| Great. Thank you. Madam Clerk, can we roll call please? | 01:01:22 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 01:01:24 | |
| Here. | 01:01:26 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez here. | 01:01:27 | |
| Councilmember Perez. | 01:01:28 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem Lopez. | 01:01:30 | |
| And Mamma Queen lashon. | 01:01:31 | |
| Here. | 01:01:33 | |
| So we're going to move to our inspiration, which will be given to us tonight by Councilmember Perez. | 01:01:34 | |
| Thank you and I did remember this time. | 01:01:40 | |
| So I just have a brief words of inspiration, a reminder to all leaders. | 01:01:43 | |
| Leadership is not about titles or positions. | 01:01:48 | |
| It's about service. | 01:01:52 | |
| Each of us has the privilege and responsibility to help shape the future of our community. | 01:01:53 | |
| When we listen with respect. | 01:01:58 | |
| Speak with truth and act with integrity. | 01:02:00 | |
| We create a foundation of trust that lifts everyone. | 01:02:02 | |
| Let's carry that spirit in today's meeting and remember that together we can achieve. | 01:02:06 | |
| More than anyone of us alone. | 01:02:10 | |
| All right. Thank you. Thank you. | 01:02:15 | |
| Mr. City Attorney, can we please get a closed session report? | 01:02:17 | |
| Thank you, honorable Mayor and council members. We had one closed session item this evening. It was. | 01:02:20 | |
| Labor negotiations pursuant to Government Code 54957.6. | 01:02:25 | |
| The designated agency representative was Mr. Vega and Mr. Lee. | 01:02:29 | |
| The employee association was the SEIU Service Employees International Union 721. | 01:02:33 | |
| At this point, there is no reportable action with respect to that item. | 01:02:39 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 01:02:43 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments not related to our agenda items? | 01:02:45 | |
| Yes, Our first one is from Becky Bruno. | 01:02:50 | |
| And followed by Mr. Greg Ross. | 01:02:53 | |
| Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem. Council. | 01:03:02 | |
| Staff and audience. | 01:03:05 | |
| Tonight I'm here as a concerned. | 01:03:07 | |
| Last week I had a very good friend of mine. | 01:03:10 | |
| Drop paperwork off at my house and asked me to read it. | 01:03:14 | |
| And the more I read it, the more I got ****** ***. | 01:03:18 | |
| Not because of what you did, Councilmember Hernandez, or what you said. | 01:03:21 | |
| But because you sat there on that diocese and lied. | 01:03:26 | |
| To the city of Port Whitney me about doing. | 01:03:30 | |
| Nothing. | 01:03:32 | |
| Wrong. | 01:03:33 | |
| Now I think. | 01:03:36 | |
| The rest of the council members. | 01:03:38 | |
| Should strip you of all. | 01:03:40 | |
| Of your committees. | 01:03:42 | |
| And not let you vote on police action. | 01:03:45 | |
| That's all I have to say. | 01:03:49 | |
| Thank you. | 01:03:53 | |
| Mr. Greg Ross. | 01:03:54 | |
| Good evening, Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem. | 01:04:03 | |
| Esteemed council members. | 01:04:05 | |
| Been here before. | 01:04:08 | |
| Longtime resident of Ventura County. | 01:04:09 | |
| I've. | 01:04:12 | |
| Nine homes. | 01:04:14 | |
| In six different communities. | 01:04:15 | |
| And I want to say up front. | 01:04:18 | |
| That try not to glad hand here. | 01:04:20 | |
| But this is. | 01:04:23 | |
| My favorite community ever because. | 01:04:25 | |
| It's a community that responds. | 01:04:27 | |
| To issues and I thank you for that. | 01:04:30 | |
| The the. | 01:04:33 | |
| The police. | 01:04:35 | |
| Chief and his group. | 01:04:36 | |
| Starting with Zach. | 01:04:39 | |
| And Gladys, who's been to our community. | 01:04:41 | |
| They do yeoman's work. | 01:04:44 | |
| Just amazing. | 01:04:46 | |
| And we're so appreciative for everything they do for us. | 01:04:47 | |
| The homeless situation has gotten better. | 01:04:50 | |
| And Gladys is now. | 01:04:53 | |
| A hero. | 01:04:55 | |
| So we we really like this. | 01:04:56 | |
| Today I want to. | 01:04:59 | |
| Talk about the port, just very briefly. | 01:05:00 | |
| I gave you a little handout with. | 01:05:03 | |
| Looks like this. | 01:05:05 | |
| I want to start with saying. | 01:05:09 | |
| This city. | 01:05:10 | |
| This. | 01:05:12 | |
| Is closer. | 01:05:13 | |
| To high density residential than any other port in the entire West Coast. | 01:05:15 | |
| #1 #2. | 01:05:20 | |
| The prevailing winds go from Carpinteria to Malibu. | 01:05:22 | |
| 90% or more of the time. | 01:05:25 | |
| OK, that's important to remember. | 01:05:28 | |
| The umm. | 01:05:31 | |
| 16 or 17 days ago. | 01:05:34 | |
| There was a car fire. | 01:05:36 | |
| A vehicle carrier. | 01:05:38 | |
| On I-5. | 01:05:40 | |
| In Sylmar. | 01:05:41 | |
| And that's that picture that I. | 01:05:43 | |
| I did for you. | 01:05:45 | |
| Turns out. | 01:05:47 | |
| That there's only one way to treat. | 01:05:48 | |
| A lithium ion battery fire. | 01:05:52 | |
| Only one. | 01:05:54 | |
| Not water. | 01:05:56 | |
| Not foam. | 01:05:56 | |
| Let it burn. | 01:05:58 | |
| And that's. | 01:05:59 | |
| On this website that I just pulled off. | 01:06:00 | |
| This afternoon. | 01:06:03 | |
| Let it burn, that's what they say. | 01:06:04 | |
| So right now. | 01:06:06 | |
| According to Christian deacons. | 01:06:09 | |
| The CEO of the port. | 01:06:11 | |
| About 20 to 23% of all the vehicles that come into this port. | 01:06:12 | |
| And dropped off our electric. | 01:06:17 | |
| In addition to that, they have much plans to become a green port. | 01:06:19 | |
| And so they're. | 01:06:23 | |
| The port has. | 01:06:25 | |
| An intention to. | 01:06:27 | |
| Bring on electric vehicles. | 01:06:29 | |
| To help them. | 01:06:32 | |
| With their their work. | 01:06:33 | |
| So what happens if we get an electric fire? | 01:06:34 | |
| Lithium battery ion. | 01:06:37 | |
| They don't have a plan. | 01:06:42 | |
| They need a plan. | 01:06:44 | |
| There should be an Amber Alert system for that because. | 01:06:45 | |
| The metals that go up in the air. | 01:06:49 | |
| Are toxic. | 01:06:51 | |
| Really toxic. | 01:06:53 | |
| Lead and so on and so forth. | 01:06:55 | |
| So I'm asking you to work with them. | 01:06:57 | |
| Become. | 01:07:00 | |
| Proactive and make. | 01:07:02 | |
| And make something happen. | 01:07:04 | |
| So that we can be advised if there's a problem. | 01:07:06 | |
| Thank you. | 01:07:09 | |
| And then we just have 3 written comments that I'll go ahead and read. | 01:07:11 | |
| The first one is from Thomas Morris. | 01:07:16 | |
| I am a man of few words so I will be brief. | 01:07:18 | |
| I have lived in Port Hueneme going on 25 years now. | 01:07:21 | |
| And the majority of those years have included a friendship with Mike Federico. | 01:07:25 | |
| I met him through my daughter Robin. She was a close neighbor of Mike's and he came to her rescue. | 01:07:29 | |
| After my daughter blew all the fuses in her rented home in east Ventura. | 01:07:34 | |
| I again met Mike when he and his daughter Cameo would come to the local Italian restaurant Angelo's, which we affectionately. | 01:07:38 | |
| Called. | 01:07:45 | |
| Mike would help in the kitchen and eventually took over the restaurant and named it Rico's. | 01:07:46 | |
| I knew Mike worked in Santa Monica as. | 01:07:51 | |
| Police officer. | 01:07:53 | |
| I was elated when I was informed he was considered for the police chief position in our city. | 01:07:54 | |
| Michael is a standout. | 01:07:59 | |
| As a person, I have never heard him say a derogatory word about anyone. | 01:08:01 | |
| Nor directly to anyone. | 01:08:05 | |
| He is a wonderful father, raising a challenged daughter with the love that Cameo has learned to return to all that she meets. | 01:08:07 | |
| He is a patriot, loving not only our country but our city as well. | 01:08:14 | |
| We need him and I pray he will be part of our community for a long time. | 01:08:18 | |
| Thomas. | 01:08:21 | |
| Jeffrey Scarberry. | 01:08:24 | |
| I just wanted to make a brief comment to express my appreciation for the introductory inspirational message at the beginning of | 01:08:26 | |
| the last meeting on August 18th. | 01:08:30 | |
| The theme of the inspiration, among other things, focused on the importance of public participation in our government and the fact | 01:08:34 | |
| that in our friendly city by the sea of Port Hueneme, every voice matters. We are very lucky to live in a place where these | 01:08:40 | |
| fundamental principles are valued and not taken for granted. Thanks to all our council members for that. | 01:08:46 | |
| And the next one is by Roberto Martinez. | 01:08:54 | |
| Good evening, Mayor McQueen. | 01:08:58 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem Lopez, council member, city staff and members of the public. I'd like to share a brief comment regarding mobile | 01:09:00 | |
| vendors in our city. | 01:09:04 | |
| Particularly those we see at the beach. | 01:09:08 | |
| Many of these vendors do come from outside the county, but I also want to highlight that some are local. | 01:09:10 | |
| The local vendors I've spoken with genuinely want to follow the rules. They are seeking to obtain the proper permits and to be | 01:09:16 | |
| compliant with both city and county requirements. | 01:09:21 | |
| As you continue discussing how to address mobile vending, I hope consideration can be given to those local vendors who want to do | 01:09:25 | |
| things the right way. | 01:09:29 | |
| And contribute positively to our community. | 01:09:33 | |
| I hope there is a system in place for these businesses to operate in our city as they are popular among residents and visitors. | 01:09:36 | |
| Thank you. | 01:09:43 | |
| PS Keep it up, City Council. | 01:09:44 | |
| That concludes public comments for general items. | 01:09:46 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 01:09:49 | |
| We're going to now move on to the agenda approval. | 01:09:51 | |
| Can I get a motion and a second? | 01:09:56 | |
| Move to approve. | 01:10:00 | |
| Second, all in favor? | 01:10:01 | |
| Aye. | 01:10:04 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 01:10:06 | |
| OK, great. Thank you. Do any members of the Council have any conflicts of interest to disclose in any of the items on the agenda? | 01:10:09 | |
| If not, we're going to move on to presentations. For our first presentation, I'd like to call up. | 01:10:18 | |
| President Jess. | 01:10:23 | |
| Ramirez of the Port of Winimi, Oxford Harbor District, while he's making his way up. | 01:10:24 | |
| Our mayor Pro Tem is going to read proclamation. | 01:10:30 | |
| So I'm going to be reading the proclamation for the Banana Festival. | 01:10:39 | |
| Whereas umm. | 01:10:42 | |
| The 12th annual Banana Festival will be held. | 01:10:43 | |
| At the Port of Wine Amy on September 27, 2025, and whereas. | 01:10:46 | |
| The Banana festival was. | 01:10:51 | |
| Created by Commissioner Jess J Ramirez. | 01:10:52 | |
| And CEO. | 01:10:55 | |
| Port Director Christian. | 01:10:57 | |
| To highlight the various contributions and positive impacts. | 01:10:59 | |
| The port has made locally. | 01:11:02 | |
| Regionally and across the world. | 01:11:03 | |
| Whereas support. | 01:11:06 | |
| Operations support the community by bringing 2.2 billion. | 01:11:07 | |
| In economic activity. | 01:11:11 | |
| And creating 20,000. | 01:11:13 | |
| 3220 thousand 32 trade. | 01:11:15 | |
| Related jobs and whereas. | 01:11:17 | |
| Trade through the portable anime generates more than 173,000,000 in direct and related state and local taxes. | 01:11:20 | |
| Which one vital community services? | 01:11:27 | |
| And whereas the Port Authority. | 01:11:29 | |
| Began over 80 years ago with the mission to provide California's Central Coast agricultural community with an ocean link. | 01:11:31 | |
| To the global market. | 01:11:38 | |
| And whereas the Banana Festival is a way to bring the people. | 01:11:39 | |
| In a fun way to see and appreciate the. | 01:11:42 | |
| Support and learn more about its operations and its vital economic role in Ventura County. | 01:11:45 | |
| And whereas the city desires to join the celebration. | 01:11:51 | |
| And support. | 01:11:54 | |
| Of the Banana Festival. | 01:11:55 | |
| Now, therefore. | 01:11:57 | |
| Be it proclaimed that the City Council. | 01:11:58 | |
| Port Winey me does hereby encourage the community to. | 01:12:01 | |
| Go bananas. | 01:12:05 | |
| At the port of Winimi. | 01:12:06 | |
| Banana Festival. | 01:12:08 | |
| And celebrate the diverse working port. | 01:12:10 | |
| Proclaimed this second day of September 2025. | 01:12:13 | |
| Great. Thank you. Over to you have some words. | 01:12:17 | |
| Absolutely. I got plenty. | 01:12:20 | |
| Thank you for the. | 01:12:23 | |
| Mayor. Council members. | 01:12:25 | |
| Well, I I didn't create it, I found it. | 01:12:29 | |
| I'm the godfather. | 01:12:32 | |
| But I'm also the godfather of my Russia festival downtown Oxnard 37 years ago. | 01:12:35 | |
| So I'm about festivals. | 01:12:39 | |
| Life's short, we got to celebrate it every day. You can get up. | 01:12:42 | |
| And the HR 81 if I can get up every morning. | 01:12:45 | |
| As a Hallelujah to one more day to race. | 01:12:48 | |
| OK, and that's what I do. | 01:12:51 | |
| But a lot of you don't know why. | 01:12:54 | |
| Put in a festival, right? | 01:12:57 | |
| Do you guys know the history of why it's got started? | 01:12:59 | |
| That's what I thought. | 01:13:02 | |
| OK, so. | 01:13:03 | |
| Put down the clock. | 01:13:05 | |
| Young. | 01:13:06 | |
| I need more than 5 minutes. | 01:13:08 | |
| Tell the story. | 01:13:10 | |
| What happened is is. | 01:13:12 | |
| I, you know, I said on an electric battery for 37 years. | 01:13:14 | |
| All right, on an electric battery. | 01:13:17 | |
| This unloading bananas. | 01:13:20 | |
| So I'm still. | 01:13:22 | |
| Pretty healthy. | 01:13:24 | |
| And so nothing has happened to me. | 01:13:25 | |
| Now Del Monte bananas. | 01:13:28 | |
| Came to our port. | 01:13:32 | |
| In 83. | 01:13:33 | |
| They were kicked out of Los Angeles because it was a small company. | 01:13:35 | |
| In LA and Long Beach because they love to grow and make money. | 01:13:39 | |
| And pollute the air like they always do. | 01:13:43 | |
| And people are dying under on those highways that feed LA and Long Beach both. | 01:13:46 | |
| They came to us. | 01:13:53 | |
| Looking for a home? | 01:13:55 | |
| OK, they were. They were lost babies. Nobody wanted him. | 01:13:56 | |
| They had a choice either to go to San Diego. | 01:14:00 | |
| Or to come. | 01:14:02 | |
| Or come to Winnie. | 01:14:03 | |
| They came to anime. | 01:14:05 | |
| In 83. | 01:14:08 | |
| I was working there as a casual. | 01:14:09 | |
| I had just come back from Vietnam. I was a longshoreman in Vietnam, so I was working there. | 01:14:11 | |
| So in 86. | 01:14:16 | |
| When the. | 01:14:19 | |
| Union opened their golden doors to get members in. | 01:14:20 | |
| And I was 1 of 50. | 01:14:23 | |
| I came. I came with the 6th first women that came and became Law Insurance in 1986. | 01:14:25 | |
| So that union. | 01:14:33 | |
| Gave me the ability to send my four daughters to. | 01:14:37 | |
| The universities. | 01:14:40 | |
| All my kids went to school. | 01:14:41 | |
| I got 2 from Berkeley, one for East LA. | 01:14:43 | |
| Master's degree. | 01:14:46 | |
| University of Chicago. | 01:14:47 | |
| And Harvard. | 01:14:49 | |
| Thanks to bananas. | 01:14:50 | |
| And that crazy little fruit. | 01:14:51 | |
| That everybody loves. | 01:14:53 | |
| Made it possible for me. | 01:14:55 | |
| To send my kids to school. | 01:14:56 | |
| So obviously I love the port. | 01:14:58 | |
| I love the port. | 01:15:00 | |
| So I wish I used to tell my first director. | 01:15:01 | |
| Tony Tamarina about. | 01:15:05 | |
| Celebrating bananas. | 01:15:07 | |
| And he thought I was crazy. | 01:15:09 | |
| Then build Munger came on. | 01:15:11 | |
| Bill, I mean, look at. | 01:15:13 | |
| Del Monte set the pace. | 01:15:16 | |
| After the Armani came. | 01:15:18 | |
| Then we got while a Nius. | 01:15:19 | |
| We got. | 01:15:21 | |
| Chiquita. | 01:15:22 | |
| So we became a legitimate port and a home for other companies to come. But the money had the guts. | 01:15:24 | |
| And the foresight to come to Port Oneimi. | 01:15:31 | |
| So that made it for me. | 01:15:33 | |
| In terms of my job. | 01:15:35 | |
| And also in terms of the. | 01:15:36 | |
| Sending my kids to school and living a good life. | 01:15:38 | |
| Now for 20 years. | 01:15:40 | |
| I used to bother this other two directors. | 01:15:44 | |
| And and then when we hired Kristen. | 01:15:47 | |
| 13 years ago. | 01:15:49 | |
| It's a Christian listen. | 01:15:51 | |
| For 20 years, I've been wanting to celebrate bananas. | 01:15:52 | |
| I said, well, why Commissioner Bananas And I told her the story and she loved the story. | 01:15:55 | |
| She thinks that was she think I was crazy. | 01:15:59 | |
| So that's why we have it. | 01:16:02 | |
| So what does the Winner Festival do for me? | 01:16:03 | |
| First of all. | 01:16:06 | |
| Like like like the proclamation says. | 01:16:07 | |
| There's an appreciation for the port. | 01:16:09 | |
| Obviously, not everyone's going to appreciate it. | 01:16:11 | |
| Because you know, this is a city port. | 01:16:13 | |
| But most people that come here appreciate it coming here. | 01:16:16 | |
| Secondly, this. | 01:16:20 | |
| Festival brings in people. | 01:16:22 | |
| From all over except for Malenko. We don't advertise and we purposely don't advertise in LA. | 01:16:23 | |
| Because we don't want to have. | 01:16:29 | |
| 40,000 people here. | 01:16:31 | |
| We're just gonna keep it nice and cozy. | 01:16:32 | |
| And just for us. | 01:16:35 | |
| Just to us, so we can celebrate it. | 01:16:36 | |
| But it also brings a lot of people to our beautiful city. | 01:16:39 | |
| And hopefully those people come back. | 01:16:42 | |
| And spend money. | 01:16:44 | |
| Right. So it's a 2 fold thing. | 01:16:46 | |
| I did it for my own selfish. | 01:16:48 | |
| Reasons, but it also benefited anybody else. | 01:16:49 | |
| So that's the history in a short. | 01:16:52 | |
| Summary of how the. | 01:16:55 | |
| The Banana Festival started. | 01:16:57 | |
| And I had my banana this morning with my cereal. | 01:16:59 | |
| Thank you. | 01:17:02 | |
| Good. Thank you. Anyone have anything they'd like that? I would just like to say I so appreciate the efforts that you put into | 01:17:03 | |
| found to found. | 01:17:07 | |
| The banana festival I go every year, I love it. | 01:17:11 | |
| It's a great time and it's always great when there's events that our community. | 01:17:14 | |
| Can go out and enjoy. | 01:17:19 | |
| For free. | 01:17:21 | |
| So very exactly and you said the magic. | 01:17:22 | |
| Free. We're one of the few festival they are free. | 01:17:25 | |
| Thank you so much. | 01:17:27 | |
| And I hope you come and join us. | 01:17:28 | |
| I'm going in Texas. I'm coming back on at midnight on on Friday so I can be here for the Banana Festival. | 01:17:31 | |
| On Saturday, Yes, Mr. | 01:17:37 | |
| Just want to say I start my days off with a banana. | 01:17:39 | |
| All right, kind of helps the knee pain #1 fruit in the country. You want to go down? Yeah. | 01:17:42 | |
| OK. | 01:17:47 | |
| Provide you the proclamation, Adam, did you want to come in or take pictures or? | 01:17:48 | |
| And whoever banana festival I see Mr. Latimer and his wife. | 01:17:56 | |
| We'll get a picture. You can come the whole team if you're here in the Banana Festival. | 01:18:00 | |
| Or the port come on out. | 01:18:04 | |
| 123. | 01:18:36 | |
| I'm going to grab a couple phones here. Think everybody wants 1. | 01:18:39 | |
| 123. | 01:18:46 | |
| And I have just one more Sorry, sorry, sorry. | 01:18:48 | |
| 123. | 01:18:53 | |
| Thank you, Tess. | 01:18:57 | |
| OK, we're going to move on to our next presentation. | 01:19:12 | |
| Will be given by Shane. | 01:19:19 | |
| And forgive me if I don't. | 01:19:21 | |
| Pronounce your name must serve. | 01:19:23 | |
| From the program administrator for Ventura County Health. | 01:19:26 | |
| You go ahead and. | 01:19:31 | |
| Start your presentation. | 01:19:32 | |
| Thank you, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to follow that but. | 01:19:34 | |
| Good afternoon. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Shane Mazerve. I'm the program | 01:19:40 | |
| administrator. | 01:19:44 | |
| With Ventura County Public Health. | 01:19:47 | |
| And I'm I work on the opioid overdose prevention program. | 01:19:49 | |
| To my left I also have a couple of colleagues. With me today I have Doctor Odin Costello, who is our. | 01:19:53 | |
| Ventura County Health Officer. | 01:19:59 | |
| I also have Brad Friday, who is the Coast Administrator with Ventura County Behavioral Health, and I will tell you about COAST in | 01:20:01 | |
| just a second. | 01:20:05 | |
| So the reason why we have an opioid overdose prevention program in Ventura County is that we have. | 01:20:13 | |
| Too many opioid overdoses. | 01:20:19 | |
| That result in folks passing away. Here in Port Hueneme in 2024 you had 7 residents pass away from an opioid overdose. | 01:20:22 | |
| And in fact, that was three more than in 2023. So your numbers went up here in this city. | 01:20:32 | |
| As you can see from this chart on the on the far left. | 01:20:38 | |
| Numbers starting in 2019 in the County of Ventura, we lost 149 people to an opioid overdose. | 01:20:41 | |
| We peaked in the last few years in 2021 with 289 people. | 01:20:49 | |
| Then you can see those numbers are coming down since 2021, which is great, great news. | 01:20:54 | |
| Unfortunately, it's still a very high number. | 01:21:00 | |
| And our project and the Coast initiatives goal is to. | 01:21:03 | |
| Bring that down as far as we possibly can. | 01:21:07 | |
| So that's that's why we're here and that's why we're trying to educate the community on our project. | 01:21:10 | |
| So what we do at public health? | 01:21:15 | |
| Is we try to bring on new county agencies into the program in various ways. | 01:21:17 | |
| Umm, we try to educate as many people as possible and provide. | 01:21:24 | |
| Presentations This presentation today is very short. | 01:21:28 | |
| I can do a longer version for anybody who might be interested. | 01:21:31 | |
| So we do a lot of prejudice. | 01:21:35 | |
| Presentations and educational opportunities. | 01:21:36 | |
| We go out into the community as well and participate in lots of public events such as the Banana Festival. We have actually | 01:21:39 | |
| haven't done the Banana Festival yet. | 01:21:43 | |
| But we do lots of health fairs and back to school nights and all kinds of different events with the public all over the county to | 01:21:49 | |
| educate them on this issue. | 01:21:52 | |
| We also provide technical assistance and support for agencies who to. | 01:21:57 | |
| Decide to bring in naloxone into their business in order to. | 01:22:02 | |
| Be more educated themselves and potentially to pass it out to their customers. | 01:22:07 | |
| We participate in the county opioid awareness and solutions team, which is coast that I've. | 01:22:11 | |
| Referred to a couple of times and then one of our main. | 01:22:17 | |
| Roles is to pass out naloxone. | 01:22:20 | |
| Naloxone is the medication name and Narcan is the brand name, so you've probably heard of one or both of those. | 01:22:23 | |
| And so we are our goal is to get out as many of these kits as possible into the community. | 01:22:30 | |
| The Coast initiative is. | 01:22:37 | |
| A wonderful multi dimensional group of folks from all different. | 01:22:39 | |
| Places behavioral health really is the. | 01:22:44 | |
| The. | 01:22:47 | |
| Beginning agency that started the Coast Initiative in 2014. | 01:22:48 | |
| Public health is now a much bigger part of that initiative as well. We work with the jail system here in the county. We work with | 01:22:53 | |
| law enforcement. | 01:22:57 | |
| We work with treatment centers, we work with nonprofits and community based organizations. | 01:23:01 | |
| We work with treatment centers, we work with whoever will work with us, essentially. | 01:23:07 | |
| To bring education around this issue to the community. | 01:23:12 | |
| So it's a really wonderful resource. You can see the website there. | 01:23:16 | |
| Coastventuracounty.org There's all kinds of statistics and information and. | 01:23:19 | |
| Different groups of people that are involved in the initiative. | 01:23:26 | |
| Trying to bring some some targeted information there. | 01:23:29 | |
| So again, the Coast was begun in 2014 and the goal is to target as many and as many folks as possible that are at a higher risk of | 01:23:34 | |
| overdose, as well as those that come in contact with them, their family members. | 01:23:40 | |
| Professionals in the community that work with those populations, etc. | 01:23:47 | |
| Again, it's a multi agency collaborative approach. | 01:23:51 | |
| One of the things we do a lot is talk about what is an opioid. | 01:23:55 | |
| Some people have heard of opioids. They think they're bad in general. | 01:23:59 | |
| We like to say that opioids are not bad in general. They are very effective medication. | 01:24:04 | |
| And very, very. | 01:24:11 | |
| Effective on pain. | 01:24:12 | |
| The downside to opioids is that they're also very addictive. | 01:24:14 | |
| It's very easy to get addicted to them and so. | 01:24:18 | |
| Over the. | 01:24:20 | |
| 2025 years that the opioid crisis has been with us again. Just trying to. | 01:24:21 | |
| Educate people on what's. | 01:24:28 | |
| You know good about opioids, what's challenging about opioids and kind of you can see some of the other side effects having to do | 01:24:30 | |
| with opioids in our. | 01:24:33 | |
| In our communities. | 01:24:37 | |
| The other big issue that we're working on is fentanyl. | 01:24:40 | |
| Bringing awareness to fentanyl. | 01:24:43 | |
| Being. | 01:24:46 | |
| Very, very present in our in the illicit drug trade. | 01:24:47 | |
| About 80% of illicit drugs that are that are found in our county have fentanyl in them. | 01:24:51 | |
| So that and they are 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. | 01:24:58 | |
| They're very, very, very potent. | 01:25:03 | |
| These days, the way that fentanyl gets into the community is through fake pills. | 01:25:06 | |
| So it's very easy, especially if you have a cell phone to. | 01:25:12 | |
| Buy drugs from the Internet. | 01:25:16 | |
| And. | 01:25:17 | |
| Very, very often you'll find fentanyl again, about 80% of our illicit drug trade, there's fentanyl mixed into that. | 01:25:19 | |
| To that population. | 01:25:27 | |
| Mainly because it's very addictive and you'll come back and buy more. | 01:25:29 | |
| If you if you are addicted to that. | 01:25:32 | |
| And naloxone is the good guy in this story. So naloxone is. | 01:25:36 | |
| It helps with an opioid overdose. It is only effective on opioid overdose. It is not effective on a methamphetamine. | 01:25:42 | |
| On other types of drugs it will not help with that. | 01:25:49 | |
| But as I mentioned before, any illicit drugs that are bought in the county, in this county. | 01:25:53 | |
| So we'll typically have fentanyl in it, we'll have opioids in it. | 01:25:59 | |
| So that's why we give out as much naloxone as we can and encourage people to use it if they happen to. | 01:26:02 | |
| Come across someone they are worried is overdosing. It's very effective. However it's it's short lived. It's only good for about | 01:26:08 | |
| 30 to 90 minutes. | 01:26:12 | |
| So after that 90 minute mark, if you bring someone back with naloxone, they can still overdose because they still have all of that | 01:26:17 | |
| substance in their system. | 01:26:21 | |
| So that's why in our training process we talk about giving a dose of naloxone. | 01:26:25 | |
| Calling 911 to get that medical care that that person might need. | 01:26:29 | |
| You know, we go on from there and talk about what next steps might be. | 01:26:34 | |
| Again, and naloxone does not hurt you if you don't have opioids in your system. I could put some in my nose right now and it would | 01:26:38 | |
| not harm me because I don't have any opioids in me. | 01:26:43 | |
| And so if you were to give it to someone who you think is overdosing but they don't have any opioids, you're not going to make it | 01:26:48 | |
| any worse. | 01:26:51 | |
| But you might make it better. So it's a really, really effective tool. | 01:26:54 | |
| And it also children, young people are allowed to have naloxone 12 and up in the state of California, they are allowed to have | 01:26:59 | |
| naloxone on their on their person. | 01:27:03 | |
| Again, because it doesn't harm them if they if they do get it into their systems. | 01:27:09 | |
| So how can the city participate? | 01:27:15 | |
| We would love to have you invite us to events that you might be having, whether it's a health fair, whether it's, you know, back | 01:27:17 | |
| to school nights, whatever kinds of events you might be having. | 01:27:21 | |
| Would love to have a table and to educate your. | 01:27:26 | |
| Constituents and be able to give out naloxone to the community. | 01:27:29 | |
| We also have these wonderful wall dispensers that you see a photo of on this slide. | 01:27:34 | |
| This is again meant to be wall mounted. | 01:27:39 | |
| It holds 404045 boxes of naloxone, so that's 22 doses apiece. | 01:27:42 | |
| Umm, and it's meant to be kind of in a public location where people can just take it and not have to ask and not have to explain | 01:27:49 | |
| themselves. | 01:27:53 | |
| They can just take it and have it on their person if they would like to have it. | 01:27:57 | |
| Many people have. | 01:28:02 | |
| Someone in their life who is a person who uses drugs, many people live in neighborhoods where there are unhoused folks, and | 01:28:03 | |
| sometimes they want to just have it just in case something happens. And so we're very, very encouraging of that. So if you know of | 01:28:08 | |
| any spots that might be a good, good place for a dispenser, I hope you'll let us know because we would love to bring you one. And | 01:28:13 | |
| we still restock them. | 01:28:17 | |
| And as needed. | 01:28:23 | |
| Public health, we have about 42 of these boxes out and about in the community. I believe we have one at the library here. | 01:28:25 | |
| In Port Wineemi, I think that's the only one we have importantly winning me currently. | 01:28:32 | |
| But we have 42 of them out around the county and as of today, I believe we've given out over 4600 boxes of naloxone. | 01:28:37 | |
| This year. | 01:28:45 | |
| So it's a really wonderful tool to get. | 01:28:46 | |
| To get this out into the community, we also have things like what we call an institutional kit, and that is if there is a public | 01:28:49 | |
| agency or a nonprofit or someplace that would like to have it on site. | 01:28:54 | |
| So that staff could respond to an emergency if one is occurring on site. | 01:28:59 | |
| We can train them to get. | 01:29:03 | |
| You know to so they can have it for staff members. We also have fentanyl test strips, which is one of our harm reduction tools for | 01:29:05 | |
| people who use drugs to be able to test their stash. | 01:29:10 | |
| To see if there's fentanyl present and then they can make a more educated decision as to whether they're going to use that. | 01:29:16 | |
| Those drugs. | 01:29:22 | |
| And then we offer a lot of training such as this short presentation that you're seeing tonight, so. | 01:29:23 | |
| Again, would love to offer that to anyone else who might be interested. | 01:29:29 | |
| And with that, I'll stop. I did bring enough for the. | 01:29:34 | |
| For the council to each have a box, if you would like one, I'd be happy to leave. Leave it with you. | 01:29:37 | |
| But happy to answer any questions that you might have. | 01:29:43 | |
| Councilman Press. | 01:29:47 | |
| Could you go back to the first slide? | 01:29:47 | |
| About the different. | 01:29:50 | |
| Overdoses. | 01:29:52 | |
| So the next one. | 01:29:55 | |
| Yes. | 01:29:56 | |
| How do you know and? | 01:29:58 | |
| This is just for public reference. How do you know the difference between a suicide overdose? | 01:29:59 | |
| In an accidental. | 01:30:04 | |
| Overdose when the medical examiner decides on the cause of death. | 01:30:05 | |
| From someone. | 01:30:09 | |
| Basically, they can sort of tell by. | 01:30:12 | |
| The substances that person has in their system. | 01:30:14 | |
| They can tell law enforcement can tell kind of what's happening in the. | 01:30:17 | |
| You know where wherever that person was found. | 01:30:21 | |
| You know, there might be a note associated with. | 01:30:24 | |
| With a suicide, you know things that the evidence basically. | 01:30:26 | |
| Leads to the cause of death and they can decide that way if it was accidental or not. | 01:30:30 | |
| And my next question is a lot of addiction occurs. | 01:30:35 | |
| Accidentally. | 01:30:39 | |
| When someone is prescribed a medication that they don't realize they're going to be addicted to, do you partner with? | 01:30:40 | |
| Medical agencies. | 01:30:46 | |
| With patients to go over the potential addiction issues. Absolutely yes we do. On the Coast website you'll see a page for. | 01:30:48 | |
| Called Prescribers Care. | 01:30:56 | |
| So we do a whole series of. | 01:30:58 | |
| Trainings and education specifically for people who prescribe this medication to help them do that more effectively. | 01:31:00 | |
| Councillor Mcgama. | 01:31:09 | |
| Thank you for the presentation. | 01:31:10 | |
| I've always wondered like. | 01:31:13 | |
| These people that. | 01:31:14 | |
| Receive fentanyl in bulk and then break it down and spread it through different drugs like. | 01:31:16 | |
| How do they do that? I don't just I don't understand the. | 01:31:22 | |
| The basic math of it. | 01:31:26 | |
| Because according to everything that we know, you're receiving a. | 01:31:29 | |
| Very volatile, potentially deadly. | 01:31:33 | |
| Package of fentanyl and then. | 01:31:36 | |
| People are. | 01:31:38 | |
| Breaking it down into very, very small amounts to addict people. Is that what the deal is? Well, we, we sort of call it the | 01:31:39 | |
| chocolate chocolate chip cookie effect. So if you're baking, if you're making chocolate chip cookies, you make the dough first. | 01:31:45 | |
| And then at the very end you mix in the chips. | 01:31:51 | |
| Right, so. | 01:31:54 | |
| Your first chocolate chip cookie, but I have 10 chips in it and the last one because you've put too many to begin with. The last | 01:31:55 | |
| one might have two in it, so. | 01:31:59 | |
| It kind of depends on how well they mix it into their. | 01:32:03 | |
| To the initial dough as to how much fentanyl winds up in in each individual pill. | 01:32:06 | |
| So the, the, the goal is that they want to get you addicted to that, Medicaid to that. | 01:32:12 | |
| Pills so that you'll come back and buy more from them. | 01:32:16 | |
| And so whether it's a fake, you know, a Xanax or a Percocet or whatever it might be. | 01:32:19 | |
| You know they want they want to mix it in so that you'll come back and buy more. | 01:32:25 | |
| Then how did they do that with marijuana? | 01:32:29 | |
| Because I've heard that there's been fentanyl found in marijuana, so marijuana is not as much of an issue. | 01:32:33 | |
| And Brad probably knows this better than I do. | 01:32:40 | |
| Yeah, yes, please. Sure. | 01:32:44 | |
| Yeah, he knows this better than I do. | 01:32:47 | |
| Yeah. And I would just say as he's coming up over the last several years, I think we've all seen the efforts. | 01:32:49 | |
| Being undertaken by the medical community and government in in reducing the supply out there because if we go back 1520 years. | 01:32:56 | |
| I think we all could recall coming home with a. | 01:33:04 | |
| A stash of 90 Vicodin. Like who needs 90 Vicodin, right? | 01:33:06 | |
| Greetings, Council. | 01:33:14 | |
| I know this is going to be on record, so I just. | 01:33:16 | |
| Formally introduce myself, Brad Friday. | 01:33:18 | |
| Pensacola Behavioral Health. | 01:33:20 | |
| The question. | 01:33:22 | |
| Councilman Gamma, am I saying your name right, Sir? | 01:33:24 | |
| With fennel. | 01:33:28 | |
| Potentially being. | 01:33:29 | |
| On marijuana or? | 01:33:31 | |
| Or marijuana being. | 01:33:33 | |
| Contaminated with fentanyl. | 01:33:35 | |
| It's theoretically true. | 01:33:41 | |
| Where it can't occur even if. | 01:33:42 | |
| If you have particular dealers who are dealing multiple types of illicit drugs, to include marijuana, cross contamination can | 01:33:45 | |
| occur. | 01:33:48 | |
| On the. | 01:33:52 | |
| Passenger seat of that dealer's car, but as far as the intent of dosing. | 01:33:53 | |
| Marijuana. | 01:33:59 | |
| With fentanyl. | 01:34:00 | |
| It's just not as as prevalent. | 01:34:02 | |
| And the other thing that occurs. | 01:34:04 | |
| Is. | 01:34:06 | |
| The temperature at which marijuana has to be burned if it's going to be smoked. | 01:34:06 | |
| Is is at a much higher. | 01:34:10 | |
| Temperature, uh. | 01:34:13 | |
| And it basically. | 01:34:14 | |
| For the most part. | 01:34:17 | |
| Renders fentanyl. | 01:34:19 | |
| Intoxicating, if that makes sense. | 01:34:25 | |
| Interesting. Thank you. | 01:34:27 | |
| No problem. | 01:34:29 | |
| Any questions? | 01:34:30 | |
| Questions. | 01:34:32 | |
| Thank you for the presentation. | 01:34:35 | |
| Just a couple quick, quick questions is. | 01:34:37 | |
| Based on the statistics. | 01:34:40 | |
| Our county Looking at these stats, how do we. | 01:34:43 | |
| How do we far from other? | 01:34:47 | |
| Counties. Are we above average or we below average? | 01:34:48 | |
| That's a great question. | 01:34:54 | |
| Councilman Lopez so. | 01:34:55 | |
| When you look at California Department. | 01:34:58 | |
| Of Public Health's website. | 01:35:00 | |
| And in the statistics that are represented for Ventura County from there? | 01:35:02 | |
| We're actually ranked. | 01:35:06 | |
| A little bit above average. | 01:35:07 | |
| But in part because our documentation of fatal. | 01:35:09 | |
| Final overdose or opioid overdose? | 01:35:13 | |
| Is is really specific we're blessed to have. | 01:35:16 | |
| Medical Examiner. | 01:35:20 | |
| Instead of a sheriff, coroner. | 01:35:22 | |
| Where more work can be done on each individual overdose case. | 01:35:24 | |
| And we can get more specific with. | 01:35:29 | |
| Which medications were, you know, based on the talk screen? | 01:35:31 | |
| Of that patient. | 01:35:35 | |
| When we compare ourselves to overdose rates, ambulance calls. | 01:35:37 | |
| In fatals. | 01:35:43 | |
| That are. | 01:35:44 | |
| In counties similar to our population size. | 01:35:45 | |
| We're actually doing pretty good. | 01:35:49 | |
| Generally we're we're to the better. | 01:35:51 | |
| Of counties to the north of us. | 01:35:53 | |
| As well as. | 01:35:56 | |
| To the east of us. | 01:35:57 | |
| So we're kind of. | 01:35:58 | |
| I want to say like middle of the road if not better, but as far as having a passionate and aggressive. | 01:36:01 | |
| Organization. | 01:36:08 | |
| That's really working hard to to limit and reduce fatal. | 01:36:10 | |
| Overdose. | 01:36:13 | |
| For our county. | 01:36:14 | |
| You'll be hard pressed to find as a. | 01:36:16 | |
| AS involved the team at a county level. | 01:36:21 | |
| To do this work. | 01:36:24 | |
| So you're saying is we document this a lot better than other counties? That's correct what you're saying. OK, so. | 01:36:25 | |
| In Ventura County, what what is the hotspot like? What what city is? | 01:36:31 | |
| Trending high. | 01:36:36 | |
| That's that's what. | 01:36:37 | |
| That's why I value that we're able to. | 01:36:40 | |
| To speak with you all. | 01:36:42 | |
| Right now, like like she mentioned earlier, there were 7 fatal overdoses in Port Hueneme. | 01:36:43 | |
| Last year. | 01:36:50 | |
| Which is 3 more than the year prior. | 01:36:51 | |
| So we would consider a poor whining me as as a city of potential concern, right? And that's. | 01:36:54 | |
| That's why we're here to promote the capability that we have to get more. | 01:36:59 | |
| Life saving medication out into the community as well as other harm reduction strategies. | 01:37:05 | |
| But. | 01:37:10 | |
| This crisis isn't specific to one region in the county. I could pull up statistics from Thousand Oaks and their comparable. | 01:37:11 | |
| Comparative to Simi Valley. | 01:37:18 | |
| Camarillo, especially when we start looking at emergency department visits that are substance use related. | 01:37:20 | |
| And all that. | 01:37:25 | |
| So all the over the seven overdoses where they're all fentanyl. | 01:37:28 | |
| They were opioid. | 01:37:32 | |
| OK. | 01:37:33 | |
| So I have. Thank you. | 01:37:35 | |
| Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much for the presentation. | 01:37:37 | |
| I guess it just showed how much I knew about access. | 01:37:41 | |
| Right to. | 01:37:45 | |
| These medications, I thought just the Police Department had them. | 01:37:47 | |
| And so as you were giving your brief, I was thinking about. | 01:37:50 | |
| How helpful this could be for some people that I know. | 01:37:54 | |
| Right. And so really appreciate. | 01:37:57 | |
| Appreciate the presentation was very helpful. | 01:37:59 | |
| Yes, Councilmember Hernandez. | 01:38:02 | |
| Shane, thank you so much for coming tonight and sharing this important information. I hope that our city will take some measures | 01:38:05 | |
| to follow up and make this product. | 01:38:09 | |
| Noxapro more available to our. | 01:38:14 | |
| To our residents who need it. | 01:38:17 | |
| Thank you too. | 01:38:19 | |
| Thank you, Doctor, for joining us. | 01:38:21 | |
| Much appreciated. | 01:38:23 | |
| No problem. Any other any other questions? | 01:38:25 | |
| Thank you so much again for the presentation. | 01:38:29 | |
| Thank you. | 01:38:31 | |
| Oh, correct, yeah. | 01:38:35 | |
| OK, so we're going to move on to our next proclamation. Umm. | 01:38:37 | |
| And I'd like to call up Miss Maya Zumaya. She is going to come. | 01:38:41 | |
| As Councilmember Perez reached a proclamation. | 01:38:46 | |
| Yes, we are going to read the National Suicide Prevention Month. | 01:38:50 | |
| Proclamation. | 01:38:53 | |
| Whereas suicide is a serious and preventable public health issue that affects individuals, families and communities across Ventura | 01:38:54 | |
| County and the nation. | 01:38:58 | |
| And WHEREAS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC. | 01:39:03 | |
| Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and each life loss represents profound tragedy for loved ones | 01:39:08 | |
| and the community. | 01:39:12 | |
| And whereas raising awareness. | 01:39:16 | |
| Reducing stigma. | 01:39:19 | |
| And educating the public. | 01:39:20 | |
| On warning signs and intervention strategies are crucial to preventing suicide. | 01:39:21 | |
| And promoting mental health and well-being. | 01:39:26 | |
| And whereas. | 01:39:29 | |
| Ventura County Behavioral Health. | 01:39:30 | |
| Through funding provided by the Mental Health Services Act. | 01:39:32 | |
| Is supporting community based suicide prevention. | 01:39:34 | |
| By making evidence based trainings available at no cost to the public. | 01:39:37 | |
| And whereas MZ. | 01:39:41 | |
| Independent Consulting. | 01:39:43 | |
| IS proud to partner in these efforts. | 01:39:45 | |
| By encouraging all communities. | 01:39:47 | |
| Members to take a free suicide prevention training. | 01:39:48 | |
| Such as QPR. | 01:39:51 | |
| Question. Persuade. Refer. | 01:39:53 | |
| Or living work safe talk. | 01:39:55 | |
| To learn how to recognize the signs of suicide and confidently take action to save lives. | 01:39:57 | |
| And whereas Suicide Prevention Month provides an important opportunity. | 01:40:02 | |
| To come together as a community. | 01:40:06 | |
| To increase knowledge. | 01:40:08 | |
| Offer support. | 01:40:09 | |
| And foster hope for those struggling with mental health challenges. | 01:40:10 | |
| Now therefore be able proclaim that the city. | 01:40:13 | |
| Council of the City of Port 1, Amy. | 01:40:16 | |
| Hereby recognize the month of September as Suicide Prevention Month. | 01:40:17 | |
| And encourage the community to take part in suicide prevention efforts. | 01:40:21 | |
| By becoming informed, offering support and promoting mental Wellness. | 01:40:25 | |
| The City Council further recognizes MZ Independent Consulting as a proud partner in raising awareness and offering hope and | 01:40:28 | |
| resources to those who may be struggling. | 01:40:33 | |
| Great. Thank you. Councilmember Perez. Over to you, Mr. | 01:40:38 | |
| Thank you. Thank you to the City of Port Wayne Amy for this meaningful proclamation. | 01:40:41 | |
| Recognizing Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I'm deeply honored and humbled to accept it on behalf of everyone who is working | 01:40:46 | |
| tirelessly. | 01:40:50 | |
| To bring hope and healing to those affected. | 01:40:54 | |
| By suicide. | 01:40:57 | |
| Suicide prevention is not just a 'cause I'm passionate about. | 01:40:59 | |
| It's a commitment I live every day. | 01:41:02 | |
| Every life matters and every effort to make. | 01:41:05 | |
| Make we make to reach out, educate and support truly saves lives. | 01:41:08 | |
| Here in Ventura County, we are seeing real, measurable impact thanks to the individuals and organizations. | 01:41:14 | |
| To take the suicide. | 01:41:21 | |
| Prevention Trainings. | 01:41:23 | |
| Like our local Boys and Girls Club? | 01:41:24 | |
| Thank you so much. | 01:41:26 | |
| These free trainings offered through Ventura County Behavioral Health. | 01:41:28 | |
| And funded by MSHA. | 01:41:33 | |
| Are empowering community members to recognize the warning signs. | 01:41:35 | |
| Offer support and connect people to help before it's too late. | 01:41:40 | |
| Lives are being saved right here in our neighborhoods. | 01:41:44 | |
| Because everyday people are choosing to get trained. | 01:41:48 | |
| If you or someone you know is interested in taking this vital step. | 01:41:52 | |
| Please e-mail me directly at mzhopeforlife@gmail.com. | 01:41:57 | |
| Together, we can build a stronger, more compassionate community where no one feels alone. | 01:42:02 | |
| It's one thing to acknowledge that it's a public health. | 01:42:08 | |
| Crisis. It's another. | 01:42:11 | |
| To come in contact with individuals on a daily basis that are having thoughts of suicide. | 01:42:13 | |
| Or worried about family members. | 01:42:19 | |
| It's a very real. | 01:42:22 | |
| Issue that we're having in our county, so I hope. | 01:42:25 | |
| That our community will. | 01:42:28 | |
| Get trained. | 01:42:30 | |
| And I'd like to ask our city. I know the city of Moorpark. | 01:42:31 | |
| City Manager reached out and scheduled a training this Friday for their staff. | 01:42:35 | |
| If you work with people. | 01:42:40 | |
| If you know people, this training is extremely important because they're. | 01:42:42 | |
| So many people suffering out there. So thank you again for this honor, for helping us shine a light on hope during Suicide | 01:42:47 | |
| Prevention Month. | 01:42:51 | |
| And when we started our awareness for mental health and suicide. | 01:42:55 | |
| Prevention several years ago. | 01:42:59 | |
| A city airport where Nimi was really on board. So thank you for continuing that support. Thank you. | 01:43:02 | |
| Great. Thank you. Any comments for Mr. Maya? | 01:43:08 | |
| I'll just say thank you, Maya, for all the tires, the work that you do and I know you deal with. | 01:43:13 | |
| Things on every day and you calls every day and. | 01:43:17 | |
| You've put yourself through a lot of training. | 01:43:20 | |
| To make sure that you can do the best work that you can in this county. So I appreciate everything you do for that. | 01:43:22 | |
| Thank you. | 01:43:30 | |
| We're going to get your proclamation. Did you want to take a photo? | 01:43:31 | |
| 123. | 01:43:50 | |
| 123. | 01:43:59 | |
| Thank you, Maya. | 01:44:06 | |
| We're going to move to our final proclamation and so would like to welcome Mr. Patrick Maynard. | 01:44:17 | |
| The director of Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services up. | 01:44:25 | |
| While he's coming, Councilmember Hernandez will read the proclamation. OK, thank you, our mayor. It's my honor to read the | 01:44:29 | |
| proclamation for National Preparedness Month and even more. | 01:44:35 | |
| Please am I to see? | 01:44:41 | |
| My one of my successors, Patrick Maynard, here tonight. I know you've got a busy schedule, so I'll try to get. | 01:44:43 | |
| Through this as briefly as I can. | 01:44:50 | |
| Whereas September is National Preparedness Month and offers us the opportunity to reflect on significant disasters we have | 01:44:52 | |
| encountered, including September 11th attacks and recent winter storms. | 01:44:58 | |
| And WHEREAS during this month, our community honors and remembers the lives lost on September 11th. | 01:45:04 | |
| And the brave Americans who displayed extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice. | 01:45:10 | |
| And whereas severe storms and other hazards remind us that we live in a world of constant risk, where the next emergency could | 01:45:15 | |
| occur at any moment. | 01:45:19 | |
| And the preparedness can mean the difference between inconvenience and tragedy. | 01:45:24 | |
| And whereas National Preparedness Month is a crucial opportunity for the residents and businesses. | 01:45:29 | |
| Fort Wayne, Amy. | 01:45:34 | |
| To prepare for all types of emergencies, whether at home. | 01:45:35 | |
| Work or in a recreational space. | 01:45:38 | |
| And whereas National Preparedness Month encourages individuals to take steps. | 01:45:41 | |
| Toward personal preparedness, ensuring that households. | 01:45:45 | |
| Workplaces, schools, institutions of higher learning. | 01:45:48 | |
| Houses of worship and community based organizations. | 01:45:52 | |
| Are equipped to handle disasters and reduce loss of life and economic impact in the event of a crises and whereas participation in | 01:45:55 | |
| community emergency response training empowers more citizens to take action. | 01:46:02 | |
| Enhancing their preparedness and understanding of potential disasters, whether natural or man made. | 01:46:08 | |
| And equipping them with the knowledge to stay safe and mitigate. | 01:46:14 | |
| Damage and WHEREAS emergency preparedness is a shared responsibility of every resident of Port Hueneme and all are encouraged to | 01:46:17 | |
| prioritize preparedness. | 01:46:22 | |
| By working together to ensure our community is ready for any type of disaster or emergency. | 01:46:27 | |
| And whereas engaging in National Preparedness Month. | 01:46:35 | |
| Activities will position Port Hueneme has a leader in preparedness and contribute to the overall resilience of our nation now, | 01:46:38 | |
| therefore, be it. | 01:46:42 | |
| Proclaimed that the City Council of the City of Port Hueneme does hereby proclaim the month of September. | 01:46:46 | |
| 2025 Emergency Preparedness Month in the city of Port Hueneme and all residents, businesses and organizations. | 01:46:52 | |
| Are encouraged to participate. | 01:46:59 | |
| And preparedness activities and contribute to building a more. | 01:47:01 | |
| Port Hueneme proclaimed this second. | 01:47:05 | |
| Day of September 2025. | 01:47:07 | |
| Right over to you. Would you like to have words? | 01:47:10 | |
| Good evening, Mayor, Members of the Council, Mr. Vega. | 01:47:12 | |
| My name is Patrick Mayard. I'm the director of Emergency Services. First and foremost, thanks for the proclamation. We certainly | 01:47:15 | |
| appreciate the City of Port Hueneme bringing attention to this good 'cause. | 01:47:21 | |
| It was about two years ago. | 01:47:26 | |
| That I said before, many of you discussing some flooding that occurred in Port Hueneme and I think. | 01:47:28 | |
| One of the biggest things we learned from that and many of other incidents that have occurred really since then. | 01:47:34 | |
| Is that we're seeing these smaller incidents occur more often. | 01:47:39 | |
| In places that we aren't really expecting them. | 01:47:43 | |
| I don't think any of us could have predicted what we saw that night in Port Hueneme and I still flashback to. | 01:47:45 | |
| Much of the chaos that. | 01:47:50 | |
| We dealt with but. | 01:47:52 | |
| I say all that to say. | 01:47:54 | |
| We're seeing more. | 01:47:55 | |
| Disasters, and we're seeing them. | 01:47:57 | |
| And more I guess complex situations. | 01:47:59 | |
| The thing that really frustrates me as we see an increase in disasters is how broken many of our recovery systems are. | 01:48:02 | |
| So I appreciate whoever authored that proclamation because it mentioned the fact that. | 01:48:09 | |
| Disaster preparedness is a shared responsibility, and that absolutely is the fact. | 01:48:13 | |
| Of the matter. It is a shared responsibility. It's not just our responsibility as your Office of Emergency Services. | 01:48:19 | |
| It's not just your responsibility, it's our responsibility as a community to all do our part and work together. | 01:48:24 | |
| I vowed to myself this last couple of years to be very honest about something. | 01:48:31 | |
| We cannot be everything to everyone. | 01:48:35 | |
| As much as I want to say we'll be there to rebuild your house, we'll be there to help you recover. | 01:48:38 | |
| That's not the case. | 01:48:42 | |
| That's not the case, so it's very important that we all do our part. | 01:48:44 | |
| It starts at the personal level, so individual preparedness I think. | 01:48:47 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez mentioned that very well. | 01:48:51 | |
| Covered Business preparedness Many of the businesses in our community, we rely upon their service. | 01:48:53 | |
| So we need them to be prepared, they need to have a plan. | 01:48:58 | |
| To ensure they can maintain continuative operations. | 01:49:01 | |
| And then of course, in the public sector, we need government at all levels to do what they can to both build capacity. | 01:49:04 | |
| Ensure that they're doing training. | 01:49:11 | |
| And most importantly, invest. | 01:49:12 | |
| Invest in equipment, Invest in staff, invest in preparedness. | 01:49:15 | |
| It's really an insurance policy, so we need everyone to do their part. | 01:49:19 | |
| I'll keep it. | 01:49:24 | |
| Short and sweet and leave it at that. Just a couple more shameless plugs, if you will. | 01:49:25 | |
| For preparedness information, please go to Ready Ventura County org. That's our website that we share with all the cities. | 01:49:29 | |
| Has just good general preparedness information. | 01:49:35 | |
| And then lastly, please register for VC alert. | 01:49:38 | |
| You can do that at VC Alert org. | 01:49:41 | |
| I appreciate the proclamation. Thanks so much. | 01:49:43 | |
| Thank you so much. | 01:49:45 | |
| Yes, so. | 01:49:47 | |
| So I would say. | 01:49:48 | |
| Wasn't necessarily a pleasure to work with you, but. | 01:49:50 | |
| I had the experience of working with the county during that disaster when I was mayor and. | 01:49:54 | |
| You guys were well equipped and very organized and you came in and moved quickly and our city was. | 01:49:58 | |
| The same work together very. | 01:50:04 | |
| Easily during that so I got to see first hand my first time ever experiencing that and. | 01:50:06 | |
| That was something to see. | 01:50:11 | |
| Disaster. | 01:50:13 | |
| Pointed out that this is a thing that we all should be prepared for. That pushed me to. | 01:50:15 | |
| You know, ask our chief to. | 01:50:19 | |
| Bring back the cert program. And so I had myself and. | 01:50:21 | |
| A group of people get cert trained so our community can be more aware and a lot of people in our community participate in that so. | 01:50:25 | |
| This did bring that to my attention that. | 01:50:32 | |
| Everyone needs to be. | 01:50:35 | |
| Ready and aware and. | 01:50:36 | |
| Able to be able to help themselves and their community when something like that happens. | 01:50:38 | |
| That's a fantastic point. And then Mayor Perez, appreciate you being out there, you know, hand in hand with us working to respond | 01:50:42 | |
| to the community's needs. | 01:50:46 | |
| Thank you. One of the things we heard earlier and I think. | 01:50:51 | |
| We should start to plan for is the Eevee situation with batteries and fires. | 01:50:54 | |
| You know, we're situated very close to the port of Winima, which has a number of Ev's and come in on ships and stuff. | 01:50:59 | |
| And so, you know, maybe we. | 01:51:06 | |
| Might want to do a. | 01:51:08 | |
| Planning exercise like well, what happens if you know the what ifs and. | 01:51:10 | |
| You know, it's very timely now and I noticed that these batteries. | 01:51:14 | |
| The Tesla. | 01:51:18 | |
| Batteries that are very big, they're popping up all over the county. And so I think not only is it an issue for the city of Port | 01:51:20 | |
| Hueneme, but I think. | 01:51:23 | |
| You know, it's becoming an issue countrywide and I think that's the. | 01:51:27 | |
| The next. | 01:51:30 | |
| The next one that we haven't seen yet, so you know. | 01:51:32 | |
| It is, we're seeing it, it's it's happening more and more often. So I'm, I'm actually in total agreement, not just. | 01:51:34 | |
| For the port, but we're seeing battery. | 01:51:41 | |
| You know, storage facilities pop up throughout the county and all those require special planning. So it is an excellent topic and | 01:51:44 | |
| we're happy to work with the city and the port. | 01:51:48 | |
| On any planning. | 01:51:52 | |
| Is undertaken. | 01:51:53 | |
| Thanks again Patrick for showing up tonight. I look forward to seeing you again. I. | 01:51:56 | |
| Understand we might be bringing you back to do some training on the role of elected officials during disaster, so I look forward | 01:52:01 | |
| to seeing you again. | 01:52:05 | |
| We'll be at the VCOG on. | 01:52:09 | |
| The 11th I believe. | 01:52:12 | |
| Great, looking forward to it. | 01:52:13 | |
| Yes, thank you. Thank. | 01:52:15 | |
| Thank you for you know. | 01:52:18 | |
| For your words. | 01:52:20 | |
| Umm, the lessons learned. | 01:52:22 | |
| From all you said that. | 01:52:24 | |
| These occurrences. | 01:52:27 | |
| Could be smaller, but yet there. | 01:52:29 | |
| They're happening more frequent. | 01:52:31 | |
| Just whatever lessons learned. | 01:52:34 | |
| That cities could have done, you know. | 01:52:36 | |
| As a shared community, we've kind of we've could have done better. | 01:52:39 | |
| Pass it to the city manager so we. | 01:52:42 | |
| He'll pass it to us and we can get a good. | 01:52:45 | |
| Reading on other. | 01:52:47 | |
| Counties disasters as well. | 01:52:48 | |
| I just. | 01:52:52 | |
| I'd rather keep reading stuff and. | 01:52:53 | |
| Talking about like preparation rather than being, you know, reactive to something. So. | 01:52:56 | |
| Appreciate you being here. | 01:53:00 | |
| Most definitely we'll be happy to share what we learned. And you know, I'll just say that not just because I'm standing in front | 01:53:02 | |
| of the port when Amy City Council and I like James, he's a great guy, but. | 01:53:06 | |
| Having the opportunity to respond in Port Wayne, ME. | 01:53:11 | |
| Was pretty remarkable. | 01:53:14 | |
| I think more than. | 01:53:16 | |
| Many of the cities that we've dealt with the city. | 01:53:18 | |
| Put everything on the line. | 01:53:20 | |
| You did as much as you could within legal realm. | 01:53:22 | |
| To help your residents and that's what it takes. | 01:53:24 | |
| It really takes some creative thinking. You know if. | 01:53:27 | |
| Many conversations between James and I about. | 01:53:31 | |
| You know some of the complexities, but I appreciate the fact that Portland, ME does everything they can for their residents. Not | 01:53:34 | |
| every city is like that, so I just want to come in the city for. | 01:53:38 | |
| Those efforts. | 01:53:43 | |
| Yeah, great. I'll just say thank you and thank you for saying that. | 01:53:44 | |
| Sometimes we feel that we don't. | 01:53:48 | |
| Do enough. | 01:53:50 | |
| But I appreciate you saying that we did, and so thank you so much. | 01:53:51 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez, you're going to go down. I would love to thank you. | 01:53:55 | |
| What you got? | 01:54:00 | |
| Thank you. | 01:54:04 | |
| They're not valued at 1:50. | 01:54:06 | |
| 1/2. | 01:54:20 | |
| 123. | 01:54:33 | |
| Thank you. | 01:54:36 | |
| OK. Thank you to everyone. | 01:54:47 | |
| For reading those proclamations, we're going to move on now. | 01:54:50 | |
| We're going to recess from City Council meeting and called to order the Housing Authority regular meeting. The time is now 724. | 01:54:54 | |
| Madam Clerk, roll call, please. | 01:55:03 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 01:55:07 | |
| Oh, sorry, member. Gama member is here. | 01:55:09 | |
| Remember Hernandez here. | 01:55:12 | |
| Member Perez. | 01:55:13 | |
| Vice Chair Lopez. | 01:55:15 | |
| Here and Chair McQueen legend. | 01:55:16 | |
| Here, please let the record reflect. | 01:55:19 | |
| Housing Authority member Brown is absent. | 01:55:23 | |
| And I don't know if you want to. | 01:55:27 | |
| Yes. | 01:55:32 | |
| Go ahead. I'll just note that we were informed that Member Blackwell has. | 01:55:34 | |
| Passed away. | 01:55:40 | |
| I think it was last week. | 01:55:41 | |
| And so we will be sending our condolences. | 01:55:43 | |
| Into that and then we will be looking at the bylaws for the Housing Authority. | 01:55:46 | |
| And determining whether we need to make a point, another appointment or how we will be proceeding in the future. | 01:55:50 | |
| OK, great. Thank you. | 01:55:57 | |
| OK, we'll now hear public comments. | 01:56:00 | |
| Do we have any public comments? | 01:56:04 | |
| No public comments for Housing Authority. | 01:56:05 | |
| OK, great. Thank you. | 01:56:07 | |
| So now we'll look at the consent. | 01:56:09 | |
| Calendar. | 01:56:12 | |
| Of the Housing Authority, which would be enacted in one motion unless an authority member. | 01:56:14 | |
| Has a request to remove an item. | 01:56:19 | |
| Move approval of the. | 01:56:22 | |
| Agenda, consent. Consent. Agenda. | 01:56:25 | |
| Is there a second? | 01:56:28 | |
| OK, Madam Clerk. | 01:56:29 | |
| All in favor. | 01:56:30 | |
| Aye, all opposed. | 01:56:31 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes. | 01:56:34 | |
| OK. So we'll now move to item number 7, Housing Authority business item. | 01:56:36 | |
| This is approving the closing of the RAD Section 18 Small PHA. | 01:56:41 | |
| Blend Conversion will staff please. | 01:56:47 | |
| Present the report, Missouri. | 01:56:50 | |
| Good evening. | 01:56:52 | |
| I'm here to present and ask. | 01:56:54 | |
| That the board approved the closing of the RAD transaction, which includes the 60 units at Mar Vista. | 01:56:57 | |
| And the 30 units at. | 01:57:05 | |
| Winimi Village, they are two different transactions but we, yes, staff are asking. | 01:57:07 | |
| That you approve this resolution that includes. | 01:57:12 | |
| Both and I'm available to answer any questions that you may have. | 01:57:15 | |
| Are there any questions? | 01:57:20 | |
| No questions. | 01:57:23 | |
| OK. Is there a motion? | 01:57:24 | |
| Yeah, motion in a second, please. | 01:57:26 | |
| Move to approve. | 01:57:28 | |
| 2nd. | 01:57:30 | |
| Great. Madam Clerk, are there any public comments? | 01:57:31 | |
| No public comments. | 01:57:34 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 01:57:35 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 01:57:37 | |
| All in favor. | 01:57:38 | |
| Aye. | 01:57:39 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes. | 01:57:41 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 01:57:43 | |
| All right. So are there any, any reports from the authority? | 01:57:46 | |
| Members. | 01:57:51 | |
| Any reports, comments? | 01:57:52 | |
| Or request for future agenda items. | 01:57:54 | |
| No, great, thank you. We'll now adjourn the Port Hueneme Housing Authority regular meeting. | 01:57:58 | |
| And the next regular meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 6th at 6:30 PM. | 01:58:04 | |
| We will now reconvene to the City Council regular meeting. The time is now 727. | 01:58:09 | |
| And we'll move to. | 01:58:17 | |
| The regular meetings consent. | 01:58:19 | |
| Calendar. | 01:58:23 | |
| And so now. | 01:58:24 | |
| This is the regular meeting. | 01:58:26 | |
| Consent Calendar so the items will be enacted in one motion unless a member would like to. | 01:58:29 | |
| Pull an item. Does anyone? | 01:58:34 | |
| Pull an item. If not, is there a motion and a second? | 01:58:36 | |
| So moved. | 01:58:39 | |
| Second. Great. | 01:58:41 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 01:58:43 | |
| All in favor. | 01:58:44 | |
| Aye, all opposed. | 01:58:45 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 01:58:47 | |
| Great. So we're going to move now to a public hearing. | 01:58:50 | |
| Adopt the resolution granting special use permit number. | 01:58:54 | |
| PHS You 2525-2 to allow the Port of Winnie, Oxnard Harbor District. | 01:58:58 | |
| To host. | 01:59:04 | |
| Hosts the 12th annual Port of Winnie Me Banana Festival and find the event. | 01:59:05 | |
| Exempt from? | 01:59:10 | |
| Madam Clerk. | 01:59:11 | |
| Do you have proof of publications as required by law and a complete file of reports and exhibits? Yes, Madam Mayor. | 01:59:12 | |
| Great. Well, staff, please present the report. | 01:59:20 | |
| Yes, thank you. | 01:59:26 | |
| Grab the clicker. | 01:59:28 | |
| So we will start with, we have two public hearings today related to two permit approvals. | 01:59:35 | |
| The first is for the 12th annual Port of Winnie Me Banana Festival. | 01:59:41 | |
| And so we issued the proclamation earlier today and now this is the item to actually approve the permit. | 01:59:45 | |
| With all of the details about how the event will work and how we are ensuring that we're meeting all our permit requirements. | 01:59:52 | |
| And so. | 01:59:59 | |
| I think people are familiar with the Banana festival. | 02:00:00 | |
| And no. | 02:00:03 | |
| Major changes this year being proposed, so I won't spend a lot of time on it. I will highlight maybe a couple of small things. | 02:00:04 | |
| But so the Banana Festival, for anybody not familiar, is the public event held by the Port of Wine Amy in the. | 02:00:13 | |
| Sun kissed a lot. | 02:00:19 | |
| The festival will feature. | 02:00:21 | |
| A vintage car show similar to last year. Over 70 food and retail vendors. A recreational children's area. | 02:00:23 | |
| A live art exhibition area. | 02:00:30 | |
| Alcohol service booths. | 02:00:32 | |
| And main entertainment stage featuring live entertainment. | 02:00:35 | |
| Commercial and industrial mechanical equipment exhibits, land and boat port tours, and general information booths. | 02:00:38 | |
| The festival will occur on Saturday the 27th from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. | 02:00:45 | |
| And it's anticipated that it will bring in about 10,000 patrons per day. | 02:00:49 | |
| The umm. | 02:00:54 | |
| Permit is exempt from. | 02:00:56 | |
| Sequa. | 02:00:58 | |
| It's just a high level site. Map of the proposed site plan is shown. Like we said it's. | 02:01:01 | |
| Pretty similar to prior years. | 02:01:08 | |
| I'm going to. | 02:01:11 | |
| I think there is one. | 02:01:13 | |
| Change we will. | 02:01:15 | |
| That way you just wanted to highlight and I'll ask José José Coyotel our. | 02:01:16 | |
| Planner to. | 02:01:20 | |
| To jump in with. | 02:01:22 | |
| With that. | 02:01:23 | |
| Sure. Umm. | 02:01:24 | |
| Hi, I'm sorry for being late. | 02:01:25 | |
| Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem. | 02:01:27 | |
| Council, everyone joining us today. | 02:01:29 | |
| So yes, for James there will be a small change and that is that the DJ for the. | 02:01:31 | |
| Car Show. | 02:01:40 | |
| Will actually be happening this year. Last year it was dropped at the last second. So there is a deviation with that that there | 02:01:41 | |
| will be a DJ at that promenade which is mentioned in that circle there. | 02:01:46 | |
| At the lower right corner of the right hand side site plan. | 02:01:52 | |
| Otherwise, everything will remain the same. The general footprint area will be kept. All the other activities mentioned previously | 02:01:58 | |
| from last year will be retained. | 02:02:02 | |
| They're still expected to be 130 cars on display, and there will still be on those K rails used for safety for the static car | 02:02:07 | |
| show. | 02:02:11 | |
| Meaning that the car show will be fully operational by the time that the public is invited in. The cars will. | 02:02:15 | |
| Remain there until the event concludes. | 02:02:22 | |
| So once again highlighting some of that car show information is that 130 vintage cars located on a Ventura. | 02:02:26 | |
| Or on the Market and Surfside Drive. | 02:02:32 | |
| With an award ceremony at 3:30. | 02:02:35 | |
| The entertainment is still being formulated. | 02:02:37 | |
| And to help with some of that sound mitigation issues for the nearby residents and the public, sound levels will be monitored and | 02:02:40 | |
| adjusted as needed. | 02:02:44 | |
| With ongoing coordination with the Police Department and to ensure that there's a respectful environment for residents and guests. | 02:02:49 | |
| Traffic and security, as with the previous request from subsequent years. | 02:02:57 | |
| Market Street is going to be closed just South of Anacapa Beach View Homes driveway. | 02:03:02 | |
| With his soft clothes at South Seaview and market for. | 02:03:07 | |
| The Police Department to go ahead and make sure that people are residents and then therefore they can access that. Anna Cap of HPU | 02:03:11 | |
| Homes. | 02:03:15 | |
| Surfside Drive will remain closed West of Shoreview Dr. That's the Surfside One driveway. | 02:03:18 | |
| Closures are expected from 4:00 AM to 6:00 on the date of the event. | 02:03:24 | |
| Staffing will be done by the Police Department and the Police Explorers at key crossings and turn around points. | 02:03:28 | |
| With 15U guards patrolling the actual festival area. | 02:03:35 | |
| Signage will be deployed along all of the city with directional. | 02:03:40 | |
| Wayfinding signs deployed on Ventura Road and Clara St. | 02:03:45 | |
| And Ventura Road and Port Hueneme Rd. which will have the main sort of gist of when the events happening, where's parking and the | 02:03:49 | |
| fact that parking will be free. | 02:03:52 | |
| I'm highlighting more on the rideshare and parking. There will be a dedicated area for rideshare pickup and drop off at 105 E Port | 02:03:58 | |
| Wayne, Amy Rd. | 02:04:02 | |
| Which was the case last year, and that's mainly made so that the GPS can actually. | 02:04:07 | |
| Tie something, a building or a main monument to where the drop off is going to be. | 02:04:13 | |
| Once again, the request is for free parking to be available all throughout the beach, which includes all the beach lots, Ocean | 02:04:18 | |
| View Drive and Surfside Drive. | 02:04:22 | |
| Accessible parking and one hour parking for our Surfside Seafood patrons will still be remaining in Parking Lot A. | 02:04:26 | |
| And a free ADA compliant shuttle will be provided at key locations along the pathway from 9:00 AM to 6:30. | 02:04:34 | |
| To help guests get to the main entrance. | 02:04:41 | |
| Fiscal impact Beach revenues will not be collected. | 02:04:45 | |
| And there will be costs associated with city staffing for police officers, maintenance crews and the latter. | 02:04:49 | |
| This ties into two strategic consistency points. 1 is optimal levels of service for residents and businesses. That is, to support | 02:04:56 | |
| and establish programs and events that create a strong sense of community pride in a connection to our history and our heritage. | 02:05:03 | |
| And innovation and opportunity. | 02:05:10 | |
| Retain and maximize opportunities for local businesses as the backbone for our community. | 02:05:11 | |
| It is a recommendation for City Council to adopt the resolution that conditionally approves PHSU 25-2. | 02:05:17 | |
| And to find the project to be characterically exempt from Sequoia, since that is a temporary land use entitlement. | 02:05:24 | |
| I'm available for questions and the applicant, Randy Latimer, director with the Banana Beach Festival Committee, would like to say | 02:05:31 | |
| a couple of words. | 02:05:35 | |
| Good afternoon, Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem. | 02:05:48 | |
| The manager, everybody here. | 02:05:51 | |
| I'm Randy Latimer. I am honored to be the director of the Banana Festival. This is my. | 02:05:54 | |
| 3rd year being involved. | 02:06:00 | |
| And as. | 02:06:02 | |
| Commissioner. | 02:06:05 | |
| UMM said earlier. | 02:06:07 | |
| You know, we wanted to. | 02:06:08 | |
| Try to keep this a small festival. | 02:06:09 | |
| This is a really hard thing to do. | 02:06:12 | |
| This has become a really popular festival in. | 02:06:15 | |
| Winemi and in the surrounding cities. | 02:06:19 | |
| And. | 02:06:22 | |
| You know, getting 10,000 people consistently. | 02:06:25 | |
| Coming into the festival. | 02:06:28 | |
| Is what we're seeing, and a lot of people want to join in. | 02:06:31 | |
| I just want to. | 02:06:36 | |
| A couple of things I want to make sure I know Jose pointed them out. | 02:06:38 | |
| But. | 02:06:42 | |
| Keeping. | 02:06:43 | |
| The least impact on. | 02:06:45 | |
| The surrounding community is really our biggest. | 02:06:48 | |
| Thing that we worked on a lot, we've prepared a traffic. | 02:06:51 | |
| A mitigation plan. | 02:06:54 | |
| Along with the noise mitigation plan. | 02:06:56 | |
| And residents will have a direct number to call. | 02:06:59 | |
| If there are complaints. | 02:07:03 | |
| Not just calling the police, but. | 02:07:06 | |
| Guess what, you get my number. | 02:07:08 | |
| And I get to fill those or one of my staff folks. | 02:07:09 | |
| But umm. | 02:07:13 | |
| Working with the port. | 02:07:14 | |
| And our team bananas. I got 1 member back there. | 02:07:15 | |
| It's really been a pleasure working with the City of Port Wayne, Amy and the community. | 02:07:20 | |
| On continuing to make this festival. | 02:07:24 | |
| A very fun festival. | 02:07:27 | |
| I always tell my team we're not trying to do Groundhog Day every year. Well, you know. | 02:07:30 | |
| You come there and this is what you're going to see. | 02:07:35 | |
| You're going to see different things you're going to hear. | 02:07:38 | |
| A lot of creativity, A lot of creativity. | 02:07:40 | |
| And a lot of different things. We do have a lineup this year and it's it's on our website. | 02:07:44 | |
| We have 4 live bands playing one. | 02:07:49 | |
| And their. | 02:07:52 | |
| Three of the four local in stone. | 02:07:54 | |
| Umm, we have. | 02:07:57 | |
| Reggae with Maury and the heavy hitters. | 02:07:59 | |
| We have a Santana tribute band, Subord. | 02:08:02 | |
| And rounding out local favorite Brandon Regan project. | 02:08:06 | |
| Along with a. | 02:08:11 | |
| Community Stage. | 02:08:13 | |
| Which will have. | 02:08:14 | |
| Artist and. | 02:08:15 | |
| Giving information, talks and. | 02:08:17 | |
| Other really cool stuff. Some STEM activities for our. | 02:08:20 | |
| Our kids robotics. | 02:08:24 | |
| We have a drone cage coming this year. | 02:08:26 | |
| And then we have the car show. | 02:08:29 | |
| Outside of the gates, but that is still a major part. | 02:08:33 | |
| That is definitely a major part of the festival. | 02:08:36 | |
| Which will have. | 02:08:39 | |
| You know, over 120 participants showing off their classic vintage cars. | 02:08:40 | |
| And justice, a full day. | 02:08:44 | |
| Lots of banana treats. | 02:08:48 | |
| Everyone of our food vendors. | 02:08:50 | |
| Has to bring something. | 02:08:52 | |
| Banana. | 02:08:55 | |
| Flavored something. | 02:08:57 | |
| Someone's bringing. | 02:08:58 | |
| Banana hot dogs again, but I don't not sure what that what that means, but we're going to try it again. | 02:08:59 | |
| But we have a. It's going to be a fun filled day. | 02:09:05 | |
| Of justice. Exciting stuff. And yes. | 02:09:08 | |
| Everyone come and go bananas with us at the Banana Festival. | 02:09:11 | |
| Any questions for me? | 02:09:16 | |
| Great. Any questions? | 02:09:17 | |
| I do have a question. I saw the word live art exhibit. Is that actually a live art exhibit? That is a live art exhibit. | 02:09:18 | |
| It's a one of the 40 foot shipping containers. We have an artist. | 02:09:26 | |
| That's going to. | 02:09:30 | |
| Paint a mural. | 02:09:32 | |
| Live. We did it in 2022. | 02:09:34 | |
| No 2023. | 02:09:38 | |
| Paint at one side of the. | 02:09:40 | |
| Shipping container. | 02:09:42 | |
| Last year. | 02:09:43 | |
| It didn't get done for what? | 02:09:45 | |
| For whatever reason, but this year it's back. | 02:09:46 | |
| So it's. | 02:09:49 | |
| Really cool to watch it. | 02:09:50 | |
| See it go from. | 02:09:52 | |
| Zero to just the shipping container to a. | 02:09:53 | |
| Beautiful art image and it really showcases some of our. | 02:09:56 | |
| Local. | 02:10:00 | |
| Artist. | 02:10:02 | |
| Thank you. | 02:10:04 | |
| Yeah, I really enjoyed that and. | 02:10:05 | |
| I hope maybe we could. | 02:10:07 | |
| Position that container after the festival on the walkway so it could be visible for hopefully a whole year. | 02:10:09 | |
| So when I was a little kid attending a. | 02:10:15 | |
| OK. Can just just questions only right now. We're going to come back around. | 02:10:17 | |
| OK, we're in a here. We want to make sure. | 02:10:22 | |
| Will you ever have a banana split at the Banana Festival? Because when I was a little kid we had a 600 foot banana split down the | 02:10:24 | |
| street. | 02:10:28 | |
| OK. Any questions? | 02:10:33 | |
| Yeah, I do. | 02:10:34 | |
| Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Randy. Good to see you and Lisa here tonight. | 02:10:36 | |
| I fielded a couple of questions this. | 02:10:41 | |
| Weekend from residents who wanted to know. | 02:10:44 | |
| About provisions for Ada. | 02:10:47 | |
| Parking. | 02:10:50 | |
| And have we changed? | 02:10:51 | |
| The footprint as far as expanding more to provide for more. | 02:10:54 | |
| Handicap parking places. | 02:10:59 | |
| Yes, we we've had that a couple of major. | 02:11:01 | |
| Points on 88 we added another ADA compliant bus. | 02:11:05 | |
| To the shuttle pickups. | 02:11:09 | |
| Also. | 02:11:11 | |
| With our tours. | 02:11:13 | |
| We added a 88. | 02:11:15 | |
| Bus to our. | 02:11:17 | |
| Our land tours on. | 02:11:18 | |
| At the festival, as far as parking, yes we did designate. | 02:11:21 | |
| Additional ADA parking spaces within the festival. | 02:11:25 | |
| Parking site so if someone does come with a. | 02:11:29 | |
| Valid disabled placard. | 02:11:32 | |
| They will be. | 02:11:34 | |
| As close as we can with the amount of space that we have. | 02:11:36 | |
| Will there be a drop off? | 02:11:40 | |
| Point so people don't have to unload and then reload onto a shuttle and then unload from the shuttle. Is there a drop off point | 02:11:41 | |
| where people who pull up in their cars can just. | 02:11:46 | |
| Maybe drop? | 02:11:51 | |
| Somebody off who might have a wheelchair or a Walker. | 02:11:52 | |
| Is that possible or Yes? Well, we'll try to. We'll get them as close into the festival as possible. There is a drop off point on | 02:11:55 | |
| the. | 02:11:59 | |
| North and the Northern. | 02:12:04 | |
| Site with a VIP inference is and that's where we'll designate. | 02:12:06 | |
| Or someone who? | 02:12:09 | |
| Needs accessibility. | 02:12:12 | |
| To be dropped off. | 02:12:15 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 02:12:16 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 02:12:17 | |
| No questions. | 02:12:18 | |
| Yeah, No questions for me there. | 02:12:19 | |
| Any other questions, everybody's good. | 02:12:21 | |
| OK, great. | 02:12:23 | |
| Umm, so if we have finished with our questions, we'll now. | 02:12:24 | |
| Open the public for. | 02:12:28 | |
| Open the hearing for public input. | 02:12:31 | |
| The time is 7:42. | 02:12:33 | |
| Are there any public? | 02:12:36 | |
| Input, Madam Clerk. | 02:12:38 | |
| No public comment. | 02:12:40 | |
| OK, great. Thank you. We'll now close the public hearing. | 02:12:41 | |
| And. | 02:12:44 | |
| Move on. | 02:12:46 | |
| To the recommendation at 7:42. | 02:12:48 | |
| And so. | 02:12:52 | |
| Council members, you have the recommendation in front of you. | 02:12:53 | |
| Is there a motion and a second? | 02:12:59 | |
| Move to approve the recommendation. | 02:13:01 | |
| Second, great. Thank you. | 02:13:04 | |
| And before we take the vote, we'll move to discussion. | 02:13:06 | |
| Anyone have comments or discussions? Now's the time. | 02:13:10 | |
| Councilmember Comma. | 02:13:15 | |
| You forgot. | 02:13:17 | |
| Oh, you made them? OK, great. | 02:13:19 | |
| OK, go right here. | 02:13:21 | |
| Yeah, it was good to hear the back story of. | 02:13:22 | |
| Of how the Banana Festival was founded, so I know Mr. | 02:13:25 | |
| Commissioner Ramirez is gone, but. | 02:13:28 | |
| Thankful for the. | 02:13:31 | |
| The back story. | 02:13:33 | |
| And how the pronounced? | 02:13:34 | |
| Banana Festival got. | 02:13:35 | |
| Got started here in Ventura County or here in our beautiful city of Poor Way Nee. | 02:13:37 | |
| That's it. Thank you if there's nothing else, Madam Clerk. | 02:13:42 | |
| OK, Councilmember Gama. | 02:13:46 | |
| Yes, Councilmember Hernandez. | 02:13:49 | |
| Yes, Council member Press. | 02:13:52 | |
| Yes, Mayor Pro Tem Lopez. | 02:13:54 | |
| And Mammary Shaw. | 02:13:56 | |
| Yes, motion passes unanimously. | 02:13:57 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 02:13:59 | |
| And thank you, staff, for the report. We'll move to item number 14. | 02:14:02 | |
| Adopt A resolution granting Plan Development permit number PHPD Dash 25-1 to allow modification to the Boys and Girls Club of | 02:14:06 | |
| Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, located at 590. | 02:14:13 | |
| E Pleasant Valley Rd. and find the event. | 02:14:19 | |
| Exempt from? | 02:14:23 | |
| Sequel Madam Clerk, do you have the proof of publication as required by law in the complete file? | 02:14:24 | |
| Of reports and exhibits. Yes, Madam Mayor. | 02:14:29 | |
| Great, thank you. Will staff please present the report? Hello, good evening again for your consideration as the Boys and Girls | 02:14:32 | |
| Club of Greater Oxnard Pro Anime plan development PHPD 25-1. | 02:14:38 | |
| So the project requests and sequa determination. So the Boys and Girls Club is located at 590 E Pleasant Valley Rd. with a zoning | 02:14:45 | |
| designation of general Commercial C1. | 02:14:50 | |
| The request is to issue a planned development permit. One was not awarded at the time that the Boys and Girls Club went into the | 02:14:55 | |
| existing site and so now in order to remediate that and be able to meet the following items, they would subsequently need a | 02:15:01 | |
| planned development permit, which is why it's being considered tonight. | 02:15:08 | |
| That is for administrative relief of required parking via parking shared agreements to improve outdoor program and safety for the | 02:15:14 | |
| club. | 02:15:18 | |
| Enhance Ada accessibility and sign functionality. | 02:15:23 | |
| And remodel the exterior of the building and the site. | 02:15:25 | |
| SQL determination is that this project is going to be exempt from SEQUA subject to 215301 class one as there is no expansion of | 02:15:28 | |
| use. | 02:15:32 | |
| The project is light and accessory to the main developed site, so no further environmental review would be required. | 02:15:36 | |
| The location narrowing in as can be seen at 590 E Pleasant Valley Rd. It is just north of where we are sitting today. | 02:15:44 | |
| Adjacent to Richard Bart Elementary School along Evergreen Lane and then poor Wayne Amy. | 02:15:50 | |
| Site improvements include a playground area which would be crafted from the back of house where there is a. | 02:15:58 | |
| Right now, a rear parking lot the this request would call for the secure of that area by perimeter fencing and installation of a. | 02:16:05 | |
| Playground in the back. | 02:16:16 | |
| The front yard area that currently has landscaping would also be fenced off and that would create another area for kids to | 02:16:17 | |
| congregate in a safe manner. | 02:16:21 | |
| Parking and accessibility. There's going to be slurry seal and restriping, removal of 6 parking spaces, and an additional ADA | 02:16:26 | |
| stall to meet current building codes. | 02:16:30 | |
| These site improvements that will mainly be seen is going to be new CMU walls along with. | 02:16:36 | |
| Perimeter see through fencing to secure the site, replace walkways and have new post mounted lighting to provide better visibility | 02:16:41 | |
| at night. | 02:16:45 | |
| Landscaping would be another major component of this request then. That is to remove 3 trees the applicant has agreed to replace | 02:16:50 | |
| with five, so we're gaining an additional 2 trees. | 02:16:55 | |
| There will also be substantial general planting improvements on the site that will be referenced in the next slides. | 02:17:00 | |
| Other things to consider is that City Council. | 02:17:07 | |
| Approval is required to enter into a shared parking agreement and operations plan for reduction and required off street parking. | 02:17:11 | |
| Luckily, the Boys and Girls Club is adjacent to another public agency owned by the Winnie Me Elementary School District, more | 02:17:19 | |
| specific, the Richard Bard Elementary School. | 02:17:24 | |
| There has been. | 02:17:30 | |
| Approved shared parking agreement both both the club and Winnie Me Elementary School District. | 02:17:32 | |
| That covers shared parking access as well as reciprocal easements for driveway entrances to both of the shared parking areas. | 02:17:38 | |
| For weekday use events and overflow parking. | 02:17:47 | |
| And uh. | 02:17:51 | |
| With their parking study, this does reflect the need to go ahead and approve the required off street parking subsection, code PHMC | 02:17:51 | |
| 10301-B6. | 02:17:58 | |
| To allow for reduction in parking. | 02:18:04 | |
| And another thing to highlight is that based on the operational schedules, luckily the school would operate in the morning and | 02:18:07 | |
| then in the evening hours, the club would then use the unused parking spaces. | 02:18:13 | |
| Table one further shows the non conflicting schedules that exist and the school is not entering into any. | 02:18:19 | |
| Year round school or summer school that would prohibit them from using it. | 02:18:28 | |
| During summer or at other peak hours. | 02:18:32 | |
| And then further a condition of approval 6 ensures that there is a plenty of parking, that it's adequately parked at all times of | 02:18:36 | |
| the year. | 02:18:40 | |
| Narrowing in on the actual goodies of this new improvement, to the left you'll see the site plan. Shadowed in purple is the new | 02:18:46 | |
| expansion area. | 02:18:51 | |
| Down at the lower. | 02:18:56 | |
| Corner, you'll see that that's where the playground equipment is going in the removal of the six parking spaces that will be | 02:19:00 | |
| fenced off and there will be a wall that's located along the back. | 02:19:04 | |
| And then in the front with that hashing of light purple along Pleasant Valley Rd. on the north side of that exhibit. | 02:19:09 | |
| You will see that there's going to be substantial improvements including perimeter and. | 02:19:17 | |
| Landscaping improvements which are on the right side there. | 02:19:23 | |
| The intent also is that there is mature trees and as they fail they will be replanted with this new tree species seen there in the | 02:19:26 | |
| purple. | 02:19:30 | |
| The existing tree is seen on the right side there the green tree. | 02:19:35 | |
| So far they've been healthy, but as with most trees in Port Hueneme, the health sort of continues to deteriorate as some of them | 02:19:39 | |
| are past their lifetime. | 02:19:43 | |
| These are the project renderings, so the first one on the top shows exactly what that will look like looking S when you're driving | 02:19:48 | |
| or walking on Pleasant Valley. | 02:19:54 | |
| So again, there is going to be shrubs that break up that perimeter landscaping, There's going to be trees installed to provide | 02:19:59 | |
| some pedestrian shade. | 02:20:03 | |
| And then along the back of house will be the playground fenced in back there. | 02:20:07 | |
| Fiscal impact. The city did not fund this, so there is none. | 02:20:14 | |
| Strategic consistency touches on 2 pillars, optimal levels of service for residents and businesses. That is, to support and | 02:20:19 | |
| establish programs and events that create a strong sense of community and pride in a connection to our history and our heritage. | 02:20:25 | |
| And innovation and opportunity to invest in new programs and technologies to strengthen our economy and attract innovation. | 02:20:32 | |
| It is now recommended that the City Council adopt the resolution that conditionally approves planned development PHPD 25-1 and | 02:20:40 | |
| find the project to be characterically exempt from Sequel. | 02:20:45 | |
| I'm available for. | 02:20:51 | |
| Future questions. | 02:20:52 | |
| However, the applicant has requested to make their own presentation so Aaron at room the Boys and Girls Club executive chiefs off | 02:20:54 | |
| chiefs officer. | 02:20:58 | |
| Is going to go over her own presentation. | 02:21:02 | |
| And she's joined by Lizette Elena as the project architect. | 02:21:07 | |
| Good evening everybody. Thank you so much for allowing us some time to talk to you about our very exciting project. | 02:21:12 | |
| Happening at our port waiting me boys and Girls Club. | 02:21:19 | |
| So I'm Erin Antrim, CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard in Port Wayne. | 02:21:21 | |
| And this is Lizette Elena from Era Architects, and she's the architect on the project. | 02:21:26 | |
| So you've seen some of these renderings. | 02:21:31 | |
| Do you advance or? | 02:21:34 | |
| Thank you. | 02:21:36 | |
| You've seen some of the renderings, but I did want to just show you some very up-to-date photos. I know several of you were at | 02:21:38 | |
| our. | 02:21:42 | |
| Groundbreaking wall smashing. | 02:21:45 | |
| Construction is well underway the project and it's very exciting for the community. | 02:21:48 | |
| And I'll just go over. | 02:21:55 | |
| Just some very high level things around the entire project, not just the exterior. | 02:21:57 | |
| So it's a $2.5 million investment that our communities of Oxnard and Port Ranimi made into. | 02:22:02 | |
| This boys and Girls Club which will be reopened. | 02:22:09 | |
| As the premier America Boys and Girls Club. | 02:22:12 | |
| And it's going to expand services. | 02:22:15 | |
| For not only the youth, but the community as well. | 02:22:17 | |
| This renovation will allow for expanded capacity for academic support, leadership, and after school programs, and the safe and | 02:22:20 | |
| upgraded clubhouse will serve as a hub for youth engagement. | 02:22:26 | |
| For all young people in the city of Port Hueneme and you can see those of you who have been to the Boys and Girls Club, you can | 02:22:33 | |
| see this is the rendering for the newly designed games room. | 02:22:38 | |
| And just to the left is a state-of-the-art E Sports Lab. | 02:22:43 | |
| So here are some of the key renovation features for the project. | 02:22:47 | |
| An advanced STEAM lab. So we have this at our 5th St. location and we're happy to bring it to our Port Rainy location. It's a | 02:22:52 | |
| college and career ready STEAM Innovation Center. | 02:22:57 | |
| And it's really there to foster innovation and learning and science, technology, arts and math. We've selected modules that are. | 02:23:03 | |
| Tied to industries in our community, so a lot to do with the military. | 02:23:12 | |
| Flight Technology. | 02:23:17 | |
| Drone technology, those types of things. | 02:23:18 | |
| And it's really cutting edge. | 02:23:21 | |
| Programming. Umm. | 02:23:23 | |
| For young people in our community and then an E sports lounge so this. | 02:23:24 | |
| Engages young people in digital competition. | 02:23:30 | |
| And teamwork with advanced gaming setups. | 02:23:32 | |
| And an Art Room which has always been kind of a pillar of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Port Hueneme. | 02:23:35 | |
| We're going to offer a variety of high quality arts experience such as digital, visual, applied, literary and performing arts. And | 02:23:41 | |
| then you can see here facility improvements include programs, upgraded program spaces. | 02:23:47 | |
| Community rooms. | 02:23:53 | |
| Enhance safety for our young people inside of the building. | 02:23:55 | |
| New place structure and renovated parking. | 02:23:59 | |
| So typically there has been no outdoor usable space at this club. | 02:24:02 | |
| Here are some of the funders that help support this. You know is a $5,000,000 campaign. | 02:24:09 | |
| Which Boys and Girls Clubs started in 2019? | 02:24:14 | |
| And $2.5 million of it. | 02:24:18 | |
| Probably a little bit more because we need a new roof. | 02:24:21 | |
| Is going to be for the Port Rainy Me Boys and Girls Club, and here's some of the people who have helped support these efforts. | 02:24:24 | |
| We're hoping to have about 120 daily participants. | 02:24:32 | |
| And observe about 450 youth annually. | 02:24:36 | |
| We are building a multi-purpose room inside of the club so that we can hopefully host community meetings, community events, those | 02:24:39 | |
| types of things as well. | 02:24:44 | |
| And if you could see if you know what the Boys and Girls Club look like just. | 02:24:49 | |
| Six weeks ago, seven weeks ago, it looks very different. | 02:24:52 | |
| And so. | 02:24:56 | |
| It really just supports the city's strategic plans, which Jose went over earlier, and this really is. | 02:24:58 | |
| The city of Port Hueneme sold us this building for a dollar back in 2014. | 02:25:08 | |
| And I was a newly hired CEO at that time. | 02:25:13 | |
| And I thought I need to make a promise to the community of Port Hueneme. | 02:25:17 | |
| This building is old. | 02:25:23 | |
| You know, it was built sometime in the late 60s, seventies. | 02:25:25 | |
| And our kids of Port Hueneme deserve better. | 02:25:29 | |
| And I made that promise to the community back in 2014, and now the dream is coming to reality. So we say promises made, promises | 02:25:32 | |
| kept, and we're really appreciative of your support. | 02:25:38 | |
| Of this project. | 02:25:44 | |
| You can see Project Kickoff. | 02:25:46 | |
| We did the groundbreaking on June 13th and. | 02:25:48 | |
| And upgrades. Interior started July 1st. | 02:25:52 | |
| And we're hoping with the permit. | 02:25:56 | |
| Being approved that we'll be able to start exterior upgrades and Anderson Construction is managing the build. | 02:25:58 | |
| Ensuring phase coordination with very minimal disruptions. | 02:26:05 | |
| At this point. | 02:26:09 | |
| So that's it. I don't know if you have any questions for either myself or Lizette. | 02:26:10 | |
| Are there any questions? | 02:26:17 | |
| Go right ahead. | 02:26:19 | |
| Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for your presentation, all the work you're doing we talked a few days ago about. | 02:26:21 | |
| How wonderful this is going to be for our community. | 02:26:28 | |
| I had a question, however, about the trees. | 02:26:33 | |
| With the trees that you're removing, are going to. | 02:26:35 | |
| Are they're fully grown there's like. | 02:26:38 | |
| Removing how many? | 02:26:40 | |
| 33 and are they going to be replaced by fully grown trees? They're going to be I don't they're fully grown they're just kind of on | 02:26:42 | |
| a smaller scale or scale, but they'll. | 02:26:46 | |
| Yeah. | 02:26:51 | |
| Those trees, unfortunately, are doing a lot of damage to the plumbing of the building and. | 02:26:52 | |
| The sidewalks it's not. It's creating an unsafe environment because the. | 02:26:57 | |
| The roots are pulling up the. | 02:27:02 | |
| The sidewalks. | 02:27:03 | |
| Understood. OK. Thank you. | 02:27:04 | |
| Yeah, if I, if I could, Council Member Hernandez. So when we did our landscape design guidelines, we made it a point and so did | 02:27:07 | |
| our architect or landscape architect that when we would be replacing trees, they would be in smaller scale because they have more. | 02:27:15 | |
| Opportunities for growth and establishment. So going forward with all of these, we basically go back to 24 inch box trees in order | 02:27:24 | |
| for them to hit their peak maturity at some point and it's usually a 20 year lifespan when they get there. So that's kind of. | 02:27:32 | |
| I mean, yeah, it's I'm with you as far as like we're losing canopy and whatnot. | 02:27:39 | |
| But in order for the trees to really thrive and. | 02:27:43 | |
| You know, mature. They have to be in a smaller scale. | 02:27:47 | |
| Yeah, very good. Thank you. | 02:27:50 | |
| All right, Yeah. | 02:27:52 | |
| I have two questions. | 02:27:54 | |
| So at Richard Bart Elementary when? | 02:27:57 | |
| When the school. | 02:27:59 | |
| Is. | 02:28:01 | |
| When the when the classes are over, a lot of schools here in Ventura County, they walk over to the Boys and Girls Club. | 02:28:02 | |
| Have you guys thought about? | 02:28:10 | |
| Putting a crosswalk from the school to. | 02:28:11 | |
| The Boys and Girls Club so that there's a designated walkway. | 02:28:15 | |
| We have not, but that's a good idea. I mean, it's a shared parking lot. | 02:28:19 | |
| Right now we have staff that go over and pick up the kids and walk them back. It's a walking program. | 02:28:24 | |
| But that's a good idea. | 02:28:30 | |
| Just because there's a lot of traffic going in and out of there when the schools. | 02:28:32 | |
| It's very busy. | 02:28:36 | |
| Coming out and it's real busy there. It would be just just the thought. | 02:28:37 | |
| The other thing? | 02:28:41 | |
| Wine Me High School has a robotics team. | 02:28:43 | |
| So this would to me this is a good seed program that actually will translate to them going to high school. | 02:28:47 | |
| So it would be good to like coordinate with. | 02:28:54 | |
| Juanema High School, their team lead. | 02:28:57 | |
| I I got his contact info I could. | 02:29:01 | |
| I can share with you. Give me your card, I'll share it with you. | 02:29:03 | |
| That's all I got. Great. Thank you. Any other questions? | 02:29:06 | |
| All right, no other questions. OK, let's move on then. | 02:29:10 | |
| Umm. | 02:29:15 | |
| So we'll now open the public hearing and take public comments. | 02:29:16 | |
| The time is now 758. | 02:29:20 | |
| Madam Clerk, are there any public comments? | 02:29:22 | |
| No public comments for this item. | 02:29:25 | |
| All right, then we'll conclude the public input. | 02:29:27 | |
| And now close the public. | 02:29:30 | |
| Public hearing at 7:59. | 02:29:33 | |
| And so can we put the slide with the recommendations? | 02:29:35 | |
| That's OK, I'll read them. | 02:29:41 | |
| So we had before us recommendation to adopt the adopt the resolution. | 02:29:43 | |
| Approving planned development permit number PHPD 25-205-1 Boys and Girls Club. | 02:29:48 | |
| Of Greater Oxnard in Port Hueneme and #2 find the project. | 02:29:55 | |
| Special use permit PHPD dash 25 dash. | 02:30:00 | |
| One, to be categorically exempt from sequa and to take such. | 02:30:04 | |
| Additional related actions that may be desirable. | 02:30:08 | |
| If there are no additional. | 02:30:12 | |
| Actions can I get? | 02:30:16 | |
| Motion on items number one and two, I'll make a motion to adopt the Resident resolution granting Plan development permit number | 02:30:18 | |
| PHPD. | 02:30:21 | |
| 25 One. | 02:30:25 | |
| Second, great. Thank you. | 02:30:27 | |
| So now is the time for discussion. Does anyone have any? | 02:30:30 | |
| Comments any? | 02:30:34 | |
| I just wanted to add to my my comments to the Boys and Girls Club and to Aaron for thanking them for their good work and. | 02:30:35 | |
| And to. | 02:30:42 | |
| Umm. Note that this is. | 02:30:44 | |
| One more step. | 02:30:46 | |
| Toward making our community a desirable and attractive place to live and it's also comes with an economic. | 02:30:47 | |
| Development benefit. | 02:30:56 | |
| For for us in that. | 02:30:58 | |
| It's a draw. | 02:31:00 | |
| It's a draw for residents to come and spend time in Port Wine me. | 02:31:01 | |
| And people from South Oxnard as well, right? | 02:31:07 | |
| Yeah. So, OK. | 02:31:10 | |
| That's great. And I'll just say. | 02:31:11 | |
| Like Councilmember Hernandez said, it's just so exciting to see. | 02:31:14 | |
| The. | 02:31:19 | |
| Umm, just the difference that that building is going to make on Pleasant Valley Rd. And while we're excited, I'm sure your staff | 02:31:20 | |
| is very excited. I'm sure the children. | 02:31:25 | |
| Are excited so thank you so much for all that you do in support of the city of Port Wyoming. We thank you. | 02:31:31 | |
| OK, Madam Clerk. | 02:31:37 | |
| Do you have anything? | 02:31:39 | |
| Quickly. Umm. | 02:31:41 | |
| I heard a motion. | 02:31:42 | |
| To adopt the resolution, but we also need to make sure we're. | 02:31:43 | |
| Approving recommendation to to find the project exempt from sequence. So I just want to make sure that we did, yeah. | 02:31:48 | |
| OK. So both we'll include that, OK. | 02:31:55 | |
| OK comment. | 02:31:59 | |
| Yes, go right here. | 02:32:00 | |
| I just want to. | 02:32:01 | |
| I just want to. | 02:32:02 | |
| My comment is this, you know, $5 million. | 02:32:03 | |
| In donations from our community. | 02:32:05 | |
| Wow, that's. | 02:32:09 | |
| That's. | 02:32:11 | |
| Thank you for spearheading that and. | 02:32:13 | |
| This this collaborative is. | 02:32:17 | |
| Is just so beneficial for our community just to see the amount of people that actually showed up. | 02:32:20 | |
| And just. | 02:32:25 | |
| You know these donations came in from. | 02:32:27 | |
| All over Ventura County, so. | 02:32:29 | |
| We, we appreciate that and thank you for spearheading that. | 02:32:32 | |
| Great. Thank you. So we have before us a motion and a second Madam Clerk. | 02:32:36 | |
| Please take a walk or vote please. | 02:32:40 | |
| Councilmember Goma. | 02:32:42 | |
| Yes, Councilmember Hernandez. Yes. | 02:32:45 | |
| Councilmember Perez, Yes. | 02:32:48 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem Lopez. | 02:32:49 | |
| Yes, and mammary. Quinlan, Shawn. | 02:32:50 | |
| Yes, motion passes unanimously. | 02:32:52 | |
| Great. Thank you. We'll move on to business item number 15, Second Amendment to the employment. | 02:32:54 | |
| Agreement for City Manager James Vega. | 02:32:59 | |
| Will staff please present? | 02:33:03 | |
| The report. | 02:33:05 | |
| Thank you, honorable Mayor and council members. Mr. Vegas asked that I do this presentation given that. | 02:33:07 | |
| It's his contract. | 02:33:13 | |
| You have before you for your consideration this evening a proposed amendment #2 to. | 02:33:15 | |
| Mr. Vegas contract. | 02:33:20 | |
| The Basic Amendment. | 02:33:21 | |
| Request is to extend his contract for an additional two years. | 02:33:23 | |
| Because of current budgetary restraints, right now, Mr. Vega has agreed to basically forego any cost of living or merit. | 02:33:27 | |
| Increases. | 02:33:34 | |
| You had a. | 02:33:36 | |
| Performance reviewed back on July 14th. | 02:33:38 | |
| The results of that review or satisfactory performance and so he's requesting A2 year extension to his current contract. | 02:33:40 | |
| As for your consideration ceiling. | 02:33:46 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 02:33:50 | |
| Does Council have any questions? | 02:33:51 | |
| Just questions at this time. | 02:33:54 | |
| Any questions? | 02:33:57 | |
| All right. Are there any public comments? | 02:33:59 | |
| No public comments. | 02:34:04 | |
| Great, so we have before us a recommendation to approve the proposed Second Amendment to City Manager James Vegas employment | 02:34:05 | |
| agreement and authorize the mayor to execute the amendment upon council approval. The amendment extends the term of City Manager | 02:34:11 | |
| Vegas and. | 02:34:16 | |
| Employment contract by two years. | 02:34:21 | |
| And at the city manager's request for going cost of living. | 02:34:24 | |
| And merit adjustments. | 02:34:28 | |
| At this time. | 02:34:30 | |
| While the city continues to address budgetary constraints, do I have a motion and a second? | 02:34:31 | |
| Some proof second. | 02:34:38 | |
| Great. Are there any discussion or comments? | 02:34:41 | |
| I have a comment. | 02:34:46 | |
| City Manager. | 02:34:48 | |
| Just know that what you are doing now is. | 02:34:51 | |
| Admirable. | 02:34:54 | |
| And it is leading by example. | 02:34:55 | |
| And so I appreciate. | 02:34:58 | |
| While. | 02:35:00 | |
| We understand. | 02:35:02 | |
| Why we're here? | 02:35:04 | |
| Umm, just think it for you to volunteer that for the sake of this city. | 02:35:07 | |
| Is is Admiral, and I want everybody to know that. | 02:35:13 | |
| Yeah, I want to thank you for your service. | 02:35:18 | |
| Very uh. | 02:35:21 | |
| Productive. | 02:35:22 | |
| And I really appreciate the fact that you are leading my example and. | 02:35:24 | |
| Foregoing any increases and we appreciate your work and look forward for. | 02:35:29 | |
| Two more solid years. | 02:35:33 | |
| Yeah. I just want to thank you. | 02:35:38 | |
| James I know I ask a lot of questions and. | 02:35:40 | |
| You always have the answer. | 02:35:44 | |
| And uh. | 02:35:46 | |
| Cities in good shape. | 02:35:49 | |
| Considering. | 02:35:50 | |
| Our budgetary constraints. | 02:35:54 | |
| Thank you for for. | 02:35:56 | |
| For being proactive on on. | 02:35:57 | |
| On our approach. | 02:36:00 | |
| Yeah. And I think I just want to follow, follow up with. | 02:36:02 | |
| I don't know how many times I hear from our residents. | 02:36:06 | |
| Just the pleasure of or the being so pleased about our city. | 02:36:11 | |
| And all the things that we have done and all the progress. | 02:36:17 | |
| That we have made and the communication. | 02:36:21 | |
| That. | 02:36:24 | |
| Our city is now seeing. I remember when I was running for City Council, that was. | 02:36:25 | |
| One of my platform is to ensure that. | 02:36:29 | |
| A community felt connected. | 02:36:32 | |
| Right. And I think that's something that you have done a great job at. | 02:36:35 | |
| Our residents. | 02:36:39 | |
| Know that you are a Callaway. | 02:36:41 | |
| Even though we don't want them to call you. | 02:36:43 | |
| All the time, but they know that you're one call away and they know they'll get a response from you. And I just thank you for all | 02:36:46 | |
| that you've done for the city. | 02:36:50 | |
| And I think a lot of what we're doing in the city today is attributed to your work. | 02:36:54 | |
| And your understanding of how cities work and your ability to look at. | 02:36:59 | |
| Information. | 02:37:03 | |
| And, you know, see things and that's not a skill that everybody has. And so I do appreciate you you so much. And so if there's | 02:37:06 | |
| nothing. | 02:37:10 | |
| Big councilmember yes, so so early in your career you have a wealth of knowledge that's. | 02:37:15 | |
| Amazing compared to others. | 02:37:20 | |
| Who have more experience than you? | 02:37:23 | |
| And you recently attended an event. | 02:37:25 | |
| And somebody made a post about it and about. | 02:37:27 | |
| How helpful you are and the information you gave and how? | 02:37:30 | |
| They were so happy to have a Senate manager. | 02:37:34 | |
| That you know the event I'm talking about. | 02:37:37 | |
| The umm. | 02:37:40 | |
| Ventura County. | 02:37:41 | |
| Realtors Association. | 02:37:42 | |
| So I appreciate. | 02:37:43 | |
| What you do for a community and the answers that you give, the information you provide, and dealing with all five of us. | 02:37:45 | |
| Which I'm sure is always fun. | 02:37:52 | |
| We appreciate you and we thank you for wanting to stick around for another two years. | 02:37:55 | |
| And we look forward to working with you. | 02:37:59 | |
| I'll just say Ditto to that all and I also heard over the weekend. | 02:38:02 | |
| That she did a great job representing the city at the Realtors Association. You. | 02:38:06 | |
| You held your ground standing next to Santa Paula, who's got lots of space to develop and grow and but you made your mark, so | 02:38:12 | |
| thank you for doing that. | 02:38:16 | |
| And thank you for all you do. | 02:38:21 | |
| Great. If there's nothing else, we have a motion and a second. | 02:38:23 | |
| So, Madam Clerk, please take a vote all in favor. | 02:38:26 | |
| Aye, all opposed. | 02:38:30 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 02:38:32 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 02:38:35 | |
| We're going to move to item number 16, City Council requests for letter of support for the Ventura County Board of Supervisors | 02:38:36 | |
| Immigration resources. | 02:38:40 | |
| Item and direction regarding related matters. Will staff please present the report? | 02:38:44 | |
| Thank you. | 02:38:52 | |
| Bear with me, this items a little bit. | 02:38:54 | |
| Strange. | 02:38:56 | |
| Thank you. | 02:38:58 | |
| Not how we. | 02:38:59 | |
| Maybe normally do things so I'll be talking about. | 02:39:00 | |
| Some things we've done and then sort of ratification now and. | 02:39:04 | |
| Try to keep it. | 02:39:09 | |
| Clear, but at our last council meeting. | 02:39:11 | |
| At that time. | 02:39:14 | |
| The county had. | 02:39:15 | |
| Scheduled a Board of Supervisors meeting that was going to occur. | 02:39:17 | |
| Following. | 02:39:22 | |
| Our last council meeting. | 02:39:23 | |
| And at that Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board of Supervisors was going to consider an item. | 02:39:25 | |
| That included. | 02:39:30 | |
| Several steps related to providing resources or information. | 02:39:32 | |
| Related to those. | 02:39:37 | |
| Impacted. | 02:39:38 | |
| By some of the current immigration activities. | 02:39:40 | |
| Immigration related activities. | 02:39:43 | |
| And so. | 02:39:45 | |
| The Council unanimously voted to put an item on this agenda to support. | 02:39:47 | |
| To consider supporting. | 02:39:53 | |
| And issuing a letter of support to. | 02:39:54 | |
| The county for that meeting? | 02:39:57 | |
| Well, because the counties. | 02:40:00 | |
| Meeting in the county's vote was held last week. | 02:40:01 | |
| It's a little bit. | 02:40:05 | |
| Strange, like I said. | 02:40:07 | |
| Essentially what we have done as a city is we have gathered some information about what the county is doing and we've gathered. | 02:40:10 | |
| Some information about some. | 02:40:17 | |
| So what got approved, what didn't get approved, and what? | 02:40:19 | |
| Options are out there. | 02:40:24 | |
| And so there's we'll provide some of that information and then we'll also ask the council to retroactively approve. | 02:40:26 | |
| Because the Council had. | 02:40:33 | |
| Asked for an item to be on the agenda. | 02:40:34 | |
| We had drafted a simple letter. | 02:40:36 | |
| Of support. | 02:40:39 | |
| Citing our legislative platform. | 02:40:41 | |
| With a focus on. | 02:40:44 | |
| Providing resources to local residents, local community members, which is something the city generally is supportive of. | 02:40:46 | |
| But but we're asking the Council to essentially consider. | 02:40:52 | |
| Ratifying that letter. | 02:40:57 | |
| Also, although the item. | 02:40:59 | |
| Passed in the vote Passed. | 02:41:01 | |
| By doing that, the Council could decide whether they would take that position if there were future votes. | 02:41:03 | |
| On the same matters. | 02:41:08 | |
| But we'll start with. | 02:41:11 | |
| So, so that was kind of big picture. | 02:41:14 | |
| Looking more at the detail. | 02:41:16 | |
| The Board of Supervisors had. | 02:41:17 | |
| Their meeting on August. | 02:41:20 | |
| 12th and 20. | 02:41:21 | |
| They had extensive public testimony over those two meetings. | 02:41:23 | |
| As I said earlier, we drafted a letter of support based on our legislative platform focused on supporting resources for local | 02:41:27 | |
| community members. | 02:41:30 | |
| Also in this packet. | 02:41:35 | |
| We had got information from the county. | 02:41:37 | |
| VCCF which? | 02:41:39 | |
| Essentially the. | 02:41:41 | |
| Fundraising arm The county had created Ventura County Community Fund and they are starting a neighbor Support fund, which is a | 02:41:43 | |
| humanitarian fund. | 02:41:47 | |
| For any humanitarian needs locally moving forward. | 02:41:51 | |
| The neighbors are the. | 02:41:57 | |
| The Neighbors Support Fund. | 02:41:59 | |
| And VCCF have asked. | 02:42:01 | |
| Cities to sort of endorse. | 02:42:03 | |
| And help get information out about those fundraising efforts. So that item is also included as part of this agenda item. | 02:42:05 | |
| When the county held their vote. | 02:42:13 | |
| There were some items that failed. | 02:42:15 | |
| To receive the needed for one vote, it had to be a four one vote to pass and so it. | 02:42:18 | |
| Had a three two vote but that wasn't enough to pass. | 02:42:23 | |
| So the items that failed was although the county. | 02:42:26 | |
| Their fundraising arm is VCCF. | 02:42:30 | |
| VCCF has created this neighbors Support fund. | 02:42:33 | |
| The county was considering that day, giving $250,000 towards. | 02:42:36 | |
| Towards a legal defense fund. | 02:42:41 | |
| That failed. | 02:42:43 | |
| Again, by a three, two vote. Didn't have the 41 supermajority needed. | 02:42:45 | |
| Also, I think in a nutshell, the items that failed were the really the monetary impacting items. And so the second piece that | 02:42:50 | |
| failed was the $1.3 million a year budget adjustment to hire seven additional public defender staff for immigration related items. | 02:42:58 | |
| So again, that filled by a three, two vote not having the supermajority. | 02:43:06 | |
| And the main reason, obviously we're paraphrasing, but watching the meeting, the main reasons. | 02:43:10 | |
| Cited by the board. | 02:43:16 | |
| Budget concerns about taking on new monetary. | 02:43:18 | |
| Items on a time where they're. | 02:43:21 | |
| I would say at this point most agencies in the county are watching their budgets closely and sort of tightening their belt | 02:43:23 | |
| buckles. | 02:43:26 | |
| And so they cited concerns related to the budget and then also felt that the federal government should be the agency that's | 02:43:29 | |
| responsible for the. | 02:43:33 | |
| Taking on some of these matters. | 02:43:38 | |
| Which is always interesting because for us is. | 02:43:40 | |
| Like sort of that. | 02:43:42 | |
| Government. | 02:43:44 | |
| Of federal government to state government to county government to city government. | 02:43:46 | |
| A lot of times we're saying the cities can't solve all these problems. | 02:43:51 | |
| That are really, you know, high level problems. | 02:43:54 | |
| So it was interesting to hear the county's perspective on this was that this really should be a federal issue. And so they | 02:43:58 | |
| essentially were saying it needs to be solved at a higher level as well. | 02:44:02 | |
| So, so those items failed. What passed was they are moving forward with their training initiative. | 02:44:07 | |
| And so there. | 02:44:14 | |
| Approved The Board approved to the development of training for county staff who may interact with federal immigration enforcement | 02:44:15 | |
| with the goal of improving awareness, consistency and sensitivity and handling encounters with ISA related agencies. | 02:44:21 | |
| Based on the conversation tonight. | 02:44:29 | |
| Thought that we had is that we can try to reach out to the county and and sort of piggyback off of those efforts and try to get | 02:44:32 | |
| some of those same. | 02:44:35 | |
| Materials and have consistency. | 02:44:39 | |
| With the agencies in the county. | 02:44:42 | |
| Having the same information. | 02:44:44 | |
| And then the second item although the. | 02:44:47 | |
| $250,000 Contribution to the VCCF. | 02:44:49 | |
| Ventura County Neighbor support Fund failed. | 02:44:53 | |
| The county is. | 02:44:56 | |
| Has moved forward with. | 02:44:58 | |
| Having that Ventura County Neighbors Support Fund and that is still an opportunity. | 02:45:00 | |
| Really, I think the idea is really to. | 02:45:05 | |
| Allow. | 02:45:08 | |
| Community members to come together. | 02:45:09 | |
| If they choose to. | 02:45:12 | |
| Support this. | 02:45:13 | |
| Fund. | 02:45:15 | |
| Which will be able to provide humanitarian assistance for families and workers facing urgent needs and community challenges. | 02:45:16 | |
| And I know from talking with. | 02:45:22 | |
| With the Vanessa Bechtel from VCC. | 02:45:24 | |
| This is really intended to be a humanitarian fund for the county moving forward, no matter what the challenge is. So it's really | 02:45:27 | |
| not intended to be political or or any of that. | 02:45:32 | |
| It's just. | 02:45:38 | |
| That is being created. | 02:45:40 | |
| To help families in need when they're in need, sort of regardless of what that reason may be. | 02:45:42 | |
| And I will remind everybody, I think having Patrick. | 02:45:48 | |
| Today, Patrick Maynard here was helpful because. | 02:45:51 | |
| We actually partnered with VCCF. | 02:45:54 | |
| To do something similar on a smaller scale and create that. | 02:45:56 | |
| Fundraiser locally. | 02:46:01 | |
| That helped with the families impacted by the storms. | 02:46:02 | |
| And it ended up. | 02:46:06 | |
| Resulting in. | 02:46:08 | |
| I think almost 100 of our impacted community members getting thousand $1000. | 02:46:10 | |
| Donation to help them recover. | 02:46:17 | |
| And so. | 02:46:20 | |
| We saw first hand. | 02:46:23 | |
| The difference that makes and. | 02:46:24 | |
| I think one of the goals for us is. | 02:46:26 | |
| We just want to make sure people are aware that that is sort of an official fundraiser that's out there at a county level that's | 02:46:29 | |
| operating across the county. | 02:46:33 | |
| And. | 02:46:38 | |
| And that, we know has helped in the past and is. | 02:46:39 | |
| Is trying to put together this. | 02:46:43 | |
| Platform to be able to help again in the future. | 02:46:44 | |
| So on this slide. | 02:46:48 | |
| We list the types of relief that are can be provided by the fund. It includes food security such as groceries, meal programs and | 02:46:50 | |
| nutrition support. | 02:46:54 | |
| Transportation assistance such as gas cards, bus passes and emergency travel. | 02:46:58 | |
| Housing and shelter. | 02:47:02 | |
| Education and childcare, such as support for students, after school programs and childcare services. | 02:47:04 | |
| Workforce aid and nonprofit and school support. | 02:47:10 | |
| Those are all types of relief provided by. | 02:47:14 | |
| The Ventura County Community Foundation. | 02:47:17 | |
| And one of the things that we learned during that situation with the storm was that they the VCCF already has really a good | 02:47:20 | |
| network and coalition that includes. | 02:47:26 | |
| Many key. | 02:47:31 | |
| Partners such as the county of Ventura, the Ventura County Office of Education, EDC VC, League of Women Voters, Mccune Foundation | 02:47:32 | |
| and the. | 02:47:36 | |
| Ventura County Credit Union and others. | 02:47:41 | |
| And they're led by an advisory committee of community leaders for transparency and accountability. | 02:47:43 | |
| With 100% of donations going directly towards relief efforts. | 02:47:48 | |
| And so included with the agenda. | 02:47:52 | |
| Where we're asking the council to confirm and sort of authorize, although it is. | 02:47:55 | |
| A little retroactively, the letter of support to the Board of Supervisors. | 02:48:00 | |
| We're also recommending that the Council consider whether to endorse the. | 02:48:05 | |
| The VCCF fund. | 02:48:08 | |
| The Ventura County Neighbors Support Fund. | 02:48:10 | |
| I have of course. | 02:48:13 | |
| I met with VCCF and I thank them for their help in the storm. | 02:48:15 | |
| And we talked about this. | 02:48:22 | |
| And I did note that. | 02:48:23 | |
| With our tight budget right now, I don't anticipate that the city. | 02:48:25 | |
| We just don't have. | 02:48:29 | |
| Discretionary funding. | 02:48:30 | |
| This year to be able to. | 02:48:32 | |
| Put towards this, but having that conversation with VCCF I was. | 02:48:35 | |
| Assured by Vanessa that. | 02:48:40 | |
| The support of. | 02:48:41 | |
| The city of Port Hueneme saying that they support these. | 02:48:43 | |
| This fundraiser. | 02:48:47 | |
| Is a benefit to BCCF and that that on its own. | 02:48:48 | |
| Has value. | 02:48:52 | |
| So we've. | 02:48:54 | |
| We recommended that Council consider those two items. | 02:48:55 | |
| And then also was. | 02:48:59 | |
| The direction to staff to to. | 02:49:01 | |
| Reach out to the county to try to coordinate. | 02:49:04 | |
| That training and informational materials. | 02:49:08 | |
| Item that that the county did approve so. | 02:49:11 | |
| So with that, I think we may. | 02:49:15 | |
| Have a VCCF representative? Yeah, I thought so. | 02:49:17 | |
| Did you feel like you needed to add anything to that? | 02:49:22 | |
| OK. | 02:49:26 | |
| If I missed anything. | 02:49:27 | |
| Much like. | 02:49:30 | |
| The Boys and Girls Club I was established in the 1960s but have not been refurbished. | 02:49:31 | |
| I want to just thank you very much. | 02:49:37 | |
| For umm. | 02:49:42 | |
| Looking at. | 02:49:43 | |
| The potential of the support. | 02:49:44 | |
| Of the Neighbor Support Fund. | 02:49:46 | |
| We've made a slight change to it to call it the Neighbor Support Coalition. | 02:49:48 | |
| And as the city manager rightfully talked about, it's so that we are prepared. | 02:49:54 | |
| With VCC. | 02:49:58 | |
| To have a coalition of folks. | 02:50:00 | |
| Looking at both disaster relief. | 02:50:02 | |
| And humanitarian relief. | 02:50:04 | |
| And we come to you today really asking for your support so that we can put your name on the list of partners. | 02:50:06 | |
| That is long and growing, and we understand. | 02:50:13 | |
| By making it a coalition as opposed to just a fund. | 02:50:17 | |
| That, of course, we'd always take some donations, but just know that we're here standing by for the county. | 02:50:20 | |
| And Port Hueneme is incredibly important. | 02:50:27 | |
| As a piece of that. So thank you very much. | 02:50:29 | |
| Great, thank you. Does the Council have any questions? | 02:50:32 | |
| For a city manager. | 02:50:39 | |
| Um, being that we are. | 02:50:42 | |
| Financially just. | 02:50:44 | |
| Strapped. | 02:50:46 | |
| Especially now we're going through labor negotiations and. | 02:50:48 | |
| With the uncertainty of the future. | 02:50:52 | |
| Would there be an opportunity in the down the road to consider? | 02:50:55 | |
| Allocating monies from the Community Benefit Fund. | 02:51:00 | |
| Has a donation toward the. | 02:51:04 | |
| I think. | 02:51:09 | |
| It's possible. | 02:51:10 | |
| I guess I can answer it this way because obviously Council is aware. | 02:51:12 | |
| That. | 02:51:15 | |
| The allocations have to be approved by both the port and the city. | 02:51:16 | |
| But I don't see any reason why the city wouldn't. | 02:51:20 | |
| Be able to propose that. | 02:51:22 | |
| OK, great. Thank you. | 02:51:23 | |
| Any question? Any other questions? | 02:51:27 | |
| So, city manager. | 02:51:30 | |
| Can you just state again? You mentioned 2 actions, can you just state those two again? | 02:51:31 | |
| Yeah. So I think it's. | 02:51:37 | |
| I sort of snuck 1/3 in there, so I'll try to. | 02:51:39 | |
| To summarize those so. | 02:51:43 | |
| 1 is. | 02:51:45 | |
| Sort of ratifying the letter of support to the Board of Supervisors. | 02:51:46 | |
| Which? | 02:51:50 | |
| Really the only impact that has is that it means that if that comes up again, we. | 02:51:51 | |
| We can, yeah, it's good, for the record. And then also that if the topic came up again, we could submit it. | 02:51:57 | |
| So 1 is ratifying the letter of support. | 02:52:03 | |
| 2nd is Endor. | 02:52:06 | |
| Endorsing the Ventura County Community Foundation's neighbor support. | 02:52:09 | |
| Coalition. | 02:52:13 | |
| And 3rd would be directing staff to coordinate with the. | 02:52:15 | |
| County of Ventura regarding training and informational materials authorizing us to be able to do that. | 02:52:19 | |
| OK. | 02:52:28 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments? | 02:52:30 | |
| Yes, we do. | 02:52:33 | |
| 1st is Lori Haskins. | 02:52:35 | |
| And that would be followed by Sarah Wachowski. | 02:52:40 | |
| Good evening. | 02:52:45 | |
| My name is Laurie Haskins, and I'm here as part of the 805 Immigrant Rapid Response Network. | 02:52:47 | |
| And 805 Undocu Fund. | 02:52:52 | |
| We are here tonight to urge the council to allocate city funding. | 02:52:55 | |
| For immigrant. | 02:52:59 | |
| Legal services and humanitarian aid. | 02:53:00 | |
| This funding will directly support families impacted by immigration enforcement. | 02:53:03 | |
| Ensure they have access to due process. | 02:53:08 | |
| Instability. | 02:53:11 | |
| Port Riney, ME. | 02:53:13 | |
| Has nearly 60%. | 02:53:15 | |
| Of its residents identify as Hispanic or Latino. | 02:53:17 | |
| Immigrant families are. | 02:53:20 | |
| Central to the city's neighborhood, schools, workforce and culture. | 02:53:23 | |
| Immigrant workers, including undocumented residents. | 02:53:28 | |
| Are vital to the port's economic and agricultural. | 02:53:31 | |
| And service industries. | 02:53:35 | |
| Their labor and spending generate millions. | 02:53:37 | |
| For that local economy. | 02:53:40 | |
| Yet they remain. | 02:53:42 | |
| Excluded for many basic. | 02:53:43 | |
| Protections. | 02:53:45 | |
| On July. | 02:53:48 | |
| One of the California's largest immigration enforcement operations devastated families across Ventura County. | 02:53:50 | |
| While most of these apprehended lived in. | 02:53:56 | |
| Oxnard Many had family ties to the community and roots here in Port Rainy, ME. | 02:53:59 | |
| Some families are still struggling without access to immigration attorneys. | 02:54:03 | |
| Leaving them vulnerable. | 02:54:07 | |
| To permit permanent separation. | 02:54:10 | |
| As a city with the majority of Latino population, port rhinemia has both. | 02:54:13 | |
| The responsibility. | 02:54:17 | |
| And the opportunity to stand with immigrant families. | 02:54:19 | |
| Allocate funding for legal services. | 02:54:22 | |
| Ensure fairness, due process and dignity for our community members. | 02:54:25 | |
| By dedicating resources to legal defense and humanitarian support, Port Rainy May can lead. | 02:54:30 | |
| By example and protect the. | 02:54:36 | |
| Who are the heart of this community? | 02:54:39 | |
| Thank you. | 02:54:41 | |
| Thank you. | 02:54:43 | |
| Good evening, Mayor Liquid. | 02:54:57 | |
| McLean, Leon. | 02:54:58 | |
| City Council and city staff. | 02:54:59 | |
| My name is Sarah Wilchesky and I am here as part of the 805 Immigrant Rapid Response Network and NATO Find. | 02:55:01 | |
| At 8:05 and document. | 02:55:07 | |
| Frankly, I'm angry. | 02:55:09 | |
| I'm angry at the lack of action by our county supervisors. | 02:55:12 | |
| Over the course of two meeting. | 02:55:16 | |
| Over 100 people spoke in support of Supervisor Lopez. | 02:55:18 | |
| Proposal. | 02:55:22 | |
| For legal and education assistance for our immigrant neighbors. | 02:55:24 | |
| And even more submitted written comments and signed on to the community letter in support. | 02:55:28 | |
| I saw Councilmember Hernandez and. | 02:55:33 | |
| Mayor McQueen Leon. | 02:55:36 | |
| There in person. | 02:55:38 | |
| I don't know want to thank you for. | 02:55:39 | |
| Showing your support. | 02:55:41 | |
| This in action by our county leaders. | 02:55:45 | |
| Breaks the trust of our community. | 02:55:47 | |
| Swift. Decisive. | 02:55:51 | |
| And measure. | 02:55:52 | |
| Measurable action will help rebuild that trust. | 02:55:53 | |
| Please take action and support our vulnerable. | 02:55:58 | |
| Friends. Neighbors. | 02:56:00 | |
| And families. | 02:56:03 | |
| Roughly 60% of point. | 02:56:06 | |
| Population identifies as Hispanic or Latino. | 02:56:09 | |
| This community is deeply tied to the city's neighbors. | 02:56:12 | |
| Neighborhoods, schools, and economy. | 02:56:16 | |
| Immigrant workers, including undocumented residents. | 02:56:19 | |
| Are vital to the Port Rhinemi economy. | 02:56:23 | |
| Agricultural and service industries. | 02:56:26 | |
| While the majority of. | 02:56:30 | |
| Those apprehended at Glass House on July 10th are Oxnard residents. | 02:56:31 | |
| Many have family ties and community roots in port. | 02:56:36 | |
| Many community members are still traumatized. | 02:56:40 | |
| And some are still trying to get legal aid. | 02:56:43 | |
| Two months later. | 02:56:46 | |
| We ask you to take action for justice. | 02:56:50 | |
| Equity. Umm. | 02:56:52 | |
| And safety of your constituents. | 02:56:53 | |
| We need. | 02:56:57 | |
| We need the support. | 02:56:58 | |
| Of four vulnerable community member. | 02:57:02 | |
| Immigrant communities. | 02:57:04 | |
| At every level of government. | 02:57:06 | |
| The impacts of these policies. | 02:57:08 | |
| Or felt at every level. | 02:57:11 | |
| Especially locally. | 02:57:13 | |
| Within your neighborhoods. | 02:57:18 | |
| Your friends, your family. | 02:57:20 | |
| We ask you to take action where our county leaders have failed us. | 02:57:24 | |
| We urge you. | 02:57:28 | |
| To allocate city funding for the immigrant legal services and humanitarian aid. | 02:57:30 | |
| Thank you. | 02:57:35 | |
| Thank you. | 02:57:37 | |
| Odette Moran. | 02:57:38 | |
| And that will be followed by Susanna Baron. | 02:57:41 | |
| Good evening for my name is City Council. My name is sold it. | 02:57:54 | |
| My pronunciation theirs and I recently moved to the city of Fort Wayne, ME from South Oxnard. | 02:57:57 | |
| And getting to know the city of Port Hueneme in a more intimate level even though S Oxnard. | 02:58:04 | |
| Is right next to Port Wayne, Amy and have grown up as these two cities as one. | 02:58:10 | |
| And throughout my experience, it's been that a lot of our community here in Port, my name, me as in South Oxnard, is largely | 02:58:16 | |
| immigrant and largely comes here with the hopes and dreams of a better future. | 02:58:22 | |
| Now, as you may have heard, the County of Ventura has unfortunately decided not to do anything. | 02:58:29 | |
| When it comes to the horrors that have happened to a lot of families that live. | 02:58:37 | |
| In Oxnard and Port Miami and in this area. | 02:58:41 | |
| In my daily life. | 02:58:46 | |
| I see and hear from my personal. | 02:58:49 | |
| Family members experiences and when I go to work. | 02:58:53 | |
| I hear more the impact. | 02:58:58 | |
| ACT is dense. The impact is here in both of our cities, which is why I come here today as a resident of Fort Wayne, me to ask you | 02:59:00 | |
| to do more. | 02:59:04 | |
| Our county has decided not to. | 02:59:09 | |
| Thank you for adding here an agent. I seeing this conversation of this letter of support. | 02:59:13 | |
| But now, knowing where our reality is, I think our city of port, we need me, needs to do. | 02:59:19 | |
| What we can as a city. | 02:59:24 | |
| Whether it be? | 02:59:26 | |
| As folks have mentioned. | 02:59:27 | |
| Setting aside funding for legal support for impacted families. | 02:59:29 | |
| And or. | 02:59:33 | |
| Holding these trainings within the city of Porto Nimi. | 02:59:34 | |
| Ourselves, and here as a city, if. | 02:59:38 | |
| The county doesn't. | 02:59:41 | |
| Chose not to, but. | 02:59:43 | |
| What reason is there for the city of port when you mean not to? | 02:59:45 | |
| I think here today you have a choice to do more, whether it be training staff. | 02:59:48 | |
| Whether it be doing more training system with community on safety. | 02:59:53 | |
| But more importantly than anything, families need legal support, they need legal funding for this and having that. | 02:59:58 | |
| Estate, you as a city of Fort Wayne, me to open up this conversation and talk. | 03:00:05 | |
| Do this more to see how possible this is. They would mean a lot for a lot of your residents as well as so. | 03:00:11 | |
| For so many families. | 03:00:17 | |
| Will have these hopes and dreams. | 03:00:19 | |
| So I come here to ask you. | 03:00:21 | |
| Please do more than their county did. | 03:00:23 | |
| And open up this conversation. | 03:00:26 | |
| Thank you so much for your time. | 03:00:28 | |
| Thank you. | 03:00:30 | |
| Good evening, council and the public. Thank you so much for agendas in this item. My name is Susanna Canales Baron and. | 03:00:38 | |
| I'm a volunteer organizer with 805 Immigrant Coalition. | 03:00:46 | |
| My family is from Zacatecas. the US has pretty much said it is a do not travel state because. | 03:00:51 | |
| Of the crime that has been documented yet. | 03:01:00 | |
| When there have been people from Zacatecas seeking asylum in the US. | 03:01:04 | |
| It is nearly impossible. | 03:01:09 | |
| And that I just share that to show. | 03:01:11 | |
| That these immigration policies. | 03:01:14 | |
| Are nonsensical. There is no path forward. | 03:01:16 | |
| Which is why. | 03:01:19 | |
| We really rely on local leaders such as yourself to really. | 03:01:20 | |
| Hold the hands of the community members that. | 03:01:26 | |
| Are not asking for a handout but actually contribute to this community. This is not charity and I say that from experience because | 03:01:28 | |
| my parents were undocumented. | 03:01:34 | |
| We had such a difficult time, it was. | 03:01:41 | |
| Horrific things that we experienced as a family. I myself dropped out of high school. | 03:01:45 | |
| But with the support of the city that I lived in at the time. | 03:01:52 | |
| I was actually able to get my GED, go to Community College. | 03:01:56 | |
| Graduate summa *** laude from UC Davis and get a masters at Stanford. | 03:02:00 | |
| And I will dedicate the rest of my life. | 03:02:05 | |
| To bring my community here with me, the community that is too afraid to stand here. | 03:02:08 | |
| We submitted a letter to the. | 03:02:14 | |
| Board of Supervisors in Ventura County, almost. | 03:02:17 | |
| If I remember correctly, was more than 500 signatures that were speaking in a unified voice. Please. | 03:02:21 | |
| Leaders of our community. | 03:02:31 | |
| Support us the way that we have supported you. We were so disappointed at the outcome of that meeting. | 03:02:33 | |
| Which is why we come here to you, because we have faith that you are going to look within your hearts to. | 03:02:42 | |
| Help the community that makes Port wine me so beautiful. Thank you so much for your time. | 03:02:50 | |
| Thank you. | 03:02:57 | |
| And then we have 1 written public comment, Mayor. | 03:02:59 | |
| This is from Jeffrey Scarberry. | 03:03:03 | |
| I'm requesting clarification regarding the public comment on this item by Councilmember Hernandez at the August 26th County Board | 03:03:05 | |
| of Supervisors meeting. | 03:03:09 | |
| Speaking to a large audience, she stated. | 03:03:14 | |
| Quote On August 16th at the Port Hueneme City Council voted to support our immigrant communities. | 03:03:16 | |
| Through the establishment of a county immigration legal defense fund and immigrant. | 03:03:22 | |
| Defense unit and migrant education program. | 03:03:27 | |
| In the interest of transparency, please explain how the Council vote was initiated and conducted on a Saturday and what the | 03:03:30 | |
| results of the vote were. | 03:03:34 | |
| The letter sent by City Manager Vega included in tonight's agenda packet does not mention a vote. | 03:03:38 | |
| But rather references the city's legislative platform as a basis for supporting the proposed items at issue. | 03:03:44 | |
| I would also note that some of the general positions reflected in the legislative platform. | 03:03:50 | |
| Are subject to interpretation as to their application in certain specific circumstances. | 03:03:55 | |
| Thank you and thanks to our City Clerk, Georgiana Alvarez. | 03:04:00 | |
| That concludes public comment. | 03:04:03 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 03:04:04 | |
| All righty, let's see where we are. | 03:04:08 | |
| OK, so we have before us. | 03:04:14 | |
| Did I ask you if you all had any questions? | 03:04:20 | |
| OK. Do you all have any questions? | 03:04:22 | |
| Any questions at all? | 03:04:26 | |
| Go, go right ahead. | 03:04:27 | |
| Well, I did ask a question about. | 03:04:28 | |
| Use of the Community benefit Fund. So we did have an opportunity to ask questions, OK. | 03:04:31 | |
| But I have another one now that we're getting ready to. | 03:04:36 | |
| To move toward a motion, and that is. | 03:04:39 | |
| Where it says here in the recommendation to direct staff to coordinate with the County of Ventura with training and informational. | 03:04:44 | |
| Materials. | 03:04:51 | |
| Is this training and informational? | 03:04:52 | |
| Materials intended for. | 03:04:55 | |
| Our residents. | 03:04:57 | |
| For the public. | 03:04:59 | |
| Umm, and our employees. | 03:05:00 | |
| Or is it? | 03:05:03 | |
| For just. | 03:05:04 | |
| The public, yeah. | 03:05:05 | |
| Our intent with that is. | 03:05:07 | |
| Seeing if. | 03:05:11 | |
| Based on their emotion of their. | 03:05:12 | |
| And what got approved at their meeting is seeing if we can. | 03:05:15 | |
| Get the same information and if we can sort of pool resources and our hope is that there's both training and inform. | 03:05:18 | |
| Training materials for internally for staff and then also informational materials that we could also share with the public as | 03:05:25 | |
| well. | 03:05:28 | |
| So we're hoping that there's both of those things, but I think. | 03:05:32 | |
| There, they approved it. What was that a week ago? | 03:05:34 | |
| And I don't know that they they. | 03:05:38 | |
| Have developed. | 03:05:40 | |
| So it'll be sort of an ongoing. | 03:05:41 | |
| Authorization for us to get that information and share that information. | 03:05:43 | |
| So just for clarity purposes, would the. | 03:05:47 | |
| The employee training include. | 03:05:50 | |
| Processes and procedures for dealing. | 03:05:53 | |
| With ICE, should they show up here at City Hall or any? | 03:05:56 | |
| Of our city facilities. | 03:06:00 | |
| That's our understanding because it's based on what the county also approved. I think that would be great if we could do that. | 03:06:02 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 03:06:08 | |
| Yeah, so Moorpark. | 03:06:10 | |
| Camarillo, uh. | 03:06:11 | |
| Some of the cities that they received. | 03:06:14 | |
| They had a guest come in and present. | 03:06:18 | |
| And was an immigration lawyer. | 03:06:20 | |
| And. | 03:06:22 | |
| Put out actually really good stuff. | 03:06:23 | |
| For the residents of those cities. | 03:06:26 | |
| Ideally. | 03:06:30 | |
| That's what. | 03:06:31 | |
| I'm thinking that's what. | 03:06:34 | |
| We're going to do as well. | 03:06:35 | |
| That's not in this motion, It's something that the Council. | 03:06:38 | |
| Could consider. | 03:06:41 | |
| But I think if we're talking about training, that could be. | 03:06:45 | |
| Conceivably considered training, could it not? | 03:06:48 | |
| I think what's being referred to as like the public workshop that Moorpark did. | 03:06:53 | |
| And so that. | 03:06:59 | |
| When when we drafted this item, because again, we drafted this before it went to vote. | 03:07:02 | |
| Our understanding was that maybe something that the county was going to try to put on and for a lot of reasons that makes sense, | 03:07:08 | |
| right? Like it's consistent information across the. | 03:07:12 | |
| County, it's also the fact that the county actually operates a lot of these things like public defenders office versus each city | 03:07:17 | |
| just going out and asking. | 03:07:21 | |
| Like a random member of the public to give a presentation, you know, essentially. | 03:07:26 | |
| So so we were trying to coordinate with the county. | 03:07:30 | |
| I I don't know that that. | 03:07:34 | |
| Got approved for the county to do that so if it is. | 03:07:36 | |
| And we can kind of tie that in with the training and information material. | 03:07:39 | |
| Informational Materials. | 03:07:43 | |
| I don't know that they approved it. | 03:07:45 | |
| And so we weren't specifically referring to that. | 03:07:47 | |
| Perhaps it could be an agenda request? | 03:07:50 | |
| Yeah. OK. So are there any other questions? | 03:07:53 | |
| Questions. OK, so we have three items and I'd like to take them individually. | 03:07:57 | |
| If you all don't mind, you OK with that? | 03:08:01 | |
| Let me let me read the recommendations first. | 03:08:06 | |
| So we have before us recommendation to determine whether to endorse issuance of the letter of support. | 03:08:08 | |
| Report to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors and to provide directions on related matters, including whether they endorse. | 03:08:13 | |
| Whether to endorse Ventura County community. | 03:08:21 | |
| Coalition. | 03:08:24 | |
| Of Ventura County. | 03:08:26 | |
| Let me just read it the way it is and then we'll throw coalition in there where it belongs, Ventura County community. | 03:08:30 | |
| Foundations of Ventura County neighbors support. | 03:08:35 | |
| Coalition. | 03:08:38 | |
| Thank you. And whether to direct staff to coordinate with the county? | 03:08:39 | |
| Of Ventura. | 03:08:44 | |
| With training and information materials. | 03:08:45 | |
| Is there a motion and a second? | 03:08:49 | |
| So moved second. | 03:08:52 | |
| OK, so now we'll move to discussion. | 03:08:54 | |
| Is there any discussion? | 03:08:57 | |
| Go ahead, Council. | 03:08:58 | |
| Yeah. | 03:09:01 | |
| I get frustrated. | 03:09:02 | |
| And I hear, I really appreciate the speakers that. | 03:09:04 | |
| Hung in this meeting. | 03:09:06 | |
| Spoke with this recent just now. | 03:09:07 | |
| And I heard the nonsensical immigration policy, and I think we all could agree that we have nonsensical immigration policy right | 03:09:09 | |
| now. | 03:09:13 | |
| And I don't see any effort to fix it. | 03:09:17 | |
| And so. | 03:09:19 | |
| I hope that. | 03:09:21 | |
| All this. | 03:09:23 | |
| Can lead to that. | 03:09:24 | |
| And I think we really need to. | 03:09:25 | |
| Because. | 03:09:27 | |
| To me as a. | 03:09:28 | |
| As the offspring of immigrant farm. | 03:09:30 | |
| Family. | 03:09:34 | |
| The whole 9 yards as we all know. | 03:09:35 | |
| I hope that at some point. | 03:09:39 | |
| The risk of coming here illegally could be eliminated. | 03:09:41 | |
| In other words. | 03:09:45 | |
| What would drive somebody? | 03:09:46 | |
| To take on that risk. | 03:09:48 | |
| And if we could. | 03:09:50 | |
| Get a sensical immigration policy. And I think it should start from us. Like hey. | 03:09:51 | |
| Let's start pushing. | 03:09:55 | |
| The buttons of our congressional leaders. | 03:09:59 | |
| To fix the system that we all know is broken. | 03:10:02 | |
| And. | 03:10:05 | |
| I applaud. | 03:10:08 | |
| Helping those that need help. | 03:10:11 | |
| Then at the same time. | 03:10:15 | |
| You know, we have a budget, the county has a budget, everybody has a budget. | 03:10:16 | |
| You know, the question is, you know, what can we do? | 03:10:20 | |
| Outside of a. | 03:10:22 | |
| You know, we're not building a budget right now. We've already done that so. | 03:10:23 | |
| Yeah, I just. | 03:10:29 | |
| I feel like. | 03:10:30 | |
| I think we're at a beginning point where we all should start working together to fix what we know is broken. | 03:10:31 | |
| And I know for a city government. | 03:10:36 | |
| That's not. | 03:10:39 | |
| That's a big, heavy lift, but. | 03:10:41 | |
| Maybe we could start the conversation here tonight and start pushing up. | 03:10:43 | |
| Help us. Help us fix what we know is broken. | 03:10:46 | |
| And then move on. | 03:10:49 | |
| So. | 03:10:51 | |
| That's all I wanted to say. | 03:10:52 | |
| Is there anything else? | 03:10:54 | |
| Any other comments? | 03:10:55 | |
| Go right here. Yeah. So just. | 03:10:57 | |
| I stated this before. | 03:10:59 | |
| We are a nation of immigrants. | 03:11:01 | |
| The economic decline we are already. | 03:11:05 | |
| Feeling. | 03:11:07 | |
| Not only are we seeing it in. | 03:11:11 | |
| County revenue, but we're filling it. | 03:11:13 | |
| When you're walking around. | 03:11:16 | |
| The city. | 03:11:17 | |
| People are not. | 03:11:19 | |
| Actively outside. | 03:11:21 | |
| I you could see it at Bubbling Springs Park. | 03:11:23 | |
| Night and day. | 03:11:28 | |
| So kids are not going to school. | 03:11:30 | |
| People are not taking their. | 03:11:34 | |
| People are not going to the doctors, not going to the hospitals when they're injured. | 03:11:35 | |
| There's an erosion of trust. | 03:11:40 | |
| With uh. | 03:11:42 | |
| With police. | 03:11:44 | |
| And someone who grew up in Oxnard. | 03:11:45 | |
| In the 1980s. | 03:11:48 | |
| It took a huge effort by. | 03:11:50 | |
| Oxnard PD to. | 03:11:53 | |
| For the residents to get comfortable with the police officers and they had tremendous outreach programs, pal. | 03:11:56 | |
| Fast forward to today. | 03:12:03 | |
| There is. They're an integral part of our community. | 03:12:04 | |
| And we're seeing it. | 03:12:08 | |
| Erode like that. | 03:12:10 | |
| They don't know who or who the police officers are. They don't know what are what our ICE agents. | 03:12:13 | |
| There's many. | 03:12:18 | |
| Different agencies involved in in. | 03:12:20 | |
| In these. | 03:12:23 | |
| And so you're seeing it. | 03:12:24 | |
| There's a lot of mistrust. | 03:12:26 | |
| And, umm. | 03:12:28 | |
| A lot of uncertainty in the community. | 03:12:29 | |
| And it's it's very disheartening someone who. | 03:12:32 | |
| I'm second generation. | 03:12:34 | |
| American. | 03:12:36 | |
| But. | 03:12:38 | |
| Just feels unfair. | 03:12:39 | |
| And again. | 03:12:42 | |
| We're here to support as best we can. I know we we have our own. | 03:12:45 | |
| Financial issues, but. | 03:12:49 | |
| Again, 60% of. | 03:12:50 | |
| Of our residents. | 03:12:53 | |
| Hispanic. Latino. | 03:12:55 | |
| And, umm. | 03:12:57 | |
| Of that. | 03:12:58 | |
| There's probably 15 to 20% who are undocked. | 03:13:00 | |
| Who are? | 03:13:04 | |
| Who are supporting our local economy working? | 03:13:05 | |
| By putting food on our tables providing services. | 03:13:09 | |
| To us. | 03:13:11 | |
| And uh. | 03:13:12 | |
| It's hard to look away. | 03:13:14 | |
| I won't look away. | 03:13:16 | |
| So I'm here to support this. I know it's retroactive. We did give it a nod. | 03:13:18 | |
| For the vote today. | 03:13:24 | |
| So yeah. | 03:13:26 | |
| OK. Any other comments? | 03:13:28 | |
| So we're going to take these one at a time. There are three. | 03:13:31 | |
| So let's just start with. | 03:13:34 | |
| The first one, each one I'll ask for a motion in a second and we'll go to our. | 03:13:37 | |
| Our clerk for a vote. | 03:13:42 | |
| So we'll take #1. | 03:13:46 | |
| Number one is to. | 03:13:49 | |
| So this is the ratification of the letter that we've already. | 03:13:52 | |
| Submitted. | 03:13:56 | |
| That was in line with our legislative platform. | 03:13:57 | |
| And we're going to. | 03:14:01 | |
| Not just we're not going to ratify it from our legislative. | 03:14:03 | |
| Platform this is. | 03:14:07 | |
| The support. | 03:14:09 | |
| From. | 03:14:10 | |
| The Port Hueneme City Council. | 03:14:11 | |
| And so. | 03:14:13 | |
| So is there a motion and a second? | 03:14:15 | |
| To support the letter previous letter. | 03:14:18 | |
| Submitted to the Board of Supervisors. | 03:14:20 | |
| And so in this case, it would be from the City Council. | 03:14:24 | |
| I move to approve. | 03:14:27 | |
| OK. We have a first and a second. Any discussion? | 03:14:29 | |
| Yeah, I would like to just discuss that I did represent. | 03:14:32 | |
| Myself at the Board of Supervisors meeting. But yes, I did. | 03:14:37 | |
| Miss State the date. | 03:14:42 | |
| Of our meeting. | 03:14:45 | |
| But I think the. | 03:14:46 | |
| The comments I think the gist of the comments was that this City Council. | 03:14:48 | |
| Does support this city? | 03:14:53 | |
| Does support? | 03:14:55 | |
| The efforts that were being proposed that evening. | 03:14:56 | |
| And that we did so in. | 03:15:00 | |
| In spirit by. | 03:15:04 | |
| Providing an advance letter which we're here tonight to ratify. | 03:15:07 | |
| So I think that's what the message was. | 03:15:11 | |
| The message also and just to add. | 03:15:14 | |
| Counts Mayor. | 03:15:17 | |
| Pro tem's comments was that. | 03:15:19 | |
| Billions of dollars are. | 03:15:21 | |
| Poured into immigration in the in the coming months. | 03:15:23 | |
| And. | 03:15:27 | |
| The enforcement is going to become. | 03:15:29 | |
| Even more dire. | 03:15:31 | |
| And our communities are. | 03:15:33 | |
| Are being affected. | 03:15:35 | |
| Dramatically. | 03:15:36 | |
| Laurie and I work at Food Share and we've seen. | 03:15:37 | |
| We had a scare. | 03:15:40 | |
| On Friday. | 03:15:42 | |
| And then we see. | 03:15:44 | |
| The noticeable difference in attendance. | 03:15:46 | |
| When we distribute food. | 03:15:49 | |
| So it's critical. | 03:15:52 | |
| A crisis, and unfortunately, the county voted against the monetary recommendations. | 03:15:54 | |
| But for me, I see the money has important it's an investment, it's mitigation. | 03:16:01 | |
| Against. | 03:16:07 | |
| Further damage that these enforcement measures are going to have on our community. So I hope down the road that we will because of | 03:16:08 | |
| the billions of dollars that are being. | 03:16:12 | |
| Put forth for this. | 03:16:19 | |
| For these immigration activities, we're going to see more. | 03:16:20 | |
| In our community. | 03:16:24 | |
| And it's not going to go away. | 03:16:25 | |
| So when the time comes and we have an opportunity to look at our community benefit fund, I think we should. | 03:16:27 | |
| Allocate some funds. | 03:16:33 | |
| Towards the neighborhood coalition. OK, so I let me just. | 03:16:34 | |
| I think, let me just say what I have to say. So I want to be really clear. | 03:16:38 | |
| City Council had not. | 03:16:42 | |
| Voted on. | 03:16:44 | |
| This item. | 03:16:45 | |
| So, umm. | 03:16:46 | |
| There, we can't say the City Council. | 03:16:47 | |
| The City Council supports. | 03:16:52 | |
| Unless there is a vote and there was not a vote. | 03:16:54 | |
| What we did is because we have a legislative platform that speaks to. | 03:16:57 | |
| Areas that we. | 03:17:03 | |
| Court, not specifically this. | 03:17:05 | |
| But areas that we support. | 03:17:08 | |
| Of our residents. | 03:17:11 | |
| You know the support of our residents because. | 03:17:13 | |
| This item was in line with that. | 03:17:15 | |
| We wrote a letter. | 03:17:19 | |
| That our city manager. | 03:17:21 | |
| Signed with. | 03:17:23 | |
| My authorization. | 03:17:24 | |
| That it was in line with our legislative platform, the city, the council did vote for that council had not voted, we voted that we | 03:17:27 | |
| would add. | 03:17:32 | |
| The item to today's agenda? | 03:17:37 | |
| Not that we are in support. We agreed to the letter. | 03:17:39 | |
| Yeah, OK. Anyway, it was the letter was aligned to our legislative platform, the City Council. | 03:17:44 | |
| Up until today. | 03:17:51 | |
| Has never. | 03:17:52 | |
| Voted uh. | 03:17:53 | |
| On the letter. | 03:17:54 | |
| Just so that everybody is clear. And so today is the day. | 03:17:56 | |
| That we're going to take a vote for the first time. | 03:18:00 | |
| On the support letter. | 03:18:03 | |
| For the Board of Supervisors. | 03:18:04 | |
| So, Councilmember Gama, did you have a comment? | 03:18:06 | |
| Yes. | 03:18:09 | |
| Was able to watch the entire. | 03:18:10 | |
| Two meetings. | 03:18:13 | |
| From the comfort of my bed recovering from knee surgery. | 03:18:14 | |
| And I was a little. | 03:18:19 | |
| Shocked, frankly. | 03:18:22 | |
| To see Councilmember Hernandez. | 03:18:25 | |
| Misstate the facts. | 03:18:28 | |
| And I think we need to. | 03:18:30 | |
| Be very careful of doing that. | 03:18:33 | |
| And I did notice that Mayor Lejeune was seated next to Councilmember Hernandez and yes. | 03:18:37 | |
| You did say. | 03:18:43 | |
| I'm here as a representative. | 03:18:44 | |
| But then. | 03:18:46 | |
| I'm here to report that the City of Council. | 03:18:47 | |
| Voted to and that is absolutely not true. | 03:18:50 | |
| We may want it to be true, but to get up in front of a meeting and. | 03:18:54 | |
| Misstate facts. | 03:18:58 | |
| You know we have. | 03:19:01 | |
| Policies and procedures for council members, but. | 03:19:02 | |
| Was it a mistake? | 03:19:06 | |
| Was it by design? But I just think we really, really, really have to. | 03:19:07 | |
| Manage ourselves. | 03:19:13 | |
| And speak. OK, so. | 03:19:14 | |
| The truth. OK, so I've already made a comment about it. | 03:19:16 | |
| I appreciate your time. | 03:19:19 | |
| And that it's clear. Did you have something? | 03:19:21 | |
| OK, everybody. | 03:19:24 | |
| Yeah, so. | 03:19:25 | |
| Just so we're crystal clear and and this. | 03:19:27 | |
| During the last meeting. | 03:19:30 | |
| We did take a vote. | 03:19:32 | |
| And we? | 03:19:34 | |
| With our legislative platform, we support the letter. | 03:19:37 | |
| Is my understanding. | 03:19:40 | |
| And if we have to go back to the transcripts, we will. | 03:19:42 | |
| But we did support it. | 03:19:45 | |
| It was on agenda setting. | 03:19:47 | |
| OK. | 03:19:48 | |
| Yeah. | 03:19:49 | |
| So I'll just say this and then we're going to move on. | 03:19:50 | |
| We did not vote that it was going to be on legislative platform. | 03:19:54 | |
| Because the city manager contacted me after the meeting. | 03:19:58 | |
| And said that hey. | 03:20:02 | |
| I didn't plan to do this, but because it's an alignment. | 03:20:04 | |
| With their legislative platform. | 03:20:08 | |
| I think it's OK to do this letter so it was after the fact. | 03:20:09 | |
| So what we voted on was to have it on if I could say something, please. OK, so is it, are you clarifying? | 03:20:13 | |
| What we're talking about now, yes, absolutely. | 03:20:20 | |
| Because let me let me say this so. | 03:20:22 | |
| Let me hold. | 03:20:25 | |
| City manager did. Is it How? | 03:20:27 | |
| I just described it. | 03:20:29 | |
| Yeah, and it's it's because of the Brown Act. | 03:20:31 | |
| So that night. | 03:20:33 | |
| We had members of the public speak. | 03:20:35 | |
| But we could not vote on it that night legally. | 03:20:37 | |
| So what the Council did do was voted to put it on this agenda. | 03:20:40 | |
| That's correct. So that that's where and then so tonight. | 03:20:44 | |
| The council is being asked to ratify it because the vote already happened at the Board of Supervisors. That is correct. So my my | 03:20:48 | |
| point, if I may, is that you can see that there was a lot of confusion about what happened at that meeting. | 03:20:54 | |
| And even at beginning of. | 03:21:00 | |
| The city manager's comments. | 03:21:02 | |
| That, umm. | 03:21:04 | |
| You know, this is something very different that we've not done before, so naturally, you know, there's going to be some miss. | 03:21:05 | |
| You know, understanding. I think it's inconsequential. | 03:21:12 | |
| At this point. | 03:21:15 | |
| To belabor this, and I did admit that I did make a few mistakes, but I don't think it's to the. | 03:21:16 | |
| To the level that we need to spend this. | 03:21:22 | |
| Amount of time discussing OK, let's just move on we're going to move on but. | 03:21:25 | |
| Please hear what I just. | 03:21:30 | |
| Communicated. | 03:21:32 | |
| I'm very clear about what I'm saying, so we're going to take this for the first time. | 03:21:33 | |
| Right now, so the first action. | 03:21:37 | |
| Is to. | 03:21:40 | |
| To. | 03:21:42 | |
| Endorse or ratify the issuance of the letter. | 03:21:45 | |
| In support of the Ventura County Board of Supervisors. This will be the vote of the City Council. | 03:21:48 | |
| Support. | 03:21:55 | |
| I think that I heard that there is a motion. | 03:21:56 | |
| And a second. | 03:21:59 | |
| Can I ask Clara? | 03:22:01 | |
| Fine, so we have three items we're going to vote on. | 03:22:02 | |
| Yes. And are they? | 03:22:06 | |
| Are they on the last page? | 03:22:07 | |
| Of page 17. | 03:22:09 | |
| They're under the recommendation on page one. It's just basically every time you see the word weather. | 03:22:11 | |
| That's a different. | 03:22:18 | |
| Sort of item 1-2 and three. | 03:22:20 | |
| Worse, as recommendations, if you read that paragraph, all three of them are in there. | 03:22:22 | |
| OK. | 03:22:27 | |
| Thank you. So we have we have a motion and a second. And so, Madam Clerk, please take a vote. | 03:22:28 | |
| OK, all in favor. | 03:22:35 | |
| Aye, all opposed. | 03:22:36 | |
| Hearing none. | 03:22:39 | |
| Motion passes unanimously. | 03:22:39 | |
| Thank you. We'll move on to item number 2. | 03:22:41 | |
| Umm, to. | 03:22:45 | |
| Let's see. This is related to the matter of endorsing the Ventura County Community Foundation. Ventura County Neighbors. | 03:22:48 | |
| Support Coalition. | 03:22:55 | |
| This is a the words aren't here like I would like to, but is there a motion and a second to endorse the Ventura County Community | 03:22:58 | |
| Foundation, Ventura County Neighbors Support Coalition? | 03:23:03 | |
| In support of this effort SO. | 03:23:09 | |
| Second, any discussion? | 03:23:12 | |
| Any discussion? | 03:23:14 | |
| Madam Clerk, can we get a vote, please? All in favor. | 03:23:16 | |
| Aye, all opposed. | 03:23:19 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 03:23:21 | |
| And the final item is to coordinate with the county of Ventura with training and informational materials that would then we could | 03:23:24 | |
| use. | 03:23:28 | |
| In the city. | 03:23:32 | |
| And I would say city manager. | 03:23:33 | |
| Based on what you said. | 03:23:36 | |
| There will be. | 03:23:37 | |
| If we were to get the material, there would have to be some other dialogue to ensure that it covers the areas that we intend for | 03:23:39 | |
| it to cover. Is that the case? | 03:23:43 | |
| Yeah, I think we will keep everybody updated Of what? | 03:23:47 | |
| We are able to do and then. | 03:23:51 | |
| There can always be a future conversation based on needs. | 03:23:53 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 03:23:57 | |
| So the motion is on the floor. Is there a motion and a second to coordinate with the Ventura County? | 03:23:59 | |
| The County of Ventura for the training informational material so moved. | 03:24:05 | |
| I wanted to. | 03:24:09 | |
| To make sure that. | 03:24:10 | |
| Did your question? | 03:24:11 | |
| Address the employee process and procedures portion of that. | 03:24:12 | |
| Yes. OK. OK, very good. | 03:24:16 | |
| Then I second OK. | 03:24:17 | |
| Any other question discussion? | 03:24:19 | |
| Madam Clerk, all in favor. | 03:24:23 | |
| Aye. | 03:24:24 | |
| All opposed. | 03:24:25 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 03:24:27 | |
| Great. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. | 03:24:29 | |
| We are going to move on to a city manager. Comments and reports. | 03:24:31 | |
| A couple of quick. | 03:24:40 | |
| Quick Items. | 03:24:44 | |
| We wanted to highlight a couple of upcoming. | 03:24:50 | |
| Events or. | 03:24:53 | |
| Opportunities for information. | 03:24:55 | |
| For our community. | 03:24:57 | |
| And so first we'll start with. | 03:24:59 | |
| The announcement that somehow. | 03:25:02 | |
| We are almost in October of 2025, which is the start of the Clean Power Alliance launching in Port Hueneme and so. | 03:25:04 | |
| Where we've been sharing information on that over the last. | 03:25:13 | |
| A couple months and bringing in the Clean Power Alliance to some of the events and workshops and trying to get the word out to | 03:25:16 | |
| people about the new. | 03:25:20 | |
| Options that that will provide and the. | 03:25:24 | |
| The new opportunities that provides. | 03:25:26 | |
| We have one more community meeting that we had partnered with Clean Power Alliance to to. | 03:25:28 | |
| To coordinate and. | 03:25:34 | |
| Clean Power Alliance representatives will be attending. | 03:25:35 | |
| The Winnie Bay Clubhouse on September 9th, 2025 at 6:00 PM. | 03:25:38 | |
| And uh. | 03:25:43 | |
| Providing information to residents about the Clean Power Alliance and how it works and what the options are. | 03:25:45 | |
| And so. | 03:25:52 | |
| Everybody's invited to. | 03:25:54 | |
| To that meeting and again we'll continue to have information on our websites, Facebook pages, etc to try to help. | 03:25:56 | |
| People find out more. | 03:26:02 | |
| So then. | 03:26:04 | |
| Shortly after that. | 03:26:08 | |
| We have Coastal Cleanup Day coming up, the 2025 Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, September 21st, 2025 starting at 9:00 AM. | 03:26:09 | |
| We meet at the Alaska Flight 261 Memorial. | 03:26:19 | |
| And coordinate a cleanup event. | 03:26:23 | |
| Over the last several years, we've collected thousands of pounds of. | 03:26:27 | |
| Of items from the beach. | 03:26:33 | |
| So we're looking forward to doing it again this year and want to invite the community to come out on that. | 03:26:35 | |
| On that or to that event. | 03:26:40 | |
| We wanted to just highlight this. This was a new program that our recreation department launched and we heard really. | 03:26:45 | |
| Positive reviews and we wanted to highlight it and then. | 03:26:50 | |
| Encourage people to keep an eye out for. | 03:26:53 | |
| The next. | 03:26:55 | |
| The next one, but on August 13th we hosted for the first time with. | 03:26:57 | |
| Partnering with Real Guppies to host. | 03:27:02 | |
| Fishing adventure day at the Port Hueneme Pier. | 03:27:05 | |
| We had over 20 kids and their families come out to learn how to fish and catch other things such as clams and crabs. | 03:27:08 | |
| I know that real guppies. | 03:27:14 | |
| Is constantly doing these things for us it was exciting. It was sort of the first time we got to partner with them to do it as a | 03:27:16 | |
| recreational program so. | 03:27:20 | |
| So. | 03:27:24 | |
| We look forward to partnering with them on another Fishing Adventures Day and we'll make sure people know when that. | 03:27:25 | |
| Becomes available. | 03:27:31 | |
| Two more upcoming recreation events. Movie night at Bulker Park. | 03:27:34 | |
| Saturday, September 20th, 8:00 PM. | 03:27:37 | |
| Think earlier I said Saturday, September, September 21st, but it's September 20th, so. | 03:27:41 | |
| So Saturday, September 20th at 8:00 PM that will be showing Mufasa. | 03:27:46 | |
| At Volcker Park at. | 03:27:50 | |
| 8:00 PM with free popcorn. | 03:27:52 | |
| While supplies last. | 03:27:54 | |
| The movie is going to be on the grass, so bring blankets or chairs to. | 03:27:56 | |
| Come check it out. | 03:28:00 | |
| And then this one has grown to be a really. | 03:28:02 | |
| Popular 1. And so we wanted to let people know it's coming back. Touch a Truck is back on Saturday, October 11th from 11:00 AM to | 03:28:05 | |
| 3:00 PM. | 03:28:10 | |
| It's a free event where kids can come out and see, touch and learn about their favorite trucks or vehicles. And it's also started | 03:28:15 | |
| to have arts and crafts, food trucks, music and more so with free parking and lots, A&B. So we're inviting everybody to come out | 03:28:20 | |
| for Touch a Truck again this year. | 03:28:25 | |
| And then last. | 03:28:32 | |
| Looking ahead to our next agenda, September 15th. | 03:28:32 | |
| We'll have two presentations scheduled. Gold Gold Coast Transit District is asked to come and provide an annual update. | 03:28:35 | |
| And earlier this year the council had agreed to do several events monitoring, honoring. | 03:28:43 | |
| Items and one of those was National Hispanic Heritage Month, so we'll have that as well. | 03:28:52 | |
| Consent calendar We expect to have an item to award a contract for our peer assessment as we have to get the peer assessed and | 03:28:57 | |
| some repairs done to the peer. | 03:29:02 | |
| This year. | 03:29:08 | |
| And then we'll have business items that include. | 03:29:09 | |
| Our public works team will be providing a streets maintenance analysis with cost estimates. | 03:29:12 | |
| We have our Cal Cities annual voting delegate item for the council to. | 03:29:18 | |
| Approve a delegate to vote at the Cal Cities Conference. | 03:29:23 | |
| We'll be providing. | 03:29:27 | |
| The port revenue sharing report that we had. | 03:29:30 | |
| Council had approved we. | 03:29:35 | |
| Provide a or we move to a new template on the port revenue sharing report and we will be bringing it to council. | 03:29:36 | |
| Sort of show what that looks like and. | 03:29:42 | |
| And move that forward. | 03:29:46 | |
| And then? | 03:29:48 | |
| Right now. | 03:29:50 | |
| Week the we currently have scheduled. | 03:29:51 | |
| A few months back, there was a council discussion about some questions about the port agreement and there were some questions for | 03:29:55 | |
| the city attorney's office to return. | 03:29:59 | |
| To council with some information on. So we'll be bringing back the city attorney's response to those. | 03:30:04 | |
| Questions as well so. | 03:30:09 | |
| Those are where the item is currently scheduled for September 15th. | 03:30:11 | |
| Great. Thank you, Councilmember. | 03:30:16 | |
| Breast Do you have anything report? | 03:30:18 | |
| Councilman Mccomma. | 03:30:19 | |
| Are we on questions or go right here? | 03:30:21 | |
| Comments or reports? | 03:30:25 | |
| Oh, no, no. | 03:30:26 | |
| You have any? | 03:30:28 | |
| Thing I did, now I can't find that. | 03:30:29 | |
| Tomorrow I'll be Thursday, I'll be downtown LA attending the. | 03:30:35 | |
| Transportation and policy Regional policy meetings for. | 03:30:39 | |
| SCAG and then in the afternoon we have CPA meeting. | 03:30:44 | |
| I went to the military. | 03:30:48 | |
| Honor on our military night a couple of weeks ago. | 03:30:50 | |
| RDP had their annual dinner. | 03:30:55 | |
| Mayor and I were there. | 03:30:58 | |
| Let's see. I think that's. | 03:31:02 | |
| I think that's all. I had some others but I guess they're not really. | 03:31:04 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem, I attended one meeting, the Economic Development Collaborative. | 03:31:11 | |
| Just. | 03:31:18 | |
| Couple ideas. | 03:31:19 | |
| That were. | 03:31:20 | |
| Thrown around and. | 03:31:22 | |
| Seeing how? | 03:31:24 | |
| Port whining we could be benefited, so I'll continue working with the. | 03:31:26 | |
| City Manager. | 03:31:30 | |
| Great. Thank you. | 03:31:32 | |
| A couple of things, the I attended the World Oceans Day, which was the 19th of August and Councilmember Hernandez also attended | 03:31:33 | |
| that hosted by the port. | 03:31:38 | |
| Also attended the and I think that's what you were talking about, the military mixer. | 03:31:44 | |
| Yeah, that was also, it was the military appreciation mixer. | 03:31:49 | |
| And. | 03:31:52 | |
| Really nice turn out, I was able to throw together a nice swag bag. | 03:31:54 | |
| A city. | 03:32:00 | |
| City swag bag and so it was really nice to see all the military folks there and. | 03:32:01 | |
| The prizes that were. | 03:32:08 | |
| Door prizes that were given away only went to military and veterans, so it was really nice to see all the military. | 03:32:10 | |
| Be appreciated. | 03:32:17 | |
| I am starting my meetings this week. I'm here tonight. I'll be at a meeting. | 03:32:19 | |
| Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So I'm spending all my time reading agenda packets so. | 03:32:23 | |
| Not excited about that, but got to be done. So yeah. And umm. | 03:32:30 | |
| Yes, back to. | 03:32:34 | |
| I did want to share just a couple of things. | 03:32:37 | |
| So we did have the city port meeting. | 03:32:41 | |
| That was the August 27th and just wanted to share a couple of items. | 03:32:45 | |
| The Washington, DC lobbying trip has been pushed back to 2026. | 03:32:50 | |
| And the dredging update, we will be having a dredging, is that going to be in October? | 03:32:57 | |
| Yeah. I think that's a good one that I know we get questions about so. | 03:33:03 | |
| We had Harbor Director Michael Tripp at the meeting and he confirmed that they expect the dredge to resume in October on that. | 03:33:06 | |
| Mid year or mid cycle dredge and then and then to come back the following year and still stay on the regular cycle. So that was | 03:33:15 | |
| good news. | 03:33:19 | |
| Yeah. And another item is we haven't gotten to discuss the community benefit fund. | 03:33:24 | |
| Projects just yet? | 03:33:31 | |
| So we'll report back when we when we get there. | 03:33:33 | |
| And then? | 03:33:38 | |
| I think that's it. | 03:33:40 | |
| So any, any oh, by the way, No, no. OK, well, let's move on. | 03:33:43 | |
| To request for. | 03:33:48 | |
| Future agenda, let me just say. | 03:33:51 | |
| I'd like to adjourn the meeting tonight. | 03:33:56 | |
| Umm, in the name of our Housing Authority. | 03:34:01 | |
| Robert Blackwell. | 03:34:05 | |
| OK, so let's go ahead and move to request for future agenda items. Councilmember Perez. | 03:34:11 | |
| Nope. | 03:34:17 | |
| Not tonight. | 03:34:23 | |
| I have one request for a future agenda item. | 03:34:25 | |
| I want to review the landscape ordinance. | 03:34:29 | |
| Make changes. | 03:34:34 | |
| I had something that I wanted to request but I can't think about what it is right now, so I'll try it next time. | 03:34:37 | |
| Anything else? | 03:34:44 | |
| No. | 03:34:45 | |
| Is there a second? Oh, I'm sorry. | 03:34:47 | |
| Is there? | 03:34:50 | |
| 2nd. | 03:34:51 | |
| For his motion to add the landscape. | 03:34:52 | |
| OK, City. | 03:34:55 | |
| All in favor. | 03:34:58 | |
| Aye. | 03:34:59 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. | 03:35:01 | |
| Great. Thank you. Let me give me one second. Let me see if that'll come back to me really quick. | 03:35:05 | |
| No, it doesn't seem like it is. | 03:35:13 | |
| OK, if if there's nothing else, we're going to. | 03:35:15 | |
| Adjourn. | 03:35:19 | |
| Tonight's meeting, it is now 904. | 03:35:20 | |
| In the name of Robert Blackwell. | 03:35:24 | |
| And. | 03:35:28 | |
| Next meeting is scheduled for September 15th at 6:30. | 03:35:30 | |
| Meeting is now adjourned. | 03:35:35 |