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All right. Good afternoon and welcome to the City of Port Hueneme and the Oxnard Harbor District joint meeting. 00:01:56
Today is Wednesday, June 25th, will now call this meeting to order. 00:02:02
The time is now 330. 00:02:07
Madam Clerk, can we get a roll call, please? 00:02:11
Commissioner Zacharias. 00:02:15
Here. Commissioner Rooney here. 00:02:17
Mayor Pro Tem Lopez here. 00:02:21
Mayor McQueen Lejean here and City Manager Vega. 00:02:23
Here, Kristen Dicus is currently not in attendance. 00:02:27
She's bleeding. She's bleeding. 00:02:31
OK, great. Thank you. 00:02:33
We'll move to item C That's public comments. 00:02:35
Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments? 00:02:39
We have a couple public comments. First will be Mr. Greg Ross and followed by Jan Burke. 00:02:41
Good afternoon, Commissioners. 00:02:55
City Manager. 00:02:57
Mr. Lopez. 00:02:59
And. 00:03:01
Mayor Mayor Marsha. 00:03:02
Martha's. 00:03:05
So I've lived here a long time, you all know that. 00:03:06
This is the closest port to any height density residential area. 00:03:11
On the West Coast. 00:03:16
Just happened to see on my Google feed this morning. 00:03:18
A port in Turkey. 00:03:21
There were no residences near that port. 00:03:24
Cargo port in Turkey. 00:03:26
So I'm I'm once again beating the drum for asking the port to be. 00:03:29
Good neighbors. 00:03:35
We get. 00:03:36
Oxnard doesn't get this. We get the noise. 00:03:38
We get the pollution, we get the trucks. My wife was on Wayne me Rd. 00:03:41
Just about an hour ago. 00:03:45
And I can always tell when there's a cargo ship offloading containers. 00:03:47
Because those truckers are hauling. 00:03:51
They're just moving fast. 00:03:53
Speeding down Wynnum Rd. Ventura Rd. 00:03:56
It's not good. 00:03:59
We'd like to see. 00:04:01
The truckers become more. 00:04:04
Aware of. 00:04:07
Where they are and the ship captains as well. 00:04:08
I presented to the Harbor Commission District recently. 00:04:12
No 3 three months ago. 00:04:17
And Commissioner Rooney, you took good notes, you asked me questions. 00:04:19
Said What could we do? 00:04:23
And I asked to see if there was any way you could put a sign up for the truckers. 00:04:25
Please wait if you can layoff your horns. 00:04:30
That's all we ask. 00:04:33
But that didn't happen. 00:04:34
Now, conversely. 00:04:36
About a week ago. 00:04:37
We had a. 00:04:40
Port Hueneme. 00:04:41
Meet and greet. 00:04:43
At Anna Cappuccino was great and I asked. 00:04:44
City Manager Vega and I said, hey, you know, there's a couple of dead trees. 00:04:49
On Bay Blvd. 00:04:52
I drove by there today. 00:04:54
They're cut up. 00:04:56
So they he listened and a thank you for that. 00:04:58
It's terrific and that's what we're asking of. 00:05:00
The harbor. 00:05:03
District Commissioners, if you would just please. 00:05:05
Listen and become good neighbors. 00:05:08
Right now, there's still a lot of negatives. We've got potholes. 00:05:10
The truckers are out of control. 00:05:14
And I just like to see those ships leave at 7:00 AM, not 5:55 and 5:00. 00:05:17
543 and is laying on their horn ships horn. 00:05:23
We hear it all so. 00:05:27
Thank you for listening. 00:05:28
Thank you. 00:05:30
Afternoon commissioners, City Council and staff. 00:05:38
I wanted to just say that I there's been a lot of discussion about a joint meeting of the of the two bodies of. 00:05:44
Elected officials. 00:05:50
I want to reinforce that. 00:05:52
We are very supportive of that effort. 00:05:54
We think that a more positive outcome. 00:05:56
Can come from that. 00:05:59
We do believe that a amended agreement. 00:06:02
Is probably necessary. 00:06:05
I don't know of any organization or company. 00:06:07
Any operation for decades without an amended agreement that's either annual. 00:06:11
Or every couple years. 00:06:16
It's just, I mean, especially considering business changes. 00:06:18
Economic times change. 00:06:22
The business shifts. 00:06:25
Positive or negative? 00:06:26
And you should have this discussion on an annual basis to figure out what. 00:06:27
What's best for both entities? 00:06:31
Since we are the host city, the gateway city, everything comes in and out of our city. 00:06:34
It is important that we find a good balance and a good. 00:06:40
Collaboration to make this work for both parties. We're not against growth. 00:06:44
But we want to make sure that it's and we are supportive of the port, but we want to make sure that the port and the community. 00:06:48
Can coexist. 00:06:54
In a positive way and be good neighbors for each other. 00:06:56
One more thing that I'd like to say that you know with the in addition to the. 00:07:03
Long A. 00:07:09
Agreement that's been in place for a long time. 00:07:11
You have a very aggressive. 00:07:14
Strategic plan for growth in the next 10 years. 00:07:16
That also is going to impact what we're trying to do here. 00:07:19
And so I think that that's another reason why it's so important to really take that into consideration. What's that going to do to 00:07:23
our community? 00:07:26
What's that going to do to our infrastructure? What's that going to do to public safety? 00:07:30
We have as my neighbor said. 00:07:34
We're very highly populated. We have 22 condominium. 00:07:38
Associations within one mile of the port. 00:07:43
Out of the 38 that we have in our entire city. 00:07:46
That's an equivalent of about. 00:07:49
7000 residents to 9000 residents. 00:07:51
That feel the impact. 00:07:54
Of the port. 00:07:57
I urge you to sit down together. 00:07:58
To look at where are we now? 00:08:01
How do we make this better for both parties? 00:08:03
Thank you. 00:08:07
That concludes public comment. 00:08:08
Great. Thank you. So we'll go ahead and move on to the discussion items. 00:08:10
I see that we have had some adjustments. 00:08:15
To the items number 12 and #5. 00:08:18
There any summary information you'd like to provide regarding the adjustments to the minutes? 00:08:23
I'm sorry to the items. So it looks like there was an adjustment, a late adjustment to the item number one. 00:08:29
Item number 2 and item number 5. Is there anything? 00:08:34
Can we call out what the adjustments are for the folks who didn't get to see them? Yes, of course. So we moved the item on the 00:08:38
Washington delegation trip more towards the back of the meeting. 00:08:43
Depending how long this meeting goes, the consultant in Washington wasn't available till 4:30 this afternoon. 00:08:49
So if we conclude before then, we'll make sure he comes to the July meeting, but that was his availability and do recognize that. 00:08:55
They're on the East Coast, so it was sort of a timing thing. 00:09:03
Anything right I'm #2? 00:09:10
So I'm confused. 00:09:13
Michelle, do you want to do this? I'll have the clerk of the board do it. I think it would be helpful because she actually worked 00:09:17
with Georgiana on this. And thank you for your patience. I know there's been a lot of back and forth pulling this all together, 00:09:20
so. 00:09:24
Thank you to our teams for the hard work. 00:09:29
On item number G1, the minutes we replace the current minutes that were in the packet with revised minutes to as a correction was 00:09:32
made. 00:09:37
On D2 clarification on settlement agreement. 00:09:41
And we replace pages 34 and 35. 00:09:45
In the packet with the corrected 814176 city port minutes. 00:09:48
And on D5 Community Benefit fund projects. 00:09:54
Replace the attached cover page for item D5 reflecting the date of July 14, 2025 is the Visioning Workshop. 00:09:58
And replace the CBF Ongoing projects reconciliation spreadsheet, adding a new line. 00:10:06
For projects. 00:10:12
And everyone should have a copy with them. 00:10:14
That was headed to Georgiana this afternoon. 00:10:17
OK. Thank you. 00:10:21
Thank you. Can I ask Mayor the minutes what was the correction? 00:10:22
I'm trying to read both. 00:10:28
At the same time, yeah. 00:10:30
I will read it for you, thank you. 00:10:33
The correction on the minutes was to add the statement of. 00:10:53
City Manager Vegas stated that the City Council has voted that they do not. 00:10:57
Give us the authority to come here and have discussions outside of the Community Benefit Fund. CBF Commissioner when he requested 00:11:01
to see that motion. 00:11:06
Any comments? 00:11:15
Yeah, just one is. I don't recall that being exactly what was said. Yeah. 00:11:17
I guess umm umm. 00:11:22
I would ask if if that's what everybody heard, I think we had talked about. 00:11:23
A particular item that the Council. 00:11:29
Had. 00:11:32
Not provide a direction to the. 00:11:35
Joint Committee. 00:11:38
On at that point, but not that there was a motion to not have discussion items outside of the Community Benefit fund to come to 00:11:39
the. 00:11:42
To the committee City Manager Vega, I just want to note that I did take it from the transcript. 00:11:46
There was plenty of other. 00:11:52
Conversation back and forth throughout that whole thing. 00:11:55
I did try to generalize the minutes as best as possible, but if we do like any additional comments or. 00:11:59
Transcripts to be added to the set of minutes. We were the can do that, right? Yeah, that was gonna be my suggestion is maybe we 00:12:05
could work on that and bring it back at the next meeting. 00:12:10
Yeah, I think, I think that. 00:12:17
And I vaguely remember, not vaguely, but I remember very well that I think this is your response to my my original response. 00:12:20
After further discussion, you repeated. 00:12:29
What I was trying to say and what my comment was, that's not on here and if this comment is going to be here, I think that's OK. 00:12:32
But I'd like my original comment to be here, and my original comment was that. 00:12:39
There was a motion taken regarding the discuss having the discussion regarding the agreements. 00:12:44
At the city port meeting and that motion failed. 00:12:50
And I use failed or you can use the word died because it didn't get a second. 00:12:54
So therefore we did not have authority to have the conversation at the City Court meeting. 00:12:59
So that was my first comment and I made the first comment. I think yours was after further discussion. 00:13:04
You kind of came back and was reiterating what I was saying. So that's the case. Yeah, I appreciate the clarification. Yeah, 00:13:09
again, I'm OK with this on here, but I'd like that to be added because that was really the first statement that was made, Madam 00:13:14
Mayor. Yeah, I did. 00:13:19
Request to see where that the motion was made in in the. 00:13:25
City Council minutes so. 00:13:30
That's why I wanted it in there. For the record, it has been. There's been information that's been provided since then time. 00:13:32
So, umm. 00:13:38
That's why we we added that in. Great, great. Thank you. And again with that with the adjustment of the comment that I just made 00:13:39
if that comp that if that's made then I think we can go forward with that. Madam Mayor, I do have another item that I'd like to 00:13:45
clarify because I wasn't sure about what who. 00:13:51
The comments were, yeah, OK, great. So before we move approval on that, it's under item number 4. 00:13:58
Where Umm. 00:14:05
We were talking about the projects and then. 00:14:09
I was just unclear at the top of Page 3. 00:14:14
Where it talks about Mayor Pro Tem, Lopez mentioned that there had been questions from the City Council regarding the projects and 00:14:18
the process through the Community Advisory Commission. 00:14:23
So I wasn't sure what. 00:14:28
That was referring to. 00:14:30
And and it's not clear in the minutes. I think so. 00:14:32
If we can just kind of massage that a little bit to have the. 00:14:36
The record be accurate because I'm not clear what. 00:14:40
The intent was here. OK, so let me ask you this. 00:14:43
Do you want to? 00:14:47
Forego approving the minutes today to get them accurate. 00:14:49
And then come back and approve them when we can all agree with what they say. 00:14:52
I'm happy to do that just. 00:14:57
Clarify that. 00:15:00
That statement there, OK, we'll go ahead and take a note of that. 00:15:02
Will definitely take another look and then. 00:15:05
Update them and then bring them back to the next meeting. OK, thank you. 00:15:07
So, Madam, Madam Clerk, since we what vote do we need to take or what motion do we need to take it? 00:15:11
Motion to. 00:15:18
We can make a motion or we can just say there was come I mean committee consensus to OK bring. Do we have committee consensus to 00:15:20
move forward and go ahead and approve the minutes next time? Great, thank you. I think I see not so I think we're good there. 00:15:26
So let's go on and move to item number. 00:15:33
2 Miss Dicas, will you please leave the discussion? 00:15:37
For the next item, yes. So this. 00:15:41
This discussion was put on here because there was some Gray areas to. 00:15:44
In in previous discussions as to what can and can be brought to the Port Standing Committee. 00:15:49
And So what we did was put together a memo in concert with our legal counsel that indeed that you can bring. 00:15:55
Other topics to the Port Standing Committee and that we do have a history and precedent of doing that and that's why you see 00:16:02
minutes from previous meetings in here. 00:16:06
But. 00:16:11
Person conversations between James and I, we thought it would be prudent to really collaborate on how we bring forward agenda 00:16:12
items and So what we did is add at the very end of this meeting a future agenda discussions. 00:16:18
So at the end of the meeting we can work together to decide what items will go on future meetings. And so that's why you see that 00:16:25
there and we thought then we would all be aligned in Page. 00:16:30
And understanding on the topics for future meetings. 00:16:35
And in constant in conversations with our with with Ruben Duran of BBK, we can have an active discussion about what those items 00:16:39
are. We can't just talk about the items, right So. 00:16:44
Any comments? 00:16:51
Go ahead. 00:16:53
Yeah, so. 00:16:55
I did. I had, I had a conversation with James and I had read. 00:16:57
The settlement agreement and. 00:17:00
I think I keyed in on. 00:17:02
What what the agreement actually says? 00:17:05
And it says. 00:17:08
Without looking at the precedents that was previous, I was just focused on the words of the agreement and. 00:17:10
So when we talked about this, we, we really didn't talk about precedence. We just talked about what? 00:17:18
What the agreement says and. 00:17:24
The parameters that we we can speak to as. 00:17:27
As this joint committee. 00:17:31
So. But again, you know. 00:17:32
That's something that, well, for clarification, what happened is back in 2015 when we orchestrated the settlement agreement, both 00:17:36
parties at the time mutually decided to use the port Standing committee. 00:17:41
As the platform to discuss CBF but not limit the long standing port standing committee to CBF. 00:17:47
And so that's where it came together. And so we started that President back in 2015 to be sure to talk about CBF. But there if 00:17:55
there were other strategic discussions, this was a very positive place to have that collaborative in their interaction. 00:18:02
Yeah. And I agree with that. I agree with that. I think the one thing that I just want to make sure that everybody keeps in mind. 00:18:09
Is as. 00:18:16
Governing body. 00:18:18
The items that we discuss. 00:18:20
Must be hygienized. 00:18:24
Right. And which means that you have to have conversation before to find out if we're prepared. 00:18:25
To have those conversation, but even before that. 00:18:30
As a representative of this body. 00:18:33
We have to get the Council to. 00:18:36
Approve our discussions. And so that's policy for us. And So what that means for us is that. 00:18:39
We have to decide early on. 00:18:46
So that a council meeting will happen so we can get what we need to then come. 00:18:48
So just want everyone to just. 00:18:53
Know that and when we we can we can talk about anything that the book that the Councilman. 00:18:55
Excuse me, council board or the council says we can talk about so I don't. 00:19:02
I don't think maybe we didn't communicate it well enough. 00:19:07
But yes. 00:19:11
Any topic that the Council. 00:19:12
Votes on That allows us to talk on We can talk. 00:19:15
So that is with any topic. 00:19:19
So just know that. 00:19:21
We're not. We're not limiting to any specific item. 00:19:23
But before we can have the conversation, we must get Council approval. 00:19:27
Just like we do for any agenda item ever on our agenda. 00:19:32
We have to vote after each meeting, we vote about the items that we will discuss on our agenda. 00:19:36
So with that, if we have the votes to have any, any discussion on any topic, we can absolutely have it. 00:19:42
At the. 00:19:49
So nothing prohibits us except. 00:19:50
Having the. 00:19:53
To approve the discussion title. 00:19:54
That's not just a CBF, but this committee, this city for this city port meeting, we can talk about anything that the council 00:19:57
authorizes us to talk about. Yeah, So just a clarification, so. 00:20:03
What's your process of how you go back? 00:20:10
Have those conversations with your council and then how does that? 00:20:13
Kind of bubble up to be prepared. 00:20:16
For this meeting, so every meeting that the City Council has. 00:20:18
We have an item on the agenda that says. 00:20:23
Further, umm. 00:20:26
Agenda items. 00:20:27
Every meeting at the very end. 00:20:29
We all go through, we have an opportunity. 00:20:31
Kristen, would you like to have anything on the agenda? And if she says yes, let's talk about strategic planning. 00:20:34
And we say, is there a motion? Yes, there's a motion. There's a second. Can we have a vote? Yes. 00:20:40
It's on the agenda. 00:20:45
Not necessarily the next agenda, but now our city manager has to go back and. 00:20:47
Figure out what are the reports, What are they asking for? 00:20:51
And put that together. 00:20:54
So every single item. 00:20:55
Every single item that is on our agenda. 00:20:57
We have approved it as. 00:21:00
Council to have that agenda topic on an agenda. 00:21:03
Maybe I didn't ask my question right? 00:21:08
So in regard to being prepared. 00:21:10
For the City Court meeting, yes. 00:21:12
So, umm. 00:21:14
You talk amongst your board to say here are the items that we want to talk about at the City Port meeting. 00:21:16
If we know ahead of time we have items. 00:21:22
But if we know ahead of time, even if you say that in a last meeting you said you wanted to talk about something. 00:21:25
We have to come back. 00:21:32
We have to say yes, let's talk about that. 00:21:34
Yes, let's put it on the agenda. 00:21:37
But it's not on the agenda to the next meeting or the meeting after. 00:21:39
When it is on the agenda. 00:21:43
That's the only time we can talk about it to be prepared. So that's why I'm saying it's an advanced notice. 00:21:45
For us to go through the process to get approval. 00:21:50
Let's let's use Med as an example. 00:21:53
Let's say we talked about we haven't started CBF. 00:21:57
And the last meeting we said at the port meeting, we said, hey, we need to talk about CBF. 00:22:01
Or or less. 00:22:06
Another topic, trip to Washington, DC to Washington DC, OK, what are some of the topics that we want to talk about as it relates 00:22:07
to partnership when we go to DC? 00:22:11
So let's say we talked about that at. 00:22:16
The last port city port meeting. 00:22:19
So now we have to come back and we have to say hey. 00:22:21
Can we put on our agenda to talk about the items that we want to discuss at the city port? 00:22:25
Meeting in preparation weeks after. Yeah, me. And then we time you talk about and then we actually have to put it on the agenda. 00:22:31
Right. And make a decision and then come back. 00:22:40
So, so I guess, yeah, I mean, I want to make this as efficient as. Yeah, yeah, right. 00:22:43
And so if we have our. 00:22:48
Standing meeting. 00:22:50
4th generally on the fourth Wednesday. 00:22:51
Then is it possible that you might be able to in the first or second week agendas? 00:22:55
The topic. So then it'll be. 00:23:01
In the. 00:23:03
I mean to get to. 00:23:04
The agenda for this meeting, I think I'd say we could. We could do that. 00:23:06
So I think this whole discussion is really about we want to be able to talk about the things we need to talk about. 00:23:11
But we need advanced notice so we can get the approval of the council. Can I just get quick clarification question? Just 00:23:17
piggybacking on the discussion here. Just so I understand processes. James and I build the agendas. 00:23:23
So today, at the end of the discussion, we have future agenda items. And so we sit here and we have some consensus. There's 00:23:28
something we'd like to talk about in the future and we can agree on that, but you still need to bring that back to City Council. 00:23:35
And then you'll come back and say, yeah, go ahead, agendize that we got the green light. Is that how it will work? Yeah, It 00:23:41
depends on if the items are something we have already in the past. Agreed. 00:23:47
On as it relates to like CBF, we don't have to keep coming back, say let's put CBF on the agenda because we know that's upcoming. 00:23:53
So we're already. 00:23:56
Doing that. 00:24:00
Right, Those things, we know we're already talking about them. 00:24:01
We're already having conversations with the city. 00:24:04
We may have already said, hey, let's put that on the agenda. 00:24:07
Right. Well, last last meeting we we agendized. 00:24:10
The DC trip. 00:24:15
The topic. 00:24:17
Yeah, yeah. I guess from an efficiency standpoint and and transparency and working within your guidelines. 00:24:18
It might be good to. 00:24:27
Report out right at your next meeting and say here's what we talked about. 00:24:29
And we absolutely here's what we want to talk about for the future item for the future meeting and then that gives you another 00:24:33
week. 00:24:37
To come back to your council and then your. 00:24:41
Ready for the agenda for almost a month process. Yeah, exactly. And so we start and so know that we do do that when we have our 00:24:43
city port meetings, we do come back myself and Mayor Pro Tem, we do report on what we have discussed. Good to do that. 00:24:51
And that brings some further discussion and we might get an approval. Commissioner Rooney, I'm sorry, when you speak, can you 00:24:58
speak directly into the mic they're having? 00:25:04
Sorry. 00:25:10
Are you all having a hard time hearing me as well? OK, OK, I have a habit of doing that. 00:25:12
Yeah. So and and so when we come back and bring information about the port meeting, we do find that we get some items, some 00:25:17
requests for agenda items out of that. 00:25:21
So that's it. But it is A at least I mean. 00:25:26
Say at least a month, but sometimes two months, because then because not two months because we meet twice. Well, because then. 00:25:31
City Manager will talk to Kristen and then say OK, we need to. 00:25:38
Here's here's the agenda and then. 00:25:42
We both, both agencies need to agree on the agenda items, right? So then that gives time for us to then decide. I think the good, 00:25:45
I think the good news is unlike us, we meet twice a month. 00:25:50
Generally speaking, if I can add to, I think one thing where maybe it felt different recently is. 00:25:56
That. 00:26:03
Typically, we do try to anticipate like the items that are going to be coming down the Pike. So we do talk about those like in 00:26:04
advance of the council so that we don't have to come into this room and say like we haven't talked about that yet. 00:26:09
And so like the CBF is an example we've talked about a couple months back the they gave direction to. 00:26:15
Our committee and the committee can now talk about that item. 00:26:21
But just as an example. 00:26:24
Even in the past, I don't know if everybody realized like even CBF items have gone back to the council and so. 00:26:28
The DC trip. 00:26:35
Last year. 00:26:36
Like we knew it was coming up, so we went to the council, asked what the priorities were for the committee, and then the committee 00:26:37
came to this meeting. So we never had that discussion here where we said like, we weren't prepared, you know? 00:26:42
So it's just. 00:26:49
Yeah, those new items, so like we try to get the direction ahead of time on the regular CBF ongoing business type stuff. And then 00:26:51
if new items come up, that's where I think we're saying we. 00:26:56
If we can workout that process where then we have time to go back to council. 00:27:02
It would help. I think that item is going to help. Having the agenda. Yeah, I think it will. Yeah. That was the goal. Just for 00:27:06
clarification, perfect technical. 00:27:09
For myself is that. 00:27:13
Is this something new? Because I don't. I mean, we've been able to talk about any and every topic. 00:27:14
We as bodies, we. 00:27:20
As an advisory group, we're just talking, We're not making decisions. 00:27:22
And I feel like we're. 00:27:27
Were putting handcuffs on ourselves to be able to have those open discussions, but our conversations talking about topics but we 00:27:30
don't. 00:27:35
Say, OK, we're going to decide on this because we both know that we have to go back to the commissioners and you all have to go 00:27:39
back to the City Council members to say, hey, we have this discussion. What are your thoughts? 00:27:44
But I feel like we're handcuffing ourselves to not be able to have those open discussions, the brainstorming ideas where I think 00:27:49
to me, that's the purpose of this particular committee. 00:27:54
Yeah, I'll just say I have not felt constrained. I sat in these meetings over the last year as the mayor Pro Tem and now being 00:28:00
here. 00:28:06
Now. 00:28:13
I think what has happened over what happened over last year that our conversations were focused on the items that were on the CBF. 00:28:14
Right. No, Yeah, we talked about monuments, CBS, we talked about the mural, CBF we talked about. So, so there's no constraints 00:28:23
when we're talking about the items on our CBS because we've already approved those. The council has already approved those items, 00:28:29
so we can discuss those at will. 00:28:35
It's when things come up that have not that have been not been part of those discussions is when we have to. 00:28:41
Make sure that we're coming back, but I would hate to lose that in this particular meeting because then we're losing time. I'd 00:28:47
like to. I don't know if there's a possibility to add a. 00:28:51
A section on the agenda, just brainstorming public conversation nights, ideas, suggestions. People might be coming up to the 00:28:56
podium to give their input, thinking, hey, you know what you might want to consider that I think for. 00:29:02
We're going to be able to. We're going to lose that opportunity to have that discussion. 00:29:08
Because I have been sitting on this committee for a couple years now and I just feel like all of a sudden. 00:29:14
We're putting these guidelines in place that I'm thinking it's leaving us no room for open conversation. We have to remember those 00:29:18
are their guidelines. Those own our guidelines. 00:29:23
So it's how they are allowed to. 00:29:29
Interact. 00:29:32
As part of this. 00:29:34
But historically, I mean, I've been on this committee. 00:29:36
For years. 00:29:39
It's been something where there's been agendas, items that lead to other discussion and potential collaboration that. 00:29:42
That may not happen in a different format, and this is a. It's just a working committee with no. 00:29:49
Authority to. 00:29:56
Take the vote, right? Yeah. And we can going back to our boards and we both are in the same situation. 00:29:59
Of reporting back to our boards and asking for. 00:30:04
That vote, you know, at that level. So I understand that. 00:30:08
We just I agree with Commissioner Zacharias. 00:30:12
That, umm. 00:30:16
We lose time in doing that and and if there's a way that we can help streamline things. 00:30:18
We're happy to do that and and work within your guidelines. Yeah, and you know, maybe streamlining things is by even potential 00:30:23
topics because you'll get it approved. 00:30:28
Because I'm just thinking right now, for example, the DC trip, you go dark in August. 00:30:34
All right, August or July? 00:30:40
Yeah, we're yeah. 00:30:42
August 7th, but we have it scheduled for July 21st Yes, yes, but we still we we the committee still meet. We don't go dark, but 00:30:44
you're you're. 00:30:49
Council meetings go dark, so therefore you're losing a whole month of. 00:30:54
Conversations. 00:30:59
To move items forward, right Yeah, so so our. 00:31:01
Our schedule now, we're not going dark in July. 00:31:04
Not going dark for a month. We're canceling one meeting. 00:31:09
I yeah could. 00:31:12
There is opportunity under item number 7 under Councilmember comments, yes. 00:31:16
To make a comment. 00:31:21
To not have a discussion about it. 00:31:23
But to make a comment so I mean if you feel like you. 00:31:25
Want to say something? 00:31:28
There's a place to do it. 00:31:29
As long as we all don't engage in the conversation on that because it's not agendized. 00:31:31
So there, there is some flexibility there and making making statements to the interval. And if I may, just an idea too, when we 00:31:36
get to the future agenda items, maybe a future agenda item that you could bring back to the Council would be the opportunity to 00:31:41
brainstorm on certain collaborative projects. 00:31:47
That might be a way to help. 00:31:53
Solve that Riddle. 00:31:54
I think I think, for example, it's important that we both educate ourselves on each others. 00:31:55
Organization, right? One thing that pops into mine right now is the grant that we were able to get with collaboration with the. 00:32:02
Ventura Port District. 00:32:09
I don't know if you all know the details about that, but that is amazing. And so I'm trying to figure out, OK, we need to educate 00:32:10
you on how that came about so we can find perhaps some opportunities for us to. 00:32:16
Continue those type of collaborations. And so that's why I think it's important that we have these informational sessions. 00:32:21
Whether you educate us on, I'd love to be educated on your economic development plan. I did print it out. Michelle, thank you very 00:32:28
much for putting it together for me. And I have been going through that. I'm thinking. 00:32:33
There's a lot of low hanging fruit there that we could work on right now. We don't need millions of dollars to be able to do that. 00:32:38
And I and I, you know, I see some. 00:32:44
Potential collaborations with. 00:32:46
External folks that we can move forward on. 00:32:48
But I'd love to be educated on, on that and, and we can educate you on our strategic plan. 00:32:51
So I think those are things that we could talk about in future on Item 7 to be future discussion items. 00:32:56
All righty. 00:33:04
Anything else? 00:33:06
So these are we're just having some just receiving files. So OK, great. So we won't have to go through anything. 00:33:09
When the. 00:33:18
Yes. 00:33:20
D Oh, this is D5 OK, sorry about that. 00:33:21
Thank you. Yeah, OK. 00:33:24
OK, great. So did Miss dicas #3 yes, have under you as well. So yes, it does. Thank you. 00:33:27
Mayor, so just a couple updates here on these particular reports. We're pleased to report that our CFO did work closely with our 00:33:34
auditor and we have put together the reports. Where do you, we did attach them herein and we'll officially submit them to James, 00:33:41
but it's the reports. 00:33:47
On our port activity that are required annually, so we have those current now from 2015 forward and the last batch was 2020 to 00:33:53
2024 and they've been approved by our auditor, so. 00:34:00
They're attached herein and then we'll be formally provided to the city. So we are back in compliance with our reporting. 00:34:06
And we also. 00:34:13
Or is that a future 10? That's the, that's number five, sorry. So there. And then we also provided the city manager with the 00:34:16
template to give him the time and opportunity to put together the reports to us. 00:34:22
OK, great. I think we agreed on the template, right? We're good on that. 00:34:30
We're working on OK. And I was gonna say I'm happy to report that I have a CFO now which is a positive and and that we have a 00:34:33
working financial system now, so. 00:34:38
So we had a meeting last week with our team to start. 00:34:44
Trying to make sure we can pull the information we need to start. 00:34:49
Working on these on the reports. 00:34:52
And specifically realizing that we're about two months out from when the next report is due, so. 00:34:55
We're going to start with that one, and I've given them the templates and then some of our previous reports. So we're going to try 00:35:02
to figure out how we can make that work and then we'll come back to the. 00:35:07
Joint Committee. 00:35:13
With updates throughout that process. 00:35:14
Madam Mayor, yes. So at the last meeting we had conversations about this. 00:35:16
That. 00:35:22
I think we all agreed that working from current backwards to get the reports. So is that your understanding? 00:35:24
About that. 00:35:32
Our focus over the last month was getting. 00:35:34
Set up and ready to go and prepared to go for this this report and then making sure we have a format that everybody's. 00:35:37
An agreement on and you know, and moving forward with those. 00:35:45
And I think, you know, I would like to have some future discussion. 00:35:49
And sort of once we do that and we figure out how much. 00:35:53
How many resources are used? How far back we can go? Because I think I mentioned it the last. 00:35:57
Meeting that, we have a new financial system that just got put into place and we aren't. 00:36:02
We're still learning how far back we can go and and how much access we'll have in our prior system. 00:36:07
So I we're focusing on. 00:36:12
The one that's due in the next month or two and then we from that we wanted to have the discussion then about. 00:36:15
Like you know what? 00:36:21
How it went, if there's a if we get to a point everybody is happy with the format, and then how much time? 00:36:24
We would take and how. 00:36:30
How many reports? How many years back? 00:36:31
We can reasonably go back to. 00:36:34
So I think that's. 00:36:37
Why, we had said, you know, we probably. 00:36:40
Expect to have some future discussion once we have that report done and if everybody's happy with it. 00:36:43
And then what the process could be like? 00:36:49
So as I recall the last meeting. 00:36:53
You made those comments about your financial system and you didn't know how far back you could go. We did reiterate our board is 00:36:57
interested in seeing all of the years from 2015 forward. This is a contract. 00:37:03
There are items that are spelled out for each agency to do that. 00:37:11
Money is changing hands. 00:37:16
And so it's important to have all of the agreements to do that. 00:37:17
Right. Thank you. 00:37:23
Anything else? 00:37:24
Yes. 00:37:26
On some of those reports that we did submit, it wasn't in. 00:37:27
It wasn't in that Excel document that you guys provided so. 00:37:31
Are you guys? 00:37:35
Trying to tell us. 00:37:36
Put it in the document or and not accept what was previously. 00:37:38
So we, James and I had conversations the the the issue with the previous reporting is that they don't meet the smell test of the 00:37:42
contract as they don't tell you what dollars go to what projects. 00:37:48
And so we're working through that with James in a collaborative way to come up with the right format. 00:37:54
That's consistent with the contract and meets what was the spirit of the negotiation to detail precisely what each penny went to 00:37:59
and for what. That was a requirement of the settlement agreement. 00:38:04
It just seems like. 00:38:10
Like 20/17/2018 it just. 00:38:12
Let's just say those were given to you guys and then but you guys are making it. 00:38:14
Now. 00:38:18
Like what in in in the spirit of collaboration and moving forward. 00:38:20
Why it seems like? 00:38:24
You changing the format? No. With all due respect, the format of the previous reporting was not meeting the test of the. 00:38:26
Reggie of the of the settlement agreement to identify the dollars and cents transactions with the revenue sharing money and so we 00:38:34
provided the template as a courtesy to help. 00:38:40
Show what it could look like if James would like to provide that in a different format, but as long as it identifies the dollars 00:38:45
and cents for the each transaction spent with a revenue. 00:38:51
Sharing agreement that would satisfy the contract. But right now the reports just list a whole bunch of projects and you have no 00:38:56
idea what money went to what projects. So it's not that we're trying to unwind anything. We're just trying to work collaborative 00:39:02
with James to come up with a format that works within the confines of the contract, the settlement agreement. I just want to ask 00:39:08
one question just to make sure we understand. 00:39:14
How how many reports have we submitted? What years reports has the city? I don't have the years in front of me. I think it was 00:39:20
five of the 10 years that the city had submitted reports and it looked like during COVID there was the gap and and in all fairness 00:39:26
to those formats were coming to us that predict James and we did. 00:39:32
Through every every revenue sharing check that we provided to the city, Austin asked for clarification on what the dollars and 00:39:38
cents were going to. 00:39:43
And so it goes way back. And so I know James is trying hard to get it in a format that really does identify dollars and cents. And 00:39:47
we've had some very good conversations around getting that done. OK, good. I just want to make sure that we understand that the 00:39:52
reports have been at least you said five of the 10. 00:39:57
Yes, that's my understanding had been submitted and up until now we had not heard they weren't acceptable. 00:40:03
Nuts. No, hold on, hold on a minute. Let me ask him the question. 00:40:09
I think Kristen saying that they had notified. 00:40:13
Prior staff, but but I had not heard OK, that's what I'm trying to get at. Yeah. So we're not we're not moving the goal posts at 00:40:15
this point. 00:40:19
There are things that are in the settlement agreement that talk about reporting. 00:40:24
And have have the detail. In the past the detail has not been there. 00:40:29
And so. 00:40:34
We have asked year after year after year and predates everybody, but our financial team asks all the time and I mean when I 00:40:35
started in 2010. 00:40:41
I asked for agreements, right, right. You know, and we never got them. Yeah. So then an ongoing. So just know this is just about 00:40:47
trying to understand, right. And so my question would be now so with the with the back and forth dialogue about asking for 00:40:54
specifics about the information, you all still don't have the information. So, so if I may, I know that Austin was working with 00:41:01
your former CFO and they did come up with a template that was satisfactory and so. 00:41:08
James, in fairness, we have been working with you. We haven't been satisfied with any of the reports that just list projects and 00:41:15
we've been very clear. 00:41:20
In in correspondence to the city, but we also want to just move forward and get the format works way as a courtesy we provided 00:41:24
this. 00:41:28
We thought it would be helpful. We're not trying to change anything, but just make maybe it a little easier for James to give us 00:41:31
what we need and. 00:41:35
And to be fair, in the heart of the settlement agreement there was a lot of give and take and then we created the CBF to come up 00:41:39
with wins. There was a transaction with the NCL. 00:41:44
Agreement, but it was very important to our commissioners and I sat through these negotiations. 00:41:49
That we. 00:41:54
Got rid of any gift of public funds questions that were in former contracts. So one of the things in there was widening Panoma St. 00:41:55
which we know isn't going to happen. 00:42:00
And so we asked for and put in that settlement agreement the requirement for very detailed accounting. 00:42:04
And since the initiation inception of the settlement agreement, we have not received a report that does that detailed accounting 00:42:11
so. 00:42:15
Here, you know, and we, we had some hiccups with our reporting. Do you as well. So we're not trying to get in a *** for tat or 00:42:20
anything like that. We want to help James succeed. 00:42:25
In getting the right ports to us and we thought this format would be helpful and then we'd like to work to go back as far as we 00:42:30
can just go for the public record to have the right accounting that's consistent with the spreadsheets. 00:42:36
Knowing that 10 years has subsided and some of that might be tricky and we'll work together to get this done right. Thank you. 00:42:42
Thank you. I mean, we have an audit every year. So I mean we need to provide all of the information to our auditor. 00:42:50
As well to to meet all that so. 00:42:57
Any other comments, questions? 00:43:00
Just though the only thing I'll add is just. 00:43:02
Where? 00:43:05
Talking about some of the. 00:43:07
Communication gaps in the past, but the format that we have provided is the format that the CFO had indicated was the agreed upon 00:43:09
format. 00:43:13
And so I understand that. 00:43:17
I think it sounds like. 00:43:18
That's not the understanding that the port had. 00:43:20
But we did provide the formal, we're getting it a little bit back at you and I can talk offline. There was one that came in right 00:43:22
and then there was again another one that came in wrong. 00:43:26
So it's like we got it going in the right format and then the following year came in the wrong format. So we'll work together, 00:43:31
James, we'll get this right. Yeah. And so just at the that's where my short explanation was, we're going to focus on getting this 00:43:36
one done. And then from that we'll know sort of what the realistic time and. 00:43:42
You know, and I and I realized that this is a painful process, but I think it's a long overdue from both parties. 00:43:49
And if that's why I've been very adamant myself about keeping these monthly meetings going. 00:43:56
Because we need to make sure we're moving forward, we've got to get this all out of the way. And once we're back on track, I'm 00:44:01
sure James will feel relieved once the reports are up to date and we're all in compliance, right? That's what it comes down to as 00:44:07
far as transparency is concerned as well. We'll be able to see, folks will be able to see how much money the port gave the city in 00:44:13
the agreement and what the city did with that particular pot of money. 00:44:18
Yeah, and it would have been good to have. 00:44:24
Template in the agreement. There would have been no issues from. 00:44:28
Coming out of the gate as soon as that. 00:44:32
Agreement was signed. 00:44:35
So it seems like. 00:44:37
There was really never an established. 00:44:38
Report out. 00:44:41
That that met everybody's. 00:44:42
Satisfaction. 00:44:45
I think in the previous contracts things were sort of named in the settlement greens. We did add in that you had identified 00:44:46
dollars and cents because that was very important at the time and so there wasn't. 00:44:51
A format or template, but it did that was the what was new to really say there need to be line items for dollars and cents and I 00:44:57
agree with mayor Pro Tem. 00:45:02
I mean it would have been great to have a template there. 00:45:07
There's been some massaging, you know, in this current thing, yeah. 00:45:11
And so I think that hopefully we land on something that works for both agencies and we can move forward with that. 00:45:15
Nothing else. All right, let's go ahead and move on to item number. 00:45:23
For Mr. Vega, Mr. Dicus, this is about the DC trip. Yeah, I have good news. John is on the line, so he's here to to assist in this 00:45:28
dialogue and help plan for the trip. 00:45:34
I don't know how we get ears. John, are you there? 00:45:42
Yes, OK, very good. So he was just going to give a little bit of an overview on the climate in Washington. 00:45:45
And you know, we had the past trip and give us a little bit of background on that and and you know, how will help us navigate 00:45:51
coming up with meetings and. 00:45:55
Kind of what may or may, you know, we won't decide everything today, clearly, but you know, given the nuances and all the politics 00:45:59
and trade policy, all the things that are going on DC, John, I know you came here short notice, so we're grateful for that. But 00:46:04
maybe you could just give us a little. 00:46:09
Idea of what's happening there in DC and then you know what might be some good ideas and then we can. 00:46:15
Regroup again in our July meeting to kind of land some some more intelligence on what would be constructive meetings for both the 00:46:20
city and the port. And James, I didn't. I know you worked hard on the agenda item. If you want to add anything, please. Only thing 00:46:26
I was going to say is we're two months away, so we got to figure out what we're doing. 00:46:32
Sure, OK. 00:46:39
Well, Kristen, your first request is probably something would take much longer than any of you have time for. 00:46:41
To listen to me. 00:46:48
So let me start with the agenda. 00:46:50
And then I think that's the way we can address maybe some of the concerns that you might have about. 00:46:52
How we meet with people who we meet with and so on. So right now. 00:46:57
And I did send. 00:47:02
A draft agenda yesterday. 00:47:04
But to simplify it, let me say that it amounts to about 12 meetings over what I would say. 00:47:06
And I think your dates are. 00:47:13
You would be in town on September 8th, we would have meetings on the 9th, 10th. 00:47:14
And probably leave the morning of the 11th, which is Thursday. 00:47:19
Open for a meeting that we aren't weren't able to. 00:47:24
Maybe cover on the other two days? 00:47:28
What I did when I looked at the the schedule. 00:47:31
And this is, believe me, when you're looking at this, this is. 00:47:33
A schedule that I just simply made-up OK, but I wanted to give it some organization over the two days, 2 1/2 days. 00:47:38
So you you will only see about 11 meetings, but there's actually 12 that I thought of. I thought of another one after I did that, 00:47:46
so that it would be 12 meetings over 2 1/2 days it would be. 00:47:52
For meetings with congressional delegation members. 00:47:59
The two senators. 00:48:02
A Congressman Carbajal and Congresswoman Brownlee. 00:48:03
It would be with two congressional authorizing committees. 00:48:07
The Senate, Environment and Public Works and the House. 00:48:11
Infrastructure and transportation. 00:48:15
Committee. 00:48:17
The five federal agencies, I've got DoD down the Department of Defense, but that that that agency that I'm talking about 00:48:20
specifically. 00:48:25
Would be the one that we talked to the last time that runs the defense community's infrastructure program. 00:48:30
And they're over in Crystal City. It would not be in the Pentagon. 00:48:38
And then? 00:48:41
The Association of Defense Communities, which is that membership. 00:48:42
Organization of a lot of local governments states. 00:48:46
Counties that work as an association with. 00:48:50
The Department of Defense on issues that concern communities and defense installations. 00:48:55
And I think the last time they they explained to you that. 00:49:02
You know, places like. 00:49:06
Well, the Port of of Wine me has been a member. I don't know if we continue to be a member of that organization, but we have been 00:49:08
a member. 00:49:11
Just because it gives us an opportunity to. 00:49:15
Interact with. 00:49:19
Pentagon officials under the umbrella of that organization. 00:49:20
So that's kind of a real quick review. 00:49:26
Let me add this. 00:49:30
One of the things that makes. 00:49:32
Your your visit with the congressional delegation. 00:49:34
Timely and. 00:49:38
I would say useful is because. 00:49:41
All four members. 00:49:44
Are. 00:49:46
The authorizing committee for highway and transit legislation. 00:49:47
And the Water Resources Development Act, which is the. 00:49:52
Legislation. 00:49:56
That author. 00:49:58
Prizes Corps of Engineers studies and Construction projects. So all four members have a, you know, a direct interest. 00:49:59
In surface transportation and water resources. 00:50:05
So I feel like. 00:50:10
Your beach nourishment issue. 00:50:13
Is always something that can be addressed with the Corps of Engineers. 00:50:16
And because we've got a water resources development bill that will start moving later this year, it won't be finished until next 00:50:22
year. 00:50:26
This gives you a chance if there's something that you feel should be addressed in legislation. 00:50:31
Or report language. 00:50:37
To the bill. 00:50:39
This would be an opportunity to start that conversation with the congressional staff. 00:50:40
If there are. 00:50:48
Surface transportation things like. 00:50:49
Matters that relate to Winnemi Road or connections to 101 or the 101. 00:50:53
Freeway. 00:50:59
This would be an opportunity to talk. 00:51:02
To authorizing committee staff. We're going to be working on the highway and transit bill. 00:51:04
And I would just add as an aside. 00:51:10
VCTC was here. 00:51:13
I think 2 weeks ago or three weeks ago. 00:51:16
Was an organization called Mobility 21, which is the Southern California. 00:51:19
Transportation Association. 00:51:24
And, umm. 00:51:26
VCTC was talking with. 00:51:28
Both. 00:51:30
Well, with all four congressional offices, the two senators, the two members of the House. 00:51:31
About uh. 00:51:36
A sub allocation of. 00:51:38
Federal Highway funds to come directly to Ventura County. 00:51:41
You get that now, but there's always a discussion every time there's a reauthorization. 00:51:47
Of more of those funds coming directly to. 00:51:52
To the local MPO rather than having to go through Sacramento. 00:51:55
So there there's some talking points on that that we can provide you to reinforce that position. 00:51:59
And if any of you are members of the VCTC. 00:52:06
Board Martin Erickson is certainly well versed in this to give you. 00:52:10
His perspective on their meetings and and the kind of discussions that they had before. 00:52:15
Or you come in. 00:52:19
So that that essentially is my quick little. 00:52:21
Scope of what we would be doing. 00:52:24
Sure. 00:52:27
Hi, John. 00:52:29
Mary Ann here, nice to see you, it's been a while. 00:52:30
Nice to see you, Commissioner. So what we want to prioritize is to find ways that the city and the port can collaborate together 00:52:34
on some grants. 00:52:40
And so I just want to make sure that we're hitting. I mean, I think maybe under Warda, we can do that. 00:52:46
And maybe surface transportation. 00:52:52
But umm. 00:52:54
Really to make a. 00:52:54
So you fully understand that there's a desire to. 00:52:56
Have the collaboration between the two agencies in potential grants and build that together so. 00:53:00
The hopefully you can work with Mystikas and Mr. Vega on. 00:53:07
Items and things that might pop up and maybe that's inside the word to build now. 00:53:11
That we could potentially look at to do that. So I just want to make sure that that's that's a focus that you're working on 1st 00:53:16
and meetings, you know, in order to do that. 00:53:21
That's that's helpful. And I will follow up with them to talk more specifically about grant funding, but your comment reminds me 00:53:26
of something else. 00:53:31
That does relate to what Kristen was saying. 00:53:36
About what's going on in Washington. 00:53:40
So you've heard a lot of discussion about some federal agencies. 00:53:42
Being done away with or or greatly. 00:53:47
Changed. 00:53:50
In terms of the way they function. 00:53:51
The two the the committee that I mentioned that the House, the transfer. 00:53:55
Transportation and infrastructure. 00:53:59
There is a bipartisan bill. It has not been introduced yet, but the bill is to take FEMA out of DHS. 00:54:01
And I would expect I would see a smile from. 00:54:10
Kristen Dicus on that because it would make it out of DHS, which is a large bureaucracy to deal with. 00:54:13
With maritime security grants. 00:54:20
But let me say this. 00:54:23
One of the things that every time, and you folks are probably aware of this, so I may be telling you something you already know, 00:54:25
but every time there is a natural, a national, a natural disaster declaration. 00:54:30
By the White House. 00:54:36
There is a certain amount of. 00:54:38
Money that is allocated to a state. 00:54:39
Specifically to deal with that disaster. 00:54:42
15% of that money. 00:54:46
That is given to a state to recover. 00:54:49
From that disaster goes into what they call a hazard mitigation fund. 00:54:53
That hazard mitigation fund is held in California by Cal OES. 00:54:58
And it is associated specifically with that disaster. 00:55:04
But that funding, that 15% is available for? 00:55:08
Hazard mitigation projects anywhere in the state. 00:55:13
So the reason I mentioned. 00:55:18
This is because one of the things. 00:55:20
And I appreciate, Commissioner. 00:55:22
You're mentioning this because what you should be thinking in terms of. 00:55:24
What we might discuss here. 00:55:29
Is uh. 00:55:31
Are there? 00:55:32
Hazard mitigation resiliency projects that might benefit the city. 00:55:34
Or the port, or both. 00:55:39
So we can talk further about that, but I just wanted to put that on your on your list. 00:55:41
Guys, say something. 00:55:49
No I have anything. Any comments? 00:55:51
Go ahead, Commissioner. Hi, John, it's Selena. Hope you're all is well out there. 00:55:55
Question for you. 00:56:00
Umm, one is umm, Congressman Robert Garcia. 00:56:02
Is it easy still head of ports? That would be a good one. 00:56:05
Yes, Commissioner, I'm glad you mentioned that because I, I when I was looking at this list just before I tuned in, I did not have 00:56:09
him down. 00:56:13
He is the. 00:56:18
I think he's the court caucus person, so yes, we can put him on the list. I don't think he's met our City Council members, so I 00:56:19
think that that would be good to. 00:56:25
And then also is I know that last time, do you recall if it was the defense communities or if it was the the? 00:56:30
Association of defense communities ADC that. 00:56:39
Providers provided the city with a few suggestions on grant opportunities. 00:56:45
I think we talked about Bubbling Springs Park action is what are those and I don't know. 00:56:50
If anything was done, but I want to think, I hope, hoping we can revisit with them. 00:56:53
I think, Commissioner, that was the EPA. 00:56:58
That was one of them was the EPA, and they had all those grants for nonprofits that we could align with. I, I don't know, Again, 00:57:01
that could be a climate in Washington. 00:57:05
I know when was the EPA but there was a smaller office and I remember seeing the logo right as you walk in. 00:57:10
Clear Office and. 00:57:16
That was. 00:57:19
Commissioner, that was the. 00:57:20
That was the Department of Defense office. That is the community defense infrastructure, OK. 00:57:23
Program and it's the defense community infrastructure grants. That's that's where we were. 00:57:32
And and their own. 00:57:38
Our list and we would go see them again. What would really be useful this time? 00:57:40
Because the last time we had a very good discussion, because I remember the. 00:57:44
A woman officer that was assigned to that office who had some very good ideas about possible projects. 00:57:49
So I would just say that maybe you want to brainstorm. 00:57:57
Form what you think might be a project. 00:58:00
That would benefit. 00:58:04
The CBC or. 00:58:05
Naval Base Ventura County. 00:58:08
Benefit them, but. 00:58:10
Provide some community benefits also, but keep in mind the one thing that we heard over there. 00:58:12
Was. 00:58:18
You have got. 00:58:19
Get the base. 00:58:20
Commander. 00:58:21
To write a letter that says. 00:58:22
He or she is in full support of this. 00:58:24
A project. 00:58:28
And we know what we know what a challenge that can be. 00:58:30
Thank you, I'll start working on him. 00:58:37
I'm sure you will. 00:58:42
Thank you. 00:58:43
Yeah, Mayor Pro Tem. 00:58:44
Mayor Pro Tem Lopez. 00:58:45
A couple questions like. 00:58:47
I plan on making some recommendations to my council on. 00:58:50
A shared water line that we share with Oxnard, Port Winnie, me and BBC. 00:58:55
And poor, poor Winnie, me and Magoo. 00:59:00
And this shared water line? 00:59:05
It would serve all. 00:59:08
All communities and it would probably be. 00:59:10
Exactly what this? 00:59:13
This DoD. 00:59:15
Grant could probably. 00:59:19
Fund is that that? 00:59:20
Sound like something that. 00:59:22
Could happen. 00:59:24
Yes. Let me ask you, who is the responsible agency for the water line? Is that the city of Oxnard? Yes, it is. 00:59:25
OK, yes, if we could get. 00:59:32
If we could get some information. 00:59:36
About that and I, I. 00:59:39
I can contact the city directly, but it would also be maybe let me let me do some work on that with the city manager's office 00:59:42
maybe to get some, but I may need some backup from you folks. 00:59:47
Just this way his background, Mr. O'Donnell also supports advocacy for the City of Oxnard. 00:59:53
OK also. 00:59:59
With the current climate, what about? 01:00:02
You know St. Lighting going solar? 01:00:05
Like clean power, would that be something that would? 01:00:08
My short answer is we have to be. 01:00:13
Extremely careful about that one because a lot of that funding is. 01:00:16
Been pulled back. A lot of that was in the Inflation Reduction Act. 01:00:20
And the administration through the reconciliation process. 01:00:24
Is gutting. 01:00:28
Some of those programs. 01:00:29
I that's something I can. 01:00:34
I can check on and one of the reasons I sound a little bit in. 01:00:36
Uncertain about this is because so much is being said. 01:00:40
Not so much as being done and then so much is being discussed. So with people like the Department of Energy or EPA, I just need to 01:00:44
follow up with some of their intergovernmental people to get a A. 01:00:50
Picture of what's going on. 01:00:57
But we can follow up on that. OK, thank you. That's all I have. 01:00:59
Yeah. And I'll just echo, I think. 01:01:05
Commissioner Zacharias. 01:01:08
Sort of hit the topics I I was planning to. 01:01:10
We have seen some of those defense communities infrastructure grants and those are definitely ones we look at. 01:01:13
I think. 01:01:18
The three topics that. 01:01:19
I think we're plan to recommend to the Council that. 01:01:21
They give us the marching orders to move forward with. 01:01:25
At that July 21st meeting is. 01:01:29
The beach nourishment. 01:01:31
The hazard mitigation and then. 01:01:32
The 3rd I'm sort of. 01:01:35
Describing his infrastructure, supporting commerce and defense, which includes I think streets and water and then I guess the 01:01:37
question about the the green energy. 01:01:41
But I think. 01:01:46
My question for John, I think is. 01:01:49
We haven't found that. 01:01:52
Too many people are eager to support. 01:01:54
St. Paving I think is it's not glamorous, you know, it's not a not a glamorous project. 01:01:57
But uh. 01:02:03
If we're able to show, like you said on defense communities, infrastructure. 01:02:03
Projects that it not only supports the base and their operations, but the city and its community and. 01:02:09
You know the port and its operations and and other partners really. 01:02:15
Is that something that you think we'd be able to? 01:02:19
To get. 01:02:22
Some support on, is that something that you've seen funded or is that? 01:02:24
Is that just not a very glamorous project? 01:02:27
I don't know if I have not seen any funding on that, but it is one of those things that I can look into because. 01:02:31
If they're. 01:02:39
Our street surface improvements that that. 01:02:41
Support the. 01:02:45
Naval Base Ventura County and the CBC and the city. 01:02:46
That might be an eligible project. I've not seen one like that, but. 01:02:51
You know it's. Let's look into it. 01:02:55
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I think that would be a big one for us. 01:02:57
Just roughly, I think over 10 years, we think the dollar amount is probably in the $20 million range. So it's it's pretty 01:03:00
significant. So that would be big. 01:03:05
It would. 01:03:10
It would be helpful if the trade corridor related streets. 01:03:12
Yes, if you could send. 01:03:16
US maybe? 01:03:18
A couple of paragraphs about where this is located and. 01:03:21
How it connects with the CBC? Everybody OK? Perfect. He actually has a grant in with the VCTC. That would probably be good for him 01:03:25
to get eyes on. 01:03:29
I'll pull that together. 01:03:34
And, and Smear may ask one question as well. So the Commissioner just reminded me, another big project, John, that we have that 01:03:36
we've been working hard on is getting infrastructure fixed on and maintained in terms of rail. 01:03:42
Both inside the Navy base and along the the thoroughfares of the sea, we've had multiple accidents recently over in Patterson and 01:03:49
Channel. 01:03:54
So maybe there's some opportunities there on on rail. 01:03:59
That. 01:04:02
Would benefit the city, the port and Navy. So. 01:04:03
Thank you, Commissioner. What we, what we can do is look at the Chrissy grants, which are under the Federal Railroad 01:04:07
Administration. And what that made me think of with your comment is. 01:04:13
Maybe one of the things? 01:04:18
I'm going to have to look at when people are on vacation, but. 01:04:20
Maybe one of the things that we could do is we have two. 01:04:25
Transportation people. 01:04:29
Who are working with us now that we're not working with us when the port in the city were in Washington the last time? 01:04:31
One of them was has worked in the Secretary of Transportation's office for five different secretaries. He's. 01:04:37
So he's had the experience with both. 01:04:45
With many administrations. 01:04:48
And then the other is. 01:04:50
A fellow who's retired from the Federal Highway Administration. 01:04:52
And he spent 34 years there. 01:04:57
One of his assignments was in LA and another one was in Sacramento. 01:05:00
He's done a lot of their environment training for the agency. 01:05:05
And and spent two years on Capitol Hill on a. 01:05:09
Fellowship from the Department of Transportation. So I think what we ought to do on some of this. 01:05:13
Kristen, I think what we want. 01:05:18
What we ought to do is maybe arrange for. 01:05:21
A virtual meeting where we have some preliminary discussions and then come out of that when maybe some ideas about things we do 01:05:24
when you're here. 01:05:28
Yeah, great. Anything else? 01:05:34
Not on that item. Thank you, Mayor. OK. 01:05:38
All right. If there is nothing else, we're going to move on to our next item. Thank you, John. Appreciate you. We know it's late 01:05:41
there in Washington. 01:05:45
Thanks for taking care of us. You're fine. I'm fine. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. 01:05:49
So we'll move on to the discussion items 5 and 6. Miss Dicas, I'll turn it over to you. 01:05:55
OK. 01:06:02
So on the Community benefit Fund projects, as I mentioned at the last meeting, our Board has not voted on any projects at this 01:06:03
time. We will be having a discussion. 01:06:09
At our July 14th Visioning Workshop. 01:06:15
And so at this time we don't have any projects to to bring forward. 01:06:18
And the only other thing that was on that agenda item, if I may, was the the reconciliation report. 01:06:23
Just showing where we are in terms of the accounting and we did add a column to that report that will just show how it speaks to 01:06:29
the settlement agreement. 01:06:34
In terms of providing benefits to both parties as well as you know, where it fits in the box of the settlement agreement, whether 01:06:38
it's shoreside power, other or whatever categories and that and James and I will work on populating that. 01:06:44
Great. Thank you. Go right ahead, Commissioner. 01:06:50
My arms aren't long enough. 01:06:53
But I do want to say something along the lines of what Commissioner Rooney mentioned. Although we have not presented the list to 01:06:55
our board, we did have a bigger discussion at one of our planning sessions with regards to the fact that we had a lot of community 01:07:02
comment about the fact that there were four different categories and we seem to be dumping everything into Category 4. 01:07:08
And not really focusing on a bigger picture projects that would benefit the entire community. And so I know that our particular 01:07:16
board was looking at at. 01:07:21
Trying to figure out as a. 01:07:27
As two entities is, what are those bigger projects? 01:07:29
That we could focus on even if we rolled in this money for to next year, if that we don't think that $134,000 is enough, then 01:07:33
maybe we keep it there and then we roll in. 01:07:38
The next 134 or whatever. 01:07:43
Knock on wood, that. 01:07:45
We continue that, right? 01:07:47
But I think that hearing the community input, we should take that we seriously think about. 01:07:49
What bigger type projects can help us out? Great. And I think we're really looking forward to having the discussion about that. 01:07:54
And Mayor, we do have a public comment on this item. Great, thank you. Any other comments? 01:08:00
Let's go ahead. 01:08:07
Go, go ahead. Do you have any questions for? 01:08:08
So I kind of heard you guys under the last meeting that you guys are looking for big item ticket items and. 01:08:12
Umm, again looking at. 01:08:21
The process that we here at the Council. 01:08:22
We see, you know, we have our Citizens Advisory Commission who goes through it and makes recommendations to the council. 01:08:26
US Council, we we see this, we make. 01:08:35
Take those recommendations and we vote. So you know, a lot of energy time is expended and a lot of a lot of community involvement 01:08:38
was. 01:08:41
In place. 01:08:44
If we're gonna like. 01:08:47
Not bait and switch, but if we're going to kind of move the goal posts a little bit and say, hey, let's focus on big communities. 01:08:48
Can maybe we start that next year? 01:08:54
I mean, could that be a conversation? 01:08:56
And I totally agree, I think. 01:08:58
This money can actually be. 01:09:01
Community. Big projects. 01:09:05
I have no issues with that. 01:09:08
Yeah, go right ahead. Yes. 01:09:10
The settlement agreement. 01:09:12
Talks about. 01:09:13
For specific categories. 01:09:14
And the last category was. 01:09:17
Put in place to be a catch all. 01:09:21
In the event that there was something unusual. 01:09:24
And we couldn't fit it into the first three. That's why the 4th 1 was established. 01:09:27
To give flexibility to the two boards. 01:09:31
And so. 01:09:35
The idea and the intent of the settlement agreement. 01:09:36
Back in 2014 and 15. 01:09:40
Was that it be a project or two? 01:09:43
Right. Umm. 01:09:47
Just minimal number of things. 01:09:47
And we've we've shifted into. 01:09:50
Providing. 01:09:53
Money for. 01:09:54
10 or 12 or 15 nonprofits as we do. 01:09:55
And you know. 01:09:58
The both agencies have the process and how you get input. 01:10:01
And how that works out and and that works within the flavor of. 01:10:06
Both of the agencies and and how you selected your Community Advisory Council. 01:10:10
Once those are brought back forward for discussion. 01:10:19
Then it's the both agencies that come together to determine yes. Here's the. 01:10:24
Here's what we want to work on together. 01:10:29
So. 01:10:31
I know that you. 01:10:33
Allocated. 01:10:34
All the money for the projects through your CAC. 01:10:35
And that may or may not. 01:10:40
Translate to what the Harbor commissioner wants to do. 01:10:43
So, but we've had multiple conversations of. 01:10:47
Going back to. 01:10:50
The projects you know and to those first 3 categories, so. 01:10:52
I feel like. 01:10:57
We haven't decided anything for the upcoming time. 01:10:58
And our board is pretty firm about. 01:11:02
What we wanted to do. 01:11:05
But we haven't voted on anything at this point. But that's the that's the consensus of the board. So I would see probably. 01:11:07
Pushing it to next year would be a hard sell. 01:11:15
OK, well I'm not saying pushing into the. 01:11:18
Next year, I'm saying. 01:11:21
Based on your. 01:11:25
Your board and they come back. Your commissioners come back with. 01:11:26
Your items and we've listed our items we. 01:11:29
I say we move forward. 01:11:33
For this year on. 01:11:34
What we, what we have in front of us. 01:11:36
Rather than. 01:11:39
Just focus on a big item to be candid with you. 01:11:41
I think it's gonna be a hard sell. 01:11:45
Yeah. So, so the good thing is, is that we as a body, we have members from both. 01:11:46
The city and we have members from the Commission, and I think the good thing is that. 01:11:52
We are. 01:11:57
Board a committee and we'll get together in the room and we'll have a conversation. 01:11:59
And whatever comes out of that conversation will be what we. 01:12:03
Come out of the conversation with. That's right, Right. And so we're not there yet. 01:12:06
I think we've. 01:12:10
Kind of had some discussion and we've heard from both sides and that's great, but I think there is a process. 01:12:11
Established for us and we'll just go down that process. 01:12:16
All right. 01:12:19
Technical question for you please. Has the the? 01:12:22
I don't think you have but. 01:12:26
Has a City Council thought about 88? 01:12:27
One or two projects. 01:12:30
To keep on the back burner, and the reason I say this is I'm using an example at the university. 01:12:33
Is that I keep an ongoing list of. 01:12:37
Projects that the faculty member. 01:12:40
Faculty members bring to me and say, hey, if you come across this opportunity, please let me know. And so when those opportunities 01:12:42
come, I'll say, hey, you know what? I found this opportunity. Here we go. 01:12:47
And I think it's important that both. 01:12:53
Parties keep those. 01:12:54
Those opportunities in the back burner so when these things come up, not only for. 01:12:57
Right now for the Community Benefits Fund, but for future grant opportunities. 01:13:02
Because I do agree with Commissioner Rooney, is that. 01:13:07
It's going to be a tough sell for us because we've gotten so many community members coming to us saying you guys have lost sight 01:13:10
of what this money was supposed to be used for. All you're doing is funding nonprofits, OK and so. 01:13:16
We've gotten plenty of that input, so we're ready to start looking. 01:13:23
At the. 01:13:27
Bigger projects but. 01:13:29
It's not just up to us, the harbor commissioner, come up with big projects like we have to do this in collaboration. Yeah, 01:13:31
absolutely. 01:13:34
Absolutely. Umm. 01:13:37
So any other comments? 01:13:39
You have a public comment. 01:13:41
Oh, public comment please. Thank you. 01:13:42
Jan Burke. 01:13:45
Good discussion. 01:13:53
Umm. 01:13:55
The Citizens Advisory Committee, kind of basically. 01:13:58
Took. Took. 01:14:03
Took a stab at in the community and overall took a stab at trying to create some sort of shape and focus on this because. 01:14:04
We too. 01:14:12
Felt it was sort of random and there were pet projects by either commissioners or council members and we wanted to get to a point 01:14:13
where. 01:14:17
It had more meaningful and measurable outcomes. 01:14:21
For our community. 01:14:24
And I and I. 01:14:25
Created a little spreadsheet that from 2016, 1516 to. 01:14:26
23. 01:14:32
And over that time. 01:14:34
A good chunk of what I would call. 01:14:36
36% of the funds went to public relations events basically, and checks handed out and big checks and. 01:14:40
And then another the other. 01:14:49
Bucket that I would call it was opportunity opportunistic invent endeavors was another 32%. So basically. 01:14:51
You know it the and then. 01:15:00
There was the other projects which was. 01:15:02
The Bard statue. 01:15:06
Which was $120,000 so far. 01:15:07
And and that didn't go over well with the community. 01:15:10
And so I think that what we're very concerned about is we want to make sure that the truly benefiting the community. 01:15:14
And not just. 01:15:20
Random, not just. 01:15:23
Statues not not something that that doesn't truly benefit the community. 01:15:26
So basically 50% of the funding over the last? 01:15:31
10 years basically has been in that in that focus and I would like to see I like the idea of bigger projects. 01:15:37
We've put a process in place with the City Council. 01:15:44
That I think that works for this year and I commend Jess for his comments about possibly looking at something bigger for next 01:15:47
year. 01:15:51
I think that I. 01:15:55
There hasn't been an established idea of what. 01:15:56
Big projects we could do together. 01:16:00
And I think it's going to take time to figure those out. So I would like to suggest that we. 01:16:02
Continue to. 01:16:07
Honor the recommended people, put forth some recommendations and some in. 01:16:09
Requests for some funding from. 01:16:15
Truly local community. 01:16:17
Efforts and we'd like to see those being. 01:16:20
Recognized and benefited. 01:16:23
That's all. 01:16:25
If I. 01:16:27
That concludes public comment. Great. Thank you. Go ahead. Yeah, I just want to. 01:16:29
Reiterate inside of the settlement agreement talks about. 01:16:34
That both agencies. 01:16:38
Will select projects. 01:16:42
That benefits the communities that they serve. 01:16:44
So, umm. 01:16:48
The city of Portway Nimi. 01:16:49
Benefit is serving the city, right? 01:16:51
Unfortunately. 01:16:55
The Oxnard Harbor District has. 01:16:56
You know. 01:16:58
300,000 people. 01:17:00
Inside the district is about where it is I would say. 01:17:02
So. 01:17:06
There are projects that. 01:17:07
That may be outside of the city of Port Wayne. Mimi. 01:17:09
And and that falls within. 01:17:12
You know our service area and the community that we serve. 01:17:15
So, umm. 01:17:19
That settlement agreement talks about that, so I think that's where maybe there's some tension. 01:17:20
Because. 01:17:25
When I watched the CAC, you know they wanted to focus on. Is this why Nimi? 01:17:27
Is it located in my name Me And it was very Winnie me focus which I totally understand and appreciate. 01:17:32
The advocacy for that? 01:17:38
It's just that there is a. 01:17:42
There is this collaboration that is intended to take place for. 01:17:44
Both of the communities that we serve. So that's why we may look outside something of the city of Winnie me. 01:17:49
Under the guidelines of the settlement agreement. 01:17:56
Great, great. And I agree with that. I appreciate that. And I think we we also need to go back to the agreement where it says the 01:17:58
benefit. 01:18:03
Is for both. 01:18:08
Yes, and so. 01:18:09
Even though. 01:18:11
The port or the Oxnard Harbor District extends outside of. 01:18:13
Port Hueneme. The question then becomes. 01:18:18
What is the benefit to the city? And that's why I wanted that that column on there to say. 01:18:21
Benefits to the city, benefits to the port that way. 01:18:27
We stay aligned with that agreement and we clarify any. 01:18:31
Any issues and and hopefully? 01:18:35
Resolve any. 01:18:37
Anything beforehand, Commissioner? Hold on. Let's go to Commissioner Zacharias and we'll come back to you. 01:18:39
Thank you very much for those comments. So along those lines is I want to make sure that everybody understands is that. 01:18:44
Those. 01:18:50
Projects that you that were that are listed on all the where the resources have gone. 01:18:51
Have been approved by both. 01:18:57
Bodies. It wasn't just the port approving, it wasn't just the city. So we all agreed upon that, and that includes the barred 01:18:59
statue. 01:19:02
Because that that was not a. 01:19:07
Port of Winimi Endeavor, as a matter of fact. 01:19:09
My understanding is in that conversation, I wasn't around for that. 01:19:11
Was that it even included other statues which based off of our experience, we may not even pursue. 01:19:15
But those individuals opposing those? 01:19:20
Have to understand that all those items including once again the Bard statue. 01:19:25
Were approved by both bodies. 01:19:31
One body cannot approve a single item on the list. 01:19:33
Without the other one agreed. 01:19:37
So we both agreed that those would be beneficial. But I would like to, as you have commented in previous meetings, is that I'd 01:19:39
like to go to those bigger projects. 01:19:44
I really would. I think that then that way they have a bigger impact. 01:19:49
And then 2 is that if, like I mentioned earlier, if $134,000 is not enough, then we roll that money into the following year. 01:19:53
Right now, we still have some outstanding funds with regards to the grant writer. 01:20:03
And I think you're also having some some way signs. 01:20:07
Wayfinder signs for the City of Port money. 01:20:13
And I'd love to see, you know, I had an opportunity to have coffee with. 01:20:16
Councilmember Lopez. 01:20:22
And he mentioned, and I didn't even think about this, he says, you know. 01:20:24
I just hate the entrance to the city of Port Hueneme, Alpha Wine, Amy Rd. because. 01:20:27
It's part, it's, it's Oxnard, right When you come to get to the city. How do we work on Endeavor? 01:20:33
Where we help? 01:20:38
Beautify that. 01:20:40
And that's where Commissioner Rooney said, you know, it might involve. 01:20:42
Outside of just the city of Port Hueneme. 01:20:45
And then also the other part is that aside from. 01:20:48
The community benefits. 01:20:52
The port. 01:20:54
Believes in giving back to the community, period. 01:20:57
So you'll see that we sponsor a lot of events. 01:20:59
And some of these organizations that we sponsor are on that list. 01:21:03
That was provided to the city of Winnemi. 01:21:08
And I love the fact. 01:21:11
That were giving back to the community. That's what everyone should do. 01:21:13
Every business owner in this city. 01:21:16
And in the in the county from as far as I'm concerned. 01:21:19
Should be giving back. 01:21:22
To the community that they are doing business and I strongly believe about that. I believe in that. 01:21:24
So the fact that we do a check presentation, that's fantastic. 01:21:29
It you know, it shouldn't be here or there, the fact that that money is coming and being invested in the community should be a 01:21:33
beautiful thing. 01:21:37
Thank you. 01:21:41
Thank you. I'm mayor Pro Tem. 01:21:42
Yeah. 01:21:43
Reading the settlement agreement, you know the agreement with the Oxnard Harbor District and. 01:21:45
With the city of Waeneme was an agreement between both entities. 01:21:50
For community benefit. 01:21:56
Doesn't spell out. 01:21:59
You know, it just seems odd. 01:22:01
Why would the city agree to events in? 01:22:04
Oxnard. 01:22:08
Or. 01:22:09
So that's that, this little Gray area there. I see that. 01:22:10
Where even though in the spirit of. 01:22:15
Community and benefit and both entities. 01:22:18
I see that the subtle agreement was strictly for. 01:22:22
Our community. 01:22:27
I mean, that's how I read it. 01:22:28
So. 01:22:31
Again, I'm just. It's my perspective. 01:22:35
May I ask a question? Wait so also? 01:22:39
Well, could you share an example because I think for example, let's say the Beach festival. 01:22:43
OK, the Beets Festival is held in Winnemi. Are we supposed to tell residents from Ventura and Oxnard not to come so it's agreed 01:22:48
upon? 01:22:52
Thing that it's benefiting our city. 01:22:56
Exactly. 01:22:59
And Oxford Harbor District, it's open up to everybody. 01:23:00
I guess my point is like. 01:23:05
If there was a, If there was a. 01:23:07
A CBF request that was say in satikoi or? 01:23:11
It would just be a hard sale for us to to agree to that and it should be because, and I don't think that that's. 01:23:17
I haven't seen any comes. Yeah, I'm just saying that that's how I heard you guys. 01:23:24
That's what I thought you guys were saying no. 01:23:29
No, no, it has to be benefiting the city of Port winding me and the ports of Wayne, it says specifically under Section 9. 01:23:31
Of the. 01:23:39
Put the money into the CBF. 01:23:42
Which shall be a separate and distinct fund. 01:23:44
Which may only be spent on approved projects that benefit both the city and the district and the communities they serve. 01:23:47
So goes back to my initial comment about projects. So if we talk about. 01:23:54
How are we going to sustain the? 01:24:00
The beach. 01:24:03
How are we going to sustain the beach? And we look at putting the big concrete. 01:24:05
Jacks out there. 01:24:09
You know, in order to make the the beach stronger. 01:24:11
What a great project. 01:24:15
Great project. 01:24:16
Right. So why don't we do that? 01:24:17
And and because that is that it's here, it's local, it benefits both of our agencies is clear, we can say here's the benefits to 01:24:19
both of our agencies, right. I agree with that. That's the kind of things that we had intended. 01:24:26
This to do? 01:24:33
Not what you said necessarily do a dog park. I don't. Not sure how the port benefits from a dog park but. 01:24:34
You know, dog park, pickleball courts, stuff like that. 01:24:40
Umm, kind of not the intent of when we were going through all this negotiation so. 01:24:46
That's where. 01:24:51
Our board has had the discussion of we've kind of shifted away and let's look at those big projects. You know, maybe there's an 01:24:53
engineering study that we can do to look at new and improved ways. 01:24:58
Of maintaining that being. 01:25:03
And do other stuff too. Yeah. So I agree with big projects at first, first and foremost. 01:25:04
I think our strategic. 01:25:10
Community Development. 01:25:14
Could get a big boost for our agency and and the port using a lot of the CBF funds. Those are good community. Those are good 01:25:15
conversations I think that we could have in the future. 01:25:20
Again, I'm only speaking for myself. 01:25:26
But. 01:25:29
I just when you said we, we served, you know. 01:25:32
300,000 people. It's like it sounds like you are shifting this away. 01:25:36
That's what it sounded like. 01:25:40
Well, my point here is that. 01:25:43
The agreement. 01:25:47
Clearly calls out that both of us can. 01:25:49
You know, provide projects to the communities we serve. So ours just happens to be. 01:25:52
A little bit bigger. 01:25:57
So that's where. 01:25:58
Things have gone into and I know that and some of the projects that were brought forward out of the CAC. 01:26:00
They were located in Oxnard. 01:26:05
There there was a focus the you know, hopefully say yes, you need to serve the residents of Winnie me. 01:26:08
We do that too when we talk with. 01:26:16
Nonprofits you know that we support outside the CBF. 01:26:19
We're like, OK, what are you doing for the residents of Wayne Mimi? What are you doing for the students of Wayne Mimi? Where are 01:26:22
the scholarships that go directly to impact? 01:26:27
The residents of Wanimi. 01:26:31
We have done that. 01:26:32
In the entire time that I've been on this board. 01:26:34
We consider the residents, we consider the students, we consider where our dollars are going. 01:26:36
To help serve those seniors, perhaps. 01:26:41
You know, and, and we, we focus on that. 01:26:44
So we've we've been intentional. 01:26:47
About about that with our agencies. In fact, I got in trouble one time. 01:26:50
Because I wanted them to do something and they're like, well, you can't really ask tell them to do that. 01:26:54
But that's our intent is that we, we want to benefit the communities that we serve. And so that goes for both Oxnard and, and why 01:27:00
Navy as well. 01:27:04
Yes, you know, and you just said something. 01:27:10
Commissioner Rooney, that I thought about when we were at the Green Marine Conference. 01:27:14
Recently was the Jacks. 01:27:19
Yeah, because we came across the Jax Project in Hawaii two years ago, and she's the one that said, Oh my God, this would be 01:27:21
perfect. 01:27:25
So I'm just thinking when you just mentioned and you also mentioned it, Councilmember Lopez, I thought. 01:27:29
You know what? We've not researched that. 01:27:34
We should spend some time researching that project because heaven knows, we might be able to find a grant opportunity. 01:27:37
That's huge, because the grant just dawned on me when we were. 01:27:44
In New Orleans, that. 01:27:48
You came across that again and I think that that's one of those projects I think would be really worth our while. 01:27:50
To start investigating. 01:27:54
All right, any other comments? 01:27:58
OK. 01:28:02
Let's go ahead and move on to item number six. I think Mystique assessed for you. 01:28:04
Yeah, we just want to share an update with you of the renderings that we receive for the. 01:28:09
Barred statue. 01:28:16
And so there's there's photographs and and renderings that came in through Kiesel Architect that put these together and. 01:28:17
Yeah, if you if you look at those, they. 01:28:27
Really are quite beautiful we think, and actually will be a very welcoming. 01:28:30
Way to I don't know if these can go up on the screen Georgiana or not. I don't know if that's possible. 01:28:36
If not, we can share them with the community, but they're their state-of-the-art. 01:28:42
They kind of marry into the concepts that we see at. 01:28:46
The promenade in terms of setting up a compass like style, having some walls and beautification that. 01:28:52
I really think. 01:28:58
Create a beautiful gateway and it will have the Bard statue looking at the Maritime Museum and kind of bridging the opportunities 01:28:59
to revitalize that museum and participate in that so. 01:29:05
Just giving you a sense of where we're taking this, we're going to be bringing these renderings to our board and moving forward 01:29:11
with one of the concepts. 01:29:15
There will not be enough CBF money to pay for this in full so. 01:29:18
The landscaping and some of the art and, and them we're committed to doing it to make it great and to make it beautiful and 01:29:24
really. 01:29:27
Recognize the contributions of Mr. Bard to both the city and the port and how it all ties into. 01:29:30
How both important city were born and I think it's just ideal that it's right across from the museum. 01:29:37
So you can kind of get a sense of how cool this could look and bringing the community into some. 01:29:43
Some space. 01:29:49
That's very warm and welcoming and celebrates of a leader that has done so much for our our port and community. So just sharing. 01:29:51
Thank you, Mysticus. 01:30:01
These renderings were discussed at our ad hoc meeting. We. 01:30:03
And having this. 01:30:08
Ad hoc meeting for a while now. 01:30:10
And. 01:30:13
The intent is that. 01:30:15
These are these are potential. 01:30:17
Drawings. 01:30:20
So we're looking for feedback. 01:30:21
From you. 01:30:24
And then? 01:30:25
We look at what is going to be placed on these walls. 01:30:27
That are on the back you can see you can't read it because we don't know what the words are so. 01:30:32
The idea? 01:30:38
That we've gone out and and worked with the landscape architect. 01:30:40
And then? 01:30:45
We come back together. 01:30:46
To talk about what is on this this wall. 01:30:48
And what does that look like? And to have the recognition of both the city and the port, the members on each body to be listed on 01:30:52
here as well. 01:30:56
When it all gets put in place. 01:31:01
And then you can see this is outside of the 105 building on Winimi Road. 01:31:03
And so it's it's going to change dramatically because our sign is going to come down. 01:31:09
And then there's beautiful landscaping and trees and a place for people to sit now. 01:31:14
The walkway. 01:31:20
Those there's two different ways to enter into it so you can come on the sidewalk. 01:31:22
That's there on why Nimi Rd. 01:31:26
That turns the corner. 01:31:29
And then you can also enter in from. 01:31:30
The parking lot. 01:31:33
There at the 105 building, so there, that's the cars you can see there. So there'll be a lot of. 01:31:34
Natural landscape, things like that. 01:31:40
The only thing that we didn't talk about at the last meeting was. 01:31:43
Potentially to protect the statue from any kind of vandalism that maybe there's some sort of. 01:31:47
Protect barrier. 01:31:54
There in the event that a car decides to. 01:31:55
Come through. 01:31:59
Or something happens. There has been some destruction of monuments in this region recently where they've cut things off and things 01:32:00
like that. So we want to prevent that. 01:32:06
But the idea is that we bring this forward. 01:32:11
Umm, as a concept? 01:32:14
Looking for input and feedback. 01:32:17
And then we will we will work together collectively. 01:32:21
On what the words are that are placed on the monument. 01:32:25
And the only thing I'd add to that is the reason you see the port logo there is because it. 01:32:28
Literally is our office building, so it's sort of our sign and we're taking our sign down. It's not to not celebrate. 01:32:32
Participation of the city. 01:32:38
If I can add, you know, it's really interesting. I had the opportunity to speak before the county Board of Supervisors recently 01:32:42
when we were presenting. 01:32:46
The Channel Islands harbor with a certificate on their 60th anniversary. 01:32:50
And I had the opportunity to speak right after Travers, the grandson of Richard Bard, spoke. 01:32:55
And it dawned on me that I said I don't have to write a speech, I'll just say exactly how it all ties in is that. 01:33:00
If it weren't for the port of Winnie Me, there would be no Channel Islands harbor. 01:33:08
If there weren't for the Port of Wineemi, there would be no naval basement or a county. 01:33:12
If it weren't for the Port of Wynnie me, there would be, you know, city of Port Hueneme. 01:33:16
But. 01:33:20
If there were no Richard Bard. 01:33:21
We would all about be here. 01:33:23
So I think this, this statue, especially the way it's set is, is very a great tribute to a man who's established so much and we 01:33:25
would not be here because of him. 01:33:30
If it weren't because of him. 01:33:35
So let me ask. 01:33:37
So for a process here so you have these renderings. 01:33:40
So, umm. 01:33:44
Do you now then take this back to your? 01:33:46
And asked for it to be agendized and then you'll discuss it at the following meeting. 01:33:49
The process, Yeah, I was actually. I'm glad you asked because. 01:33:55
The process on this one, I think we all remember it got a little. 01:33:59
Blurry, I think at one point. And so the standard process for the city is that any monument goes through what's called the Heroes 01:34:03
process, which goes through the Citizens Advisory Committee. 01:34:08
And so the Citizens Advisory Committee had reviewed the project about maybe 18 months ago. 01:34:13
And approved. 01:34:19
All the elements except at that time. 01:34:21
Location. 01:34:23
And had basically, I think if I remember right, I think had given sort of a few like recommended locations. 01:34:24
I think this is one of them. 01:34:31
So, so I, I feel like, you know, you can never guess, but it feels like it's in line with what everybody was thinking. 01:34:33
And so. 01:34:41
I think for us that location never got finalized, so we'd have to go back just to deal with location just to get the approval for 01:34:42
the location. 01:34:46
And then one more thing on just a technical level is anytime where like. 01:34:50
There's an existing landscape permit for the port. 01:34:55
In that location that identifies all the landscaping. So I think there have to be a minor modification to the landscape permit to 01:34:59
show this. 01:35:02
But a minor modification is pretty simple straightforward. 01:35:06
So I think those are the 2. 01:35:10
Processes from the city so just be getting the final location through the heroes process and then a plant like the landscaping 01:35:12
permit. I guess my question was not that, but what? 01:35:18
We're asking for your council. 01:35:25
To comment on this. 01:35:28
And and so how do you get it back to your council and when? 01:35:30
To so we can move forward. He was kind of alluding to that. Yeah, I guess I'm sorry, I think I see the question that was basically 01:35:34
just for for basic feedback versus before a formal approval. 01:35:40
So we have that item on July 21st where we're going to get the Council's direction on the. 01:35:46
DC trip in the. 01:35:52
I think it was a grant writing project that the council specifically had asked to come back. 01:35:54
So we can, I think we could include this with that for just feedback. 01:35:59
Yeah. 01:36:02
Can I make one recommendation? 01:36:06
There's these. 01:36:09
LA County uses these solar lights for street lighting. 01:36:11
And this. 01:36:14
To have an excellent. 01:36:15
You know, area for to light this up at night, I think there was going to be lighting in that. 01:36:19
Yeah. And for security purposes, well, and it's a great point because we actually have eighteen of those lights over on Project 34 01:36:24
that we use solar lighting. 01:36:28
In full for that project and that's the direction we're headed. 01:36:33
We talked about it at our subcommittee meeting. 01:36:37
That. 01:36:40
We didn't want this to be a hidey hole for somebody to sleep overnight. 01:36:41
And so that's why there was intention of. 01:36:47
Of how it was placed and to have lighting in there. I don't think the lighting is shown on here. 01:36:51
But that was that was part of the intent is to make it so it's it's. 01:36:56
Not conducive for. 01:37:01
Overnight sleeping, yeah. 01:37:03
And we can certainly be at the meeting to support any questions for the time of feedback. 01:37:04
Thank you. 01:37:11
Any other comments? 01:37:12
If not, let's see, we're going to move on to item number E, item number 7 and that's committee member comments and requests for 01:37:14
future items. 01:37:19
Madam Mayor, anyone go ahead. Thank you. 01:37:26
Our board has talked about. 01:37:30
Ways. Umm. 01:37:32
That we would like to support the city. 01:37:34
In the economic development plan. 01:37:36
That you have. 01:37:40
Is something that. 01:37:41
Would be of interest for us to learn more about. 01:37:43
So. 01:37:46
If we could. 01:37:48
Make a request to have a presentation about the city's economic development plan. 01:37:50
To this committee. 01:37:56
And then that would. 01:37:57
Allow us to look forward to how we can collaborate more on doing that. 01:38:00
Also the next agenda. 01:38:05
To bring those minutes back for approval. 01:38:08
And then also tagging along with what Commissioner Zacharias said. 01:38:11
The Ventura Port District. 01:38:16
Project umm. 01:38:18
That we work together collaboratively on. 01:38:19
Is the. 01:38:23
First in the state for special districts to work together and to have an innovative project. 01:38:23
That was very unusual. 01:38:31
And so I think that it might be an interesting item to bring back and just do a presentation. 01:38:33
So you can become more familiar with it and and we like to do innovative projects and to have something that's a little bit 01:38:41
out-of-the-box. We're all in for that. I mean our. 01:38:47
Our team likes to. 01:38:53
Likes to figure out ways to get to yes and to do some really fun stuff, so. 01:38:55
We open that up to. 01:39:00
To that dialogue to say how can we do this and how can we work together on something that's really impactful. 01:39:02
For both agencies and and to work together. So I think having a presentation on that might. 01:39:09
Might spur some ideas, you know, of how we can really. 01:39:14
Do something really fun. 01:39:18
Thank you. That's it. 01:39:20
Great. Go ahead. 01:39:21
Just also one thing to add to that, I also like to add for a future item date is a presentation from the port on our workforce 01:39:23
development plan, the grant that we received. That is really innovative, my friends. 01:39:29
I like it because I'm an education. You could see the pipeline being built up. 01:39:37
From K through 12 all the way through university. 01:39:41
And right now, one of the biggest issues we're having in Ventura County is that when folks come out of the area, Special Naval 01:39:43
Base Ventura County is having this is that. 01:39:48
They come in from out of the area and realize it's too expensive to live here, so we need to grow our own. 01:39:52
And that particular grant that we received. 01:39:58
Was tied into a larger grant if you want to elaborate a little bit more to Steve. 01:40:01
Oh, you're not OK, but. 01:40:07
I think we are, we can only talk about OK, so anyways, if we could, if we can bring it to next time. But anyways if we can bring 01:40:09
down, I was ready to tell you about it, but it's really cool. And those are the type of unique partnerships that get funded. 01:40:15
So thank you. OK, great. 01:40:22
Do you have anything with them? 01:40:25
Just my. 01:40:26
Suggestion we may all be thinking about it, but would be, I think, planning to have the DC trip on the rest of the meetings until 01:40:28
September. 01:40:32
Which is, you know, only two actually, but. 01:40:37
I would suggest that. 01:40:39
I think we'll have done our our. 01:40:43
Visioning as well, so we'll be able to bring back. 01:40:45
The comment that the CPF. 01:40:48
Yes. 01:40:51
Yeah. Yeah, we can. 01:40:53
Yeah, I mean, you can't guarantee that because we haven't voted. 01:40:55
So right, no, no, but it could go on there and then we can call it off. We have approval, yeah, it just gives in case they need to 01:40:59
get approval for it. We don't want it not to be on there if we did. 01:41:03
We're we're ready for that. 01:41:08
Understood, Commissioner, Thank you. Did you have anything else? 01:41:09
Well, our City Council has. 01:41:17
An agenda is. 01:41:20
Well, they requested a future agenda item for a joint meeting. 01:41:21
I'm not going to. All I'm doing is mentioning it. 01:41:28
Because, umm. 01:41:31
It's it kind of falls in line with. 01:41:33
With collaboration. 01:41:37
Trying to collaborate. 01:41:39
I just. 01:41:46
My thought process, well, I'm not going to really get into the thought process, but. 01:41:48
I don't know if that'll work, it just seems too. 01:41:53
Timely never get on an agenda. 01:41:56
Would probably never be in agreement with. 01:42:00
Both. Both bodies going back and forth trying to find. 01:42:03
Common ground. 01:42:07
Anyways, that was it. 01:42:09
Great. Thank you. 01:42:10
So the the actual action was that the city manager has an action. 01:42:12
And so right now that's that's what we have city manager has an action and then however he goes through that with. 01:42:18
Mystique. Then we'll come around the other side of that. 01:42:24
OK. Any other comments? 01:42:27
Anything else? 01:42:30
All right. So actually I do have a clarification. So what I got for the next agenda item, although it does have to go through 01:42:31
mutual processes, everyone has to go back to their boards. 01:42:36
So it'd be economic development revised minutes, a presentation on the Ventura Harbor Port project, a presentation on the what we 01:42:40
call those speed workforce development initiative. 01:42:46
Establishing the itinerary for the DC trip and then CBF projects, Yes. Would you guys, everybody, is everybody OK with that? Do we 01:42:52
need to take a vote or are we all in favor of the items? 01:42:58
Economic development plan. 01:43:04
I did. 01:43:05
Everybody. 01:43:07
OK. Got a consensus. Thank you so much. 01:43:08
So that was item number. I'm sorry I missed one other thing. It was the revised minutes. 01:43:11
Oh, that's already on. You got it. OK. You got it. Yeah, OK. 01:43:16
OK. And so, so we're going to closeout. Are there any additional comp? 01:43:19
Sorry, the clerk of the Board are here is making note that we're going to be in Peru during the. 01:43:27
21st so we're. 01:43:31
Re establishing the date for the July meeting, it looks like it's going to land on July 30th, so it's just a comment. 01:43:33
Did we? I think we had a potential conflict, and we were. 01:43:39
Going to see is there flexibility to do it on Tuesday the 29th. 01:43:44
OK, so we'll see how our trip lands. We may or may not be on a plane, but we'll figure this out. OK, great. Sounds good. 01:43:48
OK. So those were our discussion items. Are there any final comments? 01:43:56
No final comments. OK. If not, we'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting today. It is now 5. 01:44:02
12 and will to be determined for our next meeting. 01:44:09
Great. Thank you. 01:44:12
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All right. Good afternoon and welcome to the City of Port Hueneme and the Oxnard Harbor District joint meeting. 00:01:56
Today is Wednesday, June 25th, will now call this meeting to order. 00:02:02
The time is now 330. 00:02:07
Madam Clerk, can we get a roll call, please? 00:02:11
Commissioner Zacharias. 00:02:15
Here. Commissioner Rooney here. 00:02:17
Mayor Pro Tem Lopez here. 00:02:21
Mayor McQueen Lejean here and City Manager Vega. 00:02:23
Here, Kristen Dicus is currently not in attendance. 00:02:27
She's bleeding. She's bleeding. 00:02:31
OK, great. Thank you. 00:02:33
We'll move to item C That's public comments. 00:02:35
Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments? 00:02:39
We have a couple public comments. First will be Mr. Greg Ross and followed by Jan Burke. 00:02:41
Good afternoon, Commissioners. 00:02:55
City Manager. 00:02:57
Mr. Lopez. 00:02:59
And. 00:03:01
Mayor Mayor Marsha. 00:03:02
Martha's. 00:03:05
So I've lived here a long time, you all know that. 00:03:06
This is the closest port to any height density residential area. 00:03:11
On the West Coast. 00:03:16
Just happened to see on my Google feed this morning. 00:03:18
A port in Turkey. 00:03:21
There were no residences near that port. 00:03:24
Cargo port in Turkey. 00:03:26
So I'm I'm once again beating the drum for asking the port to be. 00:03:29
Good neighbors. 00:03:35
We get. 00:03:36
Oxnard doesn't get this. We get the noise. 00:03:38
We get the pollution, we get the trucks. My wife was on Wayne me Rd. 00:03:41
Just about an hour ago. 00:03:45
And I can always tell when there's a cargo ship offloading containers. 00:03:47
Because those truckers are hauling. 00:03:51
They're just moving fast. 00:03:53
Speeding down Wynnum Rd. Ventura Rd. 00:03:56
It's not good. 00:03:59
We'd like to see. 00:04:01
The truckers become more. 00:04:04
Aware of. 00:04:07
Where they are and the ship captains as well. 00:04:08
I presented to the Harbor Commission District recently. 00:04:12
No 3 three months ago. 00:04:17
And Commissioner Rooney, you took good notes, you asked me questions. 00:04:19
Said What could we do? 00:04:23
And I asked to see if there was any way you could put a sign up for the truckers. 00:04:25
Please wait if you can layoff your horns. 00:04:30
That's all we ask. 00:04:33
But that didn't happen. 00:04:34
Now, conversely. 00:04:36
About a week ago. 00:04:37
We had a. 00:04:40
Port Hueneme. 00:04:41
Meet and greet. 00:04:43
At Anna Cappuccino was great and I asked. 00:04:44
City Manager Vega and I said, hey, you know, there's a couple of dead trees. 00:04:49
On Bay Blvd. 00:04:52
I drove by there today. 00:04:54
They're cut up. 00:04:56
So they he listened and a thank you for that. 00:04:58
It's terrific and that's what we're asking of. 00:05:00
The harbor. 00:05:03
District Commissioners, if you would just please. 00:05:05
Listen and become good neighbors. 00:05:08
Right now, there's still a lot of negatives. We've got potholes. 00:05:10
The truckers are out of control. 00:05:14
And I just like to see those ships leave at 7:00 AM, not 5:55 and 5:00. 00:05:17
543 and is laying on their horn ships horn. 00:05:23
We hear it all so. 00:05:27
Thank you for listening. 00:05:28
Thank you. 00:05:30
Afternoon commissioners, City Council and staff. 00:05:38
I wanted to just say that I there's been a lot of discussion about a joint meeting of the of the two bodies of. 00:05:44
Elected officials. 00:05:50
I want to reinforce that. 00:05:52
We are very supportive of that effort. 00:05:54
We think that a more positive outcome. 00:05:56
Can come from that. 00:05:59
We do believe that a amended agreement. 00:06:02
Is probably necessary. 00:06:05
I don't know of any organization or company. 00:06:07
Any operation for decades without an amended agreement that's either annual. 00:06:11
Or every couple years. 00:06:16
It's just, I mean, especially considering business changes. 00:06:18
Economic times change. 00:06:22
The business shifts. 00:06:25
Positive or negative? 00:06:26
And you should have this discussion on an annual basis to figure out what. 00:06:27
What's best for both entities? 00:06:31
Since we are the host city, the gateway city, everything comes in and out of our city. 00:06:34
It is important that we find a good balance and a good. 00:06:40
Collaboration to make this work for both parties. We're not against growth. 00:06:44
But we want to make sure that it's and we are supportive of the port, but we want to make sure that the port and the community. 00:06:48
Can coexist. 00:06:54
In a positive way and be good neighbors for each other. 00:06:56
One more thing that I'd like to say that you know with the in addition to the. 00:07:03
Long A. 00:07:09
Agreement that's been in place for a long time. 00:07:11
You have a very aggressive. 00:07:14
Strategic plan for growth in the next 10 years. 00:07:16
That also is going to impact what we're trying to do here. 00:07:19
And so I think that that's another reason why it's so important to really take that into consideration. What's that going to do to 00:07:23
our community? 00:07:26
What's that going to do to our infrastructure? What's that going to do to public safety? 00:07:30
We have as my neighbor said. 00:07:34
We're very highly populated. We have 22 condominium. 00:07:38
Associations within one mile of the port. 00:07:43
Out of the 38 that we have in our entire city. 00:07:46
That's an equivalent of about. 00:07:49
7000 residents to 9000 residents. 00:07:51
That feel the impact. 00:07:54
Of the port. 00:07:57
I urge you to sit down together. 00:07:58
To look at where are we now? 00:08:01
How do we make this better for both parties? 00:08:03
Thank you. 00:08:07
That concludes public comment. 00:08:08
Great. Thank you. So we'll go ahead and move on to the discussion items. 00:08:10
I see that we have had some adjustments. 00:08:15
To the items number 12 and #5. 00:08:18
There any summary information you'd like to provide regarding the adjustments to the minutes? 00:08:23
I'm sorry to the items. So it looks like there was an adjustment, a late adjustment to the item number one. 00:08:29
Item number 2 and item number 5. Is there anything? 00:08:34
Can we call out what the adjustments are for the folks who didn't get to see them? Yes, of course. So we moved the item on the 00:08:38
Washington delegation trip more towards the back of the meeting. 00:08:43
Depending how long this meeting goes, the consultant in Washington wasn't available till 4:30 this afternoon. 00:08:49
So if we conclude before then, we'll make sure he comes to the July meeting, but that was his availability and do recognize that. 00:08:55
They're on the East Coast, so it was sort of a timing thing. 00:09:03
Anything right I'm #2? 00:09:10
So I'm confused. 00:09:13
Michelle, do you want to do this? I'll have the clerk of the board do it. I think it would be helpful because she actually worked 00:09:17
with Georgiana on this. And thank you for your patience. I know there's been a lot of back and forth pulling this all together, 00:09:20
so. 00:09:24
Thank you to our teams for the hard work. 00:09:29
On item number G1, the minutes we replace the current minutes that were in the packet with revised minutes to as a correction was 00:09:32
made. 00:09:37
On D2 clarification on settlement agreement. 00:09:41
And we replace pages 34 and 35. 00:09:45
In the packet with the corrected 814176 city port minutes. 00:09:48
And on D5 Community Benefit fund projects. 00:09:54
Replace the attached cover page for item D5 reflecting the date of July 14, 2025 is the Visioning Workshop. 00:09:58
And replace the CBF Ongoing projects reconciliation spreadsheet, adding a new line. 00:10:06
For projects. 00:10:12
And everyone should have a copy with them. 00:10:14
That was headed to Georgiana this afternoon. 00:10:17
OK. Thank you. 00:10:21
Thank you. Can I ask Mayor the minutes what was the correction? 00:10:22
I'm trying to read both. 00:10:28
At the same time, yeah. 00:10:30
I will read it for you, thank you. 00:10:33
The correction on the minutes was to add the statement of. 00:10:53
City Manager Vegas stated that the City Council has voted that they do not. 00:10:57
Give us the authority to come here and have discussions outside of the Community Benefit Fund. CBF Commissioner when he requested 00:11:01
to see that motion. 00:11:06
Any comments? 00:11:15
Yeah, just one is. I don't recall that being exactly what was said. Yeah. 00:11:17
I guess umm umm. 00:11:22
I would ask if if that's what everybody heard, I think we had talked about. 00:11:23
A particular item that the Council. 00:11:29
Had. 00:11:32
Not provide a direction to the. 00:11:35
Joint Committee. 00:11:38
On at that point, but not that there was a motion to not have discussion items outside of the Community Benefit fund to come to 00:11:39
the. 00:11:42
To the committee City Manager Vega, I just want to note that I did take it from the transcript. 00:11:46
There was plenty of other. 00:11:52
Conversation back and forth throughout that whole thing. 00:11:55
I did try to generalize the minutes as best as possible, but if we do like any additional comments or. 00:11:59
Transcripts to be added to the set of minutes. We were the can do that, right? Yeah, that was gonna be my suggestion is maybe we 00:12:05
could work on that and bring it back at the next meeting. 00:12:10
Yeah, I think, I think that. 00:12:17
And I vaguely remember, not vaguely, but I remember very well that I think this is your response to my my original response. 00:12:20
After further discussion, you repeated. 00:12:29
What I was trying to say and what my comment was, that's not on here and if this comment is going to be here, I think that's OK. 00:12:32
But I'd like my original comment to be here, and my original comment was that. 00:12:39
There was a motion taken regarding the discuss having the discussion regarding the agreements. 00:12:44
At the city port meeting and that motion failed. 00:12:50
And I use failed or you can use the word died because it didn't get a second. 00:12:54
So therefore we did not have authority to have the conversation at the City Court meeting. 00:12:59
So that was my first comment and I made the first comment. I think yours was after further discussion. 00:13:04
You kind of came back and was reiterating what I was saying. So that's the case. Yeah, I appreciate the clarification. Yeah, 00:13:09
again, I'm OK with this on here, but I'd like that to be added because that was really the first statement that was made, Madam 00:13:14
Mayor. Yeah, I did. 00:13:19
Request to see where that the motion was made in in the. 00:13:25
City Council minutes so. 00:13:30
That's why I wanted it in there. For the record, it has been. There's been information that's been provided since then time. 00:13:32
So, umm. 00:13:38
That's why we we added that in. Great, great. Thank you. And again with that with the adjustment of the comment that I just made 00:13:39
if that comp that if that's made then I think we can go forward with that. Madam Mayor, I do have another item that I'd like to 00:13:45
clarify because I wasn't sure about what who. 00:13:51
The comments were, yeah, OK, great. So before we move approval on that, it's under item number 4. 00:13:58
Where Umm. 00:14:05
We were talking about the projects and then. 00:14:09
I was just unclear at the top of Page 3. 00:14:14
Where it talks about Mayor Pro Tem, Lopez mentioned that there had been questions from the City Council regarding the projects and 00:14:18
the process through the Community Advisory Commission. 00:14:23
So I wasn't sure what. 00:14:28
That was referring to. 00:14:30
And and it's not clear in the minutes. I think so. 00:14:32
If we can just kind of massage that a little bit to have the. 00:14:36
The record be accurate because I'm not clear what. 00:14:40
The intent was here. OK, so let me ask you this. 00:14:43
Do you want to? 00:14:47
Forego approving the minutes today to get them accurate. 00:14:49
And then come back and approve them when we can all agree with what they say. 00:14:52
I'm happy to do that just. 00:14:57
Clarify that. 00:15:00
That statement there, OK, we'll go ahead and take a note of that. 00:15:02
Will definitely take another look and then. 00:15:05
Update them and then bring them back to the next meeting. OK, thank you. 00:15:07
So, Madam, Madam Clerk, since we what vote do we need to take or what motion do we need to take it? 00:15:11
Motion to. 00:15:18
We can make a motion or we can just say there was come I mean committee consensus to OK bring. Do we have committee consensus to 00:15:20
move forward and go ahead and approve the minutes next time? Great, thank you. I think I see not so I think we're good there. 00:15:26
So let's go on and move to item number. 00:15:33
2 Miss Dicas, will you please leave the discussion? 00:15:37
For the next item, yes. So this. 00:15:41
This discussion was put on here because there was some Gray areas to. 00:15:44
In in previous discussions as to what can and can be brought to the Port Standing Committee. 00:15:49
And So what we did was put together a memo in concert with our legal counsel that indeed that you can bring. 00:15:55
Other topics to the Port Standing Committee and that we do have a history and precedent of doing that and that's why you see 00:16:02
minutes from previous meetings in here. 00:16:06
But. 00:16:11
Person conversations between James and I, we thought it would be prudent to really collaborate on how we bring forward agenda 00:16:12
items and So what we did is add at the very end of this meeting a future agenda discussions. 00:16:18
So at the end of the meeting we can work together to decide what items will go on future meetings. And so that's why you see that 00:16:25
there and we thought then we would all be aligned in Page. 00:16:30
And understanding on the topics for future meetings. 00:16:35
And in constant in conversations with our with with Ruben Duran of BBK, we can have an active discussion about what those items 00:16:39
are. We can't just talk about the items, right So. 00:16:44
Any comments? 00:16:51
Go ahead. 00:16:53
Yeah, so. 00:16:55
I did. I had, I had a conversation with James and I had read. 00:16:57
The settlement agreement and. 00:17:00
I think I keyed in on. 00:17:02
What what the agreement actually says? 00:17:05
And it says. 00:17:08
Without looking at the precedents that was previous, I was just focused on the words of the agreement and. 00:17:10
So when we talked about this, we, we really didn't talk about precedence. We just talked about what? 00:17:18
What the agreement says and. 00:17:24
The parameters that we we can speak to as. 00:17:27
As this joint committee. 00:17:31
So. But again, you know. 00:17:32
That's something that, well, for clarification, what happened is back in 2015 when we orchestrated the settlement agreement, both 00:17:36
parties at the time mutually decided to use the port Standing committee. 00:17:41
As the platform to discuss CBF but not limit the long standing port standing committee to CBF. 00:17:47
And so that's where it came together. And so we started that President back in 2015 to be sure to talk about CBF. But there if 00:17:55
there were other strategic discussions, this was a very positive place to have that collaborative in their interaction. 00:18:02
Yeah. And I agree with that. I agree with that. I think the one thing that I just want to make sure that everybody keeps in mind. 00:18:09
Is as. 00:18:16
Governing body. 00:18:18
The items that we discuss. 00:18:20
Must be hygienized. 00:18:24
Right. And which means that you have to have conversation before to find out if we're prepared. 00:18:25
To have those conversation, but even before that. 00:18:30
As a representative of this body. 00:18:33
We have to get the Council to. 00:18:36
Approve our discussions. And so that's policy for us. And So what that means for us is that. 00:18:39
We have to decide early on. 00:18:46
So that a council meeting will happen so we can get what we need to then come. 00:18:48
So just want everyone to just. 00:18:53
Know that and when we we can we can talk about anything that the book that the Councilman. 00:18:55
Excuse me, council board or the council says we can talk about so I don't. 00:19:02
I don't think maybe we didn't communicate it well enough. 00:19:07
But yes. 00:19:11
Any topic that the Council. 00:19:12
Votes on That allows us to talk on We can talk. 00:19:15
So that is with any topic. 00:19:19
So just know that. 00:19:21
We're not. We're not limiting to any specific item. 00:19:23
But before we can have the conversation, we must get Council approval. 00:19:27
Just like we do for any agenda item ever on our agenda. 00:19:32
We have to vote after each meeting, we vote about the items that we will discuss on our agenda. 00:19:36
So with that, if we have the votes to have any, any discussion on any topic, we can absolutely have it. 00:19:42
At the. 00:19:49
So nothing prohibits us except. 00:19:50
Having the. 00:19:53
To approve the discussion title. 00:19:54
That's not just a CBF, but this committee, this city for this city port meeting, we can talk about anything that the council 00:19:57
authorizes us to talk about. Yeah, So just a clarification, so. 00:20:03
What's your process of how you go back? 00:20:10
Have those conversations with your council and then how does that? 00:20:13
Kind of bubble up to be prepared. 00:20:16
For this meeting, so every meeting that the City Council has. 00:20:18
We have an item on the agenda that says. 00:20:23
Further, umm. 00:20:26
Agenda items. 00:20:27
Every meeting at the very end. 00:20:29
We all go through, we have an opportunity. 00:20:31
Kristen, would you like to have anything on the agenda? And if she says yes, let's talk about strategic planning. 00:20:34
And we say, is there a motion? Yes, there's a motion. There's a second. Can we have a vote? Yes. 00:20:40
It's on the agenda. 00:20:45
Not necessarily the next agenda, but now our city manager has to go back and. 00:20:47
Figure out what are the reports, What are they asking for? 00:20:51
And put that together. 00:20:54
So every single item. 00:20:55
Every single item that is on our agenda. 00:20:57
We have approved it as. 00:21:00
Council to have that agenda topic on an agenda. 00:21:03
Maybe I didn't ask my question right? 00:21:08
So in regard to being prepared. 00:21:10
For the City Court meeting, yes. 00:21:12
So, umm. 00:21:14
You talk amongst your board to say here are the items that we want to talk about at the City Port meeting. 00:21:16
If we know ahead of time we have items. 00:21:22
But if we know ahead of time, even if you say that in a last meeting you said you wanted to talk about something. 00:21:25
We have to come back. 00:21:32
We have to say yes, let's talk about that. 00:21:34
Yes, let's put it on the agenda. 00:21:37
But it's not on the agenda to the next meeting or the meeting after. 00:21:39
When it is on the agenda. 00:21:43
That's the only time we can talk about it to be prepared. So that's why I'm saying it's an advanced notice. 00:21:45
For us to go through the process to get approval. 00:21:50
Let's let's use Med as an example. 00:21:53
Let's say we talked about we haven't started CBF. 00:21:57
And the last meeting we said at the port meeting, we said, hey, we need to talk about CBF. 00:22:01
Or or less. 00:22:06
Another topic, trip to Washington, DC to Washington DC, OK, what are some of the topics that we want to talk about as it relates 00:22:07
to partnership when we go to DC? 00:22:11
So let's say we talked about that at. 00:22:16
The last port city port meeting. 00:22:19
So now we have to come back and we have to say hey. 00:22:21
Can we put on our agenda to talk about the items that we want to discuss at the city port? 00:22:25
Meeting in preparation weeks after. Yeah, me. And then we time you talk about and then we actually have to put it on the agenda. 00:22:31
Right. And make a decision and then come back. 00:22:40
So, so I guess, yeah, I mean, I want to make this as efficient as. Yeah, yeah, right. 00:22:43
And so if we have our. 00:22:48
Standing meeting. 00:22:50
4th generally on the fourth Wednesday. 00:22:51
Then is it possible that you might be able to in the first or second week agendas? 00:22:55
The topic. So then it'll be. 00:23:01
In the. 00:23:03
I mean to get to. 00:23:04
The agenda for this meeting, I think I'd say we could. We could do that. 00:23:06
So I think this whole discussion is really about we want to be able to talk about the things we need to talk about. 00:23:11
But we need advanced notice so we can get the approval of the council. Can I just get quick clarification question? Just 00:23:17
piggybacking on the discussion here. Just so I understand processes. James and I build the agendas. 00:23:23
So today, at the end of the discussion, we have future agenda items. And so we sit here and we have some consensus. There's 00:23:28
something we'd like to talk about in the future and we can agree on that, but you still need to bring that back to City Council. 00:23:35
And then you'll come back and say, yeah, go ahead, agendize that we got the green light. Is that how it will work? Yeah, It 00:23:41
depends on if the items are something we have already in the past. Agreed. 00:23:47
On as it relates to like CBF, we don't have to keep coming back, say let's put CBF on the agenda because we know that's upcoming. 00:23:53
So we're already. 00:23:56
Doing that. 00:24:00
Right, Those things, we know we're already talking about them. 00:24:01
We're already having conversations with the city. 00:24:04
We may have already said, hey, let's put that on the agenda. 00:24:07
Right. Well, last last meeting we we agendized. 00:24:10
The DC trip. 00:24:15
The topic. 00:24:17
Yeah, yeah. I guess from an efficiency standpoint and and transparency and working within your guidelines. 00:24:18
It might be good to. 00:24:27
Report out right at your next meeting and say here's what we talked about. 00:24:29
And we absolutely here's what we want to talk about for the future item for the future meeting and then that gives you another 00:24:33
week. 00:24:37
To come back to your council and then your. 00:24:41
Ready for the agenda for almost a month process. Yeah, exactly. And so we start and so know that we do do that when we have our 00:24:43
city port meetings, we do come back myself and Mayor Pro Tem, we do report on what we have discussed. Good to do that. 00:24:51
And that brings some further discussion and we might get an approval. Commissioner Rooney, I'm sorry, when you speak, can you 00:24:58
speak directly into the mic they're having? 00:25:04
Sorry. 00:25:10
Are you all having a hard time hearing me as well? OK, OK, I have a habit of doing that. 00:25:12
Yeah. So and and so when we come back and bring information about the port meeting, we do find that we get some items, some 00:25:17
requests for agenda items out of that. 00:25:21
So that's it. But it is A at least I mean. 00:25:26
Say at least a month, but sometimes two months, because then because not two months because we meet twice. Well, because then. 00:25:31
City Manager will talk to Kristen and then say OK, we need to. 00:25:38
Here's here's the agenda and then. 00:25:42
We both, both agencies need to agree on the agenda items, right? So then that gives time for us to then decide. I think the good, 00:25:45
I think the good news is unlike us, we meet twice a month. 00:25:50
Generally speaking, if I can add to, I think one thing where maybe it felt different recently is. 00:25:56
That. 00:26:03
Typically, we do try to anticipate like the items that are going to be coming down the Pike. So we do talk about those like in 00:26:04
advance of the council so that we don't have to come into this room and say like we haven't talked about that yet. 00:26:09
And so like the CBF is an example we've talked about a couple months back the they gave direction to. 00:26:15
Our committee and the committee can now talk about that item. 00:26:21
But just as an example. 00:26:24
Even in the past, I don't know if everybody realized like even CBF items have gone back to the council and so. 00:26:28
The DC trip. 00:26:35
Last year. 00:26:36
Like we knew it was coming up, so we went to the council, asked what the priorities were for the committee, and then the committee 00:26:37
came to this meeting. So we never had that discussion here where we said like, we weren't prepared, you know? 00:26:42
So it's just. 00:26:49
Yeah, those new items, so like we try to get the direction ahead of time on the regular CBF ongoing business type stuff. And then 00:26:51
if new items come up, that's where I think we're saying we. 00:26:56
If we can workout that process where then we have time to go back to council. 00:27:02
It would help. I think that item is going to help. Having the agenda. Yeah, I think it will. Yeah. That was the goal. Just for 00:27:06
clarification, perfect technical. 00:27:09
For myself is that. 00:27:13
Is this something new? Because I don't. I mean, we've been able to talk about any and every topic. 00:27:14
We as bodies, we. 00:27:20
As an advisory group, we're just talking, We're not making decisions. 00:27:22
And I feel like we're. 00:27:27
Were putting handcuffs on ourselves to be able to have those open discussions, but our conversations talking about topics but we 00:27:30
don't. 00:27:35
Say, OK, we're going to decide on this because we both know that we have to go back to the commissioners and you all have to go 00:27:39
back to the City Council members to say, hey, we have this discussion. What are your thoughts? 00:27:44
But I feel like we're handcuffing ourselves to not be able to have those open discussions, the brainstorming ideas where I think 00:27:49
to me, that's the purpose of this particular committee. 00:27:54
Yeah, I'll just say I have not felt constrained. I sat in these meetings over the last year as the mayor Pro Tem and now being 00:28:00
here. 00:28:06
Now. 00:28:13
I think what has happened over what happened over last year that our conversations were focused on the items that were on the CBF. 00:28:14
Right. No, Yeah, we talked about monuments, CBS, we talked about the mural, CBF we talked about. So, so there's no constraints 00:28:23
when we're talking about the items on our CBS because we've already approved those. The council has already approved those items, 00:28:29
so we can discuss those at will. 00:28:35
It's when things come up that have not that have been not been part of those discussions is when we have to. 00:28:41
Make sure that we're coming back, but I would hate to lose that in this particular meeting because then we're losing time. I'd 00:28:47
like to. I don't know if there's a possibility to add a. 00:28:51
A section on the agenda, just brainstorming public conversation nights, ideas, suggestions. People might be coming up to the 00:28:56
podium to give their input, thinking, hey, you know what you might want to consider that I think for. 00:29:02
We're going to be able to. We're going to lose that opportunity to have that discussion. 00:29:08
Because I have been sitting on this committee for a couple years now and I just feel like all of a sudden. 00:29:14
We're putting these guidelines in place that I'm thinking it's leaving us no room for open conversation. We have to remember those 00:29:18
are their guidelines. Those own our guidelines. 00:29:23
So it's how they are allowed to. 00:29:29
Interact. 00:29:32
As part of this. 00:29:34
But historically, I mean, I've been on this committee. 00:29:36
For years. 00:29:39
It's been something where there's been agendas, items that lead to other discussion and potential collaboration that. 00:29:42
That may not happen in a different format, and this is a. It's just a working committee with no. 00:29:49
Authority to. 00:29:56
Take the vote, right? Yeah. And we can going back to our boards and we both are in the same situation. 00:29:59
Of reporting back to our boards and asking for. 00:30:04
That vote, you know, at that level. So I understand that. 00:30:08
We just I agree with Commissioner Zacharias. 00:30:12
That, umm. 00:30:16
We lose time in doing that and and if there's a way that we can help streamline things. 00:30:18
We're happy to do that and and work within your guidelines. Yeah, and you know, maybe streamlining things is by even potential 00:30:23
topics because you'll get it approved. 00:30:28
Because I'm just thinking right now, for example, the DC trip, you go dark in August. 00:30:34
All right, August or July? 00:30:40
Yeah, we're yeah. 00:30:42
August 7th, but we have it scheduled for July 21st Yes, yes, but we still we we the committee still meet. We don't go dark, but 00:30:44
you're you're. 00:30:49
Council meetings go dark, so therefore you're losing a whole month of. 00:30:54
Conversations. 00:30:59
To move items forward, right Yeah, so so our. 00:31:01
Our schedule now, we're not going dark in July. 00:31:04
Not going dark for a month. We're canceling one meeting. 00:31:09
I yeah could. 00:31:12
There is opportunity under item number 7 under Councilmember comments, yes. 00:31:16
To make a comment. 00:31:21
To not have a discussion about it. 00:31:23
But to make a comment so I mean if you feel like you. 00:31:25
Want to say something? 00:31:28
There's a place to do it. 00:31:29
As long as we all don't engage in the conversation on that because it's not agendized. 00:31:31
So there, there is some flexibility there and making making statements to the interval. And if I may, just an idea too, when we 00:31:36
get to the future agenda items, maybe a future agenda item that you could bring back to the Council would be the opportunity to 00:31:41
brainstorm on certain collaborative projects. 00:31:47
That might be a way to help. 00:31:53
Solve that Riddle. 00:31:54
I think I think, for example, it's important that we both educate ourselves on each others. 00:31:55
Organization, right? One thing that pops into mine right now is the grant that we were able to get with collaboration with the. 00:32:02
Ventura Port District. 00:32:09
I don't know if you all know the details about that, but that is amazing. And so I'm trying to figure out, OK, we need to educate 00:32:10
you on how that came about so we can find perhaps some opportunities for us to. 00:32:16
Continue those type of collaborations. And so that's why I think it's important that we have these informational sessions. 00:32:21
Whether you educate us on, I'd love to be educated on your economic development plan. I did print it out. Michelle, thank you very 00:32:28
much for putting it together for me. And I have been going through that. I'm thinking. 00:32:33
There's a lot of low hanging fruit there that we could work on right now. We don't need millions of dollars to be able to do that. 00:32:38
And I and I, you know, I see some. 00:32:44
Potential collaborations with. 00:32:46
External folks that we can move forward on. 00:32:48
But I'd love to be educated on, on that and, and we can educate you on our strategic plan. 00:32:51
So I think those are things that we could talk about in future on Item 7 to be future discussion items. 00:32:56
All righty. 00:33:04
Anything else? 00:33:06
So these are we're just having some just receiving files. So OK, great. So we won't have to go through anything. 00:33:09
When the. 00:33:18
Yes. 00:33:20
D Oh, this is D5 OK, sorry about that. 00:33:21
Thank you. Yeah, OK. 00:33:24
OK, great. So did Miss dicas #3 yes, have under you as well. So yes, it does. Thank you. 00:33:27
Mayor, so just a couple updates here on these particular reports. We're pleased to report that our CFO did work closely with our 00:33:34
auditor and we have put together the reports. Where do you, we did attach them herein and we'll officially submit them to James, 00:33:41
but it's the reports. 00:33:47
On our port activity that are required annually, so we have those current now from 2015 forward and the last batch was 2020 to 00:33:53
2024 and they've been approved by our auditor, so. 00:34:00
They're attached herein and then we'll be formally provided to the city. So we are back in compliance with our reporting. 00:34:06
And we also. 00:34:13
Or is that a future 10? That's the, that's number five, sorry. So there. And then we also provided the city manager with the 00:34:16
template to give him the time and opportunity to put together the reports to us. 00:34:22
OK, great. I think we agreed on the template, right? We're good on that. 00:34:30
We're working on OK. And I was gonna say I'm happy to report that I have a CFO now which is a positive and and that we have a 00:34:33
working financial system now, so. 00:34:38
So we had a meeting last week with our team to start. 00:34:44
Trying to make sure we can pull the information we need to start. 00:34:49
Working on these on the reports. 00:34:52
And specifically realizing that we're about two months out from when the next report is due, so. 00:34:55
We're going to start with that one, and I've given them the templates and then some of our previous reports. So we're going to try 00:35:02
to figure out how we can make that work and then we'll come back to the. 00:35:07
Joint Committee. 00:35:13
With updates throughout that process. 00:35:14
Madam Mayor, yes. So at the last meeting we had conversations about this. 00:35:16
That. 00:35:22
I think we all agreed that working from current backwards to get the reports. So is that your understanding? 00:35:24
About that. 00:35:32
Our focus over the last month was getting. 00:35:34
Set up and ready to go and prepared to go for this this report and then making sure we have a format that everybody's. 00:35:37
An agreement on and you know, and moving forward with those. 00:35:45
And I think, you know, I would like to have some future discussion. 00:35:49
And sort of once we do that and we figure out how much. 00:35:53
How many resources are used? How far back we can go? Because I think I mentioned it the last. 00:35:57
Meeting that, we have a new financial system that just got put into place and we aren't. 00:36:02
We're still learning how far back we can go and and how much access we'll have in our prior system. 00:36:07
So I we're focusing on. 00:36:12
The one that's due in the next month or two and then we from that we wanted to have the discussion then about. 00:36:15
Like you know what? 00:36:21
How it went, if there's a if we get to a point everybody is happy with the format, and then how much time? 00:36:24
We would take and how. 00:36:30
How many reports? How many years back? 00:36:31
We can reasonably go back to. 00:36:34
So I think that's. 00:36:37
Why, we had said, you know, we probably. 00:36:40
Expect to have some future discussion once we have that report done and if everybody's happy with it. 00:36:43
And then what the process could be like? 00:36:49
So as I recall the last meeting. 00:36:53
You made those comments about your financial system and you didn't know how far back you could go. We did reiterate our board is 00:36:57
interested in seeing all of the years from 2015 forward. This is a contract. 00:37:03
There are items that are spelled out for each agency to do that. 00:37:11
Money is changing hands. 00:37:16
And so it's important to have all of the agreements to do that. 00:37:17
Right. Thank you. 00:37:23
Anything else? 00:37:24
Yes. 00:37:26
On some of those reports that we did submit, it wasn't in. 00:37:27
It wasn't in that Excel document that you guys provided so. 00:37:31
Are you guys? 00:37:35
Trying to tell us. 00:37:36
Put it in the document or and not accept what was previously. 00:37:38
So we, James and I had conversations the the the issue with the previous reporting is that they don't meet the smell test of the 00:37:42
contract as they don't tell you what dollars go to what projects. 00:37:48
And so we're working through that with James in a collaborative way to come up with the right format. 00:37:54
That's consistent with the contract and meets what was the spirit of the negotiation to detail precisely what each penny went to 00:37:59
and for what. That was a requirement of the settlement agreement. 00:38:04
It just seems like. 00:38:10
Like 20/17/2018 it just. 00:38:12
Let's just say those were given to you guys and then but you guys are making it. 00:38:14
Now. 00:38:18
Like what in in in the spirit of collaboration and moving forward. 00:38:20
Why it seems like? 00:38:24
You changing the format? No. With all due respect, the format of the previous reporting was not meeting the test of the. 00:38:26
Reggie of the of the settlement agreement to identify the dollars and cents transactions with the revenue sharing money and so we 00:38:34
provided the template as a courtesy to help. 00:38:40
Show what it could look like if James would like to provide that in a different format, but as long as it identifies the dollars 00:38:45
and cents for the each transaction spent with a revenue. 00:38:51
Sharing agreement that would satisfy the contract. But right now the reports just list a whole bunch of projects and you have no 00:38:56
idea what money went to what projects. So it's not that we're trying to unwind anything. We're just trying to work collaborative 00:39:02
with James to come up with a format that works within the confines of the contract, the settlement agreement. I just want to ask 00:39:08
one question just to make sure we understand. 00:39:14
How how many reports have we submitted? What years reports has the city? I don't have the years in front of me. I think it was 00:39:20
five of the 10 years that the city had submitted reports and it looked like during COVID there was the gap and and in all fairness 00:39:26
to those formats were coming to us that predict James and we did. 00:39:32
Through every every revenue sharing check that we provided to the city, Austin asked for clarification on what the dollars and 00:39:38
cents were going to. 00:39:43
And so it goes way back. And so I know James is trying hard to get it in a format that really does identify dollars and cents. And 00:39:47
we've had some very good conversations around getting that done. OK, good. I just want to make sure that we understand that the 00:39:52
reports have been at least you said five of the 10. 00:39:57
Yes, that's my understanding had been submitted and up until now we had not heard they weren't acceptable. 00:40:03
Nuts. No, hold on, hold on a minute. Let me ask him the question. 00:40:09
I think Kristen saying that they had notified. 00:40:13
Prior staff, but but I had not heard OK, that's what I'm trying to get at. Yeah. So we're not we're not moving the goal posts at 00:40:15
this point. 00:40:19
There are things that are in the settlement agreement that talk about reporting. 00:40:24
And have have the detail. In the past the detail has not been there. 00:40:29
And so. 00:40:34
We have asked year after year after year and predates everybody, but our financial team asks all the time and I mean when I 00:40:35
started in 2010. 00:40:41
I asked for agreements, right, right. You know, and we never got them. Yeah. So then an ongoing. So just know this is just about 00:40:47
trying to understand, right. And so my question would be now so with the with the back and forth dialogue about asking for 00:40:54
specifics about the information, you all still don't have the information. So, so if I may, I know that Austin was working with 00:41:01
your former CFO and they did come up with a template that was satisfactory and so. 00:41:08
James, in fairness, we have been working with you. We haven't been satisfied with any of the reports that just list projects and 00:41:15
we've been very clear. 00:41:20
In in correspondence to the city, but we also want to just move forward and get the format works way as a courtesy we provided 00:41:24
this. 00:41:28
We thought it would be helpful. We're not trying to change anything, but just make maybe it a little easier for James to give us 00:41:31
what we need and. 00:41:35
And to be fair, in the heart of the settlement agreement there was a lot of give and take and then we created the CBF to come up 00:41:39
with wins. There was a transaction with the NCL. 00:41:44
Agreement, but it was very important to our commissioners and I sat through these negotiations. 00:41:49
That we. 00:41:54
Got rid of any gift of public funds questions that were in former contracts. So one of the things in there was widening Panoma St. 00:41:55
which we know isn't going to happen. 00:42:00
And so we asked for and put in that settlement agreement the requirement for very detailed accounting. 00:42:04
And since the initiation inception of the settlement agreement, we have not received a report that does that detailed accounting 00:42:11
so. 00:42:15
Here, you know, and we, we had some hiccups with our reporting. Do you as well. So we're not trying to get in a *** for tat or 00:42:20
anything like that. We want to help James succeed. 00:42:25
In getting the right ports to us and we thought this format would be helpful and then we'd like to work to go back as far as we 00:42:30
can just go for the public record to have the right accounting that's consistent with the spreadsheets. 00:42:36
Knowing that 10 years has subsided and some of that might be tricky and we'll work together to get this done right. Thank you. 00:42:42
Thank you. I mean, we have an audit every year. So I mean we need to provide all of the information to our auditor. 00:42:50
As well to to meet all that so. 00:42:57
Any other comments, questions? 00:43:00
Just though the only thing I'll add is just. 00:43:02
Where? 00:43:05
Talking about some of the. 00:43:07
Communication gaps in the past, but the format that we have provided is the format that the CFO had indicated was the agreed upon 00:43:09
format. 00:43:13
And so I understand that. 00:43:17
I think it sounds like. 00:43:18
That's not the understanding that the port had. 00:43:20
But we did provide the formal, we're getting it a little bit back at you and I can talk offline. There was one that came in right 00:43:22
and then there was again another one that came in wrong. 00:43:26
So it's like we got it going in the right format and then the following year came in the wrong format. So we'll work together, 00:43:31
James, we'll get this right. Yeah. And so just at the that's where my short explanation was, we're going to focus on getting this 00:43:36
one done. And then from that we'll know sort of what the realistic time and. 00:43:42
You know, and I and I realized that this is a painful process, but I think it's a long overdue from both parties. 00:43:49
And if that's why I've been very adamant myself about keeping these monthly meetings going. 00:43:56
Because we need to make sure we're moving forward, we've got to get this all out of the way. And once we're back on track, I'm 00:44:01
sure James will feel relieved once the reports are up to date and we're all in compliance, right? That's what it comes down to as 00:44:07
far as transparency is concerned as well. We'll be able to see, folks will be able to see how much money the port gave the city in 00:44:13
the agreement and what the city did with that particular pot of money. 00:44:18
Yeah, and it would have been good to have. 00:44:24
Template in the agreement. There would have been no issues from. 00:44:28
Coming out of the gate as soon as that. 00:44:32
Agreement was signed. 00:44:35
So it seems like. 00:44:37
There was really never an established. 00:44:38
Report out. 00:44:41
That that met everybody's. 00:44:42
Satisfaction. 00:44:45
I think in the previous contracts things were sort of named in the settlement greens. We did add in that you had identified 00:44:46
dollars and cents because that was very important at the time and so there wasn't. 00:44:51
A format or template, but it did that was the what was new to really say there need to be line items for dollars and cents and I 00:44:57
agree with mayor Pro Tem. 00:45:02
I mean it would have been great to have a template there. 00:45:07
There's been some massaging, you know, in this current thing, yeah. 00:45:11
And so I think that hopefully we land on something that works for both agencies and we can move forward with that. 00:45:15
Nothing else. All right, let's go ahead and move on to item number. 00:45:23
For Mr. Vega, Mr. Dicus, this is about the DC trip. Yeah, I have good news. John is on the line, so he's here to to assist in this 00:45:28
dialogue and help plan for the trip. 00:45:34
I don't know how we get ears. John, are you there? 00:45:42
Yes, OK, very good. So he was just going to give a little bit of an overview on the climate in Washington. 00:45:45
And you know, we had the past trip and give us a little bit of background on that and and you know, how will help us navigate 00:45:51
coming up with meetings and. 00:45:55
Kind of what may or may, you know, we won't decide everything today, clearly, but you know, given the nuances and all the politics 00:45:59
and trade policy, all the things that are going on DC, John, I know you came here short notice, so we're grateful for that. But 00:46:04
maybe you could just give us a little. 00:46:09
Idea of what's happening there in DC and then you know what might be some good ideas and then we can. 00:46:15
Regroup again in our July meeting to kind of land some some more intelligence on what would be constructive meetings for both the 00:46:20
city and the port. And James, I didn't. I know you worked hard on the agenda item. If you want to add anything, please. Only thing 00:46:26
I was going to say is we're two months away, so we got to figure out what we're doing. 00:46:32
Sure, OK. 00:46:39
Well, Kristen, your first request is probably something would take much longer than any of you have time for. 00:46:41
To listen to me. 00:46:48
So let me start with the agenda. 00:46:50
And then I think that's the way we can address maybe some of the concerns that you might have about. 00:46:52
How we meet with people who we meet with and so on. So right now. 00:46:57
And I did send. 00:47:02
A draft agenda yesterday. 00:47:04
But to simplify it, let me say that it amounts to about 12 meetings over what I would say. 00:47:06
And I think your dates are. 00:47:13
You would be in town on September 8th, we would have meetings on the 9th, 10th. 00:47:14
And probably leave the morning of the 11th, which is Thursday. 00:47:19
Open for a meeting that we aren't weren't able to. 00:47:24
Maybe cover on the other two days? 00:47:28
What I did when I looked at the the schedule. 00:47:31
And this is, believe me, when you're looking at this, this is. 00:47:33
A schedule that I just simply made-up OK, but I wanted to give it some organization over the two days, 2 1/2 days. 00:47:38
So you you will only see about 11 meetings, but there's actually 12 that I thought of. I thought of another one after I did that, 00:47:46
so that it would be 12 meetings over 2 1/2 days it would be. 00:47:52
For meetings with congressional delegation members. 00:47:59
The two senators. 00:48:02
A Congressman Carbajal and Congresswoman Brownlee. 00:48:03
It would be with two congressional authorizing committees. 00:48:07
The Senate, Environment and Public Works and the House. 00:48:11
Infrastructure and transportation. 00:48:15
Committee. 00:48:17
The five federal agencies, I've got DoD down the Department of Defense, but that that that agency that I'm talking about 00:48:20
specifically. 00:48:25
Would be the one that we talked to the last time that runs the defense community's infrastructure program. 00:48:30
And they're over in Crystal City. It would not be in the Pentagon. 00:48:38
And then? 00:48:41
The Association of Defense Communities, which is that membership. 00:48:42
Organization of a lot of local governments states. 00:48:46
Counties that work as an association with. 00:48:50
The Department of Defense on issues that concern communities and defense installations. 00:48:55
And I think the last time they they explained to you that. 00:49:02
You know, places like. 00:49:06
Well, the Port of of Wine me has been a member. I don't know if we continue to be a member of that organization, but we have been 00:49:08
a member. 00:49:11
Just because it gives us an opportunity to. 00:49:15
Interact with. 00:49:19
Pentagon officials under the umbrella of that organization. 00:49:20
So that's kind of a real quick review. 00:49:26
Let me add this. 00:49:30
One of the things that makes. 00:49:32
Your your visit with the congressional delegation. 00:49:34
Timely and. 00:49:38
I would say useful is because. 00:49:41
All four members. 00:49:44
Are. 00:49:46
The authorizing committee for highway and transit legislation. 00:49:47
And the Water Resources Development Act, which is the. 00:49:52
Legislation. 00:49:56
That author. 00:49:58
Prizes Corps of Engineers studies and Construction projects. So all four members have a, you know, a direct interest. 00:49:59
In surface transportation and water resources. 00:50:05
So I feel like. 00:50:10
Your beach nourishment issue. 00:50:13
Is always something that can be addressed with the Corps of Engineers. 00:50:16
And because we've got a water resources development bill that will start moving later this year, it won't be finished until next 00:50:22
year. 00:50:26
This gives you a chance if there's something that you feel should be addressed in legislation. 00:50:31
Or report language. 00:50:37
To the bill. 00:50:39
This would be an opportunity to start that conversation with the congressional staff. 00:50:40
If there are. 00:50:48
Surface transportation things like. 00:50:49
Matters that relate to Winnemi Road or connections to 101 or the 101. 00:50:53
Freeway. 00:50:59
This would be an opportunity to talk. 00:51:02
To authorizing committee staff. We're going to be working on the highway and transit bill. 00:51:04
And I would just add as an aside. 00:51:10
VCTC was here. 00:51:13
I think 2 weeks ago or three weeks ago. 00:51:16
Was an organization called Mobility 21, which is the Southern California. 00:51:19
Transportation Association. 00:51:24
And, umm. 00:51:26
VCTC was talking with. 00:51:28
Both. 00:51:30
Well, with all four congressional offices, the two senators, the two members of the House. 00:51:31
About uh. 00:51:36
A sub allocation of. 00:51:38
Federal Highway funds to come directly to Ventura County. 00:51:41
You get that now, but there's always a discussion every time there's a reauthorization. 00:51:47
Of more of those funds coming directly to. 00:51:52
To the local MPO rather than having to go through Sacramento. 00:51:55
So there there's some talking points on that that we can provide you to reinforce that position. 00:51:59
And if any of you are members of the VCTC. 00:52:06
Board Martin Erickson is certainly well versed in this to give you. 00:52:10
His perspective on their meetings and and the kind of discussions that they had before. 00:52:15
Or you come in. 00:52:19
So that that essentially is my quick little. 00:52:21
Scope of what we would be doing. 00:52:24
Sure. 00:52:27
Hi, John. 00:52:29
Mary Ann here, nice to see you, it's been a while. 00:52:30
Nice to see you, Commissioner. So what we want to prioritize is to find ways that the city and the port can collaborate together 00:52:34
on some grants. 00:52:40
And so I just want to make sure that we're hitting. I mean, I think maybe under Warda, we can do that. 00:52:46
And maybe surface transportation. 00:52:52
But umm. 00:52:54
Really to make a. 00:52:54
So you fully understand that there's a desire to. 00:52:56
Have the collaboration between the two agencies in potential grants and build that together so. 00:53:00
The hopefully you can work with Mystikas and Mr. Vega on. 00:53:07
Items and things that might pop up and maybe that's inside the word to build now. 00:53:11
That we could potentially look at to do that. So I just want to make sure that that's that's a focus that you're working on 1st 00:53:16
and meetings, you know, in order to do that. 00:53:21
That's that's helpful. And I will follow up with them to talk more specifically about grant funding, but your comment reminds me 00:53:26
of something else. 00:53:31
That does relate to what Kristen was saying. 00:53:36
About what's going on in Washington. 00:53:40
So you've heard a lot of discussion about some federal agencies. 00:53:42
Being done away with or or greatly. 00:53:47
Changed. 00:53:50
In terms of the way they function. 00:53:51
The two the the committee that I mentioned that the House, the transfer. 00:53:55
Transportation and infrastructure. 00:53:59
There is a bipartisan bill. It has not been introduced yet, but the bill is to take FEMA out of DHS. 00:54:01
And I would expect I would see a smile from. 00:54:10
Kristen Dicus on that because it would make it out of DHS, which is a large bureaucracy to deal with. 00:54:13
With maritime security grants. 00:54:20
But let me say this. 00:54:23
One of the things that every time, and you folks are probably aware of this, so I may be telling you something you already know, 00:54:25
but every time there is a natural, a national, a natural disaster declaration. 00:54:30
By the White House. 00:54:36
There is a certain amount of. 00:54:38
Money that is allocated to a state. 00:54:39
Specifically to deal with that disaster. 00:54:42
15% of that money. 00:54:46
That is given to a state to recover. 00:54:49
From that disaster goes into what they call a hazard mitigation fund. 00:54:53
That hazard mitigation fund is held in California by Cal OES. 00:54:58
And it is associated specifically with that disaster. 00:55:04
But that funding, that 15% is available for? 00:55:08
Hazard mitigation projects anywhere in the state. 00:55:13
So the reason I mentioned. 00:55:18
This is because one of the things. 00:55:20
And I appreciate, Commissioner. 00:55:22
You're mentioning this because what you should be thinking in terms of. 00:55:24
What we might discuss here. 00:55:29
Is uh. 00:55:31
Are there? 00:55:32
Hazard mitigation resiliency projects that might benefit the city. 00:55:34
Or the port, or both. 00:55:39
So we can talk further about that, but I just wanted to put that on your on your list. 00:55:41
Guys, say something. 00:55:49
No I have anything. Any comments? 00:55:51
Go ahead, Commissioner. Hi, John, it's Selena. Hope you're all is well out there. 00:55:55
Question for you. 00:56:00
Umm, one is umm, Congressman Robert Garcia. 00:56:02
Is it easy still head of ports? That would be a good one. 00:56:05
Yes, Commissioner, I'm glad you mentioned that because I, I when I was looking at this list just before I tuned in, I did not have 00:56:09
him down. 00:56:13
He is the. 00:56:18
I think he's the court caucus person, so yes, we can put him on the list. I don't think he's met our City Council members, so I 00:56:19
think that that would be good to. 00:56:25
And then also is I know that last time, do you recall if it was the defense communities or if it was the the? 00:56:30
Association of defense communities ADC that. 00:56:39
Providers provided the city with a few suggestions on grant opportunities. 00:56:45
I think we talked about Bubbling Springs Park action is what are those and I don't know. 00:56:50
If anything was done, but I want to think, I hope, hoping we can revisit with them. 00:56:53
I think, Commissioner, that was the EPA. 00:56:58
That was one of them was the EPA, and they had all those grants for nonprofits that we could align with. I, I don't know, Again, 00:57:01
that could be a climate in Washington. 00:57:05
I know when was the EPA but there was a smaller office and I remember seeing the logo right as you walk in. 00:57:10
Clear Office and. 00:57:16
That was. 00:57:19
Commissioner, that was the. 00:57:20
That was the Department of Defense office. That is the community defense infrastructure, OK. 00:57:23
Program and it's the defense community infrastructure grants. That's that's where we were. 00:57:32
And and their own. 00:57:38
Our list and we would go see them again. What would really be useful this time? 00:57:40
Because the last time we had a very good discussion, because I remember the. 00:57:44
A woman officer that was assigned to that office who had some very good ideas about possible projects. 00:57:49
So I would just say that maybe you want to brainstorm. 00:57:57
Form what you think might be a project. 00:58:00
That would benefit. 00:58:04
The CBC or. 00:58:05
Naval Base Ventura County. 00:58:08
Benefit them, but. 00:58:10
Provide some community benefits also, but keep in mind the one thing that we heard over there. 00:58:12
Was. 00:58:18
You have got. 00:58:19
Get the base. 00:58:20
Commander. 00:58:21
To write a letter that says. 00:58:22
He or she is in full support of this. 00:58:24
A project. 00:58:28
And we know what we know what a challenge that can be. 00:58:30
Thank you, I'll start working on him. 00:58:37
I'm sure you will. 00:58:42
Thank you. 00:58:43
Yeah, Mayor Pro Tem. 00:58:44
Mayor Pro Tem Lopez. 00:58:45
A couple questions like. 00:58:47
I plan on making some recommendations to my council on. 00:58:50
A shared water line that we share with Oxnard, Port Winnie, me and BBC. 00:58:55
And poor, poor Winnie, me and Magoo. 00:59:00
And this shared water line? 00:59:05
It would serve all. 00:59:08
All communities and it would probably be. 00:59:10
Exactly what this? 00:59:13
This DoD. 00:59:15
Grant could probably. 00:59:19
Fund is that that? 00:59:20
Sound like something that. 00:59:22
Could happen. 00:59:24
Yes. Let me ask you, who is the responsible agency for the water line? Is that the city of Oxnard? Yes, it is. 00:59:25
OK, yes, if we could get. 00:59:32
If we could get some information. 00:59:36
About that and I, I. 00:59:39
I can contact the city directly, but it would also be maybe let me let me do some work on that with the city manager's office 00:59:42
maybe to get some, but I may need some backup from you folks. 00:59:47
Just this way his background, Mr. O'Donnell also supports advocacy for the City of Oxnard. 00:59:53
OK also. 00:59:59
With the current climate, what about? 01:00:02
You know St. Lighting going solar? 01:00:05
Like clean power, would that be something that would? 01:00:08
My short answer is we have to be. 01:00:13
Extremely careful about that one because a lot of that funding is. 01:00:16
Been pulled back. A lot of that was in the Inflation Reduction Act. 01:00:20
And the administration through the reconciliation process. 01:00:24
Is gutting. 01:00:28
Some of those programs. 01:00:29
I that's something I can. 01:00:34
I can check on and one of the reasons I sound a little bit in. 01:00:36
Uncertain about this is because so much is being said. 01:00:40
Not so much as being done and then so much is being discussed. So with people like the Department of Energy or EPA, I just need to 01:00:44
follow up with some of their intergovernmental people to get a A. 01:00:50
Picture of what's going on. 01:00:57
But we can follow up on that. OK, thank you. That's all I have. 01:00:59
Yeah. And I'll just echo, I think. 01:01:05
Commissioner Zacharias. 01:01:08
Sort of hit the topics I I was planning to. 01:01:10
We have seen some of those defense communities infrastructure grants and those are definitely ones we look at. 01:01:13
I think. 01:01:18
The three topics that. 01:01:19
I think we're plan to recommend to the Council that. 01:01:21
They give us the marching orders to move forward with. 01:01:25
At that July 21st meeting is. 01:01:29
The beach nourishment. 01:01:31
The hazard mitigation and then. 01:01:32
The 3rd I'm sort of. 01:01:35
Describing his infrastructure, supporting commerce and defense, which includes I think streets and water and then I guess the 01:01:37
question about the the green energy. 01:01:41
But I think. 01:01:46
My question for John, I think is. 01:01:49
We haven't found that. 01:01:52
Too many people are eager to support. 01:01:54
St. Paving I think is it's not glamorous, you know, it's not a not a glamorous project. 01:01:57
But uh. 01:02:03
If we're able to show, like you said on defense communities, infrastructure. 01:02:03
Projects that it not only supports the base and their operations, but the city and its community and. 01:02:09
You know the port and its operations and and other partners really. 01:02:15
Is that something that you think we'd be able to? 01:02:19
To get. 01:02:22
Some support on, is that something that you've seen funded or is that? 01:02:24
Is that just not a very glamorous project? 01:02:27
I don't know if I have not seen any funding on that, but it is one of those things that I can look into because. 01:02:31
If they're. 01:02:39
Our street surface improvements that that. 01:02:41
Support the. 01:02:45
Naval Base Ventura County and the CBC and the city. 01:02:46
That might be an eligible project. I've not seen one like that, but. 01:02:51
You know it's. Let's look into it. 01:02:55
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I think that would be a big one for us. 01:02:57
Just roughly, I think over 10 years, we think the dollar amount is probably in the $20 million range. So it's it's pretty 01:03:00
significant. So that would be big. 01:03:05
It would. 01:03:10
It would be helpful if the trade corridor related streets. 01:03:12
Yes, if you could send. 01:03:16
US maybe? 01:03:18
A couple of paragraphs about where this is located and. 01:03:21
How it connects with the CBC? Everybody OK? Perfect. He actually has a grant in with the VCTC. That would probably be good for him 01:03:25
to get eyes on. 01:03:29
I'll pull that together. 01:03:34
And, and Smear may ask one question as well. So the Commissioner just reminded me, another big project, John, that we have that 01:03:36
we've been working hard on is getting infrastructure fixed on and maintained in terms of rail. 01:03:42
Both inside the Navy base and along the the thoroughfares of the sea, we've had multiple accidents recently over in Patterson and 01:03:49
Channel. 01:03:54
So maybe there's some opportunities there on on rail. 01:03:59
That. 01:04:02
Would benefit the city, the port and Navy. So. 01:04:03
Thank you, Commissioner. What we, what we can do is look at the Chrissy grants, which are under the Federal Railroad 01:04:07
Administration. And what that made me think of with your comment is. 01:04:13
Maybe one of the things? 01:04:18
I'm going to have to look at when people are on vacation, but. 01:04:20
Maybe one of the things that we could do is we have two. 01:04:25
Transportation people. 01:04:29
Who are working with us now that we're not working with us when the port in the city were in Washington the last time? 01:04:31
One of them was has worked in the Secretary of Transportation's office for five different secretaries. He's. 01:04:37
So he's had the experience with both. 01:04:45
With many administrations. 01:04:48
And then the other is. 01:04:50
A fellow who's retired from the Federal Highway Administration. 01:04:52
And he spent 34 years there. 01:04:57
One of his assignments was in LA and another one was in Sacramento. 01:05:00
He's done a lot of their environment training for the agency. 01:05:05
And and spent two years on Capitol Hill on a. 01:05:09
Fellowship from the Department of Transportation. So I think what we ought to do on some of this. 01:05:13
Kristen, I think what we want. 01:05:18
What we ought to do is maybe arrange for. 01:05:21
A virtual meeting where we have some preliminary discussions and then come out of that when maybe some ideas about things we do 01:05:24
when you're here. 01:05:28
Yeah, great. Anything else? 01:05:34
Not on that item. Thank you, Mayor. OK. 01:05:38
All right. If there is nothing else, we're going to move on to our next item. Thank you, John. Appreciate you. We know it's late 01:05:41
there in Washington. 01:05:45
Thanks for taking care of us. You're fine. I'm fine. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. 01:05:49
So we'll move on to the discussion items 5 and 6. Miss Dicas, I'll turn it over to you. 01:05:55
OK. 01:06:02
So on the Community benefit Fund projects, as I mentioned at the last meeting, our Board has not voted on any projects at this 01:06:03
time. We will be having a discussion. 01:06:09
At our July 14th Visioning Workshop. 01:06:15
And so at this time we don't have any projects to to bring forward. 01:06:18
And the only other thing that was on that agenda item, if I may, was the the reconciliation report. 01:06:23
Just showing where we are in terms of the accounting and we did add a column to that report that will just show how it speaks to 01:06:29
the settlement agreement. 01:06:34
In terms of providing benefits to both parties as well as you know, where it fits in the box of the settlement agreement, whether 01:06:38
it's shoreside power, other or whatever categories and that and James and I will work on populating that. 01:06:44
Great. Thank you. Go right ahead, Commissioner. 01:06:50
My arms aren't long enough. 01:06:53
But I do want to say something along the lines of what Commissioner Rooney mentioned. Although we have not presented the list to 01:06:55
our board, we did have a bigger discussion at one of our planning sessions with regards to the fact that we had a lot of community 01:07:02
comment about the fact that there were four different categories and we seem to be dumping everything into Category 4. 01:07:08
And not really focusing on a bigger picture projects that would benefit the entire community. And so I know that our particular 01:07:16
board was looking at at. 01:07:21
Trying to figure out as a. 01:07:27
As two entities is, what are those bigger projects? 01:07:29
That we could focus on even if we rolled in this money for to next year, if that we don't think that $134,000 is enough, then 01:07:33
maybe we keep it there and then we roll in. 01:07:38
The next 134 or whatever. 01:07:43
Knock on wood, that. 01:07:45
We continue that, right? 01:07:47
But I think that hearing the community input, we should take that we seriously think about. 01:07:49
What bigger type projects can help us out? Great. And I think we're really looking forward to having the discussion about that. 01:07:54
And Mayor, we do have a public comment on this item. Great, thank you. Any other comments? 01:08:00
Let's go ahead. 01:08:07
Go, go ahead. Do you have any questions for? 01:08:08
So I kind of heard you guys under the last meeting that you guys are looking for big item ticket items and. 01:08:12
Umm, again looking at. 01:08:21
The process that we here at the Council. 01:08:22
We see, you know, we have our Citizens Advisory Commission who goes through it and makes recommendations to the council. 01:08:26
US Council, we we see this, we make. 01:08:35
Take those recommendations and we vote. So you know, a lot of energy time is expended and a lot of a lot of community involvement 01:08:38
was. 01:08:41
In place. 01:08:44
If we're gonna like. 01:08:47
Not bait and switch, but if we're going to kind of move the goal posts a little bit and say, hey, let's focus on big communities. 01:08:48
Can maybe we start that next year? 01:08:54
I mean, could that be a conversation? 01:08:56
And I totally agree, I think. 01:08:58
This money can actually be. 01:09:01
Community. Big projects. 01:09:05
I have no issues with that. 01:09:08
Yeah, go right ahead. Yes. 01:09:10
The settlement agreement. 01:09:12
Talks about. 01:09:13
For specific categories. 01:09:14
And the last category was. 01:09:17
Put in place to be a catch all. 01:09:21
In the event that there was something unusual. 01:09:24
And we couldn't fit it into the first three. That's why the 4th 1 was established. 01:09:27
To give flexibility to the two boards. 01:09:31
And so. 01:09:35
The idea and the intent of the settlement agreement. 01:09:36
Back in 2014 and 15. 01:09:40
Was that it be a project or two? 01:09:43
Right. Umm. 01:09:47
Just minimal number of things. 01:09:47
And we've we've shifted into. 01:09:50
Providing. 01:09:53
Money for. 01:09:54
10 or 12 or 15 nonprofits as we do. 01:09:55
And you know. 01:09:58
The both agencies have the process and how you get input. 01:10:01
And how that works out and and that works within the flavor of. 01:10:06
Both of the agencies and and how you selected your Community Advisory Council. 01:10:10
Once those are brought back forward for discussion. 01:10:19
Then it's the both agencies that come together to determine yes. Here's the. 01:10:24
Here's what we want to work on together. 01:10:29
So. 01:10:31
I know that you. 01:10:33
Allocated. 01:10:34
All the money for the projects through your CAC. 01:10:35
And that may or may not. 01:10:40
Translate to what the Harbor commissioner wants to do. 01:10:43
So, but we've had multiple conversations of. 01:10:47
Going back to. 01:10:50
The projects you know and to those first 3 categories, so. 01:10:52
I feel like. 01:10:57
We haven't decided anything for the upcoming time. 01:10:58
And our board is pretty firm about. 01:11:02
What we wanted to do. 01:11:05
But we haven't voted on anything at this point. But that's the that's the consensus of the board. So I would see probably. 01:11:07
Pushing it to next year would be a hard sell. 01:11:15
OK, well I'm not saying pushing into the. 01:11:18
Next year, I'm saying. 01:11:21
Based on your. 01:11:25
Your board and they come back. Your commissioners come back with. 01:11:26
Your items and we've listed our items we. 01:11:29
I say we move forward. 01:11:33
For this year on. 01:11:34
What we, what we have in front of us. 01:11:36
Rather than. 01:11:39
Just focus on a big item to be candid with you. 01:11:41
I think it's gonna be a hard sell. 01:11:45
Yeah. So, so the good thing is, is that we as a body, we have members from both. 01:11:46
The city and we have members from the Commission, and I think the good thing is that. 01:11:52
We are. 01:11:57
Board a committee and we'll get together in the room and we'll have a conversation. 01:11:59
And whatever comes out of that conversation will be what we. 01:12:03
Come out of the conversation with. That's right, Right. And so we're not there yet. 01:12:06
I think we've. 01:12:10
Kind of had some discussion and we've heard from both sides and that's great, but I think there is a process. 01:12:11
Established for us and we'll just go down that process. 01:12:16
All right. 01:12:19
Technical question for you please. Has the the? 01:12:22
I don't think you have but. 01:12:26
Has a City Council thought about 88? 01:12:27
One or two projects. 01:12:30
To keep on the back burner, and the reason I say this is I'm using an example at the university. 01:12:33
Is that I keep an ongoing list of. 01:12:37
Projects that the faculty member. 01:12:40
Faculty members bring to me and say, hey, if you come across this opportunity, please let me know. And so when those opportunities 01:12:42
come, I'll say, hey, you know what? I found this opportunity. Here we go. 01:12:47
And I think it's important that both. 01:12:53
Parties keep those. 01:12:54
Those opportunities in the back burner so when these things come up, not only for. 01:12:57
Right now for the Community Benefits Fund, but for future grant opportunities. 01:13:02
Because I do agree with Commissioner Rooney, is that. 01:13:07
It's going to be a tough sell for us because we've gotten so many community members coming to us saying you guys have lost sight 01:13:10
of what this money was supposed to be used for. All you're doing is funding nonprofits, OK and so. 01:13:16
We've gotten plenty of that input, so we're ready to start looking. 01:13:23
At the. 01:13:27
Bigger projects but. 01:13:29
It's not just up to us, the harbor commissioner, come up with big projects like we have to do this in collaboration. Yeah, 01:13:31
absolutely. 01:13:34
Absolutely. Umm. 01:13:37
So any other comments? 01:13:39
You have a public comment. 01:13:41
Oh, public comment please. Thank you. 01:13:42
Jan Burke. 01:13:45
Good discussion. 01:13:53
Umm. 01:13:55
The Citizens Advisory Committee, kind of basically. 01:13:58
Took. Took. 01:14:03
Took a stab at in the community and overall took a stab at trying to create some sort of shape and focus on this because. 01:14:04
We too. 01:14:12
Felt it was sort of random and there were pet projects by either commissioners or council members and we wanted to get to a point 01:14:13
where. 01:14:17
It had more meaningful and measurable outcomes. 01:14:21
For our community. 01:14:24
And I and I. 01:14:25
Created a little spreadsheet that from 2016, 1516 to. 01:14:26
23. 01:14:32
And over that time. 01:14:34
A good chunk of what I would call. 01:14:36
36% of the funds went to public relations events basically, and checks handed out and big checks and. 01:14:40
And then another the other. 01:14:49
Bucket that I would call it was opportunity opportunistic invent endeavors was another 32%. So basically. 01:14:51
You know it the and then. 01:15:00
There was the other projects which was. 01:15:02
The Bard statue. 01:15:06
Which was $120,000 so far. 01:15:07
And and that didn't go over well with the community. 01:15:10
And so I think that what we're very concerned about is we want to make sure that the truly benefiting the community. 01:15:14
And not just. 01:15:20
Random, not just. 01:15:23
Statues not not something that that doesn't truly benefit the community. 01:15:26
So basically 50% of the funding over the last? 01:15:31
10 years basically has been in that in that focus and I would like to see I like the idea of bigger projects. 01:15:37
We've put a process in place with the City Council. 01:15:44
That I think that works for this year and I commend Jess for his comments about possibly looking at something bigger for next 01:15:47
year. 01:15:51
I think that I. 01:15:55
There hasn't been an established idea of what. 01:15:56
Big projects we could do together. 01:16:00
And I think it's going to take time to figure those out. So I would like to suggest that we. 01:16:02
Continue to. 01:16:07
Honor the recommended people, put forth some recommendations and some in. 01:16:09
Requests for some funding from. 01:16:15
Truly local community. 01:16:17
Efforts and we'd like to see those being. 01:16:20
Recognized and benefited. 01:16:23
That's all. 01:16:25
If I. 01:16:27
That concludes public comment. Great. Thank you. Go ahead. Yeah, I just want to. 01:16:29
Reiterate inside of the settlement agreement talks about. 01:16:34
That both agencies. 01:16:38
Will select projects. 01:16:42
That benefits the communities that they serve. 01:16:44
So, umm. 01:16:48
The city of Portway Nimi. 01:16:49
Benefit is serving the city, right? 01:16:51
Unfortunately. 01:16:55
The Oxnard Harbor District has. 01:16:56
You know. 01:16:58
300,000 people. 01:17:00
Inside the district is about where it is I would say. 01:17:02
So. 01:17:06
There are projects that. 01:17:07
That may be outside of the city of Port Wayne. Mimi. 01:17:09
And and that falls within. 01:17:12
You know our service area and the community that we serve. 01:17:15
So, umm. 01:17:19
That settlement agreement talks about that, so I think that's where maybe there's some tension. 01:17:20
Because. 01:17:25
When I watched the CAC, you know they wanted to focus on. Is this why Nimi? 01:17:27
Is it located in my name Me And it was very Winnie me focus which I totally understand and appreciate. 01:17:32
The advocacy for that? 01:17:38
It's just that there is a. 01:17:42
There is this collaboration that is intended to take place for. 01:17:44
Both of the communities that we serve. So that's why we may look outside something of the city of Winnie me. 01:17:49
Under the guidelines of the settlement agreement. 01:17:56
Great, great. And I agree with that. I appreciate that. And I think we we also need to go back to the agreement where it says the 01:17:58
benefit. 01:18:03
Is for both. 01:18:08
Yes, and so. 01:18:09
Even though. 01:18:11
The port or the Oxnard Harbor District extends outside of. 01:18:13
Port Hueneme. The question then becomes. 01:18:18
What is the benefit to the city? And that's why I wanted that that column on there to say. 01:18:21
Benefits to the city, benefits to the port that way. 01:18:27
We stay aligned with that agreement and we clarify any. 01:18:31
Any issues and and hopefully? 01:18:35
Resolve any. 01:18:37
Anything beforehand, Commissioner? Hold on. Let's go to Commissioner Zacharias and we'll come back to you. 01:18:39
Thank you very much for those comments. So along those lines is I want to make sure that everybody understands is that. 01:18:44
Those. 01:18:50
Projects that you that were that are listed on all the where the resources have gone. 01:18:51
Have been approved by both. 01:18:57
Bodies. It wasn't just the port approving, it wasn't just the city. So we all agreed upon that, and that includes the barred 01:18:59
statue. 01:19:02
Because that that was not a. 01:19:07
Port of Winimi Endeavor, as a matter of fact. 01:19:09
My understanding is in that conversation, I wasn't around for that. 01:19:11
Was that it even included other statues which based off of our experience, we may not even pursue. 01:19:15
But those individuals opposing those? 01:19:20
Have to understand that all those items including once again the Bard statue. 01:19:25
Were approved by both bodies. 01:19:31
One body cannot approve a single item on the list. 01:19:33
Without the other one agreed. 01:19:37
So we both agreed that those would be beneficial. But I would like to, as you have commented in previous meetings, is that I'd 01:19:39
like to go to those bigger projects. 01:19:44
I really would. I think that then that way they have a bigger impact. 01:19:49
And then 2 is that if, like I mentioned earlier, if $134,000 is not enough, then we roll that money into the following year. 01:19:53
Right now, we still have some outstanding funds with regards to the grant writer. 01:20:03
And I think you're also having some some way signs. 01:20:07
Wayfinder signs for the City of Port money. 01:20:13
And I'd love to see, you know, I had an opportunity to have coffee with. 01:20:16
Councilmember Lopez. 01:20:22
And he mentioned, and I didn't even think about this, he says, you know. 01:20:24
I just hate the entrance to the city of Port Hueneme, Alpha Wine, Amy Rd. because. 01:20:27
It's part, it's, it's Oxnard, right When you come to get to the city. How do we work on Endeavor? 01:20:33
Where we help? 01:20:38
Beautify that. 01:20:40
And that's where Commissioner Rooney said, you know, it might involve. 01:20:42
Outside of just the city of Port Hueneme. 01:20:45
And then also the other part is that aside from. 01:20:48
The community benefits. 01:20:52
The port. 01:20:54
Believes in giving back to the community, period. 01:20:57
So you'll see that we sponsor a lot of events. 01:20:59
And some of these organizations that we sponsor are on that list. 01:21:03
That was provided to the city of Winnemi. 01:21:08
And I love the fact. 01:21:11
That were giving back to the community. That's what everyone should do. 01:21:13
Every business owner in this city. 01:21:16
And in the in the county from as far as I'm concerned. 01:21:19
Should be giving back. 01:21:22
To the community that they are doing business and I strongly believe about that. I believe in that. 01:21:24
So the fact that we do a check presentation, that's fantastic. 01:21:29
It you know, it shouldn't be here or there, the fact that that money is coming and being invested in the community should be a 01:21:33
beautiful thing. 01:21:37
Thank you. 01:21:41
Thank you. I'm mayor Pro Tem. 01:21:42
Yeah. 01:21:43
Reading the settlement agreement, you know the agreement with the Oxnard Harbor District and. 01:21:45
With the city of Waeneme was an agreement between both entities. 01:21:50
For community benefit. 01:21:56
Doesn't spell out. 01:21:59
You know, it just seems odd. 01:22:01
Why would the city agree to events in? 01:22:04
Oxnard. 01:22:08
Or. 01:22:09
So that's that, this little Gray area there. I see that. 01:22:10
Where even though in the spirit of. 01:22:15
Community and benefit and both entities. 01:22:18
I see that the subtle agreement was strictly for. 01:22:22
Our community. 01:22:27
I mean, that's how I read it. 01:22:28
So. 01:22:31
Again, I'm just. It's my perspective. 01:22:35
May I ask a question? Wait so also? 01:22:39
Well, could you share an example because I think for example, let's say the Beach festival. 01:22:43
OK, the Beets Festival is held in Winnemi. Are we supposed to tell residents from Ventura and Oxnard not to come so it's agreed 01:22:48
upon? 01:22:52
Thing that it's benefiting our city. 01:22:56
Exactly. 01:22:59
And Oxford Harbor District, it's open up to everybody. 01:23:00
I guess my point is like. 01:23:05
If there was a, If there was a. 01:23:07
A CBF request that was say in satikoi or? 01:23:11
It would just be a hard sale for us to to agree to that and it should be because, and I don't think that that's. 01:23:17
I haven't seen any comes. Yeah, I'm just saying that that's how I heard you guys. 01:23:24
That's what I thought you guys were saying no. 01:23:29
No, no, it has to be benefiting the city of Port winding me and the ports of Wayne, it says specifically under Section 9. 01:23:31
Of the. 01:23:39
Put the money into the CBF. 01:23:42
Which shall be a separate and distinct fund. 01:23:44
Which may only be spent on approved projects that benefit both the city and the district and the communities they serve. 01:23:47
So goes back to my initial comment about projects. So if we talk about. 01:23:54
How are we going to sustain the? 01:24:00
The beach. 01:24:03
How are we going to sustain the beach? And we look at putting the big concrete. 01:24:05
Jacks out there. 01:24:09
You know, in order to make the the beach stronger. 01:24:11
What a great project. 01:24:15
Great project. 01:24:16
Right. So why don't we do that? 01:24:17
And and because that is that it's here, it's local, it benefits both of our agencies is clear, we can say here's the benefits to 01:24:19
both of our agencies, right. I agree with that. That's the kind of things that we had intended. 01:24:26
This to do? 01:24:33
Not what you said necessarily do a dog park. I don't. Not sure how the port benefits from a dog park but. 01:24:34
You know, dog park, pickleball courts, stuff like that. 01:24:40
Umm, kind of not the intent of when we were going through all this negotiation so. 01:24:46
That's where. 01:24:51
Our board has had the discussion of we've kind of shifted away and let's look at those big projects. You know, maybe there's an 01:24:53
engineering study that we can do to look at new and improved ways. 01:24:58
Of maintaining that being. 01:25:03
And do other stuff too. Yeah. So I agree with big projects at first, first and foremost. 01:25:04
I think our strategic. 01:25:10
Community Development. 01:25:14
Could get a big boost for our agency and and the port using a lot of the CBF funds. Those are good community. Those are good 01:25:15
conversations I think that we could have in the future. 01:25:20
Again, I'm only speaking for myself. 01:25:26
But. 01:25:29
I just when you said we, we served, you know. 01:25:32
300,000 people. It's like it sounds like you are shifting this away. 01:25:36
That's what it sounded like. 01:25:40
Well, my point here is that. 01:25:43
The agreement. 01:25:47
Clearly calls out that both of us can. 01:25:49
You know, provide projects to the communities we serve. So ours just happens to be. 01:25:52
A little bit bigger. 01:25:57
So that's where. 01:25:58
Things have gone into and I know that and some of the projects that were brought forward out of the CAC. 01:26:00
They were located in Oxnard. 01:26:05
There there was a focus the you know, hopefully say yes, you need to serve the residents of Winnie me. 01:26:08
We do that too when we talk with. 01:26:16
Nonprofits you know that we support outside the CBF. 01:26:19
We're like, OK, what are you doing for the residents of Wayne Mimi? What are you doing for the students of Wayne Mimi? Where are 01:26:22
the scholarships that go directly to impact? 01:26:27
The residents of Wanimi. 01:26:31
We have done that. 01:26:32
In the entire time that I've been on this board. 01:26:34
We consider the residents, we consider the students, we consider where our dollars are going. 01:26:36
To help serve those seniors, perhaps. 01:26:41
You know, and, and we, we focus on that. 01:26:44
So we've we've been intentional. 01:26:47
About about that with our agencies. In fact, I got in trouble one time. 01:26:50
Because I wanted them to do something and they're like, well, you can't really ask tell them to do that. 01:26:54
But that's our intent is that we, we want to benefit the communities that we serve. And so that goes for both Oxnard and, and why 01:27:00
Navy as well. 01:27:04
Yes, you know, and you just said something. 01:27:10
Commissioner Rooney, that I thought about when we were at the Green Marine Conference. 01:27:14
Recently was the Jacks. 01:27:19
Yeah, because we came across the Jax Project in Hawaii two years ago, and she's the one that said, Oh my God, this would be 01:27:21
perfect. 01:27:25
So I'm just thinking when you just mentioned and you also mentioned it, Councilmember Lopez, I thought. 01:27:29
You know what? We've not researched that. 01:27:34
We should spend some time researching that project because heaven knows, we might be able to find a grant opportunity. 01:27:37
That's huge, because the grant just dawned on me when we were. 01:27:44
In New Orleans, that. 01:27:48
You came across that again and I think that that's one of those projects I think would be really worth our while. 01:27:50
To start investigating. 01:27:54
All right, any other comments? 01:27:58
OK. 01:28:02
Let's go ahead and move on to item number six. I think Mystique assessed for you. 01:28:04
Yeah, we just want to share an update with you of the renderings that we receive for the. 01:28:09
Barred statue. 01:28:16
And so there's there's photographs and and renderings that came in through Kiesel Architect that put these together and. 01:28:17
Yeah, if you if you look at those, they. 01:28:27
Really are quite beautiful we think, and actually will be a very welcoming. 01:28:30
Way to I don't know if these can go up on the screen Georgiana or not. I don't know if that's possible. 01:28:36
If not, we can share them with the community, but they're their state-of-the-art. 01:28:42
They kind of marry into the concepts that we see at. 01:28:46
The promenade in terms of setting up a compass like style, having some walls and beautification that. 01:28:52
I really think. 01:28:58
Create a beautiful gateway and it will have the Bard statue looking at the Maritime Museum and kind of bridging the opportunities 01:28:59
to revitalize that museum and participate in that so. 01:29:05
Just giving you a sense of where we're taking this, we're going to be bringing these renderings to our board and moving forward 01:29:11
with one of the concepts. 01:29:15
There will not be enough CBF money to pay for this in full so. 01:29:18
The landscaping and some of the art and, and them we're committed to doing it to make it great and to make it beautiful and 01:29:24
really. 01:29:27
Recognize the contributions of Mr. Bard to both the city and the port and how it all ties into. 01:29:30
How both important city were born and I think it's just ideal that it's right across from the museum. 01:29:37
So you can kind of get a sense of how cool this could look and bringing the community into some. 01:29:43
Some space. 01:29:49
That's very warm and welcoming and celebrates of a leader that has done so much for our our port and community. So just sharing. 01:29:51
Thank you, Mysticus. 01:30:01
These renderings were discussed at our ad hoc meeting. We. 01:30:03
And having this. 01:30:08
Ad hoc meeting for a while now. 01:30:10
And. 01:30:13
The intent is that. 01:30:15
These are these are potential. 01:30:17
Drawings. 01:30:20
So we're looking for feedback. 01:30:21
From you. 01:30:24
And then? 01:30:25
We look at what is going to be placed on these walls. 01:30:27
That are on the back you can see you can't read it because we don't know what the words are so. 01:30:32
The idea? 01:30:38
That we've gone out and and worked with the landscape architect. 01:30:40
And then? 01:30:45
We come back together. 01:30:46
To talk about what is on this this wall. 01:30:48
And what does that look like? And to have the recognition of both the city and the port, the members on each body to be listed on 01:30:52
here as well. 01:30:56
When it all gets put in place. 01:31:01
And then you can see this is outside of the 105 building on Winimi Road. 01:31:03
And so it's it's going to change dramatically because our sign is going to come down. 01:31:09
And then there's beautiful landscaping and trees and a place for people to sit now. 01:31:14
The walkway. 01:31:20
Those there's two different ways to enter into it so you can come on the sidewalk. 01:31:22
That's there on why Nimi Rd. 01:31:26
That turns the corner. 01:31:29
And then you can also enter in from. 01:31:30
The parking lot. 01:31:33
There at the 105 building, so there, that's the cars you can see there. So there'll be a lot of. 01:31:34
Natural landscape, things like that. 01:31:40
The only thing that we didn't talk about at the last meeting was. 01:31:43
Potentially to protect the statue from any kind of vandalism that maybe there's some sort of. 01:31:47
Protect barrier. 01:31:54
There in the event that a car decides to. 01:31:55
Come through. 01:31:59
Or something happens. There has been some destruction of monuments in this region recently where they've cut things off and things 01:32:00
like that. So we want to prevent that. 01:32:06
But the idea is that we bring this forward. 01:32:11
Umm, as a concept? 01:32:14
Looking for input and feedback. 01:32:17
And then we will we will work together collectively. 01:32:21
On what the words are that are placed on the monument. 01:32:25
And the only thing I'd add to that is the reason you see the port logo there is because it. 01:32:28
Literally is our office building, so it's sort of our sign and we're taking our sign down. It's not to not celebrate. 01:32:32
Participation of the city. 01:32:38
If I can add, you know, it's really interesting. I had the opportunity to speak before the county Board of Supervisors recently 01:32:42
when we were presenting. 01:32:46
The Channel Islands harbor with a certificate on their 60th anniversary. 01:32:50
And I had the opportunity to speak right after Travers, the grandson of Richard Bard, spoke. 01:32:55
And it dawned on me that I said I don't have to write a speech, I'll just say exactly how it all ties in is that. 01:33:00
If it weren't for the port of Winnie Me, there would be no Channel Islands harbor. 01:33:08
If there weren't for the Port of Wineemi, there would be no naval basement or a county. 01:33:12
If it weren't for the Port of Wynnie me, there would be, you know, city of Port Hueneme. 01:33:16
But. 01:33:20
If there were no Richard Bard. 01:33:21
We would all about be here. 01:33:23
So I think this, this statue, especially the way it's set is, is very a great tribute to a man who's established so much and we 01:33:25
would not be here because of him. 01:33:30
If it weren't because of him. 01:33:35
So let me ask. 01:33:37
So for a process here so you have these renderings. 01:33:40
So, umm. 01:33:44
Do you now then take this back to your? 01:33:46
And asked for it to be agendized and then you'll discuss it at the following meeting. 01:33:49
The process, Yeah, I was actually. I'm glad you asked because. 01:33:55
The process on this one, I think we all remember it got a little. 01:33:59
Blurry, I think at one point. And so the standard process for the city is that any monument goes through what's called the Heroes 01:34:03
process, which goes through the Citizens Advisory Committee. 01:34:08
And so the Citizens Advisory Committee had reviewed the project about maybe 18 months ago. 01:34:13
And approved. 01:34:19
All the elements except at that time. 01:34:21
Location. 01:34:23
And had basically, I think if I remember right, I think had given sort of a few like recommended locations. 01:34:24
I think this is one of them. 01:34:31
So, so I, I feel like, you know, you can never guess, but it feels like it's in line with what everybody was thinking. 01:34:33
And so. 01:34:41
I think for us that location never got finalized, so we'd have to go back just to deal with location just to get the approval for 01:34:42
the location. 01:34:46
And then one more thing on just a technical level is anytime where like. 01:34:50
There's an existing landscape permit for the port. 01:34:55
In that location that identifies all the landscaping. So I think there have to be a minor modification to the landscape permit to 01:34:59
show this. 01:35:02
But a minor modification is pretty simple straightforward. 01:35:06
So I think those are the 2. 01:35:10
Processes from the city so just be getting the final location through the heroes process and then a plant like the landscaping 01:35:12
permit. I guess my question was not that, but what? 01:35:18
We're asking for your council. 01:35:25
To comment on this. 01:35:28
And and so how do you get it back to your council and when? 01:35:30
To so we can move forward. He was kind of alluding to that. Yeah, I guess I'm sorry, I think I see the question that was basically 01:35:34
just for for basic feedback versus before a formal approval. 01:35:40
So we have that item on July 21st where we're going to get the Council's direction on the. 01:35:46
DC trip in the. 01:35:52
I think it was a grant writing project that the council specifically had asked to come back. 01:35:54
So we can, I think we could include this with that for just feedback. 01:35:59
Yeah. 01:36:02
Can I make one recommendation? 01:36:06
There's these. 01:36:09
LA County uses these solar lights for street lighting. 01:36:11
And this. 01:36:14
To have an excellent. 01:36:15
You know, area for to light this up at night, I think there was going to be lighting in that. 01:36:19
Yeah. And for security purposes, well, and it's a great point because we actually have eighteen of those lights over on Project 34 01:36:24
that we use solar lighting. 01:36:28
In full for that project and that's the direction we're headed. 01:36:33
We talked about it at our subcommittee meeting. 01:36:37
That. 01:36:40
We didn't want this to be a hidey hole for somebody to sleep overnight. 01:36:41
And so that's why there was intention of. 01:36:47
Of how it was placed and to have lighting in there. I don't think the lighting is shown on here. 01:36:51
But that was that was part of the intent is to make it so it's it's. 01:36:56
Not conducive for. 01:37:01
Overnight sleeping, yeah. 01:37:03
And we can certainly be at the meeting to support any questions for the time of feedback. 01:37:04
Thank you. 01:37:11
Any other comments? 01:37:12
If not, let's see, we're going to move on to item number E, item number 7 and that's committee member comments and requests for 01:37:14
future items. 01:37:19
Madam Mayor, anyone go ahead. Thank you. 01:37:26
Our board has talked about. 01:37:30
Ways. Umm. 01:37:32
That we would like to support the city. 01:37:34
In the economic development plan. 01:37:36
That you have. 01:37:40
Is something that. 01:37:41
Would be of interest for us to learn more about. 01:37:43
So. 01:37:46
If we could. 01:37:48
Make a request to have a presentation about the city's economic development plan. 01:37:50
To this committee. 01:37:56
And then that would. 01:37:57
Allow us to look forward to how we can collaborate more on doing that. 01:38:00
Also the next agenda. 01:38:05
To bring those minutes back for approval. 01:38:08
And then also tagging along with what Commissioner Zacharias said. 01:38:11
The Ventura Port District. 01:38:16
Project umm. 01:38:18
That we work together collaboratively on. 01:38:19
Is the. 01:38:23
First in the state for special districts to work together and to have an innovative project. 01:38:23
That was very unusual. 01:38:31
And so I think that it might be an interesting item to bring back and just do a presentation. 01:38:33
So you can become more familiar with it and and we like to do innovative projects and to have something that's a little bit 01:38:41
out-of-the-box. We're all in for that. I mean our. 01:38:47
Our team likes to. 01:38:53
Likes to figure out ways to get to yes and to do some really fun stuff, so. 01:38:55
We open that up to. 01:39:00
To that dialogue to say how can we do this and how can we work together on something that's really impactful. 01:39:02
For both agencies and and to work together. So I think having a presentation on that might. 01:39:09
Might spur some ideas, you know, of how we can really. 01:39:14
Do something really fun. 01:39:18
Thank you. That's it. 01:39:20
Great. Go ahead. 01:39:21
Just also one thing to add to that, I also like to add for a future item date is a presentation from the port on our workforce 01:39:23
development plan, the grant that we received. That is really innovative, my friends. 01:39:29
I like it because I'm an education. You could see the pipeline being built up. 01:39:37
From K through 12 all the way through university. 01:39:41
And right now, one of the biggest issues we're having in Ventura County is that when folks come out of the area, Special Naval 01:39:43
Base Ventura County is having this is that. 01:39:48
They come in from out of the area and realize it's too expensive to live here, so we need to grow our own. 01:39:52
And that particular grant that we received. 01:39:58
Was tied into a larger grant if you want to elaborate a little bit more to Steve. 01:40:01
Oh, you're not OK, but. 01:40:07
I think we are, we can only talk about OK, so anyways, if we could, if we can bring it to next time. But anyways if we can bring 01:40:09
down, I was ready to tell you about it, but it's really cool. And those are the type of unique partnerships that get funded. 01:40:15
So thank you. OK, great. 01:40:22
Do you have anything with them? 01:40:25
Just my. 01:40:26
Suggestion we may all be thinking about it, but would be, I think, planning to have the DC trip on the rest of the meetings until 01:40:28
September. 01:40:32
Which is, you know, only two actually, but. 01:40:37
I would suggest that. 01:40:39
I think we'll have done our our. 01:40:43
Visioning as well, so we'll be able to bring back. 01:40:45
The comment that the CPF. 01:40:48
Yes. 01:40:51
Yeah. Yeah, we can. 01:40:53
Yeah, I mean, you can't guarantee that because we haven't voted. 01:40:55
So right, no, no, but it could go on there and then we can call it off. We have approval, yeah, it just gives in case they need to 01:40:59
get approval for it. We don't want it not to be on there if we did. 01:41:03
We're we're ready for that. 01:41:08
Understood, Commissioner, Thank you. Did you have anything else? 01:41:09
Well, our City Council has. 01:41:17
An agenda is. 01:41:20
Well, they requested a future agenda item for a joint meeting. 01:41:21
I'm not going to. All I'm doing is mentioning it. 01:41:28
Because, umm. 01:41:31
It's it kind of falls in line with. 01:41:33
With collaboration. 01:41:37
Trying to collaborate. 01:41:39
I just. 01:41:46
My thought process, well, I'm not going to really get into the thought process, but. 01:41:48
I don't know if that'll work, it just seems too. 01:41:53
Timely never get on an agenda. 01:41:56
Would probably never be in agreement with. 01:42:00
Both. Both bodies going back and forth trying to find. 01:42:03
Common ground. 01:42:07
Anyways, that was it. 01:42:09
Great. Thank you. 01:42:10
So the the actual action was that the city manager has an action. 01:42:12
And so right now that's that's what we have city manager has an action and then however he goes through that with. 01:42:18
Mystique. Then we'll come around the other side of that. 01:42:24
OK. Any other comments? 01:42:27
Anything else? 01:42:30
All right. So actually I do have a clarification. So what I got for the next agenda item, although it does have to go through 01:42:31
mutual processes, everyone has to go back to their boards. 01:42:36
So it'd be economic development revised minutes, a presentation on the Ventura Harbor Port project, a presentation on the what we 01:42:40
call those speed workforce development initiative. 01:42:46
Establishing the itinerary for the DC trip and then CBF projects, Yes. Would you guys, everybody, is everybody OK with that? Do we 01:42:52
need to take a vote or are we all in favor of the items? 01:42:58
Economic development plan. 01:43:04
I did. 01:43:05
Everybody. 01:43:07
OK. Got a consensus. Thank you so much. 01:43:08
So that was item number. I'm sorry I missed one other thing. It was the revised minutes. 01:43:11
Oh, that's already on. You got it. OK. You got it. Yeah, OK. 01:43:16
OK. And so, so we're going to closeout. Are there any additional comp? 01:43:19
Sorry, the clerk of the Board are here is making note that we're going to be in Peru during the. 01:43:27
21st so we're. 01:43:31
Re establishing the date for the July meeting, it looks like it's going to land on July 30th, so it's just a comment. 01:43:33
Did we? I think we had a potential conflict, and we were. 01:43:39
Going to see is there flexibility to do it on Tuesday the 29th. 01:43:44
OK, so we'll see how our trip lands. We may or may not be on a plane, but we'll figure this out. OK, great. Sounds good. 01:43:48
OK. So those were our discussion items. Are there any final comments? 01:43:56
No final comments. OK. If not, we'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting today. It is now 5. 01:44:02
12 and will to be determined for our next meeting. 01:44:09
Great. Thank you. 01:44:12