Council - Regular Meeting

Mr. Mayor, we're live.

Are we live, David? Yes, sir. Good evening. Today is Wednesday, February 4th. The time is 7:03 p.m. and I'm calling to order the Baltimore Park City Council regular meeting. Is Pastor Jackson, Pastor Flores here? Pastor Jackson, could you please give us our invocation? Good to see you, Pastor Jackson. Heavenly Father, we come before you right now in the name of the Lord and giving you praise, glory, and honor and thanksgiving. Thank you for the right and privilege to come into your throne of grace that we may find grace and help in time of need. and our city of Baldwin Park uh needs your attention, needs your grace, and needs your mercy. We're asking you, heavenly father, in touching our city council and the mayor, giving them wisdom and knowledge and understanding and what to do and how to do it uh to uh enhance the city, Lord God. And also, Lord God, that all that are working within the city, Lord God, like the police department, the fire department, Lord God, the school board, and even the businesses, Lord God, it's a it's a village that come together, Lord God. And we understand and realize there's a lot of turmoil that's in this world, Lord God. Not a turmoil with even in our own cities, Lord God. But we are

reaching out to you for your helping hand upon our cities, with our schools, with our children, Lord God, with our businesses, Lord, that uh you would lead, guide, and direct by your Holy Spirit. We need you. We can do nothing without you. We have not because we ask not. And we're asking for your divine direction in Bowen Park. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen. Mayor Pro10, can you lead us in the pledge of allegiance, please? Of course I can. Mayor, please stand and put your right hand over your heart and join me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, and justice for all. Thank you for that. Uh, city clear, can we get roll call, please? Absolutely. Mayor, Mayor Damian here. Mayor Promayola council member Aila here. Council member Estrada here. Council member Lozano here. Thank you.

Thank you for that. City clerk uh report from close session. We did not have a close session today. So, moving on to proclamations, commendations, and presentations. Today, we have a presentation recognition for being the first female to reach 1,000 career basketball points. Wow. Presented to Sil. This is going to be presented to Cai Audrey Buna from Sierra Vista High School and it will be presented by council member Estrada. Council member, hi. All right. So, I'm going to ask you to join me up here with the rest of the staff and you join us with your team. I think we all fit up here. May I have the mic?

All righty. So, we have a certificate for Kylie Audrey Buuna for service the high school girls basketball team. So, on behalf of the city of Bone Park, we're proud to recognize you for your leadership and dedication. Congratulations for making history and becoming the first female athlete to reach 1,000 career basketball points. We applaud you for your hard work, commitment, and for being an extraordinary athlete. Thank you for your favorable recognition you bring to your school and to our community. presented on this day fourth fourth day of February 2026 on behalf of Mayor Daniel Damian, Mayor Prom Gene Emayala, Council Member Alejandra Aila, Council Member Emanuel Estrada, Council Member Manuel Lozano, city clerk city uh Christopher SCS and city treasurer Joanna Valenuela. It's in my notes.

You're just gonna have to get a little closer real quick.

Hopefully your speeches are good as your shots. All right. I don't know about that. This one might be airball. Okay, hold on.

Um, I would like to start off by thanking my mom, my number one supporter, the loudest in the crowd. Thank you for always believing in me, even when I doubted myself. Thank you for the sacrifices you made, the late nights, the early mornings, and the constant encouragement. You've been my biggest supporter, my teacher, my safe place, and my best friend. Everything I've accomplished is built on your love, patience, and strength. I would not be here without you. Thank you to my coaches for welcoming me with open arms. You guys put a lot of a workload of time and effort you put into making sure I am the player I am today. I would also like to thank my teammates for keeping my head up throughout this long and tough journey. Thanking you to everyone who stood by stood by me during challenges and uh celebrated my successes as if they were your own. You reminded me that I'm never alone and that support can make even the hardest goals feel possible. Thank you. You're right. I think that

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That's awesome, you guys. That's why they call you. Congratulations. Congratulations, Mia.

That's amazing. A thousand men working that I didn't know. Was that in a season? Huh? I didn't know. Was that in Oh, with the mayor. We forgot.

Oh, yeah. Oh, with all of us. Okay. One more. Okay. the wrong chair there. Thank you, Manny.

Mr. Gario. Okay, we should uh What the heck? All right. So, we're coming back. Okay. Yeah. Again, we could just give a a big round of applause for those 1,000 points. And then, uh, Manny, if if uh it's okay with the entire city council, if we can maybe place her on the uh Morgan Park marquee. Yes, sir. Placing the 10,000 points. AB:

Absolutely. Congratulations. All right. So, we're going to be uh moving on to uh public communications. City clerk, do we have any speakers? Yes, mayor. We have three speaker cards. The first is Irma Morales with the LA County Library.

Good evening, Mayor Mayor Damian, council members, um city staff, and community members. I wanted to tell you about stuff that's going on at um Ballin Park Library. Uh this month is library lovers month and so if you come into the library and you tell us what book made you fall in love with the library, we have a goodie for you. So we appreciate if you can do that. Also, um it's Black and African-American history month. We have lots of great resources on our libraries website along with Lunar New Year. We have a um for Lunar New Year. If you come into the library, we have a red envelope, if I can find it, a red envelope with the year of the horse, and in it is a bookmark. So, please visit us for those things. And um I'll go through these by the date that they're starting. So, we're having a teen program on Thursday, February 12th. It's create a callig calligraphy fan with Sher Sheep. That's Thursday, February 12th from 3:30 to 5:00. We're having our continuing our wellness for seniors program on Friday, February 13th from 2 to 3. It's called managing your medication. We are beginning our free tax preparation programs. On Saturday, February 14th is our our first um VA, we call it VA tax. It's trained Calpaly juniors and seniors um come and help um prepare and electronically file federal and state income tax for folks who make under $60,000 a year. We'll have four dates uh two in February, February 14th and the 28th and March 7th and the 14th. Both will be all will be 11:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. um at the library. We're continuing with programs for children. We have an art time program about Jeff Kenny. Jeff Kenny writes the

um Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and that'll be Saturday, February 14th from 3:00 to 4:00. We'll be talking about his artwork and um as I said, beginning Lunar New Year, which starts February 17th, we're giving out the envelopes and uh we have a teen advisory board that just happened today, but it also begins uh we have another one February 18th. And last but not least, we have on African-American and Black History Month, our place in the sun craft and program on Tuesday, February 24th. Thank you for your time.

Next, we call Cindy Rubio. I'm a longtime resident of Baldwin Park. I live by the Walnut Creek Community Center and my concern is the lack of communication between the city, city council and the residents in our area. Um the majority of our residents in that area run average age I'd say about 70 years old. So they don't use the internet. They don't have any way to communicate unless their grandchildren are there or their children to help them. We're made unaware of most of the things that are going on within the city. I was here last week and wasn't able to state. I learned so much listening to the lady from the library, the gentleman from the dog pound, the things that are accessible to people in the city, especially seniors. and there's no way for us to know what's going on. You changed the dial ride system to better buses, which is of great help, but you also changed the way you make the appointments. Nothing was discussed with anyone who uses a dialer red prior to it happening. It was a big mess. The new drivers that are driving for the transit, some of the old ones stayed. The new ones did not. There's new ones. They stop or they don't stop. Depends on what you want to do. I got tired of trying to deal with the dialer ride. So I decided to go on the transit. I asked to be dropped off at the sign where it said drop off. Bane and Francis driver said no that's not a stop. Gentleman across from me is getting upset. He said it is a stop. You need to stop for her. And it's difficult for me

to walk long distances but it was like okay. And I told him it's okay. I don't want to argue this. we'll go to the next stop which is all the way up at Francis Skito and Vinland. He dropped me off there and he said that's not a stop. Okay. I walked away, walked back, the sign is there. The sign is across the street by the habit. I called their offices. I asked them, "Did you remove this stop?" "Oh, there was never a stop there." "There is a stop." "Oh, well, it doesn't work anymore." There's no communication. If you change the route, then post it in the buses. There's only six of them. Post it and let them people see in front of them what's going on. If you don't attend the senior center, you don't know anything that's going on in our neighborhood. We can't see the marquee. A lot of people don't come this far over. They go to Food for Less and Target, maybe Walmart. They don't go to see where the marquee is at. They don't see the messages. They don't communicate. And then everybody's talking to everybody else and putting out bad information. They're having a grand opening at the park that's around the corner from our house. And somebody from a different city called me to ask me if I was going. I didn't know anything about it. I was told that it's going to be in the Bulma Park now, but that's coming out this week. It's already coming up next week.

I'm sorry. Three minutes are up.

Okay. Thank you. Next we call Marco Ornelas. Hi everyone. Good evening. I won't take up all three minutes. My name is Mark Gordellas. Um I grew up in Balden Park. My parents still live in Balden Park. Uh I'm here to talk about or I have a a nask of the city council which is that the city take a more proactive approach in dealing with the threat of a data center in the city of Baldwin Park. Um I I do land use law. That's my profession and I follow it closely and I've been following developments in the San Gabriel Valley with um applications for entitlements that would allow uh data center what we consider data center land use in in the city. And I mean I drove two hours to make it to the meeting today. I I don't think that the threat is nonzero. Um, I think it's not speculative or or uh I think it's a concrete threat that the city faces and I know that cities can't take reactive approaches to entitlements. They have to act proactively. When an entitlement comes in, they're they get the benefit of the policies that are in place at the time that the application is filed. And my concern is that the city does not have a moratorum or has not contemplated what it would do if a data center um if an if a proponent of a data center submits an application. And I mean I've even I've reviewed the applications in the San Gabriel Valley and I've I've looked up the attorneys who are representing the applicants. I know who they are. They're very sophisticated. They're some of the best in the industry and I would hate for the city to get caught with its hands tied if somebody submitted an application here. Um, so I won't take up any more of your time. Just thank you all so much for the work you do. It's it's great to see you. Um, love the

city. Love the work that you do. And it's it's nice to see you all. Thank you and take care.

Mayor, that uh concludes all speaker cards received.

Thank you for that, city clerk. Uh, if there's anyone else in the audience uh wishing to speak who did not fill out a speaker card, now is your time. one more time. Uh, as I was driving in this this uh evening, I saw a taco vendor. I called Carlos and he was going to go take care of it. Another thing I went to a rose meat meeting, town meeting with the district attorney and I just suggested why don't we have one right here in Bow Park. The people from Rosem said that they invited all the cities within the area. We were never told. I found out from people from Amani and they were wondering if we could have a tongue meeting with the district attorney. Okay. Other than that, we're still getting street vendors on the weekend like I mentioned right now. I just saw one right now. Um, we're trying to clean the the city up and you guys are not paying attention to the community. I requested awnings for the bus stops. I've seen people right out there for maybe half an hour, 45 minutes on out in the sun. I've been asking for that for the past, I would say, eight years, something like that. Another thing we've been asking is for the equipment, exercise equipment for Walnut Creek. The

equip window we have right there is not is for young kids, which is fine and dandy, but during the summer when it's over 100 degrees, the kids can't play in there because they burn themselves on on the equipment. We need to put some shade over it. You know, we need to look at uh asphalt around the our neighborhood, especially our neighborhood on Latford Street right now. Before we came, the lady came to us and told my I almost fell into a hole. It's in the street. I talked to Anthony right now. I hope they take care of it tomorrow. We don't need another lawsuit. I know we're fixing the sidewalks, which is fine and dandy. Let's take care of city hall first around the pond. That's where we're, you know, that's where we should be looking at, you know, not spending so much money on the Sautalo that hardly anybody goes there because there's no shade. Okay. We haven't been able to put up a restaurant running in there because he wasn't prepared for anything like that. Sorry, you can give me five minutes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rios. Is there anyone else in the audience wishing to speak? No. See no further interest, I'll now close public communications. Oh, I'm sorry. There is one more. Go ahead. Hello, my name is Lynn and I just moved here to Bobin Park, but um I'm happy to be like in this um meeting with you all.

And something that I wanted to talk about is something not new, we've all seen it on the news and people that we know, which is the ice raids that's been happening throughout the San Gabriel Valley recently. Uh we all know about, you know, the incident that happened in Elmani um a couple weeks back and I just wanted to bring that up to Baldwin Park and you know just wondering what the city will do in the case that there are ICE a federal agents here um that might harm the community. The other day I actually stopped um the side of the sidewalk um and by the freeway here and I saw a fruit vendor and I got out and I told him, "Hey, Ice is actually in Elmani right now." And tell me why he started crying. He was shaking his he was clenching his jaws and I just think that's like like, you know, it's just crazy. So, I was wondering what the city will do, what the officers will do in the case that federal agents are here and trying to terrorize the community members. And so, I just hope that that's something the city will consider and you guys can do something other than put out a statement like Elmani did when actually when one of their residents got detained unlawfully and they had their car broken into, their window got smashed. So if that happens to a community member here and we have many small businesses, many vendors, what will the city do? Thank you. Uh thank you for those comments and welcome to the city of Baldwin Park. Is there anyone else wishing to speak?

No. Okay. Now I will now close uh public communications. I did just want to address a couple of comments that were uh brought up. Uh Mr. Rios, I know that we've discussed in the past regarding the uh awnings and actually some of the benches for the bus stops. So, we'll make sure we touch base with staff to see where we're at with that because I know that there was a a study being conducted, but we'll we'll check to see where we're at with that. And then, Miss Rubio, I understand, you know, a lot of the the residents in the Walnut Creek area are uh primarily seniors. Um, I mean, I guess other ways of communicating with them, uh, besides, you know, the Baldwin Park now since they're not active on social media is, you know, pro probably flyers, but as you know, it's difficult to have staff go out there and pass out flyers to every resident for for every single event. But Manny, would it be possible if we pass out flyers for the grand opening at the the Greenway? And

Absolutely, sir. That's already been uh been planned. I believe staff or the outreach team was going out this weekend or this f Friday. Um so it was already planned, but yes. Yes, sir.

So we'll have uh staff pass out flyers for that in that area for the grand opening. Um and then in reference to the um to the ICE uh comments, you know, we hear you. Uh you know, we fully support and we fully stand behind all of our residents in this community regardless of immigration status. I think the entire council has been very vocal uh from that aspect where you know we're we're behind our residents and we're going to do everything possible to make sure they are protected. Um and then I'll make a comment at the end of council uh giving uh uh direction to staff uh in regards to that. Okay. Um other than that, those are the comments that I have. Does anyone else have any comments? Yes, mayor. Thank you, Council Roba.

Yes. Thank you. Um in regards uh Cindy to Manny, how feasible is this? uh to create a few bulletin board areas in the area of Walnut the Walnut Creek area where residents, you know how we have the little the reading book boxes where we put books for kids could pick up in different areas. Maybe have something like that in different locations in that particular community where we put flyers and a bulletin board up for them. And maybe if one resident can't come, the neighbor can come pick up the flyer and take it to the resident. something that's feasible that they can walk to maybe or their neighbors can walk to and take the flyers to them. Absolutely. That's a great idea.

How that sounds, Cindy, to start to just get the information closer to you if we do it for the reading. I mean, maybe we could do that to make sure a resident gets information. Absolutely. Very good idea. Thank Thank

in regards to to the raids we hear our community as a matter of fact our our students have been having walkouts here in our city um and I'm very proud of our police department and our school district because although they don't want the students walking out on the streets because it is a safety issue but they do have a right to speak out. They do have a right to protest and tell everybody how they feel. And so what's been done here uh at least in that case uh PD is always aware working with the school district administration has walked with students when they walk out. Again, it's not something we encourage because of safety, but we understand how they feel. We understand that it's something that they need to do. And I'm very proud. Thank you, Chief, for making sure that our PD is always aware and making sure in these cases that our students are are safe and that you're working closely with the district. It's something that we can't control. And I'm actually very proud of these students. Not that I encourage the walkouts, but I do encourage uh for them to speak out and and let people know that they're angry about what's going on because it's not easy for them. There is a lot of students, like she said, the vendor that was in tears when she told them ICE was in the area. That's how a lot of students feel. They feel afraid to go to school. They feel afraid for their parents. They feel afraid that their parents may not come home. And it's difficult on everybody. It's difficult on all the families here. And in Baldwin Park, we do have to follow the law. And there's only so much we can do as a city because there is a law that we need to keep in place. Um, but we are safeguarding you the best that we can along with the police department. The police department does not work with

ICE. They will be out there to protect you if needed. If you feel threatened, but just know that there's certain things and maybe that's something that we can put out, you know, the things that the and I know we have that the PD can and cannot do. So our residents understand, but not at any given time is is is the city of Baldwin Park with ICE or in agreement with what's going on. This administration has the whole country, the whole world actually in a panic because of what's going on. And we are not standing for it. And I thank all of you that come up here and speak and those of you that have been outspoken in our community. But just I want to remind you to please be safe when you are out there. Know your surroundings, watch what's going around you, and do keep communication open. And if you do see something, take pictures because a lot of people are posting things without pictures without proof. If you have proof that ICE is in the area, definitely post it. But we need pictures because otherwise it we we can't be sure that it is them. Thank you. That's all. Mayor, thank you.

Yeah, mayor. Yeah, I just want to also share to the new resident that come in, there's also um Friday that's circulating, there is going to be a anti-ICE protest Friday the 13th uh at 4 p.m. So that's next next Friday. So if you want to be a part of that group, uh oh, Morgan Park right on the corner of Ballpark Boulevard, remote on Balpark Boulevard. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Thank you for that. Uh any other comments? All right. Okay. So, now we're going to be moving on to um consent calendar. Any want want to pull any of you want to pull any items from consent here?

I'm going to go ahead and pull item number three. Mayor. Yes. Item number four. Four. Anyone else wishing to point any items? If not, can I get a motion to approve consent calendars one through consent items 1 through five excluding three and four? I'll go ahead and move. Motion by council member Lozano. Can I get a second? I'll second. Second by mayor promp. City clerk. Can we get roll call? We have a motion to adopt items 125. Moved by council loan. Second by mayor promayala. Council member Avula. Council member Estrada. Council member Lozano. Yes. Mayor Promayala. Yes. Mayor Damian. Yes. Motion carries 5-0.

Thank you for that, city clerk. All right, item three is mine. Um, I'm going to go ahead and pass this over to Manny or Daniel. Item number three. Oh, wait a minute. I pulled the wrong item. Okay. So, you know what? What I'll do is I'll just go ahead and make a motion to approve item three. I'll go ahead and second. We got a first and second. City clerk, can we get roll call to approve item three? We have a motion to adopt item number three. Motion made by Mayor Damian, second by council member Lozano. Council member Aila. Council member Estrada. Council member Lozano. Yes. Mayor Promayola. Yes. Mayor Damian. Yes. Motion carries. 5-0.

Thank you for that, city clerk. All right. Council member Estrada. Uh that was the item I was going to pull, which I got confused, but go ahead. You have the floor. Uh item four.

Thank you, mayor. Um, I just wanted to I wanted to ask just some questions. I mean, first I wanted to thank Staff because I know this this seems like it's this project is moving pretty quick. It's very exciting to see that, especially because, you know, it's a it's a very special project and it's first park to be built on the north side of Baldwin Park. Um, I just want to ask about the the wall. Is this just going to be a cinder block wall? Um, so it is a cinder block wall, but on the park side it will have um stucco finish. So be it'll be a nice cinder block wall. On the park side, it's um a decorative stucco finish with with a nice um cap on top of the wall. The walls are the the wall that we're building now is on the north and the west side of the park. And it's um 11 and 11 and 1/2 ft walls, very tall um walls, but not just a plain um cinder block wall. It'll be the it'll be actually, you know, beautiful um aesthetically pleasing walls on the park side.

Okay. Yeah, cuz I know I was just I was just thinking about it before. Um you know, cuz I know we we wouldn't want to just have like a plain stuckle wall, but I mean not plain stuckle wall, but not just a plain cinder wall, cinder block wall. And then I, you know, there's always an opportunity to just make sure that it's, you know, uh, um, pleasing aesthetically, right? Whether it's through, you know, just decorative blocks or or stuckle finish. We just want to make sure that we're using every opportunity to make sure that place is decorated very nice.

No, I think, you know, all of the elements of this park are are, you know, premier and um, beautiful finishes. It's going to be an amazing park when it's when it's done. So yeah, there there's nothing that's going to be kind of plain and simple about it. We have we also considered the um you know the possibilities of just if it's a plain wall, it might get um vandalized or

Yes. So um I think probably Manny and Maria can speak more about that, but no, the the park will be um the fence will be opened. The park will be opened and closed every, you know, every day. Um, you know, staff will be checking on it to do maintenance on it. We're going to have security cameras and um um but yes, it's it it will be nice stuckco finished walls and um we'll you know hopefully they won't get vandalized and we'll pro we'll be providing we'll patrol it especially with our new um park rangers and surveillance cameras. So, um, we're hoping that they'll stay beautiful, um, all the time.

Great. Okay. Thank you, Daniel.

Yeah, and I think that those are are great, uh, concern. I think we we've touched on that as well regarding the, uh, vandalism and that. So, I think that, you know, by it being open and closed with the fencing, and I know that we were discussing with Manny, Maria, and Daniel in regards to, you know, is it going to be easy for people to jump over the fence, but we they will have a camera system, and hopefully by the time it's built, uh, PD will have the CSOS in place and then, uh, you know, their their main focus will be, uh, patrolling the all of the parks that we have. So, I think that'll help deterate, uh, deter some of those, um, some of those concerns that we do have. Um Daniel, Daniel, did you want to touch a little bit on the contingency?

Sure. Thank you, Mayor. Um yeah, so we we currently have a grant um 700 about $762,000 which is set to sunset on March 31st. So we're we're trying to um expend some of those funds and and get the project started. Uh we we've programmed um to install a couple water meters and uh planning on installing a sewer line into the park and maybe do a little bit of grading. But um this current project is the contract amount is $105,775 and um yeah, we'd like I'd like to um consider the council to amend the construction contingency to 25% which is what we did on our sidewalk project that we awarded um maybe a month ago. Um, so, uh, 25 thou a 25% contingency or a contingency of, um, $26,443.75 is what I'm recommending for the, um, council to consider tonight.

Perfect. Does anyone have any questions regarding the amendment? No. If not, can we get a motion to approve item number four, uh, including the amendment of increasing the contingency from 10% to 25%. I'll go a motion. Uh motion by council member Strada. Can I get a second? Second by council member Aila. Can we get roll call? We have a motion to adopt number item number four as amended. Moved by council member Strata. Second by council member Aila. Council member Aila. Yes. Council member Estrada. Yes. Council member Lozano. Yes. Mayor Promayala. Yes. Mayor Damian. Yes. Motion carries 5.

Thank you for that, city clerk. All right. See that there's no public hearings. We're not going to remove two reports of officers. Item number six, the honorary memorial sign for officer Sam Riveros. Manny, who's going to be uh handling this? I mayor, I I will go ahead and take the lead. And if uh Josh or if Captain Hendrickx would like to uh solidify anything that I may miss, but I will go ahead and start the report. The report seeks city council approval to designate a location as officer Sam Riveros way, but we can uh modify that word way in tribute to our fallen officer who made the ultimate sacrifice on May 31st, 2025 in service to the Baldwin Park community. We have multiple options. But in terms of recommendation and I will move along very quickly and par and par paraphrase. Uh we are looking at dedicating a po a well adding a memorial dedication not renaming the street on the 4200 block of Philhurst Avenue. as officer Sam reveros and uh we will we can add a sign there. We don't necessarily need to rename the street. And another option that um was brought up is Bogart Avenue to have that street dedicated or me memorialized. Once again, not necessarily changing the street name. A third option is we can

change the street name on Bo Bogart. There are no businesses on Bogart. So that is an option if city council desires. So we have multiple options. We have Philhurst, we have Bo Bogart. Both of those we could have a memorial designation sign andor. The third option would be to rename the portion of Bogart Avenue as officer Sam Ros. So though that one would take a little bit more work because we would need to uh legally do some uh additional work. But those are the uh three options. I'd also like to just to add uh this would be a lasting tribute. The sign will serve as a permanent reminder as officer Rivero's service and sacrifice. Every person who passes but by will be reminded by his dedication to our community. Community healing. This tribute provides a space for reflection and remembrance. helping our community process this loss while celebrating Officer River's life and service. Department morale. This designation demonstrates that our city values and remembers those who make the ultimate sacrifice. Ceremonial significance. The dedication ceremony would bring together officer Rivero's family, our department, city leadership, and community members to honor officer ruros. This honorary memorial sign is

consistent with city the citywide naming policy adopted July 21st, 2021 and street naming policy as updated by resolution 2024-043. as an honorary designation that does not change the legal street name. It does not require the extensive public engagement process required for actual street name changes. Although once again, if coun city council desires to change the name on Bogart, that is definitely an option. Captain Hris, would you like to add anything to the presentation? Uh thank you sir. The uh the only thing I'd really like to add is just our appreciation from the council especially mayor prom for sort of spearheading this and bringing this to our attention. This is something that the association and the police management had been coming up with ideas but to actually get it before the council um was an effort by you. So I just wanted to say thank you for that. if it comes down to just one option. Um I think the one thing that I would want to just state is um an industry standard for when this happens would be um which I wasn't aware because I was the one that originally had recommended in front of a station on Bogart because I didn't think it would be appropriate to go to the site where the tragedy occurred. However, upon further research, most cities to include LAPD, which unfortunately has numerous honorary signs up, West Coina, and just the sort of standard of what occurs when there's a fallen officer on duty, um they they they erect the memorial or the honorary signs um without renaming the street, but in the area of where the incident occurred. So, um I I I think as a whole though our our our agency, our city, um you know, people that want to honor uh Samuel

would be happy with any of the choices you make. So, thank you. Thank you, Captain. This concludes staff's presentation. We're available to answer any questions.

Thank you for that, Manny. Thank you for that, Captain Hendricks. I'll open it up to the city council. Does anyone have any questions, comments, concerns? Oh, thank you, mayor. I just uh I wasn't aware of the procedure, so thank you for mentioning that. Uh, Captain, I I mean, I think we're we're all in agreeance that we should recognize and honor our officer. Um, I just I think about the I I think about the idea of of um doing it on on Philhurst, and I know that we want to recognize and and honor him. I the only thing that I concerns me is that that you know there there's a somber history there. It wasn't it's obviously not something that any of us wish would happen. Um and I think about the residents that live there and you know wanting them to be able to move forward and not having to have something that might symbolize trauma for them because this was a traumatic event not just for our officer and our department but for all of our residents that are living there and that are going through this. Um you know uh our officer felt um passed away there. a a father passed away there. Um it's it's very traumatic for a lot of people there. I I um I wasn't uh in my mind naming or dedicating Bulgar I think is very symbolic because he is our one and only officer who has fallen in the city of B park and I know that there's a some sort of a standard in the industry but we're hoping that that's not a standard procedure that we're going to have to follow. hoping that we're doing everything we can to keep our police department officers safe and that they are not in any sort of danger to this extreme ever again. Um, so those are some of my concerns and I do recall uh Councilwoman Abila did ask for a memorial. So, you know, this idea that we might have a memorial and the dedicated street on the same block along with in front of the police department, I think that there's a lot of symbolism

there. I think that this allows for his colleagues to be able to see that sign every day as they clock in and out or go to a call and be able to recognize them rather than on Philhurst where we are not actively being able to see that. And so know um Hogart right next to our city hall and that's also where the metroing station is. So everybody will forever be able to see uh and be reminded of that dedication that uh officer had for his city. I thought anyone else. Yes, mayor. Go ahead, Council Bravilla.

Thank you. I of course love the idea of putting a memorial. Um, but I I do feel the same. Uh, maybe we can ask the residents. I don't know if it's something even touchy to ask them if they would want a memorial on their street or I actually think Bogart would al also be a great idea because we talked about creating a beautiful memorial with a fountain here in front of city hall of officer Riveros and having the street adjacent to it I think would make a bigger impact and it would be right in front of the police department with all his colleagues all all the people that loved it that loved him and worked for him. Um I I don't know how the community members on Philhurst would feel of the reminder of the memorial there. Um so again, I feel the same. I think we need to consider that as well. And we don't necessarily have to follow standard if we don't have to. But I think um let's do uh research and see how the community feels too to see where they feel it's best fit um to put that memorial. But it's definitely something that we need to have in addition to the to the memorial we're going to have here in front of city hall. Thank you.

Council member Aila. Go ahead. Mayor Pat.

Thank you. Um, first of all, I want to thank um I guess he stepped out. Oh, no, there he is sitting there. Thank you, Captain for um acknowledging um the state the standard of what's usually done. Um I appreciate that in terms of the practice of placing a memorial sign in the location especially where officer Riveros um you know took the ultimate sacrifice. Um, I brought this forth to the council because I feel it's very important. You know, as of last Saturday, it's been 8 months that we lost Officer Riveros. Um, and it's it is a it is a lasting tribute and it will provide community healing especially to Philhurst. Um, the Philhurst community which is very close to my school which is very I have students who live on there. Um, I I visit it frequently. I don't know if any of you have passed it. Um, but there are there is a little, you know, memorial there that I that um I've spoken to residents, even the owner of the property there. She's very aware that I visit and and um they they they are experiencing trauma and I acknowledge what council member um Estrada mentions because yes, but it will provide healing for them because in a sense and I know council member Losano has has also accompanied me there and we've spoken with them in terms of what they're experiencing and it is a very traumatic experience. It is an experience um that I don't wish on anyone. Uh I myself and not not to to get too personal but you know on my own street um you know I've experienced um homicide murder and it it really um shakes your community but it brings you closer together and it's very difficult when something like this happens and

they feel like they've been forgotten. Um they do acknowledge what happens. Um, but the ones that I've spoken with are very appreciative of the idea of not forgetting Officer Riveros and acknowledging him in that way. Um, I feel that that would be the most fitting, especially um, seeing what sacrifice Officer Riveros did for this community. My only um recommendation would be to consider officer if we're going to say officer Sam Riveros that we don't use um as um CEO said uh the word way dry would be maybe more appropriate if we even offer or to to decide to do that. Um so my recommendation would be to um option one to have the memorial sign uh as a lasting tribute uh to provide that community healing um for not just our own community of Baldwin Park but especially for the community um on Philhurst and um I don't know if anyone else is going to speak but if not I'd like to make a a motion to accept option one. Thank you mayor. Go ahead and second, but I just want to add something.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, I just want to also share obviously all of us uh uh have an agreement and obviously empathize for the officer and the residents. I did have an opportunity when that occurred. Um I did walk some of the the residents and at one time I walked also Mayor Perim um Gina Yala and yeah the residents there were definitely traumatized and uh uh so it was important for us to knock on doors and to speak to those individuals that were affected because obviously that will affect them a lifetime of the tragedy that occurred on that particular um treat uh including uh visiting the uh the other gentleman I can't recall the uh the name uh Dar area, Mr. Darius Wong's family had an opportunity to meet with them, speak with them during the time that this uh this actual trauma occurred on and on and that street because they they themselves were also in need of some type of healing. And I think that uh it's important for us to be able to place that sign there. I I have personally attended uh uh one uh um LAPD friend of mine that I knew where they dedicated the actual street over over the individual at the particular location. So I think it's important the memorial that that was just brought up about him here at city hall. I think that's a great idea as well. Uh it's important for our community and it's part of the healing. Thank you. Thank you mayor.

Thank you guys for that. Um so I so I hear I I I see both points. Um my only concern with Philhurst is that we also that day we also lost a resident or someone that was there visiting one of our residents, Mr. Wong. So, I mean, for me, it would feel kind of I don't want to say inappropriate, but it would feel it would feel kind of weird placing a memorial there for Officer Sam River, but not one for uh Mr. Wong. Um, I mean, I was I was really going for option three, which would be renaming Bogart instead of just dedicating the street. It's just renaming it since I believe there's no addresses that would be impacted. Correct.

Correct. So, the fact that there's no addresses that would be impacted renaming this section of Bogart after officer Samuel Veros um I I thought would be uh more fitting uh because that way it's you know it's the streets named after him. Uh we have the police department there as well. We have the uh bridge there that on his memorial we can light it up in his memory. Um, so those were kind of my my ideas which is completely different from what you guys are asking for and you guys are asking for. So you were asking for for option three. Yeah. So Okay. So sorry.

Okay. So So I think we're we're all looking at different things and um I have a question. Um how does our our police officers feel? Have you asked them what they would prefer, sir? If we're not following protocol,

the the consensus was to follow the and I don't want there to seem like there's some sort of rule, but the guideline would be to place the um memorial signs at the location on Phill with it. But I I I think that either way, just to to sort of put that out there, we would be happy with any of the three options. One other thing I'd like to note is the actual signs themselves, even though it's in the report I designated as a way or a drive, neither is included on the signage. So, if you look at the staff report, I'm not sure if it printed for you. I attached some photo um examples uh in the back. It just includes the officer's name. So, in the blue, it would say Bowen Park Police Department. Uh the black, you know, almost like the the thin blue line flag. It would just say officer Samuel Riveros. uh EO for end of watch or end of his service um and the date and then honor duty service which is our motto on the bottom.

Well, this is a difficult decision.

Chief, let me ask you um I'm sorry. I mean, not that Captain Hendricks isn't isn't valid, but let me ask you, Chief, do you have a personal uh fe uh preference or have you heard of any options? you know, we uh, you know, LAPD like the council member Lozano mentioned, they do it they they also respect the the place where things have occurred, but then again, there's other locations at like at the academy that they have a bunch of signs because of for whatever reason, they they've decided to put them there. But it's a it's an option and I think uh how whatever it is, as long as we don't forget Sam, it it's meaningful. And I, you know, you think about the the option of um Bogart, it's a place where our guys are going in and out every day. Um then again, the Philhurst is a place where he you know, he gave the ultimate sacrifice. So it's

you know, it's it's it's an honor that the council is considering how we feel or how the department feels and I appreciate that. So it's again it it it's whatever whatever is fitting for Sam. It's we got to remember Sam. You know, you bring up a good point about Mr. Wong, you know, to that we're also not forgetting him, but it's not they're not doing anything for him. So, I don't I'm not, like I said, I'm I'm in the middle because where it occurred is one thing, and then over here is where we drive in and out every day on our way out or and come back in like Sam did.

Yeah. And I think that I mean for me it just I I would feel awkward you know going there uh to unveil the the sign and then not have anything there for Mr. Wong. Um only because you know they they were both you know unfortunately killed at the same time. Um, so I mean for me I would I would I would rather rename the street Bogart and go a little step further of just not just not memorizing the street but actually renaming the street after him. Um, that's my feeling, but we do have a motion on the floor. Um,

and to add to what you're saying, we re again, we rename the street River's way drive and then we're still going to have the memorial because that's the the ultimate goal. Correct, Chief? To provide a nice big memorial in front of our station, which that it's already being looked into. That really stands out when people are driving by, they see that. So, they would drive by and then the street adjacent to it would be named It wouldn't be either Way or Drive or Boulevard. It would just be the way it is on the staff report. It would just be just the name. Mr. Samuel Riveros. Mhm. Um just the name. Correct.

Yeah. I mean, I think that for me, it's just more that the fact that, you know, we do have Mr. Wong, who also um passed away there. But, you know, one of the things that we can do is uh you know, I don't think it's going to break the budget to make a sign. we can probably why don't we why don't we kind of compromise and put a sign on Phil Hurst uh to dedicate that site just as a memorial and then when we work on creating the memorial here we will rename Bulgart after officer Riberos and that way we can kind of both get a win-win there. Um how how would you be okay with amending your motion to include that? Um do you both?

Yes. I appreciate I appreciate you um saying that. Um I I will amend my motion. I will amend my motion to You said uh have the memorial sign designated at the 4200 block of Philhurst Avenue uh for officer Sam Riveros, his end of watch 053125. um to include also option three to rename a portion of Bogart Avenue as Officer Sam Riveros uh in in at the same time as our memorial is dedicated. Is that what you said, Mayor? Yeah. Once once we get the uh formulated

what memorial we're going to put here in front of city hall, then we'll kind of combine it with renaming the street a portion of Bogart at the same time do the the the sign out on Philhurst. You guys get that? So, it's basically doing both. Yes. We're going to honor the place where he where he where he died by placing a a sign there and then when we start working on the memorial here, we will we'll be able to rename the street join it with renaming a portion of Bogart. Two different projects then. Correct. Yes. Okay. Cuz you to me it sounded like you were going to do it simultaneously. That's going to take a long time.

No, because Yeah. So we won't name Bogart until we get the memorial. Yeah. But in the meantime, now we can dedicate the street. Yes, that's my motion. Do you need me to restate it again? City clerk, you have it. That's my motion. Then there was a second. So, we have a first and a second. You guys got it? Uh, Council Member Lozano. We have a motion to adopt item number six, moving forward with options one and three. The motion made by Mayor Bromayala, second by council member Lozano. Council member Bravilla, council member Estrada. Yes. Council member Lozano. Yes. Mayor Promayala. Yes.

Mayor Damian. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you for that, city clerk. One second. Do you do you want to make do you want to make a a separate motion to add a dedication for Mr. Wong? That's not on the agenda to add to the Could we do you want to bring it do we want to bring it back? I mean it's I think it's sufficiently related. Okay. So do you want maybe we can

the the only thing is officer uh Rivera is what we're River sorry what we're looking at it. It just I just feel mixed emotions about uh Mr. Wong not being recognized as well. It they it just

So, let me ask staff. I don't know how these signs are made. Is there a way that we can include a sign to where we honor both Mr. Wong and Officer Riberos as a dedication? Is that what you're asking? But yeah, we'll just bring it back if necessary. There's just a lot involved because then we stop thinking of that. There's there's a lot of other tragedies that have happened in our city and so Okay. So then that brings us to So that brings us to the discussion of we're only going to honor those right now. Yes. Because if if not, you're correct. We're going to open up kind of worms and we're going to say we didn't honor Vasquez over here and Junior over there and

you know what I mean? So at this point in time, so what we will do is we've already have the motion, it's already been approved, and then if anything further comes ahead, we'll just bring it into a future agenda item. Okay. All right. Moving on to uh reports of officers number seven. That's the animal control comparison, Inland Valley Humane Society and Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control presented by Captain Hendris.

Hello again. Uh there. Oh, perfect. Okay. Good evening, Mayor, excuse me, Mayor Pro Tim, council members, executive team, and staff. Tonight, I'm presenting a final comprehensive analysis of our animal control service options, including a detailed side-by-side comparison of continuing with LA County uh doc, Department of Animal Control and Care versus transitioning to the Inland Valley Humane Society and SPCA. Um just as sort of a how we got here today. Uh back on December 3rd, staff presented an initial analysis and recommendation for animal control services um that included costs and alternatives highlighting significant cost savings um versus the current contract and proposed going with the Inland Valley Humane Society um as a potential provider. uh on staff's recommendation uh that was tabled and we um received a presentation from LA County DACK itself back on January 21st and they had an opportunity to address city council directly. County representatives presented their perspective on cost structure, the rationale behind their six-year cost recovery implementation plan um and the services they provide here to Baldwin Park, highlighting some of the advantages of staying with them, such as the location of their one of their main facilities here within the city of Baldwin Park. During this process, uh staff has conducted what I feel is our due diligence, including a facility tour by the PD of the Pomona IVHS location. Um, I'm trying to do my best of providing an analysis of service levels and response capabilities from uh both providers. Um, as well as a detailed financial projections comparing both providers over multiple fiscal years and a review of the contract terms, um, the flexibility and the account measures. I I limited the projections to only two years. I was originally looking at doing three or asked to do three, but

givingven that I don't know where the Department of Animal Control and Care what theirs would look like after next year's 10% subsidy sort of reduction um cost that we would uh be absorbing. I don't I didn't want to continue to sort of project with unknown variables as well as our contract with or our potential contract with the Inland Valley Humane Society is a two-year contract. And after that um the terms of it sort of switch and I think I'm using the correct word where it becomes more of a a um a cost pool or a sharing pool with the other contracted cities in there. So just I limited to that just because I know there's some variables that I couldn't sort of forecast. Um so um tonight's presentation provides a balanced side-by-side comparison of both options across key decision factors with the cost structure and the long-term fiscal impact being at the highest um priority of this um PowerPoint slide. It'll touch on service levels, uh enhanced offerings that were requested by the city council to include an additional animal control officer, um as well as like I mentioned just considerations and cost controls. Uh this decision should have an impact on our budget and the quality of animal control services provided to our residents. Uh I'm prepared to do this walk by uh walk through with you guys and answer any questions that I can on my ability. Uh next slide, please.

That was just sort of my intro speech.

Thank you, sir. So this is just a quick executive summary of what is going to be covered throughout the PowerPoint presentation. Um, I will first kind of go over the 5-year escalation of where we started at to where we currently are, the estimated two-year savings, um, both with and without potential, uh, revenue recoveries, uh, as well as the, um, revenue enhancement section, a cost protection sort of analysis, and then the services being provided. Next slide. So, this is the five-year cost history that I took a look at and asked finance to help me with looking at it through the uh lens of fiscal years going back to 2020 to the 2021 where we see our total cost for animal control services was at $283,000 uh I'm sorry, $283,930. Um back then, this all came from the general fund. This was before ORPA funds were needed to be dedicated to help um cover the uh rising costs. And as you kind of can see from the PowerPoint slide, the numbers continually escalate based on the uh sort of yearly 10% subsidy reduction. So if I I'll just show a couple of the numbers. In 22 23 it went up to 635,000 and the final last year that we have the full numbers for which was the 2425 we were just over $1.1 million. Um this represents um excuse me uh if you can just kind of see that we used ARPA funds for this and there was an increase of general fund exposures without ARPA funds uh going up to over $1.5 million projected for the 2526 year. Next slide please. This other slide just shows a a rate increase um from 2022 costs comparing it to the 2025 cost. So we can look at just some of the numbers and again they're

there in front of you. We see that the costs um estimated for the dog cat housing and this doesn't mean that this was the individual rate. This is just the cumulative of how many animals for that year versus what our costs were. And we can see that there's an increase in costs based on how long they were impounded based on just that yearly cost with the subsidies like I mentioned that there's over 157% increase um at the highest level of just the impounding cost. Some of the other ones are are are lower numbers like we look at the field service hours, you know, what it costs hourly um as well as licensing um processing, special intake housing um and stuff of that nature. So, this just gives us a comparison from the 2022 to 2025 to really kind of highlight it for council. Next slide, please. This goes into the two-year cost projection that I mentioned earlier. If we were to kind of do a side-by-side comparison of the of the account, the only thing I did add um to the year two was considered to be a 4% inflation. That's um I kind of just did some research and I I chose the middle number because they said it typically is between a 3 to 5% increase on typical contracts yearly. So I went and kind of split it down the middle. So if we look at the final year with the final subsidy elimination and based on the current number projections we're estimating that our costs for the 26 now 27 year which is obviously the next fiscal year to be close to are just over $1.8 million. Um if we compare that to the 26 27 IVHS um contract that's being offered to us and again it shows the um cost plus that 50% uh and there's two payments of it. So the first one just shows the 50,000 but it's that infrastructure payment as well. We'd be looking at 1.135 million. Um but this again as I'll show later on can potentially be reduced through revenue savings. Um, if we look

at the total 2-year cost savings, we're estimating the cost savings for the city by switching service providers to be just over $1.5 million. Uh, and I don't know, Chait till the questions at the end or if you have a question on this slide. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Next slide, please. This one, it just takes a look at the revenue offsets. And what I did is I started looking at actual numbers where we've had revenue that I can sort of validate from LA County DACA versus what the projected revenue um that IBHS is is stating that we could potentially earn with them. Now again, this I it might not seem um as fair because I'm looking at actual numbers versus what are you know anticipated numbers, but it's just to sort of highlight the difference of where we're at in the contracts. So, if we look at the um um numbers so far, we're seeing that the licensing fees um I think over this current year so far is given what we've had is estimated to be about $67,500 versus the projected revenue starting on the new contract. Um because of their more proactive approach of doing a bianual canvas and some of the enforcement um steps that they take um we see that we're estimating between 150 to 200,000. So I just split again the difference at $175,000. So we would eventually take that and be able to reduce it from the uh 1 uh $1,85,000 um and get a reduced number. So as we looked at the 2-year savings being at potentially one just over 1.5 factoring in the revenue, we now see that it bumps up to potentially over $1.7 million or a 47% reduction um in in the 2-year time span. Next slide, please. um service comparison between both agencies is roughly the same. So I don't want to sit there and say one is better

than the other. I think one of the concerns council had that was brought up is can IBHS um provide the same level of service? And so I kind of just laid out um what I have in there. Both of them are 24/7 emergency response services. They both do animal impounds. Um the shelter facility we're we're talking from the Department of Animal Control and Care. It's it's right here within our city. There's no denying that factor that there is a convenience for both the residents, the convenience of needing to take an animal to get um in some sort of emergency services or if they have to be a shelter or or an impound or a turnin or a rescue, all that's going to be a much quicker process within our city. Um, however, when we I don't want to say however, I I would say conversely with IBHS. Um, right now they have the Pomona facility which is 10 miles away and shortly in the near future they they purchased a uh location in San Gabriel which is under 10 miles from the city. I think it comes out to about 9 miles. So there'll be uh hopefully in within the future options for the city residents as well. Um, and then there's also the potential of having an additional worker that would be dedicated to the city that can help with some of the transportation and pickups as well. So, next slide, please. Um, so again, at the request of council, we looked into uh what an option would be is an additional animal control officer coverage. So when we look at this slide, it kind of just says what the current proposal that they're offering right now is is officers would be assigned to not just Baldwin Park, but it'd be assigned to the adjacent area. So if there's a call for service in Coina that comes in before ours, there would be a wait time factor in that. Um but that's typical part for the course with even LA County um DAC services that we don't have a dedicated officer here in the city. In fact, their their animal control is countywide as well. So we we currently would I think it would be sort of apples to apples in that regard. Um it does include patrols when there's no priority calls

supervisors uh upon request or if needed. Um whereas when we start to look at the enhanced options of a dedicated BM park officer, that officer is exclusively assigned to Baldwin Park. Their hours would typically range um uh starting around 8:00 a.m. They would arrive around 7:30 and they would be here to both patrol, respond to the resident's needs. um they would be able to return to Perona to or the only time they would return is to offload animals um or or or do a transportation and then they'd be back here within the city if that's what we wanted. Um I I think I wrote at the bottom that the dedicated animal control option um I thought I had updated this. This says it's 125,000 yearly fully burn, but I believe that cost is 175,000. So that is the correct cost 125,000 for fully burdened with overtime cost for the city which would be again on top of the $1.85 million. Next slide please. Uh this just slide touches real quickly just on the regional expansion um that would help strengthen um their ability to respond to us as they continue to grow IBHS. Um on January 1st of this year they acquired the San Gabriel Valley Humane Society. One of the things that was stressed to me is um this just because it was acquired doesn't mean it's going to open within the near future. So, this is a project because they want to update that facility. They want to, you know, obviously have uh changes or modifications that they need to make. So, I wouldn't necessarily rely on this to be an instant service or a benefit to the residents of Bone Park. This is more of a future project that they have um which would allow them to have obviously a stronger footprint across the San Gabriel Valley. And again, it would eventually show that we have two facilities within a 10mi radius. Uh, next slide, please.

Um, this just shows some of the key differences and if the question were to be asked, why would we do the switch? Um, again, I know everything isn't about the the dollars within a city, but it does become a big factor when it when we talk about fiscal responsibility and managing this the city's, you know, money that we get from the taxes or the revenues drawn in by the city. Um, there would be an immediate savings. Um, we have a a a known with the um the cost where it doesn't fluctuate monthly. It's broken down into the 12 payments. And we also know that there's a a limit on the CPI cap at 5% which may or may not even be be hit but there is a cap on that. Um we we are anticipating a a larger revenue generation uh with them because of the bianual enforcement and the canvasing that they provide. Um, and and I I I I mentioned in here some of the modern infrastructure, but I don't really think that that is a key factor when we talk about a newer facility with IBHS versus DAX uh facility. Um, but just the fact that the cost savings and the potential of their growth with two facilities in the future, I I I think the staff recommendation would be to move forward with the IBHS contract. Uh but as always we have to provide city council with options and that's what um the next slide is. So next slide please. Um as stated by the department of animal control themselves we we have an established relationship with them. We we've been partnered with them for years. We have the local facility location with here within the city which does offer u better access for the community members. So there's no denying that part. They are part of a county infrastructure. um we are familiar with working with them, addressing problems with them, their contracts, and there would be a continuity of service if we continue with them. One thing I would like to add, which was just brought up

um um with me today from the Department of Control and the Deputy City Clerk, Shirley Konis, will pass it out for you, is we received today from them a an additional option of having a backup contract with them. And um it would be as a as needed sheltering for animals uh with a rate of $1058 per day, which would apply if Baldwin Park needed temporary housing animals um such as an immediate medical care or an emergency situation before IHS would be able to arrive on scene and um pick up the animal and transport it to their location. So, we did I wanted to make sure that I did include that for LA County as well as an alternative. Uh going back to this slide, option two would be to contract with IBHS. Um um given the significant cost savings, the potential enhanced revenue generation in the facilities, um there's definitely a a cost savings with going with them, but again, the choice is up to the council. So, that is uh my present. Well, I guess I have one more slide. Next slide, please. So, given uh the waiver for us that was done verbally here, um we do have if it's agreed upon today uh February 4th uh to approve the new council, the 180 days would be reduced. Um so, we would still be able to leave the contract by uh June 30th. Um, and so as of tonight or tomorrow, I just said we would give the notice to to the department of animal control and care. Uh, over the spring, we would work uh handinand with IVHS for the transition planning. Um, the staff, either it be the city staff or the PD staff, um, we would work handinhand with IBHS to make it a smooth transition or as smooth as we can make it. And then contract effectiveness

would begin July 1st of 2026. Uh, next slide, please. Again, based upon the the research that the PD has done on behalf of uh the CEO, um it's our recommend I I I'm assuming we're staff, so staff's recommendation is to approve the contract with IVHS to authorize the um termination notice to LA County. And again, just some of the rationale we've sort of discussed throughout the PowerPoint presentation. Next slide. This concludes my sort of sum summary of the uh work being put in. So if there are any questions, hopefully I can answer.

Thank you for that, Captain Hendricks. Now I'm going to go ahead and open it up to city council for any questions, comments. Yeah, mayor. Go ahead, Council.

Thank you. So I know um so we so one of the reasons we maybe I just want to double check. So, one of the one of the reasons we we held off was because we want to make sure that when we you know, if we vote to approve the the new contract that we are that we're kind of looking at also the you know things that we might not you know some we want to make sure that we're augmenting right we're not just trying to save money. We're also trying to augment our services and increase our quality of care for the animals, our pets and also our our our um our residents. So in the I know that you put some um know like in the in the in the presentation you put some um information like the officer and all that. So did staff come up with a potential package that we should approve beyond the basic the base contract for IBHS.

We have the current contract that was provided back in December of last year. um speaking with the president from IBHS, it would be a simple amendment that would be added to it and again the total encumbered cost on top of the $1.85 million would be $125,000. So there's still I guess to answer your question in a nutshell without giving you specific numbers there would still be a cost savings and an increase in servicing if we were to get the additional animal control officer dedicated to the city of Baltimore.

Yeah. But I'm saying so we have the when we were going to first pass approve or vote on this contract, we were going to pass a basic contract which was just the base services. So in this time did count did staff come up with you know their wish list of additional or look into the additional services that we might need to make sure that we are covering any area not leaving residents without basic services that they might otherwise feel are they're losing when we're transferring to a facility that's out of the city. If my memory serves me correctly, when IBHS did their presentation, it wasn't like an all a cart menu like they're offering us their full services. The only additional service was having an additional officer dedicated to the residents that would help with pickup um provide a probably an even quicker and prompt response, but I I don't want to misspe. Is that

Thank you. Yes. Okay, good. And I know so I guess more deep. So then we said, you know, some of the issues might be that seniors or people that don't have access to transportation or, you know, maybe they have some, you know, they rely on a dialer ride or they rely on some sort of, you know, they rely on some some other form of assistance to get to and from places and they can't get to Pomona or they can't get to St. Gabriel, they might still be going to trying to get, you know, service whatever it may be at the animal shelter here in Bowman Park. And then so I know that the county has offered some potential alakart. So, did we look at that portion of what we might, if anything, need from the county?

That would be completely up to city council, but they are offering a uh alternative contract which was sent in front of you guys. I'm not sure if I'm answering the question correctly, but there US city council does have the option to to enter contract with both. Yes.

Okay. So did oh I don't know maybe I'm not asking the question right but so the the whole point is that yes we want to save money we want to increase but we want to increase services we want to make sure that there is no disruptions to residents as they have to navigate the change to a different provider so as all this happens I know that the idea of them having to drop off their dogs and I think that's the best example right I have a dog I need to drop off and I can't get to Pomona for one reason or another maybe I don't have transportation maybe I don't have a car maybe I'm uh maybe I have some sort of um you know inability to just physically get there whatever it may be and are we you know are we making sure that those residents because that's what I asked I think at the last meeting that we hold this off but we also look at what we might need alakart services from the from the county

for those types of instances

and to your point that's what this additional um contract that I brought at the end would cover so for those occasions where to your point the only place they would be able to go is to county and for some reason IBHS was unable to pick up then we the city could enter into an agreement with the department of animal control and care to sort of cover that um that sort of gap if you will so that that doesn't occur and um to your point it was brought to me last time that if we do not have a contract with department of animal control and care while they will do everything in their power to help the residents of Balden Park they are under no obligation to receive that animal Um and so they wanted to make that clear um not as a hardline but just as a as a general business practice. And that's why u Bradley Kim and his staff offered you know um this this sort of stop gap measure if you will or this additional contract that the city could enter into. And I think council member start what you're asking. I think a lot of the so on the service comparison um it'll tell you what we're currently getting getting from LA County and then on uh IVHS it'll tell you and as you can see in the chart there we're getting more uh out of uh in valley according to the comparison than what we're currently getting now. Uh let me ask you a couple of questions. Uh, Captain Hendricks, um, on the slide where it says that the dedicated officer would start at 8:00 a.m. and arrive at the city at 7:30 a.m., what would be their end time? Because it only has the beginning time, but not the end time.

They would start at 8:00 a.m. to what, 8 to 5, 8 to 6? I don't want to misspeak. So, we'll have a an representative from IBHS step up. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, council, and staff. So, um, our actual what we consider regular hours is 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. So, your after hours is everything after 9:00 p.m. So, the so the dedicated officer would be in Baldwin Park, right, from 8 to 9 p.m.

Yeah. So what happens is is that we have an assigned officer and then again as um Captain Hendrickx mentioned then they rotate through to offload um obviously if they're taking lunch but otherwise you're getting a continuous officer in your community that's dedicated there.

Wow. And let me ask you um with some of the the questions that council member asked um and let's just say for example I'm a senior um I have a pet that I need to take to the dog pound. I can't get there. I call this this phone number, this dedicated officer dedicated to the city of Balden Park is available from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. regular hours. They would go to this uh resident's home and pick up this animal and take it to the uh Pomona shelter.

So, yeah, if you if we're talking about a stray confined animal, yes, but if we're talking about an owner relinquishment, that would be by appointment or or case by case, but that would be during regular operating hours. So, shelters open from 8:30 to 5:30. So, but if you're talking about an actual confined animal and a senior is having a problem, yeah, we get calls all the time that are saying, "I found this." And it doesn't even have to be a senior. I found this animal, but I can't bring it to your shelter. Um, but that's not going to be a priority call. And a priority again is an emergency dog bite aggressive animal. Um, so they may have to wait, but that is an option. So, if they can't go, so the the question of not being able to go to the shelter in Pomona because we have one here in Baldwin Park. If we were to pay the $125,000 for the dedicated officer, would that dedicated officer then pick up this animal, take him to Pomona without the worry of the resident having to drive to the shelter himself?

Correct. Um, but again, there would be a wait time potentially depending upon the call volume that's being generated. Right. Okay. Yeah. And we're not talking about days or weeks. No, no, no. Hours. Hours. Okay. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Mayor, go ahead. Add to add to the I have some questions about the So, we have a u we have an officer solely dedicated to city ball park. They're rotating with other officers throughout the region,

right? So, we currently we have uh eight full service contracts. Um and so what happens is is that we allocate resources as needed to our uh contract partners. So, we have certain cities that have dedicated officers. That means there's a dedicated officer. Doesn't mean it's the same one officer, right? It'll rotate cuz we have days off and stuff. So, you're getting a dedicated patrol. You're getting that person to uh respond to calls, but that doesn't mean that if you have emergencies that are piling up that we are not pulling other resources, but you are actually paying for a dedicated officer in your community. Yeah. Okay. And then the So, that's the other one, right? So, and then that officer will pick up like there's a dead animal on the road, they'll pick it up.

Yes, deceased animal will pick up, but that officer may not actually be the one that does that. There may be another officer that we pull. Just because you're paying for one dedicated officer does not mean you're only getting one officer to service the needs. Because if there if we have a dedicated officer, you know, we just want to make sure. So, I'm expecting that if we have a dedicated officer, the response is going to be much quicker than the county, right? Because the county, we don't have a dedicated officer, right? and we have to wait up to 72 hours, which I understand I think is probably your similar policy to you. But if we have a dedicated officer, you know, if there's a call, we can assume or infer that we might get a faster response time if they're within the area. Right.

I can't speak to the county's response times, but what I can tell you is that you should expect um more response and and whether it's faster. Um it depends on what that call is because again, I can't speak to that. Okay. And then that officer is only like driving around or are we can we offer them a space? Are they going to be here? Are they if they're not busy here, they go elsewhere? I'm sorry, I didn't hear the whole question. If they're if so we have this officer, right? If there's downtime, are they accessible or are they going to a different site or what's what happens with this officer?

So when I say downtime, I mean we're talking meal period, right? Lunch and then when they're offloading. So they'll be at the Humane Society campus in Pomona. Um but that does not mean that there again if there's a call then some other officer is going to dispatch to that if it's an emergency call. Okay.

I just want to make sure we don't we get a you know if we have a uh dedicated officer and then every time they have to pick up an animal or something they're going back I mean Pomona's not that far but bas depends on the hour and the traffic and that dedicated officer is actually out of the field out of the the field for one to two hours right. So then we had a officer that's technically dedicated to us for an hours, but every time they pick up one animal, it has to they they're going to have take them to every time right away. Then you actually don't have a dedicated officer here on site that long. Right.

Yeah. And and I understand what you're asking. What I'm saying is that you you would be paying for a dedicated officer, but that doesn't mean that that only one officer is going to respond to service calls. So let's say that the officer was offloading back in Pomona. still offloading and there is a a major dog bite. Somebody else is responding to that call, not that officer. Um, and I will tell you at one point um our service area consisted of um West Kavina Cavina all the way out to the 15 freeway in Ontario up to um Mount Baldi and down to Green River at the 91 freeway and we we make the calls happen again all based on priority and we allocate the resources accordingly.

Good. Um and then another if mayor if I can go to the the next questions not regarding the officer but the facilities you have two facilities but only one is operating right now. Is that correct?

No actually um what the captain was referring to is that that location San Gabriel Valley Humane Society is a full functioning shelter right now. Um but that facility services the cities of Temple City Darty and San Gabriel. So, at the moment, as we sit here right now, we have construction that's planned. Demolition of buildings, improvements, infrastructure improvements, those will continue for some time, but at this time, we're not advising any residents outside of those three cities to take any animals there because that it's not equipped to take those animals at this time.

Okay. And then the next question is I know obviously Ball Park is not the only city that has considered or know I know multiple cities have considered or have left to IBHS. So I know you're growing at a pretty rapid rate I think is great but um are you managing your you know is that intake of animals increasing? You have the capacity and then what happens if you meet capacity? I'm sorry I the door closed. If so with with with the increase in service uh service areas that you have I'm sure you're getting an increase in in dogs and cats and animals that you are kind of taking on. So how is your how are you handling that capa capacity and then if you meet capacity at your shelters what's what do we what's next for us?

Sure. So actually we've had the height of of our service we had 13 contracts. So actually this is less um and the communities that we are interested in partnering with we are measuring that with what our capacity is. So, um, like any shelter, we get at capacity and, um, we do not euthanize for space. Um, we will come back to you before July 1 asking this council to approve a getting to zero resolution, which is a commitment to not euthanizing healthy, adoptable animals. That's a commitment by this city council that also wants to um, you know, support the work that we do. Um, support responsible pet ownership. Um we have a multitude of adoption partners. Um we have a lot of outside uh area adoption. So a lot of people come to us to adopt because we have a full suite of veterinary services so we can fix the animals upon adoption. So um like any uh shelter that becomes um full, we really leverage our resources and community social media um to try to move those animals through the system.

Okay. Good. Thanks. Thank you for that. Council member Strada. Uh, anyone else want to make any or have any questions? Yes, I have a question. Go ahead, Council Member Raba. Um, I'm probably missing it here, but I recall that you said that you also have events at the park that is that correct? We actually do um mobile vaccine clinics um throughout all of our communities. And then we also bring our Goodmobile to do the mobile spay and neuter in each one of the communities that we serve. And how often do you do that? Um, right now we do our mobile spay and neuter uh once a month in each of our communities. And then the vaccine clinic is also once a month and that's rotated and we do those on a Friday. And those are free or is there a charge?

There is a charge but it's low cost. Yep. And then we also offer uh lowcost vaccines at our facility at our medical facility in Pomona um every day through our community clinic and then we also have monthly on-site vaccine clinics on a Saturday. Do you ever offer free services? We have in the past. Yes. And that does come up. Um, typically what we do is it's um, one of those where they may be sponsored by a donor or a vendor and we don't actually usually usually announce that in advance. It's when people are coming out and then and then we're like, "Hey, by the way, it's free." So when they go to check out, they're exponentially surprised because I I do know our residents have used those free services here in our city when we've had it at the park. Um, it's a very busy time.

So, I mean, that's something that I would like to see. Also on your hours, what does the weekend hours look like? So, uh, we're open, um, Monday or I shouldn't say Monday through Saturday, 8:30 to 5:30. And if we have something happening on a Sunday, what what happens there? We have we have round the clock. Uh, so we have kennel staff and we have officers in the field. So, we would be able to call as you recall the story about the hawk. The hawks. I could never forget the story about the hawk. Two different hawk stories, actually. So, if we were to get that to happen again, I mean, I've had it happen twice. I'm sure other people have. What would be the response again? Would you remind us?

Yeah, the response would be that we would respond and if it's obviously a dangerous sit, you have a bird of prey in your house. Fabi said she'll personally come and take care of it for you. I heard her say that. Yeah, that's our human and animal control manager. So, yeah, that's good to hear because we got no response except for our public works department that came and saved the day. That's good to hear. So no matter what type of animal or whatever it is, you will respond. Well, unless you get wildlife. Yeah. And not necessarily if it's burrowing under your house inside your rafters. No, we do not do that. But you're talking about a bird of prey that could, you know, harm somebody in your house. Yes, we will come in and address that.

And now what you just mentioned, if it's buried under the house, what would you recommend for the residents? Do you give them options for who they call and all that? You have that information for them? We give them options. Um, we we can come out and do yard audits to show what the attractors are, like why are they even coming here? Sometimes it's that they left the space in between. You know, they have a raised foundation, they left something open, now they've crawled in and they're having babies. Um, some of that is pest control, so they'll have to contact pest control. Um, some of that is through us, um, talking about, you know, uh, a deposit for a trap. Um, and then we can relocate um, wildlife within so so many, you know, um, half a mile. So, and it's a good thing we're not close enough to have bears on our house. You heard that story, right?

Don't bring that up. We have bears in our community and that does that does come upon. Yeah, that that mountain lions and coyotes comes to our door. Coyotes, we have a lot. And that's another one. The coyotes. Um I know there's nothing we can do about the coyotes, right? I mean

I mean there's nothing you can do in terms of um you know trapping them does not reduce the population. Um and then you know you'll see a coyote with mange. They live long productive lives with mange. It it doesn't look great, but it happens. And the reality is is that many of them don't survive captivity to transport to a rehabber, even if a rehabber was available. So, um, no, there's nothing to really do. We have had situations where they become habituated next to schools because people are feeding them, etc. And unfortunately, in those situations, we do need to come in, set a trap, and then the only result is humane euthanasia. We actually did have a situation at the school next to the school that I work at. There was a den there. Yeah.

We were I work at a preschool that coyotes were coming in the morning to the preschool playground till finally uh they realized there was a den at the high school which is adjacent to the preschool which is um but I'm glad to hear that you would come but um and respond to those type of calls. Those are my only questions. Um if anyone else has any. Mayor, thank you for

Thank you. I just have a short one. Uh, first I want to thank Captain Hrix for doing a a great job um on the actual presentation as well. Obviously, I think it's a beneficial um um opportunity for the community in general and uh we are being fiscal responsible. So, so I think it's important for us to uh look into uh changing over to the private sector versus the public even though the public have to also recognize them because for years I've I've taken a cats, dog. Actually, vice mayor assisted me on several occasions to the county where drive to the back, drop off the little animals in little cage there and then go inside, sign off, show my ID and go. Uh, so they've done good as well. But I I'm definitely looking forward to new type of change. But so out of curiosity, is it possible for me, say for instance, I do pick up straight cats or whatever resident calls me up to for me to take the actual animal there and drop off the uh

to to me or to Baldwin Park. Is that what you say? me from B I go from Ballpark to the Pomona facility. How does that work? Um how it works? Neither. Go ahead. Yeah. Sorry. Did you have a further question? No. So, uh go ahead. Go ahead.

Okay. So, um like all shelters, um we take in healthy cats, but depending upon the situation. So, we are coming into cat season, kitten season. Um, so if we are inundated, if it is a healthy, friendly cat, we may ask you to put it back because it may have an owner. People do have indooroutdoor cats. Um, sometimes they may be ear tipped, so we know that they've already been fixed. They're part of a community cat program. Um, they're not going to reproduce. Those aren't the ones we need to worry about. If you're having a nuisance situation, we get involved with that. We may set traps. We may remove them with you. Um, we rent out traps. It just really depends on the situation with cats. But, for example, we have a robust foster program. So, if you're bringing us neonates that do not have mom, mom has not been around, we do a whole we do a whole education campaign behind shelter diversion for kittens because sometimes kittens have been picked up without mom and they cannot survive in a shelter environment. So, if you know, you pour some flower around, see if mom comes back, mom may come back. That's the best source to keep them healthy and thriving. But if not, mom, maybe mom got hit by a car, bring the kittens into us. We're going to find foster families for them, and then they'll come back and get sterilized and then adopted out at the time that's appropriate. I

I just want to make clear. Yeah. The ones I've taken have been where seniors can no longer be able to maintain the actual animal itself, unfortunately. At the same time, others that uh where these great animals are around, no mom whatsoever. So, that's that's the only thing that I've done. But, all right. Thank you very much for that. Appreciate that. or do you work with the ASPCA? So, no, we don't. So, ASPCA is completely a separate A lot of people think that because we're an SPCA, we're affiliated. That's a national organization. So, we are a local. We're not there's not a branch. It's a completely independent separate thing. So, they don't come to your facility once in a while to see if you have kittens that they need to take because I know they come to the animal shelter here.

Yeah. I I think their focus is on like their they have a a stop on where they come in terms of as far LA County because we have actually inquired um in the past. Um but we have robust programs and so probably that's where they're trying to fill in the gaps for a county area a municipal system whereas we're private nonprofit as well. Thank you. Uh I have one more question mayor. Go ahead.

Maybe two. Um, so one of the so the biggest difference here is that you are just kind of like a flat fee for all service included and the and animal control shelter charges us kind of per job that they do, right? So every time they pick up a dog, we get a charge. Every time they take a dog, we get a charge. Every time they do something, we get a specific charge either per day, per capita, per hour, whatever it is. Um, you know, my biggest thing was with with with animal control was that, you know, if we're getting charged per animal and we're seeing an increase in strays or we're seeing an increase in, you know, uh, if we're seeing an increase in strays or we're seeing an increase in, um, you know, litters being taken to the shelter, then we should have been proactive to cut our c cost down and do things like TNRS or free spay and neuter or just getting people to do these things even if we have to subsidize it because ultimately, you know, the spay and neuter stops us from having to take in 8 10 baby kittens, right? So the I don't know how to ask this but you know are I want to make sure that you know if we approve this and throughout the first year we can get some measurable data also know that you're going to be responsive and also proactive right because now it's a flat fee so regardless of how much comes in how much work comes in we're we're paying that amount right and so we don't want that to be another issue as well

yeah that's I mean you're going to get monthly data you're going to get reports that show um total animals that we've handled number of service hours etc you you have all the data at your fingertips as far as us being proactive. We pride ourselves on that as well as a holistic approach. And the county model is just a different model. It is literally, you know, hours in, hours out. I mean, they're charging you for every touch point because that's how the county auditor comes up with a cost analysis. Um, we just we've never operated that way. Um and so um for us, we don't want to have to pick apart every little thing because we want to be able to provide these services and we feel that that's that's the way that we can function regardless of whether or not you can pay for an officer to be out on a job for x amount of hours. If it takes us 20 hours or it takes us two hours, we're going to get the work done. And that's just how our model works.

Yeah. Yeah. Just want to make sure that we're right. We want to want to be able to show to the community that, you know, we passed this. This is going to be delivering, you know, significant and significant and better results and quality. So,

yeah, I mean, we endeavor to provide great quality and your chief, your captain, your city manager, they'll have my cell phone, they'll have my director of operations cell phone. We are available 247. If you're not getting the level of service that you expect or you think that you have been wronged on some level, absolutely pick up the phone because we want to write the wrong. Um, but in return, as an organization that prides itself on having positive public partnerships, we need this council to have buyin in what we're doing and support the good work that we do and try to promote those programs and services. These are not our animals. These are not the county's animals. These are community animals from Baldwin Park. I'm sure we could argue the points about whether or not all the animals are actually coming in from Baldwin Park because the shelter is in your backyard. But my point being is that I need the council to be good stewards and the staff to be good stewards and the messaging behind that. Promote our special events. Promote spay and neuter. Promote adopting instead of, you know, buying online on Craigslist. Promote not backyard breeding, right? And code enforcement to be proactive. PD to be proactive when they see things to include us because things escalate and all of a sudden now we have a hoarding situation. All of those things will help keep those costs controlled in the long term.

Mayor Potent, did you have any questions? I I don't, but thank you for asking, Mayor. I just want to say thank you uh especially for clarifying um some of the questions that my colleagues had and I really appreciate your last statements that you just said cuz that's what we're here for, you know, to help promote you as well because you're going to be servicing our community. So, I really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you. Thank you for that. Um I did I did have a couple of questions. I did look at the comparison and I mean looking at it obviously it looks like we're getting more for our money with IVHS. Um, and I'm going to tell you, u, you know, I'm just going to be really honest with you. I've been really frustrated with the level of service that the county has provided over the years. The fact that we have the shelter in our backyard, the fact that we've been with them for so many years and the cost just keeps skyrocketing when our revenues are not coming in at the same time of the expenditures. Obviously, that's going to be one of the first things I look at. um you know obviously the you know we don't you know if this was a horrible service that you were providing and there was savings well yeah I would think twice about that right but the fact that you know you are providing more services and there is the significant cost savings um I mean to me it's just not it's it's a no-brainer um I'm looking at the current uh versus projected cost and the savings that we're receiving already including the revenue credits We're saving $1.71 million. Um, now that is not taking into consideration the um dedicated officer. Correct. It is not. Okay. So, that's what I figured. So, even with adding those $250,000 a year, I mean, for two years off of this, we're still saving 1.47467 million almost $1.5 million. and that's already factoring in the dedicated officer for two years. Um the fact that we're saving that much money um every year and I believe to be honest with you that we're going to get better services and to be honest with you one of my only concerns was the fact that the shelter is no longer going to be here in Ber Park. It's going to be in Pomona. But if we can get this dedicated officer to save our residents a trip to go to Pomona, then it's still worth it. Um so for me I would uh you know after

analyzing both and seeing both presentations um I would feel comfortable with awarding the contract to IVHS um with the dedicated officer. So that would be my motion. I'll second that. We got a second by council member Aila. Can we get roll call? So, the motion is to uh approve the contract with Inland Valley uh Humane Society, adding the and adding the uh dedicated officer at $125,000 a year. We don't believe that on the agenda. So, yes, sir. Well, we will come back at a Glen City Council meeting. Just uh just uh following direction to staff on what to come back with. Yes. Thanks. Thank you.

So, then do we still have to make a motion to give direction to council to bring that contract back? Yes, I think that'd be a good idea. Okay. Sorry. So then go ahead. Sorry, I don't want I don't want to interrupt you. Just be because you have your motion and the idea that so it's bring it's coming back and then we're getting a full contract. So when you bring that contract back, could you also bring us the possibility of having a uh uh sorry spay and neuter events in there? I believe that there's if let me she said she they come in once a month. Make sure we have like a dedicated especially because I know we're we will definitely explore that option uh spay and neuter eve events. We will step

just just elaborate a little bit on the um on the services like the reduced uh fee vet services, reduced um or free uh microchipping, veteran adoption program, community education. Maybe just kind of expand what exactly is that going to entail and is it going to have kind of like those vet at the at the park events? So to detail, she did say they do have those events once a month, whether it's spayed and neuter at low cost or vaccines, but to have that on the contract. On the contract. Okay. Yes. So our motion and then if we can have some free SP.

So I think that what would be good is uh the motion to to bring the contract back awarding it to Inland Valley with the $100 $50,000 dedicated officer and a list of services that they are going to provide such as spay and neuter uh vaccines. vaccines, uh, microchips and all that kind of uh, you know, outline on the exactly so we know exactly what we can expect for them to provide us during the year. So that is my motion to bring it back. Second. Okay. So we have a first and a second. You guys got the motion, right?

Yes. We have a motion to adopt item number seven, receiving and filing the report providing direction to return with a revised contract including the dedicated officer increasing and list increasing the cost by 125,000. Motion made by Mayor Damian, second by council member Avula. Council member Avula, yes. Council member Estrada, yes. Council member Lozano, yes. Mayor Bromayala, yes. Mayor Damian, yes. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you for that, city clerk. Mayor, yes.

Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt again. I just wanted to note, so there's no um so I was asking uh city attorney. The presentation is uh it's just a presentation. So there's no not you know, I was asking if we needed a or we should have had a notice on our agenda to give notice to the county that we're looking to get out of our contract. I know that we out of that commitment from them that we would be able to do it in uh this month with the four months notice. Um so I don't know was that done internally? Was that supposed to be done internally? Yes. Staff will go ahead and initiate a letter to the county that we will be vacating the contract cuz that wouldn't be an emotion from us. That would be just staff would just give them notice.

Yes, we have it on the record from the last meeting. Okay. Okay. I was just asking just because I I think I've seen like other cities have it on their agenda. So maybe city attorney, you can check with Manny and if it's something that you guys can do internally without our us authorizing it, then just go ahead and give the notice to the county. If it's something that we have to vote on, then bring it back to the next city council meeting. We'll do that. Perfect. Thank Thank you. Perfect. All right. All right. We're going to move on to item number Thank you. Thank you guys. Uh we're going to move on to item number eight, the CTBG sidewalk project update presented by Daniel Padyab, director of public works. Go ahead, Daniel.

Thank you, mayor. Yeah, it'll this will be very quick. I just wanted to give the council an opportunity if they had any questions or any input on our sidewalk project. So, we started a few weeks ago. Um we're we've we've completed about 2700 2700 square feet or about 15% of the project and we've done about 27 locations. I'll read real quickly through some of the streets we've where we've tackled some of these or where some of these locations are located. Uh, Adams Drive, an Aneda Avenue, Benwood, Bleecker, Bogart, Cetany, Da, Grace, Harland, Hornbrook, Alhurst, Jerry, Dar, Lawren, Live Oak, Men, Merrced, Monterey, Olive, Patty, and Palm Avenue. So about 27 locations. We're we're making progress slow and steady. And really this was just to provide a very quick update and get any input from the council as um I I think we've received a couple questions, but we just wanted to really just go through that really quickly. And I I can answer any questions or um if you guys have additional locations for us, we can try to add them to our project.

Really quick. Thank you. I I mayor Thank you. I just real quick, Daniel, I just want to thank you and public works um for, you know, taking this on. I do appreciate there's some other streets that I've like center that they've addressed as well. Um I had an opportunity I think Gentry is doing some of that. So I just want to acknowledge very professional too cuz I had a little conversation with some of them. Um just the way they're, you know, handling traffic in the morning and then after school and all that really great. So I really appreciate it. Big a big difference. So, thank you. Thank you, Anthony, as well.

Yeah. So, th this is um a project where um you Anthony and um a couple of his staff are um you know, taking on more and getting involved in our capital improvement project. So, this is um alleviating, you know, resources and engineering so we can um focus on our next um batch of projects which we we hope to touch on some of those capital projects in two weeks. But yes, um Anthony and his team and um one of our engineering staff um Abuzar Farasadi's um helping manage the project as well. And yeah, it's a team effort and um it's it's going um very well so far.

Thank you for that. Customer, you're next. Oh, thank you, mayor.

First of all, thank you, Daniel, for all the work that you're putting out there. I I did have some questions for Manny. I'm sure he mentioned it to you and he clarified, but I just want to say it in case the residents have the same questions uh because I told him that I had noticed um you guys were out there and then I noticed that the sidewalk was was patched with that black tar and I and of course I told him that doesn't look great, blah blah blah. He explained to me what your process is so for the residents to understand that you are doing a a temporary fix in some of the areas. In the meantime, you actually get to the project for safety precautions. U one example is the one on on Foster where the sidewalks lifted more than 2 in or 5 inches. Was it Manny?

Yes, I believe it was three in inches. Inches. So, you know, I question why the black tar and he explained to me. So, I think it's important the residents know that if they see that, they're not thinking that's the final fix on that sidewalk. you're doing it temporary so that there is not an accident in that area in meantime that you actually get there to actually fix the whole sidewalk because that was one of my main questions and Manny answered that for me so I appreciate that now I I clearly understand why some are being patched that way temporarily

and I and I believe the one you mentioned though that one was done um a few months ago so our current contractor with Gentry Brothers they're not doing that type of work so that that one I I think that you're speaking on it's just done. Um that one was completed by staff. So our internal staff that's that's one of the methods they use to um repairs the repair the sidewalk to make it as safe as possible as quickly as possible. Right.

But our current contractor is not um taking that approach. They're um completely removing sidewalk panels and then um pouring new concrete. And so the contractor is coming back to those areas to actually fix it correctly. Is that correct? Yeah. So most I would say most or um a lot of the loca those locations um are on our project to go back and fix them. Um um our current um contract um we we're up to 220 locations that we've identified and um and we hope to come back to the council probably in two months to maybe add another 180 locations. Perfect.

Um so because we got really good bids when we put the project out to bid. So, yeah, we're um working through hopefully when this project's complete, we'll we'll have completed um close to 400 locations. That's awesome. Thank you. I just wanted to make sure the community knew that's just a temporary fix in the meantime that the contractor actually goes in there to repair the whole sidewalk. So, thank you for the work. Um I'm sure a lot of residents are very happy to see that their sidewalks are being fixed and so are we. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Aila. Anyone else have any questions or comments? If not, Daniel, thank you so much for that presentation and know that we value your work because I know you have a full list of work as you know the rest of staff, but I know you inherited a big list of capital improvement projects. So, thank you for for working on all of those. We really do appreciate it. Moving on to we're at the end of our agenda. We're down to uh city council, city clerk, city treasure, staff requests and communications. City council, any of you have any requests? There's nothing on the agenda, but I know someone always has something. That felt a little start Well, I mean to me,

just a word, you know. Who wants to go first? We'll start with back. A little feisty there, mayor. I'm just kidding. I actually don't have anything. Thank you. Oh, wow. Thank Just want to wish everybody a great evening and a happy Valentine's. It's next week. Council member Estrella, do you have anything?

No, I just um I again I just want to reiterate, you know, I want to thank staff for all the work that they've been doing. I know Daniel's been really busy. You know, I know I don't know we mentioned it last time, but you did secure the grant for the bus uh trash cans. So, I'm excited for that. And then, of course, now you're doing this. you got the grand opening for the other for the other uh for the other uh you know you got the grand you got the grand opening for the greenway and then you got all these other projects. So I know we're keeping you busy but you know you we appreciate that you know you're committed to the city. Um I just wanted to mention since we're I I do want to make sure that we you know the this whole animal control thing is very very it's going to be very very difficult task to take on and I know and so of course thank you to Captain Hendricks and PD and Chief and all of you for doing your due diligence. Um, but I know that there's also going to be the other part where we have to make sure that we push the message and let people know that we are switching providers and what that's going to look like and that we are kind of, you know, um, just making sure that this is as easy as navigate for everybody. Um, and, you know, with thinking mind with the idea that, you know, we're going to have a dog park soon. I think that's a perfect opportunity to make sure that we highlight our potentially new uh, provider that we have an event for spay and neuter. That's why I was asking about spay and neuter and making sure that we educate people as an opportunity. Yes. celebrate our our dog park, celebrate our pets, but also inform our our pet owners and and get them those services and resources that they need, especially because that's an area that we don't really often host events in. So,

yes, other part of Bowling Park. But with the new uh Barnes Park, I think it will be the marquee park in the community and it should be visited uh more than ever before. And to council's point, maybe that we can set something up. I don't know when the the grand opening for the for the dog park is going to be, but maybe we can set something up to where we have information on the new Inland Valley and have them there and, you know, kind of have a presentation there letting them know about the change and all that.

Absolutely. At the staff level, there's already been some discussion. We anticipate opening up Barnes Park. It's still tentative uh middle March uh end of April. So, uh we are still working on those details. We're trying to get through uh the o opening of Ballen Park Greenway, but uh we definitely have uh some exciting things coming down the pipeline and we will definitely promote our new uh vendor in town, the Mar the Marquee, working closely with Ballen Park Unified School District, social media and the list will go on. Thank you. But I had one more thing for I did say happy Valentine's Day. Just a reminder, we're going to have the Greenway grand opening on Valentine's Day. So, love yourself. Go out there and exercise on Valentine's Day. That's the best gift that you can give to yourself. It'll be Saturday, February 14th at 10:00 in the morning at Wana Creek Park. It is on our website and it'll be on our it is on the marquees as well. So, make sure you're there on Valentine's Day. I just want to compliment the staff for all all you do for the community. So, thank you. That's about it.

Sorry, I I said I didn't have anything in here. I am talking. Um, if we can bring some information back about the data centers of what we can do to prevent them from coming into our city, that's a city attorney project, I'm sure. if we can look into that and get that process going please. Thank you.

Yes. If that and I was actually I was going to request that for staff to bring back either uh options moratorum or or what it is that we can do so that we can be proactive uh in case you know a data center does want to come to Baltimore park. So the council consensus that we can get staff to bring us back something on that. And then another thing that I did have was and I know that one of our uh residents spoke this during public communication, but I did see the uh what happened in Amani with a young lady who was in a vehicle uh was pulled over by ice and literally, you know, broken her windows and took her out of the vehicle even though she was a US citizen. Um with Amani PD being there present and not doing anything. Um I think that you know it's getting closer to home. Obviously, you know, we haven't had that level of um I I guess action here in Baldwin Park, which we don't want. But I think it's a good idea for us with PD uh to to figure out a way to put something out there um just so that the our residents are aware and know that we're on top of it. We don't want to react to something like this. We want to be proactive. So have something out there as to what what are the duties. I know that, you know, as law enforcements, I know I, you know, I've asked these questions to Manny and I think he's spoken with the city attorney in reference as to what can law enforcement do within our local jurisdictions if, you know, as an example, I get pulled over, a car blocks me here, blocks me there, they break my window, they try to take me out, you know, and there's PD there or I'm calling the police department. What is our local law enforcement's uh duties at that point in time? I think it's very important that not only we know up here so that we know how to translate this over to our residents, but so that our residents are also aware of what it is that the PD can do at that point in time. Because I'm going to be very honest with you, if I'm driving and this happens to me, the first thing is I'm

going to do is I'm going to call the police department, call 911. What am I going to tell them? I don't know. There's somebody with masks chasing me. I don't know if it's immigration or not, but either way, I'm a US citizen, you know, whatever the case may be. They start breaking into my windows. I'm calling you. you get there, what is your role? You know, what do you do there? Do how do you de deescalate the situation? Because a lot of these people out there, they're just rogue. They don't care, right? And so, we just want to make sure that we get this information out there so that our residents are aware of where our PD stands uh if that situation was to come out. So, I don't know if it's, you know, legal work with our police department to figure out what our our police department's role is on that. And then just reiterate out there that we do not and we will not uh work with ICE. You know, that's we got to continue to put that out there. But at this point in time, I'm going to be honest with you, I don't know. I don't know what to tell the residents because I don't know what our our role as a PD is to be able to protect someone if this happens. So, if we can do some research, figure out what it is so you guys can bring us back and then, you know, put this out there to the residents so they're aware of, you know, what if this happens, you know, what can the PD do in this in this instance and what should this resident do,

right? because in Almani um and and that's what they're so upset about that PD was there. Yeah. And they actually offered her to PD and PD said no basically. Yes. So exactly. So I I think that was kind of the request I made earlier. What are what can you what cannot you cannot do? What answers do we give our residents? Yeah. So I think that's going to be very important.

They know the rights but obviously that's not working. None of that is working. I mean, we've seen uh chiefs of police getting uh harassed by them. Police officers officers officers off duty. I mean, it can happen to anybody. It can actually happen to anybody. And uh what do we do as residents? What do we do here? And then Yeah. Oh, sorry. I don't know. I don't

I was just going to make it really quick. And then um member already uh spoke regarding the greenway grand opening. So, if you can, you know, RSVP, uh, if you don't RSVP, you can still show up there. It's at 10:00 a.m. February 14th at Walnut Creek. It's a very, very special project. So, you guys come out. And then also, we do have Black History Month. Uh, we will have the Black History Community Cultural Celebration on Saturday, February 28th, uh, at 11:00 a.m. here at the Arts and Recreation Center. This is, I believe, going to be our fourth year celebrating Black History Month. So, let's, you know, let's come out and support for Black History. Hope to see you guys there. Um council member Strada let the council and then we'll we'll let you go.

I just wanted I just want to add to your point because I know um she mentioned she was a new resident. So and I know that your point it's very complicated to see you know multi-jurisdictional agencies and their roles and where they are and regul regulating one another. And I know that sometimes residents don't like to hear the idea that we're limited in what we can and can't do or whether we can and can't do anything to begin with. But that doesn't mean that we're not up here being cognizant of what's going on, that we're not affected ourselves. I think most of us, if not all of us, have come from immigrant backgrounds. Um, you know, and or immigrants, right? So, we're we're well aware of everything going on. And there's frustrating. It's it's stressful. It's hurtful. But, you know, it's it's it brings us down to see that our neighbors are getting affected whether they look like us or not, whether they're near us or not, whether they're even our neighbors, whether it's somebody in another city, you know, to know that people are being treated this way here in the United States, that doesn't mean so just to that point, you know, just there's even though we can't directly do something about something, we can always indirectly do things. And you know, very proud to say that the council has been doing things that we can that aren't within our preview such as making sure that residents who are affected by these things have access to uh food resources, utility assistance, making sure that these people are going to be not lose their home or you know not lose their place or or you know just add on to that bowling ball of um just economic disaster for their life. So we're doing everything we can. We're aware every time we hear that, you know, there's a any sort of occurrence in the vicinity or near us, we're all keeping in touch. We're working with our staff, you know, we're working with also nonprofits, you know, if there's anything that we can do. We also want to hear from all of you, you know, and if anybody has any ideas, we want to hear them, right? We want to make sure that we're providing those resources that are don't want to just provide resources. We want to make sure that we're providing the resources that actually are needed. Just wanted to point that out as well. Mayor,

thank you for that. Council member Strada, uh, city clerk, city treasure, any comments? I saw you guys. Go ahead.

Yes. Thanks. Um, thank you, mayor. Um, I just wanted to kind of reiterate what you guys were mentioning earlier about what the jurisdictions are for PD and what they can do during if there were an incident similar to what happened in Almani here. Hopefully not. Um, I do want to touch bases a little bit more too on seeing if maybe PD can put out a little bit more information on what what the protocol would be for you guys as well. um regarding the No Secret Police Act that just passed and went into effect with um the state of California, which is SB 627. And just to kind of um cover it a little bit, um it's the it prohibits pretty much ICE and other law enforcement from wearing masks or face coverings to hide their identity during public contact. It requires officers to show identification though it allows exceptions for tactical undercover or health related um situations. I know that's been the biggest like heat right now with ICE being covered up and you know interacting with community members. Um like I know it puts Py in a very difficult situation, but if we can put out some basic information and how how you guys go about that, do you guys enforce it? Can you enforce it? you know, and I know, but the community won't know that. Maybe just putting some basic information out on that as well. Thank you.

Thank you, city treasurer, city clerk.

Yeah. So, I I have a couple of things. Sorry. Uh to extend your meeting slightly. Um I do want to thank uh Maria, entire rec team um for all the wonderful events that they host at the Zokalo. I don't know if like any of you guys attend and are aware, but they're really um well, you know, we have our crowd over here that I've run into at our arts and crafts. Um and so, uh my uh 10-year-old son and my 15-month old daughter enjoy the activities. And so, it is a truly familyfriendly. And so, um really appreciate everything that staff is doing. So, just wanted to to just highlight that. Also, um uh just kind of touching on a couple of topics. I know that uh council member Aila um talked about community signs throughout the community and I was just like thinking on about something and I don't know if anybody knows the answer off the top of your head um but we had something very similar with the SUFFA boards um and what happened to the SUFFA boards are they still there I so because for people who are riding the bus that is exactly the board at the bus signs at the bus stops that will give them the information that they need. And so if we're not leveraging it and and the reason that I ask um is that I comb through all warrants and demand and we haven't made a payment since 2024. Um we um uh haven't gotten an update on our eblast since uh early 2025. So curious to know what is happening with SUFFA and if it's currently being leveraged. Um, it was city council in in November of 2021 voted on bringing it on for a three-year contract. Um, but never again did it come before council. So, I have no idea whether it was extended or not. So, I think it should it should kind of look into what is happening there. Um, because I think that getting information out of community is always a great idea. Um, and then something to look into

whether I don't know if it's feasible or not. Um, but when you're putting together the information for council is like in some cities when you drive into the city limits, they actually have like small marquees in the median. So like while you're at a red light at Target waiting to turn at Francquos, there might be a board there with a marquee that is passing some information. So just out of curiosity, thought I'd just put that out in the universe. So something to for you guys to look into. And then lastly, as um Council Member Estrada mentioned, a TNR program. Um there's a very s So Miami Beach had a very successful TNR or has a very successful TNR program. They actually invested initially $40,000 a year. Um reaching 2,000 cats. Now they're reaching the same amount of cats with Did I say 40,000? $40,000 initially a year. Now they're only committing $30,000 a year. Still reaching that same amount. Um, but their TNR program is so robust that they have signs at, and it might be a little draconian, but they do have signs at parks where the the TNR programs are happening that say like this is a registered colony. Do not feed them. The city or the caretaker uh the animal control is feeding them. So, don't come by and feed them. Um, there is penalties. It might be draconian because you go and tell our community who love animals like myself uh that you can't go feed a cat, it might rub people the wrong way. So, uh but uh there are penalties in Miami Beach in this example. Um so, something to look into um to monitoring our cat population. Uh and then I I think um I think that's it. So, thank you so much.

Thank you for that information, city clerk. Useful. And I I know I saw Manny taking notes, so we'll hold him accountable for that. And I do I do want to preface that Miami may or may not have a lower cost of living and so costs to to to reach that many cats might be a lot more expensive in Los Angeles. But just something to think about. Perfect. Gave us a lot to digest here. So all right, seeing that there's no more comments, I will make a motion to adjourn at 9:22 p.m. Second. Meeting is adjourned. Good night everyone.