Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you for that, David. Today is September 2nd. The time is 7, oh, 7. I'm sorry about that. 7.19 p.m. We're going to order the Water Park City Council's regular meeting. Do we have a pass or a pass or a pass or a pass here? Pass or a pass will be completely as an invitation. For those of you who are able to stand, please stand. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That's the general view for all people. It's just not a man's world, but your purpose is, and you're a man, and you're a city. You're Jesus, man, and you're a man.

Maria, do you want to lead us in a pledge of allegiance? I'm still in the pocket. Oh, no, not directly. You can go to the market and be like, Maria, you know how to do it?

I don't know how to do it.

But you're right, I'm going to read the Lord. Amen. Amen.

Amen.

Mayor, everyone's going all up here. That's what I remember. Yeah, that's where we're strong. Here is a number of zone there.

If that's very important.

Thank you, Mayor. Here we go. I don't know that they have to accept the right direction and then looking for people. Thank you for that.

All right. There's no now. There's no problem. I mean, I'm the foundation of the foundations. I want to go ahead and move on to a solid communication. Mayor, you might be closing the cycles. Go ahead and close the special meeting.

Mayor?

Yes, go ahead.

Before I confess public communication, I want to thank the Florida District for allowing us to use this beautiful facility. Thank you for having us here.

We really appreciate it. Thank you very much for holding us here for the next three months, right, ma'am? All right, we're going to go ahead and now we want to. Yeah, so beside me, I have three speaker cards. The first figure card is permanent morale is failing.

If there's anybody on Zoom that's looking to speak, kindly virtually raise your hand. And as soon as in-person is wrapped up, we'll call on you.

Good evening, good evening, good evening, city council members, the city staff, and community. My name is Jordan Morales. I work at Baltimore Library. I'm going to do some updates on North Point Mountain Library. We are opening our homework center starting September 8th through December 4th. The homework center is going to be available to support students who are age 1 through 12. It will be a drop-in session. So, um, I didn't read the auditory, but I think they're gonna be changing depending on the, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, we are open from 11 to 12 to 8 o'clock, so there are different hours. Please check our website, caledonia.edu.com, and check our location, and we'll give you the hours for the homework set. We are also adding small group tutoring, it's called star tutoring, that will begin also on September 8th, 2019. This is for small group tutoring in math and reading. Help students in grades one through six learn, grow, and succeed. All materials provided and students who are parents will sign in on the library website and get information about the possibilities of the ability to become part of our tutoring small group tutoring group. Lastly, we're having a design and bookmark contest for LA County Library. The entries that we want to present to you And there is also here on the side that shows you the side and students. There's different . So 3 to 5, 6 to 8, and 9 to 12. So really important that we get our students in our LA County library. We'll talk about this because the way I go to every districts and then also that the kind of works and values, do you think we're going to read yourself as long as you have more information, please. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's the call on our own was with Senator review of office.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And very recently, so we will be to send our artists to the city. So we're not going on Saturday for the cover ball from 10 a.m. to noon. And a lot of senior centers will be around here. I want to invite the community to come and meet the senator, Republican senator, and a lot of other questions and And just to remind you of that, we are communicating with issues with the state government, EDD, DLB, things like that. So I'll just use another resource and I'll leave some hours for that. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Nick Dalabo.

Good meeting with Mayor, Vice Mayor, and members of City Council. My name is Nick Villalba and I'm the West Coast Arborist. WCA has proudly served the City of Longwood Park since 2005. For more than 20 years, we have provided safe and professional and reliable tree care at this meeting. We greatly value the relationship we have built with the City, staff, and Longwood Park relatives. Tonight, I come here and respect me now in the council not one six year contract in Northstar. Instead, we asked you to award it to WCA. The company that ranked number one in the city's home evaluation process. The facts are straightforward. WCA scored 91.7, number one. Northstar scored 84, number two. This was not a little big contract. Price represented only 25% of the evaluation. Your professional staff followed the RFP, they evaluated the proposals, and they ranked WCA number one. And they recommended WCA for the award. But there's another important issue. Northstar's actual pricing. Northstar submitted an additional price sheet that appears to reprice free work already included in the city's pricing schedule at a substantially higher rate. For example, Northstar listed ridge pruning at $61 per tree on the city's pricing schedule, but on its supplemental price sheet, Northstar added three different prices, value prune at $61, standard prune at $92, and premium prune at $162 per tree. Think about that. The original price is 61. The supplemental price goes as high as 162. That is nearly three times the original price. And over a six-year contract, those additional charges could make a significant difference in what Baldwin Park Action pays. So I have one simple question. Where is the cost analysis that includes these additional prices? If these supplemental rates were not included in the city's cost comparison, then the council is not comparing these proposals apples to apples. And most importantly, a lower number on the original bid sheet does not necessarily mean a lower fine prop to the city. We are not asking for special treatment by no means. We are simply asking that the city follow the process it established. WCA followed the RFP, we competed fairly, we ranked number one, and our professional staff recommended WCA After more than 20 years of serving Bolton Park, we stand ready to continue that partnership for another six years. We respectfully ask the Council to honor the competitive profits and award this contract to our federal borrowers. Thank you. Thank you.

Mayor, I've removed all speaker cards.

Thank you for that. I'm going to go ahead and open it up to anyone here that did not know the speaker card.

and would like to speak now to the panelists.

John Rios, Residence. The pictures I sent you yesterday, Danny, the first one was set up in an old building as an ex-student on Garvey. That building was supposed to be demolished two years ago. You guys arrested the supervisor from that time. You guys pushed him. You got two weeks to demolish that building. His name is Jose Martinez. He worked with the community he finally decided to leave because you guys were harassing him. Because with him in charge, you guys don't have no taqueros all over the place. Since the mayor at that time, Esprada, wanted the taqueros, that's why I went and did a little more research with Ron and the other staffs. Of all the staff that was there, there were four of them. One retired. They were forced out because he didn't want to sign off on a guest station on Pacific and Quentin. He didn't want to sign off. He was going to take that responsibility. The other young lady that worked here went to a hammer bed. The other picture that I sent you was a house right there, and you can see it if you blow it up, where it's been there for over a year. They've been saying, well, it's under investigation. It's all the way to the sidewalk. We're permitting special permits. Another thing is that Cindy couldn't count your name because she's upset with the city. She got called out. 911 for her house, and then she called 911 for the church. There was a white person right there, and she waited almost over 35 minutes. And then she called out again, and the officer that went, he just went by and didn't get down from his car. It's getting to the point where she had an accident. I turned it into Public Works, they said they were going to do a study. They did get a better study on the taco vendors, which you guys notified all the businesses. And you go on to the business and tell them, oh, we're going to have the potatoes around here. I got maps of everything you guys have put on. So I'm going to go to the restaurants tomorrow and tell them that's happening. Thank you. Next year.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, member of the Council. I've been here for a while and I really don't intend to be here, but sometimes I see things and I talk to the individual that I had issues with, and the individual who said if I could go and do other, but I think this needs to be said. First of all, welcome to the Valley County Water District. My question is simple. Closed session. Where's an agenda for closed session? By law, attorney, you need to identify not necessarily what you're discussing, but you need to identify it by the government code. I haven't seen them. They need to be identified because closed session, I would say, was closed session, but you need to have an identification and government code, section so-and-so, and that for us to study in regularism. acquisition of properties, employee person now, and so on and so forth. So I'm sorry, oh, they're sleeping on the house. We can get number two, a little bit of respect. Again, welcome. But the other part is when you get closer and so such, and I'm not really saying that I represent or talk to or yell at, so I understand that. I'm not picking a football park, I go to three or four or five, The second part of the meeting is respect. Your closed session goes from like, so set up, close your, your meeting at 6.55, and then the opposite. Finish your session after we get out. There's no reason to have 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 people waiting for you to choose today's meeting as measured by Our mayor, Daniel Soliman, has fired a 7-19. Why do we have to wait 19 minutes? Fire me. Have respect for us. Thank you. Thank you for that. Anyone else you want to speak?

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Brian Martinez, North Florida Land Guard. I want to be by thank you for the award, if you move and work to North Florida Land Guard to save you. I remind us to please let us not be deceived by any small embarrassment. We are saving the city thousands of dollars over six years. We are a union and a local professional treatment company. We work all of a group workforce from your staff. Everything will be on the up and up. The same needs will be achieved. Thank you. Thank you for that.

Anyone else wish to say anything? I see no answers on that one. It goes in person to our communication. City Clerk, do you have anyone on Zoom or via telephone? No, Mayor, at this time, there is nobody on Zoom. All right, I'm going to close public communication.

Um, for the record, I just, I just want to clarify, and I have already spoken to them. The closed meeting agenda is already back. They were duly posted, uh, outside of Valley County Congress headquarters, outside City Hall, and all locations that have to be posted. So, small for the record, to clarify that special meeting and regular meeting have been duly posted according, uh, to law. I think that's it. I mean, I can confirm that they were also posted online.

And it doesn't include the government. Yes. All right. I'm going to go ahead and address Mr. Rios. Mr. Rios. All right. I'm going to go ahead and just go ahead and walk. Council comments. Anyone wish to point out? From the second, nobody wish to point out. Yeah. Yes. Go ahead. I want to say Number six. All right, I'm going to go ahead and pull number four. Anyone else push for the items? I see no one else pushing for the items. I'm going to go ahead and ask for a motion to approve. For the seven calendar items, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 42, 43, 44, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 51, 52, 52, 53, 52, 53, 52, 53, 52, 53, 53, 52, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53, 53,

We have a motion to go now on one, two, three, five, seven. Motion made by Council Member Shilano, second by Mayor Bertagliola. Council Member Avila?

Yes.

Council Member Shilano? Yes. Council Member Lozano? Yes. Mayor Bertagliola?

Yes.

Mayor Damien? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you for that. Thank you, Derek. All right, I'm going to hand it over to, I have a board that's mine. um so i'm looking at the stack report and it's saying that staffs are recommending as exposed to the two city-owned uh trolley buses uh through a public auction uh so i don't know if Daniel or Maddie would be able to answer this question but my first question is we have an estimated value um for market value but these trolleys would gain in a public auction

We don't have an exact value. They are CNG vehicles. And, you know, I did look into what it would take to make them a regular gasoline or an electric fuel. So that's, you know, that's a tough question. They do have low mileage. I would add an option and kind of like it's the price kind of goes out the window and say, what is somebody willing to pay for it? We know we paid a lot of money for those vehicles as shown in the SNAP report. So, you know, it would be nice if we could get $50,000 for each one, but we just never know at an auction. And, you know, we didn't, could have maybe reached out to, like I tried to reach out, you know, a little bit later on, but to reach out to maybe Transdev or other, transit service providers to try to get a price, but I guess to be kind of brief, we don't know the exact amount.

I also think the staff report states that the city is trying to basically avoid future costs associated with storage, maintenance, and asset management. Where are these colleagues currently stored?

They're parked at City Hall and at the parking spot or at least a few cars just north of St. Paul. So our new parking costs and insurance costs are very expensive and we haven't, you know, we're not operating the vehicle, so we're moving to the other direction, but yeah, it's tough to just have the vehicle sitting around.

So we're not paying you as far as that, right? Correct. Okay. So we are paying for insurance on authority?

No, because we're not operating in the public right of way.

So we're not paying insurance for them. We're not paying to store them. So what other associated costs would come with that?

I think it's just depreciation and just losing additional value if they're just sitting there without being used at all.

So my concern is that this, I think that what we should have done here is kind of see if the council wanted to explore options as to what we could do with these problems, because we spent $251,866 for each one. As you said, mileage is very low. According to your staff report, one has got 62,183. The other one has 71,632 miles. We paid $103,000. I don't see the benefit where we're going to go and auction these off. I mean, we're not Currently, we're not paying to maintain them because they're parked. We're not paying for storage. I can see we're constantly making monthly payments to keep these parts somewhere just to have them there. But, you know, to me, these trolleys, if we're going to go get $50,000 for each trolley, they're already paid off. They're an asset for the city. I know that we're not going to be able to use them for ridership. We're not going to want to put them on the streets. But I think the trolleys will bring some time for the event to end. I was thinking that maybe, you know, Maggie or maybe RCS, you know, used to do their audits. You know, it was like a holiday trolley. Maybe put it at the solo and have Sarah talk about what it is. And maybe, you know, parents would take pictures with them. It's not going to cost anything because we already own them. So that's kind of how I feel about it. I mean, I understand, you know, we can get some money for it. That's great. But the fact that the investment's already been made, the money's already been spent, We all in how right they're still in good shape. I don't see why we should dispose of them and try to risk to just get pennies on the dollar for something that we're going home that we can potentially use to benefit our kids. So, Sam, my recommendation to anyone else don't have any questions. My recommendation is either to table this and be just bad options or I just take a motion to keep them and see where public benefit continues from there.

I have a question.

Go ahead.

So if we were to say for public benefit, we would have to start paying insurance. Do you have an example to provide insurance for this share?

No, I don't have that number. I apologize for that. I shouldn't have that. But that was one of the main reasons why we're not operating them because ridership is wasn't there and there was no plan to gain the insurance. I think that was one of the most significant primary factors why they were not being used.

Right. So maybe another idea here would be the first time that we would have to pay insurance because if we were to use it for city events, they would have to be insured, right? And it's too expensive, right?

Correct.

So we have to pay the cost of that. Another thing that we can do is also Instead of putting it out for auction, because you're right, you never know how much they're going to offer. In fact, there's a lot of men looking to maybe another city that may be looking for trolleys that are interested in having a trial in the university. Maybe we could sell directly to them there. So maybe look at those auctions and see what the supplier says. And then, why don't we have a cost amount? determine whether it's something that you can keep in or if you can find another city that's in the fringes that also strikes. Good.

Yes. Yes. And I think that we should, at this point, look at assessing how we would, you know, do something around the city or maybe for someone that doesn't. So we're going to ask them, basically, on reserve, You know, because we're going to sell it there for $1,000, $2,000, or $5,000. It's not worth it.

So I think I definitely would say what you proposed for us to be able to assess and evaluate in terms of, you know, it's not going to be able to sell it soon.

So that's the thought. Well, we would say, if you bet the insurance, I'd say that the rest is interesting. Well, we have the best options.

Understood. Yeah, go ahead. On that, I have the I think all of our obligations to that special funding were completed.

So I think we were free to dispose of them or come up with other options. No, just one other from the staff report. Yeah, you know, I didn't go back into transit, you know, to translate your transportation needs.

Just that we didn't work on having a real and long period. It's not a mission for now. So I'm involved in the community. Now, this also reiterates anything else. I'm also very concerned, you know, having uninsured. Well, I don't need tons of us. We have a lot to do. I'm doing it. It's going to be very supportive. I'm sure. We have colonel that isn't. There's a take on where I are. I saw a hundred hundred year. It was a great. It was. And you're putting her on.

Right. So you got any questions or comments? So what I'll do is what I'll do is I'll call. I'll take my motion. My motion will be To take a list for now, bring us back options with estimates of what it will cost for us to keep them, including insurance for the purpose of obviously a public benefit, more of a safety, I guess you could say. Or see what other options, you know, staff can come up with that they need to be utilized for other than putting them out on the road or for transportation because I know it also requires a special driver's license to drive or so. Let's come back with options. Give us numbers so that we can see if it makes sense. Do we just go out and auction and then bring back some type of market value based on the year, you know, to make and the models that it has. And then this is what we can, you know, weigh the profit cost and see is it going to be more beneficial to sell it and get the money or do we just get it and, you know, the options that we can use it for, including the cost of keeping it.

We have a motion to table item number four to again insert and be motioned by Mayor Daniels. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano.

Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano. Second, Mayor Rosano.

I just wanted to take a moment in regards to this issue. I've been talking about it since anytime. And I just want to reiterate my initial comments that I believe I made a little while ago. Thanking Quest Post Office for the collaboration with our community. And I appreciate your work. And I'm not in favor of this item, so I'm fully voting no on it. And those are the comments, but thank you for being here. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else have any questions or comments in reference to the United States? No? What about if anyone wants to make a motion? Do you want to make a motion on AmeriCorps 10? Did you pull the item? Would you like to make a motion?

I'm going to vote against it then.

So is your motion to deny the contract?

Sure. My motion is to deny the contract.

So I just want to reiterate that the way this part is framed is when staff prepares an analysis and they go through a point of allocation, that's a recommendation to the city council. The city council is the final decision maker when it comes to making a decision on something like this. Through the hearings that are very silent when this is coming forward, The city council has made it clear that they looked at all the factors, not just the price. And they made the decision as to what is the best value for the city. That is what the RFP calls for. And I want to make that clear that that is the decision that was made. I made that clear in the record before, but as the decision I've made to approve tonight is being made, that this is the overall best value for the city. Thank you for that, . Go ahead, .

Thank you for turning up our sleep comments. Yes, and now to exactly what you're trying to say, but I don't want to watch the city council and again, it was recommended and as of any contract that comes in process. Staff looks at it and evaluate based on our fee. We look at everything and then we look at it and it is recommended that we have different recommendations. They recommended to my opinion and council decided something that they will face all we need. It's about the city. Yeah. And that's all too much for me as well. So I do want to thank you guys for being part of our city and working with us. Thank you.

Anyone else have any questions or comments? Mayor, just maybe one quick one in regard to this, but I totally skipped, totally forgot to make an announcement. We received a public communication in regards to item, agenda item number six. That email has been distributed to everybody on the dais and I will have one copy placed at the back of the room if anybody wants to review it. Thank you, Mayor.

Right. So we do have a second on the floor. I'm sorry. A motion on the floor by Mayor Tim Ayala to deny the contract to North Star Landscape. Do I have a second? One more time. Do we have a second? The motion dies for that second. Go ahead.

They're like the motion from the right of number six and we're about five to single entry between service to the north star.

Well, first to approve the. North star, do we have a second. Second, we have a second well.

Motion number six motion made by number I lost second by number strata. Yes. I'm sorry, we're strong. Yes, that's a rose on. Yes, everyone's on my own. Yeah, very good. Yes. Motion carries for zero. Sorry.

All right, so now we're gonna move on to there's no really want to move reports of often in consideration of a first man on blowing up the employment agreement. The driver.

Yes, I do here is the purpose of this work is all right and then the director me now in your room and increase and animal compensation after a favorable evaluation he will be moving to step one to step three step one. Was or is. So the $172,233, that is annually, and you will be moving to step three, $189,909.22 cents. But once again, this is a drawer out there available for our initial, we'll be advancing from step one, step three, after a very small devaluation. Thank you. So you can put that for me too.

But you know, yes, I mean, the way it is that he said, thank you. And the director, you know, we have a motion.

And there's that you are there. Thank you very much. And very well.

But we have a very careful copy. Thank you very much. We have a motion to adopt item number eight, which is made by Mayor of the second five. Councilman Rosano has a problem. Yes, that's our strong point. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Following a favorable evaluation, Mr. Padilla's current rating is, as public works director, is currently set for $209,374.91. And it will be increased 5% to step 5, $219,843.35. And this percent, and this, Thank you very much. Mayor. Yes, Mayor Prozada.

I'd like to make a motion to review the agreement of the first and the second.

We have a motion by Mayor Prozada. Second. Second by Council Member Avila.

We have a motion by Council Member Avila. Yes. Council Member Estrada. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you for that. Is there a public hearing? No. There's one question.

All right, so we're going to go ahead and watch.

I just want to thank staff for everything that they do on the blue traces. That's for all the departments. Many to mention, but I'm very grateful to work with such a great group of people that really come up with the community and do their best to move the community forward. I know we come across some votes and pickups and fines, but I still worked in there and moving forward, I would love to give you and thank you very much. Thank you for that.

So I just want to bring up, I was thinking, you know, we have our BDU, it's one of the biggest efforts to make sure that there is a diverse table of courses, I think we're getting involved in city and Well, I'm going to ask you about my information, but not as long work. And so I was thinking that, you know, it would be nice to consider adding C for any kind of, you know, actually based on what you work. So there is a, you can see all right. We have the best is for that. That's true to me.

Mission. Yeah, we have a consensus for us. So we've got a sense of staff in the direction of what I just started. That's fine. That's what have we opened up where we actually have we have no interest.

Yeah, no, we received four applications. It'll come in the next. Oh, we're happy. And as far as I believe, we have an ordinance. So I need to jump.

Right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then again, we also want to thank the Valley County Registry for hosting us and allowing us to change the facilities here. I do have two items that I want to mention. One would be every response to emergency preparedness. I know forecasters, and of course, I was right, but you never know. They're warning that we could experience a very strong severity of this fog in the future. And I know that LA County has already begun preparing for the upcoming storm season. So I would like to request for staff to come back to the city council with an emergency preparedness plan that addresses our storm drains and our drainage systems, flood prone areas. I know that we do really good with the sandbag availability in the public works chart, but I want to make sure that we also put in place as well as emergency response procedures and how we will communicate with residents before and and during a major storm. I also want to encourage our residents to begin preparing now. Here are gutters and drains, and having your supplies ready. I know we're hoping that we don't experience severe conditions, but we do have an opportunity to prepare now, and I think that we should take advantage of that. So, hopefully, we don't have to bring our boats out on the roads, but just in case, be prepared, especially when there's even dry around, and they don't have the ability availability to come out, and if you have power hours, stuff like that. We just want to make sure that we're proactive and we have some time and place. So with my council colleagues' consensus, first, Dr. Dukes will be back. Yes. And then the second one is, Chief, so I have a request for the block panelists to start. So with all the concerns that have recently been raised across California, And pretty much throughout the entire country regarding the block cameras. They are sharing privacy system access and potential misuse. I would like to request the staff. We've had a comprehensive presentation on all of our views on the block system as part of that presentation. I would specifically like our police department to conduct an internal audit of our system, including who has taxes, how the system has been used, what agencies our data is being shared with or assessed by, our search and product logs, our data retention practices, and whether we are fully compliant with California law and our own policies. I would also like staff to address what safeguards we currently have in place to prevent unauthorized or inappropriate searches, and what additional safeguards for regular clients may be appropriate going forward. I recognize that these cameras can be an important public safety tool, but with the concerns being raised nationally, I think we owe it to our residents and ourselves to make sure that our system is being used appropriately, lawfully, and with proper oversight and transparency. And I'm going to give this copy to Maggie Keaton so that you have exactly what we'd like to bring back. Thank you. So when it comes to consensus.

Yes, Mayor, I'd like to know when would you like that

I don't know how long I'm going to take you guys to gather that information, but I would like to see this back as soon as possible. So I don't want to go and stay for the next meeting because I don't want to give you less of your time. I just want to make sure that this doesn't get swept under the rug. And it is a long time. In the beginning of October, first meeting. So let me ask you, Chief, how long do you think it will take you to prepare this for us? For the second meeting of October. For the second meeting of October? Okay. That sounds fair. So let's bring this back to the second meeting of October.

Thank you, Mayor. I just want to touch base on what you said about the Cunningham store. Thank you for inviting residents. I remember when you called the last time when you were a hurricane watch and public works department and we think you're hitting an amazing job since i did really cheap and hit us but they were more than prepared and so i mean it's always good to remind everybody but i'm sure when was the first time because last time they they were against and they were prepared we had a few trees down uh public works was there i mean he was there to block streets and uh for the fall drinks and following wires so always a big reminder thank you thank you so much

And my last announcement is we are having the Los Marcos celebration on October 23rd, 2026 from 5 to 9 p.m. From 5 to 9 p.m. at the Subtitle Room at Soho Park. There will be live music, Latina costume conference, local artisans, and free arts and crafts. So coming up October 23rd, 2026 from 5 to 9 p.m. for the Los Marcos celebration. That's all that I have. No one has anything else? No.

Do you have the data in mind for the trauma and health emergency preparedness presentation?

Well, before he comes and visits us, obviously, I know you guys do a great job. You guys do a really good job of preparing for regular storms and stuff, but I know that There's a lot of, there's a lot of areas that get flooded early back. So we want to make sure that all of our drain systems are cared for, the drain, the, uh, the wash and the riverbanks as well. Um, and then, you know, putting in a, uh, socially imposed water park now maybe, uh, you know, indicating to our residents, you know, to clear the gutters and just some type of maintenance to their homes to keep, keep it clear, um,

But if you can bring us back to something, I mean, we're apparently, without me saying, the first meeting in October, so we should have done it together. That was an excellent job. I don't remember how I mentioned, we just need to memorialize all the accomplishments in policy. And we could have additional information on social media, but all of our now and some.

And I will add that our community development team and as soon as they're kind of championing the hazard mitigation plan for the whole city. So they're working on an effort on a hazard mitigation plan for us to be able to be more prepared and to be able to obtain grants in the future. So we'll touch on that too in the presentation.

Really quick, before I forget, one drain that gets clogged every single rain, whether it's small or big, is the one on Francis Cedar where the parking lots to service the I-Swiss. When they moved the lake over, they had the lane down narrow for the crosswalk. They put small little drains, so I know they get clogged faster because it's so much smaller. So make sure you're checking on that because I know that would be good. So water goes up to the middle of the street, gets all flooded, they clean to the parking lot.

Okay, thank you.

That's awesome. It's a good wedding area. Let's just put it up a little. Why don't we do that? Yeah, we'll start. We'll send you a video.

Do they put them forward to your presentation for the October? Chief, your presentation is the second meeting of October.

All right. Thank you so much, Mayor.

I just have a couple of points. Number one, I ask for your support in the consensus that we, you know, you guys are open to it, having some social media posts, very neutral about the election with a lot of a lot in the news, a lot in the board system. It's causing a lot of confusion and can lead to some disenfranchisement of voters. And we definitely don't want to alienate any voters because of the confusion. So if the council is open to it and maybe working off the LA County's media kits to provide information to our community, that's number one. And two is just as a point, like I am not knowledgeable and maybe this is something just for you guys to think about is I think that our bus system is pretty well unlocked because as I drive to work every day, I see the same bus on the corner of Francisco and Puente, but it's a non-branded bus. And so I'm very curious if that bus is being rented from because one of our buses is down, but we possibly wouldn't use one of our trolleys instead of paying for an extra lease. And so I have no idea why that non-branded bus is operating in our fleet at the moment, but it just seems like a gross waste of resources when we have big buses parked. But again, I don't know the details, so just some point of clarification. I mean, so the last point is, and I just want to reiterate that I'm very neutral on block. I don't know enough information to form an opinion. But I thank you, Mayor Dinnian, for bringing it up and starting the conversation because it is worthwhile having that conversation. And while, again, I'm not proficient in any of it to form an opinion, we just see that city after city after city is canceling their contract because of valid privacy concerns, not just with unrestricted access, but also with constitutional concerns as well. And so just, I mean, just to name a few, Santa Cruz, South Pasadena, Oxnard, Santa Clara County, Chula Vista, Richmond, Coachella, have all canceled their contracts. Just last week, Southgate canceled their contract. LAPD recently had... Los Angeles County sold their contract. And in Arizona, Chandler, Phoenix, and Tempe, Pinal County, have all canceled their contract because of concerns. And so with this wave, it requires a conversation. And so I am proud of Mayor for bringing it up and asking for that dialogue. So I think that it's very, very important. So that's it.

Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you. have all their children to WC where you can worry about city manager's office. We just posted, you know, social media, just to make sure it's, you know, lethal. But yeah, that's a really great idea. We're going to get it going. All right.