City Council - Regular Meeting

uh the council meeting. Today's Monday, April 27th. And if you wish to speak to council, there are three ways that you can do it. One is to submit written comments by meeting day to the city clerk and include public comment in the subject line. All written comments received by 4 pm will be provided to the city council prior to the meeting. Any comments after 4 p.m. on the meeting date are not guaranteed to be received by the city council prior to the meeting and those comments are not read out loud into the record. The second way is you may visit uh during the meeting you may visit dailycity.org/aggendas org/aggendas to submit comments using the public comment form to address the city council on a specific item or during the public comment period. And such comments are delivered to the city council and city staff during the meeting and may be read into the record at the time they are received. And lastly, to speak with the council, you may submit a speaker card which is located located at the rear of the chamber. And as soon as you fill out that speaker card, please submit uh to staff as soon as you early as possible during the meeting. Thank you very much. With that being said, if you can all kindly please rise for the pledge to the flag. I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you very much. Please be seated. I'd like to start off with a land acknowledgement. This meeting has now been called to order. The city of daily city acknowledges that we are an ancestral lands of the Ramatouch Aloney peoples. We recognize their enduring connection to this region and honor their history, culture, and contributions. As the indigenous protectors of this land, we affirm their sovereign rights as the original inhabitants of this land and pay respects to the ancestors, the elders, and relatives of the Ramatouch Aloney peoples. Okay, Madame City Clerk, if I may have a roll call, please.

Miss D. Giovani, present. Dr. Rod, present. Miss Piranho present. Miss Manalo present. Mr. Sylvester Glenn Sylvester present. Thank you very much. Uh the first item on the agenda is presentations and we'll first start off with uh DCPLA and it's pertaining to a grant to the Daily City Public Library. And if I can have Sonia Singhal, director of the Davy City Public Library Associates, please step up. Thank you so much. And you have the floor. Make sure your mic is on. Is it on? Is it green?

Hi. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Great.

Um, good evening, honorable mayor, council members, and staff. Thank you for your continued support and collaboration with the DCPLA associates and our public libraries over the past 15 years. DCPLA, our partners, and the community remain dedicated to expanding library services, programs, resources, and access for all residents. Libraries have always been and continue to be vital community spaces. Through our partnership with the city of Daily City, we are committed to ensuring they remain welcoming, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of every library patron for many years to come. Tonight, we are plea pleased to share how a total of 12,000 uh yeah 12,500 in grant funding will be allocated in support of the Daily City Public Library. First, $2,000 of this uh comes from donations made in memory of Carol Simmons. Carol Simmons, former Daily City Public Library director and one of the founders of the Daily City Public Library Associates, passed away on October 20th, 2025 after a long battle with cancer. Carol was a steadfast friend of the library and a tireless advocate for public access to reading and learning. DCPLA members and friends generously contributed nearly $2,000 to honor her memory. And these funds will be used to enhance the library's Lucky Day collection. A fitting tribute to Carol's love of reading and her lasting impact on our libraries and community. It's

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The remaining 10,500 will fully fund the libraries fund the need priorities. 3000 will support a community room mural at the Cereamonte Main Library. As the library undergoes important upgrades, including the addition of an elevator to make the community room accessible to all, the hallway across from the new elevator entrance provides a unique opportunity for a mural that welcomes visitors and uplifts the library's lower level. 4,000 will fund summer learning scholarships each year. The library summer learning challenges challenge keeps kids engaged in reading and learning during the school break and helps prevent summer uh learning loss. Participants who complete the program are entered into a drawing for a $1,000 scholarship through a 529 scholar share plan supporting their future educational goals. And finally, 3,500 will expand the library's innovative library of things. These learning kits will introduce the patrons to arts and craft skills, healthy physical activities, and scientific exploration. Each kit will include tools, supplies, books, and guidance building on existing collections such as games, Wi-Fi hotspots, home energy kits, and telescopes. On behalf of the DCPLA, thank you again for your partnership and for your ongoing commitment to our libraries. We are proud to work together to support learning, creativity, and access for the Daily City community. Thank you. Thank you, Miss uh Singho. No, no, come back up. No, come, please.

Yeah, we have to uh I'm going to open up to my colleagues for comments and uh uh we're so appreciative. So, we I'll open it up right now and see if uh my colleagues have any comments. I'll make sure we'll start with uh Vice Mayor Pano, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for representing such a wonderful uh board and organization. I was proud to serve for two terms and uh attend the latest fundraiser which was a huge success. So I'm glad to hear that. Um and as I I support uh DCPA and I hope everybody else does. its membership is very reasonable and um it's just a wonderful organization and we're so happy that you're here today. Thank you so much. Thank you for speaking. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Anyone else? I go after. You want to go first? Hi, Council Member Manalo, please.

Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Um I just wanted to say thank you for your dedication, all of the volunteers on your board of directors and your leadership. I think that whenever you all come up, it's a joy because we know that um because of your philanthropic efforts, it's giving back and enhancing our libraries. Um whether it's through technological advances or through even artwork, right? It's so thoughtful. um all of the areas that you um you know put these resources toward um you know libraries are so essential um not only to young people but to also our older adults and so for the whole community um you know it is a place where it is a hub and so I think it's such a joy always um you know you are always the gift that keeps on giving um because it's yourself, the DCPLA, um what you bring forth is also bringing people together through your events like Vice Mayor mentioned um on an annual basis, but also just um for those out there that want to give back to the library, they're able to do so. And so um thank you for that. Uh we look forward to many more um of your wonderful events and thank you for the the the contribution to our Deli City Public Library. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Dr. Rod, please. Hey, thank you for coming through. Um and then, you know, just listening to you and the different things that that were contributed. Dang, that's that's dope. Um I don't know. I think I'm just got a lost brain fart right now. But I, you know, as as a person that served on the Daily City um library board of trustees,

um when I first got my um experience on city elected, one of the things I I always wanted to do was a community mural. And um I'm just glad it's coming into fruition. Um and I always think that, you know, murals are always important. They're not just aesthetically there to be looking pleasing, but it's also opportunities for learning. And you know, that's one thing that I really really uh appreciate about um the the the funding that's going to the community mural and also like the learning kits and and the also the the scholarship, the 529. you know, we just came back from the Daily City Chamber of Commerce and, you know, talk about their scholarships and the 529 was critical for saving even though as a start to for college education. So, big big props to you all. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Rod. Council member Their body.

Well, as uh Dr. Rods alluded to the breakdown and what you can do with the money and that it just tells us though there's so many needs because it you know you hit all ages and everyone in our community. So it embraces to make sure that everybody's included rather than I know sometimes we we needed those tablets or we needed this or that and how you figure out the need in being with Shayla our director and the working relationship with Victoria and everybody on the board. I think that synergy is uh so unique in daily city and probably other cities, but I have to say very proud of this because I think it's unique in a lot of because the caring and the compassion that all of you put on as a board member is not just people think it's just going to a meeting. No, it's not just going to a meeting. So, and I know Victoria, she just came back from a trip with uh Clayton Coup and it's all everything is encompassing. There's so much moving parts. So, thank you very much and thank you Shayla and Victoria and the board for always giving back and I hope one day we'll be open on a Saturday. One day we'll figure it out one day. So, thank you for the children, for the adults, for the families, everyone. Thank you very much. Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you. All right. Thank you, Council Member Djiovani Sonia. Thank you so much for your presentation this evening. Um, you had made mention fun the needed. Mhm. I was there. Oh, nice.

I actually went for the uh corn beef and cabbage, but when I sat down on the table, they had these different bags and it's different needs for basically the libraries. And uh there was more to it than just going there to eat. And I believe as a vice mayor, you provided some um uh donation as gifts and prizes. And I won a couple of those, too. So, uh, you made mention about Wi-Fi. Do they have Wi-Fi there at the library or is for Wi-Fi? Yes, there's there's like Wi-Fi. There's Wi-Fi. We granted that before and they had some, but this particular one grant wasn't for Wi-Fi.

Okay, great. uh you know because I'm just so um uh concerned as far as I'm concerned that I think Wi-Fi should be free everywhere because it's through the air

and of course you can use geo fencing to keep it within a particular area. So to have access and the library being basically a safe place for folks and now young adults and also the older adults. But as Dr. Rod made mention we were just at the uh Koma Chamber of Commerce for scholarships and I learned something from there. When we uh the community invest in our young folks uh you know we hope they come back and they don't forget and we need to do more of that. I think the library is a very important part because you folks keep coming and as uh council member Malo says the gift just keeps on giving and giving. So we really appreciate it. So thank you again for your presentation. Uh continue the great work and thank you so much for uh speaking with us this evening. Thank you.

Absolutely. Thank you. All right. All right. All right, the next item on the agenda is Daily City Child Care and Community Event Center. And we have a presentation of the site by an architectural design by Dorman and Associates. Just do it from here. Are they here? Or do you want to do an intro?

Okay. Good evening, honorable mayor and council members. I am just going to introduce Ava Farab from Dormund Associates and she's going to give you a presentation on the Daily City Child Care and Event Center. Um, thank you, Lenel. Sure. Thank you.

Good evening, council members. Um, as Lenel mentioned, I'm Aarim Farra with Dorman Associates. We're the architect uh on the project for the early childhood education center and event and community center for Daily City. And I'm here with Chris Dorman, our principal uh from our office. Um, and we're excited to present you the project today. Um, I want to start with thanking Daily City staff and the office of city manager. It's been amazing working with the staff here and they've been very instrumental in shaping the direction the project is going. So I want to start with um looking at where the site is located. So you all have prints in front of you and I have on the screen uh a quick view of the site. Um there is the we have Sullivan on the west side of the site and the site is located between 91st 92nd and Sullivan. The streets slope up uh from 92nd and 91st kind of going the opposite direction of Sullivan. So the sight slopes up that direction. There's also about four to 5 ft of drop as we go from the 92nd side to 91st on Sullivan. So there is multiple slope complications on different parts of the site. Here we have a view of the current site plan that we're looking at and you will see the roof plan of the building. Uh there is multiple pedestrian access points to the site. The two on Sullivan are specifically for the childc care center. One is a stair and one is a ramp for people with disability and also lots of strollers that we anticipate going up that entry. On the 92nd we have two separate pedestrian access as well as

the ADA vehicle access. The lower entry on the 92nd axis is um the site um going up with the elevator. You could come into the event space on the 92nd upper side. You could enter on the street ADA to the second main space. Here is a view of the first view of the building. As we enter uh from the 92nd side to the on the corner of 92nd and Sullivan uh you will see that in this view there is um wings peeling off from the building on the second level and that's in part to protect against the um south and west side lights that are very the whole Sullivan side faces west so we're trying to protect against that light. Um you will also see that um the childcare level has its own access and on the right side there is the access to the event space. Here is a view of the site on the Sullivan Street as we go down and you will see as we walk down the site from 92nd toward 91st we see the building open up and shows a different side of its um architecture to us. Um the views on the upper level windows are facing the city hall. So you will get views of the building we're in right now. Um I also want to give you some square footages of the building. On the first level we have a 7,500 ft² early childhood education center and on the second floor we have about 8,300 square ft of the event and community space. and um the size and the scale of the um building and the program were developed in uh collaboration with with the city staff and the city manager and we think this serves uh the site best at this

scale and uh with this program. Uh here we have a bird's eye view as we go on the 92nd. Um and this is um ADA spots for the child care as well as an access to the 90 second ramp down to the event space. Here is a um human level view of the same um perspective and there is benches, lots of landscaping and we're looking at lots of pollinator seasonal uh bringing different colors to the site through um native and pollinator landscaping and the entry to the event space. Um you could go up here with the elevator or a stair or you could access from the upper level. Here is a view a zoomed in view to the site on the 91st side of the street. And this staircase on the 91st is mainly serving as one of our means of egress. Um there is also opportunity for people who may park or come from city hall to enter from the 91st street site here to the upper level. And here is a view of what you will see coming up uh on the 91st street uh going up to the back of the building. Uh here's a quick view of the materials and kind of features we have for the site. The idea for the site is uh having materials that are very resistant for the environment here. Uh we have some brick tiles in different colors we're developing. We have wood, but it's wood low composits that are um good for this environment. Not going to need a lot of maintenance. And we have some uh CLT and timber storefront systems u throughout uh which brings the warmth and uh that environmental aspect

of the project. Uh here is a plan of the lower level childcare center. And uh this plan is colorcoded. So you could see that the green areas are the infant classrooms and each infant classroom has six children. Uh we have nap areas at the green classroom that are for the infants and we have the yellow classroom for toddlers that have eight children in each. Um this is a Head Start um center that will receive federal funding uh and those are uh compliant with the federal head start program um age and ratios. Uh it also follows the best um recommendation for early childhood education. Um these are smaller group classes and um about 50 square foot per child which is consistent with the best recommendations for this age group. We also have toilet diaper areas that are connecting each of the classrooms together. Um, so bathrooms are accessible to children in their classrooms as well as areas supporting teachers and staff throughout that you will see in pink. We have mother rooms, um, food prep, staff lounge, project rooms, director's office, everything that would be needed for the quality childcare center. Uh the blue area connects us to the upstairs for the community space and those are the renderings you saw as the earlier views. Um you also see a quick view of the play areas here and we have a slide about that shortly. But in general this center will serve uh a minimum of 42 children on this side uh with the flexibility to go all toddler and serve even more children in the future if needed. Uh we have a view of the entry lobby of the childcare space which is completely

separate from the event space and there are benches for children and adults and entries to the classroom. The upper rendering shows view of our infant classroom here one of the classrooms and you will see a nap area that's very open. Uh all this is complying with licensing requirements as well as the best practices for children at this age group. Um you will see different size sinks that are specifically designed to meet the needs of children at this age group as well as some images of diaper changing areas that would be accommodated and some finished picture from similar projects showing nap areas. We also have a view of a toddler classroom with toilet areas. Um at the bottom we have views of potential uh teacher support areas that would be connecting the two classroom and this all follows best practices for this age group and really high standards for early childhood learning centers um that we followed uh in designing the spaces here. Um the low walls throughout that you will see also help uh provide uh full-time supervision for teachers and staff within those toilet areas or teacher support areas which will help them stay in ratio and for the life of the project. It allows them to um hire um less staff to be able to be financially feasible long term. Uh here are some rendering views of the two um play areas we have for infants and toddler age groups. And the idea for our play areas is uh a very natural and naturebased learning environment. Uh all classrooms have direct access to the outdoors and the play areas are sized so all children could be outside at the

same time. Uh this again follows the best standards and is a quality indicator for this center that we're following. Um we also have different opportunities for people to engage in natural play. Um here are some finished nature play um examples and um the move to more natural materials and nature play uh is to provide an open-ended play and some risky play for kids at this age level. And the idea is going away from play structures that you could go one way up and you come down the slide. And um there is endless ways children could engage with opportunities for play here as well as um getting some experience with natural materials that may not otherwise be available to them as um a Head Start children. Um going back upstairs, this is our entry on the 92nd um street when we come level to the upper level. And here we're entering the event space from the uh upper end of the site. Uh this area extends and provides some overflow indoor outdoor space for events as well. And here is a plan of the upstairs event space. Um you will see in kind of like a wood khaki color that's our largest main space and that space has a capacity of 420 uh seated. Um and there is opportunity to divide that room into two uh smaller spaces with a movable wall that you will see as a dash line there and that would give the opportunity of having 210 people on either side in a separate event area. Um there is also a raised platform um that has AV system for different um levels of events that could

be held there. And the pink areas are the back of the house areas, janitorial, lots of multimedia IT equipment. Um there is also the pocket for the movable wall. Um the green spaces that show the main entry lobby as well as the community meeting room. Those are opportunities for smaller gatherings for the community and they could be utilized for the city in different capacities. Uh there is also opportunity to join two green spaces together and have a larger space to serve uh the event area. Uh we also have a catering kitchen for different levels of events that may be happening here and that's anticipated to be more of a warming kitchen and not a commercial cooking kitchen. Um here is a view of the inside of the large um event space. Uh we're looking toward the raised platform and uh there is opportunity to project things on that end wall there. Um and you will see the um wall is open in this situation but the space could be divided in half and uh essentially have two separate uh event spaces. Here's a different view looking um at the wings that open up toward the city hall. Um there is opportunity to look here and you will see the building here. Um it's very open and um there is a wood CLT ceiling also. You will see a lot of exposed structure that um we're showing here. And this is again the final view. Um and thank you so much All right. Thank you so much. I'll start off with the vice mayor.

Uh we have a few questions. Okay.

If you don't mind. First of all, thank you for the presentation. Uh it's beautiful and uh the only thing I was going to ask you is with regards to page 18. uh when I see the room, the reason why I asked this question is um it it's my understanding that at sometimes this this might be used for a a concert or a a dance or something. there'll be a stage and I'm just wondering if the storage multimedia I don't think there if we uh so let me just preface this by saying this uh KMA community center we were just there and I've been there for many events and they have hidden walls where the tables and chairs are stored um and I was just curious I don't see anything where we would be able to store uh tables and chairs if the space needed to be a dance floor and less tables or only chairs, no tables. So, I'm just curious on that. But the rest of it looks lovely. That's a good question. Uh that's large storage room actually that uh is to the the large pink room right below the restrooms. Um yeah, that one we have actually sized to hold large tables and um enough chairs for 420 people. Um so we think that should be enough storage um to

So that would be storage for decorations or it you're saying that specifically is for the tables and chairs. That's correct. And there is enough space to add some decoration there. But um I think the the idea of potential uses that we've been discussing with the city is more of maybe senior events, community events, potentially weddings. We're not anticipating like a concert or like musical events here. Um the audio system is not um fully um baked in for that, but um we should have enough um furniture stored there for 410 people to fully occupy. Thank you. Sure.

Council member Manalo, please.

Thank you very much, Mayor. Uh first and foremost, thank you for your presentation. You know, this is extremely excite exciting to see. Um and uh for the record, Madame City Clerk, um you know, we know that child care is extremely essential to the economic success of our communities. Uh we've seen that even more so after CO and during CO. So having a Head Start program is crucial to our communities. And I'm just uh really uh thankful that we looked at city-owned land not only for affordable housing, but for affordable child care. Um and when we think about Head Start, uh a program that's been in existence for many, many years, we know that it will be um deeply affordable um for those that um really need it. Um, I did attend Build Up Green Spaces. It's called Bugs, right? Um, it was a childhood climate summit. Um, and so when I see the design of the play area, when you're talking about natural, uh, you know, kind of the natural elements, I think that's so important. You know, that summit talked about when we build our playgrounds for the future and for the safety of our children, um we want to build it with um less chemical plastics um because of um studies have shown healthwise how it has affected, you know, our children at a very early age and then it it's shown that down the line. And so I want to say thank you for putting those elements in. Um, and we did get to see each other there. I'm like, perfect timing. She was there and I was like, we're working on that and and it's it's really important since we

have the time now, right, to design uh for these early um these infants and toddlers. Um, also I I think that um when you see the conceptual designs now and that it was just an idea in the past, it's it's it feels more like we're progressing to um hopefully, you know, seeing it built in the future. I know that every single time whether um vice mayor um uh joined me with the women's commission the status of women's commission um when they held their event in daily city because they were going out to all the different districts um at public comment I said we're doing something amazing we're building childcare in Daily City but we need more funding and you know letting them know that echo that over to our county supervisors, um you know, the Department of Health and Human Services, like where there are opportunities to um ensure that we build something knowing that the federal government right now um you know is not necessarily looking at uh the importance of being able to build for our future, right? Um, and so there's so many pieces to this, but it's hopeful um to see um a beautiful space for our babies and toddlers, but also a dual a dual I think um utilizing space where the large community room is pretty large. I think that's 420 people. I I definitely um I love how it is um you

know it can be uh a large at 420 people and then you could split it up to 210. I think more spaces for our residents um is is so important. We know that we don't have like a convention center here. We utilize Pachelli Gym a lot um and other um centers and so um having a space like this that is new. Um I did notice that if did you pay homage to city hall a bit with the design? That's correct. I I Yeah, I noticed that because I I I looked at your design. I'm like, I see the elements. You know, I'm not an architect, but I definitely saw where you you gave a nod to the architecture of City Hall. And I think that whenever, um, buildings are built, um, recognizing what's already around creates a more cohesive feel. And so, um, thank you for that as well. Um, this is really exciting and, um, I'm glad to hear, um, the progress. So, thank you. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you so much, Council Member Manalo. Council member Diovani.

Uh, thank you, mayor. Well, like everyone else, presentation is beautiful. It's such a natural setting with a natural light. I like the colors, everything about it is beautiful. The only thing I I was concerned about is that just it's everywhere. Anyway, parking, the wonderful parking. So, um I'm not sure how we would work it out. Even though the design itself is beautiful, if there were going to be 420 occupants renting out a space or having 210 in one room and whatever. So, I'm not sure if where would we where would these people park at? That's that would be Have we thought about that one yet? which is not your lane, but because your design is beautiful.

Yeah, I could maybe um show you that um just as preface to uh Tim's explanation that we do have two AD dropoff stalls for both child care and um event space. Um we're looking at those more as drop off locations. Uh we do have green zones on all parts of the site. Um and the goal is to both have drop off pickup for um the childcare center that we think those would be not maybe always at the same hours as the event spaces used. So there is as much green zone as we could get. And uh I'll let Tim explain kind of our other parking strategies.

Uh thank you and thank you for the question. Um that's exactly what Ava was describing. I think the the uses of the upper level and the lower level won't be uh the same times. Uh most of the events um will most likely be at night and uh some weekends. So in terms of the we don't want to you know over burden the daycare center on the first floor with with events during the day all the time. So, in terms of parking, you know, we'll utilize city hall parking at night. Um, we're also going to have communications with um Chase where just above one of the walls uh you saw the uh community space there's a parking lot uh at Chase that we could potentially talk to them and maybe utilize that at night and that would be very close to the event center um when they're not using it at night. Um so that's also an option as well. Um but a lot of city hall parking and and and that would mean um you know crossing the street to go but Sullivan is going to be the the entry and exit for the daycare and 92nd will be the primary entrance for the event space.

Yeah that's great because I figured the hours and then how many spaces do we have here at city hall? Would you happen to know Mr. Nevin approximately? I can't remember. don't I don't know the the number um of spaces we have here. We have multiple lots as you know. Uh but then also the um we can utilize the street parking especially for night events. Sure. Um but yeah, I mean the parking is definitely something where we're talking about because when you put something like this out there um we're going to be using it. So and there'll be some large events in that space.

Thank you. And the only other question I have is um I think included with the state does the state also include the part where they have like uh Sandy Hook has which way the doors go in for the children for their door classrooms. There's certain ways that are safer than others. You know how they have the doorork knobs facing one way or the other. I know is that our state has that included in some of the licensing.

It's safety. It's unfortunately not in licensing code yet, but um we are actively following the guidelines on that and we have that incorporated into the locking mechanisms of the first level. Sad we have to think about it but very sad but we really need to think about it like you know for the lock down the little little ones. Let's hope not spray it on that that they have the doors. I remember how the proper doors and how they they that makes a big difference in safety for the children.

Yeah, we do have three main strategies in term in case of an active shooter and unfortunate event. Um one is that the main two doors that um are the main ways of entering the child care space. They have a lock down button and they have card readers so they could immediately lock those from anyone entering even with a card. The second strategy is um all the classroom doors have pushin buttons for quick locking. So we've moved away from having keys and more to something that's immediately lockable with a push-in button and it would lock all doors from outside both for the play area and the classroom doors. Um and then our kind of third strategy is having uh blackout blinds on all the interior um doors and windows to the classrooms and staff areas so they could put those down. Um the other windows that actually face outside have a 1% open um because that's usually not the threat on the outside. We have gates that do not open from outside only accessible for egress. Um and we have very clear wayf finding which um the research is now showing is really important for when the first responders come in. So we're unfortunately actively thinking about uh everything we could be doing.

Hopefully we can do more more sites. I don't know where but I mean like it was alluded to that I mean now more than ever we want safe new clean sites you know for for people to have bring their children and feel like you know they're in a secure spot. And the big thing affordability, accessibility, right? Because uh things are tough on on families. You know, they have to have that security and be able to funding to leave their children somewhere to safe. And the I think the design is is really beautiful. And um I'm excited to see that and thank Congresswoman then. I think Jackie Spear is the one who gave us our initial money and um and now supervisor that that who always thinks about the children first anyway. So um she's that's been her main one of her main themes. So we are getting there and I appreciate it and to to the firm and to the design to Mr. Nevin and the team city manager thank you very much for you you do great designs for children as well. So, you're going to make sure that you put there. I like that you you're you're putting thought into it. You're putting meaning into your design and it means something. It's an architectural design, but it's well thought out. Every single point of it, and the natural light is beautiful. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Nevin. Dr. Roth, please.

Um, thank you for the presentation. Um, this is exciting, right? Because a lot of times we we go to different cities and we're like, "How come we don't how come we don't have that in Daily City? Can we have some nice nice things?" And so this is an exciting project and I'm glad to that um you know been able to see this um from the ground up conceptually and and seeing where it's going to manifest to. I think it provides a lot of um potential things such as new space and opportunities to convene, but most importantly um uh child care and that's been something that our county has been screaming for and our communities in daily cities screaming for. I mean when I when my kids were young, I don't know, I was like how did we do it? because it was expensive and um but it it was it serves such a um such a need especially for those that like parents that need work, you know, and that's that's it's very crucial. Well, I guess my only question would be are there opportunities to for uh like zero carbon or finding ways to um make the make this um building or development like like some like cleaner energy in terms of electrification and all that.

Uh thanks for the question. Um so one of our strategies on this building is we're not using any natural gas. were all electric already on this project and uh we plan to have uh either solar panels or be solar ready for u future opportunities to be added. Um we are also trying to be as sustainable as we can within kind of the budget that we're trying to maintain but uh we're trying to use the best practices and um I think as uh council member Manela mentioned um we went to the um bug uh conference and we're trying to use the best strategies also in terms of sustainability and um resilient design especially in the playgrounds and for children. um anticipating some of the warm weather events that we will have in the future. Um so we're we're thinking about resiliency in a lot of those terms.

Thank you. Sure. That's all for me, Mayor. Thank you. Um Dr. Rod, um as uh the general consensus here on council, thank you. I start off by saying thank you for your presentation, but I'm going to ask you some questions. I tend to be more critical. Um, and first of all, I'm missing uh slide number eight. Mine jumps from uh seven to nine. And I saw slide number eight there, which is kind of what pre precipitated me going to ask some of the questions I'm about to ask you. Okay. Did Does everybody get slide number eight?

That's that's on a eightid. Uh it was just a zoomed in version of the other plan, so we didn't include it in the print package. All right. Thank you. Sure. Looking at your diagram, I'll first start off. Uh I really like the uh setup. Anything for nursing mothers? Very good question. Thank you. Um sorry, that's a good question. So I'm going to go to uh slide 11. 11. And the opportunity here is that um we know most of the mothers uh here would be nursing children because our infant classrooms that we have.

Um they serve children usually zero to usually 1 month is the youngest they would bring but it's technically licensed as a zero months to 18 months. And the toddler classroom go from 18 months to 36 months old. Um so everyone in the center would be 0 to three. believe we anticipate having nursing mothers. Um we do have a rather large um nursing room um on the upper corner um of the site. Um if you see the project room and food prep right above it um we have a nursing mother's room there and it has a sink. It has a small fridge for storing milk and it would have a glider chair there and um we have it there so it has a lot of privacy for mothers.

So project room and slashmeating room the left side in the middle uh right above the food prep. I can't quite point to it but the fruit uh oh mother's room. There it is. Okay. All right. Good. Thank you.

Sure. Um to council DJ Giovani's uh concern, I'm also concerned about parking. I feel that uh five spaces as a green zone is not enough. And director uh I mean uh uh assistant to city manager that um made mention of possible speaking to other uh owners in the area such as the Chase uh building and whatnot, but I don't want to depend on that. I thought when I saw a design before, you had parking on one side of the building on what I see here. There's no parking whatsoever except for two handicap spots. And if you look at uh uh it says vehicular access and I if you ask me I just think that that was just thrown in as a last thought so that we can have handicap access there. But two spots and to rely on movement and the turnover of green zones I feel is not enough. You ever been to a uh a uh um a school and they have like a roundabout where you drive into the roundabout and you can do drop offs and then my concern is where is staff going to park? Across the street and walk over and and if you have a party there, where's going to be the drop off for equipment, food, and etc. Where? So they they would park in the green zone and walk it up the ramp to inside.

Um in terms of the loading for catering and the equipment um there is two um strategies for that. Uh one is that uh I cannot unfortunately point to it but

uh yeah if you go to the right side and up there is three loading zones on the street uh on the 92nd. So those are um uh planned as turnover um larger um parking areas that would be um mainly used for offloading food and catering equipment and um other equipment or decoration needed because that's direct access into inside. Um there is also some staging area at the uh lower level. Um if we so there there is opportunity that after hours when the ADA parking spot is not used for the childcare center um the event uh cars could park there and stage in the front of that area. Um right in front of the entry a little further up uh and to the left side slightly. Uh exactly that's a flat area that's accessible from the ADA aisle and also 92nd. So those are opportunities for staging and our um trash staging is also behind there kind of hidden under um a green roof. Um the there is additional green zones on the 91st street um as much as the site allows. So there is um additional parking. We think for the infant toddler um usually having eight spots is good for turnaround. One of the strategies that uh we've discussed with the childcare provider Peninsula Family Services is that um they give specific times for drop off and pickup to different parents. So they're able to stagger the kids uh eight families at a time. And we're anticipating some families maybe walking also to the site. Um, but not not many.

I like it. Uh, but I I I'm I I need to see a roundabout of some sort because when you talk about time frames, different times of the day, if parents are dropping off their kids, generally working parents, they'll probably be there 8:30, 9:00 in the morning. I I I need to see a much easier access for the ingress and egress of vehicles. I that that's that's what I'm going to look for because with the size of the street on Sullivan, you're going to have double parking there. I know it's going to happen and you may interfere with the medium that's in the middle of the street and traffic is going to be very difficult. So I, you know, this is what I'm going to be looking for as we move forward. So uh if we can have some sort of idea on working uh on that. I I And for parking, I I don't assume that we're going to have extra parking unless we know for sure we will.

City Hall. Okay. I heard how about City Hall? Well, I don't assume that we're going to have the parking. So, I need more information. I don't have that information right now.

All right. Uh the second part you had made mention regarding locking mechanisms. Uh it was a statement made that uh we try to follow state uh recommendations. Well, uh, in the absence of any recommendations, I feel that that's not a precursor to say, well, if the state doesn't say anything, not that you said that, but if the state doesn't say anything, then we're just going to comply. No, I think we should take a proactive effort to understand the various types of locking mechanisms because we had a similar issues where the state said 500 ft for something where I wanted 750 or a,000. And I wanted to go beyond uh the distance. So I I I I would need to understand more about the locking mechanisms to protect the uh children there. Help me understand. You probably know more about it right now. But I it's it's uh just educate me and I'm looking forward to getting more information on the locking mechanism. Uh fire access. How about if there's a fire in the building? Where with the trucks? How can they handle that?

Sorry, can you repeat that last question? Fire, fire, fire. What if there's a fire in the building and how would the uh apparatus get access to the building? Um,

any fire hydrants near there? Uh right now we're not at the level of having completely located all the fire hydrants, but we would definitely meet the code for that. All points of the building are less than 75 ft from um essentially where the fire truck could be parking. So we meet the distance requirement essentially and um we would not need any hose extension um to go to anything beyond that essentially because site is accessible on our three sites. Okay. Is there an elevator going to be an elevator here?

Uh there is a elevator in the lower side of um 92nd. Uh so where that door is exactly. So if you enter from that door, there is an elevator and a stair to go to the upper level there. Or you could enter from the upper side of the 92nd and you would essentially be at the second floor because of the natural slope of the site. And I could show you on the floor plan uh in the blue zone. Um you will see there's a stair and the elevator um up the page in the blue blue area. Okay.

Uh so there's an elevator there and the stairs uh those are accessible to the second level. So, in looking at your diagram on your handicap parking spots, how can someone in a wheelchair get access to that elevator if the parking spot is designated over there? Is that a flat surface that they can roll into an entryway to go go up there?

That's correct. And they could use the aisle on the right side of the parking stall and um essentially that's all level to enter to the doors and go up the elevator. And similar with uh was it uh 5013 down at the bottom the other handicap stall. Can they how you know will they be able to gain access to that same ramp to access the elevator?

That's correct. So the building pad is at 501 um feet as the elevation. Um the two parking spots are at 501.3. So they would reach the door within a 2% maximum 2% slope um to the entry door. Um another way to enter ADA is um if someone is dropped off on one of the loading zones on the 92nd or reaching through the sidewalk there. Um there is ADA entry uh on the top right of the page where it says 510. That's the natural slope of the sidewalk. Um and with 510 uh we would reach the 513 which is the um upper level uh elevation um with a less than 5% ramp. Okay. I'm looking at 501 which is at the bottom. I would think that there would be some sort of access or is the slope the issue to the upcoming ramp to the front of the building by handicapped persons? C501 smack in the middle and then you have the ramps. One the left side is the stairs, the other side is the ramp.

Um Oh, at the very bottom of the page on Sullivan. That's correct. Uh that's right. The there is a large drop on Sullivan. Um so you will see that right at the base of the stair the elevation there is 491. 491. So there's a uh 10ft drop right immediately on Sullivan there. Um and the ramp that's on the right side essentially meets it's less than 5%. So it's uh a walkway um to pick up the same elevation. Um the ramp unfortunately because the slope is um goes faster than what's feasible with ADA, it's not possible to move the ramp any fur closer to the 91st.

Oh yeah, I get it. But I I'm just talking about access for the handicapped to utilize that ramp. And it looks like according to this there's no way that they can utilize that ramp if they wanted to to enter the childcare center uh to enter the child care entry lobby uh to so the two ADA drop off zones uh are at the same grade as 501 and that's a um that's a walkway connecting the two directly. Um, so where the mouse is, if it moves directly to the right side, it would meet the aisle of the parking. And that's all at 501 level.

All right. But now somebody who's handicapped and they're dropping off kids, they have no choice but to perhaps stage at 501.5 and take the ramp to uh on the far right to 513 where the elevator is. So for parents who would be dropping off at the childcare level, um they would either park on Sullivan and take the ramp that's on the right side up to reach the 501 level or they would come park at the ADA stall and those are all at the same level. Um and maybe it would be

right. How would they get in the building? They have to go up to uh basically the elevator at 513 between 513 and 51. No, they're they're actually at the same level. So, I'm going to So, on this this is a view of the same entry. So, the stair bottom is at 491. And on the right side, you will see the other side of the ramp, which if I come here, this is the ramp going up, right? You will see a level up. Uh right above those bushes is the parking spaces. And if you park there, you could actually just directly go that's a ADA pass to go to the entry um sorry to the front and um uh right right there.

Right. There's there's essentially two entrances to the two entrances and this ramp there's an entrance and you can use that or the there is an entrance right adjacent to the ADA parking spaces. Oh, okay. That's that's an easy answer. All right. I I mean I I I don't see the topographical and especially when we're talking about how it's tricky. It's tough to see and basically I'm just asking those questions. Thank you so much.

Okay, we got fire access. Uh you made mention uh you're going to hopefully put in infrastructure so that you have solar ready even though based upon the budget you may not have the panels but at least you'll have the infrastructure in so in case you do get the panels. Was it dig dig once? Uh uh instead of red digging again, just get the infrastructure in in. Okay. Um any thoughts about EV charging? Oh, we have that at city hall.

Oh. Oh. I mean, this is Dr. rods. Uh, and we're working in conjunction with PCE. And I'm just thinking, you know, if we have the capability to get, uh, additional EV charging. Have we thought about that? Are we going to use city hall and maybe put in infrastructure there? That's probably the plan. Just to back up a little, yes, were you done with your questions? Uh, you know what, Mr. lunk housing now that you're here. Yes, I am. Oh, because I know you're right.

Well, they're excellent questions. Um, and just to back up a little bit, the reason we're presenting this to you tonight is that we're moving this this project's been uh been something that the city staff's been working on for quite some time and I think you're aware of that. Um, all of the city's departments have been involved in reviewing the plan, including, for example, the fire department. um fire department's taken a look at this and hasn't raised any

issues. A fire could be fought from three sides. Essentially, there's three adjacent street. So, um that's sort of the short answer to that. Um with regard to the parking, uh there's a maximum occupancy load for the uh building and it's and the two floors would not operate at the same time. The upper floor, the the community event space has an occupancy rating of I believe around 400. I heard a number a long time ago of 180 parking spaces available um at city hall and as was mentioned there are number of parking lots in city hall as a in addition to the on street parking that is adjacent to city hall. So it all totals almost 200 parking spaces and if we assume that um every single person that the first of all the 400 number isn't that's the maximum maximum load. So that's just maybe it's going to be 75% of that. If we assume that uh you know a couple of people come in every car, we should have enough parking spaces in this area because there's no way to provide the requisite number of parking spaces on this property. Every parking space we provide essentially reduces the amount of child care that can be delivered, the amount of community event space that can be provided to the city's residents. So we yeah we're in an unfortunate circumstance where we can't really provide any more parking spaces and it is going to be city hall's parking lots and those will be very likely used at times city hall is closed so on the weekends or in the evenings and so that's the sort of uh parking program or the answer to your question with regard to parking because it is it is tight around here and uh that is something that's been given a lot of thought and that is the short answer is it's going to be city hall's parking Yeah. Through the chair.

Yes. Yes. Just to piggyback off that, for event parking, we estimate, as Michael said, um over 200 spaces between the North Civic Center, City Hall, and the South Civic Center, which is just on the other side of the street back here. And also, there's the daycare that would be uh usable with 25 spaces from the daycare. So, it's a little over 200 spaces. That's conservative estimate. But that makes sense because if you add what's across the street Yeah. about 200

uh Mr. Lungousen, I'm satisfied. Uh thank you so much for the uh clarification. I tend to be a little gunshy when I I see things like this because uh one of the uh one of the things that has really uh perturbed me was the um a certain business at Washington Street where they said traffic won't be a problem. That's a problem that we're having constantly where you get somebody who came in and did a EIR and well no you'll be fine. And yet we have to see this every day. And so I just want to cover all the bases. All right, I'm done with my questioning. I saw the vice mayor uh uh give me a nod and council member DJani. So I'll start the order back over again. I'll start off with uh Vice Mayor Piranho for additional comments.

Thank you, Mayor. Um so first of all just just to throw it out um a number of years ago I unders I heard that you know let's just say somebody's talking about parking and a parking structure it one parking spot is like what 60 to 100,000 per parking spot and so that's important to put out there so all the money goes into a building or somebody's worried about parking we've got parking so uh that my first question or first uh comment, but the second comment was I just I was um I would guess right that it has to be really easy for someone to drop someone off and go park their car. So, I was trying to figure out maybe because the tree is there and I can't see it, but um you know, I just Yeah, I was going to ask you to reshow us how if I was going and I'm dropping off a few people so that I can go around the corner and park, how would I do it? Thank you.

Thank you. There is potentially three opportunities to drop off someone uh who's coming to the event space if it's an evening or a weekend, which is likely when the event is happening. Um the easiest uh spots are the ones on 92nd uh because someone could actually enter level at the upper level and enter directly. There are three loading zones, but um we anticipate that the catering cars are probably offloaded by then. Um and they would open those up for the guests. Um excuse me. So, you're saying even like that's the car, your cursor there. That's right. Those three stalls there.

Right. Right. But I'm I'm trying to see you're the car. You go drop off that person and you keep going straight and get onto the street. So, it's a clear path. Yeah. Yeah, you could continue down and go probably go on Sullivan to come to the city parking lots. Okay. Um I could So they kind of go on go kind of curve in and then drop someone off and then come out. Uh they don't enter into the event space. It's all street parking essentially. So the loading zones are all on the 92nd,

right? So there's the street, there's the sidewalk. Where would a car go to leave somebody off and and to make it smooth on drop and off? Where is that at?

Um, so there would be colored curbs uh on this side. So they would drop off someone at the colored curb. It would probably be a 10 to 15 minute um maybe shorter here. Um uh for child care, we're anticipating it would be 10 to 15 minute because they bring the kids in. So the five minute usually doesn't work for child care but after an hour it could turn into a five minute drop off zone uh on all three sides of the site. Um so they would u pull on the uh sidewalk, drop off someone, they could enter level from the top or come down and take the elevator uh to the upper level. Um they could do the same thing. Um, so essentially if someone gets dropped off, they would see the view that uh is right before here. So they would be essentially dropped off here. Um, so they would essentially walk to the upper level. Um we're we're standing where the cars would be in this view and uh we parked next to Sullivan and then on 92nd and then you could just pull out and continue on 92nd. You're in the direction of the traffic.

Okay. Um so this is a direct entry to the second level. Um if you are coming on the 91st there is opportunity there for um we have additional green zone spots there for five minutes and uh those would be people who would be taking the stairs back up. Um those would not be the ADA drop off but uh it is a potential for entry on that site.

Yeah. And pardon me to interrupt you. I can see the mayor's concern on this one question because let's just say an a perfect example. You go to a hotel and they have a space where you drive in. You're not in traffic. You're not wait. You're not trying to get to a spot where someone might have parked for 10 or 15 minutes, a green zone. So, the concern would be if there especially for an event like in the evening, let's say, and they want to drive in. There's no drive-in. It's all street. So, I thought somehow there you you would be on the property. You kind of come in on the property, which would make sense for a what the mayor was saying, which is a roundabout, but more of a space to come, drop, and keep going. So people, so that that's all the flow is there for because if you've got just the street, the potential of someone parking, getting out, leaving their car there, going doing what they got to do, and then when you're trying to do what we talk about, especially for an event, it's going to be a problem. That's all. Thank you. Yeah. Um that is actually something we looked at um initially when we were doing the site study. I think one of the challenges that's a little hard to see on these plans is the site is really steep. Um, so essentially the upper side of the site is more than 13 ft higher than the lower side of the 92nd. Um, we did look at actually doing the ADA's turnaround, but there's no two points of the site that we get enough parking to actually exit on another level that would meet essentially the civil requirements. So, it's it's been a challenge. You'd be able to do something like that in the front then the stair.

That's what I was thinking. No, unfortunately you couldn't do something where you come up then there's flat and then you go down the where the stair is, it's too steep to be um car compliant essentially. Um where the stair where the stair is happening, we have a 10ft height to make up at that point. So it would be too steep. And uh one of the other limitations we have on the site is the utility area that shows on the plans is the existing utility is actually the well pump for the city and it has to stay at the elevation it currently is. We can't touch any grades around it. Okay.

Um which if that wasn't there we may have been able to actually come down on 91st. Um but because that utility is the same as the existing pad um we can't make up enough elevation to exit at any other point on I get it and I have to we all have to remember it's on a hill. So and I don't want to know how much it would cost to remove soil uh if that was a and a retaining wall and that would add to it. So, okay.

No, it's a really good question, too. And the the other thing is just the the child care facility is, you know, not only the building, but in two different spaces, um, play areas. So, that that also takes up a lot of that space that the utility existing utility doesn't take up, the building itself, and then to have space for the children to play. It is a lot is a large uh area of space that's needed for those activities. Um, I would also just mention we haven't talked um too much about 91st Street, but on 91st Street there is um you can see next to the green arrow the pedestrian access. People could be dropped off there as well. And if you go uh Ava to slide nine, um slide nine, you can see you could be dropped off on 91st side and you can walk around to the event space. Um it's it's going up the stairs and around to the right, but that's another access route that would be less congested than 90 sec second. It also probably less congested than Sullivan. Uh 91st is another another one. Again, if we uh you know talk to Chase and have some agreement um we can people can be dropped off uh there also JS and just walk down a little bit on 92nd and and you can walk right in. You don't you wouldn't have to go down to the elevator. you're right into the door to the space. So there there are multiple access points which is good.

Thank you, Council Member Adia.

Thank you. I know a lot more questions here. So when you were talking about the the playground and the the classrooms, are there um a lot of availability to make it for is there certain areas for special needs children and then like even in the playground area with a wheelchair? I know we're in a budget, so I know we can't do the magical because that's always more money, but um to make it more accessible for children in wheelchairs or children, autistic children, certain uh things that are accessible for them as well because even when they're little, sometimes you don't know if they're on a spectrum or or what have you yet because I know that they do a lot of evaluations, Head Start does. So, um, so I would ask if like in the classrooms or, um, in the playground if there's, uh, something available for special needs children, that would be great because they need that. Yeah. And I know some of the Head Start, a lot of them were trained in that a lot of the um, teachers. So, thank you on that area. So, that I'm sure you've already thought about that.

No, thank you for the question. Um that's actually one of the areas of focus we have to design with okay for neurode diversion children because we know I think a lot of the diagnosis happens two and up. Um usually children are not even

um evaluated at that age but um I came to this slide because one of the things we really try to do is create a very common um natural environment. I think one of some of the research shows that having primary colors, really strong colors, high contrast um finishes are some of the triggers for especially children who are on autism spectrum. Um so we're trying to avoid all of that and create a very calming environment. And all of our uh sinks are actually leveled for different age groups so it's fully accessible for the kids. And um usually kids are not on wheelchair at this age, but if they are, it's usually a little taller, so they could all reach the same sinks. Um and for our playgrounds, um all of the play areas actually on both sides are fully accessible for wheelchair.

Um the loop that you will see in the plan is actually both our egress pass and our accessible path. So the kids could use it for trikes, but um the idea is that that's a ADA compliant pass that leads into every single environment. Um so there's opportunity to enter there to the main climber piece or um have access to the gardening elements or the chairs and tables. So everything is on accessible path on both sides of the playground. So um it's also for the teachers who may be on wheelchairs and are assisting children. So, um, we've been very aware of that going into the design process,

but I know that the site itself is challenging, like you said, because of the of what's on it. So, just the fact that we're even going to be able to have something in that site that we all go by all the time, that's that's going to be really, really nice and not an easy site to work with, but thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member DJ Giovani. Are there any other questions before we move on? Uh, Council Member Manalo, please.

Thank you, Mayor. I know that um the the topic of parking was brought up. Um isn't there also just uh the health center parking garage that could be an additional parking or even where the daily city community service center. I'm just saying like if we were to need extended parking, those may be possibilities of like we own the land where the Daily City Community Center is and then maybe talk to the Nevin um county center for the parking that is a parking structure. It just came to mind just additional parking. So, thank you.

Any other questions? Well, I um wanted to say again, thank you so much. It looks it looks amazing. And when you talk about kids, if I can only go back in time, I would sure love to play here. And it's I mean, it's beautiful. And you know, you're thinking as an older person, well, how am I going to get around, you know, if I'm dropping off kids? And I guess that's what the uh subject uh started to move towards. But I'm always of the feeling that a confused mind will always say no. So, uh, Mr. Lunken, uh, thank you for clarifying certain things and, um, we hope to find out more. I think great progress has been done and your work with the staff and, uh, uh, I'm really impressed. So, thank you so much.

Thank you so much. Thank you for your time.

All right. I apologize everyone. I know that took quite some time, but uh some of those questions must be asked. Uh and uh we'll do the best that we can. All right, this one's going to go a little bit easier. We have a proclamation for California cities, which is the week of April 19th through the 25th. However, there is no recipient to receive the proclamation. So, I'll just read it into the record. Uh this is a proclamation for California cities week April 19th uh to the 25th 2026. Whereas cities first arose in California when eight municipalities incorporated in 1850 to provide essential health and safety services to a rapidly growing population following anybody know 1850

gold rush. Gold rush. There you go. I teach history here for some reason.

Um, uh, and subsequent periods of economic growth and immigration. And whereas today, California's 483 cities and towns vary in size and scope and serve diverse communities throughout the state from small rural neighborhoods to large urban regions. And whereas more than 80% of California's population resides within cities and towns and relies on municipal services provided by local government. And whereas the California Constitution grants cities important powers, including the authority to promote and regulate public safety, raise revenue for public purposes, and operate public works to furnish residents with light, water, power, heat, transportation, and communication. And whereas cities provide millions of California Californians with essential services including but not limited to public libraries, fire protection, law enforcement, emergency and medical disaster response, parks and recreation, child care, community and human services, solid waste, recycling management, water and sewer util. ilities, land use, planning, housing, economic development, transportation planning, street and road and maintenance, and telecommunications. And whereas, which is the last paragraph, uh, cities remain transparent and accountable to the communities they serve and continue to earn the trust placed in them by local residents through responsive, accessible, and locally driven governance. And California Cities Week is an opportunity

to recognize the vital role cities play in the daily lives of residents and to encourage civic engagement, education, and participation in local government. Now, therefore, I Glenn R. Sylvester, the mayor, and the members of the city council of Daily City proclaimed the week of April 19th through April 25th as California City's week in Daily City. The city council encourages residents, businesses, and community organizations to participate in California cities week activities and to eng engage with their local government to better understand municipal services decision making and opportunities for civic involvement. Wow, that was a lot. I didn't know we did that did that much, but uh it's definitely an eyeopener for me and uh an appreciation as to our community and respect for our community and how we always uh serve our community in the best way we can. So, with that being said, I do have the proclamation. I'll open it up to any of my colleagues for any comments on the proclamation. Anyone hearing? None. And seeing none, we'll move on to the next item.

I do. I do, mayor. Sorry. Uh yes, council member.

Um yeah, really quick, I just want to thank you for doing the proclamation. Um you know, as part of the peninsula uh board division, um there was some work where some of our colleagues did move uh and go to the Sacramento to lobby for some of our needs. And so part of California cities week is an opportunity to advocate um collectively around some of the issues that we all deal with. Um I also want to acknowledge our city staff for um putting out uh some social media posts around California cities week. Um I think that um you know it happens around April where uh our colleagues all the way from US Daily City all the way to San Jose on the peninsula division as well as other divisions go up and really um try to work with our state legislature um on issues that we deeply care about. for instance the VLF that um we constantly uh really advocate for on an annual basis. So in those realms um it's a collective effort um for our cities. um when you have more than one voice, we we hear that. Then we we are able to uh push for some of the needs, especially um with some of our uh funding gaps because of the federal funds not trickling down at the level that we'd hope for. Um I know that over the years, even being on this council, we've always fought back for getting our VLF funds. We've had advocates on the state level that have given us um our dollars in full, but right now we're not getting the full amount. And so I think

collectively as a county we're pushing for uh a permanent solution so that we don't have to waste resources every single year um to fight back for um the resources that are due back to our city and our county. So thank you mayor. Thank you, Council Member Manalo. All right, any other comments before we move on? All right, seeing none hearing then, we'll move on. The next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for the regular meeting of April 13th, and I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Second by Manalo, second by Diovani. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I.

Everybody said I. Yep. Okay. So, I don't have to say any nos, any abstensions. Okay. So, all right. Next is item is the approval of the agenda for tonight. Uh, okay. And I'll entertain a motion for that. Motion to approve agenda. Measure. Uh, motion by Manalo, second by Piranho. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I.

Motion passes. Thank you. Uh the next item is oral comment and I do have some cards. Uh a few cards here. So we'll begin with oral comment. And uh folks, when you come up and address the council, you have two minutes to address the council. Uh for the general meeting, general public comment. I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight cards. All right. So I think two minutes is good. So we'll first start off with Felipe Dier representing AFSCME local 829. And after after uh Felipe, I'll have Lori Gi gooy ready. Okay, Mr. Dia, welcome.

Uh, thank you to the city council giving me this opportunity to speak. My name is Felipe Donaire and I'm president of Ask Me Local 829 and I'm a daily city voter as well. I want to thank you for giving the daily city workers a good contract in the last negotiations and they did better than some other units. At that time many of the ask me classifications were below market compared to other cities but our union truly appreciated that contract. Currently the city workers are asking for wages to be comparable to what other units are getting. I hope city council will do right by the city workers who clean our parks, provide recreational services to our residents, who keep our libraries open and maintain our roads, and make sure our buildings are safe by giving them fair wages they deserve. I say this because the cost of living with high gas prices and grocery prices is is going up and the city needs to give the city workers a fair contract so the city can maintain the best workforce. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mr. Don. Okay, we have Lori Gi. She had to go home. Oh, okay. Thank you. Apologies. Uh Joshua Ree representing AFSCME. And then after Joshua uh Joshua, we'll have Katherine Mills. Mr. Ree. Good evening.

Good evening, council. I'm going to speak simply that we're asking city council to approve economic authority for fair wages. 3% cost of living plus 1% equity is a fair increase. It will help especially our lowest paid members be able to continue to afford to live here and will help our employees not have second jobs and be able to produce and provide for our residents. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Reed. Miss Katherine Mills, and after Miss Mills, we'll have uh Charles Chan. Okay. Hi, good evening,

honorable mayor and esteemed council members. My name is Katherine Mills and I've worked in the library for 20 years now. We Ashia members are here today to ask you to raise the economic authority in our negotiations for a better quality cost of living adjustments. I was raised to look out for the most vulnerable. It's one of the things that drew me to working in a library, a place that is free for all to use to learn however much they want. To me, it feels like an equalizer where even the poorest of our society can come and res receive resources without judgment. In our union, our most vulnerable are our newly hired. They earn less than $70,000 per year, which in Sonteo County is incredibly difficult to live on. Renting a studio apartment takes more than half a month's salary. Living further away no longer saves money as gas prices and electricity costs sore. my own groceries and I'm only feeding myself. Cost over $100 a week. Water is up. Garbage is up. Recycle collection is up. We don't have a uniform, so all clothing is paid out of pocket. And we have zero opportunities for certification boosts or longevity pay at the moment. And our wages simply have not kept up. You cannot control these outside costs. We understand that. But you do have the power to help keep our most vulnerable from drowning. When costs rise the way they have just in the past few months, these people suffer the most. So, please raise the economic authority and take care of us so we can better take care of our community. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. M. Mills. Um, Mr. Chan. And after Mr. Chan, Jessica Lee. Good evening, Mr. Chan.

Hello. Thank you for being late for us. Uh, I try to make it fun for you guys. Okay. Uh, my name is Charlie Chen. I'm the building inspector and um, I want to share you my story. Five years ago, I celebrate my 10y year anniversary uh, with my family in Canalina Island. On the way back home, I stopped at Kpali Senor of Bispo to visit my 80 years old architectural professor, Mr. Broady. Before we left, he asked me one question. Why don't people see the value of architect? I didn't have an answer. It feel like telling my wife, you are lucky to have me, right? But that question stayed with me and over time I realized the answer is really simple. communication. People won't pay for value if they don't understand your through communication. So today I want to talk about the value we bring. I respect my team and my supervisor Mario who always emphasized one thing life and safety. The truth is most of our work is invisible until the disasters strike like fire or earthquake. That's when our work matter the most because the code we enforce keep people have enough time to escape to be safe. That is the value. After being an inspector for an year,

I have also gained a deeper respect for the people around us like DPW librarian like the DPW crew who always keep our ro so nice and the park is so clean every day. All right, I say to my wife, I love you every day, right? But sometime I need to show my appreciation buying some gift to her, take her out for the dinner. I hope you can show us some respect and recognize our value. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay. Jessica Lee. And after Jessica, we have uh Anthony Walters. Hi, Jessica.

Hello, honorable mayor, vice mayor, staff, and esteemed council members. My name is Jessica, and I've worked in the library field for over 10 years here in Daily City and in San Francisco. I'm here to ask that you raise the economic authority in our negotiations for a better cost of living adjustment. Daily City does need to retain experienced and skilled employees to provide quality public service services. We cherish our communities and pride ourselves on the services we provide, but our quality of service declines as financial stress increases. We work full-time jobs and should not need to rely on extra outside income or living off of our savings, especially when single with no dependence. But our wages continue to fall behind inflation and soaring prices. Thus, we continue to lose talent to other cities or occupations, hurting the city in the process. For library wages, what you see is what you get. We have no certification pay, no education pay, no longevity pay, etc. The city gives us no reason to stay once our wages fall behind. We need cost of living ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra raises and longevity incentives to retain staff. Thank you for your time and for your understanding. Thank you, Miss Lee. And we have Mr. Anthony Waters. Good evening, sir. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, city council.

My name is Anthony Walters, a union representative with ASME Local 829, Council 57. And tonight, we're close to a tenative agreement. We've had informal discussions um about what a final compromise might include. A modest increase in the economic authority for wage increases can get us to a mutual agreement in line with the cost of living adjustments that other employee groups in the city have agreed to. So, we know that you value your workers and the federal government policies as have been mentioned before um especially with regard to the uh funding bill, the um HB1. These federal government policies are making the affordability crisis worse. And as as mentioned before, we know that that's not your responsibility. That's not your um authority to address those federal policies. However, your commitment at the local level to uplifting your community and your workers is what is going to provide excellent service for city residents. And so I look forward to reporting back in the future that we do have a final tenative agreement. The union is working towards compromise and your support for workingclass employees in your city can get us to our goal. And so I just echo the comments that my union members have made today and that um the affordability crisis is very urgent and the employees in our bargaining unit with the lowest income desperately need to have this done and so we are working cooperatively. We expect to have our contract hopefully finished by next month and we thank you for your support.

We appreciate your public service. Thank you. THANK YOU. U MADAME CITY CLERK, is that all the cards that we have at this time? Thank you so much. All right. Thank you all for um your comments this evening. We're going to move on with the agenda this evening. Next item is the consent agenda. And looks like we have a few items. So, I'll turn it over to my colleagues if anybody would like to um pull any items. Yeah.

Item number. Okay.

Okay. Anyone else? Member Manalo. Item number 14. 14, please. Thank you. I'm sorry. 14. Did you say 14? Or just 14? Yeah. 14. One four. One. Yeah. I'm sorry. I apologize. Sorry, mayor. Oh, no. No, no issues. Okay. What I'm hearing now is uh we're on to the consent agenda. With the exception of 11, item number 11 and item number 14, I'll entertain a motion to accept the consent agenda. Second

motion by Manalo, second by DJ Ovani. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose? Any nos? Motion passes. Uh so we'll start off with item number 11 and uh let me see. Mr. Chu, how are you? Good. Good. Thank you. Oh, nice jacket. I'm going to get me one of those.

All right. Good evening. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the city council. Um item 11 11 is accept and appropriate a grant from Peninsula Clean Energy. Uh the amount is 1 million uh $59,658. Uh Daily City Public Works applied for and uh received a grant through PCE. Uh those funds will provide for purchases of uh basically two solar uh EV chargers. Um, one is from Beam Global and the other is from Paired Power. Uh, these are the two uh, major manufacturers of um, you know, self-contained solar EV chargers. Our intent is to try one of each to test them out um, and see which ones may may perform better and and then potentially, you know, have have additional units uh, delivered. So, it's kind of a little pilot project uh, to to try those out. Um the remaining funds will be used to offset some of the solar projects um for for city facilities. Uh two of the major ones is for city hall uh and the other one is war memorial community center. Um those projects will involve uh significant funding and using some of these grant funds to kind of buy down the installation costs will uh improve our power purchase agreement. Um so so that's the uh intended use of the funds. Uh Daily City Public Works um will again buy those two chargers and the um solar projects and utilize all of the funding for those those two uses. Uh so in summary, staff is recommending that the city council and accept and appropriate the 1,59,658 onetime grant from Peninsula Clean Energy for the um citywide clean energy project which includes all of those

things that I described. So happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Well, I'm going to offer Dr. Rod the uh opportunity to go first because he pulled this item and uh Dr. Rod. Yes. Um

well, I'm completely um supportive of this um this grant from PCE. I just want to just u take this um short time just to thank people from Pennate Clean Energy, Sean and the whole crew. Um, I think these are just examples of acknowledging support that directly advances our energy goals here in Daily City that is clean and it's also resilient. Um it's also shows like concrete benefits of funded projects and uh director Chu already mentioned it about buying down costs for future solar projects and um having those opportunities and number four to also look at community impact and and what happens locally in terms of putting down infrastructure and if we're going to say we're going to move towards cleaner energy. These are these are necessary steps and examples that we are acknowledging and taking the um opportunities to make this happen u with our government buildings. That's it for me.

Thank you, Dr. Rod. Any other questions? I have a few. Okay, Mr. Chu, will your charges be NACS compatible? Um both the units uh will be able to provide uh that that capability. Yes. I'm sorry. Um we're working with the manufacturer to to to confirm the compatibility.

The reason why I asked because uh a lot of EV manufacturers out there see where it's going and they're trying to adopt the standard NACS which is Tesla. the plug. Mhm. Even Ford, all the other EV makers. How do we choose these other companies? I mean, yeah. So, we uh reached out to some other agencies that have them. Um there's not many out there. That's correct.

Because this is very early uh in terms of this type of technology. U one of the major challenges is, you know, how well it work will it work in our environment in daily city. Um, and so we we've gotten some mixed reviews and so that's kind of why we're trying to pilot one of each um to to try them out for ourselves and our environment. Um, these units do have the ability to be relocated. Um, because for the most part they're they're self-contained. Um, and so um, you know, we're going to try them out and see uh if they work well, if there's a particular location that may work better than another location. Um, and then hopefully if they do work well, then we can potentially, you know, buy more of them.

Wow, that's pretty good. Okay. Uh, will you be getting back to us with uh specifics as to the uh charging speed? Uh, you know, is it going to be uh level two or level three? Um, I I I believe they're at the level two that's what I got range. Um but uh happy to come back in terms of sharing the results with council and how well or or not well they work. Um but um it is kind of a pilot to to try these out and and really get some real data for for our environment. We have EVs now, don't we? Yes, we do.

And uh where are they charging now? Um they're charging at the corporation yard for the most part. Corporation yard. Uh, do we have charges here at city hall? Uh, we will. Yes. I think I got I think I got the message. You've answered it for me. Who's going to be using these charges? So, I think you just answered it for me. Thank you. We will. We We have a separate program with um with Peninsula Clean Energy helping us with uh EV infrastructure

for our facility separate from this, but that's being worked on as well for city hall even more for the Corporation. And I think down on Martin Street or some solar was going down there near fire or something like that or some panel or the library PC was involved in that. I think the uh library has uh EV uh go already that that's already out there.

No, I know there was another project through uh conjunction with PCE. I don't know if it was battery storage, but I I don't want to confuse that with Comarant coming over at the cow palace, but I thought something was going to be at the roof of the library of fire or something like that. So, uh for for uh Behore Community Center, uh that's underway. Okay. As well as Ceremony Library, that's been uh completed as well. Um great. So, those are ongoing as well. Their next phase will be city hall and more memorial community center.

Gotcha. All right, Mr. Chu, I want to say thank you so much for uh always uh upturning those rocks and finding money. Yes, Vice Mayor, please. Thank you for your presentation. Uh I just had a quick question. I do not have an electric car, but I'm curious on what the cost is. I know what it's at the gas right now, but if someone uses one of these chargers, what's the cost and how does that work? I can answer that. Oh, there you go. No, what I meant. Will it be will it be any different than the two he's going to install?

Yeah. Yeah, it's 26 uh 26 cents a kilowatt after 11:30 in the evening. And once you hit 9:00 in the in the morning, you hit the regular PG& rate, which is approximately 56 cents a kilowatt. And it takes you about 70 kilowatts to charge your car. So if you multiply 70 times 26, it's about 16 to 17 dollars. And if you charge during the day, it's much more expensive. Uh yeah. Uh 70 times.56. And that would be about uh that could be as much as $35. Wow. So So do we make any money on these machines once we purchase them?

Uh no, we don't. I mean for the most part uh you know agencies don't have the ability to like sell power. Um so it's right now it's it's mostly to facilitate uh our own fleet and trying to encourage uh more electric vehicle use as well. Um but we're going to need to bring in some new infrastructure from PG to be able to install a lot of these chargers. Um and and you know potentially even looking at you know larger pieces of equipment like electric street sweepers and things like that. Um wow and and having the infrastructure is is a start to be able to to do that. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other questions? Uh Council Member Djiovani, anything? No. Council member Mandalo, please. Yeah, I just want to say thank you um for pulling this item. Um Dr. Rod, I know that you you work heavily on that board and a million dollars is not a small amount and it's pretty hefty um as far as um yeah, you know, $1 million that goes towards um clean um energy efficiencies for our city is great. So, thank you for your work on that board, Dr. Rod, Mr. True. And thank you for all the work of the staff.

Thank Thank you, Council Member Manalo, and thank you again, uh, Dr. Rod, for your steady advocacy and, uh, representation of Daily City on the Peninsula Clean Energy Board. Thank you very much. So, with that being said, I'll entertain a motion from you, Dr. Rod, to approve item number 11. Now, let's make a motion for item number 11 to accept and appropriate uh $1,59,658 grant from PCE. Second. So, we have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I.

Any opposed? Any motion passes? Thank you very much, Mr. Chu. Item number 14, authorize the city manager to execute all master agreements, program supplemental agreements, fund exchange agreements. You know, I had that feeling feeling, Mr. Chu, you were going to be back. Fund fund transfer agreements, and any amendments thereto with California Department of Transportation. Mr. Chu.

Yes. Thank you. Um, this is my item as well. Uh, good evening. So this item is to authorize the city manager to execute all master agreements, program supplemental agreements, fund exchange agreements, fund transfer agreements, and any amendments uh with the California Department of Transportation. So um daily city, we we often receive grants that are managed by uh California Department of Transportation. Um and whenever we have a new grant, um there's a requirement to implement a a supplemental agreement. we have a master agreement and then the implement supplemental agreements whenever there's a new a new grant.

Um and uh as we submit this paperwork uh they require a resolution uh from our city council to indicate who has the authority to sign all of these documents. Um and so the item for you tonight is basically to authorize the city manager the ability to to sign on behalf of the city to execute these documents with CALR. Um uh Daily City, we we just recently received a housing incentive pool uh grant um from uh from MTC. It's managed by Calrans. Uh and so this is one that we will need to do a supplemental agreement and include this resolution that goes along with that. Um so so this item is is for uh the council to authorize the city manager to execute all of these agreements with CALR. Um and we will start with this uh HIP housing uh grant funds. Um there is no fiscal impact. It basically just gives the city manager the authority to execute these agreements. Um and uh once this is done, then we can continue to use this this resolution for future supplemental agreements. So we don't need to come back each time uh as long as we have the authority uh with the um with the appropriations that's already been done. So uh that concludes uh my presentation. And if there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer.

Thank you, Mr. Chu. Uh, Council Member DJani, you're the one who pulled this item. I'll uh uh uh ask defer to you for any questions.

Uh thank you, mayor. Actually, it was moreformational. I was contacted by a couple of residents for the explanation, which is really interesting because like you said, MTC, it's really involved and then it might be more expedient. I thought that was a good process that it'd be more expedient that the city manager could sign and then that way um every everything else moves smoothly. So, I appreciate it. You're always out there looking for that money and and I'm sure that he'll he'll have lots of signatures for city manager to sign. So, thank you very much and I thank the city manager as well for wanting to do this to I think it will expedate the the process. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member DJ Rani. Any other questions for Mr. Chu? Council member Mandala.

Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Um, what is the what is the threshold? Um, so, as I mentioned, um, this isn't a dollar amount associated whenever there's appropriations. Uh, we we come to the council to accept the grant and appropriate the funds to the project. Um, this is basically to implement the paperwork that goes along with that. So, okay. Um those how did it work prior? Um we would have to come back each time to the council

uh to the council just to give the city manager the the authority for that specific uh document to sign. This is more broad and more general in terms of you know the the supplemental agreements, the fund exchange agreements um you know any program supplements but again the the grant itself the accepting and appropriating that comes before the council um to to ask for that uh action to be done. Okay. So, it would still be brought to council as far as information, but to expedite the process, um, we're giving our city manager the authority to sign the document. Who signed it before?

Um, before it was the city manager as well. Okay. Um, but it was done project specific. Okay. So, we're doing an overarching policy right now like uh to approve so that it's a blanket and that um you're not going to us every single council. Correct. It's not project specific, but it's for these documents that uh work with CORN and their agreements. Okay. Um Okay. And again, the appropriations, those come before council for action. Okay. Thank you very much. Looking for efficiency here. I see. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Council Member Mandalo, Vice Mayor, please.

Hi. Thank you, Richard. I'm just curious, is there a time or is this indefinite? Um, right now it's for the uh city manager. There is no uh timeline associated with this at this moment. Um, but for the most part, if there's I mean, usually you revisit these every you know, five years or so. Um sometimes the the name of the documents change and and things like that but uh for the time being um I mean there there isn't a firm deadline at the moment. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Shu. Thank you very much. Any other questions? Uh council member Diovani. Uh yeah, I'd like to make a motion to approve item number 14.

Okay. Is there a second? Second. A second by Dr. Rod. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? Motion passes. Thank you very much, Mr. Chu. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ch. Uh, that concludes the uh consent agenda. Next item is item number 23 and adopt the city's HUD consolidated one-year action plan for fiscal year 2627. And I have Miss Celigan Lel and I guess Mr. Lancowen. Okay.

Good evening honorable mayor.

Okay. Good evening, honorable mayor, vice mayor, and council members. I'm here tonight to present the fiscal year 2627 one-year action plan. So, the city of Gay City receives CDBG and home funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. They're federal dollars. Um CDBG, the um goal for CDBG is to provide decent housing, provide a suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunities. home is to increase the supply of affordable housing. So, um, in order to receive the funding, the city prepares a 5-year consolidated plan, and these were the priorities of our 5-year consolidated plan. 2627 is year four of the 5-year consolidated plan. Also, 2627 is the second year of a two-year CDBG funding cycle, meaning that in 2526, we issued a request for proposals. And then in 2526 is essentially a renewal of the um funding received in 2526. I hope that makes sense. For 2627, we are getting 8 97,871 and uh we will have about 1.5 million of that should say 2627. Sorry about that. 1.5 million for 2627. Um so the 8.91 represents a 3% decrease of what we got in 2526. So, the proposed allocations are um about $1898 $189,000 for administration. There's a cap on how

much we can spend on administration and it's 20% of our allocation plus um program income. And administration includes staff time as well as um Project Sentinel who does fair housing for the city. Then we recommend um 338,414 for housing and under this category this would be our residential rehab program and rebuilding together peninsula for economic development. Um $83,000 which is Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and upwards for public services. We're recommending $128,000 that includes funding for Life Moves, Project REI, Peninsula Family Service, Daily City Partnership, HIP Housing, and Legal Aid. And pretty much these levels of funding are similar to what um we had in 2526. And for capital projects, we recommend putting the balance to the development of the early learning center. And you saw a presentation of that today. For 2627, we are getting a home allocation of $250,7485. And this represents about an 8% decrease of what we got last year. And home admin is kept at 10%. So we recommend an allocation of just 10% of our allocation and then the balance would go towards an affordable housing development which we will identify during the program year and come back to the council. Um at least 15% of that

must go towards a community housing development organization. So, this 225 and um current prior year home funds, we have about $730,000 that we could put towards a new affordable housing project. Um so, a requirement for this funding is public participation. So on December 8th, we had a public hearing on housing and community development needs. And then there was a public notice and a review of the draft action plan that um started March 29th to April 27. As you and then on April 9th, we got our funding allocation. So you can see that we had to go out for public review before knowing how much we would actually get from HUD. So, our draft action plan um contained contingencies as to what we would do if we got more or we got less. So, what we've presented today incorporates the funding contingencies in the draft action plan. And then we also had a public notice that was published and we emailed to various social and community service agencies as well as publishing and making available our action plan on the city's website. And then tonight we have our public hearing on the one-year action plan. So our recommendations for out council action, conduct a public hearing, then allocate the funds for the various CDBG inh home activities as outlined tonight. Approve the city's one-year action plan and adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager or his designate to sign the appropriate forms and certifications as part of the city's submitt to HUD.

And if that I'm available to answer any questions. Oh, I did want to say that we did receive and I think you guys were forwarded um two written comments. one from Hip Housing, which we currently fund. And HIP Housing provides their program serves adults age 62 and older with the connection to Sonteo County and who need access to affordable housing resources.

So, they submitted comments thanking the council for their continued support and just updating us on the services that they've been providing. And we also received written comments from Upwards, who we currently fund as well. And Upward, their program, they help low to moderate income inhome child care providers with one-on-one business coaching and digital tools to strengthen their operations and grow their revenue. Their program has supported provided support to six childcare providers and created two new teaching assistant jobs and that's it.

Thank you. Thank you uh Lenel. Um do we have any uh comments or questions for uh Lenel? Council Ronaldo. Yeah, you do. Okay, go ahead. You first.

Thank you so much, Mayor. And uh first and foremost, thank you for all your hard work on this, Lenel. Um I think um you know obviously what we're receiving from the federal government is not the same amount but looking at um the list of those uh recipients I feel very confident that um it's organizations that uh truly uh serve our community on the ground. Um I also thank you for bringing up also the new organization that is uh providing really the opportunity for uh you know child care providers to move themselves into this technological world. um you know, we know how important it is to have more child care opportunities and to support those that are small business owners um uh is really crucial. Um I think that's one piece that we know um has been a gap um where the digital divide or being able to really um highlight their services um for the community. Um but also you know we have a list of organizations that you have um stated that have uh you know uh proven um the needs around housing, supporting our communities to make sure they have access to legal support also uh finding um you know housing in the most crucial times. Um, and so I think when we look at what these dollars are

for, we're we're reaching that goal. Um, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities that we know. Um, right now in this, you know, like state, a lot of people are struggling with a cost, high cost of increase um that's affecting everyone, right? And so when you talk about microenterprises and having people have the opportunity to sustain themselves um by sharing their cultural cuisine through micro enterprises or whether it's crafts that they um you know uh sharing their talent um and building all of these opportunities for them. um in the entrepreneurship realm. Um so I just wanted to say thank you. I think um all of the organizations are welld deserving um and all your hard work on this. So thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Bernalo. Uh Council Member Dioani. Yeah. Thank you, Mayor. Well, Enel, just like to echo the the big thank you. We wish we had lots of money to give out to everyone, but these are like a lifeline. the ones that you hear. The only question I have is that when you listed the 128,000 and then there's several organization, is that just divided by evenly for each one? No. How does that work? If you don't mind me asking, um so that when they apply they um they apply for certain amount of funding. So, okay. There's an attachment to the Yeah, I saw that. Yeah. So a lot of it is based on what they're requesting.

Yeah, for the most part. And yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of Yeah. Kind of sort of. But yeah. So then with you just have to go with the amount that we actually have and then go through and then try to see what what is what, right? Yeah. And we also do look at cost effectiveness and kind of compare Yeah. what the needs are. Applicants. Yeah. to evaluate the needs as well. Right. Right.

So, I think it's a well-rounded support system that we can try to provide while we go through such low times. 8% is a big loss, but let's hope that next year will be better. And I'd like to thank the gentleman out here for what he does for the community as well while he's been sitting here through the um through this night. So, I appreciate it. Well, and all the organizations, Daily City Partnership and what they provide. Thank you very much and all the others.

Thank you, Council Member uh DJ Giovani. Uh I do have a comment to make, but uh I'll wait because at this time I would like to open up to uh the public for comments and I do have one card and I'd like to invite uh Mr. Timothy Russell of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and he wanted to speak on this matter. So, Mr. Oh, there you are, sir. All right. I saw you already up here. Move quick. All right. How are you this evening, sir? You have the floor. I'm doing well. Okay.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, and city council. I'm Tim Russell, the regional director for Renaissance, and I just wanted to be here to thank you for your support over the years. um for small businesses and economic development. Um small businesses are in the pre you know startup the startup or the existing stage and they see services and one-on-one consulting is invaluable um to be able to help them turn their passion to profit and um you all allow that to happen in your city. I grew up here up to the age 12 and I I love the city and I know how meaningful it is to see growth in a city and small businesses help the growth of every city. I want to thank the staff. The staff has been invaluable to us and helping us um just foster a healthy relationship um giving us um the advice and the guidance that we need in order to do the work that we need to do for the residents and the businesses of Daily City. So, thank you for your support and to the staff of recommendation for continued support. Um, we thank you our team at Renaissance. Thank you very much.

Excellent. Oh, wait. Mr. Oh, let me All right. No, no, this is a little bit different because we kind of like gave a little presentation. Okay. And now I don't know my colleagues may have some questions for you. I think it's all good. And we wanted you to enjoy the limelight here. All right. Camera's on me. All right. All right. All right. So, I'll open it up uh for comments. Uh oh, by the way, just for the record, I don't have any more cards at this particular time for this matter number 23. So, I'll close the uh public comment period at this time. I'll entertain a motion. Motion. Motion to close hearing. Second.

Okay. Well, Dr. Rod, you are a second. Dr. Rod, Dr. Rod's first. Second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Okay. So, I've asked Mr. uh Russell to stay aboard. So, if anybody has any questions for him, uh please feel free to ask him. Good to see you. Good to see you, too. Good to see you.

All right. Well, I uh I don't have a question, Mr. Russell, but uh I do have uh just a comment to make. First of all, I'd like to start off with Lenell. Lenell, you've seen the folks on council come and go and as a result, there has been changes to CDB uh G program and funding and you have done a tremendous job over the years in working with different aspects of council and uh advising, you know, what is good. That tells us you know that you've been through the process. You know most of these uh uh companies and businesses and your knowledge and institutional knowledge is taken very much to heart because we can ask you questions and you just answer them but you leave the decision to us. So I want to say thank you for your institutional knowledge and providing this information. Mr. Russell. Uh, I I did a search on Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and I see in 2024 it won the Ebie Awards for the nonprofit organization of the year.

You entered the organization in 2012 and you have been very responsible in driving businesses throughout the peninsula. Yes. So, I just wanted to say uh that was a good choice, Lenel. Thank you for your followup and report. And I want to say we wish you uh continued success in your business. Thank you very much. Okay. Well, that's all I have. Any anything else from any of my other colleagues? Thank you. All right. Hearing that, you have a great evening. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yes. Oh, can I just do a shout out to Oh. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Yes, Lenel.

Um, so there have been a lot of changes in my division. Betsy retired, Marina retired. I'm still here. But I just want to give a shout out to Ann Cooney. Oh yeah. Um because I can't do this without her. That's all. Thank you.

Oh yes, absolutely. Thank you for sharing that. And I didn't see you back there. Uh Mr. Lunk House was blocking my view, but uh it's a pleasure to see you. I I know all the work that you do, Ann. Thank you, Lenel, for that. All right. So uh that's the Okay. So that was item number 23. So, I'll entertain a a motion to adopt the city's HUD consolidate one-year action plan for fiscal year 2026 through 2027. Motion to approve. Second.

Who was that? Who's that? Oh, council member Ganalo with a second by council member Diovani. Any further questions, comments? And let's see. That would be a roll call vote, please. Madame City Clerk, Miss D. Giovani, present. I mean, I I do that. I, Miss Pano, I, Miss Manalo, I, Mr. Sylvester,

Glenn Sylvester, I thank you very much. The motion passes and, uh, we'll move on to the next item. Oh, Mr. Luckousing. Item number 24, introduce an ordinance adding chapter 15.09 to the Daily City Municipal Code establishing construction hours on private property. So, I'll turn it over to you, Mr. Lousen. Thank you for being here.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor Sylvester and members of the city council. This was a item three weeks ago, I believe, on council and the city council directed the city staff to come back with some more information and make some amendments to the proposed uh changes to the regulation of construction hours on private property on uh commercial and residential development projects. And so we've done that. Uh we've made some changes uh to that as uh based on the direction from the city council. And to uh make this a most succinct summary, uh we've essentially uh made a distinction between standard time and daylight savings time. That was a it was a concern, I believe, by yours, Mayor Sylvester, about the potential for lights shining uh during from construction projects onto residences um because of the different times of day and the time that the sun set during these different time periods. And so we made the amendment that uh and so we kind of took a look at what time sunset was during standard time and daylight saving time and made a proposal that during standard time construction would be from 8:00 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. So only a change to the end time. And then during daylight savings time, construction hours would be 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. So, this allows actually for a little bit of darkness actually after um you know, the sun sets, of course. Uh but yeah, things would have to wrap up at different times based on these two different uh two different uh time dimensions, if you will. So, and we've talked about it internally and we think we can enforce that. Uh there was also a

proposal I believe by the vice mayor that essentially Saturday work hours be allowed on Sunday as well at the same at the same hour hourly capacity. And so we've amended the proposed ordinance to read that on uh Sunday that hours would be just like Saturday, which would be 9:00 a.m. instead of 8:00 a.m. which during regular days of the week. Uh they would be allowed during again during standard time to 6:30 and daylight savings time to 8:30. So that would apply to Saturdays and Sundays the same as per the vice mayor's direction. and then construction would continue to be prohibited on Sundays and federal or rather on federal holidays only um unless an exemption is granted. So that's essentially the changes we made. The full council I believe um it was council member Manalo I think was recommending that we talk to some of the uh larger projects and see what their construction hours were and these hours work for them. And we we checked with both the developer at 99 Southgate as well as at Point Martin

and neither one of those uh construction crews are working on Sundays at least on a regular basis. So um but the Sunday hours would effectively you know help some of the residential projects as you'd mentioned. Yes. So so that's a summary of the changes we'd made. If there's any other questions we're of course happy to answer them. Thank you, Mr. Lanken. Vice Mayor,

first of all, I'd like to thank you for listening to our questions and our requests. Uh, my biggest concern on a Sunday would be someone who owns their own home and wants to paint or do some sort of maintenance on their property. And with people working usually during the week, the only time you have to do any of that is during the weekend. So, I just wanted to thank you. Okay. Okay. Thanks. You're welcome. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council member Malo.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, I just want to say thank you for uh doing the extra work to respond to the questions that we had. I think um we were definitely in a mode to figure out some of um you know some of the questions that arose and then so that we could come to a decision. So thank you.

You're welcome. Thank you. Uh council member Malo anyone uh council member Djabani. Yeah, that's another echo cuz I remember when uh the mayor had brought up the daylight savings time and then it triggered like yeah that's a that's a great idea and you took it back you and your staff and worked on it and came back and uh and made a made a compromise and and appreciate it much appreciated on the work and listening. Thank you.

Welcome. Thank you council member Djiovani for me. Um, Mr. Lunkhousen, I guess you uh staff is starting to understand council. You did a tremendous job. I mean, it's like uh you took notes on everything and I'm I'm I'm looking to see if you gotten any hidden AI recorder because you addressed every one of our concerns and I was just so impressed. Uh, thank you so much for that. I just have one question. This is an easy answer. We're still going back to staff's recommendation on the permit issue. I think it was 3 years and uh if they need to extend it and then they'll come back before council and they can extend it I think 6 months or something like that.

Right. That was part of actually a separate item but that separate correct what you said just said. All right. Great. All right. Three years with uh council right. Okay. Thank you Mr. Lousen. All right. Any further question for item number 24? I don't have any cards. So, we uh we won't need to open uh the public hearing. So, I ask for a motion for city attorney to read by title only. Glenn Sylvester. I'll make that motion. Is there a second? Second.

Second by Dr. Rod. Uh any further discussion? All those in favor for the city attorney to read by title only say I. I. I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? The motion ca carries. Uh madame city attorney. Would you um kindly read by title only? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the city council. This is an ordinance of the city council of the city of Daily City adding chapter 15.09 09 to the municipal code regarding hours of construction and a council member may introduce the ordinance.

Uh thank you madam city attorney. Um this really meant a lot. I really appreciate everyone here on council for all the input that you provided to Mr. Lousen and if you would allow me to kindly introduce the ordinance. Yeah. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you Mr. Lousen. Job well done. Okay, moving right ahead. The next item on the agenda is appointments, board, commissions, membership, committee appointments. Anyone? Uh, council member Diovani. Yes. Um, if you will, I'd like to begin by proudly uh nominating and appointing Vinnie Asibel to the personnel commission. Vinnie,

and then I have two other items after that. Uh Vinnie at Ac.

Oh, Asabo. Okay. Vinnie Asbo. He is a graduate of uh and doctorate of Cornell University. He's involved in the community. Has a nonprofit called Healthways. I think that many of you know him in the community for many of the events and Masons and and uh other things he's been involved in. And this is uh personnel board. Yes. Okay. Should I go through the um each one or uh well I I is what I'd like to do is uh ask um any questions. Okay.

Uh first of all um maybe I can uh direct this to Leilani. Um council member DJiovani is nominating someone to the personnel board. Is there a vacancy there for council member Djiovani or expiration? Yeah, I don't know. So Tom Nurse was my was my board member and he and then when I was uh gone and then I guess he was interested in the planning. Okay. And then I was absent and then when I came back then I then I heard he was on planning and you and then you made a public comment that it was Theresa Brano's idea idea. remember at the planning when you guys swore him in and I didn't know but thank you.

Yeah, you're right. There is an opening. Okay. So, there's a vacancy. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Uh any any other comments? So, uh Madam City attorney, we get to we vote on this, right? Yes. So, there's a motion as a nomination. You'd need a second and a vote. All right. Uh, Glenn Sylvester, I'll gladly second your nomination. Council member Diovani. Second. So, no, I'm seconding your nomination. So, uh, any comments, concerns? So, uh, this is for personnel board. Do we take a we take a roll call?

Let's take a voice vote. V voice vote. Okay. So, uh, any comments? Okay. So all those in favor of uh the council member DJ Ovani's nomination to the personnel board of Mr. Vinnie Acavdo say I I I any oppose. Any abstensions. Motion passes. Council member Djiovani. Go ahead. You

Thank you. Thank you to my colleagues. And I also like to reappoint Rachel Goodman to the library board of trustees. Okay. Any uh questions for regarding the appointee uh the nomination by uh council member Diovani. Second. No, any questions? No questions. No questions.

No, no questions. All right. Uh, you know, uh, we've been working on protocols coming out to all council members and one of the issues that we were looking at, uh, was, uh, the expiration date and, um, uh, attendance. So, um, what board was this again, council member? Uh, library trustees. Ah, library and trustees. Yes. Okay. Um, isn't that an upcoming meeting or that we're going to approve something that you guys are working on, right? I'm sorry. Isn't that an upcoming meeting? We're going to approve something that you guys are working on.

Yeah. Yeah. That uh that's coming. That was on the consent agenda. Um, she's expired March. Uh March. Yeah. Uh okay. All right. Uh uh great. I I I don't see any concerns. I uh Okay. Um plus we haven't approved that yet, have we? Of the of the new rules. Uh no, we haven't approved it yet, but uh it'll definitely become a concern. Okay. Uh we may put things over until all of council gets through protocol. Yes. But uh

uh let's see. Meeting cancelled. Hold on. Council member uh looks looks good. She loves the library. Oh yeah, absolutely. And I think uh uh with with the movement into library, we're starting to get uh cohesive. Yeah, they they work really well together with Angela and everyone. Very good. All right. So, we have a first and a second. All those in favor of uh Council Member DJ Ovani and appointing Rachel Goodman reappoint. Uh uh yeah, because she's expired and that was the the basis to do so. Okay. Uh all those in favor say I.

I. I. I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? I as well have one more to do this time uh to reappoint Teresa Fua who expired I believe also in March to the planning commission and then the next meeting I'll take care of everything else. Okay. And she expired in March, correct? Right. Yeah.

All right. So, we have a nomination request by council member Djiovani to reappoint an expired member to the planning commission and uh I'll be more than happy to second that. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

Okay. All right. So, any further uh there's a motion on the floor for the nomination. Any further discussion, comments, concerns? All those in favor of reappointing Terresa Faua to the planning commission say I. I. I. Any oppose? Any abstension? Motion carries. And then for the other two, I think I have two more to to clean up since uh I had my surgery. So, um I apologize to my colleagues. I was a little behind because I had the surgery and uh had been ill. But, um those two will definitely I think there's two more that I need to take care of and I definitely will take care of them at the next meeting.

All right. Um I'm catching up with my health. Leilani, I think uh we approved it on the consent agenda. The entire board uh the whole council is going to get the new protocol that's coming up. We have the public hearing scheduled for May 11th. Uh May 11th. Okay. All right. May 11th. And everybody will get the protocol. Okay. Thank you. Uh thank you. Thank you for your patience. Oh, absolutely. During the trying times through the my health issues, but I appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. All right. Uh any other appointments? Okay. Just a just a reminder to council got any expirations coming up. I think it's been close to 30 days. We may open it up to the rest of council to uh uh renominate or to um look for someone else to uh fill those positions. So that's um that's also going to be part of the new protocol as well so that everybody gets to see it and have fear fear notice about uh what may be coming down the pipe. All right. Um next item let's see reports and we'll start off with council committee reports. Anyone? Okay. Dr. Ro. No. Okay. Uh, all right. We're going to move ahead because it's getting kind of late. All right, city council reports. Uh, member uh, council member Manalo, please.

Thank you, Mayor. I want to say that um the event that we both participated in um we joined Astrona Health Northern California with uh Supervisor Canipa in regards to um just uh the physicians that are in our community. And so um I know that um we were able to join you at that event. Um also progress seminar was really um I think it's just a great time to really intersect both business community and nonprofit like all in one arena with local government like I don't think you know um people say that it's very unique to have all um the intersections there even with education um technology ology, um, health all in one room. Labor as well, all in one room. And so I'll let um, Dr. Rod and and and mayor talk about the individual uh, seminars that they had. Um, but I' I'd like to speak on um the last day I was able to stay where they had all the um county board presidents from Sonteo County um s which was Noelia Corzo and also from San Francisco, President Raphael Mandelman and from Santa Clara County Otto Lee. Um and so having all of those representation from the region um not only in the peninsula but on both sides of us um was really great to hear

how they've addressed issues and also share some of the best practices they've they've been doing. And so, um, I think that, you know, one of the the issues they did bring up on both counties, and I I know, um, Chief Christensen is not here right now, but I also just want to acknowledge that, um, we've been very mindful on making sure when we share our data, um, you know, as far as the cameras that we have, AL, ALPR, are or um other cameras that we do not um send it out outside of the state. Um and so I think that was also brought about um but I want to say that it's it's good to know that we have policies within our city um that we've reiterated. um also attended the life moves lunchon um to support housing and uh support services. You know, we have a life moves um location in Daily City and it's really been a saving grace for many families. And so I think it's so important that um that you know that continues to remain and I know it's helped many families. Um and then also the council of cities with uh Mayor Glenn for a very short minute with my daughter um Jesselle. Uh which they had um I think they were highlighting all of their environmental projects by the the creek that they had there. Um Mayor Glenn, you're going to have to share like how the food was because

I had to had to leave that time. Um but it was also really wonderful to be with the Daily City Koma Chamber of Commerce just right before this meeting. Congratulations to Dr. Rod uh to Amyan and her scholarship as a scholarship awardee. Um it's so wonderful to see her um in her element and congratulations on her choosing the school um that she wants to. And I think I can't believe time is flying so fast. It's way too fast. Like she's not going to college, but wow. Um congratulations to you and Arlene on this next adventure. Um but yes, tomorrow um I will be joining organizations and other municipalities with also the county for the VLF um advocacy. And so just wanted to share with my colleagues um I'll be heading to Sacramento um to support those efforts tomorrow. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Oh, thank you, Vice Mayor. Vice Mayor, you have great memory. Um, the annual volunteer lunchon um happened and I can't believe I when it happened, I can't believe it we're already at this point of the year because I just remember it happening last year and how fast is that? Um, but thank you. um vice mayor um was there as well as uh council member uh Pam who was there as well. But to all of the city staff that served the seniors, they were smiling and so happy. Their smiles were like up to their cheeks. And um it also shows how um there's studies that say when um older adults are active that you know they really um age in place and a lot of them say that the Dolier Senior Center is their second home. So thank you Denise to and your entire staff. Um, and we heard that not just from one person, but multiple people over and over again saying how much they love to volunteer, but also how uh all the the senior centers that they volunteer at is their second home. So, thank you, Vice Mayor, for reminding me. I almost forgot. Thank you. And that is it, Mir. I thank you so much.

Thank you, Council Member Malo.

Oh my goodness. There's one more. Sorry, it's on my notes. I'm like I am not reading my notes but there is one last thing I want to thank um Chief Christensen um for sharing the real time information center tour um and it's very exciting that we have this technology that as a council we have approved through our measure Q funding and really finding ways um to make sure that technology works for us to keep our officers safe as well as the public. Um, for those of you watching, a real-time information center highlights um how we have the technology with drones uh but also the capacity of other um cameras to speedily be able to um get to a crime or also a situations where um collectively there's a it's just a faster more effic efficient uh way to do so. Um also I think um we will be the largest real time information center with a city of our size. So I want to say congratulations to Chief Christensen and all of the real time information center staff and seeing them in action. And one fun fact is they use game controllers to be able to maneuver. Um, yeah, maneuver. So that's it. I almost missed it. I had it on my paper. And that is it. Mayor, thank you so much.

Thank you. Um, anyone else? I'll make it quick. I only I only have No, I only have two little things. Um, going backwards, uh, it was so nice to be at the Koma Daily City Chamber of Commerce Foundation skull access to higher education. Um, the four of us were there and it was nice to watch you mayor giving out those certificates and you spoke very well. Um, we thank Leilani for that.

Leilani, he spoke very well. Uh but the I think the best part was was you know seeing looking out at the youth and and when I saw Amyana co-op it was like it's almost like you know it felt like family. I got so excited. Um and it was really nice to be there. Uh our city manager was there as well. Uh Chief Christensen was there. Mr. Nevin was there. Um it's so nice to see 42 students receiving scholarships uh and listening to where they're going. So I just wanted to just say uh it doesn't get old. It doesn't get old. I've been on the Chamber of Commerce uh wow gosh u many over 20 oh probably close to 25 years. So um the scholarship's probably one of the best parts. and then um just greeting the uh seniors. Uh but watching all the volunteers, I mean, there goes Tim and and and Tom and the police and the fire and everybody was there and Opal. Uh the food I I didn't eat it, but it sure looked good. The salmon and such. So, uh staff was phenomenal and uh it was great to listen and speak with the uh various um we stood at the door so as the seniors were coming in um and and you're right, they all said it was like their second home. It was the best thing um that they did. So, that was it. So, thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. Uh Council Member DJani.

Yeah, I'll just make an addition. I mean they both spoke well about the senior appreciation lunch and that how some of them have been volunteering also for 33 years. I mean that I mean that says something. And then we all know about volunteerism. Do you get more when you volunteer or do you get you know that's how they were feeling. And the fact that Andrea went around and even asked them you know for people that wanted to speak on why they volunteered. I thought that was very poignant and it was well done. And then to our assistant city manager, Shayla, Denise, uh Joshua, uh city attorney, um our city manager, police, fire, everyone came and and served and they they were delighted to to have that appreciation. Gratitude says a lot. And that I I think like uh Council Member Manal alluded to, those smiles were evident. They were laughing and having a good time. And uh just taking that time to acknowledge them is so important because there's no value or how would you say on on those volunteers, they really really bring so much. And people said they've gone to other cities, but it's the doldier. is the doldier and the synergy of the people and the staff and Dustin as well. Um he they did a great job and thank you to all of them. There was excellent. They were so happy.

Yeah. Can I just add something? Um it reminded me uh when uh council member uh Djivani mentioned uh the 30-year um I sat on the committee at the 25th and there were still two uh members that were members then. Now you know we celebrated 50 as well. So but I was on the committee for the 25th and it was funny because one of them went by. Yep, I'm still here. So, um, it's amazing how time is flying by, but yeah, thank you.

Yeah, and congratulations to Dr. Rod. Now that I know that, sorry I couldn't make it, but to and to all the students and we all know you how well you speak when you speak anyway, but to your to your young the young youth and uh they're not our tomorrow, there are today. So, thank you and congratulations to all of them. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Thank you. Um, Council Member Djiovani, Dr. Ron. Yes. Um, it was a packed two weeks. So, I I'll start with one. Um, on April 17th on a Friday. Um, I participated in the ethnic studies summit at SFSU. Nice.

That was put together by the reach and arc programs that was funded by um a federal funding pro funded federal funding called the NIPezy grant. and um it was hosted by by SF States and it invited JUHSD high schools um to attend. I was able to uh run a workshop called uh learning, building and engaging. Oh wow.

And I used uh a quote by one of my mentors that she uh Dr. Don Bhuan Mabalan who's a late uh Filipina American historian. He said this quote that really stuck with me and why I still do what I do. And the title of the workshop was called um be part of the process before times of protest because by the time he gets down to the protest the decisions have been made. And I just um used this framework called learning, building, and engaging as a way and doing scenarios with the kids. Like if you want to run for city council, what would you have to do? What do you have to learn? What do you have to build? What are you supposed to engage? and they use that framework as a way to address certain scenarios and it was pretty cool um to see different people of our community attend that and then um I'm giving a lot of love to my daughter. My daughter was the keynote speaker and I'm just amazed on how she articulates um what it means to be civically engaged.

Wow. that it's it's more than just um you know volunteerism, but it's also kind of like um a sense of identity, a sense of purpose and you know reading the tea leaves and see what's happening in the world and in our communities. And so I just want to say thank you to the people from SF State for putting together that JUHSD ethnic studies um summit. Um I attended the progress seminar along with my colleagues uh Mayor Sylvester and council member Manalo. And I'm just going to go by um some of the titles and then some quotes that we just like in like engaged me. So the first um pro the opening ceremony was called leading with trust how confidence in government public instit institutions and oh wait my bad leading with trust how confidence in government public in institutions and each other is essential for shared prosperity. Uh, I think one quote that uh stood out was I forgot who said it, but she he cited um supervisor um Lisa Gautier and he said that when we're talking about engaging the community, it's not enough to invite them to the dance, but you got to ask them to dance,

right? And so that is like if anybody's ever gone to a high school dance, that's pretty much it, right? It's like or you're just a wallflower or you're just sitting around just watching and listening to the DJ. And um the the theme that I got was like you got to be able to as leaders engage all everybody in in your community from different political values, different political uh perspectives, young people, the intersections of like age, race, class, gender, and listening. Um, and as much as we do like to speak, but be able to listen. Another one we we went to was addressing our regional transit crisis ballot measure. Um I think one thing that I got from this was just understanding um the impact of of funding and impact and and how CO 19 really changed um participation in in these different um local and how public transportation will affect different communities in different places. like even though we're all riding the same train, it's BART in San Francisco, BART in Santo County, and just the behaviors or even like the ways that uh these different agencies were able to um either prepare for these shortfalls or are now going trying to address these shortfalls is is pretty interesting. Um and then what else did we go to? There was another one was called building with backbone confronting the forces that limit frustrate and stop housing development. So I want to quote my colleague from uh Berling game Donna Coulson. She said that one of the hardest impacts is what will happen at the state level and how it affects things at the local level.

And she used like a metaphor of like it's like drinking out of a fire hose. It's like and she related to that to Reena numbers and how we're supposed to meet those Reena numbers, but it's kind of like it's all great, but then sometimes it feels like drinking out of a fire hose where the force impact and the amount of of um expectation of of housing becomes very um stressful depending on and not knowing the context of each community. And then I think I what was the last one? And the other one last one was integration. Oh my bad. Integration not elimination. AI and the transform transformation of how we work. Um that's all it was. No. Um AI it AI is is scary and fun at the same time. I think the theme that I really got out of that was um using it as as a research tool instead of it being as a generative tool um and how it's going to shape and and influence and change work. And so people are still figuring it out now. The the thing is that people were talking about when I was in that panel was about robotics. And for some reason the Jetsons came in my mind and I was like can somebody clean my house? Like that would be cool. I forgot the name of the android that um was in a Jetson, but that would have been great. You know, I was like we could have people generate cool pictures, but practical. And then the last one was continued progress on the horizon. What's holding us back? And uh we had different people that were inside and outside uh Santo County, people from the East Bay. Um I one of the things that u came out was also about um child care and you know us it was kind of poetic that we're talking

about child care and addressing this need and how um child care is is so essential to younger um parents in terms of allowing them to work and and finding accessibility to it. And um And also the I I think one of the other uh things that stood out to me was like um forecasting. Some of the forecasting was like we need to find ways to expand youth and young adult employment because the the whole pastime and people they called it pastime was young people are not working in the summertime anymore when it was kind of like oh it's the summer time I'm going to go and work. I'm going to save some money. No, young people are not doing that. So, how do we capture that? Um, and then one of the um speakers also talked about a statistic about um young men. You got to you have to really look at the demographics of young men because for some reason a lot of them are not going into school or not even joining the workforce, but they're just staying at home. And there has to be some sort of like study or even like strategy to engage these young men to um engage in some sort of educational or um workforce training program. Yeah. And then oh um I was able to attend the 21st anniversary of the Cababine Learning Community Phil Filipino Culture Night at Skyline College on April 23rd. So congratulations to students and faculty that were a part of that. And then um also the Daily City Chamber of Commerce and scholarship. Um just want to say thank you. Thank you for serving the youth providing I am I forgot the guy's name. I think it was Nick. Uh he's

the representative and I'm going to the mayor cited him as well was saying like this u scholarship is an investment for these young people's futures. Um, and it was actually really cool because my daughter would always mention people's names and I never knew who they were until now. And it was really cool to see people that she would always mention about building in her in her classrooms and actually seeing them in person and receiving these scholarships. Nice. And that's that's it for me. Very nice. Yeah. And thank you, Dr. Rod. All right. Um, I'll start off with Progress Seminar and you know what's always on my mind?

The food was outstanding. Oh yeah. Vice Mayor, you missed it and uh uh of course uh found a new place uh going up there as well, but uh it was good. But I have to echo what Dr. Rod talked about, especially in the area of AI. Uh what was very important is the uh ballot measure regarding transit and uh Dr. Rod is right. I do remember somebody said something uh during co when he looked out of the window at the third and towns and King Street area. That's where Cal Train ends. Mhm.

He looked out and he called all his colleagues throughout uh San Monteo and says, "This is real. CO really affected uh wrership and transportation." And BART is uh still having problems. They even talked about closing stations and BART made mention we've already closed some stations. So, if you live up near Pleasant and you know they were talking about closing Milbury station going to the airport and uh we're going to be in some tough times coming up. So, depends on what happens with the ballot. Uh thank you, Council Member Manalo. Regarding Council of Cities, uh B uh Belmont spoke about the creek during construction. they came across an archaeological find and they had to stop and uh mitigate that issue uh proper funeral burial and what you're going to do and they lucked up because they said the day before it was to expire it had rained and uh as a result they got the Army Corps of Engineers to help them build the creek about 12 different agencies and I believe they got grant funds funds from I want to say number one. It's a concert place down in the peninsula. Uh the name escapes me. It's a big stadium. It's called one something. Oh my goodness. Uh it's is where they have a stadium and they do entertainment.

Yeah. And it's by the water and they gave one shoreline, right? One shoreline. And they gave money to help uh with the creek. So there's money out there. So uh thank you Dr. Rod, I was about to say, yeah, when I used to drive Uber, I used to take folks down there.

So, progress seminar. I'm sorry I missed the annual volunteer lunchon. I did see pictures of it and the one that stuck in my mind was seeing the assistant city manager, Tim Nevin, hunched over and I guess he was refilling some uh uh beverage or something and he had an apron on. I did see that. So, the reason why I missed that because I too attended uh the RTIC uh as council member uh Manalo had alluded to and um it's just so much to talk as to what we have here in Daily City and I attribute that to the chief of police with the cooperation of the city manager and council helping them move forward with this technology. But as long as they made it sure that we don't misuse the technology like spying in people's backyards or something like that, but uh actually for um uh police investigations and when I I I heard the term public safety and I I um I hit on that immediately. You know, in the old days when you key the microphone, you can say something on the microphone, but they don't know where you're at.

And that's in throughout anywhere you are in the city. But now you key the microphone and it gives your location to dispatch and the folks watching you where you are at. And if you take too long on a call, if you key the mic, it'll tell you if you've moved your location, the dispatch will come back at you and says, "Oh, are you on another call?" It's these little nuances that helps protect our our officers. And uh I do remember when I used to drive home to Daily City from San Francisco, once I crossed the border line, you don't mess around in Daily City. Oh my goodness. I I would just take my time. You don't mess around. And if you think you can do a crime now in Daily City and get away with it, nope. Nope. Nope. Uh you can run, but you can't hide. And uh I like the idea about the use of drones for thermal uses where you pick up body heat. You could be in the dead of night and it's quiet and somebody's in a big factory and you're trying to locate this burglar suspect and you put the drone up there and it's it'll pick out the heat detection uh signature. So, the only thing is I'm concerned is the uh the staff that working inside the RTIC when I walked in, number one, the room was cold. Number two, it was dark. It's like you're in a movie theater. And I'm wondering why is this? And as soon as he opened the door to take me out to see the drone, that light came in. And I see why that room is dark. But I appreciate staff because they're in there all day and uh they must have a love or passion for what they do because I could not well I do I do sit at a computer for a long time but to be there all day in that dark room but

uh and plus you have to be licensed to fly a drone. Other agencies have contacted us and say we will buy a drone drone but we want you to fly it

and we offer uh collaboration. San Francisco calls this all the time. We are in the process of getting more. So uh this is good deal. I think Daily City, as Council Member Manalo says, uh we have the most and uh we are the best at what we do. And not only the drones, but also the uh public safety and public trust, the cameras. Uh you know, they can see what where you're at without you knowing that somebody's watching. So, it's Oh, it's good. You know, hey, what are you doing out there? So, that was good. So, that's why I didn't make the annual uh volunteer lunch. It was only supposed to be a half hour. I was there for almost an hour. Chief asked me, "Are you going to go over?" Oh, no, no, no. It's too late. So, uh, that's it. So, that's, uh, progress seminar. Yeah, that's all I have. So, thank you very much, everyone. Anyone else before we move on?

Mayor, sorry, I have just two items I wanted to share with you. Um, one, Shoreline is a regional committee. Okay. Okay. So, it's actually created um because of climate change. Um and that like if you look at the one shoreline, we're all connected. And so there's grants um it was a body that was formed to address climate change especially around sea level rise. Okay. And so um they probably got money from that. Yes, they did. Yes. Yeah. And then I also wanted to share at progress seminar SF Peninsula

did not have daily city on their map. Oh

and it was honestly disappointing to see because you can't have a map without daily city being part of the peninsula. And so, um, I spoke with the SF Peninsula leadership, um, and told, um, you know, like I, this has to change, you know, they said, "Oh, it's connected to like having a hotel be involved with it." Um, but then KA was there. I'm like, Koma doesn't have a hotel. So, you know, I'm watching out advocating for us, right? Because to me, I'm like I I was like, "Oh, great. this is a cool map. And I took a photo. I'm like, wait, Daily City is not on here. Um, they had Cow Palace, but no Daily City. Um, and so, um, it's a conversation with them to make sure that we're included on that map and that we're highlighted. I mentioned that, um, it'll be the third year for our Top of the Hill Festival. We have Jakulti. We have Koi Palace coming in. We have Than Beach. We have San Bruno Mountain. Like there's so many elements to highlight what we have in Daily City. Um but I had to share that. So that was I I could not leave without talking to them directly because you can't have a map of the peninsula without having us on there as Daily City. And I know that um Council Member Rod also felt the same way, like wait, what's going on? How come we're not on this map, so we're gonna make sure to have that um taken care of?

Wow. Uh Council Member Ronaldo, I I didn't even rec recognize or see that. Excuse me. But you should have also reminded him. Do you know what the model for Daily City is? Gateway to the Peninsula. Gateway to the Peninsula. and and then here you were talking about the peninsula. Oh my goodness. Thank you for uh ensuring that we get on the map and I I I guess with staff and our uh city manager here, he does so much that uh Okay, it uh you'll learn. So So good. Thank you.

All right. Thank you for sharing that. All right. Anything else? Uh, no more staff number 27. No. Why? No, you don't have to look at the clock. We here now, sir. Go ahead and let it out. Glass, huh? I was just looking at the glass right here. I was looking Oh, what glass? Right here in front of me. Oh, the black screen. Okay. You uh city manager, are you sure? because I'll have to ask Leilani because she knows more than you. Yeah. In the efforts of time, I'll I'll pass.

All right. Is that okay with everyone or should we make Mr. Picolani speak? I can I can actually uh hand it over to on the subject that um council member Menal just spoke of. Yeah, I believe um Leilani was on a meeting today on that subject and she can weigh in a little bit if that helps. We have been in talks with San Francisco Peninsula SFP U and we've been advocating. So, thank you so much uh for making that connection and we we'll have continuous meetings with them in hopes to um highlight top of the hill and other things of Daily City as well. Nice. More to come.

And that concludes my report. Outstanding. You see, I I like this. It's it's a magic term that I learned. It's called creative juices. When you get everybody talking and, you know, get so creative. That's good. That's good. I love it. Thank you, uh, Leilani. Thank you, staff. All right. The next item, uh, is adjournment. And, uh, I believe council member Diovani had one. So, why don't we start with you, council member, please?

Okay. All right. Thank you, mayor. Always in our hearts, the sad passing of Josephina, all better known as Josie Salceto Riker, 86 years old of Daily City, passed away peacefully April the 1st. She was born March 19th, 1940 in the Philippines to Fidelia and Leo Paulo Salceto. Her father was a famous actor in the Philippines if anybody knows who he was. She also became a singer and a dancer in her own right and her career took her throughout all of Asia. Then she moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s and worked for 32 years as a clerk for First National Bank. She was an active parish minister who loved to dance, sing, and she is survived by her daughter Jocelyn and son-in-law Vince and grandson Vinnie. I will say that if anybody ever heard her sing because she was a star throughout Asia and um so her passing brought a lot of people to OM where she was very involved at that uh throughout her career and her life here in Daily City. So may she rest in peace Jo Salceto a lovely lady. Thank you. Thank you, council member um Dijioani. Uh next item, I'll turn it over to council member Dash Mark Bal and council member Manalo

for Lyall Polis. Yes. And the Tuboso 19.

Yeah. Um thank you mayor. Um I'll go want me to go first council member. Okay. So um this is this obituary is for one of my uh friends uh Lyall Polis. So it is with profound grief that family, friends, and community members mourn the death of Lyall Briles. Remembered as a Philippine American human rights advocate who served communities from his hometown of San Diego, his other hometown San Francisco, and his ancestral home of the Philippines. He held a deep commitment to serving the people in the struggle for liberation and building international solidarity. his work centered on movements alongside the poor indigenous peoples and the oppressed. I first met Lyall around 2002 or 2003 when I was a graduate student in Asian-American studies at SF State. I remember him meeting I remember meeting him at a function called Flip the Script which was a spoken word and open mic event when he was a member of the League of Filipino students. Uh Lia was a poet, a star Star Wars fanatic, a transnational organizer, and a godfather or ninong to and uncle to many. From my time at SF State to working with him at the Filipino Community Center in San Francisco's Excelsster neighborhood, we shared many circles. It is important for me to share his obituary to humanize Lyall and those who have fallen alongside him collectively known as the Taboso 19 and Negros accidental Philippines. This is to honor who he was the person I knew, a servant to his community and someone who moved across and connected many communities. Lyall was among the 19 people killed in the April 19 2026 incident in Barangai Salamanca Taboso Negros accidental and as the names who died have gradually

have been announced grief for Lyall has unfolded alongside grief for others whose lives were also cut short in this tragedy. Among those identified were Alyssa Alano a student leader from the University of Philippines Diliman R.J. Ladesma, a community journalist and writer from Negros and Kai uh Dana Renee Sorem, a Filipino ex-American organizer from Washington from the state of Washington and co-founder of a Filipino youth organization in South Seattle. Their names alongside others who have been publicly announced remind us that this loss is carried by many families, communities, and movements. The remembrance calls attention to a larger struggle that brought many to Negros. the enduring fight of peasants and rural world communities for land survival, dignity, and self-determination. Many of those being mourned were learning from, documenting, or standing alongside farming communities facing land grabbing, militarization, and deep inequality. To honor Lyall is also to honor that struggle and to affirm that peasants and rural workers deserve land, livelihood, safety, and the power to shape their own futures. In honoring Lyall, we also honor all those killed in Tibosa 19. Each each name represents a life, a family, a set of relationships, and a story that deserves dignity and death and remembrance in public memory. I lift up their names so that they're not forgotten. And I hold their families and communities who carry this grief. Lyall, thank you for your friendship and your and the communities you served. I'm sending love to your family, especially your sister Lily and her family, your wife, Yeny, and rest in power, L. Thank you, Council Member Melo.

Um, thank you, brother Rod. Um when you shared with me the passing of Lyall, um definitely my heart sank. Um there are really no words that truly capture the weight of a loss um carried by the family and friends and the entire community. when hearing the recent devastating massacre in the Philippines and that someone that we knew in college uh lost his life because he was there with the farm workers was very unreal because we know life's life mattered. His presence and the love he shared with those around him will never be forgotten. We know how life is so fragile and how important to hold our loved ones close. But to stand together and to demand a world where senseless violence has no place and that justice and selfdetermination is people power. My heart goes out to Lyall's family and everyone grieving this unimaginable loss, especially his sister Lily. May you find the strength at this unfathable time. Knowing Lyall's life, he's touched so many. I just remember his smile. Um, and just his just gentle smile and always positivity whenever he entered a room. Um, we stand with you. You'll always be remembered. Rest in power.

All right. Thank you, uh, Council Member Manalo. And I see you have another journey in memory for Miss Nancy McGee. Anytime you're ready. Uh, thank you, Mayor. Um, this is just uh as of today when hearing the news of our former Sanonteo County Superintendent Nancy McGee, who died at 66.

Um, M uh, Superintendent McGee was first elected in 2018 and led the Sanonteo County Office of Education for eight years. She announced in April 2025 that she would not seek reelection and retired in February, 11 months before her term was set to end. At that time, no reason for was given for her early departure. The county of education supports 23 school districts and the superintendent reviews district budgets and monitors compliance and state federal laws. Under McGee's leadership, the Sonteo County Office of Education was named office of the year for a medium-sized county by the California County Superintendent in 2025. The award cited her work in behavioral health, environmental literacy, and school safety. We know that during the pandemic, it was her leadership um during the time when we knew um it was really difficult for so many districts and schools. Um we extend our deepest condolences to our family, friends, colleagues, and loved ones.

All right. Thank you. Uh, Council Member Manalo, uh, Council Member DJani, and Dr. Rod. Thank you so much. At this time, we'll kindly please pause for a brief moment of silence for our, uh, deceased uh, Thank you very much. This meeting is now adjourned. Until the next meeting, stay healthy and stay safe and have a good evening.