City Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to ask committee member Jacqueline, if you would. How many member, Letty, would you lead us in?

Absolutely. Here we gracious god, we thank you for the privilege of serving our community. Give us clarity of mind, patience, and discussion, and respect for one another's abuse. Guide our words and actions today that may reflect integrity and care for our neighbors. In Jesus' name, amen.

Would you like me to take the role?

Yeah, call the Okay. Role

Committee Vice Chair Arlia Arsenada absent. Committee Member Kelly Gregg absent. Committee member Letty Cisneros. Here. Committee member Greg Lugo.

Present.

Committee member Jacqueline Escobar. Present.

At this time, we'll, ask anyone who wishes to address the city council advisory committee to complete a white card and present it.

I have no white cards.

Since there are no white cards, we will end the public comment period at 06:04PM. Has everyone had an opportunity to review the minutes from our last meeting? Do have a motion to approve?

I'll second motion.

Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna put up the voting, and you can actually vote. It just takes a little bit of time. Thanks. Thanks, mister Lugo.

Okay. Voting has started. Would you like to press your vote, Jacqueline? Perfect. Thank you.

I want to say a special thanks to Mr. Lugo who is filling in as our chair since we have other members absent. So we're moving on to item number three.

Item number three is the Neighborhood Pride Enhancement Program. Would city staff member Arlene Camayo please come up, for the presentation?

Yes, may. Good evening chair and committee members. Tonight we will be looking at the quarterly nominations for the Neighborhood Pride Enhancement Program. As a refresher for the program, I will be going over a brief presentation. The Neighborhood Pride Enhancement Program recognizes residents who have made external improvements or enhancements to their home which contributes to the overall curb appeal and charm of his various neighborhoods.

Features that the committee considers during selection include manicured landscaping, drought tolerant landscaping, rockscaping, flowers, plants and trees, driveway resurfacing, window enhancements and exterior paint and overall curb appeal. Program guidelines include the following. Nominations must include a nomination form as well as before and after photos. Nominations are considered for a twelve month period after which an applicant may reapply if not selected. And then honorees will receive $1,000 in gift cards.

This quarter we are doing $400 for Harbor Freight, $400 for Ace Hardware, $200 for affordable decorative Rock and Cal Herbold's nursery, as well as a neighborhood pride enhancement program yard sign. In addition to these guidelines, we're also including that only Hisperey residents may be nominated, self nominations are allowed, and city employees and persons affiliated with or a representative of the city are not eligible. This concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions, but if there aren't any, please feel free to begin reviewing the nominations for this quarter. And when you are ready, please listen from top to bottom. Thank you.

Thank you. Is everyone ready to

Oh, yeah. Yes.

Their nominations? Wanna call them out or?

Each person can call them out and then Arlene will and I will both tally them and make sure we have a we agree. So whoever would like to go first, you can choose.

Buddy, would you like to go first?

Absolutely. So for my ranking number one, I got I have home number four. For my ranking number two, I have home number three. For my ranking number three, I have home number one. And for my ranking number four, I have home number two.

For my ranking for my ranking in first, place, I have nomination number four. I have nomination number three. I have nomination number one, or I have nomination number two.

My rankings ranking number one, the nomination four ranking number two, nomination three rank three, nomination one ranking number four, nomination two.

Okay. It'll be just one second. Would everyone please be able to restate their rankings, but instead of reading it as, so you would read it as House 1 is two, House 2 is three, House 3 is etcetera. Okay.

House 4 is one. Okay. House 3 is two. House 1 is three. House 4 excuse me. House 2 is 4. Okay. So it should be 4312.

Okay.

I have the exact same thing. Okay.

We'll have 4312. Yes.

I have the winner as House 3 and runner-up House 4. Is that correct?

No. No? Should be the winner should be House 4 and runner-up House 3.

Okay.

Agree. Okay.

Okay. So winner's gonna be house four, runner-up house three.

Correct. That's what I have.

Me too.

Got it.

Thank you.

We need emotions.

Well, I moved to select house one as the honoree of the city neighborhoods pride enhancement program and number three is the runner-up. Do we have a second?

Second. I motion to put it in. Could

you repeat that, Mr. Lugo? I thought we said that number four was the winner and number three was the runner-up.

You are correct. I stand corrected.

That's okay. I haven't done the motion yet. You wanna do it one more time?

We'll select number four as the winner and number three as the runner-up. Letty, can you second that again?

Yes.

Correctly this time.

Yeah.

Motion carried. At this time, we'll ask for any comments from committee members. Or, do you have any comments?

I was just asking about the the Christmas one that I've seen. Is that through the that's not through us. Right? I've seen something is there are they doing through the city of Hesperia, are they doing, like, competition with the house decorated for Christmas? I think I've seen it online, but I

Yes. That's correct. That's gonna be a city council decision.

Yeah.

I was asked by a neighbor. That's why I was asking. Well, that's he was winning. I said, I don't know. I know that we they give a thousand dollars over a year, but I don't know what they're getting.

Right. Can we pause and just go over the voting one more time? Because I don't wanna have a meeting where it wasn't correct. So I'm gonna pause the meeting so we can discuss it.

Okay. Is that alright?

That's fine. Okay.

We are back on. So we were just gonna clarify the voting that everybody chose. Would you clarify that for the for us, please?

Yeah. We'll clarify it as

House number one.

House number one was ranking four. House number two was ranking three. House number two was ranking

House number three.

Three.

Four three two one. Correct? That's 4321.

4321.

Okay. So the committee chose the ranking as house number one is four, house number two is three, house number three is two, and house four is number one. So one was their favorite pick getting the least score. So number one is is house four, which is the winner. Correct. And house three. So I just wanted that on record that our motion is correct. House 41 and house number three is the runner-up.

House number four is the winner.

Yes. Did I say that backwards? Yes. Okay. House four

is ranked one.

House four is ranked one house three. Two. Okay. Perfect.

We need to make a motion on that again or are we good with I the

think our motion stands and I think our verbal conversation substantiates it being that we changed it from 4,312 to 4,321 ranking houses one through four. Thank you for that I appreciate it.

No problem.

All right I'm gonna go on to committee member and staff comments.

Committee member Escobar, you have any comments?

I did. I wanted to

take some time to introduce myself. I know we've my name is all over the papers, but my name is Jacqueline Escobar, I'm really happy to serve and learn along you guys.

Thank you and welcome.

Thank you.

I would like to thank the city staff for their attendance and all their support, And council member Ochoa for, for his support of us and and what he does for the city. And I also know we have

Orlando.

Orlando with the city is here with us tonight. We appreciate him showing up and also

Jennifer Stringfellow.

Jennifer. So thank you for showing up. We appreciate it. Councilwoman Rochow, do you have anything you'd like to say?

Yes. I am excited to welcome our new committee member, Jacqueline Escobar. Thank you. And to all of our friends and fellow committee members here, have a happy holiday season. We have two more big days ahead of us and then we'll be back next month for what

date Actually, of we don't come back until March 5. As March this committee meets quarterly.

Quarterly, that's right. So we'll be back in March. That's a long time. So if I don't see you between now and then in the community, happy holidays and happy new year.

Same to you, sir. Thank you.

Would you like to adjourn the meeting?

Do you have any comments, Yvonne?

I don't have any comments. I'm grateful for all of you coming. I know this is a volunteer committee. So thank you very much for coming, and we'll see you on March 5.

Your only comment is left to ask her to do this

again. You

did great. I appreciate you pinch hitting. Thank you.

This time I'd like to adjourn the meeting. There are no further comments or discussions. Meeting is adjourned.