City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to this the uh April 13th meeting of the Liverour City Council. I call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. Council member Berentos here. Council member Br. Council member Brand here. Council member Dar here. Vice Mayor Wong here. Mayor M here. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance 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.

Okay, we just came out of the closed session. uh asked the city attorney, "Was there any reportable action taken during the close session?" Uh yes, Kim Seely, uh city attorney, uh there was no reportable action on either item.

Okay, very good. Thank you very much. Uh moving on to uh proclamations and presentations, we have uh National Crime Victim's Rights Week, uh April 19th to the 25th. And whereas more than 26 million people across the nation become victims of crime each year. And these crimes also affect family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. And the Alama County District Attorney DA's victim witness division is dedicated to ensuring the rights of crime victims and their families by providing services to aid in their recovery from the emotional, psychological, social, and economic impact of crime as they reclaim their sense of safety, well-being, and dignity. Whereas Alama County DA's Office of Victim Crime Witness Assistance Division partners with survivors, community service providers, criminal justice professionals, and victim advocates to enhance a criminal justice system response that is accessible, culturally competent, and appropriate for all victims of crime. And whereas the DA's victim witness assistance division has been a leader in outreach and services to underserved populations and has been bridging the gap between law enforcement and the community and has been building the community's trust in the criminal justice system. And whereas National Crime Victim's Rights Week, April 19th to the 25th, 2026, provides an opportunity to acknowledge the energy, creativity, and commitment of advocates for victim's rights. Now therefore, the city council of the city of Livermore proclaims April 19th to the 25th, 2026 as victim's rights week in the city of Livermore and reaffirms the commitment to respect and enforce victim's rights. And we have Natalie Hernandez, I believe the the senior advocate is here.

Good evening, mayor, council members, city staff, and members of the public. My name is Natalie Hernandez, and I serve as a senior victim advocate with the Alama County District Attorney's Office, Victim Witness Assistance Division. I'm honored to be here this evening on behalf of District Attorney Ursula Jones Dixon, who has served as Alama County's district attorney since her appointment by the board of supervisors on February 18th, 2025 to accept this proclamation recognizing National Crime Victim's Rights Week. Our victim witness advocates work closely with crime victims and their families as they move through the legal process. We help survivors understand their rights, keep them updated on their cases, prepare for court, and provide support during some of the hardest moments they may ever face, including while testifying. Our advocates also help survivors complete and submit California Victim Compensation Board or Calvcb applications so they can access important support for counseling, medical expenses, lost wages, relocation, and other crime related needs. In 2025, our office helps survivors secure more than two million in Calvcb support. Behind every Calvcb application is a person or family seeking stability, healing, and a path forward. This is why the work of our victim witness advocates matter so deeply alongside the care and support offered through the family justice center and the trauma recovery center. Together, these resources help survivors find support, begin healing, and move forward without having to face the aftermath of crime alone. National Crime Victim's Rights Week is an opportunity to recognize the resilience of survivors and to reaffirm our shared commitment to standing with them every step of the way. This proclamation is a meaningful reminder of our shared commitment to survivors. It also reflects District District Attorney Jones Dixon's belief that victims and witnesses of crime deserve to be heard, supported, and treated with dignity, compassion, and respect. Thank you for standing alongside District Attorney Jones Dixon, survivor of crime and their families.

and for recognizing the importance National Crime Victim's Rights Week. Thank you.

Okay, with that we're moving into the open forum. Uh city clerk will please tell people how they can participate. To provide comment, please fill out and turn in a speaker card found at the entrance of the council chamber. Speakers will be announced in the order received. Once public comment opens, each participant's name will be announced and their three minutes will begin once at the lect turn. Please note, a speaker is not required to answer any questions from the city council and the city council is not required to answer questions from the public. However, the mayor has the discretion to ask staff to address the speaker's comments when a council member believes it is relevant to a particular business item. The mayor will announce the conclusion of the public comment period after comments have been voiced into the record. Mayor, we have two speakers for open forum.

Excuse me. We have three speakers for open forum. I hear four. Our first speaker is Joe Lee.

So this is continued effort to uh encourage city of Livermore to adopt more free software in its workflow uh to replace proprietary software. So my objective is um with the objective of high public visibility and low impact on city workers while offering benefits to the public. I propose as a pilot program the installation of GNU/ Linux on a fraction of the computers at the Livermore Public Library. Uh this pilot program would come at no cost to the city. Uh the operating system would be installed on six of the 30 computers available to the public at the Civic Center branch of the Livermore Public Library. As a volunteer, I would provide support and training to city uh to the library and city staff. I would also make myself available to support and train library patrons. Uh my vacation hours at work are reaching my cap, so I need to take vacation anyway. Uh the full GNU/ Linux installation takes less than 15 minutes on a typical computer uh with an eighth gen Intel CPU, which is what I found at the library um and a solidstate storage device. I've already reproduced the functionality and appearance of the library computers on one of my my own computers and it is ready to be deployed. Um installing it on six computers would take me about an hour and a half. Once installed, I propose allowing the pilot program on these six computers to continue for a full year with periodic volunteer voluntary reviews of the GNU/ Linux systems in comparison to the Windows systems. Um, if this were to go beyond a pilot, the cost of implementation and ongoing operational maintenance costs would be no more than the cost of maintaining the systems now. And I say this because I intend to make myself available as an unpaid volunteer at zero cost to the city to train anyone who wishes to learn. In my experience, GNU/ Linux is quicker and simpler to deploy than Windows. Once at least one person on the IT staff at at city has learned, they will be able to lead and teach others with relative ease compared to

Windows. Uh if this gets extended to all computers in the city, I hope uh the potential cost uh postpilot would and financial benefits to the city include the elimination of the perpetual renewal of subscription fees for Microsoft Office 365, for example. And um I regret that I hadn't started this 5 years ago. U otherwise we could have saved the city 1.5 million this year. Uh operational benefits include the elimination of data leak through Microsoft's co-pilot disservice. Libre office does not force quote AI unquote onto users. Uh there will also be additional security benefits due to the continuous scrutiny which code receives from users uh with a vest vested interest in keeping the program uh uh secure for themselves. Um free software tends to be a lot more secure than proprietary software. Um the the users uh uh sorry uh the the users with bested interest include well a bunch of governments Denmark, northernmost state of Germany, West Holstein and just recently France. So that last week our next speaker is David Mcwigan. The unfortunate truth that people are going to have to come to grips with is that you, Johnny the Rapist Marshant, have sat there in your official capacity as mayor and deliberately lied to cover up crimes committed by the Livermore police. You sat there and loudly proclaimed that Livermore has an exemplary police force, fully aware that you participated in the cover up of rape committed by a Livermore police officer. Tell us, Johnny, the rapist Marshon. How many other exemplary police departments do you know that go around raping citizens when they've sworn to protect?

And knowing that police departments are just like small towns where everybody knows everything about everybody else, how corrupt does a police department have to become to welcome rapists wearing badges and guns? No, Johnny the rapist Marshon. The only thing exemplary about the Livermore police is just how much of a bad example they are. The thing is, Johnny the rapist Munch Sean, when you had when you were told you had a rapist police officer who was arrested for sexually exploiting a teenage girl, you could have done the right thing. You could have asked, why was this man still in uniform? Who's responsible? And why are they still in re uniform? But you instead thought it might look bad for Livermore police if the people knew Livermore police were harboring rapist and directed Mr. Kala, your attorney at the time, to cover it up because that's the kind of guy you are. Now, let's be really clear about something, Johnny, the rapist marsh. The fact that Limore police will harbor rapists in its rank doesn't look bad. It is bad. And since you've promoted Captain Rapist rumor to be police chief, there's no reason for the people people to expect anything to change, which is all the more reason that you, Johnny the Rapist Marshalant, deserve to be personally held accountable. Of course, now that you are getting political heat for your willful choice to cover up rape, you fired Mr. Kell for doing what you asked because that's the kind of guy that you are. Now, I have no doubt when I'm finished speaking, you'll use your bully pulpit to try to disparrage me. But people are going to eventually realize two things. First, nothing I've said tonight has anything to do with me. So, you're choosing to disparrage me will be seen as this for eventually seen for the distraction that it is. Then, people realize that while you have used every large killer munition you can get your hands on to shoot the messenger, you have not disputed the message because you cannot dispute the message because it's true. And when people come to realize, and they will, that you would literally use the power of the mayor's office to help a rapist Livermore police officer escape justice, then everybody will be calling you Johnny the rapist, Marshant. Although maybe some will offer the more concise Johnny rape. It's just kind of sickening to see you

honor crime victims when you've helped your police rape your citizens.

It's interesting, Mr. Mcwigan. I've finally figured out your pattern. your son-in-law keeps wanting to be appointed by this council to various uh appointments in the city and when those appointments are up, you disappear and then all of a sudden when that window goes away, that's when you come back. So, this is about getting your son-in-law appointed to a city position. Next speaker, please. No. Thank you very much. You've had your time. You've had your time. You're gone. You're gone. Next speaker, please. The next speaker is Connie Cox.

That's a tough act to follow.

I'm okay. You're okay, right? Okay. This is a whole new thing. Um, I'm asking for uh a little guidance, a little help. Um, in January of this year, January 6, I sent a letter to my president, my governor, and my congressman. And, um, it was, um, my letters um, of course are, you know, what I've been promoting since 2004. uh my um my little way that I can I have proposed to offset um costs and it involves some intellectual property that I'm kind of hoping to license. Um and I did get a letter back from our president. I didn't get a letter back from our governor and I'm not sure what's going to happen due to our congressman having some trouble right now. So, um I'm not sure if you have any direction on, you know, who's taking over our Congress. I know Ro Kana is kind of a neighboring congressman and my want is to, you know, present to Congress um this idea. Um and so if you have any direction or guidance, I would really appreciate it. And then my other thought is um our last or our first speaker Joe Lee um I don't know a lot about computers but I know like when I was trying to do this um my um proposals in 200 I think it was 2009 my computer got hacked the same time that Washington DC's computers got hacked. And it's weird because um Silicon Valley has big names and they have big powers that I don't really have. And I think that if you do

consider um the computer programs that Jolie is presenting that maybe people like me could have a little bit more level of a playing field when it comes to um things that can happen online and over the computer. And I don't know, my suggestion is I'm going to forward my letter to Roana, but my thinking is that because I'm not a constituent of his, I'll get that to bounce back. So, I'm asking maybe for you to heads up him. I know you've seen my proposals and if you could heads him up that I'm really interested in in being taken seriously with this and I hope you will really consider Jolie's proposals. I hear him on TV talking about uh ways to make the playing field a little bit more level. And I don't know a lot about security, but think about it and have a great night.

Thank you.

Speaker, that concludes public comment. Open forum. Okay. Thank you very much. I will close the uh open forum and bring it back to the council on consent calendar. Do we have uh any items that any member of the council wishes to pull for comment? Do we have any public comment on uh consent calendar? Yes, we have two speakers for Yes. 6.2 and 6.4. Okay. And we have two uh speakers on uh

we have two speakers uh one speaker on six on item 6.2 and one I uh one speaker on item 6.6. Okay. Very good. Uh let's uh uh we will have uh oh let's go ahead and uh we take the comments. I'll open the public forum on the 6.2 and four. We're pulling items 6.2 We'll go ahead and take those two items. Two items first. Okay.

So, that's the airport innovation center. And uh

our first speaker is Carol Silva for item 6.2. and mayor. Um, this is a letter that, uh, Donna Caban um, wrote and I also second it. So, I'm going to read her letter in the places where she's got I. I'll just put Donna and me or Donna and I. Donna and I urge you to postpone funding the designs for an airport innovation center at LVK. Staff supports an agreement transferring over 800K from airport operating funds to renovate an existing airport building into an innovation hub. some of the re uh revo, sorry, some of the um remodeling could include public uh plumbing upgrades, roof repairs, etc. While these improvements may provide additional safety measures for those who use the airport, safety for the community beyond airport buildings are important. The city council could and should support greater airport safety by directing the fixed base operator Peter Sandeu to offer Gam 100 UL for piston engine aircraft. Offering unled fuel such as Gam 100 UL will reduce air pollution during takeoff

runways from piston engine aircraft which make up 70% of the aircraft housed at LVK. Offering Gam 100 UL could also improve the health of airport employees. Furthermore, the majority of funds requested, 622K, will be used to develop designs for the airport innovation center project. The request for funding designs at this time is problematic. Before spending over 600k on designs for future airport centers, would it be wiser to wait until the additional PIFAs testing required by the water board is finished? Let's work to upgrade the safety of the airport for its users and the community by starting with the addition of gamul 100 for piston engine aircraft. Let's spa pause spending money for designs on future airport innovation centers until the waterboard FIFA testing is completed. I ask you to table funding for the airport innovation center designs at this juncture. Um thank you.

Next speaker 6.4 four.

Our next speaker will be for item 6.6. Oh, 6.6. Alan Marling.

Mayor and council, I believe that 6.6 is concerning emergency supplies and winter shelter for the homeless. Not only do we have a moral imperative to help those less fortunate than ourselves, but doing so creates a better and safer community for all. I am happy to see monies spent helping the homeless, much more so than spending money on surveilling and persecuting them. In other cities where I've lived, tens of thousands of dollars was wasted pushing around the homeless, breaking up encampments and attempting to sweep them out of sight and further into the margins of society, making their lives less secure and less comfortable, which is cruel and also foolish. Other speakers in the past have commented that Livermore previously has taken away tents in other shelters from the homeless. That indicates a failure of policy. The more desperate you make people, the more likely they are going to resort to crime. Instead of housing the homeless in jails, it is cheaper and more humane to give them a warm meal and a few nights in a hotel. Rather than forcing people into positions where they see no good alternatives, better to treat them with dignity. Livermore is one community and should we wrongly try to deny the existence of those who have fallen on hard times, the harder it will become for all. Thank you.

We have no other speaker public comment public comment period on this. Uh now council member Berento, you wanted to talk about 6.2 and 6.4. Okay. One of the things, one of the the points that uh um that I'm excited about with the airport innovation center is that as that is developed, we can actually achieve the very things that we heard talked about tonight. uh quiet electric vehicles, the uh the EV talls, the uh uh electric vertical takeoff and landing uh aircraft which uh which are ultimately quiet and and don't use uh don't use fuel uh gasoline. So uh um I think that as we move ahead with the innovation center, we'll actually achieve the very things that the speaker wanted tonight.

The last one. Yeah. Thank you. I'd be happy. Cardwell, would you like to speak to that?

Absolutely. Thank you, mayor, and uh and city council. I'm Brandon Cardwell, your director of innovation, economic development. You're exactly right, mayor. The innovation center is proposed in an approximately 18,000 square foot existing city-owned building. So, it'll be a tenant improvement project as opposed to a groundup development project. Um, so it's an existing building that is, I think, roughly 50 years old. And the intent here with the item tonight is to fund the design components so we'll be able to move forward with the renovation of that project. And ultimately what we want to have in this facility is a research and development space for emerging companies in spaces like advanced air mobility as you described mayor focused on cleaner aviation potentially cleaner synthetic uh fuels but also advanced manufacturing fusion energy in the supply chain. um all the areas where Liverour has some existing advantages because of the presence of the two national labs and the long history of the innovation economy here. So this is uh as you may recall one part of the four-part airport development strategy that the council saw um when after we completed that project and so along with uh with the other three components around hangers the public safety complex and EV toll a am advanced mobility components um this is one of the projects that we are pursuing.

Very good. Happy to answer any specific questions about that or provide any additional context. And 6.4. Yeah. You had some comments on 6.4 so the public understand what's going on with these two things. Oh, okay. Uh I do have a comment on 6.4. Uh and that would be uh um that's there's landscaping that's proposed for that as well. and we have as a city adopted the uh the Monarch pledge. Uh so I just want to ensure that as that landscaping is going in for the Atlanta Center that uh they would include pollinators uh for uh for things like like the monarch butterfly.

Thank you, Mayor Paul Spence, your assistant city manager. And yes, we have uh requirements, landscape requirements for that project consistent with the council's direction requiring that they include pollinators, some of which would benefit the monarch butterfly. Okay. And if you'd like, I can provide a short summary of that item. U if you if you wish. Yeah. Okay. I think uh council very interested like that.

So this is for a final map and a subdivision improvement agreement uh for a portion of the Oaks business park at the southern end next to Atlantis Court. It's for the development of two industrial buildings within that business park uh consistent with the other types of businesses that are there. Um, the project will allow for public improvements as part of the subdivision improvement agreement, including uh public sidewalks, sewer, water, storm drain facilities and um some of those uh are deferred until the uh project is complete and then will be accepted at a later date and that is our standard practice. Um this is a a relatively straightforward uh final map and subdivision improvement agreement.

Okay, very good. Any further questions? Uh, council member. Okay. Uh, council member Dunbar. Uh, Mr. Cardwell, could you come back, please? Start. Uh, just to confirm that that building that's there uh next to the airport that we're discussing is is currently leased out or was previously leased out to local businesses or other folks. Is that correct? That's correct. It was. Yes. Yeah. The building is vacant now. And so even potentially uh without maybe there are pieces of the innovation center that are not fully fleshed out yet, but the the improvements that we're making to this uh would be required even if we wanted to lease it back out again.

That's absolutely right. The building was actually in in quite a state of disrepair and in need of a number of improvements which will all occur as part of the renovation project. Thank you. Um and then beyond that, we continue to work on the PDF issue with the uh waterboards. We have followed up with them regularly. That's correct. Yeah. Yes. Thank you. Uh one question I have on uh uh 6.9 uh with the Yes. the the military what what is called military equipment. Uh we had the public uh meeting on that recently. Do you happen to know how many people showed up for that?

Mr. Mr. Mayor, uh we will have our police department respond to your questions, but this particular question u one person showed up at a public meeting.

Okay. All right. That Thank you. Uh I think that it's remarkable that uh well, it's not remarkable. Uh I think it's uh goes without saying that uh we use this uh very carefully, very judiciously. Uh the it's called military equipment, so it sounds really scary. Uh but I personally want uh our police off police department to have uh all the equipment that they need when they need it. Uh and it's better to have it uh and not need it than to need it and not have it. So uh I certainly appreciate that. Um and uh uh the fact that there has have been no complaints uh over the use of this equipment. Uh and I wanted to highlight one thing that's in the policies. uh the equipment policy uh 709 will safeguard the public's welfare, safety, civil rights, and civil liberties. That's what we use this for. So uh uh again has uh is my absolute 100% support uh to continue to use this equipment to protect the uh residents here in Liverour. So thank you very much for the judicial use of the uh of that equipment. Any further comments? I'll entertain a motion. Uh,

I just wanted to um highlight in 6.6 the staff report that speaks to over the past three winter seasons, the shelter relief program has provided 1,227 overnight hotel stays, 60 participants gained permanent housing, 10 secured housing vouchers, and all 170 restored vital documents, and we're document ready for housing. That is an incredible accomplishment, and three more years of it is going to be great for our community and greatly needed. Yes. and that we're stepping up to do it. Thank you. There are no more comments. I'll entertain a motion for the consent calendar. I'll move approval of the consent.

Okay. Uh, Council Member Dunar makes the motion, seconded by Council Member Berentos. Any discussion on the motion? All in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposed? It passed unanimously. Thank you very much. Uh, there's no public hearings tonight. Uh, so we go right into matters for consideration. 8.1. Uh, this is to introduce an ordinance and wave the first reading uh, amending the compensation limits for the mayor and city council members. Honorable mayor, members of the city council, this is your city manager, Mariana Burch. U, uh, item 8.1 is going to be presented by deputy city manager Stephanie Aju. Thank you. Good evening, honorable mayor and city council. I'm Stephanie Ajidio, deputy city manager. I'll be presenting item 8.1 regarding city council compensation. This item is to consider an ordinance amendment consistent with Measure W. In 2014, Liverour voters approved Measure W, which established local limits on council compensation. These limits are more restrict more restrictive than state law. Measure W only allows one adjustment per election cycle and does not allow multi-year increases. The most recent adjustment occurred in October 2024 and took effect in December 2024. Staff evaluated allowable increase using the consumer price index. CPI increased by approximately 5.2% since the last adjustment. However, measure W caps any increase at 5%. So that is the maximum allowable. If approved, the increase would take effect this December after newly elected council is sworn in. An ordinance amendment is required to implement this adjustment. This slide shows current compensation, the state law maximum, and the proposed adjustment. Currently, council members receive $1,123.50

per month and the mayor receives $1,564.50. With a 5% increase, council members would receive $1,179.68 and the mayor $1,642.73. For context, state law would allow compensation of approximately 1,900 per month plus CPI adjustments. Even with this increase, Liverour remains well below the state maximum. Staff recommends the city council introduce the ordinance and wave the first reading. The ordinance would amend municipal code section 2.04.030. This action ensures the compensation adjustment is consistent with measure W. Thank you. And staff is available for any questions.

Great. Thank you very much. Any questions for the staff? Do we have any speakers? Yes, mayor. We have one speaker. Uh Alan Marlin. Mayor and council members. Obviously, we need some manner of limit as it wouldn't do for elected officials to give themselves all the money. But neither should the value be so low that only the rich can afford to run for office. My understanding is that having a reasonable stipen can promote diversity and leadership and it seems like measure W is a real pain in the ass. Thank you. Any of the speakers? No additional speakers.

Okay, I'm going to close the public comment period. Uh bring it back to the council. Uh for comparison, I think uh you know that none of us are up here for the money. Uh good heavens. We we love this community and that's that's why we're here. Uh as a comparison, the mayor of of Hayward, my city, the city I used to live in, uh their mayor makes $67,000 a year. Uh their council members make $42,000 a year. Again, as a comparison, Oakland, uh their mayor is $227,000 a year and uh their council members make 108,000. Uh so we're here because we love this community and uh and that's why we serve. So thank you for all of your service and that uh uh recognizing that this is why we do what we do. Uh any comments on uh uh 8.1. Yes, Council Dunar. Yeah, as as noted by staff, the increase is actually lower than the CPI was over the last two years. And that can be a little bit frustrating because we want to reduce the barriers for people who, as Mr. Marling said, are not rich and need a little bit may maybe even just this stipend to uh have child care while they may be up on this dis um can go a long way. Um, so I'm thankful for the many people over the years who have come to this service for uh the small amount of pay that it provides. Nobody does it for the pay, right?

Um, and this is for the next leader um in front of us that comes in that needs that little bit to make child care or do the small things that they can't keep up with.

And just to point out again that that we are not voting on a raise uh for ourselves. This is for the incoming council. Uh now some of us we may still be here. Uh but this uh we're not uh we can't vote on the raise for ourselves. Uh this is for the next uh council to be seated. Uh and this we put this in the hands of the voters. So this is not something that we can change here. Uh because we put this uh uh this into the hands of the voters so that they could decide. Uh so with that, if there's any further comment or if there's no further comment, I'll entertain a motion. I'll move approval. Uh

motion made by Council Member Dunar, seconded by Council Member Bring. Any discussion on the motion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? It passed unanimously. Thank you very much. Uh with that, uh we have matters initiated and uh council reports. Uh, Council Member Dunar, I'll just highlight that uh, I had a fabulous time interviewing subcommittee candidates with Vice Mayor Mong um, to come back in the near future, but we spent more than an hour talking about which ones to appoint in the end and uh, very thankful for the remarkable people that come and volunteer to spend their time for our community.

Brandon.

Yeah, thank you. Um, it's been a busy couple of weeks. a lot of really great events. Uh, one I would like to highlight is on Saturday I was at Sunflower Hill for their spring planting. Uh, joined by Mayor Marshand and Senator Wahab. Uh, it was a great event, a lot of fun. Uh, meeting with the staff and, uh, just really supporting a amazing program. If you have not been out to Hagaman Ranch to see, uh, the Sunflower Hill program there, please take the time, go out, uh, if that's a program you would like to support. I'm also going to be serving on Thursday or Tuesday tomorrow. I'm going to be serving at Sidetrack uh for a fundraiser they're doing there. So, uh if you would like to support Sunflower Hill, that's an opportunity for you.

Great. Thank you very I've been out of country for the last two weeks so jet lag

vice mayor

um I just want to highlight a couple of events quickly. Uh, one is the innovation tri valley leadership groups, energy unleashed conference which was fantastic and Brandon Cardwell was a big part of that and mayor Marshon spoke and uh, council member Dunar was on the panel. It was just really great. I loved seeing all of my colleagues up there and learned a lot. Um and then also the one of the best um most heartwarming events every year is the Livermore Pleasanton Fire Department um academy graduation and badge pinning and the service awards. It's so great and it's it's so great to see everyone's families up there and our new fire chief also was recognized and so it was a great event. Again, I also attended a uh a women in business symposium that was put on by the chamber. Again, uh very excited to see what uh uh the businesses are doing in our community. Uh also, as was mentioned, uh energy unleashed uh what an exciting program. We had experts in the field uh people from Inertia, people from Lawrence National Laboratory. Uh again, uh Mr. Cardwell was one of the uh moderators uh for a fascinating discussion with one of the founders of Inertia. Uh and again the uh uh as uh Mr. Branding pointed out the uh uh celebration and work day out at uh uh Sunflower Hill. Uh I met my adopted chicken. Uh my adopted chicken is named Annie Yokeley. Uh and so had a chance to meet with her. uh and the the grounds are absolutely beautiful. We uh there were have been significant contributions uh by the city uh and it's of course being maintained by the uh Livermore

Heritage Guild. Uh but I received this from the people that work there. Uh thank you to the city of Liverour. Uh and they drew sunflowers on the posters. So, uh, thanks to all of the work that, uh, people of all abilities do at that facility. Uh, thank you for the support from the community. Uh, thank you to Sunflower Hill. Uh, and, uh, with that, uh, there being no further business coming before the council, uh, meeting is adjourned. That great