City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, and welcome to tonight's special presentations. Welcome back to another, special edition here where we recognize our, community members, our organizations, our staff, various programs and initiatives that we have throughout the city of Moreno Valley. Thank you all for joining us in person. And for those watching at home, thank you for tuning in virtually. We will begin by recognizing the pride that our residents take in their very own homes and the work that goes into keeping them up.

It takes time, effort, and consistency, and that kind of work makes a difference in every single neighborhood across the city of Moreno Valley. The Beautify Mobile at Home Awards program is one of the newest city initiatives, recognizing standout homes in each of the council districts and encouraging continued investment into our neighborhoods. As a quarterly program, it highlights residents whose homes reflect that steady effort day in and day out and their commitment to keeping Moreno Valley looking its finest. Tonight marks the first group, the inaugural cohort of Movow At Home award recipients. Can we give them a big round of applause for being that inaugural cohort?

Love to see the initiative by our community members, every single one of you and your families as you see here. We've got, youngsters. We've got, some veterans. We've got, some some little children here as well that are putting in that work, helping their parents, helping their aunties, uncles, grandparents, you name it. And as you can see, they also have some of these lawn signs that boast the name of the program, to recognize them as the winners, for this particular cohort.

And you'll see these as time goes on more and more throughout our community in various front yards across the city of Moreno Valley. And if you know a home that stands out, if there's that one house on your block or your neighborhood that, you know, the grass is always nice and trim, always nice and green, they they keep it, beautiful, we invite all of you to stay tuned for this program as we continue to seek nominations. This is a community led initiative, and so we need your help to recognize those homeowners, those residents of Moreno Valley who are putting in that work and raising the standard, setting that bar high for all of us so that you can submit their names and nominate them to be recognized through this program. And so this evening, we are proud to recognize residents from across Moreno Valley. As photos of their homes appear on the screens, you'll see the level of care and attention that sets them apart.

So let's go ahead and begin by recognizing by name, the folks who will be recognized from each particular district. In this case, we're gonna be going over District 1, District 2, and District 4. So from District 1, which is the area where we are currently in, we nickname it the capital of the city as we like to call it. We're recognizing from District 1, Ricardo Arroyo and his family. If we could give them a big round of applause, please.

Representing District 1, the capital very, very well. And now we go to District 2, the North Side Of The 60 Freeway, basically everything up against Reggie Canyon and the M Mountain. For District 2, Carlos de la Cruz and family, our inaugural citywide winner. Let's give it up for them. And for District 4 over on the South Side of Moreno Valley, is, Rancho Del Sol, the entrance to Lake Paris.

You've got Moreno Valley College, Rancho Verde High School, all the way down to the eastern border of the March base. From District 4, Ruben Castorena and his family. And on behalf of the city council, we want to once again just recognize you, congratulate you, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the work that you put in. It truly makes a difference, and you are setting that example. You're leading by example.

I'm gonna have to give you a phone call so I can come see your house, and you can give me some tips and tricks on how to step up my game as well. And so with that, I would love to invite my colleagues from the city council so that we could take a nice big group picture. And let's go ahead and give them another big round of applause, please. Congratulations.

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Alright. And we definitely look forward to seeing the future cohorts. So, again, we invite all of you, to keep an eye out as we post, these these open application windows on our social media platforms, on our website so that you can submit those nominations. And without further ado, we will go ahead and move on to our next special presentation, and I'll pass it over to councilmember Delgado.

I love the round of applause. Thank you for that. Last time, I didn't get any. Good evening. We'll continue tonight's special presentations by recognizing the work that goes into keeping our buildings and our community safe. Building safety doesn't happen by chance. It takes clear standards, consistent enforcement, and a team that's willing to do the work day in and day out. In Moreno Valley, that responsibility falls on our building and safety team. They review plans, conduct inspections, and ensure that every home, business, and public space is built safely and in compliance with the current building codes, codes that protect our community from hazards such as earthquakes, fires, and other risks. That work matters.

It protects our residents and supports the long term strength of our city. At this time, I'd like to invite community development director, Faustalupo, building official division manager James Verdugo, along with a few members of their team to please join us up here on stage. Yeah. Oh, sorry. James. Hi, guys. You guys are your you guys already practiced all this? Yeah. Awesome. Good job.

Good job. Alright. Now they're all set. We are proud to recognize the month of May 2026 as building safety month, a time to raise awareness and to acknowledge the professionals who make this work possible. Angelica or James, who would you like to share a few words? Whoever I'll share. Take the mic.

Yeah. Alright. Well, thank you

very much. This is a good time.

So I'm just really thankful for the support of the council and recognizing Building Safety Month, especially gives us a time to kind of just recognize the individuals that work tirelessly behind the scenes. So I'm talking about our inspectors, our admin staff, our directors to ensure that the communities that the regulations that we enforce and collaborate with our communities to build safe, sustainable homes. So billing and safety month is one of those things that, the International Code Council does once a year, and they highlight several things, that that pertains to the billing and safety community. So for week one, they want to emphasize safe homes and strong communities, which is collaborating with homeowners and educating smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, those kind of things that keep people safe within their homes. We also recognize in week two the voices of the built environment, which is our design professionals, our architects, our engineers, our contractors, collaborating with them, educating them, working alongside them as they build these structures that we live, work, and play in that are safe and, and usable by by our community.

So preparedness to protect against disasters, seismic, flooding, any of those things that, if not built properly, would be devastating to a community. And so we work tirelessly to make sure that those codes that we implement are built into the structures for safe occupancy. And then, providing communities, week four, without limits. So that speaks to our our disabled community. You know, accessibility is important, especially in commercial applications.

And providing those same goods and services to those who can't really get to the front door, we make it possible for them by doing our inspections, doing our plan reviews so that they can get and enjoy the same benefits that we all get to do. So, one one thing about ICC and what they're doing is if you go to our landing page on billing and safety on our city website, they do have a contest, that you can click the link to and that you do a short video, about a building in your community and how it benefits your community, and they have a raffle for free winners to win the LEGO set. So if you're interested in doing that, just go to the building safety site, click on that link, upload a short one minute video, and hopefully, you'll be a winner. So thank you very much.

Get it, LEGO building. I was impressed because I got it. Much of the work happens behind the scenes, but it impact its impact is felt throughout our entire community. On behalf of the mayor and the city council, it is my honor to present this proclamation recognizing May 2026 as building safety month. There you go. Angelica or Amy? If I can get the rest of the council to come up here and we'll take a photo, and then you guys can put that in the center with you guys.

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And here we go. One two three.

All the mics.

Thank you for that. And I'd like to invite, council member Bernard to come up with our third presentation. The child brings by a house You

don't ever adjust this for me. Hello, and good evening. So we're gonna continue tonight's special presentations by recognizing the work that keeps our city running every day. Public works plays a vital role in our community from maintaining streets and infrastructure to ensuring reliable services. Their work supports the daily lives of our residents in countless ways. In Moreno Valley, that responsibility falls on our public works team. Much of their work happens behind the scenes, but it imp but its impacts is felt are felt throughout our entire community. So at this time, I'd like to invite, director Melissa Walker and the public works team to join us on stage. Thank you. Oh, look at that.

Harold, you made them line up. Look at that. Look look at you guys. I'm so proud. Y'all don't understand. So I spend time because everyone's gonna be like, Shay, you always have a favorite. So I do. Melissa is my favorite public works director ever. So I like to spend time with public works. I did your rodeo. That was crazy. That was that was insane. But Melissa runs a tight team. As you can see, they were lined up and ready to go. It was like a nice little kindergarten class.

I'm just messing with y'all. So for those of you that don't know, the re one of the main reasons I love Melissa is I don't think you guys realize how rare it is to have a a female director of public works. And so I like to ask Melissa questions all the time. I think the last conversation we had, I asked, and I quote, did you always know you were gonna do this when you when you grew up? And Melissa, without a hesitation, looked at me and was like, yeah.

I used to be out there with my dad, and I used to be like, how does the water run through the ditch? How do you dig this hole over here? How do you so for those of you, I spent a lot of time working with women, from unions that are in the trades. And so whenever I was with them this weekend up in San Jose, if you ever wanna see a fun time, a bunch of union women together without men, like, maybe 10. I'm sorry. Maybe 10 men, so that's a lie. There was some in there. And having just real conversations about what it's like to be in the trade and to learn these things. So I think Melissa's team is great, but I also think that we should also recognize that how rare it is to have someone here like Melissa. So that's

see there?

You. Jeremy, when they do your parks and rec, though, I got you. So public works professionals are responsible for the systems and sir and services that keep Moreno Valley safe, functional, and moving forward. Whether responding to emergencies, maintaining infrastructure, or planning for future growth, this team demonstrates a strong commitment to public service. And with that, I'm gonna turn it over to director Walker for any words.

Okay.

This proclamation is greatly appreciated. This year's national public works week theme is rooted in service powered by community. The roots of service run deep in public works and has propelled public works innovations that have helped our communities evolve into places where people can lead lives of purpose and possibility. Some work, like building roads as highly visible, while other projects, like maintaining electrical systems, are sometimes hidden from view. Together, these efforts form the foundation of thriving communities, reminding us that every project, seen or unseen, powers the connection between service and the people it supports. And lastly, it takes a great team to get the work done, so a big thank you to staff.

So thank you. And on behalf of the mayor and city council, it is my honor to present you all with this proclamation recognizing National Public Works Week, and I'm going to invite the rest of my council down to have a group photo.

Alright. And one two three. Get one more for safety. And one two three.

One more. Sean. Alright. Alright. For the department. K. Ready?

Thank you. And for our final presentation, I will turn it over to mayor Pro Tem Gonzalez.

Thank you, council member Bernard. And we saved the best for last. Welcome to our final special presentation recognizing a group of professionals whose work is essential to the transparency, accountability, and day to day operations of our city. Municipal government doesn't run on meetings alone. It runs on records, elections, public access, and a commitment to keeping the community informed and engaged.

Here in Roanoke Valley, the responsibility rests with our city clerk's office. Since our city's incorporation in 1984, the city clerk has played a central role in preserving our history, supporting the mayor and city council, and ensuring the public's trust in local government. From managing official records and public notices to overseeing elections and council proceedings, the clerk's work is the backbone of how our city functions. We are fortunate to have city clerk Patty Rodriguez whose leadership, professionalism, dedication reflects the very best of public service. Patty is not only for known for her expertise, but also for her genuine appreciation of the team she works with every day.

She often says that the success of the clerk's off clerk's office is truly a team effort, and she is grateful to work with such a committed and talented group. At this time, I'd like to invite, Patty, city clerk Patty Rodriguez, and the city clerk's team to join us on stage. We are proud to recognize the week of May as National Municipal Clerks Week, a time to celebrate the vital role clerks play in strengthening local democracy and serving our community with integrity. And before I I bring Patty to share a few words, the city clerk's office to me has been very important. They were the first ones I met when I began this journey, my elected public service journey back in November back in the 2024.

And they were always, with a smile, always helpful, And I've always appreciated how, they've been very open to to any of my questions and and always lending a helping hand. So without further ado, Patty, you wanna come up?

Let's see here. Thank you, mayor pro temp. So thank you, mayor, mayor pro temp, and council for the recognition. It truly means a lot to me. While I'm honored to serve as a city clerk, the work in the office is carried out by an exceptional team. As we can see here, each member plays a vital role in supporting the council, maintaining transparency, and serving our community. It's important to me that we recognize their contributions as this acknowledgment reflects the dedication and professionalism of the entire team. In recognition of National Municipal Clerks Week, I'm proud to be part of this profession that helps keep local government accessible and accountable. Thank you again for this honor.

Again, thank you very much for your work behind the scenes. Its impact has felt throughout our entire city in every meeting, election, and public record. On behalf of the mayor and city council, it is my honor to present this proclamation recognizing National Municipal Clerk's Week. And if my colleagues can come for the photo. This concludes our special presentations, and we will be right back at 6PM for our regular city council meeting.

Good evening, and welcome to the joint meeting of the city council of the city of Moreno Valley. The city council receives a separate stipend from the community services district if any CSD business is conducted at this meeting. I now call the meeting to order on May 5 at 06:05PM. Would any of my colleagues like to lead us in the pledge this afternoon? Mayor Pro Tem Gonzalez will lead us in the pledge, and please remain standing for the invocation given this evening by pastor Anthony Louis Fox from True Vine Ministries.

Please place your right hand over your heart and repeat after

Good evening, pastor. Welcome.

Good evening to everyone, and I thank you for this invitation. And let us pray. Father, again, we thank you for this privilege that we can come before you and ask that you would bless this meeting. We pay a special blessing, lord god, for the council members. We pray for our mayor. We pray for our law enforcement. We pray for our fire department. Every department, we pray a special prayer over this city. Even as they gather for this meeting, we pray that you would give them strategies. And, father, give them favor that they can be a blessing to this city and to this people in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

Thank you very much, pastor. Appreciate you joining us for the invocation this evening. Next item d, the land acknowledgment. We wish to acknowledge that we are on the unceded lands of the Cahuilla and the Paiocahuicham or Luiseno, has original inhabitants and now as sovereign tribal nations have continued to live and thrive upon these lands since time immemorial. Next item e, roll call. I hand it to our city clerk.

Thank you, mayor. Council member Bernard? Here. Council member Delgado?

Here, ma'am.

Council member Bacca Santa Cruz? Here. And mayor pro tem Gonzalez?

Here.

And mayor Cabrera?

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you. Item f, motions to excuse. We are all present. So we'll go to item g, staff introductions, please.

Patty Rodriguez, city clerk.

Sonia Gomez, senior deputy city clerk.

Steven Quintanilla, city attorney. Brian Mohan, city manager.

Angel Galache, deputy city manager.

Felicia London, chief financial officer, city treasurer.

Sean Keller, city manager development.

Angelica Frau Stilivo, community development director.

Stephanie Macias, business and workforce development division manager.

Melissa Walker, director of public works.

Jeremy Bubnik, director of parks and community services.

Robert Cardenas, human resources director. Jesse Park, fire chief.

Sarah Mack, chief of police.

Thank you, team. It's always a pleasure to be here to conduct the people's business. And next is item h, approval of order of agenda, and I'll look to my colleagues to see if there are any requests. If not, a motion and a second to approve the order of the agenda.

So moved.

I'll second.

There's a motion and a second. Madam clerk, please call for the vote.

Thank you, mayor. Council member Bernard? Yes. Council member Delgado?

Yes.

Council member Baca Santa Cruz?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Gonzalez? Yes. And mayor Cabrera? Yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Next item is I, public comments on matters that are not on the agenda, and a friendly reminder that the city now offers language translation services through a free app called Wordly. The app automatically translates a variety of languages into English and vice versa. To use this service, please scan the QR code at the speaker sign up table by the double doors. For the visually impaired, please use your earphones or earbuds to listen to the verbal translation.

If you do not have any such listening devices, please let the city clerk know, and we will gladly let you borrow some for this meeting. Before we move on to public comments, I'd like to remind everyone to direct their comments to the city council. For comments on items on tonight's agenda, each speaker will have a total of three minutes to comment. Madam clerk, are there any requests to comment on any items not on the agenda?

Yes, mayor. The first two speakers are Fred Banuelos followed by mister George Hague.

Good evening.

Good evening, everybody. Hey. People will come up here and give out shout outs and talk to their family, so that's

what I'm gonna do today.

Our family, we just gained a daughter, a daughter-in-law, a sister-in-law. We're ecstatic. Her name's Ellie, and she was family even before they got married. My stepson is Tommy. They were just married April 24 in Temecula, but here's the kicker.

That was their second wedding. Their first wedding was at Super Bowl Sunday halftime show. So you probably watched with 4,000,000,000 people globally that watched that. It was very exciting for us. I will say that they have a pod show now on Spotify and Apple. It's called Two Rings Later. So if you wanna know how it came about, you can watch that or listen to it. Elena, you're probably gonna love this. Recently, at the at yeah. They threw out the first ball, so that was really cool.

We had a great time there. But oh, and then he also gave a shout out to Moreno Valley that night on Super Bowl Sunday. It's on somebody's social media. I'll find it for you guys. But he said thanks and and shout out to Mo Val. So that was pretty cool. And know, Ellie and Tommy, we love you and congratulations. So I thought I'd share that with you guys. Alright. Have a good night.

The next speaker is mister George Hague.

Good evening, George Hague. I still invite all of you to meet with me. One of these days, I will see, hopefully, all of you in person. Earlier this year, I talked to a traffic safety commissioner about a problem on Mason Street with traffic backing up and making it unsafe. And I was hoping that that they would discuss this at one of their meetings, but I understand there's now three meetings in a row when the traffic safety commission has not met.

It would be good to find out why that is and why the concerns of the public are not being met. Solar and Marina Valley utility. You five are in charge of the utility. The entire time you've been there on the council, the Marina Valley utility has been saying, well, we can't require a 100% solar on warehouse buildings because we don't have the equipment or whatever it is necessary to do so like all the other cities that have their utilities. You need to demand this.

It's awful to even think of the 40,000,000 square foot World Logistics Center having only 20,000,000 square feet of warehousing covered with solar instead of 40,000,000 square feet of warehousing covered with solar. You're in charge. Please make the changes necessary to make that happen. City council meeting in the or a meeting in the Northeast Part of Moreno Valley. This was brought up at the last city council meeting.

Thanks to council member Bernard that the rest of you seem to agree with. I sent an email to the city manager and copied a couple of you on that, hoping that we would have such a meeting before June when people went on vacation and people left for various reasons. Hopefully, that will happen. Closer to the Northeast, such as Palm Middle School, which we held once before when it was decided to have the stretch of Ironwood Avenue just be three lanes instead of what I'm now seeing as five lanes going through all the curves right next to where people live. We met at Palm Middle School where when that was brought up and staff at that time agreed to the three lanes.

We need to meet at Palm Middle School again with the Northeast people, not back here in City hall. How will that meeting be how will that meeting be notified to the people? You should also go from Vista Del Soros to the North of State Route 60 to consider that part being the Northeast part and reach out to all those people? And how will the comments be recorded and memorialized? All of those need to be dealt with and hopefully before then.

City council by state law starting in July needs to have a, a way of having virtual meetings. This needs to be expanded to the planning commission. Please make sure that happens. We did it during COVID. It can happen again.

Mayor, that concludes all the public comments on items not on tonight's agenda. The next speaker is Luis Palomarez followed by Roy Blackard.

Luis Palomarez, community activist. It's been a long day. Wow. Anyway, at the last council meeting, we're talking about the general plan. They're gonna be talking about it again in a while, so that's good. Good to hear that part. And as far as our mayor here, the $2,000,000 man, I want the community to know he cost the city $2,000,000 and climbing because we're still gonna identify him in another case in the federal case in LA. That's true, mayor. $2,000,000. You cost the city. And then you wanna bring your pony show daycare, a daycare thing here? Wow. Really? It's not even it's why do you waste our our staff's time with this? Are you working for us, the people here?

Are you working for us, or are you working for Corey Jackson and all his bright ideas? What what's that about? $5,000,000 seed money and you took the roadshow. They took the roadshow over there to the school district and all those fools and dummies and that no good superintendent, that crooked superintendent over there, they all voted for it. Yeah. Bring it on. That's gonna be money out of our pockets. Don't you get it? The county of Riverside already has daycare. The colleges have daycare, some of the colleges. The after school program has daycare. So why do you, can you look at me? Can you ever look at the people? Somebody asked me last time, is that the way he always act? Yeah.

He don't pay attention to the people that are speaking. He nods his head. He cries the blues. Everything he does up there. Well, I brought a prop today to say so you can finish crying the blues when you're done, a big bottle. Last time I brought a baby bottle, but I think you need bigger than that because you always spin it when when the speakers are done up here. And if you don't agree or like what they're saying, you cry the blues. I should've brought the violin, but my granddaughter took the had violin lessons. You cry the blues. You cry fall. You say that's not true. You nod your head. You give your big infomercial, and you do your cleanup. I should have brought diapers and wipes too so you can do the cleanup after because this is enough. Enough is enough.

The like I said, are you working for us, the people, the taxpayer here in Moreno Valley, or are you working for Corey Jackson? And I don't even know why in the hell the staff even put it on the agenda at the last meeting, this day care. You know, twenty four hour day care? Give me a break. $5,000,000 seed money? Paris don't want it. Moreno Valley School District, guess you got in a cahoots with them. Oh, put it in there. You know, your friend, what's her name? Gabby, she went and did a big presentation. She didn't call a speaker slip. She didn't even give her name. This is how crooked you're all in bed with them. You. Not talking about the rest of the con well, who this guy right here that's sitting on your lap, your lap dog here, Gonzalez, that don't have a brain.

If you only had a brain to make up your own mind, grow a backbone. No respect. Grow a backbone, please. Thank you.

Want it. The next two speakers are Roy Blackard followed by Bob Palomares.

How in the heck do you follow that? You know, y'all spout from the dais to the, well, transparency and accountability. Why don't you prove it? Please prove it. First, let's release and put under oath mister mayor on the $2,000,000.

He wants to shake his head like he didn't cost us $2,000,000 or whatever I'll offer you again. We'll sit there till the cows come home, broadcast it. I'll let put all your evidence out to show that you didn't cost us $2,000,000, and you weren't going to political retaliation. Same thing as hurricane Louise mentioned. Let's get with the Cory Jackson stuff.

Let's go back to July. Well, let's go back to June 2023. It came up here on the it was on the freaking consent calendar. $10,000,000 we were going after that on a failed project, sit down there that the county had to repossess from started by Corey Jackson and took 1,700,000 food out of homeless kids' mouths to finish his f up. Why don't we get transparency on how that happened?

Because we have mister mayor who wants to be a housing developer and he's got his real estate license now and posting it. How he's this big time home builder or something. Well, let's get all this stuff out. How did we get to that point? We almost got dragged into that noise that the county got dragged into.

Again, I asked for the accountability down there, and I'm asking for it here. I'm asking for the transparency, and you should put it on the agenda tonight to put it out there, and we're gonna release all the freaking records, every last stinking one of them. Put them and post them publicly Because who knows? Because as you said, now we're running a tax district con on something that is absolutely ridiculous. And talking to some of the members last Friday at the crime syndicate, that's a total con, and it is absolutely unnecessary.

And I will guarantee you, even if it gets done, it will wind up in graft corruption and failure, and we do it. And it'll cost 18 times more to service one tenth of the kids. When do we stop the stupid? When do we get our act together? When do you live up to the promises you've made?

The next speaker is Bob Palomares.

Good evening, counsel. I would like to salute our first responders from the get go, and I just wanted to mention real quick that on 05/02/2026, this past Saturday, the Veterans Cemetery had a dedication to the Native Americans memorial they put up for them. Beautiful. Out of a 157 veteran cemeteries, this is the only one that has a memorial to the Native American. It would.

Well, you had to be there to see it. Even this if you go to the statue, it's right by the Medal Of Honors Arena. But, anyway, I was at the meeting in Downtown Riverside with the supervisors, and they foreclosed on SBX's debacle that they took over on Paris Boulevard. Two and a half years, they couldn't get it done, and their agreement was one year. They kept getting extensions and extensions.

And we know this was Corey Jackson and, of course, the mayor. You know, anytime they get together, it's bound to fail. They always try to sneak things in, but, they had liens on that property. I mean, it it was just a mess. And they were advised.

They were told by people how to go about it, what they needed to get done with the money they had, but I don't know. I don't think Corey Jackson was allowing that outside help. But, anyway, at the end, after the $3,900,000 was drained, another 1,700,000 was needed to finish the project, which they're gonna get somebody else in there to run it. But, just like you know, the every time the mayor's involved in something, just like when the people came here from Riverside, the people that ran the swimming program, and he was saying, give them 10,000. For what?

All they did was come in a presentation, but maybe he promised, don't worry. You'll get 10,000. Good thing you guys didn't give him anything. So every time he teams up with Corey Jackson, it's a mess. You know? And then the $10,000,000 that Roy mentioned, and then, you know, they didn't even have $65,000 to process the application. And yet the city I don't know why the city manager doesn't advise him that, you know what? These things just take up time and money. And then you put them one of them that was brought here at the last meeting, everybody was here till twelve midnight. You could have gotten rid of it and saved an hour time.

But do the right thing. I mean

Thank you.

Mayor, that concludes all the public comments on tonight's items lodged on tonight's agenda.

Thank you, madam clerk, and thank you to all of our public speakers as well. We will go ahead

and There is a comment.

There was a comment made about having a meeting in the Northeast, and I believe our city manager has some information on that just because I wanted the public to hear it before we forget.

Right. I think it said it was a truck routes meeting, though. Right? Is that a truck routes meeting, or did you post the wrong

Did you wanna save that until Yeah.

So the meeting is, May 13, and it's in our social media. And so there will be a meeting, May 13 in the Northeast, sector. So if you go to our socials At Palm? It's already been posted. Yes.

Thank you. So we will go ahead and move to the joint consent calendars. And before I open the consent calendar for public comment, I will ask my fellow council members if there are any items that they wish to remove from the consent calendar for separate action. Seeing none, we will go ahead and move into public comment. And a reminder that this is public comment only on the consent calendar items on item j. Madam clerk, do we have any request to speak?

Yes, mayor. The first speaker is Nikita Wilson.

Good evening, everyone. My name is Nikita Wilson. Tonight, my comments are of my own. I would like to address item j nine. The payment register shows where resources have been deployed. Under state law, the city reports housing outcomes through annual progress reports. The gap is that this report shows spending, but it does not show how the spending connects to measurable housing results. Without that connection, the public cannot verify alignment between investment and outcome. SP two eighteen, SP 200. Thank you.

The next speaker is Roy Blackard.

Doing j six, your attendance on the subcommittee meetings and various committees you oversee. Again, Ed does pretty good, so does Elena. The other three of you, not so good. I guess because the mayor is so closely aligned with Corey Jackson, you wanna run the city and your campaign your your subcommittee meetings and these meetings about as efficiently driving them in the ground like that. We get our chops busted for not attending everyone, and you guys don't even attend hardly a lot of you, three of you at least, attend the ones you should be attending that you were elected to do.

Now you want okay. I get you don't like the way I wanted or I have suggested that you reshape this stuff, then you come up with a way because the way you're doing it doesn't work.

We're

gonna we're gonna see more of the this inefficiency coming down the pike as we proceed. Again, what day do we be the trendsetter? Well, probably, we're gonna have to start with getting rid of the dude in the center because everything seems to turn to chaos or corruption or possibly fraud or whatever when he is involved. And that goes to his sidekick sitting next to him who is aligned with the same forces. What day do you stop this stuff?

Or what day do you actually work for the people? This this 200,000 citizens of the Moreno Valley that flat deserve better. J seven, the general plan, is this the last deal? And if it's passed tonight, how many days before the general plan update gets into effect? I would like an answer to that if I could have one.

J 11, the pavement rehabilitation. Again, I'll just point to Atwood just east of Paris Boulevard. There's a big lake that goes there every time, and those poor people get flooded out every time. So as you're looking at it you know, and this has gone on seemingly for centuries. So when you're looking at all this stuff, I would say that that probably needs to be be put up on the priority list because it just it just is a disaster, and it stays there.

Any good rain, it stays like a lake for, like it's for days. So it's just something that needs to be looked at and fixed finally while we're doing all this stuff. If you're gonna do rehab, it wouldn't take much to straighten out the drainage in that area with with the pavement rehabilitation project there.

The next speaker is Luis Palomarez.

Bottle bottle just in case you need. Police, Palomar's community activist. Okay. The general plan. Hey. We've been on an island for five years. Let's go forward. There's things we don't care about in there, but, oh, wow. It is what it is. And, hey, we gotta go forward. We can't stay in the wilderness forever. Now as far as Cabrera, he had gave all his people that came last time, you know, oh, you know, elect me. I I fight with you. I agree with you. Yada yada. They all came, Lindsay, the whole crowd. They all came because they thought you were gonna vote against the general plan, but you stabbed them in the back again. They helped in your election. Right? They helped you in that election.

Are you loyal to anybody? Anybody? I could I could change my mind, but are you loyal to anybody? Does your word mean anything? Anything? It's so sad. It's so sad. And then the one that helped run your campaign in 2018, Melissa Lopez, well, you know, that that's a that's a sad day.

To Adam j seven about the general plan update.

This is about the general plan because

Thank you.

You you bet you betrayed a lot of the people that helped you in 2018, etcetera, etcetera, and the people in the room right now that didn't want this general plan to go forward, you said, yeah. We're gonna do oh, yeah. You lied to them. You betrayed them. They were behind me calling you a liar, left and right. I go go up there and say it. You know? You supported him. You were there with him. You believed the lie, and he's still lying all day long. You know? $2,000,000. Like Roy was talking about the other item about the water all over the place. $2,000,000 that you cost us, that could've took care of that that item. $2,000,000, our money.

That's where our money's going. And, like, I'm gonna say it again. You know, the staff don't owe their loyalty to you. They know it to us, the taxpayers of Marina Valley. With our tax dollars, they get paid, and they get good pay, and they get good pensions out of us. Give us something that work. Don't go what what this mayor wants you to do because he throws something on there, and here we go. A mayor idea, it's a good idea. Are you afraid of losing your jobs, or what's really going on here? You know, mayor the the mayor don't run the city. He don't run the city. The staff along with the rest of the council runs the city. You gotta know that. $30,000,000, a penny of my taxes. Use it wisely.

Use it wisely, Cabrera, but you're too busy on all your little pony shows and, 5,000,000 seed money for a day care. You know? This is all our general you have took us so backwards.

Reminder, we're on the consent I

am on the consent calendar.

For the

consent You have took us so backwards in time with the things you have voted for on the consent calendar, you have took us backward. This city, we're, like I said, on a train wreck, the Titanic slash etcetera etcetera. You know? I hope you lose this election, and I hope and pray you do because you haven't done nothing right so far and everything wrong.

Mayor, that concludes all the public comments on tonight's agenda.

Thank you, madam clerk, and thank you to our public speakers. Miss Palomarez, I've had to warn you in previous meetings, we get three minutes to speak during public comment. We will have to maintain the quorum in

these council meetings. I motion to approve the consent calendar.

You to speak out of turn. I'm gonna have to give you another warning. We just wanna be respectful to everybody that's in the public and make sure that we maintain the quorum. So, please, I do not wanna have to ask you again, please.

Motion to approve the consent calendar.

To approve the consent calendar. I do have, two quick comments on two items as well. Wanted to point out and highlight item j eight first for, the public's awareness. This one is a, award for a contract for the architectural design and engineering for the future business and employment resource center. So first, I wanna give a shout out to our economic development team and our staff.

Stephanie is here today. Usually, it's director, Worsinski. But, really excited about this one because this has been years in the making. We've been working on this together for for many years, to try to identify the funding sources, and I'm just really excited that we're getting closer because the current Business and Employment Resource Center, for those who are not familiar with it, is about 3,500 square feet. It's over by the Regency movie theater.

It's free for the public, and that is really, geared toward helping our residents find employment with local companies here in the city Of Moreno Valley, along with a plethora of other services. But as our city grows, our next business unemployment resource center is gonna be approximately 35,000 square feet, so that's 10 times larger than the current Burke. And, really looking forward to that so that we can continue to serve our residents and help partner and identify those job opportunities for our residents with our local employers here in the city Of Moreno Valley.

And then the second

one that I wanted to comment on was j 11. This is another good one, because I I'm sure, none of us like to drive on these potholes that are around the city. And so if you take a look at item j 11 on our agenda, you will see one of the attachments is the actual map, and you can see a key that breaks down over the next five years, which, streets are proposed to be repaved and maintained. And so just invite you, it's possible that your neighborhood may be on there somewhere, or you can take a look and see which roads have been repaired over the past few years as well. So just, again, hats off to our publics public works, staff, Melissa, your entire team for making sure that we are maintaining and expanding the life of our roads throughout the city.

So, that'll conclude my comments, and I'll look to my colleagues to see if there are any more comments.

I'll second the motion to approve the consent calendar.

Thank you. Councilmember Bernard? Yes. Councilmember Delgado?

Yes.

Councilmember Baca Santa Cruz? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Gonzalez? Yes. And mayor Cabrera?

Yes. Thank you. Thank you. The consent calendar is approved with five yeses. And next, we will move to item k, our public hearings. Friendly reminder once again that public testimony on a public hearing matter shall be limited to three minutes per individual and must pertain to the subject matter under consideration. Those wishing to testify should complete and submit a goldenrod speaker slip to the city clerk staff. Item k one is a public hearing to approve the annual action plan for program years 2627 HUD grants. This is a routine item that we do every single year that comes before the council. This has to do with CDBG Home and ESG.

And to get us started, I will turn it over for a staff report to our chief financial officer slash city treasurer, Felicia London.

Good evening, mayor, mayor pro tem, and council members. This item before you tonight represents the culmination of five to six months of working, including outreach, public engagement, required noticing, and the full application and review process associated with our HUD entitlement programs. As a reminder for both the council and the public, Moreno Valley is a HUD entitlement city. This means we receive annual federal funding through three programs, the community development block grant, CDBG, the home investment partnership program, and the emergency solutions grant, ESG. Before I continue, I would like to briefly highlight a couple of updates to both attachments one, the annual action plan, and attachment two, the funding recommendation booklet of the staff report for transparency and to ensure they are accurately reflected in the record.

First on page 27 of attachment one, the funding amount for the project six, ESG homelessness prevention and HMIS should be $19,733.33 rather than the 8 18,976 reflected. Secondly, on page seven of attachment two, under ESG in the grant purpose section, one of five program components, homelessness prevention, was inadvertently omitted and should be included as the final bullet point in that section. Lastly, on page nine of the attachment two, there is a typographical error in the CDBG current year funding amount due to an inadvertent extra one in the allocation. The correct amount is 1,896,326. Thank you.

Now returning to the annual action plan process, briefly walking through the timelines, council established funding priorities in December, and staff conducted community outreach to gather input. Shortly thereafter, the notice of funding availability was released, opening the application period with applications due at the January. All submitted applications were then reviewed by our independent consultant, Avant Garde, in coordination with staff, and those recommendations were presented to counsel at the April 21 public hearing. The draft action plan was also made available for the required thirty day period review. What is before you tonight is the final action plan along with the recommended funding allocation across all three programs.

In terms of HUD programs, CDBG is the most flexible funding source. Though it is include though it includes certain limitations, for example, public services are capped at 15%, meaning only a portion can support nonprofit service programs with the remaining typically directed towards capital improvements and other eligible activities. Home focuses on affordable housing and carries additional requirements including set asides and a matching requirement. As a result, these funds are often accumulated over time and used for larger housing investments as well as programs such as minor home repairs. ESG is dedicated to homelessness response, including outreach, shelter operations, and rapid rehousing.

It also requires a one to one match from service providers, which can limit eligibility. In terms of overall funding, the plan includes approximately 2,200,000 in CDBG funding, including prior year uncommitted funds, 2,700,000 in home, and 246,000 in ESG. These figures reflect total avail available funding inclusive of prior year funds for home and program income. Detailed project allocations and funding recommendations are outlined in the staff report and its attachments. These recommendations are based on eligibility, alignment with council priorities, and the consultant's review conducted in coordination with staff.

With council approval tonight, staff will proceed with submitting an annual action plan to HUD by May 15, which is required by the city to receive and deploy these funds. In closing, I'd like to highlight this staff report includes a recommendation authorizing the city manager to approve, if necessary, the reprogramming of allocations among funded programs within the adopted program year 2627 annual action plan in accordance with the city's the city's citizen participation plan. As mentioned, these federal funds are administered through a structured process that includes HUD requirements such as public hearings, a formal application process, and a mandatory thirty day public review period, all of which have led to this point. With that, staff is available to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you very much, director London. We will bring it back up to the dais for council questions of staff.

One regarding the city manager's authorization to adjust. I I don't understand that totally. I don't know if Brian wanna jump in there as far as the could that change the list of participants or what does that mean really?

Only if a sub recipient chooses not to agree to the contractual arrangement. So applicate prototypically, nonprofits, community based organizations will submit an application, and we try and inform them of all of the regulations related to HUD. But a lot of times, they'll submit an application. It will qualify. We'll get them through.

We'll allocate. But once they actually start taking a look at the, the verbiage within the agreement and some of the, requirements and noncompliance and clawbacks and all kinds of things that HUD, could require of the city. Some do choose not to, enter into the contractual arrangement. And so what we've done in years past with this particular item is and recommendation is we move to the next one on the list that wasn't allocated, and we try and bring them through. So it gives us the ability to to act quicker and be able to reallocate only if a particular entity chooses not to enter into contractual arrangements.

Thank you, Brian. That makes sense. Does it come back to counsel for approval or you just have we're we're authorizing you to make that decision tonight?

It would be, authorizing, me to make that decision based on the, funding recommendations, as they're ranked in order. And so as we work through with Avant Garde, we have a ranking of all of the, various applications, and it comes with a score. And so we know who would be next in line.

Perfect. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Felicia. Good job.

Yeah. Thank you. And, Felicia, in your report there, you mentioned, for example, the ESG funds and maybe the home funds that are used for, some residential projects in the city that have been built throughout the years and possibly will be built in the future. Maybe you or or I know Brian has worked on this extensively over the years. Can you share some examples just for the public's knowledge of some projects, some examples that we could point to in the city that have received funds? And if possible, specifically, some of those that have requirements for, you know, certain percentage for for seniors, for units, or for veterans, for example?

So in the past, we have, allocated some of our funding to, the Cottonwood project that, Jim Jernigan worked on. He's received, a couple of allocations from some of our, grant fundings in the past for some of the senior prod, senior housing projects.

Very good. Thank you. Are there any further questions from the council? Seeing no further questions at this time, thank you again, director London, for the staff report. We will go ahead and move to public testimony. Madam clerk, do we have any requests to speak?

We do, mayor. The first two speakers are Ashley Brown Mills followed by Roy Blackard.

Good evening.

Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Ashley Brown Mills, I represent Voices for Children, the court appointed special advocate or CASA program for Riverside County. Voices for Children recruits, trains, and supports volunteer advocates who are appointed by judges to serve as a consistent, caring adult for children in foster care, ensuring their voices are heard. I want to begin by expressing our sincere gratitude to the city of Moreno Valley for your past support through CDBG funding as well as for your consideration of continued support this year.

So far this year, we have served 45 children in Moreno Valley, each supported by the trained CASA volunteers who provides a consistent, caring adult presence when important decisions are being made that shape a child's life. Across Riverside County, Voices for Children has served 749 children so far this year, supported by 431 active CASA volunteers. CDBG funding pays an important role in ensuring we have staffing and infrastructure needed to recruit, train, and support those volunteers so advocacy remains reliable and effective. To put that need into broader context, nearly 6,000 children will touch the foster care system in Riverside County this year. Currently, a 182 children are on a waitlist awaiting a CASA, including seven children here in Moreno Valley.

These are children who have already entered foster care and are waiting to be matched with a CASA of their own. The average cost to support a child through cost of advocacy is approximately $2,000 per child. The funding that we're requesting through CDBG would help support advocacy for 17 children here in Moreno Valley. We are deeply grateful for the city of Moreno Valley's partnership and for your continued commitment to supporting children and families in the community. Thank you for your time and your consideration this evening.

The next speaker is Roy Blackard.

Proper condition coming from a dais that was activated would mandate before this is passed any company that ever had any association with Corey Jackson, SBX, Darryl Pieden, Zwinga, Tyler Middlesey or whatever his name is, or any of them other clowns that cost us $5,600,000 on a federally funded project. Again, everybody talks about it. It is taking food Out of moms and kids, foster kids are gonna be sleeping in cars because of those guys. Before we get into signing off or letting the city manager do this, there should be some proper checks on this because that was getting slid through the old radar screen two years ago up here. And, again, I was up here on the freaking consent calendar.

It's another thing you should change. Anytime anybody files a peak speaker slip, that item should be automatically pulled just like the county of Riverside does. Maybe we would possibly avoid some of the pitfalls that we go through. Maybe one day, maybe we need a ear specialist to clean out your wax so you will hear some of the sage advice you get before we get wrapped into this stuff. Since Jim Jernigan in the Cottonwood project got mentioned, if you would have been down at the county board of supervisors on the SBX hearing, like you should have a representative here because just so make sure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.

Those units, those little one bedroom, 500, four fifty square foot apartments are costing half 1,000,000 freaking dollars apiece. We just had the guy that you rejected, but, I mean, he was willing to build single family homes in Moreno Valley for 500 k. These projects that you're talking of that are coming up here all the time are making housing unaffordable. Prove me wrong, any one of you. You are creating a future for future generations where they're not gonna live like you because of the decisions you're making.

They're gonna have a lesser standard of living. They're not even gonna be able to buy a home because exactly the decisions are going on here. We've had enough record on it. Why can't you see what you're doing?

The next speaker is Luis Palomarez.

Luis Palomarez, community activist. I wanna say on on another note, happy Cinco de Mayo for what it's worth here. And, also, as far as CASA, I think they do a great job. They've been coming and coming, and they keep on, you know, doing what they need to do. And that's why we need to put more of our money into that program because it's it's good for our foster kids.

They really change lives in that program. I mean, it's it's great that we have that, and we gotta keep it coming and keep on supporting and keep on putting our money towards that. Those kind of I'm tired. Those benefits for our our kids and our foster kids and our our community because everybody, when they help these students and these kids in foster care, it helps everybody. Thank you.

Mayor, that concludes all the public comments for this item.

Thank you, madam clerk, and thank you to our public speakers as well. We will bring it back up to the dance for council deliberation. Councilmember Delgado.

I just have one comment for all of the applicants that have worked with us in the past. Thank you very much for taking care of our residents. I think it's a it's a win win. We get grants, and we share that with community based organizations and folks that help take care of our residents. So I just wanna thank you very much. And, Ashley, thank you very much for being here. I know is this your first year here? Good job. Thank you. That's it.

Yeah. You. And just to follow-up on that. Yeah. Thank you, Ashley. For for at least nine years, Casa has been here. Usually, it's Jessica. So glad to see you here. But for at least nine years, Casa has been coming out here in person. You have not missed a single meeting where we discuss this item.

So appreciate y'all, going above and beyond in the work that you do every single day for our foster children. It does not go unnoticed. And and all the other various programs that are funded, and projects that are funded. You know, earlier, I asked a question about housing, and we all know how difficult it is for, anyone to afford housing nowadays, especially first time homebuyers, especially the younger generations that are trying to build families. And while Moreno Valley is more affordable relative to the rest of the state, it is still, unaffordable relative to the rest of the country for various reasons that, you know, I won't go into now.

But, I just wanna highlight that for years, we allocate some of this funding to build units that are specifically for our seniors, specifically for our veterans. And I know, my colleagues will probably agree and I've heard the same thing, you know, just the senior center alone. You go there, you it's inevitable that you will get at least one inquiry from one of the the the seniors there asking for more slots, for more availability, that there have been waiting on wait lists to be able to get a unit, and, this is us being able to chip away at that a little bit. So, just thanks to staff for getting us to this point and I look forward to seeing where this funding goes in the future. Are there any further comments from the council?

If not, we can entertain a motion and a second.

I motion to approve k one.

Second. There's a motion and a second to approve. Please call for the vote.

Thank you, mayor. Councilmember Bernard? Yes. Councilmember Delgado? Yes. Councilmember Bacasana Cruz? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Gonzalez? Yes. And mayor Cabrera?

Yes. Thank you. Thank you. That is approved with five yeses. And next, we will go to general business. We do have a few items here. First one is l one, authorization to finance the 2026 electric system revenue bonds, series 2026 a. And we will hand it over to our public works director, Melissa Walker, to get us started with a staff report.

Good evening, honorable mayor, mayor pro tem, and council members. The item before you this evening is to approve the financing of the 2026 electric system revenue bonds, series twenty twenty six a, not to exceed a $150,000,000 in aggregate principal amount. The bonds are proposed to fund the design, acquisition, and construction of capital improvements for the city's electric utility system while also refinancing existing debt. The Moreno Valley Public Financing Authority previously issued the 2019 and 2021 taxable lease revenue bonds and the 2021 streetlight refinancing to support capital improvements and the acquisition of the city's streetlight system. These obligations became callable in early twenty twenty six, creating an opportunity for refinancing.

The 2026 a bonds would replace the outstanding debt with consolidated financing secured by electric utility revenues, streamlining obligations, taking those obligations off the general fund, and providing additional capacities to support future infrastructure and capital improvements based on the utilities business plan as it was presented to counsel in December. The 2026 bond refunded bond funded projects focus on practical system supporting investments, such as battery storage, microgrids, which is solar with battery storage, electric vehicle infrastructure, storage of electrical equipment, and operational facilities. These projects are intended to improve reliability, operational capacity, energy flexibility, and long term cost control. They will be built within the first three years of the bond as 85% of the bond proceeds must be spent within that time frame. In December's study session, we explained the move away from the Enco contract, which has a revenue share component and required us to be in parity with Southern California Edison rates.

In December, you also approved new lower rates that became effective in January 2026. With the rate reductions, our revenues decreased, but the utility sales system is still healthy since we also cut $8,000,000 of overhead by eliminating the revenue sharing and co contract. So in essence, we were able to save residents money and balance the reduced revenue with cost savings. There's always a concern about bonds and how they are going to be paid. If we wanted to do the 100,000,000, dollars in capital improvements, it would deplete our current fund balance, and we'd have to dramatically increase rates to be able to pay back that $100,000,000.

Whereas when you bond against a very healthy system, you now have generational equity. Now each generation is paying the debt service over thirty years on systems that have a fifty year useful life. Therefore, you're not penalizing any one generation by skyrocketing their rates and then reducing them over time after the fund has been built back up. Also, with the type of techno technology we are building, we're able to stabilize rates and keep them lower. We do have, our bond consultants here to give a presentation on the bond particulars.

Thanks, Melissa. Mayor mayor pro tem, members of city council, Jim Fabian, the city's municipal adviser. I'm joined tonight by the other members of the bond team, Brian Forbath of Stradling, who's serving as city's bond council, and Tom Jacobs of Stifel Nicolaus, who's serving as the city's bond underwriter. Tonight, we have, in front of you a presentation to walk through an overview of the pro proposed bond financing by MBU, discuss the recommended actions to be taken by the city council and the financing authority. And we have a short presentation that we're gonna walk through.

So looking at the executive summary of tonight's action, as Melissa mentioned, we in the your resolution, you have a not to exceed $150,000,000 authorization. We always put a little bit of extra room in there, about 10%, to provide coverage if it's needed. We do not feel it's gonna be necessary. We think we're gonna be about a $136,000,000, authorization required, for this financing. This is the inaugural issue of MVU.

So we secured an underlying credit rating for the m v MVU, and now we're separating the MVU debt from the city's general fund. This debt will be payable from net revenues of the MVU. And when you think about net revenues, you look at the gross revenues paid by the all the utility rate payers. You subtract from that the opera operations and maintenance cost of the MVU, and then you have your net revenues that are available to pay debt service on bonds. The proceeds we're estimating will be approximately 100,000,000 for the new projects that were identified in the m v MVU business plan that was approved by the city council on December 9.

These projects, in summary, include the utility scale battery energy storage project, the new substation and substation expansions, the line extensions in the Northeast side of the city, and the microgrid and EV infrastructure that Melissa mentioned pre previously. In addition, what we wanted to talk about, as she had mentioned in her overview, was the PAYGO versus bond financing of the projects. And so when you think about PAYGO, basically, you're using the existing revenues and reserves of the MVU to fund the $100,000,000 of projects. So you're spending down your reserves. You're using existing revenues to pay for those projects.

Also, you can't do all this all at once, so you have the risk of, the inflationary increases that we have in the current economy. Additionally, the cost could could also go up over this time, and there could be some impact on the rates of the MVU customers. Also, what happens is it's the current users or customers of the MVU that pay that cost for that infrastructure. Under the recommended approach for the city council tonight is a bond financing approach to be, use the proceeds from the bonds to pay for the projects. This allows the MVU revenues and reserves that have been built built up over several years to stay in place, to provide liquidity within the MVU accounts, and, allows the projects to be able to be built now, through, the issuance of the bonds when the money will come into the city and the city has three years to pay it, thereby minimizing the inflation risk.

Also, what it does is it does provide the cost to be borne by not only the current users of the MVU, but also the future users of the MVU, those customers that come in over the next thirty years that will basically come into the system, be new customers of the system, pay the rates and charges, and then also contribute to the repayment of the debt for these projects that are going to be built, thereby creating what we call generational equity amongst the current and future users of the utility. Additionally, to the $100,000,000 that are going to be raised for the projects that have been identified. As Melissa mentioned, we are going to be able to refund the existing debt of the MVU, the 2019 taxable bonds, the 2021 taxable bonds, and then the 2021 street lighting lease with Bank of America. This debt will be refunded. It will be, taken off of the city's balance sheet and be put onto the MVU balance sheet, thereby freeing up additional debt capacity for the city's general fund.

Additionally, this debt was secured by assets of the city. That encumbrance will be released, and, the debt now becomes an obligation of the MVU and paid by the rates and charges of the MVU customers. Now I'm gonna turn it over to a bond counsel to talk about the legal structure.

Good evening, mayor councilmember. It's Brian Forbeth from Stradlin Yaka. Pleasure to be here this evening with you. I'm the city's bond and disclosure council. I've had the pleasure of representing you all on a variety of transactions over the years.

And so just in quick summary, I think Jim did an excellent job of of summarizing the transaction at a high level. Just to dig in a little bit deeper here, as as Jim mentioned, the security of for the repayment of these bonds will be a pledge and lien on the net revenues of the electric system. And there will not be a pledge and lien on any general fund assets. The general fund will be completely removed from the credit. Additionally, there will be, part of part of the security or the credit for the bond owners is there's a covenant that requires the city to set rates and charges to make sure that debt service gets paid.

And, generally, that's gonna be 120 percent of debt service that the city agreed to set rates and charges on to to to equal net revenues, at least 120% of debt service. Tom Jacobs from Stifel will get up and show you in a couple additional slides that will show you that there's lots of coverage here, so that's not going to be an issue in in the future. Additionally, the legal documents allow for the flexibility to issue additional bonds or obligations as the system grows and expands in connection with ongoing development. The bonds will also be secured by a debt service reserve fund. That's essentially, either cash or, in this case, a municipal bond insurance surety that will be purchased by the city that will secure the repayment of the bonds for a year's worth of time.

Additionally, we've received quotes for bond municipal bond insurance that will also enhance our existing rating from a double a minus to a double a plus. So, we pay a cost and that increases It reduces our borrowing costs in connection with that bond insurance, and and mister Jacobs will explain that a little better than I did, I'm sure. The bonds that we're gonna be issuing will be tax exempt bonds. So, purchasers who purchase this bond, the interest that they, receive from the city in connection with their bonds, they won't have to pay federal income tax or state income tax on it. And that's very attractive, and that's why it produces lower cost of borrowing than other taxable rates in in the marketplace.

Again, the bonds will be a thirty year period of time. And then so the documents the actions before you tonight is you're you're wearing two hats right now. The first hat is of the public financing authority, and that's the entity that will actually issue the bonds. And then the other hat is of the city of Moreno Valley, which will be a party to a variety of transactions that gives the pledge and lien that pays for the repayment of the bonds. The resolutions authorize, as Jim mentioned, not to exceed a $150,000,000.

Again, I think we think it's more like a 136,000,000 that will result in a $100,000,000 project fund, and that will refund all of the existing debt that's outstanding. The key documents before you this evening are, one, it's an indenture of trust, and that is really a contract between the financing authority, the trustee on behalf of bond owners. That sets really forth all the contractual terms that the bond owners are entitled to. It tells them how they get repaid, when they get repaid, how they redeem their bonds, how they collect their interest in principle. And then secondly, there's what's called the installment purchase agreement, and that's really the contract between the city and the financing authority.

And that's where all the city's financial covenants are with regards to the electric system. That's where the rate covenant is. That's where the additional bonds test is, and that's where, there's the pledge and lien of the net revenues of the electric system. And then finally, there's, not finally, but additionally, there's escrow agreements, which will, are essentially hold the funds to repay the existing obligations that we're refunding. And then there's a a bond purchase agreement, which is the contract between the city and the finance authority and, Stifel Nicholas, the bond underwriter, pursuant to which that underwriter will go purchase the bonds from the city and sell them to investors and produce the cash to redeem the existing bonds and fund the project fund.

And then most importantly is the preliminary offering statement, and this is the prospectus or the offering document pursuant to which the city and Stifel will sell the bonds to the public. And this is subject to existing to federal securities laws as to require to contain all material information and not omit stating facts are necessary to make the statements not therein false or misleading. So we've spent a lot of time going over staff, walking through this document, making sure it's accurate and contains all material information. And then lastly, there's what we call a continuing disclosure certificate, and that is, required by the market and federal securities law that the city provides certain ongoing information to investors, related to the financial health of the electric system. So that's the summary of the documents that are before you this evening.

And with that, I'll turn it over to mister Jacobs to talk a little bit more about the plan of finance.

Alright. Thank you, mister Forbath. Good evening, mayor mayor pro tem and council members. My name is Tom Jacob. I'm here representing Stifel, the underwriter on the proposed financing. So I'm gonna walk us through the next couple of slides. On this slide in front of you, you have the overview of the plan of finance and some of the estimated statistics of the bond issue based on relatively recent market conditions. So we have the sources of funds and the uses of funds. The sources of funds, in other words, where's the money coming from, and the uses of funds where that money is being spent. So for, the sources of funds, we have a par amount, which has been said already, an estimated par amount of about 136,135,000.

That's the face value of the bonds. That's what the public financing authority will be issuing and offering to investors. Now that is coupled with about $10,600,000 worth of premium. That represents because investors are willing to pay more than a 100¢ on the dollar because of the strength of the credit. And just given current market conditions, there will be some additional capital called premium, which will also be included as a source of funds.

Now that $146,760,000, will be spent, accordingly under the uses column. So as mister Forbath mentioned, a 100,000,000 will go to finance the new capital projects for MVU. About 44,400,000 will be used to pay off the existing bond issues that were talked about. The cost of issuance and the underwriter's discount, those are costs and fees paid to third party consultants related to the bond issue. And then the bond insurance and the surety reserve, now those are costs paid to the insurance provider.

I am happy to report that the insurance provider did provide some aggressive bids this morning, and we're gonna shave off quite a bit of money from those two estimates down there. So that that rounds out the total uses. As I mentioned, these are based on relatively recent market conditions as of April 29. As counsel may know, in March and at the April, there was a quite a bit of volatility, in the financial markets. But since late mid to late April in the May, there's been some improvements in the municipal marketplace.

Interest rates have come down, and we're hopeful to build on that momentum, that positive momentum over the next couple of meet weeks when we ultimately price the bonds assuming council blesses the financing here this evening. The following slide, we have a projection of the revenues and expenditures. And then at the bottom there, you can see what is highlighted, the debt service coverage ratio. So these are projections made by MVU staff for the current fiscal year and then the next four fiscal years going through fiscal year twenty thirty. You can see the net revenues here.

These are all conservative estimates. And based on these conservative estimates, you can see the debt service coverage is well in excess of that 1.25 x figure that mister Forbath mentioned as the rate covenant. So in other words, if we look at fiscal year twenty twenty seven, that net revenue figure is about $26,600,000 relative to the estimated debt service payment on the bonds of $7,700,000. That results in a coverage of 3.4 times. And after that debt service payment is made, the utility has $18,800,000 left over after that.

So we project that out over a five year period. Now I wanna congratulate the Citi, NMVU staff on its inaugural, credit rating. Received an a minus underlying rating, which, is a very strong outcome for a a very young, electric system that is relatively small in terms of the number of customers. So congratulations to the city and MVU. We provide some general feedback from S and P, some of the positives and some of the noted challenges associated with the credit.

The pluses here, can see among others, strong finances, the debt service coverage, the healthy liquidity or reserves of MVU, and then some of the challenges, which I think are very typical of a young and growing system, the capital plan, the debt issuance, and a concentrated power mix. And last but not least, here we have the tentative financing schedule. So assuming we receive city council approval this evening, the plan is to, market the bonds to prospective investors over the next week and a half and then price the bonds on or around May 21 and then close or issue the bonds on June 17. Now there's that difference between the pricing and the closing as the, lawyers prepare all the legal documents and finalize everything. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions, and I know the other consultants are as well.

Thank you. Thank you very much for the presentation there, and we'll go ahead and bring it back up to the dais for council questions of staff. Mayor Pro

Tem Gonzalez. Just have a few questions. Will will this result in any anticipated rate increases for our residents, short or long term?

No. This will not. It it will be included in, obviously, every every time that we look at rates, we do studies ahead of time and show what our debts are and what our, plans are. So it will be included in that, but there's no expectation that it would raise our rates. In fact, a lot of the projects that we're doing, as stated, are over time going to actually balance our rates out and make it so we're much more stable and can keep our rates lower. So

And any specific that that we can, say right now? I know we're not there yet, but as far as specific projects that we can highlight that we're kind of, looking at based on this, financing we're doing?

Yes. There's some work on substations. I know there's one substation that is in the Edgemont area that we have not built yet. We have some of the equipment, but that's part of what we're gonna do is build that. So that's one. I believe there's more work on some of the other substations we have and then obviously different loop lines and making sure we have the reliability that we need, along with EV infrastructure and some a building at the yard for the increase in staff and some of that type of work.

And last question, will will this impact our or what it was mentioned in one of the slides. Our credit rating or our future bonding capacity, is that is this gonna impact that in the future? Or we're looking good. I think one of the consultants is coming up.

Thanks. So as we talked about in the presentation, the MVU was rated a minus by S and P inaugural rating, really a strong rating based upon where the utility at is in its life cycle. The city's general fund should benefit from the fact that you're taking that existing debt of the MVU, taking it off the city's balance sheet, and putting it on the MVU balance sheet so it frees up bonding capacity for the general fund that should have a positive impact on the credit rating of the general fund.

Thank you.

And a follow-up question at at this if you could stay there. In the presentation on one of the slides, if I saw correctly, I think it said on there that there would be a cap of about five and a half percent, annum on average. Could you just go over that to make sure I'm understanding that correctly? The reason why I asked that is just because, as we could see on the current slide here, the timeline estimated closing on on selling these bonds June 17, would that lock in those rates, or will we still potentially be subject to where the market is over the next thirty years or so?

Great question. The actual rates that the MVU will get will be locked in on May 21 when the bonds are priced. At that point in time, the city will enter into the bond purchase agreement with Stone Stifel Nicholas. And at that point in time, the the rates are fixed. And then the, between May 21 and June 17 is just the required paperwork associated with the documentation of the, bond sale, the refunding, and and the new money.

And we do have in the resolution in front of you for, your consideration, there are bond parameters that are in there with the 150,000,000, the the five and a half percent, and the underwriter's discount, and those are not to exceed amounts.

Very good. Thank you. Any other questions?

Real quick. And a clarification on the three years, that means we have three years to to clear these clear these bonds. That way, the rates don't skyrocket on us.

Let let me, you mean spend down the bond proceeds? Is that what we yeah. Yep. Brian, you wanna talk about that?

So in order for bonds to be tax exempt, there's certain spend down requirements. And generally speaking, you've got to have a reasonable expectation when you issue the tax exempt bonds that you'll spend 85 percent of the proceeds within three years. So that's what we're talking about here. But if if you don't spend it within three years, it doesn't mean your interest rate changes or whatever. Your interest rate's locked in. And, you know, we've worked with staff. We we think we've seen a spend down schedule that satisfies our tax my tax partner that we're gonna be able to spend this. And there is some there is some flexibility in case things you know, things do happen. COVID happens. Things happen that don't allow monies to get spent in time that you miss, and it doesn't necessarily cause the bonds to be taxable.

It doesn't necessarily doesn't necessarily, increase rates and so forth. So we will be locked into this rate, and there is some little flexibility in that three year spending.

Thank you, sir.

Are there any other questions from the council? I don't see any further questions at this time. Thank you once again for the presentation and the information. At this time, we will go ahead and move into public comment. Madam clerk, do we have any request to speak?

We do, mayor. The first speaker is Roy Blackard.

Heard this same story ten years ago from the Brooks Brothers suit Gucci shoes crowd again when we came up here. There's a guy named Pete who was on the original utilities commission. He had a kid who's a ditched bank oaky from Edgemont. There was 25,000,000 that needed a new substation in that, and they said, oh, you gotta do all this stuff. You know, we said, you know, you we could take half out of the reserves and finance it and get it done. Nate, you shoulda heard the doomsday. Jeanette was on their head of MVU with that and the staff. You shoulda seen the pouty faces when we got Gabe up there to present this when he was on the council. We got it passed. You know what happened?

We took half of it, put it out of the reserves, which they said was gonna break MVU, financed half of paid it back in five years. How much money did that save? That saves 10 times more than what even the little scheme you got of, oh, we're gonna take these bonds out. This is a con job. The reason I don't do this anymore or much, I just come out here to put it on the record, is because I don't see much of an intellectual capacity around here to even understand how to do things simply, efficiently, and effectively and save the people in Moreno Valley all kinds of money.

You know, it's a track record. Go back and look at it. You know, it's on videotape right here in the city of Moreno Valley. On top of that, we get rid of the ENCO contract finally. Oh, we get $8,000,000. Are we going to put it to public safety like it was passed promised twenty years ago? Oh, we wouldn't have to pass any due taxes or anything like a 1% sales tax or anything. No. That ain't coming back. Two years of that should pay for those fifteen million dollars worth of buildings out there because that's about what they should cost.

Again, where's the intellectual capacity, the foresight to put this stuff in front where it would work best for the citizens? No. You wanna pick our pockets at every opportunity. These cats, you, anybody, I invite you on the radio show. We'll put it out there for the world to see because I got three words from you.

Prove me wrong. Yeah. I may be from the soil. I may not be the most educated person around here. But when you on all these things, who proves out to be right when we look back at history? Take that to the bank.

The next speaker is Luis Palomarez.

I don't know all that's going on with this bond, but when I hear bond, wow. And Roy came and explained a lot. The staffs gave their presentation. Now you, the council, has to make a decision here. You know, how much taxes are we paying? But they're saying, oh, it's not gonna cost you anything. Oh, it's gonna do this. Gonna I'm not understanding all, but it doesn't sound right to me. I smell a rat. I smell a rat. You know? Spend our money wisely. Really study research. Not not don't just take the SAS word for it and the people that gave you the presentation. I mean, hey.

It sounds like great, but you, the console, do your research. Look into it. Go back all the way down into the archives and see what's going on. It's our money. You know? How are gonna make it? Every time we turn around, there's another hand in our pocket. Like I said, I only got four pockets. Another hand in our pocket, and they say it's swell. It's a great thing. It's gonna work out. Trust us. Really, really, really. I don't know how long we can keep on going on this train wreck with taxes and bonds and bonds and taxes. You know, I believe a lot of what Roy is saying more than what a lot of the people in the room are saying here.

So he goes back all the way back to he does his research, and he looks into it, and he studies it. And the mayor right here, the mayor should be. You're the leader of the the the city here. You're the one that's driving the ship and the train. So, you know, instead of all your little petty pet projects, waste the time doing this. Save us money. Don't don't make us spend more money, Cabrera. Save us money. Do that. Spend a lot of your time in doing that instead of all this other stuff.

You know, babysitting $5,000,000 seed money, you know, the Corey Jackson $10,000,000 abaca. All of that. Spend your money looking into The item. This stuff. This stuff. Okay? That's what you need to do, mayor.

Mayor, that concludes public testimony on this item.

Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you to our public speakers. We'll bring it back to the dais for any final questions or deliberation. We'll go to, council member Bernard.

So I'm gonna call in, the city manager because I know when people hear bonds, they automatically think it is something, similar to a tax or or a bond measure that is going on a ballot. That's not what this is. This is similar to, refinancing your debt, and that's what this is. So this isn't a bond as in, like, it's it's going it's a measured b, c, d, whatever. It's on a ballot, and we're gonna use it to pay for it. That's not what this is. So I'm gonna go ahead and let the city manager explain this, but this is very similar to when you refinance your debt and you're pulling equity out. And that's that's what this is. And and how do I know that? Because I sit on the finance subcommittee where we actually sat down and had this entire conversation.

So it's technically not costing you anything because we're we're covering the debt. We're refinancing that, and we're actually using that money to expand our electrical grid and to reinforce the electrical grids that we have. That's what the presentation was that they that they gave. That's why when the mayor asked where were the rates locked in because we're going to use that, for those of you that that would like to hear, we were using that as a way to sell the bonds because that's what happens is we sell bonds, and it happens not just at this level, but it happens at the state level, it happens at the federal level. They oftentimes will sell bonds, and the return on that bond is what makes them want to buy the bond.

But I'm gonna go ahead and turn it over to my city manager to further explain this.

Thank you, councilmember. I I think you explained it very well. Let me take it from a different approach. So what certain residents may see on their property tax bill, they'll see various educational bonds, whether it be school district, college district, and it is basically tax that is then paid through property tax. Prototypically, what you would have is a ballot measure that would go to the residents.

They would approve, that ballot measure. If approved, that particular entity, school district, college district, or or other, would then go and, sell bonds. And then what would happen is on an annual basis, that particular entity would work with the tax collector, property tax collector, and put, an assessment on, a person's property tax. That would then generate the revenue needed to pay for the debt service of the bond. So this, in this particular instance, we are not doing a ballot measure to our residents.

They're not approving a new tax. This is literally, as you described it, a way of financing our infrastructure, so, we can go ahead and get the infrastructure needed, get the battery storage, on a, entire system wide, basis that will help us be able to smooth our rate structures in the future because now what's happening is with the microgrids, the battery storage, we're generating electricity during the day, which now is stored in the battery and being able to be deployed in the early evening when people are still running their air conditioners and their lights and so forth during, say, summer. Well, generating that, electricity in the microgrids and storing it is much less than what it cost if we were having to purchase, purchase power agreements and bringing in, energy for the demand that is required in the early evening hours. And so, being able to have the 100,000,000 to do these particular projects as stated in the staff report and the various documents in the presentation will give us the ability to be able to smooth our rates in the future. Hence, the reason why there was comments that, we don't anticipate that our rates would jump as if they would on a PAYGO basis.

Hopefully, answers, your question, your concern. If not, let me know and I'll try and explain it a little differently.

No. That answers, the questions that I have. Thank you.

Councilmember Delgado. Yeah. Just a

clarification on that, Brian. Thank you very much for that. And, I sat on the, finance subcommittee as well, and it was explained just like you kinda broke it down. One of the things that I said was our credit rating is gonna be so good and the everything looks great, like, we'll be making money. How about passing that on to this is the question that I had at FenceHub is how about passing that savings or that great credit rating onto the consumer, and it's gonna go back into the infrastructure.

And that I just wanted to clarify that that, hopefully, our rates don't go up at all. But, I was thinking, okay. Cool. They're not gonna go up, but how about a discount or even lower rates? But it's gonna go back into the infrastructure. Right?

So every year, like Melissa had stated, they're going to be bringing an item forward that will have gone through the utility commission, will have come here, and it is a rate plan. And as part of the rate plan, what they they look at is all of the revenues coming in, very similar to one of the the slides, all the revenues coming in, the various operation costs going out, the maintenance going out, and then the debt service on top of that, which still leaves an amount, if all works out correctly, an amount that is still available, to go back towards, fund balance and reserve policies, as stated in, AP three, one one or 3.11. But, so every year, this body is going to be able to look at those rates. And every year as part of those rates, it's looking at the health, the operations of the utility, as well as, the debt service coverages that are needed, the 1.25, which we're currently well over. But it will incorporate and encompass all of that, and, this body will then get to dictate what those rates are.

But, yes, if those rates stay were were held steady or increased and now all of a sudden there's more money in fund balance to fall to the reserves, that they do have the wherewithal to now put that money into additional infrastructure. If you guys remember back in December '25, I believe, we had discussed about $237,000,000 worth of infrastructure needs. This is only a 100,000,000, so there's still quite a bit. And with a growing, utility, you're still needing to, incorporate the need of infrastructure capacity and build out into those REIT structures. Real quick, one comment about the credit.

So somebody asked I believe it was MPTA. You asked if the credit, rating would be better for the city going forward because we're taking this off of the balance sheet for the general fund. I just wanna make it very clear. It's not like we're gonna be able to post what our new credit rating is. Credit ratings are bond specific or event specific, and so you actually go, work with, the various credit rating agencies, in this case, S and P, and you go over what the bond is, what is being spent, what's being discussed, and so they evaluate off of that structure.

It's not like, a rating, credit, rating agency is going to just reevaluate our rating just because we, no longer have $44,000,000 worth of debt on our balance sheet. K.

Thank you, Brian.

Yeah. Thank you. And to not repeat anything that has been said or ask the same questions because a lot of great questions have been asked and answered, just wanna once again commend and thank our staff. And and not just our current staff, but this has been years in the making. Also, previous you know, whether it's a previous city manager, previous public works directors, you name it, MBU staff that have worked on this.

I still remember almost nine years ago having initial conversations. Think I Sean was there in the room when I was, just a a freshman council member, and we were talking about how we, transition Moreno value value utility into, what it could actually be. And we're seeing those first steps into that potential. And so I just wanna commend all of our staff for getting us to this point. It's taken a long time.

But, you know, I remember back during COVID, I think it was Brian. We had the conversation or maybe even Marshall when he was still here about, you know, do we refinance? Because the rates at that time were so low, are what debts do we have within our budget that we can refinance? And we did that. We refinanced a significant amount of of our debt, and that put the city in a much better, a stronger fiscal position.

So just really happy with the innovation that's happening here with our utility because it's not a lot of cities that have their own electric utility. We actually have that benefit of being able to provide now with the new contracts, as has been mentioned, discounts to MBU customers, so that they can see some reduced, totals on those bills that they get every month, which is a good thing so we can reduce costs for Moreno Valley residents. And, as has been mentioned, the the liabilities that are now being taken off of our general fund and going over to Moreno Valley utility specifically that hopefully in the future, you know, will put the city in in a better credit rating position, if we need it. It's kinda look at it similar to, a DTI. Right?

That's a income ratio. You have less debt on your books. It gives you a better opportunity to access capital and and borrow money. So overall, this is a this is a great thing. Really glad that this is happening.

Again, fourteen straight years here in the city of Moreno Valley of having at least a balanced, if not a surplus budget. Not a lot of cities can say that. Very, very few cities can say that they've had fourteen straight years of balanced or surplus budget. And, just really, really proud of what we're doing. So, hats off to staff, and, I look forward to seeing these projects get built so that we can have energy storage here in the city of Moreno Valley, expand our infrastructure, be able to use this for, you know, not just, infrastructure resiliency, but also potentially economic development endeavors so that the private sector can see.

Look at the city of Moreno Valley investing heavily into their infrastructure. We wanna go do business in their city. So just so many different benefits that can come out of this, and I fully support this. Are there any further comments? Seeing no further deliberation, we can go ahead and entertain a motion and a second. I'll motion to approve. Second. There's a motion and a second to approve. Madam clerk, please call for the vote.

Thank you, mayor. Councilmember Bernard? Yes. Councilmember Delgado?

Yes.

Councilmember Bacca Santa Cruz? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Gonzalez? Yes. And mayor Cabrera?

Yes. Thank you. Thank you. That passes with five yeses. And next, we have item l two. We have the Parks Community Services and Trails Commission annual report for years 2526, and we will get started with a staff report from our parks and community services director, Jeremy Bubnik.

Mayor mayor pro tem and city council, I'm gonna, introduce Riley Peak. He's our chairperson for our parks community services and trails commission, and he will give the report tonight.

Hi. Good evening, everybody. I am Riley Peak, chairperson of the commission. I have here with me a couple of our commissioners in the audience. So we'll go ahead and get started. So we'll start off with a little introduction about what the parks community services and trails commission does. So we encourage public involvement in our decision making or in decision making. Exit we execute administrative tasks when directed by the council, and we offer policy recommendations to the city council on anything involving parks, community services, and trails. So we're kinda like the miscellaneous commission. A lot of things can be thrown into community services, so we are always having having fun at our meetings representing our residents.

And then the commission aids the city in maintaining over 540 acres of parks and trails, and we host our department hosts lots of programs for youth, adults, and our senior community, making sure that all of our residents are be are able to participate throughout Moreno Valley. So we'll do a little meet the commission. So we have myself as chair, commissioner James Baker as our vice chair, commissioner Fernando Mikel, commissioner Barbara Baxter, commissioner Lisa Ariano, commissioner Joseph Taplin, and commissioner Nikita Wilson. You'll find commissioner Baxter Ariano and Wilson in the audience. So we have oh, yeah.

And then we also have, vice chairs, commissioner Baker. So we have some of our recommendations and reviews that we've submitted to the council this year. So we participate in the naming of our Sunset Crossings Park, which is one of our newer parks, our annual report, of course, our twenty twenty six special events calendar where we have lots of events that we're looking forward to, our capital improvement plan update. We've got lots of fun projects coming soon to make sure that our parks, community services, and trails are the best that they can be for our city. And then we have our newest and latest flight is Flight Deck bike park, is first of its kind throughout The United States, throughout Southern California, and then our city's ACES program where we help support our students, our young students in schools, making sure that they have the support that they need within school and outside of school.

And then we have this is gonna be a oh, sorry. One last thing. We recently discussed our city's newest event, our special event. We have not special event, but special to all of us. We have our baseball event, which is coming up next weekend. So it's not super future, but we hope to see you all out there. It's gonna be super fun. This is the first that we've had it. Came to us, I think, five years ago, and now we're able to see it come to light. So it's nice to see all of our great activities coming soon.

And our commissioners attended a lot of events. You go to one of our events, you'll probably see at least three or four of us there. So we have our favorites, right now, we have listed the Celebration Park, the new playground opening, our state of the city, El Grito, community day of service. So we've attended multiple of those. The sheriff's department's trunk or treat. It's always fun seeing the kids out there and being able to see their costumes and then react to your car. And then the color run, which it rained a little bit this year, but it was still fun. I'm kinda sad that my shirt didn't get stained, though. Hopefully, yours got stained with all the color and the rain mixing in. Then we had our Veterans Day ceremony, our tree lighting ceremony, and our lights were perfect this year.

The electricity didn't, take a nap during the ceremony. And then we had our flight deck park bike park opening where we had lots of community, members come out even from they came all throughout the state and just we had lots of vendors providing services to our city our our residents. Then we had our multicultural and arts festival, and then we've had lots of commissioners attend our city council meetings and making sure that they're up to date. Then a few of our future items that we're super excited for is our senior center expansion, which I hope I'm sure you'll see, hear a little bit more on our next agenda item. And then our equestrian center improvements.

We actually have someone on our commission now who visits the equestrian center frequently. So we're able to hear the voices from that community and the people who use that facility and able to have that representation on there. Then we have bathrooms coming to the Civic Amphitheater. I know a lot of residents are looking forward to those and not, getting rid of those porta potties for some nice bathrooms. And then we have our more restroom restorations at Community Park. And then we'll be naming some new parks shortly, so we're excited to submit those names to you. And thank you. So we just have a little bit about our commission and why it was created. We got this from the municipal code. It's just little more.

And then you'll notice this here in, one of your attachments is a message from the chair. So this is gonna be I'm pretty sure we're the first one to submit a message from the chair just to show how exciting the year's been. And instead of having set a formal staff report, have this that could the residents can see, and residents can see that we're all excited about all the new upcoming things that we have for them. And that is my report. I'm available for any questions if you have any. Thank you.

Thank you very much, commissioner Peak. Mister chair, I appreciate the the presentation, the report there. We'll open it up to, council questions and stuff. And I did if you don't mind, I know we have some of the parks commissioners, here. If you could go ahead and come on up to to the podium, wanna make sure that you all are seen and recognized as well. And and I'll ask you all to share if you may, just briefly maybe, like, one highlight from your time on the commission. If if you wanna go ahead and just share that, so that the the public can hear that as well. Commissioner Peak did a great job of of giving that overview there. So, if if you don't mind, there's three of you there, maybe introducing yourself briefly and Sure. Sharing one highlight from your time on the commission, please.

Barbara Baxter. Oh, that's a difficult one. Highlights, there's so many things we've done. My highlight would be just being out in the public and seeing the joy and happiness and excitement on the people's faces that are taking part in all the things that the city puts on for its residents, the young ones, the seniors. Everybody just seems to enjoy that we take time and, address everyone's needs. That would be it. Thank you.

Thank you.

So let me move this up. Thank you for the question. I'm Liza Ariano, and I've been on the commission for about six or seven months. I'm one of the newbies. I got involved with the commission just because I wanted to see what was going on and be more involved in my community. And I have been so surprised as a mother of two children, nine years old and 12 years old, of everything that the city has going on. Like, there is something every week, so I do wanna give a shout out to Jeremy and his team. They coordinate so many events. I don't know. Like, maybe you can get more staff or, you know, a higher pay for of the effort that they put into providing events for people of all ages.

They have child events, you know, children with different abilities. They have senior events. So many things going on that, really, you know, I wish more of the residents knew about because they're they're great activities that are put on. The event that stands out to me, and it's not really an event, but in one of our report outs, it was around Christmas time, they were sharing about how at the senior citizen, area, they were taking, filling out slips for gift baskets for the seniors of, like, blankets and socks and that they had more requests than they had people giving gifts. So several of us on the commission volunteered to be, like, secret Santa to these people, and the thought of a lot of those requests going unfilled was just heartbreaking thinking that, you know, someone like my mom or grandma was out there not having that.

I wish we had more, you know, people sign up for that, but, what a great, you know, memory to have to get warm you know, items for Christmas and to be able to bless people like that. So thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Nikita Wilson, and I'm new to the commission, but I'm not new to the city. I raised my girls going to all the events. I'm talking about from Christmas events from, like, two to three years old. They're adults now. So it's always been a beautiful thing to go to these events throughout the years, but it's different now being on the commissioner side of it because I get to see the work from the inside, and I really appreciate it. I went to Earth Day event, and that was really fun getting a little dirty out there with the trees and all the things. And then the bike park is so amazing. And so I really do appreciate all the things that the park commission does in the city.

Thank you so much. Love it. Yeah. Any other questions from from the council for our commissioners? Great job.

Great job.

Thank you once again. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

That, we will go to public comment. Madam clerk, do we have any speakers on this item?

We do, mayor. Luis Palomarez.

Congratulations to these commissioners. They do an excellent job. And all the stuff that's going on in the city, I can my hat's off to all the all the different events we have there. It's a great thing. We got so many people in the community that attend this, and it's really it's great. So I just wanna say thank you to our commissioners that are doing all this, putting their hard time and and energy into our community here and making it a better place for us all. Thank you again.

That concludes public testimony for this item, mayor.

Thank you, madam clerk. We'll bring it back to the dais for any deliberation. Seeing no deliberation, it looks like this is a receiving file item, so we don't have to vote on this particular item. Thank you once again to our parks, commissioners for the presentation and for all of your continued work out in the community. And with that, we will move to our next, item, which is l three, the senior citizens commission annual report for years 2526. We are joined by various commissioners here. So we will turn it over to director Bobnick once again to start us with the staff report.

Thank you, mayor and city council. Once again, I'm gonna pass along to our chair, the senior citizens commission,

Hazel Lambert.

Hazel. I'm sorry. I blanked To give our presentation.

Thank you. Good evening to the mayor, mayor pro tem, city council, and everybody in the room. My name is Hazel Lambert. I am the chair of the senior citizens commission, and I have my, the colleagues here with me, other commissioners here. Everybody isn't here, but just to give you guys I need to speak into this.

We have Debbie on the left, Martha, myself, Rita, Robert, who had to leave because he had to take a nap because we're seniors, Pauline, and and Robert. Right now, we currently have two vacant positions, so we're always looking for other commissions to join us in the fund. So, part of what the work that we did is we wanted to put together a mission statement, and we wanted that mission statement to, reflect the work that we're doing. And it is the mission of the senior citizen commissions to support and enhance the quality of life and well-being of our senior citizens by providing services, program, and resources that promote healthy aging for greater independence with the culturally diverse and nurturing environment. As you know, here at Moreno Valley, we have a very diverse community, and we want to make sure that we reflect that.

And we know that here in Moreno Valley, our seniors, the population is continuing to grow here, and we wanted to make sure that we are keeping that in mind as far as, you know, quality of life. So as you all know and you may have heard, our commission, they saw that there was a need because, as we said, our community as far as the seniors are really growing, and we're seeing that you know, we're outgrowing the senior citizens in place that we have right now. So in October, we did our first we did a groundbreaking. The request was to add 4,540 square feet more to the buildings because we are just bursting at the scene. So many things that are going on.

Even though we're stating here today that this is something that, you know, we're seeing that we want to see the expansion here, we know that eventually we're gonna need another senior citizen building as well. So we wanna make sure that you guys keep that in mind, and we're gonna make sure that you keep that in mind. So just to give you an idea of some of the, events that happened just in the day at the senior citizen, we have a lot of education and health and support programs that are going on. We have the shuttle services that are going on. And one of the main ones that I wanted to point out is that we're feeding at least a 122 people per day, and that's part of the collaboration and with the work that we're doing with Family Services Association that are providing those hot lunches.

Do do we're talking about average of about 2,800 meals a month that's being, fed. Not to mention the 335 monthly, meals that box meals that are being done that are out in the community probably to some of our homeless populations. The senior center serve as a warming center, when the temperatures are below 37 degrees and also serves as a cooling center when the temperature exceeds over, 97 degrees. So that's a great place where people come and and know that, you know, they have a place where when it's too cold or too hot that they're a place where they can feel safe. Some of the other activities that we have there for those that may not have what they call a home church, We do have, a place where they can come and do their bible study.

We have some of our town hall meetings there where a lot of, you know, great information is shared about what's happening in our community. And we also have, you know, especially during this time of the year, well, before April 15, tax preparation that is going going on there. So there's a lot of different things that are happening at the center. Also, of course, we're looking for fun. We're we're young at heart, as you guys know.

Today, we had the Cinco de Mayo event that took place. I was told I didn't get a chance to go that it was so much food that was happening there, but, that's just, one of many things that we do. We do the summer grilling grilling and chili. We do the tea with the moms, holiday craft sales. We do our black history month, our international day. And as I said, because this is a diverse community, we wanna make sure that programs are there that are diverse. Right? And one of the things that they brought back that everybody likes is the casino trips. Right? They're getting those arms back in shape.

Right? Pulling those and our Halloween party and some of the other things as far as our, sewing classes and rummage sales and different things like that. Oops. Let me go back because I gotta get this one in. Right? You know? As you can see, for some reason, they love to dance. Right? You know? So this is just a few of the pictures of some of the activities that we talked about that have been taking place. As you can see, you know, I heard them talk about some of the Secret Santa things that we do. We talked about the yard sales, and they're always ready to get down as you can see. They get down, and we have to help them get up sometimes. You know? But, we we have fun.

Not only are our, commissioners seniors, we're also involved as far as being some of the facilitators of some of the activities that are going on here. As you can see, one of our commissioners, we have we have Debbie and Pauline right here who oversee the Zumba our Zumba class, our silver age yoga, and our fit after 50 classes. So, again, it's almost like the commercial with the guy that, you know, used to sell the toupee. He said not only is he, you know, the CEO, but he's a he's he's a client as well. We are clients.

Not only are we commissioners, we are also facilitators as well. So we're deeply, involved in it. Also here where you see Pauline, we have our ESL classes where Pauline teaches that that class, the English as a second language as a classroom that helps seniors develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Again, these are just some of the things that we're passionate about as seniors, and we wanna see our community, as we said, as part of our commission as part of our mission, to make sure that they have quality of life. Of course, we also have again, you know, I've served as a a host and also as an educator.

Part of my background is in mental health and making sure that we are bringing resources to our community. And, also, we have Rita, who is our instructor for our R and B Get Fit and rocking chair exercise. And if you've ever come out on any given day, there's always some dancing going on there. So we love to dance. We love to party.

Young and hard, as I say. We're also involved in a lot of the, community events that take place. Last year, we had an opportunity to participate in the, fourth of July event. And I know Martha was a little upset because we was told we couldn't throw candy, and we saw everybody throwing candy. So we said, this year, we're gonna do like any good grandma is to throw some candy, a bunch of sweets, and send them home hyped up to the parents.

Right? So we're looking forward to that, and we're always looking forward to the state of the city's address that I know that's coming up, and we make sure that we're there, to support, the city and the state and the work that they're doing here. Of course, we always appreciate the opportunity to be a part of the board and commission appreciation dinner. We definitely make sure that we come off of that, don't we, ladies? Yeah. We we never miss that opportunity. And with that said, we're just cool like that. Right? So thank you. If there are any questions, we're here to answer any questions.

Thank you so much. Yeah. Let's give it up to our seniors commission. Amazing. Amazing presentation. Love it. And, super exciting to see all the good work that you continue to do, keeping us young at heart as well. So we'll open it up to any questions, and and I'll ask the same question as I did to the past commission. If if your, two colleagues there would like to maybe introduce themselves and then share, one or two highlights from from your time on the commission.

My name is Pauline Moya, and, I one of the things that really I was really awestruck was Rudy had a, volunteer, awards acknowledging everyone who was a volunteer there. And I I know that there's a few of us. Didn't know that there was more than 40 or so. And you walk into the center, there's people playing pool. There's people in the where they're doing exercise. There's people doing creative writing, there's sewing, there's art, there's you walk in, and it's all free. It is all free. It's beautiful. So thank you, and we enjoy what we do. Alright. Nice meeting you.

Hi. My name is Rita Butler, and I am a 70 year old fitness instructor. So I take pride in trying to keep our seniors fit. I've been an instructor there for about ten years. I also help Rudy and the staff with all the events.

So I'm very well acquainted with a lot of the seniors and and the people there. And I tell you that is, like you say, a very, very active senior center. And not only are we because, you know, we get older and stuff like that, there is not a not only a sense of community, but we're like family. So many of us know each other, so we do things outside the the senior center. A lot of the the, like, soul line dancing, Zumba, we participate in different activities in other states, in other cities, and stuff.

So we're very well connected. And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to be a commissioner because because I'm there all the time, and I interact with a lot of those people. And I have very compassion for our seniors. And a lot of them is like this place is really like their

home. Mhmm.

You know? Definitely. And so it touches a lot of us because, you know, you see the people there and stuff and everything. But, you know, we also come in, and there's pictures on the desk because they passed away. And so, like I said, for me, it's it's my heart. And so I just appreciate being, on the commission and also being a part of that senior center. I think we have a really great senior senior center, and we're looking forward to that expansion because we have actually really outgrown that senior center.

Thank you so much. Are there any other questions from the council? Have comments. Thank you again for the presentation. Yeah. Yeah. Really appreciate that. And, we'll go to public comment. Madam Clerk, do we have any speakers on this item?

We do not, mayor.

We'll bring it back up to the dais. It looks like miss Palomaras.

Louise Palomarz, community activist. Wow. These ladies are amazing. I wish I could be at the senior center with you, but I'm on this row. I'm on a I'm on a battlefield all the time for the the reasons why. You know, we need a state of the art senior center. I've been talking about it forever. $2,000,000 who could've did a lot of things with that money. I know they poured a lot of money into the senior center not that long ago, but there's still not enough room. I hear they left a lot of stuff back there on the parking. You know? I hear that people are park seniors are parking down the street and crossing. We need a state of the art senior center. Like, of the ladies was saying that we outgrew that five years ago, really. Really, really, really.

And, you know, we got the baby boomers here. You know? I'm a baby boomer. And like I said, with all what they're saying, I feel like being at the senior center and being sweet and nice. But I I'm on this. This is my calling, I guess, to re to to speak truth to power. And in the meantime, throwing rocks at me for it. Oh, wow. It is what it is. So but it's a calling. What I do is a calling. And these ladies, they got a calling. They're they give all of themselves into what they're doing, and they believe, and they they donate their time. And, my hat's off to them. I envy them. You

might

see me at the senior center, but you'll say, oh, no. Don't come. But, I might make a ruckus over there because I'll look around and say, wow. Really? Really? Really? Millions? Really? I'll be over there complaining about it, but, you know, you've got a lot of good things going on there. A lot of things are happening there for our seniors, and that's that's great. Keep it coming and keep it going, and, hopefully, hopefully, before we're in the ground, there might be a state of the art senior center, a huge building, two story building like they have in Fontana. Don't gotta go look at it. Check it out. Take the mayor with you. See what they got over there.

See what they're doing for their seniors over there, and, you know, bring it on, hopefully, than later to do this for our seniors because, you know, they're the foundation of our community here. They're our our foundation, so they deserve a lot more than we're giving them. We're giving them a bone with no meat. But, hey, keep it coming, girls, and I my hats off to you, and I commend you, and I envy you.

Mayor, that concludes public testimony for this item.

Thank you, madam clerk. And we'll go ahead and bring it back up to the dais. And I do wanna say that, also, you know, we've talked about it kinda here and there in passing. It's come up over the past several years of, you know, how do we how do we expand, the services and facilities for for our seniors, for for our youth, for example. And so, you know, that's something that I definitely support. And when we talk about any of those things, one of the main questions is always funding. Right? Like, where is the funding gonna come from to pay for it? Luckily, for the current senior center expansion, I believe the 5,000,000 or so came from DIF. We were able to dip into our, DIF funds to pay for that, but there's limited amounts of DIF.

I think we completely exhausted all of our DIF, for that senior center expansion, which is is needed. But as has been said, we do need another senior center in the city. And so when we look at earlier items, for example, on the, agenda today where we're looking at MVU and restructuring, you know, our finances and things of that nature, hopefully, that will open the door to future opportunities where, we can identify those funding sources so that we can pay for a future senior senior center, pay for a future rec center that is much needed as well. The the rec center right here is bursting at the seams as well for for our youth. And so, you know, that that might require going out to issue a bond and and and having to borrow that money so we can pay for it.

But, you know, I think that's that's well worth it because it's much needed and long overdue. So thank you once again to our to our commissioners for amazing work. Council member Donato.

Yeah. Thank you. Great job on that presentation, you guys. I I am the council member assigned to the commission, the senior citizens commission, and I I too walk in there with awe because it it is extremely busy. There's every room taken up, and these guys are busy, and they they're loving it. You can tell they're just enjoy they're enjoying being there, sharing the time with one another. So thank you guys very much. And for the commission themselves, I'm honored to represent city council at your meetings, and you guys do a fantastic job. Very, very honored. So thank you, and great job on the presentation, you guys.

So I also wanna say thank you, for the presentation. You guys do very well with the presentation. I always say that if you wanna see how a society operates or where their where their priorities lie, how they treat their children and their seniors is is exactly where you'll find out where their priorities are. And so we we do hear you all, and I know council member Delgado and I talk about this a lot. As someone that had to do adult protective services for a number of years, we hear when you guys say, hey.

When are we getting another senior center? And as the mayor has said, there are there are lots of things that we know that we need in this city. There are lots of things that we wish we could do if we had just unlimited funds. And I know even the, expansion is taking a minute for various reasons that were completely out of our control, and hoping to get that back on on track. But as I tell people, when I've gone there and I've participated in things, I think there was the egg hunt I was in a few years ago, and that's been one of the few times where I was like, you know what? Let me just stay out of their way. Because I was told I was in the way while they were looking for eggs and things. And so I was like, you know what? This is a little bit different speed for me. And so I have stayed out of the way, but you guys are very active.

And I appreciate all the work that you guys do and the way that you give back to the seniors there as well as the lively games that I know that you all play from the pool tournaments. There's the pool tournaments. There are the card games. I know. They're dominoes. Yep. They're domino games. So we try to keep our seniors very active and making sure that they are always heard. So thank you all for that.

Thank you. And seeing no further deliberation, this also is a receive and file, so we, do not require a vote on this particular item. So we will go ahead and receive and file that. Thank you once again to our commissioners for joining us here this evening. And we will go ahead and move to our next item. And before, we open that up, actually, consultation with our staff, there has been a recommendation, since we have multiple items that pertain to the same subject matter, which in this case, j four through j nine all relate to utility box. L. Excuse me. L. Thank you.

L four to l nine, the five items all pertain to utility box, art. There has been a recommendation from staff, to to make a motion that we consolidate general business items l four, l five, l six, l seven, l eight, and l nine for consideration and allow public comment on all of them at the same time with a three minute time limit for all. So we're just consolidating all of them, for efficiencies purposes and seeking a second.

That motion.

There is a motion and a second. Madam clerk, if you could please call for the vote.

Thank you, mayor. Council member Bernard? Yes. Council member Delgado? Yes. Council member Baca Santa Cruz? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Gonzalez? Yes. And mayor Cabrera?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. So we'll go ahead and open this up with, review and consider public art commission's approvals for utility box art program applications. Again, there are five of them this evening. So, to get us started, I'll hand it over to our parks and community services director, Jeremy Bubnick, for a staff report.

Once again, mayor and council, I'm gonna pass the buck to a staff member. I may introduce Jasmine Alvarez Barragan. She is our community outreach manager and oversees our public art program.

Hello, everyone. Hello, council. Hello, everyone. It's a smaller clap crowd today, so super excited to be here. I just asked all of my artists present here in the room to kind of join me, for these presentations.

For this first one, I'm really excited. It's for Avery Aguilar, and I have her mom Nadine here with me. She is a senior in high school. She's only 16 and graduating this year, so really excited for her. And so art is kind of the way that she kind of tells her story, so I'm gonna show a couple of samples of her work, she likes playing with realism and fantasy, so you can see three samples of her work here, and then, her piece that she wants to propose is the birds of Moreno Valley in California.

You can see that on the right, it shows four different birds that are local to the city of Moreno Valley as well as other birds that are local to our home state. The location for for this is the Corner Of Mason And Hospital and her budget so she's requesting $500 for this piece. And that's all I have for this presentation, And then if I can have the next one.

And the next one is for

The next one is from Alvaro Alvarez, he's gonna be presenting this presentation.

Yeah. Hello, everyone, mayor council. My name is Alvaro Alvarez, and I'm gonna do a quick presentation on my utility box art. So, again, my name, it's almost like my last name, Alvaro Alvarez. I'm the innovative media librarian at UCR. A little bit of background on me. I work there with the creator lab, the makerspace. So I do a lot of consultations, workshops, and outreach around the makerspace, which in itself is like a hub for art. So I'm very blessed, I guess, to be able to do what I love for work. Today, I'm gonna go over three three quick slides.

So the samples on my past work, proposed location for the art project, and the art project itself with the budget. So as you could see, here are some quick examples of some of the art that I've done, and you could see I'm all over the place. I do two d art. I do I've done animations. There's a link right there if you wanna look at that short Lego Batman video I did.

Laser cutting, that's actually currently at the Moreno library, in the mall the library in the mall if you wanna see it in person. Then I do a lot of stuff with robotics, three d modeling. So my art kinda started when I was small with two d art, drawing cartoons as you can see in, number five. And it kind of evolved now into more modern art, so three d modeling and doing three d art, which I do a lot of workshops on at work. And the proposed location for my art project is Frederick Street in Alessandro.

The reason for this one is because, it's close to the animal shelter, so I want it to be as close as possible to the animal shelter. Because as you could see in my, art, it's a story. It tells a story of a little puppy that's born into the world, and then it's, abandoned or lost. And then it's up for adoption, and then it's finally found its family with another little puppy too. So the the message I'm trying to convey in this is that even when your darkest times when you feel alone, look forward to the time when you're gonna have someone in your life that's gonna love you.

And I hope this inspires people also to adopt. So I've we've adopted me and my wife adopted two little puppies, and they bring a lot of joy into our lives. So I'm hoping that if people see this, it'll inspire them to go to the animal shelter and adopt a little animal that's looking for a family. And, thank you for your consideration today.

K. Hello. I'm back, but I'm excited because I have an artist here with me. I have Vanessa, and she'll be presenting three pieces.

Good evening. Thank you for having me here. My name is Vanessa Gomez. I'm an artist from the High Desert of, Victorville, and I've been working as a public artist since 2019, and I've worked on various types of murals from utility boxes to wall murals. I also have experience working digitally with raster and vector based programs.

So quickly, my past work. Recently, I just did some utility box wraps for Tustin, Community Foundation in Tustin. So I focused on the programs that they have for their community, and those were wrapped. And I also have another wrapped box in Riverside, and I've usually paint the boxes. So I have some in Atalanta, Riverside, Ontario, and Claremont.

So I'm have I have three designs here. So my first proposed concept features gnat catchers. So it's a bird. And in the background, I have, like, abstract representations of coastal sagebrush, and I have a, like, a sun in the background that's in a layer pattern. So the proposed location for this one is on Iris Avenue in in Kaiser.

Concept two, I have this one is inspired by Peruvian apple cactuses. So they're really cool that they bloom at night. So here I have a moss pollinating the flowers here, and the location here I'm proposing is on Iris Avenue in the trail crossing. And the third one, it's inspired by Gila monster lizards. And with the patterns here, I was inspired by Mexican pottery.

And I'm Mexican American. So the this lizard is native to both United States and Mexico. So, like, that was a fun way to incorporate both of my cultures into this design. And that's my proposed location is Paris Boulevard and Iris Avenue. For each, approved design, I'll be it'll be, 500 for each approved design. And that's that's it. Thank you for having me.

Thank you. I love all the designs so far, by the way. Amazing.

And now you get me for the next three presentations. Okay. So for this one, I'm presenting on behalf of Alexandra Garcia. You've seen a lot of her murals and other utility box designs for her. So she likes to, combine what's in the nature and then the surroundings to kind of, design her utility box designs.

And so for some of her samples this is in Moreno Valley, is in Shadow Mountain Park, and so this is called Every Drop Counts. Her other design is Wish Upon a Star, this was, made in, 2024 and it's also in Moreno Valley in Gateway Gateway Park and then this is one of the side views to show our beautiful Burros and then, this is a painting she did or mural for one of the drinking fountains in the city of Pomona for one of their parks there and this was back in 2023 and then for her utility box design she presented Pigeon Pass and Ironwood Avenue fun fact she is local to this area so this is why this she proposed this area for her design so she wants to focus on Moreno Valley hummingbirds and so she used a lot of color but she also wants to highlight how much hummingbirds contribute to our just like natural way of being and so that's her piece She is asking for $500 for this utility box. And then that's it for this presentation, and next I have Andrew Lyko. Thank you. So a little bit about, Andrew Lyko, he likes to blend color and darkness with a lot of his designs so you can definitely see that in a lot of his designs he also already has one utility box approved with the city and it's, right by the Dollar Tree not far from here.

So this is kind of a rendering to kind of show how he designs, his characters, and then his pieces that he's proposing is he's proposing seeker of light on Mason Street and Bay Avenue, and then keepers of light, red wing and cactus right by Woodland Park. To give you a closer view, this is seekers of light, and then this is his other piece called, sorry. This one's keepers of light, and the other one was seeker of light. And then his budget is $500 for each, and then that's it for this presentation. And I have just one more I promise.

Okay this last one is for Shane Mitchell, you've seen a lot of his pieces both in mural form as well as utility box, so I'm going to show you a couple of his pieces, this is in Claremont it's called Eternal Blunt and he did this in 2023 and then he also did this in West Bluff Park this Fun fact this is actually really close to where he went to school so that's why he proposed this location, and then he also has this in Pomona called Nature's Flow and it's water based and it was done in 2023. Then he also has a design for this bench called Sitting Blossom, and then I'm going to show you a couple of pieces that he's done digitally to kind of connect with his designs that he's proposing for this utility box. So he's proposing two the first one is Native Mystics with obviously our fun Burrows so his proposed location for this one is Hecock in Ironwood, And then his second piece, is called Mobile Sunset, and he's proposing LaSalle Street and Trail Sign. And so he's asking for $500 for each of his digital renderings for a total of a thousand dollars.

And those are all our utility box presentations. So you have a total of 10.

Amazing. Thank you so much for that presentation. I know we changed the structure on you there last minute, so I appreciate you, working with us. That went very, very well. We'll bring it back up to the dais for any, council questions of the artist or staff. I don't see any questions at this time. So, great job once again. We will go to public comment. Madam clerk, do we have any speakers on this item?

We do, mayor. The first two speakers are Roy Blacker followed by Luis Palomarez.

You guys keep tempting me with the donkeys. One thing about that though is look at how famous that little rendition was. Tell me how you guys ever made one of your employees that famous with the clipboard. You look at this stuff, and finally, maybe there's a little bit of hope here. Finally, Leash consolidated this stuff so we aren't here till 03:00 in the morning discussing $500 utility wraps on boxes.

The big thing is this, when we're you know, how much have we spent on this? $250 of that, of all this art and stuff that was going on? How much have we ever involved as it was talked about the kids from the school districts? And that's what this was supposed to about. And if you're gonna use public money for public funds for doing that, and you wanna always wanna talk about Moreno Valley, why don't we keep it here?

You know, we're talking about people coming in from wherever, and I got nothing against that. But all the rhetoric that goes around, this just proves the point of this is nothing else, but political grandstanding. Because, really, the one the one that was cool was the person that went out and got her own sponsor. I think it was a girl. Got her own sponsor to come up with $500 to go up and put the utility route.

That actually teaches kids, young people to go out and hustle it, which is a pretty good skill to have to succeed in life. Not think you're gonna get a handout here or that. And the second part of it, and I've said, doing these things are taking legitimate projects that we could do, like, whatever the $250 is with the failed deal by the great Barwinski, who him and his relative had to threaten my late father and me all through here when we were going through that whole fiasco. But, hey, it's Moreno Valley. What can you expect?

As a side note, know what our revenue bond is. And on top of that, guess who came up with the idea of drop your library books off at the Mason Street Bridge? I regret the day that I didn't let the city go bankrupt back then.

The next speaker is Luis Palomarez.

Okay. Well, you just Louise Palomar's community active. Oh, you sure it wasn't the Tallahatchie Bridge? Some of the people are too young to understand that one, but wow. Because it's like a soap opera at the district more than ever. Anyway, you know, then art brilliant. Brilliant. They're artists. They're brilliant. They're beautiful.

I mean, how could you say no, and how could you say not? But, you know, the utility boxes, I've seen them. They look great. The only thing I was talking about way back in the day that we were doing pay to play with this mayor here, 60,000 murals, $60,000 mural, $70,000 mural, $25,000 mural. You know, this we can handle. I'm alright with this, and they they look beautiful. They look great, and my hats off to the artist, you know, that that do all this creating. So, thank you for bringing it to our city, and we appreciate it. And let's let's get it going. Thank you.

Mayor, that concludes all the public comments for this item.

Thank you very much, madam clerical. Let's bring it back up to the dais for any council deliberation if desired.

Job, these are probably the best batch we've had so far. I motion to approve the No.

I'm not gonna say it's the best batch we've had so far. I'm not gonna assault anyone else. I would say this is a very good crop of Diverse. Utility boxes. It's very diverse, and we appreciate you all bringing them forward.

Ready to motion? Motion to approve the 10 utility box, program applications.

I don't know. Is there any yeah. It looks like there might be more comments.

I wanna

And this for, Steph. How many utility boxes we have left?

Sorry. I had to ask the question.

Here she comes. I

can come

up an answer. So we have about 16 or so left. Well, 17 if I do my math correctly. So about 17 left.

My question for you would be, are you talking about what's in the pipeline or how many utility boxes Yeah. In the entire city?

Left in the city.

Okay. So right now for this program, we launched 32, but, I know that we have was it 300, Jeremy, that we've identified?

Over 300. Yeah.

I'm gonna get my pencils out.

No. I I just wanna know so so the opportunities are are there for more art. That that's all. Thank you.

Definitely.

And the only other thing that I would mention is, you know, as as the arts continue to grow and bloom here in the city of Moreno Valley, also just wanna thank the artists, especially those that it's your first time coming out here. Appreciate you, submitting your your your art here and letting us showcase that around the city. I can see this. I would love to see this art, not just this art, but, you know, a a lot of the other art in the city on on some kind of merch. Like, I could see these these these pieces on shirts, on maybe hats, on hoodies, for example.

And I'm just thinking out loud here going off the cuff, but, when we talk about, you know, new potential new funding sources, maybe that could be a way to, raise more money for the arts, additional art programs in the city. And then maybe even if there's, like, a cost sharing, a revenue sharing component to it, maybe the artist can also be compensated because the you're not giving you're not you don't do this for free. Like, this is work for artists. Right? Like, this is, for many artists, your livelihood. You put your time, your labor, you buy materials with this money. So, just thinking out loud, but would love to see, you know, this this art on shirts and other kind of merchandise

Hold on. I have question about that. Is don't we purchase it, and don't we have the rights to it? Don't the artist, release all of their rights to it, and they can't make merchandise? Everyone's nodding their head yes. Okay. So

And isn't that something that the commission recently discussed? The the IP and giving away all the rights to their work?

Yeah. Among other things, there are committees looking at the public art policy, and maybe we're we're recommending changes, but we don't know that yet.

Because it would be nice for them to be able to do, some promotions of their own to own that art.

Agree. Yeah. Okay. And if there's no further, deliberation, I think there was a motion, and I believe there was a second as well to approve. There's not

I'll second.

There's a second to approve staff's recommendations. Madam clerk, please call for the vote.

Thank you, mayor. Council member Bernard? Yes. Council member Delgado?

Yes.

Council member Fox Santa Cruz? Yes. Mayor Potom Gonzalez? Yes. And mayor Cabrera? Yes. Thank you.

Thank you. Those are approved with five yeses. Congratulations to all of the artists. Thank you once again. And we will move now to item m. We're almost at the end here. Looks like there are three reports here, so I'll try to just go through these as quickly as I possibly can. The first one is for the Riverside County Transportation Commission. This is for the meeting held on April 27. The low carbon transit operations program was developed to provide funding to transit agencies.

Riverside County is estimated to receive $4,872,489 in LCTOP formula funding for the first cycle of fiscal year of 2526, which will be distributed directly by the state controller's office to transit operators for eligible projects. Eligible projects include the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, mobility improvements, and the prioritization of services to disadvantaged communities. The next meeting is scheduled to be held on 05/13/2026. The next report will be for SCAG, the meeting held on April 9. At the SCAG regional council meeting held on April 9, the council approved action item number one, nomination and election of twenty six twenty seven SCAG officer positions, and action item number two, consideration of proposed amendments to the SCAG bylaws.

The five proposed amendments were limited to language cleanups and clarifications. The consent calendar and previous minutes were approved with minimal discussion. The business report was given by Lucy Dunn. Since her report was written, the joint policy committees met and gave a pre briefing on demographics. She noted that it would be beneficial for homebuilders to hear this information because with the median age rising, population growth becoming flat, smaller households along with the housing shortage would allow these builders to work on designing new product types.

The president's report from Cindy Allen, council member from Long Beach, focused on SCAG's two two sponsored bills, which were s b ten eighty seven and a b 2,002. S b ten eighty seven would modernize the framework in s b three seventy five. A b 2,002 would codify the successful 2019 reap one point o. Both provided resources for SCAG to implement the regional housing needs allocation also known as RINA, created tools that streamline housing element preparation, support accessory dwelling units permitting, and advancing fair housing. Komi Agisi gave the executive director's report.

He stated that SCAG earlier in the day participated in the presentation of the kickoff for Connect SoCal. He expressed his gratitude for members engagement and promises updates as they progress through the plan development process. The action by the regional council authorizes SCAG to go out and begin data collection from each of the 197 jurisdictions and conduct one on one meetings lasting through November. This will enhance the policy development process at SCAG as SCAG prepares for a draft plan in 2027. The next SCAG meeting will be held on May 7 at 9AM.

And then the last one is for RCA, the Riverside Conservation Authority, meeting held on May 4. Senate bill twelve fifty from senator Cortese Cortese. RCA submitted a support letter for SB twelve fifty sponsored by the Nature Conservancy. The bill seeks to establish wildlife connectivity as a form of form performance objective within the California Department of Transportation State Highway Asset Management System. The bill was passed by the senate natural resources and water committee and will next be heard by the senate appropriations committee.

For the federal update, RCA staff developed and submitted two programmatic requests for consideration by members of congress in fiscal year twenty seven to increase funding for the cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, also known as section six grants from which RCA competes for land acquisition funding. And that will conclude my report. The next meeting will be held on June 1. And that will conclude our reports for this evening. We'll go to item n, employee association report. We do not have one tonight, which brings us to the famous city manager's report.

And thank you, mayor mayor pro tem, council members. If you recall last two meetings, we, really didn't, report anything, due to the lateness of the hour on those meetings. So I'm going back, a little bit, into mid April. Just wanted to announce that the city of Moreno Valley has been named the 2026 top workplace culture excellence award winner for professional development. It's a prestigious national recognition that highlights the city's commitment to fostering employee growth, training, and advancement.

The uniqueness about this award is that it's completely employee based, so predicated on an actual survey that's done nationally, by InterGage. They are a national leader in workplace engagement, organizations organizational health. And so, our employees engaged in the survey, and we came out an excellence award winner. So wanna say thank you to HR, to all of our staff that make up T Mobile for this prestigious award. Then I'd like to, just, mention that our own Patty Rodriguez, has been recognized as the 2026 municipal clerk's honor roll.

So, congratulations, Patty, to your team, and, for everything that you do for the city, in leadership, dedication to public service, and commitment to innovation. So congratulations. And, with bittersweet feelings, I am I am, unfortunately announcing the, resignation and retirement of our HR director, human resources director, Robert Cardenas. After fulfilling, thirty two years within public service, he has decided to spend a little bit more time with his family. And so, we will, be missing him, on July 24 as his last day, with the city will be July 23.

But he's been, integral in the last two and a half years with reimagining and innovating human resources in a collaborative, innovative, and customer service driven way. So thank you, Robert. Thank you for everything that you've done for the city and all the camaraderie as well. So with that, that concludes my comments.

Thank you so much, and congratulations to both, our our our city clerk, as we call her, madam clerk around here. And, doctor Gardena, thank you so much for your years of service here to the city of Moreno Valley. Wish you all the best. And with that, we will move into council closing comments, and we will go first to District 4, council member Bernard.

Thank you, mayor. So I just want to, first, thank Robert for his years of service. Thirty two years is a long time, especially in public service, to to do anything. So I appreciate all the work that you have done and the team that you have built within human resources. And so when I think about everything that we are going to lose, I texted Brian immediately when I found out.

And I was like, are you serious? And he was like, yes. He he those last few meetings where we were here till 1AM did it for us. So I appreciate you and all the hard work that you've done, especially putting faith back into our our unions and things like that and working with them and getting them to the table and and just being fair and honest with them. So I appreciate that work.

As some of you may have heard earlier, over the weekend, for those of you that don't know, my my actual full time job is an executive director over at UC Riverside's Labor and Community Center. And so this weekend, I had the fortunate of going up to San Jose, with the AFL CIO and the state building trades for, women stronger together where we basically sat around. And, we had a number of, different things that we did from yoga to sound bath to, how to combat bullying for women, what it's like to be the only woman on a job site, different legislative bills, and, things like that. And that that was extremely a lot of fun. I'm hoping they're gonna have one next year.

I'm hoping, to have at least a few people, from the city of Moreno Valley go. I think some of the women here might might like it and benefit from it. You know what, Brian? And you can go too. I don't wanna ever leave you out, Brian. You can go too. I did participate in the Beautify Maval. And right after that happened, we did it over at Bethune Park. I then went over to the city of Paris where we were at the railway park for the autism awareness walk, where I ran into some of my friends from the United Domestic Workers Union, which is UDW, because they were there. And so for those of you who don't know, I was an IHSS social worker along with APS.

And I still, once a month, go teach IHSS advocacy classes at UDW. So it's always good to run into them, and it's always fun to talk with them. Also, I'm gonna end with, this note that it is teacher appreciation week as we are getting towards the end of the school year. Please, if you if you know a teacher, one, I know they're counting down the days. My sister's best friend is one of them.

She literally told me a few weeks ago, we got thirty nine days left. We're almost at the finish line. So please tell a teacher that you appreciate them and the work that they do, spending time teaching teaching these babies out here. No matter the age, they're still our babies, and they care for them just as much as we do. I also want to just honestly, just just a few words of wisdom from from me, which is not even gonna be as bad as some of you may think it is.

One thing that I have noticed is that we come in here every every other week, two times a month, and I'm all for public conversation. I'm all for people in the public coming up here to comment. But the one thing that I will say is happening a lot is when I'm talking to just everyday people who don't come to these meetings, they're terrified to come because they see what happens with the public or they finally come in the room and they'll say, well, they'll they're always yelling. They're always screaming. And I have to remind them that that is less than 1% of the population, that there are more people like them, as in the people that are afraid to come to the meeting, than there are the people that they consider screaming and hollering all day.

And and trying to remind people that a lot of what you see is what I would dictate as political theater. People trying to get sound bites, clickbait. Because the truth is once the microphone is done and once their time winds down, and some of them count down on the time, you'll see they'll go out there and have a a nice general conversation like it never happened. And so don't be afraid to come to a council meeting. You have just as much right to be here as as they do.

And I'm hoping over the next few weeks, we're able to get some of that back and forth handled because I know things can get very heated. And when things get heated, they're yelling at audience members too. And I don't ever think anyone should be afraid to come to a meeting. No one should be scared to speak their own opinion, and no one should feel like they're gonna be harassed when they walk in the door, which is what the public has expressed to me on numerous occasions. So I will just end with, I hope those of you that show up here day in and day out and like to remind us of how dumb we are, remember that at the end of the day, we're here to serve more than just you. There are 200,000 plus other people we're here to serve. And with that, I close.

Thank you. Next up, District 2, councilmember Delgado.

Thank you, mister mayor. I'd like to reiterate a thank you to our, like like, councilmember Bernard said about our teachers, and our crossing guards because they're out there, and they're counting the days as well. Oh, okay. But so our our teachers are very important, and I was told just the other day that June 11 is the last day of school for Moreno Valley. So, when she says they're literally counting the days. Not that they don't like their jobs, and I was told not that we don't like our jobs. We're just ready for summer. So, good for them. I attended, Beautify Movale as well. We got up there, and the kids were dancing around.

And Bernie the Burrow was out there dancing with them and stuff, so that was cool. And then we went out to a couple parks, District 2 And 4, I believe. Yeah. 2 And 4. And did some work on there to improve our parks. Great. Attended the student of the year at the Moreno Valley College, and that was amazing, to hear their stories. I know that we go once a month, but, to see them brother high schools get student of the year. It was amazing. So, I was very grateful for that.

And then, attended the, Marina Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Awards, an installation dinner last Friday, which, they too gave student of the years and scholarships to students throughout this the district here in Myrtle Valley. So that was really cool. Had a lot of good stories, and I think our own Stephanie got an award there that night, I think. Right, Steph? Mhmm. Good job, ma'am. Whoo. And I will close with, plea please be kind to one another. It's not that hard, and I say it every meeting, and it's because it's true. If you can be kind to someone, it it's very contagious, and it's a lot easier to smile than it is to frown. Right? So thank you. That's it.

Thank you. Next up, council member Baca Santa

It's a lot harder.

Okay. Fine. More muscles. I don't know if it's harder. I also attended the Beautify Movale day of service. I, planted a park down in, planted a tree down in District 4, and then we headed up to West Bluff to paint and move wood chips and pick up trash and just be in community to clean up a park. So that was nice. I also attended the Myrna Valley Hispanic Chamber Awards and installation. And I wanted to also say congratulations to Stephanie Macias, who won the public service award, and our former city manager, Mike Lee, who also was awarded that, night for his service to the city. So thank you to both of you.

And also want to say congratulations to the, students the 14 students from Moreno Valley, Unified and Valverde that received, scholarships that night, especially Ashley Jimenez and Kevin Garcia from Moreno Valley High School and Leslie Valde Pena and Henac Aragon from March Mountain High School, both, the two high schools in District 1. So congratulations, and thank you to supervisor Gutierrez who came down to swear in the new officers. It was, a great night to be together. Lots of people in attendance, and it was very touching to hear the stories of the students who won the scholarships. And then finally, I want to say thank you to Robert Cardenas for all his time in HR.

It it's really telling for unions to have positive words about the director of HR. Trust me. I know. I sit across the table from our, vice chancellor of HR, and, it it changes that dynamic to have a very good, human resource officer, working with our unions. So I hear good things from the unions about you, so I appreciate everything you've done to restore the relationship. And, that ends my comments. Thank you.

John Robert. Thank you. Next up, mayor pro tem Gonzales.

I have a few few items, for closing comments. Last Thursday, attended the Phoenix Gateway Gala, with, it's a their work involves workforce, pathways for individuals with developmental disabilities. A lot of local leaders there in attendance, great sponsors, great, testimonials. The mayor was also there as well, and it was a great evening. The second item, the Consulado will be here finally in Moreno Valley, next week from the twelfth to the sixteenth.

And, we've you know, thank you, Parks, Jeremy, and your team and Claudia Reyes, Jasmine, and for everyone that made this possible. We will finally a lot of residents have been asking, why doesn't Moreno Valley have the Consulado mobile, the mobile Consulado? And they will finally be here in Moreno Valley at the Cottonwood Golf Center next week. So if you have friends, family that need, different documentation, like a passport, electro ID card, a consular ID card, please let them know it will be at the the golf center there on Cottonwood. Let's see.

Other item. The OEM, right, City of Moreno Valley, we're having the fire resilience forum on the eighteenth at Valley View at Valley View. So that'd be great opportunity to learn everything that fire and, OEM is doing for, creating the festival spaces and and many things fire, related. And let's see here. I'll be attending SCAG, starting on on Thursday and Thursday and Friday, so, excited to be there representing the city of Moreno Valley and with our, my other colleagues and peers from different cities.

And last, again, thank you, doctor Caranas, for your years of service. Thirty two years. Correct? I'm right behind you at at twenty five almost twenty five. So, it's it's great to see someone in the in in our in our realm achieve what you've achieved, and and I I hope that you you know, whatever you do after that day is full of, enjoyment and and and very fulfilling. So thank you for your service, and and that ends my closing comments. And happy Cinco de Mayo, of course.

Thank you. And for my closing comments, I'll just start by wishing all the mothers out there a happy early Mother's Day. Felizia de los Madres, Temprano, Boco Temprano, but, you know, just, to to just the pillars, the foundation of our households, you know, from the moment we're born all the way until, you know, past, our adulthood and and throughout life, just, you know, all the contributions, all the hard work, the heavy weight that all mothers carry on their shoulders to make sure that, our families have everything that they need. So, happy early Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. Also, an invitation, I don't think it's been mentioned, so, I wanna give a shout out to the our police chief and our police department.

The public safety expo coming up on Saturday, May 16, right here on San Juan De Los Agos, right next to the City Hall, right next to the police department. That'll be, again, May from 10AM to 2PM. Very, very exciting event. You are all invited. Also had the chance to attend the student of the year celebration over at Moreno Valley College.

Always very nice to see our students get recognized from, in this case, all across Moreno Valley Unified and Valverde Unified as well. So just amazing to hear their stories, their testimonies, their their their journeys of, you know, how they got onto that stage and and got those scholarships so they can continue on their journey. And then I was not able to stay until the end because I had to go over to the museum, the Marchfield Museum for the Phoenix Gateway Annual Gala where, they recognize some of their staff, a lot of their employees there. And, Phoenix is very well known, for their workforce support to the neurodiverse community. So a a lot of their staff, a lot of their employees, that they bring on, they provide just amazing training and opportunities.

And so just hats off to Angel, who also sits on the workforce development board and is the CEO and founder there at Phoenix Gateway. Thank you for having us. Consulado Mobile, as mayor Pro Tem mentioned, I can't remember the last time that that ever happened. I'm not sure if it ever has happened here in Moreno Valley, so that's a big deal to have the Mexican consulate having the Consulado Mobile. As you all know, 60% of our population is Latino. 88% of that 60% is of Mexican origin. So appreciate them bringing those services here to our city for our residents. Also, community day of service, had the opportunity to go out there and plant a tree with my colleagues over at Bethune Park and, just do some cleanup at some of these parks. Always very nice. The next one will be in October.

Hope to see you there. Also had the chance to go over to Canyon Springs High School for the Rotary Interact Club, annual installation dinner. So each of the high schools, all five of the high schools in Moreno Valley have Interact Club chapters, and it was a transition of leadership. So we recognized Charlie Charles. Everybody calls him Charlie.

He's the guy. He shows up at everything, volunteering left and right, and he brings the high school students with him to everything. And so they recognize the immediate outgoing or past leadership, presidents, etcetera, and then they recognized and, gave all of the, the the new titles to the incoming leadership at all of those high schools. So hats off to all of them, and that will conclude all of my comments for this evening. And with that, we will go ahead and move into item q, future agenda items, and, look to our city clerk. Madam clerk, do we have any public comments?

We do, mayor. The first speaker is Luis Palomares.

And we'll be doing one minute public comment for this item.

I'm here to ask or propose or suggest, whichever way you wanna take it, that we censure the mayor for the 2,000,000. This council has let them gotten away with this. Why? I don't understand. Why? And plus, you know, there's still gonna be more a bigger bill coming down the road. So does this council have a backbone at all to say, let's do this? Let's censor our mayor here for the $2,000,000. Put it on the next agenda. Let's see if we can do that. Are we gonna get a, you know, a second or a first or I don't know how you do it. I don't think so. I hope so. Thank you.

That concludes all of public comments for this item, mayor.

Thank you, madam clerk. And we'll bring it back up to the days. I do have one I would like for my colleagues to consider for a future agenda item, maybe our next meeting or the two meetings, from now. One of the things I've recently have become more aware of is programs or, you know, local community members that are trying to establish programs, for for children specifically. Let's say, like, if it's a dance studio, or by the or any other kind of children's programs, They have to go through, you know, our application process of getting, you know, permits and, application fees.

And, for many of them, you know, they have very good intentions, but all of this is brand new. So it's very difficult for them to navigate it and the capital that it requires to invest into the endeavor, oftentimes just doesn't even allow for the idea to get off the ground. So I just would like for us to maybe consider, at least having a discussion on, you know, how can we create a new program or maybe allocate some funds within our budget to assist those programs that are trying to establish in Moreno Valley that are specifically for children that are gonna serve our youth, serve our students. I think that's that's something that we should do so we can have more, children programs, here in the city of Moreno Valley. So, wondering if, we can entertain that and have a conversation about that.

And I'll make a motion officially on that.

I'll second that and have a discussion.

There's a motion and a second. Madam clerk, please call for the vote.

Thank you, mayor. Councilmember Bernard? Yes. Councilmember Delgado?

Yes.

Council member Vaca Santa Cruz? Here. Mayor Pro Temp Gonzalez?

Yes.

And mayor Cabrera?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate that. All of my colleagues, thank you. And with that, if there are no further, requests, we will go to adjournment, and we will adjourn this meeting at 08:57PM. Have a good night.