City Council - Regular Meeting

Clerk, may we have the roll call, please? Thank you, Mayor. Council member Chavez, here. Council member Sternquist here. Council member Yu here. Mayor Proench Chen here. Mayor Man here. First, we have the invocation which will be led by our dear friend, Pastor Kelty of Community of Christ Church. Uh they are located at 5851 Temple City Boulevard and services are on Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m. and all are welcome. Please rise for the invocation and please remain standing afterwards for the pledge of allegiance.

Thank you very much. Let us pray. Our divine creator, we thank you for this most beautiful world that you have created. We thank you for this most beautiful day in the light that it provides to all of us. We thank you that we're able to be live in this community and to enjoy its benefits given to all that it has to offer us. We would come into your presence in prayer this evening to ask your blessing upon all that we here do tonight this evening that we may continue to give to this community those things that it needs to have it continue to be a community of outstanding nature to share your blessings with those around us. We would al we would remember especially the city council and their staff to have your wisdom be with them to do those things that make this a better community to make this a better life for all of us. We know not what the future may bring but we ask dear creator that in all we do here this evening we might bring a pag future not just for ourselves but for the generations to come would be our prayer. Amen.

Amen. Amen. For the pledge, I'd like to ask our mayor prom to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Yes. Mayor could all face the flag. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, next we have ceremonial matters and tonight we have the pleasure of recognizing Oak Avenue Intermediate School. um as a California Distinguished School as well as a national school to watch. Um that the California Distinguished School Award is one of the highest honors granted to public schools in California. Schools are selected through a rigorous review of student performance data and evidence of sustained academic achievement, effective instructional practices, and systems that support positive outcomes for all students. Oak Avenue Intermediate School earned this distinction under the closing the achievement gap category. This recognition highlights measurable progress in ensuring that all students have access to quality instruction and the support needed to succeed. Oak Avenue Intermediate was also named as a national middle school to watch, a prestigious designation awarded by the National Forum to Accelerate Middlegrades Reform. Schools receiving this honor must demonstrate exemplary performance across four key areas: academic excellence, developmental responsiveness, social equity, and strong organizational systems. National middle schools to watch are recognized nationwide as models of outstanding and

effective middle school education. Now, on a on a personal note, I did have a the pleasure of visiting Oak Avenue some years ago. Um, and I will say the students there are phenomenal. The staff there are amazing. Uh, and it is not um a surprise to me that Oak is being recognized for this. Um, so I would like to invite Oak Avenue Intermediate School Principal Jordan Less up to the podium to say a few words. Um and afterwards, yes, please. And then afterwards, I would invite council to present uh our certificates to uh the principal and and his staff.

Thank you. Uh thank you so much for for this recognition. It's an honor to to be here with you all tonight. Um we have a small member of our team here who helped uh organize the the war de uh applications for these. Um and first of all none of it would be possible without the support of our district office, our amazing superintendent uh Dr. Aruna who provides the resources and the ability for us to even step into that realm. So we're so appreciative of of him and his leadership. Um we have our our grant writing team here today. um Miss Marta Bjilei um who was our our chief writer on this. Um John Wararez who was our editor and chief who went through every word, combed through it, made sure our grammar was correct and everything was spelled correctly and the the uh the exclamation points were in the right spot. And then um our amazing assistant principal Shelley Scan um who joined us this year who's been an amazing support throughout the year. Um and then really this you know belongs to our faculty um every teacher at our school and classified worker at our school who works tirelessly with our children um who stop at no means and you know the end of the day bell means nothing to them. Um and they just dedicate their time and effort uh to our students. None of this would be possible without them and their dedication. Um then of course our students are amazing. We're just lucky.

OKAY. GREAT. SO, at this point, I'd like to invite uh city council to join me in presenting two certificates of recognition. Um I I will read it really quickly for everyone so they know what's written on here. So in recognition of Oak Avenue Intermediate School's outstanding achievement in rec in receiving the National School to Watch designation as well as the California Distinguished School Award, um the school is recognized for its commitment to fostering academic excellence, developmental responsiveness, social equity, and strong organizational systems. It stands as a model of outstanding and effective middle school education. Council, please join me. I need to be next to Tom. You guys stand right there. You're good right there. Not good.

William closer. Don't move. You're fine. All right. Here we go. Great. Thank you.

We got it. Oh, exciting. We're going to see it. have to be careful.

I tried it all different ways. Okay. Uh, while we are on ceremonial matters, um, there is one item that I'd like to take out of order on the agenda, which I will turn over to our city manager, Brian Cook.

Thank you, Mayor Man, and members of the council. Thank you for allowing me to move up the city manager's report. As part of the city manager report today, um, we are very proud of the fact of the work that the council authorized us to do with improvements to the playgrounds both at Live Oak Park and Temple City Park. But with that, Live Oak Park got a special recognition from the California Parks and Recreation Society and representatives are here. So if Matt Adam Matsumoto can come up and or sorry if the representatives from uh California Parks and Recreation Association can come on up and happy to have you here. Thank you. Where is that?

Good evening,

mayor, city council, city team, and community. I am Janine Andradi, the 2627 California Parks and Recreation Society section representative. It is truly an honor to be in the beautiful city, the beautiful city of Temple City this evening. The CPRS annual award program celebrates outstanding examples of quality facility and park design programming accomplishments, effective communications, community leadership, and professional success that takes place in our in our daily profession. Through our five award categories, we highlight the people, places, spaces, programs, and stories that make communities like Temple City so special. CPRS state awards had 186 applicants total this year and 58 52 total awardees. For the park planning award of excellence, we had eight awardees in three subcategories. It is my great pleasure to present the planning award of excellence in the neighborhood park subcategory to the city of Temple City for the live oak playground renovation. A key objective this of this project was thoughtfully bridge to bridge generations creating a meaningful point of connection between the past and present park users. Adults who once played on the original rocket structure can recognize and appreciate its legacy while today's children are invited to into an engaging imag imaginative play experience designed to meet modern recreational needs. This intentional design approach reinforces a strong sense of continuity, community identity, and shared history. Equally important, the project prioritizes inclusive and de

developmentally appropriate play opportunities. The playground encourages creativity, physical activity, and social interaction among users of all ages and abilities, ensuring that every visitor feels welcomed and engaged. As a primary recreation and open space hub for Temple City, Live Oak Park plays a vital role in the community. The introduction of this new space themed playground has re-energized the park's northeast corner, honoring its rich history while creating a dynamic destination that appeals across generations. A standout element of the project is the extensive community outreach and public input process. Through this collaborative e effort, the design team delivered a truly inspired playground, one that is authentically reflects the voices, memories, and aspirations of all residents. The result is a thoughtfully balanced, forward-looking recreation amenity, one that honors tradition, celebrates community, and will serve a vibrant gathering space for years to come. Kudos to the parks and recreation commission and the parks and recreation department. Congratulations to the temple to Temple City on this outstanding achievement on winning the 2025 park planning award of excellence and the neighborhood park subcategory award of excellence. I also wanted to add this one-of-a-kind award plaque was handmade by an artist through the LA based nonprofit called Peace by Piece. Not only are you being recognized with a unique piece of artwork, CPRS is also helping people who were formerly unhoused and low income to develop marketable skills, self-confidence, and an improved quality of life. Congratulations, Temple City.

If I could please have city council join me. We have a beautiful plaque for you. We have several parts. You want to ask Adam? Adam and city team. Yeah. Can we have Adam and the city team?

Right. Beautiful.

Thank you. Thank you very

Thank Thank you very much.

Hey, I think there's a cough truck over here. I have one. I have one in here. Where did it go? Right in the middle.

Okay. Um, thank thank you again for being here for that. And I know for for many of us sitting here, if you haven't been to Live Oak Park recently since the construction from about a year ago, please do go by. It's it's it still blows my mind the design and and how it looks. So for the uh remainder of the city manager report, we will move back to the original item. And

thank you, mayor. We will move on to the next item which is public comments on items not listed on the agenda. Um at this time we will hear public comments from from the audience that that's not listed on this agenda. We do have a number of speakers uh who filled out the speaker request forms. When I announce your name, please make your way up to the podium to the front. Um and please note that uh you do have three minutes to address the the council. So our first speaker is uh Allan Hstonard.

Hello. Good evening.

Uh Temple City, I've noticed is a multilingual city. And I believe everyone should have a Bible in their own native language. And there is a website bible inmy language.com. This website sells Bibles in more than 500 languages. So anyone that wants a Bible, I'm sure they can find it in their own native language. I'm reading tonight from the book of Matthew. His name means gift of the Lord. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac. The word begat means he became the father of. So Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers. Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez begott Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. Ram begot Aminadab. Aminadab begot Non. And Non begot Salmon. Salmon begott Boaz by Rahab. Boaz begott Oed by Ruth. Incidentally, in the Hebrew writings, there is a book of Ruth. Oed begat Jesse and Jesse begat David the king. David is the greatest king Israel ever had. He wrote many of the psalms in the

Bible, including the famous Psalm number 23, the Lord is my shepherd. David the king begat Solomon. Solomon wrote many of the proverbs. By her who had been the wife of Uriah. Solomon begotten Rahoboam. Rahoboam was the fourth king of Israel. Solomon was the third king of Israel. David was the second king of Israel. And Saul was the first king of Israel. Rahoboam begat Abjah. And Abajah begat Asa. Asa begat Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat begat Joram. And Joam begot Uzziah. Uzziah begot Jotham. Jotham begat Ahaz. And Ahaz begot Hezekiah. Hezekiah begat Manasseh. Manasseh begat Aman. And Aman begat Josiah. Josiah begat Jeaniah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon. You may remember it was the Babylonian um army and their king was Nebuchadnezzar.

Mr. Guard, um your three minutes is up. If you have a point you want to make, could you wrap up? No, I I just wanted to read the Bible tonight. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

All right. Next um next speaker we have is Vanessa Leang. Hi, good evening mayors and city council members. My name is Vanessa Lang and I live in Tampa City. Thank you for giving me a moment to speak tonight. I just want to share a concern that many people in our community have right now. Recently there have been more breakins uh in residential areas including cases where people enter homes by breaking backyard glass doors and windows. Uh this makes me feel very uneasy and upset and sometimes scary. Many home here have uh many homes here have children and elderly family members. As parents, we want our kids to feel safety growing up. And for elderly people, they should feel comfortable and secure in their own homes. Tambbo City has always been a quiet and safe place and that is why we choose to live here for a long time. I really hope it can stay that way. We would truly appreciate if the council if the city could increase police patrols, especially at light, respond more quickly to calls and take proactive steps to help prevent

this type of criminal criminals. Uh we understand the city is doing its best and and we are grateful for that. We just hope public safety can continue to be a top priority. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you.

Thank you, M. Thank you. Uh next speaker we have is Howard Chen. Uh, good evening, city council. Good evening so much for the microphone. Am I good? You hear? Yeah, that's good. That's better.

Good evening, uh, city council. I really do appreciate the opportunity to come up and speak to you about some um instances of situations that have been happening in our neighborhood. Um I have been a very livid uh resident of Temple City for a while now. I did go to the elementary school. I did attend the middle school. I actually just graduated from Temple City High School last year. And I do just want to share a little bit of a story of what actually happened to me recently. So, um, it was pretty early hours in the morning. I just had gone back from an errand. And then when I was sitting in my driveway, I actually heard some leaves rustling on my side backyard wall. You know, I really haven't thought about it. I really thought it was just one of the neighbors, you know, conducting some yard work or maybe trimming up the leaves a little bit. And then both of my dogs were barking. That's why that's when I went and took a look at the side gate to which I found there was a person standing on the exterior wall of my yard to which they did get jump off run away and get into an ex um a waiting vehicle. Um it's I don't know it's it's what makes this really concerning I guess is it's not just an isolated situation. It has been happening a lot in the past few weeks or so, even to the point of yesterday where um we did hear news that um three men with flashlights entered somebody's backyard around the neighborhood. And you know, I really just could appreciate if you guys could be able to increase the patrol of the police around the area to make, you know, um just to protect our peace a little bit more.

What area is this? Uh this is the Pentland and Blackley area. Um across Blackley. Yes. Across the street from uh Lar Roa. Lar Roa. Okay. What time did you say you found the intruders? Um it was around 9:00 or so in the morning. 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Yes. Okay. So it it was it was broad daylight. So that's why it was really shocking for me as well. Actually, most burgies are during the day. Really? Yes. Yeah. Okay. I wasn't aware about that. Um they wanted uh the homes to be empty while you're going to work or something. So, right. Your actions probably prevented that burglary. Yeah. But did you call the police?

No. Um they actually burglarized the house neck in the back of mine and then they did have an alarm system that went off which uh enacted the police to respond. No. Did did you call the police when you saw this individual standing by your gate? Um a few minutes later after the police actually um because they were um sent to the other side of the road, they actually came down my street which they weren't responding to your incident. They were responding somewhere else. Right. But then I did wave them down. I did give them the necessary information that was needed. Good. Okay. Well, thank you for for sharing. Thank you. Uh next speaker we have is Forest Lee.

Oh. Uh I'm sorry I'm with him but can I speak up as well? And it's regarding to the same concern. Okay. If you don't mind after you speak if you could fill out one of these forms with the city clerk. Oh, just to fill it. Okay. Yeah. But please go ahead.

Okay. All right. Okay. Uh thank you for letting me speak. And um good evening uh members of the city council. Uh my name is Kathy and I am a resident in Temple City and I' I've been living here for over 10 years. I have my both of my kids were born here, you know, raised um here and I I want to express the same concern that you know the prior two speaks two speakers were talking about that over the past few weeks um our community has experienced a clear and troubling pattern of bug race and um uh I I know um you know that um young guy. He just to share his experience. I want to share my experience as well. I live on Pentland um across uh you know close to Tambbo City Blueart. Uh but uh we're actually on Pentland and um Covey. Um so uh two weeks ago one of my neighbor got um her house got broken in. Um and um we later we learned that uh in the same same night well it's actually around maybe 2 or 3 a.m. in the night and another household um not right next to her but maybe two household from her got broken in as well. Um and we later you know as we start to post um uh you know messages on internet like neighbors.com or next door you know we start to post there like hey neighbors please watch out right because we're experiencing this and we got more messages from the internet um and obviously from the residents of Tambbo

city in the same area sharing sharing similar experience. So some of them got broken in and we learned that one household on Canerly got broken in like I think four or five weeks ago as well. Um and another uh guy messaged me on X door saying he lives on I think insinada and he got broken in two weeks ago. Um and um we notice like you know similar pattern like since there's a black SUV maybe Mercedes-Benz SUV um were often seen like associated with you know the recent bullies and um you know we all seen similar people you know like you know when we share the characteristic of the of the people who who um conducted the bugary, you know, sounds like they are targeting to the same crew or same people, same group of people.

And was that information shared with the sheriff? Um I I believe so. I believe so. My neighbor,

I mean, because I didn't, you know, I I my house hasn't got, you know, been broken in yet. Um but I I I think this definitely has been shared. Um, so last week as we were talking, you know, because there are a lot of Chinese residents here and we use WeChat as a chatting tool. Uh last Friday when we were just talking about how bad or how often the buglaries are happening in our community another bugary uh I think around is it pentland or um on pen land or blackly happened in the morning 9:30 around 9:30 in the morning and then last night same thing but you know uh which really um almost like drove drove you know the neighbors crazy is you know there's another incident last night and then this morning again um we saw the citizen app that is showing another burglary around us happening

I'm sorry you saw what uh the burglary on the on the citizen citizen app so I I think that's from the police report that another burglary happened this morning so and this frequency if if I may ask you to wrap up just so you can give other people a chance to speak. Oh, yes. Yeah. You're about a minute and a half over.

Oh, okay. Okay. All right. So, um you know, we all have children and we you know, we're we feel like this is our home. So basically um we're we know that tamo city is seems to be targeted by a special crew and maybe it is perceived as a easier place to operate. So we want this perception to be changed. Um and we're urging the city to take some actions here. Um, so, uh, we're asking the council to prioritize public safety by using available reserves, including emergency funds or funds currently allocated to non-essential projects to help uh increase, you know, our public safety. Um and we are seeking for uh if you know uh there's uh can be increased visible enforcement present in our neighborhood.

Um and I feel that really helps um and if there's any deployment of private patrol. I'm I'm going to stop you right there because you you've taken the time of two people. done and and I will I will have our city manager provide some more details addressing some of these concerns. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Um is there anyone else who'd like to address the city council at this time? Oh, Mr. I'm sorry, Forest Lee. Yes, you were supposed to be next. Please come up.

Thank you. Uh good evening, dear uh mayor and council members. Uh actually I just moved to Temple City from uh Elway City last year. I'm the new you know resident to the neighborhood. Uh actually last year went uh decided to move you know from Northridge in the Porter Ranch Northridge area San Fernandino to here is uh three reasons. The first one is at good school district for the I have two childrens right and then second one is a safe quiet neighborhood. But it turns out you know the after I move right now I think uh probably I may made a big mistake I regret because the I learned like the school district is not a perfect compared to the our neighborhood and the second one is the big concern I think a lot of the neighbor our uh neighbors they already addressed is the big concern of the safety just to share some stories of my neighborhood I live on the uh Herosa close to the recida boulevard. Uh I think it's 3 months ago uh the neighbor across my road got uh uh I think it's uh broke in. And then two weeks ago when I was taking spring break with my children and then my tenant his card catalytic uh you know the converter was stolen. He reported to the police and then take everything but nothing happens right because the police just ask him to file report that's it so I'm just wondering two questions first one is what actions have been done in the past right to keep the whole neighborhood safe instead of maybe be forcing like a temple city become another zubier you know like a San Francisco city right nobody want to do uh see Second question is what will be the plan for the city you know to take actions

you know to uh stop all these you know the the safety issues right is a big concern you know for the whole neighborhood and then what would be the the major you know the limitations or the bottleneck you know for the city to take these actions is in terms of budget or funds or like a personnel. So that's two question. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you so much. And um I I appreciate you all taking the time here to speak to us about this. And I do want to guess that perhaps some of you have been to a recent neighborhood watch meeting and have listened to that presentation and also shared your concerns. Um I I think I speak for all of council that public safety is absolutely a top priority. Um, most of us have been on council long enough to have seen previous crime trends and patterns where our city and our homes appear to have been targeted or there's a pattern of burglaries. So, um, there are certain things that we are actively looking into. We have a great dedicated team um, at the Temple Station. Some of you may have met them at Neighborhood Watch. Uh, and also our city manager, Brian Cook. I'm going to briefly turn it over to him to at least go over some of the actions that we have taken, but also actions that we plan on taking in the very very near future.

Thank you, Mayor Man, members of the council, and thank you for the members of the public. when you're a victim of a crime and it's a horrible thing and we're sorry that that's happened but as Mayor Mann has pointed out uh public safety and the sheriff's contract with um the LA County Sheriff's Department is our number one funded priority. Um there is not I would not call it cart blanch but there is funding for patrols and overtime uh that the council has continuously allotted and um I actually spoke with the captain captain Mesa who's essentially serves as our chief of police today and he is already employed a couple things. One, there will be increased patrols in the area where we saw the rash of burglaries over these last three weeks and they have been clustered in a specific area. Some of you mentioned that area where that that activity is happening. So you will see increased plurals. The other thing the sheriff's captain has has already done is already worked with a unit of the LA County Sheriff's Department called Major Crimes. Major Crimes specializes in looking at uh crews that either come from outside of the country or within within the within the country and their specific method of burglizing homes, surveilling those things. These are specialty teams. This is a specialty team that goes out and surveills the criminals and the suspect and and the suspected criminals to try to catch them. We've already made one arrest not related to a to a crew, but one of their arrests related to one of the uh burglaries in and around that area. The other thing we'll be doing too is our dedicated team, Francis Buoie, who's serving as our sergeant-at-arms today. Double duty for Francis. Um and uh Deputy Schwarz, Deputy Felix. Um for

those of you who were at the neighborhood watch meeting with us, they are the key point of contact. So, they're going to be working with a dedicated detective who's going to be working specifically on the crime. So, you may be getting a door knock from one of our from one of our deputies or you may be getting a door knock from one of the detectives who's going to ask you for more information even if you were not a victim of a recent burglary. And I hope you're not in the future as well. But you may be getting a door knock from our from our team or the detective asking for if you have any surveillance, if you have any other video. Um, and as much as it's frustrating posting it on a on a social media site does not necessarily get to the LA County Sheriff's Department. It has to get to the sheriff's department. It has to get that to that detective so that that detective then can then follow up. So, that's one of the other things we're going to be doing. Um, and you'll see some increased patrols in the area. The other thing where we'll we'll be doing and the council will be be talking about uh with some additional funds that are coming in some other tools that we'll be using either cameras or other things in and around all over the community, but trying to target areas where there is increased crime. As frustrating as this is, and I can understand how scared members of the community can be, um, we have seen peaks in crime before, and every single time when we've seen that peak, I've been here 12 years, I've seen multiple peaks in crime. There are crime crews that come throughout the St. Gabriel Valley, though, not just Temple City. It is throughout the San Gabriel Valley that this happens. Unfortunately, over about the last 3 to 4 weeks, it's hit in a heavy concentration in one area of town and we're aware and they are actively working to to squash that. But it is something that has happens all over the St. Gabriel Valley, but our

concern is what happens in Temple City. And we have the fortunate uh we have the great fortune of having the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and their vast resources which the captain has already tapped into. So specialty units, special intelligence and others to see who these folks are, gather. So what we ask of you and is when the sheriff's department calls or you call the sheriff's department, provide as much information as you can. provide us all the video that you have, everything that you can gather. There are detectives working day and night along with our dedicated team to try to solve these crimes. We will never be able to stop stamp out crime completely. It's uh we live in metropolitan Los Angeles. It just won't happen. But the best we can do is you working with us and all the resources that I just talked about. And I know it is it is a priority. Uh we met with a resident today with the captain and the operations lieutenant. Um, and this is a top priority for the department. It's top priority for us. So, please rest assure with those resources being there. So, that was a little longer than you probably wanted, Mayor.

Thank Thank you. As long as our city attorney didn't stop you, we're we're okay. Um, and and I I will um maybe conclude on this note. Uh, I appreciate those of you who came to speak, even if you weren't a victim of a crime. Um, I also appreciate those of you who left your contact information. I will ask our city manager to reach out to you if there is any additional information that you weren't able to give to council in this moment. We do have we will reach out and ask you if you're willing to share more. If you are in the audience and I'm sure a lot of you are neighbors or know each other and you have that information, we ask that you uh come talk to us. Um perhaps this is not the best setting, but our city manager and others can certainly make time to hear your concerns and the details that you have. So thank thank you for being here tonight. Okay. Next, um we will move on to item seven, the consent calendar. All items can be approved in a single motion unless moved for further discussion. Uh is there any items that council wishes to pull or a motion to approve? Make a motion to approve the consent calendar.

Second. We have a motion and a second. May we have a roll call vote, please. Council member Chavez, yes. Council member Sternquist, yes. Council member Yu, yes. Mayor Promch Chen, yes. Mayor Man, yes. Okay. Next we move to the public hearing 8A introduction and first reading of ordinance number 25-1086 for annual code amendment series 8 or series D of various sections of the mun municipal code and the crossroads specific plan related to administrative procedure zoning definitions and development standards. We will start with our city manager.

Thank you mayor man and members of the council and thank you and I apologize. Thank you for your patience with me on pulling this from the last meeting so that we could be prepared for tonight. So, if if I could just provide a brief introduction. Um, when the council uh adopted the new general well, it's not so new anymore, general plan and zoning code, what we did as part of that commitment was to come to you with annual updates for things that either we're hearing from the planning commission, from uh constituents, or from you in terms or something things we're seeing in the field. And you'll see a couple of those things that we're talking about that we think need to be changed in order to either make uh consistency changes or or errors that may be in the in the zoning code, but not errors per se of application, but just some inconsistencies that we think could make uh the zoning code more coherent in its enforcement. and or just uh also too uh we know the state of California has made a lot of changes in what they allow us and don't allow us to do. So this then annually gives us the opportunity to make those changes in one coherent format. Um, some of the other things that I did pull from this agenda will be talked about as part of a broader discussion about the Lost Tunis uh corridor and the business area so that there's some coherency and a complete package of a discussion of any zoning code changes or um any other land use changes that we want to talk about in the future about Lost Tunis. So, with that, I will turn it over to our community development supervisor, Mr. Buu.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Cook, and good evening, mayor, city council, and members of the public. As mentioned, tonight's um public hearing item is um the annual code amendments, also known as series D code amendments. So, some more background. Um this series is actually part of a four-part series. Series A, B, and C were previously approved by um the city uh which were adopted to refine the um municipal code and series D is being proposed for additional refinements and improvements that will um further update the code. On October of um 2025, the planning commission um approved and recommended city council um adopt the proposed code amendments. So the proposed code amendments um would respond to um these um different um categories and the next few slides will detail um what's being proposed and um um provide further information information on why they're being um refined. Um the first I wanted to talk about um is mobile food vending. Um currently the municipal code um requires that mobile food vendors relocate every hour. However, it doesn't specify any distance requirements or any operational standards. Therefore, staff is recommending that um we include a requirement for relocation that they relocate a minimum of 500 ft for every hour and also limit the operations um so that they don't occur at the same location um more than once per day.

Um, also staff is recommending that um the hours of operation um are prohibited between the hours of 1000 p.m. to 6 a.m. U Mr. Mayor, may I ask a question on this? Mr. Bulo, how if this get passed, how do you notify the vendors? Is there some kind outreach to let them know? Yeah, we um we can definitely send out a mailer to them with um these new requirements

there and they're individually licensed too. So those their each uh food vendor is individually licensed because we got to make sure that they have their health permit and everything else. So what we'll do is for the current licences once this is in effect 30 days from now we will let them know of these new conditions and um and then for any new applicant that comes in we'll make sure that those conditions are known to each of them because they have to go it it's not one where anybody can come in and just set up shop. They actually have to come in and do as as you know. Can I can I make a suggestion that I understand the the written notice, but we don't have that many mobile food vendors in the city. What would it be wrong with just having code enforcement go out and tell them or give them something, hand them something with this with this so that we make sure that they understand?

Sure. Time. I I mean that would make a lot of sense to me anyways. And also another question I had Tony is does this uh new uh proposal also apply to food vendors that have just carts like set up in the park or is it just to these lunch trucks that you have in the the picture of the they only um respond to those type of businesses the the mobile ones um vehicles. Is there anything similar to because we we have a individuals that set up carts in the in our parks and they're there all day and I don't know if there's any restrictions on that. This doesn't apply to that.

No. And unfortunately the state law that o that um oversees mobile food vendors the you know these trucks on trucks um is different than sidewalk vending. And so what allowances we have for sidewalk vending is different than what we'd have for mobile food vendors. But we'll definitely we can meet with the city attorney's office and see what we can do about sidewalk vendors and see see if there's anything else we can do on that case. Thank you. Yep. Yes, sir.

Well, if I may add also, I think this is a step in the right direction. I just think that perhaps there specified locations that may impede traffic or visibility of traffic um ought to be uh considered as well. uh for prohibited locations because uh certainly we don't want the presence of such trucks which um a lot of times would decrease visibility and I'm namely I'm talking about um exiting from the south west corner of uh Las Tunis and Roseme uh there have been two large trucks uh which really greatly impacts and u visibility from those that are turning out onto uh eastbound Luna Drive. Um I think there's certain location I like to see more um limitations placed on it uh just out of our motorist safety.

Okay. Yeah, there's already in the code there's some requirements for how far they have to be from from corners and from driveways, but we can definitely talk to the city engineer, traffic engineer, make sure that those distances are large enough to um given the speeds on the streets. Yes. Do do we know generally how many of these do we have in the city on any given day? There's less than half a dozen that are licensed through the city. It's probably four, I think. But they're not set up every day either, I don't think. That's correct. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you. All right, Mr. Boo. Okay. Um, so the next proposal is in regards to the city's um business license relocation provisions. Um this is when a existing business when they're um relocating to a different address that is within Temple City. Um currently the municipal code um requires a fee of $1 uh for the relocation request and we found that this does not recoup the time that's spent on processing this type of application. um and that the fee is actually established within the municipal code rather than being in a fee resolution. Um so staff is recommending that we update the code to set the fee equal to the cost of a new u business application uh that will be approved via um fee resolution.

And what is that fee? the the fee for a new business license is around $350. So if they move that's what they would have to pay. Yeah.

All right. And um the next item is um how it has to do with community clinics. According to AB 2085, the state is now requiring cities to allow nonprofit community clinics uh through a non-discretionary approval process. So without um public hearings and cities are required to permit them where office, retail, healthc care and um or parking uses are allowed. So to um comply with the state's requirements, uh staff is proposing to add a definition of community clinic to the municipal code and to also allow them in uh commercial and mixed use zones while also updating the off streetet parking requirements to liken them to um the existing medical office uses. Our next um proposed um amendment is for community care facilities. AB262 currently allows um is a state mandate that allows community care facilities to locate in all residential zones. Um these type of facilities are statelicicensed facilities that provide non-medical care and supervisions for individuals with uh physical disabilities or mental issues. Um, small facilities are known to have six or fewer residents. Um, that would be allowed by right, while large facilities are ones that comprise of seven or more residents um that the state um allow cities to require a CUP.

Mr. Mayor, I do have a question. Mr. Fu, um when you say residents, so are these overnight facilities? Yes. So essentially um the the patients would live on the property. They would be residents. I see. Mayor May, I have a question. Yes. When you say large facilities may require a CUP, who who makes that call? So um I think that's the reference from state law. It says that the city can require a CUP. What we're proposing is that the large facilities do require a CUP. Okay. Yeah. So, so the it'll be affirmative.

Yes. Yes. So, like section 13 under that code um of your ordinance, it says uh community care facilities large acquire a CUP. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And and I suppose since it is through a state license, it's the state agency that oversees enforcement of those to determine what's small and what's large. Well, they um the state would require them to come in and get a license and permitting if there's seven or more residents. If there's not seven or more residents, if there's six residents or less, then they're not required to get a business license and they're not required to notify the city. Okay?

But it's the state that takes the kind of the they take the lead in the process. So in in practice, there's really no way we could know if someone applied under six or fewer residents and is actually operating as a large facility.

That's pretty much the case. Yeah. So we have we do have facilities already in the city um under different ordinances and under different laws. Um and though they come in, they don't require a business license and they move. Yeah, they operate a lot like just a single family house would except there's multiple residents that are unrelated. I think in the past I've heard from neighbors saying, "Well, it looks like there's a lot of people living here. Can you look into that maybe?" So, that would be a code enforcement issue. Yeah. If if if people think there's something unusual happening, they more than happy to reach out to us and then we reach out to the state just to verify that they have a license for what's happening there.

Yeah. And we actually we have a list of the facilities. They make it available online. It's very transparent. Mhm.

Um along with requiring large facilities to have a um obtain a cup, we're also recommending that the definitions are updated in our code for um small and large facilities and also allow small facilities um within single family dwellings. The next item is a proposal uh to respond to AB 2632 um which the state requires cities to treat thrift retail stores the same as general retail stores. U however cities are also allowed to impose design and operational standards on these type of businesses. Um therefore we're recommending that the code is updated um to include the definition for thrift retail store to allow them by right where general retail is permitted and to require a cup for um large um facilities that accept um large donations um such as refrigerators and stoves and also impose um operational standards to regulate the donation area and drop off security, um storage, signage, uh parking and operation hours.

I have a quick question. Do we have do we currently have the these so-called thrift retail stores in the city? And if not, what would be an example?

An example of that would be like a Goodwill or or something like that. But what is good and what what I commend staff on looking at is like and they always do a great job about this making sure we comply with state law but finding the areas that we can essentially set conditions legally. So in this case this would not come other than the condition noted on a cup. What that would go to the director with is setting some standards of operation so that we make sure that it's not for lack of a better term this is my non-technical version have a messy operation. So what is the definition we're going to be using? Do we have that yet or we're still developing that

the definition of thrift store? Thrift how are we going to define says recommended changes define thrift retail store. So, thrift resale stores are just defined as those that accept donations for resale for a nonprofit purpose. All right. I just I'm sorry. Um, they don't necessarily have to be nonprofit. Excuse me. You're right. So, what what we are seeing is more in in the uh what we're seeing more of are forale thrift stores. Um, is this an example of a thrift retail store? Yes, it is. It actually it is. They're not in Temple City.

They're not in Temple City, but they're right adjacent to it. I know where and um and they they're they're the part of they they provide donations to other like Red Cross and others, but their business itself is a profit forprofit business. So, thank you for that clarification, Scott.

Okay. All right. So, the um next proposed amendment uh responds to the state's new public noticing requirements um also known as AB 2904. This requires cities to provide a minimum of 20 days of public noticing for any zoning ordinances or amendments or amendments to zoning ordinances. For instance, tonight's um proposed code amendments is kind of the guinea pig for this um new state law. Um so instead um our code currently requires 14 days of public noticing. We noticed um the public notice 20 days in advance and that would allow more um public uh review u for the item. So, we're recommending that um the code is updated to change the public noticing rules um to require at least 20 days. When it comes to density bonuses and concessions, currently the city council is the approval body uh when it comes to these requests. Uh we're proposing that it is changed and the approval authority is changed to our planning commission um to uh and also uh requirement um or provisions are included that would clarify the grounds for denial u which would respond and be consistent with the state's um denial requirements. And additionally too, that does not preclude the council from calling up an item that has been approved.

So the state now says city councils, you can no longer be the body to approve these. It has to be done by the planning commission. No, no, no. This this is this is a city decision to streamline this by taking by having the planning commission be the approval body so that it doesn't have to come to council. Um, and the state's okay with that. The state's okay with it. But in a case in which a matter is appealed, either an approval or a denial, or as the city manager said, if a council member wants to call it up for review because you feel it's an important enough project that it should come to the council as a policy matter, that can still happen. Yeah, I think we've done that in the past.

You have done it and it's and it's it can be a very useful tool. It's just we had been operating under a much older density bonus um set of statutes and as the statutes have been updated it seems to make more sense um again from a just sort of streamlined approval process uh to not require those hearings to come to the council unless they are that kind of sensitive political matter. Makes sense.

Thank you. um in response to AB1308 um which requires cities to prohibit um or prohibit cities from requiring off- streetet parking when sing single family homes are expanded or additions are done to homes. um unless uh these additions exceed the maximum height or FA F which is floor area ratio within um the zoning. Uh so to respond to this, we're recommending that um the code allow additions uh to single family homes without requiring the additional parking requirements.

Mayor, I have a question on this one. So Mr. boo. So let's say if I build a house and floor area would require twoc car garage but I have not exceeded the F and then later on under this code I'm adding square footage to maximum of the floor area ratio and now it would have been had it been a new house it would require three car. So, the city now cannot require me to in to add another uh parking garage. Is that what this is? What this means? If you're um not exceeding the FB, no, not exceeding.

Then u we wouldn't be able to require the additional parking. Wow. Yeah. So, where where we see this a lot is um in some of the older areas of the city, we have houses that were built with a onecar garage. And our previous requirement was if you're doing a large addition, you needed to provide a two-car garage. The state has said you can't do that anymore. So, um, so what we in order to comply, we have to allow people to do an addition without bringing up the the parking decode.

What if somebody, you know, the the state also says that they can convert the garage into a I I I guess a residential unit, right? So, what if an ADU is already added? They have no no parking garage and now they expand a house. We cannot require them to provide additional parking. Wow. It is a tough one sir and it's a get an interesting example that you bring forward but that is

why the reason why I want to bring that up is just so that folks would know because sometime we hear people why are you guys doing this why are you allowing this I just want to make make clear there are certain things the city really wants to do but the state had come in and said you cannot do that. So this is just another example of that. Thank you.

And um this slide um are the proposed amendments when it comes to the off- streetet parking requirements. Um as mentioned u with community clinics we're um going to include them to the category um of office and medical um with day spas um to include them with personal services um for operations um that include indoor recreation um we're proposing to specify thresholds for small and largecale oper operations and for billard halls, batting cages, and bowling alleys uh to add these to the parking requirements. Um and this was added because of a recent study that we did of surveying um surveying nearby cities um to include it in our code.

I think Mayor Pro Tim wants to know where that bedding cage is gonna go.

Yeah. Um we're also proposing um to require CUPS in all um commercial and mixeduse zones. Currently um a cup is only required in all commercial zones, but they're allowed by right in mixeduse zones. Also wanted to note that day spas do not include any massage services. So this would be kind of like a Venus spa uh type of operations. Um, so proposing to require the cup in all commercial and mixeduse zones.

U, Mr. Mayor, I I just want a a question on the massage um, uh, services. I thought the state had come in and said that um, we cannot outlaw massage services. Am I right? There there was. So about 15 years ago, the state came in and said you can no longer require a cup for massage services. and the state would start regulating them through CAMTAC. Um there was a great deal of push back after and about five years ago maybe seven years ago where the state has allowed us now to go back and start regulating those uses. So we can so so currently is massage services

requires a cup require CUP but we cannot outright ban it. Uh I'd have to look into that. I I don't know about that. Okay.

Thanks. Um, so when it comes to EV charging spaces, AB1000 um is a state mandate that requires um parking spaces that have EV charging equipment or ones that are designated for future EV use to also count towards the parking requirements. Uh so for instance, if there are 10 parking spaces and a property owner is proposing three within those existing um required parking spaces, we can't require them to provide additional parking spaces to replace the ones that the EV charging spaces um are now um occupied. Um so we're proposing u to amend the code to clarify that EV spaces or their associated equipment um they're able to replace required parking spaces.

U Mr. Boo from here may I um in the staff report it says accessible EV charging spaces may count as two standard spaces. That is correct. Um, so accessible ones are um the ADA compliant and typically they have a a loading zone with it. So they can count as two parking spaces because they'll take up two required parking spaces essentially. Okay.

Yes, sir. The rationale for that from the state's perspective is you have so many parking lots built out that if we're going to start if the state wants to get EV charging into existing lots uh or even area lots that are planned that if they require that extra space it might cause a a waterfall effect throughout the parking lot. So, they're requiring this the cities to do this and so we're just going along with what the state says. Okay.

EV charging spaces larger than regular parking spaces. My my experience is that they're exactly the same size and the charging station itself is in the front of the vehicle, so it doesn't take up any space. It's basically the same space. it. I I've seen configurations where some of the units are are in between the parking spaces. I think the state just wanted to make sure that um if in order to convert one parking space into an EV space um you really needed to use two parking spaces that you'd be allowed to do that. So they want just want to make sure that there's room for that equipment without um stopping the roll out of EVs.

Okay. Are there any standards for minimum number of EV spaces with accessible aisles or is that completely discretionary? Oh, I I'm not aware of how EV and accessible standards overlap. I'd have to talk to the building if accessible. No, the one shown on the picture with the um the access aisle. I'm wondering if there was some sort of development standard that requires that if you put in EV stations that there has to be a minimum number of those with that or is there none at all?

I I think that's in relation to ADA accessibility. Yeah, in the um building code they require um so if you have two EV parking um spaces you um excuse me two required you have to have the equal number of um ADA parking spaces. So two regular ADA spaces um would warrant two um ADA compliant EV spaces. So it has to be like equal opportunity four I see handicap accessible spaces. No it would be two um ADA

two non EV charging and then you said if you have two regular spaces that are accessible you have to have two EV charging spaces that are also handicapped acceptable. So that would give you four. So total two EV Um, I think what you mean is the the regular ADA parking spaces that are not EV. If you have two of them, then you need two EVs that have that, right? But are but our question is, are they handicapped accessible or do they need to be?

Yeah, I'm sorry for the confusion. Um so if you have two EV charging spaces, you have to provide the equal number of um ADA compliant um EV charging spaces. So if I had two non-accessible ones, we you have to provide two others that are Yes. So they have to balance out the ratio is one to one and it's based on the um California building code. Is that is this a new law that gone into effect recently or because I can tell you in the last four years if my wife has parked her car I can't recall ever seeing this striped area like they do for handicap. It's just a parking spot and that's it. You're lucky if you get that.

The standards have changed. So okay. So we're going to start seeing more of those. Okay.

Thank you. Um the next item is for minimum dwelling unit size. Um our housing element that was uh approved has a object objective to um remove the minimum dwelling unit size requirements for all of our residential zones. So staff is proposing to do um that to remove them for all from all of the R zones. So we would essentially rely on the building code um requirements to regulate minimum unit sizes. Uh for instance, an efficiency unit, it requires at least 220 square ft for a unit.

So that somebody would live in a 220 square foot place. Is that what you're saying? Or they could. Yes. Yeah. That's kind of small, isn't it? Well, for some more for most. Yeah. Um the next slide is proposing um

yard encroachments. So we have a section of our in our code that would allow allow encroachments into the required sideyard. Uh there's a provision that states that decorative architectural features such as cornises and eaves are allowed to encroach into setbacks up to 30 in. We're um proposing to include bay windows and non-retch uh retractable awnings with that provision uh because they are also decorative architectural features and they don't add square footage um to the home. The next item um is in regards to the crossroads specific plan um uh for parking structures. Um currently the specific plan requires that ceilings and interior walls of a parking structure are painted. Um these photos show the recent Beonia apartment. um they um at their inspection um they didn't have their ceiling painted uh because as you can see from the photos there's um utility lines and mounted equipment on the ceilings that would make it really difficult to paint and um over time um for maintenance um accessibility would also be an issue. Um so staff um is proposing to remove the ceiling requirement um from the specific plan and that um our our rationale is that the painted walls already um um accomplish um what um is trying to accomplish which is um to provide a sense of security and more lighting into the space because of the reflected light

from the um the white paint. And we're also proposing to include a light reflectance value so that it's a bright color um not like a dark color that would absorb the light. Um so to include that with the recommended um updates. So there's there's going to be color requirements as well then for the for the walls. It would just be a brightness value so that it's um able to reflect light instead of absorb. Yes, there would be. I'm sorry. There would be there's a requirement for color. Yes. So, ones I've usually seen are like white or

Yeah. Yeah. Not not necessarily specific color palette, just lighter colors. So, whether it's white or a light yellow or if somebody wanted to put a pink wall painting, they Yeah. But as long as it's a bright pink and or I should say a light color pink, not a dark red or a maroon or something like that. Yeah, like your shirt. I like your Okay, fantastic.

And we're also proposing to apply these standards to our general parking requirements in the city's municipal code. U we don't have this requirement. So to make it consistent with the crossroads specific plan to paint the interior walls but also require a phototric study. Uh this phototric study will be reviewed by staff and is to review all of the proposed light fixtures within the parking area uh to ensure that there's also adequate lighting.

Uh Mr. Mayor may just add a question. So I mean it's great that we're requiring for the metric study but have would there be a perhaps a an added requirement for them to maintain that because for metrics obviously assume certain lights um the light output but typically in a lot of these older parking garages the owners would go cheap and not replace the lights. So, so the phototric that really doesn't work anymore. Yeah. So, so the way the code is written here is it says underground parking structures shall have a minimum of one foot candle of lighting throughout. So, if the fixtures aren't working

um that we can we can um talk to them about that using that code section. Thanks. Um so um these proposed code amendments um when reviewing them against um the city's um requirements, we found that they're consistent with the general plan and specific plans. Um that they don't uh negatively impact public health, safety, or welfare. um that they align with um other applicable provisions within the code and are consistent with state legislation. Um when reviewing them against the um California Environmental Quality Act, we also found that um they're not subject to SQA review uh that there's no possibility that they would create a significant impact on the environment. Therefore, um with that said, um staff is recommending that the city council introduce the first reading and also schedule the second reading for May 5th of 2026. Um I'm available for any questions. Um thank you so much. Okay. All right. Well, we move on to council questions. We start with any council questions.

No further questions.

Okay. I I just have one last question I forgot to ask earlier. Um about the the density bonuses that's going to be delegated to the planning commission uh review. You mentioned that we would establish the basis for denial within the code and I think one of the basis for denial is if they don't meet objective design standards and building codes. So does that mean you know one of our future items is establishing objective design standards for the R3 and mixeduse areas. So does that mean when that's established then that is the guidelines by which the planning commission is going to be reviewing future development say within those zones like those are the standards that they would adhere to. Yes. So any current as well as future standards that are being developed,

right? That captures the whole thing. Yep.

Okay. I just want to make sure that that's okay. Thank you. All right. Um then next I will move to the I will open the public hearing for this item. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to address the council? Mr. Jambazy. Thank you, Mayor Man. Council members, my name is Jerry Jambasian. I kind of enjoyed this whole presentation tonight. I thought it was worthwhile. But there's one thing that's bothering me for several years now and I really haven't expressed it to that many people except to Vietn uh trash receptacles be not visible from the street. Correct. Is that an ordinance or

I would like the same thing for portaotties. It is disgusting to see portaotties with ongoing construction that seems to never end and the portaotty is right on the front lawn near the curb. If if I was a neighbor, I would be upset. So, I would like to see an ordinance where the porter potties have to be in the backyard, not visible from the street because it's just terrible. I mean, every morning I come to work, I'm going down LMA and I see a portaotti there and the and the construction just never ends. I don't know what they're doing, but uh there's weeds around it and uh doesn't look good. So, I'd like to see some sort of an ordinance that requires the same type of thing for garbage cans and trash recepticles that they not be visible. like to see the same thing for a porter potty. Thank you for your time.

Okay, thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to address the council at this time? Okay, seeing none, I will close the public comment. Um, are there any final council questions or comments on this matter? All right, then. Just u just want to comment on great job by staff. Yes, I I concur. All right. May I have a motion for this item? Uh, Mr. Mayor, I'll move to introduce for first reading by title only and wait further reading of ordinance number 25-1086 and schedule a second reading for May 5th, 2026.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Are there any objections? Seeing none, may I have a roll call vote, please? Council member Chavez. Yes. Council member Stern. Yes. Council member Yu. Yes. Mayor Proench Chen. Yes. Mayor Man. Yes. That item has been approved. We move to the next item, unfinished business, which we have none. I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. Um, this is the time where the city clerk will read the title. Oh, yes. I am so sorry. Thank you for that reminder. City.

Madam City Clerk, please. Ordinance number 25-1086 an ordinance at this council of city of Temple City, California amending title 4 law enforcement title five business license and regulations and title nine zoning regulations of the temple city municipal code and chapter 3 land use plan of the crossroad specific plan. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. All right. So next uh unfinished business we have none. So we move to new business item 10A the 2025 annual general plan and housing reports our city manager. Thank you mayor man and members of the council. Many times this report is usually put on consent and we kind of file it and and move it along the way. But there are a lot of items related to this report this year that I think is important for the the council and the council is very aware of all these accomplishments and what we've been able to achieve. But if I was to summarize a little bit of what the challenges we have as a city in uh working with the state of California and in and in particular with related to our housing element and what that requires um if I was to put it in a crude manner many times the state requires us to put a square peg and a round hole.

No, come on. You're kidding. And but what I mean by that and but also too and but we as a city have done so earnestly to try to make the mandates of the state and you just went through a whole zoning code update where you saw a lot of the state requirements. What and what I need to compliment staff on too is that they have found a way and you saw some of the zoning code changes that really kind of adapt to one the changing environment but also to the practical way that it does not create impediments or removes impediments for people where we can do that while keeping still the same development standards that we want for the what you and the community want in terms of the aesthetic but also the development ment standards in the community. So, what this report's going to show you is a lot of good things. And one of the things I'm going to complimenting staff on is one of our biggest concerns was that ADUs would not be counted towards our arena numbers for affordable units. We found a defensible methodology, credit to staff, that will continue that going forward because there was a law that was passed last year that essentially could have wiped out our ability to use ADUs to count towards our affordable housing units in our regional housing needs assessment numbers. Uh we're going to be able to continue to do that going forward. And I think one of the things and that is important to note and I know all of you know this too is that we've done it in a way that still keeps consistent the character of Temple City in a way. It it does change, right? And and there is more density per se, but that density is not stripping away what the character if you drive down a residential street between

an R1 and an R2 in our communities between the ADUs and the levels of density. You don't s you don't feel the sense of being overwhelmed. Uh and along that too, the other some of the other accomplishments I think you're going to see here too is the council's responses to the state on other things. For example, those who are uh potentially losing housing and other other programmatic things where we've partnered with uh wonderful entities like Family Promise and others that we are keeping people housed and we are doing it in a way that fits in this community. And so, uh, with that, I'll turn it over to Tony again, and he'll briefly go over our 2025 report, then ask you for us to submit it to the state of California.

Okay. Hello. Um, um, city council again. Um, so tonight is the 2025 um, annual report for housing and the general plan. Um, just to provide a brief overview of the process. So each year the report on the progress of the general plan and the housing element is um drafted and then it's um reviewed by the planning commission and city council for approval. Once city council approves of the reports, it's then um submitted to LCI, which is the governor's office of land use and climate innovation and also the the department of housing and community development, also known as HCD. Um so while compiling the report staff looks at various factors um such as housing production u which is at market and affordable housing um units and also economic growth within the city um that comprises of new commercial square footage footage which in turn would result in um job creation for the city and also the city's infrastructure. ffstruure and services um with the city's park systems, the sheriff's and the fire department services um and also environmental impacts um that are reviewed on a case-bycase project basis um such as traffic and air quality um impacts and gas emission impacts. We also consider this um city's overall population. Um as of January of um 2026

um the department of finance reported that there were u 36,322 residents within the city. within the um housing report, we also have to um highlight the um accomplishments of 2025. Um so in 2025, the city um worked on the subdivision ordinance update, also the ADU update and um SB9. Um these um ordinances are um proposed or on track to be um finalized in uh of this year 2026. Um staff also reported that um we worked with a consultant on a comprehensive approach for the crossroads specific plan and this is to encourage mixed use and um housing projects within the crossroads specific plan. Uh when it comes to rental assistance and housing reh rehabilitation, we reported that u for rental assistance um the city assisted 28 households with approximately um $229,000. And for housing re rehab, we assisted we assisted seven households with um roughly $233,000. We also reported that the city um um evaluated the potential for development impact fees. Uh this study is anticipated to be completed and presented to city council um at before the end of this year. Um we also worked with a um consultant

on developing objective design standards for the city's R3 and mixed use zones which are also um anticipated to be completed by the end of this year. And um as as you know um tonight we um also um had our series D um code amendments that were approved by the planning commission last year u which addressed several housing element programs and other state legislation. And we also noted that um the city's um the city processed a total of 528U um units for this year which um so within our housing element um it projected a total of 275 ADU units. To date we um reported 251. So we're anticipated to surpass the housing goal of ADUs by by next year. Um this this slide breaks down all of the housing production um with the different housing unit typologies um since 2020. So as you can see in 2025 we're reporting a total of se um 87 uh building permits that were issued for housing units. Um when you compare that to the previous 2024 um it does show that there was a significant de decrease in the number of um building permits um and that could that's due to the fact that we um approved the Cloverly mixeduse project which consisted of 43 units um similar to 2024

in 2021 we also approved the Beonia project uh that include that included 73 units. So we would consider these as outlier years. So if you compare uh remove them and compare this current year to 2020, 2022 and 2023, it does show that we um made significant um progress in the trajectory and as Mr. Cook mentioned earlier um the passage of AB 906 um was effective on January 1st of 2026 and this um limited the city's ability to um classify or categorize ADUs towards the lower income arena goals. Um, prior to 2025, um, the city categorized all ADUs as very low and extremely low. Um, now with the new state law, ADUs can only be counted if, um, it's supported by historical affordability data or um, supported by a deed restriction. Um therefore the state is requiring stronger evidence that um for affordability classification.

Mayor who enforces that ACD. So when an ADU is built then now this is going forward. Correct. Correct. So if an ADU is built, then they have to um put something on the deed.

No, they don't. That that is that is what the state is requiring for us or that is one piece of evidence that the state is requiring saying if you build an ADU and you want to count it as extremely low you have to have a deed a restricted deed on the property saying that it will only be rented to these folks. So this is this is just the evidence that the state is asking for and the next slide will demonstrate how we're we're approaching it. So that just this this is just one element of what the state is then requiring us in order to continue to classify ADUs in those categories. Did I was I missing anything?

No, that's that that's right. If we want to count them as affordable, there's certain pieces of evidence we need to give them. One of those pieces of evidence could be an affordability covenant. We don't we don't do that right now. Um, another thing we could do is what we're proposing to do tonight, which is to use the SCAG model that had been developed and has been received by HCD in the past. Okay.

Thank you. Um so um the the approach that we're um proposing is to use the SCAG regional ADU affordability analysis. This analysis um it um takes into account historical ADU permit data, market trends, regional housing costs, and um estimates for income levels within the San Gabriel region. Um and based on our 2025 ADU permit, the total of 52 ADU units, we applied it to the SCAG model that had a breakdown in different percentages of what we can apply the ADUs um when it comes to different income levels. So out of the 52 ADU units, 15% um can be earmarked towards um extremely low which came out to eight units. Four units for very low, 23 for low, uh one unit for moderate and 16 units for above moderate um units. So under this model, how many are counted towards the uh 80 uh u HCD goal of the 52?

So um in total it we it will still count as 52 units but um count even though you have above model.

Yeah. So so with Reena um Reena includes both affordable and market rate units, right? So we're allowed to deduct um from each of those different categories. So we can for instance of the 52 units we can we can use all of those to meet our arena numbers. They're just those 52 units are going to fall under different categories. Some will be considered extremely low. Some will be considered very some low, some moderate, some above moderate. So then this methodology distributed those units according to the SCAGs re affordability kind of like an indexed and then we applied that index to what the demographics in the SCAG report showed in Temple City and applied it just and this just got distributed that way.

Uh let let's say you've done your analysis and everything is above moderate. Can you still count them? You can. Yes. Because under Reena, we have we should be building um at rate or above moderate housing units. Yeah, it's not just about affordable. It's also about market rate units. And you'll see that in the next table. You'll see how it's all broken down as once Tony gets there.

Okay. So this table um shows the entire breakdown um for the current cycle since 2021. The column that's um highlighted in gray, that's for this current reporting year of 2025. We broke down the um extremely low category because this the state introduced a new category called acutely low this year and we're able to distribute it on a 3070 ratio. So um three units were designated as acutely low. Um five are extremely low. Four is very low. uh 23 for low, one for moderate, and 51 for the above moderate category, which gives us that grand total of 87 units for the entire 2025 year. Um and as part of the housing report, we also have to show the city's compliance to no net loss, which um we would review this city's housing sites inventory. Uh the sites inventory has a list of properties that um would um comprise of a majority of the RENA um allocation. It um so out of the 2025 reported um units, there was only one property that was listed on that inventory. It's at 4450 Temple City Boulevard. Um it is now being um constructed with a fourunit attached um housing project. Um the site's inventory actually projected a total of three units to be

produced on that property. So staff updated the inventory to include an additional u projection of one unit at the site. So when we um compare the updated projections with the remaining reena that needs to be fulfilled um staff determined that the the site's inventory still has the capacity to accommodate the reena um that there's actually a surplus of available sites in all of the income categories. And that's a sign sorry and that's a pretty significant accomplishment in of itself which means it means two a couple things. One the zoning code updates that you did and the planning commission did really kind of for lack of a better term nailed what our capacity was and what we have the ability. Not that we're going to be able to build it out. it that's that has to do with market conditions and other factors. But this really means this is demonstrating to the state not only are we making a good faith effort in building but we also are making a good faith effort in our zoning and what we are what we are zoning for and what's actually happening during the course of the housing element or this this current cycle of the housing element as well. So, um, it it this is kind of a it seems kind of bland, but it is something that is actually pretty significant in our good faith effort to work with the state to meet their goals. This is this is and the one thing I I will say Reena numbers and we talked about this much before the city attorney may get mad at me right now. The housing the arena numbers are extremely extremely difficult to

meet in this cycle. It is doubtful that I would say any agency the vast majority agencies are going to be able to meet that goal. But again what we are trying to demonstrate and we what we are demonstrating by facts and by objective analysis is that we are making great earnest strides to meet those goals and still again if I can reemphasize meet and do it in cons being consistent with the character of the community. I think those I think those are important things for uh for us to note. So sorry Tony.

Um so to conclude the um presentation I wanted to point out that the um housing report also included an attachment um with the outline um which is a work plan for 2026. And this is to ensure that we are meeting our objectives for the upcoming um year beyond um the current or the 2025 year. Um the work plan includes a total of 31 tasks 20 of which um respond to the housing element implementation. Um these are some of the major objectives that are called out in the work plan. Not all of them but just the the major ones. Um, we have on the list an RFP for the general plan updates um to to um publish an RFP um to solicit um consultants to work on our updates. Um also the subdivision ADU um and objective design standards um we have it on the work plan to be completed as well as the development impact fees. Uh we've also included the last tunist streetscape beautifification project. Um and um additional um we we also have the annual code amendments um to focus on um also um finding additional code amendments. And um the customer counter renovation um is listed and this is to um improve the customer service experience at city hall.

Question. What's the timeline on that? Now with so many things in the construction world that have uh changed, we are we're sharpening our pencils on that one more time and we'll be coming back to you shortly. So, no, I don't have a time I don't have a timeline for you right now, sir. All right. With that, uh, we move to any additional council questions at this moment. Council member, you council member Serpus. Um, Scott, what's the, um, the penalty for not meeting Reena numbers?

Oh, okay. So remember, Reena is only to demonstrate capacity. Um it's only to demonstrate capacity. We don't actually have to build the units. Okay? So it's like the state saying we want you to demonstrate that you have enough capacity to build a thousand housing units. So we only have to zone for that. That's all we have to do. Now if a city doesn't get their housing element done in time

um and they're not meeting their arena numbers and then there are some serious consequences. One is that um developers can come in and propose basically whatever they want at whatever density they want with whatever development standards they want because the assumption is it's called a developers remedy project is that um you haven't done the planning so the develop so the development community will do it for you

and we've seen some local jurisdictions that have had projects submitted as a developer remedy. So, it's a good thing that we were able to plan, but that's why um Tony put on the slide that we're going to start the RFP process for the next general plan update. We want to get in front of that as quickly as possible so that by the time the arena numbers are uh developed, we will already be well underway with our housing element so we don't get caught in that sort of circumstance. Are those numbers, how often are they um you know, looked at or

Yeah, they're developed every eight years. Um, and it's a kind of an iterative process where um, HCD releases some numbers to each uh, metropolitan uh, planning organization. For us, that's SCAG. And then SCAG gets its number and then it assigns those numbers to each of their county and cities. And so there's a whole appeal process that that goes through. But then once we receive those numbers, we really start to dig into how we can accommodate those numbers in the city. Thank you, Council Member Chavez.

No, I I do have a question. And speaking of the SCAG, uh the affordability analysis and the metrics that they're using, is that regional or do they develop one specific to us? Yeah, they they did take the SCAG region and subdivide it into sub regions. So, it's not like we are in the same boat as for instance the beach communities. there's a recognition that within the Skag region there are different kind of real estate divisions and so we were put into a group that includes most of the St. Gabriel Valley not as not the same as like the um Riverside County or something.

Okay. And my last question is the state legislation that limits the ability to count ADUs towards lower low very low income uh numbers. Um that the goal of that is not to I guess what I'm trying to ask is there's no thought of saying ADUs can no longer count towards Reena numbers in the future. they're just focused on the affordability aspect of the metric.

What this by passing that law, the purpose of that law is to require cities to provide evidence, actual evidence that those um ADUs are appropriately put into the right category of affordability. So, they really want us to start providing some evidence towards the claims that we're making. Okay. But it it I mean it's really not another way to say well eventually we're just gonna not even allow ADUs to be counted towards your arena numbers. I I hope not. Um but right now where we're at today we're okay. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you.

All right. With that I like to open the public comment for this item with Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to address council at this time? Okay. Seeing none, I will close public comment and we'll move to um final council comments or questions. Um sorry, this council member Sternist. I know I'm just um it's nice to be ahead of the the problem, right? So, thank you. Council member Chavez. Yeah.

Council member, you may potenti well um I'll just say well well done. Thank you for staying on top of this. Uh it is underappreciated sometimes the amount of work it takes to put something like this together and uh not be scrutinized or penalized by the state. Um I always like going back to that LA Times article that said, "Oh, what are the three cities with the largest ADU production numbers in LA County?" And guess what? We're one of those three. And I think the other two was what? San Fernando and Roseme.

Yeah. So, I mean, if they're going to come after us, that the numbers kind of go against not not saying they're that they're going to, but like you said, the evidence uh points to to something else. So, so good job. Thank you. All right. With that, um I'd like to entertain a motion for this item.

Mr. Mayor, I move to receive the 2025 annual general plan and housing reports. uh find the annual report exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act SQA pursuant to section 15306 information collection of the California SQA guidelines and approve the annual reports and direct staff to file them with the Department of Housing and Community Development HCD and Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation LCI. Second motion and second. Are there any objections? Seeing none, can we get a roll call vote, please? Council member Chavez. Yes. Council member Sternquist. Yes. Council member Yu. Yes. Mayor Proench. Yes. Mayor Mang.

Yes. That item has been received, filed, and approved. We move to item 10B, adoption of resolution number 26- 2568, approving a policy addressing disruptions to public participation during remote or hybrid meetings. City manager.

Thank you, Mayor May, members of the council. Continuing our theme of state mandates. Um state is now requiring us to as of July 1st is it? Thank you. July 1st to um assist the public with a participation remotely or in a hybrid meeting process and uh the city clerk has developed a policy in order to how to address that. So I'll turn it over to our city clerk Peggy Quo.

Thank you Mr. Cook. Good evening Mayor, city council. This proposed policy is drafted to comply with the provision of Senate Bill 707 and outlines procedures for disruption to remote meeting access. Um, under the provision uh proposed policy, if a disruption occurs, the meeting will be paused while staff make a good faith um effort to restore access and only resume once it is appropriate to do so. If access cannot be restored, the council may by roll call vote make a formal finding that continuing the meeting with limited remote access is in the public's interest. Um, this policy reflects best practice and aligns with approaches used by surrounding cities. Um, this concludes my presentation. I'm available for questions.

Mr. Mayor, if I if I may.

Yes. Uh the policy before you that the city clerk put together is substantially similar to the policies being adopted statewide. Um the city clerk's organization did a very good job of matching up uh a fairly standard policy with the state requirements. Um I've seen this in three other cities so far and again substantially similar very small differences. Um, it would be my legal recommendation uh to sort of go along with the crowd in this case because if something gets challenged, if something has to be changed at some point in the next year or two, we'll all be changing it together. Whereas, if we go too far a field from what the rest of the jurisdictions are doing, uh, we'll have to figure it out on our own. So, um, legally, I think this is a fantastic policy and she did a great job.

Okay. I I do have a question on the policy though. The the part where it says the meeting shall remain in recess for at least one hour. H how was that? I know you're saying we're kind of going along with the rest, but was was there kind of a logic or rational? It's actually that's it. It it I I um madam city clerk, was that the statutory time frame? Was it an hour? I think it's a recommendation as uh listed in by Sen Senate Bill 707 that that you you try for a full hour.

What they Right. It's it's Yeah. And what they do allow and it's in here is you can reorder the agenda and move into close session for that period of time if you have a close session item that night. So for those cities that do close session at the end of a meeting, uh while the meeting is shut down, they can move into close session and periodically check in to see if service has been restored. Um, this also does not affect a situation where uh the hybrid is being used for a a member of the council or a member of a commission who can't be in because of um just cause or uh emergency circumstances. This is strictly under the new bill for public participation. So

Okay. All right. Thank you. Do we have any council questions on this matter? So, how will we know when we lose uh the ability to do these things? John comes running out of there and tells us, "Hey, we're not on anymore." Pretty much. John will come running out from the from the back. Okay. Or or if we or if members of the public is unable to participate, we lose contact with them if they can't speak um when they want to make public comments or they can't view. Yeah. We'll we'll see the Zoom go down. Okay. Have we ever had that during a meeting? Zoom go down. Somebody zoom in and ask questions. Uh during during the co time we did. Yeah. Yeah. Then yes, we're not in co time though.

Yeah. Maybe we're a little late on this, I guess. But no, no. As of as of July 1st, we have to offer. No, I know that. But I mean, you think they would have come up with this a little before now, but true. But at the same token that the way I read it, after the hour, we can say, well, there's good cause to continue the meeting. Let's keep going. Yes. Another example of uh let's do something but let's not do something. Okay. Got it. Any questions? Council member, you uh no question. Okay. All right. With that, uh I will open the public comment for this item. Is there anyone who wishes to address council on this matter? Spoken.

Okay. Seeing none, I will close public comment. Um, she spoke already, I think. I will close public comment. And are there any final council comments or questions? Council member Stern. No. Council member Chavis. No. Council member, you? No. Mayor PM. Okay. I I have um No. Thank Thank you for informing us that this is what we have to do. So um can may I have a motion for this item, please?

Uh Mr. Mayor, I move that uh we adopt resolution number 26-5868 approving a policy to address disruptions to telephonic or internet service at a noticed public meeting in open session. We have a motion and a second. Are there any objections? Seeing none, can we get a roll call vote, please? Council member Chavez, yes. Council member Sternquist, yes. Council member Yu, yes. Mayor Poten Chen, yes. Mayor M, yes. All right. So, that item has been approved. Uh before we proceed to the next item, I'd like to turn over the meeting to our city attorney to provide some comments.

Thank Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh as many members of the public know, um Mayor Mann and council member Yu are both um high level employees of the county of Los Angeles. While the political reform act and fair political practices commission regulations would allow them to take part in this matter um from the city side uh there are certain county ethics obligations that they are duty bound to follow and so both of them will be recusing themselves and stepping off the dis at this time. I wanted to make that clear for the public why they are doing what they are doing. Thank you sir and sir.

Okay. Thank you. And so at this moment uh we will recuse ourselves from this item and the meeting will be handed over to Mayor Promch Chen for for this item.

All right. This is a new business public hearing. Just just new business sir. Is it public hearing? This is item C. Renewal of general service agreement GSA between the county of Los Angeles and the city of Temple City. City council's request to authorize city manager to execute a renewal of the existing general service agreement between the county of Los Angeles and Temple City. Mr. City Manager.

Thank you, Mayor Promchen, and uh members of the council. Uh every five years the c the county of Los Angeles requires that every contract city all 42 of which we are one uh resign a general services agreement. That general service agreement allows us to uh procure services uh for a variety of county contract services primarily public works but other services as well. We have a separate five-year contract with the county of Los Angeles and our sheriff's department, which you signed, which we signed a couple years ago. But this allows us to get, for example, um, uh, traffic control services, our street lights, um, all those other services along with any plethora of services across the board from the county. So um the rates are set separately but this is the master services agreement that we enter into every 5 years with the county of Los Angeles. They are as a contract city they are essential partners for us in providing vital and critical services to our to the residents and the businesses of Temple City. So um I'm here for any questions you have and respectfully ask for your approval.

Right. We'll go to council questions. I have it. Is there somewhere in here where it says the cost of all this? So, the costs is is is set either by our our fee resolutions that we have or and or the county master fee schedule that they pass every year as well. So, it's a little bit different than um the annual increase that we get from the sheriff's department, but even that is still part of a pass through that the county sets as their rates. It would be fair to say that we have no control over that

in terms of the actual set rate. No, but we do work with our county partners to try our best to control those costs as much as we can. But doesn't give me a whole lot of uh confidence, right? So I I'm not sure. I mean, so so what are we paying now? I mean, do we know that? So we in terms of, for example, our our public works schedule, there is a a fee schedule that the public works department comes out with every single year. Like for example, uh filling a pothole or the hourly rate for uh repairs to our street schedule out there somewhere. Yes.

Okay. And then that's updated yearly. Yearly. And sometimes that's sometimes some of the fees, not all because this is a pretty comprehensive agreement. Um some are set by some are set not in statute, but there's kind of a formula that the county uses. So, um, and they have to, the county does the same exact thing they that we do with our fees. We go and do some kind of level of a study, assess what that that dollar amount is, and then you have to justify that fee. Um, so and and that cost. So, they don't have uh unlimited discretion, I guess.

No, they don't. No, no. No public agency, and I would defer to the city attorney on this, no, no public agency has an indiscriminate authority or latitude to charge whatever they want. My concern would be that well, maybe the county is having a particularly bad year and they need to raise some more money and uh so suddenly decide to change all those fee agreements on us. What's the what's how how do we prevent that from happening or can we prevent that way? Well, we as as a contract city and agency go ahead Scott. Yeah, just uh to clarify on that subject. Um they can only charge the cost for their service. Okay.

So, they cannot they can't use it as a means of just increasing revenue for the sake of increasing revenue. They have to do their own fee study to demonstrate that it takes, you know, a supervisor an hour and then the staff two hours and so forth and so on, just like when we do our fee study update. Okay, good. Well, that gives me some level of confidence. Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you, Scott. Well, with that, we'll open the public comment. Anyone in the audience audience that wishes to speak on this item? Seeing none, we'll close public hearing. Uh we'll go to council final questions and comments. Council member Chavez. Uh, nothing further. Thank you. Members Sternquist. None. Okay. All right. Can I have a motion for this item?

I would move that we uh authorize city manager execute a renewal of the existing general services agreement between the county of Los Angeles and Temple City. Second. All right. Was a motion in a second. And can we get a roll call? Council member Chavez. Yes. Council member Sternquist. Yes. Mayor Promchen. Yes. Thank you, Mayor Promut.

As a low-level county employee, a sheriff's reserve deputy. I'm happy to facilitated that vote. So,

all right. Thank you. meeting back to you, sir. Thank Thank you, Mayor Prom. Okay, so uh next we will move on to item 11, update from our city manager. Probably heard enough from me tonight, sir. So, u uh nothing else unless I'm missing something. Okay. No. All right. Next, we go to update from our city attorney. Not as much uh happened in the last two weeks as we thought would. So, uh we'll see what happens with the budget process over the next two weeks, and hopefully I'll have something to report. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Next, uh item 13, council reports regarding ad hoc or standing committee meetings. Do we have any reports from that one?

Okay. All right. I I'll report briefly on the meeting that council member Chavez and I have for the school district. Um which is always a productive and enjoyable meeting to to have. Um but uh on on our agenda uh we of course went through one of the items that is always of interest which is the safety of ebikes uh that's used especially by our our high school students. Um, and I just want to thank our public safety supervisor Jose Amaya and and the rest of our dedicated sheriff's team for continuing to engage with the district as well as engage with district staff and and students to make sure that everyone's using that that correctly. Um, we also talked a lot about some of the uh collaborative efforts that we can work with the school district on regarding areas immediately outside of some of their campuses. Um, including I think we're looking at Camino Royale along um the north side of the the high school. Um, and then of course earlier today we had the special recognition of Oak Avenue, which was a great honor for for us to be able to share with them. Um, and Council Member Chavez, I was just talking about the school district standing committee meeting. So, um, do you want to say anything on on that matter?

No, I think you covered it. Um, did you uh think they give us more information on the school board measure that they school bond? Yes. Yes. Yeah. school bond measures that they're proposing to put on the November ballot. Uh and uh so we'll have more information as we get closer on that. Okay. All right. With that, we move on to item 14, council items separate from the regular agenda. Um we'll start on this side. Council member Sturkus, you know, I just have a question regarding the ebikes. Are students required to wear helmets? Can they be cited for not having a helmet? I believe so. Yes.

Okay.

I have seen more and more younger kids. Seems like they're in junior high school, including my neighbor next door, and who they are not using helmets. And yesterday we were Greg and I were coming home. We were going um west on Lost Tunis, going to turn right on Chamilleia. and a kid just blew through the intersection. No helmet, just not paying attention. I I just keep seeing more and more of it. It doesn't seem to me that the kids are being, you know, maybe even watched by the families. It It's just so frightening. Greg, at one time I think we talked about um looking into something that uh Long Beach, I believe. Was it Long Beach that had an ordinance?

So, some of the San Diego coastal cities got special legislation to have more restrictive ordinances. But let me go look at helmet requirements because that would be something that if it needs a local ordinance, if it's not in the state law, um we could certainly get one of those together and and in time for summer so that it would be a safety issue for kids over the summer. And I I think some cities, if I recall, have gone so far as to ban ebikes entirely. I I don't know.

I think I remember San Diego. I it may be um and and it may be that um Carl'sbad and Incinus hopped to mind as ones that were particularly restrictive because they had um a lot of usage and it was problematic. Uh at the very least I believe that they banned them in certain parts of the city um where they were becoming somewhat overwhelming. Yeah, it it it appears that this is an area where the legislature either has failed to act or just slowly failing to act until I hate to say it, something

something terrible happens and then of course that would perhaps generate more concern up there. But uh yeah, it's it's an ongoing problem and and it's certainly becoming more and more prevalent at the high school. know that uh if you go by the so-called bicycle rack nowadays, you will not see bicycles. You will see ebikes pretty much. Maybe it's something the schools will have to enforce and they're they're looking to us basically is the problem. So yeah.

Yeah. When I when I was coming here this evening, I was coming down live oak boat. Um uh yeah, live oak. Um um and there was a kid on an ebike on one wheel. He was up like this cruising down. It was all on one wheel. On one wheel on his back wheelies. Remember wheelies? Yeah. Yeah. You know what's making a comeback? And I'll get off the subject because Greg's gonna get me a dirty look right now. But uh the uh it's related to the bikes, the minibikes. Yes. Mini the loud like engine type minibikes. There's a couple of kids in our neighborhood that ride them up and down the street. Uhu. And there's like no regulations on that, but they do them anyway at night, right? At night.

Yeah. I can hear it, too. Yeah. Yeah. I can hear it from my house. Yes. And then just one other thought when we're talking about ADUs, do ADUs um come with any when someone's building an ADU, do they have any fees such as the park and wreck fee as the original house did if somebody was building a single family home? No. No. I'm I'm Let's I Director Reamers is here and he will have the exact I was going to start but I'm glad you're here.

Um no, under state law if the unit is under 750 square ft we're not allowed to charge uh an impact fee. If it's over 750 ft we can, but it has to be proportional. um so that they get like a discount so that like if a regular house is 2,000 square feet and the ADU is only a thousand they would have a a discounted rate. So not very no it's it as a plan from a planning perspective it's not great because we're adding units to the city without providing the infrastructure that those units are going to need. Another thing that I don't think they think about

well their their priority right now is housing affordability, not you know the long-term consequences of building units. Council member Chavez, I just wanted to share um I don't often report out on this but uh little update on Temple City sister city program that uh our our sister city program with Hawkbury Australia. I think we've mentioned before that we have selected the six students who will be going this year. They're actually leaving in uh where is it? Jyn, you'll probably have to help me. In July. Okay. We have six young ladies that are going this year. Wow.

Uh two I'm proud to say are Jessica and Sophia Guo. Jyn's daughters uh are going and so I know they're looking forward to that. Um and so they'll be spending about uh five weeks or so, five, six weeks there in Australia. And then the Australians uh will be coming here in September to visit Temple City. Uh one of the things that's of concern right now with the Temple City program is the um participation I guess you could say in the program. Just to give you an example, years ago, well, not too many years ago, but I would say maybe four or five years ago, we would traditionally get 40 to 50 applications, and we'd have to select six individuals from those 40 to 50 applications. This year, for the six spots, we received six applications

pretty much. And remember, last year, we didn't even send six students. I believe we only sent five. Wow. So, they're they've been talking about how to revitalize the program and and one of the things that was brought up at the last meeting was they did make contact with um uh the history teachers over at Temple City High School who are pretty excited about it and may partner with the with the program to try to get more interest in it and build up uh you know why it would be important to do something like that. So, that's a good thing. Um so, they're doing that. Um what else? There was there is a new board. Uh the president for this coming year will be Mitsy Franco, vice president Fernando Madreal who son went last year I believe. And um uh Joan Skiglaniano and Diana Selenus are the Australian ambassador coordinators. They're the ones that coordinate the programs when when the kids come here. Uh our US ambassador coordinators are Judy Shei and Janet Smith. Um and membership is Lena Chu and Christy Wong and our secretary is Don Taran and our treasurer is Leanne Baldi. So good group of people but they do also need help as well. So if anybody's interested in getting involved with the sister city program by all means contact them on their website and u maybe attend the next morning next meeting. The next board meeting is actually May 11th and that'll be uh in the community room here at uh at uh city hall. So, um, let's see. I think that's about it for that. Uh, what else? Council member Sternquist and I, uh, attended the, uh, California JPI Executive Committee workshop this past weekend. I think what I'll do, I'll have to get my notes together. I didn't bring them, but I'll share with everyone what was discussed there that has an effect

on the city as a whole. uh and primarily um you know the upcoming uh budget and and premiums and stuff that we pay into and what we're going to get in re in return for that and the things that we're looking at as an executive committee is how to mitigate some of those costs because as we all know insurance costs are skyrocketing throughout the state not just for traditional insurers but also for our JPIA as well. So more to follow on that. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Oh, council member Yu.

Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just want to make a quick comment and uh on on public safety. I want to thank all the residents that came out and spoke to us tonight. Um, just want to make make two quick points. Number one is that uh while it's pretty evident to everybody, the five of us up here, we all live in the city. So um so public safety is is is very dear to our hearts and some of us I mean myself for example we my house been burglarized at one time uh myself you know so we we totally understand what what you feel and we appreciate you coming out to talk to us and the second point I want to make just to second what um uh our city manager uh had said uh Mr. Cook has we're doing everything we can um under uh within the city's power. Uh and u and we have a great partnership with our sheriff's department. Um so we however there are many circumstances really outside our control. For example, um um the sheriff department had not been able to had been on a hiring freeze for many years and um and also the previous um DA had not been uh uh prosecuting on certain crimes and stuff. So, and plus like the Mr. city manager had mentioned there are overseas crews that come and hit different cities and different lo localities at different times. So um but um rest assure we're doing everything we can to counter what we are experiencing right now. So, and then finally, just want to bring to everybody's attention, we do have a public safety focused uh

city council meeting uh every month, and the next one is April 29th at 7 a.m. So, if you have further questions on public safety, you can come uh and participate in the meeting. Thank you, Mr. That's it. Thank you. All right, Mayor Prom Chen.

Yes. Just also echo on what Council Member You just said. Um I too back in high school uh remember my house was burglarized and I will not it was it it left such an impact um on me because seeing my mother cry for um what was a very personal and very invasion of our uh sense of safety and security in our home. um probably why I enjoyed the uh the sheriff's uh reserve program uh at a fairly young age and I've since been with that program for 17 years and most recently I was a full-time police officer. Um I know that my colleagues up here they all very much care. I mean just the fact that there is a dedicated council meeting monthly on the subject of public safety shows that we um we all care. Uh so um those that really took the time to come out tonight uh that took the time to come out to our um neighborhood watch meeting, thank you. Um not only are you just um taking your own experience, sharing that bravely with us, but also reminding us to put public safety first. Um appreciate your time doing that. I want to briefly report out I attended the California Clean Energy Summit last week. um kind of an extension of my service on the clean power alliance. Uh learned a lot of great programs for state and federal programs that could potentially help us with our uh planning of our future park. So I'll look forward to compile my notes and share that with staff. Uh and uh we had a oh I attended the Oak Avenue uh intermediate schools. Uh it was a elementary school orchestra program. My son's in beginning orchestra. Um, Mayor Mansson is in advance orchestra and it was a very um it was a very nice event. Um, so again uh and then another uh Saturday full of community events and

activities uh including the uh women's club uh historical society's uh um ribbon cutting and a tree dedication to the uh Jones family. That was a very nice event. Uh thank you Jerry for covering it. and also uh Saturday night the uh um the Temple City National Little League event. Again, thank you Jerry for for being there and capturing those special moments for the community. Okay. Thank Thank you. The Temple City National Oh, it's the annual uh Jackie Robinson's uh coaches game. Oh, so I'll make sure you get an invite every time.

Okay. Thank Thank you, Mayor Prom Chen. And I I do want to echo and concur with everything my colleagues have said about public safety and and I want to thank our city manager for um clarifying and articulating many times. Um but I I think it that's the message that we we need to kind of get across is what exactly are we doing? Um, our residents certainly deserve answers and and deserve to know uh what is our thought process, what is our approach. And to Council Member Yu's point, our meeting next Wednesday is we've had it for quite a long time and it's designed exactly to kind of raise these questions and and get the feedback and answers from our partners at at the Temple Sheriff Station. And um I I'm very confident that they will figure it out. Our our captain has demonstrated a tenacity and commitment to figuring out solutions to these issues. Um and like council member mentioned earlier, unfortunately it's not the first time we've seen spikes in home burglaries. Um but it's certainly something we we care deeply about. Um, and it it kind of it pains me to kind of see the emails and people calling us or telling us in person that they were a victim of a of a burglary because, you know, kind of as Mayor Prom Chen mentioned, I hope not everyone has experienced being burglarized, but but I I have. Um, and I I remember that to this day. It's very personal and it leaves an impression on you that that doesn't really go away. So um so we will work hard on that and we we will u be as transparent as we can to let everyone know what exactly we are doing. So I'm sure there will be more information next

week um as well as the coming weeks. I I do want to take a moment to um just recognize that tomorrow is administrative professionals day. Um, it's not something that gets widely circulated or known, but I do want to thank our, you know, our city clerk's office and everyone from the city manager's office who who do a lot of the work behind the scenes that sometimes we maybe take for granted, but it it certainly doesn't go unnoticed. It's a very important part of running city hall and serving our residents. So, so thank you to all the admin pros, as we at the county like to call it. Um but those who uh serve for the for the city, I want to thank you all for um for for doing the work that you do.

Didn't it used to be called secretar's day? Yeah. At one time, yeah, they they changed it and politically correct administrative professionals day. Yeah. But it it covers a pretty large group. So I think

So the question is what is Brian Cook doing tomorrow? That's what I'd like to know. It's so it it was a subtle reminder for him. Uh anyway, um uh this week, this Friday, uh council member, you and I will will be part of the standing committee for the facilities and public works. So, we're looking forward to that discussion on updates to our pavement management plan and what that looks like for the city moving forward. Um, also on April 24th, we have Arbor Day. So, I believe we have an Arbor Day event at Live Oak Park at 400 PM. And I know that because Jacob is in Stars Club and apparently Stars Club is moving to Live Oak Park for that day.

Yeah. Yeah. So, I I I will be there. Um, also next week, council uh will have a strategic planning session on April 28th in the community room. So, again, uh, we mentioned that in previous meetings, but certainly this it's a public meeting. We'd love for people to join and and be a part of that, but it's it's a chance for council to kind of have a higher level discussion on what the council priorities are moving forward. Um, and it's time specifically to be right before our upcoming budget study session so we have alignment between the two things. Um, and then lastly, I'll just share an interesting thing I I attended recently for um the American Public Works Association. There was a presentation by the city of Glendale on uh speed speeding cameras. And apparently I I didn't re realize this, but there there's a specific state legislation AB645 that calls out six specific cities. Nobody else can do it. Only those six specific cities, and Glendale was one of them, that can run a pilot program for cameras that capture and can sight people for speeding in so-called high-risisk zones. Um, and so they shared a little bit about their their pilot program, um, which is reminiscent of the red light cameras that we we used to see. Uh, but what's what's interesting is they they well they didn't have too much to share because they were still getting it off the ground. Um, but they did note that uh some of the same issues that cities had with operating red light cameras were were the same issues that they're encountering. So there's a lot of um procedural things and and legal legal statutory things that they would have to do as an agency that they cannot contract out. Um so it's very resource

intensive. Um there's a lot of restrictions. If you go through act the actual legislation of AB645, it's awfully specific about what they can and cannot do, including things like when you start it, there's a pilot period of several months where you cannot actually issue citations. You can only issue warnings. Um, but that's not law now, right? It is. It is law now. You can do that. It it is for for those six cities. For those six cities only. Yeah. Just for those six cities. Yes. Pasadena, I take it, is not one of them. No. No. Because they tried a similar program, remember? LA's one of them. Yeah. So, how the hell are these ones upholding the constitution?

That's what I'd like. Great. Great question for the lawyers. Yeah, I agree. And I I know because I got a ticket with those cameras, red light, and like a good citizen, I paid the fine. And uh and then I think a few weeks later it was found unconstitutional. I could have saved my money. They didn't return it. No, they didn't return it.

In any case, I just thought it was interesting because speeding traffic issues is a common theme and issue that we see during our monthly law enforcement meetings where we discuss those things. Um, and so, uh, the reason I bring it up is there there's a lot of law, regulation, and restrictions surrounding the ability of agencies to do certain things that maybe sound really great on paper, and residents are going, "Well, why why isn't the city doing this?" And there are maybe too many reasons why that I won't go into now, but I just thought that was an interesting presentation that the city of Glendale gave. All right, with that, um, we move on to the final phase of, uh, additional public comments. Is there anyone who is left here that would like to address?

I guess you're the only one. No. Okay. All right. Well, then with that, we are adjourned for the evening. Thank you.