City Council - Regular Meeting

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recording in progress the city of seaside city councilor and the success agency to the redevelopment agency of the city of seaside brought the 5 p.m meeting thursday august 20 of 2026 is in city hall council chambers i will come to order thank you on roll call please council and agency member miller council and agency member burks here

Council and agency member Garcia-Arizuela? Here. Mayor Pro Tem and Vice Chair Pacheco? Mayor and Chair Oglesby?

I hear.

You do have a quorum.

Thank you. We'll go to item number three, which is moment of silence. And then I will ask Mayor Pro Tem to lead us and pledge allegiance.

Okay.

Next we go to item number four is the review of the agenda. Mr. City Manager, any additions, corrections, adjustments to the agenda?

No request to change the agenda. Thank you.

Madam City Attorney, did you have any?

Yes, thank you. The closed session item can be removed. Yeah, I'm not hearing anyone.

You didn't hear it? And so they're working now.

Okay. Sorry. Yes. Item 13 a can be removed from the agenda.

Okay, thank you. Now we got on number 5, which is public comment and there was a public to address. This by all matters on the door just to show, but not on the agenda may do so at this time, this is also the time to comment on presentation items for the benefit of the public. It will be good to state your name of the common is open.

Hello, everyone. Danny Bakewell, Jr., 5200 Coe Avenue, Seaside. We just wanted to inform both the City Council and the community in general. The Pacific Landing at Seaside website is up and running. so you can go to seaside i mean pacificlandingseaside.com and uh get information on uh the houses that we're releasing you can also sign up for the interest list those people are interested um got some real good video that is there and just wanted to share that it's also on all social media platforms same pacific landing seaside on instagram Facebook and whatever other social media. So we're moving along. We pouring foundations for model homes next week. So just wanted to share that information with both the city council and the city of seaside in general. So thank you. Also, we had a huge spike on our website over the weekend from car week. We got the signs up in time and I saw the report today and it literally went. like that. So just wanted to let you know. Thank you.

linda cunningham member of the homeless commission here speaking as a private person just so many things i mean that's just great i can't wait to go to that website i hope i can get on the wi-fi here at seaside so i can peek at it um the the the parking lot the we the the weeding that has been done in that in the parking lot library it just looks so nice the rose garden i mean just the team the weeding team my house is i got some weeds at my place um i spoke with Alex, our animal control officer and about a little black cat and just one random comes to our house. She was sleeping in the back. He came over with a net to try to catch this cat while she was sleeping. Of course, she got away, but they caught that cat the two kittens they're all being fixed today and it's just a fabulous ending i just can't say enough apparently alex has also helped with a fox in our neighborhood and a raccoon i mean the guy's just great i'm so grateful that alex is a part of our team and i believe he's well over 400 cats fixed and what a blessing for the city seaside and all those unwanted kittens that didn't have to live a hard life on the street I think exotics on Broadway, even though we stayed home, I think everything went great. I didn't hear any news. I got a absolutely fabulous video from my neighbor, Francoise, about a DDE ride along these diamonds. I don't know, I guess they're influencers. They got a YouTube channel. Anyways, the ride along, I just thought it was fabulous. Chief Borgers, I don't know, we're just so fortunate to have them. And the whole Seaside PD, they made such an impression in this video about exotics, the ride along. What a brilliant idea. The ride along, that was just fabulous. If you haven't seen it on YouTube, check it out. I couldn't be more proud of the city of Seaside. than watching this where they were just actually helping people they weren't harassing people it was just beautiful to see the other side get on with the cop side and have an experience i think it was a brilliant idea i'm glad the birds had moved out by exotics and i hope we can work with the audubon society and anybody will help us get the birds to nest in the wild back at roberts lake and off all the buildings because the birds don't want to be there we don't want to be there let's get them back out in the wild we have a nice space let's hope we can pull this off and um The other thing I had on here was, and I haven't looked lately, but I'm going to see if Seaside's on Blue Sky. I don't want to be on the oligarchs social. I'm missing out on a lot of things and it would be really nice if Seaside was on Blue Sky so I could see things because I don't want to support those ultra rich white guys who are just not doing good for our society. Thank you very much.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone. The caller ending in 2287, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

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Thank you. This is Peter Kaiser. I would like to offer a prayer in addition to the moment of silence. This is Matthew 6, 9, our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy, your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. The evil one for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen, and then there's also the Beatitudes. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile you and all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for the So they will be persecuted, the prophets who were before you. Amen. So we also want to have a reconsideration of the trans sanctuary city. We have to remember that a bunch of the hospitals who were doing these inappropriate surgeries are now being sued. And some of the doctors who are promoting this and falsely guiding families And some of these people who had these unnecessary surgeries are now feeling very sad and depressed about this, and they wish that they hadn't done this. So we do not want City of Seaside to be sued for promoting these things, which are now leading a number of people to suicide. And this should... not be a sanctuary city for trans and trans care as it has been deemed inappropriate, especially from the highest levels of the administration in the United States. And thank you so much. God bless you.

Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you. Seeing no one else here, no one else, public comment is closed. Mr. City Manager, any questions, comments, or concerns you can speak to at this time?

Nothing to add at this time. Thank you.

Thank you so much. That's what I'm number 6, public agency communications. Let's go to 6, a city of seaside news broadcast and then comments from the manager.

The Oldemeier Center has been named a finalist for Best Hangout for Seniors in the Best of Monterey County Readers poll. Final voting is open until August 28th. Visit montereycountynow.com slash bestof to cast your vote and support Seaside. First up, head over to neighboring Sand City for the annual West End Celebration happening August 22nd and 23rd in the Sand City West End. weekend will feature live music food beer and wine and local art be sure to visit booth 107 presented by the seaside art association and sponsored by the city of seaside history and art commission featuring a rotating exhibit of original works by local artists and giveaways throughout the weekend it's a great opportunity to support local artists enjoy live entertainment and experience the creativity of our community monterey bay fc has two special home matches coming up at cardinale stadium On August 29th, they take on Sacramento Republic FC for Back to School Night, featuring a bobblehead giveaway. Then on September 5th at 7 p.m., they face Phoenix Rising FC for Hispanic Heritage Night, presented by the City of Seaside. Fans can take advantage of a Fiesta 4-pack for $47, and a special roller banner giveaway will also be available. For tickets and details, visit montereybayfc.com. Seaside residents can schedule low-cost spay or neuter services for cats and dogs on August 25th. The clinic will be held at 1271 Canyon Del Rey Boulevard in the empty lot by Chili's Restaurant. Services cost $25. Call or text 9259-671-001 for an appointment. Schedule an appointment today to support your pet's health. Next, the Monterey County Black Caucus presents the Black August Community Resource Fair on Monday, August 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Greater Victory Temple COGIC, 1620 Broadway Avenue in Seaside. This all-ages event will bring together residents, families, youth, local organizations, and community leaders for an evening focused on resources, information, and meaningful connections. Food and refreshments will also be available, along with family-friendly activities. Then support local creativity during the 19th seaside artist tour happening September 5 and six from 11am to 4pm. residents and visitors are invited to explore seaside meet local artists at their home studios see what they have been creating and purchase artwork directly from the artists. Looking for a new way to stay active and build confidence, the city of seaside is offering a martial arts class at the super community located at 220 co avenue. The session runs from September 10 through October 1 with classes held Mondays and Thursdays from 630 to 745pm the classes open to ages eight and older and all experience levels are welcome registration is $45 for seaside residents and $50 for non residents. Palenque Arts is kicking off its 2026 Immigrant Voices Concert Series with Eze, an Amazigh super band based in Santa Cruz and led by Moroccan multi-instrumentalist Fata Abu. The concert takes place Saturday, September 12th at 7.30pm at the Palenque Teen Arts Center, 530 Elm Avenue in Seaside. Eze blends traditional Amazigh music from Morocco's Atlas Mountains with global influences, creating a vibrant mix of rhythms, string melodies, and soulful vocals. For more information on city events, programs, traffic updates, and community announcements, visit the City of Seaside website and follow us on social media. Thank you for watching.

I'd just like to add that I feel the community Seaside really showed out for Car Week, for Seaside Car Week, and I want to give a special thanks to all city departments, from all of staff, from recreation to public works to law enforcement to fire services and all in between. It was all hands on deck for Seaside Car Week. In the spirit of continuous improvement, staff will be meeting with event organizers and schedule an after-action report for Seaside Car Week at a future city council meeting. Thank you.

Thank you. Let's go on to item number seven, presentations. Seven-day update from PG&E Monterey Bay, Mr. City Manager.

We will have a presentation from PG&E from Megan Range, Government Relations Director.

Hello, Mayor Oglesby, members of City Council and staff. Good to see you all. It's not very exciting. There's a deck in front of you. We also have, if you need to see the fine print, but Councilmember Birx, you had asked about the polls falling, and Councilmember Garcia-Rizal, you asked about what our communications are, so I'm going to cover all of them kind of quickly here. To answer the question about the polls falling, We can go one over. You will see that on Imperial and Elm, we had an outage starting on May 16th, lasting through May 17th. 3.46 p.m., 3,128 lose power. At 5.55 p.m., 1,601 were restored. This is an EPSS, Enhanced Power Safety Shutoff, right? I think we're all familiar with that system. At 6.59, another 1,633 were restored. It wasn't until the next morning that we had the final 120, and then at 12.58, 41. So that's just a timeline of events, so you know how that works. Inspections. Next slide. The polls were last inspected May 2023. No findings during that time. They should be inspected. That's one of those words that I cannot get right. Inspected every five years. So it had been three. There's also not listed on here patrols, visual patrols that are every two years. And nothing was found. So we had no reason to know that those were going to go down. Restoration crew is conducted by Avila Construction. Those are contractors. And then we have an environmental cleanup crew, which actually we sent out twice to make sure that the area was perfectly cleaned. And that was done by PSC contractors. What else? Weather, it was a windy day. We knew that these numbers, when weather gave this to me and I was like, these numbers don't do a lot for me, but we knew it was a windy day. We had been receiving alerts. Councilmember Garcia-Arizuela, you mentioned that public safety was wonderful. Fire and police were on it, which is great to hear. They are handled by a completely different Army PG&E. They're called PSS, Public Safety Specialists. Jeff Money is the one here. I don't handle the fire and police. Those are handled by former, in this case, fire chief. That organization, PSS, offers hour and a half electrical training and hour and a half gas training, which I'm sure all the chiefs have taken advantage of. So they are experts. This is not a lane I get into. But the question you had was on communication. Technically, the way we proactively reach out, if there is an outage of 2,000 or more, that triggers proactive communication. um and it has to last an hour if it goes any shorter than that we will usually wait proactively to reach out during business hours it's me your local rep during evenings and weekends that rotates it was a weekend i was not on call i was coming home from getting a pedicure um down the street and noticed the lights were out so immediately went to my phone um mayor and city is the city manager you both received messages from me i was checking in There was a glitch in the system. We will completely acknowledge you all didn't get the notice that should have gone out to you until closer to midnight. It was stuck in the system. That was a complete error. I'd only been on the job a few weeks. I was, again, jumping the gun and reaching out when I technically shouldn't have, but we have since created systems so that we all text each other. If I don't see, if he says, just sent it and I don't see it pop up, I then know, okay, system's down and I go with backup too. i did not know the system was down that day again i was only like three or four weeks into the job so um i'm glad i was able to reach out to the two of you at the very least but your your connection was delayed so we have new systems in place so that we don't screw that up um improved so moving forward my first question was okay what do we How does this not happen? We have an improved outreach. So we have a check and balance system so that we are not just relying on the email system in case it goes down. Regular inspections, like you mentioned, there are five-year inspections, but we are currently doing inspections. We are running closer to three years inspections. New poll setting requirements. Over time, it used to be that polls were set six feet down. Now they are eight plus. That happened about five years ago because of telecommunication weight. It has changed the rating. So polls are installed differently than they used to be. And we're now using a higher class of poll, which means it's wider and it's taller. Again, telecommunication ratings have changed the way polls were installed. We, PG&E, acquired Coastal Community, I have this in my notes, Coast County Electric in 1954, the same year you all were created, right? So we don't know what all poles in the ground, I cannot tell you what year they were all put in, but we do know that as they get inspected now through test and treat, visual, patrolling, as they replace their, a different caliber for today's settings. I can tell you have a question. Oh, I thought you were... Okay. So now, questions. What can I...

Councilman Garcia is on.

Yeah.

Thank you, Ms. Range, for the presentation. I appreciate you coming here. And you're correct. I did ask about outreach and communications. This is very important. I know there have been a slew of natural disasters happening throughout the state. But for me, it's important to ask this question right now, specifically as winter storms are right around the corner. What preparations do you have in place to ensure reliability and communication with our constituency?

Yeah, absolutely.

And if I have a follow up on that, you mentioned a glitch. How's that? Do you have and you assure me that that glitch has been fixed in preparation for the email glitches?

No, but I can tell you we have a checks and balance system. So again, we text and phone call so that he says I hit send. And if I don't see it in five minutes, then we go through plan B. So I'm not waiting for the glitch to be fixed. I just have other plans in place. I am not an IT person. And I can tell you that on a weekend, I have no faith that I think my checks and balance system will be faster than the IT plane, but it's worth it. Yeah, going into storm season, things we tell everybody, I can't stress this enough, make sure your contact information on your account, your PG&E account is correct. Again, I've only been with the company a few months now and so often somebody asks about notifications and I'm like, we called 831 and they're like, that was my landline from five years ago. And I'm like, could you go in and change it? So I do suggest that everybody check those. There's a good chance it's You might have opted out. Other things that we are really focusing on is making sure we have all of our badge management cleared. We do that with Public Works. You guys are great at it. We will make sure, as we head into storm season, that there is... no tree that is too close to a line that could easily swing it. I mean, we do our patrolling, constant patrolling. We have drone patrolling, car patrolling, and then physical and certain inspections. So we'll be doing all of that as we head into November and December.

Awesome. Great to hear. Do you happen to have the current assessment of the condition of infrastructure in the city of Seaside when it comes to PG&E infrastructure?

No. I would need... a very specific way to quantify that and i'm if you want to shoot me a note i'm happy to ask a very specific question and get that back to you and i i think it was on the slide but i should have said it well 2000 is our indicator for us to actively reach out you can be like my neighbor betty is out why text me carrier pigeon phone call i'll we can look But it doesn't have to be 2,000 for me to respond. It just won't show up on my radar if it's not a large number, if that makes sense. If it is 100, it's the wrong 100. It's a community that is a lot of medical dependence. Feel free to flag it. So I will say... If 2,000 is not a magic number for me to care, it has to be big enough for me to see it, if that makes sense. So please don't hesitate to reach out. It can be 20 people. That's OK. We can look at it and say, It was planned. It was a squirrel. We'll be back on in 20 minutes. You know, I'm happy to look into those.

Thank you. I appreciate that. And going back to winter storms and infrastructure, has PG&E identified areas within the city that have higher reliability issues?

um again i could there are reports that we can pull and i can happily pull them and and get them to your office they're yes they exist i can go through a map and click on a button and it can show me year after year after year and show me reliability so they exist but i would just need to pull a very specific um area yeah i can do that and then

I guess my next question would be regarding financial assistance when it comes to a power outage. I know that's always been a concern from constituents when power's out for a couple of days or weeks. We've had that in the past. It is a process to basically make right by the constituent.

yeah um there are and i will happily send this an email form to everybody information that you can flip out to constituents quite easily there are programs we do have um financial assistance uh that that is available there's different ways to get there whether i say i'm not going to just say phone call you can also do it online there's multiple ways to do it but it's a pretty straightforward process when it's a psts which is the power public safety power shut off the acronym game at fiji is a serious one um those we set up community centers in advance to make sure that we have food water power things like that it's the epss which are the ones we don't know about that those are the times when you can go back in and there are financial there's financial assistance and i'm happy to flip that information to you so you your offices can use them thank you and going to regular inspections can you just remind me what you said three years is now the new requirement five is a requirement we're operating at about three you're operating yeah okay and two is patrol and drones don't technically have a requirement but we use them as well

And how have you been, has your team been doing that in the city of Seaside in preparation for the winter storms?

I would have to ask for specific counts on that. I mean, I know they're in the area, but I don't, I could not tell you like how many hours, but I'm happy to ask.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yeah.

That'd be all.

Easy.

Mayor Pritchard.

Thank you for a great report. Just a couple of questions, and you may not know the answer. Try me. If you're walking on from Broadway to Kimball, and that's near Subway and Burger King, and you're walking, those P&E boxes that are there on the ground, a lot of them are probably five to eight of them are broken. So it's a liability. rest area that i've walked on both sides are fine but that one stretch you'll see the broken whatever they're low says pg knee on them i will send a note the second i get back to my computer yeah just just for your information the other area that uh they did some work up by um lasalle avenue And it looks like, and I'm probably being overly sensitive, but when they fix, when they do the work, they only fix half the lane or they only, they kind of piecemeal it where it doesn't look like it's finished. I'm not sure if that's the norm for all cities or it just looks like it's like when you fixed your, I don't know, when you paint your house and you only paint half your house, then there's an issue. So it just doesn't look like it's, fully paved the way you found it as such sometimes it's kitty cornered and kind of piecemeal the work absolutely yeah um just two thoughts for you i will definitely flag those i can probably go take a picture of it too um now if i'm looking for you said lasalle yeah lasalle and uh going south, I guess, on the northbound lane, I guess it is.

Okay, yeah, but those are the kinds of things I'm happy to flag. I did this, not in your area, somebody sent a photo and they were like, you know, there's X and within days somebody had flagged it and went to fix it. They just, we have to flag it in the system and I would happily do that.

And I'm just concerned that the little boxes on the ground are a liability waiting to happen.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So no, I appreciate you flagging and I will flag it for the team. Thank you. Yeah. Anytime. Feel free to flag, flag, flag.

I don't have questions. Just thank you for the report. I have seen some of the polls coming down and new ones going up, which is a pretty cool kids are out there watching it. And then I did get the notification that they were going to be checking out the tree. So I appreciate that communication. Just curious, like you're saying, flag it. What would be for the community the best way instead of them? I mean, they're always welcome to message us and send us pictures. But for the community in general, we do like a click it and fix it kind of thing. Is there something that any community member can do?

We take all of our direction from your office, which I don't mean to give you more work. No, that's fine. But it helps our team when we get to be able to say, Council Member Brooks asked us for X. It helps us move it through the process.

Just letting constituents know to continue to let us know.

And just hit forward. Yeah, hit forward. No explanation needed. I can say it came from your office. That carries a lot of weight. Thank you.

Yeah. Council Member Garcia-Zola.

Thank you for saying if it comes through our office, you move it along through your system. When it's a business, I know in the past we've had businesses that have been stalled a little bit for having electricity up and running, which can sometimes delay a business opening. What is your current backlog or what does that do to you?

That is a tricky question. There's a lot of reasons. There's no easy way to answer that. A huge percentage of my day is handling an issue that was flagged from a business to an office. I mean, I get them from Panetta's office. They come from everywhere. The one I handled today... was from Santa Cruz area and it was a business that is trying to get online and Caltrans was our stick point. And so I said, who's got Caltrans friends? And I literally think of one of the congressmen. They flipped it to Congress who called Caltrans and they said, great, it's on your permit. Do it at 245. And we did it. So there's a lot of every scenario is very, very different. It really depends what it is. Sometimes sometimes there is a missed disconnection between permitting and X. Sometimes it's just confusion. Sometimes it is. Could you make a phone call for me? Right? I mean, there are times things go to the coastal commission and I'm like, does anybody want to call Chris Lopez? Cause that could help you. But I have to tell you what the problem is. If nobody asked me, I can't tell you. And I go to the team and say, what's the holdup? And they say, it's Caltrans. It's coastal commission. It's so there's a myriad of reasons, um, They're all one-offs, but we have a process to get through them and it generally works.

And I'm sure you've had great communication with the city manager as well.

Yeah.

Okay, perfect. And now that I have you here, financial assistance, going back to it, a little bit, FARA and medical baseline programming, are the rates still the same? Have they been modified income level thresholds?

No, those are state programs.

but they're administered through PG&E as well.

Yes. It's also 3CE. It's the same, like, because we... Yes, but it applies not just to the PG&E bill. It's also your 3CE. It is a state program that, yeah, because we send the bills, but it is not necessarily, it's not our program. It is a state program that we, yes, help administer, but it does cover 3CE as well, even though they're not our rates, if that makes sense. Yeah, but to my knowledge, those haven't changed recently. Not in the last, I'll tell you, four months, but that's about as far back with PG&E as I can go.

No, no, no, no. Thank you for being honest. And then there have been recent reports, and this is something that's been coming up from constituents a lot, is the fear, well, I guess the federal government has made a new ruling that certain programs or benefits can be considered public charge. So constituents want to know whether or not any type of financial assistance from, let's say PG&E, will that be considered public charge?

I do not have the answer to that. I would have to ask the team that works with the state in which offers things like the CARES program. I would have to look into that. I couldn't begin to speak on their behalf.

Okay. And then if you just have any information regarding financial assistance.

Yeah, absolutely. And that's one of the things I can flip over as well pretty easily.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for that wonderful presentation.

Yeah, very exciting, I'm sure.

It was. There were some questions that they had for the last several months, so thank you so much.

Absolutely. Feel free to reach out anytime. You don't have to wait for an emergency of 2,000 people. I will happily come in and meet. Thank you all.

Next, we'll go to item number 7B, presentation from Community Partnership for Youth on the 2025-26 Community Social Service Grant Program. Mr. Seaman.

We'll call up down our representatives from CPY.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, Council. Appreciate being here today to again share really our gratitude for the support that you've all given to CPY. It's always important for us as an organization to highlight our history. So CPY is a mentoring organization. We're a prevention program here in the city of Seaside. But we started back in 1991 when Raymond Avila, a young high school student, on the cusp of graduation lost his life who was shot and killed here in seaside and it's something that we make sure our staff know we make sure the community knows and really it was the response to that that uh the response to that tragedy that bore cpy Now, those who know me know I've been with CPY for what feels like forever. I've had the privilege of sharing my story many, many times. It's a story that began 27 years ago as a middle schooler in the program. Today, I want to pass the torch a little bit. Still have some things to say, but really I want to highlight what this grant has allowed us to do the legacy of cpy through some of the staff and some of the team that i have here behind me and so first i would like to welcome up mr angel

Hello, good evening. I'm mayor and esteemed council members. My name is Angel Macias. Currently, I've been in CPY since I was in fifth grade. I am a second year at Hardin Elk Community College in Salinas. I've been a part of CPY from fifth grade through their middle school leadership program and then their high school leadership program. Overall, it's taught me so much. It's helped me with my public speaking, with my ability to get out and try new things that are my comfort zone. At Hartnell, I've been studying mechanical engineering. I wouldn't have been able to have done that without the help of CPY and some of the leaders that were there while I was growing up. So they've taught me to pursue things that I am passionate for, and I hope to pass that on to the future generation that I work with working in CPY. Thank you very much for the grant, and I'll pass it on to Mr. Adan.

Good evening Mr. Mayor and Council. My name is Adon Garcia-Olloa. I've been part of CPY for the past 14 years. I've been through the elementary school program, a middle school and high school leadership program. Currently right now I'm a second year in CSUMB majoring in business administration with a focus in marketing. Right now I thank CPY right now for allowing me to be the person I am. It has helped me to get out of my comfort zone a little bit more. That's pretty much it. Thank you.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and fellow council members. My name is Karla Velasco. I've been with CPY for 13 years. I've been a part of their middle school and high school leadership program. I am going to Sacramento State to major in health science to pursue a career in nursing and pediatrics. I thank CPY for for guiding me into this path without CPY, I wouldn't have been able to grow as a person and to influence the younger generation.

Good afternoon. My name is Sebastian Perez. I've been with CPY for about 13 years, probably since I was in kinder. I've gone through all three stages of their program, which is being there as a student, as a middle school student, and then being there as a high school leader which is part of their high school program and throughout that time i've been able to learn a lot of things a lot of life lessons um mr ben himself can say you know he's seen me grow as a young man you know changing my ways and becoming a better person and um I'm currently, I'm entering my first year of college where I will be attending a Cabrillo College and I'll also be taking part of their soccer team. And I'm very excited for these opportunities. And I don't think I would have even thought of reaching out or reaching out to that college coach if I hadn't been for the skills I'd learned at CPY and that ability to like be outgoing and Also, this past year, I actually had some health problems that I went through, and CBY was a huge part in me overcoming that. And not only in a job aspect, but also on a personal note, you know, I had received a lot of support from my colleagues, and I'm very grateful for the grant that you guys have given us. And yeah, I'll pass you on to my next.

Good evening Mr. Mayor and Council. My name is Maria Martinez and I've been working for CPY for the past few summers during the school year. I am a senior at CSUN High School and there I am a part of student council clubs and college courses. Outside of school I do many volunteer events for my school. and community. My goals are to graduate and to go on to a four-year college. During my time in CPY, I have gone through many challenges with kids, but I have grown as a leader and It's CPY is to teach them about their values and respect towards each other, even if they need reminders. Sometimes my job is to be someone they can feel comfortable being around because each kid has different backgrounds. A highlight from working with CPY has been when students are excited to greet me as it feels very rewarding to be someone that they look up to. And I'm very grateful I've had this opportunity to work with CPY because it has given me more opportunities and given me An opportunity to make a positive impact in kids life CPI has contributed to my life because it's helped me grow as a person to be more understanding patient and kind, which has helped me in my life outside of high school and we're very grateful for the grant.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the Council and everyone else here present with me today. My name is Jorge Espinoza-Brusco. I am in my last year as a college student and I have been a part of CPY for 15 plus years. I may look pretty old, but you know for me that was when I was five, five years old. Mr. Ben, along with Ms. Hasey, Mr. Ray, they've known me my whole life. And there's just so many reasons why I stay at CPY, from the relationships I've built with my colleagues, Mr. Ben, Ms. Hasey, Mr. Ray, and everyone standing behind me, to the relationships I've built with the students, to the new relationships I'll build with them. But I think the reason why I stay is because cpy was very prevalent in my life just like how everyone has said it's made me the person i am today and i want to continue that for the youth in these future generations i want to continue being that person that they can look up to i want to continue the i feel like place cpy holds in a lot of their lives just like This summer, I was really happy, really excited because I was hosting my very own World Cup games where I had students on the teams. I had Mr. Angel. He's the reigning champion for the World Cup. And this is him and his team. And it's just something super memorable for myself. Everyone involved, the leaders, it's able to provide a growing point for them as well to mentor the students further, console them after losses, which I feel like is very important. Like I said, very memorable for the students as well and everybody who participated, watched. And so I love CPI. I've learned a lot from CPI. And I just want to continue that legacy for as long as we can. So thank you so much for the grant. Thank you for the support you provide for us. We really appreciate all of your help. Thank you.

So in closing, I really want to emphasize two things. Probably two reasons that I'm still here with CPI. One, I take immense pride in The fact that we have this pipeline, this pathway for the young people in our community to really stay connected with our organization is very much relationship building. And we have these different entry points for our kids to stay and grow with us. It's one of the reasons I've known many of the kids here since elementary school. The other piece that I wanna highlight is because we have those different entry points, not everybody comes to CPY from elementary school. I mean, I myself started when I was in middle school, but it's really having those spots for young people at different stages in their lives to either come back like Ms. Carla, who having just graduated high school, she has been in our high school leadership program she was an elementary school and a middle school student but she was just coming back every summer to work with us and now that she's off to sacramento state there's going to be that spot for her next year when she returns to come back and work for the summer or it might be students like miss maria who didn't grow up in the program but found her way in found her path and has really embraced the cpy family we have the ability to work with members of our community members of youth really at all stages of their life So in closing, I want to thank you because it's your funds. It's your support that really allows us to continue to cultivate this, I'd say, expansive work with youth in our community. We wouldn't be able to accomplish what we do without this partnership. And I also want to highlight that the grant that we just received to work, what you see here today, this isn't the product of one year. This is the product of many years of support but what was offered last year these are the seeds that are being planted for that next generation for the future middle school leaders high school leaders and just how much your continued support means how much we take pride in what we do but really how much we take pride in the partnership that we have and how grateful we are to you all. So I will leave it at that. I do want to say I know packets were provided to you all that have the numbers. If you do have questions, I would love to answer. And also we did include from the summer our thank you notes from our students. It's something we do every summer with our kids just to teach that attitude of gratitude. Also work on some penmanship. The sky's learning and all that. But again, just a huge thank you to you all. I know you've seen my face, but I'm privileged to say, you know, I've seen a lot of your faces for years. And we just we love love working with you all. Thank you.

Thank you, Ben. Is there any questions or comments? Mayor Pro Tem and then Councilman Garcia, though.

First of all, thank you, CPY, for all you do for the impact that you have on countless youth. And just for the sake of the public, I assure you, we have it in the report. How many youth do you serve during the summer? And then what

percentage or how many of those youth that are working as paid employees come from the city of seaside or live in seaside so the this past summer we ended up serving about 300 students we finished the summer with 283 enrolled that's a tk through eighth grade and of the staff i don't have the exact percentage of those who live in seaside but it is a large majority probably about 90 percent

And then I know you do a real good job with reaching out to kids and give them different opportunities. Can you talk a little bit about some experiences that kids wouldn't normally have the outdoor camping and the surfing or those kinds of things so the community can get a sense of that? Broad range of opportunities and experiences that kids normally may not receive it.

At that level 100%, you know, I'll say partnership is in our name for a reason. We can't do this work alone. We're privileged to have amazing partners amazing other organizations. We work with this summer. We did partner with so the project allows our kids to learn how to surf. We've been doing that for the past 10 plus years. We also have been partnering with Ventana Wildlife Society for our, we took fifth graders this past summer to be able to go camping. We had CHOMP come in to come do our montage, I should say, to do Kids Eat Right. We worked with the Point Lobos Foundation to be part of their summer adventures program. And a highlight for me as well with that, um you know i got to send some of our staff so mr jorge led our first week in chaperoning that and he's someone who as a kid in the program did participate in some of those different field trips and opportunities and partnerships that we had so for him to take that leadership role is just one extra layer of what those different partnerships mean for us same with mr angel and the wahine project but there's numerous partnerships that we have and we believe in getting we call it all of our kids off the hill at some point it's really about being outdoors and our bread and butter is the relationships our kids are with us every day year after year but the experiences that they're able to have with some of our partners just adds that much more depth to their time with cpy

Then just lastly, the intern program, are those volunteers at the high schools? What did they do? How many do you have that are involved in this? I guess, their next step to getting a job.

So we had 80 students part of that program last year. The way it works is our high schoolers have to volunteer for either a semester or a summer with us. And so that's a semester part of our after-school metro tutor program or a summer during our summer intersession program after that volunteer term. As long as they're keeping up their grades at at least a 2.5 GPA, they also have to commit to volunteering at least in at least two community events, so it might be like National Night Out. We had some of our high school mentors. They're able to come on board as staff after that. I don't have the exact number for what we finished with for this past year in terms of how many are on staff, but it's staggering. And the amount of wages that went to our high school this summer alone is significant.

Thank you, sir. Thank you for what you do.

Thank you.

My question was around the same vein as Mayor Pro Tempacheco, the high school leadership program, and you said you had 80 students participating last year? This past year, yes. You don't have updated numbers for this year?

For this year, so we start a new... basically we started with our new fiscal year we start the statistics over um i forget what we are sitting at for it's a special time of the year for us because in addition to all the carryover that we have there are some graduates like like carla here who is now out of that program but we're actively enrolling new students we're still i want to say over 50 currently involved in one way shape or form in our current high school leadership program with i have Probably had 10 interviews scheduled this week and going into next week.

Okay, and thank you for that. My next question would be around your outreach to have full participation from those high school students. Do you also do outreach to incoming high schoolers or eighth grade to high school to ninth grade? What's the process look like for conducting outreach? Is it open to all students on the Monterey Peninsula or seaside specific?

We're open to all students, but it is... heavily favored for seaside just because those are the schools we partner with, you know, the, the elementary schools that we serve, they feed often into seaside middle. And so by extension where we do have more, um, students from seaside that are being served within that, in terms of the outreach, we're very fortunate that, um, just the structure of our program again by the time our kids get to you know seventh and eighth grade a lot of them know that this is an opportunity because they've been working with our mentors our high schoolers who've been mentors to them the one piece i'll add is especially for the summer if we have eighth graders who are currently serving as junior leaders and they're getting ready to enter high school those are students we absolutely target to make sure that they know this is an opportunity the other piece is it's often friends who are referring and then lastly i'll say um we are at seaside high on tuesday so our mentors are there in the morning our site coordinators i should say we have a crew who do one-on-one mentoring there and so there is active engagement even for those students who aren't part of our high school leadership there's still that reconnection and that checking in and then same for central coast on thursdays and so those have both heavily um influenced and promoted the high school leadership program as well.

Thank you. And then one last question. One of the themes I think I heard around here was longevity of the students, whether they start when they were in elementary school and moving up to college, right? What do you attribute that to?

Honestly, intentional growth. I attribute it to intentional growth because the middle school leadership program wasn't something we started with. That was when our kids in elementary had to come every day. So they came year after year. We focused on building those relationships. And when they in middle school still wanted to be part of CPY, we saw that need. And so we've always been one to try to grow out of need versus spread ourselves thin. We could be in other cities, we could be trying to duplicate this elsewhere, but it's been about diving deeper with the current youth we're serving. And so when our middle schoolers wanna still be part of CPY, so getting ready to go off to high school, that's how the high school leadership program came to be. And same with the one-on-one mentoring that we're doing at Seaside High and at Central Coast, it really grew out of partnership and out of need. I think that's a big part of it, but I'm thankful, and it's something that, honestly, I would love to see replicated in other areas of the community, because it really is special to have supports for youth along their entire childhood.

Not only that, but I think what I heard from each and every student here is there are willingness or their determination to continue studying and really giving back to their communities and your public speaking skills are really, really great guys. I just want to say, you know, thank you for what you do and for helping our students as well and for everything that CPI has been doing for our region, because y'all are the real game changers in our area, helping our younger generation continue moving up. So just want to tell you guys to give yourselves a pat on the back because you do a lot of work. Thank you.

So, thank you for your continued commitment to our students and our families. I know you guys create safe spaces and it's really about the entire whole child. But can you touch upon a lot of the stuff you do for the family? Because you go beyond just the student and share maybe some of the resources and activities that you provide our families because I see it every day.

again um you know we look at supporting the whole child and so that could look a whole bunch of different whole variety of different ways but one example is you know we're partnering with all in and every single wednesday we're either delivering food to or terrace and king which i got to do yesterday or to d lamp and delray woods and during the pandemic that was incredible partnership but it's one of those that um the need is there we're glad we're able to do our little parts But it's also other opportunities. I just got the privilege of taking my three-year-old to the Little Mermaid at the Forest Theater in Carmel, and Pac Rep has been a huge support. So being able to receive free kid tickets, discounted adult tickets, we want our families to know what those different resources and opportunities are in the community. We have a partnership coming up with ohana through montage where we're going to be able to have families who get to build a bike with their kids with mechanics right alongside them where the kids are learning from a mechanic how to construct this bike and they'll get to take that bike home at the end of the day but really it's it's and the other side of it um We know this is, as a county, as a state, affordability is a huge challenge. And so really it's trying to see how best we can support our families during the holidays. We make sure every kid in our program gets a gift and a book of their choice for the holidays. We have a shopping program with Kohl's where our families, where our students get to learn the act of giving. They get to shop for their families and do get to receive a gift unbeknownst or unknown to them we have an adopt the family program but it's really getting to know our families over the course of the year and identifying what some of those new needs are and again just working together as a community working really with you all to see how best we can support these kids because there's no There is no one person, no one organization, no one family that can do it all. It really is us working together. It's that village. And so that's kind of the ethos of what we're trying to do.

Thank you. Definitely see and feel the ripple effect of what you guys do to support the families. And so all of you, thank you for your service.

Thank you.

Anyone else? Just want to thank you, Ben, for an excellent presentation. And to the young people, you guys did fantastic representing your organization. It's always good to go in the many spaces that I'm at and often see the green t-shirts and just right off the bat, CPY and see you guys interacting with younger people. uh bringing them into this this village type conversation and organization i was going to ask you what program is the most impactful right but then we started adding on the many things you guys do for the family and then at the end you you were clear about it's not just one of those programs that that that keeps kids involved. But I do know it's genuine love and care that starts from Sherry Hastings all the way down. And I just reflect, I know the mayor pretend reflect on, you know, we can go back 12 years, 15 years, still being guided by their parents walking down the street. But to see them now and see them the leadership that they'll be in two or three years that they graduate from college is just wonderful. And but that's through the consistently consistency of the program. And so thank you so much.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you.

All right. Let's go on to item number seven, which is receive a presentation from the Arts Council for Monterey County on the 2025-26 Community Social Service Grant Program. Mr. City Manager.

We'll have a presentation by Executive Director Jackie.

Hi. Thank you for having us here this evening. Good evening to the mayor and to the council members. We really appreciate the grant that you supplied to help support a mural on one of our local businesses, Lapita's Bakery. So the Arts Council, this is our new mission statement. We champion the arts to enrich our community through education, healing programs, and support for local creatives, nonprofits, and cultural organizations. And in case some of you haven't heard of us, we have been around for Almost 50 years. We're an independent nonprofit organization. We are not a government agency. We do receive funds from different cities like yours and from the county government. So we nurture, support and promote the arts. We're a state local partner with the California Arts Council, which is a state agency. We have been a partner with the County of Monterey since 1985 to strengthen the County's economic base. And we're also the County of Monterey's official arts agency. We are the arts agency for the whole County for you. If you need something, please reach out to us. We're happy to help with anything.

Next slide, please.

have done a few murals here in seaside the most recent one was the mural that henny panty did for regen and you can see a quote there from one of your council members who worked on this with us and the first one we really did was on 2020 by brian gage on the mc weekly building the squid This was an opportunity to pay artists during the pandemic because they couldn't work inside. So we had them working outside and doing a lot of murals.

So it was a great opportunity to support them.

So the next slide is kind of the timeline of the grant that we received from you. We applied for it back in September. We were awarded 23,784 in October, and we received the funding on November 20th. In January 26, 2026, the muralist Jorge Torres, a local seaside resident, met with the family, the Morales family, to develop a concept. we we applied for the we submitted the application for the architectural review permit went through the 17 days of notifying the community waiting for an appeal that was approved on April 22nd and then the sign permit was approved on May 4th that gave Jorge just a little over a month to get it done and he did as many of you know you were at the unveiling so we appreciate you being there Next slide. So this is the final mural that was decided on or approved by the city staff back in April. And it does represent the family of the Morales family, the mother, Lupita, and her baking. And the next page shows is the muralist, which is Jorge Torres, again, who shares his creativity through murals, art, and photography. and his statement that the mural honors the family roots and resilience behind Lupita's Bakery connecting its beginnings in San Pablo Oaxaca to its home here in Seaside so I think it's kind of a whole big circle of starting with the family from the home where they started the the bakery they had a bakery I don't think we talked about that back in Oaxaca and the sons brought it here and recreated it so that was wonderful And then the next slide, is this still the PowerPoint? Okay, so then this won't work. This is a video from KSBW who was there. And so I'm sorry that, so I sent it in a PowerPoint so we can play it, but I had a feeling. So it's a nice little clip on the unveiling. And then the next slide is kind of lessons learned and recommendations. We had strong collaborations between the city, the Arts Council, the artists and the community and and the owners of the bakery. This is a completed mural that reflects the character and pride of Seaside. We've received positive public response that reflects the care groups that and increased visibility for public art, which we also would like to see more of. It was an investment in a local artist and the creative economy. And it's a project that will enhance the community for years to come. So opportunities for improvement. There was a lot of inconsistency in getting the mural permit done. The one we did with Henny Panny went much faster. We only had to deal with the city manager, and we also presented to the Public Arts Commission. We didn't have to go through a sign permit, and I guess that's because of having the picture of Lupita on it that we had to do that. And maybe defining the roles of the staff that we work with, because I probably worked with about five or six different staff members. And of course, developing standard public art guidelines. I'd really like to see that so that it's more consistent and we know what we're doing and we can maybe have a checklist. And of course I know this has been a hot issue lately is prioritizing local artists. We do have many here in seaside and in Monterey County. And so it'd be, we would appreciate you, you know, supporting more local artists. And so, The next steps, that's kind of my recommendation to develop a city of Seaside public art policy and mural guidelines. I have provided a draft of that to the city manager and to the council member, Garcia Arizola, probably about nine months ago, maybe. But I would be happy to work with anybody on that to set it for the city and hopefully bring in more art into our community, which really helps revitalize and strengthen our community. Thank you.

I think the best way to work with the city is to work with the city manager.

I found that out.

Yeah.

Yeah. But it was turned over to the planning department.

Yeah. Once you talk to him, then he'll make sure it goes smoothly. Yes. It should be.

Yeah. The first time it went really smoothly, seriously, within a few weeks.

Mayor Plotin.

Yes. thank you for the mural thank you for what you do just some one thought in one couple questions i believe in mr muse probably tell me if i'm wrong the city has a public art plan that's had for 10, 15 years. You might want to check with Mr. Mewis. It was done with Deborah Sogera and Sandra Gray and Dr. Rosen. Those are the names that I have and that's part of it. So just for what it's worth, they have a significant document already tied into that. Maybe it can be tweaked rather than reinvent the wheel. Right. And I'm going by memory, so I apologize in the grant. I thought. It said was going to be inclusive of youth being involved in the mural. Did that happen at all?

No, I don't believe that was in the grant.

Okay. Yeah. And then, um. Did you work to the art commission or a. I don't know public works or planning look at their mural before it. came back to us yes the planning commission did but to the to the city before it moved on oh yeah definitely it went through the planning commission and with quite a few tweaks to it so did they go in front of the art and art commission no they did not that yeah that's what i'm saying i'm not saying where to go with this if it happens again but i'm just saying it seems that if that commission is uh expertise is arts and they're the one that wrote our public places and a lot of uh good people might be a way to get some better input i'm just saying as part of the process right okay and i'll just leave it at that thank you thank you anyone else

Thank you so much. Thank you. Wonderful. Appreciate you coming back and giving a presentation and running us through that. No problem. There's always going to be ways to make things better. And so we want to appreciate you and what you do.

Thank you. And I'm happy to help with developing this public policy or checklist to make it more consistent and easier for all.

Yeah, I think the city manager has your comments taken down and definitely has your contact. So just give him a call. He'll give you a call and work it through that process.

Sounds great. Thank you very much.

Let's go to item number 7D, August and September 2026 House of the Month Award, Mr. City Manager.

Yeah, the assignment presented by Assistant City Manager, Damian Wilson.

You need honorable mayor members of city council. I am Dan me with the assistant city manager and I will be presenting this item on behalf of the neighborhood improvement commission as I am the liaison. And so tonight we were going to be looking at the house of the month awards for August and September of 2026. And the art or the neighborhood improvement commission, 1 of their main projects is to go out to the neighborhood scan and find those houses that really stand out and show that the residents are really putting a lot of work and effort into their properties to really highlight seaside. And so, for August, we have the winner, a 1731 military and the owner, Holly, and I believe she's in the audience. Come on up, Holly. And so if we can have the mayor come down and present your award. We have a nice plaque for you.

Oh, nice.

Thank you. And I want to also send show right here real quick. This is what it looks like now, but we have. I had the extra pictures. I had the before and after, but it didn't come up.

You don't have the before? It's on Google, I think.

Hello, welcome. It's no big deal. Oh, okay, okay. No, we just want to present this, and I think it's two of them, right? So it's going to be the same conversation for both. But, you know, as individual homeowners, you guys do such a great job and through the NIC they do a wonderful job going every month trying to pick beautiful homes to encourage all of us to beautify our homes and give it more curve appeal and make the city look better and so on behalf of the city I want to present this to you thank you very much did somebody from NIC want to come up after anybody went to me and i see what it come up you're okay you sure you guys should come up i don't know but come on i'm getting excited about this award so happy to share the honor and couldn't be wasn't possible without my mom and dad actually okay okay your mom and dad want to come up you guys want to come my mom my dad yes yeah of course let's

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I'm a little political. That's my friend.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

I'm sure somewhere he's done some work on the house.

So, okay. Well, everybody has it took a village. It happened during coven and continues. So.

We have your gift certificate. You wanted $50 to the Petula Swim Center.

I sure did.

So thank you and for supporting Seaside.

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Did you want any words? Thank you Dave Pacheco for what you have done for Petula.

Do you want to say anything about your home?

I'd love to be able to share this so that other people can improve their homes because it does take a village and it's actually a dream. I didn't think I could return to Monterey having grown up here. because the prices are expensive. So of course there was parental help and who doesn't get a home without parental help? Oh, that's right. It says address y'all. And so now I actually am diligently working on creating different things for home improvement because I started my career in home improvement lending. And I want to end my career helping people who work locally, live locally. And I think there's the way to do it. as we see ownership transition into the next generation is helping them find ways to stay. Yeah, so thank you.

Put this in your home, on your yard for the next month to hopefully inspire the rest of the community.

To hide the recent gopher.

Thank you so much for everything.

Thank you.

All right. And our September house of the month, I don't think they're present, but I just want to shout them out while they're here. We have 1795 or 1395 military. So military showing up this, we air for the next two months. So we're really happy for them to be doing that.

Oh, he told me. I was told you weren't coming.

All right, so we have Brian and Rosine Pratt. Thank you so much.

Mayor, can I have that back please?

Yeah.

Well, again, it's our pleasure to honor you on behalf of the NIC, picking your beautiful home. And we know you've been beautifying it for years. And that's what we appreciate when we go by these homes. and we walk all the time and we do the things we need to do, but encourages everybody else. I don't think there's anybody, uh, anywhere. When you go by a nice looking, beautified home, you don't say, wow, maybe that could be me. And so we want to appreciate you and say, congratulations. and present you with this plaque that you get to keep. And thank you for all the stuff you do in our community, Brian. A lot of people don't know, but you are a star worth in our community. You do great work, and it's an honor to honor your home. And we do have a little something for you, and I guess yours is from Home Depot in roughly the same amount, $50 gift certificate. So again, congratulations.

Thank you for sending this.

oh i'm sorry could you turn this around and then we'll take a picture yes sir all right now last time um i gave this away and i think uh seaside pal still active yeah yeah all right so can you give that to them yes okay good uh thank you very much i appreciate it um I didn't realize my home was all that exciting, but it's been a lot of work. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. And we want to thank the NIC for their diligence and continue this program and highlighting many homes. I know it's getting harder and harder because we do have a lot of people investing in their curb repeal and beautification in and out of their homes. So we want to thank the NIC for the work that they do. Next, we're going to item number eight, which is the consent agenda. Eight day approvements from August 6, 2026. 8B, accept and file cash investment report for the City of Seaside and the successor agency of the redevelopment agency of the City of Seaside for the quarterly ending June 30th, 2026. C, approve a managed youth fund contribution request of $3,000 from Seaside Raiders Youth Football to help cover the costs associated with their program. D, approve a fee waiver from Sustainable Seaside for the use of Laguna Grande Hall for the candidate form on September 29, 2026 for the November 3, 2026 general municipal election in the amount of $196.88. E, adopt a resolution approving the amended position control list for the fiscal year 2026-2027. to reflect previous approved titles, updates, and numbers of positions. F, adopt a resolution approving the listing of benefits for the unrepresented employees within the City of Seaside, unclassified, confidential, and executive directors group. G, adopt a resolution supporting pilot Passenger rail service connecting Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, and the San Francisco Bay Area during the summer of 2028 Olympic Games. That concludes the reading of the consent agenda. Is there any item that anyone on the dais would like to pull off the consent agenda? Anyone from the public would like to pull the item off the consent agenda? Which number, sir? It would be letter C. It would be letter C. Item number C has been pulled off the consent agenda. Anyone else?

The caller ended in 2287. You can now indicate which item you'd like pulled from the consent agenda.

I'd like to pull item G on the railroad.

Okay, item G on the railroad. Okay. All right. Let's open up on public comment on the remaining items on the agenda, which do not include C or G. Huh? Yeah, public comment is open.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone. No members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you. Hearing no one seeing no one public comment is closed. Bring it back to us. What is the will of the council to approve? Who was 1st who was 2nd? Who wants to go 2nd? I'll go 2nd. It's been probably moved to second on the question. All those in favor use the regular sign of voting, which is aye. Aye. Nays have the same right. Abstentions? Ayes have it. Motion carried. Let's go to item number C. Let's open it up for public comment. Item number C.

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Okay, Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council. My name is Hugh Smith. I'm the Vice President of the Seaside Raiders. I guess my comment could have been part of public comment and not this, but since I'm here, my comment is just a comment of thanks to all of you for your continued support of the Seaside Raiders. Our organization's been around for almost three decades now. And since that time, we've introduced the competitive sport of football to thousands of young people from the city of Seaside and the surrounding area, teaching young people the benefits of hard work, determination, sportsmanship, the thrill of winning, and the tough goes of defeat. Every year, we hope it'll be our winning best year. I know it'll be this year. So I look forward to coming back and sharing our outcomes with you. We're not just football, we're cheer as well. And we're a very inclusive team. So we don't turn any kids away. We find a way for them to stay active and engaged. And with a lot of young people spending a lot of hours on screen time, This gives them an outlet in the community outside in physical competition. And so our season starts this weekend on Sunday with our jamboree where all the teams from the county get together. And then our official first game will be the following Sunday. And so. Wish us luck. I am a parent. I had a son that played competitively with the Raiders and is now a starter for Monterey High, first starting as a quarterback and now a receiver. He's almost as tall as you, Mr. Mayor. And so I'm excited for his potential. And now I currently have a daughter who's on the cheer team. And so even when my kids grow out, I know I'll still stay active as someone who grew up here in Seaside. um so i appreciate all of you uh for um for these dollars uh they're going right 100 going right into the program for equipment training uh everything that we need uh to make the program possible for the city of seaside um so i appreciate you all again and uh thanks again yes very good thank you

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Thank you so much. Seeing no one here, no one else. Public comments closed. Bringing it back to the dais, what is the will of the Council? Make a motion to approve.

Second.

The property moved to second on the question. I do want to say, right, wasn't no need to pull it, but now that you have, I do want to say, you know, we're very supportive of our youth sports, and we appreciate all the volunteer coaches that go into those programs. So thank you so much. All in favor use the regular sign of voting, which is aye.

Aye.

Nays have the same right. Stitchens here and now his eyes have the motion carried. Let's go to item number G. Let's open up public comment for G. Public comment is open.

The caller ending in 2287, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Yes, this is Peter Kaiser. I support this item on the agenda. or a pilot passenger rail service from LA, San Luis Obispo to San Francisco for the Summer Olympics. But I would expand this. The train used to be very important coming from San Francisco down to Monterey to the Del Monte Hotel two centuries ago. And I think it still should be that way. We do not want anyone taking up the tracks. We want to leave the railroad stations. We want to have maybe two times a day a rail going from Monterey to San Francisco, San Francisco and back, where you don't have to get on 101 and maybe even risk your life and have trouble finding parking. That would be wonderful. Just be dropped off in downtown San Francisco, have a wonderful day, and come back. So let's make sure those bus lanes from Marina to Seaside do not take up any tracks, that that all stays there. And this would also help the Summer Olympics and also those future tourists that would come down to Monterey from San Francisco. Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much. I'm seeing no one else here in the house. Public comment is closed. What is the will of the council? Make a motion to approve.

Second.

Probably move to second on the question. I do want to say quickly that this comes out of my membership of the Tampsey Rail committee working on what they realized was there was some extra room on the tracks between San Jose and San Luis Obispo. So what they're trying to do is encourage, as the Olympics keeps coming, gets closer and closer, encourage that another train makes its way from San Jose to Salinas and maybe San Luis Obispo a little bit more often with the encouragement from needing more people around, what is it? upcoming olympics and that leadership was all the supervisors sit on the that board but particularly supervisor daniels uh alejo's there too but um and then mayor uh dennis donahue were really pushing to get this uh uh extra current extra trade uh down here during the day and anticipation of going down south further during the olympics time so we want to appreciate them all those are famous direct sign of voting which is i i may have the same right abstentions. Eyes have motion carry unanimously. let's go on to our public hearing public hearing nine a uh is open uh this a is the second reading of an ordinance of the city council of the city of seaside modifying seaside municipal code chapter 2.42 conflict of interest this is the second reading and it will be a roll call vote uh mr city manager yes thank you for this i will be presented by dominique davis the city city clerk slash assistant to the city manager

Thank you and good evening, Mayor and members of the council. This item is the second reading of an ordinance updating the city of Seaside's conflict of interest code, specifically the appendix of designated persons contained in section 2.42130 of the municipal code. And this ordinance follows the city's required 2026 biennial review and ensures that the filing requirements reflect the city's current organizational structure, advisory bodies, positions and positions with governmental decision making responsibilities. So the Political Reform Act requires that every state and local government agency to adopt and maintain a conflict of interest code. The purpose of the code is to identify officials, employees, and consultants who make, participate in making, or influence governmental decisions that may have a foreseeable material financial effect. the individual serving in designated positions are required to file a statement of economic interest which is commonly known as the form 700 and based on the disclosure requirements assigned to their positions keeping the code current supports the transparency accountability and public confidence in decision the city's decision-making process So the local agencies are required to review their conflict of interest codes during even numbered years. And the city's 2026 review identified several organizational and operational changes that have occurred since the code was substantially updated in 2022. and those changes include the creation or modification of advisory bodies updated department leadership titles changes to management classifications and changes in responsibilities assigned to various city position the review also considered positions involved in contracting budgeting procurement land use personnel public safety infrastructure housing economic development information technology grants, communications and other policy related decisions. The goal was not to just add titles, it was to make sure that the positions within with meaningful governmental decision making responsibilities are properly identified and assigned the appropriate disclosure obligations. So the ordinance updates three main areas. First, it aligns the appendix with the city's current commissions and advisory bodies. Second, it updates the list of designated positions to current job titles and management classifications that are captured. And third, it maintains the appropriate disclosure categories. So filing obligations are tied to the duties of each position. Exhibit A in the staff report that's attached to the ordinance is the complete legal record. And this slide is just intended as a public facing summary of those amendments. The review focuses on positions that participate in making, advise on, or recommend governmental decisions that would also have a foreseeable material financial effect on their financial interests. So those positions who may work or are involved in contracts and budgeting, land use, public safety, infrastructure, housing, information technology, or public or policy decisions. And it is to identify those positions whose authority or advisory role could foreseeably affect financial interests, which is what triggers the Form 700 obligations under the Political Reform Act. So government code sections 87-300 through 87-302 require the local agencies to adopt the conflict of interest codes that identify those designated positions and establish the disclosure requirements. The government code section 87306.5 requires that the city to conduct its biennial review and the city's 2026 biennial notice must be completed by October 1st. And the city council serves as the city's code reviewing body and there is no fiscal impact associated with the proposed action. This slide begins the appendix by identifying the city officials and the advisory bodies covered by the code rather than reading each body individually. The key point is that the list has been aligned with the city's current boards, commissions, authorities, and committees. And these bodies are included because members may participate in recommendations, policies, discussions, or decisions that can influence city action and therefore require appropriate disclosure under the conflict of interest code. The next several slides show the designated staff positions included in category one. I won't read each title into the record, but the list reflects positions with significant administrative, legal, financial, operational, compliance, management, or policy responsibilities. And these positions are included because they may make or participate in decisions involving contracts, budgets, procurement, personnel, public services, or other city business requiring economic disclosure. This slide continues the category one list and reflects the department leadership and program management roles across community development, public safety, finance, housing, human resources, IT, and other related functions. The common thread is the nature of the duties, not the individual employee. Where a position has authority to shape recommendations, approve work, manage programs, or influence city decisions is appropriate for that position to remain in the appendix. the final group continues the designated positions list for public works police recreation planning engineering parking and related operational roles again the important point is that the filing obligation follows the position and the decision-making responsibility assigned to it including these positions helps the city's current keep the city's current code current, defensible and consistent with the Political Reform Act goal of transparency in governmental decision making. recommendation slide didn't show but staff recommends that the city council conduct the second reading open the public hearing and pass the print the ordinance modifying chapter 2.42 of the municipal code and this action completes the council's consideration of the ordinance following the introduction that was at the prior meeting and it does require a roll call vote and i am available for any questions that you might have any questions

Okay, I'll open up to public hearing and we will ask for public comment. Public comment is open.

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can you hear me yes we can thank you i hope this also applies to when an ordinance is passed something like maybe a sanctuary city ordinance that if those people that that appreciate that ordinance give money to whoever voted or supported from in the city that that ordinance that developed that sanctuary city, that that would be a possible conflict of interest if they wanted to give money for that person to advance their candidacy for some public office or for a promotion in the city. I hope that that would be considered a possible conflict of interest and it would be something that could be dealt with.

Thank you.

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My apologies and not researching what this is about, but I just like to say, I don't think individuals donating money as long as it's disclosed who they are and who they're giving it to should ever be an issue. That's our right. Free people is to vote. Our right is. citizens of this community is to support causes we believe in so you know we may not be able to write it off on our taxes but i work hard for my money and i want to be able to give it to who i want to and i appreciate the comment and concern from others but i believe my point is as valid thank you

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Hi, good evening, Mayor and City Council. I'd just like to agree with the a previous speaker that came before me. I don't think there's a conflict of interest in terms of supporting who you want to support as a candidate. That's part of your First Amendment rights, I think, and the ability to freely express your opinion. Okay, thank you so much.

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Oh, thank you seeing no 1 else here. No 1 else public comments close. I guess. Was there any questions or issues you could answer at this time? No. Okay. Did you did you have something you wanted to Madam city attorney? Did you have any. You're any issues questions that you can answer at this time.

With respect to the caller who was discussing potential donations and conflict of interest, the ordinance before you does not affect this at all. That is not what's before the council. What's before the council is an ordinance that simply requires the disclosure and the filing of the financial disclosures for the designated positions.

What is the will of the council? Move approval. Second. Probably moved to second on the question. Yeah, I just want to be clear. This has nothing to do with people donating their money to anybody. It's about the employee. You know, maybe the employee owns a house or something on that block or, you know, has a business that may be impacted by their decision. it's not about anybody donating to an elected official even though as elected officials we have the same requirement because we may own a house we may own a business but uh it doesn't affect anybody's donations and and and like the attorney said it would be illegal for us to do that So it's the exact opposite of what was said or what was suggested. All those in favor, this is a second reading of a roll call vote. I ask the city clerk to call the roll.

Council and agency member Burks.

Aye.

Council and agency member Garcia-Arizuela. Aye. Mayor Potem and Vice Chair Pacheco. Mayor and Chair Oglesby.

Aye.

Your motion passes four with one absent.

Thank you. We'll go to business item number 10. I did anticipate a break around 7.30. Did we need a break? Are we going to power through? I see somebody saying they need a break. Yeah, we got one guy leaving. And we know staff wants a break too. So let's just go in recess for a few minutes. Sound and gambling.

I know. Sure. Well,

Coming out of recess, we'll move on to item number 10A, 2026 Joint Public Safety Fireworks After Action Report. Mr. City Manager.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. Starting this item will be Commander Justin Pesconi from the Seaside Police Department.

Thank you and good evening, Mr. Mayor, City Manager, City Council Member, City Attorney, members of the public. My name is Justin Pascone. I'm a commander with the Seaside Police Department and I'll be one-third of this presentation for the 2026 Joint Public Safety Fireworks After Action Report for 2026. So first off, I'm going to speak about the operation. We had 27 additional police department staff members. We had six drone pilots to include outside agencies with six drones deployed. We had an incident command vehicle that was parked on Yosemite. Record staff answered hotlines and responded to text messages. County communications. assigned an additional dispatcher to our city specifically for fireworks with an additional channel included we had a total of 273 warning letters melt to hotspot locations and we also had letters previously previous hot spots mailed out from the cm's office calls for service So from 2024 to 2026, we've had a slight decline since last year. We had 171 calls for service through dispatch last year. This year we had 168. Our PD hotlines received 95 calls with 90 text messages. Dating back to 2024 regarding our PD hotlines, we had a total of 140 calls and messages. I do not have the specific breakdown of those text messages and calls. In 2025 for the PD hotlines, we received 63 calls and 41 text messages. We also had our animal control officer report 10 loose dogs, and we had eight arrests that night for 4th of July with various crimes that were committed. citations issued so the number reads 42 on the slide i have since this was when it was first reported to me when i did this presentation since then we've issued more citations we're up to 49 now and i believe it's still climbing i believe the city manager can confirm that i'm sorry the city attorney can confirm that Fireworks confiscated. This year we had a total of 1,468. That was according to this report. Since recent, as of last week, I believe we had more fireworks confiscated. So that number should be higher and I believe it's above 1,500 pounds. By far, this is the largest year or the most that we've ever confiscated for illegal fireworks in my tenure with Seaside Police Department. seaside fire department had a total of six calls for service related to fireworks overtime expenses so the seaside police department police officer specifically started our enforcement actions in early june so these numbers that you see on here they reflect sorry about that They reflect the overtime starting in early June where we had two officers assigned to one car. Sometimes we had multiple officers out there or multiple cars out there at one time throughout the week and weekends. So the overtime reads as $24,407.06. Support services overtime for the 4th of July was $3,057.25, giving us a total of $27,464.31. Physical impact, so I don't have all the numbers as far as for public works. I did reach out to public works. I didn't receive the information I needed to complete the slide. But this reflects the physical impact reflects police department over time, which you saw on the last slide, which was 27,000. So, the gross sales was 251,646 dollars and 40 cents. seven percent surcharge seventeen thousand six hundred and two dollars and fifty cents permit fees two thousand six hundred and seventy six dollars revenue to the city twenty thousand two hundred and seventy eight dollars and fifty cents revenue twenty thousand seven hundred two hundred and seventy eight dollars and fifty cents with the physical impact of seven thousand one hundred and eighty five dollars and eighty one cents again that was reflecting just the pd costs um to show the physical impact And I'll go ahead and turn it over to Chief Borges.

Thank you, Commander. Thank you, Mayor, members of City Council, and members of the public. This is a heat map here. This is actually the citations that have been issued from our AI system. Every time a citation is issued in the city of Seaside, it will pop up on this map and you can see there's a purple color there. There's some teal color and then the real bright circle areas that are red, almost looks like fire. Those are your extreme hotspots where multiple citations were issued. It's not all in one location. It's in neighborhoods. If you were to zoom in further, but we did a really good job with keeping track of our hotspots, which are consistent with years past. I do want to point out from Commander Pasconi's initial report is the calls are down from dispatch, and that is simply because we had less fireworks this year. It would make sense that there's less calls for service coming into our county communications center. The same is true with citations. We had less citations because there was less firework activity. In years past, there was fireworks going all night long, essentially, and activity from police officers enforcing those. social media continues to be one of our most powerful ways of communicating with our residents what's happening on the ground in real time we do the very best we can all while trying to manage what's happening out in the field what's happening in real time and also communicating With our residents, so there was a lot of live updates that were happening throughout the night. We got to really highlight our fire department. There's a lot of things that they do that go unnoticed and there was dumpster fires. There was things that they were doing throughout the night responding that really needed to be highlighted. There was activity with police officers. We had a pretty good pretty bad rather vehicle collision rollover. And we got to see everybody in action from the police department, from the fire department, from the medical personnel who responded. But this continues to be something very, very powerful for us. And this here is, this is the end product. I think pictures sometimes are more powerful than words. So the top left of this photograph, this is a seizure that we got pre-4th of July. And this is where we got over half a ton of illegal fireworks from a major dealer, someone that we believe has been dealing illegal fireworks here in Seaside for at least the past four years. And we were able to get this seizure. This goes back to what I was speaking of earlier. This is our social media outreach. people reach out to us on social media they remain anonymous in this case this person remained anonymous and provided us with a tip with that tip we had our team jump on it and we're able to do some very brief research and pin down a potential location and get permission from a home to go in and retrieve all of these so that was by far our largest seizure the picture below on the bottom left is from with inside the shed that's just one image of these things and on the bottom right this is very unique this particular couple that were selling these were so experienced and sophisticated that they actually had a menu you can go and purchase things on this menu and i can't zoom in on this unfortunately but you can see what some of these things go for one that i can remember is the grand finale box these are the ones that you're hearing at night time that they go off repeatedly for at least 60 seconds or more and the frustration is where are the police how are these going off over and over and over again and that is because we find these real quickly but we can't do anything these things have to go off there's nothing we can do to stop it and there's nobody around this box that's going off those cost 320 dollars they had boxes and boxes of those And probably one of the most disturbing things that was in this shed was a box with hundreds and hundreds of M-80 explosives. These are the ones that you hear that startle you. It's the loud single boom that shakes your windows, shakes your car, shakes the whole neighborhood. They had over 400 of these. We stopped counting after 400 because there were just too many. hundreds of these and we were able to seize those. So that is 400 plus less loud bombs going off in the city of Seaside. So we're very proud of that. And before I turn it back to Commander, I just want to highlight the city of Seaside as I always do. Every year we get a little better. This by far was the best year we've ever had. but this is the testament of collaboration with the city of seaside from our city council support and direction from our city managers managers leadership to our city attorney and her hard work that she does behind the scenes she actually rode that night and was able to see things firsthand from our fire department to our public works this is seaside in action this is why we're the leaders in the area with when there's problems and i'm so proud to be a part of the team and with that i'm going to turn it back to commander pasconi

Thank you, Chief. So recommendations consider no parking on the scale below Moscow Heights, post permanent no parking on General Jim Moore between San Pablo and Broadway on both sides. And we're going to continue to focus our efforts on drone operations. Those are very, very important to us, and we utilize those. Like, you wouldn't believe continue to publicize via social media locations, receiving admin sites and illegal fireworks activity to give people an opportunity to stop for the violations and any input and direction from city council. And with that said. We're open for questions. Thank you.

Thank you so much for that report. Any questions.

Thank you so much for the presentation. I know you said you were only going to do one third of the presentation, but I think you did the majority. My only question was for arrest. You said there was arrest for various crimes. Can you detail what those crimes were?

So off the top of my head working that night, we had DUIs, a DUI rollover collision, and I believe we had some warrant arrests. And there were some other arrests that I'm not sure of, but I can get back to you on that.

And DUIs has been coming up a lot lately. Do we see an increase in DUIs compared to last year?

I would say no, it's pretty consistent. Our officers are very, very well trained on how to recognize a DUI and they're very quick to respond to them. And that's why we make a lot of arrests for DUIs and our officers do an outstanding job doing that.

Thank you. And then for fiscal impact, compared to last year, what's the difference?

So I'll go ahead and turn this over to Deputy Chief Solins, if you don't mind.

Of course.

Okay.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, City staff, Deputy Chief Jason Sullins. So last year versus this year, we're about 15.5% above in gross sales this year. As far as last year's numbers for overtime, I don't have those figures right now. But again, there was an increase in sales, and there was a decrease by two nonprofits. So we had five total nonprofits doing the sales this year. Last year, there were seven.

Okay, thank you. And then drone operations, how was that compared to last year? Were there more volunteers out this year, or what was the dynamic?

I know that we had our volunteers out there. I believe that PD did as well.

Thank you. We had an increase of drones. We had six total drones this year. And last year, I know we had three that were up and running. And then we had another one that was kind of floating around. But we had an increase of drones and it helped substantially. And we also have a program called Drone Sense, which gives us real time mapping. It allows us to get a link to every police officer when a drone is in the sky. So the police officers can actually view live where these drones are and what they're seeing in real time. But our drone program is one of the best on the peninsula.

Awesome. Thank you. And you guys did a great job. I was seeing the drones everywhere. And I did see a difference compared to last year. So I really appreciate each and every one of you. And thank you for your recommendations.

Thank you. Mayor Burton.

Thank you. First of all, thank you for the success that you had. I think it's the best that I've seen over the past 20 years as far as controlling the illegal fireworks. I think especially in the area of social media, if someone doesn't know that they were illegal, they probably are because it was so obvious through everywhere that you went that illegal fireworks are illegal. Just some questions though. You did a really good job of on social media related to Home Depot, as far as no parking, no we're closing it down, but then an hour or two, between eight and 10, I drove around seaside and seeing all of you all over the place. But then when I went to Home Depot, I think they heard the social media comment because there was a lot less people, but it seemed that, well, I drove in without any hassles and everybody, not everybody, there was, can we do a better job as far as if we're gonna say that there's, you know, can't park and shoot out fireworks, can we better enforce that as far as making sure? Because the year before it was a dangerous spot.

So we have been working with the owners for Home Depot and trying to get them to help us out as well. So it looks both ways. We can do what we can, and we'll do as much as we can like we always do. But we do need a little input and a little bit of assistance from their team as well.

So can I assume that next year we're going to try to get them more involved and complying with what they said they're going to do?

Absolutely.

The citations are only as good as the follow-up with the collection of the fines. You can give a $5,000 citation, but if you don't collect any money, then they'll ignore you. Last year, you did a really good job, or the city attorney did a really good job, ensuring that people paid their debt as appropriate. Do you know, or the city attorney know, how many have been collected to date?

Through the mayor?

Yes, Councilmember Chayko, thank you for that question. Collections to date, the statistics to date are we've collected 13 of our citations right out of the gate. Out of the 49 citations that have made its way through the system, one of those has gone to the municipal court, 48 of them are in the city attorney's office of those 48 22 have been appealed so we'll be having hearings on those and 13 have been noticed so we don't know yet what they're going to to do if they're going to try to appeal if they're going to pay and have collections assessed as compared to last year we collected fifty one thousand dollars in fines

but that's an ongoing that's an ongoing process to collect the fine for the next six months or a year whatever it is it is it has to work its way through the appeal process and due process okay i think you said there were 168 calls this year compared to 171 the year before what percentage of those calls were acted on So the people that called or whatever text or whatever message they got through, was there 60%, 80%, 30% response to those calls?

So some of the calls are duplicate. Some of the calls are duplicate of an address. And we do our best to make sure we contact every citizen who does want contact. Sometimes the citizens just call in and they want to remain anonymous and we don't have to contact them. But we take every call and we act on every call.

Okay. and then i believe you said that there was 27 additional staff is that in your first slide i think don't quote me on that uh is that internal staff or is that external from other areas so the 27 additional police department staff members that's just strictly us that's our police department staff members including professional staff to police officers to command staff So pretty much anybody that was off that day came to work that day.

Absolutely.

That's the bottom line.

Yes, everybody worked.

Okay. And then the recommendations that you put on the last page, do we come back later to – Go with those recommendations. Is that a later discussion or does that happen tonight? Or maybe the city mayor or city manager might know the answer to that.

Yeah, I would just say these are recommendations. It is a business item. So it's something you guys can provide us direction today. And if there's any questions you have about some of these recommendations, we're happy to respond to that.

And then. It's not, you know, it says continue to focus more efforts on drone operation. That doesn't necessarily mean more drone or doesn't mean more drones.

That is really just the reassurement that there's support to continue to invest in the technology if we need so. We're very well equipped with our drone program at the moment, but there may be some potential requests we have in the future.

And I don't know the verbiage here, so I apologize, but you have a system in place that but loud noise goes off in a certain area, it's picked up on and potentially that could be a legal fire. Was that helpful in the process of catching those that are doing illegal action?

Yes, that was helpful leading up to it as we had those that were we doing a lot of the proactive sending letters to those locations, identifying hotspots, using social media to identify when we had one boom, if you go back to our social media you'll see we were putting locations of where these uh shot detections were identifying general areas of where uh potential fireworks are being used and in the last situation that we had most recently past the fourth of july was during car week with the last bus that we got that was uh sound detection that assisted us to get into the area in addition to community members calling where we actually caught these guys in the act and and held them accountable and took all their fireworks

And I my last one and I apologize. Can I assume that technology continue in that area? And he'll give us a better opportunity to be at those places where significant noise, potentially legal fireworks circling off.

I think that's fair to say. Yes.

Thank you, sir.

Let's go to Council Member Burks and then Councilman Garcia's own

Um, yeah, thank you for the collaboration. My question was about the drones. I know you just say that you have plenty, but I also know technology always needs to be updated. Do you also have enough operators? Is that something that that we're in need of training people to know how to operate?

So we, at the moment, we do have enough operators. We have volunteers from other agencies that come in to assist with our operations. But we internally are always looking for more drone operators who want to do that specific duty.

And then I know text messaging is newer than the phone calls. Do you think the text messages are helping to alleviate the number of calls that are coming in?

Absolutely, yes.

And text messages, do they get a response or is it just to report something that you guys can look into? Because I know

So I received the response and I don't, do you know a fan chief? Okay.

yes they absolutely do part of the critique we've had through the years is people feeling unheard so we make sure our team every single text message that comes in they send them a immediate response back letting them know we heard it and they send it up to our drone team so the calls come in the text which is far better than the calls they come into the station down below and in real time they were sending it to our command post up on mescal at the old manzanita school and that person was sitting next to commander pasconi relaying to him and he was using his radio to dispatch every single text message call that was coming in from the text message and as commander said a lot of them were duplicate but even the duplicates would get a response back we wanted our community to know we hear you we're on it we're doing something about it one last question one of the recommendations is post permanent no parking on general jim or do we have issues with people parking up there aside from there's some concerns that happen up there there's some areas that need to be looked at where people should not be parking um and it when it comes to the fourth of july it just makes it even worse and then we have to tap into resources from public works to go up and put signage and then we go out and enforce and then people will move the signage but even throughout the year if you go up there there's some areas that could use some attention with the proper painted curbs near fire hydrants and just parking in general sometimes they'll park right into the the areas where there's bus stops and other areas like that so i think it needs to be looked at and that small stretch is an area where a lot of people they don't park a lot but enough people do and it should be looked at and that would be great if we could have have that at least explored to see if we get permanent signage throughout the year

Thank you following up on the statement you made people will move the signage. Are we talking about the sandwich boards or what are we talking about?

We're talking about the a frame barricades that say no parking that public works sets out as the night goes on. People will go there and they'll move signs and they'll park there. So, when our parking team comes up, they'll say, well, I didn't know there was no sign here.

Do we have anyone on staff that is up there?

we have our parking team that rolls throughout the whole city we only have two of them and our animal control actually supplemented and assisted with parking but even with three people there's too much activity that happens at night to have somebody permanently stationed there we have parking problems throughout the entire city so we don't have enough staff to actually man that the entire evening okay and then 90 messages is what i see here that you received

over three day period four day period or is that day that day that you received that message those messages were only uh open i think we opened them a day prior actually it may have been two days prior but the messages did not start coming in until the fourth of july so those to the best of my knowledge is on the fourth of july all night yeah so when you say that once you get a text message you send it to the drone team if you have six drone teams how did you six drones how did you manage to get every hotspot or every message address that people were texting there.

well keep in mind it's not addresses we didn't get a whole lot of it's at this particular address we got a lot of i live here and i just heard an explosion sounds down the street from me so it'd be a general area and then commander pesconi was logging that into a system so he would dispatch the drone team the drone team would be aware of it they would go into a log and they would literally be flying and they would move that drone around based upon the calls that were coming in and if they could find additional booms that were going off from those texts they would lock in there zoom in

and other calls would be stacking up coming in they would go there and if they were able to cite they would cite and use other drones to start prioritizing each call behind that so it was almost like kind of chasing the calls with the drone throughout the night you would be stationed there after receiving attacks and you know possibly another firework definitely okay gotcha that makes sense and then out of the calls or reports that people made how many actually came forward to sign any type of um citation or being a witness that they saw fireworks go off.

i'll let commander pasconi correct me if i'm wrong but i don't believe there was any i think our community appreciates the administrative process that we have that they don't have to sign a citation it's the whole neighbor thing people want the activity to stop but they also don't want the conflict to res to continue when we're gone and have conflict with their neighbors it's a very common feeling to have so the administrative process to my knowledge and again i'll let commander correct me if i'm wrong was 100 administrative

Okay. And then did you receive any Spanish text messages or any text messages in other languages?

I was not made aware of that, but we have Spanish speakers. We can communicate in that, but I wasn't told specifically if we did or did not.

Thank you. The mayor. This is for you or on the recommendations. Do we bring that back as an agendized item or can we consensusly say this is good?

I think we can do most of it tonight. Just let me get my points out and do what I said.

If we're going to prove this, I would like to somehow in there ensure or work closer with Home Depot to make sure that that's an area that's because it was very helpful that it was a whole lot better. You sure the last year, though, people are because nobody listened to your social media. Thank you.

Yes, sir. Had a couple. Um, well, I think I just, yeah, you said something about command. You said something about you didn't have information from the planning department. I'm not planning, but the public works department.

So I didn't get the overtime that they worked for the 4th of July for that day.

That was a while ago, right?

Yes.

Yeah. Did anybody tell the city manager you guys didn't have that information?

so i did talk we did speak with the assistant city manager he reached out to them they did send an email to him but the information they gave him where it was incorrect i did send another email and i have not received that information but the assistant city manager had that he knew you needed that information and yes and he sent an email he got a response and unfortunately it just wasn't the correct information that i needed to include into the slide

Yeah, no, I understand that. I just highlight that for the city manager. We're here to get this report done, and we needed that information, right? We don't know how much overtime was. We don't know what position that puts us in, right? Correct. And so what are we supposed to do, come back later and find out we spent another $10,000 in overtime? I'm just saying, you know, it's vital information, and it should have been here. Um, so, well, I said that the whole depot thing. You know, I think we could, we should be able to write them a letter and just tell them if they're not going to police their parking lot, then we're left with. doing what we're supposed to do to enforce it right you know they're not going to hire security guards i'm just saying if they're not going to stop people from coming over there doing whatever then we have to go in there right and i don't think i don't think we have to keep messing around with them on that um those are the only two two things i had i i thought it was a wonderful enforcement evening You guys did fantastic. Thank you. You know, we're, we're, we just have people that like to do bill. The legal forward for, I would just have people, but when the chief mentioned that, um. Not only all of the other stuff that you guys found, but within there was 480. Those are the problems. You hear those three or four blocks away, and sometimes it seems like, well, sometimes it is in front of my door, but I won't talk about me. whoever's house that's in front of that is darling and so i just want to thank you guys for doing however the police you know i'm saying investigate you know i just want to thank you guys because that is a lot of noise that we did not hear and some of those things are done throughout the whole year right yes sir um And so I thought it was a great evening for you guys to track down what you were able to track down and whatever we can do to continue to help you. You said you have enough drones, but you're looking maybe for drone operators. Is that kind of what you said?

We do have a sufficient amount of drone operators, but we're always willing to have more drone operators come aboard.

I mean, but how does anything we could do to help that? You guys just it's just a generalized asking people to step forward.

It'll be internally.

Yeah.

Yes.

I guess we can go down the list and just try to understand the recommendation. So we all understand. Uh, consider no parking on scale below scale heights. Is that just fourth of july area time frame chief?

Yes, Mayor, that's just for the 4th of July. We get a lot of parking there, and they walk up the steps, and they overcrowd there.

So, do anybody have any problems with that? Post-permanent, no parking on General Jim Moore, and that's year-round, and that's not going to cause any problems? You talked about... right now without it cars end up there and then you guys have to actually stop and say hey could you move along but if they had to know parkinson that's right so hey you shouldn't be here maybe i'll give you a ticket don't do it no more type thing so so you're looking for a permanent

We're looking for a permanent solution in the caveat would be to work with the city manager and the engineer to make sure it's appropriate with the roads. But we have turning lanes that people park in and block those lanes as people are turning down Broadway and other areas within that stretch.

Okay, and then we had to work through. What do we do when we're having events and that's the only place to park is on those sides of the road, but I leave that up to the city manager and.

yeah go ahead does maybe this is just for my clarification but does that necessarily doesn't that have to go through the traffic advisory committee yeah staff can take uh staff can take a recommendation to the track advisory committee and work through the process to bring it back to the city council yeah that's that's our direction is to tell them to do it how the policy stuff is

Uh? So anybody have any problem with that permanent scene? Continue to focus more on drones. We kind of like understand that.

publicize social media and that was just when you were just doing what on that exactly i got a couple i came across you one or two times that night so what you're just talking about yeah really the rest of the list here really is um just internal things that we are recommending that we do we don't need a lot of direction on that but some of the changes to actual parking restrictions we would need that direction from council yeah uh anybody else i think we gave them good

direction i just want to invite you know all all the enforcement people public works city manager and his team you know you guys do a bang up job a bang up job you know and i think the citizens heard it by not hearing as much and so that's all we can ask for is how do you tighten it up year after year um i i do think I guess I get one more because when do we expect any more information about the enforcement of the fines?

Yeah, the collection fines. Thank you. Right now we have 22 pending appeals. They're working their way through. It's probably going to take three to four months to work our way through all 22 of those. And then I hope to have additional information in a couple months on the additional collections.

Okay. We just need to agendize that sometime, I guess, in March so we can get the final what we're down to and what we're able to do. Okay, there's nothing else we're opening up to public comment.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone.

Member of the Homeless Committee, speaking as a private citizen. And look at this. We got the fireworks report and nobody's here. Normally it's packed. Everybody's mad. Wow. What a great year. What a great year. I'd like to know what those M80s cost. They had 400 of them. I don't think they were 300 a pop. But I'm so grateful for all the work. The Fade team, everything CSI has been doing year after year is accumulating. And it was so nice. It was just lovely. Like my husband and I were like, we didn't even have the little fireworks. I don't think it was until nine or almost ten that we even heard fireworks. It was surreal and it was absolutely fabulous. And again, another thing to be so proud of Seaside about. I don't believe anybody anywhere probably in the known universe is doing more to protect us. I mean, if an illegal firework had hit that shed with all those fireworks in that neighborhood, they would have been gone. And I'm really, really grateful to whoever tipped off Seaside PD and who, I don't know where these fireworks were stored until they could be gone, gone. They're extremely dangerous. I don't know. That was a lot of fireworks. And again, grateful nothing bad happened. And just so grateful Seaside's put a lot of money into it. I don't know how people get on the drone team. was kind of like like fun maybe when i'm retired i can learn to fly around and um anyhow i just want to thank seaside i know you've put money into this to you funded the drones the training it's you know it's just wonderful to see that seaside's done so much and it really is paying off and again testament no like literally nobody's here nobody was here after fourth of july to complain not a lot showed up to say thank you but um i'm here to say thank you i've talked to several people my postman's down here my neighbor was the dog with the headphones on the previous year um because her dogs are so straight out here's a pill for you i'll take a pill it was i her previous dog was deaf and the fireworks didn't bother it but again thank you to the city of seaside this is really just an amazing accomplishment and i know that but it's not coming off the pedal for this and and again i appreciate everything oh there's so many people were involved and again i agree with general jim moore getting the striping up there and just to say if you need anything done by the city C click fix and ask for no parking to be put in. It's amazing what happens when you open a C click fix ticket, they come and they fix it. And it's just wonderful. Another thing that whatever seaside that I mean, that's a great thing that seaside provides us citizens and I'm so grateful I'm living in seaside. I hope I can retire here. Thank you.

Peter Kaiser, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Thank you. I do appreciate the action of the city. It was a lot more quiet during this 4th of July, but I'd like to make a suggestion. I believe a letter went out to certain neighborhoods in the city of seaside reference 4th of July and fireworks. And I think there was a misstatement in the middle of the letter, as I recall from the city, it said, Fireworks are illegal in seaside. So technically that's an incorrect statement. It says safe. It should say safe and sane fireworks are totally legal and illegal. Fireworks are illegal. So that, that letter should be for next time when it goes out, it should be corrected. Um, so that the safe and sane are still protected and we do appreciate all those people. who spent hundreds of dollars buying safe and sane fireworks and the tens of thousands of dollars that went to youth groups and churches and youth programs. Some of those people were already taking advantage of those and going on youth trips with their churches. So we're so glad the voters did vote in favor of keeping safe and sane so we could have these valuable youth programs and allowing children to come to Jesus Christ and hopefully serve the Lord Jesus for the rest of their lives. So thank you so much for this.

Thank you for your comments. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment. Good evening, Carla Lobo.

I'd like to thank the police and fire public work. Record staff and everyone who worked during the 4th of July operations. I do have a couple of questions. I'd like the city to explore establishing a designated supervised community area specifically for the legal Safe and Sane fireworks. As the previous speaker mentioned, people spend money and that money directly comes back to our community in more ways than one. And the least we could do is continue to provide an area where those safe and sane can be utilized because we do have a lot of families and we have a lot of kids that live in our city. So could we create a controlled location where residents can celebrate with appropriate clearance, fire safety measures, disposable and cleanup, and police or fire presence where appropriate? specifically because we have one-way streets that are sometimes covered with a lot of cars and so when those go off there's not a lot of room to do that and at one point and correct me if i'm wrong we did have a designated place but there was a lot of conversation about why we can't have it there but we took that option away from our community and our community spends money because obviously people still wanted safe and sane to be able to happen in Seaside. So I'd like the council to consider that. I'd also like to know whether the city could collaborate with those nonprofit organizations that operate our safe and safe fireworks booths in developing and supporting something like this. Second, I want to ask about the drone program. The report says we had six drone pilots and one of the recommendations is to continue focusing more efforts on drone operations. Are those pilots required to hold FAA certification? And if so, does the department have a process for qualified or certified local drone operators? And how do we make or support the city in making that connection with new drone operators? I also would like to know, the final numbers caught my attention. I'd like to understand how we're measuring success. Is it fewer calls, fewer illegal fireworks, more confiscation, citations, or a combination of all of those measures? Ultimately, I think the goal should be to combine the prevention, community partnership, technology and targeted enforcement so that over time we actually reduce the amount of enforcement that's necessary. That should be the goal. We shouldn't be beefing up the enforcement. These issues should be contained and we know that it is a long process because we've gone through it and we're at a point where we're good, but I want to make sure that we stay at the focus.

Thank you for your comments. Susan scaboni, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you, Susan Schiavone. I just want to say thank you so much to the police and Public Works and everybody who was involved in this. I've lived here 32 years and this past year was the best year for not having so much crazy noise and big fireworks going off right in front of my house at times. We have a dog and we've had to take him out of town most years. Well, this year we didn't have to do that. It was that much better. I totally support you in this effort and to improve it. And I understand about Upper Mezcal. If you're up there and they're even shooting off fireworks up near that General Jim Moore area, you're going to have to worry about a fire hazard up there that could take off at Fort Ord. And I'm so grateful for you for getting and seizing those fireworks and whoever made those calls to do that, because if that house had gone up, It could have burned down the neighborhood and I'm very close to that home where they were storing those things. So I so appreciate your efforts and please keep up the good work. It was well worth the money spent. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Diane Nielsen, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you very much. Good evening, City Council. Diane Nielsen. I really appreciate all the improvements that have been made over, especially this year, for fireworks and the collaboration between city attorney's office collecting fines. And I think that that really puts some teeth into what's being done. I appreciate all the people that worked overtime. answered the phones and i wanted to encourage this to get better and better um i know we had the vote on banning safe and sane fireworks which didn't pass uh not that most people would want that to happen they may but they didn't vote um I would encourage the city council to look at that again and think of another way to have a 4th of July celebration without selling safe and sane fireworks. Non-profit churches do have lots of ways to make money and I would encourage them to look at other ways so they can consider in their religious practices how others suffer from the sale and use of safe and sane fireworks. A lot of people shoot off these illegal fireworks in the parks and a lot of the picnic tables get burned and destroyed and have to be replaced. And if we could stake people or have drones closer to those park areas, maybe that could be avoided. Also, I would encourage the city to have their own, what do you call it? Not fireworks, but you know those lights in the sky? I forgot what the name of them are. Like at Cardinale Stadium, I think they would be willing to work with the city in putting on a fireworks or a drone fireworks celebration.

it would be really great to think about it.

And once again, my appreciation. Thanks for the report. I was really looking forward to hearing that and even better next year, I hope. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star 9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you so much. Hearing no one else here, seeing no one else, public comment is closed. Mr. City Manager, did you hear or Chief, did you hear anything you can answer?

Yes, Mayor. Thank you. One of the questions was asked is a designated area for safe and sane fireworks. That's something that we have explored. And historically, I cannot speak for the City of Seaside, but I'll speak for the Police Department. Many years ago, we did, not myself, but the past administration designated the Kmart parking lot, which is now the Home Depot parking lot, as a safe and sane, as well as Roberts Lake. where they would encourage people to light off safe and sane and try to keep them out of the neighborhoods. I don't believe that was a city of seaside sanctioned agreement, but that's something that police department used to do years ago. We've considered that. We've talked about that with council in the past. There's some things to consider. one is if the city is going to authorize a zone or an area it's likely going to have to be on city property that also comes with liability if there's a fire or any damage that happens or someone's injured so there's that consideration that i know the council has thought about before the second thing is and this is really my opinion but i think it carries some weight is not every city here as we know allows safe and sane we have outsiders coming here to buy safe and sane and if we designate spots we're going to flood some of our areas with outsiders and you may not get our residents that are able to go to those spots because they're overwhelmed and they'll end up back in their neighborhood already and i have experienced outsiders not respecting our community and they leave behind their trash debris and then they go back to their communities and let our staff clean it up so those are some things i would just caution if that's something that's ever considered the second one is drone pilots again commander pasconi said it very well that's something we can handle internally we do get them certified they are certified pilots the fire department has a training that they can go through or there's other certified training we can send pilots to it's very widespread so that's not a challenge for us at all what is the challenge is we need to find the right operator not everybody wants to be a drone pilot you don't want to just push this on somebody you need someone that has that interest and that skill and how do we measure success I think the most obvious is reduction in explosions. We know as a community, we're hearing it tonight. I heard it myself. A reduction in the explosions is the obvious way to measure success. And secondarily is and most and probably the most important is our community feedback. Our community tells us if it's good or not. I can come up here and tell you it was the best year we ever had. And someone can come up here as a resident right behind me and say this is the worst year we ever had because I heard four explosions in my backyard. And to them, that is the worst year. And I support that as well. So that's how we measure it. In terms of drones near parks, one of the speakers said that we did have drones near parks. And what we had is a lot of false calls of people reporting illegal fireworks being shot off in parks. Most of those happening in parks, not all, but most were safe and sane fireworks, especially up into the upper areas of seaside near Lincoln Cunningham. In the beginning of the night, that was primarily safe and sane. Later in the night, it switched over to illegal fireworks and we had drones hovering that area. and lastly there was a comment about drone shows and i would just say we've explored that from the department there has been drone shows here in seaside it may have been a city birthday that they did that i will just say as a caution but everyone knows they are very short and highly expensive so if we're looking for events that are going to help minimize illegal fireworks i just don't see that as something that will do that if it's something the city wants to do on its own wonderful but if it's to reduce illegal fireworks a 15 20 30 minute show ends and the rest of the night is something that we still have to manage and that's all mr mayor okay so mandra city attorney is there any questions issues you guys want to speak to now from my perspective the chief answered all the questions i was going to answer as well

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Yes, one of the commenters said there was an error in the letter that went out about the legality of fireworks in the city of Seaside. Let me just be clear, because I think there is a lot of misconception about fireworks. Fireworks are, all of them, are illegal in Seaside all the time, except... For June 28th to July 5th, we allow the used possession or storage of safe and sane fireworks. So there's a lot of misconception about that. I just want to make sure that everybody understands that because we did hear that when we were in the field with the police department that we're using safe and sane, we're good. And also as a reminder on the legality side, There is a curfew in the city of Seaside at 10 p.m., and I'm just going to say it here because I heard that a lot also out in the field that nobody understood, quote, nobody understood that 10 p.m. is when all fireworks become illegal again in the city of Seaside.

I want to ask you two questions. That was a good point about that. And those timeframes are what we adopt when we adopt, I don't know, that seven-day window of safe and sane being sold, what is it, stored, and of course, far and off. We also adopt the timeframes of it.

Yes, that's correct. When the ballot measure came on, it simply rejected the change that the council tried to do, which was to ban all fireworks. And we went back to the old ordinance, which had the 10 p.m. curfew and the June 28th to July 5th.

time frame for the use of safe and sane fireworks okay thank you and then a thing that was floating around and either of us on social media was the amount and the maximum of fines could you tell us what the maximum fine that we can do at our at our level so

Yeah, so the fines for every time you violate either a curfew or an illegal firework activity on the administrative side is $1,000 per violation up to a maximum per day of, I think it's $10,000. There's been a change in state law, which limits our maximum per day. I want to know what is the maximum fine?

the maximum fine per violation is $1,000. Yeah. It was people on social media just saying we should do more. And I just want you guys, we're doing what we can and all we can, you know. All right. So if there's any, yeah, of course, go ahead.

i have a quick question on on promoting or social media do we have the capability to boost our posts or purchase advertising space on social media channels so people so we can expand the amount of seaside residents that see that we do That might be something worth looking into because I know fire fire and PD have really good videos and we also have graphics and maybe if we make a effort to boost those posts and letting people know when the curfew is you don't have an excuse to say you didn't know about the card i mean you might still but it's very a lot more harder to we can look into that and and with those boosts we can also geofence that for city limits so that would be might even be more helpful and i think you can do it based on language preferences as well so but y'all have fun with that

Good suggestion. Anybody else? We gave good direction, and so I think we've provided enough direction, enough information. Let's go on to item number 11, council members' request. Before we do, I was remiss, I wasn't clear about. I want to thank the residents and those who provided the tips. It's important as community members that we work together, and we appreciate you guys feeling comfortable calling the police department, telling them about things that may not be safe and sane and may not be unlawful. We couldn't do it without the public. We appreciate the public for doing that. Item number 11, a new council member's request. Whoa. Okay. All right. Item number 11, MRI new council members' requests. Okay. 11B, follow-up on previous questions.

Yes, Mayor. I just wanted to update that staff is preparing a report regarding the cannabis dispensary agreements requested by Mayor Pro Tem Pacheco and is targeting this September 17th city council meeting for that report. That's all at this time.

Okay. Thank you. Uh, let's go to, um. City trying to see managers, city council and mayor's comments and report on community assignments. I'm not a city attorney.

Thank you. Mr. Mayor members of the council members of the public since our last meeting, I had a wonderful opportunity to attend. A car week event, the Piazza Nights, which was very nicely done. I had the opportunity to attend the third annual overdose and drug awareness symposium at the Old Meyer Center and was able to pick up some Narcan for my Not many people know this, but here's my fact for the day that I learned that Narcan can be used on your dogs and cats if they happen to pick up an illegal substance. So if you didn't know that, that was something new that I learned at that symposium. And I had the opportunity today to work the senior luncheon, and that was fantastic. always have a great time um serving in the kitchen and trying to make sure that our seniors have are are well fed and that they um it's just a it's a lot of fun i'm happy to be able to have time to do that and finally um just a plug for the farmers market i did uh pick up some fresh fruit at the farmers market and uh you know stone fruit it's the last part of the season so if you get an opportunity next thursday you should please attend our farmers market because it's It needs attendance and you need to spend your money over there. Thank you.

Mr. City Manager.

Yes, thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. I was able to attend the meteor ribbon cutting. I appreciate economic development staff for really continuing to elevate events like that as we move forward to celebrate our local businesses. Following that, I was able to attend, I was able to be on a panel for the YEO Network Annual Conference. It's the Young Elected Officials Conference that was held in Los Angeles. I was able to, you know, continue to discuss Seaside and the panel was called Thinking Globally and Leading Locally. So I was able to i talked to a just a tremendous group of young elected officials across the country from the city manager perspective so that was nice so to attend the relay for life event on city hall lawn and able to uh changed the lights on city hall for the rest of the month in purple in celebration of their efforts i was also able to attend a university communities council meeting through the national league of cities and then ending uh with several car week events including the paddock and concorso italiano on the bayonet black horse golf course and then of course exotics on broadway it's all at this time

Councilperson Burks.

Yeah, I too attended Mi Tierra's ribbon cutting. It was great to see some of the new gear the city has out there to support with these ribbon cuttings, cool banners. I then attended the Relay for Life event here at kickoff here at City Hall and the Piazza Nights in our neighboring Sand City. Right now is back to school night, I guess, season in MPUSD. And so I just want to shout out our a lot of our schools are now hosting resource fairs so a lot of our non-profits are there but our police our fire and animal control seaside youth resource center parks and rec are always ready to be there and our families really appreciate those resources um i attended a special board meeting for am we're still discussing and trying to figure out how to revamp just the program so that they can continue their services um and then i too attended the third annual overdose and drug symposium very impactful stories by community members and a lot of great information um and then i too attended the paddock and concorso so thank you to tanya and the city of seaside for collaborating and exotics on bread uh broadway uh tilly's chief was also um doing a lot of community building at the same time. We just had our Blue Ribbon Youth Violence Prevention and we had a community member come out. He is, I think his name was Alejandro. He's a non-emergency transportation driver. So he was dealing with the traffic during car week, but he really wanted to come out and appreciate and give kudos to police chief for connecting with DDE car club. And his message was about just we need more kindness. And right now there's a lot of anti and just negative vibes in our communities all over. So he even bought some little gifts for our chief to celebrate and support him. Little cars. But he really pointed out the importance of what he's doing by coming out there, going into other people's areas that maybe they may not. He even said, I'm not sure what the reaction was going to be, right, to show up at an Airbnb and see what was going on. So thank you, police chief. Thank you, fire, for being there and just the entire community coming together during car week and supporting our youth.

Thank you.

I didn't really do much because my full-time job had me up in the Big Sur area covering the fires, but I just want to shout out all the firefighters in the state that came out and are still supporting that fire out there. But what I was able to do, I didn't attend the Sun Street Centers Overdose Symposium. I was moderating it, and I was the emcee for that event, so it was great to see the entire dais out there from the city manager to the city attorney to my colleagues here i think but one so it was great to see everybody out there we had participation from seaside police department chp clinical workers and people would share which shared experience that really were able to one create awareness but to um really make a difference in their communities and give us some tools that we can bring into our community so definitely want to shout out sun street centers and all the agencies that were there it was like 100 and something people that showed up on a thursday afternoon which is very impressive during car weeks especially and i also did concourse italiano and exotics on broadway i just want to thank everybody from the volunteers to police and fire who i know went above and beyond to ensure the safety of our constituents and um i just want to thank our constituents and residents for being patient but also enjoying the event and i look forward to hearing more about car week in the next coming weeks and the only thing i have to report out is that tomorrow i have my region meeting And on Monday, I have my Monitor One Water Meeting, so I will be busy. Great, thank you.

Let's see, it's my turn. I attended the Fossil Park cleanup at Beta. Numerous volunteers. There's a beautiful view from that park. A lot of community spirits. And from three or four years ago to now, the park has transformed into a very beautiful park. I attended the Flea Market at the Oldemeyer Center, numerous vendors, I think more vendors than I've seen pretty much ever. Great turnout of residents. The Flea Market seems to be a positive service and a lot of vendors were asking for, let's do it more, let's do it more kind of a thing. Me Tierra was a nice grand opening and great store, great addition to Broadway with the reopening. attended the final week of Sunday Blues. Sunshine was held throughout the series, actually. It was great to see that diversity of cultures and the diversity of ages, anywhere from four years old to 84. And over the years, we've seen that as time goes on, you've seen that young kids now become adults. And it's kind of an interesting and fun thing to do. wanted to recognize teddy black for his coordination supervising the park and seeing it it was a great addition to the or continuing addition to the event and next year's the 40th and i'm sure we'll have some wonderful thoughts as we move forward with that good i uh attended the concourse day lemon uh at city hall this is all it's a very fun family driven event uh a lot of people are really enjoying it um also attended the car show on broadway probably the largest turnout that i've ever seen there like thousands upon thousands upon thousands um i think you could walk faster down all of fremont then i mean down broadway was just a traffic jam on del monte with all the people there but it was a great event uh organized did a great job a lot of vendors i think some of the businesses that i talked to on broadway seem to be doing very well. And, uh, it was a lot of great cars, entertainment, et cetera, and the farmer's market, uh, past Thursday, I think it needs some encouragement, attendance, and greater diversity of vegetables and fruits and all that, I think. But it's kind of a win-win. The more residents show up, the more vendors will show up. But we need the resident support to provide that opportunity. I attended the senior dance along with the mayor. great turnout a lot of people there food is very nice good band those senior dances have become a a positive community landmark for a lot of our seniors and the city should be very proud of the growth and development and the quality of the event i think i'll just leave it at that thank you mr mayor

No, thank you. It's some similar stuff. I just do the highlights. I misplaced my notes so I don't have everything. uh material uh grand opening was and ribbon cutting was well done by c major and his staff economic development team uh to have that uh family uh grocery store in taqueria is back online it's wonderful the community seems to enjoy it and uh we're happy for them to do that i then had to drive down to uh gonzalez for the uh Mayor's meeting, and we had a good report from the outgoing CEO of Natividad as it relates to the cost of health care, the increasing cost of health care, and how they're trying to make sure that When these health care programs become unfunded and more people lose their health care, how do we as a community, as a county, make sure we take care of as many people as we can? And so that was an excellent update from the outgoing CEO on that. I attended a couple park cleanups on Saturday, the next day, and then attended Mr. Bogan's 88th, Mr. Jim Bogan's 88th birthday. So we want to salute him, appreciate him, encourage his longevity as he keeps getting older and older. I attended a press conference with the Honorable Congressman Jimmy Panetta as it relates to protection of the Monterey Bay National sanctuary thank you so much sanctuary i was hesitant a little bit because it's a kind of like a disconnect between the foundation and people that are that are that were there to support uh making sure that there's no oil drilling or uh mining in the sanctuary and off our coast uh the the national sanctuary foundation is not want to stay i guess they stay apolitical so they're not taking any possession uh position at all for against and so there's a lot of community members there community leaders there and we just want to thank uh congressman panetta for putting it on uh the uh Monterey Bay Aquarium, Chief of Staff, Executive Director was there and a couple other folks was there in support of ensuring that we do not have those things off our shores. Attending the Monterey Bay Division meeting, we held our election, so our first meeting after that will be at the Cal City League annual meeting. We'll have our luncheon and then I will turn over the reins as the outgoing mayor to the incoming elected president. and so then we also had the relay for life paint seaside purple i want to thank the city manager for picking that up uh when it was brought to us uh supervisor lopez put some of his own i guess office money into making sure that relay for life was well done within the salinas valley area and that spread to us after going to a meeting. I think we did a great job with that. Cancer is something we all know about and we want to figure out ways to beat that and to support the family members and those going through it. Paint the town, paint Seaside purple is perfect. Tenant the Monterey, Salinas, Mosquito, Bateman district. The main thing on agenda was our audit. We had a clean audit, so we're doing good over there. I attended the Sun Street Center event and that was the symposium on illicit drugs and trying to talk about how do we prevent overdose and things of that nature. And it was good that they really didn't concentrate on just drugs. alcohol was talked about and if you over use alcohol that could be a problem too and so I thought it was a great event uh that they put on just reminding the community how important it is to to be careful about uh using illicit drugs and uh not using alcohol in moderation and I'd like the mayor to pretend all the rest of you guys probably say attended the concourse LeMond here on city property early Saturday morning. You know, it seemed to be well done, well attended. And then definitely the Zots on Broadway was exciting to say the least, right? And so, I just keep moving on. Lots of people like the Mayor Pro Tem said, I think it's, I don't know if someone said, I don't know if we had official numbers yet, but it seemed to be a little bit more people this time. And I think I'm so proud that the planning from the city manager or assistant city manager and the police department, fire department, public, everybody had helped plan to have that event come here and then that event go off very successfully. Very successful, you know, I'm not 1 of those are going to say, oh, it didn't we invited 2530,000 dollars 30,000 people to our community. Oh, and then for 15 to 40 minutes, somebody parked in the Home Depot lot. And then it was a bad event. No, no, I think everybody left here healthy. Well, I left here with a ticket, right? I left with a ticket, but it was nothing, no violence, nothing out of the ordinary. And I think that says a lot for the city of Seaside. And what I tell people is, after that day, for the next 360 days, 64 days, people are talking about coming back to Seaside. For various reasons, right? And so I want to, I want to thank the city manager and our vendors that were open up. That plan to feed these people plan to wine and dine them and seaside car, which is really, really picking up. Me and the Mayor for Tim held our monthly meeting with Dr. Lutz and Dr. PK from MPUSD School District, our little collaboration. I think we have some good announcements coming out of that about us working together to improve the lives of our residents. Tended the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District meeting a couple days ago this Monday. Not too many things on the agenda. So that was routine there. tenant to seaside housing collaborative of monthly meeting move forward the concept of how do we continue to move the collaborative forward by by getting our skill sets up by managing properties small and large so we can in the future how do we keep the pressure on keep the pressure from overtaking families by how do we create more affordable housing in the city of Seaside? Like we've been talking a long time as a council, you know, at a certain point, we just can't leave it up to outside forces. Just can't leave it up to developers coming inside and saying, well, I'll build some affordables. I'll build 20 of you. Let me go 80 market rate. And so the collaborative is picking up steam that way. Uh, today, the leadership, uh, homelessness council meeting, uh, yesterday again, we're just trying to make sure that we don't leave any money on the table. Uh, we thought we were going to get funded for some homelessness, um, activities about a federal government, but then the federal government pulled the money back. And so now we're trying to wait to see if they're going to, uh, fund that program again or and or when they will put out the notebook for us to respond to. Let me see. I attended the luncheon, senior day luncheon. Well done once again. I think that's it. All right. That's enough for that. Let's go on to, for those that are And the public, we've removed the closed session, but I will open up for closed session minutes, public comment for closed session items.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Okay, thank you. Seeing no one, hearing no one, public comment is closed. I'll try to do that and make sure, you know, everybody get a chance and sometimes people tune in late and we want them to be able in abundance of caution and transparency. Okay. I think we are at adjournment and before we adjourn, we have a closing comments in honor of a few people that have passed in our community. So we have Mr. Sid Williams. Did anybody want to go before me or just you want to go? Yeah, go ahead.

I did not know him well, but I do know that I saw him throughout the Fort Ord history and the creation of the Veterans Cemetery, pretty much as a gentle giant with a strong voice in getting things done. He was knowledgeable of Fort Ord history. He understood the necessity of the Veterans Cemetery, was a key leader in sharing that project, went forward with the help of Dr. Bogan. He also served on the Monterey Salinas Transit Committee, ensuring veterans and seniors and people with special needs had opportunities for transportation. He was a man of great character. uh wisdom strong leadership skills uh he did what he could to make the lives of our veterans and the residents of seaside and marina and those connected with the cemetery a very positive place to be and and he will truly be missed for his leadership and knowledge of the community thank you mayor uh thank you anyone else uh councilmember garcia result

thank you mayor i didn't have the honor of knowing him or meeting him but what i've read and seen is his great mark that he's left in the region not only for uh the community as a whole but veterans and i think that that's very important to honor um and celebrate and keep someone's memory alive that has contributed so much to the region but also to the history of who we are today so just want to extend my condolences to the family Anyone else?

Yeah, I didn't know him, but again, I echoed with council member shared that. I did read about his history and how he's just a huge woven into the history of seaside. So I share my deepest condolences to the family and their loved ones during this difficult time.

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I was, you know, sad to hear about Sid. I knew him as Sid, and I had the pleasure and honor of knowing him and working with him on many issues. And so, you know, his passing was... Yeah, I guess you could always say untimely, right? But what a life that he left and you could just see it right there. You know, a young person right there with that airborne patch on and that and that slave patch for unit patches, you know, was the special forces. Green Beret type thing. And that's when they were real, you know, that's the one the movies made about, you know, people like that, right? And then for him to work his way up to Command Sergeant Major, that was a feat within itself. And so I had the pleasure to meet him after he became a retired veteran. And so he was a retired veteran of both Vietnam and the Gulf War. He served his nation with distinction for close to 27 years before retiring at Fort Ork. But when he retired, he didn't leave his advocacy, his support for the veterans themselves, right? As a command sergeant major, and he was active, then he was taking care of the troops, subordinates, and active duty. But when he retired from the military, from the army, he kept advocating, fighting for veterans. And he fought for veterans all the way until his last day. We worked together on some issues, including the Veteran Transition Center, the Central Coast Veterans Center. He ended up being on the foundation board there. And then we were hooked up a couple of times on the FORA Veterans Issue Committee right after FORA closed. And he was always around. veterans and veterans families and working on their behalf. And so I just want to say on behalf of the city of Seaside, we want to extend our sincere condolences to Sid, his families and his loved ones and those who mourn his passing. You know, I think tonight We salute Command Sergeant Major Sid Williams and honor his life of service to his country, to Monterey County, to our veterans, and to the seaside community. May he rest in peace because I guess every day, you know, since he was a young soldier, to his last day, he looked out for everybody else. And so we just wanna say condolences to his family and may he rest in peace. Thank you so much. Okay, and then I'm gonna let Mayor Pro Tem go last for Ms. Gill. And did anyone else want to say anything about, I'll go first and then people can want to get their thoughts together. Wow, what a wonderful, wonderful lady. I ended up meeting Gail when she moved here. And when she first moved here, she just energized this community. She invested in this community, was a good ambassador for the city of Seaside. Once she got to know her community, she participated in her community, was always welcoming and opened up her home to to those that she thought uh would would would be best for the city of seaside and so she was always a true friend of our community a dedicated supporter of seaside uh just a genuine per a nice person right and and she cared deeply about others her kindness generosity and friendship touched many lives here in seaside and she will be greatly missed On behalf of the city of Seaside, I want to extend my heartfelt condolences to her family and friends, her loved ones, and all those who had the privilege of knowing her. We are grateful for the relationship and support she gave our community, and we benefited from her living here. And she just moved away a short time ago, but she kept friendships here. And we miss her, and we know her daughter is in mourning now, and her family is in mourning. We want to just support them. And in her memory tonight, we want to also close the meeting and say may she rest in peace.

uh did anybody want to go uh um thank you this is one that i'll be honest caught me off guard um you you said it well very invested in the community uh And I have the privilege of meeting her through Council Member Pacheco, actually, and being in her home and speaking to her. And although we didn't always agree on certain topics, one of the things that I really did appreciate about her is how kind she was, how invested she was, and how she really wanted to see SEC to succeed. you know, as a whole, and I learned a lot from her. I'll be honest, I learned a lot from her, and just hearing this news, I think it's very shocking for me, and I don't know what else to say, but my condolences to the family. This was a really great person, an invested individual that had so much love, not only for CSED, but all the departments, from fire to police to... Every single aspect of seaside and you can sense the pride that she had when speaking about seaside and it's very, very shocking to hear.

Yeah, just my condolences to the family and I'm wishing you comfort, peace and strength over the next couple of days or weeks ahead. And so thank you for sharing her with us.

Hold on, David. I'll be remiss if I didn't say this, but when I said she was invested in our community, she was one of the first to invest in our golf course. if it wasn't for people like her, particularly her, because she stayed the whole way, she made it what it was. And when people would go over there looking at her house and what she was able to do, we all said, this is what we want to happen in our community. So she not only was a fresh air, a breath of fresh air, but she cared about her community. And I want to give her her kudos, which is without that type of investment from her,

uh uh the golf course resort would look a little differently so you know people like that that uh she she should be proud of her accomplishments uh one of her legacies uh mayor pretend thank you and i think the keywords investment because that's part of my comments as well uh gail was amazing lady then invested in seaside financially during a time when individuals were hesitant She believed in Seaside and was very proud of the improvements and progress. She was part of the first community service grant program, was a leader in the Seaside Artist Tour. She was a member of a group that was focusing on Seaside's future and a member of the Seaside Rotary. She was a significant contributor to the Pacitti Dog Park Community Partnership for Youth. and many other local groups. Gail was also a local artist and her head, I believe. And I know her paintings are in countless businesses throughout the peninsula and homes throughout the peninsula. And rumor has it that Mayor Oglebay has two paintings in his house, as well as countless others. To me, most important of all, she had a heart of gold, was honest and straightforward in her opinions. She was always helpful and always willing to share her resources with the community. She was the best friend of me, of mine, of me, and many others that had an opportunity to listen, and she offered her wisdom and guidance that made us better. Gail believed in Seaside and is the beautiful lady that changed Seaside's future, my life, Seaside artwork, and the countless residents that she had the opportunity to meet. Gail will be missed. but she had a positive mark on the community, her friends that will not be forgotten for many, many decades.

So thank you. Thank you. And there'll be no further business. I'm going to let you close the meeting in honor of our two.

Thank you. Recording stopped.