City Council - Regular Meeting

uh the city of Seaside City Council and the Success Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Seaside regular 5:00 PM uh meeting on Thursday, May 7th, 2026 in the city hall council chambers will come to order. Uh item number two is roll call. Council and agency member Miller here. Council and agency member Burks. Council and agency member Garcia Arizona here. Mayor Pro Tim and Vice Chair Pico. Mayor and Chair Oglesby here. You do have a quorum.

Thank you so much. Uh we next item is item number three is invocation and pledge of allegiance. I understand we have pastor Brent from the greater victory uh tempo here and then I would ask council member Miller to lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Shall we pray? Eternal God, our father, before we ask you for anything, we want to say thank you. Thank you for all the blessings I have bestowed upon us and upon this city. As we begin this meeting tonight, God, we ask for your guidance, your support and that your spirit be in this room tonight as we engage God in discussion that will affect the citizen of Seaside. Pray for our council. Pray for our mayor, our mayor, our city manager, our attorney and bless all the citizen of Seaside as we conduct business in this place tonight. In your son Jesus name we pray. Amen. To the flag of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible and justice all. Okay. Thank you. Next we have item number four which is review the agenda. Uh Mr. City manager, are there any corrections or deletions from the uh agenda?

Mayor, there are no requested changes to tonight's agenda. Okay. Thank you. Next is public comment. Item number five, members of the public wishing to address the city council's underneath matters underneath our jurisdiction may do so up to three minutes. This is also the time that you may comment on presentation items. We ask that you hold your comments on items that are on agenda to that item is called. You will have three minutes during this time. For the benefit of the record is helpful if you state your name. Public comment is now 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mr. Mayor, my name is Ronald Brit, pastor of Greater Tempe Church of God in Christ to this council. I came down to invite this whole council, our city manager, our attorney, and each and everyone that's in this room. The exciting news on next Saturday, the 16th, be the groundbreaking ceremony for 21 very low affordable housing. So, we're happy. We're inviting everyone to come at 10 a.m. next Saturday for the groundbreaking. Thank you, city. Thank you, everyone that has been praying for us. is coming to pass and we're so excited and we invite you and hope you will attend.

Good evening. My name is Chris Thomas. I am a resident of Seaside Mobile Estates, a quiet, well-kept mobile home park on Birch Avenue for people over 55. I'm assuming y'all know where it is. Um, I sent each of you a letter dated April 11th on behalf of more than 60 Park residents who object to having a Sun Street Center residential treatment facility for teens on our block. To date, I have not received a response from anyone. Uh we started voicing our concerns primarily about traffic and parking at the city planning commission where two things stood out. The commissioners told us this really needs the city council to weigh in since they're elected and we're appointed and they encouraged us to file an appeal to you. So we did. We are completely new to this process as you might imagine and we got our appeal paperwork in only a few minutes late on the day that it was due. We raced over here with it and apparently the fact that we busted our butts was not good enough for the city attorney who rejected the appeal outright as in her words untimely. The other thing that stood out to me in the meeting, the uh planning commission meeting was the Sun Street Center CEO pretty much said the facility will be understaffed at times because of the lack of parking. Uh proof that this grand plan may not really belong in that space. Was there a neighborhood impact study done? We may never know. At this point, it's safe to say most of the park residents feel defeated, which is why so few of them are here tonight. You can't fight city hall, and they figure that the um plan got the green light long before the people or businesses around it were even notified. A few think it's unfortunate that our neighborhood will soon be known as the place to go if you've got some kind of substance use

issue because there's already one such facility for adults a block from us. Uh but mostly Birch Avenue is just busy and crowded and vehicles fly down it and this new facility especially the construction phase will only make it worse. Birch is our only access in and out of the park for more than a hundred mobile homes. We're as much of the part of the community as Sun Street Centers. And we vote and we will remember how our appeal was brushed aside and how seniors may not matter as much as we thought they did at Seaside City Hall, even as you vote later this evening to recognize this as National Older Americans Month. Thank you for your time and attention. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Hi, my name is Katherine Crockett. I'm a 27 year old 27year resident of Seaside and also chair of Sustainable Seaside. We had a successful Earth Day celebration at Laguna Grande Park on Sunday, April 19th. And I want to take this opportunity to thank the city of Seaside for co-sponsoring this event. I want to thank the 34 exhibitors and all who attended. Holding the event at Laguna Grande Park in collaboration with the Laguna Grande Regional Park Joint Power Agency to also celebrate the JPA's 50th anniversary resulted in a a turnout of over 300 people. We want to acknowledge the leadership and collaboration of recreation services department Dan Muis uh director Dan Muis in planning the event and we also want to thank public works uh the public works department for setting up and breaking down and and everything in between. And lastly, we appreciate the presence and participation of all of you, mayor, city council, city manager, and city attorney for being there and for making seaside a model of sustainability. Thank you. Hi, Linda Cunningham, member of the homeless commission, but I'm here speaking as a private citizen and uh mayor, council, city attorney, city manager. Aren't isn't seaside lucky to have Katherine Crockett and Sustainable Seaside on our team. I mean, they've just done so much for Seaside and it's just wonderful. And I have was lucky to work with Katherine. She's always been a superstar. You can't hold that lady back. um she's going to get it done and I I just think it's great that Seaside has that team. Uh it's been a while up the hill for me on Or Grove. The ADA ramps are going in. It's fabulous. Public works even came out and looked at one where I was worried about the water

and Andreas, they assured me looked at it and it's going to be great. The roof on city hall is beautiful. No more green moss. I like I'm a fan of moss, but I didn't want it damaging the roof and I'm really glad that's sparkling. I think what we need is the opposite. We need the sphere in Las Vegas inside out where we're shining stuff on the dome up there so we make a beautiful light show like a laser show on the dome. I'm just saying if we can't do that because it could be distraction for the highway. Maybe just some pretty lights. So, you know, it could be green and red during Christmas, pink for Valentine's, green for St. Patrick's Day. You know, it can be a feature. It's such a beautiful roof. Uh landscaping is beautiful here over the new pink flowers, the library, the little towers are there, the new trees. It's all beautiful fencing around the police department. Absolutely beautiful. It's beautiful fencing. The kennels look beautiful. I can't wait to see what happens to the area of open space. It's a great opportunity to show off the beautiful native landscape of Seaside. Um public works, the cool posters. I see them everywhere. They're doing all kinds of stuff. The roundabouts at the Auto Mall, I They look way better without those big metal towers. I hope the things don't ever come back. We had them. They're done. It's so pretty now with just the trees. And oh my gosh, I usually don't go through the through the auto mall to come here to city hall, but I was on what's the name? Calvar Street. And there's a walk light now. And it was so cool. The dad, his kids are going to taekwondo. They push the button and I could cross that street. Easy peasy. I didn't have to wait for traffic to clear cuz they stopped for the crosswalk sign. You know what? That thing is priceless. I don't know what it cost. I think it's fabulous. It helped me tonight. I'm so grateful whoever put that in, suggested it, whatever. It's beautiful. Thank you so much for And it's so safe. The dad and the kids, they could cross safely. It's just beautiful. I think Seaside's

just knocking out of the park. I'm sure I missed things off my list. Um but um Oh, yeah. It was really neat to see uh the police with their sound machine. Oh, there's a lot of loud loud cars at the high school. I think you should do a steak out at Circle in No Buena. They're just flooring it by then. Anyhow, thank you. It's very loud.

Good afternoon. Um, my name is Carol Tbajin. I am the co-chair of the MCHA, Monterey County Hospitality Association Rancho Cello Committee. And I just wanted to give you a little update on what we've been doing this year. Um, we are finishing the school year. Um, I'll go backwards. We are placing 19 summer interns from June 17th through August 8th. Uh, with 12 different properties, businesses and properties, not just hotels, but there are restaurants, there are catering companies, there are bakeries, there different uh, businesses that are we're placing them with. And we um will next week have our uh, job fair. And actually there will be I think Seaside High is going to be participating some of the the uh junior colleges and we have the Rancho Cello kids come in first thing in the morning and then the rest and it's it's uh hospitality serving businesses. Um a month ago we had our career day for the the young people where we help them build their own LinkedIn page. We outfit them for interviews. Um so we're doing like career tie-in jacket people like nobody wears a tie and jacket anymore. I see everybody's waiting and we're like yes we do and yes they do. And we've also made a um was interesting we had some a kid last year told to come business casual to a a hotel and she came in leggings and um so we now you always learn usually by negative example we've made a clothing chart for them. So here's the description here's what we're doing. Um we also have done what we've done for them as well. We have groups of five to six of them with two chaperones that will go we call a white tablecloth program where they go out to some of the the some of the restaurants will offer them the chance to come and have dinner there so they can see if they're going into the restaurant business what they will see in the fine dining restaurants. Um, we also have another our other one of our other programs is job shadow where we take them to different

properties, different businesses, and we show them different things, not just hotels, not just kitchens. I my comment is they want to know that they're not just going to be chopping celery and carrots for the rest of their there are all kinds of things in hospitality. And so we've taken them one one about three weeks ago, we took them I took him to the airport, showed him the the private side and the public side. and one of the kids went to Hartnell and look is looking into aviation um mechanics now. So again, things that they never even knew existed in our industry. So we um are working hard. We will finish our summer internships. We will start then again in September when they go back to school. And we did for the first time this year, we did winter internships as well. Last year, our summer interns, 17 of them, 10 of them got offered full-time jobs and the other seven had not graduated from high school yet, but we um are are looking forward to it again this year and looking forward to much success. We want to and what we are commenting the committee is we want to do more, we don't want to do less. And this is helping all of us as we are creating these kids, you know, making them ready to work in our industry and in our on the peninsula. Thank you so much. Good evening, council members, mayor. Uh my name is Tom Barrera. I'm with Easy Drains Plumbing in Monterey or in Seaside on Williams. Uh recently, my company, what we do is uh it's too loud. Sorry. Okay. Um what my company does primarily is underground utility work. Uh recently I made I've been made aware of a new ordinance that the city of Seaside has with anywhere anywhere you open up a street you have to now replace the asphalt. I usually do a 4ft x4t cut in a street to replace a sewer lateral in the center like a pothole. Um and

usually we would do a one foot cut outside of that to replace our asphalt so it doesn't sink in. There's now a new ordinance that we have to go from curb to curb and then 10 feet out on each cut. So if I do a 4 foot hole in a street replacing a sewer, I now basically have to replace this whole room in asphalt, making a $10,000 job into essentially a 40 to $50,000 resurfacing job on any one homeowner. Um I think it's really excessive. I mean, it's it's just price gouging and making the making any homeowner replace their own street. I understand why they would want to do it because there are potholes, but as contractors, we're held to our our job. If I have a pothole that sinks in, I'm I'm on the hook for it for 10 years. Um, for any compaction, we have to get engineering to come in, as you guys know, and get compaction testing to to pretty much guarantee we're not going to have any potholes. But I think you guys need to relook at this ordinance and not make every single homeowner replace essentially a half of a basketball court anytime they do a job. Um, and I noticed that we did the I don't know if it was the library or the the police department that did the big sewer out here the other day on Canon Re. Maybe you're calling that a a highway, but that didn't get replaced 10 feet out from curb to curb either. But just something to look at. Thank you guys for your time. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh, thank you so much. Public comment is closed. Uh, Mr. city manager or city attorney. Are there any questions uh comments and or issues or concerns you can speak to at this time?

Uh yes, mayor. First, on the um on the street uh repair for the the uh the street cut, u the workout here done on 218 is a CALR highway. So, that was restored to CALR specs and requirements. Um as far as the city of Seaside, I'm not certain when the ordinance went into effect, but we do have a moratorium ordinance on on newly paved streets. I believe it's 5 years in duration. Uh that requires a full width um overlay of that street. Uh per the code per MUN code 12.04.120C1 at the discretion of the city engineer full width slurry seal may be substituted uh for overlay and residential areas. And so I'd encourage uh that citizen to to work with our public works department on finding an identified solution for that. um to the uh concerns with the development near Seaside Mobile Estates. Uh the the appeal that was submitted was submitted late and again that is a code requirement for us. Uh I am also uncertain uh what level of uh um of ability the city has regarding that project due to state funds that are included. But I would leave the rest of that to the city attorney.

Uh yes, actually the uh comments of the city manager are correct. the appeal was late and that is our code. I stand behind that and his other comments are correct through the mayor. Yeah, just briefly just to clarify, I did receive an email. I did respond. It was very oneline comment and I did attend that planning commission where you spoke eloquently about your concerns. I just wanted to uh confirm that I take pride in responding to residents. Thank you.

Anyone else? Uh at at the end of the day, it that was uh underneath a state law and so there was there's no there was no room for us to deny that. So, let's just be clear. Uh I talk about it all the time about how do we continue to try to protect uh local control and that's what I mean when I talk about protecting local control. Uh it's too many times that the state sends down these mandates and um it's a state mandate. All right. Thank you so much. Uh let's go to item number six which is uh publications communications uh 6A seaside city news broadcast and comments from the city manager.

Let's go ahead and play the news. Welcome to Seaside City News. Here are the latest upcoming events, programs, and community updates from the city of Seaside. The Seaside Farmers Market has new summer hours. Starting May 7th, stop by Laguna Grande Park from 4 to 8:00 p.m. to enjoy fresh produce, local food vendors, and music on the lawn. CalFresh and EBT shoppers can receive up to $30 in free fruits and vegetables when they spend $30 at the market. It's time to celebrate mom seaside style. Join the older adults program for a Mother's Day brunch on Saturday, May 9th at the Old Demier Center. Doors open at 10:30 a.m., program at 11, and lunch served at 12 noon. Mothers and grandmothers enjoy free admission and lunch, and guests can join for just $4 at the door. Good food, great company, and a beautiful way to say thank you. Get outside with FOSPA and give back to your community. Join park cleanups on May 9th at Capra and Martin parks and May 16th at Feralon and Highland Otis Parks. Together we keep seaside clean, green, and thriving. The future of housing in Seaside is taking shape. Greater Victory Temple Church of God in Christ, the Seaside City Council, and KB Bakewell Seaside Venture 2 invite the community to the groundbreaking of the GVT Apartments

complex. The ceremony will be held Saturday, May 16th at 1000 a.m. at the Greater Victory Temple parking lot, 1620 Broadway Avenue. The project will deliver 21 very lowincome housing units as part of the campus town and Pacific Landing at Seaside Development. To attend, send email to RSVP at bakewellco.com. Small business owners are invited to a business tax strategies workshop on Monday, May 18th, 2026 from 12 to 1:00 p.m. The workshop will be held in person and online with the in-person session at the Mterrey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce. Presenter Tanya Santos will share tax and accounting strategies for local businesses. To register, visit tinyurl.com/wyf2fptd2. We appreciate you tuning in to Seaside City News where we work to include, innovate, and inspire. We will be back with more exciting events to share with you later this May. Until then, be safe, live fully, and enjoy all our city has to offer. Thank you, Seaside. The only other addition tonight is to to the posters that you have around the room here represent uh National Public Works Recognition Week, which is May 17th through the 23rd. And we want to say thank you to the employees throughout this community uh who do a great job of maintaining the infrastructure and the facilities that make this community run. Thank you.

Uh thank you. And next we'll go on to item number seven which is the consent agenda 7A approve and file city checks to the tune of 2 million $349,7952. 7B approve and file sessac checks for $2,818.93. C. Accept and file the cash investment report for the city of Seaside and the successor agency to the redevelopment agency, the city of Seaside for the quarter ending March 31st, 2026. D. Approve a proclamation recognizing May 17th through the 23rd as National Public Works Week. E. Approve a proclamation recognizing May 20th as 2026 as World B Day. F. Approve a proclamation recognizing May 26, 2026 as National Poppy Day. G. Approve a proclamation recognizing May as National Older Adult Month. H. Approve a mayor's youth fund contribution request of $3,000 from the Palanki Arts to assist with the cost associated with equipment and supplies for a photography pilot program at the Teen Center. I approve a free wa request from the Monterey Santan Women's Club, Inc. for the use of Soaper Community Center on May 23rd, 2026 for their Monterey Santan Women's Cultural Night in the amount of $414.75. J adopt a resolution approving a master funding agreement with the transportation agency for Monterey County for receipt of $200,000 200,210.76

in regional surface transportation program funds K adopt a resolution accepting an annual report for the seaside housing success agency for fiscal year 2013 through 14 through 202425. L adopt a resolution authorizing city manager to execute an amendment for an increase of $50,000 to the contract service agreement with position concrete cutting or sidewalk inspection and restoration services for amount not to exceed $15,000. H. Adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute the 2026 agreement for countywide 911 emergency communication services and governance with the county of Monteray and participating agencies. Yeah. Adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a youth agreement with Monterey Condors Club for a fireworks booth on city- owned property located at 1271 Canyon Delray Boulevard. Oh, adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager execute a use agreement with Seaside Aquatics Club, Inc. for a fireworks booth on city- owned property located at 490 Broadway Avenue. P. Approved traffic advisory committee recommendation for the installation of a red curve and no overnight parking signs at 1925 Delmmani Boulevard. Q. Approved traffic advisory committee's recommendation for the installation of a second drive-thru a second driveway at 1945 Lazern Street. That concludes the reading of the consent agenda. Is there any item that anyone on the dis would like to pull off the consent agenda? There any item

anyone from the public would like to pull off the consent agenda? There are no hands raised on Zoom. Thank you so much. Public comment is open on the consent agenda. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Thank you. Public comments is closed. Bring it back to the DAS. What is the will? Approval.

Uh I did move approval. Second. It's been properly moved to second that we adopt the consent agenda. On a question. All those in favor use the region is I I naves have the same right abstensions hearing n eyes have a motion carry unanimously. Item number eight is public hearing 8A adopt the ordinance to amend section 10-30-010 of the seaside municipal code to authorize the designation modification and removal of oneway streets by resolution. Uh, this is the second reading. It will be a roll call vote. Uh, Mr. City Manager.

Yes. Thank you, mayor. This item be presented by Thomas Corman, the city's public works director.

Uh, good evening, mayor, members of the council. Uh, my name is Thomas Gorman, public works director, city engineer. So, I'll be per uh reading the second ordinance amendment to uh section 10312. This is the seaside municipal code to authorize the designation and modification and removal of one-way streets by resolution. Thanks. So, this is the second reading. Uh there was modifications requested at the the first reading. I'll just uh rego through the background here. Additions, modifications, and removal of one-way streets are currently requires approval of an ordinance. Uh the ordinance approvals requires two readings and then become effective 30 days after adoption. So this typically is 44 to 51 days from the first council meeting. uh resolutions will still require the city council action but will become immediate upon approval. Okay. Uh there was some language in there that we added I'll add to this uh get to in the next slide. So the changing of designation from one-way streets by resolution would increase efficiencies while maintaining city council control. Uh as far as the first hearing goes, uh this is the feedback and the ordinance revision. Uh public concerns were raised about uh ensuring adequate notification uh before one-way streets become considered. Uh the proposed revision added a 10day uh notice before council action. The notice to affected residents and businesses in the vicinity. Uh the

opportunity for additional public input. Uh council approval uh will still be required by resolution. Uh so the proposed ones trades will still proceed through the traffic advisory committee uh and recommendation process and proper notifications. So in conclusion, I'll read the uh proposed ordinance change. Uh the city council may by resolution designate, modify, or remove any oneway street restrictions of any street or portion thereof. This is the portion that was added after a 10-day notice that has been provided to residents and businesses affected by the change. any such action shall become effective upon the installation or removal of appropriate signage. So just in summary, uh what changed from the first reading to the second reading uh tonight is that bolded section after a 10day notice has been provided to residents and businesses affected by the change. So the recommendation by staff uh is to accept the modified language of section 1030 uh 010 of the seaside municipal code and authorize the designation modification and removal of oneway streets by resolution.

Uh thank you so much. Any questions? We'll go out 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment on this item. Thank you. Uh public comment is closed. Uh bringing it back to the D. What is the level of council? Motion to approve. Second.

Promptly moved to second. It's a roll call vote. Clerk will call the role. Council agency member Miller. No. Council agency member Burks. Council and agency member Garcia Arizona. Mayor Pro Tim and Vice Chair Pacheo. Yes. Mayor and Chair Oglesby. I. Your motion passes 311. Uh, thank you. We'll go to item number 8B. Adopt a resolution approving the 2026 2027 annual action plan for the county's development block grant program. Mr. City Manager.

Yeah. This item presented by Andrew Mrick, our housing and planning manager, who will add uh Harun Nori, our administrative analyst, to by Zoom.

Thank you, Mrs. City Manager. Um, good evening, honorable mayor, council members, staff, and members of the public. My name is Harun Nor, and I serve as the administrative analyst for the community development block grant program. Uh the purpose of tonight's item um is I apologize um for the city council to consider adoption of the fiscal year 2627 annual action plan for the community development block grant program and to authorize its submission to the US department of housing and urban development or HUD. Uh to provide a brief overview, um CDBG is a federal program administered by HUD and funded through the city's annual um entitlement allocation and program income. Funds may be used for public service programs um program program administration in public facility and infrastructure projects that primarily benefit low and moderate seaside residents. Um funding for public service activities in program administration are capped at 15 and 20% respectively. Uh the city administers the program on a two-year funding cycle and applications are solicited through a process called notice of funding availability or NOA. This slide provides a brief um recap of the funding process and in timeline. On November 10, 2025, the city issued a comprehensive notice of funding availability for fiscal years 2627 and 2728. Um, between February and March 2026, um, applications were reviewed, scored, and the homeless commission developed funding recommendations for the city council consideration. On March 19th, the city council approved estimated funding allocations based on projected available resources. Following council direction, staff prepared the draft annual action plan and released it for a 30-day public review period from April 1st through

April 30th. On April 3rd, HUD announced the city's fiscal year 2627 entitlement allocation. Uh the city's allocation increased by approximately $31,000 above the original estimate. Tonight, city council is being asked to consider um adoption of the annual action plan uh which must be submitted to HUD no later than June 2nd. This slide summarizes the revised public service funding allocations. As noted earlier, city council approved estimated allocations on March 19th based on projected funding availability. Following HUD's release of the actual entitlement amount, staff revised the fiscal year 2627 allocations consistent with prior um city council direction and those are highlighted in green color on the slide for you. Additional funding was distributed proportionally among the seven bottom uh public service activities. Um the two uh meals on wheels in the village project remain unchanged each receiving $12,000 uh per year. Um the total public service allocation for fiscal year 2627 is now approximately $84,000 while fiscal year 2728 remains unchanged at $75,000. This slide summarizes the public facilities and infrastructure projects approved by city council um on March 19th. Uh consistent with council direction, these projects remain fully funded at their approved um allocation amounts. This slide reflects revised funding allocation for program planning and administration. As discussed um earlier, HUD caps public service activities at 15% of the city's entitlement and program income and the city has already fully funded all approved public facility and infrastructure projects. As

a result, the additional funding received through the HUD's through the HUD allocation increase could not be allocated to those other categories and was instead applied to um eligible program planning and administration activities consistent with HUD regulations in prior city council direction. Um the revised fiscal year 2627 administration allocation is approximately $47,600 um which remains within HUD's um allowable cap. This slide summarizes the oral funding um allocations for fiscal year 2627. As shown on the slide, the revised total funding amount is approximately $612,000 compared to $581,000 originally approved in March. Um the increase reflects HUD's updated entitlement allocation announced uh announcement uh released on April 3rd. This slide summarizes the contingency approach if additional um adjustments become necessary due to changes in funding availability. Public service in administration funding would be adjusted proportionally while remaining within HUD um cap requirements. Uh for public facility and infrastructure projects, staff would maintain approved uh project allocations. Um again this is consistent with uh prior city council direction and had requirements. Um this slide summarizes um the public outreach process for the action plan. Uh following city council direction on March 19th, the draft annual action plan was posted on the city's website on April 1st. Public notices in both English and Spanish were published in Monterey County weekly. The public review period opened remained open from April 1st through April 30th. To date, the city has received um one public comment regarding the proposed meals on

wheels kitchen improvement project. Um the comment expressed support for the project and encouraged consideration of sustainability measures with the city's plastic reduction and climate um action goals as the project scope um um is developed. and any comments received during tonight's um uh public hearing will be incorporated into the uh final action plan uh sub and will be submitted to HUD. Um, so the recommendation tonight is for city council to adopt a resolution approving the fiscal year 2627 annual action plan. Authorizes city manager or designate to execute all required certifications, assurances, and subreient agreements and authorized submission of the annual action plan to HUD on or before June 2nd, 2026. And with that concludes my presentation, staff is happy to answer any questions. Thank you for your time and attention.

Uh, thank you. Thank you so much. Uh any questions? May pro Tim just one. Can you go back to page seven because I think it's seven. So yeah, in the planning administration it was 21,258 and it's gone up to 47,000. So, is that more dollars that it's going to go for staffing? And could that money go into the program services, I guess, is my question.

Through the mayor um um mayor Portico, this um as I stated um in my presentation, this additional amount cannot be applied to public services because those um activities are subject to the 15% cap. um and the public facility and infrastructure projects um were the council approved um the funding levels at the requested amounts. So those those we have not um changed any of the allocations. Okay, thank you.

Let's take it out to public comment. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Thank you so much. Public comments closed. Bringing it back to the desk. What is the will of the council?

I'll make a motion to approve this item. It's been properly moved and second on the question. All those in favor of the motion sign of I. I.

Nays have the same right. Extensions hear ns. Eyes have it. Motion carried unanimously. Well, for all those is here. All right, let's go on to number nine. Uh, business items 9A. Adopt a resolution to approve a density bonus and inclusionary housing agreement with KB Bakewell Seaside Ventures 2 LLC and Greater Victory Temple Church of God in Christ to designate 21 new units at affordable to very lowincome households at 1620 Broadway Avenue. Uh Mr. City Manager.

Yeah, thank you Mayor. This item will be presented by Andrew Mrick, our housing and planning manager.

Thank you, mayor, city manager, city council. So, this item, as you said, this is a uh density bonus and inclusionary housing agreement for 1620 Broadway Avenue. Um, just a little bit of background. So, the council originally approved the campus town specific plan back in March of 2020. And as part of that approval, KB Bakewell Seaside Venture and the city entered into an affordable housing agreement to provide a percentage of those units as affordable housing. And that affordable housing is a is a mixture of both on-site and off-site affordable housing. In 2024, that amendment was that agreement was amended. And in that amendment, it specified the locations of the off-site affordable housing and that included 21 very lowincome rental units at the site of Greater Victory Temple at 1620 Broadway. And so KB Bakewell Seaside Venture 2 is responsible for constructing the units. Um, and they will be managed in the future by uh Vic Victory Temple as the property owner. So the property is located at 1620 Broadway Avenue. This is an aerial photograph of it at the corner of Broadway in Yeusede. It's owned and occupied by Greater Victory Temple Church of God in Christ. It has 109 parking spaces and two parking lots. Um, does this thing have a laser? Ah, there it is. Right here. There's an upper parking lot that's partially on the site and then the lower parking lot down here. There's a significant grade differential right here between this parking lot with this being lower uphill being to the east. It is surrounded by a multif family dwelling units with via Delonte and Delonte Manor. So, the project consists of a three-story apartment building with 21 very lowincome units included. Uh just

as a little bit of background, uh this was the the property was originally zoned for lowdensity residential. However, the city council approved a reszone to highdensity residential back in June of 2023. Um a design review was approved by the planning commission in January of 2024. Building permits have been submitted. They've been reviewed by staff and comments were provided. the applicant is preparing uh final comments, final responses to that. So, we anticipate that to be any resubmitted any day now. So, this action um will represent the last discretionary or uh council or planning commission action. After this, it will just be a matter of staff um signing off on the building permits. So just to walk through the project as a little bit of background, this is the site of the existing church. This is that lower parking lot I pointed to earlier. And so the building will be located on the southern portion of that parking lot. Some parking stalls will be lost. However, um this row will remain and the uh circulation will be modified to allow for traffic to come through like this. It will be a three-story building. Each story will consist of three one-bedroom units here, here, and here. Two studios right here, and two two-bedroom units right here. So, there'll be a total of nine one-bedrooms, six twobedrooms, six studios. This is what it will look like on the elevation drawings. It'll have a tile roof with Stuckco finish. Um, you can see multiple uh colors right there with uh differences for the uh body accent and trim. This is a architectural rendering of the building as it would look from Yusede. And this is what it would look like as you're coming down from Broadway. So

you'd have the church right there and that's what the building would look like in relief. So, the inclusionary housing agreement, it designates all 21 units as being affordable to very low-income households. What that means is that it's affordable to households that make 50% or less of the area median income. Um, with affordable being defined as the rent's not going to exceed 30% of the household income. And you know, there's a whole table that kind of goes through all this, but just as an example, if you had two people in one of the one-bedrooms, then the rents and utilities would not be allowed to exceed $1,446 per month for that one-bedroom unit. And their income would have to be 57,850 or below. So these on the tier of lowincome units there's extremely low, very low, low, median, and workforce. So this is on the uh this is really targeted towards some of the uh less uh um affluent members of the community. This is below low income units would have to remain affordable for a period of 55 years. Greater Victory Temple will own and manage the units. The inclusionary housing agreement also includes uh some provisions related to California's density bonus law. So California's density bonus law provides that projects that meet certain thresholds for lowincome units or very low-income units um are eligible to receive incentives or concessions for the construction of that housing. And the city is required to approve these unless it can make certain findings that the project will have detrimental impacts or etc. Along those lines, this project includes a waiver of open space requirements. The balconies are a little smaller than is typical and there is no common open space. It reduces the

setback on the south property line from 20 ft to 17 ft. The floor area ratio which is basically the square footage of the buildings divided by the property size uh is uh increased from 0.45 to 0.47 which is very minor. And then there was a modification of physical noticing requirements at the time this was done. Um there was no legal way to not do the staking and flagging. However, that would involve the construction of a, you know, 30 plus uh foot scaffolding in a parking lot that was being used by people. And so that was where those architectural renderings came in. There was actually a whole set of them done as well as a sign that was placed on the property to let people know as well. Incidentally, the what was done at this site has since been adopted into the code as an option for any project that is over 25 ft tall. So, we've seen that be used in a couple of other projects, most recently the uh building that Toyota was proposing. So, the recommendation is that the council adopt the resolution to approve the density bonus and inclusionary housing agreement um with KBUL Seaside Venture 2 LLC and Greater Victory Temple Church of God in Christ to designate 21 new units as affordable to very low-income households at 1620 Broadway Avenue. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.

Uh thank you. Any questions? Uh Council Member Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh thank you. In regards to the amount uh of the rent, uh that's below or low income. Is that something the city manages or we get reports on that or how do we enforce that?

So the thresholds are established through the state through HUD. So HUD will generate numbers and actually those numbers are just a little bit low because HUD just released new numbers and I just got the new information today but I have not done the math. Um but there's essentially formulas um they take the area med they're based on the area median income with adjustments for cost of living. So those numbers are approximate there but those equations are essentially handed to us by the state. Uh there are there is monitoring the uh the property owner has to submit annual reports and there's notifications that come up to the city on a periodic basis and that's all included in the text of the agreement

and then okay so it sounds like the state is more of a monitors this more than we do. We monitor it. They set the thresholds. They set and so we have the staff to monitor this. Yeah. And so um and then you it takes it's going to take I mean that's a I remember I remember going up there it's a pretty big parking lot. It's going to take some parking away that they don't need or correct with the first of all with the um there are state laws that prohibit us from requiring replacement parking for a project like this. Um but even without that there should be sufficient parking for the units and the parishioners

because you you in your report you said that there's a higher level parking area that won't be impacted here, right? I seriously doubt it because the residents are likely to park on the bottom part. There is a pathway that runs from the top parking lot down to the units. So residents could park at the top parking lot. It's really just going to be managed by the property owner. I see. I think that was all my questions. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Anyone else? Oh, let's take it out to a public comment.

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Hello everyone. Uh just wanted to one thank uh the city and uh Andy and and everyone on the staff from the city manager, the city attorney, and everyone to make this happen. Um we're excited. We hope to see uh all of the city council as well as all of the community out for the groundbreaking on May 16th. It coincides with the church's uh anniversary. So that's part of the reason why we have scheduled this for May 16th because it's part of a larger celebration and anniversary of uh Greater Victory Temple. So we're really excited and uh look forward to seeing everybody out there. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Hi, Linda Cunningham here as a private citizen, not from representing the homeless commission. And I'm a huge fan of this project. I mean, there's 21 families whose lives will be changed because they're going to be able to get this housing, and it's going to it looks beautiful. It's a beautiful building. I'm very grateful for um KB Bakewell for for finding this great solution. It may be an example for other uh churches in our community that might have extra pieces of land that that maybe this would be something they want to do. And this is a great way to lead. And once again, Cesai leading the way and showing how this type of cooperation can lead to a good resol good solution and and I just hope that this passes. Thank you.

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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh public comments closed. Bringing it back to the DAS. What is the will of the council? Motion to approve. Second.

It's been properly moved and second. Um on the question, any comments or any uh comments? Okay. I got a few uh quick comments. Uh this is pretty straightforward. We've been waiting for this I think I think and the stat report said this be started in 2020 and and the vision was way before the end when uh we started with campus town uh but it's a long time coming uh hopefully you know it it is uh residents uh of seaside that will benefit from uh these 21 units and I thought it was a good comment as it relates to uh there is opportunity for for other churches to um um um that wish to use some of their excess property. Um uh the state is encouraging uh religious uh institutions and churches to to do similar type of things when possible. Um but we want to appreciate uh great victory uh temple of God in Christ for being open to this. Uh otherwise there's very few other places that could take such a large u um facility as this. And uh that's what we're hurting for now is adequate housing for uh young families, growing families uh and individuals. Uh thank you so much. So uh on the question, all those in favor use the regular sign of voting which is I

may have the same right abstensions eyes have it. Motion carries. Let's go on to item number uh B. Adopt a resolution approving a recommendation from region Monterey to initiate a competitive request for proposal process for solid waste recycling and organic collection services allowing Green Waste Recovery Inc. and other service providers to compete for the franchise. Mr. City Manager. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. to introduce tonight's presenters, Kirsten Van Gin, administrative analyst, too.

Good evening, honorable mayor, council members, staff, and the public. This evening, we are bringing forward the 2030 franchise planning process as we come to the end of our current 15-year agreement with Greenway in 2030. I represent Seaside on the region technical advisory committee's franchise planning subcommittee. Uh this subcommittee is comprised of the seven region member agencies currently serviced by greenwaste. Uh and with consultants HF&H we have been evaluating the best path forward. While green waist has provided strong service to our communities. Uh the subgroup's recommendation to region is to move forward with the competitive RFP process. Um, and we are strongly influenced by the desire to promote good governance, transparency, as well as ensure the best value and rates to our community through a competitive process. Here this evening to pres present further information is uh Sarah Prell from HF&H Consultants. I'd also like to thank Regen staff who have helped coordinate all of these efforts and acknowledge Kristen O'Hara who's here this evening from Regen to answer any questions. I will also be able to answer any questions after the presentation. Thank you, Sarah.

Good evening everyone. My name is Sarah Prell and I'm with HF&H Consultants. Um I'm here today to um give you a report out on our stakeholder engagement process and results as well as um the technical advisory committee subgroup's recommendation to um initiate a competitive RFP process. Oh, there we go. Um, all right. So, I'm going to go over the engagement results for these four sectors, residential, multifamily, commercial, and industry. We'll talk about the key considerations that the subgroup deliberated on um pretty extensively over the last several months. Um, we'll look at some infrastructure and readiness um with the regen Monteray facility. um talk about timelines and next steps and then ultimately um what the final recommendation is. Uh so we started with um the engagement process phase one was to conduct a residential survey a statistically valid survey which was um implemented by Pbolski research. There was 450 survey respondents um for that survey which um went across all seven of the participating member agencies. Um that survey was pretty extensive. I'm only going to give you a couple of tidbits that are um relevant to this discussion. Um but there is um you have access to that survey um if you'd like to see all of the questions. Um the first uh question that we really um thought was important to share with you is um we asked the community what their level of satisfaction was with their service um with their current service provider. And what we heard was 93% um of the community did say that they were satisfied with the service that they were receiving from green waste recovery. Uh we typically do see high satisfaction with garbage uh collectors. Um oftent times that is um really um a sign that their frontline workers are doing a great job. They're providing

that quality of service to the community um regularly and so they're not having a lot of service issues. And we saw that when waste management had done a similar survey um asking satisfaction when they were the service provider about 15 years ago and that was a similar response is that they had high levels of satisfaction. Um those frontline workers tend to transition with any new service providers and so many of the uh employees that were serving your community with waste management are still serving your community uh with green waste as well. and we would anticipate with an RFP process um that they would continue to service uh your community. Uh the next question was we also asked um how do folks feel about uh their quarterly bill? Is it too high? Is it just about right? Um and what we found was about 47% of um residents were saying that their bill's just about right, but 29% were saying that it's too high. and affordability um was a theme that we saw throughout our engagement process. So, we'll talk a little bit more about that as I go through the rest of the results. Um but that's something that we're seeing regionally and nationally that um people are are rate sensitive and and affordability is is a priority. Um we also tried to understand the values of the community. So, we asked some questions about what was their priority in terms of affordability, uh, convenience, service, quality, and environmental impact. Um, and again, affordability um ranked number one in terms of, uh, what those priority orders were. Uh, we also held some, um, public community meetings um, in a little bit more of an open form for folks to be able to come out and, uh, share their concerns or provide feedback. We held three virtual meetings um at various times of the day as well as different

days of the week. Um and we also offered that um in Spanish. Uh we had 17 community participants come out to those meetings and provide us quality feedback. Um and what we heard was that there was still uh general high satisfaction with green waste as a service provider. um but that they felt like they needed some additional education and outreach particularly around some of the extra programs that are offered that they maybe aren't aware of or don't know how to use. Um and then also they were looking for some higher quality of customer service um particularly in response times and quality of service as well as some additional features on the app. Uh we also engaged with multifamily property managers. Um, so we made 46 attempts to reach out to property managers across the seven participating member agencies and were able to complete seven interviews uh with property managers that managed properties across the peninsula. Um, and those properties ranged from uh 8 to 106 units. Um, and what we heard from them is that again they had um general high levels of satisfaction with green waste recovery. Um, but we did hear that they are sensitive to rate impacts. um in in cost increases particularly because if they are significant they can't transfer those to their tenants. Um and so that was a concern. Um they also voiced that they really need some uh level high levels of consistent reliable service. Um if they have miscolctions that can back up and be uh pretty significant to a multif family property. Um and then we also heard um improved customer service, some additional education to um not just the property managers but tenants um and some support with illegal dumping. Um there's a couple of the communities that are experiencing higher levels of illegal dumping um across the participating member agencies.

Um we also conducted some targeted outreach to the commercial businesses. Um we made attempts to reach 34 businesses and were able to complete 15 interviews. Um and with this we heard a little bit more mixed uh satisfaction with green waste. Um some of the commercial businesses were experiencing some very specific service challenges. Um and so um they also voiced that they have some uh sensitivity to rate increases. Um again they can't just change their uh you know what they charge folks um if we increase their rates. And so that was something that they wanted us to prioritize. Um also uh responded to reliable consistent service particularly in the restaurant industry. Um there was some uh some feedback about cardboard collection. Um some of the agencies experience um that a little bit more than others um in their downtown area. Um and then also um finding some solutions for some challenges with difficult to access locations. Um and we've heard this across the um all sectors, increased education and outreach um for regulatory compliance. Um as part of the stakeholder engagement process, we also reached out to industry folks um to understand uh if this service area was um there was an interest in this market. um was was there any collection providers that would want to bid on this propos this RFP? Um and we had five service providers come out to the subcommittee and present and all five of those expressed um interest in a future partnership with uh these peninsula uh the seven member agencies. We also heard from others that were outside of these five um service providers that voice interest in um participating in an RFP process. Um, all of those noted that because Regen Monterey has a turnkey facility, they um own the it's a public

collection yard. So, it removes that barrier of having a collection uh service provider come in and have to um procure a facility and so um having that option really makes it a competitive market. Um we of course also asked Greenways to come present to the subcommittee um as well and they voiced enthusiasm to continue being the service provider for the seven peninsula member agencies and uh were open to a sole source negotiation. Um however during that presentation they did provide an estimate of um a potential rate increase which was significantly higher than the CPI type of an increase. Um and so that was something that the subcommittee um deliberated on as well. Um and then also um we asked in that presentation if there was a risk for an acquisition or sale. Um recent in the last couple of years green waste went through an acquisition and um new ownership came in and at that time they had voice that they typically hold their asset for about 7 to 10 years. Um we're getting close uh to that time when this agreement will be up. Um and so we were just asking if that was a risk and that issue was left pending. Uh so let's talk a little bit about what those key considerations are um that the subgroup really um spent some time uh talking about and thinking through. Um I think the highest priority for this subcommittee was good governance and they really want to make sure that they have a transparent and defensible process for selecting a service provider. Um, you know, when you go through a competitive RF RFP process, you typically can say to the public that we um shopped around, we got the best value from a uh from a service provider that we could find. Uh, versus a soul source negotiation where you're um really only able to say that you got the best deal from that particular company.

Um, the second um priority for the subgroup was um affordability. We heard that through the stakeholder engagement process from every sector um that folks are cost-sensitive. And so um when Greenw presented a um much higher than CPI type of an increase, that was something that the subcommittee really felt was it was important for us to get competitive pricing um and go out to a competitive RFP process. We did hear that there was um high levels of satisfaction with green waste and so the subcommittee um is really interested in green waste proposing on this RFP. Um you know again we contribute that uh a lot to the frontline workers. And so, um, with this, we would make sure that there's labor protection, um, provisions in any of those agreements to ensure that any of those frontline workers that are providing that quality service that we're seeing and hearing from the public, um, that they can continue to um, serve your community. Um and then finally, this was a lesser of a a consideration, but still a consideration was if um there was risk for um an acquisition or sale, would a new ownership have the same labor relation uh values? Would they have uh local decision-making or would it be more of a bureaucratic process? And so just kind of thinking through um how a sale or acquisition might impact the community. Um and then again, region Monteray, they developed a facility um that's publicly owned for the collection provider to use that's serving the participating member agencies. And when they developed that, it was really so that they could um have a competitive um opportunity for any service provider to be able to come in and provide that quality of service um without having to find land or a facility that they could operate out of.

And so this um really makes it a turnkey infrastructure where they have the collection yard, landfill, recyclable material facility and organics processing all on the same uh property. Um so in regards to timeline in the immediate we are going to each of the participating member agencies elected bodies and um presenting our stakeholder engagement results as well as the recommendation. Um assuming um that the recommendation would be approved, we would um immediately go into an RFP development and release that to qualified service providers in late 2026. Um in 2027, we would be um reviewing those proposals, conducting interviews and evaluations, and then working with each of the um individual member agencies to tailor uh their agreement to any of the nuances that impact their community specifically. Um and then in early 2028, we would be coming back to um councils and boards to um present that agreement and um that recommendation for a service provider um to you all. And then that gives 2028 to 2030 for any service provider to transition uh procure vehicles, any other infrastructure that they may need um as well as um outreach to the community. Um if Green Waist was selected as the future service provider that timeline could uh would slightly be adjusted. Um so uh back to the recommendation the subcommittee is um recommending that um the that you initiate a competitive RFP process um for solid waste recycling and organics collection service. Um so with that I'll close my remarks and open it up for questions. Thank you so much for well done report presentation. Uh council member.

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Um did your agency or did your uh where you work did you guys do the last agreement? Yes. And you guys cont negotiated the contract between the city and the the green waste. Correct. The franchise it's called the franchise agreement. Franchise Yeah. The franchise agreement. Franchise agreement. because when I go through that agreement multiple times, the agreement lists exhibit B7 and then you go down to the exhibits, there's no exhibit B7 and there's a lot of inconsistencies in that contract. So, is this time we're going to have a more complete contract?

Um, yes. So, typically what we would do is we would provide um the agency a service profile and the agency would uh fill that out and we would incorporate that into the agreement. And so that would be um part of the design intake process would be meeting with each of the member agencies and understanding what are the services that they need including any um items in B7 which would be for the you know city facilities or uh events or programs

and that's included I mean I didn't in the slides anywhere that's included in in who we're selecting is the benefit to our community example neighborhood cleanup days dumpsters that are provided to residents at no cost those kind of things Is that is that something that's negotiated through you guys? Um so typically uh through that design intake process that would be identified and placed into an agreement um and then we would negotiate with any potential um service providers and bring that back. I see. Because I just think that that that when you list exhibits and then you go down to the exhibits and try to find the exhibits and it's not there. I I think that is extremely sloppy. And so those are my comments. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. Anyone else from May?

Just a couple. Um the 93% approval rates is very high. So one of your your thoughts is because of the potential cost increases uh something that needs to be looked like to to keep the prices as low as possible. Is that a probability or true statement? Um 93% is a typical rating that we see for uh quality of service for garbage companies. Usually they range between like 90 and 96ish. Um and so um you know a lot of folks do um are supportive of their uh collector that comes to their house every every week. And so we typically do see high levels of satisfaction. Um the subgroup was really um committed to having a transparent process and because we saw um that rate sensitivity was uh something that was a priority to the community um going through a competitive process allows you to have that competitive pricing um you know process that that would be offered.

Okay. And then the cost to run this to go out to bid and all that is that pretty pretty low is it's not going to cost $500,000 or whatever amount to do what you got to do to to bring something forward is that

um correct and this is a collective effort between all seven of the member agencies. So so there is that cost benefit to doing that together with the seven member agencies. And then um I guess kind of piggybacking off um Councilman Miller's comment, those items that the city has special perks basic like the mayor's use, but that would be in that should be incorporated in the next contract at least as a recommendation or suggestion.

Correct. Yeah. So any of those items um they would come back through that member agency uh service profile and then we would incorporate all of those um into that agreement. Okay. Thank you. Uh anyone else we go out to the public uh 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Good evening. Uh I am Akeniito and I understand their greenways contract is up for bid and I'm a very satisfied with the service they provide and would like the city of Seaside to retain rea regist as my hauler. As a seaside resident and a member of the local church that hosts one large community event each year, I have relied on great race advice and assistance in both regular service and special event needs. Uh these are some of my reasons for this request. Additional services for my personal residents is that bulky items are picked up and that's a real necessary item for me. I'm single and I don't have any way to discharge large items. Uh picking up and delivery of my green green collection containers and replace keeps my drains from having getting clogged up and I appreciate that service. For customer service, green waste has been excellent. I have talked to the staff many many times to help me figure out how to do all my trash sorting so that I am compliant with all their rules so that I don't get a letter saying that I have wrong garbage in the wrong containers. And for the church events, it's been they've been very very helpful physically coming out to help us figure out how to manage large

community events and keeping our trash as clean and recyclable as possible. So, I hope you take into consideration their real personal commitment to our community and individual people just calling their office and asking for advice. They even come out personally which has been very helpful. So thank you very much for your attention and I hope you consider green waste as our next and continued hauler.

Good evening Mayorby and council members. My name is Tim Morris. I'm the district manager for waste management or WM. Uh I said this last night in Pacific Grove. uh going to these events, I didn't realize the breadth of subjects and issues that you all have to deal with. So, I will say I definitely give more respect for everything you have to deal with. So, why I'm here today is uh we are based in Monterey County down in Castraville. To answer your question, in our con other agreements, we have specific things on how much we provide uh bulky events, uh drop off events. So, everything is laid out. So, it's very specific. I think pretty much every waist holder does the same thing. I'm here to speak tonight in support of the resolution to proceed proceed with the competitive RFP process for Seaside. Although time does not allow me to fully explain the benefits of partnering with WM, I respectfully ask for you all to support the recommendation of the technical advisory committee to initiate the RFP process, a transparent and structured approach that will provide our team with the opportunity to demonstrate how WM can deliver reliable service and give other waste haulers opportunity as well. Um, we could we could uh show you how we can deliver reliable service, long-term value, and positive impacts to your community. In Monterey County, uh, Waste Management is already handling all the unincorporated uh, customers of the county. Uh, we handle the city of King City. We handle the, uh, state parks. We handle many of the school districts in the in the cities. So, we're well positioned to service your community. For nearly 30 years, WM service the Peninsula cities. Um, and in 2014, the jurisdictions used the competitive process to select the current provider. This history shows that the jurisdictions understand the

value of testing the market and is not scared of it. A competitive RFP does not replace workers or disrupt service. It modernizes service offerings, tailor solutions to each community's needs, and strengthens accountability while ensuring value. Our WM team consists of frontline and behind the scenes employees who live and work in and around these areas every day. Today, many of these WM employees service uh seaside already in the past. Um I moved here for to the peninsula cities for WM. I don't plan on leaving. I'm from the Midwest, so I will take this weather every day. I plan on retiring here. I understand that there are unique challenges and opportunities facing each jurisdiction and will welcome the chance to hear your concerns and work collaboratively on solutions to address them. The WM team and I appreciate your thoughtful work as that has gone into this process and respectfully encourage the council to support moving forward with a competitive bid process. Thank you for your time tonight. Perfect.

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Good evening, mayor and members of the city council. My name is Manuel Goa. I am the vice president of municipal franchises for Greenwaist. Since 2015, Greenwaist has been proudly serving the seven region mon member agencies, including the city of Seaside. I would like to reiterate Green Waist long-term and unwavering commitment both to the city of Seaside and our customers throughout the peninsula. Greenwaist acknowledges and fully respects the city's current desire and exploration to pursue this RFP. Even though our existing franchise agreements with the peninsula cities allow for up to 9 years until expiration, as an alternative to the RFP, Green Waist is respectfully requesting the city to consider temporarily pausing the currently proposed RFP process and ensure your continuence of high service quality and stabilized rates for the allowable term of our agreement. Green Waste continues to provide the most affordable rates in the region. This is evidenced by comparing customer rates in the 15 franchise areas across San Bonito and Monterey counties. The three lowest residential rates and three lowest commercial rates in the region are held by regen member agencies serviced by Greenwaist. The average monthly residential rates for regen agencies serviced by Greenwaist is $8.89 less than the average rate of our regional competitors. The average commercial bundled rates for region agencies serviced by Greenwaist is $77.12 less than the average rates of our regional competitors. By exercising this existing extension opportunity within our current contract, Seaside and the other Peninsula cities can ensure that monthly service rates do not increase year-over-year beyond the multi-index based on CPI adjustment that you are already accustomed to receiving each year. We understand maintaining highly competitive rates for your constituents is paramount. Again, we fully respect the time and the analysis that went into making today's staff recommendation.

However, by extending the current agreement with Green Waste to 2035, you are guaranteed that each community's needs continue to be fulfilled in the most cost-effective manner and safeguarded by the terms of our existing franchise agreement. Thank you so much for your time. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Uh my name is Emily Hansen, and 12, 13 years ago, I sat here uh representing green waste recovery when we stood before you hoping to um take the business away from waste management. And today, I stand here representing Republic Services, who's the current service provider in the city of Selenus, which is our closest operation. Um I worked with Greenwaist for almost 14 years. Left there in 2021. Uh did a couple of years at HF&H Consultants actually and am now proudly representing Republic Services. Really looking forward to the opportunity to be able to propose on the peninsula cities. I think Mayor Ogulby you are very well aware having participated in regen for so many years um the importance of regen's leadership in developing the infrastructure in this area. what you guys have done um in supporting of regen and building that facility and building all of the the um the having the landfill, the material recovery facility, the organics processing, etc. is really position yourselves well for this particular bid in this particular time because really what you're doing when you go out to RFP for this particular service in um the city of Seaside is cost competition just around collection. So everything else is level set. So all of the proposers that HF&H listed that are interested in proposing on business here, you're really going to be comparing collection to collection. Um there's no other bundled service. There's no infrastructure development charges. You're going to be looking at

um all the materials are already flow controlled to regen. So really cost comparisons to areas outside of the region areas aren't fair comparisons because they haven't been level set in the way that the region um public agency leadership has positioned you guys. So um I won't take up any more of your time. Really excited to be able to propose on this. We support the region uh technical advisory committee recommendation and um hope to be standing here in probably hopefully less than a year um being able to pro give you guys an overview of the services and the costs that we would be providing for services in this area. So thank you very much.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor. uh council members and members of the public. Uh my name is Chris Nohara. I'm the communications manager at Regen Monteray and I just wanted to explain Regen's role here in this process for franchise planning. We are facilitating and coordinating the members from all of the peninsula cities to come together um on a recommendation to each of their councils. Regen has no say in this matter. we are just kind of getting everyone in the same room to talk about the best uh possible outcome with the support of HFN our consultant who's really the expert here. So um you may remember me coming here last year to suggest uh the benefits of working together amongst all the other peninsula cities. There's a lot of cost sharing benefits to coming together and hire a consultant like HF Nich to do the analysis for everyone and then sharing those costs um process that normally is like half a million dollars when it's split amongst all of you it's it's a lot less. So um thank you for that. I want to thank you for approving um that process that we put into play over a year ago. Um, I just want to thank our partners, HF&H, for their expertise, their vast knowledge of the solid waste industry. Uh, we really couldn't do it without Sarah and her team. So, thank you. And I want to thank the haulers in the room, too. I see Republic, Greenweist, Waste Management. Um, you guys are amazing haulers, each of you. I've had the pleasure of working with every one of you. Um, so I just I think you're in good hands. No matter what holler you end up with, we work with everyone and it's amazing to see their dedication to the industry and compliance with regulations. Um, and I just want to also express my

appreciation for the tax subcommittee uh staff like Kristen Van um she has done amazing work uh with public works director Thomas Corman and also um all the other staff from the member agencies. we couldn't do it without their support. And um yeah, we don't make decisions, we make recommendations. So um I just also want to thank our u our board member Alexis Garcia Arzola. Thank you so much for representing region. Um your support has been wonderful. Um so if you have any questions, I'm here representing region and I just thank you for your time today.

Thank you so 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Thank you. Bring it back. Public com is closed. Bring it back to the D. What is the will of the council? I just had a couple more questions. We're going to keep up. We're just going to make a motion to approve the um recommendation. It's been probably moved. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Probably moved a second on the question. Uh Council Member Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Can our staff member?

Thank you. Uh some of the public comment was about possible extension in the current. Has any jurisdiction signaled that they want to opt for that or? Um, so far this has been brought to Pebble Beach and Delray Oaks and Pacific Grove and Carmel and they've all uh moved to approve moving forward with the RFP with the RFP and um the there was um so in in the contract each jurisdiction can on their own decide which holler they want to use. I mean, I'm saying we're like working as a group, but we're not really a group between the different cities, right?

Correct. So, we'll go through the RFP pro if we if the council approves, then we would move through the RFP process. Um, and once we have those proposals, um, we can City of Seaside is able to choose their own hauler if they would like or go with whatever one else is deciding to go with. But every jurisdiction, there's nine, correct, that are there are seven member agencies that have green waste. Seven of agencies. All seven of those can go can choose whoever. We're not bound by any. Exactly. Yes. Okay. Those are all my questions. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just one more time.

And just and this is real simple. We do this joint thing to minimize cost. So logically, if we went outside um the recommendation of the body, cost would potentially based on the norm of life would go up. Is that a fair statement? That's correct. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Uh thank you. Any other questions? One more question there. Um everybody has to have is it 15 years is the minimum or

uh the current franchise agreement is 15 years. Uh when we design the RFP process, we would set I believe 10 to 15 years depending on what we decide. I mean theoretically there's no like minimum, right? the city can decide however many years, I believe. So, yeah, there's there's benefits to having it be 10 to 15 years. If you set it at a shorter time period, then you're having to potentially go through this process right away and be and we'd be on our own for the full cost of trying to do this. Yes, exactly. Thank you for answering.

Uh, thank you. Anyone else? You got any one more question? Sure. Um, I think we have a vote. This is We have a board member, I'm sorry. We have a board member representing the seaside, city of seaside on this and they're part of the process as such and and who and our board member has equal opportunity to make recommendations with the other representatives. Is that a fair statement? Uh, correct. So, uh, on the region board there is a representative, um, council member Alexar Garcia, and then I'm a staff representative for the technical advisory committee. Right. Thank you. Yes.

Anyone else?

Okay. Uh, thank you. That that'll be it. Uh, I just have a a quick comment. You know, it always makes sense to to refigure uh uh to see where you're at. uh provide transparency particularly in the day of you know people are um struggling with affordability and I know this won't take place for a couple more years but if you don't start now uh then you're way behind. So, I want to appreciate um uh council member uh Alexis Garcia's uh work at the regime for moving this forward and making sure the community has a transparent process and the ability to ensure that uh they're paying the lowest rates possible. Uh on the question all those in favor use the regular sign of voting which is I

I nays have the same right abstensions hearing n eyes have it motion carried item number C adopt a resolution approving an amendment to the 2025 on call landscape and architecture and site design contract with BFS landscape architects to increase the task order limit from 75,000 to 300 and $300,000 even for design services related to Lagruna Grande trail impact project and appropriating $250,000 from the general fund to Laguna Grande recreational trail program project. Mr. City Manager.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. I will be presenting this item regarding uh the task order increase with BFS landscape architects. Um the purpose of this project to the city of Seaside has been awarded uh a little over 1.6 million in the recreational trails program grant funding from the California Department of Parks and Recreation uh to do a project that will renovate and expand approximately 1.5 miles of multi-use trails at Laguna Grande Park. Uh this project will include benches, signage, drinking fountains, trash, and recycling receptacles and shade structures. Uh existing BFS landscape architecture contract is at $75,000 for a task order limit. Uh this was an on call contract that was approved with a task order limit of $75,000, which is not sufficient for the full scope of design on this project. The proposed amendment consideration by the city council would increase that to 300,000. Uh, and this action would support timely delivery of the grant performance period, which I'll talk about here in just a second. A little bit about the project funding sum summary. This project is primarily grant funded with a required local match um for an estimated total project of uh 1.842 million uh with an estimated city match of a little over $200,000. The reimbursement share is up to 88%. So the local match on this project, if approved, will be uh approximately 12%. The grant performance period is from November 5th, 2025 when we executed the grant agreement through May 31st of 2027. There's a little leeway in that and I'll reference that here in just a second. A little bit of background about the project. This builds on the work that's being done by the Laguna Grande Joint Powers Authority. So, want to appreciate those entities that are a part of that. the city of Monterey, the parks district, and and then our own Dan Miwis, who's been assistant city manager Dan Miwis, has been an active um proponent of the of the of the JPA and pushing um some of this work that's been done in the past to get us to this point. In 2020, they initiated a maintenance strategy to assess the trail

conditions and vegetation, uh encampment impacts, and long-term park needs. In 2021, that community outreach included online engagement. I'll talk about that here in just a second. In 2022, the JPA completed a master plan maintenance strategy which included upgrading these trails. Uh on the seaside uh side, the city council authorized in 2023 the submission of the application and uh we were awarded that in 25 and now we're proceeding to advance the project design. Brief look at existing trail conditions on this project. Um again, this is a project to improve safety, access, and long-term maintenance ability uh of of Laguna Grande Park. uh trail surfaces deteriorated. Uh uneven asphalt uh impacted by root damage from trees impacting the the usability of the trails, vegetation overgrowth along portion of the trails, ongoing inspection and response to encampment related impacts. And then of course the need for improved amenities throughout the park to improve the user experience. You can see some photos of existing conditions on the trail system uh at Laguna Grande. Uh this trail map, the existing trail conditions map is from uh the the JPA maintenance uh strategy uh which shows a a mix of of some trail segments that are in good condition uh but quite a few trail segments on on the park that are are in fair condition if not to poor and will be need to be replaced within the next two years. Uh I mentioned community outreach earlier. Uh project info materials for this were were were put on have your say monteray.org work and and broadcast uh through the city of Seaside's local channels as well to get additional input. Uh community members were available to review the plans, comment and follow the progress uh included virtual town halls uh July 28, 2021 and then community sitewalk uh a couple months or a month later uh which developed the public input uh that led to the draft maintenance plans and

ultimately uh city of Seaside proceeding with a grant application. The proposed trail improvements, again, uh 1.5 miles of multi-use trails, uh benches and seating, interpretive signage, drinking fountains, trash and re recycling receptacles, shade structures, and again several trail connectivity and accessibility improvements. The proposed trail plan here uh is shown. Uh, I believe the orange is asphalt, the uh the uh blue is uh gravel and the green is uh I believe I will have to come back to that. That was there was a this was the old PDF. Dominique, I'm sorry. There was an update on this legend that included what the blue was or the green was. I'll come back to that. project requirements uh for this the RTP grant requires compliance with grant reporting and uh reimbursement procedures, environmental reviews, state and federal procurement uh applicable by America provisions and completion within the grant period performance. Um the funding on this again requires an appropriation from the general fund uh of $250,000 that's included in this action item, but the city staff had already been budgeting for that in the next fiscal year. So instead of budgeting that for next fiscal year, it'll be budgeted. It'll be amended this evening and then rolled forward into the next budget year if approved. Project timeline. Uh again, we talked about how we got here. Um and then if approved this evening, the city will begin design for trail improvements for an anticipated construction of this trail between fall of this year and spring of 27 to meet our grant uh performance period of May 31st, 2027. Uh there is flexibility in that end date as there will be times that this project will have to be put on hold for environmental sensitivities and working with several jurisdictions. Uh on that recommendation this evening is to adopt a resolution approving the amendment to the on call landscape architecture and site design contract with BFS landscape

architects to increase the task order limit to 300,000 for design services related to Laguna Grande Trails Project and appropriate 250,000 from the general fund to the Laguna Grande Recreation Trails Program project. And again, this action is being brought to you to keep this grant on schedule for construction. Be happy to answer any questions. Uh thank you so much. Any questions? Council member Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, and the city of Monterey is part of this uh the JPA, right? Yes. Are they do they have funding for this as well? No, this is a seaside project. Just only And so are all the trails within our jurisdiction, correct? That are being replaced? No. That was all my questions. Thank you. Uh, anyone else?

Uh, mayor. Okay. just uh the 12% that you talked about as far as cities that's in real dollars uh versus staff time or things of that nature. Is that correct? That is correct.

Okay. And then the area by Canyon Del Re where all the trees line up. It seems that trees help uproot the um the pavement and the sidewalk, whatever it be. Is that being considered? because it would, you know, personally if we put new payment, which that area is a liability waiting to happen, are we going to have the same problem with the the roots of the trees impacting the future payment?

Uh, yeah, we we are looking into that. I know our staff has had a meeting uh as Thomas Corman, our horse director, come up. They've had discussions on vegetation management uh in this park. Uh yes, that's correct. So along the trail where the roots are uplifting any of the trail, we'll be looking at types of measures to implement whether it be root barriers or elevating the trail to get over those roots so we minimize those future trip hazards.

Right. Okay. And then I you said it very well, but for my it's basically from the Holiday and Express to the church round area of that park. Right. That's our focus, not any one on the opposite side of the lake. Is that a fair statement? Correct. This would be only on the seaside. Brian and and we are just because I'm part of the JAPI. Hey, we are obligated to use those funds for the area as designated as that affair and only that. Correct.

Okay, good. Thank you. And I just wanted to clarify that because others have other visions. Thank you. Anyone else? Had a a couple uh does this cover the I guess I'm calling them peers and a little outlooks. Uh I believe so. Wouldn't that be something we can work through in design? This will this include getting it to those and then there might be some transition areas we'll have to work through and design and we'll we'll see that the council will be able to see that. Correct. Okay. And then I know it's two two bridges over there too. Correct. We anticipate bringing this back to council at likely 30% design for for comment.

Okay, that makes sense. Uh and then um the facilities. I thought you said what what did you mean when you said facilities? as far as well I got the trail improvements but you said facilities I don't know if there's another building or something you're talking about facilities meaning uh trail facilities such as benches and seating um drinking fountains trash receptacles and some potential shade structures again all of those will be looked at and designed in the next process

okay and and then I would just ask are we also looking at the uh the grass area somehow le leveling that out you know not making it uh uh uh extremely level like a table, but it's it's it's some potholes in the in that uh in that area over there. Yeah, I don't think that'll be included in this design of this project. However, it would be an ideal time for our staff to look at uh when this is under construction to make adjacent improvements as necessary. Okay, thank you so much. Uh 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, city attorney, city manager. Um, I urge the council to uh go with this recommendation cuz this has been many years in uh dire need of improvements. So, thank you, Mayor Prom, for being part of that committee, the JPA thing. So, I urge you to approve this. Thank you. Linda Cunningham, member of the homeless commission, but here speaking as a private citizen. I'm a big fan of this, too. That I I've had a couple falls that that that path is a hazard. I'm very grateful that it's going to be done and it's going to be done really quick because there's a time limit a year from now. It's going to be done. It's beautiful if you vote for it. Um I thought there was a plan to put some artificial turf over there so the geese aren't eating and pooping eating poop and they're just essentially cows with wings. Uh I didn't know that but I called and talked to somebody. So I wondered how that fits in. Does it all go at the same time? Is there different schedules? Did that just is that just not happening? To the point of there's some bottles. It's dangerous in the grass. Uh for the water fountains, drinking fountains, I I love it when you see the little dish for the dogs at the bottom. I think it's just an option. They have them. I've seen them lots of places. They've been around for a long time. Um and then of course, I'm a big fan of every park bench having a solar charging station. If the bench doesn't cost that much more, everybody, we're not going to have less electronics ever.

Ever. So, if it's not accessibly extra, I just a huge fan of wouldn't it be nice to sit out at the blues and charge your phone? I think it'd be great. Thank you very much. I'm very excited about this project. I can't wait to see the beautiful design we're going to get. Thank you. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh, thank you so much. Public comment is closed. Bringing it back to the do. What is the will of the council? Make a motion to approve. Second. So probably move the second on the question. All those in favor use the record side of voting which is I

I nays have the same right abstensions here. None eyes have it. Motion carried. Item number D um 9D strategic plan quarterly quarter three report and FY 202627 priority updates. Mr. City Manager.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor Council. Before I move on, I want to apologize to city clerk Dominique Davis. I think the the screen was correct, but my file on my on my tablet wasn't updated. So, thank you for that. Getting that on the screen. Um it is my pleasure to provide quarter 3 update uh for the strategic plan to highlight uh in brief um the the fantastic work that our departments are doing on a on an everyday basis. Um but the the list is always impressive when you just step back and look at it quarterto quarter based on a strategic plan. So again I I we'll skip through the basics of the strategic plan but pillar one is effective accessible governance. And so a few highlights from quarter three. Um the first three are really um a shout out to our our human resources management team and this is just for one quarter. They completed 99 registrations for critical safety and compliance trainings throughout the city of Seaside. Actively managed 24 new workers compensation and liability claims. So that doesn't include existing claims and and and things that they're working on uh that that go from quarter to quarter. Uh they also managed 10 full-time recruitments that included 241 applicants and 37 interviews. So a huge shout out to to what our HR department does on a on a on a quarterly basis just to keep uh our our team fully staffed and and operating and providing services to the community. Public works engineering staff attended uh public works officers institute uh began implementation of AI tools for internal and external searches and so we're hopeful we can provide some information on that to council very shortly. um began uh our DLAMP kids club and after school staff attended various trainings. We adopted a newou with MPUSD regarding shared facilities. Uh we had our legislative advocacy visit and uh congressional cities conference to NLC trip. Expanded the movies in the park and STEM ROV programs. Delivered the PAL basketball and many athletes programs. Uh significant work from staff goes into those programs uh that our parks and recck department does well. uh held

strategic planning retreat with department heads and began the FY2627 budget process. And so while that is just one item on a screen, I can probably safely say we've had 30 uh 30 to five budget meetings since. So that's significant work for our finance team to start that process and work through uh our annual budget. Moving on to pillar two, the vibrant local economy. This one for me in quarter three really moves the needle with the progress that's been done with Campus Town and onto Main Gate. But completed masquerading at Campus Town Phase 1A. We began the storm and sanitary installation of Campus Town Phase 1A. Advanced phase 1B demo to 80%. Executed a contract for soil sampling services for phase 2. Conducted an inmarket visit with retail strategies. Again, that's the staff's augmentation of the national firm that can assist us with retail recruitment. Uh we held our first uh ever quarterly auto mall stakeholder meeting uh to again build collaboration around one of our largest uh industry sales tax providers. Um executed community partnership agreement with Monterey Bay FC. Secured intermediate construction loan for the Grand Hyatt Hotel and Resort to keep pushing that forward uh that project forward. um continued monthly trainings and reports with Placer AI that continues to provide economic data as well as data for the use of our community uh facilities such as our parks. Um appointed a full board to revitalize the seed jobs commission and then then in the next quarterly update we had our our first steep jobs meeting. So that that that seed jobs is off the ground and meets again this May. Uh completed RFP process, a developer selection and execution of an ENA for main gate. So all again uh significant advancements in economic development for the third quarter. Diverse inclusive community pillar 3 hosted a successful annual surviving the game uh conference. Appreciate all the staff that put in the hard work for that. Coordinated Mexican

consulate outreach event at Ulmire. Assisted 22 qualified households uh in this quarter through the rental assistance program. Facilitated due diligence for the seaside housing collaborative housing proposals that came through and provided staff assistance. We issued community social services grant survey through Survey Sparrow. We accepted and submitted our 2025 housing element annual report and then performed various inspections on city- owned uh affordable housing units that we will we will discuss during the budget process uh to make investments and repairs on. Moving forward to pillar four, which is our physical infrastructure in the community. Again, another impressive list of of of successes in the quarter. Environmental documents completed for a new water well in the golf course. Staff began development of storm water master plan, completed design for the CDBG curb ramp project, and submitted an application for future funding for the CDBG curb ramp program. Began design of the pavement rehabilitation program using street saver. Uh started some work on a 90-in outfall repair. Uh completion of the Canyon Delran landscaping, which was an NIC project. Completed the design of the Broadway complete streets project and proceeded to bid on that. um held community open house uh successful community open house for the Broadway complete streets project repaired 10 lights on San Die uh and as well as landscaping improvements at city hall and then a big one secured 850,000 in federal funding for the San Pablo pedestrian bridge and then uh the next two items we we did a lot of deliberation and staff work on selecting the 2 to 5 a year old playground equipment at Lincoln Cunningham Park and executed installation contract for the 5 to2 which is nearly complete and then of course purch purchased various pieces of equipment including street maintenance uh uh repair equipment. And then finally, pillar number five, completed and released the 2025 fire department annual report. Um provided our 2025 annual crime report. We assisted the fire department assisted the Red Cross

with various uh smoke detector installations and also held a uh department promotion and badge pinning ceremony. We hired our second uh parking compliance specialist and uh hosted a street racing modified vehicle prevention training through CHP which should at least help us in some upcoming community events. Installed signage prohibiting unsafe and aggressive pan handling at key locations to the community and hired our third community resource specialist. Uh the police department presented the AAB 481 military use equipment to the SEESAC commission which ultimately came to the city council. We partnered with the US Marshalss for an arrest of a 2015 homicide suspect, graduated three police officers through the recruits and academy. Began the field training. Our police department was featured on Bloodlines Detectives and CBS 48 hours for their tremendous work in the community. Uh completed installation of crosswalk flashers that was mentioned earlier tonight in public comment actually at Broadway and Calaveris and then facilitated uh a wide range of community events at city facilities. So again, uh thank you for letting me go through that and highlight the work that our our our departments are doing on a quarterly basis and you will see uh shortly after this meeting the the uh quarter 3 update will be uploaded to the city's website with color code that shows in process uh where we are at as we keep moving the needle on those city initiatives. I want to take a minute and transition briefly. Included in your packet was a the FY 2627 priority updates. And so, uh, staff's approach to strategic planning this year is is not a new strategic plan, but a one-year priority update to maintain the minimum we have, align with our budget limitations, and prepare for a full 2027 strategic planning process. Uh, in that document, you will see us carry forward the current priorities of the city council. We have taken an initiative to sharpen those near-term actions in the plan and align those department works with our with our anticipated budget limitations. We uh also are taking a look at improving our accountability and

measurable progress in that document. And again um I think it's it's important to reference that we were preparing for a comprehensive post-election strategic plan and branding process. There is election to city council in November. It is anticipated that staff would gear up for a strategic planning and branding process for this community starting in January of 27. Key themes include in that document again taking it from m momentum to execution, implementation over planning, fiscal resilience and funding discipline. Um continued emphasis on infrastructure, water and mobility readiness and economic development as a citywide strategy. So we are doing uh economic development work throughout the community not just at campus town main gate and the seaside grand height hotel and resort. We are looking at West Broadway and assisting our local businesses, small business development and and other things through our economic development department, neighborhood quality of life and public safety. And then continuing to build on the partnerships uh uh throughout this community. What is being refined in the staff report? You you noticed uh some some spec specific uh refinements uh for pillar one under governance. A real emphasis on technology. uh city staff is getting ready to release an RFP that will help us uh streamline and update potentially our our building and permitting process, business license process, and and the general interaction that uh that the community has with our community development department and public works. Um in the economy uh section, we really focused again on our main projects, but also added Broadway tourism and workforce development. In the community section of pillar three, housing tools, cultural programming, youth civic engagement, and then local identity, I mentioned that uh the anticipated strategic planning process from the city staff won't just include strategic planning, but also helping us identify as a community what the seaside brand is, which is a question that I've heard, you know, time and time again in various conversations. Um infrastructure, water resilience, Broadway, Broadway is included now as it

will be an actual project moving forward. Uh so that will be a very uh important piece of the strategic plan. Sidewalks, parks, facilities, and capital assets uh including a comprehensive energy audit of city facilities which uh I believe is is is overdue for some of our our facilities. And then a quality of life focusing on getting a financial plan ready for fire station number two. Um addressing our homelessness impacts and uh traffic safety, which the chief mentioned uh as a as a as a growing concern. Uh so we put that in in the strategic plan as well. Fireworks and then improving quality of neighborhoods. So really the requested council feedback doesn't have to happen this evening, but we certainly will encourage any input that you may have on the document that was included in the packet. You know, are these the the right near-term priorities? Are there any major initiatives that were missing? And should uh should any items be elevated, reduced, or deferred in that plan? Uh and then again feedback on what I've what I've alluded to is this upcoming strategic planning process. Again with that staff just wants to uh again provide the third quarter update and then um any updates uh input that you may have on the on the proposed priority update strategic plan. Uh please let staff know and we'll be happy to answer any questions.

Uh thank you. Are any comments right now? Uh mayor district small one but a couple the u where it said deliver pal basketball and camps and can we include the recck department because the the money is often on the backs of the recck department as well as the staff because if there's a mistake made it's not going to go to pal board it's going to go to our recreation staff and so I think sometimes that's forgotten that uh and I'm on the pal board so I'm supportive But I just think it's just a thought to include our department and then I think obviously it was a very good report and there's a lot of good things happening uh and that's apprec but in the doing the um meetings etc. Um it's important to make sure that happens. Is there a measuring tool to maintaining that? But if you build it and you don't take care of it, why are we building it? That's I mean I'm just asking is there a tool to measure the uh continued improvements or managing of that area?

There is. And so staff is actually working on a maintenance uh a maintenance schedule for our meetings and then um potentially an ability to contract u some of the maintenance on one or not. There's several options we'll be presenting to the city council at a future date. And I'm talking about the meetings. talking about the park because if you build a park and a year later there's uh weeds and it's not taken care of well then you know why you know why take credit for something that is because it's overgrown with whatever I think maintenance is important throughout if we do something well and I didn't see it but I'm sure it was there there's been a significant improvement I think in the fireworks enforcement was that included and I just over didn't see it

it is and we've been meeting internally. Our FA team has been meeting preparing for this year's fireworks deterrent efforts. Yeah. And that's part of a measuring tool as far as the future. Correct. Thank you. Thank you.

Anyone else? Uh, Council Member Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I guess right now you're looking for feedback. Um, and and you know, I really like doing the presentation. you mentioned uh the lower Broadway and really focusing on some of our our business, how we're going to make money, how we're going to, you know, how our general fund are going to go upwards instead of going downwards. Uh and and focusing on uh that that lower corridor for me uh is important. I think I and I like that you're I like that you mentioned that and and maybe you can just say a few words about um what you see the direction is and and I have another comment about that as well.

Sure. No, you bring up a good point in in the strategic plan and draft strategic plan. We do have uh West Broadway as a feature piece uh for uh small business, but we also have revenue generation as a big piece. So, so looking at ways we can increase our revenue and a lot of that does focus on the economic development efforts that we have in the community. Uh for West Broadway, uh we're going to work with C jobs to develop an action plan that will include a specific section regarding Broadway um and potential incentives, potential programs that that we want to take a look at. But again, we're working through the C chops committee uh to to to uh refine that to bring it to the city council for consideration.

No, and I think that's a great idea. I mean, having a commission look at this way is one of the things that stands out for me in our community and our city is our our cultures, our our our diversity. And if there's a way that we can incorporate our cultures into our strategic plan to the downtown area such as a cultural district or some kind of draw that we're actually gaining tourists or gaining people that would normally drive right by us to come into our city and spend money and we generate those sales taxes. Is there is there any um thought or is there any discussion around some kind of cultural district or bringing culture into the plan for uh for tourism?

Yes, I mean I think some of our tourism assets are definitely our small local businesses, our diverse business uh diverse businesses, our diverse restaurants. Um and so any economic development strategy would absolutely highlight that um including potentially um working with the California Main Street Association and and their four-point principle of how to do that in areas like uh West Broadway in in other areas that you would typically define as a district. And right now we're using I think we're using retail strategies. Are we still using them? Correct. Yes. And has has that been going okay? Has that relationship been evolving?

It has been. They have recently completed some market data for the for the city uh that we are using uh right now with national retailers. A lot of their initial work will be focused on some of the national retail opportunities of vacant sites um and then of course campus town and main gate. Uh however, they are working citywide as I put out earlier citywide strategy for economic development. So um they have been in insight market visit this quarter um and and have uh they're already working with our staff on on contacting property owners. Are we working on the campus town the first I guess the first level will be some retail uh is that right? Yes. Uh staff, retail strategies, and our development partners have met to discuss specific opportunities. Working on we're working through that.

Correct. Yes. Thank you for all your answers. Uh anyone else? No, let's take it out to public comment. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Linda Cunningham, member of the homeless committee, speaking as a private person. I love this summary. I think this is a great summary. I love the quarterly summary. I'm a big fan. I hope you do the quarterly summary every quarter because all these things are happening. This is it's impossible to just keep track of all the great things the east side's doing. I think it's great. I love this idea of the cultural district. And I do have to say we got at the uh new apartments, we got what is it called? Hot works. Sounds like you just exercise in the heat. Go to Phoenix. Whatever. I mean, whatever rocks your boat. We got I I think that's great. And I do have to say, I do not know who captured Ace Hardware, but I tell you, I'm so glad Ace Hardware is NCside. Like literally before they were open, I was spending money and they were like, "We're not even open and we just have all these sales." And I know there's just a lot of people who are just grateful to be able to get to a hardware store in that part of town and not have to get over to Home Depot since we lost OSH, which was insanity anyways. So, um, I'm just really grateful. I don't know who brought got Ace to come to town, but I'm really grateful for the team that that attracted Ace. Hopefully, any minute now, me will open. I'm not sure what the holdup is there. I see a lot of exciting things and I think it's great that that we've got so many people working on bringing all this economic um, excitement to Seaside because I think there's plenty of opportunity here. We've got everything in Seaside,

including Sunshine. Have a great day. Thank you. 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. Public comments closed. Bringing it back to the D. What is the will of the council? Second probably moved and second. Um on the question any last comments, closing comments? I I'll make some. Um you know, it's a lot of things going on in Seaside and I think the city manager just laid out u some of his highlights, right? Staff is still doing a lot of other stuff that that you really don't write down, but they have to do it every day. So, they're doing quite a bit. Uh we're all on the move. I did have a question. Mitch, could you explain a a little bit more about what's going on with the uh hotel resort? Uh I'm sorry, I had one question. Sure. The the Seaside uh Grand Hyatt Hotel and Resort has received an intermediate construction loan that will allow them to construct the maintenance facility which is required for the full development of the Grand Hyatt. uh that maintenance facility will have mock hotel rooms in that uh to meet the requirements with the Grand Hyatt.

Okay, thank you for that. Just that was just my one question, but a lot is going on. Thank you for that um that quarterly update. I look forward to like the commenter from the uh community said public comment is look forward to the next quarterly update. Uh all those in favor of this uh update and recommendation signify by saying I

I nays have the same right abstensions. Eyes have a motion carried. Next we go to item number 10 which is uh council members request. uh new council members request. Uh seeing none, hearing none, we'll go to city manager. Uh follow up on previous requests.

Yeah, thank you, mayor. Uh on the next council meeting, we will have a letter of support consideration for AB 2134 um elevated by council member Burks. And then we will also have a transgender sanctuary city resolution elevated by council member Alexis Garcia. Uh thank you. Uh we'll go on to item number 11. City attorney, city manager, city council and mayor's comments and reports on committees and assignments. Uh madam city attorney.

Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of the council, members of the public. Um, between our last city council meeting and this one, I had the pleasure of attending the Earth Day celebration at Lagona Grande Park. It was a wonderful event and a beautiful day. I also have had the opportunity to pop on over to the Seaside Farmers Market. It was a little club and cold over there today, but the strawberries looked really great and would encourage everybody to attend our farmers market because it's got to spend your money there. Anyway, that concludes my comments.

Yeah. For the city manager, since the last meeting, attended the arts council champion of arts breakfast uh that was held. Um shortly thereafter, we had the uh Monterey Bay Area managers group u for Seaside uh met in Seaside to discuss uh regional uh issues for for the city managers of the of the area. Uh, also was able to attend the Earth Day and JPA celebration. Uh, also, uh, big shout out to staff Dominique, Dominique, uh, and your team for the work on the volunteer, uh, and commissioner appreciation event, uh, which was a a huge success and believe is already on the calendar for 27. Um, and then finally was able to attend the CSUMB impact day for a lunch and learn. Thank you,

uh, Council Member Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I also went to the Earth Day and NIC had a dumpster day. Went to all the dumpsters. Those were all pretty much full which was nice. And the volunteer appreciation. Uh kudos to the city clerk for a great event. And then last week I spent the week down in Chula Vista with the our insurance the California JPIA our insurance pool. Uh we did mock um media interviews and we learned about risk. Uh it was a three-day uh event down in Chula Vista. So, um, I was there from Seaside and then a few Pacific Grove council members were there. So, that was great, um, to be down there and that was all I had to report. Thank you, Council Member Garcia.

Thank you. Uh, I too went to the Seaside Farmers Market. I went on I think it was Day of the Child that they had their event there two weeks ago or last week. It was windy, but still a lot of people were out there getting their fresh produce and they were doing some food demonstrations and toy giveaways for the kids. So, it was it was really nice to be there. I went to the United Way United Way Monterey County awards celebration um where members of our community got recognized, but also throughout Monterey County as a whole. So, it was great to be there. I also attended the Earth celebration champion of the arts breakfast and I did a meet and greet with some students from Stevenson School here at city hall where we got to talk a little bit about what we do as a council, what a council member does and the structure of a city government. So, it was great to uh greet the students and bring them to city hall. Some of them were super excited to be in a council chamber for the first time and and learn about how local governance works. So, it was great to to be here and thank you for uh to our city clerk for greeting them and giving them a tour of Avery Gallery that morning as well. I know they really appreciated that that tour that you gave them. Um I also attended the commissioners and volunteer recognition reception. Also attended CSUB impact day. Went to the Catholic Charities lunchon event. Uh that was really great where it they were able to discuss about the legal support that they provide to our constituents but also housing assistance, rental assistance, um and how they're going to be navigating the incoming challenges with healthcare displacement in our region as well. So really important uh that a local charity that's based here in Seaside is doing great work for the region as a whole. I also attended the mind shift youth summit from the village project alongside the mayor and uh mayor promp was there as well. Really great

event uh to see young kids wake up super early on a Saturday morning uh to learn about uh a topic that sometimes isn't talked about as much as it should be and that's mental health. So I was really impressed with the students that were there but also the uh tons of volunteers that were participating and supporting the youth during this moment. So that is all I have to report. I have a monitor one water meeting coming up so I should have another report to you pretty soon.

Thank you. Um I participated in the friends of seafood parks association at Durant and bit of parks. Uh both parks have seen remarkable improvement over the years uh due to phosphorus efforts and residents uh resident support. I attended the teen open house at the uh held in coordination with the village project. It was a great opportunity to learn about the teen center activities and participate in a wide range of activities for kids of all ages. Attended the Earth Day celebration in coordination with the city of Seaside and Sustainable Seaside. had the opportunity to MC the event and and uh it was a lot of fun. Uh I think there's was well more than 300 people throughout the day and it was a really I thought a very nice venue uh by the lake and the connection of the park. Um I attended the phosphorus park circuit event that provided a wealth of information to residents concerning uh planting vegetables envir environmental opportunity was a good community awareness day. I as well tended the neighborhood improvement uh cleanup day by the NIC. Uh commission did a good job in coordinating that and I think they have plans to continue to improve the services. Uh and green waste was a uh contributing factor and they provided some excellent u help as it went through the day. Um I tend to the volunteer appreciation thanks to the staff. I think the I know the volunteers uh very much en enjoyed being a part of it and being recognized and I think the help the morale of the commission and knowing that they mattered and and they were part of the city and then I attended the Moonflower Festival hosted by Planky Arts. Great turnout. A lot of Seaside kids were involved, a lot of

Seaside High School students, and it's always great to see kids performing different cultural uh services and programs that benefit all of us. And thank you to Plinky Arts on that. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you. Uh earlier this month, I attended the U Calc's board of my month quarterly Cal's board of directors meeting. Uh it was a Friday and a Saturday up in Sacramento. uh talked about supporting uh different uh bills and I just mentioned three of them just to highlight some stuff. What is it? AB1708 uh would increase access to state homelessness uh grant monies. Uh so we're watching that in support of that. Uh what is it? AB736 and SB417. Uh it would uh it's a $10 billion housing bond uh to finance affordability and workforce rental and housing ownership uh program. So look forward for that to be on the ballot. Uh SB922 uh cities may just pass cities may recover the cost of uh maintenance and road repair costs caused by public service operations. I guess it was maybe about 10 years ago, 12 years ago, uh the state took away our ability to recapture that money for heavy trucks, particularly trash trucks that uh trash our roads, right? Uh to be reimbursed for that, but uh that may be a a bill that passes later on in the year. So hopefully uh that would help us and other cities um uh towards their road repair, recovering that cost. I don't know if you mentioned it, uh, uh, Mayor PM, but the 50-year Laguna Grande, uh, you want to say something underneath your leadership at the JPA, and we had a good day there. Why don't you say something? You, you're doing a good job at the JPA.

It was just a cooperative effort celebrating the 50th anniversary of uh, of the park district and there are many successes. I think u with the leadership of the mayor for a while it was dormant uh and he put some u emphasis on that and um so it kind of re fired up reignited the energy to get to the point where we're um going to be working on some very much needed pavement for the park so people will be safe and uh that park will be a highlight for the region and many services that are provided. Thank you, mayor.

Yeah. No, thank you for that. They were dormant for a while, but but working together, working with the council, uh we were able to get that restarted and I think over the next uh five years, close to about three or four million dollars uh of the grant we received and u and the uh grant received by the JPA itself. So, uh Luna Grande will uh take its rightful place uh as a nice park in the next couple years. And so I want to appreciate uh again like I said the mayor pro Tim and the representatives from Monterey and the u parks district for their work at the JPA. Uh that same day we attended this 15th annual seaside earth day uh MC by uh the mayor pro Tim and attended by all of us uh great day beautiful day to talk about uh the earth and work together to uh save save the earth and highlight the need to save the earth. So, I want to thank uh everybody who's there and particularly I want to know there's a lot of people. I just want to highlight uh sustainable seaside and what they do in our community and I know there's other organizations there. Uh and I want to call out uh um the city of Delray Oaks representative in their park district was there. Uh council member uh Kim Shirley was there representing. So, uh we appreciate them. Uh tenant Monterey water uh management district uh meeting. We adopted our annual budget and we're still pushing to modify the CDO. We're still waiting for a word from the uh uh state water resource board. Um we're getting close, we believe, you know, um it's been about going on about seven months uh we since we sent the letter up there. And so, uh, underneath the general managership, general general manager leadership of David Stotz, um, we're pushing as hard as we can to, uh, modify the CDO. Attended a TAMC meeting, uh, regular stuff. Uh, just talked about some of the projects in in the, um, in the region,

in the county. Uh, attended the housing collaborative. We got a lot of exciting things coming out. The Seaside Housing Collaborative. We look forward to bringing you more information uh, here shortly. Um, I want to thank the uh city clerk for the wonderful night of uh uh festivities and events honoring our boards and commissioners for the years and decades of work by some of them to to help Seaside move forward and help us do the stuff that we do every day. We can't do it without them. Uh we have some special shout outs to uh planning commissioner John Owens. uh he's uh retiring uh from the planning commission here and I think he had over 20 years of a continuous service uh on the planning commission. So uh he was not able to hear how much we would miss him and and accept his plaque because he was we were at the Odmar Center and he was here at city hall doing planning commission work. So we appreciate his work. So that's that's dedication. That's dedication. And we also highlighted uh our dear friend uh Dennis Alexander for his over 25 years of volunteerism on the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey County. I was just trying to list some of the things that I know of that he has uh done for us in this community. Um he was a uh seaside council member, school teacher, police officer, search and rescue volunteer, Red Cross volunteer. And one of the things that he did for many many years with the Red Cross was go and volunteer to u uh install smoke detectors. And you reminded me when you had your thing up there smoke detectors uh in in people's homes alongside the ple the fire department. But that was one thing that he took upon himself to be part of that group. Those are just some of the things that I know of that he's done. I'm sure he has friends and family that know he's

other things. Uh we want to appreciate him and thank him. So we were able to do that at the first annual commissioner and board's uh annual um celebration. Tenative Lavco meeting uh that went well. Ten C uh what is it? CSUMB Monterey Bay uh lunch and learn meeting. Is that the one you call in the impact day or is that a different day? Okay. Yeah, I was there with council member Garcia. Learned about the the struggles that they're having with their infrastructure like everyone else. And so it was a good opportunity for us to learn about u some of the needs of our local university and um be able to help them to advocate for um uh those monies. uh with Council Member Garcia Zola attended uh our ad hoc legislative ad hoc committee uh trying to move things forward, lining up our our advocacy uh with our federal state reps and agencies, you know, and I say agencies as relates to state board agencies and um uh federal agencies and um the active duty military commands uh within our boundaries. Uh there's a lot of work going on about how do we make sure we're are um advocating that our local military commands and get what they need so they can stay here locally and that the ones that are in our borders are treated fairly and that we can participate uh in any federal grants that uh need to come our way because we do have active duty militaries in the city of Seaside. Uh me and the same manager will be traveling lately uh later on uh this month uh for the association of defense communities um uh to make sure we're integrated with them nationally and statewide uh attended the mayor's meeting in Solidad. Uh they got a lot going on in Solidad. They got some great things

going on. Not saying they're doing more than you, city city manager. Uh but they did appreciate uh manager Megan Hunter appreciated uh our city manager taking them out for the city manager meeting to the uh uh Carnelli Stadium and they're very impressed with the soccer stadium out there. And so they're doing great things out there. Mayor of Velasquez underneath her leadership, U Solidad is is doing great stuff. Uh, and I did have some stuff that I need to talk to you about. Uh, they're doing some good stuff out there. Uh, we we over there. I'll just mention it over there. They did have a give us a presentation. What is the relay? Relay for life is gearing up again this year. And they wanted uh all the cities to participate over the last couple years. It just denigrated to a Selenus Valley type thing. They want to have more participation from the cities in um on the peninsula. And my understanding was that it would be pretty costf free. Uh supervisor Lopez is picking up the so-called tab for participations of city. So I would like city manager look into that. Uh because I all we have to do is I guess ride ride around and pass the torch, right? And he'll he'll pay he'll pay for the literature and all that stuff. So it's pretty easy to do. uh attend at the uh Village Project Inc. Mind shift uh youth summit. It was well done uh youth le um those young people were really really really um you know that's our future and we got to keep on investing in those young people and they got some wise words from a young gentleman called uh J2 I believe that's his uh uh stage name. Uh he he you know I don't want to say he's a rapper. I know he sings and raps, but he was really a motivator speaker and he gave

them some excellent words of wisdom about how to make sure uh you sharpen your mind and you stay strong mentally uh for your health. So if you don't know about J2, you you need to know about uh Mr. J2 and what he does. He does a lot of good things here in the city of Seaside. uh attended the Japanese American Citizens League of Monterey. Uh their 100year celebration of doing community building, sharing their wonderful culture, the Japanese culture uh based in Monterey, but throughout the peninsula. Uh they're always doing uh good work and so we were able to celebrate with them uh over in Monterey. I attended the uh VTC's uh uh I believe it's third annual uh um hope for heroes gala uh raising funds and resources to improve the lives of veterans and uh active duty military um individuals and families. You know, they were talking about, you know, they have a food pantry over there and they were talking about very often, uh, if not all the time, uh, you you see active duty family members coming to the, uh, the food kitchen over there at VTC. And so, um, you know, for me, that's that's kind of like unacceptable, but I'm I'm not right in the federal government, but that that's just terrible. But that's what the donations to the VTC does. uh not only just help uh veterans, but right now they're doing a lot of work around active duty families and of course housing um those seeking or needing uh proper shelter. Attended the TAMC rail meeting. uh talked about quite a few things, but I think we spent most of the time on the possible project uh that uh Sand City is is moving forward with and I know uh the city manager is working on uh the things he need to work on to to bring that to the city council uh and

have the city council review the possible uh partnership on a project that Sans City is doing uh to remove blight. I I'll just end with two things. Um earlier today, uh public member talked about their experience with uh our planning commission and and it was a couple comments that they made about the planning commission uh seemingly uh uh brushed off uh some of their responsibility by saying, "Hey, that's a council thing. You need to just uh uh you know um appeal it to the council." And so I'm just wondering, see, man, I want to be clear from my vantage point is we need to make sure our commissioners are living up to all our commissions and boards are living up to their responsibilities in their role. Uh it's not you're not there to push off stuff to the council. You're there to make a decision and you do the make the best decision you can and and let the people uh decide what they want to do after that. But what we can't have is uh don't talk to us, talk to the council. That's that's not appropriate. And I know they didn't say it like that. I just want you to make sure we're not doing those type of things. That's all. I mean, I appreciate all our commissioners, but the the no one in the public should be able to say those type of things happen. Uh Seaside Farmer Market, I think we heard it before you, hey, it's there because you guys shop local. Shop local. Save money. Save money at the Seaside uh market on Thursdays. uh the more we shop there, the more um shops will come and the longer they will stay and they will, you know, be back next year. Um and so I would just say continue to shop there as much as you can. Uh I'm sure their vegetables and

and fresh fruit is a little cheaper than uh the wrapped fruit at the grocery store, wrapped vegetables at the grocery store. So, if you could uh shop local, shop seaside. All right. Thank you so much. We will go to item number 12, which is close session. I would ask the city attorney to read us in close session.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, members of the public. The council will meet in close session to have a conference with legal counsel pursuant to government code section 54956.9, one matter of existing litigation. Case number is Monterey County Superior Court case number 24 CV00003912. The case name is Fontes versus the city of Seaside. The council will have a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code section 54956.8. Property in question is Campus Town phase 2 property commonly located east of General Jim Moore Boulevard and west of 7th Avenue and bounded on the north by Colonel Durham and the south by Giggling Road. Agency negotiators are the city manager and the city attorney. Negotiating parties are the city of Seaside and KB Bakewell Seaside Venture 2 under negotiation price terms of payment or both. The council will have a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code section 54956.8. The property in question is APN011301-028, commonly referred to as the right ofway, the former rightway for the Southern Pacific Railway Corridor located within the jurisdiction of the city of Seaside, generally located between Olympia Boulevard and Canyon Del Ray. Agency negotiators are the city manager and the city attorney. Negotiating parties are the city of San City and the city of Seaside under negotiation price, terms of payment, or both. And finally, they'll have a conference with legal counsel pursuant to government code section 54956.9D on two matters of potential litigation. for the benefit of the public uh this evening. I do not expect there to be uh

actionable uh actions on any matter taken in close session. That concludes my readin. Thank you. I'll open up public comment for our close session items. 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 star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Uh, thank you so much. Seeing no one hearing no one public comment is closed. We will move into close session.