City Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, welcome everyone uh to the San Marco City Council meeting for January 27th. 2016, our first meeting of the sorry, sorry, 26. Why did I say 2016? Oh gosh, you guys, I can't even see with my glasses. And how would I not know that? Anyway, welcome to our first meeting of the year. We're a little our second meeting of the year, actually. Oh, see, we can't even like keep I can't keep it straight. Anyway, welcome. And if you could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. And we have some helpers this evening. If you want to come on down, please. We have some young people that are going to keep us young because as you can see I'm forgetful today.

All right. It's right over here. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. Okay. I have an invocation this evening. God, we ask your blessings on those who have been called to lead the community in which we live, play, and work. Guide us peacefully through debate. Remind us that we are not only leaders, but also servants and above all else, and that it is our responsibility to serve the common good of all. Grant us the wisdom and courage to know what is good what do to know what to do is good right and true. May we speak out when it is time to speak out and listen patiently and respectfully when it is time to listen. May we always be guided by the spirit of community, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of love in our beloved San Marcos. Amen. I am tongue tied this evening. Um could we have please have a roll call? And I would like to mention that uh Council Member Leblang is out to this evening. She will be back uh for our next meeting in February, I believe. And uh we do wish her well. She had back surgery, so she's recuperating and we wish her the best.

Council member Musgrove here. Council member Nunes present. Deputy Mayor Sella here. And Mayor Jones

here. Okay, we have some proclamations and presentations. If the council could please join me uh down in front, please. So, first up, we have a presentation. And if Chief Baron could please come on down. Um the Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District recognition and we have uh Captain Tanner Worley, Engineer Abel Martinez, and firefighter paramedic U. Michael Sodto. If you could please come on down. So they're all pretty much the same. Is it Captain Tanner? Congratulations Michael.

Okay, got it.

Anyway, we are presenting them uh with honorable certificates of recognition for their courageous actions and service to the city of San Marcos. While in the city of San Marcos for regional zone training, firefighter paramedic Sodto and his fellow crew members from the Ranch of Santa Fe Fire Protection District intervened without hesitation in a rapidly escalating violent altercation which was a stabbing. Uh despite significant personal risk, firefighter paramedic and his stood and his colleagues demonstrated courage, professionalism, and commitment to protecting life. Your actions exemplify the highest ideals of the fire service and reflect great credit upon yourselves, your department, and the regional public safety community. And from the bottom of our hearts, we really appreciate everything you did. I know that Chief Baron has a few more words, but um we really just can't even um I I can't articulate how how grateful we are and you guys really came up and did what you were supposed to do and protect people. So, thank you very much.

Good evening. If I could have uh wrench Santa Fe uh command staff come on up. Chief Frederick, Chief Pender, Chief Brooks, Chief Vicil. So, it's not very often that we get to take the opportunity to recognize uh heroic work. Um it's the nature of our job to be humble in our in our approach and uh we do what we need to do and and and no better sense we leave the silver bullet on the counter. Uh not looking for recognition. So I know this is probably a little bit difficult for these guys but it's uh important to us as a partnering agency to to recognize them. Um, not only uh are we not trained to disarm, um, but they stepped in in the time of need. Uh, and despite all the adrenaline rush that they were probably going through, uh, they had the collection of thought and action to call additional resources. This is in sheriff uh, ambulance and then they started treatment once they uh, detained the subject. And, uh, all in all, there was three people that were injured and three people got transported. So, fire department, uh, Ranch Santa Fe and San Marcos and many other north county agencies, we maintain a strong collaborative relationship with all of our neighboring fire agencies and regional partners through established uh, boundary drop or mutual aid agreements. These relationships foster trust, effective communication, and a coordinated response, enhancing enhancing our operational effectiveness during emergencies that exceed local capabilities. Ongoing joint training, shared standards standards, active participation in regional planning efforts further strengthen these interoperabilities and

reinforce unified and relationshipdriven approach to emergency response. These partnerships remain a vital component in sustaining service, reliability, responder safety, and overall community resilience. I'm so appreciative uh for your your heroism, and I thank you guys for our partnership. I say this at our promotional uh events that we have in this room, but I'm going to say it here because this is uh this is exactly what these three uh fine gentlemen exhibited that day. No matter what anyone says, just show up and do the work. If they praise you, show up and do the work. If they criticize you, show up and do the work. If no one even notices you, show up and do the work. Just keep showing up and doing the work and leading the way. Thanks for showing up and doing the work. That's it.

Thank you guys. Should we grab a picture? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get a photo. Yeah. Yeah. We'll stand. That means you guys got to be in the middle. Why don't you guys come and stand up right here next to the council? We got a camera. You got a camera? Yeah, we'll stand. Yeah, bring it.

Put the short of course.

Okay. Sorry, we had to start out with something a little bit heavy and we're not actually getting out of that because now we're talking about human trafficking. So, it is uh human trafficking month. We have several um groups that are actually doing some really great uh work up here in North County. And so, Whoops. Oh, sorry. Got to get totally prepared here. So, if you could please come down. Uh we have Terania Sarabana and Isabelle Rodriguez from One Safe Place. And then we have Brian Smith from the California Alliance Against Trafficking. I'm just going to get these out. We have little human trafficking um here. And then we have uh maybe Castro and Lette Elis at uh Lifeline Community Service. Okay, then we have Theres Cisneros Remington from You Can Stop Human Trafficking. And then we have Trish Martinez, the native liaison to the advisory council.

She has the flu. No. Okay. And then Yousef Miller, Mosques Against Trafficking. So, I want you to all Oops.

Okay. So, look at this. Look at all of these folks that are up here today. All of them are working on fighting human trafficking. Let's give them all a hand, please. So, I'm going to have Terrania and Isabelle come and uh speak a little bit about what they do over at One Safe Place. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for having us this evening, Mayor Jones, and to the city of San Marcos and the council here. It's absolutely our honor to serve the community here in San Marcos and the North County and of course beyond. Uh we have been here and called San Marcos our home for the past three and a half years. Um Isabelle is um my number two here, our program manager, and it's been a privilege to serve the community. We've had over now 10,000 individuals come through our doors. And of those 10,000, over 3,000 are children who've experienced various victimizations, including human trafficking. And as you can imagine, um, these are some of the most vulnerable individuals, right? These are children in our communities. They're in our schools. Um there are kids that our children go to school with, that eat lunch with, and it is absolutely our duty to listen when school teachers come to us and say that we're noticing signs of issues, when counselors are saying that we don't know where to turn, when social workers are saying that there's issues and and you know, what more can we do? It's our duty to serve these families. And we're absolutely honored that the individuals standing behind me are part of this collective that we work with, over 108 partnerships, including Lifeline, including many others, Theres here. Um, and we are we are so um

blessed to have your support, mayor, and the community here in San Marcos, including our law enforcement partners. Just like what Terran shared, um we're just so thankful for the partnership that we have here um with everyone behind us. Rebecca, Mayor Rebecca Jones. Um, we're just so thankful and we're here to help and um um just opened our doors on July 5th of 2022 and just all the uh support that we've had has been just amazing and we want to continue to support all of our victims. So, thank you so much, San Marcos. We really appreciate all of you.

Thank you so much. Brian Smith, the California Alliance Against Trafficking. Come on down.

So, I'm I'm here with with my wife Lisa, the co-founder of the organization. And so, we're we're new adopters, and we appreciate those who have gone before us. And what's really important, Lisa, and I talk about this is that San Marcos as a city, the leadership speaks against it. So the folks that are in the trenches know, you know, it matters. Though it seems sometimes it's not seen or not understood. When the leadership of a city like San Marco speaks up and makes effort to say we are against trafficking, that means a lot. And so we appreciate so much all of the work of the council and you, Mayor Jones, thank you very much.

Okay, Lette and Nabby, come on down. Not all at once, ladies.

Good evening everyone. My name is Det Islas and I'm the CEO of Lifeline Community Services. Thank you, Mayor Jones and council members for spotlighting our work and for creating space for this really important issue. At Lifeline, we serve more than 25,000 individuals every year, including youth, adults, and families. We meet people in their most vulnerable moments and walk alongside them as they work towards their highest potential. For 52 years, Lifeline has been deeply rooted in the San Diego community and for over a decade, we have been tackling human trafficking through prevention and intervention. In fact, our work against human trafficking was founded here in San Marcos. The Lifeline team is highly skilled, deeply compassionate, and rooted in community. Their work is complex, emotionally demanding, and often invisible. Yet they show up every day with the consistency, expertise, and care. I'm extremely proud of our team. On average, it takes a survivor seven attempts to break free from exploitation. Seven attempts. That number is difficult to sit with, but it's important to understand what it really means. It's not about weakness. It reflects two powerful barriers that survivors face when trying to leave. Trauma and economic hardship. And this is where Project Life comes in. One of the first ways our team supports survivors is by helping them recover critical identifying documents like a driver's license or a social security card. Our team guides survivors as they open up bank accounts, rebuild credit, and secure employment with real career pathways and opportunities that lead to stability. These outcomes don't happen overnight. They happen because survivors are met with trauma-informed and consistent support from a team that understands that healing and economic stability must happen together. If anyone today is listening, anyone today that's listening needs help or know someone who does, please know that support is available, you can call 760842-6526

or vivid visit lifelinescs.org. Our team is here to connect with you and to to provide resources and walk alongside you. Thank you once again, mayor and council members. This recognition means so much. Our team works so hard in so many important ways that are often unseen. To us, this recognition says we see you and for that we are tremendously grateful. Thank you.

And then we have Theresa Neros Remington from You Can Stop Human Trafficking. Come on down.

Thank you, Mayor Jones. I started the uh human trafficking uh title called you can stop human trafficking because my niche is to get the business community on board. The call to action is if you have a restaurant or own a business, you need to step it up and walk your talk and put a community resource page on your website. The link can go to my website, but you can call and have the 1 800 888 uh 888373788. That's the National Human Hotline. It's open 24 hours. You'll get immediate response and resources. So, my niche is getting the business community up, awake, and alive to help with resources to our young boys and girls. Thank you, Mayor Jones.

Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. And last, but certainly not least, Yousef, if you could come on down. So, um, Theres had an event last week and then Yousef had a walk on Sunday. So, if you could just, uh, talk a little bit about it and it's Mosques Against Human Trafficking.

That's right. My name is Yousef Miller. I'm the founder of Moses Against Trafficking 2016. And, uh, since then, I've been working in preventing human trafficking and spreading awareness of human trafficking with a lot of our my partners back here who uh, through the way we've been co co uh, working together on a lot of projects. And what we did this past Saturday was we walked our fourth Saturday of every January we have our walk-in Escandido and um it was a great turnout. We had people come out and and support this issue and we invite everyone along the 78 corridor to come out and join us and the 76 corridor as well along with my co-chair who couldn't be here because she had the flu as you heard earlier Trish Martinez. She's the native liaison to the district attorney and we are both the co-chairs of the county's antihuman trafficking and sexual exploitation of children advisory council. And I would like to say that we can look forward to more projects throughout the year. For example, massage parlor outreach where we get teams together and we need help. We need your help to join and make up these teams where we reach out to massage parlors, give them the documents that say that they are antihuman trafficking and the hotline numbers for victims if they're there to see and get that exit route out of uh human trafficking. Um, Comic- Con, every year we dress up and go to Comic- Con. We're outside of Comic-Con, but you can bring your children. It's a familyfriendly thing. You can dress up as superheroes and we ask people to be real superheroes and stop human trafficking because you just might save a life. And we do it all the days of Comic Con down there handing out anti-human trafficking material. And as was said by the my pre the previous speaker, we're also um educating hotels, motel, and casinos on the dangers of human trafficking and uh lifting up missing and murdered indigenous women as my co-chair is indigenous and the voices

of women of color as in the massage parlors with our Asian sisters and and brothers and others. So, uh, look forward to a lot more projects throughout the year coming from the county and coming from our our events. And thank you.

Okay. And then I think we're going to take one picture. So, we're all going to have to scooch in.

Yeah. No one trips. I love that.

Thank you. So, as you can all see in San Marcos, we take care of one another, which we really appreciate. Moving on to the consent calendar, we have one item which was number four that uh council member Nunees wanted to pull. Any other items that any council members wish to pull?

Move to approve tonight's the rem the remainder of tonight's consent calendar. Second. Okay. Okay. So, we have a motion and a second. All in favor? I Any Oh, sorry. Item number six has updated documents and we all receive them. Did everyone That's right. see those? So, the motion is made with with the updated documents in item number six. Yes. Okay. So, that we were all eyes. No. Any no votes? Seeing none. Okay. Item number four, uh, Council Member Nunees.

Um, thank you, Mayor. Um, and thank you, staff. Um, I wanted to make sure this item got pulled from our consent calendar. Uh, parking is one of those issues that at least for me, um, tends to be something that's of great concern to many of our residents in our city. Um, and so I wanted to make sure that this item, um, was made um or was heard in a way that our residents were made aware of these changes. um specifically to make sure that they are aware of the implementation and um obviously that we as a city make sure that we make it possible for our residents to abide by any changes that um we may approve today. Um so I understand um staff has a short presentation for us to go through the the item.

Yes. Thank you, Council Member Nunes. Uh Sylvia Cis Daniels is going to walk us through a few more details associated with this item and there'll be an opportunity for questions after her presentation. Great. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor and councel. Consent calendar item number four is an amendment to San Marco's penalty fee schedule for parking violations considering resolution number 2026-9533. The purpose of this resolution is due to Assembly Bill 413, the daylighting law. This item brings the city's penalt parking penalty fee schedule into alignment with the current state law. Effective January 1st, 2025, parking was prohibited or stopping was prohibitive of a vehicle within 20 feet of the approach side of any marked or unmarked crosswalk to improve visibility. This aims to increase pedestrian safety and the law applies even if red even if curbs are not painted. Tonight's action simply adds the missing fee so that the city can consistently apply existing law. This is an administrative update focused on safety and clarity and not a change in parking policy. This image depicts how pedestrians will interact with the intersection. Vehicles are prohibited from parking within 20 ft of an intersection or crosswalk. The law applies at all intersections, both marked or unmarked crosswalks to improve visibility. The change aims to increase pedestrian safety by removing obstructions and increasing visibility for d drivers and pedestrians, which potentially reduces crashes by up to 30%. Updates to the city's parking penalty fee schedule to will be consistent with the state law and the primary purpose of this is to improve visibility at

intersections. This implements California Vehicle Code section 22500N and aligns with statewide safety standards. This provides a public safety benefit to improve visibility at intersections, reduces conflict between vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists, and enhances safety for children, seniors, and people with disabilities. The focus here is prevention, creating safer intersections before incidents occur. Resolution number 2026-9533 considers parking um parking enforcement which would be community responsive and based on reported concerns. There would be a 60-day warning period during the implementation phase. Following the implementation phase, a $52 fee would be um applied if paid within 30 days. There would be no change in the availability of parking for midblock parking and this would have a limited impact at intersections only. Overall, this item is about improving intersection safety while having a minimal impact on existing parking conditions. This concludes my presentation. and I'm available for questions.

Thank you, Sylvia. And just uh one key note, uh it is aligning with state law, so it's not a law that we came up with. It is just coming into compliance with state law. Correct. Okay. Thanks, Council Member Nunes. Did you have any questions?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um I do have a couple of follow-up questions. Um, so I know there's really lack of parking and certain neighborhoods, certain areas in our city are particularly impacted and it really is a burden, right? Because of the limited available parking in certain areas. So one of the questions I do have is how will this impact really the availability of parking? Do we do we know yet or or how are we going to gauge that?

While this um penalty fee change um is mostly administrative, the actual AB413 um does apply to all intersections. Um but it would be minimally applied. So we um enforce based on resident inquiry. So if there are a higher influx of resident inquiry, that's where parking enforcement will be addressed. So it does not um take away the parking. We do not intend to red curb to remove additional parking.

So then so then as a resident then how will I know if I'm subject to to parking enforcement? So, this is California Vehicle Code and as a registered California driver, you're required to follow all California vehicle code. So, um part of our um implementation phase would be outreach and education during the warning period. So, a two-month um warning period. So, if the council approves this uh change today, the 60-day starts from today. Correct.

Resolutions generally are dated as of the date of the uh meeting. So yes. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. And so I guess I'm trying to think if I live in a particular resident. I don't know whether or not I'm going to be I'm going to be cited fined um if I park in a particular area or I'm trying to figure out how will a residents know whether or not enforcement is happening or not.

Um I think in this instance as Sylvia mentioned it is the California vehicle code. So, I think our residents should assume that they should follow the vehicle code and not park within that 20 foot perimeter. Um, whether there will be citations issued is the uncertain part. So, the only way to assure that you're not going to get a citation is to not violate the vehicle code, but we will be uh enforcing on a complaint basis. Um, so we're not going to go out hunting for folks, but we're getting complaints particularly in areas that are adjacent to school sites because obviously that is where you have a higher volume of children crossing and some folks, as we understand, pick up and drop off is a hectic time for any parent. So, some parents are a little tempted to to scoot really really close to those intersections, which is creating a line of sight issue. And I I imagine that this law was put in place um hopefully to avoid a tragedy and not in response to one.

So then for our city, are we anticipating that um we will have our parking enforcement uh be responsible for the implementation the enforcement or is it going to be our sheriff or what what does that look like for us so the residents know what what to expect? So, parking enforcement will continue um their ongoing enforcement activities. In addition to our parking enforcement contractor, sheriffs also issue parking citations. So, both would issue warning citations for this 60-day period.

Okay. So, Sylvia, I have a follow-up question on that. Is this something that our uh volunteer patrol would be able to because I I'll also govern because I think they can write tickets at for instance Grand Plaza and our shopping centers when they are parked um even on private property if we have permission ahead of time in handicapped for instance. Um so would this be the same case? Yes, our um senior volunteer patrol and our um park rangers can also issue these warnings and citations.

Okay. All right. Thanks for the clarification because we do oftentimes have this uh you know near our parks as well um especially when they're highly used which most of our parks are. But I guess um and council member um I think one of my suggestions would be you know I speed sometimes. I'll admit it. I'm not going to pretend like I don't. I am I'm I'm responsible for my my behavior. If I'm speeding I'm breaking the law. So um I guess that would be my suggestion. I would just tell people it's gambling if you if you park that close to an intersection because you know that it's not it's no longer allowed and it is a state law. It's not something that we came up with. And um you know I know that we've had a lot of complaints about uh people parking very close to the intersections because again we could have disastrous effects if one of our children is trying to get out. um and even an elderly person and sometimes you just can't see someone until they're actually out in the middle of the intersection and then by then it's too late. So um I guess my suggestion would just be tell people that expect that we are going to that you could get a ticket.

Um thank you mayor. I think that is an excellent point and that is one of the questions that that I do have is uh really since we're not going to be marking um this specific area. So as as a resident then how is how will a resident know if they are in violation or potential violation or subject to citation because that is one of the things that I don't think it's always obvious. I think I suspect that some of the intersections are probably already marked in some way, right, where it might be more obvious, but then there's other uh parts of the road where it may not be obvious for somebody to whether or not they think that it's somewhere that they should be parking. So, the question for then for the city and for the enforcement is then what what type of education how are we going to see this implemented? So as I mentioned we will be issuing the warning citations and with the warning citations there will be education. Um one additional um item to note is that this um while it was appro while we are approving and making the adjustment today um this has been in effect throughout the state for an entire year. So other jurisdictions have already begun to implement this and we've already begun to see changes throughout the region. Um so this late adoption um is is is new for our community um but not necessarily new to the entire state or region. So so in terms of the implementation has has it been consistent in terms of there's nothing that's identifying these areas that are really essentially prohibited or or what has that looked like throughout the state? That's not clear to me. Um, that's a that's a great question. I think it's a a jurisdiction byjurisdiction decision on how to

administer this. There may be some communities that have decided to take on that maintenance expense and burden to red curb every 20 foot um that is applicable for this law. Our goal is to enforce with common sense. So, we're hoping that if a resident takes a look at an intersection and gives it their absolute best guess on 20 ft, I I don't anticipate anybody with a tape measure going out there and and getting them on those last couple inches. So, um while that doesn't provide a tremendous amount of certainty, it certainly allows us to enforce the intent of this law, which is to keep kids safe um while not incurring a tremendous additional maintenance expense for the community. Um, I do have I do have some concerns specifically because I know in especially some of our lowincome neighborhoods, parking is an issue and for for a family $52 may not be a substantial fine or it may not be something that impacts. But I know for some of our residents $52 is a large sum and for me it is concerning that somebody would not know whether or not they are even violating the law. So that is a concern for me and um and in terms then if if I go and I want to park in a particular street and I'm not really sure if I'm in violation or not. So then how do I find out whether or not I'm within within compliance or not? Um should I call our sheriff? Should I call our parking? Like what will that look like?

Um so it's it's consistently 20 foot within the intersection. Um, and I think if if anybody has concerns, uh, something perhaps as rudimentary as just sort of taking those 20 steps to see if it's approximately within the 20 foot might be the way to to solve it in the moment. Um, I'm not sure that you would immediately get a sheriff's response to to provide confirmation.

Okay. Um, so for me it is an actual question because as I spend time in the various neighborhoods I will get asked about parking. So for me it's not a hypothetical, it's not an academic. I will be getting questions. Can I park here? And because because there are very limited parking options and I know this for a fact in particular neighborhoods. So, I would like our residents to have a way to have somebody that they can call and find out, is this a street that I can park without being subject to a $52 fine? And then obviously then the other option, the other question that I do have, if somebody does end up with a fine, then do we have a process for that fee to potentially be waved or be withdrawn? Um, so that would also, I think, help our residents Sorry, I I might interject because I actually have a a a question. Council member, are you asking if it's every intersection that it's 20 feet? Because the way I understand it and maybe Yeah, I I think I'm understanding it's every intersection. Correct, Michelle?

That's what I'm understand. Every intersection 20T. So, it's just 20 feet at every single intersection. So, and and then I would be extremely concerned about talking about waving fines for certain people and not certain people. Like I I know a lot of people would probably take issue to that because we can't play favoritism. We have a we have a job to do and that is to enforce the rules of the state of California and the federal government. We don't get to choose which ones we follow and which ones we don't. Um, so I'm not quite sure what you're proposing, but if you're not comfortable, I I'm trying to figure out a way that you would feel comfortable. Um, because we do have to follow the the laws of both the state of California and the federal government. So,

the city also follows all due process requirements. So, yes, in answer to your question, council member Nunes, all due process requirements, including appeal, etc. are available. So, but we're not making those decisions internally as in like there is an internal appeal process. Appeal. Yes. But not just whether we just wave a fee or something like that. There is an internal waiver process.

So, uh there is a process for that and it's available to anybody who uh needs it and uh it's due process. It's it's available to all. So, uh, you know, and for those who are, um, in doubt, take a tape measure with you. So, that's that's the only way to be certain. I think I do have a point of clarification. Is there a distinction whether a citation is issued by our sheriffs or if it's issued by our code enforcement?

Both can issue the citation. It is typically most common for the contractor to issue citations. Um only on scenarios where law enforcement is needed or if it's after hours is sheriff issuing citations. So it's predominantly um contractor. So my question is if a sheriff does issue a citation, right, my understanding it's a vehicle code section potential violation, correct? Is that being processed through our administrative processing or is that going through the traffic court? Okay.

Which is where uh deputy issued citations are processed? There's due process there also. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. For me, that's an important distinction in terms of the rights and obligations that are attached to that. Um I I do have the question about so what happens if I are a resident if we have a question about whether or not I can park in a section of the street. Uh for me that is something that that does come up and I suspect will come up.

Um absolutely we do have information on our website and we can be sure that it's it's uh prominently available given this change. Our parking enforcement team is available for questions as is Sylvia and her team. Um, and another rule of thumb instead of uh measuring it out, a car length is approximately 18 to 20 feet. It's almost the size of a parking space. So, if you can envision a car in front of your car between you and the intersection, you're most likely going to be making a safe choice. But if you do want more specific information as a resident, I would encourage them to call city hall. will find somebody that can answer their question or we can refer them to the parking hotline. So, um we will make sure that it's easy to find on the website given the importance of this communication period.

Um I would be interested in seeing that information and making sure that it is available um to our residents. Can I can I offer one um additional thing that we could do and I think it would be pretty easy for us to uh help get the word out. Um, we have our alert system. Why not use our alert system in both English and Spanish? Shoot out um one of our messages. I think that could be something that would be further information. I know a lot of residents have signed up for our alerts and then um to be able to get that out to them so that they see where we're that we are taking this action this evening. I think that could be helpful as well.

Yes. Great. I will engage our community engagement team and and use their expertise to make sure that we we get this out as as much as we can to inform the residents during this uh warning period. Perfect. Anything else? I have something, Mayor, if you don't mind.

Yes, Council Member Moscow. Um, and I was going to illustrate that point um, regarding the length of a vehicle, but we also have to note here, and it's depicted on our graphic, that the intersection is delineated by the curvature, the radius of the intersection, not where the roads meet. But this this graphic is pretty easy to understand. It's where you would find that sidewalk because that's generally where the curvature begins. It's 20 feet back from there, not 20 feet from the intersecting roadway. And I don't want to slam the door completely on red curbs because I think as we go along, we're going to find there will be some areas are more problematic. And to the council member's point, when I'm going west from my neighborhood, I will take uh Richmar. The Richmar area is heavily impacted because of the nature of uh the state of California and how they're doing housing now. There just is nowhere to park. So there's a lot of on street parking. So if we find that there are areas that are heavily impacted or we're receiving notifications, then I I I do think maybe a red curb would be appropriate. We're certainly not going to break the bank painting every curb in the city red. And if we do post this graphic, which I think is a great idea on our site for the alert, maybe take off the city of San Diego logo.

Okay. Anything else? Nothing further from me. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Any knows? Seeing none. Okay. Moving on to oral communications. I'm assuming we do have some. So, I'll give Nikki a moment to Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Uh, first speaker is Carol Gandelle, followed by Lil Anderson, uh, followed by Natalie Aguular, and then we have one more speaker after that.

Uh, good evening, Mayor Jones and council members. I'm here tonight as a private citizen, a concerned member of our San Marcos community to speak out for our neighbors who are living in fear, fear of leaving their homes to work, take their children to school, to shop for food, or go to church. It doesn't matter if they're native-born citizens, naturalized, here legally, or undocumented. They are terrified and with good cause. And as we've seen from the violence imposed on the citizens of Minneapolis, it is no longer just folks with brown skin who are in danger. Anyone who dares to exercise their first amendment rights of free speech and assembly, never mind the second amendment right to carry a weapon if permitted, is in danger of being beaten, pepper-sprayed, or shot, and then having their character lied about by the current administration. I'm here to ask you all to stand up to protect all the members of our community from the current attacks by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. Do not allow ICE, CBP, and DHS to congregate in shopping lots like Home Depot and sweep up workers whose only crime is wanting to get to work to provide for their families. Do not allow Flock or similar license plate readers to be set up on city property as Flock will not protect its data for being shared with ICE and other federal immigration agencies. do not contract to allow use of city properties that will support the current administration's aggressive and illegal capture and abuse of not the worst of the worst, of whom I'm sure there are a few, but thousands of good, kind, and hardworking men, women, and children. And I understand that Lake San Marcos is not under your providence, but it is governed by the county supervisors. Please work with the board to not allow ICE to pick up landscape workers as they

peacefully provide services to our community. This is your lane to protect our community and all its residents. We expect you to step up and lead in this effort to fight for all of us. Just as you've stood up for the victims of human trafficking, please stand up for all of our residents. Thank you. Um, next up, uh, Liil Anderson, followed by Natalie Lee Aguular, followed by John Moer. Good evening, council members. I too am here to speak on the problem of ICE. Um, I'd like to ask you not to cooperate with them. And I'd also ask you to ask the sheriff's department to protect us from ICE. It sorry, they're um terrorizing our citizens. Doesn't matter if you're here legal or not, if you're a criminal or not, if you're a naturalb born citizen or not. Doesn't seem to matter. They're sweeping everybody up. You know, I've lived here for almost 10 years now, and this time period we're living in is the first time I have ever felt unsafe in San Marcos. Um, you know, these these ICE agents, they they've been involved in 16 shootings so

far. And um you know they sweep these people up and they put them in detention centers and they don't provide for them. They don't take care of them. I was just reading about a little girl. She had sickle cells. She couldn't have been more than I don't know six maybe and she died in ICE custody because they didn't give her the care that she needed. young beautiful little child and she's dead. Anyway, um if you truly represent me, please please protect us from ice. Uh thank you, Lil. Uh next up, Natalie Aguilar, followed by John Moer, and then Richard Newton. Good evening, mayor and city council members. I'm Natalia Gillard and I'm a community educator with Univers and I'm here to provide our on the record updates. First is an update on our community pantry. In this new year, we continue to serve community members in our area. We continue to see an increased need and demand for food, housing, transportation, and other critical needs, especially among community members, elders, um agricultural workers, and neighbors. Donations are always welcome at our pantry. Food items of special need include dry beans, rice, salt, oil, flour, and musk. And second is my regular update on the civics program. We continue another year of our civic initiatives which includes our comprehensive citizenship classes. They are currently held Tuesdays from 5 to 7:00 p.m. at San Marcos Elementary on one Tiger Way. Save the date. Our

graduation will be held on Friday, November 13, 2026 this year. And then third is im information regarding um the Cesar Chavez Day of Service event which will be on Friday, March 27, 2026. And that'll be our fourth fourth time hosting the Cesar Chavez day service in collaboration with the local colleges CSUSM Palomar College um and Mira Costa College as well as um our collaborators Restoration Abbey, the Community Action Group and the local community. Thank you for your time and I hope you all have a good evening. Thank you Natalie. Uh next up, John Moer followed by Richard Newton. hand out. I'm assuming.

Good evening, mayor, city council members, Michelle, Helen, Bill. Um, I want to thank you guys for reading the emails I've been sending out since Friday when a couple of our residents got three and 60-day notices about paying um, basically solar overbilling fees um, as a result result of not having correct electric meters. Um, I first came across this a year and a half ago and one of the one of the residents um, the Gibbons right here, I met with them. I went back four years and created a spreadsheet that showed their electric use two years before they had solar in two years after. What I've done here is I've taken one piece of that spreadsheet and showed you that the one I've got an error on is just the kilowatt hours total that they're saying this person used. There's a couple. There's two of them. Okay. At the very top of that, the first six lines are prior to solar going in. the minute I've got it highlighted that so show shows what happened once the solar system was turned on. So you went from like a 437 to 616. I looked at their their historic and they could have an average about 500 kilowatts per month which is actually a decent amount for two people starting starting with the solar getting turned on. The first one was 948 kilwatt hours. Your second one was 1,357 kilwatt hours. The next one, 1,280. The 2,139 is easy to catch your eye. And 3,46. It's obvious there's a serious problem. We met with Chris Morrison, the district manager for J&H, a year and a half ago. I took the spreadsheet in. We took copies of her billings. The prior on-site manager had told these

residents not to pay these overcharges and she had worked to try and get Parklane Development Management to actually repair this stuff and they refused. We've had the same problem with J&H. You've seen that by the emails going back and forth. So, I just wanted to show you where it's actually coming from. Um, I know they've actually paid today because that three and 60 threatens their very home existence. And actually those those bother me for this particular type. And the last kicker is this is the time of the year that they have to give us our rent increase notice. I expected it more like the end of the week. It came yesterday and our CPI change was 4%. You know me, I'm going after 75% of that. So I'm going after 3%. Their notice came in at a flat $35 per per month, which our average person that's actually a 5.5% for the average for the park. So, we're in person fund for the next four months. Thanks, guys.

Thank you. Um, next up, Richard Newton. Mayor Jones, members of the council, and the public. Um, I'm speaking off the cuff. I just, uh, spontaneously decided to speak. I'd like to go on record and say that I support ICE and I support federal efforts to enforce federal law. No one is above the law. That's something we hear from the left and we've heard for years that no one is above the law, not even the president. They say that when they attack President Trump. If the president is not above the law, then certainly people, foreign nationals who come here and don't obey our laws, are not above the law. It doesn't matter whether they're good people or bad people, whether they're working legally once they're here within not committing any crimes and staying within the law. The bottom line is if they came here, they violated federal law if they didn't come legally. Laws must be enforced. If you don't like it, petition Congress. Article one, section 8 of the United States Constitution gives the federal government, Congress, the authority to regulate immigration. Not the president. His job under article 2, his duty and obligation is to enforce federal law. He's doing the right thing. The left likes to distort issues with a lot of euphemisms. One is the word undocumented. Undocumented aliens. Undocumented gives a connotation that there was some sort of clerical error. That somebody who was otherwise lawful got their paperwork screwed up by a secretary or something. No, they're not undocumented. They are illegal. They came here illegally. Um, please advise people though not to interfere with law enforcement operations. It's really amazing what's happened in uh Minneapolis in the last couple of weeks that the left is so arrogant and so foolish to believe what they've been they've been told that it's okay to interfere with law enforcement on any level, federal, state, or local. And then they're appalled that somebody ends up getting hurt. It's just common sense. If you see law enforcement

officers arresting somebody, don't be arrogant enough to stu and stupid enough to think you can just jump in and start wrestling with officers and that nothing's going to happen. Of course, that's going to turn out badly. And as far as somebody having a firearm, having a firearm legally as a concealed carry, that's fine. But when you have a concealed carry, you're supposed to be smart enough to know not to get into trouble. You avoid trouble. Um, on that note, that is not an ICE thing. what happened with this gentleman who was shot. Uh I was a firefighter in Los Angeles for 31 years. I have friends that worked for LAPD and their training was when they have a threat, shoot to stop the threat. And as one officer told me, that means you keep shooting. You empty your magazine until the threat is gone. As long as the person's moving, you keep shooting. It's not ICE. That's general law enforcement. I think that's bad policy. I don't think that law enforcement should be executors. They should fire one or two rounds to stop somebody. But that is what happens. There was a case in Los Angeles a few years ago where five or six officers unloaded their magazine and put like 90 rounds in a guy, which is terrible. Shouldn't happen, but that's not an ICE issue. That's a law enforcement issue, and reform that would be good. But again, uh back to the issue with federal government support federal law enforcement and federal efforts. Thank you.

Thank you. Um okay. Uh next up, reports including We don't have any more speakers. Correct. Okay. Um, next up, reports uh regarding AB1234. Uh, first up is Sande. Uh, the main action that we had was refinancing a bond, which we often do in uh, San Marcos um, which actually helps save money for our residents. And then the other uh, main thing was anformational item that actually ended up being a um, potentially an action item and that was the Argus crime database. So everything that happens within the county as far as um a crime it is uh put into the uh argist database and and Sande happens to oversee it as board of directors and uh one a couple of the board members wanted to cancel all uh agreements with federal law enforcement which would include border patrol and ICE not the enforcement uh part of ICE but the homeland security invest investigations. So, anyone that would come across the border, if they um uh if if the um person pulling them over, which would be border uh border patrol or ICE homeland security, then what would end up happening is they wouldn't have access to the database. And um so I I asked the question, how would this impact human trafficking? How would this impact guns uh coming across the border? how would this impact drugs coming across the border? So, we would need to know those uh those answers in my opinion before we do any such thing. And um so it ended up that we did not vote on it. It will be coming back to executive committee I think probably the first meeting of February, but that means that that actually remains to be seen. Um but that's pretty much all that happened. I am not in favor of not sharing data. I

think it's very dangerous uh to our officers and I wouldn't want that to happen and we don't want criminals coming across the border um because there's uh we're not sharing the right information with them that they need to know to keep both them safe and then also us in the county and there are 65 um uh different organizations that rely on this information and so I think it's very important for us to uh continue doing what we're doing and by the way um so the ICE enforcement uh arm. Well, the enforcement arm, which is um a different different than what I'm talking about. It's not the investigation portion, but the um enforcement part is not part of the Argus um database. They're not allowed to access it. And zero, and I mean zero, information is actually shared regarding um someone's immigration status in this. That's which is a very important part of this. there's nowhere for it in the actual information and it is not shared. But some of the board members were alleging that that was happening and it's simply not true. Um and our attorney at uh Sande is uh working on uh doing an investigation. And I actually think the Department of um justice in California should do um uh some sort of investigation to prove it up because I don't believe that it's happening being that there's no actual um uh immigration information contained within the database. So, uh wanted to bring that up. And then, uh next up is League of California Cities Council Member Musgrove.

We meet in two weeks. Two weeks, Mayor. Okay. North County Transit.

Council member I'm sorry, Deputy Mayor Sella. Yeah, thank you, mayor. Um, so we met on January 15th. Uh, we also approved a procla proclamation recognizing January as human trafficking awareness and prevention month like just like we did tonight here. We had our board elections as it was a new year and uh we had the reelection of Mayor Prom uh Priya Patel from uh Carl's Carl'sbad as our board chair and I was reelected as our board vice chair again. And then we went through our proposed calendar year 2026 discretionary grant strategy. Um there was a lot of different things that we're hoping if we get the grant funding for around transportation uh solutions in the north county that we want to go for, but probably the biggest one that I brought up be in previous meetings is uh we are um very eagerly trying to replace the sprinter um trains because they're they're coming to an end of life. Uh they're about 15 years old. um many of them have already started to break down and so that's a huge priority for um North County uh transit district and it's big part of that strategy and then we had our fi our um our fiscal year 2025 financial audit results and um and you know they we have an independent auditing firm come in and look at everything and it we passed with flying colors so that was positive news and the board was happy to hear that so that that's the highlights.

Okay. Um, North County Dispatch, uh, Council Member Leblang is not here this evening, as I mentioned, uh, but they have not met. They, uh, they are going to be meeting next month. Uh, Clint Energy Alliance, Council Member Nunees. Uh, thank you, Mayor. We do have a meeting scheduled for this Thursday, January 29th at 2:00. It's a very important meeting. We will be discussing uh, rates. Um, so very important item. Um, I do expect some members of the uh public to show and um and give their input, make public comment. Uh, we meet at 2 o'clock at the Lucia Water District boardroom and that's 1960 Lacosta Avenue in Carl'sb for anybody that's available to to attend. And there is a virtual option for those individuals that are not able to attend in person.

Right. Thank you. Um, next up is K city council business visits. Uh, there was one to Gary and Mary West Pace, which was council member Nunees and then council member council member Moscow. There you are. I can read. That's a pretty cool place. It's very nice. Yeah, it is the former DMV building at Danso in South Rancho Santa Fe. So that uh Gary and Mary West PACE is one of the many PACE operations in the county. It's a nonprofit program of I'm sorry. Is it okay if I leave? No, no, don't.

of all-inclusive care for the elderly serving North San Diego County from its San Marcus location. It's established to support older adults with complex medical and social needs while allowing them to safely remain in their homes and communities. So, this is a a daytime facility and the schedule can be whatever the accommodation is made for the not clients are participants and the business. So some come in twice a week, some five days a week, others three days a week and for differing reasons and some only use it for medical processes that are required by their insurance provider. So they do provide a lot of different uh operations there. Since opening in 2019, they've grown significantly and now serve more than 470 participants from across North County. And we asked if they are maxed out with um the number that they can manage. and they they looked at each other for a second and said, "No, they're not all coming in at the same time. We have room for plenty more." So, certainly want to get the word out that it is an opportunity. And I'll let you take

Yeah. No, absolutely. Um, I was fortunate to be able to attend the grand opening in 2019. And I believe, mayor, I believe you were part of that grand opening. Um, of course, in 2019, we had no idea that we were going to be in a COVID shutdown the the following year. Um, so it really is great to see how they've grown and how they're able to serve um really so many of our seniors. Um, and really I think the stories that we see and we hear and how much they benefit from from having access to great care and the camaraderie that we see amongst the the individuals, the patients and also how um how it really it seems like that social aspect really just benefits um the care that they received. And um so it was very um great to see how they're growing and thriving and um I think they really like being in that location and being in San Marcos and how involved they are with the community and obviously with our city.

Do we by chance have a picture of Ray Ray? There he is. Is that where he is? That is Ray Ray Raashawa. He lives in Escanido. um he considers himself less a participant and more an ambassador. In fact, he has a personalized name tag that identifies them as an ambassador. He's been on the news just talking about the different programs and opportunities available. He greets new participants and they made a a very distinct effort to introduce him to us in 10 15 minutes. a complete rundown of the operation and what's good and how much he loves it and

just uh continues to push it out as an opportunity for some of his peers. He offered a room for me but I turned it down. He's a really impressive individual and he shared his personal experience and how he just underwent uh surgery, couldn't walk and is completely mobile. the the physical therapy that they offer at the facility said just head and shoulders above what the hospital offered. He's he is a chef. He was a sue chef and then he was a lead chef for a number of years and now he's uh just enjoying life as best he can.

I can't recall. Do they have like a um a dentist or an eye doctor in the back? I can't remember. So there was something they do have medical services. They do because they do partner up with I thought they said the Lions Club which is primarily focused on eyesight. They have a spa in there and it's not a spa like you might think but they have a a station setup where you would go to like a super cuts and you sit in the chair and lean back and your head to to do and they do uh there's a barber shop facility. Yeah. And shower facilities which is extremely important for a lot of the seniors that come in that don't have a walk-in shower. They have that provided there for them and they're one of our founding members of our blue zone study

and love that. Yes, they are. I do want to mention uh council member Musgrove that they did tell us that they are looking for volunteers that are able to provide haircuts, donate their time, their services. So, it is something that they mention. Do they have like a nail salon too or not? I I can't remember. I think those are all services that they would welcome.

Yeah. Okay, good. All right. Well, if you know anyone that wants to give back, uh definitely suggest they go check it out. Uh any council commentary, seeing none, we're we're really excited when uh council member Leblang comes back at our next meeting hopefully. Um if not, we want her to recoup. So, uh however long that takes. Anyway, uh with that, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you for coming.