City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good afternoon, boys and girls. Um, welcome to Hayward City Hall and welcome to the city council meeting. Today is April 21st, 2026. like to call this meeting to order. And uh every time uh council member Cyrup's mom comes um to the council chambers, he's the one that gets designated to deliver the pledge of allegiance. Council member Mayor Prom Cyrup, would you please do the pledge of allegiance?

Of course. Please stand if you're able. Thank you. Uh, madame city clerk, if you can Oh, uh, before we get started, um, pursuant to government code section 549 54953B. The meeting will include a teleconference location at the Gwyn Hotel, 521 North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611. Council me Council Member Bonia Jr. will participate via teleconference from the Gwyn Hotel. The agenda was posted at the teleconference location and the public will have an opportunity to address the city council. Council member Bonia, are you are you there?

I'm here, Mayor. Good evening. Thank you. Um c are you able to hear us clearly? Yes, I could. Is anyone else present with you at the remote location? Nope. No one's here. Thank you. Let the record reflect that Council Member Bonia Jr. has confirmed audio connectivity and that no other individuals are present unless stated. Please note that any votes taken during this meeting will be conducted by roll call. Uh so with that said, madame city clerk, if you can please take role. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening. Council member Andrews, hi. Council member Vonia Jr. You're present. Sorry.

Present. Council member Goldstein, present. Council member Roach, present. Council member Syra present. Council member Sermano. Mayor Selenus present. Thank you. Um we have a few presentations that I wanted to uh begin with. Um our first presentation is the Hayward Poet laurette. Um

oh uh is our uh Hayward Poet laurette recognition. And uh let me uh we do have a new poet for the city. Ladies and gentlemen, let's give Mo Kim Tong a big round of applause. Where he at? There he is. Yeah, that's him. Yeah. Uh before you get started, let me um hold on. Okay, we do have Okay. Um here you Why don't you hold that? Um we do have a a a certificate of recognition and um I'll I'll read the certificate and then um uh and then um uh then you can I'm sure you have a poem or two, right? Nice. And you have your your are they your students?

Yes.

Perfect. Okay. So, um the the certificate of recognition uh is presented to Mo Kim Tong April 21st, 2026 uh in recognition of being appointed as the city of Hayward poet laurette from April 21st, 2026 to March 31st, 2028. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, let's give Mo Kim Tong another big round of applause. And then and then uh why don't you go ahead and uh read your poem uh read uh uh read us your work and then uh I'll come down. We'll I'll give you the uh certificate, take some pictures. Uh we'll break Instagram and then we'll continue. All right, congratulations. Go ahead. Oh, um

Oh, yes, absolutely. Uh our our director of our library, uh Genty Adelman.

Thank you, mayor. Thank you, members of the city council. I'm really, really happy to introduce our new poet laurate. He is the third poet laurate for the city of Hayward. Mo Kim Tong is an educator, lifelong learner, and proud Haywardian. He is honored and excited to represent the best city in the Bay as Hayward's next poet laurate. As an immigrant kid from LA, raised in the Korean church, Mo discovered his voice through writing. After graduating from college in 2018, he moved to Hayward and began his teaching career where he spent four years learning and growing alongside his 10th grade English students at LPS Hayward. Since then, Mo has continued to seek out ways to close the opportunity gap and help young people cultivate their voices. Most recently, he worked for SEO Scholars, where he helped first generation students pursue college degrees. And we're really we were very very impressed by his enthusiasm, his voice, and the passion with which he's a his poetry comes across. And with that, I'll turn it over to Mo.

You're awesome. All right. Um, it feels wrong to turn this way because really this belongs to I think the city of Hayward. So I want You can rotate that. I I can Oh, what? Okay. Yeah, there you go. I'm learning a lot today. Do what feels right.

Okay. Um, wow. Good evening. Um, first of all, um, thank you to, um, the council members and, um, I want to say above all, thank you to the people of Hayward. Um, I've spent most of my life trying to figure out what home looks like and for some reason it was a hard thing to find. Um, I grew up holding a lot of contradictions. I was a pastor's son growing up in Korea Town in LA who also happened to like boys. I was a happy golucky kid who got straight A's quietly struggling with depression and PTSD. And I was a survivor of abuse who didn't speak up for for decades because I knew my parents have been victims too. I know how it feels not to have a voice and poetry was what gave me mine. Um, it was where the secrets I was ashamed of talking about for so long became the experiences that made me stronger. Um, that made me brave enough to speak up for myself and for people around me. What I've learned is none of us enter this world fully formed. Um, each of us and our lives is a collection of puzzle pieces that don't quite match. Right? And telling my story, even when it scares me, is how I've learned to give my life a shape. I moved to Hayward in 2018, the same year I finished college and began a master's program that sent me to a tiny tiny high school in Mount Eden. I didn't realize it would save my life. Hayward is the place I began my teaching career, discovered my passion for educating, and saw firsthand the power young people could have. It is where I matured from a scared, unconfident 20-year-old to a slightly less scared and slightly more confident 30-year-old. It's where I met the man who is now my husband. And where I finally came out to

my family. And now, eight years later, Hayward is home. And Hayward's the kind of place where people will knock on your door and leave you a casserole when you're sick. It's where people will offer you a ride when your car breaks down, where people will take care of stray animals even when they are not, I think, their caretakers. That is what makes Hayward the best place in the bay. And I step into this role um with frankly shock, but mostly with just gratitude and um humility um that I get to be a small part of what makes our city so special. And I hope that over these next two years, I will be able to help honor and uplift the wealth of stories and voices in this room and in our city. But tonight, I want to celebrate. I want to share a poem to recognize everybody who makes um Hayward Heart of the Bay. So, this is an ode to stray cats. This poem goes out to William Hayward. You came here cuz you saw gold somewhere in the dirt. Hitched your future to a boat. Clawed through endless earth looking for a nugget of hope in a haystack. I see you now. Your paws bloodied but your eyes full of fight. You pitched your tent on a rich man's land. Traded him a pair of boots for 40 acres of land. Then hustled a hotel from the ground up. Built yourself a sanctuary for strays open to every dreamer willing to scrap for a new life. And it goes out to Rachel Hayward who treated every passer by like family. Took the word hotel and spun it into a home. Your litter ever growing. But you lost a few on the way. Lost your husband, then your niece, then your son. Still somehow you muttered the city through loss long after it outgrew you. Even now, a century later, I hear your laugh in every bar on B Street. And it

goes out to Kimiko Fuji Kitama, the girl who grew carnations from concrete. When your government put you in a people in cages, treated you like an alien species to be weeded out. You planted yourself in places nobody expected you. Joined every city council, every housing committee, gardened yourself of movement to ensure nobody would endure what you did. Taught us all when stra together we become a pack. And to Anthony Ooa, you schooled us all man on the value of an education. Let the hunt by example. Taught us to pounce on every opportunity for knowledge. Leap into leadership without asking for permission. scratch on doors that weren't open for you yet so your children could walk through them someday. Your legacy looms so large it would take an entire campus told it. And to the Russell City Alleycats howling the blues from your side of Sparian and Winton your tune on ensemble performance a counter melody to exclusion when they deprived you of water and electricity. You fired back with gas trumpets so loud they couldn't possibly ignore you. They paved over your homes, turned them all to industrial parks, but they could never pave over your legacy. Decades later, I still hear your harmony through the gravel. A song for justice generations in the making. And it goes out to Oscar the Turman serving up deep fried wisdom every morning from your corner on Mission Boulevard. And it goes out to sixth graders in matching black puffer jackets terrorizing B Street on your bikes. Keeping commuters on your toes, you show them who runs these roads. And it goes out to the high school girls holding hands on 28 bus home. Your fingers woven into a shared promise to live openly as yourselves. To love one another without compromise, without apology. And to Miss Incenus, the best lunch lady I know. The kind of person who always makes sure every kid in line gets a banana. Who offers you a ride home before you ask, whose laughter could light the darkest room. And it goes out to my neighbor two two houses down. I pass you every night watching you feed every abandoned pet

passing through your yard. a haven for every living being who needs one. And it goes out to the stray cats of Hayward who have completely overrun our streets and our hearts. You clamber over our fences, sprawl across our sidewalks, squat on the hoods of every car on this block. I turn my headlights on. I stare at you through my windshield. And my entire city stares back. I see us now. Our scruff, our scratches, our battle scarves. Some say we're a little tough. They say we're a little rough around the edges. But they don't know us. They don't know our scrap, our grit, our heart. They don't know that when you're here, you're home. And if you stay a little longer, look a little closer past the filth caking our claws, I guarantee you'll see it. Gold under the dirt. Thank you all. Let's let you know let's give another big round of applause for Alleycats, you know. Yeah. Yes. All right. Yes.

Am I on the screen? Miam. There he is.

Three. Congratulations. Okay. Congratulations. Hayward has a new poet. Okay. Okay. Um, our next item, what I'm going to do is I'd like to pause our special presentations. Um, and um, what I want to do is I want to move uh, city manager comments um, up uh, to um, before um, special presentations because we we have a special presentation. Uh but I uh but before I do that, I need um a motion and a seconder to uh to change the agenda to move up.

I'll moved by council member um Goldstein, second by council member Roach. And madame city clerk, if you can do a voice roll call because we have council member Bonia joining us in Chicago. I think this is the quiet the chamber has ever been with over a hundred people. Okay, perfect. Council member Andrews.

Hi. Council member Vinnia Jr. Yes. Council member Goldstein. Yes. Council member Roach. Yes. Council member Syra. Yes. Council member Smen. Mayor Selenus

pres or Yes. Yes. Okay. So, I am going to move um uh the city manager's comments uh up to um uh after uh after roll call. So, um I will move up. So, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I have another special presentation that I wanted to, uh, do. Um, I don't know if you, uh, caught this, uh, on TV. I don't know if you caught this on ESPN or, uh, saw this online. Uh but um President Sandine uh the California State University East Bay President Sandine's Instagram account was on fire the last three or four months and that was because uh the California State University East Bay men's basketball team had a historic season of 30 was it 31 or 30? 33

33 excuse me 33 and 0 season out of Hayward 33 33 This was a historic year for Cal State East Bay men's basketball team. The Pioneers had a record- setting season, finishing 33-1 overall and reaching the NCAA Division 2 Elite 8 for the first time. Elite 8. Yes. The Pioneers went 30 and0 in regular season, the first unbeaten division 2 team in 30 years. 30 years, and went 22 and 0 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, CCAA. Season highlights included the team reaching second in the final NABC rankings. Senior guard Tyrie Campbell. Tyrie was named Tyrie was named the NABC National Player of the Year. Yes. And and for those who for those who have not heard that before, he is number one in the country out of Cal State East Bay. Number one.

And head coach Brian Rooney. Head coach. Coach, where you at? Coach Coach Rooney was named the NABC 2026 Division 2 National Coach of the Year and the Clarence Big House Gains National Coach of the Year. the best coach division two in the country. Coach Rooney. Boom. Just like that. Some key achievements of the team this year. The team finished second in the final NABC rankings of the year and got as high as two during the season. Uh, this was the first CCAA championship for men's basketball which included the permanent MVP Jaden Bush. Where's Jaden? Big Jaden. First team um, uh, tournament MVP Jaden Bush. First team Josh, is it uh, Leisa? EJ.

EJ. Josh, where you at? Josh,

I didn't have my glasses on. You're like the second tallest guy back there, right? Um, and Tyrie and of course Tyreek Campbell again. Tyrie. Tyrie having a season of a lifetime. We also had CCAA honors for coach of the year, of course, Coach Rooney. Player of the year, Tyreek Campbell, and defense of the year, uh, Joshu Josh, um, EJ. EJ, right? EJ. Yeah. Um, the 22-0 was the first time any CCAA team had accomplished. This is the first time any team has had accomplished it. And they come out of Cal State, East Bay, Hayward. This is Hayward. Hayward, right? Yes. So, so ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to call uh to the front here um of course uh the president of California State University East Bay playing guard. No, she doesn't play guard, but she's the tall guard. Uh President Kathy Sandine. Kathy Sandine. President Sandine. Um, uh, the dire the athletic director of course and fellow Hayward Rotarian, Allison Kern. Allison, come on up, Allison. And we're going to be looking for that Rotary pin just for the for the record. Um, and uh, of co of course uh, Coach Brian Rooney. Coach, come on up. Assistant Coach Michael uh Eagleton. Mr. uh Coach Eagleton. There he is. Coach.

Okay. Uh they don't have your positions. So I, you know, I can't sound like uh you know um I can't sound like uh you know, like a broadcaster, but um we have our players. Um, Amari Campbell. Campbell, come on up. Andrew Kamacho. Andrew. Um, okay. Is it uh

preiggby? Jaden Bush. Jaden, Jordan Espinosa, Josh EJ, Josh, and of course Tyreek Campbell, Terrence Haywood. Takai Emerson Hardy Ramsey Huff Peyton White Padilla Maxwell McCall Matthew Via Noea and um you know uh Matt Williams. Is Matt here? Matt You know, it says here, Matt, that you potentially had a class conflict. So, you know, uh not um we won't play this video in class. Okay. And then lastly, Jaylen Foy. Where's Jaylen at? Is Jaylen here? He's actually in class. All right. All right. All right. All right. Um, ladies and gentlemen, let's give the Cal State East Bay men's basketball team a big round of applause. Yes. Set up. Set up. Set up.

Oh. Oh, yeah. Nice. Nice.

Um, I challenged uh Tyreek Campbell to a game of 101. No, I'm kidding. Okay, thank you. Okay, before you guys um leave, we do have something um right here. wanted you to hold that.

And um it's a certificate of recognition. Uh and this is presented to the Cal State University East Bay men's basketball team uh 202526 season. In recognition of your historic year, the Pioneers had a record setting season, finishing 33-1 overall and reaching the NCAA Division 2 Elite 8 for the first time. The Pioneers went 30-0 in the regular season, the first unbeaten division 2 team in 30 years, and went 22 and 0 in the California Colle in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, CCAA. Congratulations on your incredible success and on building a legacy of school pride and inspiration for generations to come. Gentlemen, thank you very much.

I I just wanted to say that I actually went to one of your games. My daughter had an assignment on March Madness. So, I thought what better way to for her to learn about it was to go watch your games. And it was so exciting. It wasn't just school pride. It was community pride. I ran into multiple chief police chiefs at your game, including Chief Matthews back there. So, just wanted to give acknowledgement to the community for coming out and supporting you all as well.

So, before you leave, we have some want to take a picture. We're going to bring this down here. And I also have some gifts for you. Um, uh, these are, uh, these are challenge coins. Um, and these are small tokens that we give to individuals in the community that have just done some exceptional work. And they are a challenge coin. you can maybe go to, you know, Buffalo Bills in downtown and, you know, maybe get ice water. I don't know. But uh um but anyways, uh after school, but I do have this for you. So, let's go downstairs and take a picture.

Council member, I added you to the front screen for the pictures.

Thank you. Very good. Congratulations. I think I get everybody. You get the basketball. There we go. Say something.

Could I turn this around again? Yeah, I know. I know.

I'll put this right here just for for posterity. I would keep it everywhere, Mr. Mayor. Um, just really quickly, they asked if I wanted to say a few words. I think one of the most exciting things about this run, one, kudos to our athletes. One thing that they didn't say in that is that remarkable team that went on an Elite 8 run and they're all exceptional basketball players. Had a 3.43 GPA in the fall. So, they're also exceptional students. Uh, but we've been talking a little bit obviously about what this kind of run, what this kind of success has meant for the institution of Cal State East Bay, but also what this has meant for the city of Hayward. And we've been really grateful for um all of the support when we hosted the West Region Championship on Monday night. We had 3,000 people in our gym watching that game, which is a record in our modern times. And a lot of that was people from Hayward. And we've been really grateful for the community support, for the support of this council, for the support of the Rotary Club, and for city organizations. And um when we were out in Pittsburgh, our student athletes were doing their media. And multiple students during that time referenced we were doing this not just for the basketball team, not just for our school, but for the city of Hayward and what we want to represent. So we're very grateful for everyone's support. We're excited about the recognition that this brings to Hayward, best city in the Bay, and we're excited to keep doing it. So, thank you so much.

So, so there's a lot of underassmen here. So, but um just wanted the students to know that the the basketball team uh they're going to excuse themselves, but the reason why they're excusing themselves is because they have homework. Right. Right, you guys? All right. Thank you. And let's give him a big round of applause. Okay. Okay. Um before so now I'm going to proceed to close session or close session announcement. Mr. City Attorney, can I get a close session announcement?

I apologize for uh I think I put you on the spot. Good evening, mayor and councel. Also, let me acknowledge former mayor Holidayiday in the audience. Uh the council did convene in close session at 5:30 with all members present. Council member Renia Juna attending uh remotely. There were two items. Uh first, public employment. The council initiated its annual evaluation of council officers. Tonight, it was city clerk uh Miriam Lind. There are usually three sessions that comprise the evaluations. Council also met with its labor negotiators to discuss all bargaining groups. Uh, no action was taken in close session, but please take note there are action items on the public agenda on both the consent calendar and legislative business. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you. Um, hold on a second. Okay, thank you. Um, okay. Now we uh our next item are we're going to resume with um special presentations. Um our next special presentations is library week. This week is library week. And uh is our library director still here? Is she still Oh my gosh, there she is. Director Adelman, it's library week this week.

Did you know that? I did. Okay. So, let's uh Wait, hold on. Where's the Oh, library week right here.

Okay. Yeah, hold that up. Okay. Okay. Um, so this is library week and I do have a proclamation and what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna um I'm not going to read the whole thing, but I'm just going to stay with the last three whereases. How's that? Okay. Um whereas the whereas the Hayward public library professionals collaborate closely with the friends of the Hayward Public Library whose funding whose fundraising efforts and advocacy provide crucial financial support for library programs, collections, and services. And whereas the Hayward Library Commission supports and advocates for library services and is showing appreciation for library professionals by providing snacks and treats for every staff for for the staff every um every day during National Library Week. Whereas these library staff have demonstrated remarkable adaptability and innovation in meeting involving community needs uh while simultaneously upholding the fundamental values of public libraries. Now therefore, I, Mark Selenus, mayor of the city of Hayward, and on behalf of the city council, do hereby proclaim April 19 to April 25th, 2026 as National Library Week. Ladies and gentlemen, let's give a big round of applause for our library.

Thank you. I just wanted to say just a couple things because I'm I am the um lesson on our library commission. I wanted to recognize uh we have some library commissioners here as well, right? Is it Shireen? Um Shireen is do we have any other commissioners here? Then Shireen is representing. Thank you, Shireen. Um yeah, the library commission does the community's work and recommendations to the library. So, thank you. And thank you, director Adam, for being here as well and keeping our library running efficiently. Thanks.

Thank you. And uh let's go down and take a picture. Okay. Ready.

Nice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Go ahead. Thank you, Mayor Selenus, members of the city council. This is a real honor. I'm really happy to be here. Today is also National Library Workers Day, and we have an amazing team in Hayward, and I'd just like to give them a round of applause, please. I'd also like to recognize uh three of our three uh support groups. We have Shireen PCEL from the library commission. Stand up. We have uh exmale Barbara Halliday from our friends of the library. And we have Winnie Thompson from our Hayward Literacy Plus Council. We also have with us representing our staff staff Michelle Ngales who's trying to get her yarn together there. And Michelle, I really want to give her credit for she did so much so much work in helping us uh get our new uh new poet laurate on board and just we have an amazing team. Thank you for all your support and really thank you to all of the library staff for the good work they do. I invite our basketball players and all the kids who are here to come and get a library card at Haywood Public Library.

Yes. Now, now that we know that uh there's snacks at the library every day, um I just want to tell all the kids, uh snacks. Who doesn't like a good snack?

Perfect. Okay. Okay. Uh our next pres our next special presentation is uh acknowledging National Crime Victim's Rights Week. Um, and oh, I don't know. Uh, um, Mattie Baines, a senior victim advocate from the Alama County District Attorney's Office. Mattie, Miss Baines, are you here? Oh, yes. Sorry about that. A uh let's give Miss Baines a big round of applause as she walks down Miss Baines. Um I I'm assuming and and I apologize if I get this wrong. You're a a deputy district attorney for Alama County.

Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. And these are your colleagues, correct? Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Okay. Um, so let me Oh. Um, okay. Uh, I'll read I'll just read the last two whereases and then we'll take pictures and then uh and I'll invite you to say some remarks. Okay. Thank you. Um, whereas the Alama County District Attorney's Office victims victim aware uh victim witness assistance division has been a leader in outreach and services to underserved populations including children that have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation. exploitation, sexual assault victims from cold hit DNA cases, immigrant victims, urban youth victims, victims in the LGBTQIA plus community, and victims with physical, intellectual, and/or develop developmental disabilities. The Alama County District Attorney's Office Victim Witness Assistance Division has been bridging the gap between law enforcement and the community and building the community's trust in the criminal justice system. And whereas the National Crime Victims Week, April 19th through April 25th, 2026 provides an opportunity to celebrate the energy, creativity, and commitment that launched the victim rights movement. inspired by its progress and continues to advance the cause of of justice for crime victims. Now therefore, I, Mark Selenus, mayor of the city of Hayward, on behalf of the Hayward City Council, do hereby proclaim the week of April 19th to the 25th, 2026 is National Crime Victim's Rights Week. Lad, ladies and gentlemen, let's give them a big round of applause. Maybe

it's around somewhere in Chicago. There he is. There he is. Okay. He is real, by the way.

Thank you. Thank you guys for this. I know this is hard work, but thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you for what you're doing. Is it Good evening, mayor, council members, city staff, and members of the public. My name is Claudia Romero, and I serve as a victim advocate with the Alama County District Attorney's Office, Victim Witness Assistance Division. I am honored to be here this evening on behalf of District Attorney Ursula Jones Dixon who has served as Alama County District Attorneys as Alama County District Attorney since her appointment by the board of supervisors on February 18th, 2025 to accept this proclamation recognizing National Crime Victim's Rights Week. Our victim witness advocates work closely with crime victims and their families as they move through the legal process. We help survivors understands understand their rights, keep them updated on their cases, prepare for court, and provide support during some of the hardest moments they may ever face, including while testifying. Our advocates also help survivors complete and submit the California Victim Compensation Board or Calvcb applications so they can access important support for counseling, medical expenses, lost wages, relocation, and other crime related needs. In 2025, our office helped survivors secure more than 2 million in Calvcb support. Behind every Calvcb application is a person or family seeking stability, healing, and a path forward.

That is why the work of our victim witness advocates matter so deeply alongside the care and support offered through the family justice center and the trauma recovery center. Together, these resources help survivors find support, begin healing, and move forward without having to face the aftermath of crime alone. National Crimes Victim's Rights Week is an important opportunity to recognize the resilience of survivors and to reaffirm our shared commitment to standing with them every step of the way. This proclamation is a meaningful reminder of our shared commitment to survivors. It also reflects District Attorney Jones Dixon's beliefs that victims and witnesses of crime deserve to be heard, supported, and treated with dignity, compassion, and respect. Thank you for standing alongside District Attorney Joan Dixon, survivors of crime and their families, and for recognizing the importance National Crime Victim's Rights Week. Thank you.

Thank you. The uh I just wanted to also add um the uh Alama County District Attorney um Ursula Jones Dixon um has been an incredible and outstanding leader in the DA's office. Um and I have heard her speak on several several occasions where um she has placed an incredible amount of emphasis on victim's rights and um and I think uh that is an absolutely important aspect of her job. Um and um you know her balance of justice and victim's rights are absolutely important and I think she's very mindful of that. So, please um pass on to uh the district attorney um our appreciation. Thank all of you for your absolutely incredible work and uh and tell her um and tell her thank you for us.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Okay. Now for the moment we all have been waiting for. Who wants to talk about Earth? Who wants to talk about Earth? Let's give Earth a big round of applause. Right. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Um, our next special presentation is the 43rd annual Earth Day Poster Writing Contest Awards Presentation. And um, 43 years. This is our 43rd year doing this. And I know we have um our director of uh public works, Alex Amir, is over there. And I know we have um and I always forget your title, Mr. Pearson, but we have an we have Mr. Pearson over there who is part of our public works department. And um and so thank you for being here.

Um okay, we have the slides up. Um so I want to first welcome everyone uh this evening. Um, the next item on tonight's agenda is the 43rd annual Earth Day poster and writing contest awards presentation. I would like to give a warm welcome to all of our student winners, families, and teachers and community members for joining us tonight. And just for all the students, for all the students out here, who's winning tonight? Who's w who's winning tonight? Right. Right.

Great. Great. Um, Uh we are excited to celebrate the creativity, environmental awareness, and the hard work of Hayward students. Um and then slide two. Uh each year students across our community share their ideas about protecting our planet through posters, essays, and poems. The the Earth Day poster and writing contest continues to be an important part of the city's Earth Day celebration, helping inspire environmental stewardship and sustainability through student voices and artistic expression. Thank you to all the students who participated and to the teachers who encouraged and supported them along the way. Before we get to the awards, I would like to first take a moment to invite everyone to participate in our Earth Day cleanup and community fair this Saturday, April 25th at Weeks Park. You can register and learn more about upcoming events by visiting hayward-ca.gov/earth-day back slashearth-day or scan the the QR code shown here on the screen. We hope to see you there. And I know I'll be out there and I'm sure uh many of us up here will be out there. Council member will certainly be out there and I know council member Andrews will certainly be out there. Um okay. Um our judges, these were our judges this year. Before announcing the winners, we would like to first thank our volunteer judges who generously gave their time to evaluate this year's entries. Um, our first judge was Rury Cyrup.

Oh, there she Okay. Uh, Suzanne Phyllis. Where's Suzanne at? Suzanne. Suzanne. Okay. Um, an Maloney Mason. An where's Ann at here? And then Pam Guard. Pam Pam Pam Guard. Um, thank you for helping uh helping to make this program possible. Um, now it is my pleasure to introduce to you Council Member Zermeno, Council Member Goldstein, and Council Member Roach. Where is Council Member Roach? Oh, there she is. Oh, there you are. Okay. Uh to um to continue with the program. So, Council Member Zero, take it away.

Mayor, thank you very much and thank you all who are here, parents especially, for uh helping your students and really encourage them to do this. So, we're going to go youngest to oldest. All right. So, we'll start with the kindergarteners and I'm sure that they all happy about that. Each of our winners will receive a gift card that can be used in a variety stores in Hayward. Hayward. Right. Family members are encouraged to come forward and take photos as students receive their awards. Okay. Also, I'd like to remind all the student winners to stay until the end because uh of the presentation so they can get one of the three bonus prizes to be spent in Hayward. All right. So, here we go. Ready? All right. So slides uh six and eight we have the okay first first place writing category Anna Abraham

okay good all right there she is God. They're they come in small packages, but it's very powerful if you can see the poem up on the screen. Very good. Very good. Slide seven. Poster category second place is Ariel Lee from California Cross Point Academy. Ariel Lee Oh, Annie Abraham.

Oh, the I don't want to break this the camera.

Uh, poster category. First place goes to Aiden Bradshaw from Stone Bray Elementary. All right, Aiden. All right, there you go. Good job, Aiden.

Very good. Future Picassos. All right, now we go to the writing category. Second place, Sherea Abraham, California Crossbon Elementary. And oh, there she is. She's coming. Very good. Congratulations, Sherah Abraham. Most excellent poster category. Second place goes to Ricardo Delgado from Longwood Elementary. Where is Mr. Delgado?

Should we go with Ricardo first? Let's go. Let's go Ricardo first. Okay, that's him.

Congratulations. You look so handsome tonight. With all this excitement, I jump one of the slides. Now we have to go back to the first place uh writing category. Isabella Lucero from Hayward Twin Oaks Monsuri and again the parents really need to be thanked for this. Thank you. First place. First place uh poster category. Christopher Shu from Guy Emanuel Elementary. Where? There he is. He's coming. Okay, Julie, you you're the grader now. You're right there. Line nine.

Okay. I get to announce the second through third graders. Okay. So, let's see. Do we have Oh, oh, no. I know. I'm sorry. The fourth through fifth graders. Okay. Um, let's see. from right I'm going here right Caleb okay so let's see so the second place winner for the writing category from crossoint academy is Caleb Wong

oh yeah he's got Great. Okay. In the first place for the writing category from Stonebury Elementary, Eliza Lee.

Okay, great. And next we have the second place um winner for the poster category from Yoming Art Studio, Angela Lee.

Congratulations. And next we have the first place winner for the poster category from East Avenue Elementary, Isabella Lenares. All right, congratulations. All right, on to the sixth through eighth grade category. The second place winner for the writing category from Cherryland Elementary, Camila Garcia over there. Congratulations. And now the first place winner for the writing category from Martin Luther King Middle School is Lily Wong. Congratulations. And now this the second place winner for the poster category from E7 Elementary, Giovanni Wilson.

Congratulations. And then the first place winner for the poster category from Burbank Elementary, Selena Pun. Pun Puget. Punet. How is it? Pune. Pune. Congratulations.

All right, I'm passing this off to my council member. Congratulations. All right, Dan. Yep. So, you're going for the ninth grade with these ones down here.

Oh, okay. Very good. Uh, in the writing category, second place, Shaa Gupta from Maro Catholic High School. Okay, that one will be up for auction. In the writing category, first place we have Tiberius Rep. Am I pronouncing your name right? Congratulations from California Cross Point Academy. Very good. And in the poster category, second place, Maline Romo from Maro Catholic High School.

Very good. Congratulations. In poster category, first place, Denise Barahas, Impact Academy of Arts and Technology. I believe that's it. Yep. Am I supposed to read that one? No. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Uh, congratulations to all of our student winners. Please join me in giving them another round of applause.

No, I think Okay. Yeah. Of course, the students couldn't do it without the teachers and with the parents. So, it's time to recognize some of our teachers who are there. Um, so if you have an opportunity, please come on up so we can recognize you in mass. Uh, if you are here, Sony Alvarado from Impact Academy. Okay, we're gonna All right, Miss Butler from Burbach Elementary probably doing their homework and preparing for tomorrow. Hey, hola.

Oh, she's in Spain. Oh my god. Denille Delaney from South A. Okay. Doing homework. Preparing for tomorrow's class. Melissa Fong from California Cross Academy. Okay. Uh Hi Jin who from Art Studio. Okay. They're not going to get a certificate. Did I Did I call you? Oh, come on. There you are. Okay, stand right here. Mhm. Okay. Miss Romero from Longwood Elementary. Miss Romero. Uh Jerry Philu from East Avenue Elementary. Thank you. All right. Let's see. Vil Malino from Hayward Twin Oaks Montasauri. Okay. Uh Anna Patterson from Moro Catholic High School. She didn't make it. She's preparing. Okay. All right. Uh Sarah Perry from California Cross Point Academy. Miss you Stonere Elementary. Mister Mr. You.

All right. Yeah. Miss Honey from Martin Luther King Middle. my neighbor. I live three blocks away. Uh, thank you very much. All right. Uh, and then we have Yuan Pan a pan from Guy uh, elemanuel. No, no. So, I congratulate all the teachers. Oh, there. Is she here? Oh, she's here.

Very good. Let's Let's give him a really nice round of Oh, one more. Okay, please. Photos and applause. Oh, Julie and Dan, do you need I need help. Oh, why don't we get uh Yeah, Mr. Andrews and Mr. Cyrup, come on down. All right. Uh I don't have any money to give you or any certificates or coins or anything except Okay, you can go now.

Prepare for tomorrow's class. And thank you. So, this is an exciting time and if we had a drum, we'd be doing the drum roll. Well, but anyway, we will now draw names of students for this year. Three bonus prizes. One basket contains the names of all the contestants and then the other basket contains all the writing winners. So, posters and and writers. Okay. Um, I will now ask Oh, mayor. So, kind of push it over to him so he can draw the winner.

Okay. So, I I will now ask Mayor Celis to draw one name from the writing basket. Okay. Annayiah. Abraham. Annayiah. Abraham. Where's Annayiah? Annayiah. There you go. Come on over. All right. And now one name from the poster. Oh, stand right here, young lady. Don't move. Face to face. Okay. Now, one from the poster basket.

Okay. the one who is dressed to take a chair up here on the deis. Aiden Bradshaw. Aiden, Aiden, come on over. And then madam city manager from the all category. Okay, this is the big one. Okay, one more draw. you if you remember if this is a cash price it must be spent in Hayward because we shop Hayward first. Okay, Mr. Mayor. Uh Giovani Wilson.

All right. We should get a picture. Okay. Oh my gosh, you're so cute.

Congratulations, as as educators, uh, Mayor Selenas and myself, uh, the, uh, teachers in this room and all your teachers who are at home. Uh, we thank you and you students, please give tomorrow, give your teachers a hug because what they are doing is wonderful. Thank you all for being here and make sure that you keep encouraging your kids to keep studying. study first, game second. Okay? And thank you all very much. And uh and I also want to thank uh our environmental services manager, Eric Pearson, back there. Let's give Eric a big uh and um I know Council Member uh Andrews is going to say this later on uh after the meeting or towards the conclusion of the meeting, but I wanted to invite everybody to the annual um uh Hayward Earth Day keep Hayward clean and green event which is this Saturday at Weeks Park starting at 8:30. 8:30. And are we doing lunch? Yeah, there's Yeah. And there's lunch. How's that? We get lunch. So, um let's give all of the winners a big round of applause. And let's uh let's thank everybody. And uh you know, we're going to be here till 11:30 tonight. So, if you guys want to stay and hang out with us, you're more than welcome. Uh, or you can go home and watch whatever is on TV

tonight. So, uh, or or do homework. Of course. Of course. All right. Thank you. Okay, our next item is public comment. This is reserved for anybody in the audience that would like to make a public comment on something that is not on the agenda. Um, I don't have any cards and I don't see anybody online. So, I will close public comment and we already did city manager comments, Mr. Mayor.

So, I would like to move We do have one person. Oh, we have one. Oh, hold on. Oh, there we go. We do have one public comment online. TJ from Hayward Concerned Citizens.

Hi, it's uh TJ with HCC and I will make it short. Thank you uh for all those great proclamations and presentations. They were wonderful. Um, I saw in the stack newsletter about Hayward Amplified the grant program to support the local businesses uh hosting events and um I was hoping at some point it's a 75,000 in total funding. Hoping at some point soon uh you can clarify for us where the funding is coming from in the interest of budget transparency. Thank you.

Thank you. Um I don't have any more cards. I don't see anybody else online. So, I'd like to close public comment and move on to our consent calendar. Uh, Council Member Goldstein is asked to pull item number five and um comment and then uh just for Yeah. Okay. Just for a comment. I'm sorry, just a comment on item number five. And I just want to comment on a few of theou amendments. Okay. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. So, let's do this. Um, can I get a a motion and and a second and then we'll proceed. Uh, I'll move it. Second.

Uh, moved by uh, Council Member Cyrup, seconded by Council Member Goldstein, and I'll open it up for uh, well, actually, before I opening it up for questions, let me go to I apologize, I moved too fast. Let me first uh, open this up for public comment. Um, I don't have any cards, so I And I don't see anyone online, so I will close public comments. Uh, moved by Council Member Sireup, seconded by Council Member Goldstein, and um, Council Member Goldstein, you had a comment.

Yeah. Great. So, item number five, I just want to give a shout out to our uh, traffic and transportation folks. the um the uh partnerships that we have uh and and this one in particular with Advanced Mobility Group are really designed to help us meet our uh uh zero accident uh objectives. And uh forgive me if I'm not using the right terminology there, but the point is for traffic safety to work around the city, we really need to get a handle on how traffic flows around the city. And so this sort of thing can easily be overlooked. So I just wanted to give a shout out. It is really a high priority for us to make sure that traffic flows flows smoothly, that people are rewarded for driving the speed limit and not rewarded for speeding, for example. And so, thank you, Mr. Mary, and uh the rest of your group in in traffic and to our partners at Advanced Mobility Group for helping us get our arms around that very difficult problem. Thank you.

Thank you. Um, Mayor Pro Tim Cyro.

Thank you, Mayor. I wanted to comment I think it's items 12 through 17 the amendments to theus with our labor partners. I'm sure some of us uh or many of us have comments on this but I just wanted to express gratitude and say thank you to the workers across the city and to the managers uh of those workers as well. This was a group effort. This is really what teamwork looks like in practice. Um we had a massive deficit we needed to overcome for the upcoming fiscal year. And uh we really came together as a team. Um we heard our workers loud and clear around protecting against layoffs. I think our workers heard us loud and clear as far as the fiscal situation we found ourselves in. And I just appreciate the commitment from our workers across the city uh in helping us get to this point. Uh what looks like a quick consent item and a quick vote was months in the making and hours and countless hours of meetings uh not just among the city management side but also amongst employees meeting together with their unions. Uh so this this uh this gesture does not go unnoticed. Let's continue to work together until we are uh out of the woods with this deficit. So, thank you so much everyone for your your your support, your teamwork. Uh, and I trust that we will continue to work well together into the future. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh, council member um Roach. Thank you. Yes. Uh, thank you, Council Member Mayor Promup. I wanted to um echo the same um thank you to our labor our labor groups, you know, as we work through this terrible deficit. It's really difficult thing to do and we're asking a lot of our employees and I know what the leadership of all these labor unions had to do to wringle their members and get them to the table on this. I am so grateful. Thank you for everything you did. So, thank you, HEAO, Clerical, Local 21, HPMU, HPOA, and Local 1909 for everything you did to show this kind of leadership. We appreciate it so much. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Andrews.

I'll ditto those comments and just want to give a special thank you to all those that work in the CMO office as well as um all the different divisions that were on the negotiating team. I know that was not easy work to manage those tough conversations and again I appreciate all the labor partners that came to the table and when folks reached out and I said you talked to our negotiating team you guys did that so thank you so much for working with us. Thank you uh Council Member Bonia.

Thank you mayor. I just want to echo my colleagues comments and thank all of our labor partners and just the staff throughout the city for their partnership as we move forward through this budget process and get a balanced budget. Um, you know, this has just been incredible work and incredible leadership and partnership by everybody. So, thanks to all of our partners for getting us here today. It doesn't go unnoticed and it's greatly appreciated. Uh, thank you, uh, Council Member Zmenu.

Thank you, Mayor. uh that you know we really do not do not thank our employees enough. So this is a good day and a good opportunity to do so. Uh thank you to the our employees. Thank you to their union representatives for actually helping us out. I think wanting to have a healthy city is uh something very important and we're taking good steps towards that. So much gracias. Thank you. And u before I comment I know uh our city manager had a comment. Yeah, I want to echo a lot of the same comments. I'm not going to say anything too too different, but just want to say that we we won't we would not be able to close our structural deficit without um the help and support from our labor partners and employees. So, I just feel a tremendous amount of gratitude for for their partnership. And um this is really great and it was it was hard and a lot of hard conversations, but I think um I think we ended up in a really great place. So, thank you.

Thank you. Um yes um want to echo all of the comments that have been made uh this evening by my colleagues and the city manager. Um you know uh when I was first elected to this chair uh well to the day as back in 2010 um for those who were working with the city back in 2010 uh we were confronted with a very similar situation and um uh and all of our labor groups stepped up. Our management team stepped up, the executive team stepped up, and and the city council stepped up, and we uh increased our uh contributions to our um pensions, increased our contributions to our healthcare, and we uh forego or forewinent our uh cost of living, our colas. Um, fast forward uh to today uh or fast forward to last year. Uh we are confronted with um another situation and um and we would not be where we are at if it weren't for the collective effort of the entire city of all of our labor groups. And I I forget which one up here said it. Um but yes, while this might be a quick vote, um a lot of work went into this. A lot of negotiating went into this. And I also and so I want to thank all of our groups uh and all of our labor groups for um for doing this. And and by the way, some of the uh the the contracts tonight uh were delivered uh the tenative the tenative agreements were delivered as late as Friday on the 11th hour. And so but we got it done. It got done. Um I also want to say um that

we're not the only city in Alama County that is going through this. Um, and uh I u I get the um you know I get the emails from my good friend and my colleague from Berkeley, Mayor Isi. Uh the Berkeley City Council in in the city of Berkeley uh today are confronted and they're trying to close a $30 million budget gap. Um um and um the city of Pleasanton, my good friend and colleague, uh Jack Balch, Mayor Balch, they're trying to close an incredible uh municipal local municipal budget gap. And so um what we are dealing with and what we are sort of grappling with um is no different. Um that is that is the reason why uh the theme uh of all of us up here and the theme of our our talks with our labor groups have been uh structural and ongoing. Whatever we do, it has to be structural and ongoing. And um that is how we are going to reset our footing uh not only for this current budget year and not even for next budget year because we're still not out of the weeds. Um but it's going to take a couple of years and um but I think um uh what what we see tonight with all of our groups coming together and doing this for the city of Hayward while simultaneously and I want to emphasize this while simultaneously ensuring that we continue to deliver high quality services. When you call the city you will get services. When you call 911, you will get service. You will get a response. When you call us, when you call the water department, you will get service. Nothing changes and nothing has changed. And so, I want to be very clear about that. So, um I want to thank again

thank the uh the executive team, thank the the staff across the city and um uh for all of our work uh in doing this. So with no further said, wanted to uh again reiterate moved by council uh Mayor Prom Syrup, seconded by council member Goldstein, and madam city clerk, if you can do a um verbal roll call. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council member Andrews, hi. Council member Vornia Jr. Yes. Thank you. Council member Goldstein, yes. Council member Roach, yes. Council member Syra, yes. Council member Sermeno, Mayor Selenz.

Yes, absolutely. And it passes unanimous. Thank you. Um, our next item is our public hearing, item 8, item 18. Um, and PH26-018. This is the Straford Village Prop 218 hearing. Proposition 218, public hearing to receive and tabulate property owner ballots regarding the establishment and levying of a new assessment for the Stratford Village Flood Control Facilities Improvement Assessment District. Adopt the resolution establishing a new Stratford Village Flood Control Facilities Improvement Assessment MD1-2026. approve the final engineers report and order levy and collection of assessments for fiscal year 2027. And um to deliver this report uh is uh our director of maintenance services director uh Roman and and I will let him take it off take it away.

Thank you mayor and council. I'm going to turn tonight's presentation over to our project manager, senior management analyst, Manny Greywall. Hello.

Hello, city council. Um, so MD1, so we are here today to recommend conducting the public hearing in accordance to Prop 218. If approved, this will establish the proposed assessment, approve the final engineers report, and order the levying and collection of fiscal assessments. If not approved, the proposed assessment will not be imposed. So MD1 has a storm drainage system to prevent flooding to the homeowners in that area. The current rate is $243.92 per parcel and does not allow for CPI increases. We are proposing a base increase of $97.82 82 for a total assessment rate of $341.74 which will be subject to annual CPI increases. Um and those increases will fund the storm drainage system which we collaborate with Alama County to maintain. Um and that is the end of my presentation.

Nice. Um thank you. Okay. Um uh next I want to see if there's uh any questions from council. Uh council member Roach. Thanks. Yeah, just I mean just for the sake of the the community and for my understanding too. So up until now there has not been it has not been linked to a CPI any annual CPI increase rate. So does this does this 72 7 97 82 get us to sort of like parody on cost and what we have to do to maintain it?

Correct. Yes. So when this uh district was formed, a prop 218 was not was not held. So we w was weren't able to charge the property owners a CPI increase to maintain the current operations or increase in maintenance cost. The $97 gets us to a point where we can start acrewing a fund balance to do a drainage improvement project which is estimated to be a roughly $400,000 in the year 2030. Um, if we were able to apply CPI when this district was formed, the annual assessment would be over $500. So, we're still almost only halfway there to not impact the residents as much um and, you know, build that fund balance over time.

Great. Thanks. And then I assume they're getting notices, right, about all this and everything. Yeah. Okay. Correct. Yes. So, they did receive notices about this 218. Um, there was also multiple community meetings held this fiscal year and in prior years. So there was um a lot of communication with the district. Great. Thank you. Thanks for the presentation.

Um before I call upon Mayor Prom Cyrup, um I need to read this first. Um we will now open the public hearing to consider the proposed Straford Village Flood Control Facilities Improvement Assessment MD1-2026 conducted conducted pursuant to Proposition 218. This hearing is to receive public testimony and to consider all objections and protests to the proposed assessment, including the tabulation of property owner ballots submitted for this proceeding. At this time, I will ask if there are any members of the public who wish to speak on this item. Uh, and that I'm going to wait until we do public comment that um public comment on that. Uh, so before I move on to public comment, I will go to Mayor Pro Tim Cyra.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the very brief report. I think that might be the shortest in city history. Um, so from my understanding, we've tried to do this in the past, correct? And we were unsuccessful. That is correct. Okay. And I'm seeing the way the subject line is written that we're going to do a tabulation tonight. So, have we already received the ballots tonight? Correct. Yes. All property owners were noticed that their votes had to be submitted to the city hall by 6:30 p.m. tonight. Great. And then for the public's knowledge, are we tabulating that vote here or have you already tabulated it and would you like to announce the results? Um, we have not tabulated it yet. Um, I believe mayor has to direct the city clerk to start tabulating.

Understood. I just wanted to clarify the process for the public's knowledge. Thank you. Okay. Um, those are my those are my questions. Thank you very much. Okay. Um, seeing no more questions, uh, I will, uh, open up for public comment. And, um, I don't have any public comment cards. Uh, I don't have anybody online, so I will close public comment. Seeing no further comments, we will close the public hearing. Madame City Clerk, have all the assessed ballots received prior to the close of the public hearing been collected, and are they ready for tabulation?

Yes, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. Now I direct the city clerk to tabulate the assessment ballots as required. Ballots shall be weighed according to the propo to the proportional financial obligation of each property. We will recess briefly while the ballots are tabulated. Uh so I will take a 10-minute recess if that 10 minutes 10-minute recess and then we'll reconvene and we'll proceed with the public hearing. With that, we're in recess. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. me feel

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19 and uh the city attorney has informed me that no special action is necessary. we can just proceed when um when we are ready for uh item 18 um we will um stop and then proceed with item 18 but they're counting votes and then u and just I just want to uh and then uh Pastor Vince did did you get your taken care of too?

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Uh not yet. Yeah, not yet. Okay. Um Okay, we all ready? Okay, so um welcome back. Uh this is uh next item is item 19 PH26-017 businessfriendly um businessfriendly Hayward proposed text amendment to Hayward Municipal Code Chapter 10 articles 1 2 4 and 28 and chapter 6 article 2 proposed zoning map revisions and proposed master fee schedule updates related to the businessfriendly Hayward project. And this um uh report will come to us by way of our development services director, Sarah Bowser, and Sarah Bowser and her team are right there.

Yes. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you so much. We are so excited to be here. This has been a long time coming. Our staff has worked really hard. You've seen this a few times. It's been to the planning commission a few times to get great feedback, lots of community outreach. Um, and without further ado, I want to turn it over to my esteemed colleagues here who've worked really hard on this project, uh, senior planner Elizabeth Blandon and assistant planner Sachiko Riddle. So, thank you so much.

Thank you. And while we will try to be as brief as Manny was, we will probably take a few more minutes. So, just very admirable, I will say to our colleague. Um, good evening, mayor and members of the council. Elizabeth Blandon, senior planner. Uh, tonight, Assistant Planner Sacho Riddle and I are really proud to present you with the final proposed municipal code changes and zoning map revisions for the businessfriendly Hayward project. As we previously discussed, the objectives for this project are to streamline the permitting process for Hayward businesses in order to activate our commercial areas. Uh during tonight's public hearing, we will be asking the council to make a final decision on the project. And um as Sarah said, since this is the third time we're presenting this project to the full council and the fourth for those of you that are on the CEDC, um we're going to focus our presentation on changes that have been made since we last saw you in January. Um however, during the Q&A, if you have any questions about other parts of the project that we don't discuss, we'll be happy to answer those. So over the past 15 months, we've accomplished quite a bit. Uh spring and summer of 2025, we're primarily focused on research and analysis as we work to analyze Hayward's codes, research successful strategies in other communities, and conduct a market analysis of our downtown. Uh, next we turned our attention to outreach to ask businesses, the community at large, the planning commission, and the council um what we could do to make Hayward more businessfriendly and what types of businesses folks wanted to see more of in Hayward. Based on what we heard along with what we learned during the research phase, we took a stab at drafting edits to the municipal code and zoning map. And then this then kicked off a second phase of outreach where we focused on asking, did we get this right? and do you think that these proposed changes

accurately reflect community priorities and will result in making Hayward more businessfriendly? So based on the feedback we received, we further res refined the draft regulations to produce this final draft that we're bringing before you this evening. So in terms of the proposed zoning ordinance changes, the vast majority of what is shown in the attachments for tonight's agenda item is identical to what you reviewed in January. That is various sections of the code are still consolidated into a single commercial section and we've relaxed peritting requirements for uses that are popular with the community including establishments selling beer and wine, dayc carees and recreational facilities. We've also updated some of the definitions in the code to reflect updated business practices. And here we come to our first change from what was previously proposed in January. So after extensive conversations with our industrial stakeholders, we learned that our updated definition for truck terminal was too broad containing terms like thirdparty logistics and last mile delivery which encompass a wide range of industrial uses some of which are permitted by Wright. So while Sachiko and I spent several weeks workshopping this definition with our industrial partners, we determined that it's just going to take some more time to fine-tune the definition to get it right. So as a result, we're not proposing any changes to the existing definition of truck terminal as part of this project and instead we'll readress this definition as part of a future planning effort if it becomes necessary. Um, now while the vast majority of our proposed revisions are ways to lighten permitting requirements, there are two uses that we're recommending stricter controls for. Uh, the first is to require a conditional use permit for any massage establishment in the city as recommended by the police department.

Um, this was presented to you in January and no additional changes are proposed. However, we have made some additional changes to our proposal for stricter controls around data centers. So, following direction from both the planning commission and the council and input from our industrial development community, we're now proposing that data centers be allowed in both the industrial park and general industrial zoning districts instead of just the general industrial district. Uh this change reflects the fact that critical energy infrastructure that is needed to support data centers is largely located in the IP zoning district. Um secondly, we're now proposing a two-tiered permitting process depending on the energy generating capacity of the data center. So data centers that generate less than 50 megawws will be required to go through a conditional use permit process with the planning commission making the final decision. For larger data centers that generate 50 or more megawws, such as the recently approved stack data center, they will be required to go through a new permitting process called major conditional use permit that would require council approval. And this is in response to your direction that you would like council to be the final decision makers on all large data center projects. Um, and with that, I'll go ahead and hand it over to Sachiko to walk us through the final few changes.

Thank you, Elizabeth. When we were last before you, we presented three new permit types. In response to planning commission and city council feedback, we've made slight alterations to those three permit types and added a fourth. As a reminder, ACUs are small businesses that are run from the home, but unlike a home office, um these businesses will actually see foot traffic from the surrounding community. City Council had a spirited discussion on whether allowing restaurants as a permitted use under our ACU program would help alleviate or further exacerbate our existing challenges around sidewalk vending. Ultimately, the majority felt that it should should not be included. So, it's been left off the permitted use list. There was also discussion around whether the where the pilot program should launch. um planning commission was interested in allowing it in areas other than downtown as this is a relatively small area and already has a lot of focus. Staff took this feedback and is now proposing that the pilot be for properties with single family residences south of Tennyson Road. Um our proposed new limited entertainment permit will provide an easier and more streamlined path for small live entertainment opportunities such as karaoke or open mic nights. We added more detail to the rough draft of the ordinance that we presented during the last work session and are now proposing in addition to the performance standards previously presented that this permit type apply to entertainment events involving amplified sound for 10 to 100 attendees. The minor temporary use permit is intended for low impact activities that operate for a limited period of time. This would include things like the circus or a food truck, food court, or other similar um events on private property. Staff has further refined the ordinance to state that in addition to the previously prevented uh excuse me, previously presented performance standards, this permit type will cover

specific outdoor uses for up to 1,000 uh attendees. Similar to ACU, staff is proposing a specific list of uses that would be covered by this permit so that we can control which uses will qualify for expedited review and which uses will need to go through the established AUP process. As Elizabeth covered earlier, while both hearing bodies felt comfortable with allowing data centers in the IP zoning district as well as the IG zoning district, council felt very strongly that they wanted to receive a recommendation from planning commission and make the final decision. This led staff to create a new permit type, the major conditional use permit. The MCU will require council approval following recommendation from planning commission and will apply to data centers that generate more than 50 megawatts, cannabis dispensaries, and gas stations. At the previous work session, staff originally recommended the residential office or RO district be combined with the commercial office or CO district to create a new zoning district called the commercial office residential or COR district. In response to the letter sent out to the RO property owners informing them of the proposed resoning, a few property owners reached out with questions and concerns. staff held two separate community meetings with the RO property owners to address these concerns. After these discussions, staff is now proposing that instead of combining the RORO and CO zoning districts, that these two zoning districts remain uh separate. This is in order to help preserve the residential feel and unique identity of the RO zoning district. to make the RO zoning district more business friendly. However, property owners did feel comfortable with allowing office uses by right instead of with an AUP or a CUP, which is the case now. So, in conclusion, staff's recommendation is that the city council approve the proposed municipal code text amendments, zoning map provisions, and

master fee schedule updates related to the businessfriendly Hayward project. For your reference, the planning commission voted six to zero in favor of staff's recommendation. Thank you so much for your time and Elizabeth and I are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. Um, hold on a second. Okay. Okay. Um, so what I'd like to do now is open up for uh council comments or or council questions. Uh, Mayor Pro Tim Cyro,

thank you for this. I'm really excited that we're at this point because I know a lot of work's gone into getting us here. Um, I was curious on the uh streamlining of certain beer and wine rules. I know we have this uh this limitation where a business that's selling beer or alcohol can't be within 500 ft of another business. Is that going to be is a removal of that part of this package?

Yeah, that rule applies to um businesses that are covered by our alcohol regs. So, previously that did include businesses that sell beer and wine. As part of this new streamlining, the businesses that are exclusively selling beer and wine and not any harder alcohol would not be subject to that same dismiss limit. And so just as an example, a business that wanted to sell beer and wine less than 500 ft away from let's say a liquor store would be able to then open up. That's correct.

Okay, that's great. I'm happy that's part of this. And then um uh I have comments on I think the MCU in relationship to the data center. So I'll save that. But I just before I make my comments, I wanted to clarify that from from my understanding the stack center that we approved is one of the larger data centers that we've had in Hayward. Is that correct? Yeah, the stack center has a generating capacity of I want to say it's 72.6 six megawws and previously the the most the second most recent one that we've approved the Hines data center had a capacity of 49 megawatts. Got it. And then 49 megawws is about 10,000 homes worth of electricity approximately. That I don't know.

Okay. Because that was a number I was operating off of when I was in conversation with uh director Mary in the past. So, I just I want to I asked that question because even if it's bel 49 is one below 50 before something comes to the the full council and that's still talking about 10,000 homes worth of energy. So, I think you can kind of see where my comments are going to go, but otherwise um I have no further questions. Thank you. Um, Council Member Cyro, if you'll allow me, one other thing that um, we were thinking about with setting that 50 megawatt threshold. That's actually a threshold the state sets before they determine that the state needs to take over. Um, it's what um, data centers that can apply for a small power plant exemption are set for. So, it's it's kind of a threshold that already exists in the data center parliament and um, processing is different at the state level. So, we're proposing to mirror that if that's helpful in your deliberation.

That That's helpful. I I still think that um uh the scale that the state is dealing with is different than the scale and direct impacts the city deals with. So, I'll I'll reserve my comments for later. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Council Member Andrews, I'm sorry, Council Member Zermenu, Mayor. Thank you, and thank you for the report. Just a couple of questions and maybe some clarification. Um, I like the relaxed uh permitted uh requirements. Those are excellent. Um, data centers. Do we expect any more data centers? Uh, anybody waiting to apply? We have gotten some inquiries from developers regarding data centers, but we have no active applications or pre-applications.

Okay. At the moment, we have four, I think, I believe. So, yeah, there was two already in operation. Well, three, I guess, technically. And then one that's under construction. Okay. When do we expect that one on Clawwood or No, not on Clawwood. The one by the old barn. When do we expect it to operate? One year, two years from now. Is that the stack? A year. Yeah. Probably 12 months, right, that we recruit.

Yeah. because they'll they'll what's actively being constructed right now will be the uh the infrastructure and then the shell and then they'll come back in to apply for permits on the tenant improvement. So all of the electrical and stuff. So there'll be several permitting and and uh and construction ongoing for a little bit until that one is fully online. But if it if it goes the way that the other one has, it'll come on in phases. Like it'll come online in phases as as they build out. Okay. Very good. And I expect that the old farm or old barn will be down soon. That's Are we referring to the the one that's

the Oliver salt works? That that is where there's the proposal for the U-Haul, not where the um data center is being constructed. Different project. Okay. Very good. Um I'm not sure I understand. uh restaurant not permitted for ACUs. Can you kind of explain that a little bit more?

Yeah, so for our ACU program, we were creating a list of uses that we thought would be appropriate because these are businesses being run from the home. So, we wanted to be very intentional about what would be permitted uh to reduce any kind of conflict between neighbors or impact to the neighborhood. Um, and so we thought about doing like like a restaurant use where or cafe, some kind of small ery. Um, we considered that as one of the uses that would be permitted. Um, but there was concern that this would cause conflict with neighbors and create more uh more challenges that we're already kind of experiencing with our sidewalk vendors. And so we've decided to um not include that on our list of permitted uses for ACUs.

Okay. All right. And what is uh the expectation for South Hayward South Tennyson Road? What what are we looking for there? What are you That's just the geographical location where we're going to launch the pilot program for the accessory commercial units. All right. So, thanks for looking into Tennyson and its improvement. So, uh, thank you. That's it. Thank you very much. Uh, thank you, uh, Council Member Andrews.

Yes. I wanted to see, um, see if you can give me a quick synopsis of all the cabaret changes that were in the, um, the packet. Um, it looks like there was some shortening of times for approve approved uses of a cabaret. And it's not just cabaret and dancing. It's it's defining as cabaret. I was a little confused by the changes that were happening there.

Yeah, the main change is separating out what we consider limited entertainment uses. So that's what Sachi was talking about. Um things that involve amplified sound for between 10 to 100 people. That will be a much more streamlined process where technically right now they'd have to go through the full cabaret process which is akin to getting like a conditional use permit. Um, so the cabaret process will still exist, but it'll apply to say nightclubs or bars that want to have cabaret. Single day events. This is like an ongoing night club. Okay. That's right. Okay. Got it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, council member Bonia.

Thank you, Mayor. Just two quick questions. I just want to clarify. What can you just give the public examples of what would be permitted in an ACU?

Yes. So, again, for the public and for anyone listening in, um, an ACU is an accessory commercial unit. So, it's kind of like an ADU, but instead of having like an apartment attached to your house, this would be a small business that you're running out of um um a building connected to your home. So, some examples of what might be included here could be like a yoga studio that you're running out of your house. A nail salon might be another example. A small retail shop um could be something else that you're doing. As Sachi said, we do have a very specific list of uses um because this is a pilot program and we want to see how it goes. We want to see if there's going to be any conflicts with the neighbors um based on certain uses and then based on what we learn we can go back refine the ordinance maybe expand the uses and then maybe expand the geographical territory that um it applies to.

Thank you. Is is there is there anything permitted that you would be able to consume that that could be sold out of these ACUs? So, we did include um retail, which would include like a small grocery. So, you wouldn't be permitted to consume on site, but you could buy consumables there. Um so, that's one use that would have that. And then we also included um a coffee shop, but it's strictly to go and no food is included. So, you would just grab your drink and then go about your business. Um and you would not be allowed to stay on the site to consume the drink and there would be no food included.

Got it. Okay. Thank you. Um and then my my question about you know this being piloted west of Tennyson or in the Tennyson area for all intents of purposes you know obviously there's a huge concern with street vending in the Tennyson area. So what what would be the kind of communications plan to make sure that folks know that although you're you know there's there's this channel to create you know these commercial opportunities through ACUs they don't include food because I I can see that message not being clearly understood or communicated. So how do we plan to communicate around that?

That's a good question. if this item and that portion of this item passes tonight, um staff has talked about having um different um uh workshops similar to what happened after sidewalk vending was passed where we could kind of get the word out to different people in these neighborhoods about what is allowed, what's not allowed, what new opportunities are available. Um but that's something that will expand probably moving into this summer. There's also a number of outreach events that happen in South H in South Hayward, south of Tennyson. So instead of say maybe targeting some of the downtown events, we would be targeting doing pop-ups at those events to to tailor our outreach to the community where these are eligible currently.

And then the my next question is, you know, I I think there's a concern generally, you know, at like flea markets for an example that some of the merchandise there that, you know, is kind of being sold could be stolen merchandise. So, I guess what I'm wondering is how do we prevent these ACUs from turning into like mini flea markets and people's garages and driveways and lawns?

So, the ACU ordinance specifically states that all activities need to take place inside of the building and you would not be able to remove required parking um in order to have your ACU. So, your garage, you couldn't make your garage your ACU space if you're not if you don't have your required enclosed parking space um somewhere else on your site. So, we were trying to be intentional about avoiding like a yard sale feel every day of the week. We wanted to make it like something that feels like a real setup business inside of the home.

Excellent. Thank you so much for being so thoughtful on all of that. Um and then my last question is just around the MCUs. So if that's denied by the planning commission, what would be the next step? The way that the new this new section of ordinance is written, if they recommend denial, it would still come to the council for a final decision. Just their recommendation, whether it's approved or denied, um would be presented to the council. Thank you so much. Really appreciate you answering those questions. That's all I have. Thank you, Mayor. Uh thank you, uh Council Member Roach.

Uh thank you. Yeah. Um, back to the ACU question, I I am really concerned. I, you know, I I first of all, I appreciate all the work that's done in this. I know we've talked about this many times, and I'm glad the plan commission is supportive. Um, you know, unanimously supportive, but I I am concerned about the um because in order to have an ACU now to do like a yoga studio, you'd have to get a permit, right? So, that's going to be a pilot project permit. And then, um, but, you know, there already are so many businesses out there. I am worried about is creating another uninforcable permitting option. You know, because there are so many businesses out there already using their garages. I mean, doing what, you know, council member Bonia said, yard sales out front like on a on a weekly, right? Not like it's not like, oh, clear clearing your house garage sale. It's on a weekly I'm going to do this. So, if somebody gets a permit um in this pilot project, do they have to put out some sort of sign that says it? Like, how would you know if this is a permitted one or not? So, if you know if neighbors wanted to understand that. Yeah, the they're not required to put up signage related to it. They are allowed to, but um it's a good question. It's something we could kind of test out during the pilot and see if we want them to say post their ACU permit um on display so neighbors could see that that was a legit version of one of these businesses instead of one that's maybe not operating with the proper permits. But it's a good question and something we could certainly test during the pilot

because even you know with the street vendors you know we created this whole thing and I don't I mean how many applicants have we gotten now for our street permitting? I very few I assume. Yeah. We've gotten I think today we got our third one.

Our third one. Yeah. I mean that's what I'm concerned about you know because once it's allowed then people then whether somebody operates a yoga studio I won't know whether they're permitted and I'll just assume that's that's a use out there. So I I mean I'll be interested in the pilot program. How long is the pilot for? undetermined. Um, it would depend on when council wanted to revisit it again, but from staff's recommendation, I think pilots like this take a year or two to get a really good sense of how this is working. So maybe in a year or two, we would come back to you and say, "Here's the data we have, here's how many applications we have, here are the types of uses we have, and maybe here are some issues we're seeing that we want to correct."

Okay. Yeah. I mean, I would encourage us to do like let's look at it in a year and just see, you know, because I think while we're having a hard time, you know, regulating even what, you know, we've already tried to pass the street vendors. Like, I would like to see it because because while today maybe a nail a nail studio sounds sort of like a cute thing to operate at home, I'm sure there's a lot of nail studios in town that are not going to be okay with this. And so, um, I I you know, I would I would like to see us, um, look at this, um, more like a year. I mean, you know, we'll see what my colleagues say on that one, but but I mean, I really appreciate the creativity of, right, allowing people to I don't I'm in a potter a pottery studio, right? That kind of thing sounds sounds good. I I understand why we're doing it. But, you know, just worried about what it looks like when everyone's opening little businesses and there's only what three permanent applications, right? Then we know. Then we know. Okay. Um and then um my other question about the cups and the MCUs for the data centers. So, if if it's a major conditional use permit, it's going to come to council. If it's under 50 megawws, it stays with a with the planning commission as a CUP unless we decide to call it up. Is that right? Okay. Correct. So, we always have the opportunity to do that.

Yes. Okay. And then my other question about um the data centers is are we sim simultaneously working on the actual um what our ordinance for data centers look like? Because my understanding is we needed to update that. We were operating under a data processing center and we need to update um to a data center. Is that happening in the background?

Yeah. So, previously data centers were defined as an office use which I think we can all agree they're very different than a traditional office use. So, yes, that has been separated out. they're their own line item in the code. We don't have a specific ordinance related to data centers. Instead, what we're introducing is this new process. And something that we have found as um uh development services staff is the technology with data centers literally changes every time we get one, you know, even if it's the same operator at the end of the day. So, it's hard to write effective performance standards that don't immediately become outdated. So instead, we um think that by creating this new process, you know, we have the SQA process to look at environmental impacts. We'll have the use permit process to consider impacts to the community. And we think that'll allow us to stay more nimble in this very highly changing field.

Okay. Yeah. Because I assume every step of that like they'll they'll update us on what what our usage really looks like for DTOR centers, what it really does to the the whole grid. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for answering my questions. Thanks for all the hard work. Um, thank you. Um, I was going to ask and can uh let me ask this question and maybe uh Director Bowser can respond to this, but um can is it possible to pull out the ACU element and then do an ACU um separate ordinance and bring this back separately? Anything's possible if that's what the council would like. If you don't want that and don't want to take action on that tonight and there's consensus amongst the council to do that, I think that would be, you know, similar to sort of staff making a decision in in pulling out the the changes to the truck terminal. Um, but but that's up to council to decide what you want to do related to to that portion. Um, what I will say is I I I don't know when we would be able to come back necessarily with some of that just given resources and other work products and things, but um, but if that's the direction council wants and wants to direct staff to remove that from this project and not approve it as a part of this, that that is certainly a decision council can make.

Okay, I appreciate that. Um on a different topic on this um regarding the uh liquor zoning for for the the the liquor element. Um I have received calls uh from a grocery store. I I may have um uh showed this to you, but I have received calls from a grocery store that currently is prohibited from selling liquor because they are across the street of a liquor store. And now under this uh ordinance uh would they now be able to sell liquor? Yes, they would.

Thank you very much. That concludes my questions. And now what I want to do is I will open to public comment. And first I'd like to our first public comment. I do have a card is Pastor Vince Gomez. Pastor Gomez. Yeah. Um, yeah. Turn around and then hit the button on the bottom. And red red means go here.

All right. How you doing, council members and mayor? Uh, yeah. It's my comment is as a pastor here in Hayward for several years trying to find access to buildings here. And when you're a smaller church, I just, you know, I want to be legal. I know there's a lot of places that are not doing it legal, but I want to do it legal. Just trying to find access for, you know, under 1,900 square ft. So, my, you know, my comment is just, you know, I would trying to get help to do that. So, we want to be inside the community and we believe that we do help the community with outreach pro programs and projects. So, we we're looking for some alleviation where we we're not a big church, but we're smaller, but we want to be in the community. So, we're just looking for help on this proposal. And that's all I had to say. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you. Um I don't have any more cards. Um let me check online. I don't have any calls uh online. Public comment online. So, what I'll do is I will close public comment and um and I will kick this off with uh Mayor Pro Tim Cyro.

Uh thank you, Mayor. Uh thank you again for this report. um question that'll also lead into a comment here is um with ADUs. Well, oh wait, are are we ready to respond? Okay. No, it's okay. I just wanted to make sure. Um when folks are building ADUs, uh would ACUs be a use that could be allowed by right for let's say a newly built ADU

or was it something that was considered? So, um, ACUs are allowed to exist in accessory structures on the property. We do have limitations on which properties would be allowed to have an ACU. So, if it's like a multif family property with an ADU, that would not be permitted. It has to be a single family uh, residence with no other primary residences on the property. In that case, then yes, an ADU could be used as an

Okay. Interesting. because I almost feel like the reverse would be more logical where you have 10 families in an apartment building and there's one amenity that's not serving 10 families versus, you know, you're a single family home with one unit in a neighborhood where that doesn't quite match the makeup of the the neighborhoods. I I guess I also just wanted to clarify what was the the reasoning behind that. Yeah. So, we were concerned about um impacts to neighbors. So, like a shared wall. So, if there's a duplex and and my neighbor is running a business that um I don't like all the people or something like that. Oh, I see what you mean inside the building itself. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. And then to clarify what I said last time, um an accessory structure can be used as an ACU. So, it would not be subject to the reduced setbacks that an ADU is. So if an ADU was set back 5T from the rear and 5T from the side as our municipal code requires for accessory structures, then in that case it could be used, but it wouldn't be subject to the reduced uh requirements of an ADU.

Okay, got it. Great. Um and I appreciate council member Roach's comment that any item on the planning agenda could be brought before the council. We can pull those items. That's correct. So even if there's a COP coming before the planning commission, we Okay. I guess I also just want to state for the record my intent uh that I would ask for the planning uh division to bring those less than 50 megawatt items to the full council. This is a formal request for those items to maybe just jump the gun there because uh I don't think the direction last time was we want to look at large data centers. I think the request from the majority of the council last time is we want to look at the data centers and maybe that was changed in translation or through conversations with the planning commission. But that was if I play the tape back the the comments that were made. Um and I and I want to honor that. Um, again, a 49 megawatt, which is below the threshold that qualifies for MCU is oneif of all the homes in Hayward in terms of energy usage. I still stand by elected representatives, not appointed representatives making those decisions because we deserve to be accountable for that level of resource usage by our community. Um, and also just from a negotiating standpoint, I think that uh again we we uh could have asked for more last time. Um, and I think uh we should ask for more next time. Um, and I would like to have that conversation as a council. Uh, and of course I want to be informed by the opinions of the planning commission, but I still think that decision should lie with the council. Um, I understand the mayor's desire to maybe remove the ACUs from this equation. I really would like to move forward with the pilot. I think my feeling when this concept first came up was that one of the largest expenses for business owners is not just uh, you know, the cost of labor, but also the cost of rent that many of them have to pay just like our our residents. Um, some of our downtown businesses are paying over $10,000 a month in rent. And you have to imagine if that rent was cheaper, uh, would they have larger margins? Would they be able to stay in business for longer? And, uh, we have this theory where we're building homes all over Hayward in an effort to drive down rents. Uh, I would imagine we wouldn't be selective in that theory. By offering more places for people to

conduct business, we create an opportunity to make commercial rentals more competitive uh and hopefully drive down commercial rents so that it's not that we're trying to create uh uh or take away business from from anybody in particular, but ensuring that everyone reaps the benefits of there being more business in our community uh and cheaper commercial rents across the board. So, um those are, you know, I I really would like to see this this pilot move forward. We've had a lot of rounds of revisions on this concept in particular. we've removed parts of it that we felt like were too uh close to their uh to to the the challenges we're having with with street food vendors. Um so I think we've been very careful with how we've approached this and I don't want to um undermine that work you know right at the finish line. Um which is why I'm also comfortable with u you know what's being put on the table right now. Um and I think other than that those are my comments. Again, I just really appreciate, you know, I know you showed a year-long timeline, but this was a request from, I think, this iteration of the council back in 22 or 23, and it's just taken time for us to get to it on our, you know, stack of things that we got to get to as a city. So, I'm just happy that we're at we're at this point in time. And and I saw my colleague, uh, Zerman had motioned to move this forward. I don't know if you removed your motion, but, uh, it went away, but, I would I would second it if you wanted to be the motion maker.

I I'm waited. I kind of withdrew because I would not I'm not sure if our mayor is wants to do something with ACU take it away. So, I'm waiting for I see. Okay. Well, I would I would move the item as is just because I think a lot of work's been put into it. Our our planning commission is also on board with it 60. Um and I think my concerns have been addressed through the comments tonight and I would second it. Okay. Uh item has been moved by Mayor Pro Tim Cyrup, second by uh Council Member uh Goldstein. Um, and uh, uh, Council Member Andrews,

I just wanted to hear more about the ACU in terms of enforcement and how would how would it be enforced and do we have staffing to enforce when things go differently than anticipated in the pilot?

Yeah, like like all of our other codes, it would be enforced on a complaint basis by our code enforcement division. Um, so again, until we get a sense of how popular this is, I I think it's a pretty new concept. While our ADUs are kind of known in different communities in California because there's state laws around them, ACUs are pretty new. So even though staff will try to get the word out from them, I think it'll probably be a pretty slow roll out, which will help with enforcement. Um but until we get a sense of how what kind of legs the program has, it'll be hard to say what exactly that impact would be. And you said it was in um single family homes.

Correct. So for properties that just have one home on them instead of like a multif family property for example. Okay. And then what if what if a community starts complaining about parking challenges because they're visiting those homes with the ACUs? That would be the type of thing that we would take back to this body and say, "Hey, here's some things that we're hearing from ADU or ACUs, excuse me, that are in place. Do we want to make any modifications?" And then if in noise and all that, it would be all complaint driven. Correct. And that's that's how our noise ordinances now. Yeah.

Okay. I would say the concern I have is that neighbors tend not to rat out neighbors a lot of the time, but they complain to us. So that is that's my challenge right now with the ACU. Um but I want I I wanted to see if we can bring back an understanding of how we would do enforcement if you were to get certain number of complaints. Like I I I'm trying to see what the staffing looks like if we were to get a c certain number of PL complaints because one of the challenges we have is that we are trying to not we are trying not to start new programs that are going to impact staffing and this isn't this is a program that's going to impact staffing right if we start getting more complaints particularly in our public safety division zone code enforcement where you you're already having um staff impacts by the budget. So, I'm not quite sure like how we would address that.

Can I just jump in here? Um, I think because this is so new, I mean, I've never heard of this before. This is a new concept. It's a great idea to try to economic development, but I just wonder and it is a pilot program. So, I wonder if the direction could be that I mean, I would and we may not even get that many permits and we don't know how much interest there.

I think you're not going to get any not a lot of permits at all. I think what the people are going to assume that people are going to have permits to do this type of activity. You're gonna probably get do some education and outreach. How much is that going to cost staff? How much is that going to cost the city for you to do to do the education and outreach? You've been doing that for street vending and we only have three over how many iterations of education on street vending. I I guess that I think we would need to try and we could after three months if it ends up that no one's getting permits and we're just adding to the burden of code to have to enforce this I think we would come we would proactively if it ended up being a huge burden on staff we would come back to you quickly I mean similar to what we're doing with the massage permits right where there's a issue we're coming to you we might decide to do something different but I just don't have a sense yet until we try what kind of impact it will have or what what what the consequences will be but we're trying something new so we kind of I I think we we'd have to wait and see what kind of impact it had.

I'll also add um quickly, one key difference between Sidewalk Vending and the vast majority of ACUs is that sidewalk vending um for the two vendors that we've had that are selling food products, it's taken them a year and a half and two years to get through the Alama County um Department of Health review. That is based on the workshops that the city has held on sidewalk vending. we likely would have had 50 plus different applications of folks that were interested, but they got held up in the mandated Alama County health review. So for a lot of ACU since they don't include that health component, that won't be a b uh a hurdle for them. And also, can I just clarify from staff that if they're associated with a property, so I assume the enforcement would be much easier than the forcement now where you have mobile uh vending can't we can't tie it to a particular property. So I think in this case it would be much more similar to our other code enforcement.

So So I have another question. So when if zoning code enforcement is driving down the street and they see something happening at a residential property, they can't do anything. It has to wait for a complaint for a resident. No, not necessarily. They can still do something. They have access to our same permitting software that we do. So they can easily look up, hey, do they have a permit for this or do they not have a permit for this and then enforce. So yes, they could do that proactively based on staffing. The way that these things typically come to our code enforcement are through complaints through access Hayward.

Okay. Because there's about three streets I can think of right now that has restaurants right outside their residential single family home. They're restaurants and they're not on mission. They're not on Tennyson. These are residential streets. So, are they on their private property or are they out on the street? Yeah. So, those can be dealt with in a completely different way than the struggles that we've been addressing with the the vendors that are actually in the street. Okay. I I think for me, I would like to see more on the enforcement side and how cost recovery would happen if we were to see issues if we were implement. Thanks. Um, Council Member Roach.

Thank you. Yeah, you know, it's it's hard to see because it's true to council member or member promot's point that we have been talking about this now for a while and just sort of get get it over the finish line. I really appreciate except that I think we've all learned more since this has come forward, right? like it's almost coming full circle about wait a minute we've heard from different businesses you know like we've driven around and seen you know other I mean I've seen several too that are full-on restaurants right on a on a driveway and and I'm concerned if somebody can't use their driveway or their garage is it like their their living room they might be using for like a yoga studio that kind of thing like how would you know sorry and like a yoga studio could be a lot of parking too I mean that's a lot of people like if you had even five people

they're limited to a certain number of people Um, so there you couldn't have like a yoga class with 50 people, for example, in an ACU. Um, but yeah, that's that's true. It's something that would be happening inside of enclosed spaces, whether that's an accessory structure, whether that's an addition to the home, whether that's a room that's been carved out as part of the home to do this this kind of work. Um,

yeah, it's it's really meant to be an incubator as some of us have talked about. So, it's not meant to be as large of an operation as say a yoga studio would have if they opened up in our downtown. Um, so the there's size limitations involved. There's employee limitations involved. There's um limitations of the number of people that can be at one of these at a certain time. But again, it's up to the council. Ultimately, staff's um position based on recommendation from the planning commission is like, let's try it and see how it goes. But if the council is not comfortable with that, then you can certainly carve this out from the rest of the updates.

Or or just another suggest would be to go back to the downtown and not expand to to Tennyson as well as another option just to keep it smaller so that we have a right now it's just anything south of Tennyson, right? So that the whole just south of I thought it was in downtown. Okay. Yeah.

And then you know I mean it's like I said I've just learned more as we've gone through this. So I think when I started off with oh that sounds like an interesting idea. Now I'm sort of feeling more understanding more about it because like you said a coffee shop, right? You have to get not a coffee shop but you can sell coffee and you have to take your coffee to go. But that will easily morph into breakfast sandwiches and egg sandwiches and things like that if somebody's creative and wants to add more to what they can offer. And if they have a permit for coffee, it wouldn't, you know, wouldn't it would be hard to sort of get that sort of enforcement when they're already permitted for coffee to know what's really happening there, right? Unless one of us went by. Um, so I am really concerned, but I I don't necessarily want to hold it up except that I would ask if the mover of the motion would take a friendly amendment that we do this with the um with the direction that we bring it back in. I mean, you said three months, but I mean, would six months be more reasonable, you know, to because what I mean, to council member Andrew's point, if it ends up being a big enforcement issue because, you know, neighbors are now complaining about all the parking out front for their, you know, different options. Um, what would be because I assume we'll see some I think three months might be too quick, but maybe six months.

It could also be a threshold, just to put this out there of maybe we come back after we have our first 10 in place. So, it's not a timeline, but it's a, you know, once we have a or five or you know, whatever whatever number the council feels comfortable with and we could tie it to that and then we can come back with a memo or a quick little presentation to let you know here's who we've gotten, here's how it's going, have we received any complaints? Yeah, I mean that would be be good. Yeah, okay. That's a good suggestion because the I mean I think what'll happen is there are plenty of people already doing this out there. There will be more people doing because maybe maybe they won't even know and they're doing it anyway. But would the maker of the motion take make a friendly amendment to say let's bring it back when we have 10 permit?

Yeah. So I um is are you okay with the 10 number here? Because I want to make sure when it comes back we actually have something we can measure and assess. My concern is if we do uh three months and no one's No, no, I'm fine with the 10. I'm fine with staff's suggestion on that. Yeah, I'm I'm happy to incorporate that as as an amendment. Yeah. Okay. And with the second or are you okay with that? Oh, the seconder is council member Goldstein by Goldstein. Okay. Yeah, I'm nodding my head. Yes. Okay. And then I guess we'll wait to hear from the rest of C. So, no, when they have 10 permit applications, so they have some data to come back with us on like what kind of ACUs they are, what kind of um complaints we might be getting from the neighborhood. So, they're not saying applications, saying 10 permits, 10 permitted ACUs. Correct. And or that's how I'm understanding when we have 10 operational.

All right. So maybe we should say 10 operational or um some time frame because per the you know the um the street vending right we only have three permits right. So maybe it should be a year. What do you think about that on timing and or andor um Sarah or um Elizabeth?

I mean yeah I mean I guess I think it's it's really up to council. So if you would like to say 10 andor a year and we can come back. I think to council member Cyrus's question or you know thoughts were if we don't hit the 10 and we get to a year and we've only gotten one, we may not have the data that I believe he was hoping we would have to be able to assess whether it's successful or has issues or what have you. So I don't I don't know but it's really up to council and we're happy to draft it or come back whenever you would like us to come back. No, I appreciate because I guess my concern is in a year we would presumably have like a whole slate of complaints, right, besides outside of the permit system or not and then that would be part of the data, I guess, is what I'm wondering. Yeah.

Council Roach, if I if I may, I I'm happy to if Council Goldstein is open to this to say um we should revisit this in a year because if we only have one application, that's also something we should revisit because it means this program isn't clicking the way we need it to. So, I'm happy to do it when we have 10. I'm happy to make sure we do this at least within a year so we can Okay. So, can we say 10 or a year? Whatever. Yeah. 10 10 or a year, whichever is sooner. Is that Is that okay with you? Yep. Is Is that okay with you, Council? Yeah, that's that's okay with me. Yeah. I just want to add is if there's a bunch of complaints and there's really big issues in terms of enforcement, others, we'll staff will initiate an action to bring that to you sooner. So, I just I assume that's okay with council as well.

Thank you. Yeah. I mean, I think that's what I'm looking for. Let's let's say quickly if it becomes an issue is what I'm getting at. Yes,

agreed. Okay. Okay. Um and then I just I have a few other comments before everyone. Um I wanted to thank you on taking your time on the truck terminal issue because I'm sure for businesses where this is critical, this is very meaningful terminology and so thank you for continuing to work with the businesses and the industrial to get that right. So we're not sort of, you know, stopping any future plans out there. Um let's see and on let's see and really obviously very pleased about the easing up on some of the regula regulations to allow more unique uses um like pops up popups and things. Well obviously the ACUs too but I'm nervous now about it. Um yeah and I think that's it. Thank you for the rest of the work and thanks for sort of working through with me on the ACOU issue ACU issue. Thanks.

Um I see uh Mayor Prom Sarup on there and also uh council member Bonia. before I call on them, I'm gonna I'm gonna let me let me me say what I'm going to say. Um, so generally speaking, I support the plan and and and this is good. Um, as it is right now, uh, with the ACU, I it it's going to kill me, but I I I can't support this. I I can't. And you know, and it's because the ACU element. And I'll be honest with you, I if if we could pull the ACU element and and and come back in two years after we have resources to actually make sure we can do this right, I'll be willing to do that. Um but but let me let me explain why um why I feel the way I feel. Um what I had said when this came to us before is that uh right now um you know the illegal vendors that are out there right now we absolutely have no control of that what's going on out there right now. We don't and and enforcement is complaint driven and people are complaining all over the place and we can't enforce it for whatever reason, whatever the reason is and we can't enforce it. And um and now we're going to put, you know, single family home neighborhoods or, you know, single family homes in neighborhoods south of Tennyson. So we're talking Folsam, Pompano, Bolero, right? We're talking these streets that are already high. I mean, you know, uh, overly parked, crowded,

and now we're going to put a vendor in a garage selling whatever, coffee or, you know, or whatever whatever the merchandise, whatever the the the product is. we are going to create and and now perhaps we're not going to have this flood of applications and everyone is going to you know but I'm just saying that we we are creating um what is already packed neighborhoods just there's a lot going on in there now we're going to put commercial we're going to allow single family homes to open up little little either little tiendas or little you know markets of some sort. We are I I I just want to tell the council we are creating a problem that we don't have right now. And that's the first problem. The second issue is now we're talking south of Tennyson. We're not talking the Hayward Hills. We're not talking, you know, Fairway Park. We're not talking. You think people in Stone Bray are going to do this? They would be the first ones to reject this. And And I mean, the fact that we're focusing on South Tennyson, it's like, what are we doing to these neighborhoods? I mean it's I just um you know one of the you know what do we get calls in this in this in this particular in these neighborhoods? We get calls of speeding. We get calls of double parking. We get calls for you know um you know litter. We get illegal dumping. We get I mean these are the calls we get all the time. And um

and in this neighborhood in these neighborhoods um we and and and I think council member Andrews is right um neighbors don't like to uh report other neighbors. So who do they call? They call us. If they do call us lately they don't call us. You know what they do? They go to Facebook and they go to Instagram and they and they blast all of us on on on on the on all these social media platforms about how the roads are messed up and how there's trash everywhere and there I mean it's um you know why are we picking on this neighborhood? How come we're not focusing on Eden Shores or how come we're not at you know I mean it's um you know and then we're opening the door for other stuff you know once we start with this then we're going to you know people are going to want to expand whether it's whether it's formal expansion or if it's you know illegal expansion you know I mean already we have networks of illegal vendors out there that have multiple carts, multiple trailers all over the city. Now, what's going to happen is you're going to get a vendor that are going to start tapping multiple homes to open up like like a chain like chains of rest or chains of chains of vendors. I mean it's and we're not and and right now I mean we are not prepared for enforcement. You know the fact that it's enforcement by complaint basis. Um you're right. Neighborhoods neighbors aren't going to complain. They're not. And they're going

to call us. And then when we go and enforce it, if we do enforce it, when we get to the enforcement part, it's it's going to be um you know, anyways, I I I um it's going to kill me not to vote for this because I I I support this and um you know, but this you know um this item, this piece um you know, uh I don't think we're ready to do this yet and and because of you know of enforcement because of of the controls uh even as a pilot you know the you know um you know something like this like I said we have to be careful what we wish for um even on a pilot basis um we will not be able to put the genie back in this bottle once it is open. It is open and and and we're going to get and and we're going to get pressured. Now, I should also say and this is this is an issue that we have with a lot of the vendors out there uh you know on Tennyson and on Huntwood and on on um on a street. What's going to happen is we're going to have you know um uh a uh and particularly south of Tennyson, right? You're going to have neighbors. You're going to have families of color predominantly probably let's say a Latino family, immigrant family perhaps that are doing this and let's say it gets out of control as illegal vendors are right now and the the the the the complexity to enforce um this ordinance against families,

particularly families in this neighborhood. We're gonna staff is gonna we're going to look once we enforce the ordinance for someone that's non-compliant. We're going to look like we're anti-Latino, we're anti-immigrant, we're anti- poor people, we're anti because that is what's happening right now. And um you know and and so I I mean respectfully I I um I I understand and and you know council member Cyrup I I mean I I respectfully disagree you know um while I I get it. I mean uh I've seen I've seen ACUs in in in in Mexico City. I've se in in France. I mean I' I've when I was in Paris I've seen these things. But um um I just I I I just don't think right now this moment in time that we are prepared um to do this piece and um while I am while I am in agreement with overwhelming I mean the fact that you know the fact that the the grocery store over on Jackson you know amen I mean that you know I'm glad you know and I believe they're here tonight. Yeah. Amen. You know, because that's what they've been asking for, right? That's what they've been asking for. And um and so I, like I said, um uh I uh I just I I don't know. I mean, the fact that we only have three permit, you know, one permitted, two being decided right now, you know, and not to belabor the point, but let me just say this. Um the fact that the number one issue of the vendors is the Alama County's time it takes to approve it.

That in of itself is should should tell us something, you know, and um you know because I I'll be honest with you, all the vendors out there right now, I don't think they're all in line at the at the county right now. you know, I would be surprised if they were all standing in line waiting for their permit to get, you know, um approved. So, um you know, I don't want to overly complicate matters. Um you know, I I I I'd like to ask, you know, I um I would like to ask if we could proceed with uh with staff's recommendation. If we can just pull the ACU element out, let's pull it out. Let's wait. And and um you know I and I heard Director Bowser, you know, it's going to take some time because you know time and resources and sta and staff. Yes. But I think um I think um we need to uh we need to make sure what we're doing right now is in order because I I'm telling you um you know if we are to use I'm you know if we are to use an equity lens on this I'm telling you we are overwhelming these we're overwhelmingly negatively impacting these neighborhoods south of Tennyson. I know these neighborhoods, you know, I know them. And already you can't find parking. You can't, you know, you can't I mean, um, there's there's a there's a full-blown restaurant down the street from where I live right now, and there's double parking. There's it's it's so I don't know can you know I you know I don't know if if my colleagues are are you know are willing to to to do something here but um right now I'm I'm having a very difficult time uh with

this uh and I would support this if um if the AC if the ACU element was um was removed and um uh hold on a second council member Cy uh council member Zmano mayor prom Cyrup uh was next on Thank you for your comments, mayor. I think, you know, uh, we make decisions up here where we don't always agree. And so, I'm interested in keeping forward with staff's recommendation. I wanted to explain my reasoning. I think that there's a lot of really good points that you bring up. Um, I want to address them head-on. Uh, and also communicate why I think it's important that we take this step together. Uh, we sit up here and we talk about sustainability, we talk about amenities, we talk about walkability, and we talk about the relationship between those things. A neighborhood where you have amenities that you can walk to is one where you don't have to get into a car, where you don't have to create carbon emissions, where you're bringing down uh the CO2 that's in our atmosphere. You're creating a healthier option for neighbors to uh support their own neighbors. You're generating new tax revenue just like there's a missing middle in housing. There's there's housing that's not being built. There's a missing middle in commerce where people can't afford a brickandmortar business, but that doesn't mean they don't have something they can they they can't they can't contribute to our community. And what we're trying to do is expand opportunity. And I'm kind of worried that we get stuck in this scarcity mindset where there can only be x amount of businesses in the city of Hayward and we're all competing over the same crumbs versus generating more wealth and allowing people to apply themselves across the city. And so I absolutely think that this is an equitable decision. The reason why we're looking at south of Tennyson is because north of Tennyson there's a lot of amenities. We have so much invested in our downtown. There's a lot on Hisparian. There's a lot on Tennyson itself. But there's neighborhoods that don't have access to any amenities and we're trying to give them new amenities. And you're right, would the people in the hills accept this? Would Eden Shores accept this? I don't know. I think that would be difficult. But frankly, I think it's their loss. I think they're missing out on the kinds of amenities that turn neighborhoods into some of the most desirable in the entire city. And when you go into Los Angeles and you look at

the up and cominging hip neighborhoods, they're the ones where a coffee shop has opened up on a corner that folks can walk to. That's what people want is amenities. and we're trying to deliver that to parts of the city that have never had access to that or that level of investment. So to me, I I hear your argument about equity and I kind of pose a similar argument, but from a different viewpoint. So I agree, equity is key here, but it's not to do this to a neighborhood, but to give this to a neighborhood that hasn't seen this kind of investment before. Uh and if it doesn't work in that neighborhood, that's the whole point of us coming back in a year. Maybe we try out a different neighborhood if this isn't receptive and people aren't picking it up there. Enforcement. Absolutely. uh we have people's home addresses. We know where these people live. So if they're doing anything wrong, there's nowhere for them to run. There's nowhere for them to hide. Uh we know exactly who to find and where to file the fine and where to send that fine. It's it's not like we have to chase them down uh or or dig through some documentation. And I think it's great that we removed restaurants from this because we are having a problem with figuring out how to enforce ground sidewalk vendors. So great, restaurants aren't part of this. We don't have to deal with the same health peritting issues that the county has. And so that means there's no county middleman anymore. People can come straight to the city to get their permit. Is that correct? Okay. I'm seeing some nodding from our staff. So, um, I just see these as as as apples and oranges. And I just I'm worried that we're we're so frustrated with the situation with sidewalk vendors that were fear-mongering ourselves into not making a decision around sustainability, walkability, amenities in in our lease service and least invested in neighborhoods. Uh, and we're missing a real opportunity that's not going to come around again. I mean, some of us aren't going to be on this council the next time this opportunity comes around, if it ever comes around again. And we talk about economic development in the middle of a deficit and trying to generate tax revenue. I mean, we've spent a year building out this plan. So, to give up on it, like when we're literally an inch from the finish line, I like that's just where I would have to disagree. So, I I respectfully take your feedback. Um, you know, if the motion fails, it fails. If it passes, you know, there's times where we don't all agree on the motion that passes. But I would really implore us as a city to to hold

the line and stay the course here because u I've already agreed to the amendments that council member Roach suggested. Um staff has already indicated the second we're seeing problems, it'll come back up here and you best believe if we're having problems like what you're describing, mayor, I'll be right there with you to say, "Okay, we got to figure out how to fix this. We have to figure out if we got to pull this because we're not trying to cause problems in a neighborhood." Like I'm not here to terrorize a community that's not asking for something, right? I'm I'm I'm trying to create more amenities and resources for our neighbors and generate more revenue for our city so we can afford to uh restore the services that we've had to let go of because of this deficit. Um so those are those are those are my thoughts. I just don't want us to to scare ourselves out of doing what I think is really innovative and I just am really appreciative of all the work that's gone into this. Uh and I'm very open to reevaluating it the second it becomes a problem. So this is not to say that anything you're saying is wrong. Um it's just say like we won't know unless we try and and I think we should try. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Um, Council Member Bonia.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, you know, I'll I'll kind of stay focused on the ACU issue since that's the hot topic right now, but I just wanted to generally say, you know, I do appreciate all of these updates that the staff has made. I know that this has been a long journey getting here. I appreciate the outreach that uh the extensive outreach that has occurred as well as the changes to allow data centers in the IP and the IG area. Um but I also agree with council member Cyrup as it relates to I think all data centers should come in front of the council. I think that, you know, the 50 limit m you know makes some sense because I know what you were saying, you know, as it relates to alignment with the state, but I think just because of the implications of data centers and the long-term impact that they have in our community, I would like to see um all of those come to council, period. I want them to go to planning, but I also want them to come to council for the final decision. Um, okay. So, as it relates to the ACUs, so I I I love this idea of having ACUs, right, and finding a way to make this happen. Uh, but after listening to the mayor, I I agree with a lot of what he said. I think that we we we have a hard time enforcing general codes in our city today and adding new codes and new things that could be done when we don't have the enforcement capability for that I think may not be the wisest decision right now. Even if you know we we allow this and we start to see issues. I have the same concern that the mayor does that once the genie is out of the bottle, we don't have the staff to go in and to enforce it. And I doubt we would use the police department for it. We know code enforcement is impacted and they have other priorities. So, I'm not sure how this would fit into everything else that code enforcement is

trying to deal with or if it's something that we just won't enforce, which then I have bigger concerns about. Um, so you know, but I do want to find a way to make this work. So I I don't know why this wouldn't be able to come back in a year, Director Bowser. you know, if we wanted to pull this tonight and say, you know, let's let's kind of move forward with everything here and then let's just reconsider this in a year when we have, you know, maybe a better better balanced budget and we have more visibility into how we might be able to staff additional code enforcement if you know if if that becomes an issue. Then the other question that I had is did anybody go to the Tennyson community and ask them if they wanted to be a part of this pilot before we just signed them up?

If that's a question for staff, council member Bonia, that no, that recommendation came from the last planning commission and council work sessions where we were just hearing, hey, you're concentrating all of these amenities downtown. Why don't we think about some of the parts of our community that are underserved? So, that that decision to pilot it in south or south of Tennyson came from that direction.

Got it. Cuz I I don't know if if that's the right pilot community neither to, you know, to the mayor's point. I I thought it was another good point. We're hearing people in South Hayward call us already about issues with street vending, with people selling stuff out of their houses, with cars being double parked. I literally just, you know, I wasn't going to email the police chief the complaint, so I just put him into, you know, the the city's website. But people send us pictures all the time in South Hayward where they can't even get into their own driveway because things are, you know, their neighbors have double parked in their in their driveway or their neighbors have, you know, all these cars in traffic and they don't want to report on their neighbor. So, as my colleague said, then they tell us and then we use Access Hayward and things still don't get done because I actually drove by the place on Gading that I've reported now twice in Access Hayward and nothing's been done. So, I don't have a lot of confidence that if this went sideways and we start making reports that anything will be done. Um, so I, you know, at at first I was like, you know, let's let's revisit this in a year. You know, let's move forward with it and come back in a year and see where, you know, things are at. But, you know, and I and I agree with Council Member Cyrus. We don't want to, you know, stifle innovation. We don't want to stifle commerce. We don't want to stifle economic development. We want to make sure we're looking at this through an equity lens. And I think all of those things need to be reconsidered before, you know, I I can feel comfortable moving this forward. So I would agree with the mayor. I think we should pull it for now. Uh but I also think that we should bring it back in a year and say, have the conditions in the city changed? Has our has our thinking changed in where this should be? How might we actually be able to enforce this?

because I still haven't heard any solid response around how we would be able to enforce this and that's my major concern. So, I love the idea. I would love to move this forward. I'm concerned about the the pilot location and I'm concerned about enforcability. And until we can get more clarity on those two things, I I think we should pull that from this vote tonight. Um Okay. Uh uh council member or mayor perm Cyrup. So Oh okay. Okay. Um and then council member Andrews. Okay. Council member Andrews. Yes I have you there. Yeah.

Um so can you clarify when you say um South Hayward Tennyson? Can we look at just certain streets that would allow it or does it have to be a geographical area? That could be another friendly amendment that the council makes or direction for us in the future is yes, that's that's direction absolutely that you can give us.

Okay. Um this is my concern. I understand the idea of wanting to have more accessible amenities in neighborhoods. Totally get that. I understand having the bodega underneath your your house and near your house works. Um, a lot of the metropolitan areas have that when they have ample transportation. We live in a bedroom community that are we are already packing single family homes with a lot of cars in the neighborhood. Um, I mean I have I have a few neighbors that are uh already doing these kinds of already doing businesses that I have practically an enterprise on my street. One person owns 11 cars takes over the whole street. we are it's very difficult to manage that kind of activity. So my concern is if we could pull this and look at certain streets that are already halfway there in terms of commercial uses but also look at major corridors just to make see if there's some side streets that are already kind of commercial. I would like to revisit that. I do think council member Bonia brings up a good point about community outreach. Um, I do think that is another opportunity that we should take if we were to pull this is to um have a survey or get some kind of feedback from the community regarding this because I I do feel like if we were to make this decision tonight without the community input in that regard, we're going to we're going to get some some we're going to get some backlash on that. So, um I will not be voting for um the motion as is, but I would be interested in another motion that would revisit the locations and revisit outreach.

Thank you. Um council members are

uh mayor, thank you. I have three quick three quick items. Um I I I agree with uh uh with Mayor Selen is that we are not ready for this particular item of ACU because at the moment we're not enforcing the street vendor ordinance that we passed and if we had another one it uh um it would be just as bad and it doesn't look good for us to pass an ordinance and not be enforcing it. Um and the other comment that I have is that the rest of the business friendly uh issue that we have is excellent. What what you have come up with is very very good to really get our business friendly out there, get our good ideas out there. Um this one may not work. And one of the issues that you know, one of the uh positives is that PTO market on Jackson is going to be able to finally have some more income because it'll be it will be able to sell uh beer. What they've been trying to do for a long long time. Uh so that's excellent. So um I can't vote for this if it includes the ACU. So my friendly amendment to the maker and the uh seconder is can we take out the ACU item and so that I can vote for the package because the package is a very good one for our city but at the moment we're not ready for AC ACUs.

I'll I'll let the rest of the commenters comment and we'll revisit the the motion and and thank you for your good work on this. Uh Council Member Goldstein.

Yeah, thank you. I think one of the greatest privileges we have in serving in this position, you know, we we fundamentally have a requirement to provide a safe and secure environment for our residents. Bless you. But one of the great privileges that we have also is to improve the lives of our entire community. And one of the simplest and easiest ways to do that is opening up economic opportunity. And we have said for years, all of us up here on this diet have said for years we are businessfriendly. What does that mean? Are you big box friendly? That's okay. But when I think about being businessfriendly, I'm thinking about having an impact on business opportunity, on economic opportunity for the folks that live, work, and play here. And one of the things that has something that this thing that we've been working on for a number of years now, we're finally at the point where we're able to uh at least get it to the point where we're putting it in front of the residents and asking, is this something that you could use? Would you use this if we made this available? So, we've asked those questions. We've had actually pretty good feedback on that. Now, we can all sit here and imagine doomsday. And in fact, most of the time, I think when any of us think about challenges that we're going to take, the first thing that comes to mind are all the doomsday scenarios. And I'm not saying that this isn't going to happen without some wrinkles. But I think what we really do need to bring this forward into the community and say, "We're making this possible. If we were going to do this, would you cooperate with

us?" and uh uh make the opportunity available. Now um the uh economists that I read say that there's actually huge impact with very small motion and what they mean by that particularly when making economic opportunity available whether they're lowpaying jobs or simply more of a particular kind of job or more of a concentration of of of jobs or businesses in an area. is that the whole community benefits from that. There is an element of pride. People like making money on their own. They don't like well maybe some people like handouts, but most of us like being able to have a business idea. Uh even a small one makes make some money at it. It's encouraging to our family members. And if if traffic is going to be a problem, we can address that. Like I said, I I don't think this is going to happen without wrinkles, but I don't think that's a reason for us to stop the motion now. And so I think uh Mayor Prom Cyrup was going to add to the motion. Did you want to do that now or wait?

Okay. All right. Thanks. Okay. I I'm just going to uh council member Roach and I'm going to put an end to this conversation because I you know it's already almost 10 o'clock.

Sure. Yeah. I mean I I guess procedurally I want to ask if the motion were to fail right now because of the ACU issue and this is a city attorney question. Can we immediately do a sub and can we first of all do a substitute motion or can we let this one fail and then do um if this one fails u Mr. City attorney can we um do another one? Mr. City attorney I'm sorry I just because you know this is a procedural question. So are if this motion fails, can we do a another a substitute motion right away tonight on on that on this issue or can we do a substitute motion before the original motion is held? Okay. Motion on the floor, then we can do a substitute motion.

Another motion. Okay. Um and then I just some clarification. So we're saying south of Tennyson. That's anything south of Tennis, right? We're talking Twin Bridges, Fairway Park, everywhere. Everywhere. So, it's not just this, it's not just the tennis and court where there's a single family home.

Where there's a single, right? So, it's actually going to be right. So, right, it is everywhere. I mean, I I'm obviously still struggling with it. Hence my earlier, you know, question to you about the friendly um friendly amendment. Um, but I but I I do think this idea of the G9 bottle is it it really be will be hard. I mean, I think, you know, we allowed street vendors and I think there was an explosion of them because um because there they they were allowable. So, when we all drive around town and we see street we see street vendors, we don't know whether they're permanent or not. And I and I get your point that we're probably conflating two things here, right? We know that street vendors are harder to um to enforce than um than home than maybe ACUs might be, but you know, I do see plenty of homes doing business doing things, you know, out of their home. I mean, to um council member Andrew's point, like there are people running whole. I I saw somebody running basically a a commercial equipment business out of their home. I know that's not allowed anyway right now, but you know, but people are doing this without without the ability to do it. And I am concerned that once we allow it, you know, then everybody can start doing it whether they're permitted or not. And I don't know that there, you know, council member Goldstein's point is good, right? We don't want to be up here fear-mongering. And and I think that's one thing I have to admit. I appreciate all of my colleagues because we are all really, you know, struggling with this and what how do we serve the community the best? Um, and I I know that um and so I appreciate everyone's comments. I mean, it's all it's all valid, right? We should be offering incubation for people to have businesses, but I'm not sure that incubation should, you know, be at grocery stores. So, maybe I do have concerns about that. And and why a coffee shop wouldn't have to go through the health permitting. I'm confused about that. Like coffee would be about sort of keeping milk at the right temperature. I mean, so why that would be allowed under this pilot, I am confused about that. And how easily a coffee shop could become something that should be permitted by the health department. So to me there are some unanswered questions that I you know again I mean to you know I think to the points that were made you know we we've been talking about this for a while but clearly we're all sort of a you know I I am more concerned about it now than I

was when we started and I think that's because of what we've all learned more um learn more about it and so I I really appreciate the idea of the incubation. I I just don't know in our current austere times we cannot add another enforcement to staff I don't think. I mean, I appreciate the point that it's a home. We we'll know where to get them. But it's so true that neighbors don't want to rat on neighbors. I have in my neighborhood, there is a car business operating out of their home, you know, car repair business, and the neighbors don't they they don't want to complain because they're trying to keep good relations with their neighbors. And yet, they they they are they're really struggling with it. It's really difficult for them. Um, and so I am concerned about bringing something on. we don't have the wherewithal to properly be um to properly be enforcing it and we don't have a great track record on people coming to the city for permits for these kind of businesses. So, I really I really appreciate the creativity and despite my earlier questions um to the maker of the motion on, you know, a friendly amendment, I I I remain struggling with it and I I really want to pass this business friendly um proposal tonight. I don't think I can support it with the ACU and and I'm wondering if you would if we even put a time stamp on it. Would would you say look I hear you can we come back and give it six months so that some of these questions can be answered and you know maybe it won't change but maybe if we could all feel a little more comfortable about the territory about where it's going to be um because I I do find myself now struggling with more questions and I don't think you can support it with the ICU. So wondering how you feel about removing it for six months or sometimes certain given that I understand what staff said about how hard that would be to bring back.

Yeah, I'm open to that. I think six months is a reasonable amount of time. And there's been enough concerns that have been surfaced here like my interest is not in steamrolling my colleagues on the council around this policy. It's just about not shooting ourselves in the foot. And the reason I say that is because two maybe almost three years ago we had an opportunity to remove this 50% 50% split with food and alcohol for our businesses. And we're the only town in this entire Eastbay that has that policy. And we had one public commenter, maybe two, that yelled at us and scared us by one vote from getting rid of an archaic rule that could have unleashed economic development in our city. And so I think what I've had a hard time with tonight is that it has been a year that the ACU has been brought up and we are at 99% of the finish line. And now all these concerns that we've had a year to actually surface are now coming up. And I have to ask myself, what changed? What changed between the last time this came forward and then when it went to the planning committee, which are all public meetings that anybody from these neighborhoods could could speak to, to now? I got to ask myself what changed. I think that's what I'm having a hard time with. And so in good faith, I'm open to amending it and saying yes, let's move forward with the motion absent the ACUs, but can we bring back the ACUs in 6 months? Because I think it's a very powerful economic development tool um for us to be able to decide and vote on. That's how I would like to to amend the motion. Uh and my hope would be that your questions and your concerns are answered because at the end of the day, I just want a coffee shop in my neighborhood. And the fact that like we're having to arm wrestle over this for for what's such a simple amenity in some of the cities that the mayor mentioned, Paris, Mexico City, these are international destinations for a reason because they're beautifully planned. They provide amenities that are so nice that people travel across the world to experience them. And to say that it's somehow unequitable for us to offer our own residents who elect us to make their lives better the same experience, like that's just I think we can do better. And I and I and I know we want to do better. So anyways, I'm fine with if staff is okay with, you know, maybe in six months, let's bring back specifically the question on ACUs and let's answer a lot of the concerns that you heard from my

colleagues tonight because I want us to all feel good about this moving forward. Um, and my hope is to my colleagues that you engage with that conversation in good faith because tonight based on how quickly everyone changed their opinion from the last time, I have to wonder who called in between now and then. Really, what is the difference between where we were 3 months ago and now? And I'm I'm hoping we can be in a better place in 6 months. That's that's the motion I would make and I don't know if um the secretary wants to agree to that. I reluctantly agree. Um I'll leave it at that. Okay. Can I just really quick because I said six months but I am concerned when do we do the budget update? When's our midyear budget?

It's usually in February. So six months from now I guess once it's becomes effective when would be around the end of the year I guess. Correct. Yeah. So I'm just wondering would you want to wait till we get past the um or do care like make it seven I that's I'm just saying logistically what does staff need so that well six six months from now is what we're talking about October right if you do it from now it's October we could do it before I think the you know depends the ordinance won't become effective for I think we have a second rate yeah and I guess what's your concern around timelines I just want to understand why you're bringing this oh my concern is just the asterity question that like if it became clear that like you know like PD's totally overwhelmed code enforcement is totally wrong like that there would be some reality um check before

I think that's part of what I'm hoping for in six months is it sounds like yeah there is more thinking we have to do right we need to cost out what is enforcement going to look like what would realistically the staff cost of that enforcement look like and it sounds like there's not a lot of clarity in the council currently around that so even if there's not a dollar amount that's budgeted for that at the moment we should still know if we're going to implement this program maybe it's not immediately uh you know one month after October into November immediate maybe we say we implement it you uh in the next fiscal year or something like that, right? Like those are the conversations I think we can have at that meeting, but it sounds like you want more information, right? I mean, sorry, I'm fine with if that's the way you want to go with the six months and fine.

I mean, if you leave us a little wiggle room just because we're planning another budget work session in November, but we'll around that same time. I just want to caution on enforcement because we don't actually know if anyone is going to use this permit. It's going to be very difficult for us to

estimate anything more. And we know exactly how much it costs to enforce, right? We know what the cost of a code enforcement officer is, but without knowing demand, we're not going to really I don't know that we're going to be able to give you a lot clearer answers on enforcement. If you want us to explore other locations or we could look a little at a more fine grain, maybe a smaller um location or kind of these side kind of residential streets and bracket it a little more. We could look at that, but the enforcement cost we have no idea because we've never tried it. We're not sure. There could be zero permits, right? um or or that or we could so I I don't we just don't it's going to be really hard to estimate. Right.

Okay. I'm I'm also sorry if I can just add two things because I do need some clarity on another item before you guys take a vote on this but related to the issues. I just want to be really honest. My staffing situation is ever evolving and changing and I have additional folks leaving. If you've not noticed, a a a key person working on this project is about to go out on maternity leave. Um I have other folks that are going to be retiring and I don't know when I'm going to be able to replace staff. So to the city manager's point, if there could be some flexibility and when we're able to come back and the information that we can provide you, that would be really appreciated by staff.

So let's say within a year, is that reasonable? Yes. and to council member Roach. Is that okay with you? Okay.

The second clarity or second point of clarity that I wanted to get related to this is tied to the data centers. In your motion, council member Cyrup, you had mentioned this desire to have irregardless of the energy use that you would like them to informally all come to council. I think I heard similar feedback from council member Bonia. This project is all about providing transparency and clarity to developers um and folks that are going through our process. And so if there is a council desire to have all data centers regardless of size, then my recommendation is that in your motion, you include that that use would require a major conditional use permit irregardless of size for all data centers. So that that process is very clearly defined in our regulations for the developers and for staff. so that we're not making judgment calls and then informally bringing things to council or council having to informally call things up. I think it would just be much clearer to just be if that's the desire that you just require that for all.

Okay. I'm seeing nods from my colleagues. Are we okay with all data centers requiring MCU as an amendment to this? Okay. So then the motion is uh what staff is recommending except all data centers will require an MCUP and we will revisit the question of ACUs um separate from this uh within a year's time depending on uh staff capacity. Does that sound correct? And do you second that? Okay.

Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, it's messy but it gets done. Um I uh I think this is something that I can get behind uh even if it's a year and and so forth. Um you know and I I also want to you know uh I appreciate uh Mayor Pro Tim's enthusiasm and I appreciate his um uh his uh advocacy. Um, but I want to be clear, uh, my concern with ACUs, uh, stemmed from the very beginning. And I, uh, and I know he didn't mean this, and I know, uh, he, you know, um, uh, uh, wasn't saying anything other than what was said, but, um, you know, as, um, you know, uh, we were all capable to make our own judgments and decisions up here. And so, uh, but I think my, uh, my position has been consistent, pretty pretty much. So, anyways, I appreciate that. Um, so, uh, I, um, uh, so I wanted to thank, uh, Mayor Pro Tim Cyre, uh, for being amunable to this. Uh I know I think uh we may have a majority uh um vote on this but uh I am comfortable and I wanted to appreciate my colleagues for um for their uh uh comments. Um so I will be voting yes on this. Um madame city clerk, you can take a role.

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Council member Andrews. Hi. Council member Bonia Jr. Yes. Council member Goldstein. Yes. Council member Roach. Yes. Council member Syra. Yes. Council member Smeno. Mayor Selenus. Yes.

Okay. Um and the item unanimously passes. So congratulations everybody. And um uh Director Bowser, thank you. and to your planners. Thank you. Okay. Alrighty, let's uh move on uh to Oh, let me hold on a second. Ah, okay.

Yeah. Okay. Um, let me pick up where I where I left here. Okay, we did public comment. We had we did council questions. We did public comment. I closed public comment. We did tabulations. So now I move Hold on a second. Um, okay. Okay, here we go. If so, I'd like to reopen item number Oh, boy. Item number 18. And um, if approved, no majority protest Hold on a second. I shouldn't have read that part. Thank you. As the assessment ballots submitted in opposition do not exceed those submitted in favor, a majority protest does not exist. The council may now proceed with consideration of the resolution establishing the Stratford Village Flood Control Facilities improvement assessment, approving the final engineers report and ordering the levy and collection of assessments for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter. May I have a motion?

Uh, I'll move the item. Can you Are you allowed to share the tabulation? Yes, we're going to get there. Oh, okay. Yeah. Uh moved by Mayor Prom Cyrup. Need a second. A second by uh council member uh Goldstein. And madam city clerk, if you can read us the tabulation and then take role.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, pursu pursuant to prop 218, all assessment ballots received prior to the close of the public hearing have been tabulated. The results are as follows. Uh total ballots submitted 41. Total number of ballots in favor 22 with a percentage of 53.66. Total number of ballots in opposition 19. A total percentage of 46.34. So based on the tabulation, the ballots submitted in opposition do not exceed ballots submitted in favor. Therefore, a majority protest doesn't exist. think.

Okay. So, okay. So, um in other words, it passed. I I believe uh I believe lawyers made that language up as I look at the city attorney and then now and then madam city clerk if you can take the role. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So just um to recap, so it was moved by council member Syrup, seconded by council member Goldstein. Is that correct? Yes. Perfect. Thank you. And council member Andrew. Council member Vaneia Jr. Yes. Council member Goldstein, yes. Council member Roach, yes.

Council member Sire, yes. Council member Smeno. Mayor Selenz, yes. And the item unanimously passes. Thank you. Am I allowed to make a closing comment? Absolutely you can.

So, first we do want to thank staff for help with this. We did collaborate with public works and city attorney way in the beginning and this was a long time coming. Um, we also want to thank city council. We remember council member Andrews recommending we do something at the Starbucks on the corner of industrial. So, we did do that when we did our in-person event. Um we also want to thank our engineering consultant SCI who's been very helpful but most importantly the residents in Stratford Village. Um the passing of this assessment is a direct investment to their neighborhood to preserve, protect and enhance life and you know property there. So then their voting shows that they value that and they do want to continue investing in the neighborhood. So we do want to thank them for their pro um their participation in this long process. That is all. Thank you.

Okay. Uh, director Director Roman, thank you. And you owe her a latte at least. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um, we will move on to item number

20. Um, okay. Item number 20 is uh PH26-020 master fee schedule. adopt a resolution a resolution approving the master fee schedule fiscal year 2627 and the fiscal year 2627 fine and bail schedule and finding the action is exempt from California environmental the California environmental quality review act and this is going to be brought to us uh by way of um our finance director um director Hillbrand but what I am going to do is I'm going to forgo um staff report and I'm going to go straight to council questions. Um, I don't see any questions and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to open up for public comment. Oops, hold on. Uh, seeing none, I'd like to close public comment and return to the deis and I'll entertain a motion.

I'll move it. Moved by council member Goldstein, seconded by council member Roach. Madam city clerk, you can please take role.

Council member Andrew. Hi. Council member Vonia Jr. Yes. Council member Goldstein. Yes. Council member Roach. Yes. Council member Sar. Yes. Council member Smen. Yes. Mayor Selen. Yes. And the item unanimously passes. Director Hillbranch, thank you very much. Thank you. If I may also recognize the team, Michael Barnes on my team took the lead on this. This is typically a six-month process. He started around February um for the the level of detail that we needed to change and also wanted to recognize all the departments. They had to go really deep into their fee schedules um with turnarounds of days, hours, minutes, and uh really wanted to recognize all the work on this project. Thank you.

Thank you very much. And please thank your staff for this. Um, next item is item number 21. Um, and uh uh I uh I I thought I saw city attorney Rubio online. Um but anyways, um uh this item is um uh 21 LB26-007. This is massage permits. Introduction of an ordinance amending article 10, chapter 6 of the Hayward Municipal Code relating to massage permits and finding that action finding that the action is exempt from environmental review. This is going to come to us by way of uh city attorney Lawson and our chief of police Brian Matthews. And we've already heard this item. We are currently under a moratorum. This is a permanent uh change to the ordinance. And um instead of foregoing I'm I'm going to forgo staff report. However, I uh would like to ask our city attorney and or our chief of police if they can just briefly explain to us um what's different now than um what we um the action we took a couple of months ago. Mayor passing this over to senior assistant city attorney Mike Vehilia for comment and also if Mike wants to defer to the police chief. Uh I will um do so.

Yeah. Mayor, are you asking about just sort of um how things have gone during the moratorum sort of?

Uh no, just uh in in the action we're taking tonight um three points. What's different and what are we doing tonight? Sure. So, uh the purpose of the mortorium was to allow staff to develop new um uh changes to the regulations to sort of address the issues that we've been dealing with. So, the key changes are there's there's a def change to the definition of the owner operator. It enlarges the the the folks who fall within that definition. So, it increases the number of of uh people who could be potentially responsible in terms of of enforcement. Um there's an enlargement in the terms in the types of um uh operational conditions that would fall within what could be uh uh basis for revoking or suspending a license. Um which includes um something we've added is is the use of sexually suggestive advertising um which was not present before. Um and also a shortening of the time period for the permit down from two years to one year. So now there's there's going to be o uh greater oversight since they'll be they'll be looked at on a more um regular basis.

Excellent. Um okay, good. Uh and if the chief of police wants to add anything other than that. Okay, perfect. So um I will um uh come to council and see if there are any questions or comments from council. Uh council member Roach, thank you. Um so so every so every massage establishment has to come now for a cup. Is that right? or just because it says in select zoning district. So, right. So, that that was part of the the business friendly um amendments that that you just heard. So, yes. So, so they're prohibited everywhere else except the downtown and then they have to come for CU. Correct. Now, everything will require CUP. All allowable areas need to come for C. Correct. Okay. And in addition to the massage permit that is in this Yes.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um I don't see any other questions. Uh I will close questions from council, open up for public comment. Uh, I do not have any cards. I do not see anybody online, so I will close public comment and come back and entertain a motion. I'll move. Happy to move the I'm happy to second. Uh, moved by Council Member Andrews, seconded by Council Member Bonia, and Madam City Clerk, if you could please take role.

Um, before we take role, uh, Council Member Roach wants to have a final comment. Yeah, I just wanted to thank the city attorney's office and and the um and the police chief for working on this because, you know, we do get complaints from neighbors about this and and unfortunately it makes every massage parlor uh you know, suspect and I don't think that's what we're trying to do, right? There are legitimate massage parlors working in the city that should be able to do that. So, thank you for sort of trying to find a way forward that offers these new regulations so that we can um enforce them the way they should be enforced, but we're allowing the businesses that are doing good work out there to to continue to do that. So, thank you for the work on that. Council member Andrews. Hi. Council member Vernia Jr. Yes. Council member Goldstein.

Yes. Council member Roach. Yes. Council member Syro. Yes. Council member Smeno. Mayor Selenz. Yes. Thank you.

And item passes unanimously. Okay. Uh moving on to uh item number 22, legislative business. uh salary and benefits resolution and employment agreements. Adopt resolutions amending and amending the uh unrepresented employee salary and benefits resolution, the city clerk employment agreement, the city attorney employment agreement, and the city manager employment agreement. And um what I'm going to do is I'm going to forego staff report. Uh this is going to be um uh director Texon is is he online or Okay. Um so I'm gonna forgo staff report and see if um uh council has any questions.

Seeing no mayor just for for the public's sake, can you just briefly say what this item is? Yes. Ian, would you mind? Yeah. Um yeah, go ahead. Yes. Thank you, mayor and councel. Um, this item brings forward uh cost-saving measures by the unrepresented employees of the city. Um, so thank you again to our labor partners for collaborating and working together in partnership for concessions. Um, so this item brings forward similar concessions to defer the coal is due at the beginning of the next fiscal year to the end of the fiscal year. Similar adjustments to the city attorney and the city clerk contracts and then continuing the foregone benefits for the city manager. Um and those all create costs saving measures for next fiscal year.

Yep. And the for and the foregoing of colas for uh the city council or no? Yes. Thank you. Yeah. That that will be brought forward with the salary plan. Um oh the next Yeah. The next it Okay. Yes. Okay. Um okay. Uh so seeing no more questions uh from council. I like to open up for public comment. I do not have any cards. I do not see anybody uh online. So I will close public com comments and uh entertain a motion. I'll move. Uh moved by council member Goldstein. Second. Seconded by council member Bonia and madam city clerk if you could. I just had a quick comment.

Mayor just just wanted to with that second just you know thank thank the city attorney the city manager in particular and the city clerk just for their leadership in this time. you know, they they're really setting a strong example for how it is we pulled together to get through these tough times and just really appreciate what they're bringing forward today. So, thank you the three of you. Yes, Mayor Pro Tim.

Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to extend that gratitude to our uh directors and other unrepresented employees. Um when we are talking about the speaking team effort and when we are coming to our labor partners to help us close this deficit, we are making similar asks of ourselves and the management in the city too. So, I'm just very grateful for the ways in which we're all rowing in the same direction to address this deficit. Thank you. Um, your sacrifices do not go unnoticed. Ditto. Absolutely. Um, okay. I think we can take Madame City Clerk, please take RO. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council member Andrews. Thank you. And, um, just want to say ditto to the comments that were made earlier. I

thank you. Council member Vinia Jr. Yes. And thank you. Okay. Council member Goldstein. Yes. Thank you, Council Member Roach. Yes. And thank you, Council Member S. Yes. Council member Smano. C. Gracias. Mayor Selenas. Yes. And thank you. And the item unanimously passes. Thank you. Uh, moving on to um council uh reports and announcements. Are there any council reports and announcements? And I know council member Andrews has a report and or announcement.

I know we mentioned it earlier, but Earth Day is at Weeks Park, 8:30 a.m. Um, please come by, celebrate Earth, help clean Earth. Thanks. Because we are pro Earth. Um, seeing no more reports and or announcements, I'll move on. There are no council referrals. And ladies and gentlemen, Mr. City Attorney, it is 10:08 p.m. Meeting adjourned. Thank you.