City Council - Special Meeting

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Council is called to order. Today is February 23rd. will call to order the city of Carson Housing Authority, successor agency, public financing authority of Carson City Council. Madame City Clerk, where Councilman Hilton is? Yes. Uh, Madame Mayor. Oh, you want me to do the flag salute and all that first? Um, we can do the flag salute while I look. I know the location, but I'm looking for it to It's on the front of the under public information. My font is really small. Oh yes. Okay. I can at your pleasure madam mayor if you want. We'll know that he's participating.

Absolutely. So district 1 council member Dr. Joan Hilton will be participating at a remote teleconference location as follows. The address is 10210 street 6210 in the city of Sacramento and the zip code is 95814. the precise location um was determined to be um the office of Assemblyman Mike Gibson. That information was shared with us. So for anyone who would want to provide public comment at that location, the address was advertised in accordance with Senate Bill 707 in a timely fashion. I don't presume anyone flew there for public comment, but in the event they did, they could be there. Um and then the mayor, mayor Potim Hicks, council member Deer, and council member Rohos are participating here in city council chambers with us here in Carson, California. So, thank you for that.

Thank you. And that's our roll call. We'll let that stand as our roll call. That is fine. No. Flag salute. Uh councilwoman. Councilwoman, flag salute. Flag salute. Yes. Thank you. United States.

Well, our bishop isn't here, so we'll defer to our city manager for the invocation. Sure. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Let us bow our heads, please. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for this day. We thank you for the opportunity to serve once again. We ask for your presence. We ask for your guidance and your wisdom. We ask that the actions that are taken before by this body of council is for the benefit of the residents of Carson, your people, and we just give you praise, honor, and glory in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Um, madame city clerk, any comments on close session items?

No, Madame Mayor. Okay, Mr. City Manager, uh, announcement of close session items. Yes, thank you, Madam Mayor. So, this morning, conference with legal councils for anticipated litigation. A close session will be held pursuant to government code section 54956.9D or D3 and E1 because there's significant exposure to litigation in one case. Thank you.

Thank you. Um, and our city attorney be teleconferencing also. Okay, we're going to recess to close session. We should be back an hour and a half or earlier. Probably earlier, but okay. That depends on how talkative we are. So, it's 10:20 right now. We should be back by 11 10 11:15. What is this? Rules of decorum. No person attending a public meeting shall engage in disorderly or boisterous conduct including but not limited to applause, whistling, stamping of feet, booing, or making any loud, threatening, profane, abusive, personal, or slanderous utterance that disturbs, disrupts, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting. All remarks by members of the public shall be addressed to the mayor or the chair and not to any other member of the public or any other single council board or commission member unless in response to a question from the member. Signs, placards, banners, or other similar items shall not be permitted in the audience during a public meeting if the presence of such items disturbs, disrupts or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting. All persons attending a public meeting shall remain seated in the seats provided unless addressing the body at the podium or entering or leaving the meeting. All persons attending a public meeting shall obey any lawful order of the proceeding officer to enforce the rules of the quorum. Treat everyone courteously. Listen to others respectfully. Exercise self-control. Give open-minded considerations to all viewpoints. Focus

on the issues and avoid personalizing debate. Embrace respectful disagreement and dissent as democratic rights that are inherent components of an inclusive public process and roles for forging sound decisions. Reconvening to open session. U Mr. City Manager, could you report out on close session, please? Thank you, Madam Mayor. A close session uh with conference with legal counsel for anticipated litigation was held pursuant to government code section 54956.9 D2 or D3 NE1 with no reportable action. Thank you.

Thank you. For the And for the record, uh Bishop Hilton, there you are. I see your face. Hey, Bishop. You have anything, sir. Madame Mayor, I'm here for the record. I was in close session. Thank you. Noted. So noted. Um, we don't have any introductions or presentations. Any communications? Uh, no, Madame Mayor. Okay. Any communications from my colleagues?

Madame Mayor, just want to let the residents know that there is a Black History program this coming Friday at the Carson Community Center. It starts at 6 PM. Hope to be there. Uh we didn't have any minutes, any consent, no special orders of the day. Um we don't have any memorial adjournments. I take it. None. No. Madame mayor comments. Council dear hearing none. Madame Mayor, if we may uh or if I may, the city attorney wanted me to read the statement regarding council member Hilton so that way it was for the record.

Yes, please. And it just states that council member Hilton is participating and has participated remotely pursuant to the Brown Act uh teleconferencing provisions. The council determined that the requirements for remote participation had been satisfied. Um and that council member Hilton has confirmed um for the record that he was participating as we saw as we just saw from a private location and that no uh unauthorized persons are present were present or able to hear or observe the close session discussions as uh stated. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh I do want to announce that uh the city state of the city is coming up on March 19th. Uh, registration is open for Carson residents and and our business community. There is a flyer that's out. And I want to pass this to our city manager, hoping that our program looks something like we did last year. I think you have a copy of it. Uh, and then I also want to meet with staff about updating our little booklet here. We did it in 2025, but do we need to update this now with some new or we want to wait? I think Madame Mary, your idea and thought was to wait

um for the No, the Yes, the 60th. Oh, it's the 60th anniversary. We do have enough of these to hand out to our guests that are coming to the city. That's correct. Arman, you have a stack of these. Okay, everyone. Okay. This is something we put together. We want to expand it and grow on it. So, thank you. Thank you very much. I do have a question. Are we going to print enough of these for our visitors during the Olympics so they they'll be able to take something with them? A good souvenir for them? Yes. Actually, so because the Olympics or something wherever they're coming.

Yes, sir. Um, so the Olympics is is actually the 60th anniversary of the city. So, we're going to update the Carson magazine or our I don't know what we're calling that publication, but um our history book, historical book, but we'll have an updated one uh representing the 60th anniversary. And so, that's the one that would actually be available for the Olympics since it's the same year. Um because I think the idea was to do a smaller celebration on the 60th earlier in the year so that way we're not conflicting with the 28 Olympics, but that was going to be a major piece is then the updated historical book. So we're handing it out now to our guests to come to the city.

Those ones? Yes. Yes, ma'am. That that's the one that we're we're providing and producing still. Um, but then in two years we'll have the updated for the 60th and that's that'll be a nice one that we'll be providing for residents as well as guests. Yeah, we have this for the state. We gave that out last year. State of the city. I mean, yes, ma'am. I don't know if we're going to have Yeah, we gave that out last year. We gave that along with produced jewels, bags, cotchis. This year, I think there's something special,

not as elaborative. Um but definitely um a momentum moving um cotchki I guess you would say that we'll be providing along with the book. Can we have a few of these available because I know a lot of the businesses already have this but just for some our residents just on a table. I don't want to put them in every bag like we did last year. Oh sure. Yes ma'am. Have some copies printed. We can do that. Absolutely.

Okay. And then also remind me to start putting together our 60th anniversary planning committee. We'll have to start Cedric. We'll have to start planning uh the 60th anniversary and getting that together. We need a whole entire year. Cedric. Okay. Trying to go to seat. Thank you everyone for information. and it was a good meeting and uh we'll see you soon. Thank you.

Goodbye, Bishop. What?