City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to call the meeting of the city council to order at this time. Today's February 9th, 2026. Uh you can watch the live telecast on YouTube. Also in regards to public participation, there are three ways to uh submit public comments. One is submit written comments by the meeting day. Two, submit written comments during the meeting. And three, attend the meeting in person. In order to submit a written comment, please fill out a green speaker card at the rear of the chamber, something like this. Uh, any email comments received after 400 PM on the meeting date are not guaranteed to be received by the city council prior to the meeting. However, comments are not read out loud into the record. During the meeting, you may visit dailycity.org/aggendas org/aggendas to submit comments using the public comment form to address the city council on a specific item or during public comment periods such as and such. Comments are delivered to the city council and city staff during the meeting and may be read into the record at the time they are received. Persons with disabilities who require auxiliary aids or services in attending or participating in this meeting should call the office of the city clerk at 650 9991 8078. Okay, with that being said, if we can all kindly please stand for the pledge to the flag. I pledge algiance

to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much.

Okay. Um I'd like uh call this meeting once again to order. I want to provide the acknowledgement that we read at every council meeting in regards to uh well I'll start the city of daily city acknowledges that we are on the ancestral lands of the Ramatouch Aloni peoples we recognize their enduring connection to this region and honor their history culture and contributions as the indigenous peoples of this land we affirm their sovereign rights as the original inhabitants of this land and pay respects to the ancestors, the elders and relatives of the Ramatouch Aloney peoples. Okay, madame city clerk, may I have roll call, please?

Miss P. Giovani, present. Dr. Rod, present. Fano present. Miss Manalo present. Mr. Sylvester Glenn Sylvester present. Thank you very much. Next item is the approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of January 26. And I'll entertain a motion. So move. Mayor or um prior to moving the item, if I may. Yes.

Uh there is um a change on page two un under the minutes. Um I believe you allowed me prior to staff communication to make a statement on Thoron Beach. Um it's not recorded on here. Madame city clerk. Um when I spoke about uh going to Thornon Beach and going there to physically see what was happening in regards to the fence um that is um not [clears throat] recorded. So if you could kindly um do so as my statement. Thank you.

So uh thank you council member Manalo. So Dr. Rod, since you made the original motion and council member Manalo is asking for a friendly amendment uh in correction of the minutes, I'll refer to you. I do accept the the changes, the modifications to include um council member Manalo's um edits to the minutes. Thank you, Dr. Rod. Council member Manalo, I I would assume that you would second the motion. Second. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. We have a first. We have a second. Any further discussion? And with that being said, all those in favor of approving the minutes with the corrections is hereby stated, uh, say I. I. I.

Any oppose? Any abstensions? The minutes pass. Thank you very much. The next item is the approval of the agenda for tonight's evening. Uh, I'll entertain a motion for that. Motion to the agenda. Okay. Motion by council member Diovani. Is there a second? Second. Second by council member Dr. Rod. Any further discussion? All those in favor of approving the agenda for this evening say I. I.

Any oppose? Any abstensions? Okay. The agenda has been approved. At this time, I'd like to open it up for oral comment. And I got two cards here. Let me see if it's to for a specific item. Uh nothing uh general public comment. Okay. Uh they do not uh pertain to any particular item on tonight's agenda. So with that being said, I'll open it up to oral comment. I'd like to start off with Emma Ma. Emma And this is regarding Doorchester Drive.

Good evening. Thank you so much. Can you hear me? Yes. Is that Is there a green light? I think you need to turn on the mic. You see a little button there? Uh yeah, you see a little button there. Is there a button? Yeah, a gray button. Oh, no. You can hear me now. Okay, [laughter] there you go.

First of all, thank you all of you, all of whoever made it happen. [gasps] I um I was at my house and I live on Doorchester and the police he tagged someone for speeding and then within five minutes he tagged another one and then within another couple of minutes he tagged another one going down John Dailyaly and then my then I you know I emailed everybody. I said, "Hey, look at this." Cuz I take pictures. I should have brought them. And then they go, "Oh, yeah. The guy's sitting over there, too. He's what a nice guy. He's Chinese. I don't know his name." And I offered him water. And he said, "Oh, no. I can't take it cuz I'm on a job. It's just water." He said, "No, no, no. That's okay. But I just want to say thank you very much for doing a wonderful job, but I think I still need the camera and more lights. Is that okay? you know, cuz I'm not always there, but I'm really home a lot, too. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's

I'm done. [laughter] Thank you. All right, Miss Ma, thank you so much for the comments. Wait, I have to I have to see this guy, too, because I my P Genie bill was like and know there's only two of us over $600. So, I mean, I'm on a fixed income, you know what I mean? So, I have to see him because he's going to help me, right? Thank you. [laughter]

Thank you, Miss Ma. Uh, first of all, not too often do we get compliments as to the work that city staff performs. [laughter] I'm glad that uh you basically are our eyes and ears and our constituents out there and we like to hear stories like this. As for your PG& bill, yeah, mine was about 602 [laughter] and there's only two of us. However, that gentleman who you pointed out, if you have a water leak, that's the one you talked to, not PG. PG,

but that's okay. Yeah, [laughter] your comments are in the record and uh we acknowledge your comments, but thank you for sharing. Thank you very much. All right, the next item on the agenda is uh I mean the next uh speaker is Jim Laramie and uh he uh would like to talk about streets, trees, and a sidewalk problem. Good evening, Mr. Laramie. Thank you for coming to speak with us. The the homes on West Cavore Street are design were were built in the 1930s and 40s. They weren't designed, the streets weren't designed for trees on the sidewalk,

but the ecology excitement of the 70s, I guess, got things moving. They decided to put these trees in. Now we have everything underground, gas underground, sewer underground, water underground, and you know how insidious the roots of trees can be into these these things. So what we have the park putting in trees that are inappropriate. They're too big and they're huge and they're terrible me messes and and I've been having backup when it when it I have a heavy rain which I didn't have before and um um and the and the guy from and so and the other thing that it's doing the trees is it's [clears throat] buckling the sidewalks. So, they've had to come in a couple two or three times and it's like a $10,000 job to have to redo a pull the old sidewalk out and put the new one in. And so, it seems to me like it's kind of like it seems fishy to me like this like the park department and the street workers are saying, "Well, this tree, you know, here you'll have to go in and take this out." So now my So we've had a uh and in front of 61 West Cavore and also I have a sister that lives at 22 who has a walking disability and the lighting's poor and the the the sidewalks are buckling from these trees. So I'd like to get the tree in front of 55 and 61 removed.

All right. Thank you uh Mr. Laramie for the information. Uh before you go, sir, I just like for you to know that we cannot take action on items that are not on the agenda. However, by you appearing before council tonight to express your concerns, it has been duly noted and uh it may appear later on in another meeting as an agenda item or uh the city will probably do some followup based upon your recommendations. Okay.

So, just wanted to thank you so much for being here this evening. Thank you very much. All right, council members. With uh that being said, we have no further cards. So, I'm going to close the uh oral comment at this time. Motion to close. Uh okay. Uh Council Member Diovani, I have a motion to close uh oral comment at this time. I'll entertain a second. Second. There's a first and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor of closing the oral comments at this time say I. I I I Any oppose? Any abstensions? Thank you, Council Member Diovani. That uh

that is carried. All right. The next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. And looks like we have one, two, three. Yes. Through the mayor. Mayor, go ahead. Okay. Uh I heard Pam first. Go ahead, Council Member Diovani. I'd like to pull item number four, please. Got it. Council member, I think we already voted. We voted on the consent because that was the one that Didn't we vote on the consent agenda? Not on the consent we didn't. No. Okay. Not yet. No. No. Okay.

Okay. So, right now we have uh Council Member Diovani pulling item number four. I'd like to uh pull item number 13. 13. Thank you. Thank you, uh, Council Member Manalo. Anyone else? All right. So, what I'm, uh, heard thus far, uh, I'll entertain a motion to pull items to approve the consent agenda with the exceptions of item number four and number 13. Motion to approve.

Do we have a second? I'll make the second. Thank you. Okay. Any further discussion? All those in favor of approving the consent uh agenda with the exception of number four and 13 say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? The motion passes. Thank you very much. And for item number four, to accept the fiscal year 2025 annual comprehensive financial report. Mr. Nevin, good to see you, sir. and [laughter] uh you have the floor.

Thank you very much honorable mayor and council members. Item number four is accepting fiscal year 2025 annual comprehensive financial report otherwise known as the acturer. The financial records of the city of daily city are subject to an annual independent audit which is performed by maize and associates. The audit is performed in conformance with generally accepted auditing standards in the United States and includes a comprehensive review of the financial records and the internal control procedures in place which safeguard the city's assets. The independent auditor's report contained in the acter indicates that the financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the city as of June 30th 2025. This opinion is considered quote clean or quote unmodified which means that the financial records reflect appropriately the financial activity of fiscal year 2025. The acter contains the financial activity of all of the city's funds and account groups. It is presented in a manner designed to fairly set forth the financial position and results of operations of the city as measured by the financial activity of various funds. All disclosures necessary to enable the reader to gain maximum understanding of the city's financial activities are included. Each year the acter is submitted to the government finance officers association award program for the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting. Daily city received the award for prior year fiscal year 24 and staff anticipates that the city will be successful in attaining the award for fiscal year 2025. staff recommends acceptance of the fiscal year 2025 annual comprehensive financial report and I'm available to provide any additional information and Mr. Mayor if I may I'd like to provide some additional information at this

moment thank you Mr. Evan, please do. Oh. Um, should I propose the question? No, he's going to provide some additional information. Council member uh now let Mr. Nevin give his full report and then uh you can feel free. Yes, Mr. Nevin. Um the the information that I will provide in addition to the staff report uh is in response to council member Diovani's uh earlier question this evening if if you would prefer that she asked that and then I can go into my council member Diovani uh would that be okay with you? You want to provide your concern?

Thank you mayor through the mayor. Thank you Mr. Nevin. I appreciate it. Um I had sent earlier the question on the the our maze associates. They're their on the consultants. So for the public knows they actually uh audit our a lot of our budgets and approve. So my question was just for clarifying I'm sure it's okay. On the one of the booklets, it has schedule of findings and question cost and it has all the check boxes and it says they identified a significant deficiency has been identified and then they check yes um to be identified. Then I took the other booklet to look for the uh deficiency and the other booklet was the memorandum of internal control schedule of significant deficiency. And then prior to that on the page prior it says a deficiency in internal control exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions to prevent or direct and correct misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies. And I just wanted to know if you could clarify that for me cuz and then they said something with the year prior we consider the deficiency and internal control included on the schedule significant deficiency to be a significant deficiency. Thank you Mr. Nevin and thank you to the city manager for taking my question and sending it to you. I appreciate it prior to the meeting. Uh thank you council member. In um in response to the question uh and thank you for the question. The significant deficiencies as um discussed by maize in

their reports and council member Diovani is is referring to reports that um through the city manager I sent to the city council on February 5th, 2026. It included um seven reports directly from Maize and Associates that are uh directly linked and related to the compilation of our 2025 um ACTER that I referred to in the report which I'm holding a copy of here. This uh ACER is available on the city's website as are all the prior year uh ACTERS as well. in regard to the uh memos that Maize and Associates uh created for council that um was forwarded to again to the council on February 5th. Includes a few reports um one being a single audit report and also another uh a memorandum on internal control. They refer to that as a mo uh the abbreviation for that the uh the acronym excuse me. Um, just to go back to the word significant deficiency, those are items that auditors look for each year when they do an audit with the city. Um, the auditors reach out to us. They come a couple times a year. Uh, they take over our finance conference room for about two weeks. They discuss and ask questions of staff, request reports, um and questions and staff has a lot of interaction with the auditors while they're physically uh present. Then they create their full reports. Um each year what auditors look for are trying to find significant deficiencies in internal controls and they identify those for city staff. They're very important because then we're allowed to figure out how those internal controls became deficient and what we can do as a

city to correct those. So that's what we do every year and looking at uh major uh deficiencies. They're also just called audit findings. Those are the normal terms for those audit findings. So going back to fiscal year just to give a little history on the one that's remaining because you asked a question specifically about um the only remaining audit finding that the city does have u but in fiscal year 2022 um the city had eight audit findings dropped. What that means is that the auditors uh identified a finding, staff addressed the finding, the auditors um confirmed that staff addressed the finding and then it was removed from their list each year. That's the process and it's usually a multi-year process when a when a finding is brought to the city's attention. In two fiscal year 2022, the auditors dropped eight findings that the city had had prior to fiscal year 2022 and they had three new findings that year. In fiscal year 2023, the auditors dropped seven findings from prior years. They added two additional findings that year. In fiscal year 2024 last year, um the auditors dropped five findings from prior years and had zero new findings for the city. Uh which we were very proud of uh in finance, especially accounting. In fiscal year 2025, the most recent year uh where the act was completed, the auditors dropped two additional findings from prior years. And again, for a second year in a row, had zero new findings for the city. Um, as you can see, we've had a lot of findings dropped over the just the last four fiscal years. And um [snorts] very minimal new findings that we've already addressed. We have one finding left on

the auditor's report. just one and that finding is just related to um and I could read a portion of that there is an internal control where we which it's related to our new financial system by going live with our new financial system we're going to be able to address that last and final audit finding that the auditors have and we the new system that we implemented through Tyler, it's called Tyler ERP has two components to it. One is financials and the other component is an HR payroll component to it. They call it HCM, human capital management. The um financials went live July 1st, 2025 and we will go live with our HCM system for the first payroll in July of the next fiscal year 20 um 27. So it'll go live basically late June 2026 this year. Once we have that new system in place, we will be able to address the finding that the auditors had. And then once the auditors confirm that then at that point we will have no findings whatsoever. Of course in future years they can find additional findings and we'll work on those um as as we go. But I just point that out because I want I'm glad that the question was asked number one. And number two I just wanted to talk about the great work that the accounting division is doing. Um, we, uh, another city reached out to us recently asking, you know, how many findings do you have? Don't tell us about what the findings are, but are you having findings drop off? Are you adding findings? So, we were really happy to report where we were in Daily City in terms of our internal controls. So, we're we're extremely proud about that.

So, once our new system goes live this year, uh, we will address that last finding. So, um, I hope that answers your question. Yeah. And the other thing was I think that what in a capsule because I know it's a lot to explain. What exactly were the deficiency? Do you were you able to able to tell the council what the

Yes, the deficiency was related to um which staff perform a particular function. So, in this new system, we're going to have um a separation of duties from um payroll staff entering information into one part of the financial system and then um paying staff on the other side. In the new system, uh human resources staff will be entering the information into the system and then payroll staff will be on the other side of that. So then the auditors will have a clean finding and we'll remove that from uh from our uh findings and that will be accomplished in our new system. We're working on that now.

Thank you, Mr. Nevin. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Um thank you, Mr. Nevin. Any further uh comments or questions for Mr. Nevin? Uh Council Member Manalo.

Thank you, Mayor. I uh really appreciate it. I just want to say um thank you for the amazing work on the comprehensive review. Um really I think it's so important for us to see where we're at as far as our fiduciary responsibilities. Um and you know whether it's forecasting where we're at to date um you know it quite quite excellent work and kudos to you and your entire team. Yes. Excellent. Anyone else?

Okay, Mr. Nevin, thank you so much uh for the report. Council member Diovani, thank you for bringing up that concern. I always try to start with the good parts first. Okay. It really wasn't. I'm sure it's he was competent through the mayor that, but I just wanted to clarify it for the for the public. Not a problem, but uh just like to make a comment and as always, I always start off with the good parts first. [laughter] The good part is uh Council Member Manalo beat me to the punch because I've made a little asterisk up here. Uh kudos to you, the job that you do and your staff. Being a member of a credit union where we have auditors come in.

I do understand they actually take over a certain area and if they ask for something, you have to give it to them. And uh sometimes I think they purposely look for something a little small [laughter] and will use the big words like a deficiency and I realize that but except in the credit union in the banking uh role uh what will turn out based upon the findings in which I've tried to write down everyone that you made mentioned eight in 2022 uh seven in 2023 five in 20 my numbers could be a little bit off but then the magic number that I heard was a zero new finding. So I think that's uh excellent. But in the banking world, if you have these specific deficiencies, what they will do is lower your camel rating. And when you get to a certain point, you could be uh subject to a takeover by the federal regulators. But seeing and hearing what I've heard this evening, uh I think that's outstanding. Yeah. And I want to commend you and your staff on the work that you do. in in uh working with the regulators. Uh the last comment I would like to make is uh I apologize. I um I just got the report this evening and I couldn't read both the books. Uh maybe later on in the future if you can just let us know, hey, you got the uh financials, it's in your mailbox. Please do let us know. But at the same time, I will try to do better and trying to stay up on that. But other than that, great work. All right, so with that being said, I'll entertain a motion. Uh I'll leave that up to council member uh DJ Ovani if you would like to approve item number four.

I like to make a motion to approve on item number four, please. All right. Stay a second. Second. Second by Vice Mayor Pano. Any further discussion? All those in favor of approving item number four say I. I. I. Thank you. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Motion passes. Thank you very much, Mr. Nevin. All right. The next item on the consent agenda is item number 13. And uh council member Manalo had asked uh to pull this item. So who was here to discuss item? Oh, council member Malo, go ahead.

Yes. Um the the reason I pulled this item um especially around um the child care center on um 2892nd Street, I think it's so important for our community to know that there has been a long-standing child care um facility um right around the corner. you know, child care is essential to our community. Having building kids close to city hall, um also to county services, um helps families thrive. And so for me, um I think even um sharing with the public that does not know that there is literally a child care center close to city hall. Um, and many families, whether they have been city workers or county workers, have been able to and those in the public have been able to utilize this service. Um, and I think it's such a delight. I know that city staff gets to see the young children every Halloween when they visit. Um, and I think that it is such an integral part to our community um, here um, in in in our in our city. I I would say the city blocks that we have um, with our buildings. And so um, I just wanted to pull that item um, in respect uh, to the many children that have gone through there and I know I know that there's many staff's children that have gone through there as well. And so it's such an essential, I think, piece to the fabric of our society and we need to have more opportunities for childare. So, thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Manalo. Any further uh comments?

I'll make one. Council member Manalo. Very well said. And uh when you get up in age like myself, I'm not going to uh compare myself with others because I know there are others here on the council, hint hint, who uh definitely participate in the child care of young ones. And uh myself, I have eight of them. And uh you think it's all over, but taking care of the children is very, very important. Kind of keeps you young. I believe the county is also working on something and they do recognize that uh we need more child care. So outstanding. Very well said, Council Member Malo. And I'm glad you pulled that item.

All right. So I guess that that was just a comment. You didn't want to make a mo you want to make a motion to approve? Happy to do so, Mayor. Uh motion to approve item number 13. Second. [laughter] Okay. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor of approving item number 13 say I. I. I.

Any oppose? Any abstension? Motion passes. Thank you all. Thank you all very much. All right, that's the end of the consent agenda. Moving on, we have public hearings and we're moving on to item number 14 and uh public hearing to consider adoption of an entertainment zone ordinance pursuant to state law SB 969. And I'll have our staff uh Maybel Manuel please. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, and council members. I also have uh Assistant City Manager Tim Nevin and Chief Cameron Christensen with me. So, this item adopts a local ordinance required by state law to allow Dy City to activate activate entertainment zones under SB969. Without council adoption, outdoor alcohol consumption in public spaces remains illegal even during permanent events. This ordinance is about legal compliance, public safety and economic competitiveness, not expanding alcohol access broadly. Uh why this is needed? Now, this law took effect on January 1. Um but local January 1, 2025, but local legislation, legislative action um is mandatory before any city can use it. Daily City hosts large community and quarter community events and corridor activations that already rely on pedestrianoriented public spaces. Neighboring jurisdictions are moving forward now that ABC guidance has clarified implementation expectations and adopting now ensures we're not forced into a lastm minute or informal informal workarounds that create liability or enforcement risk. So what the ordinance does is it establishes a framework not automatic zones or permanent open container areas which requires defined geographic boundaries, limited days and hours, approved container types, strict age verification protocols, police department coordination and event specific zone management plans. Um so it's p it's about public safety and control. This is a controlled model, not a free-for-all. Police retain full enforcement authority

and ABC oversight remains unchanged. Zones can be suspended, modified or revoked if issues arise. And every activation requires security and staffing plans scaled to event signs, clear signage and boundary controls, trash and recycling plans, and incident report reporting requirements. And this ordinance also requires a biianial review to evaluate impacts and make adjustments. Uh the the adoption of the ordinance does not create new fees or staffing costs and costs if any are handled event bye event through existing special event permits but this avoids unfounded mandates while preserving flexibility. And then also the economic development rationale is that this supports local restaurants and bars not outside vendors. It encourages people to stay longer, walk corridors, and circulate between businesses. And it also keeps Daily City competitive with regional peers already implementing entertainment zones and provides a predictable legal structure that businesses and event organizers can plan around. So, this ordinance gives the city legal authority, control, and a flexibility. It aligns with state law, protects public safety, and supports local economic devel activity. and staff recommends the adoption to ensure Daily City is prepared, compliant, and competitive for any upcoming events. Staff is available for any questions.

Thank you, Miss Manuel. Uh, Chief, any further that you want to add because I do have some questions that I'm going to ask a little bit later, but if you have anything, please, because you may even answer my questions. Oh, no.

Okay. [laughter] Um, no, I have nothing else to add other than the fact that the police department will be involved. Um, it's similar to the special event permits that we've had in the past, um, where they need to supply all the event information, um, which she already outlined as far as the location, number of attendees, the type of alcohol, hours of operation, any concerns we've had in the past about prior history at whatever the location may have been, things of that nature. And we'll we'll take a holistic view of of what the request is. Um, work with staff specifically. Um, part of that process is reaching out to all departments as well to ensure that there's no engineering concerns, rightway concerns, fire safety concerns. Um, so everyone has an opportunity to provide feedback in that process. Um, and then take that information among staff and make a recommendation to the event request.

Thank you, Chief. Mr. Nevin, anything? Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would just say that we we've had some internal meetings of course discussing this ordinance before bringing it to council. Uh my main questions were whether the police chief was comfortable with it as well as the city attorney whether she was comfortable with uh bringing this forward and and in terms of what it contains. So I was satisfied with that. Thank you Mr. Nevin. All right. Uh, I'll open it up to my colleagues here on the dis if anyone has any questions or comments for staff. Count uh, Vice Mayor Pano.

Thank you. Just wanted to thank you for this report and for um, working on this. I know as we have more and more events coming up. We needed something like this in place and I look forward to the events that we will have that it's going to make it easier for us to have these celebrations. So, thank you and thank you to everybody. Anyone else? Uh, council member Dio. Go ahead. Sure. I'll go after you.

Okay. Thank you, mayor. Through the mayor. Yeah. I I also want to thank you for looking at being due diligence, not just because it's a state law, but to making sure that there a lot of safety aspects when all you've worked together on this. So, I think that it's important and um a lot of thought went into it. And thank the city attorney as well. So, thank you very much because I like you said, we have a lot of large events and we need to make sure that we're okay and the people are okay. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Diovani. Anyone else? Dr. Rod.

All right. So, um I'm a sucker for origin stories and uh just want to know how this came about, right? Um, I think it's a great idea and I know that San Francisco and some other cities um are implementing something like this already, but I just want to know like like how did it arrive towards Daily City to um come how did it get here? State the state.

Yeah. But before that, prior to that, uh SF and San Jose did have entertainment zones already. I believe at least locally SF was the first one to have an entertainment zone. Um especially because they had a lot of huge informal events like uh the the Castro Halloween event that had been going on for decades and was just way too big for um the city to help try to control and um the 420 event as well. So, okay. At least locally it came out of SF and then the state followed. Okay. Um, can you give me examples of how it's going to be implemented in Daily City? Is it going to be like

um like for instance, if it's going to be like a top of the hill festival and it'll just be for that time and space for that duration of time. Is it is that an example? Are there going to be other examples? So there are boundaries in which the event producer um even if it's the city that's producing the event has to designate the actual boundaries and say no alcohol beyond this point. Um

we can take it as far as how SF goes and actually have people waiting at the event points and you know making sure people aren't bringing alcohol in or out from those points. Um, but the the ABC act wouldn't be triggered unless somebody were to toggle that there will be alcohol at the event. So, you can still throw an event at [clears throat] March Banks or wherever. If there's no alcohol, then it's not going to trigger this act. Um, I know this is about alcohol. Is there anything that's regarding and I guess this might be off topic but on topic.

Is there anything that's regarded the same thing similar to this but with cannabis? Not at this time not from the state but okay jurisdictions can have consumption laws if they choose. Um, all right. So, I got like just two other questions like so for evaluation for every two years. What type of specific data are are we looking for to see if this is successful every two years? Well, one, if there are any applicants. Okay.

Um, uh, two, if there were any incidents at the events and what was the response to that? How quick the city was able to respond? um how well it matched the event producers um management plan um since we do have to have that as part of the permit application um with you know um detailing [clears throat] security and emergency management and all of that. So I think those are a couple of great success indicators.

Yes. um having young people in the crowd here, how do we um cipher out like who gets to have possession of drinks? Like if somebody had like a fake ID, how do we distinguish um who has the like the legal boundaries of having a drink or there has to be some sort of mechanism for age verification. Okay. So, uh, typically they would have some kind of bracelet that is on them tightly hopefully where, um, they've already been verified by somebody designated to verify age.

Okay. All right. Um, and then if we wanted to terminate it before it gets to a certain every two years, how would we go about that just if if it's not successful? So the um the ordinance establishes the zones where we can have this type of alcohol, but within the program itself, the city has the authority to go ahead and revoke that. Got it. Yeah. Okay. And just so you know, I know it's it it's it does establish that the alcohol is related to a business or an entity that already has an alcohol permit. Got it. So they are an extension of that. Got it. Okay.

Oh, okay. In terms of So, let's just say that because of So, if if it was like a a place that already has alcohol, is there limitations of what type of alcohol can be distributed? Yes, absolutely. So, it depends on the alcohol license they already possess. So, if they only own a certain type for beer and wine, then that's all they can sell. And on top, they also have to have a catering license through the state, which Cameron would have to sign off on for every event.

Okay. Well, it feels like there's enough layers and filters for this to be safe. So, I think this is a great idea for Daily City and it provides a a place for um a partnership with PD, our city leaders, our events, and then especially for our community that wants to have a good time um responsibly. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Dr. Rod. Council member Malo.

Thank you, mayor. Um, so as far as uh origin story, and I just want to respond, um, you know, Senator Scott Weiner um was the one that um authored this bill. And so um I think in conjunction with what was happening in San Francisco, being able to really build um more events um like uh if you've seen downtown First Thursdays, Yes. um that is uh kind of one of the first entertainment zones in uh the county of San Francisco and then has evolved to other areas um and so really um brought forth as a economic development tool and we've seen that I mean if it was not just last Thursday um in conjunction with the Super Bowl that it was a fullon sea of people um I think it's important that I mean we are pretty much mandated and I think um it's great timing with the work that we're doing here in Daily City um in regards to that. But my question is um in regards to the implementation piece of it, we call entertainment zone, but how does it work when a zone is implemented? because I don't see the I don't see it here as far as the steps like uh uh when a producer applies for an event permit, the zone would potentially be activated when the producer toggles that there will be alcohol at the event. So, it's it would still be part at that point part of an application process and then it would go through review uh by the police department to make sure they ticked all the checks and made sure that

all of the requirements are in before approving it. And that's the approval would activate the entertainment zone. Okay. And then where does the approval end as far as the implementation? Does it end with C um Chief Chief? I mean that's what I'm trying to understand like if people are watching they want to be able to do this, you know, understanding what those next steps are.

Yeah, my understanding is I'm kind of the central control of the overall permit itself. Um so the request will come in through an online portal. There are several toggle sweat sections in there that will um acknowledge you know the presence of children or alcohol or anything that will then key different requirements um and different levels of approval. Um and as I had mentioned previously um all city departments are involved in the approval process um to ensure that nobody has any concerns depending on where the location is. Is there a public rideaway? Is it city streets? is something to that extent. Um to include the city attorney's office as well for any insurance requirements um or any concerns that they may have. At the end of that, I'll send out a report to the entire city u department staff and get a report back to make sure that there are no concerns. If there's not, from that point is when I would approve the special event permit

um through the city and work with Mayabbel to to issue that.

Okay. Thank you very much. That was very clear. and wanted uh those that may be interested in maybe doing a festival or event to understand what that process would look like. Um also um I think that you know every two years we would look at the entertainment zone policy. Um I think that that is helpful. I think in any policies that we have it's important for us to review um on an annual basis or not annual at least by annual or basis in that regard. But this is a great thing. I think that we need it. I mean, obviously it's mandated, but I think there's definitely an alignment with the work that we're doing. Um, and you know, such as the top of the hill festival and also Kasayahan, I know that there's been alcohol there as well. And so I think um in a very responsible way, everyone can have a good time and in in that regard. So yeah, thank you for the work on this and it's great that our region is actually pushing it forth,

right? Um the our state senator that represents us um is pushing it forward. So I feel like we're all in sync. Thank you, Council Member Manalo. Anyone else? But just one quick question. Sure, Dr. Um, and just to be for clarification for the public, they have to purchase the alcohol beverages on site. It's not like this by I mean bring your own beer type of thing, right? That is correct. Okay. Just want to make it clear before folks come through with their own drinks. [laughter] They're like, entertainment, bring my own drinks.

We we want that economic activity [laughter] for our businesses. [gasps] Okay, that's it for me. Great. Thank you so much, Dr. Ron. Did you just bring up the ordinance, uh, SB969? No, I didn't.

Oh, well, uh, I had the opportunity while everyone was talking to bring up the ordinance and, uh, I generally don't ask a question that I already don't have the answer for. So, uh, basically I have no questions. [laughter] Uh, Miss Manuel, I want to say you did an outstanding job because you basically answered all the questions before turning once to defer to the city attorney to uh uh get some information. I have to commend you for that because it shows me how much uh work you have put into this in moving forward. So, I want to say the following. The city and county of San Francisco slated to implement the first entertainment zone in 2025 under SB969. The entertainment zone defines a zone created by city, county, or city and county ordinance that authorize consumption of one or more types of alcoholic beverages on public streets, sidewalks, or public rights of way adjacent to and during a special event or licensed by a department. While this presents opportunities for public engagement, the law includes specific conditions to prevent misuse and ensure safety. And uh I'm sure council can recall that under the uh under ABC, what was it? uh alcohol um beverage control. Uh there are requirements throughout the states about the consumption and who you can sell the alcohol to. And I was one question that uh Dr. Rod

had asked, well, how are you going to identify these folks? And Miss Manuel says, well, they'll have bracelets. And you know, I think that's an ex I mean, it's it's good. It shows that you were thinking ahead just in case this came up. And that was actually a good question. Uh, I was going to save this point for last, but I'll say it now. If we don't allow this, then people are going to hide and take advantage and abuse the law. They'll be police will have more work to do, have to go after folks. Oh, you're you're underage or what you got in the bag? it won't happen under this. This is another layer of security to assist us all in uh moving moving ahead. Um challenges and Miss Manuel and Chief you uh you you covered it. So some of the challenges uh exist uh well uh Dr. Rob uh first of all they talk about um purchasing alcohol. You can only purchase it through an authorized person within the zone.

And number two, it has to be consumed on the premises. So they just can't walk around. Well, I don't know how you're going to work that out, but uh they can't just walk around with it. But I'm sure you've got a uh a mechanism to ensure that. Uh you have to control access points, preventing underage drinking, and managing crowd behavior. To maintain accountability, cities must review the operation of the entertain entertainment zones every two years is what council member Manalo and uh Dr. Rod had asked. Well, how are we going to review this and will we look at this? And I depend on the police department and as Miss Manuel said to provide the statistics and to let us all know how uh how it came about. There was one part. Oh, here it is. Challenges remain. Crowd safety, waste management, and potential disruption disruptions for nearby residents. So, we're thinking about uh the residents who live in the area also. And I think uh you have to balance the benefits of entertainment zones with these challenges. and it will require careful planning and public engagement. So with all that being said, I think an excellent job has been done. This provides additional uh uh layer of security. I appreciate the collaboration amongst staff and um uh that's all I have to say. I I basically again I don't have any questions but I have to give you all kudos and I think this is uh uh really going to propel us uh uh forward. So thank you all so much and those are

my comments. All right, anyone else have any comments before we move? Uh vice mayor, you have that look. You sure you [laughter] want to

it's just real quick. I think the perfect example was the top of the hill event and I we all many of us were there what an event and it was well planned and it was well executed and I think that's a perfect example to this [clears throat] bill. So again thank you so much. All right. So, hearing none, what I'd like to do is open it up to uh uh the public for any comments or uh additional uh concerns that anyone may have. At this particular time, I have no cards, but I'll still put it out there if anyone wants to speak to this matter before council moves on. All right. So, I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing. Motion to close the public hearing.

We have a first by council member DJiovani. Is there a second? Second. Second by uh Vice Mayor Piranho. So the uh we're closing the uh public hearing at this time. The next uh is to obtain a motion for city attorney to read by title only. Motion for city attorney to read by title only. Do you have a second? Second. Okay. Motion by council member Malo. Uh second by council member DJ Ovani. All those in favor of having uh the city attorney read by title only say I. I. I. I.

Any opposed? [clears throat] Any abstensions? Okay. Madame city attorney, would you kindly indulge us? Thank you. This is an ordinance of the city council of the city of daily city adding chapter 5.96 to the daily city municipal code to establish an entertainment zone program pursuant to California business and professions code sections 233 039 23357 25690 25691 and 25692 as amended by SB969. So, council may introduce an ordinance.

Happy to introduce it, mayor, if I may. Uh, council member Manalo, uh, you will introduce the ordinance, and you've chosen to do so. Okay, with that being said, I I guess we can move on. So, it's uh been adopted, and uh, thank you all so much for all the work that has gone into this. Thanks, May. Thank you. Thanks, Chief.

Thanks. All right. Um, item number 15, public hearing on issuance of taxexempt bonds for 493 Eastmore apartments and resolution approving the issuance of bonds. Mr. Lunken, thank you very much. And you have the floor, sir.

Yes. Uh, thank you, mayor, members of the city council. This is a TERA hearing for the issuance of tax exempt bonds at 493 Eastmore. Those of you who may be familiar with that project, it's it's a 72 unit mixeduse building that will be under construction soon at Sullivan and Eastmore. Um, the city council is required to conduct a tax equity and fiscal responsibility act hearing in consideration of issuance of the tax exemp bond financing by the state California statewide community development authority for the benefit of Eastworm Multifamily LP. Um, this uh hearing would allow for the uh provision of financing for the acquisition, construction, improvement, and equipping of the 72-unit multif family building. And again, the uh resolution would approve the issuance of bonds by the statewide community development authority not to exceed 25 million. That's not the cost to daily city, but that's the overall bonding amount by the authority. So, uh that's in summary. Uh there's a representative from core communities, Christy Marber's here if the council has any questions and then staff's also available to answer any questions.

Thank you, Mr. Lousen. Does uh anyone on D have questions for the uh representative or this project at all? I do. Can you kindly refresh our memory as to how much uh Daily City is putting towards this project? Yes. So, back in 2022,

the city staff brought to the city council a conditional allocation of 1.1 mill essentially $1.9 million of home funds and $1.1 million of home ARP funds and up to $2.9 million per PHA funds for the 72 unit uh building. Um yeah so uh based on the current development cost estimates the developer estimated a funding gap at that time of $13.2 million. So there was a need to close that gap. Uh the city allocated $511 uh for in 2021 there was an allocation of for 2020 and in 2021 an allocation of $795,000.

Did that include the hard funds? I don't know, mayor, if that included the heart fun. Well, I recall uh on council uh bringing this before and that Hart was also going to be providing uh some funds as well. And uh I'm very happy. Now, you had made mention since 2021. Yes. This is about time. Yes. This is this project's been [laughter] uh waiting for funding for quite some time and it's finally going to come out of the ground. Yeah, we're very happy about it. Great. Thank you, Mr. Lousen. Okay. Any further comments from uh anyone else on the dis hearing? None. Mayor. Yes. Oh, Council Member Manalo, please.

I I just want to echo what you mentioned. It's long overdue. I think that we've seen that uh corner of East More empty for quite some time and seeing the different renditions of affordable housing and to see this come to us again um it's it's very exciting. um knowing that there are f I mean really funds now to move this forward. Um so we're very I know I'm very excited along with all of you. Thank you council. Thank you. Sure. Uh council member Diovani please.

Yes. It's long time overdue and then now more than ever affordable housing is so needed. I thought that the project originally, even when I was on the planning commission, they that the design, the the bicycle, being able to get to the Koma Bart, the everything on that corner because that's not an easy corner. You know, when you see a corner, that's usually not where people look. And I'm glad we have a great interest and a great partner and and thank you for all the work that everybody's done to try to get it moving. And I know it's been a things have changed at the state and it's but we're here. So it's exciting to see it finally is moving and timing is everything. So I do hope that that corner will be developed and it'll look nice and people will have roof over their head and uh it's it's going to be a great project. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, council member. Thank you, Council Member Diovani. Anyone else? No. Okay, I'd like to open open uh for uh to the public for any uh comments or additions uh to this project. And I don't have any cards at this time. All right, seeing no one, I entertain a motion to close the public hearing at this time. Motion to close public hearing. We got a first by council member DJani. Is there a second? Second.

Second by Dr. Rod. Thank you very much. Uh so uh all those in favor of closing the public hearing say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? Hearing and seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to adopt the resolution uh on the issuance of tax exempt bonds for 493 East More Apartments. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion by council member Malo, a second by council member Diovani. Any further comments? Hearing and seeing none, can I have a roll call vote, please? Miss Diovani I, Dr. Rod I, Miss Piranho, I,

Miss Manalo, I, Mr. Sylvester, Glenn Sylvester, I The motion passes. Thank you very much, uh, Mr. the lunk housing and to the representative uh from core as well. We wish you the best of luck. Yes. Okay. Absolutely. And thank you for your persistence and due diligence and not giving up on us. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Thank you. [snorts] Okay. The next item on the agenda is appointments for board commission membership and committee appointments. Mayor. Yes. Um, I do I do have an appointment. I have a um an appointment to the women's commission. Women's Commission. Yes.

Okay. Please. Um, I'd like to appoint um Lizelle uh Chan. Oh, wow. It's a good one. Dr. Rod, you approve? I approve. [laughter] Okay. Uh uh did we get the name or Lizel Chan? Right. I Okay. So, I just want to make sure staff gets it. Okay. Oh, good. So, uh, uh, Council Member Manalo and, um, taking the words from our city attorney, she would like to nominate, right? Yeah, [laughter] I would, I would love to nominate, um, Lizelle Chan for the women's commission.

Thank you very much. And we have a second by uh, Dr. Rod. Any further comments? one resign. With that being said, I'll take a a a voice vote. Is that do or you want a roll call vote? Uh madam city attorney. A voice vote. Okay. All those in favor of uh the appointment by council member Manalo of Liselle Chan to the women's commission say I. I. I. Any oppose? Any abstensions? Motion passes. Thank you. Council member Manalo. You have any any further? No. Not at this time. Yeah. Okay, thank you very much. [clears throat] Thank you. Anyone else?

I just want to let you know I am working on on mine. So, I will hopefully have it at the next meeting. So, thank you. Um, thank you very much, Council Member I mean Vice Mayor uh Piranho. Uh, no pressure. [laughter] All right. Uh, well, I think I I I should do it now since I know that mayor is on a mission. Um um I'd like to reappoint Angela Lagerta to the library board of trustees.

Oh, you know, council member, you have a good sense of intuition and premonition because I was going to make mention of something later on in in line with what Vice Mayor said, but I don't want to go off. I'll talk about that later. Uh Angela Lagartha, can I read your mind? The synergy. Huh? Yes. Yeah. I I mean we're on that we're on that page. All right. Libraries. Angela Lagarta, she had to I think from family is family issues she needed attended to

but um she now has um the time to come back and I know [clears throat] that I know her colleagues have reached out to her to come back to the board. Um she's been very active in um connecting resources to the library. I think recently she also uh another grant to support from um Bank of America. Great. Okay. Uh so, Council Member Manalo has made an nomination. I'll entertain. Second by Council Member DJ Ovani. Any further discussion?

All those in favor? Angela Lagata to be uh uh [laughter] we Library board of trustee. Huh? Library board of trustee. Yeah. Is it uh city attorney? Oh, is that a nomination or reappointment? Appointing to nominate. Okay. [laughter] When nominate uh reappoint. Gotcha. All those in favor say I. I. I.

Any oppose? Any abstensions? Congratulations. All right. We're still on council committees. I mean uh appointments board commission membership committee appointments. Okay. Moving on to item number 16 uh council committee reports. We have vice mayor. Vice mayor please.

Yes. Thank you. Um, we had an ad hoc committee meeting regarding the commissioners with Mayor Sylvester and staff and uh I thought it went well and I think that's what he meant about intuition. So that was amazing. So, uh, we did do that and, uh, I did, uh, attend as well the illegal dumping committee meeting with various staff and public services representative and I thought that was very productive and, uh, want to thank Leilani Ramos for that for that meeting. I thought it went well. And then I I just had a few other things, but I that I attended. Should I wait on that? Uh, I can wait on that. It's is is it is it a committee?

No. No. That's why I say I can wait on that that that come. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Yes. All right. Anyone else for council committee reports? City council. No one. All right. Well, since vice mayor started off, I'll kind of uh elaborate a little bit. Yes. Thank you. Um I was uh happy. Oh, I'm sorry. Right. Should I say my other things now that my Oh, no, no, because I'm going to Oh, yes, sir. Go ahead. Reiterate tail on to what you said. Very good.

Thank you, Vice Mayor uh Pirano. Um I had my first meeting with the illegal dumping committee and I have to give kudos to Vice Mayor Piranho because every so often I see her post on Facebook and say, "Come on, Daily City. You can do better." uh vice mayor drives around the city and if she sees illegal dumping, she'll let you know. So, I like to I I like the collaboration with staff, the police department, uh um our debris, uh uh and other staff, uh code enforcement, and I learned a lot. So, uh that was that was good to be a part of. Um, Vice Mayor and I uh worked on an ad hoc committee regarding our commissioners and um we see that uh we can perhaps make things better for our commissioners. It's a very very important job with our commissioners and we uh since 2024 uh folks have reached out basically commissioners and they're concerned about three areas that we're working on. One is current vacancies. Two is attendance. And what was the last one? I forgot. I know it was three

really because I was attendance. attendance and participation as well as is there a third one? Well, madam city attorney, do you recall?

I think it was three things, but that's okay. All right. We're working on it and we're trying to come up with a mechanism to uh increase participation and because being a commissioner is a very very important role and the city council um basically uh they act as an advisory capacity to the city council and somewhat helps us out to make decisions. So just wanted to let you know that an update is coming. Miss Ma, can you hear me? Am I Am I uh [laughter] All right, good enough. I'll try to talk a little bit louder. Uh so, uh I I met with uh a vice mayor on that. We both uh spoke about that. All right. Uh this is committees, right? Okay. I'm still on committees. I had the opportunity to attend the Department of Emergency Management meeting on January 29th. It's over and it's done with. It was all about preparation for the Super Bowl and uh joint exercises and it's over and done with and great that it went down uh the Super Bowl. Many things happened in our city and the collaboration with uh all the law enforcement um transit authorities even talked about how you deal with wayos and uh [laughter] etc. So I think that was a good meeting. I I got a whole binder here. But what was very important to me was the uh Super Bowl and how it was going to be handled. So uh that's that on council committees. I think there was one more, but I can't find it right now, but uh that's all I have. Anything [clears throat]

else for uh council committees? Okay. Okay. Uh Vice Mayor Pano, this is your time now. We'll turn This is for city council. Thank you. Well, uh on Monday, January 26 at 7:30 in the morning. Oh my goodness.

Yes. We were Um there was the March Banks Park groundbreaking with uh our colleagues here uh our mayor uh Sylvester council members Rod Das Magu and Justin Manalo as well as city manager Tom Picolotti Leilani Ramos director water waste water and water waste resources Joshua Cosgrove and many daily city staff and we celebrated the groundbreaking web representatives from Sacred Heart Cathedral. It was a a really nice event. It was cold, but we were prepared [laughter] and um I will say it's an exciting uh it's exciting start and uh was very happy to be there. Uh this past going to jump around, but this past Saturday afternoon um I represented the city of Daily City at the at at honoring the Hello Girls. And if you uh would just give me a little time on that, I just want to say who the hello girls were. These were women that the US Army searched for women. What they did was there was a search for women who could speak both English, pardon [clears throat] me, and French to work as switchboard operators during World War I. The event was held at Holy Cross Cemetery. It was a beautiful celebration. Now there were 223 women who participated as Hello Girls and uh we have eight that are buried uh at Holy Cross. They served their country in France and later had to fight for years for rec being recognized as serving in the US Army and they were denied honorable discharge and receiving of their veteran benefits. They were classified when they finished their job, they were classified as civilian contract employees rather than enlisted personnel. And that's so important because these women, there was two that

died in in uh in action there. It took until 1979 when there was only 18 survivors left to receive their veteran benefits and recognition for their service. And so uh it's you uh it was uh something that was so important. I never knew about it. Many of us never knew about it. But these women uh there there were other uh they were called doughboys. And they also were switchboard operators. Switchboard operators for the young people here is how they uh connected telephone calls with wires. and there was a big board and they would connect and they had it down to an art being able to translate and to send messages that help in the war effort. And so these uh women uh were finally recognized. There was uh their family. There was great nieces and nephews and uh it was beautiful ceremony. So, I just wanted to make sure I I never knew who the Hello Girls were, and now all of you know who the Hello Girls were. Um, so thank you. Uh, let's see here. Oh, now that myself and council member Jessa Manalo are both uh Daily City host Lions and uh the host Lions what well what we do the Lions Club is uh we people un know that we gather glasses and help with glasses for people who can't afford glasses as well as hearing aids. Uh but what they also do in the community is they have an annual student speaker contest and it was held here. They take one year in coma, one year in Daily City. And there were three judges and our very own city manager Tom Piccolotti was um was a judge and um we had three student speakers and they spoke on how mental

health affects students and their families. The winner was Maria Scaff. She's a junior in high school and she will represent Daily City at the next level next level. So as and this is something important young boys, girls, young women and men they uh high school age can uh uh uh try I say try out would that be the word or apply and then they would give a speech. It has to be more than 5 minutes or less than 10 minutes and they move up to different ranks in different uh locations up to $4,000 for scholarships. So, it's something you might think about now we have the youth out here uh speaking is a wonderful uh talent. Um and then the last thing was Skyline College had their sunset. Uh there were over 200 people representing the community. Dr. Rod Da Magu, I don't know if some of you know, but he is a professor at Skyline College. He was in attendance, as well as council member Jessa Manalo and city manager Tom Picolotti and uh many other people. So it was a beautiful event and uh I think that's it. That's all I got.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, anyone, uh, Council Member Madalo?

Um, sure. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I just want to say thank you for bringing up the March Banks groundbreaking. I think it was such a wonderful morning to be able to witness um something that's going to be really great for our community and youth and young people. Um, you know, I mentioned it before, I grew up literally around the corner. Um, and that was the, you know, where so many children played. And I think, you know, Dr. Rod mentioned that John Madden play at Marchbanks Park. And so, it's really special to see it, um, you know, move into a state of art field for the community and young people. um also um stating that it is the largest public private partnership in the city city's history. Um and it goes to show that how much more we can do when we partner together. Um, also just want to share that um was able to join the crab feed um for the build a dream with the recreation department and um never fails. I think you would say that um uh right mayor never fails at all. His favorite is the minestronei soup. [laughter] [gasps] Um, but it's just really wonderful, I think, to be able to support um, such a great cause and be in community and eat amazing crab. Um, and so our duty now is to make sure we there's more people the following year and the following year after. Um, I want to bring up that um community members from Fora um they uh want to work with the city um to provide firsttime home buyer

workshops. And so um I'll be asking um uh you know Tom um our city manager to see if there's ways we could collaborate because they want to offer that for free for the community. Um many times um there's conflicting you know resources and so they just want to be able to clarify um what are the steps to uh be a first-time home buyer. Also, um uh AMR reached out in regards to working on CPR training in um in um for the community in North County and they want to do it here in Daily City. And so that's another opportunity to partner and I'll be working with the city to coordinate that. Um, we uh talk about climate climate resiliency and earlier today on our consent agenda, I was really glad to see that we talked about ways um to be able to reduce our greenhouse gases, etc. And so, I just want to applaud our city for continuing to uh work with the county in that regard. Um, and lastly, um, I I'm just so proud. You know, I was reminded of what we have forthcoming in regards to utilizing our city land. Uh, for those of you that don't know, we will um have um some child care that will be um facilitated through the Peninsula Family Services for affordable child care. Um and and I think it just shows our innovation as a city to use city- owned land. Um and we know that child care is

so crucial in our economic development. Um we've seen how how much important it was during the pandemic, but even more so as we continue to um build equity in our city and the county. And so I'm very excited um that we have done that. I I I know that um when I sit on the peninsula um division of the California cities uh topic that's talked about in the region and up and down California is child care and when I share the innovative idea that we have here in our city um we want to share best practices across the board and so that's what I just wanted um to say and got reminded of when um we talked talked about um the child care um building um kids uh right next door to us. So um a lot of great work um that we do together here. So thank you.

Thank you. Council member Malo, Dr. Rod, anything? Yes, I have um I have a handful. Okay. [laughter] No, not a lot. Not a lot. Um, I just want to say thank you for this um to um Council Member Manalo's um um alma mater Jefferson High School. He hosted um Okay. Do you want to do that one? No. No. I mean, you say it and I'll say something after. Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. So, I was just um if anybody's ever heard of the hip-hop MC La Russell, he's been going around to different high schools and um doing videos.

Oh, yeah. And so he came to Jefferson High School and produced a video and has 2 million views on Instagram. And so he it's a song called um I'm from the Bay. And so in his title it's like Daily Cities from the Bay. Uh, so that's that's one thing that I was like, "Wow, man. Thank you to Lar Russell and congratulations for him for um for performing during Super Bowl activities and um getting signed to Rock Nation um out um record with Jay-Z. Um so I'm going to throw it to Council Member Manal if you want to say anything [laughter] additional about the Russell."

Yeah. You know, I mean, when you said that, I got so excited because it is um my alma mater and I was a cheerleader and so um you know when he was asking around what high school should I go to next and I was like at Jefferson High School, you know, and I'm like come I hope he comes over and um when the cheer cheerleaders said we're next, I thought they were saying they were hoping to be next, right? but they were literally sharing they were necks.

Um, and so it's such a beautiful video. I think if folks were able to watch it, and you're right, it has two million views now. Um, but so wellcoordinated. Um, really highlighting the culture of uh, Jefferson High School and just like our Bay Area flavor, you know, that that's just embedded in who we are. Um, and yeah, just so proud that our young people, our youth was able to really showcase their talent.

Um, and and yeah, it's one of the highest viewed um videos that he created at at 2 million. And I think it also shows young people, you know, if you know, to be your authentic self and and and look what can happen, right? Um, so from him being, you know, just, you know, showcasing his talent to now being like, you know, at the pre tailgate game of the Super Bowl. Yeah. I mean, and and it's just showing. There's also I think it's really wonderful because I think at this time around during the Super Bowl, the the highlight of our local artists

Yes. has been um showcased. Mhm. And many times it's, you know, I we have our own culture here, but I have to agree like we've finally had some light shine in the Bay Area. Um, just original artists that have been iconic uh for many decades. Um, and so that was really wonderful to see. Um, and the energy um, you know, we'll we'll get there

like but I think as for I'm talking about my ners, you know, we'll get there. But I mean, I think just everyone coming together just showed, you know, how the Bay Area is um and the talent that we have. So, thank you for that. That's why you're like, "Yes, see it." You know, let us also check it out. It's on YouTube or Instagram. And I think you'll see how how um our Jefferson kids definitely represent and they represent it for us. Um thank you. Thank you, council member. Such a beautiful thing, right? Uh, I think Daily City within this past year has been capturing a lot of viral moments and that just kind of like adds to the resume of what Daily City represents.

Um, oh yeah, and to that, um, there was someone that was at the Super Bowl, right? He was working it and he had a hat that said Daily City and like literally like representing our city, which is I thought, you're right. Like we're people are recognizing where we're at. Um, I'll even say, um, Empire, um, you know, a local, um, record label in in the area. Um, I saw some snapshots where they had a map of the Bay Area. And usually it's San Francisco, then San Jose, then Oakland,

but the map he had there had San Francisco, Daily City, East Palto, and it was just when I saw that representation, um, it it was great to see. Yeah. You know, that that it's we're actually on that B. [laughter] So yeah, agreed.

Uh my other um city council report was um I just want to say thank you to the other students again from Jefferson High School, Westmore High School, neighboring uh middle school and elementary school students that came out here on January 30th in the morning and they exercise their first amendment vote rallying against ICE. Um I think like youth always gets kind of like a bad look where they're like other there's a lot of uh apathy in terms of politics but I think it takes things like this to activate their political awareness and to be politically engaged and to see that amount of energy kind of scared me. [clears throat and laughter] Maybe I was because I was a parent. I was like please don't hurt yourself. Um, but I was just glad that they they were here. They were organized. They walked on the sidewalks [laughter] and they they all as they all assembled right here. I guess it would be like the west side of city hall.

Um, and they were also joined by not just the students, but like the the young ones like there were some elementary school kids that were there, their parents were there, adult allies were there as well. And it was so youth centered. It made me so proud to see young people like voice and be articulate about the issues that are happening to their um communities. It showed um empathy. It showed care. It showed passion. It showed purpose. And when we start to think about like what's going to change the future, the future is now. Um, so thank you for all the youth that showed up and showed out and that, you know, this type of thing is not just a one one uh protest um thing, but that you know, you got to always defend and protect what type of society you want. It's never ever a given. Um, and I know that from there there's now going there's there's talks about a statewide um walk out

amongst college students, high school students um as well regarding the same issue. Um, the third thing, I'm keep it all youth centric today. Um, so my high school folks, any high schoolers? No. Yeah, maybe. Okay. Y'all from Daily City, KMA? Ah, man. You're missing out on some free money then. So, the Daily City Chamber of Commerce on February 13th is a due date for scholarships. M

um so daily city uh chamber daily city koma chamber of commerce this is their thing like annually they give out scholarships and again it is application time um so if you are a daily city or como resident or attend schools in daily city uh please please please apply right um we we you know college is expensive and anything that can uh contribute to just um lowering down the costs Just give your parents a favor and apply. [laughter] And so that's that concludes my thoughts, mayor. Thank you, Dr. Rod. Anyone else? Oh,

yeah. Go ahead. That's okay. Go ahead. I want to uh council member DJ or Bonnie.

Thank you. Mine will be pretty short. I have to echo what they said about the crab feed. And even though I couldn't eat the crab, I tell you, it's some killer pasta. Minestron soup. Opal always does it right. The volunteers were amazing because we had youth and we had even community volunteers volunteering and Clayton came with the DCPLA and Denise and her table and everybody. It was great because the community came together. It was an opportunity for people to mingle and actually meet new people. So, there was some people there from Half Moon Bay and they were very charitable for the baskets. I think that the the baskets were great and then um we had a couple people that really did up bidding because they said they they knew it was for a good cause and that you know the dream scholarships are for youth or it could be for seniors or mothers of the children um who can't afford one of the classes. and you know this is what the city's about. So it kudos to the U recreation and uh the staff that all came in and volunteered. And then the second thing is I'd like to recognize the Boy Scouts and their troop leaders here tonight who have stayed the whole time and even though we're like actually this is pretty early. the mayor did an excellent job on chairing the the meeting that we really appreciate you being here because I remember having a conversation earlier and that leadership matters, role matters matter, all of you youth that are sitting here, you matter and you're learning such great things and and meet new friends in the troop as well when you're a scout and and I learned that I think I shared it with Dr. Rod earlier that the Boy Scouts started in 1910. And that is something to say for all of you that want to be role models for your

for the youth and that we have great scout leaders here and they get involved in so many things and one of them is the environment and so many levels to be in the engagement in the community and you're learn civic engagement. Civic engagement is key because it's very important because everything matters and everything matters to you. Even our Jeffrey UN unified high school district, they have youth sitting up there with them as a board. So I would like to encourage you to go over and sit through that and the because they actually have youth sitting up there with them. So I think that that's a great role model and from wherever you come from doesn't matter man created the borders like you know whether it's Broadmore or wherever it's from Milbury it doesn't matter cuz we're all one and that we're here to support you and and and engage you in whatever you need this is this is um open to you and thank you for being here tonight it's quite an honor actually to have you here because um I see that uh the development and then who knows where your path will be and sometimes it changes um and that's okay but be together and but there's a lot of positivity and I think there's more love than bad things so hang together and I think we can make the world a better place I know that all of you are thank you very much and to the leaders thank you humbled and grateful that you're here

thank you council member thank you council member Djiovani anyone else Oh boy. All right. I'd like to add on uh Marchbank Park. What time was that? Was the peak a lot early? 7:30. In [laughter] the morning. In the morning. 7:30. Yeah.

I don't know when's the last time I got up at 7:30. I had to get up at 6:30 just to get out of bed. [laughter] But but it was a good thing. Uh I gave uh our city manager uh Mr. Picotti uh the nickname the John Madden of Marchbank Park. So, I want you folks to remember that. So, later on in the future when I say this number, you're going to remember this. 15 to 18 million. And the city does not pay anything. 15 to 18 million. Remember that. John Madden of uh Marchbank Park. Um the crab feed. [sighs] You know, I tried not to miss a meal. When I got up and spoke, I had uh I did I tried to canvas everyone who was there and I said, "Raise your hand if you're here for the salad." [laughter] I think two people raised their hand. You go to a crab feed. What do you want to eat? Crab, right? So I says, "Uh, who's here for the uh ministr?" And about seven people raised their hand. I was there for the ministr. And council member uh DJ Ovani uh she couldn't eat crab. She's allergic to it.

I had two bowls of ministr.

You're okay. She had two bowls of ministr. But I told council member DJ Ovani, it's okay if you don't eat your crab. I'll eat your share. So thank you for that, Council Member DJ Oani. And uh what I learned from the crab crab feed, it was under the theme build a dream and basically to offer uh scholarships and uh scholarships in the way of uh programming and funding for those who need it and they included an additional group that I had no idea and that's for our senior programming if you want to get involved. So uh that's where all the money went. So build the dream. Thank you to staff. Thank you for that. [sighs] Minestroni, I I give you another story about that, but I don't want to be labor this, but that ministr Oh my goodness. All right. Uh I I made a little note here. JHS Lar Russell.

Yes. And when you talk about two million views, I hope Mr. Adonis Eats can get that many views too because I think he's a very important part of Daily City and something to do with food and he goes out and and uh looks and uh uh brings comment about foods not only in Daily City but all over. Uh Council Member Djiovani, you beat me to the punch.

This meeting is almost over and I failed to recognize the uh scouts and the troop leader in our audience. I want to take the time to recognize them now. And you said something about development and I'm going to call on the troop leader to come up and and talk about uh your troop. Please because I learned something tonight. I learned something tonight and you you made me remember, sir.

You know, uh thank you. Thank you, Mr. mayor, vice mayor, councilman, um the entire city uh of Daily City. I I'm I'm a resident of Daily City and uh but uh went to school, you know, in San Francisco, but I'm a scout leader for Troop 58 and um you know, we're part of San Francisco and Daily City and [sighs and gasps] brought the boys here. This is my many tasks of making sure these boys understand what's how the city runs and how the city uh participate in learning. Um so hopefully these boys will understand how the whole concept works. Um we also uh believe in doing uh service hours and helping you uh whatever we can do to volunteer and uh that's what we do and uh believe in. So um it's honored to be here to see each and every one of you and uh like I said you know um yes we are leaders and we volunteer and advise these boys and and uh and girls now uh in a good way. So thank you.

You forgot one part. You forgot one part. Then you have a a a scout here who uh I believe he was a master scout uh couple of years ago. Did he come here to the council? Yeah. Uh you mean my my boys? Yes. Well, both of my boys are u Eagle Scouts and Eagle Scouts. Eagle Scouts. And um they was the first wave to came to meet you and you know and um and they graduate from college and uh they got they're working. Oh my goodness. So I I can't ask for more. So Well, tell us about one of them. Yeah, that really caught my ear. Huh?

Tell us about one of them. the the development as well. Well, one of them did really well and became a CHP and um really well and out of his uh academy class of like 120 125 people uh he ranked up their the top 30 and he got his first choice where he based out of. So, wow. San Francisco. So, I mean I mean he just like going from home to to city is 10 minutes. Oh my good. how lucky you are cuz you know CHP is is statewide. Yeah. And if you don't place high up on that list Yeah. you go where they send you. So, but he got San Francisco. Huh.

Yeah. So, I'm I'm blessed. And um where the mayor and I was talking. I just hope they are our kids take care of us though. Right on. They will. Right. [laughter] Great. Mayor May or May may we take a photo with them? Okay. Sure. I I I think that's the annual thing. Yeah. Uh Council Member Manalo is asking that we take a photo with you folks. Is that Would that work? Would that work? You want to do it now? Oh, see now he's looking. He says, "Oh, I should have combed my hair. Come on up. You want to do it up here? Let them come up here behind us. What do you think?"

Sure. Come on up. do what you did. Come on. Come on. There. That's a whatever works. Oh, you want to come behind? Yeah. Come on up behind us. Come on. Come on. I guess. Is Jazelle sleeping? Oh, no. We'll pull her up. Yeah. Come on.

Why don't you have one of the kids do it? Seriously, guys. I got to get my chair. Our future leaders. Can we get them all? Oh, I have my cup. What do you think? Oh, it's okay. Oh, always be prepared. Right here. Do you want to take off your jacket? [laughter]

He doesn't he doesn't have a shirt. Okay, ready on three. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. Thank you. Thank you. [applause and cheering] All right, guys. Take care, huh? Keep up the great work. I'm 58. All right. Oh my gosh. Older when he said the kids are Yeah. Yeah. I said, "Oh my goodness." That's how long it's been. Wow. [laughter] Okay.

You have careers now. Yeah. Serving the community. Oh, sure. Thank you, uh, Council Member Diovani for the acknowledgement as well. Nice. All right. Uh

the next item on the agenda, we're almost done folks, is uh staff reports. So none. [laughter] Okay. Uh the last item on the agenda is adjournment. And uh what I'd like to do is turn it over to Vice Mayor Piranho for an adjournment, Stephen Matthew David and Kathy Shubanka Catigan. Please.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh first of all, uh it's a historic uh type of person is my first journ memory. It's for Stephen Matthew David. He was the man who put the top of the hill on the map. Many of us, you're all young, so you can Google it. Many of us recall his commercials on TV and the radio during the 60s,7s, and 80s. David founded the first store in the San Francisco Bay Area Bay Area to sell discount electronics, Matthews TV, at Top of the Hill, Daily City. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. During its 25 years in business, Matthews approached retail uniquely. The store often had lines around the block while customers waited to be escorted around the store by a salesperson. In addition to campaigns featuring everyone from Davy Jones to Jerry Rice, Matthews became known for offering champagne and popcorn to customers as they waited. David's legendary bicycle promotion, which I had a black a black 10-speed from there. [laughter] Um, offering a free bike with the purchase of almost any product costing $150 became part of local lore and his tagline top of the hill daily city still remains known today. Matthews became the largest singlestore retailer of home electronics in the country and David among the first business owners to personally appear in his own ads. After a long illness, Steven Matthew David died peacefully on January 18th. He is survived by his two children Ned and Anna, brother Anthony David and sisters Barbara Dolly and Linda Williams as well as the many who remember him as an integral part of the Bay Area, especially Daily City.

Okay. So, um, the next person I'd like to, uh, speak about is a lifelong Daily City resident, Kathy Shubanka Katigan. She was born July 1957 into the house she passed away in on February 5th. She is predesceased by her husband Dan Katigan, her parents John and Lorraine Shubanka, and her brother Steven Shubanka. She leaves behind her two sons and greatest achievements, Sha and Buu, and her loving sisters, Lynn and Christine. She attended Our Lady of Mercy Grammar School, class of 1971. Mercy High School, class of 1975. She swam on the world champion San Francisco Marionettes, synchronizing swim team in her teens. She worked in the windows and door business, al All State Plywood, Baron Lumber, and Golden State Lumber for decades before her retirement. Retirement included many, many days and weeks of US and world travel. Kathy volunteered many years at Our Lady of Mercy's bingo festivals and crab feeds while raising her two boys. She was known for her infectious smile, wonderful sense of humor, and her house was a hub for her boys and their friends, always full of music, joy, and laughter. She will be sorely missed. Thank you, uh, Vice Mayor. And at this this time, I would like to, uh, call up

police chief Christensen for an adjourning memory.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council. Unfortunately, I ask that we endure in memory of Daily City Police Sergeant Shane Tyler Hart, who was born on June 12th, [snorts] 1987, and tragically and unexpectedly passed away on January 27th, 2026. Shane started his career as an officer with the Daily City Police Department, being sworn in on November 18th, 2010, dawning badge number 128. Shane was an outstanding police officer known for his proactivity, professionalism, and composure. He was diligent, reliable, and hardworking. All traits that aligned him to be an informal leader and instructor for the department. He took on roles as a field training officer and range instructor. He excelled at decision-making under pressure, lending to his position as a team leader on the SWAT team. Shane continued his growth and his career through his assignments to the crime suppression unit and the Santo County Vehicle Theft Task Force. On May 28th, 2022, I had the honor and privilege of promoting Shane to police sergeant, dawning badge number 65. The traits that made Shane a great officer and made him an even better supervisor is he got to mentor, care for, and lead others, [snorts and laughter] things he was truly passionate about. Shane received dozens of awards for his service. Most notably, several life-saving awards, silver commendations, blue commendations, vehicle theft awards, and numerous citizen commendations.

Prior to becoming a police officer, [snorts] Shane was a combat veteran in the United States Marine Corps, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, serving in the scout sniper platoon. Shane made a lasting impression on all of those he worked with and served. He is survived by his wife, his son, and his extended family. Thank you.

Uh, thank you, Chief. Uh, moment before you leave, Chief, would you come back up to the elector for me, please? Would you kindly face the audience? [snorts] For those of you who don't know, if you see a police officer with his or her star with a black band, that means if you ever see that, they are in mourning. So, uh, for those of you who don't know, thank you, chief. Thank you.

All right. Uh, with that being said, if we can kindly please pause for a brief moment of silence, please. All right, ladies and gentlemen, this meeting is now adjourned. Thank you very much. Stay safe, stay healthy, and we'll see you at next meeting.