City Council - Regular Meeting

At this time, I would like to call the July 9th, 2026 Des Moines City Council meeting to order. Council Member Des Moines will be leading us in the pledge. Please stand if you are able.

Thank you. With that, let the record show that all council members are present. We're going to start with some proclamations. Is there a motion? Yes, go ahead, Council Member Netting.

I move to approve the proclamation recognizing July as Parks and Recreation Month. Is it?

THANK YOU. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND SAY AYE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND READ IT NOW AND THEN WE HAVE A SECOND PROCLAMATION THAT I HAVE FOR YOU ALL. IS AJ AND SOME STAFF HERE? THANK GOODNESS. GREAT. I'M GLAD TO HEAR IT. THANK YOU. WHEREAS, PARKS AND RECREATION PROGRAMS, TRAILS, BEACHES, OPEN SPACES AND PUBLIC FACILITIES ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS AND VISITORS BY PROVIDING PLACES TO PLAY, CONNECT, LEARN AND ENJOY THE OUTDOORS. AND WHEREAS, THE CITY OF DES MOINES IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING WELCOMING PARKS, RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES, PUB

Thank you very much. And we do have another proclamation. Councilmember Nutting.

I move to approve proclamation recognizing July 18th, 2026 as Des Moines Water Land Festival Parade and Block Party.

Do I hear a second? Councilmember Desmone. All right. All in favor, please raise your right hand. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Passes 7-0. I'm going to take a moment to read that as well. Whereas the city of Des Moines is a proud waterfront community located along the shores of Puget Sound, rich in history, tradition, and community spirit. And whereas the Des Moines Waterland Festival was established in 1959 as a celebration of our city's connection to the water and the people who make Des Moines a special place to live, work, and visit. And whereas, for more than six decades, the Waterland Festival and

Reister. Thank you. And Christine Fredericks. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING.

So we're currently running a committee of the whole. However, council members do serve regionally on other committees. Do council members have any items of interest to the public or the council? I would like to take a brief moment here to talk a little bit about the association of, no, that's the wrong one, the Sound Cities Association, there we go. We had a discussion last night at the Public Interest Committee about potential new sales tax increases that would include funding for affordable housing initiatives And we continue to talk about potential increases to the solid waste fees and rate

doing our public outreach as of january oh okay he was just the guy yeah he was the guy for a long time everywhere in terms of just community engagement and um okay so yeah well he was just really appreciated by a lot of people in the area so just point it's worth yeah

But that's a different position from the woman you described earlier.

So that's different from what Brad was doing.

I thought he was the guy for all that stuff.

Yeah. Thank you for a nice presentation. Really appreciate knowing everything that's out there. You just used a couple of acronyms that I think would help people. Oh, I apologize. My son's a firefighter, so I know what ALS is versus BLS. Yes. Would you mind explaining?

Can you explain the difference between the two?

Yes, Chief. Thank you for the report. Could you enlighten us as to the range and also the use of the Marine units?

Thank you very much for coming to speak with us. I appreciate your continued outreach, and I'm very excited to see your participation in our upcoming parade. That's very exciting as well, and I'm very grateful to see that as This area continues to grow, that we're seeing an uptick in staffing, and that there'll be more folks ready to deploy in case our residents are in need of firefighting or BLS support. So I appreciate it.

Thank you. Council, any questions or discussion? Councilmember Harris.

This is real progress, schedule-wise. Thank you. Okay, so I got the compliment. The other thing is, no, it's like really. So since you now, you know, I go on about the magic wand thing, and is there any, you know, you've obviously got your hands full, but if there was some way to create a roll-up of budget requests just to get a sense of what, overall what departments are asking for versus what actually goes through the filter.

Thank you for the presentation. It's my first budget cycle process going through it, so I have a few questions. How much of the financial data of this year will we get by the time, say, September 12th? Obviously, we'll have first quarter, second quarter, anything from third quarter to help us kind of see what the trends are.

Can you talk a little more about the new accounting system? Is it called Tyler?

And they look like for the 27-28 budget process, you're still using Excel sheets on SharePoint? Yes. You can't use the other system?

I TRUST YOU ON THAT. JUST WHAT WE'VE SEEN BEFORE IN MY EXPERIENCE, THESE EXCEL FILES CAN GET HUGE OVER THE YEARS AND THEN YOU HAVE 100 DIFFERENT COLUMNS.

So you have automatic connection between the Excel file and your accounting systems.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. YOU SAID A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT JUST, I'M NOT IN ACCOUNTING, BUT IT MAKES ME EXCEPTIONALLY HAPPY. THINGS LIKE FORMALIZING THE PROCESSES, UNIFORMITY AND CONSISTENCY, AND THINGS THAT ARE LESS MANUAL. SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT POPPED TO ME AS BEING IMPROVEMENTS, LIKE COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS HAD SAID, AND I WANT TO SAY THANKS FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THAT. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY.

JUST WONDERING WITH THE STATE, SO WE HAVE TO send a budget to the state by October 1st and then they review it? No, no.

THANK YOU. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS READ? COUNCILMEMBER NUTTING.

THAT HAPPENS NEXT. DO I HAVE A SECOND? COUNCILMEMBER BLAS IS SECONDED. DOES ANY COUNCILMEMBER WISH TO PULL AN ITEM? COUNCILMEMBER SIMMONS. All right. I'll pull item five. All right. So then we will... Oh, one more. I'm sorry. Yes, Councilmember Harrison.

Item three. Okay. Thank you. All right. So now we will pull items number three and number five, and we'll be voting on the consent agendums one, two, four, six, and seven as read. Okay. Let's vote on those. Please hold your hand up until I would say your name. Deputy Mayor OXFORD Councilmember Steinmetz Councilmember Harris Councilmember Des Moines Councilmember Nutting Councilmember Blass and myself that passes 7-0. Let's start with item number 3 and that consent agenda passes. Thank you. Councilmember Harris.

Thank you. I would like to amend the ordinance to remove the school zone item from this particular thing and come back to it later. I'm fine with the three, but it's a little bit different.

Can we stick to a motion rather than a discussion?

Yeah, I would move to REMOVE THE SCHOOL ZONE 24-7 SECTION FROM THIS ORDINANCE.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? FOR LACK OF SUPPORT, THAT MOTION DIES. ITEM NUMBER 5. OH, I'M SORRY. OKAY, COUNCILMEMBER. OH, I'M SORRY, YES, THANK YOU.

I'll take the motion. I move to pass draft ordinance number 26-049, authorizing additional automated traffic safety camera locations in the city of Des Moines.

Motion's been seconded by Councilmember Steinmetz. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Deputy Mayor Oxiger, Council Member Steinmetz, Council Member Harris, Council Member Desmone, Council Member Nutting, Council Member Blas, and myself. That passes 7-0. I'm sorry about that. Let's go to the considered item number five. Council Member Steinmetz, you may speak.

Yes, I pulled this because I need to recuse myself on this motion. As many people know, my wife is heavily involved, one of the four members of the LLC that is putting on the parade. I THINK THERE'S AN APPEARANCE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST THERE BECAUSE WE'RE PASSING MONEY TO THAT ORGANIZATION OR THAT'S WHAT THE VOTE IS ABOUT AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR ME TO DO THAT AND I HOPE THAT EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE COUNCIL AGREES.

NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT. COUNCIL MEMBER NUTTING.

NEW SPEAKER I MOVE TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION AS SUBMITTED BY THE LOGGING TAX ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF THE LOGGING TAX FUNDS.

NEW SPEAKER IS THERE A SECOND? Councilmember Blass, any discussion? All right, all those in favor of consent agenda item five, please raise your right hand. Deputy Mayor Oxiger, Councilmember Harris, Councilmember Desmoni, Councilmember Netting, Councilmember Blass, and myself. All those opposed? And then abstention? And we have one recusal, motion passes six-zero. All right. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now it's time for new business and our first item is the establishment of the ad hoc city council budget engagement committee.

Oh great. Thank you. So folks today we heard from finance director friend that we will be heavily diving into budget season as we come up on looking at our next two-year budget cycle. One of the reasons that I have proposed an ad hoc budget engagement committee is to have a subset of our council really be the face and the primary body responsible for ensuring that we get as much community engagement as possible. There are already, as we heard, many outreach activities that the city traditionally does. But I believe that in a effort to be more transparent and to hear from as many constituents a

CAN YOU JUST KIND OF PUT A LITTLE MORE MEAT ON THE BONES OF WHAT YOU SEE THE ROLE OF THE THREE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE ACTUALLY DOING?

I really see it as truly an engagement. So folks that will go out and be like the liaison, like I am your liaison to the budget process. And while we all do that in an informal way, I would expect that folks who are on this ad hoc committee to really be a front and center and the face of that process so that publicly you can be identified. I ALSO SEE THAT THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO EDUCATE FOLKS ABOUT HOW THE BUDGET PROCESS WORKS. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SEE MANY, MANY TIMES THAT THERE'S AN EFFORT TO GO OUT AND TELL FOLKS ABOUT HOW FINANCE WORKS AND WHAT KIND OF SANDBOX AND TOYS THAT WE HAVE TO

Just kind of to follow up, you talked about it very outward facing. What about the feedback that those members get? How do they bring that back into the budget process and are they working closely with the finance director? Do they bring it back to the council first? That's what I'm trying to understand is we're reaching out, we're getting more information, what do we do with that information? How are these three individuals

That is a fantastic question. And instead of saying that's totally been determined, it's more like to be determined. I would imagine that we would work most closely with city manager Caffrey on that, but we would absolutely have to report back to council and I think the other council members could be involved in that as they would like. And so this is an opportunity to sort of shape this idea because I haven't decided like, oh, this will be the relationship, this will be the reporting structure, it will result in this work product, but I'm hoping to get there. Yes, go ahead. One more, yeah.

Several years ago, federal councils ago, we had an ad hoc budget committee that actually worked with the finance director and shaped the budget a lot. This is a very different process and that's what I'm trying to make sure that is clear that there are

what we saw last time is not going to be what's going to happen this time oh absolutely it's very outward facing and it's very much about the engagement it is not duplicative of the finance committee or budget committee to develop uh priorities and then sell them to the rest of council absolutely not i don't envision it that way thank you councilmember harris um so um

Love the idea in principle, but I think this is more of a next year kind of an idea. And the reason I was so complimentary of Mr. Friend is that I keep pushing for a budget book that persists and there's this continuity. They hate to hear it, but I can go and look at a port budget going back 15 years, and it's like literally the same thing. and it's wonderful that I can look at apples to apples and they have the same schedule. I was so complimentary because the schedule this year is much improved and this is really very different from the first biennial budget and I think it would be better to

I appreciate your comments. The only response that I would have is that this is our big budget year and we're looking forward to putting together our next final budget and next year will be our quote unquote small budget year. So I do find that this would be most impactful if we did it this year. Although there can be changes to the budget next year as well. Councilmember Desmona.

Thank you, I do like this idea. I share the concerns of it affecting the timeline. As long as the timeline isn't affected, I feel like this would be a worthwhile adventure. Also as the only front facing council member, I am ecstatic for someone else to answer some of these questions. Is it something where you're asking citizens for this or is it collaboration with council? Who are these people on this committee?

Oh, it's a three-person ad hoc committee of council members. Well, apparently I volunteer. Okay. Thank you. All right. Other questions, concerns, discussion? All right. Well, I have not... established a mechanism for just appointing folks. I was hoping that folks would be interested in volunteering. And so we do have a suggested motion. But at this point, I would ask that folks who are interested indicate that they would like to be considered. Okay.

Oh, wait. Councilmember Harris? No, I mean, a point of order. I mean, shouldn't we vote on the actual committee before?

Yeah. The suggested motion has people's names in it. So then I thought I would just ask. But we could do it in two parts. Would that be more helpful? The establishment of the ad hoc engagement committee and then the council members? All right. I'm happy to break that. Is that OK? Sounds good. Someone want to change the suggested motion so that we can start first with the establishment and that we'll move to the second part of the self-nomination of committee members? Councilmember Nutting.

I move that the City Council establish an ad hoc budget engagement committee for the purpose of advising on the city's public engagement approach during the biennial budget process.

Councilmember Simons. I second. Thank you. Any discussion? Oh, we can add that to the next one. Oh, that will be dissolved? Any discussion? Councilmember Harris.

Yeah, I will vote no to me. This is like basically, you know, trying to do whatever that thing is about working on the plane while you're trying to fly it. And so, thank you.

You know, we... We often hear people want more public engagement. We want, you know, and I think it would be good, it's good for the council to get out and have some people that can really talk about the budget. You know, I don't, we are going into the next biennium of budget. As you say, it's the big budget, and I think that's an important piece. So there may be a little bit of figuring out exactly how we're going to do it, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO AFFECT THE PROCESS OF PUTTING TOGETHER THE BUDGET. IT'S THE PROCESS OF ENGAGING THE PUBLIC ON IT AND MAKING SURE THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS IT AND BRINGI

OTHERS BEFORE I CIRCLE BACK THROUGH? COUNCILMAN RUHERS.

THANK YOU. THERE IS AN ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, FANTASTIC, BEYOND WONDERFUL MUNICIPAL FINANCE BOOTCAMP, WHICH NOBODY EVER ATTENDS, SPONSORED BY IWC, BECAUSE IT'S OUT USUALLY IN YACAMA OR SOMEPLACE LIKE THAT. MUNICIPAL FINANCE IS, REGARDLESS OF I THOUGHT I KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT ACCOUNTING BEFORE I GOT INVOLVED WITH THIS, AND IT'S VERY DIFFERENT.

WE'RE DISCUSSING. Can you limit your discussion to the motion?

It would be better to have somebody come in to train the council and the public and watch how municipal accounting works. That would be a greater benefit to the city. Thank you.

All right. Any further before a vote? All right. I'm going to call for that vote. All in favor? I'M SORRY. I THOUGHT WE JUST READ THE MOTION. WE JUST HAD THE DISCUSSION.

I THOUGHT WE WERE ON TO THE SECOND MOTION.

NOT YET. NO, IT'S OKAY. SO I'M GOING TO CALL THE QUESTION. LET'S HAVE A VOTE ON THE MOTION AS IT WAS AMENDED TO READ. PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND I'LL CALL ON YOU. DEPUTY MAYOR OXINGER, COUNCIL MEMBER STEINMAN, COUNCIL MEMBER DISMONING, COUNCIL MEMBER NUTTING, COUNCIL MEMBER BLAS, AND MYSELF. ALL THOSE OPPOSED? COUNCIL MEMBER HARRIS, ANY ABSTENTIONS? NO. THE MOTION PASSES 6-0. THANK YOU. SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE APPOINTMENTS ON WHO WOULD LIKE TO SERVE.

I DID SAY THAT. OH, I'M SORRY, 6-0. SORRY, MY FAULT. THANK YOU FOR THE CORRECTION. I APPRECIATE THAT. LET'S GO BACK. SORRY ABOUT THAT. LET'S GO TO THE NOMINATION PROCESS. Would someone like to attempt to make a motion? Council Member Nutting.

Thank you, Mayor. I move that the city appoints Mayor Yoshiko Grace Matsui, Council Member Desmone, and Council Member Bloss to serve on the committee and that the committee shall be dissolved upon the adoption of OF THE 2027-2028 BUDGET. COUNCIL MEMBER SIMONS?

SECOND. THAT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED. DISCUSSION? I APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO IT, SO I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS. LET'S GO AHEAD AND CALL THE VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND. DEPUTY MAYOR OXINGER, COUNCIL MEMBER STEINMUTZ, COUNCIL MEMBER DISMONI, COUNCIL MEMBER NEDDING, COUNCIL MEMBER BLAS, AND MYSELF. ALL OPPOSED? COUNCIL MEMBER HARRIS. AND THE MOTION PASSES 6-1. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE THAT. ALL RIGHT. LET'S TALK ABOUT ITEM NUMBER TWO.

either we could do this item without him although really it's about comments that committee wrote that staff can't really speak to or I know there was a request for a break we could do a quick five minute break let's do a quick five minute break unless there's an objection we can't go to executive session early we want to come back to this and I expect some changes in the lineup after the executive session so can we have a five minute recess and then we'll figure out if Mr. Dusenberry is on his way back Oh, is he right there?

Council, any questions? I'll go with Councilmember Blass.

Yeah, thank you for the presentation. Wondering about the process after, so we send these comments out, what happens after that?

So they have to read everything we send them and they will respond to every point that we make? Yes. And it may influence their final decision perhaps?

BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE 60 DAYS TO RESPOND TO THERE.

And then that's over? We don't comment back on their comments?

Thank you. It really pains me, but I can't support this. And if this is something where there's a council vote, I will ask that there be a footnote with my specific objection. This has too many errors of fact. And I'm sorry, they're not trivial. There is no such thing as a Seattle area metroplex. It does not exist. It's a specific FAA program, and that matters. An employment is not a passenger. There were not 52 million employments. An employment is when somebody gets on the plane. It's a specific FAA term regarding funding. These are the kinds of things that will just get, you know, I appreci

Other questions, discussion? Thank you very much and I appreciate all of your combined efforts to go in and give testimony and put your comments on the record today. In regards to some of the points that were raised, do we have time if we had a list of corrections or factual updates to do something like that?

Gotcha. At this point, I would ask if Councilmember Harris has a list of changes that he could provide or suggestions.

I did not want to go through, there's just, it's like a lot. I actually tried to meet with the staff to talk about it, and there's just too much for this venue. We have other, I just pulled out a couple, and I, yeah.

Okay. Well, it sounds like we had two pieces of feedback. THAT WE COULD RUN WITH. BUT IN LIGHT OF HAVING NO OTHER SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES TO MAKE THOSE SUGGESTIONS, ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A VOTE OR A HEAD NOD HERE?

I MOVE TO ALLOW THE COMMITTEE TO PROCEED WITH SUBMITTING to the port. I don't know. Sure. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, you could. Yeah. I mean, it's done an enormous amount of work, and I very much appreciate it. Obviously, Seattle Metroplex is a terminology that the airport uses, and it's important to use their terminology. So you're responding right to it. I don't see that as... But I think that the overall work is excellent and needs to be put forth out there. So I would support the council's approval of the airport committee letter.

I just would encourage the letter to be distributed to council prior to its release.

I am going to vote yes on this and I think this is the definition of leaving it all out on the field at this point. We are the underdogs and we are doing everything we can to get as much attention and get recognition as as possible. In the end it isn't actually our decision anyway but if we did our maximum and did all of the work and we are going to put it out there then I'm going to be a yes to vote to put this through.

Well, I'm concerned by what Council Member Harris has said. I don't have enough knowledge to know what is factual in this 340-page document. I think a lot of it is probably factual. And it's good to have that coming from the airport committee. I'm struggling, though, not knowing what, I mean, to put our name in something that I don't know how many ERRORS ARE IN IT, BUT I GUESS THERE IS AN OFFICIAL CITY RESPONSE, AND THIS IS THE CITY OF DES MOINES AIRPORT COMMITTEE RESPONSE WITH TWO SEPARATE DOCUMENTS.

IT'S NOT UNCOMMON WHEN WE APPROVE CONTRACTING STUFF THAT THEY BE APPROVED AS SUBMITTED BY I just lost the... Substantially as submitted, and that there is some leeway on the part of the city manager to make the decision. As far as would this be appropriate to... If Councilmember Harris can submit what his specific... objections are that you can determine whether or not that's appropriate.

COUNCIL MEMBER HARRIS, YOUR SECOND TIME.

THE ONLY REASON I MENTIONED EMPLAYMENT IS WHAT THAT DOES IS THEN THERE'S THIS WHOLE OTHER STREAM OF CALCULATIONS WHERE THE ARGUMENT IS THAT THE AIRPORT COULD BALLOON IN ANNUAL OPERATIONS TO 880,000. which is like ridiculous. I'm sorry. It's just, it is physically impossible. And it is so, it's like you're getting to like Hartsfield Jackson territory. And so what I'm saying is I tried to be discreet by saying here are two things, but it's like any kind of math argument where You have a couple of axioms, and if they turn out not to be true, everything downstream, 5, 10 pages, 20, 50, that derive

Council Member Simons for your second time.

Yeah, and I kind of want to get back to the members of the Airport Committee were appointed because of their expertise, their knowledge of the process. their willingness to dig in and do that. I'm going to presume you got it right. And I think that I'm sure you'll go through the letter with a fine tooth comb at this point. But I think this is well worth supporting. It is the point of the airport committee to get that information out there. And we picked people to be on that committee with that in mind. This is the document that they put together. We need to honor their work.

Yeah, I get your point. It is the job of the airport committee, and I thank you for spending all this time to volunteer for the airport committee and to write this document. I guess I will leave it to your expertise, and I will vote in favor of this.

Thank you very much for all of your work on this. I know it's been substantial and time consuming. It sounds like there are some, there's a little bit of some time left since these comments don't need to be submitted until the 21st that if folks identify things that they would like to correct or enhance or make suggestions of any sort of corrections that they can do that provided we get them in a decent amount of time. All right, fantastic. So if you all have concerns or facts or things that you would like to see, please submit those and I'm gonna say to Rebecca, thank you very much. Okay, so

WHY DON'T WE JUST EXPAND THE EXECUTIVE SESSION BY FIVE MINUTES AND TAKE A BREAK FOR THAT AND I'D LIKE TO COME BACK FOR NEW ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS TIME WE'LL BE GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. THE PURPOSE OF THE EXECUTIVE SESSION IS TO DISCUSS PROPERTY ACQUISITION UNDER RCW 42.30.1101B. THIS IS EXPECTED TO LAST FOR 80 MINUTES AND THAT MEANS SOMEONE DO THE MATH FOR ME. 842. How about that? 842. No formal action will be taken at the end of executive session. We'll see you back.

Or do you have something that you want to talk about?

Yeah, I got a lot of things to talk about.

I get back. Okay, we are back, returning from our executive session. I want to make a note that council member Simons did have to leave. Before we go on to council reports, I want to make sure we spend some time with new agenda items for consideration. So this purpose is to present new business items for discussion on a future agenda. Any recommendation will simply need a hand raised from three council members. Do any council members have a new business they would like to propose? All right. Seeing none, let's move on to council member reports, which are limited to four minutes. We're going to

Exciting. Thank you. I did have an exceptional time at the 4th of July star stripes and sunshine. I've been practicing that. And I did participate in the dunk tank. I'd like to thank everyone who gave it their best shot. I really would like to congratulate the other council members that took one for the team on that one. And yes, the question everyone asked me, it was cold. And yes, I will sign up again next year. So it was a great event. It was well attended. Kudos to the city. I understand change is difficult for everyone, but I'm willing to get in the dunk tank so we can do some change. So

Thank you, Mayor. I have nothing at this time.

I also attended the 4th of July event. I was also on the dunk tank. Some staff members did hit the target and got me in the dunk tank. The water was cold, the wind was cold, but it was for a good cause. We raised a lot of money for the food bank, so that was great. The event itself was really fun. I'm sad I missed the magician because it was the same time as our dunk tank because I love seeing magicians, and I had a big crowd to see him, and I heard great things about him. And the inflatables were awesome. There was that cool, like, Kraken getting a ship. So my kids had a great time there, and

Thank you. I was not present for the fourth, but I want to show my appreciation for council members and the dunking and so forth. And also to the mayor and deputy mayor for showing up for the port thing today. I may have sounded a bit harsh to our committee people, but just again, I will say that The airport was supposed to, when they did the second runway, they pumped $170 million into the area. That was the level of mitigation. It was almost a one-to-one capital versus mitigation thing. And the second runway was $1.1 billion, and you ended up $600 million in mitigations. And it may not have

Ah, it's left to me to run down the calendar. Sunday is Shark in the Park at Redondo. They're closing off a chunk of Beach Drive. This is primarily being sponsored by the Mast Center and in conjunction with both the city and the Redondo Community Association. And I believe the roads will be closed from 9 o'clock until 5. There's going to be some pretty intense detours. We'll see how it works. But it was a very successful event last year, and they're promising, the organizers are promising it's going to be even bigger this year. And of course, a lot of it is being presented on the brand new pla

Noon. Okay. We'll get it. Okay, so then that means that on July 18th, which is Saturday, we've got the Waterland Parade with its new route, reverse route, and much shorter, and it will be – At the conclusion of the parade, they will then start with the block party, which is in the block in front of the theater. And that's a new event this year. So that should be, this is going to be very interesting, how we're changing things up and with the intent of making everything better. So we'll see how that goes. And then on July 19th, I believe, Have we gotten any word on whether or not the car show i

So Wheels and Keels will be on July 19th in the North Marina parking lot. And so that's going on. But also then the Historical Society is having the Harbor Cruise, which is they've leased, rented, whatever they've got the... one of the Argosy tour ships coming down, and there's going to be, I think it's a two-hour cruise around.

I'm sorry? Starts at one, yes. So anyway, we're in the thick of tons of activities going on and something for everybody, and hopefully it'll all come off. Smooth.

Yes. All right. Thank you very much. I appreciate you doing the rundown of events so I don't have to repeat all of those, but I wanted to say a special thanks to Rebecca Deming, to Catherine Caffrey, to Deputy Mayor Oxiger, Council Member Harris for going to the hearing today about the Port Sustainable Airport Master Plan, I think we continue to be engaged and I think it's very important for us not to take our foot off the gas in terms of engaging with the port and also talking about what meaningful mitigation will be as a result of the increased flights, passengers and capacity that are going

Council Member Des Moines. Sorry. It's been a long day. I'd like to make a motion to adjourn. Second.

All right. Seconded. And let's say aye. Alright.