City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right, good evening, everyone. We're gonna call our meeting to order. Let's have the Land Acknowledgement Act first. So we would like to acknowledge that the land we inhabit today was once known as Tavangar, the home of the Gaborlino-Tonva people. We show our respect to the Gaborlino-Tonva people, as well as all indigenous people, past, present, and future, and honor their labor as original caretakers of this land. We commit to uplifting the Gabrielino-Otanva people, invite you to acknowledge the history, and join us in caring for this land. Now let's invite the Monterey Park Fire Explorers to do our flag salute. Please rise.

Present your colors. Please place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance 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.

Prepare to post colors. Forward march. Forward march.

Thank you to our Monterey Park Fire Explorers. You may be seated. Madam Clerk, may we have a roll call, please? Council Member Goh? present council member one present council member sanchez present mayor pro temlo here marianne present thank you any agenda revisions or additions no changes madam mayor all right uh seeing as we don't have any presentation items any public comments for this evening All right, we have one public comment. Dave Jones.

Good evening, Honorable Mayor Yang, Mayor Pro Tem Lowe, city council members, and dedicated staff. My name is Dave Jones. I live in District 5, but I have friends everywhere. Yesterday was a historic day for the city as the people voted on a first in the nation ballot initiative to ban data centers in Monterey Park. As of this morning, over 6,000 votes had been counted in favor of the ban compared to barely 1,000 against, 86% to 13%, an unequivocal landslide victory. In a story on the election in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Mehdi Paryavi, chairman of the International Data Center Authority said, these are multi-billion dollar assets that are built by multi-trillion dollar companies. These things will get done. Monterey Park said, hold my boba. People from all over the city came together in a way few of us have ever seen before. They stood up, they spoke out, they painted signs, they walked precincts, they made videos, they wrote songs, and they never stopped. They were proud to be called an uninformed mob. They were relentless. And to your credit, you, the city council, listened to the people. Many would say, big deal, that's your job. But across the San Gabriel Valley and beyond, throughout the state of California, and indeed the entire country, we have seen that is too rarely the case. But as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the good people of Monterey Park, with pride in the past and faith in the future, have proven once again the foundation of democracy is the voice of the people. It is a timely reminder. In closing, let me add, the past is not the only thing I'm proud of. I'm proud to support my LGBTQ plus family, friends and neighbors, wherever they may be. And this pride is not something I reserve for a single month of the year, but something I wear every single day. And so I fully support the resolution proposed by Mayor Pro Tem Lowe. So tonight, let us celebrate. Let us celebrate our victory. Let us celebrate the love of our neighbors in all its myriad and marvelous variations. Let us celebrate our city, data center free, forever. Thank you very much for your time.

uh madam mayor thank you dave yes i have a question a clear follow-up quick follow-up question for the city attorney on one on that note for measure ndc note it's passed the council has already adopted the ordinances to effectuate the ballot measure if you can confirm that and if everything is already effective and there's any further action from the council pending the certification of the vote

Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the council. Yes, the third ordinance, which is tied in with the ballot measure, will become effective 10 days after the certification of the ballot or the election results. So the final election results still haven't been certified by the city clerk and ratified by the city council, but once that happens, then the third ordinance will become effective as well.

All right, moving forward, Staff Communications, 8 City Manager's Department.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and City Council, Diana Garcia, Assistant City Manager. This evening, we wanted to invite the residents to the State of the City Address. This is next week on Tuesday, June 9th. It will be held at the Courtyard Marriott at 555 North Atlantic Boulevard. Our mayor, Elizabeth Yang, will be sharing some of her accomplishments during her term. And we will also be awarding the Community Choice Awards. This is free for everybody to attend. We will have refreshments. The program begins at 5 o'clock, and the doors open at 4.30. So we hope to get a good turnout for this. You can scan the QR code there in the corner for more information, or you can watch it live on YouTube if you're not able to get out that evening. So I encourage everybody to come out to the event. It should be a celebratory and fun evening for everybody. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Next is our Bruggemeier Library updates.

Good evening, Mayor, Mayor and Pro Tem, and City Council members. I'm Library Manager Linda Vera. Okay, so what we're looking at here is an overview of the programs that we held last month. There were 235 programs with 2,827 attendees. What you're looking at here is some photos from Fire Service Day. The junior friends held their elections, so they have a new president and board. And then there was a Studio Ghibli craft program. So that was attended by all ages. OK, so starting next Saturday, we're going to be having the library summer reading program. This is open to participants of all ages. The program is designed to encourage reading as a habit. So people will mark off the number of days that they read. Kids will be able to receive milestone, like small milestone incentives along the way so they can be entered into drawings for larger prizes at the end. Okay, so the festivities will kick off for children with an afternoon of activities at three o'clock in the story time room. So this will include games, crafts, and scavenger hunt. This will be followed by a percussive dance performance that blends percussive traditions across multiple dances. So this promises to be very energizing and a lot of fun. This is open to all ages. Across the summer, and particularly in the month of June, we have programs for kids to engage in many ways, including moving, creating, and exploring just different facets of science and creativity. For the teens, there's going to be a writing series with a New York Times best-selling author, C.B. Lee. They'll also have the opportunity to go to the Marriott, where they'll get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to work in the hospitality industry. So they'll be able to engage with people who have different careers in this field. In addition to this, there's gonna be a financial wellness workshop. So this will cover things like reading bills, how to make sure that you're not being overcharged for things or having undisclosed charges or how to make sure that you understand your bills. There will also be an opportunity to team up with some people who can connect you to some government resources to make sure that people are able to manage their accounts. We're also gonna be having a performance from the East West Players of Tam Tran. So this is, it was written by Elizabeth Wong who grew up here in Monterey Park. It's gonna be followed by a 30 minute panel discussion featuring the writers of the play and some people who are experts in the field of working with undocumented students. And then after the performance, participants can show their tickets at 55 in the Courtyard Marriott or traditional Guailin noodles for some discounts on some food. So you can make a whole day of that. Okay, and as we celebrate Pride Month, I just want to remind everyone that with your library card, you can access e-books, e-audiobooks, and movies celebrating LGBTQ plus stories. You can download the Libby or Canopy app to get started and using those. And then, so this is gonna be in the month of July, but please do save the date. The library will celebrate 250 years of American independence with a month-long exhibition highlighting the contributions of Asian Americans in the U.S. military. So there's going to be an opening reception at noon on Friday, July 3rd. And so there'll be opening remarks and a panel discussion with Asian-American veterans, followed by light refreshments. Attendees can then explore the exhibition and talk to the curator. And this is going to run from July 3rd through the 31st. Thank you. Any questions?

Yeah, thank you. I just wanted to, if you can kind of go back to that last slide there, I just wanted to give some plugs there. I'm really looking forward to that one because The API has been in the military since the Civil War, so we have an opportunity in our city to showcase this, given our diverse background of not just celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Constitution and the birth of America, but we have celebrating the military, and we're gonna put an emphasis here that day on folks who serve in the military of API Heritage, and I believe the three speakers that day, there is a 90-plus-year-old veteran who served in the Korean War who will be on the panel, and then you have another person who served in the Vietnam War, and then a third person who served in the recent, well, not recent, but Gulf War about 20 years, so you have a spectrum of people speaking that day, so... we're looking forward to just bringing not only our city, but Southern California and the community into this to celebrate our country and also the military influence in the API community.

Yeah. Thanks for all the great events. I think our teenagers and families are very lucky to have our library. There's always something to do at the library. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have our fire department.

Yes, good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the council, city staff, and members of the community. My name is Ryan Weddle, Deputy Chief of the Monterey Park Fire Department. And again, I'd like to briefly highlight that this Saturday, 9 to 12, right here in the front lawn of City Hall, we will be doing our sidewalk CPR event. And it's part of a coordinated event throughout the county where we're going to work towards improving cardiac arrest survival through community education and immediate action. So hands only CPR is simple effective and something anyone can learn in just a few minutes. During this event, participants will learn how to recognize cardiac arrest, activate 911 quickly, and provide high-quality chest compressions until emergency responders arrive. Events like this also reinforce the partnership between the fire department and the residents we serve. Public safety is strongest when the community is prepared and engaged. I'd be happy to answer any additional questions we have about this event.

No questions. Just encourage everyone to come and get CPR trained. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, recreation and community services department.

Good evening, mayor pro tem and member of the city council. My name is Chan Lim, recreation specialist with the records department. I would like to provide a quick update on upcoming community events. First off, I would like to thank city council for the support of this year's Memorial Day ceremony in collaboration with the American Legion post-397. It was a meaningful and successful event honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation. Thank you. I also like to share that our health fair held this past Saturday at the Langley Center in partnership with APHC was a success and well attended by our community member. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make it possible. upcoming events. Our sixth annual SGV Pride Festival is this coming Saturday, June 6th at Barnes Park, beginning with a parade at 9 a.m. from Marquetteville High School and ending at Barnes Park. This event will feature live music, arts, giveaway, and community resources. Our first annual MPK Camp Out event, themed Under the Stars, hosted at Barnes Park on June 12 to 13. It's a sold-out community event featuring family-friendly activities such as arts and crafts, games, movies, hula dancing, and s'mores provided by our fire department. Just wanted to give a quick shout out to our sponsors, Rotary Club, Raising Cane's, San Gabriel Valley Water District, Chick-fil-A, and will be held for supporting the event. We'll also be hosting a Let's Kick It soccer clinic and a Team USA watch party as Team USA take on Turkey at Barnes Park on June 25th. The soccer clinic will run from 4.45 to 6.45 p.m. and the watch party will begin at 7 p.m. and continue through the end of the match. Also, coming up, our City Independence Day celebration will be held on Saturday, June 27 at Barnes Park, featuring food trucks, live entertainment by PopVision, and a fireworks show at 9 p.m. And also, don't forget, every Thursday at Barnes Park, from 4 to 9 p.m., we host the Farmer's Market, featuring fresh produce from local vendors. Come support our local businesses. upcoming activities. Our summer pool schedule at George other is here and it's packed with something for everyone, whether you're learning training or just playing in the pool. Also, movies at the park is back at Barnes Park. Join us for a fun filled summer movie at the park starting June 25th and ending August 8th. For time and schedule, please check out our city website or call the Recreation Department. Hope to see you all there. upcoming trips the records department is offering trips to mama mia on thursday july 2nd at the amazon theater this is a soda event and on friday july 24th a trip to the hollywood bowl to see smoky robinson and gladys knight the cost is 80 registration is currently available Also, MPK night returns at the Dodger Stadium on Saturday, August 15th versus the Brewers. The game is at 4.15 p.m. Tickets are $60 and currently available. Contact the records department if you are interested in any of the upcoming trips. Thank you. Any questions?

Just want to say thank you for having all those events up there. And just a reminder that the 4th of July fireworks show is Saturday, June 27th. So people can get an early head start on the fireworks here and then go watch it again on the 4th. That's right.

All right. Thanks for that presentation. Looking forward to all the great events coming up this summer.

Thank you.

Next up, Public Works.

Good evening on our mayor, mayor pro tem and city council, Sean, I go public works director. Um, if you recall, uh, back on March 4th of 2026, the city council meeting, The city council received and filed the city's community transportation pilot and program updates which include additional service enhancements. Part of this included the discontinuation of the link shuttle route due to inconsistent and low ridership. Beginning July 1st, the link which connects Corpus Center and Cal State LA will be discontinued as part of the city's ongoing efforts to streamline and enhance the local transportation services. Riders can continue traveling along the same corridor by using Spirit Bus Route 5, which also mirrors the Link route and also provides continued connection to the Metro E line and East Los Angeles College, or ELAC. MBK Transit Express will continue to offer flexible operational hours and destinations throughout the city. The city's outreach efforts included outreach in mid-May with notifications to the city website, Passio Go app, the city buses, June Cascade articles, and planned social media outposts. We also worked with our economic development partners to send out notifications to businesses in the distributed area. With that, I'll take any questions.

Just to confirm, I'm sure we did this. We've already noticed, and we've been noticing people that do take the link shuttle that the discontinuation of the route is happening, or that specific shuttle is happening, but they have these other options, right?

Correct, yes. It's within the buses, within the link services, and then also within our Passy You'll Go app, which is used for this service as well. Perfect. Thank you.

Thank you, Sean. Thank you. And last but not least, Community Development and Finance Department.

Good evening, Madam Mayor.

my mistake uh good evening madam mayor mayor pro tem council members uh the city of laura bourgeon finance manager the city of monterey park is excited to announce several engagement workshops during the month of june to provide residents with information on the city's economic sustainability and discuss modern and equitable revenue measures participants will gain valuable knowledge about our city's budget and plans for the future Our workshop schedule is as follows. Monday, June 15th, 6 to 7.30 p.m. at the Monterey Park Bruggemeier Library. Wednesday, June 17th, from 12 to 1.30 at the Langley Senior Center. And Monday, June 29th, from 6 to 7.30 p.m., which will be a virtual Zoom meeting. Please join us at using the QR code. We encourage you to mark your calendars and join us at these workshops. Please visit the city website for links and additional workshop times and locations. Thank you.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the City Council, Anais Navarro, Administrative Aid. In response to recent conversations surrounding land use in Monterey Park, the City is launching a community engagement effort aimed at exploring new opportunities to transform vacant and underutilized commercial properties into vibrant and thriving neighborhoods. The city would like to encourage all residents, business owners, and community members to participate in these upcoming workshops that will address vacancy issues, revitalize community spaces, strengthen local revenues that support essential city services, and create the diverse housing options needed for current and future generations. We do have a schedule for upcoming Community IDEA workshops. The first one will be a virtual presentation and Q&A. This will take place on Wednesday, June 10th at 6 p.m. Attendees can access the Zoom link via different channels. This could be done through our city website, social media, the QR code listed on the PowerPoint screen tonight, and it's also printed on the June issue of the Cascades. Next, we will host two in-person workshops with time for Q&A and light refreshments. The first one will take place on Tuesday, June 23rd at 6 p.m. at George Elder Park Community Room, located at 1950 Wilcox Avenue. And the second workshop will take place on Wednesday, June 24th at 6 p.m. At the Langley Center Friendship Room, located at 400 West Emerson, we invite you to join the conversation, share your ideas, and be a part of creating a more vibrant and connected community. For any updates and meeting information, please visit www.montereypark.ca.gov backslash vacant to vibrant. Thank you.

Thank you both for the presentation. These are great opportunities for our residents and committee members to engage. All right, that's all for our staff communications. Seeing that there's no old business, we'll move on to our consent calendar.

Madam Mayor, members of the council, we apologize. The voting buttons are having a technical issue for tonight. So unfortunately, we're going to have to do an oral vote for tonight. We're just, the system is, we're not able to clear it after the vote happens. So we're going to have to do an oral vote. I apologize for that. We'll try to have it resolved by the next meeting.

No problem. All right. Anyone want to pull any items from the consent?

No. Just item 10J for a quick update.

And also item 10I.

I'll move the remaining consent items.

I'll second that.

Okay. Council Member Wan motions. Council Member Goh seconds. So we need a Take a vote verbally.

Aye. Council Member Goh.

Aye.

Council Member Wong. Yes. Council Member Sanchez. Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Lo.

Aye.

Mayor Yang. Yes. Approved unanimously. Thank you. All right. So let's go to 10 aye. Aye.

Thank you. I just want to again thank Steph for bringing this forward again, and also it coincides with our sixth annual Pride March and Festival. I think it's very important, especially given the, I think the atmosphere in the United States in which members of the LGBTQI community have been attacked, especially from the administration, the White House, and the community, it's important that we embrace and show our LGBTQ neighbors, not just here in Monterey Park, but in the region, that they are part of our community, and we will stand up for their identity and their right to be part of our community. And again, thank you very much, members. I ask for your support for this resolution.

I want to make a motion.

Oh, yes. Move for approval, please.

All right, is there? I'll second. Second. All right, let's do a vote.

Councilmember Goh? Aye. Councilmember Wong? Yes. Councilmember Sanchez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Lo? Aye. Mayor Yang? Yes. Approved unanimously. Thank you.

And then now item 10J. Yes.

uh i wanted to bring this resolution because uh gun violence is still uh an epidemic that's um impacting many communities and many people throughout our country and no one is really free from this so i know that our community here in monterey park has been a victim of a mass shooting Following the mass shooting that happened here, in our community, our city passed a series of ordinances in response to the shooting. I know that throughout the country and even within our own community, some of our local legislators have passed state laws to try to curtail a lot of the gun violence that has happened in our community. in our communities, but also throughout the country, but within our state. And I don't know if there's a representative from our police department that can maybe share a little bit about where we are at. I know it's been maybe a couple years since we passed some of these ordinances and maybe provide some updates in terms of where we are as a state, as a community, the city, in terms of our gun laws. Thank you.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and members of the City Council. My name is Brenda Iglesias. I'm a lieutenant with the Monterey Park Police Department. And we have some slides here, and I go over in observance of the gun awareness month, right? regards to gun violence restraining orders since the passing in 2016 our city has issued one restraining order it was an incident where individual was threatening a government entity we investigated we alongside with the city attorney's office were successful in obtaining a gun restraining order and seizing the weapons, so it was very successful. Just a little background, gun violence restraining orders are civil restraining orders that are issued by the family court, and that is a service that our department as well as the city attorney assists with preparation and confiscation of the weapons. And GVROs can be requested by immediate family, employers, coworkers, teachers, and law enforcement. So again, it can be any of those that deem somebody's behavior a concern or there might be some statements that have made or shown concern for. Some of the Senate bills that have passed since, Senate Bill 704, which mandates, basically, you have to go into, you have to purchase a barrel in person. Prior to that, you can purchase that online, but since this bill passed, it mandates you have to go through a California licensed federal firearms dealer, and the purchase has to be made in person. This eliminates the online sales of barrels and parts. Assembly Bill 1127, which passed effective July 1st, that is that all California licensed federal firearms dealers are prohibited from selling or transferring certain semi-automatic pistols that can be used or modified as a conversion. So one of that is Glock. because of the of the trigger so they banned the sales or transfers of the glocks in california from the generation one through five and there are some exceptions obviously for law enforcement officers or the agencies senate bill 53 which was effective july 1st of 2026 it requires all guns to be stored at home secured in a Lock safe when not in use. This only applied, previously it only applied when children were present, but now it requires a safe and not just a gun lock device. Senate Bill 899, it's also a gun violence restraining order update. It relinquished requirements for the GVROs consistent with other civil protective orders and it increases database efficiency, tying in all the firearms related to the databases so it's a better way to track whose guns are taken and it allows the police department to track it and courts and if they don't get relinquished, they notify the police departments and then we do the follow-up. It also allows for the sale of ammunition back to the dealer instead of confiscating it, so they can return it back to the dealer, sell it back to them, and then that also allows certain exemptions for law enforcement. Assembly Bill 1078, It's effective January 1st. It added stricter background check evaluations for the concealed carry weapon applicants. It's known as the CCW. And then it integrated out-of-state convictions, restraining order databases, and social media publicly available records into the vetting process. And this QR code is on our website. It'll take you to our website where we give you any firearm information from some of the programs that we offer So gun locks, residential firearm pickups, if you don't want your weapon, you notify the police department, we'll go pick it up. How to get your CCW permit, and also some of the ordinances like how to obtain your gun-free city property sign, signage. So that's the QR code, if you have any questions.

Madam Mayor, if I may, the website does provide lots of great information, as well as the gun violence restraining order training video for individuals or families if they feel that their family members experience a mental health crisis or issues. There's opportunities there to learn about how they can go about getting a restraining order. in relation to their firearm. So lots of good information on the webpage. We encourage people to go there for more information.

Thank you so much for the update on all of the Senate bills that were passed and became launched or becoming launched starting July 1st. Some of them I had not heard of. So thank you for the for the update. And I think a lot of those hopefully will help curtail and prevent a lot of the gun violence that is happening within our communities. But thank you so much for the update.

Yes. Are we. putting this information, GVRO information, some of this other stuff on in the Cascades or other communications that go out regularly? And if not, can we do this? I think it would be helpful for the community to just have this regular reminder once or twice a year that these are options available and there are city attorney's offices available to provide assistance for families or others who want to pursue some of these options.

Madam Mayor, members of the council, thank you for the reminder, Council Member Wong. We will definitely, we probably haven't put an article recently about information about firearm safety, so we can definitely do that in an upcoming edition of the Cascades. We can definitely also hit our social media channels as a reminder during this month as an awareness month. So, agree, we haven't done it more recently, and we can do that.

And one more question. I know that Friday is Wear Orange Day, so are we lighting up the cascades in orange in observance?

We can definitely check. Yes, okay. We got, yes. Robert is giving me the thumbs up back there, so we will light up the cascades fountain in orange. Yes.

All right.

Thank you, Robert. Thank you so much. So if I can get the support of my fellow council members to pass the resolution, I'd appreciate it. So I'll make a motion to approve item 10J.

I'll second.

All right, let's vote. Council Member Goh?

Yes. Council Member Wong? Yes. Council Member Sanchez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Lo? Aye. Mayor Ying? Yes. Approved unanimously.

Thank you. Okay, that completes our consent agenda. So moving on to public hearing, let's go ahead and open up the public hearing. We'll start with item 11 a public hearing to consider approving assessments for the citywide maintenance district number 93 one for fiscal year 2026 to 2027.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council, Laura Bourgeon, Finance Manager. In 1993, the city formed a citywide maintenance district, number 93-1, to finance the operation and maintenance of public street lighting and landscaping. The district was renewed each year, each of the past 33 years, and must be done so annually in order for the city to continue living and collecting assessments for fiscal year 26-27. the city started the process to renew its district for fiscal year 2627 at its may 6 2026 city council meeting at that time the city council approved the engineer's report adopted the resolution of intention and scheduled the required public hearing for tonight Following tonight's public hearing, the city council may adopt the attached resolution renewing the district for fiscal year 26-27. That concludes my staff report. I'm available to answer any questions.

All right. Any public comments on this item?

No public comments.

All right. We'll go ahead and close the public hearing.

Just, I know this is the second reading. Appreciate the staff bringing this to us. I just want to emphasize for anyone who may be paying attention, if you can remind us how much we've identified in terms of the cost of maintaining landscape and lighting district, the actual cost.

The actual cost is, I believe it's $2 million, a little over $2 million, $2.4 million.

And how much does this assessment generate?

The assessment will generate $1,019,854. And when was the last time this assessment was adjusted? That was in 1996, if I'm reading it right.

Yes. So to be clear, the assessment is a flat rate, has not been adjusted for now 30 years. So not indexed and hasn't been adjusted for inflation at all over the last 30 years and does not pay for all of the maintenance for the public street lighting and the public landscaping along streets and sidewalks that the city maintains, all of us as taxpayers and the residents of the city pay to maintain. So we subsidize the maintenance of the street lighting and the sidewalks and public spaces, landscaping areas, to the tune of about a million, a little over a million dollars a year.

$1.4 million is what the general fund subsidizes.

Great. Just wanted to make that clear. With that, I'm happy to make the motion to adopt staff recommendation for second reading. Second.

Okay, let's vote. Council Member Go?

Aye.

Council Member Wong? Yes. Council Member Sanchez? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Lo? Aye. Mayor Yang? Yes.

Approved unanimously. Thank you. Okay, next item on our public agenda, public hearing is item 11B, Capital Improvement Plan Resolution. We'll go ahead and open the public hearing.

right good evening mayor mayor pro tem and city council sean ago public works director um tonight you have before you the 2026-2027 capital improvement plan currently the city has over 30 active cip projects that are in various phases such as design construction and post construction activities the current years for the current year focused on water projects related to water the water bond which included the russell reservoir rehabilitation pipeline replacements and water meter upgrades which are still ongoing. Highlighting some of the larger projects, including accomplishments such as the Burglary Library Improvement Project, which included exterior painting, the new backup generator, and carpet replacements. Next slide, please. The Barnes Gym Improvements, which included the replacement of the gym flooring and exterior painting. Next slide, please. I know it's a little hard to see, but this is an overall picture of the city's street rehabilitation projects. So this map depicts in blue what roadways we have paved since 2011 and 2012 fiscal year. Out of the over 132 miles of roadways, we have completed just over 73 miles, or about 55% of the roadways in the city. Depicted in red is what is proposed for the next fiscal year, which is anticipated to be just over six miles of roadway. And as requested in the previous budget meeting last week, we have completed over 900 ADA ramps replacements in the past 10 years. This is over 50% of all the ramps in the city, but not indicative of a total that needs to be replaced. With a larger focus over the past several years on roadways due to the street improvement bond, future years will see a reduction in the amount of roadways that will be repaved as we utilize a pay-as-you-go approach with available funding. Next slide, please. This is, as we just discussed, here are some photos from the completed roadways and concrete improvements at various locations throughout the city and as we will continue to do improvements moving forward. Next slide, please. Water and sewer improvements included the installation of new sewer lines and manholes along Garvey, with new water lines being installed along Atlantic Boulevard and Garfield Avenue. Next slide, please. For the upcoming year, 2026-2027 fiscal year, we will be focusing on design of Fire Station 63, Barnes Park Aquatic Center, and Multimodal Mobility Hub and structure. Note that the Mobility Hub is awaiting Metro approval and we hope to hear back from them soon. Projects anticipated to begin construction include the Monterey Pass Rural 28 undergrounding project, Monterey Pass Complete Streets, Garvey Avenue water main replacement, Fire Station 61 renovations, adaptive traffic and traffic response control system, citywide roadway improvements, citywide ADA improvements, city hall council chamber renovations, and city hall parking lot improvements.

Next slide, please.

Lastly, I want to say that your public works team has and continues to focus on meaningful and impactful projects this community continues to enjoy on a daily basis. For more information on our CIPs, we have a QR code on this slide that will take you directly to our CIP page and give you additional detailed information on our CIPs and has an interactive map that can allow you to find specific information in your area. With that, I'll take any questions.

Thank you, Mayor. Sean, just a quick update on the CIP schedule for 26-27. What is the total price tag?

I don't recall time, but I want to say it was around $15 to $20 million. That's it?

Thanks, Sean. I appreciate the updates in the specific reports on some of this. On the Monterey Pass Road undergrounding, is that going to be for the whole length of Monterey Pass Road or just sections?

No, it's just a segment of Monterey Pass.

Which section?

I know Vagabond is one of the endpoints, but I think that it's going south from Vagabond, if I recall. Yeah, this is an SCE project, and so we're working with them Although it's a city project funded through 20A, it's their project to undertake.

And then if you want to, if you can go back to the street repaving plan, I think I just want to point out, it's hard to read because we've done a lot of work in terms of repaving streets in the last 10, 15 years. Can you remind us what the, right when we repave a street or redo a street, what the usual estimated kind of life, lifetime is for repaving when it would have to cycle back to be fixed or repaved.

I'll lean on Carl as the it depends answer and say that in general, as long as we can continue to invest into rehabilitation and doing slurry, we're hoping 10 to 20 years.

Great, so I say that because there's still, we've done a lot and a lot of kudos and particularly the council moved forward a bond a few years ago to accelerate some of these street repaving and improvement projects to get a bigger chunk of this done more quickly because we were behind. I think the risk of continuing to fall behind continues to be there for every city, not just us. and obviously there are a number of streets and a good chunk of the city that still have not and will not have uh had their streets repaved in the next few years and have fallen behind more than 20 years at that point So just pointing out that there's still a lot of work to do, and there isn't enough money, at least at this point, to do all the streets we want to and need to do. And I think one of the most common complaints I get, and I don't know, I can't speak for the other council members, but a lot of it is potholes, street repairs, alleyway repairs, which we're trying to prioritize some of as well. and a lot of sidewalk repairs. There's still a lot of public infrastructure despite the progress we've made in the last few years in particular. A lot of work to do still to improve our public infrastructure, particularly our street infrastructure that everyone relies on to be able to get around safely. In the city and for businesses rely on to be safe as well for them to conduct business So we'd love to see how we can not just the streets right there part of our capital improvement project but there's a huge gap still in terms of being able to finance all the projects that are on our capital plan and and a lot of projects that aren't on our SIP as well that need to be, we need to find money for. And so encourage folks, we just heard from finance about some upcoming budget finance workshops to encourage folks and people who are interested in learning more about what ideas we're gonna start talking about to help close the gap on a lot of these financing projects and the capital improvement projects. the gap that exists in the financing to participate in these discussions and to help us explore ways to really start to close this gap in a sustainable way.

And real quick, going back to your question, Council Member McGough, so this current fiscal year we're at $17.3 million, and next fiscal year we're anticipating $16 million for CIPs.

Thank you, Sean, for that report. I wanted to, just on this map, the blue, because I can't read that far, but the blue is highlighting all the roads that we've completed.

Everything completed from starting in the 2011-13 fiscal year to current. And then in red is what we're proposing to do next fiscal year.

Right. And I mean, and I think we've all seen and we've highlighted multiple times in this council chamber, all of the CIP projects that we have at least identified at the moment. And, and I know council member goes sometimes highlights this number, but it's well between what 250 million to $300 million pop potentially. Correct. Yes. And so we have a lot of CIP projects that we would love to do in our city, but just don't have the resources to do so. We've highlighted some of the more important or pressing ones, at least, that we accomplished. But I wanted to highlight because I know I constantly get compliments about all of the updates to the streets. So I wanted to thank our team and the council for working on that. And then can we go back to the list that had all of the CIP projects that were working on this project? year um and i see on there fire station 63 our barnes park aquatic center which i know a lot of our swimmers in our community are very happy about especially given the six million dollar grant we recently received uh to help us with that project uh but also a lot of the other items that are that are on the other list in terms of construction that are currently happening or in the process of happening. So I wanted to thank you and your team for all of the CIPs. It's always great to see your team working out on the streets and seeing a lot of these updates happen. So thank you so much for the update.

Thank you. Thank you. Sean, as always, to you and your team, thank you for a great presentation. And I also would like to also add for those who watched or attended our budget a study session last week, you know, it's also important, I think, to convey that the theme of all of our capital projects, as well as public works, is that we're moving forward. We are modernizing. And it's, you're talking about a city of the size of Monterey Park, and we're talking about road resurfacing, water, aquatic centers, all our physical buildings, and that takes money. And I think that, you know, you are to be credited as well as to be, you know, utilizing what you have as well as pursuing grants as well as other funding opportunities, not to mention, you know, the residents again. I always like to remind that because of the passage of Measure MP, this has helped us with our capital improvement programs, and again, it's a credit to Public Works, and so I want to emphasize that we're moving in a positive direction, but the needs are enormous, the needs are immense, and this is where I think we need to continue to look at how we can find more grant opportunities, as well as looking at ways in which we can generate more revenue to make these improvements to our Public Works.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think it's amazing that you guys have paved over 50% of the entire city's roads in the last 15 years. If a resident wanted to know if their street is up for paving, how would they go about doing so on the website?

They can reach out to Public Works, and we can review our map moving forward for the next several years and then identify if their street is on our list.

Great. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Anyone want to make a motion?

I'll make the motion. Second.

All right, so let's have a vote. Council Member Goh?

Aye. Council Member Wong? Yes. Council Member Sanchez? Mayor Pro Tem Lo. Aye. Mayor Yang. Yes. Approved unanimously.

Thank you. Item 11B is approved. And that's all for our public hearing. Moving on to new business. Item 12A, resolutions for the November 3rd general municipal election.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, members of the City Council, Cindy Trang, Deputy City Clerk. Before you for consideration is an item regarding the city's general municipal election. The election is scheduled for November 3rd, 2026 for the purpose of electing members of the City Council for District 1, 5, the City Clerk position, and the City Treasurer position for a term of four years each. The election is consolidated with the statewide general election conducted by the LA County Registered Recorder's Office. The 2026-2027 budget is expected to include $275,000 for expenditures associated with the election. Candidates for Council District 1 and 5 must reside in the district they are running for, while the city clerk and the city treasurer will be elected at large. The nomination period will begin on July 13 and conclude on August 7 and extend to August 12 if the incumbents do not file. The candidate may submit an optional statement of no more than 200 words for inclusion in the official sample ballot booklet. A deposit of $500 is required for English only or $1,000 for English and Spanish. The LA County office will be canvassing the election results and tentatively scheduled to certify the election results on December the 7th. The Board of Supervisors is tentatively scheduled to declare the election officially concluded on December 15. The official certificate will be provided to the City Clerk and the final declaration of the results by the City Council is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, December 16, 2026. A dedicated election page is available in the coming days and will be updated as information becomes available. City clerk staff will conduct voter outreach through in-person events, the Cascades, and social media posting. It's recommended that the City Council consider adopting the resolution associated with the general municipal election on November 3rd, 2026. This concludes my report and I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Any questions?

I'll make the motion.

right no questions council member one makes the motion any second let's vote council member go hi council member wong yes council member sanchez yes mayor pro tem low yes mary yang yes approved unanimously thank you and that concludes our new business well we're moving through this very rapidly uh city communications

will start first uh attended a couple of the city's events i just want to highlight we had our budget meeting forecast last week and i just want to re-emphasize that we had budget balance and we had a little bit of a surplus which means that we can use that money to apply to other parts of the city as public works director noted we have 17 million dollars of CIP work projects for the city so that comes in handy and in the next 10 years we have a number of about 250 million for lot of different projects that need to be work on for the city that's an ongoing task list so I want to just emphasize the work that City staff put together last week to make us go through that budget thank you for all the hard work if I didn't say that enough last week I'll say it again this week and then A couple of Fridays ago, we did a memorial in honor of the fallen at the Post 397. I think many of us was there for that occasion and event. Earlier on the 22nd, many of us also attended the ELAC arts exhibit that's held at El Encanto. Is it still there? I think it's still there for another week, or did that finish up?

I think it ended last weekend.

That last weekend it ended, so that's all I have.

Nothing, nothing.

Again, also thank you for all who attended our Memorial Day services and our compliments to our UF, our veterans post. It was held indoors and we want to thank them for their efforts to continue to make the post a vibrant place and a place that worthy of support by our community. Also, I just want to emphasize also what my colleague said about the El Encanto Art Exhibit that was in partnership between East L.A. College, the Ceramics Club, as well as City of Monterey Park, and I want to thank Parks and Recreation Department for their leadership in creating these partnerships. I think these partnerships are essential and important, and spaces like El Encanto are, I think, perfect for spaces to exhibit a local, artistic youth, artistic expression, and something that I hope that we can do more of.

I think all of the events I wanted to cover already got covered, but just wanted to reiterate what Dave Jones had mentioned. Congratulations to our city of Monterey Park for passing Measure NDC last night with an overwhelming landslide of over 86%, making history. And that concludes our meeting tonight. Anything else before we adjourn? No? All right, meeting adjourned.