Remarks by Tyller Williamson
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Thank you for those updates. Anybody else?
Thank you for it. Speaking of election season, we are not going to have another council meeting until election day. And if I share this comment at that point, it may already be too late for a lot of folks. So I'm just sharing this to Get the word out. Make sure that you vote. Share it with your neighbors. Share it with your loved ones. It's our opportunity to provide a way of engagement with the political process. It doesn't matter who you support. It's just important that you stay engaged and leverage that opportunity. There are a lot of people in the world that don't have the right and…
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We'll just give you about 20 more seconds here. All righty, we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. It is four o'clock now. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to our afternoon-only session for today's council meeting, October 6, 2026. And with that, we'll roll right into the Pledge of Allegiance, and I'll ask Council Member Rasch to kick us off.
Thank you, Gene. All right. And with that, I'll pass it to staff for roll call and share announcements with the public.
Thanks, Linda. All right. And with that, we're going to go right into our first item, which is the presentation for today, recognizing Monterey Sports Center aquatic staff and Monterey Fire Department personnel for their life-saving response on September 6, 2026. How cool. This is just another demonstration of the amazing team that we have here in the city of Monterey, and it's, I think, a wonderful way to start today's meeting off. So with that, I'm gonna go ahead and pass it to Dante for a staff presentation, and then let's get some recognition for these awesome staff that we have.
Thank you, Bill, and thank you, Dante, for getting this on the agenda. It's a small token of what we can do to recognize the work that you all have done to save somebody's life in Monterey. So why don't we have all of the folks that participated in this come up? We have some proclamations for you here, and we'll take a photo. So come on up. Don't be shy. I'm just going to read off the names just so it's... We have Lou Valdez, Danny Given, Rob Klemek. I apologize if I said that last name wrong. Who is it? Nathan Perginan. Russell Stopper. Yeah. Everybody's following directions. I love this.…
Who else do I have? I got Danny. Danny's not here. And we got Rob. Right there. Appreciate you for it. Nathan. All right, Rob.
hey love you for it thank you so much and tyler tyler uh-huh it's a good name thank you so much all right why don't we come on up through this way and i think the cameras will get us in the front you got it did i just take off the mic the no no no that piece yeah the pieces
All righty, and with that, we'll actually do public comment on the presentation that was just given. So I know I see everybody's leaving already, but we'll open up for public comment as is tradition. As for folks' awareness, what we do is we identify folks at the beginning of the public comment period. Once those folks are identified, we then cut it off and only those folks will be able to speak. So if you identify yourself after the public, the identification period, unfortunately you won't be able to speak, but everybody gets a chance. So you have to identify yourself at the beginning, and…
Thanks, Esther. Thanks for your public comment and your recognition of our of our workforce. All right, and with that, we will go ahead and move on to general public comments. So this is an opportunity for folks in the public to speak on non-agendized items. So if your comments today are related to an item that's on the agenda, this is not the time to speak. This is for general public comments for non-agendized items. I'll start again on Zoom. For folks on Zoom, you can navigate your way to the raise hand function. In the meantime, I'll check in the chamber. Just ask folks to stand up to the…
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Okay. Either way, I'll be happy to connect if you'd like.
Pardon? I'm sorry. Please go ahead and finish.
Okay. Did you have a chance to reach out to staff about this already? Yeah, I talked to staff. You talked to staff.
Okay, perfect. All right, and with that, we'll go to our callers on Zoom.
Thank you. All right, we'll take the next caller.
Thank you. That was it? All righty. Thank you for all those that provided public comment today. With that, we're going to go ahead and move to consent agenda. There's been a request to pull item 11. Council, is there a desire to pull anything else from the consent? Yes, sir. Yeah, I'd like to pull number two. All right. Two and 11, please.
So let me write this down. What were your numbers? Three. Just three? Just three. And then, Jean, you were 9 and 11. You were 9, and then there's a desire for that. So we're doing 3, 9, and 11. Anything else? Okay, this is an opportunity now for the public to pull something from the consent if you so desire, or you can just make a comment. If you're wanting the council to take action though, then you'll have to request the item be pulled. So we're gonna open it up for public comment on the consent. If you're wanting to pull something though, or if it's already been requested to be pulled by…
All right, so moved and seconded. Any other discussion? All right. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. With that, we'll move on to our first ordinance, which is item three, second reading to amend Monterey City Code section 19-103, the schedule of fees and services charges to reduce the amount of the city's cost recovery for specific encroachment permit and inspection fees to less than 100%. And I think Councilmember Smith requested to pull this one, so I'll pass it over to you to see if you have any questions that might help us focus the conversation as we pull…
Thank you. Any other questions? All right, thank you, Andrew, for answering those questions. With that, we'll go ahead and open up for public comment. For folks on Zoom, you can navigate your way to the raise hand function. Meanwhile, I'll check in the chamber. Anybody in the chamber wish to speak on this item? We have one taker. Anybody else? All right. I'll cut it off in the chamber. I'll do a countdown for folks on Zoom to five, four, three, two, one. We have one on Zoom.
You're saying you don't want us to approve this tonight.
But this is lowering the rates. This isn't the end of the discussion, though. So we're coming back for a study session so we can better understand this. So you're saying you'd rather pay more than us lowering the cost right now?
We'll go ahead and go to the caller on Zoom.
All right, thank you for the public commenters. And with that, we'll bring it back to the council for motion and deliberation. I'm going to go ahead and start us off here and just say, look, there's no, I don't think there's any desire to rush through this and get this behind us. I think the goal is to make sure that we're charging. You're good. I'll stop. I think the goal is to make sure that we get it right. And the whole purpose of this is to make sure that, one, we're doing cost recovery appropriately, but secondly, that we're not Pricing out folks from being able to do projects and…