City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Thank you all for being here tonight for the L City Council meeting of May 14th, 2026. If I get a roll call. Council member Bottomley here. Council member Cranford absent. Council member Dill absent. Vice Mayor Hornish here. Mayor Nun here. Thank you. We have a quorum.

I'd like to say that uh Councilwoman Cranford and Councilwoman Dell weren't able to be here tonight. They're attending something for their daughter's graduation, both of them from high school, uh an event, a family thing. And uh so that's why they're not available to be here. So, if we could uh do the pledge of

allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible for all. All right. Get approval of city council regular meeting agenda May 14th.

Approval. Make a motion to approve. I second. Council member Bottomley. I. Um, Vice Mayor Hornish. I. Mayor Nun. I. Thank you. Motion passes. All right. At this time, we're going to open to regular meeting public comment. Anyone in the audience? And it looks like we have a speaker card from Jim Weiss. Okay.

Um, Mr. Mr. Mayor, members of the city council and city staff. Um I'm Jim Weise and I'm the chair of the Veterans Park uh committee here in the city of Plymouth. Um and under the um memorand of understanding that exists that established the committee um I'm wanted to remind everybody that it's a collaborative effort between the Rotary Club, the Rotary Foundation and the city of Plymouth. And under thatou uh we have a responsibility to report back on a regular basis to the city council about uh any enhancements, improvements um or issues that that come up in the park. Um the last time we had an opportunity to report to you was um months ago when we were able to team with Keep California Beautiful. Uh we had over a hundred uh volunteers from our community uh to come in and do planting in the park uh for over 300 bushes, trees, uh plants in the park. And um uh I think it was a great enhancement. Um most recently um you'll see that we've got some tarps around all the monuments in the park. Um I promise you that those tarps will be gone by tomorrow. The reason for that, the tarps is to protect the tarps because we have just finished uh sand blasting and engraving 34 additional new names of members of um the military services that have provided um service to our country through the six service branches. Those 34 new names have been added to the monument. Um and new names will be added every year. In addition to the 34 new names that we've just added, we had three corrections uh that we had to make um on the granite slabs, I'm happy to report that there is a methodology by which those repairs um have been made. We've got two more repairs to to to finish up in the morning. Um and then um

all of the tarps will come down and u will be back to normal. Um I also want to report that we had added two new plaques in the park. Uh, one of the new plaques uh was to honor the service organizations that continue to provide uh help um and and comfort to the military branches, organizations like the USO, American Vets of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Um we felt it appropriate uh to honor those service organizations by putting a plaque in the park. And finally, um to honor the women organizations, uh that predominantly in World War II provided similar service to our military branches. Uh instant like the wax and the waves uh also deserved a plaque. We've added that into the park. Um I think the final uh element that we need to add into the park will be um a way to designate an appreciation and a listing of all the donors and contributions of uh volunteers um and inst entities that have provided um goods and services in the construction of the park. Um and um uh happy to answer any questions you might have.

Well, I appreciate you coming tonight. I saw that the plaques were covered and were kind of wondering what was going on. So, I'm glad you came and explained it because I just noticed that yesterday and uh appreciate all the great work you do out there. It looks wonderful. It's really going nice. Yeah, we have a great volunteer effort this year. We're very grateful. And did I see that you guys are having a Memorial Day celebration or ser service out there?

Yes, we are. Um so u the goal of getting the new names added was um so that we could meet that deadline for the Memorial Day. So on Memorial Day morning we'll have a ceremony in the park. I just would uh point out that Memorial Day tends to be a day that honors men and women who provided the ultimate sacrifice to this country. This is a veterans park that honors anybody that provided service to the country. We're going to do a special designation for those names um on in the park who are more appropriately honored on Memorial Day. So, we'll call have a call out for that. But yes, we've got a little ceremony on Memorial Day. Yeah.

The community should come out and and participate. It's a great event. So, you said 34 names you added. And is that just people in the county reaching out to you adding family members or

Yeah. Um I I I suspect that this will be the largest single addition of new names that we will have um uh since we uh installed uh the granite monuments in the park. And I think the reason for that is once uh the community realized that this was an opportunity to honor their friends or families that qualified to be included in the park. People came out of the woodwork. um we uh vetted every one of the names that came out, but um but yeah, I think people recognized for the first time the opportunity that existed there. I would like to do a little shout out. Um Vicki has been extraordinary in providing help and support for us to help vet these new names as they've been coming into city hall. So, um I've said this many times, but couldn't do it without you. Thank you.

Well, she does extraordinary work for us, too. Thank you. I uh so I asked one one question I have. So the people that you approved to put on there, they have to have some kind of tie to Amodore County or lived here or something like that. Um a brief history at a after at the end of World War II, the Department of Defense provided a small amount of money to each state um to honor veterans in some way. California decided to take that allocation um and to push it back out to the county level. Here in Aador County, we took those funds and we broke it into the five supervisorial districts.

Um so the money that used um district five, the district that we are in was the only one of the five supervisorial districts that never touched the money um until we started this project. Um and um we did a lot of digging and finally found the money at the county level, but it actually had been sitting in an interestbearing account um back to the early 1950s. Oh, wow. But we had a nice little pot of money to work with. Wow, that's great. Well, thank you, Jim. Yeah, thank you. Thank for everything you do out there.

We have any Do we have Zoom? Zoom is up, right? So, no hands raised. Okay. Anyone in the audience like to speak? Rosemary

Rosemary Marino Moody Plymouth. Um I want to thank you for getting the walking path weeded and nice. Um but my concern is the weeds are already starting to grow again. And is there any plan in place so they don't get to 3 ft high again? I'm hoping. And the other is I'm going to continue to push. Um we were told in January that they got the new signs for down by the school and they had a programming issue and we brought it up a few times and the city manager told us it's probably been two months because we've been at baseball games on Thursdays. I'm sure you missed us. Um but it's still he said two weeks to a month then and it's been almost two months now. So I'm wondering what's happening with those signs. Do we really have them or are we getting lip service? Thanks.

You want um so we do have them. Um the the anchors are a little bit too deep uh for our public works crew to put in. So we do have somebody coming out. Um can't remember if our public works superintendent said next week or within the next two weeks, but they will be that we will be installed.

Okay. Anyone else for public comment? All right. Hearing and seeing no one, uh, we'll move on. Item 4.1, Amidor Childc Care Council presentation. Thank you, mayor and council, for the opportunity to highlight some of the work done by the Amir County Childare Council. Our child care council is made up of 11 members. Right now, we have seven council members that have been appointed to serve for our county. Uh they're listed here. If anybody is really passionate about child care, we do have four open spots right now. The mission of the Amir County, the Amir Child Care Council is to support the development and affordable, accessible and quality child care that promotes the success of all children, their families, the economy of and the economy of our communities. We envision an inclusive, affordable child care system that promotes healthy, successful children and youth. For a little bit of history on where the Child Care Council came from, in 1990, the federal government recognized the importance of child care. this part.

It's okay. The importance of child care under title four and the at risk child care program. Um the federal government um pushed money to each state to come up with a way to support um quality affordable child care really focusing on our um students that are the most at risk. So from um with families with low incomes, um food subsidies, those kind of things are are really what they're targeting. And so in 1991, the California Department of Education pushed money to each county office of education to form some um they're called local child care planning councils. And the purpose of these councils is to work with community partners and businesses to really highlight the need of child care and then to support those that work in the child care field. So um in in Ammer County each year we have roughly about 300 babies born um to our in our community for new members every year. Um and then here's some statistics. This really um a lot of this data comes out of our um big needs assessment that we did in 2425. Um for a little bit of information, the resource connection is the agency. It's a public agency that supports um child care providers and it helps families find child care resources for Amodore and Calaveris County. Um, and then it gives a little bit of information here that children z ages 0 to five in our communities that received public assistance of some kind, there were a

total of 938 um, kids. And if you keep in mind that there's only about 300 for each age group, um, we have a really decent percentage of our children that need whose families need some extra support. And so, um, with those youngest kiddos, we highlighted here, um, enrollments for, um, educational opportunities with Head Start, California State Preschool, and, um, TK stands for transitional kindergarten. It is, um, the first year of a 2-year kindergarten program designed in California. It's really meant to serve all of our four-year-olds across the state. Um and then it gives a little bit of extra information about kids receiving special education services. Um for our infants and toddlers in 2425 we had a total of 49 students and then children under some kind of protective services in 2425 was um for 0 to 36 month olds there were 12 of them and for three and four year olds there was a total of six kiddos. In for the child care council, every 5 years we are required to complete a new needs assessment. It really highlights areas in our communities that um need more child care support. And I will say as somebody who's lived in Amin County um pretty much my entire life, I live in the Comanche area. I taught at Ion Elementary um or worked at Ion Elementary the whole time my kids were um needing child care. And the closest child care we could find was in Setter Creek. And so to do this trifecta of driving all the time um that u my kids are adults now, but that need hasn't changed over the decades. We

still have people who drive um a long distance um just just to get child care, if they can even find it. Sometimes uh as part of the child care council, we also come up with a plan every 5 years to really target goals and um ways that we can support our community. And so um the first goal is really helping um advocate for child care needs and advocate for um new child care providers. Child care providers is kind of a I think an interesting term. Yes, it's childcare providers, but it could be um private child care, it could be childcare centers, it could be um there's a term they use called um family, friends, and neighbors. So, a lot of people find somebody in their um community who is close to them that is willing to watch their children. That is considered child care. um our school district actually provides um child care through our ELOP program, our afterchool program. And so all of that um is kind of a broad spectrum that falls under child care. Um, this goal also highlights just really advocating for in a lot of ways zoning and um, local policies impact a lot around what um, where and um, where we can put child care facilities. Um, one that always surprises me, um, is there's regulations around how close to an airport you can have child care facilities and it really limits in some of our areas the ability to put in childcare centers. Uh, our second goal is always it's always very um family focused, but how

do we support employers who who have working families? because of if employees can't come to work because of child care, it has an overall impact on the businesses um and economy of our overall community. Um this year, um the childare council is working to put together um an employer toolkit, so strategies that employers can use to support their employees that need child care. And then the third goal um is really supporting the people who do the ground work for child care, the actual providers. So providing um um professional development, there is opportunities for stipens in our community. So if they're um they are advancing their own education to better support kids, there's some opportunities for some um financial um incentives for them. And then we also just really work to as a child care council to get the word out about resources in our community. I know um in September we are partnering partnering with first five Amodore to um provide kind of a annual kickoff for childcare providers and we will at that time have a lot of our community resources available. Um so our child care providers who are kind of our front line with a lot of our families can support families in better accessing all all resources in our community. And so that is a very brief explanation of what Ammer Childcare Council does, but um if you guys have any questions, um

Wendy, what a great organization. You know, working parents having good child care is a necessity. Where are you guys funded from? Uh it um we are funded through um department of social services and department of um education when during the co time a lot of things with early childhood shifted from department of education to department of social services. Okay. No, thank you for the presentation. That was very cute. My opening.

I have questions. Um, do you have a website? Um, yes. What is it? Um, it is if you just look up Ammer Childcare Council, you'll get there. Um, there's also a link on the Amir County Unified School District page.

Perfect. And then, um, how can a regular resident help? the um if you are at all an advocate for um child care, there is opportunities, anybody's welcome to our um council meetings and those are posted um we generally meet the first Tuesday of the month at first five Amador. Um and the it functions just under the Brown Act just like your city council. So our agendas are always posted um ahead of time. Um there's um always opportunities to go to resource fairs and um we just um supported the celebrate our children event that just happened um at the Italian picnic grounds at the end of last month. Um so just um um coming to events like that and then just being somebody who when child care questions come up being aware of what resources are out there. Um the amateur um the child care council um can definitely help direct people. Um first five is always a great resource for families. Um and then the resource connection. So, if just um an everyday citizen wants to be really supportive when questions come up because a lot of times people don't even know who to ask. If you hear that, those three organizations are great resources.

Okay. And then lastly, do you take donations of any kind? If so, what do you guys need and where would people drop it off? Um really anything that is something that could be then um re gifted to child care providers would always be hugely welcome. Um there is a big discrepancy between how much child care is funded and then how much it actually costs to provide child care. um and are especially when you're looking at private child care or friends and family and neighbor supports for childare. Um really they just need um materials and things to support anything that you would think of that could be needed in a childare setting. If people want to do any donations, they're more than welcome to contact um there's a phone number right here. Um it's 209-257-5338. Um that actually gets you to um the child development office at the at the school district, but we also um facilitate the child care council. So my title is the director of child development for the school district and I'm the LPC coordinator for the county.

Terrific. Thank you. Mhm.

So my question would be, do you have any way of knowing here in the city of Plymouth child care issues existing here in the city of Plymouth? Are there parents that need it that aren't able to get it that are weight listed? And how would the city go about helping those residents? the the numbers that I have are generally like countywide, but if you are interested in specific numbers of weight listed um kiddos for just your community, um you can definitely if you want to call that number, we can get you that information. Um the a big challenge that a lot of our families have is also it's not just the cost of child care but because of the distance between where child care is and where families live is also sometimes a hindrance. Um

that's kind of why I asked my question. I'm wondering here in the city what parents we have that really need this that aren't getting it that aren't able to to get it because it's over say in Jackson or Pine Grove or somewhere else and uh how we would find out about that and uh then look into what we do to help our residents here. I think um as a city um if there was ever a program that helped provide like gas cards or those kind of things, it's the transportation cost that's a real hindrance to families to get child care. Um the resource connection is the agency that um gets state money and then subsidi and then helps pay for subsidized child care. So, if families meet income eligibility, um, and it's actually, um, a lot higher income than you would anticipate, um, but if you meet income eligibility, your child care can be provided through subsidy. Um, and the resource connection is the agency that navigates that, but it's it's still like the transportation costs. If a individual city is really looking at how can we support families that that is a big hurdle

and I imagine there's a lot of licensing involved in hiring somebody to actually watch kids. Yes. Okay. And that's a good thing. Yeah, most definitely. Well, I thank you very much for being here tonight and and giving this presentation. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Sure. Where you want to go?

What? And five, consent calendar. We have a motion to approve the consent calendar. I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar. Oh, public comment. Excuse me. Thank you. Public comment. Thank you, Rosemary. Public comment on consent calendar.

Okay. Rosemary Marino Moody Plymouth. Um, I just have a question. I saw on the warrants there's a $150 boot stipen and I'm wondering what the criteria for that is, how many employees qualify for that, what is the occurrence, how often they're entitled to it, and was that approved by the city council. Thank you.

I'll have to leave that to city manager if he is able right now, has the information to answer that. So apparently that was a program that was started under the previous public works director um years ago and um when it brought to my attention we haven't been able to find any documentation on it. So we're looking to address that as well but that did not start under us. Um so I I don't have an answer for you as to why. Okay. Well no that that is an answer. So appreciate that. So um I'd say something we need to look into but sounds like you're already doing it. So, oh, if I may, I apologize. Um, it was explained to me that the it's the public works employees that get it and it's one time a year stipen.

Okay. So, we should Yeah, we should probably just make it actually put it in the record as approved. So, bring it forward at some point down the road. Um, any other comment consent agenda? Okay. So, at this time, I'm looking for approval of the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve the consent calendar. Second. Council member Bottomley. I. Vice Mayor Hornish. I. Mayor Nun. I. Thank you. Motion passes.

So we have no public hearings. We're going to move on to item 7.1. Review and discussion of proposals for solid waste collection disposal recycling services from Republic Waste Management and California Waste Recovery Systems. discussion and possible action to award franchise agreement and find award of the franchise agreement is exempt from environmental review under California environmental quality act pursuant to the class one class 8 and common sense exemptions of SQA public comment or wait excuse me let's first get the city manager staff report thank you Mr. Mayor, the city received proposals from Waste Management Services from Republic Services, the city's current provider and California Waste Recovery System, also known as Cal Waste. Both companies are established service providers and have submitted proposals that include residential collection services and long-term franchise agreements with the city. Each proposal includes the option to extend the contract for up to 10 additional years, providing a long-term service continuity. Republic Services current currently provides waste collection services within the city and has maintained established operations and customer service practices. Their proposals largely reflect a continuation of existing service levels, including a 10% senior discount for qualifying residents. However, their proposed residential service rates are notably higher across all cart sizes when compared to the alternative proposal. Republic is also proposing a 10% franchise fee which would continue to provide the city with a share of gross revenues generated from services within the city. Cal Waste by comparison is proposing a new service model with within the city that includes significantly lower residential service rates across all cart sizes. This reduction in cost could provide meaningful savings to residents on a monthly basis. In addition, Cowas is proposing a 12% franchise fee which represents an increase in revenue to the city when compared to the Republic

proposal. Um I provided some um of their service rates with uh for instance the 32gallon cart from Republic is 28.95. That's a proposed rate where Cow's 35gallon cart is 1905 which is actually um a decrease from what we're currently paying with Republic Services. And you can also see um the other changes. Um Cal is proposing a higher percentage franchise fee which could result in increased revenue to the city compared to the current franchise fee paid by Republic. However, it may represent less revenue to the city than the 10% Republic is proposing in its proposal since it would be charging residents substantially higher rates. Both providers are offering a 10% senior discount with required documentation. The fiscal impact to residents varies significantly between the two proposals due to differences in service rates with cow waste recovery systems offering lower monthly cost. The fiscal impact to the city will be in an increase in franchise fee revenue regardless of which provider the city council awards a franchise agreement to. If the franchise agreement is awarded to Republic, revenues will increase because the city will continue to receive a 10% of gross revenues, but revenues will increase because of the higher rates proposed by Republic. If the franchise agreement is awarded to Cal Waist, revenues will increase because the city will receive 12% of the gross revenues as compared to the 10% it currently receives with Cala's proposed rates being substantially similar to Republic's current current rates. Our recommendation is the city council review and discuss proposals from both Republic and Cal Waste. And staff further recommends the city council review, discuss, and consider award of a franchise agreement. Staff is confident that both Republic and Calwa are cap capable of providing service within the city but because of the cost savings for residents recommends reward of the franchise agreement to Cal Waste. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Um we're going to open this to public comment. I want to say that we received a public comment on this from Stephanie Marino and I I did read the whole thing. If we have anybody in the audience or anybody on Zoom like Rosemary coming up and Mr. Mayor, if I may, um, we have both C representatives from Cal Waste and Republic here to answer any questions for you. Okay, we might have him do that.

Rosemary Marino Moody, Plymouth. Um, first thing it baffles me that it is the middle of May and it expires on May 31st and we're looking at it now for the first time. I know that the city manager at his coffees in the fall talked about this. So, yeah, I don't understand why it's the last minute. Um, also I noticed in the packet the current franchise um agreement with Republic is not in there. So, it's really hard. I don't know how you as a council can look at the two proposals um without having all the information. I know that it wasn't in the packet available to the public. Um but I'm also concerned um you know the 12% 10% whatever that is. I mean if they're lowering it a lot that 12% is not going to be more than the 10%. Honestly, if you start running numbers and the other part is that's built into the rates anyway that the rate payers pay. I mean, we basically are paying for that that franchise fee to come to the city. Um, and the other the one thing I did notice in um the cow one is there was a $50 um fee for them to come out and replace a can, which I think is not right when it's their cans they're providing for it. I mean, I've been with ASUS and Republic for over 30 years. And they did replace my can at one time because just the wear and tear of the garbage truck picking it up and all our our lid ripped and then it finally just wouldn't stay on. And so they came and they replaced it. But I'm thinking 50 bucks for them to come give me a new one and take the old one seems pretty extreme when it is something that they're supposed to provide for us as part of the service. The other issue is

it says a new service model. Where is that service model? I didn't see it anything in there. So what what what are they offering that we don't currently get? So, there's a lot of questions with this and I I think that the re the homework wasn't done on it and it was thrown together at last minute. Thanks. Okay. I have one question, Rosemary, where you you were talking about the replacement can costing $50. Was that if it's your fault that it need a replacement? You there was damage or it just wore out? The way I read it, it was if they had to come out to replace equipment, it was $50. That's what I read in what was in the packet. It didn't really specify,

but for replacement. So, I would assume if it was damaged on my part, it would be 50 bucks for them to bring one to me. Plus, they're not in our county, correct? So, it's a further for them to come. Thank you. Anyone else public comment? Nothing. All right. Going once, going twice. All right. Got a close public comment. on this and I will go to council one bottomly start. You get to start unless holder wants to start. Solder want to start? No. No. Holder's putting it on you.

Okay. Well, what? Oh, sorry. Didn't see. Um, we have representatives from the companies here. So, uh, Mr. from Molinelli, you give us some information. Well, I I meant Yeah. Yeah. meant to get anyone up here, but Okay. Uh, good a good evening,

mayor and council members. I'm Paul Melli Jr. with Republic Services and I'm a former co-owner of Aces Way Services. So, and then with me is Johnny Plass, who is the assistant manager for us at ACES and now is the operations manager at Republic Services. Um, I just want to say a few words tonight. It's it's been a very um we have serviced the city of Plymouth since 2010, not Republic, but the time ACES and Republic has. And it's been a very good productive relationship. Our our drivers um that Republic retained uh for 16 years. They know all the customers. They know all the ins and outs of the the routes and everything. And they do a fantastic job keeping the customers properties clean and all of that. We haven't we haven't raised the rates since 2017. So the the rates that that are being proposed here um by Republic are break even for the company. There's not a profit built into those prices that weren't quoting. Um being being local, you know, our yard is right down at the Bueno Vista landfill. So, you know, if there's a there's a problem with a customer, you know, that needs to be resolved, we can get there right away. They don't have to come from somewhere else. Um, we have, um, ACES, both ACES and our Republic has continued what ACES has done as far as community service and community donations. Um we get asked

often for um we give away gift certificates for one year of service for charities organizations. Those are very popular so people can raffle them often and then also um supplying garbage service at no charge to different you know community events and charities. And of course we'll continue to do that um if we are re if we are awarded the contract. But um so I just wanted to say uh and then the then the franchise revenues you will the city will get more monthly you know franchise fees or revenues going with Republic's proposal because you know I I I know the rates are higher than what Cal Waste is proposing but it will net you more money per month. Thank you. Do you have any questions while he's up here or we can call them back up but if you have any questions?

Not yet. Not right. Thank you Paul here. Um you spoke. We'll give the same opportunity if they want to speak to us.

He's good. Thank you. Hello, council and staff. Uh, my name is Rudy Vakareza. I'm one of the owners of Cal Waste, and you know, we engage the city of Plymouth to give you guys the same service that you guys are used to. And we're a, you know, while we might not be local to Amodore County, we're 20 miles that way. And we are a local company. I mean, my dad's here. I'm one of the owners. My dad, my brother, uh I have my operations managers here, my uh equipment manager here. We are all local people in this area. And I respect uh Paul. I know he came up here and spoke. His family's done an amazing job in this county. But we think that we can provide you that same level of service that you got with ACES, but with Cal Waste. Um, you know, when we talk about giving back to the community, that is something that we 100% do and we want to be here in Amodore County and in the city of Plymouth. And I think we can give you that same level of service and community engagement that you've been used to that, you know, you still might get with with with Paul and Republic. But, you know, we we're here to stay. We are privately owned. We're not a traded on the NASDAQ like Republic Services is. Um, but I think that we've given a really great proposal to you guys to take over these services and we're 20 minutes down the road. We might not be four, but we're 20 minutes down the road. Um, and we just appreciate you guys giving us the opportunity to come into this. And, you

know, when we talk about, you know, the franchise fee, we did propose a 12% franchise fee, which I think will be great with the city, but our whole goal was to keep residents paying what they're paying today. So, with what we're proposing versus um Republic, I mean, they can save from $120 a year to $210 a year if you guys decide to go with our proposal. um from the standpoint of service like what we're offering um I think on the the cleanup side of the world um we want to offer more of a on call cleanup service to where we don't want it to be for one week of the month where everybody puts all this stuff out there and it looks, you know, it's just all the time. It's a more of an on call scheduled service. Hey, any week of the month you call us, you put it out there, we can give you that. We'll give you two yards of service where we come and pick it up. But, you know, I think we have comparable service. Well, not comparable, I think we have exemplary service. And if you ask some of your neighbors, I think they'd say that. And when I say not your physical neighbors, but your neighbors down the to the next county. But um you know we just we think that we can give you guys great service and we want to come in here or in the city of Plymouth and do what we can and I think we'd be great partners. So um if you have any questions I can answer them. I know I was getting a little

Well, one of our residents brought up an issue said that you would charge $50 to replace a can. Is that if the can just wears out or for any reason if she calls up and needs a can? Is it still $50 or why is it $50? So, I think uh we offer like I think what she was seeing was on the commercial side of service. If there was a cart issue that might need to be replaced, we will like clean your cart once a year and that's included in it. But if you needed it an additional time, then there is a service fee where we have to come out and we we would charge $50. So that's only charged to commercial, not to residential. Yeah, I believe so.

What? Believe. So residential, there's a an item that says for customer damaged carts, there's $50 charge. So I understood that to mean only if the customer causes the damage, not if it's just routine wear and tear. So who decides if it was the customer caused it or if it was the truck picked it up and grabbed it wrong or what? How do we know? I'll defer to Cal Waste on that. I mean, it's pretty easy to tell. A lot of that is for burned carts. If a cart burns down is Oh, so somebody put something hot in it like Yeah. If you put hot ashes in there, if a wheel breaks, I mean, that's usually from routine service, the car going up and down. But it's really for burned carts, be honest. Or if a cart

goes missing and it's your third time that your cart's gone missing, we might assess you that charge. So on residential, you're saying that that's not likely that somebody would be charged that $50? Yeah. Okay. You have any questions of him right now? Winnie, go ahead. All right. Uh, thank you, Rudy. Yeah. Um, how do you handle a missed cart pickup? Um, since you're slightly further away, what' you say? How do you handle a missed cart pickup? Uh, so our truck would come back same day, next day. I mean, it'd be same day we'd come back. All right.

And if it was a situation where it need to be handled the next day, we'd come back next day. Okay. Um, do you rotate recycling and green waste? Uh, yes. Every other week. Okay. Um, on call cleanup, how many of those do you offer per year? uh one included, but you could schedule more than that if you'd like to. I think that was in our rate sheet or fee, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Um, so with Republic Waste Services, I um experienced them picking up the neighbors recycling bin was stacked a little high, bottles fell out, um, broke into my driveway, and the guy got out and swept it all up and made it clean. Uh, and I was impressed by that. Um, how do you guys handle that? Uh, just like that, but with a bigger broom.

Good answer. Um and then I just have a comment um to staff. I mean the challenger here um Cal is coming in um with lower um how do I put this? So they're coming in lower monthly. So the franchise fees are not as much but the residents get a benefit. How I mean you might be able to answer this too, but like is your model that much more efficient or like how can you provide these lower much lower rates? Um is it a loss leader or how how does that work? I mean we going to have to renegotiate next year and it's going to be way higher or

No, I I totally understand your question and no to be honest. Um I mean we're kind of doing the same thing. when we saw your guys' rates, you know, we pick up efficiencies from what we do in a county over and what I'm proposing to you guys is a cost of service and we're not going to come back in here next year and ask for the $9.95 that difference you could say we're leaving on the table here. So, yeah. Okay. So, thank you, Rudy. So, yeah, because you bring up this different business model. Exactly. What difference is the model from what Republic's offering us? You know, I would say I didn't propose a a different business model language. Hey, we're picking up your guys' waste.

Okay. And we're going to handle it in uh the way that we're supposed to handle the waste just like they will. Yeah. So, where are you dropping the waste? Where your truck's going to go and drop at? Um, it'll be in pro Kefir landfill in Sacramento County. Kefir Landfill Sacramento. So, you're picking it up, dropping it once, handling it one time. You're not taking it to a reload yard and then having to reload it and say in walking floors or something and move it again.

I mean, I would say we we would like to keep the options open of where it can go. Currently, right now, it's uh pretty much down the street or to Kefir Lanefill. Um, we're going to go to Kefir with recycling. We run a large some called a material recycling facility out of the city of G. So, your recyclables will be shipped down to G, which we used to actually process for ACES um before they were purchased by Republic. And then, uh, your green waste will be taken down to G as well. And then there it actually will be translated to the facility uh in Yolo County.

Okay. Um so for the most part you're going to haul directly into Kefir and I would think diesel pushing $7 a gallon handling it one times better. But if Kefir for some reason for a while isn't an option, you're going to absorb that cost of taking it to a transfer station and then moving in again later. You're not going to be asking for any increases from the city. Um, you're observing that. Yes. Yeah, you are observing that. Yeah. Okay. If I could just add, anytime that we'd be increasing the rates, we'd have to go through a 218 hearing process. We'd have to notify the public.

We'd have to follow that whole process for increasing rates. Okay. That's I mean, there are extrenuating circumstances that could happen. I mean, we all know what the price of fuel is right now, and these rates were proposed with that in mind, but yes, I mean, we're we're going to stick to the proposal that we give in the city for the foreseeable future. So, you see on these with trucking firms and on these contracts, this fuel search charge all the time. All right, so diesel $7 a gallon because we have things going on in the world. What if diesel drops to 350 $4 a gallon? Do we get any kind of a refund or rebate?

No sir. Okay. With one gallon record. But if it goes up, say it goes to $9 or $10 a gallon, are we going to see a fuel sir charge then? I think that that would be something that could we could possibly come back with. I mean, but I don't see that happening. And if you're telling me right now to make this happen and I could put in there that fuel may not be applicable for a future rate, I could consider it. I don't know if I'd want to do that because I believe the contract just shows an increase in the CPI, right? Yeah.

Okay. So, even if fuel gets a lot higher, we're going to stick to that CPI.

Yeah. And and I like that I mean you brought up the CPI here is you know uh ACES or I mean Republic uh has an RRI which I think it was in the ST to 20% higher than where the CPI that we are proposing comes into. So, we're proposing like a water sewer trash CPI index when uh Republic has an RARI, which I can tell you the water sewer trash last year was 4.25 and uh Republic's RARI would probably be closer to 6 and a half%.

Okay, thank you. You guys, you have another question? Yeah, I have a few questions. Um, so Andreas, what is this for you on the increases? Is it any increase? If it is it a CPI increase, will that cause a 218? Would that because that's built into the contract? It's built in that they can request that CPI increase. Yes. So, we would need to go back and and do it do notices for that increase as well. Yeah. Okay. So every year if the CPI goes up, we have to notice that as a 218.

No, that so when you do a Prop 218 increase, you can prospectively go up five years out. So since we haven't done a 218 for solid waste in quite some time here, that's why it would be due once and we could project out CPI increases for up to five years. Up to five years. That's like Okay, that's we have covered here.

Okay. Um my my other question was on your discretionary adjustments. So, it states here we have the CPI and then you have this listing of A through D of different charges that you could come back to us with. And um I'm wondering are those just pass through costs or do you mark them up or is it just because they are kind of a special circumstances changes in methods uh processing fees. So, if you get a additional permit fee for $50, are you going to upcharge us 60?

Um, I mean, I would say some of the discretionary items in there are things that we adopt for certain circumstances, but okay, I've been in this business my whole life and whether you call it force, majour, or discretionary circumstances, we've never actually utilized those provisions. Some of those, they're just in there. Okay. So, I mean, just reading through the contract, the questions probably do. Um, let's see. Do I have any other questions? I think there was one other one. I hear my dad breathing heavy behind me. Should I should I stop talking now?

If if he wants to come up uh and join you, he can. Yeah, we Yeah, we don't make an informed decision. So, anybody wants to speak on from either of the companies, I'd like to hear them, you know. Um, I Yeah. Well, I appreciate that. We might call on you again. Um, yeah, we might. Oh, okay. With that being said, um, I think it's only fair. They both spoke, but do you guys want to have discussion or we want to offer Paul a chance to speak again? If he wants, I'd like to ask Paul a question.

Paul, would you mind coming up again? Tell us one last question for you. It's going to be a pretty direct question. This these rates are going up 50%. What additional are we getting for our additional monies to you guys? Or is it just costs that have come up on um cost of acquisition? I guess that's what that's what I'm getting at. Stab that one. Take a stab at that one.

Uh Johnny Plas for public services. A lot of it has to do with cost. Um thinking fuel prices in 2017, cost of disposal in 2017. there's been a lot of influence insurance costs etc that affect just the cost of operations right and so these proposed rates are basically like Paul had mentioned a break even point for us it's kind of the makeup for the loss of price increases that the companies have absorbed for the last nine years okay thank you

so I have a So you pick up the garbage here in the city of Plymouth and you take it out to the transfer station. All right. Then it gets scooped up and put in walk-in floor trailers and hauled back to Kefir. No Oasis is currently disposed at forward landfill in Stockton.

So in Stockton. So from down there that's 3540 mi. Have you ever considered just taking it straight from the city and dropping it at Kefir and only handling it one time and then looking at that cost and adjusting your rates to the city of Plymouth? That's I mean I'm asking have you considered that looked at that what the difference would be to just do it like that since we're so close. So to Kefir literally I can make it to Ranch Marietta in 15 minutes. Okay. Of course, I'm not driving a garbage truck. Well, if I was, I would probably make it the same 15 minutes, but So, um, what I'm saying is you're what, another 15 minutes down. Okay. And so, I'm just wondering why it gets moved so far when there's a place to drop here and why somebody wouldn't look at that and say, "We could operate for less and offer a lower price." And I guess that's my question. I just I don't understand why you guys don't just take it straight there and dump it and use that reduced cost to pass it on to our citizens.

Well, with our collection operations, we will collect potentially multiple jurisdictions in one load, if you will, right? We might be getting some from the city of Plymouth. We're getting some from rate zone one within the county. So we can consolidate that and reduce the hauling costs by having multiple jurisdictions material and allocate the driver's time for a more efficient way I guess you could say of hauling it. And then from a transfer station or a transfer truck walking floor scenario, we take to the transfer station. And at that point, we can extract and kind of increase recyclable materials and materials that are being taken out of the waist stream that may have otherwise should have gone in your recycle cart so we can get uh recycling increases, minimize disposal. And with Republic's current situation of owning forward landfill, we have a better opportunity of kind of controlling our costs from a disposal standpoint. Um you'll notice in the cow waste proposal that disposal is in the discretionary adjustment and seeing that they are subject to whatever Sacramento County uh proposes or approves from their board owning kefir landfill and where aces used to previously haul. It is not uncommon to see an increase in disposal costs annually.

Okay, I appreciate that information. One other question. If a garbage truck, the standard that you see driving down the road about if they dump say I know that there's 30 gallon cans, 65 gallon cans, but about how many houses do you service before the truck's full? Just a a general. I mean, how many loads have to go out of the city of Plymouth in a week? Just in general, not down to the exact uh currently right now we have one truck collecting uh waste, trash if you will, and then we have a commodity route who's picking up either the yard waste or recycle. will give in the service week. So, we're only one truckload a week coming out of Plymouth pretty much. Wow. I would have thought more than that. That's good. Not counting commercial. Yeah. So, residential collection. Let me go.

Yeah. Don't you pick up the commercial differently though? Aren't those like dumpsters that you have a different type of truck for? Correct. It's a front load truck. Yeah. Okay. Um, you got anything older? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, I have one more silly question. Sorry. This has been bugging me all day as I've been looking at this. You guys have a 32, 64, and 96 for the residential, and CAW has 35, 65, and 95. Is there really that big of a difference in garbage cans? Like, it's it's based on the the preferred uh supplier or manufacturer. We currently use to carts and that's the sizes they offer.

They're pretty robust cart, rotationally molded. They're they're solid guard and just from a sizing standpoint, I'm not sure exactly what Cowboys uses. Potentially Schaefer, I would assume. Um, it's kind of just a manufacturer thing. I I thought it was a typo. I'm like, what do they all can't be the same different sizes like silly, but thank you for for answering my question. Curious.

Thank you. Thank you. All right. This point I guess we'll go to council discussion. Um you like to say about this?

Well um I mean it is attractive to for the citizens to keep their costs lower. I kind of appreciate that. I I didn't do a bunch of work on seeing what the difference is for the commercial rates and the big disposal bins and and those rates. Um yeah, it's tough market. It's a competitive world out there. I like the rates. over what she said. Yeah.

Yeah. My only concern I honestly don't really care about the difference in the franchise fee because I don't think we should look at the money of the city. I think we should look at what makes things better for the citizens. And if we're cutting money that they're paying agree, I mean, they're already looking at increases on their water and sewer bill. So, you know, to be able to say, well, it's something here um is helpful, but of course, whenever you, you know, change course on anything, it's, you know, concerning. Um, I wish we had a full counsel here tonight. Would have rather heard this before a full counsel, but not their fault. Um

and and the dollars on this for this uh franchise fee, it's not that big. No, it's less than 5,000. I mean, of course, the calculation is very, you know, estimated. Yeah. But yeah, yeah, I mean there's a lot of questions and what's what's our recourse for if we wanted to wait for full counsel? Well, I don't think we need to. I mean, if we're in agreeance, we've been entrusted by others. Okay. To make the right decision. Yeah, I would have liked to have had one, but um

can I make So yeah, I have one question. So the agree agreement drawn up for the record was drawn up primarily by our legal council. Yes, it's our template. We use it in multiple jurisdictions. Okay. So this isn't a contract that was presented to us. I just want to make that clear public. So than a contract presented to us, it's a contract that you've presented to them. This is our form prepared by my colleagues who do solid waste agreements up and down the state. Okay.

You feel good about it? I feel good about it. All right. So at this time, I guess nobody else had anything else to say. I guess I'll call for a motion. uh make a motion to award the franchise agreement to Cal Waste. I second and also find that awarding the franchise agreement is exempt from SQA for the reasons listed in the staff report. What he said as amended council member Bottomley I. Vice Mayor Hornish I. Mayor Nun. Thank you. Motion passes. Okay, there you go.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you everybody for showing up. Yeah, item 7.2, to review discussion of possible action to adopt city policy city council 067 employee recruitment. Let me get to it before we do anything. Well, there will be. I just got to get to it. That's why I said give me a second here. Trying to find it in my packet. Vicki absolutely refused to put little marks in for me. Remember, remember how she slapped me down on that one? Yeah, I brought it up. Those tiny little sticky notes, little sticky things here.

Yeah, don't talk about that. All right. Item 7.2, as I said, is employee recruitment policy. Look for a staff report.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The city of Plymouth relies on a structured and effective recruit recruitment process to attract, hire, and retain qualified employees who support the delivery of municipal services. As the organization continues to evolve, the need for clear, consistent, and transparent hiring practices has become increasingly important. At present, recruitment and job posting practices are guided by general procedures. However, the city does not have a formally adopted comprehensive policy that standardizes how job opportunities are advertised, approved, and managed and managed. City policy CC tax 067 has been developed to address this need and establish a formal framework for employee employee recruitment. Employee recruitment policy is intended to provide a clear and consistent process for advertising and managing job vacancies within the city of Plymouth. The policy outlines expectations for job postings, establishes roles and responsibilities for staff involved in recruitment and defines approval and ex exception procedures. The policy applies to all staff involved in the recruitment process and covers both internal and external job postings. It ensures that all employment opportunities are communicated in a manner that is fair, transparent, and aligned with the best practices and public sector hiring. There is no direct fiscal impact associated with this adoption of this policy. Implementation will be managed within within existing staff resources. And our recommendation is for you to review and re provide direction to staff regarding city policy CC tax 067 employee recruitment policy and consider adoption. Thank you.

All right. Open this to public comment. Anyone? Rosemary Rosemary Marino Plymouth. Um, under the general requirements, um, it says posting may appear on the city website, social media, local media, and any other websites or locations the city manager deems appropriate. Why does that say May? If we have an opening, it should be on the city website. It should be on the city social media. I don't understand why that word may is in there. and it's up to the city manager to deem if it's appropriate. This is what got us in problems in the past and it ended up with family members being hired and that posting being a day and pulled down as soon as they were hired. I I think you guys need to clarify that that may means it may not happen.

Thank you. Anyone else? No one on the moon. Okay. All right. So, I'm going to close public comment and open this for council discussion. Wendy. Well, maybe we should we can take change may to shall shall appear. Um, and I I'd recommend changing it to shall only with respect to the city's website. I don't want to obligate us to always post everything on social media accounts because that social media platforms change very frequently. I agree with that. Yeah.

Is that it, Wendy? Or you have another question? And in that same line, it says if a posting is for current employees only, the position will generally be advertised only internally. That I I wasn't I read that a few times. I didn't understand what it said. Well, current employee just meaning it's a promotional. Oh, so if it's promotional promoting from within. Yeah, got it. Okay, that makes sense. I have no other questions. My only issue was also with the may

it seems a little ambiguous, but I mean if we can even break out um social media over here and then make clean up a little bit more, define it further. clarification. I I I think everybody's in agreement that the city website should be a shall. What about city social media?

Well, I'll tell you, I actually already had that highlighted. Had all the same uh issues Miss Smith Marino and everybody else brought up. Um the may appear I wanted changed to will appear and then local media I believe they should all be posted in the newspaper the same. So local media I would like to see newspaper posting in the local paper either you know preferably ledger dispatch but closest papers ledger dispatch mountain democrat I want to see it posted you know in the paper I I think it's fair to that shall on the website shall city social media pages no matter how they change and shall local local newspapers I think the may when when we were interpreting meant you know how far are we going to you know if we're looking for a maintenance worker are we going to post on websites all across the country. You know, I I just don't think that was fiscally responsible. So, but I definitely call out uh city- owned social media channels.

How about postings will appear on the city website, social media, and local media. Postings may appear on any other websites or locations the city manager deems appropriate. I like that. I would like to say will be posted in the newspaper for up to two weeks because local media can mean anything. some local media could mean that, you know, it was on KVGC a couple of times or something like that. That's not posted in the paper, I think. So, you want you want to call out the the local newspaper specifically. Well, just Right.

Well, obviously what everybody's looking at in the county is ledger dispatch. I mean, you could make the argument that the plaster paper's local, too. But I think it should be the most local paper which closest to us. I didn't want to specifically say a name of a paper, but you know, like we're leaning to one or the other, but it should be posted in the newspaper for that period of time, that 14 days. So, we asked for two weeks because our local paper is a weekly. So, this is where that specificity might get us into trouble and extra cost. Some people might get the weekly print, but that local paper might also have an online job posting that's always accessible and not just the once a week in print. So, would you want to limit yourself to print paper only or would you want to leave the city manager with the flexibility of posting it to an online job posting board of the local media?

Well, the issue we just want it posted, I believe, speaking for the council and members not here tonight, we just want it the same all the time. everything put out with the exception of the city manager position which we handle differently. But every other job that's not a promotional job, we want it the same every single time posted in the same places for the same period of time no matter what what the job is. I think that's what we're after. Do you care if it's at the ledger online like job postings online or do you want it to be in print? I definitely want it put in print because there's people that don't look at the online. I think it I would want it to be on both personally. I mean, what's the legal ramification of that? What's the or what is the cost?

This is purely your choice. I'm just trying to drill down on how detailed you want to be here. How restrictive versus I want somebody buys a newspaper, opens it up, and looks and that's in there. Okay. For everyone we have, local media, meaning local media, well, meaning the main county paper. doesn't have to go into every single paper that might pop up, new paper, but at least the main safer for the county. Do we actually want to name a paper here or do we can we just say the the paper of record for the county? Paper of record for the county works for me, but how does it work for our attorney? That would be a great level of specificity because that's something we can go back and point to. There you go.

That's what I'm trying to get at is I don't want to specifically say a name say we're going to do it to this. I wanted you to say what you know legally how we should do it. I don't want to throw another wrench in it for our legal team, but can we times are changing and I think a a lot of the ledger readers are online now versus in print and I hate to see that go and you know can we can it be up to the discretion whether it's in print or online depending on as far as the the paper record. Why would it not be on both? I mean, if you pay for an ad in the paper, isn't it on the online also? I don't know how the ledger if the ledger does both. Um, it it's on both.

Okay. So, thank you. So, perfect. I think I'd want it to be in both. I mean, I'd be all right with you paying for it to be in both. If there's if it's like a separate thing, but um I just definitely as long as it is still in print, which I see happening probably another five, 10 year, who knows how long, I want it to be somebody buys a newspaper, opens it, and they see it. That's my personal feeling. and up to my co-consel here how they feel about it. But thank you. We all clear on it. And address I'm just going to write I'm writing up some language. I was going to read back to you just good with

it. Give me just a minute here. All right. So, the first sentence of the second to last bullet of section two would be replaced with postings will appear on the city website, city social media, and in the newspaper of general circulation within the county. Postings may also appear in additional locations the city manager deems appropriate.

What other forms of local media do we have besides the newspaper? Because we're we're scratching that. Well, newspaper, Facebook, I don't know what else. What else do you use normally? Other any other local media? Not really that we do. I mean, there's the Mount Merchant, which is more of a ad based thing that we could put ads in if we wanted to. um KBGC, you know, but they don't have a print. Okay. I would think if somebody's looking for a job locally, they're either looking online or the ledger dispatcher. I mean, that's I'd be all right with it just being that, but okay. Read that one more time with interest.

Sure. Postings will appear on the city website, city social media, and in the newspaper of general circulation within the county. Postings may also appear in in additional locations the city manager deems appropriate. All right. So, we're taking out the local media just uh yeah, we're replacing local media with the newspaper of general circulation within the county. And then the second sentence, the new sentence, the may for the city manager to have broader discretion. That's basically going to be used for if you've got a special subject area and you've got some mayo be well. Yeah, there there might be some better outlet to to advertise in for that position.

Yeah, like trade school or something like that, college, the local colleges. That is a great place to look. Yeah, that would be fine. It's just Yeah. All right. Well, I think I'm good with it being that way. I I would You're right. You good with it? I'm good with it. I guess I'm looking for a motion. Somebody wants to try to remember what Andrea said, they go ahead and step up. I'll make a motion to approve the employee recruitment policy CC-067 with the amended changes on general posting requirements. Item number dot two.8 second. Council member Bottomley I. Vice Mayor Hornish

I. Mayor Nun I. Thank you. Motion passes. All right. Um, item 7.3. Wow, that's long. Introduction and first reading of ordinance 2026-01, an ordinance of city Plymouth, repealing and replacing section 15.05.02 02 of the Plymouth Municipal Code to adopt by reference the 2025 California Building Standards Code comprised of the 2025 building code. The 2025 California residential code. I don't think you actually need to read them all. You have to read the whole thing out. I don't think you do. It just basically all the codes. All right.

It's all the codes that make up the 2025 building standards code. Thank you. All right. I'm open this for public comment or actually staff report if we there is one on that.

There's staff report and I can read it. Um every 3 years the California Building Standards Commission updates their building codes to reflect the latest building and fire safety standards. Um these automatically went into place. We just have to formally adopt them. So they're already kind of being used. But while the 2025 California Building Standards Code will take took effect on January 1st, 2026 without any city action, adopting the California Building Standards Code into the city's municipal code will allow the city to enforce violations of the building standards code as violations of its municipal code. Um, the building code title 24 establishes the minimum regulations for the design and construction of buildings and structures in California. State law mandates that the local governments enforce these regulations by adopting local ordinances that adopt the state code by reference. The 2025 building code standards includes the following individual codes and appendies there too and there's a list of them. Um and adoption of the 2025 California buildings building standards code will not have any fiscal impact on the city other than us posting in the paper.

Thank you. So, at this time, I'm going to open this for public comment if there's any. Nothing online. Okay. I'm going to close public comment council discussion. Nothing for me. Question. Uh, did we overlook this one? And are there any ramifications because of overlooking it or No. So, the codes automatically went into effect. Typically the local adoption really matters for jurisdictions that modify the codes in any way. Plymouth historically has not done any local modifications. So this is really just to clean up our code to site to the correct version of the building standards code. Do our building and department inspectors don't want any changes. They're just going to no

enforce off of this. Okay. All right. Well, I'm good then. Um I guess we're looking for a motion. Make a motion to adopt city policy CC-067. Um that was the last. Excuse me. This is the first read, a rather long one. This is the first reading of ordinance 2026-01. Yes. Make a motion to um adapt. Is that Is that the right word? We're just doing the first reading this time. We'll do the adoption next time with Okay. Make a motion to So, make a motion. Motion to conduct approve the first reading. Yeah.

Okay. Make a motion to approve the first reading of ordinance 2026-01. I second. Council member Bottomley. I. Vice Mayor Hornish. I. Mayor Nun. Hi. Thank you. Motion passes.

All right. Go to Give me just a second here. 7.4. Four. All right. Item 7.4. Authorization for mayor to execute termination and dissolution agreement for the Amord County Recreation Agency. Can I get the staff report?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Amodore County Recreation Agency or ACRA was formed in 2003 as a joint powers authority to coordinate recreation planning programs and services throughout Amodor County. Member agencies include the county of Amodore, the cities of Amodor City, Jackson, Plymouth, and Sutter Creek, and the Amodor County Unified School District. On September 23rd, 2025, due to staffing challenges and concerns regarding long-term financial sustainability, the ACRA board recommended that the member agencies proceed with termination of the joint powers agreement and dissolution of the agency. ACRA has since been winding down operations and ceased all substantive activities as of February 2nd, 2026. Although ACRA has effectively ceased operations, formal dissolution requires approval and execution of the termination dissolution agreement by all member agencies. There is no direct fiscal impact associated with this action. The agreement specifies that no additional funding will be required from member agencies beyond previously addressed obligations. And our recommendation is the city council review and authorize the mayor to sign the termination dissolution agreement for the Amler County Recreation Agency on behalf of the city of Plymouth. Thank you, city manager. Do we have uh at this time open for public comment? Any public comment?

No one. All right. So, I'm going to close public comment. Do we have any council discussion on this? No. I I thought we already did this. I don't know why I'm misremembering. Yeah, it has to. It just had to none for me. Yep. Nothing. All right. Motion to I'll make a motion to authorize the mayor to execute termination and disolusion agreement for the Amodore County Recreation Agency. Second. Council member Bottomley. I. Vice Mayor Hornish. I. Mayor Nun.

I. Thank you. Motion passes.

Okay. Why don't I have Hang on a second here. Yeah, I know I'm going my thing here, but I'm missing something on here. All right. Okay. At this time, you want to item eight, city manager report. I apologize. Thank you. Um, we had some we had an update from the sheriff's office regarding our April 2026 summary report. Um, in all total we had 149 incidents. Um, we had a total of 14 arrests throughout the the city. Um, speaking with the sheriff's office, um, if you look at the actual reports, they will mention the Acorn Ridge Casino. However, it depends on where the cars actually stop that the location gets um noted as as being involved. Um but with the increase of deputies in town and watching our traffic issues, that's our chief complaint from the city. Um a lot of these traffic stops are resulting in um narcotics arrests, um other arrests. Uh, one call um that I reviewed started at Kina with two people um messing around the backseat of the car and then when they got word that the sheriff's office was coming, they ran to a corner ridge casino where they ultimately arrested for being under the influence. So that wasn't necessarily a corn issue, but it was it did happen in the city. But we had um multiple for 11377 methamphetamine and sales um 647F. we had disorderly conducts in the city. Um, but the sheriff's office

is continuing to patrol and um, and it's kind of a it's kind of neat to see them kind of handle, you know, some of the business that we we've we've asked them to do for a lot of years. Um, we've also uh started really mining our P's and Q's with attorney fees. No offense. Um this uh last month um in March and April we spent approximately $26,000 on legal expenses but they were PR request was $4.2,000 of that. Um finalizing the city management employment agreement um was was decent uh substantial um but we are seeing our our costs our attorney fees starting to trend down which is a positive thing. Um, our Ricky of Vindic, our our accountant, has been working his Fanny off um getting our audit done. Um, and and so hopefully that'll be wrapped up soon. We can work on to the next one. Um, and get get some of our finances cleaned up. Um, our pool uh is ready for inspection. It'll be inspected, I believe, next week for certification for the summer. Um, we have new bathroom dividers being installed. Um, when public works does remove the old ones after the inspection, they're going to go through thoroughly clean all their all the bathrooms, scrub them down before we put the new hardware in. Um, we met with our pool staff um, last week and they are fired up and excited to get started. Uh, we have individual lessons, you know, being signed up right now. We only have, I believe, a handful left, slots available for families if they want to um get some swim lessons. Uh our pool passes are currently being uh sold. Uh the city clerk who handles that will be out tomorrow.

I was trying to I was trying to move that thing and I turned you off. Sorry. That is enough, city manager. Um and no, we're not there yet. And so, uh, you can contact the city and we'll get you get family passes for for the summer.

Um, as far as the CALR walking path, um, with the rain that came after the the last time they cut, they will be coming back out to trim those up, but I think we're going to need to work on long-term solutions with CALR. Um, I think it's unrealistic for them to come out every month and have to cut and trim those things or trim the paths, but the city is aware. Can they uh pay us a stipen for us to mow it down and we debatement like spray?

I I could I we could entertain that. Um however uh our our public works staff is they're they're stretched thin right now. Um and with the I mean right now they're still chasing weeds, you know, from the last rains we had. So it's a kind of a wash, rinse, repeat type ofness right now.

Yeah. Thank you. So, um, but we can look into it. Uh, we do have Memorial Day going on. It's put on by the Rotary, um, supported by the city. So, that'll be Memorial Day. Um, believe it starts at 10 o'clock at Veterans Park. And we would like to invite everybody out to that. And we're right in the middle of planning for Fourth of July, gearing up to do that. Um, so within the next few weeks, we'll be meeting with the fire department. We meeting with uh the sheriff's office to kind of go over our game plan for for that week um or for that day. Um, but other than that, we're we're cruising. Um, it it feels like I feel like I should have a lot more to say, but it's just we've been I can't say enough about our staff. They've been really really working hard for the citizens. So, thank you. on quick question. Um on some of that vegetation like along the path and so forth that's in the city limits, have we discussed with the fire department when it gets dry enough possibly just burning it off as training? Cuz I know they're graduating a bunch of new guys here tomorrow night and uh I mean they do that in other towns and could a lot of that just get burned off once it's cured enough. Is that something you can do?

I could definitely look into it. I'm I don't have a fire background, so I didn't even consider that. But I think that's an amazing amazing thing to to look into, and I can do that for you. Yeah, cuz it uh Yeah. Oh, they did. They seated it. Okay. Maybe not. Well, I mean, it's something maybe you can talk with Chief Wroe on. And there maybe certain places in the city because I was wondering about that a long time. There are certain places that could be done. In certain places, like Mr. M brings up, maybe that wouldn't be the optimum thing to do. So there's that. Um sack no anything say on that one. Oh sack. Yeah.

Um so we uh with the revenue that we've been bringing in with our waste haulers. Um we are able to kind of look into doing a little bit more repairs to Old Sacramento versus just cold patching. Um and so we have uh one company coming out Monday. We have two more coming out later in the week to provide us bids and we we've identified myself and the public works superintendent have identified some um more of the troubling areas and we're going to knock out as much as we can with the little bit of money we have actual paving paving cutting out and paving cutting it out and putting in new stuff. All right. Yes, sir.

Um any questions? No, I just have um a comment. the the sheriff monitors how many calls they make and within the city. How many tickets do they give people going down Main Street and in the in the local area? I would like to to know that. I mean, is is that something they can't pull out or is that part of that? Good catch. I was going to ask that and I forgot after that second. I'm ahead.

Um, I could definitely request if if you know, for citations, um, just from my experience with the sheriff's office, you know, if if they can get away with giving a warning, they will. So, that doesn't necessarily reflect the work that they're doing, the the citations, but I could tell you that we conducted uh vehicle stops over 25 car stops um just in the last month, which is which is pretty substantial. I mean, because you have to be present at on view the the crime. Yeah. Or the fraction, if you will. Yep. So, but if you if you like, you know, citations, I can do that.

Just I'm just I'm just I'm just curious. I I could see the the argument being that, you know, they don't want to force their guys to write citations. They want to give them the discretion on on scene.

Yeah. was join forcing them to write them and them never writing one at all. And that's what it seems like because I haven't seen or heard of them doing that, you know, and for a long time the impression from people and you ask people this, they'll tell you, "Oh, you're never going to get written up in the city of Plymouth and that's why we have people doing 50 m hour on Main Street and the stopping of they just keep stopping people and giving them warnings all the time." Then the impression is going to be you might get stopped but you're not going to get cited. You know, it's when people are passing other cars on Main Street and speeding, they need to be writing tickets.

Oh, 100%. And I I can tell you there's a threshold that people earn their tickets. Um, but I can I could definitely mention that to the sheriff's office.

Yeah, I'd like uh give some kind of report each month and how many citations actually wrote on speeding and stuff. I mean, I appreciate what they're doing. Don't get me wrong. I think it's wonderful that they're, you know, dealing with the the drug situation and they're doing a great job on property crime stuff around here and everything, but the the traffic situation on some of the surface streets is is dangerous. And I'll tell you, living out there, I hear I I besides what I see, I hear cars, you know, basically sounds like street racing almost at night going past the house and stopping doing burnouts going up Main Street and stuff.

Yeah. And and I' I've seen an improvement, but there's also still an issue. I mean, I'm like feel like the old man on Main Street sometimes waving my fist at people, you know, as they're running by, you know, driving by. But I could definitely address the sheriff's office. Yeah. And I'm not really good at biting my tongue when they drive down the street. It's hard. It's hard. I got to remind myself car. Thank you, Hoger. Anything? Could you give me some more detail on the Fourth of July prep? Like will we have a hot dog cart and uh you know like a slushie machine somewhere and snow cones? I can definitely provide that update at the next meeting.

Perfect. Thank you. And our Vicki might know the answer to this stuff, but um I think we actually had to last year, I think that was before you were on, we actually had to reach out to like food vendors and stuff. If Are we doing that? Because I know we have new personnel in here. Do they know to reach out and get these vendors here? And they're doing that. Okay. And uh I'm sure we're handling having plenty of deputies and all that and fire department. So, sounds good. I think it'll be fun. Um Okay. That's all for that. Um request for future agenda items or any reports from the council members? Wendy? Um, uh, I want to say that the community garden is going. I got a plot out there. I think a couple people at the city do. Don does. Oh, Ricky, you have one, too. Yay. Okay. Um, community garden.

We're working at trying to, you know, get it cleaned up a little bit, make it pretty, and, you know, grow some great vegetables and some nice little spot up on the hill. And so, that's exciting. Um, I'm looking forward to the Memorial Day um, ceremony. I think that they've done a beautiful job with that park and I'm excited to participate in that. I don't have any future agenda items. That's it.

That's it. Negative. I'm not going to add anything on right now tonight. Um, I'm happy that we're getting through some of the stuff that's been on there for a while. So, I keep doing that and uh defer to the city manager to use the judgment and for the time being we get things cleared off the off the table for. So, with that, one more thing, Ricky, your financial reporting in here spot on. That look really good. They are great. No, we read through it. I read through it. J, we read through it and and uh

yeah, I love that we had something like that in there. I was like, okay, that makes me understand it a little bit now where in a year and a half here up until now, I never seem to really grasp it. Yeah. So, keep up that. Keep doing it. Appreciate it. Um, okay. So, with that being said, we're going to be going into close session. Um, any public comment on close session? And I know we do have I think we do have one correspondence. Oh, there it is. I know I have it in the stack somewhere. Yeah, got me.

Robert Moody, Plymouth. I don't know where to start with this. I read this when I came in and sorry. Um, what makes that road theirs? They don't own the property. Correct. What are you asking about?

The Sutter home property up there. They're saying that you can't there's there's no way you're going to do anything with that road. I'm I'm just I I So, it was brought to my attention that there's a piece of property out there that when the well started that they were going to do Norman Waters Park and then I was like, "Oh, well, you know what? I I'll do some research and see what's going to happen." But so, let's reference.

This is typically an HOA thing. I mean, this is I'll be honest with you. I I don't know where to start into in tearing apart that letter. Um I we I'm just acknowledging it that it exists. We're just acknowledging the letter. We're not going to give comment on it since it's something that uh has to do with negotiation something. But I mean, if the city attorney thinks there's something he can disclose about this letter, but um

so there's a county ordinance or law that states when you don't use a road over a a period of a year, that road goes back to the property owners or and you just fence it off. Wonder if this stands for that. I mean, what do they use the road for? Is it supposed to be their emergency? Yes. Yes. Yes, it is. Yeah. So, what are they worried about if the road's still there? I I don't know what that one person. Yeah, we haven't gotten there yet. So, I mean, you saw the letter that was sent to us in my opinion. Yeah. And we can't talk a lot about private sessions stuff there. So, thank you for uh thank you for your time, Robert. Thank you for being here tonight.

No, no one online on this. Um, okay. With that, we're going to ask uh moving um we're going to be going into close session, ending regular session at 8:13 p.m. And we will report out at the end of session.

So, the city council met in close session to hear items 10.1 and 10.2. No reportable actions were taken. At this time, we are going to close city council meeting at or adjourn the city council meeting at 8:32 p.m.