Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I call to order the close session meeting of the mayor and city council at 3:31 p.m. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome and thank you for being here and thank you to those viewing remotely. Madam City clerk, please call the role. Council member Sanchez is here. Council member Barara has not yet arrived. Council member Figareroa here. Council member Sheret here. Mayor Potim Canos here. Council member Flores present. Council member Ortiz here. And Mayor Tran here. Thank you. Moving on to public comments for close session. Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comments?

Yes, we do. We have seven requests to speak from Sarah. Sorry, six from Sarah Robles, Luis O'hada, John Scholenburgger, Victor Suarez, Ron Alvarado, Tim Prince, and Christian Shaughnessy. Thank you. If you hear your name, just start lining up behind the podium and you please state your name for the record. Please come forward to the podium. There's two on on one on each side. Thank you.

Good afternoon, mayor, members of the council, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Timothy Prince. I'm a lifelong resident of this city and 35-year attorney. In my career, I have represented uh cities, local cities in liability defense matters. So, I took extreme interest when the story was told by city officials that treasure Ortiz's claim, which is on your closed session agenda, was frivolous. Well, I've worked with city on claims that were truly frivolous. They were very easy to handle because a frivolous claim has no challenge for a lawyer whatsoever. That's why it's frivolous. It makes an irrational argument unsupported by the law or it makes an argument unsupported by fact. That's what a frivolous case is. And usually a judge makes a finding that this case is frivolous and often awards attorney's fees to the city for having to defend such a frivolous case. What those cases don't require are special meetings where the council strategizes behind closed doors meeting after meeting. You just heard from me at your last special meeting to talk about the same claims, the claims by Treasure Ortiz, the claims against the city related to Treasure Ortiz's claims by the San Marino Police Officers Association, by the former president of the Police Officers Association, etc., etc. Fred, you're not paying attention. You're looking at something.

Well, I appreciate that. You better pay attention to this because

I appreciate it, Fred. Uh, you were a good council member under Mayor Morris and I appreciated your service back then. I'm a little worried about your service now because I see a large contribution, $5,900 from the police officers association. That money comes from deductions from the paychecks of police officers and they are a party in this case. and you intend to participate again in closed session. This is a conflict of interest under the city's ordinance. It's also horrible appearance of impropriy. As a council member, you should want to avoid such an appearance that you would be voting to protect people that have been admittedly involved in illegally accessing Treasure Ortiz's cleat search history. That's a conflict of interest. How much city time and resources are you all going to waste on a claim that you called frivolous before you investigated it? The reason for a public entity claim is to allow you to investigate and pay just claims.

Thank you. This is a frivolous claim. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. You have three minutes.

Uh John Scholenburgger. Last month, the attorney that the city hired to represent itself against Dr. Treasure Ortiz's lawsuit, Steven Larson, who also represented Chief Goodman during his prior issues in the city of Upland, stated the following. After receiving Council Member Ortiz's claim, the city engaged a highly qualified, experienced, and independent firm to review and investigate the allegations and found them to be entirely unfounded. Larson also stated, "The independent investigation found that any criminal background searches as alleged in the claim were conducted in strict accordance with the law, a fact confirmed by official audits." Additionally, last month, the city's press release stated that Mayor Tran and the city council characterized the Ortiz lawsuit as a complete me misrepresentation of the facts and an unfair disparagement of city employees and officials. Now, right in front of you is Chief Darren Goodman's text messages to Treasur Ortiz on August 2024. She texted and asked him to provide a copy of the DOJ Klet's audit. The same audit he called her about and told her about had come back showing an illegal run. He responded, "I did. Remember, I even showed you the printed copy I got from them with the entry displaying D. Roer's name. There wasn't much to report since there was only one entry, but yes, we will need statements from you. I have a detective working the criminal case against the former officer. He also texted, I've been talking about it so much with others, DOJ, DA's office, internal affairs, a city manager. I thought we went over it already, but my apologies. These are his text. These are his text words, his exact words. In these messages, Goodman states that there was an entry displaying D. Rosher's name. He says he has a detective working the criminal case against the former officer. He says he's been discussing the matter with other law enforcement agencies. So I ask you, where is the mis misrepresentation of the facts? Where is the unfair disparagement? And we're to believe that Darren

Goodman, a 25-year law enforcement veteran, texted about a crime, named the officer involved who did it, referenced a DOJ audit entry, and stated that a detective was working a criminal case because none of this happened. Now, you want us to believe that only after Treasure filed her claim, the city investigated itself and concluded it did nothing wrong. If that's the city's position, then the public deserves clarity. Did Chief Goodman falsely report an illegal run or is he lying now? Did he falsely state that there was a criminal case or just not report it? How can you How can the city deny what is what is written in his own text messages? The public deserves transparency and truth, not contradictions. deny Goodman's claim and properly investigate what Dr. Ortiz has been telling us right now.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good afternoon. I'm Today I am asking direct questions that demand direct answers. Lieutenant Jose Loa met with Dr. Treasure Ortiz after being directed to do so by Chief Good Darren Goodman. That is not speculation. And that is hard true facts. During that meeting, Loa apologized for what he had described as the sins of his forefathers and the POA. He acknowledged that the illegal use of cleans and told Dr. Ortiz to proceed with criminal charges. Let let's think about that. He told her to proceed with criminal charges. After that meeting, Chief Goodman personally texted Dr. Ortiz and asked how the meeting with Loetta went. She told him that Loetta apologized for everything. You can read the messages here for yourselves. So we want to know what exactly was Loetta apologizing for?

Is there if there was no illegal activity involving Terro? Then what's requ what require an apology? If there was no missed the use of Clint, then what were the sins he was referring to? You do not apologize for nothing. you do not encourage criminal charges over something lawful. So again, in what capacity was Loetta acting? Was he acting as president of the POA or was he acting as a sworn officer directed by Chief uh Chief Goodman? Because if he was directed by the chief, then this was an official department business. And if he was acting as POA president, then the union inserted itself directly into the matter of involving potential criminal miscondent tied to KLS. Now we are told that Loetta is filing his own claim against the city. That is really something. Someone who previously apologized and then supported criminal charges is now positioning himself as a claimant. What changed and who changed the narrative? And this leads directly to conflict of interest. Council members Sanchez, Sheret, and Konas have all received endorsements from and political contributions from the POA. The same POA that is directly tied to Loera. Under FPPC regulations, elected officials must recuse themselves from financial interest or political payback could reasonably create a conflict. Failure to do so can result in FPPPC investigation, significant fines, civil penalties, and the invalid invalidation of actions taken within the close session. If this council members participate in close senses session uh discussion involving the POA and Loetta, the public has right to question the integrity of that process. So I ask again, what was Loa apologizing for? Who directed him? And who here will properly recuse

themselves? The public deserves the truth. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good afternoon. My name is Luis Soa and today I'm not going to talk about speculations, investigations, accusations, something that no one's know, right? because until you get the facts because there's always three sides of anything, right? My side, your side, and the truth. So, I'm going to stay away from that. But what I'm going to say is that we're doing the same thing that we did, I don't know, five, six years ago when for four years we said, "Oh, the uh Baldivia is corrupt. He's going to go to jail." Oh, Baldivia, Baldivia. And it was Bolivia every single council meeting and Bolivia still around. Nothing happened to Bolivia. So and then we accuse other directors, city people of the same thing. And what we have been doing is chasing good people away. I want to tell you about facts today. And the fact is that police department that I know this moment is doing great. That the chief Goodman is being a great supporter of the city of we are the change and all the great things that we've been doing not yesterday not the day before. Give you an example. Verification project 48 and Kendall. We got a surgeon with the police exploders. Those kids did a great job. Chief Goodman stop, encourage, and help. Last Tuesday, uh the peace team, we went to clean up, stay behind the um

stay, um the Starbucks. It was an right away that for years we've been trying to clean up and everybody was giving me the round. I approached the chief with a partnership with a local business owner. We clean up that place at a great expense to that local business. Okay. Yesterday I called uh Lieutenant Oander saying, "Hey, we got illegal dumping. We got homeless. We got they got on it." So, this is what I'm going to ask the city, the city residents and the community. Look at the numbers. Look at the stats of what's the job that Chip Goodman has been doing. We had the best numbers in 20 years. So what do we want? We want to chase him away and then everything gets back to the way it was before and then who's going to be blamed for it. So we need to think about that. So thank you very much.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Members of the council, our honorable mayor. My name is Christian Shaughnessy. I come here today as a candidate for the second ward. Today in particular, I am addressing Councilwoman Sandre Bar. For months, residents of San Bernardino have watched you refuse to do the most basic duty of any elected official, which is to show up and seek the truth. You have refused to properly investigate the illegal access of the Klet system against your fellow Councilwoman, Dr. Treasure Ortiz. You have not asked to see proof. You have not requested documents. You have not spoken to a single witness who heard the confessions of Chief Goodman and Lieutenant Lauria. Not one. Now, these two senior officials, Chief Goodman and Lieutenant Lauria, made statements admitting to illegal access of cleats. Those admissions were described. They were acknowledged and never meaningfully investigated. As of today, they have now filed their own claims against the city. Instead of demanding answers, instead of calling for an independent review, instead of protecting the integrity of the city, you have done nothing. That is not oversight. That is willful avoidance. And let's talk about priorities. The only meeting you have called during this entire controversy was not to investigate cleats. It was not to demand transparency. It was not to protect residents. It was to personally attack a private resident, someone who volunteered their time free of charge to serve on a commission for the city, a volunteer. And when you were not successful in your unprofessional attempt to harm that individual, you did not even return for the open session afterwards to conduct city business or hear from the community. You walked away from your responsibilities. That is not leadership. That is pettiness. Councilwoman Abara, your personal grudges in the past have already cost the taxpayers of San Bernardino over $300,000 to defend your actions. $300,000 of city attorneys fees of attorney fees alone. Money that should

have gone to neighborhoods in the second ward to public safety to community programs to muchneeded infrastructure improvements. Instead, it went to a politician's damage control. 7 years in office and this is the governance that residents of the second word have received. Personal vendettas, refusal to investigate serious allegations, silence when accountability is required, abuse of power. When faced with credible concerns involving the misuse of a state law enforcement database against a sitting council member, you chose politics and pettiness over principle. We cannot continue this, my friends. We cannot continue this. The residents of the Second W deserve integrity. They deserve transparency. They deserve a representative who shows up, especially when it's difficult. You have refused to do the right thing, and the voters must remove you in this upcoming election. I urge the residents of San Bernardino, pay attention, stay engaged, and when the time comes, vote for me, Christian Shaughnessy, a candidate who's been showing up as ready to represent you and the truth. Our city and our war deserves so much better.

Thank you. There are no more speakers for for close session and there we've received written comments that have been provided to the mayor and city council and they'll be found made available on the city's website with the agenda packet. Thank you. Thank you, Madam City Clerk. We will now convene into close session at 3. Oh, I'm sorry. Um, council member Ortiz, do you have a comment? And then, Mr. State Attorney, um, I'm going to recuse myself from items C 1 and two. While I have no financial interest, the claims do pertain to my lawsuit. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. City Attorney. Thank you, mayor. I just wanted to add that item B, the one case of significant exposure litigation, this is regarding Mandeville. Thank you.

Thank you. We will now convene to close session at 3:48 p.m. Good evening everyone. Welcome and thank you for being here and thank you to those who are viewing remotely. I call to order this joint to regular meeting of the mayor and city council and the mayor and city council acting as the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of the city of San Bernardino, the San Bernardino city housing authority and as the San Bernardino Joint Powers Finance Authority at 5:12 p.m. Madam City clerk, please call the role. Council member Sanchez, here. Council member Barara, present. Council member Figareroa

here. Council member Sheret is not at the das at the moment. Mayor Prom Canas here. Council member Flores present. Council member Ortiz here. And Mayor Tran

here. Thank you. Before we conduct city business, as a friendly reminder, as the elected leaders of the city, we will endeavor to be respectful to each other, our public, and especially our staff. We ask that you please observe proper decor and do not speak out of turn or make comments from your seat. If you wish to address the mayor and city council, please be sure to submit a speaker slip if you speak out of turn or disrupt the meeting or a warning may be given or and or you will be asked to leave the meeting pursuant to government code section 54957.9 and penal code 403. We will start with invocation and pledge. Venerable Master Tui will um lead tonight's invocation. Uh please approach the podium at this time and Ethan Olivo from North Vermont Elementary School will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Please approach the podium and turn on the mic. We'll start with invocation first before um Ethan please rise. Yes.

Honorable may, distinguished members of the city of uh San Bino c city council and uh respect guest. Good evening. This is true to honor to stand before you and this meaningful first meeting in the Luna New Year's. As we enter the new year, we are open not only the new calendars but the new the renew the opportunity to serve to listen and to view the stronger city city together. The stand of the city is not measured only by the infrastructure or economy but by the unity in internity and the leadership and the dedicate to serve its people to offer my heartfelt prayers. Bless each of you in guide by clarity and wisdom in your decision, compassion in your action and uh steadfast courage in times of challenge. May difference becomes dialog difficulties becomes opportunities and every decision be guided by the well-being of the entire communities. May the city somebody know continue to grow and in peace, prosperity, mature respect and uh cooperation. Thank you very much. Now it's time to pray. Fore!

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show. Thank you. Good morning everyone. Please place your right hand over your heart. 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. Thank you. Thank you, honorable master. Thank you, Ethan. We would now uh report out close session. Mr. City Attorney, is there anything to report from close session?

Yes, mayor. Thank you. The mayor and council met in close session regarding the items listed on the close session agenda. There are there is one reportable action from close session. It relates to item A, Romanette 2, Jeffrey Lamont Williams versus the city of San Bernardino. The council decided to settle that case. There was a motion by Councilman Sanchez, seconded by Councilman Flores, and it was unanimous unanimously approved to settle that case for $199,999. Secondly, um I've been asked to respond to some of the public comments given before adjouring into close session. There were some comments alleging that several members of the city council had a conflict or have a conflict of interest um because they have received campaign donations from the San Bernino Police Officers Association. In my professional legal opinion, I respectfully disagree. These members do not have a conflict of interest for three reasons. If they did, it would have to be a violation of the Levine Act. And the Levine Act concerns uh when there was a consideration about approving a contract, a permit, a license, or other entitlement. Those comments were related to their participation in close session to discuss the Treasure Ortiz lawsuit against the city. A lawsuit is not a contract, a permit, a license, or an entitlement. So for that first reason, it does not apply. Secondly, the city is on the same side as the San Bernardino Police Officers Association. Uh the city is not adverse to that union. And thirdly, the Lavine Act does not apply to contributions made from unions.

And so any contributions that any council member or the mayor ha may have received from any union including Sanino Police Officer Association, they do not have a conflict of interest and may participate in close session to discuss that lawsuit. That concludes my remarks. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you. We will now move on to presentations. We have three presentations tonight. First one is citizens of the month small business recognition Kendall drive beautifification project presented by May prom Kim Kas and we will have the following folks could if you could just come up on stage uh we are the change Sanardino SBD9 construction incorporated for his glory Triple H construction incorporated profence iron works Sam cobbutles incorporated vert waste indust Ind industry uh WG decorative rock and supplies srano Nursery and Landscape Incorporated, Guardian Asset Management, Garcia Center for the Arts, UC Fence, MG Services, Phoenix Studio Desino, and Mack Signs. Mayor PM, would you like to come to the front? And council, let's join her. If you heard your name that I just listed, please come up and join us, please. Pat, I expect you to come up, too. You You put in a lot of sweat equity in this one.

You guys just go to the Hello. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hello. Thank you so much. Good. Thank you. Thank you. again. Thank you. It's good to see you. Hello. Hello. Hello. Nice to meet you. Hello again. Hello. I don't know. How you doing? How you doing? How you doing? You guys uh they brought an excavator and uh it's a triple H.

Where are they? You guys I Is it on? Hello. Hello. Can It's on. It's on.

All right. Everyone can huddle in. Wow. Well, I've been talking about this beautifification project over the last few months, and this project, what happened there at a corner of Kindle Drive and 48th, this isn't just representative of transforming a blighted piece of property. What you see here are the unsung heroes of our community that show what can happen when people choose to unite for good. All of these individuals came together to truly uplift our city. They donated their time, their resources, their energy over the course of about 30 days. And I want to take some time, so please forgive me, to really sing their praises. Not literally. I can't carry a tune. I'm not going to sing for you guys. But really to brag about these individuals because when they were called to help, they didn't ask for anything. They didn't question. They just said, "Yes, I want to be part of the positive change. I want to be part of the movement that is uplifting the city of San Bernardino." So, I want to take a minute to brag on their behalf. I want to start with an individual that came to the city of San Bernardino years ago. He brought people together and pioneered these massive cleanups. They transcended to doing code enforcement actions, touching individuals, going into private residences, helping senior citizens, lowincome families to rectify code enforcement issues, helping restore dignity, helping restore hope. He created SB Food and has been all over

the city of San Bernardino with We Are the Change Sanernardino and his volunteers. So, I first want to say thank you Luis O'Hara. I called him up. He jumped over and he really transformed my vision into reality. So, thank you. I need to make this go easier. Council member Sanchez, can you pass those out for me?

Um, next we have SBD909, Ivan Garcia right here. I then graciously donated the architectural plans. I saw this site. It was a blighted piece of property in my ward. There was unmentionables, homeless activity, drug use. I wanted to raise the bar. But Ivan took it way beyond that. He came with architectural landscape designs, plants that I had never heard of. And he truly showed what it is to do something and not half step it. to go above and beyond, to not accept mediocracy and raise the bar. So, thank you so much, Ivan, for his glory. Here we go. The Bautista family. So, they came out and I have to commend them. They were there day upon day. This little boy put in the most work. How old are you?

12. 12 years old. Everyone, please give a round of applause for this young gentleman. And I have to note they are from the city of Fontana. They came to our city to help uplift the city of San Bernardino. So, thank you. Next, we have Tripleh Construction down here. Now, Triple H's construction, they came. I was blown away. Council member Sanchez had joined one of the days. They came. I can't even pronounce the equipment name, but the Bobcats, the Caterpillars, they are responsible for helping us really have a clean slate. They took their equipment, their time, their team, and excavated the whole entire site. So, thank you so much, Triple H. And we have Profence Ironworks. Now again, I just thought this was going to be something basic but nice, but they made sure to elevate this. Profence Ironworks donated custommade benches, not one but two for this beautifification project. So, thank you. And our tremendous partners. They have been partners of the city of San Frernardino for probably decades now. Alfonso, he is a representative and he is always when you call him, he shows up moments notice. Thank you so much, Alfonso from Burerek. We appreciate the partnership and for you guys being a part of this beautifification project. Thank you. Is Wayne with WG Decorative Rock and Supply here, Wayne? Yes. So, I'm looking around because I I really want to highlight Wayne. We've never met. I don't think Wayne has met anybody here. Wayne owns a

landscaping business just two miles from the beautifification project. I think it was our public safety commissioner Pat that just looked him up, found him, told him about our efforts and what we were trying to do, and without hesitation, Wayne said, "Yes, I want to be part of the change." He donated thousands of dollars of landscaping rock and material piled high as I stand tall. No questions asked. He just wanted to be part of the movement. So, thank you so much, Wayne, for being part of the change. Next, we have Serrano Nursery, Marina. So, Marina is a resident from Colton. She owns Serrano Nursery, a beautiful nursery. I encourage everyone to visit. Same. She was contacted and without hesitation she said, "Come get what you need." Thank you so much. I appreciate you. And And next, our local nursery here in San Frernardino. These, it's not just Michael, his significant others out there. And I always really appreciate their passion. They are Sanernardino grown. They represent for the city. They put on for the city. I myself I always tout that I am San Bernardino born and raised here went through all local public schools. Our passions sometimes collide and I love it though because we really have a heart for this city. Michael I think it was Ivan reached out to Michael and same he said come get whatever you need and I think they are robbery uh I'm robbery they robbed their nursery. No they they came and they graciously uh took plants from their nursery about two or three times. So you guys were extremely gracious and we really appreciate you guys. Yes, from the community garden. Yes, man. We thank you. I just want to say thank you so much.

Is Guardian Asset Manage here? Management here? Guardian? No, I will still recognize them. They supplied all the wood um for the the project. Again, without question, thousands of dollars that they donated to this project. I I want to highlight and I'm I'm pointing out these prices not to embarrass you guys, but they didn't sing their own praises. So again, I have to This is a project that came together and was made possible because of these individuals and the volunteers of the community. This project easily would have taken our city over a year and cost us taxpayers a quarter of a million dollars. We didn't have to pay that. We didn't front that bill because of individuals standing up here today. So, thank you guys for your time. Thank you guys for your resources. Thank you guys for caring. Thank you to our planning commissioner, our public safety commissioner. They were there making sure our volunteers were fed. They were there every day on site. Ivan oversaw everything, being there at 700 a.m. in the morning, sometimes not leaving till almost 10:00 at night. And again, that project is indicative of what happens when a community chooses to unite for good. So, thank you all so much. I want to make sure I didn't miss anyone. Jussi Fence. No. Okay, perfect. I think the others were not able to make it. So, just thank you again. We appreciate you guys. Thank you.

Hope you're here. There's probably one or two that I missed. You'll have to your picture.

Oh Everyone. Now it's on. Big round of applause for everyone who has partaken this beautifification project. Thank you, Mayor Pole Town. Thank you, council. Let's come back on stage. We have two more presentations. We have two proclamations. The next proclamation, next presentation

is a proclamation of National Engineers Week in the city of San Bernardino, February 15th to the 21st, 2026. Presented to Eddie Muno, city of Sanino principal engineer, and all of our city engineers. Where you at? Come up. Don't be shy. Come up to stage council. Oh, you guys. Hi. Eddie. Hello. How you doing?

Hello. Hey guys. Hey. Hello. Hello. Hello. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How are you guys doing? Thank you. Thanks for being here.

Okay. Let's balance out ourselves. If you guys need anything, you let me know. All right. Thank you. So, I'm coming this way.

Okay. Are we all good?

We are good. Proclamation of the mayor city council proclaiming February 15th to 21st of 2026 as National Engineers Week in the city of San Bernardino. Whereas engineers use their scientific, mathematical and technical knowledge in creative and innovative ways to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the infrastructure and systems that serve our communities. And whereas city of San Bernardino engineers play a vital role in protecting public health and safety by designing and maintaining streets, bridges, water, and wastewater systems, public facilities, and other essential infrastructure. relied upon by residents and businesses. And whereas engineers confront the major technological and environmental challenges of our time by rebuilding and strengthening infrastructure, improving sustainability, enhancing mobility, and ensuring safe, resilient, and efficient public systems. And whereas city engineers have demonstrated exceptional expertise and leadership through major infrastructure projects including the cross street bridge and Mount Vernon Bridge which improve connectivity, safety, and a long-term resilience for the San Bernardino community. And whereas engineers support innovation and workforce development by encouraging students and young professionals to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, helping to prepare the next generation of problem solvers. And whereas the city of Sanino will continue to rely on the knowledge, skill, and dedication of its engineers to meet the challenges of the 21st century and to advance a safe, sustainable, and prosperous city. Now therefore, be it proclaimed that the mayor and city council of the city of Sanernardino do hereby proclaim February 15th through February 21st, 2026 as National Engineers Week in the city of Sanernardino and commend the city's

engineers for the professionalism, innovation, and commitment to public service presented on this 18th day of February, 2026. Uh thank you mayor members of the dis I what you have before you is basically a combination of the city's traffic land development and engineering divisions and together I couldn't be prouder to see the work that they do for the development that's basically you know across the hall from me that I don't see as often the comments make their way as far as the community's input on the level of personal touch that we have and that we can demonstrate when we're trying to help with the the community develop the various projects throughout the city. For the city's projects, I was reviewing our history to kind of get kind of get an idea of what we delivered. And last fiscal year, we delivered within the city of San Bernardino over $44 million of capital improvements. And that's by large part with the team you have before you here. So, a great reason to be proud. to date uh if you check from say July 1st 2025 to date we're already on track to surpass 26 million in this fiscal year and we have several more to come. So again I just want to say thank you to the engineering team. We have a great group that's very diverse in skill set and background. I myself is a transplant. I'm from the central valley and one of the first things I learned was the city is incredibly passionate about its infrastructure, about its parks, about its streets. I I I get those calls personally myself and we hear you. I just want to say we do hear you. We're working on it and we have a lot of exciting things on the way.

Thank you, Eddie. Please, huge round of applause to Eddie and the team, the Wizards behind the scene making our city beautiful and developing. Thank you so much. Quick picture.

Hello. Thank you. Thank you, Eddie. Thank you to the engineering team. Big round of applause for the magic behind the scene to make our city developed and beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes.

One more.

All right. Next we have the proclamation of the mayor city council proclaiming February 21st 2026 as lunar new year in the city of San Bernardino. I'd like to have u the let's see this will be presented to uh Ramsey Sam of the Asian-American Resource Center. Please come up to the stage and also businesses um and sponsors who are going when we have the Lun New Year this weekend. Um, Hip Town Supermarket, Dowo Group, Inland Chinese Association, Lucky Farms, C2 Restoration, Talas Nail and Spa, Love ADU, uh, Tang Structural Engineers, Fha Restaurant, Sunset Turf and Landscape, H&H Lending, JBC Design Build, the Enterprise Building, um, HUD organization, Pisa Dilly, and Baker. If you hear your name, please come up on stage and join us to to um conduct this proclamation. Can I ask my parents to also join me please? Mom, dad, come up. Don't be shy.

And venerable master, please join us. Thank you, Helen. Thank you very much. Here you come to the You're going to be accepting, right? No, no.

Good to see you. Yeah, we're part of the team. We're part of the team. Meow. Meow. Hello. Hi. at all. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to make sure is the American guest American uh Asian-American Resource Center here. Oh, there you are.

Are we here? Okay. Okay. proclamation of the mayor and city council proclaiming February 21st, 2026 as Lunar New Year Day in the city of San Bernardino. Whereas Lunar New Year begins on February 17th, 2026, marking the start of the Lunar calendar and is celebrated by millions of people worldwide as a time of renewal, prosperity, and hope for the year ahead. And whereas Lunar New Year is observed by many cultures including Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and other Asian communities through traditions that emphasize family, gratitude, and good fortune. And whereas 2026 is a year of the horse, symbolizing strength, resilience, energy, and progress. Values that reflect the spirit and forward momentum of the city of Sanernardino and its residents. And whereas the city of Sanino is enriched by the cultural traditions and contributions of Asian-American and Pacific Islander residents, businesses, and organizations that strengthen the social, cultural, and economic fabric of the community. And whereas the city of Sanino proudly celebrates Lunar New Year through its city host Lunar New Year celebration on February 21st, 2026, bringing residents together to honor culture, heritage, and community unity. And whereas recognizing Luna New Year provides an opportunity to celebrate diversity, foster mutual understanding, and promote inclusivity throughout the city. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the mayor and city council of Sanernardino do hereby proclaim February 21st, 2026 as Lunar New Year Day in the city of Sanardino, marking the commencement of the year of the horse. We urge all residents to join in the celebrating of this auspicious occasion to embrace the diversity that enriches our city and to extend warm greetings of optimism, respect, and goodwill to all who observe Luna New Year presented on the 18th day of February, 2026.

Thank you. Thank you. Uh thank you, Madame Mayor. And well, thank you for everybody coming here. As you can tell that well, first of all, this is the third day of the year of the horse. We thank you for allowing Asian community to share our tradition, our value with everybody. As you can tell, uh, we all look different. We all come from different places, but we all live in a place where we call home. And we're all among each other in a community, what we call family. And new year is like a sort of like a birthday. It mark a new start, a new journey, a new hope. And we appreciate that. We have the opportunity to share our fortune, to share our culture, to share our new year with everybody. And we thank you and we appreciate it. Uh, as you can tell that we have dancing dragon and dancing lion back there. And it's a tradition that mark that we're going to scare away all the evil things and bring all the good fortune to the community, to the family, to everybody. We hope you enjoy it and we hope you come in on this Saturday to the event that share more with us. Thank you very much

and we can proceed. Hey, hey, hey. Thank you. Everyone I just finished.

picture. All right, we've got two cameras, so give me just one second. Ready? One, two, three.

Thank you everyone and happy Luna New Year. And that kicks off into Saturday. Hope to see all of you there at the Court Street Square. And thank you for all of you for being here and community. And please think of all the folks here because they are sponsoring the event this Saturday and because of them that's that event is happening. So thank you so much to all the sponsors that are here. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, another big round of applause to all of what we was presented to um the community. Thank you so much. We will now move on to appointments. Madam City Clerk, do we have any public comments on items four to six?

Oh, we have no request to speak for items four to six. If there are none, is there consensus from the council to take a single motion for items four to six? Move to approve. I'll second. There's a motion. Second, Madam City Clerk. Okay, I'll take a voice vote. Council member Sanchez, yes. Council member Abara, yes. Council member Figeroa is not at the dis. Council member Shereet, yes. Mayor Perim Canos, yes. Council member Flores, yes. Council member Ortiz. Yes. And Mayor Tran.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you, council. We will now move on to public hearing item number seven. Introduce for first reading ordinance number MC1660, adopting a regulatory program for short-term rentals or introduced for first reading ordinance number MC 1661 banning short-term rentals in the city of San Bernardino. I'm opening the public hearing at 5:54 p.m. Could staff present provide presentation on this item. Mayor Mayor um I believe the the people being appointed are actually here. Can we after the public hearing we can go ahead and do the swearing in?

I'm sorry. Repeat that. the individuals who are being appointed are were here I believe. Yes. I'm so sorry I just jumped. We've already opened the public hearing. Yes. Can we um bring those? Okay. We have three appointees. Is Hector Lorera appointed for two commission uh slots and Scott Olsson, are you here? Please come on stage. Thank you. Madam City Clark council, would you like to let's come up to front to appoint these two? Congratulations unanimous.

I was wondering about the swearing in and the pen. Does anyone have a city the city here? So then they said they so I'll stand right here. I don't even have one. Give me yours. Can I please have you raise your right hand, both of you, and say I and state your name.

I, Scott Wilson. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California, and that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which you're about to enter. Please say, "I do." I do. Yes, I do.

Thank you. to say and then um I I am happy to have Scott Olsen back on the um charter review committee. This is one of the hardest committees out there. The charter review is the reason we operate as we operate. It was brought to the voters. It was changed back in 2016. And my understanding is there have been no changes to the charter review by the charter review committee for over 10 years. Now we know why. Mr. Scott Olsen has had quite a a journey with the committee and with the new members that are on it. I look forward to you guys actually reconvening and making sure our city is properly working to protect our citizens and voters. Thank you.

Yeah. Um Sandre and I have had a quite a long journey since we met of learning how to get along, learning how to work together. And it's kind of synonymous with San Bernardino. You're either willing to learn how to get along or we keep suffering. It's that simple. And for me, I would rather work towards us all doing some positive things in Sanino because we've had more than enough of the negative. Thank you. Thank you,

Hector. I want to congratulation uh congratulate you on your appointment to the animal control commission as well as the parks commission. Congratulations. Work hard. Do well. All right. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Um and thank you council for this opportunity. I'm looking forward to helping out Sanino to create good um good changes, you know. Thank you all. Excellent. There you go. Take one of those. Right. Give that to her. Quick picture with everyone in the council and the appointees.

Thank you. Thank you, Hector. Thank you, Scott. Thank you, council members. Thank you. Now we can move on to public hearing. So, I need to reopen the public hearing at 5:59 just to modify that time. Could staff present uh the presentation.

Madame Mayor, members of city council, um good evening and thank you for this opportunity. Um what I'm about to present to you is a chronology of events that have occurred in the city uh regarding uh short-term rentals. Uh and um the process started as way back uh as uh in 2023 uh when the planning commission by a unanimous vote adopted resolution number 2023 forwarding a recommendation that the mayor and city council approved. Development Code Amendment 2301, which would amend sections of our development code and establish a short-term rental program. That was the preference for the planning commission. Uh we brought that item back uh to the city council uh on February 21, 2024. Uh at that meeting uh the city council uh directed staff to conduct additional analysis on enforcement measures and the effects of a short-term rental program on the city's housing market. On uh June 5, 2024, when the item was brought back to the city council as directed, the council by a narrow majority banned short-term rentals in the city and requested staff bring back an enforcement plan. So, um, just a little bit of a background. Uh, the city of San Bernardino does not currently have an ordinance that expressly expressly regulates short-term rentals and has experience the negative effects of excessive noise, parking problems, and discarded trash on surrounding properties resulting in numerous

complaints creating a threat to the public interest, health, safety, convenience, and welfare of the community. Uh, San Bernardino has also received numerous complaints about uh, leasing about residents leasing their property uh, for um, weekend retreats at short-term rentals. Common complaints are short that the rentals cause conditions that degrade the quality of the residential neighborhood. So based on that uh our current municipal code does not specifically address short-term vacation rentals. However, a commercial use is generally prohibited uh in residential zones unless specifically permitted because the municipal code doesn't especially prohibit short-term vacation rentals. The issue of the um municipal code's intent is uh disputed by residents uh and property owners who wish to lease their property for tourism and similar type uses. So, uh, if we ban short-term rentals, it is generally believed that the city will no longer need to rely on various interrelated code provisions that together prescribe vacation rentals. The city will adopt and implement uh specific revisions to the municipal code that would ban short-term rentals outright in residential zones. It is also believed that a clear prohibition would be more effective in deterring v uh violations because it would create less confusion among homeowners. However, a ban would also um alter the

municipal code's current implicit characterization of short-term rentals as inconsistent with the city's residential land use regulations. So, uh this next slide talks about uh some of the dis disadvantages of a short-term uh ban. A short-term rental ban has some disadvantages. First, it would restrict homeowners use of their own properties. Banning short-term rentals could eliminate uses that do not otherwise serve as a nuisance to neighboring properties and would restrict the rights of homeowners who have rented responsibly. Second, it is unclear whether an outright ban would be effective because of the challenges with consistent enforcement. Um some of the associate cost with um this particular u enterprise would require the city to engage into uh services and in this particular instance we have engaged the services of a company called um Decker Technologies. uh they're a company that utilizes data science to assist local governments with managing uh compliance activity and enforcement such as short-term rentals. So um Deca Technologies would use rentalscape platform to accurately track activity within the city and identify exact addresses of STR listings within the city. uh uh there are no cost implications depending on the level of uh of service required by the city. The contract for rentalscape

uh is for the identification, monitoring and compliance and that would cost the city $7,500 annually. If we go beyond compliance and registration and add registration and and toot for the above, the registration uh would and the uh toot collection would cost us $16,500. So, um, if the city council decides to regulate short-term rentals, we have to process a development code amendment and the the sections of the code that would be amended are section 1902050 which is uh the definition section and chapter 19-04 which is residential uses because we first have to identify the use and then we have to prescribe whether or not we're going to actually allow it or ban it. The option to take no action, which is a third option. So, if I can just go back a little bit uh to the beginning, there are three options available to the city council tonight. uh adopt an ordinance banning short-term rentals, adopt an ordinance regulating short-term rentals, or take no action at all. And by taking no action, we're basically where we are today. We we just leave things alone and operate with complaints and so on and so forth. Um if we take no action uh then uh there's no regulation and no ban in place but we believe that uh payment of to should still be an option. So even if we left things alone I think it's still necessary for us to track whoever is doing it activities identify who they

are and assess our transit occupancy taxes uh as seem as deemed fit. So um the issue of a toot uh is in section 3.55-020A uh which applies a 10% uh room rental charge by the operator. So for every uh short-term rental stay, the city would receive 10% of whatever that cost is. And we tried to do a calculation as to what that would be if hypothetically speaking how much revenue uh could be generated by that. So uh whether the city uh bans or regular short-term rentals or vacation rentals um we still need to process a development uh code amendment. As I stated earlier, the uh development code amendment would also amend the residential uh uh zoning district regulations uh in the city. So depending on which direction the city council decides to go, whether we ban or regulate, by adopting an ordinance, um it will become effective 30 days following adoption of the ordinance by the mayor and city council. All properties currently operating as short-term or vacation rental locations will be required to register and become eligible for the payment of toot. If the mayor and city council decide to ban short-term rentals, uh any presently operating properties will know to seize the operation and any illegally operating properties will be subject to the payment of toot.

If the mayor and city council uh decides to adopt an ordinance, uh I think this is a repeat of the last one. I'll go to the next one. So, um as far as how does this align with the city's general plan goals uh and policies, uh the finding is that the city of San Dino general plan includes goals and policies to guide future housing development as follows. Land use goal 2.1 preserve and enhance San Bernardino's unique neighborhoods. Land use goal 2.2 promote development that integrates with and minimizes impacts on surrounding land uses. And you can make that interpretation either way you want, whether you're in support of of banning the banning short-term rentals or um or um regulating it. Uh so the the proposed development code amendment uh uh aligns with key target goal number three which is improve quality of life and more specifically 3A improve the city's appearance, cleanliness and attractiveness. Specifically, the ban will update development code to prohibit short rentals in our residential zones. Uh with any project that comes before the city as a discretionary for for discretionary review um especially adoption of of an ordinance, we have to make a SQA finding. The SQA finding here is that it's exact exempt from SQUA based on section 15061B3 which is a common sense exemption and that means which what that means is um uh due to the fact that the proposed development code amendment will not create significant effects on the environment as it prohibits short-term

rentals in all residential zones if that's if that's the direction we choose to go. fiscal impacts. This this perhaps is a um as I mentioned earlier uh the toot uh based on the estimate number estimated number of of properties that are currently operating these kinds of activities could be as much as $324,000. I think uh econ told me somewhere between 270 to 324. However, there is a potential cost which is the cost to actually engage in the monitoring of these activities. That one would cost us um $16,500 annually. So the recommendations I as I stated earlier uh we hold a public hearing introduce and read by title only and wave further reading of ordinance number MC 1660 of the uh mayor and m and city council of the city of San Bernardino adopting a regulatory program which would amend section 19.02050 02050 um basic provisions, definitions and chapter 1904 residential zones of the San Bernardino development code. That is one recommendation. The second recommendation is to do the opposite which is ban and it would also amend those uh sections of the code that I that I read. But each one of those will require an introduction of the ordinance. And then the third option is uh to take no action at all. And that uh concludes my uh presentation and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you. Do we have um any requests to speak from the members of the public?

Yes, mayor. We do have three requests to speak specifically for the public hearing, but we also have two who listed they wanted to speak about Airbnb, which I believe it's for this item to so I'll call um all five names. Um Megan Key, Taiisha Moody, Andre Harris, Joe Solace, and Les. Thank you. If you hear your name, please approach the podium, turn on the mic, and state your name for the record. Thank you. You will have three minutes each. Uh you guys should just leave it alone. Allow people to do short-term rentals. We have a lot of homeless people out here and no short-term rentals. Help the um the homeless. Uh the issue or I know you guys have issue with short-term rentals with some people. You guys should just deal with that on a uh day-to-day base. Uh besides that, just leave it alone. We should be worried about something real instead of worrying about short-term rentals. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. We have three minutes. Uh

Joe Salis, fourth ward. So, uh this is a actually a really um exciting event. Um something for us to do for the city of Sanino. So, uh about a month ago, I was at the retirement um party for uh Chief Pino from the Sanino City Unified. And I got to met a meet a great man um he's a police chief of the city of India who grew up in Sanino named Brian Tully. and he I was talking to him about this was uh Mr. Stretton have and I have um talked to residents about this issue um in and around the city and he said through their regulation in the city of India with regulating Airbnbs they generate $14 million a year in tax revenue for the residents of Sanino. Now this isn't regulation of private property or uh that is a home. It is essentially a business, right? is just as masking itself as as a house. And I think this would be a great way for us to increase our coffers in the city of Sanino so we don't have to cut our budget by 5% every year. It's amazing what you can do when you listen to people who are involved in other communities, not selectively, but listen to their full implementation of their plan. I think we should because when you start creating little areas that oh we not going to ban Airbnbs over here. We get the same kind of morass that we get when we get sloppy policy like with the with the fireworks. People get confused. Oh, can I have an Airbnb in this part? Can I have it? Not because I know up um on Skylark in Edertton, PD gets called there all the time because there's one man who owns three Airbnbs and they have they So, the best thing you can do if someone's going to harass their neighbors, you can make them pay for it. And adding more teeth to this within your regimen of regulation of having uh if they get called by PD, there's a fine. If they get called for fire service, there's a fine. Maybe there could even be an extra registration in their taxes that they

have to pay when they register their private property if they're in a higher fire danger. So, because these all of these just like insurance, you don't know if there's going to be something that happens at one of these um Airbnbs. And let's build a city where people want to come. If you look, if you pay attention to Zillow, there's a house up on Ridgemont and they say, "Oh, this property generates over $110,000 in revenue." Imagine the city of Sanino can catch a piece of that because we have so many events that are happening now in the city of San Bernardino with uh the um the fairgrounds and everything. More and more people are coming to the city of Sanino. And if you talk to most hotel owners, they will tell you that on the weekends of those events that their their properties are full. All of the hotels are full. And so what do they do? They go into the neighborhoods and they have more Airbnbs. So this is actually a great I think we we we should look at this in the idea of generating money for our city so we can fix roads, we can add more PD so we can have whatever city services we need and this can come from this revenue source. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. You have three minutes.

Hi. I I want to tap in on the gentleman's uh comment as well, but to the mayor, city council, and guests, my actual district is in the city of Highland. However, if I cross the street, I'm in San Bernardino, which is very close to my home. If this is approved to ban, I do not want this to extend to my city. My concern is item number seven, which proposed to ban the short-term rentals. I'm opposed to this introduction. This ban on short-term rentals would limit free enterprise and homeowners unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America is a capitalist country. Not a capitalist country for some to earn a honest living with their properties, but for all. Therefore, therefore I oppose item number seven to I wanted to if possible to regulate not to ban item number seven as a whole. And like the gentleman was saying in different cities they have different type of regulations but I don't want to be have the regulation a stronghold to the homeowners and they and they're limited in in what they can do with their property. Some places they offer a annual fee that you have to pay and you are responsible and you have to have certain conditions to your home to for to be able to be approved for the permit. They leave it up to the the neighboring. They send out a letter. They send it to the neighbors to let them know that this is going to

be a Airbnb and where to send the complaints. If you have a certain amount of complaints, it's left to the city code enforcement and they do an investigation. And then if they find you at fault, you can lose your permit because you're not being a responsible homeowner. We're all grown here, we know to be responsible. And if you're not a responsible homeowner, then you you you don't deserve to have a permit. Now, if you move this into a commercial area and not residential, that defeats the purpose. You're a hotel. You're not a Airbnb. You're not um you you're not having uh the right to utilize your property. So, are we going to have the regulations to where it's like a HOA or who's making up these rules? Are we going to be able to vote on who mandates this or are we going to have code enforcement mandated?

Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. We have no more speakers. That concludes the speakers. Okay. Thank you. I am now closing the public hearing at 6:20 p.m. for deliberation action. Do we have any discussion or comments from the council? Council member Shereet, followed by Council Ortiz.

Thank you, mayor. Uh, I've been waiting for this item to come back for more than two years. Um, the former council discussed this back in 2024 and decided that uh the revenue and I think there was just a comment made about some $14 million in revenue in some other city. Um, I don't think that's accurate in terms of uh revenue to the city. It's it's it may be um the um effect of people spending money in this town. Um and it may be a cumulative effect of that which is which I can't deny is a good thing to encourage people to come in here and spend money in our town and we collect sales tax in the gas stations, restaurants, etc. Uh but the former council decided that um the approximately $270 to $325,000 was not worth what the city would be receiving. Um compared to some of the grief that the neighbors in the areas that are affected by these uh parties and other activities. uh it was not worth worth the uh worth it. As well as uh uh the hidden cost of enforcement uh when there are violations, when there are parties, when police are called at 2 in the morning uh in some cases more than once in one and in in a night to end parties. Um we invite people to come into town, but what and there's also a misnomer. I think it was just stated that these are homeowners. These are not homeowners. They own a house and they are making a lot of money on the weekends. Um, and I am a businessman. I

support free enterprise and I support business, but I also have an have a a responsibility to the constituents of this city. And these are people that come in from out of town and and in many cases, not all, but in some if not many cases, have no respect for uh the citizens, for the neighbors that this Airbnb, this short-term rental might be next to. Um I've had complaints from a number of people. I've got articles that I've been collecting. Uh the one of the things that I'm really concerned about is that this took so long to get here. Um, we clearly gave staff, they worked hard to come up with regulations, it was discussed and albeit a narrow majority, that's how we operate. And it was a majority that said, "We've discussed it and we've decided that the the juice isn't worth the squeeze and we'd like to send it back and have it uh just banned entirely, which makes it easier. We don't have to decide. We don't have to look. If someone's operating one, they're illegal. period. We don't have to go through a bunch of uh of uh discern whether or not they're registered, whether they're not, whether it's Verbbo, whether it's Airbnb, whether it's uh some other organization. Um we don't have to go out and and and collect from people and and as in most cases, there will be people that are not um operating legally. And again, I'm concerned. I would love to have everybody if we could trust that the people coming in, but the people coming into town are generally coming in to to have a party or to or to go to parties. And so, um, I voted against it in the beginning and asked for it to come back as a ban. That never happened. It's now

coming back and it's been rejected again. The ban has been rejected by the planning commission. Um, I'm concerned um uh that there may be conflicts of interest in fact uh from people that might have own Airbnbs. Um they work in uh in resort areas. I got a letter for I had a comment I think from someone in Big Bear uh that seems to be uh uh make a little more sense where there's a ski area uh a recreation area. Uh people are coming into San Bernardino largely to go to raves, spend the night and go to raves here locally. uh they're coming into S San Bernardino because it's closer to um other uh activities are going on the Indo Fest and what things such as that. Uh so they come in there, they use it just to sleep at night. They do buy gasoline, they do buy food. Uh but they uh they generally are kind of using our area. Uh we are not a resort city. I wish we were. Boy, do I wish we were, but we're not. And I don't think people are coming here to uh do offtrack bedding down at the Orange Show or coming in here and spending uh three or $400 a night to stay in a in a in a house uh and share the cost with three other couples or four other people or eight other people uh so that they can go to the orange show. Um, I think they're coming in generally to go to these raves and some of the other activities that go on. Um, hopefully the little league western re regionals maybe they're coming in for that. But I do believe that the um the impact on our on our um n on our residents that live

here, our full-time residents, I believe there's more of an impact on them than there is the benefit that we get. I got into a discussion with some people at a uh at an event and I and they were saying, "Oh, wow. uh you know it's worth it's worth $350,000 a year. It's worth and then the other guy said, "Well, mine's doing a million dollar a year." And I'm going I'm thinking to myself, "Wow, is that revenue that that the city's missing out on?" Well, it turned out that we're getting a a tiny tiny piece of that pie or of that fee or that charge. the the guy that's renting the room or renting the house, he's making all the money and it is a business and I support business, but I don't support a liquor store next to a church just cuz it's a business and I don't support bad business and I don't claim to say that uh Airbnbs, that's a generic term like Kleenex. Airbnbs are actually short-term rentals. There's Verbbo. There's uh Airbnb. I don't know. There's a half a dozen or more of them. I don't claim that they're all bad or that all people that rent them are are using them and not being good citizens while they're visiting our neighborhoods. Uh but I for one don't believe that um that that it's worth the inconvenience that it causes for our full-time residents. So, I will not be supporting I I mean I would I would vote to ban it and I would make that motion if anyone's willing to sec second that.

Thank you, Council Member. Council Ortiz. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. So, I think uh our community brings up some good points. Um so, how many code enforcement officers do we have in this city? J council member Ortiz we have approximately 20 20 for 60 60,000 homes roughly in the city approximately yes

so just just alone in my ward I have thousands of uh CRNs community requests for code enforcement And when we talk about revenue verse uh the ability to collect on violations, I think those are two very different conversations. So if Indo really is getting $14 million a year, that's something. We uh Joe brought up fireworks. So in our city, we know that's illegal to shoot fireworks off above the 210. And you can be fined anywhere from $2,500 up to 5,000 depending on the number of citations that you receive over how many calls you generate. We pay upwards of over $300,000 in just a week for overtime for the police department for thousands of calls. However, between 2020 and 2025, we have only collected $9,000 in violation fees. You know why? because there's no enforcement and that's what it comes down to. And in fact, if you're cited and you don't show up, you have less of a chance of being cited than and and having to pay for anything than if you do. So, it's not even advantageous to answer to the city when you do something wrong. Business licenses. This could generate a lot of business license. To have a business license in the city of San Bernardino was $65. That's it. It's all you have to rent your house out is to pay $65. I bought my home four years ago. Two years after owning my home, I received a notice for a lean because I wasn't paying my business license registration for it being a rental because the business license registration department

was backlogged for years in being able to make sure that second homeowners were able to comply with business license registration. So, it's not a matter, right? We talk about capitalism, we talk about entrepreneurship. Great. Do you want your neighborhood to be a hotel, motel, or a residential area? That's always a great debate. But do you first and foremost want your community to be safe and forcible? And that's just something we can't even do on a daily basis. Now, I'm not a fan of bans. I think that government fluctuates. I think time, space, and context speak to public policy. So I would I really would refer to the word u moratorum

because we kind of do but don't have anything right now. And so in looking at the fact that we only have 20 code enforce officers who by the way do not work at night. So when you talk about what's happening in the evenings when everybody's coming back home or 2 or 3:00 in the morning if it's not PD responding it's definitely not going to be code enforcement. Most of the time when there is something they have to catch you in the act of doing it. How many times you call we know that when people call their calls for request can go anywhere from put it in a online form versus will actually show up if there's a potential crime. And so um is it possible instead of having a ban to have them like a 5-year moratorum while we assess and grow in our ability to enforce any type of action that we were to take into place? I mean, council member Ortiz, that is always a uh that's always an option the city could choose. However, allow me to make some clarification. Uh there seems to be this idea that anything related to um rentals uh especially uh Airbnbs and vacation rentals is a code enforcement action. Uh most of these things are noise violations. noise violations, people usually call the police department. So, uh, so I I think we need to make that very clear. People that rent these kinds of places are not daytime people. This is usually if you rent one of these places, you probably want on a weekend partying, etc., etc. So, there's always there's already municipal standards that address those kinds of issues.

Who's enforcing those? Uh, so if it's a noise violation, uh, you No, no. Who's making sure these are only two-day rentals? Who's Say that again, ma'am. Who who only makes sure that people only stay for the weekend? Uh, well, it depends. I mean, most airbnbs are people that are, you know, spending the weekend. Uh, some stay during the week, but the point I'm making is that people who rent these kinds of places are not typically noisy during the day. They are usually noisy at night.

In theory, this is how it works. In practice, we have no enforcement in the city. Otherwise, we wouldn't have thousands of backlogs on of the ability to enforce codes. And that could be parking enforcement, which is PD. So, so let's not even then worry about 20 of our code enforcement officers. And then let's not also worry about failing infrastructure as we know people repeatedly don't even take care of rentals to begin with. So then we put the burden on the police department because they don't have enough to do.

They got to go do noise complaints at 2 3:00 in the morning. They got to do drunk phone calls at 2 3:00 in the morning. They got to do parking violations in the mid-after afternoon. There could all the things. So this is why I ask in the scope of things in being able to create policy, can you withhold for 5 years to build this up and revisit it versus banning it? Like I said earlier, that is always a there's always an option. Uh we can we can have a moratorum on this. However, um even if that's what we're going to do, I think we need to understand who is doing what, where, and how. Yeah.

And that's for you guys to make sure that you enforce when, where, and exactly when it's called. That's not that's not my issue. Okay. I want to make sure you guys take care of what's on the inside and we take care of what's on the outside. So call whoever you need to call when people are in violation. That's great. So council member Sheret, what I'm wondering is would you amend your motion to be a moratorum for 5 years versus

No, I don't I don't support moratoriums and and the the the issue here is is PD is the one that's coming out. They're coming out at night and they aren't just on the weekend and they aren't just on the on daytimes. Uh I've heard where someone maybe is going to be working in the area and might rent it for three weeks because that's how long their job might be. And that certainly is a is an opportunity uh for someone to come and live in a house. Uh maybe two or three people are going to be working on that job, live in a house and and be able to do their own cooking and and what have you and not live in a hotel. It's cheaper for the for the company. It's cheaper. It's more convenient for the individual. Um there's some that's good and bad. Um I and u councilwoman if I can continue for a minute. I didn't mean to interrupt you. You asked me a question and I and I took the I took the mic.

No, I just want to know if you amend to me. Can you speak to and I don't want to hog the thing, but this has been very p I've been very passionate about this for 5 years. I know it's it's not been just since June 24. It's been something that I've been working on and and I haven't had a real yes or no. It's not that I've been for it or against it. I'm I'm not happy that it has taken us this long to get here.

And it has nothing to do with current staff. Nothing to do with current staff. But um I I've been collecting articles from our own paper from Riverside. I've been collecting information for quite some time about this issue and we've just taken way too long to deal with it. Someone says, "Don't worry, it's not a big issue." Well, it's not a big issue for someone that uh that isn't living next to one that is being interrupted over the weekend or or what have you coming as you say going coming and going 3:00 in the morning. I'm not for moratoriums. I mean, we either do it or we regulate it and and uh a ban uh would be I I think preference and that's what we talked about before, but heavy regulation um is also an option u and not not available. I represent the North End, which is against the fire, against the the big fire areas. And um I've seen people at Airbnbs or short-term rentals that have no regard for the laws and the regulations that we have in because they don't live here.

They come in, they enjoy themselves, they go out and they I've seen them actually above 30th Street shooting off fireworks in a high fire danger area. I've seen it myself. So, and and of course I've got a lot of constituents in the north end that are very very concerned with fire. So, maybe I overlooked something, but did we did did this come back with regulations? Uh, is this all these this document that you supplied? I overlooked.

There is some language in there, but if we're going to regulate specifically, it's going to come back again some of the things. Well, we have to adopt a resolution that says how um you know uh what people have to pay to register. Uh how what are the terms because putting the regulations in first then maybe they might not even register. Well, I I think we don't want to jump the gun staffwise. We don't want to uh predict what the city council is Excuse me. Sir um didn't we have didn't when it came when it came before the council before weren't there a set of regulations mayor

didn't we make recommendations for recommendations I mean for uh regulations there are some regulations in there uh with your package but we discussed them and they weren't severe enough or something so the only way I could support regulations even would be if they come back to us and they're very very strict and severe We can bring that back if you want and and for that I could I could maybe live with something like that and still allow the uh uh the the short-term rentals, but but can you speak to and I'm again I'm sorry to hog the the microphone, but can you speak to this firm? Council member um Mr. City Trainer would like to chime in from your um inquiry.

I wanted to clarify for you council regarding the regulations. So, in the ordinance that would ban them, that's new code language. Just very simple, updating the tables, they're banned. They're not allowed in any residential zone. The other ordinance that proposes regulations are the same regulations that you've seen before when it came a couple years ago. I are they in our backup cuz I missed them. Okay. Well, I missed it. I and I need a So so the ordinance has three exhibits and then the regulation ordinance has three other exhibits, but the regulation language is what you saw before. Okay. Okay. Um but could you speak to this firm that's going to uh what is this uh Decard somethingcape or what's

Yeah, I think it's Decard Technologies. Is that the one you're referring to? Um well, you gave us it. It was um they're going to be doing the it's $7,500 a year, right? Versus 165. Yes. And what are they going to do?

So, DECA Technology would use a special tool to identify by bas basically combing through several websites to identify who is actually renting their homes for this activity. Uh because it's not just on Airbnb, it's on Verbbo, it's on any other. So they have a tool that would actually do that and in other communities that is what they have done as well because it's not um efficient for staff to sit down and start surfing the web to see who's actually renting their properties. So they would do that for us.

So they were able to monitor pretty effectively. It doesn't seem like a lot of money. I'd be charging more if I were them. It doesn't seem like a lot of money.

Yeah, it does. But um that is the uh that is what we were given at this particular time. Uh we can uh take a look at uh some other uh you know some other outfits to see how much but whether we ban or we don't we still have to know who is we still have to spend money. So the the logic behind this is if we're going to spend money finding out who is doing what, why don't we receive some revenue while we're doing it. And that's where the regulation comes because by regulating we can identify, you know, uh how um what are the what are the specific standards? Uh how much gets paid, how much does it take to register. It's not just going to be a simple business license registration. it would be something totally different because it's not just a regular business. I mean, from the places that I've worked and we've done this kind of stuff, that is what we do and that's what we did. So, that way we can identify if it's going to cost you $1,000 to register. Hypothetically speaking, you're going to think twice about who you rent who you rent uh your house to as opposed to if it only cost you $75. You don't really care. So I'm just making comparisons because if we're going to go that route, this is these are the things that we have to consider. How important is this to us? Because by by fixing that amount, you can deter or you can encourage, right?

If I have to pay $1,000 to register this enterprise, I'm going to think twice. And and I have to Well, I I have to disagree with that because if you're renting your room, if you're renting your house for $1,000 a night for four nights, that takes care of that pretty quick and there's 52 weekends in a year. Yeah.

And so 52 times $4,000 is a heck of a lot of money. Now, I'm not saying anyone's going to rent it every 5 52 weekends, but absolutely, but it it becomes kind of a cost of doing business. And because their rates are so high because they're because there's three couples coming into these two or three or four bedroomedroom houses, maybe five couples, they're sharing the expense. So they're spending $1,000 a night, but it's only cup costing a couple $250, which is cheaper than a motel, a hotel room. Of that $1,000 a night, we get $100. Yeah. And so on top of the registration fee, we get And the neighbors in the area get a lot of grief sometimes.

Sometimes. Okay, I'm going to I I'll give up the mic and I think I've made my point. Thank you, council member. You're very passionate. I can we can all hear that. U Mr. City Manager, did you want to chime in?

Well, I it was a while ago, but I was going to just say that Deckard has a very good reputation in the state. They work with quite a few cities. Um there are two elements to code enforcement. They do a good job at being able to identify who is doing a short-term rental and um both for the toot as well as for regulation whether or not they have actually registered. Um but you are right the code enforcement has to do as far as the complaints and dealing in other communities. I would say it's usually noise parking uh noise and parking tend to be two of the major complaints that you you get on a short-term rental. Thank you. Customer Ortiz, are you done with your comments before I

Yeah, I just want to So I I I can't second, but I would like to make then a substitute motion because I think, you know, we got to do something to to place a 5-year moratorum. So it's not Oh, then I would like to make a motion that we put a moratorum a 5-year moratorum on any Airbnbs while we work to build up enforcement capabilities and uh and create proper regulations uh for for enforcement in the future. Thank you, council member. I have council member Figareroa, followed by council member Flores, followed by Mayor Prom Canas, followed by council member Sanchez.

Thank you, mayor. I'm kind of all over the place here. I think you might have answered some of the questions I I had already, but just to just to make sure, if we were to move forward with a ban, the enforcement of that ban, would it be done through their actual website or is it something that we have to go specifically house by house? Let's say any short-term rental like Verbbo or Airbnb, if we say there's a complete ban, then they're not allowed to advertise or promote or allow any type of So that's okay. I think you answered that.

So yeah, so what we would do is once once we identified who they are, we have to we'll send them a registered letter uh to indicate that they actually somebody actually signed for that letter. We'll have to make sure we notify them by mail so that they know that the city has taken the following action. So that's how we start. Okay. Thank you. And so are agencies like Airbnb and Verbbo considered uh like third party vendors kind of like if if somebody somebody were to book a a a room a hotel room through let's say Kayak or Expedia, those are considered kind of third party vendors, but we still collect the toot from that hotel specifically. We don't we don't uh we don't receive that. Uh

yes, sir. Oh, no. I'll go ahead and finish then I can answer your question. I think uh we don't we received the tax the DOT directly from the hotel, not necessarily from those third party vendors. If if we were to not proceed with a ban, would we I I keep seeing you wave at me.

Well, no, no, I can answer if it's about to collection of tots we collect the toot. One is that actually Airbnb in particular does do agreements with cities where they will actually collect the toot directly from their clients and then remitt it to the city without the city having to go out. Sometimes there's errors in what they're collecting and whether they're sending it to the right city. So you have to still monitor and still audit that. The second element of a toot is that Decard actually does collection and does enforcement of collection for for the cities also. Okay. And that was kind of my question. So you answered that. So they would be able to support or assist the city in some way with the collection of that. So we wouldn't have to individually go to every single

That is correct.

Short-term rental. Um if there is a if there are violations um you know because of multiple calls and then they lose their permit or their you know whatever for whatever violation would we then um does that happen through Airbnb for that location or is it per person is how is it registered is it registered to the home or if it's registered to a person what if they then transfer the name of the account for that short-term rental and it allows them to operate again under that same property, that same location. What what what is in place for us to be able to continue to monitor that?

So, um this is where I I think uh the technology comes in. From our perspective, it is the location where the violation takes place. whoever the property owner is, whoever is registered at that location is the person that will be held responsible for any kind of violations. Uh, and if they move to a different location, it's still them. They still have to register unless they change their name or have another alias, it would still be that same person. So, that'll be a tracking system to see who are the repeat operators. I and I don't know too many people who would uh you know sell one home and buy another one and then try to do the same thing all over again. I wouldn't we're just not in that uh in that market right now. But it would be the property owner uh whoever is operating whoever's name shows up in a registration for the activity itself would be the person that will be held responsible for that. that they're held responsible, but um the industry's become sophisticated enough that some agencies like Airbnb have certain policies like um quiet areas and things like that. And so we our code enforcement could work with them if it's a property that's going through their site where they would help in enforcement on some of that stuff. And how specific can we get with some of these agencies as far as locations, certain zones? Are there restrictions much like fireworks where it's not allowed above the 210 and it is below? I mean, is that something that have we looked into their abilities to kind of allow certain zones or is it just within the city and and they're not able to really regulate that? Well, first and primary that would be what this decard would do. They would if we had certain zones. So, for instance, I know that South Tahoe for one, Truckucky for one, those are both tourist areas. They actually have certain zones where you

can and cannot do um short-term rentals and Decard works with them on those and they identify that. We would be able to do the same thing here in San Bernardino. Mhm.

And as far as noise violations and and going out and putting that on you because again it's not going to be code enforcement, it's going to be our police department. um in order for the the noise violations to take effect, the complainant uh has to sign as a witness, right? And many times there's a lot of hesitation with nearby neighbors uh with signing off as as a witness to some of those noise complaints. And so then how are those violations assessed or reported um as a mark against the short-term rental that exists there? If the nearby neighbors have a are hesitant to sign off as a as a witness, how would that then be reported?

Uh Commissioner Figuroa, I'm sorry, Council Member Figureroa. Um I was at a recent administrative hearing and a similar issue uh came up. somebody was having a party at their home and they called uh the police department and a police officer arrived. Uh they parked uh at least a block away and they observed to see whether or not they could actually hear the music. And the officer said, "I did hear the music." And then uh she moved a little bit closer and she said the music got louder and she was able to identify what music was playing. And then she approached the homeowner and and and told her that, you know, your your party, we have a call regarding your party, but your neighbor is the one that actually called us. So even if the neighbor doesn't want to be a witness, the officer has ways of determining uh where the source of noise is coming from. So they they they've done this a lot and they know what to do. So when they approach the property, they don't always pull to the front door. They would park a few distance away, they would listen and then they will move a little bit closer and then if the noise doesn't dissipate, then they will go to the property owner and knock on the door. And one one city I was in, what we did is a two-part process. Um, you have the police, which you are correct. Many of these calls come in at night um for parking andor noise. So there's police calls and then if there's so many violations, then code enforcement's the agency that then follows up during the day and during the business hours and their permit could get pulled if there's so many violations. So this sort of a two-part process.

Okay. Council member, I also want to add that uh a few years back when these regulations were being put together, I specifically remember something that the planning commission recommended to be included that made it into the regulations, and that is for all short-term rental properties to install a noise monitoring device capable of alerting the owner or agent in the case of outdoor noise in excess of 65 dB. we could use that and write, you know, to beef it up so that our code and or PD have access to that data so that they know when it's triggered because there was too much noise. Okay. Because I was going to say our our police department is already they already have enough to to do the you know with other issues going on than to respond to to noise complaints. I I think that's a it's a good idea. um if and again I know people are coming in uh for for various different reasons right but primarily and I think this was mentioned because of major big events like the raves and other things that are going on at the city as well I I think it would be important for us and I know it's not related directly to this but it somewhat is uh the events that are taking place in the city u there are some some events that we charge a per ticket fee that are upwards of $7. And then there's other events that occur that there there's a zero ticket fee. And so we need to kind of put that kind of align it because those are that are being overcharged. They're hesitant to have events. Uh in fact, I'm always hearing that it's so restrictive they're not able to have events because the cost per ticket is so high. But then there's other events that are taking place. They're at at zero. And so perhaps we need to find somewhere where it's uh even for everybody. But I my question

is, are we able to utilize some of those fees per ticket to help with the enforcement of of some of these short-term rentals, right? Because if if a majority of them of of of individuals or or people are coming in specifically for that, then there is an impact to our city, to our streets, to our residents, to our neighborhoods, right? And so perhaps, and I and I don't know who to direct this to. I I'm not sure if there's if this is something that we can actually do. I I would hope that we can kind of look at the per ticket fee where some are so restrictive that they're not actually taking place. And then there's some that don't have a per ticket fee at all. And so somewhere in the middle where some some are seven, some are zero. Perhaps two is a good I I don't know what that looks like. But my question is if for every special event uh and I'm talking about the big major events, right, the ones that bring in a 100,000 people per weekend or whatever it is or a smaller scale, midscale, are we able to assess a per ticket fee and utilize that those fees for enforcement of short-term rentals? And that would be my kind of my last suggestion request, I guess, for information as well. and no more mayor.

Uh do you want to respond to that or just Okay. So um it it um so the the biggest events we have in the city from my perspective are the raves uh you know we know when we have them uh three or four times a year and it brings a lot of people in and it's so pervasive that we actually let staff go home early because they they actually use our parking structure. So um the the fundamental issue here is what kinds of agreements do we have with the operators of the rave events? If we are letting them use our parking uh we can you know ask for a fraction of whatever it is. I I think it depends on how we can negotiate a transaction. If we identify the issues because I know that code enforcement actually plays a big role in a rave events because some of the events happen during the day and uh and and it gets it gets very rowdy. Uh so in a case like that, I think we just have to revisit what are the current agreements with with the rave um event um proprietors that we can actually revisit and say hey let's have a conversation here because we need to raise additional revenue. also uh to note that in certain instances they have actually offered uh to pay for staff time which has created a bit of an issue with with the HR in the past. So

thank you council great questions. Uh customer followed by um Mayor Pam followed by Council Sanchez and then Nibbara. Thank you, mayor, and thank you, staff, for the presentation, and thank you for members of the public for coming out and voicing your concerns. So, just for clarification purposes, I see here under fiscal impact that the anticipated toot transit occupancy tax associated with the program has the potential to contribute 324,000 to our general fund. But that being said, there is the potential of a cost of 16,500 for the program. So would we be safe to say that we have the there is the potential for it to contribute up to about $37,500 to it? We could say that. Okay. Thank you. And and and the reason we it's it's awarded like that is because there are two options with Decard. Uh if we do the toot portion of it, it's going to be the higher number. If you only do the enforcement portion of it, that's only $7,500 annually. So it's either 75 or 16,000.

Yeah. No, thank you for that. And then last question, in your honest opinion, would do you think we have the internal capacity to be able to keep track of these short-term rentals and also like the negative impacts that come along with it? Say like code enforcement, finding and just keeping track of them.

In my personal opinion, I think we'll do ourselves uh a favor if we know who is doing what where. Right now, we don't know. uh we we only go by complaints that are received. By going through a regulatory process, you would have to register this particular outfit. So we know what's happening and we have the opportunity to identify how do we want to regulate this industry. Uh you know like the city manager mentioned uh there are certain districts that we can allow them. Uh and there are certain districts where we don't want to allow them. The unfortunate thing, what maybe it's not unfortunate about San Bernardino is there really are there any neighborhoods that we really want to preserve uh and and some of the best neighborhoods in the city are the ones that are most amendable to actually having uh these vacation rentals in them because they have the better homes and the bigger homes and then you know more bedrooms for for people to actually rent. So in that perspective, if we're saying we want to regulate it, we want to keep it out of the college district, we want to keep it out of ward number six or ward number seven or word number five, what are we really left with? we're going to be left with those neighborhoods that have a lot of uh multif family uh units that may not be as attractive to people who are actually coming into town for a rave event who want to live in a single who want to stay in a single family home as um council member Shared actually mentioned. So by having a regulatory program we have a lot more choices. uh if we just ban it, we still have to spend money to monitor this. And you're still going to have people that are going to do it underground, but with the with the with the aid of Decard, we'll be able to find out who's actually still registering their property after we've told them

that, you know, the city has decided to ban. So either way, we're spending money. But one thing we talked about internally and I have to share this with you is uh in anticip anticipation of what city council may do tonight. We were uh going to designate at least one code enforcement officer specifically to to monitor uh to be the contact to be the point person when it comes to short-term vacation rentals monitoring etc etc. So we would have some money dedicated because I think it's important to the city. It's important to the city council to make sure that we actually are able to do that and and so uh we are going proactive. Code enforcement is doing a lot but we're still with with the um registration fees and all these other things. I think will be able to afford having one officer who just does this uh as a major part of their daily activities outside of other responsibilities.

Thank you, director Elliot. And that's all questions for me, Madam Mayor. Thank you, council member. Um council actually mayor prom kas followed by Sanchez, followed by Ibara.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh some of my uh questions have already been answered. Really good questions. So um and you almost answered my last one with the uh one enclos one code enforcement officer. Um one concern that was raised and I think that concern really is appropriate regardless of what step we take whether we ban whether we do a moratorum or we do impose strict regulations. There always has to come the issue of enforcement and how do we enforce and the questions were posed. Do we truly have the capacity to enforce? You had mentioned that you and staff had spoken about this and kind of toted the idea of having one code enforcement officer specifically designated for Airbnb or short-term rentals, I should say. But have you guys really done an analysis to see really to make this an effective program? what would it really truly take beyond code enforcement and with PD as well so that we can make sure that we do have enforcement appropriately designated for again whatever route we do choose to take council member can that's a very good question in order for us to get there we have to actually know how many are we dealing with right now we're speaking hypotheticals we're just kind of assuming right now you know you can go to Airbnb and you can search for registrations on Airbnb only for San Bernardino. You can you can kind of look at those numbers. What I can tell you is compared to other what are considered to be tourist design destinations. San Bernardino is not very high. I mean we have seasons the rave season we get a lot of people unlike other places that get people year round and that becomes an industry uh in their communities it is not an industry under you know by my

perspective and that is why to me I think it's easier to handle uh you know if we were you know in Anaheim or or we're in Lake Tahoe or in some of the other places in Northern California that have seasonal events like fishing and boating and and things like that, skiing. Uh yes, I would say I'll be more concerned about enforcement, but uh just by the nature of who we are and where we are, um I I think we can bring it under control.

Okay. And I will say I get what you're saying cuz people use these short-term rentals for a variety of reasons. Um I do have a nuisance property in my area. Um, and it's strictly a short-term rental that this individual uses as a party house, many fires, many complaints. It is in a residential area with families. Um, so my concern, much like much of my colleagues, is really our our ability to truly enforce regardless of which way we go. Um, there were some comments that were made in regards to really what we could collect. I think council member Flores said a figure about 307,500, but does that entail also if we truly are appropriately regulating like we should, does that incorporate that as well?

Um, uh, I would probably say if we actually truly regulate this industry the way we can. So, the $324,000 is just if we looked at the current numbers the way they are and we just apply, you know, a generic uh, transit occupancy tax. um um ratio to it that equals 324. But when you add in registration fees and all these other things that we are going to require hopefully I I think you're going to see that revenue actually go up. I don't think it go to the 14 million. That would be nice. Oh no. No.

The only thing I if you know obviously it's going to be what the majority of the council decides. I think everyone's brought up some really good points for banning even a moratorum while we do identify um really how we could really beef up our our code enforcement capacity and sure I I lean more towards a regulatory option. Um that's that's where I'm leaning towards but I do have an ask you know we are incumbent upon the next fiscal year budgeting process when you are going through your staffing and whatnot. I really would like for you to take that consideration to make sure when we are you know passing legislation here at the dis for things that you know are really important to community like council member Short said he's been dealing with this for 5 years. Um he's probably had a lot of constituents on his back about this. We really do have to be able to enforce it and speak to our constituents needs. So when you are doing your budgeting for staffing really please take that in consideration and I think that might speak to a little bit of what you were talking about council member Ortiz so that we can really be thoughtful in our approach.

Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you mayor. Council member Sanchez followed by council member Ibara.

Where's the council leaning on this? Council member Sheret you had uh you had a proposal. What was it? Well, I I made a motion to ban and and I I'm I think if I I did find the regulations from um ordinance number 1660 and I've read through that and and the regula rate regulations are pretty I mean for example no parking on the street um high fire dangered areas other how are we going to enforce those? Those are the only concerns. I'm all for, you know, I I'm not big on regulations, but in this case, I think in order to protect our citizens, we need to reg regulate this pretty heavily. So, how do we how do who enforces the no parking on streets, for example? And is that is that just if there's let's say there's a group of people staying in the house that are parked off the street, but they're going to invite five other couples that are going to park on the street. Are they are they required to park off street as well if they're only going to be there for the party for three or four or five hours?

I mean, and how do we regulate that? That's what I think we all talked about before we finally got we kind of threw our hands up and said regulation is going to be very very difficult. Um or enforcement of regulation.

Enforcement of regulation could be difficult. Even in places where uh there is very strict regulation, you still find uh loopholes uh in those regulations. Uh in answer to your question, just straight up, so if you sign an agreement that said uh your your guests or visitors cannot park on the street, you're only limited to parking on the driveway. You're going to be held responsible for that. And so when a uh police officer uh kind of drives by, they can look at uh you know u license plate numbers as to which who So they're going to police officers are going to know that that's an Airbnb.

Oh no, no. I mean, so they're not going to know it's an NBNB, but they would know whether or not if a call came to a particular location, for example, and they see vehicles. I think part of their research would be looking at who do these vehicles belong to? Is it registered somebody in San Bernardino or is it somebody from somewhere else? And and so that that kind of leads to other types of things. But if I if I could clarify to answer your question to answer your question, Theodore, Council Member Sanchez, I I I could live with regulation,

but I'm telling you right now that that $335,000 is not going to cover the cost of enforcement, and it's not going to be enforced. and and um we're not going to be enforce it able to enforce it the way we'd like to. So, but I I can I can go with regulation. Uh I think a ban is what we all decided later earlier was that was the easiest way to do it because then there's no questions. If someone's doing it, we go in and find them and and tell them they're they're illegal. The uh the issue with a ban though is that a ban requires a regulatory apparatus. It's just so that's the thing is yeah so the thing is if we say regulate we mean regulate let them operate and regulate put parameters around how they operate if we say ban there still needs to be that apparatus in place to make sure that they are not operating. It's the the objective is different but it still requires that apparatus. So this idea that well we don't have the apparatus in place to regulate well do we have the apparatus in place to ban and that's the issue now I can see that you're relying on neighbors you're relying on neighbors to to to call in

I yield my time so you can speak council member shad no but you're this is the thing is that um it's there is a little bit of more of a nuanced and it's more labor intensive more laborious for regulation because now it's not, hey, we find that there's um a location that's operating illegally. Now it's well, are they outside of the bounds of our regulatory our municipal code? And so I'm kind of going back and forth. I want to try the option of regulating um and then at a future date if we see that this isn't working just like we have with fireworks maybe the idea of coming back with a ban might work but I'd like to try the option of regulating before we do an outright ban is that a motion

there there's a motion on the floor right by council artis let's go through the well no I don't think there was a motion no there wasn't a second there there was a second okay so there I'll go ahead and make the motion right now that I'd like to go with option two, introduce and read by title only and way further reading of ordinance number municipal code 1660 of the mayor and city council of the city of San Bernardino adopting a regulatory program which would amend section 19.02.050 chapter 19.04 of the uh city of San Bernardino development code for short ter short-term rentals and vacation rentals in the city of San Bernardino. Thank you. There's a motion.

I'd like to second that, but would I'm trying to find a happy medium between all of my council colleagues up here because you guys have all brought up some really really good points. Would you guys be amanable to doing this the regul regulatory option but a 2-year program and during that two years we have the sufficient time to do what council member Ortiz suggested ensuring that we do the necessary studies and research to make sure that we have the appropriate enforcement regulations. It may find that we don't and at that time we come back and we may have to change what we're doing. Is that are you meaningful to that?

Absolutely. It wouldn't be part of the uh ordinance language. There is no sunset to an ordinance that goes into the municipal code, but it would go in as direction to staff to return in two calendar. What? No, what two years uh 24 months um for a status update and potential ban. I don't know. Is that is that fine with you? Uh council member, Mr. City attorney uh city city manager.

So, just two clarifications, ma'am, mayor and council. one, if we did that like a pilot, two-year pilot is what you're requesting. Um, can we start it on the date that we start the program so it' be effective whatever date we start the program because obviously we wouldn't start it today. It'll take a little time to implement. Second, I want to make a a clarification. So, there was a question about parking and I can't remember who asked the question, but okay. So, um, the police can only regulate and enforce laws that are municipal code or state law. So, they would not be able to, in my experience, and the police can come up and correct me if I'm wrong, but in my experience, they cannot enforce like you're a short-term rental, so we're going to enforce parking with you, but not with your neighbor who's not short-term. But what they could do is they could document it if they're called out on that. But more likely, what it would be, it would be a complaint from the neighbor to code enforcement and then that would be documented the next day. Usually what they do is send pictures or things like that. That is a code enforcement issue because they have a regulatory code issue that they have agreed to do the short-term rental that they're not going to do parking. So that's a code enforcement, not re really a police issue.

Thank you. So there's a motion. Can we repeat that motion just so we are clear? I basically read half the ordinance. So don't don't do that clerk for her to repeat. Well, the clarification isn't is it going to be a two-year pilot program, but approving the um section number two of the staff recommendation? Is it that's the motion? Is there a second to that? I'll second that. There's a second. Okay. Thank you, Mayor M. City attorney. Mayor, if I may, Mr. City attorney, then I can That's in That's That's based on the one moment.

Well, I want to add to that. That's based on the resolution of 1660, correct? Those regulations. And my question only would be if if we would maybe have a little time to really study those and add to them maybe uh if I had if I've gone through them. I found them and I've gone through them and if I had something that stuck out to me I can call you and say let's add this as a regulation. Absolutely. I mean the question was actually going to ask this because it'll have to come back to us anyway.

What are some specific regulations that you would like to see that are different from what is written on that paper? uh because this is the time I mean if if we're going to go this route of regulation what do we really want and and once we know that then we can start working on on the on the specific language of it. If we just go by what we currently have that's what we're going to get. Uh if we if you have specific desires this is the time to to throw it in so that we can go and evaluate them. So when you say this is the time, not necessarily this moment but but during this process process because it'll have to come back for us for final approval. I need to clarify that uh this is a first reading at the second reading in adoption. There can only be non-substantive changes. So the answer to your question is no. You cannot propose substantive changes the next time you're going to see for second reading. So if you want to propo if you need some more time to study if you want to propose some additional things uh and if some of of you want to do that as well I don't know how many of you really took a look at those regulations staff did not review them with you for what they actually say and for those of you that are new uh you would have seen them for the first time. My recommendation would be if some of you feel that way to kick this out and continue the public hearing, maybe to the next meeting to study the regulations and if you have proposals to provide them to staff. If you're prepared to proceed tonight and you actually do the first reading tonight, then no substantive changes can be brought at the second reading. That doesn't mean you can't later propose to amend the ordinance once it's on the books. You can still do that. It's just you can't do that on a second reading.

Thank you for that. Um council, would you be amenable to continuing this because it sounds like there's a lot of um input that council would like to provide to staff so it gives more time to be thorough because this is a public hearing. We need to notice to or we need to continue to a date certain so which you need a give me a date that works for everyone needs to hear give me a date that works so that we can continue it to that date. Does your next meeting 30 days council member shared or how do you need next? Sorry. Was that about what we just talked about? Yes. To continue the meeting to continue the public hearing to a meeting. I think it could be done in two weeks. Dr. Mike, please. One at a time. One at a time. Okay. So, council member Sharet, would you be interested to continue to uh 30 days or two meetings from now?

Yeah. Not 5 years. Not 5 years. Two meetings from now. Would that be sufficient? Yeah. I I I think could be done two weeks but 30 days is fine. So second meeting in March would that be amendable? I think that gives enough time for staff. I'll make a motion to continue the uh this public hearing to the second meeting second regularly scheduled meeting in March. Okay. And I will second them. Thank you council members. Madam city clerk I'll take a voice. I still have my comment here. Oh before we continue council member Ibara had a comment because you guys were just jumping in. Catherine Ray Barara, please provide your comments.

I've been very patiently here waiting. Um, my questions would have to be um to our city staff regarding Decker Technologies. I see the proposal dated September and I think they only um according to I don't know if you have page number 11 on their proposal. It says pricing valid for 90 days. We're over 90 days. Um are they still granting that that pricing on their proposal even though it's been over the 90 days? Council mean bar that's a very good question. We'll reach back out to them again and and let them know that we have an interest in maintaining the current pricing and they have to convince us why the price would go up. But

uh it was done in September because we have been trying to get this item uh before the city council before now. So yeah, I I remember Fred for the longest time has been talking about the Airbnbs. Um the other item I had a question on. I know it says 7,500 annually and but then there's on page 10 of their contract it says we only charge fees on a per property not per listing basis. What exactly then is the seven um what will be the additional charge besides the 7500

or if that's going to include the current properties? Yeah, I I think the 7500 is just an estimate of the number of um uh properties that they consider are already conducting this kind of activity. But again, if uh at the next review they realize that maybe 10% has dropped off or it's been increased by 20%. Those numbers could come back looking a little bit differently. So,

okay. And I know when I go to national conferences um we have several other companies that do the same type of work. Will you be open to um getting proposals from them also? We can we have to do an RFP process of course but I'm I'm on board with what our my colleagues have said regulation. Um I'm okay with that. I just want to make sure that we have um proper pricing for having a company do the work that they do. Um, not to say anything, you know, I I I personally don't know the work that they've done, but that they've done it to other cities. That speaks volumes. Um, because we do need to regulate um those businesses. They are businesses. They're not private family single home owners. They are making money off of this. they are causing I I personally don't have many in my ward um of rentals like this of this sort but I do know that I've heard from community members that live in the north end and they experience those fireworks they experiences the the loud um um noise throughout the weekend whether they go a lot of them are from the rave unfortunately and here to blow up fireworks but um I just want to make sure that these contracts are the best for the that they're not going to um further cause u work for our staff because it seems like they do a lot of it already. They're tracking them. They know who's doing it and who's not. Um so that that in itself is helping a lot of staff staff work. Um I just want to make sure that it is still um they're still okay with the pricing or if we need to open it up to other possible companies to do the same scope of work if we can do that. And I think that will come later on as we're working on whole regulations and the policies.

Absolutely. Okay. Thank you. Just so please. Thank you, council member. Thank you for your patience and apologize for that. Um but we do have a motion and second to continue this item to the second regular meeting in March. Madam City clerk, council member Sanchez, yes. Council member Barara, yes. Council member Figueroa, yes. Council member Sheret, yes. Mayor Proim Canos, yes. Council member Flores, yes. Council member Ortiz. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Mayor, thank you. Sanchos.

Yes. I I want to clarify for the public. Um I know Mike Hartley out there has been dying to speak on this issue. I want you to know that you are allowed to speak for both a public hearing as well as the regular meeting cuz you didn't speak and that did uh that it that did perplex. So you were allowed to speak on this issue. You're allowed to speak on both the public hearing as well as the regular meeting in the future. So, you know, thank you, council member. All right, we will now move on to city manager update. Mr. City Manager,

ma'am, mayor and city council, I want to give a um a relatively quick update. Um, the Sun San Bernardino County Transportation Agency will be closing the underpass and all ramps in both directions for 55 hours from 900 p.m. on Friday, February 27th through 4:00 a.m. on Monday, March 2nd. The work is to put the final configuration of the diverging Diamond Interchange in place. The new configuration, which is expected to reduce congestion at one of San Bernardino's busiest interchanges, will open to traffic on Monday at the at the conclusion of the closure. I'm sorry, mayor. Can I just

because I was at the uh public safety commissioner meeting and that dates that they provided were not the same due to the weather.

Perfect. Thank you. Just wanted to make sure those were accurate. Thank you. Since 1983, car enthusiasts have been coming out. Thank Thank you for the question, by the way. Have been coming out um each summer to drive their vintage cars across the country in great race for the chance to win a share of $160,000 in prize prizes. This year, the city has been named the host of the second to last stage of this year's 17day race on Saturday, June 27th in partnership with Inland Empire 66ers. The race will follow route 6, Route 66 from Springfield, Illinois to Pasadena to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the historic road. Last week, county parks celebrate the completion of the latest 3.8 mile stretch of trail complete with new bridges, coverts, and access points. Cyclists, walkers, and joggers now have se 11 miles of continuous class one trail along the Santa Ana River Trail running from Redlands through all of San Bernardino to the Riverside County line. Eventually, the trail will encompass 22 miles in San Bernardino County starting in the foothills of Manton. The the full project will connect with Riverside and Orange counties and extend all the way to the Pacific Ocean. For those that are not aware, a class one trail would mean that it's fully protected. Uh the Lunar Fest is coming this Saturday. Celebrate the year of the horse at the 3rd annual Lunar New Year Festival at the Court Street Square on Saturday, February 21st from 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. Enjoy live entertainment, food, music, art, and the famous lion dance. The event is free to attend. Um, in addition, public works will be hosting a community workshop as part of

the baseline street safety study on Tuesday, March 3rd from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the Felheim Library. Attendees can learn from learn more about the project and provide input about potential improvements to the corridor. Finally, um, at the council's direction, a meeting of the city's charter review commission has been set for Wednesday, February 25th at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held in the third floor boardroom at 2011 Northeast Street. Parking is available on the top level of the city hall parking structure. And the friends of the San Bernardino Public Library will be holding the its spring book sale on February 28th and March 7th from 10:00 a.m. until 400 p.m. at the library. Most books, magazines, DVDs, and the music will be on sale for $1 or less. Proceeds from the sale will help support programs at all four city libraries. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. City Manager. We will now move on to public comments. Thank you for your patience. Um, at this time, public comments will be heard for items on the open session and items not on the agenda to address the city council. Everyone must complete a speaker card and provide it to the city clerk. Only those speaker cards turned into the city clerk will be allowed to address the city council. No late cards will be accepted. Each person should state their name for the record before beginning their comments. As your name is called, please line up behind the podium. We have two podiums available for your convenience. Please proceed to either one as soon as your name is called. Please note your name will be will only be called once. If you do not respond when called, you may forfeit your opportunity to speak. If you require Spanish interpretation, we do have interpreter on site. Please raise your hand at this time to indicate if you need uh interpreting assistance. In addition, we have interpreting listening devices available in the back. We ask that you please observe proper decorum and do not speak out of turn or make comments from your seat. If you wish to address the mayor and city council, please be sure to submit a speaker slip. If you speak out of turn or disrupt the meeting, a warning may be given and or you will be asked to leave the meeting pursuant to government code section 54957.9 and penal code 403. Secretary. Secretary. Foreign

Thank you. Gracias. I believe there's a member of the public who raised her hand for uh translation assistance. Is that correct? Do you need translation assistance? No. Okay, got it. Okay, great. Thank you. We have 40 speakers tonight. Uh each speaker will have three minutes. When you hear your name, please come up to the podium. Tony Lara, Megan Key, Taisa Moody, Al Palazo, Mike Hartley, Christian Shaughnessy, Kim Calvin, Sarah Robles, Eric Marquez, Dolores Armstead, Barbara Sky, Joe Solace, Jim Smith, John Scholenburgger, Virginia Marquez, Tim Prince, Victor Suarez, Pascal Garcia, Alberto Hernandez, Rosario Kiares.

Thank you. Please turn on your mic and state your name for the record.

Mike Hartley. I always come to these meetings calm and I can tell you right now, my heart is pounding after listening to you guys discuss Airbnbs. If Mr. Elliott was here right now, which I'm a little upset he left, I was going to tell him if he worked for me, I'd fire him right now on the spot. He doesn't know his own department's code enforcement. We have one enforcement in the city, and that's the police. That's it. He's going to relegate one code enforcement officer for your Airbnbs. What a croc of crap. It's a croc of crap. I am the one who follows up on my CRM. I have to send an email to find out what's going on with them. What I would ask Elliot before you get into the Airbnbs, I want answers on all my CRM. Where do we stand on them? Where citations given? I think three and four months going on and on is too long. But he can handle Airbnbs. Who's paying that man? the people who have Airbnbs. Is corruption going on? I'm telling you right now, that man has his head up his ass. I can run that department. $7,500. Give me $3500 and I'll tell you where all the Airbnbs are. That's a croc of cra. Don't you listen to the guy. He has his head up his butt. I don't know where he is right now, but I wish he was here.

Right there. Stay right here. I would fire you in a minute, sir. You better learn your department. You have 18 code enforcement officers, one lead officer, and a manager. And let me tell you something, mayor. Sir, sir, please focus on the comments and not um he's the one who called. I understand, but let's Yes. It's it it's it's sort of like when you fight, if you stand up,

you're going to get knocked out. So, you're right, Theodore. I should have seen that and I should have been able to speak on that item, too, and I didn't catch it. But I can tell you, I wish I had 15 minutes to talk to you, but I only get three, so we'll leave it at that. You know, I'm upset about it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Al Pazo. I'm commenting on item 22, the specific plan for Mount Vernon. Mayor, council members, city manager, assistant city manager, directors, I beg you, I beg you, I have a specific plan. There are three of you on the dis that have taken my tour. This has been my lifelong dream. I can tell you every partial, how to build it, how to address every category that you have here. I can give you 10 times what I gave you two weeks ago on the carousel mall. I can tell you the zoning changes. If you don't meet with me, you're denying the people of San Bernardino the economic opportunities that all my life I've been preaching. That's all I want to share my ideas. And Mount Vernon is my dream. This is a vat for Mount Vernon who has traveled the world. I want to make it a destination our Paris. I've been to these Rome Paris and I go to Mount Vernon and I Oh yeah, we can do that. When I'm in Paris at the on the R river at a cafe looking at the Lou. Hey, that's nice around the placita. We can do mixed use how to bring businesses. Who does that? traveled the world and thinks about Mount Vernon. This guy who was told when I was in elementary school and I went to your neighborhood, Fresh Sheret, trick-or-treating in the sixth grade and they said, "You don't look like you live in this neighborhood." What were they telling me? Go back to the west side. Well, there. Mount Vernon.

When I went to college, there were only 20 Latinos and nobody identified me as a Latino cuz I have an Italian last name, but my mother was Mexican and she spoke Spanish. I told her, "Send me the Javier Solis album. You guys know what I'm saying. I know you speak Spanish. Mario, you took my tour recently. Juan, you took it years ago. Sandra, you took it twice. Just hear my ideas. Nobody's going to give you the ideas that I have. I bring 35 years of professional experience. I know San Badino and I know why we've been left behind. Our doning is so out of date. Please give me this dream. Meet with me. Put pressure on this your staff to meet with me.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Tony Lara. I come at you as a group. We're from West 19th Street. Uh just notify you uh the situation that we're having. Uh the street has a downhill slope. So when it rains uh all the water goes down. I live in the culdeac. I live in the last house. Um all I have is a man-made trench that the trench takes it all the way to 17th Street in Massachusetts. Okay. Now we have vegetation. We have transates. We have trash and the neighbor put a fence on top of it. Now with that fence that's that turns into a dam. You get any debris in there, it's it's a horror story. I really have 200 plus sandbags all around my house and cameras when it rains, you know. Um, we have been rescued. Me and my mother's been rescued before. Um, and um, I actually uh contracted engineers to see what can what can I do to resolve this issue. They all say I needed a storm drain or street gutters. I have none of that. Okay. And one of the factors I don't have my mom with me and I put her in a nursing home is because it gets flooded. I'm not going to put her in this situation. She gets really really really sad and it's it's a horror story. I'm not going to put her in that situation. I have done numerous of CRM. These people too have done CRM. We have done CRM. They get closed. Um we need some relief. That's all I'm asking you. Thank you.

Thank you staff. You're taking your input of public comments right Mr. city manager. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening, folks. I promise not to speak as long as Councilman Fred Shred did about Airbnbs. Anyway, my name is Christian Shaughnessy. I'm a candidate running for the second ward here in San Bernardino. Tonight, you see something remarkable in this room. Tens of union members have arrived here to speak in favor of a community workforce agreement. Working families showed up. The question is why did it take seven years for Councilwoman Ibar to show up for them? Councilwoman Ibar has been in office for seven years. In all that time, she never once meaningfully brought up a community workforce agreement to the council. But 5 days, 5 days after the Inland Empire Labor Council, representing over 90 unions and 400,000 working families endorsed her opponent, me, suddenly Sandra Bar puts a community workforce agreement on the agenda. Magic has happened, my friends. Magic in the city of San Bernardino. But that's not leadership. That's being a Johnny come lately. That is desperation in the face of momentum. And let's be clear, this isn't even the full community benefits agreement. the people and myself have been asking for for years. It's just part of it's just part of one and it wasn't important enough for a special meeting. Even though Councilwoman Nabar had no problem voting for a special meeting to end the people's right to vote for mayor, she had no problem voting for a special meeting to fire city volunteer and commissioner. Special meetings, you see, are for personal vendettas. Electiony year agenda items are for working families. That tells you everything you need to know about her priorities. The union members in this room didn't just show up tonight. They've been showing up on job sites, on picket lines, in their communities for years, organizing hard and long against wage theft, unfair labor practices. They deserve a representative who fights for them from day one and who has fought for them years long before they ever ran for office. Not one who suddenly discovers

labor when she's scared of losing her seat. I'm proud to be the only one in my race to have been endorsed by the Inland Empire Labor Council AFL CIO, the American heroes in Team Ser 1932, who represent our city employees, and we're organizing our long-suffering warehouse workers, UA local 364, other unions I can't say because of the time limit, and dozens of elected officials, small business, and community leaders. I didn't wait 4 months before an election to stand with working families. I've been doing this work my whole life, and I have the receipts. The residents of the Second W deserve integrity. They deserve consistency. They deserve a council member who shows up not just when it's election season. When the time comes, my friends, vote for change in W 2. Vote for Christian Shaughnessy. And just like what brother Louie Lopez said in these chambers not too long ago, vote them out. Wo two deserves better. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Hello. My name is Eric Marquez and for some reason someone told me the other day that they didn't know I was running. So I've come here to make myself clear. I am running for city council in the fourth ward against Fred Sheret because he has been in office since I was seven. I know I look young, but that's still a very long time. and he has done nothing to bring he has brought nothing to the table except broken promises and instability to San Bernardino. Where I support law enforcement, he suggests to get rid of the police department. I mean that doesn't sound right to me. And I also have a very special item, item number 19 I would like to discuss. Now it discusses uh direct staff to present to city council within 60 days a pilot program to temporary place selected businesses. Specifically, I feel like this should go to the downtown advisory committee which is missing half its members. And also, no one knows when the last time it was assembled. Okay, I'm being dramatic. I don't know when the last time it was assembled, but as it's written, it is only convened when needed. Now, for item 19, it is needed, or else it'll be exactly the same situation as the charter amendment Theodore Sanchez and Fred Sheret supported in that emergency meeting. rather than going through the charter committee, they went to the city staff and just wanted to order them to do their job.

And also, I'm going to continue talking for the next minute because you guys waste our time during that first item about rentals. like, oh my god, I met so many people walking out that were like, I cannot stay like 10 more minutes because I have a schedule to keep and also I thought this would be over way sooner. I cannot get home on time if I stay the whole time or just to say my comment. I've met people outside the library saying that they had to leave and miss saying their public comment in support or against some of these items which you need to hear about from the people because a public voice is necessary for a fair government to run and there's still 15 seconds. So, uh Fred tried to get rid of the police department. Uh he did get rid of the fire department and he put our city into bankruptcy and have a nice day.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening. My name is Phil Walls. I'm here with the United States Small Business Administration. And the reason we are here is because uh following the storms that occurred in this area between December 16th and 26th, the agency declared a disaster at the request of the state. And what that means for the residents and businesses here, whether they be um businesses, nonprofits, homeowners, or renters, if they suffered structural damage or uh lost property, um they're eligible for disaster loans through the Small Business Administration. So, um, those loans are, uh, businesses are eligible for up to $2 million. Homeowners are eligible for up to $600,000, and renters are eligible for up to $100,000. And again, this is to repair structures and replace property that was lost in the storms. Um, we're holding a webinar on the 24th at 2 p.m. I believe we sent the information to the clerk. Um, some of the emails bounced back, so I wanted to show up um, get a couple hours entertainment and, uh, and let you all know in person. Um, I do these all around the country. By the way, this has been, um, interesting. But, um, back to what I was saying. I brought some information here that I'd like to leave with you. And, um, please get contact me if you didn't get that, uh, the information about the webinar and what we're asking of you. Um, I'd also love it if you could contact me and with any other ideas on how to get the word out to your constituents. Um, I think that's about all I have. So, I'm going to give y'all back a minute and 30 seconds cuz I know you can use it.

Thank you. Thank you for the valuable information. Appreciate that. Next speaker, please state your name.

Bring back Zoom public comment. Uh, where is the forensic audit? Hella tren. We need to do a forensic audit on Theodore and Old Man Fred and we need to do a forensic audit when we went bankrupt all the way to present time. Uh you said that we were going to do it. You still haven't did it. And then um no disrespect, but you vetoing something. I ain't really buying it. I think your job was just on the line. That's why you vetoed it. Uh besides that, where's that same passion at when we were dealing with the uh Carousel Mall? Where was that passion at when we were dealing with the Oxbow? You know, you had the power to stop certain things and you allowed it just like John Valdivia's court case. We're paying his legal fees, but you were the HR lady. So, you should have stepped up when you were the HR lady and then you should have stepped up even then to stop that uh us paying for his court fees as well. But, uh Mario, that last meeting, that's what's up. You stood up to Theodore Sanchez. But it's crazy how Theodore Sanchez steady button his uh biz steady button into your ward and his ward sucks. Look like a crack house. Theodore Sanchez, man, you need to go. You a scum. You need to go. Oh man, Fred, you a scum. You need to go. We I ain't talking to Ortiz, but we need a clean house. Kim Kas, man, to be honest, you kind of disappoint me. For a sister that look like me, you sold us out real quick. That uh that hidden gym up over there by Cal State San Bernardino with the hang gliding. You got rid of that to build some apartments. Wasn't even zoned, right? So now you guys got to go fix the zoning just to build the apartments. So hopefully those apartments fall before people even move in it. Uh u Sandra Abara, you just a waste of space. You need to go too. We sitting here worried about we're sitting here worried about um I don't want to say petty things, but we got real going on, y'all. We got ICE going on. The homeless shelter 2020, we still don't even have a homeless shelter. and you're passionate about some uh u short-term rentals, you should

be passionate about the homeless shelter and and building up the community economically. You know what I mean? So, Juan, you need to go to as well. But, uh what else? Uh oh, yeah, to the POA. PO, please stop supporting these corrupted ass politicians. Stop. And then, uh it's a brother that y'all shot in the back named Robert Brown and we paid $5 million. That police officer needs to get fired. Uh, Chief ain't here, so I can't say it to him. Uh, ICE. Uh, what else? Uh, yeah. And we need to do that forensic audit. Do that forensic audit for real. For real. Follow the money. Then we can find out what really going on with our money.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Okay. Dolores Armstead. Um, I got several comments. First of all, I want to thank the council again for wasting my tax dollar on another special meeting last week regarding Dr. Ortiz. You just can't stop your hatefest and waste my tax dollars. The only one benefiting is the attorney. He keeps making money on you cuz you keep having these hatefest special meetings. Please stop. Ward one Sanchez, you listed all the items and item number, I think 19. All the items that Amy Malone stated at the last council meeting and on her website. You just took all her ideas trying to claim them as yours. They are Miss Malone's. You have you have been here two terms. Two terms. And what have you done? Not a damn thing. Look at our downtown. Nada. Now you want to steal someone else's ideas as if they weren't yours. Look at the cities around us. They're all progressing. We are the seat of the council. Have no city hall, no restaurants, no shops. We look like a dump. We're considered one of the worst places to live in the country and you're not helping. You have the main part and you haven't done a damn thing. Now you want to steal someone else's ideas as if you came up with them. The Olympics are coming. We're going to be missing out. All the other cities will be fine, but we're going to miss out. on the Salvation Army item number nine. We keep seeing funding going to the Salvation Army, Lutheran Services, Family Services, other nonprofits. What we want is a report on what they are doing with all that money. Who's getting served? What was served? How often? We need an audit. They're getting money. Where is it going? You keep giving money. You're going to give some more money. Where is it going?

Oh, ward five. You are the great one. At the last meeting, you attacked work for the approval of work on State Street University. It is not city general funds. It was already approved years ago. Instead of hating on Ward 6, take care of W 5. In September, you made a very unprofessional fiasco of blaming uh Dr. Ortiz for the oxbow. What have you done? It's been years. Where is it? What is it going? What is the update? You should be ashamed. Instead of collaborating and working with Dr. Ortiz to clean up that death pile, you want to keep uh complaining about what she's doing. Clean up Ward Five. The streets look like hell. Palm in uh across from Denny's. That should have been developed years ago. What are you doing? What are you doing? It looks like it looks like crazy. What are you doing? Instead of attacking someone else, leave Ward Six alone. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Sarah. And I'll be speaking. I wasn't able to make the close session, so uh just a general open um comment on that. Um, I submit this comment for the public record to address the city's ongoing handling of the litigation involving Ortiz versus the city of San Bernardino and to express serious concern regarding the city's actions as they relate to constitutional due process, equal protection under the law and fiscal accountability. At the core of this matter is a 14th amendment to the United States Constitution which guarantees equal protection of the laws and the right to due process. Ortiz alleges that while she was a private resident um an illegal inquiry was conducted on her through the KLT system. Rather than responding to this allegation with a neutral and transparent investigation, the city publicly denounced her claims as false and frivolous before any independent inquiry, hearing, or due process safeguards took place. Public denunciation in advance of due process risks retaliation, defamation, and unequal treatment and undermines public confidence that the city applies the law fairly and impartially. Moreover, if the case was in fact deemed frivolous and meritless, then why are expensive special counsel strategy meetings continue to be called and by who? Equally troubling is what did not occur. The city conducted no meaningful or transparent investigation. Key eyewitnesses to admissions and conversations were never interviewed and no neutral factf finding process was initiated despite what your press release alleged. Your press release indicated, and I quote, "An independent investigator hired by the city of San Bernardino

confirmed that no one concluded, I'm sorry, no one conducted an illegal search on the Klet system, which is heavily regulated." That is a press release that you indicated. You're going on record indicating nothing took place. The city has held multiple close session meetings, retained outside council at significant uh costs, and now may face claims filed by the police chief and the POA president seeking indemnification. We are ultimately going to be required to fund the legal defense of these individuals who are accused of misconduct. if you accept these claims. Having said this, I'm entering a formal request that you approve the release of all Steven Larson's findings for full disclosure and transparency. If in fact the findings were unfounded, we would like to see and review for ourselves. While we're on the subject, please release the entire investigative report by the JL group concerning Kimberly Calvin.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening, uh, honorable mayor, city council members, and the city of San Bernardino. My name is Virginia Marquez, and I'm a lifelong resident of our city and currently a candidate for the first ward. Can you please stop speaking to each other and disrespecting me? This time belongs to us, the public. I would like to address some remarks that were given by First W Council Member Sanchez during a recent talk show interview. Council member Sanchez, you were very disingenuous during your interview when you discussed the fact that the proposed charter amendment became muddled during the council's lengthy discussion. From all indications given during the meeting, your intentions to remove the full-time mayor of our city became very clear very early on and your efforts failed miserably. You are the ring leader of the circus attempting to hang on to the little power that you have left. No campaign signs or glossy mailers with your name and pictures on them will save your campaign at this point. Your credibility is shot and the damage has already been done. First word residents are embarrassed by your behavior and inadequate leadership. Is this the legacy that you would like to leave? You have a few months left to serve the remainder of your term. Redeem yourself. Drive around our ward and take notes on areas that need infrastructure repairs. Identify areas that need illegal dumping removal. Drive at night to complete a lighting assessment and just take the time to listen to what our business community has to say. And equally important, listen to the constituents and find out what is important to us. Council member Sanchez, you have taken an oath as an elected official to serve our community. Can you name five achievements that you have completed during your time in office? I cannot think of any. Instead, you thrive on chaos, dysfunction, negativity, and you take joy in inflicting pain onto others. You and some of your colleagues are

running the city to the ground, and I am not having it. First word residents, you have an opportunity to vote. Council member Sanchez out. Please vote on June 2nd and let your voice be heard. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening, council. My name is Ron Alvarado and I am running for Sanernardino Council Ward 1. As a lifelong Sanernardino resident, I am deeply invested in our community's future. I am a devoted husband, a father to a daughter enrolled in a local elementary school, which fuels my passion for ensuring that our children grow up in a thriving environment. I am very active in my community and serve in many different capacities, many on the city commissions such as board member on the Omnitrans transfer writer uh advisory council. My background as a fraud investigator for the county along with nearly six years of experience and membership with Teamsters Local 1932 has equipped me with a strong understanding of municipal operations. With a master of public administration focused on financial management and a master of science and information systems technology, I am prepared to take the challenges ahead. When elected, I will p prioritize fiscal accountability through rigorous audits and transparent budgeting. I aim to bring tangible improvements to our neighborhoods, including enhanced lighting, road paving, addressing homelessness with compassion and blight removal. We must ensure community workforce agreements, PLA's, CBAs are enacted, and not just enacted, but that they are enacted in good faith with actual enforcement mechanisms. We have to bring our partners are the unions and the workforce and the working families to the table. Together we can build a ward one that reflects our community's values. I am Ron Alvarado. I am running for San Marino City Council Ward 1 and I'm looking forward to your vote on June 2nd. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker. Please state your name.

Yes. My name is James Smith. Uh, I'm a lifetime resident here of the city of San Bernardino and the chairman of the arts and historical preservation commission. Also a state president of the Native Sons of the Golden West and also a proud member, longtime member of the Rotary Club of San Bernardino. And I'm very pleased to say that we had an excellent program last Tuesday at our Rotary meeting. Uh our uh guests were uh Luis O'Hara who uh is with the we are the change foundation. You saw the presentation tonight. That's a tremendous thing happening in the city of San Bernardino. Some very positive things are happening now for the city of San Bernardino. Also the uh council person uh was part of the program uh was very well attended and well well wellreceived. The Rotary Club of San Bernardino has been is the oldest Rotary Club in the city of San Bernardino and I'm a proud member of that organization and we were proud to have them as our as our as our program last Tuesday. Um, also I wanted to give a big shout out to the city manager. He's doing a tremendous job and I'll be meeting with him next Thursday morning to talk about some other positive things we can do for the city of San Bernardino. Uh I was fortunate enough to sit next to uh Alfonso uh Aras tonight with Berek. That's

another very positive thing happening in the city of San Bernardino. I'm I live in the Valente mobile home park which is in the city of San Bernardino and they will be picking up my trash tomorrow and I look forward to working with them and the leadership here in the city of San Bernardino. Uh, I strongly encourage you to u uh to support some of the uh non-incumbents for city council come June. I think you know who the incumbents are right now that are running for reelection and I'm not supporting them their reelection. I hope the city of San Frernardino was fortunate enough to knowledgeable enough to make sure that our mayors reelected and that we have some new council people on the dis. I wanted to thank you very much for your time.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening, council uh Mayor TR and our community. I wasn't going to speak tonight and and I mean I sat through the long um rental conversation and I'm still a little confused about what we are doing and I'm sure many of us are um when we have so many things going on in this city right now and I live in Ward 4. So, Council Member Sheret, I can tell you for a fact that right now, whether or not we have rentals or not is not the emergency. In February of 2023, Mayor Tran declared this city declared a state of emergency regarding homelessness. A state of emergency. I want to read what emergency means. a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situ situation requiring immediate action. I want you guys to think about that word, immediate action. This is February of 2026, 3 years later, and our unhoused are still unhoused or unsheltered. Nothing has changed. Actually, the numbers have increased. The numbers have increased. A state of emergency means we are going to do something immediately to address a problem that hasn't happened. Someone on that dis has to think about why you decided to run and sit in that seat. And Mayor Tran, I'm going to speak to you directly because I'm running for mayor and I believe that you speak to your enemies. No, I'm not going to I'm sorry cuz you're not my enemy. I apologize for saying that. but you speak to your opponents directly. I want you to think about why you ran because I

think it's gotten lost. And that happens when you have a culture of of um corruption or you have a culture of infighting. Sometime you can get lost in that and forget why you are sitting in that seat. We need you to be the mayor that you ran on. Don't talk to people about how much money you have in your war chest to beat me or anyone else because I want you to beat me on your merit. I want you to have a plan for this city. Cuz I have a plan. I want you to sit down and think about why you are running again. Because if you're just running to say you are the mayor or for photo ops, that's not what this city needs. This city needs a mayor who is ready to lead. And that's why I'm running. My name is Amy Malone and I'm running for mayor of San Bernardino.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. Fore the The ice contamin Hi, my name My name is Albert Alberto Vernandez. I'm a community leader in the San Bernardino airport community. I'm a voice for my community who cannot come because um you don't notify them. I have lived here for 40 years and I'm concerned about the contract you have with us camera company vlog. These cameras are being used to obtain

information about me and the community such as our location, vehicle data, and photographs of us. We demand transparency in the budgets. I denounce the ice abductions and ask that this council address our needs through general finances. We have the right to a safer community free from surveillance that only causes us stress. Instead of spending money on flock cameras that are just surveillance, invest in pollution reduction, parks and community centers that benefit our workers community. We demand that you stop using our data with agencies like gues or the police who instead of protecting us harm us farther. We demand that you terminate your contract with Faulk, which is the primary entity selling our information.

Thank you.

I also wanted to add Instead of you guys fighting around here um for nonsense, you should you guys should be worrying about all the kids that are at the ICE um department uh without their parents. You should be worrying about important things instead just fighting here about things that are not really important. The streets are full of ICE and they're not really help us out. Police are helping ICE and they're not really helping us out. Where is this transparency from you guys? You're not really helping us out.

Take ICE out of here, please.

Thank you. Gracias. Next speaker, please state your name. John Scholenburgger, tomorrow, Dr. Ortiz, you'll be standing in front of a judge. A judge because you went to the San Bernardino District Attorney's Public Integrity Unit for help after Chief Darren Goodman, Lieutenant Jose Laora, and the city council and the city attorney orchestrated a public attack on you and called you a liar. After you filed your claim exposing the illegal access of KLETS that Chief Goodman called you and told you about, he texted and told you about and met with you and gave you proof of. Not to mention the other members of the public that the chief told before he even met with you. Shame on you, Chief. And shame on you, District Attorney Anderson. Or should I call you the new Mike Ramos. San Bernardino, I want you to understand something. The city has put out multiple press releases saying that Treasure Ortiz is lying about this whole thing. But tomorrow, the DA is having her arraigned because she has recorded proof of the admissions by the chief of police and Lieutenant Laura. She is being charged with eavesdropping using an amplified recording device. How in the world can you be charged with an eavesdropping with eavesdropping on your own conversation with two law enforcement officers who are providing you with evidence of a crime committed against you and what amplified device? You mean her cell phone? I mean community. Do you see what they what they want to do is lie and manipulate the truth and us? Every single resident in our city should be terrified right now by the actions of the city of San Bernardino and the district attorney's office. If they'll do this to an elected official who is well known in our city and county who can provide evidence of a wrongdoing, what chance do we have of something happening to us? What what won't the chief lie about or the DA try to cover up? Okay. Why will nobody do the right thing? And I'm

calling on our attorney general, Rob Bont, to get down here and investigate this. I will be in contact with you. I'm calling you. I'm calling on you, city manager Levit, to finally place the chief of police on administrative leave and properly properly investigate your employee. The council is corrupt and it's compromised and BBK has absolutely no ethics. Now, we know how the city of Bell became the city of Bell. Oh, and by the way, I spoke to the FBPC last Thursday. Your interpretation of their rules and theirs are very different.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. for implement. Sudan, Alra, My name is Minva Navaro and I have lived in San Bernardino for over 20 years witnessing all the injustices committed against our community. Today I have come here in the with the Sanernardino airport communities to demand that they stop using our city's resources on things that do not benefit us such as the installation of cameras in our neighborhood which are being used to target our immigrant community. What our city needs are park green spaces, street lights, sidewalks, repairs to the streets damaged by the heavy trucks working for the warehouses and countless other needs that could be met with a money allocated to renewing the contract with Flock. We demand that the city council terminate that contract and we also want transparency in the use of resources for our community.

Thank you. Gracias. Next speaker, please state your name. Three. Good afternoon or good good evening. Uh, Victor Suarez. I would like to play the following to be placed on record. I got a phone call. You got a phone call to

Are you kidding? That's the way they told my wife. You need to sit down. I'm like, whatever. First of all, I thought that one one of my members was injured. Oh my god. didn't happen, right? But when you told me I was like, "Oh, never. There's no way. There's no way." Because we during that time clearly plumber and I were not in charge and something happened that you know that it was the guys the people that were in charge at that time and that is not the way we do business. ever since plumber act to work while plumber's not charging I am he said we would right and uh when I heard that I was like I'm going to burn down the house right now because that is not I remove the endorsement cancel all that stuff because it's it's not It's not it's not what plumber and I created. It's not what Jim Penman's Jim Penman has put a whole uh narrative out there that he withdrew. He withdrew his his support, his endorsement, your endorsement from him because you are being attacked by a hostile um anti- cop candidate who's lying about all of this.

And but his statement is out there in your guys's. Yeah. He's you've been out. You guys No, we have not because I wanted to have a conversation with you. Um because we're paying obviously paying the mistakes of our forefathers which is the person that was on. There's more.

So in your case, you did something about it, right? You went and did it because you believe the person that told you correct. So you were very active and we have the help from your we right unfortunately but to in order to have that exposure right to find out how bad this is right we need people to come forward and see who are the wrong groups right and that's where it's like it's like in in your case right there is there was no reason unless conduct an investigation.

I don't know what that person was doing, why he read it. If he wasn't conducting investigation, then it's cuz I was a candidate for the third one. So, thanks. Thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker, please state your name. Bernardo came. My name is Rosario. I live in the San Bernardino airport community for six years. I'm here today because I'm concerned about the city of San Bernardino's contract with the surveillance camera company Flock. These cameras are being used to collect our information. Instead of spending money renewing the contract with Flock, we need better infrastructure and more green spaces in our community. We have the opportunity to make our community a better place to live, which means being free from city and federal surveill surveillance. That's why we demand that the city council terminate the contract we flock and stop using our data against us and instead support the community.

Thank you. Gracias. Next speaker, please state your name. My name is Scott Olsen and I'm a lifetime resident of San Bernardino and I've spent decades being involved in Sano politics from the for quite a while. Well, I say directly involved. Um, first thing I'd like to do is thank all of you on the city council who voted for me to be go backing on the re charter review committee. Uh, it's kind of sad that we have somebody supposed to go over the uh Is there a problem with the timer? Yes. I apologize. Can you give me just a moment to set the timer? Okay.

Pause for a second so madam city clerk could reset the timer. You may continue.

Yeah. I'd like to thank all of you for vote that voted for me to be on that committee because it's long overdue that somebody actually gets on the committee and does something. The first time I was on the committee, I only went for two or three times. Why? Because they never talked about the charter issues. They didn't even have a copy of the charter. Their number one issue was rank choice voting that it should be in the city charter. That's not helping the city. They went years, I hear seven years. Nothing came out of that committee. In other words, there's no way to help improve the city if you don't have review. I look forward to actually honestly working on what needs to be done. Sandre, thank you very much for listening to me and being there for me. I want to say to everybody as a W second ward resident, SER is one of the best city council people I've ever worked with as far as being there for the community and listening to the community. I want to thank her for not getting involved in a lot of the drama and the petty politics even though she's attacked by it all the time. Now going back Fred, congratulations are in due for you. like to let you guys all know that Fred was last Thursday nominated again to be endorsed by the Republican Central Committee. He's been there for quite a while. He's been endorsed several times. Okay, Fred, you know, I guess if you're a member of the Republican Central Committee, we might actually think you're a Republican. Sometimes it's hard to figure that out. Now, I want to be fair, Fred, since you weren't here the last time, and I realize families first. I I I'll applaud you for that one. I called you out and it's been on all sorts of different things online. So, you probably have seen it. We all are accountable for what we did or what we do on our jobs at our in our home, but also on city council. So, I'm going to phrase things a little bit differently. Why, Fred, were you so adamant about getting rid of

our city's police department? I want to hear your reason to the public. Why did you get rid of the fire department? And when you explain the fire department, you told everybody there'd be a savings. I've never seen that savings. I can't find anybody who knows anything about it, but I do know everybody pays $150 and more every single year for the parcel tax. And you were a proud fan. Please explain it. And if I'm wrong, Fred, I I challenge you right now. Correct me. You were one of those who had no problem voting to get rid of city council. You were one of those who had no problem voting to get rid of Wildwood Park for your developer friends. You were no had no problem supporting getting rid of the elected city attorney. You had no problem getting rid of the elected city clerk. And now we see you want to get rid of the elected mayor. Why, Fred, do you want the right to choose who we should lead us? And why don't you trust the voters?

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. My name is Pasquala. Pasqua had some problems speaking. That's why um the lady helping speak. Um and I'm I'm with the Sanardino airport communities. I've lived in the San Bernardino in Sanino for over 40 years. And I'm here today because I'm concerned about the contract um the city and San Bernardino has with the flock surveillance camera campaign. Instead of spending 84,000 on these cameras, the community needs a job center, infrastructure, truck routes, reducing of air pollution, air pollution, more green spaces, and more spaces for children to play. We demand that our city council terminate the contract, stop using our data against us, and listen to the community.

Thank you. Gracias. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening. My name is Shaher. I'm with the warehouse worker resource center. We're an organization working with a lot of these folks here in the community. Um Amazon is the largest private employer in San Martino in the Inland Empire in California. They provide the backbone data services to Flock, the company operating 28 license plate readers here in the city. Amazon provides lowquality, high turnover employment for its warehouse workers and is the innovator in surveilling its workers. Flock cameras are a tool that are part of the system of law enforcement surveillance that has been used to track working-class people of color here in this city the same way that Amazon tracks its workers. Flock claims that do not share their data with fed with the federal government, with ICE, with the Department of Homeland Security. We have seen that there are many instances of cities here in California that have canceled contracts over the last year because of concerns the data has been able to been leaked or shared with the Department of Homeland Security. We believe that these cameras represent a consistent threat to the safety of local communities from federal agents. Even if there was a strong enforcement of SB54, the Trust Act, which ban such coordination, which there is not, we see the existence of these machines collecting data that can be used by local and state law enforcement agencies to that target black and brown people whose lawful activities should not be recorded and collected as a matter of practice. The city of San Bernardino has an $84,000 contract with Flock up for renewal. If nothing is done, this contract will renew on on March 31st. We are asking you, the city council, to bring this issue up to discuss any of this contract at your next meeting. You're hearing from Sanino residents from across the city as well as advocates who organize people across the city. We ask the city take the safety and privacy of its residents into account and listen to the needs of its people who are impacted by these readers. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

My name is Molina Enriquez and today I speak in my capacity as a proud Democrat, a proud young Democrat at that. And don't worry, Theodore Sanchez, it's not about you this time. Um, so no actually I'm here to call out Sandra Ibara for supporting a community workforce agreement and not for supporting not for being a supporter but convenient that this only happened after your opponent Christian Shaughnessy was endorsed by the IE labor council. Christian has stood up for the lab for labor for years. On picket lines, and Ibara is insulting the intelligence of the community by only proposing this in election year, your lack of support before this is noticed. We see it. We see it just as you're painting it. You're doing damage control. We need authentic pro-workforce family support and leadership in the second word, not people supporting this literally five months before the election. 5 months before the election. And now I do have to say that I hope that this does not affect our working relationship in the future, right? But at the same time, I say, please vote Christian Shaughnessy for Ward Two. Vote for change and vote for someone that is going to show that they care and who has always shown that they care.

Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

My name, excuse me, my name is Arthur Anderson Montejo. And um speaking for a few things, but I do want to start with a quote. I like idioms. Um George Oal said in and at one point people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims but accompllices. So I'm asking the city to stop electing uh these these thieves, traitors, and imposters. And when I say that, I really really mean is we have people that get in office that run on no plans that come here saying one thing, but when they get there, they they pretty much listen to those that contributed to their financial um campaigns. They don't listen to the leaders that help get them there, the ones that walk for them. And you know, some of this is is inspired bad politicians to run again. We have John Vald Divia running again because he's seen an example of bad decision making and corruption. So he thinks it's right there for him to run again. So what I'm calling for is maybe censoring him again on December 1st, 2021. This uh some of the members here censored him. I think he needs to understand that his campaign and whatever he's planning to do shouldn't even exist. He should drop out immediately and you can make a statement to do so. I know I don't agree with many of you there. Um, I actually don't believe any of you should be reelected, but um, you don't want that man in here. So, I I definitely heavily suggest I think community agrees with me that you should censor him. I think it's it's ridiculous that we have people running for city council that have held position before. If you've held position in this city and you're proud of what you've done, have you traveled the city? Have you if you're in Ward One running again and you're driving through those streets, were you not a city council member that was a was holding position while those streets were the way they are now? Same thing for any other position. You can Google people's names. Bonito uh Bonito Barios. Google his

name. He's somebody who claims to be a Democrat but is pretty much censored by the Democratic local party. He he sold a weapon sitting where you are right now. If you have someone like that, should he not be censored as well? Use your political power as it is and censor those individuals. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. San Bernardino. San Bernardino. for lost. Bernardino. Okay.

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Hello. Good night. My name is Anna Rossano. I'm a member of the airport community. The reason I'm here, you already know about it. We are we are all here. Um because of the contract of the flock cameras. Uh please stop that contract. We don't have any privacy. that contract money should be spent um on money that of the main needs of the San Bernardino community like hospitals for the children and the elderly that are sick because of the polluted air. We need green areas. We need trees for the air to be um filtered out. We need training centers for the youth. We need the streets to be fixed. We need good signage. We need sidewalks to be fixed. Um, we need our community free from all that pollution. Uh, we need we also need all the trailers and semis out of here uh for there to be taken out from the community. And please realize that with the flock cameras, we are being watched and then all that information is going to be um out for everybody to see. Listen. Okay. Listen. Um. Okay. Um, now you guys were talking about earlier about not wanting to rent out Air R&Bs and houses um in short short term, but you allowed lots of places to build for warehouses. Now, um there are lots of warehouses around here and they're not being rented. that is the one that are damaging our community. These people are renting out um so they could have um they're renting out their houses so they could help out each other um because they don't have because their income doesn't um

Yes. Um it's not enough for them. Thank you.

Thank you. Gracias. Next speaker, please state your name. H uh mayor and council. Hello, good evening. My name is Miriam Neto. I am a resident of the seventh of the seventh ward. And um I am also here today uh as uh just Sanino. We are a collective of a nonprofit organizations, one of them being warehouse workers resource center. Um today I'm here to speak on uh the workforce agreement and I believe that the workforce agreement is a good building block that if done correctly it will support many facets of the work that we have pushing um that we have been pushing as community and looking forward to this as well. Uh this could really support local hire that will also support a community that can live, work and play in the same city, effective pathways into high-paying jobs. And most importantly, this will bring forth collaboration across union, city, and developers to support a foundation for more to come under a community benefits agreement that can then move forward with any incoming developers that enter the the city and want to do work with our community. So, I do uh I just want to reiterate I I believe that this is a good foundation for us to start with and we should continue to discuss how it can benefit the community overall with the community benefits agreement moving forward. Lastly, I also want to say that as a resident of the city, I do not support for my taxes to go towards any contract that will further aid ICE in terrorizing our communities. Any flock contract that the city is trying to move forward with needs to stop and we need to reassess how our money can better be used to fund more proactive ways to improve the security of our community. We need to get the flock cameras out of our city and make sure that they don't come back and make sure that we don't support ICE

because then what are we going to be telling our children that our values are based on? They don't serve our values and we need to serve our community. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

All right. Um, hello everyone. My name is Huber and I'm here to talk about a hotly debated topic. Um, so, uh, it's concerning that cities across the nation have been employing the use of automatic license plates readers all over the nation. I don't know why we're doing this. We've already seen that they don't help. We already like San Marino already did this by the way and they only the only thing they saw for their troubles was a 5% increase in crime rate. No like clock might say that it's like that it helps, right? But it doesn't. We've seen it doesn't help. We like even already like here in San Frernardino like I could like I don't think like the flaw cameras make me feel safe. I have to look over my shoulder. I have to be racially profiled. We already know SBPD shoots first and ask questions later. So, if we want to make sure that this we want to change how this works, right? We want to make sure that we're like having like a force that m that like doesn't try to deal with all these things, right? And so, and part of that is making sure our money goes to things that helps the community, not things that try to make us be complacent and try to make us scared because that's all it's really doing, right? That money is better used for resources that are in the community. So, like we cannot have this flock force be here. I mean, we're already seeing members of the community being dragged out. We we already been seeing people like Martin Ranson get dragged out on the highway for no apparent reason at all. So why are we continuing the attack on our citizens? Please consider that honestly. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Lydia Savala. 40 years ago, I was born and raised in San Bernardino, attended schools here. 40 years ago I moved to uh Orange County uh to pursue my professional career and for 25 years there um I lived in various cities Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and quite honestly uh my first eight years uh in uh Huntington Beach were eight of the worst years of my life because it was made quite clear to me that I was not welcomed. Uh so when I retired, I returned to San Bernardino and I love living here. I love my neighbors. I love my community. I'm surrounded by neighbors that I could never have met in in Orange County. And while I was in Orange County, I formed a nonprofit, pushmatch.com, and continue to rescue rehabilitate uh animals, over 5,000 since 2006, all documented, hard copies of adoption uh of adoption contracts with spayneuter contracts. And I also have this all on an Excel spreadsheet. So I have solid proof of of my uh accomplishments. That being said, there's another person in uh Rialto, Mike Cross, Ward 4, who uh similarly does rescue uh rehabilitation and rehoming. Uh we are not subsidized and we spend a good portion of our retirement pension and our social security to spare animals uh the destiny of the uh city shelter. Today I was visited by community outreach and mental health support team to validate I am not a hoarder. After living here 17 years I find the timing of this allegation rather uncanny. The allegation was also made about Mike Cross, a resident of Rialto, by Sharon Agreed, a retired sheriff deputy wart for who engaged in a relentless barrage via text at all hours of the night with rude, condescending, offensive, inflammatory, and untrue

allegations. Mike Cross was left with no alternative but to file a restraining order on November 14th, 25 and Judge Damen Garcia subsequently granted that restraining order case number EAPVA25000108. I attended multiple meetings as a witness for my cross uh much to the contempt of Miss Negrretti and it appears I am now her next target. Miss Negretti's focus is to seek revenge on those who she feels betrayed her. I wish to make it clear that Miss Negradi is wasting municipal resources by making false allegations against those of us dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of animals that would otherwise end up at our already crowded shelter. I would like to think that I may continue to do the research I do, data mining, data analysis, and the presentation of facts without fear of retribution and harassment. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. My name is Bet Sida and I will be reading a comment on behalf of a community member who couldn't be here with us today. Amazon. Regular. for

meas salute Publica. Hi, my name is Maria. I'm from the workers uh resource center from the warehouses in San Bernardino or communities from the Inland Empire are being affected by the ICE rates from the department of national security. Um it's not fair from this companies to um be working with Amazon to take our information and um to identify the community specifically and take information uh with technology from the police and with the um um with the cameras from flock. Um these agents are using the technology to attack us. These ice rates are affecting me and the whole community and we are being scared and most of us are not going outside um to go shopping and um it and all the products are uh being with the products being pricey and lack of work it's a chain um so I demand um to the council to please to not uh renew the contract with flock we demand our information not to be used um watching us and kidnapping us. And I demand public security um so that that money to be um used in for our community to make the best for our lives and to be used for better public safety um for the streets to um for on the roads to be better the schools and for public um health. Thank you. Thank you. Gracias. Next speaker, please state your name.

Joseph for um on a real serious human note, um Mr. Shred, I I do want to say that um my apologies for not calling you. I was going to try to reach out to you. On a very serious note, I was going to try to um say hopefully your wife was okay in her uh accident a couple weeks ago. Um I always say for anyone doing this business, families first and you know, for I think for all of us. So, um you do you do you you are always here. I will give that to you and the good and bad, the lumps and the but on a more uh serious note uh to uh quote again Mr. uh Ronald Reagan, one of the great presidents. Uh there you go again. U Mr. Sanchez, you just can't seem to help yourself. And when I say that, uh you know, you probably got some homies around you, some some political consultants, and when you speak, you should ask them what what the ramifications are, what you're going to say. is you just keep keep on grading all kinds of things that help us understand you as a person. And that was um how you framed the 143 people who showed up here uh a couple tws ago for that special meeting as bullies or that you were bullied. Now people practicing their first amendment rights are bullies. Since when, dude? I mean, if you consider yourself a patriot, that's people just exercising their democracy, dude, and their right to speak. You seem to have a very selective uh listening skill when you didn't say the members that you went to go speak over with the Ranch Cook City Cookamonga Council, which is fine. You don't want to divulge your names, but did you also know that they have an atlarge mayor? You seem to like pick and choose what you you bring back to this community. So, why don't you listen to all your colleagues in this great county, Sanino? Uh and then also in the idea of being a bully um at the first trash cleanup um when we were all down here and when every all the council members used to come sponsored by DNA, you took a hat off a

veteran in this community and Mr. Sher kind of looked at you and goes, "What dude?" Like he kind of looked at you and goes, "What are you doing?" And that's how you treat people. That's how you treat yourself in public when you're around other people. I I just don't understand man where you get that from because in areas of psychology they could say if you see it that means you got it so you are the bully. Anyways on a more serious note on um Sandra Bar thank you for pony with the brothers in the building tr stand up. Thank you very much uh councilwoman Ibara for bringing this event uh this item 20 for future discussion. We will be the third institution in Sanino if we pass a project labor agreement. Uh Sanino Valley College renewed theirs last year. Um S uh Sanino Unified School District passed theirs first last year. And look at those institutions. They are thriving. Look at their facilities. These are the men who can build the future of Sanino and the future residents can get their job training and become journeymen. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Please state your name.

My name is Tanya. I'm with the People's Collective for Environmental Justice. And I just want to start off by saying, I mean, I've seen y'all look tired, hungry. Imagine how tired and hungry we are. You know, a lot of folks coming from work to be here to low-key waste their time for almost about 2 hours talking about rentals. For y'all to just be fighting amongst each other, that's so embarrassing, to be honest. Um, I'm also going to start off real quick, Sanchez. No one has to tell me to come and bully you, which to me is come and tell you to do your job. No one told me to come last Monday. I do that out of my own free will to be honest. So, but I won't bully you today. Don't worry. Um I'm here with the San airport communities as well. Like everyone else, I am demanding that you all end your contract with the Flock Surveillance um camera company. These surveillance cameras are not here to keep our community safe. They're here to damage us even more. They sell our information to government agencies that damage our community. The police does not keep us safe. ICE does not keep us safe to be honest. is like, "So, you having contracts with this company says a lot about you. Do the right thing. Invest your money in something that's truly going to benefit the community, that's truly going to benefit the constituents that you're supposed to represent. They are here constantly telling you their needs, what they need. infrastructure. You recognize the engineer today about infrastructure improvements, but when you talk to the majority of your constituents here in San Bernardino, they will tell you that their streets are horrible because of

the same trucks. Go drive past Fifth Street, try to go the speed limit. You can't drive the speed limit on Fifth Street because then you'll pop your tire. So stop wasting the taxpayer money in a company that's just going to harm your community, in a company that's going to aid the murder and kidnapping of our people. End your contract with flock. Get the flock out of SB. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name. Buenos Gonzalezard.

Good night. I'm Gonzalez and I'm a resident of the San Bernardino community. And I'm here to demand for the flock cameras to get out of here. They have nothing to do here and they should just be gone. And you, the city council, I'm just looking at you and you're just you don't do anything. You're just look you just I just look at you and you don't do anything. I pay my taxes and I believe that you could do something about it. But you're there could be a change. Do something about it. Please place some green areas. We're full of warehouses. There's just so many warehouses. We need some green areas. The streets look every time they look worse before they they look like the mouth of a wolf. They're black, neat blacked and you know they're they look

somewhat better before, but now they're worst. Tons of trash everywhere. And we ask, we demand the flock contract to end and get out of San Bernardino. Gracias. Thank you. Thank you. Gracias. Next speaker, please state your name.

Turn on the mic. Can Thank you. Good evening, mayor, council, and uh and staff. Uh my name is Albert Gardy, and uh I'm the business manager, executive director of the U. Riverside, San Bernito building trades. Um we're here today to um to speak about the consideration that uh that you put and thank you uh uh Councilwoman Navara uh for for pushing it through. You know, we know you guys uh are going through a lot. You know, we can see that. Um, my job is to make sure that uh that I work with the 14 trades that uh that are with us, over 20,000 people that are working here right now. Uh, but part of that job is to add our curriculum into schools. Um, to make sure that people are getting hired and making sure that people are working here, right? Because a lot of our workers are stuck on the freeway coming home from LA. Now, project labor agreements are new to the Inland Empire, right? But we're all a piece of each other. What living here in the city and you know our neighbors. So, you know, I'm an advocate for for our trades. Uh it's important that we we reach out to the community, that we hire within the community, that we hire that we go into the high schools, that we go into the community colleges of which we have our curriculum in. Um but um we're excited. We're excited for for for uh just you considering it, bring it forward, and and hopefully uh passing it uh sometime soon. So, thank you for the time and uh and I appreciate it.

Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening, honorable mayor and city council. Um I'll keep it brief because it seems like I'm, you know, the last uh public comment today. Um, so yeah, my name is Caleb Reagan. I'm here speaking on behalf of the Inland Empire Labor Council. Um, we represent over 96 unions and over 400,000 working families across the Inland Empire. Um, and we stand with the Building Trades Council in strong support of this council's potential consideration of a community workforce agreement. So, thank you Councilwoman uh Ibara for bringing this forward and to the rest of the council for hopefully considering this in the future. This is a powerful move and it can mean so much for our community. As you know, the Just San Bernardino collaborative and the San Bernardino community as a whole has long been advocating for community benefits agreements um that would ensure future development in our city brings with it good union jobs, robust environmental protections, and affordable housing opportunities. A strong community workforce agreement is what this council needs to jumpstart this process. A CWA will bring with it enforceable local hiring standards, ensuring that our neighbors, our friends, and our families are the ones that benefit from the jobs this agreement will provide. We have skilled workers right here in our community who are eager for opportunities, and this agreement makes those opportunities stay local, keeping wages in San Bernardino and directly supporting our local economy. An effective CWA includes clear pathways for meaningful high-paying careers for our youth through the through the inclusion of certified pre-apprenticeship programs and through the building trades MC3 program. These pathways lead to stable highwage careers with benefits and job security, not just temporary work. This agreement can help us ensure that San Bernardino residents have that have historically been shut out of these

opportunities can build lasting economic security while helping rebuild our city. These agreements establish an essential framework for cooperation among all parties involved in future development and they ensure that construction projects run smoothly and efficiently. We've actually been working with the UC labor center, UC UC Riverside labor center to study like local community workforce agreements here in the Inland Empire and also statewide. And this report has found that there is no correlation between um you know non-union or non uh or union uh projects, right? When it comes to uh cost and when it comes to time efficiency, right? Um so this result is that there's a higher quality work done on these projects with fewer disruptions and the creation of infrastructure that reflects the community needs. Um so yeah, thank you for considering this item and um looking forward to working with you guys in the future. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please state your name.

Good evening everyone. My name is Christian Flores, community organizer with ICU and a part of the Just San Bernardino Collaborative here in support of of multiple community partners and community members both in opposition to the renewed contract for the Flock uh license plate readers as well as celebrating the community workforce agreement. Because as as people who live in uh such a complex uh and difficult community, um we can hold space to both be frustrated and outraged by certain issues in the community and still have have the space to celebrate and and have pride for for beneficial projects that are moving forward in the city. Um I know for one, as a community member, I did not sign up to be a part of a surveillance state. um in the way that things are moving um because that's your guys's decision as representatives of the community to balance out and find what's what's most beneficial and will will help our community. There are so many suggestions that have been made by community members in terms of green spaces, community programs. Uh I know even in the last year people have uh attacked the public library not knowing um how community public libraries are funded and how underfunded our our city's public library system has been for decades. Um, so just trying to be empathetic and understand that at least from from the side that that we're coming from, um, the risk of ripping apart families for the sake of continuing such an agreement or contract is too great for us and that's not a call that we're willing to make. So, thank you for your time and thank you so much for moving forward with the

community workforce agreement. We have so much hope for what that will do to push forward the needs of community in dialogue relating to development for the city's future moving forward. Thank you. Thank you. It is now um 900 p.m. and in accordance with resolution 2024-029 um if we wish to extend the meeting beyond 10 p.m. we must take a vote and decide which items will be continued to the next meeting. Council, can we have a discussion to as to which items will be continued to the regular next meeting or do we have a motion to, you know, to keep going? Uh, council member Ortiz,

I'd like to make a motion to continue, but I'd like us to be able to take a break for like 5 minutes if that'd be okay. Um, there's request for a uh to continuation of the meeting and a fivem minute break right now. Is there a second for that? A recess. A recess for five minutes in the return to complete the agenda items. Okay. Second. Yes. Okay, great. Uh, any other comments? I'll second that motion. So, we'll continue uh to complete the rest of the um agenda, but we're going to take five minute reset recess right now and we'll return at 9 um05. Okay. All right. We will now move. Is that all the public comments, Madam City Clerk?

Yes, that concludes the public comments. And we did receive written comments that have been provided to the mayor and council and will be part of the agenda backup. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Madam City Clerk. We are now going to move on to consent calendar items 8 to 16. Mr. City Manager, is there any polls? Number 14, Madam Mayor and and number eight. Eight. Number eight and number 14. Will these two items come back to the next regular council meeting or is pulled? Number 14 will come back to the next meeting and same with number eight.

Okay. Thank you. So the number eight and number 14 pulled by M by the city manager and will come back at the next regular C council meeting first meeting in March. Council member Barara are there any polls? No. Thank you Mayor PM. No. Thank you. Council Sanchez. No polls. Thank you. Council Ortiz. I have a quick question on 15. 15. Council member Figareroa. None. None. Thank you. Council Flores. None. Thank you. Council member Sheret. Thank you. There's a motion to move the balance. There's a second. Madam City clerk. Council member Sanchez. Yes. Council member Ibara. Yes. Council member Figueroa.

Yes. Council member Sheret. Yes. Mayor Promos. Yes. Council member Flores. Yes. Council member Ortiz. Yes. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you council. Council member Ortiz. Item 15. Yes. I just had a quick question because we had that public comment about the people that lived on the 19th Street. Is this in conjunction to where they're at? Oh, yes. Yes, it is. Oh, that's wonderful. Okay. Thank you. So, um then I just And we have commun I think um the public works director communicated that to the res. So you told him

and my apologies for if I was loud in the in our conversation, but yes, we had a good conversation and he's just very frustrated with the situation that he has out there. This will solve his problem. Yeah. No, no, no. I think that's, you know, I I know when people see like, well, why are you guys talking about certain things and then to have actually someone have a problem addressed that's on the agenda for them was great. So, thank you for that. Move to approve item 15. Thank you. There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Madam City Clerk. Council member Sanchez, yes. Council member Abara, yes. Council member Figueroa, yes. Council member Sheret, yes. Mayor Proim Canos, yes. Council member Flores,

yes. Council member Ortiz, yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you, council. Thank you, staff. Moving on to discussion items. Number 17, 11 block year 1 update. Can we begin with staff's presentation? I'm sorry. Let's backtrack a little bit. Council member Flores pulled number nine. Okay, Council Member Flores.

No, thank thank you, Mayor. No, it's just a quick question from a member of the public, someone from my district. Would uh would staff be able to explain what it what the amendment entails and also what is the association with family service association in Redlands?

Yes. Uh thank you council member Flores. So family service association of Redlands provides rapid rehousing for the city of San Frernardino and we're extending their contract until the end of this year December 31st 2026 giving them time to fully expend um the funds and provide the services. there was a it was a a slight delay. So, we're extending their contract for family services until the end of this year. In regards to the Salvation Army, they are being allotted 74,000. Sorry, it's okay. Uh the Salvation Army is being they actually the Salvationian Army already had ESG funds but they are being extended a total of where's the amount sorry $74,276.38 to continue to to continue providing um homeless shelter and homeless prevention services to our residents. And also we're extending their contract until the end of this year, December 31st, 2026. Uh giving them additional time to expend these funds. And one of the reasons why we're providing these additional funds to the Salvation Army is because um there was unspent ESG funds over the course of fiscal year 23 24 25 23 24 25. and the Salvation Army has already proven that they are doing a great job in terms of providing these type of services, homeless related activities and services um to the residents of San Bernardino. So that's why we're extending them this ESG which has uh a funding deadline requirement and so we're trying to meet that to stay in compliance with HUD.

Thank you very much. I move to approve for the motion second. But just to clarify, so there isn't a cost increase to the amendment. is just to allocate unspent funds to an organization to help assist with the efforts. Correct. Correct. Okay. And then the only thing that changed the amendment was the the uh extension of the timeline. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, council member. Motion and second. Please call for the votes. I'm sorry, I didn't get who the second was. Second. It was me. Okay. Motion by Forest. Uh second by Council Member Bar. Uh Council Member Sanchez. Yes. Council member Barara, yes. Council member Figareroa, yes. Council member Sheret, yes.

Mayor Potim Canos, yes. Council member Flores, yes. Council member Ortiz, yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, council. Thank you, staff. Um, now we move on to discussion items. Seven number 17, Love Your Block, year 1 update.

Thank you, mayor and city council. I am happy to bring you a very happy item to report back to the city on the love your block program. Uh I serve as the city lead for this program. I have with me Nancy Rueeras who is a fellow. Um she couldn't be with us tonight but Chené Samson is also a fellow of ours. Uh just recently you accepted additional grant funding to make her a full-time staff member. She officially started in her new capacity on Tuesday. So we're very excited. Thank you again for that. Um, so on our opening slide here, this is a presentation we made to Bloomberg and John Hopkins to report back on year 1. Uh, the Love Your Block logo on the right is actually part of one of our murals that was completed as part of the project. So, we wanted to highlight that. So, in year 1, uh, we were able to fully fund 11 projects to completion. we were able to take in um over $24,000 in donations towards the program. So, from other businesses to cover uh food uh items that were needed along with the allocation from the city manager's office to help us get those projects fully funded. As part of the project, we engaged over 400 volunteers and residents in these projects. We were able to um exceed 480 hours in volunteer hours actually worked on these projects. We were able to install 41 new features that included murals, artwork installations, signs, trees, landscaping. So all throughout these projects, 41 new items in the city. We were able to clear almost 25,000 lbs of trash through cleanups in this program. um and also uh almost 7,000 square yards of grounds cleared throughout the program. It has been so

impactful to engage with our residents and to learn a little bit more about what that interaction is like through this program. Um so through the resident voice uh we heard back that there was strong commitment to healing, strengthening and uplifting their blocks and it brought each of those communities closer together being able to work on these different projects. Some lessons learned um for staff, like I said, the the internal communication with different departments, but also external communication with applicants and working with the city. we were able to help educate residents on the different processes through the city to help them navigate those and make it easier to work through those processes uh for their projects. So, we are excited to announce that we are now headed into year 2. The focus of year 2 on Love Your Block is Route 66. Um so, applications opened on February 14th. Uh we are taking applications until March 31st. So residents have six weeks to complete an application and submit that. We will be announcing the uh awards on April 22nd on Earth Day or just thereafter in conjunction with that. And projects are to be to be completed by August 31st. So just like year 1, it is a quick turnaround, but it's high impact on these projects. Our focus area for this is along Route 66. So on Mount Vernon between Highland and Fifth and then from medical center to the freeway, we will take applications um for that specific area, but we will also consider projects outside of that bubble uh depending on the um the theme integration of Route 66. So we are taking all applications. We will work with residents to get their um their applications through. We have TA hours like we did in year 1 where they can

schedule time with staff through the website. Um we will also be hosting community park hours uh through the month of March. So at La Plaza Park, we will be available on some Saturdays. Uh we'll be announcing those dates here shortly, but we'll be available to the public if they wanted to come ask questions. we can walk them through, help them with their applications, gathering their documents, and just working through their projects to troubleshoot anything that's necessary. So, um, anyone is able to scan the QR code, it'll take them directly to the website. Uh, but the website is sbcity.org/loyoublock. All of the application information is on there. Um, some information from last year to check out all the completed projects, which are exciting, and we have featured those on our social media. Um, but again, staff is ready and able to help all the applicants work through their projects and we are very much looking forward to year two and the theme of Route 66 for Love Your Block.

Thank you for that. Any comments from the council? No. Yes, Council Member Ortiz.

I I am so happy. This is so great. You guys did such an amazing job. It was so great. I know the mayor and uh Councilman Flores and and Council Member um I think almost everybody every I'm pretty sure we all at some point were at one of the two um project completions and it just it is truly fantastic and to use local artists and watch that pride just kind of spread through and and now being able to have this opportunity at Route 66 is uh just a a great I think testament to the hard work of staff and and your collaboration with community and so just thank you for all that you guys are doing. Keep up the great work. I'm so excited to have the fellows, you know, really be with us because this is the good stuff and so um it's long lasting and fulfilling. So, thank you.

Thank you, Council. Did you have any comments? No. Great job.

Yes. Yes. I uh agree. I mean, um to be one of 16 cities in the nation to uh receive this grant and to have resident drive the projects with love and pride. It was amazing to see the transformation throughout the city. So, thank you council for supporting this effort and staff for pouring in to make sure this effort uh does come to fruition with the residents um and the business folks in the community. So, thank you so much, Council Me. Yes. I just want to say thank you to the staff, especially when you're centraling um centralizing this around Route 66. This is a 100 year anniversary for Route 66. And I know for years we have I know on my on my end I've been discussing with the different city managers we've had like we got to do something for Route 66 like we cannot be left behind. We are one of the original stops on that route. I mean we have the map in downtown. Um so thank you. Um and yeah I look forward to the projects coming up for this one. Thank you.

Thank you Councilwoman. A question though for the Route C6. any opportunity for staff to meet the folks uh to at the at the site or somewhere off of Mount Vernon or maybe an area where uh the community can meet uh city staff to talk about this opportunity. Is that something that we could look at uh doing so then you're we're on site to them if they're not able to come to city hall? I mean, it's just something a suggestion if we could.

Absolutely. And part of doing the community park hours is centralized to the Mount Vernon area along that route. So, not only will we have about three dates uh on Saturdays in March that staff will be there, we're also willing to schedule time with potential applicants to go to their site, walk it with them, talk through the project, and troubleshoot anything that's needed. So, as long as we can work to schedule that with the applicant, we're happy to get out there and and meet with them on site. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you.

Of course. And I'd like to just absolutely shout out to the staff on here. Nancy and Chenet have been amazing. So, I just wanted to recognize them for the work that they have done. I know a lot of people in the community through the projects know exactly who they are, know who to call, and they've been amazing to work with and have on here. So, thank you.

Yes, couldn't agree with that more. Thank you so much, staff. Any further comments from council? This is just an update so we can um continue the great work and look forward to the round two. Thank you. Okay, we're moving on to next item. Item 18, adoption of policy establishing a two-step authorization and approval process for new and renewal leases of city- owned property. Can we begin with staff's presentation?

Hello, madame mayor and esteemed council. My name is Michael Yarro. I am a real property manager with the city, one of two. Um, I'm here to present the um the resolution number 2026-014, which is approving a standardization of policy for city-owned leases uh new and renewal of leases that mandate city council authorization before negotiations begin and be um for final approval before execution of that of those leases. Uh the city has um several leases pertaining to um business such as the Regal Theater, uh California Theater. Um we own those those properties. Uh we also have some wireless and cell phone u tower leases throughout the city and we wanted to um with the city manager's direction um have these leases be approved by the council before uh negotiations begin and also before final approval thereof. So um that's why I'm here today to um ask for this um matter to be approved to go forward.

Move to approve.

Thank you. There's a motion. Council member Sanchez. Yes, I I know in the staff report that there is mentioned uh this uh six-month grace period to go past the the termination or rather the expiration of the lease agreement. I think that uh we need to work towards making sure that we're projecting out. So, at any given time right now, there can't be more than half a dozen definitely not more than half a dozen uh leases that are set to expire within the next 12 months. So you guys can start working on presenting those to council uh or working on a new agreement. So I would not want the council to build in not sorry for staff to build in that six-month grace period. We need to start working proactively to see if those lease agreements should be renewed and they are to the benefit of the city and the residents. So I would I would strike that from the uh from the proposal. Otherwise, I'd like to if you're are you immutable to that, council member

to the six month to make to ensuring that that we don't allow for the six-month grades period and instead work towards proactively uh proactively either uh putting out those to bid or coming to council for for an extension. So, are you fine with that? If staff's okay with it? Yeah. Yeah. Are you guys fine with that? So, if we can add that if we can add that clause to the uh to the proposal, I'll second. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. Uh Council Bar, you're good with the added. Okay. Thank you. There's a motion second. Coun Artis.

Yeah. Uh, I saw this and it was like a huge big red flag the way u and then I immediately sent it to my procurement class because this looks like an easy way to politicize lease agreements and put it from a policy perspective into the hands of elected officials to first negotiate amongst themselves independently with those who may or may not hold these leases uh and potential biders where right now there's a neutrality in that it is inhouse with you guys. You set where you need to be in accordance with the lease agreements and only after the procurement process and the RFP process has gone through then we are brought in to evaluate yes or no. And so when I look at best practices and I look at uh the politicalness of a procurement system, I see this as not even being a good idea. And so I I would like to make a substitute motion that we do not if we do not move forward with this. If you have internal mechanisms and processes that need to be fixed so that you can streamline and better be in accordance of how you guys are uh adhering to leases, renewing leases, and making sure it's cohesive apolitically. I think we need to do that. Um, otherwise that I think we're just kicking the door wide open for people to be like, "Hey, well, council member, I need X, Y, and Z, and here's a political donation, and why won't you and why couldn't you?" And then interfere with a bidding process that has always just been an open and honest bidding process. Rarely do we ever get challenged because it's not political. So, that would be my motion. I feel like we are opening Pandora's box right now and I would rather see you move forward internally and meet with your team on how to streamline your processes for your procurement standards. So that's my that's my substitute.

Thank you, council member. Um Mr. City Manager, did you want to respond to that? Um, so the only the the big issue is well a couple things on that is one um I'm not sure that that's the way it's gone in the past because the premise from what I understand Councilman Ortiz is talking about is that we would automatically bid every lease. I'm not sure that's traditionally been done here. I know it's not traditionally been done in other cities. Many times renewals come forward and um leases just automatically assume they're going to be able to release. So um but you talked about us bidding and going through a bidding process which means I guess your assumption is that we we would not we would skip the first step and automatically just go for a rebid every time with um

no even negotiating the releasing. I don't think that should be a political discussion because remember you're once you take it up here it's politics when you're doing what you're doing it you're doing it at administrative level that's that's what I what what I really like is that barrier between what becomes a political discussion versus how you guys are handling what the lease agreements are what the extensions look like when you bring it to us then we all do the negotiation upfront in public what I'm saying is you are creating an error and an opportunity to do things non-publicly and then pretend like it's going to be a public uh discussion in giving us any room to pre-negotiate your negotiations. That doesn't look like a best practice to me. What it looks like is fix it on the inside because we always have that opportunity as the council always has to stop it at the end no matter what. we we don't get ahead of you. And that's I think a a really best practice is that the council really as far as I have ever seen has never gotten ahead of a procurement. But if you do this, we do.

So that's that's my biggest biggest concern is where you create a crack um you then create a chasm at some point.

So yeah. Um, in all the leases I've done in my career, I'm not sure that I've ever seen it done in the way that you're talking about. Um, because every lease is so unique. I mean, I'm trying to think. Well, we're dealing with a lease right now. There's a lease coming up for YMCA. Well, that's a very unique one. So, bidding out the YMCA lease, in my opinion, um, is a difficult one because we own the land and we lease the land to them. They own the building. They actually built the building. So they own the building on top of the land that we lease. So going out for a straight RFP for that. Um just using that unique example would be a difficult thing. So under this policy, we'd bring it back. We'd say this is the reason we wouldn't go out to bid because they actually own the building. We own the land. That's the reason to come forward. In fact, that's one of the first ones that's going to be coming forward is the YMCA one. Um so that's a unique one I've dealt with. Um, sometimes we're leasing. You lease for different reasons. You'd lease for sometimes for parks because you're going to have an agency doing sort parks or doing some camps or sometimes you're leasing because you're trying to get income and you're trying to get income or you're trying to bring in a innovative business. I've done that where I've done a lot of leases. Um, in fact, I showed the deputy city manager some of them when we were at a conference close to another city I was same manager at where we actually brought in companies. Um those were always heavily negotiated and the council was always involved upfront on those because if they didn't like the idea of what that company was doing then it would be a waste of time for both the company as well as the staff to be negotiating something cuz it is a mix of um I wouldn't call it politics but it's a mix of policy where the council wants to go with policy on a lease and where the staff wants to go as far as getting the best deal within that. I agree with

you that it shouldn't be politicized in that people are trying to get special favors. I agree with that. That's not the intent of this policy though.

And I don't believe it is the intention. I believe it's the outcome. And that's why I want to uh get ahead of that because what what you're describing is like one who's qualified to sit up and renegotiate a lease on on on the DA side of things. There can be input. There can be there could be something. But what I'm saying is is we we will then be able to what stops us from influencing the lease agreement based on alternatives of of of political alliances. And that's what I'm saying. Put it together. Keep it that's you're saying that's your job. keep it in your wheelhouse because I think it's the first time that it gets questioned then there people are then we're going to start opening ourselves up into into latigious possibilities because there nothing that bars the council from meeting with people who want to bid on they do it all the time. So if then we if then we are we are the the gatekeeper to even bringing you on board. What if we don't like who's coming into to to do any of this stuff, we can block it. So there's a cost for possible retaliation. there's a cost for favoritism where what I've seen of this council in the way that we do it and it may not be what everybody else has done but this has always been a very successful council regardless of who's up here in that this process has stayed inside city hall and that final outcome has always been with us if you want to show us the RFPs I think you could definitely fix your RFP process cuz they're basically just cookie cutter and I think you could really do some fine tuning that's one thing that could be a workshop on how we want to address RFPs and in in addition to a general plan that doesn't truly exist, which is why we would already agree to specifications of different type of economic opportunities cuz we'd have it zoned. I'm just to me and I mean everybody can do what they want as someone that

teaches this for a living. Uh this is this is a a study guide of what in my opinion not to do because I just don't see it working here. So that's it. But thank you, council member. There was a substitute motion by council Ortiz. Is there a second to that? Okay. Then it goes back to the original motion. And there's a second to that original motion. Madam, city clerk. Council member Sanchez. Yes. Council member Abara. Yes. Council member Figureroa, no. I'm sorry.

No. Council member Sheret, yes. Mayor Prom Canas, yes. Council member Flores, yes. Council member Ortiz, absolutely not. Motion passes 5 to2 with Council Member Figureroa and Ortiz voting in opposition. Thank you. Moving on to item I believe that's all discussion items right there's only two 19 and I'd like to make a motion to put all 19 20 and 21 together and move for future items yes and a move to approve all

I'll second there's a um motion to move 19 20 and 21 and 22 council canas are Okay. I'm definitely in favor of all of these. Um for 21 though, just um council member Flores, would you be amiable? Um you are recommending a specific plan. Um just for staff, if you can clarify, specific plans typically are a little bit more involved, but they do kind of dovetail off of existing general plans. Is that correct?

I can I can answer or I could is if the community development director is here, he could also easier. But generally you're correct that specific plans are a more specific plan within the general plan.

Okay. And and then the reason and it's okay. The reason I say that is because our existing general plan is from 2005. We still have yet to complete our general plan update. Um we're still working on our downtown specific plan update. So I trust me I I support this and I fully respect it. But what I don't want is to move staff into another direction of yet another specific plan when we have yet to even update our general plan, which is what a specific plan should actually dovetail off of. Would you be amanable to um and I don't know if you've ever already identified some specific economic areas of opportunity um surrounding Route 66 in your ward. It's a possibility that you might be able to accomplish it. You know, it may not necess necessitate a specific plan to get where you're going. Is it possible that we can take that just maybe add in explore the feasibility of a specific plan and include this in the overarching discussion of economic development because we have gotten back our goals um from our strategic plan workshop that we did. One of those buckets is economic development. I think that we really have to start kind of piecing the puzzle pieces together when it comes to that discussion of economic development. One of the things we discussed there is that's a pretty broad term. What does economic development mean? What are we actually going to prioritize and choose to focus on? And I think that's necessary so we're not sending sending staff on a whole bunch of different directions without actually finally being able to execute and complete something. So if you I support it. I just wonder if you're immenable to adding the explore the feasibility of a specific plan and adding in it to the economic development discussion for our strategic goals.

No, thank you Mayor Proano. I am immutable. Thank you so much. Thank you. With that, there's a motion. Yes, council member Fero as well as well. And this just triggered a little bit of my memory as well. You know, the council and this is no again, no uh it's not a commentary on the merits of of each of these four items that are being proposed. But but the council did uh a few months ago, we had a uh strategic goals and objectives workshop, right? and and although we do have the results of that, it's my understanding that the uh city manager will ultimately come back at some future date with more specifics as far as what that looks like, kind of the details of that over the next 3 years, right? And so, uh, it's it's my understanding that the council has committed to, um, yeah, to to sticking to the the merits, I guess, or evaluating any future agenda items so that they align with uh the strategic goals and objectives and um, and kind of just evaluate on how they align with with that as well. And so although I I I I'm supportive of this and I want to continue being supportive of my council members of my council member colleagues, we we're at a point now where we have I don't know how many like 200 and something I don't know how many requests have been made. Um and at this point,

you know, we're we're still chewing the food in our mouth and we're taking another bite. All right. We we need to focus on what we have here and I'm I'll support it but I don't want us to I I don't want this DAS to be used for political expediency. Like if it's if it's a great thing and it aligns with our with our objectives and our strategic goals, then let's go for it. But I I'm just I I'm afraid that sometimes things are brought forward for political expediency and they really need to be for the for the benefit and the betterment of the city of San Bernardino. And so I I just wanted to say that again. I'm not making a commentary on any of these items or the merits. It's just a reminder that we did go through a workshop. We committed that any future items uh be aligned with what those objectives and those goals and those visions were as well. And so I just wanted to make that commentary. That's all.

Thank you, Council Member Figuro. Um, excellent comment because I have same concerns because I know we I mean these are all great things to bring forward. Um, not to say that that there's anything wrong with them, but we have ongoing lists and I've asked for that list to be presented to the body as far as what are the how many are on that list and what's the status and um just want to make sure staff is also like like council member Figuro said that we are aligning a lot of things that are bring forward is aligned with the uh goals and vision of the council bodies um you know agreeing to what was discussed uh not too long ago. So, it's just making sure we're staying on path, not going off path. And then we're again, we're not getting things um completed fully. And so, that's just something that please be mindful and then bring back updates to the council body. Where are we at with things? Um I do see council have a comment.

Yes. And I'm glad he's still here. Mr. Al Palazo, he has a vision for that corridor and he's told me about it several times. I mean, is this maybe a possibility that we can consider um him spearheading this idea because it is a 100redy year anniversary for Route 66 and for years we can't argue on those Councilwoman um this

No, I I know I know but you know he has beautiful ideas of how to revitalize the city and I know we are missing out on Route 66 a lot. All our neighboring cities have made such um improvements to their Route 66 corridors except for us and it's a shame we were one of the original stops. Thank you, Councilwoman. Uh Council Member Ortiz.

Yeah. No, exactly. And I guess should we look to to to procure some type of outside contractor for anything? We would do an open and honest recruitment. So, I'm just saying like we're not hiring anybody and no one's being specifically specified for anything. I just I think we need to be clear like any if we do decide it will be an open competitive process that anybody would be considered equally and equitably for. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um All right. So there's a motion and a second. Please call for the votes, please. Sorry, just had Council Member Sanchez. This is Slate is all four. This is for all. Yes, this is all four items. Um yes. Yes. Council member Abara.

Yes. Council member Figareroa. Yes. Council member Sheret. Yes. Mayor Proim Canos. Yes. Council member Flores. Yes. Council member Ortiz. Yes. Motion passes unanimous.

Thank you. Thank you, council. Uh we are now moving to mayor and city council updates. Council member Ibara, do you have any announcements or updates to provide? Um, I attended Muscupyabi Neighborhood Association last week and um, it was a beautiful, beautiful um, meeting because not only did we recognize a community member that volunteers throughout the Nusco neighborhood, but we also had a developer that was just starting on one of their um, developments right there off of Little Mountain. And I I thank that developer on behalf of the community members because a lot of development that happens in the city does not get introduced into the community until it's almost getting ready to break ground and get built. Um so the developer got to hear feedback from the people that were there in attendance. I want to say maybe about 20 20 or 30 people were in attendance and they they appreciated that. So um kudos to Moscopy. they're they're getting some more homes built um in their neighborhood in an area that has been vacant and dry weeds. So, it's it's something nice. Uh it was a nice rendition he provided to us and of course, like I said, community members were were able to give feedback. Um I also just recently visited the YMCA. Um and I just found out they had a pool. um they have uh therapy for senior citizens which I didn't know and I've been trying to get my mom physically active in the community. I know um one of my neighbors spoke about the Jerry Lewis Center a lot but there's a lot of things that the YMCA is doing in their community that the community doesn't know yet. So thank you Mr. the city manager for mentioning their lease cuz I I I the times that I've gone to their uh children's uh YMCA parade um it it it just brings out the whole community and if there's any way we can partner up

with them and our senior center senior center next door even better because that that center really does help the people in that neighborhood specifically. So um that's that's all I want to report today. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Uh, Mayor PM,

thank you. Um, I just want to say thank you to all of our staff, to all of the community. I saw a lot of business support on this stage. Um, not just from the beautifification project, but for what mayor Chan brought as well. And that's just really indicative of people's belief in the city of San Bernardino. It's very heartwarming. I always brag that I am homegrown. I'm a girl from the Dino. Um, it's always really just touching to see how many people still truly believe in the city of San Bernardino and it showed here on this stage tonight. Um, I want to invite everyone, we do have our ribbon cutting for the Kindle Beautifification Project this Saturday. Um, it will be at 10:00 a.m. Um, we'll be celebrating that momentous occasion. Like I said, it's a small corner um that was uh transformed, but it's symbolizes so much more. It really symbolizes a community uniting for good. So that is all for me. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Plem. Council member Sanchez, the library spring book sale is February 28th and March 7th. Uh the book sale uh starts at 10:00 a.m. and and will run till 400 p.m. at the Feltime Library. So books, magazines, DVDs, music, most most of those prices are going to be a dollar or less, and all proceeds go to support programming at all four city libraries. Thank you. Thank you, Coun Ortiz.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, Sue got to attend the biomand ribbon cutting at Pacific High School last week. Just so awesome. Their pathway towards bringing uh our kids to the nursing field uh medical field was great. I know the mayor and counciloman Abara were there as well. got to uh support council member uh Flores over in the six ward with the wellbe health the senior center that's just launched and such a I know they've done a little soft things but it's been so wonderful to just see the community being able to have more resources and assets. Our Lunar New Year is kicking off this Saturday. I know Mayor Tran won't get into full detail on that, but I'll make sure that we post a um a flyer on my Facebook and Instagram. And then in there's also a community cleaning up coming into the seventh ward and so I will make sure that I post that for you guys for the uh organization that's putting it together. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you, council member. Council member Figareroa.

Uh yes, thank you, mayor. It's really just two quick little thank yous and recognitions. Uh I was driving around the the city in the in the third word always doing little CRM and stuff and and just by chance I happened to uh see uh the Bertk crew out there doing a a cleanup. Alonso and a few of the other guys out there doing a cleanup. So I just wanted to say a big thank you to Bertech. I I know you kind of pick um you break up the city into little four quadrants and I guess that that day I happened to be driving by and I saw them out there cleaning up and picking up some big bulky items out that were unfortunately just left behind by an irresponsible person out there just doing illegal dumping. So, thank you to Bertech for that. And then the other one is just a big thank you to our our parks department, our public works, our maintenance crew. I um on my on my way to work uh this past weekend, I drove by L Creek Park. Um it was on Valentine's Day on the 14th. Um and I was as I was driving by uh there was a a big event going on, right? And what this does is it speaks to the great work that has gone into this park. uh because it it seriously went from somewhere where people wouldn't go to now every almost every day you see people you see families out there using it. And this day I actually drove by and I saw a wedding taking place and it was a really big event. There was like 200 chairs out there. It was all nice and beautiful. And it made me it it made me start to think that if somebody is selecting uh one of our parks for a wedding for a very special occasion such as a wedding, it means because we're doing a great job with what that park looks like. And so I mean, you know, people are there for birthday events and other special events, but for a wedding, I mean, those are going to be lifelong pictures. And it just tells me that our crews are doing an amazing job with that park and have really turned it around. And so I

just want to say thank you for the great work. Um so much so that it I mean there was somebody there was a family and I don't even know who they were. I wish them the best but they they chose Lidle Creek Park uh to to get to to get married on Valentine's Day. And so thank you uh to our crews for that. I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you council member council member Flores.

Thank you mayor. on Saturday, Saturday, February 7th, I attended the Black History Parade and just wow, it's great to see community come out together, but our our school district has full presence in there. I want to thank our school board members for being present and also the our superintendent Ariano for coming out and just uh riding along and and experiencing the west side at full force and principal Gonzalez at a Royal Valley High School. Shout out to him for coming out and participating in the parade, too. And uh thank you, mayor, for uh allowing me the opportunity to to ride in your vehicle. And then on Saturday, February 12th, or on February 12th, I attended the grand opening of the Wellby Health Center, a great community partner. And hearing the testimonies firsthand of how this uh this center really helps and supports our our senior population, it it's it's incredibly nice to to know that we have such a great partner to that we can rely on. And that that's it for me. Thank you, council member. Council member Sheret. Yeah,

thank you, mayor. Um, I I some some things came to mind as people across the the DAS here were speaking. Uh, number one, I again, I want to thank uh, Lieutenant Luna and of course, it goes without saying, Junior Coreo, who uh, does a great job getting people out to the eastern uh, or I guess is the northern district coffee with the cop, which was yesterday. We had over 60 people there again. Uh and that's a result of not only the job that uh Lieutenant Luna is doing in the district, but but the hard work that my commissioner Junior Coreo does, he texts people and he's really out there getting them out there and and it's a great meeting. Uh people learn a lot about what's going on and get updates uh on safety. Then, as has been said already here, it goes without saying to just all the staff in general for what they do every day for the city of San Bernardino, we appreciate it. uh we don't thank them probably enough, but I'm going to give a special thanks to uh public works department and Sean Mcclenn who uh was proactive when uh a week or so ago he overheard me talking about an issue with the Wildwood Park dog park and uh he was Johnny on the spot the next morning. uh met with some of the people that had some concerns up there and the public works team has uh is in the process has taken care of a lot of those little they were little items that were taken care of quite easily and continuing to work on some bigger ones that Wildwood Park uh dog park is very important to the people up in the north end and I I think beyond uh it's it's it's used quite significantly and so I want to thank public works uh for being proactive on that and getting those issues handled handled. Thank you.

Thank you, council member. Okay, I have some a few updates. Um, Mayor Pam, great job with you and the community coming together to beautify the corner of 48th and Kendall. So, great job to you and congratulations. Um, on February 5th, I attended the Southern California Association of Government Community Economic Human Development Committee and the regional council meetings. Um, on February 7th, I participated in the Black History Parade alongside with um, uh, Council Member Flores. I did see Cas Ortiz out there. Um I don't know if I saw anyone else, but um it was a great parade and I I mean it's a tradition to have this every year and I hope we continue to grow with the parade together with the community and to see all the kids from the school district to show up and and go down the street of the west side. That was just beautiful. Um thank you to the Black Culture Foundation for hosting another successful parade for our community. Um, on February 11th, I attended the San Diego County Transportation Authority general meeting. On February 12th, I had the honor of attending the Pacific High School's ribbon cutting of their beautiful new biomed facility. Um, and big huge kudos to the school district for continuing to create career pathways for our for our students. Sanino County also hosted a ribbon cutting, which um, Steve Mer mentioned in his update, and I was able to attend that with um the county and our partners. Uh that that's amazing to have a trail for um our our residents to have a bike ride all the way to Huntington Beach. I mean, that's awesome. Class one, two, we hope to see you um this Saturday, uh February 21st to celebrate Luna New Year. It's free to the residents. Um and that's thanks to the sponsors of the community members who helped pay for that event. Thank you to so much for the sponsors of the community for doing that and making sure that it's free for residents. So, hope to see you all there. It's 12 to 6 and uh kids should have lots of fun in the fun zone. I know my kids will. Um and uh February 28th, the next

Downtown Neighborhood Association citywide cleanup. Hope to see you there. Uh such a great effort to really clean up our citywide. And so, shout out to the DNA uh for doing that every single month. And that is it for my update. Yes. One more thing.

Yes, Council Mar it. I I have to thank a number of people that I as many of you know I left uh the meeting last meeting and was unable to attend. I had gotten a call u from my wife and I thought to myself why is she calling me? She knows I have a council meeting and I did listen to her message and unfortunately she had been in a small accident. She's fine. But I want to thank the people that I want to explain why I was gone. Number one, and but number two, I want to thank a number of people that called me that evening and beyond a couple of days later just checking on her to be sure that she was okay. And she indeed is okay. The car is not, but it's being repaired. So, uh, no problem there. And and the really good news is it wasn't her fault. So, um, I I do thank everybody for reaching out and and showing their concern and asking about her and her well-being. Thank you all.

Thank you. The meeting is now adjourned at 9:56 p.m. the next joint regular meeting of the mayor and city council and the mayor and city council acting as the successor agency to the redevelopment agency and the mayor and city council acting as the San Bernardino city housing authority and mayor and city council of the city of San Bernardino acting as the San Bernardino Joint Powers Finance Authority will adjourn to the regular meeting to be held on March 4th 2026 at the Faltime Central Library located at 555 West 6th Street San Bernardino California 92410 close session will begin at 400 p.m. and open session will begin at 5:00 p.m. Good night and be safe and see you next time.