City Council - Regular Meeting

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Recording in progress. City of Seaside City Council and the success agency to the redevelopment agency of the city of Seaside regular meeting 5:00 p.m. Thursday, April 16th, 2026. City Hall chamber will come to order. Roll call. Council and agency member Miller here. Council and agency member Burks here. Council and agency member Garcia Arizona here. Mayor Pro Tim and Vice Chair Pacheo. Mayor and Chair Oglesby here. You do have a quorum. Thank you so much. We will have a moment of silence. Then I ask uh Mayor Pro Timco to lead us in pledge allegiance.

You can To the flag of the United States of America, Mr. City Manager, any additions or deletions to the agenda? you know, mayor staff requests the removal of item 13A, um, close session for conference with labor negotiations from tonight's agenda. Thank you.

I do anticipate some type of uh recess around the 7:30 hour. Uh, next we'll go to public comments. Member of the public wishing to address the city council on matters under our jurisdiction may do so for up to three minutes. We ask that you uh comment on presentation items at that time and we ask that you hold your comments on items that are on agenda until the agenda item is called. It is helpful for the record if you state your name. Public comment is open. Uh before we do that, uh madam city clerk, what does that sign mean? Don't don't touch the mic. What what if people need to get closer to it? How are they supposed to how are we going to work that to make sure everybody's heard? I I will I I will help pres um speakers adjust the mic microphone.

Okay. All right. Public comments.

Good evening, city council members, city manager, city attorney. My name is Regina Mason. I'm a seaside resident and um as you probably know there is a mental health crisis in the country um especially with our youth. So, of course, the Village Project is a mental health clinic. And what we're doing, we have uh 18 youth ambassadors uh at multiple schools throughout the Monterey and Selena school districts, and they have a a program called Mind Shift, and they're having a mental health youth summit on May 2nd from 8 to 4 at the Older Center. And we always like to reward our participants. So each of the students that they're targeting 50 or I'm sorry 200 young people from throughout not only the Seaside community but the greater Monterey County area. And they will each receive a $50 stipen for their participation because we think it's really important for our young people in in our county to understand that it's okay to not be okay and to uplift mental illness in our society. So thank you.

Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Tiffany Meyer, resident of Seaside and vice chair of the Neighborhood Improvement Commission, but speaking tonight as a private citizen. A community is often judged not just by what it says, by what it chooses to prioritize. Today, I'm asking that we are pri prioritize those who have served our country by establishing a veterans commission here in the Monterey Bay region and especially in Seaside. Our connection to the military is part of our identity. With the Prescidio Monterey, the defense languages at two, and the Naval Postgraduate School nearby, many service members choose to stay here after their service, continuing to contribute as neighbors, professionals, and community leaders. A veterans commission helps ensure those voices remain part of shaping the city they call home. A commission can serve as a direct advisory resource to the council, bringing forward realworld insight, identifying unmet needs and helping guide informed balanced decisions. It can strengthen connections by helping veterans navigate access to health care, housing, employment, and benefits while also coordinating with many other organizations already serving veterans across Monterey County. It can build community by supporting meaningful recognition events, encouraging volunteerism, and creating opportunities for veterans to stay engaged and connected. And in a city like Seaside, where we continue to invest in revitalization, tourism, and community pride, a veterans commission can also contribute to that vision. Veterans are leaders, storytellers, and contributors to local culture. Their involvement strengthens the character and appeal of our city. A commission also creates a clear and consistent point of contact, making collaboration between the city, nonprofits, and regional partners more effective and organized. And

importantly, this veterans commission would be volunteer-based, drawing on the experience and continue continued commitment to service that veterans already bring. Establishing a veterans commission sends a clear message that this city doesn't just honor veterans on certain days. We include them. We listen to them and we value their role in our future. I respectfully urge you to consider creating a veterans commission. Thank you for your time. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from the phone. The caller ending in 2287. You now have the floor to make your public comment.

Can you hear me? Yes, we can.

Thank you. This is Peter Kaiser, longtime resident. And as no prayer was given, I'd like to add this. So, um, Lord God, we adore you. We worship you. Thank you for sending your son to die for our sins. That as we turn our lives over to him and ask for forgiveness, we can be forgiven and be with him in heaven forever. Hope there to be revival in Seaside with maybe 30 churches and in Monterey County, California, United States, and the world. and Iran too. And um uh we are we are so thankful for your providence and provision, Lord. And we also want you to watch over this meeting that they would seek uh counsel from the Holy Bible and the principles of the US Constitution from the founding fathers and they would know and do your will all the citizens and residents of Seaside in the area. And also please help Lord protect the pre-born at the in Seaside and at the clinic there on Hilby. help Planned Parenthood to do no harm to do no more abortions or um plans referrals or hormones or surgeries and um help the uh clinic only to help people by doing no harm and no borders in Jesus' name. So we would also request that city council uh not vote in favor. I want them to vote against this idea of a transgender sanctuary city of Seaside. There are a lot of issues on this and I'd like you to all consider reading the Cass report in the United Kingdom. It uh

2024 and also the ACT pediatica article 2026 and the listen to breakpoint.com today on the 16th of April. They all uh did some very careful research and they found out that a lot of this trans care that was forced on some young people without even giving them proper counseling or wisdom and they had surgery and now they regret it. Some of these people have a lot of negative negativity due to this because they want to go back to their original birth um orientation and some of them have actually committed suicide. So with the Cass report and this Swedish report and the going to the breakpoint.com from the Coulson um fellowship uh program this will be very important. So all all the city council please do that before you vote on any kind of an issue and we do not want to have seaside to be known as a transgender city on natural relations. Amen. Bless you.

Thank you for your comments. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. Today I'm speaking regarding policing in the city of Seaside as well as broader concerns about youth treatment, accountability, and oversight. Over the past several months, I have personally observed juvenile court proceedings involving Seaside police officers. In addition, there are court findings and court related documentation that I have reviewed which validate serious concerns regarding the accuracy, credibility, and consistency of information and testimony being presented in cases involving youth. These materials along with my firsthand observation raises significant concerns about how enforcement actions are documented, presented, and relied upon in court. Based on what I have witnessed and reviewed, I'm deeply concerned about whether youth are receiving fair, accurate, and equitable treatment within the system. These are not abstract concerns. They are based on direct observation and documented court related findings. These concerns directly relate to how policing is functioning in practice in seaside. What I have observed does not reflect effective community policing. Instead, I see patterns where youth are frequently impacted by enforcement first approaches raising concerns about proportionality, fairness, and long-term consequences for young people in this community. I'm also raising concerns about equity and bias in outcomes. While polite policies may be written in neutral language, the realworld application I have observed and reviewed suggest disparities in how certain youth are treated based on appearance, neighborhood, association, and last name. This is especially relevant to AB481. Before approving continued funding, equipment or expanding authorization for law enforcement tools, the council has a responsibility to evaluate not only policy language, but how those policies and tools are actually applied in practice, including how they appear in court findings and youth related

outcomes. I'm also concerned about oversight. The current oversight commission has not adequately addressed these ongoing issues or provided meaningful accountability in response to documented community concerns. It appears to function more as a procedural requirement than an effective accountability mechanism. If oversight is to have meaning, it must include real responsive to documented concerns raised by residents and engagement with verified issues involving youth treatment and accountability in enforcement. I urge this council to take these concerns seriously when reviewing AB481 approvals, funding decisions, and policy direction, and to consider whether stronger independent oversight mechanisms are necessary to ensure transparency, accountability, and equitable treatment across the community for all community members. I yield the rest of my time.

Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh, thank you. Uh public comment is closed. Uh Mr. City Manager, were there any issues uh concerns or questions you can answer at this time? Not at this time. Thank you, mayor. Uh thank you. Uh we'll move on to item number six, which is public agency communications. Mr. City Manager.

Yes. I believe we have a representative from P to say a few words this evening. That's the wrong the wrong case. I'll do better next time. Mayor Osby, members of the council and staff. My name is Megan Range. I am the new government relations representative for Pacific Gas and Electric. Just coming by to say hi. You've seen me. I will send you all individual emails. You'll have my contact information. I look forward to connecting with you all individually. I just want you to know I'm the new girl in town and I will be popping in occasionally to be useful where I can. I'm happy to answer questions, although I'm new enough that I'll probably be more effective in one-on-one conversations. Um, but I would take questions if you have any. Likely wouldn't be able to answer them.

Uh, thank you so much and welcome. Thank you. Glad to have you in our area. So, uh, eventually I think we will have a lot of questions. I don't know if we have them tonight, but it's always good to put a pl I mean a face with the representation uh from Pen. So, thank you so much. Absolutely. Thank you all for your time. Uh next next we'll go to uh 6A seaside city news broadcast comments from city manager. City manager.

Let's go ahead and play the news. Let's dive into Seaside City News, your quick hit of what's happening across the city this April and beyond. Experience Seaside through a new lens. Join us Friday, April 17th at 6:00 p.m. at the Old Demier Center for the Facing Seaside Photo Exhibition. Come support local youth as they showcase powerful stories through photography. Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 19th. Celebrate 50 years of Laguna Grande and Seaside's Earth Day all in one day. Free family-friendly fun from 10:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. Don't miss it. Seaside, it's Earth Day our way. Join us April 19th from 1 to 4 pm at Laguna Grande Lakeside. Music, community, and green energy. Come celebrate with us. Thursdays mean farmers market time. Stop by Laguna Grande Park from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. Fresh produce, local goods, and community vibes. Don't miss it. Get outside with FASPA. Join in for a day of service and outdoor fun with park cleanups on April 18th at Beta Park and April 25th at Highland Otis Park. For more information, visit friendsof seasideparks.org. Let's move seaside. Seaside, let's clean up. Join us April 25th from 8:30 to noon. Drop off unwanted items at designated locations across the city. Come early. Once bins are full, they're gone. Calling all artists. Apply for the

utility box art program by April 26th. Selected artists receive a $500 stipend to bring creativity to our streets. Apply now and leave your mark. Business owners, protect your hustle. Join a free online workshop on April 24th from 10 to 11:00 a.m. Learn simple, practical ways to keep your business safe online. Know a young adult ready to level up? Apply for a paid aviation manufacturing internship with Joby Aviation. Ages 18 to 24. Deadline is April 24th. Real skills, real experience, real opportunity. Seaside, your summer starts now. Join the park circuit challenge on May 2nd. Then art blooms and beats on June 20th. Good vibes, music, and community. Don't miss it. Youth of Seaside, this is your moment. Join the Mind Shift Youth Summit on May 2nd from 8 to 4. Workshops, free food, music, prizes, and more. Register now. First 15 get a $50 gift card. Thanks for tuning in to Seaside City News, where we continue to include, innovate, and inspire. We'll see you next month. Until then, stay safe and enjoy all Seaside has to offer. The only other item to mention this evening is continued traffic impacts around light fighter and general Jim Moore from the campus town development as well as the installation of Calam water line down general Jim Moore. So we encourage citizens to to stay uh on top of our website uh for more information and we will be posting updates as necessary on our social media. Thank you, Mayor.

Uh thank you. Presentation 7A, Central Coast High School update. Mr. City Manager. Yeah. Tonight we'll have an update from Central Coast High School. Um we'll ask our representatives to come down.

Good evening, city of Seaside Mayor and City Council members. My name is Rebecca Tyson and I am the proud principal of Central Coast High School as well as educational options. We're here this evening to thank you for your generous support with the youth mayor fund. Um you were one of our first partners as a community school that changed the trajectory of Central Coast High School and educational options. As you can see, we say together we are building a school worth showing up for. I'm proud to announce that in September it was um attendance awareness month and the superintendent challenged all of the schools to increase their attendance by at least 1%. Central Coast increased it by 12% which was the highest growth in the district and then when we did the race to spring break there was another challenge and we were also the highest school in the district to increase our attendance by I think it was 3.4%. So what we're doing at school is now data driven and we are making changes. So I'm going to turn this over to our community school coordinator as well as some of our students.

Let me turn it closer to them. I won't touch it.

Good evening, mayor and city council. Um thank you for having us here tonight. Uh with your um generous donation, we were able to um support autodetailing at our school and this is how it really impacted our students. 32 students engage in autodetailing. This is a career connected skill that opens pathways for our students. 90% of our students reported that they were more likely and more motivated to show up for school because of autodetailing. And two students were hired directly with the shop that we contracted with. 16 students then were later trained for window tinting. We expanded our partnership. Our students go off-campus once a week and they learn how to tint uh windows and then four students to our right here became advanced students and now they mentor our second cohort of autodetailing. Um I would like to now introduce you to two of our students um that have participated in our auto detailing so they can share how great it was um because of your contribution. Hello, my Can this be moved out a little bit? Don't touch it. Probably.

Hello, my name is Blake Skinner and I was one of the students that were in autodetailing and window tinting. And it is true. On the days that autodetailing and window tinting were available, I would wake up earlier in anticipation and have to wait to go to school. even showing up at like 8:30 in the morning when class starts at 9ine just because I wanted to go. And before auto detailing, I had subpar auto uh or not auto um attention to detail. And after finishing the course, I know at home I had way more attention to detail. And my parents even had something to say about it was more in tune and that they were thankful for it because I would clean their car better.

I turn it to you. Yeah. My name is Sergio Ortega.

Um, also a student in autodetailing and the window tinting program. Um, uh, just like Blake, I would say that I did have a lot of anticipation for the days that auto detailing and, uh, window tinting were like in session. Um, in the days like in the days prior or the days like after, I would like me and him, we just talk about it and try to like like either like in the beginning just try to figure out like what we could do better and then towards the end trying to figure out how to help the other students. And it really helped me a lot with attendance in general because I did have an an attendance problem before. And it it helped me to enjoy school just in general, which I never thought I would.

Um, so it it's so hard for adults to come and speak up here and I just want to thank Sergio and Blake uh for coming up here. It's um really amazing that they um came up here and it's in large part due to your generous donation and we really appreciate that. Um so we started with auto detailing but we didn't stop there. We kept building. Uh this year we partnered with Johnstone Supply. Um they're an HVAC um organization that deals like HVAC parts. I'm not really 100% like an HVAC certified person, but they came out and they did hands-on training with our students and our students had electrical boards. They were hands-on. Our students were engaged. Then at the end of the course, our students had the opportunity to take the EPA 608. I do know that. Which means that our students can gradu when they graduate, they then can go directly into an HVAC career. Two of our students pass. This test is rigorous, a lot of math. Um and so two of our students passed and now when they graduate they're ready for a career. We also launched podcasting and film making. The idea behind this was to give our students a voice and elevate their student voice. We completed the program with a student power summit where our students um showcased their learning. We did a student panel where our students talked about their experience in the school system. We then also have ecoin therapy. I heard a village project talk about mental health. This is a way to bring a calming space for our students. One student reported that on the days that there were horses, um, one day she didn't want to go to school, but when she remembered the horses were there, she ended up going. Um, those kind of events bring our our school, our kids to campus. Um, our students are also feeding the Seaside community every week. We have a partnership with Meals on Wheels, and I know we usually think the demographics um, includes elderly adults, but we flip that script. We're receiving 500 chef prepared meals. Our students, like Blake and Sergio, are

packing these up and giving them out to anyone in the community. We also layer it with a food bank. Our students are also the ones supporting all of um our Seaside community uh with food and security. We also have paid internships. We expanded our uh partnership with Meals on Wheels. Our students now go to their kitchen and they do mass kitchen production. They do food prep and they do customerf facing skills. We have a paid internship with the Plaza Hotel and Pebble Beach. This advances equity because our students have the opportunity to go to um a place during school hours, get paid, learn real world skills. And then lastly, we have um non-cont boxing. This also supports mental health. One student reported that boxing calms his mind. It's the one thing that makes his mind quiet. And if that wasn't enough for you, we have more because we are now building a cafe. So, in a couple weeks, you can come and stop by, grab a cup of coffee, chat with some of our great guys. And Rebecca said that she's going to buy you guys coffee if you come.

I will buy you coffee, but she will not provide the tips.

Um, so we purchased an espresso machine. Our students in our culinary pathway are learning how to create espresso drinks. Again, this is career connected skills. A lot of our students apply for jobs like Starbucks, but are turned away because they don't have um the skill set. This gives them the skill set. We also just launched a barber program. A lot of our students are entrepreneurs and they have uh side jobs and side hustles and they cut hair. Um we're now bringing a barber onto campus. Our students are learning how to cut hair and um our next step is to teach the business side of that, but then also help our students sign up for cosmetology school at the end of it. We also are in the process of doing a portrait of a graduate. A portrait of the graduate is basically the skills that we want our students to have developed by the time they leave our system. Um, currently when we look at the workforce, there's misalignment between what skills are expected in the real world from what we're teaching in school. This is a way to make alignment between our system and when they leave our system, whether they go to college, whether they go to career. Um it also helps create cohesion across the classrooms so all teachers know the skills that are expected. Last um we have a program called Bosep and like I said a lot of our students are entrepreneurs and we are leveraging their assets. They are taking their skills and they are teaching it to their peers and they're getting paid for it. Uh we have students doing like eyelashes, nails, cooking. Um, and so we're just really kind of doing some innovative stuff at Central Coast and we would always love to have you guys come visit. Um, we would love to end with a short video of Sergio. Sergio also took our HVAC course and he will tell you how the HVAC course gave him. Is it not? I've watched it so many times that I

could recite it. It won't work. Do you remember this interview? Do you want me to speak for you? Well, can you play it on your computer? Is that loud enough? Speak again. I don't know if I have an internet. Do we have Wi-Fi? I got a hot spot. You got a hot spot? It's worth the wait. I promise. Where's the

So, while she pulls that up, um earlier I also said that I was principal of educational options. So, we're not just focusing on Central Coast at 200 CO Avenue. We're also focusing on community day school as well as independent studies. Um independent study program has access to the programs that we're doing at Central Coast. And at community day school, it took us about six months, but we were able to form one of the first partnerships with Rancho Seialo. And we take our community day high school students to Rancho Seialo on Tuesdays and um Thursdays. And then on Wednesdays, we have a partnership with Fort where our students get paid internships to work during the day there. So, we're really trying to create something during the school day. We realize that a lot of our students have struggles um in coming to school. Sometimes they're at home helping with child care or after school. They need to get a job to help support themselves or their families. And so what we're doing as a credit recovery high school at Central Coast is we're doing this during the school day. So they're gaining all of these skill sets and then we're applying that in our credit recovery class to turn it all to tie it all together. So we're really doing some innovative um opportunities, experiences at Central Coast where we haven't done that before.

She has the video.

Okay. Yay! Surprise again. Yeah, I'm I'm really looking into this as a career.

Um, anything else that you want to say about just this opportunity about Central Post Office, these career opportunities? Uh, I've never seen anything like it. Uh, Central is really providing me with crazy opportunities. I used to go to Carl. I used to go to Carl. So it used to be like I I used to take out opportunity there but like it's it's a lot different here lot I feel like more real world opportunities all right okay

so again thank you very much um I also attend the um youth uh violence prevention meetings once a month and last year was my first year as the principal at Central Coast High School and I did a lot of talking um and I was saying we're doing this we're doing this, we're doing this. And then um at the beginning of this school year, at our first meeting, I said, "Talk is cheap. Let me show you the data that we collected throughout last school year, we have made progress in our ELA and math um state testing." So again, we have the data to really prove that we are making a difference and we really sincerely want to thank you for being one of our first partners um as a community school and again helping us change the trajectory of Central Coast um high school. Thank you again. Does anyone have any questions for myself or Miss Shantel or the students?

Any qu Yes. Uh Councilman Garcia Arizona, thank you for the presentation. My question would be regarding uh well autodetailing. I know 32 students engaged in autodetailing training. Was there a wait list? What's the maximum capacity that you have to serve these students? And if there was a weight list, what was that weight list?

You know, um for the auto detailing, we did not max it. We didn't um put a max on it. We included everybody. And then we actually had so many students that signed up, we separated into two classes the first semester. So the first semester we had one cohort go on a Tuesday, the second cohort go on a Thursday, and then the second semester we had to shorten um the autodetailing program. And so we had less students. Um but we do have a weight list for our window tint. That one does have a max of eight students just because of the capacity for driving our students there and the pricing is a little bit more expensive. Awesome. And and do you work on community cars or where do you do you want your t your car windows?

I've done my own car. Yeah. Um how did do you want to talk about that? I don't I How did you guys choose your cars? Uh

or the auto detailing. Um we did community members, we did staff members, anyone who wanted to bring their car in. um we were able to service the car and then at the end of the semester we also did a presentation of learning where we had a um a car club come onto campus display their cars and then the students that were in the program were able to showcase their um their skill sets. I believe the mayor was actually even there. Um so it was a great opportunity with the car window tinting. Do you know who cars? Um I know Michelle's right. No, we're not 100% sure window tinting, but for the autodetailing, we open it up to everybody.

That's fair. My my next question would be for Blake. Yes.

Yeah. What got you into window tinting and auto detailing? I know you briefly touched on that, but why that and not the rest of the other programs that are available? Um, so autodetailing, I when it first came up and I wanted to do it, it was just a flyer that was right next to the door. I saw it, I was just like, you know what? I love cars. I work on my own cars. I love to work on my own cars. Why not learn how to clean them? If I like to make the inside look pretty, why not the outside? And then when window tinting came up was just another thing. I would love to tint my windows cuz even now I have a Yukon. It gets super hot middle of the day and without and with tent in my father's truck, I hop in and it's cold in the middle of the day. So, I like that coolness. Especially as a bigger guy, I'm going to get hot. So, window tinting as a whole, it also improved. I used to have shaky hands a lot and cutting the tint, it smoothed out my hands. So, now I can do better things with my hands. Is this something that you want to pursue full-time?

Um, not full-time. I do want to go to Calire, so I would love to do it maybe for like a year or two, but to do it for sure. Yeah. Not full-time, though. Awesome. Thank you. Um, my my next question would be about building a business. That sounds intriguing to me. I know we're we're we're we're teaching the students how to build and run a business, but the intricacies of it like are are you helping them start from scratch or or is this sort of like if you want to do this or or how how does it work? I guess want to learn a little bit more about the intricacies of the program.

Um so our boss program, it was self- selected. So students chose to be in the program and the idea behind it is something that they already have a skill. A lot of our kids have these side hustles and so the idea is how to turn it into a business through like um financial literacy that will be a standard coming down the road. Um and then it's also like how to get like your clientele, how to build that clientele, how to talk to customers. Um communication um you know is very different when you're talking to a customer than when you're talking to a friend and that needs to be explicitly taught. Um, so it's all the things wrapped up. Um, but the main the it's wrapped up in like a nice package, but it's using something that they're interested and passionate about.

Awesome. And and then last question I have for you, I promise. For paid internships, are these after hours or during the school day? It's both. Um, depending on the business that we're partnering with. I believe Meals on Wheels is during the school day. Um but when we're working with the um plaza, it um starts during the school day and does go into the end um after the school day ends. Does it count for any type of educational credit? It does. We have a work co-op program um that our students are enrolled in as well as again since with credit recovery, we can tie it into um the credit recovery classes depending on what class they're recovering. Awesome. Thank you. Yeah.

Anyone else? Uh Council Member Burks. Yeah. Um, I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but all the different courses were those uh surveys that students gave their feedback in and that's how you knew what they were interested in. Yeah. Okay. Are there others that maybe aren't started yet, but you're looking forward to or we're wanting and we just need to start collaborating with companies?

One that we're trying to bring in is like kind of a mechanics 101. So, we're um you know, I kind of love a life skill. I mean, I don't have the skill, but changing your tire if you got a flat tire or your battery dies, jumping your battery. And so, we're talking about bringing in a partner, a mechanic, um, maybe May, um, to do a 2hour once a week, like just basic mechanics, changing oil, tire, checking the fluids. Um, so that's that's one thing we're looking at. Um, we actually have a bunch of stuff. Awesome. And then last question, how are you guys advertising? because I think this would be a great thing to expand and to share and so that they could get more practice and experience with the all these different programs

advertising to the students or the community to get the community. Yeah. So, um right now Shantel is doing a lot of the outreach um over the summer. It started with just the adults and their ideas with the HVAC and whatnot and then it's kind of grown to doing the surveys with the students. But that's something that we could definitely use um more support with. I believe on our first slide, oh, we don't have our contact information. We can send that over because we would love to have more um industry partners coming on to campus or taking our students out into the community. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you so much for good. Thank you so much. Great presentation. I I know we all, you know, we asked a couple questions, but I know everyone on the council really appreciate the work you guys are doing. And yeah, thank you two guys for being strong enough to come down here and tell us about your challenges that you overcome, you know, and and that's important for us to hear that, you know, you used to have shaky hands, but now you're pretty straight, right? And you're more comfortable uh when you thought there was nothing in school, now you see that there is something in school for you. So, we want to keep encouraging you so you encourage others. So, I want to appreciate you for taking your time to be down here and I think it's uh you know, we look forward to continue to have the the city support what you guys are doing down there. I I know the community is supportive. So, thank you. Go ahead.

I know this wasn't the point. Be should really do this at Oh, my bad. No, this wasn't the point, but you guys should bring this to Monterey because at Monteray there was nothing like this. And anytime there was something, I only heard about it when it ended. That's right. That's right. And like No, no, I got you. I got you. It's just we we had to talk to the superintendent about that, but uh me and me and the mayor prompt talked to him often and uh so we'll see. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Uh 7B organic processing and haulers update. Mr. city manager. Tonight we'll hear a presentation from Emily Aramzing, Green Waste Environmental Outreach Coordinator. Good evening, mayor, council members, members of the public, and staff. My name is Kirsten Van Gend. I'm the analyst in the engineering division. I'm just here to introduce Emily from Greenwaste. You can you can talk. We'll charge you.

Thanks. Um, so here I'm here to introduce Emily from Green Waste who's going to give an um some information about organics, materials, and recycling. And this is just a way to sort of kick off the celebration with Earth Day that's happening this weekend. So Emily, hello everyone. My name is Emily Rangzub and I'm the environmental outreach coordinator with Greenway for the city of Seaside. Today I'm going to walk you through a short presentation on organic waste sorting and processing once the material reaches the landfill. Why do we want to divert organic waste from the landfill? Back in January 2022, Senate Bill 1383 was implemented as part of a plan to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. This bill requires all jurisdictions within California to provide a organic waste collection service to all residents and businesses. The reasoning behind this implementation was that when food scraps and yard waste are buried and compressed in the landfill, they decompress without oxygen, which produces methane. The reason we want to limit the accumulation of methane is that it's a potent greenhouse gas that significantly contributes to global warming, air pollution, and other environmental hazards. This powerful greenhouse gas traps heat in the atmosphere far more effectively than carbon dioxide over a shorter period of time. Landfill waste decomposition is one of the leading sources of methane production. Composting and putting food scraps in the organics cart is a community effort. As part of this effort, region Monterey landfill and Selenus Valley Recycle partnered up to create a sort with your heart campaign. On the left hand side of this slide, you can see screenshots of this campaign, which can be viewed on Region's YouTube channel in English and

Spanish. This short video demonstrates the importance of keeping food scraps out of the landfill and how easy this is to implement in your home when preparing food. Locally, 1350 Fremont Boulevard in Seaside was selected as a spot for a mural called Black Gold, which you can see on the right hand corner. And this was painted by artist Hennef Penny. And in this mural, you can see a depiction of recycling your food scraps and composting. How is organic waste processed once it reaches the landfill? So, located at region Monterey is Keith Day. Keith Day is the on-site compost operator that turns approximately 130,000 tons of yard trimmings and food waste into compost annually. Some of the organic waste generated is registered organic input material but 100% of the product finished product is utilized in Monterey and Santa Cruz County mainly in the agriculture sector. Keith Day utilizes the Windro composting process which involves shredding mixing and arranging organic feed stock into long narrow piles called windowross on a non-permeable surface. Materials are brought into the compost site and placed into static static piles. While region Monterey takes in approximately 600,000 tons of solid waste each year, about onethird of that is food scraps that were never sorted out. Since the implementation of SP 1383, 1383, we get a lot of questions as to what is considered organic waste. An important thing to note is that the materials allowed in the residential stream do differ from the commercial stream. Now, when I say the residential stream, I'm referring to single family homes and multif family properties such as apartment complexes. When I refer to the commercial stream, I'm talking about our businesses and restaurants. Within the residential stream, we allow fruits, vegetables, dairy products, grains,

cooked meat, yard trimmings, coffee grounds along with the filter. And within the commercial stream, we allow all those items I listed along with compostable products. You can see that in the top right corner. When I say compostable products, I'm talking about um biodegradable food wear, to-go wear, cutlery, and bags. The reasoning behind why we want to keep compostable wear out of the residential stream is because all of the organic waste collected in Monterey County in the residential stream is the organic material that is taken to Keith Day. Keith day needs about a 90-day turnaround for um the organic waste before it is turned into soil that is distributed along the agricultural fields in Santa Cruz and Monterey County. Um compostable wear takes while it does break down and it is a better alternative to plastic wear for especially our restaurants. Um it doesn't break down within that 90-day period, it can take anywhere between 6 months to a year. So it is better it is a better alternative to plastic but it still doesn't break down quick enough for keep uh timeline but also the compostable wear once it does break down it doesn't create the nutrient-rich soil that we want to grow our food so we want to keep that out of that stream. There is a lot of benefits for our businesses that do decide to switch to these compostable products. First thing being that having a three stream waste collection at your business as well as biodegradable products makes your business eligible to be a certified green business. And a lot of consumers, especially along Monterey and Santa Cruz County, are looking to support businesses that care about the environment and sustainability. Since we rolled out SB1 1383, I know that um composting can be a new concept for a lot of people. So, we at Green Waist, we came up with a list of tips that should make the process a little easier. The first thing we recommend is

for your organic waste cart or your kitchen pail that you keep in your counter or wherever you keep it. Um, cleaning out the container with white vinegar really helps clear out any lingering odors. Another way to mitigate some of the smell issues as well as deter unwanted pests for your cart is to freeze your food scraps during the week and then dump them the night before your pickup day. You can also for your cart outside um to help with the smell as well as um food scraps sticking to the bottom of your cart, you can layer your yard waste or baking soda depending on what you have to avoid food scraps sticking to the bottom of the container. And then lastly, we also recommend um keeping your cart in a cool shaded area. This just helps limit unpleasant smells as well as um the attraction of unwanted pests. I'd like to thank you all for taking the time to listen to my presentation. If anyone has any questions or needs any clarity on anything, I'd be happy to assist. But otherwise, thank you.

Uh thank you so much for a great presentation. Uh any questions, Connor. Thank you so much for that presentation. Very informative. So, thank you. Thank you. We go. Next, we'll go to item number 7C, Montage Health ongoing work and new initiatives. Uh, Mr. City Manager. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Tonight, we'll hear from Mike McDermott, the Montage Health CEO.

Good evening, Mayor Oglesby and members of the council. Uh, thank you for the opportunity to spend a few minutes with you today. I recently celebrated my one-year anniversary with Montage Health and in this community and I've spent much of that year listening uh listening to patients uh caregivers and members of the community. And today I'd like to formally introduce myself, share a short update about your local health care system and reinforce that Montage Health is committed to being a community partner, not just a healthcare provider. my next slide here. Uh to give you a brief background on me and what brought me to Montage Health. Before coming here, I led a nonprofit community-based health system in Fredericksburg, Virginia called Mary Washington Healthcare. Like Montage Health, it was independent uh locally governed and deeply rooted in its region for more than a century. That matters to me because being a community-based nonprofit means that decisions are made locally. It means that our resources are reinvested here in the community. And it means that we're accountable first and foremost to the people that we serve, not to outside shareholders or to distant corporate interests. Um, that model is something I deeply believe in and it's one of the reasons that I chose to come to the Monterey Peninsula and Montage Health. And today I want to focus on three issues that I know matter to all of us. uh the first access to care also ensuring that this remains a thriving place for people to live and work and working together for the benefit of our community. Uh first access uh access to care is one of the most important issues facing our community. It's a priority for Montage Health and it's one of the things that I hear from just about every community member that I speak with today. We operate at more than 20 locations across the Monterey Peninsula. That includes

community hospital of course, but just as importantly, it also includes primary, specialty, and urgent care offices. Those are helping people stay well, so hopefully they don't need hospital care in the first place. Our Montage Medical Group is now more than 120 physicians and advanced practice providers, providing more than 230 ambulatory patient visits last year alone. Our Mogo urgent care centers saw nearly 50,000 patient visits in 2025, giving residents timely care for minor injuries and illnesses, often at significantly lower costs than an emergency department visit. And most recently, when an orthopedic practice in our community was at risk for closing, we stepped in, creating Montage Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, helping ensure that more than 230, I'm sorry, more than 120,000 patients visits each year can continue without disruption. Importantly, the staff at those locations were offered the opportunity to stay in their roles, supporting continuity for patients and stability of our local healthcare workforce. We know that access to care remains a real challenge here and across the country. There's more work to do ahead and we are committed to doing that work for the people who live and work in this community. I also wanted to briefly highlight our new throbectomy program for stroke care. When someone is having a severe stroke, minutes matter and historically patients have often needed to be transferred out of the area to receive the highest level of care, wasting precious time. Through a partnership with the University of California, San Francisco, Montage Health is now able to provide those life-saving treatments locally at Community Hospital so patients can get

the right care at the right time closer to home. We are the first and the only hospital in Monterey County to offer this level of care. This is not something that you typically see in a smaller community and we're proud to be able to bring this here to our local community. This picture is a picture of our biplane hybrid operating room where these procedures take place at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Uh the second issue I want to talk about is workforce and economic vitality. As one of the largest employers in the Monterey Peninsula, we understand the realities of recruiting and retaining professionals in our high cost of living region. That's why we've been focused on building talent from within our own community. Through our grow our own programs, we provide high school and college students with pathways into healthc care careers. In 2025 alone, we provided more than $1 million in scholarships to local students. We're also partnering with MPC and CSUMB to strengthen the local nursing pipeline, including our recent $15 million investment to establish the Montage Health Helen Bazooki School of Nursing at CSUMB to expand the number of nurses that have Bachelor of Science degrees entering our workforce. In addition, we've also launched a clinical careers program that elects that allows select Montage Health employees to return to school full-time while continuing to receive their full pay and benefits. Those uh students train for critical hardtofill clinical roles at CHOP. These efforts are not only about meeting uh health care needs. are about creating stable career opportunities, strengthening our local workforce, and supporting the long-term health and resilience of our community. Finally, through our community benefit program, we invest in efforts that keep

people healthy before they even walk through our doors. here in Seaside. That includes decadesl long grant partnerships and hundreds of thousands of dollars invested with some of the local nonprofit organizations you see listed here to support the overall health and well-being of the community. And so I'll close with this. Montage Health is here for the long term. We are locally governed. We are nonprofit and we are deeply invested in the well-being of this community. If you see opportunities for us to collaborate, I want you to know that my door is open. We view our role as a partner in the overall health of Seaside and I look forward to building a strong working relationship with each one of you and so uh thank you for that and I'm happy to answer any questions any members of council might have.

Thank you so much. Any questions council member Garcia? Thank you for the presentation. I I just have a couple questions related to HR1 cuts and how you're how that's going to be looking and how you're planning on handling that or if you were seeing any type of disruptions in the community. So, can you speak a little bit to that?

Yeah. So, what happened with the federal uh reconciliation bill back on the 4th of July when that was signed into law, you know, a trillion dollars of healthc care cuts uh built into that law across the United States of America. And uh you know, California is a big state. We're going to have over $200 billion dollars of those cuts happen to us here in California. So uh all health care providers, all health care systems and hospitals are bracing for those cuts. Uh there's going to be a lot of a lot of our fellow uh friends and neighbors that lose access to health care uh um insurance that traditionally uh they have gotten over the past decade. And so those cuts are going to be real. Um, I think it's causing all health care providers uh to look at their efficiency of care and we're we're bracing for the impact that those cuts are going to have on us, but they're real and I think in some ways we're taking a few steps backwards uh when we had taken a few steps forwards over the past uh decade or the last 15 years and closing insurance gaps. Um, but all of us are going to have to deal with uh some of those cuts that are coming our way and reduction of funding uh in healthcare that's coming through the HR1 cuts. Okay. Yeah, thank you for that. And I know there was a recent report that came out that estimated roughly around 12,500 to 19,000 residents throughout Monterey County would potentially be losing medical cover due to to budget cuts and HR1 cuts. How are we um and I like how you addressed it and I guess my question where I'm trying to head with this now is are you fully equipped with with physicians and nurses or these partnerships trying to retain local talent and ensure that when we have people fully staffed in the hospitals or what what's the plan out? One of one of the worst impacts that happens when people lose access to health insurance coverage is that they tend to delay care and they present to our hospitals typically uh in our emergency rooms when uh care has been delayed and they've

lost that chance for early interventions and it leads to higher cost care and oftentimes poorer outcomes. And so although we might have the staff and the personnel to treat those individuals, um our hospitals and health systems are going to be burdened with caring for those individuals typically with no meth method of reimbursement for the higher cost of care at that point in time. So it's a real issue that we're all going to have to deal with uh as we move forward.

Thank you for that. And and I know that currently, you know, undocumented immigrants might be affected by potential insurance coverage loss in the state of California. Um, I I guess where we're where I'm trying to go with this is usually prevention and easy and and preventative care is the best route to go. Um, because we ultimately know that emergency services end up being more costly for for people. What message would you give to the community? Uh, our undocumented community. Can can they still go to the to the doctor or or what resources are available to them? Yeah, I you know, as a as a not for-profit health system, you know, we're available uh to everybody that walks through our doors, and that's a proud part of our mission. Um, but I do think it's going to take broader coalitions of uh of communities, healthc care providers, the state uh and even the federal government to come forward and really address uh the gaps in coverage that are going to be created by this bill.

Awesome. Thank you. And lastly, any information that I think you feel that we should share to our communities, please feel free to I know I'm offering myself up to share it. So, thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you so much. Great great uh comments and and questions and concerns. Uh, I just want to say thank you so much for being here and and um in the middle of your presentation. What I started thinking about is you you I think it's a different approach to where you took time to figure out the community, get your feet wet, get a year underneath your belt before you made a presentation, talk about how wonder how wonderful you are, right? Sometimes we get it before, you know, someone comes so early, we never see them again. But I say that because you have accomplished a lot in a short amount of time. uh and with with Chomp and and and Montage and just I've seen a couple of your programs. I had the pleasure of being there for the dedication of the nursing school at CSUMB and I know it's other programs that you came forward with again in such a short amount of time. So, uh I know the community is better off having you at the helm. So, we appreciate you uh updating us on what's going on and and hopefully we'll be able to see you again, you know, when you deem appropriate. But, thank you so much.

Well, thank you. I feel lucky to be a member of the thousands of members of this community that are part of the Montage Health team caring for our community every day. We really have a great team of folks caring for this community. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Let's move on to the uh consent agenda. Uh item 8, approve and file city checks. A B approve and file success agency checks. 8 C approve a proclamation recognizing May 1st, 20126 as the law day. Uh 8 D approve a proclamation recognizing May 3rd through the 9th as professional municipal clerks week. Uh and we do have a professional city clerk. Uh, AE, approve a proclamation recognizing May 3rd through the 9, 2026 of Small Business Week. F approve a proclamation recognizing the 50th anniversary of Laguna Grande Joint Powers Agency. G. Approve a Environmental Service Cooperative Agreement ESCO report covering activities from January through March 2026. H. Approve traffic advisory committee's recommendation to install two-hour parking along uh Terrace Avenue. Uh I approve the traffic advisory committee's tag recommendation to install perpendicular parking on Broadway uh alley. Uh Jay approved the traffic advisory committee recommendation to of installation of permanent street sweeping no parking signs on San Bruno and Lasal Avenue. Uh uh San Pablo, someone says San Bruno. Where is that? Yeah. Yeah, that may be a different city. That may be a different city. Uh K. adopt a resolution approving the plans and specification for the 2026 citywide CDBG8A curb ramp project and awarding a construction agreement to the JMS Cement Contractors Inc. for amount not to exceed $250,000

and total project construction costs including contingency of $287,250. That concludes the reading of the consent agenda. Is there any item anyone from the uh DIS would like to pull off the consent agenda? Jay, anyone else from the I want to pull uh H off. H and J. Anyone from the public like to pull the item off the consent agenda? Uh hearing n bring it back to the das. What is the will of the council? Move approval. Second

has been approved second. I mean I'm sorry. It's been a motion to approve the consent agenda which does not include H or J. It's been properly second on the question. Uh I'll ask for public comment on the consent agenda. Public comment on the consent agenda is open. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. May I know members of the public have come forward to make public comment

and thank you so much. We'll close public comment on the question. All those in favor of passing the consent agenda use the regular sign of voting which is I. Nays have the same right. Extensions eyes have it. Motion carried. Uh we go to 8H. Approve traffic advisory committee recommendation to install two-hour parking along Terrace Avenue. Uh city man, do you have anybody to Yes. Yes, mayor. Thank you. This item will be presented by Thomas Corman over works director.

I just I'll get to the question. And I of course I read the staff report, but uh just wondering did you know we hear any feedback or push back from the community members around there uh particularly that live around there about the two-hour parking that's not going to impact uh too much. What was the conversation that you We did not hear any uh negative feedback from that. We did not hear any fe uh negative feedback from that.

Okay. And we don't think it'll impact the uh the residents the two-hour parking. don't believe it will. Um it will actually help the businesses in the area uh particularly uh the new business uh uh Hot Works uh which is the uh gym in that area who requested the 2-hour parking. Yes. But it held more than them. Absolutely. Yes. The post office is nearby and there's many uh nearby restaurants as well. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. I'm sorry. Uh Council Member Garcia. Thank you. Can you just remind me until what time is the 2-hour parking availability? Is it 5 or 6 p.m.?

Like when up until are we going to enforce that 2hour parking? Yeah, I don't I don't see it here.

Yeah. So, I'm looking for the the hours for you. Go ahead, you want to say something pretend that it would be the same as the other businesses in Seaside that have twohour parking,

you know, be it on Broadway or u or god all all the businesses in front of a lot of different stores that we've approved, but I So, so I can't answer that now. It's It's 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. Perfect. I just wanted to verify. Thank you. I'm sure I spoke correctly on that. Anyone else want to dice? Uh, we'll open up for public comment. Uh, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh thank you so much. Uh public comment is closed. Bring it back to the D. What is the will of the council? Move approval. It's been properly moved and second on the question. All those in favor sign which is I I have the same right abstensions. Eyes have it. Motion carried. Item number uh J, approve the traffic advisory committee t recommendation of installation of permanent street sweeping and no parking signs on San Pablo and Lasowl Avenue. Uh Mr. City Manager.

Yeah, our works director Thomas Corman will also answer questions on this item. Uh who who pulled that? Okay. Uh Council Member Miller, you have any questions or concerns or you want him to do the uh presentation? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. No, I don't think I need the presentation. I just want to know is notice being sent to the residents of this area in Spanish, English. They were. Yes, they were notified uh prior to the traffic advisory committee meeting uh where we held that uh item. Yes. Thank you. Because this is a pretty lofty goal. Is this is this going to be I mean is the plan to broad widen this I mean to do other streets as well or is it

At this point we're looking at uh these two streets. Uh this will be broadened. Uh well, as we look at it, the goal is to basically increase our ability to perform street sweeping. So therefore, the hours were chosen between 9 and 11. Uh and there'll be alternate days on each side of the street. Got it. So during that time, somebody that owns a vehicle on that street must move their vehicle in order for our street sweeper to Yeah, that's correct. What we did discuss with the police department is that that we would get proper notification. there be a grace period as this is implemented because those will be new to the residents, right? Do you think that the grace I mean this is a pilot per period for I think the staff report says two months. Yes.

So if what metrics are going to determine if the pilot uh pilot is going to turn into a long-term is that something the council decides or we can bring it back to the council. Yes. To see if this is actually a program is working. Yes. future streets would be brought back to the traffic advisory committee and then to council for approval. And then in the staff report on the second page, uh it's the one to third paragraph down on the second page, the maintenance team estimates that the sweeper only gets about 40% curb access currently around the downtown area. That's correct.

So is this street considered the downtown area? you know, anything basically off of Fremont up one block, we can consider the commercial business district. So, I'd have to actually defer that to planning uh to to that designation, the zoning, but uh that's where most of the No problem. I would just want to verify that the street is getting about 40%. That is correct. We did do a count of that on the streeting the street sweeping days and only came up with about 40%. So yeah, because the other day I was walking down going to um the auto row and I there was trash along the street. So the sweeper will be helping with the trash I assume. Anything within the gutter they will sweep down. Yes.

So

and the on the staff report it refers to I think there's it says here uh 4:00 there's something about 4:00 and there's something about 9 to 11. So, let me see where it says the four o'clock. Oh, uh, in the pictures in the in the exhibits on this item, it says street parking at 400 p.m. during the week work week on Lasal Avenue. And the second picture is street parking at 4 pm during the work week at San Pablo Avenue. So, is there a reason why we chose 4:00 for an example?

No, those are just the the time that the photos were taken, but we plan on doing this from 9 to 11. That's correct. Uh, and that's consistent with when we run our street sweeper. So, it's in those earlier hours. So, we don't typically run the street sweeper in the afternoon. Okay. I I just um that was all my questions. I I just think that this is Oh, actually I I one other thing. It was this brought by uh a team uh uh the commission. Was it an application that somebody submitted that or was it their recommendation?

It was not an application from a resident. It was to in to increase our uh our street sweeping uh and and what we noticed on the street. So staff did staff bring that staff brought this that was their suggestion. And so possibly this could remove cars that are inoperable as well. If the car is operable and it's parked on the street and they need to move at certain hours, this could help with that. That's correct. After proper notification, of course, right? And being noticed. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I think it's a lofty goal. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Miller. Anyone else? Council member Garcia.

Thank you. um enforcement policy enforcement. What's the fine going to be? Are we going to be finding people? Is there a warning in the beginning that people will get? What's the roll out going to look like? The initial roll out will just be notifications that the car is parked there and that will go for the grace period. After that, it will just get a regular ticket. I don't know the exact uh amount of the fine. So, it'll be a parking violation. Okay. Is that true? Yeah.

So, okay. Did you have any Did you want to say anything else before we go out to the public? Okay. Public comments open. The public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Hello. Again, I just want some clarity in terms of where the Lasowl section is going to be swept. Is it going all the way past Yoseite up toward the back or is it just going to be on the lower part near Fremont and uh No Buena.

Hi, I'm Shauna Leth. Um I was just wondering um is how is this is this going to impact the one-way streets where um of the residents when the street sweepers come and they the people have to move their cars? I'm wondering about the impact of the residents on the oneway streets when the cars start filling up there. That's it. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh, thank you so much. Uh, public comment is closed. Uh, Mr. City Manager. Yes. Ask Thomas Corman if he can answer those questions. Uh I can if we have the presentation available I can show the exact uh layout of where the proposed signs will be and the limits on both streets.

While we're following that up, could you address the one-way street?

Thank you. That is possible that it will impact the one-way streets, not by vehicular access, but by additional parking by uh residents moving their cars onto those streets during that time period. But the the time chosen between a 9 and 11 was was particularly chosen. It'll be not both sides of the street on the same day. So they have the opportunity to switch sides on each day. And so there could be that impact that was that was raised. Yes. So this is the proposed area goes basically all the way up to No Buena. Uh there is uh signs are located in green. That's the legend there. Um and they're uh strategically pa placed uh so that there's proper notification there. Uh so that's on San Pablo and the ne The next slide basically shows Lasal in the same fashion. Oops. So Fremont all the way up to no.

Okay. Uh mayor.

Yeah. So the goal is to ensure that or to help with the cleanness of the streets. this I think you labeled it as a pilot program which is to test the to see if it works and then if it works or doesn't work you're going to come back to the council and say hey this works we've cured the cleanliness of that area and let's look at expanding it but it's called pilot as a as a beginning phase of something that could or could not work. So until you do something, you don't know the results. So that's why it's called pilot. Is that a fair statement?

That is fair. Yes. Okay. Good. Thank you. Anyone else? You say it's supposed to be applied at trial for one month. No, I must have missed something. For two months, there'll be a grace period and then we'll look at it month by month after that. Yes. Let's see how it's working. We we'll be tracking the number of violations, number of cars that move or do not move. Okay. So, how long does the pilot last mayor? Two months.

Okay. I'm just This must be me. So, um and then and then does these streets get swept once a week? That's correct. Okay. I'm just Okay. Um, yeah. I just I I think the the public probably notice it. Uh, but when we actually put there that we think we're only sweeping about 40%. Um, I'm not even sure why you sweeping if you only sweep 40% of your of your room, right? If you only vacuum 40% of your carpet. Um, and so we have to do something to try to get closer to 100% I would imagine.

Uh, of I I just agree. I think we all seen the sweeper go around a whole bunch of cars and it really doesn't make a lot of sense that they never move. Uh so um yeah, on some days I guess you know you know depending on what people do with their cars uh I'm sure it'll be some impact but like you say it's only one side of the street not at the same day but I I just don't know how we never tried to sweep the curves properly. I I don't know how we we do that and I agree with the mayor prom uh look forward to seeing uh what the going ongoing recommendations are uh whenever in the two months pilot is is done. However, the city manager brings it back to brief us. Okay. All right. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Did we open up to the public? Okay. Yeah, that's that's what a question about the uh off streetet parking or side street. Okay. Uh what is the will of the council? Motion to approve. Second. Is it properly moved and second? Uh on the question all those in favor sign voting which is I I

uh n have the same right extensions hearing. None eyes have it. Motion carry unanimously. Item number 9 A, public hearing, an ordinance to amend section uh 10-30-010 of the Seaside Municipal Code to authorize the designation modification and removal of one-way signs by resolution and this will be a roll call vote. Yes. Uh Mr. City Manager.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. This item will also be presented by Thomas Corman, our public works director. Hey, good evening uh mayor uh members of the council. So this evening I'm going to be presenting the proposed change and how we designate a one-way street. So currently it is designated uh by ordinance. Uh so I'll just go through a little bit of the background here. Okay. So any additions or modifications or removal of one-way streets is currently requires the approval through an ordinance which means that it's brought before uh council for two times. Uh in order to kind of increase efficiency uh when when requests are made for a one-way streets removal or additions um we wanted to adopt that by resolution. Uh so the resolutions would still be required uh by uh city council uh but they would become effective immediately upon signing of that resolution. So changing the designation of the one-way streets by resolution would increase the efficiency while maintaining city council control. So this is the proposed ordinance change. So currently uh it the the reading is the following name streets are hereby designated as one-way streets and vehicular traffic flow thereon shall proceed only in the direction indicated. Appropriate sign shall be posted on these streets designated designating traffic flow direction. So that will not change. The addition is the portion there in red. So, the city council may by resolution designate, modify, or remove any of the one-way street restrictions on any street or portion

thereof. Any such action shall become effective upon the installation or removal of appropriate signage. And so, the recommendation by staff is to approve this change to the ordinance. Uh, thank you so much. Any questions from the uh D? Uh, Council Member Miller, thank you. Thank you. Thanks for the presentation. So, is there certain streets that are we're thinking of changing and that

we are there are some in the works uh that have gone before the traffic advisory committee uh particularly in the downtown area basically off of Broadway thinking of Contra Costa. There's another one that's uh being considered. It has not gone to traffic advisory committee yet is Hillsdale. Yes. Okay. And so all you're asking uh the council here is to just change our municipal code to allow for it to be only having to have one council meeting instead of having to amend our code every time we want to change a street. Is that am I understanding that correctly?

That that is correct. Um, and if I could add to that, it would still follow the same procedure that it would go through the traffic traffic advisory committee first. Got it. So, it hits the traffic advisory committee and then it comes to us if there's an appeal or it just comes to us either way. If there's approval, moving forward. Yes. I see. So, if the traffic advisory committee commission approves a project, then we we'll have be able to hear it on the oneway streets. We'll only need to hear it one time if we amend our our code. That's correct. Thank you. That was Mayor Pton,

just to clarify, the residents on that block would be notified for input to the traffic advisor or the city council. Is that is that a correct statement? That is correct. So, they would be they they are notified each time any item goes before the traffic advisory committee in that area and then they would actually be notified um prior to it coming to city council. Thank you. Uh, thank you so much. We'll open up for public comment.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Tiffany Meyer speaking as a private resident of uh Seaside. Ordinarily, I'd be for this removal of bureaucratic red tape, what it seems like bureaucratic red tape, two two hearings, and you know, but um actually after even though the um Mr. promise uh said that they would notify the citizens on those streets. I I think that just having a resolution in one reading is not enough time for people to um speak about it whether they are for it or against it. So I do not uh I would urge the council not to vote yes on this uh change. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. Um, so I concur with the last speaker. I understand the intent here is to create more administrative efficiency by allowing changes to the one-way streets through a resolution instead of the full ordinance. However, I have serious concerns about how this shift reduces transparency and limits meaningful community participation. I'd like to ask, how does this proposal align with our or support the city's general plan and long-term master plan efforts? Changes to traffic flow directly impact circulation, safety, and neighborhood livability. So, I would expect those decisions to be clearly tied to broader planning goals. I also want to understand what mechanisms will be put in place to ensure residents are properly notified and able to participate if changes are proposed in the future. You're not giving us those examples. Moving the resol moving to resolutions may speed up the process, but it also risks decisions being made with less visibility to the community. What safeguards will be will prevent what safeguards will prevent residents from being left out of the decisions that directly impact their streets? Additionally, what specifically prompted this change? The staff report references safety and operational needs, but does not provide concrete examples or data showing that the current process is failing or creating harm. This proposal could actually create safety issues rather than resolve them. For example, I have a property on a narrow one-way street like many in Seaside. If the direction is changed or the one-way designation is removed, it could lead to congestion, limited parking, and reduced access for emergency vehicles. These are real practical impacts that need to carefully be considered and take consideration and community input as well. Efficiency is important, but it should not come at the expense of transparency, accountability,

and public safety. So my final question to the council is how will you ensure there are clear criteria, strong notification requirements and meaningful opportunities for community engagement before moving forward with any changes under this new process, especially when currently there are already challenges with consistently reaching and engaging residents through existing outreach efforts. I yield the rest of my time. Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no more members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Uh thank you. Public comments closed. U bringing it back to the DAS. Uh Mr. City Manager, there was some questions up there. I don't know who's best to answer that.

Yeah, I think under this proposed process, the residents are still once an application is submitted to the city staff staff reviews that from an engineering perspective, our traffic engineers uh review the impact of the request either whether that request comes from an external citizen or or an internal staff looking at a traffic issue in our community. Then the residents of that area are notified of taking it to the transportation advisory committee. transportation advisory committee would make a recommendation and then that would determined on the recommendation would come to the city council and the residents would again be notified of the upcoming city council meeting. Um and so staff uh believes that there is uh review time sufficient for uh those requests but certainly can um um can follow council direction on how whether you want a resolution or ordinance. I I think I have two two questions. Um, you know, someone said, "How did this come about?" I I I think it goes to and part of that was um maybe you didn't speak to it because people just asked you questions and you went right to the questions, but uh is this to uh improve circulation? And I don't want to get into what streets are are you guys you guys may or may not do. that's not on the agenda. The, you know, but you did mention some streets, but my only point is this is to hopefully um uh increase circulation and make it safer. Is that is that not true or is that I'm off base or what? What's going on with this?

This ordinance is is simply to adjust the process. To adjust the process. Okay. All right. I'm I got you. Okay. I I won't go too far down there. Um and then my next one is uh changing the amount of times I guess that that it has to be read and approved or changed by ordinance uh to change by resolution. Are we removing any of the safeguards as relates to informing the public about um making any changes uh to the streets or anything else? Are we? I don't see that we are, but I may be missing something. Yeah.

Well, I mean, you're you're an engineer, so it's not You may be. I mean, what I'm saying is someone is saying that it is the And do you think it is? I do not. Uh because the traffic studies that are conducted in advance going to traffic uh traffic advisory committee address that. So, and I guess my last point is uh and part of that is the requirement to inform the homeowners or people that use that street or whatever. Does that make sense? That's correct. You're not getting rid of none of that. That that's getting rid of those things. No, that's what I'm saying. It's not as though uh you are removing any safeguards of transparency and communication of any possible changes.

No, that's not okay. and mayor Pam and then uh uh Councilman Garcia Garcia and just to the point that seems to me that no matter which approach you're still will have two bites to share their concerns. One's at the traffic advisory and once at the um council meeting and then the traffic advisory will review it, look at the recommendations. the council will recommend it or not based on based on discussion but two letters of notification will go out uh which is which is a good thing. Thank you. Yes.

Is there a way of including a noticing requirement in in the in the language?

You can you can add anything but a requirement is not being missed. So when you say add one, what are you talking about? I mean explicitly have it in the code modifying like the recommendation that we have right now. I think if we added something that said there's a noticing requirement that has to be done that that's already in the law, but I let the city attorney uh speak to what's current. That doesn't mean we can't add, but I want to I want to be sure that it's in there already. We could put two, but it's okay. Go ahead, S.

Uh, yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, members of the public. Uh, there is nothing wrong with adding a noticing requirement. I actually think that the noticing that we do is done as a courtesy. It's not done as a legal requirement. So putting a provision that says, you know, after 10 days notice to the public members affected by the oneway by the change of direction, um is something that could easily be included in here and would be consistent with the city's process that we're currently following. So

just so if we added that I think it's a good suggestion if we added the for lack of a better word that the 10day notice at the traffic advisory level or whatever level committee level and then 10 and then prior to the council meeting would would meet everybody's needs or do you think that's a necessary thing or you have a thought on that? I I I I think for me it just it's sort of a provision that's that's on paper that constituents can lean back on

and for the city attorney maybe same question. Does that make sense for you if we don't have a formal formal expectation? So, what's before you tonight is a change to the existing ordinance to allow it to be future changes to be made by resolution. And I would just propose in this ordinance adding after 10day notice, 7-day notice, whatever notice period you think is appropriate. Probably 10day notice seems appropriate um and consistent with other types of changes that um affect our residents out there. And it would be four words or three words, whatever added to this um ordinance change.

And then one more question and you can we can tweak that without slowing the process down. Is that right? This is the first read in the introduction of the ordinance. This is going to have to come back to you. So if um you wish to include that language, we would you would include that in the language of your motion and we would bring back the second raid would reflect the change language that you've requested.

What is the proposed forward addition? So I guess I have a talking to the council member. Yeah, just my substitute motion would be to add approve it with the addition of a 10day noticing period. Right. Right. Right. That's inside. So, you don't have to change this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's inside. Okay. Okay. Uh is that clear? Uh ma'am, city attorney?

Uh yes, we would. The language that you would now be considering is the city council may by resolution designate, modify, or remove any of the one-way street restrictions on any one any street or portion thereof after a 10-day notice has been provided to u residents and businesses affected.

I can second if that moves it. Well, unless they're concerned. Well, he didn't he didn't make a motion. A motion. I'm sorry. No, he just changed the language to what he wanted the ordinance to be. So, if you are ready for the motion, make a motion. Motion to approve. It's been promptly moved and second on on the question. Okay. All those in favor use regine voting which is I. I. It's a council member Miller is correct. It's a roll call vote. Council agency member Miller. No. Council agency member Burks. I. Council agency member Garcia Arizona.

I. Mayor Potim and Vice Chair Pacheo. Mayor and Chair Oglesby. I. Your motion passes 4 to one.

Uh thank you. Um thanks for improving that with that. Uh, good, good call, Council Member uh, Garcia Zola. Um, all right, that's it. Item 10 A, approve a mayor's you fund contribution request of $3,000 from the Silent Nation Co. to assist with the costs associated with equipment, uniforms, transportation, and essential program supplies for their youth and community program. Uh, Mr. City Manager. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. This item will be presented by Keon Higgins, the recreation superintendent.

I can touch this, right? Okay. Good evening, mayor, city council, city attorney, city manager, members of the public. My name is Keon Higgins, record superintendent, and I am presenting item 10A, approved mer fund contribution request of $3,000 from Solid Nation Co. to assist with their equipment, uniforms, transportation, and essential program supplies for their youth and community program. A little bit of background on the Mayor Youth Fund. So this program provides uh supplemental financial assistance to seaside youth in organizations that are nonprofits that enhance the quality of life. Uh that ranges from leadership opportunities, athletics, recreation, environmental sustainability. And to be eligible for this program, uh students or groups such as schools, nonprofits need to be based in seaside and also serve a majority of seaside residents of at least 50% or more. and they need to be 18 years or or younger or enrolled in high school. And additionally, the criteria to be um that that's required uh a few things need to be added in there. Uh they need to have some scholastic programming, athletics, music, arts, uh environmental um programs and some sort of evidence towards creating a healthy and sustain sustainable uh environments uh recycling waste reduction practices. Uh, additionally, um, the funding needs to be, uh, not just solely the merit youth fund, uh, requests, some sort of outside funding, whether it's through fundraising or some additional funding source. Uh, and then, of course, there has to be some sort of community benefit. How does this benefit Seaside and its residents? So, the applicant tonight is Solid Nation Co., they're fairly new. uh the 5013 501c3 letter uh indicates that they were certified I think in 2025 uh and so on their criteria on the application you can see in your packet uh they do meet

the percentage of residents in seaside with 90% uh the number of youth they want to target is 50 and the age of their youth is ages 8 to 18 years old and what they want to do ranges from a number of program uh sports involving basketball, flag football, uh baseball, volleyball and track. In addition to those um sports, they want to have mentorship, community service opportunities and community collaboration. Um and from their website, uh they're trying to launch uh this new kind of program in Seaside. Uh so they want to get their kind of foot in the door and create lowcost um programming for families for their youth. And the funds that this will be uh geared towards will be equipment, uniform, field and facility rentals, referees, instructors, and transportation. And currently they're using two locations in Seaside. One at the Hem Plaza, two at Catino uh uh fields, which they're paying to use, but they want to offset that cost by coming here and asking for a request. Uh and for the benefit, how does it benefit Seaside? uh they want to provide safe and inclusive uh activities for their youth that have positive behavior and of course they want to somehow make it lowcost or even free for the youth and their families and with a sustainability uh aspect to it. Uh they'll be um encouraging um uh or reducing single-use plastics during their events uh and also making sure that there's recyclable um practices being made. So the fiscal impacts. So currently the mer youth fund balance is at $17,122. Solid nation co request is $3,000 which if approved it would bring it down to $14,122. So the recommendation for this item tonight for item 10A is approve a mer fund uh request of $3,000 from Solid Nation Co. to assist with the cost

associated with equipments, uniforms, transportation, and essential program supplies for the youth and community program. I'll also add the applicant is here tonight to answer any additional questions you might have. And that concludes our presentation. Uh thank you so much. Any questions? Uh, mayor prot. Um, I I think I I heard you say that part of their $3,000 will go to pay for fee rentals at Catino Park. I assume one of them. Correct. Yeah. They would like to use some of that funding to pay for it could be in seaside, could be outside, but they want to secure some locations for their sports programming. Do you know how much of that?

I do not know. Okay. I thought I read that some of their practices are going to be at um inselinus. Does that mean they have another satellite program or uh and if I read that correctly and I may not have but I thought I saw that some of their practices or the group practices is it two different groups is it it is mentioned that Selenus is mentioned in the staff report. I'm not entirely sure how frequent how often it's over there. I I do not know. Uh

are they the same kids that come from school to in seaside that go to um Selenas to practice? And maybe when they speak they could talk about that. My last question is how long has this program been going? Uh do we know how many have they gone through a cycle be it football, basketball, kickball, whatever it be for a year like is it starting next week? Um so I do have their program schedule. Uh they started on March 29th as far as their practices and their games are starting on April 19th. So fairly soon.

So this is a just to cut to the chase, this is a it's a three-week program. It's not three weeks. So they have two 29th you said. Well, they start on the 29th and it goes through the end of May and then they have an off kind of period and they start back up in the fall in September and go into winter. Um so there's various seasons they're kind of aiming for. This program has just started correct as of March 29th. Correct. Okay. That's that's okay. Yeah. And and the applicants are here which is cool. I appreciate that. you you said they they're playing games somewhere uh

for their activities. Yes, they're in the pictures. I know that they're using Hem Plaza uh and also Cina Park. Yeah, I've seen the pictures of the area. So, who are they playing against? I believe kids that are enrolled in their program. Uh they did not give that details as far as you know there there's no league or anything. They're trying to create their own league within this program. Okay. All right. We'll uh uh ask the applicants to come up. All right. Thank you so much.

Good evening, council mayor. I'm Marty Washington. I forgot the question. Just make sure you're speaking in line. City. So for the people that may be listening at home, any questions? My questions go back to what we asked was I think I read that you practice in Selenus as well. Incorrect. We practice in Seaside uh Cino Park when we can afford it and then also Him Plaza.

So you don't the the staff report was an error where it said Selenus somewhere in the staff report it mentioned Selenus. So, it's just solely seaside kids, it sounds like. Yes. Only practicing it in seaside. Correct. Uh we may play in Selenus against another uh league. Okay. Um and that would be Northcow and you're starting March 29th. We actually started practice way before March 29th, but when we scheduled the um the games, we started with Northcow as practice on the March 29th.

Okay. So, I think the mayor asked, so I'm making a number of let's say you have a 100 kids. How many kids do you have? And if let's assume it's a 100 kids, you're going to divide those and you're playing baseball. Let's just say baseball. You're going to divide 10 players per team. You have 10 teams and they're going to play against one another. Is that sort of kind of it? Right now we have three teams by ages if that's what you're asking. So if it's inner it's inner if however many kids you have they play within themselves. They're not playing PG Carmel Watsonville whatever it be.

Not at the moment but we are having games with Northcow who are not probably local. Okay. They come here, I guess, to play leagues here. I'm not sure. I'm not the coach. I'm just the uh director right now. Maybe you can do me a favor because I'm need all the help I can get. Yes. Can you talk about a little bit about the program? What brought the program forward? What's your vision? What's your goals? Just give us a try to convince us or at least me because I I need all the help I can get. It all starts with him Plaza. Uh me being on the uh board as president. Okay.

Uh I associate with the whole community, the kids. Uh I get along with the kids. Um and I feel at a crucial time we have the kids um for free right now. Um to mentor, not just sports. Um I know a lot of kids are having a lot of problems with the situation that happened with uh Chiron. So, right now, we want to bring in the mother who wants to speak to the kids because they're having so many problems on, you know, the situation. Um, just to mentor the kids, make sure they're not growing up doing the things they're not supposed to be doing. Um, taking out the time to uh understand uh their needs. Um, not just sports. Not just sports. Um, but I can tell you they're excited um to have a free program right now. Um, I'm not sure if parents uh are going to be able to pay later or anything like that, but we are putting in everything we can to uh bring this program up uh to provide more things for the kids. Um, and right now, yeah, we're new. we're new and we're trying to figure it out and with the support of everybody uh just guidance um

you know that helped a lot so as I understand it and help me here uh it's based out of he the grassroots of the program is hemp plaza yes and and to grow from there yes and I'm also from the community um been here and not going anywhere so I decided to create a program uh on things that I see. Okay, that's in the community and I'm willing to help. Uh anyone else? Miss uh Council Member Burks,

is it open to other students or youth beyond the Hem Plaza right now or are we just starting there to get it solid and then move forward? I wish that we can have other kids at Him Plaza, but right now um I'm told, you know, only the people who live there. So, I'm trying to create a bigger uh roster. Um but that's hard until we go through some type of uh meetings with the board and management and stuff like that. I believe management doesn't mind, but we still have to go through the board. Okay.

I know that the seaside schools are all community schools and that's one of their initiatives right now trying to create sports at every elementary so that they could interact. Yes. Um and it's free. So I was just curious about that it like they're needing coaches, needing kids, right? How do we get them all together versus just one more program that's kind of competing with each other? How can we support? Because it's the kids that we want to support the most and we want to we want to bring in other kids. We don't want to just stop with just the HIMYM Plaza. Um, I took it upon myself to make sure I had the insurance, I had this, I had that, and now I just need the support from the city. Um,

thank you. And then I had a question for city manager. Um, so, and not just for this program, but um, a lot of our programs are are requesting the $3,000 funds and part of it going to the fields, right? But are they also allow able to request a fee waiver? Because I know we offer fee wavers. I'm just curious as to like I'm going to ask assistant city manager Dan Mus to answer that question. Thank you.

Good evening members of the council, mayor Damio, assistant city manager. Well, typically yes, we do allow for fee wavers. However, for fee for Cino Park are a bit tricky at best. Cino Park is highly used as we're all aware. It is also our highly or it's our it's our facility that generates the most revenue. And since since Catino Park has been open, I have not allowed fee wavers for ongoing use at Cino Park. We allow for a one-day type of event, you know, in and with the exception to the two programs that were grandfathered in, which are Seaside Pony and the Raiders. Those are the two programs that do have the use of Cino Park. Other groups, if we allowed the fee wavers up to everybody, I think we would have a there would be a challenge there. And then um right now our process for using Cino Park is a month b month-by-month basis. So we're trying to make it the the use as equitable as possible for everybody because if I just opened it up, we would have one group coming in and want taking seven days a week from 12 hours a day. Like that is the reality of of that facility. So generally we you we could do that but because the request was for cina. We are I have spoken with the applicant. We are looking at other facilities that potentially could work. Um but we do have other programs that are already currently using METSS or or so at this time.

Thank you. Uh just I'm going just pull on that that thread right there. You you you mentioned if you open up you meant with the c if the council agrees with the fee waiver. Correct. Okay. I just want to be clear because you have the right concept because what we can't do is say everybody gets a fee waiver and then by definition that means you have a time at the field. Does that make sense? And sometimes what what limits or what allows people to use the field is they have to pay for it,

right? Uh and so I I just wanted to be expand on that. It's not that we don't want people to use it, but if it's free, then all you had to do is sign up at the same hour, right? Uh I No, that was it. That was it about the I I I would ask the applicants to come back. I just I had the same type of question, which was um um Thank you.

you know, is it open to all youth within Seaside? And and at first you said no and then you came around. Yeah. At first you said no and then it's open it's only for people at hemp. So I want you to just be clear. It's open up for all youth because we we can't give it to a group that limits who can join. Correct. So I just want you to be clear because I know your intentions. Yes. What I meant to say is it's for every child in seaside. There you go. Uh and and so that that's good because I I know the difficulties with asking um or or you know having too big of a group at the himm. I understand the challenges you have with that. Yes.

But what we want you to do is you know go other places and and and you know we do have teams that have to go sometimes and practice in Selenus. Correct. Right. I mean that's just the way it is. So um but I wanted to be clear. I don't want anybody walk away and you saying it's just a private little little group and I know that's not your intent. No. Uh and then just for me, could you explain a little bit more about what is the North Cow, right? What does it stand for and do you see yourself integrating with them and playing and then what do they do? You know, what is that league kind of type thing? And I know you not the coach, but I'm going to get give you what I got from the coaches. Okay. Um and you can just get closer to the mic.

Sure. Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay. Um, Northcow is a football league uh that's franchised with many other cities. Um, out of I'm going to say Santa Cruz, San Jose, um, and many other cities, surrounding cities. Um, not quite sure of the history. Um, I just know we have games with them. I'm trying to figure out things now. Um, I do not vision me franchising with them. I vision us staying right here in Seaside and creating a bigger league uh out of Solid Nation.

Oh, okay. No, I was just I was just wondering what was that uh league cuz I know it's a couple leagues going around. Yes. In every sport. He's pretty big. Yeah. No, I'm just saying in every sport is two or three leagues for football, two or three leagues for baseball and all of that stuff. So, those those are all the questions that I really had. Okay. Uh I I appreciate what the group is trying to do is give kids more activities. Yes. Beyond sports. I like when you said that. I'm one of those beyond sports.

You know what else? You know, cuz it's just like kids want to uh kick a soccer ball or or uh catch the football. Some of them want leadership, some of them want chess, some of them want other thinking activities. Uh, but we pull a man through running around having fun. So, I get that part. So, so thank you so much. Thank you. I will uh go to the public uh public comments open.

Hello again. Um, I want to advocate for the city council to approve this request. Anytime you have children that are living in a situation where they can um benefit from sports, as you know, the latest health report talks about um the diabetes outbreak in Monterey County for children of African ancestry. I've been looking at that lately. And if kids have an opportunity to do exercise, it's good for their mental health well-being. And um I know a lot of the kids that they're targeting and I do believe that they'll probably they're in their infancy right now, but they're going to move forward because they are passionate about our community and helping our children. So, I just really want to say that I think that the city council um would be it would be wonderful for you to support um them with their uniforms and the things that they need, especially in this economy where gas and grocery prices are very high and parents can't afford uniforms and so on and so forth. So, thank you very much.

Thank you, mayor, members of the council, city manager, city attorney. Um, Bobby Maxwell and I'm always going to advocate for the youth of our community and I urge you to support them with uh approving this request. Thank you. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. I'm excited to see this come down the pipeline because I know majority of those little babies and they are my little babies. This funding will help cover essential costs, resources that are critical to ensuring our youth having access to consistent, structured, and positive opportunities. This is not just a new or un untested program. Consolid Nation is a grassroot initiative that has been actively engaging with our community for the past couple of years. I personally recall a conversation with Mi and Lean when they first shared their vision and the impact they hope to make for local youth. Since then, their work has continued to grow and reach young people on multiple levels. Mi in particular brings a unique and valuable perspective. As the president of the Hem Tenants Association, that role provides direct on the ground insight into the needs of families and youth in our community, which strengthens the effectiveness and relevance of this program. Programs like this do more than provide activities. They create safe spaces, mentorship opportunities, and pathways for growth. For many youth in Seaside, these opportunities can be lifechanging. I strongly urge you to approve this request and continue supporting efforts like this that are rooted in the community and driven by those who truly understand its needs. I would also like to encourage the city to look at ways to further support and align this program with existing existing afterchool services at the hymn provided by the city. Even small collaborative efforts can go a long way in helping programs like this succeed and expand their impact. I yield the rest of my time. Thank you for your comments. And you now have the floor to make a public comment.

Ann, you now have the floor to make your public comment. Can you hear me? Yes.

Okay. I totally support this program. However, I'm a little confused. Uh when the speaker of the program got up and spoke, she was asked if this is open to all seaside youth and she explained it very well that right now it's only for those that reside at Hen Plaza. Then the mayor got up and spoke to her and said that it is open to all the youth. We can't give money out to just private, for lack of word better words, uh, clubs. So, which is it? Is it open to all seaside youth or is it right now only open to those at Hen Plaza? We just need to be very transparent about that. Like I said before, I do support this. It's a great program and these children will benefit from this and I appreciate these adults taking their time and their efforts in producing this club, but we can't I feel like the mayor was trying to get her to say something that she really didn't mean. And so, um, I just need to be need to be more transparent that right now at this time it's not open to all seaside youth. It's only open to those that live at Hen Plaza, but in the future they're hoping to build it so that they can encompass more children. I yield the rest of my time.

Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. All right. Thank you so much. Uh public comment is closed. Bringing it back to the DAS. Uh was there uh city manager or Kim was there any or the applicant was there any questions or or issues or concerns? Uh yes, just come up to the mic and speak to the mic.

I thought the question was what two places were we practicing at? So I answered as Him Plaza and Cino Park. The problem at Hen Plaza is practicing there. The management or the board is only saying the kids that live there. So right now the practice at Him Plaza are the kids that are living there, but that's the only kids we have that are in Seaside right now. But it's open to every child in Seaside. Every child. And so this is why we need the funding to pay for field time, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. So we can find out with him is going to allow us to bring in other seaside children. Is that better? Uh

yeah. No, I it it was and we'll go to Mayor Putin in a second, but it it was clear for me and and I just want to speak for my behalf. I wasn't trying to get nobody to say anything. Okay. What I was trying to do is be clear about what I need to hear to to so I can support this. Yes. Because to be honest with you, I just happen to know quite a bit. And I know if the Hamplas or any other uh uh um private entity don't want anyone to live there, come there running around cuz when you slip and fall, right?

Right. So, it wasn't about them living there or not living there. It's about them authorizing non-residents to, you know, correct bang into each other. Right. You know, tackle and trip and fall. Yes. So that's what I was getting to. Not trying to coach you to say anything. Correct. And so I'm just going to push back a little bit on that because at the end of the day, we're talking about our kids, right? And and I know uh the spirit and what you guys are trying to get it and and that was just it for me. So uh I wasn't trying to get you to to go one way or the other. Right. Uh uh Mayor Prom. Yeah. I'll make a motion, but I want to ask a question just to real clarify that issue. Okay. So my grandchildren child is say seven years old or 6 years old.

He wants to play in your flag football league. Can he can he play? Does he live in seaside? Yes. Yes. Okay. So I'd like to make a motion to uh approve the uh the request and then on the second second uh it's been uh probably moved and second. on the question. Just want to say this, the reason why I I asked you the questions because I wasn't familiar with the program and I don't think the the public in general was. So until we're educated about our program and the services they provide and where their grassroots are Yes. as in Hemp Plaza and then you'll blossom as appropriate. Correct.

Then we can't make informed decisions. So I wasn't trying to question your loyalty or love for Cece. I was to get the information out of you so we can be more aware and be supportive. So I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah. on on the question at the at the same same comments uh that the mayor pro Tim had and I'll just add you know I'm not one of those where and and I you know I'm not again I'm not trying to coach you to do anything but it it doesn't have to be all and only seaside so when you ask where a person live do they live in seaside yes the thing is can anyone join we had no I'm I guess I'm just talking now right my my point is if you look at the criterium for the award I think 80% or something has to be seaside youth. That means by definition it's people that don't live in seaside. That's the first thing. Second thing is we have a lot of seaside kids that participate in other city sports. Correct.

And they don't say because you live in seaside you can't sign up. Your parents can't pay to play in our sports. Right. And I'm just saying we are the same way. So I just want you to be sure that's not nothing we have which is only seaside kids. Correct. It's just if you want a little bit of this money, 80% of them, whatever the percentage has to be benefited from them, correct, right? But uh we get you know better than me. Our kids go all over this peninsula and we want them to be welcome. So we welcome everybody else's kids. Sounds good. Yeah. Thank you so much. U bring it back to it's at the D. Uh any other questions? All those in favor use a regular sign of voting which is I.

Nays have the same right? Abstensions here ns eyes have it. Motion carried. Uh let's move on to item number uh 10B uh annual report AB481 regarding the police department's acquisition and use of military equipment. Mr. City Manager.

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. This item will be presented by both of our commanders, Pasone and Doza. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, city council, city manager, city attorney, members of the public. My name is Justin Pascone, and I'm a commander with the Seaside Police Department, and I'll be presenting the annual report for 2025 regarding the police department's acquisition and use of military equipment. So, Assembly Bill 481 was adopted in 2021. It requires law enforcement to obtain approval of certain military equipment through its governing body. This is done through adoption of military use policy by an ordinance. It must occur prior to funding, acquisition, or the use of military equipment. And this bill is to enhance public trust and transparency. Government code 7071 seaside city council which is our governing body shall review any ordinance that is adopted at least annually authority to approve slashdeny the funding acquisition or use of military equipment excuse me upon review and vote whether or not to renew the ordinance yearly. The Seaside Police Department. It is a participating member of the Monterey Peninsula Regional Special Response Unit, also known as MP RSRU. Military equipment defined high mobility multi-purpose vehicles.

Also wheeled vehicles that have a breaching or entry apparatus attached. Tracked armored vehicles that provide ballistic protection for its occupants. Command and control vehicles that are either built or modified to facilitate operational control and direction of safety units. This also includes weaponized aircrafts, vehicles of any kind, and vessels. Further military equipment defined which are battery ramps, slugs, breaching apparatuses that are explosive in nature. But this does not include our standard oneperson RAM, firearms and ammunition of 50 caliber or greater. This is also excluding our standardized issued shotguns and ammunition, specialized firearms and ammunition of less than 50 cal caliber, including firearms and accessories identified as assault weapons in the penal code. Continuing any firearm or firearm accessory that is designed to launch explosive projectiles, noise flash diversionary devices and also explosive breaching tools, munitions containing tear gas or OC. This does not include again our service issued handheld pepper spray that all officers carry on duty. And for this next group, we do not possess any in the city of Seaside, but taser, shockwave, microwave weapons, water cannons, and long range acu acoustic, excuse me, devices, kinetic energy weapons, and munitions, and also other equipment determined by city council or state agency to require additional oversight.

So some of the equipment that c the seaside police department own we own a total of 35 rifles which we have three different types and some of our breaching tools. We have a Remington breacher along with our hel our handheld RAM and we have six less lethal weapons. We have a total of five drones and we have one commercial van for MP RSU RU purposes. Some of the ammunition and projectiles are listed on the screen. um kinetic energy projectiles and also some of the ammunition for rifles. So in 2025 we had two deployments here in the city of Seaside for SRU operations. The command and control vehicle was used then. During 2025, the FN303 less lethal kinetic impact projectile launcher was not used. And our drone had multiple operations. Some of those including training, SRU operations, special events, fireworks, outside agency assists, missing persons, and we had a total of 259 flights. and for the recommendation approval from the city council for the report and continue use of existing equipment and military ordinance and policy. That concludes my presentation. I'm ready for questions.

Uh thank you so much. Uh any questions? Uh Council Member Bur? Yeah, something small. It says 30 uses for the drone for exotics on Broadway. Was that because of crime or was that just crime? Yeah. No, I know that's a No, it was not. It was just as a safety precaution to make sure everybody was safe. Thank you. Uh, Councilman Miller, thank you. And on our on our weapons, are we um do we have a range that we practice at? Yes, we do. It's here in Monterey County. Is that the one at the um Laguna Secika or Yes, it is. I

I read something that their hours might change. You know anything about that? I don't have the specifics on that but I can get get that information to you. Make sure that we have the training is yes it's going to say that's one of the places that we have. Are we training often? Yes we are. Thank you so much. Yes. Uh thank you. Anyone else? Yeah. Just to be clear. So so those are only times we used military uh our military so-called military equipment. That's correct. Does that make sense? Okay. I just want to be sure that's what this report is about. Uh a lot of times people hey why you haven't you're using it you're misusing it and so you're required to report to us when you use it and those are the only times that you did.

Absolutely. And it's very rare that we use it. No I understand. And then uh uh when someone said crime during during the what is it as I was on Broadway you know I was like no we we don't have crime right which is true as much as those people are down there that's least of the you know so far right. That's absolutely correct. But you did have them out to do what? Just for safety and then we use them for maybe counting the the crowd or how did you use them? It's safety purposes and also um for eyes on on things we can't see so we have an aerial view and it gives us a better overlay of the city and the people that are here. Yeah. To keep us safe.

Absolutely. Right. And then help with traffic. I'm just kind of like, you know, talking about I guess we'll talk more when we talk about possibly having the exotics. Uh uh that's all I have. A great report. Uh I will open up for the public and they may have some questions for you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Uh public comment is open. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. I have 13 questions. The staff report largely presents information as required. My concern is not the report itself, but the framing and conclusions in the presentation. The presentation uses terms like enhancing public trust, demonstrating responsibility, and insurance compliance. However, it requires verification against specific legal standards, not general assurance. So my questions are, where's the evidence that there are no reasonable alternatives to this equipment as required by law? What analysis compares compares tools like drones, armed vehicles, or projectile launches to less militarized options? The report lists 259 drones deployment but does not provide outcomes. How many resulted in arrest, deescalation, or prevented harm? Without outcomes, how is necessity being evaluated versus routine use? We are told this equipment improves safety. Where's the data showing improved outcomes compared to not using it? The report claims compliance and accountability. Where are there where where there are any policy violations in the past year? and if so, what corrective actions were taken? If not, what independent verification exists beyond internal reporting on physical impact? The report states there is no direct fiscal impact yet AB481 requires full cost transparency. Where is the total cost of ownership, including maintenance, training, and replacement? Our community engagement. How is outreach expand to reach working families, non-English speakers, or those unable to attend a 4pm weekday meeting? For those unable to attend, what ongoing mechanism exists for submitting feedback outside of this meeting tonight? How is that feedback incorporated into the policy decisions? And how is this city ensuring that all residents are given equal access to participate, not just

those able to attend specific meetings or who already have established access to certain individuals. I personally attempted to engage beyond this process, reaching out multiple times to the police chief with questions and feedback and did not receive a response. So I have to ask if residents cannot attend a single meeting and direct outreach doesn't go unanswered, what meaningful access engagement exists? Lastly, California law defines items like tear gas, flash guns, and projectile launches as military equipment due to their p potential harm. So how is their continued authorization being justified beyond general statements? The presentation provides information ask and I ask the council to reach and ask council to reach a conclusion without fully meeting the burden required under AB481. I urge you to consider these questions carefully before approving continued use because oversight requires verification not assumption. This whole presentation was about assumption. Every every question I ask, the 13 questions I ask demands the the burden of proof and the requirement under AB481. Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. I appreciate the presentation from the police department tonight. It was helpful to hear clearly how this equipment is being used and just as importantly how infrequently and in what type of situations. What stood out to me and what we're seeing in other cities as well is that this equipment is typically reserved for very specific high-risk

incidents or for search and rescue purposes. That context matters. I think where the council's role is especially important is in maintaining ongoing oversight. Not just approving today, but continuing to review how this equipment is used over time, ensuring transparency, and making sure its use remains consistent with community expectations. That balance, public safety alongside accountability is what builds trust. Thank you for your time. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh, thank you so much. Public comment is closed. Um I say manager, were there any questions, issues, or concerns you can speak to?

Just that this report meets state law requirements as well as while the presentation listed all of the equipment owned by the city of Seaside. The deployments were very limited including two two deployments of our uh command and control vehicle which leads to increased officer safety and uh control of uh the scene uh as well as uh the total drone flights which is 259 which have a variety of activities that have um made an improvement uh for enforcement uh on several those initiatives that were included in the report. That's all at this time. Thank you, Mayor.

Uh city attorney, did you want to uh add any comments? There was a couple uh comments that that uh went to legal ease and and so is there anything you want to tell the council?

I believe this report is thorough. It's providing uh exactly the information that's been called for under the state law. Um, the council wish they could ask a couple of clarifying questions about acquisitions of any additional equipment, but other than that, I think this report has has been very thoroughly prepared and presented to the council and to the public and presents a a document upon which the council can make informed uh decision- making. Uh, thank you. Uh any other comments or what is the will of the council? Make I'll make a motion to approve.

I second. Uh it's been properly moved and second on the question. Are there any questions or comments? I I would say that uh for me, you know, uh this this policy really goes to so-called military equipment. Uh, and as you guys can see, some of the military equipment was listed, uh, the type of bullets, type of, uh, munitions, uh, definitely the, uh, the rifles, the so-called long guns, and and and for me it was a little, you know, when someone call the shotgun the breacher, right? It's not the shotgun to be necessarily shooting people. It's about, you know, you know, breaching the door or something like that. Uh what what I'm getting to it's the report is for the military equipment that's in a department's uh armory so to speak uh and then how they're using it and what we heard uh they're very seldom use these military style weapons uh unless it's needed and so I believe uh the information provided uh leads me to believe there's no other reasonable alternative to the breacher to the rounds that you need to use that and to um what is it the uh rifle of course and and then even if people looked at it they had to list that that big old van that truck right and so those are the things that that we have in our department maybe in a larger city they have more stuff closer ti closely tied to military equipment and they may use a little bit more, right? You know, and and so that's really what this is for us to evaluate that. But I think uh our so-called military equipment use policy does safeguard the public's

welfare, safety, civil rights, and their civil liberties. Um we haven't purchased any new stuff lately. Uh maybe some bullets, but go ahead. Yeah, let's just put on the record. No, we have not, mayor. And everything that's in here, we've had since last year. Had since last year. Okay. All right. I I think we put on the record that uh this reports meet uh the criteria for reporting the policy. I have no more questions. Uh all those in favor use the regular signup voting which is I

I nays have the same right abstensions. Uh eyes have a motion carried unanimously. Uh yeah, let's take a a a nice uh recess right now before people

We'll go to item number C which is fire department 2025 annual public safety report. Uh Mr. C manager. Yeah. Thank you mayor. We'll hear the report from Chief High Chief Pablaha. Can I touch this?

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mayor Pro Tim, city council member, city manager, city attorney. I'm Paul Blaha, fire chief or seaside fire department. Before I get started, I'd like to hand city clerk copies of the annual report for each one of you up there and assistant city manager. I will get you a copy. I would also like to recognize our administrative assistant, Maricella Ramos, and the chief officers that assisted her in this annual report. They all did a phenomenal uh job on this report. Uh oh, there we go. The seaside fire department mission statement of core values is the foundation of seaside fire department. We take great pride in serving our diverse communities through outreach profession professional services and efficient responses. The core values is integrity, family and friends, respect, professionalism, compassion, dedication, loyalty and trustworthiness. The organizational chart for Seaside Fire Department consists of a fire chief, deputy fire chief, the administrative assistant, three division chiefs assigned to three different shifts, A, B, and C. Underneath them, you have two captains, six engineers, and nine firefighters total. The personnel and staffing, we have 27 personnel at Seaside Fire Department. 26 are sworn. We have three cadetses and recently new hires were in last August and we had seven promotions in the year 2025. Our firefighter of the year, firefighter Matt Bryan, he was recognized here, I believe, two councils ago, two council meetings ago. You know, he he's

outstanding. Uh, I don't want to take up too much more time uh because I know he was really recognized here. But for a firefighter to take on the the personal protective equipment policy, which is about $75,000, it's a big responsibility. And we have complete trust in him to be fiscally minded and make sure that all the equipment is up to par for the personnel. 2005, excuse me, the 2025 incidents were 3,412 incidents. There's 1,724 emergency medical services, 976 good intent. There's 333 service calls, 169 false alarms, 139 hazardous conditions, 70 fires. And those aren't just structure fires. That's fires from the dumpster fires, vehicle fires, structure fires, vegetation fires, any type of fire. And we had a combined mutual aid received was 85 and provided 46. The counts by the incidents were broke down in percentage. The medicals are 51%. The fires are 2.1%. The false alarms are 5%, the good intent calls were 20%, the service calls 10%, and hazard conditions 4.1. The incident by month, this is a three-year um slide. It gives a year from 2023 to 2025, but it breaks it down into each month, and we're averaging approximately 280 calls a month. As you know, we contracted the city of Del Rio since 2003. We're in a 5-year contract with them, and this is their reports from 2023 to

2025. And for the year 2025, we responded to 216 calls. They have slowly started to increase um and we're averaging approximately 18 calls there a year. The response times, this slide breaks it down to our turnout time average is 68 seconds. And that's the time of the alarm to the firefighters walking safely to the fire apparatus and getting their personal equipment turned uh placed on. The travel time is 4 minutes and 13 seconds. The average arrival time is 5 minutes and 43 seconds. In the bottom left corner, total call time average is 24 minutes and 51 seconds. That's approximately an average of how much time we spent on a call. And in the middle, the total unit draw down is 18%. What that means is that when a unit gets dispatched and they're committed on a call, we get dispatched to another call, a second apparatus takes that call. We're at a we are at a draw down, meaning there are no more units available in the city of Seaside from from the fire department unless one of those units become available. But our division chiefs will be call we have it a move up and cover. Our division chiefs will request a move up and cover from a a local agency like city of Monterey. They will move up an engine into seaside and cover our calls. And then of course if another call comes in the engines will try everything they can to relieve the that relieve that mutual aid engine training. You know there's a saying train as if your life depends on it because it does. And total hours is approximately 4,800 hours of training went into 2025. There's 3,740 hours just in company

training. And that's the engine company going out throwing ladders, uh, extending hoses, vertical ventilation, positive pressure ventilation, any type of training that you can think of. And you have EMS is 304 hours. Your driver training is 203. Your officer training is 221. And miscellaneous training is 409. your activities. We do a lot. We have from citizen ride alongs to car seat checks to uh station visits, school visits, our one open house in October, fire prevention week. We teach CPR, citizen CPR, and our community events, which is going to the Lamar Center, first Friday of every month for blood pressure checks to the I believe it's the third Thursday of every month for the senior citizens. um to any events down at city hall inspections. We have 328 change of ownership u excuse me apartment inspections and that's not a total of 382 apartments that those are in units from 0 to 50 units of apartments. You have 130 annual business inspections, two state reported inspections, and those inspections are reported to the state fire marshal and those two are embassy suites because it is a high-rise and the jail. Those we fill out a report and we submit to the state fire marshall and those are red do every year. And then a change of ownership is 12. Our kitchen remodel, we are very proud of our kitchen. We're very happy that the city funded that um project. It was it was needed. Um those cabinets have been there since 1979. So on your left is before and on your right is after. And these pictures don't

it they do it justice but definitely come up and look at it in person because that's just one angle. And both those pictures are taking or been taken in the general area. Same area where you see the bar on the left with the kitchen sink. You're standing. we remove that bar and that person is standing in that general area. The drone program, it's been around since 20 uh 2016ish, about the last 10 years. Uh we have seven volunteers. Um and we participate not only in Fourth of July but for exotics. And we have as you can see we have the police two pictures from the police department. We are we uh join them and we get dispatched out for search and rescue down in the coast of Big Su or for a suspect that had decided to run. And um again we have seven volunteers and two of them are are our cadetses. Citizen feedback throughout the years we have many citizens feedbacks. It comes back on monthly daily. And this is just a little bit of the feedback that we get. And I like to leave this last slide. This is our picture of our 2024 BME type 3 fire engine. This is the fire engine that will not only protect the city of Seaside and the neighboring cities, but also go down is on the Mass Mutual aid um list to go down to Southern California or as far as in Northern California. And that concludes my presentation.

Uh thank you so much for your presentation. Uh any questions? No, no questions. I had two. I guess you you went into it a little bit, but what is the total unit? What is the draw down? I mean, what does that mean exactly? I I know what you meant about you leave and someone comes behind you, but how what does the 18% mean? So we have overlapping calls and that's that's another way of saying draw down is that you have you get dispatched to 123 Main Street. Another call comes in within 30 seconds to 456 Main Street. So So the 80 18% is 80% of all the calls of 3,412 calls 18% was the the so-called uh draw down.

Correct. I got you. Thank you. Uh did you uh council member uh Garcia, sorry you might have said this already, but what are good intent calls? Good intent call is that we get dispatched say to a smoke coming from a vehicle from an engine compartment, but we get on scene and it's just an overheated radiator and a steam. So it's a call upon arrival. It's becomes a non-emergency. Okay. And then looking at the numbers or incidents by month on slide number eight, I think we start seeing a trend of number of calls increasing in September

following until January. Is is that due just to the holiday season or or I mean it's hard to attribute that uh what exactly it is but overall over these past two years since 2023 I have seen sort of the same amount of calls. Yes, as you can see in 2023 we had 3,469. Then it went down to 3,255 and we went back up to 3,412. Every year it goes up and down. So last year at this time we were at uh 980 calls and we are now this time, pardon me, we were at a thousand calls this time last year and we're now at 980. So, it's really hit and miss. All it takes is one storm and we'll roll 40 calls in one in two hours.

Okay. And then you talk a little bit about the cadet program. Yes. I I know you briefly mentioned that, but how's that been? What's the success? Uh,

it's been real successful. Um the three cadets we have, I was recently I met with two of them and I know the other third one, but they all are going through their EMT class and they all are joining the uh NPC Fire Academy and it's my goal to send them back down before they register and to um pay $2,000 of their tuition to save them money. Plus, if I provide them equipment, turnouts, helmet, and SCBAs, it'll save them approximately another $700. So, I'm excited that we have cadetses that are want to uh progress into our into a reserve program and then stay with the city of Seaside. But that doesn't mean that they're not they can they can't go anywhere else. We encourage them to go somewhere else. We encourage them to test throughout the state of California. I will call fire chiefs. I will call the the San Bino Monterey County Ranger Unit fire chief from Calire and say, "I have three cadets. I have three reserve firefighters that are academy graduates. Hire them as seasonal firefighters." And

that's great. I think that's that that's amazing. So, how many did you start off with? Six. Okay. And you have three. one went to college and I believe the other two dropped out and are there any efforts to sort of have new new cadets? Yes, we have a waiting list and so it's just a matter of waiting for these cadetses to move on and then um get with uh human resource to make phone calls for the waiting list and see if they're still interested.

Awesome. And then your drone program, how many volunteers do you have? I think you mentioned about uh seven. Seven. How often are we using the drone program? Is it They went down to Big Su two nights ago for a lost person. Um I would say at least once or twice a month we get a call out. Awesome. Those are all my questions. Thank you.

Uh thank you. Anyone else? Uh Mayor Pat, just very briefly I hope. Um thank you for the report. Uh I know our department fire department is one of the best in the county. So we appreciate what you do. Do you know how many um community hours that you that you uh put in to the city of CB from the jud famous judges for the dog show to the senior dances. Do you uh do you know that would be the community events? Okay. So is there an outlook hours or that was 44 hours I believe or 44 44 events. Yeah. Um no I would have to say you can put an hour to two hours on each event. Yeah

approximately. Good. And then a while back you were there was an effort towards getting more females uh in a leadership role or learning or a cadet program. Is that ongoing? Yes, we have we have currently have two female firefighters. Uh, one is an engineer taking her uh, fire officer classes and the other one is only about a year and a half, two years in to being a firefighter. Good. Thank you. Anyone else? Yes, Council Member Burks.

Yeah. Um, how can we find out the requirements to be a drone volunteer? Because I know there's a lot of youth in the high schools that are in robotics and they're interested in that and that would be a great pathway potentially for them to get some experience. They can contact the fire department. I can put them in touch with Captain Chris. Um, I can also create a flyer with the um anformational flyer and post it on the website and social media. And then as far as the cadet program, I know you're saying you're waiting for this cohort to be complete. Is there a max number that you guys can handle as far as like mentoring?

I would say six to seven. It's it's unique situation with the um cadet program because if you it goes from age 14 to 20 I believe and we have to um make sure that we have an extra person on duty or bring someone in because you cannot leave an under a minor or in the station by themselves especially at a fire department where we have walk-in medicals all the time. Thank you. Yeah. Anyone else? So, thank you uh Chief, excellent uh uh report. Um thank you.

I agree. The mayor pro Tim uh you guys are the best. Definitely one of the best, but probably the best if I had to say it, but I know other communities feel the same way about their fire department. You guys do such good work. Uh I think that was it. I think you put a report on there. We will go out for public comment and we'll see if there's any questions they may have for you. Great. Thank you. Thank you.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you so much. We'll close public comment and we'll deem that report accepted. Okay. Uh D, uh report on seaside municipal water systems capacity and rate study. Uh do you want to move the mic? The the city manager told me you guys don't have to be that close now. He told me that after I said it four times, but yes. Is that good? Can you hear me? You think he could be heard? Raise it up just a little bit. Yeah, we can hear you, but it's the Don't get too close to this loud in the people at home's ear. So, I want to thank the city man city clerk for fixing the the mics. Thank you.

Okay. Honorable mayor, uh, city council, um, city manager and city attorney. My name is Andreas Bear. I'm the assistant public works, uh, director for the city of Seaside, and I'm here to give you a report on the Seaside Municipal Water System. Uh, and I'm here primarily to answer Council Member Miller's questions from the February 5th council meeting. Uh, Council Member Miller, I reviewed your questions and you had you had a number of questions. I want to summarize them in these four. Essentially, you were asking for the status of the Chile's wellwater acquired back in 2022. You want to know the capacity and status of our existing wells. Uh where we sit with our rate study that was started back in 2023. Sorry. And and whether the rates remain uh appropriate um moving forward. Uh before we before we go into all those questions, I like to give you a little bit of background so everybody knows uh knows what's going on with our system and understands our system. the seaside. The city of Seaside maintains and operates its own Seaside municipal water system. It serves uh approximately 800 connections and approximately 3,000 residences. Um it's bounded by Hillby Hillby Street in the south, Yusede to the west, uh Lel on the north, and General Jamore uh on the east. And uh the city of Seaside has three water purveyors within the city. Uh Marina Coast Water District serves the former Ford or area in the north end of the city. Uh Calam serves the majority of the residents uh there in the in the center of the city excluding the seaside seaside municipal water system. Uh and there's a portion of the city uh seaside east that is not yet uh completely spoken for although we suspect will become part of the seaside municipal water system. Uh water wells. Here are the water wells that we that we own currently within the city of Seaside. Um, wells one and two have been retired from service for some time. Well 3 failed and was retired back

in in 2015. Well four is functioning and is in very good order. It it produces uh at about 500 gallons per minute. We inherited a number of wells with the with the golf course. Uh two wells. One uh it's located down on CO Avenue. Um it failed and is out been out of service since 2022. Uh we have a well up off Eucalyptus Road. It is a good well functioning well. It's certified for irrigation water currently. It produces water about 500 gallons a minute. And we have two wells uh in the Monterey subbasin. Those are outside of the seaside subbasin um off Laguna Grande. One we use uh daily um for irrigating city hall irrigating Laguna Grande. We carry water from that well to irrigate a number of our parks. Um and and we use it for construction water throughout the city, jetting and other things that we can use recycled water for. Uh there's also a well, the Chili's well uh which is an artisian well. Uh the Chile's well we acquired uh in 2022 uh with the with the property. The property itself remains open uh and and available for redevelopment. Um, we call this well an artisian well because there's actually pressure underground that pushes the water freely out of the out of the out of the top of the well. If you open the valve at the top of the well without any motor or pump uh in the ground, water flows out at about 5 gallons per minute. Uh it was originally modeled at at being a 14 gallon per minute um uh well, although further modeling has been done that that that suggests it's likely to be able to uh operate at a healthy capacity about 50 gallons a minute. Um the well does produce brackish water. It's not it's not perfectly clean uh drinking water and it needs uh substantial treatment if it if it were to be used for for potable water. Um it is being evaluated for diversion to Monterey one water. Uh there's a number of diversion projects which we look which we've looked at for

the purpose of uh generating water credits, diverting the water to Monterey one, having it having it cleaned up and and uh injected back into our basin. And uh there's certainly potential to to add this well, generate water credits uh for the seaside in the seaside basin. Uh Seaside's municipal water system, we currently only have one um active well within the seaside municipal water system. It's well number four. Uh it is in good uh working condition. Uh we are required by the state of California to maintain a a primary well and a backup water source a backup well uh which we are not we are in compliance with due to our connection with Calam and our inner tie with Calam but we do not have our own backup source of of water this time um and we're p pursuing backup water wells uh a new well uh new well is in process uh and has been in process for some time uh back in the early 2020s, uh, we were looking at a at installing a new well at Laguna Gr at the at Ling Cunningham Havana uh, park area, but that was, uh, not really approved or welcomed by the community. Um, so we've been looking for other well sites. We recently completed a a biological study, uh, for a new well site, uh, that we're looking at and are progressing through the squa uh, SQA process. Um the wells the well that we're working on the well process we're working on uh has been has been difficult and has been a bit of a moving target. We've got a number of different estimates on the construction of a new well uh lately. We Calam provided their well cost data for the two wells that they built near behind the seaside middle school. Um and those wells each had a price tag of $12 million and that's for well construction alone. it didn't include the the final piping which they are under undergoing under they're they're in the process of constructing right now in general

Jimmore Boulevard. So, uh unfortunately the cost of construction continues to go up and the cost of new wells um goes up and in general um we we believe that rates alone are unlikely to support the cost of a very expensive well, a $12 million well. and we have been looking for and in the past we're close to receiving uh federal funding and and other grants for it. We were really close to getting both funding from Padilla and Panetta back in 2005 but that was all canceled with the new with the new federal the new administration. Um and we are looking for partnerships and and and and other funding opportunities to to to support that new well uh new well requirements. Uh unfortunately this is not a well that we can drop anywhere uh within the city. I I think you guys have been briefing these requirements in the past. Um but a new well in general should be a thousand feet um from another produ production well. It should be located within the sea. It needs to be located within the seaside subbasin. That's the subbasin that we actually have water water credits in. It should be 7 greater than 750 ft from the nearest pure water Monterey injection well. It needs to be 50 ft away from any sanitary sewer line, storm drain, nonpartable water line, etc. Uh, it needs to be on city- owned property or property that we can reasonably acquire. Uh, ideally, the well would be in the Santa Margarita strata. Uh, which is much deeper than the Pasobo strata. I'll explain that in the next in the next slide. Uh, that area is that we're looking for is essentially north of the uh, or Terrace fault. And we want the well close to our municipal service area or as close to the municipal service area as possible so that the cost of of running pipes over to our service area is is as low as possible. Uh this is an updated map of all the major wells uh in the area. The bottom lefthand corner you can see the seaside

municipal water system and our well four. Uh the black dashed line is the or terrace fault and and essentially on one side of the or terrace fault uh we only have access to the past robels basin before the before the the you know before before base rock and stuff uh essentially uh prevents uh flowing water and uh and north of the fault we have access to a whole a whole another deeper aquifer. the aquifer goes down about, you know, 1,000 ft or 1,200 feet or deeper north of the fault. And if we can get a well in that area north of the fault, we have just that we have access to that much more water. I mean, substantially more more water. The the water table can drop, things can happen. We have a much longer and and uh and and better supply of water if we get into the deeper into the deeper aquifers. The goal is to get us get ourselves a well in the deeper aquifer. Um the red dots indicate the pure water Monterey injection wells uh and the general area the exclusion exclusion uh exclusion zones around those wells. The pink the pink circles uh show the ASR uh injection wells injection recovery that is the water that comes out of the Carmel River Carmel aquifer and gets injected in the seaside basin for for later uh reuse. And then the blue the blue circles all show production wells. uh EW3 and EW4 on the north end of the uh image there are not yet installed. Those are wells that have been permitted by Calam uh but Calam hasn't gotten uh hasn't installed those wells and my my understanding is they probably will not be installed. Um the seaside groundwater basin boundary is the pink line in the upper right hand corner of the slide and we have to our water rights are within

the seaside boundary. So we have to stay below that below that line. And now to discuss the rate study and the rate study method methodology. So the rate study is something that we have been uh working on. Um it has been on hold some as we as we identify funding and really identify the an accurate cost of the uh of the well and how much we're willing to to spend on the new well. Um uh this what a study does is it it it does it does a lot of research. It goes through all our all our past revenues, our past bill uh uh bills and expenses. Um and and it it goes through the on&m. It takes into account all of our operating expenses, um, all of our debt service charge, our capital expenses and everything else that we have and essentially comes out with what it recommends our new utility rates are to be able to sustain sustain ourselves and sustain a rainy day fund and sustain whatever whatever uh whatever goals we have for the uh water system for the for the seaside municipal water system. Um, our water rate study, uh, like I mentioned, it's basically, uh, it's basically been it's a lot of it has been completed, although it has been on hold as we've really been identifying the cost of our of our capital investments and if and where we'll be able to get additional funding for the wells or for a new well uh, construction. Um, and if if we were to pick this up and move full speed ahead right now, we could complete the analysis within one to two months. We did go through the numbers very recently. We can we we we have all the research up to date. We can we can create a draft study uh quickly for you. Um if we did create a draft study, we would create a draft study with a number of alternatives and we would bring that draft study to the city council uh for discussion and uh and an ed educational workshop with the goal um that the that the council would really give us give us

direction. I mean, this is we potentially have a very expensive proposition uh for you guys to evaluate and see really what's attenable. Um once once you give us that direction, we would finalize the study, bring it to a council meeting uh to present and and and and be approved uh provisionally. We would then we would then have to go through the prop 818 process, provide a 45day minimum notice to all the impacted customers and have a second uh final council meeting where uh you could adopt adopt the new rates. the uh water rate study. The underlying assumptions that we are working on uh currently is is are that we are trying to maintain a rainy day fund within the within the account of of around $2 million. Uh this is to if if our current well were to uh were to, you know, were to crap out tomorrow, we'd have to replace it. It would be an expensive proposition. Uh it's important to have this rain day fund. Uh I wrote Seaside County Sanitation District. I meant Seaside Muni. uh water system there. Um the seaside community operations need to be self- sustaining. Uh this is not a not a system that should be funded by the uh by the city of Seaside or the CIP, you know, or the general revenue. Um any new development we want to have paid for by new customers. So we want to be sure of what our customer base is if we're going to expand uh and be able to re be able to collect uh new development. So what I mean by new development is if we wish to expand uh the if we wish to expand our wells, expand our capacity, expand uh and add additional storage beyond what's what what we need for our existing residences, then we would want to make sure that we we're we're generating revenue from new customers and and recouping those those costs. Um we want to keep rates within the range of our neighboring agencies and ideally as as low as possible for existing customers.

And we want to we want to do our best to apply rate increases gradually over time um instead of having you know one large one large one-time in uh increases so that we can we can spread those rate increases and and hopefully have it easier for our customers. And uh that is the the chart below is an is a is an account balance over the last few years of the seaside mun system. We we are um we are at about $2.5 million right now in our account balance and uh we have been trying to trying to get there and stay there and we have not been losing money over the last last year. Uh I I put this rate comparison together for you guys um just recently just last just last month and uh seaside municipal water systems rates are right in the middle of Marina Coast and Calam. Uh Marina Coast rates in Marina are about 80% of what the seaside mun rates are. Um, Marina Coast has actually two tiers of rate. Well, three tiers of rates. If you include recycled water, they have a tier for for the rates within the city of Marina. They have a tier for rates that they charge to customers that that lie in the or community and the former Ford or community and they have rates for recycled water. Um, what I did here is is rates are really different depending on how much water you use. uh you get penalized for using you get charged substantially more for for for for landing in a higher tier uh rate and you get charged substantially more depending on what your meter size is. Uh your average residential customer has a 3/4 inch meter. Um new construction may have a 1-in meter which would cost substantially more but an average average house has a 3/4 inch meter and the average resident uh in seaside uses about 4,500 gallons of of water. um per

month. So I expect the average seaside mini bill to be about $100 a month. The average seaside uh bill in the marine area in or is about $100 a month. Um and calam calam for the same amount of water you'd be charged about $123 a month. And that's the report I have for you so far. I'm here to take any questions you may have or uh thank you. Thank you for a very well done report, thorough report. Are there any questions? Uh, Council Member Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, here in this report, you used, uh, gallons per minute. I think the the acronym GPM, gallons per minute. Is that right?

Correct. And so, uh, in the past, I've been I've seen here that we use the metric acre feet. So, on the if we can go back to the slide, Dominique, sorry. If we can go back to Um four slide four or slide five excuse me operating at the Chile's water wells operating at five gallons per minute. How many acre feet is that?

You know it really varies depending on how much you operate a well. I can tell you that our well number four uh has put out historically you know in the range of 380 acre feet per year. Uh it operates at at you know 500 gallons a minute. uh our water our water aotment are we we have been our water a lotment has been reduced over the years by the uh by the adjudication and and the and the water master and what we believe is sustainable yield. We only um yes thank you. We uh we are now allowed 121 uh acre feet per year and and we've bought an additional 70 acre feet per year that we are that we have through the um the recycled water program at the golf course. So the essentially the 500gallon minute can can produce up to 300 up to 400 uh acre feet per year. Um, I believe the a five gallon per minute was as low as as six acre feet per year when I kind of ran the ran the calculation for the the artisian well running flat out. Um, but it would generally depend on how much you operate how much you operate the well.

Thank you so much. I just had just one I have some more questions. Uh, not too many more, but I also had some questions for the city attorney. Um, so Dominique, if we can go to page uh slide five, the next slide. Uh we purchased this property the day council member Burks and I were sworn in um December 15, 2022. And during that time there was a staff report and it was on the agenda. Do you remember what the projected amount of water that was going to come out of that well?

I do very explicitly and it's based on a hydrogeeological report that we did not reference in this report. Um and it was I think our estimate at that time was between 40 and 60 acre feet per year based on um the fact that it's an artisian well and that even though it's operating now at 5 gallons per minute with improvements to the actual well system itself, it could produce up to 40 to 60 acre feet per year. And I believe we we estimated low at 40 acre feet per year. So if I understand you correctly, you're saying that right now it it doesn't have the cap capacity to expand because we haven't put money into that that we have no resources.

We have no pump in the well right now. It's just when you open the cap like you explain, water comes out. Water comes out and that is at five gallons per minute. And how many acre feet per year is that? About six acre feet per year. The models do show it. It could most wells have have pumps in them. The models do show that it was designed for 14 acre feet. The model shows that it could it could handle 50 acre foot. I mean, sorry, it was designed for 14 gallons per minute. It could handle 50 gallon per minute flow rate pretty pretty easily.

So, if I understand correctly, we purchased a property for $1.6 million for the well on the property with the understanding that we were going to get 40 to 60 acre feet per per year and we're getting six acre feet per year because we've not put a pump on that well since 2022. Is that correct? that and that's those flow rate flow rates are correct. Yeah.

Yes. Okay. And so um when you talk about expanding seaside MUN is are you talking about new developments or people that re rehab their house or what exactly is expanding the service mean? um both and yes new developments and and and and and within your house we are limited to the amount of water we can pump uh do the adjudication we do have a recycled water program going that is that is putting 47 acre feet of water currently on the on the golf course. We have the potential to buy 450 acre feet to put on the golf course um which could allow us to uh to expand our our water supply um uh beyond what we are supplying currently. And we have a large area of undeveloped land in Seaside East that doesn't doesn't isn't we assume is is Seaside Municipal's water system or an area to supply water to.

If that area were to be developed, it would be an on under our system. Correct. Okay. And uh and so is the amount of water that we're collecting from the well now, does that cover all of our customers in our system or are we buying from another source? Our well supplies more than the water that we're using for our customers more. So theoretically our system could be expanded with how with more customers than we have potentially. This is just kind of a random question. Do you know how much more percentage or how many more customers we could service with the amount of water we have?

We asked our customers to cut their water use substantially. Um we were using more than twice the amount of water that we use now just just 10 years ago. Uh so so we certainly have the amount have the ability to to to return to our existing levels. We I know those the well was was being pumped at about 18 hours a day which is a lot of a lot of pumping to maintain those high water yields. we could potentially, you know, pump that 24 hours a day, but we would be really pushing our capacity to go beyond, you know, 380 acre feet a year in my opinion,

right? And so our Okay, so I what I'm getting at is it is possible for Seaside MUN to expand and and take on more customers, but we wouldn't be able to do that with Marina Coast or with Calam's customers unless we entered some kind of I' I'd say we'd we'd look at the cases with our existing capacity. we'd look at it, you know, we try to make better responsible decisions if we were going to add new customers. Um, is there ever a scenario, this is, this is pretty wild and out there, but is there ever any ever a scenario where Seaside MUN covers the whole city?

I mean, there's been a lot of hearsay about Calm. I mean, yeah, maybe isn't it? The administrators try to answer administrative questions and and leave the engineer to do his engineering. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Okay. No. What? Not not in my opinion. Not at this time or not ever. It would take a lot of different uh agency interactions uh that I in this position um can't speak to at this point. So, we produce more water. We bring in more water than customers we have. Are we able to sell that water or use that water for another purpose? Yes.

And what do we do with it? I'm going to ask the engineer. Well, most of our additional water credits right now are committed to uh to to the developments that we have going um in campus town and in Mangate and in other areas. So, we are committing a lot of it to the expansion that is that is that is taking place. There's a another project uh a nurses barracks which is getting some of the water. The the the the the Chartwell School is is uh has has a water a lotment. So a lot of the water that we have or have in excess is is is spoken for. Um does that answer your question?

It does. Yes. Thank you so much. And so really what we're what we need what we should be looking at in the future is our backup well if I understood you correctly is to have a backup well in case our main well goes down. I think that's our biggest liability currently absolutely facing us. We not having a backup water supply. We went on Calam for about two weeks and we ra we we we we char they charged us about $200,000 for that for that water for two weeks. For two weeks and that's not something we can sustain, right? And that p that money wasn't passed on to the rateayers, right? I mean, we did have a reserve fund. We didn't we didn't immediately raise rates, you know, just just for that. No, we had a rainy day fund to cover it.

Thank you for all your attention on this. No problem. I'm all good.

Uh, some simple questions I hope. One is just for clarification and because I'm probably heard wrong. I heard the city regarding Chili's. Well, are you guys in I know you were in part of the negotiations with the water and all that. I I thought I heard two different numbers as far as acreage feet. Is that correct or am I just not hearing correctly as far I think he said six acre feet. I thought you said 40 acre feet but I it's a distance away. Can you clarify or are you guys on the same page or

I thank you through the mayor. Um yes we are actually on the same page. I think what your engineer was telling you is that currently the well produces when you open the top an amount that's about 6 acre feet per year. What I was explaining to you is that we have a hydrogeeologic report that says with the appropriate equipment in that well it can produce up to 40 to 60 acre feet a year. It has that much water capacity that it could generate. So I believe we are on the same page and I hope that clarifies the

I think it as well. Um the other simple questions are the um chili well again I might go to that area if we had somebody to clean up that water an investor that wanted to clean up the water get rid of the one the bad stuff and there'd be enough water to put some low impact businesses there. Is that a fair statement? If somebody wanted to invest in that, is there enough water? There's enough water. Certainly, they would have to clean it up, though. The cleanup process is is is difficult. It's not easy, but if they wanted to invest in that, they they could and we can they can make it happen with the city's help. Obviously,

in theory. Yeah. Okay. Another one that just again clarification when you were talking about and this always bothers me so if I'm wrong I'm hopefully I'm wrong the Marina Coast water district I think I'm hoping you didn't say this that they're responsible water for marina and they're responsible for water for parts of seaside be it

seaside highlands or wherever over the the different areas over that over that way. Do they charge their residents a different price than they charge seaside residents? They do have have yeah they have different rates and it depends on the on the system and the geographic location. So my and just because just because um why I guess is the question when there are required I think to give us water uh why is there two different rates when it's when it's their responsibility

they had they had and were operating the the the marina system uh on their own and that had a certain amount of costs associated with it they inherited or took over the Ford or system uh and have put a lot of money um into maintaining and upgrading the pipes and services and they account for that system uh differently and and that whole customer base differently and they build they build rates based just on that old system and the amount of and the amount of money it cost them to run that system as opposed to blending the two together. I I'm just my personal comment is that they made that choice but to in to expand. But on my last question, you um you talked about a need to have a secondary well,

correct? And you talked $12 million. I think you ballparked. Is does the state or the federal government tell you or tell us when is there a timeline a timeline when we have to have that you know whatever year that may be or is it just whenever you can? We're meeting the requirement with the inner tie with Calam currently it's just a very expensive backup water source and pumping water out of the ground is really cheap to do once the wells in place. Buying water at retail from Calam is not cheap. So there's no negative. We're doing what we're supposed to do and that's okay.

We're we're doing what we're supposed to do. We just have a have a big risk over our heads of of a big deal. If we get a if we can get a well in in the ground, you know, we can we can pump water cheaply, right? Which would be which in the long term would benefit the taxpayers. Correct.

Okay. I think that's it. Thank you. Anyone else? I'll pull in the the thread that the mayor for Tim laid out there. uh you said uh you know we're looking uh we know we need another well right for a while and I I just don't want to leave any one listening uh as though you that's not have that's I don't want to leave them thinking that's something you haven't worked on since you probably got here and I know that's something we gave the city manager as soon as he got there and so I I just want you guys to speak because it was it was it was out there as though you guys are not doing anything we're not taking advantage of the water and could you speak to particularly the the well at Chili's why haven't we taken advantage of it I know the answer but but the answer need to be clearly put on the record of of why you know you just can't snap your finger and you you got a well and and especially the mechanisms that it takes for

the chilies well

let me let me just finish the thing for the chili well right because those are two separate things this the one of chilies right and is the actual whale and the uh uh what you call it the strata of that we need to get right so and I know you're working on both of them but that's what I what is the the challenges that you continue to face and I know some of them are uh political some are engineering and you have moved it past the thinking that we had a while ago so I I applaud you for that and then at a certain point it goes to the administrative right because the city manager have answers that you don't have and of course you have numbers that he don't have. So if you want to start and then the city manager uh can can jump in there. Go ahead please.

Thank you. So the Chile's well is not directly connected to our seaside municipal water system. Uh connecting to the system I mean running pipelines up to our system is a very difficult and expensive thing to do. Um, the easiest way to get get water credit out of the out of the Chile's well would be to put the water into the into the sewer lines actually and actually have it treated uh at the Monterey one water at the at the waste treatment plant and then reinjected into the seaside basin where we could pump it back out. And it would be probably cheaper for us to build a new well in the seaside basin, put the put the water into the into the sewer into the sewer system and pump the water back out. Linton Linton to move underground and through existing pipelines then to build our own set set of pipelines to get it into the seaside mun system. Um the yeah the I mean right a backup well is not easy. It's not easy to find a location that we own. It's not easy to find a location you know approximately very close to the to our existing system with our existing pipelines. Sorry.

Yeah. No, you're fine. I I'll I'll address that question real quick. The city of Seaside is analyzing several locations for the backup well or the the additional well needed to make uh to meet our we are in compliance with state statutes with our inner tie to have a a substantial backup well. We are looking at locations but again that cost could be estimated $12 million and so we're trying to look for partnerships or or federal funding to assist. So that $12 million is not sustainable on the rates uh on the rates of the users for the system. the system just isn't large enough to absorb that cost. And so while we're looking for that, that that is why the rate study is on hold till we figure out the solution for well number two.

Yeah. I guess I have two more, you know, cuz it was, you know, I don't want it to be out there as though you guys were not doing anything. $12 million is a lot of money, right? So, and to be honest with you, it I I don't know if it was $12 million two years ago when we first started talking about it, right? We just didn't start talking about this two two months ago, three months ago. It's always been 89 $10 million. But I But you didn't give a price for the um the Chili's uh configuration, right? Uh to put a well there. How much would you guess would put a well there? I believe the report that we have estimates the cost for treatment in about the $1.2 million range.

About 1.2. Right. And so what what I'm getting to is it's easy to say hook it up and get the water out until we ask city manager where do you get the money from? And that was just treatment not piping.

I'm sorry that's just the treatment. That's not the piping. Right. And and then uh you know I just pull what the mayor prom said which I'm not saying he said that but I'm just saying what was said. you know, get someone uh to do it for us, right? To get some middleman, but to put some other middleman in there, meaning they're going to charge a price to do that. And so then we're paying a middleman uh a premium to do something. And so I just don't want it to be uh uh out in the ether as though you guys have not been working on this diligently for u a couple years now. And I know the city managers knew, but you've been here and the group before you was here cuz I remember when they wanted to put a a a well in Lincoln Cunningham

and we and we said, "Well, let's take a look at it." But then the public said, "Well, that's not the best place to put it, right?" And so it it was it was it went from the school district and it went to our a place that we control, which is Linky Cunningham Park, and then the public said, "Well, maybe that's not a good place. Look look at another place." So, we're I think we're doing our part. You're doing your part. We're trying to find where we could put this. Well, uh uh and then probably where we can come up with the money. So, I I just don't want it to to be said that you guys are standing still. Uh I know the city manager is not standing still. I know you've been engineering these numbers for a while. And so, we'll we'll just take it out to the public and and see if there's any questions they have for you uh or us, the the city. Uh, public comment is open.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star 9 if you're calling from a phone. Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment. Thank you. Uh great presentation. I want to focus my comments on system reliance, specifically our backup water supply and the broader long-term vision for seaside water future. Right now, we're talking about capacity, redundancy, and infrastructure. But the key question is what is our actual backup plan if our primary sources are disrupted? I heard Calam, but I don't know if that is the primary. Not just in theory, but in real prolonged emergencies. What alternatives supplies are firmly secured today and where are the gaps? Beyond that, I'd like to understand what avenues we are actively pursuing, not just studying to strengthen that backup. Are we expanding partnerships with neighboring agencies? Are we investing in a high voltage transmission line system that connects separate regional power grids, storage or groundwater sustainability in a way that ensures true redundancy? And importantly, what is the timeline for those efforts? Looking forward, I think this conversation should go bigger in a bestcase scenario. What does full regional coordination look like? I know the manager, the city manager didn't really elaborate on that, but I'd like to know more about that. Could Seaside eventually be fully integrated into a broader municipality system or even position to contribute supply? Are we exploring pathways to align with regional providers so that water is shared more efficiently across

jurisdictions? I I want to mold around that a little bit more because they did mention that it is expensive to pipe down um to this. Uh we did it with Seagrove and so it it's been talked about. Is that a possibility in the future? Because ultimately resilience isn't just about having enough water. It's about having flexibility interconnected systems that can adapt in times of need. So I courage I encourage this council to push to push for clearer answers on three things. What is our reliable backup today? What concrete steps are we taking right now to strengthen it? And what is our long-term vision for regional integration or potentially having Seaside MUN supply all of Seaside and how can we open those conversations across these other municipalities or other partnerships that we currently hold? I yield the rest of my time.

Thank you for your comments. Peter Kaiser, you now have the floor to make your public comment. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.

Okay. Um, yes. This is a very uh serious uh issue of water and I think we need to be um we need to be transparent here. I went to a water district meeting and I said, u I'm hoping we can vote if we're going to as as water users and water drinkers and rateayers, we can vote to see if we want to use sewer water pumped into our um aquifer. And they said, "Oh, it's already a done deal. You won't get to vote on it at all." And I was very surprised. this leader in the water district was fairly arrogant about this and he he almost sounded like he didn't care that the people who would drink it and pay for it have a say on it. So that's one issue and I think we need to have more holding ponds to capture the rainwater at Ford in other areas instead of having it just go out to streams. And another idea which would be good is to um take the d the soil out of and sell it out of the lo padres dam or I think a farmer even offered to have it put into his canyon. And so I think maybe twothirds of the or one half to twothirds of the Los Padridge dam is is not usable. It's not holding water. It's holding soil. And the other thing is we need to have uh the the purple pipes coming back to our houses because potable water use I think in Monterey County is something like maybe 9% of water use is potable where you're going to be cooking with it, you're going to drink it. So if we had the gray water brought to our houses and for landscaping, we would use a lot less water. So these are some ideas that have been put forth for a long time but they

have not been used properly. So thank you Peter Kaiser watcher a longtime water watcher. Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Thank you so much. Public comments closed. Uh, Mr. City Manager.

Yeah. Uh, first to answer a couple questions. Uh, the again for prolonged emergencies I think was one of the questions. the city of Seaside's uh Seaside Municipal Water Systems emergency entertam. So if we if our main well goes down, we will be uh using that as our emergency source for prolonged emergencies. It's simply more costly and so the city is is looking actively uh at addressing that solution with the construction and installation of another well, but that is a a complex process that requires significant amount of engineering and and location uh analysis on where that goes. Um the city is also actively seeking partnerships, external funding sources and other uh solutions with those other agencies. Uh both city staff and elected officials sit on a variety of other um agencies as liaison or simply representatives to to identify and look for those opportunities. And so uh the city of Seaside is is is working actively to address um constructing another well as a backup well for Seaside Munich. City attorney, did you hear any uh questions you can speak to at this time? Uh,

actually, I think I wanted to correct maybe a misstatement out there on the pipeline to the Ascent project. The city of Seaside did not build a pipeline to Ascent or to Seagrove, I'm sorry. Ascent is the former name of the project name. Um, Seagrove. What we did instead is the city invested in a reclaimed water project, bringing reclaimed water into our golf course and developed a water credit program. It has approximately 718 acre feet that the city leveraged to bring that water down um with Calam to have Calam actually serve the Seagrove project. So Seagrove is actually served by Calium using water credits that are generated and developed by the city of Seaside and purchased by the developer of the Seagrove project. No, I think it's a very, you know, of course, water is very complicated issue, especially uh here on the peninsula and I and I think it's just a little confusion was going on when you try to uh espouse a complete knowledge of every angle and you and you get lost in some of the information because I I think it came from uh not the threat but you know a pivot that we would have made which is we would have sent water down there and I but the point. The point is unless you're dealing with this in and out every day, uh it's easy just to say, "Hey, go get the water and and and make it come through the pipes." Uh and uh it was also talked about, you know, uh someone said, uh what is it working with Calam or can Callam or or can Cesai serve the whole community? and and the city manager, I guess he just didn't want to answer. And I'm not foring him for that, but but the only way you could do that is to ask Calam to let you serve

the whole community. And and I think we all can figure out the answer to that, right? Uh and so um people are working on it other ways, but we just can't say, well, we have enough water to do the whole seaside, and so Calam, you move out the way, right? It's a little bit more complex than that. So, uh that was information. Anybody else had any uh comments or or concerns or uh just to receive the report? And that was it. Just to receive the report. Okay. Uh and I would just again, you know, see, man, we talked about this all time. The council talks with you about this all time. You guys been working on uh trying to do the well and and trying to figure out how to get the waters through pipes and now we're talking about sewer pipes and all that stuff. just encourage you to keep on going. Uh, keep doing what you're doing. Thank you so much. All right. Item E, adopt a resolution approving amendment to the city manager employment agreement authorizing a 1% increase and an amendment to the FYI uh FY 2025 2026 annual budget. Uh, Mr. City Manager.

Yeah. Thank you, Mayor. This time will be presented by Samantha Swani, our human resources director and risk manager.

Good evening, mayor, council, staff, and members of the public. Um, staff is here to thank you. Okay. We are recommending that you please uh recommend adopting the resolution approving the amendments to the city manager contract. And we will start with a brief background. Um so the city's city manager's employment agreement was approved by council on February 6th, 2025 and he was appointed on March 17th, 2025. the salary adjustments allowed after annual evaluation with the city council which was included in his contract. Um earlier last year all employees including those that are not represented by bargaining groups received a 3% increase. The city manager was excluded due to separate contract which is governed by the mayor and the council. Um after close session on April 2nd, he completed his annual evaluation. A 3% increase was warranted, but the city manager accepted only 1%. So the fiscal impact current salary is $285,000 annually. The proposed 1% increase, we are asking that it be retroactive to July 1st when all employees received the 3%. So his new salary will be 287,850 which aligns with the timing of the other employee increases and no other changes to the employment agreement is being asked tonight. It also we are uh requesting that the amendment to the fiscal year 2025 2026 be adjusted

um with this amount please. So again, the recommendation adopt a resolution approving an amendment to the city manager's employment agreement authorizing a 1% increase and an amendment for the fiscal year 2025 2026 annual budget. That concludes my presentation. Any questions, please? Uh thank you so much for that presentation. Are there any questions? There's no there's no questions. Uh thank you so much. We'll see if there's any um questions from the public. That public comment is open.

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Thank you, Mayor, members of the council. the city attorney and city manager. Um, this city manager is a godsend to our community. He deserves more than what he is asking for. Um, he shows up for everything and we have been going in a positive direction since his coming on board. So, I I'm all for him getting whatever he asked for. Oh, thank you so much.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from the phone. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. Uh, I'm in full agreement with Mr. Bobby Maxwell and his comments with regards to our um city manager. I do want to inquire though that 3% that was given to staff, did that include the cola? I don't recall and and I and I I do appreciate um the 1% that he that he is accepting. I think that um once his annual comes around, he will be put on the same schedule as the rest with the percentage increase. Um that does include the COLA. And so I just like that clarification, but I do agree that he has been very um engrossed in our community, wanting to learn um how our community works, who's in our community, and how to best serve our community. And that speaks volume versus what we've had to endure before he came. Um I love the aspect that he is also engrossing his family into our community. And so that gives way to knowing that he will care for our community because his family is engrossed in the community. I yield the rest of my time.

Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Good evening everybody. I just want to say I speak in favor. I didn't um prepare a public comment, but I want to say we're happy that you're here. Happy 1-year anniversary. You absolutely deserve this raise. I believe that you are the piece of the puzzle that was missing to this already amazing family of city council. Um the city of Seaside feels like family. Whenever we have any event, it's literally like a Hallmark movie. Everybody knows each other, everybody hugs each other, and it's just the most um best feeling of a community that you could have. And so I I stand here to say I in favor of a raise for our city manager. Thank you. Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Uh, thank you so much. Public comments closed. Bring it back to the das. What is the will of the council? Make a motion to approve. Second. Second. Oh my goodness. Uh, it's been probably moved and second. On the question, uh, we we need to say why we think this is a good ideal. Yeah. Okay. On the question. Um just like the public said, he's been very active in getting to know um our community. Um getting to know each of us. Um communication has been excellent with our for me as a council member. Um very thorough, very quick. Um so I appreciate that and I appreciate the forward thinking he's bringing to our city.

Anyone else? Okay. Yeah. Thank you for that because we all should say why we think he should get more money. But I I'll just close it up. Uh the city manager is doing a great job is doing well I didn't say that. See manager is doing a good job. Doing a fair job.

Uh what is it? U meeting his evaluation criteria. We gave him his evaluation. Uh he's doing a good job. He's meeting the goals and the priorities of the council and the residents of Seaside and we heard some of them here already. Uh he was sent. I'm not sure who sent him. We have great employees and he is one of them. So he's been doing a a bangup job. Uh we appreciate him. We look forward uh for him being around here uh a long time and uh uh his leadership uh is noticed uh throughout the community throughout the uh uh peninsula and uh he did step up and and said he's willing to set 1% when we offer him a little bit more. So I want to put that on the record that he is a leader uh leading uh this city in that manner. So it's important for us to acknowledge that he did not take all what we were trying to give him. So uh but does he deserve it? Yes. So thank you for saying that. Uh all those in favor use recent voting which is I

I have the same right abstensions hearing n eyes have it. Motion carried. Uh F discussion on potential public art concept within Cal Trans rightway. Uh Mr. City Manager. Yes. Thank you, Mayor, Council. Um just a little bit of background on this uh item maybe. Um this item is regards a conceptual public art project within the CALR rightway uh specifically at Fremont and Highway 1 or exit 404. Uh preliminary conversations on this project were had by council member Miller. Uh staff began receiving you know external communications on this project uh regarding the proposed project the week of April 6th. Um CALR has provided a first step preliminary approval. Uh however there is uh a continued process for this project to become a reality through the CALR transportation art process. There would be a series of various CALR reviews and approvals. Um an execution of a transportation art proposal or tap uh agreement and then encroachment permit for installation of that art. Uh the approval from uh Calr specifically talked about this uh intersection of freeway Fremont and Highway One with murals to be allowed on bents and those are the between the pillars. That would be eight bents with two sides each for 16 potential mural canvases. Uh it is worth noting that the bents themselves are sizable uh at 24T by 28 ft or 672 square ft each. Um and then also uh the approval, preliminary approval included murals allowed on four abovement walls. Um we've included a

couple photos of of similar um mural art on highway rightaways in California. The uh again this is to show the size and scope of of of a project potential project and really uh staff is is looking for council direction to discuss the potential art project concept within the CALR rightway and provide direction to staff regarding whether to proceed with additional feasibility coordination and project development. Um knowing that we are uh approaching our budget season and a fiscally constrained year, um staff is is really seeking direction uh on this project as it aligns to our priorities and strategic plan. Be happy to answer any questions.

Uh thank you. Are there any questions?

Uh before we go out to the public, public comment is open. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone.

Good evening, city council. My name is Sha Debuff. Um, I'd like to speak in support of the importance of the Cal Chans waterway and what it means for our community. Um these spaces under overpasses and along highways are often empty and sometimes they're trashy. I myself have called um CALR at least once a month or once every month to clean up the um garbage that's be behind the pillars. Um it also builds pride when artwork reflects the people who live here, their culture, their stories. is it sends messages that said that mean that says this neighborhood matters. There's a safety benefit too. Spaces that are designed with intention and maintained tend to feel safer and be treated with more respect. Art especially when paired with lighting and upkeep helps create that shift. And this impacts daily life in simple ways. These corridors are part of people's routines, their commutes, their walks, and spending time with family, making them more welcoming, reducing stress, and makes our city feel more livable. These projects also support local artists and creates opportunities for community involvement. They bring people together and give residents a voice in shaping their surroundings. This isn't just about aesthetics. It's it's about turning overlooked spaces into places people recognize, respect, and feel proud of because how our city looks and feels in these everyday spaces shapes how people experience living here. Thank you.

Good evening again. I'm here to speak in support of the mural project discussed that we discussed at the neighborhood improvement commission recently and that you're bring talking about tonight. This is exactly the kind of creative communitydriven beautifification effort our city should be encouraging especially at a key entry point off Highway 1. First impressions matter and projects like this help reflect pride in our community. I also want to acknowledge the effort it took to reach out to Calrans and explore whether this was even possible. Too often good ideas don't move forward because no one takes that first step. So I would really like to acknowledge that if there are internal process the city would like followed that's certainly something to clarify going forward. But I would encourage the council to focus on the opportunity here, working collaboratively to move this project ahead rather than discouraging initiative. I would hate to see future ideas discouraged because someone took initiative to explore what's possible. And I hope the city can support both the idea and the spirit of community engagement behind it. I know for in personal experience, the town where I grew up, Aoya Grandandy, we had problems with our underpass on the way to my school, St. Patrick's, it was always graffitied and it was ugly graffiti all all over and it was ugly and nasty. And the city finally took steps and painted a mural underneath the underpass on both sides. And often times traffic gets stuck there because there's a light right there before you turn left to get on the freeway. And it was beautiful. The mural was beautiful and it really showcased, you know, they found something that showcased our community and, you know,

people could look at it and see the beauty. And I will tell you, nobody drew graffiti on those murals. They're there. They're beautiful. And I just really would encourage the city to think about this. We don't have to do all the bents at once. We can do them a little bit at a time. Thank you. Hello, Mayor, uh, city council, city attorney, and city manager, Bobby Maxwell. Um, I'm in support of this uh the mural idea on the uh whatever they were called. Um cuz we we really need to dress the the area up. A lot of times I really I I don't like turning off on that exit because then I'm stuck in at the light and I have to look at the garbage and the other graffiti and and stuff that's there. Um and I know I'm not the only one. There's people that are coming to our city from out of town to go to the shopping center or to our city and they see the same thing. So I encourage the art, the mural work to happen and hopefully it will change the whole dynamic of that area. So, I yield my time.

And you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Good evening. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.

I too am in support of the murals. In fact, I spoke recently with the city manager um at a meeting about the roundabouts and he even stated that having something beautiful in our city makes developers know that we're invested in our city. Showing them that we're proud of our city. And what better way to show investment and being proud of our city but doing beautiful artwork on basically parts of our city that have nothing more than trash. Um I for one uh feel that the sh city city should have already done this looked into this prior. Um but I'm in full support of it thinking that what a beautiful way you come into the city of Seaside and you see a beautiful mural and welcoming you to the city instead of piles of trash. that people are leaving there. So once again, I am in support of this. I think we should do it. I should I think we should do it quickly. Um, and I I appreciate uh Council Member Miller for looking into it and going to Calrans and asking them if this was even feasible and looking for outside agencies that could help so that the total burden of the cost is not on the city. And what better way is to have local artists

showing their talent and um beautifying our city and it would make something for them to be very proud of every time somebody drives by and comments on the murals. Look at all the other murals in our city. We even went through the thing of doing the murals for those um boxes for the utility boxes. So, I hope the city will approve this and let's get going. Uh, don't wait forever and let it get going soon. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment. I just have a clarifying question. Um, is this a partnership with Cal Trans that we're exploring so that we don't take the brunt of the bill? And if this partnership does occur, do we have an opportunity as a community to pick uh what will go there, who the artist is, or have those discussions taken place on the details of what this partnership would look like? I yield the rest of my time.

Thank you for your comments. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Can you adjust this? Can I move it? Thanks. Good evening. So, I just want to clarify. Are we seriously considering putting a mural at a freeway exit where people come speeding off the freeway 55 to 65 mph to a dead stop in a blind curve and they barely I mean they almost hit you and crash into your car. So we're expecting that these people are going to come in this blind curve and then we're going to look at wall art on the right or to the left instead of in front of them. I mean that is distracted driving. Um, you think people are going to be admiring a mural instead of watching the road in front of them? I don't understand. And how much is this mural under a freeway underpass going to cost the city? And why would we pay for such a thing? There are people who can't afford gas in their car or food on their table. And we're going to spend city money on a mural at a freeway. Our police chief had to skim his budget last year to help balance the city budget. And we want to use funds that we don't have for a freeway mural. Thanks to this new administration, millions of children are going hungry in our schools. People have lost their healthc care. Women are dying in childbirth. And meanwhile, people are hurting. And I wonder how many residents are in our same boat. But they're too scared to say anything because of ICE. So when we look at how we're going to spend our money as a city, as a taxpayer, I want to make sure that our residents aren't going hungry. I would like to see more go to FOSPA, those dedicated people working on the weekends to beautify our city. When can we get some green space or a park for the terrace area, I would be impressed if someone did that. But until the federal government loosens their purse

strings and every city and county is not stretched to the max, I don't believe any resident would want to see our dollar spent on a freeway underpass mural. To quote the right, let's bring back common sense. This is nonsensical. Now, if someone is able to apply for a federal grant for these funds to pay for it, then I'll be impressed. But how it's going to get painted, I want to know. How is the painter going to not fall backwards into the freeway? Are we going to close the freeway at the exit to make sure that we can paint these murals? I just don't understand. So, I want to know who's in charge of the boards. Um, what's what are we doing at this challenging time? I'm shocked and stunned we'd even think about spending money on paint when people can't afford to feed their families right now. And so, my last sentence is going to be this. One day we'll be asked what we chose to invest in during hard times. Our people or a wall under a freeway. And I know what the right answer is.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Uh, thank you so much. Public comments closed. uh bring it back to the dis that uh council member Garcia have something. Thank you. I just have a couple of questions on the process and this might have been discussed while I was out in the restroom but um preliminary conversations began by council member and if I'm not mistaken when did those conversations first start? I am not aware. Through the mayor. through there. Oh, yes. If you Yeah.

Last budget cycle, I brought this up um during the budget cycle and I was told that CALR would not allow us to do that. So, I've been looking at this for about a year. Okay. And staff began receiving external communication regarding this project on April 6th. Correct. And the reason for that is because I they didn't approve they didn't say yes until March 20th. Okay. Say yes to what? To a preliminary approval of us painting it. And they do have grant money for this project.

Do we know the estimate cost of what this could potentially cost? The the the mural would be.

No. Staff hasn't provided any feasibility for this project. It depends. It can be just a welcome to seaside, very basic, for $2,000 or it can be a giant thing that costs many thousands, but the MSD surf bus goes right through here. So MST Surf Bus actually goes in between two of the pillars. So this is a multi-jurisdictional could be a multi-jurisdictional project, but the California arts program does have funds for these kind of projects. So welcome to see did the was was that approved by Kelrans? Last I knew Kelrans was very specific on wording being on bridges and underpasses.

They are very specific and there could be no advertising but the city can put advertising that advertises ourselves is my understanding. The city can put we can put welcome to seaside. It could be very basic with uh with our city logo. It can be it or it can be it can be more. It's up to us. Are there w would this and sorry I'm I'm just trying to get some some clarification here because CALR would support the encroachment permit for installation. Would they support any other type of permitting needed such as what the artist might need because the artist needs to go through certain certification and acquire certain uh paperwork to do any type of mural in Calr's uh areas.

There are certain regulations the city would have to follow. Um but they but preliminarily they've said that if we have a desire to improve this area which is the entryway into seaside that we have preliminary approval to do such to do such and so we would need to explan expand this more and I think that's why the city manager put this on the agenda uh and to see you know if if if we want to look at this I mean this is a very very first step I mean just getting I didn't want to waste everybody's time and say hey I want to do this and then it's not possible. But it is possible. So

yeah, I I don't doubt that it's possible. I I think it is. I I just think I'm trying to get some more clarification on the process before I make any type of decision. And do you does anyone have a cost estimate as to how much that would cost the encroachment and all that the paperwork needed the permitting?

Uh well the the permitting this is not the the actual art itself. It's my understanding the actual art itself is what the cost will be. The permitting the state will work with the Monterey Arts Council which I I believe maybe you're a board member for that or on that board. But uh for the state of California said you have to go to the arts council. That was that was their their direction to us and they worked with all three of us and I don't believe that permitting there's any fee for permitting on this. So you spoke to the arts counsel? I I I wasn't aware. So you spoke to arts? The CEO of the arts council reached out to me. Yes.

Okay. And for a project like this, city manager or maybe city attorney, would this this type of project need have it? They would need to have an RFP, right, for any type of design or or um mural installed. It would it would have to go request for proposals for an artist. We we just can't through the mayor. Um yes, it would normally the art in the city of Seaside goes through a request for proposal process. Okay. Um and remind me of the cost that you said again. What what's the lowest and what's the the highest?

I I think this the the cost is a wide range and I I don't think I'm able to sit here and tell you what the cost would be because of the range is so great. I mean, depending on the scope of what the city council decides. I mean, at the minimum, I think this area just needs a little bit of attention just in general because as you come through there, uh there does seem to be a lot of trash. I've been going up there recently a lot and the area does not appear appealing.

Um when you stop at the red light, you're backed up at the red light for one to two minutes and you're sitting there for a while. Um people should not be speeding through there. Uh the exit I think is 35. So people should be going slow through there um as you're entering into our city, but the cost could be a few thousand dollars to put welcome to seaside $10,000 or it could be a million dollars. I mean I think the cost is depending upon the scope of the work and I'm sorry I don't have a more concrete answer. No it's fine. I wish I had an answer for that but I don't.

That's fine. Um, so on slide four, I I do see we have similar public art examples. Would that are are we aiming for something like that? For me, it's more city city city geared towards our economic growth, our economic our city needs to increase our general fund revenues and and I believe that something that increases our general fund, welcome to seaside, shop seaside, something that goes with our strategic plan that our city manager is developing that um entices businesses or entices people to come shop in our community. These are a little bit too extravagant for me. This is not what I'm thinking. Um, I'm thinking more of like a welcome to seaside with our city logo or something like that.

Okay. So, where did we get those? Uh, through the mayor. These were just examples I found uh of public art under highways in California. These are not provided by anybody but staff. Okay. And the arts California arts council has grants. You you you say

the state of California does through a 19 1977 program, public art program. They have grants that they that they use. Selena's got a huge grant for one under the underpass. Uh we of course have our discretionary uh toot funds. Um also there's other this goes through other jurisdictions as well. Uh we have the MST surf bus goes right through this and then Sand City uh is is also very close to the there's three sets of bents. Yeah.

So yeah. Um and I think the Selenas project acquired funding from the clean California grant program that was allocated through Governor Gavin Newsome back in 2022. They allocated I think $312 million for beautifification projects which total to $126 projects throughout California. From my knowledge that money isn't available anymore. Um so I know a lot of the Selenas projects got covered through that program and that grant program. And if I'm not mistaken, some of those projects in Selenas, similar to the one in the bottom left, would range anywhere from like 300 to 500,000 for for a design like that. So, it does raise some concerns to me moneywise because the one that we had on Hamilton, which is the newest mural that we got, that was put forward through a grant program through Cal Recycles, and the arts council managed to push it forward. I'm not opposed to art. I I think art is is essential for our constituency and our communities. What I'm kind of torn on right now is sort of the process in which we're going towards um and to no fall. I I I think you know this is we're I think we all want in our communities but if conversations began last week la last year and staff just started receiving communication on the 6th it does raise some concerns. Why was staff not involved from the very initial start?

Um because we've been told over and over that our staff is at their max capacity. And I I I do believe that. And I don't want to come bothering or or giving extra work to our staff that are already overworked on a project that might not be possible. And so I I'm just asking questions. My job was just to ask questions if this is even possible. And the answer that I got after a long delay with the state waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and following up and waiting and to put that on the staff I think is unfair to put it on a staff member because of their already overloaded work work uh schedule. So it's something that and if Calrans would have said no you can't do it then that would have been the end of the conversation. So that's valid. That's valid.

But in this situation, they they said yes. And right when they said yes, I brought this to the attention of our staff.

And when I meant staff, I meant city manager. Like there there should have been some type of involvement from the very beginning or the city manager making that initial contact. Um from my that's just my personal point of view. I'm not blaming you or faulting you. Um let's see. So this seems like we're already having the ball rolling on a type on on on this project and we're sort of catching up on on this dis at least that's how I feel like there have been discussions and council hasn't had input yet. Um I'm hearing design concepts which I think are nice but I think in the past design concepts have come to council and council has provided feedback on what that looks like. Prime example is the fire station. Um, and even older Myer Center murals that we've had, council has had a say on what that looks like. I think there might have been some sort of vault in communication here. The dollar amount is probably woring for me. Um, and I'll let the rest of my colleagues make make comments.

Anyone else? Mayor Putin. Um, my thoughts were kind of I'll do the best I can with my thoughts. One, I I congratulate Mr. Miller, Councilman Miller, for taking the initiative. I think that's a real positive thing. Um, I think that u the idea of murals in in concept in that area, I think is positive and and it's not, but I think Government is about process. Um so I and this is not a secret. Um they went in front of the neighborhood improvement commission. Mr. Mill Councilman Miller presented the idea uh I think he for um I think it was 15,000. The commission in concept, they have not approved all of it yet, is going to make recommendations to the council. Uh I believe it's on May 26 or 27th for to include their list of recommendations. this potentially uh was tenatively approved for 20,000 for the final approval coming from that commission from the NIC uh in their May meeting. Um so I think we're not there's no design to approve anything tonight is just a discussion because it's such a intriguing concept. Um let's see the um I believe I all the art whatever art goes in the city has to go out for request for proposal

at least it has in the past and the council has tweaked changed added to whatever they they have recommended uh especially at the fire department I I remember that specifically Um, I think Council Miller's correct. It can be anything from two to $200,000 depending on what you want to do or $500,000. Um, my thought process is that it should go through go through the normal procedure of the NIC making their recommendations to be potentially inclusive of this. it comes into the May budget meetings with all the other ideas and see if there's get when it gets approved and how much funds is added on then the council has discretionary funds if they if someone wants to recommend that I think that would be the normal process. Um I my only hope in the future and I I have more maybe probably not saying it as strong as I should. Um sometimes when I've done work on the not this level but on a different level I think in different areas I think it's important to be inclusive of staff in the process and at least from now on maybe in the main meeting when he talks to the um when our our wonderful v price assistant manager uh talks to the commission he can provide more update as far as what's going on, how it's going on, potential um hurdles, if there is any hurdles, there may not be. Uh I think that's important. Um

but in general, I I think it's good. I just think whenever we can and I know working sometimes working to expedate getting things done, you need to get it done and you're trying to do the best you can and I and I've done the same thing on different levels but not at to this level. Uh so I admire that and appreciate that. But I think at I think from now on I think we need to be very careful that and if this moves forward because it hasn't moved forward yet and it has to come to the council via the NIC or on its own merits um it should be inclusive of staff because a lot of stuff that we don't know as far as I don't know are they going to charge us for if we have to close the roads I I don't have enough clothes to put a mural there. Do we have to do any permissions that they want a chunk of change for? Are they going to help us out with the design and throw in $100,000 to help us? You know, there's all kinds of things out there that we don't know and maybe staff can do a little bit of background work prior to that May meeting for the NIC and then maybe uh if it comes to the council meeting on May 27th if nothing else on that date if we discuss it at length. Uh I think there's just a great idea. I think it's creative. It's it I think it's a a potentially need uh to make that area more inviting. I saw one in Selenus today when I was coming back from Selenus and it was and under the bridge I believe and it was I go wow that's kind of cool. Uh it was impressive. Um and it caught my eye real real quick. Um, but I just think there's a we need the the processes I think starts

with the NIC and their recommendations to the council on on the May 26th or May 27th and they're going to recommend appropri appropriations of dollars. I would assume this be part of that and then we decide how we move. But I think from now on any phase of this needs to be inclusive of staff because our job I think at least I was told even though I sometime go against the flow uh is policy and and direction um rather than the um the um making stuff happen. And and again I can't say enough how much I appreciate all the work you put into this. I think it's great. Um, but let's let's go go through the process of the NIC commission or comes back by a councilman on his own initiative and bringing forth that that thought process. That's just my interpretation. So, thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you, mayor.

Well, let's see if there's someone else that wants to speak. But, uh, Council Member uh, Bur.

Yeah. Um, first of all, I absolutely love the idea of art. Um, and I like that you were trying to be considerate of our staff, but I feel like those people we have hired are our experts and so they're going to know all the things like Mayor Prom said that we may not know the extra stuff, right? Um, so I would hate to not have them included and then waste the NIC's time as well. Um, I think that in the past we've had that happen where these great ideas are coming from NIC and then they're being shut down and it looks it's a negative on us to say no to to what they've done and our community members are volunteering their time to put those efforts forward. Um, I am my two wonderings are really just with challenging budget not just this year but for several years coming is what the actual cost will be to us. Um, and then if I'm and maybe city manager, um, with that being CALR area, are we allowed to clean and maintain that? Because currently I thought it was CALR that has to. So I would hate to, as much as I want to invest, I would hate that we're investing in this beautiful art. And the truth is we don't have authority to the trash that's building up there. I don't know how that's not going to be there even after, right? Because it's not our community members most likely just throwing trash. We have fam, we have people transitioning through and are using that for housing and we really can't do anything currently um for those people as much as we'd like to, right? That's a bigger issue. And so I'm just curious. I don't I don't know what that policy is or how we can make sure then once we invest in our city in that area that we can help maintain that. So if there is graffiti that we can get it cleaned up, if there is trash being disposed there, how what can we do um to support that? Yeah. Council member Garcia,

thank you for bringing that up, Council Member Burks. I I I that's sort of where I was going to go with this as well. It it was the fencing part of it. And while I appreciate the discussion of art, my immediate thought is where does this put the conversation that we were having because if I'm not mistaken, there were conversations for communications with CALR regarding fence installation in that area. Does that push that project back or does that now fall on us to to to start paying for it? I don't think the two are connected, but we are still awaiting a fence permit from CALR uh for installation at this intersection. And I believe we've been waiting for quite some time.

Okay. So, maybe pass along your contact to to to our staff so we can get the fencing going there. Um and then I know you mentioned um Sans City. What was your vision with Stan City or or or why was it why were they brought up?

Well, to and just to to thank you for the question and to council member Bur too. You know, when we when you focus on an area and you shine a light on it, sometimes when you shine a light on something, people pay more attention to what's going on in that area, whether it's Calrans or or not. So, this is a potential project to also beautify this area and work on the issues of the trash and people potentially living there. Um, and in regards to, you know, there's three sets. The first set our drivers or people coming into the seaside area drive through. The second set, the MST bus is going to go right through it. And the third set is the entryway onto one south. So the third set is more towards the sand city side. And S city's been doing public art, a lot of it. And they have um they have some some money they've set aside for public art. They've done four or five murals. and and so we were thinking I I mean I don't know but they might be interested in doing something on their side.

Have discussions been had with Sans City yet? I I talked to the mayor and just briefly mentioned it and in passing, but it was not an official it was not an official conversation. She just seemed interested at the time um when we were at CHS event. I mentioned it to her and then I got an email from her about it right away. So, she seems interested, but it was not an official conversation though.

Okay. Because I think another portion of that section where the sand dunes are at that belongs to California State Parks as well, if I'm not mistaken. So, there's there's four key players here that I'm seeing. Sand City, City of Seaside, CALR, and California State Parks. The project is is beautiful. I don't think anyone denies it. The art is beautiful. the execution of this. That's going to be a a challenge, but those were my only two remaining questions that I had. And I can appreciate that and I think that uh we're on the city council. We do hard things

and I think we can accomplish hard things and make make our make our entrances and our exits to our city wonderful. And that's a first impression that people get coming into our city. Yeah.

All right. So, I'mma say a few words and then we can uh go around again. Um, yeah, I I didn't I didn't like the way this this thing was going around. Uh, this community and the council didn't know anything about it and the uh city staff didn't know anything about it. It's one thing to say uh a council member just uh you know reached out to Cal Trans. You know, you you are insinuating that Cal Trans said this thing is okay and they gave you a yes, sign off. They they didn't do that. They didn't do that because all you have to do is go to the program itself and it says that uh the project concept phase is initiated by contacting CALR district transportation art coordinator and they show you who which one you could do for your area. Once the application and the coordinators have agreed upon the location and concept of the art then the city would put in an application. So we don't know if CalR said this is okay or not. And so I don't want the community to believe that this is okay, you know, and the concept. And I'm not saying the mural is bad is a bad location. I'm saying we need to include staff uh before we go out there and and talk as though we are representing the city because when it was said that well it would be wonderful that we could just uh put something on the wall that says welcome to Seaside. Uh Seaside is beautiful. Oh, chef, see all that part of this on the on the website. All you got to do is go to the page and underneath transportation art requirements, it says the first the third thing is no text. So, you can't say anything. You can't put your logo. You can't do anything. You have to put art. And and I and I think it was just said earlier, well, those those is not necessarily what what we want, but it has to be a mural and it can't say anything. And really what I'm getting to

is it's a whole bunch of stuff in here that really needs to be looked at to see if the city can do it before we go ask uh MST do they want to go in with us. Uh we don't know if they had to put in their own separate um uh what is it uh uh application. Uh the the the part of the bins that they call them uh are in um the parks area. Do they had to put in their own separate application? the parcels in S city do that to put in their own separate application. Uh so it's a lot there and to for me just to jam it down the the council's uh throat as though somehow we're against uh art uh particularly in this area I think is unfair. And so we definitely could look at it. Uh Mayor Portim is talking about sending it to the the appropriate spot. I don't know if the appropriate spot is the NIC. I think the presentation at NSC was just asking for money. If we're going to do it, then you need to do it right. We got a arts and history commission. Uh we got we gota if you guys want to use the time of the of the um uh staff to look into it. Uh but I think it's more than just saying that area has trash and I don't know what trash got to do with the mural. If the trash needs to be picked up, let's pick up the trash. But we can't get Cal TR to come there on consistent uh basis and they're not going to come down there on a consistent basis just because we have a mirror. And so let's not, you know, just uh look at this with the, as they say, rosecolored eyes. And I'm open to looking at what is it? Uh what does it take? How much does this thing cost? What are the the mechanisms to get there? Because just again uh saying I talked to uh the the mayor

of S city and they seem open to it and they have money for the art. Uh but are they going to do this mural, right? And we don't even know how much our share is. And so it's no different from anything else that comes through the NIC. And again, I don't think this goes through the NIC because it still should be work done. uh NIC they definitely can and donate to it. Uh let I mean is that what you guys are saying? You want the NIC to pick this up? I I think my what I'm suggesting or what I heard was the NIC is going to bring something forward on at the budget meeting. This looks like it will be a recommendation. Yeah. U to the council.

Yeah. But I'm saying the NIC can say, "Well, we would like to pay for a mural with $20,000 for this project." Yeah, but they don't do art, right? Okay. So, right. Part of this is the art and when you read, all you got to do is go to the site transitation public art. Go down the agency and it tells you how you supposed to do these steps, who's picking the artist. What I mean, it's a whole bunch of stuff

and I don't want to leave the arts and history out of it. If it's supposed to be some art painted, that doesn't that doesn't feel right to me. If the NIC again wants to uh suggest using some of their money for a concept, but we don't have nothing to give them. What are we sending over to him? We're just saying that that's the point about we where was the where was the city staff and all that? And I understand the part about well you didn't want them to to do a lot of work. Uh but that's for the council to determine because now we're at this place where it's going to take a lot of work just to put the information out just before we uh can make an informed decision, right? You know um the some of the work has to be done which is what does this entail? You have to have a concept proposal trans have to sign on that. You have prelim prelimin preliminary proposal, a qualified proposal, a final proposal, approved final proposal, and then a issuance of an encroachment firm. And so I don't know uh how does the NIC uh do that without involving staff? I my only concept was based on p past experiences the NIC if they were to approve it and if the council were to approve and I think that's a key hurdle then it would go to the art commission and staff would be directly involved with the rest of it but that's just from my from what I've seen with other murals after the money was funded if it gets a funded based on your concerns um then it go council's concerns then it would just go through the hurdles after that. I I

think that the process was maybe done to achieve results without looking at the all the stuff but I think there's a I think the goal was based on past experiences with murals there's a mechanism when the commission has recommended stuff and it was approved but that's just from my perspective. This is a lot more This is definitely a lot more detailed than a mural at the Oldm Center. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz we we control the wall that Exactly. Yeah. It's a lot more detailed.

Yeah. Okay. So So the NIC recommends that. Is that what you're saying? To send it back to us to look into the Yeah. They would recommend supposedly recommend the 20,000, 30,000, 100,000, whatever it be. And then the council would as part of their overall got uh 200,000 plus dollars and the council says we want this, we don't want this, we want this, we don't want this. This would be if the council says yes, then it would go through the all the hurdles that it would go through. Yeah. And if council says no,

then it's I don't want to Yeah. I don't want to prejudge it. I I think I'm I'm what I heard is is a lot of missing information. So, I'm open to finding out the information. Uh, but the only people that can do that is the staff, right? So, um, so let's say city manager, do you have enough that if u if the if the um I guess NIC is that one if that's one of their projects? You know what I'm saying? We've been we've done this before, right? So, that that's not new. So that's one of their projects. You you think you have the ability to flush this thing out and what it takes and what it cost and all that. So

staff does preliminary research on NIC requests to help through that process. And so um if this is one of the requests, we would we would have to put that information together.

Any anybody else with that? I I rather No. Go ahead. One of the concerns I I I not concerns but probably one of the asks that I want from the city manager or or staff is to figure out how much CALR is going to put into this. Are they going to put into this? Are they not? Um give me scenarios of how much this is going to cost. The staff can do some research based on the bins that are shown the size. We can try to do our best to put a cost proposal together. a lot of variety of factors, but we can do that. Or maybe what type of grants does CALR currently have for these types of projects? That's a better way to put it. We can take a look if there's any external funding. Thank you.

And um you know, my understanding it's it's how how long? Well, no, I want to get to we we've been somehow we've been telling people in the community, other agencies, we'll move this forward when that's not really the case.

So, well, I'm I know for a I'm not well, I'm not going to interact with the public, but but just to be clear, I know for a fact that those things are out there that somehow we we said we're doing that. And so what however it got out there uh and how do we tap that down while we're reviewing this because as you're reviewing it I don't want people thinking that the council said it's a done deal but that's part of the information we need which is is there other partners is there other grants and so to go for example to say if there's a grant then by definition you got to go back to the arts council to see if they're willing. I'm talking whoever's not him personally. I'm talking about as a city, we have to ask them, are they willing to go in on it? Uh, and so I'm just I'm laying that stuff out there because that's a question that I have too. Um, and so when do you think um, make it official by having the NIC say what they want us to do? After you get that, then do your due diligence.

Yeah, we'll we'll start our due diligence because it's we're we're running on a the NIC request is going to come to the council in less than a month and a half. So, we're going to we're going to run do our due diligence as much as much as possible and feasibility. Uh and then we can also um try to preliminary conversations with partnership agencies and see if there's any potential partnership scenarios. Okay. Anyone else? So that was uh discuss potential public art and give staff direction. Yeah. This designates the city manager to

this designates the city manager to be the sole communicator for for this. Correct. Would we hand it off so Council Member Miller doesn't have to lead uh the communication or if they do can they be in communication or how's this going to be? I I just want to make sure that like everyone's on the same page here.

Yeah. No, I understand a part about, you know, this is his initiative, which I don't have no problem with, but he said for the start that's why he was doing it because the staff could not do it. So, if the staff is doing it, then you know it's it's Yeah. any just yes maybe just clarify from what I understand when it comes forward by the NIC if it comes forward by the NIC the council can say yes to five of the ideas to include this or yes to all of them or we can say based on more information maybe no to item A B C and D or because there could be 15 or 20 different things. The council can say no to this project. They could say no to uh potato chips falling from the sky. Whatever it be. Uh there just a whole kind of you know just a whole lot of litany of things that we could say no to because we have done that in the past. Uh or the council could say yes and then you have to do all the work as you would have to go getting all the licenses and agreements and the all these different entities involved and the art commission involved and it's it's a it's a a lot of steps and if we found out that we couldn't do it like we have in the past because it's going to I'm making this up so it costs a million dollars to do this because

what I don't what I don't want to do is prejudge it. Right. Okay. Then I'll leave it at But but when NIC makes their list of recommendations, the council is free to do what they want to do. Exactly. Okay. But uh normally remember a couple years ago we would wait to hear what they wanted and then we tell same man check on these things. Check on these things too. Now we know one we want him to ask we want him to check on before right because it seems like it's a lot of work to do u just to give us information. All right that's you city manager you have enough

I just have one more comment Mr. Mayor. I just I just wanted to take objection to the uh throwing it down the council's throat. That was not my intention. Uh, I I was prepared to to follow our regular procedure, which is a council member makes a request, then the next meeting needs two other council members. I I was ready to do that. I was taken aback when I read this agenda and then saw it on there. So, I don't know why this was added to the agenda. That's not something that I did. That's not something that I created. Um, I I was ready to follow the the proper procedure of the council member and that of a council member to add something to the agenda. So, uh, I I, you know, I just I it doesn't it doesn't feel good that I threw something down somebody's throat because that was absolutely not my intention at all. Um, I I'm just all I did was I asked questions. And I think as a council member that's important for us to do is ask questions. What can we do uh asking questions and that's it. and I've um commit, you know, and I I'm just one fifth vote, you know, and I just want to make sure that I'm working with my colleagues and working with my group to improve Seaside, and that's my motivation. So, thank you.

Okay. Uh uh well said, but I I think each one of us took an opportunity to tell you how we felt about this situation. And so no one is saying I'm certainly not saying anything to offend you, but uh people have called me and talked to me about what you've been saying about this proposal and whether it's, you know, them taking what you said the way they said it, you know, or the way they took it, then that's fine. But that's what's going on. And so don't well I'm going say for me don't look at me as though we're the bad guys. We're just accepting what we're hearing in the community. And then when I heard um what people told me then then I'm sharing what I'm sharing. And so that that doesn't that shouldn't stop you from uh asking your questions. Uh you're you're you are one and you can ask as many questions as you want. Um, but that's that's that's all of the item, you know, so keep keep doing what you're doing. Uh, item number 11, uh, council members request. 11A, new council members request. Uh, one, consider authorizing a letter of support from city in favor of AB2134, Familyfriendly City Council Act. Uh, Council Member Burks.

Uh, Council Member Burks, please take 90 seconds to explain why you think we should place this on an agenda to discuss.

All righty. Um, so I'd like to bring forward my support for AB 2134, Familyfriendly City Council Act, a bill that reflects the realities of today's workforce and communities we serve. Um, as a mother of three, I've spent my life balancing family, career, and now public service. And I know firsthand that stepping into leadership should not require stepping away from our family during some of life's most important moments. Yet many elected officials, especially women, this is an unspoken expectation. Um, AB 2134 simply ensures that the city council members are not forced to lose their seat for taking temporary parental leave. This is not about absence. It's about preserving representation. Our communities deserve continuity even as their leaders navigate major life events. If we want diverse representation, lead representative leadership. If we truly want young people, working parents, women to step into these roles, then our policies must respect that commitment. Um, we cannot say we value families while maintaining systems that penalize those who prioritize them. So supporting this bill means supporting equity, representation, and the future of public service. I'm asking that we as a council consider authorizing just a letter of support from the city of Seaside.

Okay. Thank you. Uh is there anybody that uh I second that disagrees with I'm looking for disagreement. Okay. All right. M I just ask one question on this to the council woman. Uh so this does this bill directly just affects council council people? Yes. It's specifically for city council members male or female that work in the education

system not work in the education. Any of us would need to take parental leave if we were to have a new child. You could take paternal leave. I could take maternal leave. And right now, if we were to do that, I could potentially be told, "Oh, you're you've missed too many meetings and you're going to be removed from the council." Uh, thank you for the clarification. Yeah. And yeah,

correct me if I'm wrong. The bill, what it also does is traditionally council members or elected official, council members specifically, have had to justify why they're going on leave. Uh and after I think it's two or three meetings, some cities depending on some cities after two or three meetings um if it's not excused the council can basically uh remove someone from the seat. Yeah, you may keep the seat. So this would be a way to be less intrusive for someone that's uh

currently about to give birth or or planning to be with a family. Um, so it it's it protects it uplifts the the privacy of of of the elected official uh and provides them the opportunity to have family leave. Absolutely. Yeah, that's how I understand it. Correct. Okay. Can we talk about it when it's on the agenda? Okay. I just want I wanted to add a point where just uh I'm supportive because it may be some communities, right, where they don't excuse you.

Exactly. and they know you got to be gone for two or three months, you know, you know what I'm saying? And they do it on purpose. That's what I'm getting, Joe. Absolutely. Every every community is not um as friendly as ours. Every council is not as friendly as uh two, consider adopting a resolution affirming the city support for a transgender sanctuary city. Uh, Council Member Garcia Zola, Council Member Garcier Garcia Zola, please take 90 seconds and explain why you think we should place this on an agenda to discuss.

Yeah, this is one of those resolutions that Thank you. This is one of those resolutions that that that are going around. Community members uh brought it forward or or um gave me the the initial wording of what this looks like. And uh this is meant to uplift our transgender community in the face of like I it was mentioned earlier HR1 cuts. Some of those cuts to health care are affecting our transgender community members um preventing them from having healthcare access. So, this is one of those pieces of resolutions that are being passed around throughout the cities in on Monterey Peninsula. Uh, basically reaffirming our um commitment uh to protecting individuals um seeking gender affirming healthcare as well. Um because other states have in a way are moving towards criminalizing gender affirming care. So this would basically uh mirror what the Planned Parenthood sanctuary resolution that we brought forward a couple years ago. Basically saying that we stand with the community. This is a safe haven for anyone uh planning to um seek treatment or healthcare or or just affirming that we support our transgender community in the city of Seaside. Has no fiscal impact. It's more of a resolution commemorating our constituents here in the city of Seaside. welcoming environment.

Okay. Is there just one question? Yeah. Just just um can you just explain and we um for the public how this goes the need goes beyond just the pride month information? No, no, no, no. Okay. No. Okay. No. No. What I'm saying is we can't we can't discuss it. I let him ask her council member Bur question which went too far. Okay,

people agreed to put her stuff on there for a discussion. If you want to have a discussion, then as long as three people don't say no, then it moves to uh an agenda. That's why I say is there are three people that don't agree. That doesn't mean you agree. That doesn't mean you're going to support it when it comes up, but we're talking about putting it on a future agenda. All right. Nobody that you know you don't mind talking about it. That's all we're That's all we're agreeing to.

Uh item number three, consider discussing a wage theft ordinance. Uh Council Member Garcia Elola, please take 90 seconds, explain why you think we should place this on the agenda to discuss.

Sorry. Thank you. This is one of those wage ordinances, uh, wage theft ordinances meant to protect and empower our constituency, our workforce here in the city of Seaside. Um and and I and I think as unemployment continues to rise and job scarcity is is out there and our immigrant community also faces some fear of speaking up, this type of ordinance would ensure that it protects the worker um in allowing them or providing them information or education on wage cleft wage theft claims and their ability to submit a wage theft claim. This is those types of ordinances that if a employer, whether it's in the restaurant industry, the construction industry or hospital industry, if they have a wage claim that is more than $10,000, they would not have the opportunity to have projects in the city. They would not be able to renew their license. It's meant to empower the the the worker um and hold those employers that are not paying their employees adequately accountable. to the mayor. Does We're just going to discuss this. We're not going to bring forth an ordinance. Is that correct what I'm hearing? I'm asking that I guess through the mayor or through Mr. Councilman Garcia.

Yeah, it's just to put it on agenda, but to discuss. Yeah, but that's Yeah. No, I'm just saying that you don't have to agree to even put on the agenda, right? They're not taking no actions, right? Yeah. So, just for the discussion point. Okay. Uh, is there uh uh three people that don't want to put that on the agenda? Okay. Follow up on previous requests. City man, you city man, you got those three things? Yes. None at this time. Thank you. Okay. Uh, city attorney, city manager, city council, mayor's comments and reports on committee assignments. Item number 12. Uh, city attorney.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, members of the public. Um during the past couple of weeks I've had the opportunity to attend the PAL dinner um which is a very nice event and I was able to uh support their fundraising opportunities and was successful at the silent auction. So I'm thankful for that and thankful for that event and for them in promoting our youth. Um I also was able to attend today the senior dance the sock hop and I worked in the kitchen. It was a wonderful event and uh I think there were 125 or 126 seniors who were served and um I'm thankful to be able to have done that as well. That concludes my report. All right, city manager

attended the Monterey Bay Defense Alliance earlier this week and including their speaker series in partnership with Monterey Chamber uh Peninsula Chamber of Commerce which featured um vet Vietnam veteran Larry Fes who spent four years as a P at Hanoi Hilton uh and also uh attended the re u established sea jobs meeting on Monday. That's it at this time. Council Member Miller.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh I also went to the PAL uh basketball banquet, which was great. And uh we started PAL soccer Wednesdays and Saturdays. I've been out there with the kids. It's been wonderful. We have about I would say 80 or so. Uh the parents are bringing snacks and we're just all having fun out there kicking the ball around at CINO. Uh and I had my CHS meeting uh today. uh our new CEOs first meeting Sean Stone went over the budget and the budget forecast which is not looking too good um and there's a lot of gaps and services but we're working on uh working through that and then of course uh the Easter uh golden egg hunt and kindness rocks that was that was a fun time I think that was after our last council meeting u but uh that was all I had to report and also uh the the uh passing of Al Glover at the old meer center uh was uh humbling and was a nice ceremony for a beautiful man. So thank you

uh council member Burks.

Yeah, since our last meeting I was with everyone on the dis to celebrate the funding of the San Pablo bridge with Congressman Petta. Um and then this past week on Tuesday I was able to host the parent university, our annual uh parent university. Um 114 between parents and youth were able to be were able to attend. Um we provided three parent workshops um on internet safety, how to support students. There was free dinner resource fair as well as um food that was able to go home with families and jackets. And so just I want to say thank you to the collaboration between the city of Seaside and PUSD and the community human human services. Um it was a really good turnout and it was a great um increase from the year before. So thank you

council member Garcia Ola.

Thank you. Uh I also attended the seaside pal banquet. Uh really great to see all the kiddos be celebrated, but also great to see how staff also plays an integral part in making that program successful. Um so I'm I'm really appreciative of that and I think all the volunteers that also contribute to that important program. The Easter egg hunt, I also attended, if I'm not mistaken, 22,000 eggs, which was insane when I heard it, but it's a reality. and and and and a lot of kiddos out there. A lot of fun. Uh it was a little gloomy, but nonetheless, people still showed up because it's one of the those big events that kids look out for. Um you know, you have your petting zoo, you have your sensory uh Easter egg hunt um opportunities and it's divided into sections so everyone gets a little piece of the prize um in the city of Seaside. So super grateful for that for staff as well for making an effort in making that program even better every year. I also attended the uh press conference that Senator Congressman Panetta um hosted. I think it it's critical right now and a huge um milestone that the city achieved $800,000 in in federal funding. It's not something that a lot of municipalities can say right now, especially during budget cuts. So, I'm super grateful for our congress member and our legislative team for being at the forefront and ensuring that uh we are meeting that they are meeting with the right people and advocating for the city of Seaside. So, I definitely do want to highlight and thank our legislative committee for laying out those priorities and bringing those dollars back to the region. On April 9th, I attended the Cal State Monterey Bay Health Partnership ceremony with Montage Health and their new nursing facility that's going to really

prepare the next generation and and and and keep and retain our local talent here. I I know the mayor was there present. Uh but it was great to see the investments that Montage Health is making into the university and how that university continues to expand every year. I know some students have to go all the way to Cababrio College or farther up north to uh get these types of classes when now we can have them in our backyard. So, a step forward in retaining our local talent and ensuring that uh our hospital system uh is being uh filled with those that that grew up in our region and and know this region. Uh on April 10th, I attended the district attorney's office victim's crime memorial event uh at the board of supervisors. Another one of those events where it was sort of gloomy, it was raining, so it was moved in into board chambers. But super great to to just hear the success stories that the district attorney is is is having that department. But it was also heartfelt to hear those stories that families had to those stories of the families and how they were remembering their loved ones which was um in a way emotional but also an honor to to to listen to them and and and to see some of the positive outcomes that that have happened um with our district attorney's office. On April 11th, I attended the Museum of Mon uh the Monterey Museum of Art um celebration on Saturday at in Monterey. That was one of those uh important events. I think they fundraised $150,000 um yeah, $150,000 in one night to

support art for students in the region. um especially our schools that um are sometimes not served as much. Um so it allowed it provided free bus rides and free admission to to the museum so our students can have workshops and be more in tune with art as well. So it was great to to be there. It was raining but it was a great event full of um fun energy. On the 14th I also attended Parent University. Uh, Miss Rita Burks did an amazing job mcing and seeing the kiddos out there was um even better and the families that that showed up. So, huge thanks to Councilwoman Burks, but also to city staff because I know a lot of work goes into this type of program even after hours. Um, so it does take a toll on them and I I definitely do want to want to highlight them and uplift them. On the 15th, I attended the Monterey One Water Special Board meeting. the board adopted a a fee study uh a new fee study which could potentially lead to which is going to move towards rate increases over the next 5 years um via Prop 218. uh initially the number of the raise or percentage has not been decided right now and this is where I'm going with this discussion where initially there was going to be listening sessions in the city of Selenus and the city of Marina I did not see the city of seaside be an option there so I worked with uh city manager and our staff to uh have mon water come into the city of seaside and host one of those listening sessions so I definitely want to thank the city manager for helping me assist on that and uh allowing me to um bring those types of listening sessions both bilingual and Spanish. The listening session will be on June 3rd. So notifications will be going out to constituency and I'll make sure that we post some of that

information on our social media so our constituency can be aware and have input as to what a rate will what the rate percentage will be. And the reason why we need to have this rate is because of outdated projects that um could have detrimental impacts if we don't address them right now. So um it's one of those tough decisions where you're not doesn't feel comfortable, but it's also better to take that uh have that done now than to pay three, four, five times more later on. So again, June 3rd is going to be the listening session and location and details will be coming out uh pretty soon here. That same night, that same day, I attended the Live United Awards for United Way, Monterey County. Um, so it was really great to see um and recognize some of uh our local leaders and and and volunteers that sometimes don't get recognized in our areas um be recognized by United Way and for their service and and what they do for our region. And that's it. That's it for me.

All right. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you. um attended the annual Easter egg hunt as well. A wonderful event, a lot of community activities happening. Uh lots of fun for youth. I think the important thing is um the families the families that were involved in and in and uniting uniting that event. Uh I can remember 20 years ago we thought we had 6,000 eggs and that was a big deal. Uh so obviously the event has grown to uh 22,000. So it's a huge number. Uh attended the Monterey Selenus transit meeting. Focus remains on the surf project which is is on time. The promotion of ridership that continues to rebound after COVID and the purchase of environmental friendly u vehicles. Uh attended the youth basketball event. And it's really important to say, at least for me, that without the recreation department and without Dan's staff, um there would be no PAL basketball. Uh the the leadership by the recreation department to make that league happen is um significant. I'll just leave it at that. So yes, it's called PAL basketball. Recreation department has a lot to do with the success of that program. um attended the Lagona Grande joint uh powers agency meeting. The board reviewed the upcoming 50th anniversary which is 10:00 on Sunday at Laguno Grandandy Park. They reviewed the status of the trainum maintenance uh strategy and reviewed the budget of each agency for phase one of the program. those in attendance were concerned about the priority as it impacts their concerns impacting where they where they live. Um I encourage the residents of Seaside to

uh they can and they're concerned about the park and and the impact and services to attend those meetings. And I u again want to thank Mr. Muis uh for his leadership cuz uh without his leadership uh I'm not sure that there would be any movement as far as the efforts to move the improvements forward. Um I attended the reception of Mr. Glover. Uh it was an honorable event um for the whole community. Um there's a song out there and I refuse to sing, but where have all the heroes gone? And um Sally Sally Casesai lost a hero. Um and then for on behalf of the mayor, I attended the funeral services of Hila Flee. Uh her granddaughter is on the community policing. Uh beautiful service. Uh well done. And I think we're going to talk a little bit about her later on, but I just want the service was great. Uh thank the mayor for allowing me to attend. Thank you. Uh thank you. Um want to thank uh well two things. I want to go back to put something uh asking the councils uh to put something on the future agenda. Uh a discussion about u what is it this uh 40 bed adolescent substance use disorder uh residential treatment facility. Uh I I think we need to talk about what's going on there. Uh and to figure out where we're at with those type of developments in our community. So I I asked the council to to support that by putting it on a future agenda. Is there uh three or more that don't agree with that? I'm not going to take 90 seconds to explain it. I mean, if you got any questions, I can

answer the questions. Okay. Say manager, you got that? I want to thank uh Council Member Burks for uh what she's been over doing over the last few years to really focus on uh parents university and how to grow that and how to uh get more uh participation in there. Uh meaning uh more uh parents have another place for their uh youth to go. Right? When we talk about parents and university, uh, we forget, uh, it's really about how do we get those young kids in there, getting them something to do, and as we expand that, that means more parents are able to take advantage of it. So, I want to thank her for her leadership uh, over the last handful of years to grow that consistently because it's important uh, when you see those little tiny tots and and and things like that. uh uh we had ability to shape them if we talk to them and treat them right uh when they're in our uh underneath our uh supervision. Uh with everyone else, I just wanted to give another shout out to our uh Congress um uh member and representative uh Congressman, honorable Congressman uh Jimmy Petta for doing the work in his district. he's always doing the work and he was able to get us the that grant uh to u complete the uh um the rebuild of the San Pablo uh bridge. So, we want to thank him for that again and appreciate him highlighting this community by uh having a press conference to do that. Uh me and Mayor Pro Tim attended the Seaside MS uh what is it? Monterey Penis Unified School District trustee meeting uh working together to provide more things for our youth and what we've been focused on last couple um I guess one or two months here is what can we do more how can we do more to give the youth something to do over the

summer and so a lot of those things will be coming before the council to have the council weigh in on on those things. um attended the Tamcy rail committee uh just the regular updates particularly around the Selenus rail kick start project uh that's moving uh pretty good um the rail project down in King City is doing is doing good and and the reason why that's a benefit to us here on the peninsula uh because of the passenger rail lines have a way station a stop station in King City uh they will continue to go down that area and then that means they'll stop in Selenas and then all we got to do is get to Selenus uh and then we can make it down to eventually down to LA uh and things of that nature. So, and of course back up to Sacramento. So, that's why that's impacting us. uh with uh uh Council Member Garcia Zola. We had a good time at the Montage Health Helen Pazooki School of Nursing uh dedication ceremony at CSUMB. And I want to thank the Pizooki family for their generous donation of $15 million to that uh nursing uh school. Uh I had the pleasure of meeting the the son. I think the father was feeling a little ill those those days. So, he wasn't there. But the son was a a kind and and uh a well spoken person about his commitment and the um the strength and wisdom of his mother. And that's what I share with him is that your mother, you know, for you to eventually have the money your family so you can honor your mother and she was like a nurse for 30 years, right? So she instilled in in her and her family to give back. And so I just wanted to thank

him for uh doing that on behalf of his mother. Attended the uh 27th annual victim's dedication ceremony. Want to thank uh Chief Borges. He was there representing other community leaders uh Reverend Dunham and Ivon uh Thomas. Ivon Thomas was was there. uh they sit on a um a board with the uh the DA's, one of the DA's advisory boards. So they were there and we had a good conversation uh and and I want to thank uh them for participating on our behalf uh at the at the advisory board with the DA and I want to thank the DA for her leadership for continuing this program and like uh Council Member Garcia said it was very impactful uh and um uh just pass on for the for the chief and and you guys uh in those cold case areas and and I and I think it's all the game where you know the what is it the police officers today the the the supervisors the sergeants uh the commanders uh detectives you know the more evidence that you guys put in those books is more evidence that people have when they go back for the cold case right I mean everything they go through and and I think this case that they talked about is uh eventually they had the a the techn the reason why it was solved uh the high the case the case that they highlighted was they didn't have the technology to check someone's phone where they were located at and the person's alibi that they were somewhere else broke down when their phone was uh located geolloc uh next to where the victim um was was killed at. And at the time the technology wasn't there and my only

point is but that was in the case files all of that stuff and that started with a regular officer detective on the beat. So I want to thank u um the chief for what he's doing down downstairs there in our department. Uh attended the pals dinner. Uh, I want to thank Bobby Maxwell uh for his continued leadership as the president and other officers and volunteer and uh our recreational department. Um, I did was doing a lot of work there. We had cadetses there. I wasn't able to attend the Monterey County Po association awards dinner. Um, um, so that was a great thing about PAL and PAL's dinner. Well, I think all of us uh attended the Colonel Glover's um uh celebration of life. Uh well done. Uh very impactful person. Uh Lavco interviews. We are interviewing for a new executive director. We believe we found uh the right person. So we have made an offer. So we uh believe that will be announced here shortly. Uh a new executive director coming in sometime in uh June 1st. We believe

uh Seaside Sanitation uh doing well. Um so that's going well. Attended the North Selena's mosquito abatement district. Uh just adopted our budget. Uh so we're doing well there. Seesaw Housing Collaborative. We talked about our next steps uh and how we want to move forward particularly uh with the support of the council. So, we look forward for the council to uh talk with us and and help uh move us forward uh particularly uh when it comes time to uh the budget session. So, uh attended the uh second annual uh Sea Otter Classic outside industry reunion. not the second annual Seesaw Honor Classic cuz I think it's going on 30 years. But over the last two years, they're really trying to get the the uh um the merchandisers uh together and and and give them something to to do, I guess, the first night cuz they're all there trying to sell their bicycles and everything has to do with a race they're trying to sell. And so I think they are uh definitely interested in doing some things with the city, partnering with the city. Uh I'm going to hook them up with the um uh city manager and hopefully we can uh work some things with them and see uh next year uh how we can partner better to get some of those race fans, which I talk to manager all the time about. uh they have like 80,000 race fans um over a 4-day period and about 7,200 um participants, cyclists and things of that nature. And how do we get them to shop seaside? Uh stay in Seaside because a lot of them already staying at MC Suites and other hotels. How do we get them to eat a little bit more, shop

a little bit more? Attended the uh kindness rock A3 run egg hunt. Um, and I think they had like seven 7,000 plus eggs there. Uh, did an excellent job. The kids had a great time. I I think I mentioned to the city manager about um it was a a couple concerns with electricity out there. So, we we should be trying to work on that at the Laguna Grande. And then of course we I think we all attended the uh city's Easter egg hunt with someone said 27,000 but then someone told me 22 but he didn't want to correct you. I don't know why he didn't. I thought someone said 27. You sure? Okay. Okay. But those are a lot of eggs and and when you see those kids, you know, some and they even had some an extra stash because some kids that came late didn't have no eggs. I seen uh uh the assist city manager and his team going out throwing out fresh uh uh plastic eggs for those kids that didn't have any. And so I really appreciate that because some parents couldn't get there exactly uh at um at the countdown time. All right, that was it. Um so I will go into item number 13, which is close session. Uh city attorney, will you read us into close session? Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, members of the public. Um, just as a reminder, item 13A was removed from the agenda. So, the council will not have a conference with labor negotiators. They will have a conference with real property negotiators pursuant to government code section 54 956.8. The property in question is the Presidio of Monterey Fire Station, which is

located generally east of General Jimmore Boulevard and south of Lee Fighter. agency negotiators, city manager at all negotiating parties, the United States Army and the city of Seaside under negotiation, price, terms of payment, or both. They will have a conference with real property negotiators on the property commonly referred to as main gate. Agency negotiators are the city manager and the city attorney at all. Negotiating parties will be the city of Seaside and KB Bakewell under negotiation, price, terms of payment, or both. They will have a conference with legal counsel pursuant to government code section 54956.9 on one matter of existing litigation. It's Santa Clara County Superior Court. Case number 2010-1 CV163328. Case name is the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District versus the State Water Resources Control Board. They will have a conference with legal counsel on one matter of existing litigation. The case number is Monterey County Superior Court case number 24 CV00002872. The case name is the Seaside Highlands Homeowners Association versus the City of Seaside. They will have a conference with legal counsel on existing litigation, Monterey County Superior Court case number 24 CV00002483. Uh the case name is Land Watch versus City of Seaside at all. They will have a conference with legal council on one matter of existing litigation Monterey County Superior Court case number 25 CV 001036. The case name is the city of Seaside versus the Seaside Highlands Homeowners Association. Um although item H is on the agenda, they will not need a conference with legal

counsel on any potential litigation. For the benefit of the public, I do not expect there to be any readout coming out of tonight's close session. Uh thank you so much. I will open up close uh public comment on close session items. Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star9 if you're calling from a phone. Carlo Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. Just for clarification, uh the HOA or the Seaside Highlands, the last one that you mentioned, are you saying that there's there's no litigation in that one? Is that does that correlate with the litigation happening now? I was a little confused on that last comment. You have the rest of my time. Thank you for your comments, mayor. No other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Uh thank you so much. Uh seeing no one hearing no one public comments closed. Uh city attorney, are there any issues, concerns, or questions you can answer at this time? Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council. Um, with respect to the last item that I read in, I will just reread it. It's one matter of existing litigation. So, it is it is a pending case and it is the city of Seaside versus the Seaside Highlands Homeowners Association. So, it's existing litigation.

Okay. Thank you. Now, we'll before we go into a close session, we'll u make comments about uh closing this meeting in in honor of these uh three wonderful people. Uh anybody had any comments? I know that mayor Pim has some. Anyone else? Um, may I just note that Dan Penny Ziggler, I'm sorry.

Dan Penny Ziggler was an artist or in Seaside for decades upon decades upon decades. Uh, she's helped establish the uh, Seaside Artist Association tour in Seaside. Uh, that's been going on for about 30 years. She was one of the founding members. She was also a um on the executive team of the NAACP um years ago. Um her house was always welcoming when you visit her. She was always showcasing her art in Seaside um to the whole peninsula. She always had a smile on her face. She always had a love for Seaside. She shared her love and she was very much appreciated by the art community. Uh she always participated in the adult art show here.

I'm sure she judged youth art competitions. Uh she was just a dynamic lady who volunteered countless hours to uh showcase seaside in in the best way throughout the Monterey Peninsula. And sometimes people just talk, but she was the actual one getting stuff done. And she was a wonderful artist uh that was always in our display cases uh presenting herself as well as her husband actually. So that that's uh on her. Should I go to the other one? Yes, sir.

Um uh I also went to the um I can't even on the flyer. It says Mrs. Feluca Felik Feliki uh for uh yeah I can't Mela uh she was um a lovely lady and I went to a two-hour service today and it was all in Tonga. I did not understand a word that they said but the only thing I got was that she she was the first Tonga lady in Seaside. She loved Seaside in her the comments that were made and that she was family. Family was the driven message all about her. The family, the legacy, her grandchildren are volunteering throughout the community. Uh, and when I noticed her on top of all that, she was had that unique smile that she made you feel warm and inviting whenever you were in her presence. Uh, very comforting, very sweet. And I I think she left the legacy of countless children and grandchildren that will become strong residents. And like I said, the the word family was said countless times and the empowerment of what she has done and what she contributed to the diversity of seaside when she first came here. I think it's uh very powerful. So a lovely lady, she will be missed tremendously well. Thank you, mayor.

Anyone else?

Uh I just I wrote some stuff about all three, so I just want to put them together. I think the um mayor promp said it well. Um I just I had the pleasure of knowing all three of them. So it's it's kind of hard for me to go through all of them together in a in a sense within a short amount of time, right? And and and they and they you know they were they were sick for a while, right? So we know how that goes. But you know to have have them go and this type of thing. So these three women were each strong individuals uh and wise community leaders in their own right. Jan was more than a artist who specialized in painting. She became a a beloved local figure whose example inspired many uh spent a handful of uh uh time at her and her uh her husband's uh Williams house uh just socializing and it was really a community place. They will open up their house for just community. Matter of fact, they would do an annual type of thing, right, for just everybody in the community. Uh uh Mary uh she was devoted to her life to building a supportive community uh not only for her family but those uh who shared her heritage with the Tongan uh heritage. uh and she built that community like the mayor pro Tim said she was the first one here and she made sure uh that their heritage from their homeland came over here and she passed that on and made sure that they and their grandkids and the wider tongen community uh u kept their traditions together here in America and she received the the mayor's key to the city uh a while back for her uh lifelong efforts uh Myrtle Randall, another lady I knew uh personally

and she was a uh she was also wise and steady presence uh who watched over not only her family but other youth and young people and and they grew up to have kids here right uh uh uh Mrs. Randall uh watched over them with a firm hand and helped them to grow their family uh particularly by uh her her uh role model. Uh for decades uh she brought youth and parents together in ways that strengthen both relationships and community and that type of u uh community mother will be missed and and those that know her uh understand what I mean by that. Collectively, they have improved seaside one person at a time through their love, care, uh, volunteer efforts, and compassion for others. Each served in their own way, yet each shared the same zeal and commitment to improving lives here in Seaside, strengthening families, uplifting the city they call home. uh and I believe for each one of them at least six day six decades each or more time here on uh in the city of Seaside. By any measure uh they succeeded in their work here. Uh may they rest in peace knowing that their work will continue to speak for them uh for decades to come. Uh and you know as a community we we lost three very powerful and wise women uh that did their part to hold us together uh bring us together hold us together and move Seaside forward. So uh we're definitely a better place because they made Seaside home u I don't know close to 70 years

ago for roughly all of them. So, uh I want to uh thank the um uh city clerk for putting these wonderful pictures of three beautiful uh ladies and allowing us to uh uh dedicate to them and place our comments in the archives. Uh and then also I want to uh shout out to the city clerk. She sent uh a very warm, beautiful notes to the families about what we were doing uh this evening. I thought that was high class pencil sharpening efforts uh on her part. So uh thank you so much. Uh we will move into close session.