City Council - Regular Meeting

Call to order the city of Seaside, the city council, the success agency to the redevelopment agency, our regular 5 PM Thursday, May 21st, 2026 meeting. Roll call please.

Council and agency member Miller.

Here.

Council and agency member Burks. Here. Council and agency member Garcia-Arizuela. Here. Mayor Pro Tem and Vice Chair Pacheco. Mayor and Chair Oglesby.

Here.

You do have a quorum.

Thank you. We will have a moment of silence, and I will ask Councilmember Garcia-Zola to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you. We'll go to item number four. It's a review of the agenda. Mr. State Manager, is there any additions or deletions on the agenda?

No, Mayor.

Thank you so much. I'll go to item number five. It's public comment. Members of the public listening to address the City Council on the matters underneath our jurisdiction may do so for up to three minutes. We ask that you hold your comments on items on the presentation. We ask that you hold your comments on items on the agenda until that item is called. You will have three minutes during that time. For the benefit of the record, please state your name. The comment is now open.

good evening mayor and council members tiffany meyer speaking as a private citizen today I wanted to take a moment tonight not to speak about a specific agenda item, but something larger, integrity and public service. Across this country, many people are losing faith in government. Whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, or somewhere in between, Americans are frustrated. They see division, personal attacks, political theater, shifting truths, and leaders who are too often more concerned with power, image, or winning than with honesty, accountability, and service to the public. at the national level many citizens feel that our government including the president and leaders on all sides have failed to model the kind of integrity that people deserve that erosion of trust eventually trickles down to every level of government unless local leaders like you choose a different path that is why local government matters so much city government is where residents should still be able to believe their voices matter it is where disagreements should remain respectful is where facts should matter more than personalities and is where elected officials should be able to ask questions disagree debate and still treat one another and the public with professionalism and dignity and dignity integrity means being transparent even when it's uncomfortable it means listening even when criticism is difficult it means making decisions based on benefits on what benefits the community not personal alliances politics or appearances and it means remembering that every person sitting on this dais was entrusted by the public to serve the people of seaside not themselves residents are watching closely children are watching closely the example set here matters we cannot control what happens in washington dc but we can choose what kind of government we will have here in Seaside. We can choose civility over hostility, collaboration over division, and integrity over ego. I ask this council tonight to continue striving to be an example of honest and respectful leadership, the kind of leadership that restores faith in government rather than future damages. And I thank the council for their service.

Good evening Council, Mr. Mayor. My name is John Owens. I live at 1972 Yosemite. I'm here tonight to ask you to look at the driveway aprons on the 1900 block. Since we've opened up San Pablo Avenue, the cars come down so fast that we need to be able to glide out of our driveway much easier than coming off of a rolling curb. So what I'm asking is that Before we repaved the road, we fixed the curb so we can take all the obstacles that are in the curbing so that you can get into your driveway without tearing the front end off your car. So that's why I'm here. So if you take a look at it, for some reason, when the city of Seaside put in the sidewalks, they didn't do our street. My wife and I walk miles through Seaside every day. And everywhere we go, we see that they have these aprons done. And so I'm curious why 1900 doesn't, but I'd sure like to see a movement to make it happen. Thank you.

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good evening city council diane nielsen i'm the chairperson of friends of seaside parks association and i just want to let everybody know that they can volunteer with us any saturday from 10 to 12 to beautify our parks and bring the community together through our efforts we have pollinator gardens we have three food gardens we have lots of trees we've planted that a lot of your grandchildren will see grown someday. And yesterday was World Bee Day and KAZU had a shout out for FOSPA and their efforts in planting pollinators in our parks. I don't know if any of you heard that it was a short piece, but I thought that was really great. You could contact us at friendsofseasideparks.org or we're on Facebook and Instagram. Thank you.

Good evening, City Council. My name is Rolf Herbrandus, 1495 Muskell Street. The reason I'm here is this is a note to whom it may concern. I tried calling the building department, got a message. I tried calling back an hour later, got a message. An hour later, I got a message. So I said, OK, I'll try some other departments. So I called option one, option two, option three, option four, option five, option six, and seven. Except for the police department and except for the fire department, and except for the engineering department i got a nice friendly response right away from mr querman who said i'll send an email to the appropriate one that could be in the building department that could help you and a while later i got some answer somebody called me back however i think that when people are trying to call the city and have just a simple question answered they should be able to get a response at least from option two three five seven eight nine And I think it should be a little bit more responsive, maybe in the staff. So this is to whom it may concern to kind of look into this and see why there are all these messages that are being laid, like call back later, or we're not in a way that type of thing. Okay. Thanks.

good evening mr mayor city council citizens of seaside peter kaiser long time resident i'd like to add a prayer after the moment of silence so lord we adore you we worship you we honor you we seek to follow you and your your bible and follow your will and may in this meeting your will be done and also um Please forgive us for our sins and thank you for sending your son who died for our sins, that as we seek him and are forgiven, we could be in heaven forever with him. and help our prayers to be answered, that the wise decisions here be made within the will of God. And also, there's a special month coming up in June. We're hoping you'll again celebrate Fidelity Month, Principles of Family, Faith, and Patriotism. crucial to the health of the American society. Children raised in a religious or spiritual environment are better protected from illicit drugs and promiscuity. Children with religious upbringing experience greater happiness, increased community involvement, sense of mission and purpose, and higher levels of forgiveness. And research shows that children who grew up in a married two-parent families are more likely to be employed, graduate from college, less likely to be depressed, less likely to be sentenced for criminal activity or end up poor or bear children in their teens. And our President Washington said, of all dispositions and habits which we lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. So we want to have a month celebrating fidelity to God, Bible, family, community, and country in June. And that's very important. And also we need to hopefully protect children from the Planned Parenthood clinic there, which are risking the lives of many pre-borns. And they're also expanding their services to include referrals for transgender surgeries and hormones because the pill is taking about 63% of the elimination of population rather than surgery in the Planned Parenthood clinic. So please celebrate Fidelity Month and honoring God and let's not have this clinic here expand its services into transgender and

hormones 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 star 9 if you're calling from a phone good evening city council mayor um i just want to ask if someone could look into the um i think it's a church at the corner of neutral buena and broadway It has weeds about this high. And if we're going to spend all this money on Broadway, it's looking pretty crusty. And it doesn't look like no one's moving into it right away. So maybe we can check it out because we don't want NIC to get all over it. I'm just kidding. So thank you.

Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you. Seeing no one else, public comment is closed. Mr. City Manager, is there any questions, issues, or concerns you can speak to at this time?

Thank you, Mayor. We will have staff take a look at the driveway aprons that were addressed on Notre Buena at the 1900 block, as well as we will follow up on the Yosemite. We will also follow up with the concerns with the building departments, phone messaging, and we will look at the church that was issued with the weeds. So we will have staff take a look at all those concerns. Thank you.

Thank you. I'll go to item number six, which is public agency communications. 6A, Seaside City News broadcast and comments from the assistant city manager.

Thank you.

Hello, Seaside, and welcome to Seaside City News. Here are the latest community events, programs, and important updates happening in and around Seaside. Avery Gallery presents the Central Coast Art Association Spring Juried Show from May 11th through June 26th. A public reception will be held May 22nd from 7 to 8.30 p.m. Visit the gallery Monday through Friday at 440 Harcourt Avenue. Kick off summer with the City of Seaside on Saturday, May 23rd from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Patulo Swim Center, 1148 Wheeler Street. Enjoy free swimming, games, prizes, a free raffle, and more. The American Legion Post 591 and the City of Seaside invite the community to a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 25th at 11 a.m. at Mission Memorial Cemetery. A meal will follow at American Legion Post 591. Seaside residents can schedule a low-cost spay and neuter appointment with SNP on May 26th. The clinic is at 1271 Canyon Del Rey Boulevard in the empty lot by the Chili's restaurant. The cost is $25 with some additional fees possible. Celebrate National Older Adult Health and Fitness Day on Wednesday, May 27th, from 9 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. This free event includes a resource fair, aquatics, tai chi, line dancing, exercise and stretching, and pickleball at Oldemeyer Center and Patulo Swim Center. Hot Works invites the community to its grand opening celebration on Friday, May 29th, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 1105 Broadway Avenue, Suite 101 in Seaside. Join the ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2.30 p.m. and enjoy local vendors, giveaways, goodie bags, food, and more. The city of Seaside invites the community to a pride flag raising ceremony on Monday, June 1st at 4 p.m. The ceremony will take place on the City Hall lawn at 440 Harcourt Avenue in Seaside. Join the city in celebrating love, diversity, respect, inclusion, equality, and community. Monterey One Water invites residents to public information sessions about rates. The Seaside session is Wednesday, June 3rd at 6 p.m. at the Community Center at Soper Field, 220 Coe Avenue. Residents may also participate virtually at montereyonewater.org slash rates. That's it for this edition of Seaside City News. Thank you for staying connected with the City of Seaside. For more updates, visit the City's website and follow us on social media. See you next time.

I have no additional comments at this time, Mayor.

Thank you. All right, let's go on to item number 6B, Seaside High School Quality Update, Assistant City Manager Amias.

This time I'd like to welcome Seaside High Principal, Mr. Andrew Aguiniga to the podium.

Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Oglesby, City Council. As the proud principal at Seaside High School, I would actually like to have two of our wonderful students do our presentation this evening. Two juniors, Sofia Andres. Andres is a JROTC leader on our campus along with a leadership student and is actually missing his spring concert tonight to present to Seaside City Council. Sophia is also a leader in our leadership class and a three-sport athlete that serves at Seaside High School. So excited for them to share some of the great things happening at Seaside High School.

Okay, thank you.

Good evening. Good evening, city council members. My name is Sophia Villanueva.

And my name is Andres Gomez.

And tonight we'll be sharing our quarter four report of what has been happening at our school. So recently we have had our open house slash our spring carnival, which was an opportunity for upcoming eighth graders to come visit Seaside High to see what it's all about. And it was also an opportunity for them to get familiarized with sports and clubs on campus as we had our annual spring carnival at the same exact time so that our clubs were able to fundraise for the upcoming year. We finished wrapping up our spring sports season with our senior nights for boys volleyball, softball, baseball, and swim. All of our teams did amazing this year. Even if the record doesn't prove it, they had fun, and we were so incredibly impressed by how everybody played. Recently, Seaside High participated at MPC's Special Olympics the other week. Yesterday, we had our first ever athletics banquet, which included all athletics throughout the years or throughout the school year. And we were able to award our seniors, our coaches and our amazing family members awards for their dedication into seaside sports. Today we had our Aloha Rally, which is a celebration of the school's multicultural background and students were able to show off their pride in their ethnicity and their cultures. The other week, students were able to explore and learn about educational and vocational opportunities at our school by using our college and career fair. Some people who, some jobs that they were able to learn was from Hart. They were able to see the fire department and they were able to learn about college opportunities from MPC and Hart and L. Our last food fair of the year was on Tuesday, which clubs were able to use as a fundraiser to sell food to be able to get more funds for the next school year. Our Family Resource Center is up and running for students and their families to get access to basic needs like laundry, detergent, food, clothing, and hygiene products. Our very own science biology teacher, Mr. Gary Cannon was awarded with teacher, Monterey County teacher of the year, as well as our head custodian was nominated for employee of the year at MPUSD. Cadets of the JROTC program were recognized for their efforts throughout the year at our JROTC spring awards. Medals and scholarships were awarded to exemplary cadets. This year's best company was awarded to our Delta company.

Something going on in the community that has to do with our school is that we were named the California Exemplary Dual Enrollment School and actually placed in the top 30 with three of our students graduating with their IGETC, which is similar to an associate's degree. And we do have... We did get this title due to our amount of dual enrollment courses that we offer at CZ High. Our very own drumline volunteered performing at the Monterey Bay FC. It went very well, and I was present. All the Drumline members were very happy to perform. And our Cookie Comp and Auto Skills team went to a competition at MPC, and our Moonflower Festival, sorry, our Moon Festival held by our, I believe, Mandarin teacher celebrated AAPI heritage. uh something's going on soon that has to do with our school is um on may 26th at the next board meeting we will be recognizing seniors for their outstanding efforts for the school year um on may 27th we have our tayimba celebration which will be a celebration for black students who are attendees at high on may 28th we do have our spartan awards night where we will give awards and give out scholarships for um specifically seniors for their exemplary sorry for their efforts and on june 5th we do have our graduation for our class of 2026 being held at the fairgrounds at 9 00 a.m and we hope that everybody can make it thank you for your time and thank you for letting us continue to have all these programs at our school thank you so much uh thank you uh are there any questions from uh about us any comments uh council member garcia result

Thank you. This was a wonderful presentation and I'm sorry you had to miss your concert.

It's okay.

One of the questions I did have was you briefly touched on the dual enrollment school and how you were recently awarded and you said it's due to the courses that students enroll in at school. What are those courses? What would characterize those?

as a dual enrollment course. We do offer multiple dual enrollment courses. I know personally, I've taken MPC History 17 and 18. There's also psychology courses, English courses, sorry, English courses, speech, pre-calc and calc. It's just we also do offer online courses as well or courses where the students can actually go to MPC campus after school. You know, I know people who have done that as well. We offer, you know, all these options that have to do with dual enrollment so students can get ahead with their credits. We also do offer languages as well, and that's all I can remember from the top of my head.

Yeah, no, no, thank you. And then my question would be directed towards you. How many of the students at CZ High have taken advantage of dual enrollment courses?

Great question. We currently have about 24% of our students that are taking at least one dual enrollment course, so nearly a quarter of our students, and we'll be actually even expanding further this upcoming year. to include a partnership with Hartnell for our construction course, along with a culinary course that will be taught by a bilingual instructor so that we can advertise that for some of our multilingual students as well.

And is this the first year you offer dual enrollment courses?

We've been doing dual enrollment now for about six years, but we continue to expand the opportunities. We have two juniors here who have been taking it for a number of years, but expanding it so that we're exploring the opportunities so that even more students can enter into those opportunities. And are you increasing it due to the interest of the students? Absolutely. And in my humble opinion, it's the best thing we can do for students because not only do they receive the college credits, but they actually receive a GPA boost and increased credits. So we have students, as they mentioned, three students that are receiving their IGETC, which allows them to go directly to a four-year university and only have to pay for two years. And our goal is to increase the number of students who are therefore able to go directly to a university and only are having to pay for four years because they're taking these courses completely free in high school.

That's awesome. How many students, how many seniors are graduating this year? 278, I believe. And how many are pursuing higher education? That's community college.

I'll stop my head. I can tell you, I believe we have, I know that we have more than a hundred that are already enrolled in MPC for next year. I believe in terms of four-year universities, I believe it's more than the I know we've got some that are going to UC Berkeley, San Jose State, CSUMB, so a number of universities in California in particular. I believe there's a couple that are going out of state as well. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, I just want to say thank you. Well done presentation. You guys sound great. We appreciate the principal bringing you out here. And just keep on going. Keep on pushing. But wonderful presentation. You guys are doing a lot at that high school. So thank you for being part of that leadership team in the high school. Thank you. All right, let's go to item number 7, which is 7, 8, April, May, 2026 house of the month awards. Mr. manager.

Thank you mayor. I'd like to ask Mr Ray Reardon, our chair of the neighborhood improvement commission to come on up and present the word.

Oh.

Yeah, that's what they came down for. Terry White? White? They're both Terry Whites. I don't get it. So Terry. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. and just to let you know they left their dog betty white at home okay so they have a good sense of humor all right so you want to face everybody here so uh first of all i'd just like to tell you how we do the house of the month uh one of us uh nic members commissioners drive around and we pick about five houses in a certain area that we're assigned to and take pictures of your home then we come back and at our next meeting and then we discuss which house we would like to present the plaque and the money too and everything for uh just keeping your house up and doing different things to it and uh i don't know who chose this one oh tiffany is the one that drove by your house took pictures and she liked it so well she convinced us all that we would take you this time and uh it's a great honor uh to be chosen because your neighbors will drive by and see the sign which i forgot the house of the month you'll put it in front of your house i'll present that to you now and then uh your little plaque here that you get to put on your front door we would like to have it held there I'm just kidding. You know, you can put it wherever you want to. And then here's a certificate for you. And thank you very much. But thank you very much for keeping your house up and doing what you do in that neighborhood. It's very nice. Do you have anything you want to say?

Thank you for honoring us. We love where we live in Seaside, and we take great pride in the yard work that we do.

And we have great neighbors.

Yep.

We have the best neighbors.

Yeah. So we feel really lucky to be a part of this community.

Yeah.

Thank you for honoring us.

It really is. That's how Seaside's going. Did you not? Nope.

Nope.

Uh-oh. No, he's over here. The mayor's going to get in.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Okay, let's move on to item number 8, which is the consent agenda. 8A, approve the minutes from March 19th and April 2nd, 2026. AB, approve and file city checks with a tune of $2,255,796.28. C approve and file success agency checks to the tune of $1,958.07. D approve a proclamation recognizing June 15th through the 21st, 2026 as pollinator week in the city of Seaside. E, approve a proclamation recognized in June 19th, 2026 as Juneteenth in the City of Seaside. F, approve a proclamation recognized in June 2026 as LGBTQ plus Pride Month in the City of Seaside. G, adopt a resolution authorizing the submission of a regional surface transportation program grant application for the supplemental funding at the Broadway Avenue Complete Street Corridor Improvement Project. h approval marriage you found contribution requests of three thousand dollars from cali legend a travel basketball program to assist with the cost associated with expenses for travel i approve the feeway request from the sun street center for the use of laguna grande hall and kitchen and the seahorse conference room for their third annual overdose and drug awareness symposium On August 13th, 2026, an amount of 467 dollars and 73 cent. Jay approve the sale of safe and saying fireworks in the city of seaside. Through June 28th and July 5th, 2026 by Monterey Bay Christian center, the village project. Monterey condor club, seaside quarters club, Inc. and a glacier. of the Assemblies of God Church. K, receive and file the city's boards and commission annual work plan for fiscal year 2026-2027. L, approve the submission of a letter of support for the Assembly Bill 2134, the Family Friendly City Council Act, sponsored by Assemblymember Don Addis. M adopted resolution declaring the city of Seaside a sanctuary city for transgender people and gender affirming health care. And adopted resolution authorizing city manager to approve a contract change order with JMS cement contractors for 2026 citywide CDBG. ADA curb grant project to increase the contract amount by $152,750 with a total not to exceed contract amount including contingency for $444,000. O, adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to the professional service agreement with Grace Carroll Consulting for comprehensive evaluation services for the City Safe Neighborhood and School Prop 47 grant, increasing the contract by $70,000. P, adopt a resolution authorizing a grant application and approving the City Manager to issue letters of support on behalf of the City of Seesaw for various grant opportunities supporting capital improvement projects. q adopt the resolution approving new engineering standards for the city of seaside superseding the previous city of seaside engineering standards details that concludes the reading of the consent agenda is there any item that anyone from the guys would like to pull out the consent agenda is there any item that anyone from the public would like to pull out the consent agenda yes sir holler out the letter sir yeah box tribe the night of have like, uh, F and M. Uh, yes, ma'am. Well, they're already pulled off. Yes, ma'am. Uh, anyone else like to pull an item oxygen? okay uh bringing it back to the diocese what is the will of the council to approve the consent agenda second you probably moved the second that we approved the consider agenda uh let's take it out to public comment public comment is open on the casino agenda

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F. R. Oh, I'm sorry.

Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment on the remainder of the consent agenda.

On the consent agenda. Okay. Seeing no one, hearing no one, public comment is closed. All those in favor of passing the consent agenda, use the regular sign of voting aye. Aye. Nays have the same right. abstentions here. Nas eyes have a motion carry unanimously. Uh, item number eight F approve a proclamation recognized in June 2026 as L. G. B. T. Q. Plus Pride Month. Um, public comment is open.

Thank you. I think we need to stress humility rather than pride. Pride is considered one of the seven deadly sins in some of the church traditions around the world. And we have to also remember that Karl Marx and his Marxism was trying to, he was very critical of the Bible, the traditional family of marriage between a man and a woman, and he was trying to destroy the nuclear family. And of course, one of the best ways to do that is to promote the opposite LGBT marriage between men and men, women and women. And this is... Unfortunately, something that's happening very much in the United States, and it also helps reduce the population by depopulation goals and supporting abortion. And the LGBT groups also stole the symbol of the rainbow, where God in the Old Testament promised that he would not flood the world again. So we would also support the Supreme Court from overturning Obergefell decision which tossed out about 30 different states had marriage that was between a man and a woman in one decision they tossed that all out and they came up supporting LGBT when it wasn't even the founding fathers would never have supported that so that came out of nothing so we want to have uh support uh marriage between a man and a woman we don't want to have this misnomer of pride month we want to have humility month or as i mentioned before called fidelity month to god family church and the bible and so we want you to please defeat this resolution and let's stick to fidelity month thank you

With regard to 8F and M or 8F, I don't have a problem with anybody being LGBTQ+. I believe every person deserves equality and equity in this country and in our city. But I don't think we need to recognize June as an LGBTQ pride month. if we did that we would need to recognize every group of people and there isn't enough months in the year i just think that people need to have pride in themselves for who they are and the city doesn't need to do that and so i oppose this motion or this recommendation thank you

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Good evening. As a preacher, I was sitting there and, well, greetings all to the dais, but I have to agree as a preacher, as scripture, as one who declares the gospel, And I agree with the lady, my daughter is in a, whatever you wanna call it. I might not agree with her life or her partner's life, but I do love both of them. It took me time to get there, even though I don't condone that because it's between a man and a woman, but I don't hate, I love. And so saying that I have to stand with the opposition but I still love those. And so that's my stance. I was coming for some other matter, but I just couldn't sit there as a preacher of the gospel and just go along and get along. So that's my little spill. Good seeing you, Mr. Freeman.

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 nine if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment on that.

Thank you so much. Seeing no one else here, no one else. Public comments close, bringing them back to the dice.

What is the will of the Council to approve or go ahead? Move approval.

Yeah.

Second, I probably moved in second on the question. Just on the question, just for clarification, not to you. This is a process we recognize, follow the guidelines of the Washington DC Congress. We recognize countless months and services, anything from law day to Every month, every month we have these meetings that we recognize it's just part of our policy following the guidelines set forth by Washington DC. So it's, it's in our guidelines. So I just wanted to confirm that just our practice to be recognized everybody else that does, uh, to include Congress. So thank you.

Council member.

I definitely want to concur with Mayor Pro Tem back in 2021. I think you and I were the ones that brought this forward. This was a discussion that was had for a while, and what we approved was to replicate whatever was recognized by the Library of Congress, and it passed unanimously back in 2021. And if I can just take a take a moment, I do hear what everyone's saying here today. And I think it's very important as well to recognize that there are people throughout the nation currently facing attacks in the LGBTQ community. And if the city of Seaside can do something to reassure or reaffirm our constituency here that we see them, that they belong here, then I'm all for it. And I think that's very important for us. And that's why I support this.

Anyone else? I would just say that I'm going to vote to support this, and it's not because they're doing it at the Library of Congress or they're doing it at Congress. And so this is a vote as an individual, and we're not mandated to take it. And so just to be clear. All right. All those in favor use the regular sign of voting, which is aye.

Aye.

Nays have the same right. Abstentions? Hearing none, ayes have it. Motion carried. Let's go to item number M, adopt a resolution declaring the city of Seaside a sanctuary city for transgender people and gender affirming health care. Public comment is open.

very weird little city council mayor my big thing is why um why do they need sanctuary is there a problem in seaside has something happened that i haven't seen in the news or something or are we just following the goats down the path uh it it it are we jumping on the bandwagon What are we doing making sanctuary for the transgender people? I think they have all the rights of everything else, but you don't do it for the Irish that have been crucified for years. That's me. But it just doesn't make sense to me. And if someone could explain it to me, then maybe it will. Making every city a sanctuary doesn't make sense in the freedom of America. The freedom of America is what we fought for. And we follow our government. So do they get to break the law and then they don't get arrested? Do they get to steal out of our businesses or out of our homes and they don't go to jail? Does the police don't get involved when something like that happens? I mean, there's a lot of things go on that which is going on with the sanctuary cities right now. And do we want to be one of those cities? I don't think so. I went to Vietnam and fought for this freedom. Not picking certain groups to get special benefits. just because they're transgender, or just because they're gay, or just because they're Irish, or Hispanic, or anything. We're all equal here. So if you're going to make Sanctuary City out of seaside, then better make it for all of us. Because damn it, I didn't go to war for segregation. I know you're all looking at me like I'm crazy, but, you know, this is crazy what we're doing here. What is it going to be next month? You know, sanctuary for the pedophiles? For the rapists?

Think about it. For all I got.

i don't support this recommendation i would like to ask the council what exactly sanctuary city means i mean we have a police chief our police chief deals with people fairly in our community we haven't had any issues with our police chief doing singling out people or doing things or our police force doing anything. We haven't seen that with our fire department. Why do we need to identify ourselves as a sanctuary city? Is this a beacon to all the LGBTQ community in this country? Hey, we're a sanctuary city. Why do we need to say that? I don't get it. I don't get it. I think it's like we're just trying to say for the left, that we're politically correct or that we're the buddies of lgbtq but we already are we're a fair city we take care of our people we take care of all of our people whether you're gay or straight or trans whatever we don't need to say we're a sanctuary city and i just think it's a waste of breath and i think i agree with mr riordan that you know if you're going to do it for one group you have to do it for all it's discriminatory to call out and say we're going to make ourselves a sanctuary city just for the lgbtq and for immigrants you know i understand that there are attacks on these people immigrants and LGBTQ, and I, with all my heart, feel very sorry for them and wish that that was not happening. But I do not think that we need to identify our city as a sanctuary city to correct what the ills are in this country. It's not going to help. I just don't see it. And I just, I think it's a bunch of hogwash. And like I said, I do not support that. And again, I just want to say my heart bleeds for those people and what they go through. And I hope that in the future, things will be better for all of them, all people. But I just, again, don't think that making our city a sanctuary city is the right answer.

Thank you.

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Peter Kaiser, Mr. Mayor, City Council. We need to look very carefully here at the idea of a sanctuary city for transgender, and the two previous speakers made some clear arguments. To go a little deeper, there was a CAST report that came out in England about transgender and surgeries and giving hormones and so forth. and about the money that was being made by certain doctors. And there was a international group of LGBT doctors who actually were promoting professionally this surgery when what was happening in a number of counseling sessions These LGBT doctors did not go into the cause of the dysphoria of these children, didn't go into their depression, didn't treat them properly. They just moved them on quickly, often, and making lots of money to surgery and hormones. And this was a great disservice. And I've heard Chloe Cole speak twice live, even in the peninsula. At 14, she was brought into this system and groomed and she had surgery and it was a tragedy and she changed her mind. Now she's a lovely young lady not wanting to be a man. And I believe some parents are actually threatened by these LGBT counselors who say that if you don't let your daughter become a boy, they're going to commit suicide and you'll have a dead child. They were threatening these parents with these kinds of comments. And many parents buckled and allowed these surgeries to take place. It was a great tragedy. But now things are turning around against DEI and so forth. And some hospitals are actually stopping these surgeries on these young children in their teen years. They're not going to allow that. And there are some court cases against these hospitals for actually child abuse. because they should have been treated for the depression not given surgery and convinced that they're into a different sex so that's why we should not honor a sanctuary city and we should not honor gender affirming care because it's been found definitively to be inappropriate care when you're not treating the depression you're pushing these the agenda of grooming children into the lgbt lifestyle and that should never happen even in seaside and planned parenthood to make more money is now moving into transgender referrals and hormone referrals to make more money because they're less surgical abortions and more pills so let's not let's oppose this please and be honest city council susan scavone you now have the floor to make your public comment

Good evening, council, mayor and public. I think this is a complex subject. I'm not so sure what you mean by doing a sanctuary city, but I think what you're trying to say is that you would want to reaffirm transgender care that is medically necessary or medically appropriate. I think people don't understand sometimes that people who may be transgender may have been born with ambiguous gender identity, and that's a physical thing, that it could be that they have the DNA of male and some of the characteristics of female, but this is definitely a medical issue. And I really think it should be between people and their doctors more than politics. So we've gotten politics involved in this heavily. I think there's been maybe too much emphasis on it in our society about it. And if it hadn't been put into the spotlight like it has been, maybe people would have been able to privately deal with this with their physicians and where they lie on the spectrum. There is something called gender dysmorphia where someone is radically wanting to be the other sex, but may not be DNA. ending in that direction, I think those are delicate situations that need to be dealt with on many, many levels, both mental health, as well as between the doctor and family. So it's a complex situation. And I really, I'm not quite sure I understand what this resolution is doing, but I understand if it's to, possibly protect that aspect of medical care where people do have privacy with their physicians rather than it being shut down. My only worry is if the federal government starts pushing in here and charging people with crimes, I don't know how that's going to affect the city and what that means for us if it's a sanctuary city. I just want to make that comment because I think people simplify the issue too much, act as if it's just somebody wanting to be a boy when they're a girl or vice versa. And it really is a complex biological issue that many, many people don't understand and there's lots of layers to it. So I don't really have an opinion one way or the other, but I thought I'd bring that up. Thank you.

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Let me do it right this time. Greetings to you all. I guess I showed up on the right day, but the wrong time. Again, I love my daughter and I love her partner. Well, I just was sitting there and I was thinking as this went forward, I said, like, where's the preachers at? Where's the church? Where are they at? Are they only down here for certain things or what? Like, wow. My question, just listening, like, my question is, who brought this to the forefront? Who brought this idea of let's make this that city? Um, cause I do believe we do take care of one another, you know, we have differences and, and all that. And my understanding. male is male, male is born as male, and so is female born as female. And I've been seeing a couple of transgenders, no hate, love, but when I look and see, it kind of baffles me because I have to really like look like, am I looking at it? Am I looking at her? Am I being deceived at what I see? And then as a preacher, it's scary. because it's like, I think the mind, and I think there's levels of wickedness to where if we really looked at it and we, you know, before a preacher, I was like a comedian, I thought, you know, and I was sitting there saying to myself, not really to be disrespectful, but I said, what makes a man who has a lower extremities want to put a dress on? I said, what in the mind, but I'm trying to love, but I'm trying to comprehend also. So my question is, who brought this forward? Who really presented this here? Are we on this dais pushing an agenda? And so if so, who brought it? Where'd this come from? That's, you know, I showed up on the right day, but I guess at the wrong time. And I love everybody. I just got questions, you know, because even dealing with my daughter, who I love, and her partner, who I love, you know, I'm like, well. And then I know what it is. It's sin, you know.

It's sin.

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Thank you. Mr. City Manager, you have any response to those issues, questions? or who was given the staff report?

Staff report was done by staff. This issue or this item came to the council through a council member's request and it went through the proper channels and we are now, this is where we are in the process after it went through the request and then came back.

uh are there any comments um from council member guys thank you the question came about who brought this forward i'll i'll i'll be straight up it was me i brought it forward after meeting with the group of constituents from the city of seaside who are transgender and who were feeling scared based on what's happening on a national level and i think us as elected officials need to do a duty of listening to all walks of life in our community, specifically here in Seaside. And I want to reaffirm that this isn't anything new. Back when the overturning of Roe v. Wade happened, I brought forward a reproductive freedom sanctuary city policy as well, which ensured and reaffirmed our commitment to reproductive freedom in our city for the city of Seaside. So this is something similar where it would protect and allow the community members to know that being transgender is not a crime here in the city of seaside despite what's going on at a national federal at a federal level which includes rollbacks on health care attacks on the transgender community which we are seeing aggressions and attacks towards transgenders increase sometimes double in our in our in our nation so this is a sanctuary city policy aimed to protect our transgender community and let them know that anyone is welcome here in the city of seaside

uh council member no thank you mr mayor i came here tonight with an open mind i came here uh with an open mind today uh and upon hearing the public comment i was most convinced and most um understood that we have many different groups in the city of seaside and not all of them are recognized and until we have a recognition of all the different groups i have trouble supporting just recognizing one particular group So those are all my comments. It is not a reflection on my belief about any transgender or their medical condition with a doctor and their physician. This is just my position that we have many groups in Seaside and we must support all the groups. Thank you. Mayor Porter.

I'm going to support this. I think our police department does their very best to ensure fairness and equality to all our residents. And this, I think, proclaims or confirms that we respect anybody to choose or the community that we're talking about here, their rights to be part of that community and feel safe and comfortable. More importantly, for me, I think it's the need to respect and dignify all our residents all our cultures all our community and this is just an aspect of that but and the piece of paper is nice but it's in our hearts to do that with everybody and that's where i think that Whoever meets the road. Paper doesn't make it a better place. Each of you and how you behave as we behave makes it a better society. And that's where the action happens within us. And sometimes paper is paper. But this confirms that we believe in what we're saying, that everybody should be treated equally with admiration and respect. And if we do that, we're a better society as a whole. So I'll just leave it at that.

uh anyone else uh council member brooks yeah um i do support this i think our for me my goal is that uh sanctuary policies really promote inclusion dignity and equal treatment um unfortunately we have veterans that have worked really hard and fought and not everyone has freedom currently um it's not about trying to promote and push an agenda forward but just making sure our community feels safe and we do have an amazing chief that's doing their best unfortunately i'm seeing this on a daily basis with our students i'm seeing the level of anxiety and depression increasing for our youth because they're not sure what's going on and hearing so much around them so if i can do anything to help them feel

uh safe respected and protected i i believe that this is just one small thing that i can do so i i agree with that uh thank you just want to read some stuff out of the uh staff report that's you know on the agenda and the agenda uh but someone i think was someone on the phone asked about what exactly the resolution does and so i think it's a couple points here it might be a long resolution but um these summarize what the resolution is about uh why uh it affirms that transgender and gender diverse people are valued members of the seaside community And for the council, if I read these internally, if you think that's so terrible and you disagree with it, then that's what I'm asking you to do, to think about it. But when I read these things, I come to the conclusion those sound OK with me. Second, recognize the importance of safety, dignity, privacy, and access to lawful services. Three, support California's existing laws, legal protections for individuals seeking or providing gender-affirming care. Four, it states that the City of Seaside will not voluntarily assist with out-of-state investigations or proceedings that seek to penalize lawful gender-affirming care in California, except as required by federal or state law. five encourage city departments to continue treating all people with fairness respect and professionalism six reinforces seaside commitment to being a welcoming and inclusive community that's all that does and so everybody's entitled to feel however they want to feel but i get a little uncomfortable when people say well somehow if we're recognizing a group somehow the groups that are not being recognized as they are being disadvantaged and i i have concerns with that um i would just say you know as a city we have all kind of people to live in our city and we should treat them off with dignity and respect when we talk about what we did in previous lives and sometimes i do reflect on uh people that have served in our military honorably and they have fought for this country i remember i i wasn't old enough to go to vietnam but i remember some people come back from vietnam and we were spitting on soldiers And so we were not always a welcoming country.

No one helped me when I came back. Okay. That's why I'm against this. Okay.

No, no, you're going to have to leave.

He's leaving.

I understand that.

You guys, you know it there. You're wrong on stuff.

And so whether it's Vietnam, World War Two, or the last Gulf War, you know, we fought for the rights and the way of life of Americans. and today plenty of people in this country have taken their rights of being removed slowly but surely and so to stand up for a particular group that being maligned or for various reasons because people in power feel as though they don't understand these human beings which they are They don't agree with these human beings, which they are. They have some type of right to misuse them, mistreat them, and abuse them, and say that they're not good enough to be treated with all the rights and dignities that other Americans have. And so for me, I know things that have been on my radar where this welcoming community here in Seaside, if some of us left here and went down south, we would be concerned with our rights just because of the color of our skin. And so I don't think it's as simple as I disagree with their lifestyle as though it should be okay if they're mistreated. And that's all this thing says, you know, and so, uh, I'm just a little concerned when people put all of that on, on this, when all we're saying is we, as a city think people, transgender people, should be treated fairly and with dignity. I'm going to read the last statement of the, not the resolution, but the concept of what this is about. This resolution does not create a new city program. It does not establish a healthcare service. uh and authorized legal representation or appropriate appropriate funding meaning we're not putting any money into this i think it's like the mayor pro temp said it's more of a visionary statement it's more of a uh a concept for a city This is a policy declaration that guides the city's values and priorities within the limits of applicable federal and state law. We would not do anything that is outside federal law or state law. And so, I'm comfortable telling the people that may be transgender or seeking gender-affirming healthcare that I don't think they should be mistreated anywhere, and I don't think they should be mistreated in the city of Seaside. With that, I will do a roll call vote. well they do a motion i talked all that i didn't talk about it okay i thought the mayor put him made the motion why not no who okay what is the will of the council move approval it's been moved and approved and i will call for a real couple uh council and agency member miller same

Council and agency member Burks. Aye. Council and agency member Garcia-Arizuela. Aye. Mayor Pro Tem and Vice Chair Pacheco.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby aye your motion passes four with one abstention uh thank you we'll go to item number nine a receiver presentation from Caltrans and the transportation agency for the Monterey County on a gateway for Monterey Bay proposed active transportation program grant application and adopted resolution authorizing a scene manager to sign a letter of support and memorandum of understanding

welcome up thomas corman our public works engineer or director and engineer

good evening uh mayor pro tem members of the council uh yeah thomas corman here public works director city engineer um i was asked to work with uh tmc and caltrans uh by our city manager several months ago as they began to formulate some ideas for some transformation on highway 218 also known as canyon del rey So here we are. I'm going to introduce Todd Muck, Executive Director of TAMC, and Kelly McClendon from Caltrans, District 5, who will further discuss the project. And this stage right now is just at the stage where it's a proposal going to a grant application. So explain more about the elements of that and how Seaside is participating in that and for your information.

Good evening Mayor Oglesby and members of the council. My name is Kelly McLendon. I'm a senior planner with Caltrans District 5. As Thomas mentioned with me today are Todd Muck, Executive Director of TAMC and Nick McElroy, Planning Manager from Sand City. Thank you for welcoming us to share about our important project. This presentation will give you an introduction to the project and a summary of what we're proposing. I'll share more information about the benefits of this project and also share a little bit about reasonable trade offs that we expect for transparency as well. And then finally, I'll share our recommendation for future funding commitment from the city, as well as our request for a letter of support from the city. As an introduction and an overview, this project reflects our values of collaboration and teamwork and strong partnerships between Caltrans, TAMC, City of Seaside, and City of Sand City. This project is about removing barriers and transportation system gaps and then creating connections in their place. It's about connecting neighborhoods and giving people access to food, schools, resources, social activities, and support services. In other words, the project represents a significant gateway for the community. So we think about this project as a gateway for Monterey Bay. Our team is preparing a grant application for the Active Transportation Program. The Active Transportation Program, or the ATP, is administered by the California Transportation Commission, and our proposal would bring in state funding into the communities of Seaside and Sand City. This program focuses on safety, and in terms of timeline, we're preparing the application with the deadline of mid-June. If we're funded, the awards would be announced in December. As part of the program guidelines, Caltrans is required to show assurance that local communities are supportive and have provided feedback on the proposed projects. And that's a big reason why we're here today. Here's a little bit more about our proposed schedule. The 1st thing I'd like to point out is in the project development grand scheme of things. This project is still very early in the project development cycle. This item is the introduction to the council. It's the 1st, but not the only chance for this council to provide direction and guidance. We expect if this project moves forward that our team will work with the council. Seaside staff stakeholders and other community members. And this early timeline, the other thing I'd like to point out with where we are in this timeline is when we go through some of the existing concepts in the next couple of slides, we're still very early. These concepts are actively being refined and will be subject to change as the project moves throughout the development process. As you can see, the planned development and the development of this project going from the environmental studies, design phases, and then ultimately construction will last for the next upcoming years. This project is an example of how transportation planning and strong partnerships can produce great projects that transform a community. gateway for monterey bay project brings together scope elements from the tamsea 218 corridor plan and the tamsea safe routes to school plan for seaside and marina it also includes recommendations from the city of seaside's local road safety plan and we're working with sand city to incorporate their trail project as well The purpose and need, as I mentioned, is for enhanced safety, particularly for our most vulnerable road users, bicyclists and pedestrians. We're integrating concepts, maximizing safety and connectivity benefits, and creating a project that as a whole works more effectively than the sum of its parts. In total, we're proposing 10 physical project elements. These elements are focused on the Canyon Del Rey and Del Monte corridors. These corridors both functions as main streets for the community and important connectors between Seaside, Sand City, Del Rey Oaks, City of Monterey and beyond. Collectively, the routes served by these proposed recommendations are central neighborhood recommendations to schools, parks, libraries, businesses, groceries, the California coast, and other destinations. The next series of slides goes through all of our proposed project elements or recommendations, starting with trail components. Component number one, or element number one, proposes a connection between the Laguna Grande Park Trail system and the Del Monte intersection. The proposed connection takes place near the existing Chili's and would provide a dedicated path for bikes and pedestrians between the Park Trail, Canyon Del Rey, and then ultimately connecting to the intersection by the Embassy Suites. The third element is the Sand City Multi-Use Trail, and this trail is being constructed on property owned by Seaside, starting from behind Starbucks at Canyon Del Rey Boulevard, going until Contra Costa Boulevard. From there, it'll continue along Tamsea Right-of-Way in Sand City, ultimately connecting to Playa Avenue, where it'll connect with the MST Surf Line, the busway that's currently under construction. This will close an important gap in the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail. The intersection improvements as part of this trail at the intersections of 218 and Del Monte Boulevard, as well as the intersection with Contra Costa Avenue and Del Monte Boulevard, will connect seaside residents to Sand City's multi-use trail project. And it'll also connect trail goers to local businesses. All the improvements proposed in the Sand City Trail grant, if funded, will help connect residents in Seaside and Sand City to the Coastal Trail and the Fort Tag Trail system. And then the final recommendation on this slide is the existing Laguna Grande Park Trail Rehab Project. This is an existing and fully funded project. And by adding this into our package, we increase our competitiveness by increasing our funding leverage. This is already funded through a California State Parks grant program and is not at risk in any way by including it into this project. At 218 and Del Monte Boulevard, we're proposing a protected intersection. This location has been identified within the city's high collision network. It's the intersection with the highest number of collisions in the city. It's also identified by Caltrans in our active transportation plan as an outstanding need, and it's also identified as a priority in the TAMC corridor plan. The goal in this recommendation is to transform the intersection into a more compact design, creating a shared space to lower the level of traffic stress for bikes and pedestrians, and helping all users navigate through the intersection safely. The next two elements I discuss is two crossing improvements, one at Del Monte and Broadway, This is an existing challenging crossing area due to the non-aligned intersections looking at Broadway and Contra Costa. With the implementation of the Sand City multi-use trail, the demand for crossing at this location is expected to increase. The second crossing improvement is proposed at Canyon Del Rey and Hillby. The concept is shown on the left of the slide. And we're proposing a raised median to give pedestrians a refuge island to enhance this existing crossing. Another transformative element is our proposal for a roadway reconfiguration on 218 from Del Monte. This is also identified by the city as part of the high collision network. This segment has the second highest corridor for bicycle collisions and is the third highest corridor in the city for pedestrian collisions per the local road safety plan. Roadway reconfigurations like the one we're proposing are identified by the Federal Highway Administration as a proven safety countermeasure. This improvement can enhance safety, calm traffic, provide better mobility and access for all road users, and enhance overall quality of life. Before and after studies at the national level have shown that these types of improvements may result in a reduction in total collisions between 19% and 47%. Important to note, This proposal includes retaining the existing lanes at the Fremont and Del Monte Boulevard intersections to provide storage for turning and through traffic. I'll also note that all of our proposals will require additional traffic studies in the future of which we'd be coordinating with the city. At Harcourt Avenue and Canyon Del Rey, we're proposing to install a roundabout at the existing intersection. This intersection is identified as having a high level of traffic stress due to the amount of crossing. As you know, there are community destinations on both sides of this intersection. You have the Laguna Grande Park, the neighborhood, City Hall, the library, but there are no existing available features for crossing for pedestrians. Roundabouts are also identified by the FHWA as a proven safety countermeasure because they can substantially reduce crashes that result in serious injury or death. FHWA statistics show that roundabouts can result in about 30% to 40% reduction in pedestrian crashes. The final two physical proposals include painted bike lanes on Harcourt Avenue and sidewalk installation on Francis Avenue. These would fill in gaps in the existing network and connect Canyon Del Rey with Fremont. We're also proposing non-infrastructure projects, particularly community program, In addition to the physical improvements, our goal is to develop and roll out a cross-cutting educational campaign during our construction activities to prime the community to feel empowered to choose active transportation options once the physical enhancements are in place. And we haven't developed these improvements in a vacuum. We've been doing extensive outreach to give the community the responsibility for shaping the future of their transportation system. Our team held info booths at Seaside Farmers Market, Earth Day, and Sand City 831 Market. We've posted flyers at City Hall, Seaside Library, Oldemeyer Center, the Youth Center, bus stops, restaurants, and stores throughout the community. At this point, our websites received over a thousand views from over 100 distinct participants. We have about 80 subscribers and we're still entering surveys from our survey collection, but thus far we've received about 200 responses. From this engagement, we know that 49% of respondents feel uncomfortable walking or biking in the project area. A majority of respondents cite the lack of infrastructure as the number one factor for not walking or biking. Cars speeding and vehicle traffic were also high factors. From our engagement efforts, we know that about 60% of community residents would be interested in increasing their levels of walking and biking if we install the types of improvements that we're proposing. This table shows a breakdown on the cost in total. We're expecting our grant requests to be around 42Million with about 10Million representing the cost of the sand city multi use trail. And the remaining around 31Million representing improvements in the city of seaside. Looking at the grant program, we know that if we're able to increase our local match or leverage, our project becomes more competitive in our ability to get an award. And for that reason, we're recommending a future seaside contribution of 1.5 million using future Measure X funding aligned with our construction timeline of 2033 and 2034. I'd like to point out that this contribution would be obviously on condition upon the award. In summary, in addition to potential to bring in state funding to improve several local roads and the major benefits including safety and public and environmental health, We have trade-offs to point out. These are reasonable expected things that may happen from this project, knowing that we'll have a lot of further studies, environmental studies, traffic studies, and other technical analysis upcoming. Trade-offs may include vehicular traffic impacts, city maintenance costs, and some modifications needed to accommodate the new infrastructure. As I mentioned, we'll continue working together to complete several project agreements between Seaside and Caltrans, which is typical for most projects. Thank you again. Again, my name is Kelly McClendon. Thank you for allowing me to share about this project, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

All right, thank you so much for that thorough presentation. Any questions? Mayor Portimao, then Councilmember Garcia-Zola.

Yeah, thank you for your wonderful report. Thank you for what you've done for the past. I have countless questions, though, and I'm sure you know that I would from our meeting with the group. How many accidents have occurred in 2025 on Canyon Del Rey?

I see you said countless, but I don't know if that means 1 or I don't have the statistics on me and that's something that we're looking at as part of that's a required question in the grant application.

Okay. How many bicycle riders are on Canyon Delray? And how many, um. Increase have there been.

i answer i don't i don't have that in front of me we we did traffic collection uh in earlier this calendar year so i do have those reports but i don't have it on me right now okay currently in your report and i'll probably not use the correct verbiage but there's a bottleneck of cars on a small section of cdr pretty much from sonoma

closer to Hilby Street. It's about two-tenths of a mile as I measured it today. And in your report, you basically agree with that. Changing it to two-lane highway from Del Monte Field would increase slower track digits, you suggest, and I agree, and potentially more bottleneck traffic because it would. Is that correct? Does that make sense to you?

with with uh roadway reconfigurations which are also sometimes called road diets as i mentioned it is reasonable to expect the trade-off for the increased safety benefits for all users but particularly for bikes and pedestrians a decrease in vehicle delay that's something that we've seen from before and after studies where these have been implemented in other places so that's a reasonable expectation um the if depending on where the configuration is where on canyon del rey you have two lanes in each direction by uh adding a center turn lane basically when when a car is making a left turn they're they're taking up that left lane anyway waiting for a chance to make the turn so functionally the people that are driving straight are already working down to one lane in each direction if there is a vehicle turning left by adding a center turn lane where we're allowing those people making a left turn to go into a their own dedicated physical space not in the through lane and that's where we see some of the um or you don't get a complete 50 reduction by taking one lane out i apologize for the question but it's this is a little frustrating for me is the norm for caltrans to create road improvements where immediately you say it slows traffic

and obviously increase the bottlenecks. And did you consider the traffic flow as it relates to Laguna Seca races and other significant events where that is backlogged currently, yet alone with this change?

For Caltrans and for all transportation agencies, what we do is we look at the existing volumes and then we look at the future forecast of the volumes. And where we are right now in the project development is we see if we're in a window of volumes to where we think that this concept is viable. And the volumes on Canyon del Rey are within that window from what's recommended by FHWA, which is around 18,000 vehicles per day. And further traffic studies and more detailed traffic studies would be needed for us to confirm that it is viable. And that's where we'll continue working with the city, identifying what the thresholds of how we define viability and where we want to have the trade-offs. So there's more studies going forward, but for where we are with the amount of detail that we've looked at in the project development, process, we've confirmed for Caltrans, we've confirmed the viability of the road diet concepts.

The community has about 18 special events at the park over there. And then there's on the lakeside area and a weekly farmers market. Would we lose? And sometimes there's 1000 to 1500 to 2000 people, whatever it be, depending on the event. would we lose parking spaces if so how many due to the bicycle lanes roundabouts and reconfiguration

No, no, there would be no loss in parking spaces. In fact, the bicycle lanes on Harcourt Avenue are possible without removing existing parking where you have people that are parking and then crossing the street to go to the park. There's enough footprint on Harcourt to be able to add those painted bicycle lanes without removing.

So beyond Harcourt from, let's say, Sonoma to Fremont, there would be no losses parking spots is what I'm hearing you say.

On Canyon Del Rey?

Canyon Del Rey, but from that Canyon Del Rey and Sonoma to Canyon Del Rey and I can't think of it by the Coast Weekly.

I don't believe we have existing parking on Canyon Del Rey.

Yeah, you do. I'm not going to disagree with you, but I see cars parked there at all the special events on Canyon Del Rey. So would we from pretty much from Chili's a little bit past that all the way to At least he'll be if not beyond. Yeah. So would we lose those spots is what I'm asking.

No, we from everything that we've looked at so far are not expecting to lose any parking spots. And the events are actually the data collection that I mentioned that we've done earlier this year. the events is when we see all of that crossing happening so by improving the crossing we're actually making it a lot more accessible for people to go from this side of canada del rey to the park um with a more convenient and safe crossing um and i'm not some of the the last two three questions are with your comments so i was caught by surprise because you said

it connects food and schools for your report how does it on canyon del rey how does it connect food in schools i don't see it being improved yeah maybe let me think yeah that's that's a really good question i the only food is uh smart and i mean safeway i guess is the only connecting food there's right currently now life changes but i mean How does that improve it when there's no food or school? It's a generic area.

We are connecting to Safeway where we are. If you look at the Fremont and Canyon Delray intersection, our project would join where the four-tag segment that's currently under construction, where that leaves off. So we'd be connecting a continuous network between four-tag and then the California Coastal Trail. That includes the location adjacent to the Safeway. We're also in terms of groceries, the farmers market and the programs that are run out of the farmers market for a lot of the community members are their number one source of fresh produce. And so by connecting not just the Safeway, but also to that farmers market where there are those community programs like EBT and SNAP benefits and different there's in talking with the the farmers market organizers we've learned that a lot of their clientele that's their number one spot for uh getting access to groceries so i know that's not a grocery store but i'm including that in our access to groceries and food As far as schools, if you look at the connection that's formed by the Sand City Trail, that would join up with the bicycle path along the surf that would directly connect to Seaside High School, as well as provide connection to transit stops that go further north, CSUMB, and then other schools as well.

not going to ask that question again for your comments if your suggestion or recommendation i think it was 1.5 million of seaside funds and using measure x funds that would i mean correctly if i'm wrong because chances are possibly i am that would potentially you take away money from residential streets which are, anyway, a residential street to focus on moving the money over there. Is that true?

Maybe I'll turn it over to Thomas to speak to that.

I think there's only so much money in the pot.

thank you that's a that's a very valid question so the improvements that would be made with the 1.5 million it's spread over two years so that's 20 33 20 34. they were improvements that we would be programming anyway so it includes sidewalks on Francis It includes the improvements there that you see on Harcourt, the improvements much needed at Del Monte and Broadway. So those are all safety enhancements that we need to address. And so yes and no, the yes part of it is it's still being spent within the City of Seaside on improvements in the City of Seaside, owned and operated, maintained by the City of Seaside. It does divert temporarily some funds that we would use on other residential streets, but these would be programmed as well anyway. Yes.

In the simplest terms, it would reprioritize this potentially streets that you have listed as priorities that have very low markings for this priority. Priority. It just reprioritizes, potentially reprioritizes. Is that a fair statement? That is fair. That's correct. So thank you. I'll leave it at that. Currently, we are not responsible financially as what I read for the sidewalk, the bike lane, um the bike language buffer curves green zone but buffer paint and element other elements uh that you reported on that would make us responsible for for that in the future is that a correct statement yes this grant would fund the construction of these and the city would agree to maintain them once they're built I'll try to include both. I'll try to save some time and include two things. The parking lot, and it's not the parking lot, it is a parking lot on the lakeside side where there's 15 to 20 spots there, 14 or 20 spots there. There's also an electric box there that controls electricity for all the different events there. So we got that. But if I read it right, you would reconfigure it, and the city would be responsible for creating a new parking area if it chooses. And is that correct? And is that part of the $1.5 million suggested to increase the priority? Or would that be additional funds to do that area, because that might cost, with the cost of stuff in 2033, about $100,000 to $300,000, because that's a significant entry that gets a lot of use. parking lots are not eligible for this program so the short answer would be um yes that would be an additional cost because we we can't include that in this uh package so and I know this is maybe not a fair question and I apologize a little bit not much uh that could cost 100 200 300 000 to re to do what you do then fix that area as well know you may not know Thomas you have a ballpark on that because I know road work is extremely expensive uh yes depending on what the city comes up with for the design it could be in that neighborhood it could be more yeah absolutely thank you um and this this is not your fault this is just I see it in our streets where PG&E does something and then it's half baked and then we end up fixing stuff. So in this area, is it normal Caltrans removes an entryway on your own decision to do what you're going to do and then make us, not make us, encourage us to do what you took away?

That is a statewide practice.

Okay. The community, I believe, and so we disagree a little bit, as you can tell. The community, I believe, was made aware of this plan 90 days ago, approximately, ballpark, because I didn't hear about it, and I tried to stay reasonably aware about six weeks ago when you first came to the Traffic Advisory Commission. Is that the norm with such a significant, looked like a $30 million project? And also how many residents did the survey? Seaside residents, I mean, Monterey, Carmel, I'm not sure I care as much as about our residents.

don't have the breakdown in front of me on seaside resident responses i have the total responses at around 200 um the the flyers and the target of of um the survey was sand city and seaside so i'd i'd i can look at the numbers but i'd like to think that most of those responses are from the communities around the project area 200 between seaside and sand city

And then see, and correct me if I'm wrong, I really didn't read Sand City's efforts. Their effort will directly, at least more strongly impact their shopping and the tourism in that city where their work is being done. Is that a fair statement versus our straight? I just noticed there was a lot more activity in that area.

Well, yeah, and actually, I do want to go back to to an earlier question about projects of this scale and the timing of of the engagement and the introduction to this project for the community and the council as as 1 of the earlier slides mentioned these aren't. these aren't recommendations from 90 days ago or so they're from probably about a decade of different planning efforts that we've previously individually caltrans sand city and tamsea have in have as individual agencies attempted to get state grant funding to implement these projects. And one of the pieces of feedback that we've heard when we are not selected for funding and we work with CTC to hear their reason why, one of the things is they've pointed out that this seems disjointed and they want to know what the community's true vision for the area is and for improvements in the area and why is caltrans applying for one thing in san city and tampsi and so that's what brought this project together it's not that it's a brand new project it's a brand new approach to recommendations that come from probably about a decade of planning and and i honestly i understand that but i was not

aware of and I think a resident told me about it via a survey and I go wow and I knew anyway so I do appreciate the hard work and and information and guidance and suggestives so that's I'm sorry for the time but I think it's pretty big project thank you

Thank you. When is the grant application due? Can you just remind me? It's mid-June. Mid-June, so we're a couple weeks away. What is the support you have? Are you compiling letters of support from state, local? What's going on?

Yeah, we'll be probably in about a week or two starting our letter of support effort. Our goal is to get letters of support from as many organizations, stakeholders as we can, and include that as attachments in our package. How competitive is this grant? We think it's competitive. Looking at the last cycle, which we were unsuccessful, we identified several areas where we can move the needle a lot. One was on engagement. The other was on the transformative aspect of it, and that was one of the things that led us to all work together rather than apply individually. And then some more low-hanging fruit improvements have to do with data and the differences between what we did for portraying data in the last cycle versus what we plan on doing in this cycle. Between those things, we expect to be competitive, but it's always hard to tell because it depends on the number of applications that are entered throughout the state, the total program budget evaluation. So we feel strong about it, but it's impossible to say for sure.

Reduction in total crashes, percentage-wise?

By element, some of the elements like the roundabout and the roadway reconfiguration show very high percentage in reduction of crashes. Estimates? The roadway reconfiguration nationwide from before and after studies is about 20% to 50%.

and the roundabout is about 30 to 40 percent for pedestrians and that's based on fhwa national statistics pulling on the threat of the roundabout on harcourt and canyon del rey i do know we have a stop light at the corner of canyon del rey and hilby would that be removed as well no so that would stay don't stay would that cause backup in traffic

That would be something that we would look at. It hasn't come up as a flag so far, but that would be something that we would look at.

Sounds good. And then how was the survey conducted? Was it done in various languages or what was the outreach effort? What did it look like?

English and Spanish. We advertised for it online through distribution list, e-blast, social media posts. We advertised in hard copy, in person, with flyers that were both English and Spanish. And then the information booths at Farmer's Market, Earth Day Festival, A31 Night Market. We also sent specific stakeholders emails with routing them to the survey, your bicycle organizations and agencies. We spoke with bike shops in the community and outside of the community had asked for them to post the flyers as well and share information to their members or they organize group rides and things like that and and have probably distribution lists that they shared it too so

you have an average age of response like what was the median age we do have that question we asked that question i could look into what the response was it was an optional question on the survey um but that we would have that information with anyone that responded with that do you have any statistics or information regarding the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with this project i know the goal is to create a more walkable and

We don't have statistics. That would be something that we would study in the environmental document, which would be the next step if we're funded. We don't have funding to go into that next phase, so that would be the very first thing that we would do if awarded funding.

Just curious if that's a component that you're taking into consideration when applying for the grant.

Yes, that's absolutely a goal and an objective, but we don't have the numbers.

Okay. And then my question would be for Director Corman. You mentioned temporarily divert funding. What does that mean? How would we recuperate that money?

Yes, so when we received Measure X funds each year, and those vary, but a portion from 2033 and 2024 would be diverted to this project. The remains would be used on basically the local streets. We would carry out our traditional road rehabilitation. But you said temporarily divert. Just for those two years. Just for two years. Yes.

That's the temporary. And then I did hear concerns about a parking lot at Laguna Grande there. If I'm not mistaken, we also have a Laguna Grande grant that we received. Would money from that grant be utilized for parking? Through the mayor?

No, no, the funding for the grant is strictly for the trail reconfiguration and renovation. Gotcha. Okay. That's all my questions. Thank you.

Anyone else just 1 more. Just just to. Can you turn on your Mike place?

I thought it was the. The reprioritizing lectures that for my mental health of the funds. it it's doesn't divert we just when we get the report on those streets on on those years it'll say i don't know harcourt he'll be whatever yes it'll be prioritizing those streets and then it'll come back to um i don't know yosemite or whatever street it'd be right so when recommendations will focus on that area then come back to other areas as such. It'll be just part of their recommendations.

That's absolutely correct. And just to add to that, the total improvements done on streets that we estimated actually at $5 million. So the contribution from Measure X funds is 1.5, but we're basically benefiting in the amount of 5 million. That's correct, right? Yes.

And just... and one one more question that's going to all be done with the cost of streets can run one street can run from anywhere from a hundred thousand to a 800 to a million dollars if depending on the the the road improvements as such there's a but it's a one block it's significant dollars right

That's correct. You know, depending on the treatment that we assess that needs to be done on the particular street, it could get a couple hundred thousand to a million, depending on the length, width, and the treatment that's selected.

I just remembered that Hillby cost like a couple million dollars because of the one, four blocks, because it was so bad. That's correct. So thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you.

No problem. No, I talked to the city engineer. Just got a couple questions. You said earlier about around, I think, Broadway and another intersection that it was some issues the city had concerns with anyway that you thought we should be correcting. I thought that's what you said.

It says an existing civilized intersection. It does need improvements with the current curb ramps. They're non-compliant. There's some issues with the signals and the push buttons. The draft, the proposal that Caltrans has come up with at the location would eliminate the sweeping right in there, truing the intersection up. So actually we would probably gain parking. So that's our parking lot number one site at downtown. And so this would make that more pedestrian friendly and potentially add parking spots at that parking lot. Number one site.

So so it would add parking.

That's what we're anticipating. Yes.

Okay. And then and then it goes back to what someone said earlier. You you figured you're not going to lose any parking, but you just said when you think about holistically, you're going to be adding parking.

That's correct.

Okay. And then you talked about the signal and the curbing.

Yes.

And so if Caltrans is paying to redo that, then we're not paying to do that.

It'd be our funds in conjunction with the project. So I guess the answer is yes.

I mean, some synergy is there. It is as the instruction is there.

Right? There's a there's basically a commingling of funds. Yes.

I don't know if we want to use that one. I don't know if we'll use that one. Co-mingling of construction workers, maybe. But what I'm getting to is if it's things that, excuse me, if it's work that's been on the books for a while and the synergy of having Caltrans do work over there and we doing work over there is potential to save hundreds of thousands of dollars, I would imagine. Correct. Okay. All right. And then I did have a question around prioritization. I mean, the priorities of streets change all the time, don't they?

They do, and we don't have a program plan for 2023 and 2020. 34. Yeah.

So so so to be clear, then you're not reprioritizing anything, because there's no priority for those two years as of now.

That's correct.

Okay, I just want to be clear. I just think, you know, we're asking questions, and we're not taking time to think them through the answers. And then at the end of this, my understanding from um is that seaside will be maintaining uh the was it canyon del rey afterwards after this reconfiguration not the complete canyon del rey but elements of these improvements what is the elements the elements um oh not the streets no okay because i was led to believe that conversation was the streets But elements like the, go ahead, why don't you just lay it out? What would we be responsible for?

An example would be the agreement that we have with, between Caltrans and Seaside for maintaining the green paint that is going to be added as part of the four tag trail segment project. Caltrans doesn't have ability to maintain green paint. And so that's an example.

Well, could you give me a, that seems pretty minor in my words. Could you give me an example of one of the larger ones that we would be responsible for?

Any landscaping, any landscaping, irrigation connected to landscaping, things like that. A listing of features that is the standard separation between Caltrans maintenance and local maintenance that's used statewide.

But no asphalt, no cement, no major, okay. Because I was led to believe earlier that we would be responsible for the upkeep of the project. Okay. okay i i know i know you know i'm still thinking through this and you just said uh my last two questions i guess will be um you said quite a few times you still need to study the numbers and it is possible that the numbers will not prove true and and the numbers may prove that this project is not viable If that makes sense, yeah, you know, well, you say, you don't know the numbers and what I'm getting to is if they're too drastic 1 way or the other. Then this may not go forward.

That's correct. And it's not something, of course, that we would want to happen, but there's projects that have been funded in this program. This will be the eighth cycle of this program. And Caltrans has had a lot of experience with projects that get a part of the way after funding. And for several different reasons, they may end up having to give back the funding to say, well, we can't move this project forward because it could be a right-of-way issue, could be a traffic issue.

the the receiving of the funding isn't isn't um forcing us to implement a project if it doesn't make sense so going forward tonight and receiving the applicant pushing an application doesn't mean you're going to get any money that's first thing even if you receive the money it still may not be practical to complete the project correct okay All right. That's all the questions I have. We'll take it out to the comment. Thank you so much for your clear answers. Public comment is open.

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Good evening, Mayor, Council. I'm standing here with concern because this feels backwards. Tonight, we're discussing authorizing a letter of support and a memorandum of understanding for a grant application on a major transportation project, yet many residents are likely hearing details for this for the very first time. these are the most empty chambers i've seen in a long time which tells me that the public does not know about this issue my question is simple are we supporting a project before the public has had a meaningful opportunity to weigh in because when residents hear terms like active transportation lane reductions trail modification and changes to parking or traffic patterns people naturally want to know what exactly are we agreeing to support and what could this eventually become Many still remember concerns surrounding the Broadway project and whether decisions felt predetermined before residents had a chance to fully engage in the process. So naturally people are asking, is this another situation where a direction has already been chosen and the community is being brought in later? i also want to ask about emergency planning we continue talking about more housing more density more people moving into our city and at the same time discussion involving reducing four lanes to two lanes on major corridor raised serious questions what does that mean for evacuation routes because we've all seen what happens in emergencies we've watched communities where roads become gridlock and people struggle to evacuate safely We don't have to imagine these scenarios because we've seen them happen in real life. And while we're discussing transportation changes, safety must remain the priority. We have seen serious accidents and tragedies in communities where roundabouts have been implemented, including concerns raised around areas such as Imgen and Hollister. Our residents deserve to understand what safety studies have been conducted, what traffic impacts are expected, and whether all risks have truly been evaluated before moving forward. i'm also concerned about potential impacts to areas surrounding the four-door trail and the possibility of removing valuable parking near laguna grand park embassy suites and chilis for infrastructure that many residents may never use these bike routes i'm not saying don't pursue grants i'm saying the people of seaside deserve answers first Let's talk about the survey survey. There was a picture posted at the old Meyer Center, and it wasn't clear exactly what it was. And so these empty chambers tell me nobody knows about this. We're talking about 3 cities and a highway converging on the 218. We cannot go from 4 lanes to 2 lanes. This report is lacking proper documentation. They can't even tell us how many accidents we've had, how many bicyclists there are. So my closing message is simple. Seaside residents should never have to come second to outside agencies with predetermined visions or TAMC cherry picking projects. The people who live here, work here, pay taxes here, raise families here, they deserve to come first. Residents first, always. Thank you.

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Thank you. I couldn't have said it better. That was a very good comment and it She said everything I wanted to say. But I would like to add that that road is leading to highway access, highway one access. And I think the idea of connecting Fortragg to the coastal access is a good one. I'm just not sure that this idea is the best idea and the best use of our resources. resources which are you know very important so i think that maybe caltrans needs to go back to the drawing board and give us something better uh without uh eliminating uh two of our lanes those are important it's important for the flow of traffic from the different cities. Like I said, while I think it's important to connect four track to the coastal access, I just don't think that this is the best way to do it.

Thank you.

Susan Scavone, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you, Susan Scavone. This is the first time I've heard of this project. Maybe I'm just not aware of things, but I haven't heard of this before. And I'm wondering, is this project with the technical information about what it's going to look like going to be up on the website of the city so we can look at it? Are they going to be doing any public presentations such as a public meeting where they can put up some information and have people ask questions? And I have some concerns. I don't know about the roundabout at, what is it, at Harcourt or Hillby? Anyway, I'm not quite sure how that will all work out and taking out the lanes and making it one lane. I'm just not sure. I know when I've driven on Imgen now, you're supposed to be going 35. People are not going 35. And when they hit those turnaround, those turn... roundabouts, they are going way too fast for the roundabout. And if you're not going as fast as them, they are right on your car. And I don't see much police action up there trying to control that. But I think there's got to be a little more studying of this whole thing. And the other concern I have is when you're taking a part of the park to make some of these pathways and stuff Are you going to be in any way endangering some of the wildlife areas there? It sounds like not. But I want to make sure that that's not going to be an issue where this is a heavy birding area and a lot of wildlife that really could be endangered by noise, construction, all of the stuff that's going on. So what kind of thoughts have been given to that? And I just think there needs to be more information. And then the other question is, what if they don't get the grant? I'm assuming you're not going to commit something real seriously until you know more about the funding involved that's going to be there. We're in a situation right now with the federal government and even with the state where they're pulling back on grants and there's less money to go around. So I'm not quite so sure about this. And I just think the public probably could use a lot more information and inclusion in this. So thank you. I mean, it's nice to improve the road. I think there needs to be more safety, obviously. There's been some terrible accidents there. And walkable space is a really good thing. And the point made about going to the freeway too, I mean, that's gonna have to be worked out down lower on that road. So, okay, thank you very much. Appreciate you letting me make my comments.

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Uh, thank you. Public comment is closed. Um, you have a whole bunch of questions in there. Uh, so, uh, the university engineer or the city manager or, uh. What's your last name again? I'm sorry. Kelly McClendon and maybe I'll start and then take turns until we work our way through the all the questions and concerns.

I'll try to cover all the key things. I think starting with the grant funding, if we're not awarded, then there's no risk for any contribution. Basically, we just wouldn't move forward with the project if we're not awarded funding. As far as the general community involvement process and questions relating to that, one of the things, one of the slides showed how early we are in the grand scheme of the project development process. And I mentioned how the very next step that we would start with if we're awarded funding would be the environmental process. And that's where a lot of the community, it's the SQL process where not only is the community involvement required, that's where we would have our public hearings as part of the project to get our project approval and environmental document completed. So a lot of that would happen in the future, about 2028 for the project schedule, if we're awarded the funding. So a lot of that would would take place um as far as um the park and disruption to environmental habitat um the there are no components on the park other than the re the rehabilitation of where the existing trail is um so i wouldn't expect there to be environmental impacts from that trail rehab it would be a rehab in kind as far as i know i don't know if thomas if you have anything else

Yeah, I'm trying to really recall some of the questions and address them. I can speak to, you know, when I was asked to become involved with a project, you know, Canyon Del Rey is a highway. It's Highway 218. It's within Caltrans right away. What the interest of the city is in this, especially public works and engineering, is increased safety. You know, the connectivity across to increase safety that pedestrian flow to Laguna Grande was a major interest in that. So how Caltrans goes about it with road enhancements and road diets, we do leave that up to them being there right away. the enhancements also with the bike trails and the connectivity is an interest because we're working on laguna grande trail project so there's connections there um again you know just to reiterate i'm probably not adding anything new at this point but um at the proposal stage you know the more interest the more collaboration with neighboring cities city of sand city us, the City of Seaside, the more interest by the CTC we'll have in picking up the proposal and funding it.

On our timeline of the grant. I also mentioned the deadline is mid June and then the expected award would be around December. That's what the program is saying. So there's about six months in between from our application and an award where additional work. Would be available. We're already planning on on additional work with the city staff. And so there's opportunity to do additional engagement and community outreach as part of this project in advance of an award. That's that's. Earlier than the required public involvement process during sequel.

Thank you so much any questions council member.

Thank you. Just for my clarification was California state transportation secretary just here a couple of days ago. Yes. And was this project brought forward? It was okay. And what was the result of that? Or. Insight if you have any.

Of course, you can Mr. this is the executive director for. Thank you.

We had the opportunity on bringing secretary on a tour of our regional projects in Monterey county. We had a 3 hour tour, started in Salinas, looking at our rail projects, looking at the 1 on 1 South Slanice corridor. I was 68 corridor. And we stopped at the Gateway for Monterey Bay project and talked about this intersection. And one of the interesting things about it is, as a state, Caltrans has more recently focused on pedestrian safety and access through intersections. And this project is a result of that, where they've really acknowledged that there's deficiencies in our transportation network that don't address pedestrians and bicyclists safely going through the state highway system. And so we talked about that. We also had the state director of Caltrans on the tour. So it was a really impactful opportunity to share our projects. And they were very supportive of this. I wanted to respond to a couple other questions that were brought up. One of them was that this isn't just a project that just popped up this last 90 days. This is going back to well before 2019 when we finalized the 218 corridor study that we did with the city and Caltrans looking at the whole corridor. Most of the features along the corridor that are being presented tonight are from that study that also had extensive public outreach for it. We've done outreach for FourTag, which is a broader 28 miles throughout multiple communities that's incorporated some things on this corridor. So this is a package of projects that represent a lot of outreach over the past, you know, multiple years and then finally all while there's a lot of study and work to finalize any designs that would move forward from this there's also been a lot of vetting going on looking at how these individual components could be if they're viable or not so when we're talking about doing a reduction of lanes on 218 it's not It's been looked at by traffic engineers, both at Caltrans and at TAMC and other parties, at how that would impact operations for the automobiles that are using the corridor. So there could be reductions in travel time or other impacts, but there's also just been that vetting to make sure that it's not a... a significant enough impact to not warrant the goal of the improvement to safety. So it's the balancing of all those things. So we wouldn't be proposing a project that we didn't think is viable. There's more work to be done. There's a lot more work on any future design that includes a lot of public outreach like Kelly mentioned. But the team from the various parties have been working on this feel like what's presented

today reflecting a lot of work that's already happened is something that's that fits the needs of this location okay did you have any more questions just one more um i know the governor releases may revise and state budget might look a little different um and as the state legislature starts working through it and if there should be a possibility of additional funding would we do outreach to Agencies and elected officials to sort of backfill any type of gaps and funding that there might be. Should that be a possibility in a perfect world?

so the the budget for this cycle of active transportation program is set and it's included in that in the in the in the state budget estimate um you asked earlier about comp whether it's competitive and and kelly mentioned the work they've done to make our this project more competitive towards that grant but that program but the program itself is very competitive most times you apply and don't get awarded um so kelly answered the question in a way that showed that we've been working really hard to improve our competitiveness to this if we don't get if we apply and don't receive a grant in this cycle is your question what would we go after separate funding from from the legislature for it uh it's an option and that'd be something that that would be up to the the cities and the the parties involved thank you anyone else have any more questions

I had one or two questions. I guess for you, Mr. Muck from TAMC, because I want to pick up the thread that you laid down is about Even though you guys have ... There's been studies going back a handful of years, right? So I just want to put some things on the record. I'm not saying I agree with everything, but we have to put the facts on the record, right? So some of these studies go back many of years. Some of these outreach goes back many of years. You said the information you have leads you to believe that this project would work with some challenges. But what I want to get to is if we get the grant, you will still have to do the research, the studies, CEQA and environmental reports and new traffic data studies to prove the concept once again for the current so-called project. that make um yes or no yes that's true right right that's what i'm saying right it's just you you feel comfortable going forward and ask for the money but part of the money is to use to prove Your concept.

And that's true. That is the way projects are developed in California. You don't do the in-depth level of analysis and environmental review until you have the money to proceed into the next phase. Otherwise, you might be just wasting money on a project that you never can get funded for construction.

Right. And I guess that's what I'm trying to draw because we had plenty of questions of people say, hey, you don't know the answer to this. You don't know the answer to that. Well, if you had those answers, that means you did the drawn-out study, but who would have paid for that? My point is, that's why you don't do it that way.

Correct, but we do know this quarter is in the high-injury network for the community.

Yeah, and as I'm saying, you have the data for that, but I'm talking about this proposal, right? You wouldn't, okay. Well, that was the main thing, right, because the public were, you know, not just the public right here. I'm just talking about in general. Everybody will want to know that data. All I'm trying to say is you don't have that data because the grant pays for the official data. And then my last question to you is if that data, reading of that data proves that this is not efficient or effective, then you wouldn't go forward.

That's correct. And obviously, our goal would be to not pursue a project that we don't think would serve the community. But the studies would prove that.

As far as we know.

Or, yes.

That's what I'm saying. If you're saying it's predetermined that the studies will prove that, then they're like, well, is it predetermined? It's not predetermined, the ultimate.

You're right.

Okay. Uh, and so, um, that that's all I'm saying. That's what I'm trying to get to is the data will determine whether it's a viable project or not. We don't have the data because here in California, Especially, you know, you don't pay for it if you don't have the money to complete it. You get the money to complete it, then you do the studies. And I think it said, someone said earlier, if it go down the road and it's not a viable project, then you return the money, right? Before you tear up the streets, so to speak. Okay, that's, did you have anything else that you... no i heard or anything you wanted to correct because again you are our in our county's uh representative executive director for tampsi representing us at the state level so you know more about this than uh just about anyone else

No, I think it's just that this, as was pointed out, this does reflect the state policy and goals to make safety improvements in our community. And this project reflects that. And that's one of the reasons why we think it can be very competitive at this very competitive grant program.

Okay. But it's not a done deal.

Not even close to a done deal. It's a long ways before we get to that.

even if we approve it tonight, it's still a long way.

Correct.

Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other comments?

Mayor Proctor. I just have my comments on this. I appreciate that you've been going out for years and doing those studies and that, but just to me i can't support it i believe it was not vetted to the community this time effectively there was no community meetings or i believe i believe a nephron pension provided to the residents uh this concept has a to me uh three months background as far as this time around and i didn't hear about it at all six weeks ago, and that was a last minute meeting or not last minute meeting, but it was on the agenda without, I thought, thorough discussion prior to research to ask questions. And further, and this is on me, I cannot support when we don't know how many accidents were there in 2025, be it bikes or cars. I think that would have been, for all I know, there's been zero up to 100. We just don't know. I think to me, and according to Caltrans, it will slow traffic in a non-business highway. And personally, I'm aware traffic on that roadway is already bottlenecked especially on major and i believe this will make it worse and possibly because there's possibilities on both sides will negatively impact uh businesses on fremont and del monte and i did talk to one or two business owners and they were concerned as well uh i also believe that negative financial impact will be had by the city responsible to maintain the sidewalks, the curbs, the painting of the green pass, and the markings, as we do not currently do that, and significant financial loss of hundreds of thousand dollars by replacing the community benefit of the parking area and the lakeside area for the disabled near the park, not to include the power resource for the community fence. to me to my way of thinking is not rational for me as it is cal chance concept that taking away that area therefore i think to be calum's chance responsibility to retain it or to maintain it or to improve it um that's you know again mine i think there could have been a much more better better concept with more community awareness and council participation I see more negative impact to residents than positive, and way too little participation in a significant impact project, I think you said $30 million. And just in closing, I thank you for your concern for Seaside. I think that's, I'm putting this on the waive to for greater safety if that's possible as far as the report goes as we as a council i think um ask questions because we believe and are concerned about our community not to criticize from that perspective but we are concerned and we are do we are do our best all of us to be prepared when we come to meetings to ask the questions that Some of our residents asked, some of them we thought of through our investigation as what was the best we can. And just again, in closing, the amount of effort and time you put in this, I think that's commendable. And it's not, the quality of your effort is just, in my view, my perspective, And this concept that I see could have been done better because I think it's a huge project that we want to touch all our bases as many residents as we can because there's, I forget the number you said, the thousands upon thousands of residents and non-residents and tourists. Countless others that use that road and safety is a concern, but also getting from point A to B is a concern. And I just need to know a bit more before I would feel comfortable. Thank you. And I do appreciate your time and your comments and your thought process. And sir, you, especially in your patience with me, I'm very grateful.

anyone else uh council member just to be quick i well i do agree a little bit with uh with councilmember pacheco i i do think a lot of there is some onus on us i i think if this was something that we knew was coming down the pipeline we could have done a better job at publicizing this ourselves um so i i just want to say i think it's quite unfair to put the full blame on other partners when when we should have stepped up as well that's all i'm saying

Mayor Mrakas, I anyone else marriage one comment yeah, of course, I have one question actually in regards to I mean tonight's vote is not any by any means the final vote it's just to try to get. Mayor Mrakas, Work on getting funding for this project, but this will come back to the Council when the project is going to be designed right.

I think.

At a minimum to be able to be eligible for the grant for us to be able to apply it. We need to have a letter of support from the city that that shows the support. Um, that's it's just a minimum project eligibility as far as this grant. um but yes you're correct there there would be several years of additional engagement and coordination opportunities um as part of this project so at any point if the city's not happy with the direction or when this comes before us to the city council at any point even if the money we got the grant at any point this city council could say hey we don't like this direction That's yes. Yes. And that's that's no different than any any project. And and so that would there would be and that is kind of the attached to the timeline is showing where we are in the early part of the project development process. So, yes, there's there be administrative updates with CTC as far as what happens with the funding. But yes.

So with those answers, I'll make a motion to approve.

second it's been probably moved in second uh on the question i i do want to uh i asked the city attorney to chime in just so it's not no one is thinking that somehow it's our opinion and all that so uh city attorney us approving this tonight does not make first of all this is not a project right that's first us approving this or signing a letter of support

does not make this a done deal that's correct okay all right you can't be no clearer than that right i don't think so other than the fact that whether in order to apply for a grant they need to have some community support And all this is doing is saying, yes, this is an idea which we think will work for our community. As a result of that, we would like to at least have the opportunity to support the grant application. And that's all you're doing tonight. If they don't get the funds, this project is dead unless they come up with some other funding source.

Proposal.

Proposal.

Okay. All right. Now, see, I shouldn't have asked the expert because Don's been doing this too many times. But I just wanted other people to understand that saying, you know, sending a letter does not mean everything's going to work out and next thing you know, it's a done deal. I just own the question. I just wanted to... say you know far as i'm this is not a project this is a proposal i support looking into this proposal i support improvements on cal trans right away which is a highway 218. uh i support uh community involvement that's what this grant is going to pay for if they get the grant and so to to put um the apprehension it's kind of like putting a car before the horse to put the apprehension about you don't think this thing is a good thing i understand it that makes sense but the data is not there for any of us to say it's a good or bad thing You know, anecdotally, you don't like it. And that doesn't have to change. I'm just saying for me, you know, when I'm talking to the public, when the public is talking to me, the data should be there. And the data may even prove that it's a good thing. That doesn't mean the council has to move forward on it. And so I just, a quick reminder, I just tell the council all the time, you guys control what's going on here. right not the outside agency not anyone else and so we should get the information to find out what's going on uh with with that and so with that i will call for the vote all those in favor use direct sign of aye aye nays have the same right no abstentions uh here and then eyes have it motion carry uh four to one zero uh item number nine b I better take a little recess before I get called. Let's stand at recess to return at the sound of the gavel.

Oh, sure.

Okay. Saved by the bill. 9B, adopt a resolution approving a memorandum of understanding with Boys and Girls Club of Monterey County regarding shared facility. Mr. Assistant City Manager.

Thank you, Mayor. I have a brief presentation in regards to an MOU with the Boys and Girls Club to share facilities between them and the City of Seaside. So a little bit of the background here. The Boys and Girls Club was founded in 68 by Roosevelt Williams, and their current facility that they operate out of was built in 1994. Both the city and the club share a commitment to youth and development and recreation and community engagement. Over the years, the city and Boys and Girls Club have had an informal MOU, if you will, they use Catino Park occasionally and we have used their gym for basketball. So we are just trying to put those processes into place in a more formal manner. So that's what this MOU will do. It will create a framework so that way we can continue our collaboration and moving the process forward. so the shared use of the facilities um the boys and girls club will provide access to the city uh the seaside clubhouse um their basketball gym for city recreation programs and the gym will be available at no cost and as the same will be for the city of seaside and the old meyer center and any of the facilities that we have they will have the reciprocal um use for those facilities um we will also potentially have the use of the community room which we've used for community meetings and other um types of situations where we needed to have a community meeting space for i know remember we had the catena park community meetings in that location so that's going to be another area that will be open for us to use and we will provide sports fields and oldemeyer as i stated So scheduling the priority use, we will meet annually in January to kind of lay out the calendar for the year. So that way we can get to those dates on the books as soon as possible with the city's main priority being how basketball and the need for a basketball gym. So we will make sure that we ask well in advance to have those evenings available for us in that program. we will coordinate um to minimize any conflicts because occasionally they do have it from time to time and then we will retain the priority for our internal programs as well as they will for theirs but primarily we will be the our request for the boys and girls club will be after hours um when they're not in in their session and they use their use for casino park is generally during the day right after school when school gets out and that's a time that is generally open to the public anyways And so each party will be responsible for staffing and the supervision of the use of the facilities. We already provide staff when we use their facility as well as they provide staff when they come over to ours. So there will be no change there. And then I talked about the availability and the staffing capacity. So one of the main other issues that come up is the custodial and maintenance facilities or needs for those facilities. uses so the city will provide the custodial services in our building and they will take care of it for theirs and each group will be responsible for indemnification um for each of these facilities so really we are just trying to put something more formal um create a process where we can use their facility they use ours in a effective manner So there is no fiscal impact with the use of the MOU. If there is any charges later on down the road, whether it is sometimes custodial needs may need to be paid for, that is something that will be discussed in advance. So that way we can handle those fiscal challenges if they do arise. And so the community benefits, it expands recreational and opportunities in the city right now, there's only 2 other basketball facilities available to the public in seaside. And 1 is that. King Middle School and then Seaside High. So we already know that the gym space is lacking in this community. And so we just want to make sure that we have every option possible for our programs and the same for theirs as they do use Old Meyer Center pretty frequently for other art competitions and things like that. and so this is just strengthening that collaboration between community serving organizations and so we just want to build on that and we want to support safe and healthy programming for our community so the recommendation is approve the mou and i'd be happy to answer any questions

Thank you for that. Well done presentation. Any questions? Councilmember Miller?

Thank you, Mr. Mayor might be to our attorney. But I'm looking at the staff report. And on the staff report. On page two, it says term and termination. This agreement remains in effect until terminated by either party with 12 months written notice. then you go to the contract or excuse me the agreement the mou and you go to page the last page and it says this agreement shall remain in effect until terminated by either party with 60 days written notice so which one is it through the mayor

It should actually be 60 days. It shouldn't be a 12 month.

Well, that concerns me because at any point then they can just say, OK, we can't we cancel this agreement and we've done all this work. Can we make it the one year that it's on the staff report?

You actually could make it one year, but in real time, it probably 60 days is much more reasonable. For agencies.

OK, and to our assistant city manager, the on page two of the agreement is uh the boys and girls club may use our facilities described above free of charge so in regards to the fee um what would happen in the situation where like if this this becomes i'm not saying this is a great this is a great thing that we need for our city but what if this becomes lopsided what if all of a sudden we're now waiving tons of fees for the boys and girls club and we're not really getting any benefit or our benefit has been restricted is that possible

I think anything could happen in that situation, and that's where having the meeting in January to discuss and identify those uses that we want to have. And so if we start to see that the Boys and Girls Club is requesting a variety of other uses outside of the norm that we would be expecting, then we would have to revisit that. And then if it does become lopsided, then we would look at either the terms of the agreement and maybe changing that up at that time.

who is the drafter of this of the mou yes i drafted that and they have seen this they have they agreed to this they did and it was their top i mean do you mind me answer asking who agreed to this in there i met with uh their executive director ron johnson okay very good thank you that was all my questions just

anyone else um just real simple uh it's fair to say that the boys and girls club uses city facilities for free pretty consistently currently right they use catino park probably four to five times a month well that's it okay um and then my only suggestion and it's not um is it possible to change january to let's say October your meeting. And the reason why I'm saying that, because you start your basketball season in January, so some pre-preparation so everybody knows in advance. in October so that you can plan accordingly. Is that possible? Or is it, well, planning purposes, it's important, but not necessarily for communication, I guess. I don't want it to be a killer. I'm just, I think planning is important. That's all. Everybody's on the same page.

No, it definitely is possible. And so the thought process in January would be to plan out for the rest of 2027 and beyond. So ideally we would already have the dates for PAL in line the year before. So for example, we've already, in preemptive for this agreement, we've already submitted our dates for 2027. So when we go in January of 2027, we will be looking at 2028. Okay.

That makes good sense. I just wouldn't want you to, scheduled January 5th in 2026. And then everybody's rushing for planning purposes. But if you're doing in a year in advance, I think just my only comment, I'll just keep it real short. Thank you for your time. I think I think that this will dramatically improve opportunities for young people to play basketball as well as adults compared to what it was the past. I think this is a significant step and chance to enhance kids to work together to play again for the entire city. And it provides a lot of insurers, I hope, a lot of benefit for all of Seaside. And that's the goal of this, to give everybody an equal opportunity to use such a wonderful facility. um and in turn provide opportunities for the boys and girls club to use our facility because we're all here together to benefit the whole community so i'll just leave it at that that's all i gotta say thank you anyone else open up the public comment 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

Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you. Public comments closed. Bring it back to the guys. What is the will of the council? Move approval. second you probably moved in second on the question no comments i have two comments i want to thank the mayor pro temp for pushing us forward and uh mr ron johnson for um his professionalism and um opening up the boys and girls clubs uh for more uses by uh seaside residents and of course this is uh city manager drew up the mou but um thank all of you All right, all those in favor use the rec sign, vote in which is aye. Aye. Nays have the same right. Abstentions? Hearing none. Ayes have it. Motion carried unanimously. Let's go to council members' request. Council members, a new council member's request. You have something? Yes, sir. Council member Garcia is on.

Thank you. Mine's just a presentation request. If you can have PG&E come and do a presentation, I think it's long overdue, especially following the weekend incident.

Anyone else? Okay. Follow up on previous requests, Mr. Assistant City Manager.

I have no follow-ups at this time.

Okay. Item number 11, city attorney, city manager, city council and mayor's comments and reports on committee assignments. Mr. City attorney.

Yes, it's really great to sit up here one night. I've really enjoyed this. Thank you.

City manager.

I agree. It is really nice to sit up here this 1 evening. So, other than that, that is the only the only item I have. Thank you.

Council member, no, I think Mr mayor, it was great to be at the mother's day event and we had a great event there with a lot of dancing and there was good food today. uh mayor for helping with that and also uh the planky arts ribbon cutting and we've still been going strong with the pal soccer and i had my am bag meeting uh which was short meeting uh nothing of significance on there and then today i had my chs meeting community human services and we had our retreat uh of course we're kind of tightening our belts we're looking at positions that we don't necessarily need, or that positions that are kind of more discretionary. So we're looking at our budget, basically. So we're going through that process. And then we're also we'll be picking a new board chair at the next meeting. Other than that, those are the things I had to report. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Virks.

Yeah, I had the pleasure of going to the groundbreaking at Greater Victory for their apartment complex. Exciting to see that moving forward. And then same day, the Coalition of Scholarship Organizations 25th Annual Scholarship Celebration. Always fun to see our youth getting ready to head out to college and earning Um, just tons of awards for athletics and academics and all the hard work they've been doing. So, congratulations ahead of time to our. Little young, it's on the way out.

Thanks on May 13th, I attended the blank yards 10 year anniversary. It was a great turnout. It was in partnership with Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce to see Palenque Arts celebrate a milestone of 10 years and to cut the ribbon was truly amazing to see how far they've come over these past 10 years. And I just want to highlight, while being at the Teen Center, which was an extension of the original Palenque Arts facility, I was able to speak to a young artist roughly around 10, 13 years old, was drawing an amazing picture of European architecture. And to see the talent that that young person had was super inspiring because I can't draw for the life of me. So to see him really exhibit those talents and qualities was truly inspiring. And I asked him, how did you get into art? And he said it was because they started coming to Blank Yards. So to see that there is an outlet for our youth to discover themselves, to discover the talents, it was truly inspiring. I also attended the Greater Victory Temple Church, groundbreaking for the new affordable and very low income affordable unit housing, which I think is long overdue. But again, it's a commitment that this council made to really have equitable housing for for all walks of life so i'm excited to see how that continues to flourish and it was always great to to have our congress member in attendance uh jimmy pineda and provide some great words of wisdom for all of us on the 18th i attended the latinx mpc graduation ceremony it was another very insightful opportunity to uh for us to see the growing talent that we have in our region and how imperative it is to have solid partnerships with our local community colleges and to see these young adults and adults pursue higher education is always inspiring and i was able to provide some words of wisdom to them and and send them off with well wishes on yesterday i attended the tiny tots graduation alongside mayor potem and the mayor and uh the first lady it was uh kind of a contrast, right? You're at the college graduation, then you come to this little mini graduation, which was Really, really cute to see just the top of their hats walk through the aisle and for them to sing and to see the family members all excited. And Council Member Pacheco mentioned, you know, this is the only time you'll be able to witness a young one graduate like that. So it was truly inspiring to see them. I had to leave a little early, but nonetheless was there to support the families and the Tidy Tots. And tomorrow I'll be at my region board meeting. So I should have a more extensive report next time.

Thank you, Council member. I'm sorry, Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you. I attended the Monrace Lineage Transit meeting. The SURF project is on schedule, both in timeliness and financially. There is a lot of concern about funding for transit, most certainly from the state of California to ensure that all these programs continue. 10 of the Mother's Day, augment the older myerson as most of us did uh it continues to be a wonderful event uh traditional event probably going on for at least 30 40 years um but it's always successful and always nice to see mothers and grandmothers there and it's always wonderful to see all of us help serve and the parents and grandparents enjoy it attended the palenque arts as well and i just wanted to uh not only recognize Palenque, but for Juan Sanchez, for his leadership. I remember when he first started this concept with LULAC, and I'm not sure there was the confidence at that initial time, but he's proven us, proven all of us that he can make it happen, and he has, and I think we all benefit from that. Attended the B-Side ROTC meeting, and I was honored to present the award to the outstanding cadet from seaside again we all attended the victory temple project again it's always inspiring to see things move forward especially such a necessary uh project um again we attended the graduation of tiny tot university um i think it's the kids are really cute but the And that's always wonderful to see, but the parents and their grandparents there, especially, and sometimes the great, great parents are there just to support their child. When parents are involved, I think it adds to the betterment of the child and the growth of that child in the long term. And just wanted to thank the Public Works Department yesterday on my little walk. I walked on Yosemite and there was sand rails, I guess, on the sidewalk of Yosemite, which By the fire station, correct. Thank you, Mayor. Which prevents the sand from coming down onto the sidewalk, and sometimes it was like three or four inches deep, and it's slippery and sliding, and it's a real serious safety, and they have fixed it, and they repaired it, and it just, when I walked on the other side, I was like, oh my God, it looks clean over there, and I walked over there, and it's really made it, to me, it's made a lot of difference, and I'm sure for a lot of the residents, made a difference in that area. It's just, a lot safer. And for the kids that walk in that area back and forth in the schools, I think it's made a difference for them too. So I just wanted to thank them for the thing they did on that. So thank you so very much.

Thank you. I'll just start where you left off with the, what did you call them, sand rails? Is that what they're called? Sam Yes, Sam Yes, Sam bear. So I didn't I don't know what you call them either. But I did notice them because I guess we all probably noticed and we all go by there. We all say why did I say keep on piling up on that somebody should get out there do it. But if you just keep going out there and shoveling the sand, guess what happens? You just have to keep going out there shoveling the sand. And so someone had a bright idea. And I just don't know why I took the 30 years I've been here to do it. But my point is, when you said the benefit is when it piles onto the sidewalk, kids parents older people actually have to walk into the street to go around that sand sometimes like 30 feet and so whether you're in a uh what is it a motor uh cart or you pushing a baby carriage or something right it's impactful and so i know those people that walk that street use that street uh are appreciative so we want to thank public works and whoever ideal it was just to spend the money to put the stakes in the ground so thank you for that uh i do want to continue on public work we want to appreciate them i think we appreciate them for a week and i want to say for every day what they do for us every day uh public works is just you know we couldn't city couldn't run without public works and of course it couldn't run without without all of our employees but it is recognized public workers week and what they do Kind of the Mother's Day celebration at Odomar is well done. Great food, better company. The older adults there seem to enjoy that. I want to thank the mothers and the fathers that attended that event. Hopefully we can do something as spectacular for the fathers. So I attended the ADC's 50th anniversary conference, a very successful event conference. Me and the city manager, we made some new and positive connections and some networking going on. And I think to the benefit of the city of Seaside and it's more to come. I mean, we really made some connections over there and I think it's going to benefit us over the next handful of years going down the road. uh plague yards 10 years how fast 10 years go by we remember where juan stood here and said hey i'm thinking about this thing called plague yards uh you got any space for us what can you do and now he's in his own building been in his own building for a while part of a building and and hey They have plans on his own separate building. So we want to appreciate Juan and his team and the board of directors over there at Plank Yards for bringing arts to the city of Seaside, expanding it for our kids. Council Member Garcia-Arizona said it so beautifully, is where you meet those kids after they go through the program. It's one thing to have the program bring the kids here and say, this is what we're doing here. But once the kids leave the program, how are their life improved? And we see that all around because of Blakey Arts and what Juan and his group, Sanchez and his group, thought of, visioned, and made possible. I gave a welcome to the 2026 Regional Economic Outlook. I was hosted by MBAP at the MC Suites. It was a wonderful event where they had two regional Well, one regional economist and then another economist that serves on the Federal Reserve. So it's very impactful event and conversation with the data about what is the issues this region is facing? How can we get out of it? And so it's very well done by MBAP. uh i think people talked about the greater victory temple uh um housing groundbreaking uh 21 housing units allowing more seaside residents to to live here stay here in the city of seaside and you know that's just a down payment on the more housing to come with uh the campus town project allowing more residents to have housing affordability choices and that's really what's going to move the needle where people have the ability to move from a one-bedroom apartment to a three-bedroom apartment to a one-bedroom house to a three-bedroom house as their family grows throughout the city and that's just a wonderful thing I attended the, so we want to thank the partnership between Greater Victory Temple of God in Christ and ran by senior pastor Dr. Ronald, Pastor Brett and KB Bakewell led by Mr. Bakewell Sr. And then I gave a welcome to the Coastal Graduation Scholarship Luncheon, 25th Scholarship Luncheon. very well done and so many young people graduates 12th graders came out of there with uh pockets full of dollars they were giving away thousand dollars worth of scholarships over there so costco coastal has been doing a wonderful job uh since this inception tended to monterey regional um monterey peninsula water management district meeting uh pretty routine at that meeting Nothing to report at this time. Another opportunity I had was coffee with the Central Coast High School students. They opened up a new coffee shop, had great coffee, nice pastry with some fast service. So we look forward to continue to work with those young people at the Central Coast High School. attended Monterey Peninsula College. What is it? Umoja rites of passage ceremony and it's an impactful event and program you know where they're trying to make sure all people feel included, invited, safe, heard, seen, secure with their own person no matter whether it's the race you are, the gender you are, the gender you present with. So it's a great program over there at MPC. Tended the, with the Mayor Pro Tem, the Moderate Penalty Unified School District City Council Collaborative talked about how do we get more youth involved with the city. One thing that came out of that is my focus is how do we keep on, especially over the summer, how do we keep expanding the summer jobs opportunity for our youth? we just can't sit back and expect even though we have a tight budget but to expect somehow that that's not important for those young people to have somewhere to go something positive productive to do and put a little money in their pocket so i just throw that out in the ether so when we start the budget discussions uh again attended the monterey peninsula water manager district chair and vice chair agenda review meeting earlier i guess that was yesterday to the LAFCO budget and finance meeting earlier today. We're going to adopt a budget. We have hired a new executive director for LAFCO. We'll make the announcement on the next LAFCO meeting. I want to thank Dan, Mules, the assistant city manager for, you know, stepping up. I mean, it's no big deal. He's always ready to go, but I just want to appreciate him. And then Don Freeman the same way. Don, they miss a beat, right? And so I'm sure the community really appreciate listening to your voice earlier this evening like I did. So, and your wisdom that you dispensed. That's it. Let's go to the next item, which is closed session. Item number 12. I would ask the City Attorney to read us in a closed session.

City Council meeting closed session pursuant to California Government Code 54957.6. Agency negotiators will be Greg McDonnell, City Manager Samantha Sancrati, Human Resources Director risk manager the employee organizations will be seaside police officers association seaside firefighters association seaside public safety managers association seaside city employees association seaside managers employee association non-represented non-exempt confidential employees non-represented exempt confidential employees executive employees, unclassified exempt employees, and unclassified non-exempt employees. And we're not anticipating any announcements for the public.

Thank you. I will now open up public comment on our closed session items. Public comment is open on our closed 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 star nine if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you so much. Seeing no one here, no one. Public comment is closed. We will move into closing.