City Council - Regular Meeting

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Call to order the City of Seaside City Council and the Succession Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Seaside regular 5 p.m. meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2026 in City Hall Chambers. We'll come to order. Thank you. Roll call.

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.

And thank you so much for going to item number three, which is invocation pledge elites. We'll have a moment of silence and then I'll ask Council Member Garcia-Zola to lead us in a pledge if he would, please. Okay, we'll go down to number four, which is a review of the agenda. Mr. City Manager, do you have any additions or deletions from the agenda?

yes thank you mayor staff requests the removal of item 12a from tonight's agenda okay

next we will go to i do anticipate some type of uh break recess around the 7 30 hour next we'll go to item number five which is public comment members of the public listen to address the city council on matters underneath our jurisdiction they do so for up to three minutes this is also the time to comment on presentation items we ask that you hold your comments on amazon agenda until that item is called For the benefit of the record, we ask that you state your name. 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 nine if you're calling from a phone.

Good evening, Ralph V. Brundis here. I want to give kudos to Chief Borges and his team. The police force really are amazing in this city, just really amazing. I had an incident just recently that I had a painter that came to my house and he did only two thirds of the painting and then demanded all the money. And I had already given him half the money from the day before. And then he said, well, I can't work for anymore except that I need all the money now. I said, well, you haven't finished the job. So I said, but then I called the police. So the police came, two squad cars, two guys, one spoke Spanish. And they told me, well, yeah, what's the money? And I said, well, you know, and I showed them the job. They were great. They were working as mediators. They were not working for a criminal or any kind of other event. They were mediators. It would normally be a civil case. But here they were. And they did just a great job, back and forth. They talked to them. They talked to me. They talked to them. We came to an agreement. And in the end, I was happy. They were happy. I don't think Pina was all that happy because he didn't get all the money. But I thought, you know what? This is so important for us to have city police that come. They don't just come because you call them because there's a problem, this huge problem. My life is threatened, that type of thing. They come just there maybe to mediate. And I think that's all under the direction of our police chief. So really, kudos to him and his squad. Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Lucy Ahrens. I actually have a question for the city manager. It's based on something that I heard a few months ago. So please excuse me if I don't have all the facts correct. But I thought I heard it mentioned that there was a plan to cut down a lot of the vegetation at Laguna Grande to make it so that you could see across to the other park in Monterey. And I'm hoping that everybody's aware that that is very, very sensitive bird habitat. And I'm hoping that we are potentially coordinating that with the local chapter of our Audubon Society. Thank you.

Good evening, Anne-Marie Pagan. over the last couple of months i noticed that we had people cleaning the goose for lack of better words poop from laguna grande where the farmer's market happens and they were doing it later on in the morning early afternoon so before the vendors were to show up and start setting up the last couple of weeks that i've stopped by there did not appear that anybody was cleaning the poop from the park. I know we're shorthanded. I'm hopefully that somebody can coordinate with someone that can go out there so that not only don't the vendors have to sit there tents and stuff on this but also for the people that are attending it i had to try to dodge as much as i could but i still stepped on it and had to clean my shoes out when i got back to the car so i know if they do it early in the morning the the geese go right back there and they'll continue to do it so we got to find out a way and i know there's a lot more geese this year than have been in past years so hopefully we can figure out a way to kind of diminish that without hurting the birds but um not let them continue to lay their eggs and have more geese than we can even handle thank you

Good evening. My name is Claudia Thomas, and I'm a longtime resident of Seaside. I work for the County of Monterey on 1281 Broadway, and I work in social services. And I was informed this week that we would have to vacate the social services office by December 31st. We, at this point, don't have a location, so we were all gather together to try to talk among people that we know. And I just wanted to put it out there that we are looking for a location and we have nowhere to go. And I'm sure you're all aware that these services are vital for our community here. We're the only location in the Monterey Peninsula. And I don't have, you know, a bunch of facts or anything like that about how many people use this service, but I do work as an eligibility person. And, you know, He knows any buildings or something that we could use in seaside or, you know, in the area. So people could get their services. That's it.

Good evening, honorable mayor, council members, city attorney, and city manager. Bobby Maxwell, I'm the chairperson of the Parks and Rec Commission. I'd like to thank this council for approving the recent additions to the commission. We finally had a meeting this last Monday and I feel really, really good about this group that we have to continue the work that we've done over the past number of years. And I just wanted to thank you all.

Good evening, members of the city. My name is Zachary Alexander, one of the youth mentors for the Village Project, and I would first like to thank you for your past support of youth opportunities in our community and last year's support from local leaders that helped make our educational trip to Africa possible and giving us a lifetime chance to experience that open understanding of the world. This year, I have the opportunity to participate in the educational trip to Panama, and I am respectfully requesting a donation of $1,000 to help make this experience possible. Your support would help me continue learning and growing and representing our community with pride. Thank you.

Hi, Linda Cunningham. I'm a member of the Homeless Committee, but I'm here speaking as a private citizen. I just want to clarify from the last City Council meeting, I am not against the lit signs at churches, but I want neighborhood-friendly signs, and I want to thank you for sending it back to the Planning Commission to do more work on that ordinance. We make rules not for the rule followers, but for those who refuse to follow the rules. Unfortunately, I want to say that The lights at City Hall are fabulous. I don't know if anybody else has had the opportunity to see the beautiful lights at City Hall. I think this is a total Instagram moment for Seaside. We can put a little parking area right at the corner so you get both sides. My transgender brother and his lesbian wife couldn't wait to get their pictures with those lights for pride and get it out to all their friends. It's absolutely beautiful. We got 4th of July coming up. I'm going to want my pictures with the red, white, and blue lights. I don't know who wouldn't want their picture with the red, white, and blue lights. And there's a space on that corner where those white stripes are. Maybe the city could make it an Instagram stop to attract people to the city. just so you can get your pictures with the beautiful lights at the City of Seaside. And I also noticed that it is Seaside City Hall's 60th birthday this year. I think that's fantastic. I don't know if there's a party planned. I hope I didn't miss the party. I do think She might need a nice bath and spa day, maybe a touch up with her nails, meaning get a paint job. I'm sure that's pretty expensive, but I do hope that we're going to do something to celebrate the city. It's really interesting. The city manager pointed out that this is a building that was designed by the same person who designed the Kennedy Center. And another building, I read about another building in Dubai. And when I was reading about him, it's actually the last project that he did before he retired. And I don't know how many people were in the city of Seaside, but this famous artist or architect, I don't know how it came about. He was actually a friend of Frank Lloyd Wright, my grandma and my great grandpa they all worked for frank lord right so that was also a touching moment for me it's a lot of frank lord-esque in the design of the city hall and i just hope we're going to have a party thank you very much members of the public in the chamber please approach the podium members of the public on zoom please use the raise your hand feature or dial star 9 if you're calling from a phone

All right. Hello today, I'd just like to give out some background information and also of what's happened in the past and also what's going to be happening tonight. So, basically, I've been having a base issue with deja blue. I've been. In the past set to the city council that I've been having an ongoing issue with them and that's still very much so the case and so very much what is going to be the case. Now, when it came to Deja Vu's business permit, there is one of the things here that says is that police department does not have operational concern for the existing nightclub and whether they receive service calls for 500 Broadway Avenue. Now, when it comes to my experience with the police is that they do indeed want to help. But the thing is that they have got their hands tied in where they only can do a police report to code enforcement. which other than that, they can't really like hand out like any fines or that would be like a penal code, which I would not prefer to actually start with the business. And then when it comes to code enforcement, it says here in 2023 that code enforcement has received no complaints regarding the operation of the nightclub since its opening. now back in 2021 even before trying to actually even talk with code enforcement i did talk with uh the owner uh through phone several instances before going to code enforcement so uh code enforcement has received complaints but there's a report here that they have not now i'd like to give some backup information when it comes to then uh decibels essentially according to the world health organization is that decibels are relative unit used to measure the intensity of the sound by comparing it with reference value on the lock-in with a scale. Many different types of acoustical measurement are expressed in decibel. Now, when it comes to actually accurately picking up bass, it's actually more so there are two settings when it comes to a sound meter. There's A setting and there's a C-weighted setting. The C-weighted setting is a frequency weighing function that weights frequencies relatively evenly across most of the audio bandwidth, 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz. It mimics the sensitivity of human hearing to sound at high sound pressure levels. Now when it comes to A-weighting, frequency weighting function used to measure sound levels for the purposes to assess the risk of hearing injury emphasizes mid. The lowest boundary of mid is 250 hertz and mimics the sensitivity of human hearing to sounds at low to moderate sound pressure levels. Now what this is to say is basically that a waiting actually filters out, which is more so on the side of the base kind of situation. And also I'd like if police officers here to confirm more so my experience as well when it comes down to police's response to noise complaints during the phone like during the night. 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 nine if you're calling from the phone.

Mayor, Council, I just had a shout out to Laura over at the economic development over there in Del Monte. I went over there, talked to her about short term rentals. That gal is smart and she's going to be a big asset in that department. I mean, she knows what she's talking about. She's very energetic. And I just like her. I mean, she's very pleasant and she's just a good person. So take care of her and people use her, use her for knowledge because our short term rentals are starting to get out of control. I had 19 people in the house over the weekend. I had 18 people during the bicycle race out at Laguna Seca. And then I had 15 golfers that decided to party all night. And the city knows about it. They're reacting to it. But we all got to start digging in on this because they're not legal. this one lady that's doing it she's doing another one right down the street and she does not care yeah she says she has a right to do it it's her property but when you have 19 people roll up you have no parking so when we start talking about parking in our in neighborhoods we start got to start considering that because half of them there was nine extra cars in our neighborhood And so I got to park three blocks away. Now I have a nice car. And so it seems things are getting a little haywire. So maybe consider what San Mateo is doing. And that is everybody gets to buy a permit, $35 a year. You buy a permit, you get to park your car on the street. They're doing it legally up there. Other cities are doing it now. It's good income. If you don't have the permit, then you get a big, excuse me, a big ticket. And it's working in cities because seaside is getting bigger and bigger with Airbnbs. And it's very angry. People are getting even angrier about it. So just letting you know. Thank you.

Hi, I'd like to begin by expressing my gratitude for your service. Thank you. I'm here as a vulnerable resident recovering from brain surgery, but I'm just one of many vulnerable seniors in a neglected neighborhood that's occasionally been calling out for the city's attention for the past 15 years. Well, maybe not so much for the past few years because we've lost hope. It's an interesting juxtaposition for you as our leaders and decision makers. What to do when equity and entitlement compete for funds, right? Well, a reasonable person might suggest monies be shared equally. Millions of dollars of taxpayers' money has been sent on Cunningham Park, for example, including a walking bridge that's coming. Well, right next to it, Habano Solis remains a depressing slum with unsafe walkways. Before that, millions were spent on a soccer park. It would have been nice for me to have a safe and beautiful place to walk near my home, which borders Havana Solis Park while they've been recovering from brain surgery. But so would have it been for Mr. Ramirez and Mr. Norman who passed away waiting. Instead, I live in a neighborhood with dilapidated streets that haven't gotten attention in decades. While some of our neighbors have passed away waiting, most of us are seniors lacking the stamina to be loud or maybe even be seen. We're constantly told that there's not enough water and resources, yet water conservation efforts have worked and there is new development. please return it to its beautiful green space nothing fancy just some green grass like we used to have in a simple safe walkway many seniors in our neighborhood would love a beautiful place to walk please come up and look at our neighborhood it's right above the otter school off of la salle thank you for your thoughtful consideration

The caller ended in two to eight, seven. You now have the floor to make your public comment.

Can you hear me? Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes. So honorable mayor city council, this is Peter Kaiser, long-term resident. Um, we do, uh, if we could pray a little, we do adore you, Lord God, thank you for sending your son to sacrifice himself on the cross. So as we surrender to him and obey him. He allows us to be in heaven with him forever and we are to follow his, uh, his laws and his biblical principles. We hope the city council does that. And then the original intent of the constitution, uh, please forgive us for our sins. We thank you for your sacrifice and all the work you've done, Lord. Thank you for the Bible and the 66 books. Um, yes, help us to know and do your will. and submit ourselves to you for the rest of our lives and be good disciples and help share the gospel with other people. And also Lord, we would like the city respectfully to drop this new sanctuary city transgender designation. It was a serious mistake and we need just as much of the country is waking up to this disaster The detransitioners, the ones wanting to get away from this mistake are now being respected. Some of the courts are giving them favorable rulings. And of course, some of the hospitals are actually stopping doing this, especially for minors who maybe haven't figured things out. And most of these people grow out of this later on and they don't need the surgery. And once it's done, it's permanent. So let's drop the, Transgender Sanctuary City, please, and help us to celebrate this June as Fidelity Month from Professor George from Princeton, where we honor God, the Bible, family, community, and nation. And we want to keep it that way. By the way, the rainbow was designed by God to show the world that he would not flood it again. That was a rainbow from God, and it should be respected that way. And that's very important. So thank you very much. And God bless 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 nine if you're calling from a phone. Mayor, no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

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

Yes, thank you, Mayor. Quite a few questions from the community this evening. First, for the Laguna Grande vegetation, Laguna Grande Park has a vegetation management plan developed by the JPA that has a phase one vegetation management project that I know the JPA will be discussing at their next meeting in July. We will have more information after that meeting at Laguna Grande Park JPA. As far as the goose droppings at Laguna Grande Park, I have personally seen staff out there, they clean up that park before noon so when the food vendors arrive that it's clean and unfortunately by the time for the event it's covered again. and i would personally witness that also last friday before juneteenth we did it in the late morning and by early afternoon was covered so we will continue to to work through that those challenges for 1281 broadway myself and our economic development team are in constant communication with the county and trying to assist them looking for another location unfortunately today we haven't found something that meets their needs but we will continue those conversations moving forward Regarding Deja Blue, Deja Blue has a use permit to play music until certain hours as long as it doesn't impact adjacent residential structures. To this point, none of the complaints we have have elevated to that level, and certainly a disturbing the peace process still exists through the police department, so we encourage people to call the Seaside PD with any concerns. um havana solis park improvements are actually on the uh on one of the business items tonight for consideration uh in addition to that staff has been actively analyzing uh the feasibility of returning water to the parks that's a larger conversation for another day but we are looking into that and then uh you know as city manager i am proud to live in an inclusive community thank you

I think it. Yeah, I'm gonna make a couple comments. The I think all the council is supportive and not surprised by our police department and what they've been doing here lately. Definitely after, you know, Chief Borges come on board, but it's not surprising that they are most professionals and really doing good community safety. I'll just say about the Laguna Grande Park and the thinning of those bushes over there is overseen by the state agency. There's nothing we can do over there that is not overseen by the state wildlife and fish and wildlife. And so any additions is through a grant we got working with the state. So we're covered by the state there. So we won't go out of bounds there.

And maybe next time we can have some type of update on that.

I think city management are doing a great job about the poop out there. You know, I don't know how to sneak in between the scooper, but I know we've been trying to do it right before the event itself. So I just want to add my comments to that. And then someone mentioned something about ADUs, city manager. If ADUs are not in compliance or they're definitely illegal, you would like to have that call, correct? Correct. Okay. Thank you so much. Let's go on to item number six, which is public comments, which is public agency comments. And so we'll do public agency comments.

good evening mayor oglesby and council members my name is colleen courtney and i am pleased to introduce myself to you all as the director of community relations for c monterey thank you so much for the opportunity to share a comment this evening as many of you know c monterey is proud to serve as the city of seaside's partner in promoting Seaside as a premier destination for both leisure and business travel. And I'd like to take a moment to thank Embassy Suites General Manager Dale Johnson for representing the Seaside area on Sea Monterey's Board of Directors. Your city is well represented with their collaboration. And my colleagues and I look forward to meeting with your city staff in the coming weeks to learn more about the city's priorities and how See Monterey can support you all. And this coming Tuesday, See Monterey is partnering with the Monterey Bay Football Club. And it's an event that you all on council and city manager McDaniel should have gotten an invitation for. If you didn't, check your spam folders and I can also follow up with you after. We'll be hosting a corporate group visiting the Monterey area and they will be playing a friendly match with players from both the MBFC Sirens and MBFC2 players. Food and drinks will be provided and we would love for you to join us. And we look forward to partnering on more events like this that highlight your community and any potential new events that you all would be interested in doing in the coming years. Lastly, C. Monterey is deeply grateful for the longstanding partnership we've had with your city. And as your point of contact, I just welcome any sort of collaboration, communication, and I look forward to meeting with you all and learning from you. So with that, I will leave some business cards with your clerk. And I just want to say thank you again for the opportunity. Have a wonderful evening.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Colleen, could you have a couple of questions?

Yeah, of course. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I see advertisements for Sea Monterey often, but I never see Seaside included in any of those. So are there any direct advertising that Sea Monterey is providing to the city of Seaside?

I would love to touch back in with our marketing team to confirm. What I do know is that we partner with businesses in the city of Seaside that have a connection to tourism, and it's a free membership. We have a membership specialist that is very responsive and one of the best resources that we provide is just helping to amplify what the seaside businesses are already doing. So, for an example, if Let's say like Other Brother is hosting an event that could be freely published on our site and shared on social media. But I would love to get back to you on the specific marketing pieces.

I think we received a report quarterly or yearly. Is that coming up?

I believe we do it twice a year and yes, I think it is coming up, but I will also confirm that and happy to get back to you.

I like the sea Monterey. I like CC side better, but in terms of seeing Monterey, we'd love to see more involvement with our city. So if it's, or at least a report on what you guys are doing, if I'm missing certain things. So thank you so much.

Oh my gosh. Of course. We want to make sure you know what we're doing and how we're supporting you. So I will follow up.

And I know a lot of that is in the quarterly report. We definitely would like to do more and see ourselves more, but I want to be clear, we are included in your advertisement.

You are, yes.

I know the city manager wanted to add something to that.

Yeah, we received the quarterly report or the first portion of the report about 30 days ago. It should have been sent by email, but I can resend that.

it was it was out there we I got it so see I mean never put you thank you um last year you were very uh not you personally but see Monterey was helpful in promoting the um Sunday blues in the park I hope you look at doing that this year and maybe the Oaxaca by the sea event as well I don't know if they were involved with that program but I think those two uh bring uh a lot of tourist to the area so and they were instrumental in promoting at least the blues in the park and hopefully oh how could i see that are instrumental to popularity in the county so thank you yeah absolutely uh thank you so much uh you know um

Just thank you. I won't go into whether, I know for a fact that Sea Monterey is promoting seaside, right? Yes, yes. We just heard it, right? But the thing is, of course, we want more and we look forward to the Corley reports, but you're here to introduce yourself. Yes. And so thank you so much.

Absolutely. Looking forward to talking to you more. Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah. And anyone else, agency? All right. item 6a seaside city news broadcast and comments from the city manager

Hello Seaside and welcome to Seaside City News. In this edition, we're sharing upcoming events, programs, and community updates happening in and around Seaside, including our July 4th celebration, local art, family activities, and workforce opportunities. The City of Seaside invites the community to celebrate July 4th at Red White and Blues, honoring 250 years of independence. Join us from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the City Hall lawn, 440 Harcourt Avenue for live music, food, games, pony rides, a rock wall, and free hot dogs for kids. The music lineup includes Trio from 11 to 11.45 a.m., Rapati Rose Band from 12.30 to 1.30 p.m., and Liquid Sky's Jimi Hendrix Tribute from 2.30 to 4 p.m. Local singers are also invited to perform patriotic favorites live at the event. All ages are encouraged to apply by June 17th by contacting Kennedy Parker. The celebration will also feature a special time capsule. Unveiling from 2 to 2.30 p.m., opening a piece of seaside history sealed in 1976 and revealed in 2026. Residents can also join the watermelon eating contest with age categories for 8 to 12, 13 to 17, and 18 and older. Registration is required in person. No alcohol, barbecues, dogs, or fireworks of any kind are allowed at this event. juneteenth artist pop-up continues at old meyer center 986 hillby avenue through june 26th a reception was held june 12th from 5 to 8 pm the event honors juneteenth and supports local artists for more information contact victoria park lee Friends of Seaside Parks invites the community to art, blooms, and beats on June 20th from 12 to 2 p.m. at Highland Otis Park at Mingo and Mendocino Street. Enjoy art making, hula dancers, samba legal, food, drinks, native plants, and local environmental organizations. Details are at friendsofseasideparks.org. Monterey County is launching the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Join the kickoff event June 18th from 8.30 to 9.30 a.m. at Orem Children's Center, 1752 East Allisall Street in Salinas. Children from birth to age five can receive a free book each month. Seaside Ace Hardware is now open and will celebrate with a two-day grand opening June 27th and 28th. The Seaside Store is located at 1130 Fremont Avenue. Activities include kids giveaways, product demos, and ACE Rewards prize entries. Call 815-6242 for more information. Young adults ages 18 to 30 can apply for the Monterey County Works Green Cadre program and earn $20 per hour while helping with local service projects. Orientation and interviews begin June 29th, training starts July 13th, and applications are due July 2nd at montereycountyworks.com. Monterey County Works is offering a pre-apprenticeship training program to help participants prepare for careers in construction and the building trades. The next program begins July 22nd with orientations the week of July 16th. Learn more and apply at montereycountyworks.com.

I'm Jonathan Moore, police officer with the City of Seaside Police Department. Celebrate responsibly this 4th of July and avoid a $1,000 fine by only using safe and sane fireworks. The City of Seaside allows the sale and use of safe and sane fireworks during a limited timeframe from June 28th at noon through July 5th at 10 p.m. Please note that the city of Seaside has a new 10 p.m. daily curfew for the use of safe and sane fireworks. These fireworks can only be used until 10 p.m. Police will also enforce local parking restrictions. Parking will not be allowed on General Jim Moore Boulevard between Hillby Avenue and Coe Avenue. These local precautions are for the safety of all Seaside community members and our environment. We appreciate your cooperation and wish you a wonderful 4th of July holiday.

That's it for this edition of Seaside City News. Thank you for staying connected with the City of Seaside. For more information and future updates, visit the City's website and follow us on social media. We'll see you next time.

The only other thing to add is this Saturday, 620 Monterey Bay FC versus El Paso Locomotive FC at Cardinale Stadium. Seaside residents can get discounted tickets through SeatGeek using the code CITYOFSEASIDE, all in capital letters with no spaces. It's approximately a $20 discount on the tickets to the home game. So let's help support the union. Thank you.

And that's the information on our website?

Correct. It's on website and social media.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Manager. Next, we're going to item number seven, which is the consent agenda. 7A, approved minutes from May 7, 2026, regular meeting, and May 26 and May 27, 2026, special meetings. 7B, approve and file city checks. C, approve and file success agency checks. D, adopt a resolution authorizing submission or participation in fiscal year 2025 federal emergency management agency assistance to firefighters grant regional application for self-contained breathing apparatus. E, adopt a resolution approving policy addressing disruption of telephonic or internet services during a public meeting. f adopt a resolution authorizing the same manager to execute a first amendment to the communication site lease agreement with t-mobile west llc for existing telecommunication facilities on city-owned property located at one four four four skyview drive that completes the regionality consent agenda is there any item that someone from the dials would like to pull uh council member aggressive result Item E. Okay. Anyone else? Is there any item anyone from the public would like to pull off the consent agenda? There are no hands raised on some. Okay. Thank you so much. Seeing no one, hearing no one, let's open up the public comment on our consent agenda.

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 bring it back to the dice what is the will of the council let me hold on let me uh thank you so much for a close public comment bring it back to the dice what is the will of the council a motion motion to approve second it's been moved and seconded and we approved the consider agenda uh a roll call vote

Council and agency member Miller. Aye. 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 unanimously.

Thank you so much. We'll go to item 7E. Adopt a resolution improving the policy addressing disruption of telephonic or internet services during public meetings. Council member Garcia is over.

Thank you. I just want a clarification on whether or not this was supposed to be a separate item in and of itself. Or can one of you just clarify for me?

Yeah, thank you. We'll have a presentation, a brief presentation from Dominic Davis, our city clerk on this item. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council, member of the public. Tonight I'm presenting this item, which is a resolution approving the City of Seaside's technology disruption policy for public meetings. And this policy is being brought forward in response to Senate Bill 707, which amended the Brown Act to address what happens when telephonic or internet service disruptions prevent members of the public from attending or observing a public meeting remotely. So in plain terms, this policy just gives the city a clear, consistent, and legally sound process to follow if the technology that we rely on for remote public access fails during a meeting. So why is this policy needed? SB 707 amended the Brown Act to address technology disruptions during public meetings and it requires eligible legislative bodies to adopt procedures for technology disruptions during public meetings. So this applies when remote public participation is either offered or required, such as what we offer, and the disruption prevents members of the public from attending or observing the meeting through the city's remote access services so the policy is not about creating new technology obligations where they don't already exist rather when remote access is provided the policy tells us what to do if that remote access goes down and the goal is continuity we want to keep the public informed keep the record clean and keep the meeting legally sound so when that digital doorway closes the city just needs a simple public-facing playbook to reopen it or to explain what happens next So when remote access is disrupted or if it is disrupted, the first step is to announce it. The presiding officer, the city clerk, the board or commission secretary, or the designated staff would promptly announce the disruption to the legislative body and to the public who is attending in person. The second step is to recess the open session. So under the proposed policy, the open session must remain recessed for at least one hour or until remote access is restored, whichever occurs first. So during that recess, staff will begin efforts to diagnose and restore the services. The policy also recognizes that closed session may proceed during the recess but only when it is otherwise permitted by the Brown Act. After that, the meeting either reconvenes once the service is restored or the legislative body determines how to proceed if service cannot be restored after the required recess period. So the policy identifies the types of good faith restoration efforts that staff may take depending on the nature of the disruption. So that can include troubleshooting the remote meeting platform or Zoom, resetting or replacing audio visual equipment, attempting to alternate internet or telephone connections, contacting IV, AV platform or other service providers, to switching to backup links, whatever is operationally feasible. And just as important as a technical response is the public communication piece. So when feasible, staff may provide updates to the in-person attendees Use the city's website, the agenda page, and other public communication channels to share updates. The city clerk or designated staff would also document the restoration efforts that were undertaken, and that documentation matters because it creates a clear record of what happened, when it happened, what was done, and how the city responded. So if remote access is restored, the meeting may reconvene and continue in the ordinary course subject to the direction of the presiding officer and all other applicable Brown Act requirements. If remote access is not restored after one hour, the legislative body has two options. The first option is to adjourn the meeting. The second option is to continue an open session, but only after adopting a finding by roll call vote. And that finding must stay in substance that the city made good faith efforts to restore the remote access. this gives the legislative body a transparent decision point it does not require the meeting to continue but it allows the body to consider the nature of the remaining agenda items and the urgency of city business the availability of in-person public comment and whether continuing serves the public's interests So the recommendation is to adopt the resolution approving the City of Seaside Technology Disruption Policy pursuant to SB 707 and Government Code 54953.4. And again, the recommendation and the adoption of this policy just establishes a clear meeting protocol when remote public access fails, preserves transparency, public participation, and orderly meeting administration, and creates a record of good faith restoration efforts when disruption occurs. And that is the conclusion of my presentation, and I'm available for any questions that you might have.

Thank you. Any questions? Any questions? Thank you so much. We'll open it up for public comment.

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Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you for bringing this technology disruption policy forward. I appreciate the effort to create a clear process for responding to disruptions in remote access. After reviewing the policy in tonight's presentation, I understand that if service cannot be restored within one hour, the legislative body may either adjourn the meeting or continue by making a roll call finding that good faith efforts were made to restore service and that the public interest supports continuing. My only question is regarding how the determination will be made. The presentation references a finding that the public interest supports continuing, but the policy itself does not appear to define what factors will be considered when making that determination. For example, will the council consider the number of agenda items remaining? whether there are public hearings scheduled, whether significant public comment is anticipated or whether vulnerable populations may be disproportionately impacted by the loss of remote access. Additionally, how will the public be informed of specific good faith efforts that were undertaken before a decision is made to continue the meeting? Will those efforts be publicly reported at the time of the finding or only documented later in the meeting minutes? Finally, if a disruption occurs during a major public hearing or controversial agenda item, has the city considered requiring postponement of that item to a future meeting rather than proceeding without remote participation? I support having flexibility during technology failures, but I also believe the policy should provide clear guidance to ensure transparency, consistency, and meaningful public access when these situations occur. I yield the rest of my time.

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

Thank you so much. Mr. City Manager, did you have any comments on the public comment?

Yeah, this policy mirrors state statutes, and it includes good faith efforts. I would recommend against trying to define further what those mean, because they will be different in every scenario.

Thank you so much. Sad to die. What is the will of the council? Move approval. Second. Probably moved and seconded on the question. Roll call vote.

Council and agency member Miller. 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 unanimously.

Aye, thank you. We'll go to item number eight, A, public hearing. An ordinance to amend section 17-52-230 of the CSI Municipal Code to create consistency between the Municipal Code and the California law regarding accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units this action is not subject to california environmental quality act pursuant to section 21080-17 of the public resource code this is the second reading it will be a roll call vote mr city manager yes thank you this item presented by andrew myrick the city's housing and planning manager

Thank you, Mayor, City Council. As you noted, this is a second reading, so I'm not going to go through all the details of the ordinance since we did that last time. Just as a quick refresher, ADUs and JEDUs are just small residential units that are built along with other residential units already existing. They're heavily regulated by the state of California, and this ordinance would just make changes to the municipal code, bringing it into conformance with recent changes in California law.

um so staff's recommending the council conduct the second reading open the public hearing and approve the proposed ordinance happy to answer any questions well thank you so much for the questions we're opening up for public comment public comments members of the public in the chamber please approach the podium members of the public on zoom please use the raise your hand feature or dial star 9 if you're calling from a phone

uh uh yes i just like to confirm uh when it comes to you referring it as a california law it's uh almost as obvious but i just wanted to be confirmed here publicly that it's uh california state isn't it that's all

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Thank you so much. Seeing no one else, public comment is closed. Bringing it back to the dais, what is the will of the council?

No approval.

Second. Probably moved and second on the question. Roll call vote.

Council and agency member Miller.

Aye.

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

Yes.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby. Aye. Your motion passes unanimously.

Okay, we're going to item number B, an ordinance to amend chapter 9.12 of the Seaside Municipal Code to clarify noise ordinance applicability to permitted use this action is not subject to california environmental quality act pursuant to section 15061 b3 uh the sequel guidelines this is also the second reading and it will be a roll call vote mr city manager yes thank you this item will also be presented by andrew myrick the city's housing and planning manager

Thank you again. Again, this is a second reading, so I will skip some of the details that we went over the last meeting. So, noise within the City of Seaside is regulated by two different provisions of the Municipal Code, Section 1730.060 and Chapter 9.12. Section 1730.060 is in the Zoning Ordinance and that's focused on establishing quantitative standards for noise. uh such as decibels time of day and location chapter 9.12 is more focused on noises that are defined as being excessive unnecessary or unusually loud there are no quantitative standards provided it's a more subjective measurement The existing ordinance defines certain noises such as religious worship or permitted temporary events like parades do not fall into this category. And so this ordinance would specify that businesses that are operating as they have been permitted to do so are the noises that are accessory to that would not be considered excessive unnecessary or unusually loud they would still be subject to the standard quantitative measures that are found in section 17 30 0 6 0 and so staff recommends the council conduct the second reading open the hearing and approve the proposed ordinance stand ready for any questions oh i'm happy to answer any questions sorry any questions

Thank you so much. Public comment is open.

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I don't have any objections to the ordinance, but I do have a question and the question is an example question. I hope that maybe your staff member can answer the question. The question is as follows. I have a neighbor. He lives across the street from me and he is a professional drummer. He drums every single day for two to three hours. he has his drum set by the garage door, rather than inside the house somewhere. So he closes the garage door and the music is amplified right through the garage door, which is on the street side, right across my house. I have talked to all my neighbors, they have all complained about the same thing, but they don't know how to handle the issue. So I do think that in one hand, it's a little bit excessive. And on the other hand, quantitatively, it's like every single day, including Saturday and Sunday. So looking at this example, for example, I would like to see how the ordinance issue would affect it. It's just simply a question. Thank you.

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

I have some concerns and questions regarding the proposed amendment to the noise ordinance, specifically the addition of the exemption for activities that are permitted within the respective zoning district or operating with a ballot permit. I understand the city's intent is to clarify what normal operational noise associated with a permanent use should use should not automatically be considered excessive, unnecessary, or unusually loud. However, I'm concerned about how this amendment will be applied in practice and whether it creates an imbalance between property owners who hold permits and the residents who live near those activities. For example, if a resident experiences reoccurring noise impacts from a permanent business, Even event venue, industrial activity, or other authorized use, does this amendment reduce their ability to seek relief through the city's noise ordinance? If so, what protections remain for neighboring residents whose quality of life may be affected? The staff report states that violations of the city's decibel standards may still be enforced under the zoning code. However, many noise complaints are not solely about volume. They involve frequency, duration, time of day, repetitive impacts, and overall disruption to neighborhood livability. My concern is whether this amendment could create the perception that permitted activities receive greater protections than the residents who must live with the impacts of those activities. I would appreciate clarification on a few points. First, can a permanent use still be found to create a nuisance if its operations repeatedly disrupt nearby residents? Second, how will the city balance economic activity and permitted uses with a resident's right to peace, quiet enjoyment, and quality of life? And third, what safeguards exist to ensure this exemption is not interpreted so broadly that legitimate resident complaints are dismissed simply because the source of the noise has a permit. I support fairness and consistency in enforcement, but I also believe residents should have confidence that obtaining a permit does not automatically excuse impacts on neighboring properties or residents. I yield the rest of my time.

Good evening City Council, Diane Nielsen. What comes to mind for me is apartment buildings, specifically behind not picking on this for this business but behind Dege Blue there's a number of apartment buildings back there that have been there before all the continuous kind of scheduled music has been happening there and I think having music is a great thing in our city but I also wonder if you have heard from any of those residents in those apartment buildings and what mitigation or ways of mitigating that have you looked at 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

Linda Cunningham, member of the Homeless Commission, speaking as a private person. For many years, our neighbors have had wonderful mariachi bands for 4th of July. They start with the beginner bands in the afternoon. I mean, they just give these musicians an opportunity to play. As the night goes on, the outfits get better, the music gets better. And then as it gets later, we kind of go back to the beginner bands, gives them an opportunity to come out. It had always been relatively nice. until they amplified it it was absolutely ear-breaking across the street i i i don't know if the police could do anything to stop this amplify i mean one band had a drum kit it's a neighborhood not a club anyhow i don't know if this permit would have any impact on that our one cat is still traumatized from the sound if you bang a pan in the kitchen he's gone because that mariachi band experience thankfully i'm not sure what happened after that they haven't had them and again when it wasn't amplified it was fine but that amplified was very challenging and i don't know what if this would be anything applicable outside of a permitted business But yes, and I would absolutely lose my mind if my neighbor drummed. There is technology to stop the sound. You can buy sound absorbing, sound reducing. You can be a nice neighbor. And if you're a drummer with your drum kit, do something to be nice to your neighbors and get the technology to make that sound quieter. Thank you very much.

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All right. So essentially, I have to be a bit frank here. When it comes down to this, it's essentially that you guys are turning a blind eye. You guys had more than one year that I've been trying to work with code enforcement and city management. Now, when it comes to the business use permit, essentially, I've asked several times with code enforcement, city management, been getting like vague response and more so narratives instead of the actual law when it comes down to it and where this business use permit, essentially, it's only relevant to me because I'm trying to figure out if it's actually overriding the code, but ultimately, even if I request it from the city, you guys do not provide any legal documentation of the business permit that they have overriding the code. It's actually that they have to answer to the municipal codes. And from speculation, what you're doing is basically you're trying to amend this chapter 9.12, which is basically noise ordinance. You're trying to make it into more of a solidifying a loophole, essentially. because from what is uh title 17 um basically chapter 90 is so important that not only in 17.30.060 of north standards that the part c references 9.4 but also that part d and it says municipal code compliance required chapter 9.12 in the municipal code also regulate the noise generated from all uses activities and processes conducted within the city now the thing is that 17 when it comes to their standards it more so primarily uh focuses on the hearing damage injury loss aspect of it but the thing is that it doesn't include the most lower frequencies which is the base which what they do they do it every single week and twice a week at least in the last you know last year that three times a week essentially And for Friday and Saturday, it's basically up using air plugs. So it's very much so this is not like a casual look here when it comes down to it. and again like it's not the usual like they've had very loud concerts inside the building and that's very compatible with the area uh they have the acoustic paneling which absorbs the sound well but which the base the acoustic panel does not absorb that sound well it has to be concrete because when it comes to lower frequency when it comes to the bass and thumping sound it basically goes through laws a lot easier where it's too, like, if you go to the side of the digital blue, basically, whenever they're having bass, it's like more than half the time that the window is making so much sound, it's vibrating and everything. now um i would say whatever it is in terms of the equivalent of this is that i would request a postponement or more so reconsideration because i've actually sent emails to uh to the council members here um giving their contact because when it comes down to it uh your decimal letter must have gone down to the mid 70s to 80s when it comes to decibels which is way too high okay thank you

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Thank you so much. Mr. Mayor, we'll give our city managers a couple of questions and concerns that were raised.

Thank you, Mayor. I'll start with just a few comments, and I'll turn it over to Andy for any specific answers. But first, this ordinance specifically is regarding businesses, not residential matters. But if you do have sound noise concerns in your neighborhoods, please contact Code Enforcement or Seaside PD to follow up on those complaints. Secondly, I do want to point out that permitted operations such as event centers have been through a public notified process in those neighborhoods and those legislative bodies, both planning commission and city council at the time with those approvals took into took those concerns into account. Andy, do you have other items to answer?

No, I feel like you covered the main points that I was going to hit.

All of them?

well i i don't i don't have a good answer for the mariachi bands but um other than that though that that's kind of the key thing is first of all yes the uh the drummer i mean i'd be happy to talk with talk with you on the side i'm sorry talk with them any member of the public on the side um if uh you know on a particular matter but this ordinance would not affect that type of a situation because it's not a business um and For the other scenarios that are brought up, I do not believe in He can be confirmed for me if someone knows, but I do not believe that Deja Blue has ever actually been cited for violating an ordinance of the city. And so they have been in compliance with our ordinance. And I know the police have been out there multiple times and they have listened to what's going on and they have been operating in compliance, but the municipal code is best we can determine. I do not believe that they are in violation of municipal code.

While they have been complaints, we have determined they have been in compliance with their reduced permit. And I'd ask for any other legal clarification that the city attorney may want to add to this conversation.

uh thank you um through the mayor yes i would concur with the city manager um at least with respect to the deja blue uh operation it has been determined to be in compliance with its building permit and to my knowledge other than the one individual who we have received complaints from we have not received any complaints from anybody in the apartment buildings behind deja blue

yeah what i want to get away from is naming any particular entity but go ahead thank you there was a question that was posed i don't think has been answered yet would this ordinance weaken the ability for a constituent to file a complaint or to seek some sort of remedy if the business is creating noise that is in excess of the amount allowed under the zoning ordinance then no it would not impair their ability to do that what would be the process for a constituent to do that

they would have to submit a complaint to code enforcement and they would investigate.

Let me jump in. I think what we're saying is, yes, everyone has a right to complain. So this does not stop your ability to complain. Once you guys go out there and check, it may not be substantial, if that makes sense. Yes. What is it?

Go ahead. What is the word? Substantial compliance.

Yeah, substantial compliance or out of compliance or, you know, I may complain, but that doesn't mean I'm right. But this doesn't take away your right to complain. Correct. That's what I'm saying. That's what people were assuming, that somehow you don't have a right to complain. If you think it's too loud, call the police, call the city manager about the drumming, right? Because... You have a right to complain. That's all I'm saying is, you know, someone is saying you don't have a right to complain. No, you have a right to complain. That doesn't mean the noise is excessive and or illegal.

That is correct, yes. Okay.

All right. Yeah, I would just well, let me, let me see what is the, what is the one more comment last week?

Excuse me last council meeting. I was a no on this. I'm still a no, I don't think that we should be exempting for people with a valid permit without. justifying it in the code exactly what we're talking about here. I think this opens the door to businesses being louder than usual, and I'm not in favor of this, so I am still a no vote. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Make a motion to...

Hold on, hold on. Thank you. What is the will... Make a motion to approve. It's been probably moved.

I'll second.

Thank you. It's been probably moved to second on the question. Any comments? My support is supportive of this. That doesn't mean this is a free pass for any business. That doesn't mean any business can, or whoever's making that noise, just because you got a permit, you can go louder than what's acceptable. But no one knows that until the complaint is made, and no one knows that until the complaint is verified to be excessive noise. Let me call you back up then. Is that correct? I mean, because you have a permit doesn't mean you cannot be fine for too loud of a noise.

Absolutely. That is correct. Yeah. Thanks so much.

I just we don't we don't need to walk away from saying people could just turn up as long as they want to turn up. That's not that's not acceptable. So roll call vote.

Council and agency member Miller?

No.

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

Yes.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby. Your motion passes four to one.

Okay, thank you. We'll go to item number C, public hearing to receive the annual AB2561 report on current job vacancies, recruitment, and retention efforts. Mr. C. Manders.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. This item will be presented by Kenneth Bartlett, our human resources assistant.

All right. I think this is his first time, right?

This is his first time.

Okay, buddy. All right.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council, members of the public, and city staff. My name is Kenneth Barlett. I am the Human Resources Assistant at the City of Seaside. Today I'm going to be presenting the city's annual AB2561 report on job vacancies, recruitment, and retention efforts. This presentation is essentially going to provide an overview of our current vacancies, recruitment activities, hiring challenges, and city's efforts to maintain staffing levels and quality service delivery. So, starting with the background, Assembly Bill 2561 was enacted to increase transparency regarding staffing shortages in public agencies. This law requires agencies to track and report vacancies and discuss how those vacancies may affect operations and service delivery. To comply with this legislation and support workforce planning efforts, HR staff analyze the city staffing levels and vacancies for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. This review will help identify vacancy trends in areas where recruitment and retention efforts may need additional focus. So with our current vacancies for fiscal year 2025 to 2026, the city has 161 budgeted positions. As of June 10th, 2026, there are seven full-time vacancies, resulting in an overall vacancy rate of approximately 4%. these current vacancies include the following positions inspector one family and support practitioner police officers one police records technician and one parking compliance specialist all these current vacancies are represented positions and are either actively being recruited or recently became vacant So next with the status of the vacancies, this slide is just going to summarize the status of each active recruitment. So starting with the building inspector, this recruitment is currently open and on a continuous basis with application screening and interview scheduling underway. With the family and support practitioner vacancy, this is a recent vacancy and recruitment planning is also underway. The police officer recruitment remains continuous with ongoing interviews due to the specialized nature of this position. The police records technician recruitment is currently in the application screening phase. Lastly, the parking compliance specialist recruitment is in the final stages with backgrounds and selection activities underway. HR staff continues to actively monitor all of the recruitment and work closely with departments to move candidates through the process as efficiently as possible. Next is our recruitment process. So the city follows a structured recruitment process to ensure consistency and fairness. Before recruitment even begins, job descriptions are thoroughly reviewed and updated as necessary. Positions are then advertised through various recruitment channels, and then applications are received and managed through the city's online applicant tracking system. HR then conducts an initial screening and provides department heads with an opportunity to provide any recommendations before scheduling interviews with candidates. Following the interviews, final candidates undergo any required background checks before an offer is extended and approved. This process helps ensure compliance with identifying the most qualified candidates. For some challenges and efforts, certain positions remain difficult to recruit for due to the specialized nature of the position, which would include licensing, certifications, or technical expertise requirements. These positions, due to their specialized nature, often face competition from both agencies and private sector employers. Despite these challenges, the city's salary and compensation packages remain competitive when compared to similar agencies. Next to the improve the hiring process itself, the City Manager approved modification to the final interview process by allowing additional number of candidates to be department directors, helping reduce hiring delays. This change not only helps reduce the delays caused by candidate withdrawals, but also improves the overall recruitment timeliness, while being consistent with personnel rules and procedures. In closing, the city remains committed to maintaining appropriate staffing levels to support quality public services. HR will continue to work closely with the departments to fill these vacancies and improve recruitment outcomes. We will continue providing ongoing updates to city council regarding vacancy trends, recruitment activities, and workforce planning efforts. That concludes my presentation. I'm available to answer any questions.

Thank you so much. Well done. Any questions? Council Member Garcia-Azul?

Thank you. Can you just go back to the 3 police officer vacancies? I know that there's ongoing interviews. And it's in progress to status right now. How close are we to filling those positions?

Yes, currently we have 3 police officers in backgrounds.

Good. Okay. Same with technicians technicians.

That is a recent has been open recently. So we still have an application screen.

With the completion of the police officers, what would that drop our percentage to in vacancies?

If all the backgrounds are filled, it would be no vacancies.

Okay. No, as a whole. I know we're at 4% vacancies for a whole. As a whole. So if we fill those three, it would bring us down to... Zero. About 2%. Sorry, my apologies. All right. Thank you.

Any other questions from... Overall, we're at 4%? Correct, yes. And since this is just an informational item, we're supposed to do it for the public and particularly for the unions in a sense, right? What is the percentage that they think that if we go over, then we have... an issue, then we have concerns. State law is 20%. Could you take the time to say it louder?

Yeah, state law is 20%.

And we have 4%. 4%. Okay, thank you so much. Public comment is open.

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I don't know if I've done this again. There's another story. I had a roof put on my house. very nice roof by a company, contract and everything else. So involved a building inspector. He came to my house and he looked at the first phase of the roof. Everything looked okay, except for one thing. I showed him some pictures of the inside attic. They had done a decking on top of the roof and they had missed all the trusses. You know what the trusses are, right? Right. So all the nails were through the first layer and not inside the trusses. So the building inspector, nice guy, said he was on contract to the city, said, you know what, stop work order. Okay. They came back, they fixed it, took them two days, but they fixed it all. Then came the final inspection. In the final inspection, again, I had the building inspector on my phone because he gave me his phone number. So kudos to him. Kudos for the city for hiring the company. So I came back. He looked at the roof. He said, everything looks great except the vents. He looked at the exact specifications for the vents and said, nope. Again, they had to come back and fix the vents. and i really appreciate the city for contracting with this particular contractor building inspector contractor the great job works with the the people who you know own their homes and really rely on the city for getting this done right thank you

Good evening, Ann Marie Pagan. I'm just curious. I saw that pretty much all the vacancies were police department, but we keep hearing that we don't have enough staff for public works and that are maintaining the grounds and stuff. So are there any vacancies in those departments or are those they are those positions like they were frozen and they're just going to stay vacant for until the city can find out find the money to fund these because I'm I'm a little bit confused that I don't know if just the police department and they need a public records clerk and stuff. Is that the only department that needs people? Thank you.

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Thank you so much. Public comment is closed. I'm a city manager. There was a couple questions there, a public comment. Maybe you can answer them or someone from HR.

Yeah, this report is regarding the vacancies. This does not take into account the positions that we're having frozen, the 22 positions, which will be discussed at the upcoming budget item. This is, again, current vacancies of seven that we're trying to fill all of these currently. So this is not reducing the number of police officers we're trying to fill, three currently in active recruitment.

Right. And just for the public, this is a really administrative conversation we have to have. I forget exactly where it came from. Some big unions down in L.A. didn't want their city to be running vacancies in particular areas to save money. And so they passed a law in Sacramento to report during the budget about those vacancies. And so that's what we're doing now. That's why I say the concern is if you're doing 20% in these areas, I think we're at 4% naturally. And I'll just get to what the city manager said about, we do have other areas that we would like to fill, but you either take that money from somewhere else or you use the money as the city manager is going to suggest and we're going to talk about here pretty soon in the budget but good questions and comments uh all right so what is the will of the council to make the motion to approve i can second i think it was probably moved and seconded on the question on the question i said one is missing this out of the 22 frozen positions how many of that those were in public works

I don't have that number in front of me. I can get that information for you. We'll make sure to have that for the budget conversation later because this is about the vacancies and not the position.

I understand. May I pretend it's signaling something?

I did check today. If you want to know.

How many is it?

Four in public works.

Okay. Right. And then whoever's concerned. Yeah. If everybody's concerned, what I want to do is I want to make sure the public understand what this conversation is about. And it's required to have before you do your budget. So we'll have it every year about the vacancies. So my last point about that on the question is, so the unions have the opportunity to say in public what we think the city, the agency is doing. That's what this is for that way. They can come in front of the public in front of the agency and say, hey, we think you guys are doing something fishy. What's your budget? Okay. Roll call vote.

Council and agency member Miller.

Hi.

Council and agency member Burke. Hi. Council and agency member Garcia Arizona.

All right.

Mayor Tim and vice chair Pacheco.

Yes.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby. Aye. Your motion passes unanimously.

Thank you. We'll go to item number nine, which is a business item, 9A, approve the Seaside Star Ad Hoc Committee recommendations for four recipients and authorize the city manager to execute associated contracts with FMG Custom Concrete.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. This item was presented by Dan Mewis, Assistant City Manager.

You, honorable mayor, members of city council, I am Dan Mewis, assistant city manager, and I have the pleasure of bringing you the next class of the Seaside Stars. So a little bit of background on the seaside stars program it was founded in February of 2022 and the goal is to honor individuals that have embraced the city of seaside and made significant and lasting contributions. So the first class was installed in February 2023 we had six honorees at that time. And then we second class was in March 2024 with seven third class was November 2024 which was five and then fourth class was in October 2025 when we had for honorees. So our ad hoc committee members for this year are Annalisa Mitchell, who is the chair and co-founder, along with Franco Pacheco, who is also the co-founder. We have community member Ann Marie Pagan, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Bobby Maxwell, Sea Job Commissioner Joy Anderson, and community member Ruthie Watts, who served on this year's committee. So for 2026, the application period was from March 1st through the 31st of this year. We received 19 applications. Two of those applications did not meet the criteria of the policy. So 17 of them were forwarded to the committee to make recommendations. And of that, there was four recommendations that are being considered for your consideration tonight. So just a look for the communities to see what the stars look like. You know, we got the blue with the seahorse and depending on the category that they're nominated in, they will get one of those emblems in between. And then we also have our branding logo up in the top right. So our nominee recommendations for 2026 are we have Mayor Buford T. Anderson in the Civics and Government category. We have Regina Mason in Community and Social Equality category. Councilmember Thomas M. Mancini for Civics and Government and Katherine Crockett for Environment and Conservation. So, when we look at where these 4 potential stars will be on our walk, we have, they will be the ones that are. The black or yellow with the black outline. So we're going to have 2 right here in between. This is Calaveras and Hillsdale. And then we'll have 2 more here on this intersection. So we will then be filling in those 2 blocks each side of the street in between. We'll have 5 on that section. And so when we look at the cost, lucky for us that the cost didn't change from the last cycle. So we were able to keep the same cost. So each star itself costs $6,716. So the total for all four plaques will be $26,864. We are budgeting $40,000 in this year's cycle. And so the remaining $13,390 would be used for the unveiling ceremony and any of the other pieces that are involved for this program as we move forward, marketing and things like that. so the recommendation tonight is to approve the seaside stars ad hoc committee recommendations for the four recipients and authorize the city manager to execute uh the contract with fmg custom concrete to install the stars and with that i would be happy to answer any questions uh thank you so much any questions any questions um hello i want to say something

I think I want to wait. So I would just say that for the public, no one seemed to have any questions. So I don't think it's about convincing anybody. But for the public, you're welcome to come up here and say anything that you want to say. Public comment is open.

So 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.

Annalisa Mitchell, Mr. Mayor, members on the dais, I stand before you. Thank you Dan for the presentation, but I'm not a co-founder. Founder, I simply say that because we fought for that for over a decade. And it took a certain council to bring it across so that we can honor the residents of seaside. But I stand before you to say, as I congratulate the 4, the 4. recipients that were selected i would like to also thank the recipients that were not selected because people have have to have a heart to serve in our community people don't just wake up and go do something for the betterment of people that has to come from the inside out, not from the outside in. So if any of them are listening, we acknowledge everything that you've done for this city, everything that you continue to do, even those that are no longer with us, their spirit and their legacy continues to live. And I hope that someone would bring them forth again next year. So thank you so much and congratulations to the new recipients. Thank you.

Mayor members of the Council and city manager and assistant city manager as a 2024 recipient of a star I'm biased in favor of this program and I'm proud to be represented among other honorees I think that. having a program like this to honor residents who contribute to our city in many different ways is this different little insignia show is really unique and it's a very special part of seaside I bring a huge thank you to you all for supporting this program. I hope that you will carry this tradition forward this year and into the future. And I look forward to the Walk on Broadway growing as the years go by. And I think it's totally appropriate that we're talking about this on the day that the Obama Center opened and Michelle Obama gave her beautiful, beautiful speech about unity and hope coming from the people.

and i think we exemplify that in our city thank you mayor city council as being a member of this committee first of all we want to say that franco sends his congratulations to all the recipients and those who were nominated he unfortunately couldn't be here number two this was not an easy decision and a lot of people have i've heard kind of criticism that we're just picking who we like that's not the case um as a committee we got a binder and it had all the applications it had all the letters it had um all the information plus I know I did, and I'm sure the rest of the people on the committee did this. I did my own research and I voted and I gave the score to the people that I felt really complied with what was asked of us. I mean, our first mayor of Seaside, I never knew he was the first mayor. And after reading about it and doing my own research, I learned so much about Mayor Anderson and what he had done for the city of Seaside. So I want everybody to know that it wasn't just an easy decision. We did go through all. But I want to agree with Annalisa Mitchell. We should also acknowledge those that were nominated You may not have gotten the star this year. I hope that everybody that wants to reapply next year, whether it be a family member or the person themselves, do that. Because maybe next year, the scores would be different. But I encourage people to still support this event and support what we're doing. But I do think at one point we do need to acknowledge all the nominees, not just the four that got the stars. So that they, it's kind of like an honorable mention. When you go to the Grammys, they'll say, these are the nominees for this program and here's who got it. But at least the other ones were at least acknowledged. Thank you.

I know you can hear me, right? I'm Marilyn Mancini, the wonderful wife of Tom Mancini. He was a great guy. I wish he could have lived longer, but things are always the way they are. I really thank you all for giving him the honor he has deserved for a long time. He was on the council for, I don't know how many years. And I really want to thank you for putting his name forward. And I know he is honored to get this. And I am too. And all my children are the one that put in for it because they said, dad really deserves this. So they got all the paperwork. Mark was the one that was spearheaded. He's the youngest one in the family. And he did a beautiful job. And I must, I just want to thank you all for the honor. Thank you.

My hip hurts. Diane Niels, if you see me limping around. I was on this committee at one time too, and it is difficult to decide Like they say, everybody deserves one. If everybody got one, we'd probably have the Milky Way out there somewhere. But it's a really great honor for the people that do get it and the people that have been nominated also. I hope someday we can go all the way up Broadway with the stars. And we have such a diverse types of people in the community, everything from enriching children's lives with the Village Project to like with Catherine Crockett and environmental and social justice. it's really nice to see all the diversity in these people who are being honored with the stars and thank you for all the work you've done with that all right thank you um my name is golden anderson i'm not a resident of seaside um

I nominated my grandfather for one of these awards. Uh, the ultimately one, I know you got a lot going on. You got deja blue going, you got drums and, and poop and all that kind of stuff. But thanks. Thanks for taking the time to, to, to do this. Like, so the ad hoc community, I see coach Maxwell up here. Um, thank you guys for doing that. Cause it's not something that's, uh, getting paid a lot of money to do no doubt um but i appreciate you doing that and taking the time to do that and um thank the city manager assistant city manager for their communications on this the office was like very generous when i came and uh although your letter freaked me out for about the first two paragraphs um you got to the point eventually and kind of scared me at first but i appreciate that and just thank you guys for the work you do i knew nothing about this program um until i was notified maybe three months ago so i know absolutely no idea what's going on so i think it's cool thing and hopefully you guys continue it thanks

good evening my name is my name is james anderson i'm the son of buford t andy anderson and i'm here to thank you for giving him this honor um being a councilman for two two two terms the mayor and then going to the uh board of supervisors representing the port street seaside through all his political career i would like to make this aware this book called humble it was done by a ex-supervisor's son and a lady and it involves the development of moss landing in 1965 that mobile oil it was called humble oil then mobile wanted to come in and put a refinery in They wanted to take it from 70,000 barrels up to 150, 200,000 barrels. All of their proposals were Mickey Mouse and my dad was the first one to start cutting it apart. Then Tom Hudson's supervisory joined him. So there was three supervisors that were for it and there was two against it. 50% of district four where he represented wanted it and 50 didn't he stuck solid tom hudson stuff solid and then church supervisor church great gate came on the board and they shut it down for for the bay uh three to two vote we would not have this beautiful b we have now we not have um the beautiful coastline and stuff because the refinery of all this oil would take was going to take it all away and he got his political savvy from being in seaside he started out with a recall to be a councilman he didn't like what was going on because then he was two years of that and then he went to the to the mayor and then of course to the supervisors so i thank you for giving him this award i know he Probably wouldn't be, probably say somebody else had it, should get it. But this book, Humble, tells a story that I didn't even know about until I started reading it. And it's a very good book. Thank you for your time.

So hello, my name is Guadalupe Perez and I just wanted to let you know that I was very honored to have the opportunity to nominate Regina Mason and her Her body of work just speaks for itself. And so I'm not going to go through that. But I do want to thank everybody, the committee. And yeah, that's what I wanted to say.

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 other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you. Seeing no one else, public comment is closed. Bringing it back to the council, what is the will of the council?

Make a motion to approve and then on the second.

Second. It's been properly moved and seconded.

on the question. Just some comments. First of all, I wanted to thank the committee for all their hard work. I read a lot of the commentaries and i knew a lot of the people that were nominated and obviously it was a very tough task with a lot of wonderful wonderful people that are committed to seaside um i also wanted to recognize uh i think bobby maxwell mel mason and kate klein who are stars in this room tonight and i think that's really important that they continue to do the work to make a difference in the community and then and i took i was part of the behind the scenes helpful in making this program and i had no sense of what it was going to become as such uh but i had hopes and what i see is You know, we have, I consider Seaside the music capital of Monterey County. I see Seaside having, and I think I heard the number correctly, 36 special events throughout the year. And I think Seaside deserves a lot of credit for those things. And I'm very proud to have been part of some of those events, directly or indirectly. But see, what I see this does, and you heard it tonight, those events go away and they change year to year. you will be walking close by nearby on the side of all those people for the rest of your lives your children's lives your grandchildren's lives see that's where the difference is this is this is long lasting as we expand and we grow this is this does not this is not an event that ends it grows and develop and your great great grandchildren come by and they can get that computer image and see what that person has done um and i was not aware of mr anderson at all i remember the store i believe but he was a medal of honor winner not i had no clue that he was the first mayor and that's that's on me but um And then reading about all the stuff he did, and you heard some stuff tonight about oil and all that, and what it would have done to this. I wasn't aware of that. I know Regina has done significant stuff. Catherine Crockett has been saying, all of them have touched the lives of countless people. And after tonight, this will go away. But when that star is in the ground forever, they will be visible to all of us. and to all of you. See, and that's where the difference is in all what we do. These stars, as you heard tonight, these people, I believe, are touched by what the impact of that star was or that star will be because they know for decades upon decades and 100 years from now, people will remember them. Your children and grandchildren, 10 grandchildren down the road, have been touched by the impact that they have made. And that's the key. This is long-term and this is not a rock concert or a blues concert or a Linky show that are wonderful, but you will remember all these people as long as you're able to walk on Broadway. And that's how important this event can be. You heard that tonight. You heard that by the growing number of applicants in this because they understand the value, the necessity, and doing something different in Seaside. We are doing something unique. We are bringing something. We are honoring those that are part of our history. And sometimes they forget, and as I forgot, the countless efforts that Mr. Anderson met. And I did not know a lot of the things about Regina that she did. But now I will know because I will go down and look at that star and look at that computer thing. And I will get an understanding as well as my kid and my grandkids and their grandkids. So this program is a long-term impact. And all of you in this council and previous councils, should feel really good about stepping forward and recognizing people that made a difference and all of them and those in this room because they're continuing to contribute are changing lives that we all recognize and your children grandchildren 20 grandchildren down the road that are part of seaside that are different that share that are committed and bringing people together that's what it's about and this will do that it will showcase what we've done and what they have done for our seaside i just can't be more proud of this program the impact it has and those that spoke so eloquently tonight i think it changes lives and uh people learn from changing lives and so thank you so much to all of you that are making a difference and to those that were were um nominated there are some heroes out there that seaside continues to bring forward and they should be recognized as well so thank you i appreciate it and thank you for the time mr mayor but i think it's important that this is a legacy program and it needs to be continuing thank you for what you do thank you

uh anyone else uh council member garcia's own thank you mayor and i just want to agree with uh mayor pro tempacheco on on the importance and the significance of this program but i also just want to extend my heartfelt thanks to the committee members i know this is not a job that's not easy and one that i definitely would not have wanted because there's so many great people in our city that have contributed in meaningful ways but what i really want to emphasize is the diversity of background but I think at the end of the day, these nominees, what unifies everybody is their love and contributions to our city. And to me, it just makes me happy excited to see slide number seven with all the names listed out there because you know some people might claim that seaside's characteristic is being changed or or stories being written elsewhere i think this type of program is a clear testament to the city of seaside and its constituents writing their own story and preserving that history of what seaside has been was and will continue to be and will highlight those names for future generations my generation, the next generation to come after me. It's really important for us to celebrate this, but also to share it with people around the world, because we have to recognize that Broadway has been a significant corridor for exotics on Broadway and Car Week and people from all over coming to our city. And for them to see these names, it's an opportunity for them to learn about who we are as a city and who we were and the impact these individuals had to our city. So I just want to thank the families for coming out here. It really means a lot. and it's uh quite an honor and a privilege to to learn about uh those who are being honored so thank you all uh thank you so much anyone else any anyone else

I want to just associate myself with both comments. I won't take that long. I want to say that, of course, we want to thank the committee itself for the dedication to work and the wisdom and to weed through 17 submissions. It can go either way for anyone. That's why it's a diverse group of commissioners on this ad hoc body. It's supposed to be competitive, right? It's not supposed to be easy, you know, because a lot of people have done a lot of good work. And when you look at that, it's an independent judgment about the values that you bring and what you see that those people brought to the city of Seaside. And sometimes it's a wider community. Sometimes it is. They go on to bigger and better things like, you know, county supervisors and things like that. So I want to thank you for that commitment because it's not easy and then sometimes people are not pleased because you didn't make the right decision. So now you're getting a little taste of what we get up here sometimes. But for the ones that were chosen, you know i want to say for their families and their friends that did the submissions we appreciate that you did the submissions and gave this community the opportunity to say yes those are the people we want to honor at this time it's not a takeaway from anyone else it just allows us to say we want to honor those people at this time uh and so i'm so proud of that And I'll just end with that because I have to do the induction, so I won't give you guys my full spiel. But these people are so wonderful. I had the pleasure of, I know all three of them had the pleasure of working and being mentored by Mr. Tom Mancini. And then for me as mayor, people kept saying they didn't know Mr. Anderson. Mayor Anderson was the mayor? Right. But isn't this picture up front? Oh, okay, there you go. There you go. It's a mayor's thing, right? We right. But, but and we did, I did come across the conversation about the oil, because I was at a as a at a talk given by Supervisor Church. And so but but I look to read it now more to see the work of Supervisor Anderson. But I would just close by saying, All four of them are beautiful people. And I think what the Mayor Portemps said is, he said, first he said 10 grandchildren, then he said 20 grandchildren. I'm trying to be here on the 20 grandchildren, right? 100 years from now, 200 years from now. But as long as we keep updating those stars, that's what it's about. Those people that are many years past the youngest person here will be wondering who are these people and the city's done a great job with the what is it the qr codes and well that's what we're going to do and and so they will be able to research these people and say wow these people did this in the 1900s and the 20 hundreds and and and really did the work that they did that's that's what i i want to associate myself with uh Because we all, you know, I think we all see people, whether it's history or contemporaries, and we research their history to see what they're about. Does that make sense? I mean, wherever you do it, you know, and I know a lot of people would do these people to have these stars. And so that's our saying thank you to them for being Seaside supporters. All right, we'll go on. It's been probably moved and second. It'll be a roll call vote.

Council and agency member Miller.

Yes.

Council and agency member Burks. Aye. Council and agency member Garcia-Arizuela.

Aye.

Mayor Pro Tem and Vice Chair Pacheco.

Yes.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby.

Aye.

Your motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much.

Let's go on to item numbers that be. Consider approval of neighborhood improvement commissions, recommendations, and the City Council allocations for transient occupancy tax-funded neighborhood improvement projects. Mr. City Manager.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. This item will be presented again by Dan Mewis, Assistant City Manager.

Good evening again, Mayor, members of City Council, Dan Mewis, Assistant City Manager, and we will be discussing potential recommendations from the NIC for neighborhood improvement projects. And so a little bit of background on this, each year the commission solicits input from other commissions, community groups, the city staff for ideas that can help fund projects in the city to beautify neighborhoods. And so we take those project ideas, we vet them, we get the estimated costs, and then we wanna bring them back to you. So this last cycle in 2026, The NIC received proposals from Parks and Rec Commission, Art and History, Homeless Commission, Friends of Seaside Parks Association, Sustainable Seaside, Public Works Department, Environmental Commission, Community Safety Advisory, and community members individually as well. And so this year, the NIC had $393,849 that was allocated to them that was available for them to recommend projects. So when we look at this list here, this was the list that they decided that they came up with. We met, I think, six times since January and really got a lot of input. We refined the information that we took in from all these different entities. We had a longer list. I think we had a list upwards of 50. We pulled things off. We put them back on. The committee really did a lot of work here to kind of refine to get to where we are now. So I'll shoot down this list here fairly quickly. We have a solar powered bench. uh seaside stars qr code plaques and signs what we just discussed so that would be putting out markers there on each star so the community can scan it and get more information about the individual they they the star they're at Cateno Park Basketball Court needs a new seal and stripe that is pretty worn down. And so this was a that was a project submitted by Public Works Department. We are constantly getting new requests for more pet waste stations throughout the city, whether they be in parks or other city owned park properties. We even had a couple of residents say that they would love to have one on their property just to kind of help the community stay clean. We have the South Del Monte landscaping median. So these are the medians. I'll show a picture here in a minute, but it is right across the street from NBC Suites and Holiday Inn. South Seaside Gateway sign and fence. So this is the area that has a nice seaside sign. We want to give that a nice refresh. We have Hairman's Goals awareness signs on Broadway. For those of you that don't know, the Hairman's Goals are an endangered protected species, and they love the city of Seaside, and they love the roofs on Broadway. And so we have a large population, and they are only in Seaside and a small island in Mexico. So they really love our neighborhood, and we want to make sure that the community is aware of them. a Greenhouse of the Month program for the Environmental Commission. So this would be similar to the Neighborhood Improvements House of the Month program, but this would be solely focused on houses that have a green focus, whether it be solar power, lighting, stormwater retention, and things of those nature. FOSPA has requested more boulders for parks. They like the aesthetic look for boulders. And so we are requesting 10 boulders with about $5,000 that would be thrown in a variety of different parks. We have the pathway improvement in Havana Solis. So we got $100,000 requested for the Havana Solis pathway improvements. And that would be a project that would be done internally by Public Works with their new equipment that is able to pave roads and pathways. They want to continue the annual allocation of the tree giveaway program for the Parks and Rec Commission. This year, I will say that we had the most tree, most applications submitted. We were over 150. And so we are still waiting. If you have a voucher out there, you can still pick it up at Obermeyer Center and you need to cash it in by the end of the month. So, the project, we have 3 annual allocations that the commission would like to do. They want to just have an annual allocation for 15,000 dollars for benches to be their new benches in the community, or they replace some of our old failing benches. we have an annual allocation for utility boxes um the art history commission has done a great work at you know working with artists to do the the utility boxes we have so we want to keep that program going while we we've almost maxed out our um city-owned utility boxes we're going to start reaching out to pg e and other companies that are the owners of those boxes see if we can get some easements to continue this program throughout the city And then we have an annual allocation for the mural and for Caltrans, but this is a little different. So what we want with the commission wants to do with this 20,000 dollars is they want to. Start a process, release an RFP for an actual design and get the full vetting process of what a mural would look like at the Caltrans highway 1 intersection. So we know that it was a big project that was presented at the council. And so in order for us to do our due diligence, we presented to the commission that an RFP process for design to get the true cost and understanding of what it would take for a mural of that magnitude. And so we feel that this would be, this is the best first step for us to get to that. Um, they would like welcome banners you can see right now the city has the congrats grad banners out. We want to do the commission would like to do welcome banners at the main entry points. It just, you know, when people drive off the freeway, if they didn't already know, they know that they are in seaside and we want to welcome them to our community. They want some raised flower beds for the food gardens at Havana Solis and capital park. They're looking at the commission also does their by annual community cleanup day where they get 6 dumpsters and they put them throughout the community. They want to basically have on those on those dumpsters. Some banners that really highlight the, the do's and don'ts of what can be put in those dumpsters because believe it or not sometimes commissioners have to run out. and they may not have that that dumpster manned and then people just dump whatever they can in there they take it as opportunity whether they're reading the sign or not they want to make sure that it's it's present on what is actually um accepted in those those uh those dumpsters um we want the triangle landscaping so this is a a triangle median at the corner at san pablo and baker if you've driven down there you've seen it's just a big triangle that's full of dirt so they would like to renovate that And then we're going to get into at the last council meeting when we did the budget session, we talked to, we found that we had an extra 100,000 dollars for this program. So we brought it back to the commission and we vetted some other projects. So those projects would be to work with seaside high school and kind of renovate their tennis courts and create. Tennis pickleball courts to kind of expand our use in the community because we know pickleball is growing and we want to be able to have more opportunities and the other side of town to kind of take off Wheeler Street. So this was a project that they would like to work on. They were the ones that helped us get the pickleball courts at Wheeler. So they understand the need that we have. We also we've had a lot of conversations about a service road at Mescal Neal. So we are looking at doing that service road up from the court. It's escaping my mind, but it would be a service road up to the top. And that would be another project that we would be utilizing our in-house public work staff for that. And then the other project would be the Encanto Park Benches and Scenic Overlook. So Encanto Park at one point, there were some discussions about putting some affordable housing units there. But after hearing from the community that that decision was changed to keep it as a park. And so we decided one of those community members when they came out, one of their focus was is they really love that view. It was a beautiful space and there was an opportunity for us to take advantage of that. Put some benches up there and have a nice scenic overlook for that neighborhood. So all these projects here total up right to the dollar amount $393,849. So on this next slide, you can see we got a few of the pictures of some of the projects. Oh, I forgot to mention the Trinity Park improvements. That was on that list. But so this is the Trinity Park entrance. So they want to redo the stonework here and bring this back to its former glory of when it was put in. To the right here, we have the South Del Monte median enhancements. So if you drive by there now, you'll see that it's pretty, you know, there's not a lot of... Plant life in there, so we want to beautify that as we've done recently on Canyon Del Rey and the north end of Del Monte a little bit. The bottom left here, you can see that this is that corner, that triangle median. So almost would be kind of making it its own little parklet, if you will, and just kind of sprucing that up. And then the bottom right here would be kind of just a quick rendering of the fence and gateway improvements that we're looking at at CDR and Del Monte. So, during our deliberations at the last meeting, there was a couple of items that didn't make the cut, but we thought it was relevant that the council kind of hear those those projects. So they could make an informed decision on when they decide on their allocation. So those projects were 10,000 for additional holiday decor on Broadway. They would like to see, you know, kind of, you know, we just talk about Broadway and the stars and making it walk it walking. friendly and really kind of sprucing it up. And so really kind of putting a little extra oomph in during the holidays would really kind of make Broadway shine even more. um that we heard a comment earlier about our led lights on city hall so we were looking at fifteen thousand dollars potentially to increase that and so this could be at oldemeyer center we could put it on um the library is a public facility that we could do it on we could do it on soper there's a variety of other areas that we're looking at but having that ability to um kind of showcase the lights and change the colors and really kind of make neighborhoods pop is something that we thought was a good idea There was a request for a shade structure at Durant Park. So we wanted that made the list that had a couple of votes, but didn't quite make the cut. And an additional $10,000 to kind of enhance the gateway sign and fence project a little bit more. And then there was a request to for $100,000 to put right into right away for the mural at the Caltrans right away. And so when we, when we look at the remaining allocation, so the city council has 15% of that of that initial allocation from the. And so the council's allocation this year is 171,000 and just for a little note, any allocated funds that aren't used for the fiscal year, they go right and support the general fund. So some additional projects that was discussed by city staff were additional $20,000 for arterial street banners and hardware. improve or enhancing and increasing our banner awareness throughout the community um and going we i think we have three banners that we go from from um holidays welcome back uh otters and then the graduation ones we want to kind of expand that for a lot of our events and activities that we have on um some laguna grande park improvements um so we we know we got the recently uh past nic project was We had some new benches put in, we replaced it, we put a new cement pad and we have the Laguna Grande trail, which is a state park grant that will be starting here in this year. But there could be some extra add ons that we may not be able to fund with that. That could could benefit from an extra 100,000 dollars. There's also some more cement pad that could be added in that area that we recently did as well as looking at improving the. electricity in the park we've had to make some electrical issues when we have some of our events there so a hundred thousand dollars can help us get to um really kind of shaping that park in a good spot um we have fifty thousand dollars from manzanita stewart park uh concrete repair i'll show a picture in that here in a second um fremont and trinity pedestrian pedestrian signal upgrade so if you drive down um fremont you know we got the Big crossing across four lanes of highway right there. And it's above the eye type of, you got to pay attention. We want to add some more of the signal lights like we have on Broadway, where it's at the eye level. So more motorists will be able to see that. um lower mescal neil park playground if you if you've seen lower mescal neil it's got it's one swing set and some sand so we would really like to kind of add some sort of uh play apparatus in that area with a little bit of ada component as well to get up from the street. And then Woodgrove median enhancements. You know, we've done a lot of work with our medians throughout the city and so Woodgrove has a really long corridor of medians there that could use some extra attention. So a couple of photos here just for the community to see. So the bands need a steward concrete repair. So it would be this whole section up in this area. When we talk about the Fremont Trinity pedestrian signal, you know, the lights flash up here, right? And so, you know, most motorists, you think your eyes are straight ahead. So we want to put those flashing signals, some extra ones here just for added coverage because that is pretty, it is a dangerous intersection to cross. Mezcal-Neal playground. So here it is from the street, you know, the walking path could use some help, but this is the only playground in that area and it's just a swing set. So this is an area that we thought could use a little extra help. And then this is just one block of the Oak Grove median. So there's some big, beautiful, mature trees in there, but there is an opportunity to add some extra nice amenities in there. the recommendation is to approve or modify the neighborhood improvement uh commission's recommendations for fiscal year 26-27 and select projects for city council's allocation and direct the staff to proceed with the implementation so that concludes my presentation i'd be happy to answer any questions thank you so much uh any questions you have i do get some council member miller daniel protein thank you mr mayor in total how many times did nic meet on these recommendations We met every month, starting with our retreat in January. So five meetings.

Was there any special meetings?

The special meeting was the one in January. That was the retreat. We held it on a Saturday at Old Meyer.

So five times these have been kind of talked about and vetted on all five agendas.

Yeah, we discussed this.

And was the length of conversation typically five minutes, 30 minutes, hours?

At least an hour. At everyone, yeah. And the retreat was three hours. and then the the commissions that uh other commissions that propose money here they came to nic or they submitted so we the the way we submit uh or solicit uh recommendations is we'll send them a letter we'll let them know when we're having the retreat some of the commissioners came to the retreat um some of the commissioners came to other commission meetings so it really it would it wasn't like they came to all of them but they did come from time to time or submit comments

you've been the liaison since for this year yes for the entire for the whole process okay uh you know i was as a past nic member myself when i was on nic we this when we were in the first year of this and i remember it was just a ton of work to try to figure out which projects the council would like which projects you know were actually possible uh so i just have to reiterate just to make sure all of these the numbers were at least vetted in

They were vetted somehow everything except for the bottom 3 and in any of the additional ones, because those ones came in within the last 2 weeks, the high school. I mean, the high school 1 is similar based off of what we did with Wheeler. So so that that was a.

That was right on that same class, the high school 1. we talked to the high school about this.

We have some discussion with the high school through our collaborative meetings.

and and we would be paying for all of this the 40s are all of ours nothing else would be less than them would be ours okay that was all my questions thank you thank you mr mayor just just to clarify mr mayor um you want to ask you want us to ask a question just on the nic and then on stafford recommendations or the whole ball of wax i just want to

at one time right well i want to be able to i don't want to go back and forth so i wanted to flow where we go through nic you guys make a decision then we get to our little pot event So I guess you can talk as much as you want, but at a certain point, people need to know what you want to do.

So on the staff recommendation, should I ask that now, or should I wait until the second mic? Wait for the second mic. OK. So here's my question. Just thank the NIC. Thank you for all you do. This is a very challenging discussion and decisions. And just because we may or may not disagree doesn't mean that we don't not respect the effort because I was I watched four out of the five meetings, I think, and I saw the due diligence they did. But I do have questions and concerns. And it's more point-specific rather than just, you know, just it's driven. The greenhouse thing. The NIC uses their funds to support House of the Month. Why not the Commission presenting this award use their budget rather than the NIC funding?

I can't answer for the environmental commission itself, but I will what I will say is that when this recommendation came in, it came in at 5,000 dollars. And so the did cut it. I think that the feels that. They need, they need some, you know, their own kind of money right now to to build a program. And then maybe the next year, like, if this is successful, then it would be funded specifically out of their own budget.

Doesn't the environmental mission have a budget for at least 3 to 5 to 8000 and I believe they have the minimal, you know, the standard allotment of 3500 dollars.

But as that is a. a new commission getting up and running like i think they just came back they were on a hiatus for a while so you know that 3500 they could be using it for other things and this would be to kind of enhance the work that they're already doing the next commission the neighborhood improvement i apologize um spends about a hundred dollars a month for their awards which is twelve hundred dollars um this seems to be double that allocation why

Hey.

they had some other you know ideas on the way that they would um recognize those homes you know right now the the way the nic does it is they get a black and then they get the 50 gift card to a seaside resident or seaside business um from my understanding the the environmental commission they were they wanted to kind of go a little bit more um than the plaque and stuff and really highlight those individuals that have taken that extra step to go green and to be more sustainable um

and that that that's the reason why i'll just leave my thoughts on that alone um on um havana solis park i know just talking to people over there's a lot of incidents people falling down getting hurt being concerned because of the A pavement was done in 19, I think, 66. Does staff receive numerous complaints regarding that? i have not received any complaints myself um i would have to check with the public works if they received any or if any have come into the city manager um just yeah just for the staff i've i've personally visited the ground on that uh asphalt and i know mr norman and uh hana lori and a variety of other names that i could mention um on um why the banners for the dumpster when they are usually full at the nic pickup day for lack of a better word and that their staff there to guide them why do we need the banners and then why not take the same thing as the other commission why not uh take the money out of the banners from the nic commission rather than

this fund so the nic and i'll just talk with their their budget they don't have the consumable budget like the other um commissions their budget their consumable budget is inclusive of this like it's all in there so they don't have that additional thirty five hundred dollars so the other things that they have right now you know it is part of this allocation okay um that's a that's a The reasoning why is because from time to time when they're out there doing the work, the lines get long and they're talking to some people and trying to be efficient. If there's a sign there that says no mattresses, no refrigerators, no nothing that's visible, that could help solve a lot of problems or conversations when they're already talking to people. So that was the reasoning behind that. Okay.

So just to clarify, so there's no budget for the NIC other than these funds? Is that what you're telling me?

What I'm saying is that their budget's all in one pocket. It's in one line item.

Okay. And this is all, I have three or four questions, it looks like, or more, related to the Caltrans. I call it paperwork because, you know, the process, I guess. the entryway concept is fully vetted you know the entry concept is it fully vetted as far as how much it will cost to get it done or just what it will believe will it cost and then the second part of that what is the estimate that we have

and depending on the cost would it be a two-year program or would he pay for in the next year budget allocation in your opinion so it's not vetted yet and so that's the reasoning why they wanted to do an rfp process to get some design and get some artists that would be able to vet that and have a clear understanding of what it would take to put up a mural of that magnitude um if i'm if i an estimated cost that i already could come up with top of my head in salinas they did a mural underneath the overpass which is a completely different overpass than what we have here and that mural was roughly three hundred thousand dollars um so i would assume that this would be similar if not more because it is a little more challenging it's higher um it's individual bents if you will and not just one continuous um canvas if you will and then i would assume um it probably would be a multi-year project unless the council wanted to decide to allocate that lump sum once we figure it out after we did the rfp of what the actual cost would be do you know how long ago that slanus one was done because it's fairly recent within the last couple years so i'm just throwing out so it could be anywhere from what you're saying 300 to 500 000 dollars

ballpark yes the twenty thousand dollar budget is for the request for approval and other planning aspects to start the process if the next commission or the existing commission or the council next year because next year there may be a new council does not recommend the cost of the mural at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the money is lost or the plan is held on to it for the future years and nothing goes down in cost. To my knowledge, or it's extremely rare, that price can grow and the request for proposal, as well as the, if you hold off too long, then everything changes. The request for proposal and the artist may, they may go out of business and we may have to get new artists. Is that all possible?

It is definitely possible and I think when we draft the RFP, we would put some parameters in there and say that this is a project that we would love a design. We would like some details. And probably put a timeframe like this is something that could it could not. I mean, it may not be started for a couple of years. Potentially right if you have that listed in there, then that way artists that would be. replying to this RFP would have that understanding. It wouldn't be like something that they would be like, oh, sorry, we're not gonna do it for two years now, right? There would be a clear understanding in that process.

Because if by chance, I don't have a clue and I don't know if any of us do, it costs $400,000 and it takes two years, you almost have to save up the money back to back years in order to move forward with it. And then if let's say we do that, that impacts all the other recommendations that you saw on the list because all the energy would be spent on this one project is that a fair statement

Point of clarification, we can't foresee what prices will do and what artists will be available when a plan is designed. The original recommendation from NSE, from my understanding, was $20,000 to paint a mural on at least one of the bents. There are eight dents so there are 16 canvases and so the revised recommendation was to start with a holistic design process so that at least if if a mural is to be done that at least all eight sides on the all 16 sides can be some sort of uniform design versus a fragmented approach of each mural being its own canvas but my point being is if we do this and it gets approved and we fund it

All the other programs that were doing on the list in future years could not be able to support because we'd be focusing on this one project for the most part.

That would be a future recommendation by the NIC, whether they wanted to recommend allocation of their entire funds towards one project or individual projects at that point.

I'll leave that alone then. I think that's it for now. There are no other questions on the other recommendations. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Anyone else? Yes, of course.

I do. I have a question for the seaside gateway sign and fence. Does that include painting the seahorse again? Because I see it's fading. We can definitely include that.

Well, we can look at having public works to it ahead of time.

Anything that doesn't increase the cost. Yes. And for, I have to agree with Council Member Pacheco on the Caltrans. I wasn't quite understanding because at the beginning when asked how long these projects were vetted, you said for the past five months, but then when Council Member Pacheco asked you, you said we haven't fully vetted this project yet so that was a late addition that was one of the late additions that was going to be a follow-up question was was correct i can't remember when they the exact name i want to say in at the april or may meeting

I believe when it came to the commission long ago. So, you know, we have the information about submitting to Caltrans. And so after doing some research on that, in order to actually submit and get them to approve on, you have to have total costs. You have to have a design and you have to be under contract in order to even submit the application. So that's why doing an RFP process for, you know, for a design and getting that work done, then we, then we, once we have our lab, we'll be ready to submit at any time that we want to.

And what happens when those funds aren't utilized throughout that year, the 20,000 that's designated?

For this year?

Let's say this was approved and the 20,000 isn't utilized. What happens to those funds?

It goes back into the general fund. Okay.

And then my next question was going to be around solar-powered benches. The bench, I see one here, $8,000 for that bench. Is there... How did that, where do we see that going?

Right out here in front of City Hall where the current picnic table is next to the bike rack.

Gotcha. Okay. And I think those were my questions so far. Yeah. Thank you.

Mr. Mayor, I had a follow-up question. Yes. And to my colleague's question on, you said it would roll over back and go into the general fund. When would that happen?

If we're not under contract with anybody by June 30th of 2027.

2027.

So like these projects are being approved for next fiscal year.

Right, because there was a confusion last time at the last meeting that we only had 30 days or something to approve some of these projects, but that's not the case. We have an entire year.

And for point of clarification, if I may, The prior process for this, this is the second we've been able to do it with the budget. These projects didn't, I don't think, came in front of the council until January. And then we only had six months of that year to be able to work on the projects. So us bringing it now, we have a full fiscal year where these projects can be started or completed or just at least being under contract.

would you say since the NIC has these funds, this is the most amount of time that the city has had to encumber these funds?

Last year was the start of it. So last year was the most amount of time.

Last year was not the start of this. The first year was this was.

The last year was the first year when we brought it during the budget cycle to be approved in the fiscal with the budget.

Oh, with the budget. Okay. But prior years, it was further down like September or October. And so the city then only had seven or eight months to encumber those funds. Yes. but here we have an entire year. So the probability of it going back to the general fund is, would you say low? would assume so i'd have to check with um finance because i think the majority of the the projects that we had for the last year are all completed and the money has been uh already allocated and used thank you i'd encourage my fellow colleagues to go by this intersection you'll see graffiti everywhere and there's trash on the ground and when you drive into seaside that is your first impression is graffiti and trash thank you thank you dan thank you mr mayor uh thank you uh councilman burks

Regarding the mural, the questions I had previously were about the maintenance of it. Did we ever figure out who would be able to maintain it being that it's Caltrans? So we put in the effort and the work to have it beautified. Did we find out what that would look like to be able to maintain it?

We would have to maintain it.

including cleaning of property that's left there, people that are staying in that space?

I don't think that, I think the mural itself would be under us, our jurisdiction to maintain, but Caltrans would still be responsible for the surrounding area and their right of way.

Okay, and then separate from the RFP, did we get any additional information on what it would cost to have to close part of that area down while they're painting or working on the mural?

No, that would be part of the RFP process for them to supply with us to get that information.

So it would be whoever is doing the mural to work with Caltrans, not us? yes okay and then regarding the greenhouse i know a lot of stuff that is potentially done to improve and be environmentally safe may not be visible is that part of that program or how would that work or is it literally just visually visual improvements in the front of a home.

It's a lot of things in the home, too, that they discussed. It could be even something as simple as, you know, they have electric vehicles and they see the chargers coming from their home and things of that nature. The Environmental Commission would still be drafting what this program would look like, but it is more than just what's on the outside. They would have to get some information on it. Maybe there's stuff on the inside, too.

So they're still working on that? Yeah. What that would look like?

Yeah.

All right. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else? Got a couple comments, I guess. And let's go back to the environmental thing. It seems to me, I didn't have concerns. I did not have concerns about the NIC giving the environmental startup funds or whatever, because you said they could reevaluate. But I'm having concerns now when you say we're not sure what they would do with the money. And it seemed like you were saying they would Yeah, why don't you, you know, what do you say, what are you thinking they're supposed to do with the money?

So they want to create this similar program. And so the parameters of what it would take for to win the greenhouse of the month, I think that they're still trying to fully vet what that would look like. The basics on the surface is solar panels, electric vehicles, maybe all their, you know, power tools or stuff are electric too.

No, I got that. That makes sense. Thank you for that.

then why would they need more money than the um than what we regularly give for recognition of a home you know they were talking about a garden statue or some other types of recognition pieces that would be more focused on the outside of the home that would be a little more permanent i think that that's what i'm trying to what do you mean garden statue you mean you mean to tell me they're tough i know you don't know for sure but i'm trying to understand what your what the thoughts are which is they would be given the homeowner something to put in their yard kind of like a like you know we you know for nic we have a you know the little yard signs right there would be maybe if it's not you know we also give them a little plaque to be in their home like that they put on their wall this would be something that would be focused on the outside of their home maybe it's a sundial or something i don't know something of that nature

And does it go from home to home every month? No. So we're giving the homeowner something substantial as a send-off.

That was a loose example. I don't know what they're... No, I know.

That's what I'm saying. I agree with you. You don't know exactly, but that's my apprehension is now we're talking about instead of a $50 little certificate to Home Depot, we're talking about a $100 or $70 ornamental piece in your yard. And so I would like to see more of what that is before I'm comfortable supporting that aspect. I support the concept, and I think it may make sense to give somebody that, right? But I would like to know before. And so I think it's, like someone may have said earlier, we have a lot of time for that. But I would like to see a little bit more

documentation on what that is. Just just one more question that same or I'm sorry. No, no, go ahead, sir. Go ahead. On that. If I was in and maybe this is my competitive juice is going and I apologize if I was an NIC member and I'm offering $50 a month. And I've been doing this for probably at least 20 or 30 years. And I take green stuff associated in the decision-making. These people are painting their houses, they're doing new landscaping and all those things. And then I have another commission that's coming in, that's just getting started. And they're offering double the prize money for the same house of the month. even though it's a solar panel or whatever, but the cost of painting your house is expensive. Why is one weighted? Should one be weighted more than the other when they're both trying to achieve the same results? Because the cost of painting your house, the cost of a new irrigation system, the cost of rocks in your front lawn could be the same cost for a solar panel as such because irrigation systems are expensive, painting your house is expensive, new landscaping is expensive. So why is one weighed more heavily than the other one when the other one's been doing 30 years of a program and the other one's brand new? I can see them, I can't even see it actually, but if I were to see it, I can see them being treated fair and equally. That's my, I guess, my question.

I do believe that the environmental commission would be amenable to a lower amount. They just want to get something started and part of the process to this neighborhood improvement for their house of the month. The commissions go out and they see the houses from the outside. This program would actually be a nomination period. They would actually have to fill out an application and nominate their home because a lot of the things, as the mayor stated, isn't necessarily visible. so like there would be things that they've done to their home internally that would be more environmental friendly so then that would be they would go be reviewing an application process so the resident would have to ask to be nominated correct so there or someone else could nominate them um you know so because they know that they have an efficient you know whatever whatever system they have in their home like it it because there is more things that are more internally that are not focused on that okay okay great yeah thank you no no no no that's fine that's fine don't worry about it uh that's

I'm going to go just right where I left off at is just, that's what my apprehension is. I don't know the program, so the program needs to be a little bit more thought out and concrete as a policy issue before the, you know, I'm comfortable. It's not the money, it's just, you know, speaking for the public, what exactly is going to go on with the money, right? And I understand why the Environmental Commission want to be a little different. I'm okay with that. But before I'm supportive, I would like to just see some more, what is the policy, right? So, you know, that's fine. Go ahead, go ahead.

For the goal, the Segal awareness signs, there's a recommendation of $2,000. But the quantity says 1, right?

That was the type of online and I think we were trying to do a couple. I don't have the exact number, but you can get for the 2000 dollars. So it would be a pull in a sign both ends of the street. Forward and backwards. Okay.

So so science science science. Okay. I just wanted to clarify that. And then now it's still 2000 dollars. Yeah.

Okay. That's really expensive. So, and I'm supportive of, you know, being protective of the gulls and letting people know that they are sensitive animals. Okay, I'm just going down this list so I can get my thoughts together about what I'm going to support. About the – was it the Triangle Park entry improvements? No, that's Trinity Park. But where is the Triangle? At San Pablo and Baker Street. It's not going to be any benches put in there, is it? uh we can that hasn't been discussed yet well see that's the best that's the problem i'm having that's the issue we want these things come up here and we want them to be vetted and we want to know what's going in there uh for all of them right so i'm not blaming you i'm just this that's what we're supposed to be doing up here because i think i was i think my comments was clear we're we're not trying to put a bench in the middle of the median because it's a it's a triangle but it's still surrounded i think on three sides by vehicles going through it and beautifying it makes sense but putting a bench in there uh don't make sense to me so this is my opportunity to say i don't agree with a bench going there and you you're saying you don't know was it a going there or not and the next time we see it here at the council it may have a bench up there we've been we've been That has happened to us before. And so I don't know no other way to say what are the things I'm comfortable with or not is up here at this time. Because if we say approve this project and put the money in it, when do we see it again to say this is the right playground equipment or it's not the right playground equipment?

Yeah, I mean, if we want to alter the process and come back with an update before the project goes in when it's fully designed, that's something that we can do. These projects are vetted on a conceptual level, but the details, sometimes the details of a bench or not or a placement is still in process at this point when they're brought to you for recommendation.

Right. And to be clear, a little bit clearer, You know, I don't think the people that live in that area or any public member would be comfortable beautifying that space. There's a bench there and then all of a sudden they see a pup tent in the middle of that space. That's right. And so that's what I'm trying to get a hold of is as we beautify it, does that turn it into a place that somebody may want to put up an overnight Okay, I'm just I'm almost done. So again, now I don't, I have trouble with the mural on the bench, like I said last time. And so And then for Encanto Park, I support the improvements over there. It was just a small thing that you said. I just want to correct the record. The small thing that you said about the citizens came out and they pushed back and the so-called proposal for housing was... Didn't go forward. My understanding was it was not proposed. We were doing some type of analysis. Yeah. Can you clarify that? Sure. I don't want the public to think that we were going to do something unless they came out there.

Sure. Thank you. Yeah. It was part of an analysis on multiple city-owned property. piece of whether it would make sense for affordable housing. One that came up to the Housing Collaborative was in Cantel Park, which is an unimproved with no park amenities. Through that process, numerous citizens came to be engaged in those meetings. Ultimately, the Seaside Housing Collaborative did not proceed any further with analyzing that, but did take away the input from the citizens that they requested, maybe a bench at the top or some other way to enjoy the view from, I believe it's Luzerne or Vallejo. It's Vallejo.

Okay, thank you for that. I support the seaside tenants court improvements. That's something we've been trying to work on for a while. And what is it, Ms. Kay O'Neill, service road, that makes sense. I want to thank you and your leadership and liaison between the community, the commission, the council, even the city manager you know you got to relay stuff to him but so i want to appreciate you for for being a go-between i want to appreciate the commission for the work that they did uh to come up with this list of recommendations it's not easy it's It's, you know, it's real work and real thinking, especially to try to be fair and spread the money around, spread the money around to different projects and things that way. So I appreciate the commission and its work. So I'm prepared to go down a list and see where three people agree or more, and then we'll go to our questions.

our list we need to just pick up a little speed here yeah just real quick question and see if you'd be a minimum or see if council be amenable um i understand your point regarding the triangle park on san pablo without the bent with the bench because maybe it causes accidents uh But if you look at the picture of that area and it's in the neighborhood, if we did it without a branch and just clean it up a little bit, it might enhance that neighborhood. Just was wondering if that might be something more amenable or acceptable to all?

No, I don't have no problem cleaning it up. I have a problem with, I think last time I was here, someone talked about putting a bench in there. And so, like you said, it's two things, whether it's a bench or some big bushes, it creates a hazard for that three-way entrance there. But I don't think it makes sense to invest that money to clean it up. just for example that's why i asked the question there's a bench going there we put a bench there then all of a sudden it becomes uh uh because if it's a bench that means people can sit there they can sit there as long as they want and then it becomes maybe i'll spend the night and all i'm saying is i don't think the community would like that you know they want the dirt clean up but they wouldn't necessarily appreciate that so how do we make sure that that was my only point i'm not against it right i just don't know how to unless we say it right here right now we don't support a bench being in there that's what i'm suggesting to tweak it yeah say triangle park triangle landscape san pablo no benches yeah so that way it's clean straightforward and the job may still get done

All right. And so let's go to the list.

I have one more question as well. You know, I have a problem with the thinking that these these items have to be completely vetted out. And we need to know exactly what the Environmental Commission is going to do or exactly what they're going to do with this, because these groups that are proposing this amount don't know if we're going to say yes or no. So why would we spend all of this time preparing all of these items, spending a lot of energy on the exact plan when it could come to council and council could just say no right away? So if that's the case, then we've wasted energy, we've wasted time. So these numbers are a proposal. for these particular projects on on estimated cost what it's going to take and to have to know exactly what the environmental commission is going to use this money for is to me is is not a good argument because we gave 393 000 to the nic and no one said anything to them about what projects they need to bring forward although they are council approved um i'm i'm that that for me that that That doesn't make sense. These are the proposals. These are the amounts I think they can work with, and we shouldn't have to have a finite, exact plan on these items to move forward. So that was all my comments. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I don't disagree with that. I just know when this thing first started, I think we we had an example of one of those commissions or we see the grant for $25,000. We took the $25,000 and it cost the city 90,000 more to use the 25. And so part of what we agreed to over the last couple of years is for the state to be more vetted. But I take your point about the $2,500. We're going to go out to public comment. Then we'll come back and see what the council wants to do.

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Hi, Linda Cunningham, member of the Homeless Committee, speaking as a private citizen. I think we have a great opportunity with these goals for the birdwatchers of the world to come to Seaside to see these birds. Birdwatching is one of the fastest growing. You might not be a birdwatcher, but it's one of the fastest growing industries in the world. And I think it's a great opportunity, and I'm really grateful we're going to put some signs up It's unfortunate that they used to like to have their babies on the McDonald's before it got hit. And that way when their babies couldn't fly, they weren't landing in the middle of the street as they were learning to fly. But I think this is an opportunity and see Monterey should be getting the word out to the birdwatchers of the world. You can come to seaside. The sewage treatment plant in Arcata turned out, it doesn't smell, it's three marshes. It has turned out to be a huge tourist attraction for them because they get birds from all over and they get people from all over the world to come and look at birds. You might not be a birdwatcher, but there's millions of other birdwatchers and seaside needs attractions. That's, I think Sea Monterey was like saying, what can we advertise for people to come and do in seaside? I was scratching my head too. love this idea of this mural i just came from the yucca arcada area they have been putting murals in there since the 70s a beautiful mural they have a beautiful mural over the highway i think that's a great opportunity for a gateway i would like to see a false wall put on the eastmost bent nobody needs to paint behind there nobody needs to live behind there we can put two false walls to keep people from getting up there and you can paint those walls as part of the mural which i'd love to see a giant whale i'm gonna have to go back and find the thing there's so much some of those bents we what's good for seaside's good for other cities maybe carmel would like to put pay to do a mural on one of those bents. Maybe the Steinbeck Center would like to say, hey, come and see Steinbeck while you're in Seaside. There's so many opportunities there. It doesn't just have to be Seaside. We can get other cities' monies in on it because what's good for all these other cities is good for Seaside. What's good for Seaside is good for Monterey Bay. Now, I am not an artist, but I have done my darndest to try to draw an image of this CDR Gateway improvements. I think that's a beautiful sign. And shoot, I meant to bring my phone. I'll just stop sharing my pictures. Down at a concert, see how there's a beautiful little metal piece in the shadows on that wall? I don't know if you guys can see that.

I thought it was so cool.

Look at this beautiful shadow on the wall. Wouldn't it be really cool if our seaside sign had a big wall behind it and made this beautiful shadow that said seaside and you could see the shadow of the seahorse and you can block the view of the auto repair and block the other view and we could put some palm trees behind it. It would just be, you wouldn't have to make a new sign. You just have to make a wall. We already have lights. It would be so easy and it would be so beautiful. In my mind, it would be easy. I know it would be beautiful and it would be stunning.

Wait, here's my...

1495 Mezcal Street. Mezcal Street tells you already a lot. You know, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. So that picture I think is already in your mind. You've been there, Mayor. You've been there. The city manager has been there. Dave Pacheco has been there. You've been there. everybody's been there to the city park most beautiful park in the area so when and thank you for the words of encouragement mayor when we look at that park and we see that service road path that goes to the top of the hill and back I honestly think that's probably the first priority that needs to be done there. And I got all my neighbors and you have the signatures in front of you. 40 people totally agreed with me on this particular project. First thing that really needs to be done. After that, we can think about a playground, but we really need to think about that maybe for another time, because we need to also think about usage. The park gets lots of walkers, we get fast park workers, we get trucks, and they all use that one single path. the playground gets a lot less usage you know from a couple of children and sometime in the future you all know that park needs probably all the path fixed but let's start off with the first one is most important especially for the safety of your city trucks and for fospa workers who work there all the time you've all been there you've all seen it you've all done it so i really hope you will support that particular project thank you

Mr. Mayor, city council, city attorney, and city manager and staff. Bobby Maxwell, the Parks and Rec Commission chairperson. I really appreciate all the work that the Neighborhood Improvement Commission has done on this. And I support the recommendations that they've made. And I really think that a lot of focus needs to really be put on Laguna Grande Park improvements, like the power issue that needs to be upgraded and also the concrete areas that need to be improved over there. Also the holiday lights on Broadway. The lights that are there now, They're okay, but they're too high up in the trees and you can't really see them unless you're right underneath the tree, wherever they're located. Also, the Manzanita Stewart Park concrete improvement needs to happen because if you see the shirt that I'm wearing, the Blue Zone shirt, part of our agreement with them to be a certified Blue Zone city was to do the trail improvements. And we need to follow through on that commitment. but I do support the NIC recommendations and I appreciate all the hard work that they've done. Thank you.

Mayor, council people, everybody else. I'm gonna brag about the NIC a little bit. We had five meetings up to this point and then we had our retreat, but I know some other commissioners We spend hours going to each one of these projects. We look at it. Not one of them has ever said, I don't know where that is. We research it on our own and we think about it. And then when we come together for our three hour meeting or two hour meeting, then that's when we get down to the bones. But I want to have you, these aren't just thrown out there. We really think about it. And we go out there like that one with a bench. I think the bench was mentioned once for that place. We're not putting a bench here. I mean, some will get killed there. I mean, if you look at the dirt tracks with the cars that ran over it and things like that. So we use common sense in what we're doing out there. The mural for Caltrans, if you paint a mural, they don't do graffiti. We've all known that. It just stops the graffiti painting. And that's a gateway into our city that says, here we are, graffiti city. If we have a great mural there, why not put it there? And they say, wow, look at that. I mean, an idea I have is putting the big people that are in the orchards over there in Salinas, put there and say, welcome to Seaside. We got to start grabbing people off that freeway. I mean, we got to get the business in. And that's another way of doing it. And the murals is a start. And yes, it's 300,000, but it isn't going to be 500,000 because you are adding in that we're going to shut down that lane. And I was out there and Caltrans was out there and they're doing that bus thing, right? They haven't shut down no lanes. There's a way to do it and they know how to do it. But like the Caltrans guy, when I asked him, he says, you know, if you're just going to be painting that, scaffolding it up, park your cars over in the parking lot, walk over there, set it all up. He goes, I don't see a lane being shut down. So I think we're assuming too much in it. Selena spent $300,000. I could see us spending that. But it's a well-vested investment for us. And I think people would love it. And we have a little contest of what would be put on the wall. So that's all I got to say. Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Jeannie Reese and I just wanted to give one more shout out for the pathways at Havana Solis. I'm there a lot and there are people I've seen fall down. I myself have tripped and it's something that would be really worthwhile and it would be a needed neighborhood improvement. I just have one comment also about the mural because I think that it would be incredible, but I really think that we should not put the burden on artists i think we need to do research i think the city staff needs to do research themselves um like what kind of mural art would be appropriate for this kind of of setting i think that we need to see other examples from other cities rather than putting all of the burden onto artists to give them all of the work of the research thank you

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, City Council. My name is David Norman. I'm a lifelong resident of this great city. And I moved back here about 10 years ago when both of my parents started to get ill. and first was my dad my dad got pretty sick and i cared for him and one of our regimens were going for our walks and he would love getting out and going for a walk and he got to the point where he needed a walker and he wanted to go down to the park and he tried because he was he was stubborn and he wanted to stay in the park and he would try to go over this horrendous park that has never been that way. I don't know what happened over the last 10, 15 years, but it's a travesty. And he would almost fall and I would have to catch him. And it was just a long story. Finally got to the point where he had to stay on the sidewalks and he hated going up the streets with the traffic and people speeding. And he was frustrated and he loved this city so much. And he just didn't understand what was going on. And he would talk to friends and oh, they're gonna fix it. And he was so confident that something was gonna change and nothing ever happened. And eventually he passed and nothing changed. Now my mother, 92, same thing. She's with her walker and she wants to go for a walk. And two years ago, we received this letter in the mail from the city. All the proposal, this grandiose plans of putting water in the park and a fountain and all the recommendations. And she got so excited and your father would be so happy. And nothing. All of a sudden, parks and recs trucks come down the street. Oh, they might be starting construction. In the back of the bed was a bunch of wood chips because they wanted to put a flower bed up in a corner of the... That's fine, I guess. But there's piles of wood chips everywhere. No improvement to the park. The concrete has gotten worse and worse. And it's terrible. And it's terrible. And it's just... and you know i'm sitting back here that's my first time coming to one of these and i'm listening to everything go on and then now i we get to the point where you get up and discuss about the the nic and what's proposed what isn't proposed what's going to happen so there's other committees the money just disappeared last time i guess i don't know what happened it's like houdini it was gone nothing nothing changed and here we are again i got word that well the money's kind of coming back they're going to propose it again Just fix the walkway. You know, the redoing of the playgrounds and the barbecue pit. I get it. You guys are tight on the money. Fix the walkway. So people can take a walk. It's a major park. It's beautiful. It used to be. It has outlets to six different neighborhoods. The whole demographic has changed over there. There's so many new people in the area walking their dogs and kids, and they can't go anywhere. Please, let's get it done. Thank you.

Ann Nielsen again. I agree. Walkways are one of the best things we could do for our community because just about everybody can use them. And when they're a tripping hazard or you can't even walk on them, if you don't have Well, they need to be able to be safe. Some people will not walk on them because they know that they're in such terrible shape and they're afraid they're going to fall. But even little kids with bikes or wagons and that sort of thing, we need to have safe pathways and to re... surface, some of them like Havana Solis and Mescal Neal is really an important service we could do to our community of all ages. And the Manzanita Stewart Park that was mentioned, that's another part of, yes, part of the blue zones that we we're supposed to focus on getting safe routes to schools. I really think colorizing our city with murals and wraps around utility boxes and putting plants that are like pollinators or native plants that are colorful would really do a lot for our city too. The triangle. Yeah, I drive by that triangle and it's it's a sad little spot. You know, it's just there's nothing there and it could easily be planted with plants like manzanita or. A native plant that grows easily on its own. And I also think the safety lights. on the corner that was being talked about for the crosswalk are really important because we do have wide four lanes and I see people crossing streets and really it's pretty testy for a lot of them. And I think that's a priority. I think that's it. 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. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. I appreciate the work that the NIC Commission did in developing these recommendations. However, I'd like to raise a broader policy question regarding how these funds are prioritized during periods of financial stress. Tonight we're considering nearly 565,000 in neighborhood improvement allocations between the commission's recommendations and the council's discretionary allocation. At the same time, this council has acknowledged a structural deficit of approximately 1.5 million and continued reliance on reserves. I understand that these TOT funds are restricted for neighborhood improvements, and I'm not suggesting that they simply be redirected to the general fund. However, I would encourage the council to consider establishing clear parameters for how these funds are prioritized when the city is facing ongoing financial challenges. For example, should infrastructure projects that address needs the general fund cannot currently fund due to staffing or budget constraints receive higher priority? Should projects that leverage partnerships attract visitors, generate economic activity, or reduce future maintenance costs receive additional consideration? As I review this list, I saw many worthwhile beautification projects, but I also believe we should be asking whether every dollar spent during financial stress today advances a broader strategy for economic vitality, tourism, community engagement and long term financial stability. Sustainability. One opportunity I would encourage the council to seriously consider is allocating a portion of the council's discretionary allocation, specifically 20 grand towards a partnership with Monterey Bay FC. Cardinale Stadium is more than a soccer venue. It is becoming a regional destination that hosts sports events, community gatherings, musical events, and has the potential to attract national and international attention. With major events expecting in the coming years, including increased global interest in soccer, establishing a partnership now is significantly important and affordable. Waiting any longer can demand and can increase the sponsorship. Those are the types of investments that can produce benefits beyond a single neighborhood project. I respectfully ask the council to consider adopting future priorities prioritization criteria for these funds during financial challenges, and to explore allocating 2000 towards Monterey Bay FC partnership as a long-term investment in Seaside's economic future. A strategic partnership with Monterey Bay FC would not only promote Seaside, but could create opportunities for tourism, local business exposures, youth engagement, and regional economic activity. I yield the rest of my time.

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Thank you so much. Hearing no one else, the public comment portion of this is closed. I received a couple of notes about our recess break. I think we're about close to about 40, 45 minutes behind. So we're going to take a recess break and let people do what they need to do. Yes. And I think we're going to pick up where we left off as it's back at the council. Asked the city clerk to pull up the list of recommended items by the NIC. And then expectations to go down lists and where three or more agree, that be what is approved. And then anything that is not approved, if there's any money left with it, it'll go down and see what the council wants to do with that. Okay. All right. It's a little complicated on the overhead screen. The council has a full list to keep track of. And so we'll just go down the list. Are you ready? Not so quick. The solar power bench. No, for me. Yeah, we'll just ask people to let the clerk keep track and make sure we capture everybody before we move to the next item. And then the clerk will City Manager or his assistant will calculate what's left over.

And to the Mayor. Yes, go ahead. To the Mayor and to the Clerk. I've reviewed the list. I've heard the presentation and I am a yes on all the items. So you can mark me as a yes on every item. Thank you. And you don't need to come back to me anymore. Thank you.

Okay. So did everybody that wanted to weigh in, weigh in? say clerk on the solar yeah that's where is the solar they said just no yeah just be sure it's no for me it would be no for me as well yes okay all right we're ready okay uh seaside stars qr code plaques and signs yes for me yes Yes, for me. Yes. Okay. Coutinho Park basketball court sealed and striped. What? No.

This is for the fully allocated, I mean, recommended amount. All right. Unless otherwise noted.

Yeah, unless we change it. Okay. Coutinho Park basketball court sealed and striped. Yes. For me.

Yes.

Yes. Yes. For me. What, what, uh, let me see. Don't order. We'll go in. Is this going to be the mayor pro tem customer, Alexis Garcia is all and councilman Burke's councilman Miller already indicated his. Okay. Are you ready? Okay. All right. Pet waste stations. Yes. For me.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

And then tell me when you're ready to go to the next one.

Okay. Uh, South Del Monte landscaping mediums.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Give me some voice.

Ready for the next.

Okay. Seaside Gateway sign and fence?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Ready for the next. Okay. Thank you. Trinity Park entry improvements?

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Okay, goal awareness signs. No.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Greenhouse of the month program. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. okay boulder for fossil parks yes yes yes yes and pathway improvement for havana salis yes yes yes yes uh tree giveaway yes

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

And your allocation for benches.

I said yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Allocation and your allocation for what is that utility boxes?

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. I designed for Miro on Caltrans right away.

No.

No.

No.

No. Welcome banner. Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Raise flower bed in Havana Solis Capra Park?

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Banner dumpsters?

Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. uh triangle landscaping for san pablo and baker street um without bench yes yes yes yes uh in canto park improvement yes yes yes yes um scale neil service world improvement

yes yes yes yes uh seaside high tennis courts yes yes yes yes

Okay, where is there any savings? We'll let the people that's keeping track, keep track, whoever is keeping track. How much is the total?

How much? The total amount of the council allocation comes to $365,849 with the total remaining balance to allocate $199,541.

Okay. All right. What is the next group of possibilities, Mr. City Manager?

It was 10,000 for holiday light decor upgrades on Broadway.

Do you have a set of stuff?

This is the list that was discussed earlier.

Okay. Are we going to be able to ask some questions? Yeah, no, no, yeah. Yeah, we have to. Okay, go ahead, Mayor Patel. So these are questions on the... I'm on the new ones I guess excuse that work. Okay so I was told the $10,000 was removed from the city general puns funds in the park public works for and I see. In the entryway. So that basically means two thirds of the entryway. Would not would be completed and went there wouldn't be based on the 32,000. It was that.

It was the 10,000 dollars that was included a general fund. The staff removed that from the general fund and recommended it as an expense instead. So we were still recommending the 10,000 dollars added to the, and I'm saying, I guess if we don't add it.

They're not going to be able to complete fully that project is that I wouldn't say fully complete.

It would just be a different scale.

That's a good point. Thank you. And this is, I guess, my selling point. On the holiday, lights on Broadway, currently the lights on Fremont look great. And thank you, Councilman Arizola. I believe in giving credit where credit is due, I guess. But our downtown area, there's the green trees, but the wreaths are right on top of the trees, so you can't see them. And two, I think they're the used ones from the Fremont Street. So I guess why do we have greenways that do not go all the way till Del Monte, they stop about a block up? I think if we completed the whole thing with the lighted areas that's currently on Fremont maybe, it would give a consistent picture. And why didn't we go down all the way to Del Monte as part of that? And it seems that if we use all that money, $10,000 for lights, we would complete the project and making it enhance that area as such. Do you have any thoughts about that?

I don't know why we didn't go all the way to Del Monte other than the fact that we probably didn't have enough. I do believe that those trees have grown pretty substantially over the last couple of years, which is why the wreaths probably blend in more now.

i'm not sure what can you repeat i guess my last question is if we move those green ones that are tied into the trees to in and out burger on canyon del rey or upper fremont that just adds another layer of decorations in the city do you think that would have benefit to the spirit of christmas for sure i think if we can find it like if we were to change them and repurpose them in another location that's definitely possible and then stewart park I think there's another, Stewart-Manzanillo Park, I think it is. And this is, the mayor gets credit for this basically, and I should just read it. And Assistant City Manager, which is you, and with support of the council, we are Blue Zone City. We committed three gateway park improvements to walkable schools. Lincoln-Cunningham is done. We approved Havana Solis. And if we approve funding for Stewart Pathway, that will have a significant impact on the youth that go to the international school, significant impact on those kids that go to King, and we would fill our commitment to Blue Zones. And is that true? And then was the NIC aware of this commitment in their thought processes?

Well, this one, we've discussed Blue Zones in numerous situations with the nic and that's probably the reason why the havana solis was um included as well um the manzanita steward was not brought up this circle piece was not brought up during the nic conversations this was brought in after we already had our meeting so they they aren't they aren't weren't really aware that this was happening now for this this project and we did make that commitment to do all three parks correct correct okay um and another one is a new one as well

Laguna Grande Park, because a lot of us were there the last two or three months and some of us for years. So we committed $1.6 million for the pathways. We invested in benches, gazebos, and a few other things, trying to make it a first-class park. We also have about 15 community events. We also have farmers... uh market there every week uh power has been an issue for decades um one day we were moving as we approved the entryway for power for caltrans and power is an essence for all those events that we are having um and i think as the city grows it progresses and that becomes an increasing valuable part we'll even have more further directly behind this stage There's a foot and a half, I don't want to say gully, but a flat area. So when bands transition, it makes it hard for them to get easily without a liability. And then there's an area right behind the picnic tables that are, there's a tent and it's full of mud and old grass. And again, it's not level. And again, that's an liability. you think i guess the hundred dollars with the hundred thousand dollars recommended to improve the pror power for the can and city long-term events and to increase tourism Do you think that fixing those areas, would that, those funds make sure that the pathway to the barbecue pit would be taken care of as well as the need for power for all the events that we have that impact the residents in the neighborhoods and the community and our tourists that come to a ton of events, especially this weekend at Juneteenth, there was, felt like thousands that were there. And, you know, there would have been a power shortage.

challenge so the short answer is yes um you know we did you know just a little background too the the laguna grande that's a new that was an ic project last year and so you know when we were designing and going through that process you know there was never a pad there before it was just grass so You know, obviously we put the pad in now we're seeing these, these. Little areas that probably should have been addressed at that time, but but we're not so we're still looking to hopefully we have a little bit of funding left in this year that we're trying to to see if we can get that done. But this 100,000 would help. Definitely fill those gaps and then potentially I think the first step would be to do a study for the power to make sure that it's even feasible. I can't say what that cost would be because we got to work with PG&E and all that, but I think the first piece would be to get that study with PG&E.

My last point is encouraging. The goal is to make that a first-class park. That's why you invested, let's make $1.8 million. These additional steps will be another step in making that a reality. It's not a fair statement.

Absolutely. And then, you know, as we start to look at the implementation after the grant, you know, we start working, putting the construction in, you know, we wrote that grant four years ago. And so when we developed that budget, you know, it was what the cost was at that time. And so as we start to get into the work, we may need a little extra money down the road to fill some of those gaps. And this would hopefully be there for that purpose.

I think that's. I have my recommendations later, but that's my questions. Thank you, sir, so very much for all your work on this. I'm sure it's very challenging.

Anyone else? No one else. I didn't get the last part about, I understand the grant and, you know, costs went up, right? So this will be a what? So some of it. What amount of money did you need for to possibly complete it? 100,000?

Not the whole 100,000. I think we just want to, we'll have a little bit just so we have an idea. We have like, if we need an extra 20 or 30, potentially, depending on what those costs come back. We have some already. earmarked potentially for Lugo de Grande as a whole.

Can I ask one more question, just for clarity? I think in the report, and I could be wrong,

You're requesting a hundred thousand dollars and now you're saying you only need 2030. no, I'm saying a hundred thousand dollars, but some of it would be for the do the study for the power. And then look at some of the other, uh, you know, the concrete work that needs to be done, but then depending on what the power costs, what the concrete costs, anything left over would help potentially help make the. The grant project whole yeah.

The allocation gives us a lot of flexibility through the course of this project to take advantage of economies of scale or identify things that may come up in construction.

Thank you. Okay, there's no other comments. I would just say for me, you know, a little bit there is right now. I'm not supportive of decorative uh lights uh going further you know when we're talking about we need money for concrete and we need money for um what is the other one the park improvement uh manzanita concrete and then the uh ore growth mean of enhancements that's where i'm at i'm not really you know i don't I don't see the playground equipment and the skill nail at this time. I don't see 30,000 for the pedestrian sign upgrade. You know, when there's a sign up there now, I'm not saying it's all adequate, but you got to start making choices somewhere. And so street banners and hardware for arterials, I don't see that. if that's taken away from um the concrete in the parks so um that is where I'm at and the I see the need maybe for the Durant Park shade structure um so I don't know what that comes up to but that's where I'm going give you would I have support just the fourth one well if we're ready Yeah, we can do the same thing.

Just know, excuse me, just know that these items total more than the amount. So if you go, you start selecting, yes, you got to understand you're running out of money pretty quick.

Yeah, you have to pick and choose. And I don't know if you guys did your own calculation. I did my rough calculation. Let's start back off like this. I don't see myself supporting the total $100,000 for Laguna Grande improvements, but I do think they need money to see what's going on over there ask them see men over there um and so we could try to go down a list but if ours don't match up and we don't have enough money then we have to go back from the top so we can do that too all right you ready okay so we'll do the same way um all right The holiday lights upgrades on Broadway.

Yes.

No.

No.

No. No for me. LED color lights, facility expansion, library, Audemars Center.

No.

No.

No.

No. No for me. uh the durant park shade structure um yes yes yes yes uh yes for me and if we need to come back that'll be the first one off my list uh canyon del rey sign improvement additional amount yes yes Yes. Uh, yes. For me, uh, cow trends, uh, one bent mural. Yes.

No, no, no.

I don't know for me, uh, street banner and hardware for material streets. Yes. No.

No.

No for me. Laguna Grande Park improvements.

Yes. Yes.

You guys are going at $100,000 level?

Yes.

No. You'll be no? Okay. I'll be... I don't want to run out of money, so I'll be no. We had to come back to that one. I don't. Well, OK, let's just keep it going. I'll be yes. I'll be yes for that one, just so we don't. We could save some time. Mazanita Stewart concrete circle enhancement.

Yes, yes.

Yes.

Yes.

No.

Uh, yes for me. Pretty much Trinity. Uh, pedestrian signal.

No, yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Uh, be no for me. Uh, lower. Yeah, I said just thank you. Lower Mesquite O'Neill playground improvement? No.

No.

No. No for me. Board growth, median enhancement?

No. No.

No.

No. It'll be a yes for me. Okay, now we that's it. That's pretty close. It's pretty close. Well, I say, manager, would you suggest that the break even just take it out the.

Laguna Grande yeah, I think that's the safest play at this point.

Everybody agreed that yes, sir. Yes. Well, I mean, that's right and so I think that's. Anybody have any questions? I think. Just, yeah, go ahead. Why the city clerk is doing, why the city clerk is doing her stuff.

Just my comment. Just want to, this was a lot of hard work for all of us and I appreciate that. Just want to remind the public, this was the original concept, which is neighborhood improvement to help the neighborhoods. All the projects that we, most of the projects we did was focused on the neighborhoods. So the neighborhood residents would feel that their contribution to Airbnb directly or indirectly was positively improved by the efforts in their neighborhoods. I think that's for me the important and I also believe personally by the improvement in the parks, especially Laguna Grande and Nick and Cunningham and some of the other areas, we are increasing the opportunity for tourism because I know the Juneteenth, the Sunday Blues, the Oaxaca by the Sea brings people to the area that not only know where the park, but then they go have dinner at Chili's or wherever it be. So, and even to the improvement of with with efforts in. Broadway, we're going to impact tourism. So all the things that we're doing through the neighborhoods is improving tourism and moving the city. And I think what we did. Bottom line, and I'd be 100% agree or disagree. We are improving the neighborhoods and again, I want to thank the for all the recommendations. They were solid, they were good, as well as the council and staff. They were powerful, they make a difference. Because of that money, we've improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of users of Seaside. Long-term, it is not a piece of paper, it is long-term improvements. And that's what this money is used for. Our budget is 75% staff. This is the 100% or 50% of the 100% community where lives are touched, movement is done, things are accomplished. And we should feel very good that we add things back to the community from the people that give to the community. And that's the goal of this program, helping neighbors help themselves, improving all this and making seaside a better and fun place for the tourists, the residents, the community. And I think that's important what we try to describe. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Councilman Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And as I was listening to the mayor pro tem talking about the neighborhoods and all how this funding is going towards the neighborhoods. 1 of the things that I struggle struggle with is what exactly is the neighborhood. So, do you have a definition of that that you're that you're speaking of? What is the definition of a neighborhood? Because our main streets, our downtown area, there are houses there on Broadway. And people own houses and live there all the way up. So really, all of our streets are, quote, the neighborhood. So do you have a definition of what the neighborhood is? Because when I was on the NIC, we didn't know what exactly we wanted to focus on, what part of what neighborhood. Because it seems to me that all entrances, exits, everything in this city is part of the neighborhood. So if you could just clarify that, that would be great to the mayor pro tem.

I'm not sure I want to get in the big with you. My only concept in your, in your approval, you approved all the NIC recommendations. That's all neighborhood then. And I'm fine with that. And the other ones were all neighborhood. And that was, it was a vote of consensus of all of us. So what you envision as a neighborhood is a neighborhood. And that is where you touch someone's lives on a personal level, especially in the areas of Airbnb, a San Pablo park entry thing, that's neighborhood. So it's all in your definition. I know what my definition, I know the mayor does, Councilman Garcia does. Rita does, we have our definition of neighborhoods on a personal level, especially associated, you have, and Mr. Assistant City Manager could tell me, that's why they're called neighborhood parks. The term is neighborhood park because, and we invested a lot of money in the quote professional term, as I know, neighborhood parks. That's why they're called Neighborhood Parks. And that is the official name because we are touching the neighborhoods and those parks that we are making. I think we invested at least, off the top of my head, actually $300,000, $400,000, I think, you add 15. So you should be proud. And I can thank you for all your efforts in helping the neighborhood. That's my bottom line.

Anyone else council member?

Thank you. I just want to thank everyone that play a part in this to the neighborhood improvement commission. I think a majority of the projects that were proposed, I think almost all but 1 were approved, but that says a lot about you as a commission and being out in the community and thank you for that. Because at the end of the day, this council did its due diligence by managing to find an agreement somehow, or 1 way or another, and allocating these funds to. sort of agree. We did this very, very fast. If it wasn't a very collaborative process, I think we'd be at a gridlock or a standstill right now trying to fight or figure out where the money would be allocated. But I think, you know, this council, I want to thank my colleagues for your support as well, because we're tackling not only The environment, we're also tackling public safety here, youth outlet opportunities. So it's a wide range of projects that benefit, I think, different parts of the community, different sectors in an equitable way, which I think needs to be done, especially right now, As we face budget deficits at a state and federal level, the city, and thanks to our neighborhood improvement commission as well for collaborating where we're managing to get the projects done that benefit the community. And I think would be more costly if we put it aside later on. So we're tackling it right now.

Anyone else. That may not be in the room. Council Member Burks.

Yeah, I agree with Mayor Potem and Council Member Garcia-Urzola. When I first started doing this, it was very lengthy and many people were not happy because we didn't have enough information. So we had to decline different projects that were proposed. So I thank the NIC and everyone else that supported this and put this together. And I appreciate the diversity that it's covering a wide range of our city. So thank you.

Anyone else? Councilmember Miller. Yeah, just one final comment. You know, everybody said thank you to the NIC. Yeah, they do. They have put together a great list and everything is, we're grateful for that. I do want to stress the importance of When you come into our city, we want to send a welcoming vibe to our city. We need to spend money to have people come here, spend their money in our restaurants, in our nightlife, and the opportunities they have in Seaside. We need to draw more tourism taxes off of the freeway into our city so we can generate more sales tax revenue. And one way to do that is to have inviting entrances and exits to the city. And although it wasn't approved tonight, I hope this council will explore this area of graffiti-ridden, trash, people loitering. It's an area that is not inviting. And when you drive into the city and you're at that red light, for me, it's... somewhat embarrassing. So I hope this council will think about potentially trying to figure out maybe not murals, but something in this intersection, something to make this area inviting, and on both of our entrances. So that when people come into our city, they feel they get a sense of okay, where I'm here, I'm, I'm ready to stay, I'm ready to spend my money, I'm ready to check out everything seaside has to offer. And I think that will help our city and our general fund. But other than that, I think the NIC list is a good list and looking forward to seeing all these projects come through. And I hope on some of these we'll get some kind of report back. Um, like, I know there was a question about the bench and that median on the triangle. So if we're going to get report back on any of those items, so that's all I had. Thank you. Mr.

Thank you. I just close with that again. Thank the for working through this process. It's a lot of. uh good thinking and definitely some contemplation involved i think it was council member uh garcia zola that just mentioned it's once it reached this diocese this becomes a little bit more complex than just going out and saying we got four hundred thousand dollars let's do some projects because we do have to balance the other needs of the city and it was a public comment that went earlier about uh why are we spending this money at all and we need it for the full budget. And that's a commitment that we made. And so the first one has to be that I want to thank the council for standing true to the commitment of money to NIC because other communities are pushing back against that and taking money back from their community improvements. and and that's a normal thing to do uh that's the right thing to do for that community that does it but this year we decided not to do it and it's working out for us and i'm proud of a community that says well the first thing we don't do necessarily is is cut uh the natural thing is recreation and kids programs and by definition the next step would be so-called access money uh from this uh tot tax and so it could have been easily done we didn't do that and nic worked their way through these projects uh and again then when it reaches the diets here we have a lot more pull on us than what a normal commission has because we do have to balance the safety overall community the look of the overall community and projects that need to get done that if this money was not used for it, it would either come out the general fund or it wouldn't be done for another year. And so that's the balance. I'll just say that when we talk about what is community, or neighborhood each one of us have a different definition of that we don't want to go down the road of putting a definition on the commission to so-called limit where they can look uh and they take a holistic look of the city and sometimes the you know the project that they pick is not appropriate right but we get better results if they take a holistic look as opposed to saying it has to be the so-called inner city the inner community or somewhere off of our borders and so i think we get a better project when the neighborhood improvement commission has those flexibilities and they can look wherever they want to look, right? And then definitely the council can make the decisions that they need to make. So I thought it was a good process. I think we're really tuning it in. It'll get better, you know, and every year minds change, people change, and we'll see what we do next year. But I just wanted to speak to the two points, which is it was, and it is pressure on us to have not spent this money at all, but we just put it in the general fund. And so, and I think we'll hear more about that when we go to the budget next. So I think is everything ready? Madam City Clerk for the vote of all the projects. Mr. City Manager, you're comfortable that we captured all the projects and gave you authorizations for all the ones that that we talked about?

I am, yes.

Okay. So what is the will of the council as it relates to approve the modified neighborhood improvement commission's recommendation FY 2026-27 project list? Yeah. And we will direct staff to proceed with the implementation of those projects. Move approval. Second. It's been probably moved to second on question. Hearing no question, roll call vote.

Council and agency member Miller.

Aye.

Council and agency member Burks. Aye. Council and agency member Garcia-Arizuela. Mayor Pro Tem and Vice Chair Pacheco. Mayor and Chair Oglesby. Your motion passes unanimously.

I think you go to item number C. Adopt a resolution approving the Broadway Avenue Complete Street Corridor Improvement Plan and specifications awarding the... awarding the contract agreement to the Don Chapin Company for amount not to exceed $12,176,375, approving a reimbursement agreement with the Seaside County Sanitation District for Broadway sewer upgrades, approving a construction and management and inspection service agreement with Harris & Associates Inc. for amount not to exceed $1,638,529, and approving and amending for design services during construction to the kimberley horn and associate eat psa for a amount not to exceed 388 thousand and thirty four dollars mr city manager yes thank you mayor this item presented by andreas bearer assistant public works director thank you honorable mayor and council city manager and city attorney public

thank you for the opportunity to present this to this to you my name is andreas bear i'm the assistant public works director um and this is one uh one resolution with with five projects or five uh five five approvals within it uh approving the uh approving the plans and specs approving the construction contract uh approving an inner an agreement with scsd a reimbursement agreement with scsd approving that contract for the construction management of the project and improving the contract for engineering support during construction. This project is what I'm presenting today is another step along the way on the project we've been pursuing to convert and upgrade Upper Broadway Street, following on in addition to the improvements that we did in Lower Broadway, What this plan includes is reducing the upper Broadway from four lanes down to two lanes, installing seven roundabouts along Broadway. And this project is primarily a safety project. It represents a massive investment in our streets, an investment that should bring the community closer together, should slow down and provide traffic safety. while providing a smoother non-stop passage to the city. The benefits of roundabouts are that they have lower accidents and less dangerous accidents when they do occur. There are fewer conflict points in a roundabout than in a multi-lane intersection. And this is a beautification project. This project is intended to make the community look better. One last thing is that this project is 100% grant funded and funded from the state. The project is funded. The two funding agencies are the Caltrans, which funded it through the Active Transportation Program, as well as TAMC, which funded the project through their Regional Service Transportation Grant Project. The project... It began back in 2021, 2022, and we received a $600,000 grant from the active transportation funds through TAMC. In 2023, we completed the initial design and the environmental document for the project. 2023, Caltrans awarded a second round of design funds for the project. uh between 2023 and 2025 we spent a great deal of time doing research on the project reaching out to the community modeling different different traffic solutions uh designing simulations and running simulations and actually going out into the field and and setting up different traffic scenarios with cones and other things so we could practice and drive through and see what the benefits were of different traffic solutions uh june 20 2025 the project was design was complete We received another round of grant funding from TAMC in 2025. The Seaside County Sanitation District in December 2025 began to design for their sewer upgrades. After the design was complete, we looked at all the different utilities that would be impacted by the project. And the Seaside County Sanitation District had a long-term plan to upgrade the sewer line underneath the Broadway street. and this project allows very significant economies of scale, making that sewer line project substantially cheaper than it would be otherwise. January 2026, we received our CTC allocation of $9.45 million for construction. The sewer plans were completed and incorporated into the project in March 2026. The project was bid in April. We had the bid opening last last uh last month and we received five bids for the project the bids range from 11 million dollars all the way up to 18 million dollars for the for the work The Don Chapin Company is a local and trusted contractor with both the size and capacity to complete a project like this and the history of completing projects of this size. And we believe that their bid was a reasonable, was a responsible and responsive bid. To break the project down for you, the corridor improvement project costs almost $10 million, $9.8 million, while the SCSD and the sewer improvements underground will cost on the order of $2.3 million. In addition to the construction costs, we are asking you to award a construction management contract in the amount of 1.6 million dollars and design services during construction contract for kimley horn associates in the amount of 388 000 uh the total project cost The numbers presented to you beforehand did not include contingency. The total project cost is $12.17 million for construction, $1.5 million for contingency, $1.7 million for construction management and inspection services, and again, $750,000 total for the engineering and design services during construction. $300,000 of that was previously awarded. The $300,000 that you're awarding now is the additional funding. Going forward, the construction schedule is that this project was bid allowing 350 working days. These aren't calendar days, these are working days that work out to a little over a year and a half of construction time. We expect the work to begin September 2026. We are planning to work out such that utilities will be done first, and then we will begin improving roundabouts starting from the bottom of the street and working our way up with the expectation that we will complete the work from Yosemite to Ann Collins Street, which is the work in front of Martin Luther King School next summer during school break. and wrap the project up after next summer and fall with a final slurry project over the entire street. The Broadway Avenue, so the recommendations one more time are to approve the plans and specifications for the Broadway Avenue Complete Street Corridor Project. Improve or approve a reimbursement agreement with the Seaside County Sanitation District for two point nine six million dollars. Approve a construction agreement with the Don Chapin Company for one point twelve point one seven six million dollars. Approve a construction contingency for the project, bringing the total project cost not to exceed project costs up to $13.7 million. Approve a professional services agreement with Harris & Associates for not to exceed amount of $1.713 million and amend the Kimalee Horne & Associates performance service agreement for the design services during construction in an amount of $388,000. that's all and if you have any questions i'm happy to answer them now okay thank you so much any questions councilmember miller thank you thank you for the report how long have we been at this well this is a follow-on project to the uh lower broadway complete street complete street project and i believe the first round of funding was for this this section of street was was received in 2022.

So it's been a while.

It's been a while.

And we hosted numerous information sessions at the fire department.

We've hosted a large slew of information and outreach sessions. We've reached out to the local schools, local businesses. We've sent out, just in the last four months, we've sent about 3,000 different mailers out to people, notifying them of the project and inviting them to those community engagement meetings. And those community engagement meetings have actually received input, and that is changing the project We are changing it. We are making sure an entry to one of our churches is maintained to this project. And we had a strong recommendation to add more trees to the project to make sure we at least replace the trees that were taken out. And so those changes are getting integrated.

Understood. So we've really done our due diligence. We've asked people that are affected by this. We've listened to them. it changed our plan a little bit so that we can make it work for everybody and a majority of the feedback that we get is positive?

Once people learn about the project and the safety benefits, the majority of the feedback is very positive.

Would you say it's like 80% or? Maybe that's unfair to ask you that. I just wanted to make sure that the people that we're reaching out to, that we're talking to, that are affected by this are pleased with us or pleased with the project that we're going to be, would you say majority are?

The people that I've heard back from are pleased with the project. Absolutely.

and then at one time some gentlemen's contacted me about the project i contacted our city manager you guys met in the room in the front so i wanted to thank you for that i know you guys had had the diagram out you explained everything so um i think that you've done an exceptional job on this and and i'm i'm prepared to support this thank you so much thank you uh yeah

Just to say this, I think over time there's been a growing. understanding of the project. I don't know if it was there when it first started. On a personal level, I'm not a fan of seven roundabouts in a mile, but from what I'm hearing from the public, they are starting to understand the concept personally. The bottom line on this, if we were to say, and I'm making up a number, if we were to only do four roundabouts, we would lose the funding. And I think it's important those that are anti this project. This is a $16 million project. If we are not fully invested, for lack of a better word, That money we don't pay back the money or whatever. That's the description of the project includes 7 roundabouts and we, and then if we say, no, we're not going to do something any round about for 2, we lose that money. So we are committed in other words. Um, in this process financially, I believe that is that a fair statement? Yes. I want to make that perfectly clear that we can't go backwards.

We need to go forward on typical grants of the size. If you change the project scope, it impacts the funding.

Okay.

And that's and again, thank you for the. I think the outreach has made a difference. And I've pretty much gone to majority of them. And I've seen slowly the change in the tide. Thank you.

Anyone else council member?

I have to echo council member comments in the beginning. I was sort of. Not a fan of this, but. Because I was in those listening sessions and talking to constituency, but also. hearing the safety aspect of it, it made sense. I know there's been concerns or controversies over roundabouts. I think we saw it in Carmel Valley in the beginning and now people are switching the tune over there and they're really liking how it's working. It just takes a little bit of adjustment. So we are seeing it does enhance public safety and it just, in a way, it also beautifies the city. So I want to thank you, the entire staff that have made the effort to have these community listening sessions in both English and Spanish. I really do appreciate the interpretation that has been available at the ones that you have been hosting. But also, I think it was really cool to just see the simulations of how it would work in the traffic and The level of engagement that you had with the school district as well made a huge difference in getting all partners to the table. And this isn't just us as a body. It really brought the whole community together and you all listened to the constituency concerns. I know there was a survey that was also sent out. So responses were also received through that. And I think I'm comfortable with the level of engagement that was done. And I'm looking forward to seeing how this project unfolds.

Thank you. And thank you. Anyone else? The council member Burks.

Yeah, just want to say, thank you. I agree. Change is never easy and there's still going to be some pushback and we'll never get 100%. But I think the majority of people I've been speaking to, they're just concerned about the unknown, right? The turnabouts and how this is going to happen. So I appreciate all the work and the time taking, like my other council members shared about surveys and bringing the community together. So thank you for your efforts.

Thank you. Uh, same energy. Did you want to say anything?

Yeah, I just wanted to add to that that regardless of the bid award, the public input will continue. We have another public input session going to be getting on the calendar very shortly and then throughout construction we will have routine updates both in public sessions and then a project website that will have direct emails to out to those who signed up.

Correct. Yes, I think I'll not know. There also has to be a good communication plan in place for when construction does start, you know, detour and all that stuff. Just educating the community on on how to. How to navigate. Absolutely. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you for that. this is just the contract there's a lot of work that should be coming back before this council uh and one of those things is how well are you communicating and what is on the website as it relates to construction delays and all that uh i think i had two or three things the first one was well well my first thing is i would like to see some simulations i would like to see a little bit more of how the street looks as opposed to what i'm getting right now But my understanding was these roundabouts were supposed to be themed going up the hill, coming off of Fremont, you know, different themes as you work your way up to the school. And so that's part of what I see coming back and being discussed and things of that nature. Go ahead if you want, Joe.

Yeah, those themes are included in the bid. They were bid with themes or work in the intersection. So we'll bring those back to show those to city council.

Okay, let me jump to the next question. When do you see this coming back for whatever the appropriate next conversation? You know, again, to prepare the public, hey, it's 60 days out, it's 40 days out, this thing is going to start. And these are the things that we were supposed to tell you or show you before.

I would defer to my assistant public works director, but my assumption is after the pre-construction meeting is held, that way we know more of a definitive schedule to the public. We would then pick an adjacent council meeting and bring that information to the dice.

Okay. And then I just want to, you know, put a note for you, City Manager, about quality control. I know, you know, it's a line item in this budget for that, it's a consultancy for that, but I'm not comfortable just turning it over to that consultant and we look up and the quality is not controlled to the level that it should be. And so I'm just throwing that out there before we even get started that I will hope you guys will do a good job looking at that. But I do look forward to it being complete. When the question was asked before, where did you start? And you made a good point about this was talked about, started about when we did lower Broadway, about how do we reduce the risk of accidents going up Broadway and how do we make it more pedestrian friendly? And someone talked about earlier about all these neighborhoods, it's people that live on Broadway and they didn't like people driving up and down Broadway at the speeds that they do. And so this would be a brand new street that will help our kids get to school safer, to and from school, to and from the parks a little safer, and it definitely will beautify that street over there, give it a new life, saving this community at least $10, $12 million because of the new upgrades. All right, that's all I have. Let's go out to public comment.

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I'd say good evening, but we're well past that. My name is Lacey Rock and I live a couple of blocks off of Broadway. I went to one of the first public meetings when this project was brought forward and I was very excited and I remain very excited. I'm a fan of this project. There are a few items that I would like to share for consideration as this moves forward. um and i brought most of these forward at the meetings as well and i appreciate that some of them have been addressed one is the loss of tree cover so um as was noted this is a beautification project as well as a safety project and the trees that were planned to be removed as part of this project should be replaced at at least a two to one ratio um the other element that i would like to address associated with the environment is that on some of the lower intersections of the project including san pablo and terrace there's not as much greenery built into the improvement it's mainly cement dg rocks and i'd like those intersections to also include as much greenery as the upper areas one comment that i received back was that they didn't have irrigation there and that's was the reason but i think there are other solutions like bringing in a water buffalo for a couple of years or even a year The other two elements that I'd like to provide comment on are related to safety. One is that when construction is happening, I can guarantee that there will be drivers that choose to take alternative side roads. I live in this area, it's very densely packed with parking and there's a lot of pedestrians walking. I would strongly encourage the police department or public safety to look at ways that we can improve safety on the side streets during construction to reduce interactions between pedestrians and vehicles and vehicles and vehicles in particular san pablo and palm The last comment that I'd like to make is related to the intersection near Meteora, which we're all happy has recently reopened. But even before it closed, there was a lot of backup at that area. So when cars kind of turn, they're trying to get into the store. I'd really encourage us to look at that area because it could cause a lot more backup depending on sort of how the design is built out. So those are my four comments. I just want to thank Andreas and the team that's put so much into this. These kinds of projects take a really long time to come to fruition. I'm really excited that this one is.

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Good evening. I like what the city manager brought up or the mayor brought up that we need to do quality control. Let's not have a repeat of some of the projects that we've done that we didn't have full knowledge of what was going to be done, i.e. the mediums on Fremont. no plastic was put underneath those rocks that would keep the weeds from coming up through the rocks. And now we have trees or bushes that shouldn't be put there because they didn't have irrigation and they're dying. So they look like a big weed themselves and then you have weeds coming up through them. So I think we really need to see what the concept is of what they're gonna put there. Also, whatever we do plant, whether it be trees or brush or whatever, make sure that they will grow in that area under those conditions. Will direct sunlight affect them growing or will it kill them? I love seeing plants and stuff, but like I said, the mediums on Fremont, we've got now dead plants because nobody figured out how to water them or even if they'd even grow in this area. And then my other concern is as far as communicating with the public, we need to get a start on that as soon as we can, as soon as we know that it's gonna start, even if it's 90 days down the road, start putting it out there so that people are aware of this. So that it's not just coming up on them on surprise. And then the last thing is that they say it's 350 working days. That's not even, you know, who's deciding what are their working days? Because this could take longer than they're anticipating. And the last thing I want to say is I hope that they really work with the utilities and so that we don't have a repeat of like Kimball Avenue and finding out that we couldn't complete the project because we didn't know that PG&E's or Cal-Am's lines weren't far enough down before we did construction so i'm just hoping that they've looked at that and that they've communicated with all the utilities and we know that it's good to go and we're not going to get stopped in the middle because we forgot something

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 other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you so much. Seeing no one, hearing no one, public comment is called. City Manager, there was a couple. Public comment, did you have any?

Yeah, we certainly appreciate the feedback and as those concepts come in and are vetted by our engineers and our outside engineering team on this project as well, we've incorporated some feedback we've received in our public meetings along the way that make for a better project. Two, we will get as much information about this project out to the community on a routine basis. And as soon as we know from the pre-construction meeting, the set schedule by the contractor, we will start getting that information out. Quality control is critical. Even though we are hiring a firm to provide construction management, there will be daily communication with city staff on a project like this. We will have teams all over that project. It's just the nature of a project of that size. And then I think that's all. Thank you.

We're bringing it back to the dice. What is the will of the council? There could be more conversation to make a motion to approve. Second. And probably moved to second on the question. Any more comments? I did have one thing about the greenery on the lower side. I don't you know, it should be some type of way, you know. So if you could just look at that, I don't know. But. Yeah, yeah, just just. Makes sense to. Have more greenery. Oh, yeah. Okay, go ahead.

And I should also add, I forgot that there was a question about the 350 working days. That's a contractual agreement. What counts as a working days is included in the contract. There's delays for weather and other foreseen things, but 350 working days is the contract.

Yeah. And I think Andres said 350 working days translates into about 18 months. And of course, it could extend past that. So just, you know, don't put on your calendar count 350 days won't be done 350 days now. Okay, this is a roll call vote. And again, the city council and the public will hear about this consistently over the next 18 months.

Roll call, please. Council and agency member Miller.

Aye.

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 unanimously.

We're going to do something we haven't done in so long. We're going to take a motion to extend the meeting past 10 o'clock. Make a motion to extend the meeting. Somebody was saying, no, I'm not going to do it. It's been probably moved and second. Public comment. Anybody from the public want to tell us to break this thing up? All right. Okay. Public comment is closed. Roll call vote to extend the meeting.

Council and agency member Miller.

Yes.

Council and agency member Burke. Aye. Council and agency member Garcia-Arizuela.

No.

Mayor Pro Tem and Vice Chair Pacheco.

Yes.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby. Aye. Your motion passes four to one.

Okay, we'll try to pick up some speed here. D, adopt a resolution authorizing fiscal year 2026, 27th Street repair project list to be funded in part with SB1 monies, the Road Maintenance Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 funds, and authorizing submission to the California Transportation Commission. Mr. City Manager.

Yeah, this item will also be presented by Andrea Sparrow, Assistant Public Works Director.

Thank you, Honorable Council, Mr. Honorable Mayor, Council, City Manager, City Attorney, thank you very much for your time. My name is Andreas Baer, Assistant Public Works Director. This next item dovetails nicely with the uh broadway complete streets project it represents another major investment in our in our streets and this is important and critical for us to have on the council agenda tonight we need a resolution to go forward to to uh for the for in order to be able to get the sp1 money that is in front of us um so just a little background uh You've heard this before, but we here at the City of Seaside, we maintain 100 miles of roadways, 13 million square feet of pavement. We have an average PCI. Last time we updated the system, the average PCI of 54. The replacement value of our construction of our roadways is about $520 million. The PCI values broken down by arterial streets, collector streets, and residential streets shows us that our arterial streets are not in horrible shape. They have a PCI in the 70 to 80% range. Our collector streets range from good condition to poor condition, and our residential streets have a very low, a majority of the streets are very low PCI. I wanna offer you some new slides here, and these slides show you some of the decision points that we use when deciding what projects to do and some important metrics. And one important metric here is the cost of restriping a street versus the cost of slurring a street. Slurring a street is an easy and low cost maintenance that can take a street about to fall from an excellent street to an okay street. back to excellent shape can be a very good investment in the street to add a lot of life to it. And if we stripe the street before we slurry the street, then we will be throwing that striping cost away when we go to slurry it a few years later. So we think it's very important to slurry the streets that we're about to stripe or that need meaningful striping. um the cost of ada improvements versus the cost of paving expenses uh we we believe on average a major paving project requires about 20 20 um money put towards ada improvements um we have we have strat we even have a new strategy to make the ada improvements using community development block grant funding and trying to pull that funding out of the cost of street improvements. The next graphs here show that on average a roadway project spends about 20% in design and about 10% in inspection. What that means is that for every 53 cents of pavement you get, Before now, or typically, we were spending 20% on ADA improvements, 10% on construction management, and 20% on design. Our current strategy that we're implementing right now as a city seaside, and we think we've cracked the nut on pavement improvement projects. Again, takes the ADA improvement portion of the work, puts that out in grant-funded CDBG funds. And then we have hired two new inspectors, our engineering staff, that will be inspecting our roadway projects in-house. And the design costs have been substantially reduced due to the use of on-call contractors and on-call contracts, which we think we'll be using for most of the pavement improvements going forward. We made a resolution, or the council made a resolution in February 2023 for a five-year pavement rehab policy. That policy was to essentially invest money heavily in residential streets, put the money towards critical points in residential streets, a small portion of the money About 10% of the money towards arterial and collector streets. And again, a majority of the money in the residential reconstruction. Here in front of you is a map of our streets. This map is a street condition map. that colors the different streets based on their PCI, their street roadway condition. And as you can see, there are a lot of orange and red streets, a lot of failed streets in front of you. The streets that are highlighted in yellow, circled and highlighted in yellow, are streets that we plan to, that we're hoping, that we're presenting to you now, and we hope to address in this year's street improvement project and the streets circled in blue in front of you are actually streets that CalAM, we expect CalAM to come in later this year and do a major water line improvement project and CalAM will be refinishing with resurfacing or slurry seals and making brand new again. This chart in front of you is a street priority list. It has the prioritization of our streets where we use the PCI value of the street and then apply different multipliers to develop a priority rating. And the streets that we're picking are essentially the highest and the worst. They rate the worst in our city. There are reasons why we're not doing the streets that are not yellowed out. Giggling Road, for example, we expect to be improved soon with the construction project at the main gate, at the campus town. Hillsdale Street is kind of, that section of the street is right by our right by our corporation yard and we don't plan to do. Kimball is an important street. It's a collector street that gets a lot of use. However, we hope we need to put a stone drain underneath the street and that'll be met. That will involve massive reconstruction and we don't want to put a brand new street and then cut it back up for storm drains. So this list is how we selected our streets. And again, you've heard before, we want to apply the right treatment at the right time. to the right streets. This list values streets that are about to transfer change from good condition to poor condition or poor condition to a completely failed condition. There are two projects that we plan to move forward with this year. We first plan to do a simpler slurry and striping project. This project provides some, well, striping is largely for safety. Coe Avenue, many of you hopefully you may have driven it recently there is very little striping left on co avenue the lower section has no almost no centerline striping the upper section next to the middle school as essentially doesn't doesn't have any striping either needs to be re-striped the section in the middle was was more recently slurried and resealed and re-striped so we hope to do a lower cost slurry and striping project at co avenue and then we also have some striping improvements that we brand to to to add at the Auto Center. Here's a picture of Lower Coe from very recently. And again, you can barely see that centerline stripe in Upper Coe. It's a little more prevalent in that picture. I should have gotten a more recent picture. For our street rehab projects, the streets shown in red are our priority streets that we are hoping to do this year. There's a section of Ward Grove which has essentially failed. There's a section of San Pablo which has failed. There are sections of Amador and Sonoma, which, I mean, they look like they went through a war. They're just loaded with potholes. The Marin neighborhood is an entire neighborhood of essentially failed and very poor condition streets. And Del Monte, unfortunately, there's a long section of Del Monte that has a lot of failing seams, gets a ton of wear, and we think it's very important to do the digouts and a slurry seal on that to make sure it doesn't drop to a worse condition. Here are some pictures of some of the worst streets that we're proposing. Sonoma, you can see it's potholes on top of potholes. Amador, we haven't kept up with the pothole maintenance. There are holes throughout the street. It really needs work. San Pablo, it's a collector street, or Grove, also a collector street, both covered with potholes. San Pablo has major uplifts due to tree roots and other things and major cracking. Del Monte has its seams coming apart, needs to dig out spad. uh the williams avenue area the marin area you know again very poor very thin asphalt very poor condition lots of lots of potholes um this is your opportunity you asked for and this is your opportunity to make to make other recommendations um these these streets that i'm putting in front of you are on the are on that priority list And they represent some of our other worst streets. And I hope if you're going to make a recommendation, you consider Lorenzo Court, Upper LaSalle, Palm Avenue, and or Highland Street. The intersection, particularly above Plumas, is really worn out and full of potholes. Again, here's a closer look at the Cal AM reconstruction area. We expect Cal AM to come to us later this year and present a project to do pipeline improvements, and at that point they will be slurring or overlaying that whole branch of streets. Some of our investment in streets is going to be residential hotspot areas, and we now have received and are using our new equipment, our new grinding equipment and our new paving equipment that allows us to do much bigger pavement repairs than just potholes. We are excited about it. Our staff is excited about it. Our staff is good at paving and they've been doing, they think they can do about a 400 to 450 square foot area of street, which is a real meaningful section of streets, a lane of street, about a 50 foot lane of street. in about eight hours and about a day's worth of man time, which should give us a lot of the residential improvements that we need. SB1 background, Senate Bill 1 is the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. It was enacted to address statewide transportation funding shortfalls and we are required to submit every year a resolution approving a list of streets for reconstruction and repair to SB1. This is an example of the resolution that you'll be presenting to or will be submitting to SB1 provided you guys make a resolution and My recommendation is that you make a resolution approving the fiscal year 2026-2027 street repair project. And if you have any suggestions for roads, I'm listening.

Thank you so much for the presentation. Are there any questions?

Thank you for the opportunity to make suggestions. As I recall, the 50-60 PCIs, that's still bad, right?

Yes.

So where does it become good? 70?

There's like a 70-80% range that's fairly good, and then a brand new street above 90%.

Okay, thank you. so it on a bad road or even on a good road on a bad road that's so the longer you take to fix it the more it's going to cost to fix is that a fair statement the intermediate roads roads with an intermediate pci they may they may

the cost to repair those streets could be substantially more if you let them go beyond the threshold whereas once the roads failed completely you know it needs it needs to be completely completely reconstructed and you can dig on dirt you can drive on dirt sorry you know still need to be completely reconstructed so so this is my concern so if you're on broadway and you make a right-hand turn going south on

on Yosemite to Sonoma by the schools there. There's two schools. There's the fire department. There's a housing complex. So there's two schools, a housing complex, a fire department, and two churches. As I recall, I'm pretty sure I'm right, I don't remember what it's at now, but I know I asked In five years, what would it be? And the gentleman that was so eloquent in his comments said it would be about a 30. Because of the impact on that road with the schools, the churches, the housing complex, and going across to Broadway, it's pretty significant. You would agree that if it's just statement 2 and 30, that's pretty, and right now when I walk that neighborhood, you can see dirt, you're walking on dirt in between the pavement.

I agree. That's a good suggestion. And if you want to add it to the SP1 list.

I can't add it because I'm just saying that is a concern of mine because of the amount of, we're talking about safe routes to school, but you got to get to the school before it's safe. And I'm not sure how road... And because of the two schools, the housing, how safe that road is to be on. So that is an area, especially being in five years 30, somewhere, you know, It needs to become a priority because of you have 700 kids that go to school there. You have the fire trucks that are weighed as huge. You have the two churches. You're building another housing complex over there with the 21 units, I want to say. All are going to be on that road. And if the roadway is 30 in five years, PCI, then we have a And it's not going to get any better with the increased traffic of the housing. And the school is growing, I've been told, in numbers. Therefore, there's more ridership. It's something I think should be a priority, if not this year, next year, just because of a concept that we're doing a lot, and this council has done a tremendous amount in safe routes to school, walkability wise, but some people, the old school people like to still drive and the road is becoming or is not safe. So that's my, if I would to make a suggestion because of the traffic somewhere in this process, be it hopefully this year or next year, at least I believe, a significant priority with the growth in that area. I'll leave it at that. Thank you for your time.

Councilmember Garcia-Zelman.

I just want to say thank you for having Sonoma and Amador Avenue as priority street. Thank you. Those are two streets that I've been getting a lot of comments about, so I'm really appreciative and excited about this.

Anyone else? Anyone? I'll just make a couple comments before we go out to public. Yeah, I think so. You know, I take Amador every once in a while, and I just imagine the people that take it every day, right? But what I want to get to is I'm trusting in the engineering and the numbers and the concept of, as you guys calculate what is the next street, how do we catch it before it goes underneath the stress hole, right? How do we capture it? How do we quantify it? And then, you know, because more than one, right? Let me, let me, I just end with this. That doesn't mean we're able to do all of them this year. That at the same level as Amador and San Pablo, right? We know it's other ones. So we just ask the citizens to hold on. and you know we're coming towards you you know it's just about all we can say uh right now and i appreciate uh you guys working it through and doing the best you can and i do know uh this does does does this include the hot spots

or no this is this is for the senate bill one uh report to the state but but his his commentary on the the entire street uh package did talk about hot spots which will be performed in house by city crews and we're planning on doing the hot spot with the paper improvement project this year so it'll be one big project

Right. Now, I got you about the SB1, but what I'm saying is this is the, I almost said the complete buildup, but it's not. It's different things for different streets. But in addition to this, we're also doing the hotspots. That's what I want the public to understand. They may not see their road on this. They may not see their pothole on this, but that doesn't mean we don't have that other thing coming.

Yes, correct. And there's certain sections where part of the road is a 60 PCI, but there's a section that's a 20 and that would be a hotspot and that we can get that with our equipment now.

Okay. And I think they've seen some of those around the city already. So thank you so much. My main thing was I appreciate the professionalism to pick the right ones at the right time. And so I trust your judgment on that, even though I think we all have some pretty rough roads around our neighborhoods and we definitely get the calls. Thank you so much. Thank you. Public comment is open.

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Okay, okay, thank you. Public comments closed. City Attorney, you had a comment or something I want to make sure we capture.

Yes, I just wanted to call to the public's attention that the exhibit A that's included in the packet is from a prior fiscal year and it doesn't reflect the list that was discussed by our Assistant Public Works Director. So my recommendation is that we use his list as discussed here tonight. and not the exhibit A that's included in the packet.

It's just an oversight. Right. No, you made the point about we didn't have the right one in there, but we're going to use the right one, which is his presentation. So thank you for allowing the public at home to understand that. okay all right what is the will of the council approval second just on the second it's improper it was uh uh council member alexis garcia zola on the uh motion and then council member miller on the second on the question uh now just

Personally, I can't say, no, let's don't spend the money on the streets that are recommended. I just, I can't do that. But I can be frustrated that a school, when you have two schools, two churches, a fire department that's heavy trucks, a new housing development going up there, that that's not at least considered by a branch be it this year or next year because that road is an accident waiting to happen cars can't drive on that road carefully and when you start seeing blocks of dirt under the under the roadway i think there's a serious issue and with the numbers on that road We need to be cautious of the need to improve. I'll just leave it at that. Thank you.

Okay. Anyone else? Yeah, I'll just say again, it's more roles that are just as worse as that section you're talking about. And maybe some of that section can be done by the hotspot. You know, we have more roles to do. So everybody's frustrated. No one's happy with our inability to do all that we would like to do. And I'm sure we're not the only city in that situation. All right. Roll call vote. Are you okay? Okay. Roll call vote, please.

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