City Council - Regular Meeting

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All in order. City Council seaside the success agency to the redevelopment redevelopment agency. A regular meeting Thursday, August 6 2026 5pm will come to order. A roll call please.

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I hear you. Thank you so much. We're good. I'm number three, which is invocation pledge allegiance. Uh, we, we have in a moment of silence and then I'll ask council member Miller to lead us and pledge allegiance.

THANK YOU. NEXT WE GO TO AGENDA REVIEW. MR. CITY MANAGER, ANY ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS TO THE AGENDA?

There are no requested changes.

Thank you. I do expect some type of a recess around a 7 30 hour. Our next order item number five is public comment. Members of the public listening to address the city council matters underneath our jurisdiction may do so for three minutes. We ask that you hold your comments on items that are on the agenda today. Item is called. This is the time to comment on presentation items. It is beneficial if you state your name, public comment is open.

members of the council city manager and city attorney bobby maxwell resident of seaside i'd like to give a little shout out to the chief and the event that went on last night the national night out it was a huge success and i'd also like to shout out to some young staff people that are working at the oldermeyer center in the front office area their names are Natanya Vega Vanessa Cruz Karen Lorenzo and Asia Wilson and they're the front desk staff taking over for Pam Miller who was there for many many years and they have not skipped a beat they are doing a wonderful job and uh welcome addition and they're they're very young so hopefully they'll be there for a while some of them so i just want i appreciate them public comment remains open good evening uh city council

good evening city council good evening this evening i stand before you humbled and honored to share with you that of december 2nd this past sunday i became the proud pastor of the ocean view baptist church which is located at 1200 amador this afternoon i came to recognize a familiar face turning the corner that of council member alexis uh which reminded me there might be a council meeting tonight so i wanted to come down to address the council tonight only to thank honorable mayor ian oglesby chief borges for being in attendance also on the program at my request my to my surprise i came tonight coming up the steps i came tonight because at the celebration coming up steps was council member alex miller trying to get through it, I know I got three minutes. To my surprise, he came up the steps and that brought great joy and it was a surprise to me. So tonight I came and wanted to just share about the celebration. At the height of the attending arrivals, that's when council came up the steps and it brought joy. And I wanted to thank him personally tonight as the others. I want to remind us that my cousin, and I'm saying this for a reason, not to slight anybody, he retained your chair that you now retain, and you're doing a good job in that chair, Mr. Mayor. The Honorable Jerry Smith. We being a pastor of this church in this neighborhood, I've noticed Councilmember Alexis frequent the intersection where the church is located. Some years back, my aunt, started a group in a town when the crime was at a height, it was called the Yellow Jackets. They took pride in the community, in the neighborhoods, and so forth. They took pride. My grandmother resided at 1129 Amador. As a child, I sat on her porch My father's godmother resided at 1198 Amador. My babysitter was at 1209 Amador and another address at 1246 Amador. Why am I making mention and point emphasis on Amador at this intersection where hopefully this is not a pothole that's on this street? But when I saw Councilmember Alexis turn in the corner again tonight, I wanted to get here just to thank you, Mr. Mayor, thank you all, the well-wishers, Chief Borges, and so forth, and wanted to personally thank you again. And all that that I said, you know, the neighborhood watch, Yellow Jackets back in the day, we were there. We know what they did, took pride in those neighborhoods, and so I wanted to invite you, and I'm done. We wanted to invite you. Whenever you see the door open, come on in and enjoy the worship experience with us. I wanted to personally invite you. That's why I came tonight.

Thank you all, be nice.

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. Laura, you now have the floor to make a public comment.

Good evening, Mayor and City Council. I want to speak tonight about something larger than one development project. I want to speak about fairness, community investment, and the kind of city Seaside chooses to be. For decades, the Bakewell family has invested in Seaside, not only through development but through service to our community. They have supported local toy drives, helped build neighborhoods, and contributed resources that continue to benefit our residents. When the Highlands were developed, the Bakewell family did not simply build homes and leave. They gifted the city sofa field and the community center, investments that have served generations of seaside families. Today, they are continuing that commitment by building affordable housing near Victory Temple Church, helping address the serious housing instability affecting families throughout Monterey County. They are also involved in the Pacific landings at Seaside Development, another major investment in Seaside's future. Every developer leaves a legacy. Some developers simply build houses and others help build communities. That is why I'm concerned by the level of opposition surrounding the main gate RFP. Our city manager has repeatedly stated that the process was conducted properly and that there was no impropriety. If there are legitimate concerns, they should be addressed with evidence, facts and professionalism, not through political pressure or by encouraging residents to attack the city or the developer. And I cannot help but ask a difficult question. The mayor of Seaside is black. The Bakewell family is black. If either of them were not, would we be seeing the same level of opposition? Would there be the same energy surrounding this project? The implication is clear and we see you. I do not claim to know what is in anyone's heart, but I believe it is a fair question for our community to reflect on. If the concerns are truly about the RFP process, then let us remain focused on the facts. If there's evidence that the process was improper presented, but when the process has been reviewed and led by the city manager, we should not allow political agendas or election season rhetoric to turn a respected developer and city leaders into a target. We should remember that not every developer has been offered the same commitment to Seaside. Shea Homes built the enclave with homes selling for millions of dollars, yet the community did not receive a new park, a community center, or a comparable public benefit. At the same time, some of these same voices are opposing Main Gate, a courthouse that could bring thousands of employees, people who would eat in our restaurants, buy gas, shop in our stores, support local businesses that may never have otherwise visited. Seaside did not become strong because we all look alike, think alike, or come from the same background. Seaside became strong because people from every background came together, worked together, and believed in something greater than ourselves. Let us stand for fairness, opportunity, transparency, and progress. Because when Seaside stands together, we're not just strong, we're unstoppable. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. The caller ending in two to eight seven. You can now make your public comment.

Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Thank you. Well, this is Peter Kaiser, a long time resident. As we just had a moment in silence, I would like to expand on that with some prayer. Lord, we, we adore you. We glorify you. Thank you for sending your son to die for our sins as we surrender to him. be available to be with him in heaven with the rest of the saints. And we are sorry for our sins where we missed the mark. Help us to know and follow your will. Give this city council wisdom tonight and biblical responsibility and have a good, strong, biblically responsible and biblical worldview. Thank you, Lord, for blessing us all with the ability to have resources to live here on the peninsula in this beautiful place and city help us to be generous to support others who are less fortunate and help us to know and do your will that there would be a great revival in this city and in this state and help protect the children freeborns near seaside planned parenthood thank you for the 57 planned parenthood clinics who have closed since 1920, 2025 rather, and help the Congress to reinstate that ban on federal money, the $800 million a year, which normally goes to Planned Parenthood. And it was stopped last year, but it wasn't renewed yet. Help that to be renewed immediately in Jesus' name. And Lord, help anyone who's considering running for office that they would hopefully follow some of these qualifications, that they would follow carefully and not be really extreme on this global warming alarmism, help them to not want to have free college for all, especially non-citizens, and help them to be against the union control of the Sacramento legislature. and help them to be against DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion. We want to have merit-based hirings, not quotas and so forth, and help them to be for a balanced budget and lower taxes and supporting Propositions 42 and 43, where we need to have a two-thirds majority of all the voters, citizens, to pass raising of taxes. And they would be against raising taxes of courses and, um, help them to be for overturning the Obergefell decision, the LGBT overtaking 30 States, traditional marriage laws, help them to be against CRT and be a pro-life and help them to be in favor of voter ID and proposition 30 39. And God bless you all that may the most high character win.

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. Paris, you now have the floor to make a public comment.

Good evening. My name is Paris Charles, and I recently graduated from high school. I wanted to come on here to personally thank the mayor and city council for their support in youth programs like Seaside Rising, which has helped me build skills in leadership, community engagement, and has equipped me with life skills and entrepreneurship in the college pathway. Without the city's support, this program wouldn't have been able to help and touch students such as myself, um so thank you for pouring into me as i continue my college in george and college i will come back and pour into the community that has pointed to me thank you and i yield the rest of my time and you're right

Hello. So I just want to come and ask you all to just have about two minutes of silence with me for our city. And I just believe that there's some rumbling going on underneath and that we have to be ready here in this city. And I pray that God will allow the changes that are coming to be beneficial to us and our eyes will be wide open. So I'm just going to take a couple of my minutes to just have silence, because silence to me is power, and silence to me is going to bring on what we need. I trust and believe that we all believe in each other, love each other, and respect each other, and the right thing should happen. you

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I just wanna say to our mayor, I appreciate you and thank you for holding that power in here with me.

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.

I can proceed. Okay, good afternoon, everyone. Members of the council, the mayor, the city manager, How are you? Basically, I just want to make a rebuttal to what was stated with the first caller. The times that we're living in right now are very turbulent times. Not only has the environment changed, but the people that reside in it. And oftentimes when people are trying to make a point, they bring into the equation color heritage culture and instead of inflating what you're trying to achieve you actually deflate it because not only do we come in all different sizes shapes and last but not least colors but when you unite with others regardless of their background That is what incorporates goals. That is what achieves agendas. So the mere fact that they stated, you know, they're questioning the black associated with both administrators or members of the council, It's really obsolete. I lived here 21 years ago, and for some reason the Lord has brought me back from Sacramento. And at my job, guess what? Diversity is not what transpires. I am surrounded by the Hispanic community, and they have been nothing but embracive, helpful, and loving to me. And clearly I am Trinidadian. I come from Trinidad and Tobago. So I don't have to be Spanish. I don't have to be Caucasian. I do not have to be Ukrainian. That's what I got in Sacramento. Diversity. Okay. Afghanistan. If we come together as a whole, we can accomplish great things. And race is often used for division because at the end of the day, we're all one race, the human race. Thank you for your time.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial 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. Seeing no one here, no one else, public comment is closed. Public comment remains open.

I opened a beauty salon on Fremont, and I was trying to get some permits or change the parking zone from two hours to at least four hours over there, because I do braids, and braids take at least four hours to do versus two hours. So my clients are getting ticketed just to come get their hair done, or having to go and leave out what their hair have done and move their car about two or three times during an appointment. That's it.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone. May I know the members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

and seeing no one else here no else public comment is closed uh mr city manager did you hear anything uh issues concerns or questions that you can answer at this time yeah just one item staff will reach out uh with uh with the uh commenter in question and discuss uh parking two hours four hours to see if there's anything we do to accommodate business on fremont

Thank you so much. I will go on to item number six, which is public agency communications. Do we have any representatives of any public agencies? I will go to 6A, Seaside City News broadcast and comments from the city manager.

Yeah, we'll just go ahead and play the news.

Seaside Car Week begins Monday with the Free Porsche Monterey Classic. Next, explore the Automobilia Collectors Expo Monday through Wednesday. On Friday, the Patek Monterey arrives at Bayonet and Black Horse. Saturday starts with Concours de Lemons on the City Hall lawn. Then, catch the Lemons Rally at Laguna Grande Park. Celebrate Italian automobiles at Concorso Italiano later Saturday. Finally, see exotic cars take over Broadway Saturday afternoon. Get ready to experience the sights, sounds, and excitement of Monterey Car Week in Seaside. The Oldemeier Center has been named a finalist for Best Hangout for Seniors in the Best of Monterey County Readers poll. Final voting is open until August 28th. Visit montereycountynow.com slash bestof to cast your vote and support Seaside. Starting August 10th, City of Seaside employee email addresses will use at seasideca.gov instead of at ci.seaside.ca.us. Emails sent to existing city addresses will still be received so residents can continue contacting city staff without interruption. The City of Seaside is accepting applications for the FY 2026 to 2027 Youth Opportunity Grant Program. Eligible organizations may apply for funding to support programs serving seaside youth age 24 and younger. Applications are due by 5pm on August 7, 2026. Learn more on the City of Seaside website. Mi Tierra Mercado y Taqueria is celebrating its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, August 7th at 10.30 a.m. Join the celebration at 1000 Broadway Avenue in Seaside. Come celebrate this exciting new addition to Seaside and help welcome Mi Tierra Mercado y Taqueria to the community. The City of Seaside Older Adults Program will host a community flea market on Saturday, August 8, 2026, from 930 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Oldemeyer Center, located at 986 Hillby Avenue. Shoppers can browse clothing, kitchenware, books, toys, home decor, and more. Seaside is painting the town purple in support of Relay for Life of the Salinas Valley. Join the community. Monday, August 10th at 4 p.m. on the City Hall lawn, 440 Harcourt Avenue. Come together and help show support for those affected by cancer. The third annual overdose and drug awareness symposium will be held Thursday August 13 from five to 8pm at the old Meyer Center. attendees can learn about youth drug trends prevention efforts and family resources dinner childcare and Spanish interpretation will be available. register online through event right join the conversation connect with local resources and help build a safer healthier future for Monterey county youth and families. Monterey County LAF Co is seeking a public member to help represent residents and support orderly growth, open space protection, and efficient government services. Applicants must live in Monterey County and cannot work for the county, a city, or a special district. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday, August 14th. Visit www.monterey.lafco.ca.gov for details. Help shape the future of Monterey County. Your voice, your community, your impact. Seaside residents can schedule low-cost spay or neuter services for cats and dogs on August 25th. The clinic will be held at 1271 Canyon Del Rey Boulevard in the empty lot by Chili's Restaurant. Services cost $25. Call or text 9259-671-001 for an appointment. Schedule an appointment today to support your pet's health. For more information on city events, programs, traffic updates, and community announcements, visit the City of Seaside website and follow us on social media. Thank you for watching.

i just want to reiterate that the youth opportunity grant program uh formerly known as the social services grant program applications are due tomorrow at by 5 pm so for those community groups interested please submit your applications by tomorrow thank you uh thank you mr manager next we'll go to item number seven presentations a presentation of a proclamation recognizing the monterey bay sirens

Women's Soccer Club for their inaugural season and the USLW League NorCal Division Championship. Mr. City Manager.

Yeah. Mayors and members of the City Council, before the proclamation, I would like to briefly recognize the broader partnership that helped make tonight happen and especially meaningful. Earlier this year, the City of Seaside entered into its first community partnership agreement with the Monterey Bay Football Club. We saw it as an opportunity to support economic development, to support tourism, promote our local businesses, strengthen our community pride, and build a closer connection between the club and the city it calls home. At the time, we didn't fully appreciate the partnership would also give us the opportunity to support the growth of women's soccer on the Central Coast. On January 27th, Monterey Bay FC announced a creation of its USLW usl women's league team and on march 28th the monterey bay sirens name and identity were official officially unveiled just a few months later we watched the sirens turn an inaugural season into a championship season that achievement speaks to the talent and determination of those athletes the leadership of their coaches and organizations and what makes it possible when a community embraces a new opportunity the sirens have given us given our region more than just a winning team They've given young women and girls yet another opportunity to see themselves competing, leading, and succeeding at the highest levels. We're incredibly proud that this story is unfolding here at Seaside, and we look forward to continuing this partnership built around community, opportunity, and shared success. Congratulations to the Monterey Bay Sirens on an extraordinary inaugural season and a well-earned championship. Mayor, prior to the proclamation, I would like to ask if our special guests, Oliver Weiss, the chairman of head of sporting staff, and Laura Van Wert, head coach of the Sirens and CSUMB women's soccer team if they would like to provide any brief remarks.

Greg, City Council Mayor, thank you very much for having us today. This is something we're very proud of and I also want to recognize Laura, our head coach, right? Katie, the voice of the sirens, Travis, the head of sponsorship, Bruce, our vice president, and we have our photographers here as well, too. It's very important for us. We feel that as a professional soccer club, which on the main side has been here for five years, We want to be a real community asset. But it was also very important for all of us to make sure that young girls and women have the same opportunity as our men's side. And I think with the diversity that Seaside have, we're extremely proud that we were able to pull this team out. We wanted to thank you for your support. We're very proud to play in this community. We're far from being done. I know you're lighting up the courthouse every time we actually win the game. which we want a lot more on the men's side. We've lost more games than we have. We're not used to losing, but you know what? It's nice for the women to come in, the girls to show us how to actually win and how those can be embraced. But more importantly than winning, we want to give opportunities that didn't stand here before. And with your support, you can be rest assured we will do our utmost best that we are the greatest community partner you will have and embrace everybody who wants to be part of it because the beauty of football is that no matter what race no matter what background no matter where you're coming from for 90 minutes we all come together and support the community and that's what we stand for so thank you again for having us

I'm not sure I need to read this. Is this working? Okay. Not sure I need to read this because, see, Maggie just took all my thunder. We just read it all, right? But we're so proud of the sirens, I will take the time to read it.

That's okay with you guys.

The City of Seaside Proclamation recognizing the Monterey Bay Sirens Women's Football Club on their inaugural season, 2026 USLW League NorCal Division Championship. Whereas the City of Seaside proudly celebrates organizations that inspire excellence, foster community pride, and create opportunities for youth, aspiring athletes throughout the Monterey Bay. And whereas the Monterey Bay Sabres Women's Football Club was established in 2026 as the newest member of the United Soccer League W League, providing Central Coast with its first pre-professional women's soccer team and expanding opportunities for talented female athletes to compete at an elite level while pursuing their educational professional goals. And whereas the USLW League serves the nation's serve as the nation's premier pre professional women's soccer league developing the next generation of players, coaches and leaders. While strengthening the pathways between collegiate and professional soccer and advancing equity and opportunities within the sport and whereas. In this historic inaugural season, the Monterey Bay Sirens immediately established themselves as one of the Northern California's premier clubs by capturing the 2026 USLW League NorCal Division Championship, demonstrating exceptional teamwork, determination, sportsmanship, competitive excellence, and, whereas under leadership of head coach Larry Van Work, The Sirens have united talented athletes from across the region while inspiring young girls throughout Monterey County to pursue their dreams both on and off the field, providing their dedication, perseverance, and community support can build a championship culture from day one. And whereas the Monterey Bay Sirens have strengthened the regional growing soccer community by providing local families with the opportunities to support elite women athletics, close to home while serving as ambassadors for the value of leadership, inclusion, resilience, and community engagement throughout the Monterey Bay. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Seaside do hereby congratulate and recognize the Monterey Bay Sirens Women's Football Club for an extraordinary inaugural season and commend the organization on winning the 2026 United Soccer League W League No Cow Division Championship. We have further proclaimed that the City of Seaside extends a sincere appreciation to the players, coaches, staff, ownership, volunteers, supporters, and families who committed. Commitment has helped establish a lasting legacy for women's soccer on the Central Coast and inspire future generation of athletes. In witness thereof, we hereby fix our signature This day, August 6th, 2026, Ian Oglesby, Mayor of the City of Seaside.

All right, let's take a picture in three, two, one.

And congratulations. Thank you so much. I think in there, and then I'm going to give you guys whatever else wants to say a few words, but in there I heard a couple of times where, you know, someone talked about, you know, DEI is not a good thing, but diversity has no color. inclusion has no race right and equity has no bounds and we see that we appreciate the group of you coming together and supporting young women within this region and particularly being here in the city of seaside and to the coaches that just brought out the best thing in them to win the inaugural season and we know it's tough days ahead but but A lot of young women, young girls in our community and young boys have been excited about this year's soccer, particularly the World Cup. And they're watching a little bit more than ever have been before. And to watch the Sovereigns do what they have done this season is just amazing. So thank you so much. Anybody else want to say anything? I know the council may want to chime in a little bit, but. You guys okay?

Well, I'll speak for the team. I have a coach voice, but playing in front of the community, I also think absolutely brought out the best in each of the athletes. I don't think they would have played as hard as they did without the support. And I've never experienced that in my life. And so I just want to say thank you to everyone who ever supported us. It was an amazing experience.

Thank you. Thank you very much again. We'll see you soon at a game.

uh thank you mr mayor and thank you to the uh staff over there at cardinale stadium and

know recently i went i took some friends of mine who've never been to the game and they walked in the stadium and they said wow this is in seaside i say yes it's a venue that is an amazing top-notch stadium and if you haven't been i really encourage you to go if you need tickets always reach out to me we'll figure it out but the stadium is one that our community can be proud of and these teams are teams that our community community is proud of and i have to say i was with my daughter and i took my daughter to a sirens game and after the game she looked up at me and said can i be a soccer player daddy and i said yes you can yes you can and the people that walk around our city with mbfc shirts that's community That's community, and we're building something special here. So thank you for all your hard work. I believe City Hall is on your side, and I believe that we're going to continue to work together in partnership together. Thank you. And thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Anyone else?

Yes, Council Member Brooks.

I actually requested the proclamation. As a school principal, I've got tons of little girls that are always asking me to get more and more sports, and it's a struggle to get coaches. It's hard to be a full-time worker, I will call you, and so um my middle school students my elementary students are just in awe and excited um and so for you guys to be here and part of the community um they're always watching and you never realize how many littles are watching you so i appreciate all the support um and the collaboration with our city and i look forward to continue to work with you so thank you thank you

Thank you. Anyone else? Again, just thank you so much. You're shining light within the community, so hopefully we'll keep turning the colors on in the new season. So thank you. Mr. City Manager, you had any?

No, I just want to say thank you for coming tonight. We appreciate the partnership and we look forward to a bright future ahead. Thank you.

Yes, of course. Are we changing the lights blue for the women's team and the men's team?

We are.

Thank you.

Thank you. Let's go on to the next item is B, the Village Project Inc. Summer Youth Internship Program Report. Mr. City Manager.

We will have a youth internship supervisor, Zaria Boykin, come present.

Thank you. Can I point it this way? Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Hi, good evening mayor and esteemed members of the council. My name is I awaken. We're here representing the village project. Thank you guys for having us again. I was the intern supervisor this summer, just like last summer and the kids range from 12 to 16. I just helped them. This is their 1st, ever job. A lot of them are returning this year, which was really fun. And there were 2 new ones this year. Thanks to your funding. So thank you for that. they were able to provide the kids with educational support that they can use during the school year to also help them over the summer so they don't lose those new abilities they just learned they were able to go on trips and see what that was like and travel to colleges like they will tell you all about um and yeah it just means a lot that you guys helped fund them again this year they are becoming self-directed self-sufficient and just amazing wonderful teenagers and young adults before my eyes but i don't want to speak about the experience for them so i'll let them introduce themselves thank you

Good afternoon, City Council and Honorable Mayor. My name is Kennedy. I'm 14 years old and this summer I had the opportunity of working with the Village Project doing an internship. During my time there, I helped the kids with reading activities and outside playtime. My biggest challenge personally that I faced this summer was helping the kids with reading. many of them are young children and it's very hard for me to help them when they have various reading levels many of the kids that i helped were in between third and fifth grade so it was hard for me sorry they were in between the ages of four to ten and had third to fifth grade reading levels this isn't necessarily a problem but it was hard to learn to help the younger kids learn how to read one of the things that one of the ways that i combat this was by help One of the ways that I combat this was by letting the kids listen to me read to them so that they could learn how to pronounce words and form sentences. I also allowed them to read to me so that I could see what they needed help with the most and asked trusted adults to help me help them. Another thing that I learned this summer was working with interns and working with other people my age, along with my coworkers. I learned how to form genuine relationships with people who I consider my friends and coworkers. This helped me a lot because now I'm able to learn how to manage not only the classroom, but also other work experiences. Thank you so much for listening.

Hello, Council. My name is Shelby and I worked as an intern for the Village Project Summer Program. This summer, the kids and I worked on a project that helped the kids better understand their countries. For the project, I was partnered up with one of the kids named Zyla and we had to work together to pick a country and make a poster about the country and different facts about it. Zyla and I ended up choosing China and we looked up different facts about China, their national anthem and traditional foods and the language that they speak there. Me and Zyla were both able to learn many new things about these posters and one thing that Zyla found interesting was how China's national dish was Peking duck. She actually found that pretty interesting. Something that was a little hard while working with the kids was trying to get them to focus and sit down in one spot. But once we got to the cutting and the gluing and stuff, they were able to sit down and have fun. So while being able to learn about their countries. In the end, having the highs and the lows helped the kids experience different things and be involved. And at the end of the day, the projects came out good and everybody learned something new from each other's posters.

Good evening council members. My name is Eden and this summer I helped and worked on the volcano project. We decided that we wanted to do a project that involved exploding and building a paper mache volcano. First, we cut up pieces of paper while we watched an educational video about different types of volcanoes. Then we started to make and paint the volcanoes using glue, water, paint, and the pieces of paper we cut up. After that, the librarians read books to the kids and we finally exploded the volcanoes. A bunch of students used different methods and techniques and it was really interesting seeing the different results. I think this project was very successful, not only because it was fun, but also very educational and made the students use their creativity and critical thinking skills. Helping the kids learn how to talk through their own thoughts and actively seeing the results are valuable. In their schools, they may not be able to have a lot of input on the activities they are doing, and I believe it is important for kids to be able to express their thoughts and concerns. So it was cool to see it through the volcano project.

Hello, council. My name is Trey. And this summer, my sister, Megan, who was an intern for our main office helping the village mental health needs. And we picked three important black women, a piece of their information. I picked Queen . Josephine Baker, and Dorothy Hyatt. All three women were hard workers with strong passions. We looked up information on the women and made a show with each side highlighting one of the women. We added memes and pictures. and helped Morgan create a bingo game for the presentation so it could be interesting and fun. It being interesting was more important because it gave the kids a different view of how learning could be.

Thank you.

My name is Trinise. I'm 15 years old and I attend Monterey High School as a junior. This summer was my third year participating and working as one of the Village Project summer interns. Today I'll be talking about our excursions to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Morgan Hill Aquatic Center. the aquarium trip stood out a lot to me because it was a trip that was both fun and educational the staff showed us how the aquarium is run facts about some animals and that and they gave us keepsakes that we could also decorate the interns broke out in the groups with certain kids assigned also accompanied by an adult working for the village project this was a great opportunity for both the interns and the kids for us we got to experience supervising the kids while learning new things with them. But for the kids, they were able to learn about some of their favorite sea animals and interact with the aquarium and equipment in a way that enabled them to build on and embrace their curiosity. A highlight of my internship this summer was our trip to the Morgan Hill Aquatic Center. Similar to our trip to the New Parker Marina and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, each intern was assigned a kid to supervise during our time away from the site. Something myself and other interns gained from our time at the water park was a bigger bond with the kids that we were assigned to. For example, I learned that some kids preferred swimming all day rather than waterslides or playing games. This program matters to me because it helps me be more responsible and aware of my surroundings. Constantly making sure the kids are okay and on task put a strong part into our personal lives. Me specifically by increasing my attention span without the use of my phone. I noticed that being away from social media and not having the instant availability to reach and check our phones also impacted us interns in many ways. Thank you for your time.

Good evening Council members and good evening Mayor. My name is Jules and I work as an intern for the Village. Working as an intern at Ventana, I got to work with both the younger and older kids. It was a really fun experience and I learned a lot. I did not face many challenges with them, but even though it could be hard at times, we always worked through it by staying patient and getting right back on track. After a while, everyone would get more involved with their activities, having a better time than before. As an intern, I helped the staff by watching the younger kids, setting up activities, cleaning up, and making sure everyone stayed safe. Every day we had different activities planned such as arts and crafts, games, reading, and learning. We tried to make everything fun so the younger kids could enjoy the activities without getting bored. My favorite part was getting to know everyone and having fun while learning. I also liked working at both campsites for Ventana because I got to see how different the younger and older groups were. I learned how to work with both age groups. I've been trying to learn about nature, especially California condors. The program has helped me become more patient, responsible, and better at working with others. I'm really thankful for the experience the village and council has given me as an intern. Thank you for listening.

City Council and thank you for being able to speak today. This summer being part of the village project was an experience. We visited colleges like San Francisco State University and San Jose State University, which inspired me to think bigger about my future. We went on nature hikes, visited water parks, helped younger children read for 20 minutes each day. Those experiences taught me leadership, responsibility, and the importance of giving back. The Village Project helped me grow into a better role model and showed me that with the right support, young people can achieve great things. Thank you to the Village Project and Seattle City Council for investing in programs that make a real difference in our lives. Thank you.

I just want to give a moment to our interns. Those are beautiful. We all wrote their own speeches by the way. I did not write them and you guys did a really good job. I'm very proud of you. Hey, I just want to say as a college student, I go to UC Santa Cruz, so any banana slugs in the house, I just want to say that coming here every summer and being able to work with them and getting this opportunity from not only you guys, but also from Miss Regina has been a highlight of my summer this year, just as it was a highlight last year. I really do mean this. I'm extremely proud of all of them and seeing the people that they have turned into. As you saw in the last picture, that had more of our interns who were not here today, if it will go back for me. Yeah. Some more of them are on that picture. And they just are growing up behind our eyes, in front of our eyes, my bad. But I just want to again thank the council for their funding and we hope to continue bringing collaboration with you guys so they can go do more amazing things and help the community as well. So thank you.

Thank you. That was an excellent report. Is there any questions or comments from the Council Member Garcia, as well?

Thank you. Just comments in general. I want to thank you guys for this presentation. It's a very, very well detailed presentation. And seeing you all come over here over the past few years, I've seen the self-development and how comfortable you are when public speaking. And to me, that's just something that I noticed right away. And it shows how this is not only preparing the next generation, but also how you're passing these skills on to the to our up-and-coming generation, our little ones as well. So I just want to commend each and every one of you for great public speaking skills, for writing your speeches, and for standing before this microphone, which I know it's not easy to do, but congratulations to each and every one of you, and thank you for the great work that you've done.

Anyone else? Council Member Brooks?

Just want to say, thank you to the village project and just echoing with council member Arizona said, I've seen a few of you come multiple times and you've definitely developed and I see that they're pouring into you and the development into young adults is. Flourishing and thank you for your support.

Send a little stuff. I want to just think again, this is the official report. So we appreciate the village project for having this program and for you young people being part of it and given the official report. So it's more than a presentation is to report that we need it to ensure we're doing what we're supposed to be doing with the taxpayers dollars. And it was an excellent report. You guys are doing amazing things. You're interacting with the younger people in our community, help them over the challenges that they have in all kind of areas, teaching them new stuff. So I just thought it was wonderful. And this is a great investment, an investment in you, all of you. So we look forward for you going to the next stages in your lives, the next grades in your life, and coming back and showing us and telling us about the things that are going on in your life. particularly if you're in this program next year so don't stop doing the great things that you guys are doing so look forward to seeing you in the future thank you uh let's go on to uh item number set uh 7c city of seaside rental assistant program update mr city manager yeah this item will be presented by senior administrative assistant danny barantos

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, good evening, City Council members, Mr. City Manager, and our City Attorney. My name is Danny Barrientos, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Housing Department here at City of Seaside. And I will thank you, first of all, for this opportunity to be able to present an update on the item number 7C, which is the Rental Assistance Program, also known as the RAP 2025. This is, there we go, okay. The RAP 2025 program was funded through the state of California PLHA, which is the permanent local housing allocation program. And through that, we were able to secure $630,509 for this program. what it allowed us to do just yes right uh it allowed us to address a very very big need in our communities every community has the same problem which is housing how do we keep our folks know stable in their locations stable in their households and this program allowed us to address that issue and to help with the burden rents that people are experiencing today's society with the rising rents with the rising cost of living as an example the average rent as of august of this year for the city of seaside is two thousand two hundred dollars a month as opposed to what it was just a year ago of $1,995 a month. It is substantially going up and next year, the future forecast is just going to go up another 10 percent at least. On February 15th of 2024, this council passed the approval to utilize the PLHA funds for a rental assistance program. We were able to launch that program last year, November 12th in 2025. now what was this program for this program was meant for the residents of the city of seaside of those who were in the 30 percent at or below the area medium income and also had an appropriate household size based on their house family size it also assisted with security deposits assisted with up to six months rent or a combination of those two and all program information all program details guidelines and assistance were provided in bilingual services both spanish and in english What this program was not, it was not as done previously before in other opportunities is emergency rental assistance program. It did not cover rents for arrears. It did not cover delinquent rents or prevent any evictions. What it did do also is it did not cover for hotels, short-term rentals, motels, and also did not cover for those who exceeded the minimum income

Or did not live in the city of seaside.

Now, how many people do we help? This is where the nuts and bolts really hit and rubber hits the road. The total households assisted were 64 households and what we've taken the opportunity here is to break it down to. what were the main impacts on those now the numbers here of the residents in here touch on many different categories but the ones i really want to highlight is the first one the rapid rehousing these were six families that were at risk or had been already displaced from their existing homes and we actually had two members who were living out of their vehicles The other thing, of course, we have our seniors of 65 years and over. There were 15 residents of that. And the more impactful one that I see is the one with family members. 62% of the applicants that we got, 40 families had children of the age under 18 down to one year old. And that's quite a bit substantial number. In breaking that down to number of people, residents, that was 177 residents that we were to help of which 84 of them were children under the age of 18. and what was the average assistance the average assistance on here broken down every household was of course different one household too many five and seven but the average was three people per household with an average assistance of ninety four hundred dollars for the program The minimum that was assisted was $1,710, and the maximum was $25,200. And this was an individual or family that got assistance with being rehoused and getting assistance with their security deposits, moving costs, and of course, the six months of rent. uh our major takeaways from us is that this really helped provide a financial relief for the residents of seaside for those who are struggling while working one two three jobs at times just to make ends meet we help prevent homelessness help prevent evictions but the most important one is that we help maintain family stability keeping people home where they belong with their families and their loved ones Now, what worked? We were very surprised with our effective outreach program that on day one, we actually had 40 applicants received on the very first day. And the word of our program got around to where it even reached as far south as King City and up to Hollister and Santa Cruz. We have folks well over the place coming to inquire about our program. Um, the application process is very efficient, very simple 2 pages throughout your information, bring your documentation and just get you approved if we can. And the main thing for us was also the community support we got from all of our landlords. property management companies, and property owners. We had a total of 32 landlords who participated in this program to help assist the residents of City of Seaside. And that being led, of course, by the Hemp Plaza, the Hamilton Allison Martin Plaza, with having the most amount of participants in this program. And of course, this could not have been successful without the help and support of all of my peers within the city of seaside all departments guiding all the folks to the right location getting the right answers and finding what they need to help them support in their stabilization of their households And what I'd like to do now is read two of the testimonials that we have of the minute we receive the email calls or letters of folks who participate in the program. Thank you so very, very much for assisting me with paying my rent over the last six months. What a blessing to be able to catch up on my bills and so much more. I am truly grateful for your kindness and generosity. Second one is, I don't think I'll ever be able to fully express how much your kindness has meant to us. Your help in securing rental assistance during such a difficult time in your life made an incredible difference. While I was struggling with unemployment, your support lifted a tremendous weight off my shoulders. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. That is just two of the many words uh testimonials we have received from residents in the city of seaside uh and if i may ask i do have a resident who came here in person who would like to take some time to voice their thanks for the program if that's okay that'll be fine oh thank you

good evening again my name is natasha henry and i will um attempt to be very concise while conveying to you what this program has done for myself um coming back from sacramento after 10 years um taking care of myself and my two children for the last i'm no spring chicken so for the last 30 years and ultimately never having to depend on anyone but god and myself and my husband when he was alive this experience was very humbling because not only did i call mr barrientos and it's three minutes so let's go ahead and say i'm down to two not only did i call mr barrientos from the job site in salinas my intentions were living in salinas and ultimately with a job that paid a decent a decent wage being able to support to support my family. That was not the reality of the case because living here 25 years ago, 21 years ago, and living here now, the influx as far as rent was horrific. Not only did Mr. Barrientos right from day one embrace me, but he was extremely professional, proficient, efficient, and consistent. Even when things looked bleak, they say the darkest hours come before the light. getting in touch with someone to rent an apartment and then actually following through as a horse of a different color, okay? Everyone would accept the call and that's AI. No one is picking up phones anymore. So this gentleman right here has not only touched my heart, but he's touched my life because I've never had to reside with someone else as a grown 55 year old woman. Okay. I just appreciate his consistency. I appreciate the compassion and most importantly, the professionalism that he exemplified throughout this whole process. He was never belittling. He was never condescending. He allowed me to still retain my dignity while assisting me. So I think each of the members that are on board and Mr. Ogsley, is that the pronunciation? Okay, Mayor Ogsley and assistant manager, Mr. Moise, is it Moise? Moise, okay. Moise, I thank all of you and the city council members for making this an opportunity for myself to capitalize on. Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

And that concludes my presentation.

Thank you so much. Any questions or comments? Council member Garcia-Rizal.

Thank you, Mr. Director Barrientos for this presentation. And also I want to thank the constituent for sharing her testimony. It was really appreciated. When we're talking about the 40 applications received on day one, How many did we receive in total as a program?

In total as a program, we received 147 applications.

And we maximized all our funds within those 64 applications?

That is correct, yes. Thank you. We have expanded all our funding. Yeah, I know.

Were there additional steps or, and I think the constituents sort of touched on this, but it seems like you were guiding the constituent through the process. Was this the case for every applicant? And if so, were there other additional resources that we were providing as a city?

Oh, absolutely. One of the things we wanted to do was make sure that we touched on every person who was able to be eligible for this program. Myself and a couple of my colleagues, even for those that you can see, we had six disabled people who applied and also got assistance. Three of them could not come to City Hall physically. So myself, along with my other partner, went out to their location and helped them fill out the application, get all the documentation that they required, got it back, and were able to finally get them approved for assistance.

That's great. And that was going to be my next question. When we're talking about seniors, 65 and older, sometimes it is hard for them to navigate sometimes online forums or just come in person. So to hear that you're going to where they're at, I think really makes a difference in it. Thank you. 35 landlords participated. What was the outreach process to all the landlords throughout the city?

everything from personal calls to going down to the little cases in person, actually meeting with each one of them, building a rapport. And given to this date, we are known by first name basis. And it's nice because at this point, I know that for future programs, should we have the opportunity to administer one like this again, we have all the contacts that we need to be able to make that successful as well.

And for the individuals that were living in cars, which you mentioned, correct?

That was two? There were two, yes.

were there additional resources that we were able to help them with? And what I mean by additional resources is maybe certain programs, state programs, that they might be eligible as well to get back on their feet? Or were we just focusing solely on the rehousing portion of the program?

We were focusing mainly on the rehousing because that was the main important thing, giving them some kind of stability. I did reach out to other organizations at the time for questions that they were not getting answers to, everything from how do I apply for CalFresh, how do I apply for CalWORKs, where do I go? And we have a list of housing resources that we deal with every day and provided them that information.

Lovely. And our veterans, I see one of our veterans benefited from this program. Yes. What was the outreach to, let's say, organizations like Veterans Transition Center, or how are we making sure that we were doing as much outreach as we could to our veterans?

The opposite idea was actually to actually multiple different organizations, everything from including also the rehousing organization. There is also social services and one was of course the military housing. So on the civilian side, because one thing that stipulation on this had to be on the civilian side on the military side. And so we did reach out to those organizations and very successful in creating that contact.

And to those constituents that might have not qualified for the program, where they also provided other avenues in which they could potentially seek?

Absolutely. For those that did not qualify for whatever reason it may be, went above and beyond to say, you know what, let me find you another organization that may be able to help, even within this organization, within this area or outside of this area. So I know of two families that were able to find housing, one in Hollister and actually one down south. Again, getting them connected with the right organizations.

Thank you so much for your work. And I was there at the first forum that you held at the Oldenmire Center and that room was really packed. So thank you for your work and to all the team and all those behind it. You're welcome. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else? Mayor Fletcher.

Thank you. Thank you for what you did. Obviously, it's a difference maker in the lives of many people. I guess my two questions and a quick statement is, the people that we served or you served the city served yes how many potentially could have become homeless if the funds weren't in ballpark, you don't have to give me 34, 34.5, but would there be a significant number of people that may have rolled over into homeless if this service wouldn't have been provided?

Well, the concrete number first is there were six who were actually technically homeless. Right. Two in the car, yeah, and then four that were really close to being already moved out of their organizations. But I would say overall, about a handful maybe 10 at the most that we prevented from being homeless by helping out with this program helping them secure and get their financials under control so that we can give them that six months to secure themselves and secure their foundation and then my other question is obviously this was a

a lifeblood or a line of opportunity. What happens next year? Will this money potentially, the economy is not getting any better. The cost of rent is not going down dramatically or at all. Is there anything from the state or the federal government as it relates to future opportunities or other ways to provide assistance?

In the housing department, economic development department, we are constantly looking at what opportunities exist out there, total communication with our support at the ACD, the Community Development with HUD. We have actually personal contacts with them and they are actually proactive with us getting back to saying, hey, there's monies that may become available, see if something that you wanna apply for, see how you can utilize that. The one thing that I have learned in the time that I've been here is that when you are successful in spending the state's money they'll come to you and they'll be proactive versus having to go face it and look for it and they'll come to us and so at this point uh we do have some things in the works uh that we're trying to see if we can secure some additional fundings for this program or for other programs as well not just this one as far as rental assistance um justin my quick comment is basically that

I also had an opportunity to go to that first meeting. It was very professional, well received, very good dialogue with the residents that were applying. And I think we all, I was told many years ago that we're all about one paycheck from going homeless. Yes. And I think the number, you were very kind in your numbers, but over two or three months, that could have been 50, 60, 80% that might have been on the streets. And I think it's imperative that we do all we can in what you have done with that personal communication with those applying and those that don't qualify but have the need that you assist. I think it's... something sometimes we have to step in and try to make a difference and i think in the city and your reference and your staff efforts uh from what i've heard and what i read seems to do that and i think anything we can do because of the more than challenging times uh with the affordability and life bills and expenses uh it gives upwards people the opportunity to turn their lives around or or a fresh start and that's what we can do to uh initiate good things for their future as they plan their lives and make us better and make this community better. So just thank you for what you do. You're welcome. Thank you.

Council member, yeah, I don't have any questions.

I just wanted to highlight 2 things that I noted noticed 1st was on the slide titled what worked. I appreciate those are pretty much actions that you took to strategically remove barriers for our community. Right? To get the resources. So, I appreciate that. And then the 62% being minors. unfortunate but fortunate that you were able to get resources to them because that secure stable housing is really like the foundation for well-being of um and success for young students and youth um when they know that they have that sense of safety and a place to call home that really helps them just flourish and thrive and learn and grow so thank you for the work you did you're welcome thank you anyone else

I would just say thank you for facilitating the program, and we appreciate the comments from one of the participants. This money is real. It's needed. We appreciate the federal government and the state government pushing it back down. And I agree with you 100%. If they see that you're using it right, they will come to you and ask you. And I remember we were at the forum to kick this off. it was well attended and it was uh it was nice to see that the city seaside providing what little bit that we have and i know for those that received it it was impactful and important to their lives so yes it was look to do more in the future thank you thank you appreciate it okay we received that update let's go to item number d 2026 seaside car week communications and community outreach update uh mr city manager this item presented by assistant city manager dan muis

Good evening, honorable mayor, members of city council and staff. I am Dan Mewis, the assistant city manager, and I have a brief presentation on car week, which is coming up. And before I get started, I just want to highlight that car week officially gets underway tomorrow, August 7th, but we all know that there's already been visitors that came into the area starting earlier this week and they will linger into the week following. So car week, while it is only one week, it does uh go over a couple weeks there um during this time we are anticipating over a thousand a hundred thousand visitors to our uh region um they will they're anticipated to spend 130 million dollars while they are here um on the peninsula and over 100 charities will benefit from the events in hotels generally will be sold out and it is um it The TOT and the hotels that are sold out account for 5% of all occupancy throughout the entire unit on the peninsula. So Car Week is a major driver for the region. So, when we think about how we hear some of our communication goals, so we want to inform welcome and guide the community and visitors. So, when we think about informing from the event details, everything has to go from our 7 seaside car events that we'll be having traffic and closure updates where to park when you're coming to our area emergency access. And we want to make sure that we're posting it on all of our city channels, whether it be our social media or website, city news and newsletter. We positioned Seaside as the accessible Car Week destination and encourage visitors to come here. This is one of the things we did this year. We got some banners up. So if you haven't seen the banners on Canyon Del Rey and Del Monte, we want the community to know that we welcome the car enthusiasts to be here in our community. And then for when we want to guide them, we want to prepare residents and visitors and businesses and our partners to plan ahead. We all know that Car Week can be a bit challenging. traffic will be a bit heavy from time and we want to make sure that everyone that is coming to our community has that information readily available to them. So we've already seen this graphic here earlier today in the city news, but this is just a one-sheet that we have of all the Car Week events that will be in Seaside. I'll just push on Monday. We have the Automobile Collectors Expo at Embassy Streets on Monday through Wednesday, the Paddock at the Golf Course on Friday, and then our four events on Saturday the 15th with Concorso de Le Mons, Le Men's Rally, Concorso Italiano, and Exotics on Broadway. And so we have these one sheets available for the public. If anybody would like to get 1, we have them at the city clerk's office. So, when you think about for communications, that timeline, so we started back in June with this in sessions for business and outreach July, we updated our website event overview and the closure summary, and that keeps getting updated as things get changed. We've seen. We're posting it on our newsletter, multiple editions. So we started on July 22nd and July 29th with another one that was released yesterday. And we have seen a lot of spikes in our digital impressions with those newsletters that come out. This week, we also sent out some final reminders and scheduled posts on our social media. Next week, we'll be focusing on daily updates, monitoring, and rapid corrections as they come through to us from any of the organizations that providing the events. And then after the event, we'll have an after action report, which will provide some metrics and some media clips and then get some feedback from our partners as well. So, when we think about, you know, 1 of the main area of communication is the social media and our website. So we have a dedicated page on our website with the event listings dates and locations links to the organizers that are putting on the event. So we can check them out and see what's going on. We have traffic advisories on there because of a lot of help draft our media. advisory for our traffic. So they've been a great partner with us and they are pushing it out outside of the peninsula and their networks in the East Bay and the South Bay, knowing that we get a lot of tourists that come in from that area too. So we're already getting that traffic input out to them that live outside of the peninsula. Parking locations and public safety and announcements. I did mention the business outreach and listening session. So exotics on Broadway hosted 3 different listening sessions 1, 2 in June and 1 in July. Those were in person in zoom options. Individuals could attend those meetings at creates where we had had in the in person and you could go. The first one was primarily for the auto mall. And then we had eight participants from the auto mall dealerships in those meetings. And then the other two, we had 22 local businesses attend those listening sessions. There was a lot of direct outreach. The community development department, Economic Development Department would go door to door with the flyers to the businesses, reach out to them in person, invite them to come attend the events. And they're constantly pounding the pavement, going up and down, reminding everybody of what's going on. I'll just say over this last week, I've received quite a few calls from business owners just wanting more information, how they can work through this. And we're working with the Economic Development Department to make sure that we're staying in contact with those businesses, giving them all the information that they need to prepare for next week. C-Monitor A has been a really good partner in this. They've hosted quite a few roundtable events. So they had the first one, which was an event producer kickoff. So that was all the organizers for Car Week in general attended that meeting. They'd held a media roundtable. And they're really promoting the right path of responsible travel here. And so they want to make sure that those visitors that are coming to the peninsula during car week are given the right tools to be able to travel safely, be in our community safely, and make sure that everyone is welcome when they come here as well. And you can see those at the Meteor Resource Center at the Monterey website. There's a variety of regional traffic resources that we've been pushing out. So you can go to this website mccarweek.com. This is put on through the county. You can scan the QR code or go to that website and there's a lot of information on current traffic impacts, closures, and advisories. Those will be real-time updates as we get closer through all the events. Um, and this 1, I want, I want to shout out to the chief here, because the chief was able to and make sure that I'm exactly on Broadway was added to that. So people coming to see salt for exotics on Broadway, any of the events closures are now part of ways. So, if you go in and put it in Google maps. it will reroute you around there knowing that these are road closures are there so hopefully we won't get a lot of the look of these coming through that they're just relying on their gps now we'll tell them to tell them to go around so um this is one of the new ways that we're able to make sure that we can kind of limit the traffic impact into seaside for people that want to go around the event so a couple of uh upcoming communication steps We're here right now, the presentation, final reminders, website calendar and checks. Tomorrow will be questions on social media. So we're responding as we want to make sure that all that information is going to the public. To the public and give them the official information we start next week Monday. We'll have events specifically minus for that and then August 11th through the 14th visitor guidance and 5 shuttles. We just had a meeting up that up. So we were really. looking forward to hopefully having a smoother uh traffic impact in in seaside and then once again after the event event schedule after action report presentation and about all the metrics and data as we did last year and with that that ends my presentation i'd be happy to answer any questions thank you any questions the council member

Thank you for the presentation and thank you for the timeline on when you're going to be doing. Why? I really like the visual of that for me. You said there's 5 settles now. Where is the drop off location?

The drop off location is on Fremont right in front of like, on Santa Barbara.

Okay. And should we coordinate with local businesses nearby there?

There will be no businesses that are impacted by without drop off areas.

And then. I see we're sharing the county's information and see Monterey's information. Are they sharing ours? Yes. Are we on their website? So check, yes. Okay. You said that you held three listening sessions and local businesses participated. What were they? Were they shops? Were they restaurants? It was a variety of everything.

Economic Development could provide a more detailed list so I could get that to you, but we did have a variety from all the restaurants The main businesses on Broadway was the focus, but a lot of it is, I'll say that the businesses that attend every year, we do get a couple new ones, but I think we'll have the same ones that just come in. They're very, but I think we've also seen a shift to some, some of the businesses that have not been supportive in the past that are supportive now. So, I think that our communication and the way that we're working with them as improved, they see that.

And I know parking was sort of an issue at 1 of. yes areas on downtown broadway has that been addressed or did we make proactive engagement yes we are working on that and we have some additional parking uh we're still finalizing that information next week awesome and then are we proactively reaching out to to media and just sending them our information as well to To disclose when it comes to traffic advisories, or that's that's been 1 of the key pieces before they have a large.

We have a good 1 here, but, like I said, with a lot of those extends farther than the peninsula and we know that this event is more than around here. So that helps us get the outsiders coming in here with that information too. Awesome. what was the reception of the businesses that attended those listening sessions they're all very receptive um they they'll have ideas and those ideas and share their concerns the exotics team is very open and they work with businesses and their exotics has a lot of follow-up conversations with them after the fact to make sure that their voices are being heard and their concerns are being met so okay thank you i really appreciate that um i think that the most part the the

That was my main question. I had another one, but I forgot to write it down. Thank you.

Thank you.

Mayor Paton. Just one quick question and then one quick comment. The question is, during and afterwards, We've learned from past years and those that try to break the law, we've stepped up the game as far as ensuring that the roads are monitored the best we can as far as speeding and other things associated with that. is that a fair comment so our first department has been working extremely hard and collaborating with other jurisdictions to ensure that if you come to seaside and you violate the law you will be seen and just just from my observation just wanting to thank staff for all their work i see it daily on social media via parking or the events or Promoting seaside or other agencies cross promoting. I think it's been much more. Very visible and, you know, if you, I'm not sure how anybody can miss that. There's something happening in seaside or in the peninsula next week. But I think that the PR perspective. has been significantly upgraded and i think that's going to be hopefully a benefit to all those attending and those that may stay home they're definitely aware of what's going on because of all the work in the social media world thank you

I know that Concorso had to do a couple of adjustments with entry and that might be affecting traffic on General Jim Moore and then that's where we have our parking for exotics and the shuttle. Are we providing like additional traffic support in that area on General Jim Moore?

Well, my biggest concern on general was that the red was shut down to 1 lane, but I've been told that it will be open to 2 lanes. And so we have to worry at least about that piece. So we'll make sure that we address that other issue.

Thank you. yeah i had a couple concerns and they're similar i just you know limited the time where the broadway is closed on on that saturday you know it's just been a long time uh we understand when it you know you need to close it earlier to set everything up but you know if it's if it's closing at four and everybody's supposed to go on at four i know last year it was still still closed down about 10 o'clock to 30 when i was out there and so no we just look at that and how do we cut that down i know you have to open it up in a safe manner and uh but it seems like i think last time it just got to um uh broadway very very late and then the parking in those areas especially the neighborhoods uh how do we you know make sure people just not park in there no

Go ahead. We have officers to make sure that people illegally parking. And then we will be addressing that issue. But we are seeing all the outsiders hopefully that are coming in and meeting the social media and that stuff for the following. We're trying to provide parking areas for them.

Yeah, I mean, if you live in that neighborhood, everybody that doesn't live there is outside, right? When it comes time to leave your house, try to get in and out. So that's really what I'm talking about is how do we make sure those areas are, you know, just nobody's blocked in their own driveway. You know, we understand it's a public street, but how do we make sure people can get in and out their own driveway? But excellent report. Thank you. We look forward to all of the

many things to do during car week in the beautiful city of seaside just excellent uh uh councilman garcia thank you i just remembered um last year there was a an issue with people charging for parking have have we thought about that um like homes and individuals just charging for parking

I don't you're probably you could do that, but you're talking about public public 1 or 2 streets that people had blocked off earlier in the day and caught themselves directing people to park their clothes down the street. Maybe you're in the parking in the. Private parking lot.

We'll make sure that if we see any of that, we'll have a dress. Thank you. We do encourage anybody if they notice that on their streets that they're reaching out to us and the police department to have someone come take a look at it. What do you mean by us? The city. They can contact me. They can contact the police department. They can contact.

Your number is not in people's phones. So who do you want them to contact if they've received something that's being done illegally?

On the day of the event, she contacted the police department. Thank you.

All right. Thank you so much. Let's move on to the consent agenda. A approved minutes from July 2, July 16, July 17 2026. Be approved for city checks. See approval for society checks. I do approve a proclamation recognizing September 2026 as National Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Month in the City of Seaside. I approve a co-sponsorship fee waiver related to and all fees related to the Monterey County Pops Labor Day concert at Seaside City Hall on September 7, 2026. an amount of $5,762.75. F, approve a feedback request from Palenque Arts Organization to use the Laguna Grande Hall and Kitchen to hold their annual Die Salute Mentors event on November 1st, 2026 in the amount of $717. G, approve Mayor's Youth Fund contribution request of $3,000 from Seaside Raiders Chair Program to help cover the costs associated with their chair program. Geocenter Consultants, Inc. for supplemental soil sampling services for the pre-demolization and post-demolization of soil sampling phase two through 2C. Phase 2A through 2C for amount not to exceed $44,700 to be paid for by the Fort Ordinary Use Authority of Bonds. I adopt a resolution approving a memorandum of understanding with the Seaside Firefighters Association and the Seaside City Employees Association. Jay, adopt a resolution granting an easement to Pacific Gas and Electric for utility easement on the main gate property. The area is APN031-031-018K, adopt the resolution authorizing city manager to execute a three-year professional service agreement with City Data Services LLC for community development block grant program data management software maintenance support and mitigation services. That concludes the reading of the Consent agenda, is there anybody on the dais want to pull something off the consent agenda? Anyone in the public want to pull an item off the consent agenda? Thank you. We will bring it back to the dais. What is the will of the council? No motion to approve. Second. So we'll probably move to second. Public comment is open on our consent agenda.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium members of the public on zoom. Please use to raise your hand feature or dial star 9. if you're calling from a phone. The caller ending in 2287, you now have the floor to make a public comment.

And you can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Yes, I was trying to raise my hand on item D, but I'll make my comments on it. This is National Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Month Proclamation. And just some comments on that. A few years ago, in the wisdom of the legislature, they decided to close most of the state mental hospitals, and they released most of these mentally ill patients to the street. And some of them are still living there homeless with mental addictions. And I think that was a tragedy. We need to reconsider this and consider reopening these mental hospitals and allowing these people to be properly cared for. Sometimes they're a danger to themselves. They cannot care for themselves properly. So we need to reopen those hospitals. And also we have to be very careful. We should not, the voters made a mistake in voting for legalization of marijuana up to 30% with the marijuana strength of the THC and it's subject to addictions and subject as a gateway drug to going to other harder drugs and addictions and other serious problems. So we need to do two things, reopen the mental hospitals and not, not have marijuana as legal and we shouldn't have all these pot shops all over the place. It's not worth the small amount of tax money that we get in here to have more addicted people and younger people too. And some of them are going to emergency rooms and they have mental health issues and they're unable to be self-reliant like they should be. And many of these people are not able to be properly, uh, entered into the United States military because of these backgrounds. So please reconsider these two improvements as we celebrate National Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Month. Thank you so much.

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.

No other members of the public have come forward to make public comment. Thank you so much. Public comments calls on our consent agenda items has been properly moved and seconded on a question. All those in favor of passing the motion signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Nays have the same right. Abstentions? Hearing none, ayes 7, motion carried. We're going to item number 9, public hearing. I adopt an ordinance amending the municipal code section 2.02.490, increasing the compensation of the mayor and the city council members. The proposed action is not subject to California Environmental Quality Act, so to guidelines 15378. It's not a project in section 15061B3 and provide directions to the city manager. This is the second reading. It will be a roll call, Mr. City Manager.

yes thank you mayor members of the city council this evening's item is the second reading and adoption of the ordinance amending municipal code section 2.02490 establishing future compensation of the mayor and members of the city council as you recall this item returns following the council's action on july 16th tonight's action completes the legislative process necessary to ensure that the city's municipal code aligns and complies with california state law First after receiving an independent legal review with council adopted on the urgency ordinance correcting two errors identified in ordinance number 2034, those mistakes involved the calculation of compensation amount and the statutory effective date for implementation. That action immediately restored city council compensation to the previously authorized amount of $400 while preserving the mayor's automobile stipend at $300. Second, the council introduced the regular ordinance now before you tonight for a second reading. That ordinance establishes future compensation at the amount permitted under government code section 36516 and delays the implementation of that until the council new term begins following the November 2026 election as required by state law. Finally, the Council directed staff to retain an independent CPA to assist with repayment calculations, payroll and tax contributions, and recommendations regarding appropriate repayment process. That work remains underway and staff will return under a separate agenda item in the future once that review is complete. So tonight's item is a much narrower discussion than the July items. It simply completes the legislative process through second reading and adoption of the ordinance. This slide provides the statutory background on the ordinance. The last adjustment to the City Council compensation occurred in 1986. Since that time, the legislature adopted Senate Bill 329, which amended Government Code Section 36516 and modernized how general law cities may adjust City Council compensation. The statute provides two methods for establishing compensation. The ordinance before you utilizes a statutory 5% methodology calculated in accordance with the Attorney General's interpretation of the law. Applying the statutory methodology without compounding interest results in a lawful compensation amount of $1,180 per month. Just as important as the amount is the timing itself, Government Code Section 36516.5 requires that any increase not become effective until one or more members of the legislative body begin the new term of office accordingly although this ordinance becomes effective after adoption as required by law the compensation increase itself will not be implemented until after members are sworn into office following the November 2026 election this ensures the ordinance complies with both state statutes that were discussed in the previous meeting Finally, the ordinance also includes legislative findings explaining why the council may determine that a future adjustment to the compensation is appropriate. Those findings recognize that the responsibilities of elected officials have increased significantly since the last adjustment nearly 40 years ago and are consistent with the policy considerations expressed by the legislature when Senate Bill 329 was adopted. While reasonable people may have differing views regarding the appropriate level of compensation, tonight's action is focused on establishing that lawful compensation structure that complies with California law and reflects the legislative findings contained within this ordinance. Staff recommends two primary actions this evening. First, to make the required findings that this ordinance is exempt from California Environmental Equality Act, or CEQA. And second, to weigh the further reading and adopt the ordinance amending Municipal Code Section 2.02.490. Adoption of this ordinance completes the corrective legislative actions initiated by the City Council on July 16th and establishes a lawful compensation framework moving forward. staff will continue implementation of the council's previous direction regarding the independent cpa review and return again under a separate agenda item once that work has been completed and with that mayor this concludes my presentation staff and special counsel by empiric with burke williams and sorenson are available for questions thank you uh thank you are there any questions uh may i pretend just just one since the lawyer seems to be on the line um and i just want to i'm probably being very redundant uh

But from last time we discussed this, we just want to make absolutely positive that we are following with this second reading and the approval potentially that we're complying with all legal rules of the state and we're being lawful to everything that we know to ensure that we are moving forward in a direction that we can and hopefully should.

I'll be glad to speak to that. Thank you for the question. I can confirm that the proposed ordinance is consistent with the provisions of the government code, including section 36516 and 36516.5. So this ordinance is in compliance with all applicable law. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Anyone else before we got to the public? Public comment is open.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone. The caller ending in 2287, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Thank you. I believe there should be some looking into this a little deeper for lessons learned. So this does not happen again. Apparently there were, there was a misreading of the state law and some of these state legislation on the, uh, not compounding. And then also there was a misreading on when this, these raises apply only after a, another city council person has been elected and, uh, establish and appointed to office. So we need to have, just like in the military, you have lessons learned. So this, this type of thing doesn't happen again. And second thing we hope that with this, uh, maybe $28,000 of pay for 12 months, this overpay that the, the CPA, whoever's looking into it, you will have a fair chance to reimburse the city. Uh, so that it's not an undue burden on the city council members who are overpaid, but no, at no, um, result of their own actions. So that would be my suggestions. Peter Kaiser. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments members of the public in the chamber. Please approach the podium members of the public on zoom. Please use to raise your hand feature or dial star 9. if you're calling from a phone. Laura, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Good evening. Leadership is easy when everything is going well. The true test of leadership comes when the chips are down. Every organization, whether it's a city, a business, a nonprofit, or a family, will experience challenges. The question isn't whether mistakes will happen. They will. The question is, how are we going to respond? Do we choose transparency? Do we take accountability? Do we correct the problem? Do we learn from it? And most importantly, do we come together to ensure it doesn't happen again? That is what leadership looks like. The recent payroll area has understandably raised concerns, and I appreciate that it brought forward publicly and it's being corrected. The council members are going to be repaying the overpayment and the issue is being addressed. And that is exactly what accountability requires. But accountability should also lead us towards solutions, not division. As a community, we should always ask questions. We should expect transparency from our government. Those are the healthy parts of democracy. However, once an issue has been identified, our focus should shift from assigning blame to improving the process. Continuing to air dirty laundry in the public square may generate headlines, but it doesn't strengthen our city. It doesn't improve procedures, it doesn't build trust, and it doesn't solve the problem. What moves Seaside forward is asking, what can we do differently so this doesn't happen again? That conversation creates progress. That conversation creates better government. Throughout history, the strongest organizations have never been the ones that avoided every mistake. They were the ones that responded with integrity, humility and a willingness to improve. Seaside has built a reputation for resilience. We've overcome challenges because we've chosen collaboration over conflict and solutions over finger pointing. That spirit is one of this city's greatest strengths, and it's what will continue to move us forward. Generations from now, people won't remember this payroll mistake. They will remember how we responded to it. Do we allow one challenge to divide us, or do we use this opportunity to become stronger? Let's choose the path of accountability without hostility, transparency without division, and leadership that focuses on solving problems instead of prolonging them. Because that's what great leaders do. They don't simply weather the storm. They help others find a way through it. One team, one community, one seaside. Let's continue building a city that future generations will be proud to call home. Thank you.

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. Seeing no one else here, no one else. Public comment is closed. I bring it back to the dais. What is the will of the council?

Make a motion to approve. And then on the second of possible.

Okay.

Second, moved and second on the question. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I wrote a statement because I've been processed news for about a month. So, um, Please go with this if you can, if you could. So my notes say our responsibility as council members begin with listening, studying the facts, and making thoughtful decisions that move Seaside forward. I believe our role goes beyond voting. We should be mentors to our youth, a positive influence on staff and leaders within our community. We should celebrate what's working, our businesses, city services, our neighbors, and the many good things happening in Seaside. praise belongs in public significant concerns belongs in the city manager's office or when appropriate through respectful questions to the department heads about progress i don't believe social media calls out call outs of our city fellow council members or staff solve problems we should serve with honesty when shared goal of moving seaside forward and supporting our staff not seeking personal political gain once a vote is taken each of us has been heard after that we move forward together we don't have to agree on every issue but we do have to respect outcomes and keep serving as one council the philosophy of using social media to broadcast negative issues regarding senate council members or staff is not in line with recommended practice of legal california cities and to the point of my concerns I have deep roots in Seaside and I've lived here longer than many people. Outside criticism has stung and damaged in our community for years. It disappoints and hurts. And when it comes from city leaders, it makes me reflect on what truly Seaside deserves best. Recently, a serious mistake hurt public trust and divided our community. Staff worked to correct it and focus on solutions. in my view parts of the public debate deepen division we learn from it now now the work is improvement and rebuilding our trust together we voted as a council to take an initial initial action we voted several other times ultimately to correct it i accept my votes i'm using the word i intentionally there isn't a mouse in my pocket These are my beliefs. I vote my conscience, sometimes with colleagues, sometimes against them, and sometimes alone. Each member has one vote. Every member has the right to explain it. But after decisions are made, we owe it to our residents to move forward together. Healthy disagreement is part of good government. Dwelling in division only makes us success harder. finally i want to say this plainly i believe publicly demeaning city employees is inappropriate personal matters belong in closed session my aim is not to divine or aside blame assigned blame it is to help our council our staff and our community move forward together i believe that's the kind of leadership seaside needs thank you mr mayor uh thank you anyone else

Okay, I did have one question. I know someone called me a while back and they said that you hired two outside attorneys to figure this thing out. Is that true?

No, we have one independent law firm we have contacted to review this.

So not two? Not two. Okay. All right, I just want to say that I associated myself with the mayor protective comments about how do you just move forward? I think mistakes happen. But to try to drive that into the inner workings of the city. You know, I don't agree with that part. So but I agree with what he said.

Let's do the roll call council and agency member. Yeah. Council and agency member works. Hi. Council and agency member Garcia Arizona.

All right.

Mayor Pro Tem and Vice Chair Pacheco?

Yes.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby?

Aye.

Your motion passes four to one.

Thank you so much. Let's go to item B, adopt the Ordinance of Mini-Seaside Municipal Code Chapter 13.12 Cross-Connection Control Program. The proposed action is not subject to California Environmental Act pursuant to section 15061B3. This is the second reading and it will be a roll call vote, Mr. City Manager. Yes, thank you, Mayor. This item presented by Thomas Corman, our Public Works Director.

Thank you. Good evening, pro tem members of the council. Yes, this evening I will presenting the second reading of the cross connection ordinance change. So I won't go through the full background as we did last council meeting, but just to review that the State Water Resources Control Board, as of July 1st, 2024, implemented and adopted a new cross connection control policy handbook. So formally, our ordinance is referred to Title 17, which is on the third bullet there. And so this update basically updates all the references in our ordinance, our city code, to refer excluding Title 2017, replacing that with the cross-connection policy handbook that was dated July 1st, 2024. uh the introduction the first reading was held on july 16th at our last council meeting and so i'll just go down each each section that will change our ordinance very briefly and if you have questions i can answer that So the first section in the suggested language, the existing language in 13-12-03-0 with the adoption, you'll see the strikeout with the reference to Title 20, sorry, excuse me, Title 17, and then the replacement of that new language referring to the cross-connection policy handbook. Then again, in Section 13-12-090, the type of protection required. This is the existing language that's in the ordinance. What we're doing is we're striking the reference of Table 1 in Title 17, California Code of Regulations, and then replacing that with the CCPH, which is the Cross-Connection Policy Handbook. Next reference is in 13-12-110. This is backflow protection device installation. Again, we have a strikeout to the reference of Title 17 and then replacement of the reference for the cross-connection policy handbook. So our final recommendation here is to adopt those code changes in summary, excluding and replacing Title 17 with the current July 1st, 2024 cross-connection policy handbook. I'll take any questions. Thank you.

Thank you for that. Any questions? We'll take it out to public comment. Public comment is open.

Members of the public in the chamber, please approach the podium. Members of the public on Zoom, please use the raise your hand feature or dial star nine if you're calling from a phone. I know members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you so much. Seeing no one, hearing no one, public comment is closed. Bringing it back to the dice, what is the will of the council? Motion to approve. Second. So I'm probably moved to second on the question. Call for 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.

Aye.

Mayor and Chair Oglesby.

Aye.

Your motion passes unanimously.

Thank you. We'll go to item number C. Introduction of an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Seaside modifying Seaside Municipal Code Chapter 2.42 Conflict of Interest Code. This is its first reading and it will be a roll call vote. Mr. City Manager.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. This item presented by Dominique Davis, City Clerk slash Assistant to the City Manager.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the Council, members of the public, Dominique Davis, City Clerk, Assistant to the City Manager. This item is the first reading of an ordinance updating the City of Seaside's Code of Conflict Code, specifically the appendix of designated persons that's contained in section 2.42130. The proposed update follows the City's required biennial review and is intended to ensure that the City's filing requirements reflects its current organizational structure, advisory bodies, and decision-making positions. So, the political reform act requires every state and local government agency to adopt and maintain a conflict of interest code. The purpose of the code is to identify the officials, employees and consultants who make participate in making influence governmental decisions that may have foreseeable material financial effect. The individuals serving in designated positions are required to file statements of economic interest, commonly known as Form 700, and based on the disclosure requirements assigned to their positions. Keeping the current supports transparency, accountability, and public confidence in the city's decision-making process. So local agencies are required to review their conflict of interest codes during even numbered years. The city's 2026 review identified several organizational and operational changes that have occurred since the code was last substantially updated in 2022. Those changes include the creation and modification of advisory bodies, updated department leadership titles, changes to management classification, and changes in the responsibilities assigned to various city positions. The review also considered positions involved in contracting, budgeting, procurement, land use, personnel, public safety, infrastructure, housing, economic development, information technology, grants, communications, and other policy related decisions. The goal is not to simply add titles. It is to make sure that the positions with meaningful governmental decision making responsibilities are properly identified and assigned the appropriate disclosure obligations. So the proposed ordinance replaces section 2.42130 in full and incorporates the revised appendix of designated persons as exhibit A. The principal updates include revising the list of boards and commissions to reflect the city's current advisory bodies, including the Environmental Commission, Homeless Commission, and Community Safety Advisory Commission, while removing obsolete or inactive bodies. The update also adds or revises executive and management titles that have been established or changed since 2022. Examples include assistant city manager, city clerk and assistant to the city manager, information services director, housing and planning manager, economic development director, and the building and code enforcement leadership positions. Additional classifications have been included based on their participation in fiscal, contracting, procurement, land use, engineering, personnel, housing, code enforcement, public safety, communications, grants, or policy decisions. the ordinance continues to cover consultants who make or participate in governmental decision it also preserves the city manager's authority to tailor the consultant's disclosure requirements in writing consultants duties are limited in scope importantly this is a position-based list rather than a person-based list meaning that the filing obligation follows the duties of the position and remains in place when staffing changes occur So government code section 87300 through 87302 require local agencies to adopt the conflict of interest code that identify designated positions and establish the disclosure requirements. Government specifically government code section 87306.5 requires the city to conduct a biennial review. The 2026 review must be completed by October 1st, 2026, and the city council serves as the city's code review body. There's no fiscal impact associated with the proposed action. is not considered a project under the California Environmental Quality Act because it is an organizational and administrative action that will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable physical change to the environment. And this action also supports the city council's strategic priority of effective and accessible governments by strengthening ethical compliance, transparency, accountability, and public confidence. So finally, staff recommends that the City Council conduct the first reading, open public hearing, and introduce the ordinance modifying Chapter 2.42 of the Seaside Municipal Code. Because this is the first reading, the ordinance would return to Council at a future meeting for a second reading and final adoption, and it does require a roll call vote. And that is my presentation. I'm available for any questions that you might have.

Thank you. The public hearing is open. Are there any questions? Okay. Thank you so much. I mean, well done presentation. I mean, I think you just clarified every question that someone can have. 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. Carla Lobo, you now have the floor to make a public comment.

Good evening. Jeff, three questions regarding the consultants when the city manager determines that a consultant should have limited disclosure requirements. Is that determination documented in writing? And is that document available to the public? How many consultants have been required to file form 700 during the last two years? And how many have received limited disclosure requirements? Will the complete updated conflict of interest code, the designated positions, their disclosure categories and applicable consultant determinations be made publicly available online? I yield the rest of my time.

Thank you for your comments. The caller ending in 4436, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Okay, so this is Eloise Shim calling, and I'm not a Seaside resident. I did live in Seaside during the pandemic. during 2021 through, I don't know, just during the pandemic I lived there. But what I do want to say about the conflict of interest is I notice, excuse me, I notice that in some cities when a council person recuses themselves because of a conflict of interest, sometimes they don't say what the conflict of interest is. And they should. They should be transparent about why they're recusing themselves from voting. They should be specific about why. They shouldn't just say, you know, it's a conflict of interest and so I'm recusing myself from this vote. They should say why. So I think you should, you know, make that specific when you're writing the ordinance. Okay, thank you, bye.

Thank you for your comments. The caller ending in 2287, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Can you hear me? Yes. Thank you, Peter Kaiser. It would be helpful if the list of the designated positions who have to fill out the form 700 could be shown on the screen or the edification of the citizens of Seaside and the members who are gonna vote on this. So they made an overview of certain types of positions, but it'd be good to have that listed on there so that the comment who people wanna make comments and so forth could know the exact titles

and for the people on the dais thank you so much that's it 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 9 if you're calling from a phone There are no other members of the public have come forward to make public comment.

Thank you so much. No, no, no. What else public comments close bringing them back to the. Uh, it was a couple of questions. Yeah, I don't know if the city manager wants to handle the ones about his authority.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. Yes. Any waiver provided to a consultant by the city manager would be in writing and will be a part of public record. I have been city manager since March of 2025 and no waiver has been requested or provided to any consultant.

I'll ask the clerk if she can answer any additional questions.

The second question was in regards to the amount of consultants filed in the last year. I don't know that off the top of my head. We don't have a whole lot that have filed, but if I were to estimate, I would say about three to four actually have to file. But that's just an estimate. I can get a more exact number after looking through the records. There was a third question, but I didn't catch.

Okay.

I think we're okay.

All right. Yeah. Bringing it back to DAS, what is the will of the council? Make a motion to approve. Second. We'll probably move to second on the question. Any questions? I do have a comment. If there's a possibility when it comes back for the second round, second vote, if we could have just had a list of names. I mean, you read it all. I just want to be clear about that. the people that are taking these responsibilities on is is briefed by the city clerk about their requirement to fill out these forms when these forms are required that's part of taking on their responsibility and then uh let's see imagine when we talk about consultants i i can't i know it hasn't been done uh in these last two years, but I can't think of a reason why you would give a waiver, but the law says he's authorized to give a waiver, I guess. But that doesn't mean a person's not reporting.

That's what I'm trying to say.

You can answer it, but it's just, I don't want to hear nobody leave here in a situation of somehow a consultant won't have to report if there's a conflict. I don't see those things happening, but go ahead.

Typically, with a consultant, it depends on the scope of work that they're doing for the city. So if they are. doing you know very limited related to that would influence any governmental decisions you know such as if we hired a photographer um that probably would not require a form 700 to be submitted but there may be circumstances in which their work would require but depending on what their scope of work is with the city would determine their eligibility or requirements for having to file um that form oh okay

Did you want anything? No, thank you. Okay, so I'll call for a roll call.

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

10A approved co-sponsorship and fee waiver from the Action Council's Building Healthy Communities for costs associated with their Sequel Cell Awareness Walk and their Health Awareness and Education Fair at Laguna Grande Park on September 19th, 2026 in the amount of $5,783, Mr. City Manager.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. This item is presented by Assistant City Manager, Dan Mavis.

You can get more members of the council and me with assistance and manager and I have a presentation from action councils fee and co-sponsorship for a sickle cell awareness work. So, a little bit about the event overview, this is going to be their 1st, and sickle cell in this walking community health and education fair. The event will be held on Saturday, September 19th. They're going to run a park from 10 to 5, the walk. And from 11 a.m. to 1.33 a.m. with wind closures. It is the same route with a slight modification at the end as the MLK March. It will start on Broadway and go down, make a left on Fremont, and then instead going up to Shelby, go down towards the DMV. And then they'll end at Laguna Grande Park, and that is where the health fair will be. So the purpose and community benefit of this event is it raises awareness for sickle cell disease, provides education and community resources throughout the community, not just in Seaside, but it will be for the county residents that want to attend, supports individuals and families affected by sickle cell disease, and it's just another way for community health and wellness. so the city support uh requested in this co-sponsorship um is way of all applicable fees the use of the park use of the city stage and our bounce houses and then the applicant will be providing entertainment for the stage that will be uh riding the sound um this application has been reviewed by the special event committee already and comments So just here's a little map of the route. As I stated before, it starts up on Broadway, comes all the way down and down Fremont and then back to the DMV. And so the fiscal impact was You got the application fee, we're going to run a rental fee bounce house fee deposit insurance. We'll have 2 police officers assisting with the road closure as well as the public work staff fee. So the total cost is 57. 1005780360. And so with that, the recommendation is to approve the co-sponsorship and fee waiver. I'm happy to answer any questions, but the event organizers is also here as well.

Thank you. Are there any questions? Let's take a look at Councilman McGrath.

Is this the first annual sickle cell awareness event? How did this stem? Can I get a little bit of backstory? I will have the reasons come up if you can answer that question.

I didn't even mean that question.

How did this event come to be? And can you provide me a little background on sickle cell?

Give me a second, I'm sorry. My granddaughter lived with sickle cell until the age of 17 of last year, which prompted my family and I to start this walk. We wanted to start it last year, but of course, that was impossible. She passed away in July. But just having some time to reflect back, it started as just something To honor her as a walk, but it snowballed into something more and the more research we did, the more we found out there's nothing from.

Chief, everybody was just listening to you, but we want to make sure people can hear you at home.

Okay. There was nothing from 2 hours north 2 hours south or 2 hours east of us. uh regarding sickle cell awareness no pamphlets no camps no no resources period i lived it so i know it so like i said it snowballed into something bigger we're working with the red cross on the 18th and CSUMB, the Helen Wecker Center, to donate blood to the sickle cell awareness, blood donation at the CSUMB. We're working with Ed Rosso with Red Cross, or yeah, the Red Cross. And we're also working with the Helen Rucker Center already said that and the next day after that would be the walk to raise awareness and And there we'll have education for everybody from, we're still in the works of getting anywhere from the UCSF, the Cayenne Center, down south to Ontario, which is five hours north. That's the Sickle Cell Foundation to bring it up here. They're going to have a booth, educational booth. I'm trying to get rapid testing to see if maybe we can have rapid testing. It's not just... a one race disease it's a universal disease and even though the CDC has people testing for sickle cell at birth from 1990 on there's people you know with the influx of people from other countries coming in and know not everybody is has been tested you can have the trait uh there's i think there's two different traits don't quote me on that um but it's just to educate yourself on uh on uh on the different traits what it means um just to have just to have awareness on all all of it and uh eventually bring more here like tutors you know for people who miss school because of sickle cell um that's that's a lot

Thank you so much for that. And I really appreciate you being vulnerable and sharing that with me. I really wanted you to come up here and share some of that, Trey. And I guess I'll reserve my comments for after, but just that was my only question. So thank you.

Okay. Sorry, I apologize. It's hard for me to talk about her without tearing up.

Thank you, just just to clarify, and thank you for your comments in your presentation. Is this just an information or is it a fundraiser for cure as well?

Right now, it's just an awareness walk and educational, like a health fair. And we're hoping to bring it into something bigger, make it into something bigger, a foundation, you know, a fundraiser for, I don't know if there's even a cure. I know they said there is a cure, but there's That's a matter of opinion, I guess.

Some people from seaside as well as your daughter that have had this for decades upon decades. And I don't know. I don't think they've been cured either. So, yeah. Okay. That's helpful. Thank you.

Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comments and sharing your family's struggles with us. It's impactful and important. Let's just take off a public comment and then that'd be it. Okay. 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. Laura, you now have the floor to make your public comments.

Hi, good evening. I just want to thank the city of Seaside for being a city that actually listens to their residents. And when we see someone come forward asking for funds to start a walk for a disease like sickle cell anemia, it's just remarkable. And the fact that our city is proactive and taking a stance to support every resident in our city whether that be for providing rental assistance or now to provide the park for this important initiative i just want to say that i'm very proud to live in the city of seaside And I'm proud of our council for getting this item on the agenda and supporting a family member of a loved one. And I look forward to donating blood and attending this event. So please, I urge you to support this event and vote yes to fund it. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. The Zoom user, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the city council. I actually echo what the previous caller said. Thank you for listening to our residents and to the person whose family was affected by sickle cell. Thank her for bringing this awareness to our attentions and thanking Building Healthy Communities for actually picking up this baton to carry this mission forth for awareness because it is important to all of us and this one of the unique things about um seaside that we are a community so as said so many times before we are so much better together so thank you and this was annalisa mitchell thank you

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

Hi, thank you so much. Good evening. I really am happy that you're supporting this event and this topic. Sickle cell deprives people's blood of oxygen. And so it's a very devastating disease. There are some new treatments that have to do with DNA that are starting to be used. And I think the first young man who received that treatment is now doing very well but it's still at a very early stage so it devastates and it's often terminal and I'm happy that you're supporting this event and I just want to tell Seaside City Council how proud I am that you care about community, I think. I've never been in a city that really does care about its citizens as much as Seaside. And the programs that you offer really, really, really reach out and touch people's lives. So thank you.

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. I hear no one else. Public comment is closed. Bring it back to the dais. What is the will of the council?

Make motion to approve.

Second. Go ahead.

Who made the motion? I made second.

Okay, Alexis made second. All right. That's been probably moved and second. On the question, any question? I have comments. Yes, that's right.

Thank you. And I think this is a really important event, but an important topic nonetheless. When I saw this on the agenda, I immediately went to do some deep diving. And one of the things that stood out to me was that more than 90% of people in the US with sickle cell disease are non-Hispanic, Black, or African-American, and an estimated 3% to 9% are Hispanic and Latino. And that number is something that just stuck out to me because access to healthcare has become quite difficult. As a result of HR1 cuts that have come down from the federal government onto our local communities, we are going to see a lot more people possibly face financial strains when accessing these types of cares. And although there are new types of medications coming out and treatments, It is costly and it'll be years from now where it'll actually be viable for children and people to access these types of care. And I think because it also does have a pretty hefty amount that affects our Latino community members, it's important to create awareness because a lot of us in the latino community sometimes don't know about or or or don't talk about um health issues and how do we access uh these these um treatments or resources and how to preventative care is a number one uh way to i think prevent something from getting a much larger so thank you for raising awareness on this topic i'm really grateful for this and um thank you

Anyone else?

Councilman Miller?

Just want to say it's a very important issue, but have fun at the event and enjoy the facility. Thank you.

Anyone else? Councilman Brooks?

yeah i'm committed to health equity and community well-being and i know that as councilman brazil has stated um it disproportionately affects african ancestry people with african ancestry but as well as hispanic mediterranean middle eastern like you said it's not just one um so i think this is an excellent way to increase awareness as stated as well as to support those that are dealing with it so thank you for bringing this topic up to the public and i appreciate it and support it

anyone else yeah sometimes you know we look at this and we think it just affects african-americans just right and and the thing is it affects all races uh and and it's impactful what was uh You know, important for me when you shared your testimony was the nearest agencies that help people face this. We know it's in our community. I know not plenty, but I know more than, you know, more people that have it. But I didn't know their resources, their support systems were so far away from them. You wouldn't think it would be that far. uh yes and so you know something that we could do we could do something like this to raise awareness and provide that support system closer to home that's a beautiful thing and i think we just heard it from from someone in the uh on public comment about this type of issue and what we're able to do with it. So thank you and look forward to an impactful event and one that raises awareness and builds on that here in our community. With that, we'll call for the vote. All those in favor, use the regular sign of vote, which is aye.

Aye.

Nays have the same right. Abstentions? Hearing none, ayes have it. Motion carried. I don't know. Let's go to item number 11.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Number 11, council members' requests. New council members' requests. One, status report on cannabis dispensary agreements. Mayor Prochem-Pacheco, take your 90 seconds to...

It's just really simple. I'd just like to see an overview of the... canister cannabis dispensary agreements anything from past um donation requirements to uh i think i heard last time was wages anything associated with the program and potentially um you know if we can enhance it or improve it in that process that in a nutshell that's it And that's the discussion you want to put on the agenda? Yes, sir.

Okay. Anybody that... Yeah, go ahead.

I support it.

Okay. And I've seen Council Member Miller said he supported. All right. That's more than enough to put on the agenda. All right. Any previous... Any more... Mr. Seaman, did you have any follow-ups?

No follow-ups at this time. Thank you.

Okay. Let's go to the... Item number 12 is the City Attorney, City Managers, City Council, and Mayor's comments and reports on community committee assignments. Madam City Attorney.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, members of the public. Since our last meeting, I had the opportunity to attend the art reception here at City Hall on the Padre Trails Camera Club. exposition and it was very well attended, very nice event. I had the opportunity to attend the Lincoln Cunningham ribbon cutting at Lincoln Cunningham Park. The MPC town hall meeting last week and National Night Out yesterday all were very informative events and uh i enjoyed all of those and that concludes my events since last time thank you mr city manager and was able to attend the seaside legislative roundtable which was held uh uh with the

cooperation with congressman panetta's office several state legislators office were able to attend and discuss with seaside the legislative priorities moving forward i was able to host a collaborative town gown meeting with city staff and and staff from csumb on a variety of topics um able to attend the leadership monterey county military focus day several blues in the parks events which were fantastic the mpc town hall which was mentioned earlier Mayor Pro Tem's Town Hall, which was a great presentation by our police chief, Nick Borges. Again, National Night Out was a huge success, not just thanks to our police department, but to all city departments, fire, public works, the touch of truck was a very great add to the event. And I think people had a lot of fun. So thank you for PD for leading that charge. I was able to attend a Team Monterey meeting, which is a military focus-based meeting hosted by Congressman Pineda's office at the Presidio of Monterey with various military agencies at the table, just all focused on how we uplift the military mission here in the peninsula that remains, and also attended the Homeless Commission last night. That's all. Thank you.

Council Member Miller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I was able to go to the PAL Baseball Junior Giants their last day, closing day, which was fun at Coutinho Park. And then the week prior, I was in the La Palma area for our insurance company, the California Joint Powered Insurance Agency Authority. And I was down there for our annual board meeting and we elected a new slate of officers. So still keeping strong with that group. And then I was also at the Lincoln Cunningham Ribbon Cutting multiple blues in the park. And then of course the national night out. And, um, I was a true leader in our community, somebody who I really look up to and admire, Mayor Pro Tem. I went to his town hall, really well done. A lot of our community there, they got to talk to the different candidates and he's been doing these town halls for a long time. And it's a great way where people can get together and talk about the issues of seaside here from our chief. hearing from different staff. So I really commend the work that he's doing, the leadership skills he shows throughout our city and how he's so focused on being a community advocate for our city. So thank you, Mr. Mayor Potem for all your hard work.

No, thank you. Thank you so much. Councilman Burks.

Yeah, I too attended the Lincoln Cunningham ribbon cutting ceremony. Thank you to FOSPA, Parks and Rec, another great collaboration. NPSD's back to school bash where families were able to get support with registration as well as backpacks and bikes and scooters. I also attended the Boys and Girls Club Summer Showcase. It was an amazing showcase of all the different activities students did throughout the summer, including some of our teens were able to go to Florida to participate in a leadership training. So they're now able to support the younger youth. I too attended the Mayor Pro Tem's Town Hall. Hearing passionate residents was great coming together as well as getting updates from our city manager and our police chief. And then National Night Out, I loved hearing the highlights about our CHAMP program. Thank you, police chief, for hosting the event, seeing all of our community partners out there just ready to pour into our youth and prepare them for the new school year. And I took my husband to Blues in the Park for his birthday because we were like, why go anywhere? We have great music, great weather. And then I attended my AMP meeting. They're working through revamping the association due to a loss of a big contract, and they're still just working on how to stabilize the association. And that was it.

Mayor Pro Tem, I mean, I'm sorry, Councilman Garcia is on.

Thank you. I also attended the Lincoln-Cunningham ribbon cutting. It was really great to see before and after pictures of that vicinity. And I remember when I first started, I think Mayor Pro Tem and I did a walkthrough through that. area and it just looks completely different now seeing the children around the the new uh infrastructure that's put in there it just looks it's a whole different place but i think uh thanks to fosfa but also our team for making sure that it looks really beautiful out there so it was really great to be there alongside my colleagues i too attended the legislative roundtable alongside um all of us when Congressman Panetta came and provided an update of what is up at the federal government. But we also received reports from Senator Schiff's office and Assemblymember Dawn Addis's office and Senator John Layard's office, which was really great to see what's going to be coming down the pipeline, but also how these cuts can potentially affect our communities uh i also attended the national night out thank you police chief uh chief borges and our fire department for being out there with the kiddos um but all the commissions as well that i think we're playing a critical part in uh providing these resources we need order in here we're listening to you guys conversation so excuse me providing resources to not only the children but their families alike, giving away backpacks, school supplies, free haircuts, which I don't know how you managed to do that, Chief Borges, but thank you for always stepping up to the plate on that end. And I also attended my moderate 1 water board meeting. We, it was a very short meeting, but we approved certification for the final initial study mitigated negative declaration for the coral street pump station, electrical relocation project. And we awarded a professional services agreement to provide engineering services at that coral street pump station in. pacific grove area and after that we just received a community and legislative affairs uh presentation a legislative advocacy report actually from uh one of the legislative affairs uh directors at modern one water and that is all i have for my report out

Thank you.

Thank you. I hosted a town hall meeting this past Monday, and I wanted to thank the police chief and city manager for their participation. Most importantly of all, I wanted to thank over 100 residents that attended the meeting, along with six of the 2026 council candidates that participated. I thought it went very well. Thanks to all the community leaders and those that attended. Again, we attended the, as all of us did, the national night out. I think there was countless organizations that were there sharing information, health to safety to community awareness. I think when we do that and we have fun doing that, it brings us together. Thank the police department, fire department, all the city staff that were there. um i attended the week three and four sunday blues we had sun we had great music we had good community support a lot of fun upcoming is the final week of sunday blues uh performing is jimmy james along with miss honey and if you remember last years jazz festival, Jimmy James was recognized on a full page, front page article for his outstanding musicianship. So he's pretty well recognized throughout California. I attended the MP's Maury Peninsula Town Hall, led by the school president, discussion of services, financial challenges and their offerings. uh was brought forward a good number of her residents there was a back to back to a town hall kind of a program tenant of phospha mescal neoclina that park has the best views on the uh peninsula i think and the fossils efforts along with city efforts making a beautiful park i was also able to attend the lincoln cunningham Part ribbon cutting what I think is important and I, I think, and I don't know the exact footage, but there's a 3 problem approach to those 3. Uh, parks. And it was bought up about four years ago. And it was to make it walkability for all the schools, even to include across Broadway and those schools. And in four years, I think, by June of 2027, the vision to accomplish that will be championed. And government doesn't work quickly. But in this one, we accomplished quite a bit in four years. with the support of FOSFA, the community council and the leadership. So I just wanted to point that out. And lastly, I attended The youth football practice, it's amazing how well organized they have with all the coaches, with all the players, all the cheerleaders on one field when you have, I'm guessing, but five or six teams plus cheerleaders on one big soccer field. It's hard to coordinate that smoothly. The parents seem to be very supportive, very cooperative. Kids seem to be well adjusted to a new sport for many of them, especially youngsters. and i think it was a lot to be proud of when all those group of kids and all those parents and all those teachers and all those coaches coming together for a good cause of of teamwork and sportsmanship and learning i think that's uh says a lot about that organization and a lot of boston city that i think we're pretty much a sponsor maybe that's not the right word but we are a a leader in helping for lack of a better word and uh so i just wanted to point that out thank you mr mayor

No, thank you. Since we last met, two water meetings at the Water Management District to work on those concerns over there, talking about how do we lift the CDO and modify the CDO. The Lake Cunningham ribbon cutting was wonderful, well attended. Family members really appreciate how that park is being rehabilitated from where it was and a lot to do with FOSPA instituting that, pushing for that over the last several years. So we want to thank them and local homeowners around there and the city council for focusing on revitalizing that park tended to like others as a by the way attended our 2026 legislative session with our congressman jimmy panetta a representative from zoe lofkin's office no not her representative from senator laird's office and uh don addis office was there and we had a great discussion about how we continue to work together and communicate clear uh to work and solve on some of our issues that's facing the city of seaside but i want to thank the uh Councilmember Garcia-Zola for serving on that legislative subcommittee, ad hoc committee trying to do that work, and the city manager and his team for putting that together, coordinating all that to get those individuals in the room, even though some of them sent their deputies, that still is a task to get them all in the same room. I attended the art reception at City Hall. Again, it was well done. It's always beautiful when you can be in City Hall and look at the Avery Arts Gallery with the art collections that we have off and on. Gabe, welcome at the Veterans Retirement Day ceremony at the Steelwell Hall. And sometimes we forget that we still have quite a bit of active duty soldiers and veterans in our community. So it's good to give them a welcome on their yearly Veterans Retirement Day. And had an opportunity to speak briefly with the new incoming commander over there. TAMC event, regular meeting, but we did discuss important issues about how do we move forward with the possibility of roundabouts on 68 as opposed to nine roundabouts. I think they're down to about maybe three, and we're continuing to discuss that along with interactive lights. I attended the annual business council's excellent award dinner. That's a wonderful dinner. Usually people go and they're very excited because each business tries to take turns and decorates, you know, what is it, the 30 or 40 tables that are there. So sometimes you get beautiful table arrangements and And sometimes some of those arrangements need batteries because they're battery operated and a lot of little gizmos on there. And so, again, it was excellent. The awardee, I was able to announce the awardee as last year's city was the recipient. And this year's awardees was the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey Peninsula Regional Airport. The wonderful things that they're doing out there is just fantastic. Bringing more people to our community, getting them back and forth safely to the hot cars, cool nights. Just want to thank those to bring out their cars. Again, it wouldn't be as nice as it is if people wouldn't bring their hot cars out there. And so it was a great day of fun, family and friends in the middle of Fremont blocked off. Attended the Hidden Talents of Monterey County Artist Reception at at the Audemars it was well done it's it's a group of artists that are facing uh some form of disability and that's a way of supporting them and their artistry by having them showcase their art here in the city of seaside but it was nicely done i was seeing that there was a little conflict out there because they had rented the the outside of the ballroom or big room, and then when it came time for the reception, the big room had been rented out to, what is it, some type of yoga, zumba you know high-end zumba and when i mean high-end it was high-end those guys had to the speakers up high and so we love zumba but it was just kind of like it was double book and and and so we want zumba but we just have to look about and and de-conflict those type of things Attended two park cleanups since we last meet. Again, every Saturday, FOSS was in some park near you for a minimum of two hours. A lot of people volunteer more than two hours in the local park. Attended Jan Ziegler's going home ceremony. It was well done and it allowed us the opportunity, some of our friends and family opportunities to say goodbye to her in that type of public way. And so we want to thank the Ziegler family's William and we want to extend condolences to him. attended the uh ham uh annalise mitchell had a ham plaza voter registration and backpack school supply a day when they gave out i think it was close to about 70 backpacks and school supplies and and i think she registered just about as many uh voters but uh we really want to thank uh the ham plaza for doing what they're doing for theirs those kids and of course all kids were welcome to come over there Gabe, a little warm up. Welcome to the Seaside Raiders and cheer teams. Got a lot of kids out there, a couple hundred kids out there, and I'm just trying to impress upon them the importance of education. listening to your parents and coaches, giving it your all, and having fun. And I think they were real receptive to that. Like Pastor Welch said earlier, attended his installation, another fine event, And of course, when a pastor is installed at his church, it's just a beautiful ceremony and a good day for the community, particularly all the work that he does over there on Amador, as he mentioned a couple of times just earlier today. attended a rail meeting from TAMC and we're supposed to be sending a letter and request to the city manager to support the state encouraging and paying for a rail to come down to Salinas once a day and stay here for a little bit turn around go back they're trying to gear up for the Olympics that is coming and so we're just trying to get everyone used to taking a train from salinas all the way up san francisco all the way up to sacramento so that's something we're working on at the at the rail meeting um uh then me and the city manager team uh attended the team monterey uh hosted annually by congressman honorable congressman jimmy panetta i want to appreciate him for bringing together all the commanders of military uh bases and and uh installations i think all the way from mountain view all the way to um fort honda liggett and so like city manager said it was about uh 40 of us there i think me him and um a manager hall from monterey with only two uh so-called civilians there but we we had an impact listening to the commanders each one of them took time to talk about their challenges that they're facing and so where we can do things in our community to help them whether it's more affordable housing providing more daycare for all families and enough school programs for all families uh we look to assist them with some of those things I attended a Zoom this morning about water availability from The Water District. And I want to thank our team, your team member, Mr. Andrew and Andy Merrick for chopping in and and chiming in and talking about his concerns with some of the things that we were doing at the district and and type of letter we were going to put out. I think when he chimed in, we were able to adjust uh our thinking over there at the district so we'll appreciate him for being on call that's the first thing and then being ready to make a difference and i think he was impactful uh that is it uh we do have and i think we mentioned this on the agenda but i don't um i don't know if you guys know but uh uh pastor anderson did pass away and i and i think uh people knew about it it's been a while but we wanted to make sure we closed the meeting in his honor and um just say that uh um some of the condolences or kind words any one of us may have did anyone want to go before i close it uh yeah i'm not uh um uh pastor anderson years ago and i think one of the most impactful uh meetings we had is when we had those uh flare-ups with the uh murderers and shootings and homicides back in the day And him and Reverend Luss and Mel Mason and a couple of other people, Sherry Hastings, we all was called together by Chief Meyer to come together and form the group that ended up turning into the Blue Ribbon Task Force for Youth Violence Prevention. uh and so he was a leader in that he was a leader in so many other things in our community and i know he spread itself thin throughout the state he was a well-known pastor an intellectual and highly influential person in his own right and he always tried to make the world better no matter where he went as his ministry grew he grew his influence throughout central california another california and up and down the state but we just want to say you know condolences to his family and how much of an impact he had on me and the city of seaside where it is felt that he's no longer in this physical realm where we would interact with him and where he was able to mentor us and counsel us on the right way to live our lives. So we just want to again close the meeting in his honor and extend condolences to his loved ones and families. Thank you so much. I would ask that the city attorney read us in a close session.

Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, members of the public. The Council will have a conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6. The agency negotiators are the City Manager and the Human Resources Director Risk Manager. The employee organizations are the Seaside Police Officers Association, Firefighters Association, Public Safety Managers Association, the City Employees Association, the Managers Employee Association, the nonrepresented non-exempt confidential employees, nonrepresented exempt confidential employees, the executive employees, the unclassified exempt employees, and the unclassified non-exempt employees they will have a conference with legal counsel pursuant to government code section 54956.9 d2 on two potential matters of litigation and finally they will have a public employee performance evaluation pursuant to government code section 54957 the titles of the position are the city attorney and the city manager

and that concludes my reading i thank you so much are there any public comments on our closed session items public comment is open members of the public in the chamber please approach the podium members of the public on zoom please use the raise your hand feature or dial star 9 if you're calling from a phone ann marie pagan you now have the floor to make your public comment

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Before the city council goes into closed session to evaluate the city attorney, I respectfully ask each of you to set aside personal relationships and individual feelings. Please evaluate the city attorney honestly, objectively, and based on performance alone. Your responsibility is to act in the best interests of the residents and the city as a whole. The decisions you make today should reflect accountability, professionalism, and your commitment to serving the public. Thank you very much. Also, I just needed to let you guys know that I've been watching the meeting since it started and the audio keeps cutting in and out, both on Zoom and on YouTube. just to let you guys know that it's still not corrected. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Laura, you now have the floor to make a public comment.

Um, OK, just making sure the clock was reset for me. When people talk about growth, they often focus on cranes, buildings or ribbon cuttings. But real growth is much more than that. Growth is the result of vision, leadership and the willingness to make difficult decisions today that will benefit future generations tomorrow. When I look at seaside, I see a road map of progress. I see affordable housing breaking ground. I see. long neglected properties being transformed into vibrant communities. I see the Broadway corridor improvements, the San Pablo pedestrian bridge. We have safer neighborhoods and the city is investing its future rather than standing still. But none of these projects have happened by accident. Behind every development agreement, every grant application, every negotiation, every contract, every ordinance and every ribbon cutting are dedicated professionals working tirelessly behind the scenes I especially want to recognize our city attorney and our city manager. Great cities don't simply react, they anticipate. Under their leadership, Seaside has continued to embrace economic developments while looking towards the future, whether it's strengthening relationships with our business community, reinvigorating economic opportunities, utilizing geofencing technology to bring visitors directly to our local businesses, or helping entrepreneurs understand how artificial intelligence can make them more competitive Our city manager and our city attorney understand that tomorrow's economy requires today's innovation. That kind of forward thinking doesn't just create jobs, it creates opportunity. Many people think our city attorneys when legal issues arise, but the public rarely sees the countless hours spent negotiating complex development agreements, protecting taxpayer interests and ensuring projects move forward legally and responsibly. Those efforts have helped close major property development deals that will shape Seaside for decades. The fireworks ordinance is another example of thoughtful leadership, creating accountability while generating additional revenue that can be reinvested back into our community. That is what good governance looks like when leadership works together with the mayor, the council, the city manager and the city attorney and city staff. We build confidence and confidence attracts investment. Investment creates jobs and jobs strengthen families. Seaside is no longer simply keeping pace with Monterey Peninsula. We're setting the pace. Other communities are beginning to take notice of what's happening here because seasides become a city that embraces innovation. My hope is that we continue saying yes to thoughtful growth, yes to economic opportunity, and yes to supporting local businesses. So I ask you to look at the entire body of work for our city manager and our city attorney. Sherry has pushed through so many projects. Because the work isn't finished, the momentum is real, the vision is clear, and together we can ensure that Seaside continues not only to be a force to be reckoned with on the Monterey Peninsula, but a model for cities across California that prove what's possible when leadership, vision, and community all move in the same direction. Thank you.

I don't know, though, you now have the floor to make your public comment.

Thank you. I just want to remind the public that going into this when we hired Ms. Dames to this position, we knew that this was her first time in a position like this. So keep that in mind. My first question is with regards to the two potential litigations. What caused the city's exposure in the first place? Was it preventable? What is the potential cost to taxpayers? Is insurance covering that exposure? And most importantly, is there an underlining policy management practice or operational problem that needs to be corrected so we don't end up facing the same issues again? I've asked this previously, but I'd like clarity for the public. What specific measurable criteria does the city council use to evaluate the performance of the city manager and city attorney? And are those criteria documented anywhere that is available to the public? 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, Madam City Attorney, any questions or issues or concerns you can answer to at this time as it relates to those questions about closed session?

Nothing I can add. Thank you.

Yes, with respect to the inquiry about the potential litigation, there are facts and circumstances which are likely to lead to litigation. And that's what I am allowed to disclose at this point in time for the potential litigation.

Thank you. And within there, there's no indication of who's suing who. We could be doing the suing. Is that correct?

Yes, thank you. I guess I can offer one more piece. The caller had asked whether it implicates city policy or city action. This is not that. These are facts and circumstances relative to a third party. that is leading to the facts and circumstances related to litigation.

Okay, thank you. We will go into closed session.