City Council - Regular Meeting

And we're ready.

So when I say that there's any. All right, everybody, we are back from closed session. City Attorney, do we have any reportable action from this closed session?

Good evening. During closed session, the council went through the fact background of the lawsuit and direction was given to negotiate and finalize a settlement. A settlement agreement, hopefully, if it can be negotiated, will be brought back on October 6th.

Great. Thank you for your report. With that, we are going to adjourn our special meeting, and we will be back in four minutes for our regular meeting at 6 p.m.

Thank you.

All right, everybody, we're going to get started with our regular meeting. Welcome, everybody, to our Selma City Council regular meeting. It's Tuesday, September 15, 2026, and it's 6.01 p.m. in the Selma City Council Chambers at 1710 Tucker Street, Selma, California, 93662. Teleconference phone number is 301-715-8592. The webinar ID is 891-6864-5005. When on the phone, if you wish to address the council during the public comment part of the agenda, press star nine to raise your hand and we will select you from the meeting queue. Press star six to unmute and mute yourself. Notice to meeting attendees, members of the audience shall not engage in disorderly or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of threatening or abusive language or other acts which disturb, disrupt, or impede or otherwise render the orderly conduct of a city council meeting infeasible. Okay, and tonight's, before we do tonight's invocation, I would like to have a moment of silence for two individuals who passed away, two people who made our community so much better and enhance the quality of life in our community. We're just amazing people. The first one is Randy McFarland, who was the voice of Selma, the editor of our newspaper. He did all the band festivals. He literally wrote the book on the history of Selma. And if you look at our mural on our building, that comes from the book that Randy McFarland wrote about the history of Selma, the 100-year history. I'd also like to have a moment of silence for Adan Gonzalez, who was a devoted patriot, the Air Force businessman, local citizen, just a very good family man. And we lost both. And would everybody please bow your heads for a moment of silence. Okay, thank you for that moment of silence. Now we will move on to our invocation. And I would ask you again to bow your heads as we have our prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you with gratitude for the opportunity to serve our community. Thank you for the gift of the city, its people, and the trust placed in these gathered here. Grant our council members wisdom. that rises above personal interest, courage to make decisions that are just, and compassion to hear every voice with respect. May our discussions be guided by fairness, unity, and a shared vision for the common good. Bless our city with peace, safety, and prosperity. Strengthen our commitment to work together, even in times of disagreement, and let integrity be the foundation of every choice we make tonight. We ask for your guidance, protection, and blessing over this meeting and over all who call this city home. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Everybody please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Ready? Salute.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Would you call the roll, please?

Council Member Avalos?

Here.

Council Member Seguera? Here. Mayor Pro Tem Guerra? Here. Mayor Robertson?

Here.

For the record, Council Member Trujillo is absent today.

Thank you. Potential conflicts of interest. Any council member who has a potential conflict of interest may now identify the item and recuse themselves from discussing and voting on the matter. Agenda changes or deletions do better accommodate members of the public or inconvenience in the order of presentation. Items on the agenda may not be presented or acted on in the order listed. Additions to the agenda may be added only pursuant to California Government Code Section 549.54.2b. City Attorney, do we have any such changes or deletions at this time?

No changes or deletions, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. Moving on to oral communications. At this time, any member of the public may address the city council regarding any item on the regular meeting agenda over which the council has jurisdiction. No action or discussion will be taken on any item not on the agenda. Issues raised will be referred to the city manager for review. Members of the public are asked to limit their remarks to three minutes. Do we have any oral communications at this time? Do we have anyone in the chat with oral communications? Thank you with that. We do not have any special presentations and we will move on to our consent calendar. All items listed under the consent calendar category are considered routine. The complete consent calendar will be enacted by one motion by roll call vote. For purposes of discussion, any council member may have an item removed from the consent calendar and made part of the regular agenda. The council can then approve the remainder of the consent calendar. Does council have an item or items they would like removed from the consent calendar tonight?

Let me have 2-2 and 2-11.

And I would like to have item 2-12 removed. Is there a motion to approve items 2.1 and 2.3 through 2.10 and item 2.13? So moved. Is there a second? Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos? Yes. Council Member Oseguera? Yes. Mayor Pretempera? Yes. Mayor Robertson?

Yes. Okay, item 2.2.

Okay, item 2.2. This on check register 90501. This is a, well, survey best. This is Public Works, $4,733.52. I know we have clarification there for the rest of the council.

Can you repeat the check number, please?

The check number is 90501, white cap LP.

I can answer. Councilman Alvarez brought this to my attention earlier. It says survey vests, but the total cost for survey vests and that was $71. The rest of it is related to parts and materials such as hoses, screens, other things for the streets department. So that description should have probably been a little bit more detailed than just survey vests.

Thank you, Jason, for clarifying that.

I just want to make sure the council was aware of this. Okay, you want to make a motion to approve the check? Did anybody else have any issues on the check on this item? Okay. Is there a motion to approve? Yes, make a motion to approve. Second?

Second.

Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Osegarra?

Yes.

Mayor Pertam-Gara?

Yes.

Mayor Robertson?

Yes. Item 211. Okay, 211 is Adoption Action Approving Amendment 11. This is for the R2C, you know, trans agency. Jason, I think you can address that one.

Yes, this is an annual agreement that we entered into with FCRTA. This is a reimbursement agreement from them. We do this every year, and the difference on this is that this amendment reflects a 7% increase from the prior agreement for reimbursement. Okay.

What are the increased services that the city receives, or is this a standard increase that every city receives as part of the FCRTA?

I'm not sure what the other cities receive as far as increase, but this is to cover our costs related to staffing or our maintenance costs.

I know the FCRTA just increased service to Walmart, and we'll be putting a full transit stop out there, hopefully, when they can get that. So I'm sure that factors into this as well, and they do a great job. But I appreciate you following up on the 7% increase. Is there a motion?

Make a motion to accept.

A second.

Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Seguera? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Guerra? Yes. Mayor Robertson?

Yes. Item 212. I pulled this one off. And the reason I'm doing that, Deputy City Manager, is just because this is a retirement plan. And the names of the former city manager and HR director were on this plan. I understand the city moved to another retirement, another 457. What happened in the meantime to make changes to this plant? Were there any necessary changes?

So this plan is the former plan, but we still had a couple of employees kind of stuck over in that plan. And we still have some people that have not transferred out of that plan. And so we've had an employee leave and they want to now move their money because the former action actually had people's names on it with the city manager's name. This comes before you tonight to now change that to just the title city manager and deputy city manager. So whoever sits in the city manager seat is then able to go ahead and be assigned to that role. And that's how you want to do those. So it's an assignment by the title. And so we still have money pending over in Mission Square, but the vast majority of our money is in Alaris.

So just a brief question. I guess this begs the question of why didn't the city just have this in the position names when this first came up?

I don't, it was the former city manager and the former HR person that were on that account by name.

that put themselves on the account by name with the prior council's approval.

It was a council action that put them on there. So my preference is always to do it by title so that administratively we can make those changes without having to bring it as- Right, if there's turnover in those positions.

So that's really the standard operating procedure. Okay, thank you for that. With that, I'll make a motion to approve this. Is there a second? Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Segarra? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Guerra? Yes. Mayor Robertson?

Yes. Okay, moving on to departmental reports. City Manager.

Yes, thank you, Mayor and City Council. So, since we last met, ComDev and I met with Cosmont a few times regarding the potential formation of EIFDs and provided information requested by them. They're continuing to work through that. We also met with some of our local developers related to Selma Marketplace and Raven Custom Homes as they continue to move forward. Selma Marketplace in particular is looking at sometime in the next month or two submitting their grading and drainage plans so that way they can get approved and hopefully begin start moving dirt. I worked with city engineer and staff regarding Starbucks request at our last meeting to review their requirement for undergrounding of PG&E utilities. Currently, the city engineer is working on a cost estimate for the remaining undergrounding, and we'll use that to discuss that with the property owner and resolve that issue. I also met with Selma Unified Superintendent Ed Gomez and brought up the ice rink and ways that we can partner with I attended a FCOG policy advisory meeting. FCOG is working on a report regarding potential loss of Measure C funds. So once they have that all together, we'll bring that back. And then I also attended the Selma Live event, and it was a great turnout, good music. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one. I attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Lenar Development Park in Amberwood, and it's such a nice park. And next week, we will be attending the League of California Cities annual conference down in Anaheim. And then finally, I wanted to introduce our newest member of our team, Arturo Aguilar. He started with us on September 8th and is our newest administrative analyst slash deputy city clerk. All right. Congratulations.

Community Development Director.

Members of the City Council, thank you. My first update is going to be on the Casitas project. Staff continues to move steady to progress the project along. The applicant is continuing to process their application with LAFCO to get it annexed into the city. So we're helping them with those documents and making sure those documents are in order.

But we anticipate moving that forward in the next few months here to get that annexation going.

In addition to that, I have a brief update on the Rose Avenue subdivision. We are reviewing the improvement plans and the final map. The final map is going to be wrapped up here shortly in the next couple of weeks. And then the subsequent review of the improvement plans, landscape and plans are currently under review and we're moving that project along as well. We, myself and a couple people met with the pastor at the legacy youth center this past week to go last week, excuse me, to go over the remaining objectives that that individual had to meet to get that project finalized and occupancy granted. So it was a very productive meeting and he's moving along. And those are all my updates unless you have any questions for me at this time.

Anybody with questions for the community development director. Thank you with that we'll move on to parks and community services director.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the council. Just a few items to touch bases on. So today, Matthew Tiger and I actually attended a state-wide park program grant workshop. And so there is around five of grant funding for state through the state of California. And so we're looking at potentially identifying a few projects to apply for. So deadline for that is December 17th. So we got a really quick turnaround. And so we'll be working hard on that. Other than that, our Pumpkin Palooza event is scheduled to take place on October 3rd at Pioneer Village. So I invite the community to come on out. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. We'll have face painters, a pumpkin patch, kids' activities, some food vendors, and just a lot of wholesome fall fun. And our 5K Color Run slash walk registrations are currently open, so if you guys are interested in registering, you guys can register online through our Civic Rec portal, or you can come down to the Selma Senior Center and we can assist you in person. Other than that... I did want to just kudos to staff for getting the ice rink contract signed and officially ready to go. So we are scheduled to run that ice rink December 5th through the 20th. And I did want to give a big thank you to the Selma bid for approving a $25,000 contract. partnership um with the city of selma for that ice rink so there will be some sponsorship and partnership opportunities coming up so if anybody is interested you guys can come talk to me or our communications director jose and we can work that stuff out so um other than that i believe jose is going to play a quick little video for us he did a little sneak peek so we'd love to share that with you now sounds good communication director you're on

Give me one second. Technical difficulties. No pressure.

The council, the teaser video that we plan to roll out soon, that video was provided by our vendor, Ice America, to give people a glimpse of exactly what type of environment they're going to be heading into for our holiday magic event. So we have a lot more marketing and promotions coming down the pipeline, some sponsorship packages, some videos with Sparks teams. So we're going to do a whole bunch of different video campaigns to get the information out to the community. But I really wanted to go over Selma Live, like City Manager mentioned. I have some data to share on that about the event. If you were there, I see most of you, some familiar faces that you guys are all there. I really appreciate you guys coming out. But I really want to reiterate that it was definitely a team effort between Sparks, us, the bid, volunteers to make it happen. And I'm going to go over a little bit of the data of how it ended up going that night, as you can see here. So this is from Placer AI. And like I mentioned before, this is an estimate. They don't really have a hard head count. It's usually a sample that they figure out how many people are there on cell phone data. And at this point, we have a measurement of 2,100 visitors. It basically filled up the green space in the Lincoln Park area. Most people stayed about an hour and 53 minutes, almost two hours. Most people showed up about seven or eight, and they ended up staying through the night until 10 o'clock till the music ended. And I got some more data points. So Placer said about 53% of the people were from Selma. The rest were from neighboring towns, which is a huge data point, which I don't think we've seen before at another event. A large population coming from Parlier, Sanger, and Reedley. And of course, Fowler and Kingsburg were represented there as well. One thing I did notice is I saw some other city's staff members showing up with their shirts. I saw a Kingsburg polo shirt. I saw a Sanger polo shirt. I think they want to check out what we're doing so they can maybe get some tips on how to do a big concert. So, yeah, it was definitely a big draw around the community. That type of music seems to bring folks in droves to come out and dance and have a good time. The last piece of data I want to share with you is pretty important, is people ask how these events are, what's the point of them? What are we doing? We're bringing people to the downtown space. Placers showed that the visitors that came, about 8% of them stopped at Rodolfo's before the event, which is a point that I've never seen before. So people wanted some Mexican food, a salmon taco from Rodolfo's, and we also saw visitors go to KFC Pizza Twist. And I also noticed that people went to McDonald's at the end of the night. It was probably the only thing open as you're leaving and hitting the freeway. So people went to McDonald's at the end of the concert. So Placer was really reliable on showing us the movement of people during this event, which is what we want. We want to set ourselves up as a hub and people will come here for entertainment and ice skating. The next slide I want to show, it's great to have data and that type of information, but I really like to hear to say they had a good time. And here are a couple of Facebook comments that were on social media. Nice to see the community out and having a great time. The music was great, the weather was perfect, and it was a lot of fun. And lastly, Anthony M., the Moranos, nice work, great production, City of Selma. And they hit the nail right on the head. It was definitely a City of Selma production. Most community members and people don't know if it's a Sparks event or if it's a Bit event. They just know they're having a good time. Our city logo is attached to it. And we represented well that night, all of us together. So I really appreciate anybody who came out, anybody who poured beer, anybody who all picked up trash. We couldn't do it without a team effort like that. And that's all I have for the Selma Live event.

It was just a great evening. Thank you, city manager. Thank you, members of the council. Thank you, all staff. Thank you, parks and community services for making this just a home run. I mean, it really was. It was a great night. And thank you for the volunteers and the commission members who came out and supported our city and volunteered. Like the director said, it's all about teamwork. People don't know if it's Selma Live or Sparks event. They just know it was a Selma event. It was a lot of fun. It was a good time. And now people are expecting... to see even more of that. And they're going to get it with that winter wonderland in December, which is also exciting. So thank you for that. All right. With that, we will, do you want to keep rolling or do you want to take a five minute break? Like we usually, okay, we're going to keep rolling then. And move on from departmental reports to our first item, which is public a public hearing item for one which is consideration and necessary action on resolution of necessity 2026 dash 95 declaring the public interest and necessity require identified real property to be taken or acquired. by the City of Selma for public use and purpose. City Attorney, would you refresh us on this topic that we had a week ago, what we're doing here with this topic, and where we're going with this tonight?

I will be happy to, Mr. Mayor. On September 8th, we had a public hearing specifically for the purpose of allowing those property owners who had been served with a notice of our intent to adopt a resolution of necessity an opportunity to be heard on that. The resolution of necessity is the first step in filing an imminent domain case. Imminent domain is the process by which a city acquires real property that is owned by a private person for which it has to pay just compensation according to the Constitution. And we conducted that initial hearing on September 8th. In the process, we heard from one property owner, Mr. Singh, that he felt he didn't have sufficient time to develop the comments that he wanted to present to the council. And the council agreed to continue the hearing to today in order to allow Mr. Singh to present his testimony. There was also a different property owner, which is TMMT Farms. We did send a notice to that entity, to its principal, a fellow by the name of Theodore Alper. And the item was returned back to us in the mail undeliverable. I subsequently served a second notice on him after I found his place of work, which is Westwood Financial out there in River Park. He's a real estate broker. So we served him with a notice and I communicated with him. letting him know that we had received back that notice undeliverable and that we had continued the hearing to today. And I sent him a specific notice telling him exactly what we told all the other property owners that we would allow him to present testimony on. I don't see Mr. Singh in the audience. And I don't know that the... The other person representing TMMT Farms is here. So I don't know that we have anybody else to hear from. So I would just ask you, Mr. Mayor, to inquire whether there is any representative of either Mr. Singh or of TMMT Farms. Okay. present here that wants to testify.

So from what I understand, this public hearing consists of the testimony only of Mr. Singh and or TMTT farms if they are here. Is that correct? Or if they are in the chat? That is correct.

Okay.

So I will make that inquiry now. Do we have Mr. Singh or TMMT Farms, a representative, either in the chat or in the public tonight in attendance?

Here, I see nobody by those names in the chat currently.

Thank you.

So, Mayor, given the fact that we've heard from everybody, we heard from Ms. Harper, who is in the audience today, that she has agreed to convey her property to the city for a specific price. So I've taken her property off of the resolution of necessity. And the only ones that remain are Mr. Singh's property, TMMT, and Renge, who we heard from a representative of that family, it's actually in a trust We heard from them on September 8. So at this point, the matter goes back to the City Council for consideration of adoption of the resolution of necessity. The resolution of necessity is necessary to acquire the property that we need to establish a badly needed traffic control light at the intersection of McCall and Dinuba. And since we have not reached an agreement on those three property owners relative to the price we need to pay for their property, the only way we can acquire it is by adopting a resolution of necessity. The resolution of necessity authorizes me to file suit if I am unable to come to some sort of resolution beforehand with each of these property owners. And the resolution of necessity requires a four-fifths vote. We have a one council person absent today. So that means today it requires a unanimous vote of the four of you present in order to pass.

So just confirming that a four out of four vote will move this badly needed public safety project forward by removing this land acquisition as something that has kept this project from moving forward previously. That will be resolved potentially in the courts After this tonight, if you get a four out of four vote from the council, and then it will move on to the next phase, which is making sure that all the utilities are in place for the agreement, and then setting up the actual bid to go out to bid for qualified contractors to bid on. Is that correct?

That is the process.

Okay. So what I will ask is for that vote. I'll ask for a motion, but I'll also... add to that. And I don't know if it needs to be part of the motion, but what I'd like the citizens to know, because they have waited for this since 2020, I would like to know if the city council passes this tonight, could we get a sign, an announcement at that corner, perhaps on some of this area that will now be part of the city? where the stoplight will go, courtesy perhaps of our sign department, otherwise known as the Public Works Department, which does professional quality signage. Could we also have that pending the result of the council vote to announce the imminent construction of that four-way stoplight?

You could certainly have a sign. I would refer to Director Moreno as probably the appropriate person to develop that signage. Certainly that's not my forte, but yeah, absolutely. You can have a sign that says coming soon with the, you know, perhaps we can get a little diagram of what it's going to look like from the engineer. Right.

And we've done, you know, signage for other projects. I have seen those around.

Like funding and stuff like that.

Yeah. You know, something that we can work on. Again, we don't.

You can identify the funding. This is all grant funded, basically. This would be part of the grant funding, I would assume. Yes. Announcing the actual purchase of the property is included in the grant funding, yes.

Very good. Yeah, so we can work on that. Sounds good. Is there a motion to approve this resolution?

I'll make a motion.

Is there a second? Second. Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Seguera? Yes. Mayor Portemguera?

Yes.

Mayor Robertson?

Yes, item passes. So moving on to our one and only item of regular business tonight. This is item five one adopt resolution 2026 dash 107 approving a professional services agreement between vital voice AI Inc and city of Selma. for real-time language interpretation, transcription, and AI-assisted communication services for the Selma Fire Department EMS Operations Division, and authorization for the city manager or designate to execute all necessary associated documents.

Mr. Mayor, council members. Today, before we have an agreement with the city of Selma and Vital Voice AI Incorporated, and what this company does is it's real-time interpretation. that can help our staff in the field interpret those emergency calls that we respond to. We had a recent meeting where Corey Kendall, who was the founder of this company, did a presentation. And as soon as he was done, I immediately thought, you know, we could use this in the city of Selma due to our demographic that we serve. A lot of Spanish-speaking patients, a lot of Punjabi-speaking patients. And today we use... really nothing to kind of get through that language barrier. Sometimes we use children to interpret. Sometimes we use people over the phone who are not even present. And what this, um, app can do is kind of cut that, uh, communication barrier down and it's real time right at your fingertips. We currently are doing a pilot program with Vital Voice and I have some statistics here for you. Since we've started this pilot program, it's been going on for about 90 days now. We use this technology 387 times Of those 387 times, 75 have been the interpretation feature. Those languages that it's used is Spanish, Punjabi, Chinese, and Croatian. So we have the 99 that goes through. We have a lot of people that travel, you know, up and down the state through the 99. So you never know. who you're going to run into in our line of work. So this app has 63 languages that it can translate and interpret for us, which is awesome. It also has another feature, a dictation feature, where our crews are able to speak their narrative into the app. And it produces a really nicely formatted narrative that the crews then copy and paste into their patient care reports, which is a legal binding document that this is what we did for this patient. This is the treatment that we gave them, which is awesome for our crews because it cuts their time down from 10, 15 minutes of typing a report to, you know, maybe five minutes. And then there's just talk to text and copy and paste, which is awesome. And there's the third feature that it has. It has an ambient scribe feature. So like, If you were to go to a hospital, a doctor has a scribe typing for them while they're doing their assessments, performing whatever they're doing. This ambient scribe feature is used only with consent of the patient. And what it does is the crews just set their tablet down and run their call, ask their questions, and the app is able to generate their narrative directly. based off of 30-minute, you know, interaction with that patient, which is awesome. It excludes anything that has nothing to do with patient care. So if they're talking about, you know, how the patient's day was, their family, or, you know, any kind of topics that they have in common, it takes that away and it strictly keeps only stuff that's pertinent to medical care and treatment, which is awesome. So I worked with Director Moreno and And we created a, I'm going to say we, he created a video, which is really, really awesome. I just got them all the parts and everybody involved. So without further ado, we can play that video for you now. Thank you, Director Romano.

That was awesome.

So that's what we have for you. We're hoping that we can get this agreement passed. And with that, we can use it on our EMS division, our fire division, to help with those translating barriers that we see today and hopefully produce a better high level of service for our community. Is there any questions? Are you with questions?

Yeah. A quick question. Does this translate? How many would you have on that you're requesting on these boards, on the ambulance? Would you have them all on the ambulance?

Correct.

Also on the fire trucks as well?

Correct. So every apparatus that we have has an iPad assigned to it. And on that iPad, we just downloaded the app to it and linked to our system. Our account and our crews are able to use that feature on any call that they're connected to the Wi-Fi. So every ambulance has Wi-Fi that it produces, connects to the iPad, and then they're able to use their app that way. So everybody has it on every unit in service today.

And one more question outside the box. When you go to the scene, let's say a domestic scene situation, and the person is in a different language, would you be able to help the law enforcement interpret what they're saying?

We could in theory. However, this app is strictly right now for medical use. So it's a brand new app, so they're growing as a business. And we've given them a ton of ideas. We'd like to see them produce one to help us narrate our fire reports as well. And there can be a use for this through translation applications. in all those circumstances, you know, eventually today, just for the medical side. Okay.

Yeah. I have a quick question just to clarify. Now, this app is clearly a privacy because we're talking about medical for a patient or an individual. And with the HIPAA rule, you know, the laws, does that keep it in a privacy space where it won't get compromised?

That is correct. So Vital Voice AI has all of the HIPAA compliant applications. certifications in order to produce a product like this. So you have to go through that red tape to ensure that that information is protected. Every two days is the change of our ships. We have that app wipe. So even the next crew coming on can't even see what the crew before them did. So all of that is very secure. They're the only app that can do that. So like if we were to use a different type of AI service that didn't have that capability, that could be a possibility. But this app does not because they have all the certifications they need and they take all the proper steps in order for that information not to be out there in the world for everybody to see.

Okay. Thank you. And then in turn, Chief, do you have something to say? No.

Just to answer Council Member Avalos' question is there's technologies out there, softwares that can assist law enforcement. We just are trying to work within the confines of our budget.

Well, this is pretty reasonable. I mean, we're looking at $8,200 here for two years. Is it comparable in the world, Petey?

I've not researched anything, Mayor, to be just budget-wise. We're starting our first year of the budget, first quarter, so I don't kind of look into those things. Pricing today is going to change in three to six months. So as we near the budget preparation, then we start to look in and bring – you know, better numbers to you as we present programs for the department. Get us ready for it. Yeah.

Start budgeting for it now. Yeah, absolutely. And then in terms of the cost, $8,200. So this is a lock-in for two years. Is that right? The initial setup and then the $3,600 maintenance fee.

Correct.

And then for those two days, the information goes, is this cloud-based? Is this a cloud-based? Go to their cloud, hold on to it. And then when they wipe their system clean into a record that's kept for liability reasons on that cloud that the city can access if there were to be any legal issues that come up, say, three months later based on that service call.

I could inquire that from the founder, Corey. He's very easy to reach. I would assume that they have that somewhere stored in their servers. We wouldn't have access to it in our app or in our system. We would have to probably go to them to get it from them.

And I would ask, what's the protocol for going to them and accessing that?

system you wouldn't want to have to get a subpoena or anything you would want it to be pretty easy i think i would be city needs it i would believe it'd be like a if it was something from the public via public records request but if it's something right if it was our internal department needing that information we could reach out to them directly and get that information got it thank you um are there any comments from the public at this time come on up

Lorraine Avalos, 1701 Dinuba. My question to you is, what do you do when you have a patient that has no family around them, but they cannot speak and they do not hear? Do you have sign language in that also?

They are working on sign language currently. And that feature is still going to take some time for them to develop, but it is on their radar and it's something that they want to put out because it is a language that we think that they can put into that app. However, currently, they're still working on that. And it's a little bit different because it's using the app in a different way. It's not necessarily a communication. It's more visual. And they are trying to put that into play. However, currently they do not. But if that were to happen today, we would do our best, treat the patient to the best of our ability with the information that we have.

Okay, thank you.

Teresa Salas. Are there any limitations to how much it can be used? Like if all the EMTs are using it at the same time, or is there any...

There is not. We could all be using it at the same time, all different calls. There is no usage agreement. The way it's set up, it's pretty much just an app that's on. And as long as it's there, we can use it as many times as we'd like within that two years.

Anybody in the chat with a question or comment? Answering at this time. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve this? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Call the roll, please.

Council Member Avalos?

Yes.

Council Member Osegarra? Yes. Mayor Portemgarra? Yes. Mayor Robertson?

Yes. Item passes. Okay, moving on to item six, future agenda items. This is council request for future agenda items not subject to public comment. Items require a consensus. Council Member Avalos, do you have any future agenda items?

at this time.

Thank you. Council member of Segarra.

I don't know if it should be an agenda item, but I'd like to see reports maybe once a month on what's happening at the shelter, where we're at, or what's going on. I thought we had agreed that there were going to be reports done.

I'll look into it, and I think you're right, and we can provide that.

We'll get that. And I've been seeing limited data in the weekly activities report from Armando, but a little more robust in terms of report, in terms of statistics and youths and, you know, how the shelter is doing. And we heard about the fiber optic that's going in from another department. So that's all good stuff. Just like to have it specific. I agree. Do we have consensus to have that? Yes.

Pro Temp. It's an update in regards to the Slater Brothers. Do we know when they're opening? I keep getting this question.

Which one?

The old Save Mart building. But there's Slater Brothers.

I'd have to defer to you, Tawanda, on that one. They're owned by a state.

Yeah. Mayor Pro Tem, I don't have that information, but I can have it as an update in the next weekly report this week to confirm. This is the one off of Woodson next to the gym?

Yes.

Yeah, I'll look into that and get you guys.

Thank you.

Thank you. And then my future agenda items would be having an agenda item for a third party after hours vendor to do animal pickups. And the reason I'm saying this is because of our current staffing situation with animal services and the animal shelter. Sometimes there's an issue with having folks go out after hours. This is something that PD should not be tasked with in my opinion. This is part of parks and community services, specifically the animal services. And there are people out there, retired CEOs, people who are working as a CEO who live in Selma or there are rescue organizations in Selma. And if you followed some of the stories last weekend, we had one of an animal after hours because, you know, they don't respect the clock here. It just happens. This is life. And the poor doggie was hit and there was no one to pick him up. And a representative of the second chance animal rescue went out, picked him up and he passed away right in front of her, unfortunately, a little bit later. But he had somebody around him. He didn't die alone on the street. And then there was another dog who was milling around the store, United Market. And that was the evening before. And there was just, you know, PD was busy, understandably so. And there was no one from the shelter to go out because I think it was a Friday night, you know, late. And Um, animal services went out the next day, found him and brought him in and he's, he's going to go to rescue. But between that time and 12 hours, he could have been that dog that got hit. So the city has some really great people in organizations in town that could potentially provide that service as an independent contractor who have a heart to do it. Um, they shouldn't have to do it just on a volunteer basis. They should at least be reimbursed for the gas service. So could we look into that? Is there consensus for council to look into providing that, looking into that as a service that the city provides? I think we have consensus. Okay.

There was a conversation with the previous city manager, Mayor Robertson, and I made with him. And one of the things that we talked about was providing that service because Second Chance does it out of their goodness of their heart. And sometimes they'll drive to Fresno at 3 o'clock in the morning to take an animal. And right now there's only two of them, so they still go out there. But, yeah, we need something like that because there's a big need around Selma.

All right. It's not to say that animal services isn't doing their job. They are. They're doing a really good job. We're getting good spay and neuters. Speaking of Selma Live, we had animal services out there with Rocco, the dog, who will hopefully get adopted. And they gave out six free spay and neuter vouchers that night. So that's six dogs and cats that are not going to be making more homeless puppies out there. So that's really a good thing. All right. Moving on from our future agenda items, we will now go to council reports. Councilman Avalos.

I don't have much to say, really. No, I attended Selma Live. That was a good event, guys. Like Jose said earlier, it was a great event for the city of Selma. And I thank the staff and people that came out and helped us and everything. Public works, everybody, the law enforcement, everybody fired. Everybody was on board on the deal out there. And I thank them very much. you know, after hours and everything. I thank them very much. And then I attended SKF, meeting with SKF this week. We have emergency program for disaster plan. We have a disaster plan coming about. And I'll be bringing back to the council on that issue, okay? I addressed that issue. And just in case things happen. And also I attended the senior council luncheon the other day to help out serve the luncheon and also as being the mayor and the health care district out there we fed over 60 seniors that yesterday and that was a good turnout and it was and the seniors are coming it was a bingo day it was actually a bingo that was bingo day i i didn't realize bingo is a big event for seniors but uh the scenes were all happy we uh It was catered by this time by Sal's. Salma Healthcare has tried to maintain the services in the community, use the same, try to use the different restaurants and everything to support the community and our community, you know, because they invest in our community. So we have been And Selma Health Care Board is really, I thank them very much for that and what they do in our community. And also, I attended the opening part, Amberwood Project. I thought I'd seen a big kid over there going down the big slide. I wasn't too sure there. But no, it was a great event. It was well organized and everything. It's a nice, beautiful park. They're not quite, they haven't quite finished the basketball stands yet, but the whole thing was phenomenal, good. It was a good turnout, and I hope our citizens will, and the little people, well, actually, the little people were already using the park already, but it was a good, it's a nice park, beautiful park, well-designed. And that's all I got to say. Thank you. Councilman Oskar.

I also attended the opening of the park, beautiful park. Just kind of makes me wonder why we haven't finished Thompson Park. Did I say that out loud? I'm sorry. Also, Selma Live, what it was that night, it was a testament of what people can do when they work together. You know, I mean, for those that were there, including a city manager, we really put him to work. I think he would just kind of go and relax and, but man, boy, he goes, man, this is a lot of work. I go, yeah, but... It was well worth it, well attended. Music was awesome. So be on the lookout. There'll be more events coming your way. So thank you, Selma Partner Creation. Selma Lives. I call it Selma Lives, but it's Selma Life. Everybody else involved. The bid, Director Moreno, who's out there, you know, since 8 o'clock till 11, 12 o'clock at night. So we appreciate you guys.

Thank you. Mayor Pro Temp.

I guess we just can't say enough, you know, but I also attended Selma Live and it was one of the best. And I, again, I want to just reiterate what team effort happens when team effort comes together. These are the results. And there were so many people that were so excited, so happy. And they were like, this is what we wanted to see. Our Selma people were so, so happy to have to be able to come to an event here in Selma and not have to drive to Fresno or not have to drive to another town. We're doing it here and that's what it's about. So again, thank you to everybody because it was an amazing event and I just can't wait to see what we have in the future because it's coming, you know, Selma's live. And when Director Moreno mentioned about other cities coming, and their staff because they want to see what we're doing. And they take it back and say, this is what they're doing because they want to mimic what Selma's doing. And I'm telling you, it's amazing what we're all doing here in Selma. So I'm very, very pleased. I also attended the Amberwood ribbon cutting park and Again, another, I mean, this is an amazing park for the city of Selma, a great home builder. And that's what we always said. We just need one. We just need one to start and they will come. And that's what happened. And I'm just pleased that I'm here to see those results and see exactly what's coming to Selma. The other thing I attended the bandits practice team, they wanted to hear from some of the council members and it was nice because back then I remember when we were the founders of Selma Hughes Chair, and that was another part of a football team to see it still going, the bandits are continuing to go and hopefully one day they'll bring back the other team, maybe not, but at least we see a good football team That's a feeder program for our high school and they're continuing to be the future of the city of Selma. And they're going to grow to be good football players and cheerleaders. And that's what I'm really proud of as well. So that's it.

I attended that, um, the park ribbon cutting as well. Nice that the whole community can use it. Nice that you have an exercise part as well as, uh, a, uh, A playground, so good for the adults and kids as well as the young kids. Yeah, that's right. Not quite. And then Selma Live, I'll hit it from a different perspective. Teamwork, absolutely great people. Biggest part of the team was, of course, the 2,100 people that showed up and continue to show up. and support our events. And this is why we're doing it. But, you know, we also had medical emergency that night and we had two officers there, two PD officers that were generous, generously provided three fire department folks who came on their, on their time and watched over the proceedings. Had they not been there, it would have taken more time to get to that, to that person. So thank you to public safety for being there. You're a big part. So I'm alive as well. And we are all part of the same team so that that it really was a full team effort that night. I attended the business improvement district meeting tended the funeral for a Don Gonzalez today that we whom whom we mentioned in our moment of of silence. attended that Bandits practice, attended the Selma High football game on Friday where the Bandits were recognized, which they absolutely should be along with Abraham Lincoln. Looking forward to their banquet tomorrow. Looking forward to Selma beating Kingsburg. on Friday night on a very good competitive game. It should be a lot of fun. And I thank all of you for coming out tonight and anybody who's in the chat. And I thank all the employees of the city for coming out and sticking with us tonight. We didn't take that five-minute break, so you could all go home. So thank you for sticking with us. And with that, we will move on to our last part of the evening, which is our last oral communications when we hear from the boss, you, the public. Anybody have any comments tonight before we adjourn? Anybody in the chat? I think we've got a speaker.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. First and foremost, I want to shout out and thank everybody who attended Summer Live and helped out. It was a great event, a great turnout. I felt it. You just see it out in the park. I knew we came close to Pepe's event because the line would not stop for that beer garden once intermission came. Unfortunately, you know, we had to close just to catch up. But I did speak to one of the attendees there and he did recommend some restrooms and possibly make the beer garden bigger since they, you know, they would have to cross the park all the way. And maybe something, something like that happens again, where we had to close the beer garden and they can't reenter. So I think that would be more beneficial as well. It's just an idea. It's just throwing that out there. And thank you for bringing up the, possibility of having somebody that can pick up animals overnight as well, because that was actually my story of the puppy that unfortunately passed away. The gentleman did stop. I do want to say that. So thank him for stopping it. And he did call PD. Unfortunately, I believe he was given the wrong location. I did see him out over Dinuba, but we never made contact. So I was left to call um, second, um, chance animal shelter. God bless their hearts. They are angels for our city. Um, you know, she was, you know, enjoying her evening, unfortunately. So she had to go out there and, um, unfortunately, yes, the dog puppy did pass away. So, um, thank you for bringing that up and, um, shout out for our staff, our city staff, our PD or our fire department for keeping us safe. Um, especially again at the summer life, you know, I did feel safe. Um, And you are just doing an amazing job. And keep it up. You know, we have a lot of great things coming. We have to learn our ribbon cutting. We have now the signal light coming as well. I'm going to call on Danuba. Caching project is moving forward. So definitely keep it up. And thank you for the great work. Anybody in the chat with a comment?