City Council - Regular Meeting

conduct in the city council chambers. Rules of decorum for the public. Members of the audience shall not engage in disorderly or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of loud, threatening, or abusive language, clapping, whistling, stamping of feet, or other other acts which disturb, disrupt, impede, or otherwise render the orderly conduct of the city meeting in feasible. A member of the audience engaging in any such conduct shall at the discretion of the presiding officer or a majority of the city council be subject to ejection from the meeting per government code section 54954.3C. Removal from the council chambers. Any person who commits the following acts in respect to a meeting of the cities shall be removed from the council chambers per government code section 54954.3C. A disorderly, contemptuous or insolent behavior towards the city council or any member thereof tending to interrupt the due and orderly course of said meeting. a breach of peace, boisterous conduct, or a violent disturbance tending to interrupt the due and orderly course of said meeting. Disobedience of any lawful order from the mayor, which shall include an order to be seated or to refrain from addressing the city council, and any other unlawful interference with the due and orderly course of said meeting. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the TAP City Council successor agency joint regularly scheduled meeting for Tuesday, March the 3rd, 2026. City of TAP council meetings are being held in person with full capacity seating and are livereamed at www.youtube.comer

city oft. Public comment can be made in person and also can be received per the following. Written comments may be dropped off in the dropbox in front of city hall. Comments may be emailed to the city clerk at city clerk at cityofft.org. They may also be made by phone to the city clerk's office at 6617631222. Public comments will be accepted up until 5:00 pm the day of the meeting and all comments received shall be read into the record. We're going to begin this evening's meeting with the pledge of allegiance led by myself followed by an invocation from Shawn Piper. So would you stand and join us please over your heart salute and pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let us pray. Our heavenly father, we ask tonight that you would give us unity on the things that are most important and uh the discernment to know what is most important. Lord, give our city and our people economic opportunity. We don't ask you drop it in our laps, but give us something to work for so that we could have the resources we need. We pray for the younger generation, Lord, that we would pass the torch of leadership on to them. Help them to know what is right and what is wise and what is true and that they would be engaged in uh the government that they too will be inheriting. And finally, we pray for those that go toward danger to keep the rest of us

safe. For our military, our law enforcement, and our firefighters, Lord, help us help them to protect us from danger. Help them to be courageous and to stop those who wish to bring harm. We ask all these things in the name of your son Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much.

Madam clerk, may we have a roll call, please? Mayor Nord here. Mayor Prom Bryant here. Council member Crier here. Council member Waldrop here. Council member Shiverira here. All right. First item on this evening's agenda is a public hearing for the 2025 annual progress report APR for the city of Tap's six cycle housing element and general plan. Good evening. Can you all hear me? Yes, ma'am.

Uh I'm Jenna Chillingarian, contract planner for the city of Taft and I'm here to present this item and answer any questions you may have. So just briefly this is about the 2025 annual progress report for the city of Taft six cycle housing element and general plan. This is an annual requirement by the state of California to prepare a report on the status of implementing both the housing element and the general plan. And the after consideration by city council, this will go off to be submitted to um OPR and um sorry it's changed its name to office of land use and climate innovation as well as the housing and community development department of the state. Um and these are due by April 1st. So once we have your consideration, staff will then submit this off to the state.

All right. Thank you very much. The recommendation here is number one, open a public hearing to receive comments on the housing element annual progress report and general plan annual progress report. At this time, I would open said meeting or public hearing, I beg you, pardon. Anybody wishing to speak in support of or opposition to uh this item, please step forward. Seeing none, I'll close said hearing. And at this time, I would entertain a motion to approve a resolution entitled the 2025 annual progress report, APR, for the city of Taft six cycle housing element and general plan and authorizing its submittal to the California Department of Housing and Community Development and the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Change and find that the project is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, SQUA, as set forth in section 15061B3 of the SQA guidelines. So moved.

Second. I have a motion and a second. Mayor Pro Tim Bryant, you had the uh motion. Any discussion, sir? Uh none for me. My only question is since we do happen to have a planning commissioner here, uh would you mind if I ask a question, Jerry? Uh just from your perspective as a planning commissioner and somebody familiar with land use, was there anything in the report that stood out to you positively or negatively or is it just routine? The report is a negative as far as I'm concerned. Having to do it? Yeah. Okay. Sorry. That's all right. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's compliance issue completely. Is that what you're saying, sir? Yes. Perfect. That's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. All right, Councilman Crier, I believe you had a second on this.

Yes, mayor. There's a lot of work went into this thing here. I mean, a lot of work. It's not that simple going through all the regulations, making sure you cross every tea and dot every eye and and and trying to be in trying to be in compliance. So, I have to give a kudos to the people who did this report. Um, I read through it and uh it did a lot of work and they did a great job. That's all I have to say, Mayor. All right. Thank you very much, Councilman Chavey. Any comments, sir? I I I as well want to thank you guys. Again, we understand that it it does take a lot of work and time and we appreciate you guys for investing. Thanks, sir. Councilman Waldrop.

No further comment. All right, madame clerk, I have a motion and a second. May we have roll call, please? Council member Crier, yes. Mayor Prom Bryant, yes. Council member Waldrop, yes. Council member Shira, yes. Mayor No,

yes. That passes on a 50- vote. Thank you for the work and the compliance, dotting the eyes and crossing the tees. Next item on the agenda, citizens request public comments. This is the time and place for the general public to address the city council on matters within its jurisdiction. State law prohibits the council from addressing any issue not previously included on the agenda. Council may receive comment and set the matter for subsequent meeting. Please limit your comments to five minutes. Uh Nicole Villaness handwriting. All right. with PG&E.

Yes. Okay. Well, thank you for coming before the council.

Um, thank you for having me. Good evening. Um, I will not take five minutes. Um, I promise. Um, my name is Nicole Viller. I'm your local government affairs representative for PG&E. Um, you may recognize my name um from the emails that I send you before a storm. I usually send to tend to let you know that we are getting prepared for storm watch. Um, I've also had the pleasure of speaking with a few of you uh with informal conversations um around the community since I've taken this role and I look forward to meeting with each of you in the future. If you want to have a sit down, I'm more than happy to do that. Um, as you know, your partnership and feedback are critical in our efforts to improve safety and reliability in our hometowns and our ongoing coordination helps us do that. And um I have the pleasure of meeting with your city manager um Craig Jones um with Anita Codddle um annually sometimes twice a year um uh to give updates. So thank you um Craig for your partnership as well. Um as you know uh P Genie has been doing our best to deliver on our promise to lower prices um for our customers. We have had um we have reduced our rates five times since January 2024. So, our residential rates are 11% lower today than they were two years ago, and we are continuing to find new ways to create savings for our customers. Um, you may have seen in the news recently that on March 1st, we reduced our rates again, and this month, our customers will also see a restructured electric bill. This new restructuring aligns with the state's other large regulated utilities and other utilities nationwide. I am more than happy to sit down with you individually to go over any questions you may have regarding rates and affordability or anything else P Genie related. So, this is my official invitation to the council um to take me up on that offer. I'm more than happy to take a drive up here. Um and I am also leaving some information with your city

clerk. Also want to thank your city clerk for always providing agendas timely um to those of us that subscribe to the list. I always know what's going on um because she does a really good job of providing our agenda's timely. And finally, um P Genie was able to make some charitable contributions last year to Taft College Foundation, Westside Recreation Parks District, and Taft Kanas Club Foundation um through our Better Together Giving program. And I want to thank those organizations for allowing us to be a small part of the amazing things that they do here in the community. Um, I was able to attend the state of the city event last year and I really enjoyed it. Um, listening to all the presenters and I just want to thank the community of TA for always being so warm and welcoming when I'm here. So, thank you and I'm just going to leave these little fact sheets and a few business cards in case you don't have my latest storm email I think from a month ago in your inbox. So, that's all. Thank you,

Mayor. May I have We have some questions. Ask her some questions. Well, I would guess that she's more than happy to. It is public comments, but uh I see from PG& representing them and that's a public entity and I think it might be possible. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what. Let's She's here and she's a government rep. So, uh yeah, if I can't answer them, I can always get the answer and we can ask our city attorney. City attorney, are we crossing the line here, sir? You let me know. It's we're she's commenting under public comments, right? So, I would expect any any discussion would be very very brief. Just a couple clarifying questions.

Or if we were to place an item on the agenda to have her come back before the council and do a brief presentation and a question and answer, then we wouldn't be crossing that line. Correct. Well, then. Okay. I was just looking for the line, but how about this? I'll make the motion that maybe we put an item on agenda when you can make it back down and we'll put maybe a Q&A session. Would that work? I can put together um a slide deck and do a presentation of any specific questions that you might have. It needn't be overly lengthy, but it gives us an opportunity as a government body to actually have a question and answer opportunity inside, you know, within the cameras and it goes into everybody else's house. So, we'll be helping.

Absolutely. And I'm more than happy to bring anybody that might have better knowledge on some things that you might want to know with me to help me answer questions as well. Okay, I have a and I'd second that. All right, we have a motion and a second. Let her coordinate with Faith and figure out what when schedules work out and then we can agendaize and move forward. Absolutely. Can I can I suggest that since we're not actually agendaized for that? I don't think that the council actually needs to vote on it. Okay. Yeah, this can just be direction to staff. Mhm. Perfect. Okay. So, all right. Very good. Will we have a concurren so you have direction? All right. Very good. Well, thanks again and we'll look forward to having more time to spend with you and and talk both directions. Bring some help with you. Bring some other people.

Okay, that is all the citizens request public comments we have this evening. So, next up is going to be council statements non-action. Councilman Waldrop, we begin with you this evening, sir. I'd just like to brag on a little incident that last weekend bunch of us from the Lions Club did what we call a retreat to get to them have some fun. Uh we went to this park and I I'm it's I think I've been there but it's been so long I couldn't remember. and you pull off uh the road and go in about 6 milesi and I didn't uh it was very very nice. The place was my my kudos to whoever cleans that place up. They really take a good job. Uh bathrooms were spectacular. The whole bit trash, you name it. It was really nice. Bunch of trees there. A little bit of a breeze. I didn't want to leave. Uh it was really nice. We barbecued some hamburgers, bunch of us, and we just had a great time. And if you get a chance, I highly recommend you go up to just out of Quama, you hit Lisio Park and about six miles in. Very, very nice. So that's I just want to

All right. Good place to go. Thank you very much for the public address. Appreciate that. Councilman Shivera.

Yes, sir. Yeah. I just want to um to talk on behalf of not to say on the behalf but you know we have a great soccer team right now and uh I know that they are the current league champs in addition they are the SSL champs which is quite an accomplishment and this evening they are currently um Josh you can probably expound more on this but I know that they're competing right now so um kudos to their their team their coaching staff and we're wishing them the best tonight. Uh, in addition to this, um, this weekend I went to go and, uh, help some folks out in Cyama with some bee problems, um, because I take care of bees. Um, and then I tried to re relocate them out into the hills and I took them out to Soda Lake. Uh, and I'll tell you what, I was shocked by the amount of people and vehicles out there. So, if you're if if uh if you're going to go out and go uh check out these beautiful flowers and landscape right now, uh I would urge you to be extremely extremely careful and and please respect those folks's properties out there. I observed quite a bit of uh vehicles going off onto private property, which you should not be doing. So, just just be careful without the other drivers out there. But uh surely enjoy uh what's going on out there with all those wild flowersowers. That's it, sir.

All right. Thank you very much, sir. Councilman Crier.

Thank you, Mayor. Well, today this racing season started last weekend at Kern County Raceway out there by Interstate 5 and Enis Lane. It was a lot of fun. I was out there and it was great watching the cars going around having a few accidents here and there and or other issues but it's great entertainment. It it started about 5:00 and last till late in the evening they had a demolition derby and different type of uh boat races and RV races and along with the car races. But it's great entertainment and they have things going to be going on this whole summer. So I encourage everybody take advantage of it. go out there and watch it. There's great entertainment and and you'll enjoy yourself as we come now from uh winter here shortly would be spring. Um like our former mayor Randy Miller would say in our in our mayor and would always say it's it's weed seasoned season. Make sure you knock knock down your weeds. um cuz pretty they're going to keep growing now for a few more weeks and they'll stop growing, but they'll turn brown and become a fire hazard when they die. So, it's not won't take much to do it now before they turn turn brown more difficult and call say hazardous. But, uh there's so many things here to do here in Taft. Just read the paper, get on the internet, Taff Traaser, uh Midway Driller and other uh social uh venues. There's so many things going on between, you know, between going out there to the yard sales, going to Lions Club yard sales, going going to the different uh clubs and organizations that we have here in town, which I encourage everybody to join, become part of Rotary, become part of Kanes or Lioness. There's so much to offer in each one of

them groups that they're out there to help our community, make it a better place to live and to help our young folks. So, I encourage that. you have any questions and stuff, uh, contact them. We can contact me. I'll give you the right direction. My my s are one of the ones I like the best. But, you know, there's so many out there. Depend what you want to do, what you want to service and um, and there's a great organization we have here and blessed to have here at TA more than most towns have. So, that's all I have to say, Mayor. Thank you. You bet. Thank you very much, Mayor Pro Tim Bryant.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm going to build real quick off what council member Shiver mentioned. Here's a real nasty lead bug that bites hard when you happen to step on the to person people's private property out out in the uh surrounding areas. It may not be lead in California anymore, but that bug still bites pretty damn hard if you go on private property. So be mindful, be respectful, but uh to again build on what he was saying, uh we've had at Taft High, I would say we've had varsity boys soccer for probably 40 years. I mean Doug can probably let me know for sure if I'm short or not, but at least for the last 40 years, the school itself has been around for 112 plus. Um, but for the first time this year, our varsity boys soccer team won the section title, which means all the schools in their division from basically Fresno to the coast down through Bakersfield and so and so on. But, uh, for the very first time, they won their section championship. And I want to send a huge congratulations out on behalf of all of us, uh, to coach Roberto Gonzalez and his varsity boys soccer team on winning the the section title. Those guys made us really proud. They're playing right now down in North Hollywood in the state playoffs, and we're uh, we're very, very proud of those boys. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

All right. Thank you very much, sir. Talked about things to do. This past week, I believe it was Friday night was the big red carpet movie premiere. For those of you who weren't made aware of it, there was a movie that's been worked on by producer Ricky Bird called Karna Oil. And he's been working on this movie for about a year and a half, and it has finally come to fruition. There was a red carpet premiere at the Fox Theater in Bakersfield, and it was extremely well attended. I mean extremely well which was very encouraging. Uh the movie I thought was extremely informative. There were a lot of people from industry uh who helped understand the realities because for so long the discussion regarding instate production and energy overall has been dominated uh by virtue signaling and fantasy misgivings. lack of facts and downright lies. Whereas Cern Oil was full of the facts, emerging facts and science. And it was it was a wonderful affair. I thought uh I thought the producer Ricky Bird did a great job and I thought a lot of people contributed to it. We hope to bring it to the Taft Fox Theater so that people who weren't able to attend the red carpet can do that. I heard some rumblings regarding it being on Amazon Prime and some other ways. But anyway, it was great to finally see somebody go to a lot of trouble to bring the real issue, the real discussion, the facts instead of operating in the shadows, center stage in the spotlight. So, uh, it was nice to see that and I congratulate not only the producer but everybody who contributed and a lot of people from our city and from the west side, people have been involved in the industry for a very long time

contributed to the effort. So, hats off for all of those involved. I uh I happened across um I I read a lot and I happened across this this one short report here I wanted to share with everybody because after all weather and climate climate change is something that we all hear a lot about. PG&E is one of the three publicly owned utilities in the state of California and they're spending a great deal of money on things regarding that protection of the climate. So, this came out just the other day and it says, "Farewell, Lan Ninia. Hello, El Nino. Large-scale Pacific Ocean climate patterns are in the process of changing places with L' Nia liking to give way to El Nino over the next few months, according to a February 12th forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center. the same people that talked to us about climate change and the warming of the ozone and all the above. Lan Ninia contin continued in January of 2026 with below average sea surface temperatures observed in the east central equatorial Pacific Ocean. The CPC said in a February 12th online report after L'inia fades, it is forecast a brief stretch of so-called endzone neutral conditions are likely when neither El Linia or El Nino is present. Then a full-fledged El Nino appears likely by fall. So the result of all of this science and all this observation and reality is for the late summer and beyond there is a 50 to 60% chance of El Nino forming according to the climate prediction center.

I believe that.

So a lot of science, a lot of observation, a lot of computer modeling. 50% chance. I'm here to help demonstrate a 50% chance. Another coin. This right here is heads. That's tails. So without the use of computers or satellites or any of that data. That is a 50% chance. Anyway, I just know that you all feel that much better about being able to predict what's going to happen in the year 2100 within one or two degrees Celsius. I just wanted to help you out with that because they put it out, not me. I wanted to be sure and share that with everybody. All right, that's all I have this evening on that matter.

Pennsylvania's got Punksatony Phil, right? We've just got Mayor Dave No. There you go. That's it. All right. Thank you. Item number four, department reports. We have any department reports this evening? We do, sir. All right. Chief McMahon's going to share some with us. 50 50% chance, okay?

Good evening everyone. Um, I'm Chief McMahon from the Taft Police Department and I'm going to give you the statistics for the month of February. Total incidents uh through the month of February were 913. Calls for service 378. Officer initiated incidents were 535. So of course that relates to our guys and gals are out there turning over rocks and looking for bad people. We're going to go to total cases which were 120 written in the month of February. Um we had total misdemeanor and felony arrests of 56. So we had 49 misdemeanor. So obviously we had seven felony arrests for the month of February. I also want to touch bases real quick on one of our officers, Officer Tez. I call him Eddie. This young man is um outdoing us proud. So since January 1st, he has 26 DUI arrests in our city.

Wow. Wow. And he has the MAD award for the last two years in a row from our city and he's up in the 60s and above at two different times, 60s and 70s. So, this he's found his niche in law enforcement and wow, he is one of those guys that loves to uh uh do uh write DUIs. So, if you're drinking and driving, you might run into Eddie. I'm just letting you know. What was his last name, Chief?

Tez. Te laz. Um you'll you'll see him out there. He's a very handsome kid, well built, and um he also did fight in the police Olympics for us a few years back. and he is a boxer and they put in he's like probably 165 lbs dripping wet and they put in 180 pounder and that was um it did not behoove them to put him up against somebody like that because he tore that kid apart. This kid can uh he can throw the dukes. Fantastic.

So I just kind of wanted to throw that out there because I was very proud of this young man. He and I'm very proud of every one of them of course but um this was just brought to my attention the other day and gave him a littleatory at a boy for doing so and he just keeps impressing. So very proud. Chief, correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the largest law enforcement issues we have on the west side overall is drunk driving. Is that not correct? Unfortunately, yes, sir. That is correct. We average probably 115 a year. And for a city our size, that's not a good thing.

Well, then having Officer Eddie out there doing his thing and getting them off of the road before they run into somebody and kill a soccer mom on the way to practice or something like that. Uh, God bless him. Absolutely. Hook them up. Get them off the road. Absolutely. I have a question. Yes. Chief, I have a question to piggy back on our mayor no. Do you see crime going up or going down?

Well, we we've been steadily declining for years. Um, and I've been pulling statistics and I and I always pull the statistics. That's just how we determine where the crime areas are and what we're looking for when we're going out on patrol. Um, just to kind of caveat a little bit off that is we we look at areas of hot spots where we have um burglaries or areas of hot spot where we have trespassing or areas of hot spot where we have some encampments that go and and we respond to those. But we we stay pretty steady. This is and I'm not afraid to say this at any time. This is a safe city. We do well here. The people and the stakeholders of this city understand that. I mean, of course, we have the 10% that we have issues with, and it's usually the same ones that we're aware of. When we see a spike in vehicle burglaries or um home burglaries, we kind of look to our statistics like who is parrolled recently, who has been released recently, and it seems to come back to those same individuals. So that's easy for us, bad for them, but unfortunately that's kind of what happens in our city. Um, other than that, we stay pretty steady. We we don't have a spike in in violent crime, and we never really have.

I I I've been watching your your the officers and stuff and patrolling and doing things, and I agree with you. They're doing a fantastic job what they're doing with the small force that we have in our city. you're uh very proactive what you do. What percentage of the um helping the county out you you you spend a month or two or throughout the year average helping out the county doing things in inter agency work. I'll look real quick and just for the month of February. Let me get to a section where we call AOD which were we actually wrote four reports for the city for the county but that doesn't really entail what we do as far as percentages. I couldn't I couldn't really give you a percentage of that. I would have to look that up, but I can tell you when they at work at night, sometimes the sheriff's department is um low staffed and not always and they've made strides to take care of that problem. And not just the fact that they have low staffing, it's just the fact if there's a hot call in the county, our guys automatically go to help. And that's just the kind of camaraderie we have with the sheriff's department. We have a good working relationship with them and they do and they they reciprocate. They absolutely come to our calls if we have a hot call or we're in a chase or we have a 148 which is somebody resisting who's fighting. Um they absolutely u come to back us. So we have a great relationship with the county. Um I couldn't give you an exact percentage of in a month but I can just tell you if you monitor the radios and you understand uh the counties and the city areas, you'll know our our guys and gals, our troops definitely back them on their calls and they also do the same. and they just have that camaraderie that when you're working nights together and I can speak

from experience, you know, as a street cop in my day, you have that camaraderie. I had that with the Shater Peak Police Department. If we were anywhere in their area or close by and we were going to a call that um you had individuals fighting or large gatherings, absolutely we would back them and they and they would back us. I hear a lot of good things from the sheriff's department with with our Donnie Young Blood and and other um they're happy what we do here in TAF. We're kind of a few communities that work so close together with our with the sheriff and they working with us as a city and uh I just want to say that and give a shout out to you guys. Thank you, sir. for doing what you guys doing.

Thank you. And and that is true. Um we're unique. Some indiv some cities aren't as cooperative as others and that's that's their issues. But with city of Taft, we definitely work handinhand with the sheriff's department and Sheriff Young Bloodood has uh fostered that with myself and I have fostered that with him and we seem to um our troops seem to work well very well together and the fact that they just moved their substation a stones throw away from our PD. So, I'm sure there's uh that camaraderie is is being bolstered more because they we work together with them so well and the fact that uh we see them if you see you'll see them in the city often and just like you see us in the county areas often. So, we do have that uh that cooperation with each other.

Good deterrent. Absolutely it is, sir. Thank you. We have any other questions for the chief or comments? Keep it up. Tell us thank you. We definitely need it. It's the unfortunate truth. with impaired driving is a big thing around here that the more we can get those folks out of here. Absolutely, sir. And it is and like I said, very proud of the young man and I'm proud of everyone because that's not even counting the other ones that have like 12, 13, 17. I mean, we bounce all through there, but um um Eddie to me um he has made it his mission to go out and he absolutely work at nights and hunts and um if you're driving under the influence in our city, you are going to meet officer Eddie. I can I can tell you

that's great to hear again. Absolutely. All right. Next up, item number five, city manager statement. City Manager Jones. Thank you, mayor. Nothing additional tonight. All right. Thank you, sir. City attorney statements item number six. J. Mr. Mayor, no statement. Thank you, sir. Item number seven, future agenda request. Gentlemen, I do have one. If I could please ask for concurrence. I would like to propose a commendation or proclamation for the uh the Valley Championship recognition for the soccer team at the high school. I'd be happy to spearhead that and make sure that Faith has information, but to get those boys here along with their coach and recognize them, I think is awesome. That's great. I would concur with that. So, thank you. I as well,

Madam Clerk, you'll take care of that. Yes. All right. Thank you, Kylie. Any other gentlemen? Nope.

No. All right. Then we'll move on to consent calendar items 8 through 16. All items listed on the consent calendar shall be considered routine and will be enacted by a one roll call vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the city council requests specific items to be removed from the consent calendar for separate action. Any item removed from the consent calendar will be considered after the regular business items. Are there any items on the consent calendar that any member of the public would like to comment on? Seeing none, those items are item number eight, the minutes for the February 17th regular meeting. Item number nine, payment of bills, some $630,000 worth. Item number 10, the cancellation of the July 7th, 2026 city council meeting. Recommendation is a motion to approve the cancellation of the July 7th, 2026 city council meeting. Item number 11 is an update to the administrative policies and procedures to approve and adopt social media media policy section 129. Recommendation is a motion to approve and adopt social media policy section 129 and find that the activity is not a project for the California Environmental Quality Act SQA as set forth in section 15060C3 and section 15378 of the SQA guidelines. Item number 12, city investment policy annual review. Recommendation is a motion to concur with the finance committee's recommendation to adopt the policy with no changes and find that the activity is not a project per the California Environmental Quality Act, SQUA, as set forth in section 15060C3 and section 153C78 of the SQA guidelines. Item 13 is the transportation development act funds annual audit for fiscal year 2020 2021. motion. The recommendation is a motion

to receive and file the city of tap transportation development act funds annual audit for the fiscal year 2020 2021 and find that the activity is not a project per the California environmental qual quality act as set forth in section 15060c3 and 15 and section 15378 of the squa guidelines. Item 14, Transportation Development Act funds annual audit fiscal year 2021 through 2022. Recommendation here is a motion to receive and file the city of TAP Transportation Development Act funds annual audit for fiscal year 2021 2022. and find that the activity is not a project per the California Environmental Quality Act, SQUA, as set forth in section 15060C3 in section 15378 of the SQA guidelines. Item 15, annual audited financial statements for fiscal year 2021 2022. Recommendation is a motion to receive and file the annual audited comprehensive financial reports for the year ended June 30th, 2022 and find that the activity is not a project per the California Environmental Quality Act SQA as set forth in section 150603 and section 15378 of the SQA guidelines. Item 16, finance and human resources staff to attend Tyler Muna's 2026 annual training in Las Vegas, Nevada to be held on April 7th through 10th, 2026. The recommendation here is a motion to approve funds from capital reserves of $1,000 for human resources and to approve the out ofstate travel for finance and HR employees to attend Tyler Connect 2026 training in Las Vegas, Nevada from April the 7th through April the 10th, 2026.

Lastly, item 17 is the Tyler Munice Agreement for Cloud Services. recommendation. Here's a motion to authorize the mayor to execute the agreement with Tyler Technologies for Cloud Services. Does any member of the council wish to remove any of these items from the consent calendar? I'd like to request item 11 be removed, please. Item 11. Okay. Any others, gentlemen? Hearing none. I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. May I interrupt? I was just going to offer that if any council members believe that they should recuse themselves from consideration of the consent calendar now. Now would be a good time to make that statement.

Okay. Do any council members wish to recuse themselves from any item on the consent calendar? Not from this time. Hearing none. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate that, Jason. At this time, I would entertain a motion to approve consent calendar items 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 and 17. So moved. Second. Have a motion and a second. Madame clerk, may we have a roll call, please? Council member Crier, yes. Mayor Proen Bryant, yes. Council member Waldrop, yes. Council member Shiver, yes. Mayor North,

yes. That's approved on a 50 vote. Thank you very much. All right. Uh item number 11, update to the administrative policies and procedures to approve and adopt social media policy section 129. City Manager Joan. Thank you, Mayor. The attached uh draft policy is written to establish guidelines and clear rules regulations regarding the city of TAP social media accounts. Social media accounts will be used to uh disseminate factual information, promote transparency to the community, and remain compliant with all public records acts. Thank you, city manager Jones. Mayor Pro Tim, you ask that we remove this item from consent calendar, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would just ask that we table this item pending a few minor adjustments and then bring it back to council once those things are addressed. Okay. Uh can I get concurrence on that request, gentlemen? Sure, I'll concur. All right. Thank you very much. Do we need a vote on that or we have a request and a concurrence? Under these circumstances, Mr. Mayor, I would suggest actually a motion to remove it and consider it at a future date.

All right. I thank you very much, sir. At this time, I would entertain a motion to table remove item number 11 from the consent calendar. Item number 11 being update to the administrative policies and procedures to approve and adopt social media policy section 129. So moved and second. I have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion here, gentlemen? Seeing none, madam clerk, may we have a roll call, please? Council member Crier, yes. Mayor Proen Bryant, yes. Council member Waldrop, yes. Council member Shira, yes. Mayor No,

yes. And that is approved on a 50- vote. Thank you very much. That ladies and gentlemen brings this evening's open portion of our meeting to a close. This council will go into close session for two items. Item A, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation, government code section 54956.9B, one undisclosed case. And item B, conference with labor negotiator Craig Jones, city manager, government code section 54957.6, all units. I want to thank you all for being a part of this evening's meeting. Remember, this is your government. Get involved. We are ajourned.