City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, good evening, everyone. Thank you for your patience. I'd like to call the regular meeting for the City Council of Temple City for September 15th, 2026 to order. Madam City Clerk, can we have a roll call, please?

Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Chavez? Here. Council Member Sternquist? Here. Council Member Yu? Here. Mayor Pro Tem Chen? Here. Mayor Mann? Here.

Here, tonight for the invocation, we have Pastor Kelty or? Oh, Jerry. Jerry, thank you so much. We have Mr. Jerry Jambazian to lead us in the invocation. Please all rise for the invocation and please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance that will be led by Scout Troop 161 afterwards.

Good evening, Mayor and Councilman and all invited guests. Let's pray, give thanks. Father, thank you for this time together as we come to do the business of this great city. Thank you that you have watched over us, you have kept us safe. Father, thank you that you love us, you take care of us daily. Father, the fact that we could even get up this morning and take a breath, Father, it's from you. So God, we thank you tonight for everything that's going to take place, especially with our young minds that are here tonight that have helped put Temple City on the map through their efforts, through the solar car, and through innovation and STEM and STEAM and everything else. Father, thank you for the advisors that led them. Thank you for the parents that supported them. So, God, we give you everything tonight, and we thank you for your love, your grace to us, and your provision. In your name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Tonight we have Troop 161 who will be leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Troop 161 meets every Thursday at Temple City First United Methodist Church. Anyone who is interested is welcome to come by and check out scouting from 7 p.m. to 8.15 p.m. Trip 161 will also be camping at Camp Takets, Halloween theme, October 23rd to October 25th. Caller for flags today is Howard Ying, and flag leaders are Corey Yang and Adip Bhandari.

Caller guard, attention. Caller guard, center. Color guard, forward march. All. Color guard, please close the curtains. All those in uniform and or veterans, please salute. All those not, please place your right hand over your arm. Please run me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Ready, begin.

I pledge allegiance 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.

Two. Color guard, reform.

Thank you very much, Troop 161. Next, we move on to Item 5, Ceremonial Matters. Tonight, we have a very, very special recognition of our Temple City High School RX2 and Heliotech solar car teams. It is our pleasure as a city council to join in recognizing the collective accomplishments of both the Heliotech and the RX2 and All Girls team for their accomplishments in an electric solar power car competition in Texas. Heliotech and Racer X2 represented Temple City High School in two divisions of a solar-powered vehicle competition. Heliotech competed in the cruiser division where teams built solar-powered vehicles designed to structurally resemble standard everyday passenger vehicles. Racer X2 competed in the solar-powered EV division. where teams construct two-seater electric vehicles powered by a combination of battery storage and solar charging. Before any vehicle can reach the open road or track, it must pass a rigorous multi-day inspection process. Professional judges, safety officers evaluate each vehicle's mechanical, electrical, and structural systems, including the driver's roll cage, braking system, and battery protection protocols to ensure students can safely operate their vehicles alongside normal highway traffic. Both teams participated in a 620-mile cross-state race in Texas from July 19th through July 23rd, and each team earned first place in their respective divisions. We are extremely, extremely proud of their accomplishments and would like to recognize them tonight with certificates. However, before we get to that, I would like to invite two special members, not only our school board member, Mr. Vincent Bell, as well as Temple City High Principal, Ms. Elena Lee. I'd like to invite you and the other leaders from the Solar car team up to the podium if you'd like to make a couple of short remarks at this time.

so good evening members of the city council at temple city high school student project teams like racer x squared and helio tech represent our hands on stem education career technical education training and student leadership these competition teams spend the entire school year like William Mann said, designing, engineering, fabricating solar powered vehicles from the ground up, culminating each summer at the Solar Car Challenge in Texas, where they compete against top high school teams from across the nation. To bring a car from concept to the racetrack or the streets of Texas, our students operate just like a real world engineering firm. They divide into specialized sub teams, handling everything from electrical engineering and mechanical fabrication to business operations, marketing, and fundraising. Through this process, they face genuine technical obstacles, manage real budgets, and learn to navigate intense collaborative challenges together under pressure. To formally acknowledge the countless hours these students dedicate after school and on weekends, TCHS has created a dedicated Principles of Engineering CTE course. This gives students academic credit for their rigorous technical work while aligning their hands-on experience with official CTE pathways. While Heliotech and Racer X Squared have brought home national awards and prestige to Temple City, the true victory is what happens along the way. Beyond learning how to power a vehicle with clean energy, our students develop essential lifelong professional skills, project management, lifelong professional skills, financial planning, resilience, and teamwork that prepare them to lead in tomorrow's workforce. Vincent?

Thank you very much, Ms. Lee, for that outstanding synopsis of what a student-run project teams like Heliotech and ARCS II are all about. I think we can all agree that the scope of these projects are quite large, which explains why there are only six teams competing in the state of California, and about 30 nationwide, including ours. Given the level of difficulty that it takes to build one car, let alone three cars, is a testament to this special place that we call Temple City. We've competed for three years now, and the race organizers as well as the coaches from the other teams are just bewildered at how we keep showing up with a new car every year. And I humored that we are in the process of building a solar car dealership at Temple City High School. And I encourage them to shop with us in the very near future. But all joking aside, I shared that we're just incredibly fortunate to have this level of support from our community. And I would like to take this moment to recognize all of our advisors and our parent volunteers for their countless hours of support and financial generosity. I would also like to thank all of our sponsors near and far, such as the City of Temple City for their support through events like the Camellia Festival, where our students are able to fundraise to help support their initiatives. What I personally find most fulfilling is witnessing our student groups experience the true essence of starting a business right through their work on these projects. It's definitely an out-of-classroom experience. But enough about what we think as adults. It's time for our guests of honor here to share their stories with all of you. I would now like to introduce this past season's respective operations leads for both teams to share their stories. From Heliotech, we have Rylan Chow, and from RX2, we have Julie Lee.

Hi, council members. My name is Julie Lee, and I'm the operations lead of RX2.

Hello, my name is Ryland Chow, and I'm the operations lead for Heliotech.

So I would just like to share that RX2 in itself is a completely new and branded team because we are the only all-female solar car team competing in the Texas Solar Car Challenge. Our team is not only special in the fact that we are bringing a new perspective to the solar car challenge by being all girls and representing women in STEM. It is also special in the way that our car does not actually have solar panels on it. The specialty in being in the electric solar power division allows us to have more freedom in our car design. As there's no solar panels on the actual car, they are actually on our trailer, which then charge the batteries that power our car. We have two interchangeable batteries that require our race strategy to be able to allocate the power throughout the race.

And so Heliotech's a little bit unique because this season we had the opportunity to start the fabrication of our advanced vehicle. So it's going to be a single all-commute vehicle with solar cells and a hub motor. In addition to our cruiser car, which Mayor William Mann mentioned a little bit earlier, but I think The cool part about our cruiser vehicle is that it is a real testament to its real-world application. And during the race, we actually had the opportunity to go through a drive-through and get some food. So that's one cool application of the cruiser vehicle. Heliotech as a whole is split into two different teams. We have 17 members in our operations team and then around 30 members in our technical team.

RX2 is actually split up into three different sub teams. It is split up into electrical, mechanical, and operations. So as of this season, we have five members on each team.

Yeah, so what exactly does it take to design and build a car? So as Ms. Lee mentioned, in the beginning of the year, we have our group of our technical students come together and go to the whiteboard, as well as CAD, which is Computer Aided Design, to start drafting what the necessary requirements are needed to actually, I guess, build a car and also fulfill the rules. So that includes modeling out the chassis, the suspension, the steering, the aeroshell, and just making sure everything is verified digitally before we start moving on to the physical fabrication part of the process. We then do a lot of prototyping, so whether that's building a physical model of the car out of PVC pipes or out of foam, or testing out different various electrical schematics. Ultimately, this leads to a bunch of engineering decisions that have to be made, but at the very end, we get to build a car right on campus and even get to test it around local locations like the Rose Bowl.

I think one thing that is a little bit hard to believe about our teams is that the cars actually drive on real roads. It was a testament to how durable and real our actual vehicles can be, and with that comes with the cost of building an actual car. So to build our car, it takes around $30,000, give or take, not only including all the mechanical, electrical, the motor, everything in that, but also the registration fees for our team as well.

Yeah, so how exactly do we get these type of funds? So we are incredibly grateful and proud to be partnering with a variety of organizations that share similar values to Green Energy, as well as supporting students in STEM, for example, Temple City Schools Foundation. And furthermore, we engage in numerous outreach events throughout the year, including festivals like the LA Auto Show or the Demo Days, which is an all EV and solar expo, where Heliotech actually tables And through that we're able to receive a variety of connections that we later follow up on and eventually get sponsors. So some notable ones are familiar faces like Philho Transit and as well as Transtech engineers. But also we get automotive carbon fiber from SureFab and we partner with the Gene Haas Foundation.

So I think another reason why Rx2 is so important is that not only are we here to help high school students further their pathways in engineering and business, we're also here to inspire the future generations as well. That's why in our outreach we do go to the STEM events in the elementary schools to just plant in their minds that they are able to do this as well. Not only that, we do want to also share with other districts as well and other cities that it's possible to have a high school solar car team. in that we not only go to the Los Angeles Maker's Fair to showcase our works, but also go to national events such as the USC SciOLI competition this past year, where we were able to share with like-minded people our actual project and how we were able to succeed in that. SOME NOTABLE SPONSORS FOR RX2 INCLUDE HIGHLAND FLEETS WHO ARE ACTUALLY AN ENTIRELY ELECTRIC POWER SCHOOL BUS FLEETS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE PRESENT IN L.A. FOR THE L.A. 28 OLYMPICS.

And of course, getting our cars to Texas is no easy task. So we have an absolute great team of parents and advisors. In particular, we want to thank Mr. Gardner, Mr. Steve Lamb, and Mr. Aaron. They took the grueling 1,500 mile road trip, trailering all three cars from Temple City to Texas. And at the race, the parents support us in any way they can. So whether that's making those last-minute impulsive trips to the hardware store to get that one missing bolt, to cooking home-cooked meals, as well as the insane logistics of planning lodging at hotels across a five-city race. Parents also had to deal with the grueling heat in Texas as they were trailering behind and in front of the cars across the 600 mile plus trip. So it is without a doubt that without parental support, Heliotech would never be able to retain our championship title.

As a first-year team, we had a very interesting experience at our race this year. As I mentioned before, we are the only all-female STEM team there. And also, if you have seen some of the past solar cars, it is incredibly evident that our solar car is completely different from everyone else's. I think as a whole we are widely accepted by the Solar Car Challenge. Not only were we able to showcase the fact that girls can do it too, we were also able to kind of expand on what a solar car may look like. Because ultimately the goal of this event is to promote sustainability in electrical vehicles in the future. So in order to have everyone become more adept with the mindset of being able to have electric solar powered cars for the future, we were able to kind of start in that direction of having a car that looks more like a sports car, that looks more like something that someone could actually drive on the road.

Yeah, so for this year, Heliotech is excited to embark on our most ambitious season yet. Every year, we like to go a little bit more above and beyond. This year, we are planning to complete our advanced vehicle. So it's going to be something that's entirely new, something that Temple Study has not seen. We're excited to share that. And we also want to continue upgrading and preparing our cruiser vehicle for race again this year.

Continuing from our past season, we will be making modifications onto our current vehicle as our plan for our seasons is to have one car every two years. So this will be the year for us to take what we learned from our competition and use the information to test our vehicle more and change it so that we are able to retain our title next year.

So with that being said, thank you so much for listening to our presentation and giving us the opportunity to share a little bit more about Heliotech and all the things we do this year.

Thank you so much for providing us an opportunity to not only have this platform for us to create, but also allow us to explore all the different opportunities that Temple City offers.

And since we have these wonderful people here, I wonder if council has any questions that they would like to ask the team or Mr. Bell or Ms. Lee.

Just an ask that I have, but I would like to invite... the team to come to Foothill Transit because oftentimes we don't see, we just see that, you know, there was an expenditure given to a community and Foothill Transit is a great community partner and they support a lot of different initiatives but we don't often get to see anybody so it would be really nice and there's 28 different cities there. for them to come and show the other cities just how smart we are. But we can talk about that, Vincent, you know, at a future date, but Ed Chen is, Councilmember Chen is on Foothill Transit's board also, so I know he would be just as proud to have them show up.

Absolutely.

So congratulations to everyone, parents, mentors, principal, everybody involved, students, thank you.

Well said. And just a couple of days ago, I was actually speaking with Christine Kwong. She's one of the board trustees from Pasadena City College. And she mentioned how impressed she was with the entire team. I believe she may have taken a tour or have talked to many of you. She told me a little story about there was some part that you guys were missing or had broken. And someone from the machine shop at PCC had fabricated it. But I just... She was overall very impressed with the level of expertise and skill and this entire squad is almost like a model for every other school in the agency to show what can be done. And the fact that you created an all-female team also is a pretty amazing achievement. I mean, speaking as someone in the engineering field, it is something that's very important to have female representation and know that you can't do it. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. I remember when I was in grad school for engineering, I was actually surprised because we had a male to female ratio of our student that was one to one. which was kind of unheard of. It was highly unusual in my specific niche of engineering. But nevertheless, we've come a long way since I've been in school, so it's great to see how far we've come and where we can go even further in the future. Lastly, the joke I always like to make is, I'm a civil engineer, so I'm in the engineering where I don't like it when things move. So you guys are all in the field where you're trying to make things move, right? So if structures move, I get in trouble. Whereas if your stuff doesn't move, then you probably won't win the race. So that's why I never got into mechanical or electrical, because I'm just not as smart as all of you here. Lastly, I will say that the very fact that you're able to create this program with all the different supporters involved goes to show you that this is what engineering is about. It's applied science. And you don't do any engineering project, whether it's the public or private sector, without a team. You don't do engineering alone. So if there is one thing you all take away from this, and you probably already did, is you can go far with a team. And keep that in mind, because that's going to be true in college. That's going to be true in work. It's going to be true in life. So you're learning all those lessons way ahead of anyone who's ever even been involved. So congratulations to all of you. At this time, I'd like to invite our council to join me in presenting certificates to all the members of the teams. I will caveat this by saying if we happen to miss your name, please let us know. We do want everyone to have a certificate, so don't feel left out. We will absolutely get you a certificate if we somehow missed you. All right, at this time, council, would you please join me?

Mayor, are we gonna have pictures?

Oh, yes. Yes, thank you. So as we call your names for the certificates, would you please line up in the front? I know it's going to be quite a big crowd, but Jerry will corral us and be able to get a photo with, try to get everyone in there. Yes, of course. We'll get everyone.

Maybe we should just take a picture that way. That's right. We'll stand there. We'll stand over there, and then they can just stay over there.

Okay, so we'll start with the RX2 team. First, we have Alexis Lam. Isabella Ta. Julie Lee. Leilani Garcia. Elaine Zhao. Taylor Leung. Charlene Xu. Ellie Lam. Skye Zhao, Miranda Tam, Kayla Molina, Amelia Lau, and Carrie Cheng. So actually, maybe we'll get a photo with the RX2 team first, and then we'll We'll bring up HelioTech afterwards. How about that?

There you go. Okay, here we go.

All right, now for the Helio Tech team, we have Roy Slam. Jayden Fung. Andrew Koo. Aaron Tang. Caden Hsien, Ellie Lowe, Jonathan Kong, Ivan Pan, Angela Chen, Stan Lee Cho, Charles Lee, Nick Chan, Ian Penn. Ethan Lee. Carter Huang. Nathan Shi. I think we have like duplicates. I think I just called Ethan Lee. Is there another? Oh, there's another Ethan Lee? OK. Ethan Lee. He's not here? OK. All right, I thought I was seeing double. Sophia Guo. Nick Chan. Kelly Liu. Peggy, do we print double? Because it's Jessica Guo again. Alison Ma. Emma Kwok. Ali No. Ralph Go. Cameron Lee. Hailey Han. Anson Nguyen. Jillian See. Rylan Chow. Olivier Do. Arvin Shah. Song Guo. Brian Chen. Victoria Liu. Rexon Cervantes. Raina Chung. Jonathan Zhao. Toby Chow. Natalie Chu. Addison Garner.

Oh, well, you should come up. Thank you.

All right, this could be difficult, but could we get the girls' team up here also so we can get one big group picture? Advisors and even parents.

Everybody.

We're going to do it.

There's no .

There we go. See everybody's face? Whoa, you guys are good.

That's a woman staring at Chris.

All right, here we go. Thank you. I think so.

She's the newest one. Isn't, what's her name, the newest one? Two speakers, Julie's the new one. Julie's the new one.

Everybody can see?

By the way, as Mr. Vincent Bell is, before he leaves, Councilmember, you had a suggestion is we can maybe try to arrange for them to join us for the Lights on Temple City parade, if that's not already on the plan. I mean, that would be a great way to showcase. So we'll work with you on that. Okay, absolutely. All right, have a good night.

That took the air out of the room.

All right, now we get to the exciting part of the meeting, right? Yes, exciting for me. Okay, now we move on to item number six, public comments on items not listed on the agenda. For those who would like to make a public comment, please fill out the speaker request card in the front. And if you are joining remotely, you may use the raise hand feature on Zoom or press star nine if you are calling in by phone to request to speak. I do have a speaker request card here from Mr. David McGrath. Please come to the front. Oh, and we have a microphone for you that you can turn on if you need better lighting to read.

Yeah, used to.

And we're going to do some improvements to the... You're going to put a light on here?

Yeah. Oh, great.

Thank you. We'll plan to do that.

Three minutes good evening mayor man and council members. I am here to talk about a major concern in public safety and city duty urgent focus to three critical community issues That need the city's immediate attention before someone gets badly hurt or things get worse first We have a major safety hazard in a clear 88 violation at Primrose and Woodruff the city's oak tree on the southeast corner. It blocks a woodruff sidewalk. A dangerous low limb hangs right into the walking path. This creates a high risk for serious head injuries and concussions. Forcing disabled residents and families into oncoming traffic to get around this barrier is a clear violation of disability laws. It leaves the city open to huge, costly lawsuits. Second, public safety and serious health hazards at the Temple City Park and the City Hall parking lot. It has turned into a busy spot for open drug dealing. And making matters worse, local children and family pets are finding left behind drug crack pipes with toxic residue. Families have to deal with secondhand smoke from illegal cigarette and marijuana use right next to active green spaces. This is a threat to our kids that require fast, aggressive police action and zero tolerance in enforcement. Third, the terrible neglect of our city's veterans memorial. Ten years ago, after the city council proudly dedicated it, the memorial has been completely abandoned. 10 separate ground lights are burned out or broken, leaving the memorial park at night, dark at night. The paint is peeling, and the sacred ground is over-ruined, overrun by cockroaches. This lack of care is deeply disrespectful to our veterans. It shows a shocking failure to protect our city's history. In summary, these three issues show serious health, safety, and community failures. that cannot be ignored. Moving forward, city liability must be taken seriously and true accountability is now expected. I ask the city council investigate these concerns as soon as possible. Thank you for your time.

Okay. Thank you. We will certainly look into the issues. Thank you. Appreciate that. All right. Do we have anyone else who would like to make a public comment? I would like to ask our city clerk if we have any speakers that are virtual participants.

There are no, Mayor. We don't have any.

Okay, so we don't have any. So at this point, we will close public comments. And we will move on to item seven, the consent calendar, which may be approved in a single motion unless removed for further discussion. I do want to... I just want to make sure I'm getting the right one. I do want to pull item F briefly. So do we have a motion for the approval of the remaining items?

Move to approve.

Second.

Okay. Moved and seconded. Roll call vote, please.

Council Member Chavez? Yes. Council Member Sternquist? Yes. Council Member Hu?

Yes.

Mayor Pro Tem Chen? Yes. Mayor Mann? Yes.

So I pulled item F just briefly. I want to note that this is part of a This is part of a strategy that many of us on council have referred to or alluded to from time to time. We've made mention of it in terms of economic development. We've heard comments about vacant properties. We've heard comments about what are we doing with our downtown or historic downtown corridor. So I just want to highlight this as a step in that direction. I want to thank our city manager, Brian Cook, and his staff for working with RSG to outline what I consider to be a pretty comprehensive scope of work to address something that I believe is long overdue. um i also want to note on here just my comment on this item is that i would like for our city manager to bring our chamber of commerce more into the fold i'm not saying that they should take away from what rsg is doing i'm looking for opportunities for them to be complementary to this i don't want us to run into the same issues we've had in the past where we kind of treated planning issues along the corridor separate from the things that we want the Chamber of Commerce to be an active part of. And if there's any strategies, recommendations coming out of this study, we definitely want them to be a part of that strategy. So if that could inform whether it's a revision of, potentially revision of the future scope of work for the Chamber of Commerce's agreement, or any kind of direction that we may wish to provide them. I would expect that this is something that would come out of this endeavor as well.

Yes, Council Member Sternquist. Since you pulled that, I just would like to ensure that In the scope of work, it's much different than what took place when we had the downtown, what was it called then, rehabilitation or what have you. And that we looked at different options. So let's hope that the service that they're providing, that they would take a look at what was done before and not... replicate that, do something new for the times we're in now. Because the downtown has not changed much since we did that study. Tom, do you recall when that was?

No, it's been a while.

Yeah, so I agree with you, I concur. And in my review of the scope of services, I believe it does achieve that.

Okay, thank you.

Any other council comments? All right. Seeing none, may I have a motion for item 7F?

Yes, Mr. Mayor, I would like to move for approval item 7F.

Do we have a motion?

Second.

All right. We have a second. Roll call vote, please.

Council Member Chavez? Yes. Council Member Sternquist? Yes. Council Member Yu?

Yes.

Mayor Goten Chen? Yes. Mayor Mann?

Yes. All right, next we move to Item 8, Public Hearing, which we have none. Item 9, Unfinished Business, we have none. We move to Item 10A, Acceptance of the Final Pavement Management Plan and Receive and File City Framework for Pavement Management Plan. We will start with... our city manager.

Thank you, Mayor Mann and members of the council. First, I want to start off with some thank yous. I want to thank our team, starting with, if you remember, Michael Lloyd before with Transtech. Charles Herbertson, who is the former director of public works for the city of Culver City, has taken over Michael's spot with Transtech. So I want to thank him. I want to thank Adam Talbot as well. Everything that you see here today is based on a very thorough and comprehensive analysis, street by street, section by section of the streets, in a very, very complicated spreadsheet. that Mr. Talbot put together himself, we verified, we sat down, and it is, what we have here is built on their work. I want to thank Alex Cung as well for reviewing all of that work. And then secondly, I'd like to, lastly, I'd like to thank the standing committee of Council Member Yu and Mayor Mann, where we went through to make sure that from a council direction standpoint, from what we had talked about with Measure TC, that this fit the, not only, and we call it a framework, and we'll talk about why we call it a framework rather than this concrete and stone plan, but just a framework for where you could go back to the residents of Temple City and say, here is how we are deploying resources through Measure TC for a comprehensive approach. And then we'll talk about a 15 year plan that we have here for paving every residential street and every arterial street over that 15-year period. So I want to thank all of them. This body of work represents a true team effort. the analytical side, all the spreadsheets, Mr. Talbot, but a comprehensive policy work, but comprehensive analytical work by all. So what's being presented to you today is something that has been thoroughly vetted by not only subject matter experts, but by your council and the standing committees help as well with their subject matter expertise from a professional level to help us get to where we are today. So I want to start off with that thank you. So we're going to tag team this together between myself, Charles, and Alex. So we'll go back and forth through the presentation that way.

Did your mic go out? It certainly did. Thank you.

Is it back? It is back. So the presentation will be done by myself, Charles, and Alex today. So why a framework? Well, 15 years is a long time in which to look at the course of how you pave every single residential street in the city. But it is the essential asset that you need in order to look at how you can fund your essential asset over a period of a decade and a half. So next slide, please. So what is the baseline? So this is kind of a layman's kind of summary of what we have before you today. So the baseline is good. So we hired an independent engineer to assess, do what is called a pavement condition index analysis, essentially looking at every single street in the city, averaging that out across the city, and saying, what is your score? And it's a score from zero, meaning a completely failed street. to 100, meaning you paved it last week. And it's in absolutely pristine condition. What you can be proud of over the last few years and the approach that we've taken and we've talked about for the last almost decade now is that you are at an 80. And you'll see, and Charles will point out some of the surrounding cities to you in a few slides from now. We're at 80. But that's an average that is not necessarily, and we'll talk to you about why you don't want to necessarily pick one number to say we're only going to hit a number, but we're going to hit a range over a period of time citywide. But as of the assessment done earlier this year, we are at 80.2 citywide. So we got a B. We cannot keep that B with the existing funding that we have, and we'll show you some of that analysis that we've done. One of the other things I think we hear from the council, and we know we hear from the community, is that approximately, based on this independent engineer's analysis, 24% of our streets still are in poor and very poor condition, and 15% are fair. Why is that important to note? Because we'll talk to you a little bit from now about what the funding need we have over the next few fiscal years. But also, if you do not repair these 24% of streets that are in poor, very poor and fair condition, you can't go on a maintenance program. It's like saying your carburetor is about to break down, and your brakes are about to break down, but you can't expect your car to go 100,000 miles by, hey, just waiting until the brakes absolutely fail. So what our recommended strategy is, is looking 15 years out, utilizing a two-prong approach. The first one is the essential one. It is a foundation in order to create and start a maintenance cycle. And that would be over the next two years. to upgrade and repair all very poor and poor streets. And on the third year, hit all fair streets so that you have somewhat of a baseline. They won't be exactly the same. It's kind of like it's deterioration. Streets are always going to deteriorate. But in order to start a maintenance cycle, which would then be followed by a seven-year maintenance cycle for all residential streets, keeping them in good condition. We'll talk about arterial streets in a little bit as well. What does this all mean at the end of the day from a funding standpoint? So when we pull all the numbers together, we've analyzed every single street, we understand the cost, we put in inflation factors, we've played that out over, we've forecasted that out over a 15 year period, what does that mean in terms of the funding gap we have? Over a 15-year period, we're going to have a $10.5 million that we'll need from Measure TC for arterial maintenance, $4.1 million from Measure TC for residential maintenance. Over that 15-year period, we're going to need about $14.6 million from Measure TC. We'll talk a little bit more about how that's going to be scheduled in a minute. Next slide, please. I've touched upon this, but it's important to reiterate. What are our goals from a policy standpoint? Planning for the maintenance and good working conditions of roads for the entire street network. I think you've heard complaints over the years where, hey, my street hasn't been done for 20 years. My street got done five years ago. Why did this street get done? Why did this street not get done? Before, we had extremely limited resources. But also, too, what we did is we pivoted. We adjusted to look at what are actually the conditions of the streets. What is in the road? So a layman like me looking at it and saying, OK, what's in the road? What's in the subgrade? What kind of applications can we apply that are, one, from an engineering standpoint, sound? Can an engineer stand up and say, this road with this application cannot last for 10, 15 years? and doing it in the most economical way. That's why when we have applied data, and that's why we've actually spent money for things like coring. It's kind of like an archaeological dig. You look in the road, you look in the road subgrade, try to understand what's there and what application can hold on that street. Some streets need... three inches of pavement. Some need two. Some can't even hold three. So that's why we do this applied data in field conditions so that we can prioritize what streets can be paved and when. We'll talk about that a little bit more. Also, too, we're trying to be as fiscally responsible as we can. So without Measure TC funds, we were stuck. We were going to be an 80 and degradated going down from there. Measure TC funds give you the opportunity to keep that good range of road conditions for the long term. And this is about the long term protection of preserving the useful life of the road infrastructure with a proactive maintenance with strategic investment. Next slide, please. So I'm gonna turn it over, Charles, for a couple of these slides right here. So this is based on the Pavement Condition Index Report from Buckman, an independent engineer firm.

Thank you, City Manager. So this slide is just a graphical representation of THE SUMMARY OF THE CONDITION OF THE STREETS, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE OVERALL RATING OF THE ARTERIALS IS 84.6%, AND THE COLLECTORS AND RESIDENTIALS IS 78%, IF I CAN READ THAT RIGHT. 78.6. SO THAT GIVES YOU THE OVERALL RATING FOR THE CITY OF 80.2. SO THAT'S HOW IT BREAKS DOWN. YOU CAN SEE ALSO THE BREAKDOWN Arterials is about 25% of the streets in the city. This comes from what we call the Buckman Report, which is the independent report the city manager spoke of. And on the table on the upper left is really a breakdown of what we call pavement condition index range. And that's the number that he was referred to between zero and 100. what constitutes a very good street versus a good, fair, poor, and very poor. And you can see that our overall rating falls within the PCI, payment condition range, of 80 of good. But that's not every street in the city. We'll get to that in a minute. And then to the right of that table, is a comparison of neighboring cities in our area. And you can see that we're doing quite well. We would rank number two on this list in terms of overall PCI rating in our immediate area here. The Temple City streets are summarized in the bottom table where you can see we have close to 50% of the streets in the city in very good condition and another 12% in good. But going further down the table, you see that we have almost 20% of the streets in poor condition and about 4.2% of the streets in very poor condition. So those are the ones that we're focusing on. And this is just, again, a graphical representation of high chart that shows that breakdown of very poor, poor, fair, good streets in the city. And this is all streets combined.

Thank you. So this represents a graphical representation of where the streets are right now. Blue is good. Green is good. Yellow is OK. Tan, not so good. Red bat. So you can see, and if you drive around the city, you can kind of get a sense of like, in this downtown core area, we're holding very well. So what our goal is is that those streets are gonna hold for a long time. Those can go on a regular maintenance schedule. What we now have to hit are those, from a priority standpoint, are the very poor, poor, and then fair streets before those fair streets turn into poor streets. And generally, the variables that shift that are time and weather. and driving on the streets. So those three conditions, and this is from a layman's standpoint, but those are the three conditions. One of the things we're gonna see with this El Nino is how much of those poor streets are gonna get a little bit worse. So that's why we're gonna talk to you about when we're gonna be able to do this because if we do this, we cannot do pavement during We've pushed those types of projects out before and they get a little dicey because you have to time and you're kind of playing roulette in terms of when you can do payment, when you have to stop, when you have to remobilize. Next slide, please. So what our goal is is coming back to you in November of this year and commencing in the spring of 2027, hitting the poor and very poor streets in the city, and even a few of the fair streets, hopefully, as well. But the fair streets will likely be near three. So these are the streets that you probably get complaints about, you've probably heard from. These are the streets that we are going to hit up first. At the same time, while this doesn't show this, what we need to do is we cannot neglect the streets that still need maintenance. So we will start a schedule on and about the same time where you may have seen a street that was paved six to seven years ago, but getting slurry seal treatment. Because what do we want to do? We don't want to lose the condition of that street that has just been repaired where you may see a little bit of fracturing, a few cracks here and there, wanna put a slurry seal over that so that stays in that condition. So we're gonna do kind of two things at once, especially over that three year period. We're going to repair all the poor, very poor and fair streets and then we will begin our maintenance cycles. We will not wait for that maintenance cycle and that's where the funding is gonna come into play here. Next slide, please. And Charles is going to talk to you about visually what you see as a poor, very poor, and poor street.

And Brian, before we turn it over back to Charles, I just want to maybe you or Charles can emphasize when you say maintenance cycles, right, we're implicitly we're saying the way we approach road projects now, we just don't have the bandwidth and capacity to be on any cycle, right? It's just we're kind of doing the low-hanging fruit that we've been talking about for many years and just trying to knock them out on a case-by-case basis.

Thank you for bringing that point up, Mayor Mann. Yes, before we would tell you, and it was true because it was the available resources we had. We were trying to keep our good streets and keep them in good condition because to do the poor and very poor streets were expensive and we did not have enough funding. Now, with Measure TC, you do have funding to hit those poor and very poor streets and begin a maintenance cycle, something that we couldn't conceivably do in the past because we didn't have that funding. And we'll show you some of that funding and we'll show you that gap and why Measure TC is the linchpin of covering that gap in order to do a program like this.

Before we get too much further in this slide, would it be possible to get the two previous slides printed out in color? I don't have the ability to print those out in color. I like the way these show up. I don't know if the rest of the council wants one. We'll print them out for you, sir. Absolutely.

So I'll turn it over to Charles, our city engineer in the technical, to kind of walk through how, from a field perspective, but also using the independent engineer's report, looking at poor, very poor, fair, and good streets.

Thank you. So Adam Talbert here and Ashley Avery went out found these representative streets in the city of Temple City that represent the different condition ratings that we were talking about earlier. So this gives you a actual picture view of what we're talking about when we say a very poor street. Very poor street. We're talking about a street with a lot of alligator cracking. It's severely weathered. And it's not unusual to start seeing potholes and that sort of thing developing in the street. And that street is from Temple City. Both have cities at the end. Portson Drive. And then Wedgwood Street, which is a poor street, You can see it also has a lot of cracking, but not as severe, but it is very weathered. Then you get to a fair street, Emperor Avenue. There's visible cracking occurring, not as badly weathered and certainly not as much cracking. Then we go to the next slide. And a good condition street has maybe some hairline cracks in it, but not severe crack. And it's just slightly weathered. Weathering is basically the sun and rain over time starts to degradate the surface and works its way down on the asphalt. And then the very good street is one that's been fairly recently paved and shows very little weathering and almost no cracking at that point. So that gives you just a visual look at what we're talking about here.

Quick question. Do we have streets in the city that part of which are, let's say, good or very good, and the other part of the street is poor or very poor? Or is it just all or nothing? In other words, and how are we going to deal with that in this repavement situation?

Well, you could have a segment of a street. Typically, the streets are evaluated in segments, like between intersections.

So you can have a very long... Because El Monte, for example, is a very long street.

Right, right. So you could have portion of that street or segments of that street that are not in the same condition as other segments. That's pretty typical.

But do we have a lot of those? Do we not?

No, and Sultana's a good representation. So Sultana we just did with the last pavement project, and we actually saw It wasn't anything we missed, but there was a small section that was south of Olive that we took and we were just like, do the rest. We had some additional funding. And I know Adam, I think he probably dreams about all the streets in Temple City at this point, but understands what segments make sense. And then we have, if you're interested and you want to, you know, have some bedtime Excel spreadsheet reading. You can look at, and we have literally almost segment by segment analysis of the PC, of the payment condition index of those streets. So generally speaking, what we tried to do, and this is what Transtech has tried to do before, is try to get sections at a time that are congruent and continuous. Next slide, please.

So here we're just going to spend a minute talking about our different pavement strategies, which really depend on the condition of the roadway. The general repair is really localized repairs. It can either be a standalone type of project where we just go out and do some small repairs on a roadway. It also, you do that a lot in conjunction with overlays where we might Most of the street needs what we call a grind and resurfacing overlay, but there's small sections of the street that are further deteriorated that need to be dug out and completely rebuilt, and that's where that general repair comes in. The microsurfacing is a treatment that we use on arterials to extend the life of the arterial streets. And it also helps really preserve the surface of the street, but also enhances skid resistance, and extends the pavement life. Slurry seals are also similar, but they're not as robust as the microsurfacing, and they're used generally on lower volume streets and streets that are in better condition, mainly the residential streets. And then I spoke already about overlays. Cape seals and A-RAM are, are another potential treatment, but we haven't been using to a large extent in the city to date.

And what staff will do and what the engineer will do, if you can go back up real quick, is we will look for one, what is the, from an engineering standpoint, what is the justifiable application we can use? So we're just not making it look pretty. We're using, from an engineering standpoint, a justifiable. But we are also making the economic decision. So in this case, a slurry seal versus a CAPE seal versus an overlay. In maybe some cases, some cities may say, hey, We're just going to do slurry sealing when an overlay actually makes more sense because that will give us 15 years of life versus five to seven years. And that is embedded in this model as well. And that's part of this holding up from an engineering standpoint along with economic and financial standpoint.

Yes. I didn't point out that along with each one of these strategies, you can see the numbers that those are the PCI ratings. Generally, that shows the condition of the street and how far it's deteriorated. It kind of helps to dictate which treatment that we focus on. And that's the decision that's made at the time that the project's put together. taking into account all the information that we're able to obtain, including the coring of the street. And this is where we're trying to head to. We saw the earlier chart where we showed about 20% of the streets in poor condition. Now we're looking at our zero in poor and very poor, and a small percentage, less than 10% in fare, and everything else in very good or good condition. And this is where we're aiming to get in three years.

And this is also important because then we can justifiably go to a seven-year maintenance cycle. If we don't get those poor and very poor streets and minimize the amount of fair streets that are in fair condition, we can't justifiably use a maintenance method on a seven-year cycle to do those streets. Because what you would see is that we would apply a slurry seal to a poor street, but you're repairing that sooner than you would otherwise. So you're kind of putting good money after bad.

Yeah, it's essentially, you really need to address the poor, very poor streets with a more aggressive and more expensive treatment, which is really the overlay and the localized repairs that we talked about. But once those have been done, then you can, as the city manager said, then you can transition into this ongoing maintenance cycle. with the slurry seal treatments and the microsurfacing on the arterioles. This slide just shows the relative cost difference. The first two columns are from some projects in some other cities that have been done recently, and then the right column is some data that we received from the LA County. What we're trying to get across here is the real difference between maintenance, which is the type two slurry, for example, is 38 cents per square foot in the first column, versus the major resurfacing that's required with a grinding overlay. which is $1.55 per square foot. So there's a huge difference. And then if we let the street get too far gone, then we're into doing a lot more digouts, and those are, you can see here, substantially more expensive at almost $17 per square foot. So we're trying to get everything into a state of repair. It's going to be expensive initially. Then we can focus on more of the ongoing maintenance at the lower cost of the slurry seal, for example.

And we used these, the closest bids that we could get to verify that our cost model and the cost that we are embedding in the model are as close to what we think would be if we went out to bid, getting ready for spring of 2027, and then having cost escalators out for that 15-year period. So this is as close to what we think the actual cost is going to be baseline and then going forward.

Next slide.

Thank you. Okay, and yeah, one more slide. This one is our three-year program. It shows, in three years, tackling all the very poor, poor and fair streets, first two years focusing on the very poor and poor streets, for a total of $12.2 million of pavement work in that three-year period. So don't go. I'm sorry. And that again, that gets us to a point where we can then roll into a maintenance cycle. We can actually start that maintenance cycle on other streets. At the same time that we're doing this these streets would be then put into a maintenance cycle seven years later and would be able to continue to keep that them at a higher Rating for a number of years after that So how are we gonna pay for this becomes the question I

So Adam had said the temple, but had Alex take a look at, one, what we have as our funding sources today without Measure TC, and graphing those out, and then finding what's the gap in order to do this 15-year program, and what years are we actually going to need to draw down and reserve measure TC funds in order to do this program. So I'm going to turn it over to Alex to walk through the next couple slides.

Good evening, Mayor, Council Members. So this slide, what I really would like you to get from it is these are for funding for both the residential and arterial roads. The top portion of the gas tax measure M, measure R, and SB1, these are for the residential, and Prop C is for the arterial. And we also do have some additional grants that we'll get, but we have to pay up front first, and then we'll be reimbursed. I think the first thing is to focus on that left column there, estimated available fund balance available for the 26-27. What you'll get from that is that there are funds from current fiscal year. that are getting carried over into this 26-27, so previous year funds. And so that's why that fund balance there for about $12.8 million is much higher in that first year. And then after we use that up, after we start using up those funds from the previous years, then you're going to see kind of a consistency of how much we're getting for each of those special funds. And in some cases, we built in a 2% or 3% increase. And we based that upon just the previous years. We did an average look of how much we were getting from Metro funds and from SB1. And one of the other things is for gas tax, you'll know there is no increase. And just because right now, realistically, gas tax has kind of fluctuated throughout the years. I think more because of the charge for electric vehicles. And so the amount we get in gas tax, it does vary quite a bit. But I think these are realistic numbers going into the future that we will see. And if we do need to make adjustments as years go along, we definitely will do that. and bring that back to you. But this is kind of a snapshot of what we think we'll get each year, each of those fiscal years, all the way up to 40, 41. And this slide kind of recaps that we're going to have a $14.6 million gap over this 15 years. And as you can see on the right side there, the gap for the arterioles is 1.9 million in the first 10 years. And specifically that is in fiscal year 28, 29 through 29, 30. And so that's kind of right around the corner. And then you'll see another 8.6, and that's in actually fiscal year 40-41. So that's pretty much where their arterial gap is. And then for the residential, the 4.1 million gap is in also fiscal year 28-29, 29-30. And so ultimately, about $6 million in arterial and residential streets, we're going to need a $6 million funding source. And as we've talked about, Measure TC would definitely help fill that gap. And then in the later years, we can save funds for Measure TC to pay for that $8.6 million. And ultimately, as we said, it's a $14.6 million gap.

So what's that gonna require of the city? That's gonna require over the next, at least in the immediate first 10 years, and that's gonna come sooner rather than later, because remember, we're front-loading the cost of this. So in fiscal year 26, 27, fiscal year 27, 28, so the next upcoming three fiscal years, the council would have to put away $2 million of Measure TC funds to kickstart this program, a very achievable amount. We are estimating that Measure TC is going to bring in about $2.5 million. That is a conservative estimate because we are always conservative with our revenues. But it fits within that. And then the council, after that period, and then one of the other key things about this is that every few years we're going to be reevaluating. And also too, we are coming back to you project by project. Every project we're gonna come to you, we're gonna authorize. Every project, we're gonna be updating this. So you will see exactly where this is landing, exactly how that funding gap is closing, or We'll talk about some of the caveats because there's always caveats to a model, right? What if the cost is going up? What if oil goes to $150 a barrel and the cost of asphalt goes up significantly more? That gap could grow. But you have the flexibility both in Measure TC and in your general fund reserves, but that is your policy choice to make. But you do have that funding choice here. So that's what this represents. So if you can go to the next slide, please. One of the things we would suggest that the suggestion would be is to actually create a Measure TC road fund in order to, one, first clear that $6 million gap that's going to be happening in the first three fiscal years. And then the $8.6 million gap that is mostly related around arterial roads, like Las Tunas, Rosemead, and otherwise, Come up with a longer-term plan for that. You don't have to come up with that today, but you have to know that that gap is there in order for this program to work, and that bill is going to come due. But at least for those residential roads and what we can do going forward on a maintenance program, that $6 million is the gap you're going to have immediately right away. So we would suggest coming back to you with a TC road maintenance fund so that essentially it reserves that funding for this program. Next slide, please. Here's some of the key assumptions, though, that we want to talk about, just to give you a general idea, because there's always going to be, this is a 15-year plan. We've got to have some caveats in there. We're assuming, and we went through, and we are very confident with the Buckman report on the existing PCI data. And the Buckman report and the engineers work with us. And they actually reported out the standing committee as well. We think those are very accurate numbers. But we will be more aggressive of actually doing a independent engineer's report. every few years so we know that. That includes the deterioration model. The expected deterioration rates are going to be set on industry standards. But what we do and what we do with every single project is we do the third thing. We field survey. We verify what's in the field versus we just do not look and go on automatic pilot in terms of what the PCI number is. What that is going to mean as well is that when we're doing field verification, so say it's a 75, and we would assume that over a five-year period, it could go to 65. But what if it halts? What if we look at it and say, OK, it's 70? We can stretch out three more years of that maintenance cycle so that maintenance costs for that third or fourth year, maybe a little bit less. So that's why that number is going to be fluid. We know what the upfront number is for the first three years. But over the 15-year period, sometimes this could be a little less. But it also could be worse. as well, but not to the extent where the model is not valid, not to the extent that you don't want to plan going forward with this model, but knowing that there is some fluidity. And we talked about this, and Charles talked about this before. Our treatment is based on the PCI, observed conditions, and everything else we know. We are assuming a cost escalation of about 4% every single year. Talked about the revenue growth. We're going to be coordinating with all the utilities. Utilities can be challenging sometimes, so we will do our best to plan around them. We also will plan for when we need to do ADA improvements and ancillary work, curb and gutter that's absolutely necessary because the road can't be fixed without it, those kind of things. This type of treatment, this program allows for flexibility. We already have moratoriums on when certain pavement conditions are applied on the streets and what utilities have to do in order to go forward and to work with us. So those things will be in place. Last couple slides, and then we're here for questions. What's this program do? We talked about it pretty extensively. Right off the bat, we take care of the poor, very poor, and our fair streets, which then puts us on the path to maintaining every street in the city. What are the options? I would probably rephrase that as I'm looking at that bullet point. What does this provide the council and the city to do? It provides us to look at timelines with one, data, understanding the road conditions, and also applying the right treatments at the right times in order to find a way to close funding gaps where we have to. We've talked about what the model looks like from a funding gap standpoint. And that funding gap of 14.6 million, It may seem like a lot, but it is extremely achievable with Measure TC funds that we have today. So what our plan is, and after we hear some feedback from you, is that we'd like to use this framework going forward. And our first project would be that framework to attack the very poor and poor streets, years one and two, the fair streets, years three, starting a maintenance program in year two. So with that, myself. Charles, Adam, and Alex are here for any questions, and I hand it over to the standing committee as well.

Okay.

Well, thank you very much for the presentation. So at this time, we will entertain council questions. I'll start over on this side with Council Member Sternquist. Any questions?

Not questions. I just think it's... It's a lot to comprehend all at once, but I very much appreciate that even though it's a lot, it's very easy to follow for me. And I'm just very grateful that now we have the ability to have a management plan. I think for a long time, you know, residents would call in and say, my street looks awful. horrible, I don't like driving, I'm getting flat tires. And then we call them, or we ask them to call the city manager and then Brian is figuring out how we can get their streets done with the available resources. So I think for us as a council, this is great to be able to give to our residents and say, that measure that was passed here, it's valuable, and this is the result of what we can do because of that measure. So I think it's a really, it's something tangible that the residents can see. And I know for me, it just pretty much puts it all out in very neat boxes. So I just want to thank you for all the work on that.

All right. Thank you. Any questions, Council Member Chavez?

So when a resident calls City Hall and wants to know when their street's going to be done, you'll be able to basically give them a general idea?

We won't be able to give them a general idea. We're going to give them a very clear timeline when it's going to be done.

Okay. Sounds good to me.

Council Member Yu? Thank you.

Sorry. No questions. I have some comments. Sure, we'll get to that.

I guess I should frame mine as a question. No, don't worry.

You can say that again. I have comments. Any questions, Mayor Pro Tem?

Just a really quick one. I know we previously coordinated and talked with other utilities, water companies, for example. And now that we have a very, a great job, by the way, this is a very comprehensive, definitely street by street, like block by block. It's not just a street, but it's starting here, ending there, starting here, ending there with a history and a plan going forward. It seems like we're now far more organized than some of our service partners, four water companies, for example. The four water company or mutual that provide services to Temple City. So would there be some kind of a effort to try to coordinate some of those repair effort? Because I know as recent as last couple meetings, we've heard from residents who've complained about the work of our service partners in and the condition of their roadway. I think this lines up well, but I think to the average resident, they don't see how much coordination, how much work goes into putting something like this together, but all they see is that, oh, how come my brand new street is being dug up again, or by a different service provider, whether it's the sanitation district, whether it's the water district, whether it's another utility cable, whatnot.

Yeah, no, and that that's for for sure. And that's why the spring of 2027 is we're going to be starting so that we will lay out to all the utilities, all the plans that we have for the next 3 years. So that they're keenly aware they're looking at they're seeing the schedule that we have and if you're going to do major work. Do it before. So right now, for example, there's a lot of work being done on lower Azusa near Aramonte right now. We'll be doing that work. That's part of this schedule as well. So that will be cleared out, ready to go. It doesn't address general utility cuts either. Somebody builds a new house, needs a new utility cut in there. But there is a moratorium policy that we have that kind of addresses some of that. So you see some of the bigger patches that are near houses that just got built. We'll be able to alleviate against those. But in terms of the utilities doing work that they're planning to accelerate your work, Or you're going to be negotiating with us to essentially repave an entire street if we tell you we're 24 months out from this and you decide to do a project on month 26.

I have a follow-up question to that. So how much power do we really have over these utility companies? Can we do that? Can we tell them you either have to do it now or suffer the consequences, I guess, or what?

Legally, we do not have, we cannot tell them. The Public Utilities Commission, and there are overriding government authorities that the utilities have.

Because they want to come in and tear up your street. They can do that whenever they want, can't they?

That is correct, but what we do is our ordinance allows for the type of patch that they have. They cannot just trench, backfill it, and call it a day.

We want them to kind of return it to basically the same condition as when they started.

Right, because you don't want, and again, this is layman, you don't want trenching to... compromise the structural integrity of the road that you just paved. Trenching and things like microtrenching are things that we, quite frankly, want to discourage. Or if you have to do it, you're patching half the road so that you're not just back filling a trench. And over time, over maybe, so then the useful life of that what was going to be a 15-year street is now 12 or 11.

May I just add to that answer? So currently we do have city ordinance that require a utility when they come and cut. First of all, they need to pull a permit from us, and our engineer would definitely look at that, and our inspector would look at their work. And secondly, if they do any kind of major work, they have to patch basically the half of the street in a good way. But residents may get a little sometimes excited because they are temporary patches. There are certain things they need to do in order to do. So the patch is not instantaneous. It may occur over a period of time. But as in the ad hoc committee, standing committee, actually we did discuss that we're going to bring some of the ordinance back for discussion, at least within the standing committee, to see if we can strengthen it. and some of the lessons learned, because we have had that ordinance for quite some time. So we want to re-look at that and see how we can improve that to exactly your point. We don't want to institute this program and have them take everything up.

Do we have a timeline as to when they have to do these repairs? Is that in the ordinance? I mean, I know in the past we've had complaints that, hey, they worked on this months ago and it still isn't finished, and we've got metal plates in the street, and I mean, maybe that's what we need to look at as far as the ordinance.

We can look at that as well.

If I could add one more to that. It's not just requiring our service partners to accomplish certain things at a time. that we specify, but also there may be some cost-saving opportunities if they were to schedule those work. So instead of having to repave an entire street, that those temporary metal grades will then hold the street over until such time that we come in and make it completely beautiful again. Just some thoughts to kick around with some of those service partners.

Well, I think it would be to the benefit to cooperate in that regard because it would be a savings for them as well. Yes.

Any other questions, Mayor Protel?

No. Okay.

I just have one question on the slide where I think you're referring to creating a Measure TC Road Fund. Could you elaborate as to what mechanism that would look like if council were to entertain that in the future? Is it similar to in our current budget that we adopt every year, we have assign general fund reserves for specific purposes like economic emergency. So is it similar to that? Is it different? What does that look like?

I think you hit it, Mayor Mann. It would be similar to that. You would want to designate that in terms of what you would carry through through the course of the fiscal year. So in this case, what I would propose that we do is we look during the mid-year budget adjustment to see how we're doing and then create as one of the line items under assigned reserves, measure TC road fund. So you know what that balance is and we would track it from a budget standpoint. So right now it would be essentially a negative $6 million. You would want to, you know, essentially appropriate funds to fund that reserve over time.

But in terms of what we're discussing today, that's not what council is being asked to do. That's just, we're just looking at, here are some of the possible steps that we might need to take as a council as this framework and plan unfolds. Correct.

I would actually propose to bring it to, since we need these funds sooner rather than later, one of the things we'll do, well, yes, to answer your question, yes, we want to give you an update during the mid-year budget, but also to appropriation during budget time as well.

And I think another advantage of this, I know Mayor Mann had brought it up once before, that is to let the public know this is what we're spending that money on. And this would be a good way by actually itemizing. You could see it in the budget. You could see that if these are where the funds are going, it would be easy for the public to recognize it. That's another advantage.

If I may follow up with another question, I know we've discussed this, we've been briefed on the condition of the roads previously many times, but now that I think the city manager mentioned the word micro-trenching, I'd like to just kind of paint a picture for the public if If we were to look at a road like a lasagna with many different layers, some of the treatment that were discussed earlier by our team, slurry seal, how much would that take? If it's grind and overlay, how many top of the layer we're talking about? And then digging further down, if we get to a level where, all right, if there's microtrenching of, say, for example, fiber optic, something that this community has asked a lot about, At what layer would that be? How many inches or down? And then perhaps if we're doing a full road reconstruction, and then utility lines. If I had those layers correctly, or if that's different, if I could have just kind of a... for layman to just try to understand what we're looking at if we were just to look at our standard roads and what it would look like for.

Let me let the city engineer take a shot at that.

So we'll start off with the overlays. Now, that's going to be, well, start off with the overlays. localized repair that that might be 12 inches deep or more depending on what the roadway is that where we're digging out a section that's completely failed and we're going all the way down to to the sub base which is Native soil compacted and building rebuilding that little piece of the road all the way back up to the top then you've got your your overlays which are There, as I think the city manager alluded to, we look at the condition of the streets through quarrying and also taking into account what kind of street it is, how much traffic it has on it, et cetera. and the condition of the street, and we may do a two-inch overlay, grind it down two inches, and then put back two inches of new, brand new asphalt, or it could be three inches. That's an overlay. A slurry seal is really a thin coat of, maybe it's, what about, Adam, about a half inch of slurry seal? It's a quarter. quarter to a half an inch. So it's really just a thin layer, but what it does is it renews that surface and it helps to fill in the cracks and protect the overall surface of the roadway from, it kind of gives it a new life and helps it sustain it for a period of time. Typically that's why our maintenance schedule is around The cycle we're talking about is about seven years, because that's about generally how long a slurry seal will last, versus an overlay will last much longer than that, 15, maybe even 20 years, and it lasts longer when you intermittently put that slurry seal on top of it. It's like a house made of wood where you're painting it, periodically to maintain that wood to keep it from rotting, et cetera. So that's an analogy. And the micro seal is similar, it's a little bit more robust than the slurry seal, but it's a similar treatment that we're gonna use on arterial streets, because that helps. It's a little more robust, so it's gonna stand up to that heavier traffic on a arterial street, but it also has advantages in terms of skin resistance and that sort of thing, which is important on higher volume, higher speed streets. Thank you, that's very helpful. You're welcome.

And actually, since you brought it up, I do want to add one thing. I think that's something that the standing committee, we had briefly talked about, but in terms of the prevalence of micro trenching that might come in the future with more utilities being laid down, I think the advantage of getting to a call it like a maintenance program, is that the depth of the treatment is much thinner. You don't have to go as deep. And so if you could imagine there's a possibility where we as a city could say we have a certain detail that requires a microtrenching to be at a certain depth. then it would avoid disturbing that utility. But again, the details would have to be ironed out in terms of what we would require in terms of utilities when they How deep do they put fiber if they were to use microtrenching technology as opposed to conventional trenching? So I think these are some of the things that I would think would be part of the future work that we need to do to try to upkeep the program. So it's a good point that you brought up, a good question to ask. Thank you.

One more. One more? Sure. Have we gotten any information regarding the impact of any on the Olympic games as far as traffic is concerned on our arterials? I know that some of the bus lines have been talking about more buses and things like that. Do we have any information on that or any concerns?

I haven't heard anything about our arterials yet.

Maybe Council Member Sternquist can maybe get some information from Foothill Transit of their plans. Don't we have Foothill Transit buses in Tennessee? We do. And are they going to increase the traffic in our city?

That's a really good question. That's a question Foothill Transit has been asking of Metro and LA28.

But I did see something on the news recently that said,

They are going to, especially into the downtown area, wherever there's a venue, they are going to close the streets to regular traffic. And so many streets are only going to be used to get to certain venues. But that's as much as we know.

The reason I bring it up is because it seems like under the plan, the arterials are in here. Is that one of the residential areas?

Fair Streets are in year three.

Three, okay.

I think the closest venue would be.

So I don't know what impact, if any, there may be, because obviously we don't want to start a project, and all of a sudden we have a big increase in traffic as a result of this.

We would have going to the Santa Anita racetrack. That would probably be the closest.

So maybe up Baldwin Avenue maybe.

Huntington.

Yeah, so maybe it'll avoid us, I would think. I don't know.

Yeah, I think we're an interesting city because we don't have a freeway running through our city, so it comes with both advantages and disadvantages.

Well, I guess we'll have to wait and see. We'll get those answers in due time, like everyone else, I suppose.

Council Member Yu, did you want to?

No, I just want to add that, yeah, indeed, for the Olympics, a lot of streets close to the Olympic venue will be closed. However, since we're not close to any venue,

Are they going to do something at Santa Anita Park, I think, aren't they? Or no? That's the closest.

Yeah, but that's the closest in our city. They'll probably take the 210. Yeah, but I think as far as the out-of-pavement management plan intersects with that is that we just need to make sure in our bidding document that we make sure the burden of any Olympic-related impact will be carried by the contractor. Right? In some of my projects, we told them that, you know, Olympics is theirs. Your job as a contractor to take that into consideration. I think maybe Rosemead Boulevard. Don't come back with change orders.

Going to the shooting range that's out, is that San Gabriel or Monterey Park? That's probably the other closest one to us.

Yeah, yeah. But those are great questions, and we definitely are looking at that.

I don't think anybody has the answers at this point.

So if I may, since we're on the topic, I think there's still a lot of work for the standing committee, along with the city engineer. city manager to work on to further develop the paper management plan. So what we're presenting tonight is really just a framework. A lot of details to be had.

All right. I will open the public comment for this item. Does anyone wish to address council on this item at this time? Yes, Chair.

Good evening, Councilman and Mayor. My name is Jerry Jambazian. I just was kind of pleasantly surprised when I saw the 80.2 PCI. I didn't think it was that high. If somebody were to ask me tonight before I got here, what was the PCI, I would say probably 68, 69. So 80.2 sounds pretty good. It's hard to believe that San Gabriel is 85, considering I've been complaining about their streets for years, but maybe they're doing a better job. I'm just wondering, are there any projections on the PCI five years from now, 10 years from now, 15 years from now? Are there any projections? And I guess the next thing would be, Uh, if it weren't for those 14 votes, we'd be having a whole different conversation tonight and it wouldn't be positive. It would be pretty grim. So I thank God for those 14 people that put us over the top to get this done. And I just want to leave you with when this starts in the spring. I would hope that we would promote the heck out of this thing and have the moving sign saying, your Measure TC dollars at work, and let people know where their money is going. And I still believe in the oversight committee for this project. But thanks for listening to me.

Jerry, thank you. Thank you for your comments. And I'll just maybe briefly address your questions in my comments. And I might ask Charles to maybe address the projections later, too. But for now, I want to check to see if we have any virtual speakers or participants.

There are none.

Okay, thank you. So I will close public comment, and we will move to final council questions and comments. But first, I do want to, maybe Charles, could you take a stab at the 5, 10, 15-year projection question earlier? It's kind of built into what we've discussed.

Yes, the 80.2 is at average, as you know, and so... As we went over earlier, you're going to have some streets that are better than that, and then you might drive on a street that's much worse than that and think, oh, these streets in Temple City are terrible. But on average, it's 80. And what our plan would do essentially is really keep us probably there on average, but the difference is we're going to have a lot of, We're going to bring up those lower-ranked streets that are very poor and poor in fair condition and bring them up. The others may come down a little bit. We'll keep the average pretty close to where it is, but we won't have the big discrepancy between really great streets and really poor streets. We'll have everything hovering around most of the streets, the majority of the streets hovering around that 80. number. So that's the approach that we're taking, rather than just focusing on an average. But overall, every street in the city is going to be closer to that average. That's the goal. So I don't think we're going to see a huge change in that average number over that time period. Our goal is to really maintain it within that range. And I think the city manager talked about that earlier. maintaining it within that range, but don't leave any street behind. Bring those streets up to that level, near the 80. Thank you. You're welcome.

You can refer to the Buckman report. One area you can refer to, page 2.7. And what it shows is that if we keep the funding levels with our Measure M, our existing funds, you don't add Measure TC back in. You still spend $2.5 million a year, and we go from an 80 to a 72. in a 10-year period. So we are spending $2.5 million, but our PCI is going down. So in order to keep that PCI up there and allow for the maintenance program to go back in, we need those Measure TC funds in order to keep it there. Because with our existing revenue stream, we cannot keep our PCI at 80.

Or look at slide number 12, that kind of projected percentages of PCIs.

Can I ask a quick question? Who determines the PCI number? Each individual city? Is there a government agency? Is there a central accounting? I'm along with Jerry. I saw St. Gabriel at 85. I'm going, wait a minute. I've driven through St. Gabriel many times, but I don't see an 85 there. Who sets those numbers?

There are standards that are used in terms of evaluating the streets, and those are industry standards that are adopted and utilized by companies like Buckman that their profession is to go out and do this kind of rating. As with anything, it involves some kind of judgment on the part of the person that's doing the rating and doing the observing of the street and how they interpret those ratings vis-a-vis that particular street. So this can be some variability, but in general, we find that it's pretty consistent across the state.

And also another thing to keep in mind is a PCI, that table showing comparisons with the cities, it's a snapshot in time. And in defense of our friends in San Gabriel, they have put in a lot of work in the last couple years to really bring up the PCI for the city streets. What we don't know, because we haven't looked in as much detail, is whether they have a plan to be able to keep it that high. And that's really the key, is you can take a snapshot at any time where you just dropped a bunch of money on road projects and your PCI is super high. But the question is, how long will that last? And to Brian's earlier point is, if we didn't have Measure TC, our projections was it was just going to keep creeping down with the funding sources we were dealing with before. So for our final council comments, I want to start on this side with Council Member Yu.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You know, just like the city measure started out with thanking people, I'd like to thank actually all our residents. And to Jerry's point, I would like to thank all those who voted for the measure. You know, the 50% plus 14 votes that allow us to be where we are today. But I also want to thank all those people that did not vote for the measure. I think... This is high time for us to really demonstrate to you why it is so important to vote with this measure, even though you may or may not have supported it, but voting for this measure really allow us to, as a city, to maintain and treat our biggest asset, the biggest city asset is our streets. To maintain a high level and obviously, like the Measure TC says, to maintain the public safety. The city's been operating on a very prudent investment in city infrastructure. We started on this PMP, Pavement Management Plan journey over 10 years ago when we started doing our pavement index. And thanks to TransTech and city staff, we really have good data to allow us to do what we were going to do. At the time, as Councilmember Chavez will remember, we were projecting a lot more, we needed a lot more money, right? And we were really hesitant to really come to the voters, come to our residents, get a lot more money, because at the time that was what we were projecting. But as the city manager and the city engineer pointed out, what we present tonight is really based on data, based on real performance. We were doing a lot of things in the last 10 years that really give us confidence in what we're projecting is correct. And then, as they both have reiterated, moving on, this is a framework. We're putting it as 15 years. But every year, as new projects, we put in new projects. The pavement management plan will be evaluated And we don't just pave a row or patch a row based on a formula. It's going to be based on actual performance. And I think that is the reason why we are able to do what we could not, we didn't think we could have done some years ago. And thank you to everybody who supported Measure TC because that really allow us, based on actual data now, to be able to do what we were going to do. And I appreciate all the smart investment we've done in the last few years. I mean, as we all know, hearing that Super El Nino is coming, but I think our good streets have really gotten good enough of a condition to deal with El Nino, because rain and water is one of the worst things that can happen to to pavements, and that's why the city engineer talked about sealing the top to keep the water out. So, I think we're ready for Suba Abenino, but yet at the same time, this pavement management framework, by projecting 15 years, allow us a credible view of how we, hopefully in perpetuity, maintain a street condition to what we just discussed, index of 80. But yet at the same time, I also wanted to point out that, and I'm thankful for our residents, patients, all those who have Because we've been treating last 10 years, basically, all the low-hanging fruit. Good streets get repaved. But people who happen to live on the bad streets, the street got progressively worse. And we've been hearing from residents. So I want to thank them for their patience. But yet, with Measure TC, because you support Measure TC, allow us to really come together and deal with the bad streets and bring everybody up to a high level of standard. Um, We're going to do more projections as time goes on, like we discussed. But I think by doing the projection right now, I think the good news, which was not implied but did not emphasize, I want to say that with Measure TC now, with the current framework we're moving on, there is no need for general fund to support this framework. I THINK WITH MEASURE TC NOW WITH THE FRAMEWORK THAT WE'RE PROPOSING RIGHT NOW, THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO SOLELY DEPEND ON MEASURE TC AT LEAST FOR THE FORESEEABLE 15-YEAR PROJECTION. OBVIOUSLY, THE STATE MANAGER AND STATE ENGINEER ARE GOING TO BRING BACK EVERY YEAR A DIFFERENT PROJECTION AND WE'LL SEE BETTER. There are what we believe in year 16 and 20, it might be some investment also needed. So while initially we were going to put $2 million from Measure TC into the pavement management plan, but conceivably in year 16 and 20, it might be further investment needed. So that's why the need to set up a Measure TC funds. At the ad hoc, we also discuss what's brought up, how important it is to report out to our constituents. So we talk about setting up a dashboard that shows what we're doing with the Measure TC money at work. Folks should be able to look up, at least in the next two, three years, what streets are being worked on and so forth. And we did talk about coordination with utility companies, reexamining our ordinance. We even talked about what we're going to do with our private streets. As we are moving forward with the bigger pavement management plan, we actually did discuss perhaps we'll offer a way for our private homeowners to... sign in because we don't maintain private streets. But since we have a contractor coming on, perhaps there's a way for them to sign on to help us pave their private streets. But they would need to pay for that. But because we're looking at our city streets as a totality, not just public streets. BECAUSE QUALITY OF LIFE DOESN'T END AT THE END OF PUBLIC STREETS, RIGHT? IT'S ALL INTEGRAL TO ALL CITY STREETS. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF WORK THAT STILL NEED TO BE DONE, BUT THE GOOD THING IS TODAY WE'RE REALLY BRINGING BACK JUST THE FRAMEWORK. THE COUNCIL WOULD HAVE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY TO DECIDE ON THE ACTUAL DETAILS OF THE PLAN. as the city engineer and the city manager bring back the actual projects. So I feel very fortunate to be able to be part of this discussion, and I just want to make one last point, is that we start doing the research and discussion, we found that we could not find another city doing what we're doing. What we're doing right now, even though every city does their pavement management plan and to get a PCI index in order to get certain grant funding, there is no city that we know of that actually has a plan like the one we had. to we have we're proposing to bring our streets on a foreseeable future and a high level there's there we have to actually invent our own models so so at this time i want to also thank the city engineer thing mr cook alex adam everybody that worked on it because we are actually um venturing into new territory that none of us, even our county, we have never done. We've never, we're never, we researched, we couldn't find a program that's doing exactly what we're doing. So we're pretty proud of the framework, and we thank the voters who supported this, or the one that didn't vote but spoke to us. We heard your concern. I think the program now addresses everybody's concern. So pretty proud of what we have. Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem Chen.

I couldn't have said it any more better or more comprehensive than what Council Member Yu just said, but I'll just say that, It was really wonderful to see the Heliotech and RX2 being, recognizing their honor tonight. And if, you know, things keep changing in the world with regards to, I mean, now I know with oil prices will impact our costs quite a bit. There's a lot of work that went into this. So really thank the Ad Hoc, the professionalism and expertise you bring to this discussion. Again, fantastic work for everybody involved. Thank you.

Thanks. Council Member Chavez?

No further comments.

Okay. Council Member Sternquist?

Just one last comment is, you know, it's always something to have a comprehensive plan, but it not be comprehensible. And I think that this plan is comprehensible, and it's It's something that if I can understand this, you know, all this engineering stuff that's not my background and understand it very clearly and just everything is so planned out that I think it's going to be a very useful tool for me as a council member to be able to share this information in a knowledgeable sense instead of me trying to put pieces together. It's here. It's something I can show them. So thank you, all of you, for this.

And thank you for saying that. I think what you just said, Council Member Sternquist, and what Council Member you brought up are really at the heart of this endeavor. First, it truly is something that we have never done before and we haven't really seen a precedence for. I call it the merging of the various different sides of a public agency. You have Really, a lot of times the engineers just kind of operate within their own sphere. And what we're doing is we've kind of merged that with the financial aspect of how we're going to pay for it, right? Because you can't do the engineering without the money. And then there's a third element, which I guess I'll loosely call it the political angle of how we need to really address and be accountable to our residents, to council member use point. We see a great need for accountability through this process, and that's why we're very careful about Are we framing it in a way that is understandable? Is it something that some residents can pick up and look and say, okay, I could see what the city is trying to do, right? And so a lot of effort went into thinking about how we really presented this, because if you pick up any standard pavement management report, it's a very highly technical report. Unless you work in that field like myself, you might look at it and go, I don't know what they're trying to say. So that was a big effort because a big concern that was brought up during the discussion that I really emphasized was How can we remind future councils of what the framework actually means and what is it actually trying to do? Because things like plans tend to get created maybe implemented and then maybe forgotten shelved forgotten we don't remember the why right we have the how we have the what but no one remembers well why did we even go through all that effort right and so a a great deal of effort was was spent into really eventually creating this framework because with a framework you always refer back to it you can build back into it you can reference it at a future budget discussion. You could reference it when they bring back projects to us. So for something that is a part of every resident, I mean, you live on a street at a house and there's a street in front of your house, right? So it's something that's ever present in everyone's lives, but we kind of take it for granted. So how do we make sure that something that we take for granted is not taken for granted in the future? Because what's kind of sometimes not missed in this framework is, Councilmember, you alluded to this, but these costs come in cycles, and the cycle that we project out in year 15, 16, there could be a price spike just because of That's just the natural course of things. Like at some point, you fix your car, you do your oil change, and then there's like a major repair, right? So it's the same thing with streets, right? You're going to hit some point in the future that probably none of us would be on council at the time, but we don't want the future council to forget that, hey, you want to plan for that, right? You don't want to just assume that the previous council somehow solved all your problems, and then boom, this hits you slaps us in the face 15 years down the line. And so that's why maybe on the surface, when we see it, you go, why are we projecting out that far? I mean, we even discussed about projecting out further, right? And the reason for that is because we want there to be that reminder, right? And so that's why I appreciated the suggestion for council to consider something like a Measure TC fund, because with that being part of the annual budget discussion, then it will be ever present. I think part of the challenge we see with other agencies is you pass some kind of sales tax measure, it gets absorbed in the general fund, and then it just kind of disappears. Or no one asks the question, where is that money really going? Are we just creating other issues? But here we're saying we have a very specific purpose that we think is achievable and achievable for, dare I say, future generations, right? So that's what I really appreciate out of this discussion. So a big thank you to the team. I can't say enough about... the amount of revisions that Adam has had to done during the standing committee because of all of our comments and responses. And he's always hit the nail on the head in terms of bringing back that revised analysis, that additional piece of information we needed to have that discussion. And of course, Charles, with your great wisdom that you brought from not just Culver City, but your many years of experience in this, what I appreciated was you knew what we were trying to get at, you had the patience to hear us and understand and realize that we weren't just asking for a standard pavement management report, we wanted something more, a lot more, as you probably eventually saw. And we got there, so thank you for that. Our city manager, who is starting his second career into city engineering, is learning all the ins and outs that he never thought we'd ask him to pick up. And then, of course, we could also say Alex maybe got drawn into something that he didn't think he would have to be a part of, but indoctrinated into the... the trial by fire of pavement engineering, but thank you for your patience and your contribution. I think it was the ability to kind of bring all those pieces together that really made this possible, because we knew that the standard, even though it's an industry standard and requirement of just do a pavement management plan, do a pavement management plan, we're saying that's not good enough for us. Our residents deserve something better. So with that, I think the recommended action is simply a, it's authorizing, we're accepting the completed pavement management report, but we're also authorizing our city manager to accept it, close out the agreement, and then receive and file the framework. And as you noted in the presentation, in a couple months there will be additional follow-up information specific to the projects, and then we have more discussions in the mid-year budget presentation.

yes thank you all right so do we need a motion for that mr city attorney or okay so we have a motion for go ahead for this item all right uh go ahead and move to accept the completed 2025 payment management program pmp attachment a update prepared by buckham infrastructure group inc Authorize the city manager to accept the work as complete and close out the agreement with Buckingham Infrastructure Group Incorporated and receive and file the presentation of the city's framework and pavement management plan, attachment B, for the maintenance and rehabilitation of the citywide street network.

Second.

Okay. We have a motion and a second. Unless there are any objections, roll call vote, please.

Council Member Chavez.

Yes.

Council Member Sternquist? Yes. Council Member Yu? Yes. Mayor Pro Tem Chen? Yes. Mayor Mann?

Yes. Okay, next we move to item 11, update from our city manager.

Mayor Mann, members of the council, I'll be brief tonight. You've heard me long enough tonight. This weekend coming up, our partners with the World Journal will be producing another High Island Festival starting this Saturday through Sunday.

Is there an agenda for that yet?

We do have an agenda, and I will send that out to you tomorrow. So afternoon is the opening ceremony, so we'll send that out to you and have you ready for that. So we're looking forward to that with our partners in World Journal and our community partners as well. So I want to thank World Journal. I want to thank our Parks and Recreation team and our public safety team as well, Deputy Bowie, Deputy Schwartz, Deputy Felix, and the crews that will be out over the weekend.

Have we put a lot of advertising on this? Because I actually forgot it was this coming weekend because I haven't put anything.

We'll put out some more social media posts. Banner will go back up. Sorry, the 9-11 banner went up for a little longer. We'll have that up as well. And World Journal will be doing some additional advertising as well. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Jambazian. The following Saturday, since we won't have a council meeting between there, will be our classic car show and fall festival as well, a partnership with our Temple City Unified School District. See the bands, see the performers, see some classic cars. So it's the starting of our busy season of activities and our community events.

How's Halloween coming along?

I'll have a better update for you soon, but Halloween, our numbers just continuously grow every single year, especially with our Trunk or Treat and everything. The numbers that we have for Halloween have just exploded in the last few years. So we're expecting a great turnout, as always.

Thank you, Mayor. All right. Thank you. Update from our city attorney?

No update tonight, sir.

All right. Thank you. Any reports on ad hoc or standing committee meetings? I just want to note that Councilmember Yu and I did meet last week as part of the standing committee meeting, but essentially the last item covered everything we discussed. All right, if there are no reports, we move to item 14, council items separate from the regular agenda, starting with council member Chavez.

Nothing really, just... Just wanted to point out for everyone tonight, if you didn't already realize, the two spokesmen tonight for the Heliotech and the RX2 programs are both youth committee members. I thought they did a really good job. So as you can see, the talent that we have, not only at the high school, but also representing the city through our youth committee. So I was proud of them to do that. Both Julie and Ryland did a good job.

They have good mentors.

No, I don't know about that. But, yeah, they have Peggy and Roxanna there behind them. And the council member challenge. So they did a good job. So I just want to point that out. But also... Congratulations, good job. The Pavement Management Program's a long time coming. You're right, Vince, I can remember years ago struggling with this thing, and the thing that I take away from it is that, and I think it was early on when we were first elected, I think, that we started talking about this, and I could never understand the thinking behind fixing the best streets first and letting the worst ones go. It appears that we have changed attacks at this point, which makes more sense to me now than it ever did before. So I'm glad that we've seen the light, so to speak, and I think our public will be very thankful for that. So I look forward to seeing that. I would, although I share the goal of keeping where we are, but at the same time also maybe improving where we are as well. It would be nice to get up into the maybe mid-80s. It didn't seem like it's too long of a stretch. So it's always good to reach a little further perhaps. But otherwise, it looks good. So thank you. Thank you to the standing committee for all the work that you put in and staff as well. So thank you. All right.

Council Member Sternquist?

Nothing else, thank you.

Okay.

Council Member Yu?

Really nothing to add other than I forgot to mention one thing that I'm also super proud of when we're talking about the pavement management framework. A lot of city pass, we pass the Measure DC. A lot of city pass the sales tax measure too. However, most of them, I dare say all of them pass it because they have some structural deficit. But I think Temple City should be somewhat city and should be very proud of. We passed a sales tax measure to really improve our city's infrastructure. So I think that's a very, very different approach in using sales tax. So I just want to add that.

Mayor Pro Tem Chen.

Nothing else to add, just to thank everybody. I thought it's very engineer-heavy meeting, and I want to thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your inspirational words for our students. I thought that was very wonderful to have. to hear that from you as an engineer too. This is what makes this community so special. I think our school community, oftentimes people talk about the performing arts and the different community groups that come together, but seeing how our school board trustee, Vincent Bell, and this bright young group of awesome students and what you share with them, that was very special. Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, and it takes a village, right, as the cliche goes. I mean, we just have so many different talents in our community, so to be able to see them being represented and share in their achievements and kind of spread that good news, it's such a great part of our job on city council is to be able to honor them with that. So I'm so glad they came out tonight. Thank you. I won't belabor the point of pavement management, but I will say that as someone who does this as part of my day job for the county, to be able to bring that home and have that be a benefit to my hometown is a different kind of wonderful feeling that I don't know how to describe in words. Because at least when I first joined council, I didn't say, oh, I'm going to join city council because I want to work on the pavement management plan. That certainly wasn't, nor did I say that when I was running my campaign at the time. I didn't say that either. I don't think anyone would have cared. They would have been like, who is this? What does that mean? I think what I've learned over the years is being able to find that space and realizing, hey, we all can add something of value from our professional lives, from our personal lives. We bring our whole selves to the dais, and to me, this might be a lot of engineering, but it is a very big part of who I am. I want to say I'm very proud of this, too. Also, looking forward to the High Autumn Festival, I do second Councilmember Sternquist's comment earlier about advertising and so on and so forth. I know World Journal has their own flyers and whatnot. I'm not sure if we share or post those on our website or social media outlets because they do a wonderful job with those kind of things, so we don't have to recreate it. They even include us as the co-hosts and our logos on their flyers. Maybe because I'm not on social media anymore, so I don't really see it. I can't verify it, but if we can spread that message, I would second that. Okay, we move to the final part of our meeting, additional public comments. Anyone who would like to address council at this time? Do we have any remote or virtual participants?

Mayor, there are none.

There are none, okay, thank you. Then I will close public comments. Now, there's been a lot of highlights tonight. However, for our adjournment, I do want to share some tragic news, and we will adjourn the meeting in his memory. Just a few days ago, principal of Longden Elementary, Kyle Bender, passed away suddenly. I do want to read a brief message that Dr. Kuna, the superintendent, had sent out to all of the parents. Kyle was a larger-than-life figure on the Longdon campus. He had a huge heart filled with kindness. He shared with me before he passed that he missed his students and staff and couldn't wait to return. He truly loved the opportunity to do what he did. When he said Longdon was the greatest school and being principal was the greatest job, he meant it with every fiber of his being. Kyle was a devoted father and husband. Sharing about his family brought him a tremendous amount of joy. As hard as this news is for us, it is overwhelming and devastating for the family. And we ask that everyone please respect the privacy of the Bender family during this difficult time and that you keep them in your thoughts and prayers. On a personal note, it was likewise very shocking to me. My son attends Longden Elementary and I had actually saw him in person at the back to school night. He was sitting there greeting parents as they were coming in. So just outwardly there was really no signs that I could tell that this was going to happen. So it is pretty shocking. I think a lot of the students are taking a hard time processing it because for those of you that have kids at Longden, you will see that he is out there every day when parents are dropping kids off, he's out there, he's doing like, he's the greeter, he's traffic control, he's keeping everyone in line. He's doing it all. So to lose someone of that caliber and quality to our school district community and our family is definitely a very sad news. But in honor of his memory, I adjourn tonight's meeting in the memory of Principal Kyle Bender. And we are adjourned. Have a good night.