City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Are the staff ready?

All right. Good evening, everyone. We're going to go ahead and call the Tracy Public Financing Authority special meeting to order at 6.46 p.m. This time there are no disclosures pursuant to government code section 54953.8.3. Roll call on declaration of conflicts, please.

Director Vidoya.

Present, no conflicts.

Director Evans.

Present, no conflicts.

Director Nygaard. Present, no conflicts. Vice Chair Abercrombie.

Present, no conflicts. Chair Ariella. Present, no conflicts.

Thank you. We have a quorum.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Members of the public can participate in tonight's meeting remotely via Zoom by visiting cityoftracy-org.zoom.us slash join and using the information that's provided on the screen. This information is also available in writing here at City Hall as well as online. With that, we will move to item four. And I will go ahead and ask for a staff report, please.

Good evening, Chair and Directors of the Board. Sarah Castro, Director of Finance. The item before you this evening is in regard to refinancing of wastewater bonds. And you may be wondering why we're having two separate items on this. The Tracy Public Finance Authority is a joint powers agreement to provide

public financing so it provides input to the city so you will hear this item now and you will also hear this during our regular agenda. Through this item, we are asking for Tracy Public Finance Authority to authorize the issuance of the authority for bonds, approve the documents related to the bonds, including the installment sale and agreement, the indenture of trusts, and a preliminary official statement, and also authorize staff to take all necessary actions related to the issuance of the bonds. For background, in 2004, the city issued its 2004 certificates of participation in a principal amount of $30,955,000 for the purpose of financing an upgrade to the city's wastewater treatment plant. Those 2004 certificates are payable from installments made from the city from net revenues of the wastewater system. Under market conditions as of March 2027 of this year and certain reasonable assumptions regarding an underlying rating for the bonds and the ability to obtain cost-effective bond insurance, the city's underwriter and municipal advisor are estimating that the city can achieve net present value savings of just over $1 million and an average of $113,000 annually in savings by refinancing these bonds. So with that, staff recommends that the Board of Directors of the Tracy Public Finance Authority take the steps required for the authority to issue wastewater revenue refunding bonds to prepay those 2004 certificates and achieve such savings. The refunding bonds will then be paid from installment payments from our wastewater system revenues. That concludes my staff report. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Castro. We always support you saving the city some money. Council, do we have any preliminary questions? Seeing none, we will go out for public comment. Do we have any members of the public like to speak on item four? Seeing none. At this time, we'll go ahead and close out the public comment portion for item four. Excuse me. Do we have any on Zoom?

There are no hands on Zoom, Mayor.

Okay. At this time, I'll go ahead and close the public comment. Thank you. This time, we will return to Council for additional discussion and or entertain a motion.

cash flow it i'm looking at the resolution and it's a blank amount is there an amount that we're moving for or it says in the maximum principal amount of to refine it doesn't happen it will depend on the date of pricing the bonds okay so when the motion's made

It gives us the authority to move forward with the refunding of the bond.

So do you want me to say something like the maximum principal amount needed to refinance, or how do you want me to, the verbiage on that?

It cannot exceed $17 million. I don't know.

Okay. So a maximum amount of $17 million. Is that what you want me to say? Okay. Thank you.

Let's go with, yeah.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm. May I just have a clarifying question?

Council Member Nygaard.

Yes. I wanted to ask, just to clarify, the revenue, the savings you will receive from this refinancing of these bonds, that is money that would have to be spent back into your wastewater treatment plant, correct? Because it is an enterprise fund, correct? Okay.

Correct. It would need to remain within the wastewater fund. Okay.

Thank you.

Any additional questions, discussion? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion.

Make a motion to adopt a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of wastewater revenue refunding bonds in the maximum principal amount of $17 million to refinance an outstanding installment payment obligation of the City of Tracy and the related certificates of participation 2004 wastewater treatment plant upgrade and approving related documents and official actions.

I'll second. We have a first and a second. Councilmember Nygaard, roll call please.

Vice Chair Abercrombie?

Yes.

Director Nygaard? Yes. Director Bedoya?

Yes.

Director Evans?

Yes.

Chair Arreola?

Yes.

Thank you.

All right, the item passes. Thank you for the savings. With that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

Move to adjourn.

Second. We have a first and second. Councilmember Evans, roll call.

Vice Chair Abercrombie?

Yes.

Director Evans?

Yes.

Director Bedoya? Yes. Director Nygaard? Yes. Chair Arreola?

Yes. Thank you for that. We are adjourned at 6.52 p.m. Our regular meeting will start at 7. Thank you.

Chair 26, are we good to go?

I think that was a thumbs up.

All right. Good evening, everyone. I'm going to call the regular meeting to order at 7.01 p.m. Senator, come accept, please. That's what the writing says.

Experienced Americans.

Older Americans Month, May 2026. Whereas May is Older Americans Month, a time for us to recognize and honor Tracy's older adults and their immense influence on every facet of American society. And whereas Tracy includes a growing number of older Americans who contribute their time, wisdom, and experience to our community. And whereas through their wealth of life experience and wisdom, older adults guide our younger generations and carry forward abundant cultural and historical knowledge. And whereas older Americans improve our communities through intergenerational relationships, community service, civic engagement, and many other activities. And whereas the City and the Lawley-Hanson Senior Center and many community partners, such as the Tracy Golden Agers and Tracy Senior Association, must ensure that older Americans have the resources and support needed to stay involved in their communities, reflecting our commitment to inclusivity and connectedness. Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Dan Areola, Mayor of the City of Tracy, on behalf of the Tracy City Council, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Older Americans Month. We call upon our residents to join us in recognizing the contributions of our older citizens and promoting programs and activities that foster connection, inclusion, and support for older adults. Thank you so much.

First, I'd like to thank the City of Tracy for all their support to the Senior Center. There's many programs there from Just Dance. I see a lot of young people out there. Just remember, you have parents and grandparents every Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. We teach dance and a lot of other things and a lot of music appreciation. Want to see you there. We have a band there. It's iconic. They're 90 years and older on Tuesdays, and they play from 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock. You should drop in. But we certainly would like to thank the city for their support to all our programs. Thank you.

One, two, three. One, two, three.

ALL RIGHT. NEXT UP WE HAVE SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE ELIZABETH SANCHEZ, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FROM PREVAIL TO ACCEPT. Sexual Assault Awareness Month, April 2026. Whereas April is recognized nationally as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence, supporting survivors, and promoting prevention efforts in communities across the United States. And whereas 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, recognizing more than two decades of advocacy, education, and community engagement aimed at preventing sexual violence and supporting survivors. And whereas sexual violence remains a significant public health and safety issue in the United States, with national data indicating that nearly half of women and more than one in six men experience some form of contact sexual violence during their lifetime. And whereas PREVAIL serves as a leading organization dedicated to supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. THROUGH CONFIDENTIAL ADVOCACY, CRISIS RESPONSE, SHELTER, COUNSELING, PREVENTION EDUCATION, COMMUNITY OUTREACH. AND WHEREAS DURING THE 2024 TO 2025 FISCAL YEAR, PREVAIL RESPONDED TO 504 TIMES TO PROVIDE CONFIDENTIAL ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT TO SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, DEMONSTRATING THE ONGOING NEED FOR SURVIVOR CENTERED SERVICES AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION THROUGHOUT SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. NOW, THEREFORE, BE RESOLVED THAT I, DAN ARIOLA, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF TRACY, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL, TO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF APRIL AS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH IN TRACY AND ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO JOIN PREVAIL IN RAISING AWARENESS, SUPPORTING SURVIVORS, AND PROMOTING PREVENTION EFFORTS.

THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. On behalf of Prevail, thank you for this proclamation and for standing with survivors this April, Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Every day we meet individuals whose lives have been changed in an instant. People who never expected to walk through our doors, but who do so with incredible courage. Behind every statistic, it's a person, a story and a journey towards healing. This year's theme, 25 Years Stronger, Looking Back, Moving Forward, reminds us that while we've made meaningful progress, there's still more to do. At Prevail, we are honored to walk alongside survivors, offering support, advocacy, and a reminder that they are not alone. But this work doesn't belong to one organization. It belongs to all of us. Each of us has a role in creating a community where respect, safety, and dignity are non-negotiable. I invite everyone here to be part of that change, to learn, to speak up, and to support survivors. Join efforts like our Teal Sand Project or our Well-Denied Day. If you want to learn more, you can visit WeShallPrevail.org. But we need to work together as a group to fill the gaps for survivors. Thank you, City of Tracy, for your partnership, for helping us to build a safer, more compassionate community.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right. And do we have Mr. Ramon Valencia here yet?

We'd like to continue that proclamation, Mayor.

All right. That's all we have today. We'll get back to business. Thank you. All right, that brings us to the consent calendar. Council, are there any members of the, are there any items from the consent calendar that you would like pulled? Seeing none, staff, were there any items to be pulled for the consent calendar?

Mayor, we have no items.

Okay, were there any members of the public who would like to pull any items from the consent calendar? Seeing none, do we have any on Zoom?

No hands on line, Mayor.

Okay, with that, I will entertain a motion.

Mr. Mayor, I make a motion to approve the consent calendar. Second.

All right, we have a first and a second. Roll call, please.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie? Yes. Council Member Evans? Yes. Council Member Vidalia? Yes. Council Member Nygaard? Yes. Mayor Ariella?

Yes.

Thank you.

All right, next up, that brings us to items from the audience. As a reminder, this is for any item that is not on tonight's agenda. We do have a new guidelines depending on amount of time, depends on the amount of speakers, excuse me. Can I see hands raised for any people who would like to speak on items not on tonight's agenda? Seeing one, three, four, was that five? Okay, that means each speaker will get three minutes. If any speakers go beyond the five, it would be 90 seconds. All right, whoever raised their hand, you can please get started. The time is yours.

Good evening, Mayor, city council members, and fellow Tracy residents. My name is Parvash Shah, and I am a high school freshman who recently just moved to Tracy just about a year ago. In that short year, I'm very grateful to call this beautiful city home. So today, I'm honored to speak on behalf of BAPS Charities, an organization I am proud to volunteer with. I'm also joined this evening by my family, my friends, and other fellow volunteers from BAPS Charities, who also all live here in Tracy. BAPS Charities is a global nonprofit organization focused on community service, education, health and wellness, environmental care, and humanitarian relief. Across the United States, BAPS has established over 100 centers, and for more than 25 years, BAPS Charities have been serving communities here in the Bay Area through volunteer-driven initiatives. What makes BAPS Charities truly special is that it is powered by volunteers of all ages, including youths, families, and seniors, who come together with a spirit of selfless service. As a youth volunteer, I've had the opportunity to participate in food drives, blood donation campaigns, community cleanups, and environment initiatives. These experiences have taught me the value of compassion, teamwork, and giving back to the community. As a student athlete, those same values of teamwork and persistence are especially meaningful to me. One of our signature initiatives is the annual BAPS Charities Walkathon, a nationwide event that brings together tens of thousands of participants across more than 100 locations. Over these years, these walkathons have supported important causes in health, education, civic engagement, and environmental protection. Here in the Bay Area, BAPS Charities has organized events to support local schools, hospitals, public service organizations, and environmental programs, helping strengthen the communities we all call home. This year, our Tracy Walk Run will support Save the Bay, a cause that helps protect and preserve our shared environment for future generations. For me, volunteering with BAPS Charities is more than just service. It's about learning how even small acts of kindness can make a big difference. We would be honored to have you join us at BAPS Charities Walker Run on May 31st at Veterans Park. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share a little bit about BAPS Charities and the work it continues to do in our communities.

Thank you.

Thank you. That was May 31st at Veterans Park. All right. Next speaker, please.

Hi there. Good evening, Mayor and Councilmember. My name is Nishant Patel. I live in Tracy Hills. It's been about six years now, and I'm a volunteer also with the BAPS Charities. First, I'd like to acknowledge today's Earth Day Award acknowledgement. That's especially where it informs us a lot, because the BAPS Charities, we are also committed to the environmental cause. I'M JOINED THIS EVENING BY MY FELLOW BAPS CHARITIES VOLUNTEERS AND THEY'RE ACROSS ALL AGE GROUPS, REFLECTING THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE THAT BRINGS OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER. BUILDING ON WHAT PERVA SHARED, I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT AN EXCITING INITIATIVE COMING UP THIS YEAR. BAPS CHARITIES WILL HOST FOUR WALK-A-THONS IN THE BAY AREA IN 2026 AND WE'RE ESPECIALLY EXCITED TO TAKE ONE PLACE RIGHT HERE IN TRACY IN THE VETERANS PARK. This is especially meaningful because it will be the first time BAPEA is hosting a walkathon in Tracy. This year at Tracy event, the event will support Save the Bay, helping protect, restore our San Francisco Bay for future generations. Across North America, more than 100 walkathons like this are happening over the weekend, with at least 50,000 volunteers joining together in this cause. WE ARE PROUD THAT TRACY IS ALSO A PART OF THIS BROADER ORGANIZATION. WE WANT TO INVITE THE TRACY COMMUNITY TO JOIN US AND WE WOULD BE HONORED TO HAVE THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO ATTEND AND WALK WITH US. I'VE ALREADY SHARED THE FORMAL INVITATION WITH YOUR OFFICES BY E-MAIL AND WOULD BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DETAILS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONTINUING SERVICE FOR TRACY. THANK YOU.

NEW SPEAKER PARTEL. NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. I'm here to speak about an item that was on the last council meeting, item 4D. And I apologize, I wasn't able to stay for the whole meeting. There was some mention about Proposition 218. Proposition 218 for the water rates and everything is to maintain the cost for the household residents. limitations of fees, limit the ability to not to go over and raise fees for families and residents. I know there was a lot of talk about the laws and that, but most important, I have no problem of the things that have to get fixed. It has to get fixed. But that's not the burden of the residents of Tracy now. You inherited the problem of some of past council and past staff that did not do their job. This increase is outrageous. I'm not just talking about low-income people. I'm talking about people that work all their lives for their retirement, that are on the fixed income, that are going to be paying anywhere from $118 to now maybe $200 a month. $200 a month. That's not including, was it PG&E? The water and garbage is a necessity. You're putting the burden on the residents of Tracy. Fix the problem. Proposition 218 is not to raise it where we're at right now. And the letter never stated APN. How many is APN? This is a majority. What's a majority? Is it 5,000 people? Is it 4,000? Are we talking about 30,000 people? Because you don't have that many people even to go out and vote. This is, it's not right. We got to find a better solution. Putting this burden on the people, you're front-loading. The cost, you're front-loading the cost on the people. It's a problematic problem for a lot of people here. You're even making them choose between milk for their kids or gas in their cars. And now what are they going to do with water? Kids' laundry, maybe once a week. Showers, maybe two or three times a week. Come on, because we're just not talking about rates. That's not including, people don't realize on the utility bill, the rates is also gonna, they're not including the usage. The usage could go anywhere from $7 to $38 on your uses that you use on your water. They're talking about the base rate. They didn't explain that. They didn't explain it here on this letter. But if you look at your bill, The usage could be anywhere from $10 to $29. The best rate that they're talking about right now is going to go $30 to $61. Who in the world with a fixed income is going to make up that much money? Not even Social Security gives you $20 a month. Please review it. Please, residents of Tracy, object this. Thank you. I also need to know from staff and the residents of Tracy deserve to know how many APM we need.

Thank you, Ms. English. Next speaker, please.

Hello, Council, Mayor. I WANT TO QUICKLY REINTRODUCE MYSELF BECAUSE IT'S BEEN A WHILE. RECENTLY IN THE PAST COUPLE MONTHS, I'VE BEEN WANTING TO BRING THIS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL THAT THE MALL HAS NOW LOST TWO BIG STORES. IT WAS HOT TOPIC THAT LEFT IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. AND THEN NOW IT'S GOING TO BE And as unimportant as that might sound, the mall has grown incredibly dead very quickly in the past maybe two years with now the disappearance of Macy's. The shopping plaza has turned into a cemetery of broken businesses and aren't being replaced by other businesses. They're staying as like gravestones. of small shops or in big shops. So I don't admittedly know the politics of whoever owns or whatever is going on in that mall, but I do know that whoever owns that mall should take some accountability for not contributing to the local economy. I do think that there is room there to reconstruct and repurpose a lot of that area because it is a huge part of Tracy that is just a block of space right now. And I just wanted to bring that up to you guys, and I wanted to make sure that something is done regarding that. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Next speaker, please.

Well, I tried to help a lot on the park, ride your bicycle to work. So I was at my property there on Corral Hollow, where they just recently widened it, so it makes a really good drag strip there. You see some nice races across from West High School. So when I go there, I park my car, but I park half of it in the bike lane and half of it on the sidewalk. because I'm concerned about blocking the whole bike lane and having somebody have to drive off into the traffic. That was my plan. The city gave me a ticket for doing that, which was unfortunate. But when they widened it, although I was grandfathered in to have a parking spot, so there's no parking in front of my property, There's no place to park except the bike lane. So just wanted to let you know the three houses there have that particular problem. Thank you for listening. My other thing was Tracy Tree Foundation for the last two years has been offering to grow trees for you for free, but we never received any response from the city saying, you could just plant them over here. We have lots of bare spots around. You could even find the most inhospitable place. We'd still plant trees and make them grow. However, ideally, they would be out at legacy fields where the ultimate placement would be the most useful for you. But we've never had an opportunity to do that because they said we have to have a plan. You can't plan randomly. Surely there's a blank spot that you're not going to use for 50 years. We could plant them out there and relocate them to your park because we want to buy the cheap ones that are small and grow them up for you so when you move them, it provides an asset to the community. So just reminding you that that offer is still on the table. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hoffman. I believe that was all five of our speakers. Do we have any additional speakers? It'll be 90 seconds.

Mayor, we did receive a speaker card earlier. Oh, my apologies. It would be okay to do the three minutes? Three minutes is fine. Okay. So, Gabriela Machuca?

Good evening. My name is Gabriela Rodriguez-Machuca. I've been here lots of times before. Here I am back again. My husband and I have been working on a commercial eatery in downtown Tracy. We started that project in June of 2022 and we are still working on it. So I'm here to I have reached out via email and phone calls and to upper management and to try to schedule appointments and the resistance have not gotten back to us. We have faced hurdles, we have faced red tape, we have faced harassment tactics. It's what I feel. We are asking for help and I did send out a very lengthy email today to the city manager and to two of our upper management folks and I hope they take the time to read it. I know that the city manager is very busy and we are willing to accept a designee of hers to help us kind of continue with our project and um our project was done in kind of two phases and we just need some help um just letting you know for the ones the city council members that weren't here uh back then um when our project had some of the the things that we faced were Once a development review was done on our project, then we did the building plans and all that. Then we were supposed to go to building the planning commission to review it. And so then they set up a date of like May of 2023. And then at the last minute, like one minute to six on the day before the last day to be able to appeal or whatever, they canceled it. They canceled our project to be on that meeting for that following week. So then that meant we got moved to June. I mean July, no June. It was in May and then June. So June 14th, the June 14th meeting. And then what happened in the June 14th meeting? They canceled the June 14th meeting. So then what happened? Then we got bumped to the June 28th meeting, which it did finally, that part got approved. But those are just some of the challenges that we face, not to mention dealing with code enforcement and some of their tactics or their comments are just a little abrasive. And so that's the kind of stuff. And now, unfortunately, we're facing that again. And so I'm just asking for some help. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Machuca. I would please ask staff to follow Ms. Machuca. All right. Do we have any additional speakers? Seeing none in chambers, do we have any online?

I don't see any hands online, Mayor.

Okay. With that, I will go ahead and close out items from the audience. That brings us to Item 3A. This is our public hearings portion. And I'd ask for a staff report, please.

Good evening, Mariela Council members and members of the community. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Dan Garcia, and I'm a lieutenant for the Bureau of Special Operations at the Tracy Police Department. I'm here today to present a proposed update on to Chapter 4.24 of the Tracy Municipal Code, which governs the licensing and regulation of nonprofit organizations for the operation of bingo games. The ordinance has not been comprehensively updated since its adoption in 1977, and as a result, several provisions are outdated, more restrictive than state law, or inconsistent with current regulatory practices. The proposed amendments aim to modernize and align our local regulations with California Penal Code Section 326.5 and state law requirements. These updates will improve transparency, streamline administrative processes and support nonprofit organizations and charitable fundraising efforts while maintaining appropriate oversight. The updates include the administrative authority will shift from the chief of police to the city manager or their designee, ensuring streamlined oversight and compliance with state law. The license term will be extended from six months to one year with an annual renewal fee of $50 or an amount set by city council in compliance with state law. The limit for administrative expenses will increase from 10% or 500 per month to 20% or 3,000 per month adjusted by the consumer price index. Additionally, the maximum price value will increase from $250 to $500 per game, providing greater flexibility for nonprofit organizations. New regulations for card mining devices will be introduced, reflecting advancements in technology and modern gaming practices. Nonprofit organizations will be required to submit biannual financial reports, including gross revenues, expenses, and federal tax returns, ensuring greater transparency and accountability. The authority to conduct inspections will be extended to include the chief of police, South County fire personnel, and peace officers, ensuring compliance and safety. These updates are necessary to bring our ordinance into compliance with state law, improve administrative efficiency, and support nonprofit organizations in their efforts to raise funds for charitable purposes. Importantly, these changes will have no direct fiscal impact to the city of tracy as enforcement costs will be observed within the adopted adopted budget in addition the proposed ordinance is exempt from the california environmental quality act as it has no potential for resulting in physical changes to the environment this agenda item aligns with the city council's strategic priorities including enhancing the local economy and strengthening community safety through improved regulatory practices Tonight, I respectfully request that the Council's approval of the agenda item for the changes to Chapter 4.24 of the Tracy Municipal Code. Thank you for your time, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, Lieutenant Garcia. Council, do we have any preliminary questions? Seeing none, at this time, I'll go ahead and open up the public hearing for Item 3A at 7.42 p.m. Do we have any members of the public that would like to speak on item 3A related to the amendment of the bingo ordinance? Seeing none, chambers, do we have any online?

No hands on line, Mayor.

With that, I will go ahead and close out the public hearing at 7.42 PM. Return to council for additional discussion or to entertain a motion.

Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to adopt a resolution determining that the ordinance amending Chapter 4.24, Licensing and Regulation of Nonprofit Organizations for the Operation of Bingo Games of the Tracy Municipal Code is not a project within the meaning of Section 15378 of the CEQA guidelines because it has no potential FOR RESULTING IN PHYSICAL CHANGE IN THE ENVIRONMENT EITHER DIRECTLY OR ULTIMATELY IN THE EVENT THAT THE ORDINANCE IS FOUND TO BE A PROJECT UNDER CEQA, IT IS SUBJECT TO THE CEQA EXEMPTION CONTAINED IN CEQA GUIDELINES SECTION 15061 SUBSECTION B SUBSECTION 3 BECAUSE IT CAN BE SEEN WITH CERTAINTY TO HAVE NO POSSIBILITY OF A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT. SECOND.

WE HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND. ROLL CALL, PLEASE.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie?

Yes.

Council Member Evans?

Yes.

Council Member Vidoya?

Yes.

Council Member Nygaard? Yes. Mayor Areola?

Yes.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, I'd ask that you read the title of the proposed ordinance.

Certainly, Mayor. 1. Determining that the project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act Prens CEQA pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15378 and or 5378 and 2. Amending chapter 4.24 of the Tracy Municipal Code related to licensing and regulation of non-profit organizations for the operation of bingo.

Motion to waive the first reading by substitution of title and introduce the ordinance.

Second. We have a first and second. Roll call please.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie.

Yes.

Council Member Evans.

Yes.

Council Member Medoya.

Yes.

Council Member Nygaard. Yes. Mayor Areola.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you. That item passes. That will bring us to public hearing on item 3B related to the backflow and cross-connection prevention ordinance. Staff report, please.

Good afternoon, Mayor and members of the City Council. Stephanie Reyna-Highstand, Assistant Director of Utilities. Thank you for the opportunity to present today. This item recommends introducing an ordinance to update the Tracy Municipal Code, Chapter 11.04, Water Rates, Article 2, which governs the protection of our public water system from backflow and cross connections. This presentation will cover the background, key changes, and why these updates are necessary to comply with current state law. And I'll be happy to answer questions at the end.

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Our current backflow ordinance dates back to 1988 and was based on an older Title 17 regulation. While it has served us well, the state has modernized the requirements through the California Cross-Connection Control Policy Handbook, or the CCPH, which became effective July 1st of 2024. This update will modernize our codes by improving definitions, adding a detailed hazard assessment process, clarify customer responsibilities, and strengthen enforcement, all to better protect Tracy's drinking water supply for our nearly 98,000 residents. This ordinance was adopted in 1988 under Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations. In 2017, Assembly Bill 1671 directed the State Water Resources Control Board to develop a more comprehensive and enforceable handbook. The resulting CCPH replaces these old rules and sets higher standards for all public water systems in the state of California. This includes Tracy's system, which serves approximately 28,000 connections. Updating our municipal code ensures we remain in full compliance with the state mandates. Why update our ordinance now? The CCCPH expands from six to ten required program elements and introduces stronger protections against contamination. Key new requirements include a written cross-connection control plan, which staff have prepared and the city has already received state approval for, enhanced hazard assessments, annual testing protocols, and clear incident response procedures. For systems like Tracy with well over 3,000 connections, it must also maintain a certified cross-connection control specialist, which the job description and classification were recently approved by you, the city council. As this is a new position, recruitment will begin in fiscal year 27 if council approves the fiscal year 27-28 operations budgets. These changes reflect advances in the drinking water industry and helps to safeguard our public health. We've made several important updates with this request. The article title has been simplified to Backflow and Cross-Connection Prevention for clarity. Definitions have been modernized to align with the CCPH, including clearer language around approved assemblies, certified testers, and hazard assessments. The most significant addition to the new section 11.04.331 on hazard assessment, which you will see detailed in the next slide. We've also updated timelines, responsibilities, and enforcement provisions. Red lines and clean versions are included in your council packet agenda so you can easily see the changes. The new hazard assessment section requires us to evaluate premises for potential risks based on factors like cross connection, materials handling, pipe complexity, auxiliary water supplies, and past incidents. Assessments clarify risks as high hazard, low hazard, no hazard, and determine if existing backflow protection is adequate. Backflow assemblies are still required in all high risk situation. Annual testing must be completed by June 30 each year with repairs required within 30 days of a failure. The city has and now maintains an approved testers list and can revoke approval if standards are not met. Enforcement includes service termination when necessary, plus cost recovery and a 15% administrative fee. To implement the cross-connection control ordinance effectively, staff developed a comprehensive cross-connection control plan, which is attachment D in your packet. This plan details record-keeping requirements, notification and enforcement procedures, including courtesy letters, final notices, and shut-off timelines, failed test response protocols, and a phased hazard assessment schedule running through 2030. It also covers backflow incident response and public outreach. This plan was updated in December of 2025 and has been approved by our state regulator ensuring we meet all 10 CCCPH program requirements. Property owners and users remain responsible for installing, testing, maintaining and reporting on their backflow assemblies. The city sends courtesy notices each year, but compliance is ultimately the customer's obligation regardless of notice of receipt. Enforcement tools include administrative orders, cease and desist notices, and termination of service in cases of noncompliance or immediate public health threats. An appeals process is retained first to our director of public works and then to the city manager if needed. These provisions balance customer responsibilities with strong protections for our water system. Your council agenda packet includes the original 1988 ordinance, the red line version showing all changes, the clean new ordinance text, and the full cross connection control plan. Next steps for the council will be to introduce the ordinance today and waive the first reading by substitution of title. The item will then return for a second reading and final adoption at a future meeting. Staff's recommendation is straightforward. Introduce and waive the first reading of the ordinance by substitution of title. This action will allow staff to move the updated regulations forward efficiently. The full ordinance text is provided in the packet as attachment B and C as a clean version. Waiving the first reading is a standard practice for non-controversial code amendments like this. Thank you for your time and for your continued support in protecting Tracy's public water supply. For questions about backflow requirements, residents can contact our backflow division. Detailed information is available.

Thank you. Council, do we have any preliminary questions? Seeing none, with that I will go ahead and open the Public hearing at 7.53 p.m. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on item 3B related to water utility protections? Seeing none in chambers, do we have any online?

No hands online, Mayor.

Okay, with that, I will go ahead and close the public hearing at 7.53 p.m. That brings us back to council. Oh, excuse me. Madam Clerk, I'd ask that you read the title of the proposed ordinance.

Yes, Mayor. title 11 public utilities chapter 11.04 water rates and regulations article 2 backflow and cross connections prevention make a motion to weigh the first reading by substitution of title introduce the audience a second

We have a first and a second. Roll call, please.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie.

Yes.

Councilmember Evans.

Yes.

Councilmember Bedoya.

Yes.

Councilmember Nygaard. Yes. Mayor Areola.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you. The item passes and we look forward to more protections for our water utility. Thank you, staff. Next, that brings us to item 3C related to election campaign contribution limits. Staff report, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers. My name is April Quintanilla. I'm the City Clerk. The item before you relates to elections. Staff has prepared a proposed ordinance to update the City's elections ordinances, codify current practices, facilitate compliance with the elections code, and provide transparency about the City of Tracy's elections process and practices for candidates seeking elective office. The proposed ordinance includes Excuse me. The proposed ordinance includes updates regarding the general municipal election date, campaign contribution limits, and a filing fee for processing nomination papers. Staff identified two prior ordinances, number 470, which was adopted on January 20th, 1987, and number 481, which was adopted on June 19th, 1990. But ordinance number 470 references government code section 36503.5, which now references recall elections instead of general municipal elections, which is what we're talking about with this item. Ordinance number 481 includes the subjects of campaign contribution limits and filing fees for nomination papers. However, this ordinance was an urgency ordinance which has limited duration and it appears that the ordinance likely expired. The proposed ordinance would establish the general municipal election date as prescribed by the current government and elections codes, specifically stating that pursuant to government code section 36503, all general municipal elections of the city of Tracy shall be held on the same day as the statewide general election. as set forth in Elections Code Section 1301. And that is consistent with our practice to request consolidation with the statewide general election from the Board of Supervisors. An additional section of the proposed ordinance would codify the city's apparent existing practice of utilizing the campaign contributions limits established by the Fair Political Practices Commission and indicate that the FPPC, which is their acronym, is the Enforcement Agency for Camping Contribution Limits. So there is a default rule through an assembly bill that if we do not have such an ordinance to specify something other than the FPPC rules, we fall on the FPPC rules and that appears to have been our practice. So this proposed ordinance would basically codify that just to make it more transparent to the public and potential candidates that that is our actual practice. And then finally, the proposed ordinance would also codify the city's apparent existing practice of charging candidates a $25 fee for filing nomination papers pursuant to Elections Code Section 10228, as well as facilitate compliance with the Elections Code by creating a current ordinance authorizing an assessment of this fee. So we do need to have an ordinance. to assess this fee and so again we're just that seems to be our practice so i just wanted to make it more transparent when people are looking at our municipal code online or request a copy on that that's there in the forefront so the proposed ordinance finally would also repeal the ordinance numbers i previously mentioned 470 and 481 as they appear to be outdated or expired so thank you so much that concludes my staff report i'm happy to answer any questions thank you madam clerk council do we have any preliminary questions

One question, largely the ordinance just brings us into compliance with FPPC regulations.

It's essentially bringing us into compliance with the elections code and updating outdated code. So it's basically codifying what it seems like we've already been doing.

Perfect. All right. Thank you so much. At this time, I'll go ahead and open the public hearing on item 3C at 7.57 p.m. Do we have any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? Can I see hands raised? Okay. With that, we'll go ahead and allow four minutes.

Awesome. Thank you so much. So the question is, do you want the best practice or do you want the default practice? I'd recommend the best practice. It's been a pet project of mine. I've been in several elections in this community. I've been on the short stick. I've been on the long stick. It's not very good for the citizens of our community, and here's why. I like the part where it said $100 from any individual. I like that. You put your name on there. You chip in your $100. Everybody knows who you gave the $100 for, and nobody has any questions about it. The problem I have is the non-person money that gets put in the elections. If you've ever filled out that form 460 or you've ever read it, in the last election there was probably $60,000 that were on there that you have no idea where it came from because it's protected. I think there's an opportunity for you to eliminate anybody able to do that in the future in this community. by saying only individuals can give money. No business, no organization, no secret PAC money, just individual citizens. If you did that, this would be the most fair election you ever saw in the state of California because nobody has that rule. Somebody's going to push back hard about that. The people that have been chipping in the money They're not going to like it. You don't represent them. You represent the individual taxpayer. You are the individual taxpayer. This is your benefit, and you have an opportunity to do something. Oh, it'll be on the national news. What in the world do they think they're doing over there in Tracy, California? Cutting the influence out? Oh, my goodness. How will we ever survive? Anyway, maybe that was too much over the top. I apologize. But it is a pet peeve of mine that the money that influences the election, and nobody denies that the money doesn't count, that it shouldn't be there, and that we'd get better representation if it wasn't. So I think I'd respectfully request that you consider that as an option that you could put in there yourself, best practices for the City of Tracy. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Oppen. Do we have any additional speakers on this item?

Go ahead. Hi, I didn't expect to do this, but I also second what the previous speaker just said. I also feel that Sorry, is the time supposed to be at a minute and 30? I didn't see the hand raised beforehand. Okay, I don't care. Okay, that's fine. All right. No, yeah, I agree with and I second the previous speaker with regulating big businesses or corporations from funding our elections I do I I don't I like that businesses are involved in elections, and I feel like, if anything, there should be a limit as to how much they can spend, because if there is a limit as to how much the individual can spend, I feel that if a corporation is at the same level as the individual, then they should have at the very, very most the same limit to spending as the individual does. Thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker, please. Seeing none in chambers, do we have any online?

No hands on line, Mayor.

Okay, thank you. With that, we'll go ahead and close out the public hearing at 8.02 p.m. And I just wanted to bring up two points very quickly because a lot of this gets into legal matters. So if it's Ms. Quintanilla or Mr. Nafusi, does this particular ordinance have any effect upon contribution limits of non-residents of businesses, of corporations in light of Citizens United?

I would defer to City Attorney about Citizens United, but what I can confirm is that the, according to what the FPPC has right now posted for their 2025-2026 limits for city and county candidates that have not enacted limits, that would be like a specific limit, The person, which is the individual business entity committee pack, is $5,900. That's their limit for that. Small contributor committee is $5,900. Political party is $5,900. So that's what they have posted as of just right now. I don't know about the impact regarding Citizens United, but that is how they've laid it out there. And this ordinance would basically say, whatever the FPPC establishes, that's what we follow. And if there would be a violation, that the FPPC would be the enforcement agency.

So, Mayor, if your question is whether or not Citizens United does apply at local elections, it does. And I think it would depend on how the limitation is structured, though. Specifically, you know, if it would apply to all or just kind of limiting certain individuals and or entities one way or the other. So we'd have to look at it based on, you know, any proposed language.

Thank you. And then secondly, there was a comment about, you know, non-residents spending. Would this particular ordinance have any effect upon independent expenditures?

It just codifies it.

It would apply equally to everybody. If that's what you're asking, I'm sorry, are you asking what it preclude? Non-residents?

No, I mean, I'm essentially asking, does this have any effect upon the Levine Act or any of... No, those are still in effect.

We would read the law consistent with any other state laws. Understood.

Perfect. All right. Do we have any additional comments from Council? Thank you, Mayor.

So going back to Mr. Huffman's comment, how would we eliminate donations from PACs and corporations? Is that even legal?

You know, I'd have to look into that just to, you know, and I don't know that off the top of my head, I'd be lying to you if I did, you know, and come back and give you kind of what limits we could put on them. I don't know if there is a way to particularly eliminate them whatsoever. But if that's the direction of counsel, I'd be happy to look into that and report back.

Because the idea is interesting to me, but my guess is it's not legal. But yeah, I would like to know. If it's a possibility, I guess if we're going to start looking at election law rules, it'd be interesting to know if that's even an option. Again, I'm not a lawyer. My guess is it's not. But with council's approval, I would like that looked into. I agree.

OK. Yeah, we can do we can definitely do some research and bring something back about, you know, limitations that local jurisdictions in California have placed that have been upheld and, you know, do some primers for council to see if that's something you all would be interested in putting into place.

Okay. Do we need to take roll call on that? If I can get a council consensus of not a, yep, I got it. And then additionally, so how would we keep, so if we start limiting special interests, which is something I'm all for, how would we, so if they were to not make donations to a campaign, how would we then also eliminate what we saw in the last election, which was apparently certain candidates did not take contributions. However, the special interests, apparently on their own accord, went out and advertised for the candidates that they wanted anyways and put a lot of money into the campaign. So is there a way to limit that? Because if we're going to eliminate one, it's only fair to somehow eliminate the other one. Otherwise, you really can't eliminate one.

Yeah, and that's where I think the Citizens United case comes into play. There's really very limited what we can do to regulate that under that specific matter. um especially if it's not tied to the candidate at that point in time there's free speech issues of course but that case is kind of left wide open you know as you noted council member the special interest um you know again without having done thorough amount of research on it my general understanding is that you're very limited in trying to preclude that in any way whatsoever okay that's what i expected

Also, so just for clarity, I guess for everybody, so the total limit from an individual contributor, the overall limit as it stands right now is how much? For a person, $5,900. $5,000. If we enact this, it's 100? $5,900. $5,900. And what's the 100 that I'm seeing? Is that per contribution? I think that journalists are... That's the one that's expired. Oh, yeah.

We believe it's expired. Yeah, I think what they're referencing is the ordinance that we are repealing that was adopted, I think, in 2019.

Okay, so no change for individual contributions and no change for commercial interest contributions?

No, it would be whatever the FPPC has outlined, and right now they have person, small contributor, committee, and political party, all as $5,900. Perfect, okay. That's my questions.

Thank you. Thank you. Do you have anything, Council Member Nygaard? Council Member Bedoya.

Thank you. So I heard some comments up here that, you know, I now want to ask, at least take my shot at asking the question. I know the question was asked for individuals and specifically businesses. Can we introduce lower limits for independent, sorry, independent expenditure committees? what was presented earlier, that's how the That's how, like, there was a lot of funding through the last election process, through IE committees.

Yeah, if you all like, just because we are going to be coming back, we're happy to, you know, make that an addition to it. And I'm seeing the head nods from everybody in the presentation. We can include that in there to make it very global to cover all the areas to do that update.

Thank you. And just very, very briefly, because I know it was also made, the comment was made earlier, but can you briefly say what the, you know, SB 1493, the Levine Act, and how it's now I don't know if it's a safeguard, but just what it does in terms of council decisions and donations and pending business. Yes, yeah.

excuse me it's been updated recently but basically what it what it requires the big thing is i believe it's now is it 500 or more from any business and or individual or entity if there's going to be business if they have business in front of a council it mandates a cooling off period where you basically would have to recuse yourself so you cannot consider that item from the same individual who came that amount i believe it's up to 12 months if i'm not mistaken so um if during the campaign cycle it's safe an individual were to give you you know a thousand dollars to your campaign and then you get elected and then you know within that one year of the donation the individual comes in front of the city council you would have to recuse yourself at that point from considering the item and so it and it's tied to um entities as well. So the same thing. And so you'd have to look at it on a case by case basis. And ultimately, the onus is on the elected official to do that. You know, if staff were to obviously know about it, they would say something. But the onus is on the elected official because they're the ones who know who is giving them money and their amounts.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Governor. Mayor Patem.

So just for tonight's item, should we move forward with it and then you bring back information can we then modify it or would you rather us just hold off doing anything until you provide the questions that we uh directions that we provided up here which how would you like to proceed

Council, if you would be amenable, it would be helpful if we could bifurcate the ordinance. And if you're all right with introducing the filing fee, as well as the general municipal election date, that would be great. And then we can defer the campaign contribution limit since we're going to come back with some information. I just want to make sure I have things done in time for the Board of Supervisors.

So you want us to... Do the motion where we're approving the fees and the election dates and holding off on campaign contributions?

Yes, if we could introduce the ordinance with those parts, please.

Okay, thank you.

Did you have something else?

No. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you, staff, for the update. And I just want to thank the speakers for coming up and speaking. I think campaign finance is a very difficult area. I would love to be able to stop corporations from all the amount of money they're putting into this. But unfortunately, Supreme Court gave corporations some rules in Citizens United. I think it was a terrible ruling. That being said, we are obligated to sustain by federal law that SCOTUS provides. So I will encourage staff to look into what other options we have. But otherwise, I'd like to proceed to make sure that we're doing things in compliance as best we can. So with that, unless there's further discussion, I will ask the Madam Clerk to read the title of the proposed ordinance for those sections we've discussed.

Okay, so this is the title for the proposed ordinance without the section pertaining to campaign contribution limits. An ordinance amending Title II administration of the Tracy Municipal Code to add the following sections under Chapter 2.01 elections of the Tracy Municipal Code. 2.01.000 general municipal election date and 2.01.060 filing fee for processing nomination papers.

Motion to waive the first reading by substitution of title and introduce the ordinance as amended.

Second.

We have a first and second. Roll call, please.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie?

Yes.

Council Member Nygaard? Yes. Council Member Vidoya?

Yes.

Council Member Evans?

Yes.

Mayor Arreola?

Yes.

Thank you.

All right. That takes care of our election campaign contribution limits for now until we have further discussion on it. And now that takes us to our regular agenda. For item 4A, we have our Track Civic Art. Staff report, please.

Is it on now?

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Robert Tambari. I am the Cultural Arts Division Manager, and I have the pleasure of presenting the four finalists for the El Pescadero Park and Tracy Recreation Activity Center. civic art projects. Little project history before we jump in. I will pertain mainly to the cultural arts division today. Of course in 2018 is when council approved the development of the Tracy recreation activity center. Noted that during the years of 2021 to 2022 parks committed to investing in art at the proposed site THEY ALLOCATED 1% OF THE CONSTRUCTION BUDGET TO PUBLIC ART PROJECTS. THE ALLOCATION OF THE BUDGETED $600,000 IS IN LINE WITH THE COUNCIL'S QUALITY OF LIFE POLICY, AND IN 2024 AND 2025, COUNCIL UPDATED THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES TO THE FOLLOW THAT 1% OF ELIGIBLE CIP PROJECTS WOULD INCLUDE PUBLIC ART ALLOCATED AT 1% OF THE CONSTRUCTION BUDGET. Another highlight would be when the RFP closed, we had 19 proposals from 14 different artists and artist teams. From May 2025 through July 2025, public surveys and feedback were collected. There were displays inside the Grand Galleries at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts. There were 124 community surveys collected. In June and July, the Cultural Art Subcommittee made recommendations to the Tracy Arts Commission on the four finalists that you will see tonight, and the Tracy Arts Commission accepted the recommendations and approved of the changes in scale and scope to the art projects. These are the four finalists for the Tracy Recreation Activity Center Civic Art Projects in El Pescadero Park. First, we have Yakut's Ancestral Feathers, which is going to be located at the main path to the entrance to the Tracy Recreation Activity Center. The artist is Adrian Littman. It's stuck.

I'm sorry, I got to restart it. I'm not sure why it's struggling.

Just a drum roll for the finalists. Look, do we expect anything less in Arts Month? A song, a sonnet. I can do a sonnet for you. Nope, now I can't. We're back. Thank you. Maybe at the end. This piece is called Yakut's Ancestral Feathers. Again, the artist is Adrian Lippmann. The size of the piece is going to be 25 feet high, 12 feet wide, and 12 feet in diameter. The piece is five individual feathers and a sculpture. It is going to be illuminated with uplighting to cast shadows on the adjacent wall behind it. The colors are still being negotiated with the artists, but when they are painted, they will last for up to 15 to 20 years before we have to maintain and change any of them that are on there. The next piece is Adebay's Treasure. Adebay's Treasure is by the artist Nino Alessia. It is going to be located at the north end of the multi-use lawn at the track. No, now it worked. There we go. Adebay's Treasure is a steel and aluminum sculpture named for the Tiano goddess of freshwater. It is in reference and naming of El Pescadero Park. The scales are made from recycled aluminum pizza pans and the sculpture will be illuminated internally. The next piece is called The People of Tracy. This is from the Roberto L. Delgado Studios, or RLD Studios, and the lead artist is José Calderón. It will be located in the courtyard of the north-facing central wall. The people of Tracy is approximately a life-sized scaled mosaic that will be using geometrical concepts and elements that contain the images of the people of Tracy. We don't believe that any additional lighting is necessary as the courtyard lighting will be sufficient. There are five individual elements that will combine to tell one story on this wall. The final piece is called Siblings. The artist is James Phillips. The size is approximately six and six feet tall and eight inches high. Eight feet high. I have two arts degrees. This piece will be located next to the main entrance of the facility and you can, as we were talking about, it will greet you as you enter the building. No, I don't like technology either. I'm an analog living in a digital age. I don't know if I have a Robert Frost poem. What? Two roads diverge in a yellow wood. I don't actually know stopping by the woods in the snow evening. Well, then I need to learn that. I can do a sonnet. I have sonnets. You're fine. This is great. Siblings, yes. This is the final art piece. This piece follows a generation theme, while extending the similarities and differences that make family units so interesting. It will be three cylindrical tubes that will be broken, and then the individual pieces will also have mosaic elements added toward the top of it. The columns will be allowed to rest naturally so that an orange patina comes through the piece.

And I just wanted to jump in really quick here. Richard Joaquin, assistant director of Parks and Rec. Robert's done a great job. I'm sure he could handle this slide, but I also wanted to mention these four proposals. We've worked really closely with the design team to figure out how to incorporate these four pieces into the overall project. And the focus was really on the user experience and making sure that community members that are using the park or the building have lots of opportunities to experience these four pieces. And as you can see on the map on the screen here, they're well distributed around the building, inside the building, and in the exterior of the park as well. I'm going to turn it back over to Robert.

Thank you, Richard. The final piece we wanted to talk about tonight was, of course, the budget for you. As we mentioned, the budget was allocated at 1% of the overall construction budget. This is the breakdown that we have. The original artist proposals you will see have differed from what the TAC adjusted budgets and recommendations were. The biggest jump that you will notice is Yakut's ancestral feathers. While it seems that a $146,000 jump is a lot, in the initial proposal for this piece, it was actually supposed to be a 15 foot high sculpture, six feet wide and six feet deep. So this piece has nearly doubled in size. And so the Tracy Arts Commission felt that because the piece was doubling size, the location of where it was going to be, that it should be increased in the value of what we were spending on it. The others, pieces, out of base treasure, people of Tracy and siblings were all increased in relative to where they are at and in the scope and basing and contingency. You will also notice that the Arts Commission has built in a contingency in case there are any issues that can also be used for marketing and promotional materials of the art projects at the park. The action requested of the City Council is that You adopt a resolution to approve the Tracy Arts Commission's recommendations for the final designs of the civic art pieces at the Tracy Recreation Activity Center in El Pescadero Park, CIP 78178.

And just to wrap up here, the Parks and Rec Department will be working closely with Robert and the Cultural Arts team on implementation. Next, once these art pieces are approved tonight, we'll start working on contracts with each of the artists and we'll start looking into how these pieces are going to be implemented with where the construction currently stands and having some more in-depth conversations with our construction manager, our design partners, and our construction contractor. And with that, we're going to wrap up this presentation and we're available for any questions the Council may have. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Huge thank you to staff and a absolute huge thank you to the Tracy Arts Commission for all the work that you put into this. Council, do we have any preliminary questions? Let's see. Councilmember Nygaard.

Great, great presentation. Really exciting to see art coming into Tracy, because yes, this is long overdue. And yeah, that this would be one of our first projects. I just am curious the timeline on when we would expect to see any of these art pieces at the track.

Sure, I'll take that question. You know, like I mentioned, we have to work really closely with the contractor to see exactly what their plan is for all the improvements in the park and the building and figure out how these can get implemented. I think we would expect for these to be implemented towards the very tail end of this project. We want to make sure a lot of the improvements are done and these artists can kind of get in there once most of the work is wrapped up. AND TRY TO DO THIS SEAMLESSLY. WE DON'T WANT THEM TO SLOW DOWN ANYTHING THAT THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR IS DOING WITH THE PARK IMPROVEMENTS OR WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING ITSELF. SO THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT I CAN TELL YOU AT THIS POINT IN TIME.

DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT THEY WOULD BE INSTALLED BEFORE LIKE THE GRAND OPENING OR RIBBON CUTTING?

WE WOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, YES. OKAY.

GREAT. WELL, THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR. THANK YOU.

ANY ADDITIONAL PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS? OKAY. all right with that we will go out for public comment on item 4a related to our track civic art would any members of the public like to speak on this item seeing none do we have any online no hands online mayor okay with that we will go ahead and close the public comment portion for item 4a and return to council for additional discussion or to entertain a motion uh i have a couple of things um thank you staff great job i appreciate it my

biggest hard to swallow is the amount i understand that's a policy was put in to put art in our buildings and i think that's great but i'm looking at six hundred thousand dollars when we're looking at paying for certain things i know there's different funds but i'm sitting there thinking as a as a lay person people don't sometimes don't understand the difference between the different funds and they see raising the water rates and then we're spending 600 000 on art okay i again i realize i know different mechanisms for funding however i'm also looking at people that are going to then come back at us that my other one big concern is beautiful art pieces my fear also is them being outside is the potential of vandalism to those and how the cost of maintaining those over the years replacements and such where that funding is going to come from so i'm a little concerned about that i also think the policy is really vague because we're looking at building a fire station and we're looking at a police substation does that mean we spend 1% on putting art there based on the policy. That seems what the policy says. So I'm a little hesitant right now with all the things going on about proceeding with this amount of money. That's just my thoughts.

Does staff have any answers to those questions?

Mayor, members of the council, Arturo Sanchez, assistant city manager. Staff is proceeding under the current guidelines that we have under the existing policy under the Tracy Arts Commission. And that current policy is 1% of the existing public project overall budget. We are coming back with a revision to that policy and we are actually looking at that language. And it is just a time and an opportunity to revisit that language. So we will BE LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE MORE FINITE DEFINITION, SOME ADDITIONAL WAYS OF LOOKING AT THAT 1% OR WHETHER WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THAT 1%. SO WE WILL BE COMING TO THE ARTS COMMISSION WITH AN UPDATE TO THAT PLAN AND POLICY AND THAT WILL COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION SO THAT WE CAN REVISIT WHETHER THE COUNCIL WANTS THAT TO BE THEIR POLICY OR NOT.

And then Mr. Sanchez, could you clarify related to the separation of enterprise funds versus the fund this is coming from?

That may exceed my current understanding of the funding at this point. I may have to rely on either Mr. Joaquin or Ms. Castro if she's in the back.

Yeah, so the $600,000 public art allowance for this project is a part of the overall capital improvement project, which has numerous funding sources. Measure V is one of the largest funding sources for the project. I believe it's a $54 million Measure V contribution to this project. AND THEN WE HAVE OTHER FUNDING SOURCES SUCH AS PUBLIC SAFETY IMPACT FEE, PUBLIC FACILITY IMPACT FEE. WE ALSO HAVE SOME TRANSIT FUNDS IN THIS PROJECT AS WELL. SO THERE'S NUMEROUS FUNDS THAT ARE FUNDING THE REC CENTER PROJECT. DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MAYOR?

YES, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, AND I THINK COUNCILOR NIGARD ASKED A QUESTION EARLIER ABOUT IT. SO ESSENTIALLY FOR THE WASTEWATER, THOSE FUNDS ARE INDEPENDENT. and so they are separate funds. I just wanted to clarify that for the public.

Yes, I'm sorry. I think I misunderstood the question, Mayor. Thank you.

All right. Council, do we have any additional discussion, questions?

I do have a comment. Council Robbins. So much in line with what Mayor Pro Tem mentioned, I do want to make a couple comments. I used to be a young artist. I'm neither young nor an artist anymore, other than the doodles that I do on my pad of paper here while we're sitting here. But I do love art. I really appreciate art and I love the fact that we're seeing more of it in the city of Tracy. I think this new project is a great opportunity to display some of that art. However, I do think with everything we should look into value engineering and I don't think this is any different. IT'S UP OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OPTIONS, I GUESS, IF SOME OF THESE THINGS MAY BE SLIGHTLY ALTERED POTENTIALLY TO LOWER COST. I THINK A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE THINGS, THEY CAN BE JUST AS GREAT BUT DELIVERED WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE EFFICIENCY. SO I GUESS WHEN THIS COMES BACK, I'D LIKE TO SEE ARE THERE ANY OTHER OPTIONS? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO?

Through the Chair to Councilmember Evans, I believe that the artists submitted their proposals based on the guidelines that the Arts Commission provided. And so these would be the costs based on those proposals. Is that correct, Mr. Tambari?

Yes, that is correct.

Is there no way to adjust that and go back to the drawing board? I actually have the chair of the Tracy Arts Commission that was involved in this process from the get-go, who could also probably speak on this too for the totality of how these pieces were chosen.

So before we do that, the... The process would have to be, we would have to decide are we revisiting the pieces themselves? Are we revising the scope? We'd have to go back and renegotiate with the artists. We'd have to determine are we reducing, you know, are we renegotiating the agreements? they'd have a decision to make as to whether they want to move forward or not, and then we'd have the decision to make as to whether we would be pulling out.

Sure. I guess going back to my project management background, what we would typically do is for a project that's sizable for a customer that maybe is looking to potentially, you know, look at options at least to decrease their budget, is we would bring it back to whomever is going to deliver the product and ask them for ideas. and then we'd have a conversation and then maybe the verbiage would need to be rewritten, redrafted in such a way that would allow them to deliver a product that's, you know, with a slightly decreased budget. So I don't know if that's an option, but if it is, I would like to look at it if council's interested.

I'll wait to see if it is the purview of the entire council.

I WOULDN'T AT THIS TIME, BUT THANK YOU. ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS? NO, THANK YOU. ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL? COUNCIL MEMBER BADOYA, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING? OK, I just want to again thank the Arts Commission. Thanks, staff. I think for me, one of the reasons why I support this is because this is such a large scale project for a city of over one hundred thousand people. We've only had one community center. So this is a entirely new recreation center for the public. And I think when we have these really large scale projects, we intentionally included the 1% art budget. So I would like to see that utilized. And it wasn't just the council, it was our arts commission who specialize, who are artists themselves, who went through a process. And I want to commend that and honor that because I believe that they were doing a process which we as a council previously designated for 1% of the budget. I think it's gonna be an incredibly beautiful space and I think this will be a great opportunity. So this time I will be supporting the motion. Is there any further discussion beyond that? Okay, I'll entertain a motion.

I have a motion that we approve this project, and I need to read it off, right?

It's on page 10. Okay.

We'll have it when we're stuck together. I motion to adopt a resolution approving the Tracy Arts Commission's recommendations for the final designs of the civic art pieces at the Tracy Recreation Activity Center, known as TRAC, and the El Pescadero Park project.

Second. We have a first and a second. Roll call, please.

Councilmember Nygaard? Yes. Councilmember Dahlia?

Yes.

Councilmember Evans?

No.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie?

No.

Mayor Areola?

Yes. Thank you. All right the item passes on the three to two. Thank you staff. Next up that brings us to item 4B related to wastewater bond refinancing. Staff report please.

hear me better there we go sarah castro director of finance earlier this evening the tracy public finance authority took action to authorize the refinancing of a wastewater bond this item before you is now requesting council action to move forward with the refunding of that same wastewater bond so briefly for everyone as a refresher the city has 2004 certificates of participation that were taken out in a principal amount of $30,955,000 in 2004. Those payments for that debt service are made from the city's wastewater revenue system. And we are looking to refinance those bonds to a lower interest rate. Based on the market conditions last reviewed March 27 of 2026, it is estimated that the city will save $1.05 million or $113,000 annually by refinancing these bonds. With such, staff is requesting City Council approval of the following. Approving issuance by authority of the bonds. Approving the sale of bonds to Piper Sandler, the underwriter. Approving the documents related to the bonds, including the installment sale agreement and a preliminary official statement. and also authorizing staff to take all necessary actions related to issuance of the bonds. And before I conclude my report, I do want to call out a couple of corrections to the resolution. On page 3 of the resolution, on the first paragraph of resolved, there are some areas that are to be clarified, with that being that the Authority authorizing the issuance and sale of the bonds shall not exceed $17 million. The true interest costs may not exceed 5% and the underwriters discount may not exceed 1%. And on appendix A, To the resolution, which is page five, I will also call out a few other edits. In section A, the true interest cost of the bonds is 3.20%. Section B, the finance charge of the bonds is $290,000. Net proceeds to be received, $16,543,000. And D, total payment amount through maturity will be $19,499,000. Thank you. This concludes my staff report.

Thank you, Ms. Castro. Do we have any preliminary questions from council? Seeing none, would any members of the public like to speak on item 4B related to wastewater bond refinancing? Seeing none here, do we have any online?

No hands online, Mayor.

Okay, with that, I'll go ahead and close out the public comment period. Return to council for further discussion or to entertain a motion.

Mayor, I make a motion to adopt a resolution approving the issuance and sale of wastewater revenue refunding bonds by the Tracy Public Financing Authority in authorizing the execution and delivery of an installment sale agreement for the purpose of refinancing an outstanding installment payment obligation and the related certificates of participation 2004 wastewater treatment plant upgrade as amended.

Mayor, before we vote, I did have one comment I wanted to make. Please, go ahead, Councilmember. So I just wanted clarification on the amount of money that we will save in refinancing. I think you said it would be like about 1.7 million. And I know that this is enterprise funds, so it needs to go back into the wastewater treatment plant. But could this money going back in offset some of, you know, our costs and upgrading? Could it possibly influence our rates?

The city is currently in the middle of a five-year rate plan, but based upon having savings in the fund, it could influence future rate increases. Any savings to the fund could potentially mitigate increases in the future.

So not this term, but the next five-year reevaluation of rates, it could influence at that time. Thank you very much.

Any additional questions? All right. We have a motion on the floor.

I'll second.

Okay. We have a first and second.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie?

Yes.

Council Member Nygaard? Yes. Council Member Vidalia?

Yes.

Council Member Evans?

Yes.

Mayor Areola?

Yes.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you for helping us save some money, staff. That brings us to Item 4C, Measure V Update. Staff report, please.

Good evening, Council and Mayor. Felicia Glendo, Budget Officer. This evening's item is a recommendation from Mayor Tracy's Finance Committee to that City Council receive an update on the Measure V revenue projections, current spending plan, and current fiscal year interest allocation and provide direction to staff regarding priorities. For this evening's presentation outline, we'll have a Measure V timeline, our current projections and commitments, the Measure V funded projects, interest allocation, and next steps. Measure V was voted in November 2016. Measure V was to provide funding for the city services facilities including police, fire protection, emergency and other fire services, support services, street, median, and park repair and maintenance, senior youth services, planning and business retention, attraction, building facilities, and other general services. In October of 2017, Council prioritized Measure V projects as the Aquatic Center, Legacy Fields, Multigenerational Recreation Center, now known as the TRAC, Library, and Ritter Family Ballpark. In March of 2018, Council approved major community amenity projects to be funded by Measure V and allocated Measure V funds in the following amounts of $4 million towards the track, $1 million towards the Aquatic Center, and that year $1.5 million towards Phase 1 of Legacy Fields. In November of 2019, the City Council established a total not to exceed budget of $65 million for the Aquatic Center. In November of 2020, Council confirmed the Measure V project priorities and approved funding allocations of $55 million toward the Aquatic Center and $40 million towards the track and $40 million towards operations and maintenance. In March of 2021, the Nature Park was now considered a Measure V major amenity project by City Council. In February of 2022, The Council provided direction for additional commitments of $1 million towards Nature Park and $3 million towards the Ritter Family Ballpark. In May of 24, Council approved the issuance and sale of lease revenue bonds to finance the track. The initial projections for Measure V revenues estimated to be an additional $7 million in general fund sales tax annually, implying that a total of about $140 million were to be received over a 20-year period. As of June 30, 2025, a total of $94.2 million has been received, with a revised estimate of a 20-year total of $247 million over the span of the 20-year term. With this slide, it kind of expands upon all of our commitments towards the Measure V expenses with our operations, capital projects, and the debt financing that we have committed from Measure V funds where we are at to date as of June 30, 2025, and the projected term of 2037 for the life of Measure V. At the end of life, we're currently halfway through Measure V. It does set to sunset in 2037. At that end, we do have annual Measure B commitments that total around $10.4 million, which includes operations towards maintaining our facilities, as well as our commitment towards the lease revenue bond that we did finance for the track for $3.1 million. Now looking at some of the projects that we have funded that are completed with our measure refunds, we used a portion towards the senior center that was completed in March of 2020. Legacy fields to complete out that first phase, there was a land purchase funding towards phase 1C as well as 1D and then the final with the additional financing that we did for 1E with that project being completed in 2024. Currently with our current projects that we have with Measure V funds, the Aquatic Center had a $55 million commitment, which is fully funded. Nature Park had an $8 million commitment, which will be fully funded as of fiscal 26. And Ritter Family Ballpark had a $25 million commitment. As of estimated end of this current fiscal year, there'll be about $7.3 million funded. With PAYGO, it'll be fully funded by the end of 2034 for that $25 million commitment. Measure V interest allocation, there was a report that had come to the finance committee last fall. October of 2025. The purpose of that was a discussion with regards to the interest that's been earned on our measure V funds that we have accumulated toward future projects. And the direction of the Finance Committee was to bring the proposed interest that had been earned to come back to Council for discussion as to how it could be allocated annually towards additional projects. And currently right now we have around $1.4 million that was earned as of December 31st of 2025 on the Measure V funds currently. With that, there were some proposed items that were discussed and brought to Finance Committee as some options or just projects that could be funded. There was money towards McDonald Park improvements, some capital maintenance with some planting with Coral Hollow Road and some landscape renovations. These were just some suggested items that could be utilized with that funding. The recommendation that was provided from the committee was to take some of these items back to Parks Commission for any sort of recommendations and then be able to bring them back to Council. With that, the funding is not limited toward those items and can be allocated as Council chooses to use towards any future items, any current projects or any new proposed projects. Our next steps would be to then incorporate any feedback and recommendations that Council provides for direction to utilize into our proposed budget that would go back to Finance Committee on May 18th and then come back to Council on June 2nd for final adoption. And with that, that concludes my presentation, and we'll leave it up for discussion and questions.

Thank you, Ms. Galindo. Just really quickly, because you just mentioned it. So we have approximately 1.4 million in interest, is that correct? Correct. Okay, and then I know there was some recommendations, but there's been some discussion in the past from the public of whether that could be reinvested into Measure V amenities. Is that also a possibility?

Correct. Measure V is not limited to just Outside items, it is a general fund sales tax, so it can be used towards any general fund items.

So unlike what we did in the previous item related to the wastewater, which has to go back into the enterprise fund. Correct. Because these are Measure V funds, we have a little more flexibility. Correct. Perfect, thank you. And then finally, because we had members of the public ask from the Tracy Tree Foundation, just wanted to confirm the funding for the nature park.

Yes, as of the end of this fiscal year, we'll have a full $8 million commitment that council had directed to appropriate towards the nature park. So it will be a fully funded project.

Okay, and what does that $8 million consist of?

That was a proposed budget of the project. As what entails in the details of the project, I could bring out our parks assistant director if you have additional questions as to what was being included in the nature park.

Just very generally, if we could.

Mayor, if I may, I would suggest bringing out Assistant Director Richard Joaquin.

Good evening. Richard Joaquin, Assistant Director of Parks and Rec. Can I request someone repeats the question?

No worries. Thanks, Mr. Joaquin. For the $8 million for the fully funded nature park, what does that $8 million consist of?

yeah so the nature park site as you may recall we did have a master plan developed for the nature park that was approved i want to say in 2021 somewhere in that time frame so the entire site has been essentially designed conceptually but the master plan also conceptualized the project being built out in phases and so the current project is a phase one and that would include improvements on the eastern end of that project site which is going to be closer to Tracy Boulevard. So we would be talking about primarily doing all the earthwork for that end of the project. There's a lot of earthwork that has to be done out there to manipulate that site and get it to where it can be a functioning nature park. So that would be one of the major components and probably one of the more expensive components of phase one. And then we would also have landscaping, which would include lots of tree planting, you know, some initial shrubs and plants being planted to establish a grassland out there. And then really just focusing on building out some trails. There's probably going to be an initial parking area, possibly a restroom building, and any improvements needed along Tracy Boulevard to make sure that the public can access in and out of the new nature park. That would really be the focus of phase one. We would not get all the way over to Coral Hollow Road. The site, as I mentioned, is very large, so we'd be focusing primarily on that eastern end of the site.

Perfect thank you. I know tonight we're just talking about the budget but maybe in the future we can get an update on that since it's going to be fully funded as of 2026. Might be useful for a new council to get an update on that. Council do we have any preliminary questions? Okay with that we'll go out to the public for item 4C related to our Measure V update. Seeing two. Okay that means we'll have four minutes each. Time is yours.

Only four.

Yes, sir.

Okay. I'll do my best. The report for the Measure V was a little limited compared to what I saw previously because the original one actually had interest for the first year shown on the report. This one doesn't show any of that. They did indicate the 1.7. I assume that's the accumulated interest that would have been earned had all of the interest been put in there each year. And of course, that would be interest on the interest on the interest and that they included all that to get to the 1.7 million. But they didn't show that in the chart. So here's the other thing that I'd like for you to consider. Certainly, I would recommend that you only put the money back in the Measure V fund, which is what the interest was earned on. and not attach it to any potential projects at this point. I don't think that that's my recommendation. You get to do what you want. But I would call to your attention that of the $248 million that you're going to have in this fund over the year, plus the $1.7 million interest that you earned on it, 29% of it is going to be spent on operational expenses. Only 42% is going to be capital improvement. So literally 40% of the money did capital projects. The rest of it got spent on something else. Interest, because they went out and borrowed money to build stuff. They said, oh, we have to have it now. So that's what they did. that interest got charged to the Measure V fund. It wasn't part of the general fund, which were all the monies being held. So just FYI for that. My concern was that if you use the Measure V fund for operational expenses on 2037, which none of you will be here on the city council, they'll be faced with the tsunami that you left in their hand. with a bunch of operational expenses that have no way to be funded. Boom, they're gone. I suppose there will be a balance in the Measure B fund, and they'll, future counsel, just allocate the leftovers for that. So the sad part is it's all legal, not unfair to anybody. It didn't cheat anybody. I didn't think it was best practice myself. But if you were here during the Measure B campaign, $40 million of PAC money was yes for Measure B. That's how it got passed. And if you saw the advertisements at the time, they never talked about any of the other money being spent. The interest, the operational cost, it was all about building stuff. That was it. But that's not what the people got. That's what they thought they got. But that's not what it turned out to be. It turned out to be something else, which is a disappointment. Probably the bigger disappointment is that you can make something like that happen if you have $40,000. So anyway, that's my two cents on that. I think I had one more thing, but I lost my place and I'm out of time. So thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Huffman. Next speaker, please.

EVERY TIME I'VE COME UP HERE BEFORE, I'VE HAD SOMETHING WRITTEN DOWN. SO IF I GET CONFUSED WITH WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU'LL KNOW WHY, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING IN FRONT OF ME. I HAPPEN TO BE THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE TRACY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY. THE LIBRARY IS THE BUSIEST CITY BUILDING IN THIS CITY. EVERYBODY THAT WALKS INTO THAT LIBRARY IS WALKING DOWN THIS PARKING LOT THAT IS FALLING APART IS NOT UP TO CURRENT ADA CODES. OKAY? THE LIBRARY BUILDING IS STARTING TO LOOK REALLY BAD WHEN YOU WALK IN. WE HAVE PLAQUES MISSING. PLANTS ARE DEAD. THE TREES ARE SHEDDING THEIR WHATEVER IT IS, FUZZY STUFF ALL OVER. IT DOESN'T GET CLEANED UP. YOU WALK INTO THE BUSIEST CITY BUILDING IN THE CITY, AND YOU GO, YES, THIS IS TRACY. OKAY? I CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR $1.7 MILLION OF INTEREST IS YOU CAN SPEND IT ON THE LIBRARY BECAUSE THE LIBRARY WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS USED TO GET MEASURE V PASSED IN THE FIRST PLACE. WE TALKED ABOUT IT, WE STARTED IN THIS CONVERSATION, AND ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT GOT SAID WAS, AND THE LIBRARY. BUT THEN AS WE WENT FARTHER DOWN THE CONVERSATION, NOTHING WAS DONE ABOUT THE LIBRARY. NO FUNDS HAD BEEN SPENT ON THE LIBRARY. NO CONSIDERATION HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY. THE LIBRARY, I WENT TO THE RECREATION COMMITTEE. I SAID, WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING ABOUT THE LIBRARY? EVERYBODY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE LIBRARY? THAT'S RUN BY THE CITY OF STOCKTON. IT IS THE TRACY LIBRARY. YOU PAY THE CITY OF STOCKTON TO RUN THE INSIDE. You can do more for the library than what you're paying the city of Stockton to do. There's no limits there. You can take and you can make the building better. YOU CAN-THE BATHROOMS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE REDONE. THEY HAVEN'T BEEN REDONE. I'VE BEEN IN THERE SEVERAL TIMES IN THE LAST MONTH WHEN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN THERE REPAIRING THE BATHROOMS, OKAY? BUT MEASURE V MONEY IS BEING SPENT ON A TREE PARK THAT WAS PROPOSED IS BEING SPENT ON A SWIMMING POOL THAT WAS PROPOSED IS BEING SPENT ON A MULTI-PURPOSE BUILDING THAT WAS PROPOSED. THE LIBRARY GOT NOTHING. SO TAKE THAT $1.7 MILLION AND LET'S SAY, LET'S GO FIND A PROJECT FOR THE LIBRARY. I GOT A PERFECT PROJECT BECAUSE THE LIBRARY WAS GIVEN HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN DITMAN'S ESTATE. WE HAVE A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS SITTING THERE THAT THE CITY OF STOCKTON IS HOLDING, GETTING THEIR INTEREST ON IT. BUT IF WE COULD BUILD AN EXTRA ROOM, WE COULD GET THAT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO STOCK THAT ROOM. WE COULD MAKE A GREAT MAKERSPACE. WE COULD MAKE A GREAT PUBLIC ACCESS FOR THE LIBRARY. BUT NOBODY IN THIS CITY BUT NOBODY IN THIS CITY BUT NOBODY IN THIS CITY PAYS ANY ATTENTION PAYS ANY ATTENTION PAYS ANY ATTENTION TO THE LIBRARY. TO THE LIBRARY. TO THE LIBRARY. A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO, A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO, A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO, YOU HAD BLOCK GRANT FUNDS, YOU HAD BLOCK GRANT FUNDS, YOU HAD BLOCK GRANT FUNDS, YOU WANTED TO SPEND IT YOU WANTED TO SPEND IT YOU WANTED TO SPEND IT AT THE HOMELESS CENTER, AT THE HOMELESS CENTER, AT THE HOMELESS CENTER, YOU WANTED TO SPEND IT YOU WANTED TO SPEND IT YOU WANTED TO SPEND IT ON A HIGH SCHOOL, ON A HIGH SCHOO ADA wasn't important. Let's take that ADA money, put it up in the front, and let's fix the parking lot at the library. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Do we have any additional speakers on this item? Seeing none, do we have any online?

No hands online, Mayor.

With that, I'll go ahead and close out the public comment period for item 4C. Return to council for discussion and or motion. Council Member Nygaard.

Thank you, Mayor. I do want to just make a comment on the gentleman who spoke because I do remember many community meetings where from years ago, where the library was high on the priority list of meeting community needs. So I would like to bring this item back for more discussion if we could have maybe a report. I know that, like he mentioned, the county is involved and pays for personnel, but do we own the building?

Through the chair, Midori Lightwood, city manager. My understanding is the city owns the building. It's a county library system and the city of Stockton... hires the employees, but our parks director probably has more details. But we're responsible for the building? The maintenance of the building, and I can tell you that it is part of the RFQ that went out for the energy efficiency because we do take care of the HVAC, and I think that is one of the primary projects that is on, you know, to be considered in that RFQ that we are doing for our energy audit. Okay.

Mr. McDonald, do you want to speak?

Sure. So Brian McDonald, Parks Recreation Community Services Director. These are all really good questions, and I've talked to Mr. Duby several times about this. The way our agreement works is we are responsible for the building, maintenance of the building, replacement of things, including the parking lot. And the county contracts with the City of Stockton. City of Stockton runs the operations of the facility itself. It's, in my opinion, not the greatest way to set this up. And so you often do get in situations like this where funding becomes scarce for a replacement of things and big ticket items. So I do want to make sure I reiterated that with the council this evening. So that's it.

Well, I appreciate the information and I do hope that once the energy audit does the report comes back when they do report off on the library that we can have a much broader discussion on what we could possibly do to to help uh yes i i agree our our library is in a in a you know um in a state of you know of a little tlc so yeah i would love to see if we can you know have more of a discussion when that energy audit comes back when it addresses the library if there may be an opportunity to see if there's um possible projects to to help improve the library because i do believe that library does need the attention and we've had so many of our community members come forward during the last decade saying that that was high on the priority list and yes it's kind of been shuffled down every year. I would like to kind of try and see if we can resurface some discussion on our library. SO THAT BEING SAID, KNOWING THAT THIS MEASURE V FUNDS ARE, YES, A TAX FUND. IT'S NOT RESTRICTED. IT IS FOR COUNCIL, IT'S AT COUNCIL'S DISCRETION TO PRIORITIZE. LIKE WE HAVE SEEN IN THE SLIDES, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUS COUNCIL HAVE SET ASIDE, YOU KNOW, NUMEROUS PRIORITIES. AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE LOOKING AT 1.7 MILLION IN INTEREST. At our last council, I suggested turning over more rocks because we have a gap in the funding of our police substation and our firehouses. So could this interest money be used, potentially be used to help fill that gap?

THROUGH THE CHAIR. YES, COUNCIL HAS THE DISCRETION TO DIRECT US TO USE THE INTEREST AND APPLY IT TOWARDS YOUR PRIORITY PROJECTS. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A MEASURE V DESIGNATED PROJECT. IT IS A PUBLIC FACILITY AND THE FUNDS ARE UNRESTRICTED.

well i know that we as a council have set priorities to help meet more of our safety um our safety facilities and this is a need and so i i would like to make a recommendation if council if i'd have a colleague to support that we use the 1.7 million to help fill that gap 1.4. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you for correcting me. The 1.4 million to fill that gap that would go towards the police substation and the fire facilities.

I can support that. Is that all your comments, Councilmember?

Yes.

All right. Thank you. Anybody else? Councilmember Evans? No. No comments. Okay. Councilmember Duya?

THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO SAY, STAFF, THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT. THANK YOU TO THE COMMITTEE WHO'S WORKING HARD YEAR ROUND TO KIND OF MAKE SURE THE NUMBERS ARE, YOU KNOW, SORRY, PENCILING OUT. IN TERMS OF MY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRIORITIES FOR MEASURED FEE INTEREST ALLOCATION, I DO LIKE AND WOULD SUPPORT STAFF'S, AT LEAST WHAT THEY LISTED AS WHAT I WOULD PERCEIVE AS THE FIRST PRIORITY, $650,000 GOING TO THE MCDONALD PARK IMPROVEMENTS. IT IS I don't want to get this wrong, but I think one of the oldest parks in Tracy in one of the areas of Tracy that has the most opportunity for socioeconomic growth. I definitely think that that should be number one on our priority since we do have an opportunity and it does need renovating. Second, I would be supportive of exploring and possibly throwing my weight behind some library improvements. AND I WOULD NOT BE AGAINST USING WHATEVER IS LEFT FROM THAT TO KIND OF FILL THE GAP WITH PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES. BUT I DO THINK THAT SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MEASURE V AND WHILE IT IS GENERAL FUND DOLLARS, WHEN IN 2016 WHEN I REMEMBER BEING PITCHED IT WAS PITCHED AS AMENITIES. I THINK IT WOULD BE A DISGRACE FOR THIS COUNCIL TO NOT RECOMMEND MCDONALD PARK TO BE IMPROVED. I guess I'm a little biased. I'll be part of the kindergarten team that's taking students to their yearly walking field trip to McDonald Park. Yes, the water park feature is awesome. The playground is dated. The basketball courts, I think, need some resurfacing. So it is a park that needs some improvement. don't want to be repetitive, but do like the idea of exploring what we can do with the library. And, you know, I do like the recommended, you know, my comments. I respect my colleague's position about, you know, seeing what we could do with the public safety facilities funding gap. Thank you, Councilmember.

Mayor Patem. I could support maybe going with McDonald Park and then taking the rest towards public safety facilities i think we need to get a full understanding of what needs to be done at the library before proceeding with that i'd like to have an update you know if if the parking lot's not 88 come on we get to there so that's where i would recommend that we help out mcdonald park because it is probably the oldest yes I got a head nod on that. And then we did have a gap regarding the police and fire. So that's what I would, that would be my recommendation of the funding for those funds.

Okay.

Council Member Evans, do you have a position on the park?

No, I can support that. I don't have an, honestly don't have any issues with as proposed, but my colleagues' comments, I fully support. Let's put public safety first, as Council Member Nygaard said, you know, I fully support. If we've got interest, let's, Let's put that at the top of the list, you know, as we've said before. Let's fund those priorities and get those done. But at the same time, McDonald Park, I have no issue. Corral Hollow, I don't have an issue. And 6th and Central, I have no issue. So all support was just amended.

Okay. Thank you, Seth. Just a quick question. I know that, and I want to thank folks, bringing up the library definitely needs a little tender, loving care. Especially, you know, growing up here when you were low income, it was something free to do and where I spent a lot of time at that library. But I know that we've had some discussion. Can someone from staff explain, are there, I believe there was some discussion about having certain library programming at the track. Is that still included? Can you just highlight that for us?

Yes, again, Brian McDonald, Parks, Recreation, Community Services Director. We have been in discussions with the library operators to have a micro library function at the rec center, but we will still utilize our branch here as your full blown brick and mortar library.

Perfect, thank you. And I definitely think that I want to you know make sure that we're utilizing these funds for for amenities. But I also do think that public safety facilities are included among that. I think if I recall the text from when measure I think it was 2016 when it was passed. I think that the actual text of the ballot measure included language related to public safety facilities if I recall. So I believe that you know Any regular voter would have included that as a type of amenity that we were discussing. But I also want to recognize and highlight McDonnell Park does also needs intended love and care. So I think I would be supportive of that. I would echo what I'm hearing from Mayor Pro Tem with regards to the library especially if there are some ADA needs. I want to make sure that we can do an evaluation of the needs for the library. And given that we have the entirety of the fund not quite programmed yet, you know, there are still opportunities for future funds to go towards the library as a Measure V amenity if that's the council's discretion. But I'd kind of like a more holistic analysis before we proceed in that manner. So at this time, I would be supportive of the suggested allocation towards the McDonald Park improvement and then the remainder of the $1.4 million to go towards filling the gap that we were seeking for the public safety facilities. Does anyone object to that?

No.

Okay. You want to make a motion?

Yes. So Mayor, I'll make a motion that we receive the update on the Measure V revenue projects, current spending plan, and current fiscal year interest allocation, and direct staff to use $650,000 to upgrade McDonald Park and the remaining balance to go towards our public safety facilities.

I'll second.

May I ask a quick question before the will?

Yes.

Should we, thank you, appreciate it. Should we get that staff sorry the request that we're making the staff for like the analysis should we get it back and we see that there's something that could be done sooner at the library than what's being proposed do we have an opportunity to adjust or is it kind of like set in stone now

Well, just procedurally, if I'm hearing your question, Council is directing us on the July 1 budget where to put the interest earned for Measure V. At any time, Council can direct staff to return with a discussion item, and Council can choose to reprioritize. At that time, we would have to tell you how that might impact projects that are already you know in the queue already already moving but council always has the ability to um move things around but it helps with our planning obviously if we know what we're what's on our schedule to do looks like i'd also like to add um in our in our park master plan update that we did several years ago it did look at some needs at the library so we do have some information we could bring back

and give you kind of a better idea. I could tell you off the top of my head, though, the parking lot, the bathrooms for sure. But we can certainly bring that information back at a later date. And it can be maybe part of our CIP discussion going forward. It could be included in that. Because I know you did ask for a nature park update as well. So maybe we can couple those things together.

Sounds good to me.

Thank you.

I finish my motion. Okay. Do we have a second? Oh, we have a first and second? Roll call, please.

Mayor Pro Tem Abercrombie?

Yes.

Council Member Nygaard? Yes. Council Member Vidalia?

Yes.

Council Member Evans?

Yes.

Mayor Arreola?

Yes.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you to staff. And just as a highlight, I wanted to recognize that since we've now used Measure V funds towards McDonald's Park, I would ask that we include it within the because it's like we had the senior center, just include it so people know what we're using taxpayer dollars on. Okay, all right. That brings us to items from the audience. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on an item that is not on tonight's agenda? Do we have any hands raised? Okay, I believe that'll be four minutes.

Thank you. FYI, Councilman Nygaard, there is no new revenue They're just reporting stuff that had already been reported as revenue in all these fiscal years that have happened up till this date since the beginning, the 10 years. It's not revenue that's here available other than the current year because it's all put into the general fund. And the revenue already showed up on the statement that Citi had that said here is our income for the year. That revenue has already been reported. It's not new. It's money that's that was placed in the general fund or spent on something else. So it's not new money. Mayor Areola, I really appreciate your comment about the future Measure V needs to include that revenue thing where it says the Measure V sales tax is revenue. plus whatever the revenue was supposed to be included so that historically the report is correct and the fund balance is correct going forward. I think that would be a more accurate presentation. And also, Councilman Evans, thank you. I really liked your point about reconsidering how to best consider spending money, the art money, and whatever. For those of you who didn't know, in 2002, on the city council, the budget had a per unit cost. That disappeared from the information you would have. So it was really easy for you to look at it and say, well, how much per unit, I think they were using some formula somebody made up, but you could just use per capita or whatever, just some number that you used all the time that said, oh, the police department costs this much per citizen, the art department or whatever department that you're looking at. And so you could see the relative cost. of what was happening. You can't see that in government reporting. It's not designed to do that. That's why when I was on the Measure V, we had a separate report that was more a profit-loss statement so you could kind of see what was happening. But I like the per unit cost better. I think it would be more effective and really useful to answer the question you brought up. So thank you very much. Appreciate your time.

Thank you, Mr. Huffman. Do we have any additional speakers? Seeing none. Chambers, do we have any online?

No hands on line, Mayor.

Okay. With that, I'll go ahead and close out items from the audience. And that brings us to staff items.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Midori Light, we're your City Manager. I will be brief. Just wanted to make mention, there's been a lot of chatter online about an alleged data center that is occurring that maybe Council has approved. I just wanted to debunk that myth. We did post some additional information on our website on that Facebook feed as well as on our website, you can find some of the information. But in a nutshell, there is a proposed development that is happening in the county outside of city jurisdiction. So council has no jurisdiction over the project. The project was approved by the county or through the county. as far back as 2021. From what we can tell the project is for three large speculative industrial buildings not a data center and based on the information we have there's been no confirmation or proposals submitted for a data center at that site. So we just want to make sure that there's some chatter online saying that council's approving more data centers. We don't have any data centers that this council has approved, nor do we have any on the horizon at this moment for any plans. So I just want to make sure we got that. There is on our landing page, on our website, there is a little... blurb that you can click on and get additional information but again for any questions people might have they need to go seek that from the county website and from their representatives also just in some of the projects we are responsible for we do have two major construction projects the international park of commerce bridge at 580 and the diverging diamond the ddi project over on 580 as well BOTH ARE CURRENTLY ANTICIPATED TO BE COMPLETED IN LATE WINTER, EARLY SPRING. SO WE ARE MOVING ON THOSE. ALSO AN AMENITY THAT IS NEARING COMPLETION IS THE CLYDE BLANT PARK BMX PUMP TRACK. WE HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING ON Tuesday, April 28th, so next Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Clyde Bland Park. We hope you'll join us there and see the great amenity that is coming. And if you recall, we will have a secondary Porsche that will be still under construction, but the main track will be rideable. Also, Tracy, find your fit. The mayor's Harvard cohort team is hosting an outreach event for youth at the Grand Theater on Wednesday, April 22nd, so just a couple days, at 4.30 to 5.30. We're bringing together youth voices from across Tracy to talk about what matters most. We want to hear from youth about their experiences, their ideas, and their future. So we invite the youth to come on down to the Grand Theater on Wednesday, April 22nd from 4 to 5.30. And that is all I have for you this evening. There is no meeting the first Tuesday in May, as several of us will be going to Washington, D.C., for our annual One Voice trip, where we combine the resources of the county and the other cities within the county to lobby for transportation dollars. So there will not be a meeting on the first Tuesday in May. That's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you. That brings us to council items. Council Member Nygaard.

BEFORE I START, I JUST HAD BEFORE I START, I JUST HAD BEFORE I START, I JUST HAD A QUESTION TO THE CITY MANAGER A QUESTION TO THE CITY MANAGER A QUESTION TO THE CITY MANAGER ON I2 WAS FOLLOWING ON I2 WAS FOLLOWING ON I2 WAS FOLLOWING A LOT OF THE DISCUSSION A LOT OF THE DISCUSSION A LOT OF THE DISCUSSION THAT WAS GOING ON ON THIS proposed data center. So I know a lot of the comments were based around some environmental concerns, water, energy, a lot of contamination, et cetera, et cetera. My question is, is there any chance that we could, because it was approved in 2020, and there's still a lot of vagueness about this project. could we reach out to the agencies that are involved for this project for an update specifically the scope of the project to see if there is any impact or changes that are in the mitigation measures that the environmental report in the environmental report that could help i think sequester some these some of these comments about this proposed project

i would not want city staff to be speaking on a project that's not within our jurisdiction that we don't have the purview to be reviewing i think i would probably defer to the county website and county staff on what this project looks like because they would have the most accurate information and we i would not want to misquote or misinterpret something from them but um YOU KNOW, THE INFORMATION SHOULD BE READILY AVAILABLE THROUGH THE REQUEST TO THE COUNTY AS OUR PROJECTS WOULD BE. DETAILS ON OUR PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS. IS THAT HELPFUL?

YES. I APPRECIATE YOUR ANSWER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I would just say I'm looking forward to hopefully some warm weather. This is crazy. And I do hope that the community does turn out for Earth Day celebration on Saturday. A lot of great activities planned. And I think it is an opportunity that just to be a little more informed on making good choices, like I mentioned earlier. Because yes, our choices will, like I said, impact what may happen down the road or how we perceive, or not perceive, how our world will be for our future generations. So I look forward to the one voice trip in May and promoting and soliciting our legislators to listen to our projects in our region. I thank staff for all the great presentations tonight. I think meeting went well. I thank my colleagues and mayor for running a smooth meeting and the community for attending. So everyone, thank you very much and have a good night.

Thank you, Council Member Evans. Thank you, Mayor. So keeping along the same lines as the what was supposed to be or people were talking about the data center, which obviously turned out it's an industrial center. I had a conversation with staff just prior to this meeting, just prior to the first meeting that that proposed facility is in a location just outside of Tracy City limits that I believe, in my opinion, should be part of Tracy's sphere of influence. I DON'T BELIEVE THE CURRENT MAP OF OUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IS CORRECT AND NEEDS TO BE RECTIFIED IN MY OPINION. I KNOW STAFF IS WORKING VERY HARD ON THAT AS THEY COMMUNICATED TO ME EARLIER. I WOULD LIKE AT SOME POINT WHENEVER IT MAKES SENSE FOR STAFF TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE TO CITY COUNCIL SO THAT WE'RE ALL AWARE OF WHAT'S BEING DONE AND WHAT WE THINK THE TIMELINE IS. SO WHENEVER IT'S APPROPRIATE, I WOULD ASK THAT WE GET AN UPDATE ON THAT FORMAL UPDATE, PUBLIC UPDATE. Also, moving forward to another update that I would like to request either here, if you can give it informally, or would like to know when we can get an update on the Aquatic Center. And I know we've got a consultant that should be at this point, I believe, working on an analysis of the developer plan versus the City of Tracy plan. Is there an update you can give us now, or is there a point when we can get an update?

Arturo Sanchez, assistant city manager, council members, mayor and council members. I anticipate bringing back the completed audit the final week of May or between the final week of May and the second week of June. That is my delivery timeline at this point. I'm awaiting the draft of the report and then we'll need to review it, ask some questions, prepare a staff report, and I'm giving myself some time to be able to understand it and then be able to finalize it. staff has been asked whether or not scheduling a combined meeting of the Parks Commission and the City Council would be the most prudent and expeditious way of addressing this issue by presenting one report to both bodies, and we are considering whether that in fact may be the best way to do it, but it will really be dependent on the availability of both bodies on a particular date. I am aiming for the last week of May as the goal for myself, but May to the second week of June is really the timeline that I think I can meet at this point. okay very much looking forward to that and also looking forward to expeditiously taking the next step whatever that may be whatever council decides yes and we may need to the city manager reminded me we may need to call a special meeting of the council to be able to hold that audit report out to the council we'd call it a workshop no action taken it'll just be a report receiving a report of the audit My understanding is that the next step of the Aquatic Center is scheduled to come to the City Council the second meeting in June. So that's planned regardless.

Okay, great. Thank you for that update. Looking forward to that. My last note is just that I'm also very much looking forward to attending One Voice in Washington, D.C. and advocating on behalf of the residents of Tracy. Hope everybody has a great day. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember Bedoya.

I think Mayor Patem. thank you mayor um i've been reflecting on something that uh councilmember bedoya said last week and i agree or last meeting i should say i think that um the naming thing has kind of gotten out of control and unfortunately has gotten a little disrespectful at times so i would like to make a motion to suspend the rules and this is not changing what was done about the sports complex that name is done we're moving forward on that but i'd like to suspend the rules and direct staff not to proceed at this time regarding the four ballparks i think we need to take a break and he think staff needs a break to focus on other things it's kind of gotten as councilmember kind of a little runaway train here so that would be my emotion at this time is to suspend the rules reopen that discussion and DIRECT STAFF NOT TO PROCEED WITH THE NAMING OF THOSE FOUR INDIVIDUAL PARKS AT THIS TIME.

AS IT STANDS NOW, IT'S GOING BACK TO PARKS COMMISSION? THAT WAS THE DIRECTION.

THAT'S CORRECT. AND TO BE CLEAR, I THINK MAYOR PERTIM, YOU'RE ASKING THAT WE BRING THIS BACK FOR A FUTURE MEETING TO KIND OF DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER WE SHOULD STOP THE PROCESS. CORRECT. CORRECT? OKAY. CORRECT. YEAH.

SO WE'RE CONSIDERING JUST STOPPING IT ALL TOGETHER?

AT THIS TIME, YES.

I'M JUST A LITTLE CONCERNED IT MIGHT CAUSE MORE OF A DISRUPTION.

well like i said unfortunately it got pretty ugly at the last one and and um you know it's unfortunate that it did that and so i think everybody maybe just take a breather and you know okay we can revisit it later but at this time that we're talking about maybe getting back at it this summer or something or possibly yeah okay yeah um should we set a date

Well, again, I think we need to bring the item back to Council at a future meeting to decide whether or not you wish to pause it. This wasn't agendized. We can't set it for a future meeting, maybe the next meeting in May to say, you know, would we like to make a motion to reconsider at this time so the public can come and give their input or not? But you all can set it for a future meeting to decide whether or not you wish to pause. Do we continue with the process in the meantime? As far as I'm concerned, yes.

I'm not quite sure where it's currently going, though. I'm open to the idea. I just want to understand how far along in the process will it be by the time it comes back to us?

I'm not sure. Mayor, through the Chair, it is in the work plan, but it is not very far along in the process. We have to bring it back to the Parks Commission, and the Parks Commission has a couple other items ahead of it. They won't meet again until the first week of May, and I don't think we can schedule it until The first meeting in July is what I understood, but I would have to double check. That was my initial understanding.

Okay, so petitions won't be submitted and all of that process started from the beginning.

Right. And so, but just as a reminder, and the city attorney can correct me if I'm wrong, it's the motion to suspend the rules first and then a vote on the motion to direct staff to return with an item to discuss suspending the current process.

TO BE CLEAR, I THINK YOU ALL CAN DECIDE TO SET SOMETHING IN A FUTURE ITEM. WE CAN'T STOP THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW, AND I THINK HE WAS SAYING AT THAT MEETING HE WILL PROBABLY BE MAKING A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES TO STOP IT, BUT WE NEED TO SET THIS OUT FOR A FUTURE MEETING. I THINK IT'S THE ASK AT THIS POINT TO GET FURTHER DISCUSSION, NOT ON THE NAMING, BUT THE ACTUAL PROCESS ITSELF. SOUNDS LIKE TAKING A PAUSE. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE? YES.

OKAY. SO THIS WILL COME BACK TO US, AND THEN COMMUNITY WILL HAVE THEIR SAY AT THAT MEETING, TOO. CORRECT. I'M ON THE FENCE. SEE WHAT HAPPENS, I GUESS. I HEAR YOU. I'M NOT, I'M ALL WITH TRYING TO KEEP THE TEMPERATURE DOWN.

LIKE I SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY, I JUST THINK THAT THE LAST FEW, COUPLE OF THE NAMINGS WE'VE DONE HAVE GOTTEN PRETTY DISGUSTING, TO BE QUITE HONEST. I'D LIKE TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE TO THE FORMER MAYOR FOR THE SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE TO HIM IS COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED OR NECESSARY. and uh so i think that you know maybe taking a break it might be the best call at that that's just my opinion so i'm just asking so i just need to get three council members to agree to bring it back is that what we're looking at that's correct that's what i'm asking right now okay i'll support i will support this because yes i think we've had um

Yeah, like a runaway train. I like that term as far as naming city items. So just to clarify, we have named the park and we have continued the name in reflection for the Pioneers, correct? So that's not going to change anything. It's just the four baseball diamonds will be put on hold at the moment.

no if i could it's what i heard and uh mayor pro tem if this is not what you proposed so the current direction to the staff is to go forward with the naming process of the four individual fields the i apologize if i don't get except the pi the renaming of the sports complex is going forward that is not on the table right it is the direction for the staff to go back to the parks commission for consideration of the four individual uh fields correct WHAT I UNDERSTAND MAYOR PROTEM IS ASKING FOR SUPPORT IS THAT STAFF BRING BACK AN ITEM TO DISCUSS THE NAMING OF THOSE FOUR PARKS HOWEVER YOU WANT US TO PROCEED WITH THAT. WHAT ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER SANCHEZ MENTIONED IS THAT THE ITEM GOING BEFORE THE PARKS COMMISSION FOR ANY DISCUSSION AND STARTING THE NAMING PROCESS IS PROBABLY NOT SCHEDULED UNTIL JUNE OR JULY. I will work, if it's the will of the council, to bring this item back. I will work to bring this, but have to bring it back the second meeting in May or the third Tuesday in May to try to get consensus from the council on how you would like us to proceed. But it doesn't look like it will impact the current direction that we have, that is to go to the Parks Commission. So I will endeavor to get it on the March or May meeting if that is the will of the majority of council.

is that 20 yes thank you i think we heard we got three we needed yes is that all you had in mayor yes okay all right i just want to thank staff for the meeting um i too will be joining one voice to lobby our federal legislators tomorrow morning i'll be heading to sacramento for city summit to lobby our state legislators We look forward to doing the good work for the city. I also just wanted to briefly state that the trip to Harvard was excellent. Such an honor to represent the city and to be able to speak. I spoke on the role of mayors in advancing citywide partnerships for children and youth and just want to thank staff for helping to work for this year-long program we've had with Bloomberg and want to thank this council for making sure that youth economic development was one of our top five strategic priorities as a city to help make sure that we're prioritizing young people in the city and look forward to continuing to prioritize youth Tracy and just wanted to highlight something that I did not expect while I was at Harvard I had the opportunity to meet the great great great grandson of Lathrop J Tracy the namesake of the city completely randomly who happens to be a Harvard student and who confirmed that Lathrop J Tracy had never stepped foot in our city and However, Mr. Nicholas Mutt Tracy has been to our city. So just such a small world and so amazing to just kind of get a little bit more of the Tracy lore and to get a photo. And I'll make sure to share it with the city and on social media because just what a cool moment for our community. The first thing I thought is I wish I could call Sam Matthews right now. Yeah. BUT JUST THANK YOU FOR THE CITY FOR FACILITATING AND PROVIDING THAT OPPORTUNITY. AND FINALLY, I THINK BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING, WE HAVE MOTHER'S DAY, SO I JUST WANT TO SAY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO EVERYONE OUT THERE. AND WITH THAT, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN. MOTION TO ADJOURN. SECOND. WE HAVE A FIRST AND A SECOND. ROLL CALL, PLEASE.

MAYOR PRO TEM EBERCROMBIE.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER EVANS.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER RUZOYA.

YES.

COUNCILMEMBER NIGAR. YES. MAYOR ARRIOLA.

YES.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. WE ARE ADJOURNED AT 934 P.M. GOOD NIGHT, EVERYONE.

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