City Council - Special Meeting

All right. Approval agenda is posted or amended. So moved. Second. We have a motion to second. Council member Abram. Yes. Council member Bixel. Yes. Vice Mayor Met. Yes. Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor Back. Yes. Passes. Okay. Public participation. Time set aside. Uh special meeting is for public to directly address the city council concerning any item that has been described in the notice for the special meeting. You'll be allowed 30 minutes. Anyone wishing to speak? 30 minutes. Three [laughter] minutes. Right here. Yeah. Yeah, we only have 30 minutes to live and I have to be somewhere now.

All right. [snorts] Good evening. Um, I'm Mary Jackson and these are really hard meetings for any person who works to attend. Um, I'm lucky that I have a flexible schedule to do this. Um, and so I'm I I texted Miss Bergo. I was surprised to find out that she's not going to be staying around. And I mean, I know you said a year. I didn't think they'd hold you or you'd hold us to it, but um I'm appreciative of your service. Uh but I'm I'm guess I'm a little frustrated that um you know, since now Mayor Bublak's tenure, I mean, I have first of all, let me explain. I have the utmost respect for Iowa as Chief Gary Hampton. And um when I was elected to the council in 2008, he stepped in the role um because three members of the council including Miss Bublak, voted within a month, which when it was legal to do so, to fire our then city manager, which I was against. And it seems like it's been pretty um tumultuous since then. And it's not good for our city. Um Mr. Hampton, bless his heart, has been through the ups and downs of leading the city. And again, I I truly appreciate him. When I was on the council in the first two years, it was very contentious. Um I always felt safe. I felt listened to. Um he would protect me and he made sure that people were held accountable for what they said and did whether it was in the media um or in close session, which I was extremely appreciative of. So as I looked at the agenda, he's in going to be coming on board again. I guess my biggest problem is that we need stability. I'm a parent. Children need stability. They need structure. Our city needs stability and structure. Um, as a parent, when your when your child's at a school and

they've had four vice principal or four six vice principles and four principles in 10 years, that doesn't help the kids learn and it doesn't help the teachers and staff do their job. So, what I'm trying to ask for is that we really need to look at who we're hiring, why they want to come to our city, and provide them the tools to be able to do their job. In the past, I think city managers have been micromanaged. They've been told to do things that are maybe even illegal or they don't agree with. Um, and there's been a court case to prove some of that. So, I'm just asking you all to put all of this aside. Um, we need steady, strong leadership without anyone trying to micromanage this position. I've always said the city attorney is the most important person because they keep

Excuse me. That's okay. I'm sick, too. They keep the city from getting sued and the city manager directs us into the him or her directs us into the future. Thank you because I have to go now. Anyone else wishing to speak in public? [laughter] Okay. Close public participation. Madam clerk, we have 5. A public employee resignation discipline dismissal release California government code 54957. B public employee appointment California government code 54957. Title city manager discussion only.

All right, we should report out uh should there be something reporting out from our special meeting. Um we took action to accept the resignation. A 3-2 vote for Dr. BGO from inram city manager position back to her deputy city manager role. We thank her for her service but she'll still be here doing more service for us and later we'll discuss the inram city manager. So with that I would adjourn our special meeting. Okay. Now, we are calling this regular scheduled city council meeting to order. If you'll join in the salute to our nation's flag.

Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, let's see. Roll call and declaration of conflicts of interest. Council member Abram, here none. Council member Bixel, here none. Vice Mayor Mes, here none. Council member Phillips, here none. Mayor Bubble Black, who are you? [laughter] No. And none. I'm sorry. Approval of agenda as posted or amended. So move. Second. Motion in a second. [snorts] Call the role. Council member Abram. Yes. Council member Bixel. Yes. Vice Mayor Monz. Yes. Council member Phillips. Yes.

Mayor Bill Black. Yes. Passes on a 5-0. All right. We have adorable pl uh pets. Adorable. Adoptable. One of those two. Bring it. Maybe we could have you pray over the the pets. I'm sorry, Pastor Woods. I talk too much.

Good evening. So, with me tonight, I have Bear Bear. She is a 2-year-old Queensland healer German Shepherd Mix. She's been with us since June. She's a very overlooked dog at the shelter. She She sees the dogs up there. Um she's great with other dogs. She's house broke. She's toy motivated. Um, you know, we're doing free adoptions still. We have 10 free remaining adoptions for the month of February. We're doing a special promotion. We're going to be at 511 this Saturday doing a an adoption event. And next weekend, we will be at Pet Supplies Plus. So, if you're interested in adopting Bear Bear, come see us at the Derlock Animal Shelter. Do you want me to show her off for you guys?

Awesome. Bear bear. You need to be a Valentine's bear. Anybody? Anybody? Oh. Oh, you want to stay for the meeting? I got it. Just like that. Thank you. All right. Uh, now we have the active military banner presentation, Miss Pacwood.

Sorry, I didn't vote. Good evening, mayor and council. I am Karen Pacwood, assistant municipal services director, and this is Juan Vargas, our recreation superintendent. Uh, tonight I have the honor to present our 2024 2025 active military banner program participants. A little history on our active military banner program. Back in 217 2017, we established this program to honor the brave men and women currently serving our country. These service members of the United States military deserve to know that their hometown supports them, is proud of them, and thanks them daily for their service. Banners are displayed oneyear terms along Countryside Drive, serving as a visible reminder of our community's appreciation. To date, this program has honored and showcased 190 local active servicemen and women. That's amazing. [applause] We want to extend our sincerest appreciation to the individuals and organizations whose generosity and support make this meaningful program possible. Tonight we are here to honor the 12 community members whose banners were proudly displayed during the 2024 25 term. While only a few of the honores andor family members are able to be with us here tonight to accept the retired banners, each and every one of them is very important to us. Their dedication and sacrifice do not go unnoticed and we remain proud profoundly grateful for their service to our country. It is important that we take this moment to recognize all of our servicemen and women who were honored this past year.

First up, we have Marcus Robinson, who is a sergeant in the United States Army. So, if Marcus's family can come up and accept his banner [applause] and then Next we have Ashley Bay. Unfortunately, family's not able to be in attendance, but Ashley is a petty officer secondass IT2 with the United States Navy. [applause] Next, we have Allora Luceros, whose family is in attendance tonight. If you can come on up. Allora is a culinary specialist second class E5 in the United States Navy. [applause] Next we have YNSN Andrew J. Worn, who is a seaman in the United States Navy, whose family is not able to be here tonight. [applause] And next we have Jamie Stroop Kalinowski who is an animal care specialist in the United States Army. [applause] Following we have Jacob Stance, who is a staff sergeant with the United States Army.

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And now, Nathan Screen, who is a corporal in the United States Marine Corps. [applause] And if Ashley Panel's family can come up and join us, we have Ashley's father here tonight. Very proud of Ashley, who is a sonar technician in the United States Navy. [applause] followed by Nathaniel Mashado, an E4 in the United States Navy, [applause] followed by Zachariah Murphy, an E3 in the United States Navy. [applause] Anthony Stone, who is a staff sergeant in the United States Army. [applause] And we have mother of Benjamin S. Paris. If you can come on up. Benjamin is a captain in the United States Marine Corps. [applause] So I want to thank everyone for your support of this very amazing program. If you have not seen these banners on display, I encourage you to travel countryside Drive to see just a few of the many people from our community who are currently serving our country. And if you know a current local service member, please share this great program with them as we would love to honor them. Thank you for having us this evening. [applause]

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Good stuff. Obviously, they're out there serving, so they can't come here and take an award. I get it. All right, we have the Turlock Chamber of Commerce presentation. Excellent. Thank you all for letting me come out today to give you a little update on the partnership between the city of Turlock and the Turlock Chamber of Commerce. Uh my name is Ally Jeffrey and I came to be the executive uh director of the Troll Chamber of Commerce almost exactly one year today. So um we're celebrating a very first a very successful first year. I'm not going to go over in great detail these slides because they told me five to seven minutes and I am a 20-minute talker. So feel free to look at this in the packet, but we're going to go over the most important parts. In the last year, we have been able to change the entire infrastructure of how your Turlock Chamber of Commerce works to better highlight the business members and businesses and nonprofits in our community that are part of the chamber. That included an entire new infrastructure of our membership system, a redo of our website that includes a community directory, and will soon include a community map that you can use um to uh better uh visit businesses in the area if you're looking for a specific service. We also, thanks to help from city of Turlock, who recommended the um California employment training program um in 2024 to us, were able to complete the grant packet for that grant and bring over $500,000 in grant funds for employee training into our community. At this time, there are nine employers active in the plan. There are still um slots available, and it allows an employer organization who qualifies to be uh reimbured for up to $28 per hour per employee that they train. um which is a great resource to our community because being able to train at lower or no cost not only creates an upskill environment but also allows people to bring on new employees that might they might have been hesitant to bring on because of that increased training cost. So we're very thankful for that partnership. We are also

working with the city of Turlock and um workforce development on a business polling project. So you may have gotten a call if you're a business member. We're trying to identify womenowned businesses, veteranowned businesses, and get a little bit of background information about your business because when you fill out your business license, they take a very limited profile of you. And for us to be able to better assist you with grants and opportunities, we kind of need a bigger look at what you're doing in the community. Um, we have also been um hosting the streamline permitting entrepreneur cohort along with Stanos 2030 and the city which last cohort we had the largest coils ever had. We had 28 graduates, 32 participants, 28 graduates of which three opened their business in Turlock already here in Turlock from that um learning how to be an entrepreneur course that is absolutely free to you. And we also brought in multiple community grants like our hearing aid program and we currently have one for senior citizens um who need assistance paying for strength training. Um, and we continually look on our nonprofit side for ways to use community funding to uh increase business and economic development for current Sherlock businesses. And they are not necessarily chamber member businesses. It's just businesses that we feel could benefit. Um, since I came on, we've had um well, we had 58 as of um the end of the year. We've had 13 new members in the last 30 days. So, we've been very blessed in that way. Um, along with 24 chamber champions. And I always talk about our chamber champions when we talk in public. A chamber champion on the chamber foundation is a person who says the education of business owners is so important. I'm going to give a charitable donation towards that endeavor. And with those donations, we were able to make every class free last year either through partnership or through providing and that includes the meals, any supplies they would need to take that class. And that is thanks to those um partners. We also partner with the city to do anniversary celebrations and ribbon cutting. So if you're having a business anniversary and you don't know what to do, the first thing you're going to do is call the chamber. We help you coordinate with the city and with other elected officials. It's a free no

charge experience to go through. This year we're very blessed in that um in March we're going to be having the 85th anniversary of Paul's Glass and in uh April we have the 100th anniversary of Smith Chevrolet. But every anniversary whether it's that first year like you raise a baby and that first year is so important or your hundth year are important to us. So feel free to reach out at any time if that's something that your business would like to do. This is especially helpful for new businesses because when we worked in collaboration with the city to highlight a new business opening, it allows our community to see a bigger picture of what they offer without having to, you know, uh, look at a website that maybe isn't fully developed or or those sorts of things. Anytime we can help a local business start quickly, it increases their economic um, probability of getting to through that first year. That first year is the hardest year. Um, [clears throat] we have about 350 active members [snorts] at any given time. It varies up and down a little bit. Um, we offer a nonprofit membership, a traditional membership, and now we have one for individuals who have retired. Um, so you can add, you can join as an individual and help others. Uh we are very um excited that this year we were able to give out $53,000 in a scholarships and business scholarships and to do $20,000 worth of community support which is things like um helping the USD farm or helping the barnyard at the fairgrounds. And we um do that through the help of our business members. So we want to thank them for that. Uh total including the ATP grant we brought $700,000 worth of grant funding into Turlock. Um, and that's uh not a small number for a first year. Um, we set a really low goal and because of the increased partnership with the city, we've been able to uh go above and beyond that. We also had 15 free classes and educational panels and those are always a partnership. The one that I think got the most traction that you may have seen is small business week. Um, we did a whole slew of activities for um small business week. We'll also be doing women entrepreneurs week this year at

the chamber. Um, we have mixers and networking events every month. And, um, we have also taken on five student interns and have an open internship program at all times, including a program where any college student can come pitch an idea to the chamber and we'll help you launch it as an unpaid intern and then you get to own all of your data that you did in that time. So, it's a way for Stan State students and MJC students to work in their own community instead of out in the wild. Um, all right. We talked a little bit about the ribbon cutings and mixer events. This month's mixer is at Moxy's Credit Union. They're having a 10year anniversary on February 17th. And if that's a thing that you're like, I've always wanted to try one of those. That's a great one to step out. So, we're going to invite everybody today to come out. And Moxy's going to be like, oh my gosh, so many people. You just blow them out of the water. It's from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. It's a misnomer that you have to be a member of the chamber to join a business mixer. The thing we want the most is for our businesses to interact with other businesses and share that business amongst themselves and others. So, you can always come out and see what it's like. We had a request from the community to reopen regular standard business hours and always be open during the same time. So, we are open Monday through Friday from 9 to 1 and you can always come in. The doors unlocked. We've got a great receptionist at the front. We do appointments after 1:00. Um, and that's just so that we can go out and see you guys. We do a lot of walking with Anony's team from economic development and with other teams. We've walked four districts here in Turlock just in the last two months. Um, we also redid our website so that anybody in the community can go. That's our website at the bottom. You can search by topic now. So, if you're like, I'm looking for a plumber. You can just hit plumber. You don't have to know what plumber you're looking for. The old directory didn't allow us to do that. We have a team called ambassadors at the chamber. And so, if you don't know what a chamber does, you're unsure, you can go to any event. We have 21 individuals who've been trained to help you find resources in your community. Whether that's the small business development center access that we have at our our group, um government contracting, getting into a class, um you don't even know where to start. That's the most common one. I

don't even know where to start. That's their job is to get you to where to start or you can always call me. I did a wild and crazy thing and I put my personal cell phone number on my cards and on the website. So, I hope that you don't call me at 2 a.m. But if you have to, you can text me at 2 am. I'll get back to you in the morning. Um, we did bring back Leadership Turlock. We're working on that right now. We're taking applications to restart that because we had a lot of community requests. We're bringing in a community directory. We're working with the city and other partners to get um something we can hand out at hotels and things to encourage people to explore all of Turlock and get to see all of the different things that are available. And that will include a mapping service that will allow you to do things like where are places I can go with my kids? Where's places I can take my dog? Can I do a pub crawl? And it'll give you all of those things. Um, so we're working on that and we are doing a a few more nonprofit fundraisers than we used to do and that is um mainly because we feel very strongly that it's our job as a chamber of commerce to provide free educational opportunities for business owners and to make those resources readily available at all times. So, we're trying to do that process so that we can better serve our city and our community. We've been very very um honored um to walk alongside a lot of business owners and to help the city help you. Um when you call myself or you call Anthony or you call the city office, we will refer you to each other. So don't be alarmed if you're like, I don't know where to go. We're all on the same team. It's your team. We're a mirror of you. We're trying to give you what you can best have to have the most economic success in our community. Um, the purpose of our chamber more than any other thing is to show the best part of you, not ourselves. So, this was a really strange presentation because if you had let me have 20 minutes, I would have come here and told you about the best businesses I'm looking at right now and what they could do for you. Um, but we are um always available for questions. All of the things you saw in the last year that our chamber did, all of the great footage that you're seeing through the city, those are all things

that got brought to us through community requests. Anthony and I are having a conversation now about doing some coffee sessions out in the community. So, you can come bring us ideas, but you can come at any time and bring either of us an idea and reach out. Um, and we will do our best either on the chamber side or on the city side to work together to help you have an successful experience. I did put my office number on this slide, though I haven't completely lost my mind, so my cell phone number will not be in the packet, but this is how to contact me if you have questions. You can also follow us at Turlock Chamber on Instagram. We announce all of our free classes there. So, it's a great place to go to get the link to sign up for any class that we've offered. Um, and then we also share the city's classes, the county's classes, the SBDC, the Small Business Development Center, and the SBA. So, you can get all of those classes just through that one site instead of having to follow all of them individually. And that was probably the fastest that I could give a chamber presentation, but if you if the council has any questions or anything they'd like to know about the chamber this year,

um the mascot, Bear Bear, which you guys are going to adopt tonight, I would love to take home another dog, but my two dogs who were also rescues are not as friendly as Bear Bear, so you guys should take home that one. Um I took the one that no one else wanted that eats the walls. So, [clears throat] okay, no questions. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me. [applause] Okay, now is time set aside for public participation which is uh within our subject matter for the city council and you're allowed three minutes. There's a timer here and I have three cards. The first one being uh PG&E,

right? Gear Road's going to be perfect, right? You guys going to help us? You got to pay for it. [snorts]

Yes. Anything that we break, we will replace first and foremost. Uh and we will do a good job coordinating with city staff to make sure that we are one communicating future work, but two coming up with a good restoration plan so that three, residents don't um come to their city council members and their mayor with complaints about the work that's going to be happening. So, our commitment is to do a better job of um coordinating with uh the team here on that. So, wanted to come before you tonight to bring your attention to an email that I sent out uh late in December regarding an announcement that the company made that for the fourth time in two years, we're reducing uh residential customer rates on the electric front, but also on the gas front. Customers should see between a three and 5% dip um in their bills over the course of the next several months. Um this is due to some of our cost recoveries coming off the bill. Uh but we hope that this is only the beginning of an effort to uh continue to bring bills down uh streamline our processes, renegotiate third party contracts in order to uh do a better job on the affordability front. We all talk about affordability and uh we want to definitely put our money where our mouth is. So, uh, would love to come back, uh, before the council later on during the year to give a presentation about the work that we're doing here in the community, um, and, uh, some other key company updates and, uh, advocacy priorities for us this year. So, thank you very much.

Thank you. I appreciate BG working with us so closely. Uh, Frank Salvar, Random Max right here. [snorts] I should have brought mine. I got the perfect color.

I have at home. [clears throat] Anyway, my name is Frank Selort. Um, I'd like to thank the mayor and the council for letting me have an opportunity to come here and speak to you on behalf of the Turtle Firefighters random act of kindness. In behalf of the Turlock firefighters random act of kindness, we uh we want to sincerely thank our community for the uh incredible support shown in the recent crab he crab feed that we just had recently. Uh with more than 500 people that attended the event, uh it was a great event. uh if you didn't go uh maybe next year. Uh but at the event uh we did it we did very well and uh we had a lot of support from the people that attended. It was a very good night. Events like this remind us how fortunate we live and to serve our community and who shows up gives back and supports one another. Since the beginning of the Turlock Fighters Local 2434 random act of kindness, we have contributed more than uh $210,000 back to the community. Uh that's not counting the uh pink t-shirt drive that we did a while back. That's another 200,000 that we did that. Um in the random county, we could be more than that dollar amount directly back to the Turlock community. Every dollar raise stays in Turlock. Now, when we say Turlock, we know when we do our annual boot drive, which is held in May. Um there's other people that outside the area that you know that come to Turlock and they shop they donate. So when we say Turlock we're also consider also um the local community as well like let's say Hillmar Daire Keys anybody that was in the area surrounding Turlock uh we feel that they come and they support our fundraisers and and our boot drive that you know we should support them as well. Okay. Through these efforts, we have been able to assist local families in many meanings uh including purchasing beds, backpacks, car seats for children

who otherwise would not have received any. Uh without support community events like Turlock, uh we also support the Christmas parade. Uh the most re recently we had donated 29 stop signs. I don't know if you have seen the the crossing guards uh throughout our community who uh take care of our kids that come to school and walk them across the street. Um they had stop signs that they use some of them uh but we really felt that they we needed to upgrade those for them and so now they light up. They're LED. Uh they flash. Uh you can see them as you drive by and I know you can see them from far away on these froggy nights that we had recently. Um, none of this would be uh without possible without the continued support of our residents, local businesses, volunteers, community partners. Thank you for showing and allowing us to continue support these events. We'd like to thank the Turlock uh our council, our staff to make this happen and stuff. So, without you guys, this could never happen. So, we just like to thank our community.

Thank you. Wow. Three minutes. Wow.

Thank you. All right, it's time for the Turlock Library. Good evening. I'm Karina Mendoza and I am the librarian at the Turlock Library. Um, let's see. I call this my busy time. So, right now we have started um our free AARP tax aid. Um so, every Wednesday from 12:00 to 3 um ARP tax aid volunteers are doing taxes for free at the library. You don't have to be a member of ARP. You don't have to be retired. You don't have to have there's no age restrictions. Anyone can get their taxes done for free. Um it's all walk-ins. There's no appointments. Um it's a very popular event. Um, I encourage if to kind of get the word out, let people know they can get their taxes done for free. And then on Saturday the 21st at 11, we have a special uh guest, Scott Athetherton, our local historian, is going to be doing his presentation that he's done over at the Carnegie. Um, it's the depression era turlodian culture during the 1930s. So, if you missed that one, it was a part one and part two. This is kind of be like the greatest hits of the 30s. Um, I encourage you all to come. Um, we did the 1920s last year. We had over a 100 people show up. Um, so we are anticipating a large crowd. U, we are doing kind of like a free tickets 30 minutes prior just to make sure we don't exceed room capacity. Um, but we do have a plan B for overflow in case we do exceed that because we want as much people to know about their local history. And then we have uh refreshments provided prior to the event. So that way if you get there at 10:30, there'll be some coffee, some snacks. That way you can kind of mingle.

Um and that's all sponsored by our friends of library group. If you have not heard of our friends of library group, they're a powerhouse of volunteers that have raised a ton of money for us. They basically sponsor all of our programs and they also have a free oh not a free um they have a little used bookstore inside the library. So, um it's like $2 for a hardback. These books are like in brand new condition. Um a dollar for a paperback. And they're currently having a special. So, they're doing half off non-fiction books. So, if you're in the market for some good history books, it's a dollar. You can't like beat that. Like they have a an amazing selection. Highly recommend. Stop by all this week for their sale. And then, of course, we have Every Kids program every Tuesday at 4. Uh we have two programs going on continuously so that way the littles can have their program and our twins can have their own program. So if you haven't stopped by I highly encourage you to come visit. Maybe not tomorrow between 12 and 3 because our parking lot gets full. And thank you.

Thank you.

All right. I do not have any more uh cards, but if anyone wishes to speak just come on up. Hello, good evening everybody. Evening Turlockians. My name is Mike Barco. Uh I live at Lexington Place in Turlock. Uh the reason why I'm here today is because uh the reason why I initially came to the city of Turlock building department was to get assistance with illegal repairs at the property that we live on. We live on a multif family property. There's 27 units there. We have a wall that goes around the entire property. We've had illegal repairs there have occurred over and over and over again on three separate occasions. [clears throat] My job is a uniform physical condition standards inspector. That's my job. This is what I do. My job is to see deficiencies in real estate and report them to the proper people. And that's what I've done to the city. I've let I've notified you guys. You guys all aware of what's been going on. And for some reason, there hasn't been action taken to make the to fix the problem. And it's put me in a situation where I've had to suffer the consequences where I have to shut down my business and focus on this. And you guys know I've been diligent following up with you guys constantly. I came to a couple meetings back in September and October and I asked the last word that came out of my mouth before I left this podium was help. I need help with this. You guys have refused to help. The mayor knows about this. We're supposed to go to our district representative. My district representative is Erica Phillips. But Ash was trying to help me. I was told that I can no longer no for no one to respond to me. And if I need to speak to anyone needs to speak to the attorney. So, I I started speaking directly with the attorney and I haven't gotten my answers addressed. I I sent those questions out over four weeks ago. You told me in November you were going to uh to start uh speaking with you. I did. I wasn't getting answers. So, I sent you a list of specific questions over four weeks ago and I followed up with you a couple days ago and I still haven't got answers to those questions or what the plan is or a welcome. Come inside. Let's have a conversation. Let's meet. Everyone's avoiding me, saying, "Let's have a let's all get together and sit down with the inspectors and and the

building head and the uh development head. Let's sit down and talk about it. Everyone's avoiding it for some reason." Why? Well, there's some kind of corruption going in my opinion. That's the honest truth. That's what I've seen. The reason I'm saying this is because the the repairs that were made were illegal repairs. The people that were hired to make the repairs were not licensed contractors. Anything that's over $1,000, you need to get a licensed contractor to do that work. You can't just hire a laborer to do the work. That happened three times, three separate years. I told you guys about the first time. It happened the second time, a third, and you guys are aware about what was going on the whole time. No one stepped into and the police were involved. Every single time the police were involved. So these were police reports, too. So you guys communicate between the police and the building department. You guys know the stuff's going on. But you're allowing your tenants to get abused. There's nine buildings there. Eight out of those nine buildings. People that own them, they don't they're not even from Turlock. They're from out of the county. So you guys are allowing people from out of the county to come and landlord basically scamlord the residents of Turlock and a good human being like myself who's a school teacher who's an inspector who's doing good for the public is getting hurt and now I'm at the point where I've gotten eviction notice I have to move out because I'm reporting these issues to the Turlock and you guys aren't doing anything about it. So now they're they're punishing me basically because I'm saying hey this needs to be fixed and they're not fixing it. When you have holes in the wall, when you have a privacy wall, you have a stuckle wall and you have holes in that wall, water goes inside that wall, you get pest infest, rodent infestation in there, that's heavily bill issues. The city is responsible for handling those issues. And when you come to the city, you don't do it, it's negligent to the city.

Anyone else? You know, mayor, I could respond briefly. You're allowed to under the Brown Act, but

sure. just I'll say we spent more time on this issue in 2025 than any other single issue I know about you know in terms of of getting something now we did have a um contract building official who passed away you know late you know late last year and so um I anyway I I could go on and on but I I am satisfied that it's been uh attended to and then it ended up in my office and um I sent an email today, I think, you know, saying I would deal with it, you know, later in the week, you know, after I I looked at one new piece of information. So, that's all I wanted to say. Thank you. Uh, Congressman Gray's office.

Well, good evening, Mayor, Council, City of Turlock. My name is Carth Prasad here on behalf of Congressman Adam Gray. And, uh, I think for the second time this year, my joyful attitude is uh, well earned this time. [laughter] As last week, Congressman Gray has secured over $16 million in direct funding for projects uh throughout our district. Um through the recently passed appropriations package, which includes funding for 15 projects. Um and this was all after a pretty competitive application process. Information on the projects funded can be found on our website, gray.house.gov, and folks are more than welcome to reach out to our office directly. Give us a call, head over at 602 West 20th Street in Merced, and we'd love to share details. Um, there will be another opportunity to apply for community project funding this spring. Our office will begin accepting applications as soon as the appropriations committee issues guidance on this year's process, which usually happens um middle of February, but can be as late as March. And we love to assist the city of Turlock in um securing funding for any community projects as we were able to secure funding for every project we submitted, which I mean that's incredible for a time when the federal government is um a little tight on the purse strings. So, we I mean it's an incredible win for us. We're extremely proud of it and uh we want to be sure to get as much funding for projects in our community as possible. The whole reason we're in Washington is to help improve infrastructure in our communities and we want to assist in any way we can. Um alongside all of that, Representative Gray has signed onto a letter with Representatives Costa, Valido, and Fong asking Governor Nuomo to modernize operations of California's water systems. The congressman continues to co-lead the precise act bill that makes loans more readily available for precision agriculture technology and has co-sponsored HR2598 the idea full funding act which is a biccameal bill that enforces the full funding of the individuals with disabilities act which passed in 1975 which establishes a federal commitment for special education and currently that pledge has not been met. So this is a

bipartisan bill with a lot of support across the aisle. So, it's been a very very busy new year for us and it's only going to get more busy as the year goes on and uh we're very very thankful that the uh city has been such good communication with us on a whole lot of things. So, thank you. And as always, if anyone's got any issues with the federal government, which I'm sure there are many, don't hesitate to send them over to our office. Thank you. Anyone else? Milt.

Good evening, Milt Tree. I'd like to acknowledge I was mistaken at the last council meeting when I thought the consent calendar was not voted on. It was voted on. I have a couple questions for staff. When what did the trip that Mayor Blue took to Washington DC on January se 27th cost the taxpayers a turlock and what account paid for these extent uh expenses? I want to talk about Senate Bill 707 which was passed last year on October 3rd, 2025. Senate Pool 707 was signed by Governor Nuome, which will bring changes to the public agency meeting meetings beginning this year. It's intended to diversify the and increase public engagement and also modernize the Brown Act by recognizing and reflecting technological changes. SB77 restructures and adds new requirements of the Brown Act for remote participation by meetings in meetings at by both members of the legislative body and members of the public. Some of the changes to the Brown Act are remote members must participate using both audio and video technology. Remote members must disclose whether any other individual over the age of 18 are present in the room in their remote locations. The bill will allow the public to participate in the way it did during the co pandemic and that's going to be wonderful. Uh something else that um must be overcome we must always be concerned about is that Stannislas County of Government's policy board terminated executive director employment Modesto California special meeting held on August 6, 2025. The Stannislas County Council of Government's policy board voted 90 to terminate the employment of executive director Rosa D. Leon Park effectively immediately. Miss D. Leon Park has been a paid administrative leave since June 2025. The termination was made for cause and she will not be entitled to any severance. From the Turlock Journal report, it said Park allegedly

uh tapped into taxpayers money for personal use. She drove premium rental vehicles almost non-stop for three and a half years. She stayed at luxury hotels, took first class flights, and rented a pontoon boat. all on public money, according to a recent grand jury report. And a mysterious change to the vacation policy, doubling her annual vacation from 5 to 10 weeks allowed her to cash out without vacation she didn't use. This may have enriched her personal bank account by more than $55,000, the grand jury said. The next subject I want to talk about is today's US unemployment is 4.4%. During the great recession of 2008 2009, it went up to 10%. Predictions of US unemployment following full robotic AI adoption are widely ranging from moderately transitory increases to structural rates of 10 to 47% with many experts warning of potential double-digit permanent high unemployment. Here's a breakdown of the key projections of insights regarding the future Saran. I will continue. Uh,

anyone else? I will continue this at a later meeting. It's important we don't anyone else. Okay, we will close public comment and move on to city manager report and updates. [clears throat]

Um, I'm going to ask uh the clerk to speak to the Brown Act and all the work we're preparing, right? Uh, just I think it would be good for people to know about that because she's up to her ears in that.

Uh yes. So, we've been informed um we've been um up to date probably about since October tracking this bill moving through the system. So, we're actively working with the IT department um to get the CH council chambers ready um to host that audio and video um accessibility. We're also working with the legal department to make sure that we are in compliance with the Brown Act in accordance to um what that means for the members of the public, what that means for staff. Um, so we are actively working, we are tracking and we are on progress to meet the July 1 deadline.

Thank you. I just I know that's really important to people and I wanted you to know that lots of steps in that process. Um, a couple uh pieces of news. Smashburger opened and they had burgers in the office yesterday. I unfortunately had to go a different direction, but they smelt good.

Um, and I'm sure we'll be back for a visit. Um, many of you have listened to us report on HCD, the housing element. We're getting closer by the moment and um, we've turned in another iteration and they've sent it back to us and I wish I could tell you when it was going to be over, but uh, we're getting close. Um, I you've heard me talk about um, leadership and we had some senior leadership training uh, this I don't even know quarter. Is it winter, fall? I don't even know where we are, but we did a training for mid-level leaders um that uh Jesse and HR worked with us and we worked with a group called leader.gov trying to um really grow leaders internally and provide opportunities for them as well. Um I did want to say that today I signed I think it was the very last one uh the very last housing document that got the city out of the housing business. We have had five houses. One we bought in 2021, one was in 2020 or the rest were in 2023 and they have been sitting empty. Um they three of them went to first-time home buyers. They were rehabbed and went to first-time home buyers. Two went to nonprofits and uh we were never meant to be landlords in in that business. So, uh, a great deal of appreciation to the staff and to Jim Ty, uh, realy who helped us move those, um, move those along. Um, lots of questions about why I'm stepping down as city manager. I have had a great time at Turlock. You know, I had a great time at Stan State. And, uh, I say this, I I tell the city council this. I have a pile of grandkids, um, nine of them, eight boys, and a group of them came up here when I was at Stan State. They're down in Newport Beach. And the

5-year-old will say to me, "Nana, when do we get to come back to Turlock to visit?" Because it's so cool there, and the people are so nice. So, that is one of the fringe benefits of my uh time being here. And I will continue to work in the deputy role as we transition uh to a new city manager. But I have to tell you, I I would be remiss. So much uh goes on here and we often hear about the tough stuff, but there is so much good so many good things that go on in the city that the staff and the that work for the city make happen every single day and in the face of some of the really uh less than exciting stuff. So, um I just want to give kudos to the group of people who make that stuff happen all the time. Um, and just because it's important to me that, you know, they used to tell us if somebody said something, ignore it because um, you know, it'll it'll go by the wayside. But not with social media. So, it's important to me for those of you in the room and those of you who listen that we do take citizen complaints seriously. They don't always go the way that people wish they would. We're not sometimes responsible for managing what somebody doesn't like. But I just want to go on the record to say that we were at uh Mr. Barco's home. Myself as a city manager, the council woman was with me. Uh Captain Rodriguez, the director of building and a building official, um we were all on site. And so while the outcome isn't uh what would be liked, I just it's important for me for you to know that we do respond to those things. We're not always perfect at it. Um, but we will always do what we can to respond to the citizens of Turlock. That said, thank you uh for allowing me to uh play in this playground with you and I look

forward to the next uh several weeks as we uh transition leadership. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, consent calendar. Uh we have uh all of this listed and you can get it outside or on the agenda. If anyone wishes to speak regarding an item on the agenda, you have one minute. Uh please come up and tell us which one and what your issue is. It's open to the public right now. Okay. kept staring at

this does uh this does uh respond to the consent calendar because last week I made our last meeting I made a mistake on that but the city attorney announced at that meeting that the speaking time for any item on the consent calendar is three minutes and I just heard it stated as one minute and I referred to the city attorney because that's what he told us at the last meeting. I at all the other meetings I've ever attended, whether they're anywhere in this county, it's always the same time as the presentation time at the presentation time. It's three minutes here. So, the consent calendar should be three minutes. This is a democracy. It's not a dictatorship and we need to have some good things happening here. I'm not seeing that. And that's sad. That's very sad here in Turlock that we don't have that. So, thank you. And

[snorts] uh please change that so it's not one minute, it's actually three minutes. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak on the consent item? Closing clarify. Let me just close public comment first. Thank you. All right. Now go ahead.

Sorry, I was jumping there. You were very good. So uh the change was this is the council's agenda. So the council makes the decision on the items on the agenda. the consent calendar is brought forward and they are deemed routine items. So there is a one minute period if the public wants to speak on the consent uh calendar any items you want to to make your pitch about maybe why it should be pulled off the consent agenda and considered as a regular item essentially you know removed from the consent agenda. Once that is done, the normal rules apply. The three minutes applies to the item if the item is removed from the consent agenda. So, I hope that clarifies it.

All right. Thank you. So, motion to approve the consent calendar as written. Second. Have a motion to second. Will you call the role, please? Council member Abram. Yes. Council member Bixel. Yes. Vice Mayor Monet. Yes. Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor Bill Black. Yes. Pass on a 5-0. Thank you. Final readings. None. Public hearing 10A. We are continuing a um moratorum. Mr. Petrolis.

Uh we are as you will recall a mayor and council and the public on January 13th the city council adopted an urgency ordinance to declare a temporary moratorum on new smoke shop retailers either new ones expanded of existing or relocation of existing. Uh that initial moratorum is good for 45 days. The statute allows it to be extended for 10 months and 15 days which is what our recommendation is uh tonight to extend the moratorum for that period of time. It won't take that amount of time to work through the permanent ordinances. Uh they are a bit complex. Basically it looks like staff will be recommending two items to you. Um some revisions to the zoning ordinance in article nine of your u municipal code. I'm sorry, title title nine of your municipal code. And then also there'll be new provisions in title five, which are public welfare, morals, and conduct, which will create a um a permitting system essentially for smoke shops. So, actually, your planning commission heard the zoning part of it last Thursday night and has made a recommendation on it. The title five items are going to take a little more time and that's why we'd like you to pass this extension tonight. And I'm happy to answer any questions.

Questions for Okay, we'll open it to the public. Anyone wishing to speak on this item? Closing public comment. Move to approve 10A. Second. Second. Motion in a second. Call the role. Council member Abram. Yes. Council member Bixel. Yes. Vice Mayor Mes. Yes. Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor Bill Black. Yes. Passes on 50. Thank you. 11A. Action item. We have uh parks, arts, recreation commission approving some artwork.

Good evening, mayor, council, uh citizens, staff of Turlock. I'm going to introduce Officer Young to come up. Um he presented to us on November 14th a an application for public art for public artwork um to be at the public safety facility um for our process. We took that item to our parks, arts, and recreation commission um in November where I'll let him take over to give the the presentation. Um, and commission did approve it unanimously and so it's coming forward to you guys for final consideration and approval and then we'll start the start the process from there. So, Officer Young, I'll let you take it away.

Madame Mayor, council, staff, members of the public. Uh, my name is Jacob Young. I'm here on behalf of the Turlock SWAT Association. We're a nonprofit 501c3 that was formed in 2018 uh to benefit the public and to kind of give the public more um visualness of members of our SWAT team. So, I'm going to talk about um kind of our association first and then the art project. Um so, we are a a nonprofit 501c3. Uh all of our money essentially goes right back into the city of Turlock. We do outreach, we do community events, we do scholarships, sponsor sports teams, uh you name it. Um I'm sure you've seen us at a lot of the downtown events and uh events at the public safety facility. Um last year alone, we donated over 25,000 back to the community um through uh the generous community that we live in. So this is the project. Um, the public safety facility has long served as a focal point each November for honoring our military uh members. So, at the south end of the public safety facility, as you guys have probably seen, at 244 North Broadway, you'll see all the military flags and a unique pedestal that's lit at nighttime. But missing from that pedestal, it seems incomplete. And so with numerous veterans in this community that are currently serving such as myself and many members at the police department um we thought it was meaningful time to change and enhance uh the front part of the public safety facility. So this is essentially what we are proposing since the inception uh of the public safety facility in 2013. We

thought okay we were unfortunately at war for the last 20 years so we wanted to have a modern service member. The actual statue will not be uh military service specific to honor all the branches like you guys saw earlier tonight. And so um essentially it will be positioned standing on on top of the current existing pedestal that's there facing in a northern direction towards the American flag. that's centered between the Carnegie Arts Center and the public safety facility. So essentially, this is kind of what it will look like. It's not to scale, and the statue is not currently uh facing north in that picture, but the picture on the left, as you can see, is what uh the statue would look like. The artist Broden Studios are out of Kimble, Minnesota. They have more than 40 years of experience. They've built many, many, many memorials um and statues throughout the country. So, they're a turnkey operation from design all the way to installation. They handle all of it. So, how are we going to fund it? Um we estimate it's about 50 or so thousands depending on the height of the statue if it's full size or three/4er scale. Um the SWAT association is prepared to donate a large chunk of that money. Uh we will seek donations through other veterans organizations and the public. Um our goal is to hope to have it funded at the end of this year and I would have to reach out to the artists. But hopefully the goal is Veterans Day in the future, hopefully 2027. That way we can honor all the folks that come out uh during Veterans Day. Um, like I said, as a veteran myself and member of the community, we respectfully request your approval on this project.

Any questions? Questions? Okay. Open it to the public. Anyone wishing to have a question? State. Okay. Close public comment. Move to approve. Second. All right. I think we just had a roll call there, but go ahead, Council Abram. Yes, Council Bixel. Absolutely. Yes. Vice Mayor Monet. Absolutely. Yes. Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor BL. Yes. 5. Thank you. Thank you for bringing that project forward for our service members. [snorts] Okay. We got something else going here. We're going to accept some money from T. Yeah. I know, right?

Get all nervous coming. can just add a zero should be 580,000. Is that what they're going to give us?

Good evening, Mayor Bublack, members of the council. Tonight I'm bringing uh forward an update on Montana Park phase 2 project along with an action item to authorize the city manager to execute a grant agreement with truck irrigation district in the amount of $58,845 for city project 23042 Montana park phase 2. I'll begin with project update and then I'll conclude with the action. Uh Montana Park this is phase one. This is kind of how we started. We started with the green field. Um we planted um transforming the former green field into a community open play area um and used featured a walking path and seating for public use. So um this is what the project site plan looks like. It was designed with input from through five community meetings that were held in multiple occasions uh way back in 2019. The park includes a fitness area, covered picnic areas, a multisport court, basketball courts, playgrounds, and drought tolerant landscaping. Um, you know, looking at the aerial view. I'm sorry, one ahead of you. Um, this kind of goes where they're going. So, we're going to have the playground area. There'll be a parking lot below that. Um, basketball courts, pickle ball courts, and multisport areas. And I'll try to go through all of these really quickly. But, give you kind of the idea of the expansion. Um, it's going to more than double the size of the existing park. Um, and which will bring a lot of um, really nice amenities to it. And I hope the green sections show up pretty good in the next two. So, the first STR stop we're going to talk about is a playground and fitness amenities. Um, we will have both ADA accessible playgrounds and an outdoor fitness area. The playground will incorporate a solid surface instead of the the engineered playground fiber that we have in most of our parks. This will really improve the access and the long-term durability for our ADA resident. Um, the next spot we'll be talking about will house the basketball courts. It'll consist of two full courts and four half courts. Right below that, there will be nine pickle

ball courts. And right below that there will be a there will be two multisport courts providing flexible spaces for multiple sports and really community uh recreation. Talk a little bit about the project funding. The total project costs is estimated for Montana Park phase 2 is approximately 4.6 million. Um the city of Turlock has secured significant grant funding including 2.4 million through the 2018 park bonds act statewide park development and community revital revitalization grant program. In addition to those officer um office of Senator Alvarado Gil secured another 435,000 for the project and supervisor Kza secured an additional 150,000. Coming back to the action before you tonight um the staff is requesting authorization to accept an additional grant. Um, and that grant is from T. Oops, I messed that up and I don't know how to move that, but we basically applied for that in December and we were notified in January that we are awarded um the grant funding and tonight the action we'll cover at the end. We'll cover all that. In terms of schedule, uh staff's developed the following preliminary timeline. Uh project anticipated to reach 100% design in the next month. Um we intend to advertise um and we're expecting that in April and we the construction could begin as early as this year. Um recognize the importance of this project to our community. Staff will also be hosting a community meeting to showcase the project, answer any questions and solicit feedback. That meeting is um planned for February 26th. So the action tonight is authorize the city manager to execute a grant agreement with Turlock Irrigation District to accept 58,845 and grant funding for the city project 23042 Montana Park phase 2. Adopt a resolution amending the fiscal year 2526 budget to reflect 58,845 in grant revenue and fund 269 parks and

public grant public facilities grants appropriate the same amount in corresponding uh project expenditures. This action will allow the city to formally accept and utilize the grant award funds and looking forward to seeing everyone at the community meeting. That concludes my presentation, be happy to answer any questions. Questions? Just since you put a plug for it, uh do you tentatively know where that community meeting will be? It will be right here in this room.

Okay. I just would like to suggest that perhaps something more in the district local for the folks who are going to live around there and utilize it the most. Um I think that might increase the access and and avail a availability for people to come. Last time we did it at the park, but whatever. Mr. Fisher, can you just say one more time how many pickle ball courts are going into my park? There will be nine. Nine pickle ball courts. Nine pickle ball courts. Okay. Brad Bates asked for this update and he's not even here tonight. So when he comes back in a meeting or two, he better be watching. Nine pickle ball courts in the park. Thank you, sir. [snorts] Appreciate all your hard work. Thank you for getting the update back to us so quickly. No problem.

Okay, let's open it to the public. Anyone wishing to speak on this item? Okay, we will close public comment. Bring it back. Move to approve. Second. Have a motion to second. Call the role. Council member Abram. Yes. Council member Vixel. Yes. Vice Mayor Mones. Yes. Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor Black. Yes. Pass on 5-0. Thank you. You're not going to get a standing o though because I mean, sorry. We'll do it for T. Just kidding. All right. Next one is appointing Calpur Retirement Annuitant Gary Hampton as inim city manager pursuant to the CalPur requirements director Dammy.

Good evening, mayor, city council, members of the public, city staff. My name is Jesse DMI. I'm the HR director with the city. The item before you is appointing and employing CalPER's retired annuitant Gary Hampton as interim city manager effective February 11th, 2026. City staff has have initiated an open recruitment related to this um city manager vacancy. Mr. Hampton would be appointed to serve as interim city manager based on specialized skills he possesses and which are needed in performing the duties of the position. Mr. Hampton will be placed on step five of the existing salary city manager salary schedule with an hourly rate of $129.38. Mr. Hampton may only be appointed once to the city interim city manager position as Kalpers's annuitant and shall not exceed 960 hours of service per fiscal year. Mr. Mr. Hampton shall not receive any other benefits, incentive, compensation in lie of benefits or other form of compensation in addition to the hourly pay rate. Mr. Hampton service as interim city manager shall be terminated upon the hiring of a candidate to the city manager position. During the time Mr. Hampton service as interim city manager, section 4.3.6 Six, employment of relatives, anti- neepotism policy and conflict of interest living arrangements relating to city employment of the personnel system rules and regulations for the city of Turlock shall not be applicable to the intram city manager and/or the intram city manager relatives. With that said, I am happy to answer any questions regarding this staff report.

Questions? Director Dammy, just for the public's edification and so we're clear, Mr. Hampton or whoever it is. In this case, it's Mr. Hampton, but whoever would be coming back as a Cal's 96 Calpers 960 annuant, they don't get holiday pay. They don't get sick pay. They don't get vacation pay. They get the straight hourly wage for the hours that they work. That is correct. Okay. And in addition, they don't get benefits. They don't get medical. They don't get vision. They don't get dental. He He gets nothing. Nothing except an hourly rate of pay at step five. Yes. Thank you. You're going to talk him out of it. Hey, I'm just wanted to be clear for everybody. All right, we'll open it to the public. Anyone wishing to speak on this item.

Okay, that's good news to hear. Uh, despite what I was saying earlier, a couple years ago when I did come to get help from Turlock, he was actually one of the first people to help me. And when I mentioned it, he came out from the back and we came and we sat across each other and he asked me what was going, I explained it to him and he asked me for my business card and my information. I gave it to him. Unfortunately, shortly after he was no longer with the city, but from my own personal experience of trying to deal with the same issue we're dealing with a couple years later, he's a good man, good American. So, it's good to hear him to bring him back to help get us to the next phase of E2B. So, thank you. Anyone else? Okay, we close public comment. Move to approve. Second. Motion in a second. Call the role, please. Council member Abram, yes. Council member Bixel, yes. Vice Mayor Mes, yes. Council member Phillips, yes.

Mayor Bill Black, yes. passes on a 5-0 director. Next one. Yes. The next item is a resolution approving an employment agreement between the city Turlock and Gary Hampton as interim city manager. Happy to answer any questions, questions. All right. Open it to the public. I just covered all the money part. Closing public comment. Move to approve. Second. Motion a second. Call the role, please. Council member Abram. Yes. Council member Bixel. Yes. Vice Mayor Mendes? Yes. Council member Phillips. Yes. Mayor Buck. Yes. Passes on a 5-0. Thank you, director. All right. Council comments, announcements, and future items. Council member Aver. Council member Bixel. Vice Mayor.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you to the Turlock Police Department SWAT team. That was a really special agenda item to come forward tonight and I'm so happy to see it. I wanted to have a comment earlier when we were presenting our military banners to our family because I wanted to thank the family members of the service members. For those of you that have been in the military formerly or currently or if you have a parent or a child or a spouse that's a member in the military, you know good and well that the whole family serves when one person in the family is in the military because that's part of it. So, my thanks to all of those service members that we honored in here tonight and the family members that support them so that they can go out and serve our country. SWAT team, I can't thank you enough for bringing that up.

Yes, sir. Can I take back my note? Yes. Let's take a No. Okay. No. I I just want to publicly thank Sue for everything she's done. um she brought um a a nice rudder to the ship and just want to let you know how much we appreciate that. Same thing. I just want to say thank you to Sue. Um the times I talk to you, I always let you know how awesome you're doing. So, um I appreciate all that you've done for the city.

And on that, thank you for the housing part getting those houses were just sitting there vacant. I mean, you jumped on that stuff. you worked with the the state too. I mean, it's that's just one of the very many things you've done and we'll we'll itemize them on another date so that we can go over each iteration everything she's done. Um, for the sake of everyone, I on the last agenda it said I was in DC. Um, I go to the US mayor's conference and I go and I beg for money. So, I met with the senator's offices, the congressmen, department of justice, transportation, um asking for money for water meters, sewer, uh getting the railroads tucked out, tugged out of the the west side of our our city so that we can actually fix our roads over there. Um everything you can think of. I even spoke with Quake again. They were up there for the firefighters helmets talking about the the new things that are happening with that. Um, I'm I'm there for us and I usually bring us back money. It's probably the first time this last year we didn't get it, but we've got millions of dollars before and I'm already ahead of anybody else because I already did it while I was there this last time. So, it's not a party. It was freaking cold and uh thank you for uh saying that it's unethical and I'm just there to suck off the te of the city. I really appreciate that. That's just wonderful. Anyhow, um also just wanted you to know that Hope Church had a grand opening for a uh basketball court that the Reed family put together out there. Super cool. They are going to draw a couple more things. Wait for it. They'll make it a pickle ball court as well on the west side. So, uh really really neat little uh moment there. And so, the west side has some more opportunities. Always love that. Um with that, we do not have close session. So, we will move to adjournment.

Uh, we don't. What happened to I don't see it. No, I do see it. My bad. Wrong one. Do we have possession? Yes. We have 13A. Conference of legal council anticipated litigation California government code 5495692. Potential cases too. All right. We'll report out should there be something.

All right. And we are back.