City Council - Regular Meeting

We are going to start this meeting. Thank you to IT. Very good job. This is a regularly scheduled meeting. If you will 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 Okay. Gotta love technology. Okay. Roll call and conflicts of interest, please.

Council Member Abram. Here and none. Council Member Bixle.

Here and none.

Vice Mayor Moniz. Here and none. Council Member Phillips. Here and none. Mayor Buble.

Here and none. Okay. Approval of agenda as posted or amended. So moved. Second. Motion and a second. Call the roll, please.

Councilmember Abram. Yes. Councilmember Bixle. Yes. Vice Mayor Monette. Yes. Councilmember Phillips. Yes.

Mayor Bivlak. Yes. Passes on a 5-0. Okay. Now we've got a proclamation. Mr. Seurat.

I know you don't work for us anymore, so you don't have to come up.

So last time you got sick or something and couldn't come, were you in San Francisco messing around like when I saw you and you told me you're retiring? That's terrible. All right, so this is in honor of the retirement of Martin Serrato. He was hired by the city of Turlock as a street maintenance worker one on December 16th, 1994. More than 31 years of dedicated service to the city and its residents. Martin was promoted to maintenance worker two after his first year and continued in that role throughout his distinguished career and contributed to the safety and quality of life of the community. He earned the respect of his colleagues through his experience, dependability, strong work ethic, and willingness to support others. Upon his retirement on September 2nd, he leaves a lasting legacy of honorable service and dedication to the city of Turlock. Now, therefore, I, Amy Bublak, by the authority vested in me as mayor and our entire city council and the residents that you served, we are so happy that you are getting this opportunity to be with your family and your grandchildren. And we appreciate every bit of time you spent with the city of Turlock. You are family. Thank you so much. Thank you. And I was told you won't speak, is that correct? Yeah, okay, got it. Very sad, I'll see you in San Francisco another time though. All right, we have civic engagement remarks from the 2026 Turlock Mellon Carnival pageant contestants, which I think you all can see they have their sashes on. So who's going to start? Well, you guys don't have sashes. I don't know if you can talk, Laurie.

So good evening, Mayor, Council, staff, and public. Lori Smith with the Turlock Historical Society Museum. I'd like to take this opportunity to invite everyone to join us for the third annual Turlock Melon Carnival, and it's taking place September 19th and 20th in downtown Turlock. The carnival kicks off on Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. and continues on Sunday from 10 to 5. The event will take place on East Main between Golden State and Palm, and admission is free. This year we partnered with the market Turlock and we're excited to welcome more than 80 vendors. Throughout the weekend enjoy watermelon and cantaloupe eating contests, cornhole competitions, dancers from the community, delicious food, games, live music featuring hometown favorites like making noise, neon radio and the vibe. We'll also feature some longtime traditions, the Miss Melon Pageant and the Kitty Caper Parade, two wonderful traditions. And last but not least, we'd like to extend a huge thank you to the city of Turlock for making this possible through the TOT grant. We appreciate it.

And now to talk about our girls and what they're going to be doing here today. Like I said last week, but for those of you who didn't hear, We did change our Melon Carnival pageant to be more than just a beauty pageant for Turlock, but to be an ambassador program for young women in the community. Our main focus is civic-mindedness, how to be a strong, respectful leader in our community, with a huge emphasis on that respectful part, because we could all have a loud voice and still do it respectfully. and really just encouraging the next generation in how to get involved, how to be leaders, and that it doesn't matter your age or how many years you've put into the community, you live here, you love it, you get a say. So our girls, the assignment for this has been that they would attend two city council meetings and they would only have to get up and speak at one of them. They either had to share something that they loved that Turlock is doing Something that they feel we could probably put a little bit more attention or focus on that's impassionate to them. Or they could comment on something they heard during the city council meeting. They all came prepared today, so they don't have to stay unless they want to talk about how great it is. And thank you for your service, Mr. Serato. They're welcome to do that as well. But they all have a voice. They're all excited to be here. And they all love how welcoming you guys have been for them. SO THEY DID FILL OUT THEIR LITTLE BLUE CARDS, AND MS. NICOLE HAS THOSE, SO SHE'S GOING TO CALL THEM UP JUST LIKE SHE WOULD FOR A NORMAL PUBLIC COMMENT. AND SO ARE YOU GUYS READY?

ALL RIGHT.

OKAY. OUR FIRST ONE IS NARINDER MANN.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

My name is Narendra Mann, and I'm here and honored to be a member of Miss Mellon 2026.

I'm truly grateful to be a part of Turlock. Turlock has given me many amazing friendships and many amazing opportunities. I wanted to talk about things that I love in Turlock. such as the farmers market and medical programs that you guys offer to high school students. I want to become a pediatric oncologist, and I'm truly grateful for programs such as EMT, CNA, HOSA, American Red Cross, which I'm an officer for at Pittman High School. These opportunities are great for high school students to learn about what we want to do in the future in the medical field, since there are so many career and different pathways. Though I think there's something we can improve on, I would love to see more opportunity in shadowing and volunteering for high school students. I'm 16 years old and I'm a senior, and it's kind of hard for me to find opportunities where I can shadow doctors or other physicians because of my age. And I would love if there was more opportunity for shadowing nurses, doctors, so I can get more in contact mentorship. And I also wanted to talk about the community we have here in Turlock. I was born in L.A., but I moved here at a pretty young age. And I can say I definitely love Turlock a lot more than L.A. L.A. and Turlock are quite different. I love the community we have here in Turlock, the bonds, the friendship, such as going to the farmer's market, traditions such as Miss Melon and Miss Melon pageants. So I'm truly grateful, and thank you so much.

Next we have Charlotte.

Hi, my name is Charlotte.

Hi, my name is Charlotte, and I just want to talk about the farmer's market, how you brought it to Turlock.

I just love how you did the Turlock farmer's market, and I love how...

There's kids area and fruits for everybody. And I just love the farmer's market and the parades. It allows us to do the streets. I just love the community. And I think the farmer's market brings everybody closer together. I just love when you do the farmer's market bringing everybody closer.

Good job, Charlotte.

Next, we have Isabella.

Hello, my name is Isabella Kilbride. I'm running for Miss Teen. Hello, the Council of City. I wanted to come on here and talk about how I love this community. I wasn't born here. I was born in Modesto. I moved here After living in the Bay Area for quite some time, and once I moved here, I found it very easy to get along with the community. I love how you guys share such big community events and have everybody pitch in, such as vendors, places, fundraisers. Everybody has a say in what they want to do and what they want to be for the city. I love how you guys are so accepting of that. One thing I do think in the community that we could improve, though, is our roads. I hear a lot of complaint about that. And I do understand that is not just something you can fix overnight. But I feel since our community is such well bent together, such as events that we can create, such as the parade or the farmer's market, we can also pitch in on the roads and all have a say on what we want to improve in our roads. Because I feel like that's something everybody uses every single day. even just to get here. So that's one thing I wanted to say. Thank you for letting me speak.

Next, we have Maddie S. Hi, my name is Maddie.

And last time I was here, I talked about what I think should be improved. Now I'm here to talk about what I think is... Wait, sorry. What I think is great about Turlock. First, the flowers and the trees, just nature, because it causes cool, relaxing evenings at the park. And I appreciate the Turlock City workers that keep the trees green and the flowers watered. I love the parades, especially the Christmas parade. I also appreciate the people who work hard to keep the roads clean and safe.

Amara Maldonado.

Yeah, come on. She's got it.

Hi, my name is Amora. I want to talk about the park. I love my dog. I want to go with my family. She's black, a little bit yellow. I think that's all.

Next is Scarlet.

Hi, my name is Scarlett Stout, and I would like to talk about how much great things you've made in Turlock to make it my favorite town. First, I like all of the things you add to make it great, like all the parks and all the houses and everything, all the stores. I think you should add a little more family-owned businesses because They're like small businesses, but with big hearts in them. So they're very good. So I think you should add more. Thank you.

Next is Eleanor Stout.

Hello, my name is Eleanor Stout, and I'm running for Junior Miss Mellon. I would like to talk about parks today. I really like the parks, but like Scarlett said, they're little businesses in town. I think if we did like a Saturday night skate night or something outdoorsy and fun to bring the community together, we could also invite and let the small businesses like, I don't know, sell snacks there. It'll give them food. It'll give them fun. And that's all we need.

Haley Cooper?

Hello, my name is Haley Cooper. I'm running for junior Miss Mellon. Today I'd like to talk about is the good things in the community. I love to see how we all come together to make the community happy and how we can all like come together to do special things for people, like how we do, like, the parades or the police officers reunion things. And, yeah.

Next we have is Millie Claussen.

No hesitation.

Hi, my name is Millie. I really like how you guys are fixing the roads. And it's good for people going in wheelchairs so they don't have a lot of bumps. Thank you for your time.

Audrey Nelson.

I love Turlock, and I think that we could make it a better place if we keep data centers away from our stuff because they're hurting people and futures.

Okay, and that concludes our participants.

Okay. Thank you, girls. All right. So now we have the consent calendar. At this time, we'll open the public comment on the consent calendar. That's your opportunity to comment on any item on the consent calendar or request from the council that an item be removed for separate consideration. If you're requesting that an item be pulled, please state the item number and briefly explain your request to the council. Public comment on the consent calendar is limited to one minute. The city clerk will now facilitate the public comment.

Okay. We have one blue card for consent calendar, and that's Milt Trueweiler.

Good evening. Milt Treeweiler. Yes, I am requesting we pull 6K, and the reason for that is every staff member except the city manager and the city attorney are required to fill out a 700 form. And why are we leaving the city manager and the city attorney out of the responsibility of filling out a 700 form? Filling these out, the information is not... Why not them? Because this could be dangerous for all of us simply because they could have an interest in DATA CENTERS. AND IT MIGHT BE TO THEIR ADVANTAGE. MAYBE THEY HAVE STOCKS IN THE DATA CENTERS. SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE LEAVING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY ATTORNEY OUT OF HERE WHEN IT'S BEEN DONE. THEY'VE DONE IT EVERY YEAR. THEY'VE DONE IT ALL THE TIME. I GOT PETROLOCUSES. YOU COULD SEE ANY OF THEM THAT YOU NEEDED TO. IT SHOULD STILL BE THAT WAY. THEY NEED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE. THANK YOU.

have no further blue cards i have no one online would anyone from the public like to speak regarding a comment uh sorry consent calendar no no that isn't there okay i will now close the public comment and uh they're ready uh one moment please one moment yeah we'll just have the attorney speak real quick there you go there you go that'll work

So the answer is, under the conflict of interest code, we're only supposed to identify staff positions that aren't already required under the state law. So there's a separate FPPC regulation that already requires city manager and city attorney, along with all council and appointed officials to file. So we are already required under state law. This is another requirement of all other city staff that are identified that aren't listed in the state regulations. So you will find our form 700s. I did mine coming in. The city manager did as well. So we are required by a separate law.

Motion to approve the consent calendar as written. Second. We have a motion and a second. Will you call the roll, please?

Council Member Abram. Yes. Council Member Bixle. Yes. Vice Mayor Monette. Yes. Council Member Phillips. Yes. Mayor Boomer.

Yes. Passes on a 5-0. Thank you. There are no final readings. The public hearing is approval of the fiscal year consolidated annual performance and evaluation reports caper. That would be Director Moreno. Money Man. The caper.

Thank you, honorable mayor and council members. The item before you is an annual transaction which took place for the housing department, which we call the CAPER. It's acronym for Consolidated Annual Performance Report. So the action in front of you is really just approving the caper so we can submit to HUD. We will be submitting within a timely manner, which is required by the statute. So we'll go through a little bit of information so you understand what we'll be submitting. So HUD entitlement requires that we do multiple documents. The four are listed in front of you. The first two are really just kind of outlooks of what we propose going to look like for the future is how we develop these funds and how they're utilized. The second two are annual actions. One is the first one is the annual action plan, which really is what are you going to do for the year? The next one is, again, your CAPER. What has actually transpired in the year? So those are two annual documentations that we've built forward. The information within these documents has a lot of financial. It has planning and different allocations and how we can use these funds and what we look for. So within the document, we talk about the funding sources and what's readily available. You also see within the CAPER of what we've expended. So you look at these documents as far as how you can actually utilize funds about what's actually used through the year. It gives you a snapshot of what has been expended, but it really doesn't give you a clear snapshot in the sense of the way of what's actually moving forward. So true expenditures, which you'll see in the next slides, show you what's actually completed, but there's also a lot of activity that goes along with those activities. So some of the activities that took place were your public service grants. Annually, we do this through the award process, and we allocated out $70,000 to five public service grants. We'll serve 90% AMI. So your AMI, which refers to area median income, we actually expended for the fiscal year about $63,000 and some change. But we service unduplicated individuals. We'll serve 2,598. Rehabilitation for CDBG and CDBG projects. We completed six projects for rehabilitation, some of those being mobile homes, some of them being what we call stick homes. Two of the properties sold to first-time homebuyers as well. Again, this kind of gives you a snapshot, but what it doesn't really dictate is what all the activities were going on. So for rehabilitation, we actually had multiple things going on in the sense of the way we had three in construction and five that were in various stages of the application process. So again, this snapshot really tells you what transpired and completed, but it doesn't give you the full picture. So the media is one of the documents here as well. So we did, for CDBG projects, transfer three CDBG-funded properties to single home-owned dwellings, non-profit agencies, and that goes through a competitive process. First-time homebuyers, again, we use home a lot. It's really picked up. I will say from the first-time homebuyer program and the rehabilitation program that we made a large push to the fiscal year towards the end. We saw a lot more activities, which you see in the year. So I do really want to accommodate or commend the department itself for the hard push they've made for these new programs, especially the mobile home program. Again, we saw a small amount that were completed, but we had a large amount of push. There was advocations that were approved for funding that we're going through. And you'll see that a lot more into our next art plan when we review it. So that concludes my presentation. Again, this is really just a snapshot of what transpired through the year that falls along with our annual action plan, and we follow it up with the CAPER to kind of summarize what activities transpired. Is there any questions?

Questions for the director right now? All right. Then at this time, I will open the public comment, ask the city clerk to facilitate the public comment. Each speaker will have three minutes.

We have no blue cards, Mayor. I have no one online. Would anyone from the public like to speak regarding this item? Yes. Okay. Seeing none, Mayor.

Okay. Seeing none, I will close the public comment.

Move to approve 8A.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Will you call the roll, please?

Council Member Abram. Yes. Council Member Bixle.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Monette. Yes. Council Member Phillips. Yes. Mayor Budlak. Yes.

Thank you. 5-0. Thank you, money man. All right. Next is... Action items? There are none. Public participation. At this time, I will open the general public participation and ask the city clerk to facilitate the public comment. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the city council on matters that are not on tonight's agenda but are within the council's subject matter jurisdiction. Each speaker will have up to three minutes, and the total time allotted for general public participation is 30 minutes.

We have two blue cards. The first one is Sean Sheridan.

Mayor and Council, on February 7th, 2025, Armando Garcia Jr., identifying himself as the prospective buyer of the six-unit apartment building at 290 North Thor Street, inspected the unit where my mother and I live. He was accompanied by his father and his brother-in-law, a realtor. Mr. Garcia Jr. has a landscaping company. One of his brothers has a landscaping company. A month after the property was purchased through a living trust, those companies removed every tree, bush, and blade of grass, leaving only dirt. Seventeen months later, the property remains dirt, specifically under Adrian Warner's watch director. In July 2025, I came to City Hall to complain about this and spoke with Kate Bailey, and she replied that a complaint could not be processed because it was too soon from the property purchase date. I waited four months. In November, I emailed a detailed complaint to the Planning Division. More than two weeks later, on the exact day Mr. Garcia was issued a building permit, Ms. Bailey simply responded that the City would follow up. Weeks later, I emailed a more detailed complaint copying Interim City Manager Dr. Borrego, the Code Enforcement Supervisor, and the City Attorney's Office. I received no reply. Four months later, at the April 2nd Planning Commission appeal hearing for the building permit, Ms. Bailey told me in this room that the matter had to be handled by Director Werner. Almost a month later, I followed up and Ms. Werner replied with three sentences. Mr. Sheridan, I spoke with Armando Garcia today regarding the landscaping at 290 North Thor Street. He indicated they intend to replace the landscaping. Thank you for your inquiry. She called Mr. Garcia, Jr., not his father, a property trustee five months ago. Recent public records requests confirm that the city has never sent a single written notice or enforcement communication to the property trustees regarding this site. I ask this council to direct the city manager to investigate why this property has been intentionally neglected under Director Werner while residents are left living in dirt that has literally turned to sand. Thank you.

The next speaker is Milt.

Good evening, Council, staff, Turlock residents. Milt Treeweiler. This is a response to the Mayor's campaign advertisement that she has on the City of Turlock's website that the Turlock residents are paying for. She says she improved streets and infrastructure, rebuilt or rehabilitated more than 24 miles of streets, began work on another 25 miles, and advanced a $60 million five-year road commitment. On July 16, 2020, there was a special council meeting to consider a sales tax measure on the ballot for Turlock. Two actions were recommended at this meeting. First, there was a resolution declaring a general municipal election to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, for the submission of a ballot measure to the city's Turlock qualified voters. TO APPROVE A LOCAL THREE QUARTER CENT TRANSACTION AND USE SALES TAX FOR GENERAL CITY REVENUE PURPOSES. VOTE OF MAYOR BLUEBLACK, NO. SECOND, THERE WAS AN ORDINANCE 1281 ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE SUBMITTING THE TURLOCK MUNICIPAL CODE ADDING THE CITY OF TURLOCK 911 SAFETY AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONSE COMMUNITY SERVICES MEASURE for a three-quarter cent transaction and use sales tax for general city revenue purposes to remain in effect until the voters amend or repeal it to be collected by the California Department of Taxes subject to voter approval. Vote of Mayor Blue Black, no. This is the action that gives the city of Turlock Measure A, and the mayor voted against putting this sales tax measure on the ballot. She did not support Measure A during the 2020 election. Measure A passed with a yes vote of 57% to a no vote of 43%. The Measure A election information brochure, which was sent out to all of the Turlock registered voters stated in the fifth point, whereas additional funding is needed to repair and properly maintain our streets and roads, which were recently rated 57 out of 100 by independent engineers. The mayor tries to tell the people she gave us our roads, and yet what she's done is given the city of Turlock a $60 million bond debt. on the general fund, which may become a major burden in the long run. There will no longer be monies for new roads because all the measuring money, road money, will be needed to pay off the principal and the interest on the $60 million debt on these lease revenue bonds. You know, if she had her two council members, which actually were elected in 2020, this would have never been on the ballot because she would have had her two council members, and then it would have been a 3-2 vote against it. Thank you.

Okay. I have no further blue cards. I have no one online. Would anyone from the public like to speak regarding public comment? Mr. Breyer?

Well, off the top of my head, let me add some context. Number one, the mayor always votes last. So when the vote had been taken on Measure A, it had already garnered at least three, if not four votes. So it had already passed. She has the principle, whether you agree with her or not, of not being for tax increases, saying that the government should be more efficient instead of trying to take more money out of our pockets. And what he said in terms of not supporting Measure A was correct, but she did not oppose Measure A. I will also say that even before Measure A had been passed, and I know this because I did a PRA, and I also know that she did not like me doing a PRA, okay? She got a little mad at me. I found out in the PRA that actually she was doing research even before Measure A was passed about how we could use that money, leverage that money to be able to bring forward money via bond process to be able to fix the roads. Because if you looked at Measure A and half of it being dedicated to police and fire, and half of it being dedicated to roads, and then you add in Measure L, we'd have, like, what, $10 million, $11 million a year to fix roads. And the cost estimate for fixing all of our roads was $250 million, if not more. So people in Measure A were given the impression by the supporters of Measure A and the way it was written that we were going to fix our roads. And if they then found out that, well, it's going to take 25 years to fix our roads, I don't think they would have been too happy. And the mayor went out. I'VE GOT PROOF OF THIS IN THE PRA'S, PRA, AND FOUND OUT ABOUT LEASE REVENUE BONDS AND SHE BROUGHT IT TO CITY STAFF AND HAD THAT DISCUSSION AND THEY BEGAN TALKING TO, I THINK IT WAS PFIC OR WHATEVER. OKAY. NOW, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY. I WAS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT. THE CITY NEEDED TO GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER. THEY NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO DO THE NEW PROCESS. THEY NEEDED TO GET THE AUDITS DONE PROPERLY, GET THEM UP TO DATE, AND INCREASE OUR BOND RATING, ALL OF WHICH HAPPENED AND THEN I THINK IT WAS 2023, 2024, EVENTUALLY WHEN WE FIRST STARTED GOING OUT FOR THE BONDS. SO A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTEXT TO THAT. THANK YOU.

Would anyone else like to speak? Please come up.

I'm going to park closer next time. First, I want to just tell you how much I appreciate all you do. I know it's easy to complain. I mean, once in a while I do it. And so I just want you to know I think you guys are all doing a great job. The reason I wanted to talk today was I have a dog, little dog, and he loves to go with me. Even if I'm going to a restaurant, he still loves to go. But the city, what do you call it, your guys' rules? Ordinances. Yes. The city ordinance says that if you leave your dog in a car, you get a $100 fine. And so I did a little research on the state. The state says the same thing, except if you have, depending on the temperature. Okay, so I drive a Tesla, and it has a dog mode. And it keeps the temperature at whatever you want to put it. But I get to take it in. Maybe you'd want to look at that. I don't know. Because he hates the dog catchers now.

Oh, chief.

Is there anyone additional for public comment? Seeing none, Mayor.

Okay. Well, I will close public comment, and apparently we're going to have to get all the canine officers Teslas. So moving on, city manager report and updates. Dr. Murphy?

All right.

Red light. There you go.

All right. Good evening. First things first, I'd like to have Chief Serper come up. He's got an introduction of our new fire marshal.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council, and city staff. It is my great honor to introduce to you your new fire marshal, Division Chief Mike Miller. Mike brings well over 30 years of fire prevention and community risk reduction experience to the city of Turlock. So enough of me talking. I'd like to introduce to you Division Chief Mike Miller.

Thank you, Chief, Mayor, City Council. I can't tell you how excited I am to be in this position. I've been working on it for quite a long time, and I'm just excited to be here. I'm looking forward to doing some great things for the city of Turlock and the citizens. I THINK SOME GOOD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S WELCOME AND SUPPORT. STAFF AND EMPLOYEES IN TURLOCK HAVE BEEN VERY WELCOMING TO ME. I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. WELCOME.

OKAY, COUNCIL, A COUPLE OTHER THINGS. AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING Many tech upgrades here, so appreciate the public's understanding. We should have some of those things fixed to follow the new California rules. But I also wanted to address, we've done some website updates. We should roll out our new website in the next month. But last meeting was brought up about the bios, and I just want to say publicly, not only was the mayor's bio updated, everyone's bio was pretty much updated, and a couple members have new bios on the website. So now all five council members have bios on the website. I actually want to thank Mr. Sheridan. Of all things, you would think sometimes that... You know, people come up and say some things. Mr. Sheridan actually sent me a text last night. As he was walking around the neighborhood, he found somehow one of my ID cards, and he texted me to say, can I spend this, or is it not any value? So it didn't have any value, but thank you very much, sir, for calling and getting rid of that for me.

So you littered?

I don't know. It didn't have any value on it. I don't know how it got in the street. I wanted to point out to all the council, we left you an ad that's going to go in the San Francisco 49ers program this year. So all the CEOs and businesses who are in the suites are going to get this. We'll get a couple and we'll put them out publicly so the members can see. It's a project that Anthony and Joseph collaborated on. So I wanted to point that out. I wanted to let you know I hosted a developers meeting this past week in City Hall where we brought in all the developers to hear their ideas of how Turlock can be considered more business-friendly moving forward. So I got some great feedback, so we'll be working with the staff to figure out some changes, and I'll bring those forward to the council. And then lastly, every quarter, HR, Jessie and her team, do a new employee tour orientation for employees to go around the organization and see the various buildings and learn the organization. And I was fortunate as a new employee to join the team and go through that. So I want to thank Jessie and her team. They do a great job of highlighting all the great things going on in the city of Toronto.

So that's it. All right, now we have council member comments, announcements and future items. Councilman Rayburn.

Just briefly, I wanted to thank staff for the project at fire station 33 in my district. That's been long overdue and I'm really appreciative that we allocated the ARPA funds and that they're getting used by the deadline. So I don't think that project is quite finished, but it's well on its way. So thank you to staff.

Now talk about your birthday.

I'll talk about his birthday. I hope your special day is a great one tomorrow. We had to out you. Come on. Mr. Bridegroom, thank you for your comments. One thing I do love about our mayor is that she does a lot of things behind the scenes, but she doesn't get up here in a council meeting and tout her horn and take credit for a lot of things that she does. And that's what makes her such a wonderful leader. Thanks for the context this evening. Chief Serpa, I think the fire department is on KCRA Channel 3 News this evening. Is that correct? Correct. Yes, for some new pretty gnarly, bad-to-the-bone technology that we've got here at the Turlock Fire Department. Thank you for that, sir. Can we get something on an agenda near you in a future time for a dog ordinance on Teslas? Because I think it's appropriate, especially considering the amount of Tesla owners that we have here at City Hall. And what are you putting in the water at City Hall, speaking of City Hall? like are you bringing donuts every day for these people this place is buzzing with happiness I'm not kidding it's cookies I saw her bring them cookies okay I don't know everyone's happy JJ well done thank you and thanks to all the city staff for the heavy lifts this past couple of weeks

About a week ago, I got an email regarding a sidewalk hazard in my district, and I reached out to Dr. Murphy on it. They got on top of it right away. I wanted to give a shout out to Scott Taylor and his team who took care of that literally probably a few days or less after that, and they sent pictures and everything. It's nice and neat, especially with the students and just the families that are going to be walking in that area. I just wanted to say thank you to the city staff.

And let us not forget this Friday at Station 31 at 830 to be there for 9-11 ceremony. Everybody will be doing it throughout the county, I believe. Is that correct? Well, I mean, we're organizing, but yeah, throughout the United States. Closed session? Closed session.

Yes, we have 13 eight conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation presented to government code five, four, nine, five, six 92, two cases at this time. Is there any members of the public who wish to comment on the closed session item that I just read? Seeing none mayor.

Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Is this a point of clarification? Is this for the housing element?

No, this is not related to existing litigation.

So I have to wait to the next meeting to speak about the housing element situation?

There is nothing agendized on the housing element. You could have done that during the non-agenda item.

Right. I just didn't get here. Because, once again, people shouldn't. Okay.

Thank you. Any further comments regarding closed session? Seeing none, Mayor.

Okay. We will convene, and if there's something to report out, we'll let you know.

You'll get it.

All right, we are back. There's nothing to report on, and we're in adjournment.