City Council - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Tustin, CA
Meeting Date
March 17, 2026

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154 sections (from 181 segments)

0:39 – 1:480

You ready? Good evening. The closed session meeting of the city council has been canceled, this evening, and the regular meeting will begin at 6PM. Thank you. Good evening.

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The closed session meeting of the city council has been canceled, and the regular meeting will convene at 6PM. Thank you.

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You. Tonight, we have the presentation of colors, invocation, and pledge of allegiance by our American Legion. Gentlemen.

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This will be a double prayer today, this evening, for the country as well as for our men and women in uniform, and so we ask that, god bless them. Father, as we come before you this evening, we ask that you would just bless the men and women in uniform that are deployed overseas, put a hedge around them, and raise a standard of protecting from the forces of darkness as they go into difficult situations that are employed in The Middle East. We ask that you also bless our country, our leaders, give them wisdom, knowledge, understanding, clarity of mind to make good choices and good decisions so that our people, our, you know, fellow veterans and those in military, those in uniform would be protected according to your will, plan, and purpose for us. We for we do serve you, you only, the true and the living creator of all life forms, all species. So bless now, lord, your word, and bless the men and women here tonight, especially our council members, mayor, city council members that you bless them with knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.

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They make good choices, good decisions that would continue to bless our community according to your will, plan, and purpose for us so we may continue to serve you in your name and all god's people said. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Chaplain. Hubler.

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Please place your right hand over your heart. Veterans may render a salute. Please begin.

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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

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all. Two.

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Please remain standing. Our chaplain has some remarks.

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I was once part of the American flag. I flew over America, the land of the free, because of the brave. I can no longer fly the sun and the wind have caused me to be taped tatered and worn torn. Please carry me as a reminder that you are not forgotten. Thank you.

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Will all the veterans please come forward? Those who served, please come forward and stand to my left over here. Veterans. What about sons of veterans or, daughters of veterans? Please come forward.

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Just the two of you. Oh, you also? Oh, great. I wanna give each one of you a flag. And these flags are a reminder that thousands of these we've cultivated over the years of flags that have actually been retired. And so we will let you know that we appreciate your service, all that you've done for the country. Starting with you, could

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you tell us your name and what branch?

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It was actually my father. So Rationale, my father was a retired Brigadier General from the United States Air Force.

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Air Force.

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Mr. Nelson?

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Actually, not me. My mother Uh-huh. Was in the United States Marine Corps corporal.

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Mhmm. K. You?

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Israel Marines.

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Marines? Desert Storm, maybe. Maybe.

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My father, Marty, was in the Marine Corps. Okay.

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So you were in, there's a storm, your father's marine corps. Okay. What's your name?

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Dan Almquist.

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And your name? Scuba Rhodes. Okay. Yes, sir. Israel. John Nielsen. John Nielsen. Ray Chanel. We thank you so much for all your services and for your family members who served our great and mighty company country, rather. We pray that they continue we continue to serve the country, recognize all that our leaders are doing in this country and around the world. We wanna keep our country safe and free so we can have elections and put people in positions of power that deserve to be there. So we thank you so much. You may be seated.

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K. Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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Forward.

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Alright. You may be seated. Thank you. Thank you to our American Legion Post. It's obviously very real what they represent in our service to our country and keeping people safe. So thank you. Next, we have public input. At this time, any member of the public may address the council on matters which are not on this evening's agenda, provided the matter is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city council. If any members of the public who are participating through Zoom wish to address the council, please raise your hand. And if you're calling in, please press 9 to raise your hand. Madam city clerk, any request to speak?

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No, mister mayor.

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Anybody in the room? Yep. Go ahead.

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That sound looks good.

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Yeah. Go ahead.

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Alright. My name is Matthew Cheswick. Good evening, mister mayor, Tustin City Council. A year ago, well, first, sorry. I was a senior I'm a senior at Legacy Magnet Academy.

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A year ago, I came with you with a email and communication about my civic action project in relation to road safety within the city of Tustin. I have since, continued my work on that project, and I have been able to project that forward to my college career and been able to, get college acceptances in relation to civil civil engineering and city planning. And I come to you tonight, to talk about a plan that I've been researching over the past, couple months or so, and it's the RedHill specific plan. I realized that it was made back in 2018, 2019. And since then, I've noticed that there hasn't been a lot.

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And I know that there is some current construction going on over off San Juan and Red Hill. I talked to Kenny Nguyen earlier today. I had a really good conversation with him about that, but I'm really curious as to how we can maybe restart that and maybe rethink it because through the workshops people outlined that they wanted a walkable and safe community. But when I'm looking at the plans and when I'm looking at how our streets are designed and how we're planning it, it seems like we're still gonna keep the same road and how it's gonna still be six, eight lanes. And I'm not sure that's gonna be a super safe and walkable community that people wanted.

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And I think that looking back into that and the housing that can come out of it, because I know that Kenny was telling me that or sorry. Mister Nguyen was telling me that there was a single family unit going in in that construction space that's going on right now. But the original plan outlined mixed use. And I think that if we start off by providing the walkability and the spaces for people to build, developers will come. Because he outlined that not many people wanted to develop in the first place.

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And I think that's where the project kind of fell off back in 2019. So I think that if we can find or give them a reason to actually build there and to actually make it successful, I think that it can be what it was meant to be a second city center compared to Old Town Tustin.

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Thank you. Comments? Appreciate it. I remember your email, and the other civil engineer up here probably remembers it too. Good job. Any other requests to speak? Okay. We will move on to the closed session report. The closed session meeting was canceled this evening, so therefore, there is no report from the city attorney. We'll move on to consent calendar. We have items one thirteen. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion without discussion. Public input input for the consent calendar items. If any members of the public wish to address the council, please submit a request to speak form if you have not already. And if any members of the public who are participating through Zoom wish to address the council on items one through 13, please raise your hand. Madam City Clerk, any request to speak?

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No, Mr. Mayor.

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Anybody in the room? Governor, any request to poll items?

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Nielsen, eight. Yep. And I'm pulling item 13, mister mayor. Shell 13. K. Any other requests?

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Number seven.

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I think seven. Any other requests? Okay. Do have a motion for the balance? I'll make

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a motion.

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Second.

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Motion and a second. Madam city clerk, roll call, please.

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Councilmember Nielsen?

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Councilmember Feet? Aye. Councilmember Gallagher?

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Mayor Pro Tem Chenelle. Aye. Mayor Lundberg.

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Motion passes. Five zero.

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Thank you. Item number seven was pulled by council member Fink, and it's to award construction contract for the twenty twenty five twenty six annual pavement maintenance and sidewalk repair project. Council member Fink.

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Thank you, mayor. And I I just wanted to to ask, and I I'd asked this before, but I wanted to just ask on the record here of either the the what do we call them? The great Mike Grissow or or other staff about the selected contractor, if we have information about if they have any local workforce agreement or if the data about how many of their employees working on the projects are gonna have Tustin or Orange County residences.

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Don't mean to force Mike to come all the way. I'll go through the city manager. Manager Mr. City manager, do

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have a record?

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Thank you, Council Member Singh. We don't have those actions or policies in place. So it's not data that we collect. It is a publicly bid project. So they will pay prevailing wage. But the remainder of the data is not something that we collect.

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I appreciate that. I just I think that'd be useful for us to have in the future. I don't have anything else. I'd move to approve the item.

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K. We have a motion. Do have a second?

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Second.

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Motion and second. Any further discussion? Madam City Clerk. Roll call, please.

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Councilmember Nielsen? Yes. Councilmember Fink?

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Councilmember Gallagher?

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Mayor Pro Temp Schnau?

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Mayor Lombard? Aye. Motion passes five zero.

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Thank you. Item number eight was pulled by councilmember Nielsen. It is waste infrastructure system enterprise agreement with the County of Orange. House member Nielsen.

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Thank you, mister mayor. Just kind of going through this, and it's you know, I realized that, you know, we're running out of places to put, solid waste, and I realize that. But I'm looking at the rate increases, and the rate increases that were being discussed over a few years increased 85% per ton. That doesn't include CPI. So all of that is gonna be passed on to our residents.

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And, particularly in my district, you know, it's very, a lot of working people there and are just trying to make ends meet. And, I'd hate to burden them with with, more cost. And, you know, I'm not quite sure that there was a lot of long term, foresight in this. Looking at potential other places that could be done, I'm sure that there was an ad hoc committee that looked at that at some time, but, certainly weren't successful in trying to do that and to reduce costs on this. So I'm gonna vote no on this particular item.

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Appreciate your comments. Councilmember Fink?

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Yeah. I just just wanna say, because I I'm on the county waste management commission, and this has been, a big issue for the commission, which is advisory to the county waste and recycling department, and the city managers association and to the cities for the last year. And I think a lot of people have a lot of the same concerns that you were talking about. The initial proposal was to, I think, nearly double the tipping fees in the first year, and the city managers association did a pretty good job of negotiating down that increase and spreading it out over time. It is it is far less than ideal.

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Part of the difficulty is, obviously, we're getting less and less land to put the waste in. So that's part of a problem. But in dealing with compliance with the organics recycling requirements, the county, I think, took a little bit too much of a lead in trying to create a county wide organics facility, whereas a lot of the haulers, such as CR and RR hauler here in Tustin, had already been working on that. So that caused a lot of consternation. I I also wanna note that the import that the lack of space to dump waste to store waste, I think we should say, has been an issue amongst the the county recycling and the the waste commission.

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And we have we actually just met last Thursday. And one of the issues we are trying to come up with is how to limit the importation. Because for years after the county bankruptcy, counties the county was importing a a lot of waste and taking in the the funds from that. And there's a there's a a certain revenue sharing with cities because of that. But I think everybody has the same concerns about the location of the waste.

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So we've been looking into, well, how do we limit that waste? There's some legal barriers in that. Apparently, you can't treat waste differently depending on where it's coming from. But I think there's a lot of view that we need to be preserving that resource for our localities and keeping these costs down. I did ask what sort of the impact would be on the average consumer.

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And it's going to vary city by city. But I think the consensus was for a single family home, it's looking at probably a $5 increase in the first year, which is significant. That's 9 percent maybe. And so it it is a it's a tough situation because we've they've got us sort of painted in into a box on that. So I share your concerns.

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I will say that our problem is we have a sort of an almost monopoly situation in that our alternatives for CR and R for R haulers would be taking it to other places at potentially higher rates. And so it's a difficult position. So I appreciate your concerns. I just wanted to spread at least the information that I had. And I think that one of the things that has come through in the city managers association has, I think, conveyed that well.

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And I think, frankly, the haulers have conveyed that well that the county waste really needs to be thinking long term in the way that you're talking about. So anyway, I just wanted to convey that information that I had. I share your concerns. I'm afraid that one of the difficulties in just storage of waste is gonna be dealing with these costs.

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Thank you. Any further comments or discussion? I entertain a motion.

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Move the item.

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The motion

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and a second.

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Motion and a second. Madam city clerk, roll call, please.

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Councilmember Nielsen? No. Councilmember Fink?

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Councilmember Gallagher?

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Mayor Pro Tem Schnell? Aye. Mayor Lundberg?

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Motion passes four one with councilmember dissenting.

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Thank you. Mayor pro tem Chanel poll item number 13, which is developer selection to negotiate for the disposition development of 52 acres within the Tustin Legacy specific plan. Mayor pro tem.

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Yes. Appreciate it, mister mayor. I'm gonna recuse myself from this folks. I do have a commercial and financial interest with OmQuest. So, again, I'm gonna step away while you put on this item. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Do have a motion and a second or any further discussions?

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I was going to say something, but I'll move.

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I just

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want to say and I would imagine everybody will probably have comments. But I'm very much looking forward to this. Dan Ulmquist is actually in the audience tonight. He's, amongst other things, a Foothill High School grad 1995. And so I went down to the the the river the market at River Street. Am I getting that right? In San Juan Capistrano. And I had a reaction that I I rarely have, which is, boy, I should bring my daughter down to this. Because on a Friday afternoon, were families playing. There were restaurants open.

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There were shops open. There was a huge amount of community going on there. And that's the the project that the Almaguest has developed. And, actually, I was actually gonna take her down not this last weekend, but two weekends ago. But the train service was stopped south of Mission Viejo, so we couldn't have gotten all the way there. So we'll go down to another point. But it's great development and a great model for what I hope to see in Tustin. And so I just ask, build that, bring that here to Tustin.

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Thank you. I'm going move staff recommendation. Do I have a second?

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Second.

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Any further discussion?

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I'll just make a quick comment. Yep.

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Council Member Gallagher.

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I just wanted to extend my thanks to the staff. This was a exhaustive process covering many months and many meetings, and I I know it took a lot to get this point, and so I just wanted to to take a moment and express my gratitude for getting us here. And then, of course, to Omquist, we're very excited. Finally, gonna have a place to, have the kids run around. So Tustin is a family focused community, and I know your project will help strengthen that. And so my only comment will be go fast. Thank you. Yeah.

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It's, you know, it's quite a plan, and the process has been very sophisticated and very daunting at times, but I wanna compliment staff for all the effort you guys put into it. And I wanna compliment OmQuest for doing, the different sorts of planning. I know it's inexpensive, and I know you put a lot of effort into it, but also the others that that were involved with it too. So, thank you very much for presenting a great plan and understanding the vision of the council.

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Madam city clerk, roll call, please.

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Councilmember Nielsen?

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Councilmember Fink?

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Councilmember Gallagher? Aye. Mayor Lombard? Aye. Motion passes. Four zero.

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Thank you. Welcome back. We really missed you. Now move on to other business. Mister City Manager, do you have a report tonight?

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Yes. Thank you, mayor. As we've heard, we're in award season, the Oscars for last weekend. And here at Tustin, we've got some awards to share as well. Our economic development team was just notified they received an award of merit from the California Association for Local Economic Development within the category of innovation in digital media.

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This award highlights our pro business efforts across four new programs: visitation, city scope, concierge services and business spotlight. These programs leverage third party data with one on one engagement and social media all tied together by our project management software that allows staff to track interactions with new businesses. With that, bravo to Alexis Smittle and Val Flores of our Community and Economic Development team for putting this together. Also, proud to announce that our finance department has received a statewide operating budget excellence award from the California Society of Mineral Finance Officers. This marks our fourth consecutive year the city has earned this statewide recognition, reflecting Tustin's commitment to transparency, accountability and sound fiscal management.

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Hats off to Jennifer King, our Finance Director and her team. And last but definitely not least, our improvements to the playground and picnic shelter at Camino Real Park are progressing within schedule. The playground portion of the project is wrapping up and is expected to be completed and reopened the week of April 6. The picnic shelter portion is estimated to start the last week of April and to be completed by the end of May. That concludes my updates.

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Thank you, mister city manager. Mister city attorney, do you have a report?

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No report.

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Thank you. We'll bring it back to the council for comments. Councilmember Nielsen.

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Thank you, mister mayor. Just a few things here. On, the March 10, I met with a veterans group, and they're concerned about preserving military history. And, also trying to find out and get ideas on from them on, reuse of of different sorts of military structures on the base, the old base. So, anyway, it was a good meeting and always very, very glad to meet with veterans since, they've put a lot on the line for us.

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So it was a good meeting. On 03/13, I attended the state of Orange County's education with the keynote speaker, doctor Stephen Bean, and, he did a phenomenal job of talking about what was going on with statistics in county schools and what was going to be predicted for the future and a lot of initiatives that are going on. And I'm glad to say that they're heavily involved in technology and looking at ethical uses of AI. So it was a great event, probably 600 people in attendance. So I I I learned a lot, and I enjoyed it very much.

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On the March 14, volunteered for the free vision screening and glasses event hosted by the Tustin Host Lions Club, the Santa Ana Lions Club, and the Orange County Central Lions Club. And what this is, it's an event held, that we hold every year, usually between Columbus Tustin Middle School and Century High School, kind of a Tustin Santa Ana thing, where participants can come and get free vision screening, meaning a complete eye check, eye exam, including glaucoma checking. And, and also they get a prescription, a free prescription for glasses if it if they need it, and then they walk away with glasses. And we actually bring I think they had 4,000 pairs of recycled glasses there, itemized by the prescription type. And so they were given to the participants, so they left with glasses.

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Couldn't see very well when they came in, and they could see great when they left. So, it's always a great event in our town. We had about eight optometrists, ophthalmologists, combinations, and, a lot of volunteers. And, it was great to see that, mayor pro tem Schnell was there. He came and, was very supportive, so we appreciated that.

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And we saw about, 350 patients, both adults and kids. So it was very, very worthwhile and great event. So I also wanna say, thank you to our American Legion that gave, mayor pro tem Snell and I the star cards. I know they do this on a regular basis to recognize veterans. So I know you guys have already probably left, but thank you very much for these. And, I just wanna wish everybody a happy Saint Patrick's Patrick's Day. Day, and I wanna also wish a happy birthday to Columbus Tustin today. So that's all I have for tonight.

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Thank you, councilmember Nielsen. Councilmember Fink.

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Thank you, Marion. Thank you, Marin. I'll just actually queue off that after this. Well, going on right now at the Tustin Area Historical Museum is a birthday celebration, so I'll be heading there after this meeting to wish old CT well. Just a couple of notes in terms of things in the past and then things coming up.

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Attended the employee recognition luncheon, which was two weeks ago, I think. And really impressive. I think everybody was there. And really impressive seeing the employees with years of service, especially our forty year service folks. I actually thought that was the award that the city manager was gonna mention, but very, very much appreciate the employees who've served the city of Tustin in various capacities for for so long.

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I met mentioned attended the waste commission meeting last week. I think I gave sort of the update about that. And then also the prior Thursday, had attended assemblywoman Cottie Petrie Norris' woman of the year event. I was actually only able to be there briefly but was able to congratulate Amy Nakamoto from our Community Services Commission, who was recognized by Assemblywoman Petrie Norris as the Woman of the Year for Tustin for this year for 8073. And she had a whole crew of her family, as well as a lot of the parks and rec staff, and the commission as well.

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So very appreciative that people came out to recognize her service. Coming up this coming up this Saturday is a blood drive put on by team mission remission at Aldersgate Methodist Church from 11AM to 5PM. If you donate, not only will they have a blood donation, but the organization is working on blood cancer. It's led by some students from Beckman High School. The organization will be getting donations for $20 for everybody who donates, and everybody who donates gets entered into a raffle.

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And one of the prizes is tickets to opening day at Dodger Stadium, apparently. So all sorts of possibilities that might be worthwhile to to give a pint or two. I'm also gonna be hosting on the on this Saturday from 12:30 to 02:30 just a community meeting. I'm gonna be trying to do this on a monthly basis just for anybody who wants to come, talk about what's going on in Tustin, see if you have ideas, complaints, grievances, you want to shoot the ball about what's going on. I'll try to spread it around, but I hope that you can show up.

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And if you come, I'll even buy you some Talima coffee. Looking forward in the future, just got this, but because we're talking about waste, wanted to mention it. There'll be a compost giveaway day at all of the county greeneries. The closest one to us is the bee recycling facility, which is the Bowerman Landfill over off of Jeffrey Parkway and and Portola. It's April 18 from, I think, seven 07:30 to noon.

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So if you need compost, you can come get it for free from the county. It'd be great to have. I I wanted to mention a couple of things because I know I'm getting these questions all the time about the old town improvements. And I what is staff as that making progress? I know it's a lot of interference and and challenges for the businesses and the residences, but I know a lot of progress is being made.

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As I understand it, I think all the parklets are going to be done before the chili cook off. And and Mike Grisso is nodding his head. People were asking me about that. So we're really moving that project forward, so I appreciate that. There's a newsletter that gets sent out. So if you're tracking that, please look at that to see how it's coming out. But the good news is more stuff is coming back to Old Town with the Arts Building sale. If you've been by there where Rudabagors was, Own It Now Realty is already open. There's going be a bakery. There's going to be a scoop shop.

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There is a cool shop that's sort of like a I'm not going to do justice in explaining it. But it's something of a consignment community store where people are are able to sell and will have rotating vendors. They're planning on opening as soon as March 28, so we're seeing folks come back to Old Town pretty quickly, and so I hope to move that along. I just wanna make two general notes. One is one of the items we approved on the, consent agenda was the, housing, excuse me, the general plan update.

35:19 – 35:545

And I just will call out a couple of things. We got a letter from the Kennedy Commission about that, and it's worth everybody looking at that because it suggests that we take an effort to make a low income housing program that tries to bring more low income housing. I think that's worth us looking at. But also, as we look at that, that report looks low, like we're kind of behind the targets that we've set or have been set for us. But I think the 26 numbers are going to be pretty impressive.

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The new apartments at Irvine Company are gonna come online, so we'll see more. And specifically to the young man's point, we're gonna see a housing unit developed there on Red Hill. I know there's efforts underway to see what we can do on the other side of Red Hill Avenue. So we'll see a lot more housing come online in the next couple of years. And so we just keep pushing toward that end.

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May well see more throughout throughout the legacy as well. But I'll also say, especially to to you and to everybody, one of the things that is important to make the city walkable, make it, you know, that type of of environment. It's really important for us to have an active transportation plan. So address bikes, address other active transportation infrastructure. So I'd encourage us to take that up, put aside the money for it, take that up.

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I know there's folks who are pushing for it. Encourage you to help encourage us on that point because that's when we and I I bike around not as much as I should, but I bike around town. And I think just as as people who do that, as we get used to what's going on, we see we we wanna make sure there's the that capability to do that as we move forward. And having that master plan in place as we plan and develop things would be really important. So laying that foundation out. So I encourage us as we go forward, let's get in place a a bike master plan slash active transportation plan or however you wanna call that. So with that, that's all I've got this evening there. Thank you.

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Thank you. Councilmember Gallagher.

37:33 – 38:118

Alright. I'll make this quick. First off, I wanted to recognize Orange County Fire Authority. We attended the open house, me and my kids. And I was the first time I've been there, and I was blown away. It was so well organized and just seeing all the equipment out there. And everyone was so nice and took their time to talk to us, and and and my kids really enjoyed it. But just being able to showcase to the community what the the breadth of what you do and the resources that you have, it was very impressive, and so I appreciate it. I know that I I can only imagine that was lot of effort, so I appreciate you putting that on. And then I attended on the thirteenth, did a tour with Grisso, the amazing Grisso.

38:12 – 38:458

Sorry. I have to say that now. Of the water facilities in Tustin. It had been a while. I'd seen a number of them, but this was sort of kind of rounding out the remaining facilities. And I do wanna say I've I'm a civil engineer just like our future civil engineer here. In water, it's a little more exciting than the bicycles, but, you know, you could still switch. I've been to a lot of facilities in in Tustin. The operations group really does a great job. They were very clean. They were well taken care of. The staff was knowledgeable. And so I just appreciate you taking the time to to walk me through that. I think we're doing a good job in the water department. Alright.

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And then, last, just wanted to wish everyone including our mayor pro tem a happy New Year. It is actually the Persian New Year on Friday, March 20. And if that is wrong, you can blame Chatuchi p t.

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Alright. Thank you.

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Mayor pro tem Schnell.

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Oh, Ryan pack Patrick Gallagher. So I'm gonna keep my comments very pithy because Ryan, I think, is the only Irishman up here on the dais. Is that do you have any Irish blood in you?

39:16 – 39:454

Oh, we have two. Well, I know you both wanna get home to your corned beef and hash and a pint of Harper Guinness. So I'll be very brief. 03:12, I attended the TCA joint meeting of the Board of Directors. I know I mentioned last time that the agreement from the various agencies that are involved with that particular project on the 24191 extension has been signed, and we're actually starting work on the underground electrical and water on on that shortly.

39:45 – 40:154

I had lunch with the TPOA and TPSSA, so the police and police services discussed public safety as well as the current state of policing in the city, and I'm happy to say that both are quite strong. We're very lucky to have the best police force in the state of California. I did attend the Lions Club Eye Exam and Glass event. It's the first time that I've actually attended this, and it was very impressive. They had thousands, probably 10,000 glasses with all the different prescriptions, very organized, and all these big cases.

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And the number of ophthalmologists that showed up to volunteer and spend their time and their treasure to support people in the community was very impressive. So thank you for all your hard work with that. On March 14, also attended the OCAFA Open House. Just just an amazing event. So much fun to to see the helicopters and the kids and the energy and great recruiting tool. A lot of kids running around those little plastic red hats. I'm sure councilman Gallagher also took one home with him, but an amazing amazing event. And then March 16, attended Chief Tully's induction as the president of the California Police Chiefs Association. This is an amazing accomplishment. So city manager was there.

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I see captain Nichols, the rest of the command staff. But we really are blessed to have an amazing chief of police. And the mission of this group is to have the chief police across California share best practices. It's three days of seminars. And they're looking at ways that they can move policing forward. So I was very, very, very happy to be there and support Chief Talese. And I got to meet his granddaughter. I affectionately call him grandpa Popo, which is his name. But chief, congratulations wherever you are. And again, happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody.

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Thank you. Just a general comment. This meeting was, fun tonight. We had the American Legion, lots of applause for our OCFA and police, and we're moving a development agreement forward. And we're streamlining the code, and we're gonna get out of here in less than forty five minutes. So thank you to staff and everybody that's involved. Justin rocks. Alright. I'm gonna go through some near term events here real quick, and then we'll adjourn. First, we have bingo night, which is Friday, March 20. The cocktail hour is from six to 8PM. Gameplay, six 07:15PM to 09:30PM at the Clifton C. Miller Community Center right here. All proceeds benefit the Tustin Area Senior Center Fund. Next, have the Laterea Night, Friday, March 20 from 05:30 to 07:30PM at the Tustin Family and Youth Center.

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We also have the Youth Track Meet on Saturday, March 28. Registration closes Friday, March 20. Community yard sale registration deadline is Friday, March 27. And we have our annual Easter celebration and egg hunt on Saturday, April 4, from 9AM to 12PM noon. Pancake breast breakfast from eight to 11AM at Tustin Sports Park. Without fur further ado, we will adjourn. The next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, April seventh, twenty twenty sixth, with a closed session meeting at 04:30PM and the regular business meeting at 6PM. Thank you. Have a good night.

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