City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call to order the special closed session meeting of the city council, meeting number 3099. Madam city clerk, roll call, please.

The record will reflect that all members are in attendance.

Thank you. Next, we have public input. At this time, any member of the public may address the council on matters which are on the closed session agenda. If any members of the public who are participating through Zoom wish to address the council, please raise your hand. And if you are calling in, please press 9 to raise your hand. Madam city clerk, any request to speak?

No, mister mayor. Anybody in the room? No? K. We'll move on

to closed session. Mister city attorney.

Yes. The city council will be convening in closed session to discuss items four and five as they appear on the closed session agenda.

Alright. Thank you. We'll recess the closed session. Good evening, everyone. I'd like to call to order the regular meeting of the city council at 06:02PM.

The invocation meeting number 3098. The invocation tonight is by Reverend Doctor. Annette Rojofsky from the Tustin Presbyterian Church. Reverend?

Thank you for inviting me. Is the microphone on? Okay. Thank you. Let's pray together. Loving God, we come before you with humble hearts knowing that you are here with us in our midst. We thank you for the freedom we have to come together for such a time as this. We do so with a deep awareness that freedom isn't free at all. May we never take this for granted. In your word, you have given us a vision of that holy city on a hill to which nations of the world bring their glory.

So renew the ties of mutual regard that form our civic life. Bless these elected leaders and every person who serves within its walls. Grant them wisdom that rises above personal interests, give them courage to stand up for what is right and compassion for every resident, bless their decisions to bring peace and fairness to our community. Protect them from harm. Guide them through challenges and inspire them to lead with integrity and humility.

May this place be a beacon of light that shines brightly into the community where voices are heard, justice upheld, and hope nurtured. May kindness and respect flow through every conversation and action taken here tonight, and help us all to eliminate poverty, injustice, abuse, and oppression for all. May your peace now rain down on us all because it is in your name that we pray. Amen.

Amen. Thank you. I have the pledge of allegiance tonight, so please stand if you're able. Address our nation's flag. Place your right hand over your heart. 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. Thank you. Alright. Next, have our presentation portion of this evening's agenda. We have one presentation, which is Drowning Prevention and Awareness Proclamation. And we have OCFA Chief Morgan Stern here. And Chief, I'll invite you down to the podium. I'm going read this first.

And then if you would like to present some comments, it'll be all yours. Whereas the themes of this year's water safety campaign, quote, always watch the water and, quote, never swim alone, give in-depth information on what Orange County residents can do to prevent drowning. And whereas the initiatives set forth in the ABCs of water safety program will increase public awareness regarding proper procedures to prevent this needless tragedy. And whereas drowning incidents can occur swiftly silently and swiftly, often in as little as twenty to sixty seconds, and can occur in as little as two inches of water. And whereas the Orange County Fire Authority will be taking this opportunity to increase public awareness about drowning prevention through a robust community outreach campaign.

Now, therefore, the city council of the city of Tustin, California does hereby proclaim its participation in the always watch the water and never swim alone twenty twenty six campaigns, commencing in May and continuing through August. The city urges all families, parents, residents, schools, recreational facilities, businesses, and homeowner associations to become proactive partners in preparedness by enhancing their knowledge of water safety measures and drowning prevention strategies. Chief, all yours.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor and council members. As we heard in the proclamation, all of us at the OCFA are vested in water safety. Drowning prevention education, the ABCs of water safety, and ensuring that all of you are partners in the city of Tustin have resources to share with our communities. OCFA has various online educational tools to educate for drowning prevention, from life jackets to fencing to CPR classes, and never swim alone. Together, we can make a difference and encourage you to visit our website at ocfa.org for further education. Thank you.

Thank you, chief. Anybody have comments? We'll come

down and take a picture with you. Yes, sir.

Council member Nielsen reminded me. Don't see oh, there he is, right in the back, Johnny. I'm looking right at you, sir. So Johnny Johnson runs Blue Buoy Swim School. All my kids have gone through there. A lot of the council member's kids have gone through there. And if you'd actually like to make a comment about your program, can come up and say something, sir, just to reiterate what OCFA said. If you don't want to, I can try to spitball it, but give you the opportunity. Sorry, I should have called in you earlier. Sorry to put you on the spot.

Well, thank you. Mister mayor, it's an honor to be standing here and talking about something that I've been doing for sixty years, which is helping provide for a safer time in and around the water for all the children, not only in Tustin, but in Orange County. I've been teaching for sixty years now. And one of the things that we've done over the last twenty years is partner with Orange County Fire Authority and the city in promoting water safety through a series of events that we do at the swim school. One is called a water safety challenge where families get a chance to assess what their children are capable of doing.

We had one last month. It was a huge success. I just wanna thank the chief and the Tustin PD who's also provided support for all of our events. And we'll have another event coming up in June called the world's largest swimming lesson, which all the council members are invited. Several of you have participated in the past, but it's another opportunity to promote that swim lessons save lives. So thank you for the opportunity to say a few words, and thank you again, chief, for all the work that you guys have done through the years. Thank you, guys. Thanks, John.

Okay. Now we'll move on to 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 in person maybe first?

Yes, mister mayor. We have four requests to speak in person. K. Our first speaker is Leslie H.

Madam City Clerk, I'll just let you roll through that if you would. Thank you.

City council, mayor, my name is Leslie, and I'm a resident of Tustin. And I'm here to continue my opposition against the continuation of both the flock system software in the city. So let's talk about, like, an important issue about it. So how can the police department slash individual misuse these cameras? So we're gonna think about a locked building. And in this case, let's make it a T Mobile, something that everyone can relate to. So supposedly authorized personnel must come from the front door, and there's likely a metal detector to ensure safety. And there's probably a sign in front of the T Mobile that says, in all caps, you can trust us. We stop crime. And, oh yeah, we absolutely value your freedom of speech.

But there's a back door, there's a side door, and then there's a roof hatch. And you don't need a clearance to access those. There's no security guard to tell you, you can't come in here. So, you punch in the code that you need and then you're inside. You manage to get into the mainframe room, which has every view of the flock camera system in there. And you just have to scroll down and click onto the one that you want. And they'll each have an IP code so you know exactly which address they correspond to in the city. So now that you have all this data, and there's no guard to tell you that you cannot walk out with it. There's no barrier to prevent you from sharing or selling this with other T Mobiles in other states, with other AT and T and Sprint Mobiles. You can pretty much do whatever you want with it.

The people you're seeing on the screen don't know that they're being watched and you're collecting data on them. And what you do with that information is anyone's guess at this point. These victims can't tell you, I don't want this or I didn't sign up for this or you need a warrant for this. And that is precisely why this is a major concern to me. The message of FLAC even admits to say, not only do we have or not only do we place cameras where you need them, we offer access to available cameras in your community and beyond your jurisdiction. That is what they have said directly. And that makes it a major problem. So, for example, these cameras have been used to follow protesters. And that is a fundamental right as a US citizen. And this is how they do it.

The FLACS software system will prompt the investigator for a reason as to why they need to access the camera. And all it requires is one word. And that's it. That's how much value a person's privacy has worked to them. Search warrant bypass with no presence of a crime or respect for your rights as a US citizen.

And in this case, here's a list of the police departments who did this while writing in caps, no kings. The Anaheim Police Department of California, the Eliza Police Department of Illinois, the Beaumont Police Department of Texas, the Marion Police Department of Ohio, Flagler County Sheriff's Office of Florida, Oro Valley Police Department of Arizona, Richmond Police Department of Virginia, Salinas Police Department of California, Sparitenberg Police Department of South Carolina, the Georgia State Patrol, Tulsa Police Department of Oklahoma, Arizona Department of Police Public Safety, Charleston Police Department of South Carolina, Tempe Police Department of Arizona, Little Rock Police Department Of Arkansas, Riverside County Sheriff's Office California.

Wrap up your comments. Your three minutes are up. So just wrap them up.

How long will it be until we see Tustin? It doesn't have to. You just have to remove the flock system. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Kristen

Good evening, mayor, staff, and city council. My name is Kristen Maas, and I'm here representing Alzheimer's Orange County. Since 1982, Alzheimer's OC has been providing local support and connections for individuals living with memory loss and the families who care for them. I'm here to share that there are resources available for families who may not know where to start. As Orange County's senior population continues to grow, it's important that residents know where to turn for support and guidance related to dementia care.

In addition to free education, programs, an adult day center, and a free helpline, we offer several caregiver support groups, with one being here in the city of Tustin at the senior center on the second Tuesday of each month at 3PM. Anyone with questions about this group or our other programs can call us at (844) 373-4400 or visit alzoc.org. Thank you for your time, your service, and your continued support.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Our next speaker is Matthew.

Evening members of city council. Give me a second while I pull something up on my phone. Thank you for agreeing to listen to my comments. I'm here representing One Seated Community Garden. I'm dressed in the attire that you would most likely find on me in a garden. We are located at 450 El Camino in the heart of Old Town, right across the street from the Assistance League and Armstrong Garden Center. And our mission is to grow community through the act of growing food. This takes the form of free to take produce during hours when the garden is open. This takes the form of food donations to local organizations like St. Paul Sunday Supper, and it takes the form of educational programming.

You might have something in front of you. I'm gonna skip the timeline just to let you know that we are two weeks out from our three year anniversary, and we'd like to thank you for your continued support as we are leased to the land that we are we are farming on is leased to us from the city of Tustin. Some big numbers. We are able to produce about 600 pounds of food annually that goes out to, again, families in need and to organizations like St. Paul's with over 25 varieties of fruits and vegetables.

We have about 400 combined volunteer hours just at the garden. That is not including things like all of the volunteers and board members who are growing things at home from seed to start, which we can then plant. We've had the lovely privilege of working with and bringing to the community organizations like the UC Master Gardeners Association, the UC Master Preservers Association. And just recently, we've been able to connect more, kind of growing our roots into our backyard. I apologize.

There's to be a lot of garden related puns. Last this past March, we were able to go to Ladera Elementary School and help revitalize and bring some life back into their garden. And we've recently been working with a bunch of Beckman High School students who are very excited about starting their own community garden at their school. In addition, we also manage the El Camino Parquet right in front of the garden. For those of you that have passed Old Town recently, you might see the very beautiful sunflowers.

That's us. So right in front of that space is the parquet. That is an entirely California native space, and it serves as a great example for people who want to use those kinds of plants in their in their homes or in their gardens. We're also working with the local coffee shop, Storico and Oladios. We are redirecting a lot of food waste, whether it's in the form of used fruits and vegetables or coffee grounds into our own compost system. And we'll hope to expand on that with other members of the community. Just going to briefly, with the last of my time, talk about the fact that we are having a fundraising event this Saturday from eight to 10AM. If you come by the garden, you can pick up a plant. These will be heirloom peppers and tomatoes and other things that are seasonally grown, perfect to plant right now. And these are, again, hand grown by members of our garden.

We really appreciate the time and the energy that the city manager has put in for creating this arrangement for us. If you want to know more about our hours, if you want to know how to contact us, members of the audience, please come find me. I'm in the green shirt. Thank you very much for your time, and I'll see you next time.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. And that concludes our request to speak for public input. We do have one request to speak for item number 13. We'll call you up when we get to that item. Alright. Nobody on Zoom? We're good. I think miss Mari, I think she might wanna speak now.

If you want to speak on one of the items specifically, we're going to move on to those next. If you

want 13. Make So just wait for that.

We'll come up to that.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you.

Right. Anybody else in the room?

Okay. We'll move on to

the closed session report. Mr. City Attorney.

Yes, the city council took no reportable action.

Okay. Next, we have the consent calendar, items one through 11. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion without discussion. Public input for the consent calendar. 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 11, please raise your hand. I do have a request to pull items five and seven by council member Fink. So any other requests to pull items?

Yeah. Was going to pull five, but

Okay.

So five and seven. Alright. Do I have any, request to speak on the public from the public?

Yes. Mister mayor, we have John Gray.

Okay.

I just wanna say a quick thank you for tying up the rules on ebikes. I know at least in the community that I live, we've had a lot of people zooming down the sidewalk, like, at 20 miles an hour. Even worse, some of them feel entitled to honk at pedestrians as if if that was their right away. So just thank you. Have a good day. Alright. Thank you.

Thank you for

your comments.

Any other requests to speak?

No, mister mayor.

K. Do I have a motion for the balance, which is one through four six and eight through 11?

I make a motion, mister

mayor. Second.

Motion and a second. Madam City Clerk, roll call, please. Councilmember Nielsen? Yes. Councilmember Veet?

Aye.

Councilmember Gallagher? Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Schell?

Aye.

Mayor Lundberg? Aye. Motion passes. Five zero.

All right. Next, we have item five, which was pulled by council members Nielsen and Fink, Orange County Animal Care Services Agreement. And I will hand it over to council member Fink first and then council member Nielsen next.

Thank you, mayor. I just wanted to address the issue because I've gotten a number of questions about it over the last couple of months. And of course, there's been plenty of publicity. I had the good fortune to go visit the facility on Saturday this weekend and was able to see and and learn a lot about the facility. There's a huge expanse of land, which folks might might realize, but they've they really have a lot of space for all the animals.

Obviously, there's a lot of cats. There are a lot of dogs. And there's space for a lot of dogs in the more outdoor area, where they have both indoor shelters for the dogs and outdoor areas that they can roam around with, meet people. I know historically there have been concerns. Post COVID, there were a lot of concerns about people being able to drop in and visit the animals.

They really have it in a situation where they can drop in, visit the animals, and a lot of them take them home that day. So they're doing very good on that. People had asked me, you know, they see questions about need for donations and volunteers and really those are for the donations that they look for are for people who are fostering pets, especially I think there's a lot of kittens that need fostering. Apparently, kitten breeding season out there today. So they do have guidelines about what to do if you see kittens in the wild.

And the first thing is hang out and wait to see if the mother comes back because she is best positioned to take care of them. But they have a lot of people fostering those kittens. And there's donations that go to people taking care of those kittens that would otherwise be paying for that themselves or unable to foster. There's a lot of volunteers doing sort of enrichment activities, so exercising with, playing with the animals, giving them extra time, things that are above and beyond our contract. So it's really important.

One of the things that I was thinking and stuff that I heard just because there's been a lot in the media about it is seeing that there's more oversight. And I'd been thinking that, like the library advisory board, there should be an advisory board, an oversight commission for the animal shelter and the animal care facilities. And I think that there is a county commission. So there's one person appointed by each of the county supervisors. I still kind of think that there maybe should be one from each city that's in the contract, the 14 cities.

But I'd like to understand the county commission first before I go off and recommend that. So I just wanted to say. But I might be back in suggesting that we do that. But I appreciate the chance to see the facilities, meet the director, meet folks there, and get an understanding of what's going on there. And I think we have a good system. And we'll keep watching it because I know people are concerned. But I feel very good about the services that they provide.

Thank you. Council Member Nielsen.

I just have some questions on the agreements, and hopefully, we can get some answers. So it was a little confusing to me, and I'm not an attorney and don't play one on TV, so maybe you can help me with this. It had the language of one year term automatically renewed each year for five years.

Yes.

Is that just a five year agreement? Or it didn't, in the material I read, didn't have an option to stop.

Yeah. In essence, yes, a five year agreement. But that automatically renewing provision means that the parties, as long as they terminate in accordance with the section right below it, the parties have the option to opt out each year. And in the county's case, they can opt out on twelve months notice for any reason or no reason at all. In the city's case, we don't have that option. But in the event that the city was to terminate for non appropriation, that's the city discontinues funding for it, then the city has the option to terminate on thirty days notice for that specific reason. But other than that, the county has a little bit more flexibility than the city would have in terminating this agreement.

Okay. The other question was outreach. So is this the county's responsibility, the member city's responsibility to try and bring more people into the fold for this agreement? How how does that Oh,

for the other agencies? The other agencies, with the exception of Santa Ana, have already signed on to the agreement. As I understand it, Santa Ana is also considering the same agreement tonight. So all of the others have signed on. I'm hoping I'm understanding your question correctly.

Well, it seems that the language was that, at least the way I interpreted it, was that there was going to be outreach to probably bring other cities other than the original into the agreement. And so I was just curious on, is that the county's responsibility? Yes. Is designated with that? Because it wasn't real clear.

That's not specific step of outreach isn't designated to any particular party, but the agreement contemplates the possibility that other cities could join. So if this city wanted to do outreach, it could. If the county wanted to, it could. But the importance of that provision is that if other cities come along, they could join in this animal care endeavor.

Okay. So it's not a traditional outreach. It's just if someone feels like joining, they can join?

Correct. Or citywins. And parties are allowed to outreach if they want, yes.

Okay. All

right. That really answers my questions. I say, I don't play a lawyer on TV, I'm not an attorney. So thank you very much, Mr. Kendig, for your expert information. So with that, I'll move the

item. Okay.

We have a motion.

We have a second.

Second.

Mayor, can I just make one additional comment? Because I had some of the same questions that Councilmember Nielsen had about the term. And one of the other things is annually, also identify the city can also identify what services. We don't have to. It would renew otherwise. But we can identify what of the seven services spelled out we might want to do. So if we need to reduce the scope of those services, that is another option that's there to address those things annually. I had the same wonders, and we've had back and forth about that.

Additional comments? Madam City Clerk, roll call, please.

Councilmember Nielsen? Yes. Councilmember Fink? Aye. Councilmember Gallagher?

Aye.

Mayor Proton Schnell?

Aye.

Mayor Lombard? Aye. Motion passes. Five zero.

Thank you. Item number seven was pulled by councilmember Fink, and it's the work construction contract for the Legacy Park Improvement Projects. Councilmember?

Thank you, mayor. I was just wondering if we could just have a brief description. There's a brief description in the staff report about the improvements that are gonna be done, about restoring vegetative cover in impacted areas. But I was wondering if Chris Hill or Chad Clant I don't know if I thought Chad was here but if one of them could give us a brief explanation of where that is and what those restoration services will be so that everybody sort of sees the highlight on that pretty briefly.

I'll ask mister city manager, do you wanna comment on it or ask

the member yourself?

Request that our our public works director Mike Rizzo come to

put Good. Speak to it.

Good evening. Thank you for the question. It's always a great opportunity to talk about some of the work we're doing in Public Works. So this project is specific to Legacy Park Phase 1. Many people don't know, but that is actually a piece of infrastructure, flood infrastructure first.

It's a detention basin that helps manage flood control from the entire Legacy Area. Part of this project is an earmark from Claudio Petrie Norris's office. We received $750,000 to replant and refurbish the existing park infrastructure. And so this program is really just kind of a facelift to our existing park. This is all of the walking trails, the areas around the detention basin, replanting around the dog park to really complement the work that the Park and Rec Department did in concert with public works in the city, and building that dog park, and just really re beautify that park.

Thank you. And if somebody wanted to see more details, they could get that from Public Works.

Yeah, we can share plans accessible at Public Works Engineering Counter if anybody's interested.

Thank you. Of course.

Thank you. Any further comments? Councilmember Gallagher?

It's a comment, not a question. It's a positive one, too, Mike.

I give you a hard time when you

guys blow those cost estimates. I do want to comment that you guys nailed this one.

I think it was $685,000

was the engineer's estimate? Correct. Which is the number two spot on there, which is exactly where you want to do. And the bid results were phenomenal as well. So great job on whatever contractor outreach and developing design you're doing. So thanks. Thank you. Any other comments?

There's a motion.

I'll move approval of the item.

Motion. Do I

have a second? I'll second.

Motion and second. Madam City Clerk roll call,

please. Yes.

Councilmember Pink. Aye. Councilmember Gallagher. Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Snell. Aye. Mayor Lombard.

Aye.

Motion passes five zero.

Thank you very much. Next, we'll move on to our regular business. We have two items tonight. Item number 12 is consideration of policies regarding public participation and technology disruption in accordance with senate bill seven zero seven. SB seven zero seven significantly amended the Ralph m Brown Act establishing new requirements for remote public access meeting transparency, agenda translation, and other requirements. Among other requirements, s b seven zero seven requires the city council to take two actions by 07/01/2026. First, to adopt a technology disruption policy to address disruptions in

the city's

audiovisual platform during council meetings. And second, to adopt a public participation and outreach plan to encourage participation in public meetings by underrepresented communities. That's what we're doing here tonight. There's no presentation, but that's the description of the action. I'm going to open the public input portion of the item and ask if there's any requests to speak on this item.

No, Mr. Mayor. Anybody in the room?

Okay. We'll close that. We'll bring it back to the council for comments or questions. Any comments? I'll entertain a motion. Council Member Gallagher.

GREGORY This is a straightforward item. We're responding to state legislation and aligning our code with this law. And so I'll move the item.

We have a motion.

Do I have

a second?

I'll second.

Councilmember Nielsen. So

in looking through this item, it's really interesting that the state legislature puts more and more onus on local governments and don't do things like solving issues such as poverty, homelessness, gas prices, etcetera. They'd rather spend their time trying to regulate local governments. So this is another example of of them trying to regulate local governments. So, anyway, I'll go along with it, but I'm not overly happy with this.

Understood. Any other comments? Alright. Madam City Clerk, roll call, please.

Councilmember Nielsen?

Yes.

Councilmember Pete? Aye. Councilmember Gallagher?

Aye.

Mayor Proton Chanel? Aye. Mayor Lundgren?

I'm going say aye and follow it up with a comment for anybody that's interested. The city of Tucson has really led in the county and Southern California in access to our meetings beginning before COVID, during COVID, and after COVID. So this although I agree with you, Councilor Nielsen, that it seems like the state's meddling with our affairs and they have more urgent priorities, this really doesn't impact

Tustin too much. We're already doing a really good job.

So thank you to staff for accommodating it. Okay. With that, we move on to item number 13, which is the Southwest Tustin residential parking study. We have a presentation tonight by senior planner, George Maldonado.

Thank you for the introduction, mister mayor. Good evening, council members. Tonight, I'm pleased to share with you some findings from the Southwest Tustin residential parking study as well as a package of recommendations for your consideration. Now before we dive into the meat and potatoes of the study, I just wanted to give you an idea of the efforts that have brought us to today. So the study kicked off in July of this past year in partnership with our consultant, Dixon Resources Unlimited.

And for the remainder of that year, over the course of the summer and into the holidays, we engaged in a variety of outreach and data collection activities, and I'll get into those in future slides. But after we went out and did our work and got the data that we needed, from January to April of this year, we reviewed that data, discussed it internally, and put together the package of recommendations that was brought to the Planning Commission a few weeks ago towards the end of April and which ultimately is being brought to the council for consideration today. Now the image before you, this is within the red boundaries is the area that we actually studied. So when I say Southwest Tustin, generally I'm talking about the neighborhood that straddles the 50 5 Freeway South Of The 5. So that's roughly McFadden in Newport, McFadden in Tustin Village Way.

And notably, this is the densest neighborhood in the city of Tustin. As well as, believe it or not, this is in the top 1% by population density in the entire county. Now that's a fact that I'll come back to a little bit later in the presentation, but just to give you some context there. There's about 10,000 people or so within these red boundaries that call Tustin home. So what did we actually do?

The various activities as part of the study can broadly be categorized into data collection and community input. So for two weeks out of the summer, we before and after school was back in session, we actually went out to the study area to count the number of cars that were parked on the street at various times of day. We also, at that time, took some drone imagery shots to capture some of the behaviors and observations that we saw out there. And, of course, we were out there in person putting boots on the ground. All the while, we were engaging in some pretty robust community engagement.

We had two separate open public workshops, one in person and one virtually, both which were proctored in English and Spanish. We had a online survey that was available in English and Spanish as well. And we also conducted eighteen one on one detailed interviews with area stakeholders, including residents, apartment managers, etcetera. So from that work, we really were able to to kinda distill it down into five key findings. So number one, which won't come as a surprise for folks at home and for the council, there's more cars than there are spaces in this part of Tustin.

The demand far exceeds the supply that's available. And like I mentioned previously, this is the densest neighborhood in the city. And I I think that fact, coupled with the fact that the neighborhood was built largely in the sixties when the expectations for the number of cars that households would have was very different than what they are today, you you kinda start seeing the structural building blocks of the parking conditions that we see out there today. Number two, there is an enforcement gap, frankly, in enforcing our existing parking regulations out there. And largely, that has to do with difficulties staffing some of these parking enforcement positions, and our use of our technology that we have.

Number three and four kinda go hand in hand, but, as part of our community outreach, we, well, first of all, most of the blocks in the study area are not participating in the permit parking program that we have online today. But that might be because there are some communication gaps. The information on how to participate in the program, what it means, how it can benefit people, it's not reaching the people that live in the neighborhood. And lastly, there is opportunity to button up some of the infrastructure in the neighborhood, whether that's installing new street lights to make the the conditions to for people that are walking from their cars to home a little bit safer, a little bit more comfortable, or if it's installing some more on street parking space markings that actually delineate all the different or or rather making better, more efficient use of the space that is out there. So from those findings, we have a handful of recommendations that we're bringing to the council for consideration.

Now I won't go into too much detail on all of these, but generally, includes expanding our parking enforcement capability by searching for a vendor, further promoting the permit parking program that we already have on the books by offering materials in other languages, including Spanish, adjusting our enforcement hours for our parking regulations, restricting parking for oversized commercial vehicles, improving some shared parking agreement options. Anecdotally, the there are already some residents in the area that park in nearby commercial shopping centers. So just making that formal kind of agreement and transaction a little bit easier for apartment managers to just engage in is an option. As I mentioned, installing additional street lighting, installing parking space markings on the street, delineating motorcycle parking spots. Some things that were observed during the study were what we just kind of call parking saving behaviors.

So people would put out either their scooter, their motorcycle onto the street to save a parking space and later swap it out for a car. So installing parking spots dedicated for that might be a solution, and generally ensuring that the curb is painted and the parking space markers that already exist in the area are maintained. And lastly, continuing to monitor the situation out there by continuing to collect data if we were to implement some or all of these recommendations to see what impact, if any, they're having on the conditions that we're observing there today. So as I mentioned, this item was brought to the Planning Commission a few weeks ago. So this is a quick summary of some of the key themes from the discussion.

One of the bigger items was that the commission acknowledged that the parking conditions that we see in Southwest Tustin today are largely the result of a lack of alternative methods of transportation. In other words, if there were other viable, reliable, safe, comfortable options to get around to do the daily activities of living other than a car, maybe we'd see a drop in demand for a car to begin with. The commission also wanted to keep equity front and center. This is largely a working class neighborhood, and so when discussing potential recommendations such as increasing enforcement activity or revisiting parking fines. The commission just really wanted us to make sure that we were keeping the residents in mind.

However, they were supportive of targeted enforcement for abandoned vehicles that are stored out on the street and what are called scofflaw vehicles that kind of rack up citations that don't get paid off. The commission also mentioned that they would be supportive of efforts to generally improve the pedestrian experience. As part of our outreach efforts, residents reported due to the parking situation, oftentimes they'd have to park ten, fifteen, twenty minutes a walk away from their homes. And so if we can't overnight create more curb space for parking, the very least we can make the experience of walking to and from your car to home a lot more comfortable. And lastly, they were supportive of the idea, as I mentioned, to streamline the ability for nearby commercial property owners to enter into agreements with apartment managers for residents to park there overnight.

So that brings me to the end of my presentation. Thank you for your time, and generally just wanted to say that the recommendations that were brought before you are for your consideration, and staff would ask that you provide us with direction as to whether to implement some or all of them. Some of them do have a cost associated with them that we would have to go back and study and then return to the council with that dollar number to actually execute it. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you for the presentation. This is a public input item. So questions for staff before I open public comments? Anybody? Yep. Council Member Fink.

I have one question. One of the recommendations that I think staff said I'm trying to find it to put off, consider later, was there was a position for a coordinator I'm trying to find where it is in the report here to create a centralized position to oversee enforcement, coordination, permit administration, and policy. And that was listed not not recommended at this time. But that seemed to mesh with the outreach strategies overseeing the enforcement, which the recommendation there is is to contract, and even making materials available in in multiple languages. And I don't mean to put the burden on you, but why not?

Why wasn't that amongst the recommendations? And you can defer to somebody else if you need to as well.

Thank you, council member, for the question. When we were when staff was discussing the different recommendations internally, we did talk about that one and ultimately decided against bringing that as part of the package. And the reason being, really, it was more bringing to our attention the need for greater collaboration as it relates to kind of internal parking discussions and management among staff. The topic, it's one topic, but it has different arms, if you will, different departments. You have the enforcement arm, which is headed by the police department, the infrastructure by public works, and outreach and engagement by community development.

So staff felt that we can achieve what that recommendation was kind of proposing by having greater collaboration internally. Mayor? Councilmember Nielsen?

So not so much a question, but kind of tag on to what council member Fink was talking about. I think that the process is more of providing short term recommendations and solutions to try and put a dent to the parking issues there and looking at the longer, medium term and longer term solutions to to creating more of a of a better parking situation there. So so I think from what you've provided, I think, is is very good. And thank you. Thanks to Dixon for doing a yeoman work.

I I spent a night reading your report. You guys did a great job, so I just wanted to say that. So, anyway, I'll talk more about this after public input.

Any other questions for staff before public input? Nope? Okay. Thank you. You may come back in a little bit. We'll see. Alright. We're gonna open public input. If any members of the public wish to address the council on this item, please submit a request to speak form. And if you're participating through Zoom, please raise your hand.

Madam city clerk, any request

to speak on item 13?

Yes, mister mayor. We have one in person, Karen, and then one on Zoom.

Looks like I tried to jump the gun, but thank you very much. This was an awesome presentation. I am the apartment manager in that area. I'm also president of TEAM, which is Test and Effective Apartment Managers. We all work together with, each other to make sure that we provide good housing to people in our neighborhood, also working closely with the police department. I am so excited about the possibility of having more parking. As a manager, when someone calls me and they're looking for an apartment, in order to qualify someone, I have to say, how many people are moving? Oh, and how many cars do you have? If they say they have one, I'm like, yay. But if they say they have two, I have to explain to them before they even come out.

We guarantee one assigned space. However, we'll give you a second permit as long as it's registered to someone on the lease and also with the promise that there may be times you won't find parking on the property. And I'm so grateful that this is being done. It's been a long time coming. I've been twenty nine years at my property. Been a resident of Tustin for twenty nine years this time around. Lived in Tustin previously. I love this city. I love everything you guys are doing. Thank you so much for giving us an opportunity to hopefully make it easier for our residents to have better parking. So thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Madam city clerk.

Yes, mister mayor. We have one request to speak on Zoom, John Gray. Alrighty.

Alright. So when I was in the meetings with Dixon, three items here. So the coordinator position, I feel can definitely be implemented by just simply adding the option in the Tustin app. You were able to add the option for street report street vendors. Basically, you have an option where you can rereport the traffic violations.

It goes to an admin. They can try to group them together, send them to parking enforcement, send them to custom PD, and then in their downtime, they can try to enforce this. This is kinda how you can get the RV situation under wraps, the red curve situation. When you have a pattern and a timestamp, an admin can group these together and send them to the resources you have now. As for the parking vendor option, one issue that happens right now is enforcement is only happening 4PM to 6PM.

The part time officers that are there, they start their shift. By the time they get out, they're starting at maybe 04:30, ending at 05:45. A lot of people who are not permitted to park on these permit streets have gotten wind of this. Many times we see them leave at four or 04:30 knowing that they're not gonna get cited because the parking enforcement is not gonna get there in time. When this happens, people don't have faith that why am I gonna need to spend money on a permit if they're not gonna enforce it?

This brings in less revenue, which gives us less money to pay parking enforcement more or have a vendor. So that's that's why when we were trying to get permits for ourself, we were asking for permit enforcement to start at twelve because we knew something like this was occurring. So, basically, there's no enforcement on the weekends. There's no enforcement after eleven. Those are ways that the program can be fixed right now and more resources can be implemented. Thank you.

Thank you. Madam city clerk. No more requests, mister mayor. Anybody else in the room?

We will close public input and bring it back to the council for discussion. I'm gonna start with council member Nielsen.

Thank you, mister mayor. The history of this area as far as parking goes, I think that it's needs a lot of help. You know, I live pretty much in that area, and I see it every day. It's rough. I see when I come home at night, I see, you know, folks that are working two jobs.

They come and they try and find a parking place, and they're, you know, ten, fifteen minutes away and have to walk. One of the major things that we certainly can do is provide lighting for those folks that are in that area for security and safety. And I'm sure the the, our police department would certainly be in favor of that. But a lot of these recommendations, particularly by staff and and by Dixon, who's who's done yeoman's work here, are are important. We need we're not gonna fix the problem, certainly, but at least we can put a dent in the problem.

At least we can make it a lot more manageable and make the lives of folks that, you know, are just trying to make a living, trying to pay their bills, and it becomes increasingly more difficult to do that, You know, particularly when you can't find a parking place at rush hour or if you have two jobs at night, particularly, try to come home and and, you know, have to walk a quarter of a mile to try and get back. It's tough. It's it's not easy. So a lot of these recommendations are are spot on. You know, just going over a couple of them.

You know, oversized vehicles, looking at a parking permit program that's fair to that particular neighborhood and districts there. And we would need all sorts of input from team and the apartment managers to help us try and put something like together, I think. Looking for a parking enforcement vendor where you know, that's one of the complaints I heard in in one of the outreach sessions that I attended was that, you know, we don't do anything, that we don't enforce it now. I understand I understand the problems that we have. You know, we can't be there twenty four hours a day.

But I think that if we have a parking vendor that's doing that and taking care of that, that people have more respect for the law. You know, having just spaces designated, having motorcycle cap end spaces where they're not taking up full auto spaces. I mean, there's a lot of different great recommendations here. And all the recommendations that staff and Dixon have provided here, I'm fully in favor of.

Thank you. Any other requests

to speak?

Comments? Councilmember Gallagher.

So I have a question. So I just overall comments. You can while while you're walking up, I'll I'll speak here for a second. Overall, I'm excited to see this. I'm glad that the residents have been participating in the process.

I know that was important at the outset of this process. So I appreciate hearing that from the community. So the shared use parking, I think, is a very clever way to help put a dent in this. But in looking at the boundary of this focus area, we're on the boundary with Santa Ana. And so my hope, and I guess this is a question, is that we're not looking at just commercial centers in Tustin, but also looking right across the border where it actually makes sense for the residents and maybe partnering with our peers at Santa Ana to help try to help get that through?

Question mark. Thank you for the question. There are certainly, and I'll bring up the kind of slide with the study area map here, there are certainly a lot of non residential properties immediately adjacent to the densest part of the study area across McFadden.

Yeah, that's what I was looking at. I mean those are all industrial. I've got to imagine a lot of those are open on the at night.

Right, your instinct is probably right. We surveyed the commercial and educational properties within and around the study area. So, we we know that there's plenty there, an opportunity there. In fact, from the residents that, participated in the outreach, of anecdotally, some of that is already happening. Now collaborating with properties across McFadden, across jurisdictions, I would imagine might introduce some complexities. Although to to your point, yes, there's a lot of parking out there that's not being

used at night. All I would ask is that we don't put our blinders on from the start. Look for the best solution. And if it means a little bit more work to pursue that, it might be worth it in the long run. And I think that's where we need to just yeah.

Just I know Dixon covered this in in one of the outreach sessions. And I think it's a great idea to try and pursue. One of the pitfalls they had brought up was the fact that Santa Ana has similar problems that we do. And so it gets to be very competitive on where those spaces are for whose residents. So just kind of keep that in mind as we progress through this.

Okay. And then my last question was, I'm confident we'll be able to make some progress here, but I think it's going to be about consistency and reviewing the results and adjusting. And so my question is, when will you be coming back? Is it twelve months to report back this is where it is and where we might pivot? Are you looking for me to tell you? Looking at my directory. It needs to be an adequate enough time for you to actually,

oh oh, sorry. I'm this right here in front

of you.

Yeah. Sorry.

Thank you, thank you, through the mayor. Yes, I think we will be phasing different things out at different times. So I don't want to speak for other departments. And if you'd like to hear from PD and Public Works, we can do that too. In terms of the pieces that are community development related, more outreach, Spanish materials, those kinds of things are simpler. We will initially dive in to figure out what would happen. How do we need to amend our code to handle these shared parking agreements or a re envisioning of these shared parking agreements. I would say by the end of the year, we should have a path forward on that. But I do think like a six month and a twelve month mark is probably a good cadence.

Okay. I heard twelve months.

Councilmember Fink?

I heard six months, actually. She said six.

To implement it.

But I do think that some of these will happen more quickly. Actually, that I'm curious because miss Smittle talked about the community development part, but I think the enforcement part might be in the police department area. And how long would it take to get a vendor, a contractor, for the enforcement piece of it?

Yeah. Well, can speak to that. Thanks, mayor and council members. So we'll touch base with our human resources department in terms of our liabilities and liberties in terms of bringing on a contract vendor to do our parking enforcement. And then after that it's a procurement much like we do other procurements, request for qualification. There's a handful of firms out there. We're not going to reinvent the wheel. There's neighboring cities that do this already. So we'll pick up the phone and call them and pick up templates so that we can do something. So I would think probably four to eight months to bring on somebody.

That's good. And by the way, the midpoint of that is six months, which is the same thing as It's forty eight months. I just want to comment because I appreciate all the work that's gone into this and the ideas. And it's not going to solve everything, but there's a lot of things that could do this. I think enforcement is key.

I've heard that from a number of of areas. So while I'd I'd be I I do want to see that happen more quickly. As a long term solution, I do think that once we see how it goes, these may be appropriate for permanent positions. But in the short term, we figure this out, I do think a contract provider is the way to go. I do want to note that I think it's important.

I realize what Mr. Maldonado is saying about the staff position, but there seems to me so much to do right now. If we could get if we had somebody who was proactively going to those commercial properties and marrying them up with the residences and I agree with council member Gallagher. Reach out to Santa. I know there's some political, you know, potential weirdness there.

But right across McFadden, that is industrial and they're not so close to the residential. And those may be good places. But also, obviously, within Tustin. So if we had somebody who was proactive about that, if we had somebody who was proactive about the permits, I agree that staff needs to be collaborating amongst the departments. But I think it's important to have a point person.

And whether that is a new position that's leading that or whether that is an existing person who's going to take that on in a leadership capacity from within or perhaps somebody who's sort of overseeing those departments to the city manager's office, I think that's important to have. Because, especially in the short term, we want somebody going out, kind of like we're doing I don't see Mr. Moncrief here this week, but kind of like we're doing with our real property development, attack this issue with the same vigor as we're attacking trying to develop a legacy and have somebody who's dedicated to that. I think it'll make a good inroads. Also, to note, a lot of these ideas, I know this is targeted on Southwest Tustin, and that is where the issue is.

And that's got to be the first priority. But a lot of these things are citywide, can be adopted outside of the area. So our enforcement vendors, parking permits, I don't think that we should limit this to Southwest Tustin. That's where we start. But I think a lot of these ideas go beyond the study area.

I mean, even some of these Newport Avenue was our red line here on the map. But it easily bleeds over to Red Hill all the way down to the train tracks. And a last point I'll make is alternative transportation. And I think Council Member Nielsen was really right about this, which is making it easier for folks to get from place to place. Lights, cleaning the sidewalks, keeping the sidewalks in good shape.

But like the planning commission said, active transportation is another alternative. And folks are looking for alternatives. It's another point where if we have an active transportation plan as a city, it will help address it would wrap in these issues and help address roots amongst the city, roots even from parking places to homes. I don't know if anybody else has experienced this. But I live on a street where a lot of people, at least before we had permits, would park and didn't necessarily live nearby.

And I have seen many times when people park, pull out their scooter, and scooter on home. And if they had safe routes to do that, it makes that easier. So this also calls out for us putting forward an active transportation plan. So I agree with all of this. I think we should move forward on all of this.

And I think we should move forward on having a staff person, either new or somebody at least for the next six to twelve months as we roll out these items, being the point person to go after this aggressively to really address these issues. Because it won't solve everything, but we'll hopefully make a dent in it, and then we'll see what the next set of solutions we have. Thanks.

Thank you. I'm going go to Mayor Pro Tem.

But first, I'm going move all of the recommended strategies and then see if I have a second.

I'll make a second.

Okay. Go ahead. Comment.

That's a good segue. So I think we're all in agreement here on the council that all the recommendations are excellent. The one thing I'd like to see and this is kind of echoing what council member Gallagher said is I'm hoping we don't have to wait to do everything at once. And we have to wait six or twelve months. But we could take a more phased approach, similar to what we've done with the Red Hill Corridor, where some of the initiatives that maybe aren't as much of a heavy lift, can start implementing sooner. For example, awareness of the permit program. We already have excellent public relations firm, JPW, that's doing outreach for the legacy. There's no reason why we can't add this to their remit to start increasing communication out to that neighborhood. Painting curbs, right? I don't know how expensive that is, but I'm sure that's a pretty simple fix.

And we could do that in an earlier phase as opposed, again, wait. I just don't want to see us hold off for six months or twelve months to start implementing some of these things when they could really be done much, much sooner. And then the last thing I'll say about expanded enforcement is, I think Mr. Gray had said, enforcement is between four and six. Is there any way and this is probably more a question for the chief of police is, is there a way to do spot enforcement, to stagger?

I know I live over by Peters Canyon. Sometimes when there's a lot of parking, especially during school hours where people are parking in places where they're not supposed to be, that there's an increased police presence to tow vehicles or ticket vehicles. Is there a way to change things up in these neighborhoods where you may be coming at 11:00 or 12:00 at night? You're ticketing vehicles or you're towing vehicles. You're putting some type of notification on the cars. So again, great recommendations. I'd like to see some of these executed much, much sooner. Thank you.

I'm gonna answer for the chief and say, yes, that's possible. Councilmember Nielsen.

Thank you, mister mayor. I think this is great. It's a great moment in the Southwest history to have this started and and moving forward. What I would suggest is to add to the motion that staff would come back with a timeline on implementation on each of these recommendations so we can take a look at what the time frame is there. And so have communication with the residents and maybe team to let residents know what's happening in both English and Spanish would be helpful. So I would add that, Mr. Mayor.

That was included in my motion. Is that included in your second? Sure. Yeah. Alright. Okay. Any further discussion?

Madam City Clerk, roll call, please. Councilmember Nielsen?

Yes.

Councilmember Rafiq?

Aye.

Councilmember Gallagher? Aye. May I approach them, Schnell?

Aye. Mayor Lumber.

Aye. And thank you very much to Dixon, law enforcement, and staff for pushing this forward. Okay. With that, we're gonna move on to other business. Mister city manager, do you have a report tonight?

Thank you, Mayor. Just some quick updates. The replacement bronze plaques for those that were stolen from Veterans Memorial at Veterans Sports Park have been received and will be installed at the latest this week. So it's nice to have the plaques and that they'll be in place for the Memorial Day remembrance activity that we have next week. Also, we're celebrating National Public Works Week. So our Test and Public Works team will join us at this Thursday's Sunset Market with their annual Touch a Truck event. So we're hoping people will come out and say hi to our team.

Thank you. Mister City Attorney, do you have a report?

No further report this evening.

Thank you. We'll bring it back to the council for our reports. Council Member Nielsen.

Thank you, mister mayor. Just a couple of things. It was on May 14. It was a great TCF mayor's event and, very well attended. It was great to see everybody out there enjoying great Zoe's food, and the mayor kept us all in line and made some great speeches there, so it was great.

Also, I was happy to be a auction item leading a ghost tour of Old Town Tustin, and I was able to get a $300 donation to TCF for that, which is $25 more than mayor pro tem Ray Chanel. So I just sad to say that. Sorry. So on May fifteenth through seventeenth, I attended the Lions International District Convention in San Diego, where your Tustin host Lions Club received more recognition from Lions International and from the international president for several of service projects, including lion Lions, vision screening event that was held at Columbus, Tustin that gave about 350 people new pairs of glasses for free. So, anyway, that is all I have for this evening, mister mayor.

Thank you. Council member Fink?

Thank you, mayor. Just a couple of notes. I attended along with council member Snell the opening of the AFC or the grand opening ribbon cutting ceremonial. They've been open for a while of the AFC urgent care over on Newport And Main Street, also known as the former Baskin Robbins location. Great facility.

And a note, especially as I am on Kaiser, but for those of you who are also on Kaiser, they take Kaiser insurance as well. So they take all forms of insurance there. So if you've got an urgent care need, it is a local resource there. I mentioned visiting the animal animal services facility on Saturday. I also had a community meeting, office hours, if you will, here at the library community room on Friday afternoon.

Had about half dozen people talking about what their interests and issues are in Tustin. There was one member of the community who attends the Tustin Presbyterian Church who's actually doing a study and was asking everybody about what they like about Tustin best and what needs improvement about Tustin the most. And I got a lot of good feedback, and I had to tell everybody I wasn't actually just planting that person. But I appreciate that. And and we'll we're working on actually we're working on all of those issues.

The consistent thing that came up amongst that group was that Dustin has a community that's unrivaled, that has the events and activities, nonprofits and organizations that you don't get in larger cities that surround us. And we are surrounded by also everything you can do. And the concerns that come up is making sure that we are thinking about our development, especially in Test and Legacy, and keeping that in place. So it was not unexpected, but it's good. Noting those positive things about Tustin, the sunset market is coming up Thursday.

I'll be there if you want to ask more questions or have input or other ideas. And also, just along that line, this is also historic preservation week. And I think that the Tustin Historical Society had a table out there. I think they've wrapped it up. But there's a bunch of other events, including open house at the Sunset Market.

There's events at Armstrong on Wednesday, cemetery tour on Friday, night at the museum on Saturday. So a lot going on in that realm. And finally, I just want to note thank the mayor. He and I talked to supervisor Wagner and supervisor Saramiento respectively. And we're helping secure some funds from their discretionary funds for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

But you'll probably see more fundraising for that to help spread that around. But I think we're hoping to roll that out, be the first place in Orange County where we and pretty much Southern California where the Dolly Parton Imagination Library comes. That's all I have, mayor. Thank you.

Thank you. Councilmember Gallagher.

So when our city manager announced public works week, I looked up. And to my surprise, there weren't any balloons falling down. There was no music playing. For the men and women who quietly ensure that our roads are cleared and use clean water when you open the tap. You deserve more. I'm sorry that Aldo wasn't able to deliver for you. I'm just kidding, of course. Thank you for at least recognizing it. I the point in time I wanted a couple of things. Point in time count summary came out.

This is when there's a a broad effort across the county to go out and count our sheltered and unsheltered populations across Orange County. And I did some math and Tustin my calculations are right. Tustin has one of the lowest unsheltered population per capita in the county. One of the lowest. And if you look at the sheltered versus the unsheltered, that ratio, we have one of the highest sheltered ratios.

And so I think that just speaks to the work that's being done in our community and I just wanted to highlight that to celebrate the wins as they come. The problem is not solved by any means but progress should be celebrated. And so I was encouraged to see those results. And then I did wanna highlight Tustin Community Foundation, not that my fundraising item raised more than yours because it did not, but it's a whiskey event, so it's gonna be more fun anyway, so it doesn't matter what it raised. But I did wanna highlight something. I thought this was interesting. The Tustin Community Foundation, this annual fundraiser, the mayor celebration is going on for years. There was a short period of time after COVID that it took a break. Prior to COVID, prior to 2020, that event raised about 10,000. It was the biggest fundraiser for Tustin Community Foundation.

This year, it raised $30,000. And that's a big deal because that money goes right back in the community. And so I see a lot of faces out there that were at the event. It was a great time, but also it serves a purpose. And so I appreciate the participation and support for that event. And last thing, we didn't have time to pull the item, but I did want to just thank those that are being reappointed. Aaron Brunner, Christy Martin, Metup, Paula Wall to the Public Art Commission, they do an awesome job. So thankfully they're coming back. And then our newest commissioner, Charlie Sorosi. It's a big deal. These commissioners do a lot of work in our community, and and we just wanna make sure that they got recognized.

Thank you. Mister mayor pro tem. Thank you.

On May twelfth and thirteenth, I attended the California Special District Leadership Academy down in San Diego. I did that for my service on the OC Cemetery District. Topics included good governance, best practices for public outreach and communication, as well as finances. And the good thing is applying it to the city of Tustin. We're doing all these things and more.

I'm really proud to be a part of the city council, proud to be a part of the OC Cemetery District Court. But it good to see the things that they were teaching electeds and those working the special districts that were applying those expansively here in the city of Tustin. On the fourteenth, I attended the TCA board meeting. We approved the fiscal year twenty twenty seven budgets, which in total are about $430,000,000 with a large portion of that going to the kickoff of the two forty one ninety one exchange. So shovels are supposed to be in the ground at the end of this year and then completion in three years.

It'll definitely help alleviate a lot of the congestion in the 24191 interchanged, and very happy to be on that that board to see it see it through. On May 14, also attended the ribbon cutting with council member Fink at AFC Urgent Care off Newport Boulevard. They are expected to serve about 10,000 plus residents during this next year. So another great facility to take care of the residents and keep us healthy here in the city. I also attended the mayor celebration.

Amazing event, great energy, tons of people. I did lose my bid. Thank you very much, Councilmember Nielsen. But I did also want to thank the mayor and Councilmember Gallagher's wives for all the work that they put into that event. They really are the magic behind the entire event. So I know you meant to mention that. But I'll thank your wife for you there, Councilmember Gallagher. And then also on the fourteenth, I had my 20 wedding anniversary. I spent the whole day at city functions. And what better way to do it than spend it with the mayor and all my fellow council members.

But I did go home to my wife, and we were able to celebrate a little bit. On May 19, I attended the OC Cemetery District Board meeting today, where we discussed the continued planning for the Gypsum Canyon Cemetery, which is going to be for first responders and for veterans. And then on May 20, doing a tour of the OC Global Medical Center. And then last but not least, I just wanted to let everyone know that on May 25, they're doing Memorial Day remembrance at Veterans Park from nine to eleven to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. So this year actually, second year that my dad will not be here.

He's a retired general from the Air Force. And when I was a little kid, I used to always confuse Veterans Day with Memorial Day. My dad would tell me I'm still here, so it's Veterans Day. Happy Veterans Day. But again, a second year that I want to have my dad with me. And I just want to, again, honor and remember all those who've served and, again, gave that ultimate sacrifice. And that concludes my comments.

Thank you. Real briefly, on May 7, I attended the Southern California Association of Government's General Assembly at the JW Marriott in Desert Springs, which is, I think, the biggest two day boondoggle of local government there is. It's a bunch of hanging out and talking to consultants, but I was there for seventy two minutes. I drove out. I went into general assembly, voted, and then left.

So I represented us, but I did not partake in any of the festivities. Some upcoming events here, we have the as mentioned by council member Fink, the Sunset Market returns this Thursday, May 21. It's every third Thursday of the month through September 17 from five to 08:30PM in Old Town Tustin. And then we have the sixth annual Memorial Day remembrance event as mentioned by the mayor pro tem, Monday, May 25 at 9AM at Veterans Monument at Veterans Sports Park to honor the legacy of our heroes. You do not need to register for that.

Come on by and celebrate with us and or pay homage. It's not really a celebration. It's the to pay homage. And then Tustin is is celebrating America, the two hundred and fifty years of independence. Flag dedications and art contest submissions are open until Thursday, June 11. For more information, please visit the city's website. With that, we will adjourn tonight's meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 06/02/2026 for the closed session meeting at 04:30PM and the regular business meeting at 6PM. Thank you. Have a good night.