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So this is of interest. This might be an opportunity to really rejoice and unite a lot of religious leaders and the community as a whole.

The finale event for the city's anniversary would be an anniversary celebration. This would include fireworks, music, the backdrop and the photographers, some giveaways for the community, an inflatable giant cake. and then the community was very clear about being inclusive and making sure that the food that is provided reflects the community of the city which would be truly an international food festival and the lineup of entertainment would also be you know a variety of musical genres so that's the that would be the finale

I do want to just point out to you all that the city's founded date was October 27th of 1869 and I believe there's records that show there's a time stamp of that record as well and so we can add a time capsule or some special moment on that specific time as well.

Julie, I don't know if we could talk to the folks upstairs but I just got a text from a a constituent that only the Spanish version of the audio is coming through at home on people's TVs. What you're saying in English, they can't hear anything. So not for you, I guess, but for the AV people up there, something went wrong with the signal. Julie, maybe you can speak in Spanish.

Or both. Go back and forth. Okay, I'll get to the end and then we'll go in Spanish. Sure, absolutely.

Hear the English.

Just to keep going in the sake of time, I'll try to wrap this up. For the promotion and the marketing of the city's anniversary, because 150 years is a big birthday or a big celebration, a consideration was to rewrap the water tower so that it has a more regional effect. Another idea is to vinyl wrap with a really beautiful mural, something that says Santa Ana welcomes you on the bridge that exists on the 5 freeway between Santa Ana Boulevard and 17th Street there's an image there that you can see it probably could use a little help there and then I see that

though I'm sorry it it's it's between Santa Manna Boulevard and 17th Street the next time you're on the 5th.

Well, maybe later you can put something out that's a little clearer.

The next element for the promotion and marketing would be banners across the city. We can situate the banners at the different corridors and the entrances of the city, and then also in some areas that don't have a lot of attention as well. We have several marquees throughout the city, and we can capitalize on using those marquees and making sure that folks know about the events, know that it is their 150th anniversary, and that it will lead to the big celebration. Of course, step and repeat in social media would be utilized as well.

There has been many requests to purchase some giveaways or some swag, if you will, particularly a commemorative coin. It's hard to see in this image here, but that coin in the center there is from when the city turned 100 years, and that says 1969, and that image was provided and shared by the community. Somebody that attended the 100th anniversary as well.

Last week, the community was presented with several logo designs, and the community identified the following two designs. The first one, the circular one on the left, that's navy blue, That one really showcases well on print and on computer graphics and so on. But the second logo prints well on gear, T-shirts, hats, and so on and so forth. So that's why both the community decided to go with both.

A few other suggestions, and maybe the council, if you have ideas and suggestions to share as well. There was one slogan that resonated well with the community, which was acknowledging the past, celebrating the future. And then there's a couple of other options there. The one at the bottom that says started in Santa Ana, made in Santa Ana, educated in Santa Ana. Sorry for that title.

Hashtags would be utilized via social media. And the one that was most popular was hashtag SA150.

As I conclude, I just want to identify some of the final steps or the next steps. Part of the city's budget incorporates funding for these anniversary events. I believe the funding request is at about $150,000, which is, you know, and then the next step would be, if funding is approved, the next step would be to establish the stakeholder committee. of about five to seven members. This would include stakeholders such as the school district, Santa Ana College, and the Chamber, and a couple of nonprofits, or people that are very interested and have a lot of history with the city,

could contribute and make sure that we uphold all of the goals and objectives. The third step would be to order the promotion and marketing materials, such as the banners, develop a webpage that identifies the series of events, And then finally, if all goes well, we can move forward in launching the events and conclude with the grand finale celebration, perhaps a video that captures the year's events and move forward.

At the community meetings, I shared the following information because I think it was important that residents and businesses and visitors keep in touch with the city and we have a variety of ways to keep in touch. but something that was made clear from the community was that we just can't market via social media or electronic forums that it's very important that we have large banners that we have posters and we have hard copy flyers at community centers libraries and you know places that are very popular such as in total market the library I said that already and and other than Northgate

super grocery stores and so on and with that mayor and council my presentation Thank you. Any questions?

Councilmember Sarmiento?

Thank you. Thank you, Julie. Long time no see. It's nice to see you again. I'm glad you're heading up this effort.

There's so much to talk about for that period of time that it's difficult to encapsulate everything. But one of the things I think that we've always tried to celebrate is also our architectural history, right? We're one of the few cities that really does try to make a strong effort to preserve our older buildings, and we do that through the Mills Act and other efforts in just preserving that. So to the extent we can highlight that, that would be a great way to continue celebrating what we've done, how we've preserved some of those old buildings.

Old City Hall is now converted into an ad agency, and just different homes and neighborhoods in the city is really important. And equally, or if not more important, is the fact that we're an extremely diverse city. And when you think about it, we're 80% Latino, 50% of us are foreign-born. There's a large Vietnamese community. There's a large Cambodian Laotian community. So those are things to me that more than sometimes structures are important, as I just said. those people's lives who spent here, generations of residents and stakeholders that have been part

of the city's history would be really important. So the music, not just the food, but the music and just the symbolism of what we have in the city, like Calle Cuatro. People know that, I remember 50 years ago when my family arrived, or over 50 years ago when we arrived, you had an Army-Navy store, you had a J.J. Newberry store down on 4th, you had different things and how it's evolved over time it's gone through different generations and you see a different view of what 4th street is um and you just see you know things that used to be fashion square are now main place you know and and different things like that so that sort of

nostalgia i think is a really good it's a really good opportunity to celebrate that nostalgia right now because very few cities have that legacy that we have so um doing it in a multicultural way in a multi architectural way, just different ways to really highlight how we've evolved and the city's always been relevant in things and it continues to be the county seat, continues to be the most important city in the county. So those are all those, it's a moment for us to tell and define our own story. So I'm glad you're leading up the effort, so thank you for all the good work.

Thank you, council member, who wants to go first?

David PenalozaItem —

I'll go.

Go ahead.

David PenalozaItem —

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Julie, thank you so much for the presentation. I know you've been working very, very hard on this the last couple of months, and I appreciate it. We've had a couple meetings to give you my input and whatnot. I do want to thank Councilmember.

Did you like the inflatable cake?

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I do like the inflatable cake. That's the favorite part. You're going to jump out of it. If I could pop out of it, along with the mayor, that'd be great.

Nobody's popping out of the cake.

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Get me out of that. So volunteer. Yeah, since I think he was here at the 100th, right?

No, I wasn't.

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I'm kidding. But I do appreciate what Councilmember Salminto said. I know we talked briefly about the banners. And if we're going to have these out throughout the city, I would like to see a theming to each part of the city. Have some in Spanish and English. Have some in Vietnamese and English. Have it play to the neighborhoods that are around where these banners would go up. I know that's going to cause for more designs and additional designs, but theming along each of the banners for specific areas of the city would be great.

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If we really want to incorporate the various cultures and diversity that really make up our history and city would be fantastic. And I didn't see anything. I might have missed it. Fiestas Patrias. Was that included in the?

It was. It's just a really small. I added all the images. Okay, perfect.

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Because that's another area where we can definitely celebrate our culture and our diversity, along with what my colleague said, with not just the food, but the music. If we're going to have dancers, have the dragons and the baile folkloricos, incorporate everything as much as we can. I'd really like to see that. But thank you. I just wanted you to have my support in these events. I like them so far. Let's keep it up. And that's it. Thank you.

I can just address something very briefly. So the Bowers Museum and the Heritage Museum both have compiled a collection of historical photos and both have agreed to share those with the city. If, you know, all goes well and then we can move forward with the collection of events, not only can we share those via social media and the website and then refer people to the Heritage Museum, the Bowers Museum, but also incorporate them into the banners, incorporate them into the marquees and some of the marketing materials so that we,

and then in doing so, we'll collaborate with the various cultures and communities so that we can engage them or re-engage them and make sure that we can include them into those festivities such as Fiestas Patrias.

Check in with First American Title. They have a lot of photographs of the city. They have them archived, so it's just a beautiful assembly of photographs that they've kept over the years.

And just one other little tidbit. So I get very excited about this project. So the new owners of the Spurgeon Building have agreed to play the birthday song on October 27th from the clock tower and are looking into doing a little other variety of things to celebrate the city. So people are very excited about this whole opportunity.

Thank you.

Thank you. All right, Councilman Jose Solorio.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Fantastic presentation. We missed you on the eighth floor, so you're a little bit farther away, but we really all appreciate the work you're doing. Thank you. I appreciate the variety of groups that you're doing outreach with. Appreciate that really for about six months you've been collecting ideas and and you kind of made it all make sense, and that attention to detail to everybody's input is appreciated. Along the same line of photos, sometimes too we have families or businesses, they may have their own photos. So maybe there's a way that they can upload photos, or maybe send them to one of those two museums

that you mentioned about.

Throwback Thursday, hashtag.

Yeah, and then I know for some of the events, Maybe we can pick one or two that may have more of a countywide appeal to it. Because back to the, you know, started in Santa Ana, really a lot of families got their start here, their business is here, they still feel connected here. And some, I think, would like to come back or they work here and they still feel like they're part of the city. So let's think about that. Like the idea of cars, and you might have also mentioned, you know, people in dress, if they can come from different points in time, that would be good.

But on the historical tours that we've discussed before, there's a lot of positive things. There are some not so positive things, and I think we need to begin documenting those things better. And through the museum, the Heritage Museum and the People's History of Orange County, they already are doing a lot of great work. And then finally, and really an opportunity through the regional signage program we did with the Cube at the last meeting, we can now ask the Cube to consider placing some of our advertisements. And imagine if we had on the Cube, you know, a big ad, 150th of the year for, you know, hopefully a good amount of time.

In the past, that really wasn't possible. And, you know, I mentioned in part, you know, it was because the city wanted to do a drought theme and they were told no, that, you know, I kind of felt, well, you know, let's figure out how we can create a win-win situation. So now they have legalized signage on the Cube that they didn't have before. And the city has opportunities to promote positive things. And hopefully this will be one of them. And through the city manager, maybe you all can coordinate as to at least maybe one or two things for the year that we could advertise on the Cube.

And I would say that for this year, this should be it. And hopefully the Cube will say, yes, they will be supportive of that advertisement. Thank you.

Thank you.

Before you leave, just a couple comments. May there could be something by the historians in town that could be of a written nature. So it could go on the internet, people could read about significant events in the city over the decades and the years, because a lot has happened. One little note, something I just ran into right now, is the fact that the word sesquicentennial is actually not as old as a city. It only began to be used in 1880 in Baltimore. And so the city began before that word even was coined by anybody.

and it means a sesquy is a chemical term that means a three to two ratio i.e. one and a half so they they they trim the one and a half with centennial and they come up with a word for the for the 150th anniversary and the celebration that we're about to have so um look there's so much rich history in the city uh in particular things like the streetcar which now is coming back what existed before. It's just an opportunity to recap highlights over the decades. Yes, please.

And I don't know if you covered this before I got here, but when you're doing your, I guess, marketing and outreach, are you reaching out to the school districts? Like to Garden Grove Unified and also Santa Ana Unified School District? And then Orange and then Teston, I think-

And the charter schools as well.

And the charter schools, you're reaching out to them so they could help us market. Yes, ma'am. Because it would be nice, because I know many of the public schools, they have marquees, and maybe they could help promote 150th.

Yes, it would be very important to have an opportunity with the marquees at the school districts because of the traffic that flows in, but also so that they understand and they know what events are coming up.

Yeah, and then another group that I've always brought up is like the churches. Have you reached out to them and engaged them too in the conversation so they could help us to promote it with their congregations?

The invitation to the community meetings last week includes a variety of religious organizations and local churches. But that list is not all inclusive. And so if there is another opportunity or contact that you could share with me, I'd be more than happy to make sure to extend that invitation. but with the blessing of the city if that moves forward that might be a really good opportunity to gain momentum.

Okay yeah so if we can incorporate reaching out to them. Absolutely.

All right thank you. Thank you and I just will distribute the memo for the mayor and council that outlines the events and it has the budget as well.

One quick thing if I may say I didn't see but I've seen like you know like for the summer like a fan maybe I'm a fan of Santa Ana or something. That would be a good one.

That's a great idea. As you come across those ideas, please feel free to share the information with the city manager or, you know, their designee.

Thank you. Our next presentation is by Councilmember Vince Sarmiento.

And then followed by Councilmember Jose Solorio.

Never know which microphone is on. Isadora?

Yes.

So speaking of celebrations, I've got the honor of making this next, my remarks on the proclamation that we're going to be presenting to Isadora Santos, the Director of Operations of Pride OC. So this month is LGBT Pride Month. And speaking about the city's history and its diversity and all the beautiful things that we have to offer, we also celebrate diversity when it comes to LGBT and our community here. and thank you for being with us and I know that we certainly take a lot of pride in being inclusive and being embracing and so this is a great moment

for us to be able to be not only the leaders in this because I think our community was the first one to celebrate Harvey Milk Day in the county and I know now we have other cities like Anaheim and Fullerton and Costa Mesa and others that have come forward to also celebrate that so it's great to be in a not only in a city but in a county that's now starting to realize diversity is a very, very important thing to celebrate. And for me, it's especially important that we celebrate this month because we still know that we have many of our youth that are struggling with alienation, isolation,

they're being discriminated against. They have a very difficult time with folks judging them and folks, unfortunately, making them feel very unwanted. And I think what we are as a city, if we're trying to define ourselves, if these 150 years that we've been in existence means anything, it's to say we accept everybody. And more than anything, this is a safe space. Santa Ana is a place where we'll protect your rights, we'll protect your interests, we'll protect your decisions, and that's the kind of community we are, and that's what we celebrate today. More specifically, I think what we do here is we fly the flag,

the flag and we do that for the entire month of June and we do it month wide and I think you know that I owe that all and we owe that all to some advocates that have been very very dedicated to doing that. Friends like Darren and Dave and you know Desi Reyes and others who really fought really hard for these rights to be implemented here at the city so I celebrate them, they're neighborhood leaders all over town that have been strong advocates of our efforts. And LGBT Pride Month promotes equality and community while standing against discrimination and violence.

This month is celebrated in honor of 1969 Stonewall Riots, the beginning of the modern LGBT rights movement. The OC Pride works to unite and empower the LGBTQ community and celebrates the culture and the traditions. OC Pride provides a safe and supportive environment for the LGBTQ community, and the first OC Pride Festival was held here in Santa Ana in 1989. This year will be the 30th anniversary, so it's especially important for us to make sure that we're all out there. The festival will be on June 22nd. We'll feature live music and a parade in memory of Blaze Bernstein.

and this year's festival we're expecting more than 20,000 people to attend and to celebrate here in Santa Ana so it's a great thing that it's held here we're home to the parade we're home to the celebration people realize that again this is a community that embraces all of us and so it's going to be a great event here to accept the certificate is Isadora Santos she's the director of Pride OC we want to thank her and the organ and her organization for their dedication to this community and supporting diversity within it. And you know I just want to say the celebration, the parade, it's an opportunity and it's symbolic of making sure

that we all are out there standing together. You don't have to be LGBTQ to be part of the parade, you could be somebody who obviously celebrates that diversity and I think that's the important thing, that's the point here of all this. So Isadora, if you don't mind taking the floor and saying a couple of words and letting us know what we're going to expect

this weekend hi everyone thank you for having us thank you councilman for presenting us with this proclamation i'm very honored to represent oclgbt pride here today this is our pride week prior pride festival is this saturday on june 22nd as was just mentioned we are so excited to celebrate our 30th year of doing this festival here. We have an interesting history. OC Pride started here about 30 years ago, and it was almost shut down.

And so it's nice to see being recognized by city councils and other cities within our county to see how far we've come with our relationship with the community. So we highly encourage everyone to come out to our event, whether you identify as LGBTQ or not. We'd love to see you. Come by, get to know us, see our diversity, come enjoy all the performances and all the entertainment that we have lined up. We have a family fun zone, so it's absolutely a family-friendly event. We also have a concert that goes on in the evening, hosted at the Yost Theater. We have so much going on, something for everybody.

So we absolutely welcome everyone. And this week, throughout the city and within the county, we have many different events. Tonight being our drag bingo event. Tomorrow we have dance night at Velvet Lounge. Thursday is our screening of Two Wong Fu at the Frida Cinema in downtown Santa Ana. And then Friday we have another event at Velvet Lounge, all concluding at our parade and festival on Saturday. Thank you.

Let's give Isadora a big round of applause for that summary.

So this isn't just a simple certificate of recognition. It's actually a proclamation recognizing LGBT Pride Month on behalf of the city of Santa Ana. So the great thing about this, and my honor, is to know that Santa Ana has always been at the forefront of progressive efforts like this. And I know this was started years ago, and it's my honor to continue that legacy and hand this to you because we do this on behalf of not only the city, but all members of our community that celebrate this month.

And as opposed to going through all the whereases, I simply want to state that LGBT Pride Month urges all the residents to celebrate the diversity of Santa Ana while promoting respect for all people by standing against discrimination. I think that says it well. So thank you, Isadora. So please accept this in honor of everybody who fights the good fight, celebrates our city, and celebrates diversity. Thank you very much.

Let me put this down.

Next we have Council Member Jose Solorio.

I'm excited about this presentation we've been wanting to do it for a while I've been very involved with our local Boys and Girls Club for many years and every year there's you know a big competition really it's a national competition for youth of the year per club And today I'm really pleased to introduce to you this year's Youth of the Year, Anna Gonzalez. Give her a big round of applause.

Annually, the local club and others recognize inspiring teams that have incredible journeys and that are leaders locally, statewide, and nationwide. might. And this year our local club chose a St. Anna resident Anna Gonzalez for the honor. She is a senior and just graduated just a couple of weeks ago from Middle College High School here in St. Anna. She's a 4.0 student. And as you know when you're at Middle College you can take community college courses. So she received in addition to her you know

regular high school diploma she earned 75 college credits she received two associates degrees you know all in four years so it's so it's just amazing the thing that she did yes and that itself deserves some applause she also has good news on where she got accepted to college and she's made a choice I'm gonna let her tell us you know when she starts she's been as you guessed that you know student of the month many, many times and received honors in departments ranging from algebra to drama, biology, reading, PE. She's a natural born leader as well, has great social

and interpersonal skills and works well with other youth. In addition to being the Orange County Youth of the Year, she was also a finalist for the California Statewide Youth of the year she's an example of the type of determination and grit that some of our students have and her academic achievement also does not go unnoticed we're recognizing Anna today with the hopes that her story will inspire you and inspire other young people in town so on behalf of the mayor entire City Council we recognize you we thank you and we wish you well and we want to know where you're going to college let's give a round of applause first

So my name is Anna Gonzalez. I'm actually going to head to UC Berkeley in the fall. Go Bears!

And a little bit about myself, like a little back story about myself. So I've lived in Santa Ana my whole life. I traveled through elementary schools, through middle school here in Santa Ana. and throughout my life, you know, my family's always been, like, financially unstable, and with the help of the Boys and Girls Club, I was able to, like, get free SAT prep, I got fee waivers, I got one-on-one counseling with my college-bound advisor, and through this program, I actually did also, like, community service,

and without them I know I wouldn't be able to say that I'm actually going to head up to UC Berkeley especially because I'm a first generation high school and college student. So like, thank you.

So my parents have like no background about like what college or what high school looked like. So with the help of my advisor at the Boys and Girls Club, I, yeah, I'm going to head up to a four-year institution. Thank you.

Isn't that fantastic? We're so proud, and we know that you've inspired a lot of people around you, and realize that community, really, there's nothing more important that we can do than invest in that young person. You're an example of what the right investments, the right groups to support. Sky's the limit. Congratulations again.

If someone could call the mayor forward. There we go.

Okay, with the indulgence of the council, I just want to pull one item briefly out of order. We've got a couple requests, and then we'll continue with our regular agenda. And the item is 75D. I think it's pretty basic. It talks about this is a time and place for the public hearing, adopting vehicle miles travel thresholds such that we're in conjunction with CEQA. So I'll open up the public hearing, seeing no staff presentation. I'll close it. Are there any questions from council? If not, I'd entertain a motion.

Do you have a question?

And just for clarification, this is just for us to be in compliance with what the state is requiring of us to do.

It's to implement the local guidelines, Councilmember.

Yeah, okay. And then so the local guidelines, we already have it, how it's going to be rolled out? I think that's where my questions and concerns come.

So this action would implement those local guidelines so we'd be in full compliance with the way that we conduct traffic analysis for CEQA.

Okay. I just, I mean, I don't agree with them, but in order for us to be in compliance, I guess we...

Any written requests to speak on this item from the clerk?

None have received. All right.

I will close the public hearing and bring it back to council for consideration. Is there a motion?

Motion approved.

We have motion and a second. Those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. You want to vote this way? All right. Just push the green button. Everybody push the green button.

May your council please cast your vote?

Pardon?

May your council please cast your vote?

We're trying.

All right, we're able to push a button.

Thank you all. 6-0. Passes.

Now we're going to go back to the regular portion of the calendar.

I know there is a request to pull item 11A regarding, I believe, Council Member Vince Sarmiento's request from the clerk. can you articulate what you need please yes thank you mayor and council why don't you speak up

at the june 4th meeting mayor announced a vote of 5-1 salario dissenting for 75d at that time it is now being considered as a second reading in reviewing the video it appears council member cemento descended and i would like to for council member sarmiento to clarify

So I shouted at the top of my lungs, but nobody heard. Not loud enough. I guess I have to shout louder. I was a dissenting vote on that first reading. So for clarification of the record and the minutes, yes, it was a dissenting vote on that matter.

Thank you, I will take that into the record. Thank you.

So now let's continue. Do you have anything to report out of closed session from the city attorney?

Sonia R. CarvalhoItem —

Mayor and council members, we do have a few reportable items. On the D.C. Minor versus City of Santa Ana, the city council approved a settlement in the amount of $450,000 by a four to one vote, with council member Iglesias voting no and council member Sarmiento absent. In the second matter of Jesus Martinez versus the city of Santa Ana, the council approved a settlement in the amount of $185,000 by a vote of four to one, with council member Iglesias voting no and council member Sarmiento absent. Finally, the City Council authorized a purchase of property related to the streetcar project

Sonia R. CarvalhoItem —

and approved this purchase by a 6-0 vote in the amount of $1,164,500. And that is all the reportable action that I have.

Thank you. So with that, I will go to the next item, which Madam Clerk, I believe that's a consent calendar.

That's correct. Consent calendar.

Do we have any questions on the consent calendar? Councilor Solario. Yes, I'd like to pull item 11B just to make a comment. Okay. Any other item? If not, I'd entertain a motion on the balance. Move the balance.

Second.

Okay, push the green button.

I have to tell you how to vote.

See, everybody listen.

We're good, we can go somewhere now.

All right, so with that, item 11B, Councilmember Solorio, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and it was nice seeing all that green up there. So I didn't support this item the last time. I do plan on voting for it today, but I just want to communicate the theme from the last time. And I know there'll be other ways that this project will come back at different points in time. I just do feel it's a very large project and I'd like to have continued dialogue with the developers and others regarding the community workforce and local hire agreement. What the community benefits agreement, what's going to look like.

We have a lot of issues with Santiago Creek and I'd like everybody in that area to be considerate of how we can help. And then finally, they're neighbors to the Discovery Science Center and And there are parking needs, short term and ongoing. So to the extent that there could be shared parking arrangements between both, that would be fantastic, especially given that-Start the clock, please. Part of this project also includes a children oriented wing to main place. So again, conceptually, great project, I'm all for it. I'd just like to see more work in those areas for the benefit of the community. Thank you.

Thank you for that. councilman vince armiento please thank you and as i uh clarified the minutes from the last meeting i did dissent on the initial vote but i am going to support it on the second reading and i want to thank and congratulate the um the uh applicants and um those with main place i know that there there's been a gc that's been retained and i understand that the gc is going to try to work and employ as many of our working families here in town and in the county so that's really what my effort was it is a very big project i'm looking forward to it and i just urge you as you go

through the next few phases that you engage with some of our other trades that do great work and have done great work in the city many of them are our residents i know your um your gc works with the laborers with the um you know with other uh trade organizations so to the carpenters and others um so to the extent that you continue that outreach to them that's something that you know we certainly see is a good faith step. We're all looking forward to a great project. These folks will make your project even greater.

So look, I'm happy to see it go from what it was when it was originally Fashion Square. So as we celebrate the city's history, you'll see that it was kind of an outdoor area to begin with. It's done full circle. So in any event, I want to thank you and congratulate you for the good decisions that you're making so far. Just continue reaching out to our folks in the trades. That would be great. Thank you, and with that, I'll support this project as well.

All right, let me entertain a motion.

Move to Adam.

Is there a second? Second. Okay, your motion is second. Okay, everybody can vote green, but you can go red if you want.

All right, everybody vote, whichever way you want.

Uh-oh, Councilorio again abstains.

This is complicated. Just push the green one.

He's trying to, he could control two votes this way, you know. All right, we have to all vote again or just him? All right, see this is going to be complicated.

All right, we got it.

60A is our next item and I'll call on Mayor Potem-Villegas.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to ask our city manager if they could clarify what this item's about. I know we spoke, it was transfer funds to cover the office of the city manager. And we went from 64,000, which was mentioned, a number that was mentioned a while back. It grew to a larger amount. If you could just explain it to me now in front of my colleagues, why the number grew?

Certainly, Mayor Pro Tem. We anticipate that we are going to end the year over budget in the city manager's office and And also in the non-departmental. The primary causes for the overage is related to several severance and leave payouts that occurred during the fiscal year that were not budgeted in the city manager's office. So the former city manager had a settlement agreement that included a severance package and leave payout. As you know, as employees accrue leave, it's an obligation when they separate that you compensate them for those leave hours.

There were two other departures from the city manager office that also had substantial leave payouts. That's the cause for the estimated overage. So this item is a recommendation. I don't need additional dollars. I have found other departments that have savings. So the request is just to transfer general fund dollars from one department to another department to cover the projected shortfall so that it can end the year in compliance with the budget.

So how come they didn't catch this ahead of time? Just a few months, I don't mean yourself, I know you weren't here.

I believe what might have been confusing is I think at the time that they brought forward my contract for your consideration, they had a 60 something thousand needed for my contract. And that was for my contract for the remainder of the fiscal year. It wasn't actually what was needed to make the department whole in its entirety. So I think there was some confusion.

Thank you for clarifying that. Thank you very much.

I'd entertain a motion.

Mr. Mayor, I have a comment. Yes, go ahead. Just to add that I think when that discussion occurred, unfortunately that day our budget director and human resources director weren't in the room, so there were some questions about really what the total benefit costs were going to be, how much in the red it might go, and at that time there wasn't an interest in having a conversation on whether there'd be an appropriation required. So we're now here months later resolving it.

Thank you for that.

I'll make a motion.

Let's put that into our 150th anniversary significant event explanation document. So with that, we have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Those in favor, please say aye. I guess we have to vote. All right, press whatever button you want to press.

We're getting good at this. All right.

Next item, Madam Clerk.

I'd like to call up Mr. Timothy Johnson to administer the office.

Okay. Timothy Johnson, are you present? Let's get you sworn in before you change your mind. Come around.

I, Tim Johnson, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear truth and faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California, that I take this obligation

freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, that I will faithfully

discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter thank you why don't you come around shake hands with the council members

congratulations

Tim is going to be the mayoral representative to the measure X committee we didn't state that early I don't believe So that's what he's going to be doing. Thank you for serving, Tim. So now on an item, I believe it's 60 B as in boy?

That is correct.

Do I have a motion on the item? I have a comment. Please go ahead.

Thank you. I just had a quick couple of questions for staff. And I know that the city manager did a very good job in explaining some of the background to me earlier today. So just for clarity and for the record, this big number, 8 million, and I understand that we have an alternative recommended action to either adopt as recommended or to go out and procure for security services, but maybe we can do both, right? So to the extent that we know we have an urgency and it's time sensitive that we have some staffing at our parks, just because we know that they do need those services.

Could we also procure on a parallel path? In other words, extend the contract that we have with the existing security company, and at the same time, circulate the request for proposals from other firms to see if anybody is available. I assume that the contract, if we find another bidder that maybe bids less or maybe is more effective or ranks higher, we can always terminate the existing amendment, correct?

Correct, council members. So the way that the recommendation is worded, it was either do the amendment or authorize us to do an RFP. But I really like your suggestion because it is a substantial amount of money and time sensitive. So if you approve the amendment, we can deploy the security services to the park. And parallel, we can go out for an RFP and see if there is a more cost-effective method. Should we find one, all we have in the current agreement is just a 30-day termination noticing requirement.

Great. And the way this extension is drafted and recommended by staff, it's three one-year extensions, is that correct?

Correct, so there was an initial three-year term that started in 2017 and then there's two additional one year.

Got it. So with that background, I'll make an amended motion that we support the recommended item number one, recommended by staff, but include item number two, which is to also begin an RFP process.

Second.

Okay, lady first, council member.

So just for clarification, then is it going to be, we're just going to extend it just for one month then, one and a half month? Because the way you have presented to us for the RFP, it's expedited. And it would be August 1st to begin implementation of new services.

No, my understanding is what Councilmember Sarmiento is requesting is that we approve the amendment. And so we have it in place, so we have security deployed in the parks. And we go about doing a full competitive RFP process. And if we find another company that has better services and more cost effective and we enter into a contract with them, then we would provide termination notification to Ally. That time period could be significantly longer than a month.

How long would that be?

Probably best practice, maybe three to four months.

So then at four months, then with me, For me, I just feel that it's not a fair opportunity for others who are out there that could do this, provide these services for the city. So I like the recommendation that you can do an expedited and if Allied got it, truthfully, I mean, rightfully through the RFP process, then I wouldn't have an issue because it was a transparent process, gave everyone an opportunity. But here it seems that we're giving someone another extension to provide services that other capable companies are out there that could come and provide this. So I don't see it as transparent at all.

I just feel that the best way to do it would be with providing an RFP and expedited. You already have it written up. You can just let it go out into the public and the public can respond whether they're interested or not. And if they're not interested, if they're the only ones that apply, then we gave everyone an opportunity.

I understand your concerns and it was presented as either an amendment or an expedited RFP but I think the suggestion that's before you is it's the best of both words. It will get the security guards out into the parks sooner and we can still be competitive and determine the best provider.

Do we have a scope of services already or what we're expecting them to do?

Well, we have the scope of services that are included in the amendment for allied's contracts, so yes we do.

So it's just, okay, just for me, I'm not comfortable with it, because I know we're just giving somebody, I guess, a benefit just for having been providing service already, which is automatically, 667,000 is a lot of money. And I believe it's something that we should not be taking it lightly, that we should competitively bid it.

All right, we have a motion and a second. More comment, yes, Councilor Pantaloz and then Solorz.

David PenalozaItem —

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Madam City Manager, I just wanted to, I know we kind of touched on it briefly, but I just wanted more clarification on this as well because we're looking at a contract that's $2.6 million a year in security guards. How many security guards are we talking about yearly combined with all these properties that we're seeing? Because I know that 667,000 is what's being asked for to add to the contract, but that's only going to provide six security guards. I mean, where do I apply? Because that's over 100 grand per security guard.

David PenalozaItem —

It just doesn't, it seems like a lot of money for very little in return. Especially, I mean, $8 million for three, I mean, it's a lot of money for security guards. I just don't know if we've been, I mean, do you have the number of how many security guards that covers?

I'll ask if staff has information on the total amount of security guards. I know for this particular amendment, it is six security guards roving each one of the different districts, 365 days a year.

There are 35 security guards.

David PenalozaItem —

35 security guards? Yes. Currently?

Yes.

David PenalozaItem —

Yes. For, and that's what $2.6 million gets us?

I believe so. And I have the allied representatives here that I can bring up if you have questions.

David PenalozaItem —

Yeah, I would just like to maybe not take up too much time today, but I also had suggested when we brought this up is branding the security guards that these parks would, where these security guards would be with our own Santa Ana uniform. Again, I feel like with the community that's using the parks, they would see more authority and respect towards a Santa Ana logo on a security guard's uniform versus just a private company. I don't know if that conversation was ever had with the allied representatives

David PenalozaItem —

about potentially branding these security guards with our city uniforms?

No, that was not in the scope. However, I'd like to bring up a representative to talk about what they're going to be doing as far as uniforms and their vehicles.

David PenalozaItem —

Please.

Please. Answer your question in regards to, sorry. To answer the question regarding the staffing levels. So right now we are currently doing the existing business, which is about 27 guards total. With the addition, it will be a total of 35 if the amendment is being included.

Can you state your name for the record, please?

My name is Steve Nacef. I'm the general manager of Allied Universal Security Services in Orange County.

David PenalozaItem —

So say that again. You said you're going to, you currently have 35.

We currently have a 27 today prior to this amendment, a proposed amendment. With the amendment, we'll be total of 35 for the total cost.

David PenalozaItem —

And just because of the cost is so high, how much of that money trickles down to the actual security guards and the services we're getting versus the percentage that stays within allied services?

So we did not change our markups or percentages from our existing contract. We maintained that. The only change we changed is the wages to maintain wages above the California, increased minimum wages over the past few years, as you understand, as well as there's a significant cost because we're absorbing all the costs of the vehicles, maintenance, and fuel that's included in that $600,000, I believe $77,000 for that amendment. So that's cost of that. But the majority of the cost is our labor. So it's about 70% of the overall cost is actually labor, for the labor cost itself.

David PenalozaItem —

So 70% of this total contract includes labor?

Vehicles, taxes, uniforms, everything. This is a direct overall cost, not to exceed cost. So we're covering all the costs.

David PenalozaItem —

And then just allied services just retains that 30% for the profit?

Not for profit. That includes our taxes, overhead costs, uniform costs, everything. So we have the wages spec'd out. in our proposal and this shows you the wages and the bill rate compared to that. And then in terms of that markup, it covers all of our overall costs.

David PenalozaItem —

And would these additional security guards in our parks, since they'd be more visible to the community, everyday use, would you guys be open to possibly having them branded with City of Santa Ana uniforms?

To a certain degree. However, the State of California mandates that our private security be branded with our company for identification purposes. So we might be able to add the city of Santa Ana, but we still have to have Allied Universal visible.

David PenalozaItem —

Oh, yeah. I'd be fine with that, but just include some emblem of Santa Ana.

Yes, we're very flexible in regards to that. We can discuss the designer scope, how we can execute that.

David PenalozaItem —

okay just and and i just hope you understand that that's you know if i'm have my kids at the at the i don't have kids but if i have my my dog at the park that wouldn't work either because never mind if if a family's at the park and they see a santa and a i mean no it just would feel more more uh i guess respectful towards them or see them as more of a of a home feeling and you You know, that's a city that's protecting us versus just an outside company. No disrespect to your company. Absolutely. Just kind of include that.

Include that in the scope.

David PenalozaItem —

Which I would appreciate, I would like to see personally. I don't know how my colleagues feel about that. That's fine. But.

We can definitely work on that. That was not included in the initial scope, so we're not aware of that. But that's something we can absolutely look into and work with the city on that.

David PenalozaItem —

Which is unfortunate, because I mentioned that three months ago when this first came up, but it's another story. But thank you, appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Mayor. Thank you to the staff and my colleagues. I think what we see before us is kind of the community, the council, the staff trying to make something work. Not perfect to everyone's liking, but it's a very strong step forward. Really, the math equates to about 55,000 per, but that's everything including benefits and staffing up and equipment and insurance and all the rest. So really, it's really good. And on the whole, this 667,000 for this first year, it's really not enough. We need to do quite a bit more, but this at least will get started in the scope of work, the branding, which I really support, etc.

And to Councilwoman Cecilia Iglesias' point, if we can get a quality RFP quicker and move in that direction faster than we could modify or terminate the existing one and continue in a bigger, better way. Finally, I checked in with my colleagues in Anaheim and they think their program is working very well. Because really they adopted this model and they say safety's up. A very strong public sense of additional security at the park so that whether you're there by yourself with your kids or with your dog, you feel a little bit more safe. So it was nice to see that they feel good about it.

So with that, again, thank you to the staff and thank you to Councilmember Sarmiento and the rest of my colleagues for being thoughtful on this proposal. Thank you.

Thank you. With that, I believe we had a motion and a second. We're about to vote, so let's vote.

David PenalozaItem —

This is what comes from Senator .

Yes.

David PenalozaItem —

Who's voted, are we in?

Any vote? Anybody vote?

Board two is the vote.

All right, let's go on to the next item.

65A, I believe we have a candidate.

Right, is that the appointing somebody to the Orange County?

David PenalozaItem —

Yeah, I'd like to nominate myself.

Is there a second for that nomination? Second.

I was going to nominate him.

Well, you already did it. If you change it, I'll nominate him.

great let me take that back yeah he un-nominates himself

and and the second remains those in favor please vote green

you can vote red if you want

six zero it passes all right

I believe we're now on 75A, are we?

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make-

Let me open up, let me just open the item, bring it up for us.

Didn't we already close it? Yeah, no, we've already had lots of discussion. Let me bring it to Mayor Pro Temp, please.

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to separate the approval of the budget ordinance into two parts. The first to consider the approval of the citywide budget, excluding the police department budget. And then a separate action to consider the police budget. That's my motion.

I'll second.

Does everybody understand the motion? All right, so let's vote on the request basically to bifurcate the vote. That's a request. Let's vote.

This is just to bifurcate the vote.

Mr. Manning, did you vote?

All right, so that passes. Now let's go ahead and take votes on the budget, please.

So if the clerk can be clear on what we're voting on now for the public's information.

Does the city manager wish to make any statement before we vote?

Only if you want an intro, I can do an intro if you don't know.

No, I think we've had lots of discussion.

Yeah, maybe if we could just have either the city manager or the city attorney address the procedure on this and what the threshold of the vote is, whether it's a two-thirds or a simple majority required.

Certainly, Mayor and Council Members. So for this item to adopt a budget appropriation by introduction of ordinance, it just requires a simple majority.

Thank you.

So, probably would be advisable since there's only six of us to have Council Member Solorio, so let's just wait, he's now approaching the dais.

All right, why don't we go ahead and make a motion that's been explained? Do we have a motion?

Yeah. On which matter, because we bifurcated. We bifurcated, now we're just going to vote on the general.

All right, I'll make a motion for approval with comment.

Okay, go ahead.

It's just regarding the Family Justice Center that's in the budget. $300,000 is, I don't believe it's enough. So we can talk at a later time, maybe make some modifications, because that's not going to cover. We're going to need at least to hire two more employees for that from the outside to run it. And maybe we can take them out of the police vacancies, the funded vacancy positions, since this is going to be under the police budget regardless.

I will work with you on that, Mayor Proctel. If you could clarify that your motion is for the citywide budget, excluding the police department, that would be helpful.

What are we voting on? We're voting for the citywide budget minus the police budget.

We're voting citywide budget without the police budget.

All right, so we have a motion. I'll go ahead and second. Those in favor, do you want to have a comment?

Yeah, I just have a question, though, but there's a question about the Family Justice Center, which I agree $300,000 is not enough, but it probably starts some planning. But that's in the police department budget, not in the citywide budget. So maybe save that comment for when we do the police budget?

The building and what the start off cost is going to be within the city budget, right?

They have it in the police budget right now.

It's located in the police department's budget.

The police budget? Yep. Okay, then disregard by comment.

All right, so we have motion and second. Those in favor, please-Wait, but-Go ahead.

I do have some comment on this. We're going through this pretty quickly, and I know we've seen this before. But I do have some concerns about, again, some of the issues that were raised on the Justice Center. Just questions, I guess, more than concerns. But I also wanted to make note of something that's not included in the budget. And I know that this is first reading, so I wanted to ask the city attorney. I know that when we address something on first reading, we normally can't make any changes at second reading that are material changes.

We can make small, minor, sort of inadvertent changes that maybe weren't caught on first reading. When this comes back for second reading, can there be changes that are material? In other words, amounts and introductions of line items to the budget included at second reading?

Sonia R. CarvalhoItem —

We did take a look at this. Your charter does allow you to make changes on the second reading. It says that those changes have to be substantially similar to your original first reading. And I think in talking with the city manager, we felt that the type of changes that would be appropriate under the second reading would be changes that are within the department, for example. Not wholesale changes where you might take a million dollars from one department and give it to another. That might be too significant to qualify for the second reading changes.

Sonia R. CarvalhoItem —

But maybe tweaking line items within a department might be the types of changes that would fit within the second reading.

Got it. So one of the things I wanted to include or for us to consider incorporating in first reading and also see if we can fit it in obviously and make the adjustments for second reading is to include an amount for rental assistance for mobile home residents that are facing increases that are beyond their means. And I think the increments that I've been provided with and all of us have been provided with are fairly nominal. We see some seniors at specifically one mobile home park that have increments of $50 to $75. Not a big amount to us given our half billion dollar budget,

but certainly significant amounts to those families that are on very fixed incomes. So Madam City Manager, I would request that you try to find, And I would think somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 25,000 to provide as rental assistance to mobile home park residents that are suffering from increases that they may not be able to manage. And again, given that we have a fixed number of parks that are going through these rental increases, I'd like that included as part of our budget. And again, I don't think it's a big ticket item, but I think it will provide relief and

assistance to those families that we've seen come to us over the past couple of months here okay

thanks for those questions and clarification additional comment comes finaloza and then

David PenalozaItem —

salario thank you mr mayor um madam state manager i was looking over the staff report i know we also discussed appropriating additional monies for for things like census outreach i keep saying julie celebration but it's the city's 150th celebration as well as i know we discussed also teen space in the library and various other youth organizations that that um and i know that would come part of that three that would come out of that 3.1 million i just didn't see those uh edits in the staff report but i just wanted to for to to make sure that those were were in there in the in the because

David PenalozaItem —

Because you added those, correct?

Yes, Councilmember Pentelhoz. On page two, the middle of the page, the last bullet is your increase. And Julie is very excited to have from 150,000 to 175,000 for the anniversary. And then on page three of the staff report is where we talk about engaging the youth commission to program that 3.1 million. And we do have listed there, we captured what we heard your comments to be, to program youth services including teen space, tutoring for all school-age children, summer internship programs, Catalina youth programs, and a potential youth tech book mobile. So that's in there.

The one item that's not in here that I can certainly address as I address Councilmember Sarmientoz was an additional $25,000 for the census. That hasn't been done yet.

David PenalozaItem —

Okay. Okay, and I think that was it for, and we had discussed this. You said that the capital improvement amounts for those tennis courts was not 500,000 after all?

Thank you for reminding me of that, council members. So for clarification purposes, it's not out of the general fund operational programs, it's out of capital improvement we had added to the budget the addition of two clay tennis courts and the initial estimate was five hundred thousand dollars after a follow-up with the tennis center and tennis professionals on it i believe the two courts could be added for closer to two hundred

David PenalozaItem —

thousand so and and just so so uh for my sake and the public's there's already nine tennis courts Is there, what's the reason behind the additional two?

My understanding is when the Cabrillo Tennis Center was initially designed, it was to have all of these tennis courts. And so there has remained an empty plot of land for several years where the tennis courts were never fully completed and the two would fully complete the tennis center.

David PenalozaItem —

Is that plot of land big enough for a dog park?

No, I think you're going to need a bigger dog park, especially for your dog.

David PenalozaItem —

And the reason I ask just because I know that at Saddleback High School, they're removing the tennis courts. So I just was thinking that half a million dollars is a huge amount of money that could possibly go into tennis courts in another much needed area of town, central Santa Ana. Barely any parks, let alone a tennis court. So I'm sure that other people in the other parts of the city like to play tennis too, but just never had that ability or that access to a tennis court or open space to begin with.

David PenalozaItem —

And that was my comment on that.

David PenalozaItem —

And in regards to, we also have, you said the legal defense fund was under your budget as well?

It's under the city manager department's control, but it's in the non-departmental.

David PenalozaItem —

Okay, that's going to say, right?

Yes, and it's currently pegged at $100,000.

David PenalozaItem —

Okay, thank you.

Thank you. Councilorio, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First two on the tennis court, because we probably received some inquiries, but I looked at the area, and you can even tell from the area that it was always meant for additional courts to be there. So really it's a build out of a plan from years ago. And it looks like the costs are going to be reduced, so I'm supportive. Last time I was very critical of the budget, but I do think that from then to now, staff did go back, review minutes, talk to council members, and adding in a lot of things that are to the interest of the community.

Including library, parks and rec, PD, code enforcement, etc. I'd still like to see more, and so my initial request that I kind of assemble on behalf of the community and others, I'm going to continue to push for that throughout the year and in the future. In particular, I think still not enough direct facing positions in library, parks and rec, quality of life team, PD staffing. There are positions in there, but I want to work very closely with you city managers so we can make sure that we have the right type of positions being recruited and

particularly to reduce the 911 response time and to do more in the areas of vice, community-oriented policing and homelessness issues. Code enforcement, I'm happy to see that we're looking at an increase of four total new. On the Children's Defense Fund, I'm pleased that there's 100,000 there, but I'd like to see, and I know Councilmember Sarmiento really is the leader on this. It may make sense to increase it to 200,000 or 300,000. I think they've made the case they can run the program. They are hiring local talent. They're helping local youth. They're open to the idea of prioritizing

Santa Ana residents, children, dreamers, veterans. So if my colleague is interested in that, I'd like for him to amend that into the motion or as a friendly amendment. I like the idea of rental assistance. I know that was for a certain area. I've always have had in mind a broader program, and I think even the Housing Commission and some commissioners have already looked at it and I've mentioned that before. So maybe it's like a $250,000 pilot program to do, what Council Member Sarmento said, but also something more global. So that's a thought, but maybe we pin a number now and we can look at it between now and the final final.

On CDBG money, most of that is really not year mark, but it's my hope that right away in July that we can meet with the providers to see how we can use that during the year. I know I've mentioned previously that there were only two or three that weren't funded from the original list, and there were strong applications, and so I'd like those to be considered for funding.

And that is for CDBG dollars and the cannabis dollars that are still being developed. And then finally, I'm very appreciative that kind of following the lead of OCTA and your tax dollars at work, that staff's going to think about your measure X dollars at work, so that as we have visible things at parks and cameras and elsewhere, that'll be a nice imagery. Finally, I know there was some addition of blue cameras, and in the past, rightfully so, most of them have been in the central part of Santa Ana. But now that we continue to grow that more and have more, I'd really like to see two or three on the north part of town.

Because of the creek and other issues, they historically haven't had the issues in the past, but they do now. And I think they're deserving as well. And that would be one area that I'd like to see some additional follow up. But I'm happy and supportive of this proposal today, given all the good work by our city manager and head staff.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Just any other comments? I'm not all called for the question. Go ahead.

Final comment. So let me make it clear for the public and for everyone and my colleagues. The Family Justice Center has to go under the police department. That's who runs it. We're providing services along with nonprofits together to streamline services for victims of child abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse, and sexual assault. Now the reason I want to separate these votes is because we all know I wasn't supportive of the police contract because it was $25 million that we couldn't afford. So we're dipping into Measure X funds. And the voters of Santa Ana did not vote for that tax for it to go to salaries.

It's going to end, ladies and gentlemen. So it's not very smart to put all these salaries. and I love our police officers and I want to give them a raise, but it's got to be something that we can afford, something secure. If this measure is going to end someday and then here we are with problems. So that's why I had to do this myself because I'm just not supportive of that. We have to be reasonable in our approach to this. All right. I thank my colleagues.

So with that quick comment, please start the clock.

Thanks. Okay, so I just, just clarification. So what's on 75A3, and I think this is the staff report. So we're looking at the proposed budget amounts. So this is something just for recommendations. And this is something that we're going to be looking at for fiscal year 1920, correct?

So in the staff report on page two, Do you actually see the bullets of what has already been incorporated in the proposed budget that you're considering tonight? On page three, those are the commitments that staff is making to you to carry through during the fiscal year based upon your feedback on the budget.

Okay, so I'm happy with some of the things that you're incorporating into the budget, but I think there's not enough that we are doing with, like a council member, Mayor Pro Tem Villegas said regarding how we're

transparently allocating the residents' money when it comes to Measure X. I feel that there is something that we need to be more transparent about how we're allocating these funds. And I know that there's opportunities for us to work with our police department, but like what Mayor Pro Temp said, it's something that from the beginning, too, I was a no to the raise because it's something that is not sustainable, and it's something that's going to sunset. So what after that? After 10 years, then we're going to go down to another $20 million.

So we're going to go down $20 million from $60 to $40, and we don't have the funds. And so I agree with what Mayor Patem said, and I thank him for taking that lead in separating both budgets. And I just wanted to ask if we could, I know for the parks, and this is something that I've always asked, is for the security cameras, but also for the blue pole cameras. I know it's just the beginning, but I believe we should have him at every park and also in every bike trail.

because the bike trails are something that our youth use and also something that we use when we're out there using the limited public space that we have. And it also is going to help us with our vagrancy. And I believe we know the homeless issue is going to get worse before it gets better if we don't address it. So putting these cameras in our bike trails too will help us have control on what's happening in those areas. So I agree that there's more that needs to be done. And there's one here exploring, you haven't, but it's a bullet.

Yes, yes, okay, about city wide Wi-Fi. I think we need to see if we can collaborate with our district schools and And also with our charter schools to see how we can help with that. Because if you just get blanket Wi-Fi, I think it's just so many individuals that are going to come and just take advantage of it without even them being sent out of residence.

I can clarify that one item. So Councilmember Solario brought this up and what he was talking about is hotspots. So at our library right now, if you have a library card, you can check out a hotspot device and take it to your home. and so a youth could work on a project and have Wi-Fi capabilities. It also can serve maybe a couple other people in the household for Wi-Fi. So his request was, could we look to getting additional devices in our library so that the residents can use it? And right now I believe we only have 50 available and there's a wait list for that.

So it's something that I think I can do in the existing budget is to add more of those hotspot devices. They check it out, correct.

Yes, Councilor Peña Loza.

David PenalozaItem —

It would be just for the libraries? Restricted, right?

Well, for the library patrons to use.

Okay. They check them on, they can take them home.

David PenalozaItem —

Right. Like a book. Okay, Little Hotspots, okay. Yeah, yeah.

All right, we're all on the same page here. Very briefly, just on the tennis, you didn't mention that those two are clay courts. And the reason that's important is we have one clay court right now. If we have two more clay courts, now we can hold clay court tournaments. And tennis is probably the only international professional sport that's actually played on hard courts, it's played on clay, and it's played on grass. Right now we're in the grass season because Wimbledon's coming up, but later it goes back to hard courts for the U.S. Open, et cetera.

So if we have those two additional clay courts and 200,000 is a lot less than half a million, I think it'll do a lot for our tennis center and there's a lot of people using that center. Yes, Councilor.

One last point just because it was emphasized by a couple of my colleagues. On the thing of whether the PD salaries or program is sustainable, that's up to the council. If in the future we feel like other items are going to be squeezed out of budget, then we cut government. And it's not fun, but it's doable. When I was in Sacramento, we cut the size of the general fund by 40% because there were less revenues. And so if down the road really the dollars aren't there, then it's our job to make the appropriate cuts. And I think really throughout the budget are embedded salary increases and benefits.

I mean, government agencies are labor organizations by definition. So most staff positions are embedded with layers and layers of pay raises. And that's just the way it works.

One final comment, and then I'm going to call for the question.

please councilor and i was just going to add on the tennis courts and in low income areas they play on gravel so there you go but all right let's get some gravel courts i know but i just wanted to echo what um my colleague said on maybe working with you between first reading and second reading on an adjustment on both the items maybe it is a global assistance rental assistance and maybe there is an adjustment on the legal defense i know that um you know it'll the pot of money will dictate where where we land on both of those.

I took notes on the items that you seem to concur on, so I can assist you with writing or stating the motion and incorporating those right now with this introduction of the ordinance.

Very good, thank you.

So the four things that I noted is you would be introducing the ordinance for the citywide budget excluding the police department with the following amendments. You would increase 25,000 for the census that's taking place. You would add a line item starting with $25,000 for limited rental assistance and potentially exploring it later on. You would also add an additional $100,000 for the legal defense fund. And then the fourth item, I could bring back the specifics, but it's directing me to determine funding available to address some of the CBDG recipients that did not receive any funding during this allocation.

All right. Now it's our job to vote. So we have motion a second. Those in favor, go ahead and vote.

Can you clarify though, is this the full thing or just-

No, this is without the police component.

Without the police component.

Everything but the police section. Then we're going to vote on that in a few moments.

I don't know what the dollar amounts are, so this is just more of a symbolic thing, I think. But no one can tell me what the total is for one or the other unless if maybe the proponent-We can tell you what the total is.

All right, those in favor vote green and if not vote red.

All right, so we got it. Now let's, the bifurcated motion, the second portion of the motion.

I would move that we adopt a police budget, the second portion of the budget.

Second with comment, go ahead, comment please. No, I'm just saying that, and consistent with the additional comments of the broader motion. Correct. So those in favor, please vote aye. Those opposed, you vote red.

Motion passes. So with that, now we've gotten at least the first reading behind us and And we know it'll come back with some minor tweaks as defined by the earlier discussion.

75B.

I'm sorry, Mayor, you actually have two more recommended actions as a part of this staff report. The second item is the adoption of the resolution that puts in place the class and comp plan that supports the budget.

I would entertain a motion. Move the item. Second. Those in favor, go ahead and vote green. What item was that item number?

It's the recommended action number two under 7580.

It's the second resolution under the same item.

This includes all the PD positions, so just vote accordingly.

Second resolution.

You can vote no.

Second.

All right, now there's one more, go ahead.

One more, so the next one is the adoption of the seven year capital improvement program. You're not allocating dollars beyond a single year because you only legally appropriate a year at a time, but it's just adopting the overall.

Adopting our capital improvement. So moving.

There are facilities in the PD as well, right, and some supporting dollars over there. I want to just make sure that people vote accordingly.

There could potentially be.

Yeah, I'm sure there is.

All right, so we have a motion and a second. We have a question. And Councillor Iglesias?

So, okay. So with the capital improvement, this is what we're going to be voting on right now for the entire city.

Correct, so you already allocated funds for a $59 million capital improvement program when you adopted the citywide budget. This is a formality in adopting the seven year capital improvement program. And it's really just our best estimate at what projects we schedule out over seven years. So it's more of a plan that you're approving.

And you can bring back amendments in the years to come. Exactly.

And then this is for the, that was going to be my question. Because I remember you were saying that we had to do it before, I guess, the end of this fiscal year because then we're not going to be in compliance. Is this the?

Part of this would entail, so a lot of the agencies that give us capital money, they do require the city to have a capital improvement plan adopted.

But this is more for general use, not just specifically for, it's not something that's from the general fund money.

There could be some limited general fund, but the bulk of it is all other resources for your capital improvement.

How much is it from the general fund, do you know?

Katherine, do you have our capital improvement? She'll be able to tell you the sources.

Most agencies are typically less than 10%.

Sonia R. CarvalhoItem —

Stay in the spot.

David PenalozaItem —

Wash the loops for that.

Go ahead.

David PenalozaItem —

Go ahead. Madam, Mr. Manager, and then the street medians are included in this seven year plan, right?

Yes, park facility upgrades, local street resurfacing, arterial resurfacing, curbs, gutters. There's all of the typical things that you would need to maintain within the city and improve upon.

David PenalozaItem —

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

I believe for the single year, the upcoming 19-20, there's about $200,000 of general fund out of the 59 million. 200,000 of general fund dollars and it's for street lights out of the 59 million.

All right. I believe we have a motion and a second. Let's go ahead and vote.

Okay. Now we're done with the budget. Yes, Madam City Manager. All right. She's clapping.

We have a budget.

All right. Our next item now, are we on 75 B as a voice?

That's correct.

Okay, this time and place for a public hearing. Didn't we already open this earlier?

No.

Okay. So I'll open it up.

We don't really need a staff presentation, I believe, but we may have questions. But do we have any speakers for this item?

No, we do not. All right. I'll close. We have received written comment and has been placed on the dais.

All right. Thank you. Now let's go to questions. Council member Sarmiento, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I'm going to be moving the item with comment. I just want to thank the city manager, thank Mr. Mendoza and his staff for doing a very, very thorough job and an excellent job. And I continued this matter, or at least I made the motion to continue this matter from the last meeting because I wanted to make sure that we were as comprehensive and thorough and not duplicative in our valuable CDBG funds. And it appears that both from your commissioners and from your staff, this was an excellent way of ranking the nonprofit groups that applied.

And it looks like we're going to be covering a lot of very good topics and we're blessed to have a network of good providers. So in any event, and I did speak with the city manager earlier. I know there was one or more applicants that didn't receive and I know we're going to try to see if we can give them some assistance, specifically the Wise Place. I know that they fell a little short and I know that they've been recipients in the past and they do excellent work in the city providing resources to homeless women. So to the extent that I feel very comfortable supporting this and I'm very happy with the work that staff's done.

I've been on a commission that's gone through this. It's very difficult to rank worthy organizations that do great work. So with that, Mr. Mayor. Chair, we have a motion.

Is there a second? I'll second. We have a second. By Pinaloza, additional comment?

Councilor Solorio? Just a quick comment consistent with what I said earlier. There weren't too many unsuccessful applicants, but they rated well. Organizations like White's Place or Neutral Ground, they have an intervention program that's very successful and they were very close and so we'd like to see a few extra dollars for them as well. Thank you.

Okay, those in favor, go ahead and vote. And those opposed as well.

Okay, unanimous. Are we now on item 75C? 75C.

There's a public hearing that says for the block grant and home program investment partnerships, emerging solution grants, and submission to housing and urban development. Do we have any requests to speak?

No, we do not.

Okay, I will close the public hearing and bring it to council for consideration. Move the item. Do we have a second? Those, let's go ahead and vote.

Motion carries. Item 75D we handled earlier. Now we're on item 75E. And staff wishes to continue this. Do we need an action to do that?

Would you like us to take the action tonight since we are a little bit early?

No, we actually are working out some issues, outstanding issues with the county of Orange. And we know we've just been continuing it from meeting to meeting. This time we're continuing it to a non-specified date so you won't keep seeing it on your agenda until we're ready.

Fair enough, thank you. All right, 85A, Council Member Iglesias, please.

Thank you. Okay, so the reason I brought this up is there's been a lot of concerns from community members who have expressed the, I guess, the increase of RV type vehicles that are parking in the neighborhoods and also in the industrial areas. and I don't and what they what we see is that we don't have enough enforcement of seeing who's staying there who's living there and a lot of time there's a lot of illegal activity that are happening in those in those vehicles so

what I wanted to do is see if I know we have an ordinance right now and I what What I wanted to do is to direct the city manager and staff to see if we could update it in a way so we can enforce it like other cities are doing it. I believe there's one that's very successful, I believe it's in Huntington Beach. And there's another one in San Diego. So I was hoping with the support of my colleagues here on the council, if we could direct you to provide this for us, we can direct the, you know, our staff for them to start enforcing this ordinance.

Certainly. And, Council Member, thank you for bringing this item forward. I, too, have heard the complaints. And one of the things is that we haven't had the tools to do the type of enforcement that you wanted. So a lot of our neighboring cities, they've added to their municipal code to provide greater tools for enforcement of where and when RVs are allowed to park throughout the city. So it is something that's been on the city attorney's radar before I got here. And she has a pretty well-drafted ordinance to make those changes to our municipal code.

So I'd be more than happy whenever she is completed with it to bring it forward for your consideration.

Thank you. So then you'll be getting back to us maybe.

Sonia R. CarvalhoItem —

I have drafted a research memorandum on the city's authority and what it can regulate. And I've also prepared a draft ordinance which I've shared with the police department, who I understand is the department that the city manager has assigned to work on this. So that's in their hands now. I don't know whether they will take that to the public safety committee, as I know the police department usually takes ordinances to their public safety committee. But it is drafted and I'm waiting for comments and then we can finalize with staff.

So when would that be ready? Because I know our public safety, it's not going to be till September, right? That we're going to have our next public safety meeting. Is it something that we could address sooner?

Certainly, you could call a special meeting for the public safety to review just that item. I think it's important to go through that committee with an item like this. Okay, so then we'll call for a special meeting. Okay, thank you.

All right, so with that being said, Councillor Solorio.

Thank you, Mayor. I'm very supportive of this direction as well. We do have an ordinance on the books, but it could be a little bit stronger. I was at the Albertsons this morning and with just a very small area, like half a parking lot, I saw three or four. And why are they there? Because we let them to be there. And it's one thing to set up policy in this town, because we've done it before, including with panhandling. But if we don't have an enforcement plan, we're really just wasting our time and setting up false expectations. We probably about a year now adopted a panhandling ordinance and

I see virtually zero enforcement of that with very little exception. which is another reason why for many things we really got to staff up on the PD side, code enforcement side, contractor side, just because we're woefully short on enforcement. So in addition to the policy piece, I also want to see an enforcement piece come back. Part of it is, well, and I'll ask a question for PD staff since they're going to be the lead and they're not here or maybe code enforcement could answer. But my question to PD would be, how are they going to enforce it?

What type of personnel and what is going to be their role versus the code enforcement's role?

So the reason that it was assigned to the police department is they currently are the ones that they have a contract and they have a contractor that does parking citations. So I would envision that we could contract with those types as well.

Okay, so we'll have a contractor enforce the ordinance or at least supplement the enforcement. And maybe because there are substantial resources in the PD, maybe a budget can be allocated to the enforcement of it. Because again, on too many areas, there's the expectation of the enforcement, but a lack of it. And so whether it be preferably with PD officers, but if not with a contracted force, just because the need really is that great.

Let me do more research on that, and then when we bring it back, I will have an enforcement plan.

David PenalozaItem —

Fantastic. Council Member Iglesias?

I thought you wanted to speak. You okay? Okay, Councilor Peñalosa.

David PenalozaItem —

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just wanted to, I was listening to Councilmember Solorio and I agree with some of it, but surprisingly I haven't really seen, I don't think, a panhandling in our city for how big of a homeless problem we have. They're not really panhandling, they're just kind of out and just-Existing. Yeah, existing. So I think the anti-camping ordinance is what we should hammer down on because we have beds for them. Or I think we should double down on the enforcement across the board with PD, with Public Works, with code enforcement.

David PenalozaItem —

Really hammer down on the anti-camping ordinance. And I was just thinking about it, and I don't really see the pen handling. you'd think we'd have a big problem with Penn Island, but I don't.

Well, probably depends on where you go, but 17th Street off the 5, every daylight clockwork, same people, same places, and nobody talks to them. Same thing on South Main by MacArthur, they kind of gravitate to the same place, and that's what frustrates the public. We know exactly the few points where this occurs, and our staff does very little.

David PenalozaItem —

Right.

And again, we developed the policy so we can give the tools. And so they have the tools and they don't enforce them. We build shelters to deal with anti-camping and other things we still don't enforce. So that's why we got to be a little more disciplined on how we allocate dollars for enforcement because this just hasn't been happening.

David PenalozaItem —

And I know that over the weekend on Father's Day, sorry for those pictures that I sent to you guys.

David PenalozaItem —

Chief Valentin and Fouad, it was Father's Day. You were probably having Father's Day brunch and I sent you those explicit pictures that I drove by on First Street. Those things, the reason I sent them is because I was on my way to breakfast and I saw a police officer drive by, just kind of drive by. And I drove back through an hour later and the same person was still there in the same state. So I was just thinking how actively, if a police officer is on their way to a call or whatnot, great. But radio in, somebody take care of this, I drove by this.

David PenalozaItem —

It shouldn't have to be a council member to have to call all these encampments out on First Street on a big Main Street corridor. If it was in a hidden alley away from the public where no one could see, I'd understand that. But these things, I just expect a more aggressive approach on really just cleaning up the area and enforcing the anti-camping laws.

Yes, and then I've got a comment. Go ahead.

Just a quick question, because we're talking about bringing back the budget for second reading. So I'm wondering if this is something that we could look into allocating additional funds more on the general fund, like with code enforcement, because I know they do an amazing job in enforcing and also following the guidelines of the ordinances. So is that something that we could consider into our second reading with the budget?

You certainly can. What I would recommend is now that I have the budget done, I can focus my efforts on homeless because one of the things that we're lacking citywide is an adopted homeless strategy plan that clearly identifies the roles, the frequency of our quote teams going out. We seem to do a decent job on public property, but our real challenges are when it relates to private property, what's happening on there. So I want to get completely familiar with everything that we have in place. I certainly have the ability to move money around to achieve the efforts that we need to.

I would also like to give potential consideration to bringing in a non-profit contractor that can better work with addressing the homeless person instead of just the cleanup of materials. And I think that would make a huge impact for the city. So I would request some time to evaluate that. And then if I needed to come back for money or if I identify money already, to allow me the opportunity to look through the program.

We would like our public works and code enforcement into the enforcement part and the implementation of it, I think it'll be, not just rely on police. I think if anything, we should be relying on all the other staff that we have out there who are patrolling and our eyes and ears of what's happening in our community.

And I completely agree with you. You don't want to send out your most expensive resource to sit and communicate with a homeless person if there's not a crime going on. If there's no warrants or probation violations, that's where a nonprofit contractor could assist us greatly. Okay, thank you.

And some of these things are more policy than budget. You're not going to necessarily change a particular line item. It's going to be how you deploy your existing budget. And I would concur that I think we should let the city manager come back with a plan. And let me just give one example, and I want to call on Councilor Miento. So one example I want to cite is the fact that I was over at a big saver shopping center. I brought this up to the chief already. And there was an individual basically just sleeping there. There's a little carousel outside the center itself. And kids are coming with moms.

They're riding the little carousel. there's this guy just passed away sleeping there and and I'd seen you know police drive by because I was there at the cleaners and pardon no no no no no he he was in a deep sleep you said passed away no no he could have been on his way but but after a lot of poking a foot moved but the people don't know that and when you arrive it just i mean you don't even want to be there and it's traumatic to children i mean yeah and

do you want kids for us but imagine kids i mean it's not an environment that you want anybody growing up in and so i i went to the chief and um you know part of what they indicated was that go ahead and start the light, run the light on me, and I'll stop when it gets to red, unlike others. But anyways, he basically said we have to get permission from private property folks to enable us to do anything, because technically that is private property, even though it's open to the general public, and we think of it as a public supermarket. So anyways, I concur that we need to be more aggressive,

otherwise the shelters that we're building are no good. So see, it's still yellow. Next.

I'm done, so you can stop the light. We ask staff questions and they take up part of the time, Mr. Mayor, but good job. Thank you. No, that's Pinaloza. Mine was the other one. I don't know. It came back. All right, so we're on to the next item.

Wait.

Go ahead, Councilman of Sarmi. I'll stop.

I'll stop while it's still green. All right, red. So I think just, I didn't realize that we were talking about homelessness on the 85A, but I guess it morphed or evolved into a whole discussion. It evolved.

Sonia R. CarvalhoItem —

I've noticed that you've kind of morphed away a little bit and that you've strayed from your 85A, but we've given you a little.

So look, and I'll try to not go too far beyond the scope, but since we were talking about homelessness, I agree, let the city manager have a little bit more time to figure out and assess better. Number two, the real problem, and if you see other cities that are tackling this issue, they deal with the implied consent issue on behalf of private properties, right? So on public property, it's very easy, and I see Alvaro shaking his head. Implied consent is sometimes the way other cities have approached it because we know that this is sort of an issue that permeates not just public area but private area as well.

The only thing I would add to everything that was said already and not repeat what was said is that if you can, you and your staff keep a log or continue keeping a log of costs expended on this because we should be able to recover this. I think we already expend close to 17 million a year. I don't know what the amount is. It probably continues to grow. But we're not the agency that's supposed to be addressing these issues. It's the agency across the street. the county that's been derelict for years, and they've completely abandoned their responsibility.

They're the agency that's vested with this right, and they're supposed to be the ones that are supposed to be providing these services, and they've ignored it completely. So to the extent we keep a very specific amount of monies that we're expending that could be expended on all the things that we're talking about. Everything else we have to spend on these issues that we don't really have an obligation to spend. So please keep that because I think at the end of the day, this litigation is going to conclude one day. And those numbers are going to be very important for us to present to the court. Thank you.

All right, so stop the clock. Start the clock again. Yes, it's start the clock. Just talking, no questions. On that same note, there's been a debate amongst the supervisors, and in large part led by Supervisor Doe, that many of these homeless individuals are Cal Optima members. And so there are dollars that are associated to them. So whether it be ambulance calls or 911 calls for service or other costs that we can associate with helping CalEPTHEMA members, maybe we could send them a bill. That's essentially what Supervisor Doe-And they have money. Another NOS is doing it and they have the resources.

I wanted to highlight that as well.

Okay, so with that, do we have any public member comments?

Peter, you already were starting to stand up. You should have just kept going. Peter Katz, followed by Dale Helwig, followed by Dolores Aguilar.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council and staff. I just want to thank you once again for securing the Bowers Museum for our year event of recognizing our most beautiful yards and our neighborhood heroes. It is the summer social event of the year, and we should have 300 people there next Thursday to honor the citizens that work so hard all year long without pay to keep their neighborhood safe and clean and help city staff. Just remember that our neighborhoods are the backbone of the city, but they're also the heart and soul of the city. It's what makes the city tick is its people.

Peter, if I may just have a second. Please excuse me to that group because I know I go virtually every year. I'm going to be receiving an award from the U.S. Council of the Mayor, so I will not be attending.

I understand that, Mr. Mayor, but I offer the invitation to everyone that wants to come. Thank you, absolutely. And a chance to meet 300 residents that only come out once a year. Thank you. It's a great event and it's a great pride that we take in these people. and I would like to also give a plug for Julie and her celebration for the city's 150th birthday party because that's what makes this city tick. It's its history, its rich history, not just William Spurgeon but all the other people like the Raitt family and the other families of this city, the Medley family that has contributed so much to this city

and we should recognize all of them as part of our history and that's what gives me the great pride and working hard in this city to make changes and make good. I've lived here 55 years and I love this city. I wouldn't trade it for any place in the world. So thank you, Mr. Mayor, once again.

After Dale Dolores Aguilar, followed by Paul Lujan.

Good evening, Mayor, Councilman, and Staff. As I mentioned at the last meeting, I had a meeting with the developers at 2525 on June 6th. It was, I thought, a good meeting and a bad meeting at the same time. The decision by the developers was already cast on June 3rd when they submitted their plans, and it was evident that they didn't want to hear anything that we had to say. and it was essentially another checkbox on their data sheet to say that they met with the community. We took it as a one-finger salute because that's how they treated it.

They have yet to respond to our proposal for a modified residential development on the property, and so we will continue to pursue our efforts to get that property developed responsibly and it's unfortunate that we have to deal with somebody that is not like Centennial Real Estate, not like Legacy Partners. It took two years to work with the community. These guys took 11 months to try and force it down our throats and they continue to try and force it down the city's throats. Thank you.

Good evening. My name is Dolores Aguilar, and I'm from Park Santiago. I'm not going to talk to you about the 2525 project today. But I did want to mention that there's another project. It's called Lincoln Avenue Pathway. Have you heard about that? it's a section on Lincoln Avenue that was closed off because of the railroad tracks they closed it off with a chain link fence so that no traffic could get through Lincoln up into Fairhaven so we received this about six pages saying that there's a project that they want to open that up to pedestrians and to bikes

This leads directly to the creek. We're the first house that is on Lincoln and Park. What do you think is going to happen when they open that up?

Homeless, vandalism, break-ins. So I wanted to bring it to your attention. We are not very happy about this, and we're going to go back to the community in our area and discuss this with them. Thank you.

Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Paul? followed by Jessica and Kevin Schell.

Hi, my name is Paul Lujan, and I also live in Park Santiago, and ditto what she just said. And I just wanted to say that there is a residence there that is for this program. But what she's proposing is she wants children to have a shortcut to Fairhaven. And she wants the kids to go through that open pathway

to the trail. And I'm glad you brought that up, Cecilia, about the homelessness in the bike trail. And this residence wants the children to go through there. I would not want my children to go through there just so they could have a shortcut to Fairhaven. That is not good. There's a lot of other things, you know, that I'm opposed to. But we'll be here again to talk to the other proposals. But that was my first issue.

Thank you, Paul.

Jessica and Kevin, I believe.

Thank you, City Council members. My husband and I are here today to discuss ways to improve animal welfare in Santa Ana. Over the last year, our two dogs, Ellie and George, have been attacked by stray or loose dogs four times, resulting in $7,300 in veterinarian costs. Our dogs have been unleashed during each attack. After the first attack, we contacted animal control, and they stated they would speak with the owners of the dogs that attacked ours. We followed up but received no further information regarding the case.

During the most recent attack, my husband contacted animal control and emailed them and detailed a detailed account of the attack. My husband was contacted the next day and was informed the two men were contacted at the residence where the dogs were living, but they refused to cooperate with law enforcement. During this latest incident, there were witnesses who could corroborate that the dogs resided at that address. We do not know if they were contacted regarding this incident. The witnesses' addresses were provided to animal control via email.

We feel that dog owners should be held accountable when their animals cause harm to another animal or human. Unfortunately, animal control informed us that there would be no ticket or infraction regarding the most recent attack because animal control doesn't physically see the dogs roaming the neighborhood. This is a frustrating policy, which ensures that aggressive dogs are placed back behind a fence and owners are not held responsible for training or securing their animals. The city doesn't seem to hold owners accountable for damages caused by their animals.

My husband and I had to hire a private investigator in order to obtain the names of the owners of the dogs who attacked our dogs in order to hopefully be reimbursed. It appears as though the victim is fully responsible for locating and identifying the owners of the dogs who get loose. Each attack is traumatic. Each experience has caused my husband and I to feel to be fearful when walking our dogs in our neighborhood. We went out and walked with a wooden stick to protect ourselves. We pay taxes and are responsible dog owners, and in return, we expect a reasonable level of safety while walking our dogs in our neighborhood.

My husband and I bought a house in Santa Ana because we wanted to be part of this community. We enjoy our neighbors, and we want to feel safe when we leave our house. We currently feel unsafe and are concerned for our dogs. We'd like the animal laws to be enforced. If pets are considered property, we believe pet parents should be compensated for damages inflicted on their pets. A stronger position by the city council regarding animal welfare may reduce the number of dog attacks and would likely increase quality of life. And I do have pictures if you want to see the damage that has been caused by our dogs.

What I'd like to maybe is ask you to meet with the chief of police and let's see if we can't do something because you're being victimized. Yeah. And that's not right.

Yeah, and I think, you know, everyone kind of knows that stray dogs are a problem in our city. Yeah. I'm assuming you guys know. You're our representative, I think, right now. For word two. for Ward 2. Yeah, and you're a dog lover, it sounds like. And we live about a block away from Irma. So we're right in that neighborhood. These are right within our walking distance of our house. It's by you. So it's within one year of these, all that has happened, and it's very traumatic. So I just wanted to make sure this...

Councilor Penny Lozo, would you like to take the lead along with the Chief of Police? Okay. Excellent. We'll set up a meeting. Go talk to the Chief. He's right over there with a big smile.

No, okay. Mr. Mayor, is part of that maybe we can get from the PD a report on our animal control department, staffing, are they all sworn, can they be non-sworn? That's an area to where I'd like to see-

We contract with the county of Orange for animal services.

Okay, or maybe we can allocate more dollars so that they can get calls back, etc.

Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for coming down.

Thank you.

Okay, that was our last speaker. So with that, comments by the city manager.

Okay, I do have three announcements and then an update. So the Public Works Agency and the Water Resources Division has partnered with Metropolitan Water District to offer free native landscaping workshops and classes starting on June 29th from 1 to 4 at the Santiago Creek Wildlife and Watershed Center at Santiago Park. And we also have planned on June 27th at 9 a.m., all of your city employees are going to gather at Santa Ana Stadium, and we are going to form the shape of 150 and have an aerial photo taken of us for the 150 or sesquicentennial. You all are welcome to join us as well.

And then lastly, we do have the Community Development Agency is very pleased to announce the availability of financing to assist Santa Ana residents the opportunity to become first-time homeowners. So the program offers 0% deferred payment loans up to $80,000 for low-income households and up to $40,000 for moderate-income households. And then the update item, I wanted to let you all know that I was invited by BizNow Orange County. Last week, June 12th, I spoke on a panel on the state of the market for Orange County. It was very well attended, and I was able to promote Santa Ana and all of the development opportunities,

a lot of questions regarding Willowwick and our Opportunity Zone. so there is a lot of interest out there and that's all thank you i'm now going to start

with council comments over here with councilman jose solorio thank you mr mayor um on the lincoln

issue that was addressed by some of the park santiago residents i'd like to have staff help me coordinate a meeting with them and with representatives of octa and metrolink as appropriate because that is a legitimate concern they're bringing forward something that passed Last, quietly, but I do want to highlight now is

Senator Tom Umberg is going to be moving his district office from another city in the 34th district to Santa Ana, they're at the train station. So that's fantastic. That means he and the staff and all his visitors will be thinking about Santa Ana. Thank you so much. We do have a representative from Senator Umberg's office and we're thankful. And we should send a letter to the senator Thanking him for making that choice that would be appreciated if via the city manager or the mayor we could sit in such an office. And then finally at the Heritage Museum of Orange County, I believe it was last week,

there was a very successful unveiling of a historical mural that really goes with the theme of the 150th year anniversary. So they're to be commended and I'm sure we'll be hearing more about them in the future. And I'm sure there'll be more visitors to the fantastic mural that was designed by local artists with the help of many students. Thank you.

Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just wanted to report out that last week had a very productive meeting at TCA. So it's always very fortunate to go and represent our city amongst other electeds in the county. representing the transportation corridor agency. And tomorrow I will be, I along with Councilwoman Iglesias, I'm not sure if someone else is going, but I'm going to be traveling to Florida for Nileo, a national association of elected Latino elected officials, which is always a great learning experience as well. And again, also like Councilmember Salonio mentioned,

David PenalozaItem —

Very happy that our senator is going to be moving into town, to Santa Ana. You know, it's always great to know that our federal and state representatives are in Santa Ana joining Congressman Correa to have their offices here. We're very fortunate to have that. You know, Assemblymember Daly, if you're watching, we have space for you. If you want to move towards the last of your time to Santa Ana, we welcome you. With that said, thank you. Thank you, staff, and good night.

Council Member Iglesias, please.

So I just want to report that I attended the Orange County Sanitation Board meeting on May 22nd. On May 23rd, I attended the Orange County

associated OCOG meeting, as for governments, city's governments. On Monday, June 3rd, I attended a subcommittee meeting for the Regional Housing Needs Assessment with SCAG. And on Thursday, June 6th, I attended the SCAG meeting. And one of the things that I want to report out there is the stands that the SCAG board of directors took to accept, to not accept the recommendation of the state for us to increase the number of, I believe that like the needs assessment for housing.

They wanted for us to double count, right? What it was that we already taken into consideration. So they wanted for us to build more housing units than we already have. And it's something that I believe our city manager and also our Min are, well he's not, he's planning, yeah. The planning director, you guys did a great job in providing that letter of support what the staff had already included and incorporated into their report of how many housing units we would need in order to be compliant with what the state was requiring.

So we were able to say, you know what, no, I think we need to have more of an input at the state level as a region. So I'm very happy and I want to thank you for your letter. It was a huge support for what we were trying to convey at the board of directors. And on June 10th, we had our Edibet meeting, just trying to see how we were going to work with the budget. And I believe that really helped us get this meeting rolling and getting out of here sooner. So I want to thank staff for giving us that presentation on that day and being very thoughtful of the recommendations that we made.

And I want to thank you, Christine, because you were able to kind of incorporate what we were talking about, but doing it in a transparent way that all of us here on the dais have a say in what's happening in our budget. So I want to thank you for that. So on June 11th, I attended the, I've been at SCAG, SCAG 30th Annual Demographic Workshop. Also that was at USC and it also gave me an opportunity to understand more about the census. They talked about the census, how we're going to be affected and what their marketing and their outreach is. So I'm glad that we're going to be able to be partnering with them.

So I don't know when our colleagues brought it up, but it is a good investment of our resources for us to see how we can leverage that to bring more resources into our city. And on June 11th, we also had the Public Safety Code Enforcement and Neighborhood Empowerment Meeting. So that we had an opportunity to talk about what we need more when it comes to park safety and the street safety. So I'm very happy to see that we are going to be including more cameras in our parks.

And I know this is just the first phase, but I'm hopeful that you are going to be looking at ways to work with Lisa to see how we can incorporate them in all of our parks. our parks because it's something that I believe it's really needed. And with safety, one thing I would also like to ask is if we could somehow also have staff or maybe contractors work on weekends, especially in our parks. Because Monday through Friday, usually our families don't really enjoy our parks as we do on weekends. And it seems that on weekends, that's when we see all these trash. I mean, we see our parks not clean at all, not safe, and

we see things that we shouldn't be seeing with our family members. So I'm hoping that we're able to address that, that we could have 24 seven in a way type of security. And on Wednesday, June 12th, I attended the Orange County Sanitation Administration Committee meeting. And like Councilman Pinalosa said, we are going to be in Miami for the Latino for Naleo. And that's going to be something to see. we can bring back what we learned there but i want to thank you all for allowing me an opportunity to be on these committees because i'm i'm learning a lot and doing this and you're having a good time

and you're serving the public okay uh start the clock again but only for one minute yes councilor

solario yes yes fourth of july is coming up the community is concerned i know pd has it on its radar there are tactics like prior folks that violate the law visit them that day send them letters ahead of time we kind of did as a pilot in ward three a couple years ago and it worked really well so hopefully we can have an aggressive enforcement we're already getting a lot of

complaints about it thank you thank you council member council member vince armiento please

thank you mr mayor and i wanted to thank staff tonight for doing a very good job in addressing some of the concerns that you saw on the budget and making those adjustments. And as we move forward, I think that it's going to be a much better, cleaner, and thorough, comprehensive budget. What I did want to say is I have been in conversations with our Parks and Rec staff and connecting them with the Orange County Water District as we go through some proposed improvements over at the zoo, which is very exciting. So our zoo, as many of you know, is the only real authentic zoo in the entire county.

And we have some proposed improvements that are going to be occurring at one exhibit in particular, which is called the Amazon's Edge. And it's the only aquatic exhibit on site. And it's something that has been kind of dated and not really in great shape. And we're going through a $2 million plus improvement there. And if you haven't seen the zoo, it's got now the train that circulates around the grounds. It has the carousel with all the themed animals. And it has now a Ferris wheel. So it really is a very, very nice place. I grew up right around there, and I saw it and remember it when it was just, you know, just plain monkeys.

And now it isn't that at all. Now the proposed improvements at Amazon's Edge, you'll be able to see subsurface sea otters swimming through. But the real exciting part is that we're trying to work as the president of the Orange County Water District and the representative from this council there. We're trying to see if they'll invest and help us create an interactive space where kids can see how water filtration works. And it not only will be a great visible exhibit for families to enjoy, but for kids to learn that as well. So it'll be an educational station also. So, you know, we've got our fingers crossed. They're very interested.

I've been trying to make sure that the water district not only improves its site on its grounds, but also goes out in the county and introduces what it does because it does some pretty spectacular things. And hopefully if they come to the zoo, it'll be a great way to achieve both those goals. And with that, I'll bid everybody a good night.

Thank you very much. Mayor Potembe-Liegas, please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. April 15th, I attended the American Legion Flag Day ceremony. It was a flag installation, and it was hosted along with the United Mexican American Veterans Association. It was a really, really nice event in Orange. It was great to represent Santa Ana down there. We also had our water department out, and they came and furnished some water, cold drinks for the public. So that was awesome. We were the only ones that had a booth there, so it was great.

And our Congressman Lou Correa was there. He brought a flag that was flown over the nation's capital for a day, and he brought it down. So now it flies here in orange. It's very, very nice. Maybe you can bring us one over here next time, hopefully. And the Assemblymember Quirk Silva was present also, along with the mayor of Orange. It was a great event. And last but not least, the Orange County Fire Authority has a great, great program called Girls Empowerment Camp. And that's going to be June 29th through the 30th. It's for girls 14 to 18 to attend, learn more about the fire services.

Maybe you want to become a firefighter or an inspector or dispatcher or public educators in that field. And for more information, you can go to the OCFA website. It's a great, great program and it's open to the public so there's still time to sign up. And I suggest you visit the Orange County Fire Authorities website for more information. Thank you Mr. Mayor.

Thank you. In case folks at home wonder how can we all tell you about meetings and where we go and what we do. It's because it's required for transparency purposes and it's on our calendar. and it's not on the calendar here, but I'm just going to state that on the 7th and 8th of this month, I attended the North American Mayor Summit, mayors from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. And one of the takeaways, and I want to direct it to the chief of police and the public safety committee, is that in the city of Damaulipas, it's a city of about 2 million people or so in Mexico,

they've developed their own app and it's a really cool app where they register residents they identify they take them through a training and they and they basically show them how to log on to this and then they become in essence an extension of the police department electronically so any crime anything that's going on it's registered by that person so you can't get like like a crank call or folks abusing the system because that happens. And so as more and more people go through this training, the police department gets stronger and stronger. And I'm just thinking with Comlink and our neighborhood associations,

all the folks here that want to be more connected, this app might be something that we can emulate. It's really, really cool. I've got the mayor's card. He offered to either have them talk to our technical people, show us their whole program. They're a city of about 2 million people. They have 25,000 folks now signed up to their app. And it's really making a difference in how they're able to impact crime because of this application, people that are connected to it, and how they're using it. I think it's something that's going to go global, and eventually a bunch of cities are going to use it. So with that, that is it for me.

And it's 840 and I thank everybody for being so efficient tonight. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.