Music Good afternoon. The time now is 506 on June 26, 2024. I would like to start the closed session meeting. Meeting caught order. Through a couple of these. Thank you, Mayor. Mayor Wynne. Yes, I'm here. Vice Mayor Ho. Here. Councilwoman Fan West. Councilmember Monzo. Here. Councilmember Wood. I'm here. Mayor Yvonne Corham with Councilwoman Fan West absent. Thank you very much. We are going to do the practical regions so please stand and Councilmember Manzo, where's with that? Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you, Council Mezzell. Next is the oral communication for closed session to have any one sign up for. We have no members present for oral communications. All right. Would you please go over the items that we are going to discuss in the closed session. Thank you, Mayor. The City Council resets to a closed session for the following purposes. Conference with legal counsel pursuant to government code section 54956.9D1. Existing litigation case city of Westminster at all versus Purdue, FARMA LP at all USUSDC Northern District of California, case number 19, CV, 02325JST. Transfer to US DC Northern District of Ohio, MDL number two. In conference with real property negotiators, pursuant to government code section 54956. 0.8, property 8190, 13th Street, Westminster, California 92683, City Negotiator Christine Cordon, City Manager Adolfo Zeta, Assistant City Manager, Negotiating Party, Elderly Development, Westminster LP, a California Limited Partnership under negotiation price in terms of payment. All right, thank you very much. The council now recess for a close session. Good evening. The time now is 6.11. On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, I would like to reconvene City Council's successor, HSE, to the Westminster Development Agency meeting. Meeting call to order. Roll call please. Mayor Wynne. I'm here. Vice Mayor Ho. I'm here. Councilwoman Fen west. Fen west here. Councilmember Bonzo. Here. Councilmember Wynne. I'm here. Mayor you have a quorum with all members present. Thank you very much. Before we do the salute to the flag and invocation. Salute to the flag will be a council member from West and invocation by vice mayor Hall. So please stand. Please join me in saluting the flag. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. These remaining standing in bow your heads. Heavenly Father, we ask that you will guide the hearts and minds of all who exercise the responsible duty of civic leadership in Westminster. To those who govern through the City Council, grant the ability to listen carefully, reasoned softly, speak clearly, and to act with compassion. Give us the willingness to persevere in service for the common good. May the effect of the work done here this evening promote the welfare of all citizens in our community. Amen. Thanks to Councilmember Fu West and Vice Mayor Ho for this salute to the flag and also the invocation. Before I go to city attorney for closed session report, we would like to welcome each and everyone of you. Thank you for taking your time to be here this evening. And so with that, we will have a fun time together today. So city attorney closed session report please. Thank you, Marin Council. There were two items on the closed session. The first one concern, existing litigation with Westminster Verbe versus Purdue Farma. This is the opioid litigation, it's national litigation. The city participating in, there's a number of companies that are defendants in that. And the as settlements are reached in the national litigation, we're asked to participate in them. So tonight we were discussing a settlement with the company CROGER, which is associated with Ralph's. And the council voted on a motion made by Vice Mayor Ho, seconded by Monzo, approved 5-0, to authorize participation in that settlement as part of the ongoing opioid litigation. On a separate motion made by the mayor, seconded by Monzo approved 5-0, they authorize the city manager to approve future settlements as they occur because there's so many of them. But they, at the same time city manager will notify the council as each of those occur and they will be updated regularly on the status of that. Nothing further to report. Thank you, City Attorney. Next is the export communication. Is there anything from the data here? Seeing none, so moving on to City Club Report, please. Thank you, Mayor. As a reminder, nomination period opens on July 15th and closes on August 9th at 5 p.m Canada to our interested in serving in districts 2 and district 3 are encouraged to call the city clerk's office to pull nomination papers and File information will be added to our website under the city clerk's Office. In addition, commission vacancies, there are still recruitment underway for culture arts commission and commission on aging. A waiting public interest, any members who are interested please reach out to the City Clerk's Office to complete application. Applications can also be found online. That concludes my report. Thank you. Next is City Manager of Report Police. Thank you, Mayor. Members of the City Council and everyone watching the meeting tonight. Hopefully I'll get through this a little bit quicker because we do have quite a bit to report. So first and foremost, the 4th of July is just around the corner. It's next week. And per the municipal code, only the sale of safe and safe fireworks is permitted and must bear the state fire marshal seal. The city annually awards 15 stand permits each year to our local nonprofit organizations. And for many of these organizations, this is their largest fundraiser of the year. So again, as stated in the municipal code, the dates of firework sales are from June 30th through July 3rd, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. And on July 4th, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on July 4th, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. July 4th is the only day permitted to discharge fireworks. And again, only the sale of safe and sane fireworks may be discharged. A possession sale or discharge of illegal fireworks carries a $1,000 fine. And additions, citations may also be issued for those in possession of illegal fireworks. So please everyone have a safe and enjoyable Fourth of July holiday. Coming up next in August, National Night Out was first started in 1970 and it's grown to a nationwide event to promote police community partnerships with neighborhood camaraderie. We've had National Night out for quite some time. And having this event, fosteres a relationship between neighbors and law enforcement. It's a way of helping to make our neighborhood safer and more and caring places to work, play and live. Westminster PD would like to invite everyone to this year's national night out, which is scheduled for August 8th, 2024, at the Westminster Civic Center, Sunk and Garden areas. And that's just right behind our council chambers here. It's going to be in conjunction with a community services concert from our concert in the park series. So this location is different than our previous locations. So it will be here, it's local, and then obviously we'll have our Nationalite Out event starting at 5 p.m. With the concert starting at 6 p.m. We will be featuring Redneck Rodeo, a country band who will be providing the musical entertainment for the evening. During Nationalite Out there will be police vehicles, motorcycles, a K9 demonstration, along with Westminster's Public Services Department, Community and Recreation Department, just to name a few of the departments that will be participating in this event. Additionally, during the National Night Out event, our Westminster Police Explorers will be providing free child identification kits for parents at their booth. These kits are for families to take home and keep for their records. Some of our other community partners that participate in National Night Out include the Orange County Fire Authority, California Highway Patrol, crime survivors, bikers against child abuse, Westminster Boys and Girls Club, Home Depot, plus food trucks that will be offering food for free to purchase from. So be sure to bring your family and friends, enjoy the night with us August 8th from 5 PM to about 8 PM. That includes both National Night Out and the Concert. And the weather's been heating up, still heating up. So join us at our Sigler Park splash pad to cool down. The splash pad is free and now open daily from 12 to 5 PM. So if you're interested in renting out the splash pad for your next private event, please feel free to call community services and recreation. And private rentals are available on days of operation from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. I mean give them a call at 714 895-2860. And remember to check out our free drop in summer recreation programs for youth ages 6 to 14. Enjoy supervised games, arts and crafts, sports and much more at Bulsachika Park, Liberty Park, Sigler or Civic Center Sankin Gardens. A lot of fun for the kids. Munding through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. And no city manager is complete without a senior center event. So senior center is going to be hosting a fourthth July barbecue lunch next Wednesday, July 3rd, from 11.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. with festive music courtesy of 5 star band. So let's honor our nations and appendants and enjoy a fantastic afternoon together. Tickets are on sale for $5 at the senior center front desk and for more information call senior center at 714 895 2878. Staff's also been busy gearing up for our first movie night of the summer starting on July 11th with trolls band together. Join us Thursday nights in July for movies right here in our Civic Center over the Sunk and Garden. Activity start at about 6.30 p.m. and movies showing at dusk. Then on July 18th, join us for Lilo and Stitch and on July 25th, it's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem. Lots of fun, there'll be a lot of fun prizes and surprises and you don't want to miss out. And again, absolutely free, bring your lawn chairs and have a great time with your family. So join us on our annual safety day. On Wednesday, July 17th at Sigler Park, 7200 Plaza Street from 1130 AM to 1 30 PM. This is definitely a fun event where we see a lot of people coming out. Meet your local heroes from the Westminster Police Department and the Orange County Fire Authority, along with other non-profit and community groups that will be there. We will have a hot dog lunch served to those in attendance. For those of you watching via the PCTA Channel 3 or Westminster TV, we are conducting a WTV leadership survey. Before the meeting tonight, you may have noticed this graphic with details. You'll also be able to catch it after the meeting. Please take a few minutes to complete for a chance to win a $50 grocery gift card. We definitely want to know what you think about the channel and programming that may or may not interest you. So please provide us some feedback, scan the QR code. And lastly, we'd like to give a warm welcome to our new staff. We have recreation leaders, Jessica Nguyen, Zoe Callaman, Vanessa Le, Claudia Valdez, and Elena, so those are recreation leaders. And then we have our special services, clerk, Elena Robles. And then we'd also like to introduce, after a long recruitment, we'd like to welcome our new IT manager, Charles Povekin, who's also here with us today if you want to raise your hand. And so he will be in charge of our IT division, that's our new IT manager. With that, that completes my report. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, De City Council. Welcome aboard our new staff. Coming today or this week. So there's a lot to remember. So all for all these is we having it on the City website. So this information is available on the City's website and also our city's Instagram and Facebook page. All right. Thank you very much. Next is a special presentation and today I'm proud to introduce you to the presentation of Proclamation for Drowning Prevention and Awareness Association and with that I like to welcome Captain Gory to provide a brief presentation. So put your hand together to welcome Captain Smith. Thank you for putting your time to be here. Thank you so much. You have your feedback? Yes. Thank you Mayor, Council and City staff. I'm here to share a message about water safety and drowning in the water. Yes. Thank you Mayor, Council and city staff. I'm here to share a message about water safety and drowning Prevention. We're so grateful for the opportunity to especially have so many people in attendance. I'm just going to run through a couple slides and just share with you some of the things we've learned. One thing I found when researching for this is that our drownings increasing across the county. Last year we had 54 fatal drownings in the county and that is up from 43 in the year 2022 and there was only 33 in 2019. So we're obviously having a huge increase in drownings throughout the county and I definitely want to share that message as you you know, we've reached that time a year where the sun is out and everybody's back in the water. And I just have a quick video to share with you about how quickly some of these situations Now obviously that was a successful situation where the dad was out watching the water. If you noticed the emblem in the bottom of the screen, that was the Himit firefighters emblem. And this is one of our own as a firefighter. And I think it really sheds light on even through all our training and awareness that we have in this subject, how quickly it can happen, even our backyards where you see the pool fences are up. The child was originally in floaties, but dad was watching the water so that was definitely a successful save. So what is drowning? I think everybody knows it's an immersion in liquid where water enters the lungs. Two outcomes from drowning would be a fatal and non-fatal. A positive statistic that you may have heard is that for every fatal drowning there's five non-dradle foundings, non-fatals. But what is unfortunate about these non-fatal drownings is that the submerging in the water causes irreversible effects and many of these individuals are gravely disabled. So not only are we looking to avoid drownings, but we need to have people that can jump and quickly like dad that can avoid possible long-term effects from near drownings. There are a lot of drowning risk factors. I'd say some of the ones that stick out to me is definitely age, are younger and older citizens, are definitely most susceptible. But the big drowning risk factor that we can overcome, and I'm here to share is lack of supervision So we really want to put that out in the community just having strong water watchers Rotating in the throes and not becoming distracted as we easily do Again, I want to point out the fact that those age factors are really The huge contributors here as we know children can drown in a little of two inches of water So even when we're just starting to fill the bathtub. There's not a moment to step away Back to those statistics you can see the trend coming back from 2013 Although we've made a little bit of progression You can see it's just remaining constant despite you know public service announcements us doing activities in the community and all the light we've shed on this so we just want to continue to get out in the communities, train up our swimmers. Many people don't know that 50% of children cannot swim, yet when you survey the parents, 90% of those children will be in water. In addition to the 50% of children who can't swim, also 50% according to USA Swimming of American adults cannot swim either. And that was very surprising me. Our drowning factor, so laps of supervision is the huge part and if you see where the majority of our drownings occur, they're in backyard pools and spas and our community pools and spas. The common denominator on those two locations is no lifeguards. surroundings occur. They're in backyard pools and spots, and our community pools and spots. The common denominator on those two locations is no lifeguards. So again, it brings attention back to having that water watcher in addition to those barriers and personal flotation devices. So it's how important it's time. I talked before about that two to five minutes, and you can see it five minutes, the brain damage is irreversible. So we can't leave the water even for a moment, even to grab a snack, make a phone call, and we just need to continually be watching that water. We have our ABCs of water to keep it simple. We're looking for active adult supervision. We're looking for barriers around our pool. So our community members that have pools. Make sure you have those fences. And then seeking out those classes for learning to swim, water safety, and even in the event there is a drowning, getting out there and pursuing CPR classes and training. Again, this is looking at the water watchers. We got to make sure also that our water watchers are trained in swimming. That dad was able to capture his kid at the pool's edge, but if the adult is unable to swim, obviously they won't be able to enter the water and then we'll have two victims. Here's an example of our barriers. These are available through multiple companies throughout the community. We need to maintain and check those regularly and then also making sure we have the alarms on our sliding glass doors. We're asking Orange County Fire get out there learn to swim. You can see it through your community. The City of Westminster has many private organizations that offer swim classes and many community events, especially our Orange County educators that are out there in the schools teaching water safety. No such thing as a safe pool. And definitely the 80% of child drownings, the child was last seen safe in the home five minutes so in the home. So in the event a child goes missing and you do have a pool, the first place we check is the pool and then we can start looking throughout the house, even though they were last seen in the home. Drain safety, there's been a lot of advancements from the pools that all of us older folks were swimming in and pools and we were worried about hair. But there's been a lot of advancements, but we still want to recognize that we don't stick our fingers or our hair near those drains. And flotation devices. If you want to have a certified life vest, I know I use those for my kids, and they've been a savior many times. We're not just talking about pools here. We wanted this considerations all to have in bathtubs, boating out in our local lakes and in the ocean. And then just one couple of last things to cover here, drowning myths. I know when we see it in the movie, drowning is a very exciting thing. Somebody's yelling for help. They're waving their arms. But it has been shown that most people who are drowning their arms are below the water trying to hold themselves up and they're gasping for air. They won't be screaming. So that brings that myth that drowning is loud. It's not really the case, and drowning is silent. So here's our top 10 safety water tips. I won't read them to you all. But really, the one number 10 is the one that stands out to me that can really help. If we have somebody watching, then we can make the biggest effect for water safety. So drowning is fast, drowning is silent, but drowning is preventable. And thank you so much for your time. Appreciate you giving us the recognition and moment to speak on this on events. Thank you. All right, thank you. Can we help this? Thank you. Thank you. We have this. The web is on the website also. Now, yeah, but we can get it on the website. Okay. Please, Seniors. Absolutely. Okay. And I forgot to mention that Captain McCoy came from OSEFA. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Now comes the front-hand. The council and the Mayor and the council are pleased to recognize some of the several, we have several words to give out today, certificate of recognition. So first let me read all and then I will invite all the council to come down to the podium and at that time we are going to hand you the certificate of recognition. First is certificate of recognition to the Westminster Police Department Explorer and advisor program for outstanding performance in Excon. This year, our Westminster Police Department Explorer hosts competed in a strenuous and competitive competition ascon. This competition provides reality based training the strongest and competitive competition has come. This competition provides reality based training for law enforcement explorers and cadets. This year there were a total of 49 teams and over 279 explorers competed. Westminster Explorer post 810, a train over the past six months the . We will be doing a . We will be doing a . We will be doing a . We will be doing a . We will be doing a . We will be doing a . We will be doing a . We will be doing a . We will be doing a awards. With a perfect score of 100, they receive first place in Suspices situation and second place in a vehicle ambush. Congratulations to our explorer post 810. So why don't we put our hands together? Thank you. The next one is a presentation of proclamation for parks make life better month. Parks and recreation promote physical, emotional, and mental health, and wellness through organized and self-directed fitness, play and activities. Parks and recreation creates memorable experience through youth sports and enrichment activities, teen centers and programs, senior activity centers, adult fitness and enrichment programs, senior activity centers, adult fitness and enrichment programs, free community events and beyond. Now, therefore, I, Chief Ch makes life better. Month in the city of Westminster and recognize the importance of access to local parks, creros, open space and facility for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety for all residents. The next one is going to be certificate for a recognition to the 2024 Westminster Youth Committee. The Youth Committee acts in an advisory capacity to the City Council in all matters of concern to the youth of the city and works closely with the community services and recreation departments. The youth committees advise, recommends, assists and encouraged activities and programs to be undertaken for and with the youth of the city. The youth committee truly assists in creating tomorrow's leaders. On behalf of the entire city council, we recognize the 2024 youth committee members for that dedication and commitment in empowering the youth of our community. Again, put your hand together for them. Thank you. Next is certificate of recognition to the Westminster High STEM students. It is great pleasure that we get to recognize some of our very own Westminster High School students this evening. And don't forget that I'm alumni to the Westminster High School too. These students have won national state and regional awards for their innovative thinking and real scientific research. A few of the many categories include the use of STEM knowledge and skills in creating solution to the world's problems for better tomorrow. Use of Rio's scientific research and innovative forward thinking of new technologies and smart solutions that improve and enhance our lives and communities specifically. Innovative excellence in creating advancement in space exploration technologies, engineering technology to advance the future of flight. We want to recognize and congratulate these students for their awards and achievements. Again, put your hands together to thank the people. At this time I would like to invite all the council to join me at the podium to hand out I have already read the proclamation so basically at this time we just want to present it to you and so I will let you invite Captain McGory from OCFA. So here's the proclamation and on behalf of the City of Westminster, on behalf of the Carcidicaso and City staff, we'll let you present this one parking mission for you for the month of May to August 2024. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just again, thank you for the opportunity to shut on an important thing in our community. Drowning is one of the toughest things that any of the officers or firefighters go on here and we'd be happy to never go on one again. So thank you for your participation in help and in combating this disturbing trend we have going in the county. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is a certificate of recognition and present to post 810. Is it 810? Police explorers and advisors, Westminster Police Department. And they asked, how many of you here? Why don't you come up here? We would like to have a picture with you. And congratulations. So you can stand ahead and put this. So on behalf of the city, the city council and city staff, we would like to present you a certificate of recognition and presented to post 810 police explorers and advisors, Westminster Police Department for your outstanding performance at Excon 2024 and for receiving first place in subspecies, secretion and second place in vehicle ambush. So congratulations. Applause. I would like to thank all of Westminster Police Department and all of the advisors for having our backs and trusting in us. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, too. Thank you to Senator City Council. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Senator City Council. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. You can go. Thank you. You can go back. Next, we are very proud to present the proclamation parks make the life better month to recreation and parks rights so I would like to invite all of you to come up here. All right. Again on behalf of the City Council and City staff, I would like to present the proclamation parks make the life better month and it's signed on this date on 26th day of June 2024 by the seat council, Chi Chalin-Win Mayor and Kimberley-Kubili, whole vice mayor of District 3, Amy, Frank West, council member of District 1, Carlos Menzo, council member of District 2, and Namp-Win, council member of District 4, tall. Congratulations. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, acknowledging the importance that parks make in our community and thank you to all the staff for executing the plans to make our community stronger. It does not go in notice. So, time for picture. Can you take it off? Okay. We need to squeeze in. Yeah, exactly. Alright. You want to get down with us? Yeah. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, one, two, three. Alright. Thank you. Congratulations to all of you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So now we are, yeah, for the youth committees, how many people that we have here? Okay, well, why don't we come up? All right, thank you very much. Thank you for your time, thank you for your dedication. And I believe that we also have the application out and we could more of thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, sure. Okay. I would invite you. When we. Okay. You can. All right. Where's the vice chair? We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. We are going to be here. the lucky opportunity to be this year's vice chairperson for the Westminster Youth Committee. And so basically what the Westminster Youth Committee does for a year-long term is basically we represent the youth and we plan events for the youth. And so this year we had a bunch of events for the youth like San on the go, East, the Easter Bunny, photos, and a bunch more. And something that we did this year that we haven't done in previous years is the mental health advocacy campaign. And so basically what we did this year was post a bunch of lawyers regarding mental health during mental health awareness month, which was May. And so I couldn't have done this without the rest of my youth committee members, as well as Ms. Jeeta's news and the mayor and the council members, and as well as the community. And so I wanted to also say that next year, we have so much more in store for the youth as well as the community. So thank you. So ladies and gentlemen, these are our future leaders. So thank you very much. Thank you for volunteering yourself with the Youth Committee. Thanks. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So this is Stenry for Child Vanessa Claire, Derek, Dilling, Paul, and Andrew, that's Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, can you yeah, can you pass it? I have to read the name so they can come up right? Well next is STEM students and we are proud to have you here with us today So we read the name can you come up when you hear your name? First of all, Emily Fang, Nicholas Wen, Lan Ang Wen, Ethan Fang. Can you read this thing for me? Kalani, dozada? Jacqueline Fahn, Ketlin-Win, Ketlin-Win. James Winn, Hamid Don, Andrea Cudran, Ryan Damm, Louis Chung. I think it's okay. Okay, that's it. Okay, you got another one. 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I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the We've done. What's the minister? Okay. Uh, uh, uh, CDE attorney? Have the City Manager handle this one? Okay. City Manager. So actually, um, so there is a request. We, there's a request tonight for a walk on item, uh, to Fan West, seconded by Councilman Namquan-Win, would like to walk on an item. As you know, it requires a 2-thirds vote or four members out of the five council members to walk on a particular item. So at this time. Can you state what is the work on item please. It is a resolution to me read the title. We could actually have councilwoman fan west councilmember win. trying to look for it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's in our folders. No. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Thank you. Without going to the details, can you state the reason why you and what is the items that you want to walk out. Okay. Mr. McKinney. Can you hear me? Okay. Okay. Thank you. So my resolution second by Councilman Namguang is basically Westminster Orange County basically moving forward and reconciliation reconciliation and upcoming council meeting what council meeting today So I want to read this out to you guys this resolution title moving forward and recollect Reconciliation at the next this council meeting rescending item Recending resolution title I'm sorry, I can barely see here Recending the item number 5.2 from the June 12th Council City Council meeting which order resolution For sensor councilwoman Amy fan was which is myself the new resolution also called upon the councilwoman Amy Femme, which is myself. The new resolution also called upon the council member to unite as one body to effectively serve the community. The moving forward and reconciliation resolution represent a significant step toward healing division within the council and foster the spirit of corporation. By rescinding the contentious motion on item number 5.2, censoring Councilwoman Amy Fan-West, the Council seek to the clear path for more constructive and unified decision making process. The purpose of this resolution is to move past previous disagreements and to establish a collaborative environment where all council member work together for the betterment of our community. It is time for us. May I finish? I have one, two more lines. Okay, two more lines. Okay, so thank you, Mr. Mayor. It is time for us to come together and focus on the needs of the people we serve. The key point for moving reconciliation is to resend and then reinforce the Council commitment to effective governance and community service. And the introduction of the resolution marked a pivotal moment for the City of Westmaser to seek to overcome past challenges and prioritize the well-being and process of its resident. So that's my end and I think Nambuang Council and Nambuang has something to say too. Thank you. First of all, I think this is a very important issue for us to discuss because on the last meeting that we have. I just want to mention that we are not going to the discussion. We just state that you know what the item that you want to bring in and then we will vote on that. I understand that Mr. Mayor. Thank you. All right, so I think this is the, we are at the point that the our division is very clear and I just don't want the city be dragged on into dark age like before. So this is why I second Councillor Womile, if I'm West, to bring this stress solution of reconciliation and moving forward before you guys to be discussed. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Kasselman, West and and the council member, when is there a motion to move? Yeah, I motion to move this forward with the reconciliation to focus on the resident of the Westminster and doing city business. I second. Okay. We have a motion and second. Is there anything before we cast out votes? In Mariff, I may clarify. Yes, please. This is to walk an item on. The council would be voting for four votes and it's finding that the issue is urgent and needs to be addressed tonight. That's part of the motion. I have a question for your city attorney. What constitutes an urgent urgency? Ultimately the council makes that determination if there's something of sufficient importance that they feel that they need to address tonight. That's what the motion is for. You're making a finding that it is sufficiently urgent. Okay. Okay. What I want is if we move to agree to have a walk on item, I would like to have it at 5.6 which is the end of their item today. Okay. Is it okay? That's actually where it would be anyway. It would be there anyway. Perfect. Okay. We have motion in second round four. Please go to roll call for. Thank you Mayor. I have a motion made by Councilwoman Fanwess. The second made by Councilwoman Fanwess. This is to walk on the resolution to be considered as agenda item number 5.6. I'll go out and call roll. Councilwoman Fanwess. Yes. Councilwoman Vermonzo. I'll go out and call roll. Councillor Mellon. Yes. Councillor Vermando. Councillor Winn. Yes. Vice Mayor Ho. No. Mayor Winn. I think the reason that I want them to have it so that we can take care of the problem today and then it's over with. Instead of having next meeting that they have to bring it back again. So that's the reason why I vote yes for having it. Thank you. Three two motion carried. No. No, motion failed. Oh, I'm sorry. It's because it requires four. Yeah, sorry. My apologies. Three two motion failed. Mr. Mann. Yes. No, I'm sorry, but you said yes. Oh sorry my apologies three to much appeal Mr. Mayer yes Can we Agenda is it for the next meeting. Yeah, no gas for all guests. Yeah, okay All right, so The Quack on item is not going to Be considered differently. Next is overall communication on agenda item only. Before City Clerk go over for the record, I'd like to mention a little bit about the policy, the resolution number nine, four, nine, six, three. I think most of us know about it already. So I'm quickly going over that this is a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the City of Westminster as establishing rules of the quorum and civility at city council meetings. So with that, I hope that we are, we understand that we treat everyone personally and listen to it and be open-minded and consider all viewpoints and allow all members of the public to speak with our intimidation and interruption. Please refrain from using the propane, for finitling language because you can see that maybe the young people they make go home and continue to watch our meeting. And I know that when I do the exit interview at the Westminster High and I talked to the number of them and they said yes, did do that for the credit, for extra credit. So I would like to ask you to refrain it from the for affinity. With that I'd like to open for oral communication and city clerk please read it into record. Thank you Mayor. This is the time of the meeting that members of the public may address the city council regarding any items on the agenda. Unless otherwise extended by a majority vote of the city council, comments shall be limited to three minutes per speaker. Any person wishing to address the city council in person should complete a green speaker slip that is provided at the entrance to the council chambers and submit the card to the city clerk. When your name is called, please step to the podium at that time and state your name and city of residents for the record. Our first speaker is how we too followed by Susan Miller. Hi. My name is how we too from city of Westminster. I am how a meeting with the I am having a meeting from assembly I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you tonight. Thank you for fighting item 544 on agenda for I would like to thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Chair, thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Chair, thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Chair, thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Chair, thank you, Mr. Chair, and as advisor from Fantastic Westminster for the department. And lastly, congratulations to our amazing park stop to celebrate park make life better man. Toilet how we deal with the young folks young people, the first camp. Good to go to hoi ng hoolaicong wii vii to the boy home. Nice. Camping wii vii to do a 5.4 yaw chun chun ng i si to the The I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you. I'm going to speak to you All right next speaker is Susan Miller followed by Tammy Hamill. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on actually the pickle ball issue. that, which is item 5.1 and all address options 1 and 2. First of all, we have some major concerns about installation of pickle balls at Westminster Village Park. Westminster Village Park is a neighborhood park and it's not a community center. We want to keep it intact as is without pickle ball courts. We are concerned about increased traffic during the weekdays and begins with more cars in the neighborhood. Children walking to the park or riding their bikes around the area will be put at risk. Courts will be utilized at all hours other than those posted, especially during times of heat because people will want to play earlier. And this is going to cause a noise issue to the residences. And then, of course, a lack of restaurant facilities, which may represent umph or seen hygiene and sanitation issues and potential for increased litter. And we also would like to know if there's been a sound assessment done, noise assessment done by the city for the increased traffic and for the pickle walls noise itself. But last of all, according to this packet, the placement of the proposed pickle ball courts has been changed from the original proposed site that we saw in March. The large green area, and it's been changed to the large green area in the park as opposed to the back stops. This would further disrupt activities that take place on regular basis such as our youth which we're concerned here tonight about youth soccer, baseball and volleyball. Thank you for your time. All right, next speaker is Tammy Hamill, followed by Michael Verangia. Good evening. Tammy Hamill, what's next to resident district one? I want to speak on 5.3 and 5.5. 5.3, thank you, Charlie, I appreciate you putting this on the agenda because it has become a problem which I don't think I could give any better evidence than what they just did. It's something that is self-serving for her. It did not need to be an urgent item. It's all about she's proven she doesn't want to do any of what she just said. So it absolutely needs to be a different process for having for being able to do that. 5.5. Then wanting to change the minutes or when the comments are done. I know a lot of people may want that to be done. I actually prefer having some of the comments at the end because we can call out the bad behavior in the actual meeting. Instead of waiting two weeks and then someone says, I never said that, I never did that. When we can actually call out something she did 30 minutes prior. And it's in what people watch the meetings, they can actually see that called out in real time as they're behaving badly. And then someone calls it out, which we've done before. I think there's an Ontario motive, because whenever these two are in cahoots, there's something sneaky going on. We've seen it. They've proven it every time they discuss anything, the videos that they're doing online. After she got censured, still going out and talking crap about people. and yet you want to move forward. See, if you're really concerned about hearing residents, maybe you should make it so that if residents have to leave, if it's getting too late, they can hand their comments to someone else, just like we do with people who do and do in a translation and someone else can read them. I'd be happy to read other people's comments if they have to leave if you're really concerned about hearing them Why don't you suggest that? And maybe something you can do to make the meetings not go so long is to stop talking so much Repeating yourself consistently that would help the meeting move along you make your point and then you're done and we don't have to get one two o'clock in the morning meetings and One thing I think people have commented on before is If three minutes is enough time to get our point across which we've been doing for a year and a half Maybe certain times council members should have a three minute limit that would limit the the length of meetings because some people tend to ramble on for 30 minutes, repeating themselves 15 times, asking the same questions, getting the same answers. So if you really are concerned about hearing residents complaints and issues and anything else, think about that instead of just continuing to put all of these things on the agenda that are simply self-serving to you which is clearly what you just did and I could not have given better evidence of what of that than what you just did. Our next speaker is Michael Verangia followed by Laurie. Thank you. My two items here, first of all, is an implemented policy for placement of urgency items. This walk on item I just heard. I want somebody to explain to me why that's urgent. Urgency is if we're going to lose money. Urgency, if there's going to be damage to the city, urgency is something that may have a legal back, but this is not urgent. We told another meeting. That's the fact that I'm going to go into that right now. Anyway, also 5.5, this thing about changing the oral communications, trying to move it back up just like glass meeting, these two wanted to go back to five minutes. You didn't do that for the residents of Westminster. You did that for yourself. And I see you're back to your old tricks, not bothering to look at anybody who's up here, but that's okay. I'm used to that now after a year and a half of that stuff. You two are doing this for your own reasons. It's not because you're concerned with the residents. You're doing it, sorry, you're doing it for something else. So when I see something like that happen after you both voted to put it to the end of the meeting, now I smell a rat. And I'm not going to go for that. I don't believe it. You may or don't let them get away with this. This is a play for them. This whole thing is a play just like walking on urgent items. Every meeting, how many meetings now we've seen urgent items come before the council at the last minute? Because either they couldn't get their act going or they figured they'd kind of sneak it in. I remember a bunch of publicity going out. Oh yeah, show up for the meeting. I'm going to run this thing. We're going to walk it on the meeting. There was no urgency to that stuff. So don't let them get away with it, please. These two have got to be two of the biggest self-centered individuals I've ever seen on a city council of school board anywhere. I don't know whether they're practicing because this is what they do up at the state and federal level or they become self centered. Maybe it's just practice. But these two are not interested in the residence of Westminster and you can see her sitting there like she's always done last year and a half down on her phone or writing whatever it is you're doing over there. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you while you're on your phone. Anyway, please don't go along with this. Thank you very much. Mr. Mayor may have a brief comment to that. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So just want to let you guys, our deadline is always Thursday. And last Thursday we have the four o'clock in the morning meeting. So I woke up at three and couldn't put it in. I thought was Thursday, was Friday. So I put on Friday and it was a day late. So that's why I met the deadline. So thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Our next speaker is Lori followed by Kelly Rooch. Good afternoon, council members and mayor. My name is Lauren, Westminster California. And I'm calling it, we'd like to speak to you. First of all, I want to thank you guys for doing what you do. I know that is not an easy position to be in what you guys do, make in decisions, and I don't envy you, but I just wanted to say thank you for the service that you do do. And I am coming here to speak to you about the Westminster Village Pickleball Court issue in opposition to it. And the reason is, and I know you've had a majority, a majority of people saying in that neighborhood, they do not want it there in Westminster Village Park and for good reason. And we all showed you, we all came to the meeting and we petitioned several petitions. And I think there was only two people that wanted it, and the reason probably is they live away from the Pickleball Court, where we are in the vicinity, close vicinity of it. We have seniors there, we have professionals that work from home, we have disabled children there. This would cause a lot of noise and it would be very hard to come home and have home be home. And so we all, the majority, want to ask that you please vote no Pickleball courts in the West Minister village area. And also as she, the other neighbor reiterated is that that's a free space. It's a small park and pickleball courts, they have a lot of noise, we have a lot of echo, and they are taking up a lot of the free space. We don't have much green free space there, but believe me, the kids use it, people use it, they're running around everywhere, and if you put that pickleball core in, that's taking about literally a fourth to a half of our free space. And again, for the traffic and everything like that, we are not opposed to updating the children's playground. I mean, we would love an update on that. We have a lot of kids in our neighborhood. So that's not a problem, but a pickle ball court is a problem in our eyes. And like I said you you know You can go home to your house. We live in that area. We will be stuck with the noise and the traffic and More spend more limited free space. So thank you so much for your time Our next speaker is Kelly Rouch followed by Adam McKinney. Hi. Thank you so much for your time. I am also a resident in the neighborhood of Westminster Village Park. So speaking to item 5.1, I had not planned to speak tonight but kind of sitting there as a mom in the neighborhood who brought her children from an area that didn't have a place for my young children to play when I saw the park in our neighborhood. It was the 100% moving factor for me. I brought my children at two and five years old to come to that park because of the close community availability of that park. I the close community availability of that park. I live four houses over from the park. I have gotten to see my children grow up in an area that I consider completely safe, mostly because it is protected in the back corner of the neighbourhood from traffic, from constant movement, and my children are safe. They were able to walk to and from the park very safely as the current children in the neighborhood are. We have made that community park just so we've made it a community with our Easter egg hunts and our pumpkin carving and tie-dying t-shirts for the 4th of July. And I feel like the addition of the Pickleball courts would take that community feel away from us. Additionally, my children now are both new drivers and they are driving in and out of a neighborhood that I feel is safe for them to be in as new drivers with the addition of traffic. I feel that that would become unsafe for them as well as the many children that we have that will become new drivers sooner rather than later. Finally, I want to address the relocation of where we were first shown the pick-up all courts to be. They were positioned in where we currently have racquetball courts that still get used very often next to our basketball court. However, the most used space in our park is the green space. There are constant activities happening there, whether they are neighborhood activities, our neighborhood dads who are coaches for their children's soccer teams or baseball teams or flag football. The practice is happening there are within the community. And we feel a sense of community with that there, but taking that space away would take that community feel away from our neighborhood and our children. And so we again, I am opposed. I know that majority of our neighbors are opposed. And I'm sure you're going to hear more of that this evening, but that is definitely where we stand. May I ask you talking about the West Mistok Park? With this village Park, yes. We're a very, very community neighborhood. So yes, thank you. Thank you for your time. All right. Next speaker is Anna McKinney, followed by Mark Richardson. My name is Autumn McKinney. My name is Autumn McKinney and I'm a resident of Westminster and I'm here today in regards to item 5.1. To voice my opposition to the Pickleball courts. I am recovering from a cold so it was an effort to come here so I'm going to keep this short. But I think I have not met one person so far in our neighborhood that supports this. And it's very important to us that we keep the park in the green space that we have today. And so I just really request you to, before you vote for a yes, to consider doing a sound study, you really understand the impact of what it would be to our small neighborhood. And I'll leave it at that. So thank you very much. Again, are you talking about what's missed the very park? Yes, of course, what's on the trip? Thank you. There are two parts that we're talking to. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Mark Richardson, followed by Terry Reins. Mark Richardson, Westminster resident, Westminster Village Park resident. You may remember me, I was the guy at 1am in his first meeting talking about anti-pigable plans. So I just wanted to come back. And first of all, say it again, you might have noticed that I've started off with the pickle ball agenda, but I've actually become just a little bit interested in all the great work that you all do. And I just wanted to say thank you for that. And it's been kind of a really interesting to kind of get into understanding how decisions get made in the city and really appreciate all the work that you all do. And I think despite some of the challenges that might have existed over the last couple of months, it's clear to me that everybody who's sitting up there and all the staff all have some great skill sets in your own individual ways. And it would be fantastic if everybody could just kind of come together and work on behalf of the city on a number of issues. So I didn't see last night's meeting, so I do need to catch up on that one. So I'm here to talk about item 5.12, 5.1 as well. Obviously, those three options being presented there would like to ensure that option one is not considered. That would rule out the pickable codes and investments of OJ Park. Last time when I came here, an unnamed person told me, Mark, you get up on stage and you weren't mad enough. And I said, I'm not going to get up on stage and be mad. I'm going to get up and say thank you and I appreciate the process that Vanessa and the entire team went through to get the feedback from everybody in that area. And I did want to call out AAB particularly as a councilwoman and say thank you for the communication on this issue. And just helping me understand how the process works here as well. So thank you for that. You've been excellent to work with and that regard. So strongly opposed option one, and we just wanted to comment on the petition. We gathered 162 names. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got the positions. We've got2. And I saw in the staff report there was two folks. You were pro pickable and I will tell you that at least one of them is actually wrote in any note to the city saying that they are now anti-pickable. I have to think about it more in understanding. So I think I'll leave maybe one person. Don't know who they are. I have noticed it's quite pickable. I'm sure it's fantastic again. I'm sure it's a fantastic game. I'd love to play. I just wouldn't love to play right on my doorstep. That would be great. And that's about it for now. I also noticed from a budget standpoint, I think this would solve a problem for you and be able to just allocate the funds that were there from ARPAs, opposed to dipping into the Park Dedication Fund. the part of the dedication fund. So hopefully that helps settle the issue. Parks make life better. Hopefully you don't make my life with us. Right. That's awesome. Our final speaker is Terry Reigns. Hold up. I have an new start. I have a new start. Item one, congratulations, Explorers, Advisory Youth Committee members and STEM students. The youth are our future and it's great. Our city is fostering them into public service. At 3.4, sadly, I had to email staff to get the full backup for this item, the pavement condition index, forecast maintenance rehab report, the current condition map and various charts and graphs, illustrating the condition of our streets all omitted. Now has not the time to become lazy with transparency in light of the voters recently passing two sales tax measures. I had three point five, sadly, the original deed is not in the staff report, so you can't compare the legal descriptions to determine exactly what caused the cloud on the title and who blundered the recording 30 years ago. Item 5.1, staff should have included one other option, approved the playground, designs most supported by residents, and reallocate the funds designated for pickleball courts in West Mr. Village and bowling green parks to other city parks contingent on community feedback. it too late to redesignate the ARPA funds? Item 5.2 you can thank me for the late communications on this one. Please evaluate each requested position independently, not an all or nothing proposal. One position is already singled out by not incorporating a vacancy factor. Our city budget is inherently padded significantly. Prioritize the budget, not the BS. Item 5.3, the staff report language is a bit ambiguous, but my guest is mere when once at least three council members do agree to request a walk on urgency item be considered because the actual vote to add it or not is already prescribed by state law. I 100% support this because of Amy and Namquan's BS urgency items item 5.4. How is the city business? Who are you going to send the resolution to? Were any of you there when he supposedly disappeared? No. You should prioritize protecting our freedom of speech and press over here versus in other countries. I'm 5.5, another blatant political campaign orchestrated by two losers who cut our speaking time and eagerly voted with Mayor Wynn to move non-agent comments to the end a year ago. They seem held on doing everything they did with Mayor Wins since day one. The staff report states based on feedback provided by members of the community, especially those actively participating in council meetings. You receive an ador that same feedback in the very meeting you voted to move to the end. And council member Wynn and councilwoman Amy Fanliss have expressed the importance of active participation in allowing all members of the community an opportunity to address the City Council Really? Because since when you both leave the diester in public comments play on your phones and argue with and or ignore speakers So why this why now what changed? It's still going to delay the city business Would you both state it was the reason for moving it them in the first place? Hey, I don't mind speaking twice at the beginning of the meeting, but I personally will miss having the opportunity to react and comment at the very end in real time what transpired during the meeting if this passes. But you must do what's best for the majority of our residents. And I do agree that that is, it has to be suspect when these two are trying to undo everything that they passed with you earlier, you know in our last year. Thank you very much. Thank you. May are we have no further speakers? All right. Thank you very much. So the next item is consent calendar. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine and may be approved by a single motion followed by a rule court vote. There will be no separate discussions of these items unless members of the City Council or staff request that specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate action or discussion with that. I would like to prove item 3.5. Is there any others? I second it. You don't want to say that? It's just proof. Is there any one to approve item? No, I'm okay. To approve the remainder. Okay. Seconded. So the motion to approve the rest of the item except for 3.5. Thank you, Mayor. I have a motion made by Councillor Romando, seconded by Mayor Wynn. This is to approve the consent calendar with a agenda item 3.5 pulled for separate discussion. I'll go to call roll. Councilwoman Fan West. Yes. Councillor Monzo. Yes. Councillor Irwin. Yes. Vice Mayor Ho. Yes. And Mayor Wynn. Yes. Motion carried 5-0. Yes. Motion carried 5-0. I read this report but I just wanted to have clear understanding that this item before we approve it. I would like to have this staff report on this please. Thank you Mayor, Council members, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Adolf Joseita, Assistant City Manager, I'd be happy to present, just really share an exhibit on item 3.5. The action before you tonight is a request from the Westminster School District to approve the execution of a quick claim deed confirming that the Westminster School District to approve the execution of a quick claim deed, confirming that the Westminster School District owns a set property at Warner Middle School. For everybody's, we're not going to talk about this complicated exhibit, but this complicated exhibit is a legal document that identifies ownership, generally prepared by a civil engineer or licensed land surveyor. Area one was a part of a purchase by the city from the school district in 1993. And area two is what we have today as part of the school. This is an aerial that presents the same area one and the same area and the area two, just a overlayed on an aerial photo. So again, this was a part of the purchase. The area one is where we have the our park, the theater, catering facility, and the college. As part of this sale, there was a legal description that was prepared. We checked with our staff in the engineering department and we did confirm that the legal description at the time was not prepared by a member of the City of Westminster. This is before all of our time. Everybody that's here tonight is from the staff side. It was before we were in any capacity here at the city. What we did confirm though is that the legal description was incorrect from the very beginning. So as the school district moved ahead with financing for their properties, their attorney that oversees the financing identified this discrepancy. So they reached out to our staff and essentially said, well, we need to clean this up for their purposes of financing. Tonight's action doesn't affect any land. It just clearly makes a declaration that area two is, in fact, Westminster School District property, and that area one is the City of Westminster property. At this point, I'd like to see if the city attorney has anything to add to that since the conversation did begin with you, Christian. Yeah, this is really a request from the school district. I think that's the only thing I would add. They came up in their title search, which is part of they're trying to do a financing in order to make certain improvements. So this is really just confirming their own issue. Yeah. And there, sorry, so one more detail. Their attorney was willing to be here. He's out of San Francisco, and we just didn't feel it was necessary for him to be here tonight. So we ensured them that we would be making this presentation on their behalf. OK. Thank you for that information. If there is no additional questions, I move to approve. A second. Thank you, I have a motion made by Mayor Wynn. A second made by Council Member Wanzo. This is to adopt a quick clean deed confirming the Westminster School District's ownership of the Warner Middle School property. I'll go to call roll, Councilwoman Fan West. Fan West yes, councilmember Monzo. Yes. Councilmember Wynne. Yes. Vice mayor Hone. Yes. Mayor Wynne. Yes. Five zero motion carried. Next is item five point, a rebel of business and item five point one consideration are prop improvements projects funded by the American Recovery Plan Act, OPA. I guess we need to have the start report on this, please. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor. Members of the City Council, I am Vanessa Johnson, the, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council. I am Vanessa Johnson, the Community Services Director along with Public Works Director Jake Noe and we will be going over this item. It's consideration of the park improvement projects funded by the American Recovery Plan, the ARPA Funding Projects. So a little bit of background. Back in March of 2001, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law, the legislation allocated 130 plus billion to be evenly divided among the counties based on populations and cities using the modified CDBG grant, Florida. The allocation for the city of Westminster was $23.7 million. Through several study sessions conducted in 2022, the following park improvement projects were approved by the mayor and city council on October 26th, 2022. These projects included playground improvements at five parks, which are Bolsa Chica, Westminster Village, Russell C. Paris College and Bowling Green parks. Proposed pickle ball courts at two locations, Westminster Village and Bowling Green. Baseball diamond improvements at Westminster and Buckingham Parks, community garden on Cherry Street, which is just north of Westminster Boulevard, and new soccer field at Siglo Park, which was approved just this year back in March. We conducted community outreach meetings. We held a total of 14 meetings in March and in May with significant efforts made to promote these meetings. They were featured in the community services and recreation departments weekly E-BLAS, which goes out to over 3400 residents. We had printed signs up parks in the weeks leading up to the sessions. Numerous social media posts on both the cities and our youth committees, Facebook and Instagram sites. They were featured on our city's website and shared with the parks and recreation commission. And they were also highlighted in the city manager's report at several city council meetings and weekly updates to the city council. We're going to start with the Bolsa Chica Park playground. That outreach meeting was held in person on March 25th. At the park side at 2.30, there were about 15 attendees present. Two conceptual playground designs were presented and with that 11 preferred the first option. The virtual meeting that we held the next day, there were only about five members, or attendees present and that feedback was consistent with the in-person meeting. Here you see the revised proposed playground at Bolsa Chica Park. One of the concepts that we pushed through our master plan was we wanted each park site to have a unique identity. And older park sites that you've been to throughout the city they all kind of look the same. The same yellow slide, the same climbing features. Now we're pushing and you've seen by our ribbon cutting events different identities for each park. So here at Bolsa Chica Park it's Sea Loving Dreams. There was a proposed fit core fitness option. This was not well received by those in attendance. It would have removed the taught lot. That is highly used there. So the input that we got, we were able to incorporate some of those more active fit core elements into the site here, along with keeping the taught lot. So there's both the taught lot for the two to five year olds, plus the older age group with some of those active fit core course elements. Here's just, all of the sites will have complete, rubberized surfacing using the footprint of the current playground areas. And one way to really emphasize the theme and generate some more visibility and identity is using that rubberized surface as art. So here this rubberized theme with the 11 dream really brings to life that site. Next was Westminster Village with the playground and pickleball courts. That meeting was held also on March 25th. We had about 25 attendees present. You heard from several of them this evening. Two conceptual playground design options and a pickleball court were presented. There were two sites proposed for pickleball, which was in the open space and the handball courts. The consensus favored the second playground option and the majority opposed the addition of pickleball courts at this site. Virtual meeting was held the next day also on March 26th and we had about 13 member attendees present and that feedback was consistent with the in-person meeting favoring the the second playground design and opposing the pickle ball courts. The theme for Westminster Village with more monocle vibes, again, a different look for this site. And this incorporates the feedback that we received at those meetings. And here's just an overview of what that rubberized surfacing will look like at this site that goes along with the theme. This is the proposed pickleball site. This is in the open space. The other location did convert the underutilized handball court to the pickle ball court, but with the input that staff received and the location, we decided that if a pickle ball court was to be considered here, this would be the best option as it's further away from any homes. Following these outreach meetings, staff did receive numerous emails and residents expressing their opposition to the proposed pickle ball courts. And staff was also made aware of a change.org position that had 162 signatures also opposing the pickle ball courts. At Russell C. Paris Park, our community outreach meeting was held on May 1st. We had about 15 people present. Again, we present two conceptual designs, and the majority favored the first option. We held the virtual meeting for those who couldn't attend the in-person meeting the following day. And we had about four people there, and that feedback was consistent with the in-person meeting. With this site too, we got our youth committee involved and they did an Instagram poll, which was consistent with both the in-person and virtual meeting, favoring the first option for the playground. So here you'll see the up in the sky theme playground. It's really exciting. This one was actually my favorite. So the input that we took, this is the revised concept, up in the sky. It incorporates features from both of the options because it was so desirable. And here's some of the playground. This will be the rubber surfacing for both the lot, taught lot and the all-age playgrounds at this site. College Park playground. We held that one also on May 1st. We had 20 people present, again, two conceptual designs were presented. Majority there, favorite the second playground option. And at the virtual meeting, that also was consistent with the in-person meeting favoring the second playground design. Here you can see what was after incorporating the input from the meetings, what the staff and consultants, revised conceptual plan. This is our Woodland Escape theme playground. That's a park with a lot of trees. This will look really nice incorporated into that site. And the rubberized surfacing also takes into that theme, into account. the rubberized surfacing also takes into that theme into account. Finally, Bowling Green Park and Pickleball Courts Outreach meetings. We held that one on May 1st at Bowling Green. We had about 13 people present to playground concepts represented and one one pickleball court design. The consensus favored the first playground presented and again at this site as well the majority opposed an addition of a pickleball courts. At the virtual meeting held the next day we had about 13 people present there as well. And at that meeting there was, they favored the second playground with the zip line, which is very popular. We have one of those at Westminster Park that's desirable. And there were more people in favor of the Bucklebowl Court at that site at that time. With the input that we received at those meetings, staff and the consultant came up with the revised concept and this is the zipping active adventures and incorporates features from both playgrounds and the zipl line feature. And here's just an overview of the proposed rubberized surfacing that will go along with that theme. Here's an oversight view of the proposed pickleball courts that would be proposed there in green space. And though we had some people in favor of that after our meeting, both in person and virtually we did receive a petition with over 40 signatures opposing Pickleball courts at Bull and Green as well. Soccer fields at Ciglar Park, this outreach meeting was held on May 23rd in person. We had a great turnout of about 25 attendees, the conceptual plan for the soccer field was presented, and the consensus was met with very positive feedback. No opposition was expressed for this proposed project. At the virtual meeting, we only had two attendees, but again, there's no opposition expressed for this concept. And here you'll see an overview of what that will look like at Ciglar Park, repurposing that underused baseball field into two soccer fields. For the Cherry Street Community Garden, we held that also on May 23rd at the site. About four people attended and we presented the conceptual plan. All participants expressed enthusiasm for the establishment of a community garden here in Westminster. At the virtual meeting, three people are present and equally as positive for this project. And here you'll see the proposed project. We did receive some input and with the consultant we revised the concept a bit. Added some larger lots instead of the smaller plots. It will have still fencing with a gate decomposed granite, a concrete walkway, landscaping trees and benches and the concept includes 17 large planners where it eight by five feet and then six smaller planters which will be four by four. And with that I'm gonna turn it over to our public works director. Thank you, Vanessa. A good evening, Mayor of Vice Mayor and Council members. After the community outreach that we have in multiple places that staff and the consultant team work very closely together and come up with an updated cost estimate for all projects, all 10 projects. So if you look at the columns, the second columns, actually the third column say approve, are the fund, the total budget that got approved by the Council was $6.6 million. When we updated the latest project cost estimate based on the community inputs, the project went up to $7.4 million. The last column is the playground equipment cost. The reason I'm pointing this out is because if we move forward with this project, we need to order the equipment immediately in order to meet the deadline set by the ARPA funds. So the total of the playground equipment for five parks is $1.3 million. And that's already included in the $7.4 million estimate. And so the total shortfall for the previous approved RPF and budget and the latest estimate is around a little more $800,000. So as you know, the playground equipment always have a long lead time for the orders. They typically take about six months when we put in an order. And the purchase always, we put it through a short swell, which is a competitive procurement contract that the city can pick it back on. And that also not only gives us a cost saving on the materials or equipment, but also saves some time. So this will allow us to meet the deadline set by the ARPA fund, which is by the end of this year. So staff presented several options for the council to consider. So option number one, that we will proceed with as original proof by the City Council. I mean, we have Pickleball Insulation at Westernersville, this is the park and Boil and Green Park. And with that, we would like to have the allocation of $109.59 from part dedication funds to address the sort of those 10 projects. the sort of fall of those 10 projects. 2. After the strong opposition that we receive from the community, eliminating the pickable insulation at those two parks will actually bring the budget that we don't need in additional allocations. That means the original RPA fund budget and the revised budget are pretty much the same. There's some discrepancy about $4,000, but that's negligible because we do have a 10% contingency built into these projects. So we don't need to have any additional allocation. Option 3 is to proceed with Insulin Pickleball course at Bowling Green Park and with this option we will need $420,000 and $18 from Park Dedication Fund to address the shortfall. So for tonight if the mayor and city council select to either option one, option three, so there's appropriate of 802,000 for option one and about 400 and 2004, option three. These fund will, you know, will come from part of the occasion funds. And with approval tonight, staff will start ordering the equipment and we will plan to bring back the insulation contracts in a later, you know, later the year before the end of the year. And we also bring the plan and specs and authorization for solid and bits to the council before the end of the year. So tonight we'll start looking for the again is approval of the purchasing of the playground equipment for five parks as well as considered one of the options that presented tonight and provide stateless directions. So that concludes our presentations. Vanessa and I here available to answer any questions you might have. We also have Chuck Foley, our landscape architect who designed a lot of playground here to answer any questions. Thank you very much. Thank you, staff, for the presentations. Befri open up for council comments., have a few questions to ask you. It seemed like overwhelming that the residents at both parks, they don't want to have the pickable park. It's very clearly for us. It's very important for us to hear the people who live around the area and they voice their opinions. I understand that. It's just that for them, if the money is already allocated that, if you don't want it now, you may not have it later on if you change your mind. So the next question I have for you is you mentioned about allocating the budget sort of. We're going to, can we allocate this funding to the general fund? Because I know that we have a short for. No, well, we propose from the park education fund. This is just for the park. Okay. Then the next question that, you know, I know that you already present that we will have two soccer fields at the Cicola park. I know that you already present that we will have two soccer fields at the Cicola Park. I know that demands, you know, over the years I know that there are a lot of people asking for that. And number one, let me ask you that how are we going to, how do the people sign up for that? It's first come for serve or how are we going to depend on that? So use of those soccer fields will be consistent with use of using other fields so we will issue permits for use of those. Westminster based groups that fit that criteria, do receive priority and some factors. They're allowed greater use than outside groups. So it'll be consistent with how we allocate fields currently. That's one of the things that I want to bring up. I believe that last time when we talk about soccer fields, and for some reason we decided for youth, youth, or soccer field. But I believe that, you know, adult, they also play soccer. And a lot of groups, they are playing soccer. So did we make the decision on that? Sure. Yeah. Yes. So the size of these fields are I believe. So adult soccer takes up a very large footprint. So these are two fields that can expand to up to 15 you I believe. Yes. 13 and you 15. And so for adults to use, they would have to modify their game. So it's something we can consider as long as they're willing to modify the number of players, what size they're using those considerations. Okay. I'd like for you to start to look into that if we can. And at the same time, because I because I want to be discriminated. We understand that and we've looked at a number of sites and there is no site we currently have that can have a regulation adult site soccer field. Our parks cannot handle that size of the field. Before the meeting today, I was talking to one of the group who requested for their soccer fields year, for year now. So they said that there is one soccer field that they think that the use of on-off, and there was no proper with the residents around them, which is the John Land Park. Have you ever took a look at that? John Land Park is right on the floor. Land Park? What is it? Land Park. Land Park. So that's to the school. That's a school. It's adjacent and part of that property is school district property. Okay, so we can't do that. Right, so we wouldn't be able to permit unless we did something with the school district where they'd have to get permits through both and there'd be some type of joint use agreement. Okay, then there is only, and you said that you look around, there is no option for a full size adult soccer field. There's currently no options of the site that we have. There's a possibility that you may look into the modifying the soccer field at the SQL Park, right? It actually, the dimension is 280 feet long and 160 feet wide. So it's very good. Is it a good size of the soccer fields? OK. Yeah. So I do play, like I said, I've played soccer many, many years ago. But this is not a professional soccer field as a big international world. Why? They have to. Is it a good size? They have to live with what we have. Then the next question that I have is we are not limited to the youth teams, right? We open up for both adult and youth. So youth would have a priority like they do on other fields. Like that's the policy that we have. Adults, they would also be allowed youths, they go through a different process. So far, our youth sports organizations, they are majority of Westminster residents. They typically under an organization like Little League, a governing body that backgrounds coaches, that has policies and procedures in place for play time and to make things fair and accessible. And so we could work on the adult use too, and kind of, but adults wouldn't have priorities over youth and that's a typical process of all fields in those cities. I have one more question and I will view it back to the the council member. The last question is that how do they sign up for first-conference? So it's for organized youth groups. They go by seasons. It would be first-conference. Yeah, absolutely. All right, thank you. Open up for also input and comments and suggestions. Yeah, it would be first come first. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Open up for also input and comments and questions. Councilmember Mensa. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the presentation and thank you for architect. Forgive your name. Thank you. Thank you very much for your hard work and helping working with our staff to put in these designs together. One of the things I'm worried about, are we going to be able to meet the deadline as far as expanding the funds before? Because I ask you, if we can, Councilman Van Zow, can I stop you for a minute? Sure. I don't know how many council members have questioned on this if it take longer because we have to start the Special meeting which we are tuned yesterday at the clock. So we have about five minutes I would like if there is I have question But what I'm saying is we start with the other one and we can pause in here. You can pause in here. That's what I'm trying to do to access. If you still need another 10-15 minutes, we can start the meeting. People are aware that it's supposed to start at 8. If there's a short delay here, that's fine. If it takes you another 10 minutes or so. Okay. But you could do exactly what you want. Yeah, I guess that we can go ahead and recess because I don't know how long it may take more than 15 minutes. And we still have more items to go through for the meeting today. But I just want to mention it to the audience here that just today when I tune the meeting I said that those with those who have always spoke up the items which is 5.2, the 5.2 is the item for their closed session. If you already spoke on the item, you can't speak it again. That's open session, Mr. Mayor. It's open session, yesterday. It's closed session. It's open session for yesterday, but it's a special meeting. Mayor? Yes. I think we should wait until we hit a first of all because it's not the time yet. No, no, I'm just, I'm not asking for that, but that I am announcing for them to be considered. So it's not a violation of that. I just want to mention it to you that I consult with the attorney and we will be voting. It's up to it's the discussion of the council. So we are going to take a vote on that if the council said no then then you already if you are exposed then you can't but if the council allow it then you can you can do it again. Is it okay? That's correct. All right. So at this time we have only three minutes. I'd like to recess tonight, agenda, and we'll continue after the open section for special meeting. And I would like to recess right now. So we have three minutes to go to the John's room. And then we come back here for eight o'clock meeting.