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Council member Borgmember Kim. Councilmember board member Aigren here. Councilmember board member Kim. Vice Mayor vice chairman Quail. Yes. Mayor chairwoman Cohn. Here. And Councilmember board member Carol is absent. Thank you. Before we get started I would like to inform members of the public of the following. For those who wish to participate in tonight's meeting virtually we continue to offer the ability to provide live comments on City Council agenda items via Zoom and submit comments through Our e-comment system. For all agenda items, public comments By those participating in person will be taken first followed By those participating via Zoom. Public comments on tonight's Presentations and public hearings will be heard at the time That these matters are considered. Public comments for all of their agenda items as well as non-agent items will be heard following presentations. 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For technical assistance was zoomed before or during the meeting, please call 949-724-6078. For any other questions or assistance, please contact the City Clerk's office at 949-724-6205 or via email at clerk at cityvervine.org. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you. And at this time, please rise if you're able for the Pledge of Allegiance in Remain Standing for tonight's invocation. I would like to ask Vice Mayor Cuo to lead us in the pledge. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Please join me by placing your right hand over your heart. 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. This time is my pleasure to introduce pastor Steve Van Lee for Mayor Nurse Church for tonight's invocation. Thank you, Mayor Con. Let us pray. God, we are two days away from Thanksgiving, and we just want to begin by saying thank you. Thank you for this beautiful city, the city of Irvine, home to 300 plus, 300,000 plus individuals. Individuals are born here, memories are created here, family legacies are built here, and these are wonderful gifts from your hand, and so we say thank you. At the same time, we want to recognize that there are individuals in this city who are hurting, who are experiencing a brokenness. There's something not quite right with this world. We acknowledge that. And so we pray for these leaders here that you would help them to make wise strategic loving decisions to increase the flourishing that is in this city. You have placed them here to govern, to care, to love, to serve, to serve their roles for the flourishing of the city of Irvine. So would you give them your wisdom, would you give them peace from above? And we ask that there will be a selflessness to make decisions that they would have conversations that would have a ripple effect of faith, hope, and love for generations to come. And so we invite you now to preside over this meeting. We thank you for these leaders. And we ask that you would move them and that you would bless the city of Irvine through their leadership. We pray these things in your name, amen. Thank you. We're grateful for you. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor. Maybe seated. And before I proceed to the podium, we will consider public testimony for tonight's presentations. City Clerk, please provide the number of requests submitted to speak on this item. I do not have any requests for speakers on presentations. Okay. Okay. Our first presentation this evening is a proclamation recognizing November 13th through the 19th of 2022 as National Nurse Practitioner Week. At this time it is my pleasure to introduce and call forward Dr. Sarah Campbell, Health Science's assistant clinical professor of the Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing at UC Irvine. Nurse Practitioner Week is held annually to celebrate exceptional healthcare providers and to remind lawmakers of the importance of removing outdated barriers to practice so that nurse practitioners will be allowed to practice to the full extent of their experience and education. On behalf of the City Council, thank you to all nurse practitioners who have made countless contributions to the health and well-being of our citizens over the past half century. It is now my pleasure to read and present the proclamation. It is now my pleasure to read and present the proclamation. Whereas nurse practitioners serve as trusted frontline providers of health care for patients in California, and whereas nurse practitioners are advanced registered nurses who have advanced clinical education and training, building upon their initial registered nurse preparation, and whereas there are 270,000 licensed nurse practitioners in the United States providing primary acute and specialty care to patients of all ages and walks of life, and whereas nurse practitioners diagnose, treat, and prescribe medications and other treatments to patients through a caring, patient-centered, holistic model of care. And whereas citizens of our state and nation have great trust in the high-quality care nurse practitioners provide, resulting in over one billion patient visits annually to nurse practitioners across the country. And whereas leading governmental and policy entities, including the National Academy of Medicine, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, National Governors Association, and the Federal Trade Commission have taken notice of the benefits of nurse practitioner, full practice authority, and have endorsed such a regulatory model. And whereas the City of Irvine is proud to recognize and honor the service of nurse practitioners. Now therefore, the City Council of the City of Irvine does hear by proclaim November 13 through 19, 2022 as National Nurse Practitioner Week. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for Mayor Conn for recognizing this is nurse practitioner week. We have overcome a lot of barriers and I just want to say for any physician colleagues out there, I am a doctor of nursing practice. I'm not a physician, so let me just make that clear. But I am so proud to be a nurse practitioner. I've been a nurse for 22 years and 10 of those as a nurse practitioner. I teach at UCI. I'm very proud to be a citizen of Irvine. I'm raising my kids here and it's a wonderful city and I'm really proud to be a graduate of our FNP program, the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at UCI. So I've come back to teach here. I'm raising the next generation of healthcare providers and nurse practitioners, we go where no man goes. We go in the depths where the underserved populations are and we go to help patients and we're there to hold their hands in the time of need. And critically, there's a critical shortage right now of providers especially in primary care. So we're there to fill a need in a gap. So if you know a nurse practitioner and I hope you do, we're here to serve you and I'm just glad to be here today. So thank you so much for claiming this week. Thank you. Our second presentation this evening is a proclamation recognizing November 2022 as seek awareness month. At this time it is my pleasure to introduce and call forward members of the following organizations. Seek Center of Orange County, Seek Women's Organization of California, California Seeks International Seek Council for Women, if you could make your way up to the front. Seeks have been living in the United States for more than 120 years and during the early 20th century thousands of Seek Americans worked on farms in lumber mills and mines and on the Oregon Pacific and Eastern Railroads. Sikh Americans pursue diverse professions and make rich contributions to the social, cultural, and economic vibrancy of the United States, including as small business owners, attorneys, first responders, and members of the military. Sikh Americans also make significant contributions to our great nation in agriculture, trucking, finance, technology, and more. It is now my pleasure to read and present the proclamation. Whereas Seeks have been living in the United States for more than 100 years, and during the early 20th century, thousands of Sikh Americans worked on farms in lumber mills and mines and on the Oregon Pacific and Eastern Railroad. And whereas Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world, and today there are more than 23 million Sikhs worldwide and an estimated 250,000 Americans of Sikh origin comprising nearly 40% of the nation's estimated Sikh population residing in California alone. And whereas Sikh Americans pursue diverse professions and walks of life, making rich contributions to the social, cultural, and economic vibrancy of the United States, serving as members of the United States Armed Forces, and making significant contributions to our great nation in agriculture, tracking, medicine and technology and whereas sea Americans have distinguished themselves by fostering greater respect among all people through faith and service and whereas the city of Irvine looks to further diversity of its community and afford all residents the opportunity to better understand, recognize, and appreciate the rich history and shared experiences of Sikh Americans. Now therefore, the city council of the city of Verrine does hear by proclaim November, 2022 as Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Months. Woo! Thank you. So, please, one, two, and three. I want to thank the Mayor Farrakhan and all the council members for the proclamation. Just a few things about the seeks. 99% of the people wearing turbans in the US are seeks from India. We have been in the US for more than 100 years and Sikhism is the fifth largest religion with 30 million people. We believe in one God, equality, freedom of religion and community service. We cover our uncut here with the turbine, and that represents the same as American values as equality and justice. Thank you so much. Okay. We will now hear public comments on agenda items, excluding public hearing items which will occur at the time that these items are considered For those attending in person who would like to speak please submit your name into the speaker key ask Members of the public who are participating be a zoom and which to speak may raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue as a Reminder if you are participating by telephone We ask that you please state your name for the record. For all speakers, please indicate which item or items to which you are speaking prior to providing your comments. For those speaking on multiple items, the timer will be reset when transitioning your comments from one agenda item to the next. City clerk, will you please provide the number of requests submitted to speak on agenda items both in person and be a zoom Thank you Madam Mayor. We have 56 requests to speak So with that we will have each speaker will be limited to 90 seconds per item and as a reminder request to speak submitted after the first speaker is also To receive 90 seconds. We will first consider public testimony by those attending in person, followed by those on Zoom. I will call your names in five. So if you could please line up by the city clerk when your name is called. We'll start with Brian F. Shay Sutton, Gabby Gustafson, Scott Perley, and Tony Bruno. And if Ryan F. can be the first speaker. Good afternoon members of City Council. My name is Ryan Fitzpatrick. I'm the general manager of residents in hotel at John Wayne Airport. I appreciate your consideration of policies that promote and reflect the strong work safety measures that many of our hotels have already been putting into place. Nothing is more important than the safety of our associates. The issue with the ordinance, as it's written today, is that it includes elements that go far beyond worker safety and would oppose sweeping operational mandates that are simply not manageable for our hotels at a time where many are already severely understaffed. Our hotel is just starting to get its head above water from significant losses accumulated from the pandemic. Following some of the worst years our industry has ever faced. These costly operational changes will place extreme hardship on the hotels as we are likely to head into another recession. Before moving forward, I respectfully request an opportunity for more dialogue and input with all stakeholders as so we can understand the extent of the economic impacts this ordinance will have on tourism and hospitality in Irvine. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Applause. Good afternoon members of City Council. My name is Shay Sutton and I am the general manager of the Irvine spectrum. As you'll hear from many others today, I'm respectfully asking this council to spend more time considering the aspects of the ordinance that go beyond workplace safety. Our hotel has already begun distributing personal safety devices to our housekeepers, staff, so there's much about this ordinance that we're already embracing as an industry. But there are provisions in this bill that would impose complex new requirements of the country. We are not focusing as an industry. But there are provisions in this bill that would impose complex new requirements on the hotels. These are concepts which have not been thoroughly analyzed and which will bring about totally unforeseen challenges from both an operational and economic perspective. Our industry is already facing a tough uphill climb in recovering from the pandemic. As we approach another potential recession, we are simply asking for a chance to have meaningful input so that we can all benefit from simultaneously cultivating a safe work environment and thriving hospitality industry. Thank you for your time and I hope we can look forward to more collaborative before this ordinance is adopted and its entirety. Thank you. Gabby? Good evening, City Council members. My name is Gabby Gustafson. I'm the general manager at the Residence Inn Irvine Spectrum. Our hotel, ensuring the welfare and safety of our associates is a vital priority. We care immensely about all of our team members, which is why we've already implemented policies to enhance protection of our associates. With the firsthand experience that we've gained in implementing our own workplace safety policies, including the deployment of personal safety devices, I believe that we can be a great resource to this council in developing a well-informed workplace safety bill. As such, we requested the council conduct a more extensive stakeholder engagement process. Collectively, I believe we can better determine which aspects of this ordinance are essential to associate safety and which provisions could be further refined in order to ensure a balanced solution. Thank you for allowing me the time to speak on this important issue. Scott Hurley. Mayor Conn and council members. My name is Scott Purley. I'm a resident of Irvine for more than 50 years. Reading the hotel workers ordinance, I was appalled by the extent to which the council feels it is responsible for managing the employer employee relationship. You were not elected to do the work of unions. Other than the security device requirement, managing the hours, workload, overtime, and other items are simply not the responsibility of the city. Should every city adopt its own rules? I'm aware that a few cities have adopted similar ordinances. Their examples are irrelevant. If it is your responsibility, shall we expect future ordinances that will protect all the employees in the city? Are existing laws that address crimes and sexual assault insufficient? Other than authorizing the city manager to adopt administrative regulations, the ordinance omits any mention of the cost of enforcement. Perhaps the city is simply sending a virtue signal or is responding to significant labor group endorsements and campaign assistance and has no intention of devoting any resources to these issues. Adoption of this ordinance would be an abuse of power. As to the security devices, only section 102A1 is appropriate. The rest of the section dealing with workers rights, signage, training, and record keeping should be eliminated as these issues are not the responsibility of the city. I ask that you reconsider your support of this ordinance. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Madam Mayor, City Council. Thank you. Thank you. Great job. Madam Mayor, City Council. My name is Tony Bruno. I'm here today on behalf of the Hotel and Login Association of Orange County. And I want to talk about this initiative. We talked last time about safety and the safety buttons. As we know it, as you know, many of the hotels already have them implemented and many are in the process of implementing. So we have no concern with that. As the gentleman just talked about, it's the work rules. To go in and start doing square footage, based workload assignments, it's going to have a great impact on the hotels. You're talking about a 50% plus increase in staffing and housekeeping departments which are very hard to even staff today. What that's going to end up doing is causing an impact where hotel years are going to end up saying we can't staff more than 80% occupancy. That's going to come back and hit you in your pocket books in the TOT. The other thing is hotel development. I've heard great stories about Great Park and the things that are going on down there and I'm sure there's hotels planned. This is going to change the financial performance and evaluations on things like that and other development in Irvine. We can't fill positions today. We have a lot of administration that's going to go into this initiative and we just believe it's an ordinance that's being rushed and not good government. Thank you. I can have the next five speakers come down, Alan Myerson, GR Owens, Susan Sayer, Farhad Mahfou, Mark Asturias. We'll start with Alan Myerson. Good evening, Councilmembers. Alan Myerson, 37-year resident of Irvine. I want to speak on 2.5. Councilman Carroll isn't here again tonight. This time he really is absent. And I understand that because of the bill allowing people to work remotely because of COVID is in play here. I would just hope that Irvine would go one step further and require a council member that is not able to be here and they're going to work remotely have his face shown on a monitor so that the people here know he's actually here doing the work he was elected to do. Because right now I don't know if he's actually home listening, I don't know if he really is absent or if he's he's dropping. I don't know, there's no light. There's no monitor. So I would ask that you go one step further and adopt a policy that requires a council member that's not able to make it and is going to work remotely, have their face up on a monitor so that the people know they're doing the job they were elected to do. Require, regarding, I wasn't going to speak on this, but on 2.5. Since I was a union member for 15 years, I was a union steward for communication workers of America. I know how much management I won't say lies, but kind of says things that aren't quite true and there's no way really of knowing that it's true. Like they're saying they already have safety devices. Maybe they do. Maybe they don't. We don't know if those are true statements or not. But in my experience working with the union and working with management, I know that the company side, the management side, their number one concern is money. Money, money, money. They don't care about anything else. They don't care about anything else. that the company side, the management side, their number one concern is money. Money, money, money. They don't care about anything else. They don't really care about the employees. They care about profit. That's the main thing. And if there was no need for this, what you're doing here, if there isn't a need for it, it wouldn't be here. So apparently there is a need, and I would ask you to sincerely listen to the workers, though the ones on the front lines, they're the ones doing the jobs, they're the ones that need your support. Thank you. Thank you. Applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Madam Mayor, Honorable Council. My name is JR Owens. I am a Irvine resident and first-year law student at UC Irvine. I'm going to be speaking on items 2.10, 2.11 and 2.15. On 2.10, I want to submit my support for the city's responses to the recommendations of the Orange County Grand Jury and would like to offer that these recommendations provide valuable insight into how the additional funding from the homeless housing assistance and prevention program round four could be used. Additionally, I would just like to request an update from the council on the city's application status as for my understanding that deadline is 27 November. For item 2.11, I would like to offer my support for the proposed amendment to the contract that calls for installing the 18 digital advertisement panels. I would also like to offer the city to use these platforms as a means to provide public service announcements that would offer and would offer that in addition the city should consider using these to support the homeless outreach efforts by publishing services available to the unhoused and those in danger of becoming unhoused as well as where those seeking help for substance abuse can find assistance. On item 2.15 the adoption of the ordinance 22-13 as it pertains to hotel worker protection while I find the waiver application in section 3-16104B, overly broad and potentially opaque, I want to offer my full support both individually and in solidarity with my fellow classmates and unite here for the proposal. It only makes sense that we're re-identify a threat to those that live and work in Irvine that we do what is necessary to protect them. It is only fair that those who are the backbone of a proud industry in our city should be paid and treated fairly for their work. I'd like to encourage all the members of the council to vote in favor of this measure and offer my sincere appreciation for considering the matter. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Susan Sayer and I'm a long time Irvine resident. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm speaking on item 2.5 consent item. I support remote attendance of the board City Council on Commission meetings. The same policy should apply to the Council, the Commission meetings. Thus Commission meetings should be televised, have the same remote access for public participation. Zoom attendance is difficult for many, especially for the late afternoon hours. The Brown Act requires legislative bodies to hold meetings and open face forums. The State Act allows for remote participation in the meetings. That's the resolution calls for remote public participation, which includes the right of the public to make public comment. But it also should allow the public to know that their comments are being heard. And the decision makers are hearing and observing agenda item staff reports and agenda item discussions. Therefore, remote participation by the decision makers in order to achieve face-to-face participation should be by Zoom with the Zoom screen being televised and on screen in chambers so that public can confirm that the decision makers are listening to public comments and participating in the agenda item discussion. Decision makers not on the dius or visible on the zoom screen during public comments should be recused from voting on agenda items commented on while they were not present to hear the comments. Thank you, miss air. Time is up for that item. I have a second comment. The second comment is on item 2.15. I'm Irvine resident and I'm an avid fair labor practices supporter. There are a number of businesses that I boycott for unfair labor practices. I approve the proposed hotel workers ordinance. I appreciate the hotel workers' safety provisions and I totally support the fair labor practices provisions. I have a message for hotel management. I note that during the city council meeting that presented the first reading of the ordinance that hotel management was and continues to be concerned about the fair labor practices provisions and even advocates removing these provisions from the ordinance. There is an increasing public interest not only only in employee wages, but also fair labor practices. I believe that the fair labor practices provision of this ordinance can be used as a marketing tool. I'm retired and I like to travel. I research hotels carefully. If hotel websites mention fair labor practices, recognition by unions and other human rights and social justice organizations. Those would be the hotels I would choose from. Thank you. For HOD, Matthew? Madam Mayor and City Council, first of all, congratulations on the recent election. My name is Farhad Maffy and I'm a resident of Erwin for the last 40 years and as you may know, Erwin has the largest Iranian community in the Orange County area. I'm here to ask for your full support for the resolution number 5.4, condemning the actions of the government of Iran. What I'm asking you is, please just in the last two months alone, when we have this uprising and the new revolution in Iran taking place, over 16,000 people have been arrested, over 1,000 people have been killed. Families of the individuals who are killed are charged $1 thousand dollar per bullet. They have to pay for the bullet that killed their kids in order to get the body of the kids that have been murdered by the barbaric Islamic system of Iran. And then they are not allowed to bury them, you know, with friends and families. It has to be done at night and so on. So these are the type of government that actually, this is the type of government that we are condemning and we are trying to change and we are asking for your full support for this. We also want to share with you that Iranian girls are being arrested in Iran today. As young as 10 years old, they get gang rape and when they go to hospitals, their families are not allowed to tell anybody why they are here in hospitals and so what is really happening in Iran today is absolutely unacceptable for any and is absolutely in any form or shape and your support in condemning this and supporting us in this resolution is really demanding by every single Iranian living in Irvine and in Orange County area. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. 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. Good evening, Mayor Con and Councilmembers. My name is Mark Asturias. I am the Executive Director of the Irvine Community Land Trust. I am here to speak on item 5.2. Wanted to pass on to the City Council that the Land Trust reviewed the agenda item for this evening and is in support of that item and hopes that you will consider it favorably. We did submit a letter with a couple of additional recommendations that we hope would include in your action. In addition to that there are a couple of technical items that we think should be considered on a go-forward basis as the implementation of that action if it is approved commences. Among that would be a discussion on the development standards that are ultimately imposed on the property. We are concerned about any height limits. We are concerned about access to the streets. We are concerned about timing and we are concerned about the utilities in that particular area. And in addition to that, there is, as part of your action that you are considering, a provision that you will be looking at timing on an additional three acres and there will be a discussion on that as part of that action. We are hoping that if you approve that action as well, that there be a time limit set after the action is considered and discussed over the next six months so that any conveyance of the remaining three acres would be done in a timely manner. And we are hoping that timely manner would be considered about one year from the date of final consideration. We will be here to answer any questions as part of the discussion later on this evening. If you do need us to stay, we will be here in the audience. Thank you. Thank you. If I can have the next five people come down. Faribah, Median, Flores Hoffman, Farinaz, Bhaktiari, Deborah, Cunningham, Sharon Woll, Wollixon, two, three, four, five. Yeah, and we'll start with Fariba. Good afternoon. Madame Mayor and respective council members. I've seen you have a reply. Is the weather? Okay. My name is Fari Bamedyan and I have been living in Erwin for many years. I and my fellow Iranian-American are here all today as representative of the large Iranian-American diaspora residing in the great city of Erbine and greater Orange County. As Mr. Mahgub indicated over the last two and a half months, the brutal Islamic regime in Iran has been killing peaceful protesters. peaceful protesters, they have killed over six children and hundreds of adults. These are just innocent people who are actually going to the streets demanding the simple rights that you and I granted in this country. They're asking for freedom of speech, religion, and equality and justice for men and women in Iran. So basically what we are requesting, we feel the responsibility to be their voice. That's all we can do here. And we are respectfully requesting that you support us to be their voice, condemn the regime and the brutal act of the Islamic Republic in Iran. Also, I am thankful to you, Mayor Khan, because I invited you to the demonstration that's gonna be happening next Sunday at two o'clock and you accepted the invitation. We would love to have you. Thank you, Miss Median, but your time is up. Okay. Thank you. Will we stop here? Good evening Council members. I'm here today to speak in favor of item 2.15, the hotel ordinance. Again, public safety has always been in the domain of a city. If we had more public safety laws for workers, we'd have better working conditions throughout this country. Again, the hotels' main argument is that they're doing it already. If they're doing it already, then they should be in favor of this motion because they want to make sure that everybody in the city is actually conforming to this type of ordinance. In addition, the labor standards are also important. And while I'm here, I just want to also stand in support of the resolution 5.4 condemning Iran. That's very important that we continue to stand with the people and show our support. Thank you. Debra Spurni. I'm going to speak about 2.15. I frequently shop and dine here in Irvine. This morning I actually had breakfast at Stacks Pancakes on Cove with a couple of friends. Unfortunately I might reconsider spending my money at local businesses in Irvine if they can't learn to make sure everyone is safe in their city. How can guests stay in Irvine hotels feel safe when female housekeepers do not feel safe? I also have trouble figuring out how can Irvine still be one of the safest cities in the country when the women working at urban hotels are being sexually harassed, they do not feel safe. Please do the right thing this evening and stand with these hardworking women. And additionally, you can tell when someone is passionate about something because they show up and they want their voices to be heard. And I want to say I have fully support the Iranian Americans that are here tonight and do all the things that are coming through. Thank you. Thank you. Sharon Wilixen. I'm here speaking on 5.3 the Irvine Recovery Plan funding. I'm Sharon Wellickson. I'm representing the Irvine Children's Fund. On behalf of ICF, I would like to thank the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee for their thoughtful process in allocating funds for Irvine families that was provided by City Council. The IRP funding for before and after school child care will be transformative as we have a very large population in Irvine that needs child care and needs child care scholarships. We've had a difficult fundraising two years, no junior games for two years, but we're back on our feet, and this grant will make it so that we're not raising today's dollars for today's scholarships. We'll be able to have a stable, sustainable scholarship program. As you know, every dollar goes to scholarships for Irvine working families, families that work hard but are in low paying jobs. So last year we provided $380,000 in scholarships three times the amount that we've provided in the past. So I hope that you will consider the funding for childcare at least at the amount by the DEI committee. And I just would like to take one moment to say that the Irvine Adult Day Health Services could not be here tonight and we're usually together representing two ends in Irvine Adult Day Health Services could not be here tonight, and we were usually together representing two ends in Irvine Air. Kimberly's father passed away last night, and she couldn't be here to advocate for Irvine Adult Health Services tonight. So thank you very much, and looking forward to this evening's presentation. Thank you. If I can have the next five people come down. Part two, Nickpur, Joyce 2, Adra Vercenia, Rose, and Robert Klein. We'll start with part two. Good evening. I've been the residents of Irvine for the past 20 years. I have worked for an American company for over 21 years. I left Iran 36 years ago and I never went back. This has been pulp. But since this is happening in my country, I cannot sit still, I cannot even work every day, not thinking about Iran, not being on my social media, just checking to see, okay, what happened now? I've seen you at the rallies and I appreciate Mayor Hahn. Thank you for your support. I'm just here to show that we are helpless. I don't know what to do. If there is a rally I'm there. If there is a meeting I'm there. I just don't know where to reach out. We need your help. We need your support in any shape of four. 36 years ago when I left Iran, I was taken by the morality police because I had red nail polish. I was in the van horrified. I was trying to remove the nail polish with my fingers. Next month I left Iran and I never looked back. I was like, I know myself, I'm going to say something, I'm going to get arrested again. I could have been that mass eye-mini. When they arrested her, when she was dead, I was like, I just got lucky to be here. That's it. No difference. This country gave me the opportunity to be the best I could be. There are so many people, brighter, smarter, that they don't have that opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Great evening. My name is Joyce too. And I am Vice President of Clinical Transformation at Easter Seals, Southern California. I have 25 years of experience provide services for the autism population. And Easter Seals is held quarter in Irvine. Irvine, our focus is providing the highest quality autism therapies. We currently are serving 185 unique families. Our clinical excellence is recognized in the health care world and we are exclusive autism provider for Kaiser's medical and commercial members. Giving your backgrounds you may know autism prevalence nationally continue to rise. And the California had the highest prevalence of any states in the US with 3.9% of all children eight years old and younger. We apply for the recovery plan. Specifically, this grant is going to support low-income families and support for our severe behavior services. Many of the participants we serve engaged in severe problem behavior, such as aggression, self-interest behavior, and property destruction. Many of them has been in another hospital, for example. One of the young ladies we serve right now has been in another hospital for 64 times since beginning of this year. With our service, she's able to go back to her community and start to learn. And so we know IRP Grant will help us to ensure Irvine is an exceptional place for individuals with disabilities to live, learn and play. Thank you. and the city council. I'm going to be a member of the community. I'm going to be a member of the community council. I'm going to be a member of the community council. I'm going to be a member of the community council. I'm going to be a member of the community council. I'm going to be a member of the community council. I'm going co-president with United here local 11 and also the chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County. I first want to thank you for your first vote on this ordinance and request your vote again with a previously passed vote. Room attendance do not have more time for further sexual assault and exploitation that the industry is asking for, times up. We need panic button and we need 24-hour security. Let's go back to pre-pandemic levels of service for workers and fair compensation for their work. I want to thank you for putting people over profits. I want to also ask you to please support human rights in Iran and stand with my Iranian ... I stand with my Iranian-American brothers and sisters in their struggle for freedom and basic human rights. Please do whatever you can to support them. Thank you so much. I'm here to talk about the events that are happening in Iran. People are getting killed because of this regime. If they refuse to practice a certain religion, they are brutally murdered. People might be pursuing their education and building their careers, but they're too worried if they're going to be able to wake up tomorrow. I haven't seen my family in 17 years, and I haven't been able to talk to them over the phone because the government keeps shutting the internet down. I don't know if they're dead, I don't know if they're alive, I'm just wishing the best for them. I am here to represent my brothers and sisters from Iran and their God-given rights. So please vote yes on the resolution condemning the government of Iran. Thank you. Robert Klein. Robert Klein. Robert Klein. Good evening. My name is Robert Klein and I'm here to speak on item 5.3. I'm with Easterseal Southern California and you may recognize us from the many disability programs that we provide or provide residents. Specifically we applied for the IRP for $200,000 grant to really be able to support more of the vulnerable autism population. Right now we serve 185 families. That's constantly taking place. The $200,000 grant would allow us to expand our services and also to be able to expand the severe behavior services pilot program that Dr. Tew talked about. We really appreciate your work. We've also come out of very hard times coming out of the COVID where we were unable to go into people's homes, be able to provide the sort of services, and thank you in advance for supporting us in the IRP program. Thank you again. I apologize, I think I missed Parina's Bhaktiari. Good evening. I'm a full-time mom and you know I always wanted to be a good role model for my kids. That's why I'm here tonight. I was an active PTA member for all these 13 years right now. They are killing the same kids in Iran, same age as my kids, and because I always was very active in school and everything, it's hurting me so much, although you know, we have everything here, but our mind is over there, so we need your vote. So I'm here for the item 5.4, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. I can have the next five people come up. Mitra Mosale, Yul Nelson, Asif Mahmoud, Diner Frieden, Neda Pilar. We'll start with Mitra Mosale. Thank you for giving me this chance. I've been residents of Irvine since 2006. I'm going to just talk from my heart here. You know, we heard about this meeting at 4 o'clock. At 4.30 I was in the car to come here. You know, we heard about this meeting at 4 o'clock, at 4.30, I was in the car to come here. I'm not a good speaker. I was never in politics. For the years, you know, we've had this regime back there. We had given up. Right now, it's not about being activists right now. It's about being human. That's why we're all here about humanity, about freedom, about these kids that are being killed in Iran. Like the other lady said, they're same age as my daughter. You know, congratulations on being reelected Mayor Khan. We're the one, you know, we voted for you. We supported you. We need your support right now. Please, this is, like I said, it's not about being a mayor of Irvine. It's about being a human. It's about being a woman. Please help us support Iran. President Biden mentioned that people of Iran, they're going to free themselves. Free with what? They're freeing themselves with the blood. They have a stone in their hand. When the guns is coming through them, with the weapons, they have their throwing stones. They can't survive every day, every moment. We have one more person that is being killed. Please support us. And thank you officers. Thank you for supporting us every Sunday with the peaceful protest that we have. Woman life freedom. I would like to speak to on 5.2 but beforehand on 5.4, no matter what our politics are, we should all stand united as Americans for the world. And I commend you, Maricone and Councilwoman Kim, as Anthony Quo and Wary Aigren will probably also be voting on this issue. I do wish that Michael Carroll were here. Our city needs to united and stop the persecution. So God bless you all for this. Now the other issue I'd like to talk to, and it's somewhat related, 5.2. When we talk about affordable housing in Irvine, I really believe we need to do more. I believe the Irvine company needs to do more, not only in affordable housing, of which really they ought to, but we need to have a plan developed by the new City Council that deals with workforce housing. We do not provide enough affordable housing, I want to call it workforce housing for our staff. We all want climate control, we want to do better. We don't want our city workers driving 50 miles a day from Riverside County contributing to pollution, et cetera. So I would hope you folks would look at workforce housing. Another serious issue, and I saw this on former Mayor Christina Shay's Facebook. We need to also think about not rent control, but we need to talk to the Irvine company about having more fair rent increases. They're going throughout the city raising rents by more than 10%. That's not fair when inflation is running as rampant as it is. I mean, I remember the days when I rented an apartment for 135 bucks furnished in the valley try try that today We we certainly we certainly need to do something more and I would encourage you all to do more for the your residents for our Residence for the city of Thank you Dr. Ossich my mood Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Asif, my mood. Good evening, Mayor and City Council Members. Thank you. I am here to speak on two different items. Number one is 2.15. Safety, security, and protection of workers should be a top priority for any business. But in a business where workers meet and encounter strange people and many a straight and deranged, strange people every single day, their security and safety is at very high risk. To have the panic button does not have anything to do with the recession, but people from the hotel business came up and related to that. We need to make sure that panic button should have happened yesterday, not today. We need to follow the precedence of other cities and get that into law. We want to make sure that pre-pandemic and pandemic time is over. Now, we can see in this hall, 90% of people are without masks and they are safe and they cannot reinstate everyday cleaning in the hotels. That is not acceptable. That should happen. And also workers who are doing overweight and overburdened work, they should be compensated that way. So I would strongly strongly recommend that please consider, like you did first time on a second vote and let this thing happen and help our workers who are hot and soul of our communities. On a second item, first of all, my hair is off and my salute to the brave, courageous and fearless and conscientious women of Iran. Who are not only struggling and sacrificing for their own freedom, but they are the rays of light for people, millions of women in the globe who are being deployed from their rights. So we need to stand with full solidarity with women of Iran and do need to act now. Since our wine has the largest Iranian community, so we should not only have an array, we should arrange the biggest rally in this country of the women of Iran. And I assure you, our community and our people will join you at every cost and we will work with you and we want City Council and Mayor of Irvine to condemn that abuses, especially those abuses now happening in the jails in the form of rape. We want to make sure all that should stop now. Thank you so much. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. I know we have all been so very proud of this city as it has always been one of the safest cities in America. But since when is one of the safest cities in America not respecting its workers? I am shocked. Each one of us works hard every day. Not one of us is better than another. We all deserve respect. Our housekeepers at our hotels do the very best they can. They deserve panic buttons. They deserve to be respected. They deserve a workload that is reasonable. And they need to go back to pre- pandemic workloads. It's absolutely inconceivable that the same workload for one day pre-pandemic is now expected after a three-day stay. That is absolutely crazy. So I have to just say that I respect everyone who works. I respect our hotel workers. I choose respect and I hope you will too. Regarding our Iranian friends, let us stand together, embracing our beautifully diverse cultures, stand with them. The whole human rights is something in Irvine. We have such a beautifully diverse community. Let's stand together and support one another. Thank you for your time. Madame Mayue in City Council. Before I getting very emotional and crying the past six weeks I'm crying and I'm shaking right now so I'm going to read the statement that I wrote just now. My name is Neta Pellar and Iranian American Airborne resident I would like to address item 5.4 on consideration of the request by Mayor Hahn and asking unanimously support by the Council members of this resolution. Your support is helping the large Iranian-American community to stand with Iranian people that are demanding basic human rights, woman life freedom. Thank you. Mervet Judah, Terry LePage, Virginia Parks, and Lauren Johnson North. We'll start with Faradun. Good evening, Council Members. Mayor, thank you very much for the opportunity as the other fellow Iranian reflected here. My name is Faradun Jan, a member of this community. I lived most of my life outside of Iran, but for the last months we have not had any normal minutes in our life. We wake up my wife and myself in the middle of the night with the fear of that who would be the next Keon Pirfalaq, a nine year old kid from Eze, who was shot and killed just for requesting and demanding basic human rights. More than 60 kids have been killed, 1000 people has been detained. And the member of so-called Congress of Iranian or demanding execution of those who've been kept in the jails. The other thing which is man-boggling, as people mention, we're all emotional, but really difficult to put everything together is for the last few days the events of Kurdistan as people mentioned, we're all emotional, it's really difficult to put everything together, is for the last few days the events of Kurdistan have been under the heavy siege. We don't have any news what is happening there. So I really appreciate your help defending the universal right of human as well as Iranians. Thank you very much. And I would like to thank you all for your support. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank 5.4. So as I graduated from UCI in 1999, and I lived here for a very, very, very long time, and I still shop at Irvine. And I've always known the city of Irvine as one of my friends just said here today, as one of the safest cities in the nation. And it's pretty appalling that here we are, that liberty is an extended to the workers. So I'm here to support the workers of Irvine. The reality is it isn't safe in the hotels. And every woman man that works or deserves a panic button yesterday. Number two, the pandemic, I don't want to say it's over, but we're past that already. We're past that point. I get the money was good hotel industry, but you need to go back to pandemic workload hours and stop giving them three or four days of work in one day. That's not okay. It's not okay. Thirdly, I understand that people don't like it when they're going to make less money, but we need to stand with our workers and respect them and be the city that I know for front of you as an amazing city. So I stand with the workers, please vote yes, so you could make it into law. Thank you so much. As a Palestinian-American, I hear you, Iranians. I hear you, 1000%. I hear you. As a mother, as a Muslim, and as a woman, I am offended and disgusted by the regime of Iran. They're disgusting. And the minimum we can do in every city in this nation is to stand against the upling regime of Iran. That's the problem we can do. This is not what my beautiful religion of Islam is about. And I think that's often lost in these stories. This is not Islam. This is people utilizing religion to terrorize the masses and it's unfortunate. And I stand against every oppressive regime and standing here today in the name of Masa Amini that murdered in September 24th. And the 58 children that have been murdered during the anti-regime protests in Iran. I stand for all of them and every person that has lost one or has in jail so it's been raped. So please vote for the resolution standing against the Iranian regime. And my love to the people of Iran, you are my brothers and sisters. And in ShawAllah one day, God willing, my faith will be cleaned and none of the no wouldn't in the world would utilize religion to bless the masses God bless you all thank you Terry Lepeach I have appeared before you on this same issue 2.15 hotel workers protection act and I'm here again on behalf of Irvine United Congregational Church and Clu, clergy and lady united for economic justice to just remind you to do the right thing. We are a proud city and well we should be and we can be a leader in human rights for this most particularly vulnerable worker population. And hotels are national. They don't always get to set their policy, whether or not they mean well. It needs to be written into law. Thank you. And since I have a few seconds left, I just want to also speak on behalf of 5.4 and tell my Iranian neighbors and my Iranian neighbors across the globe that your religious brothers and sisters of other faith face stand with you. You deserve human rights, women deserve human rights. You know that and Irvine can be proud to say it out loud. Thank you. Virginia Parks. Good evening, Councilmembers. I'm here to speak on item 2.15. I've spoken on this before. I'm a professor of public policy with a specialty in economic development in labor markets, and we've heard a lot about the effects of the pandemic. Well, nobody was hit hardest by the pandemic than workers. And for corporations to build their post-pandemic recovery on the backs of workers is shameful. This is a moment for the city of Irvine to protect housekeepers, to make sure that women and immigrants who work in these jobs are safe and to ensure that they are compensated justly for more work than for more work that they take on. As I've said before, I have these conversations. Well, I want to say something quickly too. For decades now, cities have set labor standards. This is not new. It is something that the public sector needs to step in, particularly for those who are most disadvantaged. Lastly, I've spoken about my 11-year-old daughter. She's in the DER program at Turtle Rock Elementary right now. And so we have these dinner conversations. As I said, we've talked about safety. So we've talked about the safety of women. Well, lately we've had to talk about the safety of women in Iran, and I encourage you to take a stand and to support our Iranian-American neighbors. The workers' rights, workers' rights are human rights, and it gives us a clear understanding of the human rights of women all across the world that we need to protect. Thank you. Good evening Madam Mayor and Council Members. What a night for human rights. I'm Lauren Johnson, Norris, I'm an 18 year resident of Irvine, a city commissioner and vice chair of the Orange County Democratic Party. And I'm here to speak in support of workers and in support of our Iranian community. I wanna thank you so much for passing the first reading of the ordinance for workers. We know the hoteliers support the panic buttons because sexual assault is not good business. But neither are unfair working conditions. And working more than 40 hours a week does not improve work. It actually negatively affects productivity. Increases the chances of accidents and injuries on the job and general poor health for the workforce. We are a city that champions the welfare of all who are in it, so I urge you to pass the ordinance tonight on its second read, protect the most vulnerable in our workforce, and these are women. And our county Democratic Party passed an ordinance, I'm sorry, a resolution in support of that. Our county Democratic Party also passed a resolution standing with our Iranian community in October and I know because I drafted it with our Iranian Democratic members. We stand in full solidarity with our Iranian neighbors and urge you to condemn the regime tonight. And as a Jewish woman, we are tied together through diaspora and I stand with you as well. Woman life freedom, 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. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Laura Dink, Maria Balderas, Carmen Luna, and Adriana Pereira. We'll start with Hengame. Good evening, Madam Mayor and City Council. My name is Henga May Abraham, most of you know me as Henny. I have had the honor and pleasure of working with Mayor Khan and Vice Mayor Anthony Cohen, this resolution since October 16. Thank you so much for taking the lead on this. I'm standing in front of you, not as the 36-year-old, a free Iranian-American woman that lives in this wonderful country of ours. But as a 12-year-old girl who got stopped by the morality police for the first time back in Iran before we had the privilege and honor to move here, I was stopped because I shaved my head at the age of 12 because I did not want to wear the cover anymore. And I was told that if I didn't cover my hair, I would be jailed. Last word to date, what's happening to September 16th? That could have been me. I don't know what I did or deserve to be here, but I know I will not stop. I have the privilege of being the Iranian outreach chair for the Republican Party of Orange County. But let me tell you something. This is not a democratic issue. This is not a Republican issue. This is not about politics. This is about humanity. And this is not about politics. This is about humanity. And this is about human rights. This is about three-year-olds being shot in the street. This is about Red Cross not being able to go to Iran and provide aid. I just want to give a shout out to all these amazing people that showed up here with ours noticed. That's the Fondarde Bacona. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Sarah D. Hello. My name is Sarah Dink and I'm here to speak on 2.15. I grew up here in Orange County and I'm an Irvine resident and I'm a student at the UC Irvine Law School. My classmates and I have come here to show our support today for the Housekeepers of Irvine. We believe that hotel workers, just like all workers, deserve to feel safe from assault and misconduct while in the job. And this is a common sense law that protects workers in vulnerable situations, which is why similar laws have already passed in other cities like Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Glendale, and Long Beach. And Irvine now has the opportunity to be the first in Orange County to pass this type of law. So as a UCI student, I strongly support this law and the hotel workers of Irvine, and I respectfully ask that the Irvine City Council support the workers as well tonight and pass this law now. Thank you so much for your time. I'm going to share in her history because she forgot her glasses, but I want to translate exactly what happened in her life in the hotel, Irvai Hilton. My name is Maria Boleras, and I have a workers for Irvai Hilton for 17 years at House Keeper. I'm here today to talk to you about why we need add-ins protection for air-ball hospitality markets. When the pandemic came in, my company could back at a Marigdeli room clinics. More of the numbers of the rooms, we now get our check-out rooms. Many with the service that only answer guests in add-ins there are a stay. This room, extremely dirty, and often have to rush floor to floor to finish them. We often, or our forces, to into overtime, we need to clean our rooms every day and to fairly compensated for us heavy war law because we are backbone in urban to this industry. Again, these laws came down to whether or not consul believe as going to speak out about things that we need. We add protection and to fairly pay with gold lobes is too much. We urge the Council to file a leasing and border to pass the law and present. Thank you. So Good night. My name is Carmen Luna and I have worked in Irvine Hilton for 15 years as a supervisor. I am here today to talk about why we need additional protections for the workers of the urban hospital work of the utilities we do that the industrial and our city can be clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and meres en una compensación justa por las cargas de trabajo más pesadas meres en ser tratados con dignidad. My name is Carmen Luna. I have a work at the Irvine Hilton for 15 years. I'm a supervisor. I'm here today to talk to you about why we need Addance Protection for Irvine Hospitality Workets. Hospitality workers at the backbone of the RCD, tourist industry, they clean rooms for, I guess, often very dirty, do a room since the daily rooms cleaning was eliminated as they deserves to be fairly compensated for their hair be work and low, they deserve to be treating and with dignity. Los trabajadores de la hotelera de Lombic, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Glendale, y más recientemente los ángeles han aprobado medidas que les brindan protecciones adicionales y más paga para los por más trabajo. and more pay for more work. The organization is the most responsible for the work. Hospitality work is a long-age centa-monica, waste-holy-bull, and most recently, the Angeles have a passive make sure providing them with the ordinate for the workers of the hotel the Irvine Serath or if they don't believe or not when we talk about the things that we need as workers and we need to listen to the advice to completely vote to prove the law as it is presented. The Irvine Hotel Work is organized comes out to whether or not to consult believe as when we speak out about the things that we need. We urge the Council to fully listen and bother to pass the low as present. Thank you. Thank you. A.D. Diana Pereira. Good evening. My name is Adriana and I'm a student at UCI School of Law. My classmates and I have come to show our support for the Housekeeper Protection Ordinance and I would like to show my support for item 5.4 as well. The protection of human dignity is vital to creating and upholding a moral society and nothing is more important. As such, hotel workers and all other workers also deserve to feel safe from assault and they deserve to be paid fairly for the hard work that they do every single day. If general managers of hotels get paid fairly, workers who are the backbone of the economy and society should also be paid fairly. Laws that protect workers in vulnerable situations and ensure that they are paid fairly for their workloads are not uncommon, which is why similar ordinances have already been passed in other cities. As the UCI law student, I strongly support this law and the hotel workers of Irvine. I respectfully ask the Irvine City Council to continue to do the same. In regards to item 5.4, I would also like to show my full support for the request of Iranian-Americans present here today. And we'd like to express my deep admiration for their continuous strength and perseverance. It is my ardent hope that Irvine can help to protect the lives of Iranians as much as we can. Women live freedom. Thank you so much. I can have the next five people come down, Tony Zand, Masa Townsend, Rosa Pena, Sherzad the Good evening, Mayor Conn, esteemed City Council members. My name is Tony Zand and I'm here to speak regarding items 2.15 and 5.4. Regarding 2.15 on October 25, I addressed you all during the special meeting. And while this Council considered Vice Mayor Quo's motion to separate this ordinance into two distinct parts, Council member Agrin actually gave us some very wise recommendations. And Councilmember Agrin, I thank you. You would suggest that in this interim time from the first reading to the second, we solicit more information and input from the Irvine Police Department and other respected organizations that are involved with these items. I took that message to heart and I worked in good faith with Mayor Conn to arrange that meeting with Police Chief Kent. That meeting is set for the 28th in six days. Council member Kim, I appreciate you will be joining us as well along with Mayor Conn and I'm sitting here asking this council to wait to give us until that date so we can have that input from police chief Kent because safety does matter and we do owe it to our community to get this right. And if there's an opportunity to solicit the input from the Irvine Police Department which has maintained the safest city in this country we would be fools not to solicit their input. Lastly, if this is truly about public safety, I urge this council to strip items 3.6 108 and 6107B, which exempts labor unions from this ordinance. Regarding item 5.4, I sincerely thank this body for taking this resolution to heart. In 1979, my family fled the Islamic Republic of Iran with a suitcase. Most of their friends were executed or exiled, and I was born a few years later in this country. I'll never understand or truly appreciate what my parents and thankless other Iranians went through, including the many people in this room. But I grew up every night listening to stories about how this country stands for freedom and how we stand up for what's just and we do what's right. I can't even begin to explain the impact that this resolution will have. This will be the first domino in an American city that can actually lead to substantive change. Your actions here tonight mean more to people in this world than I think everyone in this room will truly understand. I cannot thank you enough for standing up and doing what's right and being there for people and need. Thank you. Good evening, members of City Council. My name is Massa. I'm here today as an Iranian-American who migrated here 31 years ago and has never been able to revisit the country I was born in. I'm here asking the City Council to condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran for the rape, torture, and murder of thousands of its unarmed citizens. The Iranian people are protesting against a tyrannical government who is considered one of the biggest supporters of terrorism around the world and is currently using chemical gas against the people of Kurdistan, a war crime against their own unarmed citizens. Currently they have over 15,000 peaceful Iranians in prison. In 1988, the Islamic Republic executed in excess of 30,000 people. In 1988, there was no social media and no one heard the cries of innocent Iranians. However, today we are here and are seeing it in real time. What the Iranian people are fighting for is written in our Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thank you for your time. I'm here today to talk about why we need additional protection for workers of Irvine hospitality. As I did in May, I worked in my room, a completely disnughted man in the door of my room to ask, can you clean my room? I also came to disnught of his room and wine, where I was cleaning. I have a work that's for urban mario in a hotel. I have a housekeeper for seven years. I'm here today to talk into you about what we need at our protection for hospitality workers like myself. Back in May, we were working on my floor, a fully naked man's tool, or the door away of the room to ask, can you clean my room? He also walked a naked out of his room and come to where I was cleaning other room asking me repeatedly if I will clean his room, I feel nervous in his current. the pandemic, what it means to provide service only when the West goes. We feel that we have to pressure ourselves to clean the rooms. And the additional stress is that when a West goes, we also need to be compensated in a way that helps our most hard work. This is not the only things housekeeping like myself, most got troll. Our hotel like many across the country, eliminate daily rooms cleaning during the pandemic. Wish man we provide service only, upon this, checking out. We already feel like we have to rush to clean the room and the in their stress was made worse have guess exposing himself. We also need to compensate for our increases Los trabajadores de la hotelaría en Lómbig, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Glenbeck y más, recientemente los ángeles ya cuentan con protección similares. Los trabajadores de las hospitalidades en Irvine necesitan protección como medidas de seguridad adicionales para protegernos de agresiones y conductas amenazantes. Hospitality workers of with Santa Monica was Hollywood Glender and more recent in Los Angeles. Already have similar protection. Urban housekeeping, the self-decent protection and the same other cities. Hospitality workers across the urban need to protection and light. I did security make sure to protect us from assault and trading conduct. 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. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor and Honourable Member of Congress, Council. My name is Shahzat Farjadi and I'm the Persian community liaison at Urban Unified School District serving the Iranian-American community and forces speaking community, meaning Afghanian families as well for the past 17 years. And I had something written to write. I'm speaking on item number 5.4 as you know. But I'm going to speak from my heart because for the past 17 years, I've personally have been dealing with the families who unwanted their immigration was not wanted. They were forced out of my homeland country, Iran, for many reasons. And right now, the sons and daughters are, you know, at middle school, high schools, and they're facing many, many, many problems, that we in the city of Irvine are dealing with them, because this immigration was not wanted. Their parents are struggling here financially. They, the mental health issue, they're missing their family. We are a community very close and family center community, and we've been ripped out of our country, including myself 30 years ago. So I feel them with every bone in my body. And right now, people of Iran, for after many, many attempts are standing with their empty hands in front of this regime, this horrible, horrible regime that I don't see any reason to repeat their atrocities. Many of these people have already told you, that I don't see any reason to repeat their atrocities. Many of these people have already told you, they're raping, they're killing, they're doing more criminals against the people of Iran everywhere. So I'm asking you, I've been serving my whole life here for this city, for the students and families of the city. I'm asking you to pass this resolution and support the biggest Iranian-American community in Orange County who've been serving your city. And you know we have the lowest rate of crimes in the city. We are highly educated. We have devoted our lives to you. And I want to thank you officers for supporting us. And I am almost sure that this resolution will be passed by you. Thank you. I'm not sure if I called down Diana Nufio. Good evening. My name is Diana Nufio and I have a work as a Hilton Urban Housekeeper for 11 years. I'm here today to talk to you about the work of the Urban Housekeeper for 11 years. I'm here today to talk to you about the work My name is Diana Nufil. I have a workers at Hilton Airbank Housekeeper for 11 years I'm here today to talk to you about why we need the evidence protection for Airvine hospitality workers Not solo trabajo, sino que también vivo y voto en Irvine Ligía esta ciudad para crear a mis hijos porque creo que es la mejor para ellos I not only work but also I live in border in Irvine. I chose the city to raise my kids and because I believe that is what at the best a city reform for them. nosotros y a veces para los huespedes y no siempre se compensa de manera justa por la pesada carga de trabajo que tenemos que hacer. As someone working in A by As Housekeeper, I don't feel protected. We often have to work along in a solidaried areas of the hotel, which come to add and risk for us and sometimes for the guests. In order, not always fairly compensated for the world's sum, we're all we have to do. Esta ley no solo nos brindará y nos brindaría protecciones adicionales, sino que también nos daría un salario justo. Cuando la carga de trabajo sea demasiado, con demasiado frecuencia debemos apresurarnos de una habitación a otra, estresadas y ansulosas por terminar las habitaciones a tiempo. This law will not only provide us with evidence protection, but I will also ask a fair way when the world law is too much, to often we must rush from run to run a stress to get a run done on time. Esta ley es sobre si nos creen a las recamereras cuando hablamos sobre las cosas que necesitamos. Estamos al concilio que escuche completamente y vote para probar la ley tal como se presenta. These laws come down to whether or the net consul believe how skipper when we speak out about the things that we need. We urge the console to fall releasing and bought it to pass this law is present. This science is the real life, 365 days for these workers. This is the real life where the workers go to work every single day. Thank you. Thank you. I can have the next five people come down, Garrett Bush, Evelyn Martinez, Brandon Peroll, A.J. Mohan, and Ali Jabahiri. We'll start with Garrett Bush. Good evening Mayor and City Council members. Thanks for hearing us out tonight. My name is Garrett Bush. I'm here to speak with you on 2.15. I'm the president of our family business, Pacific Hospitality Group. We're an owner operator of hotels throughout the country, but we're proud to call Irvine Home. Our headquarters is here in the city and has been since 1987. We also own and operate two hotels in Irvine. And I support a lot of other, some of the other hotels, totaliers have said a lot of the similar message, but I bring a different perspective. We started a great practice in our company 10 plus years ago that we call the CEO or President's Forum, where myself or my dad as a senior leadership in the company meet with all of our team members on the ground at every hotel multiple times a year. We love our housekeepers. They're always a great contingent and always present at those meetings. And so I have an opportunity on a regular basis to speak directly with those team members. And we ask, hey, how can we make things better? What can we do to help you? What can we do to support you? And interestingly enough, all the things address in the ordinance has not come up one time. And I do this, you know, probably 20 times a year in these meetings across Irvine and other cities throughout the country that we do this. They ask for things like more tools like we're running out of brooms or we need carts that are easier to push or we need uniforms that are more comfortable and a lot of times we're able to address those pay comes up as well and we do take care of that and in fact since 18 we've increased our housekeeping rate 50%. Thank you. I'd like to also speak on five four. We heard from my brother-in-law Tony Zand who is from families from Iran. We have many investors friends obviously my family and many of our team members that are Persian and from Iranian descent or some have immigrated from there. So we stand in support with our friends to condemn that regime. It's a sad, but scary example of runaway government and corruption, and we stand against that. So thank you for considering that. Evelyn Martinez. Is Evelyn Martinez here? Not Brandon Peroll Good evening city council members. So I'm here to speak on item 2.15 I'm here representing an Irvine hotel stakeholder as communicated in the in the first reading We welcome the city council's engagement with hotel safety as our hotels have always valued safety for their employees and for our guests. This ordinance, however, is being rushed through without consideration about its economic impacts to the Irvine hotels and to the City of Irvine. There has been no formal process for this ordinance and we believe it is being rushed without careful consideration. If the city council engages stakeholders, Irvine notelliers and the labor representatives, we can come up with great solutions together. The economic impact of the ordinance is huge. I don't think the city has taken time to understand them and how it works once implemented into the hotels operationally. We ask that you delay the second reading today and allow time to meet with all parties to further understand the impact of this ordinance places on hotels, the employees, and the city of Irvine. Thank you. A.J. Mulhen. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council Members. I'm here to speak on items 5.4 and 2.15. My name is AJ Mohan. I'm privileged to be a new resident here for over two decades. I've attended public schools here. I went to college here and now I choose to live here because it's a city that's here to my heart. I have a privilege of wearing another hat today as the executive director of the Democratic Party of Orange County representing the largest organized body in the city at 41% of registered voters and 63,000 members whose three endorse candidates won all three of their recent elections to this body. I'd first like to say that I stand with my Iranian-American brothers and sisters in their struggle for basic human rights and freedom. I hope this council will take whatever opportunity possible to support them and item 5.4 and I thank you for bringing that forward On item 2.15 again speaking as a long-time urban resident a city of urban finance commissioner in one of the many Representatives here from the local Democratic Party. I was here several weeks ago to talk to you about this ordinance Triple-Tech hotel workers as I was that night I'm appalled by the brazen lies that hotel industry lobbyists have come to tell us. I heard some lobbyists threaten city revenue, specifically the TOT tax. And that they say that will be impacted by this ordinance. And to them, I say that if the revenue given to the city on the backs of hotel workers who are being systematically raped, keep it. If that revenue is given to the city on the backs of hotel workers who are being systematically sexually assaulted, keep it. And if that money is being made on the backs of hotel workers who are not being given overtime for the work they do, keep it. This has been well documented by one of the few local outlets we have in our county, Voice of OC, and I hope the council members will take it seriously tonight. Today I also heard a lot or excuse me workers deserve respect on the job and today you heard paid lobbyists come before you to say that hotel workers have had safety measures implemented. These workers would not be here if they were safe on the job. They wouldn't be well documented cases of systematic sexual harassment in the last few weeks if they felt safe on the job. So the City Council has a major responsibility to the workers here to protect their safety and dignity. Respectfully I I heard Vice Mayor Quo bring up market forces at the last meeting in Vice Mayor. The market does not correct for sexual harassment and sexual assault. The market does not correct for overtime rules. Respectfully, that's your job and let's stand for Irwin Values and pass this tonight. Thanks. Applause Ali Javahari. Ali's not here. All right. If I can have the next five people come down. Victor Vajadaris, Gaston Castellanos, Nigar, Hayede Kalanaki, Shazad Farjadi. I think I thought Shazad. Yori spoke, yes. Cam Ranman Suri. And we'll start with Victor Bairaris. to be talking about two topics. Well, with the brothers of the local local syndicate, 11, and one of the brothers here, our brothers of Iran. First, we'll talk about the local local 11. Thank you for being here listening to this message at the call of this member of the council. Thank you very much for being here listening to these stories, right? I'm here in solidarity with our brothers from the local 11 workers who clean the hotels, right? My mom arrived here in the 80s, also the workers of the hotels. We understand that the money is this, runs these types of businesses, the protections that are asking for in this order that is going to be read, hallelujah, first God, will protect first place to women. Because my mother has told me many stories of what she suffered as a worker. And here my brothers who are fighting for the new generations and their own rights themselves, I also say that, please, pass this order to the workers. Just one of the things I want to say this in English is thank you Mayor Con and Council. My name is Victor Vidadres and I'm here with a United here locally 11 in support in solidarity with the hotel workers hospitality workers. My mom when she arrived from Mexico here in, she worked in the hotel industry. She told me some traumatic stories, right? That's still haunt her till this day. So I commend the leaders of the United here for bringing these much-needed past due ordinances, right? Protections, right? And protections for women, because most of the folks that are clean in our rooms are women. So we have to stand with women and Protect them so get the get the protection that they need right as far as you know meeting every single daily goals of rooms being cleaned We know what Corbettas do right more and more and more and more without paying them their their decent wage Getting paid for what they do and not just adding more to them. So right now I highly commend and I unite here locally, levend for doing the right thing and this council being here and voting and I hope you all do the right thing and pass this ordinance. Mr. Baidar is a member of the Latin community, representative of Latin community. And the other cities that have passed in Iran, the tragedies with that regime that are passing already from September, we are in solidarity with our sister sisters and women that are passing the tragedies. Your time is up, thank you. This was for who? Yes, I was a new item. Yes. but he had more than 90 seconds on the first China. Yeah, so how are we? Are we doing the translation one? 90 and then the English 90s that we're doing. Right. Thank you Well, I'm a big to our leader, a leader, a community of our community Latina. All right. All right. the right of human rights and civil rights. So here for the community of the United States, I don't understand what's going on here, we are here for the right of human rights of the people living under that regime terror of the government of Iran. And we are here for more support. I hope you can send me a message as the city of Irfan, with the largest community of Iran, in solidarity with them, to show everyone, So my name is Victor, my name is Victor, my name is Victor, my name is Victor, and that is I'm a community leader here for our community, specifically with the Latino community. I just want to let you all know that I stand with the Iranian community, with our brothers and sisters. You know, there's been a regime that's been oppressing people specifically women over there, so we stand in solidarity. And I hope that the City Council does do the right thing that's been oppressing people, specifically women over there. So we stand in solidarity. And I hope that the City Council does do the right thing and send like another comment I mentioned earlier, a trickle down a domino effect, right? Be the first city with the largest Iranian population passing this ordinance, well, not just send a message locally here, but nationally. And we stand with you, brothers and sisters, with you brothers and sisters thank you. Thank you. The House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of the House of Gaston Castellanis, with the Democratic Party of Orange County. I wanted to respond to some of the hotel industry representatives when they talked about undue influence in the employer-employee relationship. You know, I really struck a nerve with me because undue influence in employee relationships is why sweatshops are illegal. It's why child labor is outlawed. It's why we have a 40-hour work week, and it's why we're going to be able to spend some time this week with our families on Thanksgiving. So I don't know about you, but I think that sometimes undue influence in the employer-employer relationship is a good thing. When I read the ordinance, there were a couple of things about it that inspired me. And one of them was, it's a statement of values about how the city of Irvine views the people that not only live here but work here. That ordinance says no, it's not okay to sexually harass hotel workers. It's not okay to grope them. It's not okay to retaliate against them when they complain about such behavior. And it's certainly not okay to burden them with unfair working conditions. What I see that ordinance is doing is the people of Irvine through their elected representatives saying no, these are our values for the city of Irvine and this is how workers are going to be treated. We all know that the city of Irvine is one of the safest communities in the United States and everyone in this room can be proud of that. But I would hate to see or consider that there's an asterisk next to that statement that says, unless you're a hotel worker. Irvine needs to be safe for everyone. To my Irvine, to my Iranian brothers and sisters, I just wanna say, I stood with you at the intersection of Culver and Barranca this weekend. I saw the passion and power of that demonstration. I saw that sign, women life freedom, and it struck a nerve with me as an American, because that's a sign that Americans need to consider to do to current conditions in our own country. We can still vote against tyranny here, and we did that in these mid-term elections. Iranians are paying with their lives for their fight against tyranny. The least we can do is consider this resolution for them tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Applause. Thank you. Nigar. Hello, my name is N Nagar Vahabi. I am a journalism student at Saddleback College, and I'm here to support my people, Iran. If a war happens between two countries, government, military, and people become united to find against the enemy. But what happens when there's a war between the people of a nation against the brutal regime? The government that puts the military in action to fight the unarmed people and they use military fatal weapons to fight the unarmed people. Kurdistan is facing a major genocide. They are in a major desperation for medication and blood supplies. But the government prohibited any type of hope. People secretly sending supplies and medicine, but it is not even close to what is needed. Our people has no one to help them. They are left alone. Please help them. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor Kant and City Council members. My name is Haida Kerrimy. I'm an Iranian American who's been a resident of Irvine for the past 25 years. I left Irvine over 36 years, and I have been back only a handful times, only because I needed to see my parents. I'm here to ask for your vote on item 5.4 and asking your unanimous support of this resolution to condemn the brutal Islamic regime of Iran. Your support to help our Iranian-American community to be the voice for the voiceless people of Iran. Right now, the regime of Kurdistan, I'm sorry, the region of Kurdistan and Valuchistan are going through a mass genocide. Right now, girls are being taken to unknown places or prison and they are raped. They are reports that these girls are asking their family to just and only get them birth control. Our Gen Z are fighting the brutal regime with bare hands. I just got a message from a friend just today. She left me a voice message. She said she witnessed several times that this brutal regime would drug their forces and they begin massacring the people in Iran. And this happened in Tehran. Thank you for your support. Please support us. Cameron Manjuri. The year ladies and gentlemen, Mayor, Council members, vice-common, and Sury, have been living in Erbond for the past 20 years. Iran, for the past 20 years. The regime of Iran for the past 40 years has been blaming everything on USA and being calling USA as great Satan. They changed the richest, one of the richest countries in the world in the past 43 years to the one of the poorest one in the world. The currency, the value of currency of Iran has dropped 500 times in 40 years. That's unbelievable when you look at it. Every year, at least 12 times that money has dropped. One person who has absolute power in Iran, even he decides what kind of vaccination people should take. He decided for 85 million people not to have the right vaccination for COVID and so many people in Iran died. And now when the people on the street, a civilized protest, civilized request, equality for women, they receive war bullet. One of them is 16-year-old boy, 16. Imagine if it was your son. He, they shot him 20 times. Last week, a boy, 10 years old, he was shot and killed. In one city, in one day, they killed 100 people. In one day, it's unbelievable. Please, thank to everybody who is paying attention to what's going on in Iran, Thank to everybody who is paying attention to what's going on Iran, and we love your support. We appreciate your support. We should continue to change this brutal baby killing government and regime in Iran. We want life, free them for Iran and women. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And 2.15 for all the reasons that have already been mentioned. I have heard the comments from the hotel owners and managers about how they're having trouble with staff shortages. And I'm hoping that if they are going to be offering fair compensation and safety for their workers, that they will be able to hire them and retain them so that they will not be shortages any longer. I would also like to talk about item 5, and it's very clear that there's just so much pain here among Iranian Americans who have to listen to these stories, as well as all of you who are subjected to cruelty back in Iran. And I think by passing this resolution, you would send a strong message to the leaders of Iran, and you would also hopefully comfort some of the Iranian Americans over here that are looking for solidarity from our leaders. Thank you. Applause. Next speaker is Sid Romani, followed by Eric Nishanian. Sid Romani, you may unmute your mic. Good evening, the Magna-Mayor and Council members. My name is Sid Romani and I'm at high hotels. I'm here to speak about agenda item 2.0.5. We welcome the City Council's engagement at hotels. Here's our buying hotels of all its value safety for the employees and guests. This ordinance, however, is being rushed through without consideration about its economic impacts. We are asking for an unbiased economic impact report and with hotels and consideration of police data about harm to hotel workers. There has been no formal process for this ordinance and we believe it is being rushed through without careful consideration. to the city council. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of work to do. before we make this big decision. Thank you. Next speaker is Eric Nishanian. Mr. Nishanian, you may unmute your mic. Thank you very much. Good evening, council member is Mayor Khan. First I'd like to speak to 2.15 and then 5.4. This is political theater. If it wasn't, why didn't the Democratic Party in the United here go to Anaheim? There are far more hotel workers in Anaheim than there are in Urbaya. There are far more rooms in Anaheim. There's far more square footage in Anaheim. The transients of hotel customers is larger than it is here in Irvine. And yet we're here in Irvine. What's this is horse trading happening out in the open? The DPOC wants a return under endorsement of a lying racist. Who's that lying racist? It's Farrakhan. The waiver and the the the supercession conditions of 2.15, the ordinance, are unfettered and picked a lot for winners and losers to be chosen. Most of the speakers here for the employees where union workers, they'll be exempt from the ordinance. As to 5.4, 5.4 just again proves how much of a lying racist Veraconians. And November 24th, 2020, she refused to recognize Artsakh when the rest of the council members here did. The following year, she got cut endorsing Azerbaijan as a democratic country whose inclusivity should be followed. She had to eat crow and meet with the Armenians. When they asked her to write a letter to Council General and Los Angeles to release the POWs, she said the city manager, the city attorney told her and the city council members to stay out of the international affairs and just stay local. But I hear we are being international again. Look, she can't be pro-Isabaijani and pro-Turkish and anti-Iran. They're all the same. They're all the same times regimes. She's lying to you. She wants your vote. And she's going to take your vote. And she's going to lie to you too. You should not rely on her. She's not a friend of your community. She is using you. She refused to recognize Armenians, to stand with Armenians. And she's standing with you. Why? It's the only thing she wants her vote. Once she gets it, she's going to sell you out too. She's a lion racist and 5.4 proofs in. Because she refused to stay with the Armenians. She's not human. She's inhumane. Thank you very much. And that is all mayor. Thank you. We will now hear any additional public comments on matters not on the City Council agenda. For those attending in person who would like to speak, please submit your name into the speaker key ask located next to the city clerk members of the public who are participating via zoom in which to speak may raise their hand electronically any member of the public may address the city council on items within the city councils subject matter jurisdiction but which are not listed on this agenda during public comments however no action may be taken on matters that are not part of the posted agenda a city clerk will you please provide the number of requests submitted to speak on non-agentized items both in person and zoom. Thank you Madam Mayor. We have seven requests to speak. Okay. We will start with those in person. Each speaker shall have three minutes to speak and as a reminder request to speak submitted after the first speaker is called, she'll receive 90 seconds. When I call your name, please come down. Ishika Kavatturo, Alan Meyerson, Gil Nelson, Christine Nolan, and Steve Berger. I'll start with Ishika. Ishika not here? We'll move on to Ellen Morrison. Ellen Morrison not here. Gil Nelson. Thank you. My name is Gil Nelson. The recent elections for mayor and city council have once again illustrated the immediate need for election reform and the need for district elections in Irvine. Unlike other cities in Southern California like Los Angeles and even the small little city of Seal Beach. Our newly elected Mayor Farrakhan was elected to serve a new term with only 37.8% of the vote. Most cities have runoffs when the top vote getter receives less than 50%. Not in Irvine. Therefore, Farrakhan, if we had a runoff, Farrakhan and Branda Lynn would now be in a runoff, Farrakhan and Brandylin would now be in a runoff, like in Seal Beach, where they have two runoffs. And because two of the five candidates supported the same positions as Brandylin, most of us believe that Farrakhan would not be our new Mara come January and would have been defeated by at least 10 percentage points. Brandlin for mayor in 2024. We definitely need election reform in Irvine that requires a 50% majority to be elected mayor in our wonderful city. Point number two, the council needs to put district elections on the ballot for better representation and to help stop the hundreds of thousands of dollars that was spent by PACs like those from the Irvine company and five points is $375,000 that was funneled to a PAC illegally controlled by Marricons campaign manager. campaign manager. For the public information, the FBI is continuing to investigate Mayor Conn, Mike Carroll, and the Orange County Power Authority, and as late as last Friday, they were interviewing Irvine residents. Irvine residents. And the Fair Political Practices Commission has encouraged us, and I'm one of those us, to compile the 13 counts that they have identified of illegal coordination between Farrakhan's campaign. Thank you, your time is up. I respoke. Okay, okay, catch you next time. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Christine Nolan. Good evening Mayor Conn and council members. My name is Christine Nolan. I'm in over 30 year resident of the city of Irvine. I'm here tonight to personally thank Vice Chair Quo for his over 12 years of service with the city. His service includes being a councilman, a commissioner and member of a number of committees. Your work on the Dias and in the community, I feel has been very impressive. You've had a very positive influence in the city. It's been an honor for me to serve as your planning commissioner these past four years. I've thoroughly enjoyed my time on this commission. So thank you, Anthony, for your service. Thank you for your friendship, and I wish you well. Applause Steve Burger. Thank you. Thank you. Steve Berger. Good evening, Mayor Cohn. Vice Mayor Quill, Council Members, Mr. Aragon and Tammy Kim. My name is Steve Berger. I spoke to the council before. I've been a certain of mine residents since 1979. It's a little anticlimactic after all of the speakers on the agendaized items, but I come with a note of optimism for the next two years. The voters of Revine want a city council that is pro-resident and pro-veteran. They said that as much in the recent election. Irvine voters want affirmative and effective action on issues that affect Irvine, including but not limited to the Veterans Memorial Park at the Ordis site, at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine. On the asphalt plant, hazardous fumes in North Irvine, on district elections which were referred to by a previous speaker, Mr. Gold Nelson, and on the rectification of the disappointments and the failings of the Orange County Power Authority. Most importantly, Irvine voters want a City Council that is committed to the residents of Irvine and to true democracy in all procedures and all practices and actions of this Council. And we want allegiance not to special interests but to the residents. On democracy, it is my hope that all future meetings of the City Council will be like those that like we heard tonight. Democracy is messy, it's vocal, it's loud, but it's the way we do things in this country and it's not the way they do things in Iran. So thank God we are here in this country today speaking to this City Council and exercising democratic values that we enjoy in this country. For the next two years, this City Council at least should be committed and to show that it is pro-resident and pro-veter veteran in all respects. Thank you very much for your time this evening. Thank you. Applause. And our final speaker, Malika. Good evening. I'm here today to talk to you about the situation that is happening in Iran. Women, men and children are standing up for basic human rights. I'm going to stop you for a second. We're doing non-agentized items. So the agentized items were already spoken for. What I'll do is let's give you 90 seconds to say what you need to say. Okay. Okay. That's fine. Thank you. Agentisa is currently happening in Iran. It's a government against its own people. It's own government against its own people, its own armed citizens. They're standing up for humanity and we need to do our part to support them. Please support them. Thank you very much. We'll now consider public testimony by those participating via Zoom. City Clerk, are there any members wishing to speak? Thank you Madam Mayor. We have one request to speak from Eric Nishanian. Mr. Nishanian, you may unmute your mic. Thank you very much. Good evening Council Members, Mayor Khan. I want to talk about endorsements and associating with the racists, kind of like with FairCon does. You know, it's really interesting, Tammy Kim, that you are such an advocate against eradicating hate and Asian hate, and rather than endorsing either Mr. Moon or Ms. Lynn, both of Korean descent, you chose to endorse ferrican, a known racist, a known liar, a known backstabber. It doesn't say much about you, Miss Kim. Certainly we cannot look at you as being the moral compass or the city anymore. Someone that should be listened to when they talk about, when they point out who's hateful and who's not hateful. And the same can be said about the police union, the police association who decided to endorse Farrakhan. What's next? Are they going to endorse David Duke? Are they going to endorse those white naturalists that end up on our bridges every once in a while, hanging the flyers? How come it's okay for them to endorse a racist and to associate with racist and support racist? And then they want to turn around and tell us the citizens who we should associate with and what we should believe. The bottom line here is that this election proved one thing and one thing only, that Trump was right, you can win, you can be a leader in this country and be a racist fair con only Supports in bolsters that position With only 30,000 registered voters. She's the mayor of a city of 300,000 people We have a racism problem or vine. It's not a Islamophobia problem as she contended when she started running for for city council Using a Turkish a back-state mandated position to talk about Islamophobia and U.S. elections, no, there's racism in Irvine, certainly. I reported her to the hate portal, Irvine hate portal, before I ever spoke at one of these meetings. And I was right, she associates with genocide deniers, she still does, She really takes pictures beneath at a Turk with a known genocide denier in the city. And no one says anything. Not even you, Larry Aigren, who's not comfortable with Armenians, who tried to show that you support Armenians. You won't open your mouth. You know, Vice Mayor Quil, maybe if you had a backbone and you stood up for our minions, many people will think that you were worthy of a vote. Avi, easily, Ferris voters are not your voters. And you learned that the hard way. But you know what? It was a blessing, I think, that you're no longer going to be on city council because a hard rain is gonna to fall and maybe it'll miss you. Vice Mayor Quo, but a hard rain is going to fall. Believe me. Thank you. And that is all mayor. Thank you. City manager, she is there a report to be made this evening. No report this evening, Madam Mayor. Okay, I will now turn to my colleagues to see if they have any announcements that they would like to share as a reminder, announcements are limited to three minutes per member of the City Council. I don't see any. Oh, sorry, okay. Council Member Kim. I do. Thank you very much. First of all, thank you everyone for coming out and speaking. For 5.4 and 2.15, I really appreciate all the advocacy and appreciate the support for one another's issues. So thank you for that. I did want to make a couple of comments. I'd like to report that I was proud to represent the city of Irvine at the World Korean Business Conference, known as Hansang in South Korea. I was there with a delegation from the greater Irvine Chamber of Commerce as well as which included UCI and Orange County, Korean American Chamber of Commerce. And next year Hansung will actually take place in Orange County which makes the event that much more impactful. While there I visited LG Smart Manufacturing Centers. I also met with the CEO of Lotte Data Communications and talking to them about setting up their US headquarters here in Irvine. And so, and also the greater Irvine Chamber signed a partnership agreement with the City of Changwan's business chamber. Next, I'd also like to report that I applied to be a representative for the third Supervisual District opening for the Orange County Transportation Authority, which covers the cities of Irvine, Lake Forest, Mission V.A. Ho, Rancho Santa Margarita, Villa Park, and your Belinda. I'm pleased to report and share with you all that I was the only applicant who applied for the opening. Irvine has had no representation on the Orange County Transportation Authority for, I don't know, for many, many, many years, if ever. And I look forward to providing a strong voice on behalf of Irvine residents, especially as we deal with a congestion on San Canyon and Marine Way and the proposed maintenance facility that OCTA wants to put near the Travada neighborhoods. And I'm also looking to increase transportation routes to ease traffic congestion in the city. I'd like to thank the mayor in advance for her support on the December 1st at the C select committee where all the mayors of district 3 will vote. And being the only applicant is still need to go through a vote but since it's a weighted vote, Irvine's vote will be the only vote to count. That will count. So I look forward to that and reporting back on that. And then lastly, I would like to congratulate and take a moment to congratulate Larry Aigren, Mayor Farrakhan on their reelection and Kathleen Traceter. I look forward to continuing my partnership with my colleagues as we move forward to improving the quality of life for all of our residents, including our most vulnerable. But I would like to take one moment, I am so sorry I'm out of time, but I do want to give my heart felt gratitude to my colleague, Anthony Quo, for his many, many years of service. Working closely with him for the past several years, he is truly an encyclopedia and knows every nook and cranny of this city. He is chock full of knowledge, and I'm sure if you have any questions about Irvine, he'll be more than happy to answer them for you. Anthony, vice mayor, quote, I wish you all the best, and it's been such an honor serving with you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have a few announcements as well. So I invite the community to join us for a climate action and adaptation plan public workshop Tuesday December 6th at 6.15pm at Irvine City Hall. Staff will review the city's climate action and adaptation plan process, which will set ambitious but achievable emissions reduction targets for the city and lays out a pathway to achieving our climate goals. This is an opportunity to learn more about the community's greenhouse gas inventory and interactively engage with the city and community members around emissions reduction measures for additional information on the climate action and adaptation plan Visit city of Irvine dot org slash climate for questions or to RSVP for the event. Please email environmental programs at city of Irvine dot org programs at cityofurvine.org. Celebrate the holidays all winter long in Irvine. Great park has transformed into a winter escape featuring holiday themed events, displays and lights. Enjoy festive lights, photo ops and family activities during holidays at the park through January 1st. On Saturday, December 3rd, celebrate the season as no falls over the Irvine Civic Center and the community gathers for the annual holiday tree lighting ceremony. The event will be from 4 to 6.30 pm and will include visits with Santa Claus, live holiday music, and a winter themed train rail. The Irvine Animal Care Center will host its 16th annual home for the holiday's Pet Adoption Fair Sunday, December 11th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Home for the Holidays Pet Adoption Fair will be held outdoors at the Irvine Animal Care Center and will feature local pet rescue groups and pet related vendors along with hundreds of adoptable animals. Event admission is $5 per person, children 13 and younger are free. And be sure to get your letters to Santa. Use our Magic Online mailbox to send your letter by Monday December 12th, and get a reply as fast as reindeer's fly. Allow one week for responses to submit your letter, go to cityofvervine.org slash letters to Santa. For additional information on all of these events and more, visit cityofvervine.org slash special events. And lastly, I am not sure how late everyone will stay, but I want to thank all the speakers that showed up today. Thank you. Before we consider the consent calendar, city manager Chi, are there any additions or deletions to the agenda? Madam Mayor, there are two adjustments that we're requesting at the staff level. First consent calendar item 2.11. We're asking to pull that and defer till our next regular council meeting. Finance commission met earlier this week and had some proposed adjustments that we'd like to make. This time we're asking to withdraw that item. In addition, item 2.12. We related to track maps and orchard hills requesting that item be pulled to at the request of the developer. Thank you. So we will now convene to the adjourned regular joint meeting with the City of Irvine as successor agency to the dissolved Irvine redevelopment agency. It is 7.59 p.m. We will now hear public comments for the successor agency on agendized items. City clerk, please provide the number of requests submitted to speak on successor agency agendized items both in person and via zoom. There are no requests to speak. Okay. We will now hear any additional public comments on matters not on the successor agency agenda. Any member of the public may address the successor agency on items within the successor agency agenda. Any member of the public may address the successor agency on items within the successor agency's subject matter jurisdiction but which are not listed on this agenda during public comments. However, no action may be taken on matters that are not part of the posted agenda. City clerk, please provide the number of requests submitted to speak on this item both in person and via Zoom. There are no requests to speak. Okay. So, City Council and successor agency will now consider the consent calendars which consist of items numbers 2.1 through 2.10, 2.11, 2.13 through 2 point 16 for City Council and item number 3.1 through 3.3 for the successor agency. All matters listed under the consent calendars are considered by the City Manager and Executive Director to be routine and all will be enacted by one roll call vote. There will be no discussion of these items unless members of the City Council or the successor agency request specific items to be removed from the consent calendars for separate discussion. Do any council members, board members wish to remove any items for separate discussion? I'd like to pull 2.4. 2.4. Thank you. And I would like to go sorry go ahead 2.13 please 2.13 yes Okay, and I would like to pull 2.10 and 2.15 Okay with that do we have a motion for the remainder of the balance? I'll move the balance Thank you all second a city clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote? Councilmember board member Agrin. Yes. Councillor Member Board Member Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Vice Chairman Quo. Yes. Mayor Chair Roman Khan. Yes. Carries Ford is zero of the members present. Okay, we'll start with item 2.4 and I believe that's with Councillor Member Kim. Yes, thank you. I pulled off 2.4 because what this is in regards to is moving the council meeting from Tuesday to Wednesday on February 15th. I think it would, it's only fair for the council members as well as the residents who are expecting council meetings to be held on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month if we could keep that level of consistency. So that would be my suggestion and we can either have a discussion or I'm happy to make a motion to put the meeting back on Tuesday, February 14th. If that's emotional seconded. Thank you. Okay. City Clerk, will you please conduct a roll call vote? Just if I could, just for clarification, that includes though the other changes on the calendar. So we would cancel the first meeting in August and the second meeting in December. Yes. Thank you. Only we're only talking about that one two, that one specific Tuesday moving to Wednesday from December 14th to 15th. We're putting it back to the 14th. Great, thank you. Councilmember Aigren. Yes. Councilmember Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Cuo. Yes. Mayor Con. Yes. Carries Ford is zero of the members present. Thank you. Next is item 2.10. And I just had a comment on this item for our staff. I know about a year ago, I along with then interim city manager, Marciava, and Commander Klug, met with representatives from the city of Tustin, and we had several discussions on a possible shared opportunity for the emergency shelter with services. If we can pick up that conversation again and possibly move that forward, I think it's important for us to work regionally with our neighboring cities to help with the homeless issue. And so my only request is that we initiate those conversations once again. And with that I'll move the item forward. Second. Thank you. City Clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote. Councilmember Aigren. Yes. Councilmember Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Cuo. Yes. Mayor Conn. Yes. Carries Ford is zero of the members present. Thank you. Next is item 2.13 and I'll turn it over to Vice Mayor Cuo. Thank you just briefly since I get to do this now. I want to take a brief moment to move the item, but also to recognize that this is a direct result of the mayor's leadership and visiting with crossing guards throughout our community. I was very grateful to have that invitation extended to me as well, specifically in this area between the colonyony and College Park. We met with a crossing guard observed the traffic patterns in the morning for some of the school children crossing. And so I just wanted to highlight that. And one, thank you for bringing this forward and to extending the invitation to me to a variety of visits throughout town. We met with quite a number of different crossing guards including crossing there that crossed me when I was a why I probably crossed term as a child. So with that I would like to move item 2.13 the recommended action. Second. City Clerk please connect the roll call vote. Councilmember Aigren. Yes. Councilmember Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Cuo. Yes. Mayor Con. Yes. Currie's Sport is Zero of the members present. Thank you. Item 2.15, I pulled only because I want to specify that safety is definitely a priority for us. And the only change I have for this ordinance is that it includes all hotels union or not. Because if we're talking about protection for workers, it should be across the board. I want each and every worker to be protected. And with that change, I move the item. Point of order. Yes. If I have a, oh, I apologize. I'm not quite sure. This is second reading, which has to be identical to first reading. Are you offering an amendment to some kind? Just the addition that all hotels being included. Is there change? Is it not? Yeah, if there is any change to the way that the ordinance is drafted given that it is second reading, was conferring with the City Attorney's Office, we would have to reintroduce the item on first reading tonight. There are potential ways to make that adjustment. We can certainly explore those if that's the desire of the council. But if there is that change in conferring with the Attorney's Office that does appear to be the need to reintroduce the item then on first reading tonight. We are, but what? That is not in our practice. That is not in our practice in the past. I'm just stating that it hasn't been part of our practice. Yeah, absolutely. If there's a substantive change at the second reading, what effectively happens is you have a new first reading tonight. Who defies substantive. I'm sorry. Who makes the determination on if they're substantive. If it's really anything more than just a clerical change. And so you would have to have a new second reading on another council agenda. So how would we then include all hotels and all workers in our city for this ordinance. It would require an amendment. I'm looking at the ordinance right now. I believe it's section 3.6-108. That might have to be changed. There might be some other provisions. We could bring that back if that's your intent to have a new first reading. We would bring it back then. Presume in December, January with for a new second reading. I don't want to delay it anymore, but I also think that protecting everyone across the board is also very important. I'm not comfortable leaving a few people out, just to take care of a few of the workers. We want to make sure that when we say we are fighting for security for our workers, we're doing it for each and every one of them and I think that's very great So Sorry, I'm in the queue next if I can leave it up to my council colleagues I would say that we we make this change so that we are protecting everyone and not leaving anyone out. That would be my motion. Councillor Member Qing. Point of order. Sorry, please. I'm sorry. We're not having a discussion here. I'm sorry. I'm going to ask you to stop. So this would be a material change to the ordinance. This was having union employees not subject to this is because they already have a collective bargaining agreements and the city attorney very eloquently better than I could express the reasons why they can have much stronger collective bargaining and what we do not want to do with the ordinance is we do not want to stifle labor and the workers from doing what they need to do, which could inadvertently stifle their collective bargaining. So I would respectfully ask that we keep the ordinance intact and pass it on second reading motion. All right. City clerk. Let me just ask what the motion is. To pass as is. To pass as is. That was your motion. No, she made another motion, I think. Okay. Okay. Then I make a motion to. Well, point of order. Mayor made a motion. There was not a call or maybe there was a call for a second and now council member Kim has made a motion. Supercedurally what, what are you? So proceed to leave, there was in a second then her motion stands with your second? no, I'm seconding your motion Or you're seconding my motion. Okay. Well, I'll withdraw my motion. Okay, okay So I've moved that we ask the the second reading of the ordinance as is I'll second that Councilmember Adrian I was just going to speak in support of that I'm supportive of it. And with the adoption on second reading, as I understand it, it would become operational 30 days from now. Is that correct? That's correct. All right. City Clerk, will you please conduct the roll call vote? Council Member Agrin. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Cuo. No. Mayor Conn. Yes. Carries 3 to 1 of the members present. Vice Mayor Cuo, go to 9. Thank you. Is there a motion to adjourn the regular joint meeting with the successor agents? So moved. Thank you, City Clerk. Please provide a roll call vote. Councilmember director Agrin. Yes. Councilmember director Kim. Yes. Member Director Agrin. Yes. Council Member Director Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Director Quo. Yes. Mayor Chairwoman Con. Yes. Carries for to zero of the members present. Thank you. The adjourned regular city council meeting is now reconvened. It's 813 PM. We will now consider public hearing item number 4.1 and I declare public hearing opened. Mayor. Yes. Could I just offer a suggestion? Yes. If we could take 5.4. Yes. Thank you. Okay. We will now consider Council of Business Item Number 5.4. Will the City Clerk please read the title of the item? Consideration of a request by Maricon and Vice-Maricone to support a resolution condemning the actions of the government of Iran. This item was agendized between myself and Vice-Maricone and I'll turn it over to Vice-Maricone to start off and then I have a few opening remarks as well. Thank you so much mayor. This is an issue that has certainly reached international proportions and I don't know that it was Council member Agrin who coined the phrase but he certainly lived it during his previous terms on the the council to act locally. Thank you. Being locally act globally. And so this is something that's important. I do want to take a brief moment to recognize Cameron Mabood from Cal State Fullerton and you heard from her earlier. My friend, Heney Abraham, working with my office, working with the mayor's office to draft language, that really spoke to the issues going on. Some time ago, I was asked, how do you best be an ally to a group? And I answered, well, you have to ask them how they want to be supported. And so we didn't just write this resolution with what we knew. We went to the community to bring forward points that they felt were important. To read through the news reports that the IOTOla is saying that the riots are fake and that this is nothing but something that's just made up. That's wrong. We stand with our community here in Irvine and Orange County. We stand with our friends on the other side of the world. This is really an important issue when we talk about freedom. We heard from so many speakers before where you couldn't leave your home with nail policy, your hair done a certain way. I mean, those are fundamental components to being a global citizen. Even in the resolution, which I won't read through it, you find that earlier this year, two of our members of Orange County's congressional delegation are own Congresswoman Katie Porter and the neighboring Congresswoman Young Kim, a Democrat and a Republican, a co-sponsored House resolution 1397. This is something, and someone also earlier pointed out, it's not a Republican thing. It's not a Democrat thing. It's being a good person, being a human being. So I'm so grateful, similar to Congresswoman Kim and Congresswoman Porter, that we have an opportunity, myself and the mayor to bring forward this bipartisan resolution in support of our community and in support of our Persian family. So thank you. Thank you. And it's been over two months and all we see is brutal killing after brutal killing. And now not only are we seeing women, we're seeing children being killed, we're seeing university students being imprisoned and attacks on the Kurdish community. This is a government that has killed over 60 children, This is a government that has killed over 60 children, over 419 protesters, and arrested more than 17,000 individuals. Irvine being one of those cities with the largest Iranian-American communities, and the protest that we've seen here, day after day, week after week, it's the persistence of the community that we are seeing right now, of them saying, stop this brutality. And this isn't a conflict between nations. This is a humanitarian issue where people are not being given their rights. And for us here today, I know we're a local jurisdiction, we don't have federal authority, but what we can do is stand with our community members. And this is exactly what we're doing with this resolution. And for those of you that haven't read the resolution, I'd just like to highlight what's in it. What it's asking is today that the city of Irvinds stand with this Iranian-American community members, particularly Iranian-American women as their relatives and associates are suffering through the current human rights and justices in Iran. That the city of Irvine supports the passage of House Resolution 1397, which we thank Congresswoman Porter and Kim to condemn the government of Iran. That the city of Irvine advocates for a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the atrocities being committed in Iran. That the city of Irvine puts pressure on the United Nations special repertoire on violence against women and girls to create a report on the crisis in Iran, that the city of Irvine urges the United Nations member states to heed the call of Iranian women and remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Commission on the status of women. That the city of Irvine calls upon the United States government to provide all possible infrastructure supporting free internet access for the people in Iran. And that the city of Irvine condemns the violent acts that are being perpetrated against the Iranian people. That's what we're asking for today. And we do that in solidarity with our community. And we do that in hopes that other cities throughout Orange County will adopt the same resolution. So we send a very strong unified message to our federal government that action needs to be taken. And with that I'm going to turn it over to my council colleagues. If they have any comments, council member Aiglin. Thank you, Mayor. Of course, well, first I want to thank you and Vice Mayor Quo for putting this forward. And of course, I'll be voting for it when the appropriate motion is introduced. It's always a little bit of a quandary to figure how can we, in a city, influence the course of events on the other side of the world. And often the response is, well, we can't, so we shouldn't try and we should not regard this as a municipal issue. But I think particularly in a city like our own, which is such a remarkable international crossroad city, where people from all over the world with a history and a heritage from all the corners of the world have decided to live here in the city of Irvine and have decided they want to live in a community that not only extends all human and civil rights to the people who live here, but is also concerned that others throughout the United States and around the world are able to enjoy those rights and be free of the kind of oppression, which is all to apparent by corrupt regimes, brutal regimes throughout the world. So I think you hit all the right notes in this resolution in this motion that will be in front of us in a moment. I think some thoughts should be given, however, I wouldn't change anything in the motion or in the resolution, but I think Mayor, I would ask you and our entire council and the next council to explore ways that we can link up in solidarity with other cities through the U. Through organizations to which we belong, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities, or indeed start our own network of cities committed to human rights not only in our own city, but elsewhere. I sometimes lament all the protesting that we do, which over time tends to dissipate because we feel alone, and we feel that we're not making a real impact. But I think in solidarity with other cities, and this can all be done informally, of course, through your own networks and mayors across the country. I think in joining with others after the adoption of this, we may feel that we are doing more because we are doing more. And that ultimately we will be part of the struggle that effectively brings about the long overdue change in Iran and I must say in other countries as well, living under brutal regimes. I'm looking forward to voting. Yes, and I offer my own efforts. Should you choose to invite me to join with you and try to pursue solidarity with other cities? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Kim. Thank you. Thank you to Mayor and Vice Mayor for bringing this up. I would also like to echo what Council member Agrin has said, I do plan on supporting this. I want to ensure that whatever we do, we're not just doing performative measures here by just having like a resolution that doesn't do anything, but I feel if we're going to do something that we help become part of the change. And again, we're, you know, there's only so much we can really bring something meaningful and by linking up with others and starting that path. So I just wanna make sure that we don't just issue this resolution and that it just ends here. That we can find a way and find a means to make this very meaningful and impactful and bring others on board as well. So again, thank you for bringing this up. I don't think we made a motion yet. So I'd like to move that we adopt the resolution. Second. Thank you. City Clerk, will you please conduct a roll call vote? motion yet so I'd like to move that we adopt the resolution second thank you city clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote counts member Agrin yes counts member Kim yes nice mayor Thank you. Thank you. We will now consider public hearing item number 4.1 and I will declare the public hearing opened. Will the city clerk please read the title of the item? Building and fire coded option. For those attending in person who would like to speak please submit your name into the speaker key ask. Those participating via zoom may raise their hand electronically and will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report. Thank you. All right. Good evening, Mayor Con. Council members. I'm Jesse Cardoza, chief building official with me as Tim Garek, director of community development. Thank you for the opportunity to present this evening a resolution and ordinance allowing us to adopt and amend the 2022 California Building Code standards. The California Building Code establishes minimum standards for design and construction of buildings and facilities in California. Stay law mandates that we enforce these regulations along with reasonable necessary local amendments to promote public health and safety by ensuring buildings and facilities are safe, stable, accessible, energy efficient, and sustainable. The California Building Code Standard is composed of multiple parts including the building residential, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and fire codes, all based on model codes published by national code writing agencies, and the energy and green building codes written in published by state agencies specifically for use in California. These codes are updated and adopted on a three-year cycle. While most regulations within these codes are carried forward unchanged from cycle to cycle, there are often additions or revisions from one cycle to the next. A few noteworthy changes in the upcoming code aimed at improving fire and life safety, structural stability, and disabled access include new regulations for escape or puzzle rooms, mass timber construction, shipping containers repurposed for use as buildings or structures, and aging in place and fall prevention in single family dwellings. These new regulations will promote health and safety for project types that the current code doesn't address explicitly. With regards to sustainability, the new code includes many increased requirements intended to improve building energy efficiency through enhanced building envelope features, more efficient mechanical ventilation systems, and more efficient lighting controls to name a few. Perhaps the most significant sustainability changes coming with the new code though are those concerned with building electrification. While actual electrification is not mandatory under the 2022 code, the new provisions set the groundwork for such a requirement for new single family residential construction in two ways. First, by using an all-electric building as the basis for the energy efficiency compliance. In other words, for a new single-family residential building to comply with the energy code, it will be required to achieve the same level of energy efficiency as a building with an electric water heating system, an energy storage system, and all electric appliances. The second way, if a developer chooses not to install these electric features at the time of construction, the building is required to become energy storage system and electric appliance ready to facilitate the future installation of these features. Similar to the case for new single family residential construction, new multi-family residential buildings will be based on an all electric model building and will be required to be electric appliance ready as well. In addition to that multi-family residential buildings will be required to provide electric vehicle charging stations for 5% of on site parking in addition to the already required EV parking, EV ready parking stalls. New non-residential buildings follow suit with all electrification base model as well as the requirement for a portion of new on-site parking to be equipped with electrical vehicle charging stations. So once the state has completed its adoption and amendment process, local jurisdictions undergo a similar process. For the city of Irvine, we adopted and amend the California Building Standards Code by Ordnance, which is codified in Title V Division IX of the Revime Municipal Code. Our amendments to the code are mostly administrative, that is, rules that govern the way we enforce the codes, with a few technical changes to enhance public safety beyond the minimum state requirements, like increased requirements for fire sprinklers or roof coverings. For the coming code cycle, staff proposes the following administrative amendments, which would be either new or revised from previous codes. Number one, the period to begin construction after a permit is issued would be extended 12 months for all project types. Number two, the expiration period for permit applications and permits meant to remedy code enforcement cases would be shortened to 30 days with extensions available. And number three, the period within which your residential remodel must be completed is set at 18 months for all types of all remodel projects. A number of amendments are proposed for the fire code as recommended by our partner agency OCFA. Most are clarifications or reorganizations of existing provisions in the California fire code with no significant new amendments. Similarly, numerous amendments are proposed for the Irvine Security Code as recommended by our Public Safety Consultant. Again, most are intended to clarify or clean up existing code provisions. We have representatives from OCFA with us tonight, if there are questions specific to their code amendments. And I don't know if we have our Public Safety Consultant here, but if there are questions, we could certainly reach out to them and get those answered. The 2022 California Building Code Standard is effective January 1st, 2023. The ordinance and resolution for your consideration allow us to adopt state codes and enforce to propose city amendments. City staff, along with representatives from OCFA and public safety, presented the city's proposed amendments to interested stakeholders on November 3rd, with well over 70 architects, engineers, developers, contractors, and project managers in attendance. There were some questions asked and answered at that time. No objections were raised at that outreach or since. So staff's recommendation is to adopt the resolution and introduce the ordinance for first reading. And this brings us to the end of the presentation. Happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you so much. I'll turn to my colleagues to see if they have any questions or comments starting with Councilmember Aiglin. Thank you, Mayor. Just as a matter of process, is there a reason that the Planning Commission doesn't take a look at this before it comes to us. Thank you, Councillor Agrand. Typically the Planning Commission is their purview is over zoning ordinance standards. Planning issues, building code are more of life safety issues that the Planning Commission typically doesn't get involved in. Historically, we have not presented the Building Code update to the Planning Commission. It's certainly something we could do if that's the City Council's interest. Yeah, I would suggest you listed the outreach. I think reaching out to the Planning Commission might make some sense in the future. I'm not suggesting this be sent back or anything of that sort. But these are important matters and there might be some useful suggestions coming out of the planning commission, taking a look at it, probably worth the brain damage associated with that kind of review. Okay? Thank you. Next time, perhaps. Thank you. Please. Council member Kim. Oh, sorry. I would just like to second that as well. I know that's not a motion, but I would agree like to second that as well. I know that's not a motion, but I would agree with that sentiment. I was thinking the exact same thing to have, at least in my case, like a technical expert that I have as a planning commissioner take a look at this before it comes would be great. I don't plan on sending it back, but I think for next time, we'd like to see something like this go there first. Great. Thank you. I don't see any other comments or questions, so we will now consider public testimony. City Clerk, please provide the number of requests submitted to speak on this item both in person and be a zoom. There are no requests to speak. Okay. Now that the public testimony has concluded is there a motion to close the public hearing? A move to close the public hearing. Second. Thank you. City clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote? Council Member Aigren. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Place Mayor Quin. Yes. Councillor Agrin. Yes. Councillor Kim. Yes. Councillor Asemer-Qual. Yes. Councillor Asemer-Qual. Yes. Councillor Asemer-Qual. Yes. Councillor Asemer-Qual. Yes. Councillor Asemer-Qual. Yes. Councillor Asemer-Qual. Yes. Councillor A and local conditions that require certain modifications and changes to the California Building Standards codes, reasonably necessary for building occupancies in the city of Irvine and move to introduce for first reading and read by title only an ordinance of the city council of the city of Irvine, California, amending chapters one, two, three, four, and five of Division nine of Title five of the Irvine Municipal Code pertaining to building and fire code regulations. Second. Thank you. City Clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote? Council Member Aigren. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Quail. Yes. Mayor Con. Yes. Carries 4 to 0 over the members present. Thank you. Thank you. We'll now consider public hearing item number 4.2 and I will declare the public hearing opened. Will the city clerk please read the title of the item. Development agreement status report. And for those attending in person who would like to speak, please submit your name into the speaker. Key ask. Those participating via Zoom may raise their hand electronically. Will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report. Good evening, Mayor Conn and members of the City Council. I am Diane Vu, senior planner with the Community Development Department. With me today is David Law Principal Planner. The item before you tonight is a Development Agreement status update. A development agreement is a contract between two parties. In this case, the city and a private developer establishing agreement over the development of a property. Per section 1-2-1 of the zoning ordinance, any city or county may enter to a development agreement with any persons having legal or equitable interest in real property for the development of the property. Some of the common terms requested by a developer are vesting rights to developer property, vesting tentative track maps that do not expire until the development agreement expires, and our agreements that secures the development fees. Some typical benefits of the development agreements to the city are establishing affordable housing terms, funding of infrastructure, dedication of parkland and open space, and formation of special assessment districts. There are eight active development agreements as listed on this slide that are subject to be reviewed and insured compliance with applicable terms and conditions per adopted city council resolution 82-68. A notice of review was provided to the city property owners with active development agreements as shown on this map. Staff has compared the monitoring report as provided by the responsible parties to the development grant obligations and has determined that all active development agreements are in compliance with the applicable provisions set forth in the City Council adopted resolution 82-68. Staff is able to provide the City Council with any additional detail on the development agreements. This concludes a staff's presentation. That's available to respond to any questions at this time. Thank you. Thank you. Again, I'll turn it over to my colleagues. Any questions or comments? I don't see any here. If not, then we'll move on to public testimony. City clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item? No, Madam Mayor. Now that the public testimony has concluded, is there a motion to close the public hearings? So moved. Second. Thank you. City clerk, will you please conduct a roll call vote? Councillor Agrin. Yes. member Kim. Yes, vice mayor Quill yes, Mayor con carries for to zero of the members present. Thank you. Is there a motion to move the item so moved Second, thank you city clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote council member Agrin? Yes, council member Kim. Yes, vice mayor Quill Yes, Mayor con yes carries for to zero McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. Councillor McLaren. Yes. I'm sorry. 19226 and a park plan associated with McGaw residential project located at 2.602 McGaw Avenue in planning area 36 Irvine business complex. Thank you. Staff is recommending that this item be continued to the meeting of January 10th. Is that correct city manager? Correct. The only action tonight is request that we continue the item to the formal hearing on January 10th. Okay. So is there a motion to continue the public hearing to January 10th, 23? Second. Okay. City Clerk, will you please conduct a roll call vote? Council Member Aigren. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Quail. Yes. Mayor Con. Yes. Carries Board is zero of the members present. Thank you. We will now consider a council business item number 5.1. Will the city clerk please read the title of the item? Fiscal year 2021-22 year end report for the general fund. And will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report. Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council. Mark Alvarado, interim finance director. the 21-22 staff is in the process of finishing up the year and audit and we will be bringing that report to the City Council at a subsequent council meeting. At this point what we are doing is taking a review of the year end activity for the general fund looking at the revenues, expenditures and determining where we are ending up the year. Fortunately, as we've been talking to the City Council during the year, it was a very good year economically in terms of our revenues. As you can see on this slide, overall our revenues exceeded our budget by 19 over 19 million dollars. The five key areas that we are looking at, obviously property tax and sales tax are the two biggest areas of revenues for the city's general fund. Our property tax. Revenue came in about 2% more than what we anticipated, which is very good. We normally budgeted between 4% or 5%. So to have that additional growth was excellent during the past fiscal year. That was almost $2 million over what we anticipated. The strongest area was our sales tax. Every quarter as our sales tax money was coming in. We were continually getting better and better results than what even we had anticipated working with our consultants each quarter. We kept anticipating thinking that the revenues were going to be good. We kept hearing good things obviously with the pandemic starting to get behind us. People going back out shopping, eating our sales tax revenue continued to just be very, very strong. We were over $13 million above what we had anticipated. That's almost a 20% increase. Our hotel tax, again very strong again as people were coming out coming back into town, staying for coming and traveling to Orange County and specifically to Irvine. Almost about a 20% increase also in what over what we had anticipated. Our program and service fees a slight increase but was still still after coming back from a lot of again a lot of the program and services that we had to shut down in the prior fiscal year because of COVID a good rebound in that area and also our other other revenues were also increased over what we anticipated so overall a very very strong revenue side for the general fund in the part of the school year. On the expenditures side, the city came in over $11 million under budget. As you can see on this slide, the savings in our salaries and benefits was the largest category of our expenditure savings. Do primarily to unfilled budgeted positions. As you know, it's been a very tough labor market and we are continuing to put all of our resources into filling our vacancies. But the one positive of having vacancies is we do, we do see savings in that area. The other area of note is just contract services. These are expenditures that departments were anticipating, spending, but we're not able to. We definitely got caught a little bit with the supply change shortage there were definitely supplies and in goods and services that we were trying to be cured during the year but Could not you will see that at the end of the report when we talk about allocating some of the year in surplus some of this money we want to carry over Into the into a into the into the current fiscal year to make sure that we are able to have the monies to buy some of these goods and services. So overall, over $11 million saved on the expenditure side, which is also excellent news. This slide shows a quick recap of how we're getting to our $29.8 million surplus for the end of the fiscal year. You can see our revenues almost $228 million. Our transfers in over $11 million. Transfers in are the monies that we budget from other funds to come in to support the general fund services. The main bulk of this is the allocation of our overhead from other funds to pay for all the support that the staff that is budgeted in the general fund supports other departments. Our expenditure is a little bit less than $200,194 million. Our transfer is out again a little bit over $11 million. And again, these are support costs that the General Fund will then give to other funds to support their needs. The last piece to get to the $29.8 million surplus is using $3.7 million to fund the beginning of the year deficit. Really what that was at the end of 2021, we ended the fiscal year with a negative $3.7 million fund balance. So we're appropriating monies as part of the current year to cover that deficit. It's basically the first piece of any excess revenues to cover the deficit from the prior year. You put all those pieces together and we end the year with a $29.8 million surplus. What I want to do now is go through five areas that staff is recommending to allocate the $29.8 million for future uses. The first part is a little less than $12 million to go to our capital improvement projects reserve. As you have seen as staff has been bringing projects to the City Council for your consideration. Public Works projects, what we've all seen, the additional costs that we did anticipate when we first did engineer estimates, we first got estimates and we come back months later with actual costs, the increases in labor, in materials. And so we are experiencing that. We're using more monies from our reserves to pay for a project that we thought was X a few months ago, and that was X plus two because of the increased cost. So we're thinking it's prudent to take part of the allocations and put it in our reserve to hedge against future projects that with anticipated increases in costs going forward. The next allocation is $5 million to further reduce the city's unfunded pension liability. As you may recall, the City Council approved a plan in 2013 to start making additional payments to CalPERS to reduce the city's unfunded pension liability. Very good news. The city's funded ratio right now for the pension in CalPERS. The city is approximately 90% funded in both the city and both the safety and the miscellaneous plans. That is an excellent position to be in. Not many cities are in this position now to be up in this percentage range. Most cities are around 70, maybe 75%. So for the city of Irvine to be in this position and have the ability to make additional payments to continue to not only pay down the current balance but also to hedge against potentially future unfunded amounts that will potentially coming down the road. It's an excellent position to be in. So this $5 million will go toward another payment to CalPERS to continue to pay down the unfunded pension liability. The next allocation is approximately $6.3 million, which will go to continue to meet the City Council's goal of keeping a general fund reserve of 25%. Currently the City Council is at 22%, approximately a little over $50 million by making this allocation, the City Council will be able to have a reserve balance of approximately $57 million, which again is an excellent position to be in for the City to have this much money to have in case of unforeseen economic uncertainties, unforeseen economic uncertainties, unforeseen natural disasters, et cetera. So this is a very prudent step to making sure that the city of Irvine is always making sure that there's enough money in reserve. The city council gave direction to staff in previous discussions at previous council meetings regarding the potential reimbursement of the utility user's tax that businesses pay in the city of Irvine. The amount collected for fiscal year 21-22 was $4.7 million and as staff had mentioned a council about the potential and estimated large year in surplus, obviously we are talking about right now. Council gave direction to staff to implement a reimbursement program to refund the $4.7 million to businesses. Staff is preparing that process. We are getting ready to roll that out approximately January 1. And we will start notifying businesses and let them apply for a refund of their utility users' tax. the last allocation is a little bit less than $2 million, which is basically an allocation of some of the current year budgeted projects that departments were working on that we're not able to finish in the 21-22 fiscal year, not able to finish by June 30th of 22, to be able to basically reappropriate those funds and also some of the one time, or one time costs, one time purchases that they wanted to do that were budgeted, but we're not able to not only complete but also start. So we're looking to roll those monies over into the 22-23 budget. So departments can continue on with their operational needs. So in summary of these items, if you add them all up, there is the staff recommendation of allocating the $29.8 million of the general fund year in surplus. And with that, that concludes my staff report and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. I'll turn it over to my colleagues. Any questions or comments? I don't see any so I'm sorry councilmember Aigman. Yes mayor I'll try to be brief here. Thank you very much for a very clear and informative report. on the contingency reserve which over the years has gone from almost zero. It was at the turn of the century. It was about 5 percent, something of that sort. And successive councils have engaged in policies of building that from 5% to 10% from 10 to 15 or 20. And then some years ago, I think there was a policy instruction to endeavor to build that to 25%. I think those are all great policies. Historically, the problem I have is when the inevitable recession is upon us whether it's mild, moderate, or a very steep recession like the great recession of 2008 to 2011, whatever it may have been. There tends to be no policy, no coherent policy that I could discern to actually use those contingency reserves to make sure that we maintain jobs, maintain core services. We actually did apply such a formula for the great recession, the so-called bridge policy that I and others were very active in putting together. But subsequent to that, before that and subsequent to it, the contingency reserves were always almost looked at as kind of a lock box. for that and subsequent to it. The contingency reserves were always almost looked at as kind of a lock box. We never go to those. We started to talk about it as a rainy day fund. And then pointed to the obvious, it's raining. We better use the fund. That bridge policy was basically set out at $10 million a year to support services, support the continuation of jobs here at the city, not engage in layoffs, mass layoffs or otherwise. And it really got us through compared to other cities. It was tremendous. But I think we need to sort of think ahead and kind of lock in some policies that will be triggered to actually draw upon those contingency reserves at the right time. I don't think tonight or in the immediate future is the time to do that, but you know if the prevailing opinion out there that we're headed for a recession sometime next year maybe beginning in spring or so forth, we ought to have pretty clear policy in mind as to how we're going to use the contingency reserves, whether we're going to use them and how we're going to use them. And so I would just ask that you and the city managers, city management staff give that some thought and after the first of the year come back to us with some recommendations in those regards. Absolutely. We can put together different scenarios where it would be prudent for the City Council to look at using reserves whether a recession hits and a certain percentage of our revenues have dropped more than 10% or something like that. We can definitely put those triggers in, but then again, leave it up to the City Council to see if we want to make those hard and fast triggers or have the discussion of what it is. I will say something that's funny when you mention about the contingency and sometimes you feel like it's a lock box. That is very common among cities. Whatever the contingency is that cities have, whether it's a small one, a big one, whatever the percentage is, most cities feel comfortable having it. But then when it's kind of time to maybe think about it, it's like, well, it's really not use it because it feels good having it. And let's go figure out how to cut here or do something else so we don't have to do it. So you're not alone in feeling that most cities feel like once we get that, we don't want to touch it and we'll go to find other places to go solve a short-term slump in X or something like that. So that is very common, but we can definitely come back with some scenarios to put into for half-counsel to take a look at when to use the contingency fund. Thank you, and I think you use the right word. If you could recommend or suggest some possible triggers and have us at least start thinking about it as a council. I'd appreciate it. Also of course have the Finance Commission think about it too. Thank you very much. You're welcome. I'll move the recommended action. Thank you all second. City clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote. Council member Aigren. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Crowe. Yes. Mayor Cohn. Yes. Carries 40 zero of the members present. Thank you. We will now consider a council business item number 5.2. Will the city clerk please read the title of the item. Approval of Irvine company land for affordable housing and revision of land dedication terms. Will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report. I'm here tonight with Tim Garrick, Director of Community Development to present to you a staff report on approval of the Irvine Company Land for Affordable Housing and Revision of Land Dedication Terms. and the company land for affordable housing and revision of land dedication terms. As background on this item, the planning area 39 development agreement, which was approved in 2006, and amended three times since then, included a master affordable housing plan between the city and the Irvine company for the provision of affordable housing. In addition to master affordable housing plan between the city and the Irvine company for the provision of affordable housing. In addition to preserving affordable housing throughout the city, the MAHP requires that the Irvine company donate 17 acres of land for affordable housing development to the city or an entity the city designates. The land must meet certain conditions, including being properly zoned, legally subdivided, graded, and served by adjacent infrastructure. They may be required the land be sized between one and a half and eight acres and included a schedule by which the land must be conveyed. The final deadline for the conveyances associated with this Master Affordable Housing Plan is December 31, 2022. This light provides an overview of the Irvine Company land donations associated with the Master Affordable Housing Plan. Three land donations, totaling 9.94 acres, have resulted in 252 affordable units at Allegra apartments, Sage Park homeownership, and Salerno apartments. For all three land donations the city conveyed the property to the Irvine community land trust and for the two rental properties the land trust partnered with developers Amcow and Chelsea Investment Corporation to build the units. Approximately seven acres remain outstanding. Irvine Company proposes the next land dedication be a four acre site located at Sien Canyon and Great Parklevard adjacent and adjacent to a property that the Irvine company plans to develop as a market rate residential. As you can see in this aerial view, it's a ten acre site of which four acres, there's the red outline there, would be dedicated to the Irvine community land trust for affordable housing development. the city is located to the Irvine Camille and Trust for affordable housing development. The property is not yet zoned for residential and the infrastructure is not in place. Both conditions of the transfer. The location of the final three acre obligation is still to be determined. In order to move forward with this land dedication, the city will need to amend the MHP. The amendments before you tonight include approving the location of the foreacre site and extending the deadline to meet the transfer condition requirements such as entitlements and infrastructure to no later than the end of next year. The MHP also requires that the Irvine company in the city establish a schedule by which the city will be able to such as entitlements and infrastructure to no later than the end of next year. The MHPMM also requires that the Irvine company in the city establish a schedule by which these conditions will be met. For the final three acres because the city and Irvine company have not been able to mutually agree on a suitable three acre site, the MHPMM extends the deadline by six months and allows the city manager to extend another six months if the Irvine company is negotiating in good faith. In regard to the disposition of the foreacre site, the city has historically transferred land associated with this development agreement to the Irvine community land trust. To expedite the development of affordable housing, Irvine Company could transfer the land directly to the Irvine Community Land Trust once the property conditions are met. Additionally, Irvine Company has agreed to provide the land trust with legal site control. Should that be needed in advance of the transfer date for the purposes of competitive financing? The recommended actions before you this evening include approving the location of the for-acre site as meeting a portion of the Irvine company's outstanding 7-acre obligation, approving an amendment to the amended and restated Master Affordable Housing Plan for the transfer of this property and extending the deadline by which the property and the three acre property are conveyed Designating the Irvine community land trust is a future fee title owner of the for acre San Canyon site And authorizing the city manager to enter into any agreements associated with site control or direct transfer title from Irvine company to the land trust of the four acres. This concludes my presentation. Director Garrick and myself are available for questions. The Irvine company is also an attendance this evening. In case you have questions for them. Thank you. Before I turn it over to my colleague, just a question, when Mr. Sturias was here earlier, he spoke of some additional items that he wanted included. I'm not aware of those items are you able to share what those items were? Sure. The items that the land trust has mentioned were that the first item was that they would like council to consider that the remaining three acres be designated to the Irvine community land trust. So that is one in advance of actually identifying those three acres. We will still have to bring that three acre location back to council at some point for your approval. And the second item was concurrent processing of the Irvine company applications with the land trust applications to entitle this site. So Irvine company is going through an entitlement process right now on that four acre site or the larger 10 acre site So the goal would be to collaboratively work through that process together so that it you get economies of skill and and it expedites the process somewhat We actually began that process last week with a meeting with the Irvine company. They came in and look at the The the land trust came in reviewed. We sent the The land trust came in, reviewed, we sent the site plans to land trust in advance and we facilitated a meeting between the land trust and ICT. Once ICT determines what they want to do on the for-acre site and submits a site plan, the Irvine company would like them to go concurrently. It's easier for everybody. So that's already a state of goal between all three parties. The land trust, the Irvine company, and the city. The land trust just has a little bit of catch up to do in terms of figuring out what they want to do with their site. Okay, thank you. And who's responsible for building the sidewalk along Great Park Boulevard? Because there is an aside sidewalk there. Ultimately, it's typically the adjacent development. So it's something that could be talked about. It would normally be the land trust, but we could certainly include that as part of the discussions if there was an interest in finding that a separate way. Thank you. I'll go ahead and turn it over to Councillor Member Kim. Thank you. I'll go ahead and turn it over to council member Kim. Thank you. So in addition to the recommended items, I'm sorry, the staff's recommended items to ensure that there's concurrent processing with the land trust and Irvine company. Does that have to be, is that a separate motion? Whether or not it's concurrent really is dependent on when the land trust is able to submit their site plans as a part of the process, but we are working with them to move that forward. So it really depends on the submittals. And I don't think it needs to be a separate motion. We understand that interest, and it's an interest of staff as well, so we would just move forward. Once we get that application from the land trust, we would just move it concurrently with the Irvine company's applications. Okay. with the airline company's applications. Okay, and I do have a couple of specific questions for the Irvine company, Jeff. It showed time you've been waiting for a long time, I know. So I have just a couple of clarifying questions. And I just wanna make sure that we're on the same page So I have just a couple of clarifying questions and I just want to make sure that we're on the same page with this. Because I believe that there are some height restrictions. So can we talk through that? I think it's a two-story height restriction and I think if we're gonna have any type of affordable housing project We'd like to see that restriction got At a mayor members of the council Jeff Davis and behalf the rewind company That is a zoning requirement currently in place however as a part the application, the Tim referenced in terms of our entitlement actions, we can actually propose and then you all consider the leave of each team at that height. We, it's only in one particular area and it was put in at the time when there was uncertainty as to what the development's gonna be. Certainly as we go through the process now and can more define what's gonna be there, I think everything will fit. But that would certainly be part of our program moving forward. I'd also like to add that as a part of the concurrent processing we have, as part of this program, all that required offered to help and process the master plan with the land trust. So we'll be actually meeting with them, providing opportunity to get their input, and then we can then mutually plan those edge treatments together and relative to the sidewalk Mayor Conn that actually the infrastructure outside would be installed by the Irvine company as a part of that overall program. Hopefully that answers your question. Yeah it does which then brings me to the next point of hoping that the Irvine company in the land trust can work together as it relates to the number of units per acre. Correct. We are looking actually, I know there's been different, potential options depending on whether it's a rental program or a four-sele program. We're assuming a higher number in our traffic analysis. And again, the action that you all take here this evening will help us solidify that as we then go through and prepare the traffic studies that are required for that entitlement. But we are aware that that more higher density, and I think we're at about 100 units on that 4-acre site for consideration right now. So that's kind of being baked into the overall program. Excellent. I mean, clearly the community has a huge need and a huge void. We're doing as much as we can when it comes to affordable housing. It's just, it's never enough. We had 6,000 applicants for the Sage Park project and so for only 62 units. And we want to be able to deliver. So thank you very much for this. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Agrin. Thank you, Mayor. Just to follow up on the points you raised and Councilmember Kim raised. Let me get some clarification. So as to this concurrent processing request, by mutual agreement, everybody wants to do that. Is that correct? Yes. Nobody's looking for us to put something down in writing, include something in a motion, give you direction. Everybody's rolling in the same direction on that. Everybody's rolling in the same direction. If there's an interest in confirming that through an additional motion, that would be fine too. Well, I don't have an interest in introducing one unless any of the parties feels it's needed. I see Mr. Historia's up there. Unless he feels the need, that one's taken care of. Is that correct? Okay. He's nodding. I didn't quite understand the three acres and wanting to designate it as directly going to the Irvine community land trust. What was that about? There's a, to meet the total obligation of seven acres, the four acres on the San Canyon, great purple lower, so I will meet for the additional three that site has not been decided yet. So I think the interest from the land trust is when that site is decided that that site also gets automatically transferred, that probably gets transferred to the land trust. Is there any problem that anybody has with that? I guess that would be a policy consideration that the council would have to discuss. All right. would be a policy consideration that the council would have to discuss. All right. Is Mr. Historia's or anybody looking for direction tonight in that regard or not? It's my understanding that the land trust letter that they submitted to the City Council was looking for that motion or direction. Yes. All right. Should we be considering that or is it something we can consider down the road a little bit? We need some guidance here. I mean, I'll... We will be back to council with the three-acre property. Just as we're here tonight to get council's blessing on the location of the three acre property. So we will be back. It's really up to council to decide whether or not you want to make an affirmative policy decision this evening as to whether or not the land trust would be designated in advance of identifying the actual three acre site. If we don't do that, well, Mr. Astorias and his associate's be crestfallen. Well, they do. You'll have to ask him. Can we not act on that tonight and leave that to another day? I would suggest we certainly could. The history of the donation from the Irvine company, the city's Consistently donated all of the land to the land trust. I think at the staff level we would expect that's likely what will Happen with the additional three acres but not having Identified the site and where the site might be. There may be other considerations that pop up. What if we could have a look identified the site and where the site might be. There may be other considerations that pop up. What if there's a larger site that we're looking at and a portion of that. I think it ultimately staff is very supportive of the land trust almost certainly will be working with them on the final three acres when we do identify it. I think that no recommendations been made on that tonight from staff currently, given that we're not aware of what that site looks like. Let's see if Mr. Historia says I'd have been saying con the thinking on that. Council Member again, thank you very much for the opportunity to answer your question. The reason the land trust brought that recommendation forward is simply because the report already states that the sand canyon site, the for acres, was going to be dedicated directly to the land trust and our thought process was the reasons in the staff report made sense. And if those reasons are good for the four acres, they should be good as well for the three acres. We understand that the site has not been identified yet, but the site is going to be residentially designated in the future, and we do have this wonderful working relationship. It's simply an affirmative statement that we want to continue that relationship and we would love to see that remaining three acres come to us so that we could begin planning for its development and ultimate opportunity of affordable housing for residents here in the community. Are we going to be crestfallen if you decide to delay? No, we won't be. But we did want you to know that we have an expressed interest in the remaining side. And we want you to know that we want to be your partner in the development of that property. Right. And I think everybody has mutual good feeling about our relationships and going forward. Can this just be handled by a side letter of some kind, kind of an understanding going forward? Or do we have to bake something right into a motion tonight? I think if the council gives us that direction to do a side letter understanding, we get handled in that way. How about that? Would that be all right? That would be perfect. Thank you. All right. You don't need direction in that regard. You'll just go ahead and do it. Doesn't have to be part of the motion, is that correct? I'm sure. OK. Thanks. The mayor raised one further point that we should be thinking of it. The mayor asked about the sidewalk. Great Park Boulevard, of course, is kind of the grand entrance to the Great Park. And from San Canyon all the way in, let's see, I'm trying to remember, what are the cross streets? There's great Park Boulevard. and what is it? Ridge Valley that is the shopping center. Mm-hmm. Correct. So, a concern in my mind is how's that going to look? That entrance 10 or 20 years from now. And although that's not part of what's in front of us here, the fact that there was a question raised about sidewalks, well I'm interested in sidewalks, landscaping, set back that the company will be instrumental in all of this reminds me that when we actually sat down, raised questions about what became the Jeffrey open space trail. What came out of that process was something really quite spectacular. I think everybody agrees. It's just quite amazing. And I hope it's a part of this and anything else, the shopping center, that somebody is giving some thought to what that grand entrance by automobile, on foot, trail system, and so forth. What will that look like in ten or twenty years? Again, I don't think we have to embed it into a motion here. But will you come back to us on that as soon as you can? Absolutely. And just to reassure you, Councillor Member Agrin and the rest of the Council, the great park development team is looking at entryway on Synology, on making sure that as you get into the great park you know that you're there. So there are a number of different design techniques being embedded in the plan and we'll certainly be happy to show this. Right, I know there was talk about double rows of trees, all kinds of wonderful ideas, or part of the Ken Smith plan, as I recall, but there have been many ideas to make that entryway something really, really quite special. So mindful of all those considerations, none of which apparently has to be embedded in a motion tonight. I'm satisfied this is good to go. Great, thank you. So if there's no further discussion, is there a motion for the item? I'd like to move the recommended action. Second. Thank you. City Clerk, will you please conduct a roll call vote? Council Member Eagren? Yes. Council Member Kim? Yes. Vice Mayor Quail. Yes. Mayor Con. Yes. Curious for to zero of the members present. Thank you. We will now consider Council of Business Item number 5.3. Will the City clerk please read the title of the item? Approval of the Irvine Recovery Plan grants review subcommittee funding recommendations. Will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report? Good evening Mayor Conn and members of the city council. I am Carrie Bullock, the neighbourhood services administrator, and with me tonight is Lisa Varian, housing manager. We are here tonight to provide you the Irvine Recovery Plan Grants program or IRP funding recommendations. This is an overview of our presentation which includes the background of the program, a description of the subcommittees scoring process, the funding recommendations of the subcommittee and alternative funding options. The IRP grant program is a $5 million city initiative offering grants in three categories, vulnerable populations, small businesses, and emerging nonprofits. The grant program prioritizes households and businesses that have experienced COVID-19 impacts. In June 2022, the City Council approved the design for the IRP program, including establishing a subcommittee to review the grant applications and recommend grant awards to City Council. Tonight we will present you those funding recommendations however the City Council has the authority to accept or modify the recommendations. Each grant category had a minimum and a maximum grant award. This slide shows the allocations for each grant category. Before we go to the subcommittee process and recommendation, we wanted to give you a broad overview of the types of programs recommended through this grant program. In the vulnerable populations category, the city received applications for adult day health care, domestic violence, eviction diversion, mental health services, legal services, homelessness and housing case management, out of school youth, senior programs and youth community services. In the small business assistance category the city received applications for operating grants to child care providers, outreach programs and grants for small businesses, and programs operated by cultural or ethnic chambers of commerce. In the emerging non-profits category, the city received applications for South Asian Senior Programs and Immigration Services. Our notice of funding availability or NOFA process began in August when the city issued the NOFA. By the deadline, the city had received 32 qualified applications. On September 7th, the grant applications were provided to the subcommittee for a review. September 14th was the first subcommittee meeting where each applicant was given the opportunity to make a presentation explaining their organization and or their plan for the grant funds. September 29th the subcommittee met again to discuss their funding recommendations for the City Council. For each grant application, each subcommittee member indicated whether they felt the application should be funded or not funded. Next the subcommittee member scores were averaged only for the applications that received a majority of the subcommittee members vote to fund. This methodology is the same as the one employed by the Community Services Commission for its annual HUD program allocations. Then Subcommittee met on September 29th to finalize their funding recommendations. From here I'm going to turn it over to Lisa for more information on the IRP Subcommittee. This is a summary of the Subcommittees recommendations. They recommended funding 28 of the 32 grant applications, adhering to the published NOFA guidelines that eligible applicants must be in operation for at least three years for this NOFA round. They recommended 16 out of 19 vulnerable populations applications, all eight of the small business grant applications, and two out of the five emerging nonprofits grant applications. They also recommended some reallocation of funds between categories and issuing a new NOFA for the emerging nonprofits for the balance of the IRP grant program funds. So this slide is a little more into the deep details, but they preliminary, preliminarily recommended funding levels in the small business category that left a remaining balance of almost $400,000. And so they reallocated 176,000 to vulnerable populations so that those grant programs could be further supported and they recommended that 214,000 be allocated to the emerging nonprofits category. Then that in NOFA would be reissued for that category that they would waive the requirement that nonprofits be in business for three years because a couple of the applicants had been disqualified and they felt that they had good programs that they really did want to see but they didn't want to go against the published NOFA guidelines. And they recommended reducing the minimum grant amount in this category to 30,000, whereas before it had been 16,000. So as a result, this is what the recommended allocations look like 2.376 million to vulnerable populations, 1.8 million to small businesses, and 514,000 to emerging nonprofits. And you can see the difference in the far right column. So, as a part of the staff process, we're required to provide counsel with alternatives. Both of these alternatives start with the idea that you would accept the subcommittee grant recommendations and then go into the alternative of what do you do with the excess funds. So in alternative one, you could proportionally redistribute the unspent funds to those grantees that the subcommittee selected instead of issuing a second NOFA for emerging nonprofits. Or after accepting the subcommittee's grant recommendations, you could maintain the original City Council adopted allocation of funds between categories, but what that does is it would decrease the amounts that the subcommittee recommended for vulnerable populations grants, increase the amounts for small businesses, and still have a remaining amount for emerging nonprofits. So in other words, there's two buckets of excess funds, depending on how you look at it, depending on how you look at it. And those funds can be allocated proportionally. They could be potentially divided amongst the council offices to be redistributed. Or staff could be directed to reconvene the subcommittee and request that the subcommittee redistribute the balance without a second Nova. So all these really kind of are with the idea that if a second Nova. So all these really kind of are with the idea that if a second Nova were not pursued, these are the potential alternatives. That concludes our presentation this evening. We are available to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. You know, this was an action that I proposed when we first received our ARPA funding. And I definitely want to thank the staff and the committee members who put in a lot of time and effort to get us this far. I think it's very important for us to support our most overlooked and vulnerable populations that usually do not qualify for grants like these or opportunities like these or don't know how to apply for funding which directly impacts our residents and businesses. But I think we may have missed the mark just a bit. Looking at this list, again, the idea was to get to those organizations, those businesses that normally don't get funding. And so even though I strongly support many of our organizations and the work they do, I know that people like Family Spoward, United Way, South County Outreach, and 2-1-0-0-C, they get either CDBG funds or they get other funds. And so there are those regulars that we see year after year getting funding. What I'm really interested in are those that normally don't get this type of funding. And so I'm going to ask that we remove funding for families forward, United Way, South County Outreach, and 211OC from the vulnerable populations, applications with a total of of 674,336 and opened this category up again for this remaining amount for our local organizations that are helping our diverse community members. Because I know I heard from a lot of our mental health organizations that are serving the various diverse communities that they did not understand that they were able to apply. And it was, it just didn't have the time. So I want to open that opportunity up for them because I think they are doing hands-on work in mental health directly in Irvine. And I would like to see them get the help that they need. I'm also going to ask that we reduce the charitable ventures from the small business applicants because I'm looking them up and they seem like there are multi-million dollar agency and convert their funding half to the vulnerable populations applicants and half to the emerging nonprofit applicants and reopen the NOFA for the emerging nonprofit applicants removing the three year in operation requirement. I think that's very important. I mean, an emerging nonprofit is an emerging nonprofit. If we're already asking them to be established in three-year, or have establishment of three years, it's not no longer an emerging nonprofit. So we want to make sure that that is taken care of. I do think we're headed in the right direction, but I want to make sure that we are really getting these funds into the hands of organizations and businesses that we intended this to go towards. This is a critical step in the money that we've set aside and I really hope that we do it right and we do it in a way that's equitable for our entire community. And so that would be my motion. I'll second. Thank you. And with that, I mean, we still have discussion. Bam. I'll hand that alternate over to Vice Mayor Cuo. Thank you, Mayor. My first question, I just want to clarify something from the presentation. So the original framework allocation that came from whom. That was a framework allocation that we brought to the Community services commission and the DEI committee twice to each of those and we brought the framework to City Council. And then the subcommittee basically said they were going to look at those allocations as recommendations. Right. right? So as a part of their process, averages are made based on how much they say yes or no and then they recommend an amount and each grantee is given a new amount. This is not how my family works but I would throw it out there that Thanksgiving's coming up. And you send someone to the grocery store and they say, spend $50 on a turkey and $25 on dessert. And $25 on salad and all these things. And someone comes home and they've spent $30 on a turkey and $150 on dessert. I just philosophically, I have a little bit of an issue $1.50 on a turkey and $150 on dessert. I just philosophically, I have a little bit of an issue with that. These are not, I mean, it's big money, it's 400 grand. But I have a little bit of an issue and we, whether it's the council or whoever is setting up parameters. I mean, these are like the kids in school who couldn't color in the lines. And so that's a concern I have because it is, when you say it's the subcommittees process, they are an arm of the council. They exist by virtue of council action. And so when we ask them to take on an assignment, I think that they're very, very well-intentioned, but that they didn't follow the assignment. So I just wanna put that out there as a philosophical statement. The second thought that I have, and I don't know how we can track this, I know this is something that we've talked about somewhat in the CDDBG process, is every community to my knowledge, every community, at least within our immediate area, and probably every city nationwide, got some sort of allocation of our funds. Some got more, some got less, we got more, we're a bigger city, we have more of a population. And so, and I'm not trying to highlight one and pick on the other, but there's really no other way to address this then. You've got groups like the Irvine Children's Fund, who they're those that they are serving live in Irvine. They're getting scholarships to go to preschools or not preschools, daycares in Irvine. And then you have other organizations that are, we don't know who they're serving or they're serving a wider group. I will use Team Kids as a good example. Team Kids, they're reaches very far. They have programs in many jurisdictions, many schools, I believe in many states, but it wouldn't be difficult for us to say to them, you know what, this proposed $133,750, we would really like you to keep those dollars in Irvine, because guess what? If you have a program in Tucson, Arizona, Tucson was getting our perfons too, they can give you funds. So that, to me, is very important. There are others that also large organizations that could probably do a good job of breaking out where those funds are spent. There are others that I don't know that that would be easily qualified. I mean, again, I'm not trying to pick on them intentionally. This no pun intended stands out to me. Stand up for kids, I believe, in the past has not gotten CDBG funds because the commission was concerned over what are you, you know, we're looking at your organization's programs and their activities. Where are the Ir's programs and their activities. Where are the Irvine programs and activities? If you're an agency or a nonprofit, where you're significantly serving a community outside of these city limits, that's worst supposed to be taken care of the residents for us. Again, other cities get those allocations. So that's a long dialogue to get to the question of, how are we ensuring that these dollars are going to benefit our city? Excellent question, thank you. So it is a requirement of the grant. We have a grant for our city. Excellent question. Thank you. So it is a requirement of the grant and it will be in the contract. It was in the NOFA and the application that the grant funds go specifically to support people who live in Irvine. And to be fair, we're working to work in Irvine. To be fair, I wanted to be a part of the community. I think it's a good idea to be a part of the community. And to be fair, we're working to work. To be fair, I wanted to be expanded to that. I believe it says Irvine residents or workers or someone who's unhoused. Absolutely. We want there to be a tie though of your work is outside of these city limits and we are now representing 50% of your revenue then how are you going to handle that. So those are my two thoughts. One was when we adopt a framework I think it's our expectation. I think it's a reasonable expectation that framework is followed. And it's very important to me that these are dollars that benefit those with ties to Irvine. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If I may I wanted to just also respond to the mayor's comment on the organizations we just didn't get the fourth organization we couldn't hear you. It was a families forward United Way South County outreach and 211 OC. 2-1-1-0-C. I did want to mention that part of the NOFA was to provide direct aid, direct financial aid to Irvine residents. And families forward, South County Outreach, in United Way, are all proposing rental assistance programs with direct aid, United Way's proposing an eviction diversion program. rental assistance programs with direct aid, United Ways Proposing and Eviction Divergent Program, South County Outreach is proposing a, just to give context, providing residents at or below 80% AMI with direct financial assistance for rent relief, utilities relief, childcare groceries, and transportation. And families forward is proposing funds to be used for housing support services through education, case management and direct financial aid. I do think some of these organizations see that the CDBGCV funds will be ending, sunsetting June next year and we're hoping to utilize some of these funds to take residents through the following year with rental assistance. Right, and I went through the applicants and what they were offering, and I totally understand that the work that they provide is very critical, but I also understand that these, this money was very, very specific for those that have not received funding from us before. And so I just want to reiterate that it's not a jab at any of these organizations. We totally appreciate all the work that they do and would love to support them in other ways. But this particular $5 million was very, very, it was very direct for a particular reason. And I want to make sure that we honor that reason and that we get to those organizations and make this equitable. That's really where I'm going with this. those organizations and make this equitable. That's really where I'm going with this. So I think that's the important part that I hope everyone understands. With that, I'll turn it over to Council Member Kim. Yeah. I have a couple of thoughts, I think to add to that, I would probably also add team kids to that as well as well as Irvine Adult Day Care Center because if we're basing it on that I think those two organizations in particular seems to receive constant funding from the city. Those are my thoughts. I'm not proposing. I do share your sentiments, Mayor. I actually, I really do. But I think at this point, because my question was, why is United Way getting receiving funding? I was very disturbed when I saw that. But once I understood what the program was for, I saw then the rationale. But with that being said, what I really wanted to talk about was if we're talking about vulnerable populations and organizations that hasn't actually traditionally received funding from the city of Irvine. I was actually extremely shocked to see that Easter Seals of Southern California was not recommended. I have no idea why they, an organization like that wouldn't be recommended, especially when you're talking about vulnerable populations. The work that they do in autism support is extremely well-known. They are a statewide non-profit a statewide nonprofit that's headquartered here in Irvine. And I don't know if the subcommittee realizes that Irvine has one of the highest populations of special needs anywhere in Orange County. Because of the strong support that we have from our school systems and from the city of Irvine Disability Services Group, Irvine has sort of become a drawing, a city where a lot of these families are drawn to because of the strong support. And it's even challenging when you have someone with autism and you need help navigating the regional centers because you have linguistic issues, language access issues, cultural competency issues, and Easter Seals has been working with Irvine families in helping them navigate through a lot of these issues. And when you talk about the pandemic and having to then readjust and re-pivot to telehealth options as well. I just, I'm not sure if the subcommittee really fully understood the unique needs that we have here in Irvine for autism and special needs. And what I would like to see is that we add $150,000 to Easter Seals in making sure that they do receive the funding they need to continue to serve the 185 Irvine residents on the within this special need spectrum and autism spectrum. And I don't know if that is a specific substitute motion or if that's just a friendly Friendly amendment Mayor if you'd like to add that As well to your motion, but this is a In absolute vulnerable population here in Irvine and I and I just wanted this opportunity to educate The council as well as those watching about this unique community here within Irvine and the work that I do my day job in the nonprofit sector has allowed me to really understand this in particular. So. I understand and I believe if I'm murmuring correctly from the committee, the reason the Easter Seals was not selected was because they have, because it's a little about over $100 million in their budget. And again, their focus was on the smaller organizations. Just like I said previously, we're looking at those newer organizations, smaller organizations, vulnerable organizations helping the vulnerable. And that's probably why they were not selected. So. Okay. So I guess are you saying we're just not going to fund anyone at this point. I mean, this is kind of went on for the past several months now. And these are communities and people that need help right now. And I guess we can debate this and argue this and have more council meetings passed by and more subcommittees passed by. But we have a lot of residents who are in need right now. And I think that at this point, who are in need right now. And I think that at this point, I mean, I would propose we just, we distribute what we can. I do share the sentiment as well, which is why when I saw United Way, it was like what? And that was my response to even Easter Seals as well, my initial response. But I do think that delaying this for several more months, I guess, what's the saying, putting the perfect ahead of the good? I don't think so because we're still approving a majority of the funds tonight. We're only taking out a few. So it's not making it perfect, but it's making it equitable. We're still tonight approving outside of the one, two, three, four, five organizations, we're approving the rest. And so I would recommend that if organizations are interested in the remaining funds that they reapply or we reopen their applications for review, and that can be done through this committee as well. Well, I don't think we have any organizations that have submitted dealing specifically with autism and special needs. Right. But again, there hasn't been. Again, the funding is for those that are struggling to get the job done. If an organization already has $100 million in their budget, I don't see them as an organization that's $100 million in their budget, I don't see them as an organization that's struggling to deliver the services. And that's where I'm differing right now. Again, I don't know, I haven't looked at the 990s where the $11 million or I mean, I think someone from Easterseals is here if we could invite him to share about. We can review the package. That's what I did, the staff report package. I spoke to the committee members and gotten these details, because I too was very interested in how they got to their selections and some things made sense and some things just didn't make sense. And so I'm not here to debate it, but I'm also open to Easter Seals being reviewed again by the committee to see with the remaining funds that are available. If they are, they can be provided the funding that they need. But I think at this point, we want to get the money that is in front of us out to those organizations and businesses that are in need. So with that I'm going to turn it over to Councilmember Agrin. Thank you, Mayor. I agree with so many of the sentiments that have been expressed here. And yet, I guess I'm having a little bit of trouble with the process. We have people in the audience here, community services commissioners and people who are part of this process that we haven't heard from, maybe we should. I feel pretty uncomfortable with trying to tinker with this thing and reallocate it. I mean one reason we have professional staff appointees, community services commission and other appointees, the reason we have them get involved is to sort through all of this and bring it to us in a way that has pretty strong recommendations and staff feels pretty strongly about it. When these things come up with, well, we've got these extra funds and there are all these alternatives and here with one point of view expressed and another point of view expressed and then we've got the organizations that are requesting funds. It seems to me that part of what we're looking at kind of half-baked and go at it, Council. Well, we used to do this with CDBG funds. There would be a certain amount. And I remember we used to have a chart. Council members were suggesting we moved $10,000 from this one over to that one and this one to that one. And it became, if not chaotic, sufficiently arbitrary that I think everybody pretty well concluded, let's get it to our professional staff and whatever committee or commissioners or whatever who could be a part of it. And let's not mess with what they bring forward. Let's presume that what they've brought forward, they've gone through an entirely thoughtful process. And don't tinker with it a lot. Even though listening to my colleagues here, I could see where some tinkering with this would be beneficial. But a number of things kind of concerned me about that. I've been involved with emerging nonprofits. I've been an emerging nonprofit, along with others in various partnerships and so forth. And so I'm responsive to that point, but this isn't about struggling organizations. This is about struggling people that we want to be served through organizations. And if we keep the focus on that, it seems to me you kind of want to go with the ones who have the capacity and the track record for delivering the services, really helping struggling, people struggling, businesses, and so forth. I assume, correct me if I'm wrong on this, but all this is gonna get audited at some point by the federal government, am I right? to get audited at some point by the federal government. Am I right? We need the chief financial officer to answer that. The short answer is yes, that it's all federal dollars. There will be as part of our single audit processes, we're anticipating a review of how all our dollars are spent. Yeah. One thing that concerns it may be two years from now who knows that there may be then a federal report that cities all across the country, Irvine, included gave money to really not qualified nonprofits. They were emerging, maybe they seem promising, but in the end, the money didn't help anybody. The organizations didn't survive, the money really didn't help anybody. I don't want us to be included in one of those reports, that's critical of cities. It's critical of cities. I guess somehow tonight, I don't think this is going to be sorted out to my satisfaction tonight. I try to be open-minded and flexible about this. But it does seem to me we need to maybe act upon what we can, what we all agree upon, but then kind of get the rest of this back to staff, back to our professional staff, and those who have been involved in this process to maybe give it a little more thought and then bring that back to us so that we've ultimately gotten through all of the five million. Or arbitrarily, just take any additional funds and add proportionately to all the organizations that otherwise we're getting funding that we agree to. that otherwise we're getting getting funding that we agree to. So I don't think my comments are really helpful in sorting this out other than to say, this business where we're up here and we want to give to this organization and, oh, but what about Easter Seals? They're so great and what about, I'm very uncomfortable with that. We're basically substituting our judgment for your judgment and the process that has transpired here. And I'd much rather be in a position of, with whatever unallocated funds there are deferring to your judgment in this. By the way, I'm unclear. I see Sharon Wellickson here, who by the way, the work you've done over the decades, I mean, it's just remarkable with the Irvine Children's Fund and you show up at the right time and it wasn't clear to me, it hasn't been clear to me. Are you getting out of this, what you would hope to get, or not? Could you come to the microphone? I mean, the Wellickson family, I think you left Irvine decades ago, didn't you? No, not me, but I sold my house to my son. Oh Yes, okay. I Was not at that meeting I was in Italy, but I zoomed into the meeting from Italy And then I had two presenters Wendy Bacoda and Theresa Collins at that meeting I Think that because I probably have received maybe 29 CDBG grants throughout these years all for childcare, that's a very well-trained committee that has a broad view of what goes on in the city. I think that the message got kind of mixed by bringing in different committee members and really thinking diversity, equity, and inclusion. When I was watching it and I saw them moving money around, I was kind of confused myself because usually council gives direction to a committee. So I think the committee was new to this type of process. We will be audited by federal. We have to give quarterly reports. I've done many of those and Clint And Clint White it was on that meeting, I think, as they were adding more groups in. And he was very clear. There will be federal auditing of each group. So I don't know if I'm really answering your question, but I think it was a process that probably needed a little more education. There was a very large amount of money. I think it's more than CDBG, typically is giving out. So, and it was many different groups, and the groups, many of the groups that apply for CDBG are from within the city and have served Irvine families. So, in my case, I have a very narrow focus. It's childcare. It's at the every elementary school and we give every dollar to childcare. So because we have been a little bit more fortunate with some ARPA funds, we had families this year that got 100% that never got it before. And that's not usually our motto But we looked at this money and my head person said, you know some of these families that are served not just by child care But by other things some of these children or vulnerable kids or other people will get to have a music lesson or Be on a soccer team or something like that. So I kind of had to adjust my thinking too because we used to do 50% because that's all the money I could raise. But now as you said, when the funding, the CDBG, CB funding gets sunsetted, I have in my particular organization 75 kids that I would have to cut off because I'm not going to be able to raise that 400,000 quickly. So you have funds now to give and there are a lot of questions that are raised. So let me just ask if I could have of our, well let me suggest yet another alternative. I remember there were times when we divided up CDGB funds and yet there were some really, really worthwhile programs that didn't make the cut. And what we did was we just, on a one time basis, just went into the general fund and said we're going to pull half a million dollars out of the general fund to fund these organizations on a one-time basis and make it easier on all of us. The brain damage went away at that point. And we're actually in that position financially. Mayor, I guess I'd like to hear from our staff, I guess I'd like to hear from our staff, but maybe I would just like to suggest that you and another council member try and kind of work on some of this between now and our first meeting in January, let's say. And maybe then we can reach resolution on this. Are we under some absolute hammer when it comes to the timing of this, disorting this out? Use me there's no Technical deadline or timeline. It's really all self imposed at this point Okay That's what I'd feel more comfortable. I mean if there are things here tonight that we can agree upon we all agree not a problem boom, let's let's vote those. The things where there's not a clear unanimity about it. If we could bring those back under your leadership mayor or however you wish to proceed, I think that might be a process that makes some sense. I don't want to be voting no on something that may in fact be a good idea. I don't want to be voting yes on something that in the end I'm little uncomfortable about that may not work out. Those are just my thoughts. I don't know if that helps. So maybe we can come up with a hybrid where if we are able to vote on the majority of the organizations that are recommended outside the ones that I listed for the vulnerable populations, applications and the small business applicants. At least let's get those out of the way and then I'd be happy to sit down with either you or anyone else to go over the remainder of the organizations to see how those can be funded. If that's okay, I think that might be a compromise. That sounds good to me. Okay. All right. Council member Kim? Yeah, I did have a clarifying question. By pulling, because in serving and having a non-profit, capacity is key. And what is it that we're hoping to accomplish by pulling off some of the organizations? Are there certain organizations you have in mind that perhaps weren't funded or? Well, I think with the new idea that we're doing is maybe we'll go back to these at a later time to really give some thought into what kind of funding they might need or if they need the funding and then come back with a final decision on them. Are we opening this up to new applicants? For the remainder of the money, and I think this will all sit down and kind of figure this all out with the remainder amount of money and the remaining organizations. But at this point, at least, let's get those that are approved through so they can get the funding they need. And then sit down and kind of figure out What kind of money we have left and I know for the emerging non-profits? We do have money that we can reopen I think that's something that we should do right away So if I understand this correctly we're pulling off 2-1-1 families forward Irvine adult health services no, we're not no, it's families forward, Irvine adult health services? No, it's families forward, United Way, South County outreach 211 from the vulnerable populations and charitable ventures from the small business. Okay, charitable ventures is a, they're not the nonprofit themselves. They're fiscal sponsor. So who were they fiscal sponsoring? Was it the collaboration of nonprofits? This was their own program where they would provide grants to providers of child care in Irvine. Okay. So they were the accelerator. I believe so. of childcare in Irvine. Okay. So they were the accelerator. Exactly. I believe so. That's what Irvine Children's Fund does. Actually Irvine Children's Fund funds families that need childcare, funds that operating, but these were one-time grants that charitable ventures $5,000 for home-based childcare programs and $10,000 for private programs as grants. They're proposing a grant program for childcare businesses still experiencing the effects of COVID. I would recommend against pulling that, because charitable mentors is something different. They fund not- I think I would leave them in that to discuss further category. If we are okay. Mayor. Can I ask if this whole matter were just continued to a meeting in January and the mayor, staff, were to just sit down and talk about it and bring this back to us in a way that would garner, if not unanimity, at least consensus support. Are we losing anything except a little bit of time here? Yes, time is really the main issue. It's been a year since we originally received the ARPA funds, there are these organizations still working in the community and wanting to get started with the process. They applied in August. It's now November. We're really hoping to employ these funds to the extent we can sooner rather than later. that we can sooner rather than later. So if we just ask you for a list right now, priority list, what you want funded and in what amounts, would you give that to us? Staff has not, the list of recommendations comes from the subcommittee. And the subcommittee reviewed the applications, ranked the applications, and made the recommendations for the application. So just to clarify, staff is not recommending or the organizations or the amounts. That all these recommendations came directly from the subcommittee. And what the mayor is suggesting that those organizations that aren't on the list of five that she mentioned, there is now a list, a portfolio of grants that could be funded, that it appears there is some consensus on. that could be funded that it appears there is some consensus on. For 23 out of the 28 organizations on the list. So the 23 would get funded if we vote on it today. And then the remaining five, we can have discussions on how do we want to proceed forward with them. I'm sorry, I don't understand that. So basically right now what we can do is we have 23 organizations that none of us have an issue with. We can at least get them funded and for the five that we're having discussions on. We can ourselves form a subcommittee amongst the council to discuss that further and finalize that for staff. Okay, does that sound all right to the subcommittee here? We have the chair of the subcommittee, Emil Aaron, is here. He could, Emil, if you're available to speak to the council, thank you. Good evening, Honorable Councilmembers. Emil Aaron, I actually chaired the urban recovery plan. So I was sitting in the back waiting for the opportunity to possibly speak to just help give some context and some clarification. So the process that we arrived at, if you recall, the original $5 million, this funding was advocated by members of a number of commissions, community services, DEI, finance members of the community. So that's essentially how we ended up with an IRP committee that was comprised of kind of a multifaceted group, all with many years of experience in the nonprofit world, all with many years of experience with these processes. And so our goal from the beginning was to try to service those organizations who typically don't get funding, right? They're doing great work. They're probably fully volunteer organizations, but they don't have Fiscal sponsors on hand they don't have attorneys on hand They don't have a lot of the infrastructure that you find with some of the other organizations And so what you'll notice if you look at the funding recommendations that came out of our committee We tried to be as closely aligned to the original intent of the ARPA funding. So these are federal dollars that the government allocated to cities across the country, specifically for underserved and organizations and individuals who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. We understand everyone has been impacted, but there was a deliberate effort by the federal government to support those who had been disproportionately impacted. And so that was essentially kind of what we kept as our north star as we went through this process. There are, look, it was definitely not an easy process. You're talking every organization certainly made the case for support. You know, we had some organizations, frankly, that definitely did have $100 million budgets, $50 million budgets, $20 million budgets, and then other organizations who had $20,000 budgets, to where this type of funding could be transformative for them. And so for us, a lot of the reason that you see that recommendation for re-issuing the NOFA for the emerging nonprofits was specifically to solve that issue. Because there was a number of nonprofits that either didn't get a chance to apply, timing, capabilities, didn't feel like they qualified. We did have a requirement that was initially in there that required them to be in operation three years prior to the pandemic, which essentially meant for most emerging nonprofits that may have stood up as a response to the pandemic to support communities. They were essentially disqualified, almost off the bat. And so as part of that recommendation for re-issuing the NOFA was to remove that three of your requirement, so that a number of those emerging nonprofits would be better positioned to apply. So I think, you know, it's definitely not a perfect process, but I think we landed at what the committee felt was a solid 20 plus organizations that were doing great work that could use support to really accelerate the work that they're doing. So I think for the remaining funds, we definitely were of the mindset of kind of re-issuing a second NOFA and that would open it up to additional organizations who didn't have an opportunity to apply, but it wouldn't hold up those who have already applied and are desperately really waiting for us to give them a decision and essentially issue the funding. I mean, the funds I believe were received in June of 21. So, in a prove in October of 20. It would be your recommendation to act on those that are the solid 20 or so. Absolutely, yeah. And then I think those that we wanna come back and you want us to work with staff and work with you to kind of reevaluate a subset. I think that strategy makes a lot of sense. All right. Okay, so basically the motion would be then to approve the 23 organizations recommended by the committee and for members, a couple members of the council along with the committee to review those that are in question at this time. And I would be very inclined to serve on that discussion and I'll ask my colleagues if they're interested. I'm not. To do so as well. I'm not sure I can break. I'd be willing to, although I'll be happy to defer to somebody else if there's a reference by somebody else. Council member Kim. Yeah, I'm happy to do it. You're going to serve? Okay. Unless you would like to. No, no, no. You go ahead and I can critique what you bring to the floor. Rather than the other way around. Okay. So I think that's the motion. I will continue to second it. Thank you. And with that, City Clerk, will you please conduct a roll call vote? So is it absolutely clear what the motion is now? I'll repeat it. I'll repeat it. Is it clear enough that you can articulate it right now? I think so. I was told by somebody that they said they like it when I ask the clerk to repeat the motion. So at least out there, the six people who are still watching, know what we're voting on. And I'm happy to do that unless the maker of the motion would like to do that. I think it's pretty clear that 23 of the organizations are being funded, the five that I mentioned, Families Forward United Way, South County Outreach 2110C and Chair Will Ventures, are the organizations that we will review to determine whether they get funding or not. And then you and Council Member Kim will serve on a subcommittee. With the original committee, yes. Thank you. And with opportunities for others to apply or? Well, depending on what kind of recommendation is left. Or relooking it even those that were not recommended. Okay. And let me ask further and this would expect this would come back to us in January. Is that correct? Yes. Good. Okay. Okay. So with that, will you please conduct a roll code? Council member Aigren. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Cuo. Yes. Mayor Conn. Yes. Carries Ford is zero of the members present. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, staff. Having completed the agenda is a motion to adjourn the seat. Thank you. Second. City clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote. Councillor Agrin. Yes. Councillor Kim. Yes. Vice Mayor Cuo. Yes. Councillor Agrin. Yes. Councillor Kim. Yes.