I'm going to call this meeting of the Film or City Council to order please and we will begin by saying the pledge of allegiance. Please stand. Ready to begin. the United States of America, and the sugary public for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay, may I have a roll call please. Council member V.S. Injured. Here. Mayorim Gorilla here mayor Broghi here council member Austin here council member Mendez here Thank you and may I have a motion to approve tonight's agenda? I motion to approve the agenda I have a second all second the motion the second all. All of the favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, the agenda is approved. So that takes us quickly into public comments. And before we start, it's interesting. We have such a full room. And I thought most people would be home watching the presidential debate. But here we are. So what we're going to do, we have several speakers. But we do have a short agenda tonight. We have one of the item on the regular agenda. So we'll stick to the three minutes for each speaker. And when you come to the podium, please give us your name. And you have the three minutes. We'll start with a green light. You can see there from the podium. And when you get down to your last 30 seconds, it'll turn yellow and it'll turn red. So our first speaker tonight is Diana Martinez. Hello, good evening. My name is Diana Martinez. I'm a senior at Fillmore High School. I'm 17 years old and, frankly, I'd prefer to be doing my college applications right now, but I'm concerned for the youth of Fillmore, so I'm here tonight. As a high school student here in Fillmore, I have personally seen the importance of AB 1955 in my own experience and in the experience of my fellow career youth. I personally know that not every child has a home that's accepting to go back to, especially in a town like this where there have been many public disputes targeting the queer community. A resolution against AB 1955 is just another clear example that there is a good portion of the film or population who do not accept anyone who doesn't identify as heterosexual or cisgendered. In the more unfortunate extreme cases, there are some in this town who would even risk the well-being of their own children if they knew about their child's queer identity. Whether by casting them out, neglecting them or subjecting them to direct physical violence. Never ever should this be the case. Having safe spaces available on campus for students to express and feel safe to speak of their own identities, especially if their LGBTQIA plus is so vital and important. If they don't have these safe spaces in their own home or have reason to believe that they'll be rejected by their own families, they may find one at school. Revoking that by stripping students from their ability to express their developing understanding of their own gender identity and safe school spaces will make many students feel more alone than ever. This feeling of loneliness, of having nowhere that you feel like you are accepted to be yourself, perpetuates the skyrocketing mental health crisis rates for queer children. The City Council should always keep the safety of film or residents as its first and foremost priority, especially when there are minors involved. The bill AB 1955's purpose is to ensure that queer children in California are not outed to their parents or guardians, whom they aren't ready to express their identities to, or for those who don't even feel safe enough to express their identities to, or for those who don't even feel safe enough to express themselves. Repeling that is an act of hate against queer youth and filmore. If the city forces educators to outstuence their families, those children will be put in danger. No child should ever be put in danger by educators and professionals hired by our schools that they turn to for help in assistance. A resolution against the bill AB 1955 does that exactly. Now more than ever, safe spaces for queer children must be protected, not stirred from them. As a current student in this district, I call on the Fillmore City Council to protect students to express their identities in school without fearing for their safety and well-being. I hope that you, as Fillmore City Council members, realize the gravity of your actions. If you continue to support Bill AB 1955, you're maintaining the safety for children and Fillmore. Actions otherwise should be condemned, and will harm instead of help LGBTQI students. Thank you, have a good night. Okay, this, Gary Cushion, please. Gary Cushion, please. Gary Cushion? Good evening, Mayor Brogory and Council Members. I am Gary Cushion. My wife and I have eight great kids and 16 beautiful grandchildren. I'm here tonight to comment on AB 1955. A lot of us past claims it was passed to help our children. This could be farther from the truth. The state is getting involved with the rights of the parents to protect and raise their children to become function members of our society. A teacher has a student usually one year, maybe nine months, maybe one hour a day. And the parents have their children for life. I believe parents have the right to know anything and everything about their children. How else can they do their duty to their family provide a healthy environment? I urge you to recommend that a resolution be sent to the state and to our elected officials letting them know that we do not agree with this intrusion into our families. I also encourage everyone here tonight to join the coalition to overturn AB 1955. The resolution from Fillmore will show this is a Fillmore, do not agree with AB 1955. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Can Castellanos followed by Joey? I'm sorry. Is there a Joey in the house? Okay, so you're you're next up How you doing name's Ken and I'm the pastor of the community and I'm here to talk about AB 1955 and Just wanted to say that this isn't a left or right thing and this isn't a LGBTQ or a straight thing. I have family members that are LGBTQ that I love very much. This is about the parents and their kids and parents having the right to know exactly what is going on in their kids, whether it be straight parents or LGBTQ parents. It is not the place of the government of California to allow schools to keep secrets from parents. This is an abuse to the parents and the kids. It is the obligation of the teachers and the school board to let the parents know and child abuse not happen in Fillmore. This cannot happen here. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Joey followed by Alan King. Hello. Hello. Mayor Broggy members of the city council. My name is Joey. You have the cum ski. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Joey followed by Alan King. Hello. Hello. Mayor Broggy members of the City Council. My name is Joeie. You have the Kumski. I live in Fillmore. I'm helping to raise two kids. But I'll start with some good news. I was in a meeting with VCTC this afternoon and they said that the bus line from Fillmore to More Park is now the second most popular line on the Valley Express. So in less than a month it's a success. And I wish that's all I had to say, but I'm a little conflicted because whenever this, whenever a pride proclamation comes up, most of the city council says, no, we don't want to hear about that. Stay in the closet. We don't want to celebrate it. Now, we've got to tell everybody. We've got to tell the parents when this is going on. So, do you, whether you're just, it's just so conflicted. Whether you're just homophobic or you just want to be belligerent with the state of California because you don't like their policies. This is not doing anything to protect children and it's a waste of time. It's a waste of time and it's a waste of film or money. And if you want to do stuff to protect children or give them an enriching time in film or you can do things like make it safe for them to walk or bike to school. You can, the pool is a fucking mess. You can make the pool something that they can use in the summertime. It's getting hotter and hotter every year. You're not doing anything to help kids stay cool. There's no shade structure over playgrounds. There's no lights at two rivers park in the winter. They can't go out and play at the park. And there's no pride proclamation. That would be something that would be to protect kids. So that's all I have to say. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Alan King followed by Yvonne Bacera. Good afternoon, my name is Alan King. I was born and raised here in Fillmore. I would like to read a statement from my kids' wife. Hi, my name is Kai Krupa. I apologize for not being in attendance. I'm a film or resident and therapist and specializing in working with teens and traditional aged youth, transitional aged, excuse me. I see people from many mental health concerns and have had the privilege of working with a lot of LGBTQ plus identified people. I've seen how they thrive with support and love and safety. And I've seen the reverse. When youth are not supported by their community and loved ones, the possibility of severe mental health crises drastically rise. In my work, I am trained to consider the mental and emotional effects as well as the effects of systemic oppression and policy changes. Mentally and emotionally, this could have devastating effects on our community. Youth thrive in safe environments where their needs are being met, forcing a safe person or a teacher to out-use does not promote this. It is an impossible task for teachers or ask for teachers. Anyone who works with youth on a professional level is a mandated reporter. If teachers were to out a student to unaccepting parents, they could be putting a child in danger, which is illegal. In essence, you're asking a teacher to put a child in danger, which will also lead to a mandated report, which could then lead to the youth being removed from their home. I can professionally state that it is not in the best interest of teachers in our community to force anyone to come out to their parents. In closing, I ask you consider these systemic questions. If film work continues to focus their efforts on the LGBTQ plus group. Do we have the community and financial resources to support houseless youth and parents who lose access to their kids? Do we have the financial and energetic resources to battle a state law suit? I think not. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So next we have Yvonne Bacerra followed by Lynn Edmonds who will be giving her time to Cindy King. So Cindy King is next. Hello everybody, good evening. I am Yvonne Bacerra and this is a little change from what we are hearing right now this evening. I'm actually here to talk about your community library. Okay. I'm glad you're here. Happy to hear that. I outward. Yes. Albert and I did some story, story time this last May. So it's good to see you again and I welcome all of you to come to story time. I am Branch Manager at the Fillmore Library, 502 Second Street. I hope you're all familiar with it. And if you're not, please come on down. Get your library card if you don't already have it. I'm just here to give you an update of what's going on at the library right now. Lots of good things. So let me see. We just wrapped up our summer reading program. A couple hundred kids from here on Fillmore signed up. And we did award one lucky family a four-packed Disney Land. There are kids read 1,000 minutes. A number of kids read 1,000 minutes and they were in the drawing for the tickets. We also had an adult summer reading program and we had some very happy readers there as well. We have ongoing children's story time every Wednesday morning. And that's followed by play time. We typically have, say, 15 to 35 kids attending that. That's ongoing. Please spread the word. That's always a really nice time for the little ones. We have a pirate day this Saturday at the Fomer library, but every Saturday we also have Legos. Let me see. We have a classic movie Friday's once a month. We do have a one county, one book going on throughout the county where the county, the city library is part of the Ventura County Library system. The one county one library, one county one book this year is Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kitter. And then at Cal State Channel Islands there will be an event in October that will be celebrating the book. Upcoming we have, we're planning hopefully a harvest festival in November that will take place on the lawn alongside the library that'll be a big event. Anyway, just to let you know, lots of good things going on at the library. Don't forget about the library. We have study rooms. We have, oh, the high schoolers are there every day from 330 to 430, especially when they get out and they are studying. I think this city has the best high schoolers I've seen out of the county. I've been with the library system for over 20 years and worked at most of the libraries in our county. I am most impressed by the high schoolers I see coming into the library who just come in and study. And they work as groups. Anyway, they're awesome. I'm just so impressed. I'm impressed by everybody that comes in. This is a very nice community to work in. And like I said, if you don't already have your library card, please come in. And we'll get you all set up, okay? And I invite all the council members to come in and join in for reading during story time or two. Come on back if you enjoyed it the first time, okay? Thank you. So, Amivam, come in and visit. All righty. Thank you. Thank you for going through. Thank you. What about the extended hours. Oh extended hours yes we have express hours coming up break your library card if you don't have not already done that and coming for quite a time. All righty. Thank you. Okay thank you very much. It was a nice commercial break there. So next we have Cynthia King. And Cynthia King will be speaking she'll have a full six, including Lynn Edmunds minutes. Thank you. I know, I'm sure it will be good to know. Good evening Council members and thank you for your service to our community. My name is Cynthia King. I'm a filmor resident, a mother, a grandmother, and a retired teacher. If my two children were younger or my three grandchildren live closer, they would be attending Film or Unified School District. I have a great interest in the education of our children and I am keenly aware of and have experienced many of the challenges of both parents and teachers, educators, in the whole education process. For that reason, I am here to speak regarding the issues and concerns around the proposed resolution opposing California State Law in AB 1955. As a parent and grandparent, I have experienced many of the challenges that arise as children are growing and learning about themselves and the world around them. As a teacher, I have experienced having students come to me to talk about difficult issues in their lives, including gender identity, that they did not feel free or safe to talk about with anyone else, sometimes including their parents. I am aware that other speakers have spoken passionately about the, quote, sacred relationship between parents and children. And I too have cherished my relationship with the children and our family. However, I have also observed that there have been times in their lives that they needed to get together, get other inputs and perspectives from adults they trusted, who perhaps had wider experience than did we, their parents or grandparents. I realize that there are times when parents need to know if their child is being threatened or in danger, or needing some specific kind of support. However, as a mandated reporter of child abuse when I was a teacher, I also know that there are times when parental controls cross the line into abuse of the child's safety and sense of self. In that capacity, I have personally heard from students who were being emotionally or physically abused by well-meaning parents who stood in judgment of their child's emerging sense of self and gender identity. Particularly the teenage years are fraught with angst. For young people and both in trying to both fit in and avoid bullying while also getting to know themselves. I have known young people who, when they came out to their parents, have been reviled, abused, and some who have even been totally disowned by their families for trying to be who they felt themselves to be. For these reasons, I'm strongly opposed to the efforts by some in this community and on this council to follow up on the hateful English-only ordinance with yet another ordinance that would punish both children and educators with a requirement that would take away the freedom of self-expression. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next we have Marie Alves, followed by Ronda Taylor. Good evening. There's not a whole lot I can do about the passing of AB 1955. Not a whole lot I can do about. Feel more unified being mandated to follow this law. But I can get a parent speak as a parent and as a school counselor for 24 years out on the avenue in Ventura. And I can say right now to parents everywhere that it's time to get even more involved and be more aware of what the influences that are happening in your child's life. I can say to parents that via TV, social media platforms and technology, our kids are being influenced. When we see something that is not good for our children, our family, we have to speak up even if we're afraid. We have to speak up. And with that, I'm going to say that AB 1955 is not a good law for anyone and not especially for families. This law keeps parents gay or straight, regardless of worldview or religious affiliation in the dark, regarding their child's mental health and well-being. And a few words this law prevents anyone affiliated with schools from telling their parents that their child wants to change their name, pronoun, or sexual identity. This is for preschool through high school. Pre-school through high school. And if some might say that, oh, that's not going to affect the five year old or seven year old, yes, it is. It's already in the animated movies. It's everywhere. And at a much more rapid pace, it's influencing them. This resolution will probably not change the law. But maybe it will remind parents, that's the main thing for me. Maybe it will remind parents that it's so important for us to be aware of what our children are seeing and hearing. So thank you, Council, for considering this city resolution. I have here around 200 signatures from parents around town who want to support this resolution. All we did was we asked the parents, would you be in favor of a resolution by the city that states to parents? This is a family first community. Because there's a law out here now covering California that says we are not. Out of the 200 people, I think two or three people said no. They wouldn't sign. And that's, you know, everybody's different. They got their reasons. But these 200, they want you to know that you're being supported. Two or three weeks ago, maybe it was just two weeks ago, we were in here, I was in here for it, and was listening to an organization that looks at the data of a town and then gives us a picture of who we are. At least, I don't remember a whole lot of what he said, but what I do remember is that at least two or three times he said, is a very family friendly town and let's keep it that way. Thank you. Thank you Marie. So we've round a tailor followed by David Eskreia. My saying that correctly. Good evening council. My name is Rhonda Taylor. I live here in Fillmore. I'm a retired educator. Last month, Governor Newsom signed into law assembly bill 1955, which prevents educators from informing parents of their child's decision to use a gender identity or gender expression or pronouns that are different than what is on their school record. In essence, it inserts educators as barriers between parents and children, undermining a parent's ability to communicate with their minor children, especially about critical long-term life altering issues. Parents are the primary educators of their children, and children are the ultimate responsibility in the education of their children and shoulder the ultimate responsibility in the education of their children. Parents' rights over their children and their education is fundamental to a healthy family and thus a healthy community. Staff members work in and our schools are secondary to parents. In fact they work for all tax paying parents and their therefore answer to the parents. AB 1955 is an affront to parental rights and a violation of parental constitutional rights. No one working in education should stand in the way of informing parents of their child's gender identity or gender expression. Parents should never be kept in the dark regarding the lives of their children. An educator acting as a communication barrier between a child and parent about it highly private and personal issues such as gender is not an act of education. But a brazen act of sabotage toward parents. It is also a deprivation to those children in need of obtaining help. Support, formation, love, and care the child should be getting from home. AB 1955 is not education, and therefore has no preemptive statewide authority. Tonight in the interest of protecting the parents and children of Philmore, I'm asking former City Council to propose and draft an ordinance declaring for more as a parent's right to no city. Please vote to add this to the agenda for discussion and consideration at the next council meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have David Astrea followed by Maris Alrameras. I want to address the bill AB 1955 and pressing issues within our education system and Fillmore. That speaks to the heart of the community and the collective well-being of our children and our educators. Fillmore University School District is facing serious challenges that directly affect our students and teachers every day. Underfunding, under staffing and inadequate resources are not just numbers on a budget sheet. They are obstacles that are children and educators constantly. Our schools are the foundation of our community yet they struggle to meet even the most basic needs. We are in a moment where we must choose to invest in our public education system not as enough to thought, but as a priority. Our teachers are overworked and underpaid. Our facilities need maintenance, and our students deserve better than bare minimum. This is about valuing people and ensuring that everyone, regardless of their background, has a fair shot at equality education. While cultural discussions such as those around LGBTQI issues are important. The debate should also be about how we as a community can come together to ensure that all our children receive the support and education they deserve. The real issue at hand is also the in at in at equitable distribution of resources that continues the sort to shortchange our public schools and by extension our future. More over confidentiality for students and teachers is a matter of dignity and respect. It's about protecting the most vulnerable among us, our children, and ensuring that they feel safe and supported in their learning environments. We must defend their right to privacy as a fundamental part of their education, not a privilege. Education is a public good and it is our collective responsibility to protect it. We cannot afford to let these divides distract us from the systemic changes that are urgently needed. We must demand better funding, equitable resource allocation and commit to valuing every student and teacher by standing together. We can create a system that serves us all. Thanks. Thank you. So now we have Marisol Ramirez, followed by Edgar Alves. Hello, my name is Marisol Ramirez. I'm a lifelong filmor resident. As a community member, as an educator, as someone with younger relatives here in filmor, and as someone who was very recently a young queer child, I want nothing more than to protect our children and our youth by creating a safe environment for all of our children in youth. I hold the belief that creating a community that creates that safe environment for youth means respecting their decision making abilities and recognizing their ability to know what is right for themselves. This bill is not about keeping parents in the dark, it is not about lying to parents, it is not about dividing families or creating barriers between parents and their children. It is the first step in building a culture and a community that supports the relationship between families and can make them stronger. I'd like to do a quick outline on what is in AB 1955. There are two parts of the bill. The one that we've been hearing a lot about is the part of the bill that prohibits policy that requires school employees to disclose any information related to a student's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the student's consent. So this means that all of that information can be disclosed if the student gives consent. Any child who is comfortable with their family will give consent. So it's not preventing any sort of information from getting to the parents entirely. The second part of the bill requires schools to develop and or update resources for not only queer students but for their families as well. Some of the reasoning behind this bill that is in the bill is choosing when to come out and to whom is a deeply personal decision that every queer young individual has the right to make for themselves. This bill strengthens existing protections ensuring all students are safe, supported, and not isolated due to any part of their identity, as well as supports families to have personal conversations and work towards family acceptance on their own terms. There are many statistics that show that students will refuse external support. So if they are facing any sort of harassment or mental health struggles, they will not seek support for out of fear that they will be outed to their parents. I'd also like to add really quickly as someone who grew up and was queer before any of the influence that we see, any so-called influence that's on social media. None of that was influenced on me. I felt what was most strongly influenced. What strongly influenced me to suppress any part of myself was external pressure from the people around me to conform into heterosexual cisgender norms. Thank you. Thank you. OK, Edgar Alves, followed by Andrea Enriquez. Good evening. My name is Edgar Alvis, a longtime resident of Fillmore. A vote against this resolution is a vote against every single community member that has a child. A vote for this resolution gives every single parent and community member a voice. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind. It's where things happen. It's not the school that's raising the kids. Do we really want this AB 1955, which creates an atmosphere that it's okay for your parents not to know what's going on with you? And when kids know this, it seems that it's fosters that atmosphere of, well, you know, if I do this and my parents doesn't know, it's okay, I can go to my teacher, I go to the counselor, which is wrong. The parents should be really involved 100% of the time, not because it's convenient for the kid. The kid is changing on a daily basis, they're growing, they're developing, and the parent has to be involved all the time. All this resolution is doing, if you vote for it, is that it encourages parents to get involved in their children's lives. And the AB 1955, it kind of says that points out to the point that do you really want to be taken out of the equation in raising your children? Which is, this is what's happening with AB 1955. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Andrea Enriquez, followed by Lohan Braas. Good evening. My name is Andrea Enriquez. This AB-1955 law has put into effect the following. It keeps critical information from parents regarding the mental and physical health and welfare of their child. It inserts educators as barriers between parent and their child. It also undermines parents' ability to communicate with their children, especially about critical life altering issues. In other words, AB 1955 allows all schools, even elementary, to hide from parents, the transitioning of their child. For instance, Levine is a mother of a student at Great Salt Bay Community School in Maine. She has sued the school board for helping her 13-year-old child begin socially transitioning from female to male without her knowledge, which is in violation of the law. Levine states that the school counselor gave her 13-year-old chest binders, which are garments used to compress a person's chest and make it appear flatter. The mother also claims the school counselor allowed her child to use a male name, male pronouns, and told the child not to tell her mother. One thing, oh, also, so this school broke the 14th Amendment where the US Supreme Court has established and established a president presented the amendment protects parents' rights to control, undirect, the education and general upbringing of their own child. So again, we're talking about children. I have a psychology background, and I wanted to share something based on the child development and their brain. There's also this article. There's a doctor. Dr. Angeline is a chief medical officer for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. She says that while it may seem like an 18 or 20 or 22 year old is able to make adult decisions, they're not developmentally ready just yet. This is because the brains frontal lobe, especially the prefrontal cortex, isn't fully mature until the age 25. So the frontal lobe is for decision making and logic. Our children do not have the power to make life altering choices for themselves. So I would like to ask City Council to create a parents' right to know city ordinance against AB 1955 where educators who work in the city's libraries, parks or facilities will not be allowed to withhold information from parents related to a child's sexual orientation, gender ideology or gender expression. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have John Garnica followed by. I apologize, did we miss Luana Borah? I'm sorry. Then followed by John Garnica. Thank you. I would like to start that I have a trigger warning mentioned of suicide within my speech. Good evening, my name is Lana Badajas and I'm here to share my complete disappointment that this council would consider opposing AB in 1955. If an LGBTQIA person does not trust you, you may not be aware of these statistics. LGBTQ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. Only one-third of LGBTQ youth experience parental acceptance with an additional one-third experiencing parental rejection. LGBTQ youth who face parental rejection are eight times more likely to attempt suicide. Only 38% of LGBTQ youth report that their home is an affirming space and over half saying that school is LGBTQ youth who had at least one support of adult are less likely to attempt suicide than those who do not. Before I shared the stats, I didn't say if you don't know any LGBTQ youth. I said if one does not trust you. If you have no LGBTQ people in your life, it's not that they're not there. It's that you are not safe. I lost my best friend to suicide last year. They grew up in a home that was not safe. That was not affirming. They spent much of their life scared to show who they really were and it started with their parents. Even after their death, their family refused to respect their wishes when using their pronouns and name. And I would like to add that they were 18 years old when they were drafted into the military and sent to Afghanistan. So they felt that their brain was sufficient enough for that. My friend used to tell me, maybe if I had had a teacher like you, an adult that was safe, things would have been different for me. If a parent has not created a loving, inclusive home for their child, and their child has to undergo the pain of finding acceptance somewhere else, the last thing they need is people's ignorance stopping them from doing so. I have three children in the film or district. One is in middle school. If I have created an environment where my child does not trust me, it is not the law or teacher's fault. It is mine. Thank you. Hey, John Carnegie, can I followed by a net Sula. Good evening city council. My name is John Garnika and I live at 819 would grow for road and I've been a resident of film War for most of my life except for the first nine years. How unfortunate that a majority of council members has decided to put forth a resolution that has nothing to do with Film War City business. We all choose what we want to spend our limited time on, whether it's work, relaxation or recreation, we choose the things that matter most and by extension what isn't important enough to warrant our time. How sad that the city council had decided to spend its time on something that does not benefit the city over which it has no authority and which has nothing but a dog whistle to those who seek to divide our community. The East End of Santa Clara Street is in dire need of repaving, same with the East End of Third Street and numerous streets in North Tholmore. Community members are complaining that three-verbbers park has a pretty bad drainage problem that makes it difficult for our kids to plan. Many cars pay no attention to the speed limit on the upper part of central avenue. And this is a safety issue for the families living near there. I would like to urge the council to stop putting city business second and actually fix city problems. And I would like to point out as well that if you actually read the resolution, which sounds like to me only one person so far actually read not the resolution, excuse me, the law as it's been passed. If you actually read the law, it's really covering the employees of school districts. So please explain to me how the law that covers school district employees and there how they interact with the students, how that is city business because it's not. And I was on the school board for 16 years. The school board has purview over district employees, not the city council. So please, stay in your lane, fix the problems that we have in Fillmore, and quit wasting people's time and money. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next we have Annette Sula, followed by Mary Bennett. Hello, I'm Annette Sula. I've been a member of this community since 19, well, 35 years now. I live here in Fillmore. This is my home. This is my home. This is my community. And I am appalled that the governor has chosen to write a law which takes away the parents' rights to know what's going on with their children in school for any reason. If there is a problem in a school where a child comes and talks about things that are going on in their home that are detrimental to the child, there is a way of dealing with that, but it is not by excluding the parents. We are a community that really, one of the things when I moved here from Ventura 35 years ago, I used to go to the Little League Games where my son was playing and there would be maybe three parents in the whole stadium. When I moved to film or the stadiums were filled, the parents were all here supporting their children. The parents in this community want to be involved in their children's lives, and they don't need somebody like the governor to say that they can't be involved in everything that's going on with their children's rights. It's just wrong. How could I possibly feel safe sending my child to a school that says they're not going to tell me if my child is going through something. I'm a man, I was a family counselor, I was a man-data reporter. If a child came into my office and said these kinds of things, I would have to report that. And I certainly would have to tell the parents that this child is struggling. I don't know why this law says that the teachers are better off dealing with children than their parents are, because that's what it's saying. And this is wrong. It took us like a couple of days to get over 200 signatures. If we had a few more days, we could get 1,000. The people of Fillmore don't want this. The minute I've said it to somebody, they're like, let me sign. Wait. Okay, so this is Fillmore City Council. I think that it is a very bold and courageous thing that you may be planning to do, and I hope that you do it. I hope you do it to maintain the integrity of who we are here in Fillmore. I don't know who a lot of these people are. Maybe they live here, maybe they don't, but they didn't identify as people that actually live here. So I don't know that, but I live here, and I've lived here for a long time. And I moved here when my son went into junior high. And I moved here because I didn't feel the schools in Ventura were safe for him, but I knew he'd be safe here, and he was. And he graduated from Fillmore High. But never. And that I'm sorry your time is over. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Mary Bennett followed Council and City Manager. I'm Mary Bennett. I live here in Fillmore. I am definitely in favor of a City Council resolution to declare Fillmore a parent's right to no city. AB 1955 is a bad law to put it mildly. A student with a headache cannot be given a Tylenol at school without their parents consent. Yet this law gives teachers the right to hide important information from parents that they have the right to know. The parents are the parents of the child. They raise the child until they're of age. The government wants to cram their liberal agenda down people's throats. This law is unbelievable and is totally unacceptable. I encourage all concerned parents here in Fillmore and elsewhere in California to take their children out of public schools. You can put them in private schools or homeschool them. There are accredited homeschool programs to help you. You can ask grandparents to help with either tuition at a private school or to help with homeschooling. The public schools lose funds when they lose students. Actions speak. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mary. Diane Sutton, followed by Moira Kristen. Hello, City Council. My name is Diane Sutton. I was going to address AB 1955. It was a good year. But I'm going to address actually Mr. Garnika's comment about staying in the lane of the city and the school. And very briefly, the school and the city have a synergistic relationship. The school often asks permission from the city for specific functions. And vice versa, I can't think of one right now where the city asks school permissions. But without the cooperation from both sides, there would be a standoff in sports festivals Police and fire departments the lanes the lanes of the two Merge often in my opinion. Thank you. Thank you Okay My pronouncing it right Maria, okay, that is okay. Thank you. I followed by Jasmine Vazquez I'm Marya Kristen. I've lived here a long time too and I home-schooled six children here. And one of my sons just moved back and he has a child, a baby, and is expecting another one. And yes, we do like Fill more being a family friendly place. And I hear from the people who are on the other side of this issue that they are concerned for the safety of children and for a safe place for children. Well, I also see overhead. It says, in God we trust, God invented a safe place for children. It's called the family. It works most of the time. Sometimes it doesn't work. And things have to, you know, we work around it. But we don't make laws declaring parents the enemy and saying that there has to be, the state has to claim that the state has to claim that the state has to come to save all students from their parents, which is what this 1955 law seems to say. I would also like to say that yes, it would be nice for the City Council to take care of bumpy streets and not enough lights in the parks and that sort of thing. But I also think that your primary concern is with the safety of children and families and it's not out of your lane to think about that. Thank you. Jasmine Vasquez followed by Brandi Hollis, who is our last speaker. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. My name is Jasmine Vasquez. I'm going to make this clear. I am a resident for the last 29 years. I know that some people may have missed that from the previous people talking. But, you know, I'm here today to voice my strong support for AB 1955, also known as the Safety Act. This bill is a crucial step towards protecting the LGBTQ plus students from the potential harm of forced outing. As someone who has seen this community grow in change, I understand the importance of keeping our schools safe for all children. Forcing a student to reveal their gender identity or sexual orientation to their family can have devastating consequences, especially when that home environment may not be supportive. These students deserve a safe space to explore who they are without the fear of rejection or abuse. Outing a student can lead to trauma, homelessness, or even self-harm. AB 1955 ensures that schools remain places where students can focus on learning and not fear. It respects the students' right to privacy while still allowing parents to be involved when their child feels safe and ready to share that part of themselves. I urge the City Council to support this important measure and help protect the most vulnerable in our community. Also while I still have my time, I just want to say that I encourage parents who are stating that, you know, well why don't I know? Like I want to know what's going on with my kid. I would encourage them to harbor a safe environment in their homes to say, hey, you know, be able to talk to me about whatever is going on with you, whether it's your gender identity, your sexuality, be comfortable enough that you can speak that with me. Because that's where this is all coming from. We want to make these kids feel safe. There are homes where, unfortunately, there's a lot of abuse, even physically abuse. And sometimes for the safety of them, we have to keep that confidential because they can endure either physical abuse, mental abuse at home because they want to come out. Saying things against this and what I've been hearing is the reason why the queer people in our community, they're here. And a lot of them are closeted because of what they hear and all these kind of things. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. So, Brandy Hollis, please. All right. Good evening. Thank you, Brandy Hollis. First of all, I'd like to say thank you so much for starting the process of fixing our parks. It means a lot to our community as you've heard tonight. And I'm really excited to see the improvements and your efforts are greatly appreciated. I know from both soccer and football as I was walking last night. I'd like to say that hiding information from parents can undermine trust and create a sense of insecurity about the school system. When parents aren't fully informed, they may feel less confident in the educational environment and less involved in their children's learning. This lack of transparency can lead to the following, an erosion of trust. Parents may feel excluded or suspicious, which can damage their relationship Parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents' parents or support educational initiatives, which we are already seeing. There's a negative impact on student outcomes, and foreign parents are better equipped to support their children's education and the lack of communication can hinder their ability to do so effectively. And this is where it becomes your business essay council. It causes a community strain. Distrust and dissatisfaction among parents can ripple through the community, potentially leading to decreased support for schools and related programs. And lastly, there's an economic consequence. Our schools are related to our economy. It is a business. Okay, if parents lose confidence in the school system, it may affect local property values and investment in the community impacting the local economy. Transparent communication helps build a stronger, more supportive school environment, which benefits students, families, and the broader community, not just parents and students. Thank you. Thank you, Brandi. Okay, so that concludes our public comment session. I appreciate everyone here that spoke up regardless of which side you're on. We appreciate community input. And I love seeing, as time goes on, we're seeing more and more people participating in our community and attending City Council meetings, so that's a great thing. Moving on now to item number six, City Council reports, recommendations and comments. And I will turn it over to our council. We'll just take this moment. Anybody who wants to leave now, please feel free to. Otherwise, you're going to miss the best part with these public comments. So, by the council. Thank you, Marie. Okay. Wait another moment or so. All right, council members. Anyone have anything they'd like to share here at 5.6? Can you count the report recommendations and comments? Yeah, I'd like to first thank everyone for coming out tonight. For those that have already left. Thank you for coming in case you hear the comments later. I do think that one thing that's really important, Mr. Recognize that people are getting up to speak about an item that is an honor agenda, which is encouraged. That's what the public comments section is over our agenda is for. And it's definitely worthwhile. There's a lot of good ideas that we've heard during public comments before and some of those have turned into city actions. So thank you everyone from the community for coming out to voice whatever concerns you may have. One other item that I wanted to bring up tonight, and hopefully see if we can take action on, is some of our transportation and traffic safety policies are maybe a little bit piecemeal because of just the size of our town. We have a large thoroughfare that goes right through the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . transportation plan in order to better set the vision for what the city needs are, especially when it comes to large outside parties like CalTrans and maybe even developers that come into town. So I'd like to propose that the city direct staff or the council direct staff to explore like a schedule to research the requirements more and then look and do potential funding to develop a long range transportation plan to better address the city needs. I'd be in favor of moving that forward. I think there's something including the general plan that has an option to be like a larger transportation plan. Is that what you're asking? Yeah, I don't know if it would fit directly into even like the circulation element, but it's kind of more of a, I believe a standalone document, Roxanne, I don't know if you could comment, maybe just on the idea obviously, we don't have that document right now, but maybe to give an idea of what that looks like. Is the standalone document something that general? Right, Yeah. Okay. Is it something that other cities have done? Like people adopt, people, cities adopt transportation plans. Okay. And I'm just suggesting that we would direct staff to explore that and to research research funding options to actually develop it. So something that would kind of happen in the future with some recommendations on. Okay. Yeah. I needed that extra information. Yeah, no problem. Took me a long time to get there as well. I've been back and forth trying to understand. Okay. Other Calcany. I do think you may. Let's see here. I did want to make an announcement that on September 29th, the Santa Clara Valley Wellness Foundation is having a harvest and health pumpkin festival. It's going to be in Santa Paula actually at the Ag Museum and the Santa Clara Valley Wellness Foundation has been around here in our Valley for quite a while. They are known to provide scholarships for those students in the high school who are interested in the medical field, internships at Santa Paula Hospital. Those are interested in going to nursing, I think even to be doctors, it's a nice, they do more, but that's sort of what I know they have known them for. And so this is just gonna be a great event. Again, it's September 29th, I believe it's a Sunday, from 12 to four at the Ag Museum, Harvest and Health Pumpkin Festival. There'll be crafts, raffles, vendors, music, and more. And so we'll try to put that on, I think, the community page. Trying to get more information out about our events, of course, here in Fillmore, but also there's just some great events happening in the Santa Clara Valley. So I just wanted to share that. And I too wanted to thank everyone who came out tonight, like a lot of our crowd left. But thank you as always for your time and sharing your thoughts with the City Council. Your time is valuable, your feelings and concerns on matters relevant to our community are beyond valuable and our democratic system here in local government where we hear from our residents and members of the community and a space that is respectful is also valuable. So thank you, thank you all very much and I believe I'll save my comments for on this matter when it is on the agenda. Thank you. There's Mark. You. Okay. With regard to the resolution that we heard from so many people about this evening, that was something that was suggested at our last council meeting and it would be brought forward at another agenda along with a discussion. And along those lines, I don't think we touched on this and we did not hear from anybody in the audience about this one issue which really is frustrating for me. And that is once again seeing Sacramento taking over local control. So my point is that we as a community, we vote for our board members, our film or school board members. We know who they are, we vote for them for a reason. And so the school board has certainly a say in all of this. I mean, they don't have a say in it at this point, and that's the problem. Is a Sacramento then dictates what we can do here in our own municipality, and that holds true with so many different other areas. And that's the most frustrating aspect of being on council for me is fighting Sacramento on taking over from whether it be housing development or low income housing especially. Anything you can think of and write down to this again. They are usurping the responsibility that our school board has. They should be calling the shots on this, not Sacramento. So I would like to include that discussion when it comes back on the agenda. And if it's going to be a resolution incorporated somehow into the resolution if possible. And we can just talk about it at the next meeting if it comes up. All right, anybody else? Okay, then, moving on. I'm sorry, I did have another comment. I'm sorry, back on this issue, I did want to say one more thing that one everyone to understand, and that is that I know it's not on the agenda right now, but that what the mayor said is true, but that there's not a local impact. So whether that makes you very angry, frustrated, or on the other hand, it may make you feel very happy or relieved, there's not a tangible, just really one of people to understand. There's not a tangible effort of change. people to understand there's not a tangible effort of change, tangible change that will happen in the community. I just wanted to put that in. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to the consent calendar. I moved to approve the consent calendar. I'll second. I have a motion on the second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, consent calendar passes. As approved, on the item number eight, our only actual new business agenda item. This is the ward of a contract for construction of project specification. Sidewalks and plaza concrete, and I will let our city staff take over from here. Thank you. Good evening, City Council Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem. I guess I get to be the Roxanne show, the only item. I didn't realize that for a little bit there. Okay. So at least it's fun stuff. We get to build things hopefully. This is a revisit to the Mountain View project that we combined with the City Hall Plaza project to try and get bids on the City Hall Plaza and to tweak a couple things in the Mountain View project to get a better price we did as directed and we rebid it. I'm gonna go walk down memory lane because it's been a little bit and remind you what we're building. So on the Mountain View sidewalk project, we bid that as bid schedule A and we put the plans in. We're building new sidewalk from Ventura Street to Santa Clara Street, as shown here. Here's a picture of the project's site near the highway. In the background there's the highway I wanted to point out that when we talked about this, that the adoption of plants and original approval to bid the project. It was brought up that that guard rail on top of the existing retaining wall in the corners really ugly and asked if that could be replaced. And so we did incorporate that into the bids and I'll talk about that later but it's in this picture I wanted to point it out. This is if you turn and you head up Mountain View Street, this is the other driveways that will be removing and replacing to put in the sidewalk and in between this driveway and this driveway. We'll close this driveway with the retaining wall and then combine these two driveways into a new driveway. This is the plan for it, basically. This is the driveway we're closing. This is the retaining wall we're building. These are the driveways that we're replacing at this end of Mountain View Street, the highways over there to the right, and right there on the corner we included in the bid to replace that ugly fencing with steel galvanized black painted that similar to what's across the street. And so that will be a lovely improvement and I'm glad you asked us to include that. This is the other end of the site at the Santa Clara Street intersection. Again, on some of the scope of work, this is the plans for it, this is the driveway that we have to rebuild down at this end where we have to move the on gate that's in the right way out of the way, and that's all included in the bin. We've been working with property owner. So that's kind of a quick review of what we're building on the mountain view sidewalks. In the restoration project, we updated the scope work a little bit after we last spoke about it, including where the yellow circle is. I animated that, didn't I? No, I didn't. The area by the back door, which I had not, I went out there that night and said, oh my gosh. I walked right through the, you suffered so many years, exactly so that, you know, repairing that sidewalk that's right outside our back doors, included in the project now. Re-doing all the joint filler and all the sidewalk gaps, doing a lot of the brick pavre, repairing all the broken brick paving, doing a lot more sidewalk replacement due to unevenness for ADA compliance, some tree-great replacements, some hand rail. There's various hand rails that the way they were put in are no longer compliant with current ADA, and so there's extensions or trimmings or moving them to create the clearance. So that's generally the scope work. So the project costs. This is where the rubber meets the road, right? We did the bid. We got bids. We got a lot of bids, actually. And of all of them, so there were six bids. It's in your staff report. ADA General Engineering is the low bidder again, which were the low bidder before on the sidewalk project, actually, and now he's the low bidder on both projects. Full disclosure, because of Schedule A and Schedule B in one, you add them together to get the lower bidder. ADA is definitely the lowest bidder on the Mountain V project. They're like $6,800 higher than the next low bidder if you separate them and just look at the city hall project. They would have been the second low bidder if you took schedule A and schedule B individually. That's not that bad, $6,800, but just full disclosure, wanted to know that. But here's the big breakdown. So on the Mountain V project, oh, I lost my notes. On the Mountain V project, we had it as bid schedule A, and bid schedule A, we had as the base bid and then an alternative additive line item for schedule A in case we didn't want to build because of cost to see how the cost would go. The base bid included building the sidewalk, retaining wall, the driveways, the pavement repair, everything needed to get the sidewalk in. And that came up to the bid is $306,750 and 60 cents. Then we added as an adult to remove that ugly rail and put in a nice pretty fence. That's $24,000 to do that line item. And then there's, we had in the plan's irrigation to hot tap and connect and put irrigation lines in, but we're not building landscaping right now with this project because you can't spend SB1 on the landscaping. But if we want to put future landscaping, it gets the pipe work done. That is another $38,000 for just landscaping. So you can see why I separated those out in case we didn't want to spend the money if it was over budget. But since all of it came in at $369 and we have, you know, came relatively $575. So even with the construction and design and engineering costs, it's a good bid price. And we can afford to do all of that and get the future irrigation put in. And so we're recommending we bid it all. It's fully funded. I think we should just do it all. But we do, I wanted you to know that the irrigation line items and the replaced that ugly guard rail items are separate. And we wouldn't have to award them if you didn't want to, okay? And then on bid schedule B for the City Hall, we did all of that work on one bid schedule because it's in the end it's not a big scope of work which is again why we kind of combined it schedule A and schedule B to get someone to bid on it. The that one came in over budget as you can see. We're like, you know, what was the number? I got it in the staff report that we'd need like $65,000 a General Fund many dog augment the ARPA funding because we just randomly through 150,000 of ARPA funding a couple years ago when we started talking about this $75,000 of the construction cost is all the sidewalk work. There's over 1,000 square feet of sidewalk repair. Most of them, well, all of them are 88 related. $21,000 just for the brickwork, another 19.5,000 for joint ceiling, which is very much needed. And then 21,000 entry grates and add all that up plus a few of the other things and you get to the construction contract came at 167. So just the construction alone without the design and the construction management and all that stuff. And we're at 232.694 for the whole project on a $150,000 project budget, which is not where I want to be standing before you tonight. So I think for me these prices that we got are competitive The plaza maintenance has been re-deferred for many years. We're doing a lot of ketchup all at once If we were to try and reduce the scope and re-bid it I think we get higher unit prices again or nobody bidding because it's a small project if we separate it from the other big project in the end on the engineering fees again or nobody bidding because it's a small project if we separate it from the other big project. In the end on the engineering fees, it could be a lot less than I'm showing here. This is worst case scenario. If they end up building them like they're each a 30 day project schedule and I've had to budget the inspection and construction management 30 days and 30 days linear because they can build it that way but if they overlap at all, we'll spend a lot less on inspection because we'll double duty on the jobs, right? So this is what's budgeted. I don't expect us to exceed these budgets and I expect to return to the general fund a portion of that additional money that we're asking for. A lot of it is in the construction and inspection costs and those are, it's $20,000 a month to inspect a job. And if they've got 30 working days, that's, you know, it adds up fast. So my recommendation to staff is that we, or at all of it, get the work done. It's much needed. We will do our best to save money along the way and come in underneath these figures. And that includes my report. Okay, thank you very much. Does council have any questions or staff? I have just a general question. Typically when we get these bids, how long will they hold the bid for us? I meant now, I meant before they were like 60, 80 days. Now what are they holding them for us now with inflation and all that kind of stuff? I mean, typically, just I think in the notice inviting bids we still require, they hold them for 60 days and we found that the contractors are still pretty flexible. Like if you say we want to delay this, can we bid it in a couple months? Like a lot of times, especially because these are local contractors. They'll work with us. Usually it hasn't been that impacted. But legally they have to honor them for 60 days. Oftentimes they'll honor them for longer at our request. So it's gotten better since COVID. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. House. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Roxanne Questions no, I just I just wanted a comment that I think it's much needed it's long overdue And if we wait any longer it's just gonna cost us more money later on down the road, so Right Yeah, I was I don't want to say hesitant but there's obviously a lot of competing priorities for Upkeep with aging infrastructure, but But I think what probably convinced me this being a higher priority was seeing how successful some of the community events over the summer were out in front of the city all here. It's great to see and I think probably that in my perspective on there was a little bit skewed, because we haven't had something as big as maybe the May fast fall in a long time. But it's good to see people realizing that the space is still there for them to be able to use and enjoy. And so I do think it's good and necessary. And thank you for convincing me of that. Okay. Thank you. Anything, thank you. Anything, Christine, anything from you? No, I'm ready to make a motion. Okay, go ahead and entertain a motion. All right, I recommend that our council approve the award of a contract with ADA General Engineering, ADAGE, for the construction of project specification number 24-02, sidewalks and plaza concrete project, and appropriate $82,694 and $0.30 of additional budget We have a motion in a second. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed? Hearing none. This matter passes. Thank you. Thank you very much, Roxanne. All right. So on to item number nine, committee, commission and board Thank you. Thank you very much Roxanne. All right. So on to item number nine, committee, commission and board reports. So back over to council members. I have one. I attended the air pollution control board this afternoon. And I've been in contact with Oli Gassini, who was the head of the air pollution control district. And we've been talking about the Chiquita landfill. And they have been monitoring the air. They put in two temporary monocene stations, one in Pairu, and one a little bit closer to Fillmore. And so far the reports have been coming back. Good, they haven't found anything significant. Great. Wrist, but heading the other way, it's a much different story. That's what I heard. Yeah. It's a much different story. Like school said, near Castake, we're concerned. And they're not really testing for bands, and either of which are kind of concerned for me. So I'll keep you updated as more tests come out. Great. OK. anyone else? I'd like to just, I guess maybe you'll reiterate some information. I'll have it all so lean on Dave. Through its efforts to help economic development, the city is going to be hosting a business, social media, outreach kind of program like coaching people who may not be familiar. Would Eric Irida be able to speak a little bit more towards that? Yeah, during his report. Right. Well, that's fine. He could do it during the next item. Yeah. Okay. I do have a couple of things report back on and that's one we had of Interac County Transportation Commission meeting. We'd been dark most of the summer so we had a very lengthy meeting one day last week. The discussion of was a lot of the discussion had to do with public transportation preparing for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. So Darren Kettle, who oversees the entire district, he used to oversee just VCTC here, but now he oversees transportation. A mental link, Amtrak, between here and LA and elsewhere, I believe. Anyway, so the discussion was great detail about how they're going to try. It's going to be just FYI, the Olympics are calling a no car event. In other words, it sounds like they are going to prohibit people from attending some of the Olympic events. Public transportation, you will not be allowed to drive your vehicle, your personal vehicle, through these events and again This is 2028 down the road so but it's it's going to be I think a Monster job to get people out of their vehicles and get into public transportation so there's a lot of discussion on that and then also I participated in a webinar on legislation yesterday. And it was hosted by the League of California cities. And for those who don't know, the League of California cities is basically a support agency for all city councils and municipalities, all of us data California. And they do a great job. They're based out of Sacramento, and they have lobbyists there that monitor all the legislation is going through the legislators and getting any nap on our governor's desk. So the way things stand right now, there were some very interesting pieces of legislation and they'd be happy to share information with anybody who wants to send me an email and give you more information on some of the things that really struck a chord with me. And those pieces of legislation right now are sitting on the governor's desk to be signed. What Liggy California City does is they consult with all the municipalities and say, should we support this or should we oppose this? So everyone of the bills we went through during this legislative webinar yesterday, they shared what position the league, what position they were going to take on it, whether they wanted the governor to veto it or to sign the bill. So it's really interesting and learn a lot from it, but again, you know reach out to me be email and I'd be happy to provide you with more information in detail and That's all I have so anyone else Okay, let's move on to item number 10 city management report Thank you, I'm mayor council just a couple new items, a couple of repeat items. Again, youth basketball registration closes on September 30th. The registration fee is $100 per player. We're also still taking applications for referees and gym managers. So please contact the city at 805-524-3701. Extension 713. five, two, four, three, seven, zero, one, extension, seven, one, three. And we're also taking incentives for the Fillmore Legends Adaptive Basketball League as well. For the business item, the Economic Development Collaborative and the City of Fillmore have arranged a social media workshop for our business owners. It's going to be held on Wednesday, October 9th at 6pm, and to a coffee a wider audience of the workshop will be conducted in a hybrid format, allowing both online and in-person participation. We will also be recording the workshop and making the content available on the C's economic development resources section of the webpage. We're also going to have staff walk up and down and hand out a flyer to the bid that says locate on within Central Avenue and some of the outskirts on Highway 126 as well. Tomorrow morning, please get up bright and early. At 645 is the 911 remembrance ceremony at the fire station at 711, Lindeiro's Lane. We're giving you at 645 of the copy, like Snack, 655, I had the raising of the flight to half staff and bells would go off. It's a commemorate the first tower that was hit during that time. On Saturday, September 28th, 80M to one in the afternoon at World Number Four, which is on Good enough Road between A and B streets, residents and small businesses, or it will drop off trash for free. This includes recyclables, trash furniture, appliances, old tires, refrigerators, computers, television sets, and stereos among the material that's there. And for some people in the audience and for City Council, and the original sets and stereos among the material that's there. For some people in the audience and for City Council, we've actually started the elevator repair started on September 5th, where we have all the old electrical hydraulic equipment hath been removed, and you have the new electronics and hydraulics are now installed. The electrician will be out next week to energize the controls and our fire and safety issues will also be installed next week. We're waiting on the cabin tier installation and hopefully get that scaled to the next two weeks. We have one more part that's going to come in. We hope to get this done by November. So that's kind of what we're pushing for right now. It's one item out there, but we are moving forward on getting that taken care of. And then earlier time people were talking about the parks. We are almost finalizing. We should be done by the end of next week. The new shade structures at both the lower state park and two of us park. They had the poles up there already and install waiting to put the canvas on top of it to get that taken care of. And then last week myself and Joe are the Pelivarx director. We talked with the vendor in terms of installing lights at Tourers Park. We cut the project way down. We removed lights for the baseball field and are concentrating more just on the soccer field area and the football practice area. when it gets dark outside. It's our way to get those costs brought in, hopefully, to the next week. And we'll have discussion in turn with staff to come back with a recommendation to City Council later on this year to see what direction we want to move forward on that. We'll top of that in terms of another issue with the homeless. There's an update on the Rendo removal. We got some word back that the work will be either in the first or second quarter of 2025, once they get the approval regarding that. Thank you, Dave. Good evening, Mayor, City Council members and community members. So earlier today, I was brought to the city's attention that we had a couple of solicitors going around knocking on doors, requesting to prior to the council meeting starting our deputies did go out and made contact with two individuals, younger individuals who worked for a company called California Efficiency Group. But anyways, we made contact with them. They're essentially just trying to sell water filtration systems. The company does have what appears to be a legitimate website if you look it up online. We did notify them of the need for a city permit, which I don't believe they have it. So just a reminder and I know Erica sent out something on social media for our community members right the city We'll never ask to go inside your house and test your water So don't lend anybody inside your house unless you're if they continue. Last time they came around they're pretty compliant. We advised them of the need for the city permit. They left the area I don't know if you know what I'm saying. I'm not going to call back. I'm not going to call back. I'm not going to call back. I'm not going to call back. I'm not going to a join. So we can go into close session on one potential litigation matter. We will come back at the conclusion of that and let you know if we have anything to report out and then adjourn them evening after that. So again, thank you all for being here. I just wanted to say that we have just come from closed session and we have no reportable action. And so therefore I'm going to adjourn the meeting to our next scheduled meeting which is September 24th here in City Hall at 6.30. Have a good evening.