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Sure. Sherry Flas. Perfect. Thank you. We got it. Rebecca, please join me in the pledge. My pleasure, allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay. For now, if you would mind reading us the protocols to this meeting, still under COVID, so need that protocol. That's a good evening. Mayor council members and everyone that can hear me, this meeting tonight is being held pursuant to Governor's executive order and 29 S20 and 33-20 and the County Health Officers Order. All members of the City Council staff and all other attendees are joining this meeting by either a video conference or by telephone. Tonight's meeting is streamed live via the city's website, by Virtual Broadcast on Government Access Television, Channel 21 and via Zoom platform. With regard to public comments the instructions for providing public comment tonight or testimony are stated on the agenda for this meeting. The options available are by telephone, in writing or virtually during the Zoom webinar. For the public join us via Zoom webinar platform, I would request that you use the Razer Hand icon to indicate a desire to speak when your item of interest is reached. The mayor at the appropriate time during your item of interest will call for public comment and each speaker will be unmuted to present their testimony In closing, I'd like to remind everyone joining Tonight to please mute any background noise in order to improve the listening quality of this meeting for everyone also to help our interpreters To keep up with providing simultaneous Spanish language trans interpretation that when you speak to do so in the lab clear and not too fast voice. That ends my remarks, Mayor. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. Okay. Moving into the agenda. I don't remember one. This is Introduction's Proclamations and Presentations. I see we have one. This is a Proclamation designation May 16th to to 22, 2021 as National Public Works Week. And with that could I have staff report, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. to you a proclamation recognizing public works personnel in national public works week in the week of May 16 through May 22nd. I'm going to put up on screen a share screen of the theme of national public works week real quick. Mr. Mayor council members, are you able to see my screen? Yes, we're good. Okay, thank you. Again, National Public Works week is. Was first established in 1960 and this is the year that marked the 61st anniversary of the National Public Works week and is sponsored by the American Public Works Association and the Canadian Public Works Association. This year's theme is stronger together and it's appropriate, especially in the time that we're in, especially with the pandemic, the ongoing pandemic. What this stronger together means is by working together, there is a positive impact that the community members and public works professionals can have. And it's magnified and it results in the ability to accomplish goals once thought unattainable. Public works help maintain the ability to maintain community strength by working together to provide an infrastructure of services. And what are those services? Public works is a large umbrella, so to say. And public works really is not just streets and roadways. If you look at the proclamation. That that's before you encompasses transportation infrastructure. Like streets and roadways. If you look at the proclamation, that's before you encompasses transportation infrastructure, like streets and highways, public facilities, government buildings and schools, for example, public spaces like your parks, public services, wastewater treatment plants, water treatment plants, public resources and conservation, such as energy, groundwater, conservation, recycled water, and fleet and equipment from maintaining law enforcement vehicles, fire apparatus, and various government vehicles. We do appreciate that I am also a public works professional and on behalf of public works professionals out there We do appreciate the City Council's recognition of public works professionals and in your last City Council meeting You've also recognized first responders and thank you for that as well public works Is also a first responder and we were also recognized or actually given a shout out via city managers that in emergency services like your Sheriff's Department and fire protection district here. So with that, I'd like to introduce you, or maybe reintroduce you to the hardworking professionals of our city public works department, as well as our parts and recreation department. And you probably see a lot of names here that are on the screen. And again, it's a reintroduction to the hard working men and women that work in public works. And I'm going to read each of those public works professional by name in alphabetical order, first name alphabetical order. And if you are, if I mentioned your name, please raise your hand city staff. So with that, I'm gonna go down the list. Anthony Vega, maintenance worker number two. It is there, okay. Brian Barrett, our very own Brian Barrett, if you're there, Brian, say hi. David Huff, maintenance worker number two, our very own Aaron Maker, a polar works professional. And Fernando V.S. In your, probably the name doesn't, you haven't recognized that yet, because he's been with us for a few months already. But he's our new hire who actually does the maintenance of our downtown team team making it beautiful, making sure that gum is not in that sidewalk. But Fernando actually is an important part of the team is not just maintenance, but he also goes out there when we need him in traffic control and things like that. Our made maintenance worker John Kaiser. Maddie Gonzalez our senior maintenance technician Robert Howard our public rec supervisor. Thank you Robert. Ressendo Esbudo one of our maintenance workers in parks and recreation and public facilities department Tiffany, our supervisor in parks and recreation pulling facilities department. And last but not least, Tim Gray, maintenance worker number two. I see you like your uniform, there Tim. All right. And myself, Mr. Mayor and council members. So with that, that concludes my presentation. And again, we as public works professional, thank you for making this proclamation and recognizing that public works professionals are first responders as well. Thank you. Great. Thank you, and thanks for your presentation and thank you all for doing such a great job for us. I'm going to ask real quick if there's any public comment fidelity. We have anybody real quickly. No, man, we do not. Thank you, Aaron. Yes, Mary, one raised and stepbrington, Stephanie? Yes, hello. I, is this about general public comments? Am I in the right place? Nope, it's just. Okay, not yet, Stephanie. We're coming up to that one. Okay, with that, I would then close public comment. And I'm gonna read you back to the council We are going to actually again read this proclamation the order will be L You'll go first and tell you you'll go second Roy. You'll be third. I will go fourth Greg You will be fifth person we will reach one of the lines as you've been assigned So I'm out you with my starting us out. Yeah, I trying, I'm looking forward on my iPad here. Oh, my apologies. Uh, to hang on. I don't, um, Whereas National Public Works Week is an annual observance to celebrate the tens of thousands of individuals who work on public works including infrastructure facilities and services that are vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to the health, safety and quality of life all across North America and. Whereas public works could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of those individuals, also known as public works personnel who are employees at all levels of the government and the private sector. Responsible for the planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining of the nation's transportation infrastructure. For example, streets, highways, bridges, railroads, transit systems, pipelines, canals, ports, and airports, public facilities. For example, building schools and hospitals, spaces for example squares parks and beaches public services for example water treatment and distribution waste water collection and treatment solid waste collection street sweeping and utilities public resources and conservation for example energy ground water and recycled water and fleet and equipment. For example, law enforcement vehicles, fire apparatus and government vehicles and equipment and. Whereas in 1960, the United States Senate adopted a resolution affirming their first national public works week and. Whereas in 1962, President John F Kennedy signed the presidential proclamation of National Public Works week and. Where's the 1962 president John F Kennedy signed the presidential proclamation of National Public Works week and. For as in 2000, George W. Bush defines throughout Homeland Security President, President Bill directed the term from first responders who also have good work first. Whereas first responders in accordance with Hspd-8 Public Works personnel are those individuals who in the early stages of an incident are responsible for the protection and preservation of life, property, evidence, and environment, and... Whereas in November 2017, the Board of Directors of the American Public Works Association passed a motion to launch a campaign to promote public works personnel as first responders and approve the adoption of public works first, responded to the bill as shown earlier. And whereas on March 13, 2020, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared an emergency disaster for California due to COVID-19 pandemic for federal disaster number EM3228CA. And whereas the May 11, 2020, federal disaster number EM 3228 C.A. And whereas the May 11, 2020, a carpentry city council digs the public works first responder symbol as shown herein as a permanent official city of Carpentry, a symbol for the city public's works personnel and acknowledgement as a first responder to be affixed to the city public works, personnel uniforms, vehicles, and equipment, and. Whereas at first responders, city public works first, follow on the resume and continue to respond to questions 19, panic, and. Whereas the year 2021 marks the 61st anniversary of National Public Works Week, and is sponsored by the American Public Works Association and Canadian Public Works Association. And. Whereas it is the public interest for the carpenter community to gain knowledge of and to maintain a progressive interest in understanding of the importance of public works. Now, do you for you be proclaimed, the Covenant City Council does hereby disinate the week of May 16 through 2022-21 as National Public Works Week in the City of Coventuria. It urges the Covenant City Committee to join with a representative of the American Public Works Association, an Aiding Public Works Association and the Aiding Public Works Association and local government agencies and activities, events and ceremonies designed to pay tribute to public works personnel and to recognize and substantial contributions they make to protect our health, safety and quality of life and. And now before we finalize this, I'm going to ask for a motion for somebody to ask this. Anybody wishing to make a motion? Mayor Fremont. Right. Yes. I move. I move that we approved the appropriation designating May 16 through 22nd, 2020, one as National Public Works Week. Thank you. Go ahead a second to that. I will second. Thank you, Greg. We have a motion. We have a second. Any discussion? Seeing none, could all of you admire a roll call vote please? I think Roy had his hand up, Mayor. Roy? Thank you, Natalia. For me, just a moment, public comment. I always want to thank all public works and employees and everybody out there for all they do. A lot of people may not realize everything that they do for a community and I just want to. I can't thank them enough, so yeah, keep doing the awesome job. Yeah, okay. Thank you. And mayor. Yes, Greg. I just could also Fernando and our downtown. Do it. I'm. I agree again. Thank you. Okay. With that then, I'm pretty much you with mine. I'll go please. Council Member Cardi. Aye. Council Member Reddgan. Aye. Council Member Lee. Aye. Vice Mayor Clark. Aye. And Mayor Neumara. Aye. Thank you. The witness thereof, I have herein to set my hand and cause the official seal of the City of Carpenter, California to be affixed this 10th day of May 2021. So that then makes us official. So thank you very much. I would like to also extend my heartfelt thank you for the public works people now only in Carpenter, but throughout the country, but only in Carpenter but throughout the country but especially in Carpenter for Keeping us and taking care of us so well. I appreciate it very much The reflection of the city actually is the reflection of the hard work that you all do so Thank you everybody John doing a great job of leading the team and I think we're getting the rest of you Please thank those that couldn't make it today John Well, thank you again, Mr. Mayor and Council Member. Thank you. Okay, next item I have is public information reports and announcements. I believe this would be a great time for Sheriff's report if you would mind their book. Thank you, Mayor. City Council, staff and those listening at home just give you a brief recap on what has happened since last city council meeting. The week of April 25th we continue to do our proactive stop sign enforcement in the 5600 block that Cassita's passed. We have some mail theft as well as forged checks from happening at that location. That night shift Tuesday, the 27th. They're in the 500 block of Maple Avenue. Again, thank God the residents were paying attention and heard drilling noises and went outside to confront a couple who were trying to remove the catalytic converter. converter enough to scare them off. They got near vehicle and left it was an older model Jeep Grand Cherokee style type vehicle dark color. So you see that in your neighborhood by on Saturday that May 1st we had a vehicle stolen in the 5700 block of EURL that was just before noon. That's the update for that week the week of May 2nd through May 8th. On Tuesday May 4th, we assisted state parks. We was a multiple agency co-response fire law enforcement all responded to the state park. We had a reported missing three-year-old child. The child was located in the vehicle of the parents, they were both had some narcotic and alcohol issues. The child was taken in a custody by child welfare services and the parents were taken in a custody and booked in to jail basically for child neglect and child endangerment. On Friday, May 7th, we had narcotics arrests as well as over 100 pieces of stolen mail from approximately 25 different residences were recovered. That happened on Santa Monica Road and that was a little after 10 at night. Good, good arrest by deputies because it was a traffic stop and you know those simple traffic stops. You never know what they're going to lead into and this one led into a couple of people who were victimizing many of our residents by going and stealing their mail. We had a minor traffic injury accident there in the McDonald's parking lot on Cedars Plaza. That was Saturday on the 8th and that was right at NIN. We recovered that stolen vehicle from a couple of days before it was recovered there on Camino Carita. That was at 2.30 in the afternoon. And then on Saturday, May 8th, that Carpin Lyndon, we had a construction worker who was from Santa Barbara. I had the theft of some tools, wallet cash and phone, while it was working here in Carpenteria. We attempted to track the telephone and still weren't able to find it. It kept peeing in the area of Shepherd's Plaza. And that was basically a crime for the last two weeks. I know the last meeting that we had the the vandalism that we reported on there that occurred at the linden and carpenter avenue. Since then the city of interna has reported similar vandalism as well as I don't know if you're going one-on-one southbound the outbuilding between the Santa Barbara cemetery in the Manacito sanitary district you'll see on that out building the same similar graffiti. So again it appears quite evident that it was a person moving through the areas just going southbound doing that graffiti but we are working with the city of inter-appalice department and see if they have any more leads on the corporate that did that crime. And that's all I have unless there's any questions from from console. Thank you, but we have any questions. Keep up the work, but you guys are very busy. So, thank you for watching out for us. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Do we have any other public information reports or announcements? Okay. Seeing none, City Manager's report. Thanks Mayor Good evening. Good evening Council members. Mayor, we do have one public comment on this end. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I'm trying to. Right, Stephanie Herring didn't go ahead. Yes, hello, thank you. So I would like to ask the council in honor of Pride Month for permission to display a banner across Linda Navinue for the month of June. I think this is I'm sorry Stephanie interrupt. I think this yeah I ended for public comment. We're not quite there yet. Okay I didn't think I raised my hand. I'm getting to the right spot. I think we'll remember it now Stephanie. We'll call again. Thank you. All right. Let's go ahead with city energy point. Thank you. All right. All right. All right. That's great. We're going to go ahead with city of energy. Point. Thanks. Thanks, mayor. I'm going to talk just really quickly about three things. Landscape maintenance work in the downtown area. Law enforcement bicycle patrol and mean these here to give us an update on COVID. So to start with landscape maintenance, I'm gonna share my screen. Our public works crew, as you know, our team there's been doing a great job. And one of the things we've done recently is contracted with a new landscape maintenance company, showscapes, and as a part of that agreement, they are starting off on the right foot and doing some annual flower replacement in the downtown planters and will be cleaning up the planters as hopefully folks have noticed getting rid of the weeds and grass. Here's another example in the center median south of Carpenter Avenue on Linden. So doing good job, good start and we're thrilled to have them on board and catching up on a lot of deferred maintenance on all of our landscape areas around town including our parks and parkways. Also want to mention that between Memorial Day and Labor Day are annual law enforcement bicycle patrol begins. That's enhanced patrol service Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on weekends and on Monday holidays. That's enhanced bicycle patrol. They're writing electric bikes now. So here's here's an example of the electric bike. We have two of those. They're battery powered. Battery sits right in here. See they're very nice bikes. So this will allow more officers to get around the downtown T in the beach area when they do that enhanced bike controls. We're thrilled to have that back this year and again between Memorial Day and Labor Day at Service on Weekends and Monday holidays. With that mayor I'll turn it over to Mimi to give an update on all things COVID-19. Good evening mayor council members. I'm sure you all know by now that the county is sitting in the orange tier which has a lot of more capacity in restaurants and retail. There's burrowries and distilleries are now able to be open museums, movie theaters. So that one moving to that tier was mostly about capacity. Also some private events can happen and I encourage anyone who is thinking about having a private event to actually go to the public health director, the county will not be moving to the next tier tomorrow. In Tuesdays are typically the day that the evaluations come out from the state to see if we've made it to the next tier. We have not. The adjusted case rate needs to be less than two per 100,000. And the Santa Barbara County is kind of juggling between three and a little over four per 100,000. So yellow tier is out at this time. And the new cases are being attributed to those under the age of 18 and those 18 to 29 years of age. So I am highly encouraging young people to get vaccinated. It will definitely help our cause here at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're looking at the community and we're on the right path, but you can see right above that that 4.6s are adjusted case rate at this time. So, then every two weeks, basically, it's a two week run of numbers that we have to be under that two per hundred thousand. We may end up reopening under the state for June 15th. So the governor has said if we meet two criteria, the state's going to reopen fully on June 15th. The first one is equitable vaccine availability, which means sufficient supply for all Californians 16 years or older who wish to be vaccinated. There are no shortages of vaccines. And consistently the low burden of disease in our hospitals. And so it looks like we're on the right track for reopening California on June 15th. So with vaccines, appointments are available by signing up at my turn, California. You can also call 211 in News Option 4. The 800 number for 211 is 800-400-1572. Also using Option 4 gets you to the county website and check for clinics and many of the clinics, including pharmacies, are giving vaccines without appointments. You just have to show up. So that tells you that we do have quite an availability of vaccines. You want to make sure that you either go back to the same location or you're going do have quite an availability of vaccines. You want to make sure that you either go back to the same location for your second dose if you're doing Pfizer or Moderna or that you make sure that where you go for your second dose offers you the same as your first dose. You don't want to mix those up at this time. Let's see. Mask requirements. I've been getting a lot of emails lately about do we still have to wear masks? And basically, masks are required in public settings, restaurants and businesses. If you are fully vaccinated, you can be indoors with people that are fully vaccinated and not wear masks. If you are with people that are not vaccinated and you are, you still want everyone to wear a mask. So all of this is based on getting vaccinated. So please encourage family, friends, everybody you know to get that vaccine and our restrictions will lift tremendously. On May 20, Cal OSHA will be meeting to establish new workplace safety precautions and requirements specific to COVID. So that will also be good news for businesses. And lastly, there are a lot of economic resources available for businesses and for personal. So I highly encourage anyone looking for some economic relief or whether it is rental assistance or based on businesses. Go to covid19.ca.gov. There's a lot available there. SBA.gov has a lot going on for businesses. There are very specific things like grants for restaurants, grants for event centers, rental assistance, pay check protection programs. So a lot happening still in the support area for our community and that is my report. Thank you. I conclude the City of Manor's report, Mayor. Okay, thank you. We have any questions of staff for the mayor? I mean, the manager? Mayor, I do. Go ahead, Roy. Hey, Dave. I've been given all questions about the possibility of this year's Avalcaw Festival. Any updates on that? No, we've been in conversation with Michael Lazaro at the Alucado Festival, the Alucado Board, but they're not ready to make an announcement yet. They are looking at whether or not they'll be with a usual event or a different type of event. So expect that there'll be a public announcement soon. Thank you. Any other questions? that there will be a public announcement soon. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, saying none. I will now move into public comment. Thank you, by the way. Me, me, me for stepping in. Okay, presentations by citizens, public comments on items not on the agenda this evening. I'm going to go ahead and jump right to Stephanie since she's been patiently waiting for us. Stephanie, go ahead. You can go first. Okay, third time's a charm. So I would like to ask the council members for permission to display a banner across London Avenue for the month of June and celebration of Pride Month. And John Wilbrant has been working on a couple of concepts for the banner hoping we can promote inclusivity. Yeah support for the LGBTQ community. Okay thank you for that one. For staff is that we probably want to see that for me it'd be great but we want to make sure it gets through so If we could put that on one of our upcoming agendas We can certainly do that mayor I Didn't I'm sorry may have missed it Stephanie was there a timing for that or is it if we put it on for the next council agenda would that be adequate time for when you had mine to display. That would be that would be adequate if it was on the agenda two weeks from now. Pride month is the month of June. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Okay, Ferella, I'm going to go back to you for public comment. We have anybody there? Yes, Mayor. I have on the line a speaker. I have Clare Mitchell. So I'll bring her on the line now. Are you there, Clare? Yes, I'm here. Okay go ahead with your comments please. Good evening. I have lived in Perfenthoria for 4.5 years. I am a neighborhood server and not a volunteer for field watch. I have noted a smaller number of fields each year as my husband and I do our eye recalculed on our daily walk. We are a big proponent of keeping the area protected all year round for the field. We presently do not walk on the area of the beach close off of the field, even after it is very open. We feel at its very home. We are so proud of this delirious of wildlife, right in the middle of our big community. The facts are, in the last 30 years of record keeping, by field watch, the numbers first increased with the age of older, and then in the last 6 years, a steady decline. What was born to tie is over 400 adults, it's currently down to 200 adults and pops. I'm suggesting a task force. To carefully study the information, and a temporary closure extension to allow the research and time needed to conclude the annual decrease in numbers. Covenants give in all of us a way to call for how precious life is. Proactively doing our part can ensure that the harbor field remain part of our community for future generations. We don't want the real great advantage or disappear because research and action wanted to tell priority before it becomes all too late. Thank you for working to save our carpentry and seals of late. Thank you. Thank you. We have any other comments? I have one more that this one was actually received a little while back, but it didn't make it to the agenda that it came in for, it came in late for the April 12th meeting. And then it's regarding the surf liner and, and we thought on the request of Council member Lee, that we should read this when the the DDA came back on the surf liner. And as you know, that's been postponed again. So I thought I would just read it into night so that this one doesn't get lost in the paperwork here. That would be alright. That's fine. Thank you. All right. This is a comment written by Robin. I don't have a last name. She writes, I would like to voice my support for the CirqueMiner in project. I am aware that there is a very vocal contingent of people who are resistant to change and inundating city council with complaints. I commend our council for showing courage by not giving in to the critical fearful voices and instead evaluating this project on its actual merits. At first, I was also resistant to the idea of change. I love our little community the way it is. However, upon learning more, I have realized that the hotel as proposed is entirely within the character of our little beach vacation community, especially in the area where it is proposed, which is in the tourist area and already has many very similar vacation properties. I would like to encourage our council to continue to support this project in spite of the very vocal few. I have a busy life with the young family. I do not have time to show up at a million council meetings in the middle of a pandemic and fight with grumpy people. That is why we have elected you to act with our town's best interest at heart, which I believe you are doing. Putting this project to a vote will play into the hands of the male contents because ordinary people like me who may support this project do not have the time to waste on gathering signatures on a petition please continue to act with the entire town's interest at heart not just a few who have no who have time to complain that ends up in comment Thank you. Thank you. That's all I have here in my end. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to pick up on the ladies comment who. Phone in about the seal watch. I. the seal watch. I plan commissioner Allen and myself are both associated with seal watch and plan commissioner Allen also collect collect all the data. The seal watchers are trying to keep data on the numbers of seals that they see the number of cups so on and so forth. And also they collect data on how seals are disturbed and other data about the seals and try to prevent visitors from disturbing the seals. Anyway, we have observed for the last probably six years declining numbers of seals. And we really don't know why we have I've contacted some people at the Marine Biology Department of UCSB who dive at the various reefs and Plankershire Allen has contacted people that are in the know about some of the other rookies in Southern California about whether they are having similar problems and we really haven't come up with anything um however the numbers are declining and alarming rate and this year we almost thought we were going to have a record all but they they did sort of bounce back a little bit for the birth and we had a you know about half the pups that we usually see. Anyway, I think it's a good idea. I'd like to if anybody else is interested to put on the agenda an item about the suggestion that she rose to have a some sort of task force to figure out why the college declining, if there's anything that the city can do to help prevent that. Thank you, well, I'll tell you what, real quickly, I want to go through the rest of the comment, but I will bring this back once we have a few other questions. I'm sure we were done with it. For the whole, it was done. No, no, no problem now, but we will bring it back. Thank you. Aaron back to you. Julia mayor. Julia. Hello, city council and mayor. Nomura. Thanks for having me. I'm here on behalf of the Carpenteria Skate Park. I thought that today would be a really good opportunity to remind you that this project is still chugging along 20 years later. And to just say a heartfelt thank you to the City of Carpenteria for not only just supporting this project, but really lending help in every step of the way. This is an absolutely grassroots movement. It has been grassroots since it was at the train depot and you know as we enter into June on the horizon and you know lifting of COVID restrictions. I really just look forward to us breaking ground together to celebrate this huge project. And you know, the biggest thing about this Cape Park is that COVID has shown us how important equitable outdoor space for our community is. And truly that is what we will be providing for this community adults, children, and youth alike. So I just really want to say thank you so much for always being there in support of this project. And to let you know, you know that we're really ramping up our marketing campaign to bring this over the top that is born from the roots of this community. I'm a third generation carpenterian and alongside many other multi-generation carpenteria families, we're gonna be here to make this happen. And I just wanted to say thank you and give you that update. Great, thank you. No further comment on this and there. Okay, thank you. First raise their hand. Okay. I'm going to go to the next slide. No further comment on this and there. Okay. Thank you. First raise their hand. Okay. Warner. I'm going to go to the next slide. Yeah, hello, can you hear me? Yes. Hi, Mayor. Hi, council. People. My name is Warner. I'm the owner of little DOM seafood. I was wondering if now is the time to comment about the outdoor seating. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. Um, issue. That item will be coming up shortly. That's one of our agenda items. So this is for not agenda items right now, but that will be coming up towards the end of the meeting. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Great. No further comment. Okay. Thank you. I want to close public comment. Bring it back to Mr. Clark's comments and suggestions on that one. So in the other comments from council. Eric? Right. I do endorse and support councilman's clerks recommendation to, you know, put it on the agenda and whether study why they could decline a possible task force if possible. Sounds good. Anybody else? Yes, through the mayor in Natalia. Go ahead Natalia. I would agree. I'd also like to request and maybe it's during the same time we have this agenda item, but that there be a presentation on behalf of the steel watcher so I can better understand the data that they're seeing in the history. Sounds good. That would all fit within the staff report. Sounds like we're in agreement. I also support the idea of creating a task force to study the situation at least hopefully we can shed some light on some of the challenges that we are seeing right now. So with that if you would mind, David, we could pencil the scene for one of the upcoming meetings, put this on the agenda as an agenda item for creation of a task force. Okay, thank you. Okay. Next item up we have is agenda modifications, any requests for agenda modifications? Seeing none, we'll move into the consent calendar with one item. I don't know number two. Receive and filed expenditures. So with that, anybody wishing to make a motion on this one? Aaron Roy Roy I Move to receive a file that is spent to choose for the period beginning April 17th 2021 and ending April 30 of 2021 Thank you Do I have a second I will second? Thank you Greg. You have a most we have a second and you discussion on this. Seeing none for dollar real call vote please. Yes Mayor for the record we don't have any public comment on my end for this matter. Thank you. A council member Cardi. Aye. Council member Alabegon. Aye. Council member Lee. Aye. Council member Lee. Aye. Vice Mayor Clark. Aye. And Mayor Numerah. Aye. Thank you. Next up we have a administrative matters item number three. This is the adoption resolution number 6050 concerning reclassification of the pool superintendent position for parks recreation and public facilities department and with that I'm could I have staff report please I believe it's a you're going to be handling that one. Thank you Mary yes and if you have questions Matt Roberts is here also but this is as you point out, consideration of ordinance 6050, excuse me, resolution 6050, which would reclassify and retitle the pool superintendent position in the parks, recreation public facilities department. and based on our recruiting efforts and doing a little research around what the market place is like for this position. We believe that regrading the position from grade 11 to grade 12 in our salary structure, as well as expanding the responsibilities of the position will better reflect the needs of the organization for this work and also place it better for recruitment efforts. The title would be changed from cool superintendent to aquatic superintendent. The responsibilities would be broadened to cover not only oversight of pool operations and programs, but also beach operations and programs. And the grade change from 1112, from 11 to 12 would change the salary range from just over 43,000 to just over 59,000 in grade 11 to 62,000 approximately to 85,000 approximately at grade 12. Our recommendation is that you adopt Resolution 6050 this evening, make those changes and then we will reengage the recruitment process mayor. Great. Thank you. We have any questions or staff? Okay. Seeing none, I will now open this up for public comment. Padella. None on my in there. Thank you, Aaron. And on this end there. Okay, thank you. I would then close by. I'll bring you back to the council for any determinations. Right. Thank you. Thank you. We can't worry about you. I know. Okay. So I move to that top resolution number 6050 as read by title only. Thank you. Do we have a motion? Do we have a second? Second, that. Thank you, Natalia. We have a motion. We have a second. And you're discussion on the item. Mayor, I do. This is Scott from Everkari. Yeah. question on the item. Mayor, I do. This is Councillor McIntyre. Good question. Be for Dave. How far do we go for the recruitment? It would be an awesome position if we had a local recovery in that position, but I don't know if that's possible to get answer of that. It would be great. Thank you. We advertise broadly. There's some of the usual places. The wonderful thing about, of course, the internet is that you can easily get information out to a broad audience through various services. So we do do that. It's always nice to get somebody to slow call. It has roots in the community, of course course for any number of reasons being nearby helps and we want to try to reduce commuting and all that good stuff and we tend to have better continuity when we have people that live It just always depends on a fit. So we encourage folks if they believe they're qualified for the position or interested in taking a look at it to do that. It's, it'll after tonight will load that information online and you'll be able to check it out and see if you feel you're qualified. Please fill out an application form and get into the process. Thank you for bringing that up, Council Member Cardi. Yep, thank you. They're good. Any other comments, questions? Okay. Seeing none, I'll take this to vote then. Fadala. Council Member Cardi. Aye. Council Member Ronev-Gone. Council Member D. Aye. Vice Mayor Clark. Aye. And Mayor Nomura. Aye. All right. Thank you. Next item up we have is public hearing items. I believe we have done just a confirmed day with you. That's the case. That's correct. Mayor. Thank you. Okay. We will now move into other business starting with item number four. This is authorization of the City Manager to execute an agreement with GHD for assistance in preparation of a local roadway service safety plan. And with that, John, believe here up. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening again again council members. What is before you is proposed a proposed agreement to the consulting firm, GHD for transportation planning services to prepare or assist city staff in the preparation of a local roadway safety plan. So what is a local roadway safety plan? So I'll go through that just briefly. So a local roadway safety plan, if you could imagine, it's basically a plan that is data driven, meaning that the plan will be using a type of collision type of information that you're like your traffic collision reports as well as field investigation in order to holistically, so to say, by evaluating the current deficiencies or issues in regards to traffic. So that could be many things, like for example, traffic collisions, perhaps maybe traffic flow in regards to choke points where there could be a traffic accident. So the local Rwombe State, and if you could imagine,'s being used by the Federal Highway Administration as well as CalTrans. It's probably been around, but Calder Measures is basically different things like traffic calming. It could be also maybe making improvements to the roadway infrastructure, maybe bull valves or maybe a more warning sign and signage. But a local roadway safety plan will identify those countermeasures after the analysis of the roadway. And it's not just a technical document because as a part of the local roadway safety plan, there's going to be stakeholder involvement and there's going to be public outreach. And it's not just a bunch of engineers or traffic engineers, traffic planners, trying to make something in and implementing it. We do need the community's input as well as our law enforcement, as well as our fire protection district, including advocates of bicyclists, bicycling, and the ADA community, the Americans with Disabilities Act type of community that's out there. So this is actually a very important and the local government is also a very important and the local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a local government is also a from the Federal Highway Safety and Primate Program. These are Federal-Aid funds that, with the local railway safety plan, it would provide the city consideration in competing for these Federal-Aid funds to implement the local railway safety plan. And the city staff went through, RFP process, excuse me, requests for proposal process in selecting, consulting transportation planning services. Back in March 2021, the RFP was issued and we received two proposals, one from GHD that has an office in Seller's Obispo and one from L.A.E. Associates that is from Placensia, California. And just like all our professional services, we go through a qualifications-based selection process. And in your staff report, we list the criteria of how a qualification-based election process is done. And I can go through that real quickly, example, number one in your staff report. It's really the first qualifications and their ability to perform the work as one criteria. The second one is the proposed firm supervisor, as well as any sub-consultants or sub-contractors. Number three, the firm's responsiveness to the RFP. Number four, the firm's understanding of the needs of the city, the scope of services. And number five is the client references that the consultant provides. And in your staff report is the proposal by GHD and real briefly this proposed scope of work by GHD is to ride project management, a roadway system review of our city streets, a crash history assessment, countermeasures development, an implementation program, the actual local roadway safety plan, and in my opinion one of the most important pieces of the scope work is public outreach in order for the local roadway safety plan to be prepared. Fortunately, in regards to financial considerations, the city actually received $40,000 from the California Transportation Commission to help fund the preparation of a local roadway safety plan. With that grant funding, there's a local match. And the city's local match is in tune of $5,000. And it's budgeted through our. Appropriation of measure a fund. So there is no impact to the general fund. To prepare a local local roadway safety plan. Once the, we go through the process of preparing the local roadway safety plan, the city council themselves will also be a we plan on getting input from the council, as well as the Trivix safety committee and other stakeholders for this local roadway safety plan. In the meeting tonight, other stakeholders for this local road safety plan. In the meeting tonight, I do have the project manager of GHD, Miss Catherine, climate, hopefully I pronounce that right, Catherine. And if you have any, if the council has any questions regarding the scope of work, that's being proposed by GHD. Miss Catherine Kleinchmit would be able to address that and with that Mr. Mayor that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Catherine is any comments you would like to make following the report? John you covered it very well first good evening Mayor Vice Mayor and council members. It's my pleasure to be selected. I've performed several of these local roadway safety plans for different agencies and it's very important to have a comprehensive safety plan that really speaks to your stakeholders, you know, the people that have the boots on the ground every day really capture the needs of the citizens that aren't really maybe captured in the collision data. We'll be mapping all the collision data, but there might be some issues with areas that aren't experienced a collision problem yet, but there's safety concerns. There's near miss misses, maybe with cyclist and vehicles. So this approach that John mentioned where we're going to collect the data and then get the public outreach as well as the stakeholders involved in the development of the plan. We'll kind of guide it in recommending countermeasures that will then align with appropriate funding mechanisms. And one of them is the Highway Safety Improvement Program that is right now is required for the next call that you have this plan. And we'd love to have input from also council members, the mayor, it will be adopted by City Council. So I welcome many questions, but it's my pleasure. Thank you. Okay. With that, we have any questions on the report. Okay. Seeing none, I will bring it into public comment. Podela, starting with you. Mayor, I don't have anything for this matter. Okay. Thank you. Aaron. Mayor, no. For the public comment on the send. Okay. Thank you. I will close public comment. Bring it back to the council. Shh. Make the motion. Uh, I move to authorize the city manager to execute an agreement with GHD to provide assistance with a preparation of a local roadway safety plan in an amount not to exceed 44,860. Thank you. We have a motion to have a second. Second. Right. Thank you, right. We have a motion to have a second. Any discussion? I do, Mayor. Go ahead, Greg. I believe there will be one or two health rivers on this team. When are they appointed or how are they appointed? When does that happen? Good question. On that one, Dave, I'm going to take it to you if we have anything in process for that. Well, I'll ask John and Catherine if in the way that you thought about the work so far, you're thinking that that is something that's inherent in the work, or is that an option that the council can elect to use in terms of having council members create a committee at some sort of a lot. Sure Dave, I could start out with addressing council member parties question and through the mayor. What we plan to do is take it to your usual public facilities committee because there's two already council members there. So it's not exclusive to any one particular group. We do want to go through our own city outreach. So that includes the public facilities committee, which already has two council members. And Mr. Council member, Cardi is a member of that. And there will be opportunities for you to look at the local roadway safety plan, also be in on the kickoff meeting if you wish. So in regards to any particular task force or designating council members, two council members to this specific, in my opinion, you already have have that through the public facilities committee and I believe there should be any specific task force for this one. And just a reminder that the public facilities committee is one of your standing city council committee, so it's a regular brand act meeting with public and participation. Thank you, David. Thank you. Okay. We have any other questions? Comments, discussion items? Seeing none. Go ahead. Yes. Outreach and with the way things are going down California and things are opening up. Do you foresee some public outreach being at a local park with inviting community members, but do you envision that looking like or by public outreach do you mean surveys or to signage? with Councilor Mayor Alicone through the mayor. Catherine, I know you want to jump in on this one because they are, GHD has that in their scope of work as being the, to take that lead in public outreach. There'll be different types of educational materials, media that will be utilized. And we haven't had our kickoff meeting yet, Councilor Mayor Alicone, but Katherine, if you'd like to share a little bit about the scope of work regarding public outreach, feel free to do so if she may, Mr. Mayor. Sure. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So to directly respond to Natalia's comment, yes. We will be conducting public outreach through a website. We're using a social pinpoint website that we develop especially for the city. So you'll have your own URL for local road safety plan, city of Carpentry, or I could just say Carpentry, and from that website you'll have the information for what is a local road safety plan as well as the citizens or any stakeholders, anybody can put public comments on an interactive map. It's very specific, located. You know, it's kind of like a Google map. So you can put your comment on there if it's vehicle, bicycle, transit, pedestrian related, as well as we can do specific surveys and we can put the documents also on that website as far as having in-person meetings that was not I guess what we'd probably need to discuss that further, but I didn't typically we've been doing these through a website and then the city uses their channels through social media to get the word out there and then everybody's putting input through that website. Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Any comments? Discussion items? Seeing none, Fidelah, roll call vote please on this one. Councilmember Cardi. Aye. Councilmember Arad-Gone. Aye. Councilmember Lee. Aye. Vice Mayor Clark. Vice Mayor Clark. We'll move on to mayor. Manora. Hi, and looks like you're muted there. You're muted there, Al. Now you're muted. There you go. Thanks. Yeah, doing a little experiment on the iPad and toggling back and forth There you go. Thanks. Yeah, doing a little experiment on the iPad and toggling back and forth between granicus and zoom meeting and apparently I can't talk to you while I'm looking at granicus. However, my vote is aye. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next item up I have is, oh, by the way, thank you, Catherine. Next item up I have is item number five authorization from the city to rejoin the multi-dress, Dictionals solid waste task group. And with that, looking for staff report by Aaron. Thank you, Mayor, members of the council. The multi-dress, Dictionals Solid Waste Task Group, which from here on out, I'm just gonna refer to as the task group was established as a forum to discuss and plan county-wide Solid Waste Management programs that includes things such as the Resource Recovery Project at Tejigas, Capacity Planning, other landfills around the county, as well as long-term plans for things such as recycling and diversion from landfills. These are programs that have been ongoing since the task group was formed in June 2001. The task group did continue to meet through development and approval of a work summary and countywide long term solid waste management plan, which is attached to your staff report this evening. That plan was produced in February 2004. After that, the task group continued to meet periodically to work on these items up until about 2011 when they disbanded. This multi-dress fictional task group was made up of the cities of New York, in Perpentria, Galita, Guadalupe, Lampo, Santa Barbara, San Maria, and Solving, and the County of Santa Barbara. So all public jurisdictions within the city within the County of Santa Barbara. So all public jurisdictions within the city, within the County of Santa Barbara were represented. The purpose of this staff report is to consider rejoining and reforming the task group. The reason for this is that while many of the projects that were the task group was originally formed to address world work on and have been completed. There are many new legislative items that have come up through the period since that task group disbanded that benefit from reforming. 2011 legislation has been passed such as Senate Bill 1383, which we have discussed at other council meetings. That is the short-lived climate pollutants Senate Bill 1383, which we have discussed at other council meetings. That is the short-lived climate pollutants Senate Bill. It established methane emission reduction targets and also establishes organic space diversion as well as recycling mandates for the city. We have talked about how heavy of a lift this will be for the city as well as as partners jurisdictions that includes things such as adoption of local enforcement ordinances, container labeling and a regional food rescue program. These are things that staff has been working on. The city is a member of the local solid waste task force, which is just staff level representation. The multi-druest external solid waste task group includes elected officials. Even that this would be beneficial is because of any legislative matters that come up. This group could send letters lobbying on behalf of our region from elected officials in a more timely manner. So staff recommends approving the city of rejoining the task group and appointing at least one no more than two council members to serve. I just want to mention that all the other agencies are also going through this process. So at this time it is not known who, when this reestablishment is going to happen, we are hoping to bring this back to the local task force in July to to determine if it is going to happen or not. That includes my staff report. I to take any questions. Thank you, Erin. We have any questions of staff? Mayor, go ahead, Roy. Erin, what's the time commitment for this possible task force? Through the Mayor, Council Member Lee, in the past, the time commitment depended on the projects that were being worked on. I believe they tended to meet quarterly. This was the forum. I was with the city of this group met. So, and that is the intention that it would continue to be a quarterly meeting of. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. See you then. I'm going to now open up for a public comment. Starting with Fidel. Do you have anybody? No one on my in there. Thank you. Aaron. I'm in the send-meyer. Okay. Thank you. I will then close public comment. Bring it back to the council. Anybody wish you take action on this item? Yeah. Good. I just want to say that I would offer that I be one of the two possible council members to join this task force. I mean, waste. Yeah. Task group. Okay. How about a motion? Okay. Thank you. Then I move that the city rejoined the multi-traditional solid waste task force and appoint the council member. I myself really to serve. Okay. Did that include one or two? Two. Anybody wants to. Okay. Okay. Thank you. We have a motion. Anybody wishing to second that motion? I will second there. Okay. Thank you Greg. We have any discussion. One suggestion with V since we have two spots. It could either be two people in position or we can have an alternate appointed at this time. My suggestion would be possibly having an alternate and appointed for this one. Anybody wishing to step up on that? Be happy to be the alternate. Okay, thank you, Natalia. So with that, I'll need to have a modification of the motion and the second. I'm all fine. The motion. Okay, great. And you're the second. I'm all right. The motion. Okay. Okay. Great. And you're the discussion. Seeing none. Roll call vote please for dollar. Council member Cardi. Council member Alatgun. Okay. Council member Lee. Hi. Vice Mayor Clark. Hi. And morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. seven four six and ending ordinance number seven four four extended temporary uh covid outdoor business permit program to a business operating in the city right of way and other privately owned outdoor spaces and with that um ask the a four staff report Aaron thank you for that introduction I think it explains what's before the council well um the covid19 outdoor business permit program that was established in March of 2020 by your council was a part of the council's pandemic response to help businesses operate during restrictions on indoor activities. So we all know, for example, that restaurants weren't allowed to have customers indoors. So it became very important across California and really across country in some cases to allow for businesses to conduct activities outside what it was safer to do so. So it's very common to see in cities, our region, for similar type programs. Again, as you stated, Mayor, the businesses can apply for a permit, obtain, obtain, obtain an permit from the city and we don't have any charge for that, free permit to use common areas or public street rights of way for those certain business activities, eating outdoors or gathering for a church service, that sort of thing. The vehicle used by your council to establish the program was an urgency ordinance, urgency ordinance number 744, created the COVID-19 outdoor business permit program as it is a temporary program. So it was scheduled to sunset effectively with the emergency. And so that's really what brought us here tonight as we near a time where in California, the governor has announced in mid June that the emergency will be ending. We could see by the terms of emergency, emergency warden 74, 4, 744, that the program would sunset. And so a lot of cities are looking at their programs. A number of them have taken the step that we've recommended this evening, which is to extend the program through the end of the calendar year. And I'll explain why we think that's a good idea for your council to consider in a moment. But some of the facts first of the program. Established in March of 2020, as I mentioned, a total of 28 permits have been issued today. 19 of those permits are on private property, so things like parking lots or open fields where church services or restaurants can have dining areas safely outdoors and people can more easily social socially distance. Nine public permits on public street areas. So this is what you typically see around the downtown area for example where platforms and dining areas have been built out into public street areas. You may recall that initially we provided some barricades to separate parking area from the travel lanes on streets and many businesses took advantage of that and decorated those to make them look nice and feel more comfortable for their patrons. So that's very successful. In terms of the makeup of the permits, we have seven churches, 14 restaurants, bars, breweries, wineries, that kind of eatery type place, eating and drinking establishments, seven personal service businesses like gyms, so on, barber shops. We did an informal survey calling up some of the folks that got permits. We got 12 responses and by those response all were in support. I thought the program was successful and were in support of extending it through the calendar year. I thought it was important. It's their businesses to do that. We did receive one complaint. We received a number of calls both from code compliance in my office from a business owner at the West End of town. There's adjacent two permit holders in the West End shops that operate in an alley there and I articulate some of the concerns expressed us through that complaint about impacts on access noise, some of the common restroom facilities and that sort of thing at that business. We'll do want to mention that both the Sheriff's Department and the Carpenter Assembly and Fire Protection District do not have any issues with the program that have come up during this time. So getting back to why the proposal to consider extension of the ordinance, and we've done that with a draft ordinance for your consideration ordinance number 746. We had just a point out that that draft ordinance also includes draft findings for your consideration. And that's both for support of an extension of the program and also doing that on an urgency basis. So it appears as I mentioned that the emergency could end soon as soon as mid-June, but we believe that there may be significant uncertainty in the public with regard to patronizing businesses safely, in particular businesses that might be crowded indoors like a restaurant. And that could continue to impact the economic viability of local businesses here in Carpenteria. There could also be concerns about who's vaccinated and who's not. We won't know that, of course, and even after June 15th, it's become clear that certainly not everybody know where near everybody will be vaccinated. Although we of course want to continue to urge people to get vaccinated. And that may create someone's certainty in the minds of public about going to places where a recognized business is by going indoor. create some uncertainty in the minds of public about going to places where it is businesses by going indoor. So it seems wise to consider for those reasons continuing to have outdoor areas where folks can patronize businesses. We also know that economic recovery will take time just because the emergency ends doesn't mean the economic impacts on our local businesses will end. And by providing expanded outdoor areas like seating areas for restaurants, it expands the opportunities for business activity for those businesses and perhaps a more robust recovery or a quicker recovery for those businesses. So those are some of the reasons why that you'll find indicated in the findings. The extended opportunity through the end of the year to acquire these permits on will be on both public and private properties and would be available for both existing and new permit applicants. And again, we support your council considering ordinance 74746 as an urgency matter because this matter will come up soon mid June in terms of the expiration that happens sooner. We think it's a warrants your consideration as an emergency matter, which simply means the ordinance will go into effect immediately upon your option. It's not two readings. So with that, I can take questions, Mayor, that concludes the staff. Thanks, Dave. Any questions or staff? I do. Greg, Greg? There. You know, Dave, you know, we've had some time to see what works and has it worked, and it sounds like we're probably gonna have some more time to see what's working. If there's interest in the future, is it would it be possible to possibly look into making some of these permanent? These decisions are maybe not permanent, maybe seasonal, or maybe extended, but possibly it seems like they work pretty well for quite a few of the businesses and groups around town that maybe the city ought to look into making some of them permanent. And this is okay, Mayor. I'll check and respond. I appreciate that question. It illuminates an area I failed to mention in my staff report. Another reason why your council may want to consider extending this program. We have had interest in the past as your council is aware. In having, you know, what are called parklets. You know, where in downtown areas in particular, cities will allow for businesses to establish, or the cities will do it themselves and establish seating areas or expanded sidewalk areas in what had historically been a parking area. And this concept was reviewed a couple of occasions at least by your Downtown Business Advisory Board who expressed support for studying the possible long-term permanent program for establishing parklets in the downtown where there could be outdoor seating areas. As your council is aware, we also have allowed for many years restaurants in the downtown te area to take out permits to establish seating on the sidewalk as long as you know it was safe and they could maintain an accessible pathway. So we have some history with this and because of the kind of the longer term, as you mentioned, Councilman Cardi, the potential for a longer term or permanent program was already in the conversation before the pandemic hit and your council established this temporary program. Extending the program would allow at your council's direction for staff to study these programs and bring back a report to your council about you know what they look like, how they operate, you know who pays for them, that sort of thing, in case your council's interested in investigating that type of program also. that question. Yeah, I have interest in that. Okay. Sounds good. Any other questions? Staff? Seeing none, I'll now open the separate public comment. Not on my in-beer. Thank you. Fadella. My name is Mayor. Thank you. Aaron. Yes. Warner. Go ahead. Hello, Mayor and hello, council members. First I want to thank you guys for initiating this order back in March. I'm the owner of little dawn seafood. 686 linden, formerly the Slice location. And I can honestly say that without that ordinance and the outdoor seating, my business probably wouldn't have survived because I just started out. And we couldn't manage that business alone on takeout. While that while takeout has grown and had gotten better, the outdoor dining experience is what kind of allowed me to keep, you know, 30 people employed throughout this COVID. And even the second shutdown, when we started to go back inside and then had to go back outside, I had just built that park lit right before that shutdown and that has been a big success for my business. I mean, that investment alone cost me over $6,000 and then we shut down like a few weeks after. So I would like to request being able to keep this ordinance as long as possible and also looking at keeping the sum in some shape or form after this seems to be over. The feedback I get from my clientele consistently, there's a couple different things, but the feedback is that they enjoy having outside so much because slides through all the years never had outside outside seating and they think that's just such a nice thing to be able to sit on linden and inside 50% now, at least 50% of the people that are coming in still do not want to sit outside. Some of those being fully vaccinated, some of those not vaccinated, I'm kind of trying to take a poll of what exactly how people are feeling. But the sense I'm getting is that people want the option still to sit outside because they're not comfortable and I think it's going to take some time before people get completely comfortable with that. So if there's any way that I can help, you know, with data on this going forward, you know, I'm happy to help that. But I think that it's really benefited my business and I can tell from the other places on the street that have the outdoor seating that it's really beneficial. It also kind of creates this sense of community because the more people you have outside, it seems like when people walk by people talk. I don't know, it's a really nice dynamic that we've had there. And I want to thank John Alice in the beginning because he really helped me get it all off the ground and get it together and get it figured out in a really short time. John, so thank you again for that. I appreciate that. And I think that's it. Thank you guys very much once again and looking forward to a good busy summer down town. Good. Thanks, Warner. Thanks for the comments. No further comment on the censor. Okay. With that, I'll close public comment, bring it back to the council. You are anybody wishing to make a motion? Yeah. Hell yes. Yeah. I, I, I made like to make comment. I'm in favor of extending the existing ordinance and also studying what it might look on a permanent basis. I'm very leery of the permanent basis. I have concerns, but I have open mind. I'd like to get more information that information, not just from the businesses who supported, but from people who maybe have had problems like the incidents mentioned in the staff report, I did talk to Rick Diaz who I guess authored that letter that the city manager referred to and you know there were some problems of the private use of public space comes with some responsibilities and one of this is not blocking access to parking for other businesses. And so you have case of a of a business being upset by another business who is taking advantage of the ordinance and maybe abusing the ordinance. And then we also have the case that maybe some not all council members know about it but we heard about it and the COVID communications being that there was a police response related to on Lyndon, to Giovanni's pizza in regards to this. So I think that there's there, we would need to look at what are the negatives we should seek out, what are the negatives and how to address those going forward. I mean, it may take a little more supervision than we've got, although it seems to have gone well. I, you know, I think it adds a lot of vibrancy to, to Lyndon and probably more than the hotel withering. But I think it needs to be studied how that should work. I find some of the places downwind ugly, the places that are just care rails. I don't think they add to the ambiance. So I would think that we would need some sort of design review. And then also how many of these should we allow? Should there be five or six on every block or is that too much? And then, and then I think the I think one of my biggest concerns is this use of public space for private use as it gets into parking. You know, where, how many parking places are going to be taken away if we just open this white up and let anybody do it, whoever wants to do it. And so I think all of this should be studied, not just who likes it and where they like about it, but what do people not like about it? What are the pitfalls and what are the advantages? So I mean, I'm in support of the motion tonight, but I think it is a time because we know when we get to the end of the year, we're're going to be clamoring to make a permanent. And so, you know, which of that look like how do we make it happen and how do we control it, if we are going to go forward. So I'll make that motion. Okay. Thank you. We have a motion. Do I have a second? I will second. Thank you. We have a motion. We have a second. Thank you. We have a motion. I will second now. I'm going to open it up for discussion. Mayor. This is going to be a great. I would like to say to vice mayor. I couldn't agree with him more. Thank you. Great. And Greg for your concerns. One point I would like to make is that we do have an economic recovery. Committee subcommittee you and Roy are on right now. Maybe take a look at this, at least to analyze and take a look at this next six months, what it's gonna look like, if it needs to go beyond that six months, we would probably look for your committee's recommendation, if that is the case, if it looks like it should go beyond that. After that time, it would probably be as Dave said, come back to a public facilities for a reevaluation to see if in fact it is something that we would want to look at more permanent. But I think as far as process would be nice if we had first report back from the economic recovery committee on that one before we move forward too much farther with that. That sounds good to everybody. And again, those are just discussion points that is not part of the action. In the other discussion comments. Yeah, right. where it says effective stay in termination. Could we include language to have the option to extend if needed or necessary because it says ends this kind of year. Does something that can be amended? Dave, I'll leave that to you currently. We've had the ending date right now that we are just extending out again So I believe we'll have the same option at the end of this next term. Should we decide to do that? I don't think we need to include that in the word it's but I believe that to our Jenna today Yeah, and I'll Appreciate Pointing out the genus here. So maybe she can opine on this. I guess if you leave it the way it is, your council of course always has the discretion to extend it by another separate action. It would be similar to the action you're taking tonight. You'd have to consider a modification via an ordinance or an ordinance amendment. The advantage of making a change in the language that I think was indicated by council member Lee is that you could build into the language that's a part of this ordinance and opportunity by simply a minute order motion for the council to be able to extend it. So you wouldn't have to adopt a new ordinance in other words. So if you wanted to add that, we could add that. And, you know, Jenna could work on the language. I don't think it's something that would hold up adoption this evening. If you directed us to just include language that would allow the council to extend beyond the first of the year by way of minute or action, we could do that pretty simply. I think. Jenna, any comments? Yeah, thank you, Mayor Numer, I'll throw us to the council. I do. So this is an urgency ordinance. It does require four fifths adoption because of that. We could always, and I do agree with Dave, you know, we could amend and push out the termination date further. I don't think that that would be difficult. I do think it would also require a four fifth vote at that point. But I think one of the other benefits and they briefly touched on this was that the, you know, the time certain at this point where we that we've listed as a termination date also gives you know the city kind of a timeline to move forward and start making some of these determinations are start looking into this and at that point if we aren't ready to make a make a determination or you know figure out how we want to move forward with this program then we can always extend. Got it. Thank you. And Roy, I do have one concern also. The one that General brought up would be the ability for us to be maybe changed to some slight modifications if we decide to extend it out that we wouldn't foresee at this time. The other concern I have is since he's our temporary and of them are built on temporary basis. You may have some things that have become a little bit, I would say, tired in six months. And if it was to be extended, we would have to be able to control that. So by looking in at six months from now, four months, five months from now, we could at least see, in fact, what some of the changes and modifications would need to be made, should we decide to extend this another six months. So I'm kind of happy with its things six months. That's just my comments and your emotion I mean yours would require a motion change. So I'm kind of happy with leaving it six months for now. Thank you. That's the basis that I made on which I made my motion is that we would have have a further opportunity to study the situation here before we decided how and if we are going to move forward. So, but thank you, Councilmember Lee, for bringing that up. Okay. I agree with your points and so I will withdraw my any amendments. So at the original. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Any other discussion on this? Seeing none, to the roll call vote please. Councilmember Cardi. Councilmember Aladgon. Councilmember Lee. Vice Mayor Clark. Hi. And Mayor Nimbara. Hi. Thank you. Next item we have is legislative updates. Dave? Thank you Mayor. We're here to take direction. If your council wants us to bring back any of the matters that are listed with the leagues material that's in there, you can see that some of the hot items are now being listed in there for this legislative section that's ongoing. Thank you. Any of the council members wish to bring forward any of the legislative updates as concerns? Okay. Seeing that, I will now move to committee reports. Anybody have any committee reports? Okay. Then they're either. Okay, we're doing well. Let's take a break. So a new record for this year. It seems like we can still go to 930 everybody wishes, but looks like we're moving on pretty quickly here. Anything else any other concerns at this time before I ask for attendance at the next one. Okay attendance for the next meeting. Everybody anybody not going to be able to make it. Okay with that before I adjourn first I would like to thank the interpreters of Waterment David for their assistance and this one. We're sticking with us making sure that those that are speaking Spanish we're able to understand what's going on here with the city. So on part of transparency and that item and then I would like to officially close this meeting in honor of Pat Lem when I was recruited back in the 1998 to join the city team here. And she was a great introduction to the Carpenteria community as well being the city's human resources administrator and risk manager for many many years. 36 year employees she retired in 2010. Missed her a lot and again my condolences to the linear family. Thank you mayor. Thank you. Okay. You know the look out you go ahead. Closing remark. 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