We need to make 14 to order and we'll have roll covers. Chair Mahia. I am here. Vice Chair Arnhell. Here. Commissioner DeHill. Here. Commissioner Marquasi. Here. Commissioner Murphy. Here. Commissioner Patts. Absent. Commissioner Rojas. Here. Great. Thank you for coming. And with that we'll move to the Pledge of Allegiance. Dean, would you mind leaving that? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic of which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with the regime in justice for all. The item 4 which is our presentation, which the presentation A and the annual operating budget for fiscal year. I move to the item 4 which is our presentation which the presentation A.A.A. Annual Budget, Operating Budget for Fist Leader 2020, 25.26 and 20.26.27. I move we both call back until the end of the meeting. I'd like to have a vote on that actually. Well, thank you, Mr. Chair, for allowing me to come and speak today. I really don't want to spend too much time talking about the budget in general. I think that you all are pretty well know where exactly we stand. The city is just shy with $30 million corporation. Over the last couple of years, we've been able to vastly expand our level of service out there into the neighborhoods. As I'm sure you've heard, we are down near Cloars, stabbing the whole contingent of officers, actually. For the first time in a long, long time, which is something that we're all very proud of, we're already seeing the results of that out on the streets. We're also happy to report the number of parks and number of streets that we've been able to undertake in the last couple of years. I have a tendency to look at things in five-year blocks. And as I look back the last five years, I'm really impressed with the amount of work this this body is done and the councilor and then the city as a whole given the fact that we've moved from a place where we're having trouble having a balanced budget to a place where we've had five years of certain assets and structurally balanced proteins. I've been able to grow the junk from reserve by double and we've also been able to from a city that was spending about $350,000 a year on maintenance and street improvements to a city that's now spending about $10 million a year in terms of getting out there and actually putting that money to work for our residents and for our businesses. We've also been able to go out and capture a lot of different grant opportunities to be able to bring even more money into the city without actually having to tax the residents in order to get these projects done. One that I do want to point out that again is part and parcel to this commission's work is the $5 million grant that we have for Pine Street and the improvements that are going to be made there to actually build ourselves a little downtown. It's no small thing for a city of the size to be able to do that and to be able to say that we're also pushing on every single labor that we see out there that we need to actually tackle and more and make the city take that next step to what exactly it can be. What I want to spend my time with you here is really to make sure that we have an opportunity for me to hear from you. One of the things that I've tried to put into practice is making sure that we seek that idea is where they, wherever they come from. We don't have a monopoly on what those are or where they come from. And so I want to make sure that you all know that you have an open dialogue with me you know how to get me at least two of your members can find me in my trailer on any given day the rest of you and you don't have to make sure they can myself home so you can get in touch with me. This is supposed to be a collaborative effort and I do want to make sure that not only the staff but the City Council is hearing the ideas that you have. And with that, obviously I just want to make sure that you have an opportunity to ask any questions that you would like of me. Anything that I don't know, you will see that I don't have Craig, our finance director with me tonight. I can go back and get those answers for you. The City Council will be taking a look at the budget on Monday. but that doesn't stop the cycle of our planning. Ron and I are already deep in thought about what exactly the next six months after that and in the next six months are going to look like after that. And so making sure that we're able to fold in your ideas into that process is important for us. Just to make sure that we're hitting the mark. Ron does only live three minutes outside of town. I'm fairly close, but you do live here. And so we are very, very respectful with that, that while we might spend a lot of time in town, it's your town. And so we want to make sure that we're giving you the town that you deserve for the end of the town that you want. And with that, Mr. Chair, please, I turn it to you. Well thank you, Chad for that. A lot of money being spacked out there. So this is incredible from small city of the difference it's made. So I'll open up anybody with any questions or comments of Chad. Maybe I should have paid everybody before I had to get it. No, I just have a question. I get the police likes every day and I see a homeless issue literally twice a day. A lot of times the names are the same. Is there any plan to try to mitigate that anyway? So I will say this. We have four officers that are trained as homeless liaison officers. That's rare for a city of our size to come that far with that kind of training. We also have our agreement with the North Orange County spot that actually handles our beds. I would tell you, in the chief and I'm just charging to tell you to, we have about two or three frequent flyers in town. We do know their names, we know them on site, we make regular contact with them. And really what we have tried to do here locally is if we see somebody we're contacting them, it's the most human thing to do, try to get them up into services whenever we can Simultruth is that some people just are not looking for help That being said if you are within Los Aleswaters, you're going to be contacted You're going to be given every opportunity and every Avenue to find a good place for you to actually proceed the services you need but the the crux of this is that until the loss change there is no rule against being homeless and as much as we try to put money into our social programs we're finding that obviously you should share that our offices are well trained but also trying to figure out a way to prevent people from actually getting into that situation in the front first place. So we're looking for different opportunities where we can partner with people that can stop the step of actually people becoming homeless. And that's where I think that we can step in and really try to do some good, but as far as a commitment to continuing to contact them, you have that commitment for me, and that's just something that just makes good sense, I think, for us. Yeah. One of the biggest issues is depicating your name. I don't know how practical it is to put public restrooms either port bodies or something. So we run the, so there it's a double-edged sort, right? It's a, you run the risk of once you've created a facility, then that becomes the hub that everybody wants to go to. One of the things that we are trying to do, and it's part of an education process, with our businesses, Can we create a what we're calling in its infancy with a much better name, but a keep lost out safe program that actually goes in and actually we go and talk to the businesses about making sure that they've signed their letters allowing us to actually charge people for trespassing when they're on their property. Those are all the small little tools that we can put in place so that we can stop the problem before it starts because once someone is already defecated, you've lost that cap, right? What we want to do is be able to stop it before it happens and that means making sure that business owners know who will contact and how exactly to get somebody out to their site so we'll take care of the problem before it comes a problem. But I do agree which we're saying it is a growing problem in not just Orange County but California General. The governor has issued an edict down that all our scale camps are to be taken down. We luckily have been fairly diligent about watching all the areas in town where that they do spring up. We do have some issues on the border with Long Beach and with a silveech, but we've been fairly proactive in trying to make sure that we, whenever we see something starting to bubble up that we climb it down as quickly as possible by getting out there and offering people with services that they need. Just one other thing, last night when the citizens from the city came up to me and started a conversation about the police department and he made a comment that Los Elbs does not pay them very well and their attention is a big issue. I didn't have a chance to date even to verify that it's even accurate or not. And his point was we learned I don't know if it was paid or you know, retirement or whatever of course. Yeah, no. So, and I think historically that the city did have an issue with retention and actually paying officers what was I think within the median of what's being paid in the cash. Obviously different cities are going to have different needs in terms of what exactly they're asking their officers to do on a day-in-day basis. One of the nice things about working here is that you do have a very supportive community which is not the case in a lot of different areas. We also have a different kind of crime. We're a busy city when you really get down to the per city of our size given the fact that we have these two major bull bars that traverse our city. A lot of crime comes in and a lot of crime goes out and I got our guys and girls are probably some of the best at identifying those problems and essentially getting us to a place where criminals will finally side. You know what, we're better off just drive it around La Sao instead of driving through it. And that's really what the goal is at the end of the day. With regards to retention, we have in the past there was a well-known fact. It was come get trained in La Sao Mido, and then you take the trip down to La Sao Mido South, down by the beach, and you get a job there. I'm happy to say that we've seen that we have stemmed that tide to a certain degree. We've had some officers that have lateraled out for different opportunities. And I will never begrudge an officer who was looking for advancemen in the season off to someplace else and takes it nor any of our other staff. The trick is can we find ways to keep people interested in staying here? One of the things we've been able to do is increase the number of special assignments that we have by getting ourselves to full compliment and allows us to do different things, different deployment methods, trying to get everybody off of different overtime schedules, trying to just make this a better place for you to work. You already have the community that's backing you. Now it's nice to have the inside of the City Council, the rest of the city, and then just the way that we do our recruitment back in you as well. So this is as close as we have ever gotten to having a full compliment where it, sorry, I'm looking over, but we're at 24 right now, and then we have an officer who is slated to graduate the Academy who then obviously will go on to field training and hopefully graduate from that and then we get to a place where we have our full 25 and then we already have a plan to actually go out for a 26th officer that will be paid for with some acid for for true funds. So again, I might you know the chief and the step, I think it's done a really good job of actually trying to extend that type of people actually leaving the city and I think the numbers prove them out that they are actually doing a really good job. Can I interrupt? Yeah, I'm done. I just wanna say, does that mean we'll have a consistent and a sorrow? Yes, that is actually the goal here too, is that when we, actually, and you know the history, probably better the most, that the idea of having an dedicated SRO to the high school and then to the other schools has always been something that's personally important to me. I'm a young child. These are the positive interactions that you can build, and you can only build them in that scenario. And having somebody that is going to be dedicated, focused, and that is their primary assignment is incredibly important to us when we're forward. So our goal is to have them in place hopefully prior to the start of the new year. But again, that is going to fall in line with our shift changes and that. So that means that they're going through the recruitment right now as to how exactly that's going to play out. And my commitment is that we will have a full time SRO that the City will pay for. Thank you. Of course. Thank you. So I just wanted to say that, you know, I think you guys are great. You know, I really appreciate you and this is your council. And most recently with the paint, the parking on Lexington and you know, and that you all like, did you listen to the residents and you acted on it? Like, I think the very next day, you started looking into what the problem was and coming up with solutions and I think within a month you guys were already had a plan and so you know thank you very much for doing that and just always being open that changing your mind and fixing and listening to the residents so you made a a really positive impression on the residents who live on life's more time. So I just want to make you for that. Well, thank you. You have a great team work and do in the work for you. So it's easy for me to look at it like I got that. So that being said, that is exactly the way that this is supposed to work. This is not supposed to speak contentious. There's no reason for it quite frankly, and it's sad that a lot of communities have gone that way, but one of the things that I will constantly point out to anybody that will listen about Los Almedos is, and I think it might be just a mix of our demographics or the fact that we're all part of the same school district, and everybody knows each other from sports or from seeing everybody in the community is that For the most part everybody here is fairly reasonable and if you approach everything with that standpoint and the I don't need to blame anybody in order for me to be right We tend to get a lot done and Think you take a look back the last five years are the reason that we got a lot done was because Everybody said you know what we don't need to swing it every pitch we don't need to chase things that are in the dirt we don't need to chase play and we can just identify how to make things better than that's how we're going to get better but without you we don't get there so thank you. All right well I'm a tremendous lost out homie I love lost and I appreciate you. It respects you and I'm grateful that you're here in the city and I'm also grateful that you're here tonight. So now at the bad news. I'm gonna say, I can't say that. I'm not gonna say that. I can't say that. So I'm gonna talk about traffic commission stuff, right? So I know that it's in the plan to deal with the egress and exit at the Highlands in and out and the issue we have there with the handicap access. And I just want to say, please don't reduce a lane to accomplish that. I think there's a way or at least one way to do it without doing that. And then another item that I've been harping on for a long time is, and it's not in your jurisdiction, but it's a factor for your community. And then is that we have a group of special needs kids from the high school who would like to walk, I think, daily from the high school up to the shopping center on Wardlow where I think it's Ralph's is up there. I don't even know where to be honest with you. But they do, they want, they used to do that. But they determined it was too unsafe because the path is not safe, especially for wheelchairs. And we have concrete right up until there's the flood channel, flood control channel, and then it's asphalt. It's very rough. It's really unsafe. And then at one point, there's curb without even accident, without being any cutouts. So they literally can't take wheelchairs there. So I would love to be able to tell some people that have brought back concern to me years ago that we're actually going to do something about it. Fantasy land is I'd like to see a bridge or a tunnel of walnut and good talent so that the kids can cross without it and I think it's part of an active transportation plan I think it's part of our whatever the thorough through thing is called I forget what what it's called and I think it's a big safety item for our kids. Also the the light lane at Los Alamos, Polar and Cerritos near the high school I it seems to me and I don't claim to be a traffic engineer but it seems to me like we could result a lot of that issue by simply extending the gray light after the don't walk on the northbound loss-out boulevard traffic and it would cost virtually nothing to at least try it and I think everything else is gonna cost quite a bit and then oh and as far as the the the bike lane, we did not approve that. And I just want to be clear on that. That was brought to us as a receiving file. So there are things we have approved that maybe didn't work out the way we hope they would. Or we were not given that option on that, and I want to make that clear. That's all I have. Sir, in Mr. Chair, I'm just trying to make sure that I want to make sure that I get everyone answers to the questions that they ask. What I can do is I can distribute them through about the clerk and then have them sent to the entire board if that's okay with you. I just want to make sure that everyone's getting answers. I think I'd be better to address them to the board if that's okay with you. We'll be fine. I think I can answer some of them. I know you can. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Hmm? Some of the things are what my counterpart just mentioned, but widening sidewalks, especially on a way to school in certain parts where they're not as wide as I guess they could be. From the Highlands up to the Bond's grocery store. It could be wider. And when someone's going down there, someone has to walk on the grass and can't have, it's not easy that two people can walk past each other on there. And then in the Highlands also, where we're making, or why means that handicap access. I'd like to one day in the future make it a wider sidewalk all the way down. I know it's a lot of work to widen the sidewalk and probably have to narrow the median. That sidewalk gets pretty narrow. And again, two people walk down there, kids are on their motorcycle. Somebody's got to go on the street to continue doing the sidewalk. And that's a, I know it's not an inexpensive thing, but if we're looking for modifications to improve the quality of life, be nice to have. Since there's a clear-of-life sidewalk, encourage kids to be able to walk to school. Are you talking about my Bradbury and Ross Warwick? Yes, yeah. To have a sidewalk wider instead of somewhat narrow and then to drop off into the street. Forgetting was a long way. That's good for Okay, next question. Thank you. Mr. Simmons or Chet? Thank you for. That's going to be Chet. Just going to be Chet. Okay. Or like Randall. I can just tell you exactly. You're mad. Okay, I don't know what this like Randall does, but I just want to give thank you for being here to present yourself and opening yourself to questions along with your staff. I do want to, I guess, just thank you and your staff for the things that you've been doing. I've noticed I've been here for a long time and I've noticed like a lot of five years or just more things happening. More and more parts being improved, roadways, services, especially for the children, all the things that are going on that's great, so I want to commend you on that. I did in preparation today, I did peruse the budget and there was something that come eye because it's an item that we discussed here before about the red light cameras and I do get questions about it from people who may or may have not. Because I saw, I thought I saw an item that said the revenue for that is about $700,000 a year. That's not just, it is a large portion of it, but that is the total fines and forfeiters of all ticketing and fines throughout the city. It's not just the red light cameras. Now, there was a period of time where the cameras were not operating or when we were actually operating the camera system so maybe the total amount of revenue out of there was never fully realized so that might be a number that will see change over time. But again I have always looked at it as those cameras are not. They're not review generators at least in my mind. It's really about allowing the officers to go and do other police work as opposed to sitting there and trying to catch every person that's calling through. It's a false. Yeah, sorry, a force multiplier for the officers. Yeah, great. I agree. I think that was the discussion. The deterrence really is intent. But then so when I get, you know, I hear from my, I hear from those saying, oh, it's just a way of seeing the money. So when I saw that, 700,000 dollar figure, I went, oh, that's a good amount of money. And I was wondering if that really was the gross receipts versus like, you know, the cost is the same. No, the same, you know. The interesting thing with cameras, and again, they're never going to replace an officer because an officer can tell you what you were doing wrong, and when you got caught doing it wrong. And I think that's an important powerful message for people to get instead of a picture and a nebulut that they get in the mail. That being said, I have no doubt that we are dramatically safer at that intersection because there are cameras. And I think you're going to have to drive through it once and have that life flash actually to change your behavior. And I'm coming from a guy who's gotten two tickets and paid them. But it's one of those things that I think about every time I go through that intersection. So it does work. It's here two-way intersection. Two-way intersection. It's true. Actually, that's where I got all of my tickets to. And can I say, I think, currently, if I'm wrong or clarified, if you will, I think there's a significant portion of those tickets, revenues that go to the state. I'll tell you. So this is not the true the true math, but I'm going to, for just illustration purposes, let's say it's a $400 ticket. The city's not realizing $100 of that ticket. We might realize a portion of, you know, maybe $60, $70. I don't know the exact breakdown, but so much of it goes to the state, to the county portion that it goes pay for the upkeep of courts. I mean, there's so many different pots that a dollar goes through before it actually makes it way its way back to us. So yeah. And then the other part of it too is Craig and I always joke about this. We haven't had a normal budget year since I've got here. We went from deficits to COVID to sales tax measure to soft landing to pending recession to tariffs. So we have yet to have a, we can sit down and tell you what the normal budget looks like. We just been very concerned going through but trying to make revenue off of cameras is tough and that's why we don't do it. Right. Now I totally understood. Thank you. A couple more things. One, I heard a lot of folks with my friends that they really like the Los Alboxes. Was that program where you spent in restaurants in Los Alps? That coming back? We are planning for the next round of Los Alux. The little bit different this go around. we're trying to actually incorporate some of the city's classes into it. And now exactly that weapon, it's something that we're fighting on the wrong out as I looked at the start of the early next year. Probably enough, one of the places most popular is in Rosmore. So they're all upset that they're not getting Los Albeaux. I hear that too. Okay, good. That's good to hear. Last thing is, I guess, the homeless question remind me about this because I know the governor asked that cities adopt like no camping ordinances. Does loss on is having no camping? We have a no camping ordinance. So we actually follow it pretty far as fairly good. We are looking though given them what the governor has said and what exactly might fall into some executive orders or some action that they might take at the state level we want to see if they change those loss at all but the one that we're operating right under right now I can't remember the first name but it's boysy is the last thing that did go all the way to the Supreme Court. So we feel confident that we can force under it not be running a foul of any laws that we're going to get challenged on later on in the road. And that's something else that I want to point out is one of the things that we are trying to do just because we are not the first to the trough on every new idea. It's not that we're not watching it. It's that we are very, very aware of the litigation that tends to follow new laws. And so we've made a conservative effort with the back end of the council to we're going to allow things to go through their first round of challenges and such. We don't need to waste city attorney funding and what have you to be on the bleeding edge of the spear. Let's watch, let's blow it. Everybody else meet their mistakes and then build ours in a way that's defensible. And that's really the kind of the mantra that we've fallen for the last five years or so. That seems to be what you know. That's a smart question. Hey, thank you. Of course. I have a go back that I've practiced up many a time to run and staff before. So along those double over the wall, on the low south, all over the island side versus what's in Rossmore. I've been 25 years, and when I first came, I did kind of bug me. Why is this side kind of Hodgepodge? And the other side's not. I can tell you early in the 25 years of the move here, I interviewed all the people that were involved in the Rossboro Wall, what it cost, where they got the drawings from the county for free, how they approached the wall being on the public property versus some sections and how they were involved in it. the easement that they got and but the point is they got it done. Right. And I know there's a lot of issues involved in that. But I don't know what can be done to try to go in that direction to it. It's funny you bring it up because as you're talking, I'm looking at law and Chris because they've had that question post of that more than any other question. I think that I've asked them since I've got it here is, can we just knock down the wall and put up a no wall? Can we just put bricks on top of the wall? That's over there in order to make it higher. No, it's way way too much. Can we put facade on there so it looks different than what it looks like now? Can we get a uniform look? It's all, it's literally as strange as it sounds. It's probably one of the key economic development things that the city could do in order to change its overall look appearance. Downside, it really improves one neighborhood, but that means that it is the gateway that it's the first thing you think about when you get into Las Meadows. Part of what the city is doing right now is going through. And this is going to set out. I'm not dodging the question. I'm just telling you that I'm trying to make it that this is not what we don't do once. We do very strategic thinking of how we want to get to something is, we're ought to spend the last or the year doing a sign inventory through town, trying to figure out where all of the signs are in town. will not shock you that we have a large margin of signs of many of which we do not need. Then it's okay to be developed by branding of what exactly the city seal and all that and what the look of the city is going to be going for it. Then after that it's the street improvements and the entryways into neighborhoods. How do we design them so that we're taking a little bit of you know their own neighborhood flavor but still have that overall loss, I'll be just granting to it. And then what Kult follows in right after that, it is kind of saying, okay, what are the different design elements of each one of these neighborhoods? And how do we define it? And that wall is for better or worse, something that defines us as a city. And I don't know about you, but I don't like looking across the street to Ross Foreign and saying, I like the wall better. That just does not sit well with me. So you have my commitment that I'm going to continue to push on that one. This one I want to get done. Well, some of the many ideas that I, is what the safe ways to school or something like that, somehow is a grand money that can somehow partially feed it to the school. Yeah, that's actually something that we're looking to kick out this year. Brown's more knowledgeable about that, so if Brown and P.K. can step in and take that one, but... Well, you don't have to, G, it actually is. It's gonna be a big push with us the PTA and the school district. It's one of those things where you need to find local champions in order to make it not only meaningful to develop but also to implement. And so luckily the council's office authorized us to form a working group with the school district and it's two council members, two members from the school district board And those meetings have been probably the most productive meetings I think have been a part of in a long time, simply from the standpoint that you've got to dedicate a group of people that are getting together and really don't have any time for the ball. They just want to roll their sleeves and get something done. And it's, well, I can call this person, and they can help you with this. So, Safe Routes School is something I would definitely want to do here the new year. And also the argument about the role of the benefit of just one evening. say, France is school is something that we definitely want to do here in the new year. And also the argument about the wall being for the benefit of just one neighborhood, you know, across from the Marietta and Katella, all that wall was put in for, you know, well, yeah, it was, it creates some privacy from all that, well, that was just for the benefit of one neighborhood. Yeah, I get that again would I when I say a flood benefit of one neighborhood visually yes but I think economically it raises all the interest to the city in different ways. Yeah exactly. I agree with you completely. All right thank you. Thank you. Okay great. A couple of comments on some of what was said already with regard to the homeless for us as residents and, you know, as people, you know, I have residents that come to me for information or questions. When do we call police with regard to homeless, you know, I mean, is it something that you want to be notified when they're-private property or they're sleeping in the alley? You know, I mean, we don't want to just call to call. Right. You know, does there need to be an active something going on? You know, we mean so we don't want to, you know, be out alive. But what is urgent you want to take the home? You know, you can call whatever you want. The prior property is different. That's more of the resident that needs to be affected. So if they want something done for trespassing, obviously they would have to sign them. That private persons are arrested. Camping, they just have to be the person to call. They don't have to wait for something to go down to call. When you call, I said, this guy's at Suspicious. That's all we need. So, friends, is that they're sleeping in the back alley in a common area, but they don't have an old couch or whatever that. Okay, so- You call us anytime, they're like, like, our city manager said that there is a municipal code that allows us to get action on that. Okay, same thing is sitting on the sidewalk. Correct. Okay. Correct. You know, that's just one of those things people get into that where you call sometimes. I always err on the side of, if I see something that looks a little off to me, then you know what I would rather our guys know about it, our guys and girls know about it, and then also I'll end it to ouratch Center of Westcom. They know what they're doing and they know they have a great question to ask and they know how to get people out there if the situation works. And of course, definitely call when they're not acting or sound like. Yes, so good with that. I know with regards to the Nero Sidewalk Commissioner Dean Hill was talking about. I know several bicyclists and these are pedal bicycles that have, because of the narrowness, copter handlebar on the, and crack, you know, the column bone, I know two that have happened fairly recently. And I think that that's partially because it's narrow. I mean, it can happen anywhere I understand that, but because it's narrow and because you're a busy thoroughfare, even more adept to that. So that's another thing that is probably goes unreported, you know what I mean? The interesting thing about this, and I'm sure you know, wrong to give you a chapter in verse on it, but one of the things that we're learning as we take a look at some of the projects that were done here in the past, and this is a function of, this is a blame, it's more of a, at the time this was the best that we could accomplish. And so we started looking back at some of these large scale projects that were done seven, 10 years ago and you start to realize that yeah it worked for this segment of Street. And so we started looking back at some of these large scale projects that were done seven, eight, ten years ago and you started to realize that yeah it worked for this segment of street. What it didn't work for is this segment of street and so what we're doing now is really kind of trying to get to a place where we can do a hard reset on some of the major goal guards and really kind of say, all right, we know we put this meeting in 15 years ago, we know that, you know, we were trying to accomplish this. Does that make sense for this entire spot? And what we can do out of that is to say, all right, we can cheat five yards and give a couple feet to this. We can give a couple feet to that and really think about what those issues are going for. So the nice thing about where we're at now is the council's posts in a place where, what more I believe the residents have been in a place where we can actually say, all right, if we can plan for it, we can accomplish it. And we just have to plan for it. So no, and I appreciate that I understand how it works too, because a lot of that I was here for one of the meetings. So I'm just glad for the forward thinking you know to me that it's positive. With regard to the red light cameras I'd be very curious to find out if the In fractions, the number has gone, I work in traffic every day at signalizing intersections. One thing I see almost at every cycle, somebody's coming through late, almost every intersection that I work, you know. And so it's just so common place that I just wonder if it's actually maybe less with the red light cameras that Doug has does have no effect it's just getting to the same place. I just wonder if we can get. So I think it might be helpful too. We can do a what's called a little mini report on the cameras and I can give you some numbers about just tickets just so we add them but also how they fluctuate up and down. The other thing too, and this is, hey, it was exciting for me, but nerd is that we now have an officer out on a motorcycle. So I think that those numbers and the ability to use a traffic motor the way that we should be using them will give us an opportunity to see some of those numbers probably take down a little bit as time goes on, but we're also going to see the benefit of enforcement in different places. Right. And now that I'm going to do what I'm forcing before. So I also have got two tickets. It's time, but I might or right here. Okay. Also, you know, as I approach, so ultra so ultra aware now. I'm something to have 15 people before I get down the street. I can't use a good background here, back here and there. Nothing like being pulled over. I think that the intimidation of actually getting pulled over by an officer is much more than getting it all on. You know it's way home, right? Let me just get on the way. All right. It's some experience everybody should have. Okay, a couple of things I know that I've seen marks out on Catella, the striping and potholes out there. or the lack there of striping is been bad for a while. And I know that that project is coming. I see marks, I just would like to get a report on what I actually had to be had. Because that's something that we've talked about for a while. And then really, I don't know. Speak for anybody else for me personally up here, I've been up here for 12 years. And one of the things that I really like to find out is kind of more procedural. And I have made a couple of calls. I've reached out and I personally have asked for a lot of information. It took some time for us to get our Southern California as a rep to come to a meeting. I think I asked for two years before we got up here and I know that there was transition and there were things like that. I'm glad it came. But then asking for information and follow up because of trying to ultimately save the city of money with getting our lights changed out at the intersection. The safety lights are old. They need to be replaced with LEDs, which are much more cost effective. And that's been proven. I think over the last 10 years what the cost savings would be, I don't know. But I've asked that question many times that I have not really received. For the benefit of all of us, I think that that's one of the reasons you require us to live in the cities because we have some sense of ownership and some buy-in and we ultimately want to do what's best for our community whether that's fiscally or whether that's safety or all those things combined and so those are how I look at things and I try not to take it personally and I try not to be in a pest either and like you know I obviously have patience because I kind of let things go without you know beating my head against wall for lack of adventure with those procedural things. What is in our purview and why sometimes it seems like things come to us one time and then and another time they don't come to us. So understanding, you know, that, it seems like the point for me is that if we have that procedure, like you have in any other department, it kind of helps. And whether we decide, yeah, or may, we all understand that we still are at the behest of the City Council. Right. They can go their way and do that just fine. I don't think any of us are. So of two, so that we would, you know, I think that it lends to a better working product if we have that. And I said, I'm not speaking for anybody else. I feel a little bit like that. Can I just say, Mr. Chair, or can I just simply because I think there, it's something that we've been talking a little bit internally at the staff level about is that For those of you that have been on the board for a while or even if you're serving your first term, it does not come with an instruction manual and that is a little maddening when you really sit down and think about it. One of the things that we've done for the City Council is really got an entire piece of literature together that defines their roles because that's really what this is about. What do you need me to do when I show up here? And it's a lot easier if I'm thinking about this versus I'm thinking about this. And so one of the things that I've asked the council to do and I think that we're going to get support for this is really to have a, I guess, a good working document that each of the commissions can have that really kind of defines what exactly what we want you guys to do here. What are we looking for? I know that I said, hey, any ideas you have, I'll take them because that's just the way that I work. But they obviously give you your official capacity. They're going to want you at a very constrained view that being said. Information is information. If it's going to help you make a better decision, I don't see the reason why we can't get it to you. So, whatever you do this, when it comes to just that particular question, I think I can give you some answers on that. There are going to be times where, I want to make this absolutely clear just so it doesn't sound like I'm promising the world. There's gonna be times where both raw and aerobene and probably the starting two are gonna say Yeah, I don't know if that exactly is traumatic to the conversation and but let's talk about and let's hear why it's important and we can run back and try to get some information for you. I just more informed people make better decisions so let's go with that. And I think that you know to me. And with that, in that same procedural thing, for instance, when we request information, do we need to step out here and go and request, do I open a record request? Is request something, is that something? So I think there's a way to do this without having to involve the act of Congress and the formal procedure that we would require others to go through. You as a board, I think, getting you the information that you need to make decisions that we've asked you to make. That just makes a good sense at the end of the day. Let me figure out a, what I'll call a cheat sheet of just how exactly the flow chart will work and I can get that for the board, but that's okay. And the relatively simple will be, as Ron and Irving, if Ron and Irving don't think that it's appropriate for some reason, I'm sure they'll tell you that and then they'll probably bring it up to me and I'll probably agree with them and then you can tell me why. I'm wrong and then we'll get back at it. I think we're going to find it as we go through this that we're all going to agree on about 90% and 95% of the things. It's gonna be that 5%, and it's really, at the same time, giving you data points about things sometimes doesn't explain the whole story. And that's what I wanna make sure that we do is, if we're giving you information, we're giving you a context that you can use it to really get to where you need to get to. I think we all understand that as well, So, my mind is just simply that. Do I need to do that or do I not need to do that? It's yay or nay. And I can deal with either answer. No, I would say that I personally would rather this because this is just being general. When we're a small city, we don't need to go through every formal request in order to get a piece of information. If we're able to generate it without taking staff a long time to go and figure out a way to get that information, I'll have that. That's great. I appreciate your time. And I'll look back across and see if anybody has anything to follow up with. I would like to state something. Sure, I want many other shows. Yeah, I just want to be back. All of the city manager states here is, we have a saying here is, you call the strategic planning in layman's term, we have a saying is we're playing chess while everyone's playing checkers, right? And so sometimes when we look at things, we, again, he stated that we try not to do the one-offs, right? So we try to pay back projects off another project and sometimes it's multiple projects for multitude of reason. The greatest reason is when you put in a larger scope and you have one contractor come in, it's just cheaper. Every time you bring out a contractor, they have to pay for bonds, they have to pay for mobilization fees, et cetera, et And so we could put three or four projects onto one, it just one mobilization fee, one bond. Instead of four separate bonds, it's four separate mobilization fees. So yeah, that kind of delays sometimes some of the projects, but you know, we, you know, again, with, like, again, the city manager stated, and I just want to emphasize that, with the trust of the residents and the passage of measure Y, with the blessings from the city council down to the city manager, we are allowed to do things that, one of the perfect example here is, again, I'm not gonna claim because I understand, I've been here for a long time, but when we used to do park projects, they only looked portion of the park, right? Now we go in there, we do the entire part. We fix irrigation, we fix lighting, we fix 88 issues, new playground, the whole Chabang. And so then we can do that park, and we want to a next park, and we do that park, and then we want to a next park. But that's a lot of coordination, whether it's grant funding, with general fund, and on and on and on. So, you know, we try our very best to, like, get played chess versus playing checkers. And sometimes there is a delay, but a lot of you are questioned whether it's the wall or whether it's the ADA concerned by the high school. We are or I am aware of that and it's part of our master plan when we go out there and finish it. Okay? We appreciate that, Ron. You've been more than helpful over the years that you've been involved with us and I think we all appreciate that. I appreciate that. Thank you. I believe it used to be a wreckie. I remember it. Go to the office to get fields for comp water. One year ago. In the June 5 years, the enrollment services. Well, Mr. Chair and Board, thank you for giving me this time. I do appreciate it. I didn't want to just echo. You do have some of the hardest work of people working for you, particularly. This is a good crew and they're probably, they are the busiest, one of the busiest crews that we got. And so your patients with us as we slowly break things and put it back together, we do appreciate that. And we know that we don't get there without you. So I appreciate that. I really do. Thank you very much. Thanks, Jim. Thank you. OK. Moving on then, we move to item B, which is the I-6 or 5 of the town, have an O-C-T-A presentation by Public Upper Extension Manager, coming in or you want a footer or a racket? let me know when you're here I'll be your footer way you can move that carpet. Maybe we'll see the screen. Yeah. Better? That's McGhell, members of the commission. My name is not Kalina. My name is Hoseway, Vagliant. We have Senior Project Manager in the Capitol Project Delivery team at Orange County Transportation Authority. However, I am a company tonight by our outreach manager, Kalina North. Today we'll be providing an update on the Interstate 605 Contela Avenue Interchange Project. Next slide please. The 605 Contela Avenue Interchange Project is also known as Project M in OCTA's OCGO program, which is also known as the Measuring Program that we have, the have in the Selstax, the Lamp County White. The project itself was accelerated by a decade. It was originally supposed to take place in the 2030s. It was accelerated by almost ten years. The project is located in the city of Los Alomitos near the boundary between Los Angeles and Orange County. The environmental phase was completed in October of 2018 with the design phase completed last September. Chris Kelly was an instrumental part of that. He's been, he's had a lot of history with the project, so I consider him a true partner and everything that's led up to this moment. So thank you, Chris. Construction is set to begin in late June and we intend to wrap up within any 18 month duration. So we're targeting late 2026. The total construction cost is approximately 32 million and is funded by both federal and local measure M2 sources. Next slide please. The project will make modifications to both northbound and southbound ramps, connecting two and from Catella Avenue. Operational improvements along Catella will for along Catella avenue for vehicular bicycle and pedestrian modes are also included. Finally, the project closes existing gaps in bike lane and sidewalk infrastructure along Catella through the interchange itself. Next slide please. Generally construction will include the following activities. The project will modify on and off frames to minimize high speed turning movements where they tie into Catella Avenue. The project will construct retaining walls, add class two bike lanes in each direction of Catella Avenue, reconstruct sidewalk to provide continuous sidewalks between Coyote Creek Channel and Epson Wave, as well as add new traffic signals at the interchange and relocate utilities where appropriate. Thank you. The addition of Class II bike lanes mentioned in the previous slide are shown in green and on this aerial map, the proposed Class II bike lanes will also conform to the city of Los Alabitas 2021 Active Transportation Plan. In addition, these Class 2 bike lanes will also connect to existing Class 2 bike lanes along Willow Street at the Cape Creek Channel. Finally, the same Class 2 bike lanes will also provide improved connectivity with regional bike trails, including Clio Decree bike trail as well as same Gabriel River bike trail, which are shown in orange. Next slide. This slide shows where some of the enhanced green baby markings will be installed along Catilla Avenue through the interchange. The hatch markings there will identify bike lane transitions and help to minimize potential conflicts with vehicular traffic. Next slide. As with any construction projects, short-term and temporary impacts are expected. Generally, the contractor will be working weekdays, but may also need work at night or on weekends. Some on and off ramps including those shown on this slide will either have a temporary weekend closure of 55 hours or in some cases a longer closure of 10 days. These temporary ramp closures will include work such as temporary striping, temporary concrete barrier removal and placement and ramp reconstruction activities. Motorists will be asked to plan ahead for lane reductions on Catilla Avenue. Headestrian and bike access will be affected for sidewalk and curb reconstruction work. However, construction crews will be required to maintain access on either side of Catella at any given time. Noise and vibration may be expected from back up alarms and asphalt grinding amongst other activities. And with that, I'd like to turn it over to Kalina to speak on our outreach efforts. Next slide please. Good evening. Thank you, Houssweigh. Okay. Thank you, Houssweigh. Okay, so I'll start off by saying OCTA's public outreach team has a very comprehensive communications program, and it's includes customized strategies to engage the public about construction activities, closures, and detours, as well as the project schedule. So the outreach team is in the process of coordinating briefings with key stakeholders to share project information. So just to name some stakeholders, they include Epson America, the Los Alamedos area chamber of commerce, the Joint Forest Training Base, Royal Oak, Mobile Home, Park Oak Middle School, Los Alamedos Unified School District, Los Alamedos Medical Center, the Rosswell Communities and Resistance District as well as bike clubs. We're also hosting in-person virtual meetings. Our first virtual meeting was earlier today with the Rosswell Community and our next webinar which will be open to the public will be on Wednesday, May 28th at 5.30 in the evening. We're also planning to have a Ross Mourney Road meeting on Saturday, June 14th at the Rush Park Auditorium, 10 o'clock in the morning. And we're going to continue to host these meetings throughout construction. This summer, we are also planning to meet with first responders as well as local schools to share information about the project, construction activities, and impacts, and also let them know different ways to stay connected. The RHD will also seek opportunities to staff information moots at community events. We actually participated in the city spring carnival last month and we intend to host a couple more pop up booths at the coming summer concerts in the city. We have a range of collateral to distribute including FAQs and fact sheets which are translated and Spanish to reach the broadest audience possible. We do have a project website that contains resources and project information. The public can also use the website to sign up for regular email alerts throughout construction. We intend to send those weekly every Friday at the end of the week. Community members can also opt in to receive text messages. And we're also leveraging digital media by posting information on social media, as well as construction activities, closures, and detours on what we have, what we call an interactive Google map. Next slide, please. So this is the website address, as well as a project email and phone number. And with that, that concludes our presentation. We'll be able to answer questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. With that, I'll open it up to questions or comments on them. Yeah, I have one of the facts is most of the people that use the 605 and Conteo on an off-map don't live in Los Alvegos or Rosemar. They're coming through our city to get there. So are you going to be posting very large signs very early to tell them that these ramps won't be closed because they're going to get down. There's nowhere for them to go until they have to be all the way down and they're going to be upset. It's a long way around. It is a long way around. Yeah, yes. Through your commission, Maryfee, great question. I think we actually have the same, or a very similar question at the City Council meeting. So in preparation for this project and advanced construction, there's actually a transportation management plan of document that's put together. We didn't have the opportunity to get put from City of Los Alamedos as well as City of Ceo Beach and then Hawaiian Gardens as well. And taking that into account, we were very familiar with the orientation of Catella and then points west with Willow, points north, the one in the 6th of 5th point south. That document shows where changeable message signs, changeable message signs are gonna be located in place in advance of closures. So they'll let the community know whether they're local residents or commuters going through when those closures are gonna take place. We would encourage the community to sign up for the email alerts that are gonna be available on social media, via text, what have you, so that they're well informed, better informed about when those closures are going to take place. But the intent to see educate not only the local community, but also the community is asked to win their going to take place. Thank you. I'm just going to fly you. If I can add to that, also on the outreach front, we do have a resource we geo-fensing ads. So there's a paid ads on social media as well as other methods of communication. So for example if you're listening to Pandora ads which normally pop up. So these geo-fensing ads will target a certain area and then we can expand a certain radius out to reach a broadest audience, but not so long beyond those outermost. So that's another resource that we use to reach folks that are traveling northbound southbound, 6505. They're coming to the front due to the same. Thank you. Chair, may I add? We're also meeting pretty regularly. I'd like to praise OCTA for even being here tonight. As they mentioned, they were at our city council meeting last month. It's been extremely cooperative, collaborative with our efforts to really get the message going. Any information that we request, whether it's Chris, myself or others on the project committee team, they're very responsive and willing to work with us. So in addition to their own messaging, we're going to be collaborating with our own methods of outreach whether it's our own social media recreation brochure ads all these methods that we can get the word out. We have our weekly e news letter We did include that in our weekly, which is our internal document for city council to prepare them that this was coming up So we're doing everything we can to inform yes our residents our community, also naturally those around. So I just want to thank them here because they understand the impact this is going to have. Thank you. Thank you. That's it. What's the website for just line up for alerts? So it's if you can't go into the-A dot net, 6-0-5, Catella. Slash, Catella just slashes. I corrected it. Unfortunately, yeah, it's correct on the website. I apologize for that. Oh, okay. So, a CT-A.NET 4-A-SLASH 605-KATEL-A. What do you mean? College eyes. Oh, okay. So, a CT a dot net for a slash 605 cutella. What can you? This is the website. Can I get that phone number again? I'm sorry. The one of 30. Thank you. 80, 200. Excuse me. 80, 200, 3302. I believe all this information is on the city's website as well. Yes. Yes. Oh, great. We can share this information as well. I'll put the email. No. Okay. Okay. Oh, so you mentioned traffic signals. We don't have any traffic signals there. Yes. So in the existing condition at the northbound ramps and Catala intersection, there is a, there's some existing traffic signals there that will be reconfigured so that if we could go back to this line that shows the man-lectored signal. All from the launch. Okay. And if I go welcome to this screen. Right here with a northbound ramp. from our empty is located. A new traffic signal there that's facing vehicles that are coming off of this south, northbound loop. This ramp is going to tee up so the free right is going to go away. So the little tee up and no face, the new traffic signal has That makes sense. So I clarified there's an existing traffic signal that they are out of adding additional traffic signals. And how is that going to help us be additional traffic signal? Yes, the red flag is red flag. But the movement, for the movement coming off at that north-familial. That won't be a free movement, that's gonna get a controlled intersection. The reason for doing that is because we're trying to minimize the free right movements entering the next city, and so they don't look more like a traditional intersection, per se, and that's also gonna allow pedestrians to cross a single crosswalk, whereas today we're crossing three roadway pieces and we're crossing three different crosswalks today at that location, the only crossing one in the future. Okay. What about the help of that? I hear you. I'm not sure there are that many pedestrians going that direction and I know there are a lot of cars So I'm just sure there are that many pedestrians going that direction and I know there are a lot of cars. So I'm just going to throw that out there. Thank you. What about the westbound, free, right, entrance to go north on the 6th of 5th. Is that also going away? Let's hear it. When you're going this way, you're going westbound and then you're going to get on the fluid to go north. Oh, that's okay. That's going to be that free right in turn is going to stay there. Okay, I wasn't here. It will be removed. It will be removed. Oh, it will be removed. You're going to have a sickle to turn right? Yes. That's what I thought. But the same reason. Right. Okay. Are you ready? No, I'm good. Mr. Ross? Yes. Thank you. The kind of ready hit on my questions, because I think right now for us, most of us, Most of us, we get free rights, you know, out and coming back and really, we're coming from Womens to see. kind of ready hit on my questions because I think right now for us most of us we we get free rights you know I'm coming back and really you're coming from mom she's the only time out the way for the signal but now so now with the signal there right which takes away with the free right so if someone's exiting so if someone exits on someone's going north on 6 or 5 and exits but now typically they go to Long Beach right now the free right to Willow is going away so they're going to wait at a light and they're going to be able to turn right and left just right. Just right okay. The other the other off-ramp here or eastbound can tell, that would be. And that would be a free writing here. Okay. Got it. And any other ones on the other side are also going to be free exit. No, those single on the other side. Right, right. Okay. Great. That's all my questions. You know, just to help me, Can you just briefly kind of go through all directions out how cart, what's changed? OK, if you're going north on the 605 and you're going to eat, I see the free ride. And again, left, is it going to change? How would you go? Can you go each direction? I'm going to start in Northbound, and then we'll do southbound. I want to 605. So in the northbound direction, you're here for this ramp. The existing striping situation on northbound 605, it's just a single lane that exits. And then you have the option to go to Willow or Matallic. You've got a Westbound. In the proposed condition, you'll actually have an optional lane, adjacent to the lane that exits, so you'll have two lanes to give the option to exit. One is dedicated port of Willow to go towards Long Beach. The other lane will act as a dose today, and it'll at Eastbound long the time. So that's the strength. For loop ramps, the northbound to westbound, loop ramp, off ramps, I should say. That's going to tee up with cattellas. So that free-right movement is going to go away. In the northbound on ramp, again, the free-right will be removed, but that entire northbound ramp is going to be reconstructed to streamline the movement if you experience tips of turns are a little tight. So by the time you get on the main line you really have to gut it to the emerge, right? Before the bridge happens at the channel. So we're going to streamline the geometry such that you're able to pick up the must-be. It'll also carry a little bit more capacity on the armament. So I'm aware of that queuing, you know, that happens during peak hours. That new ramp will be able to accommodate a little bit more capacity. And in the future, for whatever reason, it's needed. There may be a situation where the ramp need or in-game adjustment to cars green. That's where the job is going to be. Southbound. I'm sorry, since we're on that right now. So do we now have more room to get onto the freeway once we get up to the top? A little bit of distance to merge. One of the benefits of the streamline in this is that you're able to reach that 50-mount per hour and take deals with the 40-mount. Today I think you're maybe hovering, we've studied this, it's hovering about 40 miles an hour. Although the merge is traffic and maybe going to 65. We're also going to make more of that random accommodate two lengths before it merges into one and then ultimately merging multiple three lengths. So it'll have a little more capacity. Thank you. Southbound. Southbound 65, maybe this first west to South loop ramp. The ramp itself is fairly narrow. So for larger vehicles, we're accommodating, we're adjusting the geometry to accommodate those larger turning movements. For trucks, delivery trucks, and a whole lot more of Amazon trucks in the world these days. And then larger vehicles, there is a design standard and make it a little bit wider such that the traveling movement footprint of the truss or you will take that turn as slightly higher speed. Same thing is happening on the southbound to eastbound loop there where we are adjusting the width of the ramp there and then similarly on the southbound. What's not shown here, and maybe we could share that map. We've been sharing with the webinar this afternoon in the addition of crosswalks and ADA features, programs in each location, whereas today, some of those programs, as you know, lead to nowhere. Or the site distances aren't great for either the vehicle of bicyclists or a pedestrian. Really trying to improve that situation so that the vehicles can see a pedestrian ahead of the ramp. Or if they're coming off the three-way sink, they're able to see bicyclists be able to see that pedestrian wanting to do that. Wanting to cross up that thing. And then can you do the same thing for vice-cultivist what's changed or what's going on? So, a covering of Catella. On Catella itself, one of the questions that we got today is what we're going to do. Are you adding capacity? Adding another lane, the answers no. We're maintaining the same number of lanes in each direction. What we're doing is slightly widen to accommodate a class two cycle. So in the westbound direction, I'm leaving today, I don't know if they exist further east, both absent or further east, the longsword. As part of that, I can try and reintroducing that class two flight flight language. This strike, a dedicated space for bicyclists, the whole way through tying into Willow, I believe, has it on ground, on the side of the channel. And then the same thing in the eastbound direction, we're adding the Class II flight facility. In the eastbound direction, some 100 feet before Epson will be in the optional bike ramp. For those that don't feel comfortable continuing to ride, bicyclists, I mean, they don't feel comfortable riding in the street with buttery, full of traffic. They have an option to be able to take that bike ramp off of the still in the air on Tuesday. I'd like to mention that's part of our strategic plan. So the same manager has mentioned about the Pine Street grant. The official name of it is a complete street grant. So yes, the bulk of the money is on the remanding nation of Pine Tree, but it's also how to get to Pine Street. So this is one of the avenues here where the city will take over because their project scope is to Epson. The city through that complete street grant will take over from Epson all the way down to Wallinsford. or walk or walk or walk, walk, not. Okay. And then, is there a way to get from the river trail bike to into this intersection on bike? At that location? Yeah. So the green or the proposed class two bike lanes are part of our project. These blue-ish class two bike lanes along the little already exist. And then these thicker orange lines are the regional bike trails, one of which is on St. Kiva River, which I think is the one you're referring to, and then the other one along Crayon Creek Channel. So they'll be able to have connections at the Crayon Creek Channel. Okay. So Right now I can come southbound 6.05, get off at Willow and sweep right on the Willow. You're going to take away that off ramp and you're going to make a go past Willow come back and have to make a left turn on to Tatella. Am I getting that right? If I'm following you are you talking about this southbound? Yes. Oh that one okay thank you. That one is not part of the project? That's that's going to remain as it is. Okay thank you. Okay sorry just something I'm clear so on The honor after the 605 coming from Westbound, Kitala again, the woman. Just to make I'm clear so on The honor after the 605 coming from Press down guitar again the woman I typically use all the time I Get it you're taking away the free right now. We're gonna stop at a light at traffic signal right and and so all worst stop that traffic stop That's allowing the long beach people coming from long beach making that left and onto the same on-ramp. Yes. You're talking about this. Yeah, so that intersection will control cars coming westbound, wait to wait until the cars coming eastbound make their left on to the same on-ramp. So for the cars coming westbound for Los Alamos, is it going to be one lane or two lanes that make a right? It's a one lane. Okay, and that's also the same intersection where the current right, the right, the people who are exiting, who are going the free right towards Long Beach Yes, that's the same intersex that's gonna that they're gonna stop and then turn right to long beach guy That particular foot credits gonna need to be a little bit wider right so the trucks could make that right turn Yes Okay, so the shoulder is on the approach where they tie and take a teller a little their to accommodate those people. So I can speak to that term Chris has used it in apron that middle kind of island that's there where you make that right turn to go north bound on. That's going away right the apron. Yes. And that's to allow super technical term Call it a workshop a workshop. I should know Like Like the rock was monitoring like Any other questions and comments and for me Thank you very So if there's not gonna be an entrance to the bike trail up there, is the oak one on the main? Yes. That will be me. You're talking about the one that's behind Oak Middle School? Yes. That will be me. Yes. Well, thank you very much for the presentation. I'm sure we look forward to seeing a lot more information and more detail photos who look tough to see from from here, but But I think we all haven't good understanding of what's coming so thank you very very much. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Okay moving on we now move to item five, which is oral communication At this time any member of the public is speaking. I don't think we have anybody here today. So we will move from oral communication to item six, which is the consent calendar and the approval of the events for the meeting of April 9th, 2025. I should have got proof. Okay. Hit all in favor, hi guy, pose, take'm opposed. I'm going to take out our dinner and serve the crew. And then we will now move to 7A, which is the traffic commission status law. And we'll stay in the status law. Anybody? Any status law or other things? I'm getting it. Well, I am something. OK, Bruce. Be aware. Okay. E4. E4. I think there was a lot of them here. I don't think I can get up that way. Thank you. Hey, you're kind of cute. I'm not. I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. All right. E4. I'm in the office. Hey, you're kind of cute. You know what I mean? I'm in the office. I'm in the office. I'm in the office. I'm in the office. I'm in the office. I'm in the office. Hey, you're kind of cute. You know what I mean? I'm in the office. I'm in the office. I'm in the office. I'm in the office. that we talked about. It's item training. Is there been any more discussion about that? Yes, we're an assessment. So we sent a crew out there to measure the width of the street. And we're in assessment, so we sent a crew out there to measure the width of the street. And we're still assessing it, but how do you call the initial feedback? It's the street's not wide enough for the vehicle working. But we're basically confirming that right now. But the one way still could work, though. Yes, that is so. You're talking about the one way direction for vehicle travel. Right, yes, that is still working. But again, kind of piece of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So we're assessing right now. Thank you. That's what I got. Okay, thank you, Drew. Okay, nothing. Nothing, nothing. Nothing. Okay. Real quick. Let's see. Item C1 analysis of the intersection of the overall schools within the city limits, which might warrant installation of prop lock. That item shows food and pending. I'm not sure what we have going on with that item. Let's see what I'm going to have to do. I'm going to have to reset that a little bit before my time. No problem there. I was reading through it, caught my eye and I thought, okay. Let's see, I, I, E1, which I mentioned earlier, which was the Striving Plant for Catella. I've seen marks out there, which I know, something's coming. I'd like to clarify on that. So, it's a two phase approach, right? So, we actually went into a council and they approved a Basile contract for the asphalt repair. So the vendor was out there and they did about 30,000 square feet of asphalt repair this past Sunday. They didn't quite finish, so they had to come back for a second Sunday. So once we finished the asphalt repair, then we will enter and destroy things. So we did go to council, they did approve that an award. And so right now our city engineer is trying to finalize our analysts for trying to finalize the contract insurance and everything. So first phase is, again, hard-skate fixing pot holes and doing these large swaths. If you drive up and down you'll probably see it. The guy come back the second second night and then after that the stripping will come and happen. Excellent. Excellent. Let's see. I'm not sure about I.M.C. 4 review time limit parking signs in the city. I think that's throughout the city. I'm going to show a proof in review. I'm not sure. That's part of our city citywide signage plan? Yeah, it's part of our citywide signage plan. So is that something that is going to come to us at some point? For review or is that? Yes, so just be more... Yeah, so in the day, but it's the first or second week June, we sit down as a team to go over it, and then they will receive direction from me on what the plan is, and then they will draw a plan, and then yes, we will present that to the traffic mission. Our first take will be Midtown. We're going to go into Midtown and take a look at Midtown as well. Okay, great. That is all I have on the U-St law. So, what else? So, we can move from that now to items from the development service department. So, we do have some items. A couple of them, commissioners have talked about it briefly, but I'm going to expand on it. The first one is the Lexington Avenue Striping, that Commissioner Carpese has mentioned. So at the last council meeting, we have received direction that on, I'm very bad on West North side, whatever, but it's on that side where the C-Side will be holding the site. To remove the parallel parking and go back to the, to remove the angled parking and go back to the parallel parking and go back to the parallel parking. Right now we're reaching out to vendors to obtain a quote to remove that. The larger plan there is because the way they remove it is I got pressure to wash it out and you're going to see some marks and everything but we are right now kind of starting the phase of our street project coming up for this school 2526. So the plan is to slowly seal that right side. Right? So there we can eliminate that and then we have fresh paint. And again, we'll probably come back to the commission at that time. But the plan here is to do the same stripping that we have done at Old Town West. That's kind of happening. Right? Yeah. Right. Because again, our purpose there is to slow speed. And then secondly, we probably see sooner. There's a traffic order to put some stop signs there. Correct. So hoping that once I get the quotes, we can get, depends on how much they charge. But hoping that we can get that removal of that within four, six weeks. That's what scops says, where? Power. Oh, okay. So we're going to be out. And then I talk to the base, you know, because they didn't have a stop sign coming out of the base. And so they just recently put one in like two days ago. But I'll personally just stop sign coming out of the base. Okay. Good. Oh. And I ask, what is, so you, you restriped Lexington on the east side to diagonal? Yes. And now you're tinging back to parallel part? Yes. What motivated that? We had some concerned residents that lived on that side, stating several factors. One was a factor of safety hazard coming out, coming out of their driveway. And the second one was people were parking there and you know at night or early morning and their headlights were shining into their homes. So the council listened to their concerns and then provided instruction to us to proceed with the removal of the Slotting Okay Even with that they're still gonna be an increase in parking Yeah, because you have a one-time I think both sides slotted was an increase of my members to be correct plus 19 And so you're looking at you know, it's still an increase, but it's an increase of a single digit Second one here was we went to city council with our Options and what they decided upon was option one was a scramble and the removal of the bike lane in the lost out boulevard and to relocate it somewhere else. So we met for a very, very long time me in the traffic union here team recently to kind of figure out an alternative plan to relocate the striping, the bike plane in Los Alboleheart. And so we will eventually go back to council to provide them options in the relocation of the bike plane. But again, they gave us direction to do the scramble at Los Alamedos and Stritos. And again, we will hold the bike on Los Al I put that screen, well that's going to be with the head indications for that diagram. That was correct. You know, you're aware of Cherimigia. Once we go in there, we got to look at everything and that includes 88. So right now, again once they receive direction, we go down the process and we got to go out and do the assessment. Okay? So we're going to be okay. Neighborhood signage, I believe some months ago, we went to the planning commission, did we come to this traffic commission too? No, but we went to the planning commission to give them a survey of the neighborhood entry signage. Right? you know, to break it down, strategic planning, there's a lot goes on there. It's the branding, the overall city branding, like the city manager stated. We are designing, looking at, I'm not saying we're going to do it, but we have designs for leading islands. And then of course, we're looking at designs for the neighborhood entry signage. And of course that's coincides with the overall signage in the city that I mentioned, right? And everything. So we are going to city council in June to provide them with the survey results. So tune in and we'll see what direction they provide us for that. I wanna talk about on Monday at our city council meeting, we have a cooperative agreement with Cyprus. So, there's a, at four, three, two, one, street, what's happening is currently the Holy Cross Lutheran Church that is in the jurisdiction of Cyprus. But the city of Los Alamos is on three, fours, of the street, I think, in front of this school. So they have partnered with a development firm called Red Hook, Capital Partners, and so they're going to establish a sick or more creek community charter school. So Cyprus is, because it's in their jurisdiction, they're leading agency, they have issued out a CUP to pour them to proceed with the bill. And so we come into, they did a traffic count and the traffic count stated that they have to do a traffic signal light at that intersection, which is Cali Lee and Cerritos. So they at their expense will be implementing a traffic signal light at that intersection. Again, Cali Lee and Cerritos, and some striping modification at Bluefield and Cerritos, right? Again, paid by the applicant. What the council item is, is a cooperative agreement with Cypress, because again, we share two different jurisdiction. So basically, again, the applicant will pay for the striping and the installation of the traffic signal. But then from then on maintenance will be 50-50 split with the city of Cyprus and the city of Los Alamos, with Cyprus being the lead agency for doing the maintenance. The maintenance done then will end with us for 50%. So I just wanted to bring you up because there will be a report and I in a Brock to the City Council for that agreement. So the following are their maintenance contracts. The last two here is I'm going to kick it to Irving because he's going to talk, we put some flyers on there about the neighborhood cleanup event and the summer concert series, but I also want to add before he talks about these two details and details that he can keep on your radar is we are going out again as a city to the joint forces training base for the third of July celebration. Okay, so but I'm going to have to already talk about the two items that flyers that you have before you. Thanks, Ron. So, good evening, Chair, members of our commission. I have these two items in a few brief ones. But as you see, you have pliers for two major events. One is the Saturday's neighborhood cleanup. I would encourage you as residents to come out to bring any excess bulky items that you own, possess, that you want to clear in spirit of spring cleaning. There's also e-waste and personal documents. If you'd like to shred It's from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Pine Street. It's a Q-in so it's gonna queue off of Pine Street and couldn't tell them Yeah, so wraps around it wraps around but yeah, it's essentially going to be where I'm sorry Pine Street and Flora stuff, but yeah, it's essentially gonna be from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. You don't have to exit your vehicle as in years past. You have members of our UWS team that we partner with. Excuse me, they do a good job about making sure everything's clearing pretty quickly. And then we also have our neighborhood preservation team that takes the lead on this event. so it'll be all hands-on deck and should be a very good community event. So like I said this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The other flyer is for our summer concert series. This is obviously our recreation team that's headlining this event as it has in years past. It starts off with four concerts on Pine Street and then eventually goes into the neighborhood parks at Orville, Louis and what's the other one? Oh my god, little convent, thank you. So it'll start with Pine Street and the reason for why it's also a nice partnership here is that we as an economic development team within development services, we're going to kick off to of the concerts with Knights on Pine. And that's basically what we've done in the last few years now where we activate the street there for more activity. And so rather than trying to replicate efforts and create confusion of who's what, who's doing what, but we're just going to apartment with them on the economic development front and trying to get businesses come out. Once recreation vacates Pine Street and they do their own events and then we exit the summer we will continue with our own nights on Pine. So you'll have more information as that comes along. That will be once a month as it has been in the years past. But it will essentially be the same thing with live music, food, entertainment, activities for the families that come out and have a good time. So those are the two events that I'd like to highlight and encourage your participation or attendance. The other thing that I wanted to mention is if I don't recall if I brought this up in the year in last meetings, but we were recognized as a Tree City USA. It's a national recognition from our Bay Foundation. It's been a hard work effort to really get that brandy and that goes in with our big picture of trying to be obviously a Tree City USA, but our urban canopy with the support and partnership of the Los Aluminus Community Foundation, with the support of the community, UWS, West Coast Arborist. We've done a very nice job of enhancing our urban canopy if you participated or have participated in our Arbor Day event. We recently had, unfortunately, with weather, it wasn't quite as populated, but we were able to plant two new trees at Little Conwood Park. So it's just an overall effort to really make Los Aluminus not only aesthetically pleasing, but environmentally friendly. And so we have that recognition. We're going to celebrate the heck out of that. So I just want to make sure that you understood that that's something that we earned. I'm just hot off the brush press because foundation just met on Monday, I believe they're going to be issuing a city of $20,000 for additional trees this upcoming fiscal year. So in addition to, yeah, it's actually because I had the Knights on Pine as the additional event that I wanted to highlight. I know I just mentioned that the OCT Project Information that was in the presentation, I'll make sure that you have an email in your inbox so that you have that information that you can have and share with others. That's it. Thank you. You can share the past couple questions. Sure. Thank you for that report. I saw you go on door hanger today with all that what you announced, including that fireworks. Or go park, I don't remember concerts being there before. Maybe they weren't there having? I would love a Commissioner Hill, Randy Hill to explain what you mean. They've been there several years. I don't know, five years, anything. I've been sponsoring it. Yeah, okay, Randy. Yeah, okay, good, great. I give my nickel. I see, yeah, I see your name. And in the other question, on the trees, great timing because the house near me recently sold about a couple of years ago, I assume it's a city came in and removed the tree. That's in the parkway. I don't know if it's's dead disease. So the new resident was asking me, can he just plant any tree in the parkway? No, no, no. I will email you the form that you may be able to share. It takes a lot of effort for our city to approve removal of a tree, and it's typically what you said. It's invasive disease or it's the hazard. It has to be a health and safety issue. And it has to be really thought out. We have an arborist, a west coast arborist, which is our contract inventor that will work with public works to identify whether that tree is in fact a problem. But we won't just remove a tree, we'll replant a nutrient and we have a packet with city approved trees. Our arborists will make a recommendation based on the location because sometimes you have narrow parkways, you have utility boxes, or you may have a certain a loken feel, but our arborists through west coast is ultimately the one that will provide that recommendation and then the beauty of that is the city's effort in maintaining that urban canopy. There's no charge to the resident to plant a tree up the parkway. Unless the removing a tree that is not necessarily deemed invasive. And it's just for other reasons, but it's really difficult. That's a removable parkway tree. Interesting. So is there like a approved tree packet? Yeah, it's like 18 20 trees. They may be. I'll be happy to share that with you. I'll be happy to share that with you. I'll be happy to share that with you. I'll be happy to share it with you. But it is on our website. The packet. Okay. The tree. There's a room form and then there's also the packet. It's also with our policy. that it's got the boot so he just wants to do a tree. So then it's just yeah planting a new tree so all of a sudden that pack goes. All right. Are we going to have a hair? I have a question. So when you said a little sort of robot bike rack, it's getting removed for it? Bike lane. Is that the one that we just painted? That is correct. The one that just went in is going out. So exactly what was the final straw that upset people? Ah, congestion. You know? You know, for different reasons I had mixed feelings about it. But one thing I thought was good was it told drivers to stay in your lane. They didn't do it though. They didn't do it. Okay. I think there are several reasons, but I think the main reason is traffic congestion. Vehicle. Traffic congestion. Yes. It's going to do some lane, isn't it? Straype? I mean, the bike. Yes. They took out a lane. They had a right turn lane. That they made. But the bike lane took that. Oh, that's a redo? Yes. Then it was a share. You straight That's just a couple things on the neighborhood cleanup. They're not taking the paint or anything like that House hold hazardous waste unfortunately is not part of it. Although we do have resources available, where folks can take it and I mean the most. Yeah, I assume that. Yeah, no. I think on this, the several concerts, the last week of that semester, that's a year on Pine, Star Works closed. It was closed during the music. So, you know, I don't know if the kids, you know what I said, I guess I'm also doing it, I guess I don't know. All I know is, you know, that should be open. Yeah, that's news to me. We work really closely with our businesses, let them know that we're going to be there, and most of them are excited. I'll kind of give you a sneak peek that we're going to be trying to collaborate with those specific businesses to do some sort of discounts or do some sort of insensivized deals to get families to come through, benefits the business, it benefits the event, benefits the city. Of course. That's it, so I have. Excellent. OK. Anything else? OK. With that, we will move then to item 9, which is traffic commission, initiate a sentence. Anybody having initiate a sentence? We had some discussion about the daylight long and red curbs. I can't remember if we discussed it here, maybe only in midtown having red curbs of daylight. Has there any more discussion about red curbs as opposed to just a signage? So actually the police department has reached out to us to have that conversation where in the midst of trying to set up a meeting to go over that, but your absolute correct is initially when they requested and talked to me this is their command set they said maybe not city wide but in half heavily but vehicle park like you said midtown but we are trying to coordinate a meeting to have that discussion. Along the way the same thing on the speed bumps or speed bumps and out of the speed bumps and So yes, so we go to Council on Monday with updated speed hump policy. I think we came here right for a recommendation, I believe. And we go on Monday with that. So once that is done, we already started assessment, right? And so we will come to this body to give you some of the assessment counts. Because I think our recommendation was from Lexington to Noel, along Coutella Deli. That's correct. It's a long way. Really? We recommend you to do that. I feel so. So we will come back, like I said, and give you the actual count, right? And see, you know, and stuff. And then at your recommendation that we go to council to see if there were two of us to install the speed bumps. Okay. One more. Well, two. You know, we have discussion that you made a change. Northbound on Los Al. Yeah, lots of us build a more pass-cut tele. We had that one lane that was end of being a right turn on, and people get merging over. So now you put this in merge over, and then if you need to think of right turn, you got to merge back again. Okay. That's more confusing to everybody. So our council has directed this at the last council meeting to take a look at that. So we're looking at that as well. So when we're looking, I mentioned assessment of trying to create an alternate IPAP on Los Albuvo board. We're taking a look at that intersection. And the last one is council wants us to take a look, take us, take a, for us to review the on-demand crosswalk that's approximate or Southland credit you needed. Right, so we have you know kind of three or four different things that we're taking over here. Yes, yes, yes, may it actually work. Yes, yes. Okay. People confuse very easily. They still do. So, I'm sorry, I've got to know some of myself. Can I talk to that? But as far as that will reach the bike. Oh, I can going to notice myself. Can I test the tag on to that? But as far as that will reach the bike length. As far as that bike length goes, you want to re-route it. So you're going to go low field or you're going to go wallets. We are looking at everything. There's nothing else that goes through the container. We cannot completely completely eliminate it because I mentioned Ford is a complete street grant. That's part of our complete street grant. So for us to eliminate that, that will jeopard that possibly will jeopardize our funding. So that's what we have to figure out. We are reroute. So I mean you have to reroute that around Bank of America, right? I'm going to take you to America. Is it back in America? Whatever. Chess, the Chess. You're talking about chase on the internet. The lock's out with bullbarkers. Yeah, the lock's coming. The sidewalks coming. Yes, the lock's coming. So you have to reroute it against that before to tell it. Now you've got to rerout it again, pass thealan before Cerritos. So basically you're just going in and coming up a little bit, that's your only option. I'm going to go. So if you can rest a little bit, the size straights. When we come back to this conbody, we will tell you because there's more to it. There's part of our ATP plan coming down Los Alblore, like you're coming down to Island. Because of such the, remember that intersection is the third highest intersection in all of Orange County. The ATP plan, when we did our assessments, they do not go through that with a bike. So they actually rerot it on Green Street and then they cut through Reagan Street. So that's part of the complete sherry grant is to put a, uh, what they call, hawk system, right? So they're going to go down Reagan and hit Floresta and then, you know, you saw that, then joining in on Los Alamos were going to get down to like, uh, Cerritos, right? No. But we're taking away that bike. We're taking away that bike list. So we got a figure out. Yeah, we got figure out a different route to go. There's no option. Yeah, so we're figuring out, like I mentioned, we used that route in two hours trying to figure this out. We're probably going to need to see. It's not rocket science. You're going to either turn in Harrisburg, they go up and around the blue field, and you're going to turn the park bar, and go up and in the field, and you're going to go Katala up and around the blue field. And the only one that makes sense, really, is probably Harrisburg. Yeah, you know, like I said, we have three or four different ones that we're going to present to Council. And then they get to choose which one they would like the best. One more thing in the last meeting in the minutes, I had commented on the painted stuff, signed bar in the middle of the driveway at 1-1-1-2-1, been it enough and Dutch even. Has there any been any? So our city engineer Farhart was in the city Tuesday? Right, yesterday. And so he went out there to take a look at it. So we're awaiting what is. I don't know if any of the customers just take the stop sign out. Yeah, because you can't go back, you can't go forward. So he would leave it or he'd make profit. I don't know if they complain or not. You have not heard a complaint. Yes, just me. Yeah. Yeah. He was out. He was out in the city. I don't know. We met, like I said, about the Los Alboa and then I heard me. He went out there with the public. That's where we put his comments. Okay. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. No. I just have one kind of a conical question. It got right up. That strip of right there at the intersection of Catella and La Salle Boulevard were for the bank where the railing is. I saw something the other day that I was like, oh my god. So someone, a woman in that mechanized wheelchair was going south on south on that sidewalk. And then they're going to a driveway for the chase bank and her, went down the driveway into the street and she was stuck. And someone had to get out of the car to get her back. And I thought this got mentioned about some potential improvement to that situation? Yes, so again, we are aware of that intersection in that sidewalk specifically. There is a aid issue there. And so again, the city manager mentioned that safe routes to school, right? So as we go under gone, go through this, that intersection will probably be a key intersection for a safe route to school path, as well as safe routes to school is both the regular buses, pedestrians, and bicyclists. So we will take a look at it, and again, the engineering team will do a full blown assessment to give us a recommendation how to correct that. I can tell you in general, right, that because the city was built, what? When it came to 1960, 1970, and the ADA standards change literally every three or two years. Most of our driveway into a business sector is not ADA component, right? us to go in there, I see Commissioner Mahi is shading because he has a tremendous amount of money to fix every driveway. But as we go around and tackle it, like I gave an example, we're about to finalize 100% design for Oak Street because we're grinding and paving, we are doing Oak Street. We have to fix a lot of the dry boys that's into the Oak middle school because it's not ADE compliant. So I've reached out to the school district to kind of discuss some alternatives because of a flower, flowery pot, we have to go into the school property to do it and you know, like that's a big big problem because then they have to go to, it was called the S-A. So we're kind of trying to come up with some alternate to-do A-D complancing about going onto school property. So, yeah, we're aware of that issue and as we go from street to street to street, we try to fix as many driveway approaches as we need. Yeah. Okay. As a dedication. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it. Anyways, thank you. Thank you. You want to give it up here? We approach is that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's Thank you. I just have one Item I mentioned it before I don't remember what I know we have quite a few Signs specifically stop signs in the city that are really kind of losing their reflectivity. I know we haven't really done a reflectivity test. Oh, yeah. Or if we have. So is that something that the city does by area or should it be reported when we see them? How is that something that is typically handled? So the city manager mentioned that we did a city-wide sign inventory survey which talked about they located the signage, what type of sign they measured the height, they measured the reflectivity and everything, that's going to go getting better into what we call our GIS systems, like on the computer, so we can pull it up real quick, right? And as we go through and sit with the team here, yes, our target is to do Midtown first, But if we go out and go from section to section of the city, can we notice that a certain signage is far below the norm, we will go and replace it at that time. But yeah, so I hope that answers your question. Okay. I'm glad you just, I know in the city this small there's so many signs. Yeah I know we just finished there reflecting on that. I want to say in general, I can't remember who specifically. I think it was actually you talking about homelessness and when do we call it? Sergeant Nester here said, sorry here said call anytime. So, the same thing here is we have a app on my city, my lost out app that if you see a stop sign, you see Pockwall, you see broken irrigation on the city partway, you see a tree, land that you might think it's too low, please, please put it on there. We are very diligent on that. And so if we got there and that's a public work team and we do an assessment and they come back and run this stop sign is below norm, we will replace that stop sign. If, yeah, trees or anything, we will got there. We're a small city, like me, I drive around the city, right, to kind of check things out. Public work seems out out there constantly we have a big preservation out there every day but we miss stuff people are I'll be honest right and so you know you guys who live here work here play here you guys are eyes ears and everything so please feel free to either go on the mile or if you're not that tech savvy like like me, email me., email me. No, and I appreciate it a lot of times like I'll bring it up. Just not maybe knowing that others understand what that means and the signs have, you know, it should be reflective at night you should be able to get that in, get it clear evidence. And sometimes what you see during the day is a little transfer effort. You know, we tried it, you know, I think that we did Stern's Park, right? And Stern's Park is by an alleyway. And I went in there, I told them to put a sign in there. So when you're coming out of the park, a certain distance, this is park is approaching cautious of pedestrian crossing. So we will do the one-off signage if we need it necessary. Okay. Appreciate that. And... of pedestrian crossing. So we will do the one-off signage if we deem it necessary. Okay. Appreciate that. And with that, that's all I have for commission initiated business. And we can move to item 10, which is adjourned. Motion to adjourn. Second. On the good of that one. Thank you. Thank you.