And we will start with the Pledge of Allegiance with Francis Miller, please coming forward. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. We will now take role, City Clerk, please call the role. Thank you, good evening. We have two roles for tonight's meeting. The first one is for City Council. Council Member Wells. Here. Council Member Corman. Here. Vice Mayor Mirish. Here. And Mayor Nazarian. Here. And the next is for the Parking Authority. Director Wells. Here. Director Corman. Here. Director Friedman. Here. Vice Chair Mirish. and Chair Nazarian. So, I'd like to say one quick line before we begin. It's an incredible honor to sit here tonight for my very first city council meeting and as mayor. And I want to take a moment to thank my colleagues, our city staff and our incredible community for the warm welcome and continued support. As we begin the next chapter together, I'm filled with hope and determination for a stronger, safer, and more united Beverly Hills, a city where we can all feel heard, protected, and proud to call our home. We all serve as a team, and I look forward to working collaboratively to uphold the values that make Beverly Hills so special and to build on them for our future together. So thank you for that. I'm excited tonight to kick off one of my initiatives as mayor, a moment of unity. Over the next year, we will highlight the many ways in our community that celebrate diversity and really the common goals and common values. So tonight we're honored to welcome Father Ed, pastor of Good Shepherd Catholic Church, to talk about his efforts promoting unity in our city. Welcome Father Ed. Thank you, Mayor. It's an honor to be here to speak on unity. And just a little bit about myself. Many of you know that my father is Jewish, Ukrainian and Jewish blood. And I feel like I had to live unity growing up with a Catholic mother and a Jewish father. And I feel so blessed to be pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd. We have a multi-ethnic and multi-religious school. We have many kids that are Jewish and Muslim and Hindu, of course, as well as Catholic, and all are welcome at our church. And we just had holy week and our great glorious Easter celebration. It was so wonderful to see so many people. I know a lot of people were not Catholic, but they showed up anyway, because they're probably with a family member that wanted to go to church on Sunday and as many of you know the leader of our Catholic religion on earth Pope Francis passed away on Sunday and he was a great man he embodied unity and he really celebrated also diversity and multi-culturalism and his motto was all are welcome and that's really the motto at our church and really that everyone is a child of God. And in a deep way, he says, we need to not just listen to each other, but we need to learn from each other. And I think that was his greatest gift that we don't just dialogue as a process to say, okay, we're dialogue. No, I'm actually listening very attentively, active listening. I can learn something from you. And I think that was his gift to the church and to the world is that we need to learn from each other and that's really the heart of unity. And again, I'm blessed at the church. We try to do that, interacting with all different faiths. And a few years ago, I was blessed to visit Sinai Temple, and we had one of Pope Francis's best friends, who's a Jewish rabbi, Abraham Scorca. And we talked about Catholic Jewish relations, especially since World War II, and how we really want to keep those relations really strong. So again, I'm blessed to be at the good shepherd and if the council ever wants to do anything Multicultural or multi-religious, please let me know. I'm very comfortable with that I work a lot with Father Lexi Smith who's in charge of interreligious dialogue here in the Archdiocese of LA But again, I wanted a special blessing upon our new mayor and many blessings in the years ahead. So thank you very much. Thank you very much, Barbara. So we appreciate that. We are all welcoming city as well, Beverly Hills and in the same spirit of unity, I'd like to call for a moment of silence to remember Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, who passed away yesterday. All right, thank you very much. Thank you, Father Ed, for your words of inspiration. We truly appreciate your ongoing support and commitment to the community of Beverly Hills. And I'd like to invite my colleagues to please come down to the dius and we'll take a quick photo and we'll also invite our, we'll have some words about our commissioners in a moment. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. 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I want to thank our three commissioners for serving as our eyes and ears. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your dedication to our city and for fulfilling the mission of the commission. And I hope that you will continue to work hard to support and to be a part of our city. So I'd like to take a moment to please invite Francis Miller, Kathy Bronte and Donna Trivman to please come up. We're so grateful for all of you. Thank you. We're so grateful for all of you. Thank you. Appreciate it. I just want to say a couple of words. So I just wanted to thank the City Council and staff, you know who you are. A lot of you know that I've dedicated my life to public service. And so this serving on a commission was a natural progression and a continuation of that. And so I had a great time with these ladies and the rest of the commission. We spent hours talking about the issues back and forth. It was very congenial and the experience was what a commission should be and we're very thankful and I'm thankful that we were able to contribute. So thank you so much. I just want to thank the council and the city for the opportunity to serve on a commission and three people who we spent a lot of time with. I see Karen here and Ryan and I see behind me Karen Ryan. Yes, yes, I know there was NESTR who spent so much time helping us learn and do good work. So thank you all and thanks for the opportunity. I appreciate it. It was an honor for me to serve. I enjoyed very much even when things got spirited. And I think we did a very good job and everyone was very sincere and it was really educational to see how municipal government works and I hope in the future to help again. Anyway, thank you for letting me serve. I'm really so grateful for all of you and for the commission. It's rare that a commission gets to fulfill their mission, so you should be very proud of that. And we're grateful for the service that you've provided to the community. And again, we really encourage you to apply and continue to be involved with our city and we're grateful. Thank you so much. We'll take a quick picture together. Sure. I'm sure you're just wanting to get some work. We got some work disability. It's easy to know who you was well. That's why. If this one of your two, I'd love to take a picture of you. Well, see, I have one of your two. Here, why did you go up the other side? Oh, there. There. Oh, there it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. There it is. Thank you. All right. Next, I'd like to invite public works commissioner Mark Nahurai to please come up. So everyone, happy Earth Day. Today is the 55th anniversary of Earth Day still celebrated globally to remind us of the immense responsibility and stewards of this planet. This year's theme, our power, our planet is really a call to really a call to action. The power to choose renewable energy sources, to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and to protect green space and natural resources. The power, our planet, is also a call for help. The challenges of our environment, pollution, and biodiversity, lost demand joint actions. Beverly Hills is a community united to protect our planet. We will always support environmental education and sustainable policies. And it's my pleasure to present you with this proclamation. Thank you for being the chair of our Public Works Commission. And I'd like to allow you to say a few words. Yes, if you don't mind. I think I need my glasses. Brief words. I'll try to be as brief as I can. So thank you, I'm honored to speak on behalf of the Public Works Commission as we celebrate Earth Day here in Beverly Hills as the chair of the Public Works Commission and proud that we are actively involved in advising on policies, reviewing infrastructure projects and supporting initiatives that contribute to a sustainable and resilient future. I will make it short. Thanks to our City Council, to our public works team, and to the entire community for supporting a sustainable and resilient future. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And make sure to come out this Sunday. It's Earth Day at Farmers Market. There's going to be a lot of activities and I welcome you all to come with the family, the little kiddos and I'm sure there's a lot of booths and fun program so please make sure to come out. So tonight we'd also like to remember Holocaust Remembrance Day and we're recognizing Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day which in Hebrew is known as Yom Hashua and I'd like to start by asking Sarah, Michael Sin from the organization if you heard what I, please come up with your family. So tonight we, tonight we're recognizing Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, which in Hebrew is known as Yom Ha Shua. It begins at sundown tomorrow, April 23rd, and ends at sundown on Thursday. This is the day we commemorate the six million Jews and millions of others who died during the Holocaust at the hands of Nazis. And we also recognize the courage of the Jewish resistance. Let us take a moment to remember those who were senselessly murdered during the Holocaust, as well as remember the incredible survivors and rescuers. We will never forget those who are victims of this horrific history. They are a constant reminder of the need to stand up against hate and intolerance. Please join us now in a moment of silence to honor those who we lost and those who survived. So Sarah, Michael Sin from if you heard what I heard is with us tonight. And if you heard what I heard is a remarkable organization that documents the stories of Holocaust through the eyes of the generations that followed. generation is likely the last that documents the stories of Holocaust through the eyes of the generations that followed. Their generation is likely the last that heard these stories directly from grandparents or great-grandparents. And now more than ever, it's extremely important to educate our youth and to pave the way so such atrocities never happen again to any race, religion, or culture. So I'm so grateful that you'm so grateful that you've taken the time with your beautiful family to be here with us and I wanted to just have you say a few words for us please. There'll be a few. Hi I'm Sarah. My sister Jennifer and I recently shared our grandmother Edith's story of survival through the Holocaust with the amazing nonprofit, if you heard what I heard. My grandmother Edith grew up in Essend, Germany, where she had many friends in a beautiful life before the war. She noticed things really beginning to change in the late 1930s when her daily life and the lives of Jews around her became more restrictive and the freedoms they knew were slowly being taken away. She narrowly escaped Nazi Germany and came to the United States by herself when she was 18 years old, arriving in a country where she didn't speak the language, had no money, and knew very few people. But she was hopeful about starting a new life here in Los Angeles. She built a beautiful life here. She got married. She had two children. She became an artist and absolutely loved her life here. She has been a true inspiration in all of our lives and her legacy continues to live through us, not only through me and my children, but through all of her five grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. On behalf of my family and grandkids of Holocaust survivors everywhere, thank you to Mayor Nazarian and the City Council and the City of Beverly Hills for your commitment to remembering the Holocaust. We're grateful to live in a city that is this committed to making sure the world will never forget. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Oh You guys want to come in? We have three generations here What do you want to come in? Regeneration Thank you. And one of the other initiatives that I will be launching this year is called Never Again is Now. And so I think that through learning these stories from one another, we'll be able to really hope that we never see such hate again. Okay, so thank you for being here. All right, so tonight we are, I'd like to invite Olivia Prince to please come up, our 13-year-old. So tonight we are recognizing Anne Frank-Day and remembrance of a young girl who inspired millions with her diary written during her years in hiding from Nazi persecution. Anne Frank's record of hope and fear and ordinary life, a coming-of-age story, humanizes the unimaginable scale of the Holocaust. The diary continues to affect new generations, including a remarkable young lady who is with us today. Olivia Prince was so affected by the diary that at the age of 10, she started a campaign to establish May 12th as Anne Frank Day. A day chosen because it is the birthday of Anne Frank. Your father? Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank. Otto? Yeah. It also happens to be Olivia's birthday. So I'd like to thank Olivia for being here and invite her to say a few words. Hi, I'm Olivia Prince. When I was nine years old with the support of the nonprofit Anne Frank L.A., I began my campaign to create Anne Frank Day. I want to thank the city of Beverly Hills for proclaiming May 12th in her honor. On this special day, students will have the chance to be inspired by Anne's life and writing like I was. Anne Frank's words reach across time to teach us the value of accepting and seeing the good in each other. Anne's remarkable diary, which has been read by millions of people around the world and translated into over 70 languages, teaches us about the Holocaust. And it is especially important now with many books being banned, including Anne's diary and the Holocaust's education being removed from schools. Anne's life also shows us that young people's voices can make a difference. On Anne Frank Day, I hope that students all over Beverly Hills will learn that their voices are powerful and that they can stand up against injustice wherever they see it. I would like to thank Marinazarian as well as Mayor Friedman, Nikki Faith, and also Sharon Litman, who helped connect us. And a big thank you to Margaret Pollock, Harvey, and Sophie Shield and the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland for making this possible. Thank you so much, Olivia. You're quite remarkable. I'm going to have you. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Come on. Come on. I'll be the book here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next right. Text-PH. Yes. Text messages on any city related topic may be sent to 310-596-4265. City staff will acknowledge receipt of the text message within one business day. However, resolution of issues may take longer. If you would like to receive updated text alerts from the Beverly Hills Police Department, please text BHPD alert to 888777. Text alerts will keep you informed of any police activity within the city. So do we have any public comment? We have one public comment, a speaker slip, which has been provided to you, and we have no other comments at this time. And if anyone wants to call in, the number is 310-288-2288. So at the previous meeting, we mentioned that public comments will be three minutes. And if we have more than 20 people commenting then we will put the comments at the end of the meeting and we also have a summarization that the city clerk will do on written public comments. So, now is the time for anyone in the chamber who would like to comment. You could do so by filling out a speaker slip and providing it to the city clerk. My first slip, I have Zoe Montanera. Good evening, Council members. My name is Soemuntan Erema resident of the city of Sanamonica. I'm the founder of Compassionate Sanamonica and I was running for Sanamonica College Board of Trustees. because of that and the support and endorsement of Vice Mayor Mirish, I decided to go to the 2025 student assembly the student senate for California Community Colleges. I sent you an email last week, letting you know of what happened in that event that is funded by taxpayers' dollars. Unfortunately, the keynote speaker was a well-known anti-Semite that flew from New York to Los Angeles and flew back the same day. And I was alarmed because her speech, which was close captioning, and I actually send a copy of it to the city clerk so you can review the speech. It was a little bit, it was radicalizing students and since we're going to have the Olympics in 2028, I felt that there was enough time to plant a seed, to cultivate it, and to make someone do something crazy. As a citizen journalist myself, I decided just to cover the event and I went to a subsequent workshop and she felt uncomfortable that I was there covering the event because I knew her from New York. So she asked security to remove me from a public event that was paid by taxpayer dollars. So I thought it was important because you have students of San Monica College that come here. The president of the student senate of San Monica College is the regional director of region seven that includes 14 community colleges in our region, including Santa Monica College. This is a call for you guys to get involved and to perhaps send a letter to the superintendent of Santa Monica College and the Board of Governors, because we should not allow this to happen. And for a minute, I thought that I was overreacting, but after being here and listening to stories of the Holocaust Remembrance and the diary of Anna Frank, I know that I'm not overreacting, that this is something that needs to be taken care of. And I thank you so much for your time and consideration. And I'm pleased just review the documents that I send to the city clerk. Good night. Thank you so much. All right. We now move to the parking authority consent calendar. Council Member Wells, can you please do us the honours. I move the adoption of the consent agenda as follows. Number one consideration of the parking authority of the minutes of the meeting of February 19th, 2025. Number two consideration of the parking authority of the minutes of the meeting of March 4th, 2025. And number three, consideration of the parking authority of the minutes of the meeting of March 18th, 2025. I have a second. I'll second. Thank you. Can you call the roll, please? Director Wells? Yes. Director Cormin? Yes. Director Friedman? Yes. Vice Chair Mirish. Yes. And Chair Nazarian. Yes. Now are there any items that need to be pulled for the City Council consent calendar? Yes, can we please pull item number 10? Any others? Okay, so So I understand you need to recuse yourself for number 10? It doesn't need to. Yeah, I don't have a technical legal conflict but because my cousin's own guiries, I have no financial interest in that but just that of an abundance of caution and to avoid any appears from priority I'm going to abstain from number 10. Okay, so we're going to skip number 10. Council member, vice mayor Marish, if you could read one through 17. Mitting number 10 and council member Corman, if you could do 18 through 23, please. And then we'll come back to number 10. Remove the adoption of a consent agenda. Follows one consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the adjourned study session meeting of February 19th, 2025 to consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the adjourned regular meeting of February 19th, 2025, 3. Consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the regular meeting of March 4th, 2025., consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the Study Session Meeting of March 8, 2025. 5, consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the regular meeting of March 18, 2025. 6, review of budgeted demands paid covering dates March 11, 2025 to April 14, 2025. 7, payroll disbursement report covering dates March 11, 2025 to April 14, 2025. Number eight, approval of Traffic and Parking Commission appointment. Negar Camara, nine, request to close the Beverly Hills Public Library for the day. On May 6, 2025, for the final phase to upgrade the behind-the-scenes library software which enables staff to manage and check out materials for library users. 11. Recommendation of the Beverly Hills City Council Rodeo Drive Special Events Holiday Program Liaison Committee regarding the city's support of a proposed partnership between paramount pictures and the city of Beverly Hills for the 30th anniversary of Clueless movie and waiver of permit fees in the amount of $4,930. Twelve recommendation by Arts and Culture Commission Council Liaison's Mirage and Wells to hold the 2025 Festival Beverly Hills on July 20, 2025. 13, 2025 legislative platform. 14, the 2025 City of Beverly Hills Emergency Operations Plan. 15th, The salary schedule reflecting all city job classifications and approval of fiscal year 2024, 2025, one time appropriation from various funds totaling $172,230. 16. An agreement with Jay Ben Boujoua Productions Inc. for Special Event Management and Production Services, and B, Agreement with Vox Productions LLC for Special Event Management and Production Services. 17. The Memorandum of Understanding with the Beverly Hills Little League for the use of City and Beverly Hills Unified School District facilities, and B, authorize the City Manager to execute the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Beverly Hills and American Youth Soccer Organization, DBA, and B, authorize the city manager to execute the memorandum of understanding between the city of Beverly Hills and American Youth Soccer Organization DBA-AYSO Region 76 for the use of city and Beverly Hills Unified School District facilities, and approve a fee waiver for two special events for the total amount of $6,912. 18, a fiscal year 2024 2025 purchase order for J. Ben Bourgeois production's Inc. In the amount not to exceed $312,254 for the 2025 rodeo drive concourse de la Gondes Father's Day car show. 19, a fiscal year 2024-25 purchase order with MIS Topco LP, DBA, mainline information systems, and the not-to-excite amount of $300,000 for the planned replacement and expansion of end-of-life, distorted system. 20, a purchase order to national auto-fleet group for a total not-to-excite amount of $124,186.5 for the purchase of one Police Department detective vehicle and one Fire Department utility vehicle. 21. A purchase order to Penske Motor Group, LLC, DBA Longotoyota for a total not-to-exceed amount of $167,062.52 for purchase of two police detective vehicles and one public works vehicle. 22, a purchase order to crime point ink for a total not to exceed amount of $215,047.20. For the purchase of one police department surveillance vehicle and approval of a one time fiscal year 2024-25 appropriation. the organized retail theft prevention grant fund for $215,047.20 for purchase of specified vehicle. 23. Award of a contract the lowest responsible bidder Williams pipeline contractors Inc. for the Waterman replacements various locations within the city of Beverly Hills project in the amount of $5,570, $557,610 and approval of the plans and specifications, therefore with respect to design criteria and approval of a purchase order in the not-to-eucete amount of $6,113,371 to Williams-Pite Line Contractors Inc. for the project, which includes a contingency of $555,761. And pursuant to the revisions of the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, City Council will also consider finding the project exempt from further review under CEQA. And you. I second it. Role call, please. Council Member Wells? Yes. Council Member Corman? Yes. You're going to be able to do it. Roll call please. Council member Wells. Yes. Council member Cormin. Yes. Council member Friedman. Vice Mayor Mirish. Yes. Mayor Nazarian. Yes. All right. I'm going to ask our city attorney. Is it okay if Council member Cormin goes into this room or does he have to go in a different area? He can go in the back. I mean, technically he doesn't have to recuse himself because as he pointed out, there isn't a conflict under the political format. However, given the circumstances that he pointed out, if he just steps in the back room, that'll be fine. Okay. So there's a request from Gary's of Beverly Hills to host Patek Philippe, grand opening on Thursday, May 22, 2025. Do I hear a second? I'll second it. Okay. All in favor, our motion? So you want to do a roll call roll. I will be happy to. Council member Wells. Yes. Council member Korman. Oh, I'm sorry. He recuse himself. Council member Friedman. Yes. Vice Mayor Mirish. Yes. Mayor Nazarian. Yes. All right. We could invite him back in, please. Now we move to the City Council, continue to new business. I'm sorry. To F1. Resolution of the city of the Council of the city of Beverly Hills amending the comprehensive schedule of taxes, fees and charges for the fiscal year 2025, 2026. I would first need to go first to announce the script. What is this the time and place for? Thank you for asking mayor. This is the time and place set for a public hearing to consider. Resolution of the council of the city of Beverly Hills, amending the comprehensive schedule of taxes fees and charges for fiscal year 2025-2026. Let the record show that the notice of this hearing was published as required by law. The records and files of the finance department and the report of the revenue services manager, concerning this matter, shall be entered into the record. All right. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Council members. I'm Emily Armstrong, Revenue Services Manager for the City of Beverly Hills. Each year we bring forward the updated comprehensive schedule of taxes, fees and charges for your consideration for the upcoming fiscal year. This new schedule reflects the fees for fiscal year 2025 and 2026, which will take effect July 1 at the onset of the new fiscal year. The finance department works with all city departments to coordinate the review and update of the schedule of fees over a period of many months, usually starting in November. I'd like to thank all the departments for their hard work and dedication to this process. I could not do it without them. The staff report in your packet includes many details regarding the updated fees, but for the purposes of timing, I'll just be providing a brief overview of what is included in your in this app report. So as the council is aware the city charges for various permit fees, recreation fees, taxes and other regulatory fees. The city strives to maintain an updated list of fees in a centralized document for ease of use by the public. This document can be found on the city's website and is updated annually and periodically as new fees are approved by the city council. The changes included in the schedule each year may encompass new recommended fees, fees proposed for elimination from the schedule, and other adjustments or modifications to existing fees. Most adjustments are to increase the fees by the CPI rate per the municipal code, and the CPI increase for this year was 3.2%. Approval of the resolution would effectuate the changes of the red line or colored text as found in the exhibit. So as a reminder, the state constitution requires that fees should not exceed the reasonable costs borne by the city for providing the benefit or service. The city periodically re-examines these reasonable costs through a formal cost of service study. With a study usually every five to seven years, the last study was conducted in FY19 and we are scheduled to go to RFP this upcoming fiscal year and complete the study within FY2027. As a side note to some of the fees that can't exceed the reasonable cost, rental fees can be based upon market value and do not have to be based upon the cost of service. Okay, so as detailed in the report, there are some new fees being proposed this year. The Community Development Department is recommending new fees related to certain building and safety fees and some code enforcement fees for adoption this year. Additionally, community services is recommending adoption of new fees related to the Greystone Mansion and various other rental facilities. The details of each fee can be found in the report and departments are available to answer any specific questions you might have. Excellent, thank you Emily. Do we have any public comments? We do not have any public comment in any form for this item. Okay, thank you. So I'll start with my colleagues. Are there any questions starting with? Thank you. Thank you for your report. It's a lot of work and it's a lot of work. I know that you finished. Okay. I'll be very quick. Sorry. I'll teach you to take a breath. I'm like, yeah, I'll take the pause where I can get it. I'm all about efficiency, which I appreciate. So just quickly running through this, while 98% of the fees are increasing by CPI, there are just a few that are increasing above CPI due to some agency agreements and previous council adoption. One such fee is the city is requesting to increase the city manager's authority to waive film event and rental fees up to $2,000 as opposed to $1,500 to just accommodate the rise in the permit fees due to the CPI increases. Additionally, the industrial waste discharge fees are increasing higher than CPI to accommodate the increase of LA counties rates, which are part of those fees. And then, although the fees are not being re-adopted as part of tonight's item, the water and wastewater rates will be increasing per the resolutions that were previously adopted back in 2021 and 2024. Similar to prior years, the city is recommending not to increase certain fees related to senior and student programs as well as library and transportation fees. This year, the city is also requesting to not increase certain planning fees for housing projects to promote housing within the city and to not increase newer rental fees that were recently adopted at Graystone to encourage greater utilization of those spaces. Lastly, some departments are proposing to reduce or eliminate fees in the schedule, which can be found in the report. And then there's just some additional revisions and adjustments to certain headings and notes in the fee schedule that are being proposed this year to ensure clarity for customers. So staff is requesting the City Council adopt the resolution amending the City's schedule of taxes, fees and charges for fiscal year 2025, 2026, and we are available for any questions. Thank you. Emily, thank you for the report. I'm going to ask again. Do we have any public comment? We do not have any public comments at all for this item. All right. Great. Thank you. So at this point, we will go to my colleagues, Council Member Wolves. Thank you. Questions and comments. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for the report, Emily. And for all the departments for putting this together, it's very straightforward. I do not have any questions and I support this. I would adopt this resolution. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. Council Member Corbyn. Yes, thanks. A quick question. I know community services on some of the fees I was looking through it for preschool and after school daycare. Did we adjust the fees for those programs this year? The graph I'm looking at I could be wrong with some of them saying not applicable so just curious. Director Harris is on her way. Good evening. Yes, so our program fees are not listed in here other than as a P for program fees. And we have looked at the increase in everything is gone up by 5 or 10% for the next cycle. So we are getting closer to cost recovery. So you anticipated my next question, which is how much closer are we getting to cost recovery? So we are getting closer. We are also evaluating all of the programs. So we are planning to, I think two more cycles will get us to cost recovery. And then we're going to bake in when MOUs are renegotiated for staff, all of our staff-ren programs. We will incorporate that in the new fees each year that we go ahead in reprogram. We will increase by what the staffing increases so that we can continue to stay cost recovery once we get there. But it's looking about another year and a half before we can get full cost recovery. Okay, obviously as soon as we can given the looming budget deficit is the better. Absolutely. Thank you. You're welcome. Those are my questions. Thank you very much, Council Member Friedman. Thank you. And Emily, really a great job on this report. I spent the time going through all of them. I can't believe some of the things that we charged for, but they're all there. I think it's important to note though that we didn't just raise fees, and specifically community development proposed a 50% reduction in the commission level design and architectural review fees. So I think this is really an even handed document. I noticed that there were some fees that are state mandated that probably are not even cost recovery in and of themselves. So I think the document really reflects our best effort to keep the city as fiscally responsible as it can. And although nobody likes seeing fees go up, it's just is really a reality. And I think that we've done it very judiciously. So I thank you for your work. Thank you. And I'm supportive. Thank you. Mayor Marish. Thank you. Under public works, it lists water and waste water rates. And then it says fees not proposed for the adoption in this year's schedule. So why is it listed if we're not voting on it? I think just for public consumption, if anyone's curious about the rates and why they are increasing, it was per prior resolutions. We just like to include it. But we're not voting on that. No, you are not voting. Only red line changes. Thank you. All right, great. Emily, thank you for the report. A couple of questions as it relates to pickle wall. Is that Stephanie? So I noticed that there was a slight increase. I spoke to many residents and they expressed concern about being able to get to the courts. And they mentioned that there are non-residents who have access to the courts and other areas in general that charge significantly more than our city does. Is there any thought to having two tiers perhaps or having something for residents versus non-residents? Could you speak to that please? Absolutely, yes, Mayor. So currently we do have resident and non-resident rates for all of our programs including Pickleball. We also do priority registration and reservations for residents. So for Pickleball and tennis specifically, residents are able to reserve courts seven days in advance and non-residents four days. So most of the time, specifically weekends, I actually pulled a report this morning. So this Saturday, 90% of our courts are already booked and it's all residents. We are looking, part of the budget process that will come forward is looking at the pickleball program and that our liaison is recently heard and When we bring forward to the full city council the proposal you will see that we're also looking at per player fees That will also help with the revenue offset associated with this Our tendous reservation and pickleball reservation fees are substantially lower than our surrounding areas, but that will change when we bring forward the permanent program. Okay, thank you very much. I noticed that our student film permitting fee is being kept the same. And there was some talk today that there are some fees that are being dropped and subsidized for filming. So I'm grateful that we are expanding our city managers reach for waving a film and rental events. I think that's important to bring back to the city. And hopefully that'll help generate some additional revenue and support. I see you nodding your head. And I'm also in agreement that I think it's great that we have a while other people are raising their rates. This is the first that we've had a 50% reduction in the commission level design and architectural review fees. Hopefully that will help streamline the permitting process and a lot of accessibility and make it more cost effective for our residents. So with that, I am also in favor of this and I will now entertain a motion. Okay, I'll make the motion. I move the resolution and title, resolution of the council, the city of Beverly Hills, and many of the comprehensive schedule of taxes, fees, and charges for fiscal year 2025-26 be adopted. I'll second. All right, roll call please. Council member Wells. Yes. Council member Cormin. Yes. Council member Friedman. Yes. Vice Mayor Mirish. Yes. And Mayor Nazarian. Yes. All right. Moving right along. Now we go to G1. The adoption of the Climate Adaptation Action and Adaptation Plan and pursuant to the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act, SICUA, City Council will also consider finding the plan exempt from further review under SICUAa May we have an oral report on this matter from the sustainability administrator Sean Thank you. I'm the director of public works and I'm introducing Amanda Grossman our Sustainability program administrator who started just September 9th We're thrilled that she's um joined the city I want to just give you a little bit of her background because this is her first time presenting to the whole council. Amanda has a master's green sustainable management from the University of Wisconsin. A bachelor's degree from Cal State of Long Beach and a certificate in behavior change and sustainability from UC San Diego. She has certified lead green associated through US Green Building Council. She's an envisioned sustainability professional through the Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure and she has certified as a true advisor that focuses on the knowledge necessary to avert and document unnecessary waste from landfills and the environment and a willingness to assist others in achieving zero waste operations. Currently working on completing her well AP certification through the International Well Building Institute that advances human health and well-being of the built environment. Amanda comes to us from the city of Santa Monica where she was a sustainability analyst within this office of sustainability. During her time in Santa Monica, she served as a staff liaison for their commission on sustainability environmental justice in the environment. She has led a number of sustainability initiatives including Santa Monica's single use plastic and polyestering regulations and Santa Monica's lead for city lead for city's platinum level certification. It's very knowledgeable and we're happy that she's here to help finish us out with the climate action adoption plan and lead us forward as we move forward. on Earth Day of All Days to present the final draft of the climate action and adaptation plan. The City of Beverly Hills has been a leader in sustainability and this plan aligns with the city's values in environmental stewardship, quality of life and economic vitality. As the impacts of climate change are increasing, this plan outlines strategies and measures our city can enact to reduce our greenhouse gas footprint and prepare and adapt to the impacts of climate change. This roadmap will help guide the city for future decision-making and charter path forward for our organization. As the state works towards carbon neutrality by 2045 or net zero carbon emissions, the city is aligning our goals with the state and abing for carbon neutrality. While this plan won't achieve that goal, it will get us closer and help us prepare for current and future state legislation. In order for us to determine how to get to carbon neutrality we first need to understand where we're at. Early in the process the city conducted a greenhouse gas inventory to calculate annual greenhouse gas emissions by sector including energy, transportation,, and waste. Based on the 2019 data, the city generated approximately 417,000 metric tons. Transportation generated about 49% of those emissions while buildings generated approximately 46%. Based on the information gathered for the greenhouse gas inventory, we forecasted four different scenarios with the last being the state goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. The top line indicates our business as usual so if the city took no action. The second line indicates a state legislative path. So if the city only did the actions within state legislation. And the third is our cap forecast. Over the past couple of years we worked with consultants, the community and commissions to determine greenhouse gas reduction strategies that will get us close to the 2045 target. In 2023 staff presented to council a few different scenarios for mitigation. This forecast reflects the direction of council and the commissions. It is important to note that this plan will not achieve net zero missions by 2045. However, this plan is a living document and can be updated over time. And the cap can be updated as new legislation, industry standards, and innovative technology emerges. Any amendments will be presented to council as they develop. For the development of the cap, city staff were closely with our consultants to explore different findings like the greenhouse gas inventory and greenhouse gas forecast with different measures. The city conducted community engagement to solicit feedback about the different scenarios and measures to better understand the community's priorities and what is achievable and Beverly Hills. City staff work closely with the community advisory committee to develop the plan. In August of 2023, City staff presented to Council for different scenarios for mitigation and directed staff to update the cap with the scenario in the document you see tonight. Council also directed staff to present to various commissions and drill down the foundational mitigation strategies. Based on this research and community engagement, the touch, climate, action, and adaptation plan outlines those mitigation and adaptation strategies to address climate change. Mitigation addresses the source of climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. An adaptation addresses the effects of climate change and preparing for climate risks. In total, the cap is comprised of 68 measures for both mitigation and adaptation. For mitigation, the measures are broken down into different sectors, clean energy, building decarbonization, transportation, solid waste, water and ecosystems, and community engagement. To help organize these measures the foundational mitigation strategies were developed to reduce the city's greenhouse gas emissions. These foundational measures have the biggest and quantifiable GHG reduction if implemented. Just emphasizing a few that you see on the screen, we have maintaining high participation in clean renewable energy through our clean power alliance. An energy performance reach code for new construction to reduce carbon emissions. Voluntary programs to encourage decarbonization for existing buildings and support electrical resiliency and microgrid technology. And lastly, expanding EV infrastructure to support the adoption of zero mission vehicles. As part of the cat process to help us plan for adaptation strategies, the city conducted a vulnerability assessment to identify the types of climate risks that will impact Beverly Hills and identify city services, infrastructure, and most importantly its vulnerable population. Beverly Hills is expected to have more extreme heat days, extreme variability in precipitation, and longer drought periods. Based on the vulnerability assessment, the CAP outlines a suite of adaptation strategies to increase the resilience of the city's community members, critical facilities and services, an infrastructure from the impacts associated with climate change hazards. The measures to adapt the climate change are grouped by community awareness, emergency response, heat mitigation and increased safety, wildfire mitigation, flood mitigation, and city capacity and coordination. Based on the adaptation sectors mentioned, the following key measures were developed. These adaptation measures are consistent with the current local hazard mitigation plan and the safety element of the general plan. The priorities can be summarized by investment on city infrastructure and work with our utilities like so-called Edison to upgrade aging infrastructure and focus on a broader effort of resiliency Improve electrical resiliency with localized distribution of power Adopting building policies that will require carbon-free backup power for new construction, and lastly, increase community participation and awareness on climate change and how to prepare for climate change and severe weather. On August 15, 2023, study session, council, directed staff to take the cap measures to various commissions and ask them to take key measures as their initiatives in the upcoming year. Overall, these commissions are supportive moving forward with the key GHG mitigation measures and adaptation measures. Pre-planning and early implementation progress are currently ongoing, such as organic waste diversion, urban forest, urban forest master plan, and street tree plan, EV charging station expansion, early stages of the building reach code ordinance, and home hardening and local hazard mitigation plan. Current and ongoing initiatives are embedded into the city's operational budget and CIP budget for the next five years. Council would be adopting the cap as a road map for GHG emission reduction to help guide the city and decision making and future work plans. The cap serves as a framework and allows for future decisions and planning. Future project and policies will require council approval individually and independently of the cap and future items will reference how it supports the goals of the cap and the estimated emission reduction for council consideration and will be evaluated in the broad context of the city's financial and social socially the city. Also the city demonstrating its leadership and commitment to sustainability and acting on climate change can also be a benefit to the city when applying for grants. Long-term investments in resiliency weighs the potential cost of natural disaster recovery. In conclusion, staff recommends the adoption of the climate action and adaptation plan including key measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change and consider finding the plan exempt from sequa. Thank you. Thank you very very much Amanda. Appreciate that. Well done. Do we have any public comments? We do not have any public comment in any form for the site. Thank you. We will give a liaison report first and then we'll go to councilmember questions and then we'll go to comments. So councilmember Korman and I were on the liaison for this and I wanted to first of all thank the public works department director Epstein the commission public works commission and the entire all of the commissioners who participated as well as the cap. Because I know that this was a very long process and a long time in the making. So thank you for bringing all of that information into one place Amanda and for presenting it to us today. The City of Beverly Hills has always been a leader in sustainability. The climate action and adaptation reaffirms the city's commitment for environmental stewardship without compromising economic growth or social equity. As a member, a former member of the Climate Action Committee, I had the pleasure of being involved in the development process and understand how much work went into the plan being presented this evening. Through the development and the outreach of this plan, we saw the community's support for the city's efforts in carbon emission reduction. The plan encompasses a variety of measures and emphasizes supportive and voluntary measures. The structure of the plan lays out foundational strategies which the city is already set into motion. For example, organic recycling. Many of you already have your bins and you could do that. It's easy water conservation, high participation and clear power alliance, renewable energy infrastructure, expanding our EV charging network and connecting our city through a variety of transit and mobile options, mobility options. On March 26, 2025, the City of Beverly Hills Public Works Commission liaison committee reviewed the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. The committee was supportive of the plan and provided direction to staff on implementation. We had very robust discussions about many items, including gas stoves and how that would impact our community. The liaison committee emphasized the importance of community education because we wanted it to be a teaching process and not punitive that would be part of the plan and directed staff to develop educational programs for students and younger generations on sustainability. I always use this example when it comes to these things because I feel like it made such a significant impact. When we were younger many of us didn't even know what a seatbelt was. Maybe it was our parents arm arm. And through education, now when you talk to young people, they will refuse to sit in a car if they don't put a seatbelt on. So that was learned behavior. And if we work on that with our young people, it will help strengthen the sustainability efforts and climate action process to support our environment. The liaison committee also directed staff to provide resources for developers on sustainable infrastructure. We recommend staff put together a checklist of green building codes and standards as as well as voluntary initiatives that can be incorporated into new and existing buildings. Staff should also compile information on financial incentives, grants, rebates for developers, businesses, and homeowners to implement various sustainability efforts. We want to stress the importance of safety and resilience in Beverly Hills with the threat of natural disasters looming, fire resiliency and electrical resilience. Resiliency are two areas in particular. We should be addressing and exploring opportunities to safeguard our community further. And I know that our fire chief is working diligently on that process. We want to reiterate that the cap is a living document that can be updated and amended over time to align with changes in state legislation, industry standards, and emerging technology. I know that there are certain areas that certainly need further discussion. One thing that we, I know that when I was on the committee, I really tried to do was to not put too much of a burden, especially on some of our older buildings, because those are, the cost would be overwhelming for some of the people who live in some of our older duplexes. So to have it as a learning opportunity and to invite people to participate at whatever capacity that they were able to. I think it's important that this document that we create a formula if we decide to implement it tonight, that we derive a formula that it comes back to council for review often, that is not on a consent agenda and it's not just passed through because I know that there are areas of concern that oftentimes come up. And our electrical resilience and reliability certainly came up. We discussed that many, many times. We're starting to go towards a carbon neutral footprint for 40, 45, but we can't even ensure that the lights stay on at times in certain areas of our city. So that was important to us to ensure that we have a process in place to support electric resiliency and make sure that our grid could handle the additional strain that it would experience. We also want to look at budget impacts that may come up and so that's something again why this is a living document and something that we need to continue with. Councilmember Corman would you like to add? That was very comprehensive. Thank you. The only thing I was going to say is yes, some of this is a wish list and there's a recognition that financially, when the individual programs come to us, it may be difficult based on the financial impacts. Also, we were very mindful and we need to be continue to be mindful that the plan is not to burden some for our residents, so we have to keep abreast of that. So yes, this is a sort of a wish list. It's a blueprint going forward with understanding that nothing is set in stone. And as we move forward and try to accomplish some of these goals, we may have to pivot off of some of the individual proposed programs for whatever reason, but it's worth trying and starting. Thank you. I think the key here is realistic achievable goals, not some magical wish list. We want realistic achievable goals. All right, with that said, we're going to go to questions and comments. Council Member. wish list. We want realistic achievable goals. With that said, we're going to go to questions and comments. Council member Wells, please go ahead. Thank you so much. Thank you for the report. I appreciate so much of the work that's gone into this and the thinking it's been a long time in the making as well the committee, the Climate Action Committee with all of the different commissioners and liaisons that participated in the development of this program. It's been over a course of many years and I appreciate the thinking on it and setting these foundational strategies for how we can move closer to having a net zero in 2045. As has been said, they're aspirational in many ways because it's in a vacuum. So some things are we're trying to meet what the state goals have been or what our legislation that's going to be coming that we're preparing so that we can meet it when the moment comes. But I think that this, I support this program and the plan. I just want to be clear that as we look at these plans and implementing strategies that we are reviewing them in the context of where we are today as a city, what is the economic environment and forecast for us as a city, and because things can change. So the plan created today, our based off of, when it was first set in 2019, I think when you first started, it's been a long time getting developed. As it reminds me in many ways of the complete streets, plan as well, That's a great plan as well. But as we are in an environment today, I think we as a city have to look at this in a more global way as we move each thing forward as we look at our budgets and forecasting in the years to come so that they are living documents and that's a really important word because we're adopting foundational strategies, we're not adopting, go ahead and start. These haven't been approved per se. The strategies are approved but it has to be in the context of where we are as a city and really a more global picture of if we had to prioritize what strategy. in the context of where we are as a city and really a more global picture of if we had to prioritize what strategies were moving forward on maybe certain things may not be moving forward that we thought would be moving forward earlier. What is the budget on that? Do we need to re-prioritize certain things within the context of not just this plan, but the complete streets plan and many other plans that we also have that have been approved in the city. I think it's important for us as a council to look at that in a more frequent review of where are we today and does it still make sense the priorities we set last time? Because maybe we might lengthen the horizon or change the priority for certain items at any given planning time for us when we're looking at budgets. I also think it's really important that when we look at this plan specifically, that we reiterate and highlight that this doesn't replace the need to have reliable utility energy service from Southern California Edison. and it's a key foundation as well for us as a city. And that we have to keep working with that partnership with them and keep the pressure on them to make certain that we're getting our basic services from them especially in the hillside area for the Hilton and the playboys circuits especially because our high fire zone is also now extended into the flats. And that whole area from the flat up is served by the Hilton and the Playboy Circuit. And I'm really pleased that Edison came back to the Public Works Commission with further information when we last met with them here. But I think it's gonna be important to have very concrete commitments to the extent that we can get that from them in terms of when are they gonna put the solve the infrastructure issues to make sure that we have reliable service because we're putting more focus on reducing our carbon footprint and trying to, which would end up more likely moving towards more electricity if it's not other options with regards to the future of what the gas looks like. But it's important for us to not use this as a work around for Southern California and Edison. I think the two are equally important. But it's a great plan and it's very well thought out and I appreciate all the work that's behind it. So thank you. Thank you very much. Councillor McCormick. Yes. I'm going to thank you for the presentation of the conference of agenda reporting and the oral presentation tonight.. I agree with Councillor Wells just said, I mean, obviously this has goals and strategies and it has a direction. And it has identified some programs, potential programs, but they're going to make sense for us as a community and as a city. And that's I think the understanding everyone has going forward with this. Interesting mentioned the complete streets because this complete streets plan is sort of incorporated in this as part of it. And as part of that we've added a lot of bicycle lanes. And there's been some discussion in the community whether all those bicycle lanes are needed or they're really being used. And so that's an example of something that we start out with and it's a good idea. But at some point you may want to just make sure that the direction that we initially took on that is the one we want to continue taking to the extent that we're taking it. And so the same would hold true with a lot of the programs in this plan. But with that caveat, I'm supportive of it. Thank you. Okay, Council Member Freiburg. Thank you. So Amanda, very, very good presentation. Thank you. Second time I've got to hear you present and doing really good job. In terms of the movement of the state of California towards greenhouse gas admissions and carbon neutrality, is there a graph that, well let me put it this way, are we on the same type of reduction graph as a state of California is, are we doing better than them? Doing the same as them? Or do you know? We have, when we did initial findings, so this is how the green line at the bottom is the state's target. But we haven't really done a comparison with where the state is at currently and how Beverly Hills compares to that. But is something that we can look into? Yeah, I think it's important. In terms, look, we need to do the best we can do reasonably. But the state of California has set certain goals and sometimes their goals are unrealistic quite frankly. And although we must continue to do the best we can do, I just always get the feeling that the state perhaps is a little bit too optimistic in what they require. And I think it's always important to see where they are compared to we are. And if we're doing better than they are terrific, if they're not doing very well, I think we need to be able to point that out also. I think I didn't have gray hair when this project first started and I certainly have enough now. So one of the major changes I know that we made in August of 2023 was something that I think would have really been harmful to our residents. And that is the requirement in replacing gas furnaces. And I guess with stoves with electric and I'm glad that we realize that right from the beginning because I think that would have been a significant burden and I'm not sure that the burden versus the amount of reduction would have been worth it. And I think what we've done in the climate action plan is really weigh those two things as best we can. But I think we need to continue to be observant of making sure that the burdens are not excessive in terms of what the gains are. In terms of the Clean Power Alliance, what is the percentage of our residents that are in it? It's 90% or better, isn't it? 97%. Yeah, and I think that's a big movement that we made as a council, making that the default was Clean Power Alliance as opposed to having to opt into it. I think that making it a default really was something that really helped us in terms of that measure. And as my colleagues have said before me, this is a living moving document. We need to be cognizant of the financial impacts that anything in this plan would have. And certainly again, weigh them vis-a-vis what the benefit is versus what the detriment is. And I think that we will continue to do that in the future. Having said that, I am supportive of the document as a blueprint and guide for what we should try to achieve in the future. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We had a public comment come in, so I'd like to just take a brief break. Mattine Yeshua. Welcome. I hope you're all well. Cras on your new role mayor and I really wasn't planning on speaking. I really was just planning on being a spectator but I got really excited when I heard first Mr. Corman speak about and was the first I heard someone even mentioned too many bike lanes, and I'm very happy to hear that because it was getting to a point where I feel like you guys want to put him everywhere. I was, I did go to the library and review the complete streets plan, and unfortunately I see you guys want to put him on sunset Boulevard, which is a travesty. I won't get into it. I just want to express that. I'm glad that you guys are showing that you're grounded in reality in these plans. And I'm generally against all plans and things that you can label like 90210, like all these like bundled up stuff. It's usually not what it seems. And it incorporates a lot of stuff stuff that I don't think there's just too many implications. And then again I got you know further excited when Mr. Councilman Friedman said former mayor said that like the benefits of you know making everybody go electric with the stoves might not be worth it. So, I kind of had the feeling like you guys weren't grounded in reality, but you guys kind of proved to me that it's not, you're not talking about crazy stuff. I guess you guys agree to some extent that the state goes a little too far. I, yeah. There are 20. Yeah, I do think that you guys still are going too far with the bike lanes. Just, just, I guess yesterday, so I live on Palm 500 block. So as I'm driving south, I can either go onto Civic, left on Santa Monica, right on Santa Monica, or on the Beverly. You guys just closed off the way for me to get to Civic. I see you guys put like plants there and like cones, like permanent ones. I can't believe I'm honestly, I'm unhappy because from that I'm trying to just find the most productive way to express that obviously that's coming here. I have a meeting with Jesse Carpenter-Demar, which nothing personal, but I think that there is a conflict of interest with her employment. She's a vaunt, I mean, unless you guys, unless you guys as goal with her is to promote bike lanes and pedestrian centered travel because that she's like, while she's heading to organizations that are very involved with that. But I don't think that that should be the main focus of the transportation planner. Other than that, I wasn't going to talk, but I just got excited that you guys are more grounded in reality than I thought. And I hope, yeah. Thank you so much. All right, Vice Mayor Marish. I just had one little thing, and that is at our, at our liaison meeting in March, the director of public works told us that there are no new bike lanes planned to go in for the next year or so. At least we're moving along those direct in that line. At least we're re-evaluating these types of issues. Okay, well thank you for the report. And yes, it's notable that it's Earth Day. But to me, Earth Day is kind of just sort of like window dressing. It's raw raw, it ignores the real problems. We should really be talking about Earth overshoot day, which varies each year. Earth overshoot day is the day in which the planet has collectively used up the regenerative capacity for the entire year. Think of it as a budget. If you had a budget for an entire year and you used it up by July 30th or August 1st, that's where we are with the environment. And any climate plan, not just ours, but anyone that doesn't address that, is happy talk to an extent. We're on a planet now with 8 billion people when some of us were born, it was 2.7 or something. And it's counting as well. And so from my perspective, perpetual growth is the very definition of unsustainability. And unless we address that, we're not really being serious about sustainability, which, again, unsustainability is the source of climate change. climate action is supposed to address climate change. There was a wonderful economist named Herman Daly passed away a couple of years ago who was a supporter of something called the steady state economy. And Herman Daly talked about un-economic growth. Everyone here is so focused on growth and economic growth and he explains how growth ultimately if it is supersized is an economic. I want to just read briefly from an article that he wrote just six years ago called growthism. It's ecological, economic and ethical limits. We have many problems. Poverty, unemployment, environmental destruction, climate change, financial instability, etc., but only one solution for everything, namely economic growth. We believe that growth is the costless, win-win solution to all problems, or at least the necessary precondition for any solution. This is growthism. It now creates more problems than it solves. This next section is entitled, a journey of no return, not a circular economy. The economic process is not a mechanical analog that can be run forward and backward, nor a circular process that can return to any previous state. Rather, it is an irreversible and irrevocable process moving in the direction of time's arrow of increasing entropy. Finitude and entropy guaranteed that the economic life of our species will be a journey of no return. Therefore, even a stationary economy, in the classical sense of constant population and constant capital stock is ultimately a journey of no return because the metabolic throughput of matter and energy required to maintain constant stocks of people and physical capital in the face of depreciation and death is an entropic flow from ever less concentrated sources to ever filling sinks, and both sources in sinks are finite. Consequently, technology must change qualitatively to adapt to entropy increase, to depletion and pollution of the environment, even in the stationary or steady state economy, as it has more recently been called. Relative to the growth economy, the steady state economy is a slower journey of no return when that values longevity with sufficiency and seeks qualitative improvement rather than quantitative increase. The many advantages of a slower journey were emphasized by John Stewart Mill, the champion of the classical stationary state. And I won't go on to quote John Stuart Mill. But I will say that we very often hear now these days about agendas of abundance and how we need to focus on abundance. And we live however on a planet that where we've heard, we have issues with biodiversity. People probably don't know that today that 70% of all birds are poultry, something like 95% of biomass, animal mass, are human beings in livestock. It's crazy. And so there's a much larger problem that we are dealing with. Yes, it is nice to have a climate action plan. I guess it's certainly better than nothing. But the notion that we hear from a group of people who are called ecomodernists, that technology is going to save us is just false. And so I just want to remind us again that Earth overshoot day, this year is probably going to be end of July or beginning of August. It's a wake up signal and I would love for us as a city to deal with the overall problem as Herman Daily described it as growthism in a perhaps unique way that other cities don't do, because this is a very real problem and as good as the work that you've done is when it comes to sort of standard climate action plans, it's just not enough. But thank you very much for your work. Thank you. So I've already shared my views. I think that it's clear that this is a living document. We wanna have realistic achievable goals. And I think that it's important for Council and what I've heard from my colleagues is that we have a say and we participate in the process. So we encourage you to bring them back to Council as we plan for various projects to achieve these goals. We want to ensure that we are looking at the budget forecasting for it and how it impacts our budget. We are looking at a budget deficit, so we want to be able to make any decisions that we're making as it relates to large projects with that budget forecasting. I'm in complete agreement and we did also discuss this during the liaison meeting that we want to have reliable service from Southern California Edison and that's something that we will continue to work on and strive towards and definitely hold them accountable for what they've said and perhaps even look at changing the name of the Hilton and Playboy circuits to something that may be more appropriate. And as someone who cooks a lot, definitely not in favor of removing our guest toast. But I think that you have direction at this point, and do I hear a motion? Sure. I will move to adopt the CAP Climate Action Adaptation Plan and greenhouse gas, key GHG reduction measures Measures, and find the plan exempt from further review into the California Environmental Quality Act. I'll second. Second came from Council Member Wells, or here there. I need one. I'll come in for a moment. Council Memberorman. Okay. She gave the second. Roll call is Councillor Member Wells. Yes. Councillor Member Corman. Yes. Councillor Member Friedman. Yes. Vice Mayor Marish. No. And Mayor Nazarian. Yes. All right. Moving right along. Thank you, Madam. Thank you. Right. Do we have a report from the city attorney on closed session items? There's no report on closed session items this evening. We have a report from our city manager. We do this evening. We will have a brief report on our new water smart system from nice. It's again, a familiar face. we will have a brief report on our new water smart system from Nice again a Miller face. They put you to work very quickly There was definitely a need for you I'm trying to get this. Good evening. I'm excited to introduce you all to WaterSmart Beverly Hills New Water Management and Utility Billing Portal. This is a multi-year, multi-department process to develop this program and working with multiple vendors to integrate software program. I just wanted to take a quick minute to commend our remarkable city staff team across utility billing, IT and public works for which this would not have been possible. We are excited to introduce that, we are excited to announce that we launched last Monday and I'm going to go over some of the details of the software. So WaterSmart is our new online portal available to all water utility customers. This portal will help customers monitor their water use, and this program replaces our previous program water tracker. One big upgrade from water tracker, water smart portal integrates our utility billing portal. So utility billing is now done through water smart, so it's our one stop shop, single sign on where you can pay your utility bill and track water use. And anyone with a water bill can sign up and we encourage everyone to sign up. And again, we launched last Monday, April 14th. As I mentioned, this is, it integrates our water, or it integrates our utility billing payment system. So customers can go into pay their wastewater, store, water, and refuse. And customers can also see their billing history in this portal, up to 2023. And then the intent of water smart program is for customers to monitor their water use in near real time. The portable show display of different charts and graphs to help customers understand how much water they're consuming and when. To help identify potential leaks and detect unusually high water use, the charts can also be adjusted to particular date ranges in periods of time. So if you wanted to look at last year or last week, you'll be able to adjust the portal. Over time, the algorithm will pick up different behavioral patterns, and we can begin to estimate approximately how much water is used for different uses. Some additional features on the homepage of the dashboard. The customers will be provided with a list of different smart water efficiency tips, as you see on the screen. They'll be tailored to the type of customers, whether you're a resident or a commercial business, they'll have specific efficiency tips. And customers can better understand how implementing these actions can save them water and money. And by clicking on each tab, it'll provide them either with a step-by-step guide or direct them to a rebate incentive website. Watersmart has some robust communication features as well to help with monitoring and water use. There is individualized communication preferences that users can set. They can set up to receive leak alerts, as well as set a threshold. So if your water is going over your threshold, you will receive a alert that you have an usually high usage. Customers can set their preference of how they receive those alerts, whether it's email, text, or voice. And you can also set up bill forecasting. So if you have a certain threshold, and if your bill is forecasted to go higher than usual, you'll receive a notification You can you also you don't or the city can also utilize this tool for urgent service alerts or notifications to customers and we can use this system to promote some of our current communication channels like our social media or our backbone newsletter. Over the past few weeks we've done a number of outreach efforts including a lovely video with our mayor, as social media, newspaper ads, direct mailers, and we've been doing email blasts through our utility billing system. As today, we're a little over a week underway. We have over just roughly 981 accounts. This is just as of noon today. Our call volume is roughly around like 20 to 25 a day. The majority of the colors are are inquiring about assistance to register, but in general about 88% are able to register without assistance. And we haven't had any technical issues so far, so all positive news. And if you're interested in signing up, visit probablyhills.org, slash water smart, and feel free to reach out to SBH if you need assistance registering. Thank you. I just wanted to make one comment. I took advantage of signing up for a water smart last night. In fact I paid my bill two days late because I wanted to make sure I did it under the new system. And for one who uses a computer, just signing up for water smart is really nothing too. And especially if you had the old system. But what it does is it really forces you, at least once every time you get your bill, to look at your actual consumption and usage. And at worst, if you don't look at it any other time other than when you pay your bill, I think it's really refreshing to see what your usage was and how it compares to what has been in the past. And then if you get antsy like when my grandchildren come over and take long showers I can show them exactly what the effect of them taking a long shower is. So I really encourage everybody to sign up for it. It's really really easy. Can I ask what you mean? In particular about the legal alert system. When someone signs up for an account. So Smart, is the legal alert, is that a default thing, or is that something they have to firmly sign up for? So there's two options. So the customer can set their own leak detection alert so that they want to opt into it. And then other communication efforts, if they want to receive from the city eventually down the line where Kins and customers alerts on their Potential leaks. What was there any thought given to having it be something that you have to opt out of in their resistive default? Where you get an alert system? I assume when you I haven't done this yet when you because I have I just paid my ill I just paid my utility bill a few weeks ago, so under the old system. But I assume when you sign up, you have to give an email address or a phone number. So could it be set up where by default a leak alert would go to that email address or phone number unless someone opts out? Yes, it's currently an opt out system. We're not starting the leak alerts quite yet, so we want people to get comfortable with the system. And then the system is also doing some pattern recognition, so it's trying to identify those leaks. And once we're a little bit more confident with the system, we'll start sending out alerts. and then eventually people can opt out of receiving those, but hopefully it's a small percentage. No, I mean, the reason I'm asking is because some insurance companies will not issue homeowners insurance policies anymore unless you have a leak detection system built into your plumbing system, particularly if you're remodeling, or if you've a leak in the past. So, this strikes me as a very cost-effective way for residents to be able to accommodate their insurers, and possibly even keep their insurance. So, I just think this is a really good program, and to the extent that we can get it up and running, and it's a default, and it's fairly accurate, where if there is, it doesn't say, it pings you, I think it'd be great and I think that people would really appreciate it. Thank you. And I think even of ultimately, it'll have the capacity of turning off the water if there is a significant usage of water. I mean, in terms of not normal usage, but of all of a sudden, there's a leak of some sort in the system. Is that correct? I don't think technically through water smart but a you have to be careful with that technology. I'll tell you why. When I read it in my house I did put a leak detection system in and my daughter was home at from school and she was taking a shower and then I got in the shower and suddenly there was no water in the house. It's decided there was a leak. So anyway, so yeah, the technology would work great if it works great. Thank you. So just to answer your question, Council Member Freeman, we are as part of the AMI project looking at automatic shut off for the landscape meters in the high fire zone. But there is like you were mentioning and talking about you can buy locally. I have it on my own home and surprise you take a shower when you're not usually taking a shower, it shuts the water off. That's an endorsement. You can't, you can, you can program them for different levels of aggressive leak detection. Shut off. You and I may have done it little too aggressively. Maybe take long showers. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you for the report. Okay. We're going to go to City Council members and committee reports and comments., members well, thank you very much. I don't have any meetings to report I would like to wish everyone or hope that everyone had a happy Passover as well as a happy Easter and as well acknowledged Pope Francis and the passing of Pope Francis he really made such a great impact and meaningful impact on not just the Catholic community, but just as a world leader in many ways. And I think we can see that by the response. As well, I did go to the school district, El rodeo had a fun run and they had a play, Mary Poppins. And it was at the fun run that I actually met Dr. Ternis, the new superintendent for Beverly Hills Unified School District. So I would like to welcome him. And lastly, I would like to acknowledge our new mayor, Nazarian, and your first meeting and congratulations. I think the meeting went really well and congratulations on a job well done. Very much. Appreciate it. Yes, I too would like to hope everyone had a nice Easter and Passover holidays. I also want to congratulate Mayor Sharon and Nazarian for her first meeting as mayor. We're going to get out of here well under the under and over estimate from beginning. It's always a good sign, efficient meetings. Yes, obviously in the wake of the mayoral shift, we're still gearing up with the new committee assignments, so there haven't been a lot of meetings. Vice Mayor Mirish and I did have one meeting on ad hoc meeting with the property owner of what's known as parcels 12 and 13 and the T zone lot and which is exploring a development proposal that he brought to the city and will be dealing with that in the future. And other than that, I think I have nothing else to report. Thank you. So I will continue to give my congratulations to Mayor Nazarian. She has set the bar very high now. No meeting can go longer than the first meeting in time. So we're in good shape for the next year or so. And again, happy Passover to everyone who celebrated Passover in a happy Easter and looking forward to the coming year. Thank you and despite my comments now, we are going to thanks to Marinazari, going to end up on time and under budget, which is always a good thing. We've heard Passover and Easter wishes, so I guess I'll move on by saying everyone who's preparing to celebrate Chavuos. That'll be a lot of fun coming up soon. I do want to also say that we heard about some anti-Semitic incidents at Santa Monica College, where I believe Linda Sarf sir who is a rabid and raging anti-Semite was invited to speak. I definitely would like to look into that, especially considering the mayor's never again is now. That's a perfect example. How did that happen? How did that happen? Where a lot of our Beverly Hills residents do go to Santa Monica College, we need to get into that and look into that. Also, many of you probably heard about a festival that is at Coachella, which is not too far from here, in which there was also some very disturbing and scary anti-Semitism. Green Day, which I guess is well known here, made some statements that again could be easily seen to contribute to the tsunami of anti-semitism, which makes our residents, many of our residents unsafe here, and it's very sad when that happens out of festival. A number of us went to the Nova Festival, the Nova exhibition, and to have a festival that actually inspired the Nova Festival, Coachella, host groups that are going to forget what happened less than a year and a half ago at a music festival is quite frankly sickening. And for Green Day to make those kinds of statements, well, I'll just say about that, you can wake me up when Jew-hating racism ends. But there was also an Irish band there called Kneecap, which was even worse. And these people not only openly supported Hamas and terrorist groups, but they led the festival goers there in a frenzied chanting of F Israel and all these other things. And they have openly in the past supported terrorists and terrorism. They should not only be allowed to work in this country, they shouldn't be allowed to be in this country. And I would urge the State Department to put them on a watch list. We do not need to have Jew-hating racists, especially those who are whipping up into a frenzy people, chanting anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish slogans at a music festival. These people should be banned from the country. I will also say though that one of our local businesses, a very valued member of our community, a live nation, a valued member of our business community, they did not book Coachella, that's a separate group. That's a group called Golden Voice, which is also partially owned by AEG, who, Anchit's Entertainment Group, who also own the kings. But from my understanding, Live Nation actually is actively promoting both Green Day and Necap in a tour this fall and is using their organization and using some of their own venues. And I would urge them strongly to sever all business relationships with raging anti-Semitic groups and especially those who support terrorism. And finally, again, we see that a lot of this is probably at the bottom, a lot of Cattari cash there. And as I have spoken out at each meeting for the past year and a half, I will say that we should designate guitar as a state sponsor of terrorism, that we should sanction guitar, we should freeze their assets, and use them to compensate the victims of guitar-funded terrorism. And we shouldn't only ask the State Department to ban kneecap and other Jew-hating racists from this country, but we should ask them to expel the Cattari consulate from Beverly Hills because Jew-hating racists and terrorism supporters, whether they're from Cattar or Ireland or anywhere else. They are not welcome in our community, they are not welcome in Beverly Hills. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you all for your kind words. I appreciate it. And I'm really looking forward to a great year and our joint collaboration together. I wanted to give a few updates just since our last meeting from Mayor Friedman. Just for the community, we had our team Beverly Hills graduation. I had a group of federation young leaders visit here in City Hall. It was nice to help the future generation learn the process and how to make public comments and how to participate. There was two interfaith saters that I attended. One was at Spago and one was at the Museum of Tolerance. I also attended a mayor's meeting with 88 other mayors for LA-28, which is all the future events that are coming to Los Angeles, including the Olympics and World Cup and the Super Bowl to mention a few. We have, we had several ribbon cuttings and I'd like to encourage everyone to look out for Spotlight with Sharona that are coming up. It's a way to highlight various businesses in the community. The next one is going to be, I think, tomorrow. April 23rd, yes, yes, Keith. It's sold out. I'm really sorry. But it's sold out. So we'll have future events. I'd also like to encourage everyone to attend Earth Day at the Farmers Market. It's going to be this Sunday on May 1st. We're going to have the first straight talk with Sherona and I want to encourage our community to attend and come and share their views. I think that when we collaborate with one another and listen to one another, we can find solutions together. So I encourage you all to come to City Hall on May 1st. You can also call in and we'll post the information for that. I went to a movie screening yesterday that was called Children of October 7th and it was really phenomenal. It was talking about the tragedies of October 7th through the eyes of children children. And I really encourage all of you to watch it. It was a firsthand view of actual children who either had their family members or themselves. They were taken as hostages. And it was done by Montana Tucker and it was really a phenomenal project. And I too would like to just mention that Governor Shapiro's residence was set on fire during Passover. This is an elected official who people didn't agree with his views. And it was a brazen act of violence that undercuts the very principles of freedom. People who choose to serve their community shouldn't be treated this way. And the safety we celebrated last week, it was just unbelievable. Endangering lives and property in the name of protests is criminal. It's unacceptable and demands collective outrage. And we must stand for safety, decency, and mutual respect, regardless of what aisle of the political spectrum we stand on. It's just unacceptable to treat other human beings that way. And finally, I am deeply disheartened by the hateful and divisive display by the band Nikap during their performance at Coachella this weekend. Music should be a force for unity, a bridge between cultures, a celebration of life, not a stage for division and hate. Their vile message projected on screens and shouted from the stage did not speak for peace. It vilified, dehumanized, and incited. And in doing so, it dishonored the very spirit of music and freedom they claimed to represent. It is especially painful that this occurred, that this occurred at a music festival just months after the horrific October 7th terrorist attack at the Nova music festival in Israel, where 360 young people from all backgrounds and all religions, innocent concert goers dancing under the stars were murdered in cold blood. Music was the backdrop of that tragedy too. To use the stage at one of the world's largest music festivals to glorify hate and spread anti-Semitic rhetoric is not free speech. It's dangerous and it's unacceptable. Cachela's organizers must be held accountable for allowing this to happen unchecked. It happened one weekend and they did nothing about it and the following weekend it happened again. So there's no place in this for Cachela, in California, in America, not anywhere. Music will always be a tool to bring people together, not tear them apart, because never again is now. All right, thank you very much. Our next meeting will be. So there's no other business at this time. We will adjourn to the next City Council Meeting scheduled for May 6th, 2025. Thank you all and wishing you all happy holidays and good evening.