Good afternoon. I now call to order the regular meeting of the City Council. It is 4.06 p.m. Will the City Clerk please call the roll. Council Member Carroll. Here. Council Member Kim. Here. Council Member Traceter. Here. Vice Mayor Aigren. Here. And Mayor Con. Here. I'll now ask the city clerk to provide information on how to participate in today's meeting. Thank you, Madame Mayor. Members of our audience who wish to speak may submit their name into one of the speaker kiosk located next to the city clerk or in the main lobby. We also offer the ability to provide live comments via Zoom and submit written comments or e-comment system. For those who wish to participate virtually, visit zoom.us using any web browser or the Zoom app on smartphones or tablets and in our meeting ID, 848-485-31263. The passcode is 272-906. You may also dial in by calling will be identified by the last three digits of their telephone number. 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For any other questions or assistance please contact the City Clerk's Office at 949-724-6205 or via email at clerk at cityofrevine.org. Thank you Madam Mayor. Thank you and as a reminder I would like to respectfully remind my City Council colleagues to please limit comments to five minutes each. If necessary we will hold additional rounds of discussion on each agenda item. With that, I would ask that our city clerk call time when each member's time is up. We'll now consider close session item numbers 1.1 and 1.2. Those participating be as Zoom may now raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue. A city attorney please announce the closed session items to be considered. Thank you Mayor. As you noted, two items on for closed session consideration tonight. The first is a conference with real property negotiators under government code section 54956.8. The property involved there is portions of assessors' parcel numbers 5807654 and 5807607. The agencies negotiators are all over chief of city manager Pete Carmichael, the assistant five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o'clock, five o As it happens for the second item, all of the same parties and all of the same negotiating parties are involved and it is also a conference with real property negotiators under section 54956.8. The only difference there is assessor's parcel number is 104-11828 and that's all. Thank you. Before we convene to close session, we will consider public testimony. City Clerk clerk do we have any members of the public wishing to speak no metamere Okay, with that we'll now convene to close session and return it approximately 5 p.m. Or sooner. Thank you the the city council meeting is now reconvened. It's 4.45 p.m. City attorney please announce actions if any taken during closed session. Thank you mayor there was no reportable action this afternoon. Thank you. And at this time, please rise if you are able for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing for tonight's invocation and moment of silence. I would like to invite Councilmember Trisider to lead 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. At this time it is my pleasure to welcome Imam in training Hamza Siddhi from the Islamic Center of Irvine for tonight's invocation. Let us pray. In the name of God, the most compassionate, the most merciful, our sustainer, our guide, ever present, never unaware, infinitely able. Guide us to pure convictions and inspire us in the courage to match those convictions. We pray for love, not hate, justice, not corruption, peace, not war, benevolence, not greed, unity, not division. Allow us to be for the truth, no matter who or for is against it, and allow us to be for justice, no matter who or for is against it. As we gather in this meeting, we seek your guidance and blessings. Grant us the wisdom to make thoughtful decisions, the strength to overcome challenges, and the compassion to understand and love one another. May we honor one another, glorify together, glorify you together, inspire the world to be better. In your name, we begin this meeting with gratitude and the opportunity to collaborate and work together. Your servants and your loving care, Amin. Thank you so much. Please remain standing for a moment of silence. Tonight, I ask for a moment of silence for the victims of the recent shootings in Georgia and Kentucky. Last week, two teachers and two students were killed and nine others were injured by a 14-year-old student with an AR platform weapon at Appalachia High School in Georgia. This was the 23rd time this year that a school shooting has resulted in injuries or deaths in this country. Just a few days later, five people were injured when they were shot by a gunman while traveling on a Kentucky interstate. Countless lives have been forever changed and our hearts are with the families, friends, and community members affected by these tragic events, especially those within the high school family. Let us join together and share a moment of silence in honor of those who lost their lives and those who are recovering. Thank you. You may be seated. We'll now consider today's presentations. And before I proceed to the podium, we'll consider public testimony for presentation item numbers 2.1 through 2.3. Those participating be Zoom and now raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue. A city clerk are there any members of the public who wish to speak on presentation items number 2.1 through 2.3. No madamer. Okay. Thank you. So we're going to start with our employee appreciation presentation. So tonight we'll be recognizing five of our employees for their 20th and 25th years of service. This time it is my pleasure to recognize senior management analyst, Darryl Cheen, for 20 years of dedicated public service to the city of Irvine. And before I ask Daryl to come forward, I'd like to share a brief video highlighting his accomplishments. But I think one of the things that really impressed me about Daryl is just his maturity level that he at his young age seemed like somebody at least you know 15 years older than his actual age. It's been about four years now that he promoted to a senior management analyst so he's working in human resources now and just excelling and succeeding in that new role. To watch his growth here at the city and to also to get to know him over the years, to get to know him as a person, you got married, now he has three kids, and it's just amazing how he's balanced, you know, the work-life balance that we all talk about. He does that so well. I love working with him, but I also love him as a person. And I think a lot of people don't realize that he and his wife have had his parents at his house for at least 20 years. He's caring for them. And just anybody who's cared for somebody realizes it's not the easiest thing, but he does it with great patience and kindness and care. He's humble and wanting to learn and ask questions and he wants to be a great dad and a great husband and he is a great son and I just highly respect him for that. He really stays focused and makes sure that he does his job to the best of his ability, which is again is something that I really admire about Darryl. Not only his personal life, but also his career and all the challenges that he faced and just getting over those challenges and just working himself up the ladder here at the city of Irvine. He wasn't content to just stop growing. And I think that's shown by taking on the different tasks he did in transit. It's displayed by him taking on different roles within the city, but also in the midst of his busyness. He got a master's degree and that I think led also to some of the positions he's in now. Working on leadership and skills in different areas. So I really respect him for that. It's not easy as a dad of young kids to be also doing school and he went for it. So Darrell, I just want to say congratulations on these last, awesome, 20 years of working here at the City of Irvine. You have done such a tremendous job. I am so impressed with who you are, your character, and how you approach your work. So I just wanted to say thank you so much for everything that you've done for the city of Irvine. Well, Darrell, you have always been a good friend. Even though I supervise you, you were a good mentor to me here at the city. You've taught me a lot. I respect you so much for the way you work, your diligence, your humility, your intelligence, your flexibility, and I'm so grateful you've been here at the city for 20 years. And for me and I think all of the other colleagues here at the city, I hope you're here for another 20 years. Don't leave us. It is now my pleasure to introduce and call forward Darrell Cheam. Congratulations, Darrell, for 20 years of service to the city of Irvine and thank you for all that you do. It is now my pleasure to recognize police sergeant Mark Andriose for 20 years of dedicated public service to the city of Burvine. And before we ask Sergeant Andriose to come forward I'd like to share a special video highlighting his accomplishments. I've had the pleasure to work with Sergeant Mark Andrew O. Z for about 20 years now. So I remember when Mark came over to the Irvine Police Department from CHP, he was there for three years before he'd lateraled over. We started working great yards together. Right off the bat, we hit it off. I knew he was going to do amazing things here while working here at the police department. And he had experience working as a police officer, field training officer. He was a SWAT operator for quite some time. And eventually, he moved up into the Investigations Bureau where he worked in our Special Investigations Division, pretty much working under Covered undercover narcotics and advice. And I had the opportunity to work with him and there and solve the amazing things he's done. And since then he's promoted to the Arranco Sergeant where he was a patrol sergeant for quite some time overseeing also several collaterals and now currently serves as one of our traffic sergeants. Mark's one of the hardest working people I know. I remember during our times, not just on the SWAT team, but also in a special investigation bureau, just his ability to pay attention to detail and look for those small things that were able to crack a case. Things where every normal investigator might miss from time to time, but Mark really had a tenacity to sit down and look for the small details are really able to help us out. And not only that, he held himself accountable to all his cases and especially his victims. When you look at the makeup of the city of Irvine and the reasons why people move to Irvine, especially all the families to raise their children and have them attend good quality schools and live in a city that is very safe. That also embodies Mark, Mark himself and a family man, and truly cares of loves his family, his wife and his two sons. I think you see that in his interaction with our community on a daily basis. He truly comes from his heart deep down inside and is caring compassion towards the residents of Irvine. Mark, congratulations on an amazing 20-year service that has city of Irvine. And then a personal note is truly been a pleasure to be working with you side-by-side for the last 20 years, not just as a partner, but as a friend. Congratulations. It is now my pleasure to introduce and call forward, please Sergeant Mark Andrew-Ozzy. Congratulations to you on your service of 20 years. Thank you. It is now my pleasure to recognize Deputy Director of the Great Parks, Steve Torelli, for 20 years of dedicated public service to the City of Burmine. And again before I invite Steve to come forward we have a brief video highlighting his accomplishments. Steve Trelley's been with the city 20 years started in the police department came over to the City Manager's office about eight years ago just a wonderful contributor. Really everything at the great park today has Steve's fingerprints on it. He is the guy behind the budget. He is secretly in a turni. Most people don't know that. So he brings a variety of skills to the job and really is the reason that we're getting things done as quickly as we are in the great park. He's super smart, brings the background of having worked at the park for 20 years in one capacity or another, and brings an ability to get things done and kind of get to yes with the people we work with, both inside City Hall, people across departments from public safety to community services to public works, and then I regularly get feedback from all of our partners in the community as to what a gift Steve is because gets things done but has a lot of fun doing it and that's infectious people really like working with him. A lot of what I think residents enjoy most about the Great Park is because of Steve yet they don't know who Steve is. You know if you've ever gone to free skating great park ice if Steve think you've ever enjoyed an afternoon at Wild Rivers. Steve, you know, was instrumental in making that happen. Over the next, you know, five to seven years as all of the new amenities come online that are going to be so enjoyed by our residents, Steve is really the guy who's making that happen. Steve, thanks so much for your 20 years at the city. Can't imagine the great park coming into shape without you. You've made this place a lot of fun to work at and really thank you for all that you've done for us at the city and the great park and for really putting up with all of us with all over questions as well. So really appreciate you. is now my pleasure to recognize civilian investigator to Nina Berbiglia for 25 years of dedicated public service to the city of Irvine. And before I invite Nina forward, we do have a video highlighting her accomplishments. Nina's been with the city for 25 years. She came over to the city of Irvine in 1999. She has been assigned to the Investigations Bureau. And in 2003, she moved into the Investigations Bureau and in 2003 she moved into the roles that she's in now which is a fraud investigator for a financial crimes unit. Nina is extremely accurate she's extremely thorough very detailed which all make for a great financial crimes investigator. She is extremely passionate and dedicated towards putting together complicated fraud cases that sometimes takes years to unravel because fraud can affect them not just financially, but also emotionally. And Nina is really passionate and dedicated towards putting these cases together for the victims within our city. Some are minor as far as maybe just a few dollars and then some are major investigations that are in the millions. Nina is a family person and she's been signed with her mom out here and her daughters in Arizona so she's constantly going out there and spending time with her. She enjoys a good time both at work and outside of work. She's a hard worker. I enjoy being a part of a team atmosphere whether it be outside of work or at work. Nina, congratulations on 25 years of serving the City of Irvine and near Irvine Police Department. It is now my pleasure to call forward Nina forbiglia,cy Jones for 25 years of dedicated public service to the city of Vervine. And before I ask Darcy to come forward, we do have a brief video highlighting her accomplishments. Darcy has been with the city for 25 years and has served as a public safety assistant, a management analyst, a crime analyst, a senior crime analyst, and is currently serving as a business services administrator over records, crime analysis, and the real-time crime center. In records, they handle all of the documents coming into and out of the department and make sure they keep them for their required retention periods. In the real-time crime center, they're handling information real-time from the field and trying to help detectives and patrol officers target where crime is and help them solve crime where viable and in crime analysis they're looking at trends over time and really targeting our patrol resources and different public safety resources to help come back crime. Darcy's best qualities are that she's extremely dedicated to the department. She's been here for 25 years and she really understands the mission and the goals of the department and helps us fulfill them. She's very analytical and takes a lot of different sources of information and compiles it for not only real time intelligence for officers, but also to help command staff and other managers make strategic decisions. In February, resident, I would thank Darcy for directly contributing to the safety of our city over the last two and a half decades. She's been an innovative leader in the crime analysis industry for quite some time, and she regularly trains future generations of analysts. She's been instrumental in helping shape our real-time crime center, including getting the unit set up and also receiving significant external funding to fund the initiation of the unit. Congratulations, Darcy, on your 25 years of service to the City of Irvine. Congratulations, Darcy. Thank you for all that you do for the City of Irvine. 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. Okay, jumping right into our second presentation this evening is a proclamation recognizing September 2024 as hunger action month and at this time I would like to invite Claudia Bonilla Keller, chief executive officer from second harvest food bank of Orange County to please come forward and proceed with the presentation. Thank you Mayor Conn. Thank you Vice Mayor and council members for helping us recognize hunger action month in the beautiful city of Irvine Today most people don't realize that we are serving on average About 400,000 people a month but officially 330,000 citizens of Orange County are officially food insecure, which is much too high in addition to that 85,000 children are food insecure at some point in their year. While those are alarming statistics, what most people may not realize is that, yes, our rate here in the county of Orange might be lower than the state of California, but our increase over the last two years has actually been faster than the state of California. So more people are becoming food insecure here at a faster rate than the state of California. What are we doing at the second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, which is located here in beautiful Irvine, adjacent to the Great Park? We have drafted a three-year plan that will help us meet the needs of citizens throughout the county. Our goal is to distribute 45 million pounds and as a reference point today we are set to distribute about 38 million pounds annually. We want to distribute 45 million pounds by the year 2027 and we're calling this campaign 45 by 27. The importance of distributing that food is not only to fill tummies and alleviate hunger, but it is to make sure that every citizen in the county is achieving nutritional security. Another thing most people don't know about the food bank is that we have opened a beautiful 40 acre farm, again right here in the beautiful city of Irvine, that since its inception in 2021 has grown and distributed over 6 million pounds of locally grown produce to the citizens of Orange County. September is hunger action month when we remind people that yes, we are out of a pandemic, but the state of the world today, whether it's inflation, the high cost of housing, the high cost of groceries is affecting many of our citizens. So during hunger action month, we ask people to take action, to volunteer, to advocate, and to donate, or just to tell somebody else, hey, not everyone knows where their next meal is coming from. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you, Mayor Con, for your steadfast support of our mission during your tenure as mayor, and thank you, Vice Mayor Aigren, as well, for your support of what we are doing here. I often tell people we serve Orange County, but the reality is that the Food Bank located here in Irvine is the bread basket for Orange County. And we are very proud to be here. We thank you for helping us raise awareness for Hunger Action Month and we thank you for your attention today. Thank you so much. You know, the work that you do at Second Harvest and the service that you provide to the entirety of Orange County, we've seen that shift from pre-pendemic during the pandemic and now after the pandemic. And it's not decreasing. The needs are increasing every day. So thank you so much for all that you and your team do to serve our most vulnerable populations. Thank you and I look forward to the day where we don't have to have hunger action month. Thank you all. Thank you. And I'll turn it over to my colleagues to the day where we don't have to have hunger action month. Thank you all. Thank you. And I'll turn it over to my colleagues to see if they have any comments or questions at this time before I move on to the proclamation. Okay. Thank you Mayor, also for wearing orange. It is now my honor to read the proclamation, whereas hunger and poverty are issues of vital concern in California as one in five Californians face food insecurity on a daily basis and Do not know where their next meal will come from and whereas everyone needs Nutrition food to thrive and people are working hard to provide for themselves and their families yet over 330,000 individuals including over 85,000 children here in Orange County are food insecure. And whereas the City of Vervine is committed to working with Orange County Hunger Alliance and educating people on the importance of food banks and food care and addressing hunger and raising awareness of the need to devote more resources and attention to hunger issues. And whereas in the first half of 2024, Orange County Food Bank and second Harvest Food Bank collectively recorded an average of 806,985 individual food distribution visits per month from our neighbors facing food and security and distributed 29,588,278 million pounds of food through its partner network of food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, senior centers, schools, colleges, universities, and other community organizations. And whereas a bound food care helps to facilitate the recovery of over 25 million pounds of excess at double food in Orange County each year, reducing food waste and diverting food to those who need it. And whereas the month of September has been designated hunger action month, in order to bring attention to food insecurity in our communities and to enlist the public in the movement to end hunger by taking action, including volunteering, donating, and advocating to ensure all communities have the food they need to thrive. And whereas food banks and other organizations across the country, including the members of the Orange County Hunger Alliance, will host numerous events throughout the month of September to bring awareness and help end food insecurity in our local community. Now, therefore, the City Council of the City of Irvine does hear by proclaim September, 2024 as hunger action month. Thank you. Thank you. One, two, three. Don't want to complain to you. One, two, three. Okay. Okay. Applause. Thank you. Our next presentation this evening is a proclamation recognizing September 2024 as Parent Teacher Association membership month. At this time it is my pleasure to introduce and call forward the following individuals from Irvine Unified Council PTA. Jim Lung, President Patricia Villegas-Bano, Vice President of Membership, Esther Morales, Julie Hasakawa, Steve Nolmiller, Amy DeCio, Nicole Chang, Mimi Chen, Julia Tam, and Linda Yunbits. The Parent Teacher Association, or PTA, is the backbone of urban classrooms and schools. As parents work tirelessly in collaboration with schools and school staff to better educational experiences for all children. The PTA also provides the space for parents to meet each other to discuss common concerns and interests and helps raise funds to organize and organize programs that otherwise would not occur. Thank you all for joining us this evening. It is now my pleasure to read and present the proclamation. And for those that don't know, I started on PTA as well. I make sure everyone knows, right? Okay, whereas the Irvine Unified Council Parent Teacher Association represents 43 Parent Teacher Associations and Parent Teacher Student Association units in the Irvine Unified School District is among the largest volunteer organizations in the city of Irvine whose sole purpose is to advocate, serve, and safeguard children and families. And whereas the Irvine Unified Council Parent Teacher Association had more than 14,717 members in the 2023-24 school year who volunteered more than 134,700 hours to benefit the students of Irvine Unified School District. And whereas the Irvine Unified Council Parenting Chair Association assists parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children, encourages parent, caregiver, and family engagement in public schools in our community, and speaks on behalf of children and schools in the community to organizations and public governing bodies. And whereas during the month of September, special activities will be held to promote parent engagement, expand the membership of the Irvine Unified Council Parent Teacher Association and broaden base of support to become an even stronger and more effective voice for children and education. Now therefore, the City Council of the City of Irvine does hereby proclaim September 2024 as Parent Teacher Association membership month and encourages students, parents, families, educators and citizens to show their commitment to children in youth by joining their local PTA or PTSA. And you don't have to have a child at a school to join as a PTA member. So please support your local school by becoming a PTA member and doing all that you can to support people that are on the front lines for our students. So thank you so much for all that you do. Thank you. We will now hear public comments on matters not on the City Council agenda. Those participating be as zoom and raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue. Any member of the public may address the City Council on items within the City Council's subject matter jurisdiction but which are not listed on the agenda. However, no action may be taken on matters that are not part of the posted agenda. City clerk, will you please provide the number requests submitted to speak on non-agentised items? Thank you, Mayor the number of requests submitted to speak on managed and diced items? Thank you Mayor there are eight requests to speak. Okay so each speaker will get three minutes and request to speak submitted after the first speaker is called shall receive 90 seconds. The time limit for speaker will be strictly adhered to in order to maximize efficiency. For those providing testimony in person the microphone will be silenced once each speaker's time limit is up. We appreciate everyone's cooperation and understanding, and we will first consider public testimony by those attending in person, followed by those on Zoom, and I will turn it over to our city clerk to call the names. Thank you, Mariff. I could call the first four speakers down, Jackie Cordova, Wing Chow, Alan Myerson, and E-Planet Thunderstriker. Please line up by our assistant city clerk and we'll start with Jackie Cordova. Thank you. My name is Jackie Cordova. I'm a mother of Santa Ana. Tonight I came to speak face to face with the city of Irvine. I'm here charging Irvine with police brutality, obstruction of justice and disturbing our peace. We have multiple claims against the entire force of Irvine PD for inciting violence against women and children, causing bodily harm and needless pain and suffering. Irvine, you are guilty of police brutality. I have the bruises to prove it. Mayor of Ir Irvine, your guilty of police brutality. I have the bruises to prove it. Mayor of Irvine, we demand class action, legal representation and future protection from these abusers employed by the city of Irvine. As community members of a protected class, we demand immediate reparations for these injustices at the hands of Irvine Police Department. Officer B. Marks, ID number 516, did put Marks on me. He thought wrong when he called his sick backup to come get off with him at my expense. You thought wrong when you assault me, when you wrongfully arrest me. You kidnapped me from my home, you embarrassed me in front of my children. You put me in your prison. You made my life a nightmare. You tarnished my clean record. You put a case over me that would follow me for years. You cast a shadow upon me. You see, while we're out here defending ourselves our land our church our children our students our members of the press your police force is ordered to rough us up kill us with their automatic weapons when ordered to Veracon as their superior you had no effect on these employees when you ordered them to stand down you have no power or authority at UCI on May 15, 2024, peace officers memorial day. They directly defied your orders of hands off, do not touch the students at UCI, do not touch the women, the children, hands off. They came to attack us with glee in their eyes. Stand down mayor, you are out of line. Your PD is under possession of demonic entities. Your police force is a bunch of trained thugs sent out to go after their own women and children, based on lies made up by some sick perverted brutalizers. We pleaded with them for hours that day while they sweated in their overkill, swat detail. Shame is upon the Irvine police and shame is upon UCI. Politically, Farrakhan, you showed your true colors. I hear of your really close ties with the Orange County Supervisors too. They're failing all their every step, every audit, every test comes back as fraudulent. Orange County Supervisors have shattered the public's trust. There is no mental health help here. There is no mental health care here. The system is showing fraud at its finest. Wing Chow. Good evening. Your honor will honorable Council members. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Wing Chow. I live in Irvine for 40 years. And I'm one of the candidates for Mayor of Irvine in November, 2024. As you are well aware, the election is coming on November 5, less than two months. And I was invited attend a forum by South Coast Asian American Society last Saturday. The 6th Kennedy for the mayor show up from 3 to 4. They were allowed to speak for two minutes and then answer question for having an hour. And then the second session was for the consulman. Was 12 consulment were there. And you asked me, how come the city of Irvine does not sponsor a forum like this? We want to encourage all the residents to come out to vote. This is not politic. It's the civic duty and the civic right. So I asked the city council to consider, we should have a forum to invite all the Kennedy for mayor and councilman to adhere to speak and to be questioned by the public. I want the administration to be transparent. So I want the election to be known by all the residents. We want more people to turn out, to get involved, to vote. Also, when I participated in four of my notice that when I look at the candidate, there 11, urban council commissioner, I said, we are minute, I thought those were cabinet members, like a president, have a council for secretary of transportation, then I found out that actually, I look at the background, they are engineer, small business owner, and then I kind of wear them, and that's not their profession. So I asked the city clerk when they published their professions to be what their regular jobs are. They are content, they are engineer, they are lawyer, do not be misled people, okay, a big title. Irvan, finance commission, I saw there are two of them. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see the majority of the people are not being a big title. I saw there are two of them. They only go to the meeting once a month. Then they're leaving people. I asked the city correct to ask and put down what the real professionalism is. I participate in the administration by participating in the committee of the commission of finance or planning, but do not mislead people. Also, when I read from one candidate, he said he's a finance commissioner. I looked at his background, engineer. He said he was appointed to be the finance commissioner. I said, wait a minute, I look at his background, no training in finance or kind of at all, like me, I'm a CPA with a Bachelor in Business, Ambassador in County. How can someone be appointed to be finance or commissioner without any training in finance? So therefore I ask, in the future, when someone is appointed, they have to be confirmed by the council, like the person that appointed secretary of transportation had to be confirmed, but as a senator, You cannot be individually arranged. Thank you. Your time is up. Alan Myerson. Tonight I want to speak on two subjects. One of them is the campaign finance laws that Irvine has adopted. The amount of $620 is the limit that can be Donated to your campaigns by an individual My question is this Councilmember Kim who is running for mayor has set up four different committees the committees are Tammy Kim for Irvine City Council 2024 Irvine neighbors opposed to the misleading recall of Tammy Kim Irvine's country I'm sorry Kim's let's see and there's two others I don't have the names up in right here. My main concern is the $620 limit. $150,000 was donated to you from the Orange County Fire Authority, the Union, and to your anti-renew call campaign. That's way more than $620. So I will be filing a complaint with the FPPC because it seems like you're kind of trying to get around the rules and the laws that everybody else is following, but you're not. So that's one thing I'm going to talk about. The other thing is going to be about the casco nightmare. In 2021 this council majority voted to give the charging station contract to casco because councilmember Kim and councilmember Carol and councilmember Traceter voted to not go by the staff recommendation of the first two providers. Why that happened, I'm not really sure. But in hindsight, now that I look at the whole thing, I see that there was a fundraiser for our council member, Kim, in 2023, by Casco and Nudo is the other one, the ones that were supposed to be making the equipment. It looks to me with all this that you've learned very well how to raise money. That's for sure. You well how to raise money. That's for sure, you know how to raise money. Whether it's proper the way you're raising money, that's another issue. You know, the firefighters, you set on the OS, you set on the Fire Authority Board. So you vote on their commissions, I mean, their pay and their benefits. So when they give you $150,000 for your campaign, I would think that when a vote comes up, I know how you'll be voting. This cas- Thank you, your time is up. Next speaker is E-Planet Thunderstriker? Hello, everyone. Hopefully the citizens at home will pay a little more attention to what I'm submitting in my oral comments. I am under the impression that maybe there's already been a criminal statute violated by the council. I think it's a RICO law. I have 10 pages here and I just, I have to have time to review them. One of them, Irvine City Courts Office, one or two people, one or two times verified no receipt of them. Irvine City Courts Office, one or two people, one or two times verified no receipt of email on the printout I made of email sent, box screenshot. Run around by Irvine Police also to take complaint. And then there's a whole list of stuff. This isn't the violation of the recoding. This is if you guys ignore this, it's going to get worse. And so I don't have any requests. I do have an updated, I talked about before how three songs were connected to one artist. I didn't mention Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. Well, I don't know if that's really going to make a difference. It shouldn't to these kind of people, but you know, there, who knows what's going on with that. And then I have a few more pages that I have not even reviewed yet. I mean, I entered so much data into the artificial intelligence assistant and printed out a whole bunch of things. And some of them are talking about, well, you know the hippie movement. It's like, well, they could have done everything. They could have achieved all of their ideals by going through the civic process, the democratic ideals. So it's like, well, I didn't know anything or speculate ever about a deep state or anything like that. But it's like, well, maybe we had a site that didn't lock their doors. And now we have people shooting each other. Students are not studying speed reading. They're studying where to hide when people down the road. And it's also clear that with I have been in so many different places talking about this stuff, people already know, council members. And so it's like, well, when they don't do anything at all You know, it's like well the AI is telling me that well there's I shouldn't be I I decided maybe I shouldn't making a request because that would be really stupid if you all are already guilty of criminal activity And it's like civil violations to this council mean absolutely nothing with what I've been dealing with the last two years And I'm already doing this police surveillance and just running around so much. It's just like I don't really know where to start. I didn't prepare my public comments. I didn't know what I was going to do or say. I didn't submit anything that I definitely wanted to have specific points about. The gravity of these violations demands immediate and decides of action. Killer to address these criminal allegations promptly won the state escalation to state and federal and this is I don't even know that is just one that I did not single out that I wanted to read to you guys. So I have another stream minutes I need to review these actually. I don't have a lot of confidence in the chief right now or necessarily you guys and let's just try to cover yourself because I sure would be talking to the feds and you could do a motion or whatever now because that's there was no reply and it's like well I see AI assistant and you guys should have done that when I requested it. Did we get anything today? Thank you your time is up. Next speaker is recall Tammy. You have 90 seconds. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. Of course, this is going to be about Tammy and her propaganda. Tammy, you've divided this community, and you've divided it in such a way that people are actually very hostile on next door. You are promoting hate by accusing Larry of a lot of lies. You and your handlers, I don't know which one of you is coming up with all these fake letters, are accusing community members of actually targeting your donors and you know that's a lie because we don't write like this. This is Irvine here. Alan is out there fact checking all of the information that your handlers are putting on next door. It's really nasty and ugly and I really truly believe Tammy, you're running a really nasty campaign and I for Larry, that's for sure. But I'm saying Tammy, you've been bought. And you know what? The City of Irvine can't tolerate that. You don't have the interest of my community. You have your personal interest. Clearly, by what I see on next door. And by what your people are promoting or by what your purpose is. And I hope you're healthy and responsible for it. Larry can't be bought. of my community, you have your personal interests, clearly, by what I see on next door, and by what your people are promoting, or by what you're promoting on your social media. You're promoting hate and dehumanization of an entire community here. You are putting us at risk. You're putting my children at risk, my community at risk, and you will be held responsible. Eventually, you all come out. Shame on you and I hope this city can do better. Thank you, your time is up. Our next speaker is Karen. Karen, you may unmute your mic. Hi, I find it funny between the last two speed. Well, actually between Alan Myerson and the last speaker talking about fact checking because I think Alan has not done some fact checking and it sounds like he's getting his information from or my community news and views, which is a one sided political mailer that we all know. So I really expect Allen to look at what the committees are that Tammy has. Take a look at the committees that Larry has. Larry has multiple pages of committees going back to the veteran cemetery, all kinds of open committees. He's also using money that he used in a settlement for this paper. So I really think you should do some fact checking. Our next speaker is telephone number 347, 347. You may unmute your mic. Hi, this is D-Box. I would like to address Tammy Cam and Kathleen Jacider who sit on the board of the Orange County Power Authority. I would like to know why you tell the public that the Orange County Power Authority delivers 95.5% of renewable energy to its ratepayers through the Southern California Edison grid and goes directly into their homes and businesses. When your own consultant, Pacific Energy Advisors states that the OCPA's energy portfolio is neither 95.5% renewable, nor is it delivered to its ratepayers. So why are you both lying to the public? And Kathleen, isn't it a fact that you are not even a member of the OCPA as UCI has their own microgrid. I am going to read off a list of where the OCPA is rate payer funds to under the guys of helping to promote renewable energy. I am sure you both are well aware of this list because it is done time closed doors where checks are cut to organizations of the boards choosing. It doesn't go before the board. It's not on any of your agendas, but buried in the Orange County Power Authority's quarterly Treasury reports. I will start small and work my way up. A lunch for Kathleen Trouceder as she came on board the OCPA for $100. Ten-sushi cocktail bar $450. $1,000 to the Asian Business Association. A few Fullerton Mayor prayer breakfast at $1,000 each. Dinner at Paul Martin's American Grill for $2,400. $2,500 to the Korean Cultural Festival. $2,500 to World Korean Business Overseas, 2500 for a day of music in Fullerton, $3,000 for a tree lighting event in Fullerton, $4,000 to the Fullerton Bears Football League, Fullerton's Tommy Lusortoday, $5,000, $8,000 to Korean performing arts. There are so many more and I haven't even listed the hotels and airfare expenditures, which the OCPA seems to take trips at least once a month. Your claims of employing local businesses and creating new jobs, new local jobs is also not true. You have two employees that regularly fly in from Hawaii. Moscow is from Encinitas, Pacific Energy Advisors is from Encinitas. Pacific Energy Advisor is from Pulse. Del Marketing is in Texas and so is Zodiac Solutions. And the list goes on. So, Tammy Kimmy, Captain Justita, what are you both going to come clean about the OCPA? The city of Vervine pays the most out of any other city in Orange County. Just the city itself is paying $100,000 more a month than it was with SCE. That is our tax dollars being thrown away. How do you justify that? Thank you. Our next speaker is Sandy Lester. Sandy, you may unmute your mic. Honestly, this is the last thing I wanted to keep having to do is talk about Larry Agren and his Irvine community news and views. But it's important that the citizens of Irvine know what a disservice Larry is doing to our community, as well as the local election process. To reiterate, Irvine community news and views is partly owned by Larry and his family. His daughter-in-law runs it, his longtime supporters write opinion pieces. It is not an independent publication, but rather a political mailer. What ICNV does is include local city news and personal interest stories to draw people in to read the paper, but then it also includes opinion pieces attacking Larry's opponents or issues he opposes or supports. Differing or alternative views to Larry's are not included and his political opponents are not offered an opportunity to defend themselves or present an alternative side of a contested issue. Rather than be transparent about his ownership of ICNV, and its bias, Larry allows unsuspecting residents to believe that it is an independent publication. This deprives Irvine citizens of critical information needed when they are consuming only Larry's viewpoints, not others. Why can't Larry just be transparent? If he is not crossing a legal line, how about an ethical one? What does a man who has been an Irvine politics for decades feel why does a man who's been an Irvine politics for decades feel the need to deceive the public this way? Why does he need to use his newspaper as a crutch, especially during elections? Why can't he just approach the election fairly? I truly don't understand, but I hope that more and more people will learn the truth about ICNV and evaluate it accordingly. If Larry wants to continue to publish it, that's his right, but he should stop using it as a deceptive and unfair tool to attempt to win elections and start being transparent. Irvine citizens deserve better. Our next speaker is Eric Nishanian. Mr. Nishanian you may unmute your mic. Thank you very much council members Mayor Khan. I got a couple things to talk about. One was the last time City Council came out of a closed meeting and actually had action to report. The way City Council came out of a closed meeting and actually had action to report. The way City Council treated the firefighters at the last meeting demonstrated that the council members put special interest before all citizens. Even Larry, the way that you guys made sure that they had an opportunity to speak even though Mayor Conn tried to, you know, use her privilege of taking what you put on the agenda off and remove the item, you guys allowed them an opportunity to speak over Irvine citizens and you prevent Irvine citizens from speaking on the same matter at the same time. The next time someone comes and talks about needing some of the space for pickable ball, badminton, and table tennis. The direct end to the casco charging center facility out there at the great park. It's being unused or underused and it certainly can be purchased or multi-purposed for other activities now based on the history. Paying $100 million for a stick up and industrial building is absurd. The Orange County Business Council indicates a report that it's more than twice the rate or at least twice the rate for similar construction and it's the most expensive building purchased in the city of Irvine. So sad. Chief can't, apparently chief can't speak at these meetings now. If the city manager will allowed him some time So he's perfectly capable of defending himself. He was an Irvine Scouts are explorer when he failed to inform the prosecution of the same when he falsely identified Mr. Carmona Bulgarian heritage day pro population includes a falsehood. Bulgaria has only been independent since 1908, which makes 116 years, not 121 years. It further demonstrates FairCon's racism and discrimination, including Armenians, because Armenian Independence Day is September 21st. There's no such thing as a Bulgarian heritage day recognized by anybody. Bulgarian recognizes their language today sometime in April of the year officially. And it just demonstrates how ignorant she really is. There can't be more than 150 to 200 Bulgarians in the city. And she put the day after Armenian Independence Day. Day. Once again, then it was straighting that she's putting some cultures and some races in front of others. And it shows that when this city council failed to censor her, it's normalizing racism. It's normalizing this ignorant conduct. And it's allowing it to occur over and over again and making it seem like it's perfectly normal. There's some people, apparently ethnic, immigrant females, can offend others and it's perfectly fine. But if a white guy did what she was doing, everybody would be up in arms. And oh, our- Thank you, your time is up. Our next speaker is G. You may- Your mic you have 90 seconds. We live in an era where misinformation can spread rapidly. We're trust in institutions as fragile, and where the line between opinion and fact can become hazy. This is why it is more important than ever that we demand transparency from our elected officials. A democracy cannot function if its people are kept in the dark. Politicians should not fear transparency. They should embrace it. When they fund media outlets, they must disclose it. When they use these outlets to attack their opponents, they must own it. Mr. A. Grand, we can stop covering this if you'll just include in your newspaper that you publicly are admitting to owning in part Irvine Community News and Views. I guess we have to use your submitted form 700s for you and your wife. I advise anybody wanting to know the truth, to look at the city of Irvine transparency portal. Since Mr. Agrin isn't transparent and does not disclose his ownership in parts of the paper or his daughter in my managing the paper on the newspaper, I advise every citizen to look up Larry 700 form on file with the city and see for yourself. Mr. Agrin, your fake Irvine newspapers a betrayal of the public trust. We as citizens deserve to know who is behind the information we are consuming and we should demand nothing less than honesty and integrity from those who seek to represent us. Thank you, your time is up. Our next speaker is V. Steve Gordon. Steve, you may unmute your mic. You have 90 seconds. Yes, so being close to the elections, I want to summarize certain lessons from the last year. Farrakhan, our mayor, she did what she could to harm the city and she's all but gone. Nothing to talk about. Larry Egren. Larry Egren never expressed any opinions, never condemned Hamas, actually fraternized with Hamas and supported Hamas Goons, offered Gaza as a sister city, lied about the veteran cemetery, lied about his newspaper. Larry Egren needs to resign now to be never heard from again. Mike Carroll, let's say, I'm a little bit perplexed by Mike Carroll. newspaper Larry Agren needs to resign now to be never heard from again. Mike Carroll, let's say I'm a little bit perplexed by Mike Carroll. He's pretty much invisible at the meetings. I'm not sure what he supports and what he condemns and what he stands for. I tried for seven months to arrange a 15 minute meeting with Mr. Carroll and all I got was essentially empty promises. This does not sound right. Tamikim. Tamikim showed herself as a fighter with strong and right values. She participated in community events. She is easily accessible and capable of running good fights for her constituency. The only thing I would like her to do is to wage a good fight against the new housing. Our infrastructure cannot handle this additional load. Tammy Kim is our best choice for me. Catherine Traceder, similar to Tammy, she is easily accessible, has right values and capable of running a good fight for her constituency. Again, she needs to join a good fight against the new housing and the power authority that cannot be handled by our infrastructure. She will be a- Thank you, your time is up. Our next speaker is telephone number one four nine one four nine. You may unmute your mic. You have 90 seconds. One four nine. Can you hear us? Hi, thank you. I needed to unmute. Thank you. I also want to express my concern about the Irvine community news and views. This is a publication that seems to appear in our mailbox, really mostly around election time, and I'm really concerned and confused about its purpose and its funding and how donations are tied to it, how they're handled. It's really a fixture in my mailbox right now, and I don't understand why there's so little transparency around who's funding it, how donations work, and whether these funds are being used to serve the public interest or simply to sway voters during critical moments. We also need to demand answers about the flow of money, and more importantly, we need clarity on who's pulling the strings behind the curtain. Is this special interest? Are these political candidates? Are these advocacy groups? Without proper disclosure, we may be at the mercy of forces working to influence us without our full knowledge. And our community deserves better. We deserve transparency about how donations, the publications like Irvine Community News and Views are solicited, collected, and spent. We deserve to know whether this paper is acting in our interest or is it just another tool to manipulate our votes during election season. And we must demand that Irvine community news and views and any publication that seeks to influence our decision making act with complete transparency. The integrity of our election depends on it. And I'm an informed citizen and I have the right to know who is funding this publication that is appearing in my box. How are these funds being used? Anything less than this is in the front of the democratic values that our community holds dear. Thank you, your time is up. Our next speaker is Harvey Liss. Harvey, you're Mike, you have 90 seconds. Hi, I'm Harvey Liss. You're Mike, you have 90 seconds. Hi, I'm Harvey Liss, a resident of Irvine since 1976. I just want to say that anyone who claims that the Irvine community news and news publishes anything untrue to provide evidence, you will never find such evidence because it doesn't exist. I also defy anyone who believes that the newspaper publishes opinion in a place of fact to also provide such evidence. I see in V will surely publish a retraction of any such untrue information has been published. I'm also moved to say that as a Jew I'm now partly considered an anti-Semite because I oppose the murder of innocent civilians. How odd that is. Thank you. Our next speaker as I am. You may unmute your mic. You have 90 seconds. Good evening, council. I just wanted to comment on a vote last meeting on the new gym. As a mom with a child who loves badminton, it is hard to find enough room and availability. And I was really disappointed that there wasn't more of a commitment made to ensuring that space is made available in this new location since the last did not work out. We'd like to thank the mayor for trying to continue on that commitment. I'm just very disappointed. On another note, I would like to point out that the access or mine app is a wonderful app, but lately it has not been well maintained and it's not clear who to report to as there's no contact us or report issue button. Many of the agendas and leaks are broken or don't work and the formatting is very inconsistent. So I don't know where to direct that feedback, but I thought I would share that since I was calling in anyway. And thank you so much for all you do. And hopefully once elections over, we don't have to hear campaigning at these meetings. Our next speaker is RKPC. You may unmute your mic. You have 90 seconds. Hi, I wanted to comment on the attack on newspaper that's been existence for many years. Again, I do agree that there has been zero evidence whenever these same colors probably over and over again. You're trying to attack a newspaper that just lists facts. Actually, I looked at some of the facts myself after reading it, and all these are public information that you can find on City of Irvine website. You can find that Tammy Kim have actually created four different committees for campaign funds in order to bypass the strict law, campaigning fund law, maximum amount. It's out there. It's available. It takes three clicks. You just have to go to CDR Verbine website and you'll see the same information as that. Now, having a newspaper, local newspaper, is a good thing for our right. Going around the law, not following the actual law, campaign law, and misleading Irvine residents at every corner, and boasting about how you received so much more fun because of the recall campaign, and then spending each mailer that you send out probably cost $30,000. And then you're on board of OCPA, OCFA, not looking at Burvine residents. Thank you, your time is up, and that is all mayor. Thank you. Moving ahead city manager, cheese the report to be made this evening. Madam Mayor, we have one report with the current election season upon us. We've had multiple reports of political campaign signs being stolen or defaced. Our police chiefs, you've can't had some information he wanted to share with the Council and community regarding how the city plan store approached those issues moving forward. Chief. Thank you city manager chief, good evening mayor and city council. Just want to give a quick reminder to our community that it is election season. Campaign signs can be found at intersections along the roadways and on private property throughout the city. These signs are private property and it is a violation of the law to steal or vandalize them. The Irvine Police Department will respond to reports of vandalized or stolen political signs. Anyone found responsible could be subject to arrest and prosecution by the district attorney's office. Anyone wishing to report the theft of or vandalism of a political sign is asked to call our non-emergency number at 949-724-7200. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move on to announcements. I'll share a personal announcement and I'll turn it over to my colleagues for theirs. I hosted a general services administration summit last week announcement and then I'll turn it over to my colleagues for theirs. I hosted a general services administration summit last week and the GSA summit was the first of its kind for Region 9 and 10 and I was honored that Regional Administrator and former Irvine Mayor, Suki King, chose us to kick off the summit in Irvine, providing our businesses with tangible resources to grow and thrive. I want to thank the panelists from GSA who provided specific information on how to do business with the federal government. With that, I don't see any of my colleagues' hands raised so we'll move on. Okay. Councilmember Triseter. Thank you. All right. I'd like to start off by saying that my thoughts are with the firefighters who are out there fighting the airport fire that is near Irvine. Fortunately, it's moving away from Irvine. These are very difficult conditions to be fighting the fire so hot and the fire is spreading so quickly. So my thoughts are with them. They were here with us at our last council meeting. So I know they're really hard and risk their lives for us. Okay. On another note, I was really pleased last Tuesday, the city of Fountain Valley, the council, voted to move forward with joining OCPA. That's OC Power Authority. The reason that I'm giving this announcement is because I'm on the board as is Council Member Kim. The vote was four to one. There's still, it's a long process to join OCPA. So they'll still need to vote on an ordinance and then also they'll need to ratify the joint powers agreement for OCPA. But they're moving along in the process. I was pleased there were apparently 20 public comments and all were positive, so glad that the community is excited about joining OCPA. Thank you. Council Member Kim. Thank you so much. I'm really excited to share that we had a really successful pet adoption fair this past Saturday with Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley's office and Council Member Tracee Edgers at Mason Park. It was extremely hot, so I appreciate all of those people who came out to volunteer, OC Animal Care as well as members of Irvine Police Department, OC Sheriff's and Orange County Fire Authority. We were able to adopt out five kittens and four dogs that day. So I would say that was a resounding success that we had nine animals who found you homes. Speaking of the brush fire, many of you are aware that this is happening. And I just want to report that it is spread to 10,000 acres and there's been no containment thus far. So I know it's pushing away from us but it's still an issue and they've moved their command post for the airport fire to the great park. So you may see some activity happening there so that's the command post. Just wanted to report that if you have any questions, the public information hotline, you can reach them at 714-628-7085. And lastly, I know that Chief Kent just touched on this, but I'm also going to reiterate this. I am asking everyone in this, during this political season, to respect each other's campaign signs. I do not support, I do not ask for my opponent signs to be vandalized in any way, shape, or form. And I just want to make that very clear and I want to make that very public in case there's any misunderstandings. I absolutely condemn the defacing of my opponent's political signs. He paid for them. They're his First Amendment rights and it needs to be honored and respected. And again, I'm trying to run a clean campaign and I hope we all do so. I'll just leave that there. Thank you so much. Council Member Carroll. Thank you, Mayor. And I would just also note that our thoughts and prayers are with our firefighters tonight and in the future as this fire is addressed. As some of you may remember at the July 9th council meeting, the city council voted three to two to fund additional school bus so that 56 families with no school bus service could send their kids to university high school. The second bus is now running and providing relief for Irvine families. As a father with two children in high school, I understand how much this decision impacts school schedules and student health and well-being. I was really happy to receive an email just a few days ago from an Irvine resident who I do not know personally telling me just how much this has helped her own family schedule. So I would like to read it to you tonight and I really want to thank Joyce for sending this email and I wanted my council colleagues and the rest of the city to hear it. Hi Michael, I wanted to send you a belated but huge thank you for funding the bus to University High School. As school started on Tuesday, I can't tell you what a difference in relief having this bus was to transport my high schooler for our busy family of three kids. Although we won't be able to use the bus service in the afternoon due to sports, I want to emphasize that this will save us at least 40 to 60 minutes of round trip commuting time each morning. I don't think we would have been able to manage otherwise. My husband and I really appreciate the vote, sincerely Joyce. Joyce, thank you for emailing us. It's my honor to be able to share that with my colleagues here. And we were really excited to be able to do that. I think serving the residents needs and ways small and large and medium are really the priority of this city council and certainly my own personal priority. So thank you, Joyce, and we're really happy that we're able to help. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, and now I have some city announcements to share. We are celebrating our diverse community with two special events this month. First, join us for our fourth annual Mid-Autumn Festival this Friday, September 13th from 5 to 9.30 p.m. at the Great Park. This family-friendly event is held in partnership with South Coast Chinese Cultural Center. It includes educational displays, entertainment, crafts, food trucks, and artistic demonstrations. Local community partners will be in attendance to support the event and share organizational information and resources. The event is free and open to all ages. For more information, visit cityofurbine.org slash mid-autumn. On Sunday, September 22, join us in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month at our third annual PSD Latina and Irvine event, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Great Park. The event honors the generations of Latin American individuals and heroes who have positively influenced and enriched our nation, society, and community. Learn about the histories, cultures, traditions, and contributions of Hispanic Americans through music, food, language, literature, and art. This free event is open to all ages. For more information visit cityaburvine.org slash Biesta. We hope you will join us at these wonderful events. Learn about maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle at the 15th annual Healthy Living Expo on Friday, September 20th from 9am to noon at Lakeview Senior Center. This event, this free event is designed for adults ages 50 and older and features fitness demonstrations, health screenings, educational presentations, and a wide variety of health and wellness exhibitors. The healthy living expo will also have a food truck and an opportunity drawing with fun giveaways from local vendors. Trips will be providing transportation to the healthy living expo for urban residents ages 50 and older. Reservations can be made by phone through September 19th. Call 94972474343 to make it trip's reservation. Spaces limited early reservations are encouraged. More information about the Healthy Living Expo at IrvineSceniors.org slash Expo, or call 949-724-6900. The city is preparing for the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan and we encourage our Ryan residents to be part of this important process. Federal regulations require cities receiving federal funds such as the community development block grant to adopt a consolidated plan every five years. The consolidated plan assesses our community, our communities needs to determine how these funds will be spent. City staff will be conducting an online survey and hosting two community meetings to gather feedback from Irvine residents, volunteer groups, community-based organizations, and local nonprofits. The first meeting will take place via Zoom on October 23rd at 6 p.m. While the second meeting will be held in person at the Las Lomas Community Center on October 24th at 10 a.m. Residents are invited to participate and share their feedback. I hope you will take some time to fill out our survey, which will be available at cityofvervine.org this month, and attend one of our meetings to share your input on the needs of our community. And we are partnering with UCI Health to host a blood drive tomorrow, September 11th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Irvine Civic Center. Donations will help provide critical care for patients at UCI Medical Center, the only level one trauma center in Orange County, which transpuses over 1,000 units of blood every month. This is a wonderful way to give back on Patri day, a national day of service and remembrance. Donors will receive a $10 gift card to either target in an out burger or Starbucks, or a newly designed blood donor t-shirt. Additionally, they can be entering to an opportunity drawing for four passes to Great Park Ice and five-point arena courtesy of UCI Health. Appointments are suggested but not required and can be made online in advance. Walkins will also be accepted. For more information and to book an appointment, visit cityofvervine dot org slash blood drive. And now before we proceed city manager Chi are there any additions or deletions to the agenda? Madam Mayor there's one adjustment. Staff is looking to continue item 7.2 until our next council meeting. Outside of that the remainder of the agenda remains intact. I believe there was a request by Mayor Aigren to move up an item. His item I believe, right? Yes. Yes, if it's possible, the discussion on the Meadows Mobile Home Park, if that could be moved up without objection, I'd appreciate it. Okay. We'll go ahead and move that up. Thank you. All right. So the City Council will now consider consent calendar, which consists of item numbers 3.1 through 3.9. Those participating via Zoom may now raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the city manager to be routine and all will be enacted by one roll call vote. There will be no discussion of these items unless members of the city council request specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate discussion. And before I turn to my colleagues we will consider public testimony on items listed on the consent calendar. City Clerk, do we have any members of the public wishing to speak? Thank you, Madam Mayor. We have one request to speak from Rania. Rania, you have three minutes. Good evening, Council Members, staff and everyone, residents. My name is Ronya and I'm here to speak in regards of item 3.2, the Constitution Day slash week. And this is in regards to the dangerous behavior of Council Member Tammy Kim, who doesn't only stifle the freedom of speech, but she also actually falsely accused the petitioners, the recalled petitioners that they're blocking traffic and that they are setting up illegally on private properties. I saw that on her Instagram post and I'd like to say because there was a cropped picture with the petitioners and some police officers and I'm here to actually say that the police officers were there to say that we are very much within our rights. And they wished us a good day. And then they left. And if it's possible, I'd like to actually ask, like the spokesperson or the chief police department to clarify this for everyone, because she was here just now, a few minutes ago saying that she respects First Amendment rights. And then she she as she's actually trying to Paint us as illegal when this is the most protected form of PresPEech and First Amendment rights and this is what we're celebrating here today the Constitution Day the the only thing I'd like to say is I feel like Tammy are just relying on these show business, but anyone who has been here and has been watching you can very much see the inconsistencies, the contradictions. So all we're asking the Irvine residents to do is just pay attention. We're not going to say like stuff, just pay attention. And I can see that there were disagreements based on policy issues, based on corruption issues. My issue is just democracy, ABC democracy, basic requirements of your position. This is just the bare minimum. We can disagree, but we still have to respect each other and hold the values of democracy. You're a progressive, I understand. So as long as we're not even crossing that bare minimum level, I don't see how can you be a representative for all Irvine residents. Thank you so much. And that is all, Mayor. Right, thank you. Do any council members wish to remove any items for separate discussion? Council Member Carroll. Item 3.8 please Mayor. 3.8. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes item 3.5. 3.5. Okay. And just to clarify for the speaker we do have an ordinance and maybe I'll turn to there are city attorney about the we have an ordinance in our city that allows for free speech in public spaces. We do. We have an ordinance that allows for free speech. That's our free speech ordinance. It is for public spaces on private property and public spaces on public property, too Thank you All right, and I'll turn it over to vice mayor Agrin for item. Oh wait. I'm sorry Do we have a motion to approve the remainder of the consent calendar so moved Yeah, second city clerk. Please conduct a roll call vote Council member Carol. Yes, Council member Kim. Yes, Council member treasurer. Yes, vice mayor Agrin Yes, Mayor con yes carries 5 0 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. 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. 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. I'm going to go to the next slide. jury report titled Ebike's Friend or Phone question mark. And I have no problems with the Grand Jury's investigation or with the response. I would like to take this opportunity to underscore just what a serious problem Ebike have become. And I also want to acknowledge that we enforce laws that exist that we try to keep the public safe. But I must say we have very, very limited skills, very limited authority, I should say, here at the city. It's really pathetic, and this is a statewide problem. Statewide problem. I think it's gonna take a long time, regrettably, for real meaningful action in Sacramento, which raises the question for me, even though it appears that state law, regarding motor vehicles, what's a motor vehicle, and what is not, preamps local action. In other words, state law to the extent that it exists occupies the field leaving very little room for us to act locally. Nevertheless, I have to believe that there are things that we can do locally by way of licensing, certification systems going well beyond education to make the public safer. And what I'd like to do mayor, I'm prepared to move adoption of this obviously. But what I'd like to do is ask of the city manager and the city attorney that they come back to us within the next month or two with a clear report of what possible room there is for local action to deal with what I regard as frankly a scourge, a scourge upon the safety of our community. With that, I like to move adoption of this. In the absence of objection, I just hope I can get, we can get something in writing that indicates what maneuvering room we might have going forward. With that I'll move adoption of item 3.5. I'll second councilmember Carroll. Thank you. Thank you mayor. I'll second as well. Thank you vice mayor. I, thank you, Mayor. I was second as well. Thank you, Vice Mayor. This is a, I'm glad you pulled the item. It reminded me. My staff and I were talking about a, another response. So I'm excited. I got a chance to, to write, to read some more feedback from an actual, another actual resident. This person's name is Alan, who responded to my information that I distributed about e-bikes. So I'm going to read this as verbatim as I can. And this, by the way, would be the information that I got out about the info, as much as we've been doing with the city, I have been making it clear to residents as I hope my colleagues have is that there is a absolute unbelievable inconsistency going on in state law that our state senator and our state representative and the assembly need to remediate. And that is the fact that these vehicles, which is what they are, are treated as regular five and three, five and speed and ten speed regular bikes without power. And that's how they're regulated. And for us to sit here because people come to the local former government looking for help, they don't go up to Sacramento looking for help. They come right here, they come to Councilmember Carroll. And it doesn't feel just right saying, well gee, it's a state law that treats these e-bike. There's some kind of e-bike lobby. There's some kind of influence of e-bike manufacturers. Talk about transparency with our esteemed state senators and state assembly. But let's just read what a regular person wrote me. Dear Mr. Carroll, I was recently pleasantly surprised by your recent update regarding e-bikes. And this is just down. And considering that you've been the only public official to at least acknowledge the issue I was optimistic that something was going to get done. But the more I considered your mailer, and I'm grateful to put this on the record because I think he goes at me too. I realize your reply was short on policy solutions. Essentially, you're putting the blame on victims. Most avid bikers ride defensively. That is not the solution. I am perplexed as why he would follow state guidelines instead of fighting for better safety. E-bikes are not equal. There's different groups. There's pedalsists, there's throttle, and he goes on to someone who would explain well these are not properly regulated by the DMV. You have no idea the level of terror that is instilled by riding or walking and running in the bicycle or pedestrian paths only to be confronted by a 14 year old maxing out on the speed of their e-motor cycle. Yes, sometimes well and extensive 20 million hours around a blind curve or even a straightaway. So let's talk about that for a minute. So he talks about that. Look, I have nothing against this technology. And in fact, I myself ride a pedal assist bike but as a senior it affords me the opportunity to ride further and in adverse conditions that my standard road bike cannot and he goes on but he thinks I think your information on this problem was good for giving public advice but it fails as public policy. Why do you not work with other council members cities state officials to correct this ruling etc. So council member Aagren, I am so grateful because we were just talking about this response. And I would absolutely support such a letter. I think if our state senator can go, pull a film permit from the city of Irvine and hire paid actors to pretend that they're Irvine police officers, that he's kibbitzing with for political campaign commercials. In my city's plaza in front of the door of the police department, I think our state senator might also have the time to bring something forth in the state senate that says, these aren't really bikes, the way that bikes were originally regulated to be used. So I fully support this. And there's something afoot in Sacramento and rather than just making silly indirect accusations, let's just act, let's be Irvine and let's go tell them to do something. Thank you, Mayor. Right, thank you. Council member Kim. Thank you so much. So in April of this year, Council Member Traceter and I, we did have an e-bike town hall where we invited members of the public to share some thoughts to come up with solutions. We had Irvine police and we also had our legislative partners there as well who were invited and and it was a very robust discussion where we understood some of the challenges and learned some of the challenges that was happening on the ground and some of the realities that our officers are faced with and ensuring that we have the tools, but also hearing from bikers themselves and from different perspectives. So it was really insightful. It was really enlightening. Yes, we do need to do more. And I think some of the takeaways we had from that April town hall meeting and some of the ideas that we were tossing around really had to do with the rigging of the devices themselves. Turning maybe something that should only go, and you can probably have the officers explain it better, but basically a bike that is only supposed to go 10 miles an hour, they're being rigged to go like 25 miles an hour, basically. And we also have, you know, some of the things that we did talk about was licensing requirements. So officers, can you, can you kind of elaborate what is being done and what more we can do here because yes, we do have issues with the state and if you can explain to our audience what some of these issues with the state is, but also some of the takeaways in how we can start tightening some of this up, because it is a big problem. Thank you, Council Member. As far as the altering of the bikes, there are some of these e-bikes that can be altered by use of phone apps to go beyond the classified speeds that are laid out in the law. As far as licensing goes, that would all be dictated by the state. Currently there are no requirements to have any kind of driver's license to ride, any kind of bicycle. However, there are legislative considerations of a program for, I believe, 12 and older to have those kind of licenses. So there are things being considered at the Sacramento level. And we're also looking into making recommendations on some more local laws to help us conduct better enforcement efforts. Thank you. Council Member Chiseater. Thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to follow up with Council Member Kim. I agree that E-Bike Town Hall is very informative and I appreciate that our state legislators were there. We had the offices of well, Cadi Petrionaris was there and then also the offices of Dave Min and Katrina Foley. It's very, very informative. Do we have that online? Do we have the video online anywhere? Yeah, let's check on that because I'd like to put it online so people can see. All right, thank you. All right, we have a motion and a second before us. City Clerk, please connect your roll call vote. Council member Carroll. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Council member Treceater. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes. Mayor Collin. Yes. Carries 5-0. Thank you. And I'll turn it over to Council member Carroll for item 3.8. Great. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to follow up on 3-8 our second rating and just ask staff, what is everything kind of proceeding with regard to the IVC area and if we can get an update on that? Certainly, as staff prepares to address the question, in general, we have filed with ALUK, the override notice that particular hearing will be coming back before the city council in October when the override hearing continues will also have the zoning code update finishing out the general plan update for the IBC area before the council the same evening. With that there's any other information that the planning team has for free. I'd be happy to address that at this time. No, I believe that that covers everything in terms of it. Great. I just wanted to see if everything's happening with regard to the focus areas that were initially the one on the left, the one on the middle, the one on the right, on the map. Great. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. And I would move the item. Thank you, Mayor. I'll second it. City clerk, please come to. I'm sorry. Mayor, if I might just. Yes, I just want to ask a procedural question. Since I had voted against this previously, I know if it had not been pulled, my vote would be, my no vote would be carried forward. Now that it has been moved, I need to vote again. Is that correct? That's correct. Thank you, Mayor. Right, City Clerk. Council Member Carroll. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Council Member Cheesheeter. Yes. Vice Mayor Eagren. No. Mayor Con. Yes. Councillor Member, she's either. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigren. No. Mayor Con. Yes. Carries 4-1 with Vice Mayor Aigren voting no. Thank you. At this time we are going to take item 7.5. Before us, and City Clerk, will you please read the title of the item? Consideration of a request by Vice Mayor Aigren to discuss resident concerns related to the management of the Meadows mobile home park. Those participating via Zoom may now raise their hand electronically and I will turn to Vice Mayor Agrin who requested this item via Gen dies this evening. Thank you Mayor. Appreciate accommodating the request to move this up. I put this matter on the agenda because there have been a number of problems that have emerged at the Meadows Mobile Home Park on property owned by Jambury Housing that have been discussed quietly for well over a year, but remain largely unresolved. I see some folks here from the Metals mobile home park who I understand will be giving some testimony. Let me preface all that by saying, I view this as an opportunity for a discussion, but in a historic context that is, I think, worth taking a minute or two to talk about. For those who are not familiar with the Meadows Mobile Home Park, this is a remarkable community that was established in Irvine. I think actually just a little before incorporation in 1971. And it has been an amazing initially privately owned mobile home park that has been a community within our Irvine community for generations. It's a senior citizen, Mobile Home Park. It is a remarkable, delightful community that has housed hundreds and hundreds of seniors over the years. And during those years, it moved at one point with the help of the city of Irvine. It moved from private ownership by a for-profit owner to ownership by Jamboree Housing, City of Irvine's principal nonprofit housing provider, provider of affordable housing. And throughout those years, which I think were from 1994 to the present, the wonderful work of Jamboree housing just led to a thriving, terrific community there, where senior citizens could live in really affordable circumstances, but in a community with character, with energy, with involvement, and as I say, successive generations have lived happily there. With this history in mind, the fact of the matter is in recent years, and it's not entirely clear why, but in recent years, there's been a little bit of a breakdown in the relationship between the management and the citizens in the mobile home park. And there have been a number of complaints emerging in those regards. I'm concerned about that but I think those are matters that can and should be worked out between the residents, the management, the jamboree housing, governing board and so forth. I think the city can be helpful in that respect. I fold in to that a matter of inspections that have been taking place inspections for code enforcement safety purposes. We ought to all be in the same boat on that. We want code enforcement, we want safe housing. I'm gonna be asking to continue a little beyond the five minutes if that's all right. And I think the city can address those concerns as well and be helpful. There's a second bundle of concerns, though, that created great anxiety. And that is this. The economic issues associated with the rental spaces, the space rentals for the mobile home coaches. And the long term question of not just costing increases, annual costing increases, but also the long-term question of the evolution and even redevelopment of that very valuable property. All this is served to create a great deal of anxiety, uncertainty within the Mobile Home Park community. And although there have been efforts afoot to try to resolve these matters quietly, in the absence of successfully resolving those issues between and among the parties, I thought it might be valuable to put this on the agenda tonight to hear from residents, to hear from representatives from Jamboree, and to see how we, the city, might be able to move forward and be helpful through this period and beyond. That's my introduction. Thank you, Mayor. Well, thank you. With that, I'll ask if any of our colleagues want to comment at this time, if not, we'll move on to public testimony. City Clerk, are there members of the public wishing to speak on this item? Thank you, Mayor. We have 12 requests to speak. Okay. With 12 speakers, there will be a lot of two minutes each. the first speaker. Thank you, Mayor. We have 12 requests to speak. Okay. With 12 speakers, there will be a lot of two minutes each. And request to speak submitted after the first speaker's call shall receive 90 seconds. And we'll first consider public testimony by those that are here in person, followed by those on Zoom. And I'll turn it over to our city clerk. Thank you, Mayor. If I could call forward the first five speakers. Ron Galasso, Patricia Parker, Mochi Lam, Joe Krueger, and Mary Jo Goelser. If you could line up by our Assistant City Clerk and we'll start with Ron Galasso. Again you have two minutes. All right. The mic on. Yeah. I wanted to read something here because it's really a good preface to what we're going to talk about. It's a jambore policy statement dated December 15, 1999. The following is an excerpt from a letter to Miss Allison Hart, a reminds city manager from Lila Lieberthal, executive director of jamboreen housing. We believe that the Meadows has greater resident participation and has run more democratically than a park we are aware of. My wife and I moved into the Meadows in 2009. So we've been there 15 years. We fell in love with it. They had fantastic programs. One of the programs that released it out was Mert, Mettos Emergency Response Team. They had block captains, they had certified training and response teams, everything from Han Hill Radio's to body bags, but it was a sense of security where the whole community was involved. The residents drove these programs. A second program was carrying neighbors and that was teams of volunteers from a wager's church that came in and did repairs to the homes, did pulling weeds, landscaping. I mean, they were amazing. They kept a lot of the seniors who were borderline struggling with trying to keep their homes up. And then the last is the hangar. And the hangar was a group of men that were dedicated to engaging our police and fire recognizing them. I think Sarah Conner members event we had with that recognizing the tribute to our firefighters and police. And also the breakfasts and lunches we had with the police chief and the fire chief And that was something we love to do serving those that serve us the other thing that we we did that we do the memorial day and Veterans Day community ceremonies we've been doing that for years From 2009 to 2009. Thank you. Your time is up. Mayor, can I ask a question here, procedurally? Yes, you may ask the question. I may ask a question. Thank you. I can and I may. Thank you. Is this an organized presentation of five of you? And how many minutes altogether for all five of you? So, oh, you're told. Okay. Mayor if if I might if it's five speakers three minutes, that's 15 minutes, no more than 15 minutes for five speakers altogether. Mayor, you're the presiding officer, you can. I think we can make that exception. Point of order. Yes. I definitely wanna hear what our speakers have to say. We have had many speakers just this year. Also have their time shortened from three to 90 seconds depending on how many people are there. And they also had to quickly pivot and change their presentations. And I just, I guess I'm wondering why this group gets to be the exception. Really, we're dealing with a situation that is very unique here. We have our members of our senior community that have come prepared being told that they would have three minutes and understanding now that due to additional speakers that their time is limited. And so we're limiting it to just the five speakers that have specific items to be read. And if we're limiting it to just these five then it would be okay. Point of order, we have other people in the queue that have other perspectives as well. So will they too be able to have the opportunity for three minutes as well? If we're living in it to just the 14 speakers that are here, I'm open to giving everyone three minutes for the 14 speakers only. I would support that. I think that that's fair. I don't like us putting our thumb on the scale with the public speakers. Agreed. Right? Thank you, Madam Mayor. So we'll add one more minute just for clarification. One more minute for Mr. Glassco. Mr. Glassco and then everyone else and loved it as much as we did. In the last four years we've had two sets of managers that have literally cut out most of what we love in the community. The the MIRP program has been shut down. The caring neighbors has been shut down. The hangar has been shut down and the community. The community is carrying neighbors has been shut down. The hanger has been shut down. Part of the result is our clubhouse is 90% utilized. The MHEOA does events but the community has been flattened out emotionally. That has been and raise and rent, the double the rent for future tenants, affects the marketability of our homes, and the issue that we're changing from what is a low income community to an affordable community. So all these issues raise concerns about where are we going to be, or are we going to be on the street, what's going to happen? Next speaker is Patricia Parker. Thank you. Jamboree thanks to the city of Irvine's original financing to meet federal loan income housing requirements, now owns outright the land, but still has four years left on the covenant that should be covering us. Our homes, anyhow, our homes have allowed jamboree as a nonprofit to successfully expand its mission to provide more low-income housing here in Irvine. Residents both current and past low-income and non-low-income finance our own homes and pay for the privilege to pay homes, pay and place our homes on jamborees and other words, we are long-term, reliable stakeholder renters. We made a large considerable monetary and long-term commitment to purchase our homes. Very recently, much seems to be happening in the Meadows of Irvine that's upending the low-come income affordability and the low-income income affordability. very recently much seems to be happening in the meadows of Vervine that's up ending the low-come income affordability of our senior housing in our old age, destroying our sense of security and our peace of mind, our very way of life. Seemingly out of the blue, Jamboree has raised incoming senior income requirements from low income to moderate income and incoming residence rental rates from 799 a month to $16 to $1800 per month with no discussion or warning to any of us. Current residents who have asked whether we may be subjected to the new increased rent have received no clear response. We seek to understand whether we are, quote, grandfathered into our original contract level of payment. But also we now have to push back on whether these non-transparent changes to the rent will impact the markability of our homes. In the past there was transparency about Newport Pacific's budget at the Meadows and how our rent was used. There no longer is. Any questions or complaints are non-anonymous. We requested an opportunity for an annual survey by Jan Berrie where we can give anonymous feedback because we fear retaliation by new port staff based upon extremely unprofessional interactions that have occurred. Since residents are no longer welcome to drop in to our- Thank you, your time is up. Our next speaker is Mochi Lamb. In the meadows each year we have an inspection of our houses. But this year, in January, we suddenly received a letter from the City of Irvine that they will conduct a health and safety-cold inspection. And this is something very new to us and it's very different from the other inspections. And we had a town hall meeting about 17 or 80 people have attended, but only, but there are 300 people, they do not know anything about it. Unfortunately, there was no detailed written information or even posted or provided to explain what about the inspection. When the inspection began, notices of violation were received by various residents. For example, and people were told that they have to replace the railings on their porches because the balusters were too far apart. And these railings have been installed to code when their buildings, when their houses were built. In 25 years, the new public figures managers have inspect the buildings, but they have never mentioned about these the policy of a too far apart. Inspectors are still going on, and we were giving good, we don't have deadlines for the repair, if they don't get it done, they will be fine. Many people can make the repair, but there are so many more could not afford to make the repair. And they were promised they were financial help, but when they asked for it, it was so exhausted. What is the result since May? And people in the community living in confusion and upset. Some people have been able to pay for their result, for their repairs, for the help of the family and children, but some people have to pay even over $10,000 for their repairs. And all these people, but people cannot afford, they are free. These people, they live in fear every day, how to meet, how to comply with the compliant date. And some of them are afraid, they even be being evicted. And these people, especially for low income when they are invented, they are afraid where they are going to go. Fortunately, last night, until last night we had a association meeting again and the, they were about 85 people attended, the city code enforcement of thank you your time is up. Joe Krueger followed by Mary Joe Golzer. My name is Joe Krueger. I'm a resident of the Meadows for about 20 years. And I've been involved in a lot of activities there, including the community emergency response team that was widely acclaimed, which no longer exists. I'm going to skip some of this and get directed to the point. On September 28th, we had the announcement out of the blue that there was a $44 rent increase thanks to Larry Agrin and his communication abilities that got reduced to $24. In June 2024, along with questions about the inspections that were going around Virginia and I became the recipients of a lot of calls from residents asking questions that we had no idea what they were talking about. Rumors, questions about the change in age requirement, the income, the rental, and so on. The callers thought we would know something about it. We knew nothing about it. It was all rumors. We then put together a survey to try and get a handle on what the questions were. We used the exact questions of our residents. We put out the survey, thinking we would get maybe 20 or 30 responses. We got over 160. Detailed answers to the questions. Most of them pointed directly at the management. Newport Pacific as agents of Jamboree, the fact that we couldn't get communications from Jamboree has created this problem. Most of the questions that came up, were about retaliation and discrimination. The people who were living in abject fear were largely members of our Chinese-American community, who did not speak English as a first language. I'd like to read you a couple of the comments that we got off of this and their heartbreaking, if I can find them here. I've had to cut this down because I didn't realize we were going to be limited like this. I can't find them. The point is, here's one. Many of us moved and here anticipating this would be the last dwelling. Some live to be 100 years old. We chose to live here because we are now low income and are barely able to get by. If our rent is increased to market value, how can we afford it? We need services, not supervision and control. Thank you. Your time is up. Next. Next speaker is Mary Jo. Goalser and if I can also call forward Michael Massey, Don Herkes, Bev McPherson, Susanna Lim, and Dara Ford. Thank you Mayor and City Council members. My name is Mary Jo Gehelser. I currently live in Texas. However, I still have home here in California and I can get back and forth between the two states to visit grandchildren and since 1997 I first learned about the Meadows in Irvine was not just an amphitheater. It was a beautiful 360 person park in Irvine. I went over to see it. It was beautiful and At that time the residents were looking at acquiring the park and looking for vendors to come in and help them with that and on behalf of Newport Pacific Capital, I worked for Newport Pacific and alongside Jamboree Housing. And when I discovered what Jamboree Housing was all about, I thought, where were you when I was still a very young, single mother of two children and needed affordable housing? But I thought their mission was wonderful. So I kind of jumped ship and went to work for Jamboree Housing where I was for 22 years until my recent retirement. So recently, the president of Newt of January called me and said, hi, we're having some issues out of the meadows. Could you come back and help us out? So I've been talking to residents for the last couple of weeks and it seems like communication has not been the best. There it could have been better, but it's still a lovely place to live. And I'm hoping that the people that were involved with the original purchase, whether that was members of the city or other people that are still living at the park, will be involved in the next chapter of the Meadows and Irvine. So as we look forward to what happens in 2028 when your regulatory agreement burns off is to be determined. And there are many opinions as you'll hear tonight. Last night I was at the resident meeting and I had to listen to many opinions about what the proper temperature of the pool should be. So there are many valuable opinions and I hope that as we go down this road figuring out what to do, that you will respect those opinions, listen to those opinions, and also appreciate that we want to contact our many shareholders that will be involved in this process. The city as well, the social service agencies we work with, our own board of directors to make sure that we take the right measures to continue to preserve this and to have affordable housing available to our seniors in Irvine. Thank you. Michael Massey. Good evening, Mayor Con, Vice Mayor Ager, and Council Member, my name is Michael Massey. I'm the Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Jambury. I have a number of prepared things to say, but I'd actually like to get to a couple of things right off the top to make sure that we are speaking in absolute clarity. There are no plans to double the rent for existing residents at the Meadows. There are no plans, or even thoughts or discussions, to change the age restriction requirements. There are no plans to redevelop, sell, or otherwise dispose of park. That I wanna make absolutely clear. Janbary for 35 years has been devoted to the development of affordable housing and the provision of services to transform communities and to transform and improve communities. We've done that throughout the state of California, we have more than 10,000 units of affordable housing which we've developed that we own and operate. For the past 26 years as Mary Jo mentioned we have been responsible, we have owned and been responsible for the operations and oversight of the Meadows. We're extremely proud of our stewardship of this spectacular project as Vice Mayor Agrim very accurately described it. We continue to be proud of our operations throughout those 26 years. We have participated in open, lively, proactive communication with our residents. What we've learned over the past 26 years when dealing with 346 individuals, the best way to do it has been through their representatives to the Mobile Home Park Owners Association and the CAC, the Community Action Committee, which is a fantastic organization with a terrible acronym. But we continue to be very proud of that communication. We've shared some of that recent communication with the council addressing a number of items that have been brought up today, renting increases, the inspections, the future ownership and plans for the park. We're happy to continue to discuss those. I'm here to answer questions. In addition to Mary Jo Gehlser, I'm also joined by our Vice President of Government Relations and a number of other staff members to make sure that we're here to accurately answer all of your questions. So thank you very much for the opportunity. I'm going to go to the meeting. Good evening. My name is Bev McPherson. I am the president of the Meadows homeowners association. I've lived in Irvine since 2017 in the Meadows mobile home park. I was elected by the Meadows residents to serve as the president of the HOA in 2023 and elected again in 2024. These are one year terms. Our HOA is not your typical HOA, whereas we do not own our property, so we rent the spaces we own our homes. But under the HOA, we have the community affairs committee, which was referred to as the CAC, but the HOA itself is a the Community Affairs Committee, which was referred to as the CAC, that the HOA itself is a 501C7, which is a social organization. We have the Community Affairs CAC and serves as a liaison between the residents, the owners Jamboree and our park management, Newport Pacific. The HLA and the CAC meet regularly with Jembery and Property Management to resolve residents' concerns and ensure that our community remains a beautiful, welcoming and enriching environment. Jembery also provides money to the HLA so we can take care of our social events and pays for all the activities and enriching items that we experience. Our hanger is still open. It's open to anyone which is required by the law that all of our rooms be open. So the hanger is still available to everyone, to all residents, including our wonderful men in our community. Murt dispersed itself, and unfortunately I didn't know that was gonna be a topic tonight, but I do have emails from the Murt program that they disbanded themselves. The HOA did not nor the management disband them. Jempery resident services provides a great deal, wonderful programs, we have a wonderful food distribution program that runs really great, and it really enhances provides a great deal, wonderful programs. We have a wonderful food distribution program that runs really great and it really enhances our low-income seniors and they help to navigate Medicare and security and most recently helping with the city inspections. While the HOA and the CAQ are elected community-wide, every community has a diverse range of opinions. The HOA listens to the feedback of the residents and works to better the community for everyone. A newly formed group of seniors for secure housing has started portraying itself to the community and city officials as representative of the meta's residents. Unfortunately and very sadly, the small group has created confusion and stress by sharing incorrect information and co-hersed many vulnerable residents to sign petitions and surveys that they did not understand. One of the incorrect claims is that Jamboree tends to stain the substantially raised a rent sleeve. I already talked about that. So in 2014 to My name is Susanna Lim and I have lived in the medals for the past 13 years. I chose to live in the medals because it is affordable and it is a beautiful community with a lot of diversity and that's what I like about it and the people that are really friendly. After a year, when I moved there, I was on the board as a secretary and I worked with a lot of wonderful people there and I also learned what the image always stands for and what they do for the community. And I really enjoyed that time. And now I'm also on the board again as a director for the two years, on the two year term. And I can tell you that our board has been really hard working. People, we have already a team of really hard working people. And we plan a lot of things for our seniors, especially after COVID, when people were hiding their homes. And they don't come out, but we plan a lot of programs and just brought people out to our events. And the community really loved it. The people really loved our events. And I'm really sad to hear all these rumors going on right now in our community that has led a lot of people to have anxiety and fear. And I just wish people would get together and just be more open and talk about the issue so that we can resolve it. And I, there was a lot of incorrect claims that were passing along, like the rent increase. And for past 12 years, we had been paying only $10 a month, a year increase in our rent. But last year, we had an increase of 3%, which was $24. So all those claims about our rents are going to increase really a lot that is really false. And also a lot of talk about people getting evicted and fine. And yesterday we had a meeting about meeting and Nathan from the city of Irvine came and he assured us that there was nobody evicted and nobody was fine. You know, so I feel that all these rumors are going on. It's just gossiping. Everybody is just telling, you know, they don't know the real information and they just pass along the information. And that is really, really sad, you know, that caused a lot of fear. And I feel that Jambri has been very cooperative with us and with the MHOA and CAC, and that they have committed, that made a commitment to work with us, to resolve issues, but I know it takes time, and everybody wants an answer, but sometimes it takes time to resolve issues, but I know it takes time. And everybody wants an answer, but sometimes it takes time to resolve an issue. So thank you, your time is up. Darra Ford, and if I could also call forward J and Peggy Madrid. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council Members. My name is Dara Ford. I moved to Irvine eight years ago after a painful divorce and was thrilled when I was able to find affordable housing here at the Benos. I've made many friends, I've enjoyed many activities that normally I wouldn't have probably found at other settings. I've become a mermaid, I've learned how to exercise to our beautiful pool, learn to play canasta and Mexican train, and have even come out of my shell a bit to become a director in our as part of our MHA YA Board of Directors Board. And sorry. Anyway, I believe in my community and look forward to many more years there. Thank you. Jay. My name is Jay Chen and I'm 63 years old. I moved into middle about one and a half years ago. I'm kind of new, but I kind of regret I moving too late. I like this place very much. I'm originally from Taiwan. And I've been in Orange County about 26 years. And I joined the N HOA as a director. For the purpose, I wanted to bridge to some Chinese community, it's about, I guess, about 50 residents of Chinese. My experience about the matter is that very quiet, safe and comfortable, relaxed, and very village-like place. And for with family MS field. Very many social friendly activity and neighbors are very close. So besides those HLA managed activity we have neighbor to neighbor like afternoon tea time, love each together and Bible study. It's just great community. And I also am proud to invite my friend, Radar Tepir, and they're all very happy and enjoy, spend time with us. About these recent debating, I feel that all things were good. I believe we should take this opportunity to remind that this is a great place to live for senior. There's wonderful reference for senior of Irvine. To offer a full of housing for the needing one that even that we can live in Irvine. to offer a full of housing for the needing one that even that we can maybe know right. And also I think this is great incentive for the the medal to be better and better under Jimberry housing developer as a good brand for the company. So overall my impression is due to the pandemic three, four years, I think we have some disconnecting. And I'm hoping that I feel that being at the board director, we've been putting effort to get communication more and to bridge the disconnection. So I believe that we will be better and better tomorrow. And also, I think getting old and senior sometimes needs some attention more. It's just a way of communication. So I appreciate all your time to listen to this. And thank you. Peggy Madrid? Do you want to use a microphone or do you want to use this? microphone. Go on. I just need to know where it is. There we go. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. My name is Peggy Madrid. I have lived in the Meadows since 2012 and I joined the MHOA Board as a director in 2014 along with Susanna. And then I started a low vision support group in the Meadows and it's we're now celebrating our 11th anniversary. It is a group that is very necessary and it we do a lot of things for the community not just for the low vision. We have a craft group that we deliver 25 crafts to residents that can't get out of their homes and that started during the pandemic, we had a conference called weekly with our low vision group, because it was very isolating and extremely so for those with low vision. And also, I would like to introduce my partner, Harrison. He knows everybody in the meadows and he loves the word meeting. He knows we're gonna go somewhere. So, and I have been working to help people. That, since I couldn't work anymore because of my vision. So I've been volunteering as a to help the community or my neighbors. And that's what I want to continue to do. And I don't like to have chaos arguing I want everybody to get along. And that's what we do in our low vision group. And we communicate. And it has been a great experience to serve as the executive vice president of the CAC for the past two years. And we have encountered many, many complaints and we've addressed it directly with new poor Pacific and jamboree housing and jamboree housing and new poor are great partners for us. And we get things done and we communicate. The main key is to communicate. And I think things will go much better. And thank you for your time. And that is all the speakers, Mayor. Thank you so much. And I wanna thank everyone that's here tonight because before me, I see two groups that I really have a lot of respect for. One, all our residents at the Meadows, and then second, Jamboree Housing, who has done just an immense job when it comes to affordable housing throughout not just Irvine, but Orange County. But some of the issues that were raised, I wanna make sure that we are resolving them and I want to make sure that everyone's on the same page. So I do have a few questions if I may some for jamboree housing representatives and some for our city staff and I'll work through the city manager. One I just want to know exactly what the regulations are on rent increases and what have they been and what can residents expect in the future if I can have the Thank you, Mayor. Two, there, so we're governed by a regulatory agreement that was imposed by the City of Irvine when we purchased the property. In terms of rent increases, and now there was an additional level of oversight through a bond agreement because we did issue a 501C3 bond when we initially purchased it. We have since refinanced that bond, and so no longer under that bond agreement, the loan agreement under that bond. In terms of rent increases, there is some discussion of it in the regulatory agreement. There seems to be a little bit of differing of a difference of of different opinions on what exactly it means, nonetheless, whatever the interpretation is, we are well, well, well below it and have continued to operate well below the income and rent limits and income limits that are imposed by the regulatory agreement. Over the past 10 years, prior to last year, over the past 10 years, the rent increases have essentially been about 1% per year. We did last year has been noted earlier today, we did increase the rents 3% on existing residents. That was after increases in operating expenses of 10% in 2022 and 12% in 2023. In 2024, we're anticipating the operating expenses to increase about 4.5%. We imagine that the rent increases will be similar to what they were last year somewhere around 3%. One of the regulatory agreement does say, one of the items in the regulatory agreement does say that essentially you cannot increase rents on the qualified spaces by more than it takes to operate the property. We have clearly done that. In fact, the qualified spaces that were required to keep under the regulatory agreement are for very low income and it's 20% of the park. It's 72 spaces. We currently have, by our estimation, very low income residents living in 250 of the spaces and paying an extraordinarily low rent of 799 as was mentioned earlier and then increasing that at 3%. Madam Mayor, I also add the other components I think that we've talked about with Michael and Jamboree, the regulatory agreement is set to expire in about three and a half years. There are existing rent increases as Michael described for current residents. There's a shift though that's underway that jamborees put in place. New residents of the park are paying now roughly $1,600 per month pending on your income levels that compares generally speaking with the very lowest the very low income residents currently in the menas are paying about $800 a month per the regulatory agreement. The rents for the restricted spaces can go up to about $1,800 per month. As would Jambri has told us that they would keep it within those boundaries. So there's two levels of rent adjustments happening, one to current residents. There's a new rent structure being implemented for new residents along the way the regulatory agreement that mandates those affordable covenants they expire in about three and a half years. So if I can have, you might want to just stay down here. So with that information, what are we looking at for rent when it comes to 2028 and beyond? What is it proposing? Our plan right now is to continue to operate the park as we always have, which is essentially under the Safe Harbor requirements that Janbury has as a 501C3 and we don't anticipate changing on the, even the qualified spaces, anything beyond that. We are, at this point, exploring what options are available to us. Again, Gembery is a mission-driven organization. We do have a mission to develop affordable housing and provide services to improve communities. So if we can find a way to improve communities through our operations at the Meadows, we're going to explore that. We're going to begin a process to explore that. We have not, we barely begun that process. We, as I said earlier, Jambri has a pretty good history of communicating pretty openly with residents as disputes arrive, arise. And as we make decisions, when we re-finance and re-develop the community room 10 years ago, we spent the better part of a year engaging with residents and other stakeholders to make sure we were going to change the community room to what was appropriate. It would be hard to imagine for us to make any changes to the enormity that might be contemplated at the metals without engaging not just the residents, but all the stakeholders throughout the community and including the city of Irvine. But what decision, what does happen in three and a half years? The short answer is we do not know other than to continue to operate the property the way we always have. Okay. I'm not a very good time is that. Okay. I mean, thank you. I'm just going to ask one clarification on that point on that rent and I'll come back from other questions. When we talk about the rent, we're talking about the space rent. So residents are purchasing their units and then they're paying rent to have those units in that space. So with, and I'm sure you are aware of the need for affordable housing and the need for senior housing, not only in Irvine but throughout the county and it's immense. And then I'm sure you are aware of the need for affordable housing and the need for senior housing not only in Irvine but throughout the county and it's immense. We can't catch up and we can't provide enough to the people that are here. And so as I'm looking at numbers that are like $800 per rent going to $1,600 per rent, that's doubling the cost of rent, right? But I also understand that you have to maintain and work on that property to make sure that it is suitable for the residents. I'm my only concern is people that have been there are pretty much living on a fixed income. Their income is not increasing. So anytime rents are increased in a drastic manner or beyond their capacity, it would make them nervous. And there is nowhere else for them to go, especially not in Irvine. This is it. And so we want to make sure that whatever is being done is done so that we are able to assure our residents that they can stay there, afford where they are now, without the fear of being outpriced and having to find somewhere else to be, because I can assure you there's nowhere else they can find a space like in the Meadows in Irvine. And that's something that we really want to just solidify here is making sure that everyone understands that we are going to work and do everything that we can with jambore housing to make sure that no one has the spear of not being able to stay there. And I think that's going to be important. I certainly agree with everything that you said, Mayor. Obviously, we do have a responsibility to ensure that we're operating the property responsibly, given that what we've all lived through over the past three and a half years, giving some of the operating increases that we've seen, we have to make sure that we're dealing with that again in a responsible manner. That said, the well-being safety security and lack of anxiety amongst our residents is always at the forefront of the decisions that we'll make. Again, we will not make any decisions at the kind of level that we're talking about without having a long series of engagements and communications with our residents. We want to make sure that they feel safe and secure at home as well. It's, again, it's an important part of our mission. Thank you. Council Member Kim. Thank you. Mr. Massey, sorry. I believe if I understood this correctly the prices are not going up on existing residents correct? That's correct. Okay. Well beyond the sort of inflationary level. Beyond the $10, $20, $30. Okay. So we want to make this very clear because seniors do live on a fixed income and their social security moves with inflation but that's very modest. And there are no increases of $1,600. Like going from the- That's absolutely, absolutely. The renting increases that we're talking about and Mr. Chi referred to will be for new residents coming into the park. Absolutely brand new residents who will know what they're coming into when they purchase a coach. Exactly. And when they decide to enter into this agreement. And so this item was really presented to us as though it's an ongoing conflict, as it says in this item, an ongoing conflict between residents and management. But what I've seen here, and thank you everyone for coming. I'm finished, Mr. Rassy. Thank you. But what it seems to me as though what I've seen here is that it seems like the city council has been pulled into an internal dispute between HOA residents. And we want to make sure the City Council, we want to make sure that all voices are heard and that the City Council should be supportive to all the residents and understand we can provide resources as needed. However, I heard two different groups of residents saying vastly different things. And I want to make sure that when something comes before this council, that we're not getting involved in the inner workings or conflicts within an HOA, because HOA boards are meant to manage their own affairs. And I think supporting the independence of HOA is key to keeping a community healthy. But with that said, obviously with code violations and broader neighborhood impacts, that's absolutely something within the city council purview. But I think it's really important that we make sure that we're not overstepping into matters that risk undermining the structure and the purpose of an HOA. So I want to be very clear of that. But I did hear some of the concerns that Miss Lamb brought up when it came to fixing and updating units. And I understand that when you live in a neighborhood, if there's units that may need repair, and I understand that some of these repairs do cost a lot, and they're very burdensome. And I wanted to find out whether or not maybe our one Irvine program can help some of these residents that may be experiencing difficulties in keeping their structures up to date. Because steps start going bad after a while and rails start going bad after a while. So is there anything that we could do within our existing program to maybe help some of these residents when they need the help to update, to make sure that their units are updated? Because living in a trailer, even a 20-year-old trailer starts, I mean, there's just natural wear and tear, there's weather. Could these people maybe get some assistance with that? Yeah, certainly. As we've gone through the code review process at the Meadows, our team has been working with the residents at the Meadows to identify repairs. Most of the repairs for residents that have been identified are really modest. We've identified that the total repair cost that residents across all of Meadows, the Meadows may have to engage for all of the units. It's somewhere around 100 to $200,000 total. So we certainly could set up a grant program that we could develop for council considerations, similar to what we've done at the groves. The larger repairs that were identified through the review were the responsibility of jamboree. It was totaled a much larger number that would be the management's responsibility for repairing. Okay, thank you. Council member Kim, your time is up? Yeah, thank you. And just one last thought. You know our focus as a city council really should be to empower communities and HOAs to manage their challenges while we offer support that they need to do their jobs effectively. So thank you very much. Okay. I'll go back to some of the questions that I had and ongoing on code enforcement City manager can you clarify You know some people brought up that there were fees if they weren't able to update or meet the requirements of code enforcement Are we able to give some time to folks if we're setting up a grant program like one or vine That their fee they wouldn't be not be charged fees while we're trying to resolve the issue. Certainly the answer is yes to add a little bit more context really this hasn't been a code enforcement review it's been a building review annually the state of California that regulates mobile home parks is required to coordinate a review an assessment of the building structures within a mobile home park and provide to coordinate a review, an assessment of the building structures within a mobile home park and provide updates on what repairs need to happen. An effort to be closer to the situation local jurisdictions can take that responsibility over which Irvine has chosen to do. So our building team and our code team do coordinate inspections of the units and the coaches within mobile home parks in Irvine through an agreement with the state. Ultimately, there's no mandated repairs. We identify issues with each of the coaches. They're not really violations. They're notifications of repairs that should be made in order to keep the standard of living up. What we have done historically is provide grant related programs to help support those repair costs and typically get those costs for the coaches are fairly modest a couple hundred dollars per coach at most. So we certainly as a result of the discussion tonight can bring back an overarching grant program for council consideration. That would be great. And so I just want to assure folks that if you are dealing with the the building review and have received a letter That you know don't worry about not paying those fees at this time as we're working through this process and you know I do want to Comment on the issue of HOAs HOAs are great when they work. They're horrible when they don't work. And there have been many instances throughout our city where HOAs have been not only negligent of serving their communities that they're supposed to be serving, but have become very disruptive to every two people's everyday lives. And so we want to be careful. We want to be the people that get to hear from all sides. That's our job that we listen. And then we try to resolve issues when they come up. We're not going to push them back onto you and say go fix your own problems. We're here to listen and we're here to work together. And like someone said, communication is so key to this. This is a way that we are going to be communicating with one another and resolving issues as they come up. So with that I'll turn it over to Vice Mayor Agrin. Thank you Mayor. And thank you to those who provided comment testimony testimony tonight and I listen carefully to my colleagues as well. I agree in the main with just about everything that my colleagues have said here at the I think that the city does have, I agree with Councilmember Kim, about the importance of us not unduly intruding into a process whereby a community is self-empowered to deal with its problems, its relationships, and so forth. However, as the mayor has said, when there is a breakdown and where we have a stake in it all, as the larger Irvine community, I think there is a role for the city to play here. And that role in my judgment, more or less, is a mediation role. When it comes to the matter of inspections, we do have tools available to us to make sure that inspections and repairs are done in a way that safeguards the community but that the costs can be largely absorbed by the city, at least with respect to the fairly small numbers that were involved here as was indicated by the city manager. I appreciated that Mary Jo was a long time excellent manager of the Meadows Mobile Home Park. Notwithstanding the fact that she's apparently in Texas now that she's back on the scene here, I think ought to be kind of reassuring to everybody. I do think with regard to these relationships and management complaints and the surveys and so forth, and sort of the two or more kind of factions that were in evidence here. The city can play a mediating, monitoring role with regard to that and I think we should. Do you have a problem with that? Mr. Chae? No, no. All right. I'd like that to be kind of one outcome here. Let me tell you the larger economic issues. It's one thing to say, the existing residents, they won't pay but 3% more a year, cost of living increase, whatever the increase is in Social Security or whatever. That's one thing to say that. But when you're going to a two-tier system, this is a radical departure that will have all kinds of ramifications within that park. Again, the people living there who have roughly $800 a month, space rental is one thing, people come in, $1,600, $1,700, that's going to change the character of the park. It has economic impact, too, to those living there now. It affects all kinds of questions of affordability, which as the mayor has said, and we all know, we're struggling with this every day, the affordability of housing. And so just to kind of globally say, what's not gonna affect anybody who lives there now? Of course, people living there now, 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, the majority of them will be dead. And what you'll have is two tiers that kind of becomes one tier at a much, much higher level. The city has, I think, an important stake in all of that as well. So I am hoping that these matters can can be discussed after this meeting that the city will play a constructive role, which I've seen time and again, that it is done, and it can do again here. Vice Mayor, your time is up. Thank you. I'm just about done here. Bringing people together on the management and relationship issues and so forth, but then also beginning to address the economic issues and address those issues in a way that begins to reduce the anxiety so we can achieve a long-term agreement within the park. So mayor, I think there has been a fruitful discussion. As far as I'm concerned, if the matter is referred to our city manager and to the city management team and just with a request that a progress report be presented to us by I would say within the next 60 days or so that would that would be suitable from my point of view. That's your motion. All right we'll make it a motion. All right I'll second that. Thank you. Councillor McKinnell. Thank you. While I do agree with the merits of what the vice mayor is saying and we do want to make sure that we are protecting rents, when we talk about a two-tier system I think want to make sure that we are protecting rents. When we talk about a two-tier system, I think it's really important that we understand any time you have, even any type of structure that has even any type of rent control, as units turn around, you're able to capture rent. And then when you talk about a two tiered system, I mean, that's the natural course in order for a jamboreer and a nonprofit to be able to recover its cost. And you have to also think of the social security benefits are gonna be different as time goes on. So I just wanna point that out. So I just want to point that out. The reason why I'm pointing that out is because I think the, what was just described was inaccurate. I think it is important that we do provide affordable housing, but there has to be an opportunity for Jamboree to be able to meet operational costs as time goes down the line. And so you will naturally end up with perhaps even a multi-tiered system. But that's normal and that's healthy in any type of affordable housing situation. So I just wanted to make note of that because that's the cycle of affordable housing. It doesn't stay one price in perpetuity because it does have to meet with certain economic factors. I just wanted to make that clear. But I absolutely agree with your sentiment and I do and look forward to moving on with this. So thank you. Councillor Omba-Karrel. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, so I just want to do just lend my support. It sounds like a particularly the folks from January are amenable to participating in the residents as well. This is a community that has maybe a little bit more than a neighborhood or village, if you will, sub village. The Meadows has a little more of a special place in the heart of the city of Irvine, given what the vice mayor was talking about historically. I mean, for me personally, and we can put the slide up, I've had experience, I've visited the Meadows, and this is me at the Meadows, with former council member, Quo, delivering masks as some of the people in this, may remember this day, when we had the flatbed trailer come during those dark days of the COVID pandemic and we delivered masks to the residents of Meadows and it was a really enjoyable experience for me and I know my former colleague as well and hopefully the residents as well. So I fully support this and whatever we could do to kind of bring the parties together, I would wholeheartedly support, particularly given that we had this beginning, as I think we kind of spawned Jamboree, too, didn't we? This is sort of a massive, I mean, I have clients that have 10,000 units in the market rate area, and that is a massive, it could be a public real estate rate, it could be a real estate developer, KKR. I did a joint venture with that had 12,000 doors. 10,000 units is not small. So good for you, Jamboree. I believe you got, I think it's called Jamboree based on the street in our town here, which itself is based on the 1853 Boy Scout Jamboree. But we're excited to get the parties together and I look forward to supporting this. Thank you. Thank you about it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Vice Mayor Egrin. Yes. Councilmember Carroll touched on it but I want to as we conclude this item just acknowledge the extraordinary work that Jan Bury has done not just with the city of Irvine, but obviously throughout Orange County and Southern California. How it has grown from a very small start-up nonprofit housing corporation into one of the most remarkable and successful nonprofit housing corporations. I just with 10,000 units it's a behemoth. It's huge and I want to make sure that as I'm sure the leadership at Jamboree wants to make sure that they continue to operate consistent with the mission that they started with and that they've maintained over the years and that they not mimic the for-profit housing providers and trying squeeze every dollar out of something and in the process, change the character of a community in the wrong ways. We don't want that, I think none of us want that. So I'm looking forward to seeing with the adoption of this motion what kind of progress we can make over the course of the next 60 days. Thank you Mayor. Wonderful so we have a motion in the second city clerk please conduct a roll call vote. Councilmember Carroll. Yes Councilmember Kim. Yes. Councilmember Trezeater. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes Miracan. Yes. Carries 5-0. Thank you. Again, thank you everyone. Okay. We will now recess the regular meeting of the City Council and convene to the regular meeting of the City of Irvine as successor agency to the dissolved Irvine redevelopment agency. It is 7.35 p.m. Will the Board Secretary please call the roll. Board Member Carroll. Yes. Board Member Kim. Yes. Board Member Triseter. Yes. Vice Chairman Agrim. Yes. Chairwoman Conn. Yes. At this time we will hear public comments on matters not on the successor agency agenda. Those participating via Zoom may now raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue. Any member of the public may address the successor agency on items within the successor agency subject matter jurisdiction, but which are not listed on the agenda. However, no action may be taken on matters that are not part of the posted agenda. Will the board secretary please provide the number of requests submitted to speak on non-agentized items for successor agency. Thank you, Mayor. We have one request from E-planet I'm still a planet understriker and I just found out what the successor agency is about. And so, you know, I'd understand, but I just, it just seems sketchy that there were no questions. My last public comments to clarify what's going on after the documents I submitted. But I'm saying things intelligently and rationally. I'm first questioning if I have the documents evidence I need or whatever and I go to the police department and say well here chief here is what the criminal violation that the AI body is certain that has already happened if I'm still going to get that kind of a run around. I certainly shouldn't be here talking to you at this point and it's quite clear that a lot of other councils have known. And I guess I need to submit that evidence and testimony or whatever. I am under constant surveillance because of the page that I put. Mayor, I apologize for interrupting Mr. Thunderschreiger. But we're on comments for the successor agency to the former redevelopment agency. Something that's going to accuse the crew of the corporation being here in the first place, right? And that is all mayor. Okay, thank you. Before we proceed, Executive Director Chi, are there any additions or deletions to the agenda? No changes, Madam Mayor. Okay, the successor agency will now consider the consent calendar which consists of item numbers 4.1 and 4.2. Those participating via Zoom may now raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the executive director to be routine and all will be enacted by one roll call vote. There will be no discussion of these items unless members of the successor agency request specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate discussion. Before I turn to my colleagues, we will consider public testimony on items listed on the consent calendar. Mr. Secretary, are there any members of the public wishing to speak? No speakers. Okay. I'll now turn to our board members. Do you wish to remove any items for separate discussion? Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar? So moved. Second. Okay. Mr. Secretary, will you please conduct a roll call vote? Board member Carroll. Yes. Board member Kim. Yes. Board member Kim. Yes. Board member Triseter. Yes. Vice Chairman Agrin. Yes. Chairwoman Conn. Yes. Carries, Vice Hero. Thank you. And we'll now consider successor agency business item number 5.1. Will the board secretary please read the title of the item. Resolution to the countywide oversight board directing dissolution of the successor agency. Those participating we assume may now raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue and will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report. Good evening honorable mayor and council members I'm Josh Brooks deputy director of administrative services and I'm presenting tonight the solution of the successor agency to the former Irvine redevelopment agency. Kind of a celebratory item. And I'll give a little background on how we got here. Back in December of 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling that RDAs could be dissolved. And shortly thereafter, in January of 2012, the City Council of Irvine took on the role of the successor agency and took on the responsibilities of winding down the former redevelopment agency. Fast forward 12 years, or roughly 12 years in the future, till just last June, the city remitted payment of $650,000 to the county of Orange to fulfill the successor agency's final remaining obligation. That put in play what happened in July of 2024, which this body adopted a resolution to request dissolution, and that was submitted to the county oversight board. And two weeks later, the County Oversight Board adopted its own resolution approving the Irvine Successor Agency's request and forwarding that to the Department of Finance. Just last August, or just last month, we've received DOF approval to continue with the dissolution process, which brings us to tonight's recommended action. So tonight's recommended action is to approve and direct the submission of the resolution to the countywide oversight board directing dissolution of the success or agency in related actions. If approved tonight, the resolution will be forwarded to the oversight board for their formal consideration next week. And if they approve next week, which is expected, that final resolution will be sent to the city, the county auditor controller, the state controller and the DOF, at which point, dissolution will be complete. That concludes my presentation, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you. That was quite straightforward. But I will ask my colleagues if they have any questions or comments at this time. Seeing none, we'll move on to public testimony. Mr. Secretary, do we have any speakers on this item? There are no requests to speak. Okay. With that, there is a- is there a motion to be made? I moved dissolving this thing. Second. All right thank you. Mr. Secretary will you please conduct a roll call vote. Board member Carol. Yes. Board member Kim. Yes. Board member Trisheater. Yes. Vice Chairman Aigren. Yes. Chairwoman Kahn. Yes. Carries 5-0. Thank you so much. Is there a motion to adjourn the regular meeting of the city of Irvine a Successor agency to the dissolved Irvine redevelopment agency so moved second. Hey mr. Secretary will you please conduct a roll call vote? Board member Carol. Yes, or remember Kim. Yes, or remember Trisheater. Yes, vice-Chairman Agren. Yes chairwoman Conn. Yes, carries 5 0 Thank you the city council meeting is now reconvened. It. Chairwoman Con. Yes. Carries 5-0. Thank you. The City Council meeting is now reconvened. It is 7.42 p.m. We will now consider public hearing item number 6.1 and I will declare the public hearing opened. Will the City Clerk please read the title of the item? Designation of the City of Irvine Community Facilities District number 2013-3B. Great Park, Improvement Area number 14 and special election regarding levy of a special tax, therefore. Hey, those participating via Zoom who wish to speak on this item may now raise their hand. And will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report? Good evening, Mayor. Members of the council, my name is Dale Blusson, Director of Administrative Services. Tonight I will be presenting CFD Improvement Area 14 for approval for designation and levy of special taxes. So just a little bit of background on January 2023, City Irvine established the Great Park CFD, number 2013, dash 3B, to finance public facilities in and around the area at the request of Heritage Fields. At the time, Improvement Area 12 and 13 was designated and authorized to incur bonded indebtedness tonight. The subject of formation is improvement area 14 at the request of Branca properties, who is the landowner. The subject property is approximately 42 acres. The plan for the area is a 770,000 square feet non-residential office campus development. In July 23rd, it's a, as part of this formation, it's a multi-step process. So on July 23rd, City Council approve first the intention to designate this area and also levy special taxes, as well as the intention to incur bonded debtiness. Also on that date, the public hearing was established for September 10th, which brings us to step two, which is tonight for your consideration at the public hearing for approval of those resolution and also a special election to be conducted. So as part of tonight, Council will have an opportunity to designate improvement area 14. Via resolution, determine the need to incur bonded and deadness as well as to conduct and declare results for the special election. And then we'll have our city clerk be able to read the results for those for that special election and Council will have an opportunity to introduce for adoption the ordinance-loving special taxes for the area which will be the first reading and Then we'd have also a second reading on September 24th We are not issuing bonds at this time then we would have also a second reading on September 24th. We are not issuing bonds at this time. We would return at a later date for this area. We anticipated within a few years to come back to council for that request and issuance at the land owners request. So I just wanted to share with you the subject area improvement area 14 is located in the south eastern portion of the city next to the great park south of the train tracks next to the five and it touches big parkway. Tonight for your consideration, our recommended actions is to conduct public hearing, to approve the designation of improvement area 14, authorize the level of the special taxes, as well as the approving the resolution to determine the necessity to incur bonded deadness and call for a special election and then conduct a special election and announce the results and then for if approved by the voters which we do have one land owner for that vote to declare that results of that special election and then direct the recording of the special tax lien for improvement area 14. There's also the notice of cancellation of the improvement area 13 special tax lien for that area and then as well if approved we introduce for the first reading the ordinance to levee that special tax with the improvement area 14 as well. With that, I'll open it up for any questions. Right, thank you. I'm going to turn it over to my colleagues for any questions or comments. If not, we'll go to public testimony. City clerk, do we have any members of the public wishing to speak on this item? No, Madam Mayor. Okay. Well now that public testimony has concluded, is there a motion to close the public hearing? So moved. Second. Hey, City Clerk, please conduct a roll call vote. Council Member Carroll. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Council Member Traceeater. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes. Mayor Cahn. Yes. Carries 5-0. Okay. We will now proceed with the recommended actions in the order noted by staff. Before I call for a motion, I will ask the city clerk to explain the procedural process for This item. Thank you, Madam Mayor. So the first part of the process includes the city council's consideration of recommended action item numbers 2-4, which are resolutions noted in your staff report and on the agenda. Okay. Thank you, City Clerk. Is there a motion to approve the resolutions listed as recommendation items? Item numbers 2 through 4 in the staff report. I'll make the motion. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Would any council members like to speak to the motion? If not city clerk, please conduct a roll call vote. Council member Carroll. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Council member Trezeater. Yes. Vice Mayor Agrim. Yes. Mayor Conn. Yes. Carries by zero. Thank you. Will you please city clerk proceed with the next step in the process. Thank you Madam Mayor and at this time I'll open the ballot and read aloud the election results from property owner, barank of properties, LLC. All 43 votes were cast in the affirmative. And so the next step in the process would be for you to call for a motion to adopt the resolution declaring the results of the election, which is listed as recommended action item number six. Thank you. Is there a motion to adopt a resolution listed as recommended action item number six? I'll move is there a second second. Okay. City Clerk will you please conduct a roll call vote. Council member Carol. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Council member Traceeater. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigman. Yes. Mayor Conn. Yes. Councilmember Kim. Yes. Councilmember Triseter. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes. Mayor Conn. Yes. Carries 5-0. Okay. And before I call for a motion to introduce for the first reading the ordinance related to improvement area number 14, listed as recommended action item number 7, I would ask that the city clerk read the title of the ordinance into the record. Thank you, Mayor. In ordinance of the City Council of the City of Irvine, California, acting as a legislative body of the City of Irvine Community Facilities District number 2013-3B, Great Park, living special taxes with an improvement area number 14 of the City of Irvine Community Facilities District number 2013-3B, Great Park. Thank you. Is there a motion to introduce for first reading the ordinance listed the . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes, please. Vice Mayor Agrin. Yes. And Mayor Cohn. Yes. Carries 5-0. Thank you. Thank you. Staff as well. We will now consider public hearing item number 6.2 and I will declare the public hearing opened. Will the city clerk please read the title of the item? Zoning ordinance update for broadband batch permit processing under assembly bill 965. Okay. assembly bill 965. Okay and those participating via zoom may now raise their hand electronically to enter the speaker queue and will the appropriate staff please introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report. Yes good evening Mayor and City Council members. My name is Justin Aquina with Community Development and with me we have Alyssa Matthews principal planner with Community Development as well. The item before you is AB 965. It's a broadband batch permit processing and we're updating our zoning ordinance to address this bill so that we can retain local control of how we review and process permits, specifically broadband batch permits. For some background, AB 96, AB 965 was introduced by Assembly Member 1 Curio and it was signed by the Governor, the Effect of January 1st, and it's intended to accelerate broadband batch projects through a streamlined process. It requires local governments to review 250 broadband applications under a single permit and we have to review it under the shot clock process which is between 6.0 to 150 days depending on the project. The caveat to this is that it's only for substantially similar projects. So I did want to add that there is no requirement to update our zoning ordinance but we did want to retain local control. Specifically because the definition in the state's bill does not define substantially similar. Also, batch processing is just an option, but it's not required. On June 6, the Planning Commission did recommend approval of the zone change, and so that is why we are here tonight. The reason why the state was vague on substantially similar was because they didn't provide a clear definition. So one scenario that we could come across is if you look at this photo over here, an applicant can propose a street light where they mount a wireless facility, and while the street lights are similar, the way that they camouflage them very significantly, and without a clear definition, we could come across some misinterpretations, and given that we have an FCC shot clock, that could cause some confusion, especially since we're under that tight time constraint. So in our zoning ordinance update what we've done is we've provided a definition for substantially similar and we've broken it down into components. We've defined substantially similar in terms of equipment which means the same support structure, the number of antennas and same height. And we also have general design, which means that the lease area, square footage, has to be similar, and also the same equipment layout. In addition to providing definitions, we also have a processing procedure where we've actually created a more efficient process so that we could process these wireless facilities in bulk in an efficient manner. That process includes a substantially similar questionnaire so we know upfront whether or not the applicant even qualifies for substantially similar projects. If we know it upfront, we can rule out any projects that don't comply with the bill. And we also require photo simulations for each project so that we can reference each wireless facility or broadband project to make sure that they're similar. And we're also, of course, requiring the radio frequency compliance documentation. And I also wanted to emphasize that the wireless facility, there are existing standards and are zoning ordinance, so that would actually still have to be met in addition to the bulk processing. And in addition to that, we have chapters 2-36 and chapter 3-8 which talk about wireless facilities and zoning ordinance, all the projects that propose to be batched still have to comply with those standards. The approval process will still be the same. That includes small utility facilities and camouflage monitors as well. That concludes my presentation and staff recommends adoption of the ordinance approving the zone change to amend the zoning ordinance to provide the new regulations for assembly bill 965. That concludes my presentation. I'm available for questions. Thank you. Thank you. I'll turn it over to my colleagues for any questions or comments at this time. Seeing none, we'll move on to public testimony. City clerk, are there any members of the public wishing to speak on this item? No, Madam Mayor. Okay. Now that public testimony has concluded, is there a motion to close the public hearing? Second. Okay. City clerk, will you please conduct a roll call vote? Council Member Carroll. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Council member Treceder. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes. Mayor Cahn. Yes. Carries five zero. Okay. Is there a motion for the introduction of the ordinance? I will introduce for first reading and read by title only an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Irvine, California. Approving zone change 0092, 9201-PCC to establish chapters 2-6 broadband batch permit processing in a men chapter 1-2 definitions and chapter 2-37.6, eligible facilities permit of the Irvine zoning ordinance to provide new regulations for broadband batch permit under assembly bill 965, broadband permit efficiency in local government staff solutions best practice Act of 2023, adopted government code section 65964.3 subdivision. I, 2A. Second. Hey, City Clerk, please conduct a roll call vote. Council Member Carroll. Yes. Council Member Kim. Yes. Council Member Trecedor. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes. Mayor Cohn? Yes. Curies, Vice-Zero. Thank you. Right, we will now consider Council Business Item Number 7.1. Will the City Clerk please read the title of the item? Designation of Voting Delegate and Alternates for League of California Cities 2024 Annual Conference. Those participating via Zoom may now raise their hand. The item before us is a request from the City Clerk to select a voting delegate for the annual General Assembly meeting at the upcoming League of California cities, 2024 annual conference in Long Beach. The City Council may also point up to two alternatives, one of whom may vote if the designated voting delegate is unable to serve in that capacity. At this time I will turn to my colleagues to seek their interest and availability in attending. Councillor Member Kim. I plan to be there but if you would like to serve as the voting delegate for the General Assembly, may I meet I'd love to appoint you. No thank you. I've served in that capacity several years and I'm happy to have someone else serve in that capacity now. Councillor Emberkin. Is there of the people that are attending the conference we do need one delegate, a voting delegate there. I will be there if somebody would like to appoint me. I move that we appoint Tammy Kim. Second. All right. City Clerk, can you please connect the roll call vote? I move that we are playing. Tammy Kim. Second. All right. City Clerk, can you please connect the roll call vote? We do have one request to speak. Oh, we do. Sorry. Yes. They just went out of the queue. So no speakers. OK. Council member Carroll. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Council member Trish Heter. Yes. Councillor McKinnon. Councillor Mathews. Vice Mayor Aigman. Mayor Conn. Carries 5-0. Thank you. We'll now consider Councillor business item number 7.2. Will the city clerk please read the title of the item? I'm sorry, 7.2. 7.3. Thank you. the staff report. I'm sorry. Thank you. Modifications to city lobbying ordinance. Those participating be as soon as they raise their hand. Will the appropriate staff introduce themselves and proceed with the staff report? Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council. I'm Jeff Melcheng. I'm the City Attorney. It falls to me to make this presentation. Tonight I'll go through it pretty quickly. I think this is fairly familiar territory for the City Council. As you may recall, in February of 2006, the city put in place its first lobbying ordinance. The lobbying ordinance has been in place since then. It requires registration and disclosure and those disclosures have been made through the City Clerk's Office over the last, I guess that's 18 years now. In September of last year, Council Member Tracita agendas an item to look at considering revisions and potential revisions to the lobbying ordinance. The key things that were to be addressed were to strengthen the ordinance and its enforcement mechanisms to look at how other cities were addressing lobbying issues and to develop a plan for Irvine. And to that end, in November of last year, we came before the City Council with a workshop, and we talked about a palette of options and potential revisions to the lobbying ordinance. Through that process, there were really six categories of revisions that were identified. Those six categories are shown on this slide, but I'm not going to talk about them now, because I've got one slide for each of those categories coming up right now. So it started with broadening the scope of activities that were covered that would constitute lobbying under the lobbying ordinance. The first thing we did is we broadened the definition of city official. It used to have a list of some officials and you know directors, city manager, assistant city manager, of course members of the city council and commissions. We broadened that out to a capture the way the city's commission and committee structure has changed over the years. And also to be just put a catch all in there that said, well, you know, anybody that is making a discretionary decision on behalf of the city of Irvine that's not as part of an administrative process can be lobbied under the ordinance. So that's one change that was made. We also modernized the definition of a contact, the original definition had references to facsimiles and telephone and email. We just added social media platforms and the new ways that people have communicated or those types of communications have developed and evolved since 2006. We also changed the definition of a municipal question. This is very similar to the city official issue. There was a fairly broad definition of municipal question. We brought it even further to make sure that we were capturing anything that was discretionary and of a policy nature. So those were the three sort of ways that we expanded the scope of what gets captured by the ordinance. Second, we talked about lobbyist categories. And when we met in November, we spent a lot of time on lobbyist categories, what it ultimately came down to were really two sets of related changes. One is we expanded what we defined as a lobbyist. We did that in two ways. We had a general requirement for what constitutes a lobbyist, which is somebody who is effectively attempting to influence a discretionary decision of the city. We made sure that we were capturing in-house lobbyists because we were having trouble doing that under the old regime. The idea of an in-house lobbyist existed, but because we had this $10,000 per quarter threshold in the old ordinance, it was very difficult to tease out whether somebody who was working as an employee was getting $10,000 for lobbying or for doing other functions of their job. So we broke that out, made it a different category, and we removed the compensation threshold from that person altogether. I'm gonna come back through the thresholds in a second. And then the last thing we did is we came up with this category, we didn't come up with it. We followed a model that other cities have used of an expenditure lobbyist, which is a different way of trying to influence how a body makes decisions and that's effectively used social media or other types of campaigns to influence public opinion in order to influence a public decision. And so we added this category of expenditure lobbyists. And now let's talk about thresholds. For historically in Irvine, in order to have to, sorry, let me set the table. With thresholds, the key issue is, do I have to report? There are categories of people that lobby and they don't have to report the fact that they lobby to the city. If you exceed one of these thresholds that then triggers the reporting requirements that we're going to talk about in a moment. And I think that's an important thing to capture about this ordinance. This is as good a time as they need to mention this. This ordinance, the lobbying ordinance, it's fundamentally about disclosure. It's about disclosure of who it doesn't prohibit people from lobbying. It requires disclosure of lobbying activities. Okay, so the thresholds. Historically, if you were a paid outside, not in-house lobbyist or for that matter, an in-house lobbyist, and you got $10,000 in any quarter for lobbying on an issue before the city, you had to register. We found that that threshold was much higher than was being used in other jurisdictions and based on input from the council last November, push that number down to $1,000 per calendar month. So the threshold went down and the timeframe went down. As I mentioned, within House lobbyists, we realized that a financial threshold was just unwieldy. And so what we did is we changed it to the number of contacts that an in-house lobbyist has with a public official. It is one contact per public official, per municipal issue. If you go to two to a public official. It is one contact per public official, per municipal issue. If you go to two, to a public official, and you're an in-house lobbyist, you have to register. And then for an expenditure lobbyist, this is expenditures on publications and social media in the various other ways that people try and influence local decision making. The threshold is $5,000 per year in expenditures on those types of efforts. to ensure that we have a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do a good time to do compensation in order to trigger one of those thresholds. You just have to have an entitlement compensation and you can't disguise that by, for example, having a contingent fee arrangement that is based on results. If the contingent fee would exceed the $1,000 per calendar month threshold, even if you haven't received it yet, you still have to register as a lobbyist. So we tried to, that language, in my view, was in the existing ordinance, but we tried to make it more clear so that people couldn't claim that they didn't see it there. We updated the exemption categories, and there are a couple of, I think, important modifications to the exemption categories that I want to touch on, but think, important modifications to the exemption categories that I want to touch on. But the main thing we did with exemption categories, and I believe that this was a suggestion of Vice Mayor Aigren, actually, was we made sure that the exemptions only applied to the extent that the person asserting the exemption was acting in that capacity. What I mean by that is if you were, for example, a public official from another government agency and you came before the city of Irvine to lobby on an issue, you would be exempt, right? But only if you were coming as an official of that other public agency. If you were coming as an outside paid lobbyist, that happened to be a public official from another public agency to lobby before city, the exemption wouldn't apply to you in that circumstance. So we added language to make sure that that limitation was clearer. We also included a couple of exemptions or modified a couple of exemptions to really avoid forcing registration on parties who you know are going to be in touch with the city on specific issues. So for example, if you are a landowner and an app, a land use applicant before the city, of course you're contacting public officials, right? If you're a homeowner's association and there's a project within the boundaries of your H.O.A. Of course you're contacting public officials. That's why what you exist for. If you are a landowner entering into a contract with a city, of course you're contacting public officials. Because you're doing that in your capacity as somebody that needs to come before the city to pursue those types of approvals. And we also made clear, I think this helps. We talked about expenditure lobbyists and the fact that they might use social media in the like in order to influence decision making. But we wanted to make it the flip side of that coin also clear, which is that just using social media posts that are not paid for by expenditure lobbyists, that is that doesn't constitute lobbying. That's just public outreach. Outreach by the public, I think, is a better way to say it. The next thing we did is we modified the reporting requirements. We bolstered them. You can see on the left-hand side the things that we have historically required in lobbyist reports, but we added additional detail because what we found is in some of the lobbyist reports we were receiving there wasn't really enough information to understand who was contacted at what time about what and for what purpose and what was communicated. Which we so to implement that, we now are requiring subject to the council's approval, of course, that the date and time of each lobbying activity be disclosed, that the means and medium, whether it was done by email or in person or some other way of each lobbying activity is disclosed, that campaign contributions and excess of $100 are disclosed and I apologize I can't remember which of the five council members suggested the inclusion. I think it was you council member Carol but I don't want to accuse you of doing something that you didn't do. Or give you credit for something that you didn't do. And then we added a new sets of disclosures for expenditure lobbyists because they spend money in different ways. They spend money in different ways. They spend money on informational campaigns. And then we changed some of the enforcement mechanism. Historically the enforcement mechanism lived more in the city manager's office and there was an interest to move that over to the city attorney's office. I'd love to tell you I'm super excited about that maybe not so much though But understand the council's interest and so we've made those changes If a complaint comes to me through this process it then becomes my responsibility to determine whether to investigate and how to enforce and of course I'd work in tandem with the city manager and the city clerk can doing that This we also created some flexibility in the forms. We realized that over time maybe we could ask a question differently in the form or we could reform at them in a way that would maybe help us get better information or maybe make it easier for the public to report. And so we gave the city clerk the ability to require updates for inaccurate filings and to update the forms. For enforcement tools, there was a lot of discussion in November about all of the various ways that you can enforce an ordinance. And so we sort of unloaded that pallet of ideas. We added the fact that the failure to comply can be a misdemeanor. In response to some public comments that we received and concerned that people were going to find themselves in criminal hot water for inadvertently inviolating the ordinance. We restructured the ordinance to say that that would only happen after the first incident, whether we enforced that by warning or infraction or some other way. We would make sure that we would not begin with a criminal enforcement mechanism if we found somebody out of compliance. We specified that the penalty amount would be an administrative fine of $1,000 and that violations would be deemed a public record. I think that would have been true whether we put it in the ordinance or not, but we want the public to understand that part of this process is to have disclosures and then if somebody fails to comply to make sure that that's included in the public record. And then we also included a section to ensure that anybody that identifies violations of the ordinance and reports it to the city, whether it's a city, typically we're thinking here about a city staff member cannot be retaliated against for doing so. With those, I'm happy to talk about any of the specific revisions, but that is a summary of what was included in the ordinance and I'm happy to take any questions that you may have. Thank you so much and I'll turn it over to my colleagues for any comments or questions. Seeing none, we'll go on to public testimony. City clerk, do we have members of the public wishing to speak on this item? Thank you Madam Mayor. We have four requests to speak. Okay. So that will be three minutes per speaker and I'll turn it over to our city clerk. Thank you. Marify could call forward. Ellen Meierson. Mr. Meierson, you have three minutes. Good evening again, Councilmember Dallin, Mayors, and I hope I'm more clear than it was the first time. I wanted to thank Councilwoman Triseter for bringing this forward. I'm not a big fan of lobbyists at all. I do have a question. There's a situation, and I hope I'm clear with this, that I'm Cretian in who's running for City Council is also the chair of the Sustainability Commission. She's also a lobbyist for a climate action campaign. I'm aware that the city is in the process of putting together an environmental policy. And in that policy there there are gonna be rules that could either be city policies or they can be a secret document. I'm aware that if they become a secret document and there are goals set by the city and the city can't meet those goals, then they'll open themselves up to be sued. Climate action campaign that and Christian is an employee of they sue cities that don't meet their goals under the SQL document. So she's also the chair of the Sustainability Commission gets paid by the city. I have a question about this. This seems like a conflict to me. If she's the chair of the Sustainability Commission and she's pushing for sequel documents, maybe she's actually acting as a lobbyist for climate action campaign when she does that. I know that she is pushing for sequel documents and I know that climate action campaign has sued other cities that have had sequel documents that didn't meet their goals. So I have concerns there and I don't know if these changes address this type of thing. I'm not sure how she can be an employee of the city, the chair of a commission that's coming up with a policy, and also be a lobbyist for a nonprofit that sue cities that when they make these secret documents and don't meet their goals her nonprofit sues those cities. So she's on the city and she's also working for the nonprofit that sue cities that don't meet the secret document goals. I have concerns about that, and I don't know if that should even be allowed. I think she should be forced to actually resign from one or the other. I don't think she can do both. But that's my opinion, and I don't know if these rules change as effective, and if they don't, maybe they should be altered to make sure that that can happen. the city council. I would like to thank the council members for their work. I would like to thank the council members for their work. I would like to thank the council members for their work. I would like to thank the council members for their work. I would like to thank the council members for their work. I would like to thank the council members for their work. I would like to thank the council members for their and Christian, it even goes further. She comes to City Council meetings and talks about in favor of OCPA and electrification and other green scare items on behalf of her lobbying agency. Or maybe it's as an employee, while she's a member of one of these lobbying agencies. So I want to know how the someone like Anne Cration would be treated under the new lobbying roles or someone like AJ Moyand, that was a political party operative, that was also had a commission opposition, or Kevab Azagyan, who was a member of our, Armenian National Committee of America for Orange County, our Garamadenlian, who has had relations with the city, as the head of the Armenian Revolution Federation, Daeshmaks for the Western region. So, you know, there's several characters that the city can look at now and see how its new lobbying rules will treat these individuals. Specifically, I think Anne Cration is top on the list. People we've all seen it. She's even come to meetings, the council meetings and not identify herself as a commission member when she's supposed to by the existing ordinances that Identifiers and employee. So certainly there are examples, living examples right now that are commission members including and Kev Abazazian and Cratian and AJ Moahann was one and then also Gary Medinilian that can be used to test the new lobbying rules, including you can also throw Patrick's Grader in there too, the ceiling required a hand to start reporting. But I think that this should be looked into. Certainly there's been some meddling, the appearance of meddling by certain individuals, including Anne Cratian, Miss Trezger's, our commission member. Thank you. Our next speaker is Doug Elliott. Mr. Elliott, you may unmute your mic. Thank you and good evening. I'm Doug Elliott. I'm a Community Services Commissioner speaking only for myself. Now I'd like to try something different. I don't like to actually talk about the matter before you and not sell personal grudges against individuals. I'm a strong believer in maximum transparency in government and to increase transparency who we need to substantially toughen the lobbying ordinance. This proposal lacks some elements that council member to cedar originally proposed and that I supported. Nonetheless, it's a major improvement on the status quo and I strongly supported. In recent years, Irvine has experienced a stroturf lobbying, in which large groups of people are brought in from out of town, to dominate public comment periods, and support of powerful corporate interests. This demonstrates the importance of regulating expenditure lobbyists who utilize such tactics. It's also important to expand the scope of regulated activities to include all electronic of social media platforms to reduce compensation thresholds and to include success fees and contingencies in the definition of compensation. Enhancing penalties and enforcement will serve the important purpose of encouraging compliance with the ordinance. And along those lines, whistleblower protection is imperative. All of these protections are perfectly reasonable at fair, and none of you should have any problem supporting them. You should be a no-brainer. There should be past five-zero, and those of you who are running this year should be mindful of the fact that voters are watching. Please do the right thing, and pass this important proposal. Thank you. Good evening. Our next speaker is Jeremy. Jeremy, you may unmute your mic. Yes, hi there, Jeremy Ficarola. I'm in strong support of 7.1. It's ordinance against or restricting active lobbyist activities. Again, I want to echo what Doug Elliott said, I think it was well said. And the origin of this discussion came about, you know, in large part through the demonstration of lobbyist Patrick Strader, particularly the live nation amphitheater deal. And I think that was just the most apparent and clear example of just lobbyists really meddling and really just using all the levers of power that they have to influence a huge matter in Irvine. And I want to say, could this councilmember Traceeer for really exposing that and showing just how bad lobbyists can act against the point of the meeting. I think that's the meeting of the city for really exposing that and showing just how bad lobbyists can act against the interests of residents. Second point I like to make. I don't know why there's discussion about So now I'm seeing lines, divisions being drawn and one side trying to harm the other, you know, and I just don't think that that's very helpful. Sadly, I believe Council member Aagren, who I respect greatly, I believe is helping out my carol potentially. I'm just gonna say it, I just think that that's what's happening here. So a lot of his supporters are kind of rallying around or against. I encourage him to help support my carol. But in the end, I just think that 7.1 should be passed and I hope I hope it is. And that is all there. Thank you. Councilmember Trisider. Okay. Thank you very much Member Trisider. Okay. Thank you very much. Yeah, I really appreciate your presentation, Mr. Melching, and all your efforts in putting together this draft. As far as I can remember, you have captured the discussion well, although I don't remember everything. It's been a while. So I'm anxious to hear from my colleagues what they think of it. As the public commenters mentioned, there are a lot of current circumstances, reasons that we should consider updating the law being ordinance. The only question that I have about it is, for the exemption you have the media, and that makes sense, but how do you define the media? We, yeah, bear with me a second, please, I'm sorry. Media under the ordinances, a newspaper, a regularly published periodical, a radio station, a televised, a television station, a wire service, any other bonafide news media that in the ordinary course of business disseminates news, opinions, or paid advertisements that directly or indirectly oppose or promote municipal questions. And I'm not going to read the whole part there. And then it goes on to include an employee of such media outlet or other person engaged in gathering or preparing information for dissemination. Okay, thank you. Thank council member Kim. Yes, thank you. Thank you, council member Traceeter for introducing this. It's been a long time in the making, but I think it is definitely heading in the right direction of what we need to do in order to close a lot of the loopholes without inadvertently capturing people such as HOAs and not. So a great job. I do have a little bit of a concern with the... and I do fully plan to support this. But I do have a little bit of concern. Well, actually I'm very concerned about the media aspect in what we're calling media. So are we looking for credentialed press? You know, like it's funny because some people call themselves media or publication or journalist, but yet they can't enter anywhere because they don't have a press pass. So, are we going to be requiring a press pass from AP, which again, I think, I just want to tighten what we're calling media and journalism. So we- A lot of people think they're journalists. We do not have a press pass requirement. In fact, this isn't really a provision of the ordinance that we changed. It's been this way since 2006. It instead describes by, I hate to use a word to define the same word, but it describes by type of media, whether it's a newspaper or a radio or some, that type of publication. Somebody who is effectively taking an opinion and expressing it to the world, it defines that as media. If the council was inclined to look at something like a press pass requirement or some kind of credential or authorization, in all honesty, I would probably need to go back and do an assessment. And I could do that between a first and a second reading, but do an assessment to ascertain whether that would implicate first amendment rights in terms of sort of putting upon people who were attempting to express the right to a free press a a lobbying ordinance set of regulations and whether that would be viewed as something that would impinge upon their free speech rights Which is why I suspect the media exception was put in there in the first place But again, I'm and I apologize Councilmember Kim I We absolutely can put that requirement in, but I just wanted to sort of flag that I would need to go and make sure that in the end we'd be able to enforce something like that. Yeah, my intention with that question was not to stop this in any way. I do want to move forward. But in the meantime, if we could see what we can do, if the maker is amenable to just exploring what we could do to sort of tighten that up. Because again, a lot of people, these days call themselves journalists, or they call themselves media, and they're really not. So thank you, but I love this, so thank you. Council member Carroll. Great, thank you mayor. Yeah, I too actually really want to appreciate and thank staff for all the work that's been done with regard to this. I know it's been a long time in the making and it does appear like people have different perspectives or where things are coming from. And for me, I just the one thing that I think needs to link up is if someone's a lobbyist whether they can also act in the role as a public official, as a sworn public official for the city of Irvine. And that I think is something that I mean, I could be very transparent as I'm trying to be. And I've had conversations with our city attorney about that numerous times. And I think there's an intersection of play. And I don't know if my five minutes I'd like to give you the floor if you could maybe summarize what we've talked about. Because there seems to be interplay between a measure past that prohibits People from serving as council members and commissioners and public servants of the city of Irvine While being a lobbyist, but also It's okay if you're lobbying the city of Irvine So could you just spend a minute on that because it there seems like an inconsistency? The good news is we have a council member that was here when this thing was passed and may have proposed it. So I'd ask also Vice Mayor Agerna, maybe what was the intent here, but if you don't mind. Certainly. I guess the thing to begin with is something I said when I was making the presentation. The lobbyist ordinance, the one that's before you right now, is fundamentally about disclosure. It's a disclosure ordinance. It doesn't forbid anybody from lobbying. It doesn't say that if anybody lobbies that they can't serve in some other capacity, it only requires that if they go over certain thresholds in terms of compensation or activity that they have to register. The portions of the municipal code that deal with prohibitions against lobbyists as opposed to disclosures related to lobbyists, those are found in really twin ordinances in our municipal code in chapter, sorry, Title I, Division 6, we have what was called the Code of Ethics. And that was adopted by City Council Ordnance in 2006, right around the same time as a lobbyist ordinance was adopted. In fact, I hadn't gone to check and see if it was the same night or not. And then two years later, in 2008, we put together Division IX, which is called the Ethical Public Service Orddinance. So we have the Ethics Ordinance and the Ethical Public Service Ordinance. And the Division IX ordinance was adopted in 2008 by initiative. It went out to the people and the people voted for it. And both of those ordinances say the same thing about the prohibition against lobbying. They have a broad prohibition against lobbying. And I'll just read it because the words really speak for themselves. Because of their uniquely important visible and elevated status and responsibilities, those elected officials, the mayor and members of the city council and by extension their executive assistance shall not engage in compensated employment or service for the purpose of lobbying for any private person or organization before any local agency, county, city, or special district located in the county of Orange. That's in division one-six. That seems like a very broad and clear statement. And Jeff, it's my question, so you can address me. So that's the word. I apologize because the word any uses the word any public agency in Orange County. That's right. That's right. So I talk about the definition. So then, then it goes on to say, but the definition of lobbying means any oral or written communication, including electronic communication, to an official of a local agency other than the city, made directly or indirectly, and then it goes on. So as it turns out, the first statement says, you can't lobby before any public agency in the county. And the second statement says, it says, but the term lobbying doesn't include those types of communications in the city of Irvine. And so the way I read this, and I think it's the right way to read this, is neither the lobbying, neither Division 6, nor Division 9 prohibit somebody from lobbying in the city of Irvine? Therefore, what we passed tonight will not present without a change which I'm about to make. A proposed rather, I should say, apologize. Is a lobbyist can be a public official of Irvine, who's lobbying the city of Irvine as it stands. Yes. OK, so I would like to make a motion as we stand. Yes. Okay, so I would like to make a motion to accept staff's recommendation and Jeff, you'd have to help me because it would be to incorporate the ethics ordinance such that a public official, a council member, commissioner, committee member cannot also be a lobbyist and serve at the same time if someone would second that. Can you read the ordinance? Or do I have to read ordinance? If you want mayor I'll do the whole thing. Because I think I've got what council member Carol's going for. I almost have it. But my time is up. I have to ask the indulgence of the mael. So this would be introduced for first reading and read by title only an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Irvine, California, amending title one of Division 7 of the City of Irvine Municipal Code relating to lobbying with the following modification. And that modification would be a new section 2 to the ordinance, which would require the renumbering of all the sub-sconceptions that would read as follows. Section 1-6-104 of Division 6 of Title 1 of the Urban Municipal Code is amended and replaced to read in its entirety as follows. And this is going to go on for a little bit because the section has a lot of words in it, but I'm going to give them to you and then highlight the words that have changed. A, incompatible employment or service. Because of their uniquely important visible and elevated status and responsibilities as elected officials, the mayor and members of the city council, and by extension their executive assistance, these are the new words, and committee and commission appointees. Then it continues, comma, shall not engage in compensated employment or service for the purpose of lobbying for any private person or organization before any local agency, county, city, or special district located in the county of Orange. Subparagraph 1. This paragraph A shall not be applicable to lobbying as an in-house employee on behalf of his or her employer as opposed to a client of the employer. That subparagraph would be deleted. Subparagraph two, the purposes for purposes of this paragraph A, lobbying shall mean any oral or written communication including an electronic communication to an official of a local agency, and then the words other than the city would be deleted, made directly or indirectly in an effort to influence or persuade the official to favor or oppose, recommend or not recommend, vote for or against or take a refrain from taking action on any public policy issue of a discretionary nature pending before the official's agency, including but not limited to proposed action or proposals for action in the form of ordinances, resolutions, motions, recommendations, reports, regulations, policies, nominations, appointments, sanctions, and bids, including the adoption of specifications, awards, grants, or contracts. Subparagraph 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, this paragraph A shall not become effective until January 1st, 2007. And then sub-paragraph B where at the end, interests in city contracts, city officials and employees shall not have personal investment or monetary interest in any contract made by the city except contracts relating to the performance of their official city duties. And that would be all. I'll second. Council Member Carroll, your time is up. So we have a motion in a second, and I'll turn it over to Council Member Kim. To the motion, just so I understand this. This is for elected officials, do we just say? And they're appointed commissioners and committee members. Don't we already have that like measure M or measure L? Measure H applies to elected officials and their committee members, sorry, commissioners, but not committee members. And to council executive assistance. Through the chair, may I, Mayor. Yes, the chair. Council member, through the chair, we're in a very weird world where if we pass this tonight as proposed, not not anyone's particular fault at all. The way that that works council member is that you could be a lobbyist for the city of Irvine and still serve as a council member or a commissioner or committee member. Jeff, can you confirm that? Yes, under our absent, absent my motion. That's correct. Okay, so you could be a lobbyist as defined for the city of Irvine and serve as a commissioner at the same time if we don't make this change. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Just one more time. Okay. I guess, but we already have, it's called Measure M, correct? Is that what it is? It's an existing ordinance that we already have that addresses this, my understanding. So I'm trying, you have me hung up on the measure letter and so I'm trying to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to get the committee to be able to missioners was measure H. Is it H? Okay. So we already have that. We do. Okay. So again, I'm not like trying to be redundant here, but if we already have what's called measure H, then that's measure H, right? It is. So how does this differ than what we already have on the books? In three respects it differs. First, it turns out that there's a small difference between the city's ethics ordinance and its ethical public service ordinance. So measure age already applies to council members and commissioners and council executive assistance. But the ordinance adopted by the city in 2006, not the initiative, it applies to council members and council executive assistance but says nothing about applying to commissioners. So council member Carol's measure, the first thing it would do is it would extend those requirements to commissioners and to committee members. That's the first thing. The second thing it would do is there is a provision there that exempts in-house lobbyists from these requirements. And Council Member Carol's motion would include in-house lobbyists in these prohibitions. And the third thing it would do is the ordinance, as it's written today, for bids, elected officials and CEAs from acting as lobbyists before any agency in this county of orange other than the City of Irvine. So you can be an elected official or a C.E.A. and lobby the City of Irvine under these ordinances. And this motion would take that away. It would say you cannot be a council member or a CEA and with these other modifications or a commissioner or a committee member and also lobby the city of Irvine. Thank you. Council member procedure. Thank you very much. I'm glad that my colleagues are, seems like generally supportive of this draft. That's wonderful. And respects to the amendments suggested by Council Member Carol. I have no problem with that whatsoever. It all sounds good. I do have to say, it does give the appearance that Councilmember Carol is using his position to attack commissioner Ion Cration. She is his opponent for the council race and I'm guessing he's trying to get her kicked off the sustainability commission. I don't really know, but it gives the appearance of that. But the reason that I don't mind and I support this change is because I fully expect that this will not be an issue soon because commission irrigation will be on the council. Thank you. All right, with that, we have a motion in a second. City clerk please conduct a roll-called vote. Council member Carroll. Yes. Council member Kim. Yes. Council member Trezeater. Yes. Vice Mayor Aigren. Yes. Mayor Collin. Yes. Currie's 50. Thank you. I wanted to adjourn this meeting in memory of one of our cherished long-time patrons of senior services and an adier dear friend of mine, Ms. Clotilda West. Clotilda was a vibrant member of our community who touched many lives through her active participation in various programs including outreach care management services, meals on wheels, recreation classes at Tribuko Center, and our KCSR transportation program. She also regularly rode with the trips program and her presence will be dearly missed. Clotilda held a special place in my heart and I had the privilege of honoring her on her birthdays and visiting her at her home. These moments were deeply meaningful to both of us and I was always moved by her warmth and gratitude. Clotilda's passing was unexpected and at 84 years old she left us too soon. Her friendship and the joy she brought to those around her are irreplaceable. Our hearts go out to her family and all who knew her during this typical time. And I do want to share that just last year she was so excited because she renewed her nursing license and was just so happy about the accomplishment of taking that test and passing it, even though she didn't have any intentions of serving, but that was a great accomplishment for her. And as we adjourned today's meeting, let us remember Clotilda West and the impact she made on our community and definitely me personally. Having completed the agenda, is there a motion to adjourn the city council meeting in memory of Clotilde West So moved second. Thank you city clerk. Please conduct your roll couple council member Carol. Yes, council member Kim. Yes, council member Trezeater. Yes vice mayor Agrin Yes, Mayor Conn. Yes carries five zero. Thank you meeting is adjourned