live. Welcome everyone to the April 16th, 2025 meeting of the Pasadena City Council together with our Los Angeles County Supervisor Catherine Barger. I'd like to welcome everyone on behalf of the City Council in the city and thank our respective teams at the county and the city for all of their good work in coordination, not just in this time of emergency during the fires, but on a day to day basis we coordinate our work on behalf of our respective constituents. So thank you, supervisor Parker, would you like to make an opening statement? Yeah, I just want to thank you all for doing this. I know it's unusual on a work day in the morning to do this, but I want to thank you and I also want to thank you for your partnership. During the fires, people didn't really understand the depth to which we all were collaborating and working together because Pasadena and Alton were both impacted and so I just want to publicly thank you and your staff for the incredible partnership and we've got a lot of work to do no question about it but I'm confident that given the communication that we have we're gonna get it done and so I want to thank the Mayor and the City Council. And I know Councilman Cole, you were at several of the meetings on behalf of the residents of Alpdena as well. And you saw firsthand the devastation as it relates to the lives and all. And so I just want to thank you all for everything you're doing. I look forward to working with you. Thank you. We neglected to call the role, so we should call the role and do the pledge of allegiance. Thank you, Mayor. Council Member Cole. Present. Council Member Hampton is absent. Council Member Jones is absent. Council Member Lyon. Here. Council Member Madison. Here. Council Member Macydda. Here. Vice Mayor Revis. Mayor Gordell. Here, there's a quorum of the council president. Okay, supervisor, will you lead us into the pledge allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay, so we'll just jump right into our agenda, starting with item two status status update regarding decordinated efforts with Los Angeles County on the Eaton Fire Recovery. Thank you, Mayor. I can make that report on behalf of City staff. And one first one echo the comments, a supervisor barger just made about partnership. It truly is about partnership and progress. And our partnership with the county was tremendous and I think there's a power point up if they can get that up. I'll make my remarks as they pull that up. It was remarkable. But it went beyond the county. We all partnered with- Sorry, we're missing your power point. We can grab that for you. Yeah, I think, let's see if somebody has it miss procopy You should have it. I've only or my assistant Sorry didn't mean it or no no problem, but you know the partnership when you look at an emergency There's a structure in place and that structure starts with the federal government in FEMA it goes down to the the state level with the state office of emergency services. It goes down to the county level with your own, I forget if you call it the office of emergency services. OEM and then we have our own city emergency operations center. And throughout the emergency, we try to handle things as a city and we do the best we can. And when find ourselves in a situation where we, it goes beyond our capacity to address an issue, the proper structures to go up to the county and ask the county can you help. And if they try to help and if they can't, they say to the state can you help and if they can't they go to the federal government. That's how the structure works. So on countless occasions throughout this emergency, we were in close contact, very close contact with the county, county actors would come to our EOC, would make sure that everything was okay that we had all the support that we need. I have a PowerPoint that talks about the various ways. Let me even before I get to the PowerPoint just go over some of the things that that we did. The fire itself started right around 615. And by 8 o'clock, we had decided we're going to open up an evacuation center at the Pasadena Convention Center. We called Mike Ross, who heads up the PCOC. It's a municipal-owned convention center, which made it much easier to get moving by 810. He was there and unlocked the doors, and we started evacuating people. That's truly amazing. You might have seen some pictures in the New York Times, officers carrying people out from care facilities, very fragile people. We had the house, I think, less than 24 hours we had about almost 1,200 people in an evacuation center. But we had many who needed extremely difficult to provide care, especially in a shelter setting. And that's when I think supervisor Barger you stepped in and you saw that with your own eyes. And the county came through and came over and you saw ambulance after ambulance, picking people up, taking them to other care facilities so they can get the care they needed. It was an incredible partnership, all done in the span of 24 to 48 hours. It's not just there, we also worked closely with the county and the federal government and the state to find a disaster recovery center. I don't remember how long it took us to stand it up, but it was not that long. And our great partners at the Pasadena Community College district went and offered us the site they have on foot hill. I think within 48 hours, we got the OK to use that site. We had that site set up with any number of providers and non-profit state, local government. Everybody was there to help. When we had problems with our water, we had water distribution sites. And when we needed the water itself, who did we rely on? We had some for ourselves, we had some partners in the private sector. Now here we got one with some notes, so please forgive that, but let's see. I wanted to add one slide, as you can see that lists all the task forces by name, So if that's the first slide, see if you can find the slide with task forces. And sorry we're sort of having these technical difficulties. All right, we'll take a take two on that. Not a problem. We could if we can use that there because I have it here in part copy The trial lawyers Senator commissary Yeah, there was that on Amazon Amazon Prime Jerry duty I kind of feel like that lawyer in that That's okay anyhow, well, maybe I'll just make my this oral report, but the county took the lead because there were so many pieces still left on response, still left on recovery. They created, you know, I don't have to listen in front of me, 15 task forces that are led by the county. That include not just the county, but the state. All of the cities include City of Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Santa Monica, Malibu, leading that effort. And one of the key things the county really helped us with is looking, having their engineers look at the mud flow debris. And what would happen when it rained? And they gave us the maps, they told us where they thought the much load would be happening we were able to get K rails partly from us partly from them and we were able to protect more homes the rain that first to the fire and after the foot out that significant amount of rain and we did see but it happened exactly where they told us that would and that's why we were prepared. We've been able to. One last piece of what I would add is, you know, what we did at the Rose Bowl because that was truly remarkable. That was incredibly important. I think within an hour of everything breaking I called the head of the Rose Bowl to say, we need more space. Can we possibly use the Rose Bowl? He said, they've already been in touch with me. You're too late. We've already decided whatever you needed, don't you think? And guess what? 24 hours later, we had thousands of firefighters and among them, among the number of county and firefighters who were a big part of the land and also whose helicopters, whose other, you know, they have second and none air support on fires. It was unfortunate when the fire started that the winds were just too too difficult to manage for air support but as soon as the winds calm down it's the county air support team that came in and really made a big difference so So, you know, I just want to explain the city, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, how much we're doing, including heading up our coordinated efforts with the federal government to do the phase one and phase two cleanup. It's going extraordinarily well. I predict it's going to be one of the fastest clean-ups of an urban wildfire we've seen yet. And I think all that's testament to the good partnership and progress we're seeing with the county of Los Angeles. So with that, I guess we'll skip the more. We've come to that conclusion, but thank you so much and happy to answer any questions anyone may have. Yeah, and I'll be honest we could not have done it without you all. I mean the convention center, I think the time the convention center, which I know was a challenge given that there were things that were the rose bowl. You're absolutely right. I mean this was, curculean in terms of what happened So, if none of this would have happened, we hadn't had the support of the city of Pasadena. And I don't take that lightly, and I don't take it for granted. So, thank you. I heard from Cal Fire and Army Corps of Engineers and County Fire and our own firefighters and Pasadena, precisely that, without the Rose Bowl facility, it would have been a very different response. The fact that we had the facility made it available, made it possible to stage response equipment, personnel, all in one place, and be able to consolidate and direct from that location. Otherwise, it would have been a very dispersed response. They were explained to me. Some of us might be at the Vans or Ralphs, I should say. Some of us might be at the Vans or Ralphs, I should say. Some of us might be at the Norton Simon's, some might be at Parsons. Without the facility, they would have been all over the places to point. And so it really, really made a difference. And one of the reasons, you know, we've always said the Rose Bowl is an economic engine, but it's also a tremendous asset. And we should keep that in mind to an asset for public services. Oh, my, I'll go for my, the PowerPoint I presented. I mean, I can run real, it's five slides and I be a bit, but it'll at least show, I want to show the breadth of the collaboration. So if we can go to the next slide or maybe I even have the power here, let's see. Yeah, so you can see right after the fires we collaborate. And one thing I want to make a point, I'm talking here about the partnership both with the county and the structure with all of the other levels of government. But it was more than that. It was far more than that. We had our non-profits partnered with us, the private sector. I mean, some people that really stepped up the Langham Hotel, Bed Bath and Beyond, so many in the private sector, it's a non-profit, but Kaiser really stepped up and held. I mean, it goes on and on. So it's when I start naming people I don't mean to leave others off. Of course. But I think the one the biggest challenge we had frankly one of the biggest challenges from a management perspective was just managing everyone who wanted to help because it was overwhelming and that shows who we are. So you can see working with the county we were able to maintain the shelter open and eventually transition over to the American Red Cross, another great partner. We had partnered in the Family Assistance Center, which I think many people received a lot of relief at the Family Assistance Center, and that's separate, and you know, it had been part of, but it was separate from the broader disaster recovery center that we put up at PCC that I talked about earlier. Talked a little bit about water distribution, but we also partnered when we needed PPE. As people wanted to go home and they needed masks and other gloves and everything else to clean their homes and to do the work, we partnered with the county and got PPE, personal protective equipment. And then when the rain started coming, we needed immediately to get sandbags and sand. And so we partnered with the county in distributing sandbags and the sand that helped people keep their homes safe. So here's where we talk about the different task forces that are led by the county and it covered subjects from debris removal to cultural and recreation spaces. We really had that kind of a disaster where we have to build some things from the ground up. And through these spaces, we were able to be in partnership in all areas of recovery. And let's see if my wish came true. And we have a slide of all the different task forces or the ones that, yeah, here they are. So I'm not gonna read over them, but you can see the breadth of, these are just some of them. And we meet, I think at first it was daily. And then we were able to move to maybe twice a week and then once a week. read over them but you can see the breadth of these are just some of them and we meet I think at first it was daily and Then we were able to move to maybe twice a week and then once a week and I think that's about the current cadence is about once a week But these are all county led recovery task forces We we ourselves have an additional meeting in the city where we we once a week I think we're down to now once every other week We report out of what we learned on all the task forces so that we as a city can make sure that we're being responsive and good team members on these task forces. And then we'll go to the last slide if there is one. Yeah, so you can see some of the most notable things. I talked about the data-driven mud and debris flow maps that we got from the county that really helped us out and it's kept us safe. We established a joint information recovery task force so that we could have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. We have a lot of information that we have. care about that. Residents just need help. They need help from their government. And it's incumbent upon us to have seamless partnerships to give them one message and one sense of support. And then finally the disaster recovery center that's helped our residents get all the information they need and get resources in person with translation services to really help them get back on their feet. So with that again, thank you. Sorry for the glitch here. Just a final slide that talks about the value of these task forces in the partnership. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Mr. Cole, you're in the queue. Thank you, Mayor and Supervisor. First of all, I want to say Supervisorger, that it is amazing given what's on your plate as Chair of the Board of Supervisors, which is going through a major reorganization over the next several years. You have two million constituents and the 40,000 people in Altenina have been seeing you almost on a daily basis. And that's really quite remarkable, your personal commitment to this effort and thank you again for being here. We continue to have this tremendous need to put aside the traditional tensions that exist between local governments, right, between school districts and cities, between cities and counties, and it's certainly not confined to Los Angeles County. It's hard for us all to be on the same page. They're political differences, they're demographic differences, etc. But we really cannot afford not to work closely together, and you have modeled that in the face of this disaster. We've got some shared challenges. Moving the trucks through our community continues to be a challenge because the trucks want to go where it's quickest, which is not necessarily the best way for us to expedite this major cleanup effort. The county's been leading on soil testing, and that is valuable, and we need to collaborate and coordinate because our residents are immediately downwind and feeling the anxiety. The county led on eviction protections, and I know you abstained on that vote because you wanted to see that landlords were not short-changed, and that residents didn't end up getting evicted because they'd pile up big debts. I can tell you, our council unanimously on Monday at my colleagues are urging to my left. Included funds for landlords that were trying to set up through a cooperative nonprofit agreements to make sure that everybody gets protected and that we come through this. So there's some great opportunities in the immediate time to work together, but then we look ahead. My colleague across the way who's not here today, who works for the county, as you know, has raised the whole issue of these mutual water companies. We serve Althadena customers, and we want to collaborate with you and county public works to see that water, safe waters restored to these Althadena neighborhoods and however that sorts out, I think we want to be partners in doing that and of course there's a much larger water challenges facing Southern California where we are partners in the MET and some huge decisions, very expensive decisions coming up and a need to work together, transportation on you serve on the Metro Board. And then one of the most significant, of course, is this huge upheaval with LASA. We have our own continuum of care, so we are not part of LASA, but the impact of what happens at the county level, I know you who said to me that now that the county is taking on this responsibility, it will be up to you and particularly on mental health, our mayor has been outspoken as you know, you've been working with him for a long time on this issue. We really need to make progress on that front. So we really can't afford to be divided and that doesn't count the potential of other disasters ahead. You know as I watched these huge fires I thought about what happens if we have an earthquake. And finally of course on our agenda today is the Olympics and World Cup and we're part of that and etc. So we really have to be shoulder to shoulder over these next several years and so we look forward to working with you for the remainder of your term. I know you will give it your all until the last day that's the way you've always been. So on the traffic I know we've received complaints up in Alpina as well about even the speed the tracks trucks are going. So I'm going to follow up with the major general and with the colonel because that's an issue because I drive where the route is and I see it literally trucks coming and going. So I am very cognizant of that and we'll follow up on that. And then on the water issues, we're working with the state. So I don't know who is the lead in the pasting that's working on that because I will bring you into the discussions we're having with the state because the state is driving that. Okay, the state is driving consolidation and in part because we're going to have to infrastructure rebuild and not any one of those water districts has the ability to pay for what's going to be needed. So even in the requests that we submitted to the governor who then submitted to the federal government was money for infrastructure rebuild of all three water districts and that's going to require consolidation. So I will definitely keep you all in the loop on that. But that's another example where it's not just the county work, it's county state and then we're going to work with the federal government on that issue and hopefully get it done. Thank you. We do have one public comment card on this matter. Yadi. You're welcome. Hello, Supervisor Parker. I live close to Eaton Canyon. Immediately after the fire, I asked Pasadena to establish a task force to discuss the Eaton Fire response and what we could do moving forward. The fire has had a significant impact on the quality of our life. To me, Eaton Canyon itself is one of the greatest assets that we have. I don't need to go into all the factors that we've been facing as you're probably aware of them. But a glaring omission is Pasadena collaborating with the residents on discussing what happened and what can be done differently. Over a month ago, it's been over a month that I've asked the city for records relating to the fire. And they've gone unanswered and just so you know. Most of the time I asked the city for records, it's from the Pasadena Police Department and I have never been denied a record request submitting to the police department. Last fall, I asked for a cert training. I asked the city to urge the state to investigate the insurance cancellations. I also supported the city's efforts in asking Congress, Congresswoman Judy Chu's efforts to get more funding for Eaton Canyon. I've done my part. I hope that the city does theirs. Recently, as you're aware, the state fire marshal issued an updated fire hazard map. Pasadena has not notified the residents. Pasadena has not made it available for residents to give input and they are supposed to be doing an ordinance. The county has contracted with a consultant for listening sessions. I would like information so that I can give feedback to the county and all levels of government of what can be done better. We deserve that and so I ask you if you will collaborate with the people of Pasadena to improve the quality of our life to restore the quality of our life and get answers for us. Thank you. That completes public comment on this item. Okay. We'll move on to item two. Item three. I'm sorry, I thank you. Item three. Status update on city and county collaboration efforts related to the proposed mixed use development of the Kaiser property. Thank you, Mayor. Director of Economic Development, David Clue will make this presentation. Thank you for having me here this morning and I'm going to talk a little bit about the update on the property known as the Kaiser site at North Lake Envilla about where the city has been and where it's going and proposed recommendations for next steps. The property is located at the southeast corner of the North Lake Avenue in Bilestreet. It consists of vacant one-story medical office buildings on a combined area of about 2.38 acres on the site. The reason for the acquisition, the city purchased it was to provide affordable housing and mental health outpatient services within a community focused mixed use transit oriented development. This property is subject to the States for Plus Lands Act and it requires the dispossessant, it requires the agencies when disposing of it to engage in a process for the disposition. Looking back at some of the key timeline of events, November of 2023 the city took formal ownership of the property. In March of 2004 the city issued an RFI to gauge the interest of the development community for this site and we did receive about 12 or 13 proposals from the development community. In July of 24, the City Council passed a resolution declaring the property S or plus land. And following a few weeks later, the staff issued a notice of availability, and that was released to the housing developers in accordance with the SLA. There were about 167 developers who received that notice and who had the opportunity to present a development project on this site. In September of 24, once the NOA was issued, there's a 60-day period for developers to let the city know that they're interested and to submit a proposal on this site. The next day, there's part of the SLA, a 90 day, no less than 90 days, period of good faith negotiation begins. So during that time, staff is to engage with developers and look at the proposals and engage in good faith negotiations with the developers. We went to City Council and adopted them and provided an update to the City Council in December of 24. Staff was directed to hold a community meeting on March 27th and we did that at the North Lake Avenue Church on March 27th. We had about 150 people attend. It was a very good robust discussion. We broke into tables, folks from all over the community came and spoke and offered their ideas of what they wanted to see at the meeting. And I know the mayor and vice mayor were there and attended and the city manager was there. We had staff from the planning commission, from the housing department, staff from my office was on hand. And if the mayor or vice mayor wanna add? Other than to say it was a very, very well attended meeting. People expressed quite a bit of enthusiasm to see something moving forward. I think the list of things that they'd like to see at the site are consistent with what this council and the Board of Supervisors and our Supervisor have said we want to see. And so it was reaffirming, it was energetic, and a broad array of people from throughout this community. And so congratulations to staff for putting together a great meeting. Miss Revis? Yes, thank you, Mayor and thank you, David. Just to reiterate, thank you to staff. It was extremely well attended, well organized, allowed us to hear what residents think. And we got a very, I thought, a very loud and clear message. Folks recognize we are in a housing affordability and shortage, housing shortage crisis, housing affordability crisis. And they want more housing for everyone. They want more housing for low-income folks, for working folks, through workforce housing, for seniors, and market rate as well. And so we want housing for everyone at all levels. And so I was really hearted to hear this because that's always been my hope for the site. I know that's been the hope of the council and the supervisor. And certainly one of my goals more broadly as a council member to focus on on bringing more housing to everyone. So just very grateful to staff for allowing us to hear loud and clear from residents that they are on board and with us with with those goals. So thank you so much. Thank you. This slide shows as I indicated we had 12 firms proposed to develop on this site and this speaks to the strength of Pasadena and the interest in this site and those willing to invest in our city. Some of the themes that we did here at the meeting, the folks talked about prioritizing affordable housing for seniors and working class families in the vulnerable groups. 60% to 80% of the units should be affordable with a focus on low income and workforce housing. The features and key amenities included community rooms, art and music spaces, green areas, mixed-use spaces should be at the site having neighborhood serving retail, cafes and small businesses. Sustainable design to be incorporated into this, having native landscaping, green building practices and water efficient uses. It should have public amenities like a gym, community garden, dog park, co-working spaces, and the parking should be safe, accessible with sub-training or podium-style parking options. Other themes included essential neighborhood services, like supportive services to include mental health, job training, education programs, and case management, health services with medical clinics and wellness center. Public right away improvements, wider sidewalks, pedestrian friendly design, improved bus stops with covered shelters and accessibility. Design and economic impact to include architectural design similar to what we see around Pasadena, like craftsmist style or Spanish colonial. And I touched on public spaces earlier. And an economic catalyst having local businesses, retail incubators, and job creation. So going back a little bit to the SLA evaluation criteria and proposed next steps, the SLA requires not less than this project to be 25% of the total number of units shall be developed as affordable housing. Priority evaluation items per the SLA include are given to the entity that proposes to provide the greatest number of affordable housing units. And if there's a tie in the affordable housing units, priorities shall be given to the entity that proposes the deepest average level of affordability for the affordable housing units. So in wrapping up, next steps that staff proposes is to continue with good faith negotiations with the firms that have submitted. And then take a recommendation take a recommendation back to the City Council in addition to proposed county deal points and I have been working with the staff at Supervisor Barger's office on proposed deal points as we had talked about some months ago with purchasing this site and staff proposes to bring those back in the near term back to City Council for their consideration. So that concludes my report. Thank you. My report. Yeah, I just want to say, I look at this project and the fact that the community showed up and was so positive is significant. Because that is not mirrored in many areas throughout the county that I've dealt with projects especially that include affordable housing. And the irony is I think we all know someone that would qualify for affordable housing because they think that affordable housing means the unhoused and we need to educate and by you all doing this and seeing how many people came out in support. I hope is a template for all of our cities to do the same thing because when the mayor told me about this meeting and all and the input that was given, it really made me happy because this is a great piece of property transit right there. I just I'm excited for what it's going to bring in and as I told the mayor we remain committed to working with you at every step of the way to make sure that it happens you all are the lead. This is something that I'm excited to watch, girl. So thank you, because I know it's in your council district, for being a leader and bringing your community together as well. Thank you so much. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. You're a good presentation. Exciting, too. Next, we'll move to item four. And this is another exciting item. Update on planning for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and Paralympics. Thank you, Mayor and Deputy City Manager, Alex Soto, we'll make this presentation. Good morning Mayor Gordo, members of the City Council, Supervisor Barger. Before I begin, I'd like to acknowledge Vignol, who is the director of venue city relations with LA28, who's been gracious enough to be here in attendance with us this morning. On March 20th, the city, the Roseville and LA28, reached agreement on a games agreement that's going to bring Olympic soccer to Pasadena and more specifically to the Rose Bowl as part of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Notably, and we're very excited about this, this includes the men's and women's gold medal final matches. We're excited about the opportunity to showcase one of the world's most iconic stadiums in the world to billions of noodles across the globe. And although the games are still a little more than three years away, there's a lot of planning that's already started. And in this brief presentation, I'll provide a quick overview of what's happening across the city and the region with the planning process. So starting with transportation. No other sector is as active at this stage in the planning process as the transportation sector. Metro has announced plans to leverage the opportunity presented by the 2028 Games to make permanent long-term improvements that will support sustainable transportation methods during the games and long after they have passed. Our transportation department is partnered with LA28, Metro and other agencies like CalTrans and the City of LA to advance these mobility initiatives. The city has joined the game's mobility assembly as a member agency and transportation staff are now participating in a number of subcommittees related to things like mobility hubs, the Gaines route network, and the first last mile improvement and open streets. And you'll see some of these subcommittees are led by various agencies, CalTrans Metro, LADOT, and the Southern California Association of Governments. Additionally, transportation staff have collaborated with Metro to identify high value corridor for first last mile improvements from Memorial Park Station to the Roseull. To this end, a grant application has been submitted in pursuit of grant funding for outreach design construction and construction of the corridor, and lastly, our transportation staff continue to seek opportunities to find funding either independently or through partnerships with Metro. In the tourism sector, agreements are in place with several Pasadena hotel properties to provide accommodations for LA-28 stakeholders and discussions are ongoing with other hotel properties. Stateholder visits are scheduled for later this year with hotel assignments planned to begin in 2026. And the Pasadena Center operating company through Visit Pasadena has positioned the Pasadena Convention Center and the Civic Auditorium as an ideal location for the activations and other non-competition events. On the economic development front, Econ Dev Staff have engaged several cities to explore potential partnerships and strategies of foster economic development in the region during or as a result of the games. Some of these cities include Culver City, City of Los Angeles, Arcadia, and Long Beach. In the summer of 2025, EconDev will be hosting a workshop focused on contracting preparedness, the goal of which is going to be to provide general procurement guidance to local and small businesses along with specialized tips to enhance their competitiveness in the RFP application process for major sporting event opportunities. And our Econ Dev staff have a number of initiatives planned in partnership with other local organizations and businesses, including consideration for options regarding tourist guides, watch parties and special events that would be done in partnership with Visit Pasadena, and a shop local initiative that would be done in partnership with local businesses that will encourage visitors to shop and dine in Pasadena during the game's period. Public safety. So naturally, there's going to be a tremendous emphasis on the preservation of public safety during the game's planning process and that planning is already well underway. Representatives from our police and fire departments are participating in the 2028 Games Executive Steering Committee which is meeting on a regular basis to discuss a variety of security related matters pertaining to the games. Our public safety staff have participated in specialized training for major special events and we intend to take the opportunity that's going to present itself this summer and next year when major international sporting soccer events come to the region so we will be observing and participating and supporting the FIFA Club World Cup which is a big deal. It's come into the Rolls-Bull in just a couple months and then next summer the FIFA World Cup which will be played here in Los Angeles. And so our public safety staff intends to observe or support those events in order to draw best practices, optimize performance, and draw lessons learned from watching similar international events. Energy planning. Our Department of Water and Power have joined the Games Energy Council which is led by the LADWP and this has been established just to facilitate joint planning and information sharing across stakeholder agencies and organizations to ensure the delivery of reliable, resilient and secure energy for the games and to maximize the use of renewable energy while promoting sustainable energy practices. The council is going to support policies and investments for great infrastructure enhancements and advise on trade-offs between optimizing for cost and sustainability. And on the business planning side of things. So we've reached agreement on the games agreement, and there's still a few more agreements to negotiate between now and October of 2027. The immediate next step in the process is going to be to reach agreement with LA28 on a normal and customary services plan. And we expect to begin negotiations with our partners at LA28 on that plan in the near future. And that's not quite everything. There's still other planning activities that have already taken place. We're establishing a citywide planning group within the city to include city departments and operating companies for purposes of sharing information and remaining in close coordination with planning initiatives. And we think that this is a group that may be expanded to include additional stakeholders as the game's approach. There have also been early discussions between city staff and cultural arts leaders in the community about ensuring that local arts groups are represented in the games related arts program. So in closing, a lot of planning is already happening and there's a whole lot to do in the coming months and years, but we're very excited about this opportunity. And we're going to be fully prepared for 2028 when we can showcase our great city to the world. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. We also have staff here from our transportation, economic development, police and fire departments to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Madam, Mr. Reviser, did you have any Yeah, I'm excited. Yesterday's announcement between Rose Bowl, Santa Anita, Universal Backlots going to be used for squash. Pomona Fairgrounds is going to, for the first time, I guess they're bringing cricket back. The mayor brought together all 88 cities, well, 87 city of LA 88 because, because she recognized that while the city of LA is the lead, as it relates to the financial risk, et cetera, it's this is about the county, all 88 cities working together. And I just feel so proud to be a small part of what's moving forward. And with, is it, you said June is when the soccer's getting? Middle of June, yeah. Middle of June, I mean, that's gonna be our first test flight. And I see opportunities on the economic side for this city. I didn't go to Paris, but from what I heard, they had a lot of watch parties that because not everyone can afford to get in or can get a ticket so that it became very inclusive for all walks of life. And so I think there are opportunities here to do the same thing. And I'm just excited to watch it all play out. And I want to thank LA-28SC. They're out there for the work that you're doing, it's right around the corner. And so we've got our work cut out for us as a whole. Now definitely an exciting time. I recall the, was it 94 World Cup in Pasadena and the excitement and electricity that it brought not just to the stadium but to the city It was incredible and so I'm looking forward to To see him that repeat itself Mr. Madison. Thank you mayor. Thank you supervisor. I just as you know, I'm the Council's representative on the RBOC board and we're just beyond excited about these opportunities and starting with World Cup, you know, we had World Cup as the mayor mentioned in 94. It was an iconic experience and then in 99 we had Women's World Cup, which was beyond with the Brand Brandy Chastain scoring her famous goal. We were candidly disappointed that we didn't get World Cup 26 for the Rose Bowl they chose to go to this stadium on that other side of town but that mean such as life and we're really jazzed about this World Cup the club World World Cup that's coming in June. If you're a football or soccer, as we call it, fan, you have plenty of opportunity. I think there are six games in as many nights or maybe seven nights. And Johnny and Fontino, they had a FIFA was here recently and announced that they are donating 30,000 tickets for those events to first responders from the fires. And we're super grateful for that as well. In terms of the Olympics, we've done this before. Pasadino will join L.A. as being one of the very few that have hosted three Olympic games. I think the in the modern era, I think the other two are Paris and London perhaps. And we had the Olympics here, what back in the 30s, we had cycling, I know. I don't think we had football then. But, and then in the 84 Olympics, we hosted events and to have the semi-final and the gold medal game for both men and women is just fabulous. And, you know, for what it's worth, our stadium offers much more of an ability for families working people to come and be part of those events. The tickets will not be inexpensive, I'm sure, but we have that capacity, you know, with the Rose Bowl and its tremendous scale. So really looking forward to working with you. I think we'll all be, well, I shouldn't say I'll never know what happens in life, but I think we'll all be in office if things go as planned for that 28 Olympics. And again, just beyond excited to look forward to working with you on it. Thank you. Mr. Masuda. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you so much for the report and supervisor. Thank you for talking about some of the new venues that are going to be involved. When do you actually find out when like Dodger Stadium and the county Fairplex and the San Anita are going to be involved? I had to read it so you They kept it. They kept it very close to the best. I mean, it's very, even when we had the meeting with the mayor at what, three weeks ago, Vic, they didn't share. And I think it's because, Vic, correct me, I'm wrong. It's because the Olympics are very strict about how that information is released. So it's not that they're keeping it, but I just found out yesterday I got a call from Universal about it and then I got a text from Rose Bull and I got a text from Fairplex because they didn't want me to read about it although I had already read about it. I don't know what how the process goes in terms of releasing that information. Yeah. Hi, Supervisor Barger. I just want to say thank you, Supervisor Barger or Mayor Gordo, members of the City Council. Oli 28 is thrilled to be partnering with you all on the games as others have mentioned., this will be the third time the iconic Rose Bowl will be hosting a games, making history, so we're just thrilled to be here to welcome the world to Pasadena in the region. But Supervisor Barger, to your question, yeah, there was a lot to it in terms of getting to where, to our announcement yesterday. Part of it was also going to the International Olympic Committee and getting approval for a lot of these venues. To be quite honest, some of the venues came down to the wire, came down to literally the day before in terms of locking things up. But we're really excited. I think this is a tremendous opportunity for the whole region, as the supervisor said, and we're just thrilled. Sir, could you just identify yourself in the organization? Yeah, absolutely. My name My name is Vic Noel. I'm the director of venue city's relations at LA-28. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you very much. Yes. So next time we'll be on the next. Well, you know, the residents will ask us. You guys are hiding something from us. And they're talking about us, the city council. And we're not, of know, the residents will ask us, you guys are hiding something from us and they're talking about us, the City Council, and we're not, of course, though. I'm glad I can always say, you know, our supervisor didn't know until the day we found out as well. Public comment, yes. Yachty for item four. Yacht Yadi is she here? Here okay, she left that completes public on this item Next item five Thank you, Mayor. And I think we have some opening remarks from our Director of Housing, Jim Wong, and then I believe county staff is here as well to offer some information. Thank you. Thank you, City Manager. Good morning, Mayor, Council Members, and of course, good morning, Supervisor Barger. Jim Wong, Housing Director. I just have a few brief remarks on this next agenda item regarding measure A which was voted by the voters of LA County to provide a very significant stream of funding source for homelessness programs. We're very interested in hearing any update that the county might have on measure A. We receive the funds. Understanding that this usher is in a new era we think of funding and accountability. And in particular, we look as we also look anxiously to the federal government and what their policies may have on our spending and funding and policies to address this very critical matter. So with that, I just want to also say that it's been a delight working with your staff, the county staff, on measure A funding many of which we're here. And so I'd like to yield the floor to the county to provide the report. Thank you. Good morning, Supervisor Mayor Gordo and to the members council. My name is Mark with Santa Ana and I am with the homeless initiative with Los Angeles County. Here today to talk about measure A and specifically the local solution funds which as was mentioned by Jim, Director of Housing was voted on a few weeks ago as far as allocation and the methodology for it. As you all know, A was a Citizens Led initiative, voted back in November. I'll save some of those details, but essentially what that came out to is over a billion dollars in funding, tax-perture funding, to solve homelessness, right? We have about 300 and 85 million that's going to the new LaCossa, the housing agency that's been established with the remainder of the funds going to measure a comprehensive home services. From that, about 15% of that remainder of the funds, which equates to just under 100 million, it's 96.3 million, is going directly to local jurisdictions either directly through agreements, such as the City of Pasadadena, will be receiving a direct agreement in the amount of 867,473, or through a regional body, such as our Council of Government. As you all know, measure A comes with new requirements as well. It has a lot of oversight that's being added onto it to making sure that our dollars are actually being spent on what we wanted to be spent on. And then one thing I'll just add and I'll open up for questions outside of that is that it's been a pleasure working with your team with Jim and with Jenny. We have set deadlines, as you all know, we're all working on a truncated timeline to be able to execute agreements by July 1st. So far your team has met those deadlines and we're excited to continue partnering in that capacity with you all. Thank you. One question that comes to mind is the the measure a funding and other housing dollars that come through the county. You mentioned the La Casa agency that will be managing those funds but also the possibility of the COGS managing some of those funds. How about the housing trust? In passing, we have the passing of Glendale Burbank housing trust. Miss Revis is our newly minted representative for that group. But that seems to me that that would be an important group or structure to really get a focused effort between these three cities to increase housing. Thank you Mayor. That's a great question. Yes, so, a measure it comes with a lot of different avenues for cities and entities to tap into funding. As far as the local solution funds, that is direct agreements to the cities. You are able to allocate that if you want to with the housing trust or to specify specific programming and we've made a sheet of eligible uses which is all located on the HI website. That highlights some of these possible expenses. As far as the housing trust being able to tap into further funding, through LaCosta, you'll also have the option to tap into housing to create, preserve affordable housing or for home's prevention efforts as well. Okay. And Mayor, I'll just mention that we did have a brief discussion about whether the housing trust should go after these dollars as well and very initial discussions just trying to weigh whether it's worth it for the cities individually to use those funds or whether we should coordinate through the housing trust and so we're still discussing. I you know I'm a big believer in partnerships and particularly working with our neighbors neighboring cities and I think it it it puts us a good and standing to work through the housing trust, not just for county purposes, but for state and hopefully federal purposes to attract dollars and show a track record of working together. You know, in Pasadena, we have our own housing authority and we're pretty unique. And so the other cities have relied on us quite a bit because of our experience and affordable housing and so to the extent that we can leverage our expertise and leverage that partnership. Again, I think it puts us in better standing with the state and with our federal partners and with the county. Yeah, and if I'll add one more thing Mayor, we highly encourage that with the county. We know that not one jurisdiction is going to solve this, not just receiving county dollars, not just focusing on local dollars as well. And so we, through our programming for the local solution funds and measure A in general, we highly encourage throughout the entire time messaging of leveraging other dollars that can help them at the work. So in Pasadena, we're involved with the Cog in the San Gabriel Valley who has a trust. And then we separately also initiated a trust with the cities to the west of us and so we're covered on both sides and I think it's working well we've got our first projects that have been funded and are moving forward. Mr. Cole followed by Mr. Ryanine. Mayor Gordo appointed me as our city's representative to the San Hero Valley Cogs Homelessness Committee. And we were asked by the county for input on the formula for which we are now going to receive some 897, I think $1,000 a year. Because, as you well know, the public is increasingly looking for performance measures and for accountability. We proposed something that was incorporated to some at least as a future consideration, but not initially. It makes sense to allocate dollars based upon the problem initially. But if we stick with the formula that's been adopted, basically the cities that make progress as Pasadenaena has done in the past, will not see any benefit. And the cities that fail to make progress will not see any disincentive. And I think the public is asking for something different. And I think they're asking for us to actually reduce, particularly street homelessness. And there should be some upside reward for doing that. Again, the point in time count is flawed at best. When I was mayor in 1993, we organized the first point in time count in the state of California. It's now standard across the country. 30 years later we we're still using the same methodology, counting in the middle of the night with volunteers once a year. And yet, as you know and have been vocal about, we have lots more data, real-time data, more fine-grained data, frankly, more accurate data. And so using that data to hold political jurisdictions as well as service providers accountable for results is something I think the public is expecting us to do. Agree 100% and actually we talked about that and when can we revisit the local solutions allocations? Is it on a yearly basis? Because I know we talked about it at the board, but I can't remember what, because we did bring that up. That was brought up. Yeah, that's a great question. And just for further knowledge to talk about the funding allocation just very briefly, as Councilmember Cole might know, I know I presented at the San Girobe Valley call previously, but for those that might not, the allocation is directed 90% by the point in time count. And then it has a 10% allocation that's determined by the American Community Survey, which we're using as a proxy for families that make less than 10,000 annually. And we're using that to try to catch the McKinney-Vento definition of homelessness for families. And so, the measure itself specifically states that allocation must be determined by the point in time count and or a similar method as approved by HUD. And so we're aware. We had six iterations of different allocations. The board took the vote, voted on the fourth iteration of one of the allocations. And one of the things that we started looking at as a supervisor highlighted is the reality that we might need to adjust. And so the good thing I would say about local solution funds and the allocation formula is that it's not set in stone. We know there will need to be room to revisit this. I do want to highlight that if you're doing a great job and your funding is going down, it's kind of a good problem to have, right? We want to show that we're doing something and at that pace, obviously, funds would go down for that. But what we were looking at is after two years, if jurisdiction show that they haven't spent and not continues to your average over 30% of their local solution fund dollars, there is the ability for the county to claw back those dollars and use it in another component. And so one of the things that we were looking at is creating an incentive fund so that for jurisdictions that are doing a good job of meeting their goals and ending street homelessness are able to tap into even further dollars. With the potential of lining up the re- kind of looking at the calculation and or the allocation I should say to determine a new methodology for that time as well. So I agree with you. I think you reward good behavior. And so we will be, I mean, I understand what you're saying. But I also believe that if the numbers going down, they're investing that money in something that's working. So if you take the money away, then the intensity or the probability that the numbers might go up is a problem. So I hear you, I actually agree with you. And so that's where it's going to be important working on the executive committee, of which the cog has an appointee, Becky Shavlin, but also all, regionally, all the cities have a representative. This is the kind of thing that we need to talk about because that's we want to put homeless services out of business, right? And you do that by continuing to fund what's working. Not reward the fact that it's status quo and you will keep giving you money because the numbers aren't going down. And I know that we see eye to eye on this. I just want to underscore publicly the urgency. The public's patience has worn thin. They were willing to give us measure A on faith, but that faith is very thin and they're expecting the face of homelessness to go down in their communities for more people to get housed, for more people to get jobs, for more people to get mental health services, for more people to get drug and alcohol treatment if they want it. And that is a huge expectation. So the sooner we can reward what works, the better. That's that's my sense of urgency. And I think that frustration started with the previous measure, measure H. And what the work that the public was looking for, you know, at least the perception is that it wasn't as impactful as it should have been. And so I think we risk losing the public's trust with measure A if we don't have the type of outcomes that people are looking for. And if I can add council, one of the things I would add also is that measure A, unlike measure H, comes with legal oversight and accountability and regular expenditure reporting and other data reconciliation scrutiny, which measure H didn't come with. And so there was a big question a lot of the times of where the dollar's going, why don't we know what it's being spent on? We won't have that same concern with measure A. Yeah, there was a lot of, well, in the disbursement of the dollars too. There was a lot of concern that some communities were not receiving their fair share and we were not. Mr. Lion. Thank you mayor. That actually was a good segue and I have two questions for either of you. But the first is we've seen a lot of headlines over the last few weeks that the supervisors are cutting homelessness funding. And that has led to sort of widespread confusion. Everyone's like, we just approved this big giant tax bill and now we're cutting funding. So do you want to, I thought this was going to come up in the report and didn't, but do you want to explain like, do you want to explain how, because it was counterintuitive and we had to reinstate like, take for transitionally to use which are probably the amongst seniors and transsel youth are the ones that end up unhoused with the greatest numbers. So we reinstate it but can you explain why that number went down? Yeah definitely. So as mentioned with measure A we're about double what we were generating or we're expecting to generate about double what you were generating with measure H. Part of it is that a significant portion is going to, about a third, is going to LaCossa, and that's going to have a huge focus on, again, affordable housing, preservation, and homeless prevention efforts. And that's funding that was previously in the measure H bucket of of comprehensive homeless services. In addition to that, with that kind of being moved into a new bucket with a new agency, we also had other aspects of interim housing bed rates and different analysis that were done that showed we were paying our providers too little. And so those costs went up. And as a result, the traditional spending that we had on our comprehensive homeless services across the county went down a little bit. But again, it's also married with the new $300 over $300 million for LaCossa, about a hundred million dedicated specifically to local jurisdictions. And so overall, that specific bucket did shrink a little bit due to increased costs, due to the disbursement of funds and else other categories. But there is more funding than ever in the system. But I know it is a little, you know, if you just look at it, you're like, hey, this chart that shows the breakdown of the budget looks less than it did last year, why? But overall, there's more dollars across the system. It's just in what was reported previously with measure H, it looks like it's less. So on that kind of that, on that, you know, I talked to, for example, we have provider up in the Animal Valley who is threatening to pull the interim housing because they are subsidizing to the tune of almost $400,000 a year to pay for those beds because they're not getting reimbursed at a rate that actually covers the cost. And they're taking out lines of credit. And so they're spending more to, I mean, it became, ridiculous and it wasn't just in the Anelphale City of LA. Also had the same issue and so we had to look at what the actual cost is. And I think we still are not covering full cost. So that we had to find the money someplace else. And then La Casa. And I'm telling you all La Casa, all roads are going to be back to La Casa. And I would ask you all to be very engaged with that, because they're getting money. They also have the financing ability to bond for affordable housing and they are in charge as prevention as it relates to the housing side, not on the service side. But that is going to be a significant amount of money going out and opportunities for especially cities. Yeah, and again, as it was reflected in Measure H budget before, it might have been a certain amount and now in that line item, it's decreased, but overall through LaCosta, it's exponentially grown. So fully understand the point about paying people for what a cost actually offered the service or closer to it. Understand that point. Now, are you saying this is mostly a function of re-alignment and we're not going to end up losing services? Are we really are right now? We're in a place where we're losing services, particularly to transitional AG. I do not believe we're going to lose services. For example, yesterday there was a debate at the board. One of my colleagues wanted to put, let's say it was a full 11 million back in, well they only spent 8.2 million, I think. And so we reinstated at the actual budget that they spent. And then we will revisit that down the line. So I do not see services being cut. What I do have concerns about though is if the sales tax goes down. That will have an impact because we budget based on projections and the projections I think are going to fall short. And so then that will cause us to start to triage and that's where data is important. Find out what's working. And my frustrations always been with measure H and I agree with the mayor about the fact that that city is working in their fair share Is that who better knows how to deal with the homeless in their city than the city the city manager the city council And I wanted to make sure that we provided funding to you all That didn't have strings attached telling you how we want you to do it but especially if you ever continue to care. And you all got dinged because you were continuing to care. Which is also to me not using common sense. It's just that you have the federal dollars coming directly to you. So I think there's going to be opportunities but I don't see us cutting services. I do see us checking to make sure that the money that we're sending is actually going to work belongs and that means auditing which has not been done with LASA which is why and I told Councilman Cole this we brought it back into the county because of the Bucks stop for us. We can't play in LASA, we can't play in the city of LA, we have to be held accountable. We the board. Thank you. And you have been a great advocate for cutting bureaucracy around the Eden Fire rebuild, which I appreciate. I do have some concern that that realigning to LaCossa is going to create a whole other bureaucracy that is going to be messy. So please stay on top of that. And then my other question is around when the Grants Pass decision came down last year, the supervisors came out together in force to advocate for remaining with our care first approach and housing first, and advocating for a regional solution. I would love to know the status of that conversation, because in our own conversation about Grants Pass, we echoed the supervisor's direction and a remaining with a housing first care first approach, and enforcement only where there's really a public safety issue. And directed the mayor to work with the other cities to work out a regional approach. But I have not heard a lot of conversation about a regional approach since then, since we all advocated for it, and we do see cities going out on their own and it's looking like we're seeing cities putting people on the train. To this town in particular, we keep hearing anecdotal reports that we're trying to back up with data now of unhoused people reporting that the police in their town told them will pass the DNA ad services. So you should go there. Which is not how our model works. It doesn't work if you move people away from their services where they are. So I'd just would love to hear your thoughts on where we are with organizing a real conversation in the region about how to handle this. I'll be honest, I've been kind of quiet. I have not heard what you just expressed. I'm happy to work with you because I'm hearing from my city's heading east that people are putting them on the train and putting them out there. Annelve Valley is convinced that we're putting people on metrolink and shipping them up to the Annelve Valley. So I think there's always concern about the unhoused and where they end up and whose responsibility are they. So I'm happy to work with you on that. I know you want to add anything? Yeah. I would just add that. I'm going to add something. I'm going to add something. I'm going to add something. with the city on that. Do you want to add anything? Yeah, I would just add that one thing I would say is since the grants pass decision back in June of 24, the county has been very proactive in trying to address this as well. And we came out the homeless initiative team, a subset of that division, the municipal relations, local jurisdiction team, came out with both an in-campant resolution guidance document, which is located on our website, as well as a video where we invited cities to come, but also left the video on our website, kind of detailing the county's approach on in-campant resolutions and how we do it. And so if there's any cities wanting to, at the wake of grants pass, figure something out for their own jurisdiction. We're saying, hey, we created a manual. You don't have to use it letter by letter, but it's here. And why we create the wheel kind of thing. In addition to that, we also secured a about $55 million grant through the state for the ERF funding, which we've used to fund pathway home projects, which are county-led and Kempner Resolution projects. And typically the way we address those are sub-regional kind of jurisdictions. And so really quick example is close by in the Minerva and Duarte area, we did a sub-regional in Kempner Resolution we ramped up efforts for that. And so just a short version of what Patley Home is, it's the county's dedicated approach to getting folks off of the streets and putting them in non-congregate, typically multil-based, interim housing where we loaded up with services after two weeks of being on site. We bring all the services you can think of such as a connect day. And we have it there so that there's no barriers for folks moving into housing as well. And so the county has been very proactive in that sense as well. Just by work that we're doing a time for just secure funding, putting out guidance. At the end of the day, if something is happening where a city might decide, then that's the city's decision. But we are being very proactive as a county I would say to address this. Let me take a moment to clarify one thing I said, which is there's a real tendency with the unhoused to assume there from somewhere else or their other. And we have this conversation a lot in our own city where we try to clarify that our point in time count for years now has shown that that well over half of our unhoused population in Pasadena is from Pasadena. It was last housed in Pasadena and often for decades at a time. So I am not talking about assuming that everyone on the streets comes from somewhere else and someone else's problem. But I think we are seeing something happening where people are identified in the system as being tied to services elsewhere and are reporting that they were sort of sent here because the services are better. And that does make a problem for how the whole system works. So if you'll keep an eye out for it We are again trying to gather actual data on that so we know what's happening as well But I'm not advocating for everybody going somewhere else because we you know these are our neighbors in our city Thank you and then on LaCossa. I have the same concerns you do Okay, and an article in the paper this morning didn't make me feel any better about it. So I'll direct you to the LA Times. Okay. Thank you. In terms of the regional piece, you know, we continue to work on that, but it has been a challenge. There's a lot of, I want to say distrust, but there, you know, people are concerned that regional effort results in them receiving more of the homeless population, the services, rather than focusing on all of us doing our part. There's a concern that we're going to be shifting issues into communities that maybe don't have the issues that we have. So it's been, you know, some cities are more willing to work together. Other aren't as enthusiastic about it. It's a matter of building trust and educating. Mr. Madison. Thanks, Mayor. My questions were largely covered by Council Member Lyon. It was went to Grants Pass and the kind of implications of that. I'd say first, LaCassa is regional, right? I mean, that's so is the idea that that's a regional approach, but it doesn't cover the issues raised by Grants Pass or What am I missing about that because that's a regional body with the local representation? Yeah, I wouldn't I Think there's two different emphasis to a degree, right? Grants Pass was the Supreme Court decision which allowed cities to enact policies as they see fit Whereas the cost is as intent is to create further interim and permanent housing, affordable housing, preserve land trusts, different things of that nature, and have a real emphasis on homeless prevention. And so they're both getting to different kind of roots of the homeless problem, I would say, but not necessarily tight. Well, I think that's the issue, isn't it? I mean, supervisor, I lauded you when you proposed a Mending 5150 to add a new category of authority, if you will, where the person might not be a real and present danger to themselves or others, but was unable to care for themselves. And I know that's controversial, but I think isn't that really what we're talking about here in terms of grants pass, persons that are chronically homeless and because of mental illness or addiction or other issues, frankly just the long-term impacts of that lifestyle of being unhoused are unable to care for themselves. Can I take a stab at how I view it? Because I agree with you. I view grants pass as our tool for the encampments, the large encampments, because that really was problematic as it relates to enforcement. And what you're talking about on an individual basis is something that we are struggling with even in terms of bed capacity, and I'll reach out to you because the governor's submitted an IMD waiver waiver but it did not include the increase of beds, which is what we need because if we take them off the street and Get them into a hospital bed We're lucky, but then they are back out 72 hours later and then they become resistant to services and they become very sophisticated and how to avoid Even getting into our system. So I see grants pass being used more for the encampments. And what you're talking about is really putting a system together where we've got beds. And then once we stabilize getting them into housing, supportive housing, because it's not going to be traditional housing that we know, like almost like a board and care. I appreciate that. I mean, I would imagine that the subset of chronically homeless persons that might be subject to that amended language in 50 and 50 would be kind of a concentric circle within the larger circle of encampments because again, you're talking and sadly, in in some case about persons that couldn't do the things that are necessary to participate if a residential bed were available. You know so but I do think we need to be more proactive about that. We heard a report at committee last night from the Old Pasadena Management District and that is at the top of their list. The presence of some unhoused individuals, not all by any means. We all get that there are people that are unhoused for largely economic reasons and housing, housing as my colleague and friend, the Vice Mayor, indicated absolutely. But for that subset, it's a problem. And we need to use grants paths if we can or the other tools that we have. In terms of the gold line, I still call it the gold line, I know the names changed. I don't think it's a case of sending people. We heard a report where this might have been in a community meeting where the sheriffs attended. And what they explained to us is that at the end of the shifts, if you will, the unhoused will just congregate on the trains and they'll end up in points east. And they were explaining this by way of telling us that we have two deputies that cover from Highland Park all the way to the terminus of the line out in I think Azusa or those areas. And that pretty much the second half of their evening shift, they have to spend it heading yeast and then making sure that the persons don't stay on the trains overnight because they're just looking for shelter, you know. So I don't know that it's a case of anyone sending anyone there. You know, I continue to think our police officers should be policing the rail and I'll try to persuade my colleagues of that and we may come back to you with that proposal if I'm successful on that because obviously the public safety issues that are present on those trains affect the community that the trains travel through as well. So I see a lot of synergy and you know the deputies were terrific but explain that they they're just two of them, for that entire stretch of the line, whereas with our PD, we'd have the ability to call for backup. Obviously we need budget for that and that's another discussion, but thank you very much. Yeah, on that note, regarding the gold line, I think that fair enforcement is going to be key. And I advocated and got included for the Lake Avenue stop new gates because I've looked at the stats. And it seemed to be that's where a lot of some of the issues in terms of people being robbed while waiting on the platform. So we are going to be installing new gates that are going to require fair enforcement getting in and out. And we saw numbers go down in terms of crime on our lines when we started doing fair enforcement and then we're going to get more outreach teams out on the homeless side to see how we can do better outreach and provide services but I will tell you that we have an ambassador program and I'd be happy to work with the city to see if we can get more ambassadors at those sites as well versus law enforcement in the interim just to have a presence because they've been very successful. I see them a lot at the Sierra Monterey Villa stop there and are very active. We're really grateful for that. I actually wanted to mention that earlier that the turn styles, if you will, that fair enforcement can be F-A-I-R, F-A-R-E, hopefully both. But for sure, that's super important. We've had homicide at Fifalmore station. We had a horrific assault at the Lake Avenue station. It is a problem and I think all those things will help. I also think if we could see our way to get an additional hope team here, where it is one of our officers and one of your social workers, it's sorely needed and we're entering a budget cycle right now and I intend to keep that discussion moving forward. And those would be good partners for your ambassadors as well and the other resources so thank you. I think you know we've done a number of tours the city manager and Mr. Masuda and and a few others and together with staff and and gold line staff and taking the line back and forth. And I think there's an opportunity for us to maybe put together a working group to address all of these issues, the trains as well as the stations. And the surrounding neighborhoods because some of the issues spill into the neighborhoods, particularly places like Lake where they goes all the way up the Avenue. And so I think having a coordinated comprehensive approach involving Metro, the county and the city, so that we can talk about the different components, different timing for, you know, whether it's a hope team, you know, having an insurance that we're coordinating the time that the hope team is deployed with the ambassadors, maybe at a different hour, so that we're coordinated. So I'll leave that with the city manager and supervisor your staff to coordinate and bring us together. And there I've got two of the five stations in Pasadena in my district. So I enthusiastically volunteer to be part of that and I'm grateful that you're moving that forward. We've had an opportunity with the Metro staff to coordinate and meet and I think having more of a county presence would be helpful as well. Yeah, just a few weeks back we met again with Metro and they shared the gate they're going to put up at Lake and not just that, I can't remember the exact number but the good 5, 6, 7, 8 different improvements. And we pledged as a city to do whatever we need to do on our side to make that happen as quickly as possible. But the discussion on who patrols, whether it's our passing police department, whether it's sworn or, you know, the park ranger type positions or sworn personnel or a combination of the two or whether it's sheriff. I mean, we've had those discussions in the past. I think it's time to sit down and make it work because it's been a problem. and you pointed out we've all pointed out you know there have been some pretty significant occurrences of violence including the murder and then the attempted murder where a woman was dragged onto the freeway so So it's a serious situation, and we shouldn't delay that discussion any further. Yeah, I've had constituents ask, why don't you send non-sworn out on the calls that aren't violent? And I said, great, just tell me which ones those are gonna be, because it's very difficult from a police standpoint. It may be a combination of the two. Or, of course, less than lethal. So weapons can also be deployed. But that's the discussion for the staff to have and tell us what would be most effective. I think the discussion we need to have is how we provide the funding to make it happen. And in the coordination. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, Mr. Cole, followed by Mr. Masuda. Okay. Done. Are. I surgery didn't work as well as I thought. Mr. Cole. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I appreciate the comments that Councilmember Madison has made. We're veering a little bit off of the agenda he started with the issue of assisting folks who are homeless, who are mentally ill and not able to take care of themselves. And now we're talking about metrosafety, which is an equally important issue. I want to go back to what my colleague, Mr. Dr. Lyons, talked about, which is the collaboration on a regional level. We have a chance to lead, Mayor. The COG has developed a good neighbor policy. And so far, I think only Monroevya has adopted it. I appreciate their leadership. Can we put that on the agenda for us to lead and hopefully get others to join? And that's right around these issues of let's not export folks, our problems to other communities. And I was really heartened to hear Councilmember Davis from Glendora at our last meeting say, you know, for a long time we, Glendora and folks in the middle of the valley have been sending our folks east to Pomona and west to Pasadena and she said it's time for us to take some responsibility here for providing locally based services along the same lines of Councilman Ryan is talking about it's like let's all take care of the people in our communities so they don't end up either getting pushed out or having to become nomads. So if with your support, let's move that forward. That's why we put you there. Mr. City Manager. Thank you. I have in the sense of the measure funding. So for some time now we had been looking at a program called Pathway Home Motel Least Program. It's a program the county had to master lease motels. And there's one in, I think it's in Montenegrovia, myself, Councilor Merrero, M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. goes on a site visit, working with the county chief executive's office. It was funded to the chief executive's office with the possibility of having one of these masterlies programs in East Pasadena. Because you know you take, that's really taking folks from the streets and giving them the housing. And we looked at the program, we were really excited about it. But I think maybe two or three weeks ago, maybe a month ago now, we're informed that the funding is no longer available. This is your project. It's called Pathway Home. Pathway Home, the masterlies program. We'll work with the math. That'd be terrific. We still like to vet it. We have more work to do. We're going to do another side visit with the mayor and some other. So anyone interested in looking at it, but the program seems to be working. And to your point about investing in things that work. And if measure $8 are available for that, we'd be very interested in continuing to vet that to see if that's something that could work in Pasantina. I would caution us to learn from some of the other examples. I visited some of the LA models. The ones close to downtown just this past weekend, and I talked to the city manager about it Monday or yesterday and You know there's a lot to be learned because if it's not done well you end up with the problem continuing and Not in in one case that I visited maybe maybe even making it worse. And so I would be very careful as we, if we head down that road to make sure we do our due diligence, visit some of the sites, learn from some of the experiences and try and problem solve in advance. Yeah, and you know, I was very was very mindful in saying we want to further vet it because we've seen the same thing. And so I think the county might have about 16 of these programs elsewhere. And it's seen some level of success. And so I think when we went to visit it, we sort of, I think Councilmember Masuda and I we talked about it. And if it's done right, there's a possibility there, but we definitely want to learn from all the lessons. And I think we've learned a lot over the years. I think when initially started using motels, having them where they were shared spaces really led to some problems. Right. And shared spaces, I mean, you still have an operating hotel and people that you're just renting out rooms. I think the master lease puts a whole different dimension on it that helps us program around it, provide services in comprehensive ways. And so like I said, we just initially started looking at it. They said, oh, the funding dried up. And so that sort of put an end to more site visits and more vetting. But I want to express that I'm completely in agreement that we need to vet it carefully and only do it if we think we can have success because we only want to invest invest where there's Successful programs. Yeah, couple eating with the support of services is key Otherwise, we're just trying to wear house people and it just doesn't work The place in L.A. That Was not in your aid it was not in the fifth district. It was not in the fifth district. Full disclaimer, in downtown, close to the 110, just to the west. And the 110, and it was, I think that model needs to be visited. I don't think it's a model we would want to replicate. Mayor, the program that City Manager is talking about when we visited in Manrovia, you wouldn't even know it was there. That's how well it was run and how it's protected. The staffing, it was just a That is a fifth district. You know that's an example of where two cities got together and opened a program and now a third city that didn't want to do it wants to participate but they, but they are full. And they're all from that area. And you are absolutely, you've got to have the services got to be, you've got to have a structure too in terms of job training, things like that. Thank you. Thank you. Public comment. Public comment. I also note that the City of Clicks Office received one letter advocating that the supervisor barger and the City Council work with nonprofit organizations to fund a motel lease interim housing project and or motel conversion project. And that public comment was distributed to the council as posted online in part of the record. Alison Henry. Great, thank you. Can you hear me? Yes, go ahead. Excellent, thank you. Good morning, Supervisor Barger. Good morning, City Council. My name is Alison Henry. I'm a district three of City of Pasadena residents. But I'm also a member of the Pasadena Rental Housing Board. I speak on a personal and a personal capacity this morning, but some of the things that you all have been talking about around measure, AHR issues that we have discussed as a board. The voter approved Fair and Affordable Housing Charter Amendment, which created the rent stabilization department in board, and the department's responsible for education and enforcement of the rent stabilization measure is a fee for service offering, right? As much as we would like to tackle the things that lead to homelessness as a board we cannot or a fee for service department. But as part of the scope of the law, we get data from evictions. And I would be, this comments really to get you all to think about additional things, all the important things you were talking about just now about the toll of homelessness on our society in terms of violent crime and visible homelessness, which eats away at all of us. There's a lot we can do to prevent homelessness. And so it's in this sort of collaborative spirit that I would really also ask you to think about things like rental assistance and eviction prevention, eviction defense for low income families and residents, both are proven tools to prevent homelessness. And I'm actually excited to think about the opportunities Pasina has with these funds as we partner with the county, given our existing state departments and strong community support for all of these issues. Everyone of you have mentioned it this morning, which I think is wonderful. And I'm proud to be in a community that wants to end homelessness with all of the tools available. So it's really in the spirit of collaboration that I would also ask for you to consider using medire funds for eviction defense and rental assistance. Thank you very much. Thank you and that completes public comment on this item. Okay. I think that completes our agenda. Madam Supervisor, did you want to go for that closing statement? No, I just want to say thank you. And the good news are the bad news. The good news is I live in the community. So all the things you're talking about are things that I see and can act upon with you. And I just am grateful for the collaboration. and I look forward to working with you in my last term to get things done and actually make a difference for the community. The other good news is if you're not yet a member, she can get you into the ALT's lodge. Let me just say thank you for your good work and for your leadership, not just of the fifth district, but in the entire county, I tell people how hard you worked for all of us. I think Mr. Cole stated it well. I mean, there wasn't anywhere that I went that you weren't there, your staff wasn't there, supporting our community, supporting our first responders. And then I'd see you across town at the Palisades. And I, you know, I was having a hard time keeping up with you here in Alvadena and Pasadena. I don't know how you did it, but you did a great job in leading our county. So thank you. And I'd like to also recognize your staff, Savannah, Andrews, Lillit, Suzy, and Tyler. All of you who have done a terrific job seeing Andrews, Lilith, Suci, and Tyler. All of you who have done a terrific job, same thing. You know, Vanya and I, we spent a lot of time during the fires out in the community, and we'd see all of you there as well. And so thank you for your good work and your efforts in all of the county staff. And city staff as well. So with that, thank you everyone for your work on behalf of our residents and we'll see you next time. Thank you. Thank you. We are adjourned.