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Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to item two, like salute and the vocation. We are on to those who make it possible for us to be here today. If there is anyone in the audience who is on active duty or a military veteran, will you please stand or raise your hand so that we may recognize you? Please remain standing and all arise. I'll lead in the flags salute and councilman Lewis in the invocation. Ready begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which stands one nation under God in the beautiful liberty and justice for all. Gracious God, we come before you in gratitude for our city, its residents and its leaders. We ask for your guidance, wisdom and peace. Unite our community with a shared vision for the common good and grant all with the strength to serve with integrity, humility and compassion. Feel the divisions within our community inspire all of us to work together for fairness, prosperity, and for the common good. May your love and light guide us forward, amen. Thank you. We're on the item three, announcements of a drawn, deferred, and our supplemental items. Good evening, you're on the honor of the Department of City Manager. We have supplemented materials available online on the city website at torrentia.gov for item A.G. from General Services to Proof Contract Services Agreement for as needed job order contracting for General Services through source well and adopt California Environmental Quality Exiqua, categorical exemption, prison to section 15301. The expenditure is 5 million from the General Fund and 10F of Community Services to approve conceptual float design and provide direction for funding allocation for Torrance entering to the 2026 past the eternal roses parade expenditure none. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to item 4, I will take a motion away for the reading of resolutions and ordinances after number title. So I'll move. Second. Start voting please. You're under that motion carries with Council Member Colony absent. Moving on to item five, Council Committee meetings and announcements. I ask that we adjourn tonight's meeting in memory of Marsha Cribs, who passed away on April 15th, 2025. Marsha was more than just a beloved member of our community. She was a dedicated public servant, veteran, community advocate, city commissioner, and former member of the Torrent City Council. She was a passionate advocate who served and veerced influential roles to benefit the city. Marshall Cruz was born on April 4, 1935 and Cleveland, Ohio to Lawrence and Margaret Young. She grew up in the family of public servants and graduated from John Marshall High School, where she developed a lifelong love for the outdoors, particularly the peaceful fishing trips she enjoyed on South Bass Island at Putin Bay, Ohio. She earned her undergraduate degree from Michigan State University in 1957 and went on to receive an MBA from the University of California, Lasandas in 1968. From 1958 to 1961, Marsha proudly served the United States Air Force. While stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base in Marin County, she met and married her below the husband Francis Cribs. Following her military service, Martian Frances made their home in Torrance, where they raised their family and built a life-centered, on civic engagement and community. She thrived professionally in accounting and finance, ultimately serving as chief financial officer for Hirsch Bed, and Associates, an international hotel design firm. In 1989, Marsha transitioned from corporate life to pursue her twin passions, public service, any question, competition. She served with distinction on the Torren City Council from 1994 to 2002. In addition to her time on the Council, Marsha contributed her time in talents serving on the Torrance Civil Service Commission, the Torrance Library Commission and the Torrance Unified School District Personnel Commission. She further contributed as a court appointed special advocate, a consumer affairs counselor, and a board member with a League of Women Voters. Marsha's contributions went beyond the walls of City Hall. She was a proud and accomplished equestrian and member of the American Quarter Horse Association in its Pacific Coast affiliate. She competed in the select world championship shows for over a decade, placing as high as second place in 2012. She cherished her time with her horse Luther and spent years traveling the southwest to participate in competitions. Marsha survives survived by her children, Michael, Patricia, Linda, and Carol Cribbs and granddaughter Tia. A celebration of life will be held at Lighthouse, Memorial, and Receptions, Rice Center in Torrance on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The City of Torrance offers its deepest condolences to the crib's family and all who knew her. We honor her memory, her service, and the tremendous legacy she leaves behind. In the City of Torrance, she helps shape. Torrance is a better place because of Marsha. I'm going to do a recap of student and government day. Earlier today the city hosted 22 eighth grade students from schools across torrent for the 19th annual student and government day. This group was selected from students with submitted an essay based on the prompt. The mayor and city council set policies that we follow. What new policy would you like to see the council adopt? That would benefit the residents of Torrance What steps would you take to be sure your policy is right for everyone? Each year, these bright young Torrance students are energetic and inquisitive during their afternoon with us. Each student has been given one-on-one time with an elected official or department head to develop a better understanding of local government. They culminate the activities by leading a Simulated City Council meeting. During the simulated meetings, students presented two proclamations. The first recognizes today May 6, 2025 as National Teacher Day in the City of Torrance. We extend our appreciation to all educators, in Torrance, and everywhere. The second proclamation recognizes this week May 4th to 11th as Public Service Recognition Week. The City Council and I thank everyone who has chosen a career in public service for creating positive impacts in our lives every day. A special day like today, which exemplifies that positive impact we can have on the youth and our community. I want to commend the students for being open to learning more about local government. Their family should be very proud of them for being selected for today's program. Thank you also to the selection committee led by Cindy Scado with Sandy Manda, Suzy Wan, Donna Dupran and Melissa Wright, as well as former mayor Frank Scado, Joe Reed from Human Resources Department, and okay, I'm gonna get this one right. Nico Pietratonio from City Manager's Office for their work in organizing today's program. And finally, thank you to the school administrators and eighth grade social studies teachers who support make the program possible every year. Councillor Chayg, would you take the next one please? Yes, sure, thank you. Thank you, Mayor. The Social Services Commission Annual 123 Drive is happening now through May 15, 2025. The 123 Drive assist people experiencing homelessness in the city of Torrance. We welcome new and full-sized donations including sweatshirts and t-shirts, socks, shampoo, and conditioner, toothpaste, body wipes, deodorant, and more. Collection bins will be available in the City Hall lobby, the Permit Center, and the Katie Geiser Civic Center Library. To view the complete list of requested items, please visit torrentsca.gov forward slash help others. If you have questions please call 3 310-618-5880 or email social services commission at torrentsca.gov. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Lewis, would you take the next one, please? In celebration of National Bike to Work Week this May, the City of Torrance proudly encourages all commuters to join us in promoting cleaner air, healthier lifestyles, and less traffic on our roads by getting outside and riding a bike. We invite everyone to participate in National Bike to Work Day taking place on Thursday May 15th, 2025, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. You can do your part by biking, walking, or taking public transportation to work. City employees who take part may visit the City of Torrance Rideshare office and the Torrance Transit table located in front of the Torrance City Hall for a snack and free free giveaway merchandise. And to learn more about how our right-year program helps you to earn rewards for making smart commuting choices. Let's work together for a greener, healthier Torrents one commute at a time. Thank you. Councilman Congee. Thank you, Your Honor. The nonprofit World War II Camp Law Committee is currently planning a concert fundraiser to raise essential money needed for the construction of the World War II Camp Law Monument at Columbia Park. The committee is considering hosting the event at the James Armstrong Theater and Toyota Meeting Hall on October 15, 2025. With a concurrence of my colleagues, I'd like to propose that the city provide a subsidy of at least $1,500 or more to either fully waive or significantly reduce the rental fees associated with this important event. This would be a meaningful gesture of support for the World War II camp wall endeavor and the efforts to realize this historic project. As many of you know, the World War II camp wall will be located at Columbia Park at the corner of Prairie Avenue and 190th Street. This monument will recognize and honor the courage and sacrifice of those Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in camps across the country. It will serve as a permanent reminder of this difficult period of American history and offer valuable lessons for generations to come. At our last City Council meeting, City staff and the Project Consultant presented a schematic design of the monument, giving us a powerful glimpse of what this tribute will represent. The venue for the fundraiser has already been reserved at the resident, nonprofit rate, with rental fees tolding $1,521. Providing the subsidy would directly support the committee's fundraising efforts and bring the monument one step closer to completion. Do I have council concurrence? I think that's the 6.0. Let me know if I'm incorrect. You got concurrence. Thank you. Councilman Matucci. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to take a moment to share about a recent and very special visit from Miss Rafael Lavalintini, the Council General of Italy and Los Angeles. It was an honor to welcome her to Torrance. I think it's safe to say that we all felt her warmth, thoughtfulness, and contagious enthusiasm for strengthening international ties. The Council general expressed a genuine interest in bridging cultures and fostering business collaboration between Italy and the city of Torrance. And we look forward to continuing the conversation, especially with FIFA World Cup 2026 and the LA 2028 Olympics on the horizon. I was joined by Mayor Chan, Councilman Kaji and city staff who helped host the visit, along with Donna Dupuron from the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce, Debbie Hayes from Discover Torrance, and Andrea Landi, President of Landi Technologies, a successful Italian business thriving here in Torrance, who all played the key role in helping share the hashtag Why Torrance Story. We also had the opportunity to tour the council general around the city in one of our clean and beautiful Torrance transit buses, giving her a first hand look at what makes our community unique unique from innovation and infrastructure to quality of life It was a meaningful exchange and we're excited about the possibilities it may open for future cultural and economic partnerships. Thank you Thank you It's good opportunity for you to use a lot your Italian language City clerk Quayet. Thank you, Your Honor. It's not too late to apply for a city commission or the SST committee. Commission appointments will take place at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 17th. And the application deadline is this Thursday, May 8th by 5pm. Applications are being accepted at the City Clerk counter via US mail or email to city clerk at torrentca.gov. Postmarks are not accepted. Applicants must be an elector of the City of Torrance and have completed Commissioner Certification training within the last two years to be eligible for appointment. Commissioners applying for reappointment must also be current on ethics AB1234 and non-supervisory harassment prevention training. For more information, please visit torrentca.gov backslash government backslash commissions or call the office of the city clerk at 310-618-2870. Thank you, Your Honor. Thank you. Fire Chief Dumea, I think you're next. Yes, sir. Thank you, Your Honor. Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council, David Dumea Fire Chief. I would like to remind the community that the Torrance Refining Company will be conducting the monthly tests of the community alert sirens tomorrow Wednesday May 7 at 11.30 AM. As a reminder, this is only a test. The test will include a one minute all clear chime followed by a two minute siren tone and then another minute of all-clear chimes. Total testing time will not exceed five minutes. It is important to note the siren tone may be heard farther than the chimes. During an actual emergency, when you hear the sirens, we encourage the community to take action to shelter, shut, and listen for instructions from the city. Shelter in place means if you are outside while at home, go inside. Close all windows, doors, and vents, and turn off air conditioning. Listen for instructions from local radio, cable, social media sites, and through the torrents alerts app. If driving, continue to drive. Close all windows and vents, set air conditioning to recirculate, turn your radio to 16 20 AM city sounds for local instructions. Listen for the chimes that signal the all clear message to the signal that the emergency has concluded. For additional information, residents may contact the Torrance Refining Company Community Relations at 310-212-1852. That's 310-212-1852. We also encourage Torrance residents and businesses to sign up for Torrance Alerts, which is Torrance's Emergency Notification and Warning System. Torrance Alerts delivers early warning and real-time updates during emergencies such as earthquakes, fires, or public health events. When action is needed like evacuate, avoid, or shelter in place, you will receive alerts by phone, email, text, or through the Torrance Alert app. For more information regarding Torrance Alerts, please go to the city's webpage, www.torranceca.gov-torrance-alerts. Thank you, Your Honor. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, proclamation declaring May 10, 2025 as fire service state in the city of Torrance. Councilwoman Lewis, I'm going to ask you to read all the where-as is until the part where I talk. Would you do that please? I think so. Whereas firefighters are dedicated to protecting the community and providing life safety, environmental protection, hazard reduction, and emergency response. The promotion of fire service day brings public awareness of the continuous efforts in the fire emergency response, community fire risk reduction, and environmental conservation. And whereas the Torrance Fire Department has a long history in serving the residents of this community. Shortly after the city of Torrance was founded in 1912, a volunteer fire department was organized. In May of 1921, the city was incorporated and the newly formed city council reorganized the volunteer fire department from volunteer to paid positions. And whereas the Torrance Fire Department is one of the premier agencies in the state and the country receiving a class one rating in 1995 from the insurance office, service office, and becoming an accredited agency through the Center for Public Safety Excellence in 2024. The Torrance Fire Department is among a select group of agencies in the United States to hold both distinctions. And whereas we encourage the citizens of Torrance to utilize the many fire safety and prevention courses offered by the Torrance Fire Department throughout the year, as well as embrace all community risk safety programs such as Torrance Alerts and, whereas in honor of the men and women of the Torrance Fire Department and its proud tradition of commitment to the community, the department will host open houses at fire stations 1 2 3, 3, 4, 5, and 6. On Saturday, May 10th, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All citizens are welcome to visit any one of the Torrance Fire Stations on this special day. Now therefore, I, George Chen, as mayor of the City of Torrance, California. Do hereby proclaim May 10th, 2025 as fire service day. In the city of Torrance and urge members of the community to take time to recognize Torrance firefighters for their services, they provide and to support the many public safety activities and efforts for the Torrance Fire Department signed this six day of May 2025. We'll likely invite Torrance Fire Prevention Specialist Daniel Singleton to join me at the podium to accept the the proper information and the take of further. I think I'm let he's got a few words to share with us. Thank you Mary Chen. Good evening honorable mayor, City Council members and City staff, Daniel Singleton, Fire Prevention Specialists. On behalf of the Torn Spire Department, thank you for your continued support and for your recognition of Fire Service Day with this evening's proclamation. Fire Service Day will take place this Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Sanio event is a special opportunity for the community engaged directly with the firefighters that serve our community. All six Torrance fire stations will be open to the public. The Sanio event is a special opportunity for the community engaged directly with the firefighters that serve our community. All six Torrance Fire Stations will be open to the public and we invite their families, residents and neighbors to visit their local fire stations and learn more about the services they provide every day to keep our city safe. We hope this day builds lasting relationships between our firefighters and the residents they serve and we look forward to seeing everybody on May 10th this weekend. Thank you. I think I'm going to stay here for a while I think. This is even better, Coralist Mike. Next proclamation is declaring the week of May 11 through May 17, 2025 as Blue Ribbon Week in the City of Torrance. Councilor Matucci, would you mind reading the Proclamation for us? To be honest, thank you. Whereas in 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Public Law 87-726, which which designates May 17th of each year as peace officers Memorial Day, an encounter week during which such May 15th occurs as police week. And whereas, the citizens of Torrance recognize their police officers bravery, devotion, and willingness to dedicate their lives to securing a safe environment for all. And whereas, every day, these courageous men and women risk their lives as they encounter increasing dangers in order to keep the streets and neighborhoods of Torrance, crime free and safe. And whereas, Blue Ribbon Week is a time in which the citizens of Torrance show their support and gratitude to the men and women in law enforcement. And whereas, on peace officers Memorial Day, the community members of Torrance pay tribute to the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Now therefore, I, George Chen, as mayor of the City of Torrance, California, do hereby proclaim the week of May 11 through 17, 2025 as Blue Ribbon Week in the city of Torrance. Further proclaim May 15, 2025 as California Peace Officers, Memorial Day in Torrance, California, encourage all community members to remember those individuals who gave their lives for safety and express appreciation to those who continue their important work of making the city of Torrance a safer place to live. Signed this six day of May 2025. I'd like to invite Chief Hart to join me at the podium to accept the proclamation and take a photo. Chief, you have some words to share? Yes, sir. I do. Good evening, Jay Hart, Chief of Police. On behalf of the Torch Police Department, thank you so much for this honor of recognizing Blue Ribbon Week. As all of us pause to remember the sacrifices of the men and women who gave their lives in the line of duty for public safety. The Torrance Police Department, the men and women there will renew their courage to serve this city and its residents with compassion and with fairness. I'd also like to invite the public to a police memorial ceremony in front of the Torrance Police Department on Wednesday, the 14th at 10 o'clock. Wednesday the 14th at 10 o'clock in front of the towards police department to honor the fallen officers that serve this city. Thank you so much. All right. Moving on to item six C. This is a proclamation declaring the week of May 17 through May 23. Twenty twenty five as National Safe Boating Week in the city of Torrance. Councilman Shake. Would you read the proclamation first, please? Let me take a water break in the city of Torrance. Kausmein Shake, would you read the Proclamation for us please? I will, it's a long one, so I may take a water break in the middle. Thank you, Mayor. Whereas the 2025 Torrance Armed Forces Debrate and Events which recognizes the United States Army as the honored military service and celebrates its 250th Anniversary this year. Coincides with the National Safe Boarding, Council's 2025 National Safe Boarding Week May 17th through May 23rd. And whereas, the members of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Division 12, Santa Monica Bay, supported by members of the District 11 Southern Region, have consistently participated with the City of Torrance, Armed Forces Dept Red events, and have been fiercely strong advocates in the promotion of recreational voting safety, for all voters and age groups. And take immense pride and satisfaction in advocacy. Outreach and education efforts for members of our community, and whereas, the United States Coast Guard auxiliary division 12, public affairs team members supported by members of district 11, Southern region, plan, facilitates and interacts with public attendance of the Torrance Armed Forces Dipperate and static displays in an effort to educate and advance recreational building safety. And whereas as of January 1, 2025, the state of California with limited exceptions requires all power boat operators, including sailboats and pedal graft that are equipped with motors. If California is the state of primary residence for the boat operator, to obtain and carry the California border card while boating under their operational control, per California state partss Division of Boating and Waterways. And, whereas, qualified volunteer organizations such as the local U.S. Coast Guard, auxiliary, floaters, which augment the active duty U.S. Coast Guard, provide public education courses and resources, including frequent and local California state approved voting safety courses. That can assist in earning the California border card. And whereas, promotion of the voting safety is seven, greatly assist in improving safety and reducing recreational voting-related accidents, injuries and facilities and fatalities. It includes the following simple initiatives. Where your personal full-otation devices take a voting safety class, carry all required safety year, use your engine cut off switch, File a float plan. Be aware of weather and water conditions, boat sober and be considerate of others. Now therefore I, George Chen, as mayor of City of Torrance, California, do hereby proclaim the week of May 17th to 23rd, 2025 as National Safe Building Week. In the city of Torrance, and started a year-round effort to promote safe building and support the goals of safe building campaign, and partners such as the U.S. Coast Guard Exileery, defer the advocate and assist in increasing recreational building safety. Signed this six day May 2025. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you at the podium to accept the proclamation and take a photo. All right. Sir, you have something to show. Thank you, honorable Mayor and City Council and residents of Torrance. On behalf of the exilerists that augment the Coast Guard and provide voter safety in the community and all our marinas. I want to thank you for this honor. We'll see you at the Armed Forces Parade. So right behind the Act of Duty Coast Guard, and remember if you're out in the water, where you're life-est, the Coast Guard's just a call away and get your voters card. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, sir. All right. We're halfway there. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha the city of Torrance. Councilman Kaji, would you please read the proclamation for us? Thank you, Your Honor. Whereas Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is observed in the month of May to recognize the history and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. And whereas the month of May was chosen as AAPI Heritage Month to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese citizen to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, in which the majority of the workers who lay the tracks were Chinese immigrants. And whereas the city of Torrance is proud to be the home of a large AAPI population that contributes greatly to the prosperity of the community and offers a diversity of cultures, languages and religions. And, whereas, while we celebrate the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, we must also acknowledge a darker aspect of the AAPI experience in the United States, which includes painful stereotypes and structural discrimination. And whereas we celebrate and honor the invaluable contributions the AAPI communities have made to our nation's culture and the arts, law, science and technology, sports and public service, including the courageous Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, serving on the front lines during the pandemic as health care providers, first responders, teachers, armed forces, and other essential workers. And whereas the City of Torrance is proud to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and commemorate the essential contributions, sacrifices, and accomplishments that Asian-American and Pacific Islanders have made to our community and nation. Now, therefore, I, George Chen, as Mayor of City of Torrance, California, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In the City of Torrance and call upon the residents of City of Torrance to learn more about the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders signed the six day of May 2025. Okay. Now I like to welcome Diana Tanoway representing her uncle World War II Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, technical sergeant Ted T. Tanoway, representing her uncle, World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Technical Sergeant Ted T. Tanoway. Ted Tanoway served with extraordinary courage in the fame 442nd Regiment Combat Team, a unit of Japanese-American soldiers known for its bravery and sacrifice during World War II. They are the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the United States military history. Today Diane honors her uncle's legacy here in the city of Torrance where his story began. She will be joining us on May 17th for the Armed Forces Day parade. And she's here tonight to receive the AAPI Heritage Awareness Month Proclamation. Diane, would you join me at the Polity and Accept the Proclamation? Thank you so much for recognizing my uncle, and I'm proud to be representative of the tunnel wave family. Thank you so much for recognizing my uncle and I'm proud to be representative to item six. Moving on to item six. This is a proclamation declaring the month of May 2025 as Jewish American Heritage Month in the City of Torrance. Councilman Gerson, would you read the proclamation verse please? Thank you. Whereas Jewish American Heritage Month is a time to honor the significant religious, cultural, political, economic, athletic, scientific, academic, and philanthropic contributions Jewish Americans have made to the United States of America and the state of California. Whereas Jewish American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to recognize the rich history, traditions, and diverse contributions the Jewish Americans have brought to American society across the generations. And whereas Jewish Americans have made remarkable achievements in numerous fields, including math, medicine, science, film, and television, music, business, sports, government, and military service. And whereas Jewish Americans have also played a vital and active role in the advancement of civil rights for all Americans, standing alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders in the fight for equality, justice, and freedom. And whereas Jewish communities continue to confront hostility and bigotry, as recent data from the Anti-Defamation League indicates a record high of 9,354 anti-Semitic incident incidents in the US in 2024, marking a 140% increase over the previous- record high of 9,354 anti-Semitic incidents in the US in 2024, marking a 140% increase over the previous year. And whereas Jewish American Heritage Month serves as a reminder of the resilience, courage, and contributions of Jewish people to the collective strength of our country in reaching the academic, social, cultural, and political landscape of the United States of America. Now, therefore, I, George Chen, as mayor of the City of Torrance, California, do here by proclaim the month of May, 2025, as Jewish-American Heritage Month in the City of Torrance, encourage the community honor Jewish-American history and contributions during Jewish-American heritage month, sign this six day of May, 2025. Okay. I like to invite Rabbi Dede, Rabbi Lewis, Rabbi Pinson to join me at the podium to accept the proclamation and take a photo. You're on a Rabbi Dede of of Temple of Met and Rabbi Pinson to join me at the podium to accept the proclamation and take a photo. You're on our Rabbi D.D. of Temple of Met and Rabbi Pinson of Habadip South Bay have both expressed their appreciation to us. But we're both unable to attend due to other commitments. Thank you. Understand, we will communicate with them and make sure they get the proclamation. Moving on to 6th F. This is a proclamation declaring the month of May 2025 as older Americans month in the city of Torrance. Wow, that was a loud one. As the elder statesman of the council, Councilman Cagy, would you read the proclamation for us? All give it my best. Whereas, each year May is designated as older Americans month, a time to recognize the tremendous contributions of older adults to our communities, families and nation through their wisdom, experience and dedication. And whereas, aging should be recognized as a dynamic journey filled with growth, opportunity, and meaningful contributions rather than outdated stereotypes. And whereas the theme for older Americans month 2025 quote, flip the script on aging unquote, encourages us to challenge misconceptions and foster a culture that respects and celebrates aging as a time of continued vitality and purpose. And whereas by embracing positive perceptions of aging, we empower older adults to engage fully in society, pursue lifelong learning, and share their talents and knowledge across generations, and whereas communities that support and value older adults create environments where people of all ages can thrive and contribute, and whereas this year the City of Torrance will celebrate older Americans' month by encouraging everyone to promote policies and programs that enhance Torrance's older adults' health, independence and social connection, ensuring that they have the resources and support needed to lead fulfilling lives. Now, therefore, I, George Chen as Mayor of City of Torrance, California, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as older Americans' month. In the city of Torrance, it urged our residents acknowledge the older adults in our lives who make such an impactful difference in our community, signed the six day of May 2025. I like to invite the commission on aging chair Rosie Mayfield, Vice Chair Mary Hyelman, Commissioner Julie Delgeri, Commissioner Keith Montoya, and any additional commissioners and liaisons present to join me at the podium to accept the the proclamation and take a photo. Rosie, are you the one that's going to share a few words with us? Yes, so. Okay, well, wait till they come. Yes. Come on. They come. Thank you mayor. Our former and City Council, the Commission on Aging would like to recognize six of our older Americans here at the Liban Torrents and for their dedication and service for what they do to Torrents, for Torrents to make Torrents the best city there is in the South Bay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I on to item 6G from the commission on aging and community service director. On behalf of my colleagues on the Torrent City Council is my privilege to recognize this years 2025 Older Americans Award recipients. Betty Collier, Bill Collier, Dorothy Austin, Ellen Jenkins, Russell LaF, and Werner Willoughby, who are all nominated by the Torrance Commission on Aging. We will now call each recipient to the podium individually to be presented with their award. First, I'd like to invite Betty Collier to join us at the podium, please. I guess I'll read this first. Actually, he's next. Just hang tight. You'll be recognized individually. Betty has been a dedicated volunteer at the Torrance South Bay YMCA for over eight years, offering her time several times a week to support various programs. She actively contributes to the YMCA's yearly campaign as a team leader or division manager and participates in the annual golf tournament, which raises funds for youth programs beyond the YMCA, Betty also volunteers weekly at a torrent school, demonstrating her commitment to education and community support. She has played a key role in welcoming seniors to the YMCA's lunch program, engages in special events such as holiday decorations, Halloween activities, and healthy lifestyles day. Betty's leadership and generosity are further evident through her personal financial contributions to the YMCA and her active participation in community speeches and events. Betty, please accept this plaque as well as our sincere gratitude to your many years of continuous service, de Torrance and the greater South Bay. Would you like to say a few words? Thank you. Go ahead and speak and now give it to you. Thank you very, very much for this honor. It really is a privilege to volunteer at the YMCA and an honor to live in Torrance. When we moved here from Florida, I never thought that I would enjoy community as much as I do Torrance. and not only do I enjoy the community, but I am thrilled to have the opportunity to volunteer at the Y. So thank you very, very much for this honor. Thank you. Let's take a photo for it. Thank you. After you, Bill, we will do the double Don't go too far Next I'd like to invite Bill Collier to please join me at the podium. Bill is a compassionate and dedicated volunteer at the Torrents South Bay YMCA for over eight years, offering his time multiple times a week and stepping up as a team leader or division manager for the YMCA's yearly campaign. He has actively involved in the annual golf tournament, helping the race funds for youth programs, enjoys engaging with golfers to promote YMCA's mission. Alongside Betty, Bill will come seniors to the YMCA lunch program, encouraging participation and fostering a sense of community. His volunteer efforts extend the holiday decorations, Halloween events for children, and various enrichment programs. Bill's commitment to service is recognized through his financial donations to the YMCA and his participation in community speeches and special events. His selfless dedication has made a lasting impact on the YMCA and the greater Torrance community. Bill, please accept this plaque and recognition of your unselfish service in our community. All right. Applause. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. There's lots of ways to be part of the community with your business owner, public service. The volunteering is a wonderful, wonderful way to be part of the community. And we have been so fortunate to be able to be part of this community and grow to love it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to you. And now I would like to ask Dorothy Austin to join me at the podium. Hello. Oh! Oh! I love to hear all the fan clubs here. Let's see. Dorothy is a dedicated and invaluable volunteer whose contributions have enriched the Moderna Marsh Preserve and her community for over 12 years. I could attest to that. I think I saw you there when I was there. Yes. Yes. As a greeter at the front gate, a gift shop attendant and a key member of the outreach team, she plays a vital role in welcoming visitors, supporting events, and spreading awareness. She also assists at the reception desk, helps with events set up and breakdown and is an essential part of the annual Nature Center festival and friends of Modrona Marsh fundraisers. Beyond her work at the Marsh Dorothy is an active member at the Bartlett senior center assisting the senior walking club and engaging in women's empowerment classes. In addition to her volunteer efforts, Dorothy is the elder of a large family of four children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One great-great-grandchild. In 19 great, 19 great and one great-great. Wow, wow. Yes, exactly what she said. Over nine... And 19 great, 19 great and one great great. Wow, wow. Yes, exactly what she said. Over 19, I got that, I got that. I got that. She continues to work professionally, providing on-call support for a senior retirement facility in Orange County. Her energy, compassion, and dedication make her a beloved figure at the Moderna March and beyond, leaving a lasting impact on all who have the pleasure of knowing her. Thorathy on behalf of the City Council is my pleasure to present you with this plaque as we honor your many years of exemplary community service. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Council. Majorna Marsh saved my life during COVID and the friends and the family, the fellowship that I have there is beyond belief. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. She's one of the nights. That's there. You're not number 19. One of 19 but not number 19. Got it. All right. The great, great granddaughter. Got it. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hopefully I'm still in the right order. Now I would like to ask Ellen Jenkins to please join me at the podium. OK. Okay, your fan club. Ellen has dedicated over 40 years to volunteering in Torrance, beginning with the PTA at her daughter's schools, and expanding her service to numerous community organizations. She currently serves as recording secretary at the Torrance Women's Club, where she also helps select scholarship recipients and participates in fundraising efforts. Ellen has been an active volunteer with meals on wheels for nearly a decade, delivering meals to homebound individuals and serving as board president for four years. She has also supported the Volunteer Center by preparing backpacks with disadvantaged children and reading to young students. Additionally, she has contributed to local animal rescues that lost the CNUS philanthropic group and the ECHO committee at Northrop Grumman, researching charitable organizations, known for her dedication and willingness to help wherever needed. Ellen is a compassionate advocate for community service. Ellen, please accept this plaque as well as our you. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor and council members, thank you so very much. I'm very humbled and honored to be with such wonderful esteemed volunteers of Torrance. Born and raised here and I will pass on here too. I'm sure. So anyway, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And now, would Russell Lafei please join me at the podium? Yes! Russell has dedicated 16 years to volunteer service in water management for Torrance. He spent six years on the Torrance Water Commission, including two terms as chair, before serving the past 10 years as a city's representative on the board of metropolitan water district of Southern California. Over the last five years, he has played a crucial role in shaping water policies serving on key committees such as climate action, water planning, stewardship, and engineering operations. His expertise in electrical engineering and commitment to public service have significantly benefit the community. His leadership and dedication makes him a deserving candidate for this honor. Russell, please accept this plaque as well as our thanks for your service to the community. Would you like to say a few words? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Mayor and City Council. There's been a privilege and an honor to serve the City of Torrance as representative on the Metropolitan Water District. It's important for all of us to know that Torrance serves as sort of a place of, we are really good at water. We're seen as being really good at water. We, part of our water is comes from our diesel plant. And when we look at it in every year, the amount that we pay for water is about the lowest in the area. And I just hope that I did something like that, but I am really, really, really pleased that this has happened. Thank you again. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Very much, President. I'm going to tell you a hydro engineer. Yeah, I should be. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go to the other side. I Warner will be pleased to join us at the podium? Warner has been a dedicated volunteer with the Torrance Sister City Association for over 17 years. Beginning in 2007 when his his son joined the Student Exchange Program in Kashua, Japan, he has since served as TSEA President, a board member, Student Selection Committee member, August Activities Chair and Bunkassai Festival Chair through 2024. A key leader of the Bunkassai Cultural Festival, Warner, overseen its organization and continues to advocate on logistics and planning. He played a crucial role in TSEA's 50th anniversary celebration in 2023 and kept the organization active during COVID through virtual engagement. Beyond TSEA Warner is a chemistry teacher in the Los Angeles School District, coaching track, cross-country, and the academic, the Catholic team for a decade. Even in retirement, Warner remains a guiding force in TSEA, sharing his experience and leadership to support the organization's growth and impact on the community. We're on behalf of the City Council. It's my pleasure to present you with this plaque for all you have done and all you continue to do to serve our community. Oh, man. Oh, man. You're going to have to do it. Go ahead. Oh, you got it written. Go ahead. I'm going to try this. Yeah. I'm going to try this. Thank you so much. Mary Chen, city council members and the commission on aging. I'm very honored to receive this wonderful award. When I first became TSEA President in 2012, I visited various city offices to take care of TSEA affairs. I often heard staff members say, what can we do to help you? When I acknowledge their assistance in generosity, I sometimes heard the reply, that's the torrents way. Torrents, Sister City activities such as our annual Book of Side Japanese Festival and the Student Exchange Program with our Sister City Casua require the support of many city departments, especially cultural arts and central services. Thank you to the many individuals in the city, departments, who made my job so rewarding. Within TSEA, there are countless volunteers who step up each activity, and I extend my gratitude to all TSEA members, who I've had the pleasure of working with over the past 18 years. Their contributions of time, experience, and dedication have resulted in the success of the Sister City Program for over 50 years. My reward in volunteering has always been the smiles, positive comments, and thank yous made by the student delegates, their parents, TSEA members, and our sister, city, friends, and casua. I look forward to continuing my involvement in TSEA and I'm very grateful to this recognition. One final thank you goes to my wife, Eileen, whose support made all the activities mentioned possible. Thank you, Eileen. Thank you, City Council. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come up. No, just sit. Eileen, would you come up? Oh, no. She's going to take it a hold on. Someone take picture for I lean would you come up So I'm take picture for I lean she needs to be in the picture They'll send you the photo Yeah. You can get in the middle a little bit. Get in the middle a little bit. There you go. Hold on there. There's other cameras. There you go. Oh my God. Okay. So you guys would get a picture from them. Let's see. I know, I know. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is Jerry. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you. Thank you, Jerry. All right. Thank you, everyone. Now, if everyone would join me in one final round of applause for all the recipients of the 2025 Older Americans Award. Moving on to item 6H. We'll give him a chance to exit. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. Wow. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. You're going to be a better person. Wow Okay. All right. That was wonderful. All right, that was wonderful. We're gonna go with six H and then come back to 6G. Hopefully you'll understand what that means. Six H, this is a resolution for the observance of the 63rd annual arm forces day parade. City clerk may have a number in title, please. Yes, Your Honor. This is resolution number 2025-20. A resolution of the City Council of the City of Torrance, California declaring May 16 through May 18, 2025, for observance of the 63rd Annual Armed Forces Day Parade and Celebration. I'll take a motion to adopt resolution 2025-20. So moved. Second. Start voting please. Mayor. My vote is a yes. Thank you. You're on that motion carries with council member Colony absent. Thank you. Moving on to item 6G. Actually something is missing here. Oh, six I. This is a resolution regarding the 63rd annual Armed Forces Day Parade City Clerk. I have a number entitled, please. Yes, Honor. This is Resolution Number 2025-21. A resolution of the City Council of the City of Torrance, California, expressing appreciation to Lieutenant, General, Jonathan, P. Braga for serving as Grand Marshal of the 63rd Annual Armed Forces Day Parade and Observant. I'll take a motion adopt resolution 2025-21. I move that we adopt resolution 2-025-21. Second. Start voting please. My vote is at yes. Thank you, Mayor. You are on that motion. Carries with council member Colony. Thank you. I'd like to invite Torrance Police Department Lieutenant Fisher to join me at the podium to accept both resolutions on behalf of Torrance PD and take a photo. All right. How are you going to hold both of these? I have help. Okay, bring them up. Bring them up. Do we need another one? No, first one? Yeah, yeah, yeah, at least. I mean... both of these. Okay bring them up bring them up. Do we need another one? Yeah yeah yeah. These are big ones so we need a big cat. All right all right you get in the middle here. Thank you. Yeah, let's see. All right, I think I got them all done here. I'm going to leave that here. Okay. Okay. Moving on to our communications number one. This portion of the meeting is reserved for comments on items under consent calendar or items that are not on the agenda. Under the Ralph and Brown Act, City Council cannot act on items raised during public comment, but may respond briefly to statements made or questions posed. Request clarification, refer to item to staff. Speakers under ORLs are limited to either oral communications number one, oral communications number two. And no longer than one minute per speaker. Time starts when you step up to the microphone. presenting handout material to council, please provide 11 copies to the city clerk before speaking. Handouts will be distributed while you speak. City clerk, do we have anyone? Your Honor, we had technical issues so no one was able to sign up for any of the items tonight. But that's okay, no worries. You will still have your time. So those in the public who was not able to enter their names, please step up to the microphone. And when you get up there, you can cue yourself in when you know when it's finished. You get one minute per speaker. And it's 8-11. Hey, it's Carol Gillis with your Torn's Theatre Company. Well, sad to say, but we're going to have our last play for this 2025 season and it's called the birthday club. Now imagine five women getting together to talk about birthdays, their lives, their They're high, they're low, they're giggles, they're laughter and shoulders to cry on. So bring your giggles. It's going to be June 7th through the 28th. At downtown Torrent, go to torrentsthedercumpany.com. Get your tickets now because we have a couple of sold out performances. So do get your tickets and every one of you should come and see it because you'll hear about what's happening at the summer musical. Thank you. Good evening, Charlie Salinas. I'd like to ask that traffic enforcement can go back to the private school at Carson Street and in and in the case of Avenue, they're impeding traffic again. Also on Sunday, local Vietnam veterans of America, Chapter 53 hosted five high school students and their families for an event where the students, high school students get a $1,200 scholarship and they get to read their winning essays to a room full of veterans. It's an event where it's hard felt by everyone involved and it gives these high school students a chance to talk with us veterans after the event. Thanks. Change this here. Good evening. My name is Brendan Baltimore and I'm a long time resident of Torrance, I live at 2106 Wood Avenue. And I'm just going to read my little remarks here. I'm a property manager and former general contractor for the last 30 years. I'm here to seek your assistance in the ongoing plight of businesses devastated by the current import tariffs. Particularly, I draw your attention to my little sister's torn-spaced Girl Skateboard Company on Kachewa. They're one of the largest skateboard companies in the world, although you probably never heard of them. Last year, Mark's 30 years in the business and they celebrate their roots in Torrance. You can imagine the work for my sister, who was only a high school education, raised in a single parent home, built this legendary enterprise. However, now they are at risk of losing so much of what they have built in our town. She didn't vote for the current president but it finds it incredulous that he would act so abruptly, not allowing. Sir, your time is up. We got. Thank you. Thank you, Got it. I know, I'm city of Torrance. I like to take a minute to just press silent. You don't have to join me. Okay, my point is the boys you guys bring on board. They are not good people. I'm sorry, but I have to tell the truth. They are very brutal. They mistreat people. I've been a victim. They broke my hands and they stepped on my tongue tissue or my uncle yesterday. I told the boy that my shoulder was hurting. I have a neck brace from some other accident. I was attacked at the bus stop. He still did not listen to me. He still blessed me in the handcuffs. I kept crying. He didn't listen to me. Bermudas, he threw my phone away. He broke the phone with my Samsung and stole my T-bag. He is so cheap. Bermudas, I need you to do just a little bit of work. T-bag. He is so cheap. But Moudas, I need you to take justice by myself. Thank you, man. God, we got your message. Your time. Okay. God, we got your message. Your turn. Oh. Thank you, ma'am. God it. We got your message. Your time. Okay Honorable mayor say to council and the city staff. I want to thank you for your support on the Japanese American the moral wall, but $4.99 million is that gonna be enough to start that project because When they start that project, you know the materials couldn't go up So I feel right now that they're gonna need all the help they can get also I'm gonna make announcement May 22nd the our Vietnam veteran America chapter 53 we're gonna be putting the Vietnam Wall back together at the Rehills Cemetery. That'd be May 22nd. Also, one more thing I want to say is that I wish everybody in the city of Toronto happy Monday day. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anyone else who wish to speak in oral communications number one, please step up to the microphone. Hi, I'd just like to mention it, Officer 12 was terminated. Thank for the good work of the Civil Service Commission, our city cleaner as we celebrate the Blue Ribbon weeks. Let's not talk about these bastards. And he was 12, he already working on number 15, Matucci. Anyway, for you, Guber, last week you almost kicked me out because I tried to tell you I cannot hear. After you spend $600,000 on microphones and shit and I cannot hear and I let you know the answer is not, I gonna be kicked out. The answer is up, answer is would be gonna turn off the microphones. Citizen deserve good microphones after you the next day600,000. Not threatening the citizen to be kicked out. Goober. Thank you sir. I could assure you that microphone and the speakers are working very good. Yeah. Anyone else who wishes to speak? OK. Then we will move on to the consent calendar. So do any council members wish to pull any items from the consent calendar? I don't see any. I'll take a motion. Well maybe I should ask the city clerk. I have a number entitled for item 8k please. Yes, Your Honor. Oh hang on I think Council and Council may want to pull something. I'd like to pull item 8c. 8c as in Charlie. Yes. Okay. Any other items? Okay. So let's do this. I think we still need a number of items for 8K. Yes, Your Honor. This is ordinance number 3947. An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Torrance, California. Repealing section 8 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Division 4 of the Municipal Code and its entirety. I'll take a motion to approve all items on the consent calendar with exception of 8K in the adopt of the 8C. Sorry about that, I think the kind of the- I make an motion to accept all of the consent calendar items for the exception of 8C and adopt the resolution in 8k. Second. Start voting please. Your Honor, that motion carries with Council Member Kalani Apton. Right, item 8c. Thank you, Your Honor. A question for the finance director regarding item 8c. The approval of a third amendment to the consulting services agreement with VASCA's and company, LLP of Glendale, California. How long have we had this agreement? And is it my understanding that with the additional extensions, it could terminate next year June 21st, 2026. Good evening, Mayor and Council, Ian Daly, finance director. Approval of this extension would set it to a five year term. At the conclusion of every five year term, staff's practice has been to issue a new RFP to solicit proposals from vendors and award a new fresh contract after that. Thank you for your response. No other questions? I'll take a motion to approve item 8c. So move. Second. Start voting please. You're going to know that motion carries with council member Colony up that. All right. Let's see where are we now? We're on to just want to make sure I don't miss this. 1718. We'll now be taking items 10A and 10B out of order. Item 10A from the City Manager and Community Development Director. Is there a staff presentation? Good evening, Your Honour. I have some comments, provide turnover to staff. Thank you, all of our mayor and members of the City Council. I'm pleased to present item 10A regarding continuation of 30 to 90 temporary housing village operations. After thorough RFP process, I'm recommending approval of the consulting services agreement with Harbor Interface Services to operate our facility for the coming fiscal year. As evaluation showed Harbor Interface Services scored the highest among vendors and brings valuable experience both to our spa 8CES, which is our continual entry system lead agency and from operating similar facilities in our region. I'm also requesting Council authorize acceptance of grant funding, tolling over 1.7 million for multiple sources to fully fund this program without general fund impact. These include the bear with me, the coges, which is the cities and council of government, interim service housing funding, PLHA, permanent local housing allocation grants, and measure local solutions fund through the South Bay Council of Government's partnership. Our homelessness initiative continues to show positive results with 41 clients house through 3290 and another 41 through our street outreach team efforts. The dashboard at torrentia.gov slash homeless provides updated matrix on our progress and I encourage our community members to visit. I want to thank normal Vera,, Valley Hernandez, Irene Sanchez, Julius Midsum, again, Vietnam, our community development department, and the TPD community of officers, including Sergeant Kim, Deputy Officers Gonzalez Clark, Kraft and Volga, for the diligent work on this item, and all their hard work addressing homelessness response at the city of Torrance. I also appreciate our partnership with South Bay Council of Governments, which provides critical resources that help transition our residents from homelessness to permanent housing. And a special thank you to the Social Services Commission, who began researching promising practices related to addressing homelessness back in 2016 and formulaing recommendations for Cal's consideration With many of them with many of the recommendations being implemented in our program today I'm available on with staff to answer any questions. I know turn over to miss this again to continue the presentation Thank you on a council. Thank you, Mr. Triparian and good evening honorable mayor and members of the city. Zulma-Jent with the City Manager's Office. Tonight's presentation, the team consists of Julius Smith, Norma Olvera, and from Harbor Interfaith, the team will present information on 3290, which will be presented by Mr. Aaron Street, who manages the site and to hear a high hazelight, who is a Director of Harbor Interfaith. We will be focusing on the few items listed on the slide, which will be temporary housing operations and the contract itself, funding appropriations. The city's response to homelessness via 3290 and street outreach and we will finalize this item with recommendations from staff and staff will be available for questions immediately after the item. Next slide please. Just a quick background on 3290. Back in June 2022 of 2021, your honorable body approved the civic center grounds to be the site for the interim housing, which is now called 30 to 90 temporary housing village. On April of that same of the next year, City Council awarded the agreement to Harbor Interfaith Services to provide interim housing services for our program 30 to 90, which is rubbed round services to other clients at 30 to 90. On July 5 of that same year, the doors open and intake of the first client was conducted, and the site has been up to capacity since then. Which brings us to this year where we're looking to give your honorable body the recommendation to award harbor interfaith with the continued services of 3290. And now I will pass along the baton to Ms. Julia Smith. Good evening Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council, Julia Smith from CDD. So with Council's approval of the three-year extension of 3290 in December, staff advertised an RFP for 3290 operations. This slide details the RFP process and results. So the RFP was originally opened in January but did not receive any responsive bids. The RFP was reopened in February and the city received five responses. The organizations that responded were Harbor Interfaith Services, the current operator, Los Angeles Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, hope the mission and Alcott Center for Mental Health Services. After proposal review and interviews, Harbor Interfaith Services received the highest score with the second lowest cost. As noted in the staff report, the proposed operations cost with Harbor Interfaith is less than the current operating cost. This is due to reduction in the minimum staffing required in the RFP and is in alignment with the model of other interim housing sites throughout Los Angeles County. Staff recommends that City Council award the operations contract to harbor interfaith per recommendation number one of the item. Next slide please. So this slide details the funding appropriation for the recommended contract. The first funding sources the cities and councils of government interim housing services fund, also known as COGIS. The city's full award is $1,284,800 of which $1,194,864 is rejected to be utilized for the operations contract. This is the city's second co-JIS award. Co-JIS is a Measure H funded award facilitated by the LA County CEO's Homeless Initiative Office. Staff would like to thank CEO H.I. for their ongoing support of this project. The next funding source is the permanent local housing allocation award, also known as PLHA. The city's utilize this funding each year for 3090 operations. The PULHJ is a formula fund from the state of California. This slide illustrates the staff and dissipates utilizing grant funds from years 2022 and 2023. PLHA awards for this operations contract totaling around $338,000. Recommendation number three of the item is to approve the application for the 2023 PLHA formula funds. The final source is $250,000 from the South Bay City's Council of Governments, also known as the South Bay Cog. This funding comes from the Measure A Local Solutions Fund and is contingent on the city's execution of the MOU, listed in recommendation number five of the item. We'll go over this in more detail on the next slide. The funding appropriated to the contract may change based on projected current contract underspend and the remaining $164,535 and $60 of funds appropriated will be expended on city administrative and $32.90 maintenance cost. Next slide please. So measure A passed in November 2024. This ballot measure replaces measure H and raises the sales tax to half a cent with no expiration date. Measure A includes state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state10,000 in a direct award to the city for 30 to 90 operations and maintenance cost. Additionally, through contracting with the COG, the city will retain access to regional programs essential to the city's homeless response effort. These programs include time-limited subsidies, functional zero, share housing, and client aid, where we're able to assist clients with things like security deposits, moving expenses, temporary hotel stays, etc. The share housing program is a room rental program that's able to house our clients straight off of street outreach directly into housing. With the direct allocation and access to regional programs, the city anticipates a value of over $640,000 through contracting with the COG, which exceeds the city's measure a formula allocation from the county of $558,000. So the 640 is 310 in the direct allocation and 330 in the access to the regional programs. Therefore, staff recommends the city entering to the MOU, which is listed as recommendation number five in the council item. Next slide, please. So now I'd like to turn it over to Harbor Interface staff, Tahia, Hayes, and Aaron Street to go over the portion of the presentation focused on the update of the city's progress in addressing homelessness and torrents through 3290. Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak. I am Tahi Heyslith, the executive director for Harbor and a faith and I'm going to turn it over to Aaron. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for allowing us the time. So as you can see, we've had pretty good success with our site. As you can see here, we have 41 that have been permanently housed through the inception of the site. from our site, along with that we have 32 that have been housed specifically through the use of vouchers whether they have come from different local agencies to include HACLA as well as through the City of Torrance Housing Authority. And lastly, you have the figure that shows how many of our clients we have been able to refer over to medical services. What I would like to point out is that our site is a program and we do more than just how the homeless. What we like to focus on is making sure that we're able to get them to a situation where their permanent housing is sustainable and so that's why connecting them to healthcare services is so important. We want to make sure that when they move to where they do go to that they are healthy and able to sustain their own way of living. What we aren't able to capture with the numbers that you do see here are the many ways that our program has been able to house those that we've been able to serve. We've been able to work with our clients to not only house them through voucher opportunities, as well as permanent supportive housing opportunities. We have been able to do such things as family reunification. We have been able to link them to higher income to make sure that they're able to pay their own way, as well as to link them to affordable housing programs that they're able to pay along with to include with the time limit of subsidies program. So we're making sure that our clients are able to access more than just waiting for a voucher to come around waiting for a permanent supportive housing opportunity to come around. We're making sure that they're able to sustain their own way, which is something that we find very important that promote sustainability in their housing opportunity. Next slide, please. Overall, our site operations do include making sure that our case management team are very hands on with their entire operation as far as making sure they're able to move sustainably into permanent housing. We make sure that they receive all of their necessary documentation whether that be Social Security card, birth certificate, California ID and driver's license making sure that they're completely documented and ready to go. Harbor Interfaith does the majority of its work through the coordinate entry system. We're making sure that our clients have the standardized testing already completed. Making sure that their QD scores are identified within the system. This allows us to be able to match them to the precise opportunities that they need in order to make sure that they reach the housing opportunities that is a right fit for them. We are not just putting our clients somewhere where we think is beneficial. We're making sure that the system is working the way it's supposed to, to make sure that our clients reach the most sustainable opportunity. And lastly, what that goes along with is to connect them to medical and physical health professionals. We have the fortunate circumstance of being partnered with the Venice Family Clinic to make sure that we're having routine medical staff on our site as well as psychiatric services. So our clients are receiving multiple services while they're at our site whether it be disease screening. So STD, STI screening, psychiatric evaluations and different types of blood work that they need in order to make sure that their medication is where it's supposed to be at. So again, thank you for the opportunity to share this evening. Harbor and the face celebrates 50 years of service. So we have a rich history with providing services to the homeless and low income in the South Bay community. We do offer our provides shelter in Redondo Beach. We have two sites in San Pedro along with sites in Long Beach. We are the operator of the coordinated entry system, so we coordinate the efforts for homeless services throughout the South Bay. We have a food pantry and a chalca center. So again, we are honored to be a part of the City of Torrance and the operator of 3290. So thank you for your trust in the services that we provide. Thank you. Now turn the presentation over to the city outreach team. Good evening, Your Honor, Roman here in Council, normal, Veda, one through the homeless outreach team and part of the city manager's office. Before you have some street outreach metrics starting from July 2022 to March 31st. As of that day, the number of homeless encampments cleanups that we had were 49. In the city of Torrance, just to add to that, when we do have a cleanup in the city, the outreach team does make sure to communicate with our community officers and our presence. So in case anyone is experiencing homelessness at the site, we're there to offer services, provide direct transportation to shelter, should folks be interested in services. Additionally, the number of outreach responses as of March 31st, 2025 was a 2006. However, you will see the new data coming this week on the dashboard, which will reflect the 176 outreach responses. And in total, clients from the house through street outreach was 41 clients as of March 31st, 2025. However, since this presentation was submitted, that has gone up 243 with our latest client being permanently housed last week in their own apartment that thinks to LACDA voucher. Next slide please. So our three outreach program operations. All of us three outreach coordinators we make sure to connect with individuals, assess their needs, ensure that they're connected to the appropriate services. We also provide educational brochures which do have our contact information and also inform people of the anti-camping ordinance in the city of Torrance. So we do collaborate with our wonderful CLO team to ensure folks, we are very transparent and we let them know the process and how we can best support them. But we make sure that we communicate that as well. In order for people to refer clients to us, they can connect with us via text or via phone, however, we usually prefer via text given that a lot of times we are out in the field, and we just don't want to disrupt any services that we're providing at the moment. Valerie and Nandis can be reached at 310-803-3390 and she is here Monday through Friday. Our colleague Irene Valente Sanchez can be reached at 424-323-8934 and she's here Tuesday through Saturday and I can be reached at 310-357-8951 and I'm here during City Hall Open Hours. So we we the communities to submit referrals through that process via text or through our homeless R.E. Email which is outreach at torrentie.gov or they can also use our wonderful my torrentie app and you know submit as much description as they can. description as they can. That's something that we ask of our community members and everyone to better locate individuals experiencing homelessness in the city of Torrance. So our recommendation, the recommendation is that your honorable body approved the contract with Harbor Interface Services, except and appropriate grant awards, and authorized submission of the PLHC application. Approved the MOU with the South Bay City Council of Governments, authorized the City Manager of City Signatory and ASEP and File Update on the City's progress in addressing homelessness and torrents. Staff will continue to update the homeless response dashboard at torrenty.gov slash homeless on a monthly basis. And that concludes the presentation and staff is available for questions. Thank you very much. Thank you for all the I'll call the integrated team does for our city. City clerk has anyone signed up to speak? No, we had technical difficulties here on her and I wasn't able to sign up. So at this moment we'll take public comments on this item. So you just come up to the microphone. You have one minute to speak. Thank you, my honor. I met Valerie like two weeks ago. She has my belonging on my phone. Can you please reach out to her to get my belonging? And she needs to hook me up. She said she was going to get me into a shelter, whatever. But I've not heard from her since. And I think she lost my phone because we tried to dial the number from the car. The phone did no ring. She threw most of my belongings away. She said they were trash. No, I'm not gonna take that. She needs to give me everything that belongs to me. She promised me she was gonna get me on the way. Stop. of my belonging the way. She said they were trash. No, I'm not going to take that. She needs to give me everything that belongs to me. She promised me she was going to get me on the way. Stuff up until today. I didn't see Valerie again. She's gone. She's a liar. I'm sorry I have to say the truth. She's very unkind and she's always in a hurry. I told I said I don't thrive in a hurry. You have to lend to the patient. When she talks, she talks like she's in the garage. Always yelling, backing like a dog. I said you don't talk to people like I'm an adult, I'm 47. Talk calmly. That's when people want to listen to you. Look at Obama. Thank you, man. Got it. Anyone else who wants to speak on this item, please come up to the microphone. Hi again, Charlie Salinas. I have to say I'm really proud of the City of Torrance's response to the homeless problem, where other cities were just passing the homeless away from their city to another city, Tarnet stepped up and did something about the homeless problem in so many ways. And it can be difficult to re-remain compassionate with so many mental health issues with the homeless. And I can't say how proud I am enough that for the people that work and I met some of you and worked with some of you and keep up the good work. Thank you sir. Anyone else who wishes from the public would just speak on the numbers that people presented. It's 7.44 million. I don't know how many homeless they take care of. I just made it divided by four easy numbers. That's $185,000. My social security checks is $300. You're spending on homelessness, $100,000 and people who worked four years, $2,300. I find this young lady's part in the handicap parking place before I enter the meeting. I film them, I'm going to put it on YouTube. The parking in handicap place is right front of the NX building. Running the engine. And I heard that you're shipping all the homeless to a long beach. That's what I heard. Why don't you go and talk to the homeless? Not to be speak of. Anyone else who speak on this item? You can only speak once per. And understand. Anyone else who has not spoken on this item? Okay, I'll bring up to the council. Councilor Matucci. Thank you, Mayor. I always like to see progress. This has been ongoing for a very long time. I'm definitely supportive of keeping the program alive. I am concerned about the cost, but I guess there are a lot of services that maybe the public doesn't see that are lumped in to this program. And I know tonight it's just really just about approving the contract for service as a service provider. And the total, I believe the gentleman mentioned seven somewhat, maleian, but that's actually those were the different bids right I mean so the total is actually about 1 million 7 so much is just for the record it's not 7 million 7. That's correct councilman yes so the awarded contract is one point around 1.7 million. We received five different bids. Okay. Just for the record, those are just bids. We ended up picking one. Okay. I mean, just for consideration, I'd like to, because it's working, to me, at least in my opinion, from what I can see, it's a program that is me, and ladies and gentlemen, I'm paying in from what I can see. It's a program that is working. It's expensive, I get it, but the alternative is a disaster. So I think we do need to keep this alive. I like to see more outreach, at least one additional outreach individual to help out. There's a lot of individuals that need support out there. So whatever that looks like, whether it's through SST, our allocation from SST, or if it's through measure A, I don't know how we want to do it, but at least for the council to consider for the future, or as I say, for the near future, to have at least one more outreach individual and or and vehicle if necessary. I'd also like the council to consider an expansion of this program. When we first spoke about this, I think in 2019, there were some areas in the back over here that were identified. I think we looked at upwards of 80 tiny homes at the time we're 77. I don't have the exact number, but I like for us to at least consider adding another maybe 20 tiny homes. Just for consideration, do some research and hopefully maybe come back. Since we're in the topic of giving this contract, work out a path, carve out a path towards an expansion. And I'm also still hoping that we find a site that may not be necessarily right here, but within our obviously within our city, that can accommodate 60 plus tiny homes. I think the need is there, the results, the results I think are positive. It's an expensive task, but it's something that we need to do. Let's see. I think that's it for now. And it's impressive. I think you mentioned 1,076 outreach responses. That's a lot of responses. That's a lot of outreach. And I know a lot of times it takes multiple times for people to accept help. But ultimately I think it's unanimous here that we just want people to get help and get shelter. So whatever that looks like, we're here to help and hopefully we can get this approved and keep the program going. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwomanis. Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to start out by saying how much I do appreciate all of the work that our homeless outreach team has done. Torrance is very fortunate. I don't know if a lot of folks realize it, but not every city has a homeless outreach team that's dedicated to doing the work that they're doing here in Torrance. And I agree with Councilmember Matucci that I would love to see expansion of the program. Torrance is also unique in the point that we have community lead officers through our police department that also join in how we're starting to address our issues here in Torrents. So I am highly supportive of moving it forward. I also agree with Councilmember Matucci about expanding the program and adding additional tiny homes into what we already have because it has been successful. The one question that I do have, I'm not sure who to direct it to, is where we are with our mental health services. I know our clients at $32.90 received them. I don't know where we are with mobile health services or is that something that the city is considering? Who would get that question? Councilwoman, good evening. Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council, Viet Wong City Manager's office. We are very fortunate. We have a strong partnership with an agency called Venice Family Clinic. They come out half a day each week at no cost to the city or to our operations. Part of that time is split between those at 3290 and they do actually go out to do street outreach as well. So we have our own what I would call a makeshift mobile clinic using different agencies, including the services of Venice family clinic who does provide us with a psychiatrist. Is there any opportunity for us to increase the time that they spend here in Torrance? Maybe at cost to us because when you get down to what the root causes our mental health is a big piece of that. Great question, Councilwoman. That's something we can definitely explore and see if they may have interest as your honor bother you may recall. About two years ago, you did approve of the city to enter into an agreement for a part-time mental health worker. We had difficulty filling that, even with the contract service, the agency that originally started with us acknowledged just the difficulty it this to track and retain individuals to do this work. So we can definitely reach out to Venice Family Clinics to see if that's of interest to them. I would like to see if we can maybe expand those services because they're so critically important. And again, I am super supportive of expanding 3290 to add some additional tiny homes, I think, on our last count. We actually fared better than we thought we were going to. And that's just a testament to the commitment that this team, the work that they've put into. And for our homeless outreach team. I can't thank you enough. I know every time that I see the blue vans going up and down the street that someone is definitely getting the help that they need. So we appreciate that part. That's all I have, thanks. Thank you, Councilman Shade. Thank you, Mayor. I too am very pleased with the work the staff is doing. And also the partnership with the South Bay Cog. I know that South Bay Cog is helping us to achieve our goal as well. Also want to thank our officers, they go ahead and take a lot of challenges. Sometimes when you go in the field, it's not easy to deal with the clients. That's the word that you use and I'm very proud of the work that you all are doing. Before I ask or talk about HIS extension, do we have a lost count for clients in our city of Torrance? How many homelessness? Councilman Shakevey at Wong-Say Managers Office. As staff has communicated before, the agency that leads the homeless count is the Los Angeles homeless services authority and the city does participate in the annual homeless count. It's been a little challenging. I believe it was in 2024, was the first year, LASA changed their methodology and no longer provide cities with total numbers. Prior to 2024, what they did was they used something called a multiplier. So based if volunteers count a vehicle through a statistical model, LASA would estimate how many people they believe to be in the vehicle. So for instance, if a volunteer counted 10 cars and Lasza's model happened to be 1.3 person per car, then our number would have been 13 or for an RV. The multiplier, if it was 1.9, let's say there was 10 RVs that were counted, then 19 individuals would have been included in our account. Starting in 2024, Lasza no longer provides that data. What they do is they provide data of actual individuals we count who are not in a dwelling. That is to say individuals who are sleeping in the street that we can physically count. And then they provide us with the second number, which is the number of dwellings that were accounted. So the number itself has not translated well from the past until now. We are starting to track the new data that they have. In other words, we're tracking the number of people that are physically counted, as well as the types of dwellings and the number of types of dwellings are accounted, starting with year 2024. Thank you, Viet. You always give more than what I asked for. Thank you for that explanation. It's a compliment. Yeah, you take it at a compliment. It's a compliment. Thank you for summing up a couple of my questions. I think what I'm getting to it, if we want to expand or have more tiny homes, there should be a need for that, which means that is there an increase for clients in the city of Torrance and you feel that this is important for us to expand those or have extension for those, you want to say anything elaborate on that? A great question, Councilman. One of the numbers I really listen to very closely. It comes from our community lead officers and our outreach team. I believe our team who goes out there every single day and does this work is a much better gauge that we should be relying on. The homeless count is referred to as a point in time count for a reason. It represents one evening on one night in the month of January. That is not nearly as accurate as those who are doing the field work. So I will always defer to the community lead officers and the outreach team to give us guidance on what they are actually seeing in the need. I think it's the money you wanna see. Yes, thank you, council member. I was so much in with with the city manager's office to add to Viet's answer is There's no straight answer, but we do see a few more homelessness a few more homeless people in the city But that doesn't mean that they qualify for 30 to 90 that just means that's people either going through the city Or they're from out of state So they get connected to other shelters not in the city because as everybody knows, everybody that is connected or has some tights to turns are the ones that go into 3290. So to answer your question, expanding 3290 because we have seen an increase in senior citizens, vehicular homelessness and families, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're gonna go into 30 to 90. But the team does an amazing job at connecting them to other shelters that are available, and that meet their needs. Thank you. And that's exactly what I was looting because I want you to please explain to the public. We are not only trying to put people in tiny homes, we're trying to solve and prevent from people becoming homeless. That is the main goal for your team. And I know that you mentioned a couple times how you reach out to some of those people. They are kind of low-hanging fruits or just one or two salaries away before becoming homeless. Can you expand on that for the public please? Yes, so the 41 individuals that the outreach team has housed from street to direct housing is because these people that are just going through some hard times recently got demoted from their job with less hours, but still employed or just has a part-time job, but it's looking for a full-time job. So the team does a great job by assessing the situation, assessing the client and making sure that they get connected to the always connecting the person to the resource that best meets their needs. In this case, in those 41 cases, they connected clients to shared housing, meaning they were connected to a room where they can rent based on their income. And then eventually they can transition to a place where they can afford on their own. So those are the resources that we partner with the South Bay Cog to give the clients the resources that meets their needs. That meets their needs. Right. And that's why I want to thank the South Bay Cog for helping us to achieve that goal. The 40 individuals that we put in a permanent house, Do we any follow-up? Do we know all of them are still in permanent housing? The ones that the street outreach did place in shared housing, they do case management for them, because they have that connection with the landlord. Where if anything goes wrong, the landlord does contact the outreach team and say, hey, I'm having issues with your client, can you please come and follow up? So the team does do follow up with those clients. As far as 30 to 90, once they exit the program, a lot of them were placed in permanent supportive housing. So that is coupled with case management that has nothing to do with us anymore. That facility provides the case management to those clients that get housed from 30 to 90 to permanent supportive housing. Now the street outreach team does do follow up with their clients to make sure that they stay housed. Okay, now what we hear today about the extension. So I like to understand HIS and their bid process. And I know that there are other two or three companies from the name of it says LA Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Do they provide those kind of assistance for the people they're drug addict to kind of assistance for those people? And does HIS also provide that assistance? So Harbor Interfaith and including the outreach team does connect clients to substance abuse programs. I know normal vera has directly transported somebody that accepted that service. Of course, it has to be something that the client chooses to attend. And between Harbor and the outreach team, they do make it a point to connect that person to the services and transport them, provide transportation and make sure that if you're part of 30 to 90 and you want to get enrolled in some type of substance abuse program, your unit will still be here waiting for you once you finish that program that way they have a home to return after they finalized their substance abuse program. So the resources are there is just a matter of the client wants it or not because we cannot force them. So in either of those companies the same situation, that's what you're saying. Yes. Well, for the RFP process, I was not involved in that process, but Julia can talk about each organization that applied for that. All right, thank you. Thank you, Julia. So you understand my question, I just wanted to make sure that are we getting the same kind of services from all those, seems like from LIS centers for alcohol and drug abuse and alcohol center for mental health services, seems like they provide in addition to the outreach services that provide mental and drug and those kind of rehab programs. So are we comparing apples to apples? Thank you for your question, Councilman. So in terms of the vendors that submitted BIDs, so the Los Angeles Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse hope the mission and Alcott Center all operate interim housing sites. So they could do other operations within their scope of work. They could have outreach teams. They could provide other services, but in terms of the services for interim housing, for example, LA Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse operates the Hawthorne tiny home village. So these vendors were all compared to each other based on our specifications and the RFP for the specific services at $3,290. So even though the names might say for mental health service or for alcohol and drug abuse, we evaluated them all as operators of interim housing sites. So let me follow up with another comment. So sometimes when I submit a request to look at different clients in the city, it takes longer than when some of HIS or outreach coordinators that go and talk to those homeless people. Did we look in our evaluation criteria? How long does it take for these companies to reach out to the client and provide the services? This is, I think for me, it was not listed one of the evaluation criteria, but do we look at it? Thank you for the question, Councilman. So in terms of the RFP for the interim housing site, this is just for the operations of the site itself. The city has our own dedicated outreach team, so we did not request in these proposals that any of the vendors provide outreach services because we are already providing those in-house So and we think we're doing a very effective job doing that so the proposals are really evaluated based on operating interim housing site as opposed to outreach services Thank you that clarifies so the last question It may not be related to this but Do we have any update on functional zero? Do you know functional zero, that I think COG, South Bay COG and Redondo Beach, they're implementing this program with will HIS help us to achieve that goal? Thank you, Councilmember. No, Harbor Interfaith has nothing to do with the Functional Zero. That program, like you mentioned, Redondo Beach did do that last year, and they did an amazing job. So now the South Bay Coghacks extended that program to a few cities, Torrance being one of them. So we continue to meet with the South Bay Cog on best approach on how to reach that functional zero. The way Redondo Beach reached zero was because they have their own housing, they have their own resources. We only have 30 to 90. So it's taking us a little bit longer, but we continue to meet on a bi-weekly basis with the South Bay Cog on our best approach for the city since every city is different. Okay, thank you. And I like this program and thank you for you and your team for helping us achieve our goal. I think the goal was to have those tiny temporary houses and hopefully reduce not to increase. hopefully with your help and South Bay Cobb with partnership we be able to have less home listeners city and get a goal. I'll definitely approve this program. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Mancadjee. Thank you, Your Honor, and thank you, staff and Harvard Underfaith for your presentation. I support continuation of our relationship with Harvard Underfaith over the last three years as I've had opportunities stopped by 3290, also to meet with staff. See their activities in the field and also talk to some of the residents. I've been very impressed by the overall effectiveness of the program. What I do like especially is looking at the recommendation of the contract amount of $1,783,316. cent. I look at the experience of the County of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles in their dealings with the Los Angeles homeless services authority and the audit of Monies Handle, not just by LASA but also at the County and City level. And their inability to spending in excess of multi-billions of dollars and the increase of homeless individuals on the streets. So what I like about the City of Torrance and our program is that we can count down to the penny and we can see the effectiveness here in the city of Torrance up close and personal. So my hat's off to our city staff, also to, you know, to our service provider. I believe that what we have here is an exemplary program. While I applaud the city of Redondo Beach for reaching functional zero. We have a much larger city, a much larger population and I believe we can reach that but it's going to take more effort. But I do also thank the members of this council for their ongoing commitments to this program because I do believe it reflects the compassion and interest of our residents to help those in need and I'm looking forward to supporting this thank you. I think before Councilor Tucci comes back, I just want to have staff to maybe clarify to the public what this functional zero mean. I think not knowing the definition of functional zero makes you legally believe functional zero means zero homelessness people. And I don't think that's a definition. I just want to make sure, right, right, it may be that the city has sufficient program and resources to address the number of homeless people they believe they have in the city as opposed to zero. But I think. Right. Thank you Mayor. So we're lucky that Ronson, true is here from the South Bay Cod, who we work really, really close with trying to reach to that functional zero Thank you Mary. Yeah, you're on the right track You know, well, we'll always have people falling into homelessness. It's just a matter of fact of life What we want those for their experience to be short and brief and that's really the basis of the functional zero Street homelessness is that we want people's experience on the street to be short and brief and how we define it is What we want our cities to do is eventually have the number of people in falling to homelessness to be short in brief and how we define it is what we want our cities to do is eventually have the number of people influencing to homelessness to be less than our outflow so getting people off the streets and then we want the median duration of that street experience to be less than 90 days so less than three months and so that's really the goal of functional zero right now we're in a data collection process with the city of Torrance to see what our inflow is, what our outflow is, and what our media and duration is. The data is looking pretty good, the team is looking great, but we want to continue a monitor for about six months, we're about four months in, to kind of get like a baseline. And so based on what, and then we'll create it like a, we're going to create like some data surrounding that that we will share with you all so you can better assess how we can achieve functional zero and towards. Okay, thank you very much. Councilor Matucci. Thank you Mayor. No, I just forgot to mention earlier measure A. My understanding with measure A and I guess in contrast with measure A is that measure A actually allows Money be to be spent on housing is that is that correct where my Off to mark on that one Thank you for question councilman so measure A is a couple different facets to it There is a new agency created under measure A called LaCassa believe it's LA County affordable housing agency, and they're gonna be pointing with LACDA, the LA County Development Authority for the development of housing. The funding for us for the local solutions fund is not part of that funding set aside, but there is funding in measure A specifically for housing. Okay, so because I remember correctly, measure A didn't have housing component, it was mailing outreach and mental health and et cetera, et cetera. Okay, so obviously measure A is a little bit broader scope. And it's also, I believe, double the amount of money that was measure H. Do we have an approximate figure how much we're contributing to measure A on a yearly basis? Mayor Counsel, you and Daily Finance Director, happy to field that one. Half-sense, L's tax would equate to about $26 million for the City of Torrance. Okay, so we're contributing quite a bit towards the overall LA County homeless issue. So you're welcome. Taxpayers. Taxpayers are the ones doing it. But I am surprised and I guess you know kind of saddened by the fact that very little comes back to Torrance you know considering how much money we put into it. Our you know the return we'll call it the return on investment is very little but I understand understand other parts of the county have greater issues than maybe torn. So I think that's probably why. But I also want to remind everyone that when we started the program, I believe and don't quote me on this. We had approximately 77 individuals that were living on the streets, not counting vehicles and people in in, you know, temporarily in shelters. That's why I think at that time I was pushing for a larger number of tiny homes because I figured hey, if we have 77 people on the streets, why are we building on a 40? So the idea back then was to build 40, see what happens, and then we can revisit. Well, now we're revisiting these programs. And I do believe that we've been pretty much fully occupied since we opened the doors. Which, if it were a hotel, you'd be building another hotel right next to it. So in this particular case, even though we don't want people to stay long term, but it's interim housing for a reason, there's no time limits, but ideally, they come in, and then they transition into a more permanent housing. So having said that, I think Councillor Monshake asked the question, have we seen a rise in homeless that would justify an expansion? My thoughts on that is that we needed an expansion since they won. We were short 20 to 30 homes since they won. So having said that, I think any idea to expand the program, whether it's by 10, 20, 30, tiny homes is something that in my opinion, we needed since day one. So I really do hope that the Council can get behind to at least researching the idea, alternate sites that could accommodate, I know we've been pretty active looking, constantly looking. But ideally, we want to have one location so all the services can go there at one time and that be spread around the city. But, Ram, I think you have some. Just, Councilor and the auditorium, Madam Chair. We have been pursuing, as you recall, from day one torrents, torrents isn't demand for commercial industrial residential development. And there aren't limited Mr. Santana has searched as you know, throughout our portfolio. It's just difficult to find. Also with alternate sites, on this they're consolidated, the scaling up for bringingider it becomes another cost factor not to say we we're not going to pursue We will continue to pursue based on the initial direction in the meantime We appreciate all the sentiment shared in regards to the support for current operation. Thank you Mayor and councilmember Danny something a city manager's office council may recall, we have been advancing remediation effort at the Regional Transit Center. The existing deed restriction from the Department of Toxic Substances control. We retain consultants. We have started soil sampling, soil warings and vapor monitoring is underway. We are hopeful to advance remediation, whether it be for an alternative location for interim housing solutions or for any other housing solution or expanded city service delivery. Thank you. And I have to say, initially it was like a crapshoot with and know exactly how this is gonna work. And thanks to all you guys that put the program together. And I know we kind of modeled it based on other cities. And we didn't have to necessarily reinvent the wheel. But the location was a concern. Where we placed it right next to our police department. I thought that would probably be the safest place on Earth. It's right next door to the police department, but it might create some concerns. Being right here right in the middle of the civic center. But I do believe that input from our police department is vital in this, especially if we do consider an expansion I'd like for them and to always be part of the conversation because it would probably affect them the most being that it's right next to the police department. But having said that I am fully in support of this program and I do hope that we can hopefully expand it and I also also definitely support, I don't know if it's something that we can take, you know, a poll, not a poll, a tally as to what direction we want to take as far as expansion of the program, but, or get some kind of concurrence on the additional outreach, additional vehicle if needed, and so forth. So, that's where I'm at. Like it, thank you. Mayor. Mayor, I'm sorry, Danny Santana City manages office. One additional item that we'd like to clarify is that the council has already given the necessary budget for the fourth street outreach worker. So that is something that staff is advancing and there is no need to add to the motion that you will make. So we appreciate the Mayor and Council's continued support of our street outreach team and the CLO combined efforts. And if I may add, I'll try to say, we are continuing to explore additional van to our fleet and that's within my authority that we'll be able to advance out of future date. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Let me, I don't see anyone click there and so I guess it's my turn to ask a few questions. And I know that you know I'm gonna ask the question because I asked it every single time. Have we had at least one opportunity to bunk because these interim housing were always designed to at least put two people and understand every time I asked, you know, not every situation is possible because two people may not be compatible. But have we looked into that? I mean, that will answer Councilor Matucci's question immediately. We have 40 and we've actually found five that can bunk. That's five easy. It's better to put five person bunking rather than leaving another five out in the elements. Thank you Mayor for the questions, and I'll agent with the City Manager's Office. To answer your question and this is no secret to anybody, your honor, everybody is very well aware that everybody in that site is extremely high-acuity, meaning the primary goal of the outreach team and 3290 is to stabilize somebody as soon as they come into 3290 and bunking them with somebody else is not gonna work because of their mental health or instability. So that's when we bring in Venice family clinic to assist with stabilizing the person, and even then when the doctors refer to giving them medicine, medicine for their mental health stabilization, some of them don't even take it. So it's a work in progress that we continue to do with the clients there and stabilizing everybody so we can move forward with getting them permanently housed. And once they come in and now we couple them with somebody else, I think it would be like a setback for the client. Now, my understanding may not be correct when we started the temporary housing that by design, our temporary housing was not meant to house high-acuity people because or am I incorrect? Because high-acuity folks on the... Mayor, City Manager, I think the threshold may be the definition where folks are where they rise to mental health holds or additional support. But the individuals we come across do have substance abuse issues, mental health issues. And I think that's the Qie definition that staff is referencing. Mr. Hong wants to expand. Mayor and council members, we have Wang City Manager's office. Mayor, you may be recalling that somewhat earlier on, we shared with Mayor and council a success story that we had. And the success story was because of 30 to 90 and the incredible staff of Harbor Interfaith Services, they identified an individual that would better be served at another site. Specifically, that site had health resources that the individual needed. It took us a while to actually get access to that site. So I think what you're referring to, everyone who is at that site is evaluated on their acuity score. If they stay at the site, it's because professional staff have made the determination that they are the right people to connect them to the resources and move them on department housing. Professional staff also are able to identify if we need to look for a higher level of care at that site. And I think you may be remembering very early on the success story we had where we were able to connect someone to a higher level of care. Actually, I was going back even before that because I think one of our challenges is when we're in taking folks, it was, you know, the field workers had difficulty, they're determining acuity levels. Once they're in, you know, I think the last one who left since our opening July 2022 was probably maybe two months ago, three months ago, so that's almost three years. Am I correct? That is correct, Mayor. But the reason why that person lasted so long at $3,290 was nothing to do with his security. It had to do with the fact that somebody had done some illegal activity with his social security funds. So for all those years, things to harbor interfaith, they were in contact with the Social Security Administration, trying to clear that situation for the client. That way they can connect them to the right resource for permanent housing. Because before then, he didn't have any income base that somebody had done some illegal activity with his social security funds. So that is the reason it took a long time. It went through COVID and agency shutdown. So it took a long time to clear that up. Once they did, the person was connected to permanent housing and exit it from the program. Understand, I think what I'm, I have a mental picture of what I'm seeing in our environment here is. I guess we need to really go back and clarify the intent of the temporary housing that we're calling 3290. Because temporary, just like Ronson just shared functional zero, I think on the period of 90 days or so. I don't know what's 90 days sounds temporary to me. Even 180 days is temporary, but three years or two years doesn't sound temporary. So I'm just trying to make sure that we have to write program addressing the right folks. And I think the challenge is the intake. And then earlier when Councilman Shaikh was asking about the selection process, I thought where you're going to with just because the name of an agency that says Los Angeles Center for alcohol and drug abuse because we're talking we need more service providers. So that that bid may come in. 200 K higher or 100 K higher. However, if that came with more service provider and we're asking for the higher more service provider, was that considered? I don't know if you're getting to that, but I was reading what you're asking. You see what I'm saying? So they may have, maybe they had 82 as opposed to 95 in the total grading, but I wasn't sure if their answers really were retent. That was taken into account. The staff went through the evaluation process, they compared apples to apples. So for record, the scope is very clear. I trust the judgment of our professionals who went to the rating. Now the issue was defined as temporary, let's set some expectations. If they're not in 3290, there's a high potential there on our streets. So we can come up with some arbitrary 90 day, 120 days. Our goal is to get individuals, mash through services as soon as possible. I know that we have zero. So I just want to set some expectations. I think the program, as designed, helps, gives us tools. Initially it was under the Boise versus Martin case as far as enforcement. Now we have the grant pass the teams Proactively out there and we do tell folks if you're in torrents You have two options get help or get help Until such time we are going to be relentless in our pursuit trying to get these folks to help that they need. Now, as far as the expectations help or get out? Well, that's our choice. We cannot forcefully move individuals. There are instances where we do accompany folks from family reunification or point of destination. We have assisted them in that effort. So I just want to set the record straight as far as expectations that we love to get folks out of there. Number one, I love to have a place shut down when there's zero homelessness. One of the other ways. Yes, yes, go. Until that day, when you have 75,000 homeless individuals in LA County, and in Torrance, we're at like 300 on the last count, I think a collective effort on your courage and leadership were able to have resources resources. So unlike other communities where they may be using tactics on conventional or illegal, in tolerance it's compassionate and it's relentless. So I just want to understand. I understand. I'll keep on going. That's fine with saying. I think our goal should be closing it down sometimes so we don't have it. I don't know. It's a worthy goal. Now let's come back to reality. So I was just trying to make it because we're talking desire to have more. So you know simple more is you know it was advertised to see to fill two people per. You know I'm just looking for at least one unit that we could two. After three years, we've come to find one unit fit two is surprising to me. Yeah, one or two, maybe even I think three is potentially realistic. Then the other thing I'm thinking is, are there any folks that we found that potentially while they're there could even now this is thinking a little bit on the fly and those dangerous that can help because I know one of the items on our agenda is vacancies. And I think one of the vacancies says maintenance worker. Now I don't know exactly what the maintenance worker is you know if there are any type of low level You know work that we could create a very very less than part time so that a person who is actually there Who's on our grounds all the time maybe could help us? do Clean up work around the civic center while they're there and we're're trying to help them. And there's a way we could do, you know, call it, I don't know what we call our part-time workers like the summer, recurrent workers. At least think, I know the CUTY level can they do it. I'm just thinking away so that we're actually while they're there, we're trying to get their paper working, but we're also giving them the initial first step if it's even possible to create a program. We're actually helping them giving a job for something that we have a vacancy that we need someone to do. Just a thought for the staff to think about, with that, I don't know the detail about the vacancy all right and just Ask you to think about that and let me make sure the other one Think that's all I have for now, but you see why I'm getting at right we all want to have, more capability, and my simple mind ahead, we kind of have it, and I'm just thinking there's gotta be one case where we can do it. So keep on trying, right? I'm looking for a data, you say, Mayor, we actually, this one has two, so we got 41, right? I think it's possible. We can do that that's at least there's not one out there right. Okay I think we we have a motion in a second already so let's proceed. Thank you first I want to thank all of you who have expertly executed on the City of Torrance's service first model. Thank you. All right. Let me try. I move that we approve a consulting services agreement with Harbor Interfaith Services Inc. that we accept and appropriate the City and Council of government interim housing services fund grant award. That we authorize submission of the grant year 2023 permanent local housing allocation program formula funding application and execution of standard agreement. And upon execution of the standard agreement appropriate the funds to the newly created grant project. Authorize the city manager to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the South Bay City Council of Government South Bay Cog to administer the city's measure a local solution funding allocation. Upon execution of the MOU, appropriate funds to a newly created grant project. Authorize the city manager as the city's signatory for all grant related agreements. And accept and file update on the city's progress in addressing homelessness in torrents. Second. Mayor. I think, hang on Councilor Tuchi, you got a comment? I just wanted to see if it was going to include researching the possible expansion of the program. Did the city manager already say that that's already being looked at and doesn't require it? We're always exploring expansion. Okay. I'll let's hold out the ways. Okay. Thank you. Start voting please. You're under that motion carried with councilmember Colony up. I'm going to take a five minute break. Thank you. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. 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I'm going to put back on the break and item 10B. From Human Resource Director. Yes. Good evening Honorable Mayor and Council Members, Hediye Khajavi Human Resources Director. This evening I will be providing the Council with the annual report regarding city status of vacant positions. This report outlines the city's workforce composition, vacancy trends and strategies to attract and retain employees. While recruitment and hiring remain top priorities, the city also focuses on long term retention through incentive programs, internal promotion opportunities, and workplace improvements such as various work schedules, professional development and employee engagement initiatives. Before I begin the presentation, I'd like to extend my thanks to assistant city manager, Mr. Danny Santana, and finance director, Mr. Ian Daly, for their guidance and support in preparation of this report. Also to the amazing human resources and civil service team members for their teamwork, spirit, and care for all employees. Next slide, please. On September 22, 2024, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2561 into law. AB 2561 added California Government Code Section 3020.3, which requires public agencies to hold a public meeting at least once per fiscal year to report on vacancy, recruitment status and retention efforts. In accordance to AB 2561, public agencies must also highlight hiring challenges and potential policy obstacles. During these public meetings, employee organizations are entitled to present their perspectives on the report. If vacancy rates in a bargaining unit reach a 20% vacancy rate or greater, a represented employee organization may request that agencies provide further details on the number of vacancies, applicant numbers for vacant positions, hiring timelines and opportunities for improving compensation and other working conditions. Next slide, please. As of December 31, 2024, the city had 1,410 full-time equivalent FTE positions, for full-time and part-time positions and 197 vacant FTE for an approximately 13.95% vacancy rate between January 1st, 2024 and December 31st, 2024. The city had 174 separations 206 new hires and 120 promotions. This data excludes temporary seasonal or recurrent staffing. The city establish approximately the same number of eligibility lists in 2023, but experience a 15% increase in the average number of candidates per eligible list in 2024. Next slide please. This slide shows the recruitment metrics for the 2022 through 2024 calendar years. Due to the collaborative efforts between the Human Resources Department and Communications Division in using the city's social media platforms and other recruitment strategies, we've experienced a larger number of applications. Next slide please. This slide shows the total number of vacancies for 2022 through 2024 calendar years. Your honorable body's support of long term and competitive labor agreements is a key component to the city's success in improving its vacancy rates. Next slide, please. This table shows the number of vacant FTE and percentage of total vacancies by each employee group or bargaining unit, both represented and unrepresented units. As of December 31, 2024, the vacancy rate for each bargaining group was under 20% except for Torrance Police Commanders Association or TPCA, police lieutenant with a 25% and police safety management police captains with a 33% vacancy rate. Next slide please. This slide shows a breakdown of budgeted positions, field positions, vacant positions, and vacancy percentages for the police captains and police lieutenants. Next slide please. The reason for over 20% vacancy rate for the police lieutenants is that we're currently in negotiations for the promotional examination process. The police captain vacancy is currently unhold, pending the conclusion of ongoing personnel matters. Next slide, please. Since police lieutenants and police captains have a higher than 20% vacancy rate, according to AB 2561, on this slide, I'm sharing greater details on the number of vacancies, recruitment timeline, applicant numbers, and opportunities for improving compensation and other working conditions. Due to negotiations with respect to the promotional exam process for Lutin and vacancies, recruitment has not started. Therefore, there's no stats to report for 2024. However, the recruitment stats in 2023 before the negotiation process began are shown in this table. Next slide, please. This slide shows the recruitment stats for police captain. Next slide. The human resources department recognizes that recruitment is about identifying, attracting and hiring the right people. Recruitment is critical for the organization's success, especially in today's competitive job market. Thank you to your honorable bodies, continued support, the following recruitment efforts were implemented. Out of respect for everybody's time, I will not read all of on this list, only focus on a be in the position of the staff. I will not be in the position of the staff. I will not be in the position of the staff. I will not be in the position of the staff. I will not be in the position of the staff. shifting the focus from education and experience to skills and competencies. Next slide please. Filling vacancies and recruiting top talent are critical to delivering core services to the community and carrying out your on-roll bodies priorities. But retaining that talent is equally essential for sustaining long-term success and minimizing future vacancies. While the city has improved in employee retention, internal workforce trends are shifting. Several challenges such as economic uncertainty changes in the retirement formula, classic versus PEPRA, and a general reduction in employee longevity in any organization are a few reasons the city may struggle to recruit and retain qualified employees as experienced employees resign and retire. One of the retention efforts is that we're proposing civil service changes to the rules and process to streamline and expedite the hiring process. The human resources department is presently collaborating with the Civil Service Division and the City Attorney's Office in a review of municipal code sections that will be forwarded to Civil Service Commission for Awareness and to your honorable body for consideration of areas to further enhance the recruitment process for promotions and new employee opportunities. These municipal code updates would be in addition to your Honourable Body's directed active retention efforts listed in the next slides. The retention efforts, for example, the new multi-year bargaining unit contracts, employee recognition and engagement programs and events, the city managers, one-on-one meetings with staff to get to know them and inform them about councils, goals and expectations and citywide projects. It also provides an open line of communication. Professional development opportunities and the Clifton Strengths Finder assessment. The year round employee recognition and engagement programs and events that compress work weeks such as 9, 80 and 4, 10 work schedule and encourage employees to use their paid time off, prioritizing physical and mental well-being, employee assistance program, and department heads and managers are trained to provide regular performance feedback to employees and to recognize accomplishments big and small. Conclusions and recommendations to summarize your Honourable Body have supported a number of employee retention and recruitment efforts that are making considerable progress in addressing vacancy citywide. The two police command positions discussed earlier remain an area of priority. The addition of recruitment strategies will assist with boosting those recruitments following the conclusion of present associated labor negotiations and ongoing personnel matters. Staff recommends that the honorable body take the following action on item 10B, except on file the 2024 annual report on the city's status of vacant positions. This concludes my presentation and staff is available for any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. This moment, I'm going to see the public. I assume the machine is down. Any one the public would just speak on this item. Please come to the microphone. Hello, I hope Motuchi was listening 25% in that one division in the police department 33% in the other department. So the dumbass was arguing that they are not underfunded. When you don't have enough employees to do the job. Then you don't have money or you don't want to pay them. So you save money. That's mean underfunded Motuchi, I hope you listen. And you know, that's not a wonder. It's not wonder because you had police officers painting schwastikas, emailing to each other, paying $3 million because our police department and the police officers are bastards and then you wonder, you prosecute 15 police officers, you are under 33% I hope you hear this Your time is up sir Anyone else from the public who we should speak? Okay, I'll come up to the council any Any members of the council have questions or comments? Please click in. I don't see any, so I'll take a motion to accept and file the 2024 Arneal Report. I move to accept and file the 2024 Arneal Report on the city status of vacant positions and recommend that the city council direct staff to continue with the employee engagement recruitment and retention efforts in place and presently underway. Second. Start voting please. Thank you. Governor that motion carried with council member Colony absent. Thank you as I share earlier. We're going to go ahead and Governor that motion carried with council member Colony absent. Thank you guys. I share earlier we're gonna pull up item 10c on the e-bike While we're pulling that up just want make sure we have a group back there are you here for the Rose float and Then you're gonna leave right after that Okay, you know what I think think I'll do you bike and then I'll do you guys before we do the public hearing on the budget. Does that sound about right? I just want to look at city staff. I just want to make sure. OK. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I see them. They've been saying in and there. Yeah. Okay, let's do 10C right now from the police chief. Good evening Mayor J. Hart, chief of police. PD does have a presentation. I'd like to call up Lieutenant Fischer. Good evening. Honorable Mayor, Council. My name is Lieutenant Charles Fischer. I'm with the traffic and special events division of the Torrance Police Department. Tonight I'm here seeking direction regarding the drafting of a municipal ordinance specifically intended to regulate electric bicycles or e-bikes. Next slide please. Brief synopsis of what I intend to present today. Background and purpose. How we got here and really a current snapshot from the PD's perspective related to this topic. I intend to touch on some trends, some torn specific and also some drawn from Southern California in general. I want to touch on significant safety concerns that have and are likely to continue to result in injuries to torn citizens if we don't make some changes. Finally, while we're here, I'm going to share some current challenges facing our officers who are doing their best to address this now commonplace mode of transportation. And I'd like to conclude by providing a staff recommendation and hopeful next steps moving forward. Next slide, please. I think you and I, everyone in attendance, have seen a surge in e-bike popularity throughout the city in recent years, months years. We've seen significant increase in youth ridership. With that, those of us in public safety, specifically, and I think I can speak for our partners at TFT, we have growing safety concerns on this topic. The unsafe use of e-bikes and electric motorcycles on roadways, sidewalks, and in particular, parks and surrounding trails has become concerning. And as my team made an effort to respond to enforce one necessary and ensure public safety, we have been able to identify some enforcement limitations to our efforts. Next slide, please. Our first step was to try and gauge how large of a problem we were dealing with. On October, 2024, TBD began collecting data in three categories. You see them on the screen there. E-bike patrol info, e-bike traffic stops, and 415 e-bikes, and I'll take the time to explain each one there. E-bike patrol info is a situation where a citizen would call and relay some problem that's not necessarily happening in real time. A long-term problem at a park, something that's not happening now. E-bike traffic stop is pretty self-explanatory. That's a March police unit or police motorcycle conducting an enforcement action on an E-bike. And then 415 E-bike, 415 is our code for for disturbances so just an e-bike causing some type of disturbance as reported by a citizen driving recklessly causing some issues at a park etc. Keep in mind please that this is very difficult activity to track citizens and officers often mistake e-bikes for traditional bikes traffic collisions or injuries resulting from this activity often are not reported at all to the police department. But as you can see, these stats, although not drastic, six months of data collection has produced a relatively significant impact on the PD. Next slide, please. Regional trends in data. So the Beach City's health districts, I think, has gathered some data that I think is relevant to this topic. They conducted a study in March of 23, and that data is relevant. Ultimately, they completed a study of all South Bay, or not all South Bay, but a variety of South Bay schools, elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. And they gathered data in terms of how many bikes were on campus and of those bikes, how many were e-bikes. The ultimate conclusion was that two thirds, 66% of the bikes on campuses were e-bikes. If you break it down by type of school, middle schools were 51% e-bikes, and high schools are staggering 81% e-bikes. And keep in mind, this was early 23. So those numbers are likely significantly amplified by now. Next slide, please. Thank you. Here you'll see this chart revealing e-bike crashes. This is a San Diego County chart, but I think it's indicative of the trend. The yellow line up top highlights a relatively steady number of crashes with traditional bicycles. You can see it ranging from 2018 to 23. Obviously no significant technology advances with bicycles during that period. So it's pretty steady crashes. But the red line or the darker line, you can see the sharp spike in 21. Likely due to both popularity obviously of e-bikes, but also just the technological advances and the speeds exceeding at that point in time. The situation got so bad in the city of Carlsbad and San Diego County that they declared a state of emergency. The report of the 233% increase in bike and eBike collisions and of those collisions, 63% were eBikes-specific. So really best situation there we're trying to avoid. Next slide, please. The children's hospital of Orange County, sorry, injury data. They are an outstanding resource in terms of data for juvenile specifically. And I think they really can capture on the health healthcare side what we're missing in the field. They even went as far to publish the most impacted age groups related to the spike in injuries. You can see the most most common injuries of hospital admittance is 14 to 16 years old, followed by 11 to 13. So very concerning there and then you see the types of injuries. Not only is the number the quantity increasing from 19 to 24 significantly but the level of trauma is very concerning and again that reflects back on the speed of these versus traditional bicycles. Next slide please. National Institute of Health also valuable data, pediatric e-bike injuries rising obviously. They released data highlighting these injuries and it was basically captured from e-bikes specific hospital visits. I thought I was interesting to see the majority of injured riders being male, although not surprising. Almost all not wearing helmets. Also note the hospitalization rate for e-bike related accidents was 11.5% as opposed to less than 5% for traditional bicycles. Again, this is likely related to the speed of which these accidents occur that drastically increase the level of injury. Next slide, please. Here you can see some of the enforcement challenges we've identified when trying to curtail dangerous and often disrupt the behavior on this topic. The California vehicle code asserts that e-bikes are in fact bicycles. So I'll reiterate that e-bikes are in fact bicycles and therefore all violations applicable to bicycles also apply to e-bikes. However, although that's helpful, the laws are designed to apply to traditional bicycles. So my team is left with limitations in enforcement. They're left with some ambiguity and often clear authority to regulate unsafe behavior, high risk areas, and distracted riding as well. Next slide, please. A municode will allow us to potentially close those enforcement gaps. We can essentially define unsafe e-bike operation. And Unicode will allow us to potentially close those enforcement gaps. We can essentially define unsafe e-bike operation, which will be extremely helpful rather than being limited to use only a reckless driving charge that often brings with it rather extreme penalties. It will also allow us to potentially be able to prohibit dangerous behaviors that lead to injury, things like wheelies, handlebar riding, sidewalk speeding, etc. Also while regulating use on sidewalks, parks, and trails, which would be beneficial to my team. Next slide please. Proposed ordinance elements. And again, these are just proposed. This is a request to just explore this further. We'll focus on prohibiting unsafe riding in public places. Currently we rely on reckless driving charges as I mentioned. However unsafe behavior does not always rise to the level of that crime does not meet those elements often. We'd also like to explore expanding sidewalk restrictions to areas beyond business districts as it currently is. And also potentially propose restrictions on handheld devices while riding similar to cars. Next slide, please. Thank you. Staff recommendation. Direct staff to draft a municipal code where we can define unsafe e-bike operation clearly and applicable. Regular use in shared spaces, which is parks, provide police enforcement authority. And we also think it's imperative that we support youth and community safety through education on this topic. Next slide, please. I've already had successful meeting with TUSD and some council members were present for that. And we intend to implement an educational campaign targeting Torrance Youth. TUSD has offered to assist us by distributing safety newsletters, intended to educate parents and also help us with joint social media campaigns to provide additional safety tips for students. We also end a partner with local bike retailers, our partners at fire, and also noting the impact that I've already relayed on the health care industry. We'd like to reach out to local hospitals and maybe urgent care to help spread the message of these changes. Next slide, please. In closing, our police department, as you know, has a commitment to public safety, protecting our youth and keeping our shared spaces safe is a priority. So our belief is that proactive regulation for this evolving trend is appropriate at this time. I'll report your questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll go to the public first. Anyone from the public who has comments on this item, please come to the microphone. Got one minute per speaker. In my travels in the South Bay, are there any protection devices that you can regulate helmets, shin guards? I mean, when you're out of icicle, you wear a helmet. Is there, can some of those items be identified that will give you more enforcement criteria in doing your job if we put some more meat in the regulations that the rider has to assume some scare thing. You know, he's responsible, you know, like you talk 93% didn't have a helmet, handheld devices, excessive speed. You see it all the time and put down to beach. So I'll just, I mean, I see your plight. You see it up, I see it up in a redundant beach and the other coastal cities when I'm down San Diego. I see it down there and it's very dangerous. You know, good luck. Thank you for your comments, sir. To answer this question, there are actual laws on the books for helmets, depending on the classification of the e-bike helmets are required for certain ages. It's confusing. It's confusing for the public. It's confusing for parents. There is potential that immunospochode could apply more restrictive safety mechanisms in that regard. Go ahead. Hi, Melissa. Right. I wanted to comment that as a member of the Students and Government Committee that read the essays from these eighth graders, this year we had a large amount increase. In fact, I would say went from two two to probably 50. Kids that wrote about e-bikes and e-bike safety this year. It was interesting to see what was concerning them. And so this is really good. The kids actually want it and they know what they need it. One was the education classes, maybe even having a course that they have to take. There was questions about an age restriction. So that's something I don't know if you're going to ever do. And the other item that was brought up that I remember was there's apparently some way that they can alter these bikes to go faster than 35 miles an hour or 25 miles an hour, whatever it is. Maybe you would know more about the speeds, but that was also sounded very scary. So I just want to let you know it is a big item, a big safety issue. We've had some fatalities just this last couple of weeks. Thank you. I know there are people who in the past, probably still today, could alter their vehicles and go faster too. Go ahead. Yeah, I just wanted to tie on to what she's saying. I remember back when I went to school, you had to have a license, first of all, to bring your bike to school. You had to pass a test. I think these kids should have to do a driving test, know that they're safe, and they should have to have something to prove that they know what the rules are. The other thing I would like to see is some education on it because I have a neighbor who is, she has trouble walking and she's walking down the sidewalk and the kids come up with their e-bikes and tell her to move, she's too slow. And I see him cutting in and out of traffic. It's very scary. I'm to see how they're driving and we just need to do something because somebody's going to get hurt real bad. Thank you. Thank you, my honor again. My daughter was a victim of the e-bike fall. But I give God the glory that nothing happened to her. No fracture, no broken bone. They had to call me from the office, but this happened on Riverside, because I came from Israel. She's doing well, she's fine. Let's just be mindful and cautious of our kids, please. Thank you, anyone else from the public? We should comment on this item. I have a great presentation officer that was struck me, the group of E-bike riders 11, 13 years. What I mean? So, where I come from to ride a motorized vehicle like a Moped, you know, e-bikes, bikes, but you know they are motorized vehicles, you had to be 14. You had to pass a test, you know, you know the rules of the road and you know these kids are riding bicycles, what go like 40, 50 miles an hour easy and they ride motor, I mean electric motorcycles, electric motorcycles. And last time when they attacked me like six of them in my street street I called the police, guess what happened? Guess what happened? No show. No show. You call? For service? No show. Anyone else who is to speak on the side? Hello. I know y'all doing what you can. And I think having the license for the kids would be great, because like Bev said, when we were all kids, we had to go and get license. And yes, I did get a ticket for writing double on a bicycle when I was 16, which now it doesn't seem to matter. But you know, I watch these kids go down the street and it's no helmets and they're just blasting their way and a person like me who does have a knee bike. I like to casually ride my bike and enjoy it. But I think it's more the parents, you know? The parents are buying these young kids bikes that are too much for them. So I applaud you for trying to do what you can, but I think a lot of it is their own parents need to... kids, bikes that are too much for them. So I applaud you for trying to do what you can, but I think a lot of it is their own parents need to be more mindful. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else who would just speak on this item? Okay, I don't see any councilman Lewis. Thank you Mayor and this has been a long time coming. We've been working on this for about 18 months now and I bought this item forward shortly after my grandson was hit head on by an e-bike. And thankfully enough when he was hit there were no injuries, but I know there's not a lot of people that are that fortunate. And it was an 11 year old that was a adjusting speaker on the front of his e-bike to turn up his music as he was riding down the street. As part of the Citizens Development Earrichment Committee, Dr. Gerson and I, we're able to go with Lieutenant Fisher to TUSD. And they too are having similar situations on their school grounds. So this is a perfect opportunity for the city and TUSD to partner to come up with a draft ordinance and also the educational piece behind it. We have some Torrance residents that one of them is I'll mention her name, Dr. Helen Arborgast from Children's Hospital LA, who has offered to help us set up a traffic training garden. So kids who desire to have e-bikes depending on what type you have, they're learning how to safely operate the e-bikes, what to do in traffic hazardous conditions. So I am all for this draft ordinance, I would craft it myself if I could. Thank you to the police department and our wonderful traffic division and our ops team for finally getting it to this point. I know I'll be excited to see the training and the education piece that comes in with this, with the joy efforts between us, TUSD and Children's Hospital of Orange County and Children's Hospital of LA. So I appreciate the effort. Thank you, Council Member. Thank you, Councilman Gerson. here when the first started discussing it, but I certainly was on the school board discussing this. First to let the public know when I started working on this as a school board member, I was actually battling administration, TSD cabinet on this. So other cities have modeled this and TPD was willing to do classes and tests and licensing as members in the chamber have said. But it's all wonderful to offer the opportunity, but you have to get kids to show up. And so what I wanted to do was restrict them from bringing their e-bike on to campus unless they had, whether it by sticker or card, however, TPD did it to show that they had successfully passed a class showing safety. Luckily, this decision will be made by school board members and I encourage the public to push on their school board members to get involved because I think we could really do a lot to educate and curb what's going on with a really strong collaboration. But it takes being being a little strong on this and while regulating something like a bicycle on on campus is difficult and not something that we would want to do, I think it would have a huge impact because kids will want to ride their bike. And therefore, they will need to take this class and it goes down. As a teacher and former school board member, I challenged a lot of my generation of parent about what are we teaching our kids? You know, don't write your essay, use chat GPT, don't do your math, use photo math. Heck, you don't even have to pedal your bike anymore. So I challenge us what are we really doing for our kids to get them e-bikes? Why are we doing it? And we need to ask ourselves that question. But on this, it is an area where I'm willing to go a little further, be a little more unpopular, because as you very well demonstrated by the statistics, the amount of injuries are growing. Every year that I stood in front of a Torrance Unified School doing my duty, and just watching kids operate a normal powered bicycle, I saw kids getting hit by cars every single year. I saw them get hit in the front. I saw them get hit because they're racing behind a car that was backing up. I actually reached out and was able to get a grip on a kid's backpack and pull them out of a driveway as a car was making a sharp turn as on coming cars were coming at them and they rushed the turn too much. So these incidents are happening and then is as well demonstrated. Now we have an increase of the number of injuries and the type of injuries because of the speed. Are we allowed, I know you discussed, regulating, speeding on sidewalks? How far are we allowed to go in public areas like parks? Because I know that in multiple neighborhoods, including my own, people have complained about e-bikes ripping up our common areas like grass areas. What can we do legally? Well, it's really a balance, right? I mean, we need to ask ourselves a question do we want to limit proper users of e-bikes circling a park on a sidewalk, for example, versus the kids that are destroying the landscape on electric motorcycles basically. So some cities have gone as far as just, you don't have an electric powered anything in a park. I'm not sure that's where council wants to go or that's where we'll we'll suggest ultimately we can explore that I Think there's a happy medium there and Or you know that the sport or the activity can still be positive But it's gone to part at this point, my opinion. Believe in kids peddling as fast as they can through a park and injure a kid who's on a swing or in a sandbox. Legals coming up. But but now we're talking about. excessive speed and less control and larger stopping distances at the park by my house every single day. There are kids, little kids on swings and in the sandbox and sliding down slides and so legal, please tell me. Jean-Marie Littvin city attorney's office. That's actually exactly why we're here tonight is to seek direction from the council. The most challenging part of this is like a lieutenant Fisher mentioned. An e-bike is a bicycle. We can't separate the regulation of those two things. So if we want to regulate the ability to ride e-bikes in parks, we will also be regulating the riding of regular human powered petal bicycles in parks. That is certainly something that we can do. It can expand to public places, but we're seeking that type of guidance from you all tonight of how far do you want to go? Do you want to limit it in parks? What sidewalks do you want to limit it on? Do you want to limit it at the transit center, the civic center, or other public spaces? That's what we're looking for. And they will be regulating all bicycles, which is, I understand. So when you're traveling down in Alley, 15 miles per hour set speed limit. When you're in a residential area, 25 miles per hour, like we have set speed limits, what about Park Sidewalk is speed limit allowed to be addressed. Are you talking about like paths through parks? We can set regulations, yes. I would defer to the traffic division about the ability to enforce the speeds of bicycles in that type of location though. I've seen city ordinances not obviously not ours that categorizes unsafe electric bike usage, which from our perspective, as enforcement is easy. I mean, you can recognize anyone in this room can recognize unsafe e-bike uses if it's wheelies, if it's you know like you said going through Wilson Park at 60 miles an hour. That's very clear. So I think there's opportunity there for language such as that but again, we're going to have to work with legal on jumping Jump into those obstacles. Thank you. Councilor Matucci. Thank you for bringing this back and I love the fact that we're actually attempting to do something here. Have we identified any other cities in California that have adopted ordinances and code that maybe we can use as a model? Several. I believe in the documents that are presented. The attachment, there's a couple examples. Some very local, some inland empire, Orange County, San Diego, very popular. I mean are they something that we'd like to add? Like I mean kind of follow the or Joe's trends or there's certainly elements that we liked and some we didn't Obviously and again the biggest challenge is working with legal and not overlapping Enforcement opportunity we already have with new law which isn't permitted so okay. I mean What I've been seeing is like gangs Like gangs of ebikes. You know, they're doing street takeovers. I was on Torrance Boulevard a couple of months back and a row got in front of traffic. They slowed down. So now there's a few cars that couldn't go regular speed. And a few people in front doing wheelies. And it's almost like a complete takeover. In situations like that they may not actually be going fast. They're actually going slower but they're actually blocking traffic and popping wheelies. So how will we handle something like that and what are the, well I don't want to call it punishment but but yeah, we'll call it punishment. Is there a bike going to be confiscated for 30 days and their parents get a bill for $2,500 for storage? Is that what's going to happen? So again, it depends. Various classifications of e-bikes. What I think you're describing is most likely an electric motorcycle, like the Suron or those types that don't pedal anyway. They're basically electric dirt bikes. It should be on the road in general. So those can be empowered and obviously you can stop them just by seeing them on the roadway. Yeah, I think that answers your question. I mean, is there code that we can put together that is specific to takeovers? Yeah, the challenge with that is I mean, these aren't, you're going to start working our way into the discussion about pursuit policy and, you know, does the risk outweigh chasing these people in a marked black and white if they run, you know, so it's going to take resources, it'll take an investigative angle to ID them after the fact and ultimately show up at their house, you know, if it's that extreme, take over and that sort of thing. But there are ways to address it, but it is a challenge, absolutely. And if I could just add council member, there's already a Torrents municipal code that addresses how many people, how many bicycle riders you can have abreast of each other. So there is a municipal code already that we can already enforce against e-bikes and regular bikes. The difference would be when we're getting into something that doesn't fall into the category of a bicycle. Okay, so I know we have cameras around town. Are we legally able to use those cameras as an enforcement tool or is it just for, in In other, if we do capture both, you know, the act and the face of these individuals, can we go to the schools and say, look, these individuals were doing this and that on this such day, can we enforce, proactively, using technology? Yes. Absolutely. Yeah, and we're doing it currently. I mean, we're working backwards identifying these kids when it's extreme. Not so much to school, but we'll show up at their house. Yeah, I mean, usually if they're locally and they're within the age school, they're usually going to one of our schools. Seems like true. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I thought I saw you click in, Councilor Mishake, but it disappeared, but yeah, so I'm I thought I saw you click then, Councillor Mishake, but it disappeared. Still sholes on my end. I don't see anything here. Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you, Lieutenant Fisher, for your detailed presentation. Great statistics. And I think our community members did it very well, explaining what kind of items should we proceed with, we should also, we should go all in. And the injuries, the nature of injuries that you described here is really extreme. So whatever we can do, I would certainly support that. Like one of the community members mentioned to have helmet, like you said, is already in place, to have a driving test. We should also incorporate those kind of things and additionally, partnership with the USD, incorporate that as well. And have some kind of parental consent also if there's under certain age limit. We should consider all those things when we draft an ordinance. We should definitely go all in and make sure that no one gets injured, whatever we can do, prevent and use the technology as much as we can. This is new era, so definitely whatever way we can do to prevent those injuries I would support that. Thank you. You know just because I did not see Councilman Shakes click in they didn't they click in and I just don't see it I just want to check. Okay because if you want to speak Give me the eye. Yeah, actually I'm looking at your proposed ordinance elements, I think, as I think through this, I see the challenge because E-bike is a bike. The first three bullets, I think it sounds good. I just, the fourth bullet on additional sidewalk or location enforcement, I think that might be a little trickier. But I know you guys use discretion. Parents teaching their kids, six year old kids had it right at bicycle, and they may be pushing them behind a sidewalk. But it seems like to me, my preference is giving you guys the freedom because you guys know what happens out there. I like, it's more of the, when you're reckless. Because you could be reckless, not on an e-bike. People could be reckless and those need, they could cause damage as well. They're just probably not going as fast, but some of these kids could ride bikes pretty fast too. So thank you for bringing it up. Thank you for the data. And I see a motion. So councilwoman Lewis. Thank you Mayor. I would like to make a motion to have the police department begin drafting an ordinance in conjunction with the educational partnership and strategy with TUSD for all three classes of e-bikes, class ones, twos and threes and report back to the council with and the council members and the council members and the council and the council members and the council members and the council and the council members and the council members and the council and the council members and the council members and the council and the council members and the council members and the council and the council members and the council members and the council and the council members and the council members and the council and the council members and the council members and the council We are going to pull item 10. council member Colony absent. Okay, thank you. We are going to pull item 10 F forward about the rose float design. Make sure I find my spot now. Good evening Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council. Monica Hart with Community Services. Can F is a recommendation of the Community Services Director that the City Council approve the conceptual float design as the city's float entry in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2026 and provide direction on fiscal year 2025 26 funding allocation to the Torrance Rose Float Association for construction of the city's float. In 2025, the longtime float builder used by the Torrance Rose Float Association or TRFA. Fiesta floats closed for business, and with assistance from the Tournament of Rose's Association, the TRFA chose artistic entertainment services or AES to build the 2025 Rose float. The float won the Princess Award, however, there were logistical issues during the Torrance officials night, warehouse visit, including the viewing location, viewing time allotment, bus parking, and drop off, and the ADA accessibility for our officials' night guests. Additionally, the float had to be towed during the parade following a mechanical issue. Craig Bugowski, CEO and President of AES, has provided TRFA an informal quote of 150,000 to build the 2026 Torrance Float. In addition to the AES quote for the 2026 float design, Michael Abude, a long time float designer with the former Fiesta floats, formed a new company Fiesta Productions and has provided TRFA a quote of $235,000 to build the 2026 Torns float. It should be noted that the TRFA indicated to staff their preference to proceed with Fiesta Productions for the 2026 float. Fiesta Produ productions, Michael Abude, was invited to the TRFA to attend the student design competition selection meeting for the conceptual float design. TRFA did not extend an invitation to AES. During the 2025-26 academic year, TRFA opened their annual conceptual float design competition to Torrance Public and Private High Schools to create a conceptual design for the float. The theme for the 2026 Rose Parade is magic. The magic in teamwork, celebrating accomplishments that are achieved by working together. The objective of the conceptual float design contest are to broaden awareness and interest in the city of Torrance rose parade float and to engage youth in the parade and our city's float. This is the eighth time TRFA has held a design contest for Torrance High School students to create a conceptual design for the float and it has been very successful. TRFA received 15 float design submissions relating to the 2026 parade theme. In February 2025, the board and representative of Fiesta Productions reviewed the submissions and unanimously selected a proposal from Elizabeth Lay of West High, and that's our attachment one. And I don't know if that's a yes, that's the attachment one. Fiesta Productions provided a professional float design interpretation of the student design at the request of TRFA, and that's attachment two. And this is actually the supplement following the publication of the agenda items. Staff was informed the RFA revised the proposed name as the original title together we thrive is a phrase used by Kaiser Permanente and will probably appear on their foot and to avoid potential trademark issues the float has been renamed to together in harmony. On March 26, 2025 the citizen citizen development and enrichment committee of the city council voted unanimously to increase the proposed fiscal year 2026 city allocation for the Torrance Rose Parade float by $50,000 for a total allocation of $175,000. It should be noted that the cost of the Fiesta production float is quoted at $235,000. The TRFA has traditionally raised $25,000. It should be noted that the cost of the Fiesta production float is quoted at 235,000. The TRFA has traditionally raised 25,000 to support the float construction with the city's funding of 125,000 providing the balance. The additional TRFA fundraising required would be $35,000. Based on the projected shortfall, staff has initiated additional fundraising efforts, including a GoFundMe campaign, a potential text-to-donate services, and engaging with the Chamber of Commerce to coordinate support from the Torn's Business community. Staff requests that your honorable body approve the student- originated float design and provide direction regarding the city's funding allocation to support the 2026 Rose parade float to note the allocation of an additional $15,000 is reflected in the proposed fiscal year 2526 operating budget that was presented to the city council earlier to well will be presented to the City Council after this. If the City Council provides direction to allocate an additional $50,000, no further changes are required on the proposed budget that you will vote on. I'm available for questions And of course I would like to make note that members of the Rose Float Association are here and also willing and I think they would like to answer any questions you have as well. Thank you very much. We'll go to the public for comments first. Anyone from the public who wishes to comment on this item? Yeah, one minute. Come to the microphone. Hello. I am Rosanne Villalos, the current president of the Torrance Rosehood Association. And I'd like to just explain a little bit why we did not want to go with AES at the 150. And that was several reasons that though he promised he could do a lot, he did not come through with us. And that does not include the artistic drawing, so that would have to be paid to Micah Bood, who is with the Fiesta productions now that does include his artistic the drawing He takes what the student does and embellishes it and makes it you know something grand For the parade as something you know to go down We usually strived the Princess Award. The Princess Award is the same equivalent of the Swipstakes Award because... Yeah, I got it. Yeah. Your time is up. We'll just go with the next person. Thank you. Thank you. I think you're pausing. Yeah. She's one of the Rose Float Association members and wanted an opportunity to speak and didn't realize that you are inviting the rest of the public to speak. Oh, she was part of your briefing. Okay. I mean didn't look like it. It was since she's back there when I asked for public comments. Right. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't understand. We are the public. If that's a case, then your woman is up. I mean, you got you're either part of public comment. You're part of the briefing. That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah, I think Monica was trying to help, she was saying you're part of the briefing, but. Right. So should I be speaking there? Yeah. Come on up there. You see the difference right yeah you're part of the briefing. I do sorry about that. As I was saying we selected to go with a fiesta production simply because Mike has always has worked with Fiesta floats for many, many years and we would be at the same location. And he also that he is providing a chassis for us so we don't have to buy a new chassis as we would with AES. that would save additional money. Though the enrichment committee did discuss 175,000 that is still quite a bit shortfall. Fiesta floats went out of business for bankruptcy. He was very generous to towards. He never rose our rate from 150,000 for many, many years. And by doing that, he not just towards but to other clients, he went bankrupt. So the cost of the float, if you are a brand new float and you want to go into the parade, it's a minimum of 300,000. We are able to go at a lower rate because we're grandfathered in this year will be our 70th float for, and we are doing a friend-raiser 70 for 70 years. The City of Torrance, I think you all received a letter from Lynn with the history of Torrance has been in the parade from the very beginning with Jared Sidney torrents being part of the Valley Hunt Club. So it's a, you know, when Fiesta went bankrupt last year, tournament called the torrents Rose Flutter session and said, hey, we still want you in there. there. You know, torrance is important to us, and we will help supplement the difference between what you can pay. And if you want to work with one of our, with AES or the Phoenix, we'll help make up the difference that year, because they really, really enjoy having torrents in there as one of the originals, which they did. And so, again, we're looking to be in the parade again one more year to represent torrents. I think you've got to hand out before with the statistics of total viewership of the parade is over 28 million and a household viewership is 19 million. And we, the parade was watched by eight, or was participated with 800,000 people. Yeah, 800,000 in the Rose Bowl game only had 92,000. So the parade is really, you know, what shows off and you can't get any better advertising for the city of Torrance except for this is a worldwide is on New Year's Day is presented to everywhere. So back to we'd like to ask for a little bit more than the 75,000 we have additional payments of $2,000 for our insurance. We have an entry fee of $7,500. We feed our workers daily and that's a cost of about $1,500 for the week. Also, the school buses, we have to provide transportation for everyone to get up to fiesta floats and that's about a thousand dollars a day that we pay for the buses and then we have a storage unit that we house everything up there and so that's about another seventeen thousand dollars that we have to raise. So with the the, sorry, the supplemental here, it shows it would be a total of 33,000 plus the 17,000, which would bring us almost at 60,000. And we are getting a lot of help and we're going to try our best to do the fundraising, but we just would like to ask the city for a little bit more. Is there any questions? Is that why I'm just waiting for the briefing to end because I'm going to go to the public comments. Is the briefing done? Okay, I just want to make sure. Anyone from the public who should make comment, you get one minute. Okay. The city. make sure okay anyone from the public who should make comment you get one minute okay the city of taunts is blessed with people who want to advertise the city and this is one of the best ways to do it and we've been doing it for what are you here 70 years. I was blessed by being on the float in 2012. There I was in the trolley inside the trolley hearing everyone on Colorado bowl of our going turns turns. You know that it just felt so good because I was part of the city advertising for the city and celebrating the parade. That is one of the best advertisements. And for those of you who are going to the Asian countries, they're seeing this, those who are going to the European countries, they're seeing it, and everyone on the East Coast are watching this, and they wanna come here. And when they hear about Torrance, they know about us. We really need to keep this going because as Carol said, this is a great way to advertise the city of Torrance. Jared Sidney Torrance recognized that when he put the first float in the parade when he was developing the city. That's how he started letting people know about Torrance. And this is how we keep Torrance in everybody's mind of why businesses want to move here and all that. So we need to do that. The other thing is when I became present, I started design contest for the high schools to demonstrate what great kids we had in the city and how great our schools were. So this also helps advertise our city in that respect. And so I think it's important that we keep this going and anything we can do to help keep it alive. Thank you. Good evening. I think it's still evening. It's not quite morning yet. I hope that you all got the email that I sent in and the history attachment and I hope you took the time to read it. It took me a while. So you have the history. We put in, in addition to everything else. You have an entire group of people who volunteer to do this. TRFA puts in over 3,000 hours a year. If you want to translate that into dollars, that's quite a bit that is donated. And we have people working full time and still doing this. I know it sounds like we're asking for a lot but the fundraising is a real tough job and we just don't want to let everybody down. Thank you. I always think about money, right, dollars, cents, budget, understand. $50,000 is a lot to be adding to the pockets. What I'm hoping is maybe we could talk about quality of life. In the city of Torrance, this has a tradition. It's a family tradition. Kids look for it. Our residents look for it. Yes, the world looks for it, and it's good marketing, but it's for our residents. It's for us. It's for our families. It's for our children who can see things and enjoy things we did as we were growing up. I did not watch the show but I heard they win the prize. You know, I don't know what category because they were judging the float before it started. But Torrance float was an embarrassment, embarrassment because it did not go. the Torrance Flood had to be told. And everybody in Asia, in Europe, and everywhere they saw it, torrents the great city has a broken-down float. It had to be told. What is that tells you? The whole world saw you in competent. In competent. You almost ruined the whole thing. I know 300,000 sounds like a lot of money, but what you've got to do is you've got to look at the corporations and the people that make up the city of Tarns. Look at the businesses. Look at all of those businesses that benefit from the Rose float. 70 years, all volunteers, people working late hours, they put the float together. And you take 300,000 divided by 150,000 people that make up the city of Torrance, this pocket change. And the benefits that you get by contributing to this float are millions of dollars that come back to the city coffers. Through businesses, through new employees, through new things that happen here, about people wanting to be a part of the city of Tarns. So think about 70 years of the legacy of what's happened here in the city of Torrance. Thank you. Okay, I think the public comments are made. I'll come to the council. Any comments or questions? I don't see anyone click in. Okay, councilman Shaeke. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to thank the Dorrance Rose Flade Association volunteers. You do a great job. You represent us. You have done amazing job reaching out collecting funds, raising awareness. So many hours representing the city of Torres you have done wonderful job and I know you're asking more money and hopefully you find other resources as well but I think for me it's worth it. Thank you. I support it. I don't see any more comments I think Councilman the Tuchy is ready to take action. I am here. I'm pretty take action. I, before I make my motion, I want to remind everyone that the reason my family moved to Torrance is because my dad saw the road float of Torrance going by on Colorado back in the 70s. And he said, let me look it up on the map, and that's how we ended up in Torrance. So some people might be happy about that, some people might be not so happy about that. But the list is to say I also served on the board back in 2015. Therefore, as much as I don't like to just throw taxpayers money away, but this is a great investment to holding onto a beautiful tradition. And hopefully it'll be around for another seven years, and plus. Therefore, I move that we increase our funding by 50,000 to 175,000 allocation and hopefully they can find the rest. 175,000 I think it's a good amount that we pitch in. You also approve into design. And approving the design correct. Thank you, Mayor. And I second that motion. Start voting please. Your honor that motion carried with council member Clonney. Your honor. I'll probably see manager if I could ask that we take D in the out of order to this way we can just leave the budget as budget as a last item. And it will be your total one morning, but that's okay. Thank you. Because we're going to be here to tell tomorrow morning anyway, right? Okay. Let's do that. Next item is 10D and then 10E. Later. OK, item 10 D from the Traffic Commission and Public Works Director. Is there a staff presentation? Good evening, Mayor and Council members. I'm Helen Shee with Public Works Department. Item 10 D is administrative update to Torrance Municipal Code, section 61.6.33, related to on-street parking restrictions along Maricopa Street adjacent to the Belmar Town Home complex. In 1996, the City Council approved ordinance number 3420, which prohibit parking along the north side of Maricopa Street between Kranchau Boulevard and Hawaii Avenue. This restriction was implemented to address overflow parking from the Torrance Courthouse and several large commercial businesses on Maricopa Street that were active at the time. Since then, the areas used has evolved. Notably, in 2005, the MacNote Wax facility was replaced by the Belmar townh homes at the corner of Maricopa Street in Havai Avenue. Over time residents in the neighborhood, neighboring Torrance Gardens, neighborhood, south of Maricopa Street began reporting parking overflow from Belmar with residents and the guests parking in in the permit restricted zones to the south. To help alleviate this issue and improve safety by reducing the need for Belmar residents and guests to cross Maricopa Street residents of Torrance Gardens suggested allowing parking on America of the Street Street directly in front of Balmar. In November 2017, response to this input, the city removed the no parking restrictions along the north side of Maricopa Street between Hawaii Avenue and the Higley Avenue. Since that time, staff observations have shown that added parking has worked well. It has provided necessary parking for Belmar residents and guests, eased the pressure on the Torrance Garden area and improved pedestrian safety without causing any active impacts. The Traffic Commission also previously revealed and supported this change. Tonight we're recommending a formal update to the Torrance Municipal Code to make it consistent with current conditions on the street. As always, the 72 hours parking rule and the street sweeping restrictions bill remain in effect. Permit parking rules in the Torrance Gardens area will not be changed. Thank you and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Any members of the public who is made common on this item? I don't know if I did not pay attention or I just couldn't understand it and it's not it took it up also. Modifying the parking situation. So I don't know if you're going to allow the parking, whether it was a parking before or you're not going to allow the parking what was parking before. So the great presentation, it's either me, I did not listen enough or blanked out, so I still don't know what you're voting for, getting rid of no parking signs or putting up more parking signs. So I don't know, but I don't have college education. So I have minutes. Who cares? Less parking. More parking restrictions. More parking tickets for the people. More revenue to the city. Everything should be no parking. Anyone else from the public, wish me comment on this item? I don't see any. Actually, Helen, are you, you are somewhat new to the city, are you? Well, this is the first time she's given the brief. Maybe it's the first time. Okay, thank you. I think, I think just wanna make sure to make clarification. It seems like before this item came here, the city has already allowed that strip. We're just making it form and out. I think that's what I was hearing. That's correct. The parking restrictions were removed in November 2017. And this item is to make the municipal code consistent with what's existing out there currently. Okay, I guess I understood. Anyone else from the council has questions on this item? Councilman Codge, are you ready to take action? I move that. We adopt the ordinance. I'm ending the Torrance Municipal Code and adopt the ordinance summary for publication. I think I probably should ask City Clerk. Second. Do I need a number entitled? Yes, Your Honor. This is ordinance number 3948. In ordinance of the City Council of the City of Torrance, California, amending section 61.6.33 of the Torrance Municipal Code, related to no stopping Maricopa Street. Yes. Ornans thirty nine forty eight. That would be part of the motion. Star voting please. Thank you. You're under that motion carried with council member Colony. Thank you. All right. Let's go to item 10E from the Public Works Director, is there a staff presentation? Good evening. Honorable Mayor and members of the council. I'm Jessamine Q from Public Works. Item 10E has three recommendations related to the annual levy of assessments for the City of Taurant Slighting District 99-1 for fiscal year 25-26. Adapter resolution initiating proceedings to levy assessments within the district. Adapter resolution approving the engineer's report and the doctor resolution of intention to levy assessments and set the date of June 3, 2025 for the public hearing. The lighting district was established in 1999 and pays for street lighting citywide. These three solutions are required annually for the city to continue to connect assessments from properties and torrents to pay for street lighting. The proposed assessment amounts are the same as last years and have remained the same since 2000. For example, most single family residential properties would be assessed $20.50 in fiscal year 2526 or $1.71 a month. As required by a preposition to 18, the engineer's report separates special benefits allocable to real properties from general benefits to the public. Assessments paid by property owners would pay for special benefits of street lighting only. The total street lighting cost for the district in fiscal year 2526 is estimated at 1,912,828 dollars. This represents a 46,556 dollar increase from fiscal year 2425, which corresponds to an increase in SE rates. Assessment revenues are projected to be $1,388,480 in fiscal year 2526. The balance of district costs would be funded by gas tax funds in the amount of $524,348, as identified in the proposed fiscal year 2526 budget. This completes my presentation. Thank you. I'll go to public comments on this. Please come to the microphone. All right. Thank God you're raising this one too. I think last year it was like one point. I don't know how many million but you manage it you're gonna vote for this I'm sure because we need more lighting and I'm sure you know people don't even realize this when they pay the taxes you know I used to pay I remember when I bought my house it was like eight dollars for street lighting every two months or something for Southern California Edison, but you took over, you made this stupid lighting district, and by the way, I thought, hi, overpass, the lights are odd, like six months. Six months. So I want some money back. I want some money back and fix the lights. It's very important lighting is safety. You know what I mean? So you charging people up the vazoo for shit. People don't even know about it. And then you don't. Anyone else from the public who just speak on this item? And don't see any. Come to the council. Any council member has comments or question on this item. Please click in. I don't see any city clerk may have number and title for this item, please. Yes, Your Honor. The first is resolution number 2025-22. A resolution of the City Council of the City of Torrance, California, initiating proceedings for the Levy and Collection of assessments within the City of Torrance, Lidian District number 99-1, for fiscal year 2025-2026, pursuant to the provisions of Part 2 of Division 15 of the Streets and High Ways Code, and as provided by Article 13D of the California Constitution, the next is resolution number 2025-23, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Torrance, California, approving the report of the engineer in connection with the Levy and collection of assessments within the city of Torrance Lighting District number 99-1. For fiscal year 2025-2026 pursuant to the provisions of part two of division 15 of the streets and highways code and as provided by article 13-D of the California. And the last is resolution number 2025-26. A resolution of the City Council of the City of Torrance, California declaring its intention to levy and collect assessments within the City of Torrance, sliding district. Number 99-1 for fiscal year 2025-26, pursuant to the provisions of Part Two of Division 15 of the streets and highways code, and as provided by Article 13D of the California Constitution, appointing a time and place for public hearing. Council Miloce, you got all that? I do. I make a sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. motion carried with council member Collinia absent. All right. Next time we went to our old process public hearing at the end. Mayor also for your awareness and the interest of time we'll move the rest of the closed session items to the next meeting. Okay. So this is the last item for the evening. Yes, sir. Okay. So some of us will get to sleep tonight. Yes, Mr. Standing. Here, we're going back to 9a. I believe. 9a. From the city manager and finance director. Good evening, honor. I'm Chipotle and City Manager, I'll kick us off. I'll allow Mayor, Council Members and Thomas Community. This is by privilege to present the proposed fiscal year 2025, 2027 operating budget and capital improvement plan, a comprehensive financial roadmap that balances fiscal responsibility with strategic investments in our community's future. This 586.5 million budget prioritizes course service delivery while making target investments in infrastructure with 354.2 million allocated to the general fund and 85.5 million dedicated capital improvements. Our approach delivery realizes utilizes accumulated resources for strategic investments that will enhance service delivery and reduce future maintenance costs, all while maintaining compliance with our fiscal policies. The budget reflects significant progress on our financial key performance indicators, with five indicators now in the green category, compared just to one that doesn seem too far to go back in 2019-20. Key investments in the budget align with council priors and include public safety enhancements, critical infrastructure maintenance, technological modernization, zero emission fleet transition, homelessness response, employee recruitment and retention. The budget also reflects our community's evolving economic landscape with property tax now surpassing sales tax as our largest revenue source. Major development projects continue throughout the city and are down to undervalidation efforts of progressing with enhanced lighting and improvements in new gateway signage. I wish to extend my sincere appreciation to our finance department and also the departments for the diligent work in developing this thoughtful and balanced budget. Their commitment to operational excellence, fiscal stewardship, and transparent financial planning have produced a document that only received prestigious recognition both the government Government Finance Office Association and the California Society of Municipal Finance Officers. But more importantly, it serves as a practical blueprint for continuing to make Torrance the premier place to live, work, play and visit. Thank you for your leadership and continue the partnership in building Torrance's future. I now transmit the budget for your deliberation and direction. Mr. Daly, our finance director will not present the proposed to your budget. Thank you, Your Honor and Council. Thank you, City Manager, Siparian. Good evening, Honorable Mayor, members of the City Council, Ian Daly, finance director. Tonight, I'll be presenting an overview of the fiscal year 2025-27 operating budget and capital improvement plan. The budget document itself was made available publicly on the finance website on Monday, April 28th. In addition to publishing online, a copy of the budget was made available at the City Clerk public counter on April 30th. And these slides as well are also posted on the finance department and council agenda websites. Before we dive in I'd like to take a moment and thank all departments for their joint effort in developing this year's budget document. The finance team including both those present tonight and those working behind the scenes and City Manager Ramshaparian and Assistant City Manager Danny Santana for their guidance and leadership. First, I'd like to set the stage with the first two slides intended to provide a quick synopsis of the state of the city's budget and things being closely monitored before you review the details. As noted, staff's overall outlook is cautious as we enter this budget cycle, which will be expanded upon throughout this presentation. Overall, the recommended budget provides a path of structural balance over the 10-year projection timeline. The General Fund's Economic Anomaly Reserve, as recommended in the proposed budget, is in compliance with the city's fiscal policy and is projected to grow over the 10-year projection period. And two of the 10 financial key performance indicators have been downgraded from the green category to the yellow category. The categories are revenue trends for the general fund and the citywide capital asset condition KPIs. With these two downgrades, staff are recommending a conservative revenue budget while making strategic investments and critical infrastructure to address both these KPIs and a balanced manner. The broader economy, part of staff's cautious sentiment relates to recent tariff activity at the federal level. It's immediate impact on financial markets and the potential long-term effect it can have on underlying economic activity. As of today, the S&P 500 is down 4.2% and the Dow Jones is effectively flat year today. These types of market volatility have a direct impact on the city's pension plan, which relies on an expected 6.8% growth each. There have been a number of articles noting layoffs and even bankruptcies in the private sector due to overall economic headwinds, retailers like Joanne's and Forever 21 are closing their doors with VINFAST doing the same at the Dalamo Mall, while Torrance based Canoe is filed for bankruptcy. With that said, business vacancies continue to be filled and community development process $222 million in permit valuations in 2024 up from 157 million a year prior. It's also worth noting locally, as shown in the news and on social media, other neighboring cities are having budget challenges, shoring up deficits with their own budgets. Before we jump into the coming budget year, we'll first address the current fiscal year. So as noted on this slide, as a fiscal year 242525 mid year budget review report, the general fund operating fund is projected to operate at an operating surplus where actual revenues will exceed actual expenditures. Included on this slide are staff's recommendations with how that anticipated surplus should be leveraged. The first is to make sure that the amortized balance in the city's IT asset replacement and fleet services funds maintain a sufficient balance for future asset replacement as calculated at fiscal year end. This will ensure the progress made in these areas is protected and sufficient funding is maintained. The second is to make sure the self insurance fund balance improves in the current fiscal year and does not further degrade another longstanding area to focus for us as a city. And the last is to allow any remaining portion flow to the unassigned fund balance to help offset capital contributions for the coming fiscal year. Another update related to the current fiscal year pertains to the general fund's presentation of fund balance. result of the fiscal audit the city underwent. There was a recommendation to improve oversight and control over the city's reserves. As such, staff is recommending that beginning in fiscal year 2024-2025, the economic anomaly reserve fund commonly referred to as reserves be represented under the city's assigned fund balance, with explicit council approval required for any portion of its use. As such, staff recommends a contribution of $56 million, which would set the full balance at $68.9 million, which is equivalent to a 22% reserve ratio based on fiscal year 2025, 2026's proposed budget tonight. On this slide, we're providing a side-by-side comparison to bring visual clarity to what we just described with the side-by-side comparison of the current and proposed change in how the fund balance is presented. The fund balance for the General Fund is broken into four main categories, non-spendable, restricted, assigned, and unassigned, which are shown here in bold rows. Below those bold areas, additional details are included to show the main buckets that make up the total figure consistent with the city's audited financial statements. The recommended change described previously is taking place within the blue box on this slide. Currently, the Economic Anomaly Reserve Fund is a subset of the unassigned fund balance with a balance currently totaling $12.9 million, but doesn't get explicitly presented because it's not a part of the assigned bucket, which does get broken down in the city's audit of financial statements. Implementing this change as part of the end of fiscal year 2024-2025 will allow the city to address an open item from the recently completed fiscal audit, ensure the city explicitly calls out its reserve balance, improves monitoring against the city's fiscal policy, and requires explicit council approval to utilize any portion of it. The fiscal policy and the proposed budget document calls out a policy minimum of 20% for the economic anomaly reserve. And it also adds new language requiring the unrestricted balance, which is the sum of assigned and unassigned, also be at a minimum, striving to meet a 30% figure over time. Now we'll transition to the current year's budget cycle. The slide highlights the city's typical budget development timeline and major milestones along the way. The city's budget process is very time intensive on staff involving all departments in generally last about six months. Tonight marks the first public hearing on the budget document and this year's staff are recommending a second public hearing take place May 20th with a third and final public hearing taking place on June 3rd. The same night where council would approve the necessary resolutions to implement the 2526 budget. A staff work through the budget development steps there are key items that shape the direction of the budget as it is assembled. The first is the Finance and Government Operations Committee, which conducts a first quarter and mid-year budget review report. These reports are particularly valuable at setting an accurate and realistic revenue budget as the coming budget cycle is based on projections rather than the current year's budget to make sure revenues are as accurate as possible. In addition to these meetings, there are three core guiding principles that set the financial framework for staff. These include the City's 10 years strategic plan, the council adopted budget priorities for the current fiscal year, and the city's 10 financial key performance indicators. Staffers have ensured that the recommended financial plan before your honorable body prioritizes this framework. As mentioned, monitoring our 10 financial key performance indicators is essential to providing staff with objective outcomes relative to the city's benchmarks. The city has made significant progress since fiscal year 2020, where seven of the 10 metrics were in the red category. As of fiscal year 2024, the most recently audited fiscal year, five of the metrics are in the green category, and most notably the revenue trends in capital asset condition metrics just fell into the yellow category. Additionally, staff have made one update to the 10 KPIs, changing the third metric listed above on the slides from General Fund Reserves, which tracked the unassigned fund balance against the General Funds budget to now be the General Fund unrestricted fund balance, which will now track the total of assigned and unassigned as a percentage of the General Funds budget. This is now consistent with the former state auditor metric and is being done in tandem with the change in how the city's reserve fund is now tracked and presented in our financial statements to track all available resources that are available at Council's direction. As a direct result of these outcomes in fiscal year 2324 staff are prioritizing conservative revenue estimates and investments through the city's capital improvement plan to address these areas, which would be just August and greater detail as part of the presentation. The city continues to have six areas of focus which have been monitored over the last few years. The city has made incremental progress addressing certain items that have been monitored, while others are made a focus for many years because of the scale and scope to resolve them. The city continues to make incremental progress on the self insurance funds funded status ending fiscal year 2324 at just under 30%, which is up from 8% in FY20. This is why staff recommended this area be prioritized with the year end surplus previously discussed. With the cash balances by fund area focus, this monitors the city's general fund cash balance compared with the rest of the city. Since the city has met its fiscal policy requirement of 20% reserves and is in the green category for liquidity and general fund unrestricted fund balance. It is anticipated this area focus can be considered complete and will be discussed further in the coming fiscal year. As for labor trends, the city continues to be challenged here with an elevated city's policy and the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy and the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy to be a part of the city's policy to a focus can be considered complete and will be discussed further during the coming fiscal year. The city continues to monitor and prioritize investment in city facilities and parks through both the operating and capital improvement plan budgets. In addition to the recently completing building index study, staff are recommending funding for a library operations assessment and a parks master plan to evaluate current library services and chart out the future of the city's parks, including capital investment required over the years. Finally staff continue to monitor and manage the city's overall pension and op-ed liabilities. Most recently the city negotiated to freeze the city's PAR's pension plan, capping its liabilities so its funded status can be improved on a condensed timeline. This is an area of focus that will remain for years to come. Finally, the city monitors several economic indicators to help plan out the city's finances in a prudent and conservative manner. As we're all aware, the Fed began leveraging its monetary policy in March 2022 to try and temper the economy and cool inflation trends. This included raising the federal funds rate all the way up to the 5.25 to 5.5 percent range. Then beginning in September 2024, the Fed began to soften rates to the current 4.25 to 4.5 percent range. The Fed monitors the personal consumption expenditure index targeting a 2 percent figure figure though inflation has been persistent and as of February this rate stands at 2.5%. The consumer price index peaked at 8.6% in June 2022 but thanks to the Fed's actions this figure has tempered to 3% as of March. Slightly elevated above long-term trends. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has noted that tariffs would likely at least generate a temporary increase in inflation, however that the Federal remains focused on long-term fiscal policy decisions. Real GDP continues to grow at a steady rate with the latest quarter growing to 1.5% compared with the same period of the year prior. And in the labor market we see unemployment creeping upwards with California and the South Bay cities in the range of 5.2 to 5.9% with torrents faring better at 4.7% slightly above national unemployment rates of 4.2%. Now we'll begin to map out the overall framework of of this year's budget, taking into consideration the different factors, including the strategic plan, budget priorities, key performance indicators, areas of focus, and underlying economic factors. Listed on this slide are a series of budget efficiencies, included in the proposed budget with the goal of aligning resources in the most efficient manner possible. The city is transitioning fleet services charges that were historically distributed in manner based on each department's actual repair activity, charging for the time and materials to a flat rate model going forward based on vehicle type and historical costs. This conversion will allow for the city to budget a precise amount that is needed to recover the cost of the city's fleet fund. For the first time the city is including a vacancy rate assumption in the budget. This was an item recommended in the city's fiscal audit that was recently conducted to better align the budget with actual staffing costs. Across all funds in fiscal year 2526, it's assumed that 50% of the cost of vacant positions will not be filled in the fiscal year and therefore lowers the staffing budget accordingly. While this change addresses the fiscal audit and doesn't assume all positions will remain unfilled, it does restrict the flexibility for the city to react to unplanned activities during the fiscal year. Similar to the change of the fleet fund, this budget consolidates the cost associated with non-litigated claims to the self-interrence fund, which were previously distributed to various departments. This change reduces the potential for over budgeting in different departments and consolidates the activity to one place improving our budget allocation efficiency. Previously, the fleet sanitation, sewer and water funds each had an operations and a vehicle replacement fund with money set aside from the operations fund to the vehicle replacement fund each year. This creates additional burden on staff to perform these entries plus a reconciliation effort at your end. Going forward, all funding will remain in the operations fund and staff will monitor the balance to ensure future replacements are fully funded. Finally, the proposed budget includes realignment of certain positions in police and transit to pool positions and resources to better serve departments. Included in this budget are two rebrands and reorganizations. The first relates to communications information technology, which will now be known as information technology. The second relates to our cable division of the city manager's office being rebranded as communications. In prior versions of the budget, civil service was also represented as a department, though it's truly a division of the city manager's office and will now be presented that way going forward. And finally, going forward, the city's reserve fund will be presented differently as part of the assigned fund balance as previously described. The proposed budget prioritizes addressing the downgraded KPIs through conservative revenue projections and strategic investments and priority areas through the capital improvement plan making sure the budget achieve structural balance over the long term and taking incremental steps to implement areas of the fiscal on it. Finally to round out the overall budget framework, the city continues to experience high levels of development with the community development department processing, as mentioned earlier, 222 million in permit valuations in 2024, which is up from 157 million in 2023. The strong development continues to provide a stable revenue base through increased property taxes. Despite a challenging retail environment, enclosures like Forever 21 and Joanne's, the Delamomal continues to fill vacancies regularly with openings like Doc Martins, Big Blue Swim School, and Moo Moo Hot Pot, plan to open Zoom. More broadly, the city's economic development efforts have brought new businesses like Sony Honda, Mobilities of Fila, US headquarters to Torrance. Efforts continue to strengthen the city's economic international economic ties through expansion of the friendship cities program which now totals five cities. Additionally the city established a technology governance committee to provide policy direction and oversight of citywide IT initiatives. A primary focus of this group is tackling the city's use of artificial intelligence and city operations. The city is a member of the Gov AI coalition, which is group of cities tackling these same issues, which provides staff with resources such as draft policies and contract language for us to leverage and implement. While that happens, initial use of tools are being explored. As a tangible example, the budget message included in the proposed budget before your honorable body tonight was actually run through AI to enhance the original drafting with many of its recommendations being included. In August 2024, the city conducted a statistically valid survey to help understand how people like to consume information from the city. This is informed a major initiative underway to overhaul the city's website. Staff have completed the discovery phase and are currently in the design phase when it anticipated update to the community development and enrichment committee shortly. The website will drastically simplify and create a user centric website that will also include integrations and enhance with our cello platform to allow new business license applications to take place online. It's anticipated the first phase of the three-phase project will be live by the end of the calendar year, which includes the city's main website. As part of this effort, AI-driven chatbots are being explored to further enhance the effort and leverage technology that is available. The city continues to make strides an area of homelessness in the city. We talked about that at length tonight. The city's 3290 temporary housing village continues to be full having successfully transitioned 41 individuals to permanent housing. The city's transit department celebrated 85 years of service with the launch of its connect to Torrance Micro Transit Pilot Program, expanding service access within designated zones. The department also placed an order for 24 new buses with four of them being zero mission buses. And finally, the department continues to enhance service out of the RTC and is improving service levels on lines one and six as well. The police department continues to work closely with the California Department of Justice on collaborative reform. The goal of this effort is aimed at fostering a safer and more equitable society for all. The department is dedicated to providing its officers with the necessary tools and resources to uphold the highest standards of professionalism, embracing the principles of 21st century policing. The city's budget breaks down into five main fund classification types listed on this slide. We have the general fund, enterprise funds, and internal service funds housing the bulk of city operations and are what will be highlighted in the coming slides, outlining the changes in revenue and expenditure budgets for these operations. First, I'd like to take a minute break down the city's general fund and how the different budgets within it function. So within the general fund overall, the city breaks it down into four main components shown on the slide. The left side denoted by the darker blue includes the operating fund and the measure SST funds. These two funds function like the city's checking accounts, funding day-to-day activity and operations of the city. With the right side denoted in the later blue, including the restricted and assigned funds, and these two funds function like the city's savings account where we set money aside for future use for example the city's pension prefunding trust is housed under the restricted fund and the reserve fund will now be presented under the assigned fund On this slide we have major We have the major funds and their changes in revenue budgets listed and won't go through every single one the interest of time, but all of them are explained in detail in the budget book starting on page 73. The general fund operating fund is proposed to increase by 17.6 million, which represents 6.1%. The increase is mainly due to the operating transfers in from the pension trust fund, totaling 7.3 million, from the measure SST fund, 1.3 million from the measure SST fund 1.3 million and the airport fund for 1.1 million. Additional revenue is anticipated in the license fees and permits totaling 4.4 million and an increase in investment earnings of 1.9 million. With respect to the general fund measure SST fund, it's proposed to increase by 1 million million which represents 4% This is a result of projecting the measure SST budget based on current projections as the city better understands the behavior of our transaction and use the tax and It's ratio relative to the Bradley burns 1% sale stacks the general fund restricted Restricted fund is proposed to decrease by 5.5 million and due to decrease contributions to the city's pension pre-funding trust in the coming budget cycle. The airport fund is proposed to increase by $2.7 million, mainly due to increase in rent from ground leases, hanger storage and landing fees. The transit fund is proposed to to increase 3.3 million. This is mainly due to one time operating grant for the expansion of the lines 1 and 6 I mentioned earlier, as well as increased proper A transfers to the fund. The water fund is proposed to increase $7 million, mainly due to approved rate increases coupled with projected growth and consumption. And finally, the Fleet Services Fund is proposed to increase 1.9 million, ensuring all costs are recovered from contributing funds and departments to cover the centralized budgeting of costs in the fleet fund that I previously described as one of our budget efficiencies. The slide shows a breakdown of the revenue operating budget by fund classification. As shown here, the general fund is the largest totaling 343.1 million followed by enterprise funds at 148.4 million and internal service funds at 39.4. The slide will examining the largest fund of the general fund, the general fund operating fund, one of the city's checking accounts, which shows staff's conservative approach to revenues. As shown here, the city's largest revenue classification taxes is projected to grow by just over $700,000 or 0.4%. License fees and permits continue to perform strong, with operating transfers in growing largely due to a $7.3 million transfer from the city's pension trust fund to mitigate growth in the city's calpers costs. As shown on this slide, we're diving in a layer further. And we can see the drivers have changed within the taxes classification shown on the prior slide. As you can see, sales tax is projected to decrease $825,000 compared with the prior year's budget or 1.3%. Along with a decrease in UUT of 2.7 million or 5.8% due to reduced natural gas consumption at the refinery. These decreases are thankfully offset by strong growth in the city's property tax base of $4.2 million or $6.1 percent as you can see here in fiscal year 2526 column property tax has eclipse sales tax sitting at 72 million compared to 61.7 million providing a consistent and reliably growing tax revenue base. The largest driver of change for the city's property tax base pertains to the turnover of properties being bought and sold throughout the year, coupled with some of the recent developments completed and underway. Similar to the revenue slide, we just reviewed, we have major funds and their changes in the expenditures budget listed here. And again, I won't go through every one of them in the interest of time, but all of them are explained starting on page 81 of the budget document. The general fund operating fund though is proposed to increase by 25.1 million as a result of combined increases in salaries and employee benefits, CalPERS, unfunded actuarial liability costs, and contributions to the city's capital improvement plan. The general fund measure SST fund is proposed to actually decrease by 1.3 million. This budget decreases taking place after a planned use of fund balance in fiscal year 2425, 25, which allowed for additional contributions to be made to the city's capital improvement plan. The general fund restricted fund is proposed to increase by 7.2 million, which is the result of the city's use of its pension trust fund to smooth the growing costs related to CalPERS. The airport fund is proposed to increase by 5.9 million due to increased transfers to the general fund from land lease activity outside the fence and increase contributions to the city's capital improvement plan as well. The transit fund is proposed to increase by 4.8 million dollars due to additional positions to support service expansions previously mentioned and other interdepartmental charges. The water fund is proposed to decrease by 8.1 million due to projected, excuse me, to increase by 8.1 million due to projected increases anticipated water supply costs for the fund, which are being partially offset by reduced contributions to the city's capital improvement plan. And finally, the fleet fund is proposed to increase by 4.3 million due to the budget efficiency change previously described centralizing the budget for repair and maintenance costs coupled with increased appreciation charges expected from significant fleet replacement purchases that underway. On this slide, we show a pie chart of the statewide expenditures highlighting the main fund classification budgets with similar to the revenue general fund being the largest at $354.2 million followed by the enterprise funds at $158 million and third the internal service funds at $37.4 million. Included on this slide is a presentation of full-time equivalent or FTE's position city-wide organized by fund showing any changes. As you can see on this slide, there's a 4.95 FTE increase in the general fund and a 9.0 FTE increase in the transit fund. It's important to note that three FTE are actually not new positions, but a reallocation of those embedded positions I mentioned earlier, aligning them under their home departments, in this case, human resources and general services. We'll troll earn the city indirect cost reimbursement from all internal service and enterprise ones. As such, after controlling for this activity, the general fund is actually recommended to increase by 1.95 FT. On this slide, we're looking at the same FT counts, but from the perspective of the departments ignoring funds, while we have included slides to highlight the reorgs and the city manager's office and information technology, I to take a moment to explain the other changes included on this slide. For community development, three additional positions are being proposed to address the increasing demand on the department and ensure business flows smoothly and development continues to be supported. This includes the addition of a permit technician, plans examiner, and a senior building inspector. For finances is a net zero FTE change but rather the cost representing the conversion of a senior accountant position to an accounting supervisor position to address recruitment challenges. For general services, this one FTE increase relates to an internal transfer of a custodium previously under the transit department, but now merged with all other custodian positions in general services. For human resources, this 2.0FT increase relates to an internal transfer of 2HR positions previously under transit department, but now merged with other like positions in human resources. For police, the 5FT reduction relates to an internal transfer of 5 IT-related positions previously under the police department, but now merged with like positions in information technology. And for public works, the additional one FTE is a maintenance worker position and the second position added to support the 7000 trees being planted citywide. And finally for transit transit, there are 12 additional bus operators being added to support service expansion, partially offset by the previously mentioned embedded position being transferred across departments. The full detail of all of these changes can be seen on page 84 of the budget document. In the city manager's office, staff are proposing a reorganization to update the city's cable division as part of its rebranding to communications. The goal of the reorg is to add, convert and eliminate certain classifications to better align with the 21st century communications model leveraging social media platforms through content creators to tell the story of the city and communicate with our residents and corporate citizens. As shown on this slide, a management associate position is being added along with a series of conversions listed below to establish new classifications or update existing ones. Finally, on this slide is a series of eliminations of FTE and classification titles as we migrate to this new model. In total, the proposed program modification reduces FTE counts by 2.05 and the savings of a little over $80,000. The Information Technology Department is also proposing a reorganization as the Department evolves under Director Yermakov's leadership advancing advancing council identified budget priority areas. As shown on this slide, an IT manager and project manager position are being proposed to support efforts related to GIS and the many projects both underway and on the horizon for the department. Of note, the city is embarking on identifying and implementing a new enterprise resource planning system, which will affect every single department and every single employee as we advance the effort forward. Staff are working to take incremental steps to ensure the success of this project as all to often these efforts can take many years and go significantly over budget. So taking it seriously and prioritizing it on the front end should put us in the best place for success. In addition to these position ads are a series of conversions including emerging of wireless and telecom together under one supervisor. On this slide the department is proposing the elimination of a senior administrative assistant to offset the cost impacts leveraging a small team of people to oversee technology agreements citywide. And and the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of And the slide we're providing the major drivers of change for the non-wage budget of the general fund in total about $700,000 is being recommended with the bulk of it relating to the following areas. In the city manager's office $150,000 is being added so that staff can engage with an audit firm to review all land lease agreements ensuring accountability with all revenues received. This will allow the city to institute a program that will evaluate different leases on a rotational basis. In community services, budget is being recommended to support the park services division in response to the park operations assessment, adding funding for tree trimming efforts along with supplies needed, including turf seed, fertilizer, and topper for sports fields. Funding needed to hire outside consultants to support master planning and cost estimation services for the city's capital improvement plan, and funding to conduct a library operations assessment to evaluate our library model in the 21st century. In general services budget is being recommended to support various building maintenance related costs needed citywide. The full detail of all of these changes are fully described on page 87 of the budget document as well. Next we'll review the General Fund's budget with respect to various subsidies. Most notably, the Armed Forces Day Parade budget was recently increased to address additional security measures. The fiscal year 2526 budget carries this newly adjusted amount forward. Additionally, the term of Rose flow budget is noted to increase $50,000, which is consistent with the action just taken to support the anticipated change in subsidy that the council just approved. Finally, the city yard open house takes place every other year, so it's not anticipated to be needed to be funded in FY 26 but it resumes in FY 27 and all other subsidies remain unchanged. Staff have assembled this slide in an effort to recalibrate travel budgets based on recent economic development and international relations efforts as well as to formally establish budgets for council committees that require travel and to not have it come from council members core travel accounts, which is intended to fund other conferences. While the cost-based, cost basis listed on the slide, quotes a number of trips and cost-per-trip. This is purely a method of establishing a dollar amount to budget and does not necessarily cap or guarantee a number of trips as the dollar amount is really what will be the ceiling. For the federal and state legislative trips, a budget of $7,500 to cover the three members each year is included. For general economic development efforts, a budget of $17,500 per year is included to cover all council members taking one trip in any given fiscal year. Then in the middle section, we list the travel budgets for each council member and the mayor, each council member currently set at 12,000 and the mayor at 16,000. In the third section, we note the budget for local meetings and meals setting a budget at $21,000, which is equivalent to $250 per council member per month. And finally, in the bottom section, we know that $70,000 budget specific to any friendship, city, travel related activity. This was derived from a general assumption of each member being able to travel twice per year. In total, this represents about a $25,000 increase in the overall travel budget for council and redefines allocations in hopefully a more clear manner. All of these amounts are purely placeholders based on staff's evaluation of activities and can certainly be updated at council direction. Finally, council consider a change in practice that would allow for any member to transfer a portion or all of their individual travel budgets to any other council member without requiring full council consideration. Now we'll focus on the long-term horizon and how all of the changes I just described play out in our multi-year projections. On the next two sides we'll focus on on the General Fund Operating Fund and the General Fund Measure SST Fund, the General Fund's two checking accounts, but all of our fund projections can be reviewed starting on page 159 of the budget document. Starting in the top section, in fiscal year 2526, the city is proposing to utilize 8.1 million accumulated in our checking account. That is the general fund operating fund balancing the budget through its use of fund balance to support a 13.1 million dollar contribution shown in the green text in the section below. This investment in the city's capital improvement plan is intentionally included to actively address the downgrade in the city's capital asset condition, key performance indicator. Additionally, it would typically be expected that the city will spend less in any budget cycle, achieving some savings through vacancies, which will mitigate this impact on a dollar for dollar basis. As shown in the middle of the funding details and assumptions section, the city continues to contribute to its pension pre-funding trust and has planned strategic use of this balance for a portion of the 10-year projection model consistent with last year's projection. This use will smooth the rising costs of pensions being experienced by the city as revenues grow with us adding back to the balance on the tail end of the 10-year projection. Finally, as explained earlier, the city is changing its presentation of reserves and explicitly calling out and the assigned section of the balance sheet. As you can see in the bottom section, the reserve fund is being recommended to be set at 68.9 million, which is 22% of the fiscal year 2526 budget amount, and then is projected to grow during the 10-year projection, maintaining or exceeding the 20% policy requirement. For the first four years, the General Fund continues to rely on measure SST's contribution to reserves, but in years five through 10, the reliance wanes, eventually the 5 million stays in the reserve fund growing the balance each year. As previously mentioned in any given year, if there are any operating surpluses where actual revenues exceed actual expenditures, council can direct additional contributions to reserve fund to build it at an accelerated pace. Now we'll examine the general fund measure SST fund, the second checking account, so to speak, pertaining to the general fund. As shown here, the budget is balanced for all 10 years, supporting city efforts by generating $26 million in fiscal year 2526, growing to $34.1 million in $34.35. Without measure SST significant reductions in service and facilities would have been required to shore up the $26 million gap filled by this half-sent transaction in new stacks approved by voters in June 2022. The majority of funding from measure SST is committed to maintaining positions in police and fire in the amount of $13.1 million in fiscal year 2526. The second largest area that measure SST supports is the city's capital improvement plan, investing in parks and facilities accordingly. Then the measure SST fund commits a $5 million contribution to help protect and defend the city's reserve fund balance. Finally, the city continues to commit at least $1 million for cybersecurity and homelessness efforts each. However, thanks to staff efforts, outside funding has been secured to mitigate the need for SSD funding in some instances. An important topic that would be given more focus during this year's budget presentation pertains to the city's capital improvement plan. As an entire city, we have more than $1 billion in assets with them over 50% appreciated. In fiscal year 2324, our capital asset condition indicator was downgraded to the watch category, the yellow category. In the last four years, construction costs have also escalated by than 40%. Placing additional strain on the amount of investment that can be made with the city's dollar not going as far as it once did. To mitigate impacts of these types of cost escalations, the city has included a 10% contingency line related to facilities and parks projects. In fiscal year 2324, a building study was completed highlighting a minimum investment required over the next 10 years of 205 million dollars when our financials can only stand approximately 8 million dollars. Expanded exploration and leveraging of grant opportunities and debt mechanisms will be critical areas for the city to explore. However, it's important to note that while the city has capacity to issue debt with its assets as collateral, the impact this has on the budget needs to be closely monitored. The issuance of debt creates a long term fixed costs with very little ability for the city to augment. One of our financial key performance indicators follows this exact metric called debt burden to make sure the city isn't overly constrained by fixed costs. This KPI sets a goal of total open debt balances excluding pension-related debt being at or below 40% of citywide revenues. Currently the city is at a 32% ratio as of June 2024 leaving an 8% gap which is equivalent to about $37 million. However, the city's water phone just concluded its last drawdown on a low interest state loan and the amount of $14 million related to the Van Nass water well and transmission project, leaving about $23 million in excess capacity for the city to still fall in the green category with this KPI. Absent a separate ballot initiated bond measure capacity is limited. Finally, the capital improvement plan includes funding to allow the city to conduct its first comprehensive parks master plan effort. This will be a community engagement based report that inventories all of our parks, their condition, and where the community wants to see these in the future and associated costs with doing so. Many of these costs were included in the building index study, and this will provide a many of these costs were not included in the building index study, and this will provide a broader view of the capital demands being placed on the organization with our current makeup of buildings, parks, and community spaces. The city's capital improvement plan while comprehensive is not all inclusive and there are known gaps without it clearly defined funding strategy in place. The main projects include the potential of an additional fire station in the southeast portion of the city, as well as the impacts of the city's Civic Center master plan effort. On top of these projects, staff continue to have to defer and push projects out to the lack of funding available under the current service delivery model of the city, the rising costs to complete these efforts, and the deferred maintenance that is accumulated will be explained further. During fiscal year 2425, the Capital Projects team and General Services and Community Services Department has been hired at work, completing over 40 projects, varying complexities with another 40 projects in the pipeline. The projects underway include significant investments at City Hall and the Building and Safety Division, the overhaul of Paradise Park, Batchy Court Rehabilitation, the construction of a World War II Memorial, and an overhaul of Columbia Park via a three-phase effort, and the construction of a parking structure at the Mary K. G. or Dono Regional Transit Center. With recent funding availability, particularly due to measure SST, the team has completed a number of efforts as things ramp up to larger scale projects noted on the slide. Multiple roof projects have been completed, discovery, park, and rest-in-auntry were rehabilitated, along with multiple park lighting projects to address outages at multiple locations. Include in the next few slides, we have some visuals to highlight some of these completions. The first here is a photograph side by side of the before and after at Discovery Park. Another angle here of Discovery Park side by side pre-imposed the improvements that were made there. And finally, a third photo that shows the before and after at Discovery Park in that renovation. There was another project to add a six-lag pole for the Space Force at the Veterans Memorial here out front of City Hall completed by the General Services Department. We had a roof replacement at the Historical Museum shown here before and after. A roof replacement that took place at El Nido Park before and after. And while not a building or park project specifically, the city's effort to beautify through its signage and wayfinding projects highlighted here on this slide as well. While projects advance and efforts continue, we'll spend the next few slides better understanding the current state of our facilities from the Building Index study to expand on the status of our facilities, including their age and condition. The Building Index study assigned a score to each of our assets ranging from A being good to D being critical. As shown on this slide, the bulk of our assets fall in the middle with poor the highest frequency at 56 assets. On this slide, we'll start to expand behind the numbers, looking at what types of assets are scoring poorly, their age, their cost to maintain, and their cost to replace. As you can see here, the average age of assets is 56 years old in the poor condition, with them being built on average in 1969. Each particular asset, whether it would be recommended for repair versus replacement, would be done on a case by case basis, evaluating site conditions and other factors. As shown here, three of our worst scoring libraries were built on average in 1961. All of our fire stations fell in the poor grading with seven public safety facilities scoring in the poor condition and an average year built of 1969. In total 56 assets received a poor condition score built on, built on average in 1969, with a minimum of of investment required totaling 90 million and the upper range at a half a billion dollars with respect to replacement costs. As just mentioned the likely outcome would be a mixture of the two but is intended to convey the scale and scope of investment required with our current portfolio of assets. On this slide, we expand upon the assets receiving a fair score in the Building Index study. On average, these buildings were built in 1974 and have a range of investment required between 86.4 million and 843.4 million, depending on whether a recommendation to repair versus replace is made. To summarize, the building index evaluated over 100 assets, which we previously described on the prior slides. In addition, the city has an inventory of 47 playgrounds across 29 of our 33 parks, with only three of them being fully accessible through rubberized surfacing and others leveraging sand, engineered wood fiber chips or a combination of rubber and the previously mentioned surfaces. With the 100 plus assets, sheer age is a significant component and driver of costs, with assets in the critical stage built on average in 1956, 1969 for poor, and 1974 for fair. While investments continue to be made in projects advanced, it is anticipated that additional discussion will be needed as the sheer cost to scope and magnitude of the city's capital commitments are defined and weighed against the city's ability to afford. On this slide, we'll highlight the overall capital improvement plan for all funds and all project types. The full details of the city's capital plan and every project recommended behind the summary figure can be seen starting on page 171 of the budget book. To date, shown in the life-to-date balance column, there's $94.4 million committed to various projects citywide with another 85.5 recommended in fiscal year 2526. In fiscal year 2526, the public right-of-way category continues to see the largest investment with an additional 35.1 million recommended. This is followed by investments in our city parks and facilities totaling 14.8 and 9.7 million respectively. In total over the five year period and all funding sources about $250 million is being recommended. Now we will expand on two project areas, specifically parks and facilities. For parks as previously mentioned, there's a recommended budget of 14.8 million and FY26 with 30.3 million recommended over the five year plan. The full detail of all projects, their funding sources and scope can be found starting on page 174 of the budget document. Of note, Columbia is being allocated additional funding for the three-phase project that has commenced. There is $3.9 million being recommended for the current fiscal year to support the World War II Memorial Project and additional $750,000 to begin the design and master planning process for the rest of the park in FY2627. Five million added in 2728 to support phase two, including a dog park, restrooms, playgrounds, and picnic areas, and then in FY2829 and additional 3.6 million to support the final phase of the project, including the soccer fields and walking path. The full detail this project can be found on page 175. For Paradise Park, an additional 6.9 million is included to support subsequent efforts and construction of a full park rehabilitation. This includes new supporting infrastructure like utilities and irrigation, ADA compliance, playgrounds, picnic areas, and a bathroom. Staff anticipate returning to council for review and approval of concept designs at Paradise Park, similar to what was just completed with the World War II Memorial Project in the near future. Additional notable efforts include court resurfacing efforts at the following locations. Torea Park, Torrance Park, Delthorn Park, Greenwood Park, Lago Seco, Victor, La Catera, La Romeria, Paradise, Sunny Glen, and Wilson Parks. Now we'll examine the capital improvement plan relating to the city's facilities further. The full detail of all projects, their funding sources and scopes can be found starting on page 180 of the budget document. The largest investment is recommended at Torrance Municipal Airport with 3.3 million to renovate airport hangers and complete a taxiway lighting replacement project. The subsequent fiscal years continue reinvestment in the hangers at the airport as well. The second largest investment relates to the city yard with funding being allocated to replace the roof at the city yard services building at the airport as well. The second largest investment relates to the city yard with funding being allocated to replace the roof at the city yard services building, as well as beginning the first phase of implementing EV charging infrastructure to address the migration of EV technologies under current car requirements. Additional investments are planned in the out years at Fire Station's 1, 2, 4, and 5, along with Southeast Library as well. To bring it all back full circle, on the next few slides, I'd like to connect to various items discussed in the presentation and their correlation to council approve budget priorities. For budget priority 1, is discussed at points in the presentation. The city has produced a structurally balanced budget that fully complies with the fiscal policies of the city council. For budget priority two, the city continues to take steps to address its open areas of focus, addressing things like expiring labor agreements and as noted earlier, as anticipated, will be able to mark this one complete. For budget priority three, the city has made progress improving its vacancy rate in recent years through various programs. The city regularly evaluates their success to ensure investment is aligned in areas that yield results. As such, beginning in fiscal year 2526, the city is shutting down the longstanding first year cost savings program due to lack of program success. However, the city continues to have success with the multimillion dollar recruitment and retention incentive program for the police department, the enhanced referral program for difficult to fill positions, improved employee engagement efforts through things like the summer picnic and spot awards. For budget priority for, the city has included significant recommended investment in parks, buildings, and public right of way. This is to address the budget priority for the city has included significant recommended investment in parks, buildings and public right of way. This is to address the budget priority along with the downgrade experience in the capital asset condition KPI. In total, the capital improvement plan includes 59.7 million dollars in fiscal year 2526 with 162.2 million over the five years. However, as explained earlier, the need, the needed investment in facilities alone ranges between 205 million and 1.4 billion in the coming 10 years. For budget priority five, the city continues to lean into its economic development efforts, attracting businesses such as Sony Honda Mobility Zafila and Terries and Northwood Space. While the economy is challenged and businesses like Joanne's and Forever 21 shut down at the mall, turnover continues with businesses replacing these locations. The city's continues to be sought after with many developments underway and community development processing record level permit applications. For budget priority six staff are implementing multiple budget efficiency measures in response to the fiscal audit to improve allocation of resources citywide, including items like a vacancy rate assumption, re-aligning embedded positions and consolidating budgets to eliminate over-budgeting redundancies. For budget priority seven, continued investment is recommended in IT through the proposed staffing reorganization and various projects funded through the capital improvement plan. For budget priority eight, the city continues to make progress in building out infrastructure at the city yard to support transit and the rest of the city's fleet leveraging the charge ready program through SE. Additional funding has been slotted in the capital improvement plan, funding to address the charges themselves. For budget priority nine, additional funding has been recommended, included in the budget document, in direct response to the park services operations assessment. As the new park services manager comes online, it's anticipated additional projects will be identified, such as irrigation controllers that monitor the weather and can save the city recurring costs, recurring costs each and every year. And for budget priority 10 staff have recommended multiple changes in the city's practices and director's response to the fiscal audit that have been covered tonight and will continue to address the findings to ensure that Torrent's progress is and matures its financial management practices. As for next steps, tonight I walked us through the summary of the city's proposed budget document. Hopefully mayor council and the public have found the presentation valuable and helpful at condensing a 240 plus page document into a little over 50 slides. Tonight marks the first public hearing to gather feedback from your own body and the public. The next step is a public hearing on May 20th, which would add a third opportunity for mayor council in the public to provide feedback, which is another item noted in the fiscal audit. And finally, staff would return on June 3rd for the third and final hearing, approval from council on the priority framework for our anticipated year and surplus the reserve contribution and approval of the appropriations resolutions themselves. That concludes staff's presentation and myself along with my fellow department heads are available for any questions. Thank you. All right. Do we get all that? Thank you, Mr. Daly. We'll now take public comment on this matter. Each speaker will have up to two minutes to speak. Anyone from the public who is to speak on this item, please come to the microphone. Hello, everyone. I hope you're goobiratochili sent and understood what Mr. Dei Li was talking about. Our city is a poor condition. Our city is a poor condition except the wages and salaries or high ranking officials, including police, fire, and management. The city is in big trouble, and you, except that guy, led us to this point. You are responsible, you are responsible these poor conditions. This is a shame. And then you tell people, you are delusional idiots. You argue with me, what's in the paper work? You don't listen to this, the hitting the crap. The one good thing happened Mrs. Posam is still here with a new job, new salary and not in the presentation, but her new position and how much she make. And the other thing even your $50,000 improvement for the Torrance Float Bowl, what you got already on the presentation, what happened in five minutes before? How did you print that? How come already the $50,000 was in the presentation? You already knew it before the meeting, before you wrote that. They already know they got $50,000. Look around and smell your asshole because the city is thinking going down here Time is up, sir Thank you I think Anyone else who wishes speak Sir you're interrupting the meeting I think she's about to get up. You're disrupting the meeting, stale, sir. Senior, I'm leaving. We need that public meeting. Get me inside. Public meeting. Get me inside. That's what you do. I'll be public meeting. your expel expelled sir. What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? What do you want? Nobody's here, mother partridge. Nobody. Nobody's here, bitch. Thank you, my honor. I just wanna say thank you for letting me sit in and to be part of this console. I really appreciate it. Even though I slept most of the times, I was very attentive. Thank you, and God bless you. City of Toronto is a beautiful city. I like it. It's clean. And there are some good people who have met a lot of kind people who just come and say, shah, they take shah, they don't know them. Because I stole my suitcase. It's my shoes, my clothes, everything. Because I've been on the road. I sleep on the street. what it's all good, but it's all for a reason, it's called destiny. When destiny has called you and God chooses you for something, is it tough? It's very tough, but you can't say no to God, but I chose it, I'm like, okay, he said, go, I'm going to use you. So thank you, I'm God bless you, I'm very grateful. On one more thing, I'm going to see you in our show. Thank you. OK. I think that's all from the public. Any questions from the council members of the council? Please click in. I think Councilman Caggi, you're the first one. Thank you, Director Daly for your presentation. I think this should be a Netflix series. And I think we're starting out with a, you know, by you giving a very reasonable conservative approach to the budget. I very much appreciate some of the observations made in the forensic audit that are baked into this report. And I'm glad that these have set up some bumpers for us going forward as a city. of the observations observations that I took away, not just from your presentation, but from my evening readings at home. It's interesting to see how the revenue has shifted from sales tax to property tax. I think that shift is a good one, as we know sales tax goes up and down depending upon consumer confidence or lack of and I think if there's ways that we can continue to grow our property tax base we should consider that. I know and we'll be meeting tomorrow to talk further but looking at some of the actions taken by the council to improve our revenue picture including digital signs, community facilities districts, and also taking a different look at the city's real estate portfolio and our lease hold interest and how we can improve in increasing revenues from a very significant asset, I think. We do have the makings of moving from cautious back to good, but I think the approach in being cautious is a good one, and I think that establishes a good base for all of us to work from. I do have a question about the city's real estate holdings and the billion dollars. How did you come up with that number? Is it from property tax assessments or market valuations? Mayor and council, that figure comes from our audited financial statements where we record all assets, buildings, road, infrastructure, sewer, water utilities, everything is included in that figure. So it comes from our audited financial statements. Is that on a cost basis? Yes. All right. Okay. Other than that, I really like this report. The clarity in this report is wonderful. And I think your predecessor kind of helped us move in that direction. So I like what I see at least for myself at midnight. It's very clear and it's easy to understand, but I think it provides us all here in the city and also with the residents with a good roadmap to follow. And I would encourage you and your staff. I will thank you, first of all, for putting this together, all the departments as well because it takes a lot to go into a budget but also for a city manager and and staff I'm very much impressed by this work. Thank you Thank you council and Matucci Thank you mayor and good morning everyone I just want to for the record on page 31 of the presentation, it shows the $50,000 increase for the Torrance Rose float. And I believe that is because that was based on the recommendation of the committee. And this is not a done deal, it has to be voted on. So these are just recommendations by staff based on the on the end. So I just want to make that clear that it wasn't like a backroom deal. Hey, let's give them 50 grand. Mayor Counsel, you and the other finance director, I was present at the meeting, heard the number, heard the recommendation coming forward and thought it prudent to include it in the planning effort and see how it kind of unfolded for there. always easier to take out than add in to the budget. Correct. Correct. And basically that's how it works with the committees. They come up with a recommendation then it comes here. So that's why we're here. So I appreciate people's comments. I just want the facts to be straight. I do love the fact that it's very comprehensive, easy to read, and just appreciate all the work that's been put into this. Thank you. Any other questions from Council? Councilman Shake. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Dele for the detail and thank you for a lot of additional work to help us understand this. On page six of the presentation, I just wanted to understand with shifting from unassigned to assigned. I'm not clear what's the methodology behind this. Your projection from 2425 to new projection, you're shifting some of the funds. Can you expand on that please? I am Mayor and Councillor Yin, the early finance director. This is purely a side by side comparison to visually demonstrate what we were describing before which was changing how we present the city's economic anomaly reserve fund which as mentioned before was part of and just included as a component of unassigned. Unassigned is not broken down in our audited financial statements and no details provided there. So the city's fiscal audit recommended changing that practice and providing more clarity and to do that it's representing it under the assigned category which then gets listed out underneath it in our audited financial statements. It better protects the reserve fund. It's clear what the balance is and it requires explicit council approval to utilize any portion thereof. So you putting clearly how much reserve are you putting basically with transparency? That's main objective right and I'm sorry go ahead That's exactly correct. We're providing full transparency and clarity on what the reserve balance is It's explicitly stated to an exact dollar figure And can be easily seen in audited financial statements So it's purely a shift in which row the numbers is contained To improve that clarity and accountability and And anytime we want to tap into the, are we going to come to the council? That's exactly correct. Okay. I like this, this is a, I think this is from the audits that we conducted recently. And I think that's good approach to go with that. Another thing on page 12. You mentioned earlier that the funding will be an operational fund for fleet vehicles. Did I hear that correctly? So you're changing if the fleet funding will be an operational fund? Mayor Counsel, you're in daily finance director. So if we were looking at the city's audited financial statements, and we'll pick on the fleet fund specifically as an example. It's shown as one fund, but internally staff previously had two separate funds set up. One dealt with more of the operations paying for the staff, charging the departments to recoup for those costs. While the other fund money was moved from the operations fund to the fleet fund to set those dollars aside for future vehicle replacements. So rather than have that additional work to separate that out, we're just eliminating that additional fund detail and just will be tracking it as part of the overall balance of the one fund that would remain. So are you saying we're still going to replenish with whatever is needed, but instead of putting multiple buckets to keeping in one bucket, so it's easy to manage the replenishment, how much you would need, and stuff like that. That's exactly right. It's purely an efficiency step. All the same monitoring and reconciliation will take place to ensure that, for example, the fleet fund has a sufficient balance to replace all vehicles and their amortized expectation of future vehicle costs. All those same practices still exist, just reducing administrative burden, frankly. Okay. Yeah, I think this is the one I always get confused when we get from our public works department that we're replenishing the funds. And I think with this, hopefully, that'd be more clear how much we have and how much we need for future spending. I am struggling to... I know that our labor... you should slide. Let me see if I can find that labor personnel 24. Slide number 24. Expand that we're saying that from, are you on face 24? Yes. So fiscal year 22, 23 actual we spend 1.5 million, 1.5, and that remains kind of flat. That's if I may jump in there. This represents full-time equivalent position. So there's 1,529 point-by-the-nine positions that exist in that year. So we keep in the, our full-time employment positions, almost flat. That's correct. We've had some nominal adjustments over the years in an effort to address various priorities that have come up with this. So here is my struggle. I was going ahead. So if we look at the amount that our budget for labor has gone quite a bit up, we have gone up in our labor spending, but our positions remain flat. So a main driver of that would be the multi-year labor agreements that were recently approved across public safety and the miscellaneous groups. And so while position counts aren't necessarily changing by any significant amount, investments in each of the positions and what we pay our employees would be a driver of cost there. Additionally, we're in a period of rising CalPERS UAL environment due to recent either losses or under-performances. And so on top of the labor cost themselves, the city is needing to pay additional amounts with respect to the unfunded actuarial liability with CalPERS. So those are two main factors that are driving the labor cost piece while positions are not necessarily changing by that much. So if I ask you to find some savings from all this budget, how much is the savings that we have from last year to this year? You already addressed that economic downtrend that we fear that our sales are down, and this is very cautious budget. But I don't see huge amount of savings with that. Would you elaborate and show me where the savings are or we're thinking about any strategy to save some good amount of money Mayor council you in daily finance director A couple points on that so sales tax we are recommending the budget be lower than the current yours fiscal years budget This is intentionally being conservative with where we think revenues are going specific to sales tax and utility users tax being the main drivers there. So that's included in our 10 year financial plan is being realistic and while with being realistic we're still able to put forward the capital plan and afford the positions that are all included. Should the economic condition deteriorate further, other measures would include holding positions vacant, staffing reductions, defunding capital improvement plan efforts to name a few. But staffs cautious 10-year model doesn't see a need to do any of those things. We see a path of balance over the next 10 years taking our conservative revenue approach, continuing to fund the positions that exist, provide the services to the community, and attempt to invest as best as we can in our capital assets. Okay. So we're pretty conservative. We're saying we still have all those options on the table. In case we fear something's coming in the next six to eight months. All of those options are always available. Council's direction, though, as mentioned, we feel that we're being conservative in our assumptions and feel comfortable with the path that's being recommended before you're honorable by the tonight. Thank you, Mr. Daly. May come back with more questions. Thank you for your help. Thank you, Council. Daly. May I come back with more questions? Thank you for your help. Thank you. Councilman Gersa. I now to repeat my colleagues. Number one, we're having a public hearing. Arguably the most important public hearing that we conduct over the course of the year, which is our budget. And once again, we're here after midnight. I know this was a criticism that was taken even while I've been on the council. And I slept in this morning, I actually slept till 5 a.m. So having a budget conversation, even for me, after 19 plus hours is a little much. And I think we should be having a budget hearing when we had a full audience today and I would like to see them participate and know. Is it just so incredibly important? But one of the things that even at 12.30 in the morning, I noticed on page 51, the list of parks that we're covering has changed. How many parks have fallen off the list? Since the last time I saw the budget, and the projections over years. I would have to do a full side by side. Some things that would be falling off that immediately come to mind is Baltharia Park and it's an affordability continuing to push that out. Originally in last year's CIP, reimagining the entire site was part of, I want to say year three or four of of the capital plan and only in the tail end of this is it even now considered to start looking at master planning and designing. So a lot of what's happening here is needing to push things out, fund and focus what's kind of going on. those efforts through. It's purely an affordability tug of war that we're being that we're playing with here. Like for example obviously because used it my whole life like for example Hickory Park used to be on there. Hickory Park no longer appears on the list is just one that I noticed right off the bat. So I'm curious what was taken off and why it's taken off and why we aren't giving love to all of our parks because they all need some love. Mayor council, the end-to-the-end finance director, we completely agree we would love to be able to see more investment happening at more of the locations. We're doing our best to distribute it throughout the court resurfacing projects I mentioned. It was one of those efforts to try to touch a number of locations and provide some significant improvement. Though it really boils down to affordability And trying to prioritize things in the worst condition, they'll recognize what we covered tonight. We know that many things need a lot of attention. Your Honor, Danny Santana City Managers Office, Councilman Gerson, would you like a side-by-side comparison as Mr. Daley indicated could be provided, maybe on the next point that we can be on the 20th? And an understanding of why we're eliminating promises. These are things that have been on the budget in the plan. Even discussed at our district update meeting just a few weeks ago with Mr. LaRoc present and confirming with the public that that's something that's coming. Knowing that park in particular, the comments over the last three years about conditions of the bathrooms, I know we're talking about court resurfacing, the tennis court there is, you know, in bad shape. So, so that's the one of the two with the rocket ship. I know we've, you know, given some love to the rocket ship park, but we do have two rocket ships in our, you know, park system. And just, yes. Councilman, if I might interject on the Hickory Park comment. In reviewing capital plan There was 43,000 or so noted there staff felt with the investments being made through the operating budget We'd be able to make improvements to that sort of scalen scope not so much through the capital plan But through the operating budget so Hickory Park the bathroom right now is very much still on staffs radars specifically And then the other the other was following through on all the Loma Park. I know that was discussed at that district six meeting. Additional funding is needed there to fully address that. And that's why that additional $570,000 if I can read correctly was included in this budget cycle to make sure we can actually complete the effort. Okay. So placed in other parts of the budget that aren't listed here, the people will ask me about, but okay. I'm going to pull up page 32. I'm going to be even more of a practice evening. So I'm looking at this travel budget. One of the things that stood out was a comment you made that money can be transferred all around with no longer coming before the council. and I just remember not that long ago that someone asked for some of their money to be transferred to someone. And there was a lack of council concurrence. And knowing that a majority kind of establishes policy, I'm wondering why that is not extending beyond. Why are we talking about that we no longer will have that conversation up here Mayor and council it was just mentioned does an option for council's consideration Clearly that okay, it doesn't have to be that It is that a new policy because it sounded like policy as it was being Good evening, Mayor and council. I was trying to see manager. It was a concept council Councillor that contemplated in the past. That's why we're bringing it for your consideration. Staff will take direction with Councillor's desire as far as pulling funds or leaving it more finite as prescribed in the budget and will respond to your request. And if I may one more thing, I do apologize for either being the last item on a very busy council night, we will leverage between now and the 20th to advertise to the community and we'll ask that the item be considered the first for prior to the other two hearings. Thank you. Because I'm already looking at the range of travel. So let's see. So someone who has the least number of trips would it could possibly have access to one for six. So somewhere between six and nine trips, depending on what committee or honor not and transferring around, I don't know, I just feel like there needs to be more accountability. And I know there's a lot of community concern and I don't want anything to slip under the radar. And just make sure that we are transparent on this because it is an area that the community is expressed. A desire to know what we're doing, what we're using, what we're not using. So, thank you. And the other questions or comments? Thank you, Councilman Gerson. I think I have a comment on page 32, and that's because I think you guys send us a memo about page 32. So I think we talked about that with the finance director and the assistant city manager. I actually, you know, if I personally think it's okay with the transferring the budget if we could just come to the council if we would just want to make it transparent, just tell folks. But I think let's go down to just, I'm just going to pick something just to see local meetings and meals. I don't know most of us exceed our 250. I think since I've been the council with Council and the two chiefs since 2018, it's been 250 for since then, I think. I think it used to be 250 and may be 350 if I'm not correct, you can verify. I'm just thinking, you know, just with everything where travel costs and meals and adjustment, this is not big dollar item. I'm suggesting that maybe those numbers get increased by 50 bucks. I'm talking small items, just in principle, because I don't know how each person used their monthly expense, but it's been that way for seven, eight years. Maybe we should just adjust it just a little bit. My suggestion would be just make it 300. The way that you're suggesting it, Ian, about the budget around, but the area that state legislative,, federal legislated, and general economic. I just want to make sure, especially their sensitivity. Are you being suggested? Those could be moved around between the top and the middle, potentially, or date, you know, the they stay in that grouping basically advocacy and economic development. That's a great way of grouping. So those don't become fluid. We don't want to come into those funds. We recommend you to call them out and we budget to them. Right, and I know the case that we're talking about when Councilman Tutuana donate, you know, his unused travel budget to me, that would be that middle section. Correct. That's what's being suggested. Yeah, that comment, mayor and council, the end-to-the-end early finance director, Comment was specific to that middle section. Right. Okay. I just want to make sure that's what we're talking about. So it doesn't go through those gray lines. The only other thing that I'm thinking is just, at least my travel budget, I think we talked about that in the meeting. If you talk about two national league of cities, two US conference of mayor that's four and maybe one Cal cities. I was thinking maybe that's five trips, whatever that number comes out to be. Again, small numbers. I'm just labeling the conference as we go to. Are there any other ones? I'm assuming those dollar figures you just use based on whatever current travel. I know in the past. Those are adjusted, you know, the similar comment about the local meals and meetings. I don't assume those are really just it to current airfare and things like that. Mayor and council, Ian Daly, finance director, numbers derived and included here are generally based on current costs and then we could also allow these costs to escalate by inflationary factors like we do with any other sort of material, professional service or training travel membership do as well. So that it keeps space. Yeah, OK, at least that's just my recommendation for that table. I assume because I know most of us who travel, we're using allocations for the last few years, the same budget. But then the airline cost has gone up. Uber costs has gone up. I just want to make sure these are really adjusted for those. And I think we adjusted these numbers from last year. They're the same numbers that last year? Mayor and council and the early finance director, these numbers definitely have been revised from the current. Yes. Thank you. Okay. I think those are just, those are my suggestions for change. I know there are small numbers, just, these were just counting. We'll bring those back in our next budget as for decision points for next. Yes. I think, go ahead with page six. I think those councilman shakes question, I think. Oh, yeah the I'm assuming those are in part of general economic development. Yes. If should you choose to go to like a IACS I see I see I see I see S or CES a goes in that bucket. That's how I'm interpreting. But it's only if you choose to go. I think you know don't all go. And page six, I just want to make sure Councilman Shake, I know you asked that question. It was a question I had. Because that 81.5 million, it was just the way I think, I asked for that clarification too, because we had a projection in some charts, I said by the end of this fiscal year, 81 million was going to be our reserves. And that was the same that goes back to when you were talking about 2019, the 581K. So now you're helping us reset the definition of what is reserve and what can be moved and not. So we probably just need more help going forward because a lot of us are stuck on the 81 now you're saying it's 68 but I think you're trying to help us and so that but it's going to take a couple of times because someone say hey you're at 61 million how come you're at 68 now but you're just you're redefining it more proper. Mayor and Council, Ian Daley, finance director, that's exactly correct. And then we'll make sure to include the sort of level of detail and structure so that we can continue to track that $81 million, so to speak. To explain that a little bit further on this slide, you'd be in the right column, the FOI 24 or five new estimate. You'd be adding the row that is economic anomaly reserve and the unassigned together. The sum of those two would be the equivalent of the prior 81 million under a sign that you were referencing. But we'll include this form that going forward. Understand. We'll involve in this new structure I'm going to do math and public is dangerous. So we add the 68-ish million plus the 12.7 million dash to add up to your 81.6 million. OK. That's exactly the answer. I thought I'd just share that. I know I have problem tracking that number as well. So I think thank you for putting this table together. I appreciate it. Okay, any other, I think those are the two that I found. Really, this is, I think each time we do one of these reviews, it gets better. And I understand, and I know, you know, 12 midnight to do in the finance review. But I think it was a not intention to do a public hearing with with an empty chamber here. I think most of us today saw how the meeting went. And so thank you very much. All right. I think at this moment Take a motion for the close of public hearing Motion to close the public hearing Second Start voting please I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go to the motion. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next meeting. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next meeting. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next meeting. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next meeting. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next meeting. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next meeting. I'm going to go ahead and move on to the next meeting. on June. Oh, no mayor will be adding one so May 20th will be the next public hearing and then the third one will be June 3rd and that will be the conclusion of the budget process theoretically and adoption of resolutions accordingly. So May 20th would be the next one. Right, right. I was looking. I was reading this the script by I think in your package here This in May 20th. So next public hearing is May 20th. So we're gonna have that early in the meeting and I think we're done. Right? So I'm going to go all the way back down to no agency agendas. This is oral communication is number two. I'm going to be as fast as I can. We're going to abide by the Brown Act. If anyone spoke spoken the first oral, you cannot speak again in the second one. And I don't see anyone in the public. Anyone in the public wants to make any comments? I don't see any. So let's come back to council, council orals. Tonight starts with Councilwoman Lewis, who is still awake. I am still awake, but you know, I'm a vampire anyway. I just want to wish all of the mothers out there, happy mothers day, happy Heavenly mothers day for those who are up above and Relax and enjoy your Sundays Thank you, Council and the Tootsie Yes, thank you and yes happy Mother's Day to everyone out there. Thank you Good job on your Italian yesterday. I was very impressed Councilman shake Thank you Mayor. Same here. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers. And I'm in little trouble today's my wife's birthday and I'm here. And this one I say happy birthday. Today as length, like a Wednesday. Just want to clarify, Wednesday Just want to clarify, when is it today? You mean Wednesday or you meant Tuesday? To. To. Let's close the meeting. OK, OK. OK, well, you said today, that's why. It is today. Councilman Gerson. All right, that's a good night. Councilman Codgy. Oh, midnight. Oh. Good night. Yes, today. All right, and I just want to thank everyone for staying with our council meeting. And if you missed anything, it is recorded. I'll take a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. I motion to adjourn tonight's meeting to Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 5 p.m. for a closed session in this very chambers. Second. Start voting please. Let's close. Governor, that mission carried with Council Member Clonney at the. Good night, 12.45 a.m.