Good evening. I'd like to call the order meeting number 3064, the closed session meeting of the City Council. It is 531 PM. Councilmember Schnell will be participating in this evening's meeting via teleconference as permitted by Brown Act Section 54953 subsection F. You will join us in close session and is not with us currently. Madam City clerk, roll call please. Councilmember Gomez. Councilmember Clark. Mayor person Gallagher. Here. Mayor Lumberan. Here. Next we have public input. At this time any member of the public may address the council on matters which are on the closed session agenda. If any members of the public who are participating through Zoom wish to address the council, please raise your hand and if you're calling in please press star 9 to raise your hand. Madam City clerk can you request to speak? No, Mr. Mayor. Okay, closed session update, Mr. City Attorney. The council will be convening a close session to discuss items one, four, and five. As they appear on the close session agenda, there's no plan to discuss items two and three at this time. The items to be discussed include but are not limited to consultation with legal counsel about the existing may he had to carry litigation and conferencing with the council's real property negotiators, Aldo Schindler, Nicole Bernard, Ryan Swantak, Ken Peggy, and Jerry Craig. And you already made the announcement about council member Schnell, so it concludes my announcements. All right, thank you, recess, close session. Good evening. I'm going to call to order meeting number 3064, the regular meeting of the City Council on Test and Housing Authority is 7pm. Tonight's invocations by Father Koi from St. Cecilia Church. And thank you so much for having me here this evening. Let us put ourself in the presence of God and recognize that He is here with us, His present here in this room and in our brothers and sisters. Let us pray. We stand before you, Almighty God, conscious of our weakness. We ask you to come to us, remain with us, and enlighten our hearts. Give us your light and your truth to know your will, to make it our own and to live it in our lives. Guide us by your wisdom, support us by your power for you are my God. You desire justice for all and able us to uphold and protect the rights of others. Do not allow us to be misled by ignorance or corrupted by fear or favor, you write us to yourself in the bon appartarity. Keep us faithful in all that is true. As we gather here this evening for this meeting, make the decisions that we make be pleasing to you always. We pray through your beloved son, our Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Father. Thank you. I have the pleasure of allegiance tonight. So please rise if you're able. Please, your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice, Carl. Thank you. Next we have our presentation portion of the agenda. We have one presentation tonight, which is the Fire Prevention Week Proclamation. October 6th through 12th, 2024, which we're presenting to OCFA Chief Scott Widenstroller and I will read it and then we'll Chief give you a couple minutes if you have any comments and we'll come take a picture here. Whereas fire is a serious public safety concern both locally and nationally and people are at greatest risk from fire in their homes and whereas during fire prevention week children and adults learn how to prevent fires and what safeguards to take if a fire starts. And whereas firefighters and community educators provide life saving public education to prevent fire from starting and drastically decrease injuries and casualties caused by fires. And whereas working smoke alarms in the home can reduce the risk of dying in a fire by more than half. And whereas Orange County residents are responsive to public education and outreach measures and can take personal steps to increase their safety from fire, especially in their homes. And whereas the 2024 Fire Prevention Week theme, quote, smoke alarms make them work for you, unquote, strives to educate everyone about the importance of having working smoke alarms in the home. Now therefore be it resolved that the City Council of the City of Tuss in California does hereby proclaim October 6th through 12th, 2024 as fire prevention week and urge test and residence to practice safe cooking habits. Stay in the kitchen while cooking, remove items from around the stove that can catch fire and support the many public safety activities and efforts of the Orange County Fire Authority during fire prevention week 2024. Chief. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem and Council. Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight and for the proclamation to recognize this week. You know, we've been, this fire prevention week stemmed from the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. So just over 150 years ago, 300 deaths, 17,000 buildings destroyed, basically the entire city of Chicago destroyed. You know, as the Wivedale goes, it was Mrs. O'Leary's cattle that knocked over the lantern that started the fire. We don't know if that's true or not. But I'm grateful that we get the chance to come up here and share this. We're coming into our time of year. We've got the San Antowen's coming and I know that's that's fresh in our minds. We have the airport fire. Certainly our folks are our handkerrmembers that that we're seriously injured and that accident a couple weeks ago but not not to forget is we head into the winter months although we can't give it much this week with the weather the way it is this week but uh so we head into the winter months and people start using their their or heaters and things like that. It's just a good time to be mindful. I'm glad you brought up smoke detectors. I just want to remind everyone listening that the Red Cross is a great organization and they'll offer education and free smoke detectors. You just if you go to their website or contact them, they'll get you set up with a free smoke detector. If not, go to osfaa.org and we will. And certainly lastly, I want to invite everyone to our open house this year. We have one every, during this week, every year. It's on Saturday, October 12th, Fire Station 43 over in Tusson Ranch from nine until nine in the morning until noon. Thank you, Chief. And obviously this last year has been trying for the Tusson community specifically, and we are so grateful for our partnership with OSEFano. Council Member Clark was the board director on the current director on the board for OCA but just thank you to you and your troops for everything you've done for our community. I appreciate the partnership as well. Thank you. She's got two there. Let's see if she has a stand. Thank you. Okay, next we have public input. At this time any member of the public may address the council or matters which are not on this evening's agenda. Provided the matter is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city council. If any members of the public who are participating to zoom wish to address the council, please raise your hand. And if you're calling in, please press start 9 to raise your hand. Madam City Clerk, any requests to speak? No, Mr. Mayor. But to note, we do have a request to speak for an item on the consent calendar item number 10 when we get to that section. Okay, thank you. Anybody in the room? No. All right, we'll move on to closed session report, Mr. City Attorney. The City Council took no reportable action. Thank you. Next, we have our consent calendar, items 1 through 13. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion without discussion. Public input for the consent calendar. If any members of the public wish to address the council, please submit a request to speak for them if you have not already. If any members of the public who are participating through Zoom wish to address the council on items 1 through 13, please raise your hand. And I know we have an item, a comment on item 10. Right? Yes, we just have the one in person, Gabriel. Okay. in person Gabriel. OK. Evening, Council. Yeah, on number 10, I know this has been up here a few times. And I just wanted to say that I still, I love it so much. The old town improvements, I literally send it to all my friends and was text my wife when you guys were viewing it a couple of weeks ago at the budget meeting or whatever. I think so much makes like a ton of sense. It's gonna bring a lot of character even though it's super like detail-oriented and little small things. I think they're really gonna make a difference. I did have one little piece of feedback and it's probably too late, but whatever so planning can hear it too. The curb cuts on cuts that are planned in the construction documents, and I don't know how final those construction documents are. The ones for the new intersection right across the street that goes to Tuston Plaza, the curb cuts are right out diagonal into the street instead of the ones that go with the direction of movement, including on the new bike path area. And that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I mean, I know maybe there's some civil engineering reason why you have to do that, or maybe it's too expensive to do more than one, but as someone that pushes a stroller around all the time and a jogging stroller too, which does not like to make sharp turns, those diagonal curb cuts are really annoying. Make you do like four point turns to get across the street, especially when you're pressing a big button and trying to like get across the street before the time runs out, speaking of time one minute. And yeah, so I'll just, I mean, if there's any way for planning to like relook at those and look at maybe just doing the two curb cuts where they go in the actual direction of travel instead of diagonal out into the intersection. I think that would be just one more little detail to get perfect in there. Likewise, again, because everything I think about is about walking around the city. Two intersections, main and prospect, and then main and sea. Everybody knows those ones, the really long ones that are unprotected that you kind of like have to duck out and see if a car's coming to, you know, scurry across when there's a gap. We're putting the ballers up there, but this might be an opportunity to do one less ballerad and add the bullbouts to, you know, protect more pedestrians as we cross, so we don't have to do the thing where we poke our heads out beyond the parked cars and try to see if the cars can see us and then we can go. And especially if we're gonna be tearing up the road anyways to put these ballards in, why not just instead of tearing up that last ballard, we just put the curb cut out a little bit. It does the same thing and protects people at the same time. But anyways, again, super love this project. I'm so excited for it to move forward. I'll be texting more people about it going forward. But yeah, thank you. We love your enthusiasm. Thank you so much. There was a lot there and I saw our public work director taking notes. Gabriel's comments are always very good and very detailed. I appreciate that. I guess if Gabriel wanted to follow up with an email on that, just to make sure that we can take a closer look at that, because it's not too late to make change, especially when they're, they make sense. And like you said, we don't need to go back out. Thanks. Yeah. I was finding too late. Yeah. And don't worry about those pesky civil engineers, they don't know what they're doing. Mr. Mayor. Could we have Director Soak confirm when's the latest to provide feedback just for the edification of our residents? Technically tonight we're approving the plans and specifications as they are today. But there's always opportunity if we can find value engineering and small things to work with our contractors, work with our design engineers to go through and make those changes as we see fit. So we'll definitely, we appreciate the feedback. I'm going to ask Gabriel to come back into the presentation for the award of the contract, but we will. We'll take a look at that and as we can incorporate, we'll follow up. I appreciate that, Mike. I mean, if we have good ideas from the public, even during construction, we're going to make adjustments, make sure we build a good project. So you, give it. Madam City Clerk, any other requests to speak? No, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Anybody in the room? No. Any members wishing to poll an item? I'd like to motion to approve the consent calendar. I have a motion to have a second. Madam City Clerk, we'll call please. Council Member Gomez. Yes. Council Member Clerk. Yes. Mayor Perkins and Gallagher. Yes. Councilmember Clark. Yes. Airperson Gallagher. Yes. Mary Lumberg. Aye. Motion passes 4-0. Thank you. Next we have a regular business item. We have three of them tonight 14 through 16. Item number 14 is salary resolutions for unrepresented executive management, management, supervisory and confidential employees. Mr. City Attorney, do you have a report for us? I do not. Give me one moment please. The Ralph M. Brown Act requires that a verbal summary be provided before final action is taken on salaries, salaries, schedules, and compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits affecting a local agency executive as defined in state law. Item 14 on the agenda proposes a revision to the executive management and management salary resolution. As it relates to local agency executives, the resolution would increase the base salary of executive management positions for purposes of internal and external equity. Specifically, it would increase the base salary, salary ranges to the following amounts effective. The pay period that includes October 1, 2024. Assistant City Manager would go from $106.66 to $136.60. The Director of Community Development would go from $86.89 to $110.89. Director of Finance from $86.06 to $109.84. Director of Human Resources from $82.80 to $105.67. Director of Parks and Recreation will go from $82.80 to $105.67. Director of Public Works, $88.37 to $112.79. And the police chief from $101.47 to $136.60. Effective July 1st, 2025, and July 1, 2026, the salary range of each executive management classification will be increased by 4%. In addition, Effective July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026, flexible benefits contributions for employees enrolling in medical insurance at the employee plus one and employee plus two tiers will be increased by $175 to $250 per month. There are no other compensation changes for local agency executives proposed by resolution 2472 and that concludes the verbal report required by the Brown Act. Thank you, sir. Public input. If any members of the public wish to address the council, please submit a request to speak for them. And if you're participating through Zoom, please raise your hand. Madam City Clerk, can you request a speak? No, Mr. Mayor. Anybody in the room? All right. I'm bringing it back to council for questions, comments, and discussion. Or I'll entertain a. If there is one. I'll make a very pro-talk. Just quick comment and then I'll move the item. It's important that compensation is very important for both recruiting and then retaining the best employees. And so this is something that we periodically do. We look at salary and compensation and compare it to our comparable agencies. And I think what we've seen tonight represents very fair pay And puts us in a competitive position and it's something we have to do if we want to maintain top-tier services to our Residents so I'll move the item. Well said. I'll second the other comments Okay, Madam City Clerk Council Council Member Gomez. Yes. Council Member Clark. All right. May I present Gallagher? Aye. May I your Lumberland? Aye. Motion passes 4-0. Thank you. Next we have item 15 which is authorizing the temporary post-retirement employment of Ken Nishikawa. There is no staff presentation tonight and will open public input. If any members of the public wish to address the council please submit a request to speak for them or if you're participating through Zoom please raise your hand. Madam City Clerk can you request to speak? No, Mr. Mayor. Anybody in the room? Does Ken want to comment on it? No, just kidding, Ken. Okay. We'll close public input and bring it back to the council for questions, comments or discussion and I'm going to move the item and then we have other discussion or second. I'll second motion and a second. Madam City clerk. Councilmember Gomez. Yes. Councilmember Clark. Aye. May I throw some Gallagher? Aye. Mayor Lumberg. Aye. Motion passes 4-0. Thank you. Next we have item 16, which is our last item on the agenda tonight. So all of you high schoolers that are here, you picked a good meeting. We're moving very quickly. And I think the nice police officers will still sign your form. So we have item 16, which is the October 2024 summary of projects. And we have associate planner Jorge Maldonado. We'll provide a presentation. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members. I'm Associate Planner George Maldonado, and tonight I'm pleased to present the Community Development Department's Summary of Projects, which will provide updates on new and ongoing development and policy projects from the beginning of this year to present. So without further ado, let's jump into project updates. So this project, the Myford 2 Industrial Building is located on Myford Road. Construction plans are in building plan check. The demolition permit is approved but has not been pulled by the applicant just yet. Onto some projects in the test and legacy area, we have the Alley Grove Promenade, which is located just south of the landing at test and legacy. I'm happy to report that the Alley Grove is complete. So it's open and accessible to the public, and they have some pickleball courts, basketball courts, as well as a nice, enhanced kind of walking path that connects the landing all the way over to the district. Next up we have the Bark Barracks. This is going to be a dog park in the Tustin Legacy area. It's located just north of the flight office campus. And it's located near the first leg of the Tustin Legacy Linear Park construction broke ground on July 25th of this year. Next up, we have the Armstrong pedestrian bridge located northwest of the landing residential neighborhood. Ultimately this will connect Tustin Legacy Park phase one to phase two over Armstrong and construction is anticipated to begin in the second quarter of 2025. And then we have the Legacy Park Phase II development project, which is located just north of the landing. This project as well is scheduled to begin construction in the second quarter of 2025. And then also in the legacy area, now over in the A-TEP campus, we have the Goddard preschool. Happy to report that the preschool is complete. And then just across from Goddard, we have the saddleback buildings at A-TEP, which will ultimately have an automotive technician and culinary arts program, two separate programs, of course. And in the bottom picture there, in the background behind the A-Tap logo, you can see construction of the buildings there, with their iconic kind of curved roof structure. Construction is ongoing. Now, I'm happy to report that on October 10th, there will be a groundbreaking ceremony for the Advantec campus at Atep. This is located at the southeast corner of Red Hill Avenue and Victory Road. This will ultimately be a six story, approximately 110,000 square foot headquarters office with a smaller warehouse facility. So that's October 10th groundbreaking. Now on the corner of Urbine Boulevard and Newport we have the construction of a new dental office. Construction is ongoing. And right across the street from City Hall at Larwin Square, we have the construction of the 99 Ranch. Happy to report that this as well has been completed and has been open. I want to say for a couple of months at this point. Now shifting gears to the north side of the city, off 17th Street, we have the new construction of a two-story medical office building, construction of the shell, that is the outside the box of the building, if you will, is complete report that the landing at Tuston Legacy itself construction is complete. All residential buildings have been finaled. I would know because I did the final inspections for all of them. All 400 and landscaping, the home construction is complete. Just pending some minor things regarding the infrastructure, but the neighborhood is essentially complete. And I had the pleasure of driving by at nighttime this past weekend, and it's very heartening to see a lot of lights in the windows. So very exciting. Now this is an ongoing residential project, the Jessup by IntraCore over here off Irvine Boulevard and Prospect. This includes the construction of 43 story residential units, two of which are affordable units. Construction is ongoing and models are open to the public. Now, a mixed-use project over on Newport Avenue and El Camino Rael, this is the, what's now referred to as the KB Homes project. It includes the construction of 42 residential units, seven of which are live work units. Construction and grading plans are making their way through the building plan check process. Now over on Redhill Avenue we have the new construction of a brand new McDonald's drive-through. So this will include the demolition of what was previously a burger king at this location and complete renovation of the site for this drive-through McDonald's. Entitlements are approved and the project is making its way through the building process, building plan check process. Now similarly off prospect we have another drive drive through this time of a Popeyes fast food restaurant. This will include the renovation of a vacant service station off the corner of prospect and Irvine Boulevard. And entitlement are approved and construction plans are being reviewed in building plan check. And I'm sorry, I believe that's first street, not Irvambulhuble. First street, I'm prospect avenue. Now off of Red Hill Avenue, we have the Centurion Plaza redevelopment. This project has had its entitlements approved and it's going through building plan check. Now off Edinger and Redhall Avenue, we have the renovation of the site with the Citrus Cafe with a proposed car wash, drive through car wash. The project is making its way through the entitlement process. Now, shifting gears to the test and auto center, we have test and Kia, which is moving in. This project is making its way through the building permit process. We have a new dental office being proposed over off Irvine Boulevard and Newport. This would entail the a small addition to an existing commercial building as well as significant facade improvements, facade and site improvements. This project is making its way through building plan check. Now off of San Juan we have the construction of new town homes. This will ultimately be a six unit project which includes the retention of an existing single family home at that location and this project is under construction and moving along. Now back to the Tuxton Legacy area, we have the Morningstar Senior Living project off of Warner and Armstrong. This project is still making its way through the entitlement process and would ultimately result in an approximately 280,000 square foot large scale senior living facility and it features two connected buildings about four to five stories in height over a single level of parking and ultimately would have 145 independent living units, 60 assisted living units, and a secure memory care wing with 28 supportive units. The main buildings will be complemented by 29 adjacent single-story cottages off of secondary streets of the future John Johnson Way and the future veterans way, providing independent living to residents with the option to live in a detatch residential setting. And here is an image of the site plan here. As you can see, the single-story cottages kind of hug the bottom and the right of the site. And the multi-story building is tucked there in the top left corner off of Warner and Armstrong. Now as well in the Tusson Legacy area we have a residential project of 1,336 units proposed by the Irvine company. This would be located at the northwest corner of Tusson Ranch Road and Legacy Road. And let me move on to the site plan here. So this is the same project. We can see the arrangement of the units that are being proposed. This would be what's called a wrapped building. So that's when there's a parking structure at the center of a lot with residential units kind of wrapping around it so that you don't see it very much. And this project is making its way through the entitlement process. Now back to Red Hill this time north of the five. We have the compass at Red Hill project making its way through the entitlement process. This would ultimately result in 73 townhome units being proposed at the vacant site across from what I call the Big Lots Plaza. As I mentioned, this project is making its way through the entitlement process. Now nearby off of San Juan we have another resident project. This one is actually put forward by families forward a local nonprofit and would ultimately have eight units all of which would be affordable to low income households. This project is going through the entitlement process. And those are kind of the major projects that you might see around town. I won't go into a lot more detail on the projects on the slide here, but suffice to say it's been a busy year for staff. And we're excited to have process so many permits. And I've got another slide here with a little more projects. I would have given all of these a slide, but for the sake of time, I just wanted to give them a quick shout out here. Lots of conditional use permits for ABC licenses as well for restaurants. All right. So that wraps up the updates for current planning for development projects. Now I'm going to move on to the updates on advanced planning projects. That is more of policy driven, kind of legislative acts, code cleanups, and the like. And first off, the first project is the Housing Element or Resoneproject. So there's been a substantial amount of public outreach and analysis by staff in the past few months. This project is the rezoning of sites that were identified in a housing element for residential construction, specifically the Enderly Center, the Test and Marketplace, and the Tuston Legacy area. The Planning Commission scheduled or how to hearing or excuse me. How's the hearing scheduled next week on Tuesday? And folks at home are welcome to provide any feedback at that meeting or to staff via email written comments. ultimately the City Council will have a hearing on the project in November of this year. And you can see on the graphic there kind of the timeline of all of the steps that staff has taken and the steps outlined in yellow highlighted in yellow are opportunities for public input. And folks at home or people in the audience can go to the website at the bottom of the slide to learn more or they can always stop by the front counter at the planning department or give us a call. Now just as a quick preview of upcoming major policy items, we have a lot of things in the pipeline. For example, we have the objective design standards, making its way through the process, which would ultimately establish kind of minimum design criteria for multi-family and mixed-use projects. As I mentioned, we had the Housing Element Rezone project, and we also have a few code amendment and specific plan amendments to some of our specific plans pursuant to the report given by EPS to remove barriers to residential construction in these specific plans. And we also had quite a bit of grant activity of notes I want to highlight the grant that was received for $136,890. That's the energy efficiency and conservation block grant from the Federal Department of Energy. So this grant was received and will be used to develop a city-wide energy efficiency and conservation strategy. This strategy will focus on energy saving projects like installing EV charging stations, upgrading city facilities with energy efficient fixtures and increasing solar panel use. Now, while there is some overlap between this energy efficiency strategy and a climate action plan or a cap, particularly on projects related to energy efficiency, a cap is a lot broader. So a climate action plan, a cap, is more of a comprehensive strategy that's aimed at both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing the city's resilience to climate change. It covers a wide range of actions including things beyond the scope of energy conservation, like transportation, waste management, preparedness for extreme weather events like heat waves and wildfires. So suffice to say this grant will only be used to outline potential projects that would result in energy efficiency gains for the city while a cap is a lot broader. Now that being said, we staff does plan on developing a cap as part of the comprehensive general plan update, tentatively scheduled to kick off next year, and staff will continue to seek additional funding and grant opportunities to support that effort. Now, as previously mentioned, we are working on implementing some of the policy recommendations to remove barriers to development in our in our downtown and Redhall Avenue specific plans On July 9th the planning commission discussed potential reductions in parking requirements for multi-family development as well as in reducing private storage requirements and on on October 8th, staff is actually taking and at that first draft to the planning commission for their consideration and ultimately for their recommendation to the city council. I also wanted to highlight a home repair program that was established with a partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Grants up to $15,000 for certain home repairs for qualifying homeowners are available and that includes for work to plumbing, heating, and electrical asbestos abatement and a few more. And if people want to learn more about these grants and the criteria, they can visit the website at the bottom of the slide there, that is habitatoc.org forward slash home repair, homes-repair. And I am very excited to announce that we had a very successful inaugural historic preservation week in May. This was a week long event where planning staff had daily events. And it's the first time that we've done this in Tustin for historic preservation. It included a lot of community engagement efforts such as an old town walking tour. We had a really cool test and icon cemetery tour and as well as booths and a presence in Old Town and at the library. And I am also excited to say that we actually won the 2024 Orange County APA Cultural Heritage Award. So staff was very pleased and very humbled by the recognition. And this is kind of hand in hand with some efforts that we've been making in historic preservation. We have had a virtual walking tour available on our website for a few months now. So I just wanted to remind the community of that. This allows folks to enjoy the wonders of Old Town from the comfort of their home. They can take a look at 14 selected historic sites and learn a little bit more. And you can visit the Walking Tour using the QR code on this slide or by going to testnc.org for a slash walking tour. And now lastly, there are a lot of other advanced planning projects that I could spend all day covering, but just really quickly we have started implementing electronic reviews for planning projects. So that's things like conditional use permits, event permits and things of that nature. So planning is going online, hopefully streamlining the process for residents and people who do business in Tussin. Other than that, we also continue to come up with ways to streamline the code, to improve the code, make it easier to use for developers, residents as well as staff to hopefully save everybody a little bit of time in the process. Now with that being said, that concludes my presentation, and I'm happy to take any questions. Thanks George, there's a lot going on, obviously. Appreciate the presentation. Do we have comments or questions for George before I open public input? Let me just take a seat right there and then we're going to ask you to come right back. Let's get through public input. If any members of the public wish to address the council, please submit a request to speak for them. If you're participating through Zoom, please raise your hand. Madam City Clerk, any request to speak? No, Mr. Mayor. Anybody in the room? No? Okay, we'll bring it back to the council. Council Member Clark. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. George, question about the grant related to sustainability, energy efficiency. Are there any requirements to involve the public in developing that plan? I think we just missed this line. There we go. I do not have that answer prepared for you, but what I can say is, so as part of the grant, we elected to go for what's called the voucher option. So there, it's meant to be more streamlined and less of a workload on staff, and there will be a lot of work to do called the voucher option. So there it's meant to be more streamlined and less of a workload on staff and there will be a technical advisor that's assigned by the Department of Energy that will be handling the administration of the grant. And so ultimately whatever we decide to use the grant funds for, ultimately they have to be kept in the loop and they have some criteria as to what can be done and for example, like if it's used to install EV chargers, there's a requirement that those chargers be made in in the US and in a few other things. So there are some kind of operational parameters to the grant, but whether that includes a specific amount of community outreach, I'm not personally aware. Okay, no problem. And you kind of ask my question about reporting for this grant, but are there any portions of this grant process that might allow us to save some time and work on the climate action plan? Where we won't have to double work essentially. So yeah, that's my question. That's a great question. Yes, there are definitely kind of some economies of scale, if you will. So this grant kind of dovetails into the climate action efforts. This is pretty narrowly focused on just energy conservation aspects, but any analysis that comes off, that comes from vetting projects regarding energy conservation, that information can be carried over into the climate action plan and kind of streamline. So that way when we get started on the climate action plan, we're not redoing any energy conservation analysis. That's kind of already been done for us. That's great. So sounds like a win win. Great. Thanks for the report. Yeah. Other questions, comments? Councillor Gammes. Thank you very much. And thank you for that explanation because that was exactly the same kind of questions that I had as well. I just don't want us to lose sight of the climate action plan and if we can continue to pursue some other grants to help some of our folks that might need some help with their roofs or other things that they can improve their household and then congratulations on the The APA award. I think that's wonderful. I know that this was sort of a sort of a little brainchild of the staff and To have it carry on and then when that award is phenomenal. So let's continue to promote that because I think more of our citizens will enjoy that tour. So thank you. Thank you. Member of the time. Any comments? Yeah, the award caught my eye as well. I just I think that's it's very it's great to see that the leadership here at the city with the staff is empowering all employees to kind of think outside the box and come up with new ideas and I think it's refreshing to see that and then also of course to have the award recognize that. It's really, it's great to see. I did have a question on the home repair program. Is that, have we didn't done outreach on that or are we leaving that to habitat for humanity. Do we provide social media posts? I see. Okay. Sorry, I'm sorry to see if Jerry is here, but Jerry is not here. So it is a collaboration between staff and the habitat for humanity. We have been posting this program on our website. We also have sent out this program to all the apartments and all the multifamily. We do want to target the Southwest neighborhood as we see more and more of those housing units are aging. So we're trying our best, but this is our first round of the Home Reaper program. So definitely we're going to learn a lot and we will adjust as we move forward. Okay. Are we also sharing this at the Senior Center? Yes, that's my understanding from Jerry. Okay, good, thank you. Just one other comment. I saw the e reviews for plan checks. And I appreciate seeing that it's from what I understand. It makes it much easier both on the person submitting as well as the reviewer. It really streamlines the process and saves paper. So you can put that in the client action plan. So I think that's, saves money, you know, it's expensive to plot all that. So I appreciate us continuing to find ways to make it easier for our customers who are our clients and we want them to invest. And I think it's clear from seeing this report tonight that we're doing the right things because since I've been on council that is a significant amount of investment in our city and these are really great projects. Last question I get this question a lot. That dental office on Irvine and Newport are they? It's gonna be 26, 2026. They are definitely finishing up so I that's on my daily commute so I can see it on a daily basis I stopped messaging you about it because I just Definitely they're moving forward. Okay. They're gonna have competition across the street. It looks like so yeah, all right. Okay. Thank you Thank you George obviously I mean we've already said there's a lot going on in testing I think this Report that you give gives us a high level overview of all the different projects that we're moving forward and sort of the rebirth and regeneration. A lot of areas in town. So appreciate, you know, sometimes we forget up here as well, all the things that you're doing. So thank you, Justina and your staff. This is, yeah, go ahead. I would like to give a be remiss if I didn't thank Justina, our director as well as our assistant director, Jay Eastman and city manager, all the staff that provide the leadership to people like me to make all of these projects move forward. So I just want to say thank you. It's a good move, thank you, your boss is fit. That's good. That's good. There is no vote required for this. It's the receiving file, so we can move on then. Next we have other business, Mr. City Manager, do you have a report tonight? I do, Mayor. Thanks so much. Just a quick report out. Just wanted to let you know the city's been working with Congresswoman Kim's office. I'd secure funding in the fiscal year 2025-26 federal budget. For new cameras for the South Hangar, our parks, youth centers, and our gyms. As of today, the city's request of $2.5 million for the Security Camera Project is on track to being incorporated into the fiscal federal year, 2025-26 appropriation bill at the federal level, which should be heard by Congress over the next few months. So we'll continue to track that funding and report back to Council and we've got some information to share. Yeah, thank you. Mr. City Attorney. Now I have no report. Thank you. I will bring it back to council for comments and reports. Council member Gomez. Thank you. On September 5th, I attended the senior advisory board. They had a resource fair and community flea market on September 14th. They had over 30 vendors at the resource fair with flu shots. They had a dental clinic. They also had additional information on the medical insurance and assisted in senior living. The flea market was very successful and had 33 vendors. The senior centers had an information booth at the Sunset Market to inform the community of their services. The annual retreat for the board is being rescheduled for November 7th. Amy Nakamoto was installed as a chair for the Senior Advisory Board. During maintenance week, new flooring was installed, carpets clean, shelving reinforced, and some repainting was accomplished. Please save the date for Friday, March 21st for a casino night benefiting the senior center. I also want to mention I continue to get good feedback about the police open house and would encourage more community events to engage the public with our police officers. On September 19th I attended a talk with Mike Madrid at UCI who is an author and political strategist to discuss the demographics of the current electorate and the upcoming election. Later that day, I attended the OC mosquito and vector control meeting the policy personnel committee discussed employee negotiations. We received reports on vendor vector operations and outreach activities. The October 17 meeting will be canceled due to the League of Cities conference. Later that evening, I attended the bench dedication for Margaret Pottenger. The family was thrilled with the placement of the bench and the overall event. Many community members that she worked with were present and very thankful that we were able to honor her. On September 25th, Tess and Unified and TUSTA Public Schools Foundation held the state of the schools at the Legacy Magnet Academy. There's great news and progress by our students in TUSD, so we see them out there. Our school board has done a great job of establishing and maintaining programs that provide regular and enrichment programs for our students. The graduation rates are outstanding and this also helps Tustin stay as a great community to raise a family. On September 27th I attended a hands-only CPR which is a safety program that was sponsored by Assemblywoman Coddy Petrie Norse. The people attending and the questions asked show that there is a great need for more community safety workshops and that concludes my report. Thank you concludes my report. Thank you, Council Member Clark. Thank you. Busy last couple of weeks. On September 18th, I attended the Newport Watershed Executive Committee. Member there will only meet a few times a year. On the 24th, I attended the Orange County Equity Coalition Book Fair to read Mommy's the Mayor. On the 25th, I attended the Celebration of Schools event for the testing and unified school district with my colleagues. And on the 27th, I attended the 40th anniversary of the Orange County Black Chamber that was held at the Groven, Anaheim. On the 28th, I attended a She Makes History event that was held at Tuster Ranch Golf Course. I was one of the honorees. And I wanted to just note a couple things before I make my last comment. I want to thank Justina and Erica of our Planning Department and Community Development for offering a job shadowing opportunity for my daughter who with no special treatment got the job shadowing opportunity but through the girls in government. She visited the planning department section and followed up with you all and so she is aspiring to be an architect so there was a great opportunity for her to meet with you all and and see women in that department as well. So thank you for that. And then I just wanted to note our city manager mentioned that we're on track to get the two million plus dollars through Congresswoman Kim's office. But a lot of that should we should give some kudos to tell some public affairs who I'm sure advocated on our behalf. And I just wanted to know we made that crucial decision to retain them several years ago. I think we've been seeing the benefit of working with them so just really pleased with their efforts. And then on the 23rd and I know Becky might say something to this later but had an opportunity to attend the memorial ceremony for Ursula Kennedy who was Tustin's first mayor. And she was definitely a mentor to all of the women, the six women who have served on this city council and the city's history. So it was really inspiring to see so many people come out for her, but also that being a politician was just a small part of her life. The folks there knew her as mom grandma and so many other roles. And so to know that she had such a big part of her life. The folks there knew her as mom, grandma, and so many other roles. And so to know that she had such a big part of our history and that it was just a small part of her overall life and impact was really inspiring to see. And with that, that concludes my report, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. For those high schoolers that looked at the clock a couple minutes ago, because some of your friends got up. We're almost done so you can, they don't worry about it. All right, Mayor Pro Temgal here. All right. I attended the couple of Orange County Sanitation District meetings. There's been, I guess, I'm excited about this, but they're moving forward with this, it's called super critical water oxidation and this unit, this piece of equipment could really change the whole industry. And it's got a lot of benefits to the environment. It completely destroys PFAS, which in microplastics and biosolids, it reduces truck trips. So you have more energy efficient disposal, less carbon emissions through trucks driving to Arizona. And it could be energy neutral or even energy positive. And so OC San here in Orange County has taken a leadership role and would have this unit online first quarter next year and is a leader in the nation. It would be the unfortunately Florida beat us to it because their environmental laws are a lot easier to navigate, but we will be the second in the nation to have it. And so it's really exciting to see Orange County take a leadership role in something that's both environmentally and friendly to taxpayers while it's so excited to be part of that, did a site visit actually on Sunday to the unit that's operating now. And then just commenting on the Sunday the last sunset market and the bench dedication which was very touching and well done, I appreciate being a part of that. And then just closing out the sunset market, this was the last of the first of its kind. And it was so exciting to see the community respond to that and the way that it did. And I don't even think we've reached its closest, its potential. I was talking to people inviting them to the final one and they hadn't even heard about it So it's just gonna take a while for it to permeate our community But the response has been extremely positive. So I appreciate that kind of came up last minute And I know it's been something we talked about a lot staff really turn that into something special so I appreciate that and I will oh, sorry, then I want to participate tomorrow in the walk to school day. So looking forward to that. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to comment real quickly on the bench dedication for Margaret Pottenger. Thank you to staff for putting on Erica and your team, Stephanie in the back somewhere in where Stephanie, she's somewhere here. Thank you. And Carrie, you guys put on a really nice event and I think it underscored what a wonderful woman market was, but also how special Old Town is for those of us that were there. It was a beautiful setting and it really just sort of showcased how special our historical town is. And you know, we've got some excitement coming currently with the Main Street and Old Town projects since that markets. And I think that's a testament to something that we've got that's very unique going on down there and we're trying to shine a light on it. So thank you for giving us a venue for that remembrance of Margaret as well. And speaking of remembrance, I'm going to hand it over to Council Member Gomez to close tonight's meeting in memory of our first female mayor, Ursula Kennedy. Ursula Ellen Kennedy, Ney Ronnie, was born in Providence, Rhode Island in December 1936 to Walter and Elizabeth Ronnie. When she was five, the family moved to Chula Vista, California. She attended Chula Vista High and excelled in public speaking, winning multiple speech contests every year. After high school, she attended San Diego State University, but her studies were interrupted when she met the love of her life, Wiley Kennedy, on a blind date. They were married on October 6, 1956, when Ursula was 19 years old. They moved to UC Berkeley so that Wiley could finish grad school, and Ursula got a job in the chancellor's office and met the scientist, writers, and other professionals who came to meet the Chancellor. I can only imagine the questions that she had for them. The Kennedys moved to Tustin Meadows where they raised their son and two daughters. Ursula was involved in many Tustin Meadows organizations including the Tustin Meadows Women's Club. Some long time Tustin Meadows residents talked about the haunted house that the Kennedys had at their home every Halloween. In the early 1970s she worked in the Orange County Tax Accessors office and was a recruiter for the Abigail Abbott personnel agency and a freelance writer for over 15 years, penning the metal-larks column in the test and news. I'd like many others in the test and community, New Ursula through these columns long before they met her. She published over 500 articles in her writing career. She loved being a mom and talking about the joys and challenges of motherhood, all well-avoiding housework. She returned to school after raising their children, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cal State Fullerton, and her Law degree from Western State University passing the bar in 1987. She then became a defense attorney for the state compensation fund. When I got to know Ursula I was always so impressed that we she returned to school and got her law degree later in life. She served as a planning commissioner in 1975 in the Saddebott community college district board. In 1978 she decided to run for the Tusson City Council, defeating incumbent Richard Edgar to become Tusson's first elected female city council member. She was re-elected in 1982, receiving the highest percentage of votes in Tusson's history, which at that time was 32% of the votes. In 1984, her council peer selected her as the mayor becoming Tusson's first female mayor. She served three terms from 1978 to 1990 when she chose to retire. She was on the steering committee to raise money to establish the senior center and the senior fund. The senior center was dedicated in July 1989 and the plaque can be seen today outside the senior center, noting her as the, and the plaque can be seen today outside the senior center, noting her as the mayor and president of the senior fund. So as you enter the senior center, you can send good thoughts that our council had the foresight to establish the center. When I decided to run for city council, I was introduced to Ursula by other female custom leaders. She always wanted to meet the women who were considering a city council run. Soon, it became a regular lunch with other women leaders leaders. She always wanted to meet the women who were considering a city council run. Soon it became a regular lunch with other women leaders and any women considering a council run. As all the women went through Ursula and she became our biggest cheerleader, whenever we would meet Ursula always wanted to know what was happening in Tusson even after she moved. She had great stories about the city Council campaigning who was who and the history of Tuston. Her memorial service was filled with humorous and thoughtful, personal, professional and political stories. All the many of the stories had humorous bent. Her integrity in standing up for what was right was also a prominent theme. She passed away on September 4th, 2024. Only 18 days after her beloved wily past. She is survived by her two daughters, a son, three grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Many thanks to her family for sharing Ursula with Tustin. The Tustin community will forever remember our first female mayor. Her humor, kindness and generous spirit will never be forgotten. She inspired so many people with her smile and thoughtful and compassionate touch. I can only imagine the story she is telling now. Rest in peace, my friend. Thank you. Thank you, Becky. That will adjourn. The next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, October 15th for the close session meeting of 530 and the regular business meeting is 7pm. Thank you. Have a good night.