you Good evening. This is the regular joint meeting of the Oakley City Council, Oakley City Council acting as the successor agency to the Oakley redevelopment agency, Public Financing Authority. This meeting is called to order at 6.30 p.m. I will now conduct the roll call. Councilmember Henderson? Here. Councilmember Fuller? Dr. O. G's here. Councilmember Meadows? Here. Vice Mayor Shaw, here. And I am your Mayor and Miss Williams present. We will now have the Pledge of Allegiance which will be led by our Oakley 4-H Club. Come, let's come up here. Yes, you get to come to the magic area. This way. You guys can all come up too? Yes. Come on. Everybody, everybody. Okay, wants to be in charge of speaking. Okay, thank you. Good job. You see, what's your attitude? Come on. Here we are. Nice to meet you. Are you ready 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 for asking. Good job. Thank you. Thank you for asking. Good job. Thank you. Good job. There you go. Good job. Bye. Thank you. You have some course. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Good job. Jillian, here you go. Great work. Good job. Thank you. Good job. All right. All right. We are now moving on to item 1.3, Oakley Library and Community Center fundraising, Contra Costa County. We are going to have the Friends of the Oakley Library, President Lorraine Campos and and then we will follow it with our Supervisor Diane Burgess. Thank you. Hi everyone. My name is Lorena. I'm not familiar with my face. You grab the mic. I'm the friend of the Oakley Library. Right there. There's a hand for the face. Then just turn it. Is it warm now? Yes. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm going to start. I'm the treasure of the Friends of the Oakley Library, and we've been working really hard the last few months to raise money for the new Librarian Community Center. And I'll just shout out now. The Oakley Rotary has been really helpful to us. We're a very small organization, and they've been instrumental in helping us raise money this year. So shout out to them too. And I'd also like to add thanks to the city support. We actually had a recent book sale right where you're all sitting right now a few days ago. It was held here for two days and it was really great to have the community come out and support. So I guess I see the signs over here. Are we okay? So today we are tasked with helping update the goal postry here. We've done some fun raising thanks to all of the community support. So I guess, me and Liz, we Oakley Library, thanks to all of the donors and supporters fundraising efforts, like we've mentioned, we've managed to fundraise 300,000 dollars so far. Thank you. And I think yes if we can have our supervisor Diane Bergus come on up. Isn't that amazing? $300,000. That is amazing. And I'm so proud of you and we will continue to do more. I recently announced that I was taking some money from our community. What's it called? livable community trust, 250,000 that I was able to contribute to itself. And I'm also doing a birthday party celebration. I'll be turning 59. Woo! Woo! All I want is a librarian, Oakley. So we'll be having a birthday party, so look for your invitations and every little bit helps. So thank you. Thank you so much. I think everybody knows that this has been a project near and dear to our hearts so we're very excited to see that moving so really appreciate it. Thank you so much for all the effort that's gone into it. I can't wait to have it out there. And if that's what you want for your birthday, we'll make it happen. All right. Yeah. He said, just leave it right there in front of us. All right. I'll wait for Kevin to finish. All right, great. At this time, we are moving on to item number two. Public comments. Public comments will be heard for items not on the agenda. I do not have any speaker cards. We did not receive any online comments, but if you would like to make a public comment, please submit please complete a blue speaker card located in the lobby and submit to the city clerk. The time limit to speak is three minutes. The time limit is monitored by the timer located in front of my seat when one minute remains on the timer. It will beep once as a reminder to complete your comments before your time expires. Please refrain from any applause cheering, booing, or other outbursts so that everyone may have an opportunity to be heard. Note that due to provisions of state law, the council will not engage in dialogue regarding comments. Staff may be directed to respond to persons making public comments. All right, doesn't look like anybody has any right now. So we will move on to item three, council member comments. We are limiting council member comments as well to three minutes. We were getting some lengthy comments. So just like for the public, since this is a non-agentized item, it will be regulated by the timer and Council Member Fuller. Yes, just a short comment for Mr. McMurray. When I was preparing for the forum yesterday evening, I was going back through all the genders and I was pleas back through all the genders and I was present pleasantly surprised to see that the videos from at least 2000, 21, forward are in our file along with MP4. So I want to thank you. Okay. Nobody else has any council member comments they would like to make? All right. At this time we will move on to our consent calendar. Do I have a motion to accept the consent calendar? You're moving forward to it. And I'll move the rest. I'm sorry, what number did you say, 4.2? 4.2 and my speaker or my light will turn over so unless I bang it a lot. I'll second the motion. There it is. All right. So we have a first and a second to approve the consent calendar minus 4.2 all in favor. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? The item passes 5.0. All right. Councilmember Fuller, item 4.2? Yes. Again, I do not like the brevity of the minutes, so I will not vote to approve them. That's 4.1 4.2 is Adopt a resolution of the City Council of the City of Oakley approving the Fifth Amendment to the Joint Exercise of Power Agreement. Oh Okay, well then I will move that one I blew it All right, so there's a first for item 4.2. Do I have a second? Second. All right, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? Okay, that item passes 5-0. All right, we are going to now move on to item 5. It's our presentation. Presentations. So 5.1. Presentation by Oakley 4-H Club which will be done by our 4-H Club leader Heather Dutra. Hi everybody. Thank you Mayor Williams and the City Council as well as our city for allowing us to be here today. My name is Heather Dutra and this is my fourth year in Oakley 4H. I am currently the community club leader and project leader for many of our projects in our 4H club. I'm really excited to be here today because this week is National 4H week. This is an opportunity for our club to kind of reach out to the community and just tell you a little bit about us and the things that we do and what inspires us to be ready for future challenges. How many people in this room have heard of 4-H before? Raise your hand. Oh that is very very promising to see all the hands in the room. For those unfamiliar with 4-H, 4-H is the largest youth the hands in the room. For those unfamiliar with 4-H, 4-H is the largest use development organization in the nation. We're celebrating our 120th year. We are committed to helping young people develop life skills, build character, and make a positive impact on their communities. 4-H grows responsible, compassionate, and capable adults. Our community clubs are comprised of kids from the ages five to 19, which are supervised by approved adults. And we're all volunteers, it's not a paid position. These clubs are democratically governed by youth elected officers and operate under a constitution and by law similar to that of our city council. Throughout the year, our youth engage in one or more projects of their choosing for a minimum of six hours per project, exploring a diverse range of activities from anywhere from livestock to crafts to STEM activities. Tonight we are here. We had asked the city council if we can come learn a little bit more about how city council works. The project that's here today is our Sparks Project. It's geared starting for kids about nine to ten years old. And the Sparks Project explores six areas of achievement, which kids have to gain experience in each area. Leadership, civic engagement, project learning, healthy living, communication, and community service. Our Sparks kids are very passionate about these areas and volunteer their time to help serve the community at events like our Oakley Senior Center fundraisers and the Contracosta Historical Society events with petting zoos and just coming out to help serve food. Our Sparks group also have emerged as leaders within the club. We're a relatively young club and when I say young club most of our average age of kids are between the ages of 11 and 12. Our members are actively involved in leadership roles. Every Spark's kids is either a junior or teen leader and three of our exact board members including our historian, our secretary and treasurer which are all very time consuming jobs. All of those kids are under the age of 13. Beyond our local club activities, our youth have opportunities to present, to participate in county and regional and state events and conferences. If you've been to the Contra Costa County Fair and Antioch, you've probably seen our kids in the green and white, walking around, showing their artwork to their families and friends, and also showing their animals off. Within Contra Costa County, we have 11 clubs, four of which are squished into our East Contra Costa County we have 11 clubs, four of which are squished into our East Contra Costa County. Oakley within our borders is the home of two clubs, Oakley 4-H and Delta Diablo 4-H. These clubs provide the opportunity for young people in our community to learn, grow and make a positive impact. As a community we have a responsibility to nurture and support our young people by investing in 4-H. We are investing in the future of our community when our youth succeed, our community thrives. So today I ask that if you ever see us out in the community, come say hi to us. If you would like to support us, there's a lot of ways that you can support 4-H. Volunteer your time. Become a mentor. If you're good at a skill, come join a 4-H club teach the kids. Attend our events, show your support and create a sense of community. We're hosting our third annual spaghetti feed on November 15th here in Oakley at the Pocahontas Hall. Encourage your kids to explore what the programs have to offer. If you have the ability to donate to our programs, fund a scholarship, purchase equipment or cover program costs, it would be much welcome. By working together, we can ensure that 4H continues to be a vital part of our community. And let's commit to supporting our youth and helping them reach their full potential. Thank you so much. If you can get our staff flyers and stuff for the spaghetti feed too. Perfect. Amazing. Are you okay answering questions? All right. Come on up. Councilmember Fuller. I won't make it such a bug. Yes, where do you have the facilities to raise the animals? A lot of times we're raising animals on our own private property because we're not really a rural area. There's very limited spaces to where we can raise animals. We have one location in Oakley where we're allowed to raise animals and then one in Brentwood. Okay, thank you. Thank you. We have one location in Oakley where we're allowed to raise animals and then one in Brentwood. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. We are now moving on to item 5.2. Presentation of Proclamations. I will meet Ken Strelow, our community development director, down there to recognize community planning month. All right. Proclamation recognizing community planning month. Whereas changes constant and affects all cities, towns, suburbs, counties, burrows, townships, rural areas, and other places, and whereas community planning and plans can help manage this change in a way that provides better choices for how people work and live, and whereas community planning provides an opportunity for all residents to be meaningfully involved in making choices that determine the future of their community and whereas the full benefits of planning requires public officials and citizens who understand support and demand excellence in planning and plan implementation and whereas the month of October is designated as national community planning month throughout the United States of America and its territories and whereas the American Planning Association endorses national community planning month as an opportunity to highlight how planning is essential to recovery and how planners can lead communities to equitable, resilient, and long-lasting recovery. And whereas the celebration of national community planning month gives us the opportunity to publicly recognize the participation and dedication of the members of planning commissions and other citizen planners who have contributed their time and expertise to the improvement of the city of Oakley. And whereas we recognize the many valuable contributions made by professional community and regional planners of the city of Oakley and extend our heartfelt thanks for the continued commitment to public service by these professionals. Now therefore it be it resolved that we the Oakley City Council do hereby proclaim the month of October as community planning month in the City of Oakley in conjunction with the celebration of national community planning month. Well yeah real quick. Hi everyone my name is Ken Stilo community development director with the City of Oakley. And as a career planner I'm accepting this proclamation so thank you very much. And also on behalf of our other two planners here with the city, Evan Gorman, Associate Planner, and Jose Cortez, Senior Planner. Planning is a unique profession. Oakley planners are especially skilled in problem solving through creative ideas, coordinating participation, and communication through written and oral reports. Oakley planners assist the residents of Oakley, as well as the business and development communities, for working on and implementing the general plan and our future climate action plan to assist in a resident on how to install a shed. Oakley's planners are dedicated to enhancing the install a shed. Oakley's planters are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Oakley. To Jose and Evan those that came before such as myself and our city manager Mr. McMurray and to those that will come after thank you very much and thank you Madam Mayor. All right. Can we have the rest of it? I'm still pretty pleased. Pretty pleased. I love it. Thank you very much. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not going to be able to do that. Thank you. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. I'm going to have to go back up there. All right now moving on to item two code enforcement officer appreciation week that will be received by Conrad from our chief building official Do you see the amount of wear as in this one? All right, proclamation code enforcement officer appreciation week. Whereas code enforcement officers provide for the safety health and welfare of the citizens in the community through the enforcement of building zoning, housing, animal control, fire safety, environmental and other codes and ordinances. And whereas code enforcement officers are responsible for improving neighborhoods and the quality of lives of the residents in the community, and whereas every day assisted by support and program staff, they attempt to provide quality customer service to the public for the betterment of the community, and whereas too many times their efforts go unnoticed, even after code compliance has been accomplished due to their efforts and expertise, and whereas code enforcement officers are dedicated, well-trained, and highly responsible individuals who take their job seriously, and are proud of their department and the local government within which they serve. And whereas, the California Association of Code Enforcement has declared the second week of October to be set aside by local government to honor and recognize their code enforcement officers. Now therefore, it be resolved that we we the Oakley City Council do here by proclaim the second week of October 2024 as code enforcement officer appreciation week in the city of Oakley. I'm new to this position here at the city as the chief building official but I do come from a code enforcement background So I have done code enforcement before and just being here just a few months with the code enforcement staff I got to tell you they do a great job and it is a job that Not you don't get a lot of recognition for and it's a very hard job to do So I really appreciate my short time here. They do a great job. They continue to do a great job, and I really appreciate it. And then you guys after, okay? Oh, sorry. Let's try to be efficient. I got balance. I got balance. I got balance. Thank you. Brother. We are moving on to item six. Public hearings but there are no Public hearings so we're going to Skip that and move on to item seven. The regular calendar. 7.1 strategic plan 27 plus update. This will be presented by Joshua McMurray, our city manager. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Madam Vice Mayor, members of the City Council. Our strategic plan was adopted in April of 2022. It helps guide complex decisions. It helps with decisions you have to make in terms of allocating resources and also prioritizing projects for the city. So it's a very comprehensive document it takes into account our values and in total there are 182 objectives that we as the city staff are working on over the five year plus period that the strategic plan guides us through. In total there are 146 of those 182 objectives that are currently in progress. We have completed 27 of them and nine have not started. So that is a high level overview. There are a ton of objectives in there. I'm happy to answer any questions you may all have. Otherwise, staff is asking that you accept the report as presented. Thank you. All right. Do any council members have any questions? Okay, sorry, don't kill me. I have a question. I think we talked about, does this live on our website right now too? It does and we also As part of the staff report the dashboards is is attached and that is also on our website perfect great all right any other council member questions All right, how about any public comments? Council member deliberation? I move approval of the report as is. Second, approval or acceptance? Prove of acceptance, whatever. Acceptance. Acceptance. That's right. All right, so we have a first and a second on accepting the update. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? All right. The item passes 5-0. All right. We are now moving on to item 8. Reports 8.1. Our City Manager report. Yeah. Just two reports. I wanted to just notify the community that are upcoming October Fest is happening Saturday October 26th. It will be here at Civic Center Plaza starting at 12 p.m. and ending at 4 p.m. and it's going to be a great family friendly environment and a lot of great things for our community to take part of and enjoy. And also as item B under my report we have attached the business license update list for the month of September and that concludes my report. Thank you. All right. Great. We are moving on to item 8.2. Oakley City Council, Oakley City Council acting as the successor agency to the Oakley redevelopment agency. Council liaison reports. Vice Mayor Shaw. Since our last meeting, I attended the TRIT of the Transit Meeting and I'm going to defer to the mayor to report on the details of that. On the 26th, I went to the CalCities East Bay Division meeting and at that meeting I was honored to be both nominated and voted in that night as the new at large board member for the Cal City's East Bay Division Board. And I do believe that this is the first time that Oakley will have a council member serving on that board and I'm very honored to fulfill that. I will officially be sworn in next week at the Cal City's conference in Long Beach. And earlier that day I was very honored to help serve with fellow Rotarians the staff appreciation luncheon to just really show all the appreciation for the things that you guys do here and I wanted to mention that today. From 9.29 to 10.3, I was in Anaheim for a transit conference and a lot of the conversation at the transit conference was obviously a lot about funding. How we are going to continue to fund transit, but also about safety and how we continue to increase, or start to increase ridership is really going to be about how we make riders feel safe. So there's going to be a lot more to come on that. On the fourth, I attended Friday Night Bites, and I did stop into the Friends of Oakley Libraries book sale. The attendance was really high, so I hope it was a good success. And I did miss this month's elected women's luncheon, but I did want to announce that for those that knew Betty Boatman, she did pass away on September 20th. There's gonna be services for her on October 10th at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Hill Senior Center. And for those of you that don't know Betty Boatman, she was the longest serving contra cost of water district board member serving 46 years from 1974 to 2020. She was a role model for many women in local government. And I have a little something. She took her position at CCWD's board in 1974. She was the one of only a few women in leadership positions and she inspired countless women throughout her stories with her encouragement, honesty in her humor and she was respected force who made waves. She was one of the three members, two or three members that started the Contra Costa County elected women's luncheon which is now the elected and empowered women because she wanted to start a group to empower women to get into politics and leadership roles. And if it's okay with the council, I would like to close out the meeting in her honor tonight. And then last but not least, I did attend the candidate forum for District 5 last night. Thank you. Council member Fuller. Yeah, say, I was with ten of the forum last night, along with Miss Langley, Miss Langley, sitting in the back row in Alaska, Chico, I don't see him now. But so I was that was nice gathering and I have a chance to talk. The other one, and this one really, I found a lot of water to it. I attended the push in ceremony at station 95. And we pushed in an engine that carries 750 gallons and will put out 1,000 gallons a minute if it needs to or the knock down the fire. So it was really nice to attend that chief beard was there and so was Mrs. Nauril. We did have a little bit of an incline into the station so that helped to get it going. But it worked well. So thank you. Council Member Meadows. that health began to go on but it worked well so thank you. Council Member Meadows. Since our last meeting I also attended the staff appreciation lunch. It was late but I was there and Canada forum last night. Council Member Henderson. Since our last meeting I attended the Our now sanitation district Friday night bites and also attended the Kennedy night meeting last night. Thank you. All right. Since our last meeting as vice mayor Shaw said I was at the Tridale to transit meeting so some things to look out for. MTC does want to bring back a regional measure. They're proposing a half-ascent sales tax for Alameda County, Contra Costa County, SF, San Mateo, or for all nine Bay Area counties to have a parcel tax. There's also talk of a payroll tax plus sales tax. There's also potential for separate measures Irregardless of what happens with MTC for Bart AC transit cal trans etc So 2026 is shaping up to be an expensive year if we're not all watching so We also had a PLA discussion that was brought to us and we were having discussions on whether Tridulta Transit should enter into PLAs on large publicly funded projects. The decision was made to look for local hires and emphasize local hires. The size of our agency makes it very cost prohibitive to enter into even a project based PLA. So the decision was to keep having the discussions, keep looking at it, but we wanted to emphasize hiring local labor, which we are allowed to do as a transit authority. I also had the honor of getting to attend the East Bay Regional Cal cities where I got to see my vice mayor represent us. And I was saying earlier to our 4-H group, East County has had a lot of representation at the state, the federal level, and these are the ways that we're breaking into those. And so I'm really very happy that she wanted to accept the position. I also attended the mayor's conference. We did have a presentation by the East Bay Regional Parks District Fuel Management team, so they're firefighters, basically. They were discussing the 73 hundred acres that are East Bay Regional Parks land, that butt up against neighborhoods, which goes, that's all the way from Penal through Castra Valley. They didn't touch too much onto Contra Costa, but one of the things that was interesting is that their fire district works with every other fire department. They use a risk assessment to prioritize communities in work plans. They do use animal grazing 365 days of the year to mitigate fires. They talked about some of their different funding sources. So they received funding of $11.8 million. 10 million of that is used to be used to get rid of dead and dying trees. They have 30 million dollars in pending grant applications. And they also talked about their timeline for building and how they try to be respectful of fire season and they will not do any construction during those times. The County Clerk Recorder's Office also gave a report. There will be five regional early voting sites open November 1st. People should have gotten their ballots in the mail. Secure ballot boxes went in Friday. They are encouraging early voting. They also gave a statistic of a new program that they're working this year, where 85% of inmates are eligible to vote. So there is a new partnership for getting those who are eligible and interested in voting to vote. I also got to attend the District 5 candidate forum. I'm really glad we did that. I hope people who were listening at home got to actually hear it. The live stream sounds, they're recording sounds good. It's on YouTube for anybody who didn't catch it. And before this meeting, I got to meet with several 4-H people to talk about their civics service requirement and I think that is it for my report. So we are now moving on to item B, a request for future agenda's. Council member Fuller. Yes, I'd like to put on a proclamation request in for Apprenticeship Week, which is National Apprenticeship Week, which is November 13th through the 20th, I believe, close to those dates. It's a national event. This nation is attempting, as well as this area, to encourage apprenticeships. There is a dearth of trades people, they're learning skill labor to work in the trades and they are very lucrative and they're also very thorough. The IBEW apprentice ship become a journeyman. Electrician is a five year course, three nights, four nights a week after they spent eight hours a day or more on the field. So I would like to recognize that. I know that Freedom High School also has an apprenticeship beginning program type of going on in their school too. So I would like to see if there's any support to give a proclamation in recognition of that week. Do we need to do a future agenda item? Sounds like quick timeline. Couldn't we just do the sample proclamation request and do it that way or? Yeah, I mean, we have an official process for that. So I would recommend you submit the form. It's not really a future agenda item request because it needs to come back for a vote. And we could do it similar to what we did tonight because we didn't have those proclamations approved prior to the meeting. So there's a way to accommodate it. We just need the form submitted. So if the form's turned in, I don't have to worry about a second. That's correct. And it is November 13th, so it would be after the first meeting in November, I guess, but it's close. The, in regards to, I have one more that just ask, if we can find a way to have a work session or any type of session where we could expand the work areas for animal husbandry in Oakley to see if we can find more space to animal and husbandry. I was just saying my daughter was four-time champion now at Antelope Valley, 4-H in LA County in Lambs. So I'm a very healthy program program teaches much and including business skills. It's always a sad note that after the LAMS won a championship, it's sold. So yeah, so for me. So if there is, I would just like to schedule a work session if there's support for that. Would that need to be a work session or would we just have, I mean, I know we have tons of places that are zoned potentially, but... We could do a work session and talk about, you know, the zoning and where it is allowed and where it isn't. Okay, as a former 4-H member who raised lots of pigs and then had them sold, dramatically, I would second that. Yes, I'm a lot of pigs and then had them sold. Traumatically, I would second that. Yes, I'm in agreement too. So, I feel like we could get a work session on the books potentially for that. Thank you. All right. Nobody else has any other future agenda items. Item 9, work sessions. There are no work sessions. Item 10 will be a closed session. Item 10.1 is conference with real property negotiations, pursuant to government code section 5495-6-8. No.8. Property is in a rolly road, Oakley, California, APN 041-022-002. The agency negotiator is Joshua McMurray, city manager. The negotiating party is Diane Schatz. The under negotiation is the price and term of payment. We will have no further business after that. So the meeting will be adjourned. Thank you all for joining us. And please join us for our next one. And at the request of vice mayor Shaw and definitely heartfelt by me because Betty Bowman was definitely an inspiration. I would just like to close the meeting in her honor. you you you