We are ready to get our meeting underway for the City Council here in Fillmore and like to call the meeting to order and ask if Council it sends one nation under God in the visible with their routine and justice for all. Thank you and we'll have our roll call. Councilmember Brogge, Mayor Proto-Mendez, Here Mayor V. Councillor Member Rodríguez. Councillor Member Garita. Thank you. And actually I want to remind my fellow councilmembers to please make sure you're speaking fully into the mic and when we're talking that it's pressed with the green light showing. Okay thank you Okay, and now next is our approval of our agenda So moved I do I have a second a second all those in favor say aye I Any post okay our agenda is approved our next item is our public comments these are for items not listed on the agenda Do we have any public comments and then receive any comment cards? No, no public comments. Okay. We'll move on then to item number six are City Council reports, recommendations, comments, committee, reports, kind of everything that the council members would like to comment on and report back on. All right, I'll hand it off to any council members. You'd like to make announcements. Yes Councilmember Grinica Okay, so um, if you recall at the last council meeting I I mentioned that the United Water Conservation District was considering a bond measure and still a Consideration that potentially could have increased the cost per acre foot from about $40 per acre foot to about $200. So a very substantial increase. And that bond that there, again, it's just a contemplation at this point, would be for about $250 million for the entire watershed district of the United Water Conservation District. I did get some more details on what that was for. I had pretty lengthy conversation with Tony Emeritt, who's the executive, I believe he's the director for the basin, executive director for the Film War Pirate of Groundwater Basin. And what he informed me of was that the main problem that they're facing and the reason why they're looking for this bond, potentially again, it's not been confirmed yet, is that if you recall that the Oral Dam, when we had a piece of your storms a few years ago, the Oral Dam was under danger of being undermined because there was so much water that had to go over the emergency overflow that it was more water than the dam was designed for. And what was happening was that overflow was undermining the dam itself. And there was a danger of that dam collapsing. And so luckily it didn't, it managed to survive, but it put a lot of concern in other dams. And of course, for those of us here in this basin, the Pyrrhu dam or the San Felicia dam, Feliciana I think it is. That dam has a very similar spillway designed in a very similar manner. And because of that, it raised alarm bells about that dam that if we had a similar event as to what happened up north, that there would be the potential for that dam to collapse. Obviously, that would not be something we want to, we want to wait to see what happens. So the United Water Conservation District is examining different ways to solve that problem because the spillway, again, is they believe slightly undersized for what potentially could happen under a severe weather event. So that's the main thrust of that potential bond. Now again, it's not been approved that, you know, United Water has not decided to go forward with that yet. If they did, they would anticipate it would take a little while for it to a lot of discussion, obviously a lot of input from the community. But that would be the main probably more than 50% of those funds would go towards that. I guess I don't want to call it a repair, but an upgrade to the spillway of the dam. So that was a conversation I had with Tony Emmer. He did say that he would be willing to come and address the council. And I also, I gave him Erica's information so that we could arrange for that. Because I think it's really important that the city and our residents know what's going on and what the potential is here. So that's my report for that. Also, I wanted to report, I did go to Real Vista today. My wife was acknowledged as the administrator of the year, and also she's retiring this year, so both things. So I did go to that, Chrissy Shefferley and her staff was there and I was representing myself but I guess also the city. So and that's it for me. Thank you, John. Any other updates? Yes, Carrie. Yeah, I have three things to report out on. I did attend of Ventura County Transportation Commission meeting on Friday in Camarillo and the hot button issue topic that everyone from filmores always interested in is what's happening with the Santa Paula branch line and Sierra Northern train and at this point the completion date for the repair of the bridge for the train is still October of this year. And so far that hasn't changed. I mean, they've pushed it back a couple times, but it's holding fast for October. So hopefully we'll see more train activity in film more after that point in time. The one unknown factor is, I think probably most of the community knows this by now, but the Sierra Northern does not operate all the fund trains, the touristy type trains. They're interested in freight more than anything. So their sister company, Mendocino, is responsible for any of the tourist trains and things of that sort that will eventually come through Santa Paula and it will fill more. I don't have a time on that, but that's what we're looking forward to. And as soon as I ask them, Mendocino to come down from Sacramento to report on that at the next VCTC meeting. So hopefully we'll hear from them. I'll have an update for you on that. And then the other item I wanted to make our community where I visit on the 21st of May, the Ventura County Peace Offices Association is holding the office, peace officers memorial ceremony, which they do annually on Wednesday, May 21st at 10 a.m. And this is a, I've been several times, especially when I worked at the government center, I was able to just walk up the office in a 10 every year. It's just a really heartfelt memorial for all fallen officers in the county of Inter from all agencies. and they bring a bill for all that have passed. It's just a real heartfelt and a time to reflect on what law enforcement has done for our county here. So I just encourage anyone who's able to attend, it's held at the memorial area for peace officers which is on the victorious side of the government center. again, that's on May 21st at 10 a.m. so I'd love to see Council out there and any representatives from Fillmore and then lastly my ongoing porch talks have been a success so we're ongoing I posted information about my porch talks which is just an opportunity for constituents to come and talk about. Anything you want to talk about with regard to Fillmore, we've had several successful meetings over the last few months. And I posted the next one is actually tomorrow evening. And again, at my house on my front porch, and that starts at six o'clock. It's open house from six o'clock to eight o'clock. Lots of goodies, stuff to drink. So if you are inclined to wanna come and chat and talk about film where you have questions, you have comments, ideas on how we can improve our community come join us. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Carrie. Yes, so I had the opportunity of attending the Skag Conference, the Southern California Association of Governments And I that was made first and second in Palm Desert. It was the 60th annual Conference so it was pretty special and we also not elected Councilmember Jenny Crosswhite from the City of Santa Paula is our second vice president That's all that's all I have to report. Okay, thank you. Yes, Louise. I had a meeting with a local restaurant owner and one of the concerns that was brought up was the street vendor situation. I did talk to him about the recent report that Kevin gave us that was very thorough and it's based on all these different aspects of the situation that we're dealing with where it comes to private property, local property, county property, cal trance. It's a very complicated issue. I tried my best to communicate that situation even though it was already present at a previous council meeting. The individual did share a concern about how rigorous the city might be or the type of municipal abilities that the city has regardless of what the state allows. It kind of reminds me of the conversation that we had, as well as the comments that were made by fellow council members. Where council member mentioned, maybe a little bit of a tougher approach. not really sure what that means and it's not something that I am proposing or directing. It is just what was discussed and reported to me and wanted to be something that wanted to be mentioned to the community. Thank you guys. All right, thank you. Thank you for sharing. I also have a couple of updates on work and activities in the last month. I want to say probably about three weeks ago, I attended the Ventura County Taxpayers Association. I think it's their monthly breakfast. They're usually held in Camarillo, but there was one how that flight, 126 cafe in Santa Palace, so it made it a little easier. And tended to actually a presentation by the Agricultural Commissioner for the County Curin Bell. And really informative. It was very good to go and to meet others, part of the the association and hear about sort of what are the trends that are happening in agriculture. So I don't wanna spend time rattling off a lot of what she said, but I think it'd be great in the future to actually have the ACA Commissioner come and speak about the state of ACG here in the county and the future of ACG. So I want to mention that. For the Ventura Regional Sanitation District, we've been having a, I'm not going to say probably about, for three months now, an ongoing recruitment for a new general manager who's going to be retiring, as well as a head of operations. And that is for the whole district, including Toulin Landfill and in charge of the other wastewater services that the Regional Sanitation District operates. So there we're going to be having candidates soon. And so I will keep the council and the city informed about how that moves forward. But I do want to mention that, and I think this is a trend that is across the county and probably across municipalities everywhere, and different public jurisdictions, is that there's a real, who say vacancy in terms of younger folks who are taking on these technical jobs in wastewater and solid waste management and also just other technical jobs. And so that's been an ongoing conversation we've been having at the district and I'll give you some more information when I get it. But I think that there's movement across jurisdictions to maybe work together in the county to see how can we you know, we help work maybe even with LA County to really advocate for training, you know, institutes and other things that draw in the younger generation for these kind of jobs that are, again, very well-paying, technical, certified jobs, and they're needed. You know, this is infrastructure. This is infrastructure for our communities. So I'll keep you posted as I hear more on that, but there's discussions that are going on, you know, across Ventura County and I'm sure, I'm sure everywhere. I wanted to mention and I wanted to thank also fellow council members and our city manager who took part in the take five and read initiative from first five into a county. I know that our mayor pro tem elbremendez. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were okay. No, it's a matter of fact, remember the audience Jackie. Okay. She took place. Oh, wonderful. Thank you Jackie for that and thank you, Edica for going and also for Mani. It's a great thing that we're able to do every year and elected appointed officials and then also other leadership in cities, reading to kindergarten, pre-K, and myself at the Fillmore Library during story time. And so it was just really great. And it was good. It's about making sure that we get the word out about the importance of reading, reading, reading every day, every night to our littles, especially of course ages 0 to 5. So I just wanted to mention that. And also that when I was at the library, I spoke to our librarian, Ms. Yvonne, and she said there is a need in here in Fillmore for adult tutors for ESL, for English as a second language. We do have our adult school that has classes in the evenings, but again, not everyone can make those evenings. It doesn't fit with schedules. And some folks work better one-on-one in that kind of situation. So she is looking for English as a second language or ESL tutors, so you can pop on over to the library and they'll have more information about how you can get involved. Sorry, I'll keep on trying it. Couple more. Let's see, I did a radio interview last week for all things 805. That's a community program that heirs on Sunday mornings on Q1047. And I was able to plug our fifth annual Health and Wellness Resource Fair that is coming up this Saturday, May 17th. And also we're working alongside and collaborating with Rotary and the Fillmore High School Cross Country team for their 5K, 10K and 1K Kids Fun Run. So it's going to be an amazing day of health, outdoor activity, wellness and lots of resources. There's going to be over 50, yeah, 5-0, over 50 community booths that will be set up in front of the Philmore Unified School District front lawn there on CESB Avenue near the corner of CESB in A Street. So I just wanted to plug that. And yes, yes, please. Just to add to the 5K 10K run, it's a 5K if you could only run 5K that's fine. Even for kids who won't run 5, there's a fun run for them that'll be set up. There's prizes, there's raffle tickets, there's baskets, giveaways, it's going to be just a really, really fun event. And every year, it's a huge success for the community and for Rotary specifically. And that money goes right back out in the community again. So I hope you can all attend. Thank you, Carrie. Yep. I think it's amazing. I heard that there's already like over 100, I mean, like maybe even 200, a few different teams of big teams of runners. Yeah. This is the largest that we've had so far of people that have signed up in advance. And then you can sign up on the day of. And I know that the city of Fillmore put a team together. How many people are on that team? All right, I want a number. I raised my hand a little bit. 19? So far. 19 city staff members participating as a team, right? With family and friends. Family and family and friends. So I just had a curiosity, how do you do that as a team? You're not doing a dawn pass, but just their mob, they're just going to stay together. Anyway, I hope that the community will turn out for that. Thank you. It's great. And I also plugged on the radio show that you not have to be a runner. This is a it is a run slash walk. So if you would just like to get out and enjoy the fresh air and do the walk, that would be really great. Okay. and the federal government, the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, and the federal government, We are going to have more than 50 organizations come as places with a lot of information for all entire health and for the whole family. Thank you. Okay, I think that's it for right now. I'll move on and I'll maybe save these next for our next main meeting. Okay, thank you everybody. That was a great sharing of information. As you can see, we are all really busy representing the city and just doing really great work. So thank you, fellow council members. Okay, great. We'll move on now to item number seven, consent calendar. I do wanna make a note that on item seven B, the city's fire hazard severity zone map, the incorrect map was attached in the original agenda. However, the correct map has been attached, has been distributed to the council members, and will be circulated prior to the adoption of this ordinance. So I just wanted to make that for the record that is but is a amended 7b. And it's also available on the website. Yes, also available on the website. Thank you. Okay, with that amendment do I look in for a motion on the consent calendar? I'll move as amended. Okay, the motion of a second. Second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. We have passed our consent calendar. And now we are on to our first item of new business. The public carrying pursuant to AB 2561 for the vacancy and the building inspections slash code enforcement officer position. Okay. Good evening, Jackie. Good evening, Mayor and council members and members of the public. In compliance with the Assembly 2561, which went to affect January 1st, 2025, requires public agencies to hold the public hearing. Once per the fiscal year to report any full-time positions that remain vacant for 90 days or more. We currently have about 40 full-time positions with one vacancy exceeding the 90 days. And that's the Building Inspector Code Enforcement Officer position. This has been open since September 12, 2024, which exceeded that 90 days. I would just like to note this role has proven to be difficult to fill due to its hybrid nature that requires expertise for building, inspecting, and code enforcement. And despite our ongoing efforts, it has not been filled in, we have not received qualified applicants to meet the minimum requirements at the moment. As for our efforts, we advertise on our city of Filmora website, social media, professional associations, and specialized job boards. Currently, as a next step, since it's been vacant for so long, we're obviously continuing to target recruitment, trying to figure out where else we could, you know, find people that meet these requirements, but also we've engaged to try to get qualified consultants or contracts staff to provide temporary support for these responsibilities. A RFP has already been completed and it's currently being reviewed. If we do go through the consulting agreement, we will bring a separate agreement to the City Council. We move forward with that. But as of right now, this concludes the hearing for that AB2561 regarding the current vacancies exceeding the 90 days. Yes. So I have a question. So I understand that you're having a hard time filling the position because the hybrid nature has the city considered maybe splitting the job into two positions as opposed to one that's a hybrid. If you haven't, that's fine. I'm just curious if you have or not. Good. I can probably answer that question. The workload itself wouldn't justify a one full-time employee, and so that's why it's a merge of the two positions. It is like Jackie mentioned. It's not uncommon. A lot of other neighboring jurisdictions, not only in Inventora County, but LA County, San Bernardino County are having difficulty filling the roles. And so that is why we went through the RFP process, like Jackie mentioned, it is being reviewed currently and we will plan to bring something back to City Council for consideration, but we will continue with our efforts for recruitment. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Mayor just to briefly clarify there's no public comment on this item. Okay. Any. Right. Oh, yeah, let me ask that question. Just I didn't receive any public comment on this agenda item. Just to know there's no public comment. Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Any? Right. Oh, yeah, let me ask that question. I didn't receive any public comment on this agenda item. Just to close. No, there's no public comment. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, you're welcome. Thank you. All right. Okay. So no action needs to be taken formally then on this item. Okay. We'll move on then to agenda item number 8B. The adoption of resolution number 25-4071, approving the fiscal year 2025, 2026 annual budget for the city of Fillmore. Mayor, before we move on. Yes. The recommendation was that we have a cold of public hearing. Isn't that supposed to be gabbled in, gabbled out in order to make it official? That's a good question. This is sort of an interesting technical question. This is a law that's brand new this year. The way that we've interpreted it this first year is not that it requires a formal public hearing with newspaper notice, that type of thing. But more of a presentation to the City Council an opportunity for members of the community to speak if they wanted to. So at this point I read the law to not require a formal public hearing like you would for a land use type of item or a permit type of thing. That's a good technical question. It's something that's not entirely clear in the law and it'll sort of be interesting to see how that develops in coming years, but just again to reiterate, it's not a formal public area, at least that's the interpretation at this time. What did I have? Thank you for that question. Yeah, thanks for the clarification. Okay, yeah, thank you, and thank you for the question. Yes, very good. Okay, great. Okay, so I'll read for 8B. This is now we're on adoption of the resolution number 25-4071, approving the fiscal year 2025 annual budget for the city of Fillmore. And I'll bring this Deborah Cavalato. Thank you. Good evening, Council members. I'm Mia Senor, my name is Deborah Cavillow, Finance Director. And tonight we are here to ask City Council to review and modify as appropriate the FY 2025- budget and approve resolution number 25 dash 4.07 one that I could you speak into the maker adopting the adopting Okay adopting the FY 2025 26 President of preliminary budget. Okay, so here we go. So the budget process, there's an overview that we provided to allow consumers, actually consumers, the citizens to know how this process is being done. So the City Council proves the budget development guidelines, finance, department projects, available fund balances. We verify operational daily requirements such as review of funding sources, continue for services, as well as to ensure that we are meeting our 40% general fund reserve that is currently our policy. We also look out to what we call to one, three, five years along the general plan for potential projects. This year we actually add staff, ask for, we call it a wish list. And what is the wish list, the wish list, to say, what do we need in order for us to either continue operations to meet new requirements, new requirements, and therefore be able to plan out a little more efficiently. And we also pick up with the priority on projects as well as maybe possible new services that are coming down the pipe. Review the new and potential legislative requirements as well as we meet with department heads to review the requests. We also then meet with the ad hoc, ad budget team, which is the mayor and Councillor Nunnary Brobe are on this time, as well as it is our accounting supervisor, Ambery Tabay, city manager, Errera, and Mani, our assistant city manager. At the end of this, we present the budget's doing today, and then the year end, we we then come back which will be in June to say there is any fund balance that we need to maybe have to be held for any costs associated with unexpected costs of the year end. This is a reminder of the living document. If budgeted tonight it does not mean that some of these projects are said in stone. Things could happen such as we actually had in 2023, the SOAR disaster, as well as projects that come in maybe for bid could be higher cost or they may have not the equipment or supplies needed to complete this project this year. So looking back for 2425, what are our cities accomplishments? We installed the shade structures at Delores Day and Tuberas Parks. We completed the street resurfacing and pavement preservation projects, watered and distributed downtown rehabilitation grants through ARPA funding. We had 17 graduates, this could be from the fire academy for reserve firefighters We installed public safety cameras and conducted DOI saturation patrols via OTS grants and we awarded the 1.49 million in-campment resolution funding grant to Compat homelessness So what are objectives some of our objectives objectives include launching a city newsletter to regularly inform the community about key initiatives, updates, and events. Advance the economic development by implementing the strategies outlined in the current city's current economic development plan. Complete the Dolores Day Park Modular Restroom Project, install upgraded irrigation controllers and repair key water lines, and implement the Encampment Resolution Funding Grant. So this year, the General Fund, we are projecting, for a preliminary budget, of $11,608,786. Of that, 72.7% of that is related to taxes. As you can see on the slide, we have property tax that we are saying there will be 1.3 million. Resigial tax from the successor agency, about 800,000 are vehicle licensing fee, property tax in Lua, almost 2.5 million are sales and use tax of almost approximately 3.5. Also of course are transit lodging tax and our business license fee. So questions come up regarding our property, our general fund and property tax revenues. So how does this come about? So as you see here, these presentations are actually from the Ventura County Tax Collector's website. And so where the property tax goes, for that dollar, as you can see, 8% of that comes to the city. Whereas you see 20% there, schools, and special districts. Then what about sales tax? Where does the sales tax go? Yep, we are currently at a 7.25% sales tax. Sixth percent of that goes to the state. Of that, a half percentage is part of that prop 172 for public safety, which we do receive funding for that as well. Then as you see there, we receive 1% of that sales tax. And then there's a transportation program 0.25. That is from VCTCs. It gives us an allocation of a call to TDA funding that you see before we see every fall that we present to you. Now keep in mind that remember that this is for sales tax within the city. If you order online that goes actually to a and to not and if you don't pick it up or it's not a point of sale within the city that goes into the county pool and then it gets distributed by the city by the 10 city between the between the 10 cities and the incorporated areas, whoever has the highest sales tax will get the most of that portion. So this will be advised. Next is our appropriation. This year with our appropriations we are requesting a not balanced budget, but this is because we're doing some initiatives of that we had some deferred maintenance and getting ready for requirements that we needed to fill. As you see, our public safety is almost 50% of our general fun expense. And as well as our city administration is about 15%, that also includes nine departments such as the City of Managed Office, Human Resources, Information Test, Technology Technology and Risk Management. So some highlights of our general fund expenses. We have 150,000 earmarked to be allocated to homeless initiatives. Right now that isn't being negotiated. We do not know the final cost at that time, but we have a earmarked the most to 150,000. If there is less, that isn't negotiated when it's completed, that money just rolls back in the general fund. So if any projects do not occur and we do not have it, then earmarked percent by council anywhere else that just rolls back into the general fund to be used for the following year. We have a 4% increase that's going to happen for salary increases for the MOAs. 185,000 for a new human resource supervisor this position was completed as we had to have segregation of duties. The increase of now to MOA's and regulatory requirements that help us out Sorry, does your mind is on the abbreviation acronym for MOA? Oh, sorry, it's Memorandum of agreement. Okay, thank you. I'm very sending, excuse me. There's MOA's and MOA's. I use both the yellow and blue. MOA's and MOA's. I'm using the two agreements. I apologize. That's fine. No, no problem. Thank you. Thank you. And then we have the 262,000 to two new firefighters. Now this is also actually has always been an budget that is under in our overtime category. So therefore we have less than the overtime that will be required for the firefighters going to the salaries. We do have a little bit of overtime to be able to cover the cost because, of course, if anyone is on vacation on leave, you'll need to have someone step in. And this also brings up the fire department to have a full staff on their vehicles as well. We have 10,000 for the downtown wave finding sign. So we're hopefully, that'll be a great sign. 75,000 is the beginning of the new general plan. And as you know, general plans take a lot of effort, but this is 75,000 to begin looking at the process. We have 120,000 that we have earmarked for code enforcement contractor. And I'm glad to just council member Rodriguez had mentioned that process. It is for to be able to update our procedures as well as address our street vendors and our illegal business backlog. We also have 70,000 miscellaneous repairs such as the lighting as you see in the promenade in city hall. 265,000 for the fire, various protective equipment and EMS supplies. EMS supplies such as the type of drugs that they needed when they are on call have risen dramatically as well as different regulations for the equipment that firefighters have to wear such as what they call their turnouts, that every 15 years replace, now it's every 10 and in addition now they're requiring to have an additional set. Of course as you know with the recent fires they go out, they go and rest and when they come back they go back out again they have to put on you know a contaminated uniform so therefore or protective gear therefore they will have an extra with them as well. We receive in the county, the new county rates of 3.4% increase in sheriff contract rates. And then I noted here as one of the goals is 659,000 this year is for park operation in maintenance, which we established. We actually increased a staff member that now would be fully cycled in this year's budget and also allocate staff to more staff to the park operations. So they can make necessary pairs because we are seeing increased vandalism including graffiti removal to the park property. And we are, look at where average, are gonna have 534,000 park maintenance and utility costs. So next we're going to look at the other, oh, in my slide, jump up here. Oh, they're good. Thank you. Oh my goodness. Okay, so general fund transfers out. So this is where we have items that there are certain funds that we that do not have either enough funds, enough funding sources of funding for their expenses, their other funding sources aren't covering it. Or for example, for anything that's related to parks, anything really even streets with the funding that we have recreation pool that has to be supplemented by the general fund. So as you see here, we have 640,000 in construction and progress that we are allocating out from the general fund. We're having 239,000 of gas tax fund. There is 100,000 in that CIP that's going, that will also be going to the gas tax fund to cover a couple items. We're going to be transferring out 470,000 through the Recreation Fund, 219,000 Community Pool, and then 69,000 to other funds. So I wanted to highlight those funds that have a large contribution from the general fund. In this case, the Gas Tax Fund. The Gas Tax this year, we're projecting it to be flat, which is about $490,000 that we receive. And of which this year we're looking at 25,000 for the propane trailer and the asphalt hauler to help with potholes. The A Street Guard Rail Repair. Also Street and Side Rock Repair Contracts. We also have 103,200street lights. This is our electricity that bills that we pay every month. And now we're going to increase it by $80,000 to 200,000 for street tree maintenance in this fund. In addition for recreation fund, we have expenses of 734,000. This year is going to be the first year that we have our full cycle senior nutrition program. In the past, the county would pay for the food and then give us a grant towards our expenditures. This year, we received, they don't have the funding that they used to to cover all the food, so we're receiving $120,000 for the grant and that will cover both sleep. They are food which we're rejecting about $135,000 in food cost and then the remaining cost will have to be covered by general fund. We also have 240,000 expenditures relating to the active adult center and community centers. This is where community centers, boys and girls called the active adult center that they may have. They have different programs and Zuma classes in that nature there. In addition, we have three and three seven thousand pool expenditures. We have 87,000 covered by parcel tax, and another 56,000 from this unified school district does the rental. Next we have additional special revenue. This is our public transit and this comes from TDA money. That's the money that we talked about from VCTC that comes every year that hopefully we're not sure if it'll be this high this year because last year was higher because they're adding new vehicles but also too that we do have this year is going to be the one from a film or more parks why haven't seen what the cost would be for the route on that. This is the last year for the American Rescue Plan for ARPA. We have 142,000, so we'll complete the rest of those projects. And after that, it gets submitted to the Treasury. Now again, if any funding that we're going through once our project's closed or left over as we had done in December of 2024, if there was obligated funds that do qualify under the different type of projects such as in parks and that nature we can For example having a many leftover we can use that towards the park now. We haven't done our final Calculation interest boat any interest that has earned on that That's all right that interest stays with the with the city We also have 1.2 million that we're saying TDA article hC and SB1 transfers are going to go for the street CIPs. 50,000 that was approved for the housing trust fund for Ventura County. And for that 1.49 million grant that we receive for homelessness, we have $599,000, $3,500 that we are looking at to spend for this fiscal year. Moving on to the enterprise funds, this is including depreciation. We have 8,022,000 of expenses that would be for the year. We looked again reaching out to FEMA. We're still in the pipeline. We're on final review for the emergency portion. And we're on still environment on historical preservation review for FEMA. I am seeing they did from last week on the ninth, there was some activity looking to portal. There's a portal I can look at and see where they are in the process. But again, we're unaware of when it will occur. Then we have 180,000 that we have a basement fund that we use for CIV projects. The water operating fund, we're having $6 million, almost $1 million to be expended this year. This is going towards a water utility truck, the dump trailer, and then 700,000 is going towards the CIP project and this year will also be the launch of the Aquahawk System that we've know about that a Lorena had previously did a presentation on that is going to be we have it for July 1st It'll go live So next we're looking at as I say money and transfers Here is our CIP appropriations in budget. There's going to be $7.1 million looking at. And as you see, there's various projects we have throughout. And we also made sure to list the funding source so that we know where this money is coming from. With all those that say general, that is the general fund. Diff of course, is the development impact fees. And then TDA, Armour A and Grant, and then store in water and storm drain that shows the various projects we have. We have the well-tanned development, that's $2 million. We have, if you combo, we have a 1.6, almost 1.5 million dollar main line and storm drain that it was going to be replaced. And then we also have the police restroom remodel. Exhaust fans and equipment for the aquatic center. That's going to be $163,000 new roof. Shields Park upgrade. Various master plans, updates that we are required by law to do so, reservoir, plant painting, and landscape and irrigation items. Next we have what is our active debt service? So this is the balance that we are projecting for the end of June 30th 2026 after their these balances are paid throughout the year. So as you can see we have One then did by order of maturity. So we have the first one's going to mature in 2030 and the last one to be sure mature in 2047 This does not include the developer I'm sorry, it does not include the community facility districts. Those are actually ones we just basically manage and those have various debts that come throughout. The last we have here is the successor agency obligation. This was actually brought to you in December of 2024. Before then we had we needed to go to the Ventura County oversight board to get approval. There's various meetings on that. And then once that's sent, then it's sent for final review and approval for the Defineance Department. And what they do is that Department of Finance looks and says what you had in your previous year 2023. If you hadn't funds left over that weren't expense, you send them the budget and they said okay I'm asking for 3.799 million. Okay you had some extra money left over. We deduct that and we'll pay you the $3,765,000. This is for enforceable obligations. The biggest is our debt service and the debt service is June for the 30th, June 1st, 2031 will be the final maturity of that debt. And as you can see right now at the end of the year we're projecting at $6,340,000. And also too, we're not also including this presentation, including the interest payments as strictly looking at debt itself. So the goals and budget support this FY 2025 26 budget presentation for approval meets all of FY 2024 26 city council goals that were produced in the even march of this year. That's revitalizing the downtown Central Avenue. It's enhanced parks and recreation, upgrade public infrastructure, address homelessness, and improve public communication and engagement. And while we are using more fun balance for general fun, we're still meeting the 40% reserve policy that has been set by the council. Again, a special thanks. There's a budget team as myself. Amber Tadevae here, a county supervisor as our project manager, she went through and sent out all the items, all the worksheets worked with each of the departments sat down and said, identify again. Here's the wish list. Tell me what to need, why. And then we also have a Myroosis who did the final view for us, but also as we're working on the budget process day to day activities don't stop. So Myro's there to help back us up when we were working on this budget. Also like to thank the executive teams here that are hard here today who also stakeholders that are here to answer any questions. The the. The budget had a hawk to admit committee. Team thank you very much for being there in your support looking over and asking different questions to mold this budget. Also get all city departments is not just the directors of the city departments when we needed support. They came in and provided what we needed. And of course your city council thank you for your directions at this time so that is the end of the presentation I'm here to answer questions and also if you have any more details please we have our staff here to answer them thank you so much Deborah that was just a really excellent presentation I'll check and see if anyone has any questions for Deborah yes going to the presentation, I believe it was the highlights of projects that have been completed. Second. Yes. Oh, there we go. Bullet point number two. Can you touch on that and what's included included in I want to know what what was completed? Actually, I believe that's the 23 which I have Roxanne or Joe would you like to Answer the question regarding the completed street street servicing projects that we had for 2025 Yes, or in process to being completed as well. Great. This is for last year though. This is 2024 or so. So 2024, 2025 fiscal year. Just want to clarify that. Not the ones you have ongoing right now but the ones from the previous. Yes. The previous fiscal year. My brain is all about the painting that we're doing right now. So the current, what did we do last year? Yeah, the current, not the upcoming one. So what has been completed? The one that's under construction, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Then we're same peach. Thank you. You just wanted an update on where we are. Yes. Okay. We are going to be performing dig outs this week on Thursday and Friday, so we'll be addressing a lot of the tree roots on Clay Street and Good Enough Road and other patchwork around town Thursday, Friday, and then on Monday we're going to start milling and paving and putting down chip seal. So all next week they'll be paving going on you know a lot of different processes. Millings going to be followed by chip sealed going to be followed by paving and so all of the other streets that we're going to be paved are going to be done Monday through Friday next week and then they'll be coming back back towards the end of May with the final slurry seal, which will finish the cake seal. So when we put down the hot coated chips on the streets and it'll be a rough ride with chip seal next week, that will be driven on for a while. And then we'll come back and put a slurry seal, which will be the final surface, which will smooth it out a lot. So I would like everybody to know that when we put the chip seal down, that's not it. We're not done. We're coming back again. We're working with the contractor to schedule that slurry seal on good enough road on a Saturday. So it doesn't impact the trucking at Amaran and the trucking at Williams' home's grading. will tell them to stop on that Saturday. So probably Saturday the 31st and the neighborhood streets will be done like that Thursday, Friday, May 28th, 29th and 30th. There's something along those lines. That's the status.. So it's all going to be happening in the next couple weeks and wrapping up at the end of the month. Okay. Okay. Question. So I, I, I, I, Craig me from Ron, but I think there was also a lot of the sidewalk was previously done last month. Was that correct? Yeah, we're done with the concrete work. Right. And so we've replaced ribbon gutters and lifted sidewalks, Curving gutter kind of all over town. So this year's concrete work is complete and done so we're getting close Any other questions? Yeah, I know I'm gonna be asked this question. I was asked it probably three times this week Village circle. Yeah village square road. Village square. Yeah, um What is the status of that? They'll be grinding and paving it next week next week. Yep. I mean that one will get the The road. The square, yeah. What is the status of that? They'll be grinding and paving it next week. Next week, that's the time. And that one will get the grinding then the chip seal then the paving. And so by next Friday, it'll be a lovely new road. Just before Memorial Day begins. We're going to have a street party. Yes, yes, yes, next week. And just for the record, the exact locations were brought up to Council on January 14th. So there's the staff report there. If you go to the archive, you can pull the exact locations that Roxanne's referring to. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Deborah, I do have a question, maybe a clarification. It was on the slide that talked about FEMA. You had mentioned there's emergency and then there's sort of, I think you use the word historical. Maybe this is regarding the FEMA reimbursement. And I guess my question is, you said emergency is moving forward a little quicker than maybe the other pot. I was wondering amount wise sort of what's the proportion. Okay, so for the first one is again the emergency street. That is the one that we were to keep the operations flowing and that is in what they call the final FEMA stage. If we break that stage, that is when they will give us the call the obligation. And that is looking at roughly if I recall, is that the $8 million one that we submitted, but it's probably going to six to seven at least for FEMA side. Because what happens is once that gets obligated, they send it to the state, the state does a review of the project as well, and then the state portion will then kick in. Okay, great, so this particular one, the emergency one, is the larger, yes, bigger chunk of the two. Yes, and this is the one we would like to receive. We really want to get this reimbursement. The second one is in the environmental and historical, that is the second to the top stage. breaks into there then they do the final stage and again and that is for the the replacement to the top stage. After breaks into there then they do the final stage and again and that is for the replacement of the manhole. And then also too there's about $60,000 that once all that is completed we should receive well and that $60,000 goes towards to do a sealant to help sure that it doesn't have water seeping going forward. I don't know the very details of it, but that was what it's for. Okay, thank you. I guess John. Question. So this question has to do more with budget development and our process for that. So kind of on two, two obscenes of the spectrum of the budget development. So the first one is more on the short term. I noticed in the budget development process, and again, this is my first time going through this, so please forgive me if this sounds kind of ignorant. But is there a, do we have a budget development check-in at about the six month mark or somewhere around there so that the city council can get updated as to where we are with regard to the budget and our actual expenditures. Is that done at all? Yes, that'll be our mid-year when we come back and we ask for if they say update to say here's where we are. Or if we need additional appropriations, for example, if a sewer came up a project there, we would ask for appropriations from the certain or funding source if there's funding is available and also or say if there is an issue coming that we would come up and ask guidance on as to how to spend it. Okay, that's perfect. Right, ask these questions because also to this is, I would say living document our budget process is also to a living document and we want to make sure for next year we come up and ask for the calendar to be approved that we ensure that we are not there's always room for growth and or processes that change throughout time. Thank you. Thank you. I don't have a question, Deborah, but I just have to say and letting our community know this, the detail goes into this budget just astonishes me. This is the first time that I've been on the ad hoc budget committee. And it's mind-boggling to me how Deborah and her staff keep this straight. And I'm just so impressed that even now looking at the presentation after having sat down with you as a part of the ad hoc, I understand it. I mean, these are numbers that even I understand, numbers are not my thing. But I truly appreciate the work that you and your staff put into this. And I mean, I just love the way it looks compared to where we were, you know, just even a few short years ago. Thank you so much for all of your hard work. I cool that out. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for always having me. Thank you. And I'll have to say, like Carrie mentioned, I've been on the budget at Hawk, because I also not numbers isn't my thing, but I really kind of threw myself in there to say, let me learn. And from my first budget at the meeting a few years ago to where we are now and also the presentation. To be able to give something to the community where someone can see meeting a few years ago to where we are now and also the presentation. To be able to give something to the community where someone can see in a few pages what's going on in film or how are we spending our money, what's coming in, what's going out, it is really clear and that takes a lot of work to make it that clear and presentable to everyone. So thank you. Thank you. And Debra, is it possible, I mean I know it's going to be available on a SumiNon or website. But can I get a copy of this electronically? We can send it to you. It wasn't on the website, but it was as a presentation. So we can also distribute everyone because it's public. That would be great. That would be great. Okay. Are there any further questions for Deborah? Okay. I will none, then I will look for a motion on this item. I will make a motion to, what am I doing here? I'm 68. No review or no modification. So approve resolution number 25-4071ed in the fiscal year 2526 annual budget. Okay. All right. I have a motion and a second all those in favor I any opposed Okay, motion carries our budgets pass. Thank you All right, we'll move on to our next item 8 8C, which is the first amendment to support services agreement with planet bids. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Staff is recommending that City Council approve the first amendment to support services agreement with planet bids. This will extend the agreement through July 13, 2027, which which is an additional two years to the original three-year agreement. Planet Bids is an electronic procurement and bid management services platform using a proprietary Planet Bid system. It supports vendor and bid management, insurance certification management and contract management. The system benefits our increased transparency and efficiency, enhanced compliance and streamlined procurement. Planet BIDs has provided a reliable and response to the service and the system is actively used across multiple departments including administration and engineering and public works. The fiscal impact for the two year agreement would be four year four which would be the first year of their amendment would be $16,336.27. In year five would be $16,826.36. $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, And this is funded under contract services in the admin department. So that's it for my presentation. Just asking for an amendment to renew the agreement for another two years. Okay. Thank you, Shannon, for my presentation. Just asking for an amendment to renew the agreement for another two years. Okay, thank you, Shannon, for your presentation. Do we have any questions? Thank you for your presentation. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you. All right, but we do have to make a motion on this. Am I correct, Michael? I have a motion. Okay. Yes. I move that we approve the First Amendment to support services agreement between Film War, City of Film War and Planet Bidz Inc. Extending the agreement term through July 13th, 2027. I'll second. Okay. I have a motion in a second. All those in favor? Say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay any opposed okay motion carries Right moving on to our next agenda item Okay, this is let me show I'm reading it right here 80 appropriation of funds and approval of a task order to update the city sewer system management plan and Thank you, Madam Mayor. Good evening, Madam Mayor and City Council members. The item before you is a staff request for an appropriation of funds and approval of a task order to update the city's sewer system management plan. I'll refer to it as the management plan and the city's sewer master plan over for that as the master plan. The city is required by the state's general water quality order to update its management plan every six years. The first SSMP or the management plan was approved by a city council on February 22nd, 2011 and it was updated again in 2016 and 2021. The order was revised in 2022 and the plan is now due under this new order August 2, 2025. So in a few months here. The goal of the management plan is to reduce and prevent sanitary sewer overflows and to formally state the process for communication and emergency response that may occur to an overflow. This plan is audited in three years to ensure that the methods and procedures that are called out are effective and current. While the management plan focuses on the management of the sanitary sewer system to prevent sanitary sewer overflows, the city's master plan focuses on the adequacy of the system's design to effectively convey sewage to the end point, which is the Fillmore Water Recycling Plant on River Street. Our current master plan was prepared in 2006, in based upon the 2025 rather general plan, land use element. Since then, the city has amended the general plan land use element in 2011. Adopted regulations in light of the state of California's mandate allowance, mandated allowance of accessory dwelling units. amended the North Filmor Specific Plan, approved the housing element 2019 through 2028. Approved the KBE Home Project of 110 units, approved Williams Helms Project of 134 units, converted the commercial highway zone to residential high with an approval of the Minimansions project of 50 units. Approved people self-help housing project of 50 units and nearing completion of the Heritage Valley Parks specific plan and surrounding neighborhoods. I'd like to thank the planning director for supercharging my staff report with all that information right there. The planning department is in the midst, and also he had to put this in here too. The planning department is in the midst of processing housing program requirements for the housing element 2020, 2019 through 2028. Yet again, we'll amend the general plan land use element. Hence the master plan is out of date. An update to this plan will investigate two conditions, today's flow, and the anticipated need projected to meet the conditions as built out in 2024. This information will be used to forecast the functional system modeled for buildout conditions. Attached is a proposal from our engineering team that estimates an update to the management plan will cost 39,233 and estimates 196,833 to update the master plan. The city's FYI 2425 budget includes 150,000 for the update of these plans. However, the funding source was not addressed in the budget. Therefore, staff has recommended that City Council approve a transfer of 188,100 from general impact development impact fee fund 406 and 20,900 from the sewer replacement reserve fund 504 to the sewer capital fund. And appropriate 59,000 from fund 406, develop an impact fee sewer to account for 63, 69, 16, 0, 0 $51,500, and approve Wild ant engineering's proposal as a task order to update these plans. That concludes my report. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. All right. Thank you, Joe. Presentation. This council have any questions? Yes, John. Joe, thank you for that. So in producing these plans, I notice that it looks like every six years we kind of update them. So that's one method. In other words, every six years, hey, the due dates coming up, so we're going to go pay somebody to update the plan. Have we ever thought about doing like a yearly update where the budget is impacted every year for six years and it's kept up to date as we go? Is that has that been considered at all? You know, indirectly it is being, it's a living document really. And it's a formal update that we need to do where council takes an action if there's something that's a significant change in the last time the council has reviewed that plan. So it is, you know, while we keep the document updated with new information, people change new contacts are made, better processes are figured out. The intent is to have that as a living document, but we kind of need to track those big changes. So when it comes to the six year marker that we're coming to council and having you all understand the change from when it was last approved six years later. Okay, thanks, Joe. You're welcome. But the cost, I think that's what you're getting at. The cost can be significantly reduced if we keep in that document updated. So we relied on the OLA to do the last couple of updates. With the order changing in 2022, that was some significant changes that we needed to account for and that's the reason why we're going through this big update right now. It's due to the order, the change in the order. By order, just to clarify, you mean it's basically the law, the current state law has changed, and so we have to update the plan to comply with state law. Has the owner of a sewer system, that's our mandate. Okay, thank you. Okay, great, thank you. So then I guess a follow up question or idea is this is something like you said, big changes need to be made. We're moving it from Fulia who did it before, now will them. But in the future, there could be, like you said, maybe some potential cost savings to stay, stay on top of it on that basis. We're gonna keep it within the city staff, keeping an eye on that document and making the changes as necessary. Because of the 2022 order, this is a good time to run some new models that's done through the engineering team. And that's the need in-house. We don't have that. We have to rely on our engineering team. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. No other questions or comments that I will. Oh, guess, Kerry. Yeah. And I'm sorry. I'm a little confused here on the paragraph under Fiscal Impact. If I'm reading this correctly, is what we're saying is that even though we just approved the budget for this year, because this wasn't addressed in the 2425, we now have to go back to our budget we just approved. And take out 188,100 from diff fees, 20,900 from sewer replacement fund, and 59,000 of the sewer capital, is that correct? And that's not reflected in the budget that we just prepared or just approved. I'm gonna look at that for that. So the budget you just approved is for next fiscal year. So it's 2526 fiscal year. This is in the current fiscal year and it was not included when we approved the 2425 fiscal year. So that's why we're asking for the appropriation. It's the current fiscal year, not the one that starts on July 1st, which is the budget you just approved. Okay, so it will come out of the 24-25. Correct. Yes. All right. Thank you. Okay. That's a good question. All right. Okay. I will look for a motion on this item. I move that the Council approves a transfer of 188,100 from Diffee Fund 406 and 20,900 from the sewer replacement reserve fund 504 to sewer capital fund and appropriate 59,000 from fund 406. Development impact fee sewer to account number 463-6916-0051 500, and approved will-down engineering proposal as a task order to update the plans. The plan. Thank you. And we have a second. All right. Second, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? OK. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. All right. Our next item of business is item 8E. Is there public hearings to consider the adoption of resolutions approving the, sorry, the engineer, annual levy report for fiscal year 2526, and ordering the annual levy and collection of the assessments for fiscal year 2526 within the city of Fillmore, Heritage Valley Landscape and Lining District, 2,007-1 and Landscape and Lining District, number two, respectively. Thank you, ma'am. Mayor, just as a quick procedural, these are formal public hearings. So after the staff presentation, there'll be opening of the public hearing. Okay. Closing the public hearing, receiving any comment in between and then a roll call. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And then, yeah, I'm also ahead. Two of us have to recuse ourselves. So can we just stay here and then just recuse or not just not vote at the end? In terms of how it's been done in the past, has been the council members abstaining from the particular district. So the vote's been done by a roll call vote and then the council member has announced what the conflict is for the specific district. So you could abstain as to the specific district that you're in. Still here the presentation and vote on the remaining districts. Thank you. If you have a question at the time I can help you with the language. Okay. We have the question. Okay. Deborah, thank you. Okay. We'll get evening council members. Mayor Vies and your arm, Deborah Cavill, a finance director. As you see with item AE, we're requesting to adopt the resolutions from its 4066 to 4069 to approve the engineers annual levy report for fiscal year 2526 of course and then of course add this to the annual levy and collection of assessments for this year within the city of Fillmore for the two districts that we have in the title. We have here tonight online Michelle Lassie who is a project manager and Miranda Servantes who is the fiscal analyst from Wildand Financial who prepared the engineer report and are available to answer any questions regarding the report. As stated in the staff report the city's two landscape and lighting assessment districts are landscape and lighting district number two and heritage valley landscape and lighting district 2007 dash one. These districts contained landscape improvement in designated midians, parkways, et cetera, and street lighting improvements with designated zones or located residential, commercial, or mixed uses. The annual assessments fund the operations administration, utilities, maintenance and improvements. The assessment calculations includes an annual inflationary adjusted formula that the maximum assessment may increase over the previous year by 3%, or the annual percentage increase in the consumer price index, whichever is greater, without being considered a increased assessment. The annual CPI and percentage difference from January from the current year to prior increase by 3.33%, therefore the prior year's maximum assessed rates have been adjusted by the 3.33% just out this year's maximum assessment rate. This item meets the City Council goals for infrastructure. This is the end of my presentation and we are available for questions and I verify they are online. Okay, thank you very much Deborah. Okay, at this point in time, then I am going to open our public hearing to receive any public testimony regarding the City Council's intent to improve the engineers' approval, the engineers' report and the levies of assessments within Landscape and Lion District 2-00 0 7 dash 1 and landscape and line district 0 2 Okay, I mean that there has been no public comment received either in person or I think written comment Then I believe I can close the public hearing Okay, and so the public hearing is now closed. And then I will look to Council for any, for our action to take on the item. And that would be listed there under several. Well, there's five actions actually taken, Michael. Do we, making this motion, do we need to read them all or can we include them? So I think what could be done here, there are four resolutions listed as items one through four and the staff report. So I think the council member making the motion could just say I move to adopt resolution 25, 40, 66, 25, 254068, and then be sure to include number five. So at the end of that, it would be end authorised staff to incorporate. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. All right. I'll entertain a motion on this item. I'll move to adopt resolution 25-4006.. Oh, actually, can you read that one more time, Luis? 25-4066. Thank you. Resolution 25-4067. Resolution 25-4068 resolution 25-4069 and authorized staff to incorporate the revenue and expenditures contained in the annual budgets for the last-keep and lighting district 02 and lighting and last-keep district 2-007-01 into the City of Fillmore Annual Budget. Okay, thank you. All second. Thank you. We have a motion. We have a second. And we will take a roll call vote. Thank you. Councilmember Berge. Yes, ma'am. Mayor Proteman. Sorry. Just to stop that very sorry, I think care that you can vote for them You just have to say that you're abstaining from your particular district There's one it's up to you if you prefer to abstain from the whole to that's fine There's also a particular district that you can specifically note that you abstain Sorry, I'm sorry to interrupt that. I wasn't sure. Okay. Thank you. So we'll continue with our roll call. So Mayor Perta Mendez. Yes. Mayor Villesignor. Yes, but I am abstaining on district 0-2, track 5099, Riverwalk. Council Member Rodriguez? Yes. Council Member Gadinca. Aye. Okay, thank you. Motion passes. All right. And we'll move on now to our last business item, which is item 8F. The public hearing to consider the adoption of resolution number 25-4070, confirm the annual budget and ordering the annual levy and collection of assessments for the Fillmore Stormdrain maintenance districts for fiscal year 2526. I'm sorry, and also, yes, Stormdrain. Also the assessment assessment I think I got it all okay thank you Deborah and good evening in council members yes and your I'm Deborah Cavillow finest director and this is a public hearing you can see the adoption of resolution 25-4070s confirm the annual budget order the levvy and collection assessment for the storm drain maintenance districts for 2025-26. We have here tonight Michelle Lassi, project manager and Miranda Servantes, financial analyst from Wildand Financial who prepared the engineer report and available to answer questions. As staying the staff report, we have seven storm drain maintenance district. The annual assessment pays for the maintenance operation costs related to storm drain facilities and storm water pollution treatment systems available, utilized, or associated with the properties within each district. The annual expenditures budget for each district ensure the operation and integrity of the storm drains and storm water pollution systems plus related facilities and represents each district's proportional cost of a larger integrated storm drain and storm water pollution treatment system. These systems are such as retention basins, biofilter areas and catch basins. The annual assessments include the maintenance and servicing of the Santa Clara River, Levy adjacent to the district properties. The assessment, as with the other, was calculation as it includes an annual inflationary adjustment formula that the maximum assessment may have a maximum rate that you can assess over the previous year by 3% or the annual percentage increase in the consumer price index, whichever is greater without being considered increased assessment. The annual CPI again for between January and current year versus prior year was 3.33%. Therefore the prior year maximum assessment rates have been adjusted by 3.33% to establish this year's maximum assessment rates. This meets City Council's goal for infrastructure. This is the end of my presentation and we are available for questions. Okay, thank you. As my turn now to open the gavel in and we are opening the public hearing to receive any public testimony regarding the city council's intent to improve the annual, approve the annual reports and the levies of assessments. Seeing that no public comment is received here in person or any written public comment. Going once, going twice. Okay, I will now close the public hearing and Take any comments or questions Yes, so I have I have a question for the city attorney so my Michael Thank you for again putting up with my my question here So can you explain the difference so this one obviously in my mind has very similar Potential conflicts as the previous set. So why are there not abstentions required for this one versus the previous one? There are. Okay. All right. That answer is a question. Thank you. Those will be announced at the time of the vote assuming that there's a motion to approve. Got it. Thank you. Thank you for that. OK, do we have any questions for Deborah? OK. Not seen, then, then. I will entertain a motion on this item. Actually, we have two things listed. The adoption of the resolution and then the authorization of staff. OK, I have a motion. Okay. I move that we adopt resolution number 25-4070 confirming the annual budget and ordering the annual levy and collection for assessments for the Film War Stormdrain Maintenance Assessment, districts number zero one, zero one A, zero three, zero four, zero five, zero six, and zero seven, in fiscal year 2526, pursuant to the Benefit Assessment Act of 1982. And authorize staff. Oh, yes. And authorize staff to include that in the budget. Okay, I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second in motion. All right. We will now take a roll call vote. Council Member Broghi, abstain. Mayor Perza Mendez. Yes. Mayor V.S. Inured. Yes, but I am abstaining from the assessment at district number four Riverwalk. Council member Rodríguez. Aye. Council member Garnika. Aye. Okay, motion carries and is next. Okay. Thank you all very much. That ends our business items. We now move on to item number 9, our city manager's verbal report. Thank you Mayor. I'm going to call Chief Malagone. He's going to be providing an update on our homeless initiatives. Thank you, Eric. Good evening Mayor and City Council members, community members. As requested by Council Member Garnika, I'm here to provide just a quick update on some of our homeless things that are going on right now, some stuff that has caught the attention of the public. So I'll be brief. So as you guys recall last year, we did a couple of dumpster drop-ops over off gasway and A-street for the homeless people down there to clean up their trash. And those were pretty successful. So we did two of those this month or actually this past month on April 18th and April 25th or 25th, we dropped off two dumpsters on each day. They filled up rather quickly and our homeless ladies on unit actually went down there and they commented to me how much cleaner it looked after the dumpsters were there so they do work and so we'll keep an eye on that and see if we can do something similar in the next couple of months. One of the things that you guys might have seen on the news is a burglary at the the Vaughan Shopping Center on April 24th. That was done by one of our, it's not a local, but it was a transient out of 1,000 oaks. That transient does have prior context and film more, but she is not from here. She's from 1,000 oaks. We had an on April 25th, we had an encampment fire under the bridge, which I'm sure you guys saw or heard of That was to a one of the structures under that were I Think you described as pretty elaborate That was one of them The cause of fire is unknown, but there's nothing suspicious noted from the the fire investigators On April 29th, we did have a shop lift of high end, not high end, but a significant dollar amount from bonds, which consisted of me and Alcahue again, that was the transient from Ventura. He actually got arrested and got put in jail. He's one of the, back on April 24th before he was arrested, HLU actually contacted him and we're able to make arrangements to get him to the mercy house in Ventura. Unfortunately he came back and that's when he got arrested. But again, he's not one of our local ones here. Let's see here. Can you say they're not local? When they're not local? Yes. But they're still staying in the river or they're not local? They're not local? Yes. But they're still staying in the river? Or they're just passing through? So that's a good question. So we get both, right? For the most part, everybody down here is local. We do get the occasional person that's walking through. And two things happen either. They walk through and they're gone. We never see them again. Or they walk through. They eventually get contacted and get arrested They get put in jail and then we typically won't see them back again Just because we're kind of isolated right. It's a long way east to LA County Santa Paul is pretty far. It's not they can just kind of walk your way down here and then obviously more part So yeah, they walk down here though pass through they get contacted arrested, and then we don't see them again. Typically, it's what happened with those. Yeah. Let me see, for homeless liaison units, so they've been pretty active down here since they came, since they, since the full time team started. They did backpack medicine on March 20th, and they provided services to 12 unhoused persons. They did services on 410 and provided services to 4 unhoused persons. Backpack medicine again on the 24th of April and they provided services to 6 unhoused persons. If you recall before HAU was here, backpack medicine was done maybe once a month, but usually once every three or four months. So they're picking it up, they're ramping up efforts, and hopefully we get some success stories out of that. They've also, HAU has also conducted two fire prevention operations. One was on February 26th, and the other one was just this past Thursday on May 8th. Typically what they do is they go out during darkness, they'll use drones with thermal capabilities to spot reckless fires in the river bottom, and then they address any issues that come up and make arrests appropriate. We haven't had any arrests here, but they did do an operation of inter-acouple once back and that resulted in the arrest of two individuals. So they're staying on top of that and conducting those operations to hopefully avoid the fire achieve some unnecessary work down there. And then the last thing I have here for H.R.U. as a did assist, like I said, two local, two subjects with housing. One of them was a mercy house individual that unfortunately came back and then got arrested. We haven't seen him since. And then the other one was a local transient that was taken to the Harvard shelter. Again, unfortunately, he was only there for the night and he's right back with us here now. So aside from that, like I, you know, we're just continuing to monitor and track our homeless population on there. We're staying on top of them. We know who they are. We're making contact with them. We're figuring out where they're staying. We identified all the different encampments down there so that if some does happen in the city, or people know where to go pretty much immediately. And like has been mentioned earlier by the city manager, the encampment resolution funding, where there are many and Eric are working on a few things behind the scene. So once that gets going, we'll utilize some funding to do cleaning efforts and also some additional enforcement operations or outreach services utilizing the grant funds. That's all I got if you got questions. Sir. Yes, yes, sir. Yeah, so thank you for that update, Chief. I really appreciate it and I know that the constituents appreciate the work you guys are doing. So my question has probably not necessarily directed at you. Maybe there's another resource that might be able to answer this. But I know that the homeless problems that we have, societally, are not simple black and white. There are several different categories of homeless that people fall into. There are people that are homeless because of economic situation. It's temporary, they don't want to be homeless, they want to get into housing as soon as possible. Let's call that category A. There are people that are on the street because they choose to be there. They don't like the rules of society, so they want to be able to do whatever they want. That let's call that the category B. And then there, let's say for lack of a better term, there may be people that have mental illness. And they're also because they want to be, but they don't really understand, necessarily their situation. Is there an attempt to kind of distinguish between those different populations when, I don't know, I'm not necessarily law enforcement, but when the public agencies are dealing with those different populations to try to help them with their individual needs? Is that going on? Yes, so one of the things backpack medicine does is when they do go down there for outreach services, they obviously are deputies go down their wit them, but it's primarily for security purposes rather. Not down there to do any kind of enforcement whatsoever, unless it's absolutely necessary to help save somebody from getting hurt. But they take, literally they got doctors down their nurses, they got mental health professionals, they got substance abuse professionals. So between everybody down there, they provide the services to that specific individual that they fill are best suited for them. So somebody that's got mental health issues, they're going to go heavy on that side of it and ensure that they get whatever resources they need on that end to help address their issues. But yeah, I mean, you're absolutely right. There's substance abuse problems, there's mental health issues. I think on a lot of them, if not the majority of them, substance abuse problems, drug problems are huge on just about every one of them. And you're right, I do agree with you there are. There are different categories, if you will, where some maybe got a laid off from work and they're falling through hard times And then there's the other side like you mentioned that are just They're down there because for the most part they want to be down there. They got family in town Or when they make it to the shelters Unfortunately, they don't they don't like to abide by the rules. They're very very strict and rightfully so, they gotta run the type program. They're in harbors, one of them. So yeah, but they do address backpack medicine does help address specific issues for the specific individual. And so Erica, so I guess my question would be, maybe, like I said, maybe chief isn't the appropriate person to address this, but I don't know about the rest of the council, but I would like to see kind of enough data as to that population breakdown. So that's going to happen once we start implementation of the grant. Manuel and I have been working behind the scene, putting into place what needs to happen. So we are having another meeting with spirit of Santa Paula soon. And then a sub agreement needs to be issued, which will be brought to council for approval. And then at that point, we will go ahead and start providing with more updates. But we the grant is to target the population and what we've referred to sunken city. Okay, great. Thanks. Thank you. Questions? Yes, thank you. Yes, thanks. Well, I don't have a question. Just a comment. We recently had Jim Duran, who is the executive director of Tender Life. He also passed over huge church in Ventura. And he's been involved for decades on the homeless situation and he recently spoke at Rotary and he raised some really important issues on why the homeless situation is not improving. And that's because getting those who are in the river bottom or anywhere else into housing isn't the answer. I understand what you're saying that backpack medicines coming down there with doctors and social workers and whatnot. But I feel like we spend so much of our time and effort dealing with low income housing or some of the nonprofits that are building developments here in Fillmore and other places in the county to house people that are homeless. And that's not the solution. The solution is they need to resolve their issues. A lot of them have alcoholism, drug addiction, other mental health issues. And according to Mr. Durran, Pastor Durran, that's not going to solve the problem because if their illness or whatever terminology you want to use isn't cured, they'll be right back up in the street again. And so it's just a frustrating thing. I know it is for a lot of people who are thinking, seeing what's happening over the last few years and is perpetuating. I don't see getting any better, but I don't know how to focus that direction. You know, shift the thinking from a way from, oh, let's get a roof over their heads. That's not the answer. And I don't know if anybody has the answer. Yeah, I... Problem is that you can't force somebody out of your life. I think the problem is you can't force an individual to accept the help If you're trying to get him into a drug program. You can't force them to go in there the same thing with their mentally ill You can't force something going to true and so yeah, although I think there used to be a day You used to be the a that you could yeah, there's it's it's it's it's it's extremely complicated And I mean I wish I could it. I probably wouldn't be working here if I could solve that problem. But to Albert's point, one of the things that the hope was with HLU was consistency and adding consistency with their contacts. So having a group of deputies that were consistently contacting these individuals and hopefully that would build a rapport to eventually help them gain that trust and eventually get them to get that help that they actually need. It's a work in progress obviously it's not going to be super quick and they've had some success stories I mean but it is difficult. It is very difficult. I might be more in court. I'd like to hear those success stories. I'd like to hear from individuals who have been through the whole process and didn't get a roof of me to put over their heads, but rather dealt with their issues first and then took the steps then to... Yeah, I mean, I can tell you that we don't, we've come to mind here that are, that have really said, okay, I need help. I'm gonna go get this done for the most part. It's, you know, a night or two and then they, they leave the program because they don't want to deal with the rules. They want to do drugs and they want to stay out late and, and whatnot. But we do have the Kenny Grove story with the family that was that category where they lost a job, they lost their house and they're in a nice home now. So, I think you helped those that want to get help and hope for the best on the other ones. Yeah, Carrie, I don't think with a grant, I don't see, you know, because I was at that same presentation at the Rotary, you know, there was kind of a blanket statement that I don't agree with, which was that, hey, the current philosophy of solving homelessness is to just put a roof over the head. I don don't, at least in my experience, I've not seen that kind of a philosophy spoken about. It's from what I've seen, it's very much, you need to address each individual's needs. If they need a home, then sure, then let's get them home. But I don't know if I would agree with that the current and I don't think that our grant is targeted towards oh let's just put them all let's just get them a house and that's going to solve the problem. How long are they allowed to stay then in Santa Paula? I don't think that's addressing what I'm saying though. Okay. Michael, I just want to make sure we're not in any violation because we're having a very discussion discussion. Really? It's, it's, it's list. I don't think that's addressing what I'm saying though. Yeah, correct. My soul, I just want to make sure we're not in any violation because we're having a very messy discussion. Really, it's listed on the agenda, but as a city manager for a bold report, so it should really be focused on. On what we're reporting? Yeah, sure. We can bring back the information. I just want to make sure we protect, you know, So, and that we're following the Brown Act. So we can come back with more details in the future and perhaps. information, I just want to make sure we protect, you know, so. I agree. And that we're following the Brown Act so we can come back with more details. And the future and perhaps just put it under presentation and then we can have a more lengthy discussion. Yeah, okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Bill O'Muller, you're up for parks updates. Thank you, Chief. I wanted to give you guys a quick update on our couple of our issues out of parks. Some good news and some unfortunate news. Two of us park is going very well. Lights are up. The sports lights are up. We're waiting on a piece that will complete that project and bring in the notice completion for that portion of the work here quickly in the next couple of meetings I believe. We're under budget on our landscape or irrigation and our true retrofit repair. So we... We were under budget on our landscape, our irrigation and our turf retrofit repair. So if you recall, the previous authorization was for the soccer and the football field to retrofit that one with overhead irrigation and restore the turf. Because we were under budgets, we now can include the softball, I'm sorry, the two baseball fields. Those we couldn't include in the beginning because there was rentals. So youth sports is done at the point, little league. They're done as of the eighth. So we started talking to Venco before that time period to get to this point where we could give them a go ahead on that portion of the work too. So I got a revised schedule for them today and everything should be perfect as far as lights, turf and irrigation at two rivers in time for A.Y. So Star of the Seas in August 1st. That comes with it, we're gonna be closing, obviously the baseball areas as well as the, so the entire sports, all sports areas are gonna be closed to the public. We're gonna be gated in the Moff starting tomorrow. Okay, so are fencing them off rather? Just to clarify, this is the entire sports area of two rivers park, the long field with the lights as well as the two baseball diamonds. Correct, we're, we're, we're, is that a crew, the walking area to the, the paths around the, the fields? No, we, made extra effort, because there are a lot of people that use that walking path. So yeah, we kept that open. Along with the hot lot, the dog park and the restrooms, those are all, I guess they open. It's just a play areas, yes sir. So one of the complaints that I got before when we closed down some of the other like sheels park was that there was no signage that said why and so people were like, hey, why is the park closed? It's the whole park is closed and we don't know when it's going to open and we don't know why and so one of the request and I would explain to them what was going on that, Hey, this is for your benefit. It's going to obviously, we need this. But the public wants to know when we close the facilities, hey, when do we expect to open again? And what is the reason for the closure? So I don't know if that was already, you guys may have already thought of that, but I just wanted to make sure that it was voiced. You know, we do social media posts about the closures and we do the website post but I think it would be a good idea to do the sign. We could add a QR code that directs to the website so people can scan the QR code. We'll get that down next week. Yeah for more information as to why this park is closed. Correct yeah. So yeah everything is going to open open up on schedule by the AYSoC image, which is going to be August 1st. August 1st. Bit of unfortunate news, changing over to Rio Vista in downtown. It's unfortunately some theft is going on with our plants. We had a couple of rose bushes stolen from Rio Vista Park. And unfortunately, some of our new plants were taken from our downtown beautification project. So we're asking the public to keep an eye out. Let us know if they see anything so we could stay on top of that. Do they just uproot the plant and walk our wood? Yeah, unfortunately. I just, you know, coincidentally, is the weekend of the flower show. So just putting that out there. I've never heard of that happening. That's crazy. Yeah. OK. So that is, and it's the vandalism at shields. They were pulling wires out of the light standards there at shields. Yeah. So that is not too much of a problem, but it has happened to us. At the Laura's day, we had one of the light standards, then jimming off the bottom plate, pulling out the wires. We suspected it to charge cell phones. I think that's what we the information we came across but we can't really Verify that's happening, but it is being pulled out They're not pulling out the wire to like cash in the copper and like that. They're just pulling them out. So That's we're we're working with our electrician on something to either put a tack weld on the plates So it's not easy. They have an anti-sept screw on them, but That's is pairing on a stopping them. So we're gonna look at some of their options Thank you. Thank you, Jill just encourage the community you know we're not asking you to go clean the parks with us, you know, but we are putting a lot of effort to try to keep up with the parks and money. So please do your part to help us keep your community clean and good looking. And if you see something, say something and report it to the proper channels. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Brian McCarthy, our assistant director for planning and community development. Although he's not here, he was instrumental for our Rule 28 project, which is the underground of the utilities here on Santa Clara Avenue. His leadership skills made it possible to complete the project. So I just want to acknowledge that and think Brian publicly for everything that he did and for his project management and just directing all the different parties that had to be involved in making that a success. And then remind the public that this month is National Bicycle Safety Month. So please make sure that you share the road, make sure that if you are writing your bicycle to wear your protective equipment, a helmet, and if you're a parent and you have your kids writing your bicycle to school, make sure that you have a conversation with them about respecting the loss, the speed, and making sure that they make the proper stops into the drivers to be aware also of their surroundings. Does that include e-bikes? That includes e-bikes as well. We did post information on our website with the assistance of our police department. And lastly, just remind the public, we do have that event on Saturday, we hope to see you there, and that concludes our updates. Thank you so much. Okay, great, thank you, Edica. Okay, we do not have any close session today. There have been a couple of minutes without a couple of meetings without close session. So that brings us to the adjournment of our meeting. So I will adjourn until our next regularly scheduled City Council meeting at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27th here at City Hall. Thank you, have a great evening.