So welcome everyone. This is the City of Beverly Hills City Council special meeting, special because we are doing it on a day other than our normal days. And parking authority meeting today is October 10th, 2024. It's a little after, well, it's not even a little after. Now 715, and if I could ask Assemblymember our Assemblymember Rick Chavez-Zabur to please lead us in the P States of America is too symbolic for which one mission is going to be delivered. Okay, if I could ask our city clerk to please do the roll call. Yes good evening we have two roll calls. One is for the city council. Council member Wells. Here. Council member Korman. Here. Council member Mirish. Vice mayor. Vice mayor Nazarian. Here. And mayor Friedman. Here. And then for the parking authority, director Wells. Here. Director Korman. Here. Director Mirish. Here. Vice Chair Nazarian, here and Chair Friedman. Here. Very good. If I could ask my colleagues to join me at the podium, we have a If I could ask the one and only Genie Marks and if I could her husband Leonard Marks to please come up. So we are here to give the Embrace Civility Award to Jeannie Marks. She is an absolutely remarkable member of our community who exemplifies civility and community spirit. Through her extensive philanthropic efforts, she has significantly enhanced the lives of residents in Beverly Hills. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the City Council and our Human Relations Commission, it is my honor to present the recipient of our 2024 Embrace Brace's Ability Award to Jeannie Marx. Applause Jeannie, we are proud to celebrate your generous spirit, exceptional leadership, and selfless commitment which serve as an inspiration to us all. You are known as one of the most humble and generous individuals. You're willing this to support the City of Beverly Hills, often anonymously, reinforces your role as a member, mentor, and a true community builder. In memory of your late husband, you established the Don Reynolds, Beverly Hills, Firefighters Association Scholarship Fund, positively impacting the lives of children and college students with the distribution of over 74 college scholarships and 289 K- 12 scholarships. Your generous donation of steel from your family's combination, it's a steel, played a crucial role in the construction of the 9-11 Beverly Hills Memorial sculpture honoring our lost heroes. As we recognize October as breast cancer awareness month, we acknowledge your meaningful work with the Tower Cancer Research Foundation. As a Brest Cancer survivor, you provide invaluable support and friendship to those facing similar challenges. Your unwavering dedication extends to serving on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, and being an active member of the Beverly Hills Rotary Club among many other organizations. Through your steadfast commitment and exemplary kindness, you inspire others to contribute their time and energy to serve the community. Thank you, Jeannie Marks, for making our community shine brighter with your presence and dedication and for being a role model of positive human relations. Congratulations on being this year's recipient of our Embrace Civility Award. award. If I could just have Laura Marker I think she has a few comments to make on behalf of the Human Relations Commission and the other members can come up to. Give it. You're going to do it quickly. I just really quickly. I've just a couple of lines. Jeannie Marks is described as kind, respectful, generous, and more positive adjectives than I could possibly list here. She was a top choice of the entire Human Relations Commission for this recognition. And she was my top choice due to the follow-through of her initiatives. Amy Sherry has said she is the embodiment of what it means to embrace civility. Our pledge could well read Genie Mark's promotes positive human relations in all aspects of community life. She invites every member of this community to support an environment where civility, respect, and responsible actions prevail. If I could have our council members say something starting with council member Wells. Well, congratulations, Jeannie. I just want to say that I've always admired you and I look at you and you have such elegance and grace and commitment and everything that you're doing. I appreciate your commitment to our firefighters and their families and creating the scholarship foundation for them. Every time I go to around the firefighters for that matter and learn or meet any of the family members who have been the recipient of the scholarships. It's been such a wonderful outcome for them and you've made such a difference in that way. And it's so truly your authentic passion and I really, really appreciate that and I really admire you as well as all the many other things you've done in our community. But you certainly do deserve this award. So congratulations. Thank you. I'd like to add my congratulations. This is more than just civility. It is to use a Jewish term, myths vote, good deeds, and civility is one thing. You can be civil to somebody that you don't really like, but this is love of community and it's community service. And we heard from the mayor and from Laura all of the things that you've been doing for all these years in our community in Beverly Hills. And that's what makes our community so great. So I thank you and congratulate you on this unanimously awarded proclamation. And we're really appreciative to have you in our community doing all these good things. Thank you so much. Jeanie, but thank you very much. And congratulations on this award. Obviously for all the great things you've done for our city, but I think what this award signifies is not just what you've done but how you've done it with great kindness and dignity you've helped people all the way along we've heard stories we heard the the everything you've done for the Fire Fire's Education Fund which is a terrific initiative you would concede of it and you've followed it through and you've done so much for the community and for that we just all thank you. Hi, Jeannie. I'm so proud to call you my friend, and this is an amazing accomplishment, but it's absolutely natural. I've had the privilege of being able to work with you on many projects, and it's always been a pure delight and a joy. You lead with kindness, you're thoughtful, you plant things through very well. And it all shines at the end because of you. So we're so grateful for the contributions that you've made to our community. We started the Civility Award. I had the honor of serving on the Human Relations Commission. And so when we thought about who we would envision receiving this award throughout in our community, it absolutely is, you're perfect for it. So congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your wife with us too. You're both exemplary in our community and we appreciate all of your hard work and dedication to making it a better place. Thank you. Thank you so much. So, Jeannie, if you will, say a couple words. I would like to say that I think people think they have to make big grand gestures. And my work here started with Pam Crashauer, who's not here right now on, oh, sorry, sorry, on BHEF. And then with the police, when PAC started, I was a founding member and we still bring meals and support the police and then the fire and 9-11. And I think, you know, we have our staff, we have our elected officials, we have these wonderful commissioners who spend so much time, but you can do something smaller. You can contribute and help build the community by doing anything. And I just would say it takes all of us to make a community great. And I'm very appreciative. Thank you so much for this. I think we're going to do a couple of photos. Laura maybe you can go over on this side and we're going to all move down a bit so that Vince doesn't have to tell us that we have to center. So why don't we all come down this way? 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. Okay. Going on with our agenda, TextBH, Text Messages on any City Related Topic, maybe sent to 310-596-4265. City staff will acknowledge receipt of the text message within one business day, however, resolution of issues may take longer. Go on to our oral communications portion. Telephone call in number is 310-288-2288. Members of the public are invited to listen to the meeting telephonically or share oral communications on this phone line. So with that we will go to public comment on non-agendized items. If anyone has not submitted a slip slip please do so at this point this is for non-agendized items and we will start with Assemblymember Rick Chavez-Zabur Good evening mayor Friedman honorable vice mayor Nazarian members of the council Thank you for the opportunity to speak. It's really great to be here and to see you all. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Rick Chavez-DeBurre. I represent the 51st Assembly District. And of course I'm proud to say that that includes the city of Beverly Hills. First of all, I want to congratulate and thanks Je Marks, for her contributions to the city. And I have been making the rounds to the cities in my district to do legislative updates. I'm not here to do that tonight, hoping that I'll be able to do that in another day. The reason why I came tonight is because I want to help you honor and recognize an extraordinary person for nearly a decade. Cindy Owens has served the city of Beverly Hills with distinction demonstrating a masterful understanding of policy and public administration. Cindy, you are a brilliant mind, a dedicated public servant and a friend to our office. If we can have Ms. Owens, is she still here with us? There she is. If she could please come up. So good to see you. So I want to thank you for your dedication, your hard work, and service to the city of Beverly Hills. Most recently is the municipal affairs program manager. And of course, that title really fails to give everyone a sense of really the importance of your work to the city of Beverly Hills, the service to our citizens and the first assembly district on the entire state. I'm really incredibly grateful for the time you've dedicated to fostering such a strong partnership with my office and really have enjoyed meeting you at the Capitol and really the input that you give us, helping me understand the interests of the City of Beverly Hills, what you care about, and helping me serve the City of Beverly Hills better. So I wish you a very happy birthday and want to congratulate you on a successful and accomplished career. And I'd like to present you with this resolution of commendation from the State Assembly of the State of California. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members for giving me an opportunity to recognize Cindy. Thank you. Assemblymember, thank you very much for being here and honoring us with your presence. Next public comment I have is from Joey Apagodaka from Representative Ted Luz Office. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the Council for inviting us to this event to commemorate a significant development in the government of Beverly Hills. When I started years ago, as Congressman Luz senior field rep, you started shortly after and thank God you did because you, like the assemblyman said, you really helped us to understand what this city needs and what its residents want. And I don't, it doesn't take Congressman Lou to tell anyone that Beverly Hills is one of the most beautiful and well-run cities on the planet Earth. And it's because largely in part because of unsung heroes on city staff and definitely, definitely you play a big huge role in that you've been in a number of positions in this city and you've excelled to my knowledge at all. And so this is a significant event for a number of reasons. It's in a year of hard working professional. Don't let her incredibly nice demeanor fool you. It's just like you to sit in the back and be forced to come to the front. If the city wants something done, Cindy will get it done. Don't get in her way and you better help her out. You're trustworthy. We've always been able to trust you, to give the whole truth behind a given issue from all sides. And we really appreciate that. You're a lot of fun. I know you love running. Hopefully you don't run straight from City Hall to Florida like forest come but We do wish the best for you Your retirement and the thing I will remember and appreciate most is that you've always been kind to me and my ilk Field representatives you always made sure we ate at a given, at whatever event we were at. And you, with all of the issues going on in the city, you took time to ask us how we were doing in our personal lives and in our professional lives. And I know, I speak for my colleagues here. We really, really appreciate it. You're tenure and working with you. And so Congressman Liu asks that we prepare a certificate of congressional recognition. Presented to Cindy Owens, Beverly Hills Municipal Affairs Program Manager. In honor and celebration of your remarkable tenure of service with the city of Beverly Hills and with sincere appreciation for your tireless dedication to the well-being of our community. Thank you so much. Next public comment card I have is from Mandy Lafflin from Supervisor Lindsey Horvath's office. Hi, thank you, Mr. Mayor and Council members. Cindy, I am here on behalf of Supervisor Horvath and the County of Los Angeles, but I'm also here on behalf of all of the government reps that have come before me, because when I first took this job with the Supervisor, one of the pieces of advice that I got from everyone was you have to connect with Cindy at the city of Beverly Hills, because she's our mentor, she's our helper, she's one of the best people out there. So on behalf of myself, everyone who came before me, the county of Los Angeles and Supervisor Horvath, I'd like to give you this commendation and recognition of dedicated service to the affairs of the community and for the civic pride demonstrated by numerous contributions for the benefit of all residents of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles County. And Cindy, I'm going to ask you not to go too far away. I've had the pleasure of working with Cindy for the entire time I've been in office. And the assistance that she provides to staff on governmental affairs items is just totally invaluable. I mean, I don't know what we're going to be able to do without her, but I'm going to also more so than that, miss her friendship. The fact that the Assembly Member and representatives from Ted Luzoffice and from Lindsey Horvass officer here was not planned. These people came and did this all voluntarily. I must say that we kind of, that is our council and your friends kind of made sure you were going to be here today because you didn't want this. I know you didn't want this at all. But from having breakfast with you this morning to going to the Westside Cog meeting, I want to make sure I was able to spend the last day with you this morning to go into the West Side Cog meeting. I wanted to make sure I was able to spend the last day with you. And should we mention what else today is? I think so. This is Cindy's birthday on top of it. So it's her last day of employment and her birthday. Let's do a real quick happy birthday. We can do that little song. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Cindy. Happy birthday to you. So I may hear about this tomorrow when she calls me and says how could you do that but I am so glad that we do it did do it and I want to give my colleagues a chance to say something to you also. Starting with councilmember Wells. Thank you. Cindy, happy birthday. We haven't had that much time together with me being on the council, but I've been watching the legislative meetings for quite some time and watched you and watched you work and I've always appreciated the work that you do. And I would say also you're so sincere and kind and you're very generous with information and wanting to teach. So whenever I would come up to you I have a question you were, I always felt that you wanted to share that information. You appreciated that I was interested. The first time I said that, how much I love what you were doing. And you were so flattered by that that I was interested in that work. And I always felt very comfortable to call you and knew that when I did, that you would be very generous and really wanting to share the information and wanting me to understand it. So I really appreciate that and I want to thank you. I also love that you're a Disney fan and that you know you truly are a Disney fan and that's its own category and in and of itself and as well as you're running. So you will be missed and I'm sorry we didn't get to have more time together. And I wish you the very, very best. Thank you, Council Member Corhamton, please. Congratulations on all the proclamations and swag, official swag you're getting tonight. City, you've been a tremendous asset to the city. Everyone respects you immensely, your judgment, your assistance on the council, and to the Planning Commission and everyone else. You're gonna be very sorely missed. We understand why you're moving to Florida to be with your nephew, and it's very important to you. And we wish you obviously the best in Florida. Fortunately, you're here, not there during the Hurricane Milton season, but personally, I wish you were staying, but if I understand what you're going and your shoes are gonna be very hard to fill, and we're gonna miss you. Thank you. And Council Member Miroshu, I think it's very familiar with Cindy. Yeah, I'm it's very familiar with Cindy. Yeah, I'm guessing that how long have you been here now? I've been here exactly eight years. I started on October 10, 2016. So I've known you from the very beginning and worked with you. We've been through a lot and we've seen unfortunately, we've tried to stop a lot of bad bills and unfortunately with no disrespect to assemblymen. Chavez Burr, who's one of the good ones, we've seen unfortunately the assault on local cities from Sacramento which continues. And I know we share the attitude that when done correctly local governments the best form of democracy because it's closest to home. And so sometimes I think it's felt a lot like when it came to creating policy and deciding the city's platform and I've been on the legislative committee for a long time that we have the right policies but it's like banging our heads on the wall. And it was very important that you've always been there to at least advocate for us to point out the bad bills that we should be opposing and the few good ones that we should be supporting among others. Anti-crime bills from Assembly Member Chavez-Bur. Also which initiatives we should be supporting. And developing a platform that is consistent and that is focused with the basis of local decision making. And allowing communities, including our own to make the decisions that our residents feel are right for us. And you've been a great support for that. As said, I understand why you're retiring now. And I know you'll miss it, we'll miss you as well. But hopefully, even though you'll be close to Disney World, you're going to miss the original park where Walt actually spent time and you'll come visit the spirit of Walt and the spirit of Beverly Hills, which as I'm sure you know, we have a lawn bowling award named after Walt Disney who enjoyed doing lawn bowling over by Roxbury Park, so a little bit of trivia there. But as said, we'll hopefully you'll stay in touch and your contributions are greatly appreciated. And as said, it's not every day that you have a statewide elected official who would come to thank someone who is retiring. And this is, I think, actually one of the first times that I I've seen it happen and that's a testament to everything you've done. So thank you and Don't be a stranger Vice-Marianna's area. Yes happy birthday We're so grateful for all that you've done for our city your contributions your leadership Your advocacy you've always kept us on track. You've made sure that the issues that are important to our community, that are important to our residents, that affect all of us on a daily basis are recognized and are addressed so that we can do the best job possible to serve. And for that, we're very grateful. Thank you for always keeping us on track. And I echo a lot of what my colleagues have already said. In addition to having Assemblyman Sibori here says a lot. And all of you that you came, and that says a lot about you, Cindy, that we are all grateful. It's a big connection being able to stay in touch at the local level, but also at the state level, and making sure that we are aware, and we make the right decision. So we're very grateful. And I wish you the best on your journey to Florida. I know you're going to have a great time with family, and you've been looking forward to that. And we wish you the best. I hope to see you soon. your name is Dr. Annette Florida. I know you're going to have a great time with family. You've been looking forward to that. We wish you the best. I hope to see you soon. Cindy, if I haven't gotten enough trouble already, I'm going to get a little more right now. Do you have a couple words you want to say? This journey to Beverly Hills, it actually started with a hurricane in Florida called Hurricane Matthew. October 5th, 2016, I was in Florida in shelter place at Disney World and I wasn't sure I'd make it for my first day of work on October 10th. So I find it rather ironic that I'm bookending my career here with two hurricanes that start with the letter Amla. In Florida, it has been my honor and my pleasure to serve this community. The residents, our businesses, our partner agencies, and our city council. This job wasn't a job, it was a love, and the love of wanting to serve, and being able to serve in the capacity I have has just meant the world to me. I think I learned that from my grandmother. My grandmother was always out helping other people and trying to figure out how to make other people better. And I learned from that growing up and I am so stunned to hear the words that I've heard tonight. Because they mean the world to me. They mean I've really embraced my grandmother and she was my everything. So thank you, all of you. Thank everybody in this room. I couldn't have been the successful as I am without the support of the staff here. And that's everybody. I don't do this job alone. I don't do it this job without Larry and his team. I don't do this job without Huma and her team. I cannot do this job without the people in finance, the people in public works, PD, fire, and you. And the five of you up there. This job has just been truly amazing. So thank you Nancy, thank you Keith. Thank George and Maddie for hiring me in the first place and having the faith in me to execute the dreams and the strategies and the directions of this council and the citizens of the city. So thank you. Okay, we're going to continue with oral communications on non-agenda items. Next slip I have is from Moemar, Mat Wally. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go a permit for the city of Beverly Hills and it costs like 360 a day I Just you know, I want to film school for four years and other communities in LA are really not safe like to be holding holding an expensive camera. And yeah, I really love Beverly Hills. I love coming here. And I was just wondering if there was any way, maybe you guys could help me bring the price for the permanent down. The daily price. I could suggest maybe you could speak with Mr. Gullick or Mr. Sterling and they can see what they can do to help you. I just talked to him. Oh. Okay. The next speaker, card I have is from Sonya Burman. Before I begin I would like to ask everyone who is in the chamber tonight on the coyote issue to please join me here at the podium. I think you need to see how many of us are being affected by this issue. Why don't we just have them stand up if they're not speaking when we just have them stand up at their seat because we're going to call each speaker up that is putting up. They're not all going to speak, Mayor. That's fine, but I think we can see everybody here. Okay. So honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council people. I'm here tonight on the issue of the coyotes that are not just in nuisance anymore, but a threat specifically in the area of the flats. The issue is critical to me, not just because I've heard it on the grapevine, or read about it on the internet, but because I have been personally affected. On more than one occasion, I have called for the assistance of the police. And what I've been told is they walk by the police department every day. There isn't anything we can do. I called in one morning after walk while I was walking my dog because there were the remains of a mutilated cat on a lawn and the last thing I wanted was for a child a toddler to be walking with a parent and have to experience what I experienced. I've been rescued by my neighbors twice where they put themselves between me and a coyote. They walk me home, made sure I got home safely. I now walk with an arsenal. I carry a penny can, I carry an air horn, and I carry a cane as a weapon. Fortunately, they're working, and I'm still here to tell the story. I do not walk at night, I walk only during daylight, and I stop every 10 feet or so and pretend that I'm an owl. And my head swivels around to see if there are any coyotes in the alley or on the street or coming toward me. The dog can no longer go out in the yard without my going with her, because they could scale my seven foot fence. My mother should rest in peace at this point. She would probably say, so stop walking. But that's not an option for me and it's not an option for the dog. I live on the corner of Palm and Burton Way, my kitchen window faces Burton Way and I see the coyotes running on the street during the day and disappearing into the median. The problem is I never see them come out. So my gut tells me that they are making dins in that area. So you may have solved one problem and created a new one. I understand the city is not in full control of eradicating the problem. The county has rules that you have to follow. But when I'm teaching CPR, the one thing I tell my students do something. Don't just bring your hands. Don't just say nothing can be done. And I feel the same way about the city right now, about all of you, because the response that we're getting is Can I have another couple of If you just read about your one thought please The response I constantly get is we can do nothing and I'm tired of the answer I have a couple of ideas to throw out. They're putting a band-aid over a hemorrhage But there could be education for the community on the fact that there are coyotes in the neighborhood, either with an ad or a big article in the courier and in the weekly. And you put out postcards for events, postcards mail to all of the residences because half of the people don't know. All right, the other thing is you've got city cars that are around all the time. Instead of just driving by, they could just make sure everybody is safe and get rid of the coyote if it's coming toward us. Signs up in the area would also be good. And I'm sure other people could come up with a lot of things more than me. But thank you very much and I hope that this something happens. Thank you. Next speaker, card I have is Marilyn. Marilyn lost her cat two weeks ago and when she called me today, she was too emotionally distressed to think about coming and speaking. She wrote it, I'm going to just speak it for her. Marilyn lives on North Ladou two weeks ago. She let the cat out as she had for the 15 years that she had the cat. The cat went apparently under the front gate. When she whistled for the cat, the cat did not respond. The next morning she got in her car, she found the cat's half-eaten, dead body on a lawn four houses away. She collected the remains and brought her home. She's been very traumatic for her. She misses her terribly. She's gone to urgent care for medication. And she is asking that you do something before any more animals are slaughtered or even worse a child is killed. I'm sorry about your loss, Ms. Handleish. Next speaker card I have is Nick, Nick Ravish. I reside in the second block of North Palm Drive. I would like you to close your eyes. Imagine you walk outside your door and you see coyotes. Close your eyes, you open the door, you come out, and I have videos of footsteps of coyotes inches away from my door. I fear, I'm afraid why the house next to me 207 or Palm Drive has been vacant for 11 or 12 years. The owner is absentee no fence in the alley, no fence to the house next door to him. Several times I see the coyotes in front of me run. I believe they have made a den in the vacant house. I fear that they might even have children by now. I cannot walk my dog. When I come home at night, I'm afraid of getting out of the car. I've called 911. Sorry, we cannot do anything. I've called the city. Sorry, we cannot do anything. Call animal control. I call animal control. Call the county. Call the county. Call animal control. Call the animal control. Call the city. City, what do they do? What do they tell me? Sorry, we cannot do anything. I have been a resident of Beverly Hills for the past 30 years. I urge you to protect the citizens of Beverly Hills. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker card I have is Ruth Rosenfeld. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council. We live on a 305-foot-hill road. We moved to Beverly Hills 23 years ago from Europe, as you probably can tell from my accent, which will never go away. And in the beginning, right after moving here, we saw one night after coming home very late, a coyote. And when we asked our neighbors, they said, oh, don't worry, from time to time they show up, only late at night, but they do nothing. So, in the last five days, we had four encounters with coyotes. We have four little rescued dogs, which I did not rescue, so they should land in a coyotes stomach. We are simply afraid. I think it is not a luxury to go for a walk in the middle of the day. We take our dogs out only when it's still light outside and still we keep running with them away. We have a horn, we have a walking stick, we have alarms, we are afraid. And I think something has to be done here. Also, now we cannot leave them in our backyard anymore because one of our friends lost a little dog in the middle of the day. Our offense is seven feet high and they can jump very high, apparently. So really, I implore you to do something about it. I'm fully aware that nowadays we have huge problems in this world. But for us, this is a problem as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mary Nick Ravish. I think it's a good evening. My name is Dr. Mary Nakarbash. I've been lit. Hold on. I'll tell them one second please. Okay so you're going to take that and then Ash is going to take the other three minutes. Yeah, I can tell you what the poster is. I just wanted to make sure I can do it. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Good evening. My name is Dr. Mary Nakrubash. I've been living in Beverly Hills for over 35 years. Tonight, one month ago, my dear cat Goldie was attacked and slaughtered on September 11th in front of my home. Her only identifiable body parts were her two hind legs and a partial tail that was dragged from Foothill Road to Rexford Drive, 10 houses away from my home. Caution, this is a graphic image. This is what remains of her. The way Goldie was eaten alive shows the aggressive nature of these animals when they are hungry. Their opportunistic and predatory nature spares no expense on their choice of victim, whether it be a child, animal, pet or adult. No animal deserves to suffer the horrible death of my Goldie experience. For five days I was searching door to door, going through garbage canisters to retrieve her body for burial, which at the end I was unsuccessful. I'm here today to stop the ruthless murdering of our beloved animals and to prevent any unnecessary harm to our community. Coyotes are dangerous, period. My first calls to the City of Beverly Hills started after March 28, 2024, when the first coyote entered my property. Since then, the encounters around my home and in other streets have quadrupled. They are here every day, during the daytime and the nighttime. September 29, 11 a.m. on Sunday. I was walking from my home on footall road to reach a neighbor on Maple Drive. When I reached Maple Drive, 20 feet from me, a coyote stood in the middle of the street. It did not run or look afraid when it saw me. Less than 10 feet from the coyotes location, there were multiple children at the corner of Dayton and Maple. What will it take for the city of Beverly Hills to understand that our children are not safe? What would have happened if that coyote grabbed a child? October 5th, two coyotes crossing Wilshire Boulevard at 9 p.m., from south to north weatherly and back, while vehicles were passing by. This type of behavior is unheard of in the city of Beverly Hills. I cannot believe the footage I was watching. This is a huge safety issue. Just imagine if the driver that was driving on Wilshire Boulevard did not see the coyote running through the street or worse ends up in a fatal accident with another vehicle because of that animal on the road. This is a recipe for disaster. These coyotes have repeatedly slaughtered our pets and even challenged residents with pets they have entered our backyard properties during the day to catch their next prey. Human interaction, flashing lights, loud sounds, vehicles passing by and daytime are not deterrence for these animals as shown by the countless surveillance videos. I have compiled approximately 100 signatures from nearby residents who have signed the petition in front of you. We are requesting that the City of Beverly Hills recognize the potential safety risk to all and find ways to solve the immediate issue. I will end with two possible solutions. Option one, I have spoken to the San Diego Regional Office of the California Fish and Wildlife. I'm going to ask you to, it's been three minutes, I'm going to ask you to pass it up. Well, that doesn't work that way, you can certainly pick up. Okay, let me just keep this one. They have informed me that the relocation of coyotes is possible. The city of Beverly Hills has to complete online a wildlife incident report, which I have attached with your packet. Then check mark the depredation highlighted portion on the forum. Can you please just have him finish up your state of please? Thank you. Thanks. So basically the city wildlife, she has called them, and told them that it is legal for where city of burial heels to take actions on getting rid of the coyotes. even though LA City possibly has a different law. But however, City of Beverly Hills can submissopino and request for them to be and ask for a permission and they are allowed to do that. And once they fill out the form, there is a form that gets filled out and it gets completed and you submit it simply electronically and it's basically called depred the tation. Depredation permit and basically you get that permit and you submit it to LA White Life and you have legal authority to get rid of them however that the professional relocation gets them done, relocation. Basically, the option two is basically getting traps and setting them 150 years within the neighbors. And you get the permission, and that can easily be done. And once the coyotes are trapped, they can get rid of them through that way. It's section 465.5. It's basically the business. It allows within 150 yards of another person's residence within the bridge and consent from the land owner, alternatively traps in the birch and wake corridor with the consent of the city of Beverly Hills would allow for the placement of such traps. And then there's one specialist that I attached to your pamphlet. His name is Fernanda Barrera. He's worked with a lot of communities. Rancho Palos Ferres is the Los Angeles County. He's a very well-informed person that you can contact and he can help you with this process. And just to end with one point, you know, we're all living in this city together. You know, we have to look out for each other's safety. If we don't, and this problem doesn't get solved today, we're going to have a bigger problem. And I just ask you to just spend time and look at the, I gave you with all the surveillance videos, all the papers, all the apps that all the neighbors have posted. This is not a small problem. It's a huge problem now. Thank you. Yeah, the solution is simply, okay, my next speaker card I have. Next speaker card I have is Janice. Okay, so we'll go on to the next speaker card. Lou Para. Hi. My name is Lou Para. I've been a resident here in Beverly Hills for about 25 years. You just asked my wife to speak. She's heartbroken at this time. We don't have photographs of what happened to our cat, and it's a neighborhood cat of foothill. And it breaks her heart to think about what's been happening throughout the neighborhood with the small pets and our cats been missing for about a month and a half. And we don't know what happened, but we could assume what's happened. And you're trying to let the city know that we have a big serious problem here. And I think with the people that have already come before me, you guys are starting to understand this now. We're really, really being attacked by these coyotes. They're running the lower flats of Beverly Hills now. And a lot of us are completely fed up and a lot of us are want action, you know, Mary, she lives on foot hill. Her and I have been trying to coordinate, you know, what can we do? As you can see, she's put a lot of effort and time in trying to, you know, educate, you educate us, keeping us aware. her intentions are 100% valid. She's a huge human being. The other speakers here, you know, have presented their stories as well, you know, we really need action done. It's not education, we need action done. We need trappers here to get these coyotes out of our city. We need, we need to do something about the city streets, you know. We need to do something about even the city streets. As a good point, you know, we're going to have people driving their cars in the middle of night. They're going to hit a coyote. God for sick that nothing happens to them. But what happens if they think it's a dog and they veer out and they hit a tree? And then you've got a little baby and a family that, you know, oh, I'm sorry, but I killed a coyote, but I ran into a tree. You know something like this is bound to happen, you know? I mean, right now, let's do something about it. Let's put action into these statements that you just heard because it's really, it's heartbreaking to hear this. Mr. Friedman, I sent you an email about a week ago and I had no response back from you at all. I'm just wishing that we can all coordinate and get something done and Please help us, you know, please help us Thank you Before I call the next speaker card. I don't want anybody to interpret our silence here as not caring This is something we are hearing. We have heard it in the past. We have all been involved in trying to resolve this issue. At the conclusion of this, I will have one of our staff members give a response to what's been done this far. But again, we are all up here concerned about it. Next speaker card I have is Lindsay R. I believe. R.S. R.S. Hi. I'm Lindsay R.C. I wanted to express concern about the coyotes. My neighbor was walking her dog, or no, she was, I was walking my dogs on, on maple. And my neighbor was walking her dog down the street and she saw the coyotes and the coyotes they sneak up from behind. I have two small dogs and I carry a whistle just in case because I read that whistles help scare them away. But I didn't see. And so the coyote was within a few feet of me and luckily the neighbor saw what was happening and yelled my name. And I was able to turn around just in time, but I didn't have time to blow the whistle. I only had time to grab the dogs and just, you know, whatever happens from there. And the coyote decided to go a different direction, but it was so close. And so now I'm constantly looking over my shoulder, like, you know, every few steps because I'm worried something like that's gonna happen again. They're out there at all hours. This happened at 7.30 in the morning. They've been seen for at a time. And the O'Hirst Palm alley, they've been seen for at a time over on Burton Way. I think the new landscaping is attracting them. My neighbor had her kids on foot hill and the coyote started to come after her little six-year-old twins and she grabbed the twins in time and the coyote ran away. They're very aggressive. The one that came after my dogs was about 70 pounds. So I'm just asking that you please do something about it. It's really scary. Thank you. Next speaker, card I have is Jonathan Polder. I'm sorry. So the council members, my name is Jonathan Poldara, I live on 217 Foothill Road. I'm tired of the code, to be honest. I did have a nice laugh talking to the wash commander of Beverly Hills PD when he said the best thing I could do is have a baseball bat and pepper spray. Sure, next time I'm walking my dog, I'm gonna have to do exactly that. So I can get heard in the process. The best scenario here is, is to get rid of them. That's it. I mean, whatever I say personally, kill them, push, grab them, We need animal control. The fact that city of Beverly Hills with the amount of money that the city has doesn't have animal control, really. Actually pathetic. But my dog, this past Sunday actually, I was in San Francisco. My mom calls me and says, hey, there's a coyote in the backyard. Heidi. And now hunting my dog. I wasn't there, but if I was there, I would put the coyote down. I don't care. I don't care if I get into trouble. Hey, I'm protecting myself and my family and my dog. But the fact that the city won't do anything, there are certain people that Mayor Friedman that you personally may know, that I know, I know you're familiar with the last name, who are scared of these coyotes as well. What are they supposed to do? They're walking to work. Six AM, going to Cedar Sinai. Have a whistle, a blow horn. We already have to look over our shoulders against criminals, now over coyotes. And I'm also being told by my mom that there's hawks that are actually coming down and stealing little dogs. You know, what is this city going to do? What is the recommendation here? Because it's to a point where I'm going to take it upon myself. I'm going to handle this situation for me. I hope that I won't get into trouble doing this, but if I'm scared for my life and the safety of my dog, I will do something about it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, card I have is Daniel Musai. Everyone. I don't want to bore you with the same rhetoric that everyone's been giving you tonight. Clearly everyone is here for one main purpose and it's the coyotes. I've personally never appeared to one of these things. I do have a small dog, it's become a constant hazard. I work in downtown, my mother thankfully takes care of my dog when I'm away. She is afraid to walk our dog in the city of Beverly Hills. Not because of a criminal, not because someone is watching after us or anything like that, because coyotes are out. They're clearly attacking other animals. Thankfully, I haven't had to deal with the loss of my pet, my dog. You can see from everyone's reaction, dogs, cats, I'm sure everyone up here has a pet, their family, they are everything. The last thing I want to think about after a long day of work is walking my dog and a coyote coming around the corner, me not seeing it, and that's it. And we would look back today and think what could have been, what could have been done, how can this have been prevented. And I would think it was all a waste. I plead on behalf of everybody for something to be done. I don't have any recommendations. I'm not an animal expert. I don't want to give any opinions. It's not my field. We can hire people who know what they're doing. I'm not saying put down the coyotes. We, the explanation I was given is we're on their territory. I'm not okay with that explanation, especially when dogs and cats are being eaten alive, missing. I just plead that something is done. Again, after a long days of work, you don't want to think about what could be going on in the city. And we're in Beverly Hills, thankfully, we had the luxury of being around clearly great neighbors. And we have one common thing is we love our animals and we want them safe. So, thank you. Thank you. Last speaker card I have, if there's anybody else who has not given one please do so at this time, but at this point the last card I have is Darian Bojo. It was probably a few weeks ago that I got a call from my neighbor saying, be careful of your cats. There's a coyote hiding in the bushes at 110 North Palm. So we got very concerned and I let other neighbors know that had small children so that they wouldn't be hurt. And then a couple days later, right in the middle of the afternoon, there was a coyote that walked right through the front of our house. So I ended up telling my other neighbor and she said, well, there was a coyote that was in our yard. And so basically these reports are just really widespread and you know they're on next, they're on just in case, they're on a lot of chats and there are many more incidents that would have been expressed here. I have a neighbor. I think they're all sitting there. I think they're all sitting there. I think they're all sitting there. I think they're all sitting there. I think they're all sitting there. I think they're all sitting there. I think they're all sitting there. But we have a neighbor that's going to need it. We need to read the comments. We'll get it back. We need to read the comments. We'll get it back. We'll get it back. I cannot make it to the BH City Hall for 7 p.m. about coyotes. My son has been chased at night twice by a pack of coyotes when they went to friends house and I personally see scene one in daytime jump in front of my house when watering the front yard and the other side of the street at 5 p.m. And me and my daughter also have seen packs of them in the middle of the street at night. This is important and is a very concerning subject. I think at this point we've reached the level of a dangerous condition and damages the city can be sued. So, you know. We have of course that's not our primary reason. We really want to just protect people and especially small children. So I hope you'll put this on your agenda. I know that it's not on the agenda so you probably can't have a big discussion tonight. But I think there's been enough input that maybe something can be done and that would be greatly appreciated. We do not have any other comments. On non-agendized. And I believe our city manager, we're going to say, message is the biggest first. Yes, I know you. Again, I don't want the silence of the five of us to be taken the wrong way. I have two small dogs personally and I now used to let them roam freely. They now sleep with us at night because I'm concerned also and I know others here have animals that are concerned also. But please, we have been looking into this trying to do what we can and I'll give it to our city manager to give you an explanation of what's been done so far. Thank you and I did want to follow up on a comment we just had so I know maybe some of you haven't come to City Council meetings before it might be your first time and so I appreciate you coming this evening and sharing your stories and your experiences The way it works for us is if if an item is an on our published agenda we can't have a substantive discussion about it at that time. However, we can have a brief response. So Mr. Goliak, our assistant city manager, will do his best to give a brief response on some of the steps that we have taken and we can follow up after this meeting and have further discussion. Yes, thank you. Good evening, everybody. I'll keep this brief because it is not on the agenda. But first, I want to thank all of you for coming this evening just to come and participate in the conversation and share the stories that you've had. I want to let you know that we are aware of the problem and we are taking it seriously. I've been myself in multiple, multiple meetings over the last couple of weeks with the number of our staff members looking into this issue. We just yesterday had a meeting with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the LA County Agricultural Commissioners Office, and also LA City Animal Control. We contract with those agencies for various wildlife type issues. So we are working on it. The unfortunate reality is that it's a problem that doesn't have a lot of great simple solutions to it. I want to share just a little bit about kind of what some of the options are and what's been talked about this evening. There's been a lot of discussion about trapping or relocating coyotes. It was partially mentioned, but it is actually illegal to relocate coyotes. Only the Department of Fish and Wildlife can do that or approve it and they have told us in no uncertain terms that they would not allow for that unless the coyote itself was in danger, not that it's people or pets. So they will not allow for relocation, which leaves the only other option is trapping. Trapping is very, very challenging because coyotes are very smart. I think a lot of people don't realize the way that coyotes are trapped. It's not like your typical sort of box type trap that they walk into and get captured. Really the only way is to trap coyotes are through footholds, which is sort of like a bare trap type device and also a cable trap which goes around their neck. And I think probably most people would agree that those aren't the most humane options but that's how the trapping is done. And once coyotes are trapped they have to be put down immediately. And for them to be put down they actually do shoot them. That is the way that they put them down because they're not in any sort of an enclosed space. So these are sort of some of the options we're dealing with. What is really the best way, in most cases, to deal with coyotes is to figure out what it is that is attracting them to the area. They're typically in search of three things. It's food, water, and shelter. I know there was a property that was mentioned. We're aware of a couple properties in the vicinity that may be serving as an attractive nuisance. I want to let you know that we're aggressively pursuing those property owners for property maintenance in the event that they are harboring any sort of dens or anything like that. We're also looking at our median and we're working with the LA City Animal Control Office to do an assessment. They will, although they won't trap them, they will work with Office to do an assessment. They will, although they won't trap them, they will work with us to do an assessment, try to identify either numbers or what it is that is causing the attraction. So we are working on that. We're gonna also try to schedule a webinar and get information out. We also have created a webpage on our website. If you go to Beverly Hills dot org slash coyotes, we have educational resources about how to keep yourself safe, how to look out for things that attract coyotes. So I know these are not, you know, the answers that you probably want to hear, but it's a complicated situation and again with not a lot of good simple answers to it, but we are working on it. We have, I know in the audience, we have Michael Forbes, who's our Director of Community Development, Michael Wave. He oversees code enforcement and they kind of do the interaction with the various agencies that have oversight over the coyotes. If anybody wants to leave your contact information with him, we'd love to be able to get in touch with you when we schedule the webinar or the meeting with LA Animal Control just to talk through these issues. And also it helps doing the assessment of trying to figure out are there specific properties? Are there things that are attracting the coyotes? Because at least as we've been informed, once you eliminate whatever it is that's attracting the coyotes, they usually go away. In fact, trapping, killing the coyotes just results in other coyotes coming and taking their place. And so you really have to get at what it is that's attracting them. So, can't go into a whole lot more detail than that, but I do want to assure you that we're doing all the things that the law will allow us to do. Okay, thank you and as Ryan said it is an issue that is front of mind. We're dealing with it as best we can within the law and please do give Michael Forbes your information and we'll keep you informed Okay, let's go on to our parking authority consent calendar Do we have any polls from the consent calendar parking authority consent calendar? I don't see any So I will ask councilmember Mary Wells if she could read items one through three on the consent calendar. Parking authority consent calendar. Okay. I move the adoption of the consent agenda as follows. Number one consideration at the parking authority of the minutes of the meeting of May 7th, 2024. Number two consideration of the parking authority of the minutes of the meeting of May 21st, 2024. And number three, fifth amendment of lease with all trade solutions ink at 327 North Crescent Drive. Second. Can we have a roll, please? with all trade solutions ink at 327 North Crescent Drive. Second. Can we have the roll please? Yes. Director Wells? Yes. Director Corman? Yes. Director Mirish? Yes. Vice Chair Nazarian? Yes. Chair Friedman? Yes. Going on to our city council consent calendar. Are there any polls? Not seeing any. Can I ask councilmember Corman to read numbers one through Are City Council consent calendar? Are there any polls? Not seeing any, can I ask Council Member Korman to read numbers one through and including seven. Okay. I move the adoption of the consent agenda as follows. Number one, consideration by the City Council of the minutes of the study session meeting of May 7, 2020-24. Number two, consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the regular meeting of May 7, 2024. Number three, consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the Special Budget Study Session Meeting of May 21, 2024. Number four, consideration by the City Council of the Minutes of the regular meeting of May 21, 2024. Number five, review of budgeted demands paid, covering date September 24, 2024 to October 1, 2024. Number six, payroll disbursement report covering dates September 24, 2024 to October 1, 2024. And number seven, approval of amendment number one to the agreement with civil tech engineering ink for on-call planning and development, water modeling and as needed support services and approval of a change per disorder in the amount of $330,790.68 for a not-to-excite amount of $439,790.68 for fiscal year 2024-25. And Council Member Mirosh, if you could read eight through 11, please. Eight, award of a contract to Ramco General Engineering Contractors Inc. for the police facility, digital evidence and records remodel project. An approval of a corresponding purchase order in the not-to-exceed amount of $246,100 and approval of plans and specifications, therefore, with respect to design criteria, nine award of a contract to ramco general engineering contractors in for the La Siena Gapark Restrooms Improvement Project, and approval of a corresponding purchase order in the nod to exceed amount of $199,111 and approval of plans and specifications, therefore with respect to design criteria. Ten, acceptance of the contract work for the construction of the Water Main Replacement Project in Coldwater Canyon Drive within the City of Beverly Hills, California by Williams Pipeline Contractors Inc. in the final mount of $7,991,971.29, and an authorization of the City Clerk to record the notice of completion. 11. Authorize the City Manager to enter into an agreement with universal music group subject to approval by the city attorney for the use of the Beverly Hills shield and all second And if we have the city clerk, please call the roll council member Wells. Yes council member Korman. Yes council member Mirish Yes, vice mayor nizarian. Yes mayor Friedman. Yes. Okay, moving along now to item number F1 rather than reading it twice, I will say this is the time and place for a public hearing to consider. It is the time and place to public hearing to consider an ordinance of the City of Beverly Hills to amend the Beverly Hills Municipal Code to revise occupancy priority standards for eligible affordable housing units, add a definition of displacement, and finding the ordinance to be exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act SICUA. Let the record show that the notice of this hearing was published as required by law. The records and files of the community development department and the report of the senior planner concerning this matter shall be entered into the record. And may we have an oral report on this matter from the senior planner. Thank you, Mayor Friedman. Good evening, Mayor Friedman. And good evening, Council Members. The item before you is a discussion of various updates to the City's affordable housing program. The main function of the affordable housing program is to place tenants who qualify based on their incomes and to deed restricted affordable housing units that are located within private developments. These units may have been required as a result of density bonus law, the city's inclusionary housing requirement, or other state laws, and are set aside for specific income categories. There are two main tools that staff uses to place tenants into these units, the affordable housing guidelines and the occupancy priority standards. The guidelines provide procedures that must be followed during the tenant placement process and includes information for both the developer and the tenant who applies for the unit. The occupancy priority standards dictate the order in which the tenants are placed into the units if they are qualified based on a specific criteria and also qualified based on income. That means if there are two applicants that were both qualified based on their income, but one was qualified based on a higher priority tier that applicant would be offered the unit first. Staff has prepared revisions to these two components of the program, which are being presented tonight for review and approval. And there are a couple of reasons why these revisions are being undertaken at this time. Staff has implemented the current affordable guidelines and priority standards since they were adopted in 2016 and 2019, respectively. And over the course of this time period, staff has identified areas where guidelines are unclear or do not provide guidance on certain topics. In addition, the city recently contracted with a new housing consultant called House Keys, who has helped inform these revisions based on their experiences and best practices. The city also anticipates that the number of affordable housing units managed by this program will be increasing in the near future as a result of local and state law requirements. So there will be a greater need for these guidelines moving forward. For the affordable housing guidelines, there are visions intend to mainly clarify the procedures and the update at this time will only focus on the guidelines for the rental units and the section regarding four sale units will be revised at a later time. With regard to the occupancy priority standards, these revisions are being made to simplifying clarify the standards and create a more inclusive definition of displacement. And the Planning Commission has previously reviewed these items and provided input on both of these topics and their comments are reflected in the versions presented tonight. So the Affordable Housing Guidelines for Rental Units have been revised to address topics that were previously silent or required for their clarification or explanation and also to align with House Keys practices. For example, the guidelines were previously silent on what fees could be charged in addition to rent or whether renters insurance could be required. During the review, the Planning Commission emphasized that the application process should be accessible and easy to understand and expressed concern about a time limit requirement for tenants to vacate a unit if they no longer qualify for the unit because this could potentially penalize the developer. In response to the commission's comments, staff will work with House key switcher that information is accessible in other languages. We'll work to provide reasonable accommodations if needed to assist during the application process and will also conduct an annual outreach meeting with the community. In addition, the guidelines were advised to remove the time limit for vacating the unit and instead added a definition of a noncompliance event and a requirement for the developer to provide a remedy plan in case this noncompliance event occurs within one week to the city. And this means that if a tenant were no longer qualified for the unit, the developer would need to provide an explanation of the next steps they would take within one week to the city. And the second part of revisions were to reassess the occupancy priority standards and how displacement is defined and interacts with these standards. The existing occupancy priority standards are shown here in the chart. Is it? Just put the microphone down a little bit. There you go. It'll stay. It'll stay. Better. better. Tears 1 through 3 prioritize different types of households that are displaced due to redevelopment from the site where the new affordable units will be located. And tears 4 through 6 prioritize different types of households that have been displaced from other properties in the city, but have a time limit for how long they are considered qualified, which is tied to the redevelopment of the site from which they were displaced. In tier 7 prioritizes senior households, and then the remainder of applicants are considered based on income qualification only. Staff in the Planning Commission discuss several considerations that informs the revisions. First, historically only applicants who are in tier 7 or 8 have been placed into the existing affordable units in the city, as no applicants have been qualified for tiers 1 through 6. In addition, the first three tiers potentially conflict with requirements under SB 8, because they created specific household types that are given different priority to return, whereas SB 8 provides a right to return based on income status only. And over the years, the public has also expressed concerns that the tiers and the definition of displacement were too limited, and that the displacement and time limits for being considered displaced vary within the tiers. And the planning commission's comments on these standards were that they should be simplified and updated to be consistent with state law and to maintain priority for displaced households and for seniors, but to also add a category for those working in the city. Mission also stated that the displacement definition should be clearly stated and expanded to include both voluntary and involuntary displacement. So taking this all into consideration, the occupancy priority standards have been revised to be condensed and easier to understand. And the first priority is given to those displaced from the site where the affordable units are available and provided the first right of refusal under state law. Second priority is given to those displaced from another site in the city with specific subcategories shown here where different preferences given. Third priority is given to senior households and fourth priority is given to those working for a private or public entity located and operating in the city. And the definition of displacement has been revised to include households displaced as a result of redevelopment, voluntary vacations such as accepting cash for keys, and involuntary vacation of the unit due to substandard conditions, natural disasters, or the LS Act. And the timeframe for qualifying as displaced was also increased to 10 years, which is consistent with the rights granted under the LS Act. And the city will verify that the applicant has been displaced with various types of official city records, which could include a demolition permit for a building, a means and methods plan from rent stabilization, or a community preservation action documenting that a unit is uninhabitable. And this item was noticed in compliance with requirements, and a courtesy notice was emailed to interested parties. At both Planning Commission recommendations, public comment, and both staff and the housing consultants experience administering the affordable housing program. The revised guidelines will be more consistent with staff practice, and the occupancy priority standards are more streamlined and clarified with an expanded displacement definition. And with that that staff recommends that the City Council waive the full reading of the ordinance amending occupancy priority standards and introduce it by title only and adopt the revised affordable housing guidelines. Thank you. I'm available for any questions and we also have our consultant house keys available virtually. Okay. Thank you very much. We will now go to public comment. Is there anyone in council chambers who would like to be heard on this matter? Not seeing anyone, we will go to anyone on the phone or video who wishes to be heard. We have just for your knowledge we have Candace test up from House Keys will be available for any questions if you have any and then the first caller is Julius Nayanda. Go ahead. Sorry if it's a misunderstanding. A maxi online for House keys as well to answer questions. Okay. Then the next one is Nancy Safer. Hello, Mayor and City Council members. First I want to say that the Beverly Hills Planning Commission has done an incredible job at revising the Beverly Hills Affordable Housing Tear System. In tier two though, there is a key component and to be in fairness that has been left out. And that is not utilizing the year of displacement instead by putting those displaced in a lottery. This completely discounts those who have been waiting since the list began in 2016 and 2017, which were displaced when there was little or no affordable housing, when they had no assistance from the city and were not part of the tear system. The city has these records for displacement because it's what they use when other people are displaced. It's the same system of deciding displacement. The only adjustment would be this would be in the year. This is new. You guys are just hearing this. So I am urging you to please review, be able to get information to look at how a year can be done or the year that it was displaced versus a lottery because you are putting someone who's waited nine years in the same pool as somebody who's waited one year. And I don't think that that's fair and it certainly isn't just. I'm also asking that a grandfather clause be considered for those who have been displaced during the time between 2016 to now or within 2018 and 2019 when there was no affordable housing available or being built so that when that 10 years comes if it's a year or two later because there's limited availability of affordable housing they They are not say, oh no, you can't be displaced in this category anymore after waiting 12 years. So again, I'm asking you to please keep that open. If you need to wait to vote until next month, there are not affordable housing projects right now. You've waited a long time for this. Again, I think what they're doing is fantastic and they did a great job, but I think this is very important. Those who have been waiting anywhere from nine, five to nine years, deserve your time to look at considering the year of displacement versus a lottery, which does not take care of them and is not right and deserve better. So I hope you'll do that and I thank you for your time. Thank you. We received one written comment from Mr. Steve Mayer, but he did not want that read out loud. I have received an email and just forwarded it to you and I have his written comment here for the record. Well, he didn't want he didn't want to read though. He didn't want to read a lot but I just forwarded to your emails. But now what do you want? Well, why don't we just pass that around then because he asked for it not to be read. Would well, I don't want the city clerk to summarize something that may be missing some of the points that he's making. Thank you and that concludes public comment on this item. Okay. This way for Council Member Wells, we'll start with any questions of Council of staff. I'm going to go back to the meeting. My question really is about tier four when we look at that. First of all, I just want to say thank you. This is so comprehensive and there's a lot of information in this. I've gone back to look at the meetings and it's really so much more streamlined and I really appreciate it's much better. But when it comes to when we're talking about the priority standards and tier four for workforce, I know we talked about the private and you know, workforce housing for individuals for private or public entities. How often do we get to that tier, would you say? It's not very often. It's a new tier obviously, but in that sequence. I would say for the number of units that we have available, typically we don't get through many tears. What we've seen is that when there were no people qualifying for tears one through six, we immediately found qualified tenants in the next available cheer, which was the senior tear. Right. So because I don't think it's not in the immediate right now, my question is really around verifying that from a compliant standpoint, how do we do that? I don't think we've been doing it very much right now, but what is the plan and what issues do you see around that from verifying that they actually are working in the city, they're working at the business as opposed to outside the city or in a variety of different ways. So we would require that they provide information about their employer and the location of that employer. And that's partly to ensure that they're not working remotely for another company that's not located within the city. So we would verify the employer location. And then we'd also verify the amount of hours that they work and ensure that they're working a minimum of 130 hours they believe on average over the course of six months at the location Correct, so they can't have a they can't work for a company in the city, but be working remotely That's correct, okay Let's see that that's my main question for right now. Thank you. Mayor, forgive me. There is one written comment that came in. Mayor V. Of course. Thank you. This one is from Christine Redlan. I cannot be present tonight at the meeting perhaps. One of you on this email can have these thoughts read during public comment tonight on October 10th or after agenda item F1 thank you if possible or it can be submitted for the next meeting on this topic. Hello to all the fabulous city council members, city staff at the meeting tonight. It's Christine Redland 35 year resident community volunteer and supporter of our wonderful legendary city. Myself father Father Ed, Father John, our newest priest at our Church of the Good Shepherd wanted to say thank you as we proudly received the historic designation local landmark number 45 on behalf of the church yesterday at the Cultural Heritage Commission meeting. It is a positive acknowledgement for our congregants, community and visitors to know Church of the Good Shepherd is the first city in the city to receive this local landmark status. On Christmas Day, December 25th, 1924, the Church opened its doors for the first time to worshipers. This year, the Church structure is 100 and all of those years and each day, we are open to help uplift and give hope, strength and faith to anyone that needs it all are welcome. Speaking of faith regarding tonight's agenda for item for F1, I have faith our city's affordable living mandate to create 3,100 affordable units will unfold with kindness and safety in mind. I myself have lived for 25 years at my current home on a lovely property on Maple Drive in zone 7. Shout out to my fellow Justin Case BH members. I recently received news from the owners of my home, which are rent control individual bungalow style apartment units built in 1946 that they submitted a RUD application to begin the process to demolish this part of our residential city history and build 100% affordable apartment units. Change happens, we know that however I am an active senior and myself and other tenants and neighbors down the street who received similar updates. Wonder where will we live comfortably, comfortably, in our familiar safe neighborhood, while the process of tear down and rebuild occurs. Perhaps City Council and City Planning staff could consider to create transitional housing for folks as us that have a right to return as protected tenants. I would ask that this be considered and perhaps some unused commercial space on our street on Maple or at Third Street and Foothill could be converted to these transitional type small apartment units for this purpose to help us all get through this together. Thank you for your time and consideration. And that's from Christine Redlin and that concludes public comment. Thank you. I get the email back from you and we'll go to council member Quarment. Thank you. A few questions on page 12 of our staff report. We're talking about guidelines for applicants rental units. We've removed requirement for citizenship. I take it that's according to state law. That's correct. Okay. And then also in the old guidelines, we had a requirement that anytime time a developer had a affordable house unit, they had to have a marketing program. I mean, we still keep that. But now I know we're talking about using house keys as sort of a clearing house for affordable units. So I was just wondering if maybe the planning commission had thought about whether we need to continue the marketing program for the developer since the units will be captured. I assume by house keys on their website and people are hope obviously as people will go to the house keys website to register sign up and hopefully get placed that way as opposed to checking the advertisements by, you know, posted by a developer and also if a developer does post an advertisement, that might invite a response to the developer when we really want to take him to the House key site. I guess that's the developer could just say, hey, go look at the House key website. But I just wanted to do the planning commission talk whether we continue to need that marketing plan for the developers in light of the house key program. So great question. I don't recall if the planning commission specifically discussed that requirement, but I do know that house keys will still require the developer to provide them information that they will use for the marketing and then we also require some sort of marketing plan that they provide to us and I don't know if house keys wants to provide a little bit more input on that if they can. If we could. Yeah, if you can hear me, Julius Nandier from house keys, just wanted to clarify. So, you typically do still require that the developer and work with the administrator in this case, house keys to put together the marketing plan, and many of the tasks included in the marketing plan will be executed by House Keys staff. But the developer has to provide assets, has to cooperate, and then House Keys does help them implement that plan and cooperate with the administrator for that purpose. Thank you for appearing this evening. Does the House Keys utilize the developer's marketing plan in marketing the property since I thought House keys waited for people to come to House keys to the website and sign up. Am I incorrect? You're right. So there's two things happening year-round, essentially, is that the program is being marketed to residents of Beverly Hills throughout the course of the year. And then each particular development that comes online and makes it through the entitlement process will have an actual launch about their specific project, their specific selection process, and so all that will be part of that specific marketing plan for that project. So you have two different things going on at the same time. The program is marketed year-round to say, hey, sign up now, learn the process, there's going to be new construction projects that will come up over time. So learn now while we're working with the city and the developers to get their projects through the entitlement process. And then each individual project that makes it through the entitlement process will still have a launch that will include these marketing milestones and timelines that we are mentioning in today's meeting. Thank you. But will it be house keys? Is it supervising that launch and the marketing or the developer? House keys will perform all the tasks. House keys will do the marketing and the developers providing the assets and cooperating alongside house keys to do that. So to really maybe get to the crux of the question, the developer is no longer responsible for actually being the conduit directly dealing with the public about that unit. House keys will do that. Right, so that's what I thought. And so I just don't, to me, the guidelines as they exist are a little unclear in regards to the division of authority there. So it's just something to look at. But otherwise, that's fine if that's the way it's going to work. And then another question I have for staff is Nancy Saeper had two potential, had two comments. One was why is there a 10-year maximum in the lookback of the ordinance? And I'll note that Steve Mayer submitted an email. I just looked at it. It seemed to indicate that our past ordinance had a five-year lookback. So we've increased it by double, right? Now 10-year lookback? That's correct. The existing priority tiers for tiers one through three, there was actually no time limit applied, but then for tiers four through six there was that existing time limit. And we extended it to 10 years to be more consistent with the LS Act. So the LS Act allows tenants to be evicted lawfully, but those units, if they ever come back on the market, those tenants have 10 years to return. They have the right to return for 10 years. And so we wanted to be consistent with that. So the 10-year maximum essentially dub tells with the LSAC. Correct. The LSAC. State law. On the second point that Miss A. Per mentioned was the fact that we're taking the senior households and her tier two, the senior households, I guess, and the households with students in 10th grade at the Barley Hill Schools and other displaced households, they're going to have lotteries. And I gather that a lotter would start with the senior households. And then you go, because we're in order, right? Yes. The way that house keys from what I understand will perform the lottery is they will lotterize the entire pool of applicants. And then they assign specific attribute criteria to different applications. So if someone is in the first priority tier that will automatically after the lottery is conducted put them first and the same thing happens with each subsequent tier. So the lottery isn't within tiers, it's over the entire applicant pool? It used to be that way when we were conducting it in-house and it was a little bit more of a manual process but with the house keys, the back end technology that they have, I believe they can make it so that any priority is brought to the top and we're aware of that. So it's still randomized, so let's say that there's multiple people that qualify for like the same tier. That will still be lauterized as part of it. It's just that if they have that specific attribute, we'll be alerted and it will be pulled to the top, but still in that same randomized order. Is there a reason we decided not to do a priority system based on how long someone had been out, had been displaced? I think we considered potentially looking at that. There's a little bit of a difficulty in verifying the length of time that someone has been displaced because there are some city documents that we could rely upon such as demolition permits or maybe if there was a code enforcement action and the unit was deemed uninhabitable. But there are maybe cases where there's less documentation and then there's also cases where, for example, if we were to look at the utilities that someone had at their unit, sometimes they aren't shut off at the same time that that person moves out. So there is just a little bit of a difficulty with verifying the date of displacement. Was there any discussion about the fact that people who had been displaced farther back in time might have already been, might have already found civil replacement housing and therefore they may not be in more of a need than people who have been recently displaced? Yes, that's a great point. You know, typically what we do see is if someone is displaced from a unit and they're trying to stay in the city, hopefully they do find a unit within the city or they are relocated elsewhere. All right, thank you. Those are my questions. Thank you, Councillor Biber-Mirish. I'm glad to see that we are going to hopefully be having more covenanted units. I do think it's important that it is not the developer who is making these decisions. We have in the past I believe seen that there are maybe not in our city, but developers who might give apartments to friends or cronies or family members under the rules. So I'm glad that we have in place procedures to ensure that that's not going to happen. I do also agree that I think we should extend the time period, the look back. And I think the goal is that anyone who is displaced should be given first opportunity, obviously in a waiting line, sort of a line, but first opportunity to go back to new affordable units. We want people to, we don't, we want to avoid displacement. We should look at other policies to avoid displacement as well, but that should be the goal. So in general, I am supportive of these recommendations. Thank you. Vice-Marianna Zarian. Yes, thank you very much. So a couple of quick questions for House case. Julius, Mr. Nanda? Yes. Mr. Julius, Nanda. Nanda? Is he on? I can't see. Sorry. I don't see them, so I'm not sure if they could hear me. Hi. Thank you for being here. I wanted to ask you mentioned that you do the marketing for these units. Can you speak to that, please? Where is the marketing generally done? What languages? How would people be able to find it? So there's in language access plan that we've established with the city based on the top languages. And so that's typically what we do with staff is work to figure out what are the top spoken languages that the city has amongst residents and we make sure all our materials are in those languages. We talk through what the top publications are and how word gets disseminated throughout the city and make sure we're publicizing all of the available projects in those publications. And probably one of the most effective ways that we do market is through maintaining a pre-consistent workshop and outreach schedule throughout the city so that folks have a set of dates that they can attend these workshops whether it be they be webinars or in person and then again it kind of changes the nature of how a city markets this program because people are able to sign up for the program 24-7 throughout the year and as these new projects come online then there's a specific marketing plan and effort to market that particular project, but the program is marketed year-round. Okay. So, for example, you mentioned a lot of great things, but can you give me an example of what languages are going to be covered. Stanford's name, the top languages. Clearly, yeah, wasn't sure if you have those with you. Yes, I believe the alternative languages besides English are far see based on the population that we have. And I believe Spanish. So is the ad going to be placed in like local papers in far sea in Spanish? Is that the way that it works? I'm just trying to understand the process. I don't believe so. I think the ads if there are publish and newspapers would typically be in English and then online, there would be translation services available or documents available in other languages. Okay, thank you. Just just to clarify quickly too, there are periodicals typically or publications in languages. That's one of the avenues that we've taken in different jurisdictions is trying to find what are the publications that are in that specific language and make sure that we reach out to those entities. The recent city that we were just in, large city, they have community organizations that exist in communities. And so we've done workshops specifically in those communities at those at those community organization locations. And so depending on through this process, sort of on board in your program, it's finding those avenues by which you communicate with specifically that kind of language, right? That group of folks that speak that language. That's what's important is to establish what the language is and then find out those avenues. Okay, I appreciate that. And do you visit faith-based organizations also, because I think that would be a great place in our community, especially to be able to assist people in need. This will be a critical part of the marketing plan standards. I think the question was asked earlier about how does a marketing plan get implemented? It's coming up with those standards because you're doing this repeatedly, right? Every single project has this launch and so we'll establish what the launch is and which faith-based organizations make that launch list. Thank you very much for that. So Miss Sapper just talked about being displaced in 2016 when there was no affordable housing and can you speak to her concerns and how that's being addressed right now? Sure, so the time limit for displacement has been extended like we mentioned to 10 years. And so that provides a little bit of extra time for eligibility for people who may have been displaced in 2016. The existing affordable housing units, there are currently eight in the city, but we do anticipate that number is going to increase definitely in the near future, due to the fact that we have approved many entitlements that contain affordable units. And so hopefully those units will be coming online soon and Miss Aper would hopefully be able to apply for those while she's still eligible. Yes. And Christine Redlin spoke about having possible transitional housing. I think that it's important right here to go over tenant rights and the educator community if you could share a few lines just about what is currently being done for our residents that are being displaced for whatever reason, especially in her case. It sounds like her units are being rebuilt, remodeled. I don't quite remember, but I think that we have a very robust plan and program in place. Can you please share that so if anybody's listening, they have information about that? Sure. So I believe Ms. Redlands comment refers to our replacement unit determination process. And that is a process required to implement the requirements of SB 8, which in addition to other requirements requires that we provide or the developer provides the first right of return to tenants who are displaced that are lower income. And so what the city has done is we've worked to implement a new process where if a developer would like to demolish existing protected units. So those units are under the existing rent stabilization ordinance. They go through a process where they notify the tenants. We try to get those income documentation from those tenants to verify whether or not they are low income tenants and have that right to return. And then we also inform them of other rights, such as the right to stay within that unit at least six months before construction begins. And then there are other rights as far as their protections under the rent stabilization ordinance. And we also inform them of their ability to apply for the affordable units if there are any in the future. And do we, for some reason I remember a portion of this and may not pertain to this, so forgive me, but I don't know all the ordinances by heart, but is there a portion that allows tenants to be relocated that the landlord has to pay for? Under the rent stabilization program, if there is, so something called a means and methods plan, if there is a construction or something that happened like the unit maybe was destroyed by a fire and it's going to take more than one day for them to rehabilitate the unit, those developers or property owners are required to relocate the tenants and assist with that relocation. But that's a little bit different than what Ms. Redlin mentioned. Right. Okay. And so with regard to the priorities, I notice that it says families with kids in the Beverly Hills high school area. So I mean, I think it's important to prioritize families with kids. It looks like it specifically talked about 10th grade. Can you speak to that please? I mean, if somebody has a child who is also, they live in the neighborhood but they're going to a different school, are they disqualified that's still a family with kids? And a different school you mean not within the Beverly Hills Unified School District? Yes, so that came from the City Council revisions to the Occupancy Priority Standards in 2019. When they identified that maybe they would want to prioritize families that have students currently within the public school system. And I think the 10th grade came from a desire to make sure that that student was still gonna be there for a while, you know, maybe if the student was already in 12th grade and they were graduating, that might not be as great of a need for the family to remain in the city as someone who had a younger student. Okay. If families need to move out of the city as well and they have students in the school district, I believe they can, if the student is in 10th 11th grade they can permit and complete I believe and councilmember Wells may know this better but I believe that was at least part of the thinking at that time was that if they had to move out their kids could could continue at the high school. But if somebody has young kids and they want they're being displaced, wouldn't we want to be able to help young families immediately? I don't know. This is helping, but it's a lower. It's 10th bit or lower and I think the thinking from watching the planning commission meetings actually is well first of all if they are going to the public school They're only eligible if they live here. So if it's a different school a private school or otherwise They would if they moved out of the city. They're still allowed They're still allowed to go to the school that the student is in so this is so that it's not disruptive for students that are Within the school district and they can only go to school there because they have to have a residency requirement. The reason it says 10 and under is because this is just for the priority to get in. So say it said you were 11th grade, you got prioritized, but your child was only in school for one year. Whereas you may have students that are to your point, third grade, fourth grade, you got prioritized what your child was only in school for one year. Whereas you may have students that are to your point, third grade, fourth grade, you'd want to prioritize them because they want to keep them in school through the duration of their school life. That's my understanding of it. I said it right. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. I guess my concern is if somebody had kids also, I just wanna make sure a family is a family regardless of where they're going to school because somebody may be on financial aid, even if they're at a private school. So that was gonna be my point. That we don't not allow somebody to be on our list just because they're not necessarily in the Beverly Hills schools. Yeah, if there was consensus among the council members, we could definitely amend that tonight as part of the action. All right, those were my questions. Thank you very much. Thank you, I have a few also. In terms of the age of being a senior, I saw that there was some discussion of changing that, and then I also saw the discussion of the other municipalities who basically have it as age 62 or younger. What was the discussion at the Planning Commission regarding raising that to 65? It just seems that people are living longer lives. 62 is quite young, at least from my perspective. What was the discussion about that? I believe that 62 years is consistent with generally the qualification for other senior programs such as I believe social security, I don't know if you have more information. Well, social security retirement ages at 60, well, depending upon your age of the date you were born is now as far as age 67. I think so, the majority of situations where there are identified cutoffs for age for seniors, 62 tends to be the more predominant age in various regulations. Social security has been shifting as the average life expectancy has increased, but 62, I believe, and this goes back to when we multiple times talked about this, but that is the more predominant age that is used for a lot of different purposes. I see life expense. Okay, well, you can also join AARP at age 50, so I guess it's somewhere in the middle. Why, and I may have missed this when I stepped out for a moment, why is there a lottery being used instead of a time on the list? The lottery is the most fair way to randomize the applicants that we take a look at first. And so the lottery takes place and then we, from that lottery, sort the people who are in higher, the highest priority tiers and take a look at those people that are in the highest priority tiers. I mentioned, I believe in the discussion, the date of displacement may be a little bit difficult to verify, especially with a look back period of 10 years. There are some city documents that we could rely upon, but it may be a little bit difficult when, if there was no city action taken and the person moved out, or for example, they were still, maybe they moved out, but their utilities were still connected to their name at that time there. So it would be a little bit difficult to verify Okay And then I believe the 10 year look back period was in order to have one objection of Objective standard which is tied to the LSAC. So I think you answered that before. Regarding the definition of displacement, the planning commission looked at that and what was the controversy about the definition of displacement that was had? So in our current tiers, the definition of displacement is a little bit different within each tier. In tiers one through three, it talks about kind of being generally displaced from the project site. And then in tiers four through six, it talks about displacement. But it's tied to the active redevelopment of the site from which they were displaced. And it sets forth those different time periods that we're trying to make more consistent across the board. And we didn't actually have a definition of displacement in the previous guidelines or even in the municipal code. And so the planning commission directed staff to work on expanding first, creating a definition and then expanding that definition to include typical reasons why a tenant would have been displaced, so that includes maybe there was a natural disaster, such as a fire or a flood, or the unit became uninhabitable if there was mold, or if they even took a voluntary vacation such as the Kashpur Keys, or if they were evicted under the LS Act. And so we've updated that our definition to include all of those potential scenarios. If I could add the current definition of displacement in tears one through six, it's become clear that it's not really capturing anybody. Because we have not actually had anybody on one of these lotteries until you hit tier six. So, tier seven, I'm sorry. So, tears one through six, which have that differing displacement definitions, just aren't capturing folks in the program. And when you say voluntary vacation, you don't mean going to the Bahamas, you mean that they left on their own. Exactly. Just wanted to make sure. And the qualifier in terms of somebody who does leave their housing unit because they claim it was uninhabitable unless it's going to be the city that's going to make the determination whether or not that was in fact a displacement that qualifies them as opposed to them a person making the statement all of their own that they left because it was uninhabitable right? That's correct. We would need some sort of official city record to verify. Okay. Those are my questions. Thank you. Okay, we will go to Council direction starting with Council Member Wells. So, this microphone. Okay. I support the staff recommendations. I support the staff recommendations. I support the revisions first of all. I appreciate that it's more streamlined, that it's more streamlined with our practices, and that there's better definitions for the different tiers as well. And I think it makes, I think it's going to create a lot more clarity. I am always concerned with regard to verifying and actually making certain that as the program gets implemented, how are we ensuring that what the goal is to happen here is actually what's occurring and how do we keep that enforcement there, not only with the tenants that move in, but also with House keys, how do we how do we verify that and I think that those are things that we have to stay focused on as this starts to move forward and I think that will probably this will probably come back to us again as we move forward as my guess but right now I feel really happy with the changes that have been made and I think it's been a lot of work and a lot of discussion. So thank you. I approve, I agree with waving the full reading of the ordinance and as well adopting the revisions to affordable housing guidelines for deed restricted rental units. Thank you. Thank you and council member Corman. Thank you. Thank you and Council Member Corman. Thank you. First I want to thank staff and the Planning Commission for all the work they put in this. I think I was involved in one of the earlier versions of the priority list. I know how difficult it is to try to make it as fair as possible and still make it something that can be easily worked with by staff. There's always a give or take here and there and we do the best we can. And I know the planning cushion spent a lot of time and going over these issues very thoroughly. With respect to some of these who have been raised tonight, the 10 year look back in Tier 2, I think it makes sense. It's tied to the LSACT. I think whether the senior person in Tier 2 is 62 or older, I don't know what a better date is. I've typically seen 62 as a date that defines when someone is a senior citizen. That was a while ago for me. Hard to say, but I've seen that. So I think that that makes sense. You could go higher, but that I think people who are 62 and displaced, it's hard on them. So I think that's a good standard. As far as the cutoff for when students in the Beverly Hills school district are in tier two, I think we have to recognize that when someone gets placed in a new affordable unit, they could be there for 20 years. And it's really the idea that if someone has a child who's in 11th or 12th grade, then they could be there for 20 years. But what got them into that tier two, that condition will be absent after a year or two, where someone who has younger kids really needs to be in that unit longer. So I support that recommendation. The one issue we've talked about tonight that I'm on the fence on and I understand the reason for it is the lottery-based system for determining when someone in tier two, where they go in the list versus when they were displaced. And I recognize that it's sometimes as hard to determine when someone was actually displaced, particularly the longer it's been and the lack of documentation. So I thought you could do it when someone signs up to this program, but no, because people are going to be signing up saying, I was displaced 10 years ago or nine years ago. And just because we just started this program doesn't mean they shouldn't have, that's mean that should be the determining factor when they sign up. So on the whole, I can support the Planning Commission and staff's recommendation to the lottery system. But I recognize that for people who were displaced a while ago, it seems less fair because they've been out longer. But as we also mentioned earlier, hopefully during that extended period they have found another home, hopefully in the city. And I think there is a counter-bale argument that people who have displaced more recently may need to be more in dire need of finding a new unit right away. So on that basis I can support the staff's recommendations across the board and can approve the ordinance revisions and the guidelines. Thank you. Councillor Mermarish. I think I'm going to ask that. I'm going to support the recommendation. And I think we can see how it works in practice. And we can always come back and make changes if there are obvious elements of unfairness. I think as said, we want to make sure we want to look at, and I think there are other policies we can't and should look at to try to avoid displacement. And when there is redevelopment that's unavoidable to ensure that, ideally, that those tenants who are displaced from a project come back to the same property. And I know we talked before about developers who might sort of wait five years so they can get rid of their tenants and then have no rent stabilization apply. And we need to keep tabs on if their developers are doing those sorts of things. Extending it to 10 years I think helps. And I think also we need to look at maybe advocating for LSAC reform, but I am supportive and like to thank staff for their work. Thank you Vice Mayor Nazarian. Yes, thank you very much. I too would like to thank the Planning Commission and staff for the report. I think it's extremely important to streamline this process to have clarity. We always want to be able to make things as simple as possible and this is a complicated process for a lot of people. So it is important to have that proper outreach reflecting the demographics of our community. A lot of communities are different. We need to be mindful just as any community does of who their residents are. I think that it's very important and I'm appreciative that we are addressing the definition of displacement but also to make sure that our most vulnerable residents are our seniors and our young families and people with children to be able to address that. Our marketing and outreach, I really want us to be mindful of that even if it's not just in publications, but visiting places outside of our normal scope. A lot of times we basically do the same papers, we do the same locations, we go to the senior center and or what have you and we call it a day. And I think that it's important for our community to really start having a larger grasp that we have residents who are from all walks of life and attend in different areas and whatever we do we need to start thinking about how we can hit the different demographics so that everybody is included in these types of programs and decisions that are being made. So with that, I approve and I accept the staff's recommendations for both. Thank you. And based on my questioning, I had some discomfort on the issue of the aging, but certainly not enough to go against what the recommendation was of the planning commission and now certainly based on what my colleagues have said. I also had some discomfort with the lottery versus the amount of time that a person has been displaced. But for some more reasons as councilmember Korman stated, it's probably the fairest way of looking at it as opposed to looking back and trying to check why a person was displaced over many years. So I can accept that also as the way to do it. So for those reasons and I really want to thank the presentation that we got today. I think it was an excellent concise and informative presentation. So thank you very much for that. I can certainly go along with the recommendations of staff and then with that I would ask that if anyone would make a motion. I move that the revision of the City of Beverly Hills affordable housing guidelines for deeds restricted rental units be adopted and that the full reading of the City of Beverly Hills affordable housing guidelines for deeds restricted rental units be adopted and that the full reading of the ordinance be waived and the ordinance entitled in ordinance of the City of Beverly Hills to amend the Beverly Hills municipal code to revise occupancy priority standards for eligible affordable housing units add a definition of displacement and finding the ordinance to be exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act, be introduced and read by title only. Seconded. And if we could have the clerk read the role please. Council Member Wells. Yes. Council Member Corman. Yes. Council Member Mirish. Yes. Vice Mayor Nazarian. Yes. And Mayor Friedman. Yes. Okay. Going on to item number G1 report from the City Attorney. Excuse me actually before we move on, I asked the City Attorney. Oh, they did? Oh, I'm sorry. I must have missed it. The adoption of the guidelines themselves, which is separate from the ordinance. So yeah, sorry. I think we're good. Good. Can I say it? Yeah. I don't think Moss heard something that was said. Fair enough? Okay. Yeah, my mistake. Good job for checking. Yeah. The adoption. The adoption. I read the first one. Okay. Now, with Moss's permission, report from the city turning on closed session items, please. We have nothing to report this evening. And report from the city manager. Nothing this evening mayor. And we'll go to city council member and committee reports and comments starting with council member Wilson. Well, it has not been very long since we last met, so I would just say the one thing I'd like to bring up is from October 7th and we started our day with a sunrise ceremony that was really organized by the Israeli-American Civic Action Group. And I wanna thank our our council member, John Marish, for your remarks in starting off that morning. It was really a solemn service in the morning. It was really beautiful. And many city leaders and all the rabbis were there to speak. And it was just a really nice way to start the day. And then overall I attended many events throughout the day. And I would say it was truly a day of unity and remembering the victims and as well remembering the hostages and praying for their immediate return. So it was very nice. Thank you. And council member Korman. Yes. I mean, yes. Monday was a long day. I mean, very solemn day. The entire council was at the Sunrise ceremony that I can sponsor and John was the host of. And then we had the Weasel event in Brentwood. And then we had the Jewish Federation event at the Saban Theater. You know, is it's a huge wound in the community. People still pray for the hostages to come home and that's what everyone wants more than anything. And it was a very difficult day. The community did come together. There was a great sense of unity, a great sense of loss and you know it was difficult day but it was also a day that some people will look back as being somewhat cathartic as an anniversary of what happened and an ability of the community to come together and mourn together. And that's it, thanks. And Councilmember Mirish. I'd like to thank the comments of Mary and Craig. And I think the sunrise vigil that we did was made all the more meaningful by the location, which was at the flag installation, which is something that a lot of people have commented is a very powerful place of reflection of memory. And I think we did the right thing by bringing it back for the anniversary. And it was made even more powerful by the signage designating the block as the October 7th Memorial Square. It's become part of the fabric of our community now. October 7th, the anniversary itself, is a sad reminder that Jew hatred is a pathological disease for which there are no easy cures. And we try, but sadly we find that there are just some people who are beyond any kind of redemption. And as a result, we need to focus on protecting ourselves and protecting those who would be victimized by that kind of unique racism, which is probably the oldest racism, eastern kind of racism that exists. And furthermore, well, we also see that there are countries that are responsible for it. And the Iranian regime is certainly behind a lot of the misinformation that we have in the false narratives that we have the demonized Israel. But so is Qatar. Qatar has spent billions of dollars poisoning the minds of our students at universities. They are the number one donor to our universities and universities that are supposed to be places of learning have instead become places of misinformation and hate. And so I do propose that we designate Qatar to be a state sponsor of terrorism, that we sanction Qatar, including freezing Qatar assets and using them to compensate the victims of Qatar funded terrorism. And finally that we asked the State Department to expel the Qatari consulate from Beverly Hills. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor Nazarian. Yes, thank you very much. I too attended many services. and they were quite powerful. It was actually quite an emotional day, October 7th. And for Council Member Marish and I started the evening before at the Holocaust Museum, a night of remembrance, where we all went to light candles at 8.29, which would correspond with Israeli time of 6.29. And it was poignant to be at the museum to never forget. And then of course we had our own gathering in front of the flags. And I too want to thank ICAN can and Council Member Marish for your leadership there and being able to be together as a council I think it was really important for the community to see that we are united and we stand together against hate and anti-Semitism and discrimination. There was a tree dedication that I wanted to give a little point of gratitude to our young people, our students at Beverly Hills High School, from the Israel Club, the Jewish Club, and the Unity Club. I think it's really important that these students took the initiative on their own to want to ring light, and there are our are future and that tree symbolized exactly that, the roots and the growth and being able to be together. And again, our council was all there. It was great. Even the Rotary Club of Beverly Hills with the leadership of Chief Barton as the president did a program remembering October 7th and speaking of the Nova survivors that with the Nova exhibit that's actually still in Culver City if anybody wants to visit it. And it was a symbol of our strength as a community again and coming together. And we all went, again, as a council to Subon Theatre with LA Remembers. And why am I saying all of this? I think it's really important that we are united. Our leadership is united and it was great to see leaders across Los Angeles also being there. I want to thank our police and fire department for keeping our community safe during the high holidays, during Rochishana, during all of October 7th. We're very grateful to have such dedicated members of our police and fire department really taking the extra steps to ensure that our community is safe. And with the high holidays coming with Yom Kippur around the corner, I know that you will continue to look out for the community as we have extended an extra patrol within the community. Mayor Friedman and I also worked on the updated October 7th Memorial site and we look forward to sharing more details about that with our colleagues and as we also prepare the RFQ for this project and bring it hopefully in the first meeting that we have in November. So we still are continuing to demand that the release of our 101 hostages showing our support and I wish everyone a Gamar Hatimatova for anyone who is celebrating and if you're not I still want to wish you a happy healthy and sweet new year. May we have peace and may we have unity. Thank you. Thank you so I'll just follow up with a couple of things. You know October 7th as we heard, was a very, very moving day. For me, the day started at five in the morning and didn't end until about 11 o'clock at night when I got home. It was really a full day. We had a lot of news coverage of the events of October 7th at our Flag site. Thank you, Council Member Mirich for your work on that. I think every local news station was there and several radio stations were there also. So it really does show that Beverly Hills does care and we stood out in terms of our members of what occurred one year ago. I also had the opportunity to view a documentary, one of the first documentaries I think is out there and it's called 630 and it is interviews with victims of the Holocaust. And it was taken about two weeks. The interviews were taken about two weeks before, after October 7th. And very, very raw footage put together in a documentary format. And the showing was put on by this Sephardic education group. Very moving and it's being submitted to Film Festival's and I hope if anybody has an opportunity they get to see it. I had a I disturbing article, and unfortunately just briefly in the Jewish journal. And apparently in Wikipedia, they define Zionism and they use the words colonization in the definition and very, very disturbing. To me, Zionism is the attention of the Jewish homeland, ancestral homeland in Israel. And the Jewish population is 0.02% of the world's population. That means 98. I'm sorry, 99.8% of the world's population is not Jewish. And for Jews to be able to have a homeland of a small strip of land in the Middle East that is there ancestral homeland and people to be opposed to that because that is Zionism just doesn't sit well at all and then when you see a definition in Wikipedia that compares it to colonization it's just extremely disturbing it was really disturbing things that I read just before I came here in fact. But Marathon I may say. Yes. Wikipedia is made up of, and this is more than anything a commentary on Wikipedia, which I would suggest is racist. It is edited by anonymous people, randos sometimes, and very clearly it's also that definition is a symbol about the widespread and pathological nature of the disease of anti-Jewish racism. And I agree it's very disturbing, but part of the problem is it's not just at Wikipedia with these random anonymous editors. You see it at CBS, you see it at major outlets, you see it at Reuters, you see it at organizations that formerly were supposedly trustworthy for news. And you see their biases there. I'm sure you probably saw the reporter on CBS who was asking questions, difficult questions, but fair questions of an author who had visited Israel and wrote a whole book about how it's racist and got pushed back from the DEI and all of that. It's a big problem and I agree with you and it's sad and especially coming at this time of year. Thank you, Mary, for bringing it up. Absolutely. OK, and with that, for those who observe the fast of colonid dre, or really starting on, I'm sorry, of Yom Kipper, which really starts on colonid dre evening, may it be an easy fast. And with that, we will adjourn the meeting and we will see you on November 7th at 2.30. Mahatma. Thank you all very much. Good night.