City Council Meeting — August 6, 2025

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Okay, please be seated. Councilmember Wong? Present. Councilmember Sanchez? Present. Councilmember Lo? Present. Mayor Pro Tem Yang? Present. Mayor Ngo? Option.

Mr. Mayor and members of the Public Communications, we have athletes with us tonight that we'd like to recognize, if that's okay.

Ten, okay. Those are long discussion items, though. No, let's just go to the order. Good.

Okay, so we have guest tonight from the Fire Park Region 60 Under-16 Boys team, the National Games champion. If I can have the coach news.

Thank you, Mayor Hano and Councilmembers, for taking the time to recognize these incredible

scholar-athletes. Our AYSL Region 60 Under-16 Boys Team, which represents Monterey Park and

Alhambra, made history by winning the 2025 ship. It's the first national title in any division for Region 60. The tournament, which is held in Irvine at the Orange County Great Park, brought together

nearly 5,000 players, making it the largest of the team, and finished with the dominant

support and support to help grow with the guild has been very inspiring. To introduce the champions, but I'll try to find them in the crowd as freshmen, sophomores in our All Mott League, San Gabriel. So, backup goalie, goalkeeper

Riley Paglia. Riley Mall. He's our all-around utility player and back nearly every position for me. On defense, Captain Ian Wachino. He's the All-Month 400-meter champ.

Joseph Ono. Joey Ono. So the All-Ment League 100-meter sprint. We have Zachary Vallee-Zorati, the key center back for the team, and most. Okay, I got Matthew Chan.

He is a pure athlete and also. Okay, he's clear. Non-stop improvement. He had three sentences with me, but every time he played.

Okay, Abel Fierro. I call him Mr. Clutch. in our semifinal round.

Okay, I got... Oh, he made it. He's our creative engine with eyes in the back on the back of his opponent's jerseys. Aaron made it. He's our primary goalkeeper. He's been my keeper for six seasons.

Except for coming on time. We got Lorenzo Alvarado. Okay. This guy is having the tenants for open registration.

you can play anywhere a lot on defense and offense. Going on to the forwards, Brandon Hogue, our secret weapon. He's tenacious box for us all the time. And part of that one-two punch is... ...

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Councilmember Wong? ! Present! ! Councilmember Sanchez? Present!

Mayor Pro Tem Yang? Present! Mayor Ngo? Option! Mr. Mayor and members of the Public Communications, we have athletes with us tonight that we'd like

to recognize, if that's okay. Okay.

Okay. Those are long discussion items though.

No, let's just go to the order. Good and...

Okay, so we have guests tonight from the Fire Park Region 60 Under 16 Boys Team, the National

Games Champion. If I can help the coach.

Thank you, Mayor Hano and Councilmembers, for taking the time to recognize these incredible scholar athletes. Our AYSL Region 60 Under 16 Boys Team, which represents Monterey Park and Alhambra, made

history by winning the 2025 championship. It's the first national title in any division for Region 60. The tournament, which is held in Irvine at the Orange County Great Park, brought together

nearly 5,000 players, making it the largest of the team, and finished with a dominant board of the team. And support to help grow with the guild has been very inspiring. To introduce the champions, but I'll try to find them in the crowd as freshmen and sophomores

in our All-Mont League, San Gabriel. So, backup goalie, goalkeeper Riley Paglia. Riley Mall. He's our all-around utility player and back in nearly every position for me. On defense, Captain Ian Wachino.

He's the All-Mont 400-meter champ. Joseph Ono, Joey Ono. He's the All-Mont League 100-meter sprint.

We have Zachary Valle Zarate, the key center back for the team and most current. Okay, I got Matthew Chan.

He is a pure athlete and also... Okay, he's player.

Non-stop improvement. He had three seasons with me, but every time he played... Okay, Abel Fierro.

I call him Mr. Clutch. In our semifinal round. Okay, I got... Oh, he made it. Oh, he made it. Okay. He's our creative engine with eyes in the back on the back of his opponent's jerseys. Aaron made it. He's our primary goalkeeper. He's been my keeper for six seasons.

Except for coming on time.

We got Lorenzo Alvarado. Okay. This guy is having the tenants for open registration.

He can play anywhere, a lot on defense and offense. Going on to the forwards. Brandon Ho stepped up our secret weapon. He's tenacious box for us all the time.

And part of that one-two punch is... Chase and Adam puts them in. He also scores independent from that too. And then finally... And finally...

President Adam Puts. And Adam Puts Them In. He also scores independent from that too. And then finally Arlen Miguel. He's shy but he's the he's the captain of the team. He's our field general. He's played with me for seven seasons. He's the heart and soul of the team and he's basically my game time assistant coach. I will add that we do have also an actual assistant over here. Brett Wachino. Our team. I got Aaron. I'm proud of every one of these young men. Not just for what they accomplished but how they did it.

with pride. Thank you our volunteers and the parents

who, or I can

so much, you make Monterey Park proud. I also wanted to congratulate

the athletes, but also thank the coaches, because I know behind every great team there's also a lot of team support, and I see

a lot of parents here as well, so I wanted to thank the parents for being supportive of your student-athletes. You must be incredibly proud of their accomplishments, So thank you to the parents and to the coaches. But most of the... You know, I also want to express my gratitude to the time and energy expended by the parents. Because then to the athletes, you know, their parents sometimes seven days a week,

and yet they still find energy and time to take you to all. And so, you know, we should all, before you leave...

And I'm also the mom of an AYSO soccer player as well. so I know how much time it takes for all the parents to drop them off,

watch them during practice. So big kudos to all the parents who supported their children through this experience. Congratulations.

So, again, congratulations to the players.

You make Monterey Park and I'm very proud. And to see the fruition of your hard work of your kids kind of getting through this.

So thank you for all your support. And also, I call them Coach David Ono. And team mom, I know everyone's a team mom, but the three of us being there for the players

We kind of join us up here for a quick picture. We appreciate it

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Joshua Salazar.

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Thank you.

Council member Sanchez Duke.

Council member, thank you. Next.

So this is the resource center of all the RCs in the US. And our RC is very unique in many, many different ways.

We are on the east side, and we are also the only RC with focus on the elderly. What are we going to share in our next year? Yes, next. Thank you.

When RC first started, we had a mission to focus on, you know, reduce trauma,

foster resilience and support recovery through compassionate care and a strong and resilient community. Next. And partners and with the support of the city of Montreux Park, we started RC. Our initial and also our service community group.

You make RC as a demonstration model and community based. Next. Thank you.

With our partners, we owe the service, our public space, health, healing, and recreation. And there are many gun violence and community partners. So still in the process of making. Next, thank you. Ballroom event, the Ballroom Wellness Fair. We host every single month since the beginning because many of the survivors and their family are members of the dancing studio, and that's their community. That's their social network. That's their second family, Fang Ho. And our Boro event since the beginning, we were close to 1,000 participants participating in the event. In our event, and thanks to the Langley Center, we were able to host at the Langley Center. and it's not only we also every month we provide, we also have resource tabling. So we provide, we are offering a fund welcome entry point to mental health care. Next, thank you. Here's a summary for our program, pack summary. And I'm not going to go through the detail, but I do want to share that every number represents a person. You know, it can be a widow, a caregiver, a community member who struggled with grief or trauma. So what we offer in RC is a lifeline to those who want to turn. Every makes an impact.

However, with all the great work, we have a very small thing we don't. But our work is at a critical that we're supposed to receive a lot.

We force RC to post some of our key programs and scale back some of our services,

work that we're doing, and grow our work. You know, we're hoping to promote our services through newsletter.

Help us to raise the public awareness about the importance of a resilient community. Family and community resilient day stories. Found Survive Program. Two work-ins who. One participant told us after he participated in the grief music therapy that the session actually help him find a reason to keep leaving. This is the kind of

that we make possible to the community.

Next.

So on behalf of our staff, volunteer and community support

and leadership, we're able to be possible

if without the support and leadership from the city council.

And together, it isn't just about bounce. I just want to thank you and to the Chantel Service Center

and all the partners for all that you have done with the Resiliency Center and helping to provide

services, just a safe space for so many of the community in the wake of the mass shooting. And I was going to ask, but you pointed out in your presentation around the funding question

and challenge delayed in terms of potentially, or CSC has delayed in terms of getting that funding from the federal government on our side at the city level that we can do to help urge funding OF THIS GRANT MAY BE A LETTER OR I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THAT WILL DO BUT ADVOCATE FOR THIS

FUNDING TO COME THROUGH MY UNDERSTANDING IS CSC IS FRONTING THE COSTS OF ALL THE SERVICES THAT

BEEN PROVIDED OUT OF THE RESILIENCY CENTER THESE LAST TWO PLUS YEARS NOW WHICH PERSONALLY

VERY MUCH APPRECIATE AND I KNOW THE COMMUNITY APPRECIATES ALL THE SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED AND I UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO CUT BACK ON SOME OF THAT GIVEN SOME OF THESE FUNDING CHALLENGES It's remarkable how much you're continuing to do in the community, how much you're, the center, provide, and the special place it plays in our community and the journey of the China Health Service Center and the partners for continuing to stick around despite the question kind of along those lines is that grant is only meant for three years or so after the incident.

Are there any plans or any thinking around what the near term, medium term kind of might be for the resiliency center, physical facilities and services in the region?

But just wondering what you guys are, if there is any thinking around the physical space the resiliency center has now and plans for doing programming beyond the next few months or next six to 12 months. Thank you very much. I want to thank the City Council and the whole city of Monterey Park who put together to give us the support throughout this ordeal. Congress Member Judy Chu, at the moment, they have not declined or denied our request. It's still under review, according to them. So I hope that the funding at the end will come around. However, the funding period, because of the policy of the period that's expired, we're still going to be there. So we have turned that into a behavioral health center, anyone that has the need.

So we will seek funding from elsewhere other than those that have already been incurred.

And I think maybe a letter of support or concern that might be helpful.

Whatever is needed, we will look at.

the efforts to continue our strong partnership with the community and with the city, between the city and CSC and the Resiliency Center partners going forward for healing me over in two or three years.

This is something like commitment that CSC is very, I think, much, many advantage of the services providing,

just very, all that you're doing to commit to the people that were impacted by the shooting and the incident

and continue to be impacted to continue urban healing. So thank you so much. Whatever we can do to continue to support these efforts, let's look at other avenues that we can help explore.

Thank you so much.

I also want to echo the sentiments and just wanted to thank the Chinatown Service Center for being a partner. I remember those days very vividly

right after the Mass Shooty Service Center was very quick and stepping in and became an amazing partner in the healing process

right after appreciative of the work that the Chantown service is doing so whatever we can do

and I want us to partner with you I heard and promote a lot of your events but also look to the future in terms of what we can do I'm you know whatever we can do on our end city manager to be

able to not just a letter of support but whatever else we might need to do even financially if we

still have in our fund that might be able to help facilitate some of those efforts as well thank you I want to echo sentiments, but also just, you know, we know that, you know, you're in January of 2023, you're with this community, and one need only point out to your clinic on Atlanta Boulevard, your social service center on Garvey.

In fact, I've taken my mother to that social service center when she needed part of our community. And also during our time of crisis, you stepped up. You stepped up and you're helping, and still does to this day.

And so I think, you know, the sentence you'll hear, not just from this council, but from the community,

is that, you know, we appreciate, and certainly we want to help big awful bill. And I think that, you know, these are times in which we need to rally together. Utilize the services, and I've poured everything that we can do to support with getting funding, getting grants.

Please let us know. And continue to be a state, really the largest contributor to the city. City and thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

To public communications. Can you repeat? 24 hours.

Okay, 24 hours.

We have five speakers? Seven speakers. Okay. Yes.

Hearing about tragedy.

The tragedy today is how several said even the stupidest mistake can cost you your life. Who in the fuck cuts a live grenade when you got a vessel to put it in and just have it blow away?

That's just my opinion. But my recognition of tonight is about

Praetorizing Or

How are we? Terrorizing You see, what does that mean to you as an American? It doesn't mean to any one of you here

It doesn't represent America

God hates, hates, fucking America Insecure thing about undocumented

That dumb bitch Judy Jew Why haven't they taken care of this problem?

undocumented, eliciting people in this country. Why? Well, the answer is you are illegally lawed by the Constitution

and prayed that the white 13 colonies wouldn't kill every motherfucking America

this country first before any of you migrated here

and took away our land and stripped our lands of every leaf sky.

But again, here we go about November. When the sanctuary city subject came up. A sanctuary city.

We shouldn't have sanctuary cities. The same way we should.

That misrepresent illegal undocumented aliens in this country.

$20,000 to $35,000 to do paperwork that they don't have.

And I'm talking about local government.

Like that stupid bitch Hilda El Solis in the San Gabriel Valley.

I have every right to talk about this. What has she done for you? What has she done for American people like me?

Where are my sidewalk and streets? Where is my income? I pay taxes on my property that I own. I have rights to before illegal, illicit, undogged city.

Now let me refer to Brandenburg versus Ohio, 395, U.S., 444, 1969.

Yes, it's dirty, and she should do more for that. Bullshitting us. I use such words to describe Hilda DeLeon. Before the next speaker comes up, I just want to alliterate that. Next speaker.

Hilda DeLeon. I want to talk about the Launay Park Library

because it's the county library system.

So I just realized tonight because I was informed that making a copy or print is 30 cents per page.

Individual

I. And then I can give you several examples like San Gabriel, Pasadena, Los Angeles. Normally there is not any charges are associated using the library services. Court. K-22 million budget deficit the homeless individual using their food stamp. I think this is a topic for me.

also I would like to talk about

one of the Black Lives Matter leaders in Los Angeles Jason Reedy never recognized my gender the whole country

anywhere in the next target will be me I don't even know if I'm meeting

two months later I don't know when I do not know

but the reason why I came to San Gabriel Valley is that knowing it is a sanctuary city, sanctuary county, sanctuary state,

I was thinking that as long as I do not commit a crime, as long as I'm going to school, doing my own business, I'm not interfering with anyone else. Equal rights to Americans assumed that the council member, the mayor, the board of supervisors,

or some sort of a protection to the, we cannot do much about it. So thank you. Next speaker is me. Hi, neighbor. Tonight, I want to share with those in the audience, but I received a request up in the meeting schedule here. And so I want everybody to know I did ask, and unfortunately it was denied.

There is a down and discourage them from speaking. each each of you campaigned on the promise that you would listen to the people and act on their

behalf actions such as this denying them holding them hostage for hours all the way deep into the

night that's not reflective of that commitment to them and that promise to them that you will hear

what they have to say. It only shows that you don't care what they have. It's a problem. You know, you should keep that. You should do everything, and you probably already made up your mind.

Ogawa.

Thank you, Michelle.

Mr. Council members, my name is Robert O'Gawa Monroe, and I've been a longtime member of the

Adult Water. I've shared my story previously, how health, and so both before and through

several meds, was the only form of exercise that my body could tolerate. Weekly health routine, network of friends, and others in the community.

I'm speaking ahead of the agenda item today for the very reasons why I spoke previously.

To share my concerns regarding the closure of the Barnes and voice continued objections

to what many see as a lack of transparent time, as supporting the needs of the cresting,

and currently causing delamination along what should be a nice flat deck.

I have not heard of what is the pool. I may have missed something, but I haven't heard anybody else talk about students or the swimmers, the blocks.

Also, I'd like to report that they have a warranty or some guarantee on that painting. Some of the lines are just gone.

Next, some of the youth programs always bring up the two pools, and there are different uses.

So according to recommended guidelines, the young children and elderly require higher temperature water.

The Lost end of the recommended temperature range for those is about two degrees warmer than the highest recommended temperature for youth competitors. So overlap. lab. Traditionally, for competitive programs, Elder was used as a backup when the barns pool,

and with substantial maintenance and refurbishment on the horizon with Elder and its deck and other

potential issues, should be considered. I want to just mention that he funded building pool. And as a community, we're no longer able to support Barnes's programs. They're no longer to

host competitive events, which includes serving as an Olympic practice center, as 40-yard pool

is not a subschool for competitive youth programs, nor is it complete all of the needs of our

community. In terms of transparency, looking forward, I've seen recently, but I would like to to see signage will navigate people to more information about what is going on here. And have a way to field that information.

Thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker, Dave Jones.

Thank you, sir.

Mr. Mayor, dedicated staff, I just want to come up here at this time today and honor the Region 60 AYSO.

As a former coach, referee, and board member, I know how difficult their accomplishments are.

I've known Joey Ono since he could barely watch of that team. I had kids and players, and they all were contributors to their communities that came into contact with them.

I want to recommend Monterey Park because if they're not an AYSO, the practices come from the cities that they play. I didn't notice this week.

Last time I was here, they were practicing. So if this city did not make that space available, this great achievement would not be possible. Congratulations again to the players of Region 60, the boys U16. Thank you. Next speaker, Teresa.

Good evening, everyone.

I had planned to speak on something else, but I'm going to chuck that, and maybe I'll send you guys a letter hitting the graffiti. And I did speak to the fire chief about it.

I just want to congratulate the AYSO. I don't know if any of you have ever tried to play soccer,

but it is a pretty physically demanding sport. So kudos to them.

I am Michelle.

You all to represent us, to us, advocate for us because they did not. So how many people are evening to come here to speak on the trash issue?

Please raise your hands.

If you're here because of the trash issue.

You see that? They're on their back on them.

Because that's what the White House is doing.

Us, we want to talk. They shut us down. That's what you're doing.

And all they're asking is they just want to be heard. So I'm going to ask Thomas, Jose, Elizabeth, Vin,

who's going to face them and say,

yes, I want to hear what you have to say. Please move this agenda item to me because I am here

because I've got your back. And I want to listen.

And I want you to be heard. Who's going to have the courage?

Who's going to have the leadership, the ethics? the moral torpitude to actually .

pursuant to the city council's direction, not be alLod to speak again unless the mayor determines otherwise. Well, I'm going to actually rule here,

and we are going to listen to the audience, and we're going to be listening and allow that to happen.

Thank you.

Just at the same token, we alLod and we pushed out the hearing

for three weeks or so on this matter. So we'll continue tonight. I'll talk about the timer again for her.

I'm going to speak English first and then the Chinese.

10B to the public speaking section. I hope council members can agree with us. One minute.

There's so many people coming. You know, normally with us, no meeting already. There's nothing to do with this situation. We'll go to the front.

Thank you. We'll represent the citizens and not to do an increase. That was keeping all people.

Coming out to speak out. Mr. Sanchez, you were not here last week.

I think most of them are here. So that's why they gave us extra weeks to do some votes.

I hope you can hear to our voice and votes to against.

How many speakers do we have? The clerks, which is up front.

Speakers speaking. So we're just going to keep the order. That's on me.

When I explain to everyone, that's the order. So that's all the speakers for that. Mr. Mayor, I can suggest some of the comments.

Council's here throughout the meeting, and so is staff. So we're going to be here regardless. All the items on the agenda that you're interested in. I'm happy to move staff to the end of the meeting, but we can maybe skip that or move that. But I don't think consent will probably stay too long, but I don't know.

jump if that's okay um if we don't have speakers on 10a i don't mind moving 10b before 10a we do have speaker out so you're basically jumping the line i'm comfortable moving staff

communication because we'll move if that's okay we can sorry staff you're gonna have to be here

anyways so we'll do that uh then let's go through the agenda first so any items that need to be

Can you repeat which items, have speakers?

9G. 9. Well, then why don't we move to approve the consent agenda item to comment.

Question for the city attorney.

If they're on consent, they...

Remove the item from consent. Item 9L. Make a correction.

The item for 9L Street Sweeping, that 1, the consideration form, approved by the city attorney board so that is the request unless there are other items being pulled

any other questions or comments this motion

the record i'll recuse myself on 9d due to conflict okay so let's uh we're going to hear the speaker first and then we'll do the voting for the for

the items not pulled from not pool okay let's go ahead and do the speakers on the consent

Thank you.

What a pleasant evening, no matter how long.

And that's the best thing about America. You have that First Amendment right.

But when it comes to park police officers and Monterey Park Police,

memorandum, understanding between officers, management, association.

So we've got two divisions here, police and our America great job,

and not obstruct, do not obstruct the Constitution. I heard earlier, we're very upset on that particular IEM.

That hurts your wallet really bad when money is going to make us. They got a deal for 10 years to make $30 million in their hire, their trash companies.

Don't feel bad, folks. Think about it. 10 years, $30 million, that's a lot of cash.

regarding the resolution for taking additional related actions again what is desirable

the desirable thing i think the will of the people is that the mayor and our four consul man or woman what the associative jobs outside of consul you get your sweet deals you you get a

pinch of the percentage from your, you know, developers or non-profits. So again, thank you, I like that. Yeah. A corrupted criminal like Jose Luis Huizar from Los Angeles, who's doing 13 years in Lompoc. On 9G, Hilda. And I support, I'm a big supporter of that. In return, meaning is that when you are making randomly taking people but literally every city

I do not hear any chief commander whatever come here resident that hey I am in charge of the public safety in my city that is not a

the state of California not even one person

stand out and speak that way so that is

the reason behind it, it seems like my opinion starts to shaking.

People are being,

you call it robbed off the street, people are being, I think, whatever. It seems like a majority of the Monterey Park,

they allow or continue to have no, to stop such LA time, kidnapping behavior, police officer,

a huge seller. the purpose of making sure that your office is getting paid a bigger salary, and then when still your diverse community members are still being kidnapped right here.

So I think assuming that we pay them more money, nobody protect me.

Some sort of really so sure your residents are illegal immigrants, whatever.

However, I have no data that California state is the most diverse state in the whole country.

LA County is the most diverse county in the whole country of immigrant community. So the mayor said, I am a nobody. My words doesn't count.

And then just like a majority of other mayors said, that's a federal issue. That's not my issue. Sorry. Goodbye. Have a nice day. Thank you.

First speaker for 9M, 24 hours.

No matter who we are and not by the demands of our Los Angeles Unified Superintendent, that moron, idiot, fool, don't know what he's talking about. Because if there was fairness in education, every child would not be left behind.

my 22 years of experience

with LAUSD can tell you a lot about what I say how I think and what the fuck I can do to shake you and move you and stir you around in those seats and make the audience understand that growing up in Boyle Heights growing up in America was not easy of a mother raising five kids on welfare

and taking me through the school system to do better and make myself better. And so, yes, children and schools need more money, but what good is giving schools more money to build new schools and develop new schools? Uncredentialed teachers teaching our children not to be better than what we are as parents. or as

physically challenged children, and pushing them to excel, to graduate from a high school with an actual diploma, I pat myself on the back, but I'm not happy.

Because I want to see more in education than what I was. To excel beyond what I think of this council before this city.

Grade them. For what they hear from you.

Necessary, not when you're grandstanding, but every day. And don't let me get that call to go pick your ass up. Right?

And at the same time, we want teachers who are getting federal and state dollars to be trained to count backwards, forward, like a ray, like a segment,

and get beyond being an engineer. Seeing all the criminals, seeing all the children that are living on Skid Road, just like we talked about earlier. Illegal immigration. She'll tell you. I can say it politely. She's a dumb bitch. Next speaker on 9M.

Park School District. From earlier tonight,

it definitely rang a bell to me for what happened in Pasadena School District.

There's a school employee in Pasadena's school district,

went to the Pasadena school board, speak to the truth to the power, and then she was fired four months later. And I believe she did exactly the same thing.

And I really wish that she is not going to experience any sort of retaliation from the board because speaking truth to your other city official colleagues is considered as I wish her all of the best, our city clerk. for standing up. Going back to the

Monterey Park school day, I referenced about the library earlier during my general public comment. And then I wish that Monterey Park library study, use the computer, maybe send the facts, ask every other Los Angeles County public library system.

I think some other mentioned speaker, for you guys, you always have a fan of that. is I only take the bus, and then sometimes I wait for the bus. We know maybe they are Monterey Park High, disconnected there. You call it, what's that called? So that is just one example out of millions of examples that how cell phone or maybe tablet, that when you purchase a cell phone to your children, you have no idea what he is doing. So I think the LNN cell phone use on all campuses, I think that is of educator consider that is too extreme. But I believe that a lot of kids need to understand that they have to understand that things have consequences. So I believe that a cell phone use is a huge distraction. It does not offer much benefit. It does offer education benefit, I agree. But I just believe the cons outweigh the pros for using cell phone. So wish that in the future, the Monterey Park school, there's a case in Beverly Hills who have, who can underage that our modern is your children, your future generation, something about it. No other speakers until we get to items 9L and 9J. Mr. Mayor, just a quick question for the city attorney.

if there are items as consent calendar as a whole if someone has are we everyone to be able to speak on each item able are we able to consolidate them into just any item they can only speak once on consent items or how council what the brown neck requires is public public comment before the council so really to answer your question it's up to you can either have five minutes you have not taken an item off of the consent calendar that has not been put onto the regular agenda. So if we can just move the consent calendar and the items that were not pulled off consent. I'll second. So I have a please take a vote. Approved unanimously. Okay.

Now items right? 9J and

For Alex first. Mic check. Check, check. Pro Temp, City Councilmember Robert Aguirre, Director. I'm here tonight along with Recreation Manager Christina Alatorre. An answer plan was an 18-month process, and so we heard a lot of positive feedback. Tonight, before I start the presentation, I would like to take a moment just to thank one city council, also Los Angeles County Measure A for providing the funding to make this effort possible. I also want to thank city staff that were heavily involved in this process, also our city commissioners, and definitely last but not least and most important, all active in making this plan possible. So now I would like to turn it over to Alex Jung from City Fabric to give some background on the plan and also some additional information. Alex, if you can go ahead and take it over. Awesome. Thank you, Robert.

And just to confirm, oh, great, just wanted to make sure that the screen was showing the presentation. So good evening, Honorable Mayor and Council Members. Alex, I'm here on behalf of City Fabric, and yeah, we're the consultants. We advance the slide.

Yeah, so what is a Park System Master Plan? of Monterey Park Grow is a long-range plan that is you know to understand where we are today in terms of our existing park network and through creative implementation stress framework for future programming policy funding and operation implementation immediately that we had you know I also want to just emphasize the document really a north star if you will and a path towards the north star you know doesn't necessarily follow a certain path or in this case a list of requirements that the city is obligated to so i do want to make that point clear um next slide please

um so this you know plan we wanted to make sure that decisions of the existing park network network and what are some emerging best practices um and kind of with that basis of understanding we started to be and hear what the people wanted and needed um as part of this plan you'll also see strategies to expand and improve the existing park system and a framework for equitable investment and stewardship

you know this plan is both aspirational and practical like i mentioned before next slide

please so um this slide and the next slide really kind of break down the um planning schedule for this effort it was a four stage or four phase process if you will um starting with pre-planning

so that was a lot of our kind of initial data work um greatest need um you know parks and open spaces

can help to address many of the city's goals so we looked at various different indicators to

determine where the data is showing park investment can have greatest impact. Various different

socioeconomic and demographic indicators, environmental and public health indicators,

and open space indicators. That really builds off of the work that LA County has done to

understand is most needed. And this is important given that the fact that LA County use them and

where park funding can be disseminated to. There was a lot of research into also best practices and case studies with similar cities, which we continue to do throughout the duration of the

project as we understood more about what the community's priorities were. We also conducted a literature review of existing planning and policies in the City of Monterey Park, not just

locally but regionally, what the planning context would be for this plan. So what that means is that

this plan is consistent with other planning documents in the City. Through this in-depth effort of existing conditions analysis, the discovery phase of our engagement process where we

you know, got as many ideas as we could from the community about what the future vision would be. You know, this process started also with an engagement that Robert had mentioned earlier, collaborating close with the Parks and Recreational Department. In this discovery phase, we did a lot of need to go deeper. So we did just that. We're able to planning decisions and low-income renters. We'll dive a little bit more into what these findings were just a little bit later. Next slide. Different AYSL sports. So we

conducted a series of park audits. 17 of there. We essentially went to all the different parks in Monterey Park, assessing them and did that at various times of the week and the day. We also were able to go a little bit deeper and in the third phase, do additional staff engagement and a town hall, a series of workshops, additional workshops and more focus groups. So a lot of engagement. We conducted a series of park audits and a lot of engagement and trying to make sure we're right sizing this and now we're in phase four where you know we're sharing what's been done and moving for towards a finalized next slide please so really here just breaking it down at a high level Monterey Park 107 acres of park space and that spread of how you know well served your your city or community is is typically through acres of park space per 1,000 residents. Monterey Park has approximately two acres of park space per 1,000 residents, which is far below the, well, it's below the LA County average, which is 3.3

acres per 1,000 residents. Somewhat not good. I'll just leave it there. And, you know, I would also say, though, however, there are, you know, many different indicators to what we had heard from the community and their priorities to improve existing park investing and expanding park

space given the high cost of land and priorities. You know, it is where, you know, we could also understand the any kind of future park

need.

Park need determined excuse me. Monterey Park is, you know, particularly in areas around Sierra Vista Park and Bella Vista Park are two areas where park need is really high given the high residential concentration,

whereas more single-family residential areas actually have a higher than average access to

parks compared to county-wide averages. And this is all done by LA has been already assessed by LA County and essentially what our work was is to go deeper and get more nuanced with this information.

Next slide, please. So here are just some of the numbers that we got.

So with regards to the survey of Monterey Park and tried and had that survey, and it

really helped to—and it was four times, I think, the amount that we had targeted. And so specifically around a statistically significant number.

So, we have a fair degree of confidence that the survey responses we gathered are representative of respond to some of these kind of these questions around park space and park need.

Another thing I just wanted to mention before we move on engagement with youth and try to make sure that youth work for it. Next slide, please.

Awesome. So this survey, as well as you see here, that about 54% of those were homeowners, whereas 21% were renters. A percent of the people who had responded to the survey were residents of Monterey Park. We heard a loud and clear message that people love their parks, but there is room for improvement. And some key priorities included improving existing parks before designing for flexibility rather than single uses where possible. However, balancing the competition for space ensures also the theme of designing for more safer and better use facilities, such as restorational programming, making sure that our communities' identity and support is also very important, is maintenance. And these are just a couple more photos of the engagement process. So ideas of how can we repurpose, underutilize, thinking about joint use and shared use. improving maintenance and programming for existing parks, strengthening partnerships with schools. This feedback is kind of the vision that maybe as part of destroying belonging and supports whether it be a project policy or rose to the top as top priorities for the community. Next slide, please. Throughout the process and, you know, general classrooms was a top priority. just basketball pickleball volleyball tennis um pink pool also being an authority you know trails walking and trees is also our recommendations reflect see so um you can see it up there kind of get a sense of what we heard in terms of the programmatic side of what and ask uh how can all of this be in a way that meets the needs of uh current residents um the next slide please All right. Sorry. So I'll just end with this before I pass it to the community. Park-specific recommendations, provisioned. It also includes the funding and to be both visionary and actionable, a tool for both city staff and leadership to use through the adoption. Monterey Park will be better positioned to apply for competitive grants, build partners, meet the needs of the community. Now I'll sit over to Robert to go through the rest of the presentation. So, yeah, so I just wanted to, again, mention that it was mentioned, and during this process we did continue to serve the community and really work to improve the opportunity. So I just wanted to really highlight the plan process was ongoing. So I'm happy just to share a few of those things. Utilizing federal ARPA funds and also the California Parks and Rec Society grant, we installed, as you remember, seven new playgrounds in the city, six of those adding to our themed playground network. I also wanted to share that we also repaired for the additional sites, the playground surfacing, safety surfacing.

And then I'll talk about a future project that's coming up that also addresses playgrounds later. At the Langley Center, we had a way to address upgrades to the lobby area and lobby area furniture.

We also renovated the ping pong room with new flooring, new paint, and also TVs from the ping pong club there at Langley Center. The old restrooms at Langley Center. At Barnes Park, they're at the Barnes Gym. We replaced all the amphitheater, and we also addressed some of the amphitheater as well. I know in Monterey Park, so we, this time, Adders Month celebrations, Native American Month celebration, and 25 years of the Cherry Blossom. That's an award-winning festival. Very proud to have one during this time, the California time. We collaborated with the Boys and Girls Club and implemented intergenerational programming. You may remember we had an art show with the teens and our seniors over at the Vincent Price Museum. And all of that wonderful art now lives permanently in our Langley Senior Center. And then also we installed two new murals. I know it seems like long ago, the last 18 months, we installed two new murals. the Los Angeles Rams and celebrates AAPI Heritage Month with a dragon mural. And then just recently, this past May, we celebrated the Greetings from Monterey Park mural and the history and traditions of Monterey Park in our community. But I did also want to highlight, we also added a number of new programs at Langley Center, a class that is at Langley Center, and they actually, park restrooms is definitely some of our park restrooms with the assistance of public. Regarding tennis and pickleball, this project will include repairing a lot of the concrete issues that we have at some of the Bella Vista Park, so we're excited about that. The joint in the Georgia La Pola will be addressing a number of repairs and maintenance. As we all know, it is an aging picture. Make sure that it remains operational for our aquatics program, operational while we're trying to find that funding for the redevelopment of the barn. Regarding the Sierra Vista playground, so that's kind of what I alluded to, a playground at Sierra Vista Park, adding some native plants to the park, and also incorporate some educational elements. So I'll look forward to bringing that back to you in the future and sharing the ideas for what that playground's going to look like. I know it's been on everyone's mind for the last year. About a year or so ago, we had unfortunately had to remove the shade structures over at Garvey Ranch. So we're actively working with Public Works

and trying to utilize the current pillars that are there, cost-saving measure, and we're hoping to bring that item back started

in the very near future

to get shade cells up at Garvey Ranch Park and provide shade once again at Garvey Ranch. You know, it's a very sought-after park,

especially for birthday parties,

and we have the wonderful space-themed playground there.

So I'm excited to get back to the shade structure. So are we, absolutely. And programs.

So one is the MPK Campout.

A summer event. We're going to be working with local.

Some organizations have already seen it in our budget book. And have reached out and are excited about getting involved with this program. That will come out around next summer.

And then another program.

So this is a way for us to help increase seating throughout our parks. It's definitely one of the things we heard throughout the park master plan process that people love to sit in our greenery and what all the activities give people an opportunity to sponsor sustainable materials.

And it'll fast track.

prioritized. So we'll continue to look for opportunities to be creative, kind of like what I combine projects or maximize the impact of the funding that we

continue to look for ways that we can add on to that. So I would also like to

highlight that as we apply for more funding, many grants give additional points for so it will strengthen our grant applications as we move forward if

by developing plans and designs for some of our larger projects and our big ideas. So next slide, please.

And so why is this important? It's a vision for the future of our parks, our open space, and our community. Over the next 10 years, this plan will serve as a guide to ensure that decisions about our parks, recreation, and green spaces align with the needs of the people that use them. Staff is recommending tonight to City Council adopt a resolution approving the Park System Master Plan. and with that, that completes my staff report, myself, Christina, and Alex. Thank you.

First speaker, Peter Lin.

First of all, I'm very touched. Let's give a

applause to Robert Choir

and every month we have a monthly meeting and

effort we volunteer we like to improve our health

and issue really but not price and

to restore the swimming pool to an Olympic standard quality.

That day, Mr. Go, the city only had a $50,000 emergency fund to fix something.

So, I hate to see this become an ISO and a safety concern. All the audience here. What, Mr. Anybody?

Okay. Speaking to the mic because it will...

Tell me what the suggestion from that day. No, no, no, no. No. No.

Our mayor suggests how to raise $20 million that day. Okay.

Of course, nobody has $20 million to donate. If I have $20 million in my bank, I would donate that money to the city. I wanted to. that day Mr. Ngo suggests

please finish up your discussion

that day our mayor suggests

since the city has no 20 million dollars

he suggests every resident in Montry Park start to buy a city has no problem I hit and I folLod Mr. Cole's suggestion.

I bought a fire clock today at the liquor store.

And I saw the...

So if you can please finish up your time with us. Just close out your meeting, please. Do we not? We have other speakers. I saw the power ball jackpot hit $449 million.

I bought 15 Lotto tickets. I want to donate to the city.

Okay, my . Thank you.

Alejandro Ramirez

Okay, next speaker, Michael Decea

My name is Michael Daska I am a former swimmer of the Marquette

before the pandemic when I attended

to this school, this pool every Friday, something I am forward to. And in this community, as

it played at faster times with this Olympic size, be reinstated. As it comes with the intention to provide lovely memories and produce stellar athletes within our community once

more. Thank you.

Your openness and willingness to collaborate are exactly what we need. We are truly grateful. Thank you.

From day one here and now, the next reasonable and essential step is action.

We are asking the city for staff to issue a request for a preliminary design and scope of work for Barnes Park Pool.

This is a critical first step in moving to recognize and thank the city for submitting a $6 million LWCF grant application and for preparing for the upcoming October 30th grant application deadline.

These are meaningful efforts that shows the city's commitment to securing outside resources.

In addition, SG City, in applying for any and all community to strengthen our position, even professionally developed scope of design will give us a day it will take financially

and structurally to bring our beloved pool back to life. I grew up in that pool. I swam for the Monument Park Manta Rays and Marqueville swim teams. I worked summers as a pool. My children played and learned in those very waters.

And now, as a lifelong educator, local coaches, Coach Ish and Coach David, and their swim teams,

have the heart of the community for generations, a place of health and pride.

And I'm proud of the group of Monterey Park residents who have come together in a nation called SGV Power Up. To save the historic Barnes Park, to help preserve a place where generations are alive,

please visit our website, sgvpub.org, and connect with us. And now, city council members, it is you and scope of work for Barnes Park Pool. We treasure what you call Barnes Park Pool. As always, thank you for your time.

Next speaker, Christine Wong.

As I have mentioned, I'm a longtime resident of Monterey Gate and a high school. and now myself in these recent years of having swim opportunities. That's true. I've been through for over 30 years, and that's true.

Many of the repairs were made, but they were not addressed correctly.

I come before you again, and I ask reconstruction into the master park plan,

Park and Rec, I solely appreciate every millions, millions of dust leaked. Why haven't we set an endowment fund for young swimmers to be?

Monterey Park has a high school that serves our residents now. Made huge leaps and bounds. They are known on the map now as an aquatic giant. We three to divide. In this community, don't mingle our aquatics facility. It's an entity of its own. It's a water element that can against any other sports. Now, as much as I appreciate, we need to reconstruct one good pool, and we need to...

communities doesn't even include a current picture of barns pool activity, nor is it addressed. Or is the city embarrassed to show a photo of a pool covered with dirt and causing health concerns

in the immediate area? A retired L.A. County and plan consultants, shovel ready. That means you through dirt and debris, that will definitely not have your empty pool. There is an overview

and date the pool facilities at George Elder Park and money. It's not even sense of high schools

nor all the other aquatic programs that are offered. Many swim families are forced to travel assets for decades and then your plan should address all that should have been addressed

$17 million on a northern eastern section of minor wants to scale down to only one from a serious physical injury. Age of 155 shows at 415 due to the closure of Barnes' poll. Selected work with the city.

TG grant funds are received if they met that deadline and with multiple grants like other newly. However, in your seat, who now sits in Congress, folLod her very close political FK Profiles of Courage Award while in Congress, and now resides as a supervisor with the LA County Full Complex. City Manager and Robert Parks' Director request for proposal to redepthand a roadmap for building a barn's pool. as we've requested. Park's plan is far too big in your ultimate goal. It needs to be dissected with the first priority, the rebuild of Barnes' Pool. Not 10 years from now because it's a matter of time before Elder Pool permanently.

Thank you. Last speaker, Vivian Hu.

Hi, City Mayor and the City Council. A question has been asked. I don't know if you remember.

Please speak heard or any one of those people.

Is it? I want to hear the city manager.

So, okay, so, on the last meeting,

a wider pool was get. As we mentioned in the last meeting,

and one pool, to have at least one pool for a world level, it takes a lot of money and a lot of efforts for members.

You are elected to represent the city, a specific official group to work, or are they going to? Can the citizen help to raise that? I know there's a lot of money to help to raise the money for the citizen wants to help. So, you know, children is our future. To help them is help us. address that as appropriate. And Parks Rec, you guys helped me here. Why was the pool filled with dirt?

It's been next item, next question I heard was the, you guys heard it was leaking. It's a year's close. Why can't we build the pool? I believe it's around 20 plus. Just this past year, June 30th, the city had a $3.3 million. It was operating in a deficit number, but there is roughly 25 as the city's reserve. Where is the 25 guys to help? Yes, we're good. I don't know if we're going to get that grant yet. We've applied, but we're going to work at it. And of course, many of us on this chamber here, we all have children. Some are older than others, but we have children.

And we're here. Last point is this. We've made a commitment to do something. It's a plan because that was the appropriate agenda to get this going. And we're going to continue to work at this. We started a process. Our parks commissioner said that my. And the pool doesn't have to be my name. It's about the parks master plan. I have. It's on this plan. I'm not going to go through all of my problems. I really want to. Thank you for showing up. Not only tonight, but the outreach that we appreciate the thousands of residents and visitors and stakeholders, because it's not just the to the community, like the Barnes Park pool would be great to have parks facilities, including our restrooms, in terms of replacing some of the air conditioning, appreciate our staff doing what it can and the city doing what it can with the limited resource that we do have and that we've been able to save up over the last few years. They always take issue a little bit. It reminds me a little bit when the mayor and others talk about a surplus because There's no we're not generating So those who are who are listening or aren't Don't always pay attention to all of our meetings

Right the city is doesn't generate profit. We don't none of us make money here. I'm not certainly the council doesn't All the money that is surplus or that is generated more than our expensive goes towards our capital improvement projects and other work in the city that the city is doing to make sure we're investing in our streets, our water system, our proof about the infrastructure that we have. And I think because of the voters, that money is going back to making these investments in our community and our facilities and our infrastructure and really appreciate that we're able to be in this position, be more proactive and strategic about our investments, including this parks master plan. We adopted last year as well, our sustainability plan. a lot of so much infrastructure in this community that needs investment needs some love appreciate the patience and the Engagement from so many in the community in putting this plan together

To get to this point at least and that adopting this plan doesn't mean all these things happen automatically That if we adopt this plan right we kind of lay a path forward for how to do that There's still a lot of work to make sure that we're we're still not going to have the month unless Vin's

lotto ticket wins tonight or this week or the one Peter bought. Thank you for being here. I appreciate it. It's great to

be able to see you. Some lotto tickets for us. And so we have it on record to make sure,

Robert, if those do win, that those funds are coming to the city

and to the pool. But assuming that we're not going to win, well, hopefully we do win. But if we don't win, there's a lot that's

going to have to happen in terms of allocating resources and prioritizing because we don't have

200, 300 million dollars sitting around to pay for all these products that we would want to see. The Parks Master Plan that caught my eye, just a few things, hopefully just a few. Can we go three per person so that we can...

Just let them finish. A few things that were highlighted.

I appreciate Robert and the staff for highlighting a lot of things in this plan.

there's so much here and I know there's in terms of right there are hundreds of items here for us

to address at our throughout our parks a few that I want to highlight that I would really really do want to more art and more place making strategies in our parks and I think that came through loud

and clear more I think there are space I think it's different find new space but there are I

under-programmed and non-programmed space and look to build out new facilities. One thing and I appreciate comments and I just want to echo run off leash and getting many more residents than just even a few years to see that happen. I'll emphasize right more seating more shade we're in the middle of the heat

waves more shade and more having kind of a comprehensive approach to increasing

shade, both trees and

structures, to allow for more people to enjoy our parks and nature and green

space in our community would be great. Appreciate the emphasis on looking at joint use with the schools, with East LA College and others. Let's definitely encourage those some

more. Some easy wins, I think we should definitely, in some of the parks, we already do have dog poop dispensers. Love to see that

throughout. Caught my eye as well as one of the things that was talked about, understand what's available and get our

transit express program is going to help more, is helping more people get to Langley

and other places and the parks. If we look at other ways to help connect, connect that more easily. Cool Monterey Park was

laid out here in the plan as well, just emphasizing more

as we are likely and expecting to experience more and more not just for the parks, but bus stops that may not have them of way shade. Also, that wasn't brought up in any comments,

but hot mic.

I coached swimming in high school. I swam here. I still lapsed up.

Barnes Park Pool is open. I'm seeing pools in the city.

None of us are building a pool or rebuilding together.

The community, and I appreciate being started and kicked off to other council members. I'll make our meeting.

I haven't been taken up on this. I know we've brought this up at City's Head to meet the mayors. I'm a little, people who are saying that we're not engaging or not being transparent.

We have been to every single meeting we've been invited to. We've had so many forums about the pool in particular in the parks master plan and this whole process

If there are other ways that we can be doing more I'm all ears and I'm open and I will show up to any meeting you want to have if you want to have a dialogue these items Including the pool and so then any of the council members I think would be happy to show up to talk Specifics and I appreciate the staff for going out of the way as well to make time for those who are interested

But on the pool I really think that if the council wants to move forward on this,

first, I'm happy to adopt this item.

I appreciate staff's work. Adopt the parks master plan as approved.

Might ask for the staff to start to evaluate in terms of the projects that were listed and suggested how to prioritize given our current resources,

how we start moving ahead on some of these items. I know there's already action on some for this, for the right costs, need an urgency and also from an equity basis in terms of losses over the years. As other parks park pool, it doesn't seem to meet consensus about what swimming,

diving has different needs. We need to have, I think, a little bit of community.

There's nothing to, the Bones Park pool right now is a 50, and it's got a kiddie pool that hasn't been just the pool, right? So how do we, in different stakeholder groups, about design?

I also don't think I don't want this to take unnecessarily long either and so whatever we can do to accelerate kind of this design process

In the next few months, especially as potentially this grant and other grant programs to your point Robert around the need for or how much To emphasize the need for shovel ready projects the faster we can get to a design that the community is agrees on for Barnes Park Pool, the credit that project is, and the more eligible and I think the more points we get. If we're serious about pursuing grant funding, out-signalize the design, I think we need to go through a process

to engage different stakeholder groups to the design of a

park as a first next step if we move forward on this plan. Member Sanchez? Yes, a couple of items. Robert, first thing, your team, for all of the work

that you guys did with the parks master plan. Reading through it, obviously there's a lot of wants and desires from the community.

But I know that also as a parent, I have three daughters. If you have kids in this community, parks are so essential. I take my daughters to a lot of our events, but also a lot of our parks.

And so there's a couple of things, just I'm going to keep it brief, but a couple of things I did want to address that stood out to me. my district which is the southern part of monterey park only has one park and so one of the things

that's bella vista park so one of the um one of the things that i hear all district is having access to the for me updating the restrooms i hear from my daughter all the time when we're at barnes park remember so i know we're already starting the work on that so good to see what the priority was the park master plan um and i i wanted to echo one of the items that councilman me and the importance of canopy and shade and sweat throughout the city i think that's i did want to share um that today uh the morning part of today i spent uh and they were swimming actually uh and they've been

um and finally my last daughter my youngest um and it was a really proud one for me she swam

across the pool and that was uh such an amazing moment for her and i know there was a lot of

our Keppel students that's very a lot of us working together our next step

forward should be to start looking at unity in terms of what we want to see

in our community whether it's here at Barnes or whatever with the community wants to see I know that a lot of our students who are at Keppel and have you

know swimming programs and I my daughters will be going to Keppel so I'm sure

they'll probably be part of those programs as well we'll be taking

advantage of this pool. I want to direct staff to start looking at, you know, maybe bringing back

something to council in form of a potential RFP to start looking at ways to try to design a pool so we have something to work with, but also engaging the community so we kind of know what we're building. But it's exciting to see that we're moving in this direction. I want to thank you for being patient with us in terms of the park master plan project because this is even

when we're here on council. It'll be

for some of you guys, perhaps, in the audience who might be looking at the young people. So, and who I hope will continue to win comments. Yeah, let's go through that last. Don has said a little bit earlier, really, as a team,

the SG group,

and it was founded by I-FINITY. And with that said, we really

extremely appreciated Robert and Christine's time two weeks ago. We sat together

it's my fault. I promised I was going to put a timeline together for this project.

There was a brainstorming session. We basically put all those little elements that

Council Member Thomas have alluded and also mentioned by Jose. So the first part,

first step of project management 101 is to figure out what is the scope? What are we trying to achieve? Well, the team has already drafted a user required. The city built that

foundation, and the reason why we need to have the city council tonight to take action is first

that as what is we need that RFP is to develop that target. What do we need that target to look

like and that's what the preliminary design effort will do for us it will tell us how much how little and my style my approach to project management is to put

all the wish lists all the wish items on the list then you could then you can

make an informed decision do we need an amphitheater to brand new amphitheater

to go with the aquatic center the answer is no but if you look at the models that was being put in front of us, like BellfLor and the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center, their backstory is just like ours. They had to rebuild their swimming pool from scratch. So this is nothing new. This is not a one-off unique project. This is something that other have already

have done a beautiful job on. We just have to copy their template.

So I really hope that tonight by the city taking action and direct we could start working on what that scope should look like. And we already have a lot of

documentation in place

that we looked into, investigated. The project proposal that was put together in 20, I believe, 2015 in 2019.

And that was escalated.

And from that point on, there should have been escalation from the COVID, the escalated cost. So I think we have a lot of element, the basic concept, it's already on paper.

Robert just needs some help in pulling together

what is the last step of the project

move forward as a team.

And I think not to exceed $35,000,

we could get a design, a preliminary design together so that the council could say,

is this project going to look like, is it going to look like a $15 million project

or is it going to look like a $35 million?

Keep talking about the same thing in circles. So the only reasonable thing to do tonight

is to ask Robert to get our RFP for preliminary design not to exceed $35,000.

Thank you. Thank you for the help and support. Happy birthday, Robert.

Council Member Loll, your comments?

Sure, Robert.

Let's see. It's 949, so it's still your point here. I came to wish you happy birthday.

This comprehensive what we put together,

because I know when I got elected, there were like scattered here and there, you know, District 4. And District 4 is an equal part of my, and Council Member, I'm sorry, Mayor of Vinn's district,

but nonetheless, nonetheless, you know, you look at a map of Monterey Park, and, you know, no offense to the west side,

but you have two or three big parks on your side of town.

What about our side of town? What is the equity? What is the fairness?

And as long as I'm a city council, I will fight for my community to have this shared green spaces. And I'm glad to hear that we're finally getting the roof on the gazebo at Ranch Park,

because, yes, I get that same comment as well.

When I go to actually Garvey Ranch to walk my dog, and also talk to many neighbors about the compliments we get.

I mean, when I got elected to City Council, we had areas that are just bland, just walls of public spaces that are just...

We have a mural talking about more uses of public spaces, more public art. In fact, a co-worker, also a friend who lives in East L.A., although she lives in East L.A., guess what? She comes to 13 parks, and L.A. is also a very park-poor place.

Monterey Park. Monterey Park. Monterey Park. Monterey Park. Monterey Park. And you know what she said? She said, I'm glad that you guys fixed the rest room in the gym. You know, because unfortunately I don't see it happening in my side of town. You know, that's county. But nonetheless the work we have done to refurbish all our parks, our restrooms, our facilities. You know, the park. I get nothing but raves about how beautiful the playground is. You know, the rocket themed playground and the sports themed one. And the fact that every park has this different theme. And we should be

really proud of ourselves of that. And this is not just a document that just says we're going to rebuild a park. No, this is a picture of how we address wellness. And that is talking about every sport that our residents want to engage in. And also providing sustainability and resiliency. The bike plan in the Parks Master Plan. And also incorporating issues this is an urban area.

You know, let's be honest here. This is an urban area. We've been made to listen to community about the Aquatic Center, about Rene Perez,

and just for information, and we explained, help us,

and although I know

anyone from the Senator's Office is listening,

I appreciate that they asked to keep them updated, the process,

if they can, again, I appreciate that they present and our people together.

And, you know, and again, I'm very pleased to see, appreciative that everyone at Pub and

wants to help us, and I would even direct

we can be a partner, because again,

you know, projects that seem to do whether to have public or private

community, and so I would definitely, you know, like to see, you know, in your next meeting

with Pub, coordinate, you know, again, this is a great document, and you know what? You know what I say, let's create a portfolio for funding from a developer or

a private donor or a grant of the aquatics,

although I could speak out, I have four more minutes. Mine short since my colleagues cover so much ground already.

No, keep talking, keep talking.

But just big acknowledgement to Robert and your team for 18 months of hard work.

This was not an easy master plan to come up with. So really thank you for that. And thank you to the community members who came meeting after meeting after meeting,

even starting up the nonprofit SG Partner Up on this.

So I think the most important thing is action, as my colleagues have stated,

is to provide direction to our staff to more competitive size. The seniors want a warmer pool. The ones with toddlers might want a splash pool.

So so much input. So the next step is to collect all the information from our residents who we represent,

see what everyone wants, and come up with a design, which is not going to be $5 to $2 million. So that's already going to cost a lot, but we'll continue applying for grants,

and hopefully we'll get the 6-4. So I'll make a motion to. Let me finish up a couple more comments.

So that we didn't reach out to enough people.

So help me here, Robert and staff.

I know this process was out for 18 months. I know that I actually saw the survey out in at least four, five different parks and walk through where we did to take surveys and how inclusive we were in terms of.

Yeah. Yeah, so we originally, to have a statistically valid survey, our goal was to reach at least five.

We almost four times that with 1,896 respondents just to the survey. We also implemented meetings where after the survey, when we identified some of the priorities from the community, understanding the aquatic center, city commissioners.

And so those were more dedicated meetings that really focused on different elements within the Parks Master Plan.

And we also did a number of open houses. And so we had three different open houses, each of those 100-plus folks. One of those was at our Cherry Blossom Festival.

Another was at Sierra Vista Park because we understood that in that area,

we weren't getting as much input and participation from that area. So we wanted to make sure that we were reaching out to some of the folks in the community. And then we had another open house here at Barnes Park. activities where people were not only do some interactive, putting their money, so to speak, into the project areas that they felt were most important to them.

And that's where we started to aggregate some of the different information.

And then, as you know, towards the end of this process, we also facilitated,

mostly focused on residents there to address other types of issues.

So we had a robust amount of community engagement.

The emphasis with City Fabric from the very beginning was we understood that council and also us with the community feeling as if they had an opportunity at some given point during the process to know that they had every opportunity to be proud of it at the adoption of it.

Do we now, do we have a motion? Yes, I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the Parks Master Plan. I second the motion to approve the plan.

I just would note for that the next step in terms of staff coming back with Can work on short-term medium around that and then just specifically to call it be an RFP to bring someone in to reach out or in their next Meeting with the pub to discuss, you know ways in which we could formalize

maybe

Engagement between cities or any other community group that wants to you specifically might be premature. I don't know where I think the MOU, we just needed.

That's a direct motion. Work with anyone who in the community wants to work on this together.

Pro Tem Yang in a second by the vote.

9J. The staffer price had a couple of.

You know that for us, we speak for five minutes. When I look at the item, every single bidders were rejected.

and I think it's the cost, the cheapest service possible.

I'm not a big fan of that it's the most reliable vehicle.

As cheap as Toyota is every six-month maintenance.

You're also continuing for another long-term contract

with the same service opportunity to know good.

You did not even know you're going to continue to go there. I do not believe a fair evaluation

compared to that which one is giving you the best services possible out there.

And then when I look at some neighboring cities,

I really want to see that who did you lose a low cost of that reason. And I would like to remember public comment just died. I think that is really is low, but your behavior is that council member low.

Do we have a motion that's limited? Second only. And then our council member low. I second to that. Motion passed. Thank you very much. Have a next speaker.

1557 Athens Survey.

Arc-A-Line.

Factor here, folks. What are we talking about? How can we go from $90 to $3?

A project here and get your deal. Officials buy bonds and grants to build towers.

taking advantage of morons

and dollar fortune

for that much thought living. And I like my shit and trash

picked up for a reasonable dollar amount

so that I don't have to say

I got fucked because my trash has to go out and be sick.

Don't you people get it? They give you three cans to separate. You'll get nothing in return

for recycling for them.

Unless you're some asshole juju recycling bottles and cans for a nickel or a dime.

But the point here is families and homes have way too many people living in them.

So you cannot calculate how much fucking trash is going to the trash company

to go to the trash fields and you build this trash shit

so high like a tower that you can't dig your ass out of it.

Yes, it's inflation. Yes, they got new trucks. Yes, they're going electrical.

Yes, they got automated lifting. But they're still an asshole driving it.

And what about them? I heard that they had Athens

paying under wages are not paying the proper wages to its employees. Who's fucking who? I heard they also have Exide, fuck Boyle Heights,

let's just throw it in the LA River and let it flush to the Long Beach. So these are the views the people have to understand from 19... Yes, the one man who built his... I'm saying stop fucking prices, come to a conclusion that will bid probably less Yes.

there are cost pressures and inflation and all that stuff.

The amount of increase here with all the bids compared to our current costs, it's just a little bit mind blowing to me. I'd be curious to just understand a little bit better what's behind that. If other cities go forward in terms of making sure we provide this essential service in our community, right?

Going forward,

if there are things we need to change or can change in terms of how we RFP this or how we provide the service that can adjust, right? Pro Tem City Council Sean Igoe Public Works Director the terms of moving forward. I have a motion May a pro tem Yang. I just had a comment that in prevailing wages worse here But another item that's coming up so that will be part two and we'll save the comments for that. So we have a motion

Please calm your demeanor

Okay

Thank You mr. Mayor members of the council check of names or you got Okay

First of all, I just want to echo the previous speakers, all of their concerns that they raised about this item 10B.

And then also, second, it was very ignorant of you to say that you guys decided to not move up this agenda item

because of the number of people wanting to speak was less than for other agenda. And then also I want to just make a statement, a fact, that on the yellow sheet that I turned in at the beginning of this meeting,

I have elected to, but for some reason I was skipped until now, 6.30, to express our... We've all been here since 6.30. They're pretty easy questions. Hopefully you guys are able to answer them.

So who made the decision to increase the refuse fees, refuse company?

The second question is, how long is it valid for? and we want to see the contract.

Also, from the last council meeting, 17,000 ballot letters were mailed.

Does this cover all of Monterey Park residents? How will the increased money be used for? Is it going to the city or the refuse? Before we have a discussion, discuss that. That you're refusing any of the questions that were here.

There were older people.

What about our property taxes? Is this my time or something? Or do I have more time? Okay. So all of you guys are refusing to answer.

Here, who have a language barrier, who cannot voice their concerns, who have actually left, given up, of making people wait.

Yeah. They just said that.

Good evening, Mayor. To residents that was mailed to residents.

This franchise fee should be more transparent about,

and who is it that we?

It's not a complex question.

It's our city and our residents, as well as you,

and you need to help a city.

Or wait for where? at this. We are not getting the full picture here.

It deserves the full picture. Thank you.

Jenny? Are you okay if Vivian translates?

Or do we have other translators? We have a translator here. Who's a translator?

Wait, hold on.

She wants me to translate. Actually, I prefer our translator.

No, I want to see the translator.

Okay, then maybe you can stand by here and just make sure that everything being said is accurate.

How about that?

Can the mayor look elderly there?

So what she mean is can the mayor their opinion to make the decision together.

In the future, when they send a letter or anything related,

can the city mayor and other council members agree? All the letters on the original letter with the proposal have to clearly mention how many tickets were sent out,

were known to against this kind of proposal. But we do want answers for all those questions. Where are the third questions?

Please hear our voice.

So what I'm trying to say is you are elected to...

Thank you very much. Thank you.

Next speaker is me.

Hi, neighbors. It's Michelle. I'm speaking as a resident again.

Office was because I was so sick and tired of watching politicians, attorneys, and government officials.

These are the people who are supposed to create laws to protect us.

Yet, because they know how to play the game the best, you'll often find them contorting and creatively interpreting the law to benefit themselves

with no consequences faced by their own people.

This trash fee increase is a... Refused to provide replacement ballots, referred them to a...

Instead of feeling bad and taking account of...

The city continued to make it difficult for people to protest.

Increases does not mean to try to get away with it too.

It's an absurd... Staff and paid for by the property owners,

they are the ones benefiting every single task performed.

There is no outstanding financial obligations prompting the need for this fee.

Valeries are already covered and financial loss and allowing residents to create another tax to pad the general fund off the backs of property owners.

How can you do this to your people?

You care about the economically disadvantaged in our city, yet you don't consider increase is not necessary.

While I'm handing this out, could I possibly trouble someone who has some water here?

Some serious mistakes made. The increase is itself. We had a job to do here with justifying the increase of those things, and those people

need to get...

There's no light here. Oh, but it seems like...

Hmm? Administering and enforcing the Monterey Park. This isn't anything new, so why does it seem money for other line items?

Who is making a mistake? And to them.

At the bank where I work, if I was to charge you a fee for a service we're already providing and then use that money for something else, they'd call it either here or at the ballot box.

But don't make up a fee for what you're already paying for just so you can reallocate other funds elsewhere.

On the street. Where is making?

They're not based on any actual. in cities of Santa Barbara and Salinas have already lost some questions here.

Mr. City Attorney, how did you let this get past you? Do you really want to set up the city to please that that will come back to us, all of you? But you really love someone, you have to, and then give them a chance to address those errors and correct them. And that's why I'm here tonight. Because I love you,

and I believe you're good people, and I believe you want to do the right thing. And if I'm wrong, well, that's what it left.

Thank you for the water. Next speaker, Damien Joa.

Damien? No? Next speaker, Kailea Garfield.

Hello, my name is Kylia Garfield and I am a resident of Monterey Park.

I am entrusted to listen to your constituents, so I just want to make sure this is of the City Council of Monterey Park.

Strong opposition to the proposed fee being considered under proposal state consultant to appraise fees for trash bin placement.

and that occupancy justifies a separate charge unrelated to the actual cost of collecting trash.

Using market-based land value to impose a fee for placing trash bins is not tied to the cost of solid waste service,

not a cost the city actually incurs, and not a fee.

It is an attempt to manufacture value where there is no ad hoc violation of Prop 218. This is deeply problematic. To place bins on the curb or use rollout service, this does not transform required curbside bin placement

into leasehold interest in city land, resident, or way to generate revenue, which Prop 218 prohibits. In Jax v. City of Santa Barbara 2017, the Calif franchise fees pass through to rape and not simply revenue devices. Any clear connection to cost recovers. 2. Appraising the proud does not convert a regulatory place their bins on the curb for collection. Public property.

County. It is part and partly complying with mandatory service requirements. In how the court invalidated a franchise fee passed on to ratepayers providing the service and instead functions cannot disguise general revenue 218 the amount of a fee or not pay for or provide. There are proposed 60 and 120 square foot rent any aspects to try to circumvent Prop 218 requirements. The fee is unlostful and must be rewritten. And it is an unauthorized residence

compliance with a manderide trash bin replacement as an occupation of public land.

If the city proceeds with imposing a fee on residents and businesses for trash, including a writ of mandate and potential legal and injunctive relief. Thank you.

Next speaker, Sylvia Poon.

it's past my bedtime good evening mayor council members and staff and i've been a resident of monterey i'm here tonight as well as my elderly many house residents to shoulder and fully add up The fee increase will have roads damaged by trash trucks, but Monterey Park already receives state and county service feels like double dipping, and that's not right. If the city is facing budget challenges, it should do what other government agencies are doing, budget curtailment exercise. Residents should not be the default solution every time money gets tight. I also want to point out that this protest process handled well. Many of my elderly across the city never received this notice and transparency. I urge you to reject this increase and explore other ways to balance the budget without putting more pressure on us. Thank you.

Before we move on, is anybody coming in, but I'd like to make a motion to continue.

Sure.

The meeting to 12.30?

I'm sorry, 11.

I'm fine, 11.30, fine.

Motion by Council Member Lo.

Do I have a second? Second by Council Member Wong. Please take a vote.

Extending the meeting to 11.30.

Approved unanimously. Next speaker, Teresa.

Next speaker, Alex.

Good evening. So a lot of this is going to be reiterative.

I think it speaks to the constituency that you guys all are supposed to be serving.

They have brought up and all the points they've made about how clearly this was mishandled.

This wasn't well thought out.

So I think it's impressive that this many people trying to voice their opinions. That's an aside in how you guys handle it. It's clearly duplicitous.

We see it for what it is. It's gutless.

At least have the guts to say, you know what you're doing. You're pushing it. You're waiting people out.

At the cost of their health, as a healthcare professional, it's very offensive.

I truly hope you guys or your family members have some kind of health conditions that you guys can appreciate what people went through tonight.

Not cool.

Or at least own it. Just own it. It's godless.

So this is clearly mismanaged.

I feel that the constituency has actually done more research than you guys in pushing forward this bill and this measure and then haphazardly just let it go

and I guess I'd like to know what my first question is what was your thought process? Was that what that was?

No one's going to say anything, they're going to see and the just, how does that even come up?

so again if that's where do you stop

at what point do you start charging for air you know like

where do you draw the line clearly wrong and you shouldn't be doing that anyway

again I do not push this battle through well thought out and to honor your constituency and not

And I listen to all the people complain.

Myself, I'm a retired transportation engineer.

I work for Caltrain and then retired.

I work many freeway construction projects. I don't see any difference for a freeway construction project compared to this trash collection service.

I heard people is complaining why could a trash collection price, but we have to understand

that our councilmen, they have no power to stop inflation. My taxes automatically go up price to the inflation. They get more money.

Not a valid option.

My previous freeway construction project, some projects could last for 10 years.

For example, for I-5 carporting widening from the Orange County line all the way to the north end.

That project lasts more than 10 years. When the contract is out, they have a certain amount for the project.

But because the material price increase, they require the project increase. Otherwise, they have to stop the project.

We don't want that kind of thing to happen. we don't want the trash collection service for the city stop I want my trash to be picked and I trust

all the councilmen I elected them a couple years ago I trust their judgment

I trust them they'll do their best before we kind of go into that let me I took the mayor's

decision to kind of go in the order because when we started this meeting I asked how many speakers that we have and we have five speakers in public communicators for 9g which is ahead of this and then we had two speakers for 9 a.m. and then we had four speakers on 10b when we started this granted we added five more speakers at the back end of course earlier those five speakers wouldn't be able to speak I just want to clarify that how many ballots were needed for this to that was a question how many ballots we need I think the city's made it clear that you need 8,000 ballots in order to kind of get this through the elected officials here are to represent the public and we are hearing there is a couple of other questions who made the decision well staff made a recommendation City Council took it under advisement this process and how How long has this contract, this bid started? This thing you can say goes back almost two years when we had of last year. But in fact, September of last year is when the contract. Current contract today where is at roughly it's $29.99.

I'm around to $30.

The increase we're asking for is not a rental increase for your property. It is a franchise fee which the city, as well as every other city around the community, charges for utilities. So the gas, the cable companies, the phone companies, they all pay this fee.

What is the increase in money?

Well, if we look at these numbers, and right now the ads are $30 to roughly $34, which is $4. and 80 cents will go toward this franchise because this is a continuum.

Here are certain facts. It was passed back to the city council member

who actually voted in that process, not only to help pass Proposition 218

in terms of being compliant,

but we also locally made it tougher

in order to overturn something like this.

So we are in compliance, as I mentioned this, and the city attorney mentioned it last.

I'm going to read to you 17 different cities.

South Pasadena pays $70.71 a month. San Marino, $57.

Temple City, $51.

So that's four cities.

The next five cities pay Sedina, Monrovia, West Covina, Azusa, San Dimas, Montebello. Four more cities also pay above us. Arcadia, La Plente, Duarte, and Almonte. And correction, Almonte is actually serviced by Valley Vista, not Athens. Then Mallory Park is number 15. At least $34.69, we are the 15th city on that list. The two other cities that's slightly below us at $30 and $26 use Republic Services. And I believe one of the contracts will be up soon, recently. There was a labor strike not too long ago, which trash was not picked up for at least a week. Clearly, inflation has a lot to do with this.

what we did when we started the city absorbed some of the fee to the tune of roughly

$550,000 because we did not want the residents to absorb the fee today we're asking the residents to help absorb that fee so that that is the franchise fee in order for us to have funds You heard earlier about the infrastructure projects, about the park projects, and about the pool. You elected us to make decisions where we are.

Okay.

So now I'm going to open it up for comments from the council. Mr. Mayor, let's close public hearing.

I appreciate someone who opened the public hearing three weeks ago. The foundation kind of in terms of knowledge, too. Can you just explain at a high level the concept of the franchise fee works managers?

So she'll be helping with the boss that the city incurs related to what he has which includes management of the contract It's managing regulat funded and so regulatory regulators put these burdens them and typically we don't get funding So it's cost to help leave what these things are in place for Correct. It's very similar to how our water and sewer

characterizing this incorrectly or with the trash is the general fund is fee if we were to apply that kind of trash to our water rates and the general fund would subsidize the sources of funding for the general fund right the rates for water the general fund will be subsidizing the costs of providing water that service to residents and businesses this of moving forward with every city that has adopted which is just about every city unless I'm mistaken every city in California for the city to recover the full cost of people that are actually utilizing those costs. And so understanding that, understanding that widely accepted concept in terms of power, gas, the impacts of those operations and providing those services in the city that we need to recover to make sure that the general fund is not subsidizing the costs of providing

those services by private companies. Sorry. Correct.

And so I'm in support of this. right concept and moving forward just as we do it it's a common one but I just want to note for those and I appreciate everyone who came tonight tonight and the last public hearing as well to express their concerns around this franchise fee and the cost of trash services and I'll just note again and reiterate some of my comments from last time we're residents here as well right every member of the council is required to live in the city we pay these rates we're going to pay these rates as well. I don't want to pay more either. I don't want to pay anything. But I understand the need for taxes broadly and generally as a concept to make sure that the city and government can provide the necessary services that we expect in the city, including, right, we have a backlog on a lot of things. We just talked about some of that through the Parks Master Plan, a lot of city facilities and our streets. I hear complaints all the time about sidewalks in disrepair, streets in disrepair, a lot of these things that the general fund properly, we don't have enough in our general fund to meet all those needs currently.

I just want to note, for a raise of rates, this is not an easy thing. Someone kind of mentioned being gutless. I think this is very hard. The easier thing is not to pass this. This concept of I agree and support the idea and the concept of the franchise fee, but I recognize the impacts on residents.

I feel it too.

All of us are paying more for everything, and that's why at the lab I didn't ask for, and I appreciate staff bringing together in this staff report, the potential to phase in to customers, residents. I think we need to move forward on implementing.

to help those who are struggling to pay their bills, not just their trash bills, but other utility bills as well. I know Edison, Gas Company, others have, and I know where is offering when issues are trouble and challenges, regular bills for utilities. Whatever we can do to encourage them to expand those kind of programs, make the people more aware, and advocate, and maybe even implement at our local level for those who are income challenges there constitutionally but let's do what's to address the efforts of the fees so that we can soften the going forward

prop 218 was six the city or local purposes a resolution in 2014 to help Series of court cases interpreting Prop 218 has said costs incurred based upon the service being If one were to read the note that we've made adjustments to that recommended fee based upon case law that came out In June the recommended overall recommendation. It's an engineering firm While I pretend to be an engineer so I can't go through the calculations a study that was adopted by the City Council in May showed that relationship I'm missing in terms of your questions.

I think you covered. The actual cost inferred by the city when I put my draft pen on the street.

I think we can reference it if people want to dig deeper into that.

People can do that.

Going back to the study, we hired a consulting firm to evaluate all the areas where the city is impacted. And this is one of the areas that they evaluated.

I'll do this, but I manage budgets all the time. A cost incurred is a cost incurred. If you have to, there's a dollar amount. There's a line item.

If you have to... Okay.

So it's never, I'm from Wong's point, what we're more expensive. But this is just a fee to collect what the city is incurring.

Okay. And I understand that...

Again, thank you very much for a lot of these thoughtful questions already. ask not to suggest opposing

and

30%. And I'm curious

percent. Again,

to some extent, that 70% is exorbitant, then what about

50-50? I'm just curious.

It's going to be from $34.69

to about $33.85.

And someone can double check that math for me? Yes. We can pull up the slides. We actually have some slides to

some costs for a 50-50 split.

Read the, yeah, the small.

So if you could read off at least the first line, the residential line, that way there's.

Sure.

So good evening, Mayor. Under a 50-50% model where we would collect 50% of the franchise fee for the first year, the standard service rate for a 96 black, blue, and green container would be about $33.09. so approximately 90 cent difference than the model being presented for 70 percent of the franchise

free nonetheless I mean well here's my concern I mean we we talked about this and we also spoke

about item 9l if you guys were here you would have heard that the street cleaning fees are going up from $30,000 all the way up to above $90,000.

Above $90,000.

That's a $60,000 increase a month.

One month. That's $720,000.

Time and figure out, well, why did we say, let's take the hit, increase the franchise fee to $35?

That would have covered.

But now we're a little short here. so again we need to figure out the budget

and this is part of the reason why we're in discussion

I mean again I mean I realize I am in favor you know of moving forward but I'm just saying is that is that I'm need 30 versus 50 50 I'm just curious I'm all in favor of phasing it in

so to Councilmember Wong's point if we have any percent model as well

So I guess motion is moved for approval item but with a phasen of 50%

On the exhibit that's attached to the order would be no need for a hearing that would be an automatic automatic

Adjustment find that

Yes

We have a first. We have a second.

If we need to clarify how many protests actually came in, maybe we can announce it.

How many more ballots came in?

Let me just emphasize, we have not...

Total number of ballots that came since the last...

Approved unanimously. On a regular basis, but I'd probably take and maybe we should formalize and look at how we can ensure 218 processes and protest votes if they're thinking better. Let's take some of those lessons.

1130, would somebody like to make a motion?

Motion by Council Member Loll, second vote. Anonymously.

We only have one speaker.

ours? I believe he's left.

Well, Mayor, maybe I don't know if others need it.

I don't need the staff report. Don't need a staff report either. I'll make the motion to adopt staff recommendation.

Motion by Council Member Wang.

You have a second? I'll second. Council Member Lo, take a vote.

Thanks, Ray. Approved unanimously.

Okay. Let's go to new business, none. City Communications.

Mr. Mayor, members of the council, real quick, we skipped over staff communications. Oh, my God.

We can. We are staff. We can provide the staff communications. There's only one quick reminder for the community that we have a community cleanup, bulky item, community cleanup, e-waste drop-off

over at Langley Center from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Wanted to make that announcement because the next council meeting did that announcement as well as spirit bus changes route changes have went into effect and so the information you could find it on our website if residents have questions about the changes they could always reach out to our we had some changes go into effect earlier this week so just want to remind the community about that just one quick

event we have this saturday george elder swimming pool and showing finding nemo so come out george

It's completely enjoy a dive-in movie at the pool. Thank you

Well while Robert is giving his report on our race creatures I just want that mpk transit Express is expanding the Pickup drop-off areas including out to the Rosemead Walmart Would love to see if we can expand that to other high use high traffic Just outside of the city limits as well particularly the East LA train station, Cal State LA maybe as we explore how we can make this an even more regional

Mr. Mayor, members of the council extended to the gold line in East LA and the Cal State LA stops we asked VIA to make sure that in their next update

that they include that information

it's on the app but it wasn't in some of their messaging that was spread we will continue to pilot successful thank you for your support

no, read my mind, thank you

actually since I do use

I will test that to see if it's true.

No, I do appreciate it because the A line,

yes, it would drop you off at ELAC

and then you'd have to walk to the station. And by the way, cross the on-route. Okay.

So City Communications.

Henry? Oh, what?

City Communications.

You know, thank you again for all our law enforcement personnel for all they do.

Thank you.

I just want to also share that we have actually the singing competition that happened here a couple of weeks ago drew over 1,000 people over two days.

So a very successful event.

We had a couple of ribbon cuttings, new food places for grab a crab and macho burger.

so they're open.

And I want to also share that we were at the Eagle Scouts

where we had four Eagle Scouts.

And of course National Night Out. And to adjourn, I want to adjourn in the memory of a civic humanitarian long-time volunteer with the city of Mario Park in memory of Samuel Sam Young Park who passed away July 23rd at 88 years young. He was a humanitarian, a volunteer, part of the sister city, among other commissions at our city. He was also the Lions Club president from 1993 to 1994. He is survived by his wife, Helen Park, and two sons and four grandchildren. Our condolences to the family.

We'll adjourn the meeting.

Thank you.

Okay. Oh, of course.

The city's current effort to appraise curbside space per household and then assign a monetized value to that space is functionally identical to imposing rent, but without legal authority and in clear contradiction of Proposition 218.

The city incurs no cost for residents and commercial property owners using the public right-of-way for trash bins slash carts.

Under Section B1 of proper charge imposed upon any parcel of the service, a tribute to that parcel.

If there is no cost to the city, then there is no legal basis for a fee. You cannot charge for something you've never been any mentioned at a public meeting that there is a cost to the city for the printed space, nor has the city mentioned.

In summary, the so-called use of prowl fees violates Proposition 218.

It is based on no actual cost to the city. It charges residents when they do not use the service.

It is a form of rent dressed up as a fee. It is a legally dubious attempt to monetize public service by treating curb sash cart placement in the prowl.

it exposed itself to a legal challenge under Proposition 218.

My name is Sylvia Poon. I've been in Park for 26 years. To express my strong opposition to neighbors to the proposed trash fee increase, households in our city are already struggling. People are dealing with layoffs, work reductions, and rising costs. Now is not the time to ask another fee. especially when the reasoning doesn't work. According to the city's explanation, help fund salaries for three staff members and repair funds like gas taxes, SB1, and Measure R, specifically for street repairs. Using trash fees for this purpose has not been handled by neighbors and others. that raises real concerns about fairness up to 11 p.m.

I'll make a motion to extend all the lucid arguments. I mean, and then it was trying to be pushed through. It's almost offensive to think that no one would say anything. It's sad that even more had to go home. This meeting in general, people would just like to take it. it's offensive to the intellect of the people of Monterey Park you guys thought this would just go away and you just get away with it I don't want to beat that to death but I will talk about the lack of transportation for the rent of the street and the precedent or lack thereof if you set that precedent which is yeah

this whole thing has been

mismanaged and I urge you guys to it's clearly not you know take predatory

action upon them rather serve them so I will leave it with that.

Thank you.

the trash increase. It makes a big burden on them.

I can understand that. The price increase put a burden on the city councilmen.

The price increase is because of inflation.

514 infrastructure area. was the labor price increase.

Contractor allow pickup

to make sure the trash collection service continue. Thank you.

No other speakers.

Okay, well, we took down some questions. Let me answer some of the questions. It was locations. Five speakers for 9J. Two speakers didn't know that was going to happen. In fact, if we had this... in the public, and that's why we're having this meeting. The new contract, which started September of September, it went back 18 months before negotiations for the new trash contract started to take place.

So that's how long this has been going back.

What is the current contract bid?

Well, the table, it's roughly, it's going to go from,

of which $2 is a price fee, and $1.10 is the annual escalation with the WERR contract. So that addresses a lot of the questions that was asked. Now, in the duration, I want to make sure the facts get out again.

So Proposition 218, back in 2014-ish, and we have a current in the last meeting,

Sierra Madre, $58, over $40. The next set of $30, if we increase our Hanborough and rosemead, and if you listen to the news, we contract that $550,000 to use for other city needed to prioritize decisions for the city. There are many, many different priorities.

And this is, I think, appropriate to close the public hearing at this point. the clarification i know some people here tonight were not here when we were whenever that was um so just also to help set the uh sean uh and what what the purpose of it is sure good evening all

mayor mayor pro tem and city council sean i go public works director i also have social depot here who's our public the presentation as well um so a franchise fee is really initiated to help pay for uh whatever item that is in this case it's refuse so there are there are fees that or there's cost that this this is compliance because as many of us know our refuse has significant regulatory compliance needs many of this is on agencies we have to comply with manage this these regulations this contract so that's typically so would it be fair and accurate to

say right the franchise fees which we charge as the mayor noted to all private kind of utility service providers in the city and every city pretty much charges uh is to recover the full cost of providing that service to customers uh in a direct way through their rates through the

franchise correct it's very similar to how our rations run so if if we right our current

situation right now and let me know if i'm so if we were to do like what our current structure rates for trash services is subsidizing the portion of the cost, the full cost of providing trash services to residents and businesses in the city. General fund covers the portion of the contract management, overseeing and complaints and all that stuff that are being proposed through this transfer. That concept in terms of how it's structured now, essentially that would mean the water rates would go down. Part of the cost of maintaining our water system, replacing pipes, the impacts of some of that construction to our streets, our sidewalks, all that stuff, instead of that full cost of providing that water service being borne by the customers and those that are using that water service, the general fund, everyone that pays in all the wider than customers here in the city, right?

Yes, that's correct.

And so the purpose of the financial fee, not just here, but Bornea, is to providing trash services in this case, or a service, And to assign those costs to the as instead of spreading those and subsidizing that through another source of funding that right correct Other utilities for internet phone We also charge franchise fees because there's a cost to the city in terms a lot of service the city provides funds and provides resources to Make sure we're investing for those that I don't I don't want honestly right the I don't want to charge this but I noted fees to soften the increases in the hit residents' pocketbooks with implementing this franchise fee. The cost of providing trash and those that are using those services, not by concept, I hope others can agree with that generally. But that's how I'm seeing this. That's 100% in the second year. Feel as we implement them as well to, there is a need, payment programs and payment plans for those who are affording their monthly or their regular awareness of those programs that are available. If there are ways to champion opportunities to help with bill assistance and rate assistance, not only for trash, I know we have a lifeline water rate program qualified. If we can explore similar programs, I know they're do the extra mile, go explore what other cities are doing and what else we can do. We have affordability concerns around these rates and these franchise fees as well. And so in that sense, so that being said, I would support moving forward on the franchise fees, understanding the concerns and recognizing the concerns that have been expressed, but would want to move forward with a phase in and increase in the blow to residents and customers' wallets. Can a council member ask a gentleman to explain the cost incurred by the city for the public right away?

Since we're saying it's cost incurred by the city. If a council member will ask

Is the attorney can you help address that or

So Mr. Mayor members of the council I will echo some of the comments that I made on July 16th First of all just a small correction on when this was passed by California Prop 218 was approved by voters in 1990 Council for Monterey Park as a matter of cleaning up the process and making things more transparent for local community adopted to implement that process. So that is the resolution that is currently being used. It will need to be subsequently amended based upon changes to state law that occurred earlier this year. With regard to some of the speakers' comments on pure revenue generation, what have you, they're actually correct. The case law has evolved over time. I think I mentioned last time that historically local agencies have just charged a certain percentage of gross revenues for solid waste franchises. Most typical percentage historically has been 10% of gross revenues of whatever the solid waste franchisee brought in. Clearly, you can't do that. You need to have a reasonable relationship between the provided and what you're charging as a franchise fee. That's what the study was that was adopted on May 7th, and it showed the relationship between the costs incurred by the city and the suggested fee. July 16th staff report, and so the plan was to reduce the proposed franchise fee based upon that case law. To answer the question in terms of the study, the consultant was given clear direction, both from the public works staff and my office, about what could and couldn't be in the study. I'm an engineer on TV sometimes. I'm not actually went to law school, so I didn't have to do math but you know

What am I? Okay

The study right that was done and

Sure, so again

Excuse me. We're going to a discussion here so we can speak to if we can speak to mr. Jones afterwards Yeah, okay, any other comments from council?

popular to increase fees but I do want to mention a couple of things to council we're trying to do here is collect what we are being incurred as a city and I think I myself and all of us here are paying this extra fee as well you know I'm raising kids as well and I know life is becoming more doing this or raising rates anytime is not popular but sometimes we have to do to be things like this to be able to collect what the city is incurring and we can't continue to incur and the mayor shared already what those fees are, but also what our neighboring cities are paying as well. So I'm also in support of this measure.

Actually, I mentioned the public's comments and participation.

I have a question, actually.

And again, I know in the staff report and recommendation, it's 70% of the franchise fee, 2025, September 1st, and year two, I guess, remain. I mean, what if we just had to say 50% and 50? I know it would show up on fee, but nonetheless, you know, if the blow.

Well, I think my quick math is.

Maybe can you.

An honorable council member, Sochitipan, public works manager.

Okay. I mean, I realize maybe it's a little Lor.

You know, we all don't want to pay fees, right? but we have a responsibility being in the city. So if you kind of go back into that $720,000.

And by the way, any eye of such a big deal of the way in which it is implemented?

I mean, I've said.

So absolutely, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, if the council would like to phase in the fee, you can phase it in at a 70-30.

You can phase it in at a 50-50.

So it's up to council and their direction on how you'd like to phase in the fee.

I mean, whatever we can do to ease the rates, but also, and not just for these rates, but just in generally speaking, any residents who are having hardships, we obviously want to be attentive to that as well. But I'm in favor of the 50%.

Do we have a motion?

Sure. Wait, hold on. Hold on.

in starting September 1st 2025 and 50% September 1st 2026 does that do I need to elaborate

okay I think that's clear enough for staff okay I'll second and Mr. Mayor members of the council

just before you vote we will make that correction ordinance to make it plain instead of the 70% and what have you will clarify that language to the 50-50 okay so another clarification then

And that also means next year we phase in the rest of the 50% and we'll go through this hearing again?

No.

No.

For one year.

Great. Thanks for clarifying. Five years, right?

Set for how many years?

The remainder of the wear contract, which is six more years, right? Because we've only been in one year.

It's five years. Five more years.

Okay.

The final number as of the close of public hearing was 1667 plus 42.

So sorry.

So it was 1667 plus 42. So much, Mayor.

And actually, as a follow-up question, I'm sorry.

But again, you know, we did extend because of people's complaints and concerns about the, you know, the ballot. But I'm just curious, from the 16th to now...

And, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, as she's verified, whether these are valid ballots or not, these are pieces of mail that have come in, which are presumably protest ballots, but we have not verified whether or not the individuals who have mailed these in are actually property owners that can vote in protest.

Okay. Wait, I'm sorry. You're going to hold on.

I'm sorry, again, answer my question.

Yes, the meeting was 215.

215. Plus 215, yes.

Okay, thank you.

And again, the need is 8,000 ballots.

The total was 1709.

Again, they're not, we're assuming they're all good, but.

Unverified, right. How do you first monitor your election when opposed?

Call vote. How do we know that this is happening?

Let's take a vote.

As we move on from this item real quick and tailing in a little bit of a future agenda item, I do recognize what some of the comments were in terms of this process, and I know we don't do this every year and I think there are some lessons that we can create a process And I think would test kind of the city attorney and city manager Improve we can there's always room for improvement and we want to constantly do that And if there are ways to make sure that the future is we need to Make better and do bend make sure we integrate that into the future, too

Okay, let's go to now

10 a 10 a right we didn't begin

We're nearing a little need to extend this I move to extend the meeting to midnight. Second. Fine. By Council Member Wang. I approve.

Okay. Let's go back to 10A. Let's open the public hearing. Speaker? Mr. 24. No other speakers? Close the public hearing. Good evening, Mayor, members of the City Council. Gray Lozano. Senior Chair. Mr. Mayor. The next Council meeting. The update on Saturday, August 9th. This event would pass. We want to make sure that it's a

that are making city staff to answer those questions.

I believe Parks and Recs have an update.

You want to share real quick?

Today, our dive-in movie is going to be at 7.30 to 10 o'clock at the 3,

and you can enjoy a dive-in movie at the...

I want to note, I appreciate the announcement outside the city of Monterey Park.

Destination.

The program, the VIA program, was it this program so far?

It's been very...

As someone who was taking an off-ramp to the 60 freeway,

which I did, but yeah, it can be a little dangerous.

Great to see the community come out yesterday for National Night Out, and again,

the TVB, TV, their Eagle Commendation,

just last week.

I don't know.

Thank you.