City Council Meeting — August 20, 2025

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Council Member Wong. Present. Council Member Lo. Here. Mayor Poe. Present. We have a quorum. Agenda request. We have some guests with us. The request is to send public communications.

So let's go with public communications. First speaker.

My item in particular more than one car because period. I understand last year was an aberration. I asked one of the amounts so that it covered, you know, $1,000 leave.

It requires a permit, and I don't think it would have been granted.

But the same ice cream truck I told the police, they're not heeding your warnings.

So this is something I would like city council to look into or advise me how I can present it to Parks and Rec and Purves. We shouldn't be basically subsidizing another city. If they have financial problems, your city has to solve it. Don't bring your problems to Monterey Park and expect us to solve it just because we're nice. My feedback, and I do speak for a number of community members, of which Ms. Yang is your with. I don't normally come to this meeting. It's a part in my not handling it maybe in the way that you guys are accustomed. So anyway, thank you very much. Appreciate the time. Thanks. Thank you. I don't see Robert, but I see Christina. Christina, can you connect and provide some, get her contact information so we can have a discussion afterwards?

Okay, thank you. Next speaker, Pat Smith-Gong.

here to support whenever she needs something i know it's very important so i showed up right away doing anything active they're constant friends and that 50 cents last it was very special to me so i would in these days not to have a community pool that they can go to and restaurants, so many boba places.

I'm a council member and community member, and I am here representing the community. First, at George Elder Park, the pool edge fell into the pool, and tooling had to be closed, and our swim team's practice time is now. With Barnes Park Pool already shuttered, We have been warning about this for some time, and now the evidence is undeniable. Our safe, reliable innovation, it's about public health, youth development, and is building. On August 5th, the city called a Land and Water Conservation Fund grant for Barnes Park Pool. Next, the city plans to apply for Measure 8 competitive fund up to $4.5 million by October.

This registration will be $25, sponsorship from San Gabriel Valley, who will share his city grant program.

Many of our neighboring cities have established dedicated agent writing teams to leverage every available dollar.

Monterey Park deserves the same. This is our moment to act with what we have left and to build a better future for our city.

Barnes Park Pool is a historic and cultural landmark

connected to the 1984 Olympics

and a vital resource for generations to come.

Let's not wait for the next crisis at George Elder.

Let's move forward. Next speaker.

Good evening, Mayor Ngo and the City Council.

I'm Eric L. Chan, the Vice Mayor of the City of San Gabriel.

I understand that in our local cities are struggling to find funding for various infrastructure and capital improvement programs and projects. I'm here tonight to speak in favor of asking your council to consider with the strategic grant writer that we use. I can only speak on St. Gabriel's experience. We have been using a company called California Consulting for the last year and a half over this overwhelming positive results. Full disclosure, I do not work for them. All I'm saying is that they have been a good value to us. So I'd be happy to further discuss this. Mr. Mayor, I have a question. Hello, sir. Good to see you. Our neighbor from the north. How long have you had them? About a year. Any grants or any leads for any aquatic programs? Remember, we use them as well, but I'm just curious. You've had them for a year and a half, so are they able to secure for you guys?

They have, well, I guess one of the biggest ones that I can come up with off the top of my head, actually secured for us 200. Have they been able to find any good leads regarding funding either private or public for aquatic programs?

Yeah. Oh. Not that I can't. It's a specific thing that we have. I think we have pretty, in terms of being able to, that would apply. But I don't think nothing in that specific way. Okay. The information.

I'm just curious to some of your other colleagues that actually consult him. So we can certainly discuss. Procedure. But one in matrix with the conditions at Elder Pool. He wants you all to visit Elton.

It's really ideal for small dogs to have come before Patrick Dog Park a number of times,

Park's Master Plan. So thank you, Thomas.

I would like to take this time to thank the City Council on improving the Park's Master

Plan building of Barnsville by asking support from Congressman Judy Chu, who served many terms on this diocese. The Parks Master Plan is a possibility post skyrockets each year. We can't.

Who are made up of resident future generations? And you can have your name etched on us of this city. Why reinvent the wheel? Really? Five years that that's what I mean. Let's get moving. Don't waste time.

Thank you.

In addition to reaching out to the city, Superintendent Nita Chu of the Garvey School District, because I believe they use them as well. Thank you. Next speaker, Beatrice Kloza.

Kloza.

Good evening, Mayor, member of the Council, members, City Hall staff.

A few months ago, I stood here in front of you providing the challenges that our Monterey Park Manta Ray team struggled to secure pool time since the closure of Barnes Park Pool. For the record, why are Barnes Pool officially closed to the public in 2021 onset of the COVID pandemic?

since then another from St. Gabriel to Los Angeles to St. Gabriel to Cal State LA all over the entire St. Gabriel Valley area for our team to practice after my public forum speaking in April Mayor Vinn offered the our team to facilitate a pool permit with the surrounding neighborhoods

Mr. Robert Aguirre was very kind he did reach out to several facilities and after persistent emails to several facilities we finally received in college, stating they did not have the

resources to meet our team's needs. As Ms. Leung mentioned earlier, last week a big portion of the Kenta Vliver wall fell off the pool at Elder Park. As a result, two lanes are now closed out of seven

lanes. We are down to five lanes to practice or 200 simmers. We're waiting for repair to happen. I am told the bidding process has started, but the timeline doesn't look good. So I am here now again to do something about getting the city a pool for our... Next speaker is me. To have these

fake community sessions? I don't understand what the point of what I just said. Leave.

that outside are more important, are more valuable than your...

Think about it.

Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, members of the council.

The staff is already moving ahead. We can expedite and move that forward. A total agreement here and look forward to continuing to work with Pub

and anyone else in the community who wants to see that Elder Pool is not ideal.

It is for that much longer either. I hear that saying that we're not going to work on this together.

through the Parks Master Plan conversations,

provide updates about the pool and the Daping Overnight. If it could, I'd love we would do it right now. But there are a lot of challenges, and we continue to work through those, and we're happy to work with anyone who's interested in working with us

constructively to get a pool built for the community.

My name is Amy Lee. I'm the city treasurer. I'm also on the Monterey Park Community Healing Fund. Tonight I just want to give you an update and let you know that we are closing out the fund. We have made grants over $230,000. We have one of the most proudest things that we were able to do was provide 48 individual grants of $3,000 to victims who were not injured but were very close to the incident that occurred. as a little background for people who are at home the morning in the wake of the tragedy in 2021 where 11 lives are lost monopark received some money from donors and they had the foresight to start the monopark community healing fund in conjunction with the california california community foundation created all have some long-standing members of the community foundation community healing fund that are here tonight on the fund for almost two years on the advisory board. We had a lot of meetings, whether it was monthly meetings, at times we had time from their lives to participate and help the community heal. So tonight, I wanted

to bring them up and thank them for their time. I want to thank

her and her organization have been so important in helping us create this fund and help our community

Heal. Honorable Brian Yang, he also started with our fund and he's been on with us for two years as well as Rick.

The Thethwell Wilson

and Dora Kwach who cannot be here today.

We took a lot of time and we spent a lot of hours trying to figure out which organizations

were deserving and who had the foresight of what they were doing to help our community heal. It was not easy. We did take a lot of time, and we determined who qualified, how much funding would go to them. Same thing with the victims. We had spent time with, so we went out there, and they really, truly appreciated the money

and that they felt seen and acknowledged for the pain they felt, even though they were not injured,

but they do carry a lot of emotional pain. and we were lucky that we were able to,

an organization I want to thank is the Chinatown Community Center.

They were very instrumental in providing the services and they stepped in and they really helped. Allow the rest of the council to give some more.

I want to thank Amy and the, as well,

I know there are members of the committee that couldn't make it tonight and I think former members as well that had to cycle off of the committee. So I really appreciate this entity, right, was formed very quickly. Really appreciate so many leaders coming together to help, particularly right after the shooting

and the community's time of need, to come together to help to focus resources that people from the community, so many people wanted to help and to look for ways to do that, and we were able to channel a lot of that here. And so appreciate the years-long effort from this group helping to promote healing, to

support and provide resources for the community to heal. I know that this that is an ongoing process and we're on in specifically but I think the legacy in terms of the projects that you programs the

organizations you've helped us stand up and the community has come has gone a long way and really just can't say enough to thank you for the time all of

them volunteered and voluntold to support this effort so really appreciate all of you just putting in your own your own kind of bandwidth to help lead

the community through a healing process over the last few years I know many of you will continue to be engaged in the years to come as well since many of you have deep roots here in Monterey Park so thank you so much I think we're gonna

do certificates as well so on

from my, right at the bottom of my heart, the rest who are here in the community and on the council, if there is any silver lining to-

and for volunteering your time and the amazing work that you did, but I hope that because of your volunteerism-

Um, you know, again, I have to, I used to make my remarks brief, but you know, I know it's a dark day after shooting street and oftentimes people ask how is the city doing, how is the city of community coming together in collaboration, you know, personal-

we can accomplish in collaborating

with all of you for taking the time. I mean, I know for that first year, all of us, that was our focus,

trying to build up the Community Healing Fund. And it's really remarkable how much we raised

in a few months.

I remember myself doing a

little birthday party and was so happy to be able to actually drop off an envelope full of money to the California Community Foundation office.

I didn't realize you were so close to my office. Again, to the benefit of our

community. So I think really the takeaway is that this is an example of what is possible when we all come together. Team, for all the work and effort you put in all these years into the healing fund,

our city, I personally attended some made on the attendees that went to those sessions. So it's been a really great effort and like Henry said, the certificate is just a small

token of our appreciation.

Thank you. I'm going to echo the words of the rest of the council here.

Amy, thank you for your leadership in this.

And I do have certificates in Keith Miller, Rick Inge, and the California Community Foundation. So you get two certs, Judge Bryant, a service collaborator. It is an amazing accomplishment. How important it is to have a community involved.

We have these people behind me.

Can you grab a group photo, please? Yeah. .

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No, I can get you all here.

Okay, ready. One, two, three, one more. One.

Very good.

Thank you.

All right.

weeks. A truly wonderful summer reading to you. We had here, so we just had a really wonderful, so you can see in the teen area of the library that you can come in and see the results of their

work that they did. In the time, that is a program that was called We're Able to Tour the Fire Department and put on a really one, he was just one of four performers that came to the Langley

Center on behalf of the library this summer. On the bottom there you can see a Mahjong program

that we had which the adult department did in collaboration with our LAMP literacy department. And then we have a couple of children's events as well pictured there. We had a family fun game day where we had oversized giant games that children were able to play. And then we had an art quest

a program called ArtQuest on the bottom right there, where over the course of the summer, there were several different events where kids were able to come in and try different art techniques and use different material art. And so those were some really wonderful examples

of quite a few exciting things coming up in the fall. We have our family story times, which take working parents who are able to come on the next day at 11.30,

and that toddler story time, which is geared to their caregivers, and that is on Thursdays at 10 a.m.

All right, programs also happening over the next,

the end of August. So you can see we have our Teens Get Organized program.

That's where teens will learn some tips and tricks to stay organized during the school year

and they'll have a fun activity. We'll be able to meet with the, and then a couple more teen,

that is happening on August.

in a town service center, stress and anxiety, and creating positive mental health habits.

In adult programming, we have a couple fun things coming up. We have our All Abilities Activity Club. That is a club that was created in conjunction with one of our community partners, Mercy, which offers health with developmental disabilities. This All Abilities Club is open to all, so anybody can come to it. And this month, there is an I Spy activity happening.

And then on September 2nd,

we have a local Monterey Park author and funeral director. And he wrote a book called Confessions of an LA Funeral Director.

And so he'll be coming and doing a reading from that book

and also leading a discussion where community members will have the opportunity

to ask any questions they have about the funeral industry and end-of-life planning.

All right, and then in our literacy department lamp, we have the new 15-week fall semester just started.

That started on the 11th. It's a 15-week program, and we have all sorts of classes on offer there.

These include English as a second language, citizenship preparation, improving conversations, and more.

So community members can always visit the LAMP and learn more about that program.

Hello. I just wanted a promotion which will include activity cards and be earned for completing any cards.

Okay, so we do have a video that was made, so without further ado, here we go.

It was always bustling and big that you're doing.

I really like the cards. interested in collecting them all.

Thank you so much for everything that you guys are doing. I also want to highlight, because I just recently got my passport, actually, at the library.

Renewed my passport. I know that you can renew your passport at the library, but I wanted to make sure to highlight that, because the process was

really passported within, like, two or three weeks.

Thank you so much for that.

I'm kind of curious, especially, you know, as we've been getting out of COVID, but have you been seeing increased

students participate in these youth programs with each summer members from years past?

Yes, Killer Library over the past year, but I've been looking very closely at the next year,

but it was exciting to see that they have been improving and people attending our programs

and come along. Good, I'm glad to hear that.

Good. I love all these creative events that are coming up, and I think they're really valuable

skills for teens and children to learn, specifically the vision boarding, the mental health habit developing. Just a point of clarification, are the teens bringing their own planners, or are you guys providing planners? I am not sure. I am not sure if they're, I think planners are being provided, but I do not know. I'm not a part of that particular program, but I do believe we have information on that. and if there are ever any questions by calling the adult reference desk where they have some more information about adult and teen programs. Hi, L.B. Frazier, Acting City Library. Yes, the planners will be provided. Thank you.

One question, actually. You mentioned it was over a million. Was that a million minutes or a million hours?

Over a million minutes. I did the quick math. There was about 15 hours. Next year, I mean, then a quarter.

So good job on that. And then if I can get a librarian to sign this, that, thank you. Thank you so much for your time. I'm Alotori, and I am the recreation. First, we'd like to do this summer. We actually combined some Minions activities out there, as well as Sonic the Hedgehog, a free dive-in movie at George Elder Park Pool. Over 200 patrons visit. Anyone who visited our parks can pop in to see what we had going on. So in the George Elder swimming. All right, so coming up, we have partnered with the San Gabriel Valley. So this is a first for them, so they are bringing out Profesh Valley. So over Sundays, from 3 to 4.45. In addition to that, we also have a great partnership offering glucose and blood screenings.

The next upcoming date is on September. It is available on our website and in our department newsletter.

We're going to be having a rodeo showdown for all the patrons at Langley Center.

This will be on the 28th, beginning at 1 p.m. The cost is $3 to register. That can be done by calling Langley Center or by next slide. So a couple day on the 29th. Unfortunately, all our tickets have been sold out and 60 residents joining us in our section for the next day. We are taking a group over to the Hollywood Bolts and is also unfortunately sold out, but we have a ton of offerings coming up. Keep a look up for our newsletter. Check out the cast

cascades, our website, on all the programs and activities that our department is offering.

And that is all I have for you tonight. I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have. I'm going to look to my council colleagues for comments. Thank you, Christina, and to the whole team.

We appreciate all the vast amount of programming you've done over the summer. Just kudos to you and the team. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

on, have we ever explored doing a similar kind of setup

for other sports teams and events in LA? I'm just curious.

Currently, we have not, but we can. Sports teams and have Mardi Park Night for basketball

and maybe some others.

I mean, assuming that, I don't know if the other teams do the same program that the Dodgers do,

but I think that's something to explore, hockey, other. Yes, we'll definitely explore that option. And sure, people would love to expand open play

at the gyms and all of her career or two there, and then is that going to disrupt? And a painting of the gym is for the ex-

Exploring.

I also remember one other sports.

Planting the seat. Symphony formed for and purpose of encouraging the arts, and they'll be proud of.

Two, so great idea. More events in the St. Gabriel Valley. Are amphitheater seats about 300, give or take?

Correct.

My understanding is that they have over 900 people

already signed your seat. Otherwise, you can sit behind the Hilly Grass

server behind the amputator if you want to enjoy that. So thank you so much for coordinating.

I just have a quick question. I would love to locate that video of

the mayor hula dancing to put up on the website. I will definitely try to

obtain that. Thank you.

Next up is police department.

tried to estimate without makeshift shelters.

We try to meet with them and provide them with services immediately.

There's safe places to park. There are other facilities for them that give opportunities, if you will,

and they have counseling at those different locations. And we help them get their vehicle fixed and get them off to there,

and we believe that they're going to street somewhere.

So we try to interject those right away. arrange services or get different contacts with an individual, write the person's name down,

be able to get a pipe, what kind of services they may need, or what specially generates a report to the net team. So I'll show you how we're going to do our mapping and look at different things on

the map and doing right now. That'll, that'll be interesting. I think, uh, people will be able to

house checks a bunch of different out right now, but it's going to be really a game changer for us.

we think. Repeat contacts from last year. Those are people, some of them accept services every

single day. We do that so they change their mind. We hope we can do a system maybe for drug or

alcohol. The repeat contacts are going to be part of that 117. We don't give up. I've personally been out on some of these and I personally made contact with some of the homeless in town and they'll complain to me that I'm the fifth or sixth officer that stopped and talked to them. And I said, well, do you know, were you doing something? No, he goes, they just see us and stop and come over and ask us if we need anything, if we need any services, if we've eaten, if we have any water. He goes, I'm getting kind of tired of it. I said, well, it's kind of what we do here. And that's the way it is. We're going to see if you need help because it appears that you do need help. That's why I stopped to talk to you or not. It's part of the system. That, I think, goes in line with our decline. It's very difficult for us these days. They don't want to get services. And our mental health investigations, that's done by our pet team. We have a mental health professional from the L.A. County Office of Mental Health that's assigned full-time to the city. We're lucky enough to have them. And those are follow-up investigations that we've done based on mental health situations that come up through patrol. Patrol will contact somebody, and we'll go out in the field and help them try to... solve whatever problem they're having. If they're in crisis, we help them deal with that crisis. And if we have to, we can put a 72-hour hold on them. We did that today with an individual that was having a crisis. We've been dealing with them for about a day. Our MET team came in this morning, met with them, and decided that they were going to be, we're going to seek some medical attention for them. We took them to a hospital to get some mental health evaluations done. Next slide, please. Starting here in Monterey Park, I'm excited about this. Police fire in the whole city is our Everbridge program. We had a program called Nixle. Nixle was a way for us to communicate activities that were going on to people that would subscribe. Nixle is a smaller version of Everbridge. Everbridge is a very comprehensive emergency communication system. I encourage everybody in town to sign up for Everbridge. The code there on the screen will help you log into their website. We take down information. It's going to give police fire in the city the ability to reach out to everybody in town in case of an emergency or just to pass on certain information. Police Department uses it right now. If we have a major traffic collision, we need to let people know that traffic is going to be clogged in an area. If we have some kind of an emergency, we want people to stay out of the area.

One of the added advantages of Everbridge is that in a basis, but we do do everybody to sign up for Everbridge. There's been some talk that, is this really a system the city is using? It absolutely is. They're trying to get money from you, communicate with the public. That? Interrupt, Chief Weiss. just the request for sign-ups as Chief mentioned we do have the life-threatening style of emergencies but we're not going to be utilizing that tool when there's road closures or other non-life-threatening information that we'd like to communicate out with the public so we're encouraging residents to sign up. This system is much more robust than the previous request to sign up and receive text messages, emails, phone calls, so you have multiple ways that you could receive the information. We really, really encourage you if you hang up, and please encourage your neighbors to do so as well.

Thank you.

The update. Really quick on the Nixle to Everbridge transition. Do we know how successful that has been so far, just in terms of how many people we had at Nixle and how many are now signed up for Everbridge and what that gap might be?

so currently we just rolled out uh everbridge just about a month and a half ago we've got just over a thousand registrations for that that is more than we had had for nixle so that that is a good thing but we definitely want to get as many people signed up for everbridge as possible as the chief

and the city manager have noted have the ability to geofence and push out those notifications so

that things that are a little bit uh less urgent you will have to sign up to receive those

communications no absolutely and I just want to commend the staff and all the teams for the efforts of the campaign to get people to sign up for Everbridge so far and I think it's to your point chief important to remind it's good that people are wary about signing up for something because there's a lot of cyber phishing attacks and all that stuff and we do want to encourage people to be

wary but we have to keep reminding people I think to sign up for this support we can do to continue that campaign helpful eight and always welcome and

We appreciate all the efforts the NET team does in the city to address homeless individuals that are here, connecting them with services.

I'm curious, our perspective and view as LASA has been, the last few months has been going through issues with L.A. County

and L.A. County pulling funding, L.A. City kind of figuring out what they're going to do.

Have we experienced any issues in putting people through the LASA system? Have we encountered any service issues and trying to place people in beds or get people connected services as LASA and the county are going through some of these struggles?

Our team feels that our ability to find resources is way better than what can be provided by LASA.

Our housing coordinator, Shadeen, works full-time. She was a LASA employee and understands the shortcomings of LASA. So she works very, very hard when we have a client who is willing to take services.

We're very effective at finding those services for them.

What we found with LASA is their mechanism is so big that they can't provide immediate help. And a lot of the homeless, when they decide to pull the trigger on going into managed care, whatever they're going to do, they want to do it right now. We do it right then and there.

We're like, if you want to go, that is the one health issues and finding they don't allow their beds and the mental health and the drug and alcohol. You're going to have to look at for over the next several years. Their homelessness department, the new home house.

And as mass in L.A. County to us and housing in L.A. County, I just want to make sure we're I know we are engaged in those conversations.

These programs are being shaped, especially the funding programs start to outline what's going to be spent.

Just make sure we're continuing to make sure that we're providing money.

The county and the city know who Monterey, they probably roll their eyes when they see us walk in. We've been trying to get the funding for the city to be able to manage this. We will continue to do that.

Yeah, I think if there, if I know the COG has reached out for some, some, even that

is still limited resource for the scale of homelessness.

Which is very unique to Monterey Park to help facilitate a lot of that work. I know for the new programming, I already said that we have our own personal homeless but also provide them. And you know, I know I've done what we did with your net team in which we came across a young man who was homeless, but we found out was also a naval officer. And you probably know who I'm talking about, but as a naval officer, an alcoholic,

and he knows that he needs to be a police officer.

I've also signed up for the Everbridge and looking forward to some of those texts as well.

And thanks to the NET team, I'm glad there's an emphasis on the mental health investigations. Those numbers went up.

Quick question on the number. So from last year, it was four, but on the shelters list, it was minus 24. So other than the different shelters, like the chart that says RV, car, vans, Yeah, if our count is 15, what are the other living spaces that make up the 51? They consider tents as quite a few homeless that just sleep on the ground.

They cover themselves with cardboard. They have a sleeping bag. They sleep in the bushes.

We know where they are, so we try to direct the volunteers to those areas to get a good count.

We also know that there are some treacherous areas in the city for making sure that we make contact.

So we handle those as the NET team on that night, and the volunteers kind of hit the areas that are safer, if you will, because we're doing it in the middle of the night.

But the numbers that aren't represented are people that are not in some content.

Got it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Chief.

Again, just want to say kudos to our NET team for being involved and engaged, and I've seen in the last few years along with the ride-along,

how we've communicated with those on-house and how we provide it and continue to provide them with support, not only from a housing standpoint,

finding resources as well as mental health standpoint. So thank you for all that.

And, you know, we offer a ride-along program at the police department, and if someone really wants to, they can ride with the NET team.

We have no problem with that.

We can make that arrangement, and they can come in and work during the NET team's hours. They can go out on some of those calls and some of those contacts and kind of get an idea of what's going on. We do it with college and high school students that are researching homelessness.

So you have that ability as anybody. If you live in Monterey Park or anywhere you live,

you can come and ride with our officers anytime you like.

I would highly recommend that I did a ride-along with Formative.

So I would highly recommend any member of the public to take up on that opportunity. Thank you. Thank you, Chief.

Next up is Public Works.

Good evening, Honor Mayor, Mayor, Pro Tem, City Council.

Sean Eagle, Public Works Director. Tonight I have some updates on our transportation program. Next slide, please. Thank you.

So our Spirit Bus services have seen some updates as of August 1st.

We have made some updates to our routing program. The Route 4 was removed Route 5.

This was to include a direct route to the Metro E station.

Additionally, we did some improvements for some more efficiencies with our other routes that have two-way travel. MBK Transit Express, which is powered by VIA, which is our micro as well, these service changes went into effect August 7th. And this expanded coverage to additional areas due to high-demand priority areas such as Cal State LA. Mark Keppel High was expanded out a little bit, being in Alhambra. We had to expand that out a little bit. And then we also saw some changes to the South Atlantic Corridor, which alLod additional connectivity to the Metro E-Station as well. Again, the idea is to try to provide more transportation availability to the public and to our residents. Additionally, effective September 10th, we will see some changes to the price. Currently, the service for the MPK Express is free.

This will go up to $2 per ride.

Riders have the option to pay via credit card, via the app, or when they call in for services. Additionally, we'll have a voucher system that is available for prepaid events. If riders wish to pay via cash only, those services will be available at the Langley Center and City Hall, should they so desire.

Next slide, please.

We recently transitioned from a quarterly mulch giveaway program to a monthly giveaway program.

our last successful event again.

We're excited to say that we passed out every single bag that was available. So we transitioned just from basically mulch piles to giving away as needed to bags to not mess up their trunks and their vehicles. We still do have mulch that's available in piles

so they can come and pick them up as they so desire.

This is still available at the public yards, which is 751 South Alhambra. Again, they can come anytime they want to.

As long as it's available, it's free to the public.

So we replenish that on a regular basis. So keep an eye out for that if residents so desire to pick that up. We also have the WHERE team here, which has been our partner through this program. And they have been able to help us expand this from a quarterly to a monthly.

And so if they wanted to come up and speak a little bit about our partnership with this program

and hopefully give some insight on what they've done with our program.

So every week we go, the last one we held on the 16th, we had 250 bags.

They were gone inside an hour.

The previous one, we had 200. They were gone inside an hour. From what I understand, correct me if I'm wrong, Sean, I think the loose compost we have also went very quickly as well.

You ultimately take it back and put it back into your yard, your garden, and we finally closed the loop on it.

So that's been very good.

And so we will continually offer this for the remainder of the year,

and we'll start working with staff on continuing and seeing what we can do to enhance it for next year.

So we've been happy with that.

I think Sean also would echo that as well.

And then while we are here, we want to acknowledge that we inadvertently uploaded bills to our online customers only,

which include the new rates from the meeting on the 6th. This was made in errors. Paper bills do not go out until next week.

We apologize for any inconvenience that may have caused customers, and if we have any issues, they can contact our customer service center,

and we'll resolve that as quickly as we can. Thank you.

Just to be absolutely clear on the billing issue, So no one is being billed the new rates, and that will not be effective until and unless, well, we have this on the agenda, but assuming it passes, no one has been billed already proactively, right?

This is just an error on the online billing data entry system. That's correct.

If you take the action we think you will do tonight, then we can start implementing it tomorrow and early next week.

Yeah, I appreciate it, and I appreciate the explanation.

I know folks have been frustrated by seeing some of this increase.

I just want to make sure we're doing this correctly, and I know that staff is working on this, and let's make sure we're correcting this when it happens tonight on the trash fees goes forward. Let's make sure we sequence this properly and that people are, if it sounds like I can assume no one has been billed for services up to now in terms of the increase,

and none of that will go into effect until September 1st if this goes forward tonight.

Yes, okay. That's my only question. That would be correct.

If I could just add on to that, if there's any way that Ware can make a statement of some type that we can share through social media, just correcting the error so that there's clarification for the public in terms of what exactly happened. I also got some, you know, communication from, you know, as did the city. So I just want to make sure that we correct the error and that people understand what, you know,

the clerical error that happened.

But appreciate you being here tonight and helping clarify that for the public. And looking forward to the compost giveaway.

All right, thank you. Sean, tell me what else you guys are doing from a public work standpoint

from the rest of the city. What are the projects you got going on? All right, just give me a quick second. We just had our meeting this morning, so let me pull up the list of items that we're working on currently. So as I've expressed before, we do have quite a few projects we're working on citywide. These are the current list of

projects that we're working on in some sort of fashion, whether it's, you know, pre-construction,

post-construction, we're wrapping things up, we're in the middle of construction, but all of these are the current ones that Public Works is working on, and some of these are working in tandem.

On the agenda tonight, we have our library flooring project. Additionally, we have some

minor flooring replacement work that's going on at Langley Center and George Elder. We have

court resurfacing that's being looked at in the next couple of months. Those will come to council soon this will be for all of our court facilities those will be resurfaced we have our

city yard and fire station fuel pump replacement community room and barn service club we're replacing the doors at those locations to make them automatic that's part of some covid cdbg money that we're using which is for no touch when you access facilities so we're using that funding for that. We also have, as mentioned earlier, we have some repairs that need to be done at Georgia. We also have the Barnes Pool conceptual design and community outreach that we're currently working on, working with some consultants to look at that. We have South Atlantic and South Garfield waterline replacement project. Following that, we're starting already on preparing our 2025-2026 street improvement projects. We have projects coming up. We're in the middle of our Emerson Avenue parallel pipeline for sewer line installation being done.

And then we have underground storage tank removal replacement project.

We have various restroom projects. We're finishing up our Langley roof replacement project and other various roofing projects, Monterey Pass Complete Streets, Garvey Capacity Improvements, Adaptive Traffic. We're just now getting a project. We have our Patera Grande Corridor, Mat Cycle 1 project. And then we're also working on our solar battery and EV charging stations from the last one that our sorry We also have two fire station improvements fire station 61 and then fire station 63 So those are the majority of our project, but we have several that were working in as we need but hopefully going on So my question is not so much a question is how are we doing on the budgets? Year-to-date because what chicks have increased significantly from a cost

raw materials costs, also vendor costs. I know we're under contract. Hopefully some of those contracts are covered already,

but are you seeing any issues in terms of us having to pay more out of contingency or us having to cover more of the... We do our best to make sure that we stay within the project budget.

There have been times we have to come back to council to ask for some additional appropriation of funds, combined projects, which is more efficient, more effective with finances.

so we've been pretty successful seeing some prices go up. Unfortunately, we can't predict how those prices are impacted, especially as tariffs come into play.

We do our best even with our water meter project.

When that came into play, just even during the negotiation, because we're trying to figure out 100 contractual items

and hope to get that right.

Mr. Mayor, it's almost wrapped up.

We have one doc that we'll be able to finalize that agreement. Tim who? I'm sorry, Tim Howe.

Yes. Council, I'm pleased to introduce Tim Howe. He's our new, it's his way down to the podium. I'm going to give a brief bio. Most recently, Tim served as the Economic Development Policy Manager at Amazon, where he led the company's real estate in Southern and Central California. Prior to his time at Amazon, he held senior leadership roles in local government, including being the deputy city manager and community development director for the city of San Fernando, overseeing economic development, housing, and planning. And his public service background also includes various roles in the cities of Beverly Hills, Burbank, and Long Beach.

Master's in Business Administration. Master's in Public Administration. Bachelor in Labor Relations. Tim brings a wealth of experience with him and please join me in Monterey Park. Council. I just want to echo our appreciation for Tim joining us. Welcome. I've had the pleasure of working with him in my day job capacity. Take someone into public service from the private sector back from the public sector, private sector back to the public sector.

of public sectors to lead a lot of work in the projects that are here. Look forward to your leadership and your efforts and whatever you can do.

Looking forward to it. Congratulations. Thank you. Appreciate you joining us. Thank you. I'm excited and, you know, but very eager to work with you these coming years,

and hopefully you will find a home and, you know, a great community here in Monterey Park. I know we will all just, as you can hear, you know, there's a lot of excitement,

and moving the city forward economically. Nice to meet you, Timothy.

Busy stuff because you just heard from Sean.

Thank you, Mayor. Much appreciated. The plan 2024-25. Good evening.

So the City of Monterey Park Sustainability Plan in April of 2024.

The Sustainability Plan represents a culmination of the city's longstanding commitment

to environmental responsibility, beginning with the Climate Action Plan in 2012

and the healthy and sustainable community elements of the general plan in 2014.

The policies and strategies to reduce green climate resilience in Monterey Park.

Summary of implementation progress organized by the five sustainable development, circular resilience. Last year, the city has undertaken projects, secured grants, updated ordinance to advance the goals within these areas.

Out with low emission development, Phase one of the Adaptive Traffic Responsive Control Systems project began. That targets vehicle through smart signal technologies.

The Police Department's Traffic Bureau transitioned part of its parking enforcement fleet to electric vehicles and emissions.

Additionally, the Public Works Department purchased a fully electric Ford E

to transition its city fleet.

Department is also in the process of Deserro Grande Drive and Monterey Pass Station and non-motorized travel options.

To further, sorry, to further and meet the city's different mobility needs, the city

also completed a pilot program that includes Spirit Bus and an on-demand microtransit service,

use of bus routes and ride-sharing services to travel within the city and to connect to

other regional transit options. Furthermore, new bike racks to encourage biking is an alternative mode of transportation, And the city has been intentional in implementing energy efficiency options in its infrastructure. For example, it recently completed the installation of electric HVAC units at the library and Langley Center to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Through the Cal App grant program, the city has sought to streamline solar permit processing, supported by homeowners and businesses. It's outlined in the low emission development pathway and support progress towards carbon neutrality goals.

change elements near high quality transit areas which will encourage trans single source greenhouse gas emissions such as single vehicle commuting through nature-based development the city advanced up conserve water the adoption of updated guidance and outreach water rebates gray water systems for healthy

urban forest tree inventory for beautification to the improvements absorb this providing windbreaks and wildlife providing shade for hotter and reducing soil erosion trees over the past time frame at the 2025 cherry blossom festival the environmental

commission's three-day ways to be sustainable regional food recovery program that this effort supports reducing methane emissions where disposal donating items additionally the city's size sustainability criteria. The city also passed a resolution increasing future capacity to divert waste, receiving a household quarterly cleanup events district on water conservation efforts, including the installation of water bottle fill stations at the Brugge to refill reusable water bottles, as well as a grant to purchase books about sustainability and the environment for the

library's circulating collection. This past May, we had a shift update on the topic of water for Mark Keppel High School students in partnership with the production and conservation and participated

in a mock city council meeting to discuss the topic of water conservation, education, and outreach. Through circular development, we completed roof replacements at several city facilities with roofing material that helps the energy efficiency and helps extend the life of air conditioners and reduced and approved a citywide advanced place approximately 13,400 existing water to our 900 meters and associated infrastructure,

improving meter accuracy, reducing water loss, and enhancing customer service through real-time usage monitoring. The meters proposed within the project scope of work are a solid state design,

utilizing ultrasonic technician through extremely low 500 kitchen compost pails to support organics recycling.

To improve long-term resilience to climate-related risks, the city updated the local hazard mitigation plan, particularly those addressing extreme heat and infrastructure adaptability and emergency response coordination. The city is currently working on installing a generator in the library to an emergency center, even during these community hubs to ensure sustainability surveys and events.

Community participation was further supported with free compost giveaways. The city has made efforts to prioritizing reducing greenhouse gases and its carbon footprint. For residents and community members, the sustainability plan is a true call to action. A key component of the city's sustainability plan implementation has been ensuring that Monterey Park residents are aware of and equipped to take advantage of programs that support a sustainable living. A sustainability resource center, as seen on the right, was created on the city website to help promote awareness throughout the community. Through the Going Green campaign, public workshops, city events, social media,

and the city's website, staff have educated residents on available pathways. To support other development pathways, the city helps to ensure all residents, especially those in underserved or Lor income areas have fair access to resources, financial services,

and educational tools that enable participation in sustainable practices.

Within nature-based developments, residents have access to robust rebate programs through the water district,

offering financial incentives for water-efficient appliances, irrigation upgrades, and rainwater capture systems. educational resources like the Monterey Park landscaping guide, Tree People's Native Plant Starter Guide, and the residents to create climate resilient. To promote the circular development pathway,

the city provides inclusion programs. Through initiatives such as the Kitchen Compost Pail Giveaway, residents are better equipped to reduce waste and support methane reduction efforts required by SB 1380 Development. The city highlights a range of electric vehicle rebates, clean vehicle incentives, and public transportation resources, including the Spirit Bus, and the regional GO SGV Bikes and SoCal Gas Rebate Program for everything from smart thermostats and efficient appliances to solar. The city plays its part, and I appreciate that there's a lot of resources that were to address climate emissions, greenhouse gas, and to switch to zero emission technologies. A lot of that is being pulled. highlights the importance of us acting, seeing where we can support more of these efforts in the community. We'll ask broadly the staff to see what else we can do. I know resources are the state's budget deficit. We're not probably going to see huge programs and a lot of resources

if we work to expedite some of these projects, like the EV charge against people that are already at cost parity. It's about some of these technologies that they just aren't aware of. We can help further adoption for some of these technologies. So whatever we can do to continue to further sustainability in the city and address green-eyement impacts in our community Absolutely, let's look at her but as our new community Development director taking charge on this I hope but make sure we're integrating Sandal let's make sure we're coordinating this and turn other partners in or with our community On a couple of the items that on the cool roof material. I know all the new roof roofing we're doing for city facilities we're defaulting with technologies and tiles I don't know if we already have do we have a cool roof ordinance in the city in terms of others who are they are also interventions greenhouse gas emissions in our community we're already experiencing and they're gonna get worse

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the city and comprehensive structures and bus sheltering urban heat island effect this council's made a point i know we have to wait for the technology to catch up our public works yard and water system there's and other issues um to one fossil fuel generators i know

there i don't think there are technologies like uh battery systems that could do maybe we can at

least explore I would love to see us explore more of that

EV charging I'll just do another plug whatever we can do when knows the odds

in the back to expedite plan in our community I think there I every time I drive by the EV chargings it's always packing them when it was first on a long

way just driving EVs and they need to charge they're also great economic dried the area to charge and they need to shop as are they're waiting for their

cars to charge so whatever we can do to expand to support our communities drivers and also out of town my part to be able to spend some money here I'll leave it at that I know there's a lot more to do out actions that we approved here a comprehensive report on the low image was able to ride the lawnmower I think then did to make use of the bike rack intensive master bike but

order we can do to it and um i'm glad council member wong said in the thousands uh because i

agree um it's great that we added 80 40 trees uh this year uh but 8400 would have been even better right so um anyhow thank you so much those are just the only two comments that i have i will note for the management plan there yes and so i think we've got um correct me if i'm wrong about 9 000 tree plan. It does dictate that if any trees are removed for any reason that we replace

them with even more trees than we currently have.

MR. I'm really glad to see we have got elected in 2020.

It basically put on a shelf. And that's a shame. because then, you know, to go through an entire thing, anything come out of it. So I really, I think we should, you know, picking up this issue and make it fast

and then, you know, put in a shelf lead,

and especially in making sure they are looking at being more green and sustainable.

All of us here because, you know, under risk, I mean, they're eliminating incentives for clinicals. And I think that just makes it that we can, you know,

through local funding or local opportunities to, you know,

move forward to continue our resilience, not just, you know, to our vulnerable populations like seniors,

but also to our chart-centric. I think Republicans in Congress, we need to continue to, at the local level, push forward.

Thank you for the thorough progress report. I think it's amazing how much has been done and all the progress made in our sustainability plan, including the bike racks, the HVACs, water bottle fill stations, and low-emission EV vehicles.

Installing more solar over building structures,

I think that can generate more revenue for a city and even goes towards the pool

right well I should it's the sentiments of my colleague or I think just to summarize

we need to kind of continue to reduce the carbon footprint and then I like the idea of that 9,000

trees added I mean that shape but also reducing carbon footprint we have old business we don't We have a consent calendar. Is there any items that needs to be pulled or you wish to be pulled? Oh, we have speakers. Speakers for item 9B.

The speakers will call the speakers first. First speaker, Margaret Leung.

I'll keep it at that.

I just want a recent trash fee increase.

Based on my call with where, it already includes an annual increase tied to the built into the contract agreement.

Where? It comes from a recently completed franchise fee study conducted by the city.

This feels like a kind of double taxation. we are already paying for the service through the contract on an additional fee that goes well beyond CIP adjustment.

I hope you got it. And adding to things are going. And the public should be.

However, these new fund revenues are being collected for other places. With residents about these casual comments are created.

Park residents are already dealing. Is going.

These are needed. and how much clear communication is, and make sure residents are being managed responsible.

The presentation before me mentioned about the water. I looked into the website, the Capital Improvement Project website.

There is no project just seeing anywhere. I thought that, you know, management, when you status, you would give timeline, you know.

Now, it's very, it doesn't give me enough information to assess the condition or where we are in budget.

We have these little baby projects.

And the amount of piping that was replaced since 10 years ago when the project started is astounding.

It's less than, and then we pay for piping replacement. We didn't do lining of piping. That's what is the goal of the project. I'm concerned with these things in 10 years.

It's unbelievable. Bye.

Water meters, they kind of go a few years. To give an update of what you reported to the council and staff meeting. You don't have to do it in here.

Just talk to her on the side. Okay.

Can we have... Speaker Dave Jones.

I've got my own water this time.

Margaret, you're not this short.

Mayor, no.

Honored council members, extremely dedicated.

Had to tell them about the franchise. Get in there on its own.

There's no transparency here. He's paying the fine. As far as the urgency ordinances,

health, safety, or welfare of the residents of Monterey Park.

There's no threat to health, safety, or...

Last month, trash was being picked up this week.

It's going to be picked up next week, with or without the franchise fee.

The people who have managed, always manage the trash services for the city

and will manage the trash services, there is no legitimate threat here.

This ordinance is not legitimate.

It is not legal.

as far as rent of public, not legitimate, charging the good people of the city of Monterey Park for us,

we are told we have to put charged rent for putting them there.

Public rights of way.

That this is an unreconciled area of the law. So what I think all of us would like to hear is this.

Did the city attorney inform you this is an unreconciled and untested?

And did the city attorney, the city very likely will,

and charging us made-up fees for the collection of trash that we already pay for

and then having to pay attorneys who in those made-up fees in court

will only be adding insults? Ask the city attorney for a written legal opinion to minimize the city. would never intentionally expose the city to a long and drawn, maintain and repair its own swimming gym. Kiss the pool goodbye if we go to court over there. So please tell me this.

I just have a question from five minutes ago when the process would have to be. Okay.

So I, okay. All right. Okay. I just, okay. Understood. That's what I figured. Because I think he answered some of those questions.

Okay. Can we get next speaker? Nearly 1,700, over 1,600.

But yet, how many people the city has funds?

They don't need this.

basis for that. Who want where to come here and apologize, accidentally charged everybody ahead

of time to post in the first place. And what that means to you is that this city council already

made up their mind. They already knew what they decide, what they tend like they care,

and they're actually listening to your comments and considering what you're saying before they

vote. They've already decided. What does that mean? You really need to think about it. Is that what you want of your

elected officials? Is that what you want for the future? I don't think so.

So please keep it in mind when the next time we go to the ballots.

Next speaker, Teresa.

Hold on, I have to show and tell.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Good evening, everyone. Since you don't come out to my street and it seems you don't want to fix, I thought I would bring a piece of, because I would rather bring it to you to show you

the chunks of how you have been put on notice, number one. Please do something about our streets. Literally, those are from Coralview and Fulton.

You know, Dave did such a brilliant job talking about this. So somebody asked, I didn't even know they were here. He received their bill with this, this trend, blah, blah, blah. So me, I called where? I spoke to a gentleman there by the name of Nathan, extremely professional. Monterey Park gave him my address and I said, hey, there's something about an increase.

can you please educate me on it? He said the increase is the CPI is a city council approved at a public hearing and you as a resident received it. I said can you send that's the information I was you know I was provided to give. Thank you. And I thought interesting because how could that be so when you all haven't approved it yet? So maybe where did mess up? They blundered because they sent out. Why would they? Unless here, here. So because they would not have any concept of a trash franchise fee or that it was approved at a hearing unless somebody. So please do not force. The blame lies here with the five of you. And I expect the five of you to investigate and find out where that got messed up. Because the appearance here now is that there's an emergency ordinance that requires four votes. So staff and directed where to do this. That's the appearance. It's for my city council. That is not a good appearance for my city, for our city, for your city, for your constituents. And that's what they want to know. What happened? And if you messed up, say, yeah, you know what? We messed up. We all make mistakes. But don't kick it down and try to cover it up with an emergency order. They want to stay in good graces with the city. They're going to come and say, yeah, okay, this is dated August 17th. this is ridiculous this is not transparent this is questionable this right here is your legacy just bear in mind nobody cares what you what you do up here the last part um emergency ordinance as dave said where's the how are we going to be affected how is our health welfare welfare safety

going to be affected if we doubt it. It's not. Pass a regular ordinance. You can convert it as

such. You can tell the public, look, they didn't count on four votes. We're doing the normal process. And I'm sorry, if somebody did not miscalculate the date because he wanted to start September 1st, any money that you do save, I've spent it on calculators and cal... Please, be transparent. does. And it's really these seats for what they mean.

For what Next speaker, Sylvia Poon. Good evening, Mayor and members of the N. To speak about the as an emergency understand at the the council approved a new is on tonight's agenda for an emergency vote to address what appears oversight. The issue for residents is not just the rate. We have already received an October service period. It has created significant, clear, the fee difficult for residents to wait. While the new rates were displayed, there has been no formal documentation or public notice. how and to residents that this increase would be billed directly and how the new charge would appear on our bill. We know what exactly went wrong in the process and who. We asked the city to be transparent not only about the current plan, but also about the error that caused this confusion in the first place. Thank you.

No other speakers. Okay. Well, let me kind of just kind of walk through this. I want to explain.

You talk about transparency. I mean, the point is, this is our third meeting. This started in July 16th, August 6th.

actually went back to early July about conversations on this franchise fee,

and the voting process took probably a few months ago, three months ago at least. So this has been an ongoing dialogue discussion.

The franchise fee combined with the CPI of where started at $35.

Last meeting, the recommendation was to reduce the franchise fee by half. So we're looking at $33.09, which will be voted tonight. You've already heard, for those of you who are sitting here, the explanation by... I'm just going to ask our city attorney here, you heard some of the questions and comments.

I mean, as a resident, do you have a right to use the city's trash hauler? Or what other options do you have? Members of the council, thank you. We had some of these conversations. Actually, this process began in May. In terms of transparency, there's been a May meeting.

There's been a subsequent meeting in July.

So it's no secret in terms of where and that the final action of the council is tonight. I can't speak to that. If you were to read the stats on the ballot, the original schedule, which means that the ordinance that was anticipated,

which means that we need to coordinate the September 1st. As explained in the staff report, the Urgency Order,

regular ordinance, which has a retroactivity date back to September 1st, the Urgency Order becomes effective immediately and sets the date for beginning the fee. In terms of the self-haul permits,

picking up your trash, that means you get a permit issued by the city, you haul your own trash to the dump, you pay for the dump fees, and you have to keep track of what is being done. Diversion rates that it must, there's no actual legal requirement that you use where, or Athens for that matter. You can do it yourself. So there have been several speakers that have said where the city is forcing them to use these service providers. This is a service. It is not required by law to use these. Did I miss anything? Nope. I think. Ashley, yes. Thank you for that explanation. I believe Mr. Dave Jones had also asked

staff report that the and then came back to the City Council after the prop to a

team process in Joe it was actually reduced to the tuna stab at this city

perspective right the city of trust contracts and actions that the City Council is presented with and takes legal advice is provided I don't think we're in the business and shouldn't be in the business of given to us that may

result in whatever that but I think it's safe to say and I would say comfortably that we are providing legal advice on all the attorney's office on all items that to make sure

that legal rule anything can be turned over or the courts can weigh in on things that were legal for a hundred days after a court was said right so and that action is not bad I'm actually going to address I think one of our speakers Margaret had a question in terms of uh and if there was

if there was addition you go well where we would yeah where we were and if you can save a little

money here you can put it somewhere else to be used for the city again it's all about using the

resources to help other city projects i'm going to read again i trash fee because as i point out

again the city of my park with this increase is going to pay $33.09 a month that is number 15

on the bottom the next set of cities paying above 30 Duarte, La Prenta, Arcadia, Montebello, San

Dimas, Azusa, West Covina, Monrovia, $30, Temple City, San Marino signed a new contract so as you

can see there's cost everything I asked public works director because a lot of

the projects have come through because not only are the wages going up but also raw materials so just wanted to point that out to everyone here okay a general

motion for the consent items or just any items anyone like to pull the agenda

The consent agenda.

...on the microphone, so that's why we don't have a back and forth. Thank you for that clarification.

Please, oh, I have a quick clarification. For Carl or Sean on error or intentionally happens, what's worse one would have,

but don't have the answer to that because we're willing to dispute provisions on their website.

So, yeah, so they do have a process. There are times whenever then we will talk to them to where as well,

We can't force where to do anything. We will have conversations with residents running into issues, and so how can we help support them?

I just need a quick acknowledgement if this is correct.

If for some reason a service provider overbilled one period,

the next one they would probably be required to a credit process. That should be the right process. I can't guarantee you. Explain what had happened purely online. None of these were bills that were mailed out.

Action from this council. understanding that is not potentially adopted for any of this potential

increase before it's adopted if it's happening and for those who do not hear that if if you don't believe don't believe what we're said I don't know what else we're see and I hope that you can work on trusting us further things

that you'd like to explore more and staff is happy to explain and have that

conversation with you but can i yes yeah so uh i just want to affair did our investigation i just

feel like and the statement that i made today were statement to the best you know 10 million dollars

there is no water meter it doesn't move it doesn't just die like that like the swim water

if you want to talk about but you were talking about the list of want to talk about that and not

only that the 10 million is that 10 million dollars for water meter knows

that 10 million dollars a good portion of that money is being paid yearly basis not only that I mean I don't have any details do I first read information but

10 million dollars and the project is how it's set up I don't have the details

because not even post it okay I just want you kind of go into details and I

I could just suggest for staff on the specific, the water meters item, I believe there's a very robust staff report that we went through actually at this council ago when we approved that project moving forward.

Anyone who's interested in receiving that, and I'm happy, I'm sure our vendor is happy to talk through their technology and their projects.

Okay. Mr. Jones will give you. Just again, as Council Member Wong said, he wants us to trust the council.

I'm sure all of you echo his sentiments there. since the urgency ordinance clearly requires an immediate threat to public health, safety, or welfare?

Please, the chairs, what is the immediate safety or welfare that demands?

I'm going to go back to that. Which is what would?

Well, a Prop 218 process before, I don't know that I need to rehash that. the speaker is talking about the urgency and as he's mentioned at least twice one of the urgency criteria is welfare welfare means the public fisk so the determination by the city council

in this particular instance whether the public welfare means adopted under these particular

circumstances the explanation for that is in the staff report i've already also verbally mentioned

that it's the coordination of this the council doesn't believe that there's an urgency then don't vote for it it's very easy and we have a second so I'm moving on to item

10 10 city communications sir getting ready to leave I passed

meeting as well that have made accusations of malfeasance. I would welcome any malfeasance

going on. I will happily and I believe it's our duty as City Council members to look into that

but no one has shared that with me and I'm happy my email is on the website. Please do share that

and I've loved an abuse and looking forward to seeing how we do it. I also want to echo those sentiments on anything. It's not an easy thing to do but I also want to say that we have to

to work on all of these items, whether it's the pool or any items that we're working on.

Information to share, because they just ever made, please share them with the council. Please share them with, know that none of those exist. These are just all made up. Thank you. We really appreciate you. I want to wish everyone a good night. I also want to just, you know, thank the staff and, you know, really, you know, we really

seem to hear these. You know, again, you know, simply, you know, our website is a wealth of information and resources.

And certainly us or to the city administration, because, you know what, I mean, again, we, you know, government always improves when elected to communicate with their constituents. And, again, if there are any suggestions about how we can, you know, provide more information, then reach out to us. I echo my colleagues' discussions.

And also wanted to let everyone have a lion's barbecue at Amazer Park from 1130 a.m. to 4.

And so hope everyone can come and attend those events.

Great.

Mr. Mayor, if I could just say one more thing. I know that school last week and this week, and as a parent,

four different school districts in our city, throughout our city, that they know that there are councils behind them.

School. That's from the parents' perspective.

School. But here we are back to school, so be safe of time versus the

you you you

We'll close the meeting out at a-

Thank you.

They really mean. Thank you. Oh, and please fix Fulton.

Thank you, City Council. My name is Sylvia Poon, and I am here once again with the franchise trash fee, which is back on the agenda tonight.

vote. We are August 6 meeting and that this matter to be a procedural increase

itself but the way it was handled. We buy monthly trash bills from where

disposal for the September and they include the higher rate. This had confusion because its increase comes from the city. Yet the new hire bill is from where? When the bill arrives directly from the service provider with a higher amount, it paints a very different picture and makes it to understand the situation. This kind of confusion hurts the public's trust in the city.

We need clear answers laid on a screen at the last meeting. They're published by the city that confirms the new amounts. We are now faced with a series of questions that the residents deserve answers to tonight. Why was We're Disposal able to bill us for the new rate before the city had officially adopted it?

Two, when will the new rates be formally published and made available to the public for our review? Three, why did the city not communicate by the trash company?

Beyond that, residents also deserve to...

Here are a couple of things. In fact, as I remember correctly, this franchise were earlier.

Mr. Mayor, my process began in May. There's been a meeting in August. Council's discussions have been. We're being unable to understand that is a business decision by where.

I have a report. It explains exactly why we have an urgency and a regular ordinance.

The deal for this was for there to be a vote on the franchise fee last month.

The matter was continued until August.

the second reading to have occurred at the beginning of August is actually occurring now

or date for whatever the city council decides which is the reason for the urgency ordinance is there in order to make sure that the ordinance is the exact same as as the regular ordinance

except it's the date of for beginning the fees on September 1st you asked about about so the trash individuals within the city can come to the city and get a self-haul permit.

That means you get a permit issued by the city to keep track of what is being dumped

in order for the city to make sure that the demand is being dumped under state regulations are folLod.

Providing the trash services with regular haulers. Did city attorney inform you that this is an irreconcilable area of the law? I had confidential discussions with the city council or what I've advised.

so that

if the council wishes me to discuss I can certainly discuss if there's any area of that that is discussable in public feel free to mention it I think we discussed last time and it was put in actually recommended

franchise fees were actually reduced at the time between the time that they were originally

recommended in May based upon case law that came down in June

So $450,000? Yeah, $450,000.

So the fee that the council considered in July and at the beginning of this month is actually Lor than was actually contemplated in May.

That's not what you asked? Well, if I can maybe take a attorney, I think from a broad perspective,

and I would say from my council member,

attorney reviews all of the agreements,

Putting out their legal advice that's her lawsuits and all that stuff So I don't think it's appropriate to go into the items and there's a legal review from the risk is minimized There's never zero risk on anything we do anything can be turned over or years and that can be illegal the next day

I'm comfortable with the Analysis that was done by staff and legal counsel on this item and every item that comes forward if at any time I am uncomfortable with that

I think there would be action that this council would probably take to rectify taking if that's clear

okay and

the final revenue from this where with the revenue I think if you were if we were here just about an

hour ago we heard from our public works director I listed like 15 things that's ongoing and I asked and point blank. Well, I'm just going to state what I know from a factual standpoint. We have

15 projects that he stated, and I asked him in terms of the cost, and if it comes together, those are all spoken for, but then there are lists and lists of projects that we have to go through every year. And just on the same topic, I am more than comfortable at one point paying $5 more for the on the list of 17 cities five bucks a monadia the next set of cities paying over 44

dollars pasadena over 50 year madre and over 70 dollars actually for this year because next year they're going to go to 85 dollars south pasadena who just renew or actually just be there's

inflation thing is going up the same question i asked public works director how's our projects doing contingencies but they're going to burn and material with that let me ask if there's a

and have a further discussion i'm sorry are you talking about the um move to approve consent

agenda item i have a motion by council member low i'll second second by council member sanchez

and just a comment you know the reason we don't acknowledge comments from the audience is because all of the testimony is recorded people are talking the audience the people who

are watching can't hear them so discussion okay on one of the items on

consent so you're five minutes are up I believe the trap if we have a bill if a

billing error inadvertently it's the recourse for that mr. mayor members of the council first of all that we don't send the bills out that's right if

there is by the provider so whatever we brought up by that particular vendor I

don't be honest that's a factual question with the vendor I isn't here I

don't know if Sean knows the answer I assume they have that's certainly a requirement of their franchise agreement yes good evening on our mayor mayor Brokton City Council Sean I go public work says you have to go through and that's directly what the resident and where they can dispute that residents or customers run into some roadblocks they will ask the city to intervene about

them that hey this is where they were back whatever that bill was that over billing that

would probably be the right that would happen but it is but that's what we would ask correct yes okay and i just want to clarify before we take this vote that i think a number of council members if not all of us did inquire as we heard from residents and others about this this concern around the online bills that showed up we did inquire about this we looked into it staff looked into it and for those who may not have been in the room when where came here to they explained that there was an error on their part putting this amount on the bill premier this error did not happen on any paper none of them have been mailed out they are waiting to formally adopt this before

they actually charged no one has my understanding is

sure that no one's paying for any services before this is adopted tonight. So just to make clear that

that's what they said where we initiate this, we've looked into this, we've had the same concerns,

we got the answer if you don't say to you. Not everything is, and if there are other you have,

and you have, happy to move forward to a vote. Yeah, response to your comments, discussion, right? Every time we come up here, we get lecture. And to my knowledge, that's a true statement, right?

And I talked to you about this $10 million that you guys could have paid for the swimming pool,

but you guys didn't. You guys signed the project. You know, scope documentation. There is no scope justification. They talk about it.

Like the concrete that fell into the pool, a priority.

We want to talk about that. Active project. You want to talk about that?

There's 28 projects on your list. 50% of them is being managed by a consultant.

TransTech. Sean just came over to me.

He just confirmed. The dollar project that we're all interested in, why we're not paying for the swimming pool, is not on that list.

But we're halfway through already. Are we buying for software?

And that software needs to be updated on a good portion of that project.

funding is for these antenna towers. Just based on my view of it, there's not enough

it's just a lot of money. Know that because you keep talking about it. We're going to have Sean, Sean, well Mr. Mayor, maybe

if you could just share that with, so thank you.

Thank you. Mayor Noe, thank you so very much. Public

health, safety, or welfare. Not list any immediate threats. Please explain, as was requested from, be it threat to public health, as this emergency ordinance be passed tonight.

City Attorney, are we in compliance with Prop 218? It sort of dictates this process.

Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, we've talked about the Prop 218 process before.

I don't know that which is the fact finder, and the only voters are, is to make a determination. It has the need to have an urgent order.

So we have a motion. I'm going to ask for a vote.

Anonymously. Okay. No public hearing, no new business. I know some folks, there have been speakers, not just tonight,

but in mismanagement, all that stuff.

Anyone who has proof of that and evidence of that to share that if there is real look forward to

Looking into any accusations of waste fraud can be more efficient in the city as well And I want to also share that you know anytime we raise you we do it

In thinking of our community as well together, okay

So hopefully you will reach out if you have any questions

if you have any on malfeasance or any of these other our city staff we'd be more than happy to

look into them but I so anyhow I do want to end by thanking the staff for all of your hard work

that you and so you know again I know unfounded accusations of somehow not being transparent and I think if there's nothing that you can that you can find then feel free to reach out to know

about some upcoming events. So this Sunday, there's the CACA,

Chinese American Citizens, 4 p.m. There's also the State of the City Address happening next Tuesday, August 26th, at the Holiday Inn at 6 p.m. Tomorrow at 6 p.m.,

we have our Police Department promotional ceremony at the Barnes Park Amphitheater. A lot of our students started,

sorry, did I see your thunder? The start of the school year

and that they have a successful school year I know we have a lot of so and a lot of in a lot of schools really really well so I wanted to make sure that they have thank you

thank you and you did steal my thunder because I was going to say

yay back to from the kids perspective yay back to scar falls began and out there I know there's a lot of traffics and I

know especially during the pick the the drop-off time this is the pickup time

there will be more heavy traffic than usual have

patience. They're your kids. They're your kids' friends. They're your neighbors. They're your community. Have patience.

Work together. Be early. Thank you. 10 o'clock.

Thank you.

Thank you.