City Council Meeting_ Feb 18_ 2026

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Thank you you may be seated

Thank you to our Monterey Park Police Explorers for the flag salute. I do want to make an announcement. Our Mayor Pro Tem, Henry Lowe, is not present tonight because his mother has passed away. So if you can all send your prayers and condolences to him and his family, that would be much appreciated. Madam Clerk, may we have a roll call, please?

Council Member Ngo.

Present.

Council Member Wong. Here.

Councilmember Sanchez.

Present.

Mayor Yang.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Thank you. Any agenda revisions or additions?

No, Madam Mayor.

All right. Thank you. Then we'll go into public communications. We have one comment card. Dave Jones.

Oh, wow.

Good evening, everyone. Honorable Mayor, Councilmembers, first of all, my deepest sympathies to Mayor Pro Tin Lowe and his family at the passing of his mother. I have lost both my parents. I know that it's never easy. So my prayers are with him and his family. I know that tonight we don't have data centers or a data center on the agenda, but I think it's important to continue speaking about this issue, especially as HNC-StratCat gears up for what promises to be a very dirty political fight. I just want to address one issue. One of the lies that is continuously told is that the data center will not cause electricity rates to go up. As I spoke at the last meeting, the law of supply and demand proves that is false. Goldman Sachs has reported that electricity prices jumped 6.9 percent in 2025, more than twice the inflation rate, which was 2.9 percent that year. prices are expected to continue to grow an additional 6% through 2027. And data centers, again, according to Goldman Sachs, not the most liberal organization out there, make up 40% of electricity demand growth. Bloomberg reports electricity costs in areas near data centers have increased up to 267% compared to five years ago. Harvard Law Today explained how, while utility rates climb for businesses and consumers, their data center neighbors often try to hide their effects on utility prices. This is why towns like Braidwood, Illinois, Eagan, Minnesota, Madison, Wisconsin, two counties in Georgia, multiple towns in Michigan, have enacted or are considering moratoriums on data centers. This is not a fringe position by a small group of people in Monterey Park. As we have seen, there is a large portion of the city that is just against having data centers in this town for very good reasons, reasons that go beyond just the cost of electricity. That's not to say that data centers are all bad. I use AI at my job, but data centers don't belong in residential communities. They don't belong here. You know, I've been in this town. I have lived here now for 35 years, not counting the 10 plus years that I was here when I grew up as a child. I'm very lucky. I've never had one of my neighbors come up to my door and say, I'm going to sue you, before they even said hello. But that's not what HMC StratCap did. they came right into this council chamber and said, we're going to sue the city if they don't let us have a data center. They don't care what the majority of the people feel. They're going to sue. They want what they want. They're telling us we're not going to be a good neighbor. Actions speak louder than words. I want everyone in the city to remember that. If this goes to a ballot and we have this dirty election campaign, actions speak louder than words and HNC Stratcap is showing us by their actions what type of neighbor they would be. Thank you very much for your time. I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. And if anyone's interested this is just water. No ice.

Thank you, Dave. That's all the public communications we have tonight, and no staff communications. All right, then we're going to go into 8A, recognition of Jason and Justin Jimenez.

Madam Mayor, members of the council, I'm going to invite up our fire chief, Jason Hing, to present this item to provide background, and then he'll join the council in recognizing these two young men. So Fire Chief Hing.

And we also did get public written communications, two of them, one from Fan Wang and a Nathan Chen.

Perfect. Hey, not so close. I told you you're too good looking. I'm just kidding. All right. Madam Mayor, Honorable Council, City Executive Team, members of the audience and the Monterey Park Fire Department. We are honored tonight to recognize two brave young men who are Monterey Park residents for their extraordinary heroism. On December 19, 2026, these individuals, one, a former Monterey Park Fire Department Explorer and Reserve, arrived first at a burning house in the city of Alhambra. Before any fire or police units arrived on scene, they entered the structure under extreme fire conditions and successfully rescued a trapped elderly female. Their quick and selfless actions saved a life in a moment of crisis. These young men represent the best of our community, courage, compassion, and neighborly care. They embody the spirit of public safety and partnership we strive for at the Monterey Park Fire Department. On behalf of the Monterey Park Fire Department, the City of Alhambra, and our entire city, we proudly present Justin Ramirez and Jason Ramirez with this formal commendation for exceptional bravery and life-saving valor.

Thank you both. Monterey Park is safer and stronger because of both of you. I invite the council to join me for this well-deserved recognition.

Can we have them share maybe a little bit about their experience?

You guys want to say a few words?

Yeah, on December 19th of 2025, me and my brother got a call on our phone's pulse point.

And we lived like two or three minutes from the address.

And we're a street away from the house that was on fire. And we've seen it's just a big old glow of flames and smoke. and my first instincts was we got there on scene and we seen the house fully involved in smoke and fire and my first instinct for me my brother started banging on the door see if we heard anybody inside and which we did we heard the man that was inside that obviously passed away our condolences to the family so we broke down the windows try to gain access inside but it was too much smoke and the lady was running for this sister come running from the back saying her auntie was inside the house stuck so my first thing was just to run over there I was in sweats my Birkenstock sandals and my first thing seemed was break down that the wall and I broke down the wall getting access inside and I grabbed the lady out she was two feet away from flames and smoke the house was fully involved and I was thank God I was able to get her out.

Thank you.

Thank you both so much for your bravery and for saving a life. We have certificates of recognition for you so we'll come down and present it.

Thank you. One, two, three, four, one more, one, two, three, okay.

There are shots.

Thank you.

One, two, three, one more, one, two, three.

Okay. Anybody else? Any other phones? No?

Mayor I'm a real certified hero. Thank you so very much.

Thank you.

All right, let's go to item 9A, discussion of potential legal challenges to inclusionary housing ordinances statewide.

Honorable Mayor Yang and City Council, my name is Timothy Howe. I'm the Director of Community Development. Tonight I'm going to be discussing potential legal challenges to inclusionary housing ordinance, including the city of Monterey Park. I'll first start with a bit of a background because this topic has a couple years of history. But first, what is an exclusionary housing ordinance? And you'll see that abbreviated as IHO. Board throughout the PowerPoint slides. An inclusionary housing ordinance requires a certain residential projects provide a percentage of affordable units in their project or use some alternative means. The most common is paying an in lieu of providing those affordable units through an in lieu fee. On September 6, the of 2023, the City Council adopted an inclusionary housing ordinance and posits implementation and directed staff to evaluate the financial feasibility including developing a marketable in lieu fee staff returned on January 17 2024 and provided findings along with the consultant EPS and those findings showed that the IHO posed financial challenges to both small and mid-sized residential developments. As a result, council opted to pause the inclusionary housing ordinance for one year. Consequently, staff returned along with consultant EPS last year on January 15th, providing updated findings which showed that the inclusionary housing ordinance and lufies still posed financial challenges despite some modest improvements in the residential market for certain housing development types as a result council opted to extend the iho pause another year and that brings us to today where staff is returning and providing some additional context most importantly there have been recent public law developments and i'm going to walk a bit through two particular cases. First is a US case law, Supreme Court case Sheetz v. County of El Dorado. This case involved a $20,000 traffic impact fee as a condition of approval for a home development project. Ultimately, the determination of the case, It addressed legal requirements for government exactions on private projects. And for those exactions, the court decided that cities must be prepared to show an essential nexus and show rough proportionality for the impact fees or exactions being charged. The second was litigation within the city of East Palo Alto that ultimately led to a settlement agreement. In this case, U v. City of East Palo Alto ultimately was settled recently in the past few months. This case involved the owner of a property building two new housing units via an SB9 lot split, required to pay a $55,000 inclusionary housing in lieu fee or being required to designate one of the two units being proposed as an affordable unit. The outcome of that case was that the city settled agreeing to approve the project with no inclusionary requirement in essentially a strategic retreat from a a determination in court. The result included a payment of the legal costs and the city of East Palo Alto carving out an SB9 exemption from their inclusionary housing regulations. In light of these challenges in public law, there are some policy considerations for counsel to consider. For the city's inclusionary housing ordinance, the city may face similar legal scrutiny if applied as a uniform requirement on residential projects. The case law suggests that a case-by-case or project-by-project nexus studies or alternative compliance options may be necessary. However, these case by case requirements would increase the administrative burden on staff, add more layers to the entitlement process for development, and may ultimately not find justification for meaningful IHO requirement. Furthermore, another option is amending the city's inclusionary housing ordinance to incorporate exemptions to better align with public law. However, this does not eliminate the need for the ordinance and its requirements to meet this reasonable connection and proportionality test. The council can also opt to continue to pause the inclusionary housing ordinance as it currently stands. This frees the housing market from the added costs and administrative hurdles. We can further promote and incentivize affordable housing through alternative means such as the state density bonus law. Finally, staff recommendation is for council to consider the following options and provide direction. first is to either amend the inclusionary housing ordinance to align with recent legal development and incorporate exemptions such as what East Palo Alto looked at with carving out SB 9 projects as exempt or option to to continue the pause on inclusionary housing ordinance requirements pending further analysis as well as public law developments this concludes staffs report and I'm available to answer any questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. Tim, thanks for the update, and I think this was an issue where we looked at for a couple of years, but we paused it for the reasons listed. I guess I have a question in terms of the recommendation. The recommendation is to amend and basically incorporate the exemptions, which is SB9, and then the continuing Are you recommending a specific timeline, or is that something that we're considering?

That's something for the council to consider. Taking previous actions that council has taken, council has opted to pause for 12 months. That provides enough time to see how either the market developed previously, or in this case, whether there's further action on the public law side that can further settle this matter.

Okay, well, I'm just going to throw a number out there. I think 12 months, what we did consistently in the past is a good timeline, given that we're already in mid-February. And if you look at the economic projections, we're probably looking at a 50 basis point reduction from the Fed. So interest rates will be lower, but that's happening toward the second half of the year. And hopefully they'll restart the economy with another drop in the first quarter of next year. So I think 12 months is probably a good time. I support the two actions as requested, and I would like to recommend maybe 12 months,

or I would suggest 12 months for the pause.

So for clarification, Council Member, no, Ngo. So you're interested in continuing the pause for 12 months, and then potentially after the pause, coming back to amend the IHO? No. Amend it, and then continue the pause. I thought there were one and two. So we're asking for direction, but definitely we're looking for potentially one or the other, because if we're pausing it, we wouldn't amend the IHO right now, because if there's further potential public law developments, we would want to investigate those after the 12 months. So if your recommendation is deposit, then we would continue to leave it as is. We would watch it, monitor it, and if other developments occur, then we would bring that back after 12 months with an update for council with what that means, or we could amend it with what we know today, right? with the exemptions from SB9 projects. That's what we're asking.

So how long would it take for you to amend the process? Like the timing?

If we went with option one, how long would it take? It wouldn't take very long. We could return fairly shortly. The question, however, with amending the IHO would be whether or not we start enforcement and activate the IHO requirements and regulation. It's currently on pause. In light of public law developments, staff's recommendation, if we were to move forward, would be if we wanted to enforce it, would be option one. Option two, so it is an either or. Option two would be to continue the pause. there's advantages to continuing the pause in light of the uncertainty around the legality of it frankly.

If I could further clarify, as a reminder, so the last update that we brought to council, which was in January of 2025, the analysis that was previously done on our IHO at the time, not all prototypes that were evaluated seemed to be financially feasible for those types of developments. So at that time, the council decided to leave the IHO on pause for 12 months. So additionally, if the council is going to consider potentially amending the IHO and enforcing it, we would also want to make sure that it's financially feasible so residential projects could potentially come into the city. so that's another consideration

are we already working on that feasibility assessment for given current market conditions and are we potentially amending the IHO for to make sure that it is feasible for different types of projects to move forward city or is that something you need council direction to do again

it's the latter staff is prepared we have a consultant ready a scope defined however in light of these you know pending legal implications step felt it was prudent to bring those to light first and seek direction

so I think I'm I think I'm where council member go is too I we obviously should have been the I show to align with existing legal issues I'd imagine even some of the SP9 nine products so our IHO doesn't apply for projects that are less than nine nine or ten units I think because I think I think we set a threshold for where they apply right but I don't know.

And so we'd have to we'd have to make sure that if we're just talking about the SB nine exemption we would make sure that it would it would align with that I want to take a step back However, the larger challenge is the recent legal developments, there's no way to amend the IHO to make it, say, litigation proof. And so that then becomes the challenge, how to amend it. This may ultimately be borne out through additional litigation and case law. And that's why you have option two as an option to continue to pause pending further analysis and further development on that front.

Well, I, I'll go ahead.

Yeah, sorry. City council members, the other consideration, as Tim mentioned, so we do have a consultant that has submitted a proposal. The reason that we wanted the direction is because we didn't want to expend those funds yet on the consultant if the council may be interested in the pause. So we are ready to utilize the consultant to do further analysis to see if there's another option for making it financially feasible. But it's still the questions that are still on the table are, you know, potential challenges to an IHO. Correct.

I mean, where I'm calling for that at this is there's always going to be litigation and policy changes are always going to happen. So we're going to keep pausing this forever every year, if that's what we're going to wait for. So I think I would like to see us move and at least work towards adopting NIHO that feasibly, or that financially and economically is feasible for developers so that we don't completely disincentivize development in the city. But we're also under pressure from the state to make sure that we're meeting arena numbers and to facilitate development at all income levels and affordability levels, including affordable housing, which is what the IHO has meant to, we put in our housing outlet for the IHO, that we would explore an IHO to help incentivize lower income, affordable housing in the city. So I'd like to move forward on that and provide direction to staff to do the alignment with what we know existing in terms of the law and litigation to make sure that ours is going to be as defensible as possible, knowing that there's never litigation proof any policy but I want to just keep moving forward and get to a place where we have something ready for the council at least adopt and I would provide direction I'm comfortable providing Director of the City to the staff to move forward on some sort of the financial economic analysis to make sure that we're shaping the IHO so that it does work and is financially feasible given current market conditions. Obviously market conditions can change anytime and policy can change anytime as well. But knowing what we know now I think let's move forward as quickly as possible to get the RIHO into a place where it makes sense and it accomplishes the goal of incentivizing affordable housing development. and without disincentivizing development completely in the city, how do we get there? And then also my hope... out of this is right we approved and have been uh supportive of an in blue fee kind of structure as well i think it's also helpful uh even if we're going to adopt an iho as we make these changes if we have i mean the council can always defer enforcement but it's helpful to have something written down right for developers that are proposing developments in the city I just have a starting point for negotiating development agreement and where where we want to go up and down on some of that potentially on on affordability components for for those DA's so I think it's helpful just to offer a little more certainty to have something up an IHO kind of on paper at least as a starting point for those negotiations and not just keep keep pushing us off so I don't know if that's clear I hope that's clear but I I'm in support of moving forward, having staff continue to move forward on putting together, revising the IHO, given these legal developments, but also moving forward on the consultant to do the economic analysis and bring something back to the city council that will be as economically and financially feasible for development in the city as possible, knowing all these goals that we have.

So if I can simply restate that just to ensure clarity, this would essentially continue the existing state of having the IHO requirements paused. As staff develops, or first works with the consultant to update the market feasibility, determine proper in lieu of fees per market conditions, As well as align the language, because this will come back as essentially an amendment to our existing IHO to address one, the structure of it, that was a main discussion point previously, are the percentages right, and what is the in lieu fee going to be. But in addition now, what carve outs would be examined as well. and bring that back before council for consideration. Yes, I'm very comfortable with a pause until staff brings back a revision to the IHO for the council to consider adoption. Yes.

And for clarification, Tim, the timeline for the consultant, do they provide that in the proposal by chance just so that we could provide a rough estimate of when we would expect that to come back?

Yeah, it's about 90 to 120 days.

okay so a few months before we'll see that item come back

thank you for the presentation i have some questions um i know that we had put a pause in the past to try to encourage development encourage developers to try to speed up their housing developments to try to perhaps incentivize them already by putting a pause on housing uh i'm just curious um in and I think we've had two pauses already is that correct so two years we paused the IHO um in those two years that we've paused the IHO have we seen an increase in housing development that has incentivized developers to build housing in our city

So I can only speak to um I can't speak to my own recollection I can only speak to the numbers looking at um building permits issued and in 2024 building permits issued within the city I believe was about 44 the majority of those being accessory ADUs accessory dwelling units in 2025 we're still finalizing those numbers but that number has increased significantly by a percentage however it's still less than a hundred units that have been building permit issued in 2025 that's however not the only metric the other metric to consider are entitlement applications and the number of housing units you know currently going through the entitlement process right now and we have several hundred units over a combination of mixed-use projects purely housing projects single-family dwellings things of that nature as well as the ADUs it's in the several hundred units currently in process right now

okay the reason I ask is because I'm not sure necessarily putting a pause is providing an incentive for developers to actually build housing um but but i to council member wong's point i i am in favor of um having a iho that we can work with as quickly as possible um that incentivizes uh development because we do need we do need housing i just don't know that we need a year uh to make that happen um and i think uh city manager you said you need about 90 days 120 days

correct uh council member sanchez the proposal from the consultant 90 to 120 days so we would work back with the consultants to get them going as soon as that report is ready we would work to bring that in front of council so we would definitely need a few months if the council is providing direction tonight to go ahead and do that we don't have to pause the IHO for the whole the whole 12 months we could essentially pause it while we're working on that analysis and then bring it back to Council for consideration, correct.

Yeah, I think I would prefer that. And then also, even if we did have a, if we like, let's say, continue with our IHO and decided not to pause, there are other alternatives that developers have, right, like paying in Luffy's. Is that still an option for them if they didn't want to include, if they didn't want to provide affordable housing units in their development?

Yes. Under the existing regulations, it calls for an in-lieu fee as an alternative. Council has not set an in-lieu fee. That's what's been studied with the consultant EPS over the last couple of years in determining whether an in-lieu fee would be a deterrent for certain types of housing developments, and that has been the case in most cases every time that analysis has been brought forward to council.

So to clarify, Councilmember Sanchez, right now the in-lieu fee is also paused because it's part of the IHO as an alternative.

Correct.

So yes, that exists, but both of them are on pause. So if the housing project doesn't provide the units, they do have that alternative in the IHO. However, right now both are paused, correct? Because it's in the IHO.

Okay. Because I am, I mean, we obviously need housing. We have a housing crunch in this, not just in our community, but in the entire state. But we're also in desperate need of affordable housing. And housing, especially rent and homes have dramatically increased. So whatever we can do from our city standpoint at the local level to be able to provide affordable housing within our city to whatever extent I'm in favor of. So I'm in agreement with Council Member Wong in being able to bring something back that provides affordable housing alternatives but also encourages development. we have I know some developments that are you know taken longer than we anticipated and I think we need to start encouraging them to build so whatever we can do to do that as well and I know that's that's a whole different aspect there and I'm hoping for different  kind of worms but I know that they work hand in hand so I want to make sure that whatever we are building in our city housing wise is also affordable for our residents and for community members so Thank you.

Thank you to my colleagues for sharing their thoughts and to staff for the thorough presentation. I would also be in favor of continuing the pause. Just for clarification, we've paused the IHO requirements in the past in order to encourage more development.

To provide a more complete summary of that, the council direction was to pause until market conditions improved. The reason being that either the imposition of the inclusionary housing requirement in terms of a percentage of units as part of the project or the in-lieu fee, paying basically the difference between an affordable unit or a market rate essentially became a deterrent to development and would make it cost prohibitive for a development to pencil. And so that was the primary cause of the previous pauses.

Right. So it wouldn't be as cost prohibitive for developers to develop because they wouldn't have so many rules in place.

It becomes a cost concern whether or not they can make it work financially for them to pursue the project. And part of the analysis that would have to be updated as part of the staff's work before they would come back, as is being recommended would be an update to that market feasibility analysis and determining what in lieu fee would, or if there is an in lieu fee, that would pencil out and would be acceptable to market.

And so it sounds like my colleagues suggested amending the IHO, but we would still have the ability to continue the pause even after the IHO is amended.

That's correct.

Okay. So correct, Council, to just reiterate the direction that we're hearing is to do the analysis, to do that work, bring it back for Council's consideration. At that time, the Council can continue to either pause it or decide to enforce it. So I think we're clear on the direction. We just need to make sure that we get a vote on that direction.

All right.

I'll make the motion.

I'll second it

Alright Council Member Wong moves. Council Member Sanchez seconds.

Let's vote.

Approved unanimously.

Thank you. All right, that's it for old business tonight. Next item is our consent agenda.

Mayor, I'll pull item 10A for the mid-year financial.

Okay, 10A is pulled. Any other items?

madam mayor I'd like to pull item 10 10 B and 10

sorry I just had it 10 F

10 B and 10 F

F got it just for brief highlighting

I'll move the remaining items all right now second Councilmember Ngo seconds seconds. Let's vote.

Approved unanimously.

Thank you. All right, let's go with 10A.

Good evening, Council and Mayor. Laura Bourjon, Finance Manager. It's my pleasure to present the fiscal year 25-26 midyear financial report.

We will be going over general fund revenues, general fund expenditures, and a general fund five-year projection, as well as budget augmentation requests. total general general fund revenue collections are at 34 percent of total estimated revenues with half of the year complete this is below 50 percent because certain revenues have a delay and when they are received by the city specifically it only represents four months of sales tax revenue, four months of franchise fee revenue, and approximately 25% of property tax revenue. That being said, when comparing current fiscal year to the prior fiscal year, we're seeing property tax up 5% from last year. Sales tax revenue is down 7% from the previous year, due in large part to consumer uncertainty from inflation and fluctuating tariff policies leading to customers to focus on spending on essentials and value while awaiting a more stable and predictable economy. TOT revenue is doing well. We've experienced an increase of 9%.

UUT is down 2%, but that's due to timing. Business license tax is up 69% from the prior fiscal year. The new measure implementation, oh, I'm sorry. So it's up 69% from the prior year. Licenses and permits and service charges and fees are slightly higher than estimated and other revenue. Specifically, interest income is lower than the previous year. lower than last year.

So the majority of departments' actual expenditures are at or below 50% of their budgeted amounts. With the exception of community CIP, city council, police, and fire, this is due to the community CIP, the purchase of the property for the relocation of fire station 63. City Council, what I noticed is the number of payrolls posted there, so it's a slight difference, but it should actually be below 50%. And police and fire are overdue to overtime.

General fund five-year projection for revenues were made with the following assumptions. An increase from 3.5% to 4.3% increase in property tax and TOT revenue projections, which include a full year of measure LG.

So for the current fiscal year, we estimate revenues at over $75 million. For 26-27, we estimate $77.3 million. For 27-28, $79.5 million. And for 28-29, $81.8 million. General fund expenditures are estimated for last fiscal year, the actuals were $69.6 million. For 25-26, we estimate $73.9 million. For 26-27, $75.9 million. 27-28, $78.1 million. And 28-29, $80.4 million.

All surpluses increase the fund balance. and with the aforementioned assumptions, we project a fund balance of $45.3 million at the end of 2029. Staff is recommending the allocation of $150,000 to the committed catastrophic and stabilization fund to balance to maintain the GFOA-recommended 15% to general fund operating budget. general fund budget augmentation the city is requesting a mid-year budget augmentation the amount of two million six hundred and ninety eight thousand two hundred and thirty two from the general fund a million dollars for the fire station 63 renovation project a million for the barns park pool project 250 000 for tree plantings throughout the city 150 000 for fire training services 298 232 for various expenditures increase including increased costs of operating supplies unanticipated landscaping and fencing needs throughout city parks enterprise funds budget augmentation the city is requesting a mid-year budget augmentation in the amount of 167 000 from water funds for necessary software upgrades and carbon for water treatment operations. The city is requesting a mid-year budget augmentation in the amount of $168,000 from internal service funds, the building maintenance funds in the amount of $25,000 to cover the cost of office furniture replacement at the city yard, shop funds in the amount of $71,000 to cover the cost of annual support and maintenance fees for the fleet management software, Technology and data processing funds in the amount of $72,000 to cover the cost of hardware replacement, including computer switches and routers and software licenses. The city is requesting a mid-year budget augmentation in the amount of $1,740,913 from special funds. Proposition A funds in the amount of $823,975 for Sierra Vista Park, Playground Project, and Public Transportation Services. Proposition C funds in the amount of $181,512 for pavement improvements. Measure W funds in the amount of $241,000 for street-sweeping services, and ground emergency medical transportation funds in the amount of $330,000 for emergency transportation services.

COVID community development block grant funds in the amount of $115,000 for purchases of supplies and or services that will help reduce the spread of COVID-19 by service transmission. household hazardous waste grant funds received from Cal Recycle in the amount of $49,426 for household hazardous waste collection at city-sponsored community cleanup events. That concludes my presentation. Staff is available to answer any questions.

If you can go back to I think it was the first slide where you compare 24, 25, one more back. Next one. Yeah, it's this one. So I'm just looking at that. So it looks like if you think about this past year versus the year before, we're short about $950,000. That's why we're augmenting a million, a million five or two million five to this year. That's kind of the gist of it.

we're short about the 950 but it's not the money comes in at different times so I wouldn't be too concerned that we're not at the same as last year because when we did our analysis we found that our property tax is going to come in higher the only thing that we anticipate coming in lower than our original budget is sales tax because it's slightly and Laura has an answer to that we're the community is not spending as much as they used to. So we're anticipating about $200,000 less, but a few of our other revenue sources will be slightly more than anticipated. But I wouldn't worry too much of the $950,000 because it's just a matter of timing.

Okay, thank you. On the sales tax coming in lower, anything i mean i'm a little worried and i know that all of us are everyone is feeling a little tighter in terms of the budget and i it sounds like we're seeing that in the numbers in terms of sales tax revenue generation going down uh any additional context just from hdl or others or our own kind of views on where things are headed just what we're seeing uh the information that we did receive um is from hdl they they anticipate they said it's It is across the state. They're seeing the same trend across the state. Consumers are just not spending on discretionary items. They're spending on essentials, and they're going for value items rather than splurging at this time just because of economic uncertainties.

Thank you. And I want to emphasize that and harp on that. This is without a recession happening, which I know every year we're saying the recession's coming. But to get to my next point around our existing, I know the staff recommendation is to augment our catastrophic in working capital set aside or reserves there by $150,000. I think that needs to be way higher. And I'm curious what our capacity is to get that higher. I know we're at and trying to get to the 15% minimum for those two funds, for working capital and for catastrophic. Frankly, those really should be separate and should both be at 10% to 15% in a healthier, I think, budget. So I'd like to see how we can augment that even further. I don't know if that's possible this year, given where we are. but I think we need to prioritize that even higher in terms of our budgeting going forward into future years, especially as the general fund is expected to continue to grow. That 15% even at a minimum is going to continue to grow, right? It's a percentage. And so whatever we can do to continue to build up a stronger reserve for catastrophic events and for working capital, because that's the, correct me if I'm wrong, that's the fund that we would go to. If there is a downturn in the economy, we would tap that fund to prevent reducing services, prevent layoffs, prevent cutting back on essential services the city would have to provide, and we would still be using that fund. That would be the same fund we would draw on if a disaster hit the city where we need money up front to be able to pay for emergency construction or whatever or something to clear the roads, FEMA money and state and federal money in terms of potential disaster support doesn't come in immediately in many cases, especially for cities. So we need to have that working capital up front to be able to meet an emergency. And those things are not, they don't get cheaper. They only get more expensive, too, over time. So I'm worried that we're only at $11 or $12 million for a $75 million general fund budget, which meets the minimum, I guess. But I think we should be aiming for way higher because in a recession, if you're talking about 5, 10, 15, 20% decline in revenue, that current $11 or $12 million is going to get eaten up very, very quickly. We won't have any runway or room to breathe in terms of having to cut back on essential services and hours and resources that are available for the community that in a recession or economic downturn we want the city to be able to provide. So I'm very worried, actually, that our number is actually kind of low there. And would like to see, I don't know, Martha, if you have another number that you can throw out there to add to the catastrophic working capital reserve amount. Or if that's something more appropriate for the, as we get into next fiscal year budget, to see how we can set aside additional funds into that budget and start setting aside more money for that.

If council wishes for us to set aside more, we can definitely, depending on where we are at the end of the fiscal year, if we have a surplus, we can definitely increase the amount to $500,000. GFOA's recommendation is 15% to 20% of the general fund operational budget, so we can aim for the 20% if council wishes.

yeah I mean I I I I think we should be aiming for that 20% I know we probably won't get there just in one fiscal year I'm hoping we have time to ramp up to 20% and that 20% I know will grow even more as the general fund continues to grow but right that's going from what are we 11 ish million right now to 15 million if we're going off the 75 million dollar general fund expenditures right this year that's adding four million dollars right now so yes we should be looking towards it I think as we get towards next fiscal year budget I think we should start figuring out how we've set in policy getting closer to that 20 percent over time as opposed to just meeting the 15 percent minimum

So with council approval tonight at the year when we close our books if there's additional surplus if we are authorized by City Council we can go from the 150 to as higher as the surpluses like we did this past fiscal year in 25 we had we were able to increase the catastrophic by 3 million so with surplus if council authorizes is we could increase it and we can start using surplus as a mechanism or as a what we use to increase the reserves.

Yeah, I'm in full support of that and whatever we can do to fill our rainy day fund, our catastrophic working capital fund. And also, right, that goes towards our ability to borrow and our credit rating to have additional funds set aside. So all of that is good. And I think we need to be even more prepared for a rainy day. I appreciate all the work on the finance department team, but all the staff for getting us to this point too, even. I think this is still, despite whatever my comments might be indicating, we're in a much better fiscal situation than some of our neighbors, especially our larger neighbor to the west. And so appreciate a lot of hard work that went into getting us to this place and the posture of being as conservative as possible with managing our finances as possible that we've had in terms of managing the last few years. so appreciate that and want to continue in that set and see what else we can do to make sure we're

more prepared for very likely hard times to come um on the other on COVID we mentioned one of the

staff recommendations was to expend some COVID funds do we how much do we still have left from the covet funding from the federal

We have about, I don't have the exact number, it's $200,000 plus, and we have until September of 26 to spend it or we don't get it because it's a drawdown account. We have budgeted $115,000 because Public Works has some infrastructure or some operating items that they're going to purchase that are related to a non-surface, no touching surface, touchless surface, sorry. And we do have maybe another $100,000 that we can come back at when we have other items because it's very specific to touchless items. So if we can find other uses for the rest of the money, we will be definitely coming back to ask for the other $100,000. so we can spend it before September of 26.

Yeah. It sounds like we're working on it, and I just encourage staff to make sure we don't leave money on the table. Let's spend that on what we need and what we know we're going to need before the federal government claws that back. I'll leave it at that. On the staff also recommendation in terms of the million dollars for Barnes Park pool design I know that items gonna come back in the next few weeks or in March or something I think March timeframe or so I don't know if that's gonna be enough we'll see but just note for finance staff just right we have assigned funds in our reserves for capital projects we can we can reassign some of that for design I'd also like to provide some initial direction of staff right we're still waiting on word from grant applications that we sent out as well many of those have matching grant require matching fund requirements that the city is gonna have to meet do we know do you know offhand where those amounts are if we win some of those grants what we would have to set aside

we do have about three million in assigned CIPs that have not been Appropriated to a project so we have the money to match the 3 million to match if we are if we are awarded a 6 million dollar grant

And so that 6 million dollar grant is the largest one we've applied for then I'm that I'm aware of yes

Yes, council member that that one is the largest and the match requirement is 3 million

so If we if you're saying we have three more one, I think a priority should be to to build up our working capital and our catastrophic reserves, but also whatever we can do, if we win one of these grants, we're going to need at least $3 million, it sounds like, for matching funds to receive that money. Let's start working towards making sure we're setting aside that amount in an account, or at least assigning in our reserves for that specific purpose, that we have that money set aside and ready if and when we do receive hopefully positive news on on a grant application and that's i'll pass it on to my colleagues

thank you for the report um i i think financially we're um i think we've worked hard to be where we're at and i'm really happy and glad to see that we're um you know meeting a lot of our reserve goals i i'm in complete agreement with council member wong in terms of being able to increase our when we can our reserves uh for and i think i think as as we look at what's going on in neighboring communities i think it's very important to be prepared not just for potential environmental disasters but also just a very dubious you know economic forecast that potentially might impact our community so wherever whenever we have reserves i think we should try to put as much as we can into whenever we have to i'm sorry um surplus as if we can put them into our reserves would be extremely beneficial but also i know we have a lot of capital projects that we have to be working on so i including the pool and many others and so So, you know, whatever we can put aside to also prioritize a lot of those capital projects would be very useful. Thank you, Martha.

We do have a public speaker card. Deb Simone would like to speak on this item.

Honorable Mayor, Council Members, I just want to point out, too, that minus 7% up there for sales tax. Let's not forget ICE. I know that there's not much we can do at the local level I think whatever we can do to increase neighborhood unity doing all this canvassing for the data center I've gotten to meet a lot of my neighbors and it's been really great and it does make me feel more secure and I know we do national night out events and that kind of thing here I don't know if you want to think about other things we can do to increase that looking at the events in Minneapolis too and honestly I remember when they were here and I drove down First Street from downtown out here and it was empty empty there was nobody here and it wasn't Christmas time and it wasn't Thanksgiving it was the federal government so I I know it's difficult from a policy standpoint but whatever we can do I I think that's responsible for your minus seven percent in sales tax people just aren't going out. They're staying in their houses. Thank you.

Thank you, Deb, and I agree with that as well. Whatever we can do to further go against ICE, I would be for it. Anyone want to make a motion?

I'll make the motion.

I'll second. Clarifying the motion is to adopt staff recommendation, but also with the additional direction on the, but looking for staff to look into assigning additional money for both the catastrophic working capital reserves and also for the Barnes Park pool set aside for grant matching funds, if that's immutable to the motion maker. Yes.

Approved unanimously.

Okay, thank you. The next item pulled is 10B.

That's me, right? Good evening, Madam Mayor, Honorable Counsel, Diana Garcia, Assistant City Manager. This evening before you, we have updates to the city logo and branding materials. I just want to note on Zoom, we have Kevin Bostwick from Tripepi Smith who's joining us. He was the lead on this project with us. This evening, we're going to ask that Council approves the updated simplified city logo, as well as the motto, the official color palette, fonts, and the comprehensive style guide that's attached to the staff report. So this effort that you see before you this evening is the result of several months of collaborative work by staff across multiple city departments, all city departments, at all levels, with input from city council and city commissioners. And you'll see our branding preserves the city's heritage while providing us some updated tools that function effectively across digital and print platforms as well. So I thought it'd be interesting to share with you this evening kind of the evolution of the city seal. You'll see the first one there was adopted in 1916 when the city was founded, and it's got the shield with the stars and the stripes on it. In 1966, 50 years later, is when we adopted the seal that we're currently using

that you see on top of the council chambers here.

and then the seal was great. The information that we got when we did outreach and surveying of community members was that they loved all of the elements of it, that it really represented Monterey Park, but we wanted to simplify it a bit because it is a little busy, especially when you print it or when you silkscreen it or when you embroider it. And so what you'll see on the right-hand side is the updated, more simplified city seal that contains the nod to the 1916 seal. You've got the bear for California, and you've got the cascades.

And right in the middle, we've got the establishment of the city, the date.

So just to differentiate between the official seal and the logo, the official seal is registered with the state. That will continue to be used for ceremonial purposes. The city clerk has an embosser with the official seal on it as well. And you'll see the logo that's simplified below. That'll be used website, business cards, letterheads, PowerPoint presentations, flyers, signage, things like that.

These are the new proposed Monterey Park city colors.

When we did our survey and we talked to our commissioners, people felt that Monterey Park should be represented by the colors of nature, the green of the hills and the blue of the skies. So you'll see the primary colors are blues and greens. And then we've got accent colors with red, a nod to our city's Asian heritage. And then we've got neutrals in tan and gray that can be used for background colors. As mentioned, as part of this effort in redesigning the logo, we also had our graphic designers create some updated templates for us. So you'll see business cards here on the left, PowerPoint deck here on the right, which I'm actually using this evening. You'll notice it's a little bit different than the one we've been using. There's a new email signature here on the left, which is a lot easier to read, and then an updated letterhead on the right-hand side there. those are just some of the deliverables that we that we've created during this process the next steps for this will be after approval we will roll out the logo and the templates and then we're going to provide staff training on brand use guidelines and then canva for design and we'll also be updating the website to reflect the new colors and the logo thank you for your attention I'm happy to answer any questions.

Madam Mayor. Thank you, Diana. Great presentation. I think the new logo looks spiffy. Spiffy. I know it's taken 60 years, but it is a much clearer design. I mean, you look at it, the print looks a lot better. I mean, you kind of go back to black and white back 110 years ago. We've come a long way, so I like it. Thank you.

I also like the thank you Diana for the presentation all the work and collaboration that went to updating the city logo I think it was definitely due for some updating and I think the council had already mentioned in the past potential of updating the logo but also updating our certificates and which I'm matured um will be the next step perhaps uh in in terms of updating some of our items um i i do like the um the the color scheme and uh it to me it looks a lot more clear but to use council member Ngo's um words looks spiffy um so um but i i do i do appreciate the the effort and work that went to updating it and looking forward to seeing it a lot more in our city communications and paperwork

thank you thank you as well I'm glad it's going to be a lot easier to read in emails because it's more simplified so great work on the logos a quick question

A quick question, do we need have we looked into our I don't know if our original logo is trademarked or if we need to pursue a trademark for any of this just to make sure it's not misused?

So it's not trademarked, but by the simple creation of any intellectual property, you gain a copyright to that. You can register the copyright with the Office of the Copyright in Washington, D.C., and it makes it a little bit easier to defend in litigation. But we own the copyright to this image. In the past, we have sent communications to folks who have misused this, and we also have very clear standards as to who is able to use this. So this is only applied for city use, city programs, city flyers, and we've made sure to communicate that when it does show up on programs or flyers or websites that are not our own, we always ask that that's removed.

All right. Anyone want to make a motion?

I'll make the motion

I'll second.

Alright, let's vote

Approved unanimously

Thank you.

Just a question for staff. How are how is this going to be rolled out now?

Go to my final slide here So first thing tomorrow morning I'm going to send out an email to everybody across the city letting them know that this is approved We're all really excited to start using it. We've got a huge folder in our shared drive with all of the assets and the templates for use. And then we will be scheduling trainings for all staff on how that is to be used. So if you look at your attachments, there's the brand guidelines there. And so it gives usage on, you know, where you put the logo, how big it should be, things not to do, how to use the colors, all of those things. So we'll be doing trainings for all staff on how to roll that out. And so if you imagine, you know, I think you don't realize how many things the logo is on until you start thinking about it. It's definitely on a lot of different things from our street signs to our vehicles to our business cards to our letterhead. That will be a slow rollout. Obviously, we're not going to go and replace all the city street signs all at once. But as those things need to be replaced, we'll be doing it. Other things like the business cards, as we run out, we'll be printing the new ones. The website can be updated a little bit more quickly. Obviously flyers and signage, that'll be adopted immediately. So you'll see this in use immediately.

Additionally, Council, I just wanted to jump in. This also helps us to solidify city colors. So we didn't have adopted city colors previously. So this gives us really clear direction on our city colors. So this gives us our template that we would be pulling from, which is shown here. So we've got a primary color is our dark blue, and that will coincide with everything else that we're doing. So that's going to, you know, be reflective in our certificates. We already have certificate jackets that are in this color. But those would be updated as well to utilize the updated seal option. So all of it will be rolled in. but this is definitely helpful for staff just from a consistency standpoint

yeah no i appreciate the consistency and knowing i appreciate that staff are thinking through how to be judicious in the rollout i'm not going to change everything overnight uh let's use up what we have and then make sure we're transitioning everything to make sure the brand is consistent going forward and we've got we're all on the same page knowing that that's going to be a transition it's not something I don't use a signature line or anything for my city email, but maybe I should now. So let me know what I need to do.

We'll include you on that email.

Okay, thank you. 10F, consideration of a request for an overnight camping permit allowing the Recreation and Community Services Department to conduct an MPK campout event in Barnes Park. Do you need a full presentation or you just wanted to mention it?

Just a brief presentation.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Council Members. My name is Christina Alatorre. I'm the Recreation Manager for the Recreation and Community Services Department. Tonight, I'm requesting an overnight camping permit allowing the Recreation and Community Services Department to conduct an MPK campout in Barnes Park. The MPK campout is intended to expand community events and opportunities, activate park space after hours, build stewardship of city parks, and provide a family-friendly outdoor experience. The Park System Master Plan was adopted on August 6, 2025, and identified community events as the most important and desired park program. During the fiscal year 25-26 in the approved budget, the Recreation Department included the goal of implementing a Camping in the Park family event. If approved, the MPK Campout, held in Barnes Park Friday, June 12, 2026, would be from Friday to Saturday, June 12th to June 13th. This family-friendly event would feature arts and crafts, a movie in the park, games, and entertainment. Registration is required with each participant wearing an event wristband to be identified by staff. A check-in and check-out process will be required with assigned camping spaces designated for each participant. All registered participants will be required to provide their own tents, sleeping bags, and amenities. Currently, the Monterey Park Municipal Code 6.3704 prohibits any person to sleep, camp, or store personal property, including camp facilities and paraphernalia or in or on restricted public property. In addition, the Monterey Park Municipal Code 12.04.190 states that it is unlawful for any person to enter, remain, or stay in any park or recreation center within the city at any time between the hours of 10.30 p.m. and 6 a.m. of the following day. The Recreation and Community Services Department is requesting a permit for overnight camping for the registered MPK campout participants. That's all I have. I am happy to answer any questions or any comments that you may have.

Madam Mayor, I have a quick question. What's the movie that night?

Well, let me start by saying the theme is luau. So the movie for that night is going to be Moana.

Second question is, can council members participate?

Of course. And we always welcome our council members to participate in all of our recreation and city events. So yes.

Okay. I'm going to bring my girls then. And I know that Robert had mentioned this camp out before, so I'm glad to see that it's coming to fruition. And, you know, when the time comes, and I know this is not until the summer, I'm looking forward to see more information about what exactly is happening. I'm assuming there's going to probably be even a bonfire, right, Robert? I don't know, maybe.

Yeah. So we are actually partnering with our fire department. Oh, it's going to be epic then. It's going to be more than epic to do s'mores. So we're going to be fire safe with our fire department and we're going to be offering s'mores to those families that join us for the camp out.

Very good. Thank you so much for that report. And, you know, since I already have the parks and rec people here, I was wondering if you guys can speak a little bit to 10H, which is the Sierra Vista playground, which I'm also very excited as a parent. When we talk about parks and rec and parks just in general.

Absolutely. Robert DeGuerre, director of recreation and community services. So, yeah, I know the item didn't get pulled tonight. Thank you for that. But I do want to share, we're definitely excited about the opportunity for a new themed playground at Sierra Vista Park. Sierra Vista Park, as you very well know, that's our oldest playground currently in the city. And so we've been working with the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians, Gavilan Tongva Tribe, to come up with a Tongva-themed playground, first of its kind. And so we're really excited. They're really excited, they're very enthusiastic about this project. So that playground will be completely Tongva themed. It'll have some educational pieces that will show and let people know about the different various items that are included on the playground and how and why those were important to the tribe. We will also be incorporating some native plants in the park, as well as working with a local Tongva artist to add a mural in the park as well. So we're very, very excited about this very unique opportunity. And we've had, like I said, the tribe is very enthusiastic. We even got a letter of support from the local chief. So we're excited. So within this year, we should be getting that done.

I may just add, don't interrupt, but those are legacy swings at service to the park from 40 years ago that I remember riding on or sitting on.

So you may want to go over to Sierra Vista and get a few last rides in. Although I will share we will be adding swings, not the same legacy swings, but yes, there will be new swings that will be part of that project.

Sounds like Council Member Ngo wants to be part of the demolition.

I think he wants to take one of those swings home before they get taken out. Thank you, Robert, for this project. Actually, I'm going to admit and be honest, I accidentally pulled the wrong item. I really wanted to hear on 10-8, so I'm glad that you. But the campout was really great, too. So I'm glad I did pull the campout item. But I know that this project at Sierra Vista will be probably the only one themed like this, right, in terms of the Tongva tribe. Yes.

As far as I know, and even speaking with the tribe, that's one thing they were very enthusiastic about was the fact that it was the first that they knew of the kind. It's a completely custom build. build. So we're really excited about it and we'll definitely be celebrating with the tribe there as

well. Great. I'm looking forward to seeing when those concepts are available, seeing how they look like. But also I think there's no better way in terms of our logo here, in terms of our model, sorry, of taking pride in our past than acknowledging the first peoples that inhabited to this area. So I think that it speaks volumes that when we read or when the mayor reads our land acknowledgement at every council meeting, that our city puts true meaning to it. And I thank you for the work that you're doing and working in conjunction with the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians to make this happen. And a mural, I know we're always talking about including more public art in the city. So thank you for combining all of those different elements. I know I'm looking forward to that ribbon cutting for sure. Thank you, Robert.

Thank you.

All right, well 10-H is already approved, so anyone want to make a motion to approve 10-F?

I'll make the motion. I just want to note that I remember speaking to Sean. We're also getting more trees at that park, service to park, and he gave me a thumbs up, so I'll make that motion.

I'll second.

All right, let's vote.

Approved unanimously.

Thank you, staff, for the presentations. That's all for our consent agenda. no public hearing, no new business city communications

I will start it is the first week of Lunar New Year so there's a lot of activities that's been going on in the city

and the surrounding San Gabriel Valley

I think personally I think the mayor and I have been to at least three temple gatherings to celebrate the Lunar New Year I've been to five so far and I think there's a couple more coming this weekend. We also did the ribbon-cutting celebration for the Thai House restaurant. That's opened up at the marketplace, so that's the second restaurant in our city, but that is the third restaurant overall for that family. We also joined the Langley Center Ping-Pong Tournament, which awarded the, I guess, participation and also the medal winners for their tournament. Last week, the Monterey Park Chamber did their Lunar New Year dinner celebration at NBC Restaurant. I think many of us was there. And I will end with, for those of you who are still celebrating the Lunar New Year, go out there. We have plenty of food. We have plenty of activities. Line dances will be continuing on for the next 12 or 13 days. So Lunar New Year celebration is actually the first 15 days of the lunar calendar month. Thank you.

I'll just echo Council Member Ngo's sentiments. Wish everyone a happy Lunar New Year, year of the horse. It's only the second day of the new Lunar New Year, so wish everyone good health, prosperity, and hopefully a better year than last year. But looking forward to working with everyone again in this new year. and I know that the community and regional celebrations are continuing, have been going on for the last few weeks and will probably be going on for at least the next few weeks. So hope to see everyone around town.

Thank you. I just wanted to remind everyone that this month is African American Heritage Month and I know this council, at our last council meeting, approved a resolution honoring our African American brothers, but also recognizing African American Heritage Month here in the city of Monterey Park. And I know that the Reverend Jesse Jackson recently passed away. So as we think about African American Heritage Month, also honoring a lot of the civil rights work that was done by the African American community to advance civil rights in our communities that have impacted all of us, regardless of your race or ethnicity or gender. I also wanted to send extreme condolences to our colleague Henry Lo, who recently, as you heard earlier in the council meeting, lost his mother recently, and he might be listening, I don't know, but I just wanted to send our condolences to him during this difficult time. And then lastly, this morning I had an opportunity to go on behalf of my colleague Henry Lowe to the LAX Roundtable at LAX. They're celebrating their 25-year anniversary at the, there's a Air Flight LAX Museum, right literally next to the airport. And so when you visit the museum, you can see all the planes taking off and arriving, which is really amazing. It's my first time there, so I'm glad I was able to do that. But for those who are not familiar with the LAX roundtable, they have for the last 25 years, I learned this while I was there, for the last 25, and through our colleague, Henry Lo, who always shares the reports to us, they take into account a lot of the complaints that happen as a result of air flights. And for those of us who live in Monterey Park know all of the, I know my daughters when we're in our backyard, are always looking at which planes are, and they're so close, you can actually read all of the different airlines. So they handle a lot of the complaints that come in as a result of flights coming in perhaps too low or coming in too early or being too noisy. And so we are in that direct flight path. So if ever you need or have any questions or any concerns, you can always reach out to our colleague Henry Lo, who is our representative at the LAX Roundtable. and he can bring those concerns to this group, but also to the FAA. And one of the things they recommended that I want to share with all of you guys at the meeting was that right now the FAA is building a lot of towers, airport towers, and as they're building these and designing these, they are taking into account the complaints that are coming in. So they said if you have any complaints specifically related to Monterey Park, and they actually mentioned specifically Monterey Park, make sure that you contact the FAA and you email them and that you let them know what your concerns are because they do take them into account. And then they will receive them and they will advocate on our behalf as well. but I know that when I first moved into City Manager To Monterey Park. This was actually one of the issues I had because I because of the planes being so loud, but it also had to do with my windows. So I had to replace my windows and get double pane windows so I wouldn't be able to hear the planes but but anyhow just wanted to share that because that was pretty interesting and then that'll be it for me. Thank you.

Thank you. Just a few from me. Next Tuesday is our meetup with the mayor event at La Diosa de los Moles. That's February 24th, Tuesday at 5 p.m. So I'd love to meet all my constituents and community members. The food there is really good. Yes, the food is very good there. And Saturday, February 28th at 10 a.m., it's the ribbon cutting of Maid Cafe. that's the one in Atlantic Times Square and happy lunar new year everyone that was yesterday happy year of the horse and please come to our council meeting first week of March because the data center is going to be on that agenda

and one more announcement quickly Madam Mayor we do have a our police department is hosting a community meeting talk about just safety tips for residents to come and meet our police officers. That's going to be on Tuesday, February 24th at Brightwood School at 6 p.m. So please join us if you're interested in having some conversations with our police department and also they're going to be sharing tips on how to protect your properties. So please join us if you can. All that information can be found on the city's webpage. Yes, sorry, I'll repeat it one more time. I know we have a busy Tuesday afternoon. We have a meetup with the mayor at 5 o'clock at La Diosa de los Moles. And then at 6 o'clock, we're going to be over at Brightwood Elementary School at 6 p.m. for our community meeting with our police department. Thank you.

And I'd like to adjourn tonight's meeting in memory of our mayor, pro tem, Henry Lo's mother. Thank you. Adjourned at 8.17 p.m.