City Council Meeting — June 3, 2026

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Thank you. All right, good evening everyone. We're going to call our meeting to order.

Let's have the Land Acknowledgement Act first.

So we would like to acknowledge that the land we inhabit today was once known as Tavangar, the home of the Gabrielino-Tongva people.

We show our respect to the Gabrielino-Tongva people as well as all indigenous people past, present, and future and honor their labor as original caretakers of this land.

We commit to uplifting the Gabrielino-Tongva people, invite you to acknowledge the history and join us in caring for this land. Now let's invite the Monterey Park Fire Explorers to do our flag salute.

Please rise. Now let's invite the Monterey Park Fire Explorers to do our flag salute. Please rise.

Presenting colors, please place your right hand over your heart. the

today colors please place your right hand over your heart ready begin

I am, for my vision, as in God, indivisible,

with liberty and justice for all.

Prepare to pose colors.

Forward march.

Pose. Pose.

Thank you to our Monterey Park Fire explorers you may be seated

Madam Clerk may we have a roll call please.

Councilmember Ngo.

Present. Councilmember Wong. Present. Councilmember Sanchez.

Present.

Mayor Pro Temlo. Here.

Mayor Yang. Present. We have a call.

Thank you. Any agenda revisions or additions?

No changes Madam Mayor.

All right, seeing as we don't have any presentation items, any public comments for this evening?

All right, we have one public comment. Dave Jones.

Good evening, Honorable Mayor Yang, Mayor Pro Tem Lo, City Council members, and dedicated staff.

My name is Dave Jones. I live in District 5, but I have friends everywhere. Yesterday was a historic day for the city as the people voted on a first-in-the-nation ballot initiative to ban data centers in Monterey Park. As of this morning, over 6,000 votes had been counted in favor of the ban compared to barely 1,000 against, 86% to 13%, an unequivocal landslide victory. In a story on the election in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Mehdi Payavi, chairman of the International Data Center Authority, said, These are multi-billion dollar assets that are built by multi-trillion dollar companies.

These things will get done. Monterey Park said, Hold my boba.

People from all over the city came together in a way few of us have ever seen before.

They stood up, they spoke out, they painted signs, they walked precincts, they made videos,

they wrote songs, and they never stopped. They were proud to be called an uninformed mob.

They were relentless.

And to your credit, you, the city council, listen to the people.

Many would say, big deal, that's your job. But across the San Gabriel Valley and beyond, throughout the state of California, and indeed the entire country, we have seen that is too rarely the case. But as we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the good people of Monterey Park, with pride in the past and faith in the future, have proven once again the foundation of democracy is the voice of the people.

It is a timely reminder.

In closing, let me add, the past is not the only thing I'm proud of.

I'm proud to support my LGBTQ plus family, friends, and neighbors, wherever they may be. And this pride is not something I reserve for a single month of the year, but something I wear

every single day. And so I fully support the resolution proposed by Mayor Pro Tem Lo.

So tonight, let us celebrate. Let us celebrate our victory. Let us celebrate the love of our neighbors in all its myriad and marvelous variations. Let us celebrate our city, data center free, forever.

Thank you very much for your time.

No water.

No water. Madam Mayor. Thank you, Dave.

Yes.

Just have a quick follow-up question for the City Attorney. On that note, for measure NDC note, it's passed. The Council has already adopted the ordinances to effectuate the ballot measure. If you can confirm that, and if everything is already effective and there's any further action from the council pending the certification of the vote uh thank you madam mayor members of

the council yes the third ordinance which is tied in with the ballot measure will become effective 10 days after the certification of the ballot or the election results so the election result the final election results still haven't been certified by the city clerk and verify ratified by the city council but once that happens then the third ordinance will become effective as well

All right, moving forward, staff communications, 8A City Manager's Department.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and City Council, Diana Garcia, Assistant City Manager. This evening we wanted to invite the residents to the State of the City Address.

This is next week on Tuesday, June 9th.

It will be held at the Courtyard Marriott at 555 North Atlantic Boulevard.

Our mayor, Elizabeth Yang, will be sharing some of her accomplishments during her term.

And we will also be awarding the Community Choice Awards.

This is free for everybody to attend. We will have refreshments. The program begins at 5 o'clock and the doors open at 4.30. So we hope to get a good turnout for this.

You can scan the QR code there in the corner for more information.

Or you can watch it live on YouTube if you're not able to get out that evening.

So I encourage everybody to come out to the event.

It should be a celebratory and fun evening for everybody.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you.

Next is our Bruggemeyer Library updates.

Good evening, Mayor, Mayor and Pro Tem, and City Councilmembers. I'm Library Manager Linda Vera.

Okay, so what we're looking at here is an overview of the programs that we held last month.

There were 235 programs with 2,827 attendees. What you're looking at here is some photos

from Fire Service Day. The Junior Friends held their elections,

so they have a new president and board.

And then there was a Studio Ghibli craft program,

so that was attended by all ages. Yep.

Okay, so starting next Saturday, we're going to be having the Library Summer Reading Program.

This is open to participants of all ages.

The program is designed to encourage reading as a habit,

so people will mark off the number of days that they read. Kids will be able to receive milestone, like small milestone incentives,

along the way so they can be entered into drawings for larger prizes at the end.

Okay, so the festivities will kick off for children with an afternoon of activities at three o'clock in the storytime room. So this will include games, crafts, and scavenger hunt.

This will be folLod by a percussive dance performance that blends percussive traditions

across multiple dances.

So this promises to be very energizing and a lot of fun. This is open to all ages.

Across the summer and particularly in the month of June, we have...

best-selling author, C.B. Lee. They'll also have the opportunity to go to the Marriott, where they'll get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to work in the hospitality industry. So they'll be able to engage with people who have different careers in this field. In addition to this, there's going to be a financial wellness workshop. So

this will cover things like reading bills, how to make sure that you're not being overcharged for things or having, you know, undisclosed charges or how to, you know, how to make sure that you understand your bills. There will also be an opportunity to team up with some

people who can connect you to some government resources to make sure that people are able to manage their accounts. We're also going to be having a performance from the East-West Players of Tam Tran. So this is, it was written by Elizabeth Wong who grew up here in Monterey Park. It's going to be folLod by a 30-minute panel discussion featuring the writers of the play and some people who are experts in the field of working with undocumented students. And then after the performance, participants can show their tickets at 55 in the Courtyard Marriott or traditional Guilin noodles for some discounts on some food so you can make a whole day of that. Okay and as we celebrate Pride Month I just want to remind everyone that with your library card you can access ebooks, e-audiobooks and movies celebrating LGTBQ plus stories. You can download the Libby or Canopy app to get started using those. And then, so this is going to be in the month of July, but please do save the date.

The library will celebrate 250 years of American independence with a month-long exhibition highlighting the contributions of Asian Americans and the U.S. military.

So there's going to be an opening reception at noon on Friday, July 3rd. And so there'll be opening remarks and a panel discussion with Asian American veterans, folLod by light refreshments.

Attendees can then explore the exhibition and talk to the curator. And this is going to run from July 3rd through the 31st.

Thank you. Any questions?

Yeah, thank you.

I just wanted to, if you can kind of go back to that last slide there, I just wanted to give some plugs there. I'm really looking forward to that one because the API has been in the military since the Civil War. So we have an opportunity in our city to showcase this, given our diverse background of not just celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Constitution and the birth of America, but we have celebrating the military, and we're going to put an emphasis here that day on folks who serve in the military of API Heritage. And I believe the three speakers that day, there is a 90-plus-year-old veteran who served in the Korean War who will be on the panel, and then you have another person who served in the Vietnam War, and then a third person who served in the recent, well, not recent, but Gulf War, about 20 years. So you have a spectrum of people speaking that day. So we're looking forward to just bringing not only our city, but Southern California and the community into this to celebrate our country and also the military influence in the API community.

Yeah, thanks for all the great events. I think our teenagers and families are very lucky to have our library. There's always something to do at the library.

Thank you. Thank you.

Next up we have our fire department.

Yes. Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the council, city staff, and members of the community. My name is Ryan Weddle, deputy chief of the Monterey Park Fire Department. And again, I'd like to briefly highlight that this Saturday, 9 to 12, right here in the front lawn of City Hall we will be doing our sidewalk CPR event and it's part of a coordinated event throughout the county where we're going to work towards improving cardiac arrest survival through community education and

immediate action so hands-only CPR is simple effective and something anyone

can learn in just a few minutes during this event participants will learn how to recognize cardiac arrest, activate 911 quickly, and provide high-quality chest compressions until emergency responders arrive. Events like this also reinforce the partnership between the fire department and the residents we serve. Public safety is strongest when the community is prepared and engaged. I'd be happy to answer any additional questions that we have about this event. No questions.

Just encourage everyone to come and get CPR trained.

Excellent. Thank you. Thank you.

Recreation and community services department.

Good evening, mayor, mayor pro tem and member of the city council. My name is Chan Lim, recreation specialist with the records department. I would like to provide a quick update on upcoming community events. First off, I would like to thank City Council for the support of this year's Memorial Day ceremony in collaboration with the American Legion Post 397. It was a meaningful and successful event honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation.

Thank you.

I also like to share that our health fair held this past Saturday at the Langley Center in partnership with APHC was a success and well attended by our community member. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make it possible.

Upcoming events.

Our sixth annual SGV Pride Festival is this coming Saturday, June 6th at Barnes Park, beginning with a parade at 9 a.m. from Mark Keppel High School and ending at Barnes Park. This event will feature live music, arts, giveaway, and community resources. Our first annual MPK campout event themed under the stars hosted at Barnes Park on June 12 to 13. It's a sold out committee event featuring family friendly activities such as arts and crafts, games, movies, hula dancing, and s'mores provided by our fire department. Just wanted to give a quick shout out to our sponsors, Rotary Club, Raising Canes, St. Gabriel Valley Water District, Chick-fil-A, and will be helpful for supporting the event.

We'll also be hosting a Let's Kick It soccer clinic and a Team USA watch party as Team USA take on Turkey at Barnes Park on June 25th. the soccer clinic will run from 4 45 to 6 45 p.m. and the watch party will begin

at 7 p.m. and continue through the end of the match also coming up our city

Independence Day celebration will be held on Saturday June 27 at Barnes Park featuring food trucks live entertainment by pop vision and a fireworks show at 9 p.m. and also don't forget every Thursday at Barnes Park from 4 to 9 p.m. We host the farmers market featuring fresh produce from local vendors. Come support our local businesses. Upcoming activities. Our summer pool schedule at George Alder is here and it's packed with something for everyone. Whether you're learning, training, or just playing in the pool. Also, Movies at the Park is back at Barnes Park. Join us for a fun-filled summer movie at the park starting June 25th and ending August 8th. For time and schedule, please check out our city website or call the Recreation Department.

Hope to see you all there. Upcoming trips.

The Recreation Department is offering trips to Mamma Mia on Thursday, July 2nd at the Amundsen Theater. This is a sold-out event. And on Friday, July 24th, a trip to the Hollywood Bowl to see Smokey Robinson and Gladys Knight.

The cost is $80.

dollars. Registration is currently available. Also, MPK night returns at the

Dodger Stadium on Saturday, August 15th versus the Brewers. The game is at 4.15 p.m. Tickets are $60 and currently available. Contact the records department if you are interested in any of the upcoming trips. Thank you.

Any questions?

just want to say thank you for having all those events up there and just a reminder that the 4th of july fireworks show is saturday june 27th june 27th so people can get an early head start on the fireworks here and then go watch it again on the 4th that's right

all right thanks for that presentation looking forward to all the great events coming up this

summer thank you next up public works good evening honorable mayor mayor pro

tim and city council sean igal public works director um if you recall uh back on march 4th of 2026 the city council meeting uh the city council received and filed the city's community transportation pilot and program updates which include additional service enhancements part of this included the discontinuation of the link shuttle route due to inconsistent and low ridership. Beginning July 1st, the link which connects Corpus Center and Cal State LA will be discontinued as part of the city's ongoing efforts to streamline and enhance the local transportation services. Riders can continue traveling along the same corridor by using Spirit Bus Route 5, which also mirrors the link route and also provides continued connection to the Metro E-Line and East Los Angeles College, or ELAC. MBK Transit Express will continue to offer for flexible operational hours and destinations

throughout the city.

The city's outreach efforts included outreach in mid-May with notifications to the city website, Passio Go app, the city buses, June Cascade articles,

and planned social media outposts.

We also worked with our economic development partners to set out notifications to businesses

in the distributed area. With that, I'll take any questions.

Just to confirm, I'm sure we did this. We've already noticed and we've been noticing people that do take the link shuttle that the discontinuation of the route is happening or that specific shuttle is happening, but they have these other options, right?

Correct, yes.

It's within the buses, within the link services, and then also within our Passio Go app,

which is used for this service as well. Perfect. Thank you.

Thank you, Sean.

Thank you.

And last but not least, community development and finance department.

And last but not least, Community Development and Finance Department of Finance Department of the Community Development Department of the Community Development Department of Community Development and Finance

Good evening, Madam Mayor.

My mistake. Good evening, Madam Mayor.

Mayor Pro Tem, Council Members, the City of Laura Bourgeon, Finance Manager, the City of Monterey Park is excited to announce several engagement workshops during the month of June to provide residents with information on the city's economic sustainability and discuss modern and equitable revenue measures. Participants will gain valuable knowledge about our city's budget and plans for the future.

Our workshop schedule is as follows.

Monday, June 15th, 6 to 7.30 p.m. at the Monterey Park Bruggemeier Library.

Wednesday, June 17th from 12 to 1.30 at the Langley Senior Center. And Monday, June 29th from 6 to 7.30 p.m., which will be a virtual Zoom meeting.

Please join us at using the QR code.

We encourage you to mark your calendars and join us at these workshops. Please visit the city website for links and additional workshop times and locations.

Thank you.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the City Council, Anais Navarro, Administrative Aid. In response to recent conversations surrounding land use in Monterey Park, the city is launching a community engagement effort aimed at exploring new opportunities to transform vacant and underutilized commercial properties into vibrant and thriving neighborhoods. The city would like to encourage all residents, business owners, and community members to participate in these upcoming workshops that will address vacancy issues, revitalize community spaces, strengthen local revenues that support essential city services, and create the diverse housing options needed for current and future generations. We do have a schedule for upcoming community idea workshops. The first one will be a virtual presentation and Q&A.

This will take place on Wednesday, June 10th at 6 p.m. Attendees can access the Zoom link via different channels. This could be done through our city website, social media,

the QR code listed on the PowerPoint screen tonight, and it's all. also printed on the June issue of the Cascades. Next we will host two in-person workshops with time for Q&A and light refreshments. The first one will take place on Tuesday June 23rd at 6 p.m. at George Elder Park Community Room located at 1950 Wilcox Avenue and the second workshop will take place on Wednesday June 24th at 6 p.m. at the Langley Center Friendship Room located at 400 West Emerson. We invite you to join the conversation, share your ideas, and be a part of creating a more vibrant and connected community. For any updates and meeting information, please visit www.montereypark.ca.gov backslash vacant to vibrant. Thank you.

Thank you both for the presentation. These are great opportunities for our residents and community members to engage.

All right.

That's all for our staff communications.

Seeing that there's no old business, we'll move on to our consent calendar.

Madam Mayor, members of the council, we apologize. The voting buttons are having a technical issue for tonight. So unfortunately, we're going to have to do an oral vote for tonight. We're just, the system is, we're not able to clear it after the vote happens. so uh we're gonna have to do or a vote i apologize for that we'll try to have it

resolved by the next meeting no problem all right anyone want to pull any items from the consent

no there's no um just item 10j um

for a quick quick update and also item 10i

I'll move the remaining consent items. I'll second that

Okay, councilmember one motions councilmember go seconds. So we need a

Take a vote verbally. I

Councilmember go I councilmember Wong. Yes councilmember Sanchez

Mayor Pro Temlo

Aye Mayor Yang Yes Approved unanimously

Thank you All right So let's go to 10 Aye

Thank you I just want to Again thank staff For bringing this Forward again And also It coincides with Our 6th annual Pride March And festival I think it's

very important, especially given the atmosphere in the United States in which members of the LGBTQI community have been attacked, especially from the administration, the White House, and the community. It's important that we embrace and show our LGBTQ neighbors, not just here in Monumenthal Park, but in the region, that they are part of our community and we will stand up for their identity and their right to be part of our community and again thank you very much members

um i ask for your support for this resolution i want to make a motion oh yes i move for approval

please all right is there a second second all right councilmember go aye councilmember wong

yes councilmember sanchez mayor pro tem lo all right mayor yang yes approved unanimously

Thank you. And then now item 10, Jay.

I wanted to bring this resolution because gun violence is still an epidemic that's impacting many communities and many people throughout our country. And no one is really free from this. So I know that our community here in Monterey Park has been a victim of a mass shooting. And following the mass shooting that happened here in our community, our city passed a series of ordinances to try to, in response to the shooting. And so, and I know that throughout the country and even within our own community, some of our local legislators have passed state laws to try to curtail a lot of the gun violence that has happened in our communities, but also throughout the country. but within our state um and i i don't know if there's a a representative from our police department that can maybe share a little bit about uh where we are at i know it's been uh maybe a couple a couple years since we passed some of these ordinances and maybe provide some updates in terms of where we are as a state as a community the city in terms of uh our gun laws thank you

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and members of the City Council. My name is Brenda Iglesias, I'm a Lieutenant with the Monterey Park Police Department and we have some slides here, kind of go over in observance of the Gun Awareness Month, right? In regards to gun violence restraining orders, since the passing in 2016, our city has issued one restraining order it was an incident where individual was threatening a government entity we investigated we alongside with this city attorney's office were successful in obtaining a gun restraining order and seizing the weapons so it was very successful just a little background gun violence restraining orders are civil restraining orders that are issued by the family court and that is a service that our department as well as the city attorney assists with preparation and confiscation of the weapons and gvros are can be requested by immediate family employers co-workers teachers and law enforcement so again it can it can be any of those that deem somebody's behavior a concern or there might be some statements that have made or shown concern for some of the Senate bills that have passed since Senate bill 704 which mandates basically you have to go into you have to be purchase a barrel in person prior to that you can purchase that online but since this bill passed it mandates you have to go through a California licensed federal firearms dealer and the purchase has to be made in person. This eliminates the online sales of barrels and parts. Assembly Bill 1127 which passed effective July 1st, that is that all California licenses federal firearms dealers are prohibited from selling or transferring certain semi-automatic pistols that can be used or modified as a conversion. So one of that is Glock because of the the trigger. So they banned the sales or transfers of the Glocks in California from the generation one through five. And there are some exceptions, obviously, for law enforcement officers or the agencies. Senate Bill 53, which was effective July 1st, 2026, it requires all guns be stored at home, secured in a lock safe when not in use. This only applied, previously it only applied when children were present, but now it requires a safe and not just a gun-locked device. Senate Bill 899, it's also a gun violence restraining order update. It relinquished requirements for the GVROs, consistent with other civil protective orders, and it increases database efficiency, tying in all the firearms related to the databases, so it's a better way to track whose guns are taken,

and it allows the police departments to track it and courts and if they don't get relinquished they notify the police departments and then we do the follow-up.

It also allows for the sale of ammunition back to the dealer instead of confiscating it so they can return it back to the dealer, sell it back to them and then that also allows certain exemptions for law enforcement. Assembly Bill 1078, it's effective January 1st. It added stricker background check evaluations for the concealed carry weapon applicants, known as the CCW. And then it integrated out-of-state convictions, restraining order databases, and social media publicly available records into the vetting process.

And this QR code is on our website. It will take you to our website where we give you any firearm information

on from some of the programs that we offer.

So gun locks, residential firearm pickups. If you don't want your weapon, you notify the police department, we'll go pick it up.

How to get your CCW permit. And also some of the ordinances like how to obtain your gun-free city property sign, signage. So that's the QR code. If you have any questions.

Madam Mayor, if I may, the website does provide lots of great information, as well as the gun violence restraining order training video for individuals or families if they feel that their family member is experiencing mental health crisis or issues. There's opportunities there to learn about how they can go about getting a restraining order in relation to their firearm. So lots of good information on the webpage. We encourage people to go there for more information

Thank you so much for the update on all of the Senate bills that were passed and became logged or becoming logged starting July 1st Some of them I had not heard of so thank you for the for the update and I think a lot of those

hopefully will

help curtail and prevent a lot of the Gun violence that is happening within our communities, but thank you so much for the update

Are we putting this information, GBRO information, some of this other stuff on in the Cascades or other communications that go out regularly? And if not, can we do this? I think it would be helpful for the community to just have this regular reminder once or twice a year that these are options available and that our city attorney's office is available to provide assistance for families or others who want to pursue some of these options.

Madam Mayor members of the council thank you for the reminder councilmember go sorry councilmember Wong we will definitely we probably haven't put an article recently about information about firearm safety so we can definitely do that in an upcoming edition of the cascades we can definitely also hit our social media channels as a reminder during this month as an awareness month so agree we haven't done it more recently and we can do that and one more

question um i know that friday is where orange day so um are we lighting up the the um the cascades

in orange and observance we can definitely check yes okay we got yes robert is giving me the thumbs

up back there so we will light up the cascades fountain in orange yes all right thank you robert

Thank you

So if I can get the support of my fellow council members to pass the resolution Appreciate it. So I'll make a motion to approve item 10 J. I'll second

All right, let's vote councilmember go. Yes councilmember Wong. Yes councilmember Sanchez Mayor pro tem low. All right, Mary ying. Yes approved unanimously. Thank you

Okay, that completes our consent agenda. So moving on to public hearing. Let's go ahead and open up the public hearing. We'll start with item 11A, public hearing to consider approving assessments for the citywide maintenance district, number 93-1 for fiscal year 2026 to 2027.

Good evening, Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council, Laura Bourgeon, Finance Manager.

In 1993, the city formed a citywide maintenance district number 93-1 to finance the operation and maintenance of public street lighting and landscaping. The district was renewed each year, each of the past 33 years, and must be done so annually in order for the city to continue living and collecting assessments for fiscal year 2627. The city started the process to renew its district for fiscal year 2627 at its May 6, 2026 City Council meeting. At that time, the City Council approved the engineer's report, adopted the resolution of intention, and scheduled the required public hearing for tonight.

Following tonight's public hearing, the City Council may adopt the attached resolution

renewing the district for fiscal year 2627 that concludes my staff report I'm

available to answer any questions all right any public comments on this item

no public comments all right we'll go ahead and close the public hearing just

I know this second reading appreciate staff bringing this to us I just want to emphasize for anyone who may be paying attention if you can remind us how much we've identified in terms of the cost of maintaining landscape and lighting district,

the actual cost? The actual cost is, I believe it's $2 million, a little over $2.4 million.

And how much does this assessment generate? The assessment will generate $1,019,854.

dollars and when was the last time this assessment was adjusted that was in uh nine i'm sorry

96 if i'm reading it right yes so uh to be clear the assessment is a flat rate has not been adjusted for now 30 years uh so not indexed and hasn't been adjusted for inflation at all over the last 30

years

public spaces landscaping areas right to the tune of about a million a little

over a million dollars a year 1.4 million dollars is what the general fund

subsidizes great just wanted to make that clear with that I'll happy to make the motion to adopt staff remediation for second read

second okay let's vote councilmember go I don't remember one yes councilmember

Sanchez near Pro Temlo marrying yes approved unanimously. Thank you

Okay, next item on our public agenda public hearing is item 11b Capital improvement plan resolution. We'll go ahead and open the public hearing

All right, good evening mayor mayor Pro Tem and City Council Sean I go public works director um tonight you have before you the 2026-2027 capital improvement plan currently the city has over 30 active cip projects that are in various phases such as design construction and post construction activities the current years the current year focused on water projects related to water the water bond which included the rustle reservoir rehabilitation pipeline replacements and

water meter upgrades which are still ongoing highlighting some of the larger projects including

accomplishments such as the burglary library improvement project which included exterior painting the new backup generator and carpet replacements next slide please the Barnes gym improvements which included the replacement of the gym flooring and exterior painting next slide please I know it's a little hard to see but this is an overall picture of the city's our street rehabilitation projects so this map depicts in blue what roadways we have paved since 2011 and 2012 fiscal year out of the over 132 miles of roadways we have completed just over 73 miles or about 55 of the roadways in the city depicted in red is what is proposed for the next fiscal year which is anticipated to be just over six miles of roadway and as requested in the previous budget meeting last week we have completed over 980 a ramps uh replacements in the past 10 years This is over 50% of all the ramps in the city, but not indicative of a total that needs to be replaced. With a larger focus over the past several years on roadways due to the street improvement bond, future years we'll see a reduction in the amount of roadways that will be repaved as we utilize a pay-as-you-go approach with available funding.

Next slide, please.

As we just discussed, here are some photos from the completed roadways and concrete improvements at various locations throughout the city and as we will continue to do improvements moving forward.

Next slide, please.

Water and sewer improvements included the installation of new sewer lines and manholes along Garvey, with new water lines being installed along Atlantic Boulevard and Garfield Avenue.

Next slide, please.

For the upcoming year, 2026-2027 fiscal year, we will be focusing on design of Fire Station 63, Barnes Park Aquatic Center, and Multimodal Mobility Hub and Structure. note that the mobility hub is awaiting metro approval and we hope to hear back from them soon projects anticipated to begin construction include the monterey pass rule 28 undergrounding project monterey pass complete streets garvey avenue water main replacement fire station 61 renovations adaptive traffic and traffic response control system city-wide roadway improvements city-wide ada improvements city hall council chamber renovations and city hall parking lot improvements next slide please lastly i want to say that your public works team has and continues to focus on

meaningful and impactful projects this community continues to enjoy on a daily basis for more

information on our cips we have a qr code on this slide that you can take that will take you directly to our cip page and give you additional detailed uh information on our cips and has an interactive map that can allow you to find specific information in your area with that i'll take any questions

thank you mayor sean just a quick update on the cip schedule for 26 27 what is the total price tag

i don't recall time but i want to say it was around 15 to 20 million

that's it

thanks sean i appreciate uh the updates and the specific reports on some of this on the mario Pass Road undergrounding is that gonna be for the whole length of Maury Pass

Road or just sections no just a second a segment of Monterey Pass you know which which section I know vagabond is what is the one of the one of the endpoints but

I think that it's going south from vagabond okay fire call yeah this is an

SCE project and so we're working with them although it's a city project funded

the real 28 it's their project to undertake and then if you want to if you can go back to the

street repaving plan i think i just want to point out it's hard to read because we've done a lot of work uh in terms of repaving streets in the last 10 15 years can you remind us what the right when we repave a street or redo a street what the usual estimated kind of life lifetime is for repaving would have to cycle back to be fixed or repaved.

I'll lean on Carl as the it depends answer and say that in general, as long as we can continue to invest into rehabilitation and doing slurry, we're hoping 10 to 20 years.

Great.

So I say that because there's still, we've done a lot and a lot of kudos and particularly the council moved forward a bond a few years ago to accelerate some of these street repaving and improvement projects. to get a bigger chunk of this done more quickly because we were behind. I think the risk of continuing to fall behind continues to be there for every city, not just us. And obviously there are a number of streets and a good chunk of the city that still have not and will not have had their streets repaved in the next few years and have fallen behind more than 20 years at that point. So just pointing out that there's still a lot of work to do. There's still, and there isn't enough money, at least at this point, to do all the streets we want to and need to do. And I think one of the most common complaints I get, and I don't know, I can't speak for the other council members, but a lot of it is potholes, street repairs, alleyway repairs, which we're trying to prioritize some of as well, and a lot of sidewalk repairs. There's still a lot of public infrastructure, despite the progress we've made in the last years in particular a lot of work to do still to improve our our public infrastructure particular street uh infrastructure that everyone relies on to to be able to get around safely uh in the city and for businesses rely on to be safe as well for them to conduct business so we'd love to see how we can not just the streets right there part of our capital improvement project but there's a huge gap still in terms of being able to finance all the projects that are on our capital improvement plan and a lot of projects that aren't on our SIP as well that need to be we need to find money for and so encourage folks we just heard from finance about some upcoming budget finance workshops to encourage folks and people who are interested and learn more about what ideas we're gonna start talking about to help close the gap on a lot of these financing products and the the capital improvement projects the gap that exists in the financing to participate in these discussions and to help us explore ways to really start to close this gap in a sustainable way

yep and real quick going back to your question council morgo so this current fiscal year we're at 17.3 million and next fiscal year we're anticipating 16 million for cips

thank you sean for that report i wanted to um just on this map the the blue because i can't read that far but the the blues highlighting all the roads that we've completed everything completed

from starting in the 2011-13 fiscal year to current and then the in red is what we're proposing to do

next fiscal year right and i mean and i think we've all seen and we've highlighted multiple times in this council chamber all of the cip projects that we have at least identified at the moment and and And I know council member sometimes highlights this number, but it's well between, what, $250 million to $300 million potentially?

Correct.

Yes.

And so we have a lot of CIP projects that we would love to do in our city, but just don't have the resources to do. So we've highlighted some of the more important or pressing ones, at least, that we accomplished. But I wanted to highlight because I know I constantly get compliments about all of the updates to the streets. so wanted to thank our team and the council for working on that and then connect when we go back to the list that had all the cip projects that we're working on this year and i see on there fire station 63 our barnes park aquatic center which i know are a lot of our swimmers in our community are very happy about especially given the six million dollar grant we recently received uh to help us with that project uh but also a lot of the other items that are that are on the other list in terms of construction that are currently happening or in the process of happening so So I wanted to thank you and your team for all of the CIPs. It's always great to see your team working out on the streets and seeing a lot of these updates happen. So thank you so much for the update.

Thank you. Thank you.

Sean, as always, to you and your team, thank you for a great presentation. And I also would like to add, for those who attended our budget study session last week, it's also important, I think,

to convey that

the theme of all

of our capital projects

as well as public works is that we're moving

forward. We are modernizing and

you're talking about a city of the size of Monterey Park and we're talking about road resurfacing,

water, aquatic centers, all our physical

buildings, and that takes money. And I think that you are to be credited as well as to be utilizing what you have as well as pursuing grants as well as other funding opportunities, not to mention the residents. Again, I always like to remind that because of the passage of Measure MP, this has helped us with our capital improvement programs. And again, it's accredited to public works. And so I want to emphasize that we're moving in a positive direction. But the needs are enormous. The needs are immense. And this is where I think we need to continue to look at how we can find more grant opportunities, as well as looking at ways in which we can generate more revenue to make these improvements to our public works.

Thank you.

Yeah, I think it's amazing that you guys have paved over 50% of the entire city's roads in the last 15 years. If a resident wanted to know if their street is up for paving, how would they go about doing so on the website?

They can reach out to Public Works and we can you know review our Map moving forward for the next several years and then identify if their their street is on our list

Great. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Anyone want to make a motion?

I'll make the motion second. All right, so let's have a vote

Councilmember Ngo. Aye. Councilmember Wong. Yes. Councilmember Sanchez. Yes. Mayor Pro Temlo. Aye. Mayor Yang. Yes. Approved unanimously. Thank you. Item 11B is approved. And that's all for our public hearing. Moving on to new business. Item 12A. Resolutions for the November 3rd general municipal election.

thank you madam mayor members of the city council cindy train deputy city clerk before you for consideration is an item regarding the city's general municipal election the election is scheduled for november 3rd 2026 for the purpose of electing members of the city council for district one five this city clerk position and the city treasurer position for a term of four years each The election is consolidated with the statewide general election conducted by the LA County Registered Recorder's Office. The 2026-2027 budget is expected to include $275,000 for expenditures associated with the election. Candidates for Council District 1 and 5 must reside in the district they are running for, while the City Clerk and the City Treasurer will be elected at large. The nomination period will begin on July 13 and conclude it on August 7 and extend it to August 12 if the incumbents does not file. Candidate may submit an optional statement of no more than 200 words for inclusion in the official sample ballot booklet. A deposit of $500 is required for English only or $1,000 for English and Spanish. The LA County office will be canvassing the election results and tentatively scheduled to certify the election results on December the 7th. The Board of Supervisors is tentatively scheduled to declare the election officially concluded on December the 15th. The official certificate will be provided to the City Clerk and the final declaration of the results by the City Council is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, December the 16th,

2026.

A dedicated election page is available in the coming days and will be updated as the information has become available. City Clerk staff will conduct voter outreach through in-person events, the Cascades, and social media posting. It's recommended that the City Council consider adopting the resolution associated with the general municipal election on November 3, 2026. This concludes my report and I'll be happy to answer any questions.

sanchez mayor pro tem low yes mayor yang yes approved unanimously thank you and that concludes

our new business while we're moving through this very rapidly uh city communications i will start

first uh attended a couple of the city's events i just want to highlight we had our budget uh meeting forecast last week and I just want to re-emphasize that we had a budget balance and we had a little bit of a surplus which means that we can use that money to apply to other parts of the city as public works director noted we have 17 million dollars of CIP work projects for the city so that comes in handy and in the next 10 years we have a number of about 250 million for a lot of different projects that need to be worked on for the city that's an ongoing task list so i want to just emphasize the work that city staff put together last week to make us go through that budget um thank you for all the hard work if i didn't say that enough last week i'll say it again this week. And then a couple of Fridays ago, we did a memorial in honor of the following at the Post 397. I think many of us was there for that occasion, an event. Earlier on the 22nd, many of us also attended the ELAC Arts Exhibit that's held at El Encanto. Is it still there?

I think it's still there for another week, or did that finish up? I think it ended last weekend.

That last weekend it ended, so that's all I have.

Nothing? Nothing?

Again, also, thank you for all who attended our Memorial Day services and our compliments to our veterans post. It was held indoors, and we want to thank them for their efforts to continue to make the post a vibrant place and a place that worthy of support by our community. Also, I just want to emphasize also what my colleague said about the Ellen Kanto art exhibit that was in partnership between East Dilley College, the Ceramics Club, as well as the City of Monumenthal Park. I want to thank Parks and Recreation Department for their leadership in creating these partnerships. I think these partnerships are essential and important, And spaces like El Encanto are, I think, perfect for spaces to exhibit our local artistic youth, artistic expression, and something that I hope that we can do more of.

I think all of the events I wanted to cover already got covered, but just wanted to reiterate what Dave Jones had mentioned. Congratulations to our city of Monterey Park for passing measure NDC last night with an overwhelming landslide of over 86% making history. And that concludes our meeting tonight. Anything else before we adjourn?

No? All right. Meeting adjourned.

Thank you.