[Call to Order]
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          EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL. REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY OF COACHELLA. THE COUNCIL SITTING AS COACHELLA. SANITARY DISTRICT. COACHELLA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT. COACHELLA FINANCING AUTHORITY, COACHELLA EDUCATIONAL AND GOVERNMENT ACCESS CABLE CHANNEL CORPORATION, COACHELLA VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY AUTHORITY, SUCCESSOR AGENCY TO COACHELLA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND COACHELLA PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION. PUBLIC COMMENTS CAN BE MADE OR RECEIVED EITHER IN PERSON, EMAIL, OR ZOOM. I'LL CALL TO ORDER THE MEETING AT 6 P.M. CAN WE HAVE A ROLL CALL? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER PEREZ HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. FIGUEROA, PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER HERE. MAYOR PRO TEM DELGADO HERE. MAYOR HERNANDEZ IS NOT PRESENT. 
          [Approval of Agenda]
THANK YOU. IS THERE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA? MAYOR PRO TEM, WITH THE MAYOR'S ABSENCE, DO WE WANT TO CONTINUE? ITEM 16 AND 17. SO I ACTUALLY WANT TO PULL 116 AND 17 FOR OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. 
          ALL THOSE. OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY I, I I'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE ROLE. JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE ITEM NUMBER 116 AND 17. YES. CAN I GET A MOTION. 
          OVERHAND MOTION. I'LL SECOND. A SECOND OKAY I'LL TAKE ROLL. COUNCIL MEMBER PEREZ. YES. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. FIGUEROA. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER. AYE. MAYOR PRO TEM DELGADO. YES. THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. RYAN, DO YOU WANT TO LEAD US INTO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? EVERYBODY PLEASE STAND. PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER YOUR HEART. READY? BEGIN. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 
          [Proclamations/Presentations/Direction]
THANK YOU. AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO PROCLAMATIONS. PRESENTATIONS FROM OR ON THE CANNABIS COMPLIANCE UPDATE. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR PRO TEM AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          ANA FERNANDEZ, MANAGEMENT ANALYST FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. I'LL BE GIVING A PRESENTATION ON OUR CANNABIS COMPLIANCE UPDATE AS WELL AS UTILITIES DIRECTOR. HE WILL BE PRESENTING ON A PORTION OF THIS AS WELL. JUST A BIT OF BACKGROUND. IN 2016, OUR COUNCIL DID ADOPT ORDINANCE NUMBER 1083 THAT ALLOWED FOR COMMERCIAL CANNABIS ACTIVITY THAT ENTAILED CULTIVATION, MANUFACTURING, TESTING AND DISTRIBUTION, AND THE WRECKING YARD AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES OF THE CITY. CITY. IN 2018, COUNCIL DID ADOPT ORDINANCE NUMBER 1115 THAT REGULATED RETAIL CANNABIS BUSINESSES IN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES OF THE CITY. IN 2023, THE STAFF DID ESTABLISH THE CANNABIS COMPLIANCE TEAM TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE OF THESE BUSINESSES. HERE IS AN OVERVIEW OF THE CANNABIS COMPLIANCE TEAM, WHICH ENTAILS THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT UNDER THE CANNABIS DIVISION, CODE ENFORCEMENT, BUILDING AND SAFETY, AS WELL AS OUR UTILITIES DEPARTMENT AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT. AND IT'S LED BY OUR CITY MANAGER. SO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF OPERATORS CURRENTLY IN THE CITY IS 20. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THREE OPERATING DISPENSARIES, TWO NON STOREFRONT RETAIL BUSINESSES WHICH ONLY DO DELIVERY. WE HAVE THREE CULTIVATORS, ONE MANUFACTURING BUSINESS, TWO DISTRIBUTORS, ZERO TESTING BUSINESSES AND TWO MICROBUSINESSES FOR A TOTAL OF 20. NICE. OUT OF THE 20, WE DO HAVE 13 THAT ARE OUT OF COMPLIANCE. SIX OF THOSE 13 ARE WITHIN THE DELGADO SITE AND THEN THE OTHERS ARE OTHER INDIVIDUAL OPERATORS SUCH AS SCARLET RAY, JVS, AJAX. MOST OF THEM ARE LOCATED IN THE WRECKING YARD, EXCEPT FOR MASSIVE INDUSTRIES. THEY'RE LOCATED ON AVENUE 54. AND THEN WE HAVE LIGHTHOUSE THAT'S LOCATED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF GRAPEFRUIT BOULEVARD. HERE IS A LIST OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH FOR THESE OPERATORS. IF THEY'RE OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH BUILDING AND SAFETY, IT'S USUALLY BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. LAND USE ENTITLEMENTS IS OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THEIR CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS. CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL. UTILITIES IS WITH THE UTILITIES DEPARTMENT AND WILL GO MORE IN DEPTH WITH WHAT THAT IS. ODOR CONTROL CRP. THAT'S THE CANNABIS REGULATORY PERMIT, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO THE STATE LICENSE JUST AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. AND THEN TAXES. AND I'LL GO AHEAD MORE IN DEPTH IN EACH BUSINESS AS WELL. SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND HAND IT OVER TO OUR UTILITIES DIRECTOR. AND HE'LL PRESENT ON THIS PORTION OF THE PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. SO YOU'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES. SO I'M GOING TO KIND OF GO THROUGH IT PRETTY QUICKLY HERE. BUT ESSENTIALLY THE CITY OF COACHELLA WE OWN AND OPERATE 
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OUR OWN WASTEWATER SYSTEM, WHICH IS MADE UP OF A TREATMENT PLANT WHICH IS SHOWN THERE, AND ABOUT 120 MILES OF SEWER PIPELINE. WE COLLECT WASTEWATER DISCHARGE FROM CUSTOMERS AND ARE REQUIRED TO TREAT THAT DISCHARGE AT OUR TREATMENT PLANT AND THEN DISCHARGE THAT TO THE WHITEWATER RIVER. WE ARE ABLE TO DO THAT THROUGH A PERMIT WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THAT SETS LIMITS ON THE WATER QUALITY THAT WE GET TO DISCHARGE TO THE WHITEWATER RIVER. AND SO IN ORDER FOR US TO TRY TO MAINTAIN THAT PERMIT, THE MUNICIPAL CODE ACTUALLY ALLOWS US TO REQUIRE THE INSTALLATION OF PRETREATMENT DEVICES, THE INSTALLATION OF OF MAINTENANCE DEVICES AND MONITORING DEVICES TO ENSURE THAT DISCHARGERS ARE NOT GOING TO POSE ANY SORT OF CONCERNS, EITHER TO OUR PIPELINES OR INFRASTRUCTURE, OR PUT US IN AT RISK OF VIOLATING THE PERMIT, OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLAN. SO. SO THIS IS HOW THIS TIES INTO CANNABIS CULTIVATION. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BACK IN APRIL. SO ESSENTIALLY CANNABIS IS PRETTY NEW IN CALIFORNIA. AND THE STATE IN GENERAL HAD CONCERNS WITH CANNABIS DISCHARGERS. AND AS PART OF THAT, THEY PUT OUT THIS GENERAL ORDER THAT BASICALLY FORCED DISCHARGERS TO ESSENTIALLY GET THEIR OWN PERMIT AND HAVE THEIR OWN COVERAGE. AND AS PART OF THAT, THEY THEY HAD SEVERAL OPTIONS ON HOW TO MEET THOSE REQUIREMENTS. AND SO ONE OF THE ONE OF THE WAYS THEY CAN MEET THAT COVERAGE IS THEY COULD CONTAIN ALL OF THEIR DISCHARGE INTO A HOLDING TANK, AND THEY CAN HAUL IT OFF SITE. THE OTHER OPTION IS THAT IF THERE WAS A PUBLIC SEWER AVAILABLE TO THEM, AND THE LOCAL AGENCY WAS WILLING TO TAKE ON THAT DISCHARGE, THAT THEY COULD RECEIVE COVERAGE THAT WAY. BUT AS LONG AS THE AGENCY WAS IN AGREEMENT AND THE APPLICANT AND THE DISCHARGER WAS FOLLOWING AND ABIDING BY ALL THE REGULATIONS OF THE AGENCY. SO BACK IN APRIL, THIS WAS THE FULL LIST OF, OF DISCHARGERS THAT THAT WERE OUT OF COMPLIANCE BACK THEN, THAT I BELIEVE A TOTAL OF 123456789 TEN, I THINK ABOUT TEN APPLICANTS WERE OUT OF COMPLIANCE. AND SINCE THEN THREE OF THOSE HAVE COME INTO COMPLIANCE AND THERE'S ABOUT SEVEN REMAINING. OUT OF. WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE IS OUT OF THE SEVEN, THE FIRST SIX ARE ACTUALLY PART OF ONE CULTIVATION CAMPUS. THAT'S DELGRO. SO ALL OF THE DELGRO CAMPUS, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY MADE UP RIGHT NOW OF SIX INDIVIDUAL BUSINESSES, THAT ENTIRE FACILITY IS OUT OF COMPLIANCE. AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS AJAX. I'M SORRY. JV NOW REGARDING REGARDING THE DELGRO COMPLEX THERE, THERE'S ACTUALLY A BIGGER ISSUE WITH THE CAMPUS THAT'S NOT RELATED TO THE CANNABIS ISSUE HERE, THE CANNABIS DISCHARGE. AND WE GAVE YOU AN UPDATE BACK IN APRIL ABOUT THIS. AND IT'S THAT THIS PROJECT, WHEN IT WAS FIRST BROUGHT TO THE CITY BACK IN 2017, IT WAS MEANT TO IT WAS MEANT TO CUT ACROSS. YOU KIND OF SEE THAT THAT AREA IN THE RED AND THEY PUT NOT CONSTRUCTED WELL, THAT AREA NEVER GOT CONSTRUCTED. AND IT'S ACTUALLY STILL A PRIVATE PARCEL. AND THE SEWER WAS SUPPOSED TO CUT THROUGH THERE AND CONNECT TO A SEWER PIPE THAT'S ON HARRISON. WELL, THAT NEVER GOT BUILT THAT, THAT, THAT AREA THERE IN THAT RED AND THAT RED SQUARE NEVER GOT BUILT. AND SO THAT'S ESSENTIALLY A PRIVATE PARCEL, THE THE DISCHARGE THAT'S COMING OUT OF THE, THE DELGRO COMPLEX, IT'S CUTTING THROUGH THAT PRIVATE PROPERTY, THROUGH INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S NOT ADEQUATE. AND IT'S IT'S CREATING ISSUES. AND WE'VE ACTUALLY RECEIVED CONCERNS FROM THAT, FROM THAT PROPERTY THERE ABOUT THAT DISCHARGE FROM DELGRO GOING THROUGH THAT PROPERTY. AND SO ABOUT A YEAR AGO, WE GOT A, YOU KNOW, WE GOT TOGETHER WITH DELGRO AND WE DIRECTED DELGRO TO PUT PLANS TOGETHER TO REROUTE THAT. SO RIGHT NOW THE THE WAY THEY'RE DISCHARGING IS IF YOU FOLLOW THAT GREEN LINE AND YOU COULD SEE HOW IT CUTS ACROSS THROUGH THAT, THE LAST GREEN SECTION THERE, THAT'S KIND OF DIAGONAL. THAT'S HOW IT'S GOING RIGHT NOW. THEY HAVE TO REROUTE THAT BACK, KIND OF KEEP THAT FLOW WITHIN THEIR PARCEL. AND THERE'S A THERE'S ANOTHER BLACK LINE THAT I PUT THERE THAT'S KIND OF DASHED WITH THE WITH THE GREEN ARROW THAT'S POINTING TO AVENUE 48. THEY BASICALLY HAVE TO DISCHARGE TO 48. AND SO IN OUR COMMUNICATION WITH DELGRO, THEY 
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THEY WERE IN AGREEMENT. THEY ACTUALLY SUBMITTED PLANS. AND THOSE PLANS WERE APPROVED SOMETIME IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR. AND THROUGH OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM, WE AGREED THAT WE WOULD GIVE THEM SIX MONTHS TO BUILD THIS PROJECT THAT WOULD ESSENTIALLY REROUTE THIS SEWER BACK TO AVENUE 48. THAT WAS THE AGREEMENT THAT WAS THAT WAS FORMALIZED THROUGH LETTERS. AND THOSE LETTERS SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU TILL OCTOBER FOR THIS PROJECT TO BE COMPLETE. OCTOBER CAME PROJECT IS NOT COMPLETE. SINCE THEN, WE'VE SENT ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCES, LETTERS SINCE ABOUT JULY ASKING THEM FOR AN UPDATE. AND WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY SORT OF RESPONSE. WE HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE THAT THIS PROJECT IS GOING TO START WHEN IT'S GOING TO START. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S PROBABLY THE BIGGER ISSUE HERE AND NOT NECESSARILY THE CANNABIS DISCHARGE. AND SO WE WE KIND OF PART OF TODAY IS YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO GET SOME SOME DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL AS TO WHAT WE SHOULD DO. YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS FOR US TO DO HERE. WE'VE AS YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR CORRESPONDENCE WITH THIS FACILITY, YOU KNOW, GOES BACK TO NOVEMBER OF 2023. AND, AND THAT'S A KIND OF DETAILED. TIMELINE THERE OF HOW MUCH CORRESPONDENCE WE'VE HAD BACK AND FORTH. SO SO WE WOULD LIKE TO GET SOME, SOME, SOME INPUT ON WHAT WE SHOULD DO NEXT HERE. 
          AND THAT ESSENTIALLY THAT TAKES CARE OF OF SIX OF THE SEVEN THAT ARE OUT OF COMPLIANCE. BUT AGAIN, THIS IS I THINK PRIMARILY WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE JUST THE GENERAL SEWER DISCHARGE, NOT NECESSARILY CANNABIS, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE THE TO MEET THE CANNABIS REGULATIONS. BUT I THINK WE SHOULD FOCUS ON THE ON THE SEWER IN GENERAL. THE THE OTHER ONE HERE IS JVS BACK IN RIGHT AROUND THE TIME WHEN WE CAME HERE FIRST BACK IN APRIL, WE WERE ALREADY WORKING ON TRYING TO GET SOME OF THESE APPLICANTS INTO COMPLIANCE. AND AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S THERE'S TWO WAYS TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE. ONE IS YOU TELL THE STATE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO CONTAIN AND HAUL THE DISCHARGE, OR YOU TELL THE STATE THAT THE LOCAL AGENCY IS ALLOWING YOU TO SEND THEIR SEWER TO THEIR SYSTEM. THIS PARTICULAR DISCHARGER NOT WANTING TO INSTALL THE SAMPLE BOXES THAT WE REQUIRE, OPT IT FOR CONTAINING AND HAULING THEIR DISCHARGE. SO WHEN THEY GAVE US NOTICE BACK IN IN MARCH, YOU COULD SEE THEIR MARCH OF 2025 BUSINESS OPTED OUT OF SENDING SEWER TO OUR SYSTEM. THEY'RE GOING TO CONTAIN AND HAUL WE WE SENT THEM A LETTER AND WE SAID, HEY, WELL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU 90 DAYS TO SUBMIT PLANS SHOWING HOW YOU'RE GOING TO REROUTE YOUR DISCHARGE YOUR DRAINS INTO A HOLDING TANK, AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GET A NOTICE OF APPLICABILITY FROM THE STATE SAYING THAT THAT'S THE WAY YOU'RE YOU'RE GOING TO HANDLE YOUR DISCHARGE. AND SO WE GAVE THEM 90 DAYS TO SUBMIT THAT, NOT NECESSARILY TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT, BUT TO SUBMIT PLANS SHOWING THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO. SO THOSE PLANS WERE DUE TO BE SUBMITTED IN OCTOBER. WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T GET ANY ANY OF THOSE PLANS SUBMITTED. AND SO THEY ASKED US FOR A 30 DAY EXTENSION. WE GAVE THEM A 30 DAY EXTENSION. AND TO TO DATE, THERE'S NO PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED. SO AGAIN, KIND OF SIMILAR SITUATION HERE. WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOME DIRECTION ON HOW YOU WOULD LIKE US TO PROCEED MOVING FORWARD. AND THOSE ARE THOSE ARE IT THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THE, THE THE FOLKS THAT ARE STILL KIND OF NOT COMING FULL BOARD WITH OUR REQUIREMENTS. AND THE REST, LIKE I SAID, THE REST WE'VE GOT SCARLET RAY, THEY'VE THEY'VE INSTALLED SAMPLE BOXES FOR OUR REQUIREMENTS. I CAN'T LET ME SEE WHAT THAT OTHER THE OTHER ONE NEXT. THERE ALSO USED TO BE I FORGET THE NAME. IT WAS ZINC FARMS. YES. PETER SOLOMON, HE'S HE'S BEEN WONDERFUL. HE'S BEEN VERY EASY TO WORK WITH. AND SO HE'S, HE'S ALSO COME INTO COMPLIANCE. BUT THAT'S THAT'S IT. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I'LL BE HERE AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS I THINK I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AUDITS BEING DONE. AND I THINK THAT THEY A LOT OF THESE BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN GIVEN MORE THAN ONCE MORE THAN ONE CHANCE, TWO CHANCES, THREE CHANCES. 
          THERE'S BUSINESSES THAT ARE COMPLYING. I KNOW THAT IT'S HARD RIGHT NOW FOR THE MARIJUANA BUSINESSES THAT THEY'RE LOSING THE CANNABIS. I KNOW THAT THEY'RE LOSING MONEY. 
          BUT IF ALL IF THERE'S CERTAIN HOW DO I SAY BUSINESSES THAT ARE DOING WHAT HAS TO BE DONE, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE SHOULD DO THE SAME. THEY SHOULD BE HELD TO THE SAME STANDARDS. AND I AGREE THAT THE SEWER ISSUE DOES NEED TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. YEAH. AND IF WE COULD GET SOME 
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DIRECTION ON HOW TO DO THAT LIKE AN OUTSIDE AGENCY, I DON'T KNOW. IT'S IT'S NOT SO MUCH ON ON THE CULTIVATORS AND THE SEWER ISSUE. IT'S THAT'S ONE THING. AND THEN AN AUDIT IS ANOTHER AUDIT WOULD BE WITH THE REPORTING TO US TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT THE REPORTING AND THAT THEY'RE TRACKING THAT, THAT THAT'S A TOTALLY SEPARATE ISSUE, WHICH WE'LL GET INTO THAT BECAUSE THE PRESENTATION IS NOT QUITE FINISHED YET, BUT THE AUDIT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO, OKAY. FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SANITARY, THOUGH, WE EITHER GIVE THEM ADDITIONAL TIME. I KNOW THAT DELGRO IS HAVING FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES NOW AND THEY HAVE NO FUNDING. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUT IN THEIR SEWER LINE. BUT THEN THE ONLY WAY THAT WE HAVE A TOOL TO MAKE THEM ACTUALLY COMPLY IS TO SHUT THEM DOWN. AND SO THAT'S IT'S KIND OF EITHER WE GIVE THEM EXTENSIONS OR WE CLOSE THEM. AND THE SAME THING WITH JVS, IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER. SO AND I KNOW THAT WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY LIBERAL WITH OUR, OUR, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE. WE DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, GET THEM WITH A STICK. WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO AND WE HAVE AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S A LONG LIST OF, YOU KNOW, EVERY MONTH WE'RE TALKING TOGETHER AND AND WE CAN'T MOVE THEM. AND WE'RE TO THE POINT WHERE WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING. SO BASED UPON, YOU KNOW, THE REST OF OUR CONVERSATION, STAFF WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE REACH OUT ONE MORE TIME. AND AT THAT POINT, WE GET LEGAL INVOLVED AND GIVE THEM 30 DAYS AND THAT'S IT. AND THEN WE'RE SHUTTING THEM DOWN. 
          SO ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS? I THINK THERE'S ANOTHER PORTION OF THIS. SO I'LL TAKE A SEAT AND THEN YEAH. SO BEFORE WE WE GO INTO THAT VERY QUICKLY. IS THAT SO WE'VE SENT OUT A SECOND NOTICE TO DELGRO. AND THEN THEY HAVEN'T RESPONDED. RIGHT. THERE'S NO RESPONSE AT ALL FROM DELGRO. AND THEN THEY HAVE ABOUT SIX BUSINESSES UNDER THEM. SIX CORRECT. YEAH. SIX. AND THEN SO I KNOW THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY IS TAKING A HUGE FALL. RIGHT. AND THEN WE WENT FROM HOW MUCH WERE WERE WE GETTING IN SALES AT ONE POINT. AT ONE POINT OUR REVENUES BETWEEN CULTIVATION, MANUFACTURING AND DISPENSARIES WAS OVER $1 MILLION. AND NOW WE'LL BE LUCKY TO GET TO 400,000. AND DISPENSARIES ARE ACTUALLY LOWER. WE HAVE ONE. IN FACT, OUR BUSINESS OF THE YEAR IS THE ONE THAT'S KIND OF HOLDING UP EVERYTHING BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING VERY WELL, BUT THE REST OF THEM ARE STRUGGLING. AND I THINK IN THE PRESENTATION THERE'S THERE'S THERE'S ACTUALLY A SLIDE WITH REVENUES IN IT. YEAH. I'M NOT NECESSARILY OPPOSED OF SHUTTING PEOPLE DOWN. MY MY CONCERN IS THAT THEY'RE ALREADY TAKING A HUGE A HUGE FALL IN SALES. SO OKAY, WE SHUT THEM DOWN AND THEN WHAT'S THE LIKELIHOOD OF THEN ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, OTHER INDIVIDUALS THEN COMING IN AND BUYING THAT BUSINESS WITH, YOU KNOW, SO MANY THINGS THAT THAT ARE OUT OF COMPLIANCE. AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF THAT IS ALSO GOING TO BE VERY, VERY LOW. RIGHT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO CONSIDER THAT TOO. I DO AGREE THAT WE NEED TO SEND OUT A FINAL NOTICE. AND THEN IF THEY DON'T RESPOND, YOU KNOW, THEN THEN WE CAN GO INTO LEGAL AND AND THEN THEY CAN, THEY CAN THEN, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE THEIR DEADLINE OR NOTIFICATION LETTER. I THINK A BIG DIFFERENCE FOR ME THOUGH, TOO, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST ONE OF THEM IS RESPONSIVE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME ATTEMPT WHERE THE OTHER IS JUST THERE'S JUST NO RESPONSE RESPONSE. HOW MANY OWNERS HAS DELGRO GONE THROUGH? WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS AWAY FOR A TIME, BUT I KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW THERE'S BEEN THEY'VE HAD REPRESENTATIVES COME TO US AND THEY'VE WENT THROUGH TWO OF THOSE JUST IN THE TIME THAT I'VE BEEN BACK. AND I KNOW THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO REFINANCE OR GET FINANCING BECAUSE THE PROPERTY IS IN FORECLOSURE RIGHT NOW. IT'S IN BANKRUPTCY. SO AND I THINK THAT WAS EVEN BEFORE EVEN BACK TO WHEN I WAS ON, ON THE PC. I THINK DURING THAT TIME WHEN WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING, YOU KNOW, THE CANNABIS AND HOW WE WERE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS INDUSTRY. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT MAYBE THREE DIFFERENT OWNERS IN THE LAST 4 OR 5 YEARS. AND SO THEN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THAT YOU HAVE OTHER INDIVIDUALS OR COMPANY, THEN WHO BUYS IT OUT AND THEN IS THEN TASKED WITH ALL THESE COMPLIANCE ISSUES. 
          AND THEN HERE, YOU KNOW, FOR DELGRO, BECAUSE IT IMPACTS SO MANY OTHER BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LARGER PROJECT TO TAKE TO TAKE ON, YOU KNOW, MAYBE LIKE AN ESTIMATE OF HOW MUCH IT IS FOR THEM TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH THE SEWER. I DON'T I DON'T HAVE ONE. ALL OF 
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THIS IS, IS, IS NOT BE CONSIDERED PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION. IT'S NOT PART OF OUR PUBLIC SYSTEM. AND I FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, THE PRIORITY WOULD BE SIMPLY TO ROUTE THE, THE SEWER, NOT NECESSARILY JUST THE CANNABIS DISCHARGE, BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THERE'S REALLY NOTHING STOPPING THE OTHER OWNER FROM SIMPLY CUTTING THAT PIPE. AND THEN AT THAT POINT, THAT SEWER IS NOT GOING TO GO ANYWHERE. YEAH, THAT THAT PROPERTY OWNER, I THINK HAS BEEN PATIENT. I DON'T THINK THAT THEY WANT TO CREATE A BIGGER ISSUE. BUT BUT IT'S BEEN A WHILE AND I THINK THEY'VE BEEN PATIENT IF THEY REALLY WANTED TO I MEAN THERE'S NOTHING PREVENTING THEM FROM JUST CUTTING THAT PIPE. YEAH. IT'S IN THEIR PROPERTY. YEAH. 
          WITHOUT AN EASEMENT. YOU KNOW, IT'S ENCROACHING ON THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY. AND SO THAT'S MY CONCERN OF, YOU KNOW, IF THAT IF THAT PROPERTY OWNER DECIDED TO DO THAT, THEN, THEN THAT SEWER WOULD JUST OVERFLOW. AND SO IT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. AND I JUST, YOU KNOW. 
          TRYING TO BE AS OPEN ABOUT IT AS POSSIBLE. SURE. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I'M WONDERING TOO, IS THAT IF THERE'S SOME FEAR THERE TOO, BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO OUT OF COMPLIANCE FOR OTHER PERMITS AS WELL. IF THERE'S I KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S BUILDING, YOU KNOW, CODE VIOLATIONS AND THINGS. YOU HAD THE SEWER AND NO WAY AM I MAKING AN EXCUSE FOR THEM AT ALL, BUT RATHER IS THAT THEY'RE NOW FACING A LONG LIST OF COMPLIANCE ISSUES, WHETHER IT'S IT'S A SEWER, WHETHER IT'S BUILDING, WHETHER IT'S CODE, YOU KNOW, IT'S THERE'S A LOT GOING ON HERE. SO BEFORE WE GO INTO THE OTHER ITEM, I DO SUPPORT THE RECOMMENDATION TO SEND OUT A FINAL NOTICE. AND THEN AT THAT POINT THEN HAVE LEGAL THEN SEND OUT IN A FOURTH LETTER BASICALLY. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO MOVING FORWARD WITH THE BREAKDOWN OF THE OTHER BUSINESSES RELATED TO BUILDING AND SAFETY, LAND USE ENTITLEMENTS AND TAXES. SO FOR JV THIS GOES BACK TO 2024 AS WELL. I'LL GO AHEAD AND START FROM APRIL. FROM THE LAST UPDATE WE GIVE WE GAVE COUNCIL. SO IN APRIL THEY DID SUBMIT FOR TEI PLANS FOR A BUILDING PERMIT. 
          WE DID ISSUE CORRECTIONS AND THE OPERATOR OR THE OWNER NEVER SUBMITTED THOSE CORRECTIONS. HE DID PROVIDE AN UPDATE IN AUGUST OF 2025 INDICATING THAT HE WOULD RESUBMIT TO THE CITY, WHICH WE NEVER RECEIVED. AFTER THAT, HE'S BEEN UNRESPONSIVE. AJAX. AND THE LAST UPDATE THAT WE DID GIVE, THEY WERE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND CURRENTLY THERE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SO THEY HAVEN'T CAME INTO FULL COMPLIANCE BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. MASSIVE INDUSTRIES THEY DID OR THEY WERE ISSUED A BUILDING PERMIT. 
          THEY DID FAIL THEIR FIRST INSPECTION, AND NOW THEY'RE REQUIRED TO SCHEDULE A RE-INSPECTION AND MAKE SOME CORRECTIONS WITH THE BUILDING AND FIRE DEPARTMENT. WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY CORRECTIONS OR ANY CALLS FOR A FOLLOW UP INSPECTION FOR THEM. SO THEY ARE STILL OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH BUILDING AND SAFETY. D9 THEY DID SUBMIT FOR THE CUP MODIFICATION BECAUSE THEY'RE OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THEIR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. THEY DID PROMISE IN SEPTEMBER OF 2025 THAT THEY WERE GOING TO RESUBMIT. ADDRESSING THE CORRECTIONS THAT STAFF REQUESTED. THE APPLICANT HASN'T FOLLOWED UP AND HE HASN'T BEEN RESPONSIVE EITHER TO TO THAT RESUBMITTAL. LIGHTHOUSE. THIS ONE HAS A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION. SO FROM THE LAST TIME WE MET, WE DID ESTABLISH A NEW REPAYMENT PLAN FOR THEM. SO IN JUNE OF 2025, THE CITY NO LONGER RECEIVED PAYMENTS FOR THAT PAYMENT PLAN. THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED WORKING WITH BBNC ON ESTABLISHING A NEW PAYMENT PLAN THAT WAS MORE FEASIBLE FOR THE OPERATOR. THEN FROM THERE, WE LEARNED THAT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO ISSUE A NEW PAYMENT PLAN BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL SORT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE STATE. SO THEY'RE NOT PAYING THEIR STATE TAXES EITHER. SO FROM THERE, WE FOLLOWED UP WITH LIGHTHOUSE, LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO SUBMIT SOME PROOF OF GOOD STANDING WITH THE STATE. THEY DIDN'T SUBMIT ANYTHING. SO STAFF CONDUCTED AN ON SITE VISIT, JUST REQUESTING UPDATES ON THAT SUBMITTAL. NO RESPONSE FROM THE OWNER. WE DID MEET WITH THE GENERAL MANAGER. HE SAID HE WASN'T SURE. AUGUST OF 2025 STAFF DID EXPLORE PLACING A LIEN ON THE PROPERTY FOR THE UNPAID TAXES. AND THEN LAST WEEK, WE DID ISSUE A CEASE AND DESIST LETTER REQUESTING IMMEDIATE STOP OF ALL OPERATIONS, AND WE DID REQUEST PAYMENT OF DELINQUENT TAXES WITHIN 14 DAYS. COACHELLA GREENERY. SINCE WE LAST MET, THEY WERE MAKING FINAL ON SITE IMPROVEMENTS. RIGHT NOW THEY'RE JUST PENDING THE FINAL INSPECTION FOR THEIR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. SO THEY'VE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS. HERE'S A BREAKDOWN OF THE CANNABIS TAX REVENUE FROM 2020 TO LAST FISCAL YEAR 2024 2025. AS YOU CAN SEE, WE DID MAKE AN INCREASE IN CULTIVATION A LITTLE BIT FROM 2023 TO 2024 TO LAST FISCAL YEAR. WE DID GET SOME REVENUE FROM MANUFACTURING 
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AND THEN DISTRIBUTION. THERE'S NO CURRENT TAX ON THAT. AND RETAIL, WE DID KIND OF GO DOWN THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AS WELL. THE TOTAL REVENUE FOR LAST FISCAL YEAR WAS 733,000 COMPARED TO OTHER FISCAL YEARS, WHICH WERE OVER A MILLION. SO LAST COUNCIL MEETING, OUR COUNCIL MEMBER DID REQUEST A COMPARISON WITH OTHER NEIGHBORING DESERT CITIES REGARDING TAXES. SO OUR LAST FISCAL YEAR FOR CULTIVATION, TAX REVENUE, DESERT HOT SPRINGS AND CATHEDRAL CITY WERE MAKING THE MOST IN TAX REVENUE FOR CULTIVATION, FOLLOWED BY COACHELLA AND PALM SPRINGS. FOR RETAIL, WE'RE PRETTY COMPARABLE TO CITY OF INDIO AND CATHEDRAL CITY WITH OUR RETAIL TAX REVENUE, WITH DESERT HOT SPRINGS, PALM SPRINGS AND PALM DESERT TAKING THE LEAD ON THAT. AND THEN FOR MANUFACTURING, WE HAVE CATHEDRAL CITY IN THE LEAD, FOLLOWED BY COACHELLA AND PALM SPRINGS FOR FOR MANUFACTURING. AND THEN, AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, WE JUST WANT TO RECEIVE SOME DIRECTION FROM OUR COUNCIL. WE CAN CONTINUE IMPLEMENTING MILESTONES FOR COMPLIANCE WITH DEADLINES, OR WE CAN CONTINUE WITH OUR MONTHLY PROGRESS CHECK INS, WHICH SOME OPERATORS HAVE BEEN RESPONSIVE. MANY OF THEM HAVE NOT. SO OR WE CAN RECEIVE SOME GUIDANCE ON ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES FROM COUNCIL. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU ARNIE. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. SO YOU SAID THAT THERE'S BEEN SOME MONTHLY PROGRESS CHECK INS THAT THEY HAVEN'T. YOU GUYS HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO SO. THEY HAVEN'T BEEN RESPONSIVE FOR PHONE CALLS, EMAILS. SOMETIMES THEY EVEN TEXT THEM AND NO RESPONSE. SO WHAT HAPPENS. SO FROM THERE I JUST KEEP REACHING OUT AND THEY'LL THEY'LL MAYBE RESPOND, SAY, SORRY, I DIDN'T SEE YOUR MESSAGE OR I WAS CAUGHT UP ON SOMETHING ELSE. THIS HAPPENED. AND THEN I TELL THEM, OKAY, SO WHAT'S THE WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RESUBMIT? THE DEADLINE WAS THIS DAY. WE DON'T RECEIVE A RESPONSE AFTER THAT. ARE THERE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU KNOW THAT OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM IS PROBABLY RECOMMENDING FOR MOVING WITH THE WITH THE REACHING OUT ONE MORE TIME, 30 DAYS AND THEN THE LEGAL LETTER GOING OUT. THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING AT THIS POINT. IT WE HAD TO DO WE TOOK THAT STEP BEFORE WE GOT TO COUNCIL WITH THE LIGHTHOUSE, BECAUSE THE LIGHTHOUSE HAD MADE PAYMENTS SINCE I RETURNED ABOUT 40,000, BUT THEY'RE STILL OVER 100,000 THAT'S OWED WITH THE PENALTIES AND INTEREST. ACTUAL MONEY OWED IS PROBABLY CLOSER TO 60,000. BUT WHEN WE FOUND OUT WE WERE GOING TO TRY TO LEAN THE PROPERTY, WE ENTERED INTO ANOTHER. WE'RE GOING TO ENTER INTO ANOTHER AGREEMENT WITH THEM, AND WE FOUND OUT THEY WERE OUT OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE STATE NOT PAYING THEIR TAXES THERE. AND THEN WE HAD ANOTHER THE ACTUALLY THE THE NOTE HOLDERS ON THE PROPERTY REACHED OUT TO US BECAUSE THERE'S A LARGE NOTE ON THE PROPERTY, AND THEY WERE TRYING TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE SITE BECAUSE I HAD HEARD THAT, YOU KNOW, THE OWNER HAD NOT BEEN MAKING PAYMENTS. AND SO AT THAT POINT, WE WERE ALLOWING THEM TIME TO GO TO COURT AND FIND OUT IF THEY COULD GET CONTROL THE PROPERTY, BECAUSE THE NOTE IS FAR GREATER THAN WHAT THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY IS. SO THEY WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THAT. SO AT THAT POINT, WE KNEW WE HAD TO STOP WHAT WAS GOING ON. AND THEN THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, SOME QUESTIONS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS STILL EVEN OPERATING, EVEN THOUGH WE HADN'T HEARD FROM THE OWNER FOR A WHILE. AND SO WITH BURBANK'S HELP, WE PUT OUT THE CEASE AND DESIST LETTER AND LET THE STATE NOTIFIED THE STATE TO TO SHUT THEM DOWN. SO THAT WENT OUT LIKE LAST WEEK? YES, LAST WEEK. SO THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE CAN BE EFFECTIVE. THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE NOT LISTENING TO US, UNFORTUNATELY. AND THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH CODE CAN DO. AND TO GO OUT AND TRY TO SHUT SOMEBODY DOWN, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LEGAL DISPENSARIES IN THE CITY. THERE WERE QUITE A FEW BACK IN THE THE WILD WEST DAYS WHEN CANNABIS WAS FIRST TAKEN OFF. 
          WE HAD TO USE LEGAL TO, TO MOVE AND GET THEM SHUT DOWN. SO I KNOW THAT TIMES ARE TOUGH AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF OUR PROPERTIES ARE IN DISTRESS. BUT WE NEED TO WE NEED TO ENFORCE A STANDARD. AND IT'S TIME TO DO THAT, BECAUSE IF WE JUST KEEP EXTENDING IT, WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE BAD ACTORS AND THE ONES THAT ARE DOING RIGHT. YOU KNOW, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A CODE ENFORCEMENT ISSUE WITH PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, YOU GOT A NICE HOUSE AND THEN YOU'VE GOT SOMEBODY NOT TAKING CARE OF THE PROPERTY. IF YOU ALLOW THAT PROPERTY THAT'S NOT BEING TAKEN CARE OF, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE IS GOING TO GO, WHY AM I EVEN TRYING IF I'M NOT, YOU KNOW? SO I THINK IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT WE DO SOMETHING AT THIS POINT AND BUT STILL, YOU KNOW, GENTLE BUT THEN LEGAL FOLLOWS BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES FROM LEGAL, IT HAS A DIFFERENT GRAVITY TO IT THAN STAFF DOING IT. SO, BILL, HOW MANY OR HOW MANY BUSINESSES HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING FOR THEIR GROWS FOR FOR TEXAS. YEAH. SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TWO THAT DIDN'T PAY THE 
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PREVIOUS QUARTER, WHICH IS JB AND SCARLET RAY. AND THEN LIGHTHOUSE. THEY DIDN'T SUBMIT THEIR THEIR LAST QUARTER EITHER. SO I HAVE THREE ON THE LIST. I WAS LOOKING CAN YOU GO BACK I NEED TO WHAT THE CITIES ARE GENERATING PLEASE FOR CULTIVATION RETAIL FOR HERE OKAY. SO SO WE SEE WHAT COACHELLA IS MAKING 353,000. IF YOU CAN GO INTO THE NEXT. AND THEN INDIO IS MAKING 345,000. AND I THINK THEY JUST STARTED THEIR THEIR CANNABIS BUSINESSES WENT MAYBE TWO YEARS AGO, A YEAR AGO MAYBE. RIGHT. YOU'LL NOTICE THAT ALMOST IF YOU TAKE INDIO'S AND ADD IT TO COACHELLA. AND IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT COACHELLA DID THE YEAR BEFORE, IT'S ALMOST THE SAME NUMBER IF YOU COMBINE THEM. SO INDIO IS MAKING AN IMPACT AND THEN WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE TROUBLE? WELL, THE I THINK IT'S RED FALCON. IT'S GOT TO BE HAVING AN IMPACT ON US TO. SO YOU SAID YOU WERE GONNA REACH OUT ONE MORE TIME. WHAT WOULD THE OUTREACH LOOK LIKE? DO YOU SEND A LETTER? DO YOU CALL THEM? I THINK WE NEED TO GO TO THE SITE, THEN GO WITH CODE AND. YEAH. AND THE UTILITIES, ALL OF US WILL GO OUT THERE. I AGREE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT I MEAN, FROM ONE OF THE SLIDES THAT YOU SHOW WHERE YOU GUYS HAVE STARTED THE OUTREACH AND TALKING TO THEM AND SENDING THEM LETTERS, AND I MEAN, YOU GO AS FAR AS TEXTING THEM, I THINK THAT'S A LOT TOO. AND IF THEY'RE NOT BEING RESPONSIVE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT'S FAIR. I DON'T THINK THAT IT'S FAIR THAT THEY WOULD THINK IT'S OKAY TO DO IT IN, IN OUR CITY, IN ANY CITY. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S DEFINITELY NOT OKAY IF YOU GUYS ARE REACHING OUT AND TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN. I'M COMPLETELY OKAY WITH YOU EVEN SKIPPING THE REACHING OUT AGAIN IF YOU'VE ALREADY DONE IT. SO I'M TOTALLY OKAY WITH YOU GUYS JUST GIVING THEM A WHATEVER DAYS YOU HAVE TO LEGALLY GIVE THEM FOR THEM TO. 
          I WANTED TO ADD TO THAT AS PART OF THEM BEING ALLOWED TO CULTIVATE. THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH A STATE PROCESS, AND THAT STATE PROCESS REQUIRES THEM TO HAVE COVERAGE FOR THEIR DISCHARGE ON THE DISCHARGERS. RIGHT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE CITY COULD DO IS SIMPLY NOTIFY THE STATE THAT THEY'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE, THAT THAT THE THAT THE COVERAGE, THE NOTICE OF APPLICABILITY APPLICATION THAT THEY HAVE ON FILE WITH THE STATE IS NO, IT'S VOID. IT'S THEY'RE NOT. SO I THINK THERE'S A WAY TO DO THAT. AND MAYBE THAT IN ITSELF CREATES MORE ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT, VIA THE STATE BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH WITH THEIR PERMIT. AND WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT BEFORE. WE HAVEN'T DONE WE HAVEN'T DONE IT. WE HAVEN'T REACHED OUT TO THE STATE AND SAID, HEY, THEY'RE NOT NO COMPLIANCE. WE YEAH, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET THEM TO WORK WITH THEM, ALLOW THEM TO FIX WHAT THEY NEED TO FIX. 
          AND BEFORE WE GET TO SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS. AND SO IT'S BEEN PART OF THAT. YOU KNOW, WE'VE SENT SEVERAL LETTERS WITH BENCHMARKS AND THEN MOVED THOSE BENCHMARKS AND THEN MOVED THOSE BENCHMARKS AGAIN. AND, AND THEN THE LETTERS THAT WE'VE SENT, I THINK THE LAST TIME ABRAHAM, THEY WERE CERTIFIED, RIGHT. WE SENT CERTIFIED LETTERS. YEAH. SO WE SENT CERTIFIED LETTERS JUST TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE BEING RECEIVED. SO WE'LL SEND A LETTER. WE'LL SEND IT VIA MAIL CERTIFIED. WE'LL SEND IT VIA EMAIL TO ALL THE CONTACTS THAT WE HAVE. AND THE LETTER WE SAY, YOU KNOW, FAILURE TO KIND OF RESPOND CAN LEAD TO DISCONTINUATION OF SERVICE, WHICH WHICH WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO UNDER OUR MUNICIPAL CODE. RIGHT. WE CAN WE CAN DENY SERVICE FOR NOT BEING IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR REGULATIONS. SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS WE COULD DO. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF WHAT WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE US TO TO DO? BECAUSE WE COULD CERTAINLY SEND ANOTHER LETTER THAT WILL LOOK IDENTICAL TO THE ONE WE SENT BACK IN APRIL. THAT'LL SAY THE EXACT SAME THING. IT JUST IT'LL HAVE A NEW DATE, BUT IT'S ESSENTIALLY GOING TO BE THE SAME. WELL, IT'S THE SAME THING IF THEY HAVEN'T RESPONDED, WHAT MAKES US THINK THAT THEY'RE GOING TO RESPOND NOW? AND SO I MEAN WE COULD DO THAT AGAIN. CERTAINLY. BUT THEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT DOESN'T WHEN WE DON'T GET ANY SORT OF RESPONSE TO THAT. SO. I AGREE WITH WHAT WHAT BILL IS SAYING IS ISSUE THAT NOTICE. AND THEN WE WOULD FORWARD IT TO BCC FOR LEGAL ACTIONS. CORRECT? YES. 
          IT'S NEVER BEEN DONE THAT WAY RIGHT NOW. THE ONLY TIME THAT WE'VE DONE THAT WAS WITH THE LIGHTHOUSE THAT JUST HAPPENED, BUT THAT JUST CLOSED DOWN. OKAY. AND THEN WE ALSO INFORM THE STATE AS WELL BECAUSE THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO THEY'LL BE ALSO GOING WITH WHAT THE STATE 
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IS REQUIRING AS WELL. SO WE'LL REVOKE THEIR STATE LICENSE TO INFORM THE STATE THAT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO CULTIVATE OR MANUFACTURE. SO SO AFTER THE NOTICE IS GIVEN, THEN THE STATE WOULD BE NOTIFIED AFTER THE AFTER THE 30 DAYS THAT THEY WERE GIVEN TO NOTICE WOULD GO OUT FROM THE BACK, GIVING THEM A HARD DEADLINE WITHIN 15 DAYS OR SOMETHING, AND COME UP WITH A PLAN AND A FINANCING PLAN TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO. AND IF THEY DON'T, THEN AT THAT POINT WE CEASE AND DESIST, SHUT THEM DOWN, AND IT GOES TO THE STATE AS WELL. SO THE STATE IS KNOWN THAT THERE ARE COMPLIANCE AND THEY LOSE THEIR STATE LICENSE AS WELL, COULD AFFECT OTHER BUSINESSES IF THEY HAVE. IF THEY'RE IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS, IT'LL IMPACT THEM. 
          MY CONCERN IS IF WE DO IT THAT WAY AND SAY THEY START PAYING ONE, TWO, THREE MONTHS, BUT THEN THEY FALL BACK AND START, DO WE HAVE TO REISSUE THEM ANOTHER ANOTHER NOTICE? DO WE HAVE TO FORWARD IT AGAIN TO THE ATTORNEYS? DOES THE PROCESS START ALL OVER AGAIN? IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT THAT. THE TAX SIDE, THERE'S ONLY THREE OF THEM. SO IT'S IT'S THE SEWER SIDE THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT BECAUSE THE CITY HAS, YOU KNOW, THE STAKE IN THAT AS WELL. GETTING THEM INTO COMPLIANCE FOR THEIR DISCHARGE IS VERY IMPORTANT. 
          IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT THEY COULD POSSIBLY PAY US OR DO SOMETHING. THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE TO COME UP WITH PLANS. THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BUILD, AND WE GIVE THEM A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME TO DO THAT. AND IF THEY DON'T, AND I THINK THE MAIN THING WE ASKED FOR IS A FINANCING PLAN, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE MONEY. IF THEY DON'T HAVE A FINANCING PLAN, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BUILD IT. SO IF THEY DON'T HAVE A FINANCING PLAN IN LIKE A LOAN AGREEMENT OR SOMETHING IN PLACE, THEN THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL. THEN THE LETTER FROM THE ATTORNEYS GO OUT AND WE GIVE THEM THE TIME AND THAT'S IT. IT'S JUST A FINAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE WE GO WITH THE LIEN ON THE PROPERTY. SO OUTSIDE THE DISCHARGE IS WHY WHY DO YOU THINK THAT WE'RE STRUGGLING SO MUCH COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, CATHEDRAL CITY OR DESERT HOT SPRINGS WHO ARE STILL, YOU KNOW, GENERATING OVER $1 MILLION IS WHAT WHAT DID WE GET SO WRONG THAT WE TOOK SUCH A DIP IN THE LAST 3 OR 4 YEARS? I THINK THE NUMBER OF FACILITIES, AND I KNOW POWER PLAYED A PART OF IT BECAUSE WE HAD NO POWER. WHEREAS IF YOU LOOK AT CAT CITY AND PALM SPRINGS, IT'S EDISON. THERE WAS POWER AND THEY HAVE THAT ONE IN CAT CITY, THAT MASSIVE COMPLEX THERE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, DOING QUITE WELL. I KNOW THAT THEY HAVE ODOR ISSUES THERE TOO THOUGH. SO THEY MAY BE, YOU KNOW, IMPACTED AT SOME POINT TOO BASED UPON THE LOCATION OF THAT FACILITY. BUT, YOU KNOW, DRIVING ALONG THE TEN COMING IN, YOU KNOW, YOU HIT A CERTAIN AREA WHERE THE THE NEW FULFILLMENT CENTER IS FOR AMAZON AND YOU CAN SMELL IT IN THE AIR EVERYWHERE. AND IT'S SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE DOING WELL AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE ODOR ISSUES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND AT SOME POINT TOO, WE'LL HAVE POWER. YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING ON GETTING THAT RESOLVED AND DOING THAT. BUT I THINK POWER IS THE THING THAT HELD US BACK. YEAH. BUT EVEN WHEN WHEN THE POWER DOES COME THROUGH, YOU'RE LOOKING AT A LONG LIST OF NOW COMPLIANCE ISSUES, YOU KNOW, SO EVEN WHEN WE DO POWER THEM UP, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING TO BE BEHIND. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO BE I THINK A BIG HIT THAT WE TOOK TOO, IS THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY LONG TERM OWNERS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT OF THERE, WHICH I THINK IS MADE A HUGE IMPACT TO TO THAT AS, AS WELL. I THINK ADDITIONALLY IS THAT IS THAT WHEN WE STARTED APPROVING THESE CANNABIS BUSINESSES AT THAT TIME, IS THAT WE WERE ISSUING, I THINK, THE LETTER TO THE STATE SO THAT THEY CAN GET THEIR CANNABIS LICENSE. BUT WE WERE THEN AT THAT POINT, STILL GIVING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE AFTER THE FACT. YES. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT WAS A BIG ISSUE TOO, IS THAT WE'RE BASICALLY SAYING, HEY, YOU CAN OPERATE AND STILL THEN COME INTO COMPLIANCE LATER. YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S CODE ENFORCEMENT, WHETHER IT'S BUILDING. AND SO I DO THINK THAT THAT IMPACTED US GREATLY. HAD WE THEN BEFORE ISSUING THE LETTER TO THE STATE SO THAT THEY CAN GET THEIR CANNABIS LICENSE, IS IS ENSURING THAT THAT THEY WERE IN COMPLIANCE AND THAT THEY HAD EVERYTHING THAT THEY NEEDED BEFORE THEY, THEY STARTED. YOU KNOW, I DO THINK THAT BUT WE ARE WHERE WE ARE. AND, YOU KNOW, I, I SUPPORT THE THE THIRD NOTIFICATION ONLY BECAUSE AFTER THAT WE'LL BE GOING THE LEGAL ROUTE. AND ONCE WE START THE LEGAL ROUTE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO COMING BACK FROM IT AT THAT POINT. OKAY. IS THERE IS THERE ANYTHING. OKAY. THANK YOU. REALLY QUICKLY. SORRY, GUYS. IS THAT FOR SOME OF THE BUSINESSES, IF YOU REMEMBER, WITH THE CANNABIS BUSINESSES OR THE DISPENSARIES, AT THAT POINT, WE WERE WE WERE REQUESTING OR REQUIRING THEM TO COME IN WITH 
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A SECOND BUSINESS, IF YOU RECALL. AND SO I DON'T THINK OTHER CITIES WERE REQUIRING THEM TO COME IN WITH THE SECOND BUSINESS. SO WHEN WE WERE HAVING ALL THESE APPLICANTS COME IN, THEY HAD TO THEN APPLY BASICALLY AND GO THROUGH THE PROCESS FOR TWO BUSINESSES AT ONCE, ONE OF THEM BEING CANNABIS. SO THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THEIR OWN PROCESS THROUGH THE STATE. BUT I THINK THAT GREATLY IMPACTED US AS WELL, THAT THEY HAD TO PUT, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT IN FROM THE BEGINNING. AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER APPLICANT, THE ONE ON GRAPEFRUIT BOULEVARD, WHO AT THE BEGINNING WE REQUIRED HIM TO TO COME IN WITH THE SECOND BUSINESS. BUT THEN WHEN WE CHANGED IT FOR THE LAST APPLICANT, THEN, THEN WE SAID, HEY, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND THEN MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THE SECOND BUSINESS. BUT THEN THEY HAD TO GO BACK AND THEN REISSUE AND THEN GO BACK TO THEIR ENGINEER AND THEN HAVE NEW PLANS SUBMITTED WITHOUT THAT SECOND BUSINESS. SO THAT IMPACTED POWER TO THE SITE, BUT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THAT. SO HOPEFULLY HE WILL BE OPEN VERY SOON. YEAH. THANK YOU BILL. 
          THANK YOU, ANA CASTILLO. AND THEN NOW MOVING ON TO ITEM THREE. THE SYNERGY AND LIVE ART FESTIVAL PRESENTATION. YOU'RE YOUR NEXT YOUR THIRD. I AM FABULOUS GERALD. I AM 17 YEARS OLD AND I AM FROM THOUSAND SQUARE. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. MY NAME IS FRED WARZEKA. I SORRY, I'M NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS. I'M THE ART DIRECTOR CURATOR FOR CULTURES. SYNERGY HAS BEEN A BIG PART OF COACHELLA IN THE EVENTS FOR 16 YEARS NOW. LAST YEAR WE SPOKE ABOUT IT BEING THE LAST YEAR. LAST YEAR WHEN WE WERE SUBMITTING FOR OUR BUDGET, TOO MANY PEOPLE CAME TO US ASKING US, YOU KNOW, PUT IT ON, KEEP IT GOING, DON'T STOP IT. THIS IS WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTED. SO WE LISTENED. AND WITH SUPPORT FROM THE CITY ALSO, WE WERE WE DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND DO ANOTHER YEAR. THIS YEAR WE ADDED IN THE ZINE CULTURE OF ART. IT HIT OFF GREAT. IT HIT OFF JUST AS BIG AS OUR LIVE ART THAT WE DO EVERY SINGLE YEAR WITH THE MURALISTS AND THE GRAFFITI ARTISTS. SO I GUESS REALLY WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE WANT TO PUSH ART REAL HEAVY WITH THE YOUNGER, WITH THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE JUNIOR HIGH AND THE HIGH SCHOOLS VERSUS PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY KIND OF ALREADY BEEN DOING IT, GONE THROUGH COLLEGE. NOW IT'S A PROFESSION. IT'S IT'S AN IT'S AN EXPRESSION THAT THESE KIDS HAVE AND THEY NEED TO DEVELOP. AND WITH US, WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING DIFFERENT ART PROGRAMS AND DIFFERENT CLASSES, WHICH YAYA WILL TALK ABOUT WITH THE UPCOMING CULTURAL CENTER. BUT THIS LAST, THIS, THIS LAST SYNERGY. WE SAW A FEW OF YOU GUYS OUT THERE. 
          THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT. THE SUPPORT WAS WAS BIGGER THIS YEAR AND WE'RE STILL WE KNOW WHY IT WORKS, BUT WE'RE STILL WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH HOW IT REALLY DEVELOPED OUTSIDE THE CITY, BECAUSE WE STARTED HEARING MORE PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF COACHELLA COMING IN. 
          AND AGAIN, OUR ADVERTISING BUDGET IS PRETTY MUCH ZERO. SO IT KIND OF JUST GOES WORD OF MOUTH, SOCIAL MEDIA FLIERS HERE AND THERE. I WAS CONTACTED BY ANOTHER ARTIST THAT ACTUALLY DROVE DOWN FROM SAN FRANCISCO JUST TO PAINT AT THE EVENT. SO THIS IS BECOMING A VERY LARGE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NOW A NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INVITE EVENT. SO AGAIN, WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM THE CITY. AND WE HAVE A SMALL PRESENTATION VIDEO THAT WE ACTUALLY LIKE TO SHOW YOU. I AM TRAVIS GERALD. I AM 17 YEARS OLD AND I AM FROM THOUSAND PALMS, CALIFORNIA. MY FAMILY DEFINITELY INSPIRES ME BECAUSE WE ARE A FAMILY OF ARTISTS IN OUR OWN WAYS, AND CULTURE HAS DEFINITELY HELPED ME BECAUSE IT GAVE ME A LOT OF ARTISTIC OPPORTUNITIES AND EVERY TIME I WAS GIVEN ONE, I WOULD TAKE IT AND I WOULD BECOME MORE LIKE MORE ACKNOWLEDGED AND MORE KNOWN. SYNERGY DEFINITELY WAS LIKE THE BEST BECAUSE EVERY YEAR I WOULD GO AND I WOULD CREATE SOMETHING NEW AND I WOULD BE GIVEN BIGGER AUDIENCES EVERY YEAR. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING IT? ABOUT ABOUT 
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THREE, FOUR YEARS. HI, MY NAME IS IAN GERALD, ALSO KNOWN AS IAN SHOESHINE. BEING WITH US, IT'S REALLY COOL. IT HELPS ME GO OUTSIDE OF MY COMFORT ZONE. DEFINITELY INTRODUCED ME A LOT TO OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE OTHER ART THAT I'VE, YOU KNOW, HAVE NOT REALLY KNOWN ABOUT, LIKE THE MOSAIC ARTISTS. AND IT'S VERY INSPIRING. THEY'RE TAKING THE PROGRAMS OUT OF EVEN SCHOOLS, WHICH IS HORRIBLE. EVERYONE HELPING TO DONATE WOULD, YOU KNOW, HELP KEEP THESE PROGRAMS ALIVE, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE INTO THE ARTS, IT HELPS THEM STAY FOCUSED. IT WAS DEFINITELY COOL. HE GOT INVITED TO DO SYNERGY AND THEN GETTING TO KNOW EVERYBODY, WORKING WITH MY SON, GETTING TO KNOW FRED AND YOU GUYS AND BEING ABLE TO BE A PART OF IT. MY NAME IS DAVID MORRIS JONES. I AM AN ARTIST FROM PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA. 
          WELL, A FRIEND SENT ME A MESSAGE SAYING THAT THERE WERE THESE MOSAIC COURSES HAPPENING IN TOWN HERE, AND I'VE BEEN DOING MOSAICS FOR A LONG TIME. HE THOUGHT I WOULD BE INTERESTED. SO I CAME HERE FROM PALM SPRINGS, A GOOD HOUR DRIVE FURTHER INTO THE DESERT, AND I IMMEDIATELY WALKED IN AND I FELT I WAS A PART OF A COMMUNITY. I FELT ACCEPTED, I APPRECIATED THAT I CAME WELL, I THINK BEING AN ARTIST OFTEN ALSO MEANS TELLING A STORY. 
          COMING TO THE CLASS HAS TAUGHT ME TO LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES AND WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY, AND FOR PEOPLE TO HEAR WHAT I HAVE TO SAY, AND BEING ABLE TO APPRECIATE PEOPLE'S PERSPECTIVES AND HOW THEY SHOW THEIR THOUGHTS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES AND THEIR DESIRES THROUGH CREATIVE ART. I THINK FOR A COMMUNITY, ART IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT HELPS PRESERVE HISTORY AND ALSO TO SHOW THE DREAMS AND THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE FUTURE. THAT'S WHY I THINK THAT PEOPLE SHOULD DONATE TO THE PROGRAMS. ART PROGRAMS. HI, MY NAME IS FRED WARZEKA, ALSO KNOWN AS WAS ART. I'M THE HEAD ART CURATOR FOR MUSIC AND ARTS. I'VE BEEN WITH CULTURES NOW FOR 11 YEARS. WITHIN THE 11 YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN WITH CULTURES, I'VE BEEN RUNNING SYNERGY FOR TEN YEARS WITH THE ARTIST SIDE. I WOULD SAY THAT VERY FIRST YEAR THAT I TOOK OVER STOOD OUT THE MOST. WE DIDN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT, ENDED UP CREATING A MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL ART REPRESENTATION OF OF THE ENTIRE VALLEY. THE DIALOG WITH OTHER ARTISTS THAT WE'VE HAD JUST BUILDING THE COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS HERE IN THE VALLEY, WE'RE ACTUALLY BRINGING IN MUCH YOUNGER AGE GROUPS NOW THROUGH FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE I THINK WE'RE LEADING THAT MORE OR LESS THAN THE REST OF THE VALLEY. AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF EVENTS WERE ENCOURAGING THE YOUTH TO COME OUT AND AND PAINT WITH US, JUST TO SHOWCASE THAT THE ARTS ARE VERY IMPACTFUL AT A AT A MUCH YOUNGER AGE. HEY EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ISIDRO ZEPEDA. I WAS BORN IN INDIO. MY JOB TITLE IS AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT CRAFTON HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE. I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH CULTURAS FOR ABOUT A YEAR. THE WAY THAT ART CAN CREATE A DIALOG AGAIN IS TO CENTER THE PERSON CENTER, THE COMMUNITY CENTER, THE YOUTH. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU CENTER THE YOUTH OR THE PERSON AND THE COMMUNITY? YOU'RE CENTERING THE ART IN THEIR IN THEIR LIVES, IN THEIR DIRECT EXPERIENCES OF WHAT THEY'RE SEEING. IF WE CREATE SPACES FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THESE EXPERIENCES. AND SO THROUGH THESE, THESE WORKSHOPS AND THESE MOMENTS, THEY ARE PRACTICING THEIR CRAFT COLLECTIVELY IN A COMMUNITY WAY. 
          IT'S COLLECTIVE REMEMBRANCE. AND SO WE'RE REMEMBERING COLLECTIVELY WHO WE ARE. WE'RE REMEMBERING OUR VOICES, OUR STORIES, AND THEN WE'RE SHOWING THEM TO OTHER PEOPLE. BECAUSE CREATIVITY IS IMPORTANT. AND I COULD SAY THIS AS SOMEONE WHO STUDIED AND GOT MY DEGREES AND I'M A PROFESSOR, CRITICAL THINKING IS OFTEN CHAMPIONED, BUT WITHOUT CREATIVE THINKING, THERE IS NO CRITICAL THINKING. CREATIVITY IS INNOVATION, AND WE WANT OUR COMMUNITIES TO BE INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE AND THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO. WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON THE ARTS. THANK YOU. SO AGAIN, I WOULD DEFINITELY WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF COACHELLA FOR FOR HELPING WITH SYNERGY AND A FEW OF THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT CULTURE PUTS OUT THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE YEAR. SO IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL? THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I DO JUST WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT BECAUSE ONE I RECOGNIZE THE SPACE. YEAH YEAH YEAH. THE WHERE THEY WERE GIVING THEIR INTERVIEWS. THEY RECOGNIZED THAT THAT SPACE. YEAH, I RECOGNIZED IT. YOU KNOW WHAT I DID REALLY ENJOY WHEN I, WHEN I ATTENDED THE SYNERGY FESTIVAL IS WATCHING THE ARTIST CREATE AND PAINT THEIR, THEIR MURALS. 
          THAT WAS, FOR ME, THE MOST REWARDING. OF WATCHING THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE EXCITED, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE EXCITED AND THEY WERE VERY, YOU KNOW, THEY WANTED TO SHOWCASE THEIR WORK. 
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YEAH. IT'S IT'S IT'S OUR EXPRESSION. WE GET TO WE GET TO SHOW OUR PASSION IN OUR ART IS JUST MORE THAN A TECHNIQUE. ART IS MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY PICTURE ON THE WALL. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED IN WITHIN OURSELVES, AND IT'S OUR EXPRESSION THAT WE PUT OUT. 
          SO IT'S IT'S THE EASIEST WAY FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO SEE WHAT WE'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT AND HOW WE CREATE THOSE THINGS. THEY WERE THAT'S THAT'S THE PERFECT WORD IS THEY WERE VERY PASSIONATE AND THEY WERE OF ALL AGE GROUPS. YEAH, I THINK THAT WAS REALLY NICE. SO THANK YOU. 
          ACTUALLY, EVEN AT THAT JUST THERE WAS A YOUNG GIRL THAT WAS WALKING AROUND LOOKING AT EVERYTHING AND ASKED ME HOW TO BE INVOLVED. SHE'S NINE, SO I'M LIKE, I'LL GET YOU ON NEXT YEAR. 
          WE JUST GOT TO KEEP IN TOUCH BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS, THIS, IT STEAMROLLS IT BECOMES OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND. AND I GET IN. WE HAVE 20 SOME ODD ARTISTS THAT COME OUT AND WITH AN INCREASE OF FUNDS, WE CAN BUILD MORE PANELS AND WE CAN HAVE MORE ARTISTS COME OUT. SO IT IT JUST BRINGS IN THE COMMUNITY EVEN MORE SO, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF COMMUNITY ARTISTS OUT HERE THAT STILL DON'T EVEN GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAINT WITH US. THERE WAS A GROUP OF YOUNG GIRLS WHO WERE DOING A MURAL, AND ONE OF THEM WAS ON OUR YOUTH COMMISSION, AND I BELIEVE THE OTHER ONE WAS ON THE THE SDC COMMITTEE. THE, THE GIRLS FROM FROM THE HUE. YEAH. AND THAT WAS REALLY NICE BECAUSE THEY'RE GREATLY INVESTED HERE. YES. AND IT WAS GREAT TO, TO BE ABLE TO GET THEM TO COME ON THIS YEAR. I TRY TO GET THEM IN ONE YEAR PAST, BUT THIS YEAR WE WERE ABLE TO LOCK IT IN AND GET HER THERE. AND IT'S AMAZING BECAUSE EVEN THE STUDENTS THAT THEY THAT THEY BROUGHT OUT HAD NEVER DONE PUBLIC ART OR SOMETHING THAT LARGE OR EVEN HELD A SPRAY CAN. SO IT WAS IT'S IT'S FUN TO BE ABLE TO GO AND TEACH AT THE SAME TIME WHILE PEOPLE ARE STILL PAINTING AND DOING WHAT THEY LOVE. IT WAS FUN. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? GOOD, GOOD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 
          MISS BRITTANY. MUCHAS GRACIAS A TODOS LOS DIAS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HAVING ME. I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A LITTLE UPDATE ON THE LIBRARY AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU ALL HAD ANY. 
          IF NOT, I JUST AM HAPPY TO BE HERE. SO OUR LIBRARY IS DOING GREAT. I'M HAPPY TO REPORT. OF COURSE, WE'RE THRIVING JUST LIKE THE REST OF COACHELLA. WE'RE VERY HAPPY HERE. AND IF WE COULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO I SPECIFICALLY WANT TO SHARE. I DID SPEAK LAST TIME, ESPECIALLY ABOUT OUR FUNDS AND HOW WE CAN GIVE RECEIPTS AS NEEDED. SO OF COURSE THAT STILL STANDS. AND EVERYTHING THAT I SAID PREVIOUSLY, I MIGHT REPEAT MYSELF SLIGHTLY, BUT I'LL TRY TO JUST GIVE A BRIEF. A BRIEF RESPONSE TO TO LAST TIME, JUST A LITTLE EXTRA. SO I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE COACHELLA LIBRARY DOES SO THAT THE COMMUNITY KNOWS AND THAT THE BOARD CAN BE AWARE OF. ALTHOUGH I KNOW THAT THE BOARD MEMBERS OFTEN COME TO THE LIBRARY, SO IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO SEE EVERYBODY. WE DO HIGHLIGHT NEW AND SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS. 
          WE DO HAVE A LOT OF TALENT IN THIS COMMUNITY, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE SO GRATEFUL FOR AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF. SO WE HIGHLIGHT THERE'S A LOT OF SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PROFESSIONALLY PUBLISHED AUTHORS IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND WE DO HIGHLIGHT THEIR BOOKS OFTEN. WE ALSO BUILD LIFE SKILLS AND CIVIC ETIQUETTE. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO WHILE TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO USE PUBLIC SPACES. IT'S SOMETHING I TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY. MAYOR PRO TEM HAS TALKED ABOUT THE PROFESSIONALISM THAT WE HAVE IN THE LIBRARY, WHICH I'M GRATEFUL FOR. IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT, BUT ALSO JUST TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO USE PUBLIC SPACES. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT. WE TEACH CHILDREN AND ADULTS HOW TO BE CLEAN, REMAIN, YOU KNOW, WORK INDEPENDENTLY AND AND CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES. AND WE CREATE LITTLE KID CARDS FOR THAT FOR THE CHILDREN, OF COURSE. AND THEY GET PRIZES FOR WHEN THEY CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES. WE STRENGTHEN LITERACY AND CRITICAL THINKING. WE DO THIS THROUGH AN ASSORTMENT OF PROGRAMS, NOT JUST BY HAVING HELPING THEM LEARN HOW TO READ BOOKS AND LEARN HOW TO USE OUR DIGITAL RESOURCES, BUT ALSO THROUGH THE PROGRAM AND THAT WE HAVE, SUCH AS, LIKE OUR SCIENCE CLUB, SUPPORTING OUR UNHOUSED COMMUNITY. AND WE MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE SPACES SO THAT THEY CAN SIT AND REST, NOT NECESSARILY SLEEP, BUT REST AND AND HAVE A PLACE THAT THEY CAN. 
          FEEL ACTUALLY A PART OF THE COMMUNITY WHEN SO OFTEN THEY FEEL OSTRACIZED FROM OUR COMMUNITY AND THEY CAN WE HAVE A PLACE FOR THEM TO CHARGE THEIR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND SO FORTH, EXPANDING ACCESS TO WORKSPACES IS SOMETHING WE'RE ALSO VERY PROUD OF. WE HAVE THREE MEETING ROOMS WHERE PEOPLE CAN NOT ONLY TAKE TESTS, BUT RECEIVE TUTORING AND DO JOB 
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INTERVIEWS AND DO INTERVIEWS FOR COLLEGES AND ANYTHING THAT THEY NEED A QUIET SPACE FOR THAT THEY MAY NOT HAVE IN OTHER PLACES AT THEIR HOME OR SO FORTH, AND ENGAGING A DIVERSE VOLUNTEER BASE. WE'RE VERY PROUD OF OUR VOLUNTEERS. WE HAVE A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS THAT COME IN THAT ARE EITHER IN HIGH SCHOOL OR EVEN ADULTS. SOME OF THEM HAVE STRUGGLED GETTING POSITIONS AND JOBS. THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SKILLS. WE HAVE ONE PARTICULAR PERSON THAT WAS ON MEDICATION. SHE WAS UNABLE TO GET A JOB, SO PRACTICING HER ABCS AND ONE TWO THREES MIGHT SOUND SIMPLE TO SOME OF US, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO HER. AND SO SHE'S BEEN A VOLUNTEER. SHE TAKES THE BUS 2.5 HOURS TO COME AND VOLUNTEER AT OUR LIBRARY BECAUSE SHE'S NOT IN OUR CITY, BUT SHE LOVES OUR LIBRARY SO MUCH AND PARTICIPATES IN OUR COMMUNITY AND BUILDS OUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE VERY PROUD OF. SO THERE'S LOTS OF STORIES LIKE THAT, BUT SHE'S ONE BIG EXAMPLE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. COUNTY SPONSORED PROGRAMS, MEANING THAT BECAUSE WE ARE COUNTY SPONSORED OR COUNTY FUNDED AND WE ALSO ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE SOME CITY FUNDING, I THOUGHT I WOULD SEPARATE IT JUST FOR THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT. THE COUNTY PROVIDES WE PROVIDE STORYTIMES THROUGH THROUGH THEIR FUNDS, AND STORYTIMES ARE VERY SIMPLE. WE READ TO CHILDREN AND WE SOMETIMES WILL DO SOME COLORING EXERCISES. IT'S A VERY SIMPLE DAY, BUT JUST SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF FUN WITH. WE HAVE MISS ALMA, WHO IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORYTIME READERS. SHE DRESSES UP DEPENDING ON THE CHARACTERS OF THE BOOK. SHE MAKES IT AS FUN AS SHE CAN, AND IT'S ALWAYS EXCITING TO SEE HER DO THAT. WE DO READING AND WRITING CHALLENGES AND SOMETIMES THERE'S PRIZES RELATED TO THAT. I'M VERY HAPPY TO REPORT THAT IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY WE HAD A READING CHALLENGE FOR FAMILIES. IT WAS A FAMILY LITERACY CHALLENGE, AND A COACHELLA FAMILY WON THAT CHALLENGE FOR THE COUNTY. SHOWS THE PARTICIPATION THAT WE HAVE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THOSE PROGRAMS. OUR SUMMER READING ADVENTURE IS ALSO KNOWN AS SUMMER READING PROGRAM, SOMETHING THAT WE GIVE. THERE ARE CHALLENGES. WE ARE ABLE TO GIVE PRIZES, AND I WILL TRY NOT TO GET EMOTIONAL WHEN I TALK ABOUT I DON'T WANT TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM FROM THE FACTS THAT I'M DELIVERING, BUT I DO GET EMOTIONAL WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE FAMILIES THAT COME TO THE LIBRARY. WE HAD A WOMAN AND SHE SAW ALL THESE TOYS OUT, AND HER BABY WAS PROBABLY, I WANT TO SAY, 6 TO 8 MONTHS, YEARS OLD, A VERY LITTLE BABY. AND SHE SAID, WELL, HOW DO I WIN THOSE PRIZES? AND TECHNICALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU READ TO YOUR CHILD AND IT COUNTS AS THEM READING AND YOU CAN WIN SOME PRIZES. AND SHE SAT DOWN ON THE GROUND AND SHE READ ABOUT EIGHT BOOKS IN A ROW TO HER, HER BABY. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I GET SO CHOKED UP OVER THAT. SEEMS SO SILLY. I SEE IT ALL DAY LONG, BUT HER BABY JUST SAT IN HER LAP WITH ITS BACK ON HER STOMACH AND JUST LITERALLY LOOKED AT EVERY SINGLE PAGE AND I COULD NOT GET OVER FOR ALMOST, I WANT TO SAY 45 MINUTES OR SO. AND I JUST WAS SO SHOCKED AND SO IMPRESSED. AND I JUST THOUGHT, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL START TO THAT BABY HAS TO LIFE, AND WHAT A WONDERFUL MOTHER. AND IT ALL JUST STARTED WITH SOME TOYS THAT WE HAD OUT AND FOR READING CHALLENGES. SO SHE AND HER BABY WON ALL SIX CHALLENGES FOR THAT DAY. IT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE. 
          BUT BUT I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT OUR COMMUNITY WOULD LOOK LIKE IF EVERYBODY HAD MOTHERS LIKE THAT. SO WE HAVE OUR LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY PROGRAM, AND THIS IS WHERE WE GET TO GIVE OUT FOOD TO ANYBODY WITH A DISABILITY AND ANYBODY IN SCHOOL 18 OR YOUNGER OR HIGH SCHOOL AND YOUNGER AND SUPER POPULAR. AND WE HAVE VENTRILOQUISTS COME DURING THIS TIME. WE HAVE SINGERS COME DURING THIS TIME. WE HAVE AUTHORS COME AND SIGN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, CHILDREN, AUTHORS COME. IT IS SO MUCH FUN. AND WE TRIPLED OUR NUMBERS FROM LAST YEAR. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. AND I'M ANTICIPATING WE'RE TRIPLING OUR NUMBERS NEXT YEAR BECAUSE IT WAS SO SUCCESSFUL. SO WE HAD AGAIN AROUND 10 TO 20 PEOPLE LAST YEAR A DAY, AND WE HAD 50 TO 100 PEOPLE THIS YEAR. AND WHEN I SAY TRIPLE IS, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE DAY. SO JUST IN CASE YOU'RE CHECKING MY NUMBERS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS WE HAVE WE OFFER COMPUTERS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS, WHICH ARE SEPARATED SO THAT CHILDREN CAN FEEL SAFE AND PARENTS CAN FEEL SAFE, THAT CHILDREN AREN'T INTERMINGLING WITH ADULTS WHEN THEY'RE THERE. OUR GED PROGRAM IS SOMETHING THAT I'M SO SUCCESSFUL. AGAIN, THIS IS ALL FUNDED THROUGH THE COUNTY. MANY, MANY LIBRARIES THAT HAVE EVEN MORE FUNDING THAN US. THEY DON'T HAVE PROGRAMS LIKE THIS GED PROGRAM IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. NOT ONLY DO PEOPLE GET SOME TUTORING THROUGH THEIR GED, BUT THEY ARE ABLE TO GRADUATE THEIR GED. THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR ANYTHING. THEY GET A CAP AND A GOWN. ONCE AGAIN, THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT. AND THEN THEY GET A BEAUTIFUL CEREMONY. MY GRANDMA WAS ONE OF THE SMARTEST WOMEN I EVER MET. NO EXAGGERATION. SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND SHE NEVER GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, AND IT WAS A BIG SOURCE OF HER FEELING VERY BAD ABOUT HERSELF. SHE WAS VERY SELF-CONSCIOUS ABOUT THAT, AND IT ALWAYS MADE ME SAD. AND SHE REALLY PUSHED ME TO NOT ONLY GET MY BACHELOR'S, BUT MY MASTER'S, BECAUSE SHE NEVER WANTED ME TO FEEL THAT WAY. AND I'M ALWAYS SO PROUD TO SEE THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING THEIR GED AND HOW THAT AFFECTS THEIR LIVES. AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE HAVE ART CONTESTS AND THOSE ARE IN PRACTICE OFTEN COME WITH PRIZES, BUT SOMETIMES EVEN KIDS THAT PARTICIPATE IN THAT, THEY END UP BEING ACTUAL CIGNA'S SORRY, I'M I CAN'T THINK OF ANOTHER WORD FOR THAT, BUT THEY'LL BE THE EMBLEMS OF THE COMPANY THAT'S HOLDING THOSE CONTESTS, WHICH IS PRETTY COOL. SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT THE COUNTY SPONSORS AND 
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THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE WILL ALWAYS DO. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. CITY SPONSORED PROGRAMS ARE MY FAVORITE, THOUGH. WHILE I DO LOVE THE COUNTY SPONSORED PROGRAMS, WE HAVE BEEN VERY LUCKY TO HAVE PROGRAMS THAT OTHER LIBRARIES CAN'T HAVE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME SUPPORT THAT WE HAVE HAD BY OUR CITY. AND AND THESE THINGS INCLUDE THE SCIENCE CLUB, WHICH HAS BEEN EXTREMELY POPULAR, WHERE KIDS LEARN ALL SORTS OF THINGS ABOUT DIFFERENT WEIGHTS OF DIFFERENT LIQUIDS AND AERODYNAMICS DYNAMICS THROUGH, YOU KNOW, PAPER AIRPLANE CONTESTS AND, AND ALL SORTS OF FUN THINGS. WE HAVE OUR JUNK JOURNALING, WHICH CAN BE A VERY EXPENSIVE HOBBY. AND THIS IS WHERE LADIES AND MEN GET TOGETHER AND THEY COME AND THEY NOT ONLY MAKE MEMORIES AT THE LIBRARY, BUT THEY CREATE BOOKS FOR THOSE MEMORIES FOR THEIR LIFE. AND I LOVE THAT WE CAN OFFER THAT TO THEM. THANKS TO THE CITY, WE HAVE OUR BABY SOCIAL HOUR, WHERE BABIES GET BOOKS EVERY TIME THEY COME. EVERY MONTH THEY'RE GIVEN A BABY BOOK. THEY'RE GIVEN THEY ARE SPECIFIC BOARD BOOKS SO THAT THEY'RE NOT EASILY DAMAGED. 
          THEY OFTEN WILL HAVE LITTLE BITE MARKS IN THEM. WE SEE SOMETIMES COMING BACK, BUT FOR THE MOST PART CAN'T BE DAMAGED. WE HAVE OUR HORROR SOCIETY BOOK CLUB THAT BECAME SO POPULAR AND SO LARGE, WE BROKE OFF ONTO ANOTHER FRACTION OF OF THE BOOK CLUB. THESE TWO BOOK CLUBS NOT ONLY PROMOTE LITERACY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT THEY HAVE PROMOTED BILINGUALISM. WE'VE HAD PEOPLE COMING TO LEARN ENGLISH AND HELP HELP PRACTICE THEIR ENGLISH. IT'S CREATED CRITICAL THINKING. IT'S WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS AND PEOPLE THAT COME AND JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS. AND IN THIS CLUB OF APPROXIMATELY 50 MEMBERS BETWEEN THE TWO BOOK CLUBS, NOT DEPENDING ON IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER THEY'RE NEW ENGLISH SPEAKERS OR WHETHER THEY'RE COLLEGE STUDENTS. AND WE JUST HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON, AND THAT IS THAT WE READ THE BOOK AND WE CAN DISCUSS IT OPENING THE MINDS OF OF EVERYBODY INVOLVED. AND WE HAVE AN ANIME CLUB. THIS CLUB IS ONE OF THE CLUBS I'M MOST PROUD OF. NOT BECAUSE I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANIME, BECAUSE I DO NOT, BUT ONLY BECAUSE TRYING TO CAPTURE THE TEEN AUDIENCE IS SOMETHING THAT ALL LIBRARIES LIKE TO BRAG ABOUT. IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE IS VERY HARD. 
          THAT TEEN AUDIENCE IS JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BUSY. SO SO THEY DON'T COME TO THE LIBRARY ALL THAT OFTEN. AND ONE OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS SAID, LET'S DO AN ANIME CLUB. AND THAT HAS BEEN WILDLY SUCCESSFUL. SO FOR EVERY ONE TEAM THAT WE GET, I SAY IT'S LIKE GETTING 50 PATRONS, BUT WE, YOU KNOW, WENT FROM HAVING ZERO TEENS TO SOMETIMES ATTENDING OUR EVENTS TO NOW HAVING UP TO 30 AND 40 TEENS ATTENDING OUR EVENTS, WHICH IS A BIG DIFFERENCE. AND THEN WE HAVE A MOVIE CLUB. THIS CLUB, I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE I KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO GO TO THE MOVIES, ESPECIALLY FOR FAMILIES. AND YOU HAVE CHILDREN, TWO CHILDREN, ONE CHILDREN OR EVEN SIX CHILDREN. AND AND IT CAN GET QUITE PRICEY. SO WE TRY TO SHOW MOVIES THAT HAVE JUST BEEN RELEASED. WE GIVE HOMEMADE POPCORN AND DRINKS, AND THEY'RE ALLOWED TO BRING THEIR OWN FOODS IF THEY WANT, AND THEY CAN ENJOY IT ON THE BIG SCREEN THAT WE DID PURCHASE THROUGH THE CITY FUNDS AND OUR CHILDREN'S AREA. THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT EVERYBODY WANTED WHEN I CAME TO COACHELLA, THERE WAS ZERO CHILDREN'S AREA. WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING THERE, AND NOW IT'S A VERY ROBUST PLACE OF MANY TOYS. AND EVERY NOW AND THEN WE WILL SEE A TEDDY BEAR FLYING THROUGH THE AIR. BUT FOR THE MOST PART, WE ARE TEACHING PARENTS HOW TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN LEARN HOW TO USE THESE THINGS AND PUT THEM AWAY. SO NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. ALL IN ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A COUPLE OTHER TESTIMONIALS IF I MAY. 
          THIS IS THE END OF MY PRESENTATION, BUT WE CERTAINLY RECOGNIZE THAT THE BOARD HAS VERY HARD DECISIONS TO MAKE AND THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR CITY AND THAT THAT IT'S ALWAYS DIFFICULT WHEN SPENDING MONEY AND SAVING MONEY. AND WE ARE VERY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A GREAT LIBRARY REGARDLESS OF THE FUNDS THAT ARE INVOLVED. BUT WE CERTAINLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WE DO WHAT'S BEST AND WHAT YOU WANT AS A BOARD. SO MY JOB IS TO ONLY REFLECT WHAT YOU ALL WANT AS A BOARD. AND OBVIOUSLY THE MORE FUNDS WE HAVE, THE MORE ROBUST PROGRAMS WE CAN HAVE AND THE LESS FUNDS WE HAVE, THEN WE WILL STILL HAVE A WONDERFUL PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO GET TOGETHER. ONE PARTICULAR STORY I WOULD LIKE TO TELL IS JUST I'LL MAKE SURE TO KEEP IT VAGUE TO PROTECT PEOPLE. BUT WE HAD A SINGLE MOM AND SHE BECAME A SINGLE MOM WHEN HER DAUGHTER WAS ABOUT 7 OR 8 YEARS OLD. AND SO SHE STARTED COMING TO THE LIBRARY JUST BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T NECESSARILY KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW TO RAISE HER CHILDREN CHILD BY HERSELF. SO HER CHILD STARTED COMING EVERY DAY. AND IT'S BEEN ABOUT TEN YEARS NOW, SO MAYBE EIGHT AND AND THE CHILD IS NOW GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL WELL BEYOND HER READING LEVEL, GETTING READY FOR COLLEGE, AND HAS MET HER MOM TAKING THE BUS AND MEETS HER MOM AFTER WORK AT OUR LIBRARY, HAS NOT ONLY PARTICIPATED IN OUR PROGRAMS, BUT ALSO VOLUNTEERED IN OUR PROGRAMS. HAS ALMOST BASICALLY A WORK HISTORY WITHIN OUR LIBRARY. AND THESE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT THAT WE FIND GREATLY IMPORTANT FOR NOT ONLY PEOPLE OF COACHELLA, BUT JUST CHILDREN IN GENERAL. ANOTHER STORY THAT I HAVE THAT 
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I THINK IS QUITE IMPORTANT WAS LAST YEAR AT OUR LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY PROGRAM. WE HAD A FATHER WALK IN WITH A BOY THAT'S PROBABLY MAYBE IN GRADE SCHOOL, AND THEN MAYBE A TWEEN TO TEEN TEENAGE BOY. AND HE CAME IN AND WAS KIND OF LOOKING AROUND. ALL THREE OF THEM WERE LOOKING AROUND, WHICH HAPPENS OFTEN. SOME PEOPLE DON'T KNOW, NEVER BEEN TO THE LIBRARY. SO WE DIRECTED THEM TO THE FACT THAT WE DID HAVE A PROGRAM THAT DAY, AND WE DID HAVE LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY THAT DAY AND OFFERED THEM TO COME IN. WE HAD A MOVIE GOING ON, SO THEY PARTICIPATED IN THE EVENT. THEY MET SOME PEOPLE, AND THE DAD LATER CAME OUT TO ME AND TOLD ME, SORRY, I'M GOING TO REALLY TRY NOT TO BE. I DON'T WANT TO DISTRACT FROM THE POINT. BUT HE TOLD ME THAT HIS WIFE HAD DIED THAT WEEK AND HIS KIDS HAD BEEN HOME AND THEY DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHERE TO GO OR WHAT TO DO, AND HE JUST WANTED TO GET THEM OUT. AND I JUST FELT SUCH A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE HAVE THIS PUBLIC PLACE THAT ANYONE COULD GO. THE CHILDREN ENDED UP COMING QUITE FREQUENTLY DURING THE SUMMER. 
          THEY ENDED UP MAKING FRIENDS THAT DAD ENDED UP HAVING FRIENDS WITH OTHER SINGLE PARENTS AND FAMILIES IN GENERAL, AND IT WAS REALLY BEAUTIFUL AND I JUST REALLY AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS JOB. IT'S A HUMBLING JOB. I'VE WORKED WITH RESCUING ELEPHANTS IN THAILAND AND THIS IS STILL MY FAVORITE JOB I'VE EVER DONE. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS LIBRARY. I LOVE THE CITY AND AND I'M VERY HAPPY THAT THAT WE PROVIDE SUCH A SPACE FOR FAMILIES AND PARENTS AND PEOPLE TO COME AND GROW AND BE TOGETHER. SO THAT IS ALL I HAVE. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? NO QUESTIONS, JUST A COMMENT. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO. I, I FEEL LIKE YOU GENUINELY CARE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND YOU'VE BUILT SUCH A WONDERFUL SPACE, NOT THE BUILDING ITSELF, BUT YOU KNOW, THE SPACE WITHIN. AND I THINK WHEN I GO IN THE LIBRARY, I'VE ALWAYS FELT VERY WELCOME. BUT IT FEELS VERY WARM NOW TOO. YOUR STAFF IS GREAT. STAFF IS VERY WELCOMING. AND SO YOU CAN TELL THAT I THINK IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH YOUR LEADERSHIP. SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR OUR FAMILIES AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. I HEAR A LOT OF GOOD THINGS ABOUT YOU GUYS, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT MEANS A LOT TO US. THANK YOU. ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? JUST LIKE YOUR PROGRAM, YOU HAVE COME. WE SURE DID. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I GOT A VILLASENOR IN A SCHOOL EVENT AND I GOT HIM TO SIGN MY BOOK, GRAIN OF GOLD. SO I HAVE A SIGNED COPY OF THAT, AND IT WAS REALLY COOL THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE ABLE TO BRING HIM BECAUSE THAT THAT BOOK IS VERY IT'S A BIG BOOK TO READ. BUT, YOU KNOW, THE FOURTH GRADE, YOU KNOW, TO BE ABLE TO READ THAT BOOK AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO BRING PEOPLE TO LA PENA WHERE IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT. 
          YEAH, IT'S TOTALLY WORTH IT. SO THANKS FOR THAT. YEAH, YEAH. THANK YOU. YEAH. YES. THANK YOU. 
          I'VE SPOKEN TO A COUPLE OF OTHERS THAT ATTENDED YOUR BABY SOCIAL HOUR, AND THEY HAD NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS TO SAY. SO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO. THANK YOU. THAT'S MISS ANDREA. SHE TAKES A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO THE TYPE OF BOOKS THAT WE GIVE OUT, AND SHE TAKES A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO THE SPECIFIC TOYS FOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND THE TYPE OF TREATS THAT WE GIVE OUT. AND AGAIN, THAT IS ALL BECAUSE OF THE CITY BOARD. EVERYTHING WAS PURCHASED BECAUSE OF THE CITY. THANK YOU. HI, I AM THE LIBRARY HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO ME. I RECOGNIZE VICTORIA, SO VICTORIA IS A COACHELLA AUTHOR AND THE TWO BOOK AUTHOR BOOK A BOOK GIVEAWAY EVENTS THAT WE HAD WAS WITH VICTORIA, AND THAT'S BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE WERE VERY PROUD OF EVERYTHING SHE'S DONE AND BECOMING AN AUTHOR AND SHARING HER STORY. AND ACTIVIST. YEAH, AN ACTIVIST. SO WE DID ONE AT THE LIBRARY, AND THEN SHE DID THE SECOND ONE AT THE SENIOR CENTER BECAUSE SHE OFFERS HER BOOKS IN SPANISH AS WELL. SO THAT WAS NICE BECAUSE THEY STARTED THEIR BOOK CLUB. YOU KNOW, THERE ISN'T ANYTHING MORE REWARDING THAN SEEING FAMILIES GROW AND LEARN TOGETHER. IT IS VERY EMOTIONAL BECAUSE IT'S NICE TO SEE IT'S SOMETHING THAT FEELS GOOD, YOU KNOW? AND SO IT IS VERY IT IS VERY REWARDING. IN THE PAST, I THINK IT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO, WE, THE CITY OF COACHELLA, DONATED 25,000 TO LOCAL LIBRARY. SO FOR OTHER CITIES, I WOULD SAY THE MAJORITY OF CITIES DO DONATE FUNDING TO THEIR LIBRARIES. AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE LA QUINTA DOES, PALM DESERT DOES, AND THEY HAVE GREAT PROGRAMING. AND IT'S NOT THAT THE CITY, COACHELLA DOESN'T HAVE GREAT PROGRAMING, BUT I WOULD JUST SAY THAT WE HAVE MORE LIMITATIONS THAN PROBABLY OTHER CITIES OR OTHER LIBRARIES BECAUSE OF THE SUPPORT THAT THEY RECEIVE. ONE THING THAT I, I GREATLY ENJOY ABOVE, YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO EVERYTHING ELSE, IS THAT THE FUNDING THAT WE PROVIDE DOESN'T GO TO ANY STAFF, IT DOESN'T GO TO ANY PERSONNEL. SO THE MONEY THAT WE PROVIDE GOES STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT TO FAMILIES 100% ANYWHERE ELSE, BECAUSE THAT'S ALREADY PROVIDED BY THE COUNTY AND THE CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE. THAT'S CORRECT. WITH THE COUNTY AND THEN 
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LIBRARY SYSTEMS AND SERVICES. SO WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE GO BACK TO THAT 25,000 THAT WE REWARDED 2 OR 3 YEARS AGO, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT YOUR NUMBERS ARE TRIPLING DAILY. NOW, THAT LETS ME KNOW THAT WE'RE NOW ENGAGING WITH MORE FAMILIES, AND WE HAVE MORE KIDDOS COMING IN AND PARTICIPATING IN THESE EVENTS. SO NOW LET'S ME KNOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE PROVIDING. WE NOW HAVE TO ALSO KEEP UP WITH THE TRAFFIC THAT'S THAT'S COMING IN. WE'VE GIVEN AND WE'VE DONATED TO SO MANY ORGANIZATIONS. AND I'LL GIVE YOU A AN EXAMPLE IS WE DO I REMEMBER IT WAS SOMETIME THIS YEAR WHERE WE APPROVED FUNDING, WHICH WAS FOR A CONSULTANT, TO GIVE US UPDATES ABOUT A LOT OF THE FEDERAL PROGRAMS COMING THROUGH. I'VE NEVER HEARD FROM HIM. NOT ONCE HAVE I EVER HEARD FROM HIM. I KNOW THAT THE FUNDING THAT GOES TO THE LIBRARY, I KNOW THAT I CAN GO IN THERE AND GET AN UPDATE AT ANY TIME, AND YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME EXACTLY WHERE THAT MONEY IS GOING TO EVERY SINGLE TIME AND GIVE ME THE NUMBERS, TELL ME WHAT THE PROGRAM IS. TELL ME WHAT RESOURCES YOU NEEDED, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, UTENSILS, TOOLS TO TO DRAW OR, YOU KNOW, GAMES OR, YOU KNOW, ART BOOK GROUPS. SO SO THAT'S WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING. I WANT TO GO BACK TO TO THAT. THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION, I THINK, FROM A FEW YEARS AGO, AND THAT WAS THAT AT THAT TIME, THE CONVERSATION WAS THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE GIVEN ANNUALLY. AND SO THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU COME TO FIND OUT THAT THAT THAT WASN'T TRUE. SO I THINK AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR OR SOMETIME MID-YEAR, THERE WAS QUESTIONS ABOUT, HEY, CAN WE, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE WITH THAT SUPPORT THEN TO FIND THAT IT WAS A ONE TIME, A ONE TIME DONATION. SO AT LEAST FOR THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, I AM I AM WANTING TO TO COME BACK AND BRING IT AS AN ACTION ITEM TO DONATE THE 25,000 TO THE LIBRARY. AND I WANT TO JUST MAKE IT CLEAR TO EVERYONE ONCE AGAIN THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO ANY STAFF, IT'S NOT GOING TO ANY PERSONNEL. IT'S GOING STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT TO PROGRAMING SPECIFICALLY FOR FAMILIES AND AND KIDDOS TO HAVE A SPACE WHERE WHERE NOT ONLY THEY LEARN, BUT IT HAS A LIFELONG IMPACT. MY MOTHER USED TO TAKE ME TO THE LIBRARY, TO THE LIBRARY. WE USED TO GO EVERY SATURDAY, AND I WOULD JUST READ AND SHE WOULD JUST HANG OUT THERE AND READ A NEWSPAPER AND I WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, SIT DOWN AND ON, ON THE CARPET AND, AND READ. AND THAT'S ALL. THAT'S ALL I DID. 
          BUT IT WAS REALLY REWARDING. IT REALLY DOES. AND IT DID HELP ME WITH MY ENGLISH SKILLS AND READING AND AND EVERYTHING ELSE. IT DOES HAVE A LONG LIFE IMPACT. SO IF YOU KNOW WE NEED SOMEONE ELSE IS DOES IS COUNCIL OKAY WITH WITH BRINGING THAT BACK. YES. SO WE'LL BRING IT BACK. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU BRITTANY. THANK YOU SUE FOR FOR COMING WITH US TODAY. AND DO WE HAVE ANY WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS OR ANYONE ON ZOOM? THERE ARE NO WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. AND THEN DO WE HAVE ANY RANK COMMUNICATION FOR ANY ITEMS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR? THERE ARE NO WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. OKAY. FOR THE CONSENT CALENDAR I DO WANT TO PULL. I'M SORRY. SO 
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THERE ARE NO WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. AND THEN WE'RE MOVING ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE DO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY. SO THE FIRST. THE FIRST ONE THAT I HAVE AND I APOLOGIZE, I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S A Y OR A V. YOU MAY A Y O Y YOU MAY OR YOU MAY OR CHOI. OKAY. YOU'RE WELCOME. IF WE CAN PUT THE TIMER UP FOR THREE MINUTES. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING. I WAS HERE ABOUT A MONTH AGO AND I TRIED TO EXPLAIN WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. IN FACT, IN THE WHOLE COACHELLA AREA. AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF I CAN DO MY POINT IN SPANISH. THANK YOU. BUT ME GUSTARIA EMPEZAR PARA. PEDIRLE A LA CIUDAD TOME MEDIDAS MAS ESTRICTAS PARA REDUCIR EL RIESGO ASOCIADO POR VEHICULOS AUTOMOTORES Y. 
          ALTERADOS AS COMO TAMBIÉN EL EXCESO DE VELOCIDAD. QUÉ HAY EN NUESTRAS RESIDENCIALES? ESTOS PROBLEMAS AFFECTING THE TRANQUILIDAD LA SALUD Y LA SEGURIDAD DE LAS FAMILIAS VIVIMOS EN ESTA COMUNIDAD. POR FAVOR, LE PIDO. SI SE PUEDE AUMENTAR LA VIGILANCIA Y LA 
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APLICACION DE LAS ORDENANZAS CORRESPONDIENTES, ESPECIALMENTE EN LAS HORAS ESTOS INCIDENTS SON MAS FRECUENTES UNA MAYOR SUPERVISION AYUDARA A PREVENIR ACCIDENTS Y TENER UN AMBIENTE MAS SEGURO Y PACIFICO PARA TODOS LOS RESIDENTES LE AGRADEZCO POR EL COMPROMISO TIENEN EN LA CALIDAD DE VIDA DE NUESTRA CIUDAD. NUESTRA CIUDAD MUCHO SENATOR Y LA DISFRUTE, PERO DE UN ANO Y MEDIO PARA QUÉ NO ES TANTO DISFRUTA POR ESA VELOCIDAD EXCESIVA. NO SÉ SI ES MODEST NO. PERO SI NO ES LEGAL ACEPTABLE PARA NINGUN MIEMBRO DE LA COMUNIDAD. NO PUEDE ESTAR EN TU CASA NI ENFRENTE COMODAMENTE. EN LA MEDIANOCHE. CUANDO ESTOS VEHICULOS ESTA PASANDO A LA VELOCIDAD CON UNOS WINDOWS AND DOORS. NO ME PASABA, PERO UN DIA ENCONTRÉ LA RESPUESTA. CUANDO LA CIUDAD DE LA QUINTA. HAY UN CUERPO DE POLICIA. SI POR LA FRED WARING. 
          AHI ESTA UNA MOTO SEGURANDO. ESTAMOS SIGUIENDO LAS REGLAS. NO TENEMOS TENEMOS EL SHERIFF. 
          QUÉ HACER LO MEJOR PUEDEN PERO AUN EXISTE NECESIDAD. GRACIAS POR ESCUCHAR MUCHISIMAS. 
          GRACIAS. THANK YOU. BUENAS NOCHES. THE NEXT SPEAKER IS GABRIELA ARMENTA. HELLO, GABBY. 
          HI. GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS GABRIELA ARMENTA, AND I AM THE CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF AN INDIGENOUS BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION CALLED DANZAS DE CASTRO ALTERNATE. WE ARE, LIKE I SAID, AN INDIGENOUS BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. AND I'M HERE TO EXTEND AN INVITATION TO OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY. THIS YEAR ACTUALLY HOLDS IT'S VERY DEAR FOR US BECAUSE NOT ONLY ARE WE CELEBRATING OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY AS OF ESTABLISHING A PHYSICAL CENTER AND BOOKSTORE HERE ON SIXTH STREET AND CESAR CHAVEZ, BUT IT ALSO HOLDS. THE FACT THAT WE ARE CELEBRATING 16 YEARS OF SHARING OUR RICH CULTURE AND TRADITIONS, THE MEXICA CULTURE, WITH THE COACHELLA VALLEY I. THE. THE CELEBRATION WILL TAKE PLACE THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, 6 P.M. TO 9 P.M. DANZA CULTURAL CENTER. IT'S ON THE 1010 36TH STREET, SUITE TEN, COACHELLA, CALIFORNIA. WE WILL BE CELEBRATING IT IN POSADA STYLE, AND WE WILL BE OFFERING AS WELL A RESOURCE FAIR. AND WE HAVE ABOUT 13 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHO WILL BE JOINING US THAT EVENING, SHARING RESOURCES SUCH AS. 
          IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, LGBTQ RIGHTS. FAMILY PLANNING, YOU NAME IT. AND SO WE ARE I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE TO SHARE THE INVITATION. AND IF IT'S OKAY, I DO HAVE THE INVITATION HERE, ALONG WITH A FLIER, WITH OUR RESOURCES. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO I'M SORRY, SOME OF THE THE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE EVENING WILL BE A TRADITIONAL CEREMONIAL BLESSING OF THE FOUR WINDS AND AZTEC DANCE PRESENTATION. LIKE I SAID, WE'LL BE GIVING AWAY FREE FOOD LIKE TAMALES. CHAMPURRADO. LIKE I SAID, RESOURCE FAIR, GIVEAWAYS AND MUSIC BY A LOCAL DJ, DJ, C4. I WANT TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION VERY BRIEFLY. OUR MISSION IS REALLY TO FOSTER COMMUNITY WELL-BEING AND CULTURAL PRIDE BY PROVIDING SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE SPACE FOR LEARNING AND PRACTICING INDIGENOUS CULTURE, AS WELL AS HIGHLIGHTING OTHER INDIGENOUS CULTURE IN THE VALLEY. OUR SERVICES INCLUDE CEREMONIAL DANCING, INDIGENOUS TALKING, HEALING CIRCLES WHICH PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH AND PEER TO PEER SUPPORT. AND THEN ALSO, LIKE I SAID, A BOOKSTORE. AND WE DO OFFER EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS IN THE INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY AND TRADITIONAL ARTS. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER PEREZ FOR 
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STOPPING BY AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION, AND REALLY, THE CITY OF COACHELLA. 
          ALSO FOR THE SPONSORSHIP THAT WE RECEIVED EARLIER THIS YEAR. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANS TO RECEIVE ANY TYPE OF FUNDING. WE ARE A VERY, VERY SMALL ORGANIZATION, BUT WE ARE HERE, LIKE I SAID, DOWN, DOWN SIXTH STREET. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO COME IN PERSON AND MAKE THAT INVITATION TO ALL OF YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THOSE ARE THE PUBLIC SPEAKER FORMS THAT I HAVE. IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM? NO HANDS RAISED ONLINE? NO, NO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MOVING ON 
          [Consent Calendar]
TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR, I DO WANT TO PULL ITEMS TEN, 12 AND 15. SO I THINK THAT'S ANDREW, SELENA AND THEN YOLANDA. ANDREW. OKAY. I WAS JUST PULLING THE AGENDA TO SEE. SO YOU'RE PULLING ITEM TEN WHICH IS AVENUE 52. NOTICE OF COMPLETION. YEAH I HAVE A QUESTION. SO YES, WHEN WE APPROVE THE THE CONTRACT WITH ROAD ENGINEERING, IT WAS FOR A LITTLE LESS THAN, THAN 2 MILLION WITH THE 10% CONTINGENCY. AND THEN AT THE END FOR THE FISCAL IMPACT. THEN WE ENDED WITH 3,035,000. YES. SO WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE? WERE THAT MILLION? THAT'S BECAUSE WE ADDED THE AVENTINE COMMUNITY INTO THE PROJECT AS WELL. AND THAT WAS BROUGHT TO COUNCIL AS AS A CHANGE ORDER THAT WAS APPROVED THROUGH COUNCIL. SO, SO THAT THAT ISN'T FINISHED YET. NO. AVENTINE IS FINISHED AS WELL. SO BOTH PROJECTS ARE DONE AVENTINE AND AVENUE. SO THE ENTIRE CONTRACT IS COMPLETE. AND SO? SO HERE ARE THEN ARE WE THEN APPROVING THE COMPLETION FOR AVENUE 52 AND THE COMMUNITY. YES. SO WE'RE APPROVING THE ENTIRE CONTRACT FOR ALL THE WORK THEY COMPLETED. SO NOTICE OF COMPLETION INCLUDES BOTH THE AVENTINE PROJECTS AND AVENUE 52 PROJECTS. OKAY. THANK YOU. I DIDN'T SEE THE AVENTINE. OH, THERE WE ARE. AND THE AVENTINE. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANDREW, THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION. GOOD EVENING. VICE MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. YEAH. ITEM NUMBER 12 IS REQUESTING A RESOLUTION THAT WE ADOPT A RESOLUTION. RESOLUTION NUMBER 20 2558, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A TOBACCO GRANT FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. AND BASICALLY, THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT IS TO THE GRANT. AWARD IS IN THE AMOUNT OF 126,000 OVER THE SPAN OF THREE YEARS TO CONDUCT ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS IN THE CITY OF COACHELLA. AND SO THESE THESE OPERATIONS ENTAIL ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, ENFORCEMENT OF STATE TOBACCO LAWS AND LOCAL ORDINANCES, INCLUDING THE STATEWIDE THE STATEWIDE FLAVOR FLAVOR BAN, EDUCATION, ONSITE EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS TO RETAILERS. ALSO IT WILL ALSO INCLUDE EDUCATION FOR POLICE OFFICERS AND ALSO SO THAT WE CAN CONDUCT ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS SUCH AS ANNUAL MINOR DECOY AND ANNUAL SHOULDER TAP OPERATIONS FOR THE DURATION OF THE GRANT. SO ONE OF THESE EACH YEAR AND THEN RETAIL ENFORCEMENT ANNUAL REPORT SHALL BE PRESENT. OH SORRY. I'M SORRY. THIS IS I DIDN'T UPDATE THAT PART, BUT THE RETAIL ENFORCEMENT IS BASICALLY WHERE OUR SHERIFFS WILL CONDUCT RETAIL ENFORCEMENT SO THAT NO ONE IS SELLING TO MINORS. AND, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE THE STATEWIDE FLAVOR BAN. AND SO THEY'LL BE CONDUCTING THOSE RETAIL ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS. AND SO HERE'S A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET. SO IN YEAR ONE WE'LL HAVE $35,000. AND SO WE'RE JUST THE STATE ACTUALLY REQUESTED TO PUT THIS IN THIS MANNER WHERE WE ARE GOING TO ALLOCATE 35,000 TOWARDS OUR CONTRACT WITH THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. AND THEN IN YEAR TWO IT'LL BE 40,000 AND THEN 45,000, AND THEN THE CITY WILL HAVE SOME ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS THAT JUST TO HELP COVER, YOU KNOW, OUR REPORTING AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF AND SOME TRAINING THAT THAT WILL ALSO OCCUR OVER THE SPAN OF TIME. AND SO STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT RESOLUTION NUMBER 20 2558, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A PROPOSITION 56 TOBACCO GRANT AWARD FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN THE AMOUNT OF 
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126,000, TO CONDUCT ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS IN THE CITY OF COACHELLA. AND ALSO, HE WILL EXECUTE, YOU KNOW, LIKE OUR MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE STATE AND OTHER IF THERE'S ANY, ANY AMENDMENTS OR ANYTHING THAT MAY COME UP DURING THE GRANT PERIOD. THANK YOU, SELENA. AND SO IS THIS IS THIS THEN GOING TO COVER THE THE CSO THAT WE HAD FROM THE PREVIOUS GRANT THAT RECEIVED TOBACCO? YES, WE HOPE SO. THE ONLY THING THAT THIS GRANT DOESN'T PAY FOR THIS TIME AROUND IS ANYTHING AT SCHOOLS. SO THIS IS MOSTLY GOING TO FOCUS ON RETAIL ENFORCEMENT AND THEN EDUCATION AND EVEN EDUCATION FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS. SO WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO WORK WITH OUR SHERIFFS SO THAT THEY CAN DO THAT, YOU KNOW, SO ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. AND SO THIS IS IT'S STILL GEARED TOWARDS KEEPING PEOPLE SAFE. AND, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE SHOULDER TAP OPERATIONS AND MINOR DECOY OPERATIONS TO KEEP OUR YOUTH SAFE. BUT AND DISCOURAGE ILLEGAL SELLING OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO TO YOUNG PEOPLE. AND SO SO IN A WAY EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT LIKE SCHOOL BASED, IT'S STILL THE EMPHASIS IS ON THE STATEWIDE BAN ON FLAVORED PRODUCTS. AND THEN PEOPLE THAT ARE UNDERAGE. WHAT'S SHOULDER TAP. THAT'S WHERE THEY LIKE LIKE THAT. LIKE LITERALLY LIKE THEY'RE LIKE LIKE SOMEONE IS, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE IS AROUND AND THEY, YOU KNOW, AND THEY SEE THIS MINOR BEING SOLD LIKE A PRODUCT OR WHATEVER. SO THERE'S SOMEONE INCOGNITO, YOU KNOW, AND THEN I THINK THEY GO LIKE, HEY. AND SO AND THEN THE MINOR DECOYS WHERE THEY SEND A MINOR LIKE SOMEONE THAT LOOKS LIKE A MINOR AND THEY HAVE CASH, AND THEN THEY'LL GO BUY A PRODUCT AND THEN THEY GET CAUGHT. AND SO THESE OPERATIONS, ACCORDING TO OUR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN YEARS PAST, THEY TAKE A LOT OF COORDINATION. AND THAT'S WHY WE CAN ONLY DO LIKE ONE A YEAR, BECAUSE IT TAKES LIKE SEVEN DIFFERENT OFFICERS TO BE PRESENT AND A LOT OF COORDINATION. SO THEY'RE THEY'RE INTENSE. AND THIS IS ALL WITH OVERTIME. YES. SO I KNOW I KNOW THAT I THINK A YEAR AGO THEY WOULD GO ALSO GO OUT TO THE PARKS AND EDUCATE THE PEOPLE AND LET THEM KNOW YOU CAN'T BE SMOKING IN THE PARKS BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD SMOKE. ARE THEY STILL GOING TO BE DOING THAT OR IS THAT ALSO, YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS TIME IT LOOKS LIKE THEY REALLY WANT PEOPLE FOCUSING ON RETAILER, RETAILER EDUCATION, RETAILER ENFORCEMENT SO THAT IT'LL BE LIKE GOING TO LIKE THE SMALL PLACES THAT SELL CIGARETTES OR NICOTINE PRODUCTS AND LIKE TEACHING THEM LIKE, THESE ARE THINGS TO LOOK FOR AND NOT MAKING SURE IT'S TEACHING THEIR STAFF, RIGHT? YES. THE BUSINESS OWNER TO MAKE SURE. YES. IS IT MORE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE BUSINESS OWNER TEACHING THE STAFF? NO. IT'S SO OUR SHERIFFS WILL PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL AND THEN EVEN EDUCATION ONE ON ONES ON SITE. AND THEN THE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT FOR THE SHERIFF'S STAFF THAT'S GOING TO BE LIKE OKAY, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, 15 OFFICERS AND THEY ALL KIND OF GO OVER SOME OF THESE ORDINANCES OR CHANGES IN THE LAW. AND SO IT'S SO THERE'S GOING TO BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR TAILORED TOWARDS THE RETAIL TO ENSURE RETAIL DOESN'T SELL TO UNDERAGE. YES. SELENA REALLY QUICKLY. SO THE THE 126,000 BASICALLY IT'LL GO FOR THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SO THEY CAN ASSIST WITH THAT. AND THEN THERE'S SOME ADMIN COSTS. AND THEN WE'LL BE GETTING ANNUAL UPDATES ON THIS. YES WE CAN PROVIDE FROM YOU ON LIKE HOW IT'S GOING OR ALL OF THAT. YEAH. YEAH. WE WE HAVE TO PROVIDE LIKE MONTHLY UPDATES TO THE DOJ. 
          AND SO YOU KNOW. YEAH. AND SO WE IT'S A VERY INTENSE GRANT PROGRAM ACTUALLY. IT'S VERY LABOR INTENSIVE BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SUBMIT A MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORTS AND THEN LIKE THE BACKUP AND THEN LIKE A LOT OF DATA ACTUALLY. SO OUR SHERIFFS HAVE TO COLLECT A LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, OKAY. SO HOW MANY RETAILERS DID THEY REACH OUT TO, YOU KNOW, IN A GIVEN MONTH. RIGHT. YOU KNOW YEAH. SO A LOT OF DETAIL THERE'S AND WILL WE BE GETTING THAT INFORMATION LIKE AS AN UPDATE LIKE AS A COUNCIL WILL BE GETTING THAT I CAN EITHER DO IT THROUGH THE BIWEEKLY REPORT OR I CAN, YOU KNOW, COME BACK AND GIVE LIKE QUARTERLY PRESENTATIONS OR SOMETHING. WE CAN DO EITHER ONE, WHICHEVER YOU GUYS PREFER, MAYBE THIS FORUM, I GUESS, BECAUSE THEN THE PUBLIC CAN SEE IT TOO. I MEAN, UP TO YOU GUYS. YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. I THINK QUARTERLY UPDATES WOULD BE QUARTERLY UPDATES. OKAY. YEAH. I DO WANT TO STRESS IS THAT WHEN WHEN THE LAST GRANT WAS COMING UP, THERE WAS A CONCERN BECAUSE THERE WAS A GAP OF OF IF THIS GRANT WAS STILL GOING TO BE AVAILABLE AND, YOU KNOW, THEY CHANGED IT UP A BIT. BUT BUT WE REALLY BENEFIT BENEFITED FROM THE PREVIOUS TOBACCO GRANT BECAUSE IT PROVIDED THE, THE CSO THE OPPORTUNITY THEN TO DO THE SCHOOL VISITS AND, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PARK VISITS THAT THEY WERE DOING. AND SO I'M I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THAT WE WENT AFTER 
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THE GRANT BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING WHEN IT WHEN IT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE TIME IS UP AND IT'S ANOTHER THING GOING AFTER THE GRANT AGAIN AGGRESSIVELY. AND SO I'M GLAD THAT THAT YOU MOVED FORWARD WITH IT. IT'S A VERY COMPETITIVE GRANT. IT'S ACTUALLY A MIRACLE THAT WE EVEN GOT IT BECAUSE IT'S SUPER COMPETITIVE. IN THE PREVIOUS GRANT CYCLE. IT WAS A VERY GENEROUS GRANT. I THINK WE GOT LIKE 600 AND SOMETHING THOUSAND AT THAT TIME. AND BELIEVE ME, THAT WENT A LONG, LONG WAY. AND AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS IT WAS GREAT. AND SO BUT THEY HAVE LESS FUNDING THIS TIME AROUND. BUT ALSO JUST IT'S A VERY COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM. YEAH. 
          AND WE DID WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN DEVELOPING THE NARRATIVE AND ALL THE WORK THAT IS GOING TO BE DONE. AND, YOU KNOW, SO WE HAD TO BE REALLY MINDFUL ABOUT THAT AS WELL, BECAUSE WE COULD HAVE REQUESTED A LITTLE BIT MORE MONEY. BUT WE HAVE TO GO WITH WHAT'S REALISTIC AND REALLY ACHIEVABLE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. AND THEN ALSO I SEE OUR LIEUTENANT IN THE BACK IS IS A BIG THANK YOU ALSO FOR, FOR OUR SO FOR PROVIDING ALL THE DETAILS AND INFORMATION AS THE OPERATIONS THAT YOU KNOW, GOES WITHIN THE APPLICATION AS WELL. 
          SO I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE PARTNERSHIP. THANK YOU. YEAH, I THINK WE LITERALLY HAD LIKE A MONTH TO APPLY AND THAT WAS IT. SO THANK YOU SELENA OKAY. THANK YOU. AND I THINK IT'S YOLANDA ACTUALLY I'LL TAKE IT. OKAY. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUSINESS LICENSE TECHNICIAN. YEAH, YEAH. 
          SO JUST QUICKLY BILL. SO THEN THE THE BUSINESS PERMIT THEN POSITION IS GOING TO GET FROZEN UNDER THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. AND THEN NOW OPENED UP IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT IT'S FROZEN BECAUSE THE TITLE WAS CHANGED IN IN THE PAST IT HAD ALWAYS BEEN UNDER FINANCE AND FOR SOME REASON IT WAS MOVED. SO WE'RE JUST RESTORING IT BACK TO FINANCE FOR INTERNAL CONTROL PURPOSES AND MONITORING. AND WE ALSO REDUCED THE SALARY BACK TO WHAT IT WAS WHEN IT WAS BACK IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AS WELL. 
          THAT'S WHY THERE'S A SLIGHT SAVINGS THERE, BUT IT'S JUST RECLASSIFYING IT OVER TO THEM. 
          YES, YES. AND THEN ALSO THEN THIS IS OUTSIDE THE DUTIES OF THE COMPTROLLER, WHICH ABSOLUTELY. YES. NO, THIS STANDS ON ITS OWN. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO INCORPORATE OVER TIME SHORT TERM RENTALS. AND THE PERMITTING WILL ALSO BE MOVING OVER TO FINANCE AS WELL. 
          WE'RE DOING A LITTLE REARRANGING THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT. SO THAT'S JUST MORE OF THIS. PERFECT. THANK YOU BILL. THANK YOU LINCOLN FOR TAKING TAKING IT ON I KNOW THAT'S JUST MORE MORE ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. WE DO APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU. SO IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT CALENDAR MOTION. I'LL SECOND AND THEN CAN WE GET A COUNCIL MEMBER? PEREZ. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. FIGUEROA. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER. AYE. MAYOR. PRO 
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TEM DELGADO. YES. AND THEN NOW WE'RE MOVING ON TO ITEM. I THINK. IS IT 18? YEAH, 18. OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL. I PUT A PRESENTATION TOGETHER JUST TO TRY TO GO OVER THE APPLICATION PROCESS. I THOUGHT THAT IT MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL FOR YOU TO GET A SENSE OF HOW LENGTHY IT IS, BUT THE ITEM BEFORE YOU SPECIFICALLY IS THE AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. THERE'S TWO OF THEM. ONE OF THEM IS JUST DESIGNATING WHO IS AUTHORIZED TO SUBMIT THE APPLICATION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY. AND THIS IS, OF COURSE, RELATED TO THE CHROMIUM SIX PROJECT THAT WE'RE HOPING TO GET FUNDING FROM THE DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND PROGRAM. AND SO, AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S ONE RESOLUTION THAT DESIGNATES THE PERSON THAT'S AUTHORIZED TO SUBMIT THE APPLICATION. THE SECOND RESOLUTION IS BASICALLY COMMITTING TO REPAYING BACK A LOAN. WE EXPECT THAT WE MIGHT HAVE TO GET A THIS PROJECT FUNDED THROUGH BOTH A GRANT COMPONENT AND A LOAN COMPONENT. AND SO ONE OF THE RESOLUTIONS IS JUST TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT LOAN COMPORTMENT. AND THAT LOAN COMPONENT, THE APPLICATION IS PRETTY LENGTHY. AND IT'S IT'S MADE UP OF FOUR PACKAGES. AND THOSE ARE THE FOUR PACKAGES THERE. AND THE GENERAL PACKAGE WE ACTUALLY SUBMITTED BACK IN JULY. IT'S A VERY HIGH LEVEL PROJECT INFORMATION. WE PUT IN THERE AN INITIAL ASK, AND OUR INITIAL ASK WAS FOR 84 MILLION. AND WHAT IT DOES, IT ACTUALLY SETS OUR PROJECT. IT PUTS IT IN THE INTENDED USE PLAN AT THE STATE, AND IT ALLOWS IT TO BE IN THE PROJECT LIST THAT THE 
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STATE THEN STARTS TO CONSIDER FOR FUNDING. AND THAT'S WHAT THEY USE TO KIND OF COME UP WITH THEIR FUNDING PROJECTIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN ASSIGNED A PROJECT MANAGER, AND WE'VE BEEN HAVING A MONTHLY MEETINGS SINCE ABOUT SINCE ABOUT AUGUST. AND THEN THERE'S A BUNCH OF OTHER PACKAGES, TECHNICAL PACKAGE, FINANCIAL PACKAGE, ENVIRONMENTAL PACKAGE, AND THOSE PACKAGES, THAT'S WHAT THEY TRY TO GATHER INFORMATION ON DESIGN PARAMETERS, WHETHER WE HAVE THE FINANCIAL CAPABILITY TO REPAY BACK A LOAND ENVIRONMENTAL PACKAGES, AND ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW. THE PROJECT ITSELF, AS I MENTIONED, THE GENERAL PACKAGE THAT WAS SUBMITTED BACK IN JULY. SO THIS HAS BEEN COMPLETE. AND EACH PACKAGE IS MADE UP OF A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT ATTACHMENTS. AND SO THESE ARE THE ATTACHMENTS THAT THAT WE SUBMITTED. THERE'S THERE'S A PORTAL AT THE STATE. IT'S CALLED FAST. AND YOU CAN WORK ON ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT ATTACHMENTS. YOU CAN PIECEMEAL IT AS YOU AS YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION FOR ONE PACKAGE, ONE OF THE ATTACHMENTS, YOU CAN SUBMIT IT. IT DOESN'T NEED TO ALL GO IN AT ONCE. SO YOU'LL SEE RIGHT NOW THAT AS WE GO, THIS PACKAGE HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN ITS ENTIRETY. BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE NEXT PACKAGES. SOME OF THEM ARE 90% COMPLETE, SOME OF THEM ARE 50% COMPLETE. BUT IT'S NOT UNTIL YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE BOXES CHECKED OFF THAT YOU HAVE A FULL PACKAGE, A FULL APPLICATION SUBMITTED THAT THEN ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE A FINANCIAL AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE. ON THE TECHNICAL PACKAGE SIDE, THESE ARE THE ATTACHMENTS THAT THAT MAKE UP THE THE TECHNICAL PACKAGE. AND SO WE HAVE THESE TWO COMPLETE AND THEN THE REST ARE BEING WORKED ON. SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A DRAFT OF THE TMF THAT STANDS FOR TECHNICAL MANAGERIAL FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT FORM. AND WE OBVIOUSLY CAN'T FINISH THIS PACKAGE UNTIL WE WE REALLY GET MORE DOWN THE ROAD WITH THE COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT. RIGHT NOW, THE PROJECT WE'RE ABOUT WE HAVE THE DRAFT ENGINEERING REPORT, WHICH GETS US TO ABOUT 30% DESIGN, AND WE'RE GOING TO PROBABLY FINALIZE THAT ENGINEERING REPORT IN JANUARY, AND THAT WILL ALLOW US TO FURTHER COMPLETE SOME OF THESE BOXES HERE. BUT WE REALLY CAN'T COMPLETE THIS PACKAGE UNTIL WE HAVE 100% PLANS AND SPECS, WHICH WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE IN A POSITION TO FULLY COMPLETE THIS PACKAGE, MAYBE AT THE END OF 2026. WE PLAN TO INITIATE THE FULL DESIGN. SO AS I MENTIONED RIGHT NOW, THE FUNDING THAT WE'VE APPROVED THE THE THE TASK THAT WE'VE HAVE APPROVED, THAT THAT YOU'VE APPROVED WAS ONLY MEANT TO GET US TO 30% DESIGN, GET US TO THE ENGINEERING REPORT, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO USE THAT INFORMATION TO THEN GO OUT AND GET A FULL, A FULL PROPOSAL FOR 100% PLAN DESIGNS AND SPECS, WHICH WILL THEN ALLOW US TO FILL OUT THESE. THE REMAINDER OF THIS PACKAGE. THERE'S A FINANCIAL PACKAGE. THIS IS A LOT OF GATHERING OF A LOT OF INFORMATION, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, TAX RETURNS, BUDGET PROJECTIONS, REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTIONS AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. THOSE ARE THOSE THAT'S YOU KNOW, WE'RE CHECKING THOSE OFF TODAY. AND WE EXPECT THAT THIS PACKAGE IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE ABOUT 90% COMPLETE BY THE END OF THE YEAR. BY BY THE END OF DECEMBER, THE THING THAT'S GOING TO HOLD UP THIS, THE COMPLETION OF THIS PACKAGE IS THE ADOPTION OF NEW RATES. SO AS YOU'RE AWARE, WE'VE STARTED A RATE STUDY. AND AND I THINK WE PLAN TO COME BACK TO COUNCIL SOMETIME IN MARCH TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON SOME OPTIONS ON WHAT RATES TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT RATES ARE WE GOING TO GO OUT. BUT THOSE UNTIL THE FINANCIAL PACKAGE CANNOT BE COMPLETE. AND ACTUALLY THE THE ENTIRE APPLICATION CANNOT BE COMPLETE UNTIL THERE ARE NEW RATES THAT ARE ADOPTED. THAT SHOWS THAT THE CITY HAS THE ABILITY, THROUGH THE RATES TO PAY BACK ALONE. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. I THINK THAT WE'RE HOPING THAT WE WILL HAVE APPROVED RATES SOMETIME IN THE SPRING OF 2027. SO THAT THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF AN IDEA OF WHEN THIS APPLICATION IS GOING TO BE FINALIZED. AND THEN THERE'S A TIMELINE I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU AT THE END. THE ENVIRONMENTAL PACKAGE. WE THINK THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION. WE KIND OF DID THAT LAST TIME THAT WE WERE DOWN THIS DOWN THIS PATH. WE AT ONE POINT STARTED A PROJECT FOR THIS BACK IN 2015, AND WE ACTUALLY COMPLETED A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION. 
          WE HAVE THAT ON FILE. WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO REUSE AS MUCH OF THAT INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE, BUT WE ESSENTIALLY HAVE TO REDO THIS ENVIRONMENTAL PACKAGE. AND THEN THAT COMES WITH A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT CROSSCUTTERS FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS THAT WE ALSO HAVE TO COMPLETE. WE HAVEN'T AWARDED 
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THE START OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION. SO WE WE PLAN TO INITIATE THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR IN JANUARY. AND AS AND AS WE COMPLETE ALL OF THOSE FORMS AND REPORTS, THEN THAT WILL ALLOW US TO TO MAKE PROGRESS ON THIS ENVIRONMENTAL PACKAGE. THIS IS KIND OF A OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THE APPLICATION PROCESS. AS I MENTIONED BACK IN JULY, WE SUBMITTED THE THE GENERAL PACKAGE. IT GOT OUR PROJECT IN THE QUEUE WITH THE $84 MILLION REQUEST. WE ARE PROBABLY GOING TO SUBMIT ABOUT 90% OF THE PACKAGE FOR THE FINANCIAL PACKAGE BY THE END OF THE YEAR, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE HAVING NEW RATES, WHICH ARE GOING TO COME IN SOMETIME IN THE SPRING OF 2027, THE TECHNICAL PACKAGE AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PACKAGE, WE PLAN TO HAVE THOSE COMPLETE BY THE END OF 2026. SO YOU HEARD ME SAY WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO START THE YEAR BY MOVING, MOVING ON. THE FINAL, FINAL, FINAL PLANS AND SPECS FOR THE PROJECT. AND WE HOPE TO HAVE THOSE COMPLETE SOMETIME AT THE END OF THE YEAR, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO COMPLETE THE TECHNICAL PACKAGE. AND THEN WE'RE ALSO GOING TO WORK ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO COMPLETE THE ENVIRONMENTAL PACKAGE AT THE END OF 2026. WE'LL DO THE RATES SPRING OF 2027. I THINK THAT'LL BE ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THAT ARE THAT'S PROBABLY LINGERING. AND THEN ONCE WE HAVE THOSE ADOPTED, WE SHOULD PROBABLY BE IN A POSITION TO HAVE A FINANCIAL PACKAGE FULLY SUBMITTED JULY 2027 AND THEN HAVE THE HOPING TO HAVE THE FINANCIAL AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE WATER BOARD SOMETIME IN SEPTEMBER OF 2027, WE SUBMITTED A COMPLIANCE PLAN TO THE STATE, TO THE DIVISION OF DRINKING WATER THAT'S BEEN APPROVED THAT SHOWS THE CONSTRUCTION START DATE OF JANUARY OF 2028. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SHOWING HERE. LOTS OF INFO, A LOT OF INFO, MANY PACKETS. YES. WOW. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL JUST REALLY QUICKLY. SO ON HERE THE TIMELINE WHERE IT SAYS LIKE ADOPT RATES, WE ARE EXPECTING FOR RATES TO INCREASE. IS THAT ACCURATE. YEAH. CORRECT. 
          AND SUBSTANTIAL RATE INCREASES. SUBSTANTIAL I MEAN WE AS I SAID WE WE PUT IN WE PUT IN AN APPLICATION FOR $84 MILLION, 84 MILLION. AND WE WOULD HAVE TO RIGHT GENERATE THAT REVENUE FOR PAYMENT OF THAT LOAN. AND WE'RE HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THE STATE IT'S A MOVING TARGET. BUT NEWS FROM YOU KNOW THE STATE AS FAR AS OUR BUDGET GOES IS NOT GOOD AT THIS POINT EITHER. SO WE'RE HOPING TO GET GRANTS. BUT WHAT WE CAN'T GET IN GRANTS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BORROW. 
          AND SO WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE RIGHT NOW WORKING WITH THE RATE CONSULTANT. WE'RE WORKING ON SCENARIOS WHERE WE HAVE A WORST CASE SCENARIO WHERE WE HAVE TO BORROW ALL OF IT, OR BEST CASE SCENARIO, AND BASED UPON THE TIMING OF WHEN WE NEED TO GET PACKAGES OUT, WE WOULD RECOMMEND. WELL, I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE'RE GOING TO RECOMMEND THAT WE LOOK AT THE WORST CASE AND GO WITH THAT, KNOWING THAT THAT IS AS BAD AS IT'S GOING TO GET, AND THEN COME BACK WITH AN ACTUAL SO THAT THERE WILL BE A RANGE WHERE COUNCIL CAN, YOU KNOW, SET A RATE, CAN WE WE CAN WORK WITH. THE ONLY THING I WOULD RECOMMEND BEFORE I FORGET IS THAT WE HAVE SOME TIME. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO SOME KIND OF OUTREACH RIGHT WITH THE COMMUNITY. AND I KNOW I THINK YOU GUYS SENT OUT STUFF WITH LIKE, THE WATER BILL AND OTHER THINGS OR, YOU KNOW, THAT GO TO TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BUT THERE HAS TO BE SOME OUTREACH TO LET PEOPLE KNOW OF WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY HAPPEN AND FOR THEM TO EXPECT IT JUST SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE OR THE COMMUNITY BEING CAUGHT OFF GUARD JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE GETTING THIS INFORMATION. YEAH, WE WE'VE WE'VE ACCOUNTED FOR THAT IN THE, IN THE PROCESS. SO OUR HOPE IS THAT SOMETIME IN MARCH WE'RE GOING TO BRING YOU A HOST OF OPTIONS OKAY. WORST CASE YOU KNOW WHAT. WHAT IS THE RANGE OF THE OF THE RATE INCREASE THAT, THAT WE NEED AND THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE. AND THEN ONCE WE START LOCKING THAT IN, THEN THAT'S WHAT I THINK WILL START TO HAVE TO BE PROVIDING THAT THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO COME. 
          RIGHT. AND THEN AT THAT POINT WE'LL PROVIDE THAT TO THE PUBLIC, WHICH IS ALSO A REQUIREMENT OF PROP 218. RIGHT. PROP 218 PROCESS IN ITSELF. GOT IT REQUIRES US TO SEND OUT THESE NOTICES TO EVERY RATEPAYER. BUT ASIDE FROM JUST THAT, WHICH IS THE BARE MINIMUM 
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REQUIREMENT OF SENDING A POSTCARD THAT SHOWS, YOU KNOW, LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A PUBLIC HEARING THAT'S GOING TO CONSIDER RATE INCREASES AND ALL THAT. I THINK I THINK WE PLAN ON HAVING SOME WORKSHOPS WHERE THE PUBLIC CAN COME AND, AND, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHY WE'RE DOING THIS. THIS IS A STATE MANDATE. WE'RE OBLIGATED UNDER THE LAW TO TO ABIDE BY THESE NEW REGULATIONS. AND SO THAT'S WHAT'S DRIVING THIS RATE INCREASE. BUT AS YOU YOU SEE, I MEAN, WE HAVE WE PROBABLY WILL START DOING SOME OF THAT PROBABLY AT THE BEGINNING OF 2027 BASED ON THIS, BASED ON THIS SCHEDULE. YEAH. I MEAN, WE WANT TO KIND OF WANTED TO START DOING THAT BEFORE, BECAUSE THEN IF YOU WAIT TOO LONG AND YOU HAVE THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FULL OF PEOPLE AGAIN AND EVERYONE ANGRY, AND YOU'RE GOING TO RAISE THE WATER RATES AND YEAH, WE'RE OPEN TO DOING IT AS SOON AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO IT. I THINK IT'S JUST LIKE LIKE THE, THE WHY. RIGHT. I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LIKE THE CHROMIUM SIX AND THE, YOU KNOW, YOU SENT OUT THE LIKE WE SENT IT OUT BEFORE CCB DID, AND THEN CCB SENT OUT THAT WATER NOTICE, AND THEN THE WHOLE WORLD FLIPPED OUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF CUSTOMERS, RIGHT? AND IT'S LIKE I SAW SOMEWHERE ON THE INTERNET, THEY'RE LIKE, NOW I'M ONLY GONNA DRINK BOTTLED WATER. AND I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT HAS PFAS AND BOTTLED WATER IS WORSE THAN THE TAP WATER YOU'RE DRINKING. AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK GETTING AHEAD OF THAT AND TALKING TO PEOPLE, LETTING THEM KNOW THE WHY POTENTIALLY RATES. AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE BILL SAID, THIS IS THE WORST CASE SCENARIO AS FAR AS IT CAN GET. AND, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU'LL GET THE RATES PROBABLY BY LIKE, YOU KNOW, MIDDLE OF THIS SUMMER, YOU CAN START, YOU KNOW, BUILDING THAT PLAN, RIGHT. LIKE WHAT IS THAT OUTREACH GOING TO LOOK LIKE. SO IT'S JUST BECAUSE I THINK THE EDUCATION PIECE OF THE WHY. RIGHT? I THINK THE HARDEST PART IS TEACHING PEOPLE WHY WE NEED TO DO THIS. RIGHT. AND IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE, IT'S NOT A PRETTY STORY EITHER WAY YOU LOOK AT IT. SO YEAH, AND I, I, I THINK WE CAN TAKE MORE OF THAT DIRECTION. WHEN WE GIVE YOU THE OPTIONS, YOU LET US KNOW. THERE'S ONE THING VERY DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE'VE LIVED THROUGH THAT, THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB. AND YOU'RE RIGHT, WE DON'T WANT TO DO IT AGAIN. BUT THAT WAS JUST US. THIS IS AFFECTING ALL OF THE AGENCIES IN THE VALLEY. SO IT'S NOT JUST COACHELLA THAT'S GOING TO BE AFFECTED, IT'S GOING TO BE THE ENTIRE VALLEY. YEAH. AND I THINK THAT'S THE THE BIG PIECE IS THAT. YEAH, THAT'LL BE HELPFUL BECAUSE INDIA'S GOING TO DO THE SAME THING ALL THE, YOU KNOW ALL OF KB. SO LA QUINTA, INDIAN WELLS, PALM DESERT, RANCHO MIRAGE, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE FOLKS ARE ALL GOING TO BE THEY'RE ALL GOING TO HEAR THE SAME STORY. RIGHT. WE HAVE TO THEY'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE THESE RATE INCREASES. SO I THINK THAT THAT'LL BE HELPFUL FOR US TOO. 
          RIGHT. WE'RE NOT ALONE. AND SO SO YEAH. SO WE PLAN ON COMING BACK TO YOU ON MAYBE AROUND MARCH TO START GIVING, GIVING YOU SOME OPTIONS ON WHAT THAT RATE INCREASE IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT OUTREACH AND HOW TO ROLL THAT OUT. I, I THINK I'D ALSO LIKE TO COME BACK MAYBE SOMETIME IN FEBRUARY OR THE END OF JANUARY, TO GIVE YOU A SUMMARY OF THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN REPORT, WHICH, WHICH WE'RE GOING TO FINALIZE PROBABLY IN JANUARY. SO PROBABLY BRING IT IN FEBRUARY. AND WHY DON'T WHY DON'T YOU PULL UP I DROPPED THE THE DRAFT OF IT. I JUST WANT TO SHOW THEM SOME OF THE EXHIBITS. SO IT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF THE LAYOUTS. BUT I DROPPED THE REPORT THAT THE PDF FILE GO TO GO TO SECTION 5.4. AND THEN THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE HEARING OUT OF THIS REPORT IS, IS THAT THE PROJECTIONS FOR THE AND THESE ARE BIG PROJECTIONS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF HIGH LEVEL PROJECTIONS AND COST, WHICH THIS REPORT ALREADY STARTS TO SCRATCH AT, IS THAT IT'S LOOKING LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE AROUND 50 MILLION. SO WHICH IS POSITIVE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE COMPARE TO THE 84 THAT WE SUBMITTED IN THE APPLICATION. RIGHT. WE PUT THAT ON THERE WITHOUT WITHOUT ANY ENGINEERING BEING PERFORMED YET. SO THIS IS GOING TO START TO REALLY HONE IN ON THE NUMBERS. SO IF YOU COULD GO TO 55.5. YEAH. GO DOWN. JUST KEEP GOING DOWN. I JUST WANT TO SHOW THEM REAL QUICK. WE START SEEING SOME LAYOUTS. SO RIGHT THERE SO YOU HAVE THIS IS WELL SITE 11. THIS IS GOING TO REQUIRE US TO OPEN UP THE FOOTPRINT THERE. SOME OF THAT IS THE CHAIN LINK FENCE. THESE ARE SMALL SITES BECAUSE THERE'S NO YOU KNOW WE'RE GOING TO ADD THESE VESSELS THE THE SERIES OF VESSELS THAT YOU SEE THERE. THOSE ARE VERTICAL VESSELS THAT ARE GOING TO THAT ARE GOING TO FILTER OUT THE CHROMIUM AND THEN THE BEFORE IT ENTERS THE 
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DISTRIBUTION. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, LOWER THE AMOUNT OF CHROMIUM SIX IN THE WATER BEFORE IT ENTERS THE DISTRIBUTION. BUT IT REQUIRES THE FOOTPRINT TO TO BE LARGER. AND SO THE POSITIVE THING ABOUT THIS AREA HERE IS THAT ALL OF THAT LAND BELONGS TO THE CITY. SO SO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO, TO EXPAND THERE AND, AND ADD THESE ADDITIONAL FACILITIES. SO GO TO THE NEXT ONE. AND WE'LL GET MORE. I JUST WANT TO BRIEFLY SHOW YOU THIS. AND THEN SO SO THIS IS WELL 12. THIS IS NEXT TO BAG DUMA. AND YOU SEE AGAIN THE SAME SERIES OF OF FILTRATION VESSELS THERE. AND THEN THERE'S A IN SOME OF THESE SITES WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO PUT A HOLDING TANK BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO DO BACKWASH EVENTUALLY AS YOU, AS YOU FILTER OUT THE CHROMIUM, THOSE, THOSE FILTERS GET GET CLOGGED UP. AND THEN YOU HAVE TO YOU HAVE TO WASH THEM. AND WHEN YOU WASH THEM, WE REALLY CAN'T SEND ALL OF THAT FLOW INSTANTANEOUSLY TO THE SEWER BECAUSE IT'LL, IT'LL. IT THERE'S NOT ENOUGH CAPACITY IN THE PIPE. SO, SO WE HAVE TO PUT THE BACKWASH IN A HOLDING TANK TO THEN LET IT OUT OVER SOME TIME SO THAT IT DOESN'T IMPACT THE SEWER. AND THEN GO TO THE NEXT ONE. THESE THESE ARE PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD, BUT THERE'S SOME THAT ARE GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF AN ISSUE. 
          THIS IS WELL 16. IT'S A VERY VERY SMALL SITE WHICH IS GOING TO REQUIRE US TO TAKE TO TRY TO ACQUIRE MORE LAND. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REACH OUT TO THIS PROPERTY OWNER TO TRY TO ACQUIRE SOME LAND, BECAUSE THERE'S NO ROOM TO ADD THESE VESSELS. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK ON. GO TO THE NEXT ONE. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT'S GOING TO BE IT COULD BE A CHALLENGE, BUT THIS IS WELL, 17. IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO RANCHO LAS FLORES PARK. AND WE ALSO DON'T HAVE A LOT OF ROOM. AND THERE'S TWO OPTIONS. ONE OPTION IS TO ADD MORE SPACE TO THE SOUTH. YOU CAN SEE THAT RIGHT NOW ON THE ON THE NORTH SIDE WHERE WE HAVE THE VESSELS AND THE HOLDING TANK THAT'S ACTUALLY NORTH OF THE WALL FOR THE WELL SITE RIGHT NOW THAT ENCROACHES INTO THE PARK AREA. THE GOOD THING THERE IS THAT THERE'S NO FACILITIES THERE. IT'S OPEN SPACE. YOU'RE NOT YOU'RE NOT GOING INTO A BASKETBALL COURT. 
          YOU'RE NOT GOING INTO ANY REAL USEFUL SPACE. IT'S JUST OPEN SPACE. BUT WE NEED THAT SPACE TO BE ABLE TO FIT THE FACILITIES. SO WE EITHER WE EITHER WORK WITH OUR OWN PROPERTY TO FIT THESE FACILITIES. THE OTHER OPTION IS THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO GO TO THE SOUTH AND ACQUIRE THAT LAND, THAT EVERYTHING TO THE SOUTH IS PRIVATE PROPERTY, RIGHT? SO SO WE EITHER GO TO THE SOUTH OR WE TRY TO USE SOME OF THE SPACE TO THE NORTH, WHICH WHICH BELONGS TO THE CITY. AND WE WOULD HAVE TO MODIFY A LITTLE BIT OF THAT PARK SPACE. BUT AGAIN IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT A FIELD. IT'S, IT'S JUST FOR THE MOST PART LANDSCAPE. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT, THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ADDRESS. AND THEY ALL KIND OF LOOK LIKE THAT. BUT THOSE ARE THE THOSE ARE THE BIGGER BIGGER. YOU KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF SPACE RIGHT HERE. SO THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE AN ISSUE. BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ADDRESS RANCHO LAS FLORES. AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT SMALL WELL SITE 16. QUICK OVERVIEW. BUT WE'RE HERE FOR THE AUTHORIZING RESOLUTIONS. YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THE RATE STUDY IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO BE MINDFUL THAT IT'S NOT JUST THE CHROMIUM SIX. WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE RATE INCREASES FOR MULTIPLE ISSUES THAT THE CITY IS FACING. SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOTIFICATIONS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MINDFUL, YOU KNOW, OF ALL THE NOTICES THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO START PROVIDING AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, THREE YEARS OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO ADDRESS THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OUR RESIDENTS ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED A GREAT DEAL. 
          AND SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT RATE STUDY, IT'S NOT JUST CHROMIUM SIX. YOU KNOW, IT'S ALSO MANY THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF NEED TO UPDATE AND, AND REALLY LOOK INTO. SO IT MIGHT NOT JUST BE CHROMIUM AND IT MIGHT NOT JUST BE ENERGY, BUT ALSO SOME OF THE MANY OTHER THINGS I KNOW WHEN WE TALKED BEFORE, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS BUILDING THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, LOTS OF THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY THAT THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE INCREASED INCREASES AS WELL. OF COURSE, COUNCIL HAS TO APPROVE IT, BUT NONETHELESS, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT ARE BEING EXPLORED. AND SO IS THAT WHEN WE'RE GOING, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE RATES IS THAT WE ALSO LOOK AT IT AS A WHOLE. AND SO WHEN WE'RE ALMOST TO COMPLETION OF THE RATE STUDY, 
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WHAT I AM RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE HAVE A STUDY SESSION. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY BENEFICIAL THEN TO RESIDENTS TO TO SEE WHAT WE'RE ADOPTING, WHAT THE INCREASES ARE AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE IMPACTED AS WELL, AND HOW WE GOT TO THOSE RATES. SO THERE'S JUST A LOT THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE IN. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE ITEM? I WILL MOTION TO APPROVE RESOLUTION NUMBER 2020 503. A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COACHELLA WATER AUTHORITY AUTHORIZING THE DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND APPLICATION FOR THE CHROMIUM SIX TREATMENT PROJECT AND RESOLUTION NUMBER 2025 FOUR, A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COACHELLA WATER AUTHORITY AUTHORIZING REIMBURSEMENT FOR DRINKING WATER. STATE REVOLVING FUND APPLICATION FOR THE CHROMIUM SIX TREATMENT PROJECT. I'LL SECOND, I'LL TAKE ROLL. COUNCIL MEMBER PEREZ. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER FIGUEROA. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER. VISION. YES. MAYOR PRO TEM DELGADO. YES. 
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THANK YOU. AND NOW WE'RE MOVING TO ITEM 19. ADRIAN, IS THAT SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING TO PRESENT? HELLO? MAYOR PRO TEM AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. GOOD EVENING. I'LL BE PRESENTING THIS ITEM. THIS ITEM IS FOR THE MODIFICATION TO TDM NUMBER 38429. CUP NUMBER 376 AR. 
          NUMBER 22 DASH 11. FOR THE ENCANTO MODIFICATION PROJECT. FOR A BIT OF BACKGROUND, THE APPLICANT IS JOSEPH REZVANI FROM THE GLOBAL INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP. THE CITY APPLICATION DATE WAS SUBMITTED IN JULY OF 15, 2025. THE EXISTING USE AS IT CURRENTLY IS SHOWN ON THE SITE PLAN. THEY'RE JUST SOUTH OF THE CORRAL. MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ON VAN BUREN STREET IS CURRENTLY A VACANT LOT. THE CASE FILE INCLUDES AN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW MODIFICATION FOR THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW OF NINE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOME FLOOR PLAN ELEVATIONS AND LANDSCAPING, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT MODIFICATION FOR A MODIFICATION OF THE APPROVED PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT WITH CHANGES TO THE SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, AND ALSO INCLUDES A TENTATIVE TRACK MAP FOR THE CHANGE TO THE APPROVED TRACK MAP. ORIGINALLY APPROVED FOR 111 LOTS AND NOW MODIFIED FOR THE PROPOSAL OF 192 LOTS, THE ZONING AND GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION IS FOR REGIONAL COMMERCIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. RC, PUD TO CONTINUE WITH MORE BACKGROUND ON THIS PROJECT. ON JUNE 12TH, 2024 THAT JUST LAST YEAR, THE ORIGINAL PROJECT WAS APPROVED FOR 111 SINGLE FAMILY LOT PRIVATE COMMUNITY WITH 81 ADUS CONSTRUCTED ON THESE LOTS. ON THE SITE PLAN SHOWN THERE WAS THAT ORIGINAL APPROVAL. THE PROJECT INCLUDED A PARK AND RETENTION BASIN AT 4500 SQUARE FOOT LOTS. THE ORIGINAL PROJECT WAS APPROVED WITH SEVEN SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOME FLOOR PLANS, WITH A SPANISH CONTEMPORARY DESIGN THAT RANGED FROM 2036FT■!S TO 2814FT■!S, ANN NOVEMBER 19TH, 2025, JUST LAST MONTH, A PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVED THE PROPOSED ENCANTO PROJECT, WITH SOME MODIFICATIONS THAT I'LL BE GOING INTO IN A FEW SLIDES. AND THIS IS A SCREENSHOT OF THAT ORIGINAL PROJECT THAT WAS APPROVED IN 2024. AND THESE ARE THE SEVEN ELEVATIONS FOR THAT ORIGINAL PROJECT BACK IN 2024. THESE ARE PHOTOS OF THE INTERSECTION ON VAN BUREN STREET AND FRIDA WAY LOOKING NORTH. THESE PHOTOS INCLUDED INCLUDE PICTURES OF VAN BUREN STREET LOOKING SOUTH FROM THE CORRAL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL. AND THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT IS THE PROJECT SITE LOOKING NORTH TOWARD THE CORRAL MOUNTAIN ACADEMY. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS WHERE THE VACANT LOT IS, WHERE THE HOMES WILL BE DEVELOPED HERE IN THE PICTURES INCLUDES THE INTERSECTION OF BROAD STREET AND RIGHT AWAY LOOKING NORTH AGAIN TO THE VACANT LOT WHERE THE PROPOSED HOMES WILL BE. AND ON THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT IS THE WEST END OF FRIDA, AWAY AT THE PROJECT PROPERTY LINE. SO HERE IS THE SITE PLAN FOR THIS NEW MODIFICATION FOR THIS PROPOSED PROJECT. THE PROPOSED SITE PLAN IS FOR A 192 SINGLE FAMILY LOT NON-GATED HOA COMMUNITY. THE PROJECT STILL INCLUDES A PARK AND RETENTION BASIN. SO THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE ORIGINAL PROJECT WAS 111 LOTS. IN TOTAL. 
          IT'S STILL PROVIDED 192 UNITS WITH ADUS, BUT NOW IT'S 192 LOTS WITH SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES ON EACH OF THE LOTS, AND THE PROJECT INCLUDES 2500 SQUARE FOOT LOTS. AND THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS FOR THREE DISTINCT FLOOR PLANS WITH NINE DISTINCT ELEVATIONS. THEY WILL ALL BE TWO STORY HOMES, AND THE ARCHITECTURAL PLANS ARE A SPANISH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. 
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AND JUST TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE, THE ORIGINAL PLAN AGAIN WAS FOR SEVEN DIFFERENT FLOOR PLANS, RANGING FROM 2036FT■!S TO 2814F, AND TO ENSURE THAT THE PROJECT IS ABLE TO MAKE PROVIDE 192 LOTS WITH 192 HOMES, THE PROPOSED PROJECT NOW PROVIDES FLOOR PLANS THAT RANGE FROM 1734FT■!S TO 2047FT■!S. JUST TO ILLUSTRATE THAT CHANGE. AND THESE ARE THE ELEVATIONS FOR THE PROPOSED HOMES FOR THIS PROJECT. AND THESE ARE THE DIFFERENT SCHEMES FOR THE PROJECT. JUST A FEW SAMPLES, BUT THE FULL SAMPLES ARE INCLUDED IN THE REPORTS FOR THIS PROJECT AND FOR THE PUD STANDARDS. THERE WERE A MODIFICATION TO THOSE PUD STANDARDS JUST TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW FROM 4500 SQUARE FOOT LOTS TO 2500 SQUARE FOOT LOTS. THERE IS A REDUCTION IN MINIMUM FRONT SETBACKS FROM 20 TO GARAGE TO 18 TO GARAGE, AND THEN FROM 15 TO THE LIVABLE AREA TO SEVEN FEET AND THE REAR YARD. SETBACKS ARE NOW CHANGED FROM A 15 FOOT SETBACK TO AN AVERAGE OF TEN FOOT REAR YARD SETBACK TO CONTINUE THERE WERE. THEY DO UTILIZE THE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, FLEXIBLE DESIGN STANDARDS, AND THESE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE NOTED IN THE FLEXIBLE DESIGN STANDARDS. AND MORE DETAILS ARE INCLUDED IN THE REPORT. BUT JUST TO HIGHLIGHT ONE THEY REQUESTED AS PART OF THIS PROJECT TO NOT INCLUDE WINDOW TRIM OR RECESS OR THE WINDOWS FOR THE HOMES JUST TO TOUCH ON LANDSCAPING. 
          THE PROJECT DOES PROVIDE A TURF OPEN SPACE, PARK LANDSCAPE AREA AND RETENTION BASIN. THERE ARE GOING TO BE TWO ENTRYWAYS FOR THIS PROJECT WITH ENHANCED WITH DECORATIVE PAVERS. SIGNAGE. 
          PLANS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED FOR DIRECTOR REVIEW. THAT'S WHEN THEY SUBMIT FOR BUILDING PERMITS, AND THERE IS A CONDITION OF APPROVAL TO HAVE THAT RETENTION BASIN BE 3/8 INCH CRUSHED GRAVEL, JUST TO ENSURE THAT IT DOES MATCH THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY IS THERE. 
          CAN YOU GO BACK TO THAT REALLY FAST? YEAH. IS THERE A REASON WHY THEY DECIDED TO PUT TWO HOMES NEXT TO THE RETENTION BASIN LIKE THAT? IS IT TO MAXIMIZE SPACE IT JUST TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE 192 HOMES THAT IS REQUIRED FOR THAT? THEY COULDN'T REDUCE IT TO 190. IT WOULD HAVE TO MEET MINIMUM 192. OKAY. TO CONTINUE ON. THIS IS THE LANDSCAPE PALETTE FOR THE PROJECT, VERY SIMILAR TO THE ORIGINAL APPROVED PLANS. AND I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT WHAT THE COMMON AREA ADJACENT TO VAN BUREN STREET IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. THERE IS GOING TO BE A FOUR FOOT LANDSCAPE PLANNER WITH SHADE TREES. THEN ADJACENT TO THAT IS THE FIVE FOOT SIDEWALK. THERE WILL BE AN EQUESTRIAN FENCE AND THEN A FIVE FOOT EQUESTRIAN TRAIL. THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO IMPLEMENT FOR THE PROJECT, JUST BECAUSE IT IS NEXT TO A ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, TO ENSURE THAT THE SIDEWALK ISN'T CURB ADJACENT, AND IT PROVIDES A BETTER FEELING OF SAFETY. HAVING THE THE SHADE TREES AND THEN THE SIDEWALK. AND THEN THERE'S THE EQUESTRIAN FENCE AND EQUESTRIAN TRAIL. SO KIDS WALKING, MAYBE GOING HOME AFTER SCHOOL CAN EITHER WALK IN THE SIDEWALK OR EVEN FARTHER BACK IN THE EQUESTRIAN TRAIL. GOING FROM THIS PROJECT TO THE SCHOOL. AND HERE IS THE FENCE DESIGN. 
          THERE'S GOING TO BE IN BLUE HIGHLIGHTED METAL FENCING AND THEN IN RED I HIGHLIGHTED THE BLOCK WALL. OKAY, FOR THE FENCING THERE WILL BE A SPLIT FACE BLOCK WALL DESIGN ENTIRELY ON VAN BUREN STREET. THE REST OF THE PERIMETER FENCE WILL BE A PRECISION BLOCK WITH A BAND OF SPLIT FACE AND THE INTERNAL FENCING NOT VISIBLE FROM THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY MAY BE VINYL FENCING, SO THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY VINYL FENCING VISIBLE FROM FROM ANY STREETS. 
          AND TO TOUCH ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION MODIFICATIONS THAT WERE ADDED IN THE NOVEMBER 19TH PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, THEY INCLUDED A RECOMMENDATION TO PROVIDE A FIVE FOOT SEPARATION OF TREES TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T DAMAGE ANY UTILITIES, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT STAFF RECOMMENDS AS WELL. IN THAT HEARING. THEY ALSO RECOMMENDED THAT ORIGINALLY THE ORIGINAL APPROVED PROJECT PROHIBITED SHORT TERM RENTALS IN THIS COMMUNITY. TWO YEARS AFTER THE FINAL PERMIT IS APPROVED IN THE COMMUNITY. SO ONCE IT'S ALL BUILT OUT, THE FINAL HOME GETS FINALIZED, AND THEN THEY HAVE TWO YEARS BEFORE SHORT TERM RENTALS IS ALLOWED IN THE COMMUNITY, THEY MADE A CHANGE TO NOW MAKE IT TO THREE YEARS. 
          AND ALSO INCLUDED IN THE PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING. THEY INCLUDED A RECOMMENDATION TO ADD A CONDITION OF APPROVAL TO ADD A GATE ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE COMMUNITY. I HIGHLIGHTED IN RED. HERE. WE DID HAVE A DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE CITY ENGINEER STAFF AND THE 
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APPLICANT, AND WE ARE PRESENTING THESE STAFF RECOMMENDED CONDITIONS THAT INSTEAD OF A GATE LOCATED HERE, WE ARE REQUESTING INSTEAD JUST AN EASEMENT AND A FENCE PANEL. 
          SO THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY GATE ACCESS AT THIS TIME. BUT THE REASON WHY WE'RE INCLUDING AN EASEMENT IN THIS BACK AREA IS BECAUSE THERE ARE FUTURE PLANS FOR THE CITY TO INCLUDE A BIKE BIKE LANE BACK THERE THAT WILL CONNECT FROM THE FUTURE. PLANS ARE TO FROM FREDERICK STREET ALL THE WAY TO CALHOUN STREET, BUT THAT IS STILL A WAYS AWAY. SO THIS EASEMENT WOULD BE PROVIDED THAT WHEN THIS BIKE LANE DOES COME IN, THE CITY WILL BE ABLE TO REMOVE THAT FENCE PANEL AND THEN PUT A GATE SO THAT THE, THE THE HOMES IN THE REAR OF THE COMMUNITY CAN HAVE EASIER ACCESS TO THAT BIKE LANE. AND TO CONTINUE ON FOR FINDINGS, WE FOUND THAT THE FOR THE TENTATIVE TRACK MAP FINDINGS THAT THE PROJECT IS COMPLIANT WITH THE GENERAL PLAN, AND THE PROJECT IS SUITABLE FOR THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE GENERAL PLAN GUIDELINES AND ZONING DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW. WE ALSO FOUND THAT IT MEETS GENERAL PLAN GUIDELINES, ZONING AND THE CITY'S DESIGN GUIDELINES AND FOR THE FINDINGS FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT. WE ALSO FOUND THAT IT MEETS GENERAL PLAN AND ZONING GUIDELINES FOR SEQUA. WE DID FIND THAT THE PROJECT IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT APPROVED FOR THAT ORIGINAL PROJECT, AND THE PLANNING DIVISION HAS DETERMINED THAT THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS COMPLIANT WITH SEQUA GUIDELINES. 
          AND JUST TO TOUCH ON ONE FINAL POINT, THE PROJECT IS CONDITIONED TO HAVE CC AND ARS THAT ARE REVIEWED BY THE CITY STAFF, AND WE ARE A THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY, BENEFICIARY OF THOSE, JUST FOR US TO ENSURE THAT THE SITE, BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO BE A NON GATED HOA COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, IN THE LOOP AND APPROVING THOSE CC TO ENSURE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS MAINTAINED WELL. AND FINALLY, STAFF RECOMMENDATION STAFF RECOMMENDS TO ADOPT RESOLUTION NUMBER 2025, DASH 60 TO CONDITIONALLY APPROVE A MODIFICATION TO TDM NUMBER 38429. COPY NUMBER 376 MODIFICATION AND AR NUMBER 22 DASH 11 MODIFICATION WITH THE FINDINGS AND CONDITIONS AS RECOMMENDED BY STAFF. CITY STAFF IS HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE, AND THE APPLICANT IS ALSO HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 
          ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL? FEW QUESTIONS. SO THEY WENT FROM 111 LOTS TO 192 RIGHT, RIGHT. AND WHAT WAS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE FOR THOSE? AGAIN THE ORIGINAL SQUARE FOOTAGE WAS 4500 SQUARE FOOT LOT 25. OKAY. BUT THEN THEY WENT TO 2500 SQUARE FOOT. GOT IT. OKAY. AND THEN IT STILL INCLUDES A PARK AND A RETENTION BASIN. RIGHT. THE PARK IS OR THE RETENTION BASIN IS NOT THE PARK. CORRECT. AND I COULD BRING UP THE PLANS HERE. YEAH. SO THERE'S THE BASIN. BUT THEN JUST SOUTH OF THAT IMAGE HERE IS THAT PARK GREEN SPACE. PERFECT. AND THEN MY ONLY. SO I'M JUST WONDERING I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S TWO. IT MIGHT BE TOO SOON TO TO KIND OF FIGURE THIS OUT, BUT WHAT ARE WE THINKING. THE COST OF A HOME IN THIS COMMUNITY WILL BE, ON AVERAGE, JUST BALLPARK. WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE LIKE A SPECIFIC BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THINGS CAN CHANGE. I'M VERY WELL AWARE OF THAT. THE ECONOMY CHANGES, THE MARKET, EVERYTHING BUT BALLPARK. WHAT ARE WE THINKING? IT IS AN HOA. IT DOES INCLUDE THAT. SO THERE'S I THINK ALWAYS HIGHER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. SO I'M JUST WONDERING IF MAYBE THE DEVELOPER KNOWS OR RIGHT. IT'S THROUGH OUR CONVERSATIONS. I UNDERSTAND THEM TO BE MORE ENTRY LEVEL HOMES, BUT I'LL LET THE APPLICANT TOUCH ON THAT POINT. OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR PRO TEM AND COUNCIL. MY NAME IS ROB BERNHEIMER. I'M REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT, JOSEPH RAVANI OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, WHO'S ALSO HERE. 
          WE ALSO HAVE RICH MALAKOFF OF THE ALTUM GROUP, WHO PROVIDED THE LAND PLANNING SERVICES. AND I KNOW THAT SOME OF THE FOLKS FROM PULTE ARE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE AND PARTICIPATING BY ZOOM ON THE ISSUE OF COST. THAT'S A HARD ISSUE BECAUSE WHEN YOU GO TO BUILD, THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS ARE DIFFERENT, MARKETS DIFFERENT. BUT AT THIS POINT WE'RE TRYING 
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TO TARGET IN THE LOW FIVES FOR FOR THE HOMES, THE LOW FIVES. OKAY, OKAY. AND THE. I'M JUST TRYING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHY INCLUDE AN HOA. WHAT WAS THE I GUESS IS IT SOMETHING THAT MAYBE YOU GUYS FEEL LIKE IS SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS OR. BUT WHY? WHY INCLUDE AN HOA IN THIS DEVELOPMENT. WELL, I THINK IT'S TO TO DEAL WITH THE COMMON AREAS THAT ARE THERE, THE PARK AND THE RETENTION BASIN AND THESE GATES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND I DON'T REMEMBER RICH, THE STREETS, ARE THEY PUBLICLY OR PRIVATELY MAINTAINED STREETS? WE STREETS WILL BE PRIVATELY MAINTAINED BY DANCHO, SO THE CITY WON'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF. YEAH. THANK YOU ROBERT. OKAY, SO THE HOA MANAGES ALL THAT TAKES THE BURDEN OFF THE CITY. BUT IT'S NOT GATED. IT'S NOT GATED. IT WON'T BE GATED. I MEAN, THE MAIN ENTRANCE ISN'T GATED. THE EMERGENCY EXIT AND ENTRANCE WILL HAVE A GATE, SO IT WOULD ONLY BE FOR EMERGENCIES. THERE'S TWO ENTRANCES, BUT THE SECOND ONE WILL BE BLOCKED. 
          OKAY, OKAY. THANK YOU. SURE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SO YOU ONLY CAN GO IN THROUGH THAT BASED ON THE MAP, RIGHT. YOU CAN ONLY GO IN ON THAT LOWER NEAR THE PARK SIDE. RIGHT. 
          CORRECT. SO THEN THE PEOPLE THOSE THOSE TWO HOMES THAT ARE NEXT TO THE RETENTION BASIN, THEY'LL NEVER HAVE ANYONE GO IN AND OUT OF THAT, THAT'LL, THAT'LL BE LIKE A PSEUDO CUL DE SAC UNLESS THERE'S AN EMERGENCY. CORRECT. AND WITH THE PEDESTRIAN GATE THERE ALSO, YOU THEN DON'T HAVE PEDESTRIANS DODGING CARS COMING IN AND OUT OF THAT ENTRANCE. SO IT PROVIDES A SAFE ACCESS. PARTICULARLY WE'RE THINKING THERE'LL BE SOME KIDS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO GO TO THAT SCHOOL. THERE'S THEY'RE NOT DODGING CARS TO GET THERE. AND SO IT'S A HOA WITHOUT A GATE. BUT WHAT DID WHAT DOESN'T DETER THE HOA TO THEN PUT A GATE WHEN THE WHOLE COMMUNITY IS BUILT? WELL, THAT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE UNLESS YOU APPROVED IT. OKAY, THAT'S. I JUST. WELL, COULD THEY COME? I'M JUST ASKING FIGURATIVE QUESTIONS. IF THEN THE COMMUNITY GETS FILLED AND THEN THEY COME BACK AND THEY SAY THEY WANT A GATE, COULD THEY COME BACK TO WHOEVER'S HERE AND SAY, WE WANT A GATE NOW? I THINK THEY COULD ALWAYS COME TO THE CITY AND ASK FOR A CHANGE IN CONDITION. OKAY. SO I'M JUST I'M JUST ASKING. IT'S A NON GATED HOA TO BEGIN. YES. IF IT GETS APPROVED AND THEN IT COULD COME BACK AND BECOME A. 
          SO WHY NOT JUST GATE IT. IS IT BECAUSE YOU'RE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM GATES OR WHAT'S. I THINK THE STAFF, THE STAFF RECOMMENDED NO GATES TO HAVE A GATE. ONE OF THE REASONS. WELL, THE SITE PLAN DOESN'T REALLY GIVE ROOM FOR A GATE, BUT IF THEY WERE TO COME BACK AND ASK FOR A GATE, YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HAVE ENOUGH ROOM FOR THE FIRE TRUCK TO PARK WITHOUT STICKING OUT INTO THE STREET, WHICH IS A SAFETY ISSUE. YEAH. OKAY, SO IF THEY WERE TO ASK FOR THAT, THEY WOULD HAVE TO RECONFIGURE EVERYTHING THEY HAVE TO. THE HOA WOULD THEN HAVE TO PAY TO REDO THE WHOLE ENTRANCE AGAIN. YEAH. OKAY. NO. THAT PEDESTRIAN LITTLE GATE IN THE CORNER OVER THERE I UNDERSTAND THAT. SO THAT IS GOING TO BE A WHOLE EASEMENT, RIGHT? THAT WHOLE THING ALL THE WAY UP. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FOR A FUTURE PROJECT. YEAH. THERE'S A LITTLE STRIP AT THE END OF THE STREET. YOU CAN'T HARDLY SEE IT THERE. THAT LEADS TO THE GATE LEADS OF THE FUTURE GATE SITE. SO THAT'LL BE. SO YOU MENTIONED THE STAFF MENTIONED THAT THAT ISN'T GOING TO IT'S GOING TO BE A PSEUDO FENCE OR SO. THERE'S NOTHING GOING TO BE THERE. IT'S JUST GOING TO BE LIKE A, LIKE A VINYL LOOKING THING OR. YEAH, IT'LL IT'LL PRETTY MUCH LOOK LIKE THE FENCE, BUT WITH A, WITH A PANEL INSTEAD OF BLOCK, A BLOCK WALL LIKE YOU WOULD KIND OF AT, AT A GATE, BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO PUT THE GATE IN BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I DON'T THINK THE CITY BELIEVES, AND WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT'S SAFE FOR PEOPLE TO JUST WALK OUT TO. IT'S A FIELD THERE RIGHT NOW. YEAH. AND SO THEY CAN JUST WALK ON. IT WOULD BE EASILY REMOVABLE WITHOUT DESTROYING THE WALL TO THEN PUT IN A GATE IN THE FUTURE WHEN THERE'S A ROAD TO SOMEWHERE. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL? YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I ATTENDED THAT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING AND THAT'S BECAUSE I HAD I WAS IN THE AIRPORT COMMISSION ATTENDING AN AIRPORT COMMISSION IN THE BACK, WHICH TOOK TWO HOURS. AND SO IT ENDED LIKE A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING STARTED. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT I DO APPRECIATE IS THE THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION THAT THEY WERE MET AND THAT THEY WERE ADDRESSED. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT I HEARD FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSIONERS IS WHEN THEY INCREASED THE TWO YEAR TO THREE YEAR RESTRICTION ON SHORT TERM RENTALS FROM THE 
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LAST PHASE AS THE LAST PHASE, IT STARTS AT THAT TIME. AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS LISTENING AND I'M THINKING MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD THING. WELL, THANK YOU, BY THE WAY, FOR FOR ADOPTING THAT. 
          YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE EXPLORING FOR MANY OF OUR HOUSING COMMUNITIES. AND I SAY THIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, MANY OF THESE, THESE COMPANIES OR LARGE BUSINESSES COME IN AND THEY BUY, YOU KNOW, FIVE HOUSES UPFRONT IN THESE COMMUNITIES, WHICH THEN, YOU KNOW, TAKE FROM FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS BECAUSE THEY'RE BEING OUTFITTED. AND SO THIS IS A GOOD WAY OF DETERRING THAT. THAT WAS A CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE ALWAYS HAD. AND KENDRA BROUGHT IT UP AS WELL AS WHEN WE HAVE THESE COMMUNITIES GOING UP, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE DETER THESE COMPANIES, YOU KNOW, FROM COMING IN AND BUYING UP ALL THESE HOMES? AND WE CAN'T WE CAN'T KEEP THEM FROM BEING ABLE TO PURCHASE HOMES. THAT IS A RIGHT. BUT AT LEAST PUTTING IN THIS RESTRICTION OF 2 OR 3 YEARS FROM BEING ABLE TO HAVE SHORT TERM RENTALS, I DO THINK IT DETERS THEN COMPANIES AND BUSINESSES AT LEAST TO COME IN, BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST THREE YEARS THAT'S AFTER THE LAST PHASE. SO THEY COME IN AND THEY BUY IT. THE FIRST PHASE, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE LAST PHASE, THEN GETS COMPLETED, AND THEN THE CLOCK STARTS AFTER THAT. SO SOMETIMES YOU'RE LOOKING AT MUCH, MUCH LONGER. AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A LOSS FOR MANY AGENCIES AT THAT POINT TO COME IN AND PURCHASE UP ALL THESE HOMES UP FRONT. I KNOW WHAT DO WE HAVE TWO HOUSING COMMUNITIES NOW? THIS WOULD BE THE SECOND THAT HAVE THE RESTRICTION ON THE SHORT TERM RENTAL. YES. THE SECOND, THIS IS THE WAY THE FIRST, I THINK WITH THE THREE YEAR INSTEAD OF THE TWO YEAR. CORRECT? CORRECT. YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND THEN THAT'S FROM SO IT WAS BEING WHAT WAS BEING PROVIDED WAS A TWO YEAR. BUT THEN IT WAS INCREASED TO A THREE YEAR BECAUSE ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS REQUESTED THAT IT BE INCREASED FROM THE TWO YEAR TO THE THREE YEAR, WHICH WAS GOOD CATCHES ON THEIR, ON THEIR PART. FOR THE HOA COMMUNITY, BECAUSE IT'S AN HOA COMMUNITY, IT IS CORRECT. STREET MAINTENANCE AND LIGHTING WILL ALL BE PROVIDED BY THE HOA RESIDENTS AND MEMBERS, AND IF THEY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR PARK, THEY CAN DO SO WITHIN THEIR BOARD. AND YES, ONE OF THE BIGGEST, I THINK RESTRICTIONS FOR THE FOR THE GATE WAS FIRE. 
          I THINK BECAUSE THEN THE TRUCK WAS TOO LARGE AT THAT POINT TO STOP AT THE GATE. RIGHT. AND THEN THEY WOULD BE IN THE STREET THAT'S FORGOT WHAT STREET IT IS THERE. SO YEAH, I THINK. I REMEMBER NOW THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE, THE GATE AND PRIVATE STREETS THAT WE HAD. 
          YOU KNOW, OUR CHALLENGE IS, YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY WITH THIS STATE LAW, WE CAN'T REDUCE THE DENSITY FROM 192. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THIS REALLY WASN'T ORIGINALLY THOUGHT OF AS A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. THAT'S NOT WHAT IT WAS ZONED FOR. BUT IN YOUR ZONING CODE, IT HAD A DENSITY FOR THAT SPECIFIC ZONING, AND WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DESIGN A PROJECT WITH THE DENSITY WE NEEDED TO GET AND HAVE THE LEVEL OF STACKING THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO HAVE A GATE. 
          SO I THINK IT'S UNLIKELY YOU'RE GOING TO GET A GATE COMING IN THERE ANYWAY. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO USE UP ALL THE SPACE JUST TO MEET THE MINIMUM DENSITY THAT WE HAD TO HIT. 
          THANK YOU. ARE THERE. I'LL OPEN IT UP TO THE PUBLIC AT 818. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS THAT WE RECEIVED IN PERSON OR THROUGH ZOOM BEFORE WE CLOSE? I JUST WANTED TO NOTE HOW HELPFUL STAFF WAS. ADRIAN, KENDRA AND ANDREW WERE VERY, VERY HELPFUL AND REACTIVE IN US GETTING TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY, SO WE'D LIKE TO PUBLICLY THANK THEM FOR ALL THEIR HELP. THAT'S VERY NICE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKER FORMS. IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM? NO. 
          HANDS RAISED ONLINE? NO CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENTS AT 819. ADRIAN, I HAVE HEARD WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT YOU AND HOW RESPONSIVE YOU ARE. AND SO I DO THANK YOU. AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, YOU WERE VERY PROFESSIONAL, VERY ATTENTIVE, AND THAT WAS VERY NOTICEABLE FROM FROM MANY OF US. AND SO THANK YOU FOR THAT LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT YOU PROVIDE. 
          APPRECIATE THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS. ALSO WANTED TO BRING UP AN ITEM BEFORE WE DO CLOSE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ADRIAN. YEAH I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS GOING TO BE PRETTY CRUCIAL TO THE PROJECT. PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. AND IF YOU COULD BRING UP THE EXHIBIT. SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE BEING 
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PROPOSED RIGHT IN THIS AREA THAT YOU HAVE ENCANTO. YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROJECT JUST SOUTH OF THIS CALLED, I THINK, VILLA VIDA DEL SOL. AND THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER PROJECT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THAT CALLED COVA. AND THOSE THREE PROJECTS COMBINED ARE JUST THOSE THREE PROJECTS ARE PROBABLY PROPOSING ABOUT AROUND 850 UNITS. AND ALL OF THAT SEWER DISCHARGE IS GOING TO TO ONE PIPE. AND SO IF YOU COULD PULL UP THAT EXHIBIT. AS PART OF THE GENERAL CONDITIONS THAT WE PROVIDE, WE WE, WE, WE CONDITION THESE DEVELOPMENTS TO DO A HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS SO THAT WE CAN SEE WHAT TYPE OF IMPACTS THERE IMPROVEMENTS ARE GOING TO HAVE ON THE SYSTEM. AND WE JUST RECEIVED THAT ANALYSIS. SO WE WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU HOW THAT LOOKS. SO THEIR PROJECT YOU CAN SEE THEIR ENCANTO RIGHT UP THERE NEXT TO THAT LETTER A YOU SEE A SIMILAR EMPTY PARCEL SOUTH OF THAT. THAT'S WHERE THE THAT'S VIA DEL SOL WOULD, WOULD BE THERE. AND THEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF THAT, A LARGE PORTION OF THOSE PARCELS TO THE SOUTH OF AVENUE 52 IS COVA. AND ALL OF THOSE PROJECTS ARE GOING TO DISCHARGE INTO THAT PIPE. THEY'RE CALLED THAT PIPE. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE POINT, THERE KIND OF A THERE'S NO ISSUE. SO THAT FLOW, THAT FLOW GOES FROM A TO B, IT GOES FROM B TO C, BUT YOU HAVE A BIG DEFICIENCY FROM C TO D. AND THEN WE JUST IMPROVE THE SECTION FROM D TO E. THIS YEAR THAT WAS ABOUT A $1.5 MILLION PROJECT WE COMPLETED IN JULY. AND SO IT IMPROVED THAT SECTION. SO IT'S NO LONGER AN ISSUE. BUT NOW YOU HAVE ANOTHER SECTION E TO F THAT THOSE TWO SEGMENTS ARE ABOVE CAPACITY. AND FOR EXAMPLE THE SECTION FROM E TO F THAT PIPE IS THAT PIPE WILL BE FULL. AND IT'S IT'S A BIG CONCERN. AND SO THOSE THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED BY ONE OF THESE PROJECTS, BY A PROJECT. YOU KNOW, MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT ALL OF THESE DEVELOPERS GET TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT HOW TO FINANCE THESE IMPROVEMENTS SO THAT IT DOESN'T FALL ON ONE PARTICULAR PROJECT. BUT BUT THESE SEGMENTS NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. THERE'S NO WAY AROUND IT. THOSE PIPES ARE CAPACITY. SO SOMETHING THAT I, THAT I THAT'S JUST AGAIN WE JUST GOT THE RESULTS OF THIS. AND SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANT. AND THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF COMMENTS THAT WE'RE PREPARED TO MAKE A STAFF TO ALL THE PROJECTS THAT I JUST MENTIONED. SO ARE YOU I KNOW YOU JUST GOT THOSE RESULTS. SO ARE YOU THEN PROPOSING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE THEN REACHING OUT TO SOME OF THESE DEVELOPERS IN THE AREA AND THEN ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE? WE WE'VE, WE'VE WE'VE HAD A PRE-AP APPLICATIONS WITH, WITH ALL OF THE PROJECTS, WITH COVA, WITH ENCANTO, WITH VILLA DEL SOL, AND, AND WE'VE, WE'VE SHARED THIS, THE RESULTS OF THIS WITH THEM. WE TOLD THEM THAT WE'RE SEEING THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE DEFICIENCIES PART PART OF WHAT WE COULD DO IS I THINK COLLECTIVELY THEY'RE ALL GOING TO GENERATE ENOUGH IMPACT FEES THAT CAN BE USED TO OFFSET THE COST OF THIS. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF DOING THE PROJECT. SO SO THE THE FEES THAT THEY WOULD OTHERWISE PAY WOULD FUND THE PROJECT. I THINK WHAT WE WANT TO AVOID IS GETTING INTO THE SCENARIOS WHERE WE SAY, WELL, HOW COME? HOW COME WE'RE NOT PROACTIVE AND HOW COME WE'RE NOT UPSIZING THESE, THESE PIPES AS, AS KIND OF IN PREPARATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND. THAT USUALLY IT'S NOT DONE THAT WAY. 
          AND I AND I THINK THERE'S A GOOD EXAMPLE IN OUR CASE WHY IT'S NOT DONE THAT WAY. YOU KNOW, WE INVESTED $20 MILLION INTO SEWER PIPELINE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EXPRESSWAY THAT'S NEVER BEEN UTILIZED. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE HEAR ABOUT A LOT OF PROJECTS, SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, THEY COME IN, SOME OF THESE PROJECTS DON'T COME IN OUR SEWER BUDGET TO DO IMPROVEMENTS IS LIMITED. SO I THINK WE NEED TO FOCUS ON ON WHERE TO MAKE THOSE INVESTMENTS WHEN WE KNOW THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PROJECTS ARE COMING. SO FOR IN THIS IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, IF IF THE PROJECT ARE GOING TO COME IN, THEN THEY WOULD THEY WOULD OPEN UP THE CAPACITY. BUT AGAIN, THEY COULD USE THEIR CAPACITY FEES TO DO THAT. SO, SO ONCE THESE GO THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS AT THAT POINT, THEN HOW DO WE THEN, YOU KNOW, ENTERTAIN THAT CONVERSATION OR THEN REQUIRE THEM TO MAYBE COME TOGETHER TO BE ABLE TO FUND SOME OF THESE. 
          SO THE SO THE SET OF PLANS THAT COME IN. SO THEY'LL SUBMIT WATER SEWER IMPROVEMENT PLANS 
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AND THE SEWER IMPROVEMENT PLANS WILL MAKE, WILL MAKE A COMMENT THAT THESE SECTIONS OF PIPE NEED TO BE UPSIZED FOR THE PROJECT TO BE ACCOMMODATED. AND THEN SO I DO BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, I DID SAY THIS TO THE DEVELOPER AT COVA. I SAID THIS TO THE DEVELOPER AT VIA DEL SOL. 
          IT'S NECESSARY FOR EVERYBODY TO COME TOGETHER SO THAT THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PATH FORWARD ON HOW TO HOW TO TACKLE THIS. THOSE HAVE BEEN KIND OF PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS, BUT I WANTED TO MAKE YOU AWARE THAT IT'S A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE. YEAH, I SEE ALL OF THE I SEE ALL OF THEIR FACES, YOU KNOW, AS YOU'RE ADDRESSING, OBVIOUSLY IT DOES NEED TO BE ADDRESSED WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SEWER IMPROVEMENTS. I THINK THAT THE THOUGHT BACK THEN IS LONG TERM, RIGHT? NOT NOT INITIAL, THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE UTILIZED. BUT I THINK THE, THE, THE IMPROVEMENTS WERE, WERE MADE AND THOUGHT OF IN THE LONG TERM THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE NEEDED. 
          AND SO HERE YOU'RE, YOU'RE SAYING, HEY, PROACTIVELY, LET'S START ADDRESSING IT NOW BEFORE IT BECOMES A MORE SERIOUS ISSUE. THE SEWER WOULD NEED TO BE IMPROVED BEFORE THERE WAS MORE. 
          THERE'S MORE DISCHARGE INTO THAT LINE. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, AND SO LIKE IT'S GONNA YOU KNOW, WE GOT THAT GRANT, RIGHT. YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU WORKED ON THE ONE ON SECTION SEGMENT 15 RIGHT THROUGH FROM D TO E. YEAH. YEAH. FROM IN 12. RIGHT. AND YOU KNOW THAT'S ONE OF THOSE OLDER LINES. 
          RIGHT. IT'S AN OLDER PART OF TOWN. AND RIGHT. THAT HAS THE THAT'S WHERE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS. AND SO YOU HAVE LIKE A LOT OF NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT WENT AROUND THERE AND KIND OF ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. AND THEN YOU ALSO HAD THE C IS WHERE, YOU KNOW, THEY FILLED IN THE REST OF BELLISSIMA OR. THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD THERE. RIGHT. AND SO WHAT HAPPENS LIKE, I KNOW, LIKE THE DISCHARGE. RIGHT. LIKE AT WHAT POINT IS THE DISCHARGE A LOT THAT THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU BACK UP. WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY WITHOUT SAYING THE WORD IS LIKE, WHAT HAPPENS THEN? IS IT THEN PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE IT COME BACK IN LIKE REVERSE AND BACK INTO THEIR NO, THEY DON'T COME OUT OF THEY DON'T COME OUT OF THE MANHOLE. THE MANHOLE. RIGHT. 
          YEAH. SO THE PIPE THE PIPE IS FULL. YEAH. AND SO OUR DESIGN GUIDELINES, WHICH IS TYPICAL GUIDELINES OF ALL SEWER AGENCIES IN THE VALLEY, IS DEPENDING ON THE SIZE, A PIPE CAN ONLY BE HALFWAY FULL BECAUSE YOU NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR PEAK FLOWS, YOU NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR RAINFALL. AND THAT THAT PIPE IS GOING TO GET MORE WATER IN IT. AND SO YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME SOME SPACE FOR THAT SO THAT IT DOESN'T COME OUT OF THE MANHOLE. LARGER PIPES, YOU CAN HAVE THEM 75% FULL. THESE PIPES ARE DEFICIENT BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE THEY'RE HITTING ONE. 
          THEY'RE BASICALLY FULL. SO IF UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS RIGHT. OR PEAK FLOWS, THEY THEY WOULD BE FULL. SO IT IT'S OUTSIDE OF OUR GUIDELINES. AND SO YOU WOULD, YOU WOULD NEED TO UPSIZE THEM TO GET THEM BACK INTO CAPACITY. THIS THIS IS NEWS TO ME. BUT I HAVE A PLAN. WE HAVE. 
          THERE YOU GO. WE HAVE A USDA BOND. WELL, A LOAN THAT'S GOING TO BE PAYING OFF THAT WE MAKE A $1.5 MILLION PAYMENT TO. AND IT'S I THINK THERE'S TWO MORE PAYMENTS LEFT ON IT. YOU KNOW, WE CAN ALWAYS FINANCE IT AND THEN BUILD RATE STUDY AROUND NOT A RATE STUDY BUT A STUDY FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE. OUR OUR DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE FOR SEWER THAT COULD BUILD INTO IT WHAT WE'RE DOING THE SEWER BECAUSE WE'RE DOING WATER AND SEWER AT THE SAME TIME. IT CAN BE BUILT INTO THE RATE WHERE WE GO, AND WE'D HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW MUCH WE NEED TO BORROW, BUT THE CITY COULD FINANCE IT, BUT THEN BUILD IT INTO THE FEES THAT ARE GOING TO BE CHARGED TO THE DEVELOPMENTS COMING IN. AND SO ULTIMATELY, BASED UPON THE TIMING OF THE BUILDUP OF THE PROJECT, THEY WILL BE PAYING THEIR SHARE OF THAT AS WELL AS THEY PULL MORE PERMITS. SO I THINK WE GOT A YEAH. AND THAT'S, THAT'S A, THAT'S A FAIR AND THAT'S A FINANCING OPTION I THINK. AND IT'S ALL AND IT'S ALL TIMING. RIGHT. I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW FAST THEY'RE HOW FAST THEY'RE GOING TO MOVE. AND, AND YOU KNOW THE THE QUICKER THEY WANT TO MOVE THE QUICKER THIS NEEDS TO GET RESOLVED. SO THE LONGER THEY TAKE THE MORE TIME WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO. BUT BUT IT'S, IT'S IT DEPENDS ON THE SPEED THAT THEY WANT TO MOVE. SO SO IS THERE IS THERE ANY THEN ACTION THAT YOU NEED US TO THEN OR ADDRESS NOW. 
          THEN I ACTUALLY WHEN WE WERE MEETING WITH THE RATE STUDY PEOPLE SOON WHEN WE GET BACK FROM THE THE HOLIDAY BREAK WE WILL DISCUSS THAT WITH THEM. AND SO WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME ESTIMATES OF WHAT WE THINK THAT IMPROVEMENT IS GOING TO BE AND THEN SOME BORROWING, POSSIBLY TO BUILD IT INTO THE IMPACT FEE THAT WOULD BE CHARGED TO DEVELOPERS PER CONNECTION. SO WE'LL JUST DO IT. AND THAT'S DEPENDING ON IF WE CAN'T GET AROUND THIS, WE HAVE TO DO IT. 
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SO YEAH. YEAH. AND THAT'S DEPENDING IF THEY MOVE FORWARD AND THEY MOVE FORWARD FAST ENOUGH AS WELL. TO BE ACTUALLY MOVING FORWARD MAY SAVE THEM A LITTLE. YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEES GOING TO THE PROJECT. BUT ULTIMATELY WE WILL RECAPTURE IT. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ON THE BACK OF THE CITY. SO IN FACT WE CAN'T DEVELOPERS PAY THEIR WAY. SO YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. I'LL HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE CITY MANAGER TO SEE HOW HE WOULD WANT TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO GET RESOLVED. NO THANK YOU. WE DID WE DID NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. AND SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I THINK TO YOU KNOW, I SEE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE FROM PULTE IS THAT I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS AS WELL IS WHY. 
          THEY SUPPORTED OR, OR ENGAGED IN THE, IN THIS RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY WAS BECAUSE THEY'RE ALSO BUILDING OUT ACROSS. AND SO I THINK THAT THE PROJECT FOR THE CONNECTIONS WERE ALL BEING DONE ALL AT ONCE, INSTEAD OF INITIATING TWO DIFFERENT PROJECTS WITH THE CONNECTIONS, RIGHT, WITH THE WATER CONNECTIONS UNDERNEATH. CORRECT? RIGHT. YEAH. OKAY. I HEARD YOU. 
          I SEEN YOU GUYS TALKING A BIT. DO YOU NEED ME TO REOPEN THE COMMENTS OR. YOU'RE YOU'RE FINE, I THINK I THINK IT'S I THINK CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION IS GOOD. OKAY. OKAY. PERFECT. 
          THANK YOU. SO ONE LAST QUESTION ON THE SIZE OF THE LOT. RIGHT. SO IT'S AT 45 SO 2500. SO KENDRA YOU CAN'T ADD ANYTHING INTO THE BACK ANYMORE RIGHT. THEY'RE LIKE TINY LITTLE BACK LOTS LIKE VISTA ESCONDIDO KIND OF. WHAT SIZE LOT DO WE HAVE IN NEW HOMES THAT ARE AT THIS 25FT. 
          THEY GO UP TO A LITTLE OVER TWO FROM 17 SOMETHING TO A LITTLE OVER 2000. OKAY. THE HOMES DO. 
          YES. I THINK THE THE LOT SIZE IS WHAT I'M ASKING ABOUT. LIKE ANY LOT SIZES, I THINK THEY AVERAGE 2500 HUNDRED. SO THEY GO UP AND DOWN A LITTLE BIT. THEY BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE HOME. RIGHT. SO YEAH IN THE FRONT SORRY IT'S MINIMUM NOT AVERAGE. MINIMUM IS 25. SO THEY GO UP FROM THERE. OH THEY GO UP FROM THERE. OKAY. JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. SO THAT'S THE MIN THAT YOU HAVE IN THIS DEPENDING LIKE SAY I GET A THE POTENTIAL BUYER GOES AND SEES A CORNER LOT. 
          THAT'S GOING TO BE OF COURSE BIGGER. AND YOU HAVE THOSE DIFFERENT VARIABLE SIZES AS OPPOSED TO LIKE A MIDDLE INSIDE LOT. OKAY. AND YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT ON THE SITE PLAN. OKAY. OKAY I THINK YOU ALREADY TOUCHED ON THIS, BUT. YOU TOUCHED ON IT BRIEFLY. BUT I JUST I'M CURIOUS, WHY DID YOU GO FROM THE 45 TO THE 25 MINIMUM LOT SIZE? YEAH, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THAT. I WISH WE WEREN'T DOING THAT. WE REALLY, WHEN WE FIRST WERE PRESENTED WITH THE SB 330 PROBLEM, WE WORKED WITH FOLKS IN THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, TRY TO COME UP WITH A PLAN, AND THE IDEA WAS, HEY, IF WE CAN DO 111 LOTS WITH 81 ADUS, WE GET TO 192, WHICH IS THE NUMBER WE HAVE TO HIT. BUT ONCE WE GOT THAT APPROVED, WE WENT TO THE BUILDING COMMUNITY, BOTH NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL. 
          AND IT WAS IT WAS A GOOD IDEA FOR SOLVING THE MINIMUM DENSITY ISSUE. BUT IT TURNED OUT THAT THOSE HOMES, BECAUSE IT'S ONE SALE WHEN YOU SELL THE HOME AND THE ADU, AND NOW ALL THOSE SUDDEN THOSE HOMES WERE GOING TO BE IN THE SEVENS TO EIGHTS, AND THE MARKET DIDN'T SUPPORT DOING THAT. RIGHT. SO YOU DON'T HAVE THE BUYERS THAT WERE GOING TO BE COMING IN AND BE ABLE TO QUALIFY FOR THE LOANS AT THAT RATE, EVEN IF THEY WERE GOING TO COME OUT AND IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WE WERE THINKING IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR MULTI-GENERATIONAL OR GREAT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANTED A LITTLE MORE INCOME. THEY COULD RENT OUT THE GUEST HOUSE, BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE BUYERS IN THERE TO BUY THOSE 111 UNITS AT THE HIGHER PRICE, AND NONE OF THE BUILDERS WANTED TO TAKE THAT RISK. SO WE HAD TO KIND OF PULL BACK AND COME UP WITH THIS OTHER SOLUTION. AND SO THIS TIME, WE WENT OUT TO THE BUILDING COMMUNITY AND SAID, WHAT CAN YOU BUILD? AND THIS IS WHAT CAME BACK AS, HEY, IF WE IF WE IF WE LOWER THE PRICE POINT, MAKE THE LOT SMALLER, WHICH GIVES US THE 192, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN BUILD. AND WE ALSO THOUGHT THIS IS A THIS IS A GOOD PRICE POINT FOR THE FOR THE COMMUNITY. RIGHT. IT'S A GOOD ENTRY LEVEL HOME IN A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD NEXT TO A SCHOOL. AND WE THOUGHT IT WOULD WORK. WE THOUGHT IT WOULD WORK WELL, BUT IT'S REALLY SB 330 THAT'S DRIVING THE SMALL LOTS. THE ONLY I GUESS THE ONLY CONCERN I THINK THE THE, YOU KNOW, HOUSING IN GENERAL IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE NEED IT, YOU KNOW, 100%. I GUESS MY ONLY CONCERN IS WITH THE LOT SIZE AND THE SQUARE FOOTAGES IN COACHELLA. EVEN IN IN MY COMMUNITY, FOR EXAMPLE, WE AVERAGE ABOUT 3 TO 
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4 CARS. THAT DOES NOT APPLY TO ME. I HAVE ONE VEHICLE, BUT I'M LIKE, I HAVE ONE CAR, BUT BUT WE AVERAGE. WE AVERAGE ABOUT 3 TO 4 VEHICLES PER HOME, AND THE STREETS ARE LIKE, MY COMMUNITY IS PACKED, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S IT'S JUST PACKED. LIKE RIGHT NOW WHEN I GET HOME, IT'S GONNA BE IT'S IT'S FLOODED WITH VEHICLES. IT'S IT'S PRETTY PACKED. AND SO IT JUST MAKES IT DIFFICULT I THINK FOR THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE TO FEEL LIKE THERE'S SOME SPACE, THERE'S SOME ROOM, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THERE IT IT ALSO ADDS AND OF COURSE THIS ISN'T JUST, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOING TO PUT THE BLAME ON ONE DEVELOPMENT. THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO. I'M JUST TRYING TO KEEP THIS IN MIND ALSO FOR OUR STAFF THAT THAT IS HERE THAT WORKS REALLY HARD ON THESE PROJECTS AND WORKS REALLY HARD WITH, YOU KNOW, THE DEVELOPERS IS JUST FOR US TO KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WE'RE SEEING PROJECTS AND MODIFICATIONS. AS SUCH, JUST BECAUSE IT'S OUR COMMUNITY IS A WORKING COMMUNITY. SOME OF OUR HOUSEHOLDS HAVE TWO FAMILIES, YOU KNOW, IN ONE HOUSE. AND SO THAT'S JUST MY ONLY THOUGHT IS, YOU KNOW, THESE HOMES ARE GOING TO BE IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT PACKED. BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, HOUSING IS EXTREMELY APPRECIATED. I THINK WE NEEDED A LOT. AND WE DO HAVE A GAP THAT WE HAVEN'T REALLY BEEN ABLE TO MEET IN THE CITY. I FEEL WE HAVE INCREDIBLE DEVELOPMENT WHEN IT COMES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND FARMWORKER HOUSING, AND WE HAVE THAT, AND THEN WE HAVE HOMES THAT ARE PRETTY EXPENSIVE THAT OUR COMMUNITY CANNOT AFFORD, AND THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET, AND THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO JUST GET A HOUSE. AND THERE'S THIS OTHER HUGE MIDDLE GAP OF EVEN YOUNG PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE COMING BACK TO LIVE IN THE CITY, AND THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO AFFORD HOUSING. AND A LOT OF OTHER FAMILIES ARE NOT ABLE TO AFFORD IT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE LOW 500 OR 500 THAT YOU GUYS SAID, I HOPEFULLY WE'RE ABLE TO TO STAY WITHIN THAT RANGE, BUT JUST KIND OF WANTED TO PUT IT OUT THERE FOR, FOR, YOU KNOW, OUR STAFF TO, TO JUST KIND OF THINK THROUGH WHENEVER WE HAVE THESE MODIFICATIONS IS THINKING OF WHAT THE DENSITY IS GOING TO DO TO OUR COMMUNITY AND ALSO WHAT WE HAVE CLOSE BY. 
          WE DO HAVE A SCHOOL, BUT WHAT OTHER THINGS DO WE HAVE CLOSE BY TO THIS DEVELOPMENT? MEANING PARKS, AMENITIES, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, ALL OF THAT. SO AGAIN, THAT'S THAT'S WHERE MY CURIOSITY CAME FROM IS WHY DID WE GO FROM THE 45 TO THE 25? AND JUST KEEPING THAT IN MIND, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND BETTER. AND I THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO HIT THE PRICE POINT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. BUT THERE'S TRADE OFFS, RIGHT? SO YOU CAN'T CAN'T GET EVERYTHING IN THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU MIGHT WANT AND DO THAT. BUT I THINK THIS IS A GOOD PRODUCT FOR THE CITY. THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. I JUST QUICKLY NOTE IS THAT WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON IN THIS PARCEL IS A BIT UNIQUE THOUGH, AS WELL IS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH DENSITY IN THAT IN THAT AREA. THIS ISN'T THE TYPICAL, YOU KNOW, TYPE OF ZONING THAT REQUIRES A HIGH DENSITY. IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE THAT THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR HAD THIS KIND OF HIGH DENSITY, YOU KNOW, IN A HOUSING COMMUNITY. 
          SO WE USUALLY DON'T HAVE THESE TYPES OF PARCELS. SO HOPEFULLY WE WON'T BE SEEING THEM AGAIN. 
          I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. I THINK IF IT WEREN'T FOR SB 330, WE'D BE HERE ASKING TO CHANGE THE ZONING TO A LOWER DENSITY. MAYBE WE'D ONLY BE HERE FOR 150 HOMES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT OUR HANDS ARE TIED. I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WHEN THIS CAME THROUGH. ORIGINALLY, I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THE CASITAS, I REALLY DIDN'T. I THOUGHT, HOW IS THAT GOING TO WORK WHEN YOU WHEN YOU SELL A HOME AND THEN THE, THE CASITAS ARE WHAT'S MEETING THE DENSITY, RIGHT. BECAUSE THE CASITAS WERE PLACED THERE TO MEET THE DENSITY REQUIREMENT. BUT I THOUGHT HOW DOES THAT WORK? YOU KNOW, IS THERE TWO PURCHASES? I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND HOW YOU CAN THEN, YOU KNOW, DIVIDE UP THE CASITA FROM, FROM THE MAIN HOME. SO I NEVER QUITE UNDERSTOOD THAT. AND APPARENTLY PULTE DIDN'T EITHER. NONE OF THEM, NONE OF THE BUILDERS COULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THAT WORK. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS WAS A THIS WAS A TOUGH PROJECT. 
          IT WAS. AND, YOU KNOW, THANKS TO OUR DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE IT DID REQUIRE A LOT OF 
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CREATIVITY AND COMMITMENT TO MAKING IT WORK, TO MAKING IT, YOU KNOW, WHERE WHERE YOU'RE ADDING ALL THESE UNITS IN A VERY SMALL SPACE. BUT WE APPRECIATE THE CITY'S, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF, YOU UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO WORK WITH US TO MAKE IT RIGHT FOR THE CITY. YEAH, AND I AGREE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER BEATON, AS FAR AS THE, YOU KNOW, THE PARKING AND HAVING THAT SPILL OVER, BUT USUALLY HOA REQUIRE HOA. I MEAN IT'S UP TO THE BOARD. IT'S UP TO THEIR BOARD HOW THEY WANT TO DO THE PARKING, BUT USUALLY THEY ELIMINATE PARKING FROM, FROM STREETS ALTOGETHER. WE, WE, WE DID A WE SAT WITH STAFF AND SPENT SOME TIME ON MAKING SURE THERE WAS GOING TO BE SUFFICIENT PARKING. AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S A LITTLE SMALLER, WE CAME UP WITH, I THINK, ENOUGH PARKING FOR THIS, THIS COMMUNITY. YOU HAVE SIDE PARKING ON THE END CAPS. YEP. 
          RIGHT. BUT I THINK WHAT MAYOR PRO TEM DELGADO MEANS IS YOU GO INSIDE, PRADO, YOU'RE ONLY ALLOWED, LIKE TWO CARS ON THE STREET OR SOMETHING. LIKE, THERE'S VERY STRICT RULES THAT THE HOA HAS, BUT THAT'LL BE ON THE HOA AND THEIR HOA BOARD WHEN THAT'S ESTABLISHED. RIGHT. 
          BUT LIKE WHEN THE CITY HAS TO APPROVE THOSE CARS TO BEGIN WITH. AND ANY CHANGES WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK HERE TOO. SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME CONTROL OVER THAT. OKAY. JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE. THANK YOU. THAT'S THERE. SO SO IS THERE A MOTION TO MOVE THE ITEM FORWARD. 
          OH GO AHEAD MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND. I'LL SECOND I'LL TAKE ROLL. COUNCIL MEMBER PEREZ. YES. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. FIGUEROA. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER. AYE. MAYOR PRO TEM DELGADO. YES. AND NOW WE'RE MOVING ON TO COUNCIL. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. JOSEPH. NOW WE'RE 
          [Reports and Requests]
MOVING ON TO COUNCIL COMMENTS. WE'LL START TO MY. LEFT. COMMENTS I HAD WAS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HOLIDAY PARADE. SORRY I MISSED EVERYBODY AT THE TREE LIGHTING. 
          I'M STILL GOING TO SAY I THINK OUR DOWNTOWN IS THE BEST LOOKING IN THE ENTIRE CITY. I MEAN THE ENTIRE DESERT. WE HAVE A REAL TREE AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS YOU COME DOWN. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT REALLY MAKES SINCE WE'VE BEEN SITTING HERE, I'VE BEEN LOOKING OUT AND I'VE SEEN SO MANY FAMILIES WALK AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, THE COMING DOWN AND TO TAKE PICTURES AND THE WORK THAT STAFF DID TO PUT OUT ALL THAT LIGHTING AND THE PLACES, BECAUSE YOU CREATED A WINTER WONDERLAND FOR PEOPLE TO COME AND TAKE THOSE MEMORABLE FAMILY PICTURES FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON. SO THAT'S REALLY GREAT. AND THANKS TO STAFF FOR THE GREAT PARADE AND FOR ALL THE PR YOU ALL DID ADVERTISING THE PARADE AND REALLY GETTING IT OUT THERE. SO IT DID A REALLY GOOD, GREAT WORK AND A LOT OF ATTENTION ON THE ON THE NEWS, ON ON THE PARADE AND EVERYONE THAT CAME OUT BUT ONLY ATTENDED A COUPLE OF MEETINGS. I DID THE MOSQUITO VECTOR CONTROL MEETING YESTERDAY. WE STILL ARE HAVING SOME INFLUX IN MOSQUITOES, SO WATCH OUT FOR THE MOSQUITOES. 
          AND I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE TO KNOW LIKE TOSS YOUR WATER. YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE STILL HAVE WATER SITTING OUT THERE. SO KUDOS TO COUNCILMAN WOMAN WHO DID A PR MOMENT ON THE MOSQUITO VECTOR CONTROL. AND IF ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS INTERESTED, THEY ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR PR MOMENTS. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE STATE OF THE COUNTY TOMORROW AND JUST WANT TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND ENSURE THEY SPEND TIME WITH THEIR FAMILY AND ENJOY THE TIME THEY HAVE WITH PEOPLE. BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO JUST SPEND THAT TIME WITH INDIVIDUALS. AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU WON'T SEE THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU EVER AGAIN. SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. SO WITH THAT, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. AND I NEED TO TAKE A BATHROOM BREAK THAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. SORRY. THANK YOU. I ATTENDED THE TREE LIGHTING EVENT. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. AND ALSO THE HOLIDAY PARADE. AND I'LL JUST THANK YOU TO TO STAFF. THANK YOU TO ANDREW. I KNOW IT WAS YOUR FIRST TIME DEALING WITH SOME OF THAT STUFF. SO YOU DID A GREAT JOB. STAFF DID A REALLY, REALLY GREAT JOB AND I SAW A LOT OF YOU OUT THERE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOYED THE EVENT. I DON'T REALLY HAVE OTHER COMMENTS. HAPPY HOLIDAYS. I HOPE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A GOOD HOLIDAY, A GOOD CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR. I'M SURE I'LL SEE SOME OF YOU, BUT I WILL BE DROPPING OFF SOME TREATS. I DROPPED OFF TREATS LAST YEAR, I THINK RIGHT BEFORE YOU GUYS WENT OFF ON BREAK. SO I'LL BE DOING THE SAME THING THIS YEAR. I DON'T BAKE THEM, I BUY THEM FOR YOU. BUT BUT I STILL DROP THEM OFF. SO. BUT YEAH, I'LL BE DOING THAT I THINK ON THE 18TH. 
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I THINK THAT'S YOUR LAST DAY BEFORE YOU GO ON BREAK. BUT I'LL JUST ECHO WHAT COUNCILMEMBER FIGUEROA SAID, YOU KNOW, ENJOY YOUR FAMILY, ENJOY SOME TIME OFF, GET SOME REST, GET SOME SLEEP. YOU GUYS DO SUCH A PHENOMENAL JOB EVERY SINGLE DAY AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU A LOT. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US. THAT'S IT FOR ME. THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMEMBER. YES, I ALSO ATTENDED THE TREE LIGHTING AND THE CHRISTMAS PARADE, WHICH WAS PRETTY AWESOME. I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY, BILL, ANDREW, SELENA, ROSETTE, KENDRA CASTULO, TECH GUYS, LINCOLN BACK THERE. PLEASE, PLEASE THANK YOUR DEPARTMENT, YOUR CREW FOR SHOWING UP EVERY SINGLE DAY AND GIVING IT 100%. I KNOW IT'S BEEN A VERY DIFFICULT YEAR, BUT I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO BE HERE. I AM VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOU GUYS DO TO SHOW UP EVERY DAY. YOUR STAFF DOES TO SHOW UP, EVEN WHEN WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH A LOT OF HARD TIMES. SO THANK YOU GUYS. I HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMAS. ENJOY YOUR FAMILY, ENJOY YOUR TIME OFF, AND HOPEFULLY THAT THE START OF THE NEW YEAR IS A LOT BETTER. 
          TO THOSE THAT ARE TALKING THAT THERE'S LAYOFFS, PLEASE DON'T. IT'S NOT TRUE, I CONFIRMED IT. 
          DON'T STRESS YOUR YOUR EMPLOYEES OR YOUR COWORKERS ANYMORE. ENJOY YOUR TIME OFF. 
          ENJOY YOUR FAMILY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. GOOD POINT, COUNCILMEMBER PEREZ, TO TO GO OFF A BIT ABOUT THE HARD WORK OF OUR DEPARTMENTS IS THAT TODAY WE WERE APPROVED FOR THE $7 MILLION FOR THE TCC, COACHELLA, PROSPERA, AND FOR THOSE OF US WHO FLEW OUT DECEMBER 2023 AND ALL OF OUR PARTNERS FLEW OUT WITH US, IS THAT WE HAD REQUESTED 29,500,000, AND WHAT WE RECEIVED WAS 22 MILLION. AND TODAY WHAT WE DID IS THAT OR WHAT SJC DID IS THAT THEY RECOMMENDED FOR US TO THEN RECEIVE THE ORIGINAL ORIGINAL REQUEST. SO WE'VE NOW BEEN MADE WHOLE AND NOW ARE RECEIVING THE COMPLETE 29 MILLION, CLOSE TO 500,000. WE DO HAVE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS GOING ON IN THE CITY. WE REALLY DO, AND IT'S A REFLECTION OF OUR EMPLOYEES. IT'S A REFLECTION OF OUR DEPARTMENT HEADS. IT'S A REFLECTION OF THE CITY MANAGER. IT'S A REFLECTION OF OUR LIEUTENANT GARCIA. IT'S A IT'S A REFLECTION OF OF OUR FIRE LEADERSHIP AS WELL. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE AVENUE 52 STREET. 
          WE HAVE THE AVENTINE COMMUNITY THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED. WE HAVE THE SENIOR HOUSING ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW THAT WAS APPROVED IN THE LAST PLANNING COMMISSION THAT'S MOVING FORWARD. THEY RECEIVED THE TAX CREDITS AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL SEE THAT BREAK GROUND SOMETIME NEXT YEAR. IT'S IT'S MY HOPE USUALLY WHEN WHEN WE START IT MOVES VERY QUICKLY. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT. AND IT TOOK US A WHILE. IT TOOK US A WHILE TO FINALLY GET THOSE TAX CREDITS. AND SO I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE HERE. I'M GLAD THAT WE WENT THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS. I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD. HOPEFULLY WE'LL SEE THE WELLNESS CENTER ALSO START, MAYBE KICK OFF NEXT YEAR AS WELL. I THINK MAYBE TOWARDS THE END OF OF NEXT YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO SEE THAT COME THROUGH. I KNOW THAT WE HEARD BACK FROM SGC FOR THE CRC, THE COMMUNITY RESILIENCY CENTER, AND SO WE WERE WAITING ON THEM PRIOR BEFORE WE COULD MOVE FORWARD. 
          AND SO WE DID GET THAT APPROVAL FROM SGC. AND NOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE NEXT PROCESS, WHICH IS AN RFQ, AN RFP. WHAT ARE WE DOING FIRST RFP, AN RFP OKAY. AND SO THAT'S VERY EXCITING. AND JANUARY HOPEFULLY WE'LL FIND OUT WHETHER WE GET THE FUNDING FOR THE PARK EXPANSION AS WELL. YOU KNOW THAT'S ANOTHER WHAT HOW MUCH. 6 MILLION. SIX 6 MILLION. YOU KNOW HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET THAT RFP OUT FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND GET SOME COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH THAT ABOUT WHAT WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE, YOU KNOW, ADDRESSED IN THE CITY WHAT CHALLENGES THAT THEY'RE SEEING. WE MIGHT SEE IT ONE WAY, BUT BUT RESIDENTS OR BUSINESSES WHO ARE FACING IT EVERY DAY HAVE MAYBE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE THAT WE DO. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME, AND I KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT TO THIS COUNCIL THAT WE'RE LISTENING AND TRYING IT, TRYING TO ADDRESS IT AS MUCH AS AS WE CAN, WITHIN REASON. I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE WEBSITE UPDATE AS WELL. ONE OF THE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT WE'VE BEEN ADDRESSED OR THAT'S BEEN SPOKEN ABOUT FROM RESIDENTS AS WELL, IS THAT OUR WEBSITE IS NOT IS DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE. YOU KNOW, THEY WANT TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHO'S PUT IN 
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PROPOSALS FOR THE RFP, WHO RECEIVE CONTRACTS, WHO'S, YOU KNOW, LET'S SEE THE FINANCES UP THERE. AND SO IT'S IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT ALSO THAT WE WE GET THAT UPDATED. WE'VE DONE A LOT OF END OF YEAR FESTIVITIES. AND IT'S BEEN A BIG I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A BIG CHALLENGE. BUT YOU KNOW FOR FOR SOME OF OUR EXECUTIVES BACK THERE ANDREW RESET AND SELENA IS THAT THEY'VE TAKEN OVER THESE FESTIVITIES THAN THE PREVIOUS YEARS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, YOU KNOW, DONE BY A FORMER A FORMER EXECUTIVE. AND SO THEY'RE TAKING ON THE TREE LIGHTING, THEY'RE TAKING ON THE HOMETOWN HERO CEREMONY. THEY'RE TAKING ON THE PARADE. THEY'RE TAKING ON THE I THINK WE HAVE THE CITY CITY HOLIDAY EVENT. IS IT THIS FRIDAY NEXT ON THE 19TH? ON THE 19TH. AND IT'S BEING DONE. IT'S BEING HELD AT THE ARENA. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, TOO, WE OPENED IT UP TO TO THE COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE. AND WATCHING THE GAME WITH US NEXT FRIDAY. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THERE'S A LOT GOING ON IN THE CITY. WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS GOING ON. WE'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF PROJECTS KICK OFF NEXT YEAR AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL SEE THAT. AVENUE 50 WHITEWATER BRIDGE, MAYBE KICK OFF NEXT YEAR. YEAH, I SEE THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT THINGS HERE. HE'S HE'S NODDING OUR OUR OUR CITY ENGINEER IS NODDING. THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON IN THE CITY. AND I SEE ALL OF OUR EXECUTIVES BACK THERE. I SEE FIRE, I SEE, YOU KNOW, OUR OUR CHIEF OF POLICE, YOU GUYS ARE BUSY. AND WHILE I WAS HERE, YOU KNOW. DOING THE MEETING, I COULD SEE YOU GUYS ALL, LIKE WORKING ON YOUR PHONES. I CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF YOU ARE COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED. YOU KNOW, WE DO. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK. AND THIS IS A REFLECTION OF ALL OF YOUR DEDICATION. THE SGC WAS DEFINITELY A REFLECTION OF ALL OF YOUR COMMITMENTS, BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S ABLE TO BE PUT THROUGH BY MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS. AND SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO TO THE END OF THE YEAR AND SHARING THESE, THESE HOLIDAYS WITH MY FAMILY. AND I'M SURE YOU GUYS ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO IT AS WELL. WE THANK YOU. WE THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR COMMITMENT, FOR YOUR PASSION TO OUR CITY. IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED, AND I HOPE THAT OUR RESIDENTS ALSO SEE ALL THE GOOD WORK THAT'S HAPPENING. AND WITH THAT BILL, THANK YOU. 
          JUST HAND IT OVER TO YOU. I WANT TO THANK I'D CAMERON AND STAFF OVER THERE IN THE BOARD CAME TO CAME TO US AND LET US KNOW THAT THEY'VE FOUND A WAY TO POWER THE THE SIXTH STREET SENIOR APARTMENT COMPLEX AND VILLA VERDE BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE OUR TAX CREDITS ARE ATTACHED TO THOSE AND DUE TO THE GOOD WORK. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP AND WE HAVE THE JPA COMING TO THE COUNCIL EARLY NEXT YEAR TO THEY DID A GREAT JOB STEPPING UP. AND WE'VE HAD MEETINGS WITH CHELSEA. AND WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER ONE WITH VILLA VERDE NEXT WEEK. BUT IT'S ALL GOOD NEWS. THAT'S GREAT. OUR SENIOR CENTER BUSSES ARE HERE AND WE'VE GOT ONE PAINTED WHITE, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE SENIORS ARE GOING TO BE USING THEIR BUS POSSIBLY TOMORROW. SO THAT'S GOOD. SO YES. SO SENIORS THE YOU CAN DO ANY FOR THE FOR THE HOCKEY GAME. YOU CAN INVITE ANY OF THEM SO THEY CAN GO ON THE BUS. WE CAN FIGURE THAT OUT. I'M JUST SAYING OPTIONS NOT TO BRING ANY MORE. YOU KNOW IF IF THERE'S ANYONE THAT YOU KNOW IF YOU'RE THERE. RIGHT. I'M JUST SAYING. SO THAT'D BE REALLY GOOD. 
          THAT'S GREAT NEWS. I WANT TO THANK STAFF. YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S BEEN I'VE ONLY BEEN BACK FOR EIGHT MONTHS BUT IT FEELS LIKE YEARS. YOU KNOW IT'S NOT IT'S NOT YOU KNOW OH COME ON OR WHATEVER. IT'S LIKE OKAY LET'S FIGURE THIS OUT. LET'S DO IT. AND WATCHING STAFF COME TOGETHER BECAUSE A LOT OF US ARE NEW WORKING TOGETHER. YOU KNOW, A FEW OF THEM ARE LEFT OVER FROM WHEN I WAS HERE BEFORE. BUT WATCHING STAFF STEP UP AND, YOU KNOW, SEEING THE ENTHUSIASM, YOU KNOW, ANDREW GETTING THOSE PEOPLE LINED UP, YOU KNOW, WE LOGISTICALLY I YOU ARE AN ENGINEER. AND THEN HE'S ALSO A CHEERLEADER TOO BECAUSE HE'S OUT THERE GETTING PEOPLE GOING, GIVING INTERVIEWS AND STUFF. AND SELENA DOING A GREAT JOB DRIVING AROUND, MAKING SURE EVERYBODY'S DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO. SETH, THE OUTREACH. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. EVERYBODY STEPPED UP. AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S HICCUPS AND STUFF THAT HAPPENED BEHIND THE SCENES. BUT, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN AROUND FOR A LOT OF THESE THINGS. AND YOU KNOW WE MISS MARISSA. WE DO. 
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BUT EVERYBODY STEPPED UP AND IT WENT OFF VERY WELL. I'M VERY PROUD OF STAFF. I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL. YOU KNOW YOU GUYS VOLUNTEER TO DO THIS STUFF. I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW SOMETIMES YOU YOU LOOK AROUND AND YOU KNOW JUST LIKE ME. AT TIMES YOU WONDER WHAT AM I DOING? WE'RE SERVING THE COMMUNITY. AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT YOUR LEADERSHIP AND WHAT YOU DO FOR US AND SUPPORTING US, IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED. AND THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ALL OF US, AND ESPECIALLY TO STAFF. YOUR ACCOLADES TO STAFF ARE WELL RECEIVED AND WE THANK FOR THAT. 
          AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, THERE WASN'T A LOT ON THE AGENDA THIS TIME YEAR END. AND ALSO IN THE SUMMERTIME, YOU KNOW, IT GETS SLOWER AND, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S CONCENTRATING ON HOLIDAYS RIGHT NOW. I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING THAT'S PRESSING THAT HAS TO COME TO THE COUNCIL FOR THE FIRST MEETING. SO AT THIS POINT I'M THINKING THAT WE'LL PROBABLY CANCEL THE MEETING. I WON'T ANNOUNCE THE CANCELLATION UNTIL AFTER WE GET BACK, THOUGH, JUST IN CASE OF SOMETHING HAPPENS IN BETWEEN SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO CALL A SPECIAL MEETING. BUT IF YOU KNOW. BUT AT THIS POINT, I'M THINKING WE'RE PROBABLY WON'T HAVE THAT FIRST MEETING. 
          AND I, I'M JUST PROUD TO BE AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY OF COACHELLA. BEING BACK WITH YOU, HIS YOU YOU'VE STRETCHED ME. YOU KNOW, NORMALLY AS YOU GET OLDER, YOU DON'T LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, GET SET IN YOUR WAYS. I'D MENTIONED THIS TO THE MAYOR. I SAID, YOU KNOW, THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN THROUGH, YOU'VE MADE ME IN MY MIND, ANYHOW, A BETTER CITY MANAGER. BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN THINGS ARE EASY, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST. AND IT'S NEVER BEEN EASY. BUT IT WASN'T THIS TOUGH EITHER, THOUGH, SO IT'S BEEN DIFFERENT. BUT YOU'VE YOU'VE STRETCHED ME AND I THANK YOU FOR THAT. YOU'VE MADE ME A BETTER MAN, A BETTER MANAGER THROUGH THIS TIME. SO HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO COUNCIL AND EVERYBODY. AND AGAIN, STAFF AND THE OTHER ELECTEDS TOO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU DO. AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU TOO. WE EVEN RYAN RYAN'S NEW TO THE CREW TOO. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU SO REALLY QUICKLY TO HIGHLIGHT OUR CITY CLERK AND OUR AND OUR TREASURER. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T I THINK APPRECIATE YOU AS MUCH. AND YOU COMMIT TO THIS JOB AS WELL. AND IT'S VOLUNTEERISM. AND WE DO APPRECIATE BOTH OF YOU AS WELL. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT AND DEDICATION TO THE CITY. AND THANK YOU, RYAN. RYAN. THANK YOU RYAN. WE DO APPRECIATE YOU TOO, RYAN. THANK
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.