 Thank you. Welcome everyone to on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, Capitalist City Council meeting. I'm so used to coming out of post-session online at these, but we are start as normal with Chloe saying a few words. Thank you Mayor Brooks. Hello and welcome to the Capitalist City Council meeting in accordance with California Senate Bill 361. This meeting is not physically open to the public. Council and staff are meeting via Zoom, and there are several ways for the public to watch and participate. Information on how to join the meeting using Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, or a landline mobile phone, along with how to submit public comment during the meeting tonight, is available on our website cityofcapitola.org and on the published meeting agenda. The public can also live stream the meeting on our website. As always, the meeting is cablecast live on Charter Communications Cable TV Channel 8 and is being recorded to be rebroadcast on the following Wednesday at 8 a.m. and on Saturday following the first rebroadcast at 1 p.m. on Charter Channel 71 and Comcast Channel 25. Our technician tonight is Walter. Thank you Walter and thank you Mayor Brooks. Thank you so much Chloe. Chloe, I couldn't hear it to you. Go ahead and do a roll call please. I will do that now. Thank you. No problem. Council Member Bertrand. Council Member Kaiser. Here. Council Member Peterson. Okay. Vice Mayor Story. Here. And Mayor Brooks. Here. Thank you. Thank you so much Chloe. As you can see, you can't see me and my computer is acting up. This is going to be the most bizarre meeting. I'm talking to a blank screen and it's weird. But I'm imagining there's Councilor and there's Gale somewhere in the crowd who's going to be our guest later on. So hello to everyone. If you can please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. Thank you so much. We're now going to move on to items two for our presentations and we're going to begin with our proclamation honoring the retiree that police chief Terry McManus and I'm going to need some support. Jamie is Terry with us. Yes, he is. Lovely. Well, I have the honor of giving Chief McManus this wonderful, much-deserved proclamation earlier today. I just wanted to share a few words. Unfortunately, it looks like we've lost Mayor Brooks. Yeah, it looks like Mayor Brooks is offline right now. I'll attempt to fill in and let's see if she comes back. Unfortunately, I don't have the proclamation in front of me to recognize our retired police chief, Chief McManus. We did have a special event for him this afternoon at the Shadowbrook. He was well attended by many of the other chiefs in our county as well as the Capitol Police Force and many staff from the city of Capitol. And there were numerous members of the community that were there to see him off in the next chapter of his life. And I don't know, Jamie, do you have available there the proclamation? I do. Do you like me to give you a few highlights? Yeah, maybe you could read up some of the highlights from it so that everyone in attendance can hear as well. I'd be happy to. All right. So this is the best proclamation honoring our retiring police chief, Terry McManus. Whereas Chief Terry McManus began his law enforcement career with the city of San Diego in 1986 and rose to the prominent rank and assistant chief of police completing 30 years of public service in 2016. Whereas on December 1st, 2016, Chief McManus was appointed as Capitol's ninth chief of police. Whereas Chief McManus will officially retire on the 13th of this month after serving five years on standing in their notorious policing service to the residents of Capitol. And during the tenure of Chief of Police, Terry has been committed and outstanding leader who's excelled in hiring, promoting, developing and training competent, diverse workforce of sworn civilian employees and volunteers. Whereas as a result of Chief McManus' work with his department, the city has realized a reduction in overall crime by introducing our city neighborhood watch program for volunteers and policing and his work is strengthening the relationships with our local partners. Whereas the city recognizes Chief McManus for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief McManus made sound financial and procedural decisions to ensure the department and the community's safety at the same time while maintaining a high level of policing service for the citizens of Capitol. Whereas Chief McManus has served the city of Capitol at the highest level of professionalism, integrity and ethics. So then, now therefore, Mayor Brooks, Mayor of the city of Capitol is hereby commend Chief McManus for 35 years of excellence and dedicated service. His further recognition of Chief McManus has always represented the city of Capitol with the highest degree of professionalism and his contributions, past, present and future will always be greatly appreciated by Council members, city staff and most importantly residents of the city of Capitol. Thank you, Jamie. And I think I would like to add a resident of the city of Capitol one of the things that makes Capitol special is our police force and we have enjoyed the benefit of having great leadership through Chief McManus as the leader of our police force. He has kept our community safe and as well as having us all feel that we can be safe in the community. And I don't know that there's anything that's more important to that to a resident. And so, and now as a Council member, I would like to on behalf of the residents of Capitol thank you officially for your five years of service in that role. I have always found him to be extremely professional but at the same time very approachable, very heartfelt, genuine and sincere and approach there's work that you can tell with a great deal of caring and compassion. And so, with that I want to just now publicly thank you Chief McManus. You're going to be missed but I know you always have a place here in Capitol and we hope to see you around in different classes. So, with that I was wondering do other Council members, do they have some work for Chief McManus at this time? Yes, Councilwoman Peterson. Thank you. I just want to say thank you so much Chief McManus for all of your service to our community. It's been an honor to work with you throughout the years and the opportunities that I've had to speak with you about important issues related to our city. When we held a series of community meetings around racial justice and equity and we were at every single one of them and we had several follow-up conversations. I'm just so impressed with your leadership and you will be very sorely missed but I'm very excited for this next chapter for you. And in today's gathering for your retirement you can just see the joy of kind of radiating from you for what comes next in your life. And so, as much as I feel so officially that I would like to just make a motion that you cannot leave I understand that there are great things ahead of you and of course with our incoming Chief Dali there's great things ahead of us also. So just in general thank you so much for all of your service to our community. There's something that I heard the former mayor of Stockton say recently and he said there's a difference between wanting to be something and wanting to do something. And so I think that regardless of what you have been or will be you will always be doing something in service to your community or your family or the people around you. And so I want to thank you for what you have done for our city and I can only wait to see or hear about what you will do next. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Peterson. I'll call on Councilwoman Hayden. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Terry I haven't really been able to work with you for a super long amount of time as far as the other Council members know but just knowing you and being able to come to you or even just see you in passing or out in the village it's just always like Sam said you're super approachable and it's something that I think not a lot of what things really see in an officer or chief of police or something like that so it's just a really nice quality and it sort of stands for capital I think and it's really a nice road for Captain Daly to come through and it has been a pleasure working with you and I'm really excited for you to go on and do interesting and both will be there for sure. Thank you so much. Council Member Tratton. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. So we met earlier this week and I think I said a lot of what I felt then and so it's hard for me to elaborate but I think one thing that needs to be stressed is you've given a great gift to the people of Capitola. You've left us with a police department that is excellent. You have done what it takes to still a real high degree of spirit decor, of professionalism, and a commitment that I haven't noticed before and I think that's a wonderful gift that you did and it's totally reflective of who you are and those are my comments. Thank you. Do you have anything else that you'd like to make any comment? Seeing none, I'm going to turn the microphone over to you. Chief Mismanus for your last words. Vice Mayor Story, if I may. Thank you. I made it. I would love to share some words as well before we turn this over to the Chief Mismanus. Absolutely. Wonderful. I know you heard this earlier but there are a lot of people talking to you earlier today and I just wanted to share those words that I from earlier to everyone here today. So leadership comes in all forms depending on the type of leader you are and some are abrupt and mighty and able and others are natural and confident. This type of leadership stands from experience and commitment in a form that is unhindered in kind and that's the type of leader that I would describe you as Jerry and we're so proud to have you as our Chief. For the past several years I have seen our organization prevail due to the special leadership of Chief Mismanus. Through his commitment, patience and goodwill we have successfully addressed crises such as the pandemic, the attacks on our BIPOC community and the destruction of our neighboring communities due to these fires. Chief Mismanus has stepped up in support of our ever changing community attending every council meeting even the one tonight supporting implicit bias training helped raise the pride of our constituents and reviewed police policies in the fight for equity. Chief Mismanus has managed to maintain his stride of support throughout the all and our community has been so lucky to have him. His commitment to social justice, equity, capital and the rest of our county is renowned and I was really evident from today's event and it has been an honor to stand side by side with him during his tenure. It truly has been a privilege knowing him and I congratulate you Terry and I wish you the best on your new adventure and from what I understand we passed a proclamation on and that's never enough your wall is going to be full of all of these wonderful things and shadow broadcast is what you called them earlier congratulations and now I'll turn it over to you. Well thank you very much Mayor Brooks, Vice Mayor Story and the entire council for your kind words tonight and so meaningful to hear them tonight and have heard some of those same words you know throughout my time for many of you about my five years sharing capital and I want to thank those who were able to attend you know in the middle of the day on Wednesday it's tough to get away during a one-hour event but I was so fortunate to have many of you able to attend the event and share some stories there and talk about a few things then it provided me the chance to really share some of my own thoughts towards that event and I want you to say Mayor it would take way too long but I was really thankful to see you all this afternoon thankful to be here tonight and hear these kind words so thanks to all of you I can't imagine the more rewarding position for me to really enjoy for my last five years in the law enforcement officer here in California 35 years total and when you know when I competed for the spot the police chief position back in 2016 I had a vision and I thought that there was something unique in capital that I wanted to be part of that you know worked in assignments and positions and always guaranteed that and so I didn't enter into this this challenge with any guarantees except that I knew that the change that I was going to experience was going to be healthy for me and hopefully healthy for everybody else and very enjoyable for all and so now five years later it goes by so quick, five years later I can say with a whole lot of confidence that that is how I feel tonight I'm just thankful for the opportunity to be the police chief here in capital I wish Chief Daly all the success in the world, I think he did great representative of the city, the police department of the community and of course he and I will stay in contact if he gets acclimated and this is new position and it's been an absolute pleasure to serve as a police officer in our world in California and really, and most importantly with extreme sincerity for everybody to serve the last five years here in capital I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity I couldn't have asked for a better community that really supports me supports us, supports the city and it's been so enjoyable and so, I've learned so much in working with our council the various mayors are at the time that I've been here and I've worked yourself tonight and the other mayors that have served in the entire council all the work that we strive to achieve as a team sometimes we get credit as individuals for serving this well but really the great work is accomplished by great team work and so, tonight I'd love to share with council and with the public and like the listening that the team work really is a key ingredient they unlock the expectations of police officers and they should I touched on that a little bit this afternoon and it's been a passion of mine for 35 years and so with a whole lot of emotions a lot of joy a whole lot of pride for ourselves as the capitol police department in terms of the chapter on my line of course they're glad to have retired here as the police chief in capitol and I thank everybody for all of their support along the way and I wish all of you success going forward in your individual lives and your career and your aspirations and and then thanks as well to everyone all the staff in the city all that work is done behind the scenes and especially as you mentioned Mayor Berkson during this last almost two years pandemic we as the staff and we as the city weren't willing to not do the work that needs to get done here in capitol to keep the community safe to keep the community happy and keep pushing forward in what has been the most difficult of circumstances at least for me and in my position as a police officer for 25 years no one would have imagined that I'm only proud of how we work for all of those in the city as the various departments and most importantly as a community here in capitol so thank you very much for everything for the proclamation Mayor Berkson thank you and for your kind words everyone's kind words and I'll say goodnight for now thank you very much Thanks again Chief McManus and we wish you the best on your new adventures congratulations on your retirement oh my gosh I want a huge applause for you I wish everyone could be there cheering you on you know we are okay everyone thank you Vice Mayor for taking over for that time that was a little rocky I had to restart the computer and do all sorts of things but we're now going to be moving on to items 2B this is a presentation regarding the local government's fellows program who will I be turning this over to this evening Arnie is Arnie Arnie yes welcome can you hear me I can hear you wonderful good evening Mayor Berkson members of the capitol city council thank you so much for making time for us on your agenda tonight I'm Arnie Kroche I'm just here tonight I'm Arnie Hill and Matt Berkson and we're here to express our gratitude to the capitol city council for the very generous contribution we made to the Cagrino College local government fellows program which is special significance to me Cagrino College is the most significant institution in my life my father died unexpectedly and I very quickly picked up some bad habits neglected schooling by the time I graduated there were few options available for me and the staff the faculty the video were all outstanding they were supportive they were stimulating they made me want to learn and they did very well they transferred to U.S.U. Berkeley to a degree in political science all the way on master's and public administration and a 30-plus year career in city manager in the city manager in the city of Cagrino and my wife and I recently returned to the capitol and I wanted to initiate a program that would recognize the impact that Cagrino had in my life also began to train the next generation of local government leaders you are all local government leaders you know the old and local government leaders alive about the news and you can't play those roles play those roles without dedicated, competent public leaders and the best way to do that to gain that is to spark the money students and local government leaders and that's what this program is intended to be there we've got significant competition out there and then in the ladies' union there's a shiny object that's funny enough and that's why a group of current and former local government officials came together to develop the the program that all of you will tell you a little bit more about the program thank you very much and I was a county registered voter until my retirement in December 2020 I spent 27 and a half years working for the county and an additional 8 working for the state legislature I'm a huge fan of Cabrillo College and I attended the Cabrillo College before getting introduced to CLA to finish his degree in linguistics and computer science and like council member Peterson who recommended that the city of Cappacola dedicate grant funds to the Cabrillo College local government fellowship program I'm passionate about getting more younger girls involved in government the local government fellowship program will provide support that can lead to a career in local government there will be an emphasis on first generation students for the program includes a $2,000 scholarship a paid internship with local government agency and thank you to our local city managers and county ministry of office that have agreed to make this possible and we're also going to be providing mentoring by a current or retired government leader we set a very ambitious goal of raising a permanent endowment of $100,000 and this will support two fellows annually in perpetuity so the Cappacola City Council $10,000 contribution brings us to $33,000 which is one third of our goal so wow thank you so much for doing that we hope your actions will spur the other cities and the county to consider a similar contribution thank you for your financial support and for your commitment to developing the next generation of local government leaders and I'm going to ask Eileen Hill to provide details on how people can get involved okay so I just want to say my name is Eileen Hill I'm the second director of the real college foundation and thank you to all of you for making this possible this was a huge gift to really help us with the Army as well as Dan Cray and Janie who have helped us get this started and going there's a number of individuals who have made this possible and we're really hoping that this spring we'll be able to make the first award so the serving student a future leader and as council members sat at Kristen Pearson and said somebody who wants to do something and I think that was really powerful and I think that's what we're hoping to do with this scholarship and thank you all so much again if you know of any groups who want to learn more about what we're doing or how they can get involved they can contact me at the Cabrillo College Foundation if you want to make a donation you can go to foundation.cabrillo.edu and donate and put in the notes that is to the local fellow government scholarship and I'll hand it over to Matt Webster Cabrillo College President Eileen, thank you Army and Gale for all the appreciation to the council members to Mayor Brooks for the progressive forward thinking spirit that you're bringing to this scholarship program I've been interested in when I was a young college student in many, many same ways as Arne did I was able to do an internship in Washington and get involved in local government maybe in the same way that Gale was and it changed my life it set me on course to study political science as a masters and PhD program I have to go through a program in northern Illinois that trained most of the city managers in northern Illinois north of Springfield so this is so personal to me in the sense that I know so many of my colleagues that went through graduate studies who are doing the kind of work that you all do on a daily basis it is so important to support our students as first gen students I'm just delighted with the generosity that you've shown and on behalf of the college the foundation everyone here I just want to say thank you so much Thanks so much Matt and thank you too to all of you for putting this wonderful program together I actually wanted to acknowledge council member Peterson she was a council member who initiated this and brought this forward to council and so we are select to have her and bring this to capital to our attention so thanks to council member Peterson for this we don't know do we have any questions for our guests this evening before we move on council member Peterson thank you so much I don't have any questions I just want to make a quick comment and say thank you I'm so excited about this program and I want to thank you all so much for the time and effort that you've put into making it a thing and I know our city manager is involved as well so thank you to Jamie as Matt has already said I tested on a high school when I was 16 I went into community college and finished when I was 18 and then I didn't go back for a bachelor's until I was 24 and at that time I didn't have the credits I needed so I went to Cabrillo and that's when I first got involved in my political science classes and realized that this is a thing I wanted to be a part of and I wish that when I was younger someone had told me that all the good trouble I was getting into was actually activism and these are things that you can change through politics through government and I learned a lot of that at Cabrillo and then went on to CSUNB where through my service learning program I internship in the Sambar's office and later went to Cal State Garter's for my master's in public administration and so all of this started with Cabrillo and started with a program like this that showed someone that they could be involved in something bigger than themselves and so I'm just so, so very excited and again thank you all for the time and effort that you put into this I can't wait to see the next generation of local leaders that come out of this program thank you thank you council member council member Bortran so I was just wondering are you going to be cooperating with the students because that's part of their mission just to get young students involved in government yeah really quickly great question we often will get requests from Secretary Panetta to have students attend especially the speaker series that goes on every year through the spring semester and we have in the past had two or three students who were able to get a ticket to those events which is just a terrific opportunity for them to have a day to network down in Monterey with the secretary and the folks involved and it's a spark plug for them it really lights a torch for some of those students and yeah so the quick answers absolutely anything about which we can do in that effort we will do yeah so I know we have an internship program that's on the federal level so it sounds like you're well acquainted with them that's great thank you everyone nice to see all of you I look forward to hearing more about how this is going to grow and develop really soon I look forward to it okay we're now going to move on to items 3 for additional materials additional materials for tonight's agenda yes Mayor Brooks there is one for item 8a which is the temporary outdoor dining update for items 5 items for 8c which is the side letters for the existing MOUs okay great and then any for items 4 additional facilities okay so we'll move on to items 5 for oral communications that's a lot of times for members of the public to address the state council on any consent items on tonight's agenda or any other topics within the jurisdiction of the city the hearing section of the agenda do we have any from our audience this evening Mayor Brooks I do not see anyone asking to speak and I do not see any emails for public comment or communication okay great and so then we'll move on to item 6 this is the staff and city council comments and we'll begin with staff Mayor Brooks I just have one short announcement to make tonight as council will know you budgeted funding for inclusive bias training for staff we have that schedule to take place later this month unfortunately due to staffing shortages the trainers have to cancel that date we are now looking at dates to December 15th and January 26th to get that done so I know that the goal was to get it done this calendar year but it looks like it's going to have to push into next year any other staff comments okay we'll move this to council any council comments okay so then we'll move on to item 7 this is consent all items listed on consent will be enacted by one motion in the form of just a load there will be no separate discussion on these items prior to the time they council vote on the action unless a member of the council would request like to request a specific item being discussed for separate review it's seen then that if no one wants to pull an item I'll see if anyone would like to add a scene in motion I move the consent counter can we move from council member second from council member Peterson may have a roll call please council member I approve council member Kaiser council member Peterson I vice mayor's story I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 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