 Welcome back everyone to Capitol City Council meeting and we're going to go ahead and have an announcement from our clerk. Yes, good evening Mayor. Hello and welcome to the Capitol City Council meeting. In accordance with the current health orders in San Cruz County and in the state of California, 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 or a landline mobile phone, along with how to submit public comment during the meeting tonight, is available on our website cityofcapitola.org on the slides now shown and on the published meeting agenda. As always, this 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. The meetings can also be viewed live from the city's website and our technician tonight is Walter. Thank you. Thank you, Chloe. Thank you, Walter. Okay, 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. Okay, so now we're going to move on to item two, Presentations, and we are going to, it's item two eight, the proclamation for March 2021, American Red Cross Month. And I believe I have the honor of announcing the Mayor's proclamation designating March 2021 as American Red Cross Month. Whereas each year in March, jurisdictions across the country recognize the American Red Cross for humanitarian efforts during life emergencies, whether in Capitola, across the United States, or around the world, their dedication touches millions of lives each year as they carry out the organization's 140-year mission. Whereas every day, people in our community depend on the American Red Cross and as volunteers, donors, and community partners, their life-saving work is vital to strengthening our community's resilience. We recognize the volunteers, heroes in Capitola, and all those who support their work to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies. Now, nearly 200 years since the birth of American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, we dedicate this month of March to all those who continue to advance for noble legacy. We ask others to join in their commitment to care for people in need and support the organization's humanitarian mission. And now, therefore, I see that Brooks, Mayor of Capitola, do hereby proclaim March 2021 American Red Cross Month. Well, I am going to now ask, and I don't see her, on Ms. Agarro, are you there? She might still be connecting. This is very exciting for me, everyone. This is my first Mayor's proclamation, and what an honor it is to to designate March as American Red Cross Month. I believe what Agarro from the Red Cross wanted to say a few words, but I'm not sure if she's still on. Just give it one more second. Hi, Yvette. I'm Anita Clarice, and I'm here from the Red Cross. I know. And I'm sorry, I saw her on earlier, and I don't see her now. So, oh, no, I see her now. I see her, but I can't see her face or hear her. Right. Okay. Well, I'll speak for a second. I am the vice chair of the Central Coast Chapter of American Red Cross, and this is my first time being on one of these city council calls slash meetings, so I really appreciate the opportunity to join you all. This was really fun. And we have a lot of talking points, but I just want to say thank you very much for considering March Red Cross Month in the city of Capitola. We really appreciate your support and agree with all the notes you made and points you made about the Red Cross involvement in the community. So thank you very much for having us. Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, if she returned and we get to take a quick pause, we'll give her a second to say a few words as well. Thank you for stepping in, and thank you for all you do for our community. Yes, of course. Thank you. Okay. So we're now going to move on to item three, report out on closed session. Any additional members of the Central Health Code session on the items on the agenda and no action was taken? Okay, now, item four for additional materials. Do we have any additional materials for tonight's agenda? There were no additional materials for this agenda. Okay, and item five for additions and deletions to the agenda. Do we have any tonight? I would recommend pulling item eight D off consent, the update on the pandemic response. Okay, great. Thank you very much. I went ahead and noted that. Okay, now we're moving on to item six for public comments. Do we have any public comments this evening? Yes, Mayor Brooks, I see someone with their hand up is United Way of Santa Cruz County. Hello, can you hear me? Yes, we can. Hi, everyone. Good evening, Mary, that's Brooks, the capital city council member. My name is Amanda Gambon, and I'm a community impact coordinator for the youth action network in United States and United Way of Santa Cruz County. I wanted to thank you, Mayor Brooks and city manager Jamie Goldstein for meeting with us and sharing your commitment and continuing this partnership. We'd also like to acknowledge the city council member, Bertram, for his active role in the former youth violence prevention task force. I'm here today to ask the capital city council to support the community reformed youth action network at the United Way. The youth action network's goal is to create a collaborative network of youth organizations and leadership groups where we can center youth voice and leadership in decision making and support youth adult partnerships to create collective impact for community change. We see the need to respond differently, not by duplicating existing youth programs, but to partner with local jurisdictions, community agencies, and leaders to align and leverage resources for opportunities for positive youth development, county-wide. We see this as an opportunity for the city of Capitola to support youth voice and youth leadership at the local government level and build a bridge between local youth and policymakers. We know that involving youth and local community and making policies to create partnerships and creating partnerships with adults has the potential to promote positive youth development outcomes and benefit organizational development for city programs. And we would like to ask for this capital city council to you would like to ask the capital city council to have a council member represent and serve on the youth action network. And as we know COVID-19 and systemic racism continue to impact our community and we know how funding for youth development especially BIPOC youth is very critical for their overall youth overall well-being and our goal with the youth action network is to amplify the voices of BIPOC youth and all youth in our community where their visions and dreams of building a better community can be heard by community leaders, educators, and community members. With your support we would also like to ask for a request of two thousand five hundred to two thousand five hundred dollars to support youth from the city of Capitola and the youth action network. Your financial contributions with support coordination provides youth guidance, interest class building training, areas of youth development, facilitation and project management, job review and more. We envision the youth action network being a place to support enough with the next generation of leaders across the entire county. We plan to follow up and schedule a more in-depth presentation towards the leader month of spring in May and please reach out to us if you have any questions at any time. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much. Did Ms. Everill make it back on? I saw her come in and out. I don't see her. I don't see the red cross on or I'm sorry I see Ms. Clarice but I do not see the other person I'm sorry. Okay no no problem. I just wanted to double check before we moved on to council and staff comments. Okay well we're going to go ahead Ben and move on to item seven. This is city council and staff comments. We'll go ahead and begin with staff comments. Staff has any comments for choosing? Do we have any council comments? Council member Peterson? Thank you. Let's have three brief comments. The first one following your proclamation of American Red Cross Month ironically I looked over to my right and found some gems that I found recently in an antique store which are American Red Cross first aid tech books and water safety tech books from 1937 and 1945. Yeah they're pretty interesting. I found them in an antique store and my partner's a Red Cross volunteer so I got them for him but it just was coincidence that I looked over and saw him and thought oh I should show these because it was pretty interesting to find. So I wanted to share that fun today. The next thing I wanted to share as many of you know myself as well as Mayor Brooks have participated recently in some community meetings that address racial justice and equity throughout the city of Capitola and our region and really the audience and participants have expanded throughout the state of California and we have been working with a community member named Joy Flynn who has been our facilitator and helped us put these meetings together and I just wanted to congratulate her because we recently learned that she has been awarded one of the KSBW Jefferson awards and so I just wanted to put a shout out to joy for all the work that she does in our community and especially for the work that she has done to help us get this program underway over the last several months. And then finally I would be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to celebrate and and invite others to celebrate our assistant to the city manager Larry. Is he still on the line or did he leave because he didn't want me. There he is. Larry Lorette who will be celebrating the anniversary of his 21st birthday tomorrow. So congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I like it. It is the anniversary of my 21st. Thank you. That's all for me. Thank you. Councilmember, any other council comments? Okay. I'd just like to announce that I'm having holding a mayor mayor town hall series and the next one will be on March 16th and my special guest will be a new fire chief, Walbridge, and that will be at 6am for more information that's on the city's website. Thank you very much. Okay. And I see Ms. Avril can rave. I would love to go back to just take a second to call on Ms. Avril. We are ready when you are. Good evening. I am so sorry. I had technical difficulty and I was unable to get in and for some reason my camera is not coming on. So I apologize. It was quite fiasco trying to get in. But I heard Anita report out and she did a beautiful job and I just wanted to thank the council and all of you for recognizing Red Cross month this month. And as you know, it's been a crazy year. And as we went into this, we didn't know what it was going to be like, you know, trying to respond to disasters and that and as you know, we've had a number of disasters in our area and we got really creative with partners and that and we were sheltering evacuees and hotels, making sure everybody was getting fed and getting mental health support and everything that they needed. And I just wanted to thank our community for all that they have done to support the Red Cross and just recognize, you know, it took a lot of work for everybody to ensure that the well-being of our community was taken care of. If I could, it's like I don't know if you heard any of the statistics from the past year, but I'd just like to give you a few of those if I could. You can have a couple of minutes. Okay. So we were able over this last year, we were able to recruit 70,000 new volunteers and the Red Cross is 90% employed by volunteers support. So without our volunteers, we wouldn't be able to do the work that we do. So we just wanted to recognize all the great work that our volunteers have done, especially during this COVID environment where it wasn't, you know, always, you know, feeling, I guess, and we kept everybody safe as we could, but, you know, it wasn't always, I think, the best feeling having to go outside your home and that. And so we've been collecting blood and conglomerate plasma and trying to support the needs of those that have been suffering the COVID by collecting the conglomerate plasma. We're still doing classes, making sure that those that are on the front lines are continuing to stay current, you know, with our CPR and that. And just doing the work that we can and responding to disasters and being prepared. So just wanted to just share a few of those statistics and just some of that news. Thank you so much. You make it sound so easy. And I just want to, the statistics are astronomical. So thank you. And thank you to all of the volunteers and thank you for the coordination of such an amazing, amazing program or program. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. And I'm so sorry I wasn't able to get on. Don't be sorry. It's technology at its finest. It's your turn. So I get it. Thank you. And I'm trying to put my computer on mute right now and I have the blue circle going around as soon as I can. Maybe Larry, if you don't mind if you can help in this hour, I'll be keeping you. Thank you. And happy birthday, Larry. Okay. So now we're going to be moving on to item eight. All items listed in the consent calendar will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There'll be no separate discussion on these items prior to the time the council votes on the action unless the members of the city council raise specific items to be discussed for separate review. Items sold for separate discussion will be considered following general government. So this evening on consent will be I'll be asking council for a motion for items A, B, and C. Do I have a motion? I'll move adoption of A, B, and C. Okay. First from councilmember Bertrand. Second from councilmember Kaiser. Can I have a roll call, please? Councilmember Bertrand. I agree. Councilmember Kaiser. Aye. Councilmember Peterson. Aye. Vice Mayor Story. Aye. Mayor Brooks. Aye. Aye. The item passes unanimously. All right, we're now going to be moving on to item nine, general government. And this is item nine A, recreation report and essay on summer 2021 program. And Ms. Brandt, this is your item. Good evening Mayor, councilmember. Thank you very much. I'm going to take a minute and share my screen with you, which then we're going to jump to the slide. You can everybody do this, okay? All right. I see he's nodding. Excellent. All right. So the item before you tonight is recreation report as well as update on summer program. So as you all may remember, we are rapidly approaching our year anniversary when we entered into this pandemic. Before the pandemic began, recreation regularly provided the community with a classes program, predominantly for adults and seniors operated out of the Jude Street Community Center. Classes were fitness, art classes, anything, really anything that might be of interest to the community. We also provided a successful junior guard program to a regular thousand participants during the summer. Camp Capitola also operated. We had a adult softball league. We had a brand new after school rec club that was hosted at New Brighton Middle School and planned to operate that again. We had also begun to provide new events, food truck events to our local community as well as providing winter movie series out of the community center. And it hoped to be able to provide those again. But as we all know, with the onset of the pandemic, a lot of things began to change. So recreation needed to as well adapt and modify. One of the first programs that we were able to modify around April was providing online classes, taking the classes that existed here in the community center, working with those contractors and assisting them to move on to an online platform. We provided the community service and phone support in order to assist many of the participants to get on the Zoom platform and be ready to make this transition. We currently provide about 240 participants each month on this online platform for our online classes. Also in the summer of 2020, with brand new guidance, we were able to modify our junior guard program and using the stable group guidance that existed for child care and continues to We made modifications to junior guard program. It was smaller than what our typical capacity was and only operated in the morning. Since you may remember, we had some beach closures during the summer and we did a shift in the hours of operation and provided just one a.m. session. It operated on a two week cycle and we offered ultimately five sessions throughout the summer for the participants. A small program but a successful program as it was one of six programs that was actually able to operate in the state last summer. We also did modifications to Camp Capitola operated out of the community center, again using the guidance for stable groups and provided purely day long programs. So the half day programs or early care or extended care was not able to happen under the modification for COVID. We also developed some new programs that were completely developed purely for COVID modification. The first one that we provided was the out of school time program, also known as OST. This program started in September and it is a distance learning support and recreation activity program. It's currently operating out of the community center. We also partnered with Shoreless Community Church to have pods available at that site as well. This program was provided to some community elementary school district students and later on in the fall we partnered developed a partnership with County Park in order to provide a more affordable feed to the participants in that program. To still be able to provide fun and exciting events for families while we were trying to find fun ways to do fun things with COVID, we partnered with the Capitola Hotel Chamber of Commerce to provide the Halloween car cruise. This was a fun event where families decorated their cars, met at Capitola Mall and led by the Capitola Police Department who was also a key part of the group developing the ultimate route that the crews would go on in partnership with the Chamber. And then as was said, we heard it everybody and led the crews on its route and ended at the James Street Community Center where all of the youth in cars received a prepackaged bag of treats that was gathered from the legwork of the Chamber with donations for putting together those two bags, triple two bags. I feel like it was very successful that we had lots of feedback and ultimately it felt really great to provide something really fun to the community. We also as a new offering that could be done with a COVID mindset provided the reflections of 2020 art contest. This art contest was designed in partnership with the Arts and Cultural Commission and was provided to the community in two phases. The first phase was the digital gallery where artists submitted digital images of their artwork created under the scene reflections of 2020. And that digital gallery was housed on the City of Capitola's website and then ultimately judged by some community member judges identified top winners from each division in that digital gallery. And then just recently, just this past weekend, the those digital gallery winners moved to the public choice display which was held at the band stand on what turned out to be a lovely Saturday where the public got to come and do a socially distanced one-way walking tour of those 18, 17 pieces that made it to the as the finalist of the digital gallery. You got to view them in person and then through an online voting card make their choice for the top winners. And so in a slight break of flow in a presentation, I'm going to share with you the top winners as breaking news. So the winner of the youth division for the public choice was the Mac by Ayla Bonney. So this is our youth division winner. The novice division as guided by Holly Perhol. And the professional division was a walk through darkness by Stacey Rodriguez. So we're very excited to share with you these three beautiful pieces. All of these individuals were top prize winners and their artwork will be displayed within the city. So in moving on to looking at the future, we have another fun family event quickly approaching that has also been developed with the Capitola Crotel Chamber of Commerce as well as participating village businesses. And that is the Capitola Easter eggs scavenger hunt. Youth will be able to get game cards either from picking them up at certain locations or downloading them and printing them off at home and then search for these hidden eggs which are laminated colorful laminated eggs that participating businesses will hide within their shop. And the youth will be able to find those eggs, score them on a game card and redeem them for prize eggs at the June Street Community Center. Looking a little further into the future, we are planning for Junior Guard 2021. Currently, there is no updated guidance that would impact Junior Guard or case. So we are still functioning off of the same original guidance that was provided in, it was like July, late July, 2029, I think, from 2020. And our hopeful that we will be receiving new guidance soon. But currently under what we are able to provide, it would again operate in two week long sessions for four sessions total. But this summer, however, we are planning to offer an AM as well as a PM, time block for those programs. Capitola will again operate in much the same way as it operated in the past. Again, hopeful that we will have some guidance that will allow us to either expand the number of youth that we are able to provide within a single group, or alter some of the ways that we have to do staffing, thereby also potentially opening up more enrollment capacity for both Junior Guard as well as Capitola. And then I were proposing, excuse me, a new potential program. And that would be Capitola Family Camp. So the Capitola Family Camp would be a community building opportunity that has the ability to be COVID friendly. Also, the program would be an affordable three night program that would operate from August 6 to August 9. Participants that would register per participant, lodging, mails, as well as staff activities would be included in the same price. And we would hope to open registration on April 15 for this program. The retreat center that Family Camp would be happening at would require a minimum number of registration and that minimum number of paying participants, which would be 45, we would need to register at least that minimum before June 21 in order for the operation to continue. Family Camp, if we were to offer this program would not operate in the purple tier in the events that August were to take a step back from where we currently are. And we are still waiting on updated guidance for Family Camp that would be impacting. Currently, there are a number of private retreat centers that are operating these kinds of programs under hospitality and restaurant guidance. The American Campus Association has been working towards getting some clear guidance and actually just this afternoon, the state issued their first guidance for overnight, overnight camp. It's not very informative yet and we're expecting to have more information. But this afternoon it was nice to see some forward progress in that guy. The speed schedule will be brought to council for consideration at the March 25th meeting. So as far as fiscal impacts, the junior guard and camp capital programs already have approved budgets in this fiscal year. And if Family Camp were to move forward, a budget for that would be included in the proposed FY21-22 budget as all of the expected expenses would occur in the next budget. So my recommendation for tonight is to receive a report regarding recent recreation division activity and plan summer programs, including the new proposed capital Family Camp. And I am available for questions. Thank you very much. I see Council Member Keiser-Kanley. Thanks, Nikki. The Easter Egg thing sounds really cool. I think that's a great way to sort of segue COVID style. I had a question about the Family Camp. Is there a specific retreat center that you're talking with to hold that? Yeah, so we have it. I have kind of a penciled in a some dates at a specific site in order to make sure that we have an idea. It would be located in the foothills of the Sierra outside of Jackson. However, it would be possible that we might be able to move it to a different location depending upon availability if we needed to. If there wasn't any change in appropriate guidance or something along the line. Oh, okay. Cool. That was just great. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Council Member Batraves? Yeah. So for the Family Camp, like a family of two, three, four, five or something like that, are you going to entertain like a group setting or a whole bunch of people get together and sort of share a space together? Right. So families would book their rooms as a family group. And there are at various retreat centers, particularly this one, there are rooms that have the ability to just house four people. So it would be like a room with two bunk beds, for example. There are also larger rooms or larger cabins that have the ability to sleep eight people in that particular cabin. So as different families and households register for this program, they would ultimately input information that would say like we are a family of five and then indicate whether they would be interested in the cabin lodging or whether they'd be interested in a dormitory style lodging. So we would have those placements that would best fit the size of the family. But the family would be in a room that would be all to themselves, allowing for a similar to like staying in a hotel room. And then the rest of the programming is outside. And so we would have a guidance for providing recreational activities outside to conduct activities such as playing volleyball or going for a hike or swimming outdoors or a number of other recreation activities that would be able to occur on the site. These are places, like you mentioned, that have been doing this as a business. So they're well established, is that it? Well, so the retreat centers are have been, I don't know how long in particular this retreat center has been going, but it's been well established for quite some time. The operation of this is there are several, this particular retreat center is not something that has been operating as they predominantly do with winter. Thank you. Any other questions from council? Okay, no hands raised. I'll go ahead and take this to the audience. Do we have any questions from our audience this evening? Mayor Brooks, I do not see any attendees at this time. And you're sure, but I do not see any emails either on the site. So we'll bring this back to council for deliberation and I'm just checking. This is just a report, right? You don't need any approval at this point. Am I reading that correctly? Okay. I do have, oh, sorry, Council Member Bertrand, did you have a comment? I'll be on mute, Council Member. Oh, one more time. There it is. Okay. Yeah, I'm trying to use the space bar now. I think this is a great idea and it has the potential to become a tradition for the city of Capitola. There's other cities that do this. San Francisco is one and even schools do it like UC Berkeley. So, you know, people go for years and years, you know, because they make friends there and, you know, it becomes an annual thing. So I think this is a great idea. Thanks for coming up with it. I absolutely agree. Any other council comments? Okay. Nikki, I just wanted, well, first, thank you. The Out of School program has been such a success and I just heard that great feedback from so many community members and I appreciate you putting that together at the last minute. I mean, it's such a thriving program and I love all the ideas and I'm looking forward to the Easter eggs hunts or scavenger hunts. One thing I wanted to mention, we had a speaker earlier just at the beginning of today's agenda and they were talking about some sort of collaborative youth action network and I don't know if this is something for like summer or anything like that but or anything that Parks and Rec could take on but perhaps this could be something a collaborative opportunity for us and perhaps staff can come back with some more information on that and set something that would fall within Parks and Rec department. Okay. Well, there's no action at this time. I'm sorry. No, no, probably just you were talking and made me think of something. So Nikki, you mentioned you're doing something with the Community Church on Monterey. Is that correct? So the Shore Life Community? Sure. Yeah, I was wondering about that. So they are one of our additional sites for the OSQ program in order to be able to provide for as many students as possible in the OSQ program we partnered with them to use two of their rooms on that site. Yeah, I vaguely remember that. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Okay, we're going to now move on to item 9B. And Jamie, can you let me know? Am I correct in that we don't need any action at this time for this item? I'm going to take that as a... You're correct. Sorry, my computer takes a little bit to flip it on. All right. I don't want to jump again. I don't want to miss anything. So I appreciate that. Okay, item 9B, fiscal year 2021, mid-year budget update. And I see Mr. Malberg live you now. Thank you and good evening, Mayor and Council members. Let me take them all with to share my screen. Can you all say that? Okay. So as you just mentioned, this is the... Mr. Malberg, do you want us to see your notes or can you extend your screen so we can see it a little bit bigger? This is the tricky part, the display setting, right? Is that better? Yes. So as you mentioned, this is the fiscal year 2021, mid-year budget update. And in being consistent with COVID times, it's a little different this year. This is our third budget update rather than our first budget update for this year. So some financial highlights. Sales tax is performing about... It's fairly close to last year. Through December, we're just under $4 million of sales tax versus about 4.2 last year. We're 5.8 percent above our amended budget, which has been reduced by 10 percent from the priority year. The TOT is tracking pretty close to projections right now. We're at just under $749,000 versus about $921 in the priority year. We've received basically two-thirds of our budget through half of the year, so tracking pretty well. We'll see how January and February play out. But just as a reminder, our amended budget was reduced by 30 percent from the priority year. Originally, that was 70, so through our last two budget amendments, we raised that up quite a bit. Parking revenue also performing close to current projections were a little over $381,000 through December versus about $463,000 in the priority year. We've received about 59 percent of our budget, which was reduced by 25 percent from the priority year. And expenditures are down a little over $1.9 million, or 21 percent from the priority year. And tracking pretty close to budget right now. On the revenue side of things, you can see that taxes, we've received 47 percent at the midway point. That's pretty normal as we don't get our second property tax payment until around April. We're down a little over $158,000, or 2.7 percent from the priority year. License and permits is actually up a little bit, which is a little interesting. Business license and encroachment permits are down, but building permits and planning permits are up, so that's making up the difference by an extra $1800 from the priority year. The inner governmental is way higher than last year, and that's related to the CARES Act funding that we got last year and the OSU revenue that we're receiving from the county. It looks low, it's because the OSU money comes in in a few years, so that'll catch up as we get the last two payments over the next three or four months or so. Charges for services down almost 34 percent, which we anticipated is tracking a little bit better than budget, that's 52 percent. Client and forfeiture is kind of a similar story, it's down 16 percent, but tracking right about where we expected it to be. Use of property and money is down, that's basically interest earnings, interest rates are going way down, and but it's a small dollar amount. We do have some CDs that are outside of these numbers that are accruing interest that we'll pull down in June, that'll make this number a lot closer to budget. And then other revenue is tracking on budget and 33 percent higher than last year, and that's the two things driving that. We received a $36,000 donation for the police department canine program, it was 12 payments over the last year, we just received a final payment just this week, and then our memorial PAC program is tweaking that double when it normally does for some reason, so that's boosting revenues a little bit there. So overall revenues were at 47 percent at the midway point, and down about a little over 5 percent from prior year, or almost $400,000. So as I mentioned, we've amended the budget twice already, so the budget amendments here are really just to provide a better reflection of where we think these revenues are going. So our first recommendation on the revenue side is to increase our sales tax. It's currently about $195,000 over budget at mid-year, so we'd like to increase that by $187,000. Reason being is the cannabis business tax is just starting much slower than we anticipated. It's starting to pick up now, we're at about $102,000, and I think we'll pretty easily hit the 187, usually, but we'll hit the 187, and just as a reminder, last year at this time we only have $16,000, so that's a new revenue source that's kind of still in the process of building up. The overall impact of the infection at zero to the general fund is going to increase, and there's a decrease. From a performance standpoint, so as I just mentioned, Bradley Burns, we'd like to change that from being 10% below current or prior to your budget to 63 quarters. Measure O, measure F, and TOT revenue, budgets we'd like to leave the same. Canada's business tax cut that budget by 50% to get down to the $187,500, which is really probably where we'll end up this year, and then parking revenues, recreation classes, recreation stores, advance, and other stuff we'd like to leave as they are. The recreation revenues, although they look low, well they are low, but there's offsetting expenditures that don't happen in those activities, so it's not overly concerning that those are low because the expenditure side is also low. And on the expenditure side, so as of right now, personnel or mid-year, we're at 53.4% of budget. Again, that's pretty standard because we prepaid the UAL payment, which was $1.7 million this year. So that as we kind of spread that out over the year, that never gets boring. We're down 5.1% from prior year, or 273,000. Contract services are down 33% from last year, but tracking a little bit better than we really had budgeted. So a lot of savings going on in contract services right there. Training memberships are down from prior year, almost 47%, and tracking better than budget. Coming in at 37% of our budget. Supplies are down 25% from prior year on the expenditure side, and tracking a little bit better than budget. And then the internal service funds and other financing uses are right on budget. And those are really transfers that we control, so those should always be right on budget. So total expenses were 51.3% of our budget halfway through the year. Again, down 21% are a little over $1.9 million from prior year. So pretty much tracking right where we expected it after amending the budget two times earlier this year. As a general fund summary, so really there's no change overall to the total numbers, so we still are showing a little over $15 million in revenues for the 50-year offset by about $14.3 million in expenditures. That will increase our fund balance by $768,000. And as you recall, during the December budget review, following the tax recommendations that the council designated $600,000 as what I'm calling kind of a general fund stabilization account that just helps us mitigate if things go a little bit south. Doesn't sound like they will at this point, but if they do, we have that money to kind of smooth things out and not have to go back and make drastic cuts, which if we leave all of this in place, that'll leave us with an ending fund balance or estimated ending fund balance in June of a little under $850,000. As far as other funds outside of the general fund on the consent agenda tonight, there was a contract for housing administration consulting, so this rather than do two resolutions and two budget amendments, we just kind of approve that contract and this is just putting that into the budget. And also, if you recall, we were awarded the CDBGCB1 grant in January, and this is just kind of holding in and getting those revenue and expenditures into the budget. I'm sure you all have heard that President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan this afternoon, which was a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan. Total 8 has bounced around between $130,000,000 and $120,000,000 and it ended up at $130,000,000,000, which leaves $65,000,000 for city funding and our estimated, we've received an estimated amount from the League of Cities and our estimated amount is $1.88 million. They're going to split that into what they call tranches. They're basically splitting it into two payments, 12 months apart. So the clock starts today, or maybe it starts tomorrow since the President signed it into law today. The federal government has 60 days to get the first payment out to all of the agencies for Capitola as a non-entitlement CDBG population under $50,000. Our money goes to the state before it comes to the city. So we have 60 days for the fed to release the funds and then 30 days for the state. So as of right now, we're looking at the first half of our payment coming in there later than mid-June and then the second installment would be mid-June of 2022. From what we're hearing, cities can use the funds from Revenue Law through to COVID-19 and there are some new changes that allow CDBG funds for infrastructure such as water sewer and broadband. And there's been a little confusion, but these funds cannot be used to cut taxes or to fund our UAL. Those are basically the only prohibitive things I've heard so far on this. So this is pretty exciting news. Just as a reminder, we have our Capital Award project. We currently have a $1.2 million budget that's from Measure F funding. We spent about $300,000, even a little over $900,000. We've also received a $1.9 million coastal conservancy grant. So that takes our total current funding up to just about $2.8 million. Our project cost estimate at this time is really about this in the $5 to $7 million range. And as far as the status, we're waiting on the final two permits, which we anticipate being approved by summer this year, which means we could actually put this project out to Zib in fall of this year. And then once construction starts, there's a nine-month construction window. And I bring this up because on the coastal conservancy grant, I believe we have to spend that money within the next couple of years or we could potentially have it reduced or leave it. So during the fiscal year, the 21-22 budget adoption process, we'll have to start identifying how to fund that project and what that project's going to look like as far as scaling the size of the project. For community grants, I'm going to actually turn these next couple of slides over to Larry. This is more in his wheelhouse to go over the community grant program. Thank you, Jim. Mayor Breft's council members, I just want to kind of go over where we stand in the community grant program. If you remember, in fiscal year 2021, the council did not fund the community grant program due to projected revenue decreases due to COVID. And just for reference, in the prior fiscal year, 1920, the community grant expenditure was approximately $222,000 from general fund and an additional $28,000 from the dedicated TOT tax with East Early Childhood and Youth program. Grantee is last received payments from the city in due to 2020. Normally, when the project is funded, they receive a payment in December and one in June. As well aware, staff has been working as well as the council working to secure other funding sources for some past grantees that fit into the CDBG CARES Act funding. The programs that are funded through CDBG totaled approximately $121,000 of the $222,000 in 2019-20. And just to remind, you know, none of the Early Childhood and Youth program grant recipients received CDBG funding for those programs. Jim, can you slide? Thank you. Just a reminder, these are the following programs that were approved for funding in CDBG round one, Community Bridges, The Meals on Wheels Lifeline, and these are specific programs. It isn't the organization as a whole. It's the programs, gray bears for their food distribution, and Second Harvest Food Bank. So we're here to let you know the direction we, or the recommendation we have at this point. If the council desires to fund a community grant program in this fiscal year, we recommend the following. Open up the application process for the programs not receiving CDBG funding. We have concerns that if we receive, if we funded these programs through our community grant program, it might impact their ability to receive the CDBG funding this year. Form an ad hoc submitting to review the applications. And then direct staff to return to the council when more information is known about how this fund, how the federal funding can be used to determine the program funding source and amount. And that's all I have on this, just one. Okay. So just to go over what our fiscal year 2021-22 budget process is going to look like, and these are all tentative dates. When I put the slide together, I realized that I never actually took the budget calendar for council approval. So I will have that at our next meeting. But these are the tentative dates that we have right now. Getting the proposed budget distributed to council by April 30th, special city council meetings and budget hearings May 5th, May 20th, June 2nd, and June 17th. We typically, in a normal year, get it done in the first two. I think last year we used all three, but we always set four of these meetings just in case we have the need. The finance and vice committee will be conducting a meeting, the regular meetings on April 20th and June 15th, and then a special meeting on May 4th, the way in on the proposed budget once it's distributed and then target budget adoption on June 24th. We did discuss actually all of this information that you're receiving this evening at our last back meeting in February, and the three recommendations that came from the back were to accept staff's recommendation on the budget amendments for the sales tax and the cannabis business tax, maintain the $600,000 set aside as a COVID-19 contingency, and then the fact committed to conducting a special meeting to discuss the American rescue plan once it was signed by Joe Biden, by President Biden, which happened today. So once I start getting kind of detailed and writing, which I think will happen relatively quickly, I'll reach out to the back and set up that special meeting. So staff's recommended that the action for this evening is to receive a fiscal year 2021 with your budget update and the proposed resolution on the fiscal year 2021 budget, consider the back recommendations and provide direction to staff, and then provide any additional direction to staff on any of the other programs, community grants or anything else that may come up. And with that, I'm happy to take any questions. Thank you. Okay, so I share a story. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Larry. Jim, I had a question. My question was about the cannabis tax. Do we know why it underperformed in the last fiscal year, and is that likely to continue that trend? And I'm speculating a little bit here. The thing that I do know is it took them longer to get open up than originally anticipated. So that was, there was a delay in both shops getting open. So we were behind at the end of last calendar year and kind of lagging into this year. I'm also getting the feeling because we did quite a bit of research reaching out to the county and other cities on what their stores were generating. And ours just aren't generating that. So I'm starting to wonder if there's some market saturation and that the amount of people that utilize those services are fixed amount and the more stores we have just kind of spread that out. But I don't know that for sure, that kind of doesn't mean speculating. Yeah, thank you. Maybe it'll take more experience to determine what a steady state may be. Larry, if I may, Mayor, Larry, my question for you is on your process, the procedure for community grants, I didn't hear you mention us setting aside a certain sum of money in advance before putting out RFPs for applications. Yes, Council Member Story, that's correct. Because of the uncertainty on how the funds the Federal American Care Act, I think that's the term can be used. We want to find out more information of that to help the Council make that decision on the funding about the source. The idea was to go out for applications and then that would give staff as well everyone to understand what the implications are with those funds and then review those grants once we have a better idea of that. Okay, thanks. Any other questions from Council? I do have one question about that staff recommendation on the application process. I know that we had optimum solutions suggest updates to the application process by approving this this evening. Would that include those updates to the application or automatically or is it something that the subcommittee you were expecting them to do? What was the process on that before we say to for them to go out? Yes, thank you Mayor Brooks. Actually, staff had made those changes and was going to be presenting those changes to the Council when we started to talk about that. But I think at this point we would move forward with the application as it stands. We did make the changes recommended by optimum solutions to that application. I think the changes in this framework aren't significant. I think there's still some work to be done. I think if the Council would like to, if the Council desires to fund this in 2021, we would probably want to get that out those applications out relatively soon. But we did make the recommended changes prior to the changes in the program. Vice Mayor Storey, did you have another question? No, I did not. Sorry. Okay, well I see no other questions at this time. We'll go ahead and if we can check if you have any public comments or questions. Mayor Brooks, I do not see any public comments on this item. Okay, thank you. So I'll bring it back to Council for deliberation and emotion. Council Member Peterson. Thank you. Thank you to staff and to the fact for providing recommendations and all the work that they've put into this. I would like to move forward in providing direction to staff to open up the applications for the community grant funding and creating an ad hoc committee of the Council to consider those applications. And then as staff mentioned, reviewing the funding that would be available for them after the fact. But as was noted, I think it's important to get those applications off of these underway as soon as possible. So if there's consensus among the Council, I would like to recommend that we provide that direction to staff. And then I will also make a motion to adopt the recommended action as presented on the screen right now along with the direction that I just suggested. We'll start coming up. Okay. We have a first and a second. Any other comments or questions? Vice Mayor Storey. Yes, thank you. I wanted to ask whether as a part of the motion we could identify the Council members that will serve on that subcommittee. And I'm happy to see Councilwoman Peterson and Mayor Brooks serving that role. So that can be considered an amendment for the motion on the floor. I'll accept that as a friendly amendment. Council Member Bertrand. I'd express an interest in being on that committee also. So I'm just curious how interested people are. I'm interested in being on the ad hoc committee. I'd like to stay with it only because I've been part of the process from the beginning when we first started considering how we were going to revamp the community grant process a couple years back. And so I'd like to stay with it having the kind of experience and knowledge of where it's been in the past. And I'd like to be honest also, having been on the fact when we addressed this over many years, you know, it's quite an issue trying to decide what programs to be on. So I've been part of that process as a member of the fact. Okay. Unfortunately, we can't have three Council members on the subcommittee. Council Member Bertrand, I'm still very interested in maintaining on the ad hoc committee. And Council Vice Mayor Stor made the motion. Are you not prepared to accept the friendly amendment at this time? No, I'd like to have a different way to deal with this issue. Maybe at the next meeting. Okay. So would you be willing to accept the friendly amendment on the table at this time? No, what I'm saying is I'd like to have this dealt with at the next meeting. Because I'm very interested in being on this committee. You would like the whole issue of the community grants all together to be dealt with at the next meeting? Because that's a delay. We're talking about the friendly amendment. So I just like that particular issue to be dealt with at the next meeting. I think we need to move ahead. But as far as how the committee is going to be composed, I think we're moving too fast on that. Can I just just to clarify, if we were to bring this forward at another meeting, would you be asking for a vote on it? Because we could also, I think if I'm not mistaken, we could also do that this evening. Or if you're looking for a time for additional conversation followed by a vote, that's understandable also. Yeah, I think so. So I'd like the committee here to consider myself also, since I've had a lot of experience with this issue, particularly as a member of the FAC. Okay. Samantha, if we have a motion and a friendly amendment on the table at this time, and Council Member Burchand is not prepared to continue with the second of its time, for lack of a better word. Yes, it does, ma'am. Okay. I'm going to use this opportunity, though, to add an additional amendment. Is that okay to, or I'm going to make a new motion? If that's all right, I think that's the next step. So I'm going to go ahead and I want to make some proposals to the mid-year budget. There's two opportunities that were presented to me, and I wanted to present them to Council this evening because we would need to amend the mid-year budget. The two items that I like to present to Council, one is Council already decided that they would like to move forward with implicit bias training. And I had mentioned an interest in also having city staff trained as well. And so I'd like to suggest that we, I'm now blanking on the words, but put aside $5,000 for implicit bias training for Council and for city staff. I know that staff has been working on this for some time, but I just didn't want us to forget that we talked about this and that there will be funding. I know Vice Mayor Story was wanting a number at the last time, so I just wanted to bring that forward as to Council this evening. And then the second item I'd like to propose to Council this evening is a county-wide event project proposed by Santa Cruz County Parks Department. It is a three-month summer project, and Santa Cruz County Parks will be putting together what they call the Art Hype Challenge. And what they do is they set up an art solicited by them from local artists in each one of the cities and in our parks. And then they have a scavenger hunt and there's prizes. And the whole point is to show that we're collaborating with other cities as we move out of the pandemic. And it just, I think it ignites movement and healthiness and just, you know, we're trying to come out of the pandemic. And so I think this is just the lovely opportunity for the city of Capitola to participate in. And that amount, I was looking at the Public Arts Fund. Right now, there's approximately $175,000 in public arts. And looking at the language, it looks like this project, this program, was all right under and that is about $5,000 as well for the three-month program with the other cities. So I'd like to make a motion to include those two projects in the mid-year budget as well as adopting the open of the application and the ad hoc committee and the items expressed in the staff recommendation and to have councilmember Peterson and myself on the ad hoc committee. So if anyone's open to a motion. I just have a rule here just to Samantha. So the thing that didn't go through was the substitute motion. Sam, as far as I know, still has the motion on the floor. I just did not agree to the substitute motion. So my understanding is we have a motion on the floor and, you know, we still need to address that. I wasn't sure if I was going to decline. Sorry, Kristen. Yeah. So that motion is still on the floor. Sam made a and that substitute, excuse me, that addition did not get passed. So we still have to deal with the original motion. I think that councilmember Story made a motion for a friendly amendment to councilmember Peterson's motion. And then councilmember Peterson agrees to the friendly amendment, but you are correct on councilmember Bertrand. You did not, you have seconded it, you did not agree. So now councilmember Peterson's motion is still on the floor. Councilmember Peterson, if you would like to withdraw that as fine. Alternatively, Mayor Brooks, you could offer your motion as a substitute motion to councilmember Peterson's motion. Or you can offer a vote on councilmember Peterson's motion. Councilmember Peterson, would you be open to my substitute motion? Yes. Okay. So we have a substitute motion on the table at this time. So, Samantha, help me out. So now that I call for a second, you're muted. I apologize. And so now it will councilmember Bertrand second that motion, the substitute motion. Councilmember Bertrand, would you be open to seconding the motion that I proposed this evening? The only part about this, as I expressed earlier, is that I feel that the constitution of the committee is moving a little too fast. We haven't talked about it. And I feel I'm very qualified, probably more than anyone else on the board here, because I've worked on this issue for many years on the, as a member of the fact. So I would like that to be considered at the next meeting. Everything else that you proposed, I have no problem with. It's fine with me. Can we just clarify, this is a substitute motion and not an amendment to my motion. So we don't need the same person to second it, correct? I think you actually do. I can actually look, if you'll give me, we'll give you two things. I can look it up and it was emerged right now. I think you actually do, but I could be wrong. What if I withdraw my motion altogether? Any vet's motion stands on its own, correct? That is the cleanest way to do it. Okay. Then I'll withdraw my motion and second event. Thank you. Okay. So we have a first and a second on the table. Does everyone understand the motion that's on the table? I just want to offer clarity again. So yeah, no problem. So our council members, the motion on the table is to adopt staff recommendation. And part of that staff recommendation is a ad hoc committee, the ad hoc committee which consists of council member Peterson and myself. There are two additional items that require budget, kind of, will require some budget or some money from our current budget. And the first one is training. So I'm asking council to agree to using $5,000 of our budget for implicit bias training. And I'm also asking council for $5,000 to out of the public arts fund to run a summer program with the Santa Cruz County Parks non-profit organization. So that is the motion on the table. I believe I covered all of council member Peterson's item she brought forward earlier. So we have a first and a second. May I have roll call for you? Council member Bertrand. I'm sorry. Are there any questions before I move forward? Yeah, I have not. Vice mayor's story. Yeah. Thank you. Just on the funding for the implicit bias training, I wanted to affirm that it will be voluntary for staff. And I also wanted to clarify that for the $5,000 of the Santa Cruz County Parks arts program, there will be an event that will happen in one of Capitol Parks. Yeah, we better get one. Yeah, no, absolutely. It's over a span of three months, but we'll choose one part. And we would have our community arts there. I believe they do set up a few events throughout the summer to where they put up a booth and hand out masks and they do that at all the other cities, but there would be a standing thing at one of our parks. Yeah. And then I believe with and Jamie, you can chime in here, but I believe we can't require implicit bias training. And that would just actually be something that I would leave to council or to Jamie to move forward with staff on on on his side of it. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. So can we have a pipe in real quick? So we're going to change because we're doing this by resolution and the budget amendment. I have as an attachment. I've actually heard about the park and built a new budget amendment attachment resolution. So if you don't mind, I'll quickly share my screen just so you can see how that changes the attachment on the implicit bias training. We have we have plenty of money in our training budget. We don't really need to amend our budget to be able to fit that in. Plus, I believe we get reimbursed from our insurance carrier for a portion of it. And so we just be adding the 5000 or the public art and I will share that real quick just so you can see how that changes. Can you see that? So it's just the very bottom row 29 on there, the very bottom line. It's just under under other funds. I'm adding $5000 for art and public places. So just so you know what the attachment to the resolution will look like. Okay. Any other unions being asked from us? Council Member Bertrand, I believe you're muted. Do you have another question? Oh, there. I got to get this thing. So Sam said something about the participation in the training is a voluntary thing. So I think the best way to describe it is that we're working on a number of different options for training. Really, the city has your different sort of types of employees. We have our sworn officers. We have our miscellaneous employees under the city council. So we're developing a number of different options and we plan to come back to the city council in April to have a more full discussion about what the different shape and form of these trainings can look like. So we're not really prepared to have the conversation this evening because we haven't done all the homework yet, but we do plan to get back in front of the council in the next couple of meetings with the plan. Yeah, because some of these things are state required and those are required because the state of California requires it. But you know anything other than that I don't know if it's voluntary or required. So I appreciate that clarification. Yeah, that's right. We'll have a more full discussion about it in the community. Great. Okay. I believe we're ready for a roll call. No. Council Member Kaiser. Aye. Vice Mayor Story. Aye. Mayor Brooks. Aye. Okay. Thank you very much. Now we're going to move on. We're going to bring back item 8D, receive an update on the pandemic response and I believe this is our city manager's item. Mayor Brooks, Council, can you sit here? I'm going to share my screen. Is that working all right? Great. So I pulled this off the consent item because we had some developments here this week, particularly that we transitioned our state COVID tier. But we won't skip ahead too far. First, I just want to quickly share our numbers. You know, what I realize is that the total case number isn't that useful a number. But where we are in the county right now, just in terms of understanding where we are, is we have about five and a half percent of the population has been diagnosed with COVID. In Capitola, we're a bit less, just over four percent. In the state of California, the number is closer to around nine percent. So Santa Cruz County is doing a little bit better than 50 percent better than the state. Capitola is doing a little bit better than the average in the county. A new data point, which I'm sort of happy to start reporting on, as we do this moving forward, is that there's been almost 100,000 vaccine doses administered in our county. It doesn't mean 100,000 people have been vaccinated. That means 100,000 doses. So I would assume that at least a third of those are more went to second doses. But we're still making great progress in terms of getting ourselves towards herd immunity, which we need. This is the case count over time. This is from the New York Times, actually. I find this a nice tool to sort of compare and see how the cases are going versus the county's data presentation, just because we have the 14-day average line. And you can see that real high peak that we hit towards the mid-end of January. And then you can see our cases declining. You'll note that we did actually end up with some a few higher days here, right here this week. So as a little bit concerning, right as we went into the red stage, there were a couple days that were higher, but then today was back down where we would hope to see it. So relatively good news overall in terms of the trajectory of this. And also I'll just note that these colors don't correspond to the colors that we think of in terms of this purple is not the purple tier. This is the way the New York Times characterizes risk. That's all. So as I mentioned, we moved into the red tier on March 10th, just yesterday. What that does, that was after 16 weeks in the purple tier, and then the stay-at-home order that we had through this winter, it means that retail cannot increase to 50% capacity. Restaurants can now open for 25% capacity indoors. Museum, places of worship, movie theaters can open for 25% capacity, and gyms can actually be open for limited capacity as well. So it is opening the economy a bit, not all the way by instructing the imagination, but it's a step in the right direction. I also want to call your attention to a couple other items that are on this agenda for consideration this evening. The first is that we went back and looked at all of the different emergency orders that were issued around the COVID pandemic, and we discovered that the first emergency order that closed the upper lots was actually, oh, and prohibited the shade structures on Capitol Beach, was technically still in effect, as well as the closure of the parks and skate parks that we issued back in April. And so those actually were, frankly, we've been operating under different guidance for quite a while. So you had another emergency order for consideration this evening, which rescinds those earlier orders to put in place what is considered the best practices at this time. So parking lots are open, shade structures okay on the beach and the parks would be open. I also just want to call everybody's attention to where we are in the vaccination strategy. We are in what we call phase 1B. That means that individuals 65 and over, and people who work in education and childcare, food and agriculture, or in the broader rubric of emergency services are now eligible to get a vaccine. I would encourage everybody to do so if they can. We heard, I think, in Biden's speech this evening, suggesting that we were going to be seeing the U.S. have acquired enough vaccines to vaccinate everyone in the country before the end of May. So exciting developments, and I think it's time for everyone to go out there and do their best to get the vaccine. So the recommendation this evening is to approve the resolution that ratifies first emergency order for this year that rescinds the first two emergency orders from last year, and then make a determination that the hazards related to the coronavirus pandemic still exist, and there's a need for continued action without them available for questions. Do we have any council questions at this time? Any questions from the audience? Mayor Brooks, I do not see anyone with their hands raised or email on this topic. Okay, we'll bring this back to council for deliberation and a vote. Councilmember Betrayed. Councilmember, I believe we're muted still. Okay, I got used to it. I'd like to approve the, excuse me, move the recommended action to approve the resolution round and find the emergency order and make a determination that all hazards related earlier are basically, I can't read it on my screen. I'll second it. Okay, we have a first and a second to move staff recommendations. Can I have any other comments or questions? Okay, can I have a roll call? Councilmember Bertrand. I agree. Councilmember Kaiser. Hi. Councilmember Peterson. Hi. Vice Mayor Story. Hi. Mayor Brooks. Hi. Okay, the item passes unanimously and that brings us to the item 10 adjournment. I just wanted to thank staff and council and all of our participants and especially the American Red Cross this evening for being here tonight. Please remember to find the good and others on yourself. Good night.