 Well, again, Council Member Brooks. Here. Council Member Clark. Here. Council Member Peterson. Here. Vice Mayor Brown. Here. And Mayor Keiser. Here. Would you all join in the Pledge of Allegiance? Let the 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. Great. Thank you. Additions and deletions to the agenda. Staff has two changes to tonight's agenda, based on a request from the appellant on item 9B. That item has been removed from the agenda. That is the Capitola Bar and Grill Entertainment Permanent Appeal. And again, on item 9A, the off-leash dog area, that item has been requested to be continued based on the project proponents. So those items are both then removed from the agenda. Great. Thank you. We've got a couple presentations tonight. Presentation A will be the 20,022 Oral Health Report from D&Tase. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. My name is Steffi Tagba, and I'm a dentist. And I'm the VP of Operations for D&Tase Community Dental Care. You may know that D&Tase is a nonprofit dental organization serving Santa Cruz County. We have four clinics throughout the county and an outreach program that goes out to schools, nursing home, Janice, the homeless services center. I'm here to talk to you about Oral Health, a very exciting topic, at least to me. And I only have eight minutes to do it. So I'm going to talk really fast. It's a big presentation, but I'll do my best to get through it. And I'm happy to answer your questions at the end. I was going to say next slide, but there we go. So I'm mostly here not to talk about D&Tase, but about the Oral Health Access Steering Committee. So back in 2015, D&Tase commissioned the first ever Oral Health News Assessment in our county. And we did that because we wanted to use that data to see how we could grow in the future and what the need of the community was. But when we got the report back, the need was so overwhelming that we decided we could not do it alone. So we put together the Oral Health Access Steering Committee, or I'm going to call it OHA, from here on. And we came together to try to take action. OHA included members of medical clinics, medical doctors, social services, the Office of Education, First Five, Cabrio College. So we all came together as a coalition to try to solve the problems. OK, some of our, this is the strategic plan that we came up with in 2016. Our plan was to increase access for babies under two. It was to make kindergarten dental checkups mandatory in our county. And it was also to increase prevention and treatment capacity in the county. Later on, we added a fourth goal, which was to help pregnant people have more access to dental care. These are just some of the members of the OHA. Like I said, I have to go fast. So some of the activities that we took on was, for example, to do a first tooth first birthday campaign. Some of you may know that it's recommended that a baby has their first checkup with a dentist by the time they have their first tooth or by the time they have their first birthday so that we can prevent, educate the parents, talk about nutrition, talk about fluoride. We did a kindergarten oral health screening campaign to make sure all the schools, including in the city of Capitola, were doing those mandatory dental checkups before entering kindergarten. And we also, Dientes and Salud Paralajante, the other clinic in our community, we tried to expand treatment and prevention and clinical capacity by building more clinics, but training medical providers how to apply fluoride varnish and just by hiring more dentists and mid-level dental providers. So we did a lot of work in those five years and the results have been amazing. Before I get into the sum of the data to show our progress, I want to tell you that this data is only representing people in our community that have MediCal. So it's not even talking about people who don't have insurance or underinsured. For example, people on Medicare who have no dental coverage. So because of our work, there has been a 25 increase in people on MediCal who were able to access a dentist. Because of our first tooth first birthday campaign, there has been a 60% increase in 0 to 2-year-olds that are going to the dentist. We started around 30% and now we're up to 57%. When you compare that to the statewide average of 25%, you can see how well we're doing in our county. And then we had 75% more adults are going to the dentist. So we've made a lot of amazing progress, but it doesn't end here. In 2022, we decided to do a new news assessment to see what else needed to be done. And we see that most people on MediCal are still not accessing a dentist because there are no dental providers in our community who are willing to take it due to the low reimbursement rates. One of the most concerning findings was that even though we've made a lot of good progress for really little kids, so 0 to 9, we're peaking at 68% of them are going to the dentist between the ages of 6 and 9, it really starts to drop when we get to the preteen and to the teen years. As you can see, there's a huge drop. And throughout adulthood, it stays really low. Only 21% of people who are 21 and over are going to a dentist at least once a year. And like I said, about 75% of adults are still not going to the dentist because there's no avenues for access to care. Something that's really dear to my heart and I'm really passionate about is seniors. It's really a shame for our seniors, only about 25% of them are accessing a dentist and those are only the ones that have MediCal. Most of our seniors in our community don't even have MediCal, they have Medicare. And Medicare continues to not include dental as a benefit. When it comes to seniors, oral health is really, really important. Most of them have gum disease and gum disease not only impacts their ability to chew, to eat nutritious food, to have a lovely smile, it also makes them isolated. And they're not participating in social activities. I see this in our clinics every day working with patients. And also it impacts their overall health. Gum disease is related to diabetes, to Alzheimer's, to heart complications, to a lot of overall health problems. We, I'm really happy to say that we've been looking at our work through a lens of equity and we're, for example, every campaign that we have done, we have done in English and Spanish. And as you can see, there's really no disparities when it comes to accessing dental care based on race or ethnicity. So what are we gonna do? Moving forward, looking into the future, we're gonna continue to keep our momentum with our first initial goals that we had, but we have some new focus areas. We're gonna focus on preteens and teens. We're gonna focus on people with diabetes and we're gonna focus on seniors. I have some great news, Dientes, you probably know that we just built a brand new clinic on Capitola Road. We're gonna be able to serve 6,000 more patients out of that clinic. And Dientes and Salud Parlehente, we just were awarded a super competitive grant, a $5 million grant from Delta Dental to work with seniors in our community to improve access to care. I know you guys have a really busy agenda and a lot of things to discuss, so I'm really, I feel really thankful that you allowed me to come here and to talk to you. And I know that the city of Capitola has been a big supporter of Dientes throughout the years. So I wanted to thank you for that also. And I'm happy to take any questions that you may have. Thank you so much for that presentation. Are there any questions? Just a quick one. Yeah. Is the new space open for visitors? I was able to come to the ribbon cutting, but is it open to the public to come by? Yes, we are. And if you would like to set up a tour to have somebody walk you through it and explain things and tell you how we're planning on increasing access there, we're happy to set that up for you. I've included the report, the full report, that you're probably not gonna read as many pages, but also the smaller version and also my business card. So if any of you would like a tour, we're happy to do that. Thank you. Thank you so much. Awesome, yes, thank you. I've driven by the new facility and it looks awesome. So congratulations, yeah. Thank you for all the work that you're doing for the community. Thank you for having me. Thank you. All right, thank you. All right, our second presentation tonight will be started off by yours truly. This is a proclamation in honor of the Woodworm Party Supply Store. It's their 50th anniversary this year. So just a little background. The Woodworm Party Store, it's been a family owned and operated business within Capitola. It originally opened up down in the village by Donna and John back in 1973. They originally sold wood products such as dollhouses, jewelry boxes, mug racks and refurnished children's furniture, all handmade by John himself. Woodworm left the village and moved to their current location which is over by Knob Hill back in 1983. And they've sold a variety of goods since reopening there such as tie-dye t-shirts, miniature and imported toys. Donna, a mother of five children, loved to throw parties and selling party supplies was a natural fit. Woodworm is currently owned and operated by John and Donna's oldest daughter, Sherry Robodeau. I hope I didn't butcher, thank you. Okay, with help from her three children, Abby Stevens, Beth, Pava and Jason Robodeau. The store offers cake decorating classes, customized birthday cake creations as well as traditional party supplies. They pride themselves on contributing to the community and have the goal of being a community leader and serving nonprofits throughout Santa Cruz County. Since 1973, Woodworm has donated to local schools and multiple nonprofit organizations. So therefore, I, Margo Kaiser, as the mayor of the city of Capitola, I hereby congratulate Woodworm Party Store on their 50th year anniversary. I thank them for their contributions to the community and for their effort service oriented as a locally owned business. So huge congratulations to you guys. I have this lovely proclamation. If you would like to receive it, you're more than welcome to. And if you'd like to say a few words, please do. Okay, not for everybody. I would like to say thank you for recognizing us. Lovely milestones. Thank you for being here tonight. So we'll go to item four, which would be our report on closed session. Are you gonna do that? Oh, Sam, hi. Great, thank you. Any additional materials this evening? Staff did receive numerous correspondences for items 9B and correspondence for 9A. However, both of those items have been removed from tonight's agenda by staff. Copies of all correspondence received between publication of the agenda and prior to the items being pulled is available as a part of the agenda packet online. Awesome, thank you. So we can move on to oral communications. This is for members of the public. This allows time for you to address the council on any consent items on tonight's agenda or any topic within the jurisdiction of the city that is not on our general government hearing this evening. You will have up to three minutes to speak. Great, just one statement. This is by the former state assemblyman, Willie Brown. This is an AP report. Willie Brown, San Francisco Democrat, asked today that the assembly research office studies proposal to abolish city and county governments. In his weekly address, Brown suggested 58 counties and 445 governments should be replaced with a few regional agencies. And I see nothing but you cooperating with this. There is also Leon Panetta, who created the most powerful lobby west of the Mississippi. If people don't know, look up Panetta Gate, Panetta Gate military and policy information to a red Chinese communist spy named Hugh DeLacy. He belonged to a number of spy rings, Silvermaster, Perlow, Weir, Sorge, and some other ones. Panetta was busy giving part of the Panama Commitment to the now away to the Chinese, both ports and both sides. And he founded California Forward. His co-founder is Lenny Mandanka of a committee for economic development. Their organization advocates getting rid of 80% of the local governments. So you guys have actually ended up joining the parallel government, which is called a COG, a Council of Governments. It's AMBAG. It's funded by the federal government, the state government, ICLEI, which is the front for both the United Nations and the World Bank. And you attend it, and you do not insist. I think Brown was the past president. But you don't insist it be on community TV or keeping the people in the damn dark. The Bruce McPherson put together the futures network. Here he is. He took tens of thousands of dollars from Katrina Lung, a triple Chinese coming to spy, front page US news and war report. Zach Friend, who's the supervisor, worked for two formal registered Red Chinese lobbyists. These people have been integrated into AMBAG and great proponents for it. Also, Hugh DeLacy has monuments on the courthouse steps, two of them. And the Community Foundation, mostly funded by Packard, is a member of the Trilateral Commission. And you can include Diane Feinstein and other people that are trilateralists. We heard about Diane Feinstein, so-called driver, that she got tricked, that he was a member of the Chinese spy network. This is the Chinese man, Russell Lowe, when she was running for city council. They have been like that ever since. The newspapers are lying to you. You've got so much communist influence. Thank you. Your time is up. All right. Anyway, publish what's going on. Reject selling out to the globalists. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the public? Hello. I'm Tom Parker. I live up on Grand Avenue 306. Been there for 25 years and in Capitola for probably 50. Every day as I'm working in my garden, there's one person after another saying, what are they going to do to this path? When are we going to fix the path? What's the plan for the path? I don't know what the plan for the path is. I would like to find out if there's a plan for a plan or what we might do to contact somebody to help them find a plan for a plan. I'd like to have something move forward. I've listened to all this stuff by the railroad track up there down on the path down here. I've seen the president talking to everybody. I think we need to have a plan for our side of the neighborhood. Is there anything anybody can say to me about that? Staff, do we have any response on the Grand Ave pathway at the moment? I'm happy to provide an update if you want now, like it when the public comment's over. That's fine. You can give it now. OK. So the Public Works Department is contracted with a geologist that the city has used previously to evaluate the stability of the slope on Depot Hill, looking at what our options are. And we have a hearing plan to come before council. Is it in May? In May, just talk about the options for the path. There's a plan to talk about it in May. There's a plan to talk about it in May. We're doing the preliminary work. We're having geologists evaluate the slope stability, and then we will be bringing that information with the decision points to council in May. This is the first I've heard about a plan for a plan. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have any other members of the public? Yes, good afternoon. Thank you for having us here. We were expecting another people, but they're still working. I live in 930 Rosedale Avenue. And recently, it's a mobile home park, and it's a very nice neighbor. We all have a lot of seniors, but the owner of the land recently increased their rent space in about 55%, 58%. And according to him, it's because the lease expired. And we'd like to know if you guys, everybody can help us to support the AB-1035, which is a new bill that is coming, but it's allowing to the owner to stop increasing that much in the rent space. And we are running out of time. We have no money to hire a legal person. And I'm wondering if you can do something for us and I would like to hear if there is any solutions. You know, we support all of you when was the time for bots. So we asking for you to support us in this case. We are a small community. I don't know how many more communities are suffering this, but at this time, we really need your help. Thank you so much. Do you have any answer on that? Something that you can tell us? It's on our consent agenda. Oh, it is on the consent agenda. OK. So we are fighting against the Vieras Enterprises that is very famous over here in Santa Cruz County. Oh, it is already. OK, so yeah, it is actually on consent item F. So it will be voted on in tonight's meeting. And there is on our consent agenda, which is voted on in one motion, not each item at a time. And support for AB 1035 that you're talking about is on tonight's agenda. Oh, thank you so much. In the meantime, we're going to have a meeting with this person very soon. We, all the community, we are getting all together not to sign the new lease because it's going to be about $358 all at once that he want to increase in his highway robbery for us. So I really appreciate that you support that. Thank you. Great, thank you. Hi, I also live at 930 Rosedale Avenue of the Cabrilla Mobile Home Estates. And I am also, and many of us are very much hoping that you will, in fact, vote to support AB 1035 because it makes it more fair for everybody. The park owners do get increases, but they can't increase to the point where it essentially can wind up driving a lot of people out of their homes and potentially even into homelessness, ultimately. And people who've invested a lot of their money in their homes can wind up losing a lot if it's not supported. So thank you for considering it and very much hope that you will vote for it. Yes, thank you. Any other members of the public? Do we have anybody online? Great. Well, thank you, those that spoke this evening. We'll take it to staff and council comments. Do you have any comments from staff? I think Chloe has one comment for us this evening. Great. Hello, Mayor and Council. I just wanted to announce very quickly that the much-beloved city-wide garage sale is happening this month. It's Saturday, April 22nd. And the public can sign up online. It's a very simple form. And the map will be prepared and available to the public, printed out and online the Friday before the event. So that's the 21st of April. Also, spread the word. And I know it's really popular in the community. So just wanted to let you know. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. It's from staff. OK. Any council comment? So I'd like for staff to come back with an update on the chief's council that we discussed and prioritized a, gosh, a year or two ago. And then the second would be an update on, I know we've done outreach to the Rosedale residents in the park with this item potentially passing. I'd like to see what next steps are. I know staff is going to talk to them. And maybe not just in a Friday update, but for the public to see. And then lastly, I had a great meeting with United Way and our captain, Ryan, on the youth star card program that we implemented when we were having some issues down in the village with youth. And so we all met today. And there was discussion about coming up with a new program and having an event at the Capitola Mall. So we should be hearing more about that in the next few months. So I just want to let all of you know that it's still thriving and happening. So thank you. Can I have one point of clarification on the Cabrillo item? Are you proposing a gender item for a future council meeting? The mobile home part? Yeah, let's do that. Let's hear about it from staff and see what's been going on. I think we've had enough community come visit. It'd be nice to hear the discussions that have been taking place. Thank you. Bear with me. I've got a couple. And usually, I don't. Go figure our shortest meeting. I just want to keep us going. So there's a couple of fun transportation things I want to share. One is that the Metro Transit District's Youth Cruise Free program is in effect. It's a one-year pilot program that allows youth from K through 12 to ride free on the buses. If you're between, I believe it's 8 and 12th grade, you need to show a student ID. If you're under that, if you don't have an ID, you can go to any of the transit centers in Watsonville or on Pacific and get one. And then our youth can go for free on our transit system, which is really exciting. And the same vein, Metro also has the one ride at a time program going on right now for where it will donate $10 for every 25 transit trips that you log through the Go Santa Cruz County platform. And those $10 will be donated either to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation or the Bay of Life Fund, both two really important nonprofit organizations. And so you can learn more about that at GoSantaCruiseCounty.org, both really important programs from Metro and our partners. And then also in transportation world. Next week, there's going to be an exciting groundbreaking for some multimodal transportation improvements, including bus on shoulder and auxiliary lanes between 41st and Soquel Avenue. The groundbreaking will be on April 19th at the Pure Water Soquel location in Chanticleer. Then next, not next week, week after April 26th, the Community Action Board is holding their Community Action Plan Town Hall. It will be virtual. And you can learn more about that on their website. And it's an opportunity for the public to give input on the work of the Community Action Board and how best to serve the community. I'm almost done, I promise. Next, I would like to ask staff to return with the potential for the council to direct the mayor to sign a letter of support for Assembly Bill 953. That's a voluntary vessel speed reduction and sustainable shipping program. The Air Resources Board is suggesting it. It's co-authored by our Assemblywoman, Gil Pellerin. And it's a voluntary vessel speed reduction, but it's known to lower greenhouse gas emissions and lessens or prevents whale strikes. And as a coastal city on the edge of a national marine sanctuary, I think it's something that we should consider supporting. The city-wide yard sale, I wanted to sign up for it, but I can't. I just went to the site, and the form itself isn't showing up. It says fill out the form below, and then there's no form below. And I apologize that I chose this platform to bring that up, but I was going to call about it earlier and completely forgot until Chloe mentioned it, so thank you. And then finally, I just want to comment on the importance of everything on our consent agenda. Quite often, it's just routine stuff and approving checks and all that, which is also important. But tonight, in particular, the completion of the 41st Avenue and Claire's traffic calming activities is really exciting. The officer wellness grant, the roadway stabilization grant, and of course, the mobile home rent control approval of signing a letter of support for AB 1035. I think these are all really important issues that, although they're on consent, it doesn't mean they're not important. It just means that I think it shows the importance of all the things that we do here on Council and not just the ones that are on a regular agenda item. All right, I talked as fast as I could. Thank you for your patience. Any other comments? OK, great. So that will move us to consent items. So these are going to be enacted by one motion in the form listed below without any separate discussion. Do we have a motion to move the consent items? I'll move consent items 8A through F. I'll second. Great, we have a first and a second. Maybe take a roll call, please. Brooks? Aye. Council Member Clark? Aye. Council Member Peterson? Aye. Vice Mayor Brown? Aye. And Mayor Kaiser? Aye. All right, passes unanimously. Thank you. And looks like our nines have been removed. So we will jump down to item 10, which is adjournment. So thank you, everybody, for joining this evening. And be well, enjoy the sunshine, and happy Thursday. Thank you. Bye, Samantha.