 Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to this meeting of the Capitola City Council. It's good to see everyone in the audience and all the staff that are here. Look at this. We have a full panel in presence of the council members. Yes. It's been a while. It's good to be here with all of you in person. I'm going to begin this meeting of October 13th, 2022, excuse me, of the Capitola City Council. We'll start with a roll call by our clerk. Council Member Brown. Present. Vice Mayor Keiser. Here. Council Member Bertrand. Here. Council Member Brooks. Here. Mayor Story. Here. Would everybody join me for 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. At this time, I'll ask staff if there's any additions or deletions to the agenda. I just want to note that under the presentations item 3B, our new front office person, Liliana Carosa, is not able to attend this evening. So we will be doing that at an upcoming meeting. All right, great. We look forward to a meeting here at a future meeting. But Jessica is with us this evening, and we will be presenting that. Wonderful. So with that, I think we'll go right into presentations. And the first one is, well, actually, I think I'll let you announce it, Nikki. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Council Members. I am here to present to you the winner for Mayor for a Day Essay Contest in the Elementary Division, Desiree Adams. I believe we're going to have her come on up and. Yes. Yes, we're all set. And before I get kicked out of my seat here, by a future Council Mayor, I do want to present her with this certificate of commendation, and this which is proudly presented, Desiree Adams, City of Capitola, Mayor for a Day. She's the elementary school winner at St. Abraham's Classical Christian Academy, fourth grade. Congratulations, Mayor, for the day. Here's your gavel if you need it. If the audience gets out of hand, don't be afraid to use it. And take your seat right here. And I will step aside. And there we go. My name is Desiree Adams. I'm nine years old. I'm in fourth grade, and I go to St. Abraham's Classical Christian Academy. If I were given a chance to become a Mayor for one day in Santa Cruz County, I would turn the gas prices down to help the people and families who can't afford to pay to fill their car or truck. And some people who can't afford the gas have to walk every single day. And maybe sometimes kids have to walk to school and back every day. Maybe people can't afford to ride the bus or bike. I'd make things a little cheaper just because kids and parents, families and people with old age or anyone in need, to have clothes and especially food. I'd find the best place for kids and families to live. Comforting people is great and especially orphans. Even if orphans don't have parents, we should never treat them different but instead comfort them, which is what I'll do when I'm Mayor for a day. I'll go to some schools and go to different classrooms and put a basket for clothes, blankets, whatever really. All we need is for everyone to be comforted. I'd also make services to make our county more beautiful, safe, and clean. I'd also let kids go to school without a vaccination because all kids should get an education. Every single kid should. And maybe the people without money can't afford the vaccination so they can't go to school. And that means no education, no learning. But every kid should at least get to experience learning, going to school, making friends, and interacting with other kids their age and learning to give respect to grownups. So if I were Mayor for a day, I would make things fair, especially for orphans or families going through hard times because of money. I'll keep our county clean and healthy other than polluted and unhealthy. And try my best to help everyone no matter the cost. Any questions? You've got my vote. I vote for you. Next for presentations, introduction of new public works director Jessica Kahn. Can we do a whole photo before she leaves? Do you want it behind the back? Yeah, let's get it behind the back. Do you want it behind the back? Yeah. Mayor's story. Next one. We'll be chairing her. I want everybody to come around here. Yeah, we'll come around here. In between the ones, looks great. Very nice. She's going to be taller than me soon. And then we'll do one up. Three. Congratulations. Before we move on to the introduction of Jessica, I do want to say, Desiree, you have a bright future in politics. I can already tell your platforms are very relevant. And I think that there's something that resonates with all of us. So that is well done, a well done essay. And I encourage you to keep up your advocacy and your thoughts for how to serve the community. Thank you. So we have introductions now for Jessica Kahn. Well, hi. Come right up. Mayor and council, it's my pleasure to introduce our new public works director. Jessica joins us after our previous public works director of 20 years recently retired. Jessica brings more than 15 years of public sector work experience to Capitola. She's worked for cities throughout the Monterey Bay region, including Pacific Grove and Scotts Valley. And most recently was the city engineer for the city of Montserrano. Jessica's had a really diverse background. She's had practical experience in all aspects of public works, including dealing with capital improvement projects, treatment maintenance, water treatment and distribution, engineering, traffic and transportation development, project development, all kinds of different things. And then she's also a California native. And she attended Berkeley and got her bachelor's of science degree in nuclear engineering and a master's degree in environmental management from the University of San Francisco. So I really want to welcome Jessica to the team. We are really excited to have her join. It's been a whirlwind of a first week so far, but we are very, very happy to have her on board. Just briefly, and it's very hard to follow you up and it's also very hard to follow up, Steve Jesper. But good evening, Mayor and council members. Very nice to meet you all. The central coast is a really special place. I've made it my home. I'm raising my family here. The city of Capitola in particular is a great place to explore and recreate and to live. And I'm just really looking forward to working with the great staff at the Public Works Department just to make it what you guys want your community to be. Well, welcome Jessica on behalf of the city of Capitola and all the council members, even though they may have some words of their own. I don't want to speak for them, but I think we're very lucky to have you. Sounds like your background and resume is extensive and that you have a lot of experience with communities around the Monterey Bay. And so I think that that's gonna serve us very well. And we all look very forward to working with you in the future. So, yes, thank you. Any other council members wanna say a few words? Or just say hi and. I'll say hi. Yeah. Yeah, I'll say hi. So you're part of a tradition now. You may not realize that, but a recent police chief was a Don and I'm a former Don and you are also. Lovely. That means she went to USF as I did and the Chief McGannis also went there. So, welcome. Thank you so much. You didn't want it? Okay. Well, I mean, you're gonna hear a lot from us. I'm sure. I believe it. I'm thrilled to have you and here and to see all of the great work to be done here in the city and to have you on board. So welcome. Thank you. Yeah, nice to meet you and really excited to work with you and have you be a part of the awesome city of Capitola. Welcome. Welcome. We're really excited to have you here. I'm very excited to be here. Thank you so much. Yeah. All right. It's a pleasure to meet you. Yeah, thank you. So next on our agenda, we'll go to additional materials. Do we have any additional materials this evening? Madam Clerk? None were received. Okay. Next is oral communications. This is the opportunity for members of the public to address the city council on items that are not on tonight's agenda or that are on tonight's consent agenda. I mean, just so we have a short consent agenda tonight and those items if anyone wants to speak to them are to consider the minutes from the September 22nd, 2022 city council meeting, approve the check registers from September 2nd to September 16th and September 30th to approve a grant resolution for a coastal conservancy grant in the amount of $1,900,000 for the Capitola Wharf renovation and to consider a resolution, a line for the continuation of teleconferencing as we have been doing during the pandemic. So those are the consent items. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak to any of those or on any topic? This is your opportunity. Yes, I see some fellow arts commissioners coming up. My name is Roy Johnson. I'm the chairman of the Arts and Cultural Commission and I'm here with Laurie Hill, a fellow commissioner. We're here to give you a little bit of a heads up on some upcoming projects we're getting into and one of them is a, you know, the Bogonia Festival was a big event here for quite a long time, really identified Capitola in a big way for a lot of people and we were thinking as a commission that we could establish some kind of a commemorative public art piece somewhere in the village and so we set about going around looking for a spot. The public art, as I have learned and done a few, it's very long and arduous and we wanted to come up and make sure that we were doing something that the community was gonna get behind rather than go through it all and then have it, what were you thinking kind of thing. So we've identified a spot in Capitola. Briefly it's the spot coming under the railroad trestle down Capitola Road. There's a little grassy area. We're thinking that would be a perfect little spot for that and what the actual thing would be is part of the public art process and so that remains to be seen but we just wanted to, if anybody had any feedback or anything to say about that, that would be appreciated in the beginning of the process. And then Laurie wants to speak a little bit about the upcoming plan air event. Thank you, Roy. I'm very proud to be standing up here with him. He's a great commissioner with a lot of experience and I've learned a lot. Just to piggyback on what you started with with the Bagonia commemorative art project, this has obviously been in the works and thought about now for five years because the Bagonia Festival ended five years ago to which we paid tribute to it just this last Labor Day weekend but we've identified a location it's specifically at the corner of Stockton and Worf Road. It's public property. It's really at a key juncture that overlooks where the Bagonia Festival took place with this nautical parade and every subcommittee member that I've met with keeps coming back to that location and so that's our focal point and this item is not new to you because it was actually in our annual report of planned activities that you received during the summer but we wanted to highlight it and let you know that the Art and Cultural Commission over the next couple months will be looking at a draft call to artists. It'll be going out and then the process will be that we'll receive proposals from the artists and it'll go from there. Eventually the project does come back to the council but like Roy said, it's important for the council and the community that's listening tonight to know that this project is underway and if they have any suggestions, ideas, no any artists that they wanna refer to us, please do so. So we're excited about it and excited to announce it and with that excitement to announce, I just wanted to also add that Capitola Plenaire is coming October 31st and the artists arrive on the 31st, they check in. Plenaire is an event that's been going on for over five years and it is an Art and Cultural Commission project and we have anywhere from 30 to 40 artists that come to town that paint out of doors. That's what the word Plenaire means and so here they are in October, up to the very beginning of November, they're painting outdoors. We've had the whirlwind of weather during that period of time but it's been a wonderful experience for the artists and so you can come out and you can watch the artists at work. You can also come down to our meet and greet on Saturday where we kind of a cluster of the artists down at Capitola Beach, hoping to kind of get a little spin going on down there and then on November 6th at Jade Street, we will have the exhibition, competition and show and sale and so at that location, this year we'll be at Jade Street Community Center and we will have an opportunity for people to participate in an art project. We'll have all the artists and all the pieces of work that they produce. We'll have ribbons up for all the artists, all these pieces will be for sale. We'll have a small combo playing and a food truck so please come out on November 6th and be a part of Capitola Plenare. Appreciate that and I have some marketing materials if you'd like a copy. Yes, hey Lori, what time will the event be at Jade Street? Thank you, 11 to four. 11 to four, okay. So everybody put it on your calendars and try to get by, you'll see some great art and thank you Roy, thank you Lori for all the volunteer you work due to keep art alive in Capitola so thank you. You're a part of that as well Sam, thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to address the council? Seeing none, Chloe is there anyone on the Zoom that? I don't see anyone with their hand raised, thank you. Thank you. Well with that we'll now move to staff and city council comments, are there staff comments? I think we have one comment this evening from our police chief. Chief, yeah, good to see you, how are you? I'm doing well, how are you? Great, great. All right, good evening mayor and council members. I'm sure you've seen our officers out on the street, the hue of their uniform is a little bit different, it's pink for October, it's the breast cancer awareness month so I just wanted to present everyone with a patch for that. We are selling those at the police department, all the proceeds go to our police officers association that goes to a local entity. So I gave one to the mayor that actually left and then I have these for you as well. Oh, well thank you. Thank you. Any other staff comments? None? City council comments, yes, council member Brooks. Yeah, so I just learned that the chamber is going to be hosting their annual Halloween trick-or-treating parade on the, not on Halloween, on Sunday. So everyone can meet in the parking lot at 1.30 and then the parade begins at two o'clock and I'm seeing nods so I think I'm right on that time. And it's been a long time since we've been able to do it so I'm really excited to see the community come out together again and I hope to see all of you there. All right, so now let's move on to the consent agenda. These are items that I had mentioned earlier will be taken with one vote unless the council member would like to pull an item for further discussion. Any items, any requests to pull? I'll kind of make a motion to approve item seven, consent items A through D. We have a motion by council member Brooks and seconded by council member Brown to approve the consent agenda. Can we have a roll call vote please? Council member Brown. Aye. Vice mayor Kaiser. Aye. Council member Bertrand. Aye. Council member Brooks. Aye. And mayor's story. Aye. Thank you. And motion passes unanimously. Now we'll move on to item eight which is general government public hearings. And before we get into item eight A, I do want to announce that my wife works for the community action board which is the subject of item eight A and item eight B. So I am going to recuse myself in both those items and I'll turn the floor over to vice mayor Kaiser. Thank you. Okay, take it away Katie. Okay. Good evening vice mayor and council. Before you this evening is the community development block grant COVID-19 response funding. Also joining me this evening is Paul Ashby from Adams Ashby & Associates who has been managing our grant funds for CDBG. He's available via Zoom. So just a, there he is, yeah. So quick refresher on CDBG, application requirements for CDBG is that we always hold a public hearing for any allocation of funds. We need to adopt, the city council has to adopt a resolution and then whenever applying funds you also have to utilize any available program income. So the city routinely gets program income when loans are paid off that were funded through CDBG monies. What qualifies for a CDBG activity? We've gone over this before but quick reminder we can utilize the money for public services such as food distribution, rental assistance, public facilities, housing for homeless and economic development. There's a lot of criteria built into each of these and it makes it hard to use some of these programs. But through our CDBG activities specifically related to COVID-19 is the topic tonight. We have provided food distribution, rental assistance programs and also economic development grants. What, this slide goes over the awards and our current applications. So in, we were given two rounds of money through the state HCD. The first was through the CARES Act and we had 88,000 in CDBG CV1 funds and 80,000 in program income. All of that money went towards food services and 20,000 of it went towards rental assistance. And then in the CARES Act round two we got $320,000 and we also had a little more program income which was utilized towards our economic development grants for small businesses. Also one item that is in process is our application for 2021 CDBG funds for a half a million dollars. We've gotten preliminary notification that we are getting awarded this money. Two out of the three contracts have come in for signatures so far. So we've got one more announcement coming through for the final approval but so that's exciting, more money for these, for our organizations. Just wanna go over how we've allocated the money in the past. The money for food services has gone to Gray Bears, Second Harvest and Community Bridges. A portion of it was also allocated towards CAB, Community Action Board for rental assistance and mortgage assistance tied to COVID-19. As soon as we allocated that money the state took over the rental assistance and mortgage assistance program for COVID-19 and in working with CAB eventually we came to a conclusion that we really don't, we should just depend on the state run program because we didn't wanna run into a conflict with duplication of benefits. So at this time I've highlighted on this slide the funding that we have available to reallocate. The other item, business assistance, we started off with grants. I think we had $7,500 grants available to all businesses. We're hoping to fund 36 businesses. In the end we couldn't get enough businesses to qualify because there's so many restrictions tied to this funding. So we ended up doubling the amount of the grants to $15,000. That being said at the end of the day we were able to spend $165,000 of that money and we have 104 left. We have the 20,000 left in CAB funding and we also have 44,000 in program income from a loan that was paid off. So right, the purpose of the meeting tonight is to reallocate the funds, the $168,000, almost $169,000. Our suggestion is on this slide. In the past, Second Harvest has typically gotten a little more money than Gray Bears this round. We're suggesting to give Gray Bears a little more money than Second Harvest to kinda even out the numbers better. And Second Harvest is still working through a portion of the second round of funding. So they still have about 20,000 left there. So we're suggesting in that center line the proposed reallocation is about 50,000 to Gray Bears, 44,000 to Second Harvest, and then 75,000 to Community Bridges. Total funding is shown on the far right. Our pending 2021 CDBG award, the amounts that each of these entities, they told us what they would need in the next three years. And it came just under $500,000 for our grant and then adding in our admin costs, it worked out perfectly for an application of half a million. So that pending award that will fund these entities for three years is 52,000 to Gray Bears, 111,000 to Second Harvest, and then almost 300,000 to Community Bridges. So tonight, the recommended action is to adopt the three proposed resolutions authorizing the city manager to amend the current CDBG coronavirus response, which will reallocate the CDBG funding from rental assistance and business assistance to Gray Bears, Community Bridges, and allocate the program income to Second Harvest Food Bank. With that, Paul and I are both available for questions. Thanks, Katie. Do you wanna go ahead, Jack? Yeah, thank you, Vice Mayor. So you made a statement in terms of, I think the Second Harvest allocated, they hadn't gone through it yet. So can you explain how the money is dispersed? That's sort of my question. You don't do a lump sum, I gather. You give it as they use it and they give you a report. Can you just sort of lucidate what happens? That's correct. They will submit a request for reimbursement for the funding that they have utilized and it has to tie back to Capitola residents. So once they submit the request for reimbursement, Paul and I go through those requests and then we essentially issue a check to them and then we ask for a reimbursement through HCD. Is that a monthly or as they complete a program? What's a time element there? It isn't a set time. It depends on when we get these requests in. Okay. Okay, thanks. Any other council questions? Going out to the public. Anybody on Zoom, Chloe? I don't see any hands. Okay, thank you. Thanks. So we can take it back to Council Comments or a motion. I'll move to adopt the recommended action. Great. We have a motion and a second. Maybe we have a roll call. Council Member Brown. Aye. Council Member Bertrand. I agree. Council Member Brooks. Aye. Vice Mayor Kaiser. Aye. Thank you. Great. That takes us on to item eight B, the Community Grant 2022 to 2025 fund allocation for the community action board and who are it's Chloe's presentation. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. So just really quickly, I need a second to get everything set up. Sure, yeah. And to clarify, I'm doing three separate presentations all in a row. Right. Okay. So, but it's just me. You're our gal. Thank you. And I think I still need to share my screen here so that my slides show up on the big TV. Okay. Okay. Yes? Yes. Good. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much Vice Mayor and Council. I'm actually really excited about these items. This is the first time I've been able to participate in this as part of my role here. So, thank you. We're starting off with one specific application because of some recusals that had to take place. So, just as a reminder, our city of Capitola Community Grant program, I think I'm at the end of my slideshow here. No wonder I was confused. Okay, thank you. So, an overview of the whole program to recap basically, Council approved updates back in May to the overall program. Those included creating three specific grant categories based on, that were prioritized, stable affordable housing, health and wellness, and healthy environments. And also created two different grant types. And that was based on how much money for what type of grants. So, they were outcome grants that have a range of funding between $7,500 and $15,000. And then the operational grants go up to the 7,500. And there's a couple different requirements of an outcome grant. One being that the program benefits the city directly and that the organizations will present to Council about their program and how it has helped the community. Other updates, there's a very significantly streamlined application. I did hear from several applicants that were actually kind of shocked by how easy it really was. So, that's great news. There's now a three-year grant cycle. So, the next time new applications will be accepted is summer in 2025. And in this year, so this fiscal year, Council allocated $125,000 from the general fund towards grants and then separately $60,000 for early childhood and youth programming grants. Now, this is just specific again to the one application from the Community Action Board. And like I said, it's being considered separately because of some remote interests. And the CAB, as we call it, they applied for $15,000 stable affordable housing outcome grant. So, you'll remember that's one of the categories of stable affordable housing and then outcome is the type of grant. And as I should have mentioned already, Council also created the subcommittee to review all applications, which are of course, Council Member Brown and Vice Mayor Kaiser and the subcommittee recommended allocating $10,000 to CAB for this grant cycle. So, really that's what I have to say about this one. You can move on from there and then we'll just keep going, okay? Great, thank you. Thank you. Any questions? Council? Well, we're there. Anybody from the public questions or anybody on Zoom? That's me again. So, let me stop sharing and check. I see a hand. Great. And I'm gonna allow Alyssa to talk. Go ahead, Alyssa. Good evening Vice Mayor and Council Members. I am Alyssa Sanchez, Community Action Board's Program Coordinator of the Homelessness Prevention and Intervention Services Department. We are grateful to be recommended for the 2022-2023 community graph study for the CHAP-RENCO assistance program. As you know, CHAP has been a county designated non-profit anti-poverty agency for over 65 years with rental assistance programing for over 35 years. During this time, we have a long-standing partnership with the City of Papatour to provide assistance to avoid eviction and homelessness and provide the most vulnerable residents, including low-income families with children, as well as senior and disabled households. Typically, households come to us needing assistance due to changes in family composition, job loss, unexpensive medical or other critical household expenses. In 2022 to date, CHAP's RAP has assisted four capital households benefiting 13 people, including five adults and eight children. If approved for the recommended proposal amount tonight, we would expect to serve an additional three to four households this year. To show you an example of the impact your funding partnership has on vulnerable capital households, we'd like to share a client's story with you. RAP recently assisted a capital of senior who was dealing with a work injury and had a GAP and workers compensation assistance. Her expenses were very limited and she was utilizing food banks and public transportation. She was relieved and grateful that our program was able to assist her with two months of rent assistance to cover this GAP in order to avoid eviction. Thank you for your continued support and collaboration to help vulnerable capital of residents stay safely housed. For more information about CHAP's rental assistance program for capital of residents, please contact us at 831-457-1741, thank you. Great, thank you for your comment. Seeing no more, okay, thank you. Any comments? Just have a quick comment, yes. You know, as Alyssa mentioned, CAB has been assisting capital of residents during this pandemic with rental assistance and eviction prevention. I know they do really important work not just in capital but throughout the county. I'm an unpaid board member on the community action board and I've heard throughout the pandemic the stories of people needing additional assistance than we've ever seen before in our agency. So I feel like it's really important that this funding be provided so that they can continue to do that important work. Thank you, I agree. Anything else or do we have a motion? I'll move the recommendation. All second, thank you. All right, we got a motion and a second. Council member Brown. Aye. Council member Bertrand. I agree. Council member Brooks. Aye. And Vice Mayor Kaiser. Aye. Thank you. Thank you, that passes unanimously and we can welcome back Mayor Storey. And Vice Mayor, I'm gonna excuse myself for the next item. Oh, sorry, thank you. You got it. Sure. So I'm currently a board member for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and so I'll be recusing myself from item eight C this evening. We're tagging in and out. Yeah, that's the church. Welcome back. It's a sign of active council members in our community. So now let's then move on to item eight C which is the community grant 2022-25 fund allocations to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. The recommendation is to consider the recommendation of the community grant subcommittee to award the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation $5,000 from the general fund and $7,500 from the early childhood and youth programming funds as part of the community grant program. So who's gonna give the stamp report? That's me. Hi, Mayor Storey, welcome back. Thank you again, everyone. So I'll just go over again, just kind of the quick overview. So the mayor can hear, as you know, you approved changes to the program in May. There are three new grant categories listed here on the screen and two different grant types based on how much funding the applicant is asking for. Outcome is a range between $7,500 and $15,000 and then operational is up to $7,500. Okay, great. Okay, so in this particular item, we're talking, as you mentioned, about the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It's being considered separately because of remote interests, as we know. And this is a little bit unique because they applied for two grants, which is absolutely great. One was an operational grant for healthy environments. So actually our only applicant for that category, incidentally, and then an operational grant, as you mentioned, from the early childhood youth programming fund. So I was gonna talk about this in the next item a little more, but there was no specific amount indicated, which was actually quite common. We believe due to the fact that the new two grant types sort of specify an amount of funding. So that's why the recommendation here really follows those ranges. As you can see, the subcommittee recommended allocating $5,000 out of the general fund. So for the healthy environment grant application and then $7,500 out of early childhood youth programming for the kid grant that they applied for. So that's a background there. And again, I'll let you discuss. All right, thank you. So are there any members of the public that would like to address the council on the grant to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary? Seeing none. Is there anyone on the Zoom? I don't see any hands. Okay, I'll bring it back to the council for discussion and action. So yes, council member Bertrand. Yes, so maybe to the individual here representing the team and Kristen. So what is the operational healthy environmental grant? What specifically is that? We had three types, three categories of grants. Healthy environment was one of the categories. And then we had two types of grants, operational and outcome, thank you. And so the categories were just what are you gonna be spending this money on? So healthy environments was what they were gonna be spending the category of what they would be spending their money on. And then the operational grants are essentially grants that are gonna help cover the day-to-day operations of the program and an outcome-based grant as Chloe mentioned would require them to come to the council and tell us the outcomes that are actually going, we will be expecting from the funding that they received from us. So calling it an operational healthy environments grant, that's not a separate grant from anything else we're doing, it's just putting the category of grant and the type of grant together in one sentence. Okay. So basically it's day-to-day operations. An operational grant was up to $7,500, so we considered it to be essentially for the day-to-day operations. That's basically the same thing they applied for last time. Yeah. Yeah. I can't remember, I don't have the spreadsheet in front of me for the exact amount that they got last grant cycle. No, I remember what it was for, that's all. Yeah. That's my point. Oh, for the same program. Yes. It just wasn't called that then. Right, that's correct, right. Yeah, last time we did this, we didn't have categories of grants the way we had now, it was just kind of a free-for-all. And so that was part of the overhaul of our grant system was determining the priorities in our community based on that community profile that we have the consultants. Thank you, the consultants help us with. And then once we determined those priorities, we created these categories for people to ask for funding to address. Right. Did they specify what their outcomes would be within the Healthy Environments grant? So this wasn't an outcome grant, it was an operational grant, so I don't think they had to tell us exactly what the outcomes would be, though each of the grant applications, if I remember correctly, had a section where they would tell us the good work that they're doing and how this money would continue to help them do those good works. But because it wasn't an outcome specific grant, they didn't need to tell us exactly what outcome there would be from this funding. But I mean, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation does a lot of really good work in general, we're very privileged to live on a National Marine Sanctuary and it takes a lot of work from organizations like the Foundation to gather the funding and do the advocacy and whatnot that we need to maintain this pristine environment that we happen to live on. All right, thank you. Any further discussion about the recommendation? Well, I have some discussion. So I spoke up last time when this came up, when the first recommendations was made and my point at that time, because I read all the grants very carefully and my point was focused on this as operational. And then the other point I made at that time was that I prefer to have things directly benefiting the residents of Capitola, noting that there's many other organizations around in this area that Capitola in particular that work with kids or work on environmental issues. And so I voted for it last time because there would be a report on what they use the money for. And I haven't seen that report, so I'm a little dismayed. But I have no problem with early childhood youth programming grant. I think that's excellent. But this organization, I don't think, needs our money as much as the residents of Capitola need our money to support things. And in environmental or in other areas. So I can't support the first part. I could support the operational and early youth grant program. And I wouldn't mind adding both together so that the youth get 12, seven and five. Yeah, 12, 1250. So that I would put that out there as a recommendation change to make that as a motion. So there's a motion on the floor to combine the total amount of $12,500 and put it all toward the early childhood youth programming a component of this grant. Right. Do I hear that motion correctly? Correct. Okay, is there a second? Seeing no second. The motion dies for the lack of a second. Just going, this is a three year grant cycle, as I understand it. Will they be reporting annually on the outcomes? No, this isn't an outcome grant. So they don't have to report to the council. They don't report it all to staff until the end of the three years. So the intent behind the operational grants and this is the first time we've rolled them out was that there really wasn't very much reporting back required. It was the outcome grants where we were going to be expecting a presentation during the grant period from the recipients to the city council at a meeting. Yeah, so my point earlier when we discussed this was, there's so many programs here in Santa Cruz in this particular area. I definitely agree with you, Kristen, that we're privileged to be in this area sanctuary. But when we collect money from taxes and grants and other program sources, my job is to make sure that things go directly to the residents of Capitola. So I put that out there and I was promised a report on what they would do. I had read their application very carefully and they were just using it for operational, normal things to run an office. I have not seen a report and even though that was promised, it wasn't made by them, but it was made by, well, we were gonna ask for it. I can't remember how that transpired. So I'm willing to change and that I know that if we combine, it'll be for early childhood youth programming and they'll come up with some other way to make sure that the staff and operations are run correctly on a daily or whatever basis they run it on. But I just don't have any say of how they use that money and I'd expected it. But... If I could just jump in for just a second and I'll ask our city attorney to stop me if I'm going out of bounds of the lines of this agenda item. But I just wanna make it clear that as we move forward in the agenda tonight, with other grants that we're gonna be looking at, there are multiple operational grants and none of them will have to report to us. So this is not anything specific to this organization that just this organization doesn't have to report back to us, none of our operational grant recipients have to report back to us and that's not really that much different from what we've seen in the past from any of our grant recipients. I'm pretty sure no one has ever been required to have they ever been required to come report to us or some of them just chose to or we asked them to in the past? So historically there has been, I believe it was twice a year reports that we would receive. I can't say whether or not, I know that the staff would receive them, they were not transmitted to council. And in the distant past, we did go through a year where we tried to invite every recipient to make a presentation at the beginning of every meeting. It filled up the agenda as you can imagine pretty heavily. So in general, the practice has not been to require the presentation to council. So this would be a new thing moving forward, that requirement. Yeah, and that's for the operational grant. So I just, again, I don't want to get too far out of this agenda item, but I wanted to make it clear that the Marine Sanctuary Foundation is not required to present to us, but none of our operational grantees will be required to present to us. Yeah, council member Petrae, thanks. So over the years, even starting when I was on the finance and environmental board, I've listened to multiple reports on the various organizations that we've given money to. And they're very willing to tell us what they do because they want that information imparted to the community. And this is one of the best ways to do that. I understand that this is an easier way. I've been on the AAA advisory board and listened to many discussions about how these grants present a lot of onerous issues for just putting the paperwork together. So I could see this operational grant doesn't require a report, but my point goes back to one we originally initially gave some money to the sanctuary group. And I was expecting something and come back at this time, nothing did. But the main point I have is voting for operation. I'm not so keen on that, but voting for a program that I know benefits this area, but not for operation. So that's the reason why I can't vote for the first part and I'm offering a compromise here so that we just combine both funds for the children's program. I could see a benefit there. Part of our discussion initially was this is great for children. So I could see putting the 12-5 for children, but not necessarily directly for operations. Mr. Mayor, the motion that was on the floor has died for a lack of a second, so it's open for a motion at this time, am I correct? That's correct. Okay, I'd like to make a motion to move forward with the subcommittee recommendation of $5,000 grant from the general fund and $7,500 grant from the early childhood youth programming. I'll second that. Okay, there's a motion and a second. And before I call for a roll call vote, I think I just wanna speak on behalf of nonprofit organizations having general administrative funds. Every organization, they have their administrative responsibilities and tasks that they need to carry out. Many of them are indirect, but they are foundational and I think fundamental to their ability to carry out their particular objectives. So having some funding directed toward that I think makes for a good and well run and administrative and really transparent organization. And with that said, I think it is incumbent upon us and the staff to keep an eye on these and make sure that periodically that they are meeting their objectives. We do have a huge investment, our stake in the Monterey Bay and they're gonna be our partners in keeping it clean, healthy and safe for the residents of Capitola. So that's just, with that, I'll ask for a roll call vote. Council Member Brown. Aye. Vice Mayor Keiser. Aye. Council Member Bertrand. No. Mayor Story. Aye. The motion passes three to one. Now we'll move on to item D, which is the community grant 2022-25 fund allocations. We bring it back. Yeah, we need it. I believe so. We can bring it back. Oh yeah. Yes. Thank you. We'll get set up. Welcome back. So just to start over on item 8D, which is the community grant 2022-25 fund allocations, the recommended action is to consider the community grant subcommittee grant award recommendations for program applications, excluding the requests from the community action board and the Monterey Bay National Brain Sanctuary Foundation. So, and Chloe, you're leading in this again? Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council. We're gonna quickly go over the program, over the changes to the grant program now that you're all together, and then we'll move forward in some more information. So you did back in May, as you recall, approve changes to the program, three new grant categories listed here, and we'll talk about those more in a few seconds. And two grant types based on the amount of funding, an outcome grant, you'll see is a larger sum, 7,500 to 15,000. There is a requirement of a report back to council by that organization if they're given an outcome grant and operational for money up to 7,500 dollars. There was a very streamlined application, like I mentioned, and I'll say again, one of those streamlining may have been slightly two streamlines and several of our applicants did not indicate actually a dollar amount that they were asking for. They just checked, understandably, they checked a box, which type of grant outcome or operational, so we'll make that update for the next go around the three-year grant cycle. So in summer 2025, we'll have a slightly updated application and people will be able to apply again. And for this fiscal year, the fund allocation approved is 125,000 out of the general fund and 60,000 for early childhood and youth programming. And those grants, as you'll see later on, are separated, the applications are separated. So applications were due on August 15th. We received 24 applications from 23 different organizations. I was very excited to see that there were two totally first-time applicants, so two new organizations, and seven of those were for early childhood and youth program funding. And as you also know, Council appointed Vice Mayor Kaiser and Councilmember Brown to the subcommittee to review the applications and make the recommendation. So now we'll get into the fund information. The priorities, okay, it was very fascinating to me. The three priorities were given funding priorities. So as you'll see in the top chart, for stable affordable housing, that was considered most important. You gave that half of the funding. Health and wellness received 30% in priority, and then healthy environments 20%. Well, as you can see, the difference in those charts, the applications that were actually received really were different in what people applied for, what organizations were asking for. So 81%, we had 13 health and wellness applications, only one healthy environment that was just approved, and two for stable and affordable housing. So just kind of keep that in mind as we go through this, very interesting. And if I'm not overstepping the subcommittee that is with you here, their goals were to allocate the funding, all available funding to be allocated to applicants, and to fund applicants to the highest that they possibly could be, and to meet the need that was really shown in our community through our application. So taking it back to how the applications really did how it shook out, what type of grant did people really apply for, while maintaining the prioritized categories because we know that those are important to all of council. So here's a fun chart. I'm realizing it's still very small for you sitting there to see that on the screen. I'm not exactly sure. Basically you'll see here, I'll just say a few things. The two newbies, the applications are green, was a blue circle and the Mid County Senior Center, and the two blue here are the organizations that already their funding was approved in the two previous items, and that's why that's blocked off here. This green column is what the subcommittee recommended funding everyone. You'll notice everybody's getting funding on September 8th. So maybe the city manager can give me some advice here on if everyone can see this. If I should go through line by line, I'd be happy to verbally state the amount that's recommended for each applicant. So I think it's up to the council. Okay. We can go through it. I can potentially share my screen up on the, as just the spreadsheet. Can they see it on Zoom? I think that's what's important, because we have it in our packet. Yeah, I think the Zoom participants will be able to see it quite easily, because they're sitting, I can see it easily on that Zoom screen right there. So I think the Zoom participants can see the amounts. Is it on the screens up here? It is on the screens, although I imagine it's a little bit challenging to read. Yeah. Why don't we see if council members have questions about any particular applicant or a particular grant. And then when it comes time for public comment, we can respond to any questions that we get. Okay. So are there questions? Yeah, go ahead, council member Brooks. The recommendation it was made on September 8th, is that what that means? I got it, okay. And just to confirm, this is for three years, and so we can revisit because the graphs are really fascinating. And so council has the opportunity to revisit that in three years based off of need. I just wanted to seek that clarification. Those are all my questions. Thank you. Well, you guys were on the committee, so you have all the answers. I did want to ask about blue circle. That's one I'm unfamiliar with. Just a little bit about maybe what they do, how they serve or will serve Capitola and how they fit into a health and wellness category. Sure, so from memory, that is an organization that is around promoting a healthy wage, a living wage for anyone in the county and certainly residents in the city. I don't want to talk too much. Yes, there's someone in the public who can speak more to that. We did notice health and wellness got the most applications and council can draw their own conclusions. It might be a lot of different things, as you can imagine, fit into health and wellness. So that may be an explanation. Okay. Yeah, well maybe when we go to public comments, yeah, if you could come up then and respond to it, but let's see if there's any other council questions that didn't look like there is. The Arts Council of San Cruz County, they're under health and wellness and that's an operational grant. And I wonder what in their application were they proposing to do in Capitola seeing as that we have our own Arts Commission? So again, from my memory, I don't know that there was anything super specific to Capitola. Countywide, I know they did mention it's actually happening this weekend. My mother is participating, Open Studios and some of their other bigger programs that the Arts Council puts on that we may be familiar with. And the one with the acronym N-A-M-I, San Cruz County? It's a mental health national alliance. I believe our police department works relatively closely with NAMI so they might be able to provide more information if you would like. Yeah, if you could Chief, if you have some familiar character with National Association of Mental Illness, yes. Yeah, excellent and are you, I mean, are you able to rely on them to respond to mental health crises or issues in our community? Right, okay, all right, all right. Thank you. So my understanding, I've gone in a number of their meetings, involves the families of people who have children or family members that have mental health issues. And so I think that is part of it. And they give talks and that's how I happen to go to some of their meetings. So yeah, okay. Okay, those are the ones that I had questions about. There are no other questions from council. I'll now go out to the public and see if members of the public could address the council on them. Thanks. Good evening. With council's permission, I did bring some presentation of sorts, not that you needed it, but it's got information about the agency that I'm representing today. Is that okay if I pass this off? Yes. Great, thank you. Give it to the clerk and she'll give it to us. Anyone for each of you? Good evening again, my name is Steven Matzi. I am the long-term care ombudsman program coordinator for Santa Cruz and San Bernardino counties under the agency of Advocacy Inc., which you'll note in the funding recommendations we have been recommended for funding. So I'm here for a couple of different reasons. First of all, to introduce myself to council, I have not spoken before you, at least not in this role. Many years ago I worked with senior network services, which is another agency recommended for funding. So in gratitude for the staff's recommendation of funding for our program, we are mandated by the federal government through the Older Americans Act to provide advocacy and protection for long-term care residents, older adults living in skilled nursing, or assisted living facilities, which includes the 99 bed skilled nursing facility here in the city of Capitola. It's also important to know that while your city of Capitola residents may not end up in that particular facility, they could end up in any number of facilities within the county of Santa Cruz that we oversee. I'm appreciative of the work that we get to do in the partnership that we can build with the city of Capitola to ensure that we protect the most vulnerable of our citizens. And those are those living long-term in skilled nursing facilities. If we've learned nothing over the last two years is the pandemic wreaked havoc on our residents here in Santa Cruz. In fact, a report published by that Santa Cruz Lookout indicated 72% of all deaths related to COVID-19 were individuals living in long-term care. We were also locked out of those facilities for at least the first year and a half of the pandemic. And what we're finding now is a greater need, a greater need of individuals who were previously houseless, now living long-term, individuals with mental health challenges, individuals that have no social support and we may be the only connection between the facility staff and the outside community. What I provided to you today is just a snapshot of what we did with the two and a half ombudsman we have to oversee 1,800 plus beds in our community. So I hope you do take an opportunity to look at that and to really digest the amount of work that we do with the short resources that we have. So the funding recommended for our agency will go a long way for us to continue those advocacy efforts that are indeed the most essential within the community of city of Capitola and the county of Santa Cruz and San Benito. Thank you very much for your time. And again, I appreciate the recommendation for funding. Yeah, thank you, Steven. Yeah, we have a question from Council Member Bertrand. Excuse me. So Steven Matzi, hope I'm pronouncing the name correct. You are. It was great meeting you the other day. Thank you. And with this presentation, it seems to me you use volunteer in the community, is that true? That is a good point and a wonderful aspect of the program. However, most of the volunteers that work with this program are older adults themselves. We've lost all of our volunteers because of the COVID pandemic. I recently just had a volunteer who was one of our older olds, just about to turn 90, who had to decertify because of health challenges. So while volunteerism is an important aspect of this program and it will continue to be so, as I mentioned earlier, the challenges we're seeing in the facilities with the individuals that we're meeting, those with diagnosis of schizophrenia or addiction really require a more seasoned and I hate to say, degrade individual and our senior volunteers are absolutely perfect for general facility visits to monitor to be not friendly visitors because that's not what our mandate is, but to be that connection and then hand that off to a staff ombudsman like myself or the other one and a half. So we are volunteer less in the moment, but we anticipate that changing at the beginning of the year. Let's get through this next flu and potential COVID outbreak season because we're still living the pandemic in these facilities folks. Even though our leaders are saying the pandemic is over, it's not for me and it's not for our residents. So thank you for your question, Councilman Bertrand. Thanks for coming. You're very welcome. Any other questions? Any other questions? No questions, but just wanted to reach out, say thank you for standing up today and for the work that you do. Thank you. My business card is attached to the information. Steven, if people wanted to volunteer, how would they find out about that? Call the number on my card, 831-429-1913, extension 15, I'll be happy to have conversation. It's a rigorous training, 36 hours and 10 hours of shadowing inside a facility with a staff ombudsman and 18 hours annually of required continuing education. So it's a lot, it's a lot, but we take it at a slow pace and meet them where they're at in their volunteerism. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Is there anyone else? Yes. Please come up. State your name. My name is Alexander Peterson, President of the non-profit organization Blue Circle. Hello, Mayor Story and the rest of the council. Blue Circle provides certification to businesses who pay all of their employees a living wage, which we hope to encourage businesses to offer a living wage by creating an economic incentive to do that by capturing a greater market share of ethical consumers similar to the green business program. Do you have any questions about that? Council members have questions? So that incentive, in essence, by certifying particular businesses, you're trying to drive the consuming market or customer more to those particular businesses. And another important aspect of Blue Circle is just creating more awareness of what a living wage is, which we break down by county. How many participating businesses do you have currently? We currently have four. Okay. In close to a year and a half since launching, but we're really finding the initial funding at this point in time and working on key partnerships, one being with the California Green Business Program. Okay. And your kind of strategic plan includes to build out within Capitola? Oh, yes, definitely. Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you. I'll go out to Zoom and see if there's any member. Oh, yes, come right up. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for letting me speak tonight. My name's Tracy Weiss. I'm the executive director with the O'Neill C. Odyssey. I believe many of you have seen my predecessor stand before you previously, but I have not had the opportunity to address the council before and I just wanted to take the moment to introduce myself and say thank you for the opportunity and the consideration to be included in the funding recommendations for this evening. Hopefully you're aware O'Neill C. Odyssey provides hands-on marine education for youth. We really are designed to be teaching youth about the marine environment right here in our backyard, providing this program for free, trying to inspire the next generation of ocean stewards and environmental advocates. We are honored and thankful for all of the years of previous funding and are thankful for the opportunity to submit a more expanded robust proposal to you tonight to expand not only to be serving the traditional classrooms, but working to support out-of-school time and enrichment activities for youth and the environment here in Capitola. So I just wanted to take a brief moment and say thank you for your consideration and just to say I'm looking forward to working with all of you going forward. So appreciate your time this evening. Thank you, Tracy, for coming out and introducing yourself and it's really good to see somebody carrying on the legacy of Dan Haplie. Absolutely. He was a force within our community with the O'Neill C. Odyssey and all the work that they did with the youth. So it's good to meet you. Absolutely. Those are some big shoes to fill, but we're gonna be doing some great things for sure. I'm sure you will. All right, thank you. Thank you. Say anyone else in the audience before I go out to the Zoom participants? Okay, so I see two hands and Eduardo allow you to speak. Go ahead when you're unmuted. Hi, good evening. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Thank you. Good evening. So yes, my name is Eduardo Santana. Thank you for letting me speak to all of you tonight. I'm the program director for Project Scout under the umbrella of the seniors council of Santa Cruz and San Juanito County. Project Scout provides free tax services for seniors, disabled, no income families and individuals in the city of Capitola and has done so for many years. I wanna thank you for your consideration of our community grant request and I wanna provide you a quick example of the work that we are doing for our Capitola community. We're helping a senior Capitola resident who supports her disabled son and grant here. Well, they're her dependents. With the help of Project Scout, she is to receive over $11,000 from the IRS and the franchise tax board. These amounts to about a third of her income for the whole year. In order to prove that she qualifies for such credits, Project Scout volunteers have met with her on various occasions, settling over four hours of volunteer work so she can prove dependency of her son and grandkids to the IRS. When asked, our client said that this money will go to make repairs for a mobile home, food and clothes amongst others. The massive benefit that this one Capitola resident and her family will get, Project Scout has assisted at least 135 Capitola tax payers for the year we tax related needs. On average, each of our clients assisted in tax preparation saves on average $221 for each return and receives $1,221 in refunds. According to the Brookings Institution, refunds and credits received through taxes such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit are some of the countries in the successful anti-poverty tools. And the estimates show that the multiplier effect in California is at least twice the amount for local economies to reinvestment of such taxpayer refunds. We at Project Scout are proud of being part of such a mechanism for mentoring health and wellness and financial equity. With your kind support, Scout will continue providing services to seniors to stable and low-income families and individuals in Capitola. I truly appreciate the chance to speak tonight on Project Scout's behalf and I wanna thank you again for your continued support and allow me to speak to you tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Eduardo. Thank you for your work with the seniors. And just to clarify, is Project Scout under the seniors council? Yeah, that's okay. We have one more hand, Christina. I'm gonna allow you to speak. Go ahead when you're unmuted. Hi, yes, I'm Christina Sirsten. I work at the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County. Can you all hear me? Yes, Christina, we can hear you. Thank you. So the Volunteer Center, we also applied for funding through the Community Grants Program and just wanna thank you tonight for your continued support and consideration for funding this year. The funds that you contributed to our programs last year were essential for us in reopening our programs after COVID and over the past couple of years through COVID and the 2020 fires, we experienced an incredible surge of interest in volunteering and it's been inspiring to see how people are eager to contribute to our community, especially now as nonprofits and schools are struggling to fill vacancies. As you likely know, screening, training and overseeing volunteers requires resources that few people are willing to fund. And by making this one contribution to our programs and the operational support fund, we can sustain our existing services to over 400 Capitola residents and reach our goal of recruiting 500 volunteers who will contribute over $100,000 in donated labor to our communities within Capitola. I know that we've been around for 50 years and so many of you probably know a lot about our different programs, but this year we launched a new program called Wellness Connect and the program supports youth aging out of a foster care system, providing ongoing mental health services and practical life resources to the vulnerable population. Most of that funding comes through MediCal billing, but there's a lot of restrictions about what you can bill. And so that's where again, the operational support funding really helps with leveraging those existing funds and grants that we have to make sure that we're able to keep supporting and growing our resources for the community. So, oh, I did also just wanna say that we really value your commitment to funding as many programs as you can and really trying to spread the resources that you do have amongst the community programs. We lowered our requests this year because we wanted to make sure that you can still fund as many programs as possible, knowing that you have less funding available for this cycle. So, thank you again for your support of all of the program. All right, thank you, Christina. So, anyone else? I don't see any more hands. Thank you. Okay, I will bring the item back to council for further deliberation and action. Yes. Do you like me to put the chart back up? Yes, that may be helpful. And there was another page with the youth funding. So, we don't wanna miss that. Okay. So, Chloe, I think it might be possible to get rid of the camera view, which might be helpful in this situation. And the trick is, as you click on the, go up to the top of your screen. Of Zoom. Of Zoom. Okay. And there should be the three. More. Three buttons or something. And you wanna click optimize for video clip or something? Sorry, I've never done this before, but I was just trying to Google it. Okay, so I clicked it. It is checked. It seems like it's high def, but not. I don't see if it doesn't say optimize for high video panel, maybe. Okay. I saw it there. Thank you, everyone. I'm sorry about this. No, this is great. Everyone who's on Zoom is able to. Yeah, it's just us in the room. Yeah, and I think why don't we wait and see if maybe we need it in more detail? Okay. Okay. And so, with that, I'll bring it back to see the will of the council, please. Yeah, so, you know, this has been a long process and I just wanna say hats off to council for really, for taking this project on. It's been a long time coming. And so, being here today, I'm just really happy to see this process come to fruition, work for the community, and here we are today about to approve three-year community grants and it's really something for the entire council to be proud of today. So, hats off to our subcommittee members and previous council members who kicked this off. Gosh, when I started in 2018, and I'm sure it was prior to then that this conversation started. So, I'm just really excited to see this move forward. I also wanted to mention that the Dedicated Children's Fund, and I don't know if I heard this today, if it was just highlighted that it is in fact a separate fund that comes from our TOT tax. So, I just don't know if that was noted, which means that it does not come from our general fund, it comes from our transient occupancy tax and is a fund that essentially, hopefully, over time will grow even more with people coming and staying at our hotels and us collecting the TOT taxes on that. And so, that's my hope for the future there. With that being said, I'd like to make a motion to approve this item. And I would like to, if there's an actual recommendation that I could read, because I don't see it here, Chloe. I just wanna make sure I get it right. Do you have? Absolutely, so I don't have that included. Well, I'm gonna go for it then. Do I see it? Recommended action. So, I'd like to move to consider the community grant, subcommittee grant, award recommendations for program applications, excluding the grant request from the community action board and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. So, I think the action would be to approve the... I would like to approve the community grant subcommittee grant award recommendations for program applications, excluding the grant request from the community action board and the Monterey National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. Hold second. So, we have... Yes. We had a motion to second. I just wanted to make sure I had a chance to make some comments before we vote. Oh, certainly. I think you could do that now. Okay, thank you. I just, again, echoing what Councilwoman Brooks just said, this has been a very long process that goes back to previous councils as well. I know Councilmember Batoff was a part of this at one point. Nearly every single one of us has been a part of a subcommittee or a consideration. We had consultants come in and help us do a community profile. And this, at least in my time on council, is one of the first times that we've been able to fund the entirety of or more than almost every single one of our grant requests. Only two had less than their recommendation or for their request rather. And so, this is a really exciting thing to see move forward tonight. And those are the only comments that I had this evening. All right, thank you. Any other comments before? No, she's right. This is a long story. Yeah, and before we take a vote, I think I would just like to one, acknowledge that one Keptola has had a decades-long history of support for community programs, which means supporting our seniors, means supporting our youth, supporting the low-income families that live in our city and supporting this disabled. And I think it's important that we continue that tradition. And it's important because it really creates the kind of community I think that we all want to live in. It creates a better community. It assists our police force, our public safety. And I think that these are all critical and essential safety net services. And when times are hard, these are the folks that suffer the most. And so, I would hope that we would keep that in mind and not kind of leave them behind as we're trying to circle the wagons and that we need to bring them in some fashion through the good times and through the hard times. They are our community partners. They help and assist our residents. And I think it's essential and important that we maintain this tradition in Capitola. It's good for all of us to do that. Now, with that said, I would also encourage the council to check in with our partners more than once every three years. We used to have a process that the city manager mentioned that they would come maybe monthly. That may have been a little bit too much, but I think that there should be kind of invitations and having them report to us so that we can also feel that we're good stewards of the city's monies and that we can have a dialogue and understand their importance to the community and that they are being transparent and being accountable to the council. I think that that's in the part of a good partnership. So with that, it's my honor to actually be able to vote on a community programs grant allocation. This is the beginning of a new process and I'm sure it will evolve and approve over the years. And so yes, council member Bertrand. Yeah, it's all I echoed. I think everyone's comments. But having people come in here who are representing the programs that they work so much on and it's usually a labor of love. I've been involved in senior council for well over 10 years or more. Now I'm on the advisory board because I'm elected here. But one other aspect I think that's really important for us as board members here is to be familiar with the programs that we're funding. When we talk to our neighbors and people that sometimes we realize might need the help of some of those programs like an elderly person, someone from Scout might help them do their taxes. Or NAMI, a parent that is dealing with a kid that is going through mental health issues. It's great to hear that there's a new organization, excuse me, not an organization, a new effort of the Volunteer Center which I've worked with many times. One of the programs I helped start is going to become a member of that pretty soon. But now that they're reaching out to kids that are being put on the street in some cases, they were, you know, they were part of a family that the government supported them to be part of. And now they're on the street. And I've had many experiences with kids that were in that situation and did not end up so well. So the reason why I'm talking this way is because these are programs that in a sense we are stewards of in a small way because we're doing part of the funding. But we could also be an ambassador to our city's residents that actually need these services. And one of the traditions of capital city council members is we actually go out and talk to people in our city. We don't just do mailings and things like that. We actually talk with people, knock on doors. If you look at what's going on right now for the next election, I hear people say, I did 200 doors tonight. And he says, I'm gonna do more tomorrow. I mean, this is our tradition. And when you make those connections, those people come back to you and ask for help sometimes. And some of the programs that we are funding helps provide that hope. So I think it's very important for us not for people necessary to come here because they won't inform us, but for us to know what we're actually funding and we're the stewards of those programs in a certain sense. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Any further comments? Seeing none, I'll ask for a roll call vote. Council Member Brown. Aye. Vice Mayor Keiser. Aye. Council Member Bertrand. Aye. Council Member Brooks. Aye. And Mayor Story. Aye. Thank you. The motion passes unanimously. Which will take us to item nine on this evening's agenda, which is adjournment. I will adjourn this meeting to the next regular scheduled meeting of the Capitol City Council on October 27th, 2022. It's 7 p.m. in these chambers. And good night, everyone. Thank you, everyone who's in person, who came this evening, and everyone who participated and listened out in Zoom. Thank you. Good night, everyone. Thank you. James.